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Lifestyle brand Hidesign has introduced its newest collection – Freedom. Conceptualized keeping in mind the fundamentals of design, functionality and utility; the Freedom Collection is inspired by the needs of today’s post-covid individual. The collection comprises bags that are modular, versatile and multi-purpose; giving you multiple bags in 1 for the different moods of your day.
A backpack to a sling bag to even a travel pouch, the collection lets you own multiple bags when you put your money into one. Freedom collection is ideal for the busy post-pandemic world, wherein we are slowly experiencing what Freedom feels like after months of restrictions and confinement in our own homes.
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New Balance and Olympian Sydney McLaughlin Team Up for Sleek Sneaker & Apparel Collection
New Balance has found its latest collaborator in Olympic track and field star Sydney McLaughlin.
SABYASACHI X H&M COLLABORATION THEMED ‘WANDERLUST' LAUNCHED
The Sabyasachi x H&M collaboration themed “Wanderlust” presents rich textiles in modern as well as classic Indian silhouettes that resonate with the modern global nomad mindset.
Skechers Donates $1 Million to Haiti Earthquake Relief Efforts
Skechers announced that it is supporting Haiti earthquake relief efforts with a $1 million donation. Over the weekend, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit the country and the death toll has since topped 2,000.
HIDESIGN RELEASES FREEDOM COLLECTION
Freedom collection is ideal for the busy post-pandemic world, wherein we are slowly experiencing what Freedom feels like after months of restrictions and confinement in our own homes.
FALGUNI SHANE PEACOCK UNVEIL LOVE IS COLLECTION AT INDIA COUTURE WEEK
The collection, Love is, has been crafted completely by hand to showcase the distinct handwriting and talents of a cluster of about 250 craftsmen from the FSP-adopted villages of Malihati, Islampur, Midnapore, Kharagpur and Marhtala in West Bengal with the couture signatures of Falguni Shane Peacock.
MYARAA BY NAMRATA LODHA X KATE STOLTZ
The collaboration entails a fusion between light straw hats by Myaraa complemented with scarves crafted out of luxury fibers by Kate Stoltz.
Flipkart and Myntra to retail Slazenger products in India
The Flipkart Group has partnered British sportswear and sports activities gear model Slazenger that may now be obtainable on each Myntra and Flipkart.
ADIDAS LAUNCHES FIRST FLAGSHIP STORE IN INDIA
Spread in 5900 sq ft of retail area across 4 floors, the store’s concept is brought to life inspired from the brand’s ‘OWN THE GAME’ strategy that focuses on 3 important aspects which are Experience, Sustainability, and Credibility.
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Indian Economy To Grow At 8.3% In 2021: World Bank
The World Bank has slashed its 2021-22 GDP growth forecast for the Indian economy to 8.3 per cent from 10.1 per cent estimated in April, saying economic recovery is being hampered by the devastating second wave of coronavirus infections. It projected a 7.5 per cent economic growth in the 2022-23 fiscal (April 2022 to March 2023).
From offering luxurious experiences through augmented reality to launching more pocket-friendly collections, the pandemic has forced luxury brands to think differently
INDIAN FASHION ACCESSORY MARKET GOES MAINSTREAM, REGISTERS RAPID GROWTH
With a long history among the unorganised un-branded market, ranging from street vendors to small “mom and pop stores”, fashion accessories are now also available in curated collections through luxury boutiques, high street brands, international accessories chains, international brands with accessories sections and multi-brand outlets…
Dress Up, Dazzle And Tuck In!
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HANOI, Vietnam – The spread of new pneumonia caused by the COVID-19 virus, according to Vietnamese state media. Explosions in China could cost Vietnam tourism revenue of more than US $ 5.9 billion to 7 , $ 7 billion in the next three months as international tourists travel Seemed afraid to travel.
Vietnam tourism estimated to lose 2 million Chinese visitors due to COVID-19 virus From $ 1.8 billion to $ 2 billion in tourism. According to the Voice of Vietnam Radio.
China is the place where the outbreak of the coronavirus was named, official data showed Officially, by the World Health Organization, "COVID-19" late last year was the largest source of Vietnamese foreign tourists. With a third of the 18 million tourists last year.
Vietnam has said it will also suspend issuing visas for foreign tourists who have visited the country China for the past two weeks.
The government on Wednesday said its GDP growth in the first quarter of the year was "likely Down one percent, ”below the 6.8 percent target. Vietnam confirms new cases of coronavirus on Friday in total 15 confirmed cases of COVID-19 Either country.
In addition to its impact on tourism, Vietnam estimates that its agricultural products are exported to the Chinese market It will also suffer, with the Vietnamese government estimating it could lose about $ 800 million in revenue USA If the spread of the COVID-19 virus continues Affect trade.
Phan Vanjing, director general of the Foreign Trade Agency under the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, said that if the spread spreads The COVID = 19 virus continues for another three months, affecting the export of agricultural products to the Chinese market It would be about $ 400-600 million if the situation spreads In the continuing long-term effects it may be increased to 600 to 800 million Americans. (Edited by: Bopha)

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The Human Rights Foundation (HRF), a nonprofit organization that seeks to protect and promote global human rights with a special focus on individuals in closed societies, has announced that it will start accepting donations in Bitcoin.
In a tweet on Monday, the nonprofit organization will be accepting these Bitcoin donations via BTCPayServer, an open-source crypto payment processor. It stated,
We are happy to take your Bitcoin donation via BTCPayServer, a self-hosted, open-source cryptocurrency payment processor. It’s secure, private, censorship-resistant and free.
Unlike various other cryptocurrency payment processors, BTCPayServer is a completely open-source program and this makes it impossible to censor transactions. This has always been a topic for controversy for other payment processing servers such as BitPay.
These payment processors act as a middleman between the two parties by receiving crypto payments from individuals, changing it to fiat currency and giving companies or organizations that claim to accept payments in cryptocurrency these fiat currencies. This, however, paves the way for the payment processing servers to censor the transaction.
On the other hand, though, the BTCPayServer is a code, and as such, ensures the privacy of the transaction, thus, preserving the qualities of bitcoin that distinguishes it from fiat currencies.
The nonprofit organization also accepts donations in various other cryptocurrencies such as ETH. In fact, HFR made it to the list of organizations accepting cryptocurrencies in November.
Human Rights Foundation is not the only nonprofit organization that accepts cryptocurrency donations. In October 2019, UNICEF launched a cryptocurrency fund for donations in bitcoin and ether.
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Marshalls, H&M moving into former Kildonan Place Target, councillor says
'Looking forward to H&M, Marshalls and HomeSense' at Kildonan Place, Coun. Jeff Browaty tweets
The site of a former Target building is preparing to take in new tenants, a Winnipeg councillor says.
H&M, HomeSense and Marshalls are moving into the Kildonan Place Shopping Centre space, Coun. Jeff Browaty said in a tweet Monday night.
Plans for former Target space @KildonanPlace Shopping Centre. Looking forward to H&M, Marshalls and HomeSense! pic.twitter.com/iiuGb44ewZ—@jbrowaty
Target's quick exodus from the Canadian market last year meant many of its big-box stores were left empty for months. The American company opened 133 stores in Canada beginning in 2013. It lost $1 billion in its first year and cited billions more in projected losses as the reason for pulling out of Canada.
- Why did Target fail in Canada? It wasn't the U.S. Target
- Timeline: Target's hits and misses
- Polo Park owner shelling out $18.5M for vacant Target store
- Shindico confident new tenant will take up Polo Park Target building
The Polo Park Shopping Centre Target building was purchased by mall ownership last spring.
Kildonan Place management would not comment or confirm whether Marshalls, H&M or HomeSense are moving into the vacant space.


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The iPhone will accept USB-C charging in the European Union to meet a new ruling that mandates a common standard for charging electronic devices, an Apple the executive said Tuesday night.
“Obviously we’re going to have to deliver,” said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing. At the Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live conference, it was the first statement from a company executive since the verdict was released Monday.
“We don’t have the option, as we do around the world, to comply with local laws, but we think the approach would be better for the environment and better for our customers to have a less prescriptive government,” he said.
EU member states voted on Monday to approve the legislation that would be required smartphones, tablets, digital cameras, portable speakers and other small devices will be able to charge USB-C by 2024. The first law of its kind aims to ease the number of chargers and cables that consumers have to deal with when buying a new device. , and allow users to mix and match devices and chargers, even if produced by different manufacturers.
The law would effectively require Apple ( AAPL ) to move away from the Lightning charger it uses for devices in the EU, and could extend to devices Apple ( AAPL ) sells in other markets if the company decides to streamline its products globally. .
Joswia called the European government “well-intentioned” and said: “I know they want to achieve a good thing.” But he emphasized the value and ubiquity of the Lightning charger, which is designed to charge devices faster.
“It’s been a great connector and over a billion people already have… [they] having cables and having what they need, having the infrastructure in their homes, having speakers and having an ecosystem that works with that,” said Joswia.
“I don’t mind telling governments what they want to achieve,” he said, “but we usually have pretty smart engineers who help us figure out how to achieve it technically.”


