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Phillip Lim Signature T-shirt to Benefit OCA Youth Programs
Washington, D.C. (April 29, 2010) – The Organization of Chinese Americans is announcing a partnership with Nordstrom during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month to benefit OCA’s Youth Programs.
In celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Nordstrom has collaborated with designer Phillip Lim on a limited-edition T-shirt that will be sold exclusively at Nordstrom for the month of May. These limited-edition T-shirts will be available at 16 Nordstrom stores and online at Nordstrom.com/apahm beginning May 1st. T-shirts will sell for $85 each with all after-cost proceeds benefiting OCA.
“After a successful campaign last May, we are pleased to partner with Nordstrom once again and have Phillip Lim, leading Asian American designer, design a t-shirt that will benefit the future generation of APA leaders,” says OCA National President Ken Lee.
T-shirts will be available online at and 16 Nordstrom stores across the country including The Mall of America store in Bloomington, Minn.
Other stores around the country carrying the T-shirts include: Ala Moana Center – Honolulu; Brea Mall – Brea, CA.; Downtown Portland – Portland, OR; Downtown Seattle; South Coast Plaza – Costa Mesa, CA; Fashion Square – Scottsdale, AZ; Fashion Valley – San Diego; Michigan Avenue – Chicago; Pentagon City – Arlington, VA; Roosevelt Field – Garden City, NY; San Francisco Centre; The Grove at Farmer’s Market – Los Angeles; Topanga Plaza – Canoga Park, CA; Valley Fair – San Jose, CA; and Village of Merrick Park – Coral Gables, FL.
Last May, limited edition T-shirts were created by Anna Sui and Koi Suwannagate and were sold online and at 15 Nordstrom locations. All net proceeds benefited OCA’s Scholarship fund, bringing in over $27,000 to continue to provide assistance to APA students in achieving their dream of a higher education.
“We are excited to partner with Phillip Lim in celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month,” said Amelia Ransom Letcher, vice president of Diversity Affairs for Nordstrom. “Our collaborative effort in support of OCA’s youth programs is one that we can all be proud of.”
Lim has described his work as “classic with a sense of madness,” and has a talent for designing accessible, wearable clothes with an edge.
“I was interested in this project because I was impressed by Nordstrom’s past success in raising funds to help Asian Pacific American children in need,” said Phillip Lim. “The T-shirt design is my signature in repetition like a graphic print. It’s simple, but acknowledging my full name was a part of growing up as an Asian American and accepting the two cultures that I am a part of. This is a cause that’s personal to me, and I hope that in my small way I am able to contribute to this great program.”
3.1 phillip lim is a global brand offering innovative, effortless fashion for the modern world. Lim’s mission is to provide an approachable designer experience, with beautiful, everyday clothes accented by touches of whimsy. The result is unexpected looks for women and men that express an urban elegance and ease.
Lim debuted his 3.1 collection in 2005 to instant critical and commercial success. Approaching its sixth year, the brand – including clothing and shoes and accessories for women and men, and a kid by Phillip Lim line – it is represented in 50 countries and available in over 400 boutiques and department stores worldwide. Flagships include New York City, Los Angeles, Seoul and Tokyo.
OCA is a national organization dedicated to advancing the social, political and economic well-being of Asian Pacific Americans.


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Daybreak Games, the developer behind the third iteration of the popular MMORPG, has announced the cancellation of EverQuest Next. President Russell Shanks explained in a letter posted on the company's website that development was halted due to the fact that "it wasn't fun." Rather than release a subpar experience that doesn't meet gamer's expectations, the developer has opted to scrap the project entirely. Shanks sees the role of the developer as "dreaming big, pushing hard and being brutally honest with where you land."
Shanks reassures devoted fans of the franchise that EverQuest's future is as important to the developers as it is to the players. "Rest assured that our passion to grow the world of EverQuest remains undiminished," he says in closing, opening the door to another project coming sometime in the future.

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With rivals taking on impressive redesigns in recent years, Toyota was never going to sit back and let its main bread-winner, the Camry, get old.
The current car was introduced for 2012, and Toyota gave it a major refresh for 2015 after some negative reviews.
On Monday, at the 2017 Detroit auto show, the Japanese automaker unveiled a new Camry, the nameplate’s eighth iteration, and we’ll see it in showrooms late this summer. It arrives as a 2018 model.
The new Camry has gone through a total evolution, from a proven, dependable and safe car to one that also possesses a more exciting and emotional character, thanks to its newfound sporty performance and style.
Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA) modular platform
It utilizes a stretched version of the Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA) platform found in the Prius and C-HR. The platform represents a completely new strategy to the way Toyota designs, engineers, and packages its vehicles. In particular, it helps inject Toyota’s cars with much sportier handling thanks to its lightweight construction and low center of gravity. For example, the roof is now 1.6 inches lower than on the current car.
Three powertrains will be available at launch. A 2.5-liter inline-4, which will be paired with an 8-speed automatic, a 3.5-liter V-6, and a next-generation hybrid system pairing the 2.5-liter inline-4 with an E-CVT (electric motor integrated with CVT). Final specifications for each powertrain will be announced closer to the market launch, though Toyota says the Camry Hybrid should deliver best-in-class fuel economy.
For the cabin, the goal was a practical yet still attractive design. Thanks to the new platform, the seats are positioned lower to the ground. And this sporty theme is reinforced with a dash whose controls are angled towards the driver. Soft-touch materials are used throughout. The main instrument cluster gets a 7.0-inch display while an 8.0-inch display sits in the center of the dash and serves as the main hub for the infotainment. A standard safety pack includes useful features such as collision warning, pedestrian detection, adaptive cruise control, and blind spot and rear cross traffic warning.
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There are going to be a lot more oysters going through Raspberry Point Oyster Company’s doors thanks to $205,000 in federal and provincial funding for new equipment.
James Power, the company’s general manager, said the money was used to buy equipment that will allow employees to do more important work than standing all day sorting oysters.
“Actually growing more, selling more and processing more,” he said.
The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency recently gave Raspberry Point Oyster Co. a $195,000 loan to help the business expand. Another $10,000 was part of the provincial government’s aquaculture technology program.
Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe MP Robert Goguen was at the company’s facility Monday in Cavendish for the funding announcement alongside Aquaculture Minister Ron MacKinley.
Raspberry Point Oyster Co. used the money to buy a grading machine to help with grading, counting and processing oysters at its facility where employees handled more than 6 million oysters in 2013. This year Power expects that number to grow by more than one million.
Raspberry Point Oyster Co. sells oysters under the Daisy Bay, Pickle Point, Lucky Limes, Shiny Sea, Irish Point and Raspberry Point brands.
Before the company bought the machine about a month ago, eight employees had to stand all day counting oysters and sorting them by size.
On Monday there were two employees cleaning things like sea lettuce and dirt off the oysters as they moved along a conveyor belt through the machine.
That makes sure a camera the oysters pass under gets an accurate measurement of their size.
Once the camera counts the oysters and measures them the machine shoots them out into a bin with a loud bang as it sorts them by size.
But despite needing fewer people to do the sorting and counting, Power said the company hired six more people this year because of the extra volume of oysters.
“We have that many more oysters so now we can harvest more oysters, we can grow more oysters, we can sell more oysters and with this machine we can get through them faster,” he said.
Power said the machine can be adjusted down to the millimetre to measure the oysters and he hopes to get it tweaked to handle five or six oysters per second, which is what the manufacturer claims it can do.
So far it has been handling about three oysters per second, which is much faster and more accurate than someone doing the work by hand, Power said.
“There’s no comparison.”
Despite how much faster the machine works, Power said there is no shortage of demand for the company’s product.
“Every oyster we can get our hands on we can sell.”


