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The British Fashion Council is building on its social media strategy for next week’s menswear show London Collections: Men to reach the widest possible audience of press and buyers.
The standalone site www.londoncollections.co.uk/men will host all the digital content over the three days of the show, which officially kicks off on Monday.
All the catwalk shows taking place in Covent Garden’s Hospital Club will be streamed online, and the site will also host maps, showroom and event locations, guides to hotels, bars and restaurants and a personalised calendar.
New additions to the live streaming include the Topman and Hackett shows. The live stream will also be available in the LC:M cinema, in between fashion films selected by some of the designers, and press lounge at the Hospital Club.
The BFC is also promoting LC:M to the wider public through social media including Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter using the #ManAboutTown hashtag, through which users will be encouraged to create a crowd-sourced archive of catwalk outfits and street style.
Fashion Forward winner Lou Dalton and menswear journalist Charlie Porter will take to Pinterest to document the mood of the event.
The BFC will conduct a series of interviews via Twitter, in which users can ask rapper Tinie Tempah, Men’s Health editor Toby Wiseman and model Oliver Cheshire questions about the show using the hashtag #AskLCM. For the first time for LC:M a team of “Instagram Insiders” is uploading pictures of backstage goings on, as well as exclusive shots from the events.
Daily highlights from the catwalks will be updated to an installation on the windows of the Hospital Club, which the app Aurasma will enable users to bring to life.
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Ups and Downs: The End of SeeSaw.com.
31 May 2011
The online TV on-demand service SeeSaw.com will close next month, which is a shame, as I have been a supporter of the service since it was raised from the ashes of Project Kangaroo and launched last year. SeeSaw.com offered around 3,000 hours of free content from various UK broadcasters, supported by adverts and a paid for premium service. It was a service I used at least once a week, not being a fan of the majority of scheduled television programmes, and having the necessary hardware in place to use the service from my sofa. According to a YouGov report, 30% of UK adults said they regularly watch television online, so why has SeeSaw failed to attract an investment? The obvious reason for this, I think , is the hardware issues associated with accessing online TV services.
Most of the adults polled will have watched these shows on a PC, which is not the preferred way to watch television. The ubiquity of existing TV services means that until there is a piece of hardware, which will offer web-based on demand services out of the box with minim fuss and set up and put these services in the hands of the average home user, there will not be a clear winner in the marketplace. YouView, a BBC backed project will look to combine content and hardware in to one system, is planned to launch next year is looking to be the best horse to back for the future. YouView look like they are managing to resolve the licensing limitations associated to IPTV services such as SeeSaw.com. This was never featured on the hardware which is normally plugged in to most living room TV - game consoles. The Wii, PS3 and Xbox all offer on-demand and catch up services which integrate well in the issues surrounding navigating web-based content from the sofa (currently the Xbox only supports SKYTV in the UK). This ten-foot user interface (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10-foot_user_interface) problem has, in my mind, been the major issue for SeeSaw. No matter how good your content is, navigating through it via tiny text and images has always been the issue for most users. Since SeeSaw was never able to resolve the licensing issues with the content they offered from the various broadcasters, they could not offer their service on a gaming console which would have been a significant breakthrough in terms of growing a users base that could have saved them. Despite all the talk about the web changing how we use TV, the existing paradigms of the point of delivery are still the same. It has to be quick and easy to access the content. SeeSaw got the content right but could not offer a solution to how viewers accessed it, which for most households is the most important factor. I am going to enjoy my last month with SeeSaw.com, but my dreams of it being the Hulu for the UK have been dashed!

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As the success of digital distribution services such as the iTunes App Store, Xbox Live and PSN continue to ask serious questions of the traditional console software sales model, EA boss john Riccitiello may just have hinted at a loss of appetitive for full-price console releases.
This week, market research for August will show that year over year, the industry was down in North America – and that August sales of Madden NFL 10 are down with that trend,” the exec said in an internal note to EA employees published by Bloomberg.
It is discouraging that one of our highest-rated and best-marketed Madden titles in years is facing strong headwinds.”
However, in the same note Riccitiello has nothing but praise for EA’s growing digital casual game business.
The full story can be found over on CasualGaming.biz.


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Remember that fake image of a flooded shopping mall with sharks swimming everywhere? Well, this one is not a fake. It happened for real in China, where a 33-tonne shark tank shattered into a thousand pieces in a shopping centre in Shanghai. There are several injured people, but nobody’s dead.
According to local media, three lemon sharks surfed the water explosion into the shopping mall when the 15 centimetre acrylic glass broke into multiple deadly shards. Most of the people watching the tank were injured with “deep cuts and bruises,” according to a police spokesman:
There were lots of injuries caused by flying glass, some of them serious because the glass was so thick. We are investigating what caused this.
The events happened on December 19 at the Shanghai Orient Shopping centre, in China, where the aquarium was installed two years ago, becoming a local attraction. The shopping centre has announced their intention of building it again, even while they had other problems with it in the past.
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The Good Food movement has gained major ground in recent years, driven by fast-rising consumer demand for better and healthier products. One tangible proof of that is in the growing community of investors who are helping Good Food companies start up and grow. One such company is Chicago’s Spiral Sun Ventures, whose tag line is “Investing In Healthy.” Spiral Sun works mainly with small, early-stage companies. The firm also is a friend of FamilyFarmed, and they exhibited at our 2017 Good Food EXPO. More than that, there are Spiral Sun clients who also are FamilyFarmed Good Food Accelerator Fellows or regular exhibitors at our Good Food Expo.
FamilyFarmed is getting close to announcing the roster of competitively selected Fellows who will participate (from November to April) in the fourth cohort of its Good Food Accelerator. So as a warmup, we’re recalling the nine great business from the third cohort that graduated last spring.
So much amazing food and drink. That’s the simplest way to describe the 2017 Green City Market Chef BBQ, the annual fundraiser for Chicago’s premier farmers market, which brought together a world-class lineup of the city’s farm to table restaurants, along with many of the city’s leading craft breweries and distilleries. It might be indulgent if the only purpose of this event was a ginormous outdoor feast. But the money raised by Green City Market at the event goes toward its social mission programs, which include double bucks for shoppers using SNAP/LINK food assistance dollars, a satellite market in the underserved Bronzeville community every Wednesday through the growing season, and a broadening palette of food education programs.
If the mezcal tasting event hosted Wednesday (June 7) by Rick and Deann Bayless proved anything, it is that their Frontera Farmer Foundation and FamilyFarmed love to party around Good Food and artisan beverages. The party — at the Frontera group’s Cruz Blanca on Restaurant Row in Chicago’s West Loop — was a sequel to the Frontera 30th Anniversary Celebration, held April 30 at The Art Institute of Chicago. That fundraiser produced (at latest tally) more than $140,000 in proceeds to be split evenly by Family Farmed and Frontera Farmer Foundation, to advance their efforts to help farmers and businesses build a better food system.
Chef Abe Conlon has Portuguese blood lines, grew up in a working-class city (Lowell, Massachusetts) with a large Asian population, apprenticed under skilled chefs and attended the Culinary Institute of America. So there might be some destiny in the fact that he and business partner Adrienne Lo have built a thriving success at Fat Rice, the restaurant in Chicago’s largely working-class Logan Square neighborhood that introduced Macanese cuisine to Chicago and — through their cookbook The Adventures of Fat Rice — to most of the rest of America. They will participate in the Frontera 30th Anniversary Celebration, a joint fundraiser for Chef Rick Bayless‘ Frontera Farmer Foundation and FamilyFarmed, which will be held at The Art Institute of Chicago on Sunday, April 30.
Though hard cider still makes up a relatively small percentage of the overall U.S. adult beverage market, it has for several years been one of its fastest-growing sectors. And while FamilyFarmed regards craft cider as part of the Good Food movement, it was gratifying to see — while making the tasting rounds at Chicago’s Cider Summit — that more and more producers are wearing their local and sustainable values on their sleeves.
Farmhouse Chicago, located at the west end of downtown, is a genuine farm to table restaurant that sources most of its ingredients from the states that border on Lake Michigan: Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana. Since its opening five yeas ago, Farmhouse Chicago also has been a friend of Family Farmed. So it is no coincidence that an event scheduled for the evening of Wednesday, Aug. 3 — at which Farmhouse will introduce its five new proprietary hard apple ciders — is also a fundraiser for our nonprofit, which will receive 100 percent of the proceeds from the tickets sold.
Cleetus Friedman, the executive chef of Chicago’s Caffè Baci restaurants, began his food journey busing tables in his native Baltimore about 30 years ago, when he was in his teens. Yet the road leading to his place at the cutting edge of the local and sustainable food movement had some twists and turns.
The Mayan Café presents traditional cuisine of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula that since 2007 has delighted diners (and reviewers) in the restaurant row in Louisville’s East Market District, a.k.a. NuLu. And they have done so in part by going all in on sourcing ingredients as locally as possible, a decision that made them a farm-to-table front-runner in Kentucky’s most populous city. Good Food on Every Table is pleased to present a q-and-a with Shadle and Ucan as our first out-of-Chicago article in our “Farm to Table: Keeping It Real” series.
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Family Farmed’s Good Food Festival on Saturday, March 26 is the big annual public celebration that will cap the three-day Good Food Festival & Conference. The Festival is all about hands-on workshops and learning. And we are excited to welcome book authors Hannah Crum and husband Alex LaGory who will be part of our Brew Your Own Kombucha workshop at 1:30 p.m. on March 26.
SAAGE Culinary Studio in the Chicago suburb of Naperville, Illinois, is a shared-use commercial kitchen providing startup food businesses with access to all the commercial grade equipment that they need to make their products. Owner Gayatri Borthakur discusses the philosophy behind the business, which will be a participant in FamilyFarmed’s Good Food Festival & Conference.
Many of those involved in the Good Food movement believe that craft distilling deserves to be considered part of it, but the question has been raised about whether a distilled spirit needs to contain ingredients produced by local farmers in order to be considered truly local. Many producers now are touting local sourcing as a major selling point.
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Differentiation is an important key to success in the expanding sector of artisan food producers. A number of food entrepreneurs have sought their special niche by reaching into their personal experience and background. This is something that Rowida Assalimy did when she launched Kishr, a traditional hot beverage of her parents’ native country of Yemen that she grew up drinking.
By Joel Blechman, FamilyFarmed When I tell people I’m the director of the Good Food Business Accelerator, which FamilyFarmed launched last fall, I’m frequently asked, “What does that mean?” Accelerators — which provide mentorship, networking opportunities, and other assistance to promising entrepreneurial businesses — compose a fast-rising sector that is promoting economic development in the Read more about Good Food Business Accelerator Fellows to Show Their Skills at April 27 Demo Day[…]
T.J. Callahan, the founder and owner of the Farmhouse Tavern restaurants in downtown Chicago and suburban Evanston is a bit wary of the “farm to table” label, which some critics say has been overused to the point of becoming a cliche. “Farm to table, it’s such a nebulous kind of concept,” Callahan said in an interview with Good Food on Every Table. “So we’ve called ourself, from day one, a ‘Midwestern craft tavern.'”
What would you pay to welcome the glorious arrival of spring with one of Chicago’s best annual food and drink tasting events?
Most sampling events these days will set you back three figures. But Localicious — on the evening of Friday, March 20 at Chicago’s UIC Forum — is a great night of eating and drinking great local products, for just $80.


