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"The multifamily industry has reached a tipping point for managing the overwhelming number of packages properties receive today, particularly during the busiest shipping season of the year."
BOSTON (PRWEB) November 19, 2019
Today, Package Concierge®, the trusted provider of automated locker solutions, is unveiling new insights about multifamily package deliveries in 2019 as part of its first-ever, Total Package Report, an ongoing analysis of transactions and trends. The report, which analyzed properties with 215-235 units from Q1 to Q3 2019, finds the average building is managing nearly 70 package transactions every day, a 17 percent increase year over year. This summer’s Amazon Prime Day deliveries resulted in a 10.6 increase since Prime Day 2018.
“The multifamily industry has reached a tipping point for managing the overwhelming number of packages properties receive today, particularly during the busiest shipping season of the year,” said Georgianna W. Oliver, founder of Package Concierge. “Package volume continues to increase and is only getting higher, with record numbers of package transactions during the busiest seasons. It is imperative that property owners deploy high-quality, locker systems to ensure the safety and security of their packages, while mitigating clutter in their buildings.”
This holiday season, online and other non-store sales are predicted to grow 14 percent, according to the National Retail Federation. Package Concierge processed more than three million transactions during the 2018 holiday season (half a million in just one week in December) - a more than 18 percent increase over the previous year.
“The amount of packages we receive is growing by the day, and without Package Concierge to help us alleviate the congestion and coordination, managing shipments would be a full-time role for our on-site staff especially in November and December,” said Rudy Gonzalez, General Manager of Riverbank, New York property and a Bozzuto Management Company. “Because of the ease of use of the Package Concierge automated locker system, our team can focus on providing residents with better customer service, while also ensuring we’re delivering an innovative way to manage and protect their packages.”
The new report also found residents take an average of more than 22 hours to retrieve packages- which is down about nine percent compared to 2018, when tenants took more than a day to claim their packages.
Package Concierge has processed over 46.7MM transactions at 1,856 properties, and nearly half a million users. The adoption rate for its system is close to 80 percent for those who sign-up to use the Package Concierge app and services. For more information and insights, please visit http://packageconcierge.com.
About Package Concierge®
Package Concierge® is the trusted provider of automated locker solutions. With more than 46 million package transactions, Package Concierge combines expertise and technology to seamlessly automate processes for multifamily housing, retail and other industries. As the only vertically-integrated solution, Package Concierge products are built in the U.S.A. and powered by proprietary software to deliver on security, design and functionality. By collaborating with customers to understand and address their evolving needs, Package Concierge® delivers the highest quality solutions to optimize operations and enhance user experiences across industries. For more information, visit http://www.packageconcierge.com.


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Some things always seem like a sure bet. One of them is that the price of stamps will never go back down. That's not how most philatelists make the big bucks, though.
Starting this past weekend, the U.S. Post Office has raised the price of Forever Stamps yet again, to 55 cents from 50 cents. That's a 10 percent increase, the biggest jump since Forever Stamps were introduced more than a decade ago, at 39 cents a pop. Priority Mail prices for packages have also increased, but postcard stamps are staying put at 35 cents.
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We've known about the pending increase since the fall, which means we've also missed our window for saving big on stamps going forward. Writing in 2007, when Forever Stamps debuted, Trent Hamm pointed out that "the rate of postage stamp increase is amazingly close to the rate of inflation in recent years. This is because that postage stamps are hedged to match inflation, as the postal service isn't out to make a profit, but to break even."
If you've got visions of saving big by stockpiling stamps before the next price hike, the Washington Post's Allan Sloan brings us all back down to Earth: "[Y]ou shouldn't treat Forevers as an investment because they don't produce any current income, and those of us who are average postal customers can't buy or sell them in enough quantity to make any serious money." Whether you mail enough letters to make it worth your while is one thing, but you might have better luck in the rare stamp biz if you're looking for profits.

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Rolls-Royce's new app lets clients do just about anything
- Rolls-Royce has a new app, and it's exclusively for those who buy a new car from the company.
- The app lets users connect with other Rolls-Royce owners, executives, and members of its board, as well as see previews of products before they're public.
- There's also the opportunity to buy "luxury offerings" like pet portraits and individualised handbags, personalised racetracks, private musical performances, and custom Monopoly sets.
- The app is currently available in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and the US.
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Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has a new mobile app, but it's not in the same realm as what most of us have on our smartphones.
No, this app is a "digital gateway to a fascinating world beyond" exclusively for Rolls-Royce buyers, where they can commune with people of the same stature, read thought pieces specifically chosen for them, and, most importantly, buy stuff - stuff ranging in size from personalised alcohol to personalised racetracks, all by virtue of a smartphone.
Rolls-Royce announced the new app, called Whispers, on Tuesday, describing it as a place "where the exceptional and the extraordinary come together" with offerings tailored to fit its "eclectic and highly valued community of clients." The app was selectively rolled out for testing two years ago, and has now been fully launched in the UK, Europe, the Middle East, and the US.
Only those who buy its cars new, whom Rolls-Royce describes as "individuals untethered by common constraints such as time and money," are allowed on the app, where they can connect with other Rolls-Royce owners, company executives, and members of its board to share ideas, networks, and business opportunities. Downloading the app requires a login as proof of purchase, and those who can prove it will also get exclusive previews of Rolls-Royce products before they're public knowledge.
Then, there are the "luxury offerings" that can be found on the app - customised pet portraits and handbags, private orchestra performances, truffles, caviar, expeditions to Antarctica, African safaris, as well as backstage and VIP access to all of the world-class events worthy of name dropping, like the Olympics and Grammys.
Users can even commission a custom Monopoly set "incorporating one's own properties and assets," which likely include the person's multiple vacation residences - if this weren't an invitation-only app, after all, some of us might have to resort to using household appliances on our different squares. (Who would've thought it would come in handy to procrastinate digging up that dead tree in the backyard? That'll be $200 in Monopoly money, thanks.)
In other words, Whispers beats the grocery-store app you only downloaded for the purposes of a $5 coupon that one time.
But the cost of entry means Whispers is reserved for the Park Place members of society, not the ones paying rent just to step foot on it. The rest of us will just have to wait on that custom Monopoly board, or do things the hard way: by Googling where to find one elsewhere.
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According to experts, new cryptocurrency projects will completely change the public’s view of digital financial assets. Projects from JP Morgan, Facebook and Telegram will allow a retail buyer to appreciate all the advantages of cryptocurrencies.
At the end of the last 2018, the attention of the cryptocurrency community was riveted on the actions of the US Federal Reserve. It was expected that the agency will facilitate access to this market by institutional investors. However, it turned out that the authorities are not in a hurry to speed up this process, and so far they are not in a hurry to make an important decision.
Institutional investors are hedge and insurance funds with a significant amount of liquidity. According to experts, if they place 1% of their funds in a cryptocurrency, then the price of Bitcoin will exceed $ 10,000.
Several funds were able to find ways to invest in blockchain projects, but this did not affect the general trend. Therefore, the community has found a new idea for the growth of quotations. And it is called "retail cryptocurrency buyer."
Back in the winter of 2018, Pavel Durov announced the launch of the project Telegram Open Network (TON), which collected more than $ 1.2 billion for two rounds of financing. And it did not come from an open token allocation, they were sold by closed subscription with a minimum contribution amount is $ 1 million
According to the forecasts of the investment bank Crypto Investment Bank, by the end of 2019, the total capitalization of the project from Telegram will be close to $ 30 billion. Provided that the development team is able to provide it to retail cryptocurrency buyer in time.
It is expected that the price of a single TON token will rise from $ 0.59 to $ 5.9 per share, which will bring excellent returns to investors. Telegram's financial success probably made Facebook go the same way. Here they announced the creation of their own cryptocurrency. It will be launched in the WhatsApp messenger, which is wholly owned by the company. As a result, the shares of Facebook itself from March 1 to March 5 soared from $ 162 to $ 171 per share.
A whole series of news suggests that a coup is brewing in the cryptocurrency market. If at the first stage enthusiasts supported the blockchain, then later they were joined by financial experts. And now large corporations have begun to be active in this area.
One of them is JP Morgan. Here, too, it was said about creating their own coins. Moreover, the two largest financial corporations of Japan told about similar plans earlier. They plan to create their own payment systems based on stablecoins - tokens with a fixed rate
It turns out that at the moment cryptocurrencies are approaching a retail buyer. Those people who never intended to buy bitcoins will be able to do this at any ATM. Moreover, the technology will make it as comfortable as possible. By the end of 2019, it will be possible to buy coffee in Starbucks using a cryptocurrency wallet and the Bakkt application. And it will not take more than a couple of seconds.


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Source: Inside LineSHENYANG, China — Brilliance Automotive, one of China's second-tier players and an affiliate of BMW, has launched its first self-developed sport coupe in the local market.
The sporty two-door is priced from just under $15,000, ranging up to $21,400 for well-equipped versions.
Badged as the BC3, the car was displayed earlier this year at the 2007 Geneva Auto Show. The coupe is fitted with a 170-horsepower turbocharged 1.8-liter four-cylinder that can be mated to either a five-speed manual or a four-speed automatic transmission. Brilliance claims 0-60-mph acceleration in less than 9.7 seconds, with a top speed of 130 mph.
Brilliance executives have said they plan to begin selling the BC3 in Europe in 2008 and have suggested the two-door eventually may be part of the company's U.S. product portfolio.
Brilliance also is talking about adding a crossover vehicle to its lineup, which currently includes large and midsize sedans.
I think hazik never had seen a Porsche. The car looks really nice but more like Hjundai Coupe or Toyota Celica.hazik said:they got to sell the brilliance coupe in the US and other developed markets. A car that looks like a porsche with a 170hp turbocharged engine selling for the same price as a honda civic or toyota corolla.


