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Organizers of the Ghana Music Awards, Charterhouse Productions Limited, has announced a call for entries for the 2023 edition of the event.
As part of this year’s event, a new field-performance sheet has been introduced to include digital sales and other online information.
Charterhouse has also indicated that all entries will be submitted digitally via the official VGMA portal before Sunday, February 12, 2023.
Read the full statement below:
Charterhouse Productions Limited, organizers of the Annual Vodafone Ghana Music Awards, would like to officially inform all artistes, artiste managements, record labels, producers, instrumentalists, music composers, music industry stakeholders and the public, that submissions of entries for the 24th Annual Vodafone Ghana Music Awards are open.
Only published works in the year 2022 are eligible for submission. Thus, all works from January 1st to December 31st, 2022 should be submitted via our online portal at www.entry.ghanamusicawards.com. There shall be no manual submissions. Deadline for submissions is Sunday, February 12th 2023.
Kindly take note of the new field-performance sheet. The purpose is to offer applicants the opportunity to share any relevant information, such as streaming numbers, performances, or an Electronic Press Kit (EPK), that might be useful to the cause.
For assistance, kindly call 050 139 5176, or send a mail to [email protected] On-the-go-updates are available on social media at Ghana Music Awards on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and online at www.GhanaMusicAwards.com.
The 24th Annual Vodafone Ghana Music Awards is proudly brought to you by Vodafone, and powered by Charterhouse.
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Security giant McAfee Inc. is retooling its technologies to bake security into Intel Corp.'s silicon, altering...
its antimalware capabilities to function on millions of embedded devices, including smartphones and tablet computers.
We can bake security directly into the OS, directly with manufacturers.
In an outline of his company's strategy to investors, McAfee president Dave DeWalt said he sees the company building on its E-Policy Orchestrator (ePO) management platform to extend security capabilities and visibility into devices that have a tiny footprint, but could be used by attackers to gain access to company networks. Santa Clara, Calif.-based McAfee recently rolled out McAfee for Wind River to support embedded devices and also plans to launch a series of newly configured technologies that improve the manageability of devices on the network, DeWalt said.
"The idea is to think of Wind River to leverage security from the embedded OS point of view now and we will have a similar model in silicon later," DeWalt said. "The further you move security down the stack, the more visibility of the architecture you get."
Intel acquired McAfee last summer in a $7.7 billion deal that left some security industry analysts wondering how the antivirus vendor could benefit the silicon giant. Since then, the two companies have been touting chip-based security as a way to get security into devices like smartphones, which have much smaller storage, bandwidth and power capabilities. On Tuesday, DeWalt said the company would work closely with Intel's Wind River subsidiary, a firm that makes operating system software for a variety of embedded devices, including printers, ATM machines, network gateways, satellite systems and mobile devices. "We can bake security directly into the OS, directly with manufacturers," DeWalt said, adding that McAfee already supports some point-of-sale systems for retailers, telecom systems, medical devices and ATM machines.
DeWalt hinted that the company would add Intel management capabilities into its ePO to enable businesses to support Intel's vPro technology to manage laptops and other endpoint devices. The support will add device management features, including the ability to remotely wake a device from hibernation, to remotely decrypt or encrypt a device and remotely apply patches.
"There's a management framework that can be built around it to help build protections that can be very powerful," DeWalt said. "Now we can give one pane of glass to view all these devices on the network."
DeWalt said chip-based security will give McAfee the ability to sit inside the OS kernel to detect targeted attacks, including rootkits and other malware that attempt to hide from traditional signature-based technologies. While McAfee can work closely with Intel, the silicon giant's platform will remain open to competitors, including McAfee's archrival Symantec Corp. "There will be a bunch of capabilities that move security lower in the architecture," DeWalt said.
DeWalt said Intel's management features will also be incorporated into McAfee's mobile device management platform. McAfee has made a series of acquisitions to enable encryption and provide remote wipe and location aware features for devices, including the acquisition of the Trust Digital platform for support of Apple iOS, Google Android, Windows Mobile and HP WebOS devices.
Renee James, senior vice president and general manager of the Software and Services Group at Intel, said the company has had a greater than 90% retention rate of talent from the firms it acquires. The strategy is to build upon the advanced toolset for building embedded computing to add management and security capabilities, James said.
"We've spent more than a decade on power efficiency and performance," James said. "Internet connectivity is something we've been after for a long time and the third pillar, which is a core capability across Intel and all of our products, is security and Mcafee will be providing that piece for us."

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Buy electric scooter without battery? This Indian EV startup makes it possible
Bounce, on Saturday, announced that its Bounce Infinity electric scooter is all set to launch in the Indian market soon. The company claims that the Infinity EV is ‘Made in India’ and comes equipped with ‘enhanced state-of-the-art equipment and intelligent features’. The EV maker will commence the pre-bookings of the scooter soon in the Indian market, while the deliveries are set to begin by January 2022.
While the company has yet not shared the official price tag of the scooter, the same will be announced in the first week of December.
The Bounce Infinity scooter comes with a smart, removable Li-ion battery. This battery pack can be pulled out when required and charged as per convenience. The EV maker is also offering a unique ‘Battery as a service’ option in the country on its first e-scooter. Under this option, the customers will be able to purchase the scooter ‘without the battery’, which will make it highly affordable. The customers will then be able to use Bounce’s battery-swapping network and pay only for battery swaps whenever they exchange an empty battery with a fully-charged one from Bounce’s swapping network. This option is likely to make the scooter at least 40% more affordable against the purchase of the battery-equipped vehicle.
The company yet remains tight-lipped on the official specifications of the new Infinity EV.
Meanwhile, the EV startup has announced that it has acquired a 100 per cent stake in 22Motors in a deal valued at about US$7 million in 2021. Under the deal, the EV maker has acquired 22Motors' manufacturing plant at Bhiwadi, Rajasthan and intellectual property. This facility has the capability of producing 180,000 scooters per year. The company further announced that it is planning to set up another plant in southern India.
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Bulgaria: Inflation at seven-year high in January
Consumer prices increased 0.9% from the previous month in January, following December’s 0.7% rise. According to the Statistical Institute, January’s increase largely reflected higher prices for food and non-alcoholic beverages, recreation and culture and housing and utilities which more than offset lower prices for clothing and footwear.
Meanwhile, inflation soared to 4.2% from December’s 3.8%, marking the highest level since January 2013. Lastly, annual average inflation inched up from 3.1% in December to 3.2%.


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Germany has launched an investigation into Apple. Objective: To determine whether US company surveillance rules and anti-surveillance technology comply with the country’s competing laws. And the question is really worth asking.
The announcement was Posted by Bundeskartellamt on June 14th, Federal Cartel Office. Authority focuses specifically on the ATT framework for app tracking transparency. This technology caused a lot of talk when it was implemented in iOS 15.5, especially as it made Facebook scream, condemning the injustice of the process.
Before blaming Apple Germany, we must first recall how ATT works.
Effects on ADT, tracking and advertising
Apps tracking transparency went live a few months ago. It attacks the old mechanism found on all devices for browsing the web: personal identifier. As for smartphones, it is used for navigation and applications. It is possible, at least to some extent, that these types of function coordinators follow users’ actions in other applications.


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On this episode we talk about, ZeniMax suing samsung over Gear VR, Microsoft reveals new VR controllers and we also spoke to Naiche Washburn the lead designer on the indie game Red. All this and more on the Press Any Key Games Podcast.
- Phantom Dust’s Remaster Out Tomorrow, Will Be Free. (http://bit.ly/2pU1Jbe)
- Blizzard broadly disputes report of $20M entrance fee to its Overwatch League. (http://bit.ly/2pUjYNw)
- ZeniMax sues Samsung over Gear VR tech. (http://bit.ly/2pUdgHx)
- Alan Wake will be removed from digital stores after this weekend. (http://bit.ly/2pUjzKZ)
- Microsoft’s new VR controllers will be great—until SteamVR “Knuckles” arrive. (http://bit.ly/2pUtLTW)
- NIS America boss: ‘The Japanese video game market is getting smaller’. (http://bit.ly/2pTYC30)
- Sega is planning a ‘revival of major IPs’ as a new business plan. (http://bit.ly/2pUkFGV)


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Sharp appears set to be taken over after the company's board accepted an offer by Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn. Unnamed sources familiar with the matter told Reuters the board agreed unanimously to the deal. Foxconn's 650 billion yen ($5.8 billion) takeover of Sharp will be the largest acquisition of a Japanese tech firm by a foreign company.
Foxconn's current position as Apple's biggest supplier is likely to receive a healthy boost by the deal. Apple currently source many of their iPhone and iPad displays from Sharp, who may look to reduce their reliance on displays supplied by competitor Samsung.
State-backed investment firm, Innovation Network Corp of Japan (INCJ), had also submitted a offer to try and keep the Sharp afloat. However that deal was less appealing to Sharp's board because it appeared less certain in resolving the company's struggling performance.
Sharp's financial troubles have been ongoing for some time, receiving two bank bailouts since 2012. Despite those efforts the warning signs have persisted, with the company even asking employees to buy Sharp-branded products late last year.
Throughout Sharp's struggles, Foxconn has repeatedly tried to purchase the company including a failed deal also in 2012. The board's unanimous acceptance of Foxconn's current offer appears to be an improvement over last month's reported buyout offer of $5.1 billion.
Representatives for Sharp and Foxconn declined to comment on reports of the agreement.