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Google joins the wireless earbud game with new Pixel Buds
Tech giants Amazon, Microsoft and Apple all have their own versions of wireless earbuds.
Google has announced its take on wireless earbuds, lagging behind its competitors slightly, but confidently entering the race with some unique features. Pixel Buds will not be available until 2020, but you can sign up to Google’s waiting list to receive information as it comes. The Buds will cost roughly £140, which makes them competitively priced next to its rivals. The announcement came at Google’s 2019 Made by Google event in New York, alongside Pixel 4, Pixel 4L phones, the Pixelbook Go laptop, and Google Stadia, a streaming platform for video games.
Pixel Buds will link up to Google Assistant, meaning users can say the “Hey Google” activation phrase and communicate with the AI assistant, without pressing a button. The Buds are also capable of picking up increases in ambience noise and automatically adjusting the buds’ output volume and microphone range accordingly. Built-in sensors can detect when you’re talking by sensing jaw movement, and the mics are directly focused on your voice. They are equipped “custom-designed 12mm dynamic speaker drivers [which] deliver high-quality audio”, according to Google.
One of the more notable features is the built-in translator, which can provide realtime language translation, a feature that was also present on the previous version of Pixel Buds. Google claim that the earbuds Bluetooth range will also span over an entire football pitch, or 3 rooms of a house. Battery life for the Pixel Buds is five hours on a single charge, with a charging case that delivers an extra 19 hours of battery.
Google have announced four available colours for the Pixel Buds: Oh So Orange, Clearly White, Quite Mint and Almost Black. They are designed for use in a multitude of environments, such as during exercise, on transport or at home.
Google Pixel Buds will be available in 2020, find out more at store.google.com
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The NFT Alliance has been launched to serve as a platform where Vietnamese businesses and individuals can share their vision and mission to promote Vietnam’s digital economy.
Gia Bao Truong, Vice Chairman of NFT Alliance and Chairman of Digital Transformation Alliance, DTS Group, said that NFT Alliance was established with the goal of becoming a solid launchpad for the NFT market.
“NFT digital assets has seen booming demand in the international and Vietnamese markets in recent years. They are becoming increasingly valuable; numerous works of digital art and digital assets have been announced with high market value. Metaverse will soon be a place to promote more features of NFTs and constantly increase their value. Metaverse is also increasingly showing this is a place where we can do everything we want, unlike the 2D space of smartphones. We can visit family, friends, work, play, and shop across the metaverse. Many techn giants have joined the race, Facebook even changed its name to Meta,” Bao said.
He said Vietnam is currently in the group of five leading countries in terms of interest in blockchain and metaverse technologies. Among the 200 largest metaverse blockchain companies in the world, seven are from Vietnam, he said.
The NFT Alliance leaders. Photo by DTS
As a representative of DTS Group who has worked and invested in many domestic and foreign technology enterprises, Bao said: “Vietnam has become one of the most impressive markets for NFT game development in Southeast Asia. Internationally, Vietnamese users have been recognized as one of the most potential groups of blockchain and metaverse users. The Vietnam market can completely become a center with advantages to attract investment capital flows into this field,” he said, adding that it requires a huge amount of personnel and infrastructure.
“Metaverse still faces many challenges and difficulties. The metaverse and NFT businesses need an environment to exchange experiences, where people can find themselves a good mentor.”
Truong Gia Bao, Charmain of DTS. Photo by DTS
Bao said the NFT Alliance and DTS Group will join with businesses operating in the field of metaverse to disseminate to the community about digital assets, thereby, helping technology enterprises in Vietnam to catch up with the global trend.
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Back in 2013, during Twitter’s IPO offering, it was a $40 billion company. Now its valuation is 25% of that amount, that is, just $10 billion. Now, in isolation, $10 billion is not a small amount, but even a relatively newcomer Uber has a valuation more than $60 billion. Even Pinterest is valued at $11 billion and Snapchat at $15 billion.
What went wrong with Twitter?
Investors simply don’t see any growth in the social networking platform. Although it is one of the major social networking platforms in the world and in terms of social interaction it might be competing with Facebook (the big daddy of all social networking platforms up till now) the acquisition of new users has been a lackluster affair. Growth simply isn’t happening. Twitter’s count of monthly active users during the last quarter has hovered around 307 million, just a 5-million growth since Q1. With the sort of numbers usually the Internet companies have, this is being considered a very slow growth or rather, a declining growth.
The new CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey is gung ho about Twitter’s future – “Twitter’s here to stay! By being more Twitter-y!” – but the public markets don’t share the enthusiasm, according to this Wired update.
Ever since his arrival, Jack Dorsey has been incorporating newer changes, whether big or small. Changing the Favourite Star to a “Heart” wouldn’t be called a big change if you aren’t bothered much by the aesthetic factor, but lifting the limit on the size of direct messages is definitely a big change and also the topic focused Twitter Moments. He has also been contemplating changing the chronology of the timeline but the #RIPTwitter hashtag in protest forced the company to retreat its step.
There have been other controversies also, with top four Twitter executives suddenly leaving the company.
Twitter is a great platform and it is one of the pioneers of the social networking movement on the Internet, but when it comes to making money, the people in the company haven’t been able to figure out how to do that. Besides, for the first-time users it’s always difficult to get into the groove. I remember when I started using Twitter for the first time, I couldn’t make sense of what was happening – what was the use of posting all these messages and who were the people who were reading those messages and then responding to them?
On Facebook this is straightforward. You don’t have to figure out things on Facebook. As soon as you open a new account, you can easily know what people are doing. On Twitter, it can be intimidating especially when you are not self-motivated.
A big reason behind the success of every online platform is that people don’t need to figure things out and still they are happy about using the platform. On Twitter, people have to figure things out and that’s a deterrent.


