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Budget-minded cars were popular in AutoGuide.com’s new cars section this week ranging from crossovers to sub-compacts.
Ford’s popular Focus took the top spot, but big discounts on the expensive electric version suggested this week that sales are struggling. Last week Nissan announced pricing for the 2013 Leaf, leaving the Focus Electric looking even more expensive than before. An entry-level gas-powered Focus is still cheap and the Focus electric is getting cheaper, but it’s still more expensive than the competition.
New car shoppers looked to the 2013 Toyota Yaris sub-compact next. After that, the 2013 Ford Escape was close behind despite a series of early recalls since its introduction. Subaru’s 2013 Impreza also made the list as did the Mazda CX-5 small crossover.


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We’ve known for months that come next Tuesday, jumbo-sized sodas will become a thing of the past for New Yorkers.
But what you may not know is that the ban will impact your morning coffee order.
The rules are open to interpretation.
If you like a super sweet cup of joe, you’ll need to add your own sugar at McDonald’s and Dunkin’ Donuts.
Starbucks says they’ll still add your sugar for you if you ask.
Drinks like lattes won’t be impacted because they contain a lot of milk, which is considered to be nutritious.
But Starbucks says they’re not sure how they’re famous frappuccino will be impacted.
PIX11 will have much more today at 5. Tell us what you think about the impact on coffee in the comments and we’ll read your answers on the news.

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A step-by-step guide on how to de-bezel an Alienware AW2310 monitor and how they look in a three screen portrait setup.
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BenQ launches two gaming monitor in North America, XL2420T, XL2420TX
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BenQ set to release XL2420T, XL2420TX, 3D Vision 2 monitors
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Perceptive Pixel unveil 82-inch, 120Hz multi-touch LCD
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Acer launch the world's first 27-inch Full HD, 3D display
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A new TV brand makes an appearance down under and we answer the simple question - Is OHKI a brand you should be looking at?
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LG show off a 23" 240Hz IPS panel - makes me scream like a little girl in desire
Oct 15, 2010 4:05 am
Viewsonic let loose a 3D monitor that is compatible with the upcoming AMD Radeon 6k series
Sep 21, 2010 8:15 am
BenQ is bringing out a 23.6" 120hz 3D capable display at last!
May 31, 2010 5:18 pm
We abduct the Alienware OptX AW2310 and probe it to death. What secret technology did we find from it?
May 20, 2010 9:11 am
Approved by NVIDIA for 3D Vision
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3D Vision has been out for a bit and we take the time to see how it looks with a bunch of games on ViewSonic's VX2268wm 120Hz LCD.
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On June 1st, Shanghai reopened – and if we thought companies around the world were excited to once again have goods being manufactured, imagine the joy of the city’s 25 million residents who are now free(er) to move about than they have been for weeks. We know first hand the challenge this has posed as our Shanghai office team members have worked remotely on behalf of our customers, staying in touch with factories and the local and national governments to know what airports and seaports were viable alternatives and operating at a time when China was pursuing a zero-COVID policy in an attempt to eliminate cases.
From the point of view of companies buying and selling goods in China, the next few weeks will offer both great excitement and great trepidation. Excitement because exports will begin to once again flow from the world’s factory floor, but trepidation because once finished goods which were trapped at ports, in containers or in factory warehouses have shipped and the on-hand supply of components to manufacture has been exhausted – there is a widely-anticipated gap that will occur as manufacturing ramps up and raw materials arrive and become available.
That first wave of exports has the potential to overrun American ports upon arrival and those ports are already making preparations. At Omni, we are monitoring conditions for sea freight and air freight markets and are committed to relay in near real time what we are seeing and experiencing.
Space early, costs late.
With inventory at high levels in the United States, cargo owners were committed to moving goods sooner to be on hand. Gene Seroka, Executive Director of the Port of Los Angeles, said as much at an appearance at the National Custom Broker and Forwarders Association of America (NCBFAA’s) annual conference in May – calling out back to school and holiday merchandise moving in April and May that more traditionally moved during the customary peak season of July through September. Whether these high inventory levels correlate to reduced future orders – and thus reduced demand that lowers freight rates – remains to be seen.
Air freight: Limited passenger flights + backlogged demand = seller’s market
While carriers may have removed scheduled port calls early in the pandemic (there is a case to be made that too many blanked sailings and the late return of scheduled service put us in this predicament), they put the ships back and have been placing orders for new builds and chartering existing tonnage as quickly as they could.
For non-cargo airlines whose fortunes rise and fall with passengers, the slow return of international travelers has meant that traditional belly space has been non-existent. The reopening of Shanghai – and Pudong Airport – will bring those flights back, but given the amount of cargo to urgently move into and out of China, there will not be enough capacity.
Omni has a variety of competitive and cost effective solutions to help our customers navigate this environment.
With 90% of flights in and out of Shanghai canceled during this period, the demand is understandably astronomical. We forecast rates could reach early COVID levels and are doing everything in our power to mitigate these spikes, even in the face of an 8% decline in air freight volumes in the month of May, according to Clive Data Services.
At Omni Logistics, we have invested heavily in people and technology that deliver stability to cargo owner’s supply chains. It creates an incredibly challenging climate for us when the asset-owning companies on whom we rely think that the short-term opportunism to be disproportionately profitable outweighs the long-term relationships which predate the current environment and will eventually reach equilibrium between supply and demand.
While we manage these relationships, we continue to underscore the importance of communication – the more transparent our clients are with demand forecasting, prioritization and pricing flexibility in this fluid environment, the greater our ability to deliver on those most critical of needs.