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The Dow has been diving in an out of positive territory for most of the day, and is once again positive, up 49. Yesterday I pointed out that 10,236 was the 50% retracement level that was broken, and that level is acting as resistance today. Trying to drive the Dow above this level is General Motors.
General Motors Daily Chart
Reuters is reporting that General Motors (NYSE:GM) is about to report a sharp drop in second-quarter earnings compared to last years record numbers, but perhaps somebody knows otherwise since the stock is up $2.11. GM's gain is helping to keep the Dow in positive territory, but resistance around $65 could mitigate further gains in both GM and the Dow. Last week GM made an attempt to break this level, but failed miserably. Maybe not miserably, but the stock dropped over $3 in two days. GM found support at $61.50, and that area should once again support price if GM is unable to crack $65.
Wal-Mart Daily Chart
Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) was on the brink breaking its symmetrical triangle to the downside, but today's $1.66 gain has temporarily put a halt to that. This gain is also helping the Dow, but like GM, Wal-Mart has a resistance overhead (the steep downtrend) that could prevent further gains in the stock and the Dow. Looking into my crystal ball, I'm getting a fuzzy picture that perhaps today's gain means discount store retails sales are going to come in better on Friday. Abercrombie and Fitch is down $1.19.


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Walter Isaacson’s biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs sold 379,000 copies in the US in its first week on bookshop shelves, BookScan US data has revealed.
Data from BookScan US revealed that Walter Isaacson’s book, entitled “Steve Jobs,” sold a total of 379,000 copies in its first week in America, according to TheBookseller.com. It outsold the next-best selling title, “The Litigators” by John Grisham, by more than three to one.
The $35 publication, published by Simon & Schuster in the US, outsold the next bestselling book of the week, and outsold the second most popular non-fiction work, journalist Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Lincoln (Henry Holt), by almost eight copies to one.
Walter Isaacson’s 656-page biography scored the biggest week of sales for any book in the US since November last year, when Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth (Amulet) and George W Bush’s Decision Points (Crown) both sold more than 430,000 copies at US booksellers in the seven days to 13th November.Stay tuned with us for more breaking news. You can follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube and check out our RSS for quick reference.


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New York Legislature Legalizes Marijuana
After years of negotiations, New York lawmakers have finally reached an agreement to expand the state’s medical marijuana program and incorporate the sale of cannabis for recreational use. Legislators hope to have a budget in place by April 1st, 2021.
The passing of this historical bill was a top priority for the Democrats who recently attained a veto-proof majority in the state Legislature. Gov. Andrew Cuomo is optimistic about the pending legalization and believes the measure could yield approximately $350 million in revenue for the state of New York.
Senator Liz Krueger, Senate sponsor of the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA) said:
“My goal in carrying this legislation has always been to end the racially disparate enforcement of marijuana prohibition that has taken such a toll on communities of color across our state, and to use the economic windfall of legalization to help heal and repair those same communities.”
What’s the deal?
Once the system is firmly in place, New York residents will no longer need a medical marijuana card to buy cannabis, although the price is typically much less if residents have one. The new legislation allows adults 21 years and older to purchase and possess up to three ounces of marijuana, or 24 grams of marijuana concentrates. Individuals are now legally able to store up to five pounds of cannabis at home.
The legislation also allows for the personal cultivation of up to three mature, and three immature marijuana plants. The measure also legalized home delivery of cannabis and cannabis products.
Local governments in towns and cities would have the right to opt out of adult-cannabis retail sales at their own discretion by passing a local law. However, those municipalities will have to comply with the legalization measures.
The state of New York will impose a 9% tax on sales, as well as a 4% tax split between local governments and the country. THC levels will be taken into consideration and taxed accordingly, ranging from 0.5 cents per milligram for dried flower and up to 3 cents per milligram for edible marijuana products.
When will marijuana be legal in New York?
Parts of the new laws take effect immediately. However, until the state sets up a system for regulation and distribution, recreational marijuana sales are on hold.
Crystal People-Stokes, the Assembly Majority Leader, estimates that an 18-month to two-year period is required to iron out the finer details for a recreational marijuana industry in New York state. She believes the freshly minted legislation “provides long-awaited marijuana justice for New Yorkers, and makes significant steps and investments to begin to address the generational devastation caused by marijuana prohibition and mass incarceration.”
Cannabis is sweeping the USA
New York is the latest of a swarm of states that have been adding, upgrading their medical marijuana programs. And more are sure to follow their lead. So far, half of all states that started with medical marijuana programs have since legalized recreational use programs.
Missouri medical marijuana cardholders purchased more than $2 million in one week in March. Legislators there are looking to beef up the program. The Ohio medical marijuana program is looking at close to $400 million in sales per year sold at open OH dispensaries. And lawmakers recently expanded the Texas medical marijuana program to include new qualifying conditions. All three states plus many others are now debating the merits of legalizing marijuana for adult recreational markets.
The legalization of hemp and CBD has been another catalyst for changing public attitudes toward cannabis. Most states have legalized hemp-based CBD products. And states that formerly allowed only low-THC CBD oil for medical use (such as Texas) are looking at relaxing rules to include products with higher levels of THC in their programs.
Social justice efforts
Social justice has been a profound catalyst for legalization in many states where marijuana laws have disproportionately affected minorities. In some metropolitan areas, minority arrests are as much as 400 percent higher than caucasians.
The New York bill effectively eliminates prosecution and arrest for possession of fewer than three ounces of marijuana. The records of individuals charged with marijuana offenses would be expunged, as they would no longer be criminalized.
Advocates of the legislation are optimistic, and believe the new industry could dismantle the racial inequities created by the “war on drugs.” The same proponents also maintain that a legitimate cannabis industry would create thousands of jobs in under-funded communities disproportionately affected by the prohibition. The bill will also provide an economic boost to women, disabled veterans, and small farmers.
In the past, multiple efforts to legalize adult-use marijuana have been stymied by disagreements over logistics surrounding the distribution of taxes. Other obstacles arose in the form of reluctant suburban Democrats, school and community advocates, and law enforcement. Those opposing factions have many concerns regarding the impact of legalization on vulnerable youth, as well as the already-strained health care system during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The language of the bill is succinct and effectively highlights the inequality and irrationality of the draconian prohibition when it states:
“Existing laws have been ineffective in reducing or curbing marihuana use and have instead resulted in devastating collateral consequences including mass incarceration and other complex generational trauma, that inhibit an otherwise law-abiding citizen’s ability to access housing, employment opportunities, and other vital services. Existing laws have also created an illicit market which represents a threat to public health and reduces the ability of the legislature to deter the access of marihuana by minors. Existing marijuana laws have disproportionately impacted African-American and Latinx communities.”
Drug Policy Alliance Director, Melissa Moore, said the bill “really puts a nail in the coffin of the drug war that’s been so devastating to communities across New York, and puts in place comprehensive policies that are really grounded in community reinvestment.”


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These outcomes have been really worse than a ballot taken in September 2019, when a smaller percentage blamed e-cigarettes and more blamed THC. more restrictive policies, including elevating the age limit to buy to 21 and outright bans on legally offered vaping merchandise corresponding to flavored e-cigarettes. Sometimes, officials would even instantly cite these diseases as one reason for the bans, regardless of there clearly being no connection to the majority of cases. E-cigarettes haven’t been available on the market lengthy sufficient for scientists to find out what lengthy-term use will do to the physique. Plus, e-cigarettes usually contain a variety of chemical substances which are being inhaled into your lungs.
Every Little Thing You Need To Know About Vaping
The surge in the usage of digital cigarettes was tied to a game-changing product, Juul, a cartridge device launched in 2017 in a slew of attractive flavors. And now, benefiting from a loophole in regulations, a disposable product referred to as Puff Bar, which is available in more than 20 flavors, has changed Juul because the vape of choice amongst younger individuals.
- Iqos has taken off in Japan, where three million folks frequently use them.
- The international cigarette market was value $888bn (£682bn) in 2018 and forecast to rise to $1,124bn by 2024.
- Recent Juul Compatible Pods onerous-received victories include smoking bans in public spaces and plain packaging with extreme health warnings.
- Smoking there was declining by 2% a year before Iqos arrived, and is now dropping by 10% per yr, for which Philip Morris International claims the credit score.
- Despite their efforts, there are still over 1 billion people who smoke in the world.
- variety of well being professionals and teachers have devoted their careers to exposing lies about the safety of tobacco products and stopping the promotion of cigarettes around the world.
While children is probably not smoking cigarettes, they’re vaping in record numbers. And regardless of the methodology, they are still inhaling nicotine and creating addictions. This actuality has created an intense debate about the security of e-cigarettes and whether or not they are really a protected various to conventional smoking.
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At this point, it’s inconceivable to know what these chemicals will do to your body as a result of e-cigarettes haven’t been out long enough to bear any in depth studies. Still, many researchers are concerned that the chemicals people are inhaling after they vape might produce situations like “popcorn lung,” which is a sort of lung illness caused by the chemical diacetyl. Diacetyl, is a flavor-enhancing chemical that was initially used to improve the flavour of microwave popcorn till it was proven to cause popcorn lung in the factory staff. There is a fierce debate concerning the risks and possible benefits of vaping.
It has also lead the Food and Drug Administration to crack down on companies that seem to market to a younger clientele, specifically with the sale of flavored vaping products. Although vaping was initially launched as an alternative to smoking for adults, the Centers for Disease Control stories that teenagers within the United States are more doubtless than adults to vape or use e-cigarettes. In reality, in 2018 greater than 3.6 million middle and highschool children within the U.S. had vaped in the final thirty days. Meanwhile, solely about 2.7% of adults in 2017 had been current e-cigarette users.
In addition to nicotine, a number of the chemical compounds, like the carcinogen formaldehyde, are created when the nicotine-rich liquid in some vaping devices is heated to high temperatures. The tobacco and vaping industries goal young people so you’ll turn into lifetime customers addicted to their products.
Some believe that vaping might help millions of adults give up tobacco cigarettes, while advocates argue that vaping normalizes the behavior and lures children into smoking. But these two arguments aside, there’s mounting evidence that vaping negatively impacts your health. Interestingly, the CDC states that teen cigarette smoking has dropped to a historic low with slightly below 11% of teenagers smoking. However, using e-cigarettes went up to 24% in 2015, which represents a dramatic enhance in vaping. This increase in vaping has advocates concerned that each one the work done to scale back smoking amongst teenagers may be undone with vaping.
As an educator, you possibly can play an lively role in fighting the teenager vaping epidemic. FDA research suggests that when academics talk about the health penalties of e-cigarettes and colleges implement anti-vaping insurance policies, college students may be much less likely to vape. Use these sources to start out an sincere dialog with your class and help to alter social norms at your college. that two-thirds of Americans a minimum of partly blamed e-cigarettes for the current vaping-related deaths brought on by lung harm, while only 28 p.c appropriately pointed the finger at tainted THC merchandise.


