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As per a recent study conducted by thatspersonal.com, Pune stands fourth on the list of adult product shoppers, ranked after Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore. When dna asks the Puneites to share their views on the idea of making these products accessible, most of them feel that it is great to have such a definite step for Indians to broaden their mindsets.
"Although I am glad that people are widening their horizons, I find it funny that, India being the land of Kama Sutra, has taken so many years to start such an initiative. Ideally, we should have started the trend of selling these products," said Vicky Gogia, an automobile journalist.
"I had been thinking of gifting something 'interesting' to my wife. My friend told me about a particular website where I could find a variety of products, without worrying about spending a bomb," said Ankita Gupta, a financial consultant.
That'spersonal.com keeps the buyer's identity a secret, which is preferred by most of the consumers. In addition, they provide their costumers with the option of picking up their parcels from authorised offices in their city, in case they don't want the packages delivered when they are not at home.
"In India, purchasing a condom from a chemist is met with sniggers and giggles. Today, I can buy a whole range of adult products online without being embarrassed. An online stores lets me to check different products and compare their prices in the comfort of my home. Even women can shop for the products discreetly," said Arjun Nair, a social media manager.
The study by thatspersonal.com also revealed that female shoppers in the city are more than the males shoppers.
Annanya Paul, a writer, said, "I'm glad that the products are finally available in India. Shopping online also saves us from the awkwardness of buying these stuff at a store. But at the same time, I feel that we would be 'empowered' when we walk into a store and buy sex products without being judged."
With the wedding season round the corner, most women fee that the portals provide them with more ideas for gifts.
"The most silliest part is that the 'parcel' comes in a black thick plastic bag and your sharp minded friends will figure out that either you have purchased either meat or some raunchy stuff," Malini ruefully adds.
However, some citizens feel that such websites should not be encouraged as they might spoil the youth.
"I don't trust the safety of products like lubricants, creams and gels, as they may affect the hormonal system or cause complications in the body. When it comes to pleasure, I feel natural ways are better and safer," said Ruchika Sharma, a housewife.
According to city-based sexologist, Dr Rajendra Sathe, certain products such as creams, gels and lotions, advertised and sold online for the enhancement of the size of the penis, are not proven as good remedies and neither do they feature anywhere in ayurvedic or allopathic pharmacopoeia.
"These products, which promote the myth of 'size matters', have suddenly come into vast demand in the country. I strongly feel that one has to put a stop to it," Dr Sathe added.
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Norwegian Cruise Line has opened voyages for 2021 through 2023, which include over 20 new destinations, including Antarctica, Greenland and South Africa.
The company will begin operating roundtrip voyages from Cape Town, South Africa, in late 2021 on the Norwegian Jade. The ship will operate 12-day sailings from December 2021 through January 2022 to Luderitz and Walvis Bay, Namibia, and Durban and Richard’s Bay, South Africa. The ship will overnight at Richard’s Bay and Cape Town.
NCL operations are on hold now due to the Covid-19 pandemic; the target date to resume cruising now is July 1.
Other notable itineraries:
—The 2,348-passenger Norwegian Star will sail through Antarctica during a season of 14-day voyages from Buenos Aires, Argentina, beginning in 2021. The cruises will visit five ports of call across Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and the Falkland Islands, including a sailing by Deception Island and Elephant Island/Cape Lookout. (Cruise ships carrying more than 500 passengers are not allowed to make landings and disembark passengers, according to the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators.)
—The Norwegian Star’s July 14 and July 25, 2022, Northern Europe sailings make the brand’s debut in Greenland with calls to Nuuk, Qaqortoq and Nanortalik during two 10- and 11-day sailings from Reykjavik, Iceland.
—The Norwegian Sun will sail in Asia starting in November 2021, becoming the first in the fleet to visit Nagoya, Beppu and Himeji Japan; Manila and Coron, Philippines; Kota Kinabalu and Melaka, Malaysia; Muara, Brunei; and Kampot, Cambodia.
“At this moment, we are in our respective corners of the world destination daydreaming,” said Harry Sommer, NCL president and CEO. “We wanted to use this time to provide our loyal guests with the best-of-the-best itineraries. We’ll set sail to more than 20 new incredible destinations including Antarctica, Greenland and South Africa while also sailing to the over 300 destinations our guests have come to love. This time around, we’re giving our guests more time to plan their long-awaited vacations as well as additional extraordinary ports-of-call. We can’t wait for them to experience these vacations of a lifetime.”
For a list of the new 2021 to 2023 itineraries, click here.
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After six months of hard work and planning, the day is finally here. We have 30 days to raise $40,000 – with the help of our community, we can make XO the best game it can be.
Earlier this year, we announced XO on Square Enix Collective: a curated platform that enables creators to post ideas, and gamers to judge whether those ideas should become reality or not. The community voted in our favor, and now the Collective has decided to support us during our Kickstarter – while allowing us to retain our IP and full creative control.
To be clear: we’re not getting money from Square Enix.
The Collective is good for us because we’re a small team with limited resources. They’ve provided guidance on XO’s production, and helped us refine our marketing strategy.
The Collective is good for backers because they put us through a detailed assessment review. Our supporters can rest assured knowing that Square Enix is confident in our abilities, and that we’re putting your money to good use!
We’re still the new guys in town, and Portland has been really good to us. We want to celebrate the kick-off with our hometown, so we’ve teamed up with Portland Indie Game Squad to throw a launch party at Lucky Lab NW . We’ll even be live-streaming the event on Twitch, courtesy of our friends at Intel.
We’ll have a playable build of XO, and 20+ other indie games to check out. Some of our friends from Seattle are coming down too, including Starr Mazer, Tiny Build, and Stumbling Cat! It’s free to get in, and goes from 6pm-11pm.
As if that weren’t enough to handle, we launched XO on Steam Greenlight, where the community can vote to get our game on the biggest digital PC gaming marketplace in the world! If you’d like to know more, be very active on Twitter, Facebook, and of course our Kickstarter page for the next month.
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Latest Dairy Market Blog
IFA analysis of the current dairy market trends and developments and how they affect Irish farmers.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]EU supplies down in early 2019
French milk supplies were down -3.1% in week 4 of 2019 (see graph right) and (most recent monthly figure available) down 3.7% in November 18 compared to November 17.
This is the continuation of an ongoing trend towards significantly lower output compared to previous year since the first week of August 2018. Also, output has been consistently below the 5-year average (yellow line in graph below) since almost this time last year.
Source: France Agrimer[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]German milk output has also been below year-earlier for almost all of the same period (from August 2018 todate).
Between them, France and Germany account for 37% of all the milk produced in the EU 28.
Dutch milk production has fallen 2.92% in the January to December period according to ZuivelNL, the Dutch dairy industry organisation. This is due to the restriction on the national dairy herd imposed to reduce phosphate output. Dutch milk supplies account for a further 9.4% of EU supplies.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
Source: ZMB[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]UK milk supplies have been increasing in recent months, rising above 2017/18 output since November.
December 2018 UK output was up 1.7%, but the April to year end output was level for GB, and up 2.3% for NI. The UK accounts for 9.6% of EU supplies (see pie chart below).
Source: EU Commission[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]More dynamic countries from a milk production perspective include Denmark (up 2.5% for the full year, and 2% for December); Poland (up 2.6% for the full year, up 3% for November) and of course Ireland (up 4.3% for the full year, up 23.2% for the month of December).
Poland accounts for 7.3% of overall EU supplies, with Ireland at 4.5%, and Denmark at 4%.
So, with almost 50% of the EU’s milk output in negative growth, the EU’s milk production has been restrained in recent months, with November output down 0.8% and predictions that this trend will likely continue into spring 2019.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Global supplies: a mixed picture, but flat at back end
Global milk supplies were estimated to be up 1% for 2018, but flat at year end because the EU, Argentina and Australia are all well down.
US output was up moderately, 0.8% for November (no more recent figures due to Government shutdown) and +1.2% for the January to November period.
New Zealand production continued to increase strongly, by 2.3% for the year, and 4.4% in December alone. However, restrictions from environmental legislation enacted by the current Labour government will likely reduce scope for growth in the medium to longer term.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
Source: AHDB Dairy[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Intervention stocks depleted to almost nothing – with rising sales price
Almost all the over 400,000t of SMP sold into intervention since 14/15 have been sold out, with recent prices keeping pace with fresh feed grade prices of around €1660-1670 (German and Dutch, 6th Feb quote). The latest minimum price adjudicated for sale of intervention powder was €1622/t on 2nd February. As the range of bids was up to €1710, some product will have sold for a higher price up to that maximum.
Remarkably, the 3,500t which were left to sell did not find buyers, only 584 tonnes were sold. Spain, the UK, Slovakia and Finland are the countries where this left-over product is stored. All Irish stock has been sold.
For all intents and purposes, the intervention stores are now as good as empty, and with restrained fresh milk supplies, the price of powder will hopefully continue to firm.
Based on EU MMO data[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Dairy prices stable to firmer
The firming of powder and butter prices we have seen in recent weeks has continued in a more modest way.
The nominal Irish product mix whose returns we follow on the basis of the EU Milk Market Observatory weekly average price reports has improved by around 1.3 cents per litre from early January to early February.
Based on the EU MMO average prices quoted for 3rd February, the representative Irish product mix would return gross 36.1c/l before processing costs. Assuming the deduction of a nominal 5c/l for processing costs, this would be equivalent to 31.1c/l + VAT, or 32.78c/l incl VAT. This is around 0.5c/l more than the average of the FJ League for milk purchased in the month of December.
Based on EU MMO data
Spot quotes, which had stalled and eased in recent days, are also firming again very slightly for SMP and whey in early February (table below).
Source: INTL FCStone[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Returns – improvements should help hold milk prices in short term
Most of the indicators we follow on the market place have improved by 1c/l or more in the last month to month and a half. This reflects continuous improvement in powder prices (especially SMP) and while butter prices had been easing for several months, they have been firming slightly in recent days/weeks.
The average price paid by co-ops for December milk was, based on the Farmers’ Journal milk league, 30.67c/l + VAT. The below suggests that this would be comfortably sustainable based on current (late Jan to early Feb) returns as illustrated by a variety of Irish, EU and international indicators.
Sources: EU MMO, INTL FCStone, Ornua, GDT[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]CL/IFA/12th February 2019[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Focus on SMP: markets recover globally as intervention stocks collapse
The positive indicators for SMP markets have continued to mount up into the New Year, the most remarkable probably being the rapid sales of increasingly large tonnages out of intervention at rising prices. A total of 357,345 tonnes have been sold out of intervention in the period from December 2016 todate, leaving only around 22,000t in stock after a whopping 80,242t were sold earlier this week.
The minimum sales prices have been rising since last July, now practically matching fresh Dutch and German spot quotes for feed grade powder. At €1554, the most recent minimum accepted price was about on par with the EU average spot quotes for feed grade powder quoted for 9th January 2019.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
Based on EU MMO data[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]With very strong SMP exports out of the EU in 2018, all SMP price quotes are also on the up, from EU market averages to GDT trends, as are forward indicators such as spot quotes and futures. Now that intervention stocks have dropped to below their March 2016 level, will we see a continued recovery in SMP prices, and a rebalancing of the butter/powder prices to more “normal” levels?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]GDT SMP prices have been rising steeply in the last three auctions – albeit from very low prices – to a level of US$ 2,200 last seen in June 2017.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
Source: GDT[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]European spot quotes for food grade SMP have also improved consistently in recent weeks, with Kempten (German), France Agrimer and Dutch PZ quotes now at €1830/tonne. We are even hearing anecdotal trade at prices nearing €1900/t.
This is happening at the same time as significant sales out of intervention for what must by now be feed grade SMP are reaching prices that are on par with fresh feed grade product spot prices.
On 9th January, the Dutch PZ spot quote for feed grade powder was €1580/t, while the German (Kempten) quote was €1550/t – about the same as the most recent minimum intervention selling price. While the spot market trends suggest where average market returns will become in the short term, futures deal with the medium to longer term trends.
Even futures markets are looking up for SMP, with latest EEX quotes suggest prices rising above €2000/t by the end of 2019.
Average EU market prices also reflect this same trend. In the first week of January 2019, they reached €1730/t.
It is also the improvement in the spot and market prices of SMP which caused the December Ornua PPI to increase from 104.9 points to 107.5, equivalent to a milk price of 30.55c/l + VAT (32.2c/l incl VAT).[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
Source: INTL FCStone
Source: EU MMO[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Returns from other products, apart from whey and Emmenthal cheese, are easing
It is important to state that, while many bemoan just how much butter prices have eased since the vertiginous peaks of 2017, at around €4300 (spot) and €4450 (early January average EU price), they remain significantly above the average of the last 10 years.
This is however a significant reduction in the last 15 months, and one which has yet to be fully offset by still historically weak SMP prices, at least relative to the old equilibrium which used to prevail between the prices of those two products.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
Based on EU MMO data[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Whey prices have started firming in recent weeks, with spots at €790/t – though the latest available market prices for December 2018 suggested better prices than that, around €840/t.
Based on EU MMO data[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Demand outlook for 2019?
Geopolitical factors including Brexit, international trade and tariff disputes driven by the Trump Administration and concerns over the global economic growth are all worrying economic and trade commentators.
These concerns certainly affect dairy market sentiment to a point.
However, lower supplies in the EU, which have dipped into negative territory over the autumn, have continued to moderate output growth expectations from the bloc. The EU Commission reports a likely production increase of 0.8% for 2018 over 2017, and predicts only 0.9% increase in 2019. Their long term prediction is for moderate growth of 0.8% per annum to 2030 as environmental factors become more of a restraint in Europe.
Predictions for global milk output growth for 2019 are for no more than 1% increase, a significantly lower level than seen through 17/18.
Key of course is the supply demand balance, and supplies have trended towards better matching demand growth in recent months. However, we will have to see the extent to which the headwinds outlined above may moderate demand.
In its Quarterly Dairy Report published in December, Rabobank predicts “double digit” demand growth from China for dairy products, due largely to excessive production costs restricting domestic output.
Rabobank also expresses the view that buyers may be taken unawares by a more rapid than expected dairy commodity price recovery in the first half of 2019, based on relatively low privately held stocks, all the more so now that the intervention cupboard is getting very bare!
Domestic dairy demand in most of the developed world remains solid enough, especially for butter and cheese which tend to be traded more domestically than on export (Ireland being an exception to this rule for obvious reasons).
Oil revenues for some emerging countries will have suffered in the last few months as crude oil prices went from near $80/barrel to around $55-60 today, and this will undoubtedly play a part in their food import affordability.
The long-term demand outlook – which looks beyond the shorter-term geopolitical difficulties outlined above – remains very positive, with global population and income growth in emerging countries expected to continue to drive dairy demand growth, in the context of more moderate global output growth.
So, stability on milk prices is well justified for now, but could we see justification before long for more positive moves by our milk purchasers? Who knows?
CL/IFA/11th January 2019
1 – Less milk about
Global supplies of milk have continued to grow into October, but, at an estimated +0.6%, this is at a very much more modest pace than heretofore.
Weather related fodder shortages and cost shocks continue to impact EU (-0.4% in Oct; +1.4% ytd), and Australian (-5.7% in Oct, -0.6% ytd) output. While the US continue to show positive growth (+1.1% ytd), it is relatively modest at +0.8% for Oct.
Of the main dairy regions, only New Zealand is motoring on, up 5.8% for Oct, and up 2.2% for Jan-Oct.
Slightly less important in tonnages produced is Argentina, though Oct supplies were +2.1% – compared to a low performance this time last year – and ytd + 5.6%.
Brazil was down 0.2% Jan-Sept.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]European supplies, while well down on the whole for October, show a mixed picture when one look at individual producing countries.
France, Germany and the Netherland account for, between them 46% of the EU’s milk supplies, and 51% of its dairy exports. Those three countries are all producing less milk this back end than last year, the Netherlands at least to end the year with less milk than 2017 – France produced 4.4% less milk in October, Germany -1% and the Netherlands -5.5%.
UK milk supplies were practically static at +0.4% for October, despite very strong growth in Northern Ireland, suggesting lower output in the rest of the UK.
Finland reported losing 50% of its grass crop to the drought over the summer, so that production will be down 0.5% this year and the Finns predict it will fall a further1.1% next year.
Austria’s milk supplies are also down, and the Italians expect their milk production to fall in the last quarter of 2018.
Supplies from other countries, on the other hand, have staged a recovery after the heat wave and drought of the summer. Ireland most of all increased October production by 20.1%, raising January to October output by 2.8%, with expectations of further significant growth in November. Denmark is also showing some growth, while Poland continue to grow production by over 2% ytd.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
Source: CLAL.it[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]2 – A turnaround in GDT trend?
Today’s GDT auction was the second positive one after a long stretch of price falls since last May. Are we seeing a turn-around? NZ supplies have increased massively in recent months, but we are now well past the NZ peak, and ahead of the Northern Hemisphere main season. Concerns over slower and even negative supply growth in the short to medium term is clearly influencing even Oceanian price trends.
At US$3928 (€3454/t), the average GDT butter price is up 4.9% on the previous auction, but remains well below current EU average butter prices. At $2042/t (€1796), GDT SMP prices are a little above rising EU levels.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
Source: GDT[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]3 – More SMP selling fast out of intervention at rising prices
SMP has been open for buy-in since 2014, in the wake of the Russian embargo on all EU foodstuffs. A total of over 405,000t was sold into intervention between 2015 and 2017. There was no SMP accepted into intervention in 2018, and after a couple of unsuccessful tenders, operators got the message and stopped offering it in.
In 2016, 40t of SMP were sold out. In 2017, this increased to a still modest 180 tonnes. 2018 saw the bulk of the sales, with 276,883t sold out by the last December 2018 tender. From October, the number of monthly tender was doubled to 2, though December had only the one.
Next January, the totality of what is left in stock namely just over 102,000t, will be available for the next two tenders.
EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan has seriously suggested that the entire stock could be gone by next spring.
The most interesting aspect of the intervention sales is how they have increased in pace while the sales price has also been increasing.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
Based on: EU MMO data[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]4 – Rising fresh SMP market prices
SMP prices have been firming progressively since mid-October, coinciding with the largest sales out of intervention (see graph above).
As at 9th December 2018, the EU MMO reported the average EU SMP price at €1670/t.
Spot quotes for SMP have also been increasing steadily for the last couple of months. On 12th December, those had exceeded the intervention buying in level and exceeded €1700/t for the first time in months.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
Based on: EU MMO data
Source: INTL FCStone[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Quotes for feed grade SMP have also been improving over the same period (see graph below). It is fair to assume that the sales out of intervention cater mostly to this market. And the minimum price reached in the December sale was very much on par with the type of prices currently being paid for the fresh product.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
Source: IEG Vu[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]5 – Demand somewhat flat currently but looking to improve in New Year
Demand growth had been assessed at around +1.5% earlier this year. Lower oil prices, trade tariff disputes and weaker economic growth in many regions has flattened it a little in the last quarter of the year.
However, Chinese demand has increased in the earlier part of 2018, and is expected to increase in 2019 also.
Rabobank predict that, in 2019, Chinese demand will increase in double digits. The cost of production is rising in China, with feed costs on the up partly as a result of the tariff/trade war with the US. Chinese economic growth is however somewhat uncertain and this will impact demand for additional imports. Even allowing for this, however, Rabobank predicts an increase in Chinese dairy consumption for 2019 of 1.5% year on year.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
Source: Eucolait[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]In South East Asia, powder demand (including casein) has increased after a poor start to the year. Butter and cheese imports have also increased, though from low levels.
Rabobank predict that the relative global production squeeze is set to continue into 2019, and bearing in mind relatively low levels of privately held stock – also fast shrinking SMP intervention inventories – and continued steady demand, they say there is a real risk that buyers may get caught out with the market “moving quickly upwards and catching them unawares” in the first half of the New Year.
[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]6 – Not all rosy: Brexit, oil prices, international tariff wars
As 2018 comes to a close, there are some headwinds.
Brexit Day, 29th March 2019, is just over 100 days away, and the British, Irish Governments and the EU are now openly talking about preparing for the UK crashing out without a deal (a Hard Brexit).
It is worth reminding ourselves of a few dairy facts when it comes to our trade with the UK.
The UK imports 476,533 tonnes of all manners of dairy products from Ireland, but most of all cheese (138,000t) including a majority of Cheddar, and butter (49,000t).
They also export around 936,520 tonnes of dairy products to Ireland – this is mostly raw liquid milk from Northern Ireland which is being processed in the ROI.
So, firstly, the value of the UK imports from Ireland exceed its exports in value terms; and secondly, there may not be sufficient capacity within the UK to process the NI milk which is currently being processed in the ROI.
Hence, to quote the CLAL presentation from which the graph right and the information above is sourced, “Aside from political considerations, market equilibrium calls for the existence of a free trade agreement between the UK and the EU in order to limit the effect of Brexit on the constituents of the supply chain”.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
Source: CLAL.it[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The most immediately apparent negative impact from the political chaos and uncertainty surrounding Brexit development is the weakness of Sterling. It makes our exports less competitive, and makes UK/NI milk cheaper to import, playing into the hands of retailers intent on unsustainable discounting, especially around Christmas as we have seen this week with fresh vegetables![/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
Source: Xe[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Oil prices had risen very significantly during 2018, increasing export earnings for many emerging countries which rely on them to import their food necessities including dairy products.
In recent weeks, increased supply and the fear of economic headwinds potentially reducing demand has impacted crude oil prices, which have fallen dramatically to levels last experienced over 12 months ago.
Crude Brent oil went from US$87.54/barrel on 3rd October to around US$58-59/barrel in early December.
While Saudi Arabia is believed to be unlikely to risk upsetting the US by pushing too hard for OPEC output restraint (which would push up oil prices), Rabobank and other analysts nonetheless expect 2019 oil prices to average out in excess of 2018.
International tariff wars have also increased uncertainty on global markets. Trade tariffs imposed by the US on China in particular have increased the cost of feed, and consequently the cost of milk production. Paradoxically, this will, according to Rabobank, mean increased dairy imports in 2019. Recent attempts at thawing out commercial relations between China and the US have resulted in some import concessions on US soya – but whether those suffice to improve Chinese production costs remains to be seen.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
Source: InfoMine.com[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]7 – Where are the main price indicators?
The below sums up the main indicators, many explored in some detail above, to assess what they indicate by way of milk price equivalent levels. It is clear that, despite the last two positive auctions, the GDT levels still reflect significantly lower returns than EU indicators, showing a continued differentiation between markets.
That said, it is noticeable that the various indicators, all of which are quoted below before 5.4% VAT is added, remain close to prices currently being paid by the main milk purchasers of around 30-31c/l. This continues to prove our point that stability in farmgate milk prices, at worst, for the next few months at least, is a very sustainable and legitimate expectation from farmers!
Based on data from: EU MMO, INTL FCStone, CLAL.it, Ornua, GDT[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]CL/IFA/18th December 2018


