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Gender equality in business should be priority in every part of the world. Although barriers to starting a business in some countries are significant, when women circumvent them, they are equally confident about the present and near-term outlooks of their businesses as are men. This was further reiterated in the Future of Business survey.
In collaboration with the World Bank and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Facebook has launched the Future of Business Survey, a global source of information on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The survey, which covers more than 140,000 small businesses, in 33 countries around the world, provides information to help businesses learn from each other and to encourage them to use technology to further their reach.
This year’s results focus primarily on gender management.
With more businesses leveraging online tools each day, the survey also provides a lens into a mobilized and digital economy and unique insights into businesses’ outlooks, challenges, tactics, and demographics.
Small businesses drive economic growth and are responsible for the vast majority of jobs in economies around the world, through adopting digital tools that decrease the barriers to entry into the international economy. Connections between people around the world have reached unprecedented levels – it’s no surprise that this flexibility and reach inspires confidence and growth. Currently, there are now over 60 million small business Pages on Facebook and globally, more than 1 billion people on Facebook are connected to at least one business in a foreign country.
Some of the key findings from the survey show:
#1. When small businesses engage in international trade, they thrive. Some highlights from the International Trade report include:
a. Digital presence matters for international trade: 17 percent of small businesses with a digital presence are engaged in international trade
b. Small businesses engaged in international trade are more confident about the present and near-term outlooks of their businesses than non-traders
c. Small businesses that use digital tools for a higher number of purposes are more likely to engage in international trade
d. Small businesses (45 percent) that are engaging in international trade are more likely to increase jobs in the next six months, than non-traders (37 percent)
e. On a global level and across all survey months, 18 percent of SMEs state that they did create jobs in the past six months and 39 percent that they want to create jobs in the next six months
#2. When women succeed, economies do better. Highlights from the Gender Management in Business report include:
a. In many countries, disproportionately fewer female-run businesses exist, in part reflecting institutional barriers
b. Women-run businesses are as confident about their business’ current and near-term outlooks and report facing the same challenges as male-run businesses
c. Women-run businesses are more likely to leverage online tools to make their businesses succeed
d. Women-run businesses use digital tools for five of the six purposes included in the Future of Business survey more than male-run businesses
– Typically, women are not seen as the main consumers of technology, but in fact, they are using digital more than men to run their businesses
– As women around the world are increasingly becoming the providers for their families, digital provides a viable path for them to engage with the broader economy
In conjunction with the survey, a custom Blueprint course – Facebook’s global training and certification program, will be launched to highlight how to get the most out of the Future of Business survey.


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Sweden Explores Moving to a Digital Currency
Sweden is among the first countries in the world to consider introducing a digital currency. Its central bank is already running a pilot project with Accenture Plc. to introduce an electronic krona based on the same blockchain technology that underpins digital currencies like Bitcoin.
Sweden’s minister for financial markets Per Bolund announced that a study exploring the prospects of the country using digital currency is underway and it will likely be completed in November 2022, according to a Bloomberg report.
From the point of view of the government, Bolund said that “it’s crucial that the digitalized payments market functions safely, and that it’s available to everybody.”
The research is spearheaded by the country’s central bank, the Riksbank.
The cashless trend grew even stronger as the pandemic expedited the shift to digital payments, said the central bank. Sweden’s digital currency initiative comes as the trend towards digital payments accelerates. The Riksbank reported in October that less than one-tenth of all payments in the country were made in cash — the lowest level in Sweden’s history.
In keeping with the population’s demand for cashless payments, the Riksbank launched a pilot project with Accenture to design an electronic krona or e-krona based on digital ledger technology that can work as a complement to cash. The pilot is expected to end in February 2021.
Cashless payments along with digital currency are increasing day by day.
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By Yelena Moroz, MensHealth -- Pack your bags—you’re on your way to becoming a better man. According to new research from Northwestern University, a stamp-filled passport will make you a more trusting person, especially if you venture out to places unlike your home.
That’s good advice: Span the globe, improve your character. But during the travel-crazy holiday season, finding a reasonable flight is easier said than done.
How can you schedule a last-minute trip without beginning 2014 in the red? By getting a little crafty. Here are eight sneaky holiday travel hacks:
5. Bundle up. Check hotel sites for packaged deals. At Sandos, a resort with properties in Los Cabos, Cancun, and Riviera Maya, you can save as much as 20 percent on air and lodging by booking though their site. (Traveling on December 25 and 31 yields the most savings.) Ski-lovers can save over $850, thanks to complimentary lift tickets for two when staying at Colorado’s Park Hyatt Beaver Creek for four nights. Don’t forget to browse the tourism site for your destination for additional savings. If you’re heading to Utah, VisitSaltLake offers a Super Pass to four ski resorts, saving you 20 percent on lift tickets and ski rentals, as well as free transportation.


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In the current pandemic where India’s GDP shrinks by 23.9% in Q1 of the current fiscal, one of the few sectors keeping the country alive is healthcare and the pharma sector..
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The ongoing advancements in digital and automation technology, especially in embedded systems, have enabled low-cost and human-less cutting machines for real-time applications. The key industry players are engaged in..
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When it comes to quenching thirst anywhere or welcoming any guest, the first convenient option comes in mind is that of soft drinks. Because for decades in India, carbonated drinks or say fizzy drinks..
As a being staple food, demand of wheat flour has always remained constant in the world most particularly in Asian region. However, in the country like UAE, where 88% population are of expatriates and among them 70% are..
With a gigantic victory of Narendra Modi in 2014 general elections, it became clear that like in US and other European countries, now trend of strategic marketing started in Indian politics which was rare in history..
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A few weeks ago, Volkswagen unveiled the pre-production version of the ID 3, their first electric car based on the new MEB platform.
The German car manufacturer also opened the reservation list. For now, the car can be ordered only in the ID.3 First Edition which will have a price tag of 40.000 Euros.
Today, the German car manufacturer announced that the reservation list exceed 20,000 orders. The order books were opened on May 8 and the production version of the car will be unveiled during the Frankfurt Motor Show.
The production will start after the show at the end of 2019 in Zwickau, Germany. According to the German car manufacturer, the target production is claimed to be above 100,000 units annually.


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Australia’s most popular Easter eggs have really short shelf lives
YOU’RE advised to devour your chocolate eggs ASAP with an investigation revealing many reach their best before dates just after Easter.
IF YOU’RE one of those people who likes to savour their Easter eggs, rather than gulping them down in one choc-filled mouthful, you might not want to leave them hanging around for too long.
A seasonal investigation by news.com.au has found chocolate Easter eggs and bunnies from major manufacturers including Cadbury and Lindt have vastly shorter shelf lives than standard chocolate bars.
In one case, a premium chocolate egg sold at a major supermarket had a best before date of just a few weeks following Easter.
In contrast, the vast majority of standard chocolate bars from big companies have best before dates six months or more into the future with many good until way into 2019.
In every instance seen by news.com.au, chocolate Easter confectionary went stale months before non-Easter versions of the same brand.
Cadbury told news.com.au that as the majority of Easter chocolate was consumed on the long weekend they “rarely survived until the best before date” anyway.
Other chocolate firms failed to even supply an explanation. However, the sheer demand for Easter eggs means they are made all year round and stored prior to being released to retailers in the weeks leading up to the celebration.
That means it’s possible your Easter egg could be getting on a year old before you crack it open.
News.com.au visited IGA, Coles and Woolworth supermarkets Sydney. Every boxed Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate egg and hunting egg packs had a best before date of June 1, 2018 — just two months after Easter.
However, many standard Dairy Milk bars had expiry dates of April 2019. This means that, unlike actual Easter eggs, they would be edible until Easter 2019.
Lindt rabbits had a cut-off date of August 2018 and a bunny and egg gift pack of July 31. Yet a bag of Lindt Lindor balls is good until New Year.
A Kinder Easter egg had a best before date of July 1, 2018 but a standard egg lasted until January 8, 2019.
The egg that was running quickest for the best before exit door was the Thornton’s Special Toffee egg imported from the UK, found at an IGA store.
Its expiry date was May 31, 2018 — less than eight weeks following Easter.
All eggs were within their best before date and so were good to eat.
Ferrero, the Italian confectionary giant behind Kinder and Thornton’s, did not answer news.com.au’s questions about why its eggs had such early best before dates. Neither did Swiss firm Lindt.
Cadbury, owned by US company Mondelez, was the only confectioner to reply. A spokeswoman said: “The extra complexity involved in making novelty Easter products, means we have to make them throughout the year to meet demand.”
The company said 85 per cent of Cadbury Easter products were eaten on the Easter weekend, “so they rarely survive up to the best before date”.
“The best before date of 1 June reflects the fact that virtually all of our products will be sold and consumed at Easter.
“We’re also committed to providing Cadbury lovers with fresh chocolate, so while some of the products could potentially last up to the next Easter, the 1 June best before date ensures any unsold product isn’t offered to consumers the following year.”
The company said standard blocks have a best before date closer to 12 months because they were made and consumed all year round.
The egg with the longest shelf life was a Woolworths own-label milk chocolate foil wrapped egg with a date of 31 December 2018.
In 2015, Euromonitor, a research firm, found that, per person, Australians were the world’s seventh biggest chocolate consumers, gobbling up almost 5kg each year.
Only the Swiss, Germans, Americans, Irish, Brits and Scandinavians consumed more.
According to Roy Morgan research last year, 68 per cent of the population ate some kind of chocolate every month, up from 65 per cent in 2013.
The confectionary industry in Australia, which is dominated by the likes of Mondelez (Cadbury), Mars, Nestle and Lindt, is worth almost $6 billion a year with Easter a key trading period.
All in all, Australians are likely to spend some $200 million on chocolate for the Easter weekend. Cadbury alone will produce more than two million Easter eggs in Australia.
The moral of this story is if you receive an Easter egg, don’t stick it in the fridge for too long; take a tip from the kids and scoff it down.


