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Ubisoft has a huge portfolio of games for Sony and Microsoft’s new machines, including a number of major new IPs.
Have you noticed that the number of annualised franchises in games is actually shrinking?
2011 marks the firm’s 25th year in the business, but even without that, Ubisoft’s UK division has plenty to celebrate. Managing director Rob Cooper talks to MCV about notable achievements ...
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A series of vintage railway posters have been redesigned as part of efforts to make sure people stick to coronavirus lockdown restrictions.
York’s National Railway Museum (NRM) published the set of 10 images covering popular tourist hotspots like Cornwall, the Norfolk Broads and the Yorkshire coast complete with updated slogans that fit current government advice.
Boris Johnson is expected to lay out a roadmap for the easing of lockdown restrictions on Sunday, but people are being urged to stick to current rules over the Bank Holiday weekend.
The posters were originally used by railway companies to encourage people to visit beauty spots by train.
But they have been redesigned to fit with the current coroanvirus lockdown, featuring slogans including: “visit when this is all over” and “one day soon, but not today”.
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NRM director Judith McNicol said: “At a time of widespread travel restrictions, we hope that recreating a selection of the most popular travel posters will enable people to enjoy some of their favourite holiday destinations while celebrating the style and glamour of these works of art.
“This is also a way for us to show our support for the nation’s keyworkers, including many of the 115,000 railway workers who are continuing to keep things running during this time.
“While we can’t visit these destinations this bank holiday, we hope that these reimagined posters might raise a smile and give people something to look forward to once the lockdown is lifted.”
On Friday, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said “limited moves” to lift the lockdown would be made on Sunday and stressed that social restrictions had not been changed for this weekend.
Dowden told BBC Breakfast: “The situation remains exactly as it has been for several weeks, that is people should be staying at home in order to protect the NHS and save lives. That hasn’t changed.
“Once again we have that temptingly sunny bank holiday weekend coming up but please people should not be leaving home except for the limited reasons we’ve already set out.”
His comments are the latest urging people to stay home during what is forecast to be a sunny weekend.


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Dickinson would bring up a late Lucian Freud A portrait of billionaire property developer Pat Doherty to Frieze Masters, which will sell for around £15mn. „Profile Donegal Man” (2008) was on loan to the Irish Museum of Modern Art from 2016 to 2021 and was shown recently Lucian Freud: New Perspectives The exhibition began at London’s National Gallery before moving to Madrid’s Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.
According to Milo Dickinson, the gallery’s executive director, Doherty spent about 300 hours sitting in 85 sessions. The work will be a highlight of Dickinson’s booth dedicated to „artists in Soho,” which will also include works by Thomas Lawrence, Edward Burne-Jones and Frank Auerbach. Doherty, who sells the work through Dickinson, is known to have another portrait of Freud in his collection.
This week, Frieze announced some of the highlights of its London and Masters exhibitions, which take place between October 11 and 15 in Regent’s Park. Some of these coincide with city exhibitions: Julianknxx, Edel Assanti’s booth at Frieze London, on view at the Barbican Centre; El Anatsui, which opens in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall on 10 October, will have a solo booth in the Jack Shainman Gallery at Frieze Masters. ArtAncient’s collection of 73 Stone Age prints is priced from £500 to £250,000.
Luxembourg + Co Gallery, New York has opened an exhibition dedicated to non-existent works. Man Ray’s „objects” were conceived by the artist between the 1910s and 1930s, but never built. Instead he later made copies of the „originals” and corrected them each time. “Everyone understands Duchamp’s great revolution by his ready-mades. But Man Ray also made a radical gesture, questioning our obsession with the original,” says gallery partner Alma Luxemburg. „In the digital age, when we are constantly taking photographs, such questions are even more relevant.”
Variations on the man ray have evolved over 50 years, Luxemburg notes. For example, the so-called „gato” – a ready-made iron with sharp nails created in 1921 – was created with haberdashery technology. A photographic eye attached to the needle of a metronome, now known as an „object immortal” (although this title has also evolved), became the artist’s romantic liaison.
The exhibition aims to chart such evolutions through five objects and around 25 works. A limited number of pieces are for sale, priced between €80,000-€800,000 (until December 2).
Art Basel has strengthened its governance Hayley Romer was hired as chief development officer — a new role and a job title you don’t hear about every day — and Craig Hepburn as chief digital officer. Romer, who joins this month, was previously publisher and chief revenue officer of The Atlantic magazine, while Hepburn will join European soccer body UEFA next month, where she was most recently head of digital.
Noah Horowitz, who became Art Basel’s chief executive last year, explains that Romer’s role is to focus on the development of its brand outside the fair, such as partners and marketing. And those appointed in 2022 will focus on events. Romer and Hepburn’s experience from outside the art world was part of the training to „raise all of our skills with really talented people,” says Horowitz.
Meanwhile, Mark Spiegler, who was Art Basel’s global director, has joined the board of SuperBlue, a platform for immersive, experiential art. Spiegler, who advises audio business Kef on its artistic strategy and is a visiting professor at Milan’s Bocconi University, says he is „developing a portfolio of projects”.
Anyone interested in the nuances Art majors may want to search Business Galleries: Bricks, Clicks and the Digital FutureLund Humphries and Sotheby’s Institute of Art’s latest book Hot Topics in the Art World Cont. (Disclosure: I’ve written a book in this series.) Written by Henry Little, art consultant to the Fine Art Group and co-founder of Breeze Little Gallery (now closed), this book offers insights into a field that curates. Be quick to change and be stubbornly quiet.
Digital advances during the pandemic have given artists and the industry around them a new level of popularity (a wealth of data on current and potential buyers). Despite such progress, „expensive, complex, or intellectually rarefied art will always resist easy digital consumption . . . we can safely assume that today’s commercial gallery model, with all its digital irony, will remain, if not deliberately conservative.”
There are some memorable turns of phrase, not comparing some of the biggest galleries to „bloated food hogs” when looking for new artists, while I agree with Little that „if the super-rich visited more often we’d see a gallery on the moon. Enough.”
Finally, the dinosaurs are back – At least in the art market. The frenzy was temporarily halted last year when a T-rex, nicknamed Shen, fetched $15mn-$25mn from a Christie’s auction in Hong Kong after concerns were raised that its bones were insufficient.
Now we have a five-meter-long Jurassic Iguanodon Barry, about 150 million years old, unearthed in Wyoming in 2000. It is for sale at Giguello & Associates in Traut, Paris, with an estimate of €800,000-€1.2 million. On October 20. Auctioneers insist that their specimen contains a high percentage (more than 80 percent) of original bone, more than 90 percent of its skull.
In 2020, Christie’s set a record for a dinosaur skeleton due to be completed by the end of 2025 when it sold a 12-meter-long T-rex for $31.8 million (with fees) to Abu Dhabi’s Natural History Museum. .
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Japan's April exports climbed 8.0 percent from a year earlier, data showed on Monday, topping expectations for a 6.4 percent rise and underscoring a gradual recovery in external demand.
But imports fell more than expected, down 4.2 percent on-year, compared with expectations for a 1.5 percent decline.
The trade balance came to a deficit of 53.4 billion yen ($439.3 million), versus the median estimate for a 318.9 billion yen deficit. In March the trade balance had marked the first surplus since June 2012.
Following the trade data, the Japanese yen traded unchanged, with the U.S. dollar fetching 121.55 yen. The Nikkei, meanwhile, hit a fresh 15-year high at the start of trade.
The data come just days after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned the Bank of Japan (BOJ) that the central bank's forecasts for hitting its 2 percent inflation target are likely "overly optimistic." The IMF also urged the country to speed up its efforts at fiscal reform rather than over relying on yen weakness.
The BOJ has pushed back its timeline for hitting its inflation target to around September 2016. Japan's core consumer price index (CPI) for March rose 2.2 percent from a year earlier, but excluding the effects of a consumption sales tax hike in April 2014, the nationwide consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.2 percent.
"The exports numbers continue to reinforce our view that the growth component of Japan is starting to improve. The structural reform process is clearly going to be tough and slower, but we're now forecasting that exports will be 33 percent of Japan's growth (from the current 29 percent) from now through to 2019," said Martin Lakos, a director with Macquarie.
"We're not expecting the lights to be blown out or shot up in terms of growth but we're looking for positive growth for the next three years from now till 2017, in the region from now up till about 1.5-2 percent," he added.