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A new USB-C to Lightning dongle created by Apple to make its new 10th-gen iPad (2022) compatible with the first-generation Apple Pencil is in such short supply that some Apple stores have stopped selling the Pencil until stock improves.
That's according to a new report from MacRumors, which says it has learned that "select Apple Stores in the United States have suspended the sale of the first-generation Apple Pencil until stock improves for the USB-C to Lightning Adapter."
The new iPad also lacks a headphone jack and comes with a USB-C port for charging and data transfer instead of Lightning like the old 9th-gen model. However, it only supports the first-generation Apple Pencil, which has a Lightning connector.
That means that without a new $9 USB-C to Lightning dongle users will be unable to charge their Apple Pencil using their new iPad. As this new report notes, the dongle is in such short supply that some Apple Stores have also stopped selling the Apple Pencil, likely to avoid customer confusion and headaches. It has previously been noted the dongle faces shipping delays of up to four weeks.
The new iPad, available now, comes with four flashy new colors, 5G support for cellular models, and a new Magic Keyboard Folio. It also features a neat landscape FaceTime camera for improved video calling. The company also unveiled its new M2 iPad Pro (2022), which features minimal upgrades save the new M2 Apple silicon processor and a nifty new Apple Pencil hover feature.
The new iPad is off to a bumpy start, with reviews this week revealing the USB-C connector does not offer the same speedy data transfer speeds of other USB-C iPads, with data moving at a measly 480Mbps instead of the expected 5Gbps.
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission today released its report on the prices, costs and profits of unleaded petrol in Australia.
In December 2007 the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs, the Hon. Chris Bowen MP, directed the ACCC to formally monitor petrol prices and report annually for three years. This is in addition to the Petrol Inquiry report which was released in December 2007.
"Petrol prices are of great concern to the Australian public. This has particularly been the case in the past year as price of petrol increased substantially reaching a high of about 163 cents per litre in five major metropolitan cities in July before falling back to an average of 105 cpl in mid December.
"The report has enabled the ACCC to explore further the factors that have influenced petrol prices this year and the industry's profits, costs and revenue," ACCC Commissioner, Mr Joe Dimasi, said.
The report has confirmed a number of the key conclusions from the ACCC's 2007 Petrol Inquiry.
In particular, the report shows that Australian petrol prices have closely followed the price of Singapore Mogas 95, the international indicator benchmark price. The major contributor to the increase in Australian petrol prices was the higher Singapore benchmark price. "Movements in Australian petrol prices are overwhelmingly determined by international petrol prices. Between mid July and mid December retail prices had fallen by at least as much as Mogas prices had fallen," Mr Dimasi said (see Chart 1).
Chart 1: Seven-day rolling average retail unleaded petrol prices across the five largest metropolitan cities compared to Singapore benchmark (Australian cents per litre) 2007–08
Note: The difference between domestic retail petrol prices and the Singapore benchmark is primarily because of excise, GST, freight costs, fuel quality premium and other adjustments and charges, and wholesale and retail margins.
Source: ACCC, Informed Sources and Platts.
In December 2007 and October 2008 the price of petrol deviated from the international benchmark price for a short period of time. The ACCC examined these two instances and found that the deviations were a result of supply issues in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland, an increase in international freight costs, and volatility in price of Singapore Mogas 95 and the Australian/US dollar exchange rate.
The ACCC also examined the difference between city and country petrol prices in Australia. In 2007–08 average prices in the three smaller capital cities and country towns were about 6 to 7 cents per litre higher than in the five largest metropolitan cities. This differential has remained steady for some time (see Chart 2). "Higher prices in the smaller centres are due to a combination of factors including higher transport costs, lower volumes and less competition."
Chart 2: Average monthly unleaded petrol prices in the five largest metropolitan cities, the three smaller capital cities and country towns: July 2002 to November 2008
Source: ACCC and Informed Sources
Consistent with the findings of the Petrol Inquiry, the report shows that the petrol industry is concentrated at the refining and wholesale levels. The arrangements of the oil companies and low potential for large-scale independent importing act as significant barriers for new entrants in the wholesale market.
As a result, competition at the wholesale level of the industry is a key concern of the ACCC. The ACCC is discussing wholesale issues with a number of the industry participants. "Developments in this sector are being monitored closely," Mr Dimasi said. "The ACCC wants to see competition in the wholesale sector encouraged and not diminished."
Despite the concentrated refining and wholesale sectors there is still active price competition at the retail level and by international standards Australian petrol prices are relatively low.
The ACCC has found that there had been substantial increases in costs for firms operating in the petroleum industry in 2007-08. These increases primarily reflect increases in crude cost for refineries and the cost of petrol purchases for wholesalers and retailers. Overall profitability of the industry was not higher in the 2007-08 year even though the retail price of petrol increased considerably. Further, the level of profitability of the petrol industry does not appear to be particularly high in comparison with other industries.
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Friday, January 14, 2005
Getting back on track
FreightCar America wants to capitalize on the exploding market for coal
after losing money in the past four years.
By <mailto:lois.caliri at roanoke.com>Lois Caliri
The Roanoke Times
A company that plans to build aluminum railroad cars at Norfolk Southern's
East End Shops has a huge backlog of orders, and it wants to cash in on the
nation's growing demand for coal.
Positioning itself to satisfy that demand, FreightCar America plans to hire
400 people in the next 30 months to build rail cars at the shops, which
have been for the most part idle since NS laid off hundreds of union
workers in 2000.
Rail car orders have been on the upswing because of economic recovery, the
replacement of aging rail cars and an improved outlook for U.S. steel
manufacturers and an increasing demand for electricity.
FreightCar has shops in Johnstown, Pa., and Danville, Ill., which are union
shops. But the company recently got embroiled in a class-action lawsuit and
a proposed settlement with the workers in Johnstown, according to company
documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Chicago-based FreightCar has a backlog of almost 11,500 rail car orders, up
from 4,400 a year earlier. The current backlog represents estimated net
sales of $750.3 million, according to the SEC papers.
Company officials did not return phone calls Thursday, so it's unknown
whether the Roanoke jobs will be union jobs, when production will begin in
Roanoke and how many cars will be manufactured.
On Tuesday, the company announced it wants to raise $115 million through a
public offering of its stock. FreightCar executives are prohibited from
discussing the offering by the SEC's mandatory pre-IPO "quiet period."
The company, which has lost money in each of the past four years, will use
the proceeds to repay its debt. FreightCar said in the IPO prospectus that
it wants to capitalize on the exploding market for coal.
And it wants to expand its aluminum rail fleet to include rail cars that
carry other materials. The last time the company posted a profit was in
2000, when it cleared $1.8 million.
For the nine-month period ended Sept. 30, FreightCar reported a loss of
$15.5 million, compared with a loss of $5.9 million in the same period a
year earlier. Part of the larger reported loss was because of a $9.2
million expense tied to a legal dispute and proposed settlement between the
company and the United Steelworkers of America in Johnstown.
Net sales increased $136.4 million during the nine-month period, according
to the company's SEC filing. The delivery of an additional 1,866 rail cars
contributed to the increase.
The company's prospectus projects the compound annual growth rate for rail
car deliveries over the next four years will be about 14.2 percent,
resulting in an estimated 53,550 rail car deliveries a year by 2007.
"We believe that over the last 25 years we have built and introduced more
types of coal-carrying railcars than all other manufacturers in North
America combined," the company said in its filing.
The company warns investors, however, of the industry's ups and downs.
U.S. and international economic conditions, changes in interest rates,
federal and state regulations and the purchasing habits of rail car buyers
contribute to the upswings and downturns within the market. Also, the
demand for coal-carrying cars fluctuates in response to changes in
During the most recent industry cycle, industrywide rail car deliveries
plunged from a peak of 75,704 in 1998 to a low of 17,736 rail cars in 2002.
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Unlimited data tariff among offers.
Students going to university are being offered special deals from Three, Virgin Media and EE on phones, SIM cards and broadband connections.
Three is giving students an unlimited introductory plan of £9.50 a month for six months which reverts to £19 a month on a two-year contract. Another special deal called Student SIM Saver offering unlimited calls, texts and data for £1999 for 10 months. Three is also bundling a Google Pixel 6a and Samsung Chromebook 4+ with unlimited data for £38 a month and an upfront charge of £20 for a two year contract.
Virgin Media is offering flexible 30 day broadband packages targeted at students staying in student accommodations. These deals start from £25 per month for 108mbps, if taken on a12 month contract, or £39 pounds per month for 213mbps on a flexible contracts. The one year contract also offers broadband and drama shows starting from £37.99 a month and goes up to £47.99 a month based on the students broadband speed requirements.
EE is offering 20 per cent off selected phones or SIM plans and an extra 500MB of data per month.


text: time of year again, as regular as the circus coming to town, when Panasonic pulls out the 18-wheeler and hits the road. After its Touch the Future tour earlier this year, Panasonic's heading back to the mall Robin Sherbatsky-style with the Unwrap 3D tour over the next two weeks. Starting tomorrow it hits 14 cities across the country with 3D TVs, Blu-ray players, glasses cameras and whatever else it can fit in that truck. Thanks to that exclusivity deal, expect plenty of Avatar demos wherever the tour makes a stop, along with sweepstakes to win Panasonic gear. If 3D is going to be adopted, people will need a good experience before they buy and it seems like this is the best form of exposure Panasonic can think of, check the press release after the break for dates and locations.