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Samsung Electronics has recently announced that the collaboration service between Samsung Pay and Naver Pay will begin tomorrow, which is on 23rd March 2023. After that, the users of both payment applications will be able to enjoy a more enhanced online and offline payment experience.
Notably, the biggest advantage of this Samsung Pay and Naver Pay collaboration is going to strengthen the online payment experience of Samsung Pay. Users of Samsung Pay will now be able to use simple payment through Samsung Pay at Naver Pay’s online ordering merchants, including 550,000 Naver Smart Store.
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As soon as, you click “General Payment” to order a product at a Naver Pay’s online ordering merchant, a separate “Samsung Pay” menu is created, and through this, you can pay with Samsung Pay more quickly and conveniently. Moreover, Naver Pay’s offline payment experience is also scheduled to be implemented this month.
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Through the help of Samsung Pay’s MST (Magnetic Security Transport) payment method, Naver Pays users will be able to use Naver Pay’s offline payments at all offline merchants across South Korea where payments can be made with Samsung Pay.
For a reminder, Samsung Electronics and Naver Financial signed a business agreement last month to promote the mobile payment experience. Both companies will continue to cooperate for a more convenient digital life for users in the payment and wallet sectors.
However, Apple has officially launched the Apple Pay service in South Korea yesterday, which is days after receiving approval from the local govt. The company officially announced that iPhone users can add their credit and debit cards on Wallet for their iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, and Mac.


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Tony Kueh, a former Microsoft supervisor and 23-year tech veteran, will paintings along COO Melissa McSherry as he oversees the execution of Any place’s total product technique.
Any place has tapped former Microsoft government Tony Kueh to turn out to be its first-ever leader product officer, consistent with a press release on Thursday. Kueh will spearhead the corporate’s product technique, innovation roadmap, and generation investments.
“Tony Kueh joined Any place in September 2022 as the corporate’s first leader product officer and is answerable for the definition and execution of the corporate’s total product technique,” an Any place spokesperson stated.
“Kueh has a protracted historical past of effectively incubating and hastily rising leading edge generation companies in a huge spectrum of spaces together with cell, semiconductors, undertaking/SaaS, and AI/ML whilst main cross-functional groups together with product control, advertising and marketing, technique, and engineering,” they added.
The Duke College graduate began his tech profession 23 years in the past as a senior crew supervisor for Microsoft, the place he led the corporate’s cell messaging and instrument answers. From there, he went on to satisfy government positions at tech corporations Qualcomm, Palm, SAP, PasswordBox, NeuStar, MobileRQ and VMware, the place he served because the VP of Merchandise till June 2022.
Kueh based an organization, BluText, in 2015 and has been an consultant for a number of startups.
“The true property trade is ripe for transformation,” he stated in a commentary. “By way of mixing fashionable design with the most recent in tech throughout cell, cloud, and [artitifical intelligence and machine learning], we can ship pleasant, clever, and streamlined virtual reports for customers, brokers, and ecosystem companions.”
“I’m very excited to guide at Any place and look ahead to running around the undertaking, community of affiliated house owners and franchisees, and the wider ecosystem to construct transformative virtual merchandise,” he added.
Kueh will most likely paintings side-by-side with COO Melissa McSherry, which Any place employed in February. McSherry, who maximum not too long ago labored for Visa, is accountable for the corporate’s product, generation, undertaking advertising and marketing and buyer enjoy projects.
McSherry and Kueh’s hiring turns out to fall in keeping with Realogy’s 2022 expansion technique Schneider shared with Inman final December. The CEO stated he deliberate to take a “collaborative method” to the franchisor’s virtual technique, which incorporates investments in iBuying and tool purchasing, loan and name, bespoke luxurious answers and forging partnerships with third-party tech corporations.
“The transaction has to get simplified for the tip buyer [and] that incorporates serving to the agent make it more practical. That’s the place the mixing of such things as name and loan is available in,” he stated. “Each and every style has were given to move extra virtual, and it doesn’t matter what your worth proposition is, you’ve were given to ship extra of it digitally.”
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- Sky-high inflation, a volatile economy, and a growing divide between wages, cost of living, education, and healthcare, makes affording and paying bills tougher on consumers.
- Tech companies are innovating to centralize cash flow management and bill pay.
- TifiPay is resetting expectations with its easy to use app that facilitates monthly bill pay in one convenient place, providing users insights that may save them money in the long run.
Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic impact of inflation and the growing divide between wages and expenses is being felt across the country, and around the world.
Food. Gas. Housing. The costs of living have been going up since inflation hit 6.8 percent in 2021 — the highest rate in nineteen years. Families are feeling the pinch and tightening their belts by scaling back on purchasing items. Some are even going into debt.
With higher inflation comes higher interest rates, affecting monthly spending, budgets and bill paying. For accounts with variable interest rates, this means that expenses will change often, making it confusing, tedious and difficult to keep up with paying bills and managing cash flow.
Solutions for Smoother Bill Pay and Cash Management
Americans are drowning in debt. As of Dec 2021, the average American is carrying $92,727 in debt. The pandemic has only made it harder to keep up. We as Americans need a solution to lessen the hassle and inconvenience of paying bills in an ever-destabilized economy.
TifiPay, is an app that revolutionizes bill paying. Set to launch in Q3 2022, this app empowers the user to receive, pay and manage their bills in one place. It also sends the user notifications when bills are due and facilitates a ‘one click’ pay option. Users can use multiple bank accounts and even schedule a future payment to align with cash flow (when they get paid) and view which bills are due in coming days to help plan payments for better cash management.
“Our recent survey found that the main reasons people struggle with bill payments is not necessarily based on affordability, rather people feel that their bills are disorganized and unconsolidated, making it a nightmare to pay on time, often resulting in late fees. TiFiPay’s mission is to improve people’s financial lives by making bill paying easier and to bring joy and a sense of accomplishment to paying bills,” said Christine Loredo, President and COO of TifiPay.
Leveraging technology to deliver insights to consumers finances
To facilitate bill paying and provide users with a much needed confidence to take control of their monthly finances and budgeting, bill pay apps, such as TiFiPay, come with the added advantage of transaction history, which shows historical analysis and insights on spending. This enables TiFiPay users to have a central location of all their financial information and activity – a plus for those who are not necessarily great bookkeepers.
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Consumers typically have a ‘system’ of paying their monthly bills – some bills are paid by a check, others are paid online. But keeping track of payments, due dates, and website log-in details has proven to be quite daunting for many.
“Providing historical analysis and valuable insight into where a user is spending money often translates to better budgeting in the long term. Providing consumers with a full picture of their bills (from due dates, to what was paid when) empowers consumers to take control of their household cash flow.” concluded, Loredo. With wages not yet parallel to rising inflation, this is exactly the right time for an app that provides the whole picture, possibly saving users money in the long run.
A Final Thought
It’s certainly time for Americans to tighten their belts as inflation is expected to increase in 2022. But it’s also time to take control of your finances and use tech solutions that will help alleviate the time-consuming headache and confusion of paying bills every month. TifiPay and similar solutions will certainly be a part of the ‘new normal’.
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Japan’s government is embracing Bitcoin
We recently saw Bitcoin plummet in value due to China banning Bitcoin and ICO’s. Although Bitcoin has almost completely recovered, it is not a great idea for nations to completely ban Bitcoin. While some nations are banning Bitcoin, others are completely embracing it.
Instead of banning the revolutionary technology that is the Blockchain, Japan decided to regulate Bitcoin. By taking an approach of simple surveillance they are tracking transactions and plan to enact proper regulation.
Is banning Bitcoin really needed?
A ban of Bitcoin is simply unnecessary. It is a violation of the people’s rights and it will not work in the long run. Bitcoin has no middle man during transactions so banning it is near impossible. It needs no state or government to run it.
Japan is requiring the leading Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency exchanged to file daily reports of all the transactions made. Japan will be using this information to investigate the transactions. Once the investigation is completed, Japan will be launching a program to avoid laundering and enforce proper taxation.
Although Bitcoin is hard to regulate simply due to the nature of the technology, it is still possible. Nations just need to create a program to properly track the transactions and then make it clear to their citizens what is expected of them. Government’s can try to ban Bitcoin, but it simply won’t work. The people will keep buying Bitcoin if they want it.
Japan creating a program to properly regulate Bitcoin shows how much potential this technology has, and that it can and will continue to grow, even within nations that want to control it.