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Beauty lovers know about skin care. From essences and toners to sleeping masks and chemical exfoliators, product maximalist have it all. However, for fans of beauty brand Tatcha, there has been a product missing for a year now, but it's back with a 4,000 person waiting list. Tatcha's Kissu Lip Mask is returning, and despite the waiting list, you can still get your hands on it.
Tatcha's lip mask made its debut during the 2018 holiday season as a QVC product and a short-term Tatcha online option. According to the brand, the nourishing product sold out in just 13 minutes and was gone forever. Well, it was gone until now. The brand is bringing back the product in time for the holidays. Pre-orders for the Kissu Lip Mask begin Dec. 19 on the Tatcha website, and come Dec. 25, you'll be able to get the mask on the brand's website before it lands in Sephora stores on Jan. 3.
For its official re-release, the Kissu Lip Mask got a bit of a makeover resulting in what could be an even more lip nourishing product. The new mask includes popular ingredient squalane, an oil that helps to lock in moisture and protect the skin barrier. Rose extract, which has softening abilities, helps to increase hydration while camellia oil, which contains antioxidants, joins in to fight free radicals.
The Kissu Lip Mask, however, isn't Tatcha's only new launch as 2020 approaches. The brand is kicking off the new decade before its even begun with its new Serum Stick.
Like the Kissu Lip Mask, the new Tatcha Serum Stick utilizes squalane to moisturize and protect the skin's barrier. Most often seen in oil form, the ingredient is easily absorbable and non-comedogenic, and it can help to prevent transepidermal water loss. Plus, much like the way the Kissu Lip Mask can be used as a way to prep the lips for matte lip products, the Serum Stick also works well with makeup having the ability to make products appear more skin like.
It may not be 2020 yet, but Tatcha is getting a head start on the latest beauty innovation coming skin care lovers' way in the new decade.
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A major pork manufacturing plant in South Dakota has indefinitely shut down after more than 200 of its employees contracted Covid-19.
According to Smithfield, who runs the plant, the facility’s output represents up to 5% of US pork production, supplying 130m servings of food a week and employing 3,700 people. Over 550 independent farmers supplied the plant.
The company that runs the plant, Smithfield Foods, announced the closure of its plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on Sunday, a day after the state’s governor, Kristi Noem, asked the company to suspend the plant’s operation for at least 14 days.
The number of employees who worked at the plant and contracted the virus makes up over half of the state’s positive cases. About 240 employees from the plant have contracted the virus.
The company said in a press release that the plant’s furloughed employees will be compensated for the next two weeks.
In a statement, Smithfield’s chief executive, Kenneth Sullivan, warned of “severe” repercussions to the meat supply chain if more manufacturing plants see similar spreads of Covid-19.
“The closure of this facility, combined with a growing list of other protein plants that have shuttered across our industry, is pushing our country perilously close to the edge in terms of our meat supply,” Sullivan said in the statement. “It is impossible to keep our grocery stores stocked if our plants are not running.”
Other meat manufacturers similarly shut down plant operations after multiple employees contracted Covid-19.
Tysons Food Inc halted a pork processing plant in Iowa after two dozen employees got the virus, while JBS USA closed a beef plant in Pennsylvania for two weeks after multiple plant managers reported flu-like symptoms.
Across the country, agricultural and food production workers are deemed essential and are allowed to work, often in close quarters, regardless of local shelter-in-place orders.
Workers at processing plants, like other groups of essential workers, have demanded workplace protections as the virus continues to spread. Plant workers have petitioned companies for better benefits, like paid sick leave and more protective equipment. In response, some companies have implemented pay raises and tried to utilize social distancing in plant operations.
Experts say US consumers should not necessarily be worried about food shortages in the near future. Storage levels of staples including chicken, beef and soybeans were high before the virus hit the US full-force, and food suppliers are starting to reroute their inventories that would typically go to restaurants to supermarkets.
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Of the big technology stocks, Apple is the most concerning, veteran technology investor Paul Meeks told CNBC on Thursday.
“Of all the FAANGs, the one I am frankly most worried about is Apple,” Meeks said on “Power Lunch.” The ecosystem “is all based on the number of iPhone users, and we are seeing a slowdown in the iPhone and the whole global smartphone market.”
Meeks’ comments come amid big gains in the technology sector.
Amazon’s stock hit $2,000 per share for the first time just after market open Thursday, marking a major milestone in its climb toward a $1 trillion market valuation. At $2,020, the stock would need to gain just $30 per share in order to reach the 13-digit market cap.
Apple hit a market cap of $1 trillion in early August, becoming the first publicly traded U.S. company to reach that valuation.
FAANG is an acronym for the market’s top-performing performing tech stocks, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Alphabet’s Google. It was originally FANG when CNBC’s Jim Cramer first coined the term as it did not include Apple.
Meeks, who is chief investment officer and portfolio manager at Sloy, Dahl & Holst, said he likes the growth outlook for Amazon, especially from its cloud computing subsidiary Amazon Web Services.
“Momentum continues, particularly in Amazon Web Services,” Meeks said. “And we know Jeff Bezos is ruthless and has done a good job disintermediating a lot of noninternet industries, and I expect that to continue.”
Apple, however, worries him.
Last quarter, iPhone sales were essentially flat and slightly missed sales estimates. And while pricier iPhones have helped maximize profitability out of a flattening user base, most bull cases are built onclimbing services revenue. But Apple has a walled-garden approach to its hardware and software, so Meeks said iPhone sales could impinge the growth of services revenue.
Meeks is worried about Apple at $228 per share because “the bulls on this story have been latching onto the growth of the services business. Now that business is growing robustly … but what folks don’t realize is the services offerings within Apple — they are not sold a la carte.”
“What happens with an [iPhone sales] lag is you will have a slowdown in the services business, because they are tied at the hip,” he added.
Despite his reservations, Meeks isn’t selling his core stakes.
With technology stocks trading at such high valuations, Meeks said he would probably recommend taking some money off the table — or at least not putting in any fresh money. Personally, he said is going to continue holding core stakes in some of the FAANG stocks.
“I would rather buy on a dip, because all these stocks, no matter how well regarded they are, or what I think about them fundamentally long term, will have a bad day. They are just very volatile names,” Meeks said.
In the attempt of timing a turning point, one of my largest positions is a whole lot of Apple Puts for October.
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AAPL (240min) bearish shooting star print
Apple VIX ‘bottom bump and run formation’ could reverse — well, that geometrical structure usually has a high probability of a reversal… Let’s hope.


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Postal News Recap – February 19, 2015
USPS, Shame on you! Shame on you, Mr. Postmaster General, for doing everything you can to convince Congress and the media that we are a company on the verge of going broke, with an overpaid workforce and a “failing business model,” as you put it. Shame on you for trying to eliminate Saturday delivery, then agreeing to deliver parcels on Sunday, sending a mixed message to the public and our mailers. Shame on you for telling us on employee videos what a great job we’re doing, then trashing us to everyone else behind our backs.
Video: Danny Glover fights to save US Postal Service U.S. Postal Workers gained a star partner in their fight to save the national mail carrying institution.
- Contract Negotiations Begin: At Opening Session, APWU Breaks with Tradition Contract negotiations between the American Postal Workers Union and the U.S. Postal Service got underway on Feb. 19 with a dramatic break with tradition. Joining the APWU at the opening session were actor-activist Danny Glover and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka
- No mail for a week in one Amherst neighborhood
- Former rural carrier sentenced to probation for stealing credit cards from mail along his route
- Hackers scam California attorney out of $289,000 using USPS email address
- USPS travel cards to become safer, more secure
- USPS Goof Gives Publishers a Break on Postal Rates
- Truth about the Postal Service – by NALC President Rolando via The Dodgeville Chronicle
- As temps go down, mail carriers layer up
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Exclusive electric motorcycle Startup Raptee has secured USD 3 mn in a Pre Series A round led by Bluehill Capital.
Industry major players like Chandu Nair, Director of Shankara Building Products, Ramesh Kannan, Managing Director of Kaynes Technology, Lakshmi Narayanan, Former CEO of Cognizant, and Eugene Mayne, Founder and CEO of Tristar Global (UAE), participated in the all-equity funding round.
According to the company, the money will be used to expand the manufacturing facility, buy machinery, and tooling for a soon-to-be-released motorcycle, and grow the team.
Dinesh Arjun, Co-founder CEO, Raptee, said, “India is the largest motorcycle market in the world, with EV adoption on the rise. At Raptee, we want to launch a motorcycle in a mid-premium segment for consumers who believe that EVs are a true upgrade from ICE vehicles. We are extremely fortunate to be backed by investors from the manufacturing and transportation industries who understand long-term value creation and can add strategic value for us as we gear up for production and scale up.”
This being our first institutional round, we’re also proud to be backed by a DeepTech VC, Bluehill Capital. We’ve been refining and testing our vehicles, and the results are very promising. We are looking forward to launching it very soon, he added.
The goal of Raptee was to create an electric motorbike with superior performance to any conventional vehicle. Their electric vehicle is trouble-free, low maintenance, and self-sufficient. Innovation, technology, and sustainability working together to transform mobility forever.
Manu Iyer, CEO & Partner, Bluehill Capital, said, “We strongly share the vision of the Raptee team to build world-class core EV technology right here in Chennai, India in a focused and cost-effective manner. Dinesh and his co-founders have diligently built the vehicle platform indigenously with intellectual property on various aspects of the vehicle sub-system. Having evaluated over 30 EV OEMs in India and having invested deeply in the EV and clean-tech ecosystem in India, we are impressed by Raptee’s cutting edge tech and excited to partner with them on their journey. We believe Raptee’s motorcycles will change the face of EV 2-Wheelers in India,”
Raptee motorcycles are user-friendly and designed to outperform vehicles with conventional engines, demonstrating that going electric is not a trade-off. They are loaded with cutting-edge technology to improve every ride you take, and they are intelligent, strong, energy-efficient, and powerful. When it comes to performance, safety, reliability, longevity, comfort, and cost of ownership, Raptee wants to outperform its ICE rivals.