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The original announcement called this a “very grave situation,” a point that was underlined two days later when the studio announced that some data had been lost due to these problems. So what went down the drain? “All titles, missions, quests, achievements, NPC points, guild points, cooking details, fishing details, trading house items, as well as inventory and storage items are gone for now. Cash items have also been wiped.”
Dragon Nest EU came back online on Friday the 5th, with the team promising that it would attempt to restore most of the lost items. All guilds have been reset to level 1 and will need to be adjusted in the coming weeks. There’s also a “lavish” compensation package waiting for all players for the downtime and inconvenience.


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NEW YORK – Many companies are starting to sound like moms: They’re pushing employees to eat their vegetables and go outside and play. And they’re not being gentle about it.
Outdoor clothing company L.L. Bean shuts down its line three times a day for mandatory five-minute stretches, designed to prevent the most common injuries the workers suffer.
“It’s a safety measure, just as we would ask someone to wear safety glasses if there’s a danger of hurting their eyes,” said Susan Tufts, the company’s employee wellness program manager.
At retailer Replacements, 250 employees take part in a walking program. T-shirt manufacturer American Apparel has 80 loaner bikes, locks and helmets for employees and hosted an employee screening of the movie “Fast Food Nation.”
The Hartford Financial Services Group, an insurance company, is among those using price manipulation in its cafeteria to encourage employees to eat right. It’s increasing the prices on fatty foods and using the extra money to fund a subsidy for healthy sandwiches, cut fruit and salads.
Such “Twinkie taxes” are now in place at 7percent to 10percent of corporate cafeterias run by food service company Sodexho, up from almost none three years ago .
Mounting health costs are driving the changes. Employee assistance company ComPsych runs what it calls “train-wreck exercises,” in which companies compute how long they can absorb health cost increases before they become unprofitable. The first client that did the exercise realized it had 18 months. Health insurance premiums for 2006 rose 7.7percent – twice the rate of inflation.
While some companies are responding to the higher health cost by cutting employees’ coverage and shifting more costs to the employees, others are doing everything they can to persuade employees to adopt healthier habits in the hopes they will avoid diseases caused or complicated by eating poorly and being overweight or inactive.
After L.L. Bean increased the price for burgers and lowered the price for salads in its cafeteria, fruit and salad bar purchases doubled, while french fry and burger sales fell by half.
When railroad company Union Pacific opened a new headquarters in Omaha two years ago, it ordered its cafeteria operator to cut the fat and calories on every item by 10 percent.
The company runs a program that drills into employees’ heads figures such as the 30 minutes of exercise they should be getting a day.
“The biggest thing the guys come back and say they learned the most about is portion size,” said Marcy Zauha, the company’s director of health and safety.
Price manipulation worked for senior business analyst Kathy Blaszczyk at The Hartford, who started buying a flank steak salad with grilled corn when the price dropped from $6 to $4.70.
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Shiba Inu Game “Shiba Eternity” Goes Live, Now Available For Download Worldwide
Shiba Eternity download day has arrived! Game now available for download worldwide.
The wait is over; the dog-themed card collecting game has been released for iOS and Android worldwide.
In a tweet a few moments ago, via their official Twitter account, the Shiba Inu Network announced that the long wait was over and the developers had launched the long-awaited card-collecting game worldwide on stores. iOS and Android apps.
“It’s time to cross your paws in the Dogjo,” the tweet read. “Shiba Eternity is now available globally on Android and iOS.”
The Shib team has also shared official download links:
Apple Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/shiba-eternity/id1633003122
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shibagames.shibawoof
The time has come to cross our legs in the Dogjo. #ShibaEternity is now available worldwide on Android and iOS. Download it now from the official links below!
Apple App Store: https://t.co/oHxUnMQlNK
— Shib (@Shibtoken) October 6, 2022
Commenting on the announcement a few minutes later, Shiba Inu pseudonymous lead developer Shytoshi Kusama said he would be working on releasing a comprehensive player’s guide. Players can therefore expect it before the end of the day.
Download day has arrived! As the community focuses on downloading and getting a first look at #ShibaEternity on #iOS & #AndroidI’ll be locked in finishing a complete players guide for your new favorite collectible card game.
Goodbye #SHIBARMY & see you soon at the Dogjo! https://t.co/A8bNJ22JuX
—Shytoshi Kusama™ (@ShytoshiKusama) October 6, 2022
Shiba Eternity is rated for ages seven and up on the Android store, while this benchmark is for ages nine and up on iOS. For Android gamers, it should be noted that your device must be running on Android 9 and above, while on iOS, your phone must be running on at least iOS 11. Notably, the game has already garnered more than 1000 downloads on Android.
As pointed out in a report Yesterday, Shiba Eternity is packed with features, with the team touting it as the most complex card-collecting game ever. Some of the highlighted features include 500 Trading Cards, 10,000 Shiboshis, 21 Special Back Powers, 11 Passive Powers, 87 Card Traits, and more.
It should be mentioned that Basic Crypto had shed light on how the developers plan to allocate the profits generated by the game in a report published on Monday. According to details, the developers will spend 45% of proceeds on investments for the long-term support of the Shiba Inu ecosystem and donations to non-profit organizations. Additionally, 5% will be burned, while the remaining 50% will be used to ensure the game retains its competitive edge, with exact details of how this will be kept secret.
In particular, Download Day was originally scheduled for October 1 but was deferred until today to allow the developers to complete some final tasks to prepare the community.
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Burgers to Beat MS This Evening
Prince George, B.C. – Once again, the A&Ws in Prince George will be raising money to to fight Multiple Sclerosis.
The annual “Burgers to Beat MS” campaign will see all A&W outlets across the country raising funds. $2 dollars from every teen burger sold will go to the cause, and patrons also have the option of making a donation when they pay their bill by purchasing a paper cutout for $1, $2 or $5 dollars, by placing money in ‘in store’ donation mugs, or by donating online at BurgersToBeatMS.ca.
At the Westgate location in Prince George, an added bonus, as the Cruisin Classics Car Club will be on hand to show off some of the finest vintage vehicles in the community.
One in every 340 Canadians has MS, and dollars raised through the campaign are used to fund research, programs and support for those living with MS.
Over the past 8 years, the A&W campaign, has raised more than $9 million dollars for the cause.
This year, Canadian Women’s Soccer team captain Christine Sinclair is supporting the campaign as this is a matter that is close to her heart. Sinclair’s mother has MS.
“I’m excited to be a part of this campaign,” says Sinclair. “I’ve always wanted to do something to make a difference for people, like my mom, who are living with MS, and I feel like this is a great start.”
Cheap A&W… they should be saying all monies from a teen burger will go towards MS..
Hey still smokin how much are you donating and how much of our health care is going to go towards your care when you get sick from smoking.
First of all.. sorry to disappoint you but I don’t smoke..
I could look at your handle doneright and ask… did you done right by everyone ??? or you just looking for a fight with someone today
I’m saying after the two bucks is collected… A&W gets a tax write off for the money they donate. I donate directly now because of this
Does anyone know when the Car Club will be in attendance? Will they still be there at dinner-time?
Amazing how people can complain and find misery out of anything good.
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A cannabinoid scientist in Colorado is being tapped to develop mushroom products for a CBD company that is exploring the market for psilocybin mushrooms.
Canadian CBD business NewLeaf Brands Inc. announced that the former research director of a Colorado hemp company, Ebbu, will be their new chief science officer.
The announcement Tuesday that Robert Roscow was joining NewLeaf Brands comes two weeks after the company said it bought Mydecine Group, a Colorado business co-founded by Roscow that cultivates different strains of mushroom strains for medical use. Roscow co-founded Mydecine Group.
Last year in May, Denver voters approved an ordinance to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms.
“The diversity of medical potential in mushroom compounds is astounding … and production presents a remarkable opportunity for advances in both pointed treatment of serious conditions as well as general wellness,” Roscow said in a statement after his new position was announced.
Canada-based Canopy Growth Corp. acquired Ebbu in 2018 for $25 million Canadian dollars ($19.3 million) and 6.2 million shares.
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CES went virtual last week with the usual pros and cons. With Vegas quiet this year due to the COVID Pandemic CES will be on-line only for the industry heavy hitters from hi tech electronics, telecommunications, computers, auto industry and a variety of other smaller companies from healthcare products and robotics…including those sci-fi looking robot “people” who apparently can do more than humans on many levels.
Browsing the tech sections of on-line news feeds, the headlines are leaning towards bigger, thinner, tech packed TV’s and monitor screens, followed by foldable/flexible screens for phones and laptops. As we could predict, robots are big – everything from sanitizing machines, robotic pets and one that will clean the house and pour you a glass of wine at the end of the day (Once again The Jetsons predicted our future)
What was Different?
The virtual General Sessions, complete with industry panelists, will address the more than 150,000 attendees, NOT from Vegas, but from various production studios around the country to the worldwide audience. Car Tech will be huge, along with big consumer names WALMART, Samsung, LG, AT&T, Yada, Yada, Yada.
Forecasting the Future
According to USA Today, the CTA, (The Consumer Technology Association) which runs CES, made the decision to go virtual in early 2020 with the expectation that January of ‘21 would be peak season for COVID. (Right on Target!) To make the shift CTA chose Microsoft Teams to create the on-line world due to several major important factors – customization, cybersecurity, a huge cloud to handle the traffic and they had the experience hosting their own live events.
Early indications are that the Virtual CES is a success! The numbers went up from 1800 to
2000 participating companies with past exhibitors choosing to expand their content and offerings to this year’s wider, virtual audience. An added benefit of the digital show allows attendees and the press to have access for 30 days from the close of the show granting additional press coverage, as well as an extra opportunity for companies and customers to connect. Subsequently, the audience has grown more inclusive with active global participation of attendees that would not traditionally travel to Vegas for 4 days of late-night networking events, sensory overloaded treks through the yellow-brick-road of gadgets and tech booths, shoved in countless convention halls and event spaces.
Another indication that the show will be success is the price of admission.
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CES2020 registration costs ranged from $300 (exhibitor only pass) to $1700 (all access/conference pass).Where CES2021 offered and early-bird discount of $149 and regular access pass of $499 admission
For exhibitors, the costs savings are significant from virtual to the “in-person” experience due to the variety of costs associated with building and presenting a physical booth for 4 days in Las Vegas. The T&E savings alone will be a corporate procurement manager’s “sticking-point” of an argument that only virtual is the solution to trade-show activity moving forward.
Savvy Marketers will need to present counter arguments that “only virtual” is a risk to their brand when the world cycles out of COVID protocols. People still want to “kick the tires and smell the leather of a new car” is definitely a starting point.
Hybrid Events will be the solution – a combination of virtual and in person experiences – resulting in smaller investment/travel for management teams and marketing dollars.
Post show reports will review the analytics and by all measures it will be a success. However, there are many that expressed the loss of the in-person experience. A BBC article quotes several industry analysts bemoaning the fact that “seeing products in real life and networking are without a doubt the two biggest reasons to attend CES and it will be very hard to replicate these two digitally.”
Small companies, the hidden gems of emerging tech, is also a driving factor in the success of CES. Finding those gems in the Cloud, regardless of how long the content is available, will be a hard chore for some. And really, isn’t it way cooler to watch a robot pour you glass of wine, and offer it in person?
NOTE: The Consumer Technology Association is a standards and trade organization representing more than 2,200 consumer technology companies in the United States. CTA works to influence public policy, holds events such as the Consumer Electronics Show and CES Asia, conducts market research, and helps its members and regulators implement technical standards.