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HOUMA La. - With the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina looming on the calendar, Gulf Coast dealers are bracing for Tropical Storm Isaac, looming off the coast and expected to make landfall -- possibly as a hurricane -- just a day before the fateful anniversary.
“It’s kind of ironic, but we’ve all been through this before. We’ve got it down to a pretty good science. We’re hoping for the best,” said Felton Broussard, service manager at Performance Powersports of Houma. “We’re about 45 minutes south of New Orleans. People don’t think there is anything south of New Orleans, but there is.”
The dealership was open as usual Monday, with generators selling like hotcakes. Broussard said the store had nearly sold through a truckload of 100 generators that arrived Friday, and had another truckload on the way for Tuesday morning.“We are bringing all the [powersports] units into a centralized location inside the building and selling a bunch of generators,” he said.
Cycle World of Houma was also open Monday selling generators, even though the store is usually closed Mondays. Employees had stacked sandbags and covered computer equipment with tarps.
“We’ll probably have to board up some windows,” dealership accountant Nick Damen said, adding that the store will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday as the worst of the storm hits. “Thursday we’ll just wing it.”
Mike Bruno’s Bayou Country Harley-Davidson was closed, although the store is normally open Mondays.
The HOG chapter at Cajun Harley-Davidson in nearby Scott, La., had to cancel a Saturday MDA poker run and the store was closed Monday, though normally it would have been open.
“We’re just helping people out. We can’ sell anything today, nobody wants to buy a motorcycle,” said John Soileau, owner of Performance Suzuki of Houma. But he sold 50 generators in two hours Monday morning and was debating whether to take delivery on another 100, given his plans to close Tuesday.
“We’re going to board up our store. We don’t need to sandbag because we’re on high ground,” he said. “We put crates around the store to prevent wind damage.”
Service staff was busy repairing customer generators and processing ATV and SSV loans to local emergency responders. (story continues)


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Golden Corral reopens Saturday ... as a buffet
ASHEBORO – Fresh off the grill and the buffet, Golden Corral Buffet & Grill is opening on Saturday, May 30.
Initially, the hours will be 11 a.m.-8 p.m. The breakfast hours and menu will be added in a couple of weeks.
Billy Sewell, president of Platinum Corral, Inc., owner of the Asheboro store, said the menu is changing a bit to bring back some old favorites.
“We know most of our customers will use the buffet. But, for those who want to order from a menu, we will have one,” he said.
“We are bringing back beef tips and chopped, ribeye and sirloin steaks. Customers will also be able to get some of the old favorite sides, such as mac and cheese, butter beans, potato casserole and more.”
He added that on the buffet, gloves will be provided for customers to use when handling serving pieces. Employees will be cleaning areas of the restaurant every 15 minutes. Staff will be will be wearing PPE products — gloves and masks — and will be diligent in washing their hands.
“We will be opening the door with great sanitary conditions,” he said.
Golden Corral has been in Asheboro for 30 years.
“We want to get the restaurant back to where it was in February and March before COVID-19 hit,” Sewell said. “Asheboro customers have been very good to us and have been strong supporters of our restaurant. We thank them all.”
Golden Corral is located at 1075 E. Dixie Drive. For take-out orders, call 336-625-6734.


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Forbes names top African tech start-ups
BUSINESS| Feb. 11, 2012, 9:02 a.m.
South Africa and Kenya dominate this year’s Forbes Africa list of top 20 tech start-up companies in Africa.
The list of best African tech start-ups is published in the February issue of Forbes Africa magazine.
1. MXit mobile instant messaging service – South Africa
2. Yola web building and hosting – South Africa
3. Dropifi tools for better messaging and analytics – Ghana
4. Cobi Interactive mobile software development – South Africa
5. Flocash money transfer – UK
6. Obami learning management system – South Africa
7. Bandeka social network – Ghana/Nigeria
8. Jobberman job placement site – Nigeria
9. Motribe mobile platform – South Africa
10. Pesapal payment platform – Kenya
11. Synaq open source messaging and security – South Africa
12. Rupu group discount site – Kenya
13. Bongolive mobile and SMS – Tanzania
14. Skyrove WiFi hotspots – South Africa
15. Njorku recruitment platform – Cameroon
16. Ushahidi software - Kenya
17. SMSGH bulk SMS solutions - Ghana
18. Hummba social and travel site – South Africa
19. 10Layer news CMS – South Africa
20. Sembuse mobile social network – Kenya
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New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman urged New Yorkers to look out for potential hacking and phishing attempts by cybercriminals following the Equifax data breach.
Last week, Equifax, one of the United States’ three major credit reporting agencies, experienced a huge breach that affected 143 million Americans and more than 8 million New Yorkers. Hackers accessed names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some cases, driver’s license numbers. Roughly 209,000 people had their credit card numbers stolen.
In response, the attorney general issued a consumer alert in the wake of the report of the breach. As part of a formal investigation into the incident, he sent a letter to Equifax seeking additional information about the breach, which lasted from mid-May through July.
“In addition to taking measures to protect their credit cards and bank accounts, New Yorkers should also think twice before clicking on any suspicious links claiming to be from Equifax or financial institutions,” Schneiderman said. “Hackers are resourceful criminals who are constantly looking to exploit vulnerabilities, and I encourage everyone to educate themselves about how to best protect their personal information.”
Schneiderman said that possible attacks include phishing emails that claim to be from Equifax where people can check if their data was compromised and phishing emails alleging a problem with a credit card, an individual’s credit record or other personal financial information. He also urged people to look out for calls from scammers that pretend to be their bank or credit union as well as fraudulent charges on any credit card because an individual’s identity was stolen.
He said that his probe into the breach is ongoing.
Equifax is facing at least 23 class action lawsuits as a result of the breach, with more expected to come, according to USA Today. The suits were filed over the weekend. The Senate Finance Committee is also pressing for details about whether U.S. government records were compromised, and requested that the company indicate when the executives who sold stock in the company in August first found out about the breach.
The company took to Twitter to let consumers know that it has made some updates to keep them abreast of steps it has taken to provide support and address any issues that they are dealing with because of the incident.
Equifax adjusted its PIN generation for security freezes, noting that it will give all consumers placing a security freeze a randomly generated PIN. The company also said that it is ramping up agents quickly to replace agents impacted by Hurricane Irma and updated its website to make consumers aware of the situation.