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JBS, the world’s largest meat processor, has paid an $11m (£7.8m) ransom soon after a cyber-attack shut down operations, which include abattoirs in the US, Australia and Canada.
While most of its functions have been restored, the Brazilian-headquartered enterprise said it hoped the payment would head off any additional issues which include info theft.
JBS, which provides more than a fifth of all beef in the US, reportedly manufactured the payment in bitcoin.
“This was a pretty challenging determination to make for our business and for me personally,” stated JBS’s main executive, Andre Nogueira. “However, we felt this choice experienced to be manufactured to avoid any prospective threat for our consumers.”
The meat producer was forced to end all cattle slaughtering at its US crops for a working day last 7 days, in a shift that threatened to disrupt food stuff provide chains and direct to even more foodstuff price tag inflation in the US, where labour shortages, high demand from customers and Covid-related disruptions are having their toll.
The hack also disrupted the company’s functions in other countries, such as Australia, despite the fact that a lot less severely.
JBS, which spends a lot more than $200m (£141m) on IT and employs more than 850 tech professionals, mentioned the FBI described the cybercriminal group that carried out the assault as “one of the most specialised and sophisticated” in the earth. White Household officials explained very last 7 days the criminal organisation liable was almost certainly primarily based in Russia.
Bloomberg has named the team associated as REvil – also recognised as Sodinokibi – a cybergang with Russian back links. This yr the team claimed to have stolen blueprints for Apple’s most recent merchandise during the hacking of a Taiwanese components company that supplies the Iphone maker. REvil boasts about its exploits on a dark-internet website referred to as Delighted Weblog.
Even so, no organisation has as nevertheless claimed responsibility for the JBS attack.
The ransomware attack from the meat producer is the newest to temporarily devastate operations at a US firm. Final month, an attack on Colonial Pipeline, the country’s greatest fuel pipeline, disrupted gas deliveries in south-east US for many times.
Colonial Pipeline also paid a ransom of $4.4m, but a specialised ransomeware taskforce developed by the Biden administration has considering the fact that recovered most of the cryptocurrency payment.
The previous director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Company, Christopher Krebs, has warned that “everyone is in play” and susceptible to international hacking gangs, with US regional authorities programs amongst the other organisations subjected to the latest assaults.
JBS mentioned a third-occasion investigation was ongoing but a preliminary investigation experienced verified that none of its firm, shopper or personnel knowledge was compromised as aspect of the attack.


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Blac Chyna announced on Instagram her new partnership with skincare brand Whitenicious, and she's already receiving criticism for the "illuminating and lightening" cream she plans to launch. The cream comes packaged in a Swarovski crystal-encrusted jar and retails for $250, but lightening cream is nothing new or special, as the controversial practice of whitening one's skin exists in many cultures and has a long and disturbing history.
Chyna has turned off comments on her Instagram post, likely due to negative responses, but that hasn't stopped people from taking to Twitter to air their grievances with her new business venture.
Skin whitening goes back at least back to the Victorian Era, and despite their inherently fraught connection to racism, colorism and the propagation of a European beauty standard, skin bleaching products are used throughout the world. In Nigeria in particular, where Chyna is launching the product, a reported 77% of women use skin whitening products.
Chyna's reps reportedly told TMZ that she's been using Whitenicious' dark spot corrector for years, and that she "felt this was a good deal for her because a lot of women of color suffer from skin issues."
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- Kellogg-owned snack brand Pringles will air its first in-game Super Bowl commercial next year, on Feb. 4, the company announced in a press release.
- The ad will be the official TV launch of an ongoing "Flavor Stacking" campaign set to run through 2018. The Super Bowl links up to a historically strong weekend for Pringles for both in-store dollar and unit sales, the release said.
- Last year's Super Bowl was the brand's fourth-best weekend in sales behind noted snacking holidays July 4th and Memorial Day. Next year's spot will be created by Grey Group and the brand's marketing plans include an integrated approach with PR, digital and social media support.
The Super Bowl remains king of the TV ad hill, but it's been interesting to watch how different brands are approaching the big game next year given the high costs of ad space coupled with declining ratings for the NFL and a broader industry trend toward cord cutting. Pringles, however, has clearly looked at the bottom-line figures and realized that it can capitalize on the event to synch up with what's showing to be a strong sales period.
With a Super Bowl spot, the brand can also spread awareness about its Flavor Stacking campaign to a much wider audience. It's previously promoted the effort through a pop-up "Stack Shack" in New York City that let visitors stack different flavors of chips together in creative ways. It's a bit surprising the Kellog-owned company has never run a Super Bowl TV spot before, as snacks tend to own a notable share of commercial airtime, along with other staple categories like beer, automotive and entertainment.
Both M&M's and Doritos are returning next year with in-game TV spots after hiatuses of three years and one year, respectively. Hyundai, the official car and SUV of the NFL, also last week detailed plans to go all-in for its big game advertising strategy, with digital and social media marketing, experiential out-of-home activations and, of course, in-game ads. NBC, which will air the 2018 Super Bowl, previously announced it expects to see $350 million in ad sales for the game.


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The police department in Fremont, Calif., the same Fremont where the Tesla factory is, just bought a used Tesla Model S 85 to replace a retiring Dodge Charger. The car has been fitted with all the standard cop-spec accessories and will soon go on duty as part of a pilot program to see if a Tesla is up to the task of police work
There is something for everyone at SEMA each year, whether you like meticulously crafted show cars or lifted trucks on stretched tires. The wide variety of vehicles can make it hard to stand out from the crowd, but Icon has done just that with their 1949 Mercury build despite its unassuming exterior.
The article ” Morgan Stanley is wrong – electric cars aren’t going to take over” by Matthew DeBord gives a different slant to things here on Business Insider
Regardless of what we think, wll the major manufacturers are introducing EV programmes which are being supported by the announcement of increasing regulation and eventual banning of the conventional ICE engined vehicle as we know it.
I’m actually looking forward to the convergence of my two areas of interest into one!
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BusinessWeek reports that Hikosaburo Yasuda of Nakano, Japan, plans to buy an iPad to keep up with junior members in his computer club. “It’s important to always try new things, otherwise you get left behind,” he says. Yasuda is 95 years old.
He and his peers, looking for easier ways to browse the Web and send e-mail, represent a potentially lucrative market for Apple iPad. The company has sold 3.27 million iPads since its launch in April, but doesn’t break down sales figures by customer age, making it impossible to know with certainty how many seniors are buying them.
Anecdotal evidence suggests it’s a hit with the elderly. Marti Weston of Arlington, Va., bought her father one for his 87th birthday in May. “This ‘book-sized’ pad has become my news and entertainment source,” her father, the Reverend Elmo Pascale, raved in a comment on Weston’s blog.
The iPad’s intuitive interface makes it appealing to senior citizens around the world, says Takahiro Miura, a researcher at the University of Tokyo: “The iPad is a good tool for the elderly because it’s very forgiving of mistakes.” Miura’s team uses computers to help train senior citizens to rejoin the workforce. “Unlike the PC, it doesn’t require prior knowledge,” he says.
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By Friday Idachaba
Lokoja – The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) on Thursday, raided and evacuated substandard and unsafe electrical cables from markets in Lokoja and its environs.
Mr Olalekan Omoniyi, the Kogi State Coordinator of SON, who led the operation on behalf of Mr Osita Aboloma, Director-General/Chief Executive, SON, said that the effort was to help arrest the distribution and sale of fake electrical products.
Aboloma said the sale and distribution of substandard products amounted to violation of SON’s re-enacted Act 14 of 2015, as well as violation of product standards and safety requirements.
The director-general explained that the evacuated products were without manufacturers’ details, markings and country of origin on packaging.
According to him, others are the locally-manufactured electrical products without MANCAP certification mark; those with forged SON certification marks; and those confirmed to have failed laboratory analysis.
He said that products with wrong dimensions and short of stated length as well as products imported into Nigeria in violation of the SON Conformity Assessment Programme (SONCAP) Scheme, were also seized.
“SON is poised to prevent loss of any consumer’s life as a result of usage of any substandard product.
“Thus, the reason for embarking on the evacuation and possible destruction of such products before they can constitute any hazard which can result in death, ’’ he said.
Aboloma said that the operation was carried out after intensive surveillance of electrical cable sales and distribution outlets in Lokoja and its environs.
He advised the public to take advantage of SON State Offices in all the state capitals.
The director-general noted that SON officials had been posted to the offices to handle enquiries and treat complaints arising from purchase of products that failed to meet up with standards.