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Own a piece of zombie apocalypse history for just under $1 million by buying up most of a "Walking Dead" filming location.
In 1908, a doctor used X-rays to highlight the damaging effects of tight corsets on a woman's body.
When you really want to get your point across, nothing beats a hilarious little video clip. Here's how to find them and use them.
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Technically Incorrect: The GoDaddy Super Bowl ad, which mocked Budweiser's puppy ads, should have aired, says the famous driver and GoDaddy spokeswoman.
The offering will shut down in March, but the retailer has made arrangements for rented content to be available on another streaming service.
On "Jimmy Kimmel Live," Lauren Cohan tells how a cop pulled her over while she was elbow deep in zombie guts after filming, and actually hit on her.
However, the scaled-down operating system may rise again with the release of Windows 10.
The rivals tie for the top spot in the fourth quarter of 2014, with Apple's fortunes on the rise and Samsung's heading in the opposite direction, according to figures from researcher Strategy Analytics.
President Obama addresses the Sony cyberattack and vows to respond to North Korea. Also, T-Mobile settles cramming lawsuit, and Facebook releases the Stickered for Messenger app.


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Businesses have a range of B2C marketing strategies at their disposal. However, there's one option likely to continue growing its influence. More and more emails are being opened on mobile devices, and it's important that promotional emails are suitable for these platforms.
With Australia and the rest of the world's growing smartphone use, consumers are spending more time accessing content of all types on these devices.
According to Gartner, more than 300 million individual handsets have been shipped to consumers worldwide this year. While this number isn't growing at such a rapid rate as recent years, the audience for mobile-friendly email content is still on the rise.
Here are 3 ways to ensure your business is making the most of the mobile revolution.
1. Follow the consumer
The effectiveness of any direct marketing strategy depends on adapting promotional content to the mediums and platforms consumers prefer. After all, if your content is difficult for people to reach, your audience is unlikely to grow.
More than half of all emails are opened on mobile devices.
In the case of email marketing, it's essential to be aware of how your audience is accessing this content. Unsurprisingly, the growth in smartphone use means more people are also opening emails on these devices.
Email analytics provider Litmus analysed the effects of this change, finding that mobile devices are now the lead platform for opening and viewing emails. The organisation discovered that 53 per cent of all emails sent in 2014 were opened on mobile devices. In 2011, this number was just 8 per cent, indicating the speed at which this trend developed.
2. Know your audience
The way people engage with both their emails and mobile devices depends on a range of characteristics, and it's important to ensure you tailor your mailing lists to the desired demographic.
Roy Morgan investigated the way the country's mothers use smartphones, finding they exhibit their own unique trends. Businesses that target this demographic would do well to consider these trends, as it's an important lesson in how no group of consumers is the same.
For example, Roy Morgan discovered that Australian mothers are much more likely to enter online competitions or browse brochures on their smartphones. If your direct marketing campaigns can reach this audience, you stand a better chance of creating engagement with the material.
According to General Manager – Media at Roy Morgan Research Tim Martin, marketers also need to be direct with this audience.
"Often time-poor and on-the-go, it seems mothers don't use their smartphones for personal entertainment as much as others," he explained.
"They are less likely than the norm – and even less likely again when compared with dads – to download podcasts, access news, or stream music, radio or video."
3. Embrace technology opportunities
A fair proportion of the increase in smartphone use can be attributed to the better data options of consumers. Now, the increase in Wi-Fi hotspots, mobile data allowance and speed increases from 3G to 4G mean people are likely to use their smartphones to view a greater variety of content than they did in the past.
According to Cisco, 2014 saw 64 per cent of all consumer internet traffic involve video content, a figure the organisation is expecting to rise to 80 per cent by 2019. This reflects the growing appetite consumers have for videos, making it a valuable addition to B2C marketing emails.
The same report also discovered that data use will eventually be dominated by wireless devices such as smartphones and tablets. In these cases, it's essential that direct marketing strategies are produced with these trends in mind.
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Mattel Opens Its Vault to Revitalize Dormant Brands 芭比娃娃母公司開壓箱寶重振品牌
Barbie is about to reunite with some old friends. Mattel, the maker of the popular fashion doll, is dusting off three dormant lines that have not been on toy shelves in decades: Major Matt Mason, Big Jim and Pulsar.
The reappearance of three action heroes is part of a strategy hatched by Ynon Kreiz, Mattel's chief executive, to capitalize on the company's intellectual property by reviving old brands for new generations.
Kreiz's strategy has helped Mattel turn around its sagging fortunes since he took over in 2018. The company reported a 19% jump in sales in 2021, to $5.5 billion, and despite supply-chain bottlenecks and the rising costs of raw materials, it has forecast growth of 8% to 10% this year.
Part of the toymaker's recent success derives from the expansion of legacy brands. Barbie will feature in a live-action movie starring Margot Robbie, one of a dozen films in the works for various Mattel brands, including a live-action Hot Wheels movie produced by J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot production company and one for Masters of the Universe, in partnership with Netflix. Other brands headed to the big screen include Thomas the Tank Engine, Magic Eight Ball and Polly Pocket.
But how will Mattel generate interest in brands that have been off toy shelves for decades?
Major Matt Mason, an astronaut action figure, was introduced in 1967 and saw success until children began to lose interest in space exploration. He resurfaced in pop culture in 2019 when Tom Hanks signed on to produce and star in a forthcoming movie about the spaceman. Big Jim arrived in 1971, followed by Pulsar in 1976, but they too have been out of the public eye for decades.
Mattel's strategy for reviving a dormant brand is to engage hard-core fans first, said Richard Dickson, the company's president and chief operating officer. If they take to it, the next step is to come up with tie-in content and create a toy line for children.
Plans to Fight Global Warming Face an Obstacle in Paris: Trees 巴黎砍樹抗暖化悖論捅到馬蜂窩
Long a favorite spot for picnics and sunbathing, the lawns surrounding the Eiffel Tower have recently become the scene of furious protests. First came a social media campaign. Then a rally by dozens of local residents. Before long, a protester had hunkered down in a nearby plane tree for a hunger strike.
The controversy is just the latest in a series that has engulfed Paris City Hall as it tries to green the city, a task that appears all the more urgent as scorching temperatures bear down on the French capital, and on the rest of Europe.
Local authorities are redesigning Paris' urban landscape to make it more climate-friendly, but a growing number of residents say the widespread cutting of trees around the capital is paradoxically undermining the city's environmental ambitions.
In recent months, small protests have sprouted across Paris, with residents and activists rallying around trees condemned by the sprawling urban development projects that have at times turned the capital into a giant construction site.
In April, they filmed the felling of 76 plane trees, most of them decades old, at the Porte de Montreuil on Paris' northern outskirts. City Hall wants to turn the site into a huge square, part of a project by the mayor, Anne Hidalgo, to create "a green belt" around the capital.
"Ms. Hidalgo please stop the massacre," said Thomas Brail, the founder of the National Group for the Surveillance of Trees, as machines chopped up trees behind him, in a video he shot in April. Brail later staged an 11-day hunger strike in a plane tree near the Eiffel Tower.
Yves Contassot, a former deputy mayor of Paris in charge of the environment and a member of the Green party, said cutting down trees had become "a very sensitive question that causes a bit of a scandal at a time when we talk about fighting global warming in big cities."


