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I have taken a small trading short in Facebook (FB) -- here's why
- I believe it is highly likely that the company's advertising problems (stemming from the revelation that Russia has posted fake advertisements/information) are being understated by Facebook.
- The Mueller investigation may uncover more issues with regard to advertising on Facebook.
- Facebook has previously said that they have deleted millions of fake accounts around the world. Facebook has even mentioned that some days they delete as many as 1 million fake accounts. Therefore, it stands to reason that Facebook may have uncovered only a small amount of false advertisements made by Russians and others.
- Though the amount of money being spent for advertising on Facebook is robust, at the very least an additional layer of expenses will be created.


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Remember Reno? Don’t worry if you don’t, you’ll get used to it. It is the new product line announced by OPPO yesterday. Company Vice President Brian Shen made it clear that this is not a sub-brand of any sort, but rather a new product line. Shen also, in a different Weibo posting, revealed some of the specs of the upcoming Reno phone.
It will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor, and it will feature 10x hybrid lossless zoom. A 4,065mAh battery will be powering everything, but we’re yet to find out details concerning the screen size, type, memory, and other specs.
However, it turns out that the Reno phone could very well be the OPPO flagship the company teased at MWC. When OPPO showed off its 10x hybrid lossless zoom camera assembly, we were promised a flagship that will feature it in the second quarter of the year. Considering Shen’s latest posting, the Reno phone will likely be it.

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ILMO praises the city it was founded in over 100 years ago as it continues to expand its future.
ILMO is a single-source provider of medical, industrial, and laboratory gas components that was founded in Jacksonville as Illinois Tire & Vulcanizing in 1913 by the Floreth family. Since their founding, the company has expanded to 8 other locations, but their headquarters still remains in Jacksonville and is still family-owned.
Liz Standly, ILMO’s Branch Service Coordinator told The Source that the company has re-evaluated their commitment to stay in Jacksonville over the years, but finds that the city has many things to offer their company.
Standley said that one of the main benefits is Jacksonville’s access to the highway for delivery purposes, the affordability of real estate in good locations, and the ability to find workers without struggle. ILMO is currently working to continue expanding its welding supply distribution by promotion of quality welding education opportunities across the region. Standley says the company is currently working to partner with its welding vendors to promote education opportunities throughout the company’s footprint as a drive for trade certifications increase.
Other services ILMO provides include its focus on welding equipment which it sells, services, and supplies. ILMO employs 100 people across its locations in central and southern Illinois along with portions of Northeastern Missouri.
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China Unicom has signed an agreement with Chinese carmaking giant China FAW Group on January 13, 2010 on a strategic partnership in the 3G-based telematics sector.
China Unicom and China FAW will mainly cooperate in the development and provision of remote diagnosis, navigation, news, entertainment, communications, and call center services via the Chinese telecoms operator’s WCDMA network. Besides, the two companies are likely to consider promoting such services depending on their user bases and distribution networks.
The cooperation is expected to accelerate the spread of telecoms technologies in various types of FAW-branded cars as well as sharpen China FAW’s competitive edges in the automobile market.
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Grocery retailer The Kroger Co. (NYS:KR) said Monday that Home Chef, which includes ready-to-cook and ready-to-heat meals, has passed $1 billion in annual sales. The company, which was founded in 2013 by Pat Vihtelic, merged with Kroger in 2018. "Whether it's meal kits, or heat-and-eat and ready-to-cook solutions -- which are available via subscription, in-store, pickup, or delivery -- it's safe to say that Home Chef has mealtime covered," Dan De La Rosa, Kroger's group vice president of fresh merchandising said in a statement. Home Chef currently offers more than 500 products including meal kits, heat-and-eat meals, ready-to-eat products and seasonal meals. Kroger shares were slightly higher premarket and have gained 27% in the year to date, while the S&P 500 (S&P:SPX) has gained 21%.
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One More Lap Around the Track with CARZ
Two years ago, I recommended buying shares of the First Trust S-Network Vehicles & Technology ETF (CARZ). At that time, vehicle sales were plummeting after auto showrooms closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Wall Street dumped car stocks en masse, pushing CARZ down 24% over the first three months of 2020. The way I saw it, the news could only get better for automakers.
The timing of that advice was nearly perfect. Fourteen months later, CARZ was up 134% as car sales surged once showrooms reopened. So, I suggested selling CARZ to lock in that gain.
The timing of that advice also turned out to be pretty close to perfect, too. CARZ peaked a few months later and then started falling as global supply bottlenecks impeded new car sales.
Now, I’m beginning to think that it may be time to buy CARZ again. Rapidly rising interest rates have made car loans expensive. Once again, Wall Street is abandoning automakers.
To be sure, new car sales have been adversely impacted by supply chain problems and higher interest rates. Total vehicle sales in the United States came in at 13.6 million units in August of this year compared to 17.6 million in August 2019.
That’s a big drop and indicative of the extent to which consumers are changing their spending habits in response to rising inflation. We are not going to stop buying groceries no matter what the cost, but we will put off a new vehicle purchase when money gets tight.
That is why I believe CARZ could rebound strongly next year. Once inflation stops rising and the Fed eases up on interest rate hikes, new car sales could rebound quickly.
Tech on Wheels
Here is a fun fact about CARZ that may surprise you: Only one of its top ten holdings is an automaker. That company is electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Tesla (NSDQ: TSLA), which accounts for 4.9% of the fund’s total assets.
The next four largest holdings are Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM), and Taiwan Semiconductor (NYSE: TSM). That sounds more like a tech fund than an auto sector play.
There’s a good reason for that. At the start of this year, the fund changed its name and its investment objective. It used to be known as the First Trust NASDAQ Global Auto Index Fund and tracked the entire auto sector.
Now, the fund tracks the S-Network Electric & Future Vehicle Ecosystem Index. Instead of being a proxy for the auto industry, the fund is focused on businesses that are investing heavily in electrified and autonomous driving.
We can thank the soaring success of Tesla for that. While most other automakers hit the skids after the outbreak of the pandemic, TSLA surged ahead.
The fund sponsor hoped the name change and emphasis on EVs would spur investor interest in CARZ. Unfortunately for them, TSLA started falling shortly after CARZ made the switch. As a result, the fund’s total assets are still a relatively puny $50 million.
That may be bad news for the fund sponsor but that is good news for investors. Once Wall Street decides it is safe to get back into CARZ, its small size means its share price could rapidly appreciate.
High Octane Trade
I don’t know when that will happen, but I have a feeling it could be sooner than most people think. There is a lot of pent-up demand for new cars. And once inflation slows down and the Fed stops raising rates, new car sales could suddenly spike.
Buying shares of CARZ now is one way to participate in the growth of the EV market. Another way is to buy a call option on CARZ if you think it will soon take off. A call option rises in value when the price of the underlying security goes up.
Last week while CARZ was trading near $42, the call option that expires on March 17 at that strike price could be bought for $5. That means CARZ must rise above $47 for this trade to be profitable.
That works out to a 12% gain over the next five months. If the overall stock market is still in the doldrums then it is unlikely that this trade will be a winner.
But if the Consumer Price Index (CPI) report for September comes in better than expected this week, that may be all it takes for Wall Street to get back in the driver’s seat. CARZ has been spinning its wheels for the past nine months, and it may be time for it to hit the gas.
Editor’s Note: Electric and autonomous vehicles are only part of a wave of technological innovation that’s poised to take off. When we’ve put inflation and the pandemic behind us, certain companies will explode on the upside. Our experts have come up with eight shocking “next wave” predictions for the future. Click here for details.


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Over the next four years, Bertelsmann India Investments (BII) expects to invest upwards of $500 million in Indian start-ups.
BII is the strategic investment arm of German multinational company Bertelsmann, which has been operational in the country for the past seven to eight years. Pankaj Makkar, Managing Director of BII, told BusinessLine that the firm has received fresh capital to invest in the Indian market.
“With the fresh capital, the idea is to continue doing early growth stage companies (Series B, C) and even do a little early-stage round such as Series A. The firm’s average ticket size will be $10 million - 15 million for first-time cheques and it will do about five to seven new deals a year in addition to the follow-on rounds,” Makkar added.
Focus on tech
In terms of themes, BII will be investing in anything related to technology — technology companies or tech-enabled companies which are significantly organising the market. Talking about the increased investment size and number of deals, Makkar said that the change in strategy is backed by the maturity in Indian startup ecosystem which makes the firm comfortable in making a deeper bet.
“Also, we feel that we have built a massive brand in the country when it comes to mid-stage investing or early growth investing. We are probably among the top three VCs in mid-stage investing category. Now that we have built that kind of brand name, we want to capitalise on it by doubling down on building a much larger business,” he added.
BII is an investor in companies like LendingKart, Licious, Pepperfry, Eruditus, Agrostar and Rupeek, among others. Out of these, LendingKart and Pepperfry have announced plans to go for a public listing. Makkar expects the upcoming LIC IPO to be a big moment for the Indian IPO market, acting as a litmus test of whether the investor interest is back or not. If the market is back after LIC IPO, he said, significant activity will happen on the IPO front from tech companies.
“In general, start-ups have realised that they need to be profitable or have a clear path to profitability while listing on Indian public markets as the markets like that better than loss-making companies. I think start-ups will now be more conscious of profitability when they go for an IPO. That’s also why we see many companies trimming teams lately. Further, I think start-ups will also value themselves right,” Makkar added.