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Beloved family restaurant reopens at new location after a fire closed them down
YAKIMA, Wash.- Walking into Mercedes and Family you think it's been open for a while. With everyone running around to serve the lunch rush coming in.
You wouldn't know the people serving your food had lost everything in a fire just a couple months ago.
“We just saw all the doors closing on us. We couldn't open nowhere and wondered where do we go from there,” Mercedes’ son Erik Gomez said.
An explosive grease fire had burned a majority of their restaurant down. Causing about a half million dollars worth of damage.
The popular Mexican spot closed down in July. Leaving a loyal customer base to wonder if they'll ever eat there again.
“When there's a fire in the area, word spreads quickly. So, it's always disappointing to hear a restaurant that you go too often,” loyal customer Nahum Ray said.
Gomez said he quit his job to come back and help his family open up the new restaurant.
He said Mercedes and Family isn't just a name. It's the people behind the counter putting your order together.
“It's our life. Everybody works here from my brother-in-law to my sister,” Gomez said.
The first couple months after the fire, he said they couldn't find a new location to set up shop.
Until they drove down Lincoln Ave. and saw a unit that was open.
But after two restaurants had closed down at the same location in a matter of months, Gomez said the landlord was skeptical to take them on.
“He was just afraid another business that's going to close down. I told him, 'No, trust me. We push volume,'” he said.
Based off how many cars are in the parking lot, Gomez was right.
Because there's not one spot available around lunch time only four days after they re-opened.
But most of the customers Action News spoke with Tuesday are OK with that because at least they have one of their favorite food spots back in town.
“I'll just make it a point to come back a couple times a week as well,” Ray said.
You may notice the prices are a little more expensive compared to when they were off Tieton Drive.
That’s because the new building costs more to rent out but Gomez says you should expect the same quality of food that's made them so popular.


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Jain Irrigation: News alert analysis
Jain Irrigation Systems, a leading manufacturer of irrigation systems, pipes & fittings and plastic sheets, witnessed a surge in share price on Wednesday (April 19) after the company announced acquisition of two US based micro-irrigation dealers. The company has agreed to acquire 80 percent stake in Agri-Valley Irrigation Inc (AVI) and Irrigation Design and Construction Inc (IDC) for $48.50 million.
“The merger will help Jain Irrigation to forward integrate itself in the value chain and build direct relationships with growers. This fits into company’s strategy to participate in end to end project solutions to harness company’s unique capabilities in integrated irrigation project solutions,” the company said.
Jain Irrigation witnessed a huge buying interest in the stock market following positive news update. The stock jumped 8.50 percent to settle at Rs. 107.90 on Wednesday. The volume of shares spiked 8.5 times over the past 30-days average.
Heckyl news engine issued news alerts about aforesaid acquisition at 11:16 am on April 19 immediately after the company issued notification to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). The news alert was issued ahead of major price action. At 11:16 am, the stock price was at Rs. 102.05.
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Shares of Jain Irrigation picked up momentum after the mainstream media featured the news coverage on the aforesaid acquisition. Heckyl issued first news alert from mainstream media at 11:37 am, when the stock price was at Rs. 102.78. Subsequently, the stock witnessed a steep surge in price to Rs 108.90 at 12:07 pm. Later, the stock touched day’s high of Rs. 109.90 at 12:34 pm.
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News update on the acquisition of two US based micro-irrigation dealers by Jain Irrigation generated positive sentiment on April 19. Heckyl sentiment score for the company jumped to 100 on Wednesday from 0 on the previous day.
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Announcing its first financial results since becoming a public company in December, Raymarine said its strategy of launching innovative new products for use across a wider range of vessels was paying off. The firm also seems to be benefiting from the desire of an older, increasingly affluent population to take to the water — but only if supported by an array of the latest safety and navigation technology.
Raymarine’s sales grew by 14 per cent to £106m in 2004, while operating profits increased 63 per cent to £17.5m — though a large chunk of this was swallowed up by the costs of floating on the stock exchange and other one-off costs.
The company, formed in 2001 through a management buy-out of Raytheon’s marine leisure business, supplies electronic systems to owners, skippers and charter operators of power and sailing boats, mostly 20–100ft in length.
The firm said increased investment in technology R&D over the past few years — it spent more than £8m in 2004 — had enabled it to launch a string of new products catering for all shapes and sizes of vessel. These include a high-definition fish imaging system using digitally adaptive transmitter and receiver technology and new ‘smart pilot’ course computers that use advanced steering software to keep a vessel on course in various sea and weather conditions.
Raymarine also targeted the bigger end of the leisure boat market, launching an entertainment, camera and crew safety system operating as part of an integrated control network. According to the company, the marine market will become increasingly open to such systems as boats become larger and more complex, and as technology-savvy leisure sailors expect more comfort and convenience on-board.
‘We believe we can expand the market by introducing new technologies, integrating them into systems and marketing them aggressively,’ said chief executive Malcolm Miller, who joined the company from set-top box developer Pace Micro Technology.
Miller said wireless networking, engine monitoring and vessel control were among the areas on which Raymarine would focus to launch new technical innovations.
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Casdagli Cremello Lancero launch event in Eindhoven
Casdagli Cremello Lancero launch event in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The Casdagli Daughters of the Wind line has been available in The Netherlands for a while. But the distributor, Kelch Trading, is adding the brand new Daughters of the Wind Cremello Lancero to the portfolio. And that’s a reason for Jeremy Casdagli to travel to The Netherlands for an introduction event.
The event will take place on May 29th. In Eindhoven, at Tabakado Tobacconist. The event starts at 7 pm. Tickets are available via email@example.com or +31 (0)40 2117714. The tickets are €20 and include some drinks, finger food and the brand new Casdagli Daughters of the Wind Cremello Lancero.


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Wheels and Heels event comes to Williamson Chrysler in Uxbridge
Women’s night at local car dealership set for March 27
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UXBRIDGE -- Williamson Chrysler in Uxbridge is holding its first ladies' night event, dubbed Wheels and Heels, on March 27. The evening will be filled with many vendors and prize giveaways. Getting ready were, from left, Sheena Joly, marketing consultant Kirst Kernohan, Averie Thorn-Smith from Mary Kay, Jerri Lyons, Deanne Rutledge, marketing consultant Caitlin Christoff Taillon and Jim Williamson. March 19, 2014
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UXBRIDGE -- Williamson Chrysler will be catering to local women on March 27.
At its Banff Street location in Uxbridge, the local car dealership will be hosting its first-ever women’s night event, dubbed Wheels and Heels.
The night will feature shopping, food, prizes and a visit from ‘The Car Lady’, who will host demonstrations about cars while spa, massage and Reiki practitioners will treat attendees to a little relaxation.
The shopping event will see local vendors including On The Lamb, Little Acorn, Sweet Mommy Designs and 31 Bags among others.
The night will be catered by the Urban Pantry, while Thornbury Cider will be on site providing samples.
Among the prizes available are a night’s stay at the Oban Inn at Niagara-on-the-Lake, donated by Cindy Wood of the local RE/Max.
“We hope to make this special night an annual event and if the response so far is any indication, we are well on our way there,” says Jim Williamson, general manager of the dealership. “We are excited that so many local and home-based businesses are attending.”
The event is free, though attendees are asked to register at www.wheelsandheels.ca.


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After a years-long crypto winter, it been the spring of NFTs, but as digital art prices sober up after an explosion in sales, blockchain founders are looking to find more stable opportunities in the space that can grow over time even as speculative interest in NFTs shifts.
One particular interest has been using NFTs to reshape the creator economy in a manner that actually benefits artists more than the platforms that host their work. A new flavor of this pursuit comes from the recently launched S!NG (pronounced sing), which has built a platform around simply letting users upload files to their servers and time-stamp those uploads on the Ethereum blockchain. It’s a dead-simple mechanic with an ambitious framing, ensuring that artists maintain credit for their work as they create it.
The team behind the app sees a future where artists use the platform as an autosave for their intellectual property during the creative process, enabling them to scribble down notes or upload a quick demo and save those moments on the blockchain, a step that they hope can eliminate or expedite rights disputes for creators that can point to a clearly time-stamped breadcrumbs trail. By virtue of the app’s name, it’s clear that they are aiming to attract songwriters and musicians in particular, but the company’s onboarding also showcases wider ambition in the creator world, enabling users to designate if they are a photographer, writer or programmer as well.
“You have the best of both worlds with very public witnesses to a very private event,” says CEO Geoff Osler. “Your content is never out there, but you can have this massive attestation to the fact that it exists at a certain point in time.”
The iOS app itself is pretty straightforward. After uploading a piece of media, be it a photo, video, audio or text file, users can tack on additional files, make note of additional collaborators or add notes before submitting it and christening the work on the blockchain. The file itself is private with a hash hosted on the blockchain while the encrypted files are stored on S!NG’s AWS servers, so creators don’t need to worry about their early ideas being served up to a public audience. A concern here for early adopters is what happens if the blockchain startup eventually goes under and those servers go with it, but that’s an issue facing plenty of startups that are backing the underlying media files of NFTs on centralized servers.
Rights disputes might be something more top-of-mind to those who have spent substantial time in their specific creative industry, compared to budding artists who are likely wholly concerned with getting their work seen in the first place. While public links allow a work’s origins to be tracked down once it’s complete and ready for public consumption, S!NG’s aim is to develop those moments earlier in the development of a work and aid artists who might be involved with more collaborative creative processes where ownership of ideas can appear more obfuscated from a legal standpoint.
“If I get something stolen from me, I’ve got a team that’s going to defend me and they’re probably going to win or settle any claims, but if you’re a 16-year-old kid, you don’t have that ability so that’s what we want to provide, but more as a deterrent,” musician and advisor Raine Maida tells TechCrunch. “I think when you see the S!NG watermark or you see that it’s saved and shared through the wallet… you don’t have to understand blockchain but you’ll know S!NG is that company that protects you.”
For the time being, non-fungible token-based legal defenses are probably a bit unusual, but the team’s founders believe that blockchain-based ownership proofs will be entering case law organically just as technology like DocuSign has been accepted.
If the company can successfully push creators to weave the S!NG platform into their toolkits, the startup will have plenty of opportunities on which to capitalize in the incredibly young blockchain creator space. While many artists may see the NFT space as a speculative cash grab, the company’s founders seem publicly focused on sidestepping hype for the time being.
“Frankly I don’t give a shit about all of this crazy NFT stuff with things selling for a bazillion dollars,” Osler says. “I’m interested in the small artist who has 1,000 fans who will eagerly pay up $15 to keep that person in business.”