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The NBER has made its formal declaration. Surprising no one, as usual this group of mainstream academic Economists wishes to tell us what we already know. At least this time their determination of recession is noticeably closer to the beginning of the actual event. The Great “Recession”, you might recall, wasn’t even classified as an “official” contraction until December 2008 – a full year after the NBER figured the thing had begun.
Rather than becoming much better at spotting changes in the business cycle, whatever we all end up calling this one there’s no debating that something big happened in March 2020.
If there remains any uncertainty, it pertains as to whether that was the actual start or if perhaps the thing had been underway before then. GFC2 is obvious, the downturn from Euro$ #4 more arguable. For now, there’s no difficulty in spotting March 2020 and thereafter because it shows up clearly in every single data stream.
Well, almost every data series.
Global trade figures from around the world demonstrate just what I mean. The US estimates are unequivocal about both March and before March. Imports, in particular, had shown that US demand for foreign goods had been falling since late 2018. Further, that decline had meaningfully accelerated around midyear last year (that whole “recession scare” thing with the yield curve).
What the NBER’s Business Cycle Dating Committee would say is that falling US imports doesn’t necessarily mean the US economy as a whole was in recession. And that’s absolutely true. In fact, there are times when certain sectors or segments might experience substantial weakness without it spilling over everywhere else.
Even so, you can’t (or shouldn’t) just ignore how that had happened and been well established so long before the idea of some novel coronavirus had been widely known. They list contributing factors on autopsies for a reason.
Ultimately, though, it’s the “everywhere else” that the NBER uses to determine its recession dating. And what they say, for now, is nothing about before March. In other words, the decline in activity in and after March 2020 was so obvious that even the NBER has had to admit something big happened.
It’s hard to ignore that massive drop you see above. However you might characterize the obvious declines previous to it, there’s absolutely no mistake about March and April.
Again, you can see it in all the data – except for China’s trade numbers.
Over the weekend, China’s General Administration of Customs reported May estimates for goods going in and coming out. Exports leaving the Chinese economy supposedly fell but only by about 3.3% year-over-year (following a 3.5% rise in April). Outside of the January-February period, there’s nothing to indicate much remains amiss (and the January-February estimates are notoriously noisy given their Golden Week calendar effects).
China’s major customers all report substantial economic interruptions all throughout, especially March and afterward, but from the Chinese perspective it’s as if there were only the two earliest months of disruption this year – when the major regions in China were themselves shutdown.
Perhaps even more puzzling, China’s GAC puts Chinese exports to the US as down just 0.4%, in US$ terms, year-to-date in 2020 up to and including May. The US Census Bureau, on the other hand, says that US imports from China are off by nearly a quarter YTD through April.
In both series, there’s less of an imprint from COVID-19 than there has been from ongoing Euro$ #4. Global trade-wise, underlying weakness before is indistinguishable from the big things in March and afterward.
In terms of Chinese imports, it’s nearly the opposite case from GAC’s export figures. Earlier in the year, imports were nothing out of the ordinary, and in fact were somewhat encouraging while the country wrestled with its initial outbreak; for January/February, down just 4% year-over-year followed by a 1% decline in March. Those accelerated to the downside, however, in April and May; -14.2% and now -16.7%, respectively.
China’s global customers supposedly buying up all of its goods at a near-uninterrupted pace during the same months when even the US NBER has figured out that’s probably not possible. And then, on the other side, China is presumably leading the world into its post-pandemic rebound and the level of imports accelerates to the downside.
Some commentators are suggesting that commodity prices are to blame at least for the import numbers, the GFC2 collapse fomenting its pre-deflationary mess. While that’s true, it can’t all be commodity prices (valued in local CNY currency, total imports still fell by 12.7% year-over-year in May).
But even if China’s import totals were entirely driven by the March through May price slump, where’s the COVID-19 impact otherwise? It’s curiously missing from the Chinese trade data in the opposite way that it is so obvious in the US (and everywhere else around the world).
Like China’s strange PMI numbers of late, we’re led to believe that the Chinese economy was seriously disrupted in only just the one or two months early this year. And now, right back to where it left off like nothing happened.
The problem is, even if that was true, too, PMI’s like exports and imports wouldn’t just go right back to where they were. There’d have been a huge if temporary surge to make up for what was only supposed to have been lost time. If the economy had been disrupted in a truly non-economic fashion, there’d have been a significant and sharp catch-up at some point March to May.
What everyone wants to know is what comes next. There was a huge global downturn, one so big that even the NBER could spot it not long after it showed up. But what kind of rebound will follow from it?
Looking to China for help answering that question, as is natural, instead there are only more questions. According to Chinese figures, there isn’t going to be a “V” shaped recovery because the downside apparently wasn’t even long or lasting enough to merit anything other than business-as-usual.
And in itself that suggests everything else except business-as-usual.


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London: ‘Manspreading’ - sitting with legs wide apart on public transport and ‘awesomesauce’ that describes something as excellent are among 1,000 new words added to the online Oxford dictionary.
Other new entries include Grexit, Brexit, hangry, beer and wine o’clock and NBD - meaning “no big deal”, according to OxfordDictionaries.com, which issues quarterly updates on current definitions of English words.
New words and phrases are added to the website once editors have enough independent evidence to be confident of their widespread currency in English.
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California EV-maker Tesla Motors is being sued by a developer for failing to follow through on its plan to build a Model S factory in New Mexico.
The developer is suing Tesla for fraud, breach of contract, negligence, and negotiating in bad faith, according to GreenCarReports.com.
Rio Real Estate Investment Opportunities claims it entered an agreement with Tesla in 2007 to build a brand new factory in New Mexico. According to the developer, Tesla would then lease the building for $1.35 million a year for ten years, plus a 2 percent annual price increase. In early 2008, the deal was introduced to the public when New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson announced that the state would be the host to manufacturing of the electric Model S.
But just months later, Tesla decided to manufacture the Model S in its home state of California. The Fremont, Calif. factory, formerly the NUMMI auto plant, was named the new site due to many advantages it presents. The fully-completed factory, which also came with all the necessary machinery, was sold to Tesla at a bargain price of $59 million.
Rio Real Estate, however, says that Tesla’s change of heart caused financial damage to its company. The developer group claims it spent money on obtaining government permits, conducting environmental reports, and creating designs for the site after signing the contract with Tesla in 2007.
Tesla, as of yet, has no comment on the matter. The initial hearing will be held Sept. 18 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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With news of massive data breaches becoming almost a weekly occurrence, consumers are beginning to lose their patience with the custodians of their personal information.
Survey results from 2,000 consumers released last week by HyTrust, suggest that 51 percent of those polled would bolt from any business involved in a data breach that compromised personal information such as address, Social Security number or credit card details.
Suspicions have been growing among consumers that businesses aren’t doing enough to protect the data they eagerly collect from their customers, Eric Chiu, president and founder of HyTrust, told TechNewsWorld.
“We’re seeing repeats of the same sorts of attacks over and over,” he said. “It means that in the retail world, everyone is playing kick the can. They’re not addressing what needs to be addressed now and putting the consumer first.”
Give ’em Jail Time
The survey also revealed some harsh attitudes toward businesses involved in a data breach. Almost half of the respondents (45.6 percent) said companies should be considered “criminally negligent” the moment a breach occurs.
Attitudes on that front appear to be colored by age, though. Only 34 percent of 25-34 year olds were in favor of immediate blame, while 51 percent of respondents 65 and older wouldn’t hesitate to lower the hammer on a company involved in a breach.
The same is true for consumers who vowed to vote with their feet against a company that suffered a breach. Three out of every five respondents (60.2 percent) in the 35-44 age bracket said they’d take their business elsewhere, compared to 51 percent overall.
A large majority of the consumers participating in the survey (80.3 percent) felt the officers of a company should be held accountable for a breach.
“Since the Target breach, there’s been almost weekly breaches,” Chiu said. “Consumers are tired of it. They feel that companies are not really paying attention.”
With the holiday season approaching, visions of the Target data breach fiasco — not sugar plums — will be dancing in many shoppers’ heads.
What’s a consumer to do? For one thing, consumers can pay closer attention to what’s appearing on their credit card statements. They don’t have to wait for those statements to arrive in the mail, either. They can check transactions online — and many regularly do so.
“They should also consider using credit cards that provide more detailed information about credit card transactions,” Sean Leonard, founder and CEO of Penango, told TechNewsWorld. “That makes it easier for both the credit card company and consumer to detect fraud.”
Using a credit card to make purchases is preferable to using a debit card, according to Leonard.
“Purchasing with a credit card is better than purchasing with a debit card. Getting money lost to debit card fraud back is a lot harder than disputing a charge on credit card statement,” he said.
“If all you have is debit cards,” said Leonard, “you should use the credit card feature of the debit card.”
2FA for Feds
Two-factor authentication is gaining traction among online service providers as a way to prevent their customers’ accounts from being hijacked.
2FA is relatively simple. In addition to a username and password, a single-use code is sent — typically to a user’s cellphone — to verify the customer’s identity.
Some government departments and branches of the military have been using 2FA for years. However, it usually involves a dedicated token — just another gadget that has to be lugged around and can be lost, stolen or forgotten.
The complexity and expense of token-based systems has acted as a brake on the more widespread adoption of 2FA in the federal government.
With governments at all levels looking for economical and effective security solutions, a 2FA system that uses something employees already have — their mobile phones — could be an attractive proposition.
While agencies still would need to pay licensing fees to Globalscape and SMS Passcode, much of the overhead of token-based systems could be eliminated.
“It dramatically increases security with only those licensing fees,” Greg Hoffer, senior director of engineering for Globalscape, told TechNewsWorld. “That’s a lot cheaper than solutions that are hardware based or Web-application firewall-based.”
Another benefit of the SMS solution is that it’s location aware, he noted.
“If a log-in attempt originates in China and we know your mobile phone is in the U.S. or Canada, the system will block the log-in attempt,” Hoffer explained. “So it increases security through geo-awareness.”
- Sept. 22. First NBC Bank of New Orleans files lawsuit seeking US$5 million in damages from Home Depot in case connected to breach in which data on some 56 million payment cards was stolen. So far, about a dozen lawsuits have been filed against the company because of the breach.
- Sept. 22. BBC reports it has discovered more than 100 ads on eBay that contained links to phishing sites that attempt to get bank account information from members.
- Sept. 23. Sheplers, a western wear retailer, reports point-of-sale system at its Amarillo, Texas, store breached and credit card information at risk for an undetermined number of customers who shopped there from June 11 to Sept. 4.
- Sept. 23. RiskIQ reports watering hole attack at jquery.com, a location frequented by system administrators and Web developers. The open source jQuery library is used by an estimated 30 percent of the websites on the Internet. Visitors to the site receive a “drive-by” infection that plants malware on their systems.
- Sept. 23. U.S. Department of Homeland Security and FBI issue a “public service announcement” warning businesses of an increase in computer network exploitation and disruption by disgruntled employees. Such disruptions can cost businesses losses ranging from $5,000 to $3 million, the agencies said.
- Sept. 24. National Institute of Standards and Technology posts alert about flaw in GNU BASH dubbed “Shellshock,” which could affect millions of computers running Linux and OS X.
- Sept. 24. Jimmy John’s, a national chain of sandwich shops, confirms 216 stores were involved in a data breach from June 16-Sept. 5. The breach is still under investigation and the number of affected customers has not been made public.
- Sept. 24. Ponemon Institute reports 43 percent of companies experienced a data breach in 2014, a 10 percent increase over 2013.
Upcoming Security Events
- Sept. 29-Oct. 2. ISC2 Security Congress 2014. Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta. Registration: through Aug. 29, member or government, $895; nonmember, $1,150. After Aug. 29, member and government, $995; nonmember, $1,250.
- Sept. 29-Oct. 2. ASIS 2014. Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta. Registration: exhibits only, free; before August 30, members $450-$895, nonmembers $595-$1,150, government $450-$895, spouse $200-$375, student $130-$250; after August 29, member $550-$995, nonmember $695-$1,250, government $550-$995, spouse $200-$475, student $180-300; a la carte, $50-$925.
- Sept. 29-Oct. 3. Interop New York. Jacob Javits Convention Center, New York City. Expo: free. Total Access: early bird (July 1-Aug. 15) $2,899; regular rate (Aug. 16-Sept. 26), $3,099; Sept. 27-Oct. 3, $3,299.
- Sept. 30. Can Your Website and Network Infrastructure Withstand Multi-vector Attacks? 1 p.m. ET. Webinar sponsored by Arbor Networks. Free with registration.
- Oct. 1. Indianapolis SecureWorld. Sheraton Indianapolis at Keystone Crossing. Registration: $695, two days; $545, one day.
- Oct. 2. How To Avoid Being the Breach Scapegoat. 2 p.m. ET. Webinar. Free with registration.
- Oct. 3. B-Sides Portland. Refuge PDX, Portland, Oregon. Free.
- Oct. 9. Cyberspace as Battlespace. 2 p.m. ET. Black Hat webinar. Free with registration.
- Oct. 10-11. B-Sides Warsaw. Andersa 29, Warsaw, Poland. Free.
- Oct. 14-17. Black Hat Europe 2014. Amsterdam RAI, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Registration: before Aug. 30, 1,095 euros; before Oct. 10, 1,295 euros; before Oct. 18, 1,495 euros.
- Oct. 16. SecureWorld Denver. The Cable Center, Denver. Registration: $695, two days; $545, one day.
- Oct. 18. B-Sides Raleigh. Raleighwood, Raleigh, North Carolina. Free.
- Oct. 18. B-Sides Houston. HCC Alief campus, 2811 Hayes Rd., Houston, Texas. Free.
- Oct. 19-20. B-Sides Washington D.C. Washington Marriott Metro Center, Washington, D.C. Free.
- Oct. 19-27. SANS Network Security 2014. Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada. Courses: job-based, $3,145-$5,095; skill-based, $1,045-$3,950.
- Oct. 29-30. Security Industry Association: Securing New Ground. Millennium Broadway Hotel, New York City. Registration: before Oct. 4, $1,095-$1,395; after Oct. 3, $1,495-$1,895.
- Oct. 29-30. Dallas SecureWorld. Plano Centre, 2000 East Spring Parkway, Plano, Texas. Registration: $695, two days; $545, one day.
- Nov. 5. Bay Area Secureworld. Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California. Registration: $695, two days; $545, one day.
- Nov. 12-13. Seattle Secureworld. Meydenbauer Center, Seattle. Registration: $695, two days; $545, one day.
- Nov. 19. Stealing from Uncle Sam. 7:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. ET. Newseum, Washington, D.C. Registration: government and press, free; before Nov. 19, $495; Nov. 19, $595.
- Dec. 2-4. Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit. Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada. Registration: before Oct. 4, $2,150; after Oct. 4, $2,450; public employees, $2,050.
- Dec. 8-11. Black Hat Trainings. The Bolger Center, Potomac, Maryland. Course Registation: before Nov. 1, $2,500-$3,800; before Dec. 6, $2,700-$4,000; after Dec. 10, $3,800-$4,300.