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Despite elevated ticket prices, the demand for domestic flights modestly increased at the beginning of May, underscoring the "strong appetite" consumers still have for air travel, according to new Adobe Analytics data.
During the first 15 days of the month, bookings increased 2%, according to Adobe, which measures consumer transactions from six of the top 10 U.S. airlines and over 150 billion web visits.
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During that time frame, consumers spent $4 billion online for domestic flights, up 5% from the same time frame in April, according to Adobe.
Through the first 15 days of May, spending is up 24% compared to 2019 while bookings are only up 3%. This gap between actual spending and bookings "highlights the effects of persistently high prices," according to Adobe.
"In the first half of May, we see a modest uptick in demand for domestic flights as consumers shift some of their spending from goods to services," Adobe Digital Insights lead analyst Vivek Pandya said in a statement.
Pandya noted that since prices are still elevated, the data underscores "how strong the appetite has been for air travel."
In fact, demand for travel over the summer still remains strong. Flight bookings for travel across the nation between June and August are up 1% compared to this same point during 2019 while spending is up 9%.
Bozeman, Montana, which is 90 minutes from Yellowstone, is a top summer destination, followed by Kailua-Kona, Hawaii; Orlando, Florida; Lihue, Hawaii; and Kahului, Hawaii.


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A 1934 Buick Series 60 has been found after being stored away in a shipping container for 40 years. Time just ended where you had an opportunity to buy an amazing time capsule find.
A 1934 Buick Series 60 that’s been sitting in a storage container for nearly four decades is up for auction on eBay through Saturday.
The seller tells The Motor Masters that he had retrieved a group of containers from a client over 20 years ago and just got around to opening them up while clearing his property, even though he knew that there may be a couple of cars still inside of them.
The Buick was in one container, and is in better shape than it originally thought. The interior is a disaster, but the body and frame are rust free, and both the 3-speed manual transmission and straight-8 engine and 3-speed manual transmission spin, even if the former doesn’t start.
As one of 5,300 manufactured, the big Buick has plenty of potential as a collector car. Listed values for restored vehicles range anywhere from $25,000 to $85,000.
This one needs plenty of attention and work done before it’s worth anywhere near that, and bidding on the no reserve auction was just over $4,000 at the time of this writing.
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FIELD TO FORK: A DINNER FUNDRAISER
June 2 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Federal Coffee and Fine Foods in conjunction with the board of Terre Foods Cooperative Market is proud to announce a special fundraiser event in support of Terre Foods Cooperative Market, a local grocery store that plans to offer fresh and locally sourced produce, dairy, meat and other food items to the Terre Haute community.
The event will be a farm to fork dinner featuring a four-course meal made from locally sourced produce, prepared by Chef Kris Kraut. The dinner will take place from 6pm to 9pm on June 2, 2023, at Federal Coffee and Fine Foods and will be limited to only 70 guests.
Tickets for the dinner are $100 per person, and proceeds will go towards opening Terre Foods Cooperative Market. The event is expected to sell out quickly, so interested guests are encouraged to purchase their tickets in advance to secure their spot.
“By supporting local farmers and promoting sustainable agriculture, we are helping to create a healthier and more resilient community. We invite everyone to join us for this special evening of delicious food and community support” says board member Courtney Dosch.
For more information and to purchase tickets visit https://federal-coffee-fine-foods.square.site/events
For more information about Terre Foods, visit our website: http://terrefoods.com


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It appears that Quickoffice, the Microsoft Office document editing suite, has already been ported to the Android smartphone platform, and that the company is merely waiting for Android phones to start shipping before it releases the product formally.
The Quickoffice folks paid PC Magazine a visit and showed them the application running on the Android SDK’s emulator. A complete set of photos of Quickoffice for Android is available for viewing.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the sixth Eastern Economic Forum on September 3, local time, that Russia will develop the transport potential of the Far East region, including expanding the transport capacity of the Northern Sea Route, which should increase the annual cargo volume to 80 million tons by 2024, Sputnik news agency reported.
“We will develop the transport potential of the Far East as the most important part of the global transport corridor, including expanding the transport capacity of the Northern sea route,” Putin said. It should be noted here that cargo volume on the line has grown exponentially over the past decade, from just over 7 million tons in 1986 to 33 million tons last year, and should rise to 80 million tons by 2024.”
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Drugmaker Pfizer posts 9% jump in 2Q profit
Pfizer Inc today reported a 9 per cent increase in second-quarter profit, trouncing Wall Street expectations as its revenue jumped sharply due to its mega-acquisition of fellow drugmaker Wyeth last October.business Updated: Aug 03, 2010 18:43 IST
Pfizer Inc on Tuesday reported a 9 per cent increase in second-quarter profit, trouncing Wall Street expectations as its revenue jumped sharply due to its mega-acquisition of fellow drugmaker Wyeth last October.
The maker of cholesterol blockbuster Lipitor and impotence pill Viagra said net income for the three months ending July 4 rose to $2.48 billion, or 31 cents per share, from $2.26 billion a year earlier.
Earnings per share were 34 cents in the year-ago period; Pfizer had fewer shares then because it sold new stock to help fund the Wyeth purchase.
Pfizer, the world's biggest drugmaker by sales, said revenue totaled $17.33 billion, up 58 per cent from $10.98 billion in 2009's second quarter.
Excluding 31 cents worth of one-time items, income was $4.96 billion, or 62 cents a share.
Those items included $1.1 billion before taxes for integration of Wyeth's systems, employee severance and other restructuring, along with $2.1 billion before taxes for asset write-downs and other accounting charges related to the Wyeth purchase.
Analysts expected earnings per share of 52 cents on revenue of $16.65 billion, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters.
The company reaffirmed its profit forecast for 2010, saying it expects revenue of $67 billion to $69 billion and earnings per share of 95 cents to $1.10, or $2.10 to $2.20, excluding one-time items. Analysts expect $2.16 per share, on average.
"We continue to make solid progress on the Wyeth integration while we remain focused on delivering strong business performance," Chief Executive Jeff Kindler said in a statement.
Pfizer bought Wyeth for $68 million in a move to diversify the company by adding Wyeth's prized biologic drug operation, consumer health products such as Centrum vitamins and an animal health business to bolster Pfizer's existing one.
In premarket trading, Pfizer shares added 3.9 per cent to $16.08. Sales were up sharply in Pfizer's four biggest prescription drug divisions.
The primary care business had revenue of $5.92 billion, followed by $3.77 billion for specialty care products, including Wyeth's blockbuster biologic drug for rheumatoid arthritis, Enbrel.
Sales in emerging markets were up 55 per cent to $2.25 billion, and sales of established products that have lost patent protection in some countries jumped 63 per cent to $2.73 billion. Cancer drug sales slipped 2 per cent to $349 million.
Altogether, prescription drugs brought in $15.02 billion, up 49 per cent. Revenue for animal health products totaled $893 million and consumer health products brought in $678 million.
For the first six months, Wyeth posted net income of $4.5 billion, or 56 cents per share, down 10 per cent from $4.99 billion, or 74 cents a share, in the first half of 2009.
Revenues climbed 56 per cent, to $34.08 billion from $21.85 billion.
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In the evening, the Western Mediterranean Exporters Association (WMEA) awarded best exporters of 2014 according to the sectors Sembol Insaat marked the victory winning in eight categories.
At the awarding ceremony held by Western Mediterranean Exporters Association (WMEA) where 5 leading exporters in Antalya, Burdur and Isparta and leading exporters according to the sectors were awarded Sembol Insaat was a company to win the most of prizes with seven sectoral awards and in 2014 it succeeded being a leader exporter according to the WMEA and winning eight awards.
At the ceremony with participation of the Western Mediterranean Exporters Association Board members and exporting companies officials the companies received their rewards from the WMEA Board Chairman Mr. Mustafa Satici, WMEA Board Vice Chairmen Mr. Ramazan Atılgan and Mr. Hakki Bahar.
At the meeting, the WMEA Board Chairman Mustafa Satici congratulated and thanked the exporters who helped the country to earn foreign currency and contributed to the economy by performing exports. That evening Sembol Insaat was a company to win the most of the prizes taking 7 sectoral awards and at the same time won in total 8 awards winning as a leading exporter according to the WMEA in 2014.
Lifetime Exporting Contribution Award was given to Ercan Boztepe who had presided at the WMEA Board during 3 terms and earned significant experience in the field fresh fruit and vegetable exports.
Awards were distributed in 24 different sectors
At the ceremony awards in 24 sectors as fresh fruit and vegetable products, fruit and vegetable products, oil seeds, air conditioning, chemical substances and products, ships and yachts, minerals and metals, wood products and forest products, steel, cement and glass ceramic and soil products, precious metals and jewelry, ferrous metals and non-ferrous metals, leather and leather goods, electrical and electronic goods, vehicle and auxiliary industries, carpets, garments, cereals, pulses, dried fruits and products, defense and aerospace, aquatic products and raw materials were given to the company officials.