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Thai steer exporting business earns over 17 million bahtJuly 15th, 2008 - 9:18 am ICT by Amrit Rashmisrisethi
The Livestock Department reports that steer exporting business earns more than 17 million baht of income so far this year. The Director-General of the Livestock Department, Dr. Sakchai Sriboonsue (ศักดิ์ชัย ศรีบุญซื่อ), says the figure was from October 1st, 2007 to July 14th, 2008.
Mr. Sakchai says around 15,103 living steers worth 17,420,582 baht were exported to neighboring countries, including Laos, Cambodia and Malaysia. However, he says the beef prices in Thailand look likely to soar as most of the beef sold in Thailand are imported from neighboring countries.
Mr. Sakchai says his department will try to add more local markets to tackle the problem. He says relevant agencies have cooperated well with the authority in an effort to protect the benefits of Thai farmers.
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Christine Day has been acting as an adviser on retail strategy and collaborations with smaller brands
Adidas AG has hired Christine Day, the former chief executive of Lululemon Athletica Inc., as part of the German sportswear maker’s effort to improve its performance in the intensely competitive women’s athletic business.
Ms. Day, 53, who ran the boutique yoga-wear maker during a period of tremendous growth, has been acting as an adviser to Adidas on retail strategy and collaborations with smaller brands since the middle of last year. Adidas confirmed the hire.
Ms. Day said she initially “rebuffed” a few attempts by Adidas to reach out to her, saying she wasn’t looking for a consulting gig. But after connecting with an Adidas executive about a shared interest in healthy eating, Ms. Day, who is the full-time chief executive of frozen-food company Luvo Inc., said she came around to the idea of advising an athletic company, and formally signed on as a consultant in May of last year.
“I look at myself as a free agent,” she said. “I have a choice at this stage in my career to play for the love of the game.”
From her days at Lululemon, Ms. Day said she admired some offerings from Adidas, particularly its Stella McCartney line, but noticed there was work to be done.


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Official Tweet denies rumors for Galaxy S4.
Less than 24 hours after rumors of a coming Galaxy S4 were circulating the web, Samsung has come out on their @SamsungTomorrow Twitter account and indicated that the rumors are false. Some of the translations from Korean are interesting, but the bottom line is they are indicating that it is not true. All of the speculation about the leaked information should start to die down with this, but the reality is that Samsung is working on the Galaxy S4. This successor to the popular Galaxy S3 will arrive next year and the question is when. Along with what new features can be expected to be included.
With the denial this morning by Samsung on their Twitter account, it seems they are trying to distance themselves from the reported rumor. We reported this yesterday based on the Korean Times article talking about the Galaxy S4. And the rumor pretty much took on a life of its own as it took off. Much of this is because of the large number of Galaxy S II and S3 owners throughout the world. It is also because of the recent lawsuit victory by Apple against Samsung in a Northern California courtroom for patent infringement. The big question there is whether Apple will get a ban on the Galaxy S3 and if they do, what will be the impact on Samsung.
Given the quick denial from Samsung, it makes one wonder whether Samsung is preparing for a potential ban of the Galaxy S3 in the US and elsewhere in the world. That would explain the rumored leak by a Samsung Executive of a future Galaxy S4. We are confident that Samsung has moved up their time table for the next version of the flagship device to be prepared in the event of a US ban by Apple. You never want to leave a void in a product that is very successful. More than likely, the Galaxy S4 may be ready to be announced in February, but the decision to do that will be determined by legal battles around the world between Samsung and Apple.
The discussion about a coming Galaxy S4 are going to continue for the coming months and you can expect to see leaked information and specs coming out.


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Second Swiss Structured Products Fair: Strong information needs in turbulent market environment
The second Swiss Structured Products Fair, jointly organised by Scoach Switzerland Ltd and SSPA, closed its doors on Friday evening.
SSPA publishes ratings and credit spreads
The SSPA is now publishing members’ ratings and credit spreads on its website www.sspa-association.ch.
Second Swiss Structured Products Fair to provide orientation for investors
The second Structured Products Fair will take place in the Zurich Kongresshaus on 23 and 24 October 2008
Paolo Vanini elected new SSPA Vice-President
The SSPA, at its general delegates’ assembly, elected Zürcher Kantonalbank’s Paolo Vanini to the position of committee vice-president.
Questions frequently asked by market participants, including investors and the media, regarding Lehman Brothers’ current situation
Zurich, September 17, 2008. SSPA, the Swiss Structured Products Association, regrets the events surrounding Lehman Brothers.
Reinhard Bellet new President of European umbrella association
A change has occurred at the top of the European Derivatives Association.
Wide array of side events at the second Swiss financial fair for structured products
On 23 and 24 October 2008, the structured products fair will be held for the second time in Zurich’s Kongresshaus.
Stable turnover in a volatile market
The first months of 2008, points to the success of structured products even under volatile market conditions.
Derivative associations establish European umbrella organization
Today in Brussels the derivative associations of Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland established a joint organization.
Footnotes improve transparence
SSPA has expanded its categorization model, added to its index products traded outside the stock exchange and is now updating its product index daily.
Updated edition of the Swiss Derivative Map now available
The Swiss Structured Products Association SSPA is publishing an updated edition of the Swiss Derivative Map
Peter Keller appointed Head of Operations & Standards
Peter Keller’s appointment to head Operations & Standards adds to the operational strength of SSPA, the Swiss Structured Products Association
2007 – a successful year for structured products
The fourth statistics-based market report of SSPA indicates that even a volatile market cannot impede the success of structured products.
Swiss structured products fair 2008 in Zurich and Geneva
On 23 and 24 October 2008, the second Swiss structured products fair will be held at Kongresshaus Zürich.
Derivatives associations plan to establish a European derivatives umbrella association
Zurich, January 7, 2008 The national derivatives associations of Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland intend to found a joint umbrella association.


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A new Android root method uses a Linux vulnerability at the kernel level.
Samsung announced a new high-end tablet, called the Galaxy Tab S, on Thursday at an event in New York City.
HTC hasn’t been too kind to Samsung for its use of plastic in phones. That may not stop the company from launching the HTC M8 Ace in plastic, however, because it would be priced lower than the Galaxy S5 yet have the same specs.
These two smartphones represent the best of Android, but which one should you buy?
The Moto X morphs again. This time it has nine new colors to create up to 40 combinations of colleges, just in time for March Madness. Samsung’s Galaxy S5 gets a close-up on video and HTC makes good on its promise of mid-range phones.
Didn’t get enough of the Samsung Galaxy S5 last week? No worries as Samsung shared a detailed look at the new phone today, showing a refined, simpler experience combined with new, useful features.
Samsung’s new flagship smartphone is only slightly larger than its predecessor, but it packs a much bigger punch.
This video makes it pretty clear the Galaxy S5 will be announced in just a few short days.
A leaked design render might offer up a first glimpse Samsung’s Galaxy S5 handset.