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*French fashion magazine Numero decided to celebrate African beauty in its March issue, complete with its featured model alongside the title, “African Queen.”
The model, however, is a white girl…in blackface. In fact, she’s in blackbody, with dark makeup covering all of her exposed skin.
Needless to say, social media lit up with reaction Tuesday.
“This is offensive and it is done in poor taste. It’s sending the message that ‘We celebrate African beauty … just without any Africans,” Kay Clarke wrote on Facebook.
Fashion blog Styleite pointed out this isn’t the first time Numero has “blurred racial lines.” In 2010 the mag published photos featuring white model Constance Jablonski also with darkened skin, wearing a series of afro wigs and posing with a black baby.
The “African Queen” spread in Numero’s March issue features blond-haired, blue-eyed Ondria Hardin, a 16-year-old model from North Carolina who looks like this when she’s not in blackface…


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NEO GEO Classic Magician Lord Coming To Nintendo Switch This Week
The Nintendo Switch has been receiving almost weekly updates of new Neo Geo games since the system launched back on March 3. It’s finally going to get one of the first Neo Geo games ever produced: Magician Lord. It’s held in high esteem by many who played the game extensively back in 1990.
MAGICIAN LORD is a side-scrolling action game released by SNK in 1990 in Japan.
This fantasy-action game was one of the launch titles for NEOGEO.
Control the magician Elta on a journey to save the world from Gal-Agiese, who came back to life once again.
The game will hit the Switch eShop this Thursday. Have you been enjoying the Neo Geo games on your Switch? Which ones are your favorites? Let us know down below!
Craig has been covering the video game industry since 1995. His work has been published across a wide spectrum of media sites. He’s currently the Editor-In-Chief of Nintendo Times and contributes to Gaming Age.


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Shares in the Jacksonville, Fla.-based Class I railroad jumped 23.4 percent on Thursday to close at $45.51 following reports outgoing Canadian Pacific CEO E. Hunter Harrison could be eyeing CSX as his next landing spot.
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol reported a cargo throughput of 1.66 million metric tons for the full year in 2016, a 2.5 percent increase compared with 2015 and a record for the airport.
Yang Ming responded by saying it has unwavering support of Taiwan’s government and has "proactively reorganized internally to effectively reduce its operating costs."
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In attempts to push back against the campaign to turn independent owner-operators in the port drayage industry into employees, the statewide trucking trade association filed a lawsuit last week against various state officials and agencies.
While a host of technology startups have adopted Uber-like models to tackle automated freight matching in the trucking industry, in the last two months, Uber themselves and Amazon have jumped in the fray.
The 2M Alliance will skip various sailings on the Asia-North America and Asia-North Europe/Mediterranean trades, while Hapag-Lloyd unveiled skipped voyages between Asia and South America.


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The First Reformed Church of Lincoln Park will host its Fall Craft and
Vendor Fair on Oct. 21 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Local
crafts persons and vendors will display and sell their goods.
An old fashioned bake sale with homemade treats will be
available. Also planned is a homemade Soup and
If one wishes to sell goods, visit www.frc-lpnj.org or call the church office
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It's been one year since Uber added tipping to its app. And, Uber said, it's been good for drivers.
Drivers have earned more than $600 million in tips through the app in the US and Canada over the last year, the ride-hailing company said Thursday. Uber said that the longer tipping is available in the app, the more passengers hand over gratuities. For instance, in the first six months, Uber drivers earned $200 million in tips and in the last six months drivers earned $400 million.
Drivers hadfor years, but the company insisted passengers appreciated the convenience of a tip-free ride. Finally, after months of strained driver relations over lower earnings, Uber launched tipping in June 2017.
"You told us what you want and it's time we step up and give you the driving experience you deserve," the company wrote on its website at the time. "Because simply put, Uber wouldn't exist without you,"
Lyft rolled out in-app tips five years before Uber did. The smaller ride-hailing company announced in April that its drivers had earned $500 million in tips in the US over the last six years. Like Uber, passengers have tended to tip more over the years. More than half of those $500 million tips -- $260 million -- came in during 2017 alone.
Uber and Lyft have been in a tight competition to win over drivers -- it's crucial to their businesses. Without drivers the ride-hailing companies wouldn't have passengers and without passengers the companies would fold.
Besides tipping, Uber has. It added a feature that pays drivers extra if they have to wait for customers, along with 24/7 phone support and an easier passenger pickup system through the app. Uber has also started paying drivers to return riders' lost items, like phones. And letting drivers know if they had a long trip ahead of them, so they can choose whether or not to accept that fare.
Lyft has also worked to make drivers happier. It has its corporate employees announced it was helping drivers with rising gas prices by giving them discounts at Shell stations.to better understand drivers work. It's also throughout the US. And on Wednesday, Lyft
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Dachser USA expands West Coast presence with Phoenix facility
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Dachser USA Air & Sea Logistics has opened a new office in Phoenix, Arizona, in response to increased customer demand in the west coast area.
The company said its new office will enable it to “manage increased volume associated with cross-border trade with Mexico, including shipments from manufacturing plants that assemble products in Mexico and for the US”.
The Phoenix facility covers more than 7,500 sq ft of space and includes a new office with capacity for growth to support the company’s regional growth opportunities.
Vincent Touya, managing director of Dachser USA Air & Sea Logistics, commented: “The needs of our customers are at the heart of this expansion. This new facility in Phoenix will allow Dachser USA to grow within the Southwest region as well as expand our capabilities to service the growing market.
“As the supply chain evolves, Dachser USA is committed to responding to the needs of the marketplace, investing in regions that enable us to better serve our customers.”
He added: “Dachser USA is excited to provide the value-added services and expertise that our customers expect from a global logistics provider. Our customer-centric team will play a key role in further growing our capabilities, enabling greater efficiencies and more collaborative operating models as expectations have increased.
“The new Phoenix facility will better support opportunities for customers who look to Dachser as a competitive differentiator in their supply chain.”


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Consumer confidence dropped again according to an ABC/Washington Post weekly survey [Marketwatch] The index was at its lowest since May 2003. A third of consumers said it was a good time to buy things, the lowest level since 1993.
This may create a pause in the housing market this fall as the public digests all the economic messages, mostly negative. The Fed decided to raise rates today [Matrix] despite “distractions” caused by Katrina and are worried that higher energy prices were inflationary in the future.
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LONDON, April 24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --
- Research by Goldcar finds that the average British traveller walks 355 miles through airports
- Further than Spanish counterparts, who walk 267 miles
The average British traveller has to walk the equivalent of almost fourteen Marathons to get in and out of airports during their lifetime.
That's according to a new research by car rental firm Goldcar, which found that the average adult travels 355 miles as they catch flights to destinations across the world - the equivalent of walking from the centre of London to the Scottish border.
The research found that travellers walk an average of 1.1km every time they either board or disembark from a flight. The average holidaymaker takes just under two return journeys a year.
Over the average adult lifespan, Goldcar estimates that holidaymakers travel 571.5km or 355 miles with the most frequent travellers among those surveyed walking 88km or 54 miles in one year alone - a figure that if replicated throughout their adult lives would mean they had trudged more than 3400 miles.
Interestingly, the figures show that Brits walk further than their counterparts in Spain, where Goldcar has more than 40 outlets. The average Spanish holidaymaker walks 429km or 267 miles in their lifetime.
We are approaching the time of year when Brits are jetting off more and more, so it is highly likely travellers will find themselves walking a reasonable distance over the next few months.
The longest journeys in UK airports include the walk from Gatwick's entrance to its North Terminal, which is estimated to be 1.8km or 1.12 miles. Others include a 1.22km or 0.76 miles walk to the end of Heathrow Terminal 5.
Across the world, the furthest journeys include a 3.2 km or 2 mile walk in Beijing Capital International Airport Terminal 3 and a 2.1 km or 1.3 mile walk at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
"It's staggering to think that we walk that far through airports in our lives," said Tonica Safont, Customer Service Director of Goldcar. "Although it explains why customers are so keen to make a quick getaway when they arrive at their destinations.
"That is why we have introduced our new Key'n'Go service, which means no queuing for your rental car. You just use your smartphone to collect your key from a kiosk."
Goldcar's Key'n'Go service is currently available in 15 airports across Europe, including Alicante, Majorca and Seville. For more information, please visit: https://www.goldcar.es/en/
Goldcar is the smart car rental company targeted at the leisure traveler who is seeking a value-based proposition that offers an efficient, quick, reliable and easy-to -use service with transparent pricing. As a value brand it aims to provide a service that customers will enjoy using the latest digital and other technological applications / developments to ensure the best possible rental experience that offers value for money.
Goldcar has a network of over 80 offices in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Malta, Andorra, Morocco, Greece, Croatia, Netherlands, Mexico, Romania and Cyprus. It has a staff of 1,000 employees managing a fleet of over 50,000 vehicles. Goldcar has managed to become a market leader in the market for holiday car hire in Europe and is immersed in an ambitious international expansion project. More information at https://www.goldcar.es/en/