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Technology trends are moving fast these days and most companies have already forgotten what was trending in 2010. Or can you still remember?
The following infographic by Needa Shredder gives an overview on the top technology trends for 2015. Furthermore, it offers some predictions of what technology trends form the digital arena will be leading into the future of 2020.
Not surprisingly, computer everywhere, the Internet of Things, 3-D printing, big data analytics are heading up the list. Still, by 2018 the guys from Needa predict that business process workers will be decreased by 50% in the digital business, and by 2025 one in 3 jobs will be replaced by robots and computers.
Sounds all a bit depressing. Well, maybe the major digital job boost of 500% will be even better in terms of offering new job opportunities for the future.
But hey, who can really foresee the future of technology trends by five years. If you can, let us know…


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WASHINGTON -- Business inventories and new claims for jobless benefits both posted steep gains in new government reports, but analysts said the surges largely reflected special factors and not a weakening economy.
The Commerce Department said Thursday that inventories jumped 0.6 percent in January, largest since a 0.7 percent surge last October. At the same time, the Labor Department reported jobless claims last week shot up by 32,000 to the highest level in two months.
Inventories rose as manufacturers and wholesalers had difficulty shipping their goods because of the severe weather, which also kept consumers from visiting stores and shopping malls, said Jeff K. Thredgold, economist for the KeyCorp in Cleveland.
RED INK IMPROVEMENT
WASHINGTON -- The federal government ran up $44.3 billion in red ink in February, but the deficit for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1 is still 15.8 percent less than the imbalance during the same period a year ago.
The Treasury Department said Thursday the deficit for the first five months of fiscal 1996 totaled $80.9 billion, down from $96.1 billion a year earlier.
Analysts attributed the improvement to a stronger economy that produced more revenue while efforts were under way to balance the federal budget.
NEW YORK -- Discount broker Charles Schwab & Co. said Thursday it will offer customers trading through its Internet site. Beginning in May, customers will be able to trade listed and over-the-counter stocks, get real-time quotes and access account information. This summer, more than 1,000 mutual funds will be added to the trading menu.
While 15 percent of Schwab's total trades already arrive via computers, customers have been required to use Schwab's specialized software programs, e.Schwab and StreetSmart. The new program will provide a direct connection through Schwab's Internet site, located at http://www.schwab.com.


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LG Electronics has launched the Optimus F5 and Optimus F7 smartphones, which will bring LTE to a "mass audience."
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Is Apple the winner in the smartphone race or has Samsung left it for dust? Various market research companies have revealed data for the final quarter of 2012, but the reports appear to contradict each other.
IBM is making a renewed push into the burgeoning market for all things mobile, saying it can help its corporate customers grow revenue and become more competitive through mobile app development.
Handset maker ZTE said it will be the first vendor to launch smartphones using Nvidia's Tegra 4 processor, with new models slated to arrive in China before mid-year.
Samsung has announced a new service that will make searching for movies and shows easier on TV, smartphones and tablets.
Audible.com overhauled its iOS app on Wednesday morning, bring a native iPad interface to the previously iPhone-only offering.
Broadcom says it's invented a chip that can tell your phone where you are all the time without quickly draining your battery.
More than 85,000 people have signed a Whitehouse.gov petition asking U.S. President Barack Obama to reverse a decision by the Library of Congress making the unlocking of mobile phones illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
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Apple's new Lightning connector currently doesn't transfer data at USB 3.0 speeds, despite the belief that it is able to support it. A new listing on Apple's Jobs site suggests that the company is working to bring full USB 3.0 support for its iOS dev...
Google's famed "triumvirate" -- Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt -- will give oral statements over the coming weeks as part of a private antitrust suit brought against Google and six other technology companies by former employees.
HTC has announced its new flagship HTC One smartphone, which HTC Americas President Mike Woodward dubbed "the best phone ever made."
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Three Apex Legends cosmetics set to release exclusively for players who buy the game on Steam leaked Tuesday via Electronic Arts' website. [UPDATE: Respawn Entertainment revealed the cosmetics officially Thursday. See the reveal at the bottom of this article, which otherwise appears as originally published.]
The page on EA's website, since taken down, showed three weapon charms drawing on iconography from Valve games. One shows Octane with a headcrab from Half-Life on his head, the second shows Wattson clutching a Weighted Companion Cube from Portal, and the third, which data miners had previously uncovered, shows potato-form GLaDOS from Portal 2.
A cached version of the deleted page describes these charms as free limited-time login rewards for Steam players.
Respawn Entertainment plans to bring Apex Legends to Steam in fall 2020; the leaked page provided no new information about the release timing. The developer has already confirmed the game will feature cross-platform play across all platforms, including the Nintendo Switch port set for release in the same window as Apex Legends on Steam.
Update 7/23/20 at 4:55 p.m. ET: Respawn Entertainment officially revealed the cosmetics later on Thursday.