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Let’s be thankful for the decline in obesity rates, curbs on food marketing and transparency in packaged food — and then let’s push for more.March 5, 2014, Wednesday
Many know Dr. Robert Lustig as “the anti-sugar guy,” but he’d prefer being known as the “anti-processed food guy.” His latest book, “The Fat Chance Cookbook,” offers recipes for more healthful eating.February 19, 2014, Wednesday
An intriguing new study suggests that what really draws people to rich desserts and prompts them to eat much more than perhaps they know they should is not the fat that they contain, but primarily the sugar.December 13, 2013, Friday
Fresh fruit should not become a casualty in the sugar wars, many nutrition experts say.July 31, 2013, Wednesday
A new study shows solid links between added sugar and the onset of diabetes.February 27, 2013, Wednesday
The author of this week’s cover article answers questions on the games the processed food industry plays with our tastebuds (and our health).February 25, 2013, Monday
Inside the hyperengineered, savagely marketed, addiction-creating battle for American “stomach share.”February 24, 2013, Sunday
When it comes to solutions to obesity, the soft-drink maker is definitely not it.January 22, 2013, Tuesday
Citing a harmful effect on businesses and consumer buying power, lawmakers in Denmark have repealed the so-called fat tax, which was charged on foods high in saturated fats, after just one year.November 13, 2012, Tuesday
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Tiffin University Athletics, in partnership with Follett Corp., recently launched an online shop for Dragons Athletics apparel and products, which will stock a variety of branded items to be shipped in 24 hours or less.
"This is an excellent source for all
supporters of Dragons Athletics to show their team spirit and support their
respective programs," Athletic Director Lonny Allen said. "We believe
that this will be a great benefit to the university and all of its
student-athletes as we continue to move upward with the best NCAA Division II
programs in the country."
The site was developed with Advanced-Online and is a partnership between Tiffin and Follett Higher Education Group, which has been in the textbook provider business for 140 years and has managed the university’s bookstore since July 2015. It will offer a variety of products, including clothing like embroidered polos and accessories like caps. The store will also sell personalized jewelery, backpacks, car decals, collectibles and engraved gifts. The products will be available in sizes and styles appropriate for all ages of Tiffin University families, including infants and the elderly.
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Asia Bizz: Apple Will Live Stream Announcement From Yerba Buena Center On Wednesday
Apple will be going really high tech on Wednesday’s announcement, as it will be Live Stream the announcement from Yerba Buena Center of Arts in San Fransisco. Apple will be revealing some of it latest gadgets today, most probably some upgrades in its latest models. The live streaming will begin at 10.00 am Pacific time.
Apple has prepared strongly for the event and this is the first time that Apple is taking this annual show of its, live. Apple’s live stream could be watched only on Apple’s application and gadgets only, like on a Mac OS, Apple Phones, Apple Safari Browser, and the iPad. Windows PC users unfortunately will not be able to watch it live.
Apple will be coming up with the latest iPod Touch 4, which will be having some features from the iPhone, and then some possible upgrades in the iPod Nano. Lets wait and watch today’s liveÂ announcement. Viewers watching online can watch the live stream on Apple.com