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Tesla has confirmed that operations of its gigafactory in Nevada will push through on schedule. The announcement comes after a report claimed the construction of the battery factory, located 15 miles east of Reno, would be delayed.
The report alleged that construction efforts at the site had been cut by up to 80 percent and that the need for electricians for the project was "subject to change." The local newspaper that ran the story quoted an announcement by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW).
The IBEW released the update for "Project Tiger," a codename for Tesla's project, on its job referrals page:
"The Tiger Project has been cut back by 80% at this time," the union was quoted to have said. The news may have alarmed many, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who on Twitter criticized the report as "dumb." The IBEW update and Musk's social media rant have since been deleted.
The incident prompted the electric car maker to issue a response:
"The project is progressing and the gigafactory is still on schedule," said Alexis Georgeson, spokeswoman for Tesla. Last month, the company announced that it is installing equipment this year and that the production of the battery-pack gigafactory would begin in 2016.
Tesla plans to employ 6,500 people as part of the project. Residents and veterans of Nevada will be prioritized in the hiring process and that successful hires should expect to get an average hourly pay of $25. The project is being constructed on a 5 million sq. ft property and is speculated to employ as many as 3,000 workers when construction reaches its peak. Currently, the site is undergoing construction based on phases.
The Nevada location was decided in September after Musk declared the state the winner in its high stakes battle for the building of a future factory. Tesla will use the site to mass-produce cheaper batteries needed for its future line of cheaper electric cars.
Tesla had been the target recently of a negative opinion, which caused its stocks to slide from its peak of $291. Some analysts have questioned the company's capacity to reach its production and sales targets for the next three years.
Brian Johnson, an analyst at Barclays, noted in his research on Monday that most of Tesla's capital spending has been focused on the company's Model X SUV and Model S sedan. Little amount has been spent so far on the battery plant.