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Yahoo has announced the appointment of Tinder Chief Executive Officer Jim Lanzone as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective September 27, 2021.
Lanzone will succeed Guru Gowrappan, who has been named Senior Advisor to Apollo’s private equity business.
The move comes around four months after Verizon had announced that it would sell Yahoo to Apollo Management Group for $5 billion. Apollo completed the acquisition of Yahoo, formerly Verizon Media on September 1.
“With the close of the transaction, Yahoo will now operate as a standalone company under Apollo Funds,” it had said in an official release.
Verizon has retained a 10 per cent stake in Yahoo.
Prior to his stint as CEO of the dating app Tinder, Lanzone had led the digital operations of CBS Corporation as Chief Digital Officer and Chief Executive Officer of CBS Interactive. He had joined CBS after its acquisition of Clicker Media in 2011, where he was co-founder and CEO. He served in multiple executive roles at search engine Ask.com, including as CEO after the company’s acquisition by IAC/InterActiveCorp from 2001 to 2008. Lanzone is also a member of the board of directors of GoPro.
“I am so honoured to have the opportunity to lead Yahoo and represent such an iconic portfolio of brands as we enter a transformational new era for the company,” said Lanzone.
“I look forward to working with the exceptionally talented Yahoo team, globally, as we create and innovate daily on behalf of our millions of users and advertising partners worldwide,” he added.
“I could not be prouder of the growth that our team has accomplished in the last three years under the Verizon brand,” said Gowrappan.
“Now as a standalone company, Yahoo is well positioned to continue to capitalise on key expansion opportunities and I am confident that Jim, Apollo and the entire Yahoo team will work together seamlessly to build on this momentum,” Gowrappan added.
“Lanzone joins Yahoo as it looks to accelerate the growth of its iconic properties as a privately held company backed by Apollo,” the company said in an official release.
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Yahoo further added that the company intends to invest significantly in user experience and develop new offerings that can build on its premier brands in sports, finance, news, technology etc.
“Jim has a remarkable track record of leading and growing innovative businesses in our industry, and we are thrilled to welcome him on board. With his experience and proven management skills, we are confident Jim is the right leader to steward Yahoo through a transformational new phase that can leverage the best of Yahoo’s platform and performance to reach new heights,” said Yahoo Chairman and Apollo Partner, Reed Rayman.
“We also want to thank Guru for his significant contributions to the company, passing the baton following three consecutive quarters of double-digit growth. We look forward to working with him in his new capacity as an advisor to Apollo,” Rayman added.


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Coverage of blog advertising
Monday, July 18th, 2005
Danny Glover gives a great overview of the revolution in advocacy advertising spawned by blogs in the National Journal. The lede says it all: “Advocacy is a staple of the blogosphere, and advocacy advertising on blogs is quickly becoming a popular tool for groups hoping to mobilize the online masses.”
I should also mention that Farah Miller, who has bought a number of blogads for books including Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore, Nicholson Baker’s Checkpoint and Camille Paglia’s Break Blow Burn, was the star of an article in Friday’s WSJ about new ideas in book marketing.
Book publishers generally stick to their tried-and-true formula for promoting a new novel: send the writer on tour, slip review copies to critics and negotiate strategic displays in bookstores. The Internet has been used to create barebones Web sites tied to new books, and the occasional advertising campaign on popular online destinations, but little more. Now, publishers like Knopf are hoping to supplement their traditional campaigns by wooing bloggers, giving away free copies online, and other initiatives.
You can see the full article here.


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Anne Herzberg forwarded me this
unbelievable eminently believable story out of Scotland -- a move by local politicians to actually ban Israeli books from libraries:
A SCOTTISH council has sparked outrage after banning books as part of a politically-motivated boycott on goods from Israel which critics have described as "a grossly insensitive insult".
SNP-led West Dunbartonshire Council has ordered that its libraries ban any new volumes by Israeli authors, printed or published in the Jewish state.
It follows an earlier decision by the local authority to boycott Israeli goods and produce as part of a pro-Palestinian display.
European antisemitism -- and please, no letters protesting that this is "anti-Zionism" or "anti-Israelism" -- is a not terribly surprising phenomenon. What is disturbing is the increased velocity of European antisemitism.


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Watermelon is paired with cherry tomatoes and feta cheese in this summer salad from ‘Pati’s Mexican Table.’.
(photo credit: PENNY DE LOS SANTOS)
Every year, as the Jewish holidays approach, the issue of food insecurity rises to the top of the public agenda. The National Insurance Institute estimates that some 320,000 households in Israel, comprising some 1 million people, suffer from food insecurity.
The average household spends some NIS 700 per person per month on food, according to a study released by the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel ahead of Rosh Hashana.
The study – by Prof. Dov Chernichovsky of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Eitan Regev – aims to address this key issue and examine which basic necessities poor families forgo and the additional money such families would need to spend to avoid food insecurity.
According to the report, the average Israeli spends 17 percent of household income and 21% of household expenditures on food. Fruit and vegetables account for the largest share (18.3%) of the household food budget, followed by meat and chicken at 15.9%.
The study also examines how changes in income and household size affect food spending. The findings indicate that even if income were to decrease, expenses for basic food items remain relatively steady, so that even a household with fewer resources would not be able to forgo basic food items.
The most essential items for Israeli households, the study finds, are meat and chicken, bread and grains, and oils/ fats. Other items considered “somewhat necessary” include dairy items and eggs, fish, and fruit and vegetables.
When a family’s income declines, the household is more likely to forgo purchasing dairy products, fish and vegetables and maintain spending on meat, chicken, bread products and oil.
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“The patterns of food spending by Israeli households are not surprising: the burden of food expenditures is greater as per person income declines.
Nevertheless, there are surprising and important findings on the type of food items that poor families forgo. For example, it is concerning that spending on fruit and vegetables and, to some extent, also on dairy products follows the same pattern as spending for luxury items. As such, a decline in income is likely to result in not only a lack of food but also a reduction in nutritional quality,” said Chernichovsky on the findings.
According to the study, out of an average monthly per person food expenditure of some NIS 700, approximately NIS 660 is considered “normative spending.” However, for families and households in the lowest and second lowest income brackets, monthly per person spending on food is lower than the normative amount by NIS 192 and NIS 99, respectively.
Regev added: “Policy-makers must formulate policies to relieve the distress of households whose ability to purchase food necessities falls below what is considered the norm.”
The Taub Center, headed by Prof. Dan Ben-David, is an independent, nonpartisan institution for socioeconomic research based in Jerusalem.
The center provides decision- makers, as well as the public in general, with a big picture perspective on economic and social areas.
The center’s interdisciplinary policy programs – led by academic and policy-making experts – as well as the center’s professional staff conduct research and provide policy recommendations in the key socioeconomic issues confronting the state.
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Ten years ago, David Brooks, a computer programmer in Toronto, came across a passing reference to the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh in one of Frank Herbert's ''Dune'' novels. In the book, which takes place in the future, one of the few artifacts of civilization to survive global destruction is the van Gogh painting ''Thatched Cottages at Cordeville.''
Intrigued by the reference, Mr. Brooks made a point of reading up on van Gogh and seeing the painting on a visit to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. ''That was the clincher,'' he said.
Van Gogh's art, the letters he sent and, of course, the narrative of a misunderstood artist who sold only one painting during his lifetime and committed suicide, all conspired to convert Mr. Brooks, 36, from an interested observer into a passionate Van Gogh autodidact.
Five years ago, Mr. Brooks took his preoccupation with van Gogh to the Web. He is the creator of the comprehensive and carefully constructed Vincent van Gogh Gallery (www.vangoghgallery.com). Mr. Brooks painstakingly scanned and digitally mounted reproductions of every one of van Gogh's remaining 2,200 paintings, sketches, watercolors and drawings, often searching through obscure auction catalogues to find the best possible images. He also made a point to include texts of all of the artist's 864 surviving letters, which, Mr. Brooks said, ''stand on their own as works of art.''
Mr. Brooks's site has enjoyed some critical and popular success. It draws 35,000 visitors a week, and Mr. Brooks developed collegial ties with van Gogh experts and scholars around the globe. Heidi Vandamme, a representative of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, wrote in an e-mail message that ''we at the museum have always greatly admired and valued the contribution David Brooks has made.''
Last year, Mr. Brooks left his job at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce to devote himself to the site full time. An Internet-based poster shop in Boston agreed to sponsor the site, and for the first time Mr. Brooks began earning a small amount of income from banner ads. He also entered into an agreement with a Dutch-based company named On-Site to publish his database as a CD-ROM. It looked like his dream of making a living as a van Gogh researcher was about to come true.
That was until an e-mail message arrived last December, from a friend at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. ''She said, 'I found this Web site, and I think the person is using a lot of your material, you'd better have a look,' '' Mr. Brooks recalled.
Mr. Brooks said he was flabbergasted to discover that all the art images and all the letters appeared to have been copied from his site and reposted on About Van Gogh Art (www.about-van-gogh-art.com), a commercial site that sells everything from van Gogh lunch boxes to reproductions painted in China. Mr. Brooks recognized much of the digital work as his own.
''I probably have about 15 images that you simply can't find anywhere in color,'' he said, ''and I found them on this guy's Web site, the same size, pixel for pixel.''
To Mr. Brooks, this was the digital-age equivalent of an art heist. But what he discovered is that copying Web sites is not only easily accomplished, it can also be legal.
The images he collected and posted had entered the public domain 70 years (50 years in Canada) after van Gogh's death in 1890. Mr. Brooks did receive written permission from his print sources before scanning the images onto his own site, but under current copyright laws, the images are fair game for anyone to reproduce.
Mr. Brooks said it took five years for him to build his site, but ''the man who stole my site was able to do it in a matter of two hours.''
The battle of the van Gogh Web sites highlights a type of dispute that is increasingly common in the age of digital reproduction. David J. Powsner, an intellectual property lawyer with the Boston firm of Nutter, McClennen & Fish, said that although standard copyright law pertains to Web site content just as it would to any other medium, there's a widespread assumption that ''you can simply copy things off the Web.''
After discovering About Van Gogh Art, Mr. Brooks called the site's owner to complain. The owner turned out to be Ernst Coors, a tennis instructor turned entrepreneur in Amsterdam, who hopes that van Gogh will be just the first of a roster of Dutch artists featured on his site. According to Mr. Brooks, their conversations began pleasantly enough, with Mr. Coors reporting that he had hired four British university students to build the site and promising to look into how they found their images. But Mr. Brooks says that as he pressed Mr. Coors further, the conversations turned increasingly nasty. He says Mr. Coors asserted that he had some ''tricks'' up his sleeve and that if Mr. Brooks continued to press the issue, he could shut down Mr. Brooks's site.
Mr. Coors, reached by telephone from Amsterdam, disputed Mr. Brooks's version of the conversations. ''I never said anything like that,'' Mr. Coors said. ''I was open all the time to work with him but all he wanted to do was shut down the site.''
Mr. Coors's lawyer, Christiaan Alberdingk Thijm, conceded that some of the work on About Van Gogh Art was taken from Mr. Brooks's site. But he added that Mr. Coors did nothing wrong and that Mr. Brooks is trying to exert rights over material he doesn't own. ''He may have invested in obtaining the information, but it doesn't mean that it's rightfully his,'' the lawyer said. ''He can't own information.''
Mr. Coors did eventually remove the copied texts of van Gogh's letters from his site after Mr. Alberdingk Thijm advised him that as translations, they were protected by copyright law.
After his conversations with Mr. Coors, Mr. Brooks tried fighting back in various ways. ''My site has had three million visitors,'' he said, ''so you do tend to get a lot of loyal followers.'' As word of the rival site spread, some fans of his recommended lawyers. When Mr. Coors's site opened an online discussion forum, Mr. Brooks took the opportunity to issue a battle cry. ''I wrote, 'Here's a topic of discussion: the ethics of stealing someone else's work and presenting it as your own.' '' His followers took up the thread, which stayed up for about three days before it was removed.
Mr. Brooks has also gotten in touch with search engines and the Texas-based company that is the host of Mr. Coors's Web site, to ask them to stop listing or carrying the site. The AltaVista search site responded to his request by saying the company was ''not in the business of determining the copyright validity of the sites that are included in the AV search index.''
Mr. Brooks recently hired a lawyer in the Netherlands, Olaf Schauten, in an effort to force Mr. Coors's Web site to remove any of his images on the grounds of database copyright infringement -- unlike the United States, European Union countries have adopted laws designed to protect databases -- and with interfering with the generation of income that Mr. Brooks anticipates from the sale of his CD-ROM.
Mr. Powsner, the lawyer in Boston, said that these cases often come down to money and persistence. ''It's been my experience that those who are willing to say, 'I'm right and I'll pay the tens of thousands of dollars to defend my rights' can often be the de facto winners,'' he said.
Mr. Alberdingk Thijm said that if Mr. Brooks continued to make a fuss about Mr. Coors's site, he would advise his client to sue Mr. Brooks ''to stop him from spreading these slanderous and libelous things.''
Mr. Brooks said that he is keen to pursue the case even though he cannot afford a costly legal fight. And he may be getting some satisfaction: he said yesterday that some of the contested images had either been removed or replaced.
''It's a very personal and emotional issue for me,'' Mr. Brooks said. ''The Internet is a great place. I like the fact that a 7-year-old schoolgirl in Sydney, Australia, can see a van Gogh work that she wouldn't have been able to otherwise. But a lot of bad things are going on, too.''