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May market may have been rife with revelry and industry events, but lingerie basics, not fashion, were the top items on the menu.
Reflecting the difficult economic climate and lackluster consumer spending, retailers were, as usual, on the hunt for innovative product with a touch of fashion — but it had to be an idea or concept that was considered "safe" with brands that offer longevity on the selling floor. The product also had to have the potential of becoming a replenishable item, vendors said.
This pragmatic approach applied primarily to bra and shapewear brands such as Wacoal, b.tempted by Wacoal, Josie Natori at Dana-co, Warner's and Olga at The Warnaco Group, Felina and Jezebel at Felina Inc., Elle Macpherson Intimates and Fayreform at Benden Inc. and Goddess, Elomi, Fauve and Freya at Eveden Inc., as they vied for tight retail budgets.
While it was clearly a foundations market, some classic designer sleepwear, such as Oscar de la Renta Pink, Carole Hochman Midnight and Lilly Pulitzer at The Hochman Design Group, Vera Wang and Donna Nadeau at The Komar Co., and Josie, Natori, Josie Natori and Cruz at the Natori Co., also saw good action. Novelty merchandise had a boost, especially collections with a contemporary flair, including French Jenny and Comfort Food, as well as licensed characters that have a fresh new spin, such as Betty Boop and Coca-Cola at Richard Leeds International.
In addition to the new b.tempted brand, several other introductions received strong reaction: Paramour by Felina Inc., an exclusive new label for Macy's and global distribution; a new line of full-figure and full-support sports bras called Freya Active by Eveden, and the licensed Sex and the City by Cosabella collection of bras and undies designed for the TV series-turned motion picture's characters Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte.
The Bloomingdale's flagship in Manhattan hosted a "Sex and the City" lingerie party on May 22, where several hundred fans lined up for free tickets for Friday's movie premiere, as well as T-shirts, and several women scuffled in a melee for the giveaways and cosmopolitans, said Guido Campello, vice president of marketing and innovation for Cosabella.
"It was wild," Campello said. "All of these women were pulling and grabbing the [Sex and the City] lingerie off of racks and even merchandisers."
He added that the company had to produce immediates for a second delivery to stores nationwide because the collection sold out in advance.
Regarding the Cosabella brand, Teresa D'Souza, design director for the Miami-based firm, said a group of matte-and-shine stretch lace undies with a raised rose pattern called Never Say Never was "very well received."
"It's an engineered lace group of polyamide and Lycra that's very stretchy with a 170-degree stretch," D'Souza said. "So we reduced the sizing because of its stretchability with thongs in one-size-fits-all and HotPants in two sizes, S-M and M-L. It was successful because it's all about softness and is available in six basic colors and nine fashion colors. We also did well with retro-looking, high-waist briefs, which are starting to gain interest because of the popularity of higher waists in sportswear and ready-to-wear."
John Bowman, president of Dana-co, sized up the mood of the resort-spring market as restrained and cautious.
"I don't think retailers were gung-ho for fashion," Bowman said. "It was kind of a mixed mood and the mood shifted a little bit from fashion at the last [February] market to somewhat conservative. Basic product was driving the market. Stores felt safer by not stepping out in a fashion direction and buying styles and products that had fashion touches, such as seamless bras with special lace or strap treatments. The one exception was Neiman Marcus and the high-end Josie Natori [bra] collection, where we added a lot more fashion."
Joanne Kaye, vice president of merchandising for the Intimate Apparel Division at Warnaco, said reaction was strong to a new bra group by Warner's called Invisible Bliss With Wires.
"Warner's created the first stretch [bra] straps in 1963, and Invisible Bliss takes the T-shirt bra to the next level with no strap adjustments or bulky hardware, foam cups that have proprietary Invisible Edge technology, and cosmetic skin tones from light, medium and dark body tones to black and white," said Kaye.
To display the "bulk-free" silhouette of the bra underneath apparel, several models wore body-clinging tops over the bras, which showed no bumps across the front or back.
Gregory Gimble, vice president of Va Bien International, said, "This year, we used the time to work with major new accounts we added in November and February, Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor. We spent the week executing product seminars with both, and also trained with sales associates at Dillard's in Phoenix and did a [regional] morning TV show with my mother, Marianne, who also does HSN shows, to get consumers into the Dillard's Scottsdale store. It was very successful and we're going to replicate that strategy in other regional markets."Bob Vitale, vice president sales and merchandising at Wacoal America, said, "Retailers certainly were asking for compelling product, but it's been a difficult time to introduce a new brand. Space is limited at stores and money is tight. The new b.tempted line was well received by retailers, even though there's a lot of concern about keeping inventories down and having exciting product at the same time. We still have a week and a half to finalize orders, but we think we'll probably exceed expectations."
Susan Demusis, executive vice president of merchandising at the Carole Hochman Design Group, said, "Retailers are definitely cautious. But despite the current difficult economic climate, they were able to home in on the product and identify great items and opportunities. They understand that even though current times are challenging, there will be a spring season next year."
Regarding novelty sleepwear, Marcia Leeds, chief executive officer of Richard Leeds International, said, "Many buyers were looking for newness. Anything that was the same-old was absolutely not selling at stores. Our buyers want to test more. Major department stores and promotional department stores want to take risks, but more calculated risks. So they are testing items early at 50 to 100 doors. They won't go to all doors on anything if they haven't tested it."
“What he has done at Vuitton is really exceptional,” said @gameofthrones’ actress Gwendoline Christie on @mrkimjones’ final show for @louisvuitton. “He has rebooted luxury in terms of making it commercial, viable and contemporary. And most importantly artistic. He has never compromised his artistic vision for the sake of commodity.” (📷: @zefashioninsider)
After seeing a demand for men’s wear from its customers, British contemporary women’s wear label @ariesarise has added a men’s wear component and will launch a unisex collection with @mrporterlive. The 20-piece collection includes jackets, denim, logo T-shirts and more with deconstructed ‘90s vibes. Set to launch on January 18, you can shop the pieces on Aries’ website and on mrporter.com. #wwdfashion
“And so spending so much time with a character who thinks like that, inevitability you try and analyze yourself and go back and think about your own demons and dark chapters that you had in your life,” says @thedanielbruhl of his role in TNT’s “The Alienist.” The show, set in the Gilded Age of New York, also stars Dakota Fanning and Luke Evans. Head to WWD.com to read about how 39-year-old Brühl prepared for the role and why he thinks the show is so relevant to today #wwdeye ( 📷: @Eriktanner)
Now that Celine Dion’s collection has topped $10 million in sales, the pop superstar, fashion icon and newly-minted industry player is eyeing growth in Asia. Read the full report by @tiffanyap, link in bio. #wwdnews #celinedion
“My personal philosophy to beauty is paying attention to oneself. I love to be outdoors, lots of fresh air, trying to take care of yourself as best you can. I always notice that comes through,” says Felicity Jones, the global face of @shiseido-owned @cledepeaubeauteus, which launches today. Head to WWD.com to read more about the actress’ love for beauty and how she prepared for her new role in “The Basis of Sex,” playing the young Ruth Bader Ginsburg. #wwdbeauty (📷: @dandoperalski)
Among the familiar faces at @off____white’s show was a surprise figure: Japanese artist @takashipom, pictured here on Wednesday morning. Other show-goers included @jerrylorenzo, who spoke about his upcoming project: a @nike collaboration for back to school, with designs inspired by his childhood on the West Coast. Sitting in the front row were Future, Don Crawley, @miguel and more. See the rest of the photos on WWD.com #wwdeye (📷: Stephane Feugere)
According to @laurentsai, former “Terrace House: Aloha State” cast member, she didn’t know she was auditioning for the Japanese version of “Real World.” “I was telling a couple of my friends and someone’s like, ‘That sounds a lot like Terrace House.’ I was like, ’No it can’t be.’” Turns out, it was. But Tsai isn’t just a reality star — she’s an illustrator who has worked with Starbucks Japan and most recently, she’s dipping her toes into the fashion world. Head to WWD.com to read about her time on the show, modeling and her art. #wwdeye (📷: @danieldorsa)
More changes are coming to New York Fashion Week: Beginning with the spring 2019 collection, @alexanderwangny will move his New York show to June from September, adopting a biannual schedule with collections shown in June and December. Additionally, the @cfda is planning for an official summer/winter fashion season taking place as soon as June and December 2018. Read more about the upcoming changes on WWD.com. #wwdnews #wwdfashion (📷: @slovekinpics)


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VOL. 126 | NO. 221 | Friday, November 11, 2011
Union Holiday Deli & Ham Adds Drive-Thru, Parking
By Sarah Baker
Holiday Deli & Ham Co. is in the midst of adding parking and a drive-thru to its high-volume Midtown store.
Loeb Bros Realty LP, an entity of Loeb Properties Inc. and owner of the deli’s space at 2087 Union Ave., has purchased the adjacent property at 2091 Union Ave. for $250,000 from Steven M. Seyer, according to the Shelby County Register of Deeds’ Office.
Loeb will demolish the site at 2091 Union, which formerly housed Bella House of Fine Cabinetry, said Matt Prince, Loeb’s senior vice president of brokerage and development, who brokered the deal on behalf of the landlord. The tenant was unrepresented in the deal.
Holiday Deli & Ham is owned by Trey Jordan and his father, L. Donald Jordan Jr., of Jordan Enterprises. The Memphis-based firm opened the first deli location in East Memphis’ Erin Way Shopping Center in the mid-1990s.
The Midtown location opened in 2007, bringing Holiday Deli & Ham’s Memphis-area presence to four, in addition to one in Knoxville that operates under the name Pimento’s Café & Market.
This endeavor will not only be Holiday Deli & Ham’s first store with a drive-thru offering, but also will greatly enhance ingress and egress.
“Trey Jordan needed additional parking,” Prince said. “The reality of it was that he could fill all his parking spaces plus the adjacent street parking, and not have a 100 percent occupied restaurant, and so there was a great need for additional parking. The site became available immediately to his east and we purchased it. And that will increase his parking by 15 additional spaces.”
Demolition will begin within the next two to three weeks, Prince said.
• In other commercial leasing news, F. Ford Beach Jr., principal broker of Beach Investment, has represented a trio of retail deals in Bartlett in recent weeks.
Tex-Mex restaurant El Vaquero has signed a 3,477-square-foot lease in Parkside Gallery, 2731 Bartlett Blvd.
The restaurant is part of the family-owned Mexican restaurants of El Sombrero in Horn Lake as well as one in Springfield, Miss. Beach represented the proprietor and master chef, Juan Huerta, as well as the landlord in the leasing negotiations.
Parkside Gallery is home to the tenants of Pizzazz Beauty Salon, Don-Dons Hot Wings and Money-Co Taxes, “with a few new tenants forthcoming in the endcap of the center in the next few months,” Beach said.
El Vaquero will have a grand opening within the next two to three weeks.
In addition, NuLife Fitness, a zumba and dance studio, has signed a 1,658-square-foot lease in Wolf Run Center, 8000 U.S. 64, next to Pump It Up.
Beach was the only agent involved in the deal, and said the tenant will be open for business by the end of November.
And Baby Jacks BBQ, a new drive-thru, take-out and sit-down restaurant, has signed a 1,850-square-foot lease in freestanding space that last sheltered Starbucks, across from Appling Crossing, 7610 U.S. 70.
Beach represented the owner of the new venture, the grandson of the founder of Whitt’s Barbecue, a 48-unit chain across the Southeast that specializes in a vinegar-based barbecue sauce.
Tyler Tapley, associate with CB Richard Ellis Memphis, represented the landlord.
• In another deal, Atomic Graphics has relocated its retail and office operations to 3,613 square feet in the lobby of Clark Tower, 5100 Poplar Ave., after more than 22 years on Park Avenue.
Atomic Graphics – formerly Sir Speedy Printing – is owned by Cathy Campochiaro, president and CEO, and her husband, David. The local company provides printing and copying services, along with graphic design, logo creation, promotional products and more.
“It’s a fresh, new start for us,” Campochiaro said in a statement. “We have a great retail presence and enough space for our managers, designers and salespeople. We’re adding a sign on the façade of the building and we have front-door parking.”
Dede Malmo, president of MalmoMemphis Real Estate Inc., represented the tenant.
“Clark Tower fits them like a glove,” Malmo said. “They’ll be a new amenity for other tenants in the building, and they’ll generate business from the building. It’s definitely a win-win situation for both the landlord and Atomic Graphics.”
Frazier Baker, director of leasing for In-Rel Properties Inc. and owner of Clark Tower, represented the landlord.
“They are perfect for our lobby,” Baker said. “They add to Clark Tower’s already un-matched list of tenant amenities.”