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(The Hosting News) – Top web host and domain registrar GoDaddy on Wednesday announced its purchase of online invoicing provider Ronan.
Financial terms of the deal were not made available in a press release from the company.
Despite the announcement being made just this month, the actual deal was finalized in April – a move that gave GoDaddy time to integrate Ronin’s invoicing tools into its bookkeeping services via “GoDaddy Online Bookkeeping.”
The transaction builds off a previous one initialized by GoDaddy last year in which the company purchased Outright.com, a tool that assists small businesses with expense tracking.
“One of our primary goals is to make the ‘business of business’ easy, and GoDaddy Online Bookkeeping does that by taking the headache out of knowing their numbers,” commented GoDaddy Senior VP of Business Apps Steven Aldrich via a press release.
He continued, “Our customers love our product – but they wanted us to provide invoicing capabilities. We knew Ronin provided an unparalleled experience, so we started discussions. It soon became clear – we needed the team at Ronin to be on our team and we needed to seamlessly integrate invoicing into our product. The end result is GoDaddy Online Bookkeeping.”
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WEST PALM BEACH, FL--(Marketwired - June 19, 2014) - FastFunds Financial Corporation ("FastFunds" or the "Company") (PINKSHEETS: FFFC) and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cannabis Angel, Inc., a company involved in providing financing alternatives, corporate finance and general management consulting services to early-stage cannabis companies and projects, are pleased to announce the official launch of the GreenCard. Through the Company's 49% ownership in Cannabis Merchant Financial Solutions, Inc., the GreenCard is the only pre-paid smart card created exclusively for the cannabis industry.
The GreenCard features advanced technology and enhanced security measures that will alleviate several concerns currently being faced by proprietors of medical and recreational cannabis dispensaries. Being able to offer a solution in the marketplace that will replace the cash-only component to the cannabis industry will generate significant demand for the GreenCard. The Company believes that the roll-out of the GreenCard will contribute to maximizing shareholder value in the years to come. As the cannabis industry evolves and other States begin to legalize and decriminalize marijuana, the Company will be positioned at the forefront as a leading financial solutions provider catering exclusively to this developing market.
Market research studies and analysis have shown that the cannabis industry in the U.S. alone will be valued in excess of $9 billion by 2016. The Company expects that financial services will play a significant role in how the industry evolves and transitions into a mainstream segment of everyday commerce. Retailers and consumers will demand the integration of secure and scalable financial service platforms that will process transactions in real-time and provide the convenience of portability and extensibility for future growth.
The GreenCard also features the added benefit of positioning cannabis retailers on the same level as large corporations by allowing them to offer rewards to their customers. The GreenCard provides cannabis retailers with turn-key functionality that allows them to maximize the value of a loyal customer base. One of the key components to staying competitive in any industry is for businesses to recognize who their customers are. The GreenCard offers cannabis retailers the opportunity to integrate a customer loyalty and retention program that incentivizes their customers by rewarding them with points when making a purchase. The GreenCard allows cannabis merchants to promote and encourage a recurring flow of business by retaining the loyalty of their existing and future customer base.
The Company believes that recurring revenues can be derived from its ownership in Cannabis Merchant Financial Solutions, Inc. and its GreenCard. Given the thousands of transactions that take place within the cannabis industry within retail environments on a daily basis, processing and clearing fees are expected to cumulatively multiply as the industry itself grows and matures in the years to come. The Company invites its current and prospective shareholders to view an introductory video pertaining to the GreenCard on GreenEnergyMedia.TV's Cannabis Live by following this link:
Shareholders of the Company can expect to receive regular updates pertaining to ongoing developments of the GreenCard.
About FastFunds Financial Corporation
FastFunds Financial Corporation is a holding company that is publicly traded on the Pinksheets exchange, under the symbol "FFFC." The Company currently operates in the financial services industry segment with a single credit card services portfolio. The Company is currently seeking new business opportunities to diversify and complement its current services and products, to enhance its technical capabilities and to offer growth opportunities to its stockholders. The Company recently announced the formation of Cannabis Angel, Inc., a company involved in providing financing alternatives, corporate finance and general management consulting services to early-stage cannabis companies and related ventures. Most recently, the Company developed and launched GreenEnergyMedia.TV. This new website acts as an interactive social media hub that caters exclusively to providing the medical and recreational marijuana communities with access to several hundred news and social media feeds in real-time.
This news release may include "forward-looking statements" regarding FastFunds Financial Corporation, and its subsidiaries, business and project plans. Such forward-looking statements are within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and section 21E of the United States Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and are intended to be covered by the safe harbor created by such sections. Where FastFunds Financial Corporation expresses or implies an expectation or belief as to future events or results, such expectation or belief is believed to have a reasonable basis. However, forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, which could cause actual results to differ materially from future results expressed, projected or implied by such forward-looking statements. FastFunds Financial Corporation does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.
For Further Information Please Contact:
FastFunds Financial Corporation & Cannabis Angel, Inc.
Mr. Henry Fong
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Phone: (561) 514-9042
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Although the coronavirus pandemic has caused damage to practically every commercial sector, retailers have certainly been among those hardest hit.
Three national lockdowns have each brought with them the requirement for non-essential stores to close, which means that unless you sell staple food items, there’s been little option other than to literally shut up shop.
For many retail business owners, support from the Government, including furlough payment provision, has proven vital and boosted hopes that our favourite high street shops can return to something lose to business as usual in the months ahead.
The roll-out of the vaccine and the Government’s recently announced roadmap back to normality offers plenty of hope, but despite these new causes for optimism, many retailers still face an uncertain future.
And it’s perhaps during the last 12 months that ecommerce has truly evolved from being an expensive luxury or pipe dream, to becoming an essential prerequisite for retailers of all sizes with hopes of generating consistent income and expanding beyond their current means.
What are the benefits of ecommerce?
The benefits of an online store have been apparent since before the turn of the century, with the first online shops making 24-hour, 365-day service a reality for the first time.
And the last 12 months have truly demonstrated the value of an online retail presence, allowing brands to continue to do business, and sell their products and services throughout a national lockdown.
As technology has advanced, the benefits of an ecommerce presence have become more numerous and the platforms upon which they are built have become increasingly accessible to smaller operations.
Beyond simply being able to sell your products and services to your customers at any hour, ecommerce platforms are able to deliver a seamless transactional experience that is a timesaver for any business owner.
Many modern small retail businesses often enjoy some success building and engaging with a customer base through social media.
Social media channels like Facebook are a great platform for nurturing a community of customers and brand advocates, with Groups and ‘Selling Pages’ often utilised to market products and respond to enquiries.
But converting that support into transactions is where the problems begin.
With no payment platform in place, individual PayPal exchanges and bank transfers have to be arranged as part of a time-consuming process that also requires you to manually track and update orders.
An ecommerce platform provides a single point of interaction for your customers, allowing you to collect payments automatically, and view and update the status of orders with just a few short clicks.
Beyond empowering business owners to sell their products regardless of pandemic restrictions, ecommerce platforms promote brand building and can deliver a greater level of engagement than a physical store could.
An integrated online shop will not only offer your products for sale, but also tell your brand’s story, its history and its values.
Supported by digital marketing and a considered social media approach, you can build brand awareness and nurture a true affinity between your business and its customers.
Implementing voucher schemes to reward loyal customers is also straightforward, allowing you to increase scope for multiple and regular purchases, while subscriptions to products and services can easily be set up, helping to create regular income streams.
Is my retail business right for ecommerce?
For many years, ecommerce was inaccessible to all but the biggest businesses, with the costs associated with setting up an online shop prohibitive beyond consideration.
But accelerating technology has not only broadened possibilities, but also helped to make ecommerce a reality for practically any size of operation and in any sector.
And while many brands have instead focused on doing business on third party platforms like Ebay, Amazon and, more recently, Etsy, a growing number are beginning to realise the potential of an owned platform that delivers all of the benefits outlined above – without being stung on platform commission.
Platforms like WordPress, WooCommerce, Shopify and Magneto can provide the framework for any retail business to take its first step towards selling its products online.
The way in which you engage and interact with customers is also practically limitless, and there are fewer and fewer businesses who can fairly claim that their model is incompatible with ecommerce.
For example, while the majority of online retailers offer postal delivery of products, it’s very simple to offer ‘click and collect’-style functionality, keeping your costs to a minimum.
You can even allow your customers to make a purchase and complete a transaction upon delivery of the product.
In other words, it’s simple to craft your online offering around the habits of your customers, rather than forcing your customers to change.
How can I make ecommerce work with the rest of my business?
One other reason offered by retailers for not doing business online is that their in-store offering is too important to compromise, with many expressing fears that an online presence would reduce footfall in the longer term.
Of course, maintaining footfall can be a key factor for many retailers, but an ecommerce platform need not hinder that objective.
Though the majority of retailers choose to make most, if not all of their products available for purchase online, some continue to offer in-store exclusives in order to incentivise physical trade and boost footfall.
Products may be launched in store and added online at a later date, while purchases made online are often collected in-store – promoting both online and offline elements as key parts of the customer journey.
Whatever your business, selling through a dedicated online platform need not be at the expense of in-store trade and should instead be utilised to enhance and expand your existing offering to customers.
If you have a presence on existing online platforms, such as on eBay or Amazon, then it may make sense to retain that activity, particularly if marketplace visibility is a key consideration.
But you should also invest resource in helping your existing customers migrate their spend from a third party to your own platform, where both parties can enjoy many of the benefits discussed above.


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Nielson Company reports that over the past 10 years, the number of US TV households has increased only slightly on a year to year basis. This year, the company expects that there will be only a slight increase from previous of about 400,000 households.
Broken down by race and ethnicity, Nielson company found that African-American US TV households are the most numerous, followed by Hispanic and Asian-American households respectively. Hispanic households are, however, predicted to experience the largest percentage in growth from 2009 to 2010 with a change of 2.3%
With the switch to digital being prolonged due to fears of TV households losing their service, it now appears that most are able to receive digital TV signals (DTV). Broken down again by Race and Ethnicity, Hispanic TV households have lagged behind, with 1.3% still not able to receive DTV, followed by African-American households at 1%.
It would be safe to assume that as the year comes to an end, we will most likely see close to 100% of US households DTV ready.
Source: eMarketer, September 14, 2009


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Startup Alley exhibition will take place at the international IT conference TechCrunch Moscow 2012 on the 9 and 10th of December at a center for new technologies and technological entrepreneurship Digital October.
The event will provide an opportunity for young and aspiring entrepreneurs in IT and mobile applications to present their projects to the expert community, potential investors, partners and customers.
Startup Alley exhibition will last for a two-day conference TechCrunch Moscow 2012. Entrepreneurs will present the prototypes or working products, which are based on innovations in IT and mobile applications developed over the last three years to the expert jury of international investors, the press and public. One of the main conditions of the exhibition is that startups should have no more than $3M of attracted investment over their existence.
Digital October Centre will become a communication platform for entrepreneurs and experts. At the end of the oral presentations the jury will determine the participants of Startup Battle to take place at the following day of the conference on December 10, on the main stage of Digital October Centre.
Thus, the TechCrunch Moscow 2012 conference will provide novice businessmen with the platform and tools to demonstrate their ideas and interested audience of more than 900 participants. The audience includes representatives of the expert community: Anton Nosik, the CEO of Yandex Arkady Volozh, the founder of Team Europe Lukasz Gadowski, the founder of Lastminute.com and Mydeco.com Brent Hoberman, the representatives of EBRD and the oldest U.S. venture capital fund Bessemer Venture Partners whose departments are working in Silicon Valley, New York, Massachusetts, Israel and India.