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Final Fantasy VII Remake has shipped 3.5 million copies in its first three days on sale, Square Enix announced today.
That number includes shipments of physical copies of the PlayStation 4 exclusive as well as digital sales, which the publisher characterized as "exceptional" and continuing to grow.
Final Fantasy VII Remake launched April 10, and was one of a handful of hotly anticipated titles whose releases were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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New Delhi, July 13, 2019-
A whopping 16 million accounts of Indian influencers on Facebook-owned Instagram are fake, revealed a new study, suggesting such people are artificially boosting “vanity metrics” that marketers often use while selecting influencers, including followers and engagement.
The research by Swedish e-commerce start-up A Good Company and data analytics firm HypeAuditor jointly assessed 1.84 million Instagram accounts across 82 countries.
It found the three regions with the most fakes on the Facebook-owned platform are the US (49 million), Brazil (27 million) and India (16 million).
“The Instagram fraud is estimated to cost marketers close to $750 million globally in wastage in a market now worth about $1.7 billion.
Marketing firm Mediakix estimated that influencer marketing on Instagram alone could reach $2 billion by the end of this year from $1 billion in 2017.
“Companies are pouring money into influencer marketing, thinking that they are connecting with real people and not Russian bots. In reality, they are pouring money down the drain and giving away free products to someone who acquired a mass-following overnight,” Anders Ankarlid, CEO of A Good Company, told PRWeek.
The rise in popularity of social media platforms has opened up a relatively new advertising economy driven by “influencer marketing”.
While Instagram has over a billion monthly active users globally, its parent company Facebook has over 2.38 billion monthly active users and over 16 million people log in to Twitter every day. WhatsApp is another powerful platform which has over 300 million users in India.
The kind of reach that social media platforms have can offer some idea about how big the influencer marketing business could be.
With a wide array of social media analytics tool available online, it is not difficult to spot the right influencers for their advertising programmes. However, in India, it is difficult to distinguish between a paid post and a personal opinion owing to lack of user awareness.
In May, personal data of millions of celebrities and influencers were allegedly exposed on Instagram and a massive database was traced to Mumbai-based social media marketing firm Chtrbox.
The database contained 49 million records of several high-profile influencers, including prominent food bloggers, celebrities and other social media influencers, TechCrunch reported.
“Each record contained public data, including bio, profile picture, number of followers they have, location and private contact information,” the report claimed.
Chtrbox is a web development company which pays to social media influencers to promote content. It describes itself as a platform for brands to collaborate with influential social media characters in India.
Instagram later said in a statement that initial investigations proved no private emails or phone numbers of its users were accessed improperly. (Agency)


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TEXAS, USA — Last year, natural gas made a lot of Texans hold their noses and sign up for electricity plans.
After Russia invaded Ukraine, the price of natural gas went up and stayed high for much of the year. And since about half of the electricity generation in this state comes from natural gas, electricity rates were also up sharply.
In an unscientific spot-check, we got onto the state’s online retail electric marketplace to search for the cheapest electric rate in the downtown Dallas ZIP code.
Based on a 1,000 kWh usage, the lowest rate was 9.5 cents per kilowatt-hour in February 2022. Just after that came the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
By the time we checked that same Dallas ZIP code in June 2022, the lowest rate for 1,000 kWh had jumped to 13.7 cents per kilowatt hour, a 44% increase in the cost of power in less than four months. And the lowest rate plans at that time were requiring consumers to sign up for several years, which meant they either had to agree to stay locked into that relatively high rate for a long time, or they would have to pay the cancellation fee to get out of it.
After the price of natural gas peaked in August, it fell significantly by the end of the year, down to pre-Russian invasion levels. We checked back on those electricity rates in that downtown Dallas ZIP code at the beginning of 2023, and found electric rates had also come down, but not nearly as much as the price of natural gas had.
This fits the pattern we sometimes see with the price of oil and the price of gasoline. It can be described with the economic phenomenon known as rockets and feathers: A condition changes (like the price of oil or natural gas) and the price of something related to that condition (like gasoline in the case of oil and electricity in the case of natural gas) shoots up like a rocket. But when the changed condition (in our examples, the price of oil or natural gas) goes back to normal, the price of the other commodity that rose like a rocket comes down very slowly, like a feather.
The question facing consumers is whether they should shop now for a new electricity plan or wait to see if rates fall further. That is always a dilemma.
This may help some decide: Some of the lowest cost plans we saw in our latest spot check no longer had terms that required consumers to sign up for multiple years. The commitment period in many cases was just several months. That may be a gamble for many ratepayers to sign up for a plan like that now and then have to do it all again in a matter of months.
Who knows what natural gas will cost then? Or electricity? Here’s an educated guess: The experts at the U.S. Energy Information Administration expect natural gas prices in the region that includes Texas to be lower this year than last year. They also project that between now and this summer, wholesale electricity prices in Texas will continue to go down significantly. That's been the trend since they hit a peak last summer.
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Toyota Motor Philippines (TMP) announced that it is further expanding its electrification campaign in the country by soon introducing its battery electric vehicle (BEV) models.
What gave TMP the confidence to take it up a notch is its 95-percent market share in the local electrified car market alongside its luxury division, Lexus. The first two models that will spearhead the full electric lineup of the Japanese marque are the Toyota bZ4X and the Lexus RZ 450e.
The Toyota bZ4X is a compact crossover battery electric vehicle (BEV). It will bring the automaker's EV technologies to Filipinos, starting with its impressive ranges that sit above the 300-km average. To be more specific, the all-wheel-drive (AWD) variant offers 460 km of range, while the front-wheel-drive (FWD) variant boasts 500 km of range.
Toyota's entry into the BEV market
To put that in perspective, you can go on a round trip between Manila and Baguio on a single charge with the bZ4X AWD on paper. When it comes to city driving, the range should be more than enough for you to survive a week without charging the Japanese BEV.
Those are made possible thanks to the vehicle’s 71.4 kWh lithium-ion battery that supports both AC and DC charging. The single electric motor setup in the FWD variant makes 201 horsepower and 254 Nm of torque, while the AWD version is capable of delivering a combined output of 215 horsepower and 336 Nm of torque.
Lexus RZ 450e
Meanwhile, the Lexus RZ is pretty much the same car as the bZ4X, being built on the same platform. But the RZ comes with even more refinements, one of which is the combined output of 308 horsepower and 435 Nm of torque from its dual electric motor setup.
Toyota is expected to bring the two BEVs sometime next year. To note, the said specifications are based on the models’ releases in international markets. We will have to wait for an official announcement from TMP and Lexus Philippines for more details that would be specific to our market.
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Four California winemakers have recorded a video explaining why they've joined the 100% Cork initiative and only use natural cork to seal their wines. The reasons the winemakers stated for their natural-cork preference ranged from the view that natural cork allows buyers to age wines to the belief that it imparts flavors to wine, including creaminess, nuttiness, and "spicy vanilla". The initiative is sponsored by the Portuguese Cork Association and the Cork Quality Council.
Lance Ignon of 100% Cork told PlasticsToday that cork holds a 65% share of the global market for wine closures, and in the U.S. it is once again gaining share after ceding ground to alternative stoppers over the past decade. Ignon said plastic-based stoppers seemed to have the most negative momentum. "Among alternative stoppers, the ones made from plastic are losing the most ground," Ignon said. "Notwithstanding the innumerable good uses for plastic, they haven't caught on well as wine closures." Ignon added that in his view the elastomer-based corks tend to leak, causing oxidation of the wine, and in general they have met "significant consumer resistance."...


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Reliance seeks nod to restart fuel retailing
The move comes soon after Essar, the other private oil company, who had restricted sales to just 100 retail stations to cut losses, approached the government to expand fuel sales. It has begun selling fuel at about 400 outlets and is planning to expand it to 1,000 stations by December 2008, a company official said.
Private oil companies, which sell petrol and diesel at market prices, could even offer fuel at lower prices, compared to their industry rivals ��� IndianOil Corporation (IOC), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL), as falling crude prices has created enough room for a price cut at the retail level. The government, which controls retail selling price for fuel sold by government-owned companies, is yet to take a final call on when fuel prices are to be cut.
Sale of petrol and diesel by private oilcos in the domestic market had become a loss-making business earlier as they were unable to compete with government-owned oil companies, who were directed to sell fuel at subsidised prices.
The government, in a bid to cushion customers from high oil prices, provided subsidies in the form of discounts on crude oil and oil bonds to part-compensate the oilcos��� losses. The private sector fuel marketing companies including RIL, Essar and Shell, however, were not provided any subsidies.
Fuel prices at their petrol stations were thus higher compared to the next-door outlets run by government-owned companies.
The re-entry by the private oilcos is well-timed as the government is on a wait-and-watch mode before cutting prices of petrol and diesel at pumps. Private companies can hope to start pushing sales more aggressively, now that crude prices have fallen to the lowest level in three years.
Ministry of petroleum & natural gas (MoPNG) has said that it will not recommend a reduction in petrol and diesel prices at this stage as public sector oil marketing companies (OMCs) are still incurring huge loss on the sale of cooking gas and kerosene sold through ration shops.
While three PSUs ��� IOC, HPCL and BPCL ��� are making a profit of Rs 8.17 per litre on petrol, and Rs 0.65 per litre on diesel from this Sunday, they are still making a loss of about Rs 330 per cylinder in cooking gas and Rs 21.40 per litre on kerosene. Their combined loss per month (on the sale of the two subsidised products) is estimated around Rs 2,831 crore.
It is likely that the oil ministry will not propose a price cut to the Cabinet. ���We would like that the Navratna oil companies must close the financial year with profit,��� petroleum secretary RS Pandey told ET. All the three oil companies went in the red for the first time in the first half of 2008-09 with their combined losses exceeding Rs 14,000 crore.
���There can���t be a reduction in prices because one product is making some profit for a very short period of time. A holistic view has to be taken on the finances of OMCs. MoPNG will look at the pricing issue in its entirety and take the proposal before the Cabinet,��� MoPNG additional secretary and spokesperson S Sundareshan said.