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Menu changes have been a part of the operations adjustments bars and restaurants have had to make in response to COVID-19, in addition to social distancing and more stringent disinfecting practices. We spoke with several restaurants and bars on how COVID-19 has led to changes in their menu selections and formats.
Technology has beget several physical menu alternatives.
In order to reduce waiter-customer contact, the management at Samovar Tea Lounge in San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Gardens encourages customers to order their meal on the restaurant’s website or app online, selecting the “for here” option. Once guests are settled in, a food runner will bring over drinks and food, and the app will also allow them to pay and tip.
“Waiters will likely disappear, and prices will have to go up as operating costs and materials are going up,” acknowledges Owner Jesse Jacobs, who says they will increase the use of compostable materials. “It’s on us to provide an awesome experience in exchange for the changes.”
Kenneth Danko, Owner/Chef of the Devilicious Eatery and Apparition Room cocktail bar in Temecula, just outside of San Diego, also advocates for the use of QR Code menus. “While we encourage customers to use the QR code visibly displayed on every table to pull up a menu [developed by Miami-based firm Menu Men] on their phones, disposable paper menus are available for those unable to access the menu or who are not comfortable with the technology,” he explained. “However, only one menu per table will be handed out on request and disposed after all guests at a table place their orders.”
Streamlining the number of menu selections, meanwhile, can help a business cut expenses during the adjustment to the new normal. Samovar Tea Lounge will now offer only the top-selling 20% of its menu items and serve its classic cocktails in glassware, if allowed.
At Tacolicious, a San Francisco-based, full-service Mexican restaurant with five Bay Area locations, Director of People Korey Reynolds says that with minimal dining room seating and the need to cut labor expenses, management decided to drop less popular items and those requiring longer prep time and instead actively promote its bestsellers, especially tacos and margaritas.
Corporate Beverage Director Andrea Cornwell for Ohio-based national restaurant group Cameron Mitchell, says that restaurant management focused on all of the items that sold the highest volume before COVID-19 when modifying menus. “The consumer is consistently ‘trading down,’ or selecting the lesser expensive wine/beer on the menu,” she says. “Therefore, we have chosen to put entry- and mid-level tier products on our menus for now.”


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October is a distant memory now for Phillies fans. Or at least, they’re pretending it is.
It wasn’t the season finale the Phillies envisioned when they returned home needing only one win to clinch a National League pennant. The Game 7 loss to the Diamondbacks will continue to sting, but there were euphoric moments too: The team rode a red tide of enthusiasm, uniting the Philadelphia region behind the catchphrase “Red October.”
Now as players begin reporting for spring training, they have a chance for redemption, and the team’s communications gurus are no doubt hoping they’ll be able to dust off the “Red October” catchphrase yet again.
In this part of the country, it was a constant drumbeat for those playoff weeks. The slogan was everywhere. It wasn’t just the team’s PR staff promoting it. Fans dropped it liberally in social media posts. Local businesses plastered it on signs. It showed up on billboards and in media reports, and, of course, on Phillies merchandise. There was even a “Rally for Red October Bus Tour.”
“Red October” serves as shorthand for the playoff frenzy of Phillies fans, a home stadium environment that visiting teams attest can be “four hours of hell.” It’s a way for fans to express their hopes for the team with two simple words. It’s also a great example of savvy use of a secondary brand, according to John Allgood, an instructor of sports management at the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics.
“You don’t really see that that much in professional sports, when someone can create a secondary brand that goes along with the primary brand,” Allgood said.
That primary brand, of course, includes the Phillies’ name, logo, and familiar red colors. Fans snap that up in the team shop in the form of jerseys, hats and more. “But you just created another brand that you could sell merchandise for,” Allgood noted, as fans now also shell out money for the Red October Phillies gear when they make it to the postseason.
This secondary brand helps build a community and identity around the team, strengthens the overall brand, and “just increases the intensity of the culture,” Allgood said.
It’s a culture he’s experienced. “You have to personally have gone to a game during the playoffs to understand how that place goes insane for their team.”
Hitting gold with that perfect secondary brand isn’t an easy feat. Certainly other teams have managed to find the sweet spot, like the Steelers with their terrible towels. But try to think of another team in the MLB playoffs last year that managed to garner that same “Red October” momentum with a slogan.
The Orioles tried “Take October,” which didn’t take off for obvious reasons. The Phillies’ NLCS opponent, the Arizona Diamondbacks, made it to the World Series even though the best they could come up with was #EmbracetheChaos. (There, they reached the limits of their chaos and fell victim to the buzz saw that was the Texas Rangers. #texaschainsawmassacre?)
Of Red October, “I can’t really think of a secondary brand that has been that embraced,” Allgood said. “It’s all over. It’s everywhere in Philly.”
The phrase has been around for a while. Back in the day, it was always fair game for a pun-happy headline writer playing off the title of the Tom Clancy book and movie adaptation, “The Hunt for Red October.” It popped up here and there on social media as Phillies fans tested it out. But the phrase really exploded on social media in 2009, the year the Phillies fell short in the World Series in their bid for back-to-back titles.
After 2011, the Phillies didn’t have much use for the slogan for about a decade, but in 2022 it came roaring back, embraced by the team as a rallying cry.
Unlike some of the other team efforts at slogans, the Phillies have found one that fits like a glove.
“That’s what makes it unique, is that it actually fits perfectly and the city has bought into it,” Allgood said. It amplifies that wild home crowd experience that makes people willing to spend hundreds of dollars for a ticket.
This kind of brand savvy isn’t a matter of luck, Allgood said. “I think it has to be well thought out, researched, understanding your fan base.”
Right now, that fan base is indulging in some spring hope, rooting for another hard-playing, get-the-uniforms-dirty, fun season with a Red October to cap it off.
“It fits the city’s grit. It fits the Phillies’ grit and I just think it’s something to get behind,” Allgood said.


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Costco Enforces New Shopping Policy Due to COVID-19
Costco grocery warehouse announced on Wednesday that they will be enforcing a new shopping policy due to COVID-19.
Starting Friday, Costco is limiting the number of guests who can enter the store to only two people per membership card in hopes to maintain social distancing.
Costco will remain open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
They are also offering special shopping hours to accommodate shoppers that are 60 years and older by opening from 8 to 9 a.m. just for seniors and those with disabilities.


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The most-followed celebrity on Instagram now has the most-liked photo on the popular social network. A Selena Gomez photo taken for the “Share a Coke and a Song” campaign and posted to the pop star’s Instagram account has garnered more than 4 million likes since June 25.
The photo, shot in April in Los Angeles by noted fashion photographer Guy Aroch, shows the
"When we compose a shot like this, it feels real and authentic as well as complementary to the symmetrical Coke bottle," said James Sommerville, Coke's VP of global design. "Guy is a master at capturing these natural moments with amazing beauty and simplicity."
During a recent Atlanta concert stop, Gomez documented her visit to
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On the other hand, fewer passengers are lodging formal complaints against the airlines.
The government said Wednesday that 79.8 percent of flights arrived within 14 minutes of schedule in March. That's down from 82.2 percent in March 2012.
Hawaiian Airlines and Virgin America had the best on-time ratings, while regional carrier ExpressJet and JetBlue Airways had the worst.
The Transportation Department says it got 943 complaints about airline service from consumers, down 16 percent from March 2012. Over the first three months of the year, however, complaints were up 17 percent from a year earlier.
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The Bitcoin-driven cryptocurrency craze has taken the financial world by storm and one small US company managed to make the most of the wave. Fintech firm Longfin started trading on NASDAQ last week for $5 a share. After it announced on Friday it had acquired blockchain company Ziddu, share prices quadrupled. By Monday, Longfin had seen its share price surge by more than 2,000 percent and, according to Bloomberg, its market worth hit $7 billion. The company’s value has since returned to earth somewhat, but the practically-overnight explosion is a prime example of the dramatic effect cryptocurrencies are having on the financial market.
The United Nations is hoping to drive technology development by launching a series of innovation labs around the world. The global body recently announced it was opening its latest such facility, the African Technology Innovation Lab (UNTIL), in Cairo this month. “Egypt has always been a key regional player in the area of information and communication technology and innovation,” said the UN’s Richard Dictus during the lab’s opening ceremony. The UN hopes UNTIL will be able to help develop sustainable solutions to global challenges, with a special focus on disability education, medicine and agriculture.
People spend up to a third of their life in bed and one innovative startup is trying to make that time as pleasant as possible. London-based Simba manufactures memory foam mattresses that they sell online and ship in vacuum-sealed packaging. With their cheapest mattress starting at just 399 pounds, the company is aiming to make high-end sleep comfort available to the masses. They have even enlisted football star Gareth Bale to front their product. Investors have taken notice, and this week Simba broke the news that they had secured €45 million in fresh funding. The mammoth investment will help the company, which currently sells its mattresses in Europe, expand across the globe
Nigerian startup Farmcrowdy is transforming agriculture through its innovative approach to the industry. The company’s app helps small farmers in Africa connect with sponsors abroad in the UK and US, who can finance crop cycles. The sponsorships provide everything from technical advice to logistical support, in order to help funders get a higher return on their investment. The everybody-wins approach to agriculture is proving popular, and this week Farmcrowdy announced it had secured $1 million in funding. With Nigeria set to become the world’s third-largest country by 2030, every bit of food-industry innovation will prove crucial to feeding a growing population.
Israeli entrepreneurs Shai Wininger and Daniel Schreiber have taken the latest innovation technology has to offer and applied it to one of the world’s oldest industries, insurance. Rather than relying on brokers, their company, Lemonade, uses artificial intelligence and behavioral economics to drive business. Much of its day-to-day operations are done through chatbots and enhanced management tools, keeping costs down. It’s a fresh approach that is drawing attention. This week, Lemonade announced Japanese financial giant Softbank had invested $120 million in the company. The new funds will help the home insurance innovator, which currently operates in the US, take its model worldwide.