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Buffalo London looks to ride its second wave on the Nineties nostalgia trend.
The Michelin-starred chef created a meal inspired by the designer’s first perfume, Une Amourette.
The show, marking the ready-to-wear debut of Paul Andrew, will showcase the brand’s fall 2018 men’s and women’s collections.
The new uniform will be worn by Etihad Airways’ cabin crew during the three-day event.
Satin shoes with diamonds, rubellites and amethysts will be showcased during the Spanish leg of the Manolo Blahnik exhibition.
The group has bulked up its academic portfolio, which includes Istituto Marangoni.
According to the group’s annual British brands report, Burberry nabbed the top slot for the second year in a row.
These retail executives and fashion designers have had to reduce the price of the homes they’re trying to sell as well as the clothes they’re flogging.
On November 24, workers will protest against long working hours and low salaries at the logistics plant at Castel San Giovanni.
The new concept, in light gray hues with powder pink accents, is meant to project its lifestyle approach.
Carhartt Work In Progress has opened its first London flagship in the newly-revitalized neighborhood near King’s Cross station.
The Spice Girls’ Favorite Nineties Sneaker Brand Readies a Comeback
Manolo Blahnik and Bulgari Collaborate on Bejeweled Shoes
China Still Key for Italian Brands
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Leading domestic appliance manufacturer, Hoover, is returning to television screens 1st April 2020 with a landmark campaign for the H-FREE 500 cordless vacuum; Hoover’s most powerful compact stick.
Representing a significant investment, the 30-second commercial, which will also air as 10 and 20-second edits, will be live from April and run across a range of digital and social channels.
The advert will showcase the versatility of the H-FREE 500; from its innovative space-saving storage capability of just 69cm and up to 40-minute run time, to its ability to reach into the smallest spaces for effective cleaning of dust, debris and pet hair.
The lightweight H-FREE 500, which is endorsed by ShortList and the Good Housekeeping Institute (GHI), has an SSP of £199.99 and matches the performance of a corded appliance*.
Antony Peart, director of brand communications at Hoover, said: “Airing in two bursts from April 2020, the aim of the campaign is to strengthen Hoover’s position within the cleaning category and drive footfall sales for our trade partners.
“As such, I’d urge our retail customers to start stocking the H-FREE 500 now in order to meet expected demand”.
News of the investment comes following a raft of recent brand deals for Hoover, including a two-year sponsorship of Rugby League powerhouse, Warrington Wolves, broadcast and digital support for the latest series of Dancing on Ice with Virgin Media in Ireland and an ongoing partnership with British cook and restaurateur, Simon Rimmer.
For information about Hoover’s innovative appliances, please visit www.hoover.co.uk or @Hoover_UK on Twitter.


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London: Scientists have developed a simple method to calibrate smartphone cameras, an tool that will help amateurs and science students to collect useful research data without specialised equipment.
Although smartphones and other consumer cameras are increasingly used for scientific applications, it is difficult to compare and combine data from different devices.
“The low cost of consumer cameras makes them ideal for projects involving large-scale deployment, autonomous monitoring or citizen science,” said Olivier Burggraaff, who led the research team from Leiden University in the
Netherlands. “Our standardised calibration method will make it easier for anyone to use a consumer camera to do things like measure pollution by detecting aerosol particles in the air,” said Burggraaff, who developed the calibration method.
Researchers described the method called SPECTACLE (Standardised Photographic Equipment Calibration Technique And CataLoguE), which can be used for smartphones, digital single-lens reflex cameras and cameras aboard drones. The database allows users to upload calibration data from their cameras for others to use.
“SPECTACLE includes many do-it-yourself (DIY) methods, which we found provided results comparable to professional methods that require high-end laboratory equipment,” said Burggraaff.
The standardised calibration method was developed in response to a need that arose as researchers were developing citizen science methods to measure optical water quality using a smartphone.


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Macy's store was planned to occupy four floors of the mall in Abu Dhabi.
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DUBAI – Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s have pulled out of a Dh5 billion mall set to open in Abu Dhabi next year, according to a report on Thursday (November 1).
The luxury department stores were scheduled to open in Al Maryah Central, a 2.3 million-square foot mall that is set to open on Al Maryah Island in August 2019.
Macy’s store was planned to occupy four floors of the mall and would have been the brand’s first store outside the United States, while the Bloomingdale’s store was set to be bigger than its outlet in Dubai Mall.
“We worked with Al Tayer for a long time and we agreed with them that they won’t be proceeding with Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s,” said Daniel Parry, managing director for developer Gulf Related, told The National.
“It was disappointing but we were in discussions with Al Tayer for a long time and we planned accordingly. It’s given us opportunities. As the market has changed over time the replacement of the two big department stores with a lot of different retail has actually helped the overall mall,” Parry told the newspaper.
The space reserved for Macy’s will be taken over by a two-storey Debenhams store and entertainment areas. Bloomingdale’s reserved space will be taken over by shops like West Elm and Pottery Barn. The mall is reportedly almost 70 percent leased.
The mall will feature top 200 brands, including Gap, Gap Kids, H&M, Zara, All Saints, Charlotte Tilbury,The Cheesecake Factory, P.F. Chang’s and Cafe Nero.
Macy’s this year closed 68 shops following a slump in US retail.
Sharjah resident fined Dh95,000 for traffic violations she didn’t make
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20-minute smart workout stuns Dubai
Miss Universe Catriona Gray breaks Dh918,250 crown
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We’ve recently reported about a blackhat SEO campaign that targeted not only Windows users, but Mac users as well. It’s just a few weeks after that, but the role of Mac users as potential victims in the threat landscape has been increasingly established, as more and more threats targeting Mac users are being found.
FAKEAV for Mac
The first case that got the attention of the security industry was a rogue antivirus called Mac Defender, which is detected as OSX_FAKEDEF.M. The said malware reportedly affected a large number of Mac users. Other variants of rogue antivirus software made especially for Mac followed, bearing different names such as Mac Security (detected as OSX_FAKEAV.A) and MacProtector. One variant was even found spreading through Facebook (detected as OSX_DEFMA.B).
Mac Defender and its variants aren’t the first rogue antivirus seen targeting Mac users. In 2008, scareware applications called MacSweeper and iMunizator were seen, both having the same standard routines as any rogue antivirus.
This time around, however, it seems that the number of variants are increasing exponentially and affecting more and more users. As a course of action, Apple issued an update to their operating systems to prevent Mac Defender from executing.
According to Trend Micro Researcher Joey Costoya, the solution provided by Apple is not limited to MacDefender, but also covers Mac malware starting from 2009. However, “scanning technology” implemented by Apple can be easily circumvented, leaving Apple with the hard choice of either continuously updating its pattern file to cover the latest rogue antivirus affecting Mac, or admit the fact that they are now constantly targeted by these rogue antivirus, that Mac is not as secure as before, and their users are now reliant to traditional security vendors for security.
A large number of variants of this rogue antivirus were found in just a short period of time and this trend is predicted to continue. Mac is not malware-proof. Not only from FakeAV but also from backdoors like OSX_MUSMINIM.A. As my colleague Rik Ferguson commented, the Apple user base is largely unprepared, and their systems largely unprotected. This chain of events puts a large task for Apple to take upon, as the “invulnerability” of their system is being put to the test, and the security of their users on the line.
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Audi PB18 e-tron Concept – Four-Ringed Electric Concept Car
Audi’s Latest Take On The Mid-Engined Electric Supercar
The Audi PB18 e-tron Concept was recently unveiled during Monterey Car Week taking place in Pebble Beach, California. Just a few hours’ drive away is where it was designed, at the new Audi Design Studio in Malibu.
This new concept car derives its naming scheme – and some of its DNA – from the Audi R18 e-tron LMP1 racing car. The PB18 also carries an uncanny resemblance to the company’s Audi Aicon concept which appeared at the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show. However, unlike the aforementioned which was touted as a completely autonomous vehicle, the PB18 requires a driver behind the wheel.
Powering the PB18 are three electric motors which deliver a combined output of 670-horsepower and 612 lb-ft of torque to the all-wheel-drive system, and achieves 0-100 km/h in just over 2 seconds. The 95-kWh battery is stated to provide over 310 miles of driving range on a full charge, and can be recharged in under 15 minutes with an 800 volt station.
The PB18 body is the amalgamation of an extensive use of aluminum, carbon fibre and other lightweight composites. The car still weighs a not-exactly-flattering 3,417 pounds, though taking into account that this is a fully electric vehicle will save Audi any blushes. Afterall, the battery placement ensures that the PB18 has the weight distribution of a mid-engine car, while also borrowing the magnetic suspension from the R18 race car.
Most notable – as far as eye-catching features are concerned – would have to be the central seating position. Even with the proliferation of high performance, track-oriented supercars and hypercars these days, this is very rare to see. There are however, controls which allow the seat to shifted to the side and allow room for a passenger.