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Since older Galaxy flagships recently received the One UI 3.0, we did not exactly expect Samsung to push the Galaxy S21’s newer 3.1 build to these phones anytime soon. However, the company decided to give its existing customers a pleasant surprise by giving the launch an early start. Right now, the Galaxy S20 FE is already getting its One UI 3.1
Many Galaxy S20 FE 5G owners from Europe took to Reddit earlier today to report receiving a 1.7GB update that includes One UI 3.1 and the security update in February. With this build, you can expect Google Discover integration on the home screen, Google Home device controls in quick settings, and several new video call effects, among others. Early adopters have noted that certain S21 features, such as Director’s View, have not been transferred to the budget flagship.
SamMobile can confirm that the update has so far been live in European markets, including the Baltics, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, the Nordic countries, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. If you are in one of these countries that has a Galaxy S20 FE 5G, you can go to the software update section of the settings app to check for the update alert.
It is worth noting that only the 5G model of the S20 FE receives One UI 3.1 at the moment, while we have no news about the 4G-only variant. Given that the update is already available for the Tab S7 / S7 + and now hits non-flagship phones, we are hoping that more Samsung phones will join the list sooner rather than later.
According to a report from SamMobile, Samsung has stopped the S20 FE’s One UI 3.1 update within a few days of its release. We do not have an official word on exactly what led to this decision, but a small subset of Reddit users began to encounter performance issues, faster battery operation and unreliable SMS alerts after installing the latest version.
Something similar happened just last month when Samsung had to pull the Galaxy S10’s Android 11 update over some heat and camera issues, which took a couple of weeks to fix. In the absence of a formal announcement from Samsung, you can expect a comparable timeline in the S20 FE case as well.


