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The rally yesterday, in combination with the pressure for New York Fashion Week to cancel Karimova's show, was incredibly successful in increasing awareness about forced child labor in Uzbekistan. It's important to remember that beyond Karimova and her fashion show, there continues to be forced child labor in the production of cotton from Uzbekistan. This is a critical human rights issue that affects apparel brands around the world as the cotton ends up in the clothing we buy. All garment companies must step up to prohibit the use of cotton from Uzbekistan as long as the government relies on forced child labor and ensure that a ban on Uzbek cotton is being fully implemented.
Check out photos from the rally online here. Check out some of the top articles and reports on the rally below.
- "Uzbek dictator's daughter latest attempt to stage fashion show foiled", Guardian (UK);
- "Uzbekistan's first daughter looks for love, gets none", Associated Press -- video by AP here;
- "The Show Must Go On: Uzbek Ruler's Daughter Defies Critics With New York Fashion Show", Radio Free Europe;
- "Uzbek leader's daughter hits fashion controversy", AFP;
- "Gulnara Karimova's Show Walked Despite Protests and IMGs Cancellation", New York Magazine;
- "Uzbekistan: GooGoosha's Fashion Show Fizzles As Protestors Converge on Cipriani", Eurasianet;
- "Uzbek president's daughter to hold show despite pressure from human rights activists", Telegraph (UK);
- "Hated Dictator's Daughter's Fashion Show Swarmed By Protesters", Gothamist;
- "Protesters walk outside fashion show of Uzbek dictator's daughter" (Includes video), New York Post -- Full video report here;
- "Gulnara Karimova: Kin of tyrant readies Cipriani catwalk", Metro;
- "Activists Demand Gulnara Karimova's Fashion Show Be Shut Down", WNYC;
- "Fashion show by Uzbek leader's daughter back on, despite protests", RIA Novosti.


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President Joko Widodo officially opened the 21st international handicraft trade (INACRAFT) exhibition at the Jakarta Convention Center on Wednesday (Apr 24). In his remarks, the President appreciated the improvement in the implementation of INACRAFT which continues to improve every year. These advancements include increasing production quality and capacity, as well as employment. Nevertheless, the President said, that Indonesian handicrafts only covered around 1.26 percent of the international market share. Therefore President Joko Widodo encourages the creative industries of Indonesia and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises to continue to increase creativity and innovation, in developing products on the international market.
"we must continue to be innovative creative in opening the market and penetration of international market share, with handicraft products. We are looking for non-traditional markets, as well as improving the quality of Indonesian products, since the international markets also like Indonesian brands" President said.
The 21st international handicraft trade exhibition (INACRAFT) in 2019 is held at the Jakarta Convention Center from April 24-28, 2019.This year INACRAFT accommodates 1700 companies from all regions in Indonesia and occupies 1400 exhibition stands.Some friendly countries such as Morocco, Japan, Poland, Pakistan and Hong Kong will enliven the exhibition by displaying their craft products// Ndy/Trs.N

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Nicole Slotterbeck wasn’t just annoyed by the “mystery” packages that kept arriving from Amazon. She was frightened.
First was the bra — in her size. Then came sexually suggestive merchandise on Feb. 7.
“I’ve been basically living in fear of a stalker due to the content of the packages,” she said.
Slotterbeck, a 26-year-old makeup artist from Southern California, was among the more than 30 people who contacted me to complain about receiving multiple packages from Amazon that they had never ordered, after I wrote about an Acton couple this month with the same problem.
But her situation, as well as those of other women, stood out because of the nature of the products inside — and the fear it sparked.
Unlike the Gallivans, the Acton couple who contacted me after getting about two dozen packages stuffed with cheap plastic stuff, including phone chargers and fans, the items that Slotterbeck got were deeply personal — and unnerving.
She and three other women who contacted me received sex toys. Two others got lingerie.
All the orders were apparently made from recently opened Amazon accounts by buyers trying to hide their identities by using gift cards instead of credit cards.
And the response from the Internet giant has been muddled and far from sufficient.
I let Amazon know, in excruciating detail, about the contents of the packages — some of which can’t be printed in a family newspaper. I said there were some very frightened women looking for reassurance.
In response, the company released a statement, saying, in part: “We are taking action against bad actors that abuse our systems and services for marketing purposes. Customer safety is a top priority and we encourage any customer that has a question about a package to contact our Customer Service.”
But when I asked specifically for Amazon’s policy on privacy and its protocol for dealing with customers who complain about receiving “gifts” from anonymous senders, the world’s largest online retailer, with $90 billion in annual sales, declined to share that information with me.
Slotterbeck demanded that Amazon cancel the account from which the items were sent. Amazon said it did, she told me in a telephone interview. But the packages kept coming, containing items even more disturbing than the previous ones.
Alicia Piatt told me she has been on edge for months, since Amazon packages began arriving at her home, also in Southern California. One of them contained the same type of vibrator as the one Slotterbeck received. Piatt also received lubricant and other intimate items. (Slotterbeck and Piatt do not know each other).
“Believe me when I tell you that I have been scared to death for months,” she wrote to me. “Worrying that my kids were in danger because of this whole thing.”
Piatt said she’s gone to the police, the FBI, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Secret Service, but to no avail. The police asked if she had “a secret admirer.” It has put a tremendous strain on her family.
“But I have nothing to hide,” she said. “I just want it to stop. I’m a freakin’ wreck.”
When Slotterbeck first complained to Amazon, a company representative insisted someone was “pranking” her. But she couldn’t think of anyone who would do such a thing, including ex-boyfriends. She asked around among her friends but turned up nothing.
“There was no one I was not on good terms with,” she said.
The packages, addressed to Slotterbeck at her parents’ house, contained nothing to allow her to identify the sender. But Slotterbeck took pictures of the shipping labels and sent them to Amazon, allowing the company to identify the sender’s account.
The name on the account and the e-mail address associated with it were made up of a random sequence of letters and numbers — something like “s8ke9s31x,” Amazon told Slotterbeck. The only mailing address on the account was Slotterbeck’s.
Amazon agreed to shut down the account. But the packages kept coming, and when Amazon looked up the account based on later shipping labels, it found a new name and e-mail address for the sender, a fresh scramble of letters and numbers, Slotterbeck said.
Slotterbeck also learned in her many telephone calls to Amazon that the firm knew the IP address of the computer used by the sender, but that Amazon couldn’t or wouldn’t release it due to privacy concerns. But Amazon did tell her something she found extremely alarming: she and the sender are in the same ZIP code.
“Amazon told me to contact the police,” Slotterbeck said. “I gathered a bag of things the ‘mystery sender’ had sent and took it to the police, which is where they basically laughed and said, ‘So what is illegal about this?’ ”
Slotterbeck told the police she felt harassed. “They shooed me away,” she said.
Slotterbeck’s mother then called police and got them to file Slotterbeck’s statement.
The column on the Gallivans focused on the likelihood that the mystery packages were sent by someone trying to scam Amazon by writing bogus product reviews on its website.
In this scenario, described to me by two business consultants who previously worked for Amazon, a seller trying to prop up a product would set up a phony e-mail account that would be used to establish an Amazon account. Then the seller would purchase merchandise with a gift card — no identifying information there — and send it to a random person, in this case the Gallivans.
Finally, the phantom seller, who controls the “buyer’s” e-mail account, writes glowing reviews of the product, thus boosting the Amazon ranking of the product.
Amazon acknowledges “abuse” of customer review system but says it has found “very few reviews” on the products shipped to customers who didn’t order them, like the Gallivans.
But the situation with these women who contacted me is something more serious. They are scared, not merely irritated.
One business consultant who advises clients on how to work with Amazon told me even an IP address might not help track down the person sending items to Slotterbeck, because the sender may have used a public computer at an Internet cafe or public library.
Amazon obviously wants to continue to take orders from people who want to send something anonymously.
“But how does Amazon reply when someone says, ‘Hey, Amazon, you delivered this to me and now you need to tell me who sent it, because I’m scared?’ ” he asked.