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LeTV is one of the most popular video streaming company in China that is finding its way into the smartphone and other markets, they have launched smartphones like LE 1, LE 1PRO AND LE MAX smartphones and they were sold in huge numbers in China. Today the company has brought yet another smartphone called the Le 1s with some impressive specifications and excellent pricing. So let’s look at the specifications.
LeTV Le 1S Specifications:
The device sports a 5.5-inches FHD(1920*1080) in-cell display with slim bezels, in fact, it is slimmer than its predecessors. Powered by MediaTek Helio X10 Soc clocked at 2.2GHz Octa-Core processor coupled with PowerVR G6200 GPU. There is 3GB LPDDR3 Ram and 32GB eMMC5.0 internal memory. Runs on Android 5.0 Lollipop based EUI 5.5.
On the camera side, the device features a 13-megapixel autofocus rear camera with LED flash, f/2.0 aperture, ISOCELL sensor, PDAF, 4K video at 30 fps, 720p at 120 fps. On the front, there is a 5-megapixel Samsung made selfie camera. Connectivity features include 4G LTE, 3G HSPA+, WiFi 802.11 ac/a/b/g/n (2.4GHz / 5GHz), Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, USB 2.0 Type C. A 3,000mAh battery is on board for all the battery requirements. The cost of the smartphone is around $173 which is around Rs.11,240, but then the company says the BOM aka bill on material adds up to $207 so the company is selling the smartphone at a loss. 3,00,000 units will go on sale on November 3rd.


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Pain this year could become big gains next year. At least that’s the hope of collectors and especially Canadian hobby store owners after the 2012-13 rookie card class was put on ice until next season.
The NBA’s trading card partner is making up for last year’s lockout-induced dearth of product by unleashing several new issues as a new 82-game season tips off this fall. On Tuesday, Panini America offered some preview images and key information for 2012-13 Absolute Basketball, due out just before the holidays. Absolute will return after sitting […]


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10:39 a.m. Cole Brodman, chief technology officer of T-Mobile USA has opened the event and introduced Christopher Scläffer, the group project and innovation officer of Deutsche Telekom.
He praises the partnership. He said T-Mobile International is committed to open platforms. "G1 is a milestone in bringing the open mobile Internet to the mass market," he said.
Andy Rubin, the senior director of mobile platforms for Google is speaking. Developers will be able to modify the platform and make it better. Calls the platform future proof because it has openness built in.
Peter Chou, the CEO of HTC, is now speaking. he says he is honored to be here. He congratulates all of the partners on the vision, strategy and execution of the G1. Today represents the culmination of the vision. He calls the design, "unique, iconic," and "unlike anything else in the market." He said it will appeal to a variety of people. He said the performance is "nimble, flexible and powerful" and says it is a fundamental shift in where and how people can share the Internet.
Brodman says the mobile Internet only has 16 percent penetration in the United states. He calls for open systems, open standards for a new user experience.
Click here to see pictures of the black and white version of the T-Mobile G1 handset...
10:15 a.m. Live from New York, it's...Tuesday morning!
Hello and welcome to FierceWireless's live coverage of the launch of the first mobile phone powered by Google's Android software--the HTC Dream. That was the working name up until this morning. The phone has now officially been dubbed the G1.
This joint press conference, hosted by T-Mobile USA--the phone's exclusive carrier in the United States--and Google has been highly anticipated in the wireless world for months. Every scrap of information about the launch, from its date, location, to the phone's specifications and price has been poured over the way fanboys dissect snippets of an upcoming Hollywood comic book extravaganza--think "The Dark Knight," except instead of Heath Ledger's performance, what is being obsessed over is Gmail's performance.
And now, after all of the months of baited breath, we're here. There is a lot of hype floating around the elegant venue on the far East Side of Manhattan. The tension and anticipation is palpable, and the setting almost surreal. Tuxedoed attendants stand around the edges, a neon pink light falls across the curtains and the main stage is set against a brick wall with an image of the 59th Street Bridge projected onto it. Two large LCD screens stand at the front, emblazoned with T-Mobile's logo, Google's logo and a huge "G1."
The gaggle of press, industry insiders and wireless watchers has assembled here to see if this phone will be what it has been heralded as: the next Big New Thing in wireless, and, above all else, the seemingly elusive and amorphous species known as an IPK--an iPhone Killer.
The touch screen device is meant to mimic many of the iPhone 3G's best attributes, while also forging its own identity. What is known for sure at this point is that it will have a full QWERTY keyboard and that it will run Google's signature applications, like its Gmail, Maps and Docs, as well other applications created by independent developers.
To say that Google and T-Mobile are betting a great deal on strong holiday sales of the device would be an understatement, and they have priced it at $199 with a T-Mobile service contract to help it directly compete with Apple's more established device. If the crowd is wowed and the general public responds over the next few months with the same fervor that marked the launch of the iPhone 3G in July, Google and T-Mobile will be seen as smart power players in the smartphone market. If, however, consumers balk at the phone's design, applications or interface and contribute to weak sales, the two companies will have the industry whispering, and maybe not that softly, about how their joint venture went bust. Over the next weeks and months that question will be decided.
But for now, sit back, relax (OK, maybe you won't relax) and enjoy the show.
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ATLANTA—Research In Motion Ltd. is working on new products and carrier partnerships that will mean easier deployment and more choices for IT managers.
RIM this summer will release the next version of its BlackBerry Enterprise Server, said Jim Balsillie, co-chairman and CEO of the Waterloo, Ontario, company, in an interview at last weeks CTIA Wireless show in Atlanta. The most significant feature of BES 4.0 is that it has no footprint on the desktop, Balsillie said. As a result, IT managers can provision the software to devices remotely; previous versions required a desktop install.
RIM is close to finalizing a partnership deal with Sprint PCS Group, the last major U.S. carrier not yet selling RIMs products. RIM should be added to the Sprint portfolio by late this year, said Cameron Rejali, vice president of product management and development at Sprint Business Solutions, in Overland Park, Kan.
Sprint officials said the deal is contingent on BlackBerry support for PalmOne Inc.s Treo device, which is Sprints most highly touted smart phone. While newer RIM devices support voice, customers tend to use RIM BlackBerrys for data only, according to an official, who said Sprint wants to garner both voice and data revenues from its wireless customers.
For example, music mogul Russell Simmons, chairman and CEO of Rush Communications Ltd. and co-founder and chairman of Def Jam Recordings, in New York, spoke at CTIA, saying that while many of his colleagues use RIMs latest BlackBerrys, “the phone doesnt work so well.”
While Treo support is pending, another long-awaited device has an uncertain future. In November 2002, Nokia unveiled the Nokia 6800 messaging phone. Due in the second half of last year, the phone was to include support for the BlackBerry server.
Nokia has decided to delay BlackBerry support in the United States because of legal concerns. Last August, a federal judge ruled in favor of NTP Inc. in a patent-infringement case against RIM. This included an injunction barring RIM from selling its products in the United States. While the court stayed the injunction pending appeal, Nokia officials said they remain concerned. While they are not necessarily waiting for the case to be settled, they are still working out the terms of the release with RIM.
“We decided until thats straightened out to delay the availability of BlackBerry functionality on the 6800 in the U.S.,” said Joe Gottlieb, director of business development and strategy for Nokias Enterprise Mobility Systems business unit in Mountain View, Calif. “Were waiting to see how that pans out.”


