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Louis Vuitton condoms might have dominated the Twittersphere yesterday, but there was also another line of condoms creating quite a buzz. According to TMZ, Say It With A Condom has come out with a new line to protect one's "biggest asset:" the Romney condoms.
Say It With A Condom has previously produced rubbers featuring political figures such as Obama with tag lines including " Hope is not a form of protection" and " The Ultimate Stimulus package"; McCain with " Old but not expired"; and Palin with "When abortion is not an option."
Say It With A Condom is not the first company to manufacture condoms featuring politicians. Guangzhou Rubber Group, a Chinese company, began producing Clinton and Lewinsky brands of condoms in 2005, reported the Associated Press. "The Clinton condom will be the top of our line," Liu Wenhua, spokesman for the company, told AP. "The Lewinsky condom is not quite as good."
And a few years back, we remember that there was a line of W. Bush-themed condoms, which can still be found through a quick google search.


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New support programme to help businesses rise-up from COVID
Release Date: 01 December 2020
A new programme of support is being launched to help smaller businesses recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Phoenix Enterprise Programme, is launching on Tuesday 8 December at an online event from 1 to 2pm. It will help support pre-start, start-up and small businesses across all industries, reinvent, repurpose and rebuild.
Over the next few months, virtual workshops, power networking events, business clinics and free 1:1 support will be offered – enabling local businesses to access expert advice from specialist consultants.
Support will look at a range of issues, including:
- Business models and development
- Sales and marketing
- Finance and cashflow management
- HR and talent management
- Social and environmental responsibility
- The impact of Brexit - particularly on importing and exporting
- Increasing sales and new customers, as well as any key legal issues
There will also be two specific business support programmes aimed at the hospitality, leisure and tourism sector as well as the creative industries, two important sectors that have been particularly badly hit during the pandemic.
Cllr Richard Baker, Lead Member for Business at Richmond Council, said:
“In our business survey earlier this year, the impact of the pandemic was laid bare. We can see that Covid-19 has impacted cash flow, customer demand and the struggle to meet fixed costs.
“Whilst the Council has provided ongoing advice and support throughout the pandemic, along with millions of pounds of financial support to local businesses, we know that there are hundreds of businesses who will continue to struggle for many years to come.
“The Phoenix Enterprise programme will hopefully help some of our smaller businesses rebuild, providing access to professional advice on the key issues emerging as critical to business survival and growth.”
Interested businesses can attend the launch event to hear more about the FREE support programme
Notes for editors
If you are a journalist and would like further information about this press release, contact Elinor Firth on 020 8487 5159.
Up to: December 2020
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(CBS/AP) Novartis is recalling some popular over-the-counter drugs over concerns about broken or incorrect tablets winding up in pill bottles. Excedrin, NoDoz, Bufferin and Gas-X are the drugs in question.
Novartis had recently decided to temporarily suspend production at its Lincoln, Neb. Plant for "maintenance and other improvement activities."
The Swiss drug maker is working with the Food and Drug Administration during its voluntary recall, which affects U.S. retailers. Novartis became aware of the potential problem during an internal review that revealed broken and chipped pills, and inconsistent bottle packaging (which could have caused the mix-up). The company said it wanted to make sure that customers didn't take any pills that they might be allergic to or that might become dangerous when mixed with other medications. But Novartis also said there have been no complaints from consumers themselves.
Some bottles of headache medicine Excedrin and caffeine caplets NoDoz with expiration dates of Dec. 20, 2014 or earlier will be subject to recall. And some packages of pain medicine Bufferin and stomach medicine Gas-X with expiration dates of Dec. 20, 2013 or earlier will be affected.
Consumers should visit www.novartisOTC.com for a full list of recalled products, and they can also call the company at 1-888-477-2403 Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. EST for more information.


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During a presentation at the Seventh International Mexican Pet Food Forum earlier this month, Ivan Franco, owner of market research firm Triplethree International, revealed four emerging trends in the Mexican pet food market to keep an eye on.
While the Mexican petfood market shares much in common with that of the rest of North America, a number of differences between the United States and Mexico have yielded some interesting departures. Rising incomes and shifts in attitudes toward pets over ten years ago led to a surge in demand for pet foods throughout Mexico. Fast forward to the present, those changes are now resulting in a new string of trends. Franco’s presentation highlighted four of the biggest trends at play in the Mexican market now and in the near future:
- Greater interest in both superpremium and economy offerings
- Greater demand for larger, eCommerce-friendly packages
- Greater demand for more diverse offerings
- Greater expected growth
As with the the rest of North America economic shifts and the continued rise of eCommerce-based sales have played, and will likely continue to play, important roles in the Mexican market.
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The RCVS Charitable Trust has teamed up with the Foundation for Social Improvement for the launch of the Great Big Small Charity Car Draw 2011, offering supporters a chance of winning a brand new Fiat 500 1.2 Pop.
The RCVS Charitable Trust has once again teamed up with the Foundation for Social Improvement (FSI) for the launch of the Great Big Small Charity Car Draw 2011.
The draw enables small charities, such as the RCVS Charitable Trust, to sell tickets to supporters with a chance of winning a brand new Fiat 500 1.2 Pop.
Buying a ticket is easy! Each ticket costs only £2, and the trust will receive £1.90 for every ticket it sells.
Books of tickets are also available to sell to colleagues, friends and family.
The deadline for buying tickets is September 16, 2011 and the draw itself will take place on October 25.
The car has received some fantastic reviews – here are just a couple of examples of what drivers have said about the Fiat 500 1.2 Pop:
- “The Fiat 500 is both stylish and fun. The modest running costs complement the engaging handling. So, this nimble little city car can be enthusiastically thrown into corners and it should emerge grinning like a Cheshire Cat.” Motoring.co.uk
- “I love my Fiat 500 1.2 Pop from the moment I drove off in it. Great fun to drive on the motorway and in town for parking into slots others cannot!” What Car?
- “It’s absolutely fantastic. It drives like a dream. Everybody admires it.” Fiat Forum
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In recent years, many consumers have been victims of hidden costs and subscription traps from online retailers. Lawmakers responded with the law to better protect consumers against hidden costs in e-commerce, which entered into force in August 2012. This article summarizes the results of an evaluation of the law, with regard to four evaluation parameters: the extent to which the goals were achieved, implementation costs for companies, unintended side effects and acceptability. The evaluation showed that the law reaches its objective. However, many companies see a challenge in the fact that the law contains a number of vague legal terms that lead to legal uncertainty. The authors conclude that this legal uncertainty should not be countered by clarifying the law, but through co-regulation mechanisms. Moreover, it is important to strengthen law enforcement and consumer information.
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With or without the Federal Reserve’s involvement, Peter Boockvar of the Bleakley Advisory Group sees signs inflation is making a comeback.
His call comes two days before Fed Chair Jerome Powell is scheduled to deliver a key policy speech at this week’s virtual Jackson Hole event. During his comments, Powell is expected to tackle how the central bank can return inflation to a healthy level from historic lows.
“The Fed and any central bank always has to be careful of what they wish for when they want higher inflation,” the firm’s chief investment officer told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Tuesday. “Higher inflation is typically associated also with a higher cost of living, reduced purchasing power for the average consumer and also higher interest rates, and I think that’s not the kind of environment we should be rooting for.”
Boockvar, a CNBC contributor, believes more effective coronavirus treatments and a vaccine will help drive inflation.
“That’s going to lead to higher inflation than the Fed wants.”Peter Boockvar BLEAKLEY ADVISORY GROUP
“When you get a vaccine, you’re going to have a big pickup on the demand side where people try to go back to the way they were living beforehand,” he said. “They’re going to want to go for dinner again. They’ll want to do things that’s also going to be combined with that supply chain upheaval. That’s going to lead to higher inflation than the Fed wants.”
Boockvar, who has spent much of 2020 on inflation watch, predicts a meaningful resurgence could materialize later this year or next year.
“Inflation, I do think, is going to surprise people to the upside,” Boockvar said.
He lists FedEx and UPS shipping surcharges expected around Christmas, surging used car prices due to factory shutdowns and doubling lumber prices as examples of supply side inflation that’s already hit the marketplace.
If inflation headwinds get more serious, he warns it would harm the year’s most profitable plays: mega-cap growth stocks.
“One of the big benefits to inflating the P/E multiples of these big-cap tech stocks, to use them as an example, have been interest rates that have essentially been pinned to the floor,” Boockvar said. ” If you do get a rise in longer-term interest rates … that could help depress inflated P/E multiples. And then, all of the sudden a 35 times P/E stock could be at 25 times or can be at 20 times.”
This group may see challenges, but he predicts inflation may add pep to sluggish value stocks.
“Investors should be looking at some of the beaten-up names that could benefit from higher inflation,” Boockvar said. “That’s the commodities sector such as energy, agriculture, industrial metals, gold and silver – maybe even the bank stocks if the yield curve steepens, as I would expect it to.”