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Inflation bulls lift art auction prices to sky
That was close. A “bubble” might have burst in the art world last week. But it was a false alarm. This week's sales rolled on.
Works of modern art at which some folks shake their heads — laugh, even — continue to sell for stratospheric prices. If it's by a big name, big money snaps it up. Moderns and Impressionists are all the rage among the rich who have wall space. Hence the 20th-century theme of New York's big semi-annual auctions.
Christie's initial sale was scary, though. Most of its priciest “lots” didn't move. Were connoisseurs finally saying, “Stop the inflation — I want to get off”?
No, on subsequent nights, rival Sotheby's nailed one of its richest auctions ever: $290 million worth of goods went out the door.
A Reuters report called it a “dramatic turnaround.”
A record $50 million bought a large sculpted head of a young man by Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) in his usual gloomy style, pulled out of shape, elongated, starved-looking.
“Tete de femme” (Head of a Woman) by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) drew $39.9 million. The lady's face wasn't turned every which way, but she was sufficiently mangled to pass as art.
Her price was far from a record for the gilt-edged painter, though. At a 2004 auction his “Boy With a Pipe” fetched $104 million. Imagine, American millionaire Jock Whitney had bought it in 1950 for $30,000.
That sort of inflation is the pattern of the age, accepted and even welcomed. Collectors and brokers crave a bull market in art as others do in stocks.
The other day, a week after its misfire, Christie's brought the gavel down on an all-time highest price for a single painting — $142.4 million — for “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” by Francis Bacon, created as recently as 1969. The previous record, established only in 2012: $118.9 million for Edvard Munch's century-old “Scream.”
Is this art appreciation or dollar depreciation?
Are the super-rich getting antsy at how the Federal Reserve is cheapening their greenbacks?
The well-heeled tend not to over-invest in mere dollars, as in bank accounts and bonds. They gravitate to what dollars can buy — office buildings, corporate shares, gold, mansions, diamonds and art. Any of those may have no place to go but up if the dollar falls.
The Bacon “masterpiece” drew more than a half-dozen bidders, including two Asians. A Chinese magnate paid $28.2 million for another Picasso. Auctions are drawing noticeably more bidders from across the Pacific, “a more global market than ever before,” a Sotheby's official gushed.
Christie's set a record for a work by a living artist: Pennsylvania native Jeff Koons' 10-foot-tall stainless-steel “Balloon Dog” sold for $58.4 million.
But it's not the artist's take; rather, it's the “aftermarket” where the action is. Buyers and sellers all hope for a rise in value, meanwhile enjoying “dividends” of aesthetic pleasure and social prestige.
Any investment entails risk, of course. Picasso, Giacometti and Bacon might someday be “out” and their prices come tumbling.
Yet with the Fed and other central banks printing money like crazy, who would bet there won't come a day when a single objet d'art might go for $1 billion? It won't even have to be pretty.
Jack Markowitz is a Thursday columnist for Trib Total Media. Email email@example.com.


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There will be no last trips to The Orbit Room. Hoodline reports that the bar at 1900 Market Street quietly closed yesterday.
Owner Jay Johnson passed away on March 21st, and the bar has been sold to a new owner with a new concept. Johnson was also the owner of Club Deluxe, which remains open, where he was known for his Saturday night crooning.
For over 20 years, The Orbit Room Cafe was beloved for its combined offerings of thin crust pizza, well-crafted drinks, and good crowds. Alberta Straub spearheaded their cocktail menu in the mid aughts, defining its style with fresh fruit, herbs, and house-made infusions. Upon her 2007 departure, SFist interviewed Straub on her philosophy, which was basically "Berkeley Bowl."


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Renovations and construction have begun on Salina’s new Planet Fitness location.
The new fitness center is set to open in the Southgate Shopping Center on South Ohio, and will occupy the space previously occupied by Dillons and Kenison Liquor.
Becky Zirlen, Public Relations Manager for Planet Fitness, tells The Salina Post the club is projected to open by the end of May.
The club is expected to bring 15 to 20 new jobs to the Salina market and will be open and staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Memberships at the club will start at $10.
Planet Fitness is one of the largest and fastest-growing franchisors and operators of fitness centers in the United States. There are currently about 1,000 locations nationwide. The franchise owners of the Salina location currently operate 20 locations spread across Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.


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A Kmart store in Wheeling has pulled two brands of pain relievers from its shelves after two separate reports of tampering, the most recent incident occurring Tuesday morning, according to the Wheeling Police Department.
The Kmart at 780 W. Dundee Rd. has removed American Fare Extra Strength Pain Reliever caplets and Excedrin Aspirin Free Extra Strength Pain Reliever caplets from its shelves after two Wheeling residents who bought the pills became suspicious and told police.
In the first incident, a 51-year-old woman bought a bottle of the American Fare pain reliever on Feb. 23. Her 19-year-old daughter took some that night and later complained of nausea and severe stomach pain, according to Wheeling police. Her mother then discovered that the bottle, which was supposed to have contained acetaminophen in caplet form, contained pills of different sizes. She did not recall whether the safety seals were on the bottle, police said.
The daughter felt better later and did not need medical treatment, but the mother turned over the pills to police on Feb. 24. Kmart pulled the American Fare caplets that day, said Deputy Chief Michael Hermes.
On Tuesday, a 44-year-old man told police that his bottle of Excedrin Extra Strength caplets, purchased the day before at the Wheeling Kmart, did not have a plastic safety seal on the bottle.
When the man opened the 24-pill bottle, he counted 21 unmarked tablets, police said. No one took any of the pills, which looked identical to those in the Feb. 23 incident, police said.
The Northern Illinois Police Crime Laboratory is analyzing the tablets.
Hermes said the pain relievers have been removed only from the Wheeling Kmart.


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Genshin Impact 4.1 Update: To The Stars Shining In The Depths
Genshin Impact made a huge impact on the industry when it launched in 2020. Now, nearly three years later, it has become one of the largest online free-to-play games on the market. The highly anticipated 4.1 update is set to launch on September 27, 2023, just a day before the game’s three year anniversary.
This exciting new update, titled “To The Stars Shining In The Depths,” brings a host of new features to the game. Players will be able to explore a brand new area known as The Fortress Of Meropide, an underwater fortress that was originally used to house convicts. Dive into its depths as you embark on a search for the character Childe.
As we anticipate the release of the 4.1 update, the developers at HoYoverse are also planning to celebrate the game’s upcoming three year anniversary. While the details of the anniversary celebrations are yet to be revealed, fans can expect something special.
In other news, composer Chen Zhiyi, who played a significant role in bringing the game’s beloved music to life, has announced their departure from the project.
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The spread of the coronavirus has adversely affected the U.S. economy and caused uncertainty for the stock market. Companies are being forced to cut jobs and reduce expenditures. Employees are now working from home wherever possible.
The way of doing business has also changed. Now businesses are increasingly shifting their processes online and individual consumers are also spending more time on the internet. This has driven greater demand for the services of technology companies.
These days, technology stocks are being seen as “defensive stocks.” A term that used to be reserved for utility and consumer staples stocks. That’s because the essential nature of technology is lowering the elasticity of demand.
Square, Inc. (SQ), GoDaddy, Inc. (GDDY), SolarEdge Technologies, Inc. (SEDG) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) are four such stocks that have outperformed the market in the month of August so far.
Square, Inc. (SQ)
SQ develops and markets point-of-sale software globally. One of its primary offerings is Square Register, which allows retailers to better handle inventory, digital receipts, and sales reports. The company delivered a stellar performance in the second quarter of the year, which boosted its stock prices.
For the quarter ending June 30th, 2020, the company reported a rise in revenue of 64% year-over-year. The gross profit from their Cash App also improved 167% year-over-year. There was a parallel rise in the number of active Cash users which grew to 30 million for the quarter.
SQ’s earnings surprise history is impressive as well with the stock beating consensus EPS estimates in three of the trailing four quarters. In the lastest quarter, the stock beat market expectations and delivered an earnings surprise of 460%.
So far in August, the stock has returned almost 8.4%.
How does SQ stack up for the POWR Ratings?
A for Trade Grade
B for Buy & Hold Grade
A for Peer Grade
B for Industry Rank
B for Overall POWR Rating
You can’t ask for better. The stock is also ranked #3 out of 141 stocks in the Financial Services (Enterprise) industry.
GoDaddy, Inc. (GDDY)
GDDY develops and provides cloud-based technology for web-design professionals, small businesses, and individual users. The company recently acquired Neustar’s registry business in an effort to boost the security of its offerings. GGDY has also reportedly changed the structuring of its business processes for outbound sales and operations to align them with the “new normal” triggered by the pandemic.
For the quarter ending June 30th, 2020, GDDY saw a rise in revenue of 9.4% year-over-year. The company also improved its unlevered free cash flow by a factor of 10.8%. Further, GDDY witnessed a rise in bookings of 10.7% year-over-year taking the total to $936.3 million.
Though GDDY missed the consensus EPS estimate last quarter, it beat the estimates in the prior three quarters.
GDDY has witnessed a rise in stock price by more than 11% so far this month.
It’s no surprise that GDDY is rated a Buy in our POWR Ratings system. It also has a grade of A for Trade Grade. In the 34-stock Internet – Services industry, it is ranked #10.
SolarEdge Technologies, Inc. (SEDG)
SEDG manufactures and delivers solutions for solar power harnessing. SolarEdge has recently partnered with LG Chem to make home batteries. Their partnership allows consumers new options for reliable and cheap home energy solutions.
For the quarter ending June 30th, 2020, the company delivered revenues of $331.9 million, which is an increase of 2% year-over-year. SEDG’s net income was also up 11% to $36.7 million. The company also reported an improvement in cash flow from operating activities to $59.3 million.
The earnings surprise history for SEDG looks pretty good, as the company beat the consensus EPS estimates in three of the trailing four quarters.
SEDG has had a stellar performance in August so far, with its stock price gaining more than 20%.
SEDG’s strong fundamentals are reflected in the POWR Ratings. It is rated a Strong Buy with a grade of A in Trade Grade,Buy & Hold Grade, and Peer Grade. Within the Solar industry, it’s ranked #1 out of 14 stocks.
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC)
UMC delivers advanced IC production for appliances in almost all large sectors of the electronics industry. The company has reported sales for July 2020, in which the company saw a rise in net sales of 12.9% year-over-year.
UMC estimates that it will utilize 95% or so of its production capacity in the third quarter of the year.
For the quarter ending June 30th, 2020, UMC’s revenues came in at$44.4 billion which was up 23.2% year-over-year. The gross profit of the company improved 81.5% year-over-year.
In the same quarter, UMC delivered an earnings surprise of 80% with an EPS of $0.09.
UMC’s stock price has risen in August by more than 16% so far. The momentum of the stock may continue for the rest of the month.
It’s no surprise that UMC is rated a Buy in our POWR Ratings system. It also has a grade of A for Trade Grade and Industry Rank. In the 86-stock Semiconductor and Wireless Chip industry, it is ranked #15.
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A new patent has surfaced that shows Apple has been working on a killer 3D imaging camera that will use depth detection sensors such as LIDAR, RADAR, and lasers. Yup, frickin lasers. The camera also includes facial gesturing recognition, just in case you can’t tell if someone is smiling or frowning before you pull the trigger on your photo.
Two things are for certain: first, the fact that this patent is already publicly available probably means we’ll never see the camera in an iPhone; second, if the camera does get released, it won’t be long until we see thousands of YouTube remakes of Avatar.
The technology would make for an interesting way to automatically sort photos based on moods that have been detected by the gesturing recognition. iPhoto’s faces technology would get a whole lot more useful, that’s for sure.
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The European Union (EU) will deepen cooperation with Japan on semiconductors, its industry chief said on Monday, as countries move to strengthen control over a technology vital for defence, electronic and automotive industries.
The EU and Japan will work together to monitor the chip supply chain and facilitate exchange of researchers and engineers, Thierry Breton said. The EU will also be supportive of Japanese semiconductor companies considering operating there, including through access to subsidies.
“We believe that it’s extremely important to secure the supply chain of semiconductors,” Thierry Breton told Reuters in Tokyo, where he is discussing cooperation on chips and artificial intelligence with the government and companies.
Japan is also offering subsidies to revitalise its chip industry, which retains an edge in materials and equipment but has lost overall global market share, and is backing chip foundry venture Rapidus.
Breton is scheduled to meet Rapidus on Tuesday.
“I think it’s really an important initiative and going in the right direction,” he said of the foundry venture.
Plans by Rapidus to produce cutting edge chips rely on support from Leuven, Belgium-based research company imec and IBM (IBM.N).