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Daimler Truck North America (DTNA) has named two new sales executives who will oversee the Canadian market, replacing Brad Thiessen as he retires after a 21-year career with the company.
Glen White has been named vice-president of Canadian on-highway sales, and Allison Athey has joined the company in the role of vice-president of Canadian vocational sales.
White has been with DTNA since 1997, starting as an industrial engineer at Freightliner’s former St. Thomas, Ont., plant. Most recently he was director of project strategy for DTNA.
Athey joins DTNA from Volvo Trucks where she began as a chemist working on powertrain technologies, later joining product marketing. Most recently she served as a sales executive and liaison to dealers in the Northeastern U.S.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Allison Athey to the Daimler Truck North America team, and to benefit from Glen White’s vast company and industry knowledge,” said David Carson, senior vice-president, sales and marketing, DTNA. “With their combined experience and leadership, we’re confident that our valued Canadian customers in both vocational and on-highway segments, and our strong Freightliner and Western Star dealers, will continue to receive the same dedicated support they expect and deserve.”
Thiessen retires from his role as vice-president and general manager, Canadian sales, at the end of the year.
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Google have recently decided to rename Google Local Business Centre as Google Places, but there’s a subtle update that they slipped in at the same time that will be very useful to many small businesses.
Google Places, as it is now, allows businesses to give Google extra information about their business that shows up in Google maps searches and – of key value – in Google local search results (the small block of local businesses that show up when you search for a keyword accompanied by a geographical keyword e.g. web design huntingdon or when Google decides that local content is appropriate).
You can specify keywords (very important to choose those carefully), pictures, video, opening hours and all sorts of extra information (the more the better) – but the one thing that many people were reluctant to show was their address. You might be a local business but you work from home or you might just not want people turning up at your offices unannounced! Well, now you can hide your address in the search results – just showing website or telephone contact details.
So if you’re a business serving a local area there is no excuse for not listing yourself in Google Places.


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The Bitcoin price fell by 6% on Friday from a two-week low, after a surge in the yields of government bonds across the world and a wave of sales of assets considered riskier. The world’s largest cryptocurrency fell to $44,451 before partially recovering, to $47,300.
The change of leadership in the US has caused a dramatic change in the US – Israeli relationship dynamics. The dynamics between US president Donald Trump, and the Israeli government led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Joe Biden couldn’t be more opposite.
Griddy, a Texas electricity supplier has blamed the Public Utility Commission (PUC) for raising the maximum capped rate for electricity, a decision that led to skyrocketing electricity bills for its customers since January. According to the company statement, the previous tariff was capped at $1,200 per megawatt-hour but was, later on, hiked to $9,000 per megawatt hour.
US February Chicago Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) reported 59.5, lower than market expectations of 61.1, and also lower than the two-year high of 63.8 in January. The index is above 50, reflecting the expansion of business activities in the Chicago area.
Amazon has recently decided to remove the book written by Ryan T. Anderson, “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment,” from its website. As of this writing, the book is no longer available for sale on Amazon. The reason for the book being removed is an inflammatory case against transgender people.
Amazon has acquired one of the most popular independent film producers in the entertainment industry, producing and distributing movies. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said that he saw the acquisition as an opportunity for the company to cash in on the independent film revolution.
Foreign media quoted news reports that Robinhood, a US stock trading platform, plans to secretly submit an IPO application as early as next month and negotiate with the underwriters in the past week. In last year’s round of financing, the company was valued at $11.7 billion. It is reported that Robinhood started planning for an IPO this year at least last year.
Black employees at Amazon say that they are the targets of racial slurs and disrespect. Amazon is one of the most admired brands in the world, so the world thinks that all their employees would be excited about going there to work. But apparently not, because many of them say that they are afraid to go because of the hostile climate at work.
Amazon is putting cameras in its delivery trucks. It has been using them for quite a while now, according to CNN. Many more small and large businesses are implementing similar technology on their trucks now. These include post offices, pizza shops, retailers, and even convenience store franchises.
The Mexican drug trafficking scene is interspersed with infamous drug kingpins, with the most notable among them being incarcerated drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Widely regarded as the most influential kingpin at his peak, his narco-trafficking syndicate, the Sinaloa Cartel, is presently run by his sons.
The Boeing Company of the United States said that it is recommended that airlines suspend flights and all 777-type aircraft that use the same engine as the United Airlines aircraft that occurred recently. Previously, the Japanese aviation regulatory agency had requested domestic airlines to suspend the service of aircraft of the same model with the same engine.
Alabama’s Amazon warehouse workers have gotten a boost in their bid to unionize. Stacey Abrams, a Georgia democrat has encouraged the workers to vote to join the union. On a video posted on Saturday, the leader called on the workers to form a union so that they make their jobs more ‘secure, safer and stronger.’
Amazon Air is said to be making an average of 140 flights a day a significant growth. According to a report from the DePaul University Chaddick Institte for Metropolitan Development, the flights are expected to move to 160 and above by June this year since new airplanes are to be added to the fleet.
The Russian Gosduma made a statement pertaining the NATO actions, which pose political and military threats not only to Russia, but also to the whole world. Moscow naturally wants to weaken the alliance. The statement was made by the First Deputy Head of the State Duma Committee on the International Affairs Dmitry Novikov.
Buckingham Palace announced following Harry’s confirmation to his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, that he and Meghan would formally and finally step away from their royal duties just weeks before a 12-month trial separation was set to end.
Hospitals are hailed for being a haven for the sick, afflicted, and dying. With these positive connotations, it can be difficult to imagine the need for security, but don’t be fooled, hospitals don’t get a pass on problems. Whether it is combative patient, an angry family member, a visitor attempting to breach into restricted areas, or simply a patient needing a calming presence, security guards are an essential part of day-to-day hospital operations.
Bitcoin, the most popular and valued cryptocurrency, continues to break records. on Friday, it passed the high threshold of $ 1 trillion in capitalization, according to data from CoinMarketCap. The valuation of the cryptocurrency also exceeded $54,000, continuing the rise at the highest levels ever.
Russia registered third coronavirus vaccine. Coronavirus continues to be a serious barrier for the world economies. Currently, there over 111 million infected and over 2.4 million deaths around the globe. The new vaccine was developed by the Chumakov Federal Scientific Center for Research and Development of Immune-and-Biological Products of Russian Academy of Sciences.
Russia announced Demuri Voronin has been charged with treason. Voronin is a dual citizen of Russia and Germany. It would be imperative for Germany to take a pro active approach to aid him. Clearly, the Russian citizen Alexei Navalny was aided by Germany, including providing him with the German security services proaction, during Navalny stay in Germany.
This week the weather created a lot of challenges in the US and Canada. In the US southern states, there was historic snow fall, power outages, water boiling orders and conservation. In Texas, the Griddy wholesale electricity company sent out notices to their customers suggesting they find another provider due to the skyrocketing prices.
At present, there is a demand to purchase online and pay later. The platforms like Klarna Quadpay and AfterPay becoming increasingly popular. They allow the consumers to purchase items from a large number of the online stores using interest free payments split in 4. The payments are billed every 2 weeks.
Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama have continued with their unionization push as pressure continues to mount. It is alleged that workers are short break and failure to return to work on time would mean a cut on the pay or dismissal from work. Workers have decried poor working conditions in the company’s facilities.
A majority of the 72 signatory countries of the Rome Statute on Friday elected the British Karim Khan as the new chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court ( ICC ) to replace Fatou Bensouda, who took office in 2012. The new chief prosecutor will be the third to hold this position in the history of the organization.
The Coronavirus pandemic continues to be a major factor around the world. Currently, there are over 107 million infected and over 2.3 million deaths around the globe. Many countries are experiencing shortages of the COVID-19 vaccines. The COVID-19 restrictions continue to hurt the global economies.
In recent years, there have been many sources of news that have confirmed that Apple has started a car project internally, but it has not been fully implemented. Recently, there have been many rumors that Apple will cooperate with Hyundai’s Kia Motors.
The Coronavirus pandemic is one of the main factors driving the customers to shop online. The convenience, lockdowns, and safety measures make online platforms a necessity for items including pet products. Last month I placed an order for the Okokat cat litter. However, when I opened the box, a saw dust cloud covered the whole area and it made me cough.
The Investigative Committee of Belarus formally sent the documentation for the extradition of the founder of the Telegram channel NEXTA Stepan Putilo and his former editor-in-chief Roman Protasevich from Poland under the International treaty. The Belarusian KGB previously included these individuals on the terrorist list.
Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is all set to be the new director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO). This is after she received the support of the United States, which had initially thrown it’s support behind the South Korean candidate who however finally officially withdrew her candidature on Friday.
The Global E-Commerce Giant, Amazon Inc has revealed that it has ordered hundreds of trucks that run on compressed natural gas as it tests ways to remove the largest polluting vehicles in its US fleet. Amazon has since began acquiring fleets of electric vehicles to reduce pollution by generally cutting on their carbon emissions.
The S&P 500 index rose 15.10 points, or 0.39%, to 3,886.81 points; the Nasdaq index rose 78.60 points, or 0.57%, to 13,856.30 points; the Dow Jones index rose 92.40 points, or 0.30%, to 31,148.24 points; on this week’s road. The index rose 3.9%, the S&P rose 4.7%, and the Nasdaq rose 6%, both their biggest weekly gains since November.
The Kremlin announced that three diplomats were ordered to leave Russia on February 5th after participating in protest. The diplomats expelled are from the Kingdom of Sweden, Republic of Poland and Germany. That was the date, whenand his team urged the public to take to the Russian streets and protest.
Amazon became simply to large to efficiently control the sales process on the micro level. Amazon offers free delivery to Prime Members and encourages reviews once the items have been received. The consumer can leave a review by going to the original list of the orders and choose the option of the review.
The Ford Motor Company’s new electric cars are a huge step forward for the mobility of people and they are sure to be huge in years to come. Ford has said it’s growing its investments in autonomous cars to $22 billion by 2022. The carmaker has previously confirmed a double expansion in its expected developments in electric cars.
A New Year means a New You. It’s a time to clear all the mess of the previous 12 months and transform yourself. One of the classic ways people do this is to establish resolutions to work out more. In fact, improving one’s health is the top resolution people make when the clock strikes midnight on January first. Unfortunately, over 20 percent of those who decide on this path fail to follow through.
Microsoft Flight Simulator is finally heading to France. Microsoft acquired the software in June of 1998 and has been steadily improving the game ever since. As technology has continued to improve, the game has continued to become more technologically advanced and realistic.
The United Kingdom will apply for membership of the Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement – Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) – the British Ministry of International Trade announced on Saturday. International Trade Minister Liz Truss will officially ask for the UK to join this free trade agreement on Monday.
Recently the HNA Group, which is headquartered in the Cayman Islands, has revealed unusual cash movements in its previous and current accounts. The company made three bankruptcy petition filings by its creditors on behalf of its debtors. There also may be an investigation into whether any of the transactions were improper or incomplete.
Russian police arrested more than 3,000 people on Sunday during new demonstrations across the country to demand the release of the nation’s opposition chief, Alexei Navalny. Thousands of people ignored the government’s warnings and took to the streets of several Russian cities, from Vladivostok to St. Petersburg.
Asda was modifying the packaging of its own-brand goods following pressure from health experts. The store will carry out several steps to combat obesity among adolescents. By eliminating cartoon figures from milk and juice packets, there would be fewer temptations for kids to consume fast food.
The 2020 was not a good year for the Russian space program. Even though, Russia continues to be in the top 3 nations pertaining the space launches. Roscosmos is showing a negative trend. The US remains at the number 1 spot, followed by China. Chinese launches in majority were not successful. Last year, Russia only had 4 out of 11 flights to the International Space Station (ISS).