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Hewlett-Packard (HP) has expanded to incorporate a new business unit that will focus on desktop virtualization. Client-side virtualization has been a tough sell, primarily because the ROI comes from areas that companies aren’t used to valuing, such as security, technical support and power savings over regular desktops or notebooks. “Generally, these are encompassed in the facilities cost of the buildings,” said Roberto Moctezuma, VP and GM of the new desktop solutions global business unit. “When we present the ROI case to customers they find it very compelling, but it’s not as granular as in the server virtualization world.”
Although no major product announcements will be made for another two weeks, HP shows promise in the client-side virtualization space due to its Remote Graphics Software (RGS), a technology that seeks to address one of the obstacles of virtual desktop adoption to date: the lack of graphics capabilities. RGS enables remote users to access high-end graphic software such as CAD.
Mixed virtual environments
HP hopes to position itself as a one-stop shoppinag vendor for all types of virtualization and data center purchases. “We think we have a unique portfolio in terms of breadth from the client-side and access devices, to notebooks to hardware for the data center coupled with differentiated software and manageability offerings.”
Partnerships with all three major virtualization vendors (VMware, Microsoft and Citrix) have allowed HP to preload their thin client devices with any of the above platforms, which enables a plug-and-play like experience for the end-user.
“When you look at the market a couple of years out, people will be using all types of virtualization platforms and technologies. HP’s strategy is to be the best option that brings them all together,” he said.
For VMware users, HP entering the thin-client virtualization space could mean fewer headaches about hardware and software compatibility in the future. “HP is working very closely with VMware to make the client virtualization paradigm simple to use and deploy. We want to provide a leading experience for our customers, both from an end user perspective and an IT perspective,” Moctezuma said. HP can now provide the thin-client, the virtualization software via its partnerships with virtualization software companies, and the blade servers to run the system.
Security still a major concern
There is a need for businesses to have the ability to keep data secure in an increasingly mobile work force, and the ability to add end-users quickly when, for example, opening up a call center in a new country, Moctezuma said.
Security is a primary concern in health care and financial industries. “You get high-CPU consumption users in the financial trading industry that are running four 24-inch monitors off of one thin-client device, accessing a single blade workstation back at the data center,” he said. Moctezuma also said that other high-end users get better hardware utilization because of worldwide remote employees: now, a blade server can be accessed around the clock from different parts of the world via employees’ thin client devices. HP calls this the “follow the sun” model.


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Victims of Hurricane Harvey are in for some good news as Google is offering free replacements for all affected Pixel phones in the tragic incident. Texas witnessed major floods last month following the fury of Hurricane Harvey that left thousands of victims homeless and some dead.
Some of the flood hit victims suffered huge monetary loss to their personal belongings, including some valuable assets like a Google Pixel. The lack of waterproof capability on the Pixel phones has left many fans disappointed and the Hurricane victims with no choice.
However, Google has partnered with a smartphone repair company called 'uBreakiFix' to offer free repairs for all damaged Pixel phones in Hurricane Harvey. All Pixel and Pixel XL owners who suffered the wrath of Hurricane Harvey can now get their phones fixed at one of the uBreakiFix stores in the locations listed below:
Although the repair company has not divulged any info about the terms and conditions of the offer, all those Pixel phones which are beyond repair will get a free motherboard or whole unit replacement.
Here's what the uBreakiFix support team told Android Authority in response to their query on the terms of free repair:
"We are offering motherboard replacements on devices that are beyond economical repair due to liquid damage, etc."
Earlier, Apple had made a similar gesture by offering free repairs to all those devices affected with water or impact damage while evacuating the victims of Hurricane Harvey.


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Neighbor.com aims to bring digital and mobile efficiencies to the self-storage industry with an Airbnb-like model. In digital fraud news, new global regulations and solutions are being deployed to keep consumers, merchants and banks safe as fraudsters become more aggressive. And in retail, pizza’s popularity constitutes a driving force for ongoing innovation in the sector, while EMV’s delay has been the convenience store’s gain. All this, Today in Data.
30,000: Number of free pies that &pizza gave away to furloughed government workers during the shutdown earlier this year.
$3,248: Average amount millennial consumers lost per bank scam this past year.
$31.3B: Estimated value of global card losses due to fraud in 2018.
10 percent: Approximate share of people in the U.S. who use self-storage.
7.1B: Minimum number of EMV payment cards in circulation around the world.