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New-look hotel opens in town centre
A NEW hotel, the Inn on the Square, has opened in the centre of Keswick.
Formerly the Queen’s Hotel, the establishment has been completely renovated in recent months by Lake District Hotels Ltd., and now has Scandinavian-inspired decor, 34 bedrooms and a dedicated steakhouse called Brossen, which uses meat from farms in the area.
Daniella Hope, Inn on the Square marketing director, said: “We wanted the design of Inn on the Square to be completely different to anywhere else in the area. It is important that the hotel evokes a strong sense of place where our guests can unwind and soak up the atmosphere of the lakes with a modern twist.”
The new head chef, Kyle Bowman, has been sous chef at several award-winning restaurants in Cumbria.


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Miami Heat's Birdman to show off underwear
Chris “Birdman” Andersen of the Miami Heat is getting into the underwear biz. Thanks to his relationship with LeBron James, who happens to be an owner of the Aventura Mall store Unknwn, Andersen will launch his new underwear line there at 7 p.m. Jan. 28. The first 250 people to buy the undies — which look just like Andersen's many tattoos — will get a signed poster. No signed skivvies, so don't even go there.
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text: Porsche is making a big bet on electric cars, with the upcoming Mission E representing the first full-electric car from the German automaker. Now, Porsche plans to double its investment in electric cars to nearly $8 billion by 2022. What will that extra money be used for? First, Porsche will use it to produce the Mission E as well as variants of the model. The money will also be used to hybridize and electrify the lineup, which likely means that there will be a hybrid 911 down the line. There will also be investment in factories, infrastructure, and everyone's favorite word combination, smart mobility.


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On 5 February 2020, the EU Commission announced that products from Western Sahara should be labelled accordingly. But about 24 hours later, all traces to that statement had been removed from EU websites.
"All imported products, including those originating from the Western Sahara, need to comply with the relevant legislation, including the requirement to provide accurate and not misleading information on the country of origin or provenance of those products, which in such case must thus be “Western Sahara”. That is the answer EU Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski gave on 5 February 2020 to a question in the European Parliament.
This answer was published on the website of the European Parliament, as is standard procedure when Parliamentary Questions are responded to. But one day later, the Commission's statement had been removed from that website.
The parliamentary question that had lead to the answer, presented by MEP Heidi Hautala (Finland, Greens/EFA) on 11 December 2020, can still be found on the Parliament's website (with reference code P-004368/2019) . The question concerned the labeling of origin on products coming from Western Sahara and whether Morocco's conformity checks on these products are in line with relevant EU Regulations - particularly in view of rulings by the EU Court of Justice establishing that Morocco has no sovereignty or jurisdiction over Western Sahara. The icon displayed at the right top corner of the page - a document with caption "answer in writing" - indicates that the question has been answered and can be accessed through clicking that particular icon (see photo to the right).
But the page containing the answer that Commissioner Wojciechowski had given on behalf of the EU Commission as a whole, has been taken down. Instead, visitors of the page get a disclaimer saying "The internet address (url) you wanted to consult does not exist" (see screenshot above).
MEP Hautala has however preserved a copy of the Commission's answer to her PQ - with that very same reference code P-004368/2019, which the Commission's written answer refers to - on her personal webpage. [Or download the document here].
"Why this bizarre chain of events, I cannot fathom. This is really unprecedented, particularly for an official reply to the Parliament from the highest level of the Commission. Apparently, a new, presumably “correct” response will be provided by the Commission in due course. I look forward to seeing how it will differ from the initial response", MEP Hautala states.
When the Commission's statement on correct labelling of origin of products from Western Sahara was first published, EU media referred to it as a "blow for Morocco". "The European Commission on Wednesday said products originating from the Western Sahara must be labelled as such, in a move likely to stoke a backlash from Morocco, which annexed the territory", EU Observer wrote.
Given Rabat's sensitivity on the issue - it has frozen its relations with the EU over Western Sahara before - such a backlash may very well be behind this inexplicable backpedalling.
What is EU's position on labelling of products from occupied Western Sahara? The EU Commission has now for the third time published a response to a parliamentary question on the matter, but the latest version fails to address the question.
A clarification by the EU Commission on labelling of products from Western Sahara was published, then removed, then published again and has now been removed again from EU websites.
Two weeks ago, the EU Commission announced that products from Western Sahara should be labelled accordingly, only to withdraw that statement the very next day. Today, the Commission reaffirms its original position.
The proposed trade scheme for occupied Western Sahara denies EU consumers the right to know the true origin of covered products, just like it failed the right of the people of Western Sahara to decide whether they wanted the deal in the first place.


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Avocados have been a popular food item over the last few years. Now, researchers have found that women who eat avocado every day could have long-term health benefits.
The study was conducted by researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and found that avocados can change the way belly fat is stored in the female body.
For the study, the researchers looked at 105 overweight and obese adults for 12 weeks. They were split into two groups. One group received an avocado each day, and the other received a similar meal without the avocado.
They then collected data related to glucose tolerance and abdominal fat for the two groups to compare those that ate avocados and those that didn’t.
After twelve weeks, the researchers found that eating an avocado each day was associated with metabolic benefits and the redistribution of belly fat in the female participants, but not the men.
The results show that avocados lowered visceral fat levels, which can reduce the risks of a number of diseases, like diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Researcher Naiman Khan noted, “In the abdomen, there are two kinds of fat: fat that accumulates right underneath the skin, called subcutaneous fat, and fat that accumulates deeper in the abdomen, known as visceral fat, that surrounds the internal organs.
Individuals with a higher proportion of deeper visceral fat tend to be at a higher risk of developing diabetes. So we were interested in determining whether the ratio of subcutaneous to visceral fat changed with avocado consumption.
While daily consumption of avocados did not change glucose tolerance, what we learned is that a dietary pattern that includes an avocado every day impacted the way individuals store body fat in a beneficial manner for their health, but the benefits were primarily in females.
It’s important to demonstrate that dietary interventions can modulate fat distribution. Learning that the benefits were only evident in females tells us a little bit about the potential for sex playing a role in dietary intervention responses.”