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AT&T begins rolling out TV product that uses Android boxes and will replace DirecTV and U-Verse as flagship service
- AT&T's new internet-connected TV service rolls out nationally beginning Monday.
- The product costs $49.99 per month with a 24-month commitment or $39.99 per month when bundled with AT&T internet service, if available.
- The service includes a box that customers can plug in by themselves, a remote control with Google Assistant and a cloud DVR.
AT&T is rolling out a new national TV service that lets customers connect Google Android-powered boxes directly to their broadband internet, eliminating the need for U-Verse fiber hookups or satellite TV dishes.
The service, AT&T TV, which has previously been available in just 13 markets, includes access to all streaming apps that are available in Google's app store and free access to HBO Max, AT&T's streaming service that launches in May. The Android box runs a custom interface built by AT&T and has 500 hours of DVR cloud storage. There's also a remote that includes Google Assistant.
Among other things, Google Assistant can be used to change channels, check the weather, play music and control smart home gadgets, such as light bulbs.
AT&T's new video interface is similar to Comcast's X1 and will ultimately be the company's flagship TV service, replacing DirecTV and U-Verse.
The primary benefit for AT&T, beyond the next generation software, is the dramatic reduction in subscriber acquisition cost that comes with an internet-connected box. No external box or satellite installation is necessary because consumers will be able to plug in the set-top box directly to the TV, which connects wirelessly to any home broadband service. Satellite TV installation and associated customer acquisition costs are typically more than $700 — a figure that will be drastically lower without the cost of a dish installation.
If DirecTV customers switch to the new AT&T video service over time, AT&T may be further compelled to sell off its satellite TV assets — a divestiture championed by hedge fund Elliott Management last year but has been resisted by AT&T.
In areas where U-Verse internet service is available, AT&T will bundle the new TV service with 1 gigabit AT&T internet for about $80 per month. Without internet, AT&T TV packages will start at $49.99 per month for 12 months with a 24-month commitment. AT&T TV users who decide to subscribe to HBO, or who are premium video, mobile or broadband subscribers, will get HBO Max for free.
Disclosure: Comcast is the owner of NBCUniversal, parent company of CNBC and CNBC.com.
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Nutreco acquires the activities of Mosegården, a supplier of animal nutrition in Denmark, focused on minerals and animal health products for pigs and cattle. The company recently announced this.
The addition of Mosegården’s nutrition business to Nutreco’s local animal feed business will strengthen the footprint of the Trouw Nutrition brand in Denmark.
This will allow the company to gain a significant position in the Danish ruminant feed market and expand its portfolio of specialties to a wider range of Danish farmers.
“After last year’s acquisition of Nutrimin, adding Mosegården’s nutritional expertise and iconic brands to our portfolio this year is an important next step for our business in Denmark,” said Nutreco director Fulco van Lede.
“Building on the strength and complementary portfolios of Nutrimin, Mosegården and Trouw Nutrition, we are in a unique position to offer Danish customers an integrated, value-added offering.”
“We recognize Nutreco’s excellence in animal nutrition and are convinced that this is the right company to take Mosegården’s nutrition business to the next level,” said Mosegården CEO Niels Jørgen Sørensen.
“In this way, the legacy of Mosegården, as part of Trouw Nutrition, will continue to contribute to the future of Danish agriculture.”