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SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Interactive One, Radio One's digital link to urban consumers, and Radiate Media™ have partnered to bring its Radiate360™ digital marketing solution to small businesses (SMBs) in 15 urban markets throughout the United States.
Radio One, the most prominent, urban-oriented multimedia company that targets African American consumers, is now able to offer its small business radio clients easy-to-use and affordable digital marketing solutions, including social media, mobile marketing and directory management.
Radiate Media, a leading provider of software and services that empower and strengthen local businesses, recently launched Radiate360, its new integrated marketing platform, to drive hyper-local business. Radio One will now be able to offer the Radiate360 platform to its local radio group clients.
"The Radiate platform provides a multifaceted solution of integrated tools that are truly capable of addressing the marketing needs of our SMB partners," said Scott Frost, Director of Integrated Marketing, Radio One. "In addition, the training, resources and support that are offered by the Radiate team make the implementation process for my local sales teams a worry-free experience. This will certainly provide a foundation of incremental revenue while engaging our valued clients deeper into our radio station brands."
This marks the largest broadcast partnership to date for Radiate Media and its newly launched Radiate360 product. To date, Radio One has already generated revenue in the six figures within the first 30 days of the partnership.
"Small business owners trust and rely on their Radio One radio partners. What we are doing is expanding what the radio team is able to offer in a way that truly helps small businesses to reach their unique customer base," said Ivan Shulman, President, Radiate Media. "By bringing our digital platform solutions to Radio One's interactive division, we can assist in helping clients to navigate marketing campaigns through social media, reputation management, directory management, local searches and more. Local business owners now have a local solution with their local media company."
Radiate360™ is an easy-to-use online platform that empowers businesses to expand their reach and connect with their customers. With Radiate360's revolutionary suite of tools, businesses can establish an online presence, engage customers through social and mobile media and promote to the local audience that matters most. Create, connect and promote with Radiate360.
About Interactive One and Radio One
Defining the new urban. Interactive One, a division of Radio One, links to millions of urban and multicultural consumers with over 60 sites 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Interactive One is the digital link to urban consumers, reaching millions of Black and Latino audiences. We are currently #1 in the category with over 60 unique brands on both a national and local level.
Craig Cleveland at Radiate Media
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To learn more, contact our friendly sales team on 1800 740 674 or pop in and see us.
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FIFA 20 News: EA supports "No Room for Racism" awareness campaign by Premier League
EA, the game developer of FIFA 20 will release new content to support Premier League's “No Room for Racism” campaign. The campaign is focused on removing racist abuse and other forms of discrimination from the beautiful game. The company also tweeted about the update.
In addition to the jerseys in the game, EA also introduced new stadium dressing, special FUT kits and LED boards all carrying the “No Room for Racism" message. The company has not yet revealed a launch date for the new items in FIFA 20.
The racist chants during Bulgaria and England's recent UEFA Euro 2020 Qualifier were a major cause in triggering the release of this update from EA. England players, Raheem Sterling, Marcus Rashford and Tyrone Mings were on the receiving end of discriminative and racist insults by a section of the Bulgarian fans during thier 0-6 loss to the Three Lions.
Following the tweet, many players have already supported EA’s cause to stand against racism. Manchester United player and England international, Jesse Lingard has earlier said,
“Racism is not and never will be acceptable in sport or society, Everyone has the right to feel safe and included”
Raheem Sterling and Tammy Abraham also appeared in a video promoting the anti-racism message by EA. The problem of racism is very common in football where players and fans from different parts of the world come together. The match between Bulgaria and England is a prime example, while similar incidents of abuse were also noticed in Serie A recently.
It is heartening to see EA joining hands with the Premier League to tacle the issue of racism. One of the company's representatives has also confirmed that the jerseys promoting "No Room for Racism" will be absolutely free in the game for users.


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[LINK] Study finds more people using online shopping
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Source: ABC News Tuesday December 7, 1999
* Study finds more people using online shopping*
A new study of consumer behaviour in Australia has put figures on
the growth in "window shopping" on the Internet.
The KPMG Centre for Consumer Behaviour has sampled 2,000 people for
its latest research.
It has found 38 per cent have access to the Internet.
The centre's research director, Brent Taylor, says the use of the
Internet to research retail purchases has jumped from 9.7 per cent
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Phil Spencer has made strides in pleasing fans on news about Project Scorpio since its announcement at E3. Communicating all the latest plans for the franchise, clarification on certain rumors and general broadcasting on new developments with Project Scorpio. Even though we’re still left in the dark regarding the final build, the communication is still well received due to its informant leaving most at ease with the progress and intentions with the project, with the added benefit that the project will end up with a console price point and not equivalent to that of a monster gaming rig.
Most of the diligent following of the project are delighted with Phil’s enthusiasm with the much anticipated conqueror of predecessors while ensuring that the next console powerhouse won’t have you searching Gumtree for dodgy kidney surgeons.
@XboxWhats Looking forward to E3. We build our Xbox plans for Xbox customers, not in response to others. I think 2017 will be a good year.
— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) December 12, 2016
As stated in my previous post, Spencer mentioned that the Scorpio’s strategy is to have a more balanced configuration ensuring developers have choice in how the consoles power will be utilised. With his last tweet reiterating his mission to develop a console for the fans and staying on course, we can acknowledge that Xbox doesn’t care for what the competition is up to.
Seems like Xbox fans have something meaty to look forward to at E3 2017.


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Richard Chadwick promoted to head of Alphabet partner.
Fleet Evolution is offering a helping hand to start-ups and SMEs by providing access to rates and facilities that would often be out of reach.
Fleet News offers a range of reports, whitepapers, in-depth features and manufacturer brochures to enhance fleet decision-makers' understanding of key issues and products.
Fleet News is published monthly, in print and digital formats.
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Indianapolis-based manufacturer Hurco Cos. Inc. has acquired the machine-tool component business of LCM Srl, an Italian manufacturer.
Terms of deal, announced Monday, were not disclosed.
Hurco President Greg Volovic said LCM has been “an important supplier of components” to Hurco. LCM has been producing mechanical and electro-mechanical components for machine tools since 1986.
“This acquisition will prove vital to our targeted growth plan, which supports the financial strength of our company, ensures product development agility, and will foster an expansion of LCM's line of high-quality value-added technologies," Volovic said in a prepared statement.
Hurco, which designs and produces interactive computer controls, software and computerized machine tools, does most of its business in Europe.
The company did nearly $32 million in business in Europe in the quarter ending April 30, accounting for 64 percent of its revenue.
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Lord Alan Sugar finally unveiled the long-delayed internet TV service YouView on Wednesday morning.
The YouView catch-up player comes in the form of a set-top box, and lets viewers see on-demand content from the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and pause or rewind live TV. Lord Sugar described YouView, which will be available in shops within weeks, as a "great moment in British television". But priced at £299, is the service too good to be true?
Critics have pointed out that many new TVs come with Freeview already installed – and many viewers have been able to rewind and record live TV for some years.
YouView also compares unfavourably with other major internet TV players. Apple TV, which lets users rent TV series, films and watch online videos, is priced at £99. Google's set-top box, made by Sony, allows users to play games and surf the web for £200, with the Blu-ray version priced at £300.


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Consumer Reports says a Samsung phone that’s advertised as being “water resistant” actually isn’t.
“Samsung claims its ‘rugged’ Galaxy S7 Active can handle up to 5 feet of water for 30 minutes. Consumer Reports’ latest testing shows that wasn’t the case for the phones we tested,” the consumer oriented news site reported Friday.
The problem appears limited to the Galaxy S7 Active, a rugged model available only through AT&T in the U.S. The standard S7 and S7 Edge models have the same claims on water resistance and passed tests.
Consumer Reports, a non-profit organization that is well respected for its product testing, said that it can’t recommend the Active because it doesn’t meet Samsung’s own claims. By contrast, Consumer Reports rates the S7 and S7 Edge phones as “Excellent” for their displays, battery life and cameras.
“Commercials for the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge showed hip-hop’s Lil Wayne pouring Champagne over the phone and dunking it in a fish tank. The Active version of the S7, which is available to AT&T customers for $800 and up, is being marketed as equally water-resistant. While Consumer Reports generally doesn’t evaluate phones for this feature, we do perform an immersion test when a manufacturer claims that its product is water-resistant. When we recently evaluated the Galaxy S7 Active, it failed this test,” Consumer Reports said.
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Trump: US-China Replace Talks Are ‘Attend On Song’ After G20 Meeting
The U.S. and China fulfilled expectations that the international locations would conform to renew exchange talks after President Donald Trump met with Chinese language leader Xi Jinping on the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, on Saturday.
Trump talked about the U.S. would now not levy an further $300 billion in tariffs on Chinese language products, now not less than while talks are ongoing. He moreover talked about he would let American firms continue to work with Chinese language telecom giant Huawei, which BBC characterised as a “switch viewed as a necessary concession.”
“We discussed quite a pair of issues, and we’re compatible lend a hand heading within the suitable direction,” Trump told journalists, per The Fresh York Times. (RELATED: Trump Floating More China Tariffs If Xi Doesn’t Take a seat Down At G20)
Trump moreover talked about China would open procuring for massive portions of U.S. farm products and other items, reported The NYT.
The seemingly non permanent truce comes after Trump talked about Monday he was as soon as fervent about slapping China with more tariffs if Xi didn’t meet with him at some level of the G20 summit.
“China goes to originate a deal because they’ll want to originate a deal,” Trump talked about June 10, weeks earlier than the G20 summit.
This isn’t the first time a exchange truce has been touted after U.S. and China leaders met at a G20 summit. Trump agreed to delay imposing 25% tariffs on a giant swath of Chinese language items after a dinner meeting with Xi in December 2018, reported The Guardian.
The U.S. and China had been elevating tariffs on every others’ items since summer season 2018. Trump argues that U.S.-China exchange has lopsidedly benefited Beijing and that the U.S. can bail out American farmers hurting thanks to the tariffs.
Within the intervening time, many American firms are fervent about interesting their manufacturing products and services out of China to locations treasure southeast Asia or Mexico as China and the U.S. continue their lend a hand-and-forth.
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Tewkesbury Leisure Centre will reopen on Monday, 12 April 2021, as part of the next significant milestone on the government’s roadmap out of lockdown.
The team at the leisure centre is ready and eager to welcome back customers after having to close its doors three months ago due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Matt Cotton, Tewkesbury Leisure Centre’s General Manager, said:
We’re delighted to be welcoming our customers back to the leisure centre again. We realise, for many, it’s been really tough to stay active during this winter lockdown and we want to reassure them that we’ll be here, ready to help support them with their health and wellbeing goals. We’ve got all the reassuring social distancing and hygiene measures in place for our customers to feel safe getting back to activity in our centre.
For anyone wishing to combine their in-person fitness activity with online workouts, a wide range of virtual content is available on Places Locker Virtual Studio – www.placesleisure.org/places-locker.
- More information on the latest guidelines and what’s available, can be found at: www.placesleisure.org/centres/tewkesbury-leisure-centre