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If you’re a fan of scouring someone’s garden for hidden chocolatey ovals, Easter 2020 might be a bit of a disappointment. As we continue to deal with being stuck indoors while the weather becomes increasingly glorious, we’re having to find alternative forms of entertainment over the long weekend. Fortunately, at least one retailer has come up with a way to keep Easter eggs awesome.
New for this year, legendary giant food producer Costco has decided to give their seasonal treats a serious upgrade. Ideally, for anyone with an overactive sweet tooth, the store is now offering supersized “Chocolate Dream Easter Egg Layer Cakes” for Easter. If the photos are anything to go by, they are delicious in the eggs-treme.
Weighing in at around 2lbs, the multi-layered desserts have clearly been concocted as a proper crowd-pleaser. According to the official description on the packaging, each dessert features:
“Layers of dark chocolate cake filled with white chocolate mousse and milk chocolate mousse. The cake is enrobed in chocolate and finished with pastel stripes of white chocolate and pastel curls.”
Check out our recipe for an Easter Chocolate Swirl Cake Trifle:
The first photos of the new cake were captured by Instagrammer and Costco aficionado @costcoguy4u, who wrote of the dish:
“Junior’s Cheesecake Chocolate Easter Egg 32oz $15.79 This Bakery makes great quality stuff… Purchased the same cake on Valentines Day and it was delicious. Pick it up now! It won’t last till next week, TRUST ME!”
If the comments are anything to go by, the cake looks like it could cause a splash, with one potential customer gushing, “I hear this is so good!” and another adding, “They have it in Charlotte, NC. Just picked one up!”
Say what you like about the relative sophistication of the Costco pastry section, there’s little doubt that it delivers some delicious stuff.


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Hostess Brand Looking to Shut Down
By: Leon Castles
on Friday, May 11, 2012
Hostess Brands Inc that is based in Irving near Dallas has now made an announcement that they are on the verge of shut down and they will have to look out for liquidity options. The company has already warned the State of Texas on Wednesday stating that they will have to shut down their operations and liquidate the business if certain conditions happen as per their predictions. The company feels that they have analyzed certain patterns and if those situations happen they will have no other option but to shut down their operations and liquidate the company.
Owing to this the company has already sent a notice to all the employees working in the company to ensure that they act as per the WARN act. The company has announced that they have sent notices to all the 18,000 employees working under the company. However, the company has not provided the number of employees that they will lay off if they have to shut down their operations. Hostess Brands Inc is famous in Dallas for making Twinkies and the company said that they need to emerge from the bankruptcy for which they will have to look out for certain market options. The company said that although they are struggling they need to emerge from the bankruptcy as quickly as they can.


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Under Armour named Clay Dean to the position of chief innovation officer.
Pacific Sunwear appointed James Gulmi, former long-time CFO for Genesco, as interim CEO. He succeeds Gary Schoenfeld, who had been CEO since 2009.
Schutt Sports, a football helmet and protective equipment company, reached a partnership with Pro Gear Sports, a custom shoulder pad supplier to the NFL and NCAA.
Wolverine, the flagship brand of Wolverine Worldwide, appointed John Estes as vice president of global sales and Andy Shripka as vice president of marketing.
Vista Outdoor Inc., a global designer, manufacturer and marketer of consumer products in the outdoor sports and recreation markets, named Jennifer G. Anderson as vice president and treasurer, effective April 1, 2017.
Implus, a provider of athletic, fitness and outdoor accessories, acquired Australia-based Global Leisure Concepts (GLC).
Royal Robbins, rock climbing icon and founder of the eponymous outdoor clothing company, passed away at his Modesto, CA home “after a long illness,” according to the company website.
FeraDyne Outdoors LLC acquired privately owned Eastman Outdoors Inc.
Umarex USA appointed Richard Turner as president. Turner will have responsibility for the full scope of company operations.
Cocona Inc., creator of patented 37.5 Technology and Eco-Dri Technology, promoted Christy Raedeke to executive vice president of global marketing and sales.
Fanatics and the International Champions Cup (ICC) expanded their omni-channel retail partnership.
Victorinox Swiss Army Inc. named Hilary Hartley to the position of president, North America.
RYU Apparel Inc. appointed Brett Pawson as the company’s senior vice president, retail and operations.
Fjällräven appointed sales agencies Brandywine River Reps (BR Reps) and The Praelia Group to lead strategic growth in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions.
J.C. Penney Co. confirmed that Mary Beth West, its chief marketing officer, has accepted the role of chief growth officer with Hershey Co.
IHRSA elected Carrie Kepple, Alan Leach, Bryan O’Rourke and Brad Wilkins to its Board of Directors — to be led by newly elected chair Derek Gallup.
Beeline Bikes, a mobile bike shop, partnered with Amazon to provide on-site bicycle assembly and set-up for customers in eligible areas.
Hurley collaborated with world champion surfer Carissa Moore to create a line of high-performance swimwear.
Garneau, a provider of cycling and triathlon clothing and bike equipment and gear, unveiled a two-year global partnership with the Clif Pro Mountain Bike Team.
Native Shoes appointed Kyle Housman as its new president. Housman is a recent veteran of Lululemon’s international executive team.
Ergo Grip named Dennis Milinazzo as its new chief operating officer. Milinazzo was most recently operations manager at Ergo.
ElliptiGo Inc., an elliptical bicycle company, formed a partnership with Velofix, a fleet of mobile bike shops.
LaserMax appointed Daniel Maier as its chief financial officer.
Red Paddle Co., a manufacturer of inflatable stand-up paddleboards, added eight new partnerships with sales groups.
Pentland Brands Ltd. unveiled an investment in SeaVees, a Californian casual lifestyle sneaker brand.
Bermuda Sands, a designer and manufacturer of performance apparel for leisure sports and activities, named Shelia Bishop as a sales representative for the Texas and Oklahoma territories.
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COLUMBUS — A trade group’s report shows home sales rose nearly 10 percent in Ohio from July to August while the average selling price went down.
Ohio Association of Realtors President Meg Hudson says in a statement that the state’s housing market continues to work toward overcoming challenges seen since the onset of the recession in 2008.
The association said Wednesday that about 10,100 new and existing single-family homes sold in Ohio last month, up 9.9 percent from roughly 9,200 sales during July.
The trade group says the state’s average sale price fell in August to about $138,300, from roughly $140,900 the month before. That’s a 1.8 percent decline.
The National Association of Realtors says U.S. sales of existing homes rose 7.7 percent last month, driven by rising foreclosures.