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Rep. Lynn Afendoulis of Grand Rapids Township – chair of the House Tax Policy Committee – issued a statement today after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a legislative package bringing sales tax fairness to Michigan retailers. The measures put current Michigan practice started in October 2018 – based on a U.S. Supreme Court decision commonly known as the Wayfair ruling – into state law, leveling the playing field for retailers regardless of whether they have a store or other physical presence in the state. In addition, online marketplaces, like Amazon and Ebay, now are subject to the same tax requirements as individual retailers:
“Thanks to fiber optics and satellites, shoppers in Grand Rapids are connected to retailers in Greece and the entire globe as if they were next door. Now, out-of-state sellers are responsible for the same tax requirements that Michigan retailers face.
“In addition, online marketplaces must collect and remit sales tax just like any other small business in Michigan. I’m proud to have played a key role in standing up for the Michigan businesses that make our state’s economy strong.”
The legislation: House Bills 4540-4543
Rep. Lynn Afendoulis today supported a plan aimed at preserving local control and parental involvement in decision-making while helping Michigan students get back to school safely.
As the Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) continues to respond to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the State of Michigan has selected Deloitte, a nationally recognized professional services organization, to assist the UIA with financial operations, investigations into imposter claims, and a forensic review to help in identifying fraudulent activity that can be quickly turned […]
State Rep. Lynn Afendoulis this week called on the chair of a Michigan House committee to take up legislation that would end the governor’s ability to continue to extend the state of emergency without input from the Legislature. Afendoulis, of Grand Rapids Township, sent a letter to Rep. Jason Sheppard, chair of the House Government […]