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It’s still not available in the UK for… no apparent reason, really… but Amazon’s Echo voice-controlled device has been a hit in the States, with seemingly solid sales and a lot of consumer love. And Google has taken notice.
Back in March, we shared news from The Information that Google was working on an Echo rival internally, albeit without help from its Nest division. And now Recode says that we may get some glimpse of the project next week at I/O 2016.
Recode claims the project is called “Chirp” internally, although that codename might not make it to the final box, and that the actual hardware itself likely won’t be released until later in the year.
However, the report says that “voice search and intelligent personal assistance will occupy center stage” at Google’s developers conference next week, and that we may get some hint at the device’s capabilities and what to expect when the hardware is ready for purchase.
Not only does the Echo help buyers stay better connected around the home, but it also allows Amazon to harvest loads of useful consumer data along the way and promotes purchases from the company’s ecosystem. That’s why Amazon is so interested in getting its Alexa voice assistant on as many devices as possible – even the ones you build yourself.
Many of us already use loads of Google’s services in our daily lives, but the company surely doesn’t want to miss another chance to hook you into one more. We’ll let you know if we see and hear anything at I/O 2016 next week, where Google is also expected to reveal its standalone Android VR headset.


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A Uniquely Canadian Electric Vehicle
ElectraMeccanica details its history, its plans for the SOLO electric vehicle, and the engineering challenges inherent in the EV design.
Off-Road EV Scooter
Regina, SK-based LyteHorse Labs’ all electric ATV designed to tear up treacherous terrain.
Copperstone Technologies’ amphibious Helix robot mitigates the risks of monitoring tailings ponds.
The Commuter EV
ElectraMeccanica’s entry-level, three-wheeled SOLO looks to ride wave of enthusiasm for zero emission vehicles.
Japan’s automakers unveil EVs galore at Tokyo motor show
Toyota, Nissan and others look to catch up with Tesla, other electric rivals.
Telus partners with EV charger producer Flo to provide real time data
Canadian telecom company’s IoT platform to provide real-time visibility of 60,000 chargers in Canada and the U.S.
Toyota more than doubles investment in U.S. EV battery plant
Japanese automaker’s North Carolina $8B investment to support company’s goal to sell 1.5M EV in the U.S. by 2030.
Stellantis to invest €1.5B in Chinese EV manufacturer
Leapmotor investment aims to expand Chinese firm’s EV sales inside and outside of China.
B.C. moves up zero emission vehicle target
Provincial legislation would require automakers to reach 100 per cent sales goal by 2035.
EVs getting easier to find in Canada
Average EV price of nearly CAD$73k places them out of reach for many Canadians, however.
Vietnam’s Vinfast committed to selling EVs to North America despite challenges
EV maker faces intense competition as its sales struggle in the U.S. market.
Hyundai rapidly building first U.S. electric vehicle plant
South Korean car maker says production on track for 2025 at its under construction Georgia plant.
Indian EV battery material maker to build first U.S. plant
Epsilon Advanced Materials’ US$650M facility to make synthetic graphite anode starting 2026.
Canada, Ontario governments put nearly $1B toward EV battery parts plant
When complete in 2026, facility will produce battery materials to support 800,000 EV per year, Umicore says.
Electrical grids struggling to keep up with the green energy push
IEA Executive Director says there is a long line of renewable projects waiting to connect to the grid.
H55 breaks ground on Canadian HQ in Quebec
Swiss firm’s electric propulsion facility to begin battery pack production in 2024, company says.
eVTOL maker secures financing to complete high-volume manufacturing facility
When complete, Archer Aviation says Georgia plant will be the world’s highest-volume electric aircraft facility.
Eligible EV buyers to get instant US tax credits in 2024
Qualifying EVs must be under price limits and manufactured in North America.
Flying taxi maker to open scaled production facility in Wright brothers’ home town
Joby Aviation’s eVTOL aircraft designed to transport four passengers at 200 miles per hour.


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The Automotive Testing Expo 2018 happened in Stuttgart, Germany, in early June. With each passing year, Auto Expo has turn into greater and better by way of number of exhibitors, contributors and guests. It has earned the distinction of turning into India’s largest, relevant and most completed occasion for the Indian automotive business. Make in India” is no extra only a slogan however a reality and Auto Expo has been a major enabler that has contributed to its success. The exhibition gives a possibility to unleash the true potential of the Indian automotive industry. The occasion also acts as a wonderful barometer of the dynamic automotive market, offering an opportunity for producers and suppliers on this business to network.
Heavy Obligation Aftermarket Week (HDAW) is an annual enterprise-to-enterprise conference that focuses on the Independent Heavy Obligation Aftermarket Distributor trade. Upon approval, members can exhibit at HDAW and obtain the member-only sales space discount and complimentary access to our enterprise centers, in addition to discounted registration for buyer attendees.
Progression of Driverless Expertise. As driver assistance technologies become more sophisticated, automotive producers are looking ahead on the next step within the progression toward a completely autonomous transportation system. Understanding and growing car-to-automobile and automobile-to-infrastructure interactions is the next hurdle to tackle.
Rizwan Alamsjah, co-Chairman of GAIKINDO accountable for the exhibition, stated that GIICOMVEC will develop into an event that the Indonesia’s commercial vehicle brand proprietor awaits. GIICOMVEC 2018 will likely be a superb occasion and alternative for Indonesian business automobile brand house owners to showcase its newest products to capture new business opportunities,” Rizwan said. GIICOMVEC’s focus to convey potential consumers from various industry strains will be the greatest cause to introduce and current the participants newest products.
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Cybersecurity company Symantec is cutting 152 jobs at its Mountain View headquarters and 18 in San Francisco, along with 36 in Culver City (Los Angeles County), a California filing revealed, giving a sense of planned job cuts’ local impact.
The tech company, with more than 11,000 employees worldwide, serves more than 50 million people with Norton antivirus software and LifeLock identity theft protection, but agreed last month to sell its enterprise division, which protects larger businesses, to chipmaker Broadcom of San Jose.
On August 8, the same day it revealed the enterprise deal, Symantec warned of job cuts, saying it would reduce employment by 7% through next March. Employees were notified of the layoffs that day, according to a company filing, with their employment ending October 15.
The company said it planned to downsize, vacate or close certain facilities and data centers. It estimated it would incur approximately $100 million in costs connected to the closures, with about $75 million for severance and termination benefits and $25 million for site closures.
The company did not immediately respond to requests for comment via phone and email late Wednesday about the layoffs.
In December, Symantec’s president and two other top executives left the company for undisclosed reasons. A board member, Rick Hill, was appointed interim CEO in May. The company said in August that it was still searching for a CEO to run the consumer side of the business that would remain after the Broadcom deal.
Symantec shares reached a recent low of $17.98 in June. Shares closed at $24.43 Wednesday, up 1.2%.
Mallory Moench is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: firstname.lastname@example.org Twitter: @mallorymoench


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Solar power is something that we do not deny will make the world a better place to live in, assuming it can be harnessed more efficiently than it is today. While solar panels are still very expensive to manufacture, hence the prohibitively high cost that consumers cannot afford, there is also the issue of the manufacturing process to be “green” and eco-friendly. What about the idea of spraying solar cells into existence? That is what a University of Alberta team thought up, where they claim this could very well revolutionize solar power.
Check out the researcher’s flexible, plastic solar cell that carries the image of the Canadian flag on it – these cells are far more affordable to manufacture and are way more modular compared to traditional silicon solar panels. Currently, they are in the process of fine-tuning solar cells that are made out of flexible polymers.
These plastic solar panels are very special because they are super thin – as that of a human hair, and can also be sprayed or rolled onto a surface in the manner where you paint a wall or wallpaper, and to cap it all off, it can even be woven into fabric for a greater array of implementation. Commercial availability is hoped to occur by the time 2015 rolls around – hopefully there is still an earth left to live on by then.