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Washington, D.C. – Now that most consumers can choose phone service from a cable, wireless or wireline provider it is time for policymakers to rethink comprehensive regulation of incumbent phone companies, according to a report released today by the Discovery Institute. Comprehensive regulation is unnecessary to ensure quality service at reasonable rates. More importantly, it inhibits competition which can deliver more broadband, increased choice and ultimately lower prices for consumers.
The report notes that potent competition from wireless and VoIP providers mean that millions of consumers have become virtual regulators. Meanwhile, competition and regulation are incompatible. Consumers will not win in the marketplace if legacy regulations do not fall away.
“Utility regulation was justified when fixed landline telephone service was a natural monopoly,” according to Hance Haney, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute and a co-author of the report. “But the monopoly is gone and utility regulation deprives consumers of the benefits of vigorous competition.”
The report, coauthored by Haney and George Gilder, also a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, identifies several features of traditional utility regulation which inhibit competition.
“This is a moment of truth for Midwest states facing contraction of their traditional manufacturing industries,” said Gilder. “By simple reforms of outmoded laws, they can ignite a new spiral of innovation and revival based on new technologies and services tapping into new worldwide webs of glass and light and air.”
The report recommends that policymakers address the following shortcomings in utility regulation:
- Hidden subsidies intended to hold some prices at or below cost cannot be maintained in a competitive market, where competitors can choose to serve profitable customers and ignore everyone else.
- Tariff filing requirements ensure that rivals will always have advance notice of an incumbent’s intentions and need not offer the best value proposition every day to avoid losing sales.
- Requirements to offer similar terms to all customers prevents incumbents from developing customized offerings, such as volume and term discounts necessary to retain customers.
- To the extent a utility commission may seek to assert jurisdiction to regulate competitive services it is a target for commercial rivals seeking a regulatory advantage, activists seeking to promote a policy agenda or even a formerly regulated entity seeking protection.
- Regulation which imposes costs on some providers but not others – such as the requirement to act as a provider of last resort where the market is competitive and consumers can choose between multiple providers – is anticompetitive.
- Utility commission jurisdiction for broadband deployment risks reliance on unnecessary and inefficient subsidies and overlooks the more valuable role that state economic development and education departments can play in promoting broadband deployment.
- Utility commission jurisdiction for consumer protection is redundant and can lead different consumer protection rules according to the type of service or provider.
The authors claim that minimal regulation leads to investment and innovation. Studies show that broadband access and adoption could lead to millions of new jobs every year and other consumer benefits.
To read “More Broadband, Increased Choice and Lower Prices Begin With Regulatory Reform,” click here.
About the Technology & Democracy Project at the Discovery Institute:
Discovery Institute’s Technology and Democracy Project (http://www.discovery.org/technology/) provides expert analysis and commentary on technology and public policy issues. Led by program founder and renowned author George Gilder, the TDP is recognized as a national and international voice for free enterprise in the technology sector.
About the authors:
Hance Haney is Director and a senior fellow of the Technology & Democracy Project at the Discovery Institute. He advised the chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications of the United States Senate during the deliberations leading to the Telecommunications Act of 1996. He subsequently held various positions with the United States Telecom Association, U S WEST, Inc. and Qwest Communications.
George Gilder is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute and the founder of Discovery’s Technology & Democracy Project. He is also chairman of George Gilder Fund Management, LLC and moderator of the Gilder Telecosm Forum. His best-selling book, Microcosm (1989), explored the quantum roots of new electronic technologies. A subsequent book, Life After Television (1990), was a prophecy of the future of computers and telecommunications and a prelude to his book on the future of telecommunications, Telecosm (2000).