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ST. LOUIS — Some businesses in St. Louis and St. Louis County welcomed customers back inside their stores for the first time in nearly two months Monday.
The city and county eased up on restrictions that were put in place on March 20 to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. With the curve flattening and key data trends decreasing, local leaders announced places like restaurants, bars, salons and malls could open their doors to customers again beginning Monday, May 18.
Reopening doesn't mean a return to the way things were, though.
RELATED: Masks, barriers and handwashing | St. Louis releases specifics on phase 1 of reopening plan
Diners eating in at restaurants will notice Plexiglas barriers, no more elbow-to-elbow seating at community tables, more reservation-only systems and fewer waiting areas.
The booths at Charlie Gitto's on The Hill all have see-through barriers between the booths and in front of the hostess stand.
However, many restaurants are sticking to curbside, carryout and delivery for now.
RELATED: These protocols will be the new 'normal' when restaurants are allowed to reopen in the St. Louis area
The reopening of hair salons was a welcome sight for many residents in the city and county who've gone without hair cuts, colors and trims — or at-home versions — during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Inside Dominic Michael Salon in Clayton, customers and employees all wore masks to protect themselves and others. Plastic barriers separated hair washing stations and several spots that would normally be used by customers were left empty to accommodate social distancing standards.
Barbershops, nail salons, tanning salons, massage therapists and body art professionals were also allowed to reopen beginning Monday. Along the same lines, pet grooming facilities could reopen as well.
Malls also welcomed shoppers back inside. Even though the malls are open, not all stores inside have chosen to reopen.
The Footaction store at the Galleria Mall was one of the businesses that welcomed back customers Monday morning. Customers formed a line outside the store waiting for their turn to go inside.
While stores, restaurants and other businesses can reopen, there are still limits on how many people can be inside depending on the size of the building and maximum capacity.
Another sign of the St. Louis area returning to normal was the reopening of several county parks that have been closed to visitors.
At one time, all St. Louis County parks were closed by County Executive Sam Page due to the coronavirus. Several parks reopened a couple of weeks ago. The remaining 21, including Creve Coeur Lake pictured below, opened on Monday.
However, restrooms, indoor facilities, sports courts, shelters, playgrounds and skate parks all remain closed at city and county parks.
You can see more photos from inside businesses as they reopened Monday in the photo gallery below.
Photos: A look inside businesses as they reopen in St. Louis, St. Louis County
And as a note, for the safety of our employees and to follow social distancing standards, 5 On Your Side continues to conduct interviews and gather video in outside locations. The photos included in this story were taken by a pool photographer and used with permission.


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More than one million people are employed in automobile and auto parts manufacturing in the United States, and 1.3 million work for auto dealerships.
The companies bowed to pressure from union leaders and employees who called for protection from the pandemic that’s spread to more than 212,000 people in nearly every country across the globe.
According information which we receive from Ford Company the plans to close its factories from March 30 up to end of April in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. That pressure intensified after it was revealed on Wednesday that a worker at a Ford truck plant in Dearborn, Mich., had tested positive for the virus.
In addition to G.M., Ford and Fiat Chrysler, Honda, Toyota and Nissan also said they would idle their North American factories. The shutdown of car plants will force hundreds of companies that produce parts and components to follow suit over the coming days.
Ford, which has 55,000 U.A.W. employees, said those with at least one year of service would receive 75 percent of their regular pay through a combination of unemployment benefits and supplements paid by the company. G.M. is discussing a similar plan with the U.A.W.
From Honda we receive information that that will restart production at first week in April. They stop with production on Marth 23. They will provide full pay for the 27,000 employees in North America affected by the decision.
Nissan stop production on Mart 27, and also make a plan to restart production at first week in April.
According information from General Motors all North American factories will be closed and will evaluate the situation on a weekly basis after that.
Adjustment regarding stocks - that fallout from the coronavirus could send global auto production down 16% in 2020, fueled partially by an expected 20% decline in U.S. sales.