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In recent years, a variety of forces (economic, environmental, and social) have quickly given rise to “shared mobility,” a collective of entrepreneurs and consumers leveraging technology to share transportation resources, save money, and generate capital. Bikesharing services, such as BCycle, and business-to-consumer carsharing services, such as Zipcar, have become part of a sociodemographic trend that has pushed shared mobility from the fringe to the mainstream. The role of shared mobility in the broader landscape of urban mobility has become a frequent topic of discussion. Shared transportation modes—such as bikesharing, carsharing, ridesharing, ridesourcing/transportation network companies (TNCs), and microtransit—are changing how people travel and are having a transformative effect on smart cities.
Introducing the Next Wave of Urban Impact Entrepreneurs
How can we find more skilled trades workers to hire locally? Or create a technology to fund the homeless and other neighbors in need? Entrepreneurs have found innovative ways to tackle some of the toughest challenges plaguing cities. In the former case, WorkHands designed a blue collar LinkedIn service to connect workers in the trades with employment opportunities. In the latter, HandUp created a mobile and online donation tool to support the homeless. Both startups represent Tumml entrepreneurs – high growth urban innovators that are creating scalable solutions for city problems.
When Tumml launched a search for its Winter 2014 cohort, we were impressed by the outpouring of applications. From Austin to Accra, we found entrepreneurs working to solve some of the most pressing issues in their communities. They are developing solutions for water storage, transportation, city planning, and so much more.
For our upcoming cohort, we received 130 applications, with two-thirds of the applicant pool coming from outside of the Bay Area. The high quantity and regional diversity of our applicant pool reveals that there is a real movement of entrepreneurs working on consumer-facing products and services that solve city problems – from all across the world.
Without further ado, we are pleased to announce the five new members of Tumml’s Winter 2014 Cohort, which starts today:
The Farmery is an urban vertical farming and retailing system designed to produce and sell local food in the city.
Feeding Forward is a mobile platform that connects those with excess food to those in need.
Neighbor.ly is a toolkit to help people, brands, and foundations to invest in the places and projects they care about.
SavySwap is a secure experience to get what you want simply by trading.
Sovi is a pinboard for local and community events.
These companies will spend the next four months working in Tumml’s office space in downtown San Francisco, receiving mentorship from a group of accomplished urbanites (like the Director of Public Policy at Airbnb), as well as $20,000 in seed funding. We are thrilled to welcome these five companies to the Tumml family and look forward to seeing them grow with us!
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A study by the US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in 2008 found that the impact of routine weather events on the US economy equates annually to about 3.4% of the country’s GDP (about $485 billion). This excludes the impact of extreme weather events that cause damage and disruption – after all, even “ordinary” weather affects supply of and demand for many items, and the propensity of businesses and consumers to buy them. NCAR found that mining and agriculture are particularly sensitive to weather influences, with utilities and retail not far behind.
Many of these, disaster management included, are the focus of smart city innovations. Not surprisingly, therefore, as they seek to improve and optimize these systems, smart cities are beginning to understand the connection between weather and many of their goals. A number of vendors (for example, IBM, Schneider Electric, and others) now offer weather data-driven services focused specifically on smart city interests.
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Our Origin Story
Today is our birthday! RetailWit was launched 365 days ago. January 10, 2021 marked the day we started changing how Retail and CPG experts consumed content. Instead of endless newsletters, sites, blogs, social media, and Google alerts; RetailWit was intended to be a one stop shop for Retail Intelligence. 365 days of RetailWit, and what a year it’s been for us — and the industry.
Our first year of RetailWit translates to over 22,000 articles published (that’s 60 per day) from 260 sources, 200 QuickWit posts about the latest and greatest in Retail news, and 18,000 users. 365 days of RetailWit led to our categorizing algorithm, scoring system, at-a-glance industry trends, and (of course) the newly launched ability to personalize your newsfeed.
Not bad, year one, not bad.
2021 Trending Topics
All that data gives us a macro and micro view of what’s happening within the retail industry. 50 high level article categorizations gives us a bird’s eye view of the ecosystem, while 200+ granular article tags tells us about the trees in the forest.
Let’s take a look at the top five categories and tags:
Without a doubt, a tumultuous year: COVID, supply chain, cyber ransom attacks, inflation and more top the charts. As the media landscape evolved (Apple’s privacy moves, crumbling of the third-party cookie, rise of retail media), CPG companies are still getting their feet under them. Just like the Great Resignation, there has been a laser focus on the customer as a person (for the better, we’d say), technology, and new innovation in the physical and digital space—BOPIS, delivery, and ghost stores to name a few.
What’s next in 2022 for RetailWit?
Our vision remains: cut through the clutter and become the only place our readers (yeah, you) want to go for Retail and CPG industry intelligence. We’ve got a heck of a year planned to improve this site, our content, and bring new solutions to the table.
Let us do the work for you. Be the expert in the room with RetailWit in 2022. Stay tuned, next week we filter through all of the predictions and share our summary and POV on what 2022 holds in store for us.
– The RetailWit Crew.
And, as always, last week’s top retail news:
Rick Astley is back! starring in a Frito-Lay’s campaign featuring his song that clearly we will never be able give up. The “New Year, New You” spot highlights his hit song and instead of giving up things for New Year’s, consumers can lean into what they love, including their favorite snacks. The commercial debuted on Dec. 25, but the new iteration is a contest and TikTok tie-in that give consumers opportunities to interact with the campaign’s theme and music. Fans can visit www.NeverGonnaGiveItUp.com through Feb. 27 to share what they aren’t giving up and for a chance to win $1,000.
Target, who has had significant success with private label brands – having 10, $1B owned brands – goes for another one. We’re more surprised it took them this long to develop a brand in this category which they have a right to win in. This continues the larger theme of private label and brands battling it out, with brands facing a tougher battle (ie. retail media, inflation / cost, and perception).
Instacart and Tortoise are allegedly in talks to develop a hub-and-spoke model for dark stores (one dark warehouse, with robots delivering to specific households). The savings is said to be significant (50x), but it has yet to be proven in the real world.
The last mile dilemma continues, and it looks like the biggest retailer is starting to take matters into its own hands. Walmart announced on Wednesday it plans to expand its in-home delivery service from 6 million U.S. households to 30 million by the end of 2022. In order to scale this, the retailer said it will hire more than 3,000 associate delivery drivers — a newly created role — this year and also build out a fully electric fleet of delivery vans.
According to a recent study by Accenture “Why Shopping’s Set for a Social Revolution” they estimate social commerce will account for 17% of all ecommerce spend by 2025. It is expected to growth three times as fast as traditional ecommence.
Catalina and PlaceIQ will be bringing location-driven planning, measurement and attribution to CPG retailers. Catalina will use PlaceIQ’s Firehose Visits product to enhance its measurement, audience creation and analytics offerings. PlaceIQ will extend its large Point of Interest (POI) database to include over 30,000 custom locations to support Catalina’s growing out-of-home and place-based media service.
PlaceIQ’s location-based data combined with Catalina’s shopper transaction data and shopper panel data will enable advertisers to reach more precise audiences, optimize offline and online media engagement across channels, and deliver real-world ROI on a brand campaign’s performance.
Spoiler alert, it’s exactly what we all do – sign up and get the discount and then opt out of the communications off. But there is a bit more, as depending on the brand (and likely the initial experience) many consumers are willing to keep the communications on to learn about future sales, product offers, etc. Just like anybody who has launched a product, it’s relatively easy to drive that first trial via promotions but it’s a sign of how good your product is when you get repeat.
Shopify has filed for a patent for brick and mortar store traffic sensors. It’s similar to Amazon’s cashierless technology. Shopify has increased market share in the ecommerce ecosystem and has been developing omnichannel solutions for a few years now.
TikTok is (already) expanding outside of their owned platform into other media channels. Sharp strategic move by TikTok to expand their reach and audience base beyond Gen Z, and not be limited by their owned channels like other social platforms.
The Iowa-based grocer, which operates more than 285 stores, is boosting it’s store security by creating a “Hy-Vee Retail Security team” to “ensure the safety of our customers and our employees” and to combat “an increase in thefts and different crimes in retail locations”. It is a disappointing but not unexpected need in retail.


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$NFLX 2Q15 PR: In 2Q15, NFLX launched largest number to date of high profile Netflix original series. On April 10, Marvel’s Daredevil debuted. Grace & Frankie, bittersweet comedy starring Lily Tomlin & Jane Fonda launched on May 8 to audience around the world. Both series have already begun their second season of production.
$PYPL jumps 6% in after hours on strong results. I am bullish on this stock.
$TSCO stock remained active in the after hours trading and rose more than 2% after the retailer posted better than expected 1Q17 results.
Instagram has reached 700 million monthly active users. Looks like it will hit 1 billion soon. That would make it $FB’s fourth billion-user platform.


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Final Fantasy XIII Hits the Xbox 360 in Japan
Although it has been available on the PS3 since December of last year in Japan, Final Fantasy XIII will be releasing for the Xbox 360 in December of this year. While it has been said that Japan would never see a 360 release of the game, it’s happening and almost a full year later.
Producer Yoshinori Kitase has said that this Xbox 360 release will be a greatest hits version and will include content cut from the original release that will comprise a cut scene at the end of the game. This presents an incentive for the Xbox only owning FF fan (if such a gamer exists in Japan) to pick this game up. Better late than never.