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Ugandan wireless operator Celtel has signed an agreement with the Uganda Taxi Operators and Drivers Association (UTODA) to install its One4all payphones in all commuter taxis. According to Mark Ongom, Celtel’s sales and distribution director, the deal is ‘a fantastic opportunity for customers to communicate while in transit’. Local calls will cost UGX200 per minute, calls to East Africa UGX400 per minute, while calls to the rest of the world will cost UGX450 per minute. The initiative is expected to cover all taxi parks in the country, but will initially be rolled out in the Old and New Taxi parks of Kampala. According to TeleGeography, Celtel is the smallest of three cellcos currently operating in Uganda.
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LVIA and Uber Reach Agreement
September 21, 2017
Uber is available immediately for passengers at Lehigh Valley International Airport
Hanover Township, PA –Lehigh Valley International Airport (LVIA) and Uber have announced an agreement to provide ride-share service for passengers effective immediately.
“It’s been a priority for the Airport Authority to bring Uber back, and we believe they provide another critical component of delivering the highest level of customer service at LVIA for passengers looking for ground transportation options,” said Thomas R. Stoudt, Interim Executive Director, Lehigh-Northampton Airport Authority.
The staging area for the Uber pick-up and drop-off area at LVIA will be located outside the Main Terminal on the second level (by Departures), near the former LANta bus stop.
“We want to thank all our passengers for their patience and understanding in recent months while the Airport Authority worked to restore ridesharing service at LVIA,” said Stoudt.
You can sign-up and download the Uber app by visiting: www.uber.com
“On behalf of the riders and drivers who count on Uber at LVIA, we’re pleased to be launching this new partnership,” said Brian Hughes, General Manager of Uber Pennsylvania. “Whether you’re headed home or catching your flight, Uber can help you get there with a safe, affordable ride.”
Uber’s mission is to bring reliable transportation to everywhere, for everyone. We started in 2010 to solve a simple problem: how do you get a ride at the touch of a button? Six years and more than two billion trips later, we’ve started tackling an even greater challenge: reducing congestion and pollution in our cities by getting more people into fewer cars.


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Crippled already by unique problems of its own, the giant hospital chain must now contend with painful ailments ravaging the rest of the industry. The company -- once among the most profitable in the sector -- is now treating so many uninsured patients that it's struggling to make ends meet.
Like many of its peers, including industry leader
, Tenet has found itself taking big charges to cover mounting bad-debt expenses. But for Tenet, whose profit growth evaporated with a Medicare loophole, the blow is particularly painful.
The company will now miss both third-quarter and full-year earnings targets. It can no longer offer future earnings guidance. It has likely tripped a bank covenant. And it has just $200 million in cash -- or less than four times what it paid to settle allegations at a single Tenet facility -- at a time when the entire company faces a slew of patient lawsuits and government investigations.
"The sharp escalation in ... recent trends makes it very difficult to forecast future bad debt expense and financial performance in general," Tenet announced Wednesday. "Given the number of factors, both industry-wide and company-specific, that are now impacting the company's business, management is discontinuing guidance at this time."
Prior to Wednesday's announcement, Wall Street had expected Tenet to deliver third-quarter profit of 20 cents a share and full-year profit of 80 cents to $1 a share for the 12 months ending June 30. But the company plans to take a big third-quarter charge -- totaling up to $225 million -- to cover rocketing bad-debt expenses. And it has warned that this charge may not be the last.
"We are taking immediate action to manage and mitigate the steep increase in bad debt," CEO Trevor Fetter said. "Despite these actions, we expect future earnings to be impacted by this trend."
Already, the fresh problems have taken a heavy toll on the company. Tenet stated Wednesday that it has probably violated a covenant requiring the company to maintain a leverage ratio of no more than 2.5 times on a $1.5 billion credit facility. Although the credit line is currently untapped, it is being used to support $200 million in letters of credit at a time when Tenet itself has only $200 million in the bank.
Nevertheless, the company pledged to work through the ordeal.
"Historically, Tenet has had very strong relationships with its key banks," said CFO Stephen Farber. "We expect to work productively with them to resolve this issue."
But investors could not be calmed. Tenet's stock -- already hammered from $50 last year -- tumbled 13.4% to $13.34 in early trading Wednesday.


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While coalitions, organizations, and aftermarket groups are involved in a “right to repair” movement that’s pushing for fair and equal access to OEM repair procedures collision and auto shops, as well as collision industry organizations, say there isn’t an issue.
Right to repair legislation has been introduced or passed in Maryland, Massachusetts, Maine, and New York. New York passed a right to repair bill in December 2022 though it excludes automotive OEMs. Legislation passed in Massachusetts in 2020, and similarly proposed in Maine earlier this year, calls for the creation of a “standardized access platform” for data generated, collected, and transmitted by vehicles.
New Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell on March 7 made a move in court to request enforcement, beginning June 1, of the state’s Data Access Law that was passed by voters. The Alliance for Automotive Innovation (AAI) filed suit against former Attorney General Maura Healey over the new law, which would grant access to automaker diagnostic and repair information as well as tools to vehicle owners and independent repair facilities. Though the legislation became effective with the 2022 model year, Healey agreed to withhold enforcement of it because of the pending litigation.
AAI contends that OEM repair information, tools, and equipment is accessible to anyone.
Automotive Industries Association of Canada (AIA Canada), along with Auto Care Association (ACA) and 19 other aftermarket groups recently launched a “critical global right to repair movement” for access to in-vehicle and telematics. The groups argue that OEMs are prohibiting their access to and limiting consumers’ choice to have their vehicles repaired at independent shops.
While there may be some shops that take issue with most OEMs requiring a paid subscription to access all of their procedures and repair documents, there are some resources that are free.
For example, Mercedes-Benz offers free resources through its Independent Service Provider (ISP) portal at startekinfo.com/home. It’s as simple as clicking the “Passenger” or “Commercial” buttons on the landing page then the “explore technical docs” button. Recall and other service bulletins, workshop resources, and tools and parts ordering can be accessed without a login. Access to OEM repair procedures requires a subscription.
Washington Metropolitan Auto Body Association (WMABA) Executive Director Jordan Hendler said she hasn’t heard any complaints from her shop members about lack of or barred access to repair procedures.
“I think it comes down to what’s accessible for free versus paid for some people,” she said. “They think it should be free to the mechanical world where the OE charges. Maybe it’s an area-specific effort. We don’t have this as an issue on our plate.”
Kyle Bradshaw, Carolinas Collision Association (CAA) president and K&M Collision fixed operations director, said he also hasn’t heard of there being an access issue.
“We have not heard any complaints on this front,” he said. “To my knowledge, everyone has access to all of this information.”
Scott Grassmann, owner of Allied Automotive in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma said paying for the resources is “part of business” and that the “right to repair” sentiment is inaccurate. Allied Automotive, though it’s a mechanical automotive shop, also offers pre-purchase and pre-trip inspections and structural welding on nearly all makes and models, both foreign and domestic.
“We have all the information that the manufacturers have,” Grassman said. “We use ShopKey, which is Mitchell or ALLDATA. …Our software updates every single month. Every once in a while whenever you get a Maserati or something that’s a specialty vehicle, they may not release that information. …The dealers want to make it where you can only go to Ford or you can only go to Dodge or Mercedes or any of them. They’d love to have that but the realization is the exact same technician that is working in Ford this week could be working at Firestone next week.
“As far as right to repair and aftermarket places, we have just as much training available to us. There’s courses that we can go through — Oklahoma City Community College, AutoZone, O’Reilly’s, Napa — they have training almost monthly,” as well as from Ford and Francis Tuttle Technology Center.
Grassmann’s shop also uses Identifix as a repair information and diagnostics resource.
Hudson Collision in Aurora, Missouri said they don’t have any access issues either because the owners pay for OEM repair procedures access.
“New ownership took over the shop back on Aug. 1 and the owner was trained by the OEMs,” said the shop’s general manager, who wished not to be named. “He gave us diagnostic equipment to do calibrations if anything is damaged in the rear and they have a system for OEM repair procedures; sectioning quarter panels or sectioning unisides, they always give us the OE repair procedures for that. My guys here I-CAR certified Gold and we haven’t had any issues with that.”
OEM Collision Repair Roundtable, a collision industry nonprofit that represents OEMs, told Repairer Driven News access to information and equipment to diagnose and repair vehicles are available to all repairers and consumers.
“This access also holds true for mechanical and collision repair for all vehicle types (ICE, BEV, Hybrid). OEMs do not make distinctions between dealer-associated repair shops, independent shops, or MSOs. In fact, many of our members’ collision-certified networks are built around independent shops, with many programs having upwards of 70% non-dealer shops participating.
“To make that access even easier, we developed and maintain www.oem1stop.com, providing a one-stop location. The information is out there, but shops need to know where to look for it. That comes down to training. Many shops do a great job keeping up with training; others need to increase their focus on this important aspect of repairing vehicles today.”
The roundtable added that they haven’t received any complaints from shops about lack of access or barred access to procedures, tools, and equipment. “Our members even partner with third-party tool manufacturers to ensure a range of options in the marketplace, so that each shop can make the best decision for its own needs.”
Kenneth Manns, co-owner of Local Guys Collision in Knoxville, Tennessee, told RDN his shop technicians also have no issue getting their hands on the procedures they need.
“We subscribe to ALLDATA and they pay all the licensing fees to all the manufacturers to get the information that’s needed so yes, for us, it’s readily available because we pay for that service,” he said. “Some manufacturers can make it pretty hard for you to access that info because you’re not paying for the license, they’re not just going to volunteer that information out. That’s probably most likely just to ensure that proper repair facilities are fixing their cars; just trying to limit the backyard things from happening [because] these cars are getting so technologically advanced.”
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A screenshot in Site Preview mode shows what the general public and repairers have access to through the Mercedes-Benz ISP Portal.