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Cintas Wins Spirit of Diversity Award for Commitment to Supplier Diversity
Company recognized for diverse supplier development through mentoring and training
CINCINNATI—June 21, 2011 – Cintas Corporation (NASDAQ: CTAS) today announced that it received a Spirit of Diversity Award at the 2011 South Central Ohio Healthcare Supplier Diversity Symposium, a regional event that brings together senior leaders in the healthcare supply chain to enhance relationships with diverse suppliers in the region. Cintas received the award in the Major Supplier category for the development of diverse suppliers through mentoring and capacity building courses, providing actual results, leadership commitment, and accountability and outreach.
“Cintas is truly leading the way in supplier diversity development,” said Amelia Rodriguez, CEO of Vocalink, a multilingual management company that provides services to Cintas and participant in Cintas’ capacity building programs. “Cintas has made enormous strides granting minority suppliers opportunities for free training and extensive mentoring from top-level executives. Cintas works tirelessly to ensure its diverse suppliers are equipped with the tools necessary to be successful.”
Cintas’ commitment to supplier diversity is a corporate-wide initiative to educate its employees about the importance of having a diverse supply chain. While working to increase the number of small, minority and woman owned businesses that provide Cintas with products and services, the programs’ goal is to ensure that every small, minority and woman owned business is treated fairly during the supplier qualification process. Last year, 11 percent of Cintas supplier spend was with minority or woman owned businesses.
Selected as the 2011 corporate participant for the Greater Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky African American Chamber of Commerce “Breakfast with the CEO Program,” Cintas has partnered with the organization to provide its members an opportunity to establish meaningful relationships with Cintas’ leadership. Cintas also offers minority and woman owned businesses strategic selling courses around the country, Six Sigma training and other educational programs.
“We are honored to be recognized for our commitment to economic inclusion within the healthcare industry,” said Pamela Coleman, Senior Director of Supplier Diversity and Sustainability, Cintas. “Our goal is to educate and provide sourcing opportunities that will enable diverse vendors to be successful as our suppliers and in business in general.”
To learn more about Cintas and its corporate diversity initiatives, please visit www.cintas.com.
About Cintas Corporation:
Headquartered in Cincinnati, Cintas Corporation provides highly specialized services to businesses of all types primarily throughout North America. Cintas designs, manufactures and implements corporate identity uniform programs, and provides entrance mats, restroom supplies, promotional products, first aid, safety, fire protection products and services and document management services for approximately 800,000 businesses. Cintas is a publicly held company traded over the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol CTAS, and is a component of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.


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Today’s global crisis has pushed the governments all over the world to behave more efficient in national spending management. Triggered by the financial turmoil happening in the US, in the mid of 2008, contagious effects cannot be avoided to hit all countries which is in turn affects the national stability in both economy and finance sector. Peaking oil price in the beginning of 2009 seriously contributed to the worsening of national budget plan adequacy. The spending for development is therefore worried to be insufficient due to the rising price of commodities and materials. Finally, many governments appear to be so reluctant in allocating extra budget for future national economic investment.
It is true that each country suffers from global turmoil in a different way from each other. Most of industrial countries face the big challenge of overcoming the possible collapse of giant corporations. The US administration has to spend more less than $700 billion to carry out the recovery package program in which 30 percent of it will be for collapsing companies bail out. European countries additionally reached the amount of billion dollars as well to prevent from the worsening effects of financial meltdown around the region. China, Canada, and Japan have to do the same thing. Eventually, the volume of imported commodities in these developed countries decline significantly caused by the lowering public consumption in domestic market.
On the other hand, developing countries suffer from no different phenomenon of downgrading economy. Besides the decreasing price stock exchange for national companies, countries have to halt their export commodities to ship abroad. Apparently, many importing countries stop their order of commodities from overseas exporters. Furthermore, some importers even hardly decide to delay the payment for some commodities that have been purchased previously. The domino effect is the sinking revenue of exporting companies to have sufficient capital adequacy to cover the production and operation cost. Subsequently, domestic are forced to tighten operational spending and rationalize the existing labors. Jobs loss and increasing number of unemployment are inevitable finally at last.
The reluctance of governments to spend more on national economic investment might be reasonable to the extent that they are beyond the budget plan of development. To overcome the impact of global turmoil and financial meltdown is something compulsory which in fact does not have to inhibit the spirit of national economic development. Entering the second quarter of 2009, global economic performance shows a better score if compared with the previous. Financial market also takes step by step growing confidence where stocks sellers and buyers are getting more enthusiast than what they did during the beginning of the year. Things are apparently bettering and moving. Governments in this regards, have to play their roles best and more bravely than they are doing right now. Since the future development of countries lie on the current national economic investment, a confident move has to take place without delay. Unless the governing administrations would like to see their countries suffer from the possible second phase of poor economic performance in the future.