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TYLER, Texas (KLFY) – Brookshire’s and Super 1 Foods launched an online waitlist for those who are in 1A and 1B to sign up for vaccines.
Only people who are involved in those classifications can register on Brookshire’s website under COVID-19 Vaccine Information for vaccine shots.
Those who have already been added to the wait list at a Brookshire pharmacy will not need to sign up again.
View Louisiana COVID-19 vaccination here
You will be contacted by your pharmacy when the vaccine is available for you.
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A few weeks ago, Facebook made waves when it announced that it has bought the hugely popular photo taking app Instagram for $1 billion. According to the press statement, Instagram will be developed independent of Facebook. With Facebook recently announcing its own photo taking feature that promise may have been kept but it also creates a lot of questions about the future of both Facebook and Instagram.
Instagram got a lot of flak from iOS users when two events happened within the space of days – Instagram’s release of an Android version of the popular photo shooting app and the announcement that Facebook as bought the company behind Instagram for a cool $1 billion. The negative reactions from long-time Instagram users got so intense that many of them said they will abandon the app and delete their Instagram account. [Read more…]
One app that Android users have always wished they had on their preferred mobile operating system is Instagram. The very popular photo taking app has been a longtime player in the iOS environment. Android users have always requested that the app be ported to Android. But even if a port has been hinted at, it never really materialized.
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Android users have envied iOS device owners for a number of things, and one of these is Instagram. The hugely popular photo sharing app has been available to iOS devices. Android users have been clamoring for an Android version of Instagram but development but it seemed like the guys behind instagram didn’t have an Android port as a priority so much so that Instagram clones have proliferated at the Android Market, one of them being Streamzoo. [Read more…]
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Dear Members and Readers,
On a business trip to Beijing, I recently came face-to-face with one of China’s greatest challenges: air pollution. Oxygen being one of the fundamental elements of life, the Chinese people is increasingly concerned about the high price it is paying for its fast economic growth.
Since the 2008/09 financial crisis, pressure on China to back the weakening global economy has increased and this pressure shows no sign of disappearing. China is also being pressured to revalue its currency, the Renminbi, so as to increase Chinese export prices relative to foreign competitors and thus making Chinese imports cheaper. In addition, the government is also feeling domestic pressure to push the contry’s consumption and maintain high growth rates.
As the people’s purchasing power increases, so are China’s environmental problems. Although China is only the 18th per capita emitter of CO2, the country counts 16 of the world’s most polluted cities, its lakes and rivers are disappearing, and, in absolute terms, it remains the world’s largest energy user and carbon-emitter. In other words, as Chinese consumers save the world’s economy, China’s environmental problems may get worse, much worse. Water, the ultimate consumer product, is also suffering the effects of high growth rates. In addition to consuming potable water by cup or bottle, the Chinese, like their counterparts worldwide, consume water indirectly as a critical ingredient in their new and more water-intensive diets based on meat. It takes approximately 1,000 tons of water to produce a single ton of grain and 7 tons of grain to produce a ton of beef. As a result of the Chinese switching from their pre-1978 bean-protein-based diets to Kung Pao chicken or McDonald’s hamburgers, the per capita consumption of water is increasing. Alongside the Chinese people, many industries also use massive amounts of water. It takes, for instance, 400,000 liters of water to manufacture a single car. And last year, for the first time, Chinese consumers surpassed their foreign counterparts by buying the most cars.
Let’s work all together to get the needed economical growth in balance with our environment of which there is only one and contribute, where ever we can, to a clean environment.
Chairman SwissCham China
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OTTAWA — Thanks to the emerald ash borer, Ottawa is turning both less and more green at the same time.
The nasty insect, believed to have arrived in North America 20 years ago in wooden packaging material from eastern Asia, kills 100 per cent of the ash trees it invades unless the trees are inoculated every two years with a systemic insecticide. Each injection costs $150-$300. City of Ottawa crews have already cut down hundreds of trees in a rearguard effort to slow the spread of the invasion. Over the next 10 to 15 years, Ottawa is expected to lose about one quarter of our tree cover as the ashes die.
All of which will make the city a lot less green, at least in the summer.
But Ken and Kosta McKay are turning that arboreal disaster into a success story that blends environmental smarts with fine design.
The two brothers, partners in Furniture Affairs on Auriga Drive (www.furnitureaffairs.ca), are using ash salvaged from a cull of city trees to produce custom-made, eco-friendly furniture for both the residential and commercial markets.
Removing the outer inch from a cut, infected tree eliminates the insects and their larvae, leaving wood that’s safe for reuse. Otherwise, the wood winds up as mulch or biofuel. The infected material is ground into tiny pieces too small for the insects and then turned into compost.
“It makes beautiful furniture because it’s hard, and every piece of ash looks different,” says Ken. “It can be used for sofas, chairs, anything.” A glowing, six-foot-long dining room table with sturdy squared legs ($2,000) bears witness to the glory of ash furniture. Thanks to its locally sourced, salvaged wood, formaldehyde-free glue and a non-toxic tung oil finish, the table’s also a testament to how green furniture can be.
The backroom of the brothers’ workshop is already piled high with a small mountain of rough-cut ash planks from a city cull. The McKays hope that pile will continue to grow as a nascent Ottawa organization with the working name of the Urban Wood Alliance seeks an agreement with the city to process and distribute culled ash.
The brothers also use reclaimed wood from the Ottawa River. They buy it from another Ottawa success story: Logs End, which for several years has been pulling perfectly preserved logs from the floor of the Ottawa River, where they’ve been sitting since the days when the rivers, not trucks, were used to transport pulp wood from lumber camps to mills.
The day the Citizen dropped by their cozy workshop, the brothers were hurrying to finish a sprawling, 24-foot conference table made from reclaimed yellow birch. Built in three sections, it was destined for the executive board room of the new Ottawa Convention Centre — a nice coup for the brothers, and one that accords with design elements in the Convention Centre that celebrate the city’s lumbering history.
The pieces that come out of Furniture Affairs aren’t cheap, but they are made to last. Scratch a solid wood table top and you can always sand and refinish it.
Furniture made of MDF and covered with a veneer may sell for less, but is difficult to repair and often not worth the time or money — easier to junk it and buy another one (do that two or three times, and you would have been better to buy a decent piece in the first place).
“Planned obsolescence and impulse shopping: that’s what customers have to help stop,” says the soft-spoken Kosta, who designs the furniture. He also plays in a rock ‘n’ roll band by night while his older, married brother usually spends evenings with his growing family.
Ken, who rarely holds still for more than a few seconds, jumps in: “We’re trying to get everyone on a new business model of taking more care when they produce things and finding out where the raw materials come from … We can’t keep shipping wood to China to have cheap furniture made (there) and then having it shipped back here for distribution all over the place.”
The brothers’ green manufacturing mandate means they source as much as they can from within a 500-kilometre area around Ottawa. That gives business to local suppliers and helps cut greenhouse gases associated with transportation.
At 36, Kosta has long been an advocate of greener and better quality furniture. Before teaming up with his brother a few years back, he worked for upholstery and other companies. “I saw how badly things were being manufactured. I tried to convince them to change, but they didn’t care.”
Ken, 41, ran a number of startup firms before deciding that he, too, belonged in the furniture business. In 2008, he joined forces with his brother to establish Furniture Affairs.
Their father, also named Ken, is a veteran of the furniture business and now works with his sons. The company contracts out some aspects of production but hopes to eventually hire its own staff.
As a custom manufacturer, Furniture Affairs doesn’t keep much in stock. One piece that is present when we stop by is a Solo Chair. High-backed and deep-seated, the easy chair features arms made of ash and river-reclaimed birch, a solid ash frame, natural jute seat webbing, soy-based foam, and a non-PVC vinyl covering. It’s priced at $1,600 and comes with a 20-year warranty.
The brothers also repair, reupholster and recycle used furniture. Buy an item from them, for example, and they’ll remove your old piece for reconditioning and reuse, tear it down and recycle the components, or donate it to an organization like Habitat for Humanity’s Restore.
In an age of mass consumption and short-term thinking, buying custom green furniture that can be passed on to your grandchildren is at once a refreshingly new and reassuringly old-fashioned idea.
Says Ken: “It’s old school with a new twist.”
Furniture Affairs does not have a showroom. For information, call 613-680-2139 or visit www.furnitureaffairs.ca.


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Williams-Sonoma is venturing into the meal-kit space via a new partnership with the organic and non-GMO meal kit company, Sun Basket.
Available now, customers can purchase Sun Basket subscriptions on Williams-Sonoma.com. As with Sun Basket's current service, those purchasing through Williams-Sonoma can choose meals for two or four people and customize based on dietary needs like paleo, gluten-free or vegetarian. The cost per meal averages out to $11.49, which is more expensive than major players like Blue Apron but on par with the only other USDA-certified organic meal-kit provider, Green Chef.
The co-branded meal-kits will differ from Sun Basket's current offering in that they will feature recipes from the Williams-Sonoma Test Kitchen and new subscribers will receive a "Kitchen Essentials" package with a microplane zester, a lemon press, a garlic press and a set of tongs. For customers who are already subscribed to Sun Basket's service, they will not experience any change.
For the two San Francisco Bay Area companies the marriage of their brands seemed like a natural match. "We saw it as a great partnerships with both of us focused on making cooking easy and delicious and promoting the Northern California value system," said Adam Zbar, CEO, Sun Basket.
Over the last two years, the meal-kit space hit a fever pitch with Packaged Facts estimating more than 150 players in the U.S. Together, these companies are expected to generate $1.5 billion in sales this year and balloon to a multi-billion dollar market over the next five years. But with the overall venture pullback experienced in 2016, investors have also grown wary of the space, and funding for food delivery in Q2'16 dropped to the lowest point since Q1'14.
A recent story by Fast Company also revealed that meal-kit companies may have a hard time retaining customers in this oversaturated market. Research from 1010data found that after six months only 10 percent of customers retained their subscriptions to BlueApron, and it saw similar patterns with HelloFresh and Plated. All the companies named in the report have disputed those stats.
As for Sun Basket, it said it is experiencing much higher retention than the industry average. "Our retention rates are at least five times higher than what is sourced in that article," said Zbar. The company has also grown $30 million in annual run rate (ARR) since Labor Day, and it expects to be EBIDTA positive by next year.
Zbar expects that this new relationship with Williams-Sonoma will only help boost those numbers. "A large part of getting the right type of customer to join your services is having someone who is a trusted voice, and I can't think of another brand that would be a better trusted source than Williams-Sonoma to recommend Sun Basket," he said.
This partnership could also help Williams-Sonoma Inc.'s (NYSE: WSM) sagging stock price. The company whose portfolio of brands includes Pottery Barn, West Elm, Mark and Graham and Rejuvenation has seen its stock lose 35 percent of its value over the last year, but its ecommerce business has been seen as a bright spot for the company.
For its part, Williams-Sonoma saw the collaboration as a good supplement to its existing food offerings online. "A partnership with meal-kit delivery is particularly relevant at this moment, said Janet Hayes, president, Williams-Sonoma. "It is a good adjacency to the thriving food business we have today."
When asked whether Williams-Sonoma would pursue acquisitions in the space or develop its own meal-kit in the future, Hayes was vague on prospective plans. "We are exploring all avenues and are always inspired by how to help our customers learn and be inspired to cook at home," she said.
Williams-Sonoma isn't the only retailer jumping into the meal-kit game. In October, Whole Foods entered into a relationship to begin testing Purple Carrot's meal-kits at a Dedham, Massachusetts store.