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Inflation Worriers Will Be Wrong for a Second Time They warned of soaring prices after the financial crisis when deflation was the bigger risk. It probably is again. Bloomberg, May 11, 2020
The contrarians tend to yell loudest when markets run into trouble. Sometimes they’re right and they make fortunes, with reputations to match. Much of the time, however, that doesn’t happen. Instead of riches, what’s left is a track record of mediocrity or losses.
The conditions that typically cause a spike in the consumer price index are simply not present: Inflation occurs when prices rise because of increasing production costs amid higher prices for raw materials or wages. Another is when consumers become willing to pay more for goods and services, perhaps because they have more money after monetary easing or fiscal stimulus.
The conditions today are the very opposite of what typically causes inflation. There has been a stunning decline in consumer demand, a collapse in energy prices and a plunge in discretionary spending.
The money recently injected into the economy by Congress and the Federal Reserve doesn’t make up for the earnings power that’s been destroyed. And no one should make the mistake of extrapolating price increases for a few items, such as toilet paper or sanitary wipes, for broader inflation. That’s just microeconomics at work, balancing supply and temporarily elevated demand.
Let’s go back to the last time the inflation hand-wringers showed up, after the financial crisis of 2008-09. The warnings came loud and furious. And it wasn’t just inflation that was a threat, but ruinous, Weimar Republic-style hyperinflation. One of best examples of this can be found here.
Not only were these folks wrong, they were profoundly and fundamentally wrong, demonstrating a deep misunderstanding of how economies function.
Similar alarms are now being sounded.
Consider Tim Congdon, chairman of the Institute of International Monetary Research at the University of Buckingham, England. He warns that “the Federal Reserve has poured money into the economy at the fastest rate in the past 200 years . . . history suggests the U.S. will soon see an inflation boom.”
Meanwhile, David Kelly, chief global strategist of JPMorgan’s asset management unit, thinks we have created an inflation bomb. It is just waiting for a spark to ignite it. The huge fiscal stimulus in addition to the monetary expansion could be it, in his telling.
Legendary investor Paul Tudor Jones has been buying Bitcoins because it reminds him of investing in gold in the 1970 as a hedge against inflation.
Former member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, Charles Goodhart, is warning that “Inflation could exceed 5% in 2021, and perhaps even reach 10% – outcomes resembling the aftermaths of World Wars I and II.”
All of these folks seem to be missing what motivated this unprecedented monetary and fiscal stimulus: The single greatest economic collapse in U.S. history.
The conditions after both world wars were quite different from today: There was huge pent-up demand because of war-time rationing followed by a burst of spending once hostilities ended. Both are classic examples of too much money chasing too little supply.
Underlying many of these analyses is the assumption that the $2 trillion fiscal stimulus and the Federal Reserve’s monetary easing will pump too much money into the economy.
Yet that money just barely replaces the lost business incomes and wages, which most recipients are using to pay for basics such as rent, food and medicine. Even the small businesses that received Paycheck Protection Program funds are afraid to spend it.
The main reason to doubt the return of inflation is really very straightforward. Although the numbers are not yet in yet, let’s take a guess at how much damage this recession has done. The financial crisis caused the economy to contract by 4%. This blow is much worse and might reduce gross domestic product by as much at 10% — possibly more.
That’s an enormous hole to dig out of, and it will likely take many years to return to pre-pandemic levels of demand. Does anyone think the U.S. will be back to the same levels of confidence and spending in a year, even if there is a vaccine or cure for Covid-19 — neither of which is certain?
Even a return to 95% of 2019 levels within a year may be too sanguine.
In other words, this is a deflationary scenario and with none of the obvious conditions that create even modest inflation.
I am not suggesting that some inflation is impossible. No, I’m only saying that 5% or 10% inflation requires a series of very different, and probably unlikely, events to occur: We quickly get a treatment and a vaccine that is available to everyone immediately; all the workers who were laid off are quickly rehired and start producing at the same level as before with no deterioration in their skills; a tax cut for the middle class encourages more discretionary spending; Congress doesn’t know when to ratchet back the fiscal spigot and the Fed stops paying attention to its 2% inflation target. And while we’re at it, it’s worth noting that inflation expectations have been heading lower, and there’s concern that the U.S., like some other developed nations, will soon have negative interest rates.


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Uruguay Inflation May 2022
Consumer prices increased 0.46% from the previous month in May, below April’s 0.49% rise. May’s result marked the weakest reading since December 2021. The moderation was largely due to falling prices for food and non-alcoholic beverages. Moreover, prices for transportation grew at a more subdued pace.
Inflation held steady at April’s 9.4% in May. Meanwhile, the trend pointed up mildly, with annual average inflation coming in at 8.2% in May (April: 8.0%).
FocusEconomics analysts see inflation ending 2022 at 8.5%, which is up 0.3 percentage points from the previous month’s forecast. In 2023, our panel sees inflation ending the year at 6.8%.


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Farmers on war path in Panchthar
Phidim, July 21
Tomato farmers in Panchthar today launched a symbolic protest against the government’s failure to make efforts for lifting the ban India has imposed on tomato import.
Farmers of the Hilihang and Yangbarak Rural municipalities that are considered as pockets of tomato production have expressed their serious concern at the lack of government initiatives to end the embargo on Nepali tomatoes and other agro products that India imposed about a month ago.
Agitating farmers, in a show of protest, dumped a huge amount of their produce on Mechi Highway. Crates of tomatoes were strewn on the road in Hilihang’s Bhaluchowk and Mukubung and Yangbarak’s Sunarghumti, Ganeshchowk and Hilihangchowk.
“We were compelled to launch agitation as the government did not bother to take any diplomatic initiative to facilitate the end of the embargo on our product for over a month now,” said farmer PrakashUpreti of Hilihang-1, the leader of the agitation.
“As for now, we’ve started off by putting up a symbolic protest and dumping our produce on thehighway. If the government fails to address our concerns, we’ll have no option other than intensifying our agitation and stage general strike,” said another farmer Lila Dhakal.
Farmers in Yangbarak and Hilihang had switched to tomato farming lured by the high demand of the fruit vegetable and the prospect of better income. “Farmers have even taken loan from banks to cultivate tomato, but as the government hasn’t done anything to resume the export , it’s sure to add to farmers’ financial difficulties,” said farmer BhimWagle.
“To talk about the past, our produce would sell here itself for 20 to 60 rupees per kg, but it doesn’t sell at all, which is sure to cause us a huge loss this time,” lamented AitaraniYonghang.
The data with the District Agriculture Development Office of Panchthar showed tomatoes worth 32.8 million rupees were exported from Hilihang and Yangbarak rural municipalities alone in the last fiscal.


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Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories has launched Cinacalcet Tablets, a therapeutic equivalent generic version of Sensipar (cinacalcet) Tablets in the U.S. market.
Sensipar is a trademark of Amgen Inc. The drug is indicated for Secondary Hyperparathyroidism (HPT) in adult patients with chronic kidney disease on dialysis.
The Sensipar brand and generic market had U.S. sales of around $312 million MAT for the most recent twelve months ending in July 2020, a release from Dr. Reddy’s said citing IQVIA Health numbers.
The Hyderabad-headquartered drugmaker said the launch follows U.S. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) approval for the product. Dr. Reddy’s Cinacalcet Tablets are available in 30 mg, 60 mg and 90 mg strength in a bottle count size of 30, the release said.


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The collective catering sector has not been spared by the price increases of recent months. War in Ukraine, post-Covid economic recovery… The causes are many and the solutions few.
This is a new increase which the employees would have done well. Not that of wages but that of the price of company catering. Due to the general rise in prices, particularly in the food sector, companies in charge of meals will be forced to push prices up.
“The Inflation Disaster”
Since the post-Covid economic recovery and after the start of the war in Ukraine, consumer prices have been boosted. The increases are endless whether in energy or on the food side. Like meat, the price of which has soared for several months. Likewise, catering businesses face the push in the cost of fixed costs. Energy is strongly impacted with ever increasing bills.
“We thought that 2022 would mark the return of profitability, but we now have to face the catastrophe of inflation. For us, it’s 300,000 euros more electricity this year”, says Emmanuel Saulou, director of the company. Restoria, specialized in the production of meals at West France.
A lasting crisis
To cope with these increases, the catering sector for professionals is forced to renegotiate contracts with companies. However, these negotiations take place on a fixed date. But the situation demands urgent action. “The current inflationary crisis is settling in over time, so it requires the co-contractors to reopen negotiations to take charge of these economic contingencies”, explains Esther Kalonji, general delegate of the National Union of Collective Catering (SNRC ) at Capital.
A revaluation of around 7% would be acceptable to the representative. However, one question remains unanswered: who will bear the cost of this new increase? The final choice will be up to companies that delegate the production of meals to other companies. The latter may decide to absorb the increases or pass them on to the employees.


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Lenovo, which became the world’s worst-performing technology stock is now going to focus on PCs.
Lenovo’s VP Chang Cheng has shared two camera samples taken from the Lenovo Z5, confirming that the device will have an AI-assisted dual-camera setup on the back.
Lenovo’s upcoming full-screen Z5 flagship smartphone will come with a mammoth 4TB of internal storage.
Lenovo has started teasing the Z5, the company’s next-generation flagship smartphone with an all-screen display and no notch.
Lenovo V330 ships with ThinkShutter, which is a physical webcam cover and a touch-type fingerprint reader has been included as well.
Lenovo is gearing up to launch a new smartphone with over 95 per cent screen-to-body ratio in the coming months.
Lenovo K8 Note has started getting the Android 8.0 Oreo upgrade, that will appear as an OTA update.
Lenovo has entered the smartwatch segment with the launch of the HX03F Spectra and HX03 Cardio, which are exclusively available on Flipkart.
Lenovo has launched its new ThinkPad lineup in India, incorporating Intel 8th generation Core processors, USB-C connectivity. Here are the prices, specifications of Lenovo’s new laptops.
Lenovo K5, K5 Play with 18:9 aspect ratio display and dual rear cameras have been launched in China.
Lenovo S5 price, specifications: The smartphone sports a bigger 18:9 aspect ratio display and dual-rear cameras and has been launched in China. Lenovo S5 will come in Red and Black colour variants.
Motorola has apparently cancelled the launch of the upcoming Moto X5, as the Lenovo-owned company seems to have scaled back its mobile releases.
Lenovo S5 is expected to come with a massive 6000mAh battery and a premium design. The launch is scheduled to take place in China on March 20.
Motorola plans to relaunch the iconic Moto Razr smartphone in the market. The hinge-based phone could feature a foldable screen.
Lenovo has emerged the most popular tablet PC brand in India, said the company, quoting data from IDC.