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Chamomile tea is currently the top selling herbal tea in the US, with research showing that up to 20% of the population buys and drinks herbal tea. Its health benefits have been praised for centuries, but new studies have offered scientific evidence that far exceeds its previous achievements.
A 7 year US medical study carried out at the University of Texas concluded that chamomile tea can lower the risk of mortality in women by as much as 29%, which included all causes of death.
Out of 1677 individuals, 235 chamomile tea drinkers were studied, and woman consistently showed more health improvements and lower mortality when compared to the male participants. Factoring in demographics, health conditions and health behaviors made no difference to the result: women still benefited more from chamomile tea than men, especially in reducing the risk of preventing life-threatening diseases.
Why Did Women Benefit More?
The study hosted Mexican-American men and women over the age of 65 and studies have supported the notion that women benefited more from chamomile tea due to their more consistent tea-drinking habits.
Women proved to be more prone to drinking herbal teas than men, sipping it between household chores and as a regular bedtime ritual. Chamomile tea has long been known to reduce stomach cramps and inflammation, which may also explain why women drink it more than men: women are more prone to hormonal fluctuations, fluid retention and inflammation than men.
Assistant Professor Bret Howrey from the University of Texas confirms: “Women are shown to be more frequent users of chamomile than men.”
The scientific study and its findings were published in The Gerantologist journal at the Medical Branch of the University of Texas in Galveston, and remains encouraging proof that chamomile tea has multiple health benefits, including increasing life span.
Drinking chamomile tea regularly has been linked through proven studies to markedly improve the health of its consumers, as well as offering the necessary hydration to keep all systems working at their optimum.
Chamomile tea contains hippurate, a substance which stimulates botanical phenolics that have proven to boost immunity and eliminate bacteria.
It also contains bisabolol, apigenin and charmazulene, which are natural anti-inflammatory compounds. Chronic inflammation can lead to multiple life threatening illnesses, and it is commonly accepted that inflammation is often as sign of poor health. By drinking 2-5 cups of chamomile tea daily, inflammation and mortality are significantly reduced.
Known for centuries as a calming, soothing and stress relieving drink, chamomile offers its consumers better sleep, less tension in tired muscles and a calmer, happier mind.
Studies have further shown that chamomile tea helps to balance blood sugar, reduce the risk of heart disease and soothe menstrual and digestive disorders.
It’s no wonder that herbal teas, and in particular chamomile tea are rising in popularity, with over 60 million people already becoming regular consumers of it.
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Here's some news you can use, assuming you believe the word of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott -- tanning beds don't prevent cancer.
Abbott filed an injunction Monday against Houston-based Darque Tan (here's a copy of it) accusing it of false advertising.
False advertising? For the kind of people who go to tanning beds? Surely if there is any group of medically-aware and knowledgeable people out there, it's tanning-bed users. You don't need false claims, you can simply sell them on the health benefits of getting skin cancer.
Abbott's injunction says Darque Tan went way beyond the pale (Ha! A joke!)
"Defendants make the health or medical claim that indoor tannng increases the user's intake of Vitamin D and that increased levels of Vitamin D have been shown to reduce the incidence or risk of cancer," the injunction says.
And then there's this, which is simply hilarious: Darque Tan agents have "specifically made the following health or medical claims...2) `so would you be more worried about the skin cancer on your arm and being able to have it laser-cut out...or would you rather have ovarian cancer that you can't get rid of...and people die from?"
Yeah, take that, doubters, and get yourself to a tanning salon stat!! Darque tan, preferably!! We're not sure those other tanning salons cure cancer!!
-- Richard Connelly
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At a morning assembly held on Monday, April 3, 2017, Sophie Davies, attorney at HSM IP, and Natasha Whitelocke, HSM IP Head IP Paralegal, presented INTA’s Unreal Campaign to a group of students at John Gray High School in George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. The Unreal Campaign is INTA’s public awareness initiative designed to educate teenagers about the concept of intellectual property, the importance of trademarks, and the dangers of counterfeit products.
During the Assembly, Sophie and Natasha educated the students on the value of trademarks and anti-counterfeiting initiatives. Showing the students examples of counterfeit and genuine goods side-by-side, they explained how to spot the differences between the actual good and the fake one. They also explained the many ways in which counterfeit goods can negatively affect the local consumer as well as the local community.
Huw Moses, the Managing Partner of HSM IP, noted: “We are incredibly pleased to present to JGHS students on the effects of copyrights and trademarks in the Cayman Islands. We appreciate the opportunity to empower and encourage young adults in the local community by educating them about INTA and counterfeit goods in order to equip them to make smarter purchasing decisions.”
To learn more about the Unreal Campaign, please visit www.inta.org/unrealcampaign or contact Senior Coordinator, Communications Laura Heery at email@example.com.
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Techies and Apple fans, brace yourself: the highly awaited Apple iPhone 16 Pro is almost here, and rumour has it that it will revolutionise the smartphone industry. The tech community is super hyped about this impending flagship since it’s not just an iteration, it may totally change the game with all these awesome new features and design tweaks.
Apple is reportedly preparing to release more than just minor updates, according to sources close to the company. With its cutting-edge capabilities and reimagined form, the iPhone 16 Pro is poised to take smartphone design to a whole new level. The anticipation for the formal reveal of the iPhone 16 Pro is high, and rightfully so; this is a smartphone with the potential to revolutionise the industry and enthrall consumers and techies alike.
- Design Evolution
The highly anticipated iPhone 16 Pro’s design progression is sure to be one of the device’s most notable features. Apple is not only making cosmetic adjustments, according to sources; the company is actively working to revolutionize its materials and design philosophy. Redesigning the iPhone’s aesthetic and improving its feel in the hand are two obvious goals. Beyond the surface, this promises to revolutionize the tactile and visual aspects of using an iPhone. With an emphasis on modern style and state-of-the-art materials, the design updates to the iPhone 16 Pro are expected to take the device to new levels, redefining what Apple’s renowned smartphone series is capable of.
- Revolutionary Features
Those in the know about Apple’s next big product, the apple iphone16 pro, have been dropping hints about some seriously groundbreaking features that it will include. Although the details of these capabilities are being kept under wraps, the consequences are far-reaching and might revolutionise smartphone technology. Evidently committed to continuing its role as an industry pioneer, Apple is well-known for its inventive approach. Exciting new features and improved technology that potentially revolutionise smartphone capabilities are at the heart of the hype surrounding the iPhone 16 Pro. Tech experts are on the edge of their seats, waiting for Apple to reveal these groundbreaking innovations that might revolutionize mobile technology. However, the company has been tight-lipped about the details.
- Enhanced Camera Capabilities
Attention all photography and videography aficionados! For individuals who are enthusiastic about recording moments in breathtaking detail, the apple iphone 16pro is shaping up to be a dream smartphone.
The leaked specs for the apple iphone 16pro have revealed some very interesting possibilities for major upgrades to the photography capabilities. Improvements are in the works for a number of areas, including new functionality, better picture processing, and improved sensor technology. All things considered, the end result should be an imaging experience that is both immersive and of very high quality.
For those who value high-quality photography and videography on their smartphones, the upcoming iPhone 16Pro is sure to deliver on all fronts, including improved low-light performance, more creative options, and sharper details. The camera system is shaping up to be a real powerhouse. More and more information is trickling out about the next iPhone, and the excitement is building, thanks in large part to the possibility of a revolutionary camera system.
The rumour mill has it that the apple iphone 16 pro, behind its stylish shell, will get a major upgrade, especially in the performance department. The speculation surrounding this flagship gadget implies that it will be equipped with a significant upgrade internally.
Improving processors, which should lead to faster and more efficient systems, is a major focus of this update. According to rumours, the iPhone 16 Pro will have updated CPUs that will make it extremely responsive across a variety of apps and put it in a league of its own when Apple comes to speed. This upgrade isn’t just about more power; it’s an attempt to reimagine what it means to use a smartphone by catering to all sorts of customers’ demands with streamlined performance. Expectations are rising for a new benchmark in smartphone performance with the release of the iPhone 16 Pro, which is expected to seamlessly handle demanding tasks and applications.
- Software Enhancements
Software improvements, especially through Apple’s iOS releases, are also on the horizon for the apple iphone 16 pro, which should complement the hardware changes. Beyond improving functionality, these modifications priorities the user experience to provide an interface that is easier to use. Apple seems to be in step with what today’s smartphone customers want, understanding the significance of user-friendly and straightforward software. With the upcoming software updates for the iPhone 16 Pro, Apple is showing they care about making a powerful gadget that is also easy to use.
These upgrades are set to put the iPhone 16 Pro in a class where technology not only works well but also fits in with users’ everyday lives, appealing to a wide range of users, which is important because users are demanding more and more streamlined interactions and intuitive interfaces.
We are entering an era where connectivity is crucial, and the apple iphone 16 pro is expected to have 5G capabilities built in, which will be a huge improvement in mobile connectivity. The next big thing is making sure it works with all the other devices in Apple’s vast ecosystem so that the user experience is seamless and integrated.
This strategic approach is in line with Apple’s steadfast dedication to creating an environment where its devices work together seamlessly. In addition to being an impressive technological marvel in its own right, the apple iphone 16 pro aspires to play an integral role in Apple’s larger network of devices, allowing for the frictionless transfer of data and actions across different mediums. Apple is well-positioned to meet the increasing needs for better connection and a cohesive user experience in today’s digital world by promoting 5G readiness and integration across its ecosystem.
- Battery Life Improvements
The issue of battery life has always been a worry for smartphone owners, but according to insiders, the apple iphone 16 pro is ready to take on this problem head-on with its revolutionary new battery technology. The exact specifications of the apple iphone 16 pro are still under wraps, but everyone is hoping it will bring a new level of battery life. Longer battery life, less frequent charging, and a more consistent and uninterrupted smartphone experience are all goals of this much-anticipated innovation. With more and more people depending on their phones for everything from getting things done to enjoying themselves, any improvement to the iPhone 16 Pro’s battery technology would be welcome.
- User Feedback and Anticipation
On social media, techies and Apple fans are talking nonstop about the next apple iphone 16 pro and making wild assumptions about what features it will include. Social media platforms have exploded in popularity as word of the release’s imminent arrival spreads.
People are really looking forward to the official announcement of the apple iphone 16 pro, and polls and surveys done on these platforms give a glimpse of how excited they are. Speculation abounds, expectations are high, and the tech community’s notoriously critical and enthusiastic following is waiting for any hint of information regarding the next flagship product with bated breath. In addition to demonstrating Apple’s talent for captivating and keeping the interest of its devoted tech community, the noticeable amount of user comments and anticipation for the iPhone 16 Pro highlights the device’s importance in customers’ minds.
- Comparisons with Previous Models
A comparison to the iPhone 15 Pro is an essential and natural first step in trying to grasp the scope of the improvements made to the apple iphone 16 pro. Consumers can’t wait to see how the next flagship smartphone compares to its predecessor and what kind of advancements it will bring. From the visual appeal and technical specs of the hardware to the features and usability of the software and the whole user experience, these comparisons cover it all. Customers can learn more about the new features and enhancements of the apple iphone 16 pro by comparing it to the previous generation, the iPhone 15 Pro.
In addition to guiding prospective upgraders, this comparison highlights the inventive steps Apple keeps taking to improve and hone its premium smartphone series. People are already quite excited about these comparisons, and they can’t wait to find out how Apple’s famous devices have changed over the years.
The price of the apple iphone 16 pro has been the subject of much conjecture, but now industry insiders have weighed in with their predictions. In comparison to its predecessor, the iPhone 15 Pro, the apple iphone 16 pro is expected to come with a higher price tag due to the anticipated introduction of new features, redesign, and improved capabilities.
The anticipation of state-of-the-art technology and novel features is closely related to the expectation of a higher price tag. Experts, however, stress the need of calculating ROI in light of these developments. In weighing the perceived value of the upgrades against the financial commitment needed to acquire Apple’s latest flagship smartphone, consumers will mostly focus on whether the improved functionality and design changes are worth the potentially higher price. As we wait for the formal announcement of the iPhone 16 Pro, this price conjecture increases the excitement and makes people think about the value proposition.
Release Date Expectations
The exact date of the apple iphone 16 pro’s arrival is still a mystery since Apple has not made an official statement about it. Nonetheless, many in the know and those who have worked closely with Apple in the past have speculated that the release will follow the usual routine.
Customers are waiting impatiently for the day they may buy this much-anticipated gadget, and the buzz about the possible release date is contagious. Fans have speculated on a timetable that corresponds with Apple’s recognized norms for launching new goods due to the company’s consistent track record. With the formal launch of the iPhone 16 Pro imminent, people are understandably on the edge of their seats, ready to usher in a new age of smartphone technology.
Global Impact and Market Trends
In the global smartphone market, Apple has a long history of being a trailblazer. The nextapple iphone 16 pro, with its sleek new design and impressive new capabilities, is likely to carry on this tradition. Decisions made by Apple have an effect on the dynamics of the industry at large, not only on its own product line.
The launch of the apple iphone 16 pro has put Apple’s competitors under the microscope, and their reactions to the company’s advances will determine the direction of the market going forward. Industry insiders and members of the tech community are keeping a close eye on the domino effect, hoping that new ideas about user experience, technology, and design will emerge in reaction to Apple’s revolutionary advances.
The smartphone industry is poised to undergo a sea change as Apple maintains its relentless pursuit of innovation, establishing a benchmark that rivals will inevitably aim to meet or exceed. An important strategic decision, the introduction of the iPhone 16 Pro will reverberate across the smartphone industry, shaping customer tastes and paving the way for more advancements in the near future.
With the unveiling of the highly anticipated apple iphone 16 pro, consumers must ask themselves: Is this flagship handset the best fit for me? Consumers greatly benefit from suggestions that are based on the expected features and adjustments as they navigate this decision.
A crucial component is the practical guidance, which sheds light on who should think about upgrading and what should be considered when making a purchase. To make sure the apple iphone 16 pro fits in perfectly with people’s digital lives, it’s crucial to understand their unique demands and tastes. Consumers are advised to consider their priorities when weighing the appeal of new features, improved camera capabilities, or a redesigned appearance. Users who want to incorporate innovation into their daily lives seamlessly will find practical tips to help them make informed decisions as they upgrade to the iPhone 16 Pro, which gets more personal as the tech landscape changes.
Finally, the Apple iPhone 16 Pro is about to make its grand entrance into the dynamic smartphone industry. Fans of Apple products are understandably agog, what with all the rumored design changes, exciting new features, and enticing insider info. The imminent arrival of the iPhone 16 Pro is evidence of Apple’s steadfast dedication to smartphone innovation and quality.
This next flagship represents a daring leap into the future of mobile technology, with to its revolutionary design and promise of state-of-the-art technology. The release of the iPhone 16 Pro is much anticipated by Apple fans and the tech community at large. Many believe that this new model will further establish Apple as the industry leader in smartphone innovation, surpassing even the lofty expectations of its predecessors.
When is the expected release date of the iPhone 16 Pro?
The release date for the iPhone 16 Pro is yet to be officially announced by Apple. However, industry experts and insiders suggest that it may follow Apple’s typical release schedule, with speculations pointing towards the latter part of the year.
What are the key design changes expected in the iPhone 16 Pro?
The iPhone 16 Pro is rumored to undergo significant design changes, including updates to aesthetics and material choices. While specific details remain speculative, Apple is expected to enhance the overall look and feel of its flagship device.
How will the camera capabilities of the iPhone 16 Pro be improved?
Leaked specifications indicate substantial improvements in the iPhone 16 Pro’s camera capabilities. These enhancements may include advancements in sensor technology, image processing, and additional features to elevate both photography and videography experiences.
Is the iPhone 16 Pro expected to be more expensive than its predecessor?
Price speculations from industry experts suggest that the iPhone 16 Pro could come with a higher price tag compared to its predecessor, the iPhone 15 Pro. Factors such as technological advancements and upgraded features contribute to these expectations.
What impact will the iPhone 16 Pro have on the global smartphone market?
The iPhone 16 Pro, being a flagship device from Apple, is expected to influence global smartphone market trends. Its innovative features and design changes may set new standards, prompting responses from competitors and shaping industry dynamics.