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Bridges Investment Management Inc. trimmed its holdings in Costco Wholesale Co. (NASDAQ:COST) by 10.8% in the fourth quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 18,390 shares of the retailer’s stock after selling 2,220 shares during the period. Bridges Investment Management Inc.’s holdings in Costco Wholesale were worth $5,406,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Other institutional investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Cordasco Financial Network purchased a new position in shares of Costco Wholesale during the 4th quarter valued at $25,000. Sageworth Trust Co purchased a new position in shares of Costco Wholesale during the 4th quarter valued at $29,000. Tobias Financial Advisors Inc. purchased a new position in shares of Costco Wholesale during the 4th quarter valued at $29,000. ERTS Wealth Advisors LLC purchased a new position in shares of Costco Wholesale during the 4th quarter valued at $30,000. Finally, PSI Advisors LLC purchased a new position in shares of Costco Wholesale during the 4th quarter valued at $40,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 70.23% of the company’s stock.
A number of research firms have recently commented on COST. Raymond James boosted their price target on shares of Costco Wholesale from $315.00 to $325.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, March 6th. Oppenheimer upgraded shares of Costco Wholesale to a “buy” rating and set a $335.00 price target for the company in a research report on Thursday, March 5th. Cleveland Research upgraded shares of Costco Wholesale from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Monday, March 2nd. Argus boosted their price target on shares of Costco Wholesale from $330.00 to $350.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, March 5th. They noted that the move was a valuation call. Finally, Tigress Financial reaffirmed a “buy” rating on shares of Costco Wholesale in a report on Friday, January 31st. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, ten have assigned a hold rating, twenty have given a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. The company presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $315.42.
COST stock opened at $280.86 on Thursday. The firm’s 50-day moving average price is $306.29 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $299.64. Costco Wholesale Co. has a 12-month low of $233.05 and a 12-month high of $325.26. The stock has a market capitalization of $125.82 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 32.96, a PEG ratio of 3.90 and a beta of 0.91. The company has a current ratio of 1.04, a quick ratio of 0.52 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.44.
Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ:COST) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, March 5th. The retailer reported $2.10 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.06 by $0.04. Costco Wholesale had a net margin of 2.39% and a return on equity of 23.41%. The company had revenue of $39.10 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $38.26 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $2.01 earnings per share. Costco Wholesale’s quarterly revenue was up 10.5% on a year-over-year basis. Equities analysts predict that Costco Wholesale Co. will post 8.72 EPS for the current year.
In related news, Director Susan L. Decker sold 3,850 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, January 14th. The shares were sold at an average price of $300.41, for a total transaction of $1,156,578.50. Following the transaction, the director now owns 34,582 shares in the company, valued at $10,388,778.62. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. Also, CFO Richard A. Galanti sold 1,448 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, March 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $306.51, for a total transaction of $443,826.48. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer now owns 23,967 shares in the company, valued at approximately $7,346,125.17. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. 0.22% of the stock is owned by insiders.
Costco Wholesale Company Profile
Costco Wholesale Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates membership warehouses. It offers branded and private-label products in a range of merchandise categories. The company provides dry and packaged foods, and groceries; snack foods, candies, alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages, and cleaning supplies; appliances, electronics, health and beauty aids, hardware, and garden and patio products; meat, bakery, deli, and produces; and apparel and small appliances.
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The former sales director of KNXV Phoenix will head sales efforts at Midwest Television’s San Diego CBS affiliate.
Midwest Television-owned CBS affiliate KFMB TV San Diego (DMA 28) has hired Adam Weyne as its director of sales. He has been the director of sales of KNXV Phoenix since 2008.
Prior to working for the ABC affiliate in Phoenix, Weyne was general sales manager of KOLD Tucson, Ariz., from 2003 to 2008 and national and local sales manager of WFMY Greensboro, N.C.
He also spent time early in his career working for Rainbow Sports Sales in Los Angeles and WRAL Raleigh, N.C.
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Telegeography is calling the top of the trillion-dollar communications market, saying that traditional markets are saturated, and new growth must come mainly from Asia and Africa.
The market analyst made the call following publication of first quarter sales figures for communications companies. These showed a slowdown over the previous quarter, but low single digit growth over Q1 08, it said.
The top 20 global service providers generated $251bn in sales during the first three months of 2009, which was 3% up on Q1 08 but 1% down on Q4 08.
The top 10 telecoms technology suppliers generated sales of $59bn during the quarter. This was 5% down from Q1 08 and 15% down from the previous quarter.
Mobile phone carriers added 153 million new subscribers, but this was 10 million fewer than the previous quarter. Almost half the wireless subscriber growth came from India and China as growth slowed in many other markets. Countries like France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Ukraine and the UK were all essentially flat or down slightly, it said.
There were 14 million new broadband subscribers, in line with Q4 08 additions. China accounted for 30% of global growth, with the US the only other country to add more than one million subscribers in the quarter.
Telegeography said the global recession was affecting the market, but it still believed that the global telecoms service market was approaching saturation in many developed markets.
"Historic growth in this market has been over 6% but Telegeography forecasts that growth will decline to an average 3.5% over the next five years," the company said. It noted that the reported 3% growth included the fruits of mergers and acquisitions, and was not just organic growth. The best organic growth came from China Mobile, Vodafone and America Movil, it said.
Telegeography said sales of wireless and broadband services were "a bit on the soft side", but still showed "decent growth" despite the recession.
Telecoms equipment vendors had been hit hard by the "triple whammy" of lower spending by consumers, service providers and enterprises. Traditional suppliers like Nokia, Cisco, Motorola and Alcatel-Lucent were hardest hit, with Nortel dropping out of the Top 10 altogether, it said. But newcomers like Huawei, Samsung, RIM and LGE had some cause to be pleased, the analyst said.
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Wal-Mart Inc. opened its campaign for the back-to-school PC sales season on Wednesday by unveiling a US$298 desktop from Everex that combines three of the most popular industry trends– open-source software, a power-efficient processor, and a lack of “bloatware.”
The Everex Impact GC3502 uses Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Vista OS, but substitutes the OpenOffice.org 2.2 version of word processing and spreadsheet tools for the traditional Microsoft Office variety. The computer runs on a 1.5GHz C7-D processor from Via Technologies Inc., a chip that meets lead-free environmental regulations and saves energy with low wattage demands.
The sales price does not include a monitor, but is still lower than comparable packages sold on Wal-mart’s Web site, such as a Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) Compaq Presario, an Acer America Corp. AcerPower FH Minitower and a Dell Inc. Dimension desktop.
PC vendors usually compete for customers by slashing prices during the eight-week back-to-school season, stretching from mid-July to mid-September. But Everex also hopes to attract buyers by avoiding the free “trial software” that annoys many users, according to Eugene Chang, a product manager at Everex, of Fremont, California.
Dell followed a similar strategy on July 10 when it withheld bloatware from its new Vostro line of PCs for small business users, after a long campaign by bloggers and Dell customers against common practice by PC vendors of loading unrequested software onto new computers. Software companies fund the effort as a way to find new users.
Although those feature are popular, they could backfire on Everex because most U.S. consumers are not yet familiar with Via processors or OpenOffice software, one analyst said.
“It’s not surprising that Wal-Mart, of all retailers, will sell the $298 Everex desktop; it’s a good marriage with their biggest audience– budget buyers,” said Toni DuBoise, a senior analyst with Current Analysis West.
“But it has a couple of problems, one is that it uses a Via processor, which is almost unknown to U.S. consumers. And it runs at just 1.5 GHz, so it’s unknown how it will handle Microsoft Vista,” she said. “And running OpenOffice is kind of a unique tactic. It’s anti-Microsoft, since Microsoft obviously owns the market for productivity software. So users may have some concerns about compatibility.”
Wal-Mart, Desktop, PC, $300 Pc, OpenOffice, Tech News
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Madrid - Two of the biggest eurozone economies extended their solid growth runs and confidence in the 19-nation bloc unexpectedly improved, underpinning the momentum the European Central Bank is banking on to boost inflation.
Economic sentiment rose to a decade-high of 111.2 in July amid increased optimism in services and construction, according to the European Commission. Confidence in industry stayed at the highest in more than six years.
The report came after data showed France is enjoying its strongest continuous expansion since 2011 with output - driven by exports and investment - increasing 0.5% in the April-June period. Business sentiment in the eurozone’s second-largest economy has risen after Emmanuel Macron was elected president on an agenda that promises to make the nation more competitive.
In Spain, the region’s number four, gross domestic product expanded 0.9%, the fastest since 2015. The Austrian economy also grew 0.9% in the second quarter, its best performance in more than six years.
The data buttress the European Central Bank’s latest assessment of the 19-nation economy, which President Mario Draghi described as solid and broad.
Consumer and business confidence is rising, and companies such as France’s Remy Cointreau SA and Germany’s Adidas are benefiting from an upswing in demand.
The cognac maker reported an 8% increase in quarterly sales that beat analysts’ estimates, while the sporting-goods company said 2017 will be even better than it previously anticipated.
“The current positive cyclical momentum increases the chances of a stronger than expected economic upswing,” Draghi argued after the Governing Council’s July 19-20 meeting, adding that downside risks are mostly confined to global factors.
With the economy powering ahead, policy makers are hopeful that falling unemployment and a closing output gap will finally fuel a sustainable inflation pickup, allowing them to unwind some of the unprecedented stimulus they deployed in the past three years.
A gauge for capacity utilisation in eurozone manufacturing rose and selling-price expectations increased in all sectors, according to the Commission report.
Draghi has put a discussion about the future path of quantitative easing on the agenda for the autumn, and investors are hanging on to every word for clues about timing and scope of a reduction of asset purchases that are currently scheduled to run through December.
The International Monetary Fund has urged the ECB to keep its stance “firmly accommodative” until inflation has sustainably entered on a path toward its goal. Consumer prices increased an annual 1.3% in June and Draghi said the rate is likely to hover around that level in the coming months. Eurostat will report July data on Monday.
“The recovery is broadening across countries and sectors, and we expect this to continue. The picture has changed significantly from a year ago - and that’s good news for the ECB,” said Florian Hense, European economist at Berenberg Bank in London. “Having said that, I doubt it serves to materially change the scenario for Draghi or the ECB.”
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Owners of Perth area salons and spas will be eligible for the one-off Small Business Lockdown Assistance Grant Programme later this month, according to the WA Government website. It has been created to help offset the losses businesses might have incurred over the ANZAC Day-weekend lockdown from things such as cancelled bookings and other lost revenue. Hair dressing and beauty services are one of the business categories under which businesses are eligible for the grants. Applications open later this month, and you can register your expression of interest here until that happens.
To apply, according to the programme details, businesses must have “an Australia-wide payroll of less than $4 million and registered for GST purposes,” according to the government’s recent release. “Businesses must be able to demonstrate losses incurred for… cancellations or other unforeseen costs as a result of the lockdown.” There is a pot of $31.8 million available, to be distributed in grants of up to $2,000 to individual businesses.
Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan has said “This is a significant program with the capacity to support an estimated 15,000 small businesses in Perth and Peel – including Rottnest Island – to recoup some direct costs they have incurred already.
I want to thank and acknowledge the small business sector for their continued understanding as we work to keep the community safe and maintain Western Australia’s world-leading economic response to COVID-19.”
What can you do now, before the application process opens up? Small Business Minister Reece Whitby’s adds “I encourage eligible businesses to begin preparing evidence of any losses in anticipation of applications opening later this month.”
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2017 seems to be the wild west of weird retail partnerships. Department stores are trying to adapt to a shifting retail environment inundated with free two-day shipping and the ease of instant price comparisons thanks to the magic of the internet.
Here are just a few of the more surprising brand partnerships, who knows what's in store next?
Lord & Taylor is coming to Walmart (WMT)
Starting in spring 2018, upscale retailer Hudson's Bay Co.-owned (HBAYF) Lord & Taylor will launch a flagship store on Walmart.com.
You can purchase Sears (SHLD) products on Amazon (AMZN)
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em seems to be the mindset here.
You can buy Casper mattresses, Harry's shaving supplies, and Bark from Barkbox products at Target (TGT)
Smart that these trendier online brands have a brick-and-mortar home that can bring in store traffic to Target.
Cop a Rolex at Costco
Looking for an upscale watch? Check out Costco while you're picking up your monthly wheel of party brie.
Sephora at J.C. Penny (JCP)
This more luxurious cosmetics retailer can bring in store traffic to struggling J.C. Penny.
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Pent up travel demand at an all time high – cruisers can’t wait to jump aboard!
We all are looking forward to the amazing days that lie ahead of us – our ability to get back to our “normal” lives and re-experience the joys of travel, cruising, and specifically for us, BARE cruising! To that point, new research is showing that travelers are overwhelmingly anxious to travel again with pent up demand resulting in sold out cruise ships, hotels, flights, and more. The American Society of Travel Advisors (ASTA) has participated in the 2020 Back to Normal Barometer study, an in-depth survey measuring public opinion and confidence in various industries and activities, which results have shown travel demand remains strong and availability will be heavily impacted as we move from spring and summer 2021 through 2022 and beyond.
To that point, in a recent article, Jennifer Hardy, a travel advisor with Cruise Planners, seconds that notion. “All my recent inquiries are for seven or more nights. People are desperate to travel again and want to make up for lost time,” said Hardy.
While we are all busy dreaming of traveling, be sure to be thinking about your plans for 2022 as we come out on the other side of the “COVID storm”. Here at Bare Necessities, we can bare-ly wait to set sail aboard the Big Nude Boat 2022 and hope you will jump on booking while limited availability lasts!
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This weekend, Maryland officials are launching a new program that will help consumers know whether restaurants that sell “Maryland-style” crab cakes are actually selling crab from the Chesapeake Bay, or imported meat from Asia.
So far, 40 restaurants have signed up for the voluntary “True Blue” program being run by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Participating businesses can display an official “true blue” crab logo with a Maryland state flag image on their menus if they agree to occasional inspections, according to Stephen Vilnit, Director of Fisheries Marketing for the state agency.
“What we are going to do is follow up behind the restaurants and we are asking for them to show us invoices every now and then to prove that they actually are using Maryland crab meat, if they are going to be part of this program,” Vilnit said.
Vilnit recently visited one of the first restaurants to sign up for certification: The VIN 909 Wine Cafe, at 909 Bay Ridge Avenue in Annapolis. There, Justin Moore, one of the owners (shown in the picture at top), prepared one of his specialties: a blue crab roll on brioche with creamy shellfish bisque.
First he seared a brioche roll, brushed with butter, on a hot metal plate. Then he scooped into the rectangular boat his magic ingredient.
“Now I’m going to add the crab to the roll,” Moore said, working intently in the tiny kitchen. “To our crab mix we add some aioli, which is sort of like a garlic mayonnaise and some chives. Then lemon juice. And then mostly crab, because crab is the main ingredient here.”
VIN 909 is unusual. Even before the “True Blue” program, it used only Chesapeake Bay blue crabs in its crab dishes, according to Moore. The names of the other restaurants and stores participating in “True Blue” are listed at the bottom of this page.
Here’s the big picture: More than 90 percent of the crab meat sold in Maryland is not from the Chesapeake Bay, according to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Over 40 million pounds of crabmeat is imported into Maryland each year, while only about 600,000-700,000 pounds a year are produced the Bay region, according to the state agency.
Many restaurants advertise “Maryland-style crab cakes,” but instead serve the meat of a different species: blue swimmer crabs from Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Even when people buy live blue crabs in Maryland, they are often from Florida, Texas, or Louisiana, especially in winter.
Vilnit said the lack of transparency for consumers in the existing system extends beyond crab to a variety of fish.
“Seafood fraud is definitely a problem in the industry --whether it be tuna or crab meat or whatever else the species may be, there is deception going on,” Vilnit said.
The “True Blue” program is designed to ensure more truth in labeling on menus, at least for blue crabs.
Why do many restaurants sell imported crab? It’s cheaper – sometimes half the price, because of low overseas labor costs. But imported crab is generally not as fresh, because the meat is shipped hundreds or thousands of miles. And to some diners, it tastes less rich than Chesapeake crab, because crabs from hotter climates do not store fat for winter hibernation as local crabs do, Vilnit said.
“Oh, yeah,” Vilnit said, biting into the snowy heaps of meat on the toasted roll. “Definitely very good.”
The crab rolls are shown in this photo, with the dish held by restaurant co-owner Moore (right) before being devoured by Vilnit (left) and me.
Buying local crab supports local watermen and crab processing plants, Vilnit added. For example, VIN 909’s crab was purchased from the family-owned J.M. Clayton Company of Cambridge, Maryland, which was founded in 1890, making it one of the oldest crab picking houses in the world.
Not according to Dr. Thomas Miller, Director of the Chesapeake Biological Lab and an expert on blue crabs.
Dr. Miller said the Bay’s blue crab population has tripled since 2007 because of restrictions that Maryland and Virginia imposed on catching females. Dr. Miller said this rebound demonstrates the Bay can support both a seafood industry and healthy crab populations as long as crabs full of fertilized eggs continue to be protected.
"If we were to stop fishing altogether, the blue crabs would do a lot better,” Dr. Miller said. “But I think we would lose a cultural history and an economic impact that crabs can certainly provide. And so I think it would be wrong to suggest that we cannot have a sustainable blue crab fishery in the Chesapeake Bay."
So you can eat with a clear conscience -- and now with clear idea of where your meal came from.
By Tom Pelton
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
(Top two photos by author. Bottom photo from Chesapeake Bay Program)
The following is a list of businesses participating in the “True Blue” program, as of March 18, 2012, according to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
Tommy’s Downtown Baltimore MD
Frank’s Seafood Jessup MD
Ricciuti’s Olney MD
Olney Grill Olney MD
The Prime Rib Baltimore MD
Casion’s Eat Place Washington DC
Vin 909 Annapolis MD
Zeffert & Gold Baltimore MD
Gertrude’s Baltimore MD
A Cook’s Café Annapolis MD
Miya’s Sushi New Haven CT
Woodberry Kitchen Baltimore MD
Atwater’s Baltimore MD
Atwater’s Catonsville MD
Atwater’s Towson MD
Ploughboy Kitchen Baltimore MD
Atwater’s Baltimore MD
Conrad’s Crabs Parkville MD
Today’s Catch Columbia MD
Angelina’s of Maryland Brooklandville MD
Wit & Wisdom Washington DC
Sam’s on the Waterfront Annapolis MD
Wild Orchid Annapolis MD
13.5% Wine Bar Baltimore MD
Whole Foods Annapolis MD
Whole Foods – Tenley Town Washington DC
Whole Foods – Mt. Washington Baltimore MD
Whole Foods – Georgetown Washington DC
Whole Foods –Silver Spring Silver Spring MD
Whole Foods – P Street Washington DC
Whole Foods – Harbor East Baltimore MD
Whole Foods – Friendship Heights Chevy Chase MD
Whole Foods – Foggy Bottom Washington DC
Whole Foods – Bethesda Bethesda MD
Whole Foods – Kentlands Gaithersburg MD
Whole Foods – Tysons Falls Church VA
Whole Foods – Charlottesville Charlottesville VA
Whole Foods – Springfield Springfield VA
Whole Foods – Reston Reston VA
Whole Foods – Vienna Vienna VA
Whole Foods – Short Pump Glen Allen VA
Whole Foods – Old Town Alexandria VA
Whole Foods – Fair Lakes Fairfax VA
Whole Foods – Arlington Arlington VA
Whole Foods – White Flint Rockville MD
Bon Appetite Management Company Palo Alto CA
Jimmy Cantler’s Riverside Inn Annapolis MD
Garden & Garnish Trappe MD
Island Bar & Crab House Piney Point MD
Kettle Hill Baltimore MD
Grist Mill DC Washington DC
Dino DC Washington DC
McFaul’s Ironhorse Tavern Towson MD
Ryleigh’s Oyster - Federal Hill Baltimore MD
Graul’s Market - Ruxton Towson MD
Passionfish Reston VA
The Shark on the Harbor Ocean City MD
The Prime Rib Baltimore MD
Alewife Baltimore MD
Cleaver Co. New York NY
Landmarc: Ditch New York NY
Landmarc: Plains New York NY
Graul’s Market – May’s Chapel Lutherville MD
Hilton Garden Inn, Solomons Solomons MD
Cove Side Crabs Baltimore MD
Portside Tavern Baltimore MD
Hooked Seafood & Sushi Sterling VA
The Manor Tavern Monkton MD