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Puerto Rican Port In Deep Water
Government moves ahead despite costs and obstacles
BY IAN JAMES
July 21, 2002
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - If Puerto Rico's government has its way, giant cranes will rise along the island's south coast to load and unload cargo at a port that would be among the largest in the Americas.
Backers say the Port of the Americas could generate thousands of jobs. But it faces competition from ports in Jamaica, the Bahamas, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia and the Dominican Republic, and some experts warn that the $1 billion project is chancy.
Still, the Puerto Rico government is pushing ahead. Work on two deep-water terminals at the city of Ponce and nearby Guayanilla is to begin in two years, yielding 1.4 miles of piers by 2007.
The port is intended to tap the huge global market for transshipment ports -- major hubs that allow shippers to cut costs by moving cargo between vessels to link and combine routes.
''The fact that there are other ports doesn't diminish the potential of this project,'' said Hector Jimenez Juarbe, the government-appointed general manager. ``Puerto Rico needs a deep-water port. If it doesn't have that, it will be left behind.''
He said officials have contacted various overseas companies that administer ports in search of an operator, and hope to have one by the end of 2003.
The port's success depends, in part, on labor costs, which are usually higher in Puerto Rico, said Jan Hoffmann of the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Santiago, Chile.
He said it also depends on whether the U.S. territory can lobby Washington to change the Jones Act of 1917, which requires cargo between Puerto Rico and the mainland United States to be transported on U.S.-built, American-operated ships, which generally are more expensive.
''If the Jones Act were not changed, then at least I personally wouldn't put my money into a transshipment business,'' Hoffmann said.
The London-based shipping line P&O Nedlloyd said that with the Jones Act governing Puerto Rico ``there is so far no real incentive for non-U.S.A. flag operators to call there.''
A study commissioned by Puerto Rico, however, forecasts increasing demand and says the port would be ''highly competitive'' in spite of the Jones Act.
Backers also hope to attract manufacturing and assembly businesses.
Puerto Rico's government has set aside $49 million for studies and infrastructure improvements. The government would invest $150 million to $200 million and expects the private operator to pick up the remaining $800 million to $850 million.
Transshipment ports can be built in any area where ships need to transfer cargo. San Juan already is the fourth-largest port in the Americas in cargo volume. But because San Juan largely handles domestic cargo, the Port of the Americas would serve a different market. Shipping lines often switch between transshipment ports depending on cost.


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Brexit: this time it’s real and businesses need to prepare as Government publishes new Border Operating Model
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15 July 2020
Following the UK Government’s decision that there would be no extension of the transition period beyond 31 December 2020, and with the deadline for an extension now passed, the UK will be leaving the EU single market and customs union in less than six months’ time.
On Monday (13 July) the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Michael Gove, launched the publication of the UK Government's Border Operation Model (BOM), the system by which the UK's borders will operate following the end of the Implementation Period on 31 December 2020. Although talks continue on a free trade agreement with the EU, much of the BOM will apply whether or not a deal is struck, leading to new checks and tariffs on goods as they travel through Great Britain (details on how Northern Ireland will manage its border is expected to be published in the coming weeks).
The document covers all of the processes and systems, across all government departments, that will be used for moving goods at the border with the EU from January 2021, including information about controlled goods and new government systems that will support trade.
Actions that businesses need to take in preparation include:
- getting a customs intermediary to help complete formalities and submit the required customs declarations
- applying for a duty deferment account to enable customs charges to be paid once a month through Direct Debit instead of individually
- preparing to pay or account for VAT on imported goods
- applying for a GB Economic Operator Registration and Identification (EORI) number which is required for any business moving goods into or out of the UK.
Mr Gove also announced a major new public information campaign - The UK's new start: let's get going – aimed at helping businesses and individuals prepare for the end of the transition period. The campaign sees the launch of a specialist team that will provide one-to-one support in person or over the phone to businesses and their supply chains to minimise disruption to the movement of goods.