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AS U.S. TRADE DEFICIT WIDENS, SENS. BROWN, SESSIONS, SCHUMER, GRAHAM, STABENOW, BURR, COLLINS, AND CASEY INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN BILL TO HOLD CURRENCY MANIPULATORS LIKE CHINA ACCOUNTABLE FOR UNFAIR, ILLEGAL TRADE PRACTICES
Bipartisan Jobs Bill – that Passed the Senate in 2011 – Could Create More than Two Million Jobs by Leveling the Playing Field for American Manufacturers and Workers by Addressing Currency Manipulation
April Trade Deficit with China—Released Yesterday—Shows an Increase of 34 Percent Over March Deficit
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following new figures that show a 34 percent jump over last month’s U.S.-China trade deficit, U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Richard Burr (R-NC), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Robert Casey (D-PA), today introduced the Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act of 2013, bipartisan legislation that would reform and enhance oversight of currency exchange rates. Specifically, the bill would use U.S. trade law to counter the economic harm to U.S. manufacturers caused by currency manipulation, and provide consequences for countries that fail to adopt appropriate policies to eliminate currency misalignment. The senators’ introduction comes in advance of upcoming talks between President Obama and Chinese President Xi.
“As our trade deficit continues to widen, our need to level the playing field for American manufacturers and workers becomes more urgent,” Brown said. “Yet instead of taking action, we’re pursuing trade deals with countries that manipulate currencies. American workers and manufacturers are the most competitive in the world. But when countries like China cheat by manipulating currency, that’s not competing – it’s cheating. Our bipartisan bill would create jobs by leveling the playing field for American manufacturers – at no cost to taxpayers.”
“American manufacturers and American workers are suffering from currency manipulation that unfairly impacts their ability to compete,” Sessions said. “It is past time to confront the problem. That is why I, along with a bipartisan group of senators, have re-introduced the Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act. This bill, which passed the Senate in 2011 by a vote of 63-35, would help end abusive currency manipulation by China and other countries. When another country undervalues its currency its manufacturers and exporters gain a significant trade advantage. Over time this manipulation has done serious damage to our economy. It will be important for President Obama to raise this issue when he meets with China’s President Xi Jinping this week in California. It is critical for American workers.”
“The single biggest step we could take today to create jobs in American manufacturing is to tackle China’s currency manipulation,” Schumer said. “There is absolutely no reason that China should get to play by a different set of rules than hardworking Americans. That’s why we’re making a renewed, bipartisan push to get this bill passed and on the President’s desk, and send a strong message to the Chinese government that the rigged game must come to an end.”
“It is universally accepted that China and other major countries intentionally manipulate their currency to create an advantage for themselves in the marketplace” Graham said. “Manufacturing jobs in South Carolina and across the country are being destroyed because the Chinese and others continue to defy the rules of international trade.”
“Currency manipulation translates to lost American jobs and economic hardship for families, especially in states like Michigan,” Stabenow said. “Effectively addressing this problem would create millions of American jobs and it wouldn’t cost a dime. Many of us have been fighting to stop illegal action on currency by countries like Japan and China for years, and it is time to ensure that our businesses and workers are no longer put at a competitive disadvantage.”
“For years, China has skewed the value of its currency in order to give itself an unfair advantage in the global economy,” Burr said. “This practice by China – which has artificially made American exports more expensive — has exacerbated our trade deficit with China and hurt our economy. I am pleased to cosponsor this legislation which sends China a message that currency manipulation won’t be tolerated.”
“Chinese currency manipulation is a critical issue for numerous industries, including paper producers in Maine,”Collins said. “The Chinese yuan is pegged to the U.S. dollar at artificially low levels. As a result, China is able to undervalue the prices of its exports. Not only does this practice provide Chinese producers with a price advantage, but it is a clear subsidy.”
“Pennsylvania has seen too many jobs shipped overseas because of unfair trade practices,” Casey said. “China’s currency manipulation amounts to cheating and it has put our workers and our economy at a disadvantage. The U.S. has allowed this practice to continue too long without consequence and it is time to level the playing field. ”
A December 2012 report by the Peterson Institute for International Economics concluded that currency manipulation by foreign governments had cost the U.S. from 1 million to 5 million jobs and increased the U.S. trade deficit by $200 billion to $500 billion per year.
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) estimates that ending currency manipulation in the United States would increase U.S. net goods exports by between $184.1 billion and $387.5 billion; increase U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) by between $225.02 billion and $473.68 billion; and increase total American salaries by between $112.99 billion and $237.84 billion. EPI also found that addressing currency manipulation could support the creation of 2.25 million American jobs.
A complete summary of the Currency Exchange and Oversight Reform Act of 2013 can be read HERE.
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Schell’s Jewelry closing
After more than 51 years in business, Don & Peggy's Jewelry Dolls & Gifts will be closing its doors in December.
Owner Don Schell said that the business opened June 4, 1961, and enjoyed Pontiac’s downtown shopping in its heyday.
“Business has declined over the years because Pontiac used to be the place to shop. We had JC Penny’s, Montgomery Ward, Sears Roebuck, Woolworth’s, Spurgeon’s, and then things changed,” he said.
Throughout the fluctuations, the customers were always loyal.
“We’ve enjoyed being there, meeting all the people, and now that they’re coming in and reminiscing with us about the old times, it’s just been great,” his wife, Dorothy, said. “They’ve all been wonderful for us and we love each and every one of them and thank them for the business they’ve given us throughout the years.”
The Schells also said that the store’s great employees really made a difference throughout the years.
“We had Lloyd Mays with us for about 30 years. He was our watchmaker. Peggy Goembel and Judy Turner were with us for about 20 years apiece and Joyce Armour has been with us for eight,” he said. “Linda Timmons is there now, helping us close the store.”
The store has offered all types of jewelry and watches and also dolls and plush animals.
“We’ve done watch work, jewelry work and we did everything that you’re supposed to do in a jewelry store — anything from special orders to custom work and repairs,” he said.
Don Schell said that he didn’t have a specific point in his younger years that helped him decide to follow this line of work.
“I just fell into it,” he said.
He and his wife have seen something very special in their store that not many others can claim.
“We’ve seen multiple generations come through the store. Grandparents, kids and grandkids. It’s a local shop, so we have seen a lot of people,” Dorothy Schell added.
They decided to close the store Dec. 15, but could extend it a little longer.
“We may extend it to Christmas Eve but not any longer than that. Christmas Eve will definitely be the end of it,” he stated.
But the couple already has plans to keep busy after the store closes.
“He’s an ordained minister,” she said.
“That’s what I’m planning on doing at the church here in Pontiac. I’ve been preaching on Sundays at the Nazarene Church for the past few years and I’ve been ordained for about three or four years,” he added.
The Schells will be leaving behind a lot of fond memories and appreciate all the people they’ve met along the way.
“We met a lot of people from all over the place over the years. We’ll really miss everyone. The good Lord has looked out for our business, I know that,” he said. “It’s been a long road but a short one, if you know what I mean. Time moves so fast. You wonder what happened and where all the time went.”


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Avitae USA LLC, maker of caffeinated waters, showcased its new line of extended-release energy drinks, “AvitaeXR,” at Natural Products Expo West, March 10-12, in Anaheim, California. AvitaeXR features patented bead-based technology that controls the release rate of caffeine, and the product comes in a clear plastic “can,” putting those beads on full display for consumers.
The drink contains a total of 250 milligrams of caffeine, the equivalent of almost three cups of home-brewed coffee. Half that caffeine is delivered in an initial burst, and the rest is released slowly through the beads.
“It’s basically the same sort of technology used in the pharmaceutical business,” Avitae President and CEO Norman Snyder told The Shelby Report’s Bob Reeves at the Expo. “(The beads) break down in your stomach and upper GI and will release caffeine anywhere from an hour and a half to two hours into it. So you get a four-hour last without a crash.”
According to the company, the microbead technology is backed by numerous third-party studies to validate claims that the technology slowly delivers a variety of active ingredients, including caffeine, for optimal body absorption. Studies were performed by an analytical testing lab specializing in pharmaceutical and nutraceutical research.
Company targets energy drinkers with formulation, new packaging
Like other Avitae beverages, AvitaeXR is made with all-natural caffeine and flavors, but unlike the company’s other product lines, this one is not zero-calorie. AvitaeXR contains 70 calories per 12-fl. oz. bottle.
“We had to put a little bit of cane sugar in it because the core demographic we’re going after is the energy drinker who wants that flavor,” Snyder said.
Specifically, the company is targeting the older consumers in the energy drinker demographic. “The core group of 18- to 24-year-olds, they don’t care about better-for-you, they don’t care about what the press says. But as they get older, they don’t want to bring a bottle of Red Bull or Monster into their business meeting,” Snyder noted.
Another first for Avitae—and for the energy drink category as a whole, according to the company—is AvitaeXR’s packaging. It comes in a can made from recycled, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic.
“There was logic to that because the research that we did said that energy drink drinkers want the can. They’re used to that can. They want their drink in a can,” said Snyder. “And I thought, well if we have a regular aluminum can, the beads would come out (and) people would say, ‘Oh, that’s disgusting—something’s floating in it, this is not good.’ So I said let’s get a clear can, let’s show them the beads, make the beads part of the story and embrace it. Don’t try to hide it.”
Another benefit to that clear can, according to Snyder, is that is helps the product to stand out next to other energy drinks on-shelf.
AvitaeXR retails for approximately $2.99 per 12-oz. can and is available in three flavors: Orange, Mixed Berry and Lemon Lime.
Other Avitae products include flavored and unflavored non-carbonated caffeine waters that vary in caffeine levels, including equivalencies to a half-cup of coffee (45mg), one cup (90mg), or one and a half cups (125mg). Flavored non-carbonated varieties include Pomegranate Açai, Tangerine, Blackberry and Strawberry Guava flavors.
Avitae’s carbonated caffeine waters, “Sparkling Avitae,” produced with carbonated purified water, are available in Black Cherry, Raspberry Lime, Berry Kiwi and Mandarin Passion Fruit flavors and in an unflavored version.
According to Snyder, these beverages target consumers that don’t like coffee (or that don’t like coffee without adding enough cream and sugar to “turn it into a 300-calorie drink”), those that are moving away from the declining diet soda category and those that are looking for a pre-workout boost.


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Motorola Flipout hitting Orange UK?
Recently we saw Motorola launching the new Motorola Flipout, which features a very interesting square form factor. The phone comes with Android 2.1 with Motoblur, and it’s a very good phone for people who can’t live without their social networks, because it comes with Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace integration (you can check out other specs over here).
The phone is already available in Germany via Vodafone and O2, and according to the screenshot above, it looks like the first carrier to carry this phone in UK will be Orange UK. According to CoolSmartphone, the phone will be coming soon to both Pay Monthly and Pay as you go plans. No words on price and the release date, so stay tuned with us.