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Flextronics joins PV big guns
Flextronics cashed in on the growing trend among some major PV module makers to employ contract manufacturers, becoming the world's seventh-largest module producer last year – even though it sells no own-brand products, says research group IHS.
Japan's Sharp, which was the world's sixth-largest module supplier last year – shipping 1.05GW, according to IHS – falls off the top 10 list altogether when it comes to actual production, potentially reflecting its reliance on contract-manufacturing.
China’s Yingli Green Energy made 1.95GW of modules in 2012, claiming the world’s number-one spot in production.
But it was Yingli’s Chinese rival JA Solar, along with Singapore-based Flextronics, that recorded the most impressive growth.
PV panel production almost doubled at JA Solar in 2012 to 950MW, propelling it to sixth in the list from the 14th spot it held in 2011.
Flextronics ramped up module output by more than 60% in 2012, as it churned out 900MW of panels and shot up from 13th place in 2011.
Shanghai-based JA Solar has been transforming itself from a cell specialist into a module maker. Flextronics initially made its name as a contract manufacturer of electronics goods.
“Flextronics seems to be transitioning its business model to put more of a focus on renewable energy,” says Jon-Frederick Campos, an analyst at IHS Solar.
Last year many module makers concentrated on running down their inventories and slashed production. IHS says global output rose just 8% to 31.6GW – well down on previous increases of 31% in 2011 and 104% in 2010.
Top 10 Module Makers in 2012 by production.
First Solar 1,900MW
Trina Solar 1,700MW
Canadian Solar 1,500MW
JA Solar 950MW
Jinko Solar 900MW
Hanwha SolarOne 850MW
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BMW sold 100,000 EVs in 3 years, now turns attention to autonomy
More electric vehicles are coming soon, and so is autonomy.
Henrik Fisker reveals the face of his upcoming electric vehicle
The butterfly doors were gorgeous, but the front could use some work.
Tesla Model S is the best-selling US luxury sedan, by a wide margin
Its sales lead over other large luxury sedans keeps growing.
Volkswagen's I.D. arrives in 2020 with up to 370 mile range
Volkswagen kicks off the Paris Motor Show in style.
VW aims for an EV that goes 300 miles on a 15-minute charge
A company chairman stated a hopeful launch date of late 2018 or early 2019.
Porsche will hire over 1,400 employees to build its electric cars
The first ones should be ready in 2019, giving Tesla an even bigger head start.
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Wild meat, including venison and feathered game which has been reared and released to top welfare standards in the British countryside, has been introduced to a collective of schools. Tops Nurseries, an early education center that includes 32 nurseries across Dorset and Hampshire, is among the first in its sector to make the move and put wild meat on its menu.
Working in collaboration with Eat Wild, the development board for all wild meat in the UK, Tops Nurseries has developed five different wild meat meals which will be incorporated into the schools’ menu. Across the 32 sites, the children will be provided with wild meat meals three times a week on a three-week cycle, totalling 3,000 wild meat meals per month.
Leon Challis-Davies, Culinary Director at Eat Wild who is leading the project says,
“There are lots of reasons why getting wild and sustainable meat onto school menus is so important, I could talk about them for hours. First and foremost, though, it’s so important that we get the younger generation to eat more nutritional and vitamin-rich food to help them develop. Wild meat is not only healthier, but it’s also more sustainable than what we consume from our current meat-producing sector. It’s much more flavoursome too. For the countryside community in particular, this is a huge win, and we hope to take it to the next level and introduce wild meat into higher education and beyond.”
Eat Wild is the development board for British game, aiming to showcase the wild game as it’s never been seen before whilst promoting assured meat; reared, and released to top welfare standards in the British countryside. Eat Wild champions the high welfare, nutritional benefits, and sustainability of game meat. Importantly, it offers people an easy education into the world of wild game.
Peter Ttofis, Catering Manager for Tops Nurseries said
“Having worked in the hospitality industry for so long I had always been aware of how delicious wild foods were, especially game. The variety and how natural it is always appealed to me as I knew it hadn’t been subjected to courses of intense growth hormones or antibiotic treatment and is left to roam freely eating natural foods within its natural environment, because after all, we are what we eat, right? This got me thinking, could children benefit from eating wild meat? And could the odd dish make its way onto our menus?
“After a bit of research, we discovered that the nutritional value of game was excellent, and contained less fat, as much protein and nutrients like vitamin B-12, iron and zinc as our typical household meats like beef, chicken, lamb and pork. I also saw the conservation work that went on around these animals, and the huge benefits it had on the environment, community, and wider biodiversity. We decided to create fun and vibrant dishes from around the world using wild food; dishes like venison bolognaise or venison orzo bake will make their way onto our menus, giving the children their first tastes of game and a gateway to new nutritional flavours. Giving wild food a try and experimenting with our food diversity is something we should really be giving a go and exploring, because after all, food should be fun, exciting, new and delicious.”


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Call me crazy, but I truly don't see why so many of my Foolish colleagues absolutely love Activision Blizzard
And I don't buy any of it.
The just-reported third-quarter results look all right. Sales grew 6% year-over-year to $745 million and GAAP earnings bounced from $0.01 per share to $0.04 per share. Both the top and bottom lines beat management guidance and analyst estimates by significant margins. So far, so good.
But then you're not looking at the business itself -- just the numbers on the surface. On a trailing-12-month basis to smooth out seasonal effects, Activision's sales are on a 4.9% growth trajectory and earnings are rising by just 18%. That's a serious slowdown from recent years, and I blame a lack of fresh thinking.
All Activision wants to talk about is sequel upon sequel to its existing franchises. That's cool as long as they perform: Call of Duty and WarCraft/StarCraft are treating the company very well at the moment. But those gravy trains don't roll forever. Just look at the Guitar Hero series as an example of franchises rolling off the tracks. Once a billion-dollar business, the recently released Warriors of Rock installment was not even mentioned in the earnings release and got only a cursory treatment in the conference call. Not a single analyst question concerned the Guitar Hero property. That once-shining star has lost its luster.
Why would the other franchises be any different? Where's the innovation? How is Activision changing to keep up with the times? I don't see clear answers to these questions and hence can't be convinced that it's a great company or stock.
To its credit, Activision is trying to hook into that trend with a number of smartphone editions of its games. Notably, WarCraft addicts can buy and sell in-game items right on their phones. But I don't think it's enough. Check back in five years, and the new giants of the gaming industry may very well be Zynga and Rovio, with the former market leaders reduced to dinosaur status and fighting over table scraps.
Has Anders gone off his rocker? Explain Activision's greatness (or lack thereof) in the comments below.