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TV, digital operations give Gannett a boost
USA Today owner Gannett said Friday that net profit surged in the second quarter on a strong performance from its television and digital properties and an improved print advertising climate.
The McLean, Virginia-based Gannett, the biggest US newspaper chain, reported a net profit of 195.5 million dollars for the quarter which ended on June 27 compared to 70.5 million dollars a year ago.
Revenue fell 1.6 percent to 1.37 billion dollars, slightly missing the target of 1.4 billion dollars set by analysts and sending Gannett shares down more than six percent in early trading on Wall Street.
"Advertising demand firmed during the quarter," Gannett chairman and chief executive Craig Dubow said. "Broadcast and digital revenues were particularly strong."
Advertising revenue in the publishing division fell 5.7 percent to 692.2 million dollars, but the fall was modest compared with last year, one of the worst ever for the US newspaper industry.
Like other US newspapers, Gannett has been grappling with declining print advertising revenue, falling circulation and the migration of readers to free news online. The company carried out a wave of cost-cutting last year slashing hundreds of jobs.
Broadcast revenue increased to 177.5 million dollars from 148.4 million dollars a year ago and digital revenue, which includes jobs site CareerBuilder, increased 9.7 percent to 252.2 million dollars.
Gannett meanwhile announced a local advertising partnership with Yahoo!.
"Working with Yahoo! will allow us to offer targeted advertising messages with unmatched local audience reach," Gannett president and chief operating officer Gracia Martore said.
Dubow said during a conference call with analysts that the USA Today news application for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad had been downloaded more than five million times.
He said it would remain free and ad-supported "at least through the third quarter."
The Gannett executives were also asked about experiments the company began on July 1 with charging readers for content at local newspaper websites in Greenville, South Carolina, Talahassee, Florida, and St. George, Utah.
"We're trying different price points, we're trying additional content in areas that we think add value to the community," Martore said. "We're going to gain a lot of insights into consumer behavior."
She said it was too early to come to any conclusions about the willingness of readers to pay for news online.
"I think three to six months down the road we will be much much better informed from a consumer perspective on paid content and what business models are sustainable," she said.
The Wall Street Journal is currently the only major US daily to charge readers for full access to the newspaper online but The New York Times has announced plans to begin charging readers early next year.
Gannett publishes 82 daily US newspapers and more than 600 magazines and non-dailies. It also has 23 US television stations and a British subsidiary, Newsquest, which publishes newspapers, magazines and trade publications.
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How The Washington Post’s User Lab balances advertiser and subscriber demands
As part of its big subscription push, The Washington Post is trying to make sure people don’t run into anything that might keep them from subscribing — including their ads.
The key weapon in this battle is The Post’s User Lab. The lab is an entity of vp Beth Diaz’ audience development and analytics team. For years it mostly focused on testing editorial and product features with users. It’s expanded and over the past six months, the lab has been working with The Post’s ad side to test ad prototypes and build new ad formats.
The lab is a physical space that was custom-built when The Post moved into its new headquarters three years ago, complete with a viewing room and one-way mirrors. Its four-person staff does monthly focus groups with actual heavy users of The Post, not just generic user feedback about ads, as The Post previously used. The lab is looking for three things: if the ad functions as users expect it to, is it useful for them and overall feedback.
So far the lab has tested its branded content disclosures (it validated The Post’s current use of “from” an advertiser, as opposed to “presented by” or “brought to you by”). It’s also created four new ad formats. It found that people preferred being served contextually relevant articles over retargeted ads, so it created Showcase, which bundles Post articles that are relevant to the reader into an ad unit. A second new ad format is a new, skippable video ad called SwitchPlay that’s its answer to the ubiquitous but annoying preroll ad. It lets users switch to the editorial video after six seconds of viewing an ad, and the rest of the video ad will pick up where the user left off down the article page.
“There had been a lot of noise around what is the new pre-roll, so this was our answer,” said Jeffrey Turner, who in May became head of ad product. “Anything that’s never been done before, we’ll test it or show them something similar. It’s a way to balance the need to test innovation with the need to keep our subscribers happy. I love advertising, but I have a tremendous bias.”
For years publishers crammed bad ads onto their sites to maximize ad revenue, until readers started rebelling by installing ad blockers. Other publishers have been making similar moves to the Post’s in the name of improving user experience as they look to users to pay more of the bills.
Millennial news site Mic does user testing on ads and recently moved an ad’s position on the site after testing showed the ad misleadingly indicated the end of the article, causing people to drop off, Mic publisher Cory Haik said.
The ad and audience sides have different incentives, though. Some publishers deal with this tension by letting the head of product, which sits in between sales and editorial, make the final call over ad formats.
At The New York Times, questions about ads most often come up when new products are being designed, and the ad and product side decide together where and how ads should appear, said Allison Murphy, vp of ad innovation at the Times. If they can’t decide, the decision falls to COO Meredith Levien, who oversees both consumer and ad revenue.
Still, advertising often wags the dog; ugly content recommendation widgets are widespread on publisher sites, and some are known to dial up the ads at the end of a financial reporting period to make their revenue goals. The Washington Post still has ads that are animated and temporarily cover up part of a story and Outbrain recommendation units — formats that many consider intrusive and low-quality, for example. (A Post spokesperson said ads aren’t supposed to cover up content. It also said the lab is less about sunsetting products and more about improving them. It revised the design for one ad unit based on feedback that the unit was too cluttered and sunset several prototypes such as the non-preroll version of SwitchPlay and a version of an ad unit called Informer that had non-transparent disclosure and poor scroll functionality, for example.)
Part of the challenge is, it’s easier to see how an ad will impact ad revenue than subscription revenue. The Times is testing an oversized ad unit to see if people who see it end up returning less to the site, for example, but it can’t tell if it leads people to unsubscribe.
Diaz, who reports to Shailesh Prakash, chief information officer of The Post, said she doesn’t have veto power over ads, but said the lab’s input is taken seriously. “I can’t think of any example where the company went against our recommendation on a particular initiative or product,” she said.
Under owner Jeff Bezos, The Post has become more data and engineering-driven along with reader-focused. It’s cut the page load time by 85 percent and introduced fast-loading ads.
“I take a holistic view of these things,” Diaz said. “Subscriptions are a very key part of the business right now. So is digital advertising. This is literally a conversation that goes up to Jeff Bezos. Amazon is an extremely customer-centric company. Jeff believes if you please the customer, you’re going to be successful.”
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From the world of “I didn’t know I needed this,” comes a tampon made with pot.
A company named Foria, based out of Los Angeles, Calif., has developed “The Weed Tampon,” which can help ease the pain associated with menstruation, NBC Colorado affiliate, 9 News, reported Wednesday.
The product is “carefully crafted using a delivery system intended to maximize the muscle relaxing and pain relieving properties of cannabis without inducing a psychotropic high,” Foria claims on their website.
The tampons cost $44 for a four-pack, and are made from organic cocoa butter, distilled THC oil, and CBD (cannabidiol) “isolate from organic hemp.”
Foria claims that users “have reported a significant decrease in the pain and discomfort often associated with menstruation” One reviewer on the Foria website even claims it’s good for her restless leg syndrome.
“While Foria Relief demolishes my menstrual cramps, I have found it useful in relieving restless legs syndrome, as well,” a reviewer named Joy wrote.
For now, the THC-laden feminine hygiene products are only available in California and Colorado, and only to those with either a medical marijuana card, or a doctor’s prescription, but Foria plans on rolling out their product to other states where the law allows.
The product is not supposed to get its users high, but many of those who left reviews on the site said it does produce a “sensation” and helps them relax or feel “dreamy.”
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Whether you love Dyson because of its intriguing blend of design and performance, or you think Dyson is little more than marketing fluff and eye candy, you have to admit: The company know how to get people's attentions.
It should, therefore, come as little surprise that Dyson is officially starting the long, winding launch of a new product with a brand-new, super-cryptic YouTube teaser. In it, what we presume are Dyson employees are taking a gander at said mystery product from its viewpoint. The device moves around a bit and zooms in and outinteresting, but not as interesting as the reveal of what looks like the device's location-analysis technology.
That, plus the presumed circular shape of said mystery product, has lead many to speculate that Dyson is close to unveiling a Roomba killeror, at least, what it hopes will be a Roomba killer.
That's all the official news we know from Dyson about its alleged new device, aside from the fact that the company will have a lot more to share come Sept. 4, which is the date Dyson teases in the trailer.
Adding a little more fuel to the rumor flames is the fact that Dyson announced earlier this year that it was investing $9.2 million in a new robotics vision laboratory at Imperial College London, which would allow the two entities to collaborate to develop computer vision systems for robots. These systems, according to a news release from the Imperial College London, would "enable robots to move beyond these controlled environments and successfully navigate the real world."
"Developing robots that can process visual information in real-time could lead to a new range of handy and helpful robots for around the home and in industry," wrote Imperial College London's Colin Smith.
According to TechCrunch, Dyson has also been working on a decades-long study involving new ways that robots could view and process their surroundings. If that doesn't sound like "robot vacuum bumping around your living room," we don't know what does.
What remains to be seen, however, is what kind of secret sauce Dyson will be bringing to its (rumored) robotthe technology that would make it a bit more eye-opening than your conventional floor cleaner. Feel free to speculate about what might be the robot's version of a bladeless fan or fancy hand-drying, air-blasting thing.
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Theo GizChina, iPhone 14 Pro currently has a score of 978,147, while iPhone 14 Pro Max has a score of 972,936. Basically, the A16 Bionic has allowed Apple to significantly enhance the performance of the iPhone 14 Pro models. Even so, the power of the A16 Bionic is still not comparable to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chip, at least based on the AnTuTu test.
AnTuTu scores for iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max
The highest score of Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 at over 1,000,000 points, of which Asus ROG Phone 6 scored 1,110,173 overall, 261,708 in the CPU test and 469,592 in the GPU test. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip that will be released later this year promises to provide even higher chip power.
Talking more about the A16 Bionic, AnTuTu scores show that the performance of the chip when compared to the A15 Bionic has increased by 17% for the CPU and 28% for the GPU. Reportedly, 28% is the most significant GPU performance improvement of the Apple A series of chips in recent years.
The CPU component on the A16 Bionic still comes with 2 ultra-fast CPU cores (large core) and 4 energy-efficient CPU cores (small core), while the GPU has 5 cores. Apple A16 is manufactured using 4nm technology, the transistor density has increased by 6.6%, while the frequency has increased by 7% and the number of operations per second has increased by 8%. Apple claims the large and small cores of the A16 Bionic can reduce power consumption for a performance equivalent of 20%.
Comparison of performance improvement between A16 Bionic chip compared to A15 Bionic chip on iPhone 13 Pro/Pro Max
Note that the tested iPhone 14 Pro pair is equipped with 1 TB of internal memory which gives it an advantage over models with lower memory capacity.
Overall, the iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max are more interesting than their predecessors thanks to a number of major improvements, including the new A16 Bionic chip, 48MP camera, and Dynamic Island. These products will be available from September 16, with prices starting at $999.