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It has been rumored since years that Huawei has been working on its own mobile operating system and now the company has confirmed this. If the tensions between Huawei and the US reach a boiling point and the company is cut off from Google’s Android, it can use its own OS for mobile phones and tablets.
As per the report, Huawei began working on its own OS back in 2012 when the US had banned Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE from using American products and services. At that time, the companies started preparing for the “worst-case scenarios.”
In a statement, the company’s spokesperson said: “Huawei does have backup systems but only for use in extenuating circumstances. We don’t expect to use them and to be honest, we don’t want to use them. We fully support our partners’ operating systems – we love using them and our customers love using them. Android and Windows will always remain our first choices.”
It’s not yet clear how far Huawei has progressed with its fall-back operating system, however, Huawei’s mobile chief Richard Yu Chengdong implied that it already has a first version ready.
However, at the moment, this doesn’t change much. Android and Windows are still the company’s first choice. According to Gartner estimates last year, Google’s Android and Apple’s proprietary iOS have a stranglehold on smartphone operating systems, accounting for 99.9 percent of the global market.
But this news is a sign that Huawei expects the United States to keep escalating its efforts to remove Huawei’s equipment from mobile networks. And Huawei is showing that it is ready to handle all type of situations.


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There’s nothing like broadcasting a message in the heart of New York’s Times Square to get one’s message across.
At least that’s the goal of the San Antonio-based National Trauma Institute. “Stop the Bleeding,” the institute’s multi-faceted ad campaign, launched in NYC on July 15 with a goal of expanding awareness of NTI and its need for funds for trauma research. Some see the powerful new awareness and giving campaign as a bit disturbing. Its video billboard message features graphic images of trauma injuries.
NTI’s director of development, Stephanie Krueger, explains that unfortunately it’s reality and the tactic is vital in order to capture public attention. Perhaps not as high profile as some San Antonio nonprofit organizations, the National Trauma Institute serves a vital purpose, especially as the city continues to hone its expertise as a leader in both military medicine and biomedicine. Dedicated to funding trauma research, the institute is embarking upon a mission to inform the public about traumatic injury — and why support of research is so important.
“Traumatic injury kills more than 170,000 people each year, not counting our soldiers overseas,” says institute spokeswoman Pam Losefsky. “Our new Web site, www.stopthebleeding.org, provides specific information on research related to hemorrhage (uncontrolled bleeding), as this is the primary cause of preventable death for those who suffer traumatic injury.”
The institute’s video message is running in Times Square for three months, 15 seconds every hour of every day. Losefsky explains that the message includes a call to action that prompts people to text the word TRAUMA to the number 20222, which results in a $10 donation.
“This is our first effort at private fundraising,” Losefsky says. “Until this point, all funding that NTI has received has come from federal grants. We feel that a combination of private and public money is needed,” she says.
Krueger points out that it speaks volumes that the institute is based in San Antonio, thanks to its military connection. The National Trauma Institute is a consortium of Brooke Army Medical Center, Wilford Hall, the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research and the University of Texas Health Science Center’s trauma unit.
“Federal funding for trauma research is dismal compared to that for diseases with far lower rates of death than traumatic injury,” says Krueger. “Traumatic injury kills four times more people than breast cancer,” she says.
San Antonio-based Marketvision has firmly branded itself a leader in multicultural marketing.
Few may realize that the firm, which is well-known for its Hispanic marketing initiatives, has been creating and executing African-American marketing projects for the last three years.
Now, the agency, led by founder and CEO Yvonne “Bonnie” Garcia, is expanding on the expertise it has accumulated. It is putting together a “multicultural collaborative” team, to focus on the firm’s rapidly growing practice area: servicing the African-American consumer market.
Marketvision’s newest team members contributing to this effort include Chereese Griffin, who has more than 18 years of brand management and packaged goods experience on both the corporate and agency sides. She will head the agency’s African-American marketing efforts. As senior account director supporting the African-American consumer market, she manages projects for The Coca-Cola Co. and Kraft-Nabisco. Asha Parker, based in Atlanta, will lead in-market execution efforts. Charles Davis, an art director based in San Antonio, will focus on creative.
“In the years since I founded the agency in 1998, Marketvision has become well-known for its promotions targeting Hispanic consumers. But my plan always has been to provide a multicultural point of view for everything we do,” says Garcia. “The addition of this new team will not only focus on the African-American consumer market, but also will help ensure that we view all our clients’ marketing challenges through a multicultural lens.”
San Antonio’s Grand Hyatt and Hyatt Regency hotels are collaborating with Canvas Wine as part of Hyatt Hotels’ sponsorship of a nationwide art contest.
Students ages 18 and over who are enrolled full-time at an accredited post secondary art school or academy can enter the competition for a chance to win a $5,000 scholarship to their art schools, as well as the opportunity to have their design featured as a Canvas Wine label.
Canvas Wines are specially blended for Hyatt Hotels in the United States. Entries are being taken through Aug. 15.
“The Grand Hyatt and Hyatt Regency are also planning a local event to honor and unveil participating San Antonio students who submit works for the contest,” reports Valerie Grant of The CE Group — the Hyatt’s marketing representative.
Judges will select three finalists for each category whose artwork will be displayed on the Canvas Wines Web site and will be voted on by online visitors between Sept. 15 and Oct. 15. Winners will be selected on Nov. 1 by a combination of the public voting as well as judges’ voting on the artwork and artists’ essays describing their submissions. The winning wine labels will be introduced to Canvas wine bottles beginning in 2011.
For entry information, go to www.canvaswines.com.


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In a crazy announcment, developer Capcom has revealed that Biohazard 7: Resident Evil (the Japanese version of the West’s Resident Evil 7: Biohazard) will be coming to Nintendo Switch beginning May 24, 2018. According to the trailer below, all of this will be accomplished through a standalone cloud-streaming software via the Nintendo eShop. Seen in the trailer below,
What’s going on in the world of Fortnite? Some of the Battle Royale developers from Epic Games have taken to YouTube to give a quick update on some of the latest things the development team is working on — including E3, the upcoming Fortnite Battle Royale development scene, and the current limited time event Solo Showdown. Seen in the video below, Fortnite‘s
In the past few years, Japanese games saw a return to critical acclaim, and a chain of releases that charmed not just the usual niche fanbase, but also a much wider audience. Games like Persona 5, NieR: Automata, NiOh, the Yakuza series, and more reawakened in many the love for the Japanese development culture colored


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Re: Sidney brand in the works, Wednesday, May 15, 2013
After reading story ‘Sidney brand in the works’ and letters to the editor in the May 15 edition of the Peninsula News Review, it struck me what’s not working in the community’s business district and why residents from other municipalities might not feel welcome to shop there.
Thinking back to previous reads, the same underlying and conflicting message was printed in hundreds of Peninsula News Review issues I’ve read from cover to cover: ‘Come and visit Sidney, but don’t stay!’
Locals and officials who promote the Town of Sidney as a place to visit and shop without encouraging their guests to stay long-term (in new developments) is a contradiction.
You can’t promote the town as a ‘great place to do business’ without encouraging the same customer to live there.
Very few communities do this and thrive year round — they’re the ones that remain sleepy little resort towns for 10 months of the year.
Good luck Sidney.
Either direction you follow, I’ll continue to visit and enjoy a bakery stop and shoreline walk.