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I don't know the date of the below interview, but none-the-less, I feel it is the most factual information I've read about the reported Can-Am SxS. I found this interview at Tristar Powersports web site (Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, Can-Am, Sea-Doo, Ski-Doo, ATV, Snowmobile, Watercraft, Dealer, Used, Parts, Accessories, Apparel
). However, when I tried calling Tristar to learn more about this interview, I learned they went out of buisness. No doubt another victim of the recession.
""During an interview with our sister publication, Powersports Business, Bombardier Recreational Products CEO Jose Boisjoli revealed Can-Am will soon enter the side-by-side market. While a specific date for product availability wasn’t announced, we expect a UTV to be unveiled as a late 2009 model. Advertisement “Innovation is the name of the game in our industry,” Boisjoli said to Powersports Business. “Five years down the road, our product will come with advanced technology at a faster pace.” Don’t expect the new side-by-side to be a product similar to the Rhino or Teryx, as Can-Am has been known to release atypical products in the ATV business. Boisjoli said BRP focused its R&D resources on the new Spyder three-wheeled motorcycle first, before turning to the side-by-side market. “It’s not a question of money. It’s a question of resources,” Boisjoli said on why BRP decided to focus R&D on the Spyder and not on a UTV. “We have to decide where to invest the resources, and we decided to invest in the Can-Am roadster before the side-by-side business. But it will come. “One day we’ll have a side-by-side. That’s clear.” We at TRI STAR POWERSPORTS expect the side-by-side to more closely resemble the Polaris RZR rather than a Rhino, and come with the Outlander 800’s powerful liquid-cooled V-twin four-stroke.""


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Ubisoft sued over Assassin’s Creed story
Rev up those legal documents! Ubisoft is now apparently being sued by American science fiction writer, John L. Beiswenger, over aspects of the Assassin’s Creed games that run similar to his own novel, Link.
The lawsuit explains that the novel portrays the use of a device that can access the memories of people in order to obtain information, much like how the Animus in Assassin’s Creed operates, as well as references to God, Jesus, and other biblical overtones. The suit also mentions the use of assassins in the novel, another key figure in the Creed games. An example from the book writes, “The driver paused, then explained. ‘The U.S. Government has just been contacted by the Israeli prime minister. Most of his cabinet members have been assassinated during a cabinet meeting. The assassins missed him, and his security people caught one of the perpetrators.'” Beiswenger is thus accusing Ubisoft of directly ripping off his work by using these elements.
While Link was published back in 2002, the original Assassin’s Creed game was released in 2007. Five years later, many other games in the Creed series have been released on various platforms, as well as other paraphernalia. With this in mind, the primary question is how much did one party know of the other’s existence before this lawsuit came up (because this is really the first time I even heard of the Link novel), and why did Beiswenger wait until now to get his lawsuit up and running (other than the obvious ploy to get more money)?
Beiswenger is demanding damages from Ubisoft for each item that was released under the Assassin’s Creed name, including games, guides, comics, and other materials. Damages are being set at no less than $1 million, with more damages possible depending on the presiding judge’s ruling. The suit is also demanding the prevention of release for the upcoming Assassin’s Creed III game, due out later this year, something that will surely rub fans the wrong way.


text: One day left until Super Saturday, shopping industry shorthand for the last big weekend day before Christmas. What can shoppers expect besides crowds? Probably not the panicky extra-big discounts that retailers resorted to last holiday season. Stores have responded to weak consumer demand and the recession by cutting back on inventory, so they aren't making last-minute price cuts to move goods. Instead, look for stores to offer enticements such as the daily deal, a discount on one item each day through Christmas.


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Rapper Berner’s rolling paper brand, VIBES, teams with the Last Prisoner Project – and with creative agency Mother – to launch RELEASE PAPERS. The campaign supports individuals imprisoned for marijuana-related convictions.
GDUSA’s American Cannabis Graphics Awards™ recognizes how designers help shape the marketplace for cannabis and related products by elevating brands, differentiating products, encouraging transparency. THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED FOR 2023.
Neenah Packaging has introduced new hemp fiber papers, a new color, and new finishes into its recently expanded line of Neenah Folding Board papers.


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By Silke Brand | Metaplex, a Solana network project, recently made a creator-facing announcement. Metaplex implemented a mechanism allowing NFT collections to be upgraded to programmable NFTs (pNFTs). See how these new pNFTs can not only improve the income streams for creators but for publishers alike.
Metaplex is a platform for NFT creators and developers on Solana that was founded in 2021. With over 22 million NFTs minted and over $3.6 billion in commerce so far until the beginning of the year 2023, the top creators and game studios use Metaplex to create, grow, and engage their communities.
Metaplex enables enforced Royalties
Allowing creators to impose royalties on their collections is the rationale behind pNFTs. Metaplex stated that they have now deployed a stable version of the program to Devnet. It has reached the Mainnet on January 25th 2023. Their Programmable NFT guide includes the latest integration information, including sample code and tests for the new instructions. As Metaplex admits, several ecosystem programs have expressed needing more time to integrate. They believe that a minimum of >50% coverage for the new asset class across marketplaces and wallets would be required to allow existing collections to upgrade without causing major disruptions. This process is in full swing now. It is expected that first collections will finalize their upgrade not before February 6th 2023.
1/ Updates on timelines for allowing collections to upgrade to Programmable NFTs with royalties enforcement below 👇— Metaplex (@metaplex) January 24, 2023
Affiliate Model on the Horizon for NFT Community
One of my favorite YouTube channels on NFTs “Giancarlo buys token” sums up the royality problems NFT creators face these days and he explains the upcoming solution by implementing “Programmable NFTs”. He goes even further by claiming that this could be a whole new way publishers can monetize their content in the Web. Not that this model is new – you may have heard of Affiliate Marketing before. This distribution model already creates high volumes in sales in other markets no matter if physical or digital products are concerned.
Definitely check out Giancarlos’s channel – you won’t regret it.
Although challenges during this crypto winter abound, the Solana community does not stand still and works constantly on new projects that may shift the future or at least speed up changes in a positive way. Besides the Metaplex development of “Programmable NFTs” the Solana Mobile team just recently celebrated the release of the first SAGA test phones and the platform opening for submissons of decentralized apps (dApps) to their dApp Store.


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Barbie to grace Sports Illlustrated cover
The iconic doll will feature in the anniversary edition alongside the hashtag #UNAPOLOGETIC.
AUSTIN - Red-blooded beauties, step aside: a plastic Barbie doll will join a generation of iconic stunners next week in the Sports Illustrated 50th Anniversary Swimsuit edition.
Barbie takes her place alongside a host of legendary swimsuit models as part of a new promotional campaign with the magazine.
"Barbie is a legend in her own right, with more than 150 careers and a brand valued at $3 billion. She is in great company with the other legends, such as Heidi Klum and Christie Brinkley, to name a few,"said Mattel spokeswoman Michelle Chidoni.
The cover will be unveiled on the late-night TV talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight.
The magazine is due to hit newsstands on Tuesday.
The campaign refers to Barbie as "the doll that started it all," and uses the hashtag "#Unapologetic" to promote buzz around the issue.
The hashtag appears in discussions on social media sites, on a billboard in Manhattan's Times Square, and in an as-yet-unexplained plan to take over the "NASDAQ digital footprint" on Thursday, according to a company statement.
The "unapologetic" refrain is a cheeky nod to critics who have insisted for decades that Barbie and the magazine contribute to unhealthy expectations of beauty and poor body self-image in girls.
Barbie's appearance has sparked a fresh round of criticism beyond the long-standing arguments that the doll is impossibly skinny and that the real women in the issue are objectified or go to unhealthy lengths to look the way they do.
Mattel said in a statement that the ad campaign celebrates "some of the world's most famous swimsuit legends - like Barbie - who have gone on to break boundaries, build empires and shape culture."


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By Kellie O’Flynn
With the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) now in effect, one of the emerging considerations is whether its provisions – specifically Article 80 – open the door to ‘class action’ style privacy cases. Several European countries have already legislated for varying degrees of collective actions, particularly in the area of consumer protection, and post the coming into effect of the GDPR on 25th May, GDPR privacy class-action suits were commenced in several jurisdictions.
Class action in any similar form would be a dramatic departure in this jurisdiction. Coupled with the extension of damages to non-material (as well as material) losses, many businesses are concerned that the financial ramifications of GDPR from data subject claims may be even more severe than the threat from GDPR’s well-publicised administrative fines.