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Verathon, a 25-year-old Bothell medical device maker founded by electrical engineer and Vietnam veteran Gerald McMorrow, has been sold as part of what appears to be a blockbuster, multi-million dollar deal. Sarasota, Florida-based Roper Industries -- which describes itself as a "diversified growth company" -- on Friday said it was buying Verathon as well as traffic software and hardware company United Toll Services for a combined $356 million.
Roper, which is publicly-traded on the New York Stock Exchange, did not separate the purchase price for the two entities. But a source tells TechFlash that Verathon sold for $300 million, making it one of the larger buyouts in the high-tech industry in the region so far this year.
Verathon -- which makes the BladderScanner, GlideScope and AortaScan devices -- has built a substantial business over the past 25 years. Consistently named to the Deloitte Fast 50 list, the company notes on its Web site that it has more than 400 employees.
In a press release, Roper said that the two deals would add $140 million in revenue and $38 million in profit. It also said that the existing leadership teams at both companies are expected to remain in place once the deal closes next month.
Roper reported sales of $486 million last quarter.
Founded in 1984 under the name Diagnostic Ultrasound, the company released its BladderScanner product in 1989. It changed its name to Verathon in 2006 after buying Saturn Biomedical of Vancouver, B.C.
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Sometime back checking news online, I came across this eye catching news item where it talked about a smartphone for in INR 251 (under $4) and it got me excited as Aakash tablet did some years back. I had ordered Aakash (didn’t get one though) then and I was looking to order to Freedom251 as well.
I believe that any “for profit” private entity would never sell its products without making profits. Lets assume that Ringing Bell Pvt Ltd is making profit one or the other way. I will try to figure out the price of INR 251 by looking at their specifications for their phone Freedom251. I will try to make a case of building a Bill of Materials for the phone with these specification in mind and bulk quantities. These are just indicative prices of the parts based on my scrubbing online prices and assuming huge economies of scale. There are other costs like pcb, mechanical, assembling, branding that needs to included. There will also be other NRE and software development costs involved.
The BOM comes to $12.6 which is little over 800 rupees (1USD=INR67)
So as per the pricing at COGS, profit doesn’t look like feasible and they will be selling this product at profit. And in the business of selling smartphones there isn’t much available in terms of business models where money can be made.
So to me it looks more like a Marketing plan to buy cheap devices <3K range and probably hand over to few customers at INR 251 to create hype. I myself tried registering on their website multiple times but it just took my details and page refreshed without accepting my order. I haven’t heard anyone who has booked a phone. Please comment in case someone has been able to book a phone.
Their claim is that they have received 25 Lakh registration and initially it was only advance payment. Later they are started COD as well. The tried to create authenticity by getting Indian government into the loop and using “Make In India” ,”Start-up India” & “Swach Bharat”. They also tried to get some press with news stating that India’s Defence Minister Manohar Parikkar and another BJP senior leader Murli Manohar Joshi who actually turned up for the launch event.
The jury is still out and lets see if these guys will be able to deliver. I will update this post again in after June when the claim to be shipping their devices.
As of now to more it looks like a fallacy but I will still hope that they deliver their promise.
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Just to complete the article. The Freedom Phone never came into existence. The idea behind did come out in open when Mohit Goel, founder of Ringing Bells was arrested and later released. More than 6 lakh booking for Freedom 251 was done within minutes. I also tried many time but the website never worked for me. All the pre booking amount was returned to customers and Mohit Goel was released by the police after it was found that idea behind selling the phone was inspired by business model that newspapers. A newspaper sells for lets say 5 rupees but cost borne by the company is around 80-90 rupees. It is basically subsidized by company as well as by the revenue generated advertisements. Mohit inspired by this, set a deal with a Taiwanese company that was selling the phone at Rs 1431 which is the cost for Ringing Bells. Mohit was selling it for 251 and for the remaining amount there was another deal set with 28 App Companies whose apps will come preinstalled for which each of them paid Rs 35 each. There was another 200 deficit that company was planning to get through adds and websites. All in all the plan was to make 100 on each mobile sold to the user.
As such it was great marketing campaign which caught imagination of millions in India. Its still a business model that can work if executed properly. Ideally the phone can be given for free as with the case of newspaper and people will agree to receiving calls, adds or any other targeted marketing campaigns. My analysis still holds and Ringing Bells business model could have worked. I believe they shot into limelight too much without worrying about the intricacies of supply chain and customer care.


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Miller was the dean of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, in Palo Alto, Calif., from 1969 to 1979. He was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 2006.
Current Saab owner National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) has just announced that it will license the Saab 9-3 technology to the Turkish government, which seeks to develop a "national car." ...
With BMW, Mercedes and Porsche all producing four-wheel-drive, turbocharged (and, in the Panamera's case, electrically assisted) super-saloons, the XJR 575 represents the end of a wonderful and wild era. ‘Responsible performance’ is now the order of the day – a memo that Jaguar must have missed, because, instead of taking this opportunity to dial out some of the XJR’s wilder characteristics, it's simply accentuated them. Like handing Liam Gallagher another pint mid-gig, everything about the XJR has been turned up to 11.
At Stanford, he recruited star faculty and significantly increased the number of minority and female students.
And President Johnson tapped him to become the first president of the Urban Institute, a think tank launched to address the nation's growing urban problems.
Still, he had joined a famous fraternity -- the long list of men such as Ernie Breech, Dykstra, Knudsen and later, Iacocca -- who rose to the president's post at Ford only to be pushed aside by a mercurial Henry Ford II.
Ian added: “Some of the technology on board – like wireless phone charging – is quite impressive for the money and this class of car. I like the LED lights as well, as they help to create a clear brand identity for SEAT.”
The idea of Turkey's national car has been around for some time -- especially as manufacturing by other car brands soared in Turkey after 2000 -- but the major push was the purchase of Saab 9-3 technology in 2015.
While he was not yet 30, Henry Ford II was fully in command of the automaker but needed help to steer Ford in a booming, postwar civilian economy.


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INTERNATIONAL supermarket chain Aldi opens the doors of its Tamworth store today.
It comes after months of preparations and transformations to part of the Centrepoint Shopping Centre’s former Franklins supermarket space.
Aldi will be the fourth supermarket chain to open a store in Tamworth, with Woolworths, IGA and Coles already having established retail stores in the city.
Coles also opened its third store at the Southgate Shopping Centre just two weeks ago.
Aldi prides itself on sourcing its produce from Australian growers and producers and the Tamworth store will be no exception.
It is understood that Aldi sources a proportion of its meat products from a New England abattoir, so shoppers can rest assured that they’re buying locally.
Aldi managing director for the Minchinbury region, Oliver Bongardt, said they sourced 100 per cent of fresh meat, 94 per cent of chilled dairy and 97 per cent of fruit and vegetables within Australia.
“We are the only major grocery retailer in Australia to list all products and prices online so our customers know the exact value they are getting when they shop at Aldi,” Mr Bongardt said.
The store has also provided 10 career opportunities for local residents.
Aldi offers permanently low prices across its products, some exclusive to the chain, which include a selection of electrical goods.
Tamworth is the latest regional centre to acquire an Aldi store, following openings at Muswellbrook, Port Macquarie, Taree and Maitland.
The new store will be open for trading Monday to Friday 8.30 am – 8pm, Saturday and Sunday 8.30am-7pm.
It is understood Aldi’s retail neighbour JB Hi Fi, which opened two weeks ago, will soon adjust its trading hours now the supermarket is open.