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Curated garden marketplace Sproutl expands indie partnerships
Sproutl, the new curated garden marketplace, has announced that it will be partnering with a further five independent garden centres, all much loved in their communities and offering unique product options.
Tates of Sussex, Fakenham Garden Centre in Norwich, Hollybush Garden Centre in Wolverhampton have joined, and products from catalogue will go live on the site during the course of April. Thirsk Garden Centre in York as well as Bosworth’s Garden Centre have also signed up, and their products will be coming online with the marketplace in the next few months.
These new garden centres will join existing partners on the platform making a total of 30 businesses now available. Over the past six months, the marketplace has expanded its product catalogue to over eleven thousand items. The new garden centres joining Sproutl will further increase the product offered by over 30%.
Sproutl is designed to take the pain out of selling online for horticultural suppliers. Sproutl manages the integration with suppliers’ systems, packaging and logistics and works across the retail garden sector to target a new and growing national audience that might not usually visit garden centres and prefer to shop online. It is a low risk, low-cost way for horticultural brands to access this new customer base allows Sproutl partners to generate incremental revenues.
Devin Sinclair, chief operating officer, Sproutl comments: “We aim to offer meaningful revenue growth for partners. Sproutl’s technology integrates with retailers existing systems. We manage logistics, packaging solutions, delivery and customer care, and our partners benefit from our expertise in mobile and online retailing and our marketing and PR. Sproutl is demystifying gardening with fun advice and inspirational content, cultivating a new nationwide audience and taking down barriers that may have stopped consumers from getting involved in gardening in the past. Our mission is to get everyone to plant something, and we are always on the lookout for new independent partners to join our marketplace “
Kate Seagrove, director from Hollybush Garden Centre, comments: “We are excited about the partnership with Sproutl; it allows us to build on our local existing customer base and take our offer to a new audience on a nationwide basis. Launching products on a new platform is often daunting, but the team at Sproutl has made it easy.”
Steven Hardiman from Tates Garden Centre comments: “Sproutl offer access for us to a new gardening audience. Through its marketplace, we can tap into a new generation of gardeners. We look forward to the journey with Sproutl, as we, in turn, continue to grow.”
Nick Haydon from Fakenham Garden Centre comments: “As an independent garden centre, prohibitively expensive for us to develop the integrated online facility that Sproutl offers. The marketplace solution is a low risk and cost-effective solution that allows us to have our products seen by more customers than ever before in an engaging and easy to shop way.”
Carol Paris, CEO Rosebourne, one of Sproutl’s founding garden centre partners, comments: “Partnering with Sproutl has had a big impact on us. Getting our products in front of a new nationwide audience has provided the business with a new revenue stream. We have enjoyed working with the team at Sproutl, who have helped us every step of the way with system integration, fulfilment, logistics and customer service.”
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Woolworths says the spending power of shoppers will come under pressure
Retail group Woolworths has said its chief executive is to step down and has reported a further decline in sales.
Woolworths said Trevor Bish-Jones would step down after it was agreed it was an "appropriate time" for a new leader.
The news came as Woolworths said group sales were down 1.9% in the 19 weeks to 14 June, while like-for-like sales at its High Street stores were down 2.2%.
In addition, Woolworths also said it was selling four of its London stores to Waitrose, raising £25.5m in cash.
Spending power cut
Woolworths has been lowering prices on some goods in an attempt to improve sales and cash flow into the business.
"We believe that the spending power of many consumers will be reduced by a number of factors including rising energy and food prices," the company said in a statement.
However, it warned that "aggressive price action" would have an effect on profit margins in the coming months.
Chairman Richard North said that Mr Bish-Jones and the board had agreed that it was "an appropriate time" to seek a new leader for the business.
Mr Bish-Jones joined Woolworths from Dixons Group in 2002. He has agreed to remain in his post for three months while a successor is sought.


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Cook plans to appeal an initial ruling of The District Court of Düsseldorf, Germany, which determined that Edwards Lifesciences does not infringe on the German transcatheter valve patent from Cook.
The Bloomington, Ind.-based Cook said it filed the action in February 2008, claiming that Edward's Sapien transcatheter heart valve infringed Cook's German patent. Despite the decision by the Düsseldorf court, Cook said it "remains convinced that the Edwards product infringes Cook's."
The Irvine, Calif.-based Edwards said its counter-suit, claiming invalidity of Cook's German patent, is expected to be heard in Munich in 2010.
Edwards also said that has a separate lawsuit against Cook in the United Kingdom that challenges the validity of Cook's U.K. transcatheter valve patent. Cook has counter-sued there, claiming infringement. That case is scheduled to be heard in May.


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CHICAGO, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — According to a research report “Juice Concentrates Market by Type (Fruit, and Vegetable), Application (Beverages, Soups & Sauces, Dairy, and Bakery & Confectionery), Ingredient (Single, and Multi-Fruit and Vegetable), Form, and Region – Global Forecast to 2027“, published by MarketsandMarkets™, the global Juice Concentrates Market is estimated to be valued at USD 73.7 billion in 2022. It is projected to reach USD 93.7 billion by 2027, recording a CAGR of 4.9% during the forecast period. As a part of adopting a clean and healthy lifestyle, there is a rise in consumption of fruit and vegetable juice concentrates by the consumers across the globe. The global market has also witnessed a rising demand for juice concentrates across different industries including food and beverages, bakery, dairy and others. With this rising demand, the manufacturing players have come up with various innovations and products to support the rising need.
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The Waleska City Council unanimously voted Monday to include a referendum on the Nov. 5 general election ballot, allowing voters to decide whether or not the city will allow Sunday sales of alcohol — both package and by-the-drink.
City Manager Aimee Abernathy said the referendum up for a vote later this year is a “big deal,” and, if approved, could allow for the sale of beer and wine, and the sale of beer, wine and distilled spirits by the drink, on Sundays.
“There will be two different referendums,” Abernathy explained. “One will be for beer and wine package sale on Sundays; one will be for beer, wine and distilled spirits pouring on Sundays.”
If approved by voters, the Sunday sale of alcohol would be allowed beginning at 12:30 p.m.
In a separate vote, the council decided to move forward with writing an ordinance to allow the sale of distilled spirits by the drink, which would go back to the council for final approval at a future meeting.
Last June, the council approved the sale of beer and wine in restaurants, which impacted just one business in the city — the Eagle’s Nest pizza restaurant, just down the street from Reinhardt University.
“What that means is, establishments that apply to the city to sell distilled spirits, liquor by the drink, they could sell it like LongHorn or anybody else does. It’d be just like they do their beer and wine,” she explained. “You could buy a margarita or that type of thing at the establishment.”
Abernathy clarified that there would still be no liquor stores in the city if the council decided to allow restaurants to serve distilled spirits. “You could not sell vodka at the super market,” she said.
Abernathy said the distilled spirits by-the-drink ordinance would be written similarly to the county’s ordinance on the issue.
“We’ll pretty much follow, in consistency with, Cherokee County’s ordinance,” Abernathy said. “They help with our code enforcement, so ours will mimic Cherokee County’s.”


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Ibadan to get two dry ports
The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Shippers Council, Mr Hassan Bello, says Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, may soon get two inland dry ports – one by the Catamaran group and the other by Chinese investors.
He said the development would encourage healthy competition between the two dry ports operators and provide alternative vibrant ports for the business class…
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By now, everyone has heard of at least a few startup companies that have realized incredible success launching new products via crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, IndieGoGo, and GoFundMe. What they may not know is that the power of crowd sourced capital is also poised to change the commercial real estate market for the better.
Oftentimes, blighted and underserved communities in desperate need of renovations and upgrades remain in a state of disrepair due to lack of financing, as many cities in America’s rustbelt stand as a testament. But thanks to emerging platforms like BlocPower and SmallChange, for example, new channels for real estate investors of every size and shape—and the impact will be tremendous.
To be sure, the size of the combined real-estate and crowdfunding market is estimated at $11 trillion, according to crowdfunding site iFunding, and active global crowdfunding platforms generated $16.2 billion in 2014—a figure that is expected to more than double in 2015 to $34.4 billion, according to crowdfunding research firm Massolution.
Case in point: global brand Heineken recently launched a crowdfunding campaign titled, “Save Your Seat,” in partnership with Indiegogo and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, to support the renovation an iconic structure: the Miami Marine Stadium, once among America’s most iconic destinations, hosting on-the-water performances from legendary acts like the Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys.
The stadium has gone unused for years, and now, Heineken plans to help restore this crucial piece of Miami culture for generations to come by matching up to the first $20,000 that is contributed within the first two weeks.
This is just one small example of how crowdfunding can transform our cities, buildings and communities one donation at a time. To learn more about crowdfunding and architecture, read the report from the AIA.