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Franklin: Six indicted in alleged family-run retail theft ring
FRANKLIN (Somerset) – A grand jury has indicted four members of a township family and two others in an alleged retail theft ring, Somerset County Prosecutor Michael Robertson announced Friday.
The following were charged with second-degree operating an organized retail theft enterprise, second-degree receiving stolen property, and second-degree fencing by dealing in stolen property:
- David Rubin, 61, of Somerset
- Lisa Rubin, 54, of Somerset
- Sherylee Rubin, 58, of Somerset
- Batsheva Rubin-Rivera, 24, of New Brunswick
- Andre Watts, 30, of North Brunswick
- Dunia Patricia Hernandez, 32, of Somerset
READ:Retail theft ring busted at Everything Wireless in Franklin, authorities say
David and Lisa Rubin are husband and wife, Sherylee Rubin is David Rubin’s sister, and Betsheva Rubin-Rivera is David Rubin’s daughter, Robertson said.
The indictment alleges a seven-month investigation in 2018 conducted by the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office found the family members were knowingly buying stolen merchandise from shoplifters who targeted big box stores such as Home Depot; Lowes; Target; Walmart; Bed, Bath & Beyond; and others.
The shoplifters exchanged the stolen merchandise for U.S. currency at Everything Wireless, a cellular phone and convenience store located on Hamilton Street in Franklin, authorizes allege.
Watts and Hernandez were two employees of the store, Robertson said.
The grand jury separately charged each of the Rubins with the second-degree crime of being the leader of the organized retail theft enterprise based on their supervisory role in the operation, and second-degree misconduct by a corporate official for operating a New Jersey limited liability business in furtherance of criminal activity, according to Robertson.
Additionally, the grand jury charged David and Lisa Rubin jointly with fourth-degree attempted unauthorized use of ATP cards or Food Stamp Program coupons intended exclusively for citizens in need of assistance, Robertson said.
David Rubin was charged with third-degree receiving stolen property and third-degree possession of a controlled dangerous substance, known as Tramadol, which had been prescribed to a Cliffside Park woman who is now deceased.
Authorities allege the stolen merchandise was not only sold at the store front but was also allegedly being sold online through a website maintained by David and Lisa Rubin.
Police were assisted in the execution of the warrant by loss prevention investigators employed by the big box stores, Robertson said. The warrant allegedly yielded the recovery of numerous items of stolen merchandise, records documenting illicit purchases of gift cards, kosher meat, and the Tramadol.
READ:South Brunswick: Police ID vehicle, seek info in fatal hit-and-run
All of the defendants are free on bail, and are due to appear in court sometime in late January 2020, according to Robertson.
Authorities requesting anyone with information relating to this investigation to contact the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office at 908-231-7100, or via the STOPit app.
Information can also be provided through the Somerset County Crime Stoppers’ Tip Line at 1-888-577-TIPS (8477). All anonymous STOPit reports and Crime Stopper tips will be kept confidential.
Staff Writer Nick Muscavage is an award-winning watchdog reporter whose work spans many topics and has spurred the creation of a state law. Contact him: 908-243-6615; email@example.com; @nmuscavage.