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The buyer of the Orland Court shopping center in Orland Park announced Tuesday that he had secured a new department store and was close to signing two additional anchors for the southwest suburban mall.
The MainStreet division of Federated Department Stores Inc. has signed a letter of intent to take space in the mall, at U.S. Hwy. 45 and 151st Street, according to William Spatz, president of Spatz & Co., a Chicago shopping center management firm.
Lease negotiations are nearly concluded with Spiegel Inc. and another department store chain, Spatz said. He declined to identify the other prospect.
The revitalized regional shopping center will operate under the new name of Orland Park Place.
MainStreet, the value-oriented apparel and soft goods unit of Federated, is scheduled to open its two-story, 76,000-square-foot store Oct. 15. Spiegel`s outlet store, to feature apparel and household goods, is expected to occupy 45,000 square feet Oct. 1.
The new anchors will join Montgomery Ward and Wieboldt stores, which have been in the mall since it opened in May, 1981, and have 150,000 square feet apiece. These and a small intimate apparel shop currently are the mall`s only tenants.
Eugene Faigus, vice president of Spatz, said immediate goals were to lease 250,000 square feet of vacancies to 100 to 120 small retailers, build 180,000 square feet for the three new department stores, and more than double the center`s employment to 500 from roughly 200 at present.
''We anticipate 70 to 75 percent occupancy by this autumn and to be fully leased in early to mid-1986,'' Faigus said.
Plans drawn by the Chicago architectural firm of Patrick F. Daly & Associates call $20 million in renovation and construction to boost the center`s size to 800,000 square feet from 550,000.
Construction has begun on the new department stores; a 12-vendor, 300-seat, 18,000-square-foot food court on the mall`s second level; and additional space for smaller tenants. Spatz will decide in the next 45 to 60 days whether to also build a movie theater complex with up to eight screens and 2,000 seats, Faigus said.
Orland Park Place will compete for shoppers with Orland Square, which opened across the intersection of U.S. 45 and 151st Street in 1976. The older mall contains 1.2 million square feet, 160 shops and four anchors: Carson Pirie Scott, J.C. Penney, Marshall Field and Sears.
''Our desire is to attract price-conscious retailers that will draw the majority of the market,'' Faigus said.
Orland Court was opened in 1981 by California entrepreneur Dennis Bass, who said Orland Park needed a new regional mall because Urban Investment and Development Co. had underestimated the market when it opened Orland Square.
However, only Wards, Wieboldts and 10 smaller retailers took space in Orland Court. Bass` lenders sued to foreclose a $20 million loan and collect more than $4 million in unpaid interest in November, 1981. Bass filed for reorganization in federal bankruptcy court in May, 1982.
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Earlier today, Namco Bandai announced that they would be publishing Dark Souls in North America, the successor to the extremely popular Demon's Souls. In another such more, the company has also apparently gotten the rights to publish Armored Core 5 in North America, according to Dengeki.
The game, which is currently still in-development, will be more about the tactics and using the environment's geography than the high-speed finger work the series has been known for lately, harkening back to the original PlayStation iterations. This also includes a toning-down in the size of the mechs nearly in half to five meters tall instead of ten.
While Namco Bandai has yet to formally announce the game through their North American offices, they are set to reveal quite a few new games at a private press conference tomorrow, so this Armored Core 5 news might be present there.


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Food parcels thefts: Sixth soldier arrested
The Military Police (MP) recently reported that another soldier has been arrested in connection to the thefts of food parcels from the Ministry of Social Affairs and Housing (Sozavo). Major Anand Debisaroen from the MP confirmed the arrest of one more soldier. He pointed out that six soldiers and 2 citizens are now in jail. The sixth soldier had been assigned to help out at the Ministry of Social Affairs. He had been tasked with helping to coordinate the distribution of the food parcels in all of the nation’s districts. Debisaroen pointed out that the MP has launched a large-scale investigation in order to find out how many food parcels were stolen. Investigators recently recovered about 100 food parcels during a police raid in Paramaribo. Debisaroen pointed out that the investigation could be concluded within one or two weeks. Investigators started looking into this matter after the Military Police had received a tip that food parcels that were intended for the less fortunate were being sold at a house located along the Abenistraat in Paramaribo. The MP and the police then raided the house and arrested 7 suspects. Reports indicate that the suspects sold each food parcel for SRD 70. Each food parcel reportedly contained toilet paper, chicken leg quarters, toothpaste, onions, garlic, soap and cooking oil. Most of the food products had been stored in a storage room. Reports indicate that the suspects used two trucks to transport the stolen food parcels.


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Macy's (M) gets coal in its stocking. Macy's stock is down 14% midday to a multiyear low in a continuing trend for retailers reporting disappointing earnings and lower guidance for the holiday season. Part of the blame for the a disappointing current quarterly numbers is due to the prolonged Indian Summer stifling cool weather merchandise sales along with the strong U.S. dollar hobbling sales from foreign tourists traveling to the U.S . Macy's cut its earnings forecast for the year, ratcheting down its range for adjusted earnings to between $4.20 and $4.30 a share from $4.70-$4.80. The good news for consumers is there may be acceleration in promotional merchandise to move inventory.
Amazon (AMZN) is amazing. Alibaba is getting the press today for its $13 billion in sales in a just one day on singles day in China, but Amazon's stock is one the one retailer that keeps moving higher as consumers shift more sales to the Internet. And even though Amazon's stock has doubled in the last year, Morgan Stanley upgraded the stock today with an $800 price target or 19% current levels. Amazon's is not cheap trading for over 900 times GAAP earnings, but I guess if investors keep buying the stock, who needs to report earnings. Great company, but scary stock.


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ORLANDO, FLA. (April 20, 2023) – Holiday Inn Club Vacations Incorporated, a national vacation ownership company, announced today that it won 12 American Resort Development Association (ARDA) Awards. This includes earning an ARDA Circle of Excellence (ACE) Award, the highest level of excellence within the industry, for the company’s successful efforts in earning a J.D. Power certification in 2022.
The annual ARDA Awards recognize the top resorts, teams, individuals, and projects in the vacation ownership industry. This year, the awards were presented during ARDA’s annual spring conference in Orlando, Fla.
“At Holiday Inn Club Vacations, our caring, courageous, and creative team members show their passion for our mission and dedication to customer obsession every day. I’m proud to lead this team, and was excited to see so many deserving groups earn our industry’s top honor,” said John Staten, President and Chief Executive Officer at Holiday Inn Club Vacations Incorporated. “While our award winners may come from different areas of our business, they share a common goal: to use best-in-class customer service and innovation to drive the industry forward.”
The company’s award recipients represent several teams and departments, such as sales, performance marketing, finance, customer experience, training and development, design, resort operations, and more. Notably, the company’s J.D. Power Certification team earned the ACE Innovation Leadership Award. In 2022, Holiday Inn Club Vacations was recognized by J.D. Power for providing “An Outstanding Customer Service Experience” with its Owner Support team – the first time a company in the vacation ownership industry has earned this prestigious certification.
In total, Holiday Inn Club Vacations received 12 ARDA Awards:
- J.D. Power Certification Team – ACE Innovation Leadership Award
- Cape Canaveral Beach Resort Signature Sales Team – Sales Team
- Frank Wang – Salesperson: In-House
- Garrett Andrijiszyn – Sales Verification Loan Officer/Quality Assurance Officer
- Corporate Payroll Team – Business Administration or Operations Team
- Owner Support/CX Team – Owner/Customer Relations Team
- Monica Schaffer – Owner/Customer Relations Manager
- Academy of Learning and Development Team – Training and Development Team
- Orange Lake Resort Activities Team – Activities Program Team
- Gokul Shanadi – Resort Department Manager
- New Member Journey – Owner/Guest/Customer Engagement or Communications Campaign
- Tahoe Ridge Resort – Ridge Pointe Building – Refurbishment: Unit
The Holiday Inn Club Vacations team is growing, with hundreds of open roles across its offices and network of resorts. For more information on open positions, visit hicv.com/careers.
About Holiday Inn Club Vacations Incorporated
Encompassing 28 resorts across 14 U.S. states, Holiday Inn Club Vacations Incorporated is a resort, real estate and travel company with a mission to be the most loved brand in family travel by delivering easy-to-plan, memorable vacation experiences that strengthen families.
Based in Orlando, Fla., the company has been a leader in the vacation ownership industry since 1982, when Holiday Inn® founder Kemmons Wilson debuted the company’s flagship property, Holiday Inn Club Vacations® at Orange Lake Resort next to Orlando’s Walt Disney World® Resort.
Today, the Holiday Inn Club Vacations resort portfolio spans across the United States. Throughout its history, the company has maintained the core family values true to its founding Wilson family, while aggressively pursuing growth, transforming its member engagement model and building an industry-leading team passionate about the guest experience.


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Snap (SNAP) - Get Report CEO Evan Spiegel said the company's near term revenue growth will continue to be tied to advertiser spending growth, but that longer term, growth in user engagement and numbers will be critical. Spiegel made his remarks at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference in New York City on Wednesday late afternoon.
Revenue growth at Snap, the parent company to popular social network Snapchat, has accelerated for the last two quarters, helping boost the stock price considerably after several quarters of inconsistent and often lackluster performance.
Snap shares have risen more than 200% this year, although they are still just shy of the $17 price that the company went public at in 2017.
"This year, we've re-organized our sales force, so they can go really deep" with advertisers, Spiegel noted. The company also created a self-service ad sales platform.
Spiegel also said that he and his fellow Snap executives had learned a lot about being a public company, particularly in terms of smoothing out its performance for the sake of its employees.
"We have to find the right balance between risk and pushing forward, and not having that be too disruptive, because our compensation is based on our stock," Spiegel said.
And referring to Snap's Spectacles, which failed to sell in anywhere near the numbers anticipated, Spiegel said that they are a "really long-term hardware experiment with augmented reality." He suggested that it would take at least 10 years before the physical world could be merged with an augmented or virtual world in a successful way.
Snap shares were up 0.4% to $16.90 on Wednesday.