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The overwhelming majority of small-business owners (84%) are confident in the future of their business, according to a new study produced by the National Small Business Association and ZipRecruiter. More than half (53%) of the 1,633 small-business owners surveyed said that their revenue has gone up. That’s the first time since 1997 that the majority of companies reported an increase. The results are largely encouraging, though owners weren’t without worry.
“In the past two years, the number of small-business owners who say they expect to see an economic expansion in the next year has more than doubled,” said NSBA President Todd McCracken in a press release. “Unfortunately, the ever-rising cost of healthcare remains the biggest challenge small businesses face.”
The state of small-business jobs
Jobs and hiring practices were a major focus of the report. One of the key findings — that automation does not necessarily mean fewer jobs — differs from what’s expected to happen at many large companies.
The survey showed that only 9% of the small-business owners who plan to implement some type of automation believe that doing so will allow them to employ fewer people. Almost 1 in 4 (24%) said automation will cause them to need more workers and the majority (67%) said it will not impact their employee count either way.
In addition, small-business owners believe that the gig economy will not impact how many full-time employees they hire. While 37% have added part-time employees, 70% of them were new hires, and only 17% were current full-time employees who were reduced to part-time.
The survey also had some good news for employees. Over half (58%) of small-business owners said they raised wages in 2017 and 64% said they expect to in 2018. Nearly a third of those surveyed (32%) noted that they were having trouble finding qualified applicants due to the tight labor department.
“We tend to think of corporate America when we think of career ladders, however small businesses have ample opportunities for career growth,” said ZipRecruiter Chief Economist Cathy Barrera in the press release. “66% of all small businesses offer opportunities for promotion, and at companies with more than five employees, that number rises to 85%.”
What does this mean?
Strong small businesses are good for the economy and good for workers. They give people options and create opportunities that otherwise may not exist.
In order to continue this strong market for small business, it’s important that the government address healthcare. That was named by 32% of those surveyed as their biggest challenge to their future growth and survival. That was tied with economic uncertainty and followed by lack of qualified workers at 26%.
Still, despite those concerns, small business is thriving and confidence among owners is high.
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Two local breweries have added tasting rooms, Polly Campbell reports: A new law that allows microbreweries to offer tastes to visitors without having to pay for a second license has encouraged two breweries in Cincinnati to add tasting rooms. They’re happy about it, because it allows them to let customers taste before they buy a [...]
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Lucy’s & George’s Pancake House & Family Dining opened in Springdale earlier this month. Owners George and Lucy Nakis serve breakfast all day, plus steaks, seafood, Greek food and made-from-scratch soups at 380 Glensprings Drive, next to Perkins. As the name implies, the emphasis is on family dining, with large portions and low prices, Lucy Nakis said. Breakfast specials start [...]
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Previously located in Hyde Park Station, Yat Ka Mein Noodle House is preparing to reopen in Oakley. Forrest Sellers of the Community Press reports: OAKLEY — A new Oakley restaurant will serve up authentic Chinese cuisine. The Yat Ka Mein Noodle House will open its doors this spring. “This area fit perfectly,” said owner Clarence [...]
When Sara Bornick started selling her Streetpops last May, out of a push cart at Findlay Market and other spots around town, she never expected the frozen treats to take off like they did. “I honestly thought I was just going to sell them at Findlay on the weekends, but it blew up,” she said of [...]
Christ Hospital has opened two new outpatient centers, The Enquirer reports: Christ Hospital has opened outpatient centers along Harrison Avenue in Green Township and off Dixie Highway in Fort Wright. The Fort Wright location is Christ’s first primary care site in Northern Kentucky. It includes the Premier Family Medicine office plus a lab draw site. [...]
Watson’s recently opened its new store in Florence, at 7100 Houston Road, next to Panera. Mike Boyer reports: The calendar says spring just arrived, but it’s already summer at Watson’s, one of the area’s largest retailers of home recreation products. Demand for pool chemicals, supplies and other outdoor items has taken off due to this month’s [...]
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The four local Target stores that were undergoing renovations have completed them as of Sunday, and now each store offers expanded grocery departments, including fresh produce, fresh packaged meat and baked goods, plus redesigned beauty, home, shoe and baby departments. The remodeled stores are the Western Hills store in Westwood (6150 Glenway Ave.); the Fields Ertel [...]
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Tri-State Beer & Wine Crafting, the Florence wine- and beer-making shop that opened last fall (read about the opening here), is now selling finished bottles of wine made from the Winexpert kits sold in the store. Owner Mark Gruen makes the wine at the shop, 8854 Bankers St., selling it under the name Serendipity Winery. Trying the finished [...]
Wingstop, a chain serving cooked-to-order chicken — traditional and boneless wings, strips and sandwiches — is coming to the area, with plans to open 20 restaurants in Greater Cincinnati within the next several years. Though the company is still currently looking to award local franchises, targeted locations include Newport, Florence and Hamilton, according to a company [...]
The Cone in West Chester is celebrating its grand opening weekend. WestChesterBuzz reports: A West Chester landmark and popular location in the summer, The Cone, officially opened for the season Thursday with a surprise opening night. The Cone, which serves up soft-serve ice cream and other treats, will celebrate its opening weekend this Friday through [...]
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Ford CEO Jim Farley was testing out a Tesla NACs adapter at a Supercharger site. Farley visited a Supercharger in Northville, Michigan, to test its Tesla NACS adaptor with an ultra-red Mach-E.
The legacy automaker is by far leading the pack when it comes to moving toward enabling Tesla Supercharger access to its EV drivers. In January, Farley announced that eligible Mustang Mach-E and F-150 Lightning owners in the United States and Canada could reserve a NACS adapter to access Tesla Superchargers.
Last week, a NACS adaptor was listed on Ford’s parts catalog. The NACS adapter was priced at $1 and quickly removed from the site. Some Tesla owners observed that the NACS adaptor posted on its parts catalog looked similar to Tesla’s Magic Dog Adapter.
It’s here! Doing some testing and excited to share more info very soon. pic.twitter.com/20d0lBKyRQ— Jim Farley (@jimfarley98) February 27, 2024
Based on the developments in the first two months of 2024, Ford is preparing to release a NACS adapter sooner rather than later. Although Tesla and Ford EV owners still have some concerns that need to be addressed.
The main concern Tesla and Ford EV owners have about NACS adapters is the placement of the charging port on the legacy automaker’s Mustang Mach-E and F-150 Lighting. The Ford Mach-E’s charging port is above the front left wheel, while in the Lightning, it is located in the driver’s side front fender.
Tesla Supercharger V3 stalls and below usually have short cables that might not reach the Mach-E or Lighting’s charging port. Given Ford’s charging port locations, Mustang Mach-E and Lightning owners would have to use the neighboring Supercharger bay, taking up two slots instead of one.
Tesla has already found ways to resolve the issues in its next-generation V4 Supercharger stalls. Non-Tesla automakers might issue a charging cable to go with their NACS adapters.
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The popular website CouponChief.com, which helps frugal shoppers find the best deals online, is now using the power of saving money to help charities in local communities across the country. Coupon Chief has recently adopted the mantra, “Saving is Giving” to promote what could be the next big thing when it comes to savvy shopping and supporting charitable causes. The new promotion is all about giving back to those in need, and encouraging shoppers to do more than just buy products online. With Coupons-4-Causes, the site promises to donate up to 20% of the purchase price every time shoppers use Coupon Chief’s online coupons.
The money-saving website CouponChief.com has started a new trend in the industry with the introduction of a novel way to donate to local charities. With the Coupons-4-Causes program, shoppers are able to support their favorite charities every time they shop online. All visitors to the site have to do is shop using the site’s coupons, and Coupon Chief will automatically donate up to 20% of the purchase price to the charity of choice, whether it is a local charity, school, or church.
Online coupons provide a convenient way to save money when purchasing items such as clothing, jewelry, and more, but with this new cause shoppers also have the opportunity to help their communities every time they make a purchase – no matter what the item.
The site provides discount coupon codes for a wide range of different online stores, from big name brands to smaller operations. Coupon Chief sets itself apart from the competition through innovation, ease-of-use, and by providing visitors with a reliable service. Many coupon sites are difficult to navigate, unorganized, and make it almost impossible to search for great deals that haven’t already expired.


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WASHINGTON - The National Retail Federation today issued the following statement from Senior Vice President of Government Relations David French in response to President Biden’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2024.
“President Biden’s proposed tax increase would make the U.S. corporate tax rate among the highest in the industrialized world. Raising the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28% would disproportionately impact retailers and their employees.
“President Biden’s proposed tax increase would make the U.S. corporate tax rate among the highest in the industrialized world. Raising the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28% would disproportionately impact retailers and their employees. "NRF Senior Vice President of Government Relations David French
“Before passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, retailers paid one of the highest effective tax rates of any industry and benefited from few of the tax incentives, deductions and credits in the Internal Revenue Code.
“Ratcheting the rate back up would result in a loss of retail jobs and the closing of stores, and would undermine retailers’ ability to invest in expanded ecommerce capabilities.
“A Federal Reserve Board study found that a corporate tax rate increase would be ‘uniformly harmful to workers,’ costing a typical American family thousands of dollars a year in lower wages.
“Businesses and consumers are already facing persistently high inflation and a slowing economy. Using higher taxes on business to fund the president’s budget and reduce the deficit would force all businesses – not just retailers – to increase prices for their products and would further drive inflation.
“As the leading authority and voice for retail, NRF’s priority is preserving the corporate tax rate at 21%.”
The National Retail Federation, the world’s largest retail trade association, passionately advocates for the people, brands, policies and ideas that help retail succeed. From its headquarters in Washington, D.C., NRF empowers the industry that powers the economy. Retail is the nation’s largest private-sector employer, contributing $3.9 trillion to annual GDP and supporting one in four U.S. jobs — 52 million working Americans. For over a century, NRF has been a voice for every retailer and every retail job, educating, inspiring and communicating the powerful impact retail has on local communities and global economies.