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MOSCOW, Dec 27, 2007 (AFP) – President Vladimir Putin on Thursday urged government ministers to fight inflation by making Russia’s agriculture sector competitive against foreign food imports. The bank’s earlier 2008 inflation target was between six and seven percent. “One of the key tasks for 2008 is to fight inflation. Unfortunately we have not been successful at keeping inflation within the parameters we set,” Putin told an end-of-year government meeting in Moscow.
“It’s not just the fault of the finance ministry … it’s also because of external economic factors. Food prices will remain high,” he said.
“We have to develop our own agriculture…. Our food products must be higher quality and cheaper” than foreign imports, he added.
Russia’s agriculture sector collapsed after the fall of the Soviet Union and has continued to struggle since then. Russia imports food worth around five billion euros every year, officials said.
Inflation has risen sharply in 2007 and could reach 12 percent by the end of the year, far higher than an eight percent target set by the government and many Russians have complained about rising food prices in particular.
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But will their customers see it that way?
Nintendo became the last console manufacturer to also charge for online access on its systems when it announced that the online services for Switch would be gated behind a paywall earlier this year. And while since then, details have come to light that indicate that the service will ultimately be far cheaper than Xbox Live and PSN, there is still the overarching question of- why charge for these services at all?
In a recent interview with Famitsu, Nintendo’s managing executive officer, Shinya Takahashi explained that the company is charging for online to be able to deliver the kind of functionality that customers expect, and be able to maintain that functionality.
“We decided to charge for the service because we are concerned with customer satisfaction,” said Takahasi (translation via Gaming Respawn). “We’ll be maintaining the online service and providing new services that we haven’t had up until now, and there are costs associated with those.”
“We’d also like to maintain a stable playing experience and provide proper support. We are working to prepare all of the features until the service begins in the fall of 2017, and details on the service will be available at a later time.”
As of right now, it is unclear whether Nintendo can provide the kind of experience that one gets on Xbox Live or even PSN, especially with their decision to mandate a smartphone for most functionality- but given that it is cheaper than those two, I suppose customers might be willing to grant Nintendo more leeway in that regard.


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Numerous owners of the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL recently took to Google’s official product forums, Reddit, and various social media platforms to complain about the February security patch that they claim has negatively affected the battery life of their mobile devices. Some users are claiming their handsets have even started getting warm post-update during […]
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Samsung’s really got the ball rolling with the Android 8.0 (Oreo) updates for its Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus flagships. The first of the consumer ready updates, which also include Samsung’s own Android skin called Samsung Experience 9.0, began rolling out to users in Germany as early as February 8. Now, the update is […]
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The Android OS’s current NFC code shuts the NFC hardware off entirely when the device is powering down or when the user turns off NFC, but a new code commit in the Android codebase points to some functionality that may change that. The code commit actually introduces version 1.1 of the NFC hardware abstraction layer, […]
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A new software report suggests that Google’s next version of Android will feature the ability to record phone calls. The still unnamed version of Android details a few phrases in the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) that indicate the possible new software component. The native Android 9.0 build would offer the ability to record audio […]
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Android P may feature native support for call recording, as suggested by a number of commits recently discovered in the main repository of the Android Open Source Project. Some code added to AOSP by Google’s engineers references the existence of a “call recording tone” that would presumably be played once users press the corresponding button […]
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The U.S. carrier editions of Samsung’s Galaxy S8 Active may be getting Android 8.0 (Oreo) sooner than expected following a new sighting of the devices on the Wi-Fi Alliance website. More specifically, the new listings show a Samsung Galaxy S8 Active for Sprint, T-Mobile, and AT&T – which are sold under the model numbers SM-G892U […]
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The unannounced and undetailed over-the-air update that started rolling out to select Pixel devices last week is now also being pushed out by Verizon and a number of other wireless carriers in other parts of the world. The new builds of the upgrade have been listed by Google on its Factory Images website, with the […]
The post Mysterious Android OTA Update Now Hitting Verizon’s Pixel 2 appeared first on AndroidHeadlines.com |.
The U.S. division of ZTE officially announced the start of the Android 8.0 Oreo beta test for the Axon 7, the company’s 2016 flagship which originally launched with 6.0.1 Marshmallow but was later updated to 7.1.1 Nougat and was already confirmed as being set to receive the latest major iteration of Google’s mobile operating system. […]
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Several owners of Google’s Pixel 2 series devices have, as of January 18, begun taking to Internet forums to try and collectively work out the purpose of an official OTA software update hitting some devices. That’s because not only is the update unusually timed. It was also not previously announced by Google and didn’t provide […]
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Google is now rolling out a beta update for the next iteration of its Google Play Services framework, which is said to be designed to address a recently reported issue affecting some of its Cast-enabled devices. For those who may not have previously been aware, the issue in question was one that affected various users’ […]
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Amazon has joined its Big Tech fellows in ramping up censorship of any criticism of the “official” Covid-19 narrative, deploying obfuscatory excuses to justify removing journalist James Perloff’s latest book, he told RT.
After selling a respectable 3,500 copies over the last two months, Perloff’s book on the coronavirus pandemic and its weaponization by world governments, ‘Covid-19 and the Agendas to Come: Red-Pilled,’ was suddenly “banned” by Amazon.com, the writer revealed on Twitter on Thursday.
Perloff spoke to RT on Friday about the platform’s ominous act of censorship and how it seemed to validate his book’s conclusions, expressing concern that “the censorship on Covid has been getting progressively stronger, even as the death rate from Covid has been getting progressively lower.”
We are in a truly Orwellian culture.
The first sign of trouble came on Thursday when Amazon requested that he “clarify [his] rights to the book” – something he had already done upon putting it up for sale back in August. But before he could finish gathering the material required to prove once again that he owned the global rights to his own work, he received another email from Amazon, this time claiming they had removed his book “during a quality assurance review of [his] catalog” because it “violated content guidelines.”
While Perloff said he “asked them to specify what guidelines [he] had violated,” their reply merely restated that the “subject matter” of his book had been found to be “in violation of our content guidelines,” declaring the e-commerce behemoth “will not be offering this title for sale on Amazon.”
We reserve the right to determine whether content provides a poor customer experience and remove the content from sale.
With five other books already listed on the platform, Perloff has communicated with Amazon extensively over the years, but something was off about these latest messages. In previous communications, “they would usually at least give a first name,” he said. “This time I was dealing with persons – or a person – who was cowering behind total anonymity.”
The book traces how the Covid-19 pandemic has been used by governments around the world to force draconian social control measures upon a terrified populace,


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Well, er, right. But it could be oh, so much more.
The reality is that Xbox is a very powerful PC, and one recently enhanced with the user interface of the future: gestures.
Gesture-based computing is going to take over the world from WIMP computing, which is the acronym for windows, icons, menus and pointing devices.
And, of course, gestures control Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360.
Gestures now rule everything around the edges of computing, but not mainstream computing -- the desktop PC is still all WIMP, all the time for most of us.
What Apple DidDon't look now, but Apple is slowly taking over the industry with a breathtaking, visionary strategy nobody foresaw. Here's what Apple is doing:
1. Invent a super elegant gesture-based touch interface, and bake it into a powerful cell phone operating system (later called iOS).
2. Ship a phone with iOS.
3. Ship a media player with iOS
4. Launch a super easy App store for iOS.
5. Ship a tablet with iOS.
This is what Apple has already done. In the future, they will almost certainly execute the rest of their industry take-over:
6. Ship a bigger tablet with iOS
7. Ship a desktop touch screen PC with a desktop version of iOS
This breathtaking strategy involves cannibalizing Apple's own OS X systems with the new gesture-based platforms. It involves using a tiny device, the iPhone, as a lever by which to move the world in Apple's direction.
I believe Apple will own more than 50% of PC market share in a few years if Microsoft doesn't do something equally bold.
What Microsoft Should DoMicrosoft can and should execute a similar strategy, but with Xbox instead of iPhone. Here's what Microsoft has already done:
1. Ship Xbox
2. Launch Xbox Live
3. Ship Kinect, which enables voice and gesture control of Xbox
So far, so good. Microsoft has a true killer device on its hands with Kinect. It's training millions of consumers to use and love gesture computing in the same way that the Apple iPhone did. Now it's time for Microsoft to complete this strategy by doing the following:
4. Launch an enterprise version of Xbox Live, which is installed and managed inside the corporate firewall.
5. Create a gesture- and voice-controlled version of all Office applications for Kinect for Xbox 360.
6. Invite developers to create enterprise Kinect for Xbox 360 apps.
Xbox for Enterprises would be great for everybody -- users, enterprises, partners and especially for Microsoft itself.
Great for UsersExecutives and other business users would love to have giant screens in their offices and boardrooms. In offices, these would be used in addition to laptops on desks. In conference rooms, they would replace the over-priced and limited-use video conferencing systems.
By using voice and gestures, users would be able to see big-screen business dashboards all day updating with real-time data. With a quick hand-gesture, they could flip over to work on a presentation, do a big-screen video conference or even use voice commands to dictate an e-mail while pacing around the office.
Kinect-style interfaces also get users off their chairs and on their feet, which will help them deal with bad health caused by sitting all day.
Great for EnterprisesBig screens boost productivity. But we've already pushed the limits of how much screen we can handle when those screens are two feet away. A Kinect-style interface enables us to use ginormous screens, but more than 10 feet away.
Wall Street and other financial services companies which already integrate walls of data, TV and personal feeds into single screens would love these devices.