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Analysis of ACC's Jan-Mar 2017 earnings
A story I wrote yesterday analysing ACC's earnings figures for Jan-Mar 2017:
ACC Jan-Mar consol PAT hit by surge in input costs
Significantly higher increases in power and
freight costs,and excise
duty, proved to be a drag on the bottomline of ACC Ltd in Jan-Mar.
The cement major's consolidated net profit
fell 8.9% on year in the March
2.11 bln rupees despite the fact that total income increased 8.8%
on year to
36.63 bln rupees.
Freight and forwarding costs
surged 13.4% on year to 8.26 bln rupees and
for 23% of total expenses during the reporting quarter. The company
said in a
statement accompanying the earnings release that the cost of
materials and freight had hardened in Jan-Mar.
"There was a shortfall in regular
availability of flyash, a part of which
procured over longer leads, entailing higher transportation costs," the
Power and fuel expenses, which accounted
for 18% of total expenses, also
sharply by 14.1% on year to 6.48 bln rupees in Jan-Mar.
The 8.8% on-year rise in consolidated total
income in the March quarter
of the preceding three quarters recording on-year fall.
This was mainly due to consolidated cement
sales gaining traction for the
in four quarters. The Jan-Mar cement sales increased 3.8% on year
to 6.60 mln
In the quarters ending December, September
and June, cement sales volume
recorded on-year declines of 9.2%, 9.6% and 1.3% respectively.
Growth in sales volume of ready-mix
concrete, however, slowed down in the
quarter compared to the Oct-Dec quarter. ACC sold 0.72 mln cu mtr
concrete in Jan-Mar, up 7.5% on year. In the previous quarter,
concrete sales had risen by 13.6% on year to 0.67 mln cu mtr.
ACC was expected to report a consolidated
net profit of 1.60 bln rupees on
of 29.89 bln rupees, according to an average of 11 brokerage firms'
The reported figures came above the analysts estimate.
Brokerage firm KR Choksey noted in a
post-earning research note that
cement volume growth was exceptional in a quarter which was
affected by demonitisation.
ICICIdirect noted in its post-result
research note that ACC beat its
estimate as the 3.8% on year increase in volumes came in as a
surprise as core industry data in the first two months of CY17
showed pan India
production volumes to have fallen by 15.0% on year.
Analysts were also expecting rise in
operating costs to hit ACC's
net profit and while it did, ACC's net profit was above the
average estimate. "Net profit remained above our expectation due to
expected operating margins," said ICICIdirect in its note.
The consolidated operating margin in
Jan-Mar stood at 11.6%. Although
lower than 13.9% in the year ago quarter, it was higher than the
margins of 9.4% and 10.9% in the quarters ending December and
Apart from surge in power and fuel, and
freight costs impacting ACC's
the 5.5% on-year rise in raw material costs also had an impact
of the preceding three quarters had seen raw material costs record
ACC attributed the rise in material costs
to the hardening in petcoke
the reporting quarter. In Jan-Mar raw material costs accounted for
ACC's managing director and CEO Neeraj
Akhoury said during the reporting
company launched two new products and continued to build its
building products segment. He said the company will continue to
new capacity at its Jamul plant which stood fully commissioned in
quarter and was catering to the cement major's customers in the


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Black Friday in 2019 will be on November 29th. It’s always the Friday that’s right after Thanksgiving day in the United States, which is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of the month of November. Following Black Friday is Cyber Monday, a popular day for online shopping. Although Black Friday is not recognized as a national holiday in the United States, many places of work give their employees the day off to celebrate Thanksgiving.
Black Friday is know for being the official start of the holiday shopping season with many stores, including online, offering some of the deepest discount of the year. Big box stores like Walmart, Best Buy, Staples, and others open their stores extra early in the morning and often save their deepest discounts for the fist few hours. Some customers even camp out for days in front of the store to be the first ones to be able to buy the limited sale items.
In recent years the Black Friday sales have extended beyond the single day with many merchants opening stores on Thanksgiving day leading to protest from certain workers unions. Often these sales last through the weekend up until Cyber Monday (that falls on the next monday after Black Friday). Many websites have popup over the years that track these sales and ads exclusively (i.e. BlackerFriday.com).
When’s Black Friday next year?
Black Friday in 2020 will be two days earlier than this year. It falls on November 27, 2020. Here’s a full list of the next upcoming Black Friday days:
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We're pleased to announce that our innovative smart plug products are now fully supported by the Google Assistant on Google Home and eligible Android phones. This announcement further delivers on our unique commitment to ensuring the iHome Control™ product line is compatible with all leading IoT and AI platforms.
Users of Google Home and Android phones will now be able to connect their iHome smart plug products to their Google Assistant enabled devices and seamlessly turn connected appliances on or off by voice thanks to the Google Assistant. iHome makes it easy to create and maintain a smarter, safer and more energy efficient home, regardless of what IoT platform is being used.
iHome smart plugs turn devices plugged into them into smart devices. When used with the Google Assistant on Google Home, customers can use simple “Ok Google” commands to control their iHome Smart Plug and connected appliances. They need only say, “Ok Google, turn off the bedroom light” or “Ok Google, turn on the living room fan” to operate that device.
Our smart plug products are compatible with several leading IoT platforms including Amazon Alexa, Apple HomeKit, the Google Assistant, Nest, Samsung SmartThings and Wink.
Google Assistant-Compatible Products Include our full line of smart plugs:
· iSP5 Smart Plug: capable of switching on and off lights, fans, room ACs and appliances
· iSP6 Smart Plug: capable of switching on and off lights, fans, room ACs and appliances
· iSP8 Smart Plug: capable of switching on and off lights, fans and appliances, also allows users to monitor their energy usage, includes remote control


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New collection is coming soon
Liebe Hsing is a new footwear brand that highlights Taiwan’s traditional shoemaking industry
By Catherine Shu / Staff Reporter
Former fashion marketer Hsing-ju Lin (林倖如) wrote a master’s thesis entitled “Stylistic Change in Women’s Footwear” at the University of Leeds and enjoys poring over books about the history of shoemaking. Lin’s interest in shoes, however, is not purely academic. Her year-old brand Liebe Hsing is dedicated to creating stylish women’s footwear while drawing attention to traditional shoemaking in Taiwan.
Once an important part of the export industry, the number of craftspeople who make shoes by hand began to decline sharply in the mid-1980s after many jobs were outsourced to China and Southeast Asia. All of Liebe Hsing’s colorful, classic designs are produced by the Juisheng Shoemaking Center (瑞晟鞋樣中心), a tiny Greater Taichung workshop run by Lu Kuang-mao (呂光茂), who has over 30 years of shoemaking experience.
Traditional shoemaking “is a part of Taiwan’s culture. I’m still a new brand, but I’ve already thought of how to bring it forward to a new generation,” says Lin, adding that her goal is to make footwear that will last for years.
“My challenge is creating a design that people will look at in three decades and still want to use because it looks contemporary and not outdated,” she says.
Shoes world April 2012
Hsing, featured in the April Issue of China’s “神州鞋世界Shoes world”, talks about launching liebe.hsing since 2010 summer. From her career in footwear field to branding and among many of those who wear liebe.hsing are designers in urban area, read about how Hsing got her start.
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Your browser will redirect to your requested content shortly. Google is one of the biggest forces on the Internet. When we want to look something how Does Google Make Money From Street View, we Google it. When we want a decent browser, we download Chrome. There’s a simple reason for that.
Google gave up not being evil a long time ago. Take a good, hard look at the company in 2017, and it’s clear they’ve swapped being the good guys for being utter buttheads. Google had abused its position of EU market dominance to shut competitors out of its search listings. And you better believe Google is dominant. In places like Germany, some 97 percent of Internet searching is estimated to go via Google. The actual ins and outs of the fine are nuanced, involving how Google lists its search results.
If people want to buy stuff, they get links to Google shops. If they want reviews, they get links to Google’s review service. Competitors like Yelp, who don’t have their own search engine, get stuck on page four of a search or later. And who bothers going all the way to page four? The EU argued that Google was stifling competition and staying at the top of the food chain not because their products were the best but because they sneakily blocked consumers from better alternatives. In an ironic twist, Wired argues it was only thanks to the US breaking up Microsoft’s monopoly in 2000 that Google was able to build their own. Google likes to crush negative stories about Google. In practice, this means their search results have been known to penalize anti-Google articles.
If you found this on page 37 of a search, now you know why. We know this because it happened to Gizmodo reporter Kashmir Hill, back when she was working at Forbes. She witnessed firsthand Google’s draconian attempts to hide a critical piece. The story takes place in 2011. Google to punish Forbes in search rankings. According to Hill, Google told Forbes their search rankings would suffer if the story stayed up. Forbes caved and canned the story.
Google likes to splash its cash in important places. Washington, Brussels, and London are all drowning in seas of Google greenbacks. One of NAF’s key projects has been a thing called Open Markets. Open Markets was created to speak out against extreme concentrations of money and power as well as other stuff that goes with monopolies. A few years ago, the group started raising warning flags about Google itself. In 2017, Open Markets team leader Barry Lynn wrote a blog post praising the EU for hitting Google with its antitrust fine.
Google responded by having him fired and shutting the entire Open Markets initiative down. It’s worth bearing in mind that Google does not own NAF. They’re simply one of many donors, albeit a very generous one. According to The Guardian, Eric Schmidt nonetheless acts like he owns the place. The moment Lynn’s blog post went live, Schmidt allegedly rang up NAF and tried to force them to take it down. Less than two months later, Lynn had been fired, and Open Markets was discontinued.
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98 percent of all American mobile traffic goes through either Google or Apple. When one of those guys bans your app, you’ve got a serious problem. This is especially the case if your app was banned because Google and Apple don’t like what you’re saying. Gab specifically designed its platform to reflect the First Amendment. If something was protected by the US Constitution, you could say it on Gab. This led to speculation that the real reason left-wing Google censored Gab was because who was using it. Gab was conceived to be the right-wing version of Twitter.
To be fair, Gab had some truly evil users, like Andrew Anglin, editor of the neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer. But then Twitter has accounts by the KKK, Westboro Baptist Church, and ISIS, and Google has yet to ban the Twitter app. If Google has one overarching vision, it’s not to be a company that isn’t evil. It’s to be a company that doesn’t pay taxes.
Over the past few years, several European countries have had to drag Google kicking and screaming into their treasuries, hold the company upside down, and shake it until all its misplaced millions fall out. In May 2016, its French offices were raided in a tax probe. A month later, its Spanish offices were raided, too. In 2006, the UK launched a probe into Google’s hundreds of millions in unpaid taxes.
Most of Google’s tax avoidance has been possible thanks to Ireland, through which it funnels about a third of its global earnings. But even in Dublin, Google makes a mockery of taxation. Unfortunately, many smaller channels and sites with a video component are dependent on this income to survive. That’s unfortunate because Google has a nasty habit of removing advertisements and demonetizing channels seemingly at random.
What channels have their money-making statuses rescinded often depends on what’s in the news. For example, it’s currently impossible to make money off stuff that mentions North Korea. But things are usually less clear-cut. A media storm over right-wing extremism can result in legitimate right-wing channels being demonetized. The worst part is the blatant hypocrisy: Big channels rarely suffer.
Additionally, this censorship is effectively Google deciding what kinds of things we’re allowed to say online, free speech be damned. Speaking of Google and censorship, there’s at least one case in the company’s history where it probably should have blocked certain content but didn’t. Between 2003 and 2011, Google allowed Canadian drug companies to place ads on their systems that deliberately targeted American consumers. They did this despite knowing that facilitating cross-border medication sales was illegal.