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PALM SPRINGS, Calif.—Two upcoming episodes of the ABC comedy Black-ish will feature a prominent guest star. In a two-episode Christmas arc airing later this year, a product placement for the Facebook Portal will play a central role in the holiday antics of the Johnson family.
The brand partnership between Black-ish and Facebook, which Black-ish actor and executive producer Anthony Anderson first shared news of onstage at Adweek’s annual Brandweek conference in Palm Springs, Calif., is the latest of several the show has featured and will mark another major product integration on ABC for Facebook, after its Portal was woven into Modern Family’s Season 11 premiere in September.
Anderson, who directed the Black-ish episodes featuring the Portal, said the experience brought him a new perspective on how these kinds of partnerships work behind the scenes.
“Seeing how the Facebook team interacted with the ABC team and the Black-ish team and how they put it all together, how it brought our family together, I got to see that [process] from both sides and work it from both sides,” Anderson said during a panel with ABC Entertainment president Karey Burke and Disney advertising sales evp of client and brand solutions Lisa Valentino. “It was interesting, as opposed to just trying to help sell this product, but to question it, have questions and answers, and figure out how it’s going to be used, and how it’s going to work for us in an organic way.”
The critically acclaimed Black-ish, created by Kenya Barris (last year’s Adweek TV Creator of the Year), has expanded since its 2014 premiere into a lucrative television franchise with spinoffs Grown-ish and Mixed-ish. It’s been a product placement playground, with companies like Microsoft, State Farm and Procter & Gamble getting their products or messaging integrated into the show’s plot.
Anderson is a paid spokesperson for the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, which provides treatment options for Type 2 diabetes (which Anderson has), and earlier this year, the company helped write a script for the show in which Anderson’s character Dre is diagnosed with diabetes.
“It was only natural that they would come to the show and have an organic form and presence in our show in talking about this disease in our community with the lead actor,” Anderson said.
Burke told Adweek the Disney advertising sales team often facilitates requests from brands that want to be involved in the shows but that ultimately, the respective producers decide whether to move forward with an integration. Barris, Burke said, has been proactive in seeking out brand partnerships where they make sense.
“Ultimately, if they feel like something can organically fit with the story, if something makes sense with the world and the characters, they’ll brainstorm and see what comes out of it,” Burke said. “It really starts with the creator and the creative, and goes from there.”
Anderson emphasized that brand partnerships have to “fit organically, so it’s not being forced upon an audience that is watching.”
When Valentino asked which brands he might be interested in working with next, Anderson had some ideas.
“Rolls Royce,” he joked. “I have very expensive taste.”


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BAD AXE — The Huron County Sheriff’s Department is leading a charge to eradicate the county of K2 incense.
After receiving a tip that a Verona Township convenience store was selling the marijuana substitute, which was outlawed in Michigan in October, deputies confiscated 24 packets of the herbal mixture, said Sheriff Kelly J. Hanson.
“Our intent is to stage undercover surveillance at other county stores in search of non-complying vendors,” said Hanson. “We will be advising local police chiefs of our findings and suggesting they do the same.”
During the investigation, deputies also learned that a store in Colfax Township was continuing to stock the product but was sold out, said the sheriff.
“Sadly, a clerk from one of the convenience stores actually discussed smoking Demon with our undercover deputy,” said Hanson. “According to the clerk, it is very potent.”
The clerk reportedly did not recommend driving after consuming Demon, which Hanson said remains legal.
K2 is sprayed with a synthetic cannabinoid compound that, when smoked, mimics the effect of marijuana and can induce hallucinations.
In August, a Port Hope teen was hospitalized after suffering a seizure, vomiting and losing consciousness, reportedly the result of consuming the drug.
“We encourage parents to warn their children against the possible side effects,” said Hanson. “We ask that citizens be on the look out for the sale of K2 and report it.”


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Nintendo on Thursday released its third quarter financials for its fiscal 2009 and made official, among other details, life to date Wii and DS shipment numbers. Amazingly, since its launch, the company has shipped a staggering 45 million Wii consoles globally. Nintendo said it shipped another 312 million Wii game discs. Meanwhile, it revealed that more than 96 million DS systems have been shipped globally since the portable launched along with 533 million game carts from the publisher.
Wii owners might also be interested to know that the Big N said it has shipped globally 14 million and 13.67 million copies of Wii Fit and Mario Kart Wii respectively since the two titles launched.
In other news, Nintendo reported nine-month (April to December 2008) global sales of 1,546 billion yen, an increase of almost 17 percent over the same period in 2007. It also reported a 27 percent increase in operating profit over the 2007 time frame. "This marks the fourth consecutive year that Nintendo Co., Ltd. has exceeded the previous results for the same nine month period," the company stated in its financial recap.
Nintendo did, however, cut its yearly sales target for Wii, likely due to the economic crisis. It now expects to sell 26.5 million systems globally this year, down from a projected 27.5 million.
Regarding its '09 forecast, the company offered, "Nintendo will continue to pursue expansion of the gaming audience and provide products that offer unique entertainment that puts smiles on the faces of people of all ages and genders."