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WASHINGTON – Although cost structures of Brazilian and US broiler production are similar, primarily due to feed costs in both countries being closely linked to global corn and soybean prices, increasing costs are eroding Brazil’s advantages, according to a new study. The US International Trade Commission study is titled Brazil: Competitive Factors in Brazil Affecting US and Brazilian Agriculture Sales in Selected Third Country Markets.
Brazil’s competitiveness in broiler exports compared with the US is enhanced by product differentiation and Brazil’s being avian influenza-free. Both countries dominate global export markets for poultry because they are the most cost competitive in the world.
However, competition between the two countries is limited. Brazil and the US usually export different products to different countries. While US producers focus primarily on the domestic market, exporting mostly surplus cuts, the Brazilian poultry industry is more dependent on overseas customers, especially those requiring halal standards (Middle East) and hand-cut production (Japan).
Brazil’s competitiveness is further enhanced by its industry’s willingness to produce poultry that is custom processed and packaged to major customers’ demands. That country’s avian-influenza-free status also gives it an advantage over the US in markets such as Japan and China.
However, high transportation costs, the higher value of Brazil’s currency (the real) and rising labor costs are offsetting Brazilian competitive advantages. Last year, Brazil’s top five agricultural exports (in value) were soybeans, cane sugar, coffee, frozen chicken cuts and frozen boneless beef. The top five for the US were soybeans, corn, wheat, cotton and processed foods.
A number of significant obstacles are impacting Brazilian agricultural export potential and these issues are expected to continue to create a drag on Brazil’s agricultural production and exports. Although Brazil has natural endowments and untapped land, much of its available farmland is in areas lacking good access to transportation infrastructure. Despite government efforts in this area, increasing demands for transportation, storage and port infrastructure and capacity will likely outpace supply for quite some time. What’s more, high interest rates and currency appreciation are expected to continue in the near future resulting in more expensive exports.
Brazil’s livestock-disease issues are years away from being resolved, and growing environmental and social demands will take government resources away from other investments. The country’s labor laws and tax structures also increase costs. Brazilian exports may grow more slowly in this environment, particularly if rising domestic demand saps Brazilian agricultural supplies from third-country markets, according to the report.
Cargill, Bunge, Archer Daniels Midland and Louis Dreyfus (the “Big Four” multinational agribusiness firms) play a major role in Brazil’s agricultural competitiveness and Brazil’s approach to world markets. These businesses account for a significant share of Brazilian agricultural exports, particularly in the grain and soybean markets.
Due to their global presence, these companies generally do not view global markets in terms of competition between large producing countries, such as Brazil and the US. They view the principal exporting countries as an integrated system on which they depend to supply growing worldwide demand. Increasing animal protein consumption, in particular, is boosting demand for beef, pork, and poultry, grains and soybean meal used for animal feed.
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Alawar has discontinued its Game Club, the company confirmed this morning. An Alawar spokesperson told Gamezebo that the Game Club, which offered members a 30% discount on game purchases, was no longer needed since Alawar has reduced the prices on all non-exclusive downloads by the same amount as the discount. In other words, everyone now gets the games for the same lower price without having to join a club.
All non-exclusive games on Alawar now sell for $6.99, while exclusives are offered for $9.95.
Alawar’s spokesperson also said that new loyalty programs would become available soon. We’ll share more information with you as soon as we have it.


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The Teneo Group is a leader in commercial network security services, data security, and proactive threat prevention, including mobile, endpoint, cloud, enterprise, and beyond.
Travis Smith, Principle Security Researcher at Tripwire, continues his work on My Bro the Elk - working on it in the context of the small and medium sized businesses. Sean Martin, ITSPmagazine's editor-in-chief, originally covered this topic with Travis presenting a session during Black Hat 2015. This article ended up being ITSPmagazine’s first on-publication article.
Travis is now focusing on the SMB market as they are a targeted entity and are often underfunded and understaffed. Travis' work with the new My Bro the Elk combines technologies to create insights, and combines them as part of what he calls the "Sweet Security" offering which monitors network traffic while providing protection as well.
During our conversation, Smith also offers some core best practices, including network segmentation, which is handles virtually with the Sweet Security device. Goodness all around from Travis, for sure.
Interested parties can find the application stack is absolutely free at:
A lot of the security and privacy settings we’ve come to know and expect on our Android phones doesn’t seem to be carrying over to Android TV devices available to buy today. In most cases, the device you buy online may never see an official update from its vendor. This doesn’t mean it won’t get updated - the team at TripWire found that these devices are vulnerable to compromise such that they could be maliciously updated with new firmware, turning on the camera and the microphone - essentially for surveillance purposes.
That cause you to pause a bit? It should. Listen to this conversation between The Privacy Pact's Debra Farber as Craig Yound from TripWire's Vulnerability Research Team looks at these IoT security privacy challenges we face as a society.
Marco Ciappelli met with Joseph Carson, Chief Security Scientist at Thycotic, to discuss the results of the company’s first annual 2017 State of Cybersecurity Metrics Report,
The report analyzes key findings from a Security Measurement Index (SMI) benchmark Survey of more than 400 global business and security executives around the world.
According to the report, most companies worldwide are failing to measure cybersecurity effectiveness and performance.
More than half of the 400 respondents in the survey, 58 percent, scored an “F” or “D” grade when evaluating their efforts to measure their cybersecurity investments and performance against best practices.
While this sounds bad for big companies it gets even worst when we look at small business. For example: In 60% of the cases they cannot recover from a serious cyber attack.
Listen to this story recorded on the Expo Floor at Black Hat USA 2017 - pardon the background noise.


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This is sort of big news. See, currently, in the United States, if you want a cell phone, you start at a wireless provider, like AT&T or Verizon Wireless or T-Mobile, and you pick out a phone that works for you. That phone will be locked to that provider, meaning that the wireless company will be subsidizing the cost of the phone to you, making it a cheaper purchase, in exchange for your 1 or 2-year commitment to wireless service.
This model was shaken with the release of Apple's iPhone two years ago, which was offered in partnership with AT&T, but was initially sold unsubsidized -- meaning that early adopters paid the full price for the phone, $599 for the high end model back then -- and then paid for service with AT&T on top of it. Today, the iPhone is like most other phones, subsidized through AT&T to bring the price down for end users in exchange for the 2-year commitment on service.
When Google launched their Android operating system for handhelds, they did it with the promise that they were not in the hardware business, that they were in the OS business to make phones better across the board. From Android chief Andy Rubin, "'We're not making hardware,' Rubin said. 'We're enabling other people to build hardware.'"
Technically, that may still be true. What came out of Mountain View this weekend is a report that Google has handed out a new handset dubbed the "Nexus One" to employees at the Google holiday party. It runs the latest unreleased version of the Android operating system and is manufactured by HTC, long-time manufacturing partner to big wireless. Note, it's not manufactured by Google.
Subtle. Very subtle.
What Google said publicly is this:
We recently came up with the concept of a mobile lab, which is a device that combines innovative hardware from a partner with software that runs on Android to experiment with new mobile features and capabilities, and we shared this device with Google employees across the globe. This means they get to test out a new technology and help improve it.
But reporters being who they are, we now know the news seems to be somewhat different. We're hearing that this new phone will hit the market in January of 2010, on the heels of Verizon's foray into the Android smartphone market with the Droid, and that the phone would be unlocked for a GSM network. That means customers would be able to choose their wireless provider, compatible with AT&T and T-Mobile in the US. Unfortunately for Verizon, early pics of the new Google phone seem to indicate that it is much better looking, and there appears to be no battery door to fall off. Tumultuous times indeed.
Buying advice? January 2010 is right around the corner. If you're hot for a smartphone and can't switch to AT&T for an iPhone, wait. What Google is hopefully doing with their Google phone is fixing what's wrong with the iPhone ecosystem. The Google phone will allow customers to buy closer to the center of the ecosystem, with access to an application store not mired by the hotly debated approval process employed by Apple. As long as you're diving into the Googleverse, you might as well dive into the deep end.