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KATHMANDU:- Nepal Government has received the commitment of around 36 billion rupees in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the current fiscal year. According to the Ministry of Industry, the commitment of Rs 35.94 billion was received for 213 enterprises until July 5 for the fiscal year 2019/20.
The Department of Industry statistics states that of the total commitment, 70 to 80 per cent is from China followed by India, the USA and Malaysia.
Spokesperson at the Department Binod Kumar Khadka said that, however, the number of companies has decreased but the ratio of investment has gone up this year as compared to last fiscal year.
He added that Rs 10.27 billion plus amount in FDI was committed in comparison to the last year till the date. He added that Rs 25.47 billion was committed for 344 industries last year till this date. The investment as committed is more in service sector but maximum industries are in tourism industry, he shared.
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N24 Correspondent, KATHMANDU:- The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has opened the entry for Nepalis who have been vaccinated against corona.
KATHMANDU:- The Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) has said its serious attention has been drawn towards
By N24 Correspondent, KATHMANDU:- The PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) has hosted the India-Nepal Investment & Development Partnership
KATHMANDU:- Minister for Finance Janardan Sharma has said that his announcement to release a whitepaper on country’s economy to share


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Of the approximately 23 percent (58 million) of U.S. mobile subscribers who have been exposed to mobile advertisements within the past 30 days, about half (28 million) responded, in some way, to the mobile ads, according to a new report from The Nielsen Co.
The findings – from Nielsen Mobile’s “Mobile Advertising Report” – show that the number of U.S. mobile subscribers that recalled seeing mobile ads between the second and fourth quarters of 2007 increased by 38 percent, from 42 million to 58 million.
“Increasing levels of consumer recall, interaction and receptivity to mobile advertising reinforce the validity of the mobile marketing medium,” said Jeff Herrmann, VP of mobile media at Nielsen Mobile.
Teenage subscribers ages 13 to 17 were the most-likely age segment to recall viewing mobile ads.
About 32 percent of mobile subscribers said that they are open to mobile advertising, as long as it lowers their monthly wireless bill. And 23 percent said that they expect to see more mobile ads in the future.
“We see an increasing trend of consumers willing to trade off and receive advertising to gain more – and better – mobile content,” Herrmann said. “Successful mobile marketers will meet the challenge offered by consumers by engaging with them in a way that adds value to the mobile user content experience.”
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Come to YC’s Work at a Startup Expo in Mountain View, CA to meet the founders of 40+ rapidly growing YC companies including Gusto, Checkr, Human Interest, Rippling and Mutiny.May 22, 2019
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Thanks to the rapid growth of the Chinese electric vehicle market, like a comet Electric vehicle startups that appeared are in the process of exiting토토사이트. While the deficit grew due to low sales volume and high spending, the capital market situation during Corona 19 was not good, and even the investment money dried up. In addition, as price competition among companies intensifies due to the slowdown in the growth of the electric vehicle market, companies with severe financial difficulties are collapsing first. In the industry, large-scale restructuring is just beginning, and there are predictions that up to 70% of electric vehicle companies may close within the next two to three years.
According to the Chinese economic media Jeil Finance and Maeil Business Newspaper on the 19th, Chinese electric car start-up Weima Motors (威馬汽车) is said to have organized all six stores operated in Hainan Province. In March, Shanghai’s Qingpu District Consumer Protection Commission said that Weima’s business condition was not serious, and that consumers should be cautious when purchasing. Currently, it is known that about 2,000 consumers in Hainan Province alone are struggling because they cannot receive after-sales service and parts.
Weima was once called the ‘Four Little Dragons’ of electric vehicles in China along with Wei Lai, Xiaopeng and Byton. Since its establishment in 2015, China’s representative information technology ( IT) companies as well as investment from Hong Kong’s largest conglomerate, Lee Ja-cheong (李嘉誠), chairman of the Cheung Kung Group, who was called ‘Asia’s Warren Buffett’. As of June of last year, it boasted a ransom of 7.04 billion dollars (about 9.35 trillion won) and applied for an initial public offering ( IPO ) on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. However, from October of the same year, due to sluggish sales and a widening deficit, news of employee wage cuts and management cut in half was reported, and the IPO application was eventually invalidated. Weima did not sell a single electric vehicle in the first quarter of this year.
China’s Weima Motors electric SUV model W6. /Screenshot of Weima Motors website
Weima is not the only place experiencing financial difficulties. Another electric car start-up, Tianji Motors, suffered dissatisfaction in March by lowering employee salaries to the level of the minimum wage as well as suspending production. Aitz Motors (爱驰汽车) had been delayed in wages for two months, and Leiding Motors (雷丁汽车) suffered from over 200 contract disputes and debt default lawsuits, and eventually filed for bankruptcy.
Analysts say that their failure was due to a combination of failures in the domestic market due to lack of a sales strategy and difficulties in financing. An anonymous employee who recently resigned from ITZ said, “In the case of startups that have recently faced a management crisis, including ITZ, they have not been able to capture the momentum for development over the past few years.” There was a problem with product definition and financial flexibility,” he told Jeil Finance. In addition , the fact that large companies such as Tesla and BYD
started to cut prices one after another from this year, and competition became more intense, hastened their exit from the market. Due to low sales and lack of funds, it means that they did not have the stamina to compete. The fact that the capital market has set stricter standards for electric vehicle companies after 2020 has also exacerbated the financial difficulty. Cui Dongshu, secretary-general of China Passenger Car Market News Association ( CPCA ), said, “The complex market situation this year could accelerate the elimination of electric vehicle brands with small sales and lack of funds.” actual CPCA
According to the report, in the first quarter of this year, Aitz sold only 536 units and Tianji sold only 237 units. Ping An Securities said, “High R&D investment and rapidly expanding sales and service channels of new automakers will inevitably continue to depress performance.” necessary,” he analyzed. Considering that the price of each electric car of these startups is 200,000 to 400,000 yuan, it means that they have to sell 200,000 to 400,000 units a year.
There is also a prospect that the restructuring of the electric vehicle industry may begin in earnest due to the global economic downturn and the effect of China’s reopening (resumption of economic activities) that did not meet expectations. “Conservatively speaking, 60 to 70 percent of brands will face consolidation in the next two to three years,” said Hualong Zhu, chairman of China’s Changan Automobile.


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The International Warehouse Logistics Association this week urged California Gov. Jerry Brown to veto Assembly Bill 1855 (Torres). AB 1855 was introduced by Assembly member Torres earlier in 2012, and sought to redress labor law abuses by temporary staffing firms that hired "temp workers" to work in warehouses.
IWLA believes the bill if enacted would roll back 32 years of “sensible working” economic regulations that are already adhered to by California warehouse owners and operators. They also point out that the bill reverses a policy Jerry Brown enacted in 1980 during his first term.
Under AB 1855, warehouse companies and their customers would be required to file copies of warehouse contracts with the California Labor Commissioner in a form, content and manner set by the bill.
"Once again California is out of step with the rest of the United States, and AB 1855 places new contract burdens on any customer that is doing business with a warehouse in California," said Joel Anderson, IWLA president & CEO.
Anderson noted that warehouse contracts with customers are already covered by the Uniform Commercial Code, a law adopted by all the states to allow companies to do business in states other than the one where they are based, under the same terms of contract law.
IWLA had urged members of the California state legislature to amend the bill in policy committees and on the floor before a final vote was taken.
"The California legislature just doesn't get it. Adding more burdens to businesses, especially those same burdens Gov. Brown removed during his first term, makes it much more economically attractive to store goods out of state especially in Nevada, Arizona and Oregon, and then ship those goods into California," Anderson said. "That formula can only mean disaster. The loss of jobs and taxes will be immense because California will be the only state to have re-regulated warehouse contractors and contracts."