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Rockwell spinoff to Boeing OK'd New York Rockwell International Corp. shareholders on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved the sale of its aerospace and defense businesses to Boeing Co. in a $3.2 billion deal. The transaction is scheduled to close on Friday.
Rockwell, once known for big space projects such as the Apollo missions and the space shuttle, emerges as mainly a commercial electronics company selling everything from computer modem parts to factory automation systems.
As part of the transaction, Rockwell is spinning off to its shareholders its $10.4 billion commercial-electronics business.
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Diet Coke prepares 30th anniversary campaign
Diet Coke is putting its 30th birthday at the centre of its UK marketing plans for 2013, as the brand looks to engage with its core female target audience in the aftermath of the Olympic Games.
Diet Coke: campaign will target core female audience
The brand, which was launched in the UK in 1983, will continue to target female consumers through activity based on the ‘empowerment of women’.
Zoe Howorth, market activation director for Coca-Cola Great Britain, said: ‘Women are always at the heart of our Diet Coke plans and we are currently looking at how we continue to celebrate the role of women and our Diet Coke-drinkers in 2013.’
Fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier is Diet Coke’s creative director and has contributed to design and advertising activity. It has not been confirmed whether the partnership with Gaultier will continue next year.
In the US, where the drink launched in 1982, celebrations have already started. Experiential activity involves guerrilla gangs of brand ambassadors throwing 30-second street parties for Diet Coke drinkers.
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Oregon received a "B+" grade for government spending transparency, according to an annual report from the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group.
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The report describes Oregon as an "advancing state" because it has established a transparency website that is user-friendly and searchable, but lacks the breadth of information characteristic of leading states' websites.
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Visa posted a fiscal first-quarter profit that beat analysts' estimates as consumer card spending accelerated.
Net income for the three months ended Dec. 31 advanced 26 percent to $1.29 billion, or $1.93 a share, from $1.03 billion, or $1.49, a year earlier, the Foster City, California-based company said yesterday in a statement. That beat the $1.79 average estimate of 32 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
"Results include significant continued investments in our core business, accelerating international expansion and the deployment of next-generation payment solutions," Chief Executive Officer Charlie Scharf, who succeeded Joseph W. Saunders in November, said in the statement.
Scharf, 47, inherited a goal of deriving more than half of Visa's revenue from outside the U.S. by 2015. A global consumer shift to electronic payments, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region, may help. Purchases there are projected to generate 42 percent, or $9.03 trillion, of worldwide card spending at merchants in 2016, up from 36 percent at the end of 2011, the Nilson Report, an industry newsletter, said in its latest issue.
Spending on Visa debit and credit cards in the Asia-Pacific region, the firm's second-biggest market after the U.S., climbed about 13 percent, the company said. Purchases surged almost 37 percent in Central Europe, the Middle East and Africa, while spending in Central and South America and the Caribbean rose about 22 percent.
China is an "interesting" opportunity for Visa, Scharf said in a conference call with analysts after results were announced. Payments in the country are dominated by Shanghai- based China UnionPay, which surpassed MasterCard Inc. in the first half of last year to become the world's second-biggest payments network by customer spending.
"We're there, we make money there, and we've got some great partners there," Scharf said of China. "It's important for us to be a good partner to people within the country to bring the benefits of Visa to China. And in my conversations with people from China, they want us there. They think we can add value not just because of the brand but because of what our network is versus maybe what China UnionPay is today."
Visa said it would generate about $6 billion in free cash flow in fiscal 2013, fueled by tax benefits related to a settlement of a lawsuit over credit-card "swipe" fees, or interchange. Guidance on taxes from California officials led Visa's tax rate to fall to 28 percent in the quarter and boosted results by 11 cents a share, the company said.
Operating revenue rose 12 percent to $2.85 billion from a year earlier, beating the $2.82 billion estimate of analysts in the Bloomberg survey. Worldwide spending on Visa payment cards climbed to $1.08 trillion, an 8.7 percent increase when adjusted for currency fluctuations. Total processed transactions increased 4 percent to 14.2 billion.
Purchases on debit cards climbed 3.6 percent in the last three months of 2012 after a 0.2 percent decline in the preceding quarter. Credit-card spending surged 12 percent in the most recent period, up from 9.7 percent growth in the fiscal fourth quarter, the company said.
Visa's lead in the U.S. debit-card market continued to erode as Dodd-Frank Act rules helped competitors gain share. Spending on Visa debit cards in the U.S. slid 3.6 percent in the fiscal first quarter even as volume in the rest of the world surged 29 percent, adjusted for currency changes.
Visa dropped 1.3 percent to $158.70 in extended trading yesterday in New York after climbing 6.1 percent this year through the close of regular trading, outpacing the 2.1 percent advance for the 70-company Standard & Poor's 500 Information Technology Index.
MasterCard, led by CEO Ajay Banga, 53, said last week that fourth-quarter profit increased 18 percent, excluding litigation charges. On Feb. 5, the Purchase, New York-based company doubled its quarterly dividend to 60 cents a share and approved a stock repurchase program of as much as $2 billion. In October, Visa announced it was boosting its quarterly payout by 50 percent to 33 cents a share, and yesterday the company said it may buy back as much as $2.9 billion in stock.
Saunders, 67, who led Visa through a 2008 initial public offering that raised $19.7 billion, the most in U.S. history, is retiring and will step down as non-executive chairman at the end of March, Visa said in a statement last week. He will be succeeded by Robert W. Matschullat, a former chairman of Clorox Co., where he's currently lead director. He also has been a director at Visa since 2007 and Walt Disney Co. since 2002.


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John Romero, of the flowing locks and winsome smile, has released a new level for Doom. “Oh,” you say excitedly. “John Romero has created a level in id Software’s upcoming Doom reboot game, like a guest director filming a pickup scene in a buddy’s movie?” Nope. John Romero posted this message on Facebook letting everyone know that he’d created a new level for the original 1993 sprite-based Doom.
It’s been 21 years since I made a DOOM level. Here’s my version of E1M8 using DOOM1.WAD. I limited myself to only the shareware assets.
While the new Doom won’t be out on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC until later this year, you can enjoy a true new John Romero-designed level now in the old-school classic.


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Gentex to Return as Presenting Sponsor of the 25th Annual Michigan International Auto Show
Gentex is a technology company and long-time supplier of electro-optical products for the global automotive, aerospace and fire protection industries. It’s best known for supplying nearly every major automaker with vision, dimmable glass, sensing, and connected-car technologies that optimize driver vision while enhancing driving safety and comfort.
This year’s auto show will showcase hundreds of production vehicles from more than two dozen global manufacturers, including sedans, vans, SUVs, trucks, hybrids, sports cars, and more. Vintage cars will also be well represented thanks to a display of collection favorites from the
Supercar enthusiasts will have plenty of vehicles to explore, too.
Gentex will unveil a brand-new booth at the show designed to highlight some of its digital vision, connectivity, sensing, and dimmable glass technologies. In addition, back by popular demand will be the company’s heavily modified 2021 Chevrolet Silverado Trail Boss (2LT), which has been transformed into the ultimate overland vehicle. The truck is paired with a 2021 Vorsheer XOC (Extreme Overland Camper) that features the same overland theme and comes loaded with every outdoor adventure necessity. To add to its creature comforts, Gentex outfitted it with an integrated kegerator with reverse tap, bottom-fill dispensing system, custom whiskey bar, and 300-cigar humidor.
Gentex’s exhibit will also highlight a unique partnership with the Mosaic Film Experience, a non-profit that uses filmmaking and storytelling to train, equip and inspire young people to build careers with 21st century work skills. Gentex and Mosaic initiated a unique collaboration between the Careerline Tech Center and Kent Career Tech Center to develop a student-directed and produced video about West Michigan’s ties to the automotive industry, the varied businesses that support it, and the diverse career opportunities it provides. The video will be played in a mini viewing area in the
Gentex’s booth will be staffed by recruiting representatives from the Company’s
As an employer, Gentex is known for its world-class facilities, excellent benefits, tremendous work perks, generous bonus structure, and a unique corporate culture that values innovation. The company recently implemented a Spanish-speaking assembly line program and has announced plans to open an on-site preschool and childcare center for its employees in 2024.
“As Gentex grows, the
Founded in 1974,
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After the recent cockroach egg in Samurai burger commotion, McDonald’s has once again come under scrutiny after claims that the restaurant chain apparently using porcine material in their sauce
The ingredient is known as ‘LM 10’ and has said to contain traces of pork fat.
Due to the severity of the issue, Mc Donald’s have since released an official statement denying these allegations.
In the statement, McDonald’s stressed that it has been the first Quick Serving restaurant in Malaysia to obtain a ‘Halal’ certification from Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (JAKIM).
Similar cases have surfaced this year in other countries like South Africa where messages were circulated that ‘LM10’ are used in the McDonalds mayonnaise. The message however, was denied by The Muslim Judicial Council Halal Trust (MJCHT) of South Africa and by other local halal bodies and McDonalds.
Utusan Malaysia reported that the JAKIM’s Halal Hub Director Hakimah Yusoff said that the fast food outlet is committed to abide by the rules set by them.
“This issue is not supposed crop up again, as the denial has been issued before,” she said today.
For those who still feel unsafe to consume any of McDonald’s products and need more clarification regarding this matter, you can:
- Refer to JAKIM’s official website
- Contact JAKIM’s Halal Hub division at 03 – 8315 0200 or;
- Contact Mc Donald’s Malaysia’s Customer Service at 03 – 2726 5600