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File Photo: Gold bars. AFP
As per the report, Egypt was the most significant contributor to the growth of investments in gold bars and coins in the Middle East, accounting for nearly a third of the region's total demand of 32 tons.
The total demand for gold in Egypt for the first half of 2023 is close to 2022's annual total, as Egyptians resort to the yellow metal as a safe haven to hedge against the inflation exacerbated by the devaluation of the local currency, the report's data showed.
The Egyptian pound exchange rate against the USD has undergone frequent changes since March 2022 on the heels of the Russian-Ukrainian war, losing over 75 percent of its value.
The USD/EGP rate jumped from EGP 15.7 to EGP 18.56 in March 2022, then moved gradually to EGP 19.66 until 28 October, when it surged to EGP 23.15. By March 2023, the USD stood at about EGP 30.9, where it remains today.
"A relaxation of restrictions on hand-carried gold has eased supply conditions in the local market and this is reflected in lower premiums on gold investment products. Demand remains robust in the face of a challenging economic backdrop and potential further currency depreciation," read the WGC report.
Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly issued a decree on 11 May exempting travellers carrying gold from customs duties and other fees – except value-added taxes (VAT) – for a period of six months. The decision was meant to address the shortage in gold supply in the local market, which resulted in a surge in prices.
Gold prices have been stable since the beginning of July. They have been steadily continuing on a declining trajectory since May. The price of 24-carat gold reached EGP 2,445.75 per gram on Monday, 31 July, down 7.7 percent compared to its level on 1 June and 17.6 percent compared to 1 May level.
Global demand stays solid
The demand for gold by central banks declined globally during the second quarter of 2023. However, the impact on the total demand was marginal.
In Q2 2023, gold demand (excluding over-the-counter, or OTC market) dropped slightly by two percent annually to 921 tons, driven by a marked deceleration in net central bank buying compared to above-average purchases in Q2 2022.
The total global demand, if OTC and gold coming from existing stockpiles (stock flows) are included, will increase by seven percent yearly to 1,255 tons in Q2 2023.
OTC (also known as “off-exchange trading”) occurs directly between two parties, unlike exchange trading.
In global markets, gold for December delivery rose $9.30 to $2,009.20 an ounce on Monday.
In June, WGC reported that central banks' official gold reserves declined by 71 tons in April mainly due to Turkey's selling of 81 tons on its domestic market to meet surging local demand.


text: Discount clothing chain Primark is to sell LGBT Pride merchandising in stores. The cut-priced clothing company has announced that it will bring Pride merch to select stores across Europe and the US as Primark is partnered to British LGBT charity Stonewall. However, the news has not gone down well with some LGBT activists, who have challenged Stonewall over the deal as profits won’t be given to Pride organizers on the local level. The UK Pride Organizers Network, which brings together organizers of more than 140 LGBT+ Pride events around the UK called the deal an insult and told Stonewall to cut ties with Primark. A number of Twitter users also condemned the deal. Stonewall, a campaigning and advocacy organization, does not run or provide funding to local Pride events. Others noted that Primark’s supply chain is largely reliant on cheap goods and labour from Bangladesh and India – where homosexuality is illegal and workers have few rights.


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Jeep isn’t done making minor updates to the 2023 Gladiator, and this one is minor. The automaker is adding the Earl exterior color to the model’s palette for the first time. It’s an extra $695 and is available to order now.
The new color – a gray shade with hints of aquamarine – joins High Velocity (another new color that replaces Snazzberry), Firecracker Red, Hydro Blue, Sarge Green, Silver Zynith, Sting-Gray, Granite Crystal, black, and Bright White. Jeep is making the new Earl color available across the entire Gladiator trim lineup after introducing it on the Gladiator Farout concept.
Gallery: 2023 Jeep Gladiator Rubicon High Velocity
According to Jim Morrison, senior vice president and head of Jeep brand North America, the automaker received “a ton of positive feedback” after the color debuted on the concept. “We work to deliver what our customers tell us they want, and earl is the latest example of another standout shade that speaks to our loyal and avid Jeep community,” Morrison added.
Jeep brought the new Earl color, and one called Reign, to the Wrangler earlier this year, a recent trend for the off-road brand. The automaker has toyed with the Gladiator and Wrangler’s color palette over the last few years, adding colors such as Tuscadero Pink and Gobi Tan to the available choices.
The Gladiator didn’t receive any other major updates for the 2023 model year, but the brand did add a new Freedom package as the headline. The visual upgrades include badges, body-colored fender flares, black accents, black wheels, and leather-trimmed cloth seats with black stitching. Jeep also added LED headlights, LED fog lights, a steel front bumper, and rock rails. The $3,295 pack is available for the Sport S trim on the Gladiator and Wrangler.
The 2023 Jeep Gladiator Sport costs $40,570, with the top-tier High Altitude trim starting at $55,875. The brand’s Pentastar 3.6-liter V6 engine is standard, which makes 285 horsepower (212 kilowatts) and 260 pound-feet (352 Newton-meters) of torque. A six-speed manual is standard on the Sport, Mojave, and Rubicon. An eight-speed automatic is the standard transmission on the Overland trim and optional on the others.
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Alphabet, which owns Google, announced on Friday (20) that it’ll lay off 12,000 workers worldwide. In a letter to workers, Google CEO Sundar Pichai explains that altering financial realities usually are not maintaining with right this moment’s workforce. Now, Apple is the one main tech firm that hasn’t laid off workers.
According to TechCrunch, the layoffs characterize 6% of Alphabet’s workforce. In the assertion, Pichai explains that potential former US workers would be the first to obtain their termination notices. Delays in speaking with workers in different nations are attributable to time to regulate presents primarily based on native legal guidelines.
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In a letter to workers, Pichai explains that Google’s sturdy development and excessive hiring price over the previous two years, pushed by the pandemic-related residence workplace increase, is at odds with the present financial actuality. Since then, the issue has affected virtually each main expertise, along with, after all, different elements within the world financial system, comparable to Russia’s struggle on Ukraine and a irritating chip scarcity, simply to call a number of.
Pichai additionally notes that the corporate has a “enormous alternative” in entrance of it attributable to its mission, values of services and products, and early investments in AI. “To get to the underside line, we’ve to make robust selections,” says Google’s CEO. Pichai says the corporate will eradicate roles that do not align with the corporate’s priorities. He additionally reviews that layoffs will happen throughout Alphabet and at varied job ranges, in different phrases, managers and administrators could swap to the machete.
In the assertion, Pichai additionally explains all the advantages and compensation that shall be paid to the staff who had been victims of the “passarallo”. These embody six months of well being care, assist for migrant staff, and remaining bonus and vacation funds in 2022.
The “present financial actuality” hit everybody
But what does this distinction within the present financial actuality imply? As restrictions got here in to comprise Covid, folks began shopping for extra electronics to make money working from home. Therefore, with extra free time at residence, the Internet was the principle pastime.
Since advert serving is Google’s seaside, residence workplace and blocking cash made the advert attain extra folks. A degree for development. YouTube additionally started to take up more room as content material. However, as vaccinations enhance and Covid-19 circumstances lower, persons are as soon as once more socializing exterior the house fairly than within the metaverse.
Speaking of the metaverse, the impression has been just like Mark Zuckerberg’s firms, with the escalation of heavy funding within the metaverse and modifications in Apple’s promoting insurance policies, which additionally affected Google and virtually each different firm.
In the early months of the pandemic, folks additionally invested extra in electronics, digital assistants, televisions, robotic vacuums, and different tech. Staying at residence extra, folks had been searching for practicality and taking good care of “their little nook” extra. This is the place Amazon and Alexa shined. But there got here a degree when that stopped as costs went up and few folks traded in a 2 yr outdated TV. As for value jumps, my R$400 monitor in May 2020 jumped to R$800 in 2021.
Still within the electronics and residential workplace house, Microsoft on Wednesday announced a workers of 10,000 workers. As with Amazon, virtually nobody will change the PC/laptop computer they purchased in 2020 for make money working from home and leisure. All different talked about firms additionally made large layoffs.
At the second, solely Apple has not fired. let’s comply with. The case of Twitter, which laid off 50% of its workers, doesn’t totally mirror this nice technological stagnation. Even earlier than Elon Musk purchased the social community and laid off 3,700 workers, the corporate was already speaking about large layoffs.