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Despite its strong reputation for customer service, it's no longer enough that Starbucks baristas know your name and what pastry you like to pair with your favorite brewed beverage. The Seattle coffee purveyor wants to use its software to learn more about you -- and boost sales, too.
That's the gist of a presentation new Starbucks CTO Gerri Martin-Flickinger gave last week at the company's annual shareholder's meeting, where she said the company will tailor experiences to consumer preferences regardless of what store they visit.
Personalized service has become the Holy Grail for retailers seeking the combination of physical and digital touchpoints with which to surprise and delight consumers. On the digital front, Starbucks has achieved this through its mobile app, which allows users to earn loyalty points as well as order and pay for food and drinks in advance.
Coffee maker uses purchase history to get personal with customers
"With about 90 million transactions a week we know a lot about what people are buying, where they're buying, how they're buying," said Martin-Flickinger. "And if we combine this information with other data, like weather, promotions, inventory, insights into local events, we can actually deliver better personalized service to other customers."
Starbucks mobile app allows you to earn loyalty points as well as and order and pay for food and drinks in advance.
Those 90 million weekly transactions generates a wealth of data that Starbucks plans to tap to combine consumers' purchase history with location and time of day to make suggestions as they arrive at stores. For example, a consumer who pulls into a Starbucks drive-through that they've never been to before will be greeted with a personal experience. As Martin-Flickinger says:
“We detect you’re a loyal customer and you buy about the same thing every day, at about the same time. So as you pull up to the order screen, we show you your order, and the barista welcomes you by name. We also show you your favorite treat in a picture at the same time. Does that sound crazy? No, actually, not really. In the coming months and years you will see us continue to deliver on a basic aspiration: to deliver technology that enhances the human connection.”
What might this personalized drive-through experience look like on a practical level? The proximity of a consumer's smartphones at a drive-through could alert Starbucks point-of-sale systems that Bill Smith has arrived and usually orders, for example, a triple espresso with a blueberry muffin. The POS software might assemble the order, allowing the barista to show it to Smith and tap the button to send it through.
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Chinese Investment Bank Takes Majority Stake In KraneShares
KraneShares, the exchange-traded-funds provider known for its unique lineup of China-focused funds, including the popular KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF (NASDAQ:KWEB), sold a majority stake in itself to China Investment Capital Corporation, a Chinese investment bank.
CICC trades on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The company was founded in 1995 as a partnership between China Construction Bank, one of that country's largest banks, and Wall Street titan Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS).
Financial terms of CICC's deal for a majority stake in KraneShares were not disclosed in a statement issued by the companies.
KWEB The Bellwether
Home to $531.4 million in assets under management, the aforementioned KWEB is the largest ETF in the KraneShares suite. KWEB, which turns four years old later this month, has become the bellwether China Internet ETF. The ETF has risen to acclaim thanks to its large stakes in well-known Chinese Internet companies, including Tencent Holdings Ltd (OTC:TCEHY), Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) and Baidu Inc (ADR) (NASDAQ:BIDU).
China is the world's largest Internet market with more Internet users than the U.S. has citizens, but internet and e-commerce penetration in the world's second-largest economy is still low compared to Western countries, indicating KWEB could see a positive growth trajectory going forward.
“KraneShares is proud to join forces with CICC,” said Jonathan Krane, CEO of KraneShares, in the statement. “CICC and KraneShares are both singularly focused on China. We share the same mission of building a trusted bridge of financial knowledge and expertise between the United States and China. We believe the combined company will be the premier source for China investment products and research globally.”
The KraneShares Bosera MSCI China A ETF (NYSE:KBA) is one of KraneShares' other well-known products. That ETF, the first A-shares ETF in the U.S. to track an index from MSCI, has $206.4 million in assets under management after recently swelling in size as investors anticipated MSCI elevating A-shares to its international indexes.
The firm also offers the KraneShares Zacks New China ETF(NYSE:KFYP), an ETF focusing on the “New China” economy, and the KraneShares E Fund China Commercial Paper ETF (NYSE:KCNY). KCNY holds short-term, investment-grade Chinese commercial paper.
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When you think of Amsterdam, what do you think of? Their contribution to world politics? Maybe their high level of education, or what about their famous smoked meat? No, you think of the red light district and smoking weed, from marijuana shops to eating weed brownies, and everything else involving weed.
However, a Dutch judge upheld a previous ruling and will pretty much kill the tourist industry with this, in my opinion. Non dutch residents will be restricted from buying weed, and current shops will be turned into private clubs limited to just 2000 members. The mayor, Eberhard van der Laan (his real name), is trying to work out a compromise with the national government. Rightfully so, since his city relies heavily on tourism, and this is sure to put a dent in it. This comes into effect next year, with approximately 23% of tourists visting ‘coffee shops’. So only about a 1/4 of people admit to smoking weed basically, you can bet that figure is higher. The ban is currently enforced in other cities in the Netherlands right now with police having raided several shops in Maastricht.
The only bright side on this is that there will be an election in September, and hopefully the new government will recognize the importance of weed to the Dutch and to all people who cherish weed and want to visit.
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KABUL (Pajhwok): Prices of fuel increased and the cost of flour and ghee fell last week in Kabul, market source said on Sunday.
Mohammad Omid Hussain, a wholesaler in Mandavi Market, said the price of a 49-kg bag of Kazakh flour decreased from 1,730afs to 1,700afs and a 16-litre cane of Malaysian ghee from 1,580afs to 1,680afs.
But the rate of a 24-kg bag of Pakistani rice stayed stable at 2,400afs, a 49-kilograms sack of Indian sugar at 2,270 and one kilogram of African black tea at 320afs.
The same amount of Indonesian green tea increased during the outgoing week in value from 300afs to 320afs, the retailer added.
Hamid Sofizada, a retailer in Dahna-i-Bagh locality, said the price of a 49-kg sack of Kazakh flour stood at 1,750afs and a 50-kg bag of Indian sugar at 2,350afs.
A 24-kg bag of Pakistani rice accounted for 2,450afs, a 16 litres bottle of Malaysian ghee for 1,550afs, a kilogram of Indonesian green tea for 330afs and the same quantity of African black tea for 350afs.
Diesel price increases
A worker of the Hashimi pump station in Taimani Square said the price of one litre of diesel rose from 43afs 46afs, while the same quantity of petrol accounted for 40afs — same as last week.
Mohammad Sharif, a gas seller in Kalola Pushta area, said the rate of one kilogram of gas worked out at 55afs.
Firewood, coal down
Qudratullah, a firewood seller in Charah-i-Shahid neighbourhood, told Pajhwok Afghan News the price of per 560 kilograms of peeled oak fell from 8,200afs to 7,800afs.
He added the same quantity of unpeeled oak cost 8,000afs. The value of a tonne of coal remained unchanged at 6,500afs.
Gold price unchanged
Mohammad Javid, a jeweler in Lycee Maryam neighbourhood, said one gram of Russian gold accounted for 2,900afs and the same amount of Arabian gold remained stable at 3,600afs.
Haji Hussain, the owner of Sadaqat Money Exchange Service, said the value of one US dollar was 77.20afs while 1,000 Pakistani rupees accounted for 479afs.
Last week’s rate of a dollar was 77.10afs while 1,000 Pakistani rupees sold for 479afs.