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A 17-year-old British study on more than 9000 children born in the 1990s suggests that children who consume ultra-processed foods have more chances of becoming obese or overweight.
The researchers also found that ultra-processed foods such as frozen pizza, fizzy drinks, slices of bread, ready to eat meals consist of a high portion of children’s diets, which is 60% of calories on average.
Dr. Eszter Vamos, a clinical lecturer in Public Health Medicine at Imperial College London and the author of the study, says that one of the most critical aspects we discover here is the dose-response relationship.
“These findings also point out that children who eat the most ultra processed foods are at more risk, but the quantity of this consumption also matters.” Vamos added.
The food processing industry uses to modify the food products, change their consistency, color, taste, and extend the shelf life. This processing is done using chemical and mechanical methods that make the products more appealing, cheap, and palpable, a process that doesn’t happen in home food.
These ultra-processed foods have more energy and less nutrition. Most processed foods have high sugar levels, salt, saturated fats, and low levels of nutrients like protein, fiber, and micronutrients.
Researchers had on trial at least 9000 children, from the age of seven to the age of twenty-four. Their food diaries were filled at the ages of 7, 10, and 13, recording all the food they consumed over three days. Their BMI ( Body Mass Index), waist measurement, and body fat percentage were also noted.
These children were divided into five groups, and groups were based on the amount of ultra-processed foods they consumed. The lowest category ultra-processed foods occupied one-fifth of their total diet, and in the highest class, these foods had more than two-thirds proportion.
According to findings over the years, researchers noted that children who consumed more ultra-processed foods saw turbulent increases in their BMI, waist measurement, and body fat as they grew.
By the end of the trial, the group of children who consumed more ultra-processed food at the age of 24 witnessed a higher BMI level by 1.2/ m², higher fat percent by 1.5% weight by 3.7 kg, and increased waist circumference 3.1 inches.
While the study has shown a significant link between consumption of ultra-processed foods and increased fat percentage, it has not demonstrated its cause and effect.
The researchers used statistics to account for factors that explain the connection between sex, ethnicity, birth weight, and physical activity.
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On Monday 12th November, SPLENDA®, the iconic low-calorie sweetener brand, took over the St Paul’s district in central London with a giant sugar pyramid to symbolise the 5,215 sugar cubes adults in the UK are, on average, consuming every year. This is nearly twice the maximum recommended sugar consumption for adults. SPLENDA® set up shop for one day to encourage Londoners to quit sugar and try out samples of SPLENDA®’s sugar alternative products. Visible to 24,000 consumers, the sugar pyramid was unmissable to pedestrians, with over 9,000 visiting throughout the day. Consumers who engaged with the SPLENDA® team on-site had the opportunity to discuss obesity issues in the UK and were encouraged to explore different alternatives to sugar by taking home samples of SPLENDA® Sweet Mini.
London lifestyle influencers Rachael @luxefamily5and Kerri @life_with_ivycoco joined the SPLENDA® team on-site to inspire their Instagram communities and Londoners to undertake the #NoSugarChallenge and change their habits. “Over sugar consumption is a growing issue in the UK and it was important to me to join the initiative and raise awareness across my channels,” comments Rachael.


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New bid for Boxmore mooted
South African industrial group Malbak is considering a counter-offer for Northern Ireland-based packaging group Boxmore International, which last week accepted a £192 million bid from US group Chesapeake. City dealers say Malbak could slap in an offer close to 300p, compared with a 268p-a-share offer recommended by Boxmore to shareholders. The higher one would value Boxmore at £210 million.
Malbak has long harboured ambitions to build up a big packaging business in Europe. Last month it gained full control of MY Holdings of Bagshot, Surrey. MY is a major supplier of fresh-fruit containers to supermarkets. Malbak is thought to have put out feelers to Boxmore about a possible takeover earlier this year, but talks collapsed at an early stage. With the industry going through a rapid consolidation, it is running out of suitable quarry, say analysts.
Boxmore is a big manufacturer of plastic bottles for fizzy drinks, and it also has a strong presence in the European market for pharmaceuticals packaging, boasting Glaxo Wellcome as a key customer. But its shares have languished for two years amid tough trading conditions in the industry because of the strong pound and lack of City interest.
Chesapeake's bid has come at a time when trading conditions in the industry are beginning to ease. Malbak, valued at about £300 million on the Johannesburg stock market, would need to raise a substantial war chest to compete for Boxmore. Chesapeake, valued at £340 million, has grown rapidly through acquisitions this year and outbid a US rival to snap up another UK packager, Field Group, for £225 million.
Last week it also pounced on US rival Shorewood with an unsolicited £475 million offer. It is financing the deals with a massive disposal of peripheral activities
Boxmore and Chesapeake combined will have about 7,000 workers and annual turnover of more than £600 million. Mark Ennis, chief executive of Boxmore, said: 'We have got a very good price for our shareholders, given that it has been languishing through lack of City interest. 'I have heard vague rumours, but no-one else has approached us. Boxmore and Chesapeake are a good fit.'
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Visitors unlikely to be put off by increase, says academic
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Radio New Zealand International, Nov. 18, 2013) – The Fiji Government is hiking its departure tax by more than US$25, but players in the tourism industry don’t believe that will stop tourists visiting the popular travel destination.
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As part of its budget, the Government has announced its airport departure tax will increase from US$81 to US$108 from January next year.
As Amelia Langford reports, Fiji’s new departure tax is far higher than its direct competitors, including Samoa and the Cook Islands.
Nearly $US3 of the tax will go to the Civil Aviation Authority of Fiji and five dollars will be given to Airports Fiji Limited. The tax, which is included in the price of the ticket, will also include a five-dollar environment levy. New Zealand’s largest travel agency, The House of Travel, says the hike probably won’t have too much of an effect on tourist numbers. Here’s its commercial director, Brent Thomas:
“BRENT THOMAS: Well, obviously we don’t like to see any prices moving up – it’s adverse for the consumer. However, given the relatively small size and given the popularity of Fiji as a destination we don’t believe it is going to materially affect the number of New Zealanders going to Fiji over 2014.”
Brent Thomas says Fiji caters to all travellers from the budget-conscious to fans of luxury five-star hotels. But he also says the holiday market in the Pacific is very competitive and price-sensitive.
“BRENT THOMAS: When you add it up for four people going away, you know, it certainly does become a little bit more expensive and that’s where Fiji will need to be careful in terms of its overall pricing relative to other islands and other destinations. Having said that, people love Fiji and it will continue to be a very popular destination for New Zealanders.”
In contrast to Fiji’s increased tax of US$108, the Cook Islands tax is about US$54, Samoa’s is US$28 and Tonga’s is US$30. But a professor of economics in Fiji, Biman Prasad, believes tourists will happily absorb the extra cost.
“BIMAN PRASAD: It is something that the tourists can afford and people who travel are usually people who are not very poor and so raising revenue and earmarking it for some environmental and other policies is not a bad idea in my view.”
But one of the directors of the Maqai eco-surf-resort, Shaw Mead, says further hikes would be cause for concern.
“SHAW MEAD: It is getting quite substantial, that is a bit jump as well at 25 percent, so, yeah, if it kept going I’m sure there would be some kickbacks all over the place. There are other tropical paradises in the Pacific for sure.”
Auckland University of Technology’s Tourism Research Institute director says it is a fairly substantial increase but will be invisible to most travellers since it is embedded within the ticket price. But Professor Simon Milne says he would like to see more details about where the environmental levy will go.
“SIMON MILNE: I guess the question really has to be asked though – will this money go into a specific environmental protection fund or is it really just a bit of lip service being paid and the money is just going to go into the general Government coffers anyway? That’s not overly clear to me at the moment.”
Simon Milne also says the local tourist industry is no doubt disappointed by the hike.