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Popular male seiyuu, Natsuki Hanae, is featured on the cover of the newest issue of GOOD ROCKS! Magazine.
GOOD ROCKS! Vol.106 is scheduled to hit stores on 26/06/2020 (coincidently, Natsuki Hanae’s birthday).
The cover is the following:
Natsuki Hanae was interviewed for this issue about his role as Kento Hinode in the NETFLIX exclusive animated movie, Nakitai Watashi wa Neko wo Kaburu (premiered on June 18, 2020).
A note that this is a long feature – 20 pages long.
GOOD ROCKS! Vol.106 is currently unavailable for pre-order at CDJAPAN.


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ESco have announced that they have successfully migrated subscriptions for Anthem Publishing to ESco from another bureau.
Posted on: 05 October 2017 06:05
Jon Bickley: "After a thorough pitch process we were pleased to find a meeting of minds and culture with ESco."
Anthem are now benefiting from ESco's full subscriptions bureau service, which includes customer service, account management, analytics, eCommerce and renewals, amongst many other things.
Bath-based Anthem Publishing is one of the UK's most dynamic and fastest growing magazine publishers. Active in the music, food and colouring sectors, Anthem’s brands include Music Tech, Classic Pop and Vegan Food. ESco says they are very excited about how they can help Anthem to grow subscriptions in the future.
Commenting on the move to ESco, Jon Bickley the CEO of Anthem said: "After fifteen years with the same subscription bureau, making the switch wasn't something we undertook lightly. But after a thorough pitch process we were pleased to find a meeting of minds and culture with ESco. We're delighted with the migration that has been professionally managed with the minimum amount of disruption we could hope for. Now it's down to business and building our brands with our new partner."
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iPhone X became available to preorder today at 12:01am PT and Apple has now issued a statement to the media noting “off the charts” customer response to the handset.
Here’s Apple’s statement in full, via TechCrunch:
We are thrilled to be taking orders for iPhone X, the future of the smartphone.
We can see from the initial response, customer demand is off the charts. We’re working hard to get this revolutionary new product into the hands of every customer who wants one, as quickly as possible.
We will keep accepting orders online and iPhone X will be available at Apple retail stores on Friday, November 3 starting at 8am, as well as from our carrier and retailer partners around the world.
The company does not break down iPhone sales by model and it no longer reports opening weekend iPhone sales. We’ll have a better idea of how well the new phone is performing when Apple’s September quarter earnings are reported on November 2.
Only a few days of preorders will be counted in the report.
Apple said earlier this week that it will have iPhone X for walk-in customers when the handset hits store shelves next Friday, but advised would-be buyers to “arrive early”.
After just a few minutes of preorders going live, shipments slipped into December.
iPhone X will be available from November 3 in stores in these countries:
Andorra, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Japan, Jersey, Kuwait, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, UAE, UK, US and US Virgin Islands.
Have you preordered your iPhone X yet, and which model?
Let us know by posting a comment below.


text: So many factors impact the sales market activity. We’ve noticed things from gas prices to weather can affect the activity on a day to day basis and during each month. In September, Monroe County saw a decrease in new listings by 7% from the same month in 2016 but we closed 9% more transactions in Sept2017 than in Sept2016. The good news is that we are seeing an increase in the average sales price, nearly 8%. Inventory remains low and is the main cause of the slow down in sales activity. If you’re thinking of selling, there is less competition now than you’ll most likely see in the Spring! Buyer traffic is slow, which could be affected by the upcoming holidays. Although interest rates remain low, we are expecting to see interest rates rise over the next year. This may be another reason for acting sooner than later! Don’t let the holidays and winter weather delay your house-hunting and house-selling opportunities!


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Apple has added 90’s TV show “Saved By the Bell” and early segments from “Schoolhouse Rock.”
Another iPod casualty: Sony said that its Bean MP3 player, which was launched at the end of last August, will be discontinued in April.
Earphone Solutions is offering a free pair of AKG K27i headphones ($70 value) with the purchase of the UM2 earphones. Add both to your cart and enter the coupon code FREEK27ILOUNGEUM2.
USA Today’s Laura Vanderkam writes: “Modern youth culture’s love affair with the iPod may explain why this holiday will be lonelier for many people of my generation.”


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Microchip and Sigfox launched the industry’s first FCC-certified, RF transceiver and development kits for IoT applications for use on the long-range Sigfox network. Some applications include logistics, agriculture, smart cities, etc.
The kit features Microchip’s ATA8520E, a low-power RF transceiver with an integrated AVR microcontroller. The new kits also contain the first FCC-certified board that allows developers to easily connect to Sigfox’s long-range, two-way global IoT network, resulting in a low-cost, low-power device-to-cloud connectivity solution.
Customers can either purchase Microchip’s Sigfox-certified ATA8520E as a standalone kit, designed primarily to test the technology, or as a kit combined with an Xplained Pro board, a solution for system-design purposes.
Both solutions come complete with the Sigfox library, modulation, ID and PAC code, and a security key enabling IoT developers to quickly get their designs to market.
Sigfox network is currently operating in 24 countries and provides energy-efficient connectivity for billions of devices that are required to periodically send small quantities of data over long distances. This network results in substantially low power consumption and longer battery life compared to traditional cellular, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi connectivity, the firm notes.
The ATA8520E is also the first fully Sigfox-certified chip suitable for both North America and Europe.
“The applications for the rapidly growing IoT market are endless,” said Matthias Kaestner, vice president of Microchip’s Radio Frequency and Automotive business unit. “With this new FCC-certified solution combining the best of Microchip and Sigfox offerings, the possibilities are unlimited for the billions of IoT connections. Our Sigfox solution gives any IoT application the secure, long-range wireless connectivity required to get these ‘smart’ things ‘connected’ – at a fraction of the cost and power consumption of a cellular connection.”
“We are excited with Microchip’s long-range wireless solution as it is compelling, reliable and out-of-the-box ready,” said Tony Francesca, Sigfox vice president of Global Ecosystem Partners. “With its FCC certification, we look forward in partnering with Microchip to enable many IoT use cases and billions of devices to be connected to Sigfox’s network in the US and other countries that are based on FCC type approvals.”
For more information about the new Sigfox solutions, view the full Press release.


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As part of the scheme, AXA and VUE are offering companies video and telematics technology that allows them to monitor FLTs and driver behaviour much more closely.
Two cameras are placed on the FLT, one forward facing camera and one driver facing camera placed at the top of the driver cab. The cameras are hooked up to an online system so incidents can be reviewed immediately.
Meanwhile, a black box records the speed, braking, location and other relevant data in order to rate the performance of FLT drivers. Like the camera footage, driver ratings can be viewed on an online dashboard.
The roll out of the technology follows a successful trial with a number of AXA customers who are seeing positive changes in driver behaviours and a reduction in accidents.
Douglas Barnett, head of mid-market and customer risk management at AXA Insurance, said: “Our work as an insurer goes much further than selling products and paying claims. Our aim is to make sure our policyholders minimise their risks and, more importantly, stay safe. FLT accidents can result in life changing injuries for employees and have a lasting impact on their families.
“Our partnership with VUE on FLT safety fits our ethos perfectly and we are encouraged that our pilot has already shown the impact proper monitoring can have on behaviour and on the number of accidents”.