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Integral Ad Science today announced the appointment of Khurrum Malik as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) effective immediately. Malik will accelerate market growth initiatives for IAS and lead its global marketing strategy. Malik will be based in New York and report directly to Yannis Dosios, Chief Commercial Officer.
Malik is a technology marketing leader with a broad range of experience driving growth for public and private companies. Most recently, Malik was Head of Global Business Marketing at Spotify, where he led business marketing, creative, product marketing, measurement, and analytics teams within Spotify’s advertising business. Previously, he served as CMO of Compass, a real estate technology platform, and was Head of Product Marketing at Meta. Malik holds an MBA, M.S., and B.A. from the University of Virginia.
“Khurrum’s impressive background and passion for technology and marketing will be instrumental to driving our go-to-market strategies and increasing awareness of our value proposition,” said Yannis Dosios, Chief Commercial Officer IAS. “We are excited for him to lead the marketing effort for IAS.”
“IAS has set the global benchmark for trust and transparency in digital media quality. I look forward to working with the entire IAS team to ensure global marketers, publishers, and media platforms understand how best to leverage our technology and insights to activate brand-safe and ROI-driven campaigns,” said Malik


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Shadwen, the next game from Trine developers Frozenbyte, has been released.
Trine dev's stealth action game Shadwen is out now
Trine developer Frozenbye has announced that Shadwen is now available for PC and PlayStation 4. Shadwen is the studio's stealth-action game set in a medieval times.
Like Trine, Shaden is also physics-based and features time and item manipulation mechanics. It's being offered for a 15 percent off launch discount through Steam, bringing the price to $14.44, down from the standard $16.99.
Catch the launch trailer below:


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BC Shipping News – Volume 8, Issue 3
Focus on Cruise
Industry Insight: Energizing the industry…Mary-Ann Isinger, President, Cruise Industry Association of B.C…As Manager, Port Operations, Holland America Group, Isinger is well-suited to reinvigorate support for suppliers to B.C.’s cruise industry.
B.C. Cruise Update: Excitement builds for the 2018 season…With 2018 set to be a record year for B.C.’s West Coast cruise season, the buzz of anticipation is already underway.
2018 Cruise Schedule: Arrival and departure times for cruise ships visiting Nanaimo, Prince Rupert, Vancouver, Victoria and Seattle.
U.S. Cruise: U.S. Pacific Coast cruise outlook…by Darryl Anderson, Wave Point Consulting…Big ships, small vessels and port developments driving growth in the U.S. West Coast cruise sector.
International Cruise: On the leading edge of everything…by Captain Stephen Brown, West Pacific Marine…With cruise lines competing head to head for every guest and every dollar, the levels of design, innovation, hospitality and marketing are leaving most industries trailing in their wake.
Technology: Alfa Laval — the separation experts…BC Shipping News talks with Richard Thomas and Derek Gluschenko about the company that started with one single technology — the centrifugal separator — and turned it into one of the most recognized brands in the marine industry.
- History Lesson: In lieu of Lea Edgar’s regular column, BC Shipping News is proud to profile new Executive Director Dr. Joost Schokkenbroek and his plans for the Vancouver Maritime Museum.
- Legal Affairs: Farley Mowat’s story…by Glen Krueger, Bernard LLP


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A study by Verisk Maplecroft found that almost a quarter of countries across the world have witnessed a significant deterioration in the company’s Modern Slavery Index since 2016 and Turkey, which has grown in popularity for garment manufacturing due to its proximity to Europe is now listed as high risk. In addition, the subnational version of the Index reveals that two-thirds of the global population now live in high or extreme risk states or provinces.
The report by Verisk Maplecroft helps to show why and where these risks are manifesting. It has found that climate change is now a factor, alongside rising poverty levels. And the report predicts the chances of goods produced using forced labour entering supply chains are only likely to worsen due to these issues, despite new and upcoming legislation in the US and EU to eradicate the practice.
“Regulators, investors, shareholders and consumers are all becoming acutely aware of the modern slavery risks that have been evident for years to NGOs, activists and exploited people,” says Verisk Maplecroft’s director of human rights Dr James Sinclair. “But with data from the ILO showing that 50 million people are trapped in modern slavery globally, the problem is getting worse, not better, meaning that organisations need to work harder to keep goods tainted by forced labour out of their supply chain.”
The European Commission’s newly unveiled plan to ban products made with forced labour from entering the EU market is the latest in a growing list of human rights due diligence laws. If it comes into force, the ban will join the United States’ Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) in attempting to eradicate forced labour from global supply chains.
According to the report, poverty has long been a key determining factor in the prevalence of modern slavery. Households lacking economic security are more likely to become dependent on employment agents within the informal economy, which can lead to exploitation. This is reflected in the data: 17 of the 24 extreme risk countries on the latest edition of the MSI are low and lower-middle income economies. This group includes Myanmar and Pakistan, two leading exporters of goods including clothing and cotton fabric.
But workers in developed economies aren’t immune to exploitation. The report found that the number of high and upper-middle income economies rated high or extreme risk on the MSI has risen to 44, up from 39 when the dataset launched in 2016.
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Several higher income economies feature among those that have seen the largest increase in risk in that time, including Turkey, which has plummeted 46 places in the index to 62nd most at-risk country.
The country is now within the Index’s high risk category, triggered by an increase in reported cases of forced labour involving Syrian migrants, including children, within the garment industry and the agricultural sector.
Also featured in the report is China – the largest sourcing country. Ranked 18th, China is rated ‘extreme risk’ due to reports of human rights violations in Xinjiang. However, China’s commanding position within several industries means eradicating its abuses from global supply chains is easier said than done, the report suggests.
“The factors driving the negative global trend in modern slavery risk are set to worsen in the coming years,” the report reads. “Rising inflation and fears of a global recession suggest the world is headed for a period of prolonged economic instability which will leave millions more people vulnerable to exploitation. At the same time, even the most optimistic warming scenarios suggest that climate-driven migration will ramp up by mid-century.
“This, combined with the expansion of the regulatory landscape governing forced labour, presents a growing dilemma for companies that had traditionally relied on sourcing low-cost labour abroad.”