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Apr 24, 2013 4:01 am
We've been hearing about this model for months. Today we finally get to see the Radeon HD 7990 from AMD, and what it can do.
Apr 23, 2013 3:36 pm
Who doesn't want a brand new CINEMA 3D LG HDTV? Deals2Buy comes to the rescue!
Apr 23, 2013 12:00 pm
WD unveil the world's first ultra-slim 2.5-inch, 5mm HDDs
Apr 23, 2013 12:00 pm
Apr 22, 2013 5:32 am
720p gamers should prepare for AMD's Radeon HD 8570
Apr 17, 2013 4:31 am
Apr 15, 2013 2:31 pm
Ever wanted to enjoy the look of VHS in YouTube, probably not, but now you can
Apr 13, 2013 4:36 am
Want a 50-inch 4K TV but don't want to pay $10,000 or more? Seiki have your back, for $1299
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Apr 13, 2013 1:03 am
Ask the Experts: I want to upgrade to a Radeon HD 7850, but want to make sure I have the right PSU and no CPU bottleneck
Apr 11, 2013 11:27 am
RumorTT: Apple going full steam ahead with 4K displays, refreshed MBPs could be on their way
Apr 9, 2013 10:31 pm
It's been a long time since we've seen a video card from ASUS, but today we check out the new HD 7790 DirectCU II OC, and see how it performs.
Apr 9, 2013 1:15 am
Irrational Games' BioShock Infinite gets tested with EyeFinity, how does it perform at 5760x1080?
Apr 8, 2013 6:31 am
Sony unveils their new 4K-capable Bravia TVs available in 55- and 65-inch, go on sale April 21
Apr 3, 2013 3:10 pm
Sleeping Dogs goes under the EyeFinity microscope, how does it perform at 5760x1080?
Apr 2, 2013 5:36 am
AT&T to begin offering Kindle Fire HD 8.9 with 4G LTE on April 5
Apr 2, 2013 12:37 am
AT&T to implement HD Voice technology later this year as it starts routing voice calls over LTE
Apr 1, 2013 11:32 pm
Intel to release updated driver for HD4000 that brings a 10 percent performance boost and OpenCL 1.2
Mar 29, 2013 6:41 am
It may be the "thinnest", but does the ADATA DashDrive Elite HE720 have the performance to be Elite? Let's find out.
Mar 28, 2013 11:31 pm
We have a quick look at a low profile version of the Radeon HD 7750 from Sapphire, which is suited to smaller systems such as those using Mini-ITX motherboards and cases.
Mar 28, 2013 6:17 am
Durable, fast and secure. We test the ADATA HD710 external hard drive and see how it goes.
Mar 27, 2013 7:34 am
AIDA64 v2.85 includes AMD Radeon HD 8000 GPU support, as well as AMD Richland APU support
Mar 27, 2013 6:47 am
ADATA's DashDrive HV610 external hard drive provides secure low cost option for anyone needing external storage. Let's take a look.
Mar 27, 2013 4:29 am
It's been a long time coming, but AMD have finally teased their Radeon HD 7990 GPU
Mar 27, 2013 12:07 am
HD Voice coming to T-Mobile's version of the iPhone 5


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Democrats Push to Reel in Credit Cards
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As Washington’s politicians and prognosticators haggle over the cause of the nation’s recent economic wilt, a group of House Democrats have proposed to reform an institution they claim has contributed to consumers’ burdens: the credit card industry.
That industry, these policymakers say, provides an invaluable service to consumers. But companies, they add, have also adopted a slew of dubious billing and marketing practices that target vulnerable populations, disguise fees and penalize cardholders even when they pay their bills on time. Hoping to give consumers more protections under their credit agreements, the lawmakers have crafted a handful of legislative proposals designed to rein the industry in.
Illustration by: Matt Mahurin
“What good is a contract when one side doesn’t get to make any decisions?” asked Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), who introduced legislation Feb. 7 that would reform the industry. Maloney’s bill, for example, would force companies to provide 45 days notice when they raise interest rates (currently no notice is required); it would force companies to mail bills at least 25 days before the payment is due (current law is 14 days), and it would cap over-the-limit fees at 3 percent (there is currently no cap).
Reps. Mark Udall (D-Col.), Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and Lincoln Davis (D-Tenn.) are pushing similar proposals, all of which have the strong backing of consumer groups. Reform, Udall said, would not benefit only consumers. “It’s also important for the credit card industry,” Udall said, “for their legitimacy.”
Maloney, who heads the House financial institutions and consumer credit subcommittee, said that panel will take up the topic on March 13, probably melding the various strategies.
They have a tough road ahead. The nation’s financial institutions have rallied in opposition to credit card reform in the past, and are doing so again this year. In a Feb. 12 letter to every House member, industry lobbyist groups urged lawmakers to reject Maloney’s proposal.
Signed by the American Bankers Assn., the National Assn. of Manufacturers, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, among others, the letter contends the reforms would impose price controls and rate caps that infringe on private markets. Ultimately, the groups say, the changes would increase costs and reduce choices for consumers.
“These consequences, whether intended or unintended, would occur at a time when the economy can least afford to add new constraints to an already tightened credit market,” the groups wrote.
“A majority of consumers like the choices they have,” added Betty Riess, a spokeswoman for Bank of America.
That has done little to satisfy consumer advocates, who point to figures they say are evidence that change is long overdue. The Consumer Federation of America, for example, estimates that the accumulated credit card debt of all Americans totaled about $850 billion at the end of last year — roughly $7,500 per household. These debts tend to affect lower-income cardholders disproportionately, advocates say.
A 2006 Government Accountability Office report revealed another startling statistic: In 2005, GAO found, the nation’s six largest credit card company collected $7.4 billion in penalty fees alone.
“Too many credit cards are designed to trip up consumers and trap them in debt,” said Travis Plunkett, CFA’s legislative director.
College students are among the most vulnerable targets of credit card solicitations, according to Stephen Lerner, assistant to the president at the Service Employees International Union. Lerner said the average college graduate today carries $3,000 in credit card debts.
To battle that trend, SEIU has launched a Web site designed to catch the eye of young adults — KeepItInYourPants.org — which aims to educate students about the consequences of living in debt. The site lists statistics about the burdens of covering large debts, and offers advice about how to avoid it.
On Capitol Hill Thursday, Lerner’s mention of the site’s title reddened the faces of the assembled lawmakers — except for that of Maloney. “I’m going to your Web site,” she announced.


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Nike warns Egyptian Olympic body to safeguard sport brand's reputation
London, July 27 (ANI): After one of Egypt's Olympic swimmers admitted that the team was given knockoff Nike gear from China to compete in, the sports brand has issued a severe warning to that country's Olympic body to take all possible steps to safeguard and protect the sport brand's name and reputation.Yomna Khallaf, competing for Egypt in synchronized swimming, tweeted that her Olympic bag had a giant Nike logo... and that the zippers were marked Adidas.
Nike sent a letter of warning to the Egyptian Olympic Committee after Khallaf added that the initial attitude of the officials in Cairo was: 'take this or have nothing at all.'Contacted by the media, the Egyptian Olympic Committee confessed that its uniform supplier had been handing them knockoff goods, the Daly Mail reports.
General Mahmoud Ahmed Ali, the president of the Egyptian Olympic Committee, confirmed: "We signed with a Chinese distributor in light of Egypt's economic situation."He called the fake clothes and footwear 'sufficient' for the Egyptians competing in the games, and suggested that if Nike felt troubled by the violation of its copyright, the company should pursue the supplier in China, not his committee.
In the company's letter to the Egyptian Olympic Committee, Nike warned that it 'consistently acts to protect its brand and actively engages with law enforcement agencies and Customs authorities to stop counterfeit product reaching consumers and athletes.'
According to the BBC, the Committee and Nike are now 'in discussions' over the matter. However, it is unclear whether Nike will take legal action. (ANI)
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The well-known streaming app Showbox has been under pressure lately after a series of lawsuits killed the app itself and brought down several sites. The latest rumors say that the Showbox may be relaunched soon. Inadvertently a question arises: Will it be safe to use?
Earlier in May, a group of independent movie studios initiated a massive strike against persons and websites that were facilitating or supporting access to Showbox. The situation got serious in September when a DMCA subpoena filled on the behalf of the studios ordered Cloudflare to release the identity of the people that facilitated access to Showbox via a variety of websites.
An important detail is the fact that these companies are serial litigants as they started countless suits and are known for many copyright trolling cases against torrent users around the world.
Two of the websites that were implied in the litigations have settled their cases behind closed doors. The exact conditions of the settlement are confidential and the sites were forced to display a nefarious warning.
The warning advises users that Showbox is a fraudulent platform and users that opt to use it may be tracked and charged with copyright infringement. It also notes that unnamed movie studios may file a lawsuit against users that access the service or the site.
Some will say that the aim of these warnings is to scare prospective uses away from the site by inciting fear. Countless forum threads are now filled with users that are unsure if the website can be used without getting in trouble.
Here waters get muddy. Many users don’t even the site from which they downloaded the app in the first case. This means that they could have downloaded a modified program which was infected with malware.
In the past few months a number of individuals argued that there are some sites that offer the original version but these claims cannot be verified.
Those that opt to use Showbox are encouraged to pick an efficient VPN solution.
As a passionate gamer since the 1990s, Vadim has kept his passion alive since then, and he is here to cover video games news, as well as to share with you all the novelties out there regarding gadgets or games-related tech.