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By Janel Martinez | 08/24/2010 - 11:30
Not even three weeks after Madonna and her daughter Lourdes launched their Material Girl clothing and accessories line via Macy’s, the designer-duo is dealing with some loose threads. L.A. Triumph, Inc. filed a suit in the California Central District court against Madonna last week.
By Miranda Noland | 02/23/2010 - 10:00
When we found out that the super-stylish Nicole Richie was starting her own clothing line last October, we couldn't wait to get our hands on her bohemian designs. Lately, Nicole has been seen rocking items from the line out on the town, and now, the sheer and feminine clothes are available for pre-order from a few select online retailers. Check out some of our favorites styles...
By Samantha Leal | 06/24/2009 - 14:35
Jennifer Lopez’s contemporary sportswear line Sweetface has been pulled from production after failing to make an impact on the U.S. market (and in the diva’s bank account). According to WWD, this marks the end of Lopez’s clothing business in the United States.
By Mariela Rosario | 06/02/2009 - 08:45
Lindsay Lohan is in Paris, reportedly in talks to collaborate with the House of Emanuel Ungaro and sign on as a "creative consultant" for the fashion line. But Ungaro's head designer, Colombiano Esteban Cortazar is not feeling the partnership.
"Esteban is threatening to leave the company if they bring Lindsay on as a consultant," a fashion insider told he NY Post, "It has been a revolving door of designers there and if he leaves, his team will go with him."


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It comes as the fourth of the Barcelona-headquartered company’s creative centres in the country, and Eurofragrance has invested EUR 2 million in the latest plant, which it says will be “strategic to its development and to the creation of new fragrances.”
The innovation facility will be used for the design, evaluation and development of applications and fragrances, according to the company, and “will streamline projects and will drive categories for which there is great demand in Asian markets, such as Home Care Fragrances.”
Asia: smelling sweet
The opening comes ahead of the launch of a new production plant for Eurofragrance in Singapore later this year too, with both facilities suggesting the company is banking on Asia as a key region for growth up ahead in the fragrance category.
“Eurofragance sales in Asia are showing one of the highest rates of growth,” the company says, and notes that the opening of the two facilities this year plays part of its wider expansion strategy through which it aims to generate EUR 77 million by the end of this year, and EUR 100 million by 2018.
Speaking of the new plant specifically, Eurofragrance confirmed the region is a leading priority within this strategy.
“The mission of this plant, which will be equipped with a state-of-the-art robot, is to localise and increase production in what is a strategic geographic area for the company.”
Eurofragrance is not the only western fragrance player looking to corner the rising fragrance market in Asia: last year, rival Givaudan also invested in opening a creative centre and production hub in Singapore.
Further, the move to focus a company’s Asia innovation and R&D capacity in Singapore is one with which multinational P&G has led the way.
The company owns a USD 250 million research centre in the country, which it says is strategically positioned as hub for the wider Asian region - the company’s largest hub for innovation.


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In its latest move to colonize areas of the web currently outside its orbit, Facebook is planning to roll out a "Subscribe" button for websites. Joanna Shields, vp and managing director for Facebook Europe, Middle East and Africa announced the program at Le Web in Paris on Wednesday, according to TechCrunch.
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When Facebook launched its Subscribe button on Wednesday, many were quick to note its implications for journalists, celebrities and other thought leaders. The new feature allows for users to follow public updates, and these are the people most often broadcasting their ideas. Yet there's more the average user can get on board with than meets the eye.
Facebook has launched a Subscribe button that lets you follow the public updates of others, regardless of whether you're Facebook friends. The new subscription options are part of Facebook's effort to give users more control over their Facebook accounts and their News Feeds. "Facebook has always been working on giving users more control," said Facebook Product Manager Naomi Gleit.


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Credit card debt: use declining but consumer borrowing increases
On behalf of Ellett Law Offices , P.C. posted in 1. Credit Card Debt on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Consumer borrowing may have seen a slight increase in April in Arizona and nationwide, but fewer individuals are attempting to shoulder debt on their credit cards. Reports suggest that this decline in credit card use — and subsequent credit card debt accumulation — may be in response to employers seeming to have pulled back their hiring this spring. With a lower likelihood of employment, households appear to be limiting their spending to adjust their finances accordingly.
According to Federal Reserve data, April saw an increase in consumer borrowing of $6.5 billion — half of the increase that was reported for March. Employers added only 77,000 jobs in April and only 66,000 jobs in May, the fewest in a year. Compared to the 252,000 jobs created between December and February it seems like a drastic slowdown.
It appears that credit card use has changed in accordance to the changes in job creation and consumer borrowing. At the beginning of the year, when jobs were more readily available, consumers were freer with use of their credit cards. Now that job creation has slowed down once again, credit card use is slowing down as well.
While a decline in credit card use seems beneficial in reducing debt — particularly credit card debt — the increase in consumer borrowing may be something of concern. Economists point out that consumers are spending more and saving less, leading to a need to take out loans to cover car and home expenses which could rapidly lead to debt accumulation. The way that more consumers are borrowing suggests as well that there is a certain level of comfort in debt accumulation in all areas, including in credit card usage. While some households may be able to operate by temporarily taking on small debts, not all are able to recover so quickly. For these Arizona households, debt relief options such as bankruptcy may come into play as a means of finally conquering nagging debt and forging a path to begin anew financially.
Source: Fox News, “US consumer cut back on credit card use in April,” June 13, 2012
Tags: consumer borrowing, credit card debt, debt


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PUBG Mobile developers Krafton officially revealed the game and the logo. the developers have released a new video revealing the logo yet again. The 26-second long video introduces the game’s logo with some in-game elements like the Level 3 Helmet.
The logo is inspired by the Indian national flag’s tricolour. The game’s name in text in orange, white, and green colours.
At the end of the video is a hashtag that reads “India ka Battlegrounds”, which translates to India’s Battlegrounds. The logo was quietly updated on the company’s official Facebook account and YouTube channel before the announcement.
Krafton confirmed that its latest game is India-specific. It has also announced that the game will have a pre-registration period before its release in the country.
The company will collaborate with partners to build an esports ecosystem while bringing in-game content. It will also bring a series of India specific in-game events at launch.
Additionally, players under 18 years of age will have some restrictions while playing the game.
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Ford Ups Production of SUVs to Meet Demand
Blue Oval to invest additional $25 mil in Kentucky Truck Plant, allowing it to increase manufacturing line speed on Expedition, Navigator.
Ford is increasing production of the Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator to meet the greater-than-anticipated consumer demand. The company is using advanced manufacturing technologies and an upskilled workforce to increase line speed at its Kentucky Truck Plant in Lousiville, boosting production targets approximately 25 percent since last fall when the SUVs hit the market.
“The response from customers regarding our new full-size SUVs has been exceptional,” said Joe Hinrichs, President, Global Operations. “Using a combination of Ford’s advanced manufacturing and American hard work and ingenuity, we’ll deliver more high-quality Lincoln Navigators and Ford Expeditions to customers than originally planned.”
A new $25 million investment for additional manufacturing enhancements brings Ford’s total investment at the Kentucky Truck Plant to $925 million and allows the company to increase manufacturing line speed. This investment and advanced manufacturing upgrades are examples of the company’s quest to improve its operational fitness.


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On June 11, Sony showcased its next-generation console, the PS5, along with previews for games available with its release.
The first thing that pops out is the sleek design, using white and black contrasting colors for a simple, but high-tech look. Sony is offering the system in two versions, one with a Blu-ray CD drive and one that is fully digital. Last year, Sony reported that digital game sales surpassed physical game copies for the first time, and that trend looks to continue with their new console.
The PS5 can be placed vertically or horizontally, like its Xbox Series X competitor. At launch, available accessories include a wireless controller with a built-in microphone and headset jack, charging station, HD camera, wireless headset, and remote. It’s unknown which accessories Sony will include with the base console.
The announcement included support for one major pro-consumer feature lacking in the PS4 – backwards compatibility. “We’re expecting backward compatible titles will run at a boosted frequency on PS5 so that they can benefit from higher or more stable frame rates and potentially higher resolutions,” PlayStation Senior Vice President Hideaki Nishino said in a March blog post. “We’re currently evaluating games on a title-by-title basis to spot any issues that need adjustment from the original software developers.”
Sony’s exhibition also included teaser trailers for nine titles exclusive to the console and over twenty games total. Classic series like Spider-Man (featuring “Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse” hero Miles Morales), Gran Turismo, and Resident Evil are all going to make another appearance with the new console.
Sony also announced that Bluepoint Games is remaking the classic FromSoftware game Demon’s Souls. A PS3 exclusive, the original Demon’s Souls launched an entirely new Soulsborne game subgenre.
According to The Verge, the console will be available to the public sometime during the holiday season, with a solid-state drive (SSD) that will “provide 825GB of storage and 5.5 GB/s of performance.” This SSD will support better graphics and speeds, with the Verge additionally reporting that the PS5 will support both 4K and 8K graphics.
The Verge posted a video highlighting the console features and games presented during the showcase.