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Marijuana in the United States has been a controversial matter since it started to be recreationally used along the East Coast within the 19th century, along with amphetamine, cocaine, and opium. On this article, we offer a walkthrough of all of the related CBD legal guidelines in Wisconsin. Normally, the easiest way to buy CBD is to buy by a good online provider. New York’s industrial hemp pilot program was launched in 2015 and continues to receive vital funding from the state. The state also legalized medical marijuana in 2014 ( AB A6357E ). Nonetheless, leisure use of marijuana continues to be unlawful in New York.
program must include the testing and certification of THC concentrations in hemp plants. Participation in the certification program should be voluntary for growers and cultivators of business hemp. The Act also authorizes DATCP to hunt cbd oil wi federal approval to serve as an importer of business hemp seed. Importing seeds into Wisconsin to begin the hemp program might require permission from the U.S. DEA, which might affect the time when production can start.
Meeting Invoice 206 turned a proposal in 2019 to exclude non-psychoactive hemp-derived CBD oil from the record of Schedule 1 controlled substances. This meant that any individual might possess and devour hemp-derived oil without a medical prescription. Moreover, the invoice proposed that folks might legally possess CBD products with no more than 0.7% THC above the allowed THC limit. However solely so long as there isn’t any purpose to imagine that the stated product has an above restrict THC content material.
Apple Wellness in Fitchburg, 6313 McKee Highway, sells a wide range of CBD products starting at $24, together with pores and skin lotions, ingestible oils, nasal sprays, wax dabs” to use with a vaporizer, oil-stuffed capsules and edible gummies. And there’s CBD for our furry mates, too. A bottle of Charlotte’s Web Paws, a hemp extract for adult canines ($75), is alleged to deal with joint pain in pooches.
As you’ll be able to inform, CBD with psychoactive THC levels is legal. The CBD oil simply must be documented by a health care provider or professional. Otherwise, it will likely be considered a legal offense, which can lead to fines and punishment. It is recommended that, before you get CBD, you consult together with your doctor on totally different points that will arise from taking CBD, as well as how much to take each week.
Searching for CBD oil in Wisconsin is as we speak a lot less complicated after the 2018 Farm Invoice was permitted. You possibly can choose numerous CBD oil products see here now all through quite a few retail places and even purchase them on-line. E-commerce, native drug outlets, and pharmacies have entry to industrially-produced hemp gadgets, but not all of them are formally licensed.
On the federal level, drug reform observers have been watching Kentucky intently partially because of hopes amongst some reformers that any form of legalization there might encourage U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R), who represents the state, to relax https://validcbdoil.com/wisconsin/eau-claire/ his stance on cannabis. McConnell has been a consistent obstacle to legalization within the Senate and was widely anticipated to be a deciding consider whether or not the chamber hears marijuana laws in 2021.
As with each state in the United States, Wisconsin was subject to the 2018 Agriculture Improvement Act, which means hemp-derived CBD oil is authorized on the market wherever across the state. The 2018 Farm Bill also paved the way for Wisconsin to ease up hemp restrictions. Should the US step up and legalize marijuana? Stick with us on extra insights into the hashish trade.
Wisconsin’s SB 10 had the foresight to require the state government to comply with federal law if and when CBD oil was rescheduled on the nationwide degree. In March 2017, the Wisconsin Assembly passed Meeting Invoice forty nine , which is the companion invoice of SB 10, unanimously with a vote of ninety eight-zero, loosening restrictions surrounding CBD.
Wisconsin Act 267 or Lydia’s Legislation only permits marijuana-derived CBD oil to be used for alleviating seizure disorders, similar to epilepsy. The regulation doesn’t cowl medical cannabis merchandise or different types of marijuana(28). Kentucky legislative leaders said is cbd legal in wisconsin in a recent joint interview that they’re open to contemplating legalizing medical marijuana through the state’s 30-day lawmaking session that kicked off this week, however legislators from both events pushed back against a plan by Gov. Andy Beshear (D) that might impose a tax on the drug.
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Section 7606 of the bill outlined industrial hemp as Cannabis Sativa containing 0.3% of THC or less. It allowed state agriculture departments and establishments of upper training to cultivate hemp for the needs of agricultural or educational analysis. It additionally provided avenues for farmers enthusiastic is cbd legal in wisconsin about growing hemp to get licensed by their state agriculture division. Importantly, the invoice extended the jurisdiction of hemp manufacturing from the DEA alone to additionally include the USDA and FDA—opening the door for future regulation.


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Just as we wrote a couple of days ago, AMD has officially announced its first batch of Richland mobile APUs. Richland APUs are the replacement for AMD's Trinity APUs that were a big deal last year. Although they are pretty much based on same CPU and GPU architecture, as well as the same 32nm manufacturing process and even use the same socket, Richland does bring some serious and interesting improvements.
As noted earlier, Richland is still based on Piledriver CPU cores, while the GPU part is still based on the same GPU architecture as the Trinity GPU, despite its new Radeon HD 8000 series model number. On the other hand, the new Richland parts did get higher clock CPU and GPU frequencies, some impressive power management improvements and platform oriented enhancements and features.
To be precise, AMD has launched only four mobile Richland SKUs today, all with the same 35W TDP. The flagship quad-core A10-5750M is joined by another quad-core A8-5550M and two dual-core APUs, the A6-5350M and the A4-5150M. You can expect slightly higher PCU and GPU clocks while the rest of the specs remain unchanged, at least in the mobile segment. The A10-5750M does get 1866MHz memory support, but still features the same amount of L2 cache and same amount of "Radeon Cores" in its Radeon HD 8650G GPU.
AMD did not focus on talking about performance but rather comparing the actual power consumption of Richland APUs against Trinity counterparts. The numbers do seem impressive as when Richland and Trinity flagship parts (A10-5750M and the A10-4600M) are compared AMD is claiming that Richland is up to 47 percent more efficient than the previous generation in HD playback. While there are noticeable efficiency improvements in both idle and WiFi web browsing scenarios, those are mostly attributed to lower overall consumption of the platform.
AMD also included a slide that puts the A10-5750M against some other mobile chips in Futuremark's 3DMark Fire Strike DirectX 11 benchmark showing an impressive lead over, what AMD calls, a much higher priced Intel Core i7-2520M chip. The power enhancements also come from additional frequency/voltage operating points, intelligent boost feature with better CPU and GPU power allocation and new hybrid boost that uses on-die temperature sensors and incorporates results into an algorithm bringing higher performance for typical operating conditions.
AMD is also bringing new platform oriented enhancements and features with the AMD Software Experiences including AMD Gesture Control, Face Login, Screen Mirror, Quick Stream, Steady Video and Perfect Picture HD features.
All four new mobile Richland SKUs are already shipping to notebook manufacturers while, according to AMD, mobile 25W and 17W parts, as well as desktop ones, are expected in the first half of the year.
As you already know, Richland will be with us at least until the end of 2013 and should be replaced by Kaveri APU based on the new Steamroller CPU architecture and Sea Islands graphics part.


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Norwich — The aroma of baking dough wafting through the City Hall plaza is signal enough that a new eclectic pizza and craft beer restaurant now is open, but much more than that is cooking in the historic original Otis Library building at 80 Broadway.
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There’s a synergy that combines the excitement of chefs, line cooks and wait staff for the ability to find new and enjoyable jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic that had put several of them out of work at previous jobs with the determination of a business entrepreneur pledging to make the former Otis Library building into a hub for creative businesspeople.
Upstairs from Pie Hops Bar & Restaurant, Peter Helms, 36, of Manchester has converted former office space into Helms Media, a professional home for his growing digital marketing company, Ideal Solutions, and an internet radio studio, where he produces local programs that range from sports to news talk, culinary arts and even a show with young women giving their perspectives on the dating scene for women in their 20s.
“I want to develop a culture of entrepreneurship to give creative talent an outlet to share their ideas and grow their brands,” Helms said Friday.
Helms was born in Norwich and grew up in Griswold. He overcame substance abuse addiction in his teens and 20s, straightened out and attended Three Rivers Community College and Eastern Connecticut State University. At ECSU, he fell in love with business and marketing, leaving college to try his hand.
He launched his Ideal Solutions on a laptop at his home afterhours as he worked at various jobs. He went full time with it a year ago, and business boomed as more and more companies sought new ways to market and survive the pandemic, he said.
As he continues to help local businesses market themselves during the pandemic, Helms is expanding the internet radio business and is working with some high-placed partners to produce a line of TV shows.
Former Griswold state Rep. Kevin Skulczyck, a conservative Republican, jumped at the chance to host a conservative talk show, “News Rocky,” with the slogan: “fighting fake news.” The show runs Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to noon. On Friday, he featured special guest Angela Adams, executive director of the Greater Norwich Area Chamber of Commerce. Adams explained how the chamber is working with local businesses to get them through the COVID-19 pandemic. She also promoted upcoming holiday shopping events.
Helms hosts his own show with Global City Norwich liaison Suki Lagrito. The show, “Hustle Reports,” highlights business owners and their creative ideas for running and promoting their businesses.
Two other local hosts, Ray Dupoint and Chris Nott, co-host “Du-Nott Sports,” conversations about sports that run Tuesday through Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. Their enthusiasm for golf has landed them a key sponsor, Great Brook Sports in Groton. Helms is seeking other sponsorships, including some national sports brand products.
“If the audience is a good fit, it works,” Helms said. “Pie Hops is a great sponsor. They welcomed us into their space in the heart of downtown Norwich.”
Skulczyck promotes the restaurant during his talk show.
Pie Hops Bar & Restaurant, owned by Bill Nielson and run by Chef Mark Vecchitto, offers specialty pizzas, creative hamburgers, nachos and sandwiches and an extensive craft beer selection.
Both Pie Hops and Helms Media opened in 80 Broadway two weeks ago and immediately started filling the internet radio timeslots.
Vecchitto, former executive chef at the Mystic Marriott, is one of those who was laid off during the pandemic. He is classically trained in fine dining and wants to bring something new to blue-collar Norwich with creative specials, such as Friday’s feature: pizza with camembert cheese, fuji apple slices and caramel.
“Bringing food like this to Norwich is going to be fun,” Vecchitto said.
Vecchitto also is trying his hand in Helms’ business upstairs, hosting an internet radio show called “Walk In,” introducing the audience to a behind-the-scenes look at running a restaurant. The show will launch on Tuesday at 3 p.m.
Downstairs at lunchtime Friday, the café started jumping, with customers at several of the well-spaced tables and others placing takeout orders for several 10-inch pizzas.
“We’ve been busier than I thought it would be during COVID,” said waitress Allison Guay, 25, of Lebanon. She had lost her job at Friendly’s in Willimantic, which closed because of the pandemic, and was thrilled to find a new restaurant opening.
Sous chef Mike Joyner, 28, of New London had been working with another restaurant that had tried to open in Niantic but couldn’t make it during the pandemic. He met line cook Kyle Cook, 23, of New London there. Now both are thrilled to have landed at Pie Hops.
“We are really lovin’ it,” Cook, said. “We even came in on our days off to help set up the place.”
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