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In a further step towards its goal of becoming the Best Bank for Customers, Lloyds Banking Group has this week introduced Talking ATMs across Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland to make it easier for blind and partially sighted customers to withdraw cash and check balances.
Cardlytics, the global leader in Card-Linked Marketing, announced today that it will be launching a new programme with Lloyds Bank.
HSBC is Britain's most engaged bank on social media, using the likes of Twitter and Facebook to provide prompt customer service, according to research from IMGroup.
NatWest and RBS have been crowned the UK's most secure online banking providers by consumer group Which?, with Santander ranked bottom of the pile.
As part of Lloyds Banking Group's commitment to support UK trade flows we are pleased to announce a partnership with Standard Chartered Bank which will enhance the experience for clients importing from Asia.
Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking has appointed Alice Beavan as Head of eCommerce - Credit Products, based in London.
Lloyds has become the first UK bank to muscle in on the mobile point-of-sale market, inking a deal with Monitise to hawk the vendor's card acceptance technology to small business customers.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has reached an agreement with seven of the UK's biggest high street banks that will see them use a same day 'retry system' when processing direct debits, standing orders and future dated bill payments.
London Stock Exchange today welcomed Lloyds Bank to open its UK markets, marking the banks new role as dedicated market maker on the Order book for Retail Bonds (ORB).
UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's has confirmed its intention to assume full control of its banking operations and has hired US-based FIS as its chief technology partner.
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With Ikea being the largest furniture company in the world, their stylish designs motivate millions to decorate their homes in chic fashion but with Ikea’s renewable energy investment, they’ll be motivating millions to do way more than just that. Ikea invested $2.76 billion dollars in solar and wind energy systems in an effort to become climate positive by 2030 – and that’s only the beginning. Ikea has gone to great lengths to ensure their retail locations are environmentally-friendly, while also offering affordable and attractive solar solutions to their customers.
Ingka Group’s Major Investment in Solar and Wind Energy Sources
Ingka Group, the parent company of Ikea who’s in control of 367 Ikea retail outlets invested more than two billion dollars in solar and wind energy systems within the past decade. They currently hold a part in two solar parks in the United States, 543 wind turbines in 14 different countries, a wind farm in Romania and over a million solar panel units in distribution centers, administrative buildings and stores. And with their latest investment of over two billion dollars in renewable energy, Ikea is a rare and possibly the only global consumer brand to own and operate its own renewable energy infrastructure.
Ikea Now Generates More Electricity Than The Stores Consume
What does this mean for Ikea and renewable energy, you ask? Ingka Group reports that its green infrastructure has already generated more renewable energy than the stores consume, which drastically reduces the carbon footprint of the world’s largest furniture company. It doesn’t end there either, as Ingka Group plans on making their entire supply chain climate positive by 2030.
Ikea Starts a Movement By Motivating Others to With Affordable Home Solar Energy
In addition to generating renewable energy for its own use, Ikea’s end goal is to motivate their customers to also make use of solar energy by making it affordable and attractive for them to do so. Solar power solutions have not been a plausible option for many people due to the high cost, which Ikea aims to change. As of today, their home solar system is available to consumers in seven countries (Holland, Belgium, Italy, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Poland and the UK) and they intend on making it available across all of their 30 markets by 2025.
It hasn’t been all smooth sailing though. Ikea stopped carrying solar panels in UK stores early this year after a Germany watchdog organization accused Ikea’s advertisements of solar panels to be misleading. The advertisements offered Ikea solar panels but the customers were referred to Ikea’s partner, Solarcentury Microgen to make the purchase. However, Ikea is intent on continuing to make green energy accessible and affordable for their customers with their latest sustainability strategy stating that it’s goal is to, “inspire and enable more than 1 billion people to live a better everyday life within the limits of the planet.”
How To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint with Ikea
Although Ikea currently doesn’t have solar panels available for purchase in some countries, they do have many other options that allow consumers to make use of renewable energy to reduce their carbon foot print. This can be as simple as swapping out traditional lightbulbs for LED ones and using solar powered lights and décor options. Continuing to shop at Ikea is also an excellent environmentally-friendly option, due to their renewable energy infrastructure.
Ikea has made major advancements to their infrastructure, investing in solar and wind power that generates more energy than the stores use. As you wait for their affordable and attractive solar panels to come on the market, you can feel good every time you step in between those big glass sliding doors knowing that you’re supporting a company that is adamant about becoming entirely climate positive in the near future.


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McDonald's has suspended operations at its three locations in Crimea for "manufacturing reasons" as Western companies are getting increasingly worried about the potential impact that Russia's annexation will have on the peninsula.
Although the company said it hopes to reopen its Crimean locations as quickly as possible, it's offering to relocate employees to its Ukrainian outposts. "The company has provided an opportunity to all employees ... to transfer to any other McDonald's restaurants in Ukraine preserving their positions, salaries and fees and paying to relocate employees and their families," McDonald's said in a statement.
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Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes is transporting SEMA attendees back in time with a vintage body shop-themed booth (no. 11339, North Hall) at SEMA 2018.
The booth is designed to resemble a body shop during a time when automotive refinishing was coming into its own. Cleveland-based design studio Communications Exhibits, Inc. (CEI) developed and constructed the 50 x 70 booth using a combination of galvanized steel, reclaimed wood and chicken wire. Period-specific vintage advertising, tools and signage throughout the booth add authenticity to the unique booth concept, creating an interactive display of not only where the industry has been, but also where it may lead.
With its expansive history of innovation in automotive refinishing, Sherwin-Williams is uniquely positioned to tell the story of automotive coatings. As one of the first companies to introduce a coating specifically for automobiles – or more precisely, for automobiles, buggies and carriages back in 1894 – the history of Sherwin-Williams is in many ways the history of the industry.
That first transportation-related paint by Sherwin-Williams was a paste-based product called Q.D. Coach Colors — as in “Quick Drying” colors for coaches — introduced not long after the first carriage accident was reported in the mid-1880s.
Sherwin-Williams followed the Q.D. Coach Colors launch with primers, fillers, color, gear paint and varnishes for carriage manufacturers and a system of refinishing called Perfect Method.
“Sherwin-Williams was there for the birth of the automotive refinish industry,” said Rob Mowson, vice president of marketing, Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes. “The company was present yet again when the need emerged in collision repair, another new industry.”
In the mid-1950s, Sherwin-Williams sought to help customers improve performance and reduce costs by developing a single product combining the speed of its lacquer systems with the characteristics of an enamel finish. The result was the industry’s first acrylic enamel, vaulting Sherwin-Williams from a modest position in the automotive aftermarket industry to number two in the country in the 1960s.
By 1970, Sherwin-Williams had 50 automotive finishes service centers across the U.S.
Today, Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes continues its tradition of innovation by regularly introducing refinish systems and premium products such as CC200 Premium Clearcoat, introduced at the 2017 SEMA Show and this year with the new waterborne basecoat system, Ultra9K.
“Our presence this year at SEMA drives home not only our historical influence in automotive, but also the direction we’re headed with the integration of Valspar,” said Mowson. “The scale of the booth and the overall design direction should be clear indicator to the industry and everyone at the show where Sherwin-Williams has been and where we’re intend to take the industry.”
The latest result of Sherwin-Williams’ dedication to innovation is on full display with a 1949 Hudson finished with Sherwin-Williams’ new Ultra 9k Waterborne Basecoat System. “Past truly meets present with this vehicle,” said Mowson.
And, because no classic body shop is complete without a run of classic builds, the Hudson is joined by a 1955 Chevrolet Gasser, 1968 Chevrolet Camaro and a 1936 Chevrolet Master Sedan Custom Truck.
For more information about Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes, visit booth #11339 at the 2018 SEMA Show, or visit https://sherwin-automotive.com


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Don't hold out hope for the RTX 3080—or the upcoming RTX 3070—being easy to buy anytime soon. In a call with analysts and journalists today, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that "I believe that demand will outstrip all of our supply throughout the year."
Last week, Nvidia delayed the RTX 3070 launch (opens in new tab) by two weeks, to October 29, to build up as much supply as possible. But that seems unlikely to be enough to compensate for the demand for the more affordable RTX card. Jensen doesn't seem to think so, either.
"Remember, we're also going into the double-whammy: The double-whammy is the holiday season," he said on the call, as reported by Tom's Hardware (opens in new tab). "Even before the holiday season we were doing incredibly well, and then you add on top of it, the Ampere factor, and then you add on the Ampere holiday factor, and we're going to have a really really big Q4 season."
Huang claims that this isn't a problem with Nvidia's supply, but rather a "demand issue"—meaning the demand was simply beyond their expectations. "And we expected really a lot," he said.
In a year where COVID has significantly impacted manufacturing and shipping, though, it's hard not to be skeptical of claims that Nvidia's supply lines are running at full steam. But bots and resellers certainly haven't helped the situation. Hopefully by the RTX 3070 launch, changes to the Nvidia store and its manual oversight (opens in new tab) will help prevent botting orders and give honest humans a shot at a card for more than 5 seconds.