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US bike brand Specialized has appointed David Schriber as its chief marketing officer.
This week Specialized CEO Scott Maguire announced that Schriber, a former Nike executive, will be taking up the role from Monday, 3rd October.
Schriber’s experience includes founding a retail board for sports businesses, while studying computer science and English in college, followed by roles with Nike, Burton, and Mastercard.
Scott Maguire, who took over as Specialized CEO from company founder Mike Sinyard earlier this year, said: “I am confident that there is no better marketer in the world for the Specialized brand at this moment than David. He will lead us to engage and inspire millions of new and existing riders, delivering on our purpose of Pedalling the Planet Forward. His cultural awareness and digital marketing capabilities will be an incredible combination with our deep focus on innovation.”
Schriber’s experience includes working in global markets, marketing hardgoods, softgoods, and software as a service. He spent 14 years with Nike, leaving his role as vice president for global marketing in 2018 to join online learning platform MasterClass as chief marketing and revenue officer.
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On his new role, Schriber shared, “I’m coming to Specialized because I deeply believe in the future of cycling generally, and Specialized specifically, to improve the lives of billions of people around the world at a time that the world needs it most. I see that Specialized, like no other brand, is tackling the challenges of humanity and our planet with cycling solutions. Coming from the unlikely intersection of the origins of mountain biking and Silicon Valley, Specialized – especially Turbo – is changing the world for the better. As Specialized moves to serve new riders with new products in new channels at greater scale, I’m drawn to join the team and do what I can to help people and the planet thrive by bike, but also to keep it real for the riders who define cycling and make us great.”
The founder and long-standing CEO of Specialized, Mike Sinyard, stepped down from his role at the company earlier this year.
After 48 years in charge, Sinyard stepped away from his CEO position, handing over the reigns to Scott Maguire, the former chief operating officer of Dyson.
Sinyard, who founded Specialized as a US distributor in 1974, will continue with the brand under a newly-created job title – founder, chairman and chief rider advocate.


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T-Mobile and AT&T may be crawling over one another trying to offer better deals these days but Verizon has been mostly content to sit back and watch while offering the occasional price cut to keep its customers happy. Re/code reports that Verizon CFO Fran Shammo said at a Deutsche Bank technology conference Monday that he wasn’t at all worried about the price wars going on between AT&T and T-Mobile because he’s learned from experience that aggressively undercutting your competition’s prices is self-destructive in the long run.
“We’re not going to buy customers,” Shammo said. “You have to earn customers.”
In a lot of ways, it seems like Verizon sees itself as the Apple of the wireless world: It can get away with charging more money for its services because it believes it offers a superior product that its customers have shown they’re willing to pay for. Pretty much every study of wireless carriers in the United States has shown that Verizon has the best mobile network around, especially in terms of reliability, voice call quality and SMS performance.
In its Q4 2013 earnings announced earlier this year, Verizon revealed that it added 4.1 million postpaid subscribers in 2013 and 1.6 million postpaid subscribers in the fourth quarter alone — all while T-Mobile was piling on with its assorted “Uncarrier” plans. Until Verizon’s subscriber growth starts to decline, there’s really no reason for the carrier to change what has been a hugely successful and profitable business plan.


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Cissy Houston,the mother of the late R&B superstar Whitney houston is getting ready to release a tell-all book about daughter.
New York times reports Cissy met with publishers in New York this week to shop a book about her daughter.
Affectionately calling her daughter “Nippy,” her childhood nickname, and appearing emotionally and physically drained, Ms. Houston met with publishers in a suite at the St. Regis Hotel.
Ms. Houston, 78, described the book as the real and definitive story of her daughter, the pop legend who died on Feb. 11 in Beverly Hills at the age of 48.
Talking about the book proposal to publishers, Ms. Houston seemed eager to set straight what she called “lies” about her daughter that have circulated in public discussion about her. She said, ‘There are so many lies out there and I want to dispel all of those lies,’ one publishing executive said, “It’s going to be the bad, it’s going to be the good."
The book, to be called “The Whitney I Knew,” will capture personal stories and anecdotes that reveal Houston’s warmth, generosity, and humor, the publisher said in a statement. It is expected to be released in July.


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Andy Ihnatko writes for The Chicago Sun-Times, “Verizon’s ubiquitous ‘iDon’t’ commercial has been peppering TV for weeks now. It makes two conventional mistakes in advertising. It’s not clear that it’s an ad for the Verizon Droid phone… [and] its claims about the limitations of the iPhone are baloney. (Mostly.)”
Some of the Droid’s “iDon’t” ads claims debunked:
• iDon’t have a real keyboard: I can type twice as fast on the iPhone as I can on the Droid’s mechanical keyboard. Nobody [who tested it] thought the Droid’s [mechanical] keyboard was very good.
• iDon’t run simultaneous apps: Not completely true. You can’t run more than one third party app simultaneously on an iPhone. When I’m navigating with my third-party GPS app, the iPod app is playing music and the Mail app is fetching mail in the background.
• iDon’t allow open development: Droid shouldn’t try to fight the iPhone toe-to-toe on apps. It’s absolutely no contest: the iPhone has the largest, broadest, and highest-quality library of mobile apps anywhere. Verizon is aiming a peashooter against the USS Nimitz.
Ihnatko continues in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Motorola Droid: “iDon’t have a chance in hell at dethroning Apple’s iPhone.”
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Russ W.” for the heads up.]


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Gambia Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Agriculture and Employers’ Association
(GCCI) is anticipating a booming trade fair this year, which is to commence on
GCCI CEO Alieu Secka, in an interview with The Point newspaper, said they are not going to spill the beans, but this year will be one of a kind.
He said they have received tremendous interest, both locally and internationally, adding that they will also be hosting the Senegalese Kaolack Chamber of Commerce.
“We will have lots of participants in Senegal from different sectors, likewise from The Gambia too,” he said.
All this would be attractive to both families, businesses and individuals, which would be very interesting, he explained.
Mr Secka remarked that they have one of the best countries to collaborate with, and that’ is Senegal, specifically in the new dispensation, which is warming up relations between the two countries.
“I think this is a celebration of that fraternity, because they will bring along essential products of interest to The Gambia,” the GCCI CEO said.
He added that they are of the belief that CCBM, which is the holding company of the President Union of the Chamber of Commerce in Senegal, will come in a big way to participate in The Gambia’s International Trade Fair.
“We do not want to spill the beans, maybe we will leave that as a surprise to show how big this trade fair will be,” he emphasised.
CEO Secka said last year they involved agri-business as a bridge to show its significance, adding that the GCCI is an exclusive chamber that involves the whole Gambia and representing trade and commerce, agriculture, and Industry.
“We are particularly pleased that together we have several projects in agriculture that promotes countrywide agriculture and agric-business that partner with us,” he said.
Mr Secka concluded by saying that they have trust working with those projects pioneered by agriculture-related organisations to bring in farmers, the womenfolk to participate in a big way in the Trade Fair International 2017, as usual, to showcase local produce and to promote home-grown goods.
Mrs Beatrice Mboge, Supervisor of the Trade Fair, highlighted the constraints they encounter during such times, pointing out that publicising the event costs a lot of money.
She appealed to those who are interested to come and pay for their stalls in time, stating that this time around the number of stalls booked is what will be built.
She noted that last year the response they received was overwhelming and pleasing. “We doubt if we can accommodate anybody that comes late to book for a stall,” she said.
Mrs Mboge highlighted her expectations in the turnout of the general public, saying this year is GCCI’s 50th anniversary, which will be an extraordinary event both for them and nation, especially the business community.
She, therefore, appealed to the Gambian people to participate in the forthcoming trade fair, which serves as a tool to attract foreign investment into The Gambia.


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Since the game’s early access debut on Friday, many gamers anxious to play Final Fantasy XIV’s highly anticipated Endwalker expansion have encountered long lines. According to a blog post by producer and director Naoki Yoshida, part of the reason for the long waits is that Square Enix has been unable to obtain enough servers to meet demand due to a global chip shortage.
“When it comes to introducing new Worlds, we require tens of’server computers’ each World,” Yoshida explains. “Server computers are high-performance computers that make use of a variety of semiconductors. However, several semiconductor firms throughout the world have ceased production or are experiencing labor shortages as a result of the COVID-19 countermeasures presently in place.
“We have made a significant investment — much more than normal — to obtain the requisite hardware, but even so, the server hardware will require a long lead time,” Yoshida stated. In the meanwhile, the development team has made a few steps to solve issues, such as streamlining server source code and increasing the maximum number of logins per globe. Despite such efforts, “we believe that adding more Worlds may take many months or more,” he stated, “given the current scenario.”
The worldwide chip shortage has had a significant impact on numerous industries; even Apple, which is known for its supply chain prowess, has lost billions as a result of supply shortages. Companies of various sizes, like Square Enix, have had to find alternate ways to make their goods function; Panic, for example, updated the main board in its quirky Playdate handheld to accept a different CPU, while Tesla rebuilt its car software to handle other CPUs. (According to reports, Tesla has also begun sending cars sans USB ports.)
In a post published hours after Endwalker’s early access debut, Yoshida highlighted the server load, and based on what he stated then and on Tuesday, it doesn’t appear like Square Enix will be able to fix every issue or acquire as much server gear as it needs very soon. Yoshida has detailed a number of changes the development team is doing in order to address these concerns, with the aim that you will be able to play Endwalker sooner rather than later.