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Richmond, Va. Circuit City Stores announced that John T. Harlow has joined the company as executive VP and COO. Harlow will oversee the company's retail stores, real estate, information technology and supply chain.
Harlow most recently was a retail director with Deloitte Consulting LLP and has been involved with Circuit City over the past year. Prior to joining Deloitte, Harlow was senior VP of operations for the A&P U.S. division of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company Inc.


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Bell Micro issues security training alert to channel
Urges resellers to climb on board
IT distie Bell Micro has kicked off a new security training scheme for its channel partners.
The Security Sales Academy will take place at its Chessington
World of Adventures site and will be punted to small to medium sized (SMB) and enterprise businesses in an attempt at raising the G-force skill level among sales staff.
Bell Micro said it planned to tout security solutions to reseller staff by providing a one-day security overview course followed by a more extensive two-day product training session.
To encourage resellers to sign up to the training scheme, the distie said participants will have access to offers from a number of vendors including Barracuda, Clearswift, IBM's Internet Security Systems, McAfee, and Symantec.
And, like forcing yourself onto that crazy rollercoaster one more time, Bell Micro said it will continue to train participants post-Academy.
Meanwhile, any channel partner that throws a whole team of people into the new scheme will receive exclusive marketing and access to campaigns with the sponsoring vendors. No mention of a free ride on the Runaway Train, however. ®


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UK DIY News
Closure of B&Q Stratford-upon-Avon on hold
The B&Q store in Stratford-upon-Avon, looks likely to remain open, after the company signed a new, three year extension to the current lease.
The branch, located at the Maybird shopping centre just outside the centre of the town, looked likely to close last September after Stratford District Council approved a planning application to demolish the building and build three new retail units in its place.
Since then, the 49 employees have been uncertain whether they would have a job and although questions over the long term future of the store remain, at least the extension provides some certainty until 2020. Representatives of the Council had said that they were willing to work with B&Q to find an alternative home for the only large DIY store in the town.
The B&Q store manager Lynford Johnson said: “Our B&Q Stratford-upon-Avon store has become a part of the town’s community as well as its landscape. We are delighted to have another three years at the Maybird Centre, as it gives us time to find a suitable site in Stratford to relocate to a new store.
“We are looking forward to our future in Stratford and plan to invest and expand the operation we have here. We want to provide more jobs to the area and to enhance the range of home improvement products and service solutions we offer our customers.”
Source: Insight DIY team
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At The Motley Fool, we poke plenty of fun at Wall Street analysts and their endless cycle of upgrades, downgrades, and "initiating coverage at neutral." Today, we'll show you whether those bigwigs actually know what they're talking about. To help, we've enlisted Motley Fool CAPS to track the long-term performance of Wall Street's best and worst.
A good day for Kermit the Frog
Tree-huggers and Muppet-lovers rejoice! It just got a whole lot easier being green -- and a lot safer investing in green energy. At least, that's what Barclays Capital thinks. On Friday, this top-rated British banker announced that it was initiating coverage on a whole host of clean-energy companies, an industry that, the analyst points out, is currently trading "below recessionary lows." Though it doesn't like all of them, Barclays doesn't hate any of them, and has high hopes for several.
Arguing that a "multiyear secular growth" trend in energy efficiency has begun, Barclays believes the best companies to profit from the trend are Ameresco (NAS: AMRC) , Power-One (NAS: PWER) , Elster Group (NYS: ELT) , and Tesla Motors (NAS: TSLA) -- makers of everything from energy meters to power converters to electric cars.
Top honors go to Tesla, the company behind the Roadster battery-powered car. Barclays has particularly high hopes for the drive to "enhanced fuel efficiency" in automobiles and argues that we will see "meaningful adoption" of electric cars "over the next several years." If true, this should be good news for companies such as Tesla, but also for electric Focus maker Ford (NYS: F) , which Barclays also endorses. Rivals General Motors (NYS: GM) , maker of the Chevy Volt, and Toyota (NYS: TM) , whose ever-popular Prius continues to outsell all pure electric vehicles, should also benefit.
Tesla Motors: Profits? We don't need no stinkin' profits!
But if Barclays likes Tesla (and it does), the banker sure has a funny way of showing it. Endorsing the stock, Barclays nonetheless admits that the company will probably end up losing $2.15 per share this year and then lose money again in 2012.
Of course, it's hard to value a company (positively, at least) based on negative profits. So Barclays tells investors to look even farther down the road, and assign Tesla a 37 multiple to what the analyst thinks it can earn in 2013. ($1.02, to be precise.) Even farther out, Barclays projects a $2.50-per-share profit on Tesla in 2014 and a 14 multiple to such hypothetical profits.
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But honestly, I'm not sure how much value there is to be had in such long-term prognostication-cum-navel-gazing. I mean, maybe Tesla is worth 14 times what it might earn three years from now. But Ford and GM are both selling for single-digit multiples to profits they've already earned. You can value those two on fact, rather than just opinion.
As for Tesla, here are the facts as they stand today:
The company's not profitable.
It has about $278 million in cash, to tide it over till it becomes profitable.
But it also has $226 million in debt and is burning cash at an annualized rate approaching $280 million -- enough to clean out its bank account in 12 months' time.
Chances are, therefore, that even if Barclays is right that Tesla will turn profitable in 2013, it won't be earning any $1.02 per share -- or $2.50 per share in 2014, either. Chances are Tesla will have to raise cash by issuing more stock and dilute its existing shareholders considerably, long before profitability is reached.
Will Tesla ultimately reach its goal of turning a profit? I think it will. The company's Roadster e-car is wildly popular, and at half the price, its upcoming Model S sedan will be even more so. Just don't you expect to profit from its success. Not at today's prices.
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At the time thisarticle was published Fool contributorRich Smithdoes not own (or short) shares of any company named above. You can find him on CAPS, publicly pontificating under the handleTMFDitty, where he's currently ranked No. 310 out of more than 170,000 members.The Motley Fool owns shares of Ford and Power-One.Motley Fool newsletter serviceshave recommended buying shares of Ameresco, Ford, and General Motors. We Fools don't all hold the same opinions, but we all believe thatconsidering a diverse range of insightsmakes us better investors. The Motley Fool has adisclosure policy.
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Vandevelde set to do the splits
MARKS & Spencer chairman and chief executive Luc Vandevelde is expected to go part-time by the year-end, following a decision to hand over the chief executive role to board colleague Roger Holmes. The promotion for Holmes, managing director of UK retail, is expected to be confirmed at the retailer's annual general meeting on Wednesday.
Vandevelde, 51, has received plaudits for the recovery at M&S since taking over two years ago. But winding down his involvement at this stage is likely to make some shareholders uneasy, even though he will report a strong first-quarter trading update.
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August 6, 2019
British oil major BP and Reliance Industries (RIL) have announced a new joint venture that will include a retail service station network and an aviation fuels business across India. This is a further development of RIL and BP’s long-standing partnership, which began in 2011 and expanded in 2017 including an agreement to seek options to work together to develop differentiated fuels and mobility businesses.
Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of RIL and Bob Dudley, group chief executive of BP, signed the heads of agreement for the joint venture in Mumbai. The JV will be owned 51 per cent by RIL, while the remainder will be held by BP, according to a joint statement issued by the companies. Final deals will be reached during 2019 and the transaction is expected to be completed in the first half of 2020.
Together, the companies plan to set up 5,500 fuel retail stations across the country, which may include the 1,378 retail outlets RIL independently runs across India at present. This joint venture will also include RIL’s aviation fuels business, which currently operates at over 30 airports across India, providing participation in this rapidly-growing market.
India is expected to be the fastest-growing fuels market in the world over the next 20 years, with the number of passenger cars in the country estimated to grow almost six-fold over the period. One of the few major global markets where fuel demand is growing, India has attracted attention from foreign fuel retailers seeking to gain a toehold in the country with accelerated investments and agreements.
Mr Dudley said: “India is set to be the world’s largest growth market for energy by the mid-2020s. BP is already a large investor here and we see further attractive, strategic opportunities to support this growth. Together, we will work to provide consumers across India the high-quality fuels, convenience retail and services they need, continuing to drive modernization and mobility solutions across the country.”