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The U.K. is experiencing a significant and drastic fall in the volume of business-to-business transactions, according to the CEO of one of the world’s largest B2B payments and supply chain logistics platforms.
In an exclusive interview with TechCrunch at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Tradeshift CEO and co-founder Christian Lanng said: “We see the numbers. There has been a huge drop in the purchase orders in the U.K. in December last year. Especially in retail. But it’s cross-sector. It’s manufacturing, retail, logistics.”
Tradeshift is a cloud platform for supply chain payments, marketplaces and apps, and is one of Europe’s tech unicorns and has raised more than $432 million to date.
He said Tradeshift works with a “major manufacturer” in the U.K. which has “one hour of inventory” feeding its production line. He declined to name the firm.
Speaking about the effects of Brexit on supply chains, he said: “If you add 10 minutes of custom checks to every truck feeding that production line you create a traffic jam that cannot be resolved. It would last a week before it would get sorted out. They literally cannot operate the factory,” he said.
“Forget about the politics. This is just a very technical thing that’s going to happen. People don’t understand the facts. You can discuss it in a very abstract level but literally, it’s just like that.”
“People forget about the practices or realities of the supply chains across the channel and nobody is engaging really in any serious way with the people who know how that stuff works, because [Brexit] is like a circus, right?”
Speaking about Tradeshift’s recent acquisition of Bableway, a cloud integration technology platform, Lanng said the combined companies will process “more than a trillion dollars of payments. That’s twice as large as PayPal and three times as large as Amazon in just payment volumes,” he said. “Between us we’ll have a bigger chunk of the world economy in terms of B2B, not B2C.”
Does Laang think there will be a global slowdown, as some are predicting? “Our view is pretty simple. China freaked everybody out about how fast they moved with technology such as on healthcare, renewable energy, electric cars, AI and financial services. And they’re now starting to push ‘Made in China’ by 2025.”
“So [the West] is losing the global leadership. We have been slow to adapt to electric, or renewable energy. It was described as a hippie thing, but now it’s the future of the world. Countries using tariffs [to slow down China] it’s not going to work. We’re very bullish on Asia and any country in the world that’s ‘leaning in’ to technology.”


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Monday, March 27, 2006
The biggest downfall is the clunkiness of text entry - which would make anything but the most rudimentary of Blog entries a chore. Hopefully someone will provide support for IR keyboard input (as there is no Bluetooth connectivity).
I'm also surprised at the number of 3rd party hacks available, and synchronizing software. My current favourite is PSPWare (for Mac & PC). More to come as I experiment...
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Vodafone plans broadband service | BUSINESS | NEWS | tvnz.co.nz: "Vodafone says it may have the answer to New Zealand's internet speed woes with a plan to offer a third generation or 3G broadband service by the end of the year.
The company says the new service will be up to five times faster than its current second generation or 2G offering, with speeds of about 1.8 megabits per second, similar to that offered by rival Telecom.
But Vodafone says Nokia predicts those speeds could approach 14.4 megabits in a few years.
Vodafone New Zealand chief executive Russell Stanners says there's big growth potential for the new service which will provide broadband over the company's 3G mobile phone network.
Stanners believes Telecom's copper telephone wires into your home will become redundant and says broadband can be delivered effectively by mobile.
He admits Vodafone has been on the back foot in the mobile market against Telecom in recent quarters.
Meanwhile, Telecom says it plans to upgrade its third generation service next year with faster speeds than Vodafone of up to 2.4 megabits a second."
Well - its about time Vodafone & Telecom gave us realistic data pricing for 3G data - then it would be a viable alternative to ADSL broadband in NZ. Currently Vodafones 3G coverage is actually greater than Telecoms, even though Telecoms actual data speeds are higher, so I'd still go with Vodafone. Besides - what incentive does Telecom have in providing a good 3G service when they already monopolize and cramp ADSL broadband?!
(Via TVNZ News.)
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Mobilicio.us: "Social Bookmarking on Mobile devices!"
Cool - a free way to use your Delicious bookmarks on your Mobile device - and its FREE! The system uses mtag to indicate mobile bookmarks, and harnesses the power of Google Mobile. I'll have to give it a try soon!
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Macworld: News: Sony Ericsson unwraps 3.2-megapixel blogging phone: "Users of the new K800 and K790 phones that don%u2019t already have a blog can set one up over the phone. They%u2019ll be able to take photos with the camera and then easily add them to their blogs, according to Sony Ericsson. Blogger is an online tool hosted by Google that lets people create and manage blogs for free."
Apparently all of the next release of sonyericsson phones (including the K610) will include a blogger client!


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Hotwire is a global communications agency that helps businesses better engage and connect with their customers. From Sydney to San Francisco, they operate with a borderless mind-set across 12 wholly owned locations covering the US, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Australia, together with a partner network spanning 29 cities around the world.
Client website: https://www.hotwireglobal.com/country/uk
Project: McAfee: Consumer Labs Day
Futurist Tom Cheesewright worked with Hotwire to add a new angle to security giant McAfee’s press day in Paris, offering an original take on the future of security and debating with McAfee CTO, Raj Samani. Tom’s comments made it into pieces by most of the attending media and were the subject of a couple of dedicated pieces of coverage.


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SPAR South Africa is turning the egg challenge – a global social media craze – on its head. While the original challenge requires participants to drink an egg with a scoop of sugar and then chase it down with alcohol or another beverage, the SPAR version encourages shoppers to donate daily essentials to those in need. By donating goods into a shopping cart placed outside every SPAR store, customers can help feed millions of South Africans who are going to bed hungry.
SPAR South Africa is encouraging customers to use the handle #SPARdonate and place a six-pack of eggs, 1 kilogram of maize, and 1 litre of milk into the donation carts located outside of SPAR stores. All donations will go to the most vulnerable communities in South Africa.
As of 6 May, SPAR customers have donated 76.054 eggs, 30.554 litres of milk, 38.227 kilograms of maize and flour, and 31.578 other products.
Beyond placing the designated shopping carts outside stores, SPAR South Africa will also give ZAR1 to the SPAR Lodestar Foundation feeding scheme for each time the handle #SPARdonate is used on social media channels.
Since the start of the national lockdown as a result of COVID-19, SPAR retailers in South Africa have gone the extra mile to offer support to their respective communities.
Ingane Yami, in the Shongweni Valley in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), is a permanent village for orphaned and vulnerable children. The nearest SUPERSPAR Supermarket fulfils the village’s weekly grocery needs, ensuring the residents can maintain a healthy diet.
Elsewhere, independent retailer Roy Sheodin donated ZAR20,000 (more than €1,000) to provide families in his community with healthy SPAR porridge meal.
To support charities across the country, SPAR South Africa in February ran a campaign with very local roots, called ‘Big Heart’. As part of the campaign, each SPAR Supermarket chose a local charity which customers could support with donations of food items.


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Kuwait's Ministry of Interior, in partnership with the Manpower Authority, has announced plans to launch extensive security campaigns to deport all violators of residency laws in the country. According to reports, an estimated 182,000 illegal workers, many of whom are registered under fake companies, are residing in residential areas across Kuwait.
To combat the issue, the committee responsible for demographic changes, led by First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, as well as Acting Minister of Defense, Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled, has instructed relevant authorities to take additional measures to prevent residency fraud and sales.
The committee has also called for stricter measures to prevent individuals from obtaining commercial licenses or renting shops in complexes without an actual address or activity. These measures will be implemented across various regions in Kuwait to reduce incidents of tampering and selling of residencies.
The security campaigns will involve strict checks in residential areas and commercial establishments to apprehend all individuals who have violated residency laws. The campaign is set to be launched soon and will continue until all violators are deported from the country.
Kuwaiti authorities urge all expatriates to abide by the residency laws and renew their visas on time. Failure to comply with the residency laws could result in severe penalties, including imprisonment and deportation.