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Sonos has taken the wraps off the ZonePlayer ZP80, which enables users to connect existing amplified audio systems like home theaters, powered speakers, and component stereos to Sonos’ line of wireless, multi-room digital music products.
“We created the ZP80 because many of the rooms where consumers want to listen to digital music already have an amplifier,” said John MacFarlane, Sonos CEO. “Our goal is to provide digital music lovers with a range of products for building a wireless digital music system throughout their homes.”
The ZP80 bears a lot of resemblance to its currently-shipping cousin, the ZonePlayer ZP100. The ZP80 features auto-sensing line-in connectors which digital encode any audio input source, so users can connect any audio source (such as a home theater, stereo system, computer, satellite radio, or iPod) and listen to that source throughout their home via Sonos’s secure, AES-encrypted peer-to-peer wireless mesh network of Sonosnet speakers. But the ZP80 doesn’t have a built-in amplifier: you want to hear any of the audio its producing, you need to hook it up to another system with an amp
- Sonos Amp review
- Sonos adds YouTube Music, rounding out its streaming service support
- Speaker specialist Sonos reportedly plans to launch its own line of headphones
- Ruark’s R5 music system is so classy, you’ll want to tidy up before it arrives
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This Isn't the 'Star Wars' Virtual Reality You're Looking For
Don't fear the dark side of 360-degree video.
Google Cardboard — the lowest-end virtual reality headset — is the latest to fall victim to the Star Wars: The Force Awakens tie-in, which has spread from an Air France promotion to a limited-edition SpaghettiO with the rapacity of chickenpox through a kindergarten classroom. Announced Monday at StarWars.com, the “new virtual reality experience” is a serialized “immersive entertainment” born out of a collabo between Google, Disney, Verizon, and Lucasfilm’s new ILMxLAB.
When said experience hits the Star Wars app on December 2, the downloads will rain from the skies like Imperial shrapnel on the heads of Ewoks. It’s Star Wars — SlashGear reports a faithfully reconstructed Millennium Falcon in VR cameo — and there are over a million Google Cardboard headsets floating about in circulation. The twin suns are aligned, sure, but will the result be any good for VR?
Let us raise the specter of fear. VR enthusiasts, like those who haunt r/Oculus, are afraid that because Cardboard is so popular — yet unsophisticated next to its Oculus Rift or HTC Vive counterparts — Star Wars and similar apps will poison the VR well. To disintegrate this anguish into its most basic component: On a fundamental level, it’s that Google Cardboard shouldn’t be marketed as virtual reality.
What Cardboard does well is present 360-video easily and cheaply, allowing the New York Times do neat things with empathy journalism. It’s easy to call Cardboard virtual reality as a buzzy shorthand, especially in the context of what’s next to come (we’re guilty!).
From a technological standpoint, those who are afraid that Cardboard is going to crash the VR party and vomit all over the upholstery have some fair points. The world through Cardboard offers a pixelated view, like staring out screen door (hence the “screen-door effect”); at the extreme, as Will Smith at Wired points out, Cardboard breaks a few rules of virtual reality hygiene, including potentially nausea-inducing design — Smith goes as far to raise the argument this why the average Times Cardboard viewer spent less than 15 minutes in the app.
In the very short term, that Cardboard is blowing up as a virtual reality synonym could be taken as a grim omen. What it is not, however, is fatal. Cardboard’s 360-degree fast-food video will be mistaken for the Kobe beef of high-end VR only if the Rift or Vive fails to deliver on their promises. If the straight-from-the-microwave Cardboard scorches tongues, it is up to Oculus to soothe burned palates. (Whether this is fair to Oculus, or it can pull this off, remains to be seen.)
The Cardboard experience won’t be the Star Wars VR we’re looking for — not yet — but it’s only as dangerous as the ghost of awkward ‘80s mobile phones reaching forward through time to strange the iPhone.


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Extremely challenging trading conditions at the Irish arm of food giant Mars last year contributed to a slump in sales and profits.
New accounts just filed by Mars Food Ireland Ltd show that the firm recorded a 44% decrease in pre-tax profits last year from €9.7m to €5.4m. This followed revenues at the firm decreasing by 5.6% to €127.7m in the 12 months to the end of last December.
In the accounts, the company’s directors state that “trading conditions in Ireland remain extremely challenging with continued pressure on consumers’ disposable income, impacting sales growth in 2013”.
The report goes on to say: “Consequently, Mars Food Ireland Ltd report a €7.6m decline in sales, a 3.7% decrease in margin and a reduction in profit after tax of €4.3m.”
The firm continues to focus on the four categories in which it operates — food, chocolate, pet care and gum. Its brands include Uncle Ben’s Rice, Snickers and Twix bars along with Wrigley chewing gums and Pedigree and Whiskas pet foods.
“The board recognises the continued market challenges in the sectors within which we operate and is committed to strengthening, further, the relationship we have with our key trading partners,” the company said.
The drop in operating profits was even more acute, at 51%, declining to €4.75m. However, interest receivable and other finance income totalling €690,000 — in contrast to finance costs of €64,000 in 2012 — contributed to the €5.4m pre-tax profit.
The accounts show that the firm’s cost of sales last year dropped from €116m to €114.2m with the firm’s administrative expenses decreasing from €9.58m to €8.74m.
A breakdown of the staff numbers show that 94 were engaged in selling and marketing with 37 in administration. Six directors served during the year and the accounts show that directors’ emoluments increased from €691,000 to €830,000.
The company paid Arthur Cox €171,546 in legal fees.
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Google to invest $5 billion in cybersecurity firm
The tech giant announced that it is going to acquire the specialized cybersecurity company Mandiant, which would be the largest purchase made so far
The American technology giant Google reached an agreement to acquire the cybersecurity company Mandiant for 5.4 billion dollars in cash, in what is the second largest purchase in the history of the Mountain View company.
Under the agreed conditions, Google will pay $23 in cash for each Mandiant share, which will be integrated into Google Cloud once the transaction is completed, which is expected to occur by the end of 2022.
The Mandiant acquisition will complement Google Cloud’s existing strengths in security, the company that owns the popular search engine said in a statement.
Thus, combined with Google Cloud’s native security offerings, the Mandiant acquisition will help businesses around the world stay protected at every stage of the security lifecycle, including advisory services; threat detection and intelligence; automation and response tools; testing and validation; and managed defense.
“Organizations around the world are facing unprecedented cybersecurity challenges. We look forward to welcoming Mandiant to Google Cloud to further enhance our suite of security operations and advisory services, and help customers address their challenges.” security concerns”, said Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud.
The acquisition of Mandiant for 5.4 billion dollars marks the second largest purchase ever made by Google, after taking over Motorola Mobility for 12.5 billion dollars in 2012 and surpassing the 3.2 billion dollars paid by Nest in 2014.
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Arabs salute Steve Jobs one year after his passing
Published October 18th, 2012 - 13:00 GMT
It has already been one year since Apple's founder and CEO Steve Jobs passed away and some Arabs are still in shock; Gamal Abdel Rahim fired aseditor in chief of Al Gomhouria newspaper; and the 2013 Nissan Juke-R production model finally revealed!
Today the Supreme council of Press has fired journalist Gamal Abdel Rahim from his position as he editor in chief of Al Gomhouria newspaper. He was fired after only two months on the job.
Read the blog to see what he did to merit his dismissal!
2013 Nissan Juke-R production model finally revealed!
The official horsepower figure of 545hp has been announced; however, nothing regarding torque as of yet. What Nissan does claim is that the Juke-R can accelerate from 0-100km/h in 3.0 seconds and hit a top speed of 275km/h!


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Perhaps some of Logan Paul's most viral content has been his entry into the Pokémon scene in recent years. The Pokémon card market has exploded over the past 18 months and Paul is looking to capitalize on the rising tide.
However, when he recently posted a YouTube video in which he bought fake Pokemon cards for $3,5 million, many became suspicious. The YouTube star is now sharing his side of the story as Logan Paul denies fake Pokemon Card claims that he fabricated the whole situation for views.
Logan Paul denies buying fake Pokemon cards for content
The recent YouTube video went viral showing Logan Paul opening what he thought was a $3,5 million box of 1st Edition Pokémon cards. However, the box only contained GI Joe cards, leaving Paul very disappointed with the results.
Logan was thankfully able to get a refund for the $3,5 million he paid for the box, but many believe this situation was entirely fabricated in the name of the content. Later, addressing some of the speculation on his Impaulsive podcast, Paul said, “I see comments. They think I was playing. They think it's wrong. But that's not wrong. It is not false at all. Being in that room that night was incredibly sad. "
To be fair to Logan, he said he is currently working with the vendor he purchased the cards from, to help track down the original scammers. As the salesman who sold the cards to Paul originally bought them for $2,7 million.
“Three and a half million dollars on fucking GI Joe. I can not believe it. It was a sad day. It was a very sad day. You can't just scam someone out of millions of dollars like that without legal consequences. . »
While there's no way to know for sure if the situation was created for the content or if it was an actual accident that went viral, it looks like Logan Paul has once again hit his mark. goal. As he makes headlines again, his following continues to grow more and more.
- Read more: Top 10 Twitch streamers to watch in 2022
We'll continue to monitor the situation and let you know if there's any more news to come out of this $3,5 million fake Pokemon card purchase.
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text: Sequential Brands Group Inc., the parent company of brands including the Jessica Simpson fashion collection and Joe’s Jeans, filed for bankruptcy protection after the apparel industry was upended by changing consumer habits and the coronavirus pandemic.The owner and licensor of brands such as Gaiam yoga filed its Chapter 11 petition in Delaware.Retailers across the country have struggled with plunging revenues as Covid-19 precautions led to temporary shutdowns of physical stores and kept consumers at home. J. Crew Group Inc., Neiman Marcus Group LLC and J.C. Penney each filed for bankruptcy earlier in the pandemic.Many retailers that carry Sequential’s brands were closed for part of last year, denting revenues. In late 2020, the company said it was considering a sale as part of a broad “exploration of strategic alternatives” in an effort to maximize shareholder value. The company unloaded its Heelys sneaker brand in April for $11 million.In December, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Sequential with violating antifraud, reporting, books and records and internal controls provisions of federal securities laws related to goodwill accounting in 2016 and 2017.By Katherine Doherty.Learn more:What the Bankruptcy Onslaught Means for the Future of RetailFiling for Chapter 11 looks different now. Here’s what retailers and their partners need to know.