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A number of people mentioned in their reviews that this PC monitor was good value for money. Three years ago expert review site Uk.hardware.info wrote “Either you could get an affordable screen with a TN panel, or an extremely expensive yet superior one with IPS panel”. Last year Pinoyunboxing.com mentioned “Very affordable” in their review of this PC monitor.
Two customers who reviewed it agreed that it was a bargain for the price. Expert website Pcmag.com scored it 80 out of 100 and mentioned in their AOC I2367FH review “The thought of a budget monitor conjured up images of bland designs and cheap TN (twisted nematic) panels with oversaturated colors”. Pcmag.com also said “It?s still a great deal for the money”.
A number of AOC I2367FH reviewers who reviewed it thought it was cheap. Pcmag.com wrote “The advent of inexpensive IPS technology has allowed manufacturers to p” in their review. Expert website Micromart.co.uk wrote “The emergence of relatively inexpensive IPS technology has led to a wealth of decent sized monitors becoming available” in their review.


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"I've just been so busy lately." We all say this so often it's become a defining mantra of the modern age — regardless of how true it is.
An intriguing new study from Harvard and Columbia University researchers indicates why we're all so boastful about our lack of free time: because being busy has evolved into a coveted status symbol.
Whereas back in the day you'd to slip in mentions of your material excess or endless leisure time to boost your social currency, now we're more likely to humblebrag that we have no life and we're desperate for a holiday because we're so overworked.
"The more we believe that people have the opportunity for social affirmation based on hard work, the more we tend to think that people who skip leisure and work all the time are of higher standing," wrote the study's authors Silvia Bellezza of Columbia University, and Neeru Paharia and Anat Keinan of Harvard University.
Translated into English, that means we've come to attach being flat-out all the time with high social status — traditionally, goods that are scarce in number are more highly valued, but nowadays, people who are scarce on time have become more highly valued.
"People's social-mobility beliefs are psychologically driven by the perception that busy individuals possess desirable characteristics, leading them to be viewed as scarce and in demand," the study authors said.
The researchers explored this phenomenon by studying both Americans (who generally associate being busy at work with high status) and Italians (who still associated a life of leisure with high status).
Bragging about busyness was found to have an intriguing flow-on effect: brands that claim to save time for busy people (such as online shopping and food delivery services) have come to signal high status just as much as expensive brands.
In Australia, it feels increasingly common for us to talk about how busy we are — being social, staying healthy, spending time with families, but especially working. More than 40 percent of us work more than 40 hours a week, and 13 percent work more than 50 a week — despite recent research suggesting 39 hours of work is a week is the upper limit for good health.
The OECD gives our work-life balance a score of 5.9 — slightly poorer than the United States (6.2), and well under most western European countries, which mostly rank 8 and above.
Last year, meditation teacher Kate James told Coach there's a simple fix for feeling busy: sitting in silence.
"We are used to being so on and having access to so much that stimulates us … [silence] can give you a different perspective," she said.


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Napster delays in Europe
On the heels of Apple's acknowledgement that to launch its UK store by the end of summer. "We intend to launch before the end of summer. I am ever hopeful it will happen, but it has been very challenging to get the rights together," Christopher Gorog, CEO of Roxio, Napster's parent company, told Reuters. Napster also remains in the preliminary stages of negotiating deals with countries in continental Europe, and indicated that the company is also looking at Japan, but didn't indicate when the service might launch in either of those two regions.


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August 11, 2008 While TV sales are doing just fine for the distributor, the company says it benefits from being an early adopter of new technologies.
August 08, 2008 Dealers and consumers have long awaited this compact alternative to Monitor's PLC350 in the flagship Platinum series.
August 08, 2008 LCDs feature FX5 technology to deliver images at 120Hz. The new models, which range from 42-52 inches, also have 3 HDMI 1.3 inputs.
August 08, 2008 What were the best products at CEDIA 2007, and what do you hope to see this year? Qualify to win a Screen Care Kit from Sanus.
August 08, 2008 If you think TV screen cleaners are hokey, you haven't heard the science behind Sanus's electrostatic brush, spray and squeegee system. Win a kit at CEDIA!
August 08, 2008 Neil Young, a long-time advocate of high-resolution audio, is taking aim at Apple, publicly saying the company dumbs down music listening.
August 08, 2008 The Onsia flat-panel speakers from ACP are completely invisible after installation. The speakers are available as in-wall, in-ceiling and in-frame models.
August 08, 2008 Integrators face tough design challenges on commercial jobs. Try integrating an AMX system with three massive LED screens at the world-famous Lord’s Cricket Ground stadium in England.
August 08, 2008 Home Networking penetration will grow nearly 50 percent by 2008, according to a new study from Parks Associates.
August 08, 2008 SE2 Labs is adding a host of remote diagnostic features to its Integrated Theater Console (ITC One).


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As we all know by now, Apple Watch has now become a multifunctional device that can act as your smartphone and a health and fitness device all in one. In order for Apple Watch to function as a health device, the band must be able to securely keep the watch in a firm position so that sensors under the watch will be able to read a user’s vitals accurately. While Apple’s first generation of bands was focused on fashion, their next generation of watch bands, according to a new patent application published today, will be focused on providing bands with a new level of snugness.
View the original article here: Apple invents Next-Gen Apple Watch Bands & Fasteners Designed to Keep the Band Snug to Support Biometric Sensors
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The past decade revolutionized the way we socialize online. Facebook introduced its first [...]
A controversial advertisement has taken Peloton’s brand value for a bumpy ride, but it just might be worth it.
Nearly every brand wants a piece of the pie during the holiday season, and it can feel hard to compete – especially if your time or budget is limited.
Karen Bells talks media training, the future of journalism and what all marketing professionals can learn from Ben Harper.
When it comes to understanding your online audiences and quantifying campaign success, Google Analytics is an invaluable tool.
My joint internship with Vehr Communications and The E.W. Scripps Company gave me an inside view of the 92nd Bee recently, an unforgettable and edifying experience.
Haley Fite and Max Winter were there for the “final sound” of the 2017 and 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee Championship.
Max Winter has joined our team this summer as intern with the Cincinnati Strategic Communications Leadership Program, which is a partnership between Vehr and the E.W. Scripps Company.
While the landscape of future television has undoubtedly been changed forever by the groundbreaking series, it’s hard to discredit the impact of the sheer pervasiveness of the marketing done for the behemoth fantasy masterpiece.
“Game, set, and match” to Anheuser-Busch as MillerCoors files lawsuit over the claim by Bud Light that MillerCoors uses corn syrup in its beer products.


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Energy and Sports Drinks Damage Teeth Study Claims
In the May/June issue of the journal General Dentistry the authors of a new study claim that sports and energy drinks are causing irreversible damage to the teeth of teens and young adults in the United States, According to the researchers, the high acidity levels in those beverages erode tooth enamel, the glossy outer layer of teeth.
Thirteen sports drinks and nine energy drinks were analyzed in the study, with acidity levels varying widely between brands and even flavors of the same brand. The effect on teeth of these acidity levels was assessed by immersing samples of human tooth enamel in each beverage for 15 minutes, followed by immersion in artificial saliva for two hours, with the cycle repeated repeated four times a day for five days.
Irreversible damage to the tooth enamel was evident after five days, the researchers reported, and energy drinks caused twice as much damage as sports drinks. The American Beverage Association (ABA) took issue with the study because it was not conducted on humans and the laboratory environment may not accurately recreate factors such as human saliva which could counteract some of the effect of the acidity.
You can read more on this study here.
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