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A total of 14 projects were recognized as the top smart city initiatives in Council Associate Partner IDC's annual Smart City Asia-Pacific Awards for 2016. Click to the site to learn about two of the award-winning projects and find strategies and approaches you can use for your own smart city transformations.
When Kansas City moved forward in May with a smart city pilot project, city leaders went with a small section of the city's core area because they wanted to be sure it worked before committing to a more ambitious smart city upgrade. Read the story for details on phase two, which will add new services and expand the area covered.
A group of U.S. House members is collaborating on legislation to help cities make their smart city transformations work. The bill they're drafting focuses on the areas where cities usually need the most help: securing financing and the guidance and expertise they need to ensure successful projects.
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Council Associate Partner Huawei will provide a variety of enhancements and solutions to bring a Dubai South business park into the smart city era. The company will provide its ICT expertise and technology to help Dubai achieve its ambitions to become one of the world's smartest cities.
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It’s not too big of a surprise, but Ubisoft confirmed that its biggest games of the upcoming Autumn/Holiday season will indeed be coming to the Xbox One.
Ubisoft has never been one to shy away from new hardware and the Xbox One isn’t going to be any different. Both Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and Watch Dogs will be available for the new console at launch, but that’s not all players can expect from Ubi in the coming year.
At least six games are in the works for the Xbox One and this new generation, the first since 2005/06, is one Ubisoft says its pretty darned excited about.
“The next generation of consoles will reinvigorate our industry and make it possible for us to deliver incredible new entertainment to gamers,” said Yves Guillemot, co-founder and chief executive officer, Ubisoft. “Our teams are using the innovations in connectivity, immersion and social gaming included in Xbox One to create original and memorable next-gen gaming experiences.”
Going a little further with what’s to come, Ubi says that its upcoming catalog is expected to be a mix of established and new IP’s as well as digital titles. If there’s one thing you can pretty much bet on when you see a new console on store shelves, it’s that there’ll be some Ubisoft games on the racks next to it.
Thankfully, this year looks to be incredibly strong for the publisher with an Assassin’s Creed title that might be the freshest take on the franchise since Assassin’s Creed II and the hotly (and that’s putting it mildly) anticipated Watch Dogs. And while we haven’t seen the final versions of these games in action, more likely than not the versions to get will be the next-gen ones.
Both of those titles are expected to be available this Fall for the Xbox One as well as the PS4, PC and current generation consoles. Ubisoft also says there’s plenty more to tell about them both as well as all the other goodies the company has up its sleeve at E3 next month.
So stay tuned game fans.


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The Association of Publishers and the Latvian Association of Printing Companies have called on the government to reduce the value added tax (VAT) applied to books to 5% as of July 1. The current 12% VAT is the highest in Europe and affects the price of expenditure and hampers development of the sector. The average VAT on books in Europe is 7%.
The funds emerging from reduced tax would be important in preparation of books and improving quality. In particular, this would be needed for children's book market. Publishers are convinced that VAT is no longer just an economic factor.
"It's not always measurable in numbers - what the impact on the budget will be, how much it will bring in income, and so on. It is a question on what country we are building, what kind of cultural environment we are creating for ourselves, our children, elders, and so on," said publishing house Liels un Mazs chair Alīse Nīgale.
Publishers also call for a reduction of VAT on electronic books, currently 21%. This tax has been reduced in all countries of the EU and is currently at 0% in the UK.
Both the Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Finance confirmed to Latvian Television that the industry has been heard and application of reduced VAT to books has been included in tax policy guidelines. Exact deadlines are not set.


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Yesterday was a busy day in online real estate research. Both Classified Intelligence and Borrell Associates released new reports: CI’s “Real Estate Advertising 2005: Time to Listen or Lose” and Borrell’s “2005 Update: Online Real Estate Advertising.” (Both are pricey reports — unless you’re a client of CI and get it as part of your fees.)
From both reports, a key point is how dominant the search engines (especially Google) are becoming in attracting local real estate advertising money. Borrell notes how Google has begun pursuing the real estate category directly, now employing three regional sales teams in the U.S. that are focused on the real estate and other classifieds categories. The search giant has been making presentations to major brokerage firms such as Century 21, RE/MAX, and Coldwell Banker, Borrell reports.
Those real estate companies are buying advertising as part of Google’s AdWords and AdSense programs, where they pay per click, and they’re bidding up keywords to $1 per click, and $2 in some cities. A growing segment of these bidders are local advertisers, says Borrell — individual agents and brokerage firms.
The Borrell report quotes a Realtor in Austin, Texas: “That (Google) ad is working great. … We are busy as hell, and that is the only advertising we are doing right now. We quit our print advertising after we posted that Google ad.”
The CI report similarly concludes, “The bulk of Realtors’ online expenditures will be on pay-per-click local-search advertising and in support of their own websites.” Some 31 percent surveyed said they’re spending no dollars with local print newspapers in 2005, and 37 percent of Realtors said they’d spend no money in print newspapers in 2006.
The reports are a depressing read for newspaper executives. Already suffering by assaults on merchandise, auto, and housing rental categories by Craigslist (and other online competitors), now the real estate category looks about to be hit very hard by migration of local real estate spending to search advertising — a form of advertising that was almost non-existent just three years ago.


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Nissan announced today, Aug. 20, that they will offer a 5.0 Cummins Diesel in their next generation Titan full-size pickup truck.
The detail of the truck and model year that it will come to market were not announced, but automotive and truck industry followers, including this writer, believe that this new power plant will anchor an all-new Nissan Titan for 2015 that has been talked about "off the record" for some time.
According to the Nissan announcement, the available Cummins 5.0L V8 Turbo Diesel engine has been optimized for the next generation Titan and is now in the latter stages of development and testing. Nissan added that Cummins also is developing a version of the engine for its commercial vehicle customers.
This development has been rumored for some time and, with the move of Fred Diaz who was the former head of Ram truck brand to Nissan a few months back - it was thought by many to be a certainty for Nissan given the results of his leadership and success at Ram.
Based on this announcement, Diaz appears to have been hard at work to develop and bring to market a new competitive full-size pickup truck for Nissan by 2015.
"We have done our homework on the next-generation Titan. Truck owners told us there's a demand for the performance and torque of a diesel in a capable truck that doesn't require the jump up to a heavy-duty commercial pickup," said Fred Diaz, divisional vice president, Nissan Sales & Marketing, Service & Parts, Nissan North America. "There is no question that the new Titan will turn heads, and with the available Cummins 5.0L V8 Turbo Diesel, we expect to win new fans and attract buyers looking for this unique configuration."
Nissan had previously announced the next-generation Titan will add power train options and cab-and-box configurations to broaden the appeal of the new truck when it comes to market.
"We are very excited to partner with Nissan on the introduction of the Cummins 5.0L V8 Turbo Diesel to the North American pickup truck market," said Dave Crompton, vice president, Cummins Engine Business. "This new engine will offer the right balance of power, performance and fuel economy while delivering the dependability that customers expect of a Cummins engine. This will be a great package."
With a torque rating in the mid-500s (lb-ft) and more than 300 horsepower, the Cummins 5.0L V8 Turbo Diesel will provide light truck customers the combination of towing capacity and mileage that is expected in the highly-competitive North American truck marketplace.
The Cummins 5.0L V8 Turbo Diesel will be built in America's manufacturing heartland at the Columbus Engine Plant, in Columbus, Ind. with 300 new jobs to be created according to Cummins officials.
The next-generation Titan will be built at Nissan's Canton, Miss. vehicle assembly plant where the current version is assembled.
Citing competitive reasons, Nissan did not announce launch dates at this stage in the truck's development, but it is known that engineering prototype trucks powered by the Cummins engine are currently undergoing extensive on-public-highway performance and durability testing.
Nissan said they will release further information as the program develops.
With today's announcement, Nissan becomes the second pickup truck manufacturer to announce plans to offer a diesel power train for their full-size truck line.
For 2014 model year, Ram brand is offering a 3.0L V-6 EcoDiesel (also a turbo) for their Ram 1500 which will be available later in 2013. The Ram engine is provided by VM Motori, a Fiat/Chrysler diesel engine supplier since 1992.
Others, for now, including GM, Toyota and Ford have adopted a wait-and-see posture on market acceptance (with its cost upcharge) as well as performance of a diesel in the full-size pickup segment.


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In a statement to Wall Street Journal, Jain revealed that the company is thinking about starting manufacturing phones in the country. We always thought that our manufacturing would be based out of China, Mr. Jain said. But India is beginning to become so important for us that we started to think whether we should set up our own manufacturing.
Xiaomi has already hired legal advisers in the country to understand the regulatory aspects regarding manufacturing in India.
India is one of the world s biggest phone markets. And considering the great start Xiaomi has got in India, it is understandable that it wants to increase its footprints in the country. It is already working on increasing its service centers, and its recent hires, including ex-Googler Jai Mani‘s suggests company s motives.