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LinkedIn, the social network that now has 740 million users worldwide, revealed new features that it will implement in the coming months. These include training and education, professional development, networking with others and news, etc.
The company is adding more videos to people’s profiles, with the launch of a «Video Cover Story». They are short videos that people can make talking about themselves to live on their home pages. And to make people feel more connected to how they’re represented on LinkedIn, you’re also adding a pronoun function.
Alongside these, the company is officially launching a new “Creator” mode. This is a more refined but also more democratic version of the company’s Influencers network (anyone can be a Creator to begin with if they want to). It’s also creating a stronger place for freelancers on the platform, through a new service page attached to their profile.
Education among the new LinkedIn features
LinkedIn’s educational and training efforts are also getting a boost. The program he launched with Microsoft, the owner of LinkedIn. So that? For free online training in 10 different areas, in the wake of the economic change that Covid-19 brought to the world, it will run until the end of this year. And it also announces a new Teams-based app in partnership with Microsoft called Career Coach addressed to students.
Taken together, this seemingly disparate set of ads builds on an interesting development for LinkedIn. And it is that social networks, whether it is a person who publishes content or simply looks at publications of others who feel that they talk about their situation in life, has a strong background of empowerment throughout it. Through these different features and products, LinkedIn tries, in its own way, to bring part of that individual identity and voice to its own platform.


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Be sure to visit FBR at this year’s Border Union Show at Springwood Park in Kelso.
THE Border Union Agricultural Society (BUAS) celebrates its bicentenary in 2013 and these celebrations will culminate in the 200th Border Union Show on 26th and 27th July.
In addition to the Show’s line-up of competitions, activities and displays, the bicentenary event will include a Food Fair featuring some of the UK’s top chefs including Albert Roux and Andrew Fairlie, a celebration of the region’s wool heritage and a showcase of old and new methods of crop production.
The indigenous breeds of the UK will be celebrated in a special Cattle Show involving as many breeds as possible and an exhibition showcasing the importance of the major rivers of the Borders will also feature.
Come and be part of the celebrations and pay a visit to the FBR team at their stand.


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A survey of about 17,500 Indian high school students found that Samsung is the most preferred mobile brand, followed by Nokia and then Apple.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) released the results of its "Web 3.0" survey into how mobile and social technologies are used by "post-millennial" consumers born after 1996.
The study, conducted between August to December last year spanned 14 cities. It found the most preferred electronic device manufacturer was Samsung (48.28 percent), followed by Nokia (46.46 percent), Apple (39.56 percent), and HTC (36.54 percent). Nearly 65 percent own a mobile phone, while 50 percent own a phone featuring an Android operating system.
Social networking is the most popular form of communication, with 74 percent of respondents using Facebook, compared to 54 percent that use SMS. Both trump voice calls, which are used to contact friends 44 percent of the time.
Ajoy Mukherjee, executive vice president for HR at TCS, said the insights will help the outsourcer recruit and manage new talent.
"The survey shows the increasing comfort levels that the post-millennial generation exhibit with digital technology, social networking, smartphones and gaming, which helps us create conditions to unleash their creativity and innovativeness. This can help us not just attract the best of their talent but also aid in keeping them engaged and energized," he said.


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By the end of the year, Kia wants to debut a plug-in electric vehicle—just not in America.
The electric-car project is known internally as TAM, and will be based on a car that’s not sold in America anyway: Hyundai’s i10 city car, a Lilliputian gumdrop of a runabout. By next year Kia hopes to build 2,000 EVs, with more models coming by 2014.
However, a call to Kia revealed that it will only be launched in the Korean market, with no plans for expanding availability outside South Korea, where Kia has been testing its prototypes since September of last year. And after dipping its toe into the hybrid-vehicle pool with the Kia Optima and Hyundai Sonata, the company believes it’s ready for the EV game. Unfortunately, we won’t be able to find out.
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Sanjeev Hajela, who till recently had held the post of VP at PrimeSite, has been promoted as its President. Hajela, who joined Primesite, Mudra’s OOH unit, as Chief Manager in 2001, took up the responsibility for national sales and servicing in 2005. He takes over from Indrajit Sen, who quit the job in February 2006 after a six-year stint to join Jagran Engage, the OOH unit of Jagran Prakashan. PrimeSite didn’t have a President in the interim period.
Commenting on the development, Madhukar Kamath, MD and CEO, Mudra, said, “Sanjeev’s mandate as the President of Primesite will be to drive growth and ramp up our brand building work.” R Lakshminarayanan, CEO, Mudra Marketing Services, said, “We have ambitious plans for Primesite. Our vision is to be the first choice for the brand marketers and talent. Sanjeev will play a critical role in the organisation.”
Commenting on his new role, Hajela said, “Our intention is to continuously add value to our clients’ brand building process through better and innovative ideas. I am looking forward to the excitement and challenges that the new role offers me.”
Hajela has over 18 years’ marketing experience. He began his career with ITC (Tobacco Division) in 1988. He then joined Brown Forman Beverages Worldwide, a US Fortune 500 company marketing bourbon whiskeys and wines as Brand Manager till 1998. Post this, he moved on to join LG Plastika on the new generation advertising materials assignment as Marketing Manager and worked with them till mid-2001.


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- The value of one Toncoin (TON) has increased by close to 12 percent in the last day.
- TON blockchain announced its partnership with messaging app Telegram.
Telegram, a platform for instant messaging, stated on Friday that the domain name auctions will begin shortly since the marketplace for supplying unique names is finalized. Telegram has partnered with the TON blockchain to provide usernames. Thereby, the value of one Toncoin (TON) has increased by close to 12 percent in the last day.
TON blockchain announced its partnership with messaging app Telegram. To create a marketplace to auction off custom nicknames in a tweet on October 21. The marketplace’s creation has been concluded, and domain name auctions will commence soon, as revealed on the official Telegram Usernames channel.
Banking on 700 Million Users
A few weeks ago, Telegram’s CEO and co-founder Pavel Durov revealed plans to provide users with their own distinctive identities. On the TON blockchain marketplace, users will be able to purchase and trade usernames.
Telegram claims that the platform’s launch is imminent and that work has already concluded. It advises that users should try to get the most sought-after usernames and record their ownership of them on the unchangeable TON blockchain.
The domain/wallet names were recently auctioned off by TON. The price of wallet.ton, at 215,250 Toncoin, was almost $260,000, while the price of casino.ton, at approximately $244,000, was the higher of the two.
The CEO believes Telegram’s 700 million users will help the service succeed. He plans to sell access to channels, groups, and user names at auction. In addition, all four-letter usernames will be up for grabs, including popular ones like @bank, @club, game, and gift in addition to more unique ones like @storm and @royal.
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The Southern Mustang Owners Club will display 25 Mustangs in the Lower Octagon on Saturday morning between 9am and 11am.
Club representatives will be on hand to answer any questions about the cars.
There will be a selection of vintage and late model Mustangs on display including Boss, Mach 1, GT, and Roush models.
As the Southern Mustang club is an Invercargill-based club, with some members in Dunedin, many of the cars have rarely been seen here.
The display is part of two full days of activities, which are all based in Dunedin, so there will be more Mustangs than usual on the streets of Dunedin this weekend.
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Milk Specialties Global has announced it has acquired the Protient Dairy Processing Facility in Norfolk, Nebraska, from PGP International. The Norfolk facility is considered a state-of-the-art processing plant capable of producing a wide variety of specialty milk products including lactose, cream, milk proteins, whey proteins and hydrolysates. The addition of this facility will significantly enhance Milk Specialties Global Food Solutions’ position as a major supplier to the sport nutrition, health and wellness, and infant formula markets.
Milk Specialties Global Food Solutions is a manufacturer and marketer of specialty nutritional proteins including specialty milk and whey proteins and a wide range of nutraceutical products. “The acquisition of the Norfolk Facility allows for significant expansion of our base ingredient business,” said David Lenzmeier, president of Milk Specialties Global – Food Solutions. “This is a very sophisticated manufacturing facility. It will give us great flexibility in terms of product opportunities; it strengthens our capacity and will enhance our abilities to better supply our growing customer base.”
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U.S. automakers may seek to start providing as much as 15 percent of union workers’ compensation in performance bonuses and lump-sum payments, emulating how their Japanese counterparts and salaried employees are paid.
United Auto Workers President Bob King told union leaders he thinks a deal can be reached with all three U.S. automakers by the current contracts’ Sept. 14 expiration, according to a person familiar with his remarks.
The United Auto Workers said in a Facebook post that it will seek a strike if members vote against a tentative agreement with Ford Motor Co. and that union leaders expect the automaker would seek replacement workers.
Ford Motor Co. will pay most of its United Auto Workers-represented employees a $6,000 signing bonus, $3,752 in profit sharing and a $250 “competitive bonus” this year under a new four-year tentative agreement, the union said in summaries today.
Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers agreed to bargain past tonight’s expiration of their current labor contract while the union also pursues new labor agreements at General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC.


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Source: The Pig Site, 23 June 2020, photo credit: Robert Nickelsberg/getty Images/Axios
Reuters reports that the drop came amid outbreaks of COVID-19 among meat plant workers. The infections slowed meat production lines and pushed up finished prices.
The decline shows that meat stocks were restricted after companies like Smithfield Foods and Tyson Foods Inc reopened slaughterhouses that had temporarily shuttered in April and May to contain the spread of coronavirus.
The USDA reported that cold storage facilities held around 467 million pounds of pork as of 31 May, down 24 percent from April and 26 percent from 2019.
The South African Pork Producers’ Organisation (SAPPO) coordinates industry interventions and collaboratively manages risks in the value chain to enable the sustainability and profitability of pork producers in South Africa.