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IMS, Inc., specializing in technology driven communication solutions for the ARM industry, has entered into a partnership with Armada Labs LLC. This partnership offers seamless integration between an innovative accounts receivable letter vendor, and a leading technology provider offering PayLine DirectTM, an online payment management solution.
In keeping with the spirit of the season, RevSpring’s locations across the country collectively donated nearly 700 toys and approximately 1100 pounds of non-perishable food.
Capping off this year’s successful “A Transformational Approach to Receivables” webinar series, RevSpring’s final Webinar for 2014 gathers six experts to share their thoughts and 2015 predictions on what is working in the accounts receivables space.
FocusOne, a division of Hatteras, Inc., is pleased to announce the appointment of Brett Menzie as a new Sales Executive, bringing his excellent work ethics along with an abundance of industry experience.
In an effort to support educational charities in the Detroit area, RevSpring team members recently participated in the Color Run supporting Dollars for Scholars as well as the non-profit organization, Life Remodeled, which transformed a Detroit Public School.
RevSpring is pleased to announce the addition of Craig Morgan as its vice president of operations. Morgan is responsible for all paper-based communications in RevSpring’s Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Ohio facilities.
A federal class action lawsuit in Seattle alleges that a collection agency used the King County prosecutor’s seals on debt collection letters to consumers, while failing to disclose that the letter was from a collection agency and not a law enforcement office. The plaintiffs say they received seemingly official letters from Missouri-based collection agency Bounceback which included threats of jail time if consumers didn’t pay the amount of the debt and more than $180 in fees. Bounceback was able to use the county prosecutor’s seal on these collection letters because it participates in a “check enforcement program,” where county prosecutors rent out the prosecutor’s seal and letterhead in exchange for a cut of the collection fees.
As part of Ethics and Compliance Week, RevSpring will host a Webinar about“ Building a Transformational Compliance Program” on May 7th at 2 p.m. EDT.
In an era when most people cannot live without their mobile devices, the accounts receivable landscape is undergoing a massive transformation due to the CFPB, the rise in smartphone use and evolving consumer communication preferences.
A Pennsylvania federal judge Tuesday denied debt collector North Shore Agency Inc.’s motion to dismiss a putative class action lawsuit. The case alleges that North Shore Agency Inc. obscured language advising consumers of their rights to challenge their debts. In his opinion, U.S. District Judge Gene Pratter noted potential holes in the Fair Debt Collection […]


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A proposed increase in the London congestion charge levied on those driving in the centre of the city will increase the cost of doing business in the capital and could destroy its smallest businesses, according to the Freight Transport Association (FTA) a body representing the UK’s transport industry.
Sadiq Khan’s new air quality plans unveiled on 13 May are the first policy announcement he has made since his election on 5 May. They include an additional levy on vehicles with the poorest emissions and extending the zone covered by the charge to the north and south circular roads.
these disruptive proposals will at best only accelerate the situation that is likely in a few years from now. They will put businesses at risk, and add massive costs to all especially to those who need the services that vans provide, said the FTA’s head of regional and national policy, Christopher Snelling.
freight operators and the service industry could find themselves being charged extra for their vehicles before they have had any reasonable chance to upgrade. Many businesses could lose trade first in central London, then the whole of inner London and for businesses based in the zones involved, the impacts will be even worse.
Research carried out by the RAC in 2014 found there were over 200, 000 commercial vans on the roads of the capital. Nationwide, over twenty per cent are used by those working in the logistics industry. There were almost 300, 000 self-employed people working in this sector in 2015 almost six per cent of the total self-employed population of the UK.
Many of the remainder are vital tools of the trade by the self-employed tradesmen who have grouped together as white van men? since a radio presenter coined the term in 1997.
the stereotypical white van man comes in for a lot of bad press but the rapidly rising number of light commercial vehicles on our roads suggests a growing army of hardworking sole traders, delivery men and small businesses on whom the economy depends, said Stephen Glaister, director of the RAC Foundation.
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The Worldcoin Foundation and protocol contributors at Tools for Humanity have announced support for Optimism Collective. As revealed in a blog post today, the support will see the creation of a scalable blockchain ecosystem designed on the OP Stack.
According to the announcement, the development surfaced as a result of the efforts to make Worldcoin an open and freely available network. The latest development will see committing ownership in the hands of community members to create a pathway for the global economy.
Consequently, one of the prominent fruits of the collaboration is the launching of a privacy-oriented decentralized protocol on OP Mainnet. Also, it will facilitate the migration of TFH’s World App to OP mainnet. Worth mentioning that the TFH’s World App is the first wallet that aids transactions using Worldcoin, virtual assets, and stablecoins.
Additionally, deploying the wallet on OP Mainnet will enhance users’ access, aiding Worldcoin to attract more users. Presently, the wallet has attracted about 500,000 monthly active users with more than 1.6 million sing-ups in its Beta version.
More so, the announcement indicated how Optimism Collective is developing an economic engine that pushes positive-sum games. The pursuit prioritizes decentralized identity to empower individuals to have control over their finances. With that, users will be able to participate in the global economy according to their own preferences.
Meanwhile, adding World ID to OP Mainnet will set the background for scaling the future home of web3 identity and governance. The addition will enhance the strength of some top projects on the network. Community members of the two projects will work together to set up inclusive and open identity primitives. The features can be utilized by any user through all the applications across the Superchain and the overlapping words.
The growth of Worldcoin
The existing collaboration between the two firms can be traced back to December 2020. At the inception of their collaboration, Ethereum rollups haven’t gained much attention. Likewise, the World App beta started on Hubble which is an optimistic rollup designed for simple payment. However, when demand for the project began to soar the Hubble network couldn’t keep up. Therefore, birthing the transfer of the project to Polygon PoS.
The transfer laid the foundation for the collaboration between Worldcoin and Optimism. Since they’ve collaborated, the two firms have shown a stern commitment to establishing scalability that’ll unearth the maximum potential cryptocurrency. Lastly, their efforts pushed the evolution of identity on the blockchain to a noticeable height.


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Leslie Clark is feeling more comfortable in her job thanks to a new shoe that is gaining popularity among health care professionals.
A nurse practitioner at Massachusetts General Hospital, Clark has been wearing Akesso professional footwear for a month and she gives the new product positive reviews.
â€œI said I would give this new shoe a try and I was actually very impressed,â€ said Clark, who has been in the field of health care for 30 years. â€œTheyâ€™re very comfortable. Immediately when you put them on, theyâ€™re lightweight. Theyâ€™re terrific shoes.â€
Clark said she works 12-hour days on occasion and the superior cushioning, support, and flexibility of the shoe give her additional comfort. â€œThe shoes are comfortable all day,â€ said Clark. â€œI like the fact that theyâ€™re lighter than the clog-style shoe that Iâ€™ve worn. I really like the way the shoes feel on my feet.â€
Clark has recommended the lightweight shoe to her nursing colleagues and physicians. â€œAnyone who is on their feet a lot all day, I would absolutely recommend this shoe.â€
Bettina Kolker, a pediatric intensive care nurse at Hasbro Hospital in Providence, R.I., switched from sneakers to Akesso shoes three months ago.
â€œI like everything about the shoes â€“ they grip really nicely, they look really good, they slide on and off easily, and theyâ€™re comfortable,â€ said the 51-year-old Kolker. â€œIâ€™m on my feet 12 hours a day and often times I have to move pretty quickly and respond to emergencies and such and the Akesso shoes are much more comfortable and they look much better than a pair of sneakers ever would.â€
The positive reviews make Bruce Todtfeld a happy man. Todtfeld launched the Akesso line in January and the response so far has been overwhelming.
â€œIâ€™m extremely proud of the product,â€ said Todtfeld. â€œWeâ€™ve gotten a lot of positive response. Itâ€™s a unique alternative to whatâ€™s available right now.â€
What was Bruce Todtfeldâ€™s inspiration for creating a new shoe for health care professionals?
â€œMy wifeâ€™s grandfather, Charlie, was living in a hospital nursing home and I noticed what the doctors, nurses, and dieticians were wearing on their feet,â€ said Todtfeld, who had worked in the footwear business for more than 20 years. â€œIt struck me how physical their jobs were and that a nurse could walk three to five miles during a shift and theyâ€™re on their feet 80-90 percent of that shift.â€
Todtfeld said those observations stayed with him until he decided to build a shoe.
He consulted shoe designers with whom he had worked in the past. â€œI basically came up with the formula and they did different designs before they landed on something I liked.â€
Todtfelt also conducted interviews with health care professionals. â€œI wanted to find out what they actually needed. They told me they were making compromises in their footwear. Everything was designed for other purposes. Our shoes are 100 per cent focused on the needs and requirements of health care professionals. â€
According to Todtfeldâ€™s research, health care professionals wanted a shoe that was extremely comfortable, looked good, offered traction, and helped protect them from contamination.
â€œThe design criteria were all-day comfort, professional appearance and style, slip resistance,Â resistance to contamination, and easy to clean.â€
The design and development stage for the shoe took six to eight months before the shoe was tested in a work environment. Laboratory tests were conducted for slip resistance.
Todtfeld said he has been in touch with several customers who have purchased the shoes and â€œthe first thing we hear is that theyâ€™re incredibly comfortable.â€
Kolker said it took a lot for her to convert from sneakers to another shoe, but thereâ€™s no turning back.
â€œNo one has ever gotten me out of my sneakers before,â€ said Kolker. â€˜There are a lot of people in the health care profession who wear clogs but they sound noisy and they look really awkward. I never would have considered switching out of a sneaker before because I never assumed there was a shoe that would fit me and be comfortable especially for the long hours I work.â€
Akesso shoes are on sale at a store inside Massachusetts General Hospital. Theyâ€™re available in black, white, silver, and pink in all sizes and cost $90 or $95.
â€œWeâ€™re proud of the fact that our shoes are at MGH,â€ said Todtfeld, who added that marketing of the product has begun in the Northeast with the goal of expanding nationwide.
Akesso shoes may also be purchased on the company Web site: akesso.com and at select uniform stores that cater to health care professionals