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Solid-state batteries are closer than ever to becoming a reality.
While Tesla continues to innovate with its automotive lithium-ion battery cells and General Motors seeks to join the fray with its forthcoming "Ultium" battery tech, there's one game-changing innovation that has, so far, proven elusive: solid-state battery cells. For decades, it's been known that using a solid electrolyte instead of a liquid one has the potential to extend battery longevity, increase energy density within a given battery cell volume, and drastically improve recharging times.
None of that is new information, and yet up until now, no battery manufacturer has quite been able to crack the code, yielding a solid-state battery that meets every target, in a way that can be manufactured at scale. Now, though, a ten-year-old startup named "QuantumScape" might have done it.
That's good news for Volkswagen, which earlier this year increased its stake in the solid-state battery startup to represent a total investment of $300 million. Volkswagen of course hasn't announced any future product plans involving QuantumScape's solid-state batteries, but there are plenty of possibilities; for now, the automaker's only pure-electric vehicle for sale in the US market is the Volkswagen ID.4, but there are plenty more models planned for the coming years.
The trick behind QuantumScape's success is a new, flexible ceramic separator between the anode and the cathode that takes the place of the liquid electrolyte, keeping dendrites from extending and touching to create a short - something that leads to degradation in a typical lithium-ion battery. The material was actually invented several years ago, but perfecting it and making it manufacturable at scale has been a challenge. Its properties give it an edge over the polymers typically used in li-ion batteries, which can't adequately prevent dendrites from forming, and the hard ceramics used in other solid-state designs, which are too brittle to last.
In a presentation this week, QuantumScape revealed some of the data showing just how promising its solid-state battery tech is. The cells can regain 80 percent of their total charge capacity in less than 15 minutes, the company says, where conventional li-ion batteries can only hope for 50 percent or less in that time, and they retain 80 percent of their original capacity over the course of 800 charge/discharge cycles - the equivalent of about 240k miles.
Most promising of all, however, is the energy density; QuantumScape's cell has an advertised volumetric energy density of about 1,000 Watt-hours per liter, which is roughly double that of the best li-ion battery cells.
Volkswagen is hoping to put an EV with solid-state battery technology on the road by 2025, which is - perhaps not coincidentally - around the same timeline Toyota has set itself. With QuantumScape's latest breakthrough, the automaker might just have gotten one big step closer to achieving that goal.


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Bloomberg reports that Apple has brought in IT service provider Unisys to help with support for its corporate and government customers, a growing area of focus for Apple.
Unisys will provide maintenance and other services to companies and government agencies that purchase Apple devices, Gene Zapfel, a managing partner at Unisys, said in an interview. One of the first of its kind for Apple, the contract was signed this month, Zapfel said. He didn't discuss terms of the deal.
During Apple's earnings conference call last week, Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook noted that while Apple is not looking to offer business-specific hardware, the company is stepping up its efforts in enterprise sales in an attempt to bring more business and their volume purchases on board. Cook noted that Apple has seen great momentum in areas where employees are involved in the purchasing decisions, but that the company is building additional corporate-focused capacity to address the broader market.
Apple has in particular been looking to ride the success of the iPhone and iPad to new corporate market share across the company's lines. Apple routinely highlights the percentage of top companies piloting or using the iPhone and iPad, and has partnered with carriers to offer business-specific rate plans and support.


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Boulevard Mall will add its first office tenant next year.
A staffing firm based in Peabody, Massachusetts, has signed a lease for about 12,000 square feet within the shopping center, located near the intersection of Maryland Parkway and Desert Inn Road.
This is the first Las Vegas location for the firm, Barton Associates. Barton will open a second location near the intersection of Buffalo Drive and Smoke Ranch Road, according to the company’s website.
“We think by doing that deal, we open the door to law firms or insurance agencies,” Boulevard general manager Timo Kuusela said.
Both locations are expected to open in January with a total staff of about 100 employees.
Clark County issued a construction permit for the project that details $800,000 worth of construction on the Barton space, which will be near the TeleTech call center opened at the mall earlier this year.
The owners of Boulevard Mall have said they want to diversify its tenant mix to include more than retail. Recently added tenants include an aquarium and entertainment complex with mini-golf.
The mall has about 175,000-square-feet of office space remaining, Kuusela said.
Along with Barton, Boulevard Mall has added a second call center tenant to the mall. Expected to open next year, 24-7 Intouch has leased 54,000 square feet inside the mall.
This is the 14th campus for the Canadian call center company. The company has promised to hire 1,000 employees, according to its website.


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MILAN — Shares of Italy’s Safilo Group SpA fell to their lowest-ever level on the Milan Bourse Thursday, a day after the company revised down its full-year outlook after the declining dollar and a weak performance in Europe reduced second-quarter earnings by more than a third.
Safilo’s stock dropped 16.1 percent to 97 cents euro, or $1.51 at current exchange.
On Wednesday, the eyewear company, which has licenses with Giorgio Armani, Dior, Gucci and Valentino, among others, cut its revenue growth forecast to 4 percent, from 7 to 8 percent at constant exchange, and adjusted the net income target to 3 to 3.5 percent of sales, from 4.5 to 5 percent.
The group also said it now expects earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization to reach 13.5 to 14 percent of revenues, compared with a previous estimate of around 15 percent.
Net profits slumped nearly 37 percent — for the second consecutive quarter — to 7.9 million euros, or $12.4 million at average exchange, while sales dipped 4.7 percent to 310.9 million euros, or $486 million. At constant exchange, revenues gained 1.8 percent.
The figures missed analysts’ estimates and led to a swath of downgrades, with investors losing confidence.
“The first half of the year was characterized by strong volatility in consumer patterns, above all in Europe, our reference market,” Safilo vice chairman and chief executive officer Massimiliano Tabacchi said. “We believe that the European market will continue to remain weak, even in the upcoming months, and we are therefore looking to the second half of the year with greater caution.”
Sales in Europe fell 6.9 percent to 152.3 million euros, or $238.1 million, with Spain, the U.K. and Germany again hit by a slowdown in consumer spending. The company noted Italy registered half-yearly results in line with the first six months of the previous year, thanks above all to the strong performance of the Carrera sunglasses collections. These declines were compensated for, in part, by gains in Asia Pacific — notably China and South Korea — where second-quarter sales gained 14.6 percent to 44 million euros, or $68.7 million, following the opening of two directly operated stores, dedicated principally to prescription eyewear sales.
Revenues in the Americas fell 3.3 percent to 106.4 million euros, or $166.3 million, although Safilo noted sales in dollars — which represent 40 percent of the company’s business — had been penalized by the negative impact of the currency’s 15 percent slide against the euro in the first six months of this year.
“In the American market, we continue instead to achieve significant results,” Tabacchi said.
Tabacchi added he expected Gucci Group to renew its contract with Safilo “as soon as possible,” dampening speculation the eyewear company could lose the deal to Luxottica Group SpA — stemming from the loss of the Stella McCartney license to Luxottica in April.
Supermodel @helenachristensen teamed up with longtime friend and designer @camillastaerk on a joint @paredeyewear collaboration. The lineup features three styles and 11 offerings, all of which embody a vintage feel. Get all the details on how they celebrated the collab on WWD.com. #wwdaccessories #wwdeye (📷: @slovekinpics)
“It’s a hard industry to keep motivated, as well, so finding different subjects and people is what makes it worth it – when you’re like, oh, I’ve met great people, I feel like I’ve done something good, and I feel proud of having done this,” said French actress Stacy Martin on being grateful for the variety of roles she’s take on. Read @ktauer’s full interview with Martin on her her latest film “Godard Mon Amour.” #wwdeye (📷: @danieldorsa)
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EXCLUSIVE: Two and half months after John Targon, cofounder and codesigner of Baja East, was hired as creative director of the contemporary division at Marc Jacobs, he has left the company, WWD has learned. Marc Jacobs International, which is owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, confirmed Targon’s departure in a statement: “John Targon is a talented designer and we appreciate the work he has done here. Ultimately working together did not make sense for the brand and we wish him the best.” Read the story by @jessiredale, link in bio. #wwdnews
@theluxurycollection is officially launching a collection, tapping Sofia Sanchez de Betak for the capsule. Over 30 styles will be featured in the Chufy x The Luxury Collection, debuting next month at Bergdorf Goodman, The Webster, FiveStory and more. De Betak, known as “@chufy,” drew inspiration for the collection from her trips to Japan in the past year #wwdfashion
@lhd, founder and CEO of @thewebster, has teamed up with @lebonmarcherivegauche for the European launch of her ready-to-wear line, LHD. The launch will come with an exclusive pop-up opening today that’s set to run through May 20. Located on the second floor, it carries her debut Miami-themed resort collection, launched in November as see-now-buy-now. #wwdfashion


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Mr. Marc Jacobs being Sued
Marc Jacobs is being sued by adidas because of the infamous three-stripes, WOW! Adidas is coming out accusing Marc Jacobs of mimicking their three-stripe motif with sweatshirts with four stripes down each sleeve. Adidas filed a lawsuit against Marc Jacobs International court this week. They used a very similar approach with their newest four-stripe accent that is mistaken for the three-stripe accent that adidas is infamously known for. Most consumers would believe that the design was Adidas made, but it’s not.
“The purchasing public has come to associate the Three-Stripe Mark with Adidas,” read the lawsuit. “Marc Jacobs’s merchandise is likely to cause confusion, deceive the public regarding its source, and dilute and tarnish the distinctive quality of Adidas’ Three-Stripe Mark.”
Adidas is continuing to use the stripes for more product including the Y-3 collaboration with designer Yohji Yamamoto, what are your thoughts? Do you feel Marc Jacobs copied Adidas with the three stripes? Feel free to leave your thoughts on our Twitter and Facebook.
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