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Hoping its old-media muscle can make it a new-media power, NBC agreed Tuesday to buy a 4.99% stake in online content company CNET Inc. and a 19% stake in CNET’s Snap service, an Internet navigation site struggling to keep up with larger rivals.
NBC executives said the $64-million deal is designed to put them in position to capture a piece of the growing online audience at a time when network television ratings are sinking. Snap has tiny ratings compared with rivals such as Yahoo and Excite but is in a category known as “portal” sites that NBC clearly coveted. They are many consumers’ first stop on the Net, offering everything from search services to e-mail to chat.
“It’s no secret that broadcast television is not a growth business,” said Marty Yudkovitz, president of NBC Interactive Media. “But what’s going on in this portal space is striking.”
Indeed, portal sites have been compared with TV networks because they are among the few online businesses that have managed to attract mass audiences.
For CNET, the deal amounts to a rescue of its flagging portal business, launched last year. But the backing of NBC, a division of Fairfield, Conn.-based General Electric, also puts new polish on a company that has never posted a profit and had recently lost some of its Wall Street luster.
“Obviously, NBC brings a great deal of financial might to this space,” said Halsey Minor, chief executive of CNET, which is based in San Francisco. “But given NBC’s reach as a media giant, we have an extraordinary opportunity to build awareness for the brand.”
The television network will pay $6 million for its initial position in Snap, which will be spun off from CNET and treated as a joint venture between the companies.
NBC plans to raise its stake in Snap to 60% with an additional $32-million investment later. But that’s a cheap entry into the portal business, where Yahoo, for example, is valued at $5.5 billion on Wall Street despite meager revenue and earnings.
The news sent CNET’s stock soaring 36% to close at $45.13, up $12.13 on Nasdaq.
However, the deal presents several complications. For instance, NBC already has an online relationship with Microsoft Corp., which is planning a portal site of its own.
But executives from both sides made it clear that building the portal business will be top priority. Asked about potential conflicts with Microsoft, Yudkovitz replied, “Who?”
Analysts said the deal makes sense for both companies.
“They both need each other in many respects,” said Chris Charron of Forrester Research in Cambridge, Mass. “NBC brings the financial resources, the content, promotion and relationship with advertisers. Snap brings the technology and the ability to program in this medium.”
Executives at NBC said they plan to promote Snap aggressively, possibly with ad spots in prime time and references in news programs.
But details of these aspects of the deal were murky Tuesday.
Snap was launched last year by CNET as a belated entry into the portal business. It has built what little awareness it has through deals with Internet service providers and computer makers that offer co-branded versions of the service.
The NBC relationship is expected to not only drive traffic to the company’s site at https://www.snap.com but also supply the service with all sorts of NBC content as well as entice legions of new Internet users to make Snap their starting point.
CNET had already spent $25 million developing the site, and analysts said the NBC deal came at a crucial time.
“It saves Snap from oblivion,” said Vernon Keenan of Zona Research in Redwood City. “Snap was like an airliner on fire unable to deploy landing gear. This effective takeover by NBC brings out the landing gear at the last moment.”
CNET lost $5.7 million on sales of $10.7 million in the quarter ended March 31.


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Waitrose shoppers help bag £550 for Sidmouth Voluntary Services
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‘Donation is a great help in enabling charity to continue its valuable work’
Shoppers have helped bag an additional £550 of funding for Sidmouth Voluntary Services (SVS).
The charity provides assistance and support to over-60s and disabled people in the town and is entirely reliant on its own fundraising efforts - so the boost will be a big help in its work.
Waitrose Community Matters selected SVS from nominations as one of its chosen causes for December and the store’s Julie Marish recently presented a cheque to the charity at its Twyford House base.
Speaking on behalf of SVS, Kay Drodge said: “We are a charity that gets no money other than our own efforts in raising funds – these we need to run our lunch club and the minibuses that we use for shopping trips and other outings for our members. The Waitrose donation will be a great help towards this.”
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The SVS serves coffee from 11.30am Monday to Friday, followed by lunches for a reasonable price and offers a minibus shuttle service if required, as well as regular shopping trips and a medical car if needed.
Anyone interested in booking a lunch can call 01395 515063 or, for one of the transport services, ring 01395 512221.
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Kay added that volunteer drivers are always needed to help continue the valuable service and appealed for possible recruits to get in touch.


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The trends from the last several years are clear: Retailers are reaping the rewards by providing an Omni-Channel experience on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. According to CNBC, Cyber Monday in 2018 experienced a 19.3% Year on Year increase in Sales with a record $7.9 billion while retailers pulled in $6.22 billion and a further $3.7 billion in sales on Black Friday and Thanksgiving respectively.
It's that time of year again! Despite its questionable origins, Black Friday and the rush to find fantastic deals online doesn't seem to be slowing down at all... but can the same be said about your eCommerce website?
Black Friday, and, lest we forget the potentially more relevant Cyber Monday, are two very important dates for online retailers seeking to maximize profits. Site downtime has the potential to wipe millions of dollars off profits, especially if that downtime lands during the peak of the rush. However, outright downtime is not the only thing retailers should worry about.


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UK consumers are being put at risk of fraud because banks are “seriously lagging behind international competitors” when it comes to security.
New research has revealed UK financial services organisations are failing to invest and not keeping up with digital investment seen in other sectors.
While other countries are taking a lead in facial recognition, social media data and automated electronic data capture to ID customers and improve the customer experience, British-based banks are stuck in the dark age.
A third of British banks and fintechs say they are ‘seriously lagging behind international competitors’ when it comes to fraud checks.
And 84 per cent of UK financial service firms are concerned about their ability to identify customers.
The research also revealed that UK firms are less inclined to invest in new technology to address this and are more focused on cost-control than their global counterparts.
Mick Hegarty, Managing Director at identity data intelligence specialist GBG, said: “As consumers, we’re so used to technology being used to speed up the identification process, as a result our expectations have risen.
“Facial recognition and automated electronic document capture have been used in airports for some time now, and the iPhone X has taken facial recognition to an even more mainstream level, so it seems particularly clunky and outdated to have to visit a branch and produce a hard copy of an identity document and/or a utility bill to open up a new account.
“The likes of Amazon, Apple and Facebook have really raised the bar and everybody else needs to keep up.”
Despite the UK’s reputation as a world-leader in artificial intelligence, interest in new technology such as facial recognition, automated data capture and social media data analysis has yet to be widely adopted in the UK.
According to the study conducted by Forrester, this is just one symptom of the UK financial sector lagging behind China, Singapore, the US and Australia in its approach to customer identity.
Major regulatory changes this year including Open Banking and GDPR, as well as ongoing Brexit negotiations, are impacting the sector.
At the same time customer expectations continue to rise as a result of digital empowerment and great experiences from the likes of Amazon, Apple, and Facebook.
In order to improve customer retention, loyalty, advocacy and customer satisfaction, UK financial service firms need to address the gap between their approach to new technology and that of their global competition.
Financial service firms should build relationships through services that exceed customers’ current expectations and anticipate their future needs, improving financial wellbeing.
Hegarty adds: “Although the UK is currently behind the rest of the world in its digital approach to customer identity, there are some promising signs for the future.
“Our research shows that UK fintechs are more interested than the established banks in adopting new approaches and more are planning to increase investment in the next 12 months.
“These new challenger banks will prove vital to the UK financial service sector in keeping pace with the rest of the world whilst we navigate a challenging year of legislation and policy change.”


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Our drivers are everyday people, from all walks of life, and, thanks to this dedicated network of drivers, we have become the fastest-growing last-mile parcel delivery platform in the market.
GREENWICH, Conn. (PRWEB) June 12, 2019
Point Pickup Technologies, a company offering a single platform that solves same-day delivery challenges for enterprises, today announced its “We Care Tour,” which will stop at more than 50 locations throughout the United States. In today’s highly competitive same-day delivery market, Point Pickup has differentiated itself by building a sustainable business model focused squarely on driver satisfaction. At each stop, Point Pickup will thank its current drivers while also meeting prospective ones. And, information will be provided to consumers who would like to use Point Pickup’s store-to-home grocery delivery service from local area Walmart stores.
“Drivers are what make us successful,” said Point Pickup CEO Tom Fiorita. “It’s important to keep a dialogue going with our driver community, so we decided to take the conversation to them. And, while we’re there, we’ll provide them with hands-on training, Q&A’s as well as some free gifts and a lot of fun along the way! Drivers tell us that our attention to their needs is what sets us apart.”
While the Point Pickup platform makes it easier for drivers to conduct their business through managing all delivery transactions, driver payments and insurance, it also provides drivers reliable work and income by enabling pre-scheduled, repeatable deliveries on a daily/weekly basis, on their preferred schedules and delivery routes. But, it takes more than a platform to keep drivers happy – it also takes an on-going commitment to put drivers first.
The tour will officially launch on June 11th, in 17 regions where Point Pickup has launched its partnership with Walmart’s grocery delivery business, including Allentown, PA, Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV, Bowling Green, KY, Clarksville, TN, Huntsville, AL, Jackson, MS, Shreveport, LA, Lafayette, LA, Mobile, AL, Tallahassee, FL, Hilton Head, SC, Jacksonville, NC, Fayetteville, NC, Richmond, VA, Fredericksburg, VA, and the Washington, DC area.
The gig economy has provided ordinary people from diverse backgrounds an opportunity to earn extra income. At Point Pickup, there is a dedicated driver group called EDPs, or everyday people, who are looking for new or supplemental employment opportunities. They are able to quickly join Point Pickup’s growing driver community via the hands-on support provided by the company. “Our drivers are everyday people, from all walks of life,” said Fiorita. “And, thanks to this dedicated network of drivers, we have become the fastest-growing last-mile parcel delivery platform in the market.”
During the tour, drivers will receive new driving tips and tools, exchange feedback, and qualify to enter a contest with top prizes that include payments toward drivers’ car leases or loans. Consumers can learn about same-day Walmart grocery deliveries and receive starter discounts. For more information about the Point Pickup RV driver appreciation tour, visit http://www.pointpickupcares.com.
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Point Pickup (PPUP) brings smart technology to last-mile delivery with a uniquely precise and scalable solution that is being used by some of the country's largest retailers. The technology platform, along with Point Pickup's diverse driver network, solves the greatest challenges of the growing same-day delivery market. Point Pickup is the only platform offering pre-scheduled deliveries with favorite drivers while accommodating on-demand requests. PPUP's same-day platform saves time and money by eliminating the need for a middle layer, offering sophisticated matching criteria and optimized routing and an API that integrates with e-commerce systems. For more information, visit http://www.pointpickup.com.