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BMW has something special for M division's 50th anniversary
2022 will be a big year for BMW, but it'll be even more special for the high-performance M division as they will be celebrating their 50th anniversary. And it seems they have something special in store.
According to UK's Car Magazine and citing “verified sources”, BMW M is working on an all-electric sports car. Now while BMW hasn't made any official announcements, the company is supposedly referring to the project internally as "Katharina".
Car Magazine says the electric sports car will be called the iM2 once it debuts. It will be based on the next-generation 2 Series Coupe scheduled to debut later this year. The report says it will have 1000 kW of electric power or 1360 HP in more conventional terms, meaning it would be the most powerful production BMW of all time.
Other reported details about the car indicate that it will be lightweight. They say it will have no rear seats, have a carbon fiber roof, and thinner glass. It will also ride on lightweight wheels. Meanwhile, a lightweight battery pack will help bring the weight down even further.
If Katharina does have that level of horsepower and weight savings, we won't be surprised if it can do 0 to 100 km/h times in just 2 and a half seconds. We're also interested in how the vehicle will perform, because according to Car Magazine, it should be capable of lapping Germany's legendary Nurburgring Nordschleife circuit in around 6 minutes and 50 seconds; that's quicker than the new Porsche 911 GT3.
The German marque does have the tech and experience with plug-in hybrids as they have been introducing models like i3 and i8. More recently, the brand introduced the iX3 and the i4, both of which are pure electric. So far, the most powerful EV they have is the upcoming 390 kW (530 HP) i40 M50 xDrive. It uses dual electric motors and accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 4.0 seconds. With the help of the brand's M Division, building a 1000 kW sports coupe is possible.
As exciting as BMW's Project Katharina sounds, nothing is official yet. Still, we expect something big for the M division's 50th anniversary.


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The Queensland construction industry has had a bumpy couple of years, with lots of businesses having to call it quits due to financial issues. This is devastating for the business owners but can also have a ripple effect causing business after business to collapse as projects are stopped and worksites abandoned.
It is, therefore, no surprise that local construction companies are looking for new ways to save money while also trying to avoid cutting corners on quality.
Luckily there are some simple solutions that can help you save money without sacrificing your reputation for providing a quality service.
Using recycled materials can help you save.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that recycled materials, particularly those used for construction, are cheaper than new materials.
Materials such as roadbase, aggregate, and fill are made using precious natural resources and are expensive to mine and transport. In comparison, recycled materials are much cheaper. The best part is recycled materials are just as effective as freshly mined resources.
Avoid landfill fees by recycling old construction materials.
As you are probably aware, dumping materials in landfill can be costly not just for the environment but also for your business financially. This is especially true if you are dumping construction materials, and it is about to become more so.
From July 1st 2019 a new waste levy will be brought in in Queensland. This new levy will mean that all waste disposed of in landfills will cost $75 per tonne. That amount will also increase with each year.
The purpose of this levy is to encourage people to consider new ways to recycle and give them an incentive to do so. 70% of the revenue will go back into the community.
The other good news is that you can easily avoid this levy by disposing of materials such as concrete, bricks and pavers at Moreton Bay Recycling for free. All you have to do is bring your waste to our site and we’ll take it and transform it into a brand new product that is ready for use.
Recycling concrete and construction materials is a simple and straightforward way for construction companies to save money. In 2019 MBR is moving to our new location which will allow us to take on more used materials and create more new products than ever before.
Follow us on social media to keep up to date with the latest goings on at Moreton Bay Recycling.


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Homelux has opened its second store in Focsani a week after the brand’s first store was inaugurated in Ploiesti. The company sells furniture, decorations, carpets, lighting fixtures, home textiles and home appliances, products designed to improve the comfort and design of homes.
The second Homelux storehouse, with an area of 5,000 sqm, takes the place of a former Praktiker store.
”We are very excited to announce the opening of the second Homelux store in Focsani and we hope the store will soon become the preferred destination of the city’s people for furniture and decoration shopping. We look forward to more than 20,000 articles and a wide range of services tailored to their needs. Demand for Home & Deco products is rising in recent years, and even more so in small towns, where customers have not had many options. In the few days since the opening of the Ploiesti store and Homelux.ro e-commerce platform, we have achieved good results, which encourages us to follow our plan to reach 20 units over the next 5 years,” says Omer Susli, Homelux CEO and former owner of Praktiker.
The Homelux Store provides customers with home-based products and a wide range of personalized customer service.


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The cooking and feasting may be over, but Americans across the country aren't done with one final task: shopping.
Adobe Digital Insights projects that Cyber Monday sales will hit $3.36 billion this year, up 9.4% over last year. It's expected to be the largest online shopping day in history.
About 122 million Americans plan to shop on Monday, up from 121 million last year, the National Retail Federation reported. About 23% of those shoppers plan to shop on their mobile devices on Cyber Monday. So far this weekend, mobile devices have accounted for more than half of all online visits and about a third of all online sales.
"Cyber Monday deals have become something that smart shoppers rely on, and this year is no different," Prosper Insights & Analytics consumer analyst Pam Goodfellow said. "Consumers wake up early ready to shop at their favorite retailers for the items they've had their eye on all season."
Some items will have better sales than others, however. Adobe estimates that Cyber Monday will be the best day for shoppers to browse toys, with average sales projected at 13%.
Mizuho analyst Neil Doshi said that retailers like Amazon (AMZN) , eBay (EBAY) and Alphabet (GOOGL) are best poised to benefit from strong e-commerce sales over Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday. "Furthermore, we believe that mobile conversion could be nearing a tipping point which would benefit the online players as well."
Cantor Fitzgerald's Youssef Squali said in an analyst note on Monday that the trend toward mobile could be driven "by a combination of factors, including in-store comparison shopping, improving mobile experiences and larger mobile screen sizes." Squali added that Amazon could gain from the shift toward mobile.
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Microsoft has revoked a fraudulent SSL digital certificate issued in the name of its Finnish Windows Live service. But security experts warn that some software may "trust" the certificate for years, so it could be exploited in phishing campaigns.
Experts analyze a news report that the investigation into the hack attack against JPMorgan Chase could result in criminal charges being filed in the "coming months" because investigators believe at least some suspects can be extradited.
More hackers are holding data for ransom, demanding everything from bitcoins to the shutdown of nuclear reactors, under the threat of leaking sensitive information. But it's not clear how many such attacks generate revenue for attackers.
A proposed national data breach notification bill to usurp 47 state statutes could make it easier for businesses to notify consumers of a breach. But is that worth weakening PII protections some states offer? Massachusetts plans to do battle.
A draft bill circulating in Congress to create national requirements for data breach notification could be the vehicle used to win support for a compromise from lawmakers supporting the divergent interests of the business community and privacy advocates.
Google has warned Google Apps administrators that their private Whois contact information has been exposed. The leak affects more than 282,000 administrators, and places them at greater risk of ID theft and spam attacks, according to Cisco.
Mattel will sell a cloud-connected $75 "Hello Barbie" doll that can "listen" to what kids are saying and talk back. But security experts warn that anything that connects to the Internet can - and will - be hacked.
Although breaches affecting U.S. retailers are widely reported, Verizon's new PCI Compliance Report shows increases in the theft of payment card data and other personal information span numerous industries in all international markets.
Both Microsoft and Apple this week released patches to address the so-called "Freak" flaw in SSL/TLS. Microsoft also released a fix that addresses a failed 2010 patch for a vulnerability that was exploited by the Stuxnet malware.
A former customer service representative at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is among 11 individuals recently arrested in connection with an alleged identity theft scheme that resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars in credit fraud.
A banking regulator's comments about the need for retailers to bear responsibility for card breaches are outdated. Merchants aren't to blame for our broken payments system. Rather than point fingers, regulators need to offer stronger leadership.
"Align technology with businesses" is an old phrase. But information security is now part of this change, making strides to align with growth as a business enabler. Enter: the converged technology operations center.
The latest annual Office of Management and Budget report to Congress on agencies' FISMA compliance shows IT security is complex and tough to effectively implement, with authentication, in particular, a challenge.
POS vendor NEXTEP Systems is investigating a security breach that exposed card data from at least one of its restaurant customers - the latest in a series of breaches that have led back to POS vendors.
The U.S. Justice Department has charged three men - two are in custody - for hacks against email service providers - including Epsilon - that allegedly resulted in the theft of 1 billion email addresses, many later used in massive spam campaigns.


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