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Ocala gets new outdoor supply store
OCALA - The new Gander Mountain outdoors store has opened at the southwest corner of Interstate 75 and State Road 40.
Gander is the nation's largest retail network of stores for apparel, hunting, fishing, camping, boating, marine and outdoor lifestyle products and services, according to a company news release.
The Ocala store's address is 3970 S.W. Third St.
This store is Gander's fifth in Florida. The others are in Jacksonville, Lake Mary, Palm Beach Gardens and St. Augustine.
A grand opening ceremony will be held May 30 and will feature outdoors expert Michael Waddell.


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According to National Geographic, Ghana is one of the top 25 breathtaking places and experiences for any traveler to experience in 2023.
According to Amy Alipio, a senior editor for National Geographic Travel who was mentioned on CNN Travel, “The hope is that 2023 will be not just a big return to travel but also to rediscovering wonder.”
Ghana is included in the new category “Community,” which was added to the list this year and replaces “sustainability” with a broader “community” category that emphasizes how conservation benefits everyone, according to a National Geographic announcement.
The list of destinations for the coming year highlights places that are fascinating, enjoyable for travelers of all ages, and beneficial to local ecosystems and communities.
As a result, Ghana is being recognized as “an important destination in West Africa for Black heritage travelers.” That said, National Geographic is urging tourists to visit Ghana to explore Black heritage and hang out with a fashion-forward crowd in the capital, Accra.
This announcement follows a number of others made in the past four years, when Ghana redoubled its efforts to promote tourism with the flagship “Year of Return” campaign and its follow-up, “Beyond The Return.”
In addition, Ghana launched the “December in GH” campaign to make the country a hub for holiday fun and entertainment. Many people of African descent, including Hollywood stars, members of the Congressional Black Caucus, and the NAACP, have traveled to the homeland as a result.


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Commercial Kitchen has signed up for the third year in a row to back the Catering Insight Awards, in association with Atosa.
Ahead of the trade show’s third edition at the Birmingham NEC on 5-6 June, the event has confirmed it is once again sponsoring the supplier heavy equipment innovation category at Catering Insight’s ceremony, which will take place at London’s glitzy Bloomsbury Ballroom on Thursday 29 November.
Commercial Kitchen event manager Katie Tyler commented: “We really enjoyed last year’s event and celebrating great achievement within this very special industry.
“The Catering Insight Awards bring everyone together, it’s a great networking occasion and we, at Commercial Kitchen, are excited about seeing old and new friends whilst celebrating the best in the business.
“Commercial Kitchen was launched in response to the industry’s request to have a targeted and dedicated trade event so we’re thrilled that we can be part of the Catering Insight Awards again and use the opportunity to thank the industry for their ongoing support.
She added: “The awards acknowledge the UK catering equipment sector and it’s so important to celebrate the equipment and services that this industry’s back of house areas thrive on.”
Once again the winners will be entirely decided by the industry itself, with senior dealer executives voting on the supplier categories and vice versa for the distributor accolades.
The Catering Insight Awards 2018, in association with Atosa, will see the following accolades presented:
Service & Support
Light Equipment, sponsored by The Professional Kitchen Show
Heavy Equipment, sponsored by Commercial Kitchen
Training & Education
Distributor of the Year – South of England, sponsored by Hobart
Distributor of the Year – North of England, sponsored by Blue Seal
Distributor of the Year – Rest of the UK
Distributor of the Year – Project Management, sponsored by Welbilt
Emerging Distributor of the Year, sponsored by Jestic Foodservice Equipment
Digital Initiative of the Year, sponsored by Hoshizaki
Service & Maintenance Provider of the Year, sponsored by First Choice Group
Distributor of the Year – Nationwide, sponsored by Rational
Lifetime Achievement Award
The Catering Insight Awards are supported by Cedabond. Pre-dinner drinks are sponsored by Pentland Wholesale.
Tickets for the exclusive event are now available HERE.
The now-legendary After-Party will commence following the main event, to continue the celebrations into the early hours, with details to follow soon.
To discuss the unique opportunities this event offers, contact:
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0203 176 5632


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Dell and Toshiba will be demonstrating MMX technologies at Comdex that boost performance on their product lineups.
Intel's MMX processors, slated to ship in the first quarter of next year, increase performance for multimedia applications written to take advantage its capabilites. Specifically, 2D and 3D graphics, speech recognition, audio, and video compression applications will see better performance compared to current Intel processors.
Dell will be showing customers its OptiPlex PCs with MMX technology. The OptiPlex line is targeted at businesses. Dell wants to show large corporate customers the benefits of MMX at Comdex, a source said.
Moreover, Dell will "be very quick" to bring out MMX technology-based systems on both its OptiPlex and Dimension lines when MMX processors begin shipping in volume in the first part of 1997, a source said.
Toshiba will demonstrate videoconferencing on an MMX-enabled Tecra notebook PC so "we can show the full capabilities of videoconferencing," a Toshiba spokesperson said. The notebook will not be demonstrated on the floor, the spokesperson added.
AST will demo Advantage multimedia PCs using MMX-enabled processors. AST will also demonstrate enhanced Ascentia notebooks using MMX processors.
Intel simulations indicate that certain types of multimedia and communications software will run from 50 percent to 400 percent faster when developers write to MMX.
Moreover, MMX Pentium processors are expected to deliver a general "baseline" performance improvement of between 10 and 15 percent compared with current Pentiums because the size of the built-in cache has been doubled and enhancements have been made to the data paths, known as "pipelines," inside the processor.


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New construction on the Peninsula will offer quite a bit of retail space and include the first Wawa convenience store in Newport News.
The chain is known for its tasty submarine sandwiches and cheap gasoline.
The Newport News' Wawa, near the intersection of J. Clyde Morris Boulevard and I-64, will have 16 gas pumps and will probably open in late June or early July.
Construction started in early February on the 5,600-square-foot store, said Mid-Atlantic Construction Group's job superintendent "T" Reynolds.
Reynolds said he also supervised the construction of three Wawa stores in Richmond.
The first Wawa on the Peninsula was a 4,485-square-foot store in Williamsburg near the College of William and Mary's football stadium. That store opened in October.
Another store, Babies 'R Us, opened in Newport News last weekend across Jefferson Avenue from the Barnes & Noble and Toys 'R Us.
"We had 1,000 customers come through the registers on both Friday and Saturday," said Babies 'R Us assistant manager Matt Williams.
"Quite a few more came in and looked."
The Newport News' Babies 'R Us encompasses 24,000 square feet, has 45 employees and is open seven days a week.
Best Buy sits between Babies 'R Us and another new store.
Value City Furniture will have a soft opening -- without hoopla -- Thursday and a grand opening at 10 a.m. Friday, according to store manager Steve Kim.
The 55,800-square-foot store is the first Value City Furniture on the Peninsula.
The chain also has stores in Chesapeake and Virginia Beach.
In Hampton, the Chuck E. Cheese under construction in Hampton Towne Centre should open in late spring or early summer, said Mark Bomse, spokesman for ELG Commercial Corporation.
This restaurant will be one of the larger ones in the chain -- 15,000 square feet.
Andy Kemp from Discount Plumbing said the plumbing passed inspection Tuesday, and the store's concrete slab will soon be poured.
Chuck E. Cheese is just to the right of T.J. Maxx. A new, smaller building with its own awning sits between Chuck E. Cheese and the AMC 24 Theaters.
That 5,000-square-foot space is currently available for lease, Bomse said.
Sarah Sue Ingram can be reached at 247-4767 or by e-mail at email@example.com


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iPhone 4 and Apple's silence on pollution in China
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Apple has whipped up a storm of anticipation for its new iPhone, which goes on sale in the UK tomorrow, but it's been silent on questions about the phone's environmental impact in China, says Ma Jun
Announcing the iPhone4 at the WWDC conference earlier this month, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said, "it's a major jump from the original models. This is undoubtedly the most beautiful and sophisticated product I have created."
However in sharp contrast with this high-profile release, Apple has been silent about questions regarding their supply chain's heavy metal pollution. On April 16, 2010, 34 Chinese environmental organizations, including Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Green Beagle, questioned heavy metal pollution in a letter sent to CEO Steve Jobs. 50 days have passed, and though the significant problems with the IT industry's violations of heavy metals standards have been reported through media, Apple has not given a word in response.
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