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Founded by Natalie Fee in 2015, Refill is an initiative run by City to Sea, an organisation that oversees campaigns to stop marine plastic pollution at source
Launched in 2015, Refill is a system that allows consumers to reuse their own water bottles.
The Refill scheme has coincided with a wider rise in the sale of reusable drinks containers.
According to market analyst GlobalData, almost one in five consumers purchased a reusable water bottle in 2018, with more than a quarter of those aged between 16 and 24.
More than half of those who purchased said they wanted to get one because it would reduce the amount of plastic they use.
Reducing plastic was one of the prime motivating factors behind charity City to Sea’s decision to set up Refill.
What is Refill?
The idea is simple, a business — such as a restaurant or a cafe — partners with the organisation and agrees to provide free water refills in its stores.
Refill — which was set up by City to Sea founder Natalie Fee — has developed an app that people can use to locate where this service is offered.
Its first public test was in Bristol, with the scheme launched in October 2015 by a flash “flask” mob in the city.
At the time, Bristol was the holder of the European Green Capital award.
Fee said: “We’re fortunate to have high-quality tap water here in Bristol and we hope Refill Bristol will help Bristolians fall back in love with it — by popping into one of Bristol’s excellent cafes and bars and staying hydrated for free.”
A few months later, the organisation was asked to be part of the city’s “It Doesn’t Stop Here Campaign” alongside Bristol Water.
In March 2018, London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced the scheme would be trialled in the capital.
Speaking at the time, Khan said: “A free tap water scheme is long overdue in London and I welcome all retailers and businesses which have shown a strong commitment to reducing unnecessary plastic waste by joining the London Refill scheme.
“We all need to try harder to cut excessive use of single-use plastic bottles, cups and cutlery that can end up pointlessly overflowing our landfill sites, finding their way into our oceans and harming our environment.”
The trial involved major chains such as Starbucks, Pret A Manger and Leon, as well as attractions in the capital including the Tate Modern art gallery and the National Theatre.
The Mayor of London and Thames Water also came together to install a network of more than 100 drinks fountains in the city.
Following the success of these trials, Refill has expanded the scheme across the country — with more than 20,000 businesses in the UK currently partnered with the oraganisation.
What is Refill’s 50 Fountains Challenge?
Towards the end of 2019, City to Sea and Refill, alongside food and farming charity Sustain, launched the 50 Fountains Challenge.
This campaign calls upon communities and organisations to provide 50 public drinking fountains across their areas.
Celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, a supporter of the challenge, said: “Accessible free drinking water for people on-the-go is a no brainer when it comes to kicking some single-use-plastic out of our lives.
“And if it means you choose water to quench your thirst instead of a sugary drink, your body will thank you for it, too.
“The guidelines and tool kit set up by Sustain and City to Sea are helpful and clear.
“I look forward to a time when buying bottled water is no longer the easier thing to do.”
As part of the campaign, the London borough of Southwark has pledged to install 10 more drinking water fountains over the next three years, increasing the amount it has from 40 to 50.
Founded by Stephanie Wiermann, the not-for-profit Refill Deutschland says its core principles are environmental protection and waste reduction.
Businesses offering free water bottle refills to the general public are given “refill station” stickers, allowing consumers to identify operators of the scheme.
Since its initial trial in Hamburg, the scheme has spread across Germany and can now be found in the cities of Munich, Mainz and Berlin.


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DISH with MLB preview and 4K game
"Take me out to the ballgame" with DISH.
Today, Thursday, marks the first time in 50 years that all 30 MLB teams share the same Opening Day, and to celebrate, DISH is offering a free preview of MLB Extra Innings through April 5. MLB Extra Innings is MLB’s out-of-market package, allowing customers to watch up to 100 games per week from across the country—no matter where they live. It's a great way to keep up with your favorite players and teams.
Also, DISH customers can also catch FOX Sport’s live 4K coverage of the Houston Astros vs. Texas Rangers game this Saturday (3/31) at 4:05 p.m. ET on DISH channel 540.
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Legacy West’s grand opening celebrations are scheduled for Friday, June 2-Sunday, June 4, 2017. The celebration weekend will feature live entertainment from top national and local musical acts as well as food and drink tastings, special store discounts and a “sneak peek” first look inside Legacy Hall, the 55,000 square foot food hall. The crowds can also catch a close-up look at Visit Plano’s new hot air balloon, “Excellence,” which will be tethered on site during the festivities, weather permitting.
The concert line-up will include the Jordan Kahn Music Company performing Friday, June 2 starting at 7:30pm, followed by Emerald City Band on Saturday, June 3 at 2pm and Party on the Moon Band at 7:30pm. On Sunday, June 4, Taylor Pace Band will take the main stage at 2pm.
Many Legacy West restaurants will offer food and drink tastings throughout the weekend including Bistro 31, Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steak House, Earls Kitchen + Bar, Fogo de Chao, Haywire, Mesero, Shake Shack, Starbucks Reserve, Taverna, True Food Kitchen, and Toulouse.
Legacy Hall, a 55,000 square foot food hall, will offer tours to the public for the first time and will also have several of its food stall operators on site sampling their menu items. Sprinkles will serve an exclusive Legacy West Chocolate Caramel cupcake and True Food Kitchen will offer a special cocktail called the Plano Paloma, only available June 2-4.
Legacy West retailers including Bonobos, Coach, Fabletics, Filson, Johnny Was, Peter Millar, Pockets Menswear, Suitsupply, Tesla, Tommy Bahama, TUMI, and West Elm will host special in-store events, parties and exclusive discounts and promotions. Also participating, The Renaissance Dallas at Plano Legacy West Hotel and Visit Plano.
Grand Opening Weekend event times will be Friday, June 2, 5pm-9:30pm, Saturday, June 3, 12pm-9:30pm and Sunday, June 4, 12pm-5pm.


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This country will soon have an international hotel brand operating here; this after the government secured a loan from Taiwan.
Prime Minister Gonsalves on Thursday 7th June 2018 said he was notified by the Taiwanese’s embassy here about the approval of a US 50 Million dollar loan.
The US $50 million or EC 135 Million dollars soft loan will go towards the construction of a 250-room hotel at Mount Wynne.
Gonsalves noted that the government intends to build the hotel, however, it will engage a company with a global brand to market and manage it.
In February of 2018, the Minister of finance Camilo Gonsalves stated that the Government intends to construct a state-owned, private-sector managed hotel or hotels to add 200 – 350 rooms to the current stock of high-quality tourist accommodation.
This model he said is common throughout the region, with the Barbados Hilton, Trinidad Marriott and Saint Kitts and Nevis Marriott being just a few of the many state-owned facilities that are managed by major international brands.


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Comments Facebook is acquiring the team at webcam eye-tracking startup GazeHawk, but not its product and technology, GazeHawk said on Thursday. The Mountain View, California, company, which uses webcams to assess how volunteers look at websites, advertisements, or images on their computer screens, said on its website that the team moving to Facebook will work on projects unrelated to GazeHawk, most likely on product and backend engineering. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. In a similar deal, Facebook acquired earlier this month the team behind file-transfer startup Caffeinated Mind, which offered an on-demand peer-to-peer file sharing system. Facebook said the staff from Caffeinated Mind will work on tools that will help its employees share files internally. While Caffeinated Mind said it would be closing down its services, GazeHawk believes it has developed a best-of-class technology that does not exist anywhere else, and is committed to seeing it continue to provide benefits to others, company founders Brian Krausz and Joe Gershenson wrote in a blog post . "We are currently exploring different options for GazeHawk, including selling the product/technology to another company. Discussions about this are still ongoing," Krausz said in an email. Facebook did not immediately comment on the acquisition.
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NZ helps local dairy farmers
25 September, 2018, 9:30 am
THE New Zealand Government through the Dairy Industry Leadership Group (DILG) has designed a package that will address many of the major problems confronting local dairy farmers.
Fiji Cooperative Dairy Company Ltd (FCDCL) chairman Simon Cole said the Government was working closely with the dairy industry in the implementation of an agreed package which is a $10 million initiative by the NZ Government.
In a press statement yesterday, Mr Cole said the DILG was comprised of representatives from the New Zealand Government, Fiji Ministry of Agriculture, FCDCL, Fiji Dairy Ltd, Prime NZ Consultants and representatives from the BTec team (those tackling tuberculosis) and Bio Security.
“Government has already introduced a farmer’s compensation package for lost cattle to tuberculosis.”
He added that Government had determined that increased efficiency leading to the recovery of the industry could be achieved by implementing a package of interventions that include:
n Developing sufficient quality pasture (very little pasture land developed)
n Constructing proper fencing for consistent pasture rotation n The targeted use of concentrate feeds particularly in early lactation.
n Proper calf feeding including a milk replacer and a feed ration to ensure the viability of replacement stock.
n Assistance with water reticulation
“We need the farmers to invest in the industry, we need the farmers to benefit from the package improvement and we need them to see a profit.”
Mr Cole said with government’s continued support he believed this could become a reality.