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PASCO, Wash., -- According to a survey by the National Chicken Council, 63% of Americans list chicken wings as a "must have" for their Super Bowl party, surpassing pizza and only behind dips as the most popular Super Bowl snack.
The workers at Wingstop say they expect to sell more than 6 million chicken wings at more than 550 locations nationwide on Sunday, making it the second biggest eating holiday after Thanksgiving.
Despite a national chicken wing shortage, workers at Wingstop say they have plenty to go around.
"I couldn't really tell you why chicken wings are the chosen food consumption for Super Bowl Sunday but it is and that's one of the reasons that we're here in town and we're in business for it," says Dave Tuthill, the owner of the Pasco Wingstop. "This is our Black Friday of the year; Super Bowl Sunday."
Dave estimates that the two Tri-Cities locations (Richland and Pasco) will crank out up to 1,200 wings every 15 minutes on Sunday.


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[Interview] GungHo talks Ninjala – Monster Hunter Rise and Sonic partnerships, future collaborations and plans, more
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Ninjala is quickly coming up on its first anniversary. It’s been a busy year for the Switch title between various updates, collaborations, and more.
Nintendo Everything was recently given an opportunity to catch up with Kazuki Morishita, the president and CEO of GungHo Online Entertainment as well as the game’s executive producer. Morishita spoke about collaborations (including the ones for Monster Hunter Rise and Sonic the Hedgehog), future plans, and more.
Here’s our full discussion:
Ninjala – Monster Hunter Rise collaboration trailer
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A new trailer is in for Ninjala that shows off the brand new Monster Hunter Rise collaboration. Take a look at the video below.
We have more information about Ninjala’s Monster Hunter Rise collaboration here.
Ninjala reveals Monster Hunter Rise collaboration
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Ninjala has been no stranger to collaborations since launching on Switch last year. Today, GungHo revealed its latest partnership. Starting at the end of April, Ninjala will be introducing lots of collaboration content based on the recently-released Monster Hunter Rise.
Here’s the full rundown:
GungHo has shared a new Ninjala to promote the start of Season 5, which just started today. Have a look at today’s video below.
Ninjala details plans for Season 5
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In a new video published today, GungHo outlined what it has in store for Ninjala. The game will be kicking off Season 5 later this month and it’ll bring about some new content and features.
Here’s the full rundown:
Ninjala hits 6 million downloads worldwide
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GunHo’s free-to-play battle royale featuring ninjas and bubble gum has now hit 6 million downloads. This beats out the game’s previous download milestone of 5 million which was achieved in October 2020.
This is a worldwide sales landmark, and it comes with a gift for all Ninjala players. 100 Jala will be distributed to all players of Ninjala via an in-game email, and this can be claimed until March 24, 2021 at 6:59pm (PDT).
Ninjala gets new Japanese commercials
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GungHo has come out with a pair of new Japanese commercials for Ninjala. Both adverts can be viewed below.
Ninjala is currently available exclusively on Switch.
Ninjala details upcoming plans, including Let It Die collaboration
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GungHo today introduced its latest plans for Ninjala leading into Seasons 5 and 6.
The big news concerns the game’s latest collaborations: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu and Let It Die, which will be held at the end of January and February respectively. They’re part of Season 4, which also has a Featured Battle and limited time event. Season 5 will include new weapons, an updated tutorial, two new collaborations, and an updated tutorial. Season 6 will celebrate Ninjala’s first anniversary, and will have new weapons, a new stage, and a new collaboration.
Here’s an overview of upcoming plans for Ninjala with a video from GungHo:
Ninjala update out now (version 4.0), patch notes and trailer
A new update has gone live for Ninjala, which introduces Season 4 for the game. It includes new weapons, a new stage, features and improvements, and more.
Below are the full patch notes and a trailer:
Video: Ninjala anime – Episode #5: “You’re the Star!”
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GungHo has shared the fifth anime episode for Ninjala. Today’s video features Emma “a street dancer with an eye on making it into the spotlight.”
Here’s a description of the episode, along with a rundown of the cast:


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Apple reveals increasing child labor problem
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In 2010 Apple audited 127 facilities and found 91 cases of underage labor, including 31 workers who had been hired prior to reaching the legal age, but were no longer underage or who were no longer employed at the time of the audit. One facility alone was responsible for 42 underage workers, Apple said, adding that it had terminated business with the facility. Apple did not name the company.
In other instances Apple has required the suppliers to return the young people to their families and support their return to school while continuing to pay them until they reach 16 years of age. Apple said it has also required the suppliers to improve their management, such as labor recruitment practices and age-verification procedures, to prevent recurrences.
Other "core violations" discovered by Apple included where workers had paid excessive fees to recruitment agencies to be selected to work for an Apple supplier. Apple said that a total $3.4 million has been repaid to workers who had been exploited in that way since 2008. There were only two core violations on health and safety issues.


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Since launching his laid-back streetwear brand Drew House in January, Justin Bieber has signaled that he intends to shift the focus away from his music career and toward his other lucrative ventures. Bieber's star-studded rolodex provided a failsafe marketing strategy for Drew House, and since his wife Hailey Baldwin was seen wearing it, so was every young Instagram influencer far and wide. However, the brand's hype manifested into online retailers selling knockoff products clad with the signature Drew House yellow smiley face, prompting a public denouncement from Bieber himself.
The singer took to Instagram Wednesday to post a photo of a branded Drew House jacket being sold on the online retailer Redbubble with the text "Fake." According to The Blast, the global marketplace was selling a knockoff DH hoodie for approximately $45, as well as lookalikes of two of the brand's classic T-shirts for less than $20.
Redbubble reportedly removed all the Drew House counterfeits from their site after Bieber's accusation on social media, and released a statement explaining that they've been in contact with the singer's team.
"Redbubble is a global marketplace for more than 845,000 independent artists who want to showcase and sell their own unique designs. All content is uploaded by users and we take abuse of the platform and the rights of others very seriously," a company representative explained. "We have removed all the designs in question from the marketplace and have reached out to Mr. Bieber’s team to ensure a quick resolution to the matter."
Drew House most recently opened up their first ever pop-up in Hong Kong during Art Basel. The VCR-themed interactive shopping experience allowed shoppers to get a hold of some of the exclusive pieces that had sold out following the brand's initial online launch.


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It seems as though the problem affected high-profile players and professionals as well as anyone who signed up. After reports of the issue emerged, EA took down the page to investigate and said it would provide updates as soon as possible. When Engadget asked EA for comment, it offered the same statement it posted on Twitter:
Update 10/4/19 8:46AM ET: EA confirmed to Engadget that it shut down the registration process about 30 minutes after signups went live yesterday -- around 1:30PM BST (8:30AM ET). The company said it found the cause of the issue and has fixed it, promising that players won't see it again. EA explained that around 1,600 players were affected and that's it's taking steps to contact them and help protect their accounts. The plan is for registration to re-open "in the coming days" via an announcement on Twitter.


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The number of foreign visitors to Greece could soar to 27 million by 2021, including cruise passengers, according to new estimates issued by the Association of Hellenic Tourism Enterprises (SETE), which also expects this year’s arrivals to top 22 million.
Previous estimates for this year had stood at 21.5 million, but as SETE head Andreas Andreadis told Kathimerini arrivals have grown further and are raising the targets for the future.
“The year 2014 sees Greek tourism contributing 14 billion euros directly to the economy, and along with air and maritime transport and domestic tourism, this amount grows to 17.1 billion euros. In this context its contribution to gross domestic product has grown by at least 35 percent in the last four years,” said Andreadis. He goes on to forecast that direct revenues from tourism will come to about 19 billion euros by 2021.
He says that “by 2021, private capital of more than 20 billion euros could be invested in tourism,” but for that to happen the government must make good on a promise to channel 500 million euros into the sector in the next six years for the modernization and the creation of new tourism infrastructures (ports, airports, marinas etc), and to support new investment programs.
Ahead of the 2015 season, the SETE president several identified positive signs, such as the intention of air carriers to strengthen their schedules centered on Athens, promises by major tour operators to increase the number of tourists they will bring to Greece and early bookings from the British market, which are already showing signs of growth.
What is causing some concern in the industry, however, is possible political instability. Such a development, said Andreadis, could “have an impact on the scheduling of air seats and on tourism bookings for the coming season.”
“The extreme polarization of the last few weeks combined with the extensive instability in the broader region and the deterioration of economic prospects in Europe have affected the flow and the interest in new tourism investments in our country,” noted Andreadis.