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It’s the 20th birthday of the PlayStation. Feeling nostalgic? Sony definitely is as they celebrate the 20th anniversary of the PlayStation with a limited edition PS4 that uses the same colour palette of the original console. Only 12,300 of these consoles will be created and those who are looking to get their hands on one can expect to pay 49,980 Yen (ex. Tax) in Japan, $499 in North america, £399 in the UK or €499 in Europe.
The package includes a PS4, controller and a camera bar, all painted in the “Original grey” colour. The console will be packaged in a special box. Pre-Prders in the US and Canada will be available from December 6th.
The console itself is not the only way Sony is celebrating the anniversary, as a new Anniversary theme is available to download for free from the Playstation store, that is intended to emulate the feel of the original PlayStation.
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The market conditions that existed a couple of years ago to drive prices for many commodities to record levels may be forming in the market for dry dairy products, but in the opposite direction.
As milk production continues to increase, albeit at a slower rate, and demand wanes, prices for all dry dairy products have plummeted from highs set in 2007. Partially as a result of weak prices, but also part of the cause, more than 79 million lbs, or two-thirds of a month’s production, of nonfat dry milk have been purchased by the Commodity Credit Corp. of the U.S. Department of Agriculture since Oct. 1 at the 80c-a-lb support level.
It is the first time in two years nonfat dry milk has been owned by the C.C.C. All of the sales to the government have been in the western region of the United States.
While the government price acts as a floor for nonfat dry milk prices, and for other dry products that may be substituted, it also has been a "target" cited by buyers as a price above which they are reluctant to pay.
"A few end users are opting to purchase all 2009 N.D.M. needs now at a known price rather than spread purchases throughout the year at unknown prices," the U.S.D.A. said last week. "Buyers are anxious to lock in current price levels to help them establish input costs."
Knowing prices in effect won’t fall below the 80c support price, sellers have been reluctant to contract at current levels since the only direction the market can go is up, or at worst hold steady.
"Processors are interested in keeping the door open on ways to capture some part of any market upside that may develop," the U.S.D.A. said.
Low- and medium-heat nonfat dry milk prices were quoted by the U.S.D.A. last week at 80@93c a lb nationwide, with quotes mostly 86@92c in the Central and East and 82@85c in the West. Prices dropped more than 40% since early August but have held relatively steady since early November, albeit at the lowest levels since July 2006.
Meanwhile, nonfat dry milk production remains strong and supplies large.
Edible nonfat dry milk production in October totaled 121 million lbs, up 21% from October 2007 and the largest monthly year-over-year increase since February, the U.S.D.A. said in its latest Milk Products report. Production in the first 10 months of 2008 totaled 1,227 million lbs, up 13% from the same period last year.
Manufacturers’ stocks of edible nonfat dry milk at the end of October were 145 million lbs, 16% more than a year earlier. Combined with the growing C.C.C. inventory, stocks now equal to about two months of production.
In its latest Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Outlook, the U.S.D.A. forecast nonfat dry milk prices would average in a range of 90@97c a lb in 2009, with most strength in the latter half of the year. That compares with an average price near $1.23½c a lb in 2008, with the average held up by prices at or above $1.30 in the first three quarters of the year. Fourth-quarter prices were expected to range from 92½@95½c a lb. In 2007, the average price of nonfat dry milk was about $1.71 a lb.
Milk production will continue to increase at a slower rate in 2009, the U.S.D.A. predicted, but demand will weaken due to dreary economic conditions and larger supplies internationally.
"Milk production will likely increase about 1% next year, reaching 191.5 billion lbs in 2009," the U.S.D.A. said. "The projected rate of growth is well below rates of increase in recent years." Production increased 2.3% from a year earlier in 2008 and was up 2.1% in 2007 from 2006.
Declining export sales, which largely drove prices of several dry milk products to record highs in 2007, will limit outlets for U.S. products and further pressure prices in 2009. Foreign demand had been driven by a historically weak U.S. dollar and low milk production in Europe and Oceania, the two primary competitors for foreign sales.
"Export demand is expected to weaken through the fall quarter and into 2009," the U.S.D.A. said. "New Zealand and Australian milk production is expected to climb above year earlier levels in 2009. Increased supply from major competitors and a weakening global economy will curb exports next year."
Also competing with domestic production will be added volume as the C.C.C. resells its stocks of nonfat dry milk in coming months.
This article can also be found in the digital edition of Dairy Business News, December 9, 2008, starting on Page 14. Click


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Cheshire Police and Get Safe Online have launched a new safe social media campaign designed to help you use your social media accounts more safely.
The campaign includes a short guide with simple safety tips on how you can protect yourself from accidentally disclosing private information to cyber criminals, what is and isn't appropriate to post online, right through to age limits for kids on popular sites.
The launch deliberately coincided with summer holiday season, a time when many of us are sharing our experiences and pictures on social media accounts. In doing so, we often inadvertently reveal the location of our children, and also that our homes are empty while we are away.
If your social media accounts are open for anyone to see and you post that you're heading off to Greece for a week, you're effectively putting an advert out online letting people know your home is going to be empty for a week too. However, social media has become the tool of choice for most burglars. The tips aren't designed to frighten you or put you off using social media ... just how to have a safe and enjoyable online experience.
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Apple To Introduce New iPod Models Next Week
According to a new report by 9to5Mac, Apple is going to refresh its line up of iPods next week at its September 12 event. The report suggests that the new models of iPod touch, iPod Shuffle, and iPod nano will be introduced alongside iPhone 5.
9to5Mac that received this information from its source, reports that Apple will announce two different models of iOS powered iPod touch. The first model will be an entry level model with minimum storage capacity. This model will be a tweaked version of current generation iPod touch with better specifications and include the new dock connector Apple is rumored to add in the iOS devices.
The second model will be revamped model of iPod touch that will feature a new design, and possibly a larger screen like the iPhone 5. It will come in 32GB and 64GB variants and cost $299 and $399 respectively.
Secondly in its report 9to5Mac writes that although they have heard about Apple announcing the new 2012 model of iPod nano next week, they are unsure of its features. But they speculate that it might feature some new design and internal changes that will make it significantly different than the current model. The new device will come in eight colors.
Lastly the report mentions that the new iPod shuffle will also be announced at Apple’s September 12 event. 9to5Mac’s source suggests that this particular model of iPod line up won’t get major upgrades, and will come in eight different colors instead of just five.


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- Helium founders, Nova Labs, and T-Mobile have penned a 5-year agreement to create a new 5G wireless network
- Helium Mobile will allow users to switch between Helium’s network and T-Mobile depending on the quality of network coverage in a particular area
- Helium Mobile, which will incentivize users with new MOBILE tokens, is slated to go online in early 2023
Helium Mobile will incentivize subscribers to use the network with MOBILE tokens
Nova Labs, the founders of the Helium network, have announced a five-year partnership with US carrier T-Mobile, which will see the launch of Helium Mobile, a crypto-powered mobile carrier.
Using Helium’s infrastructure of 5G hotspots (with 4,500 running at the moment) and T-Mobile’s existing network coverage, Helium Mobile will enable users to tap into the first decentralized 5G network. Devices will automatically switch between the two networks – T-Mobile and Helium Mobile – depending on the network coverage in a particular area.
Helium Mobile will use the same economic model as the Helium internet of things (IoT) network, namely incentivizing users and node operators with crypto tokens. MOBILE, the native token of the soon-to-be-launched cryptocarrier, will be distributed to users for simply using the network, and to node operators for maintaining the platform. In addition, the economic model incentives network expansion, helping increase 5G coverage, especially in rural areas.
An excerpt from the official announcement reads:
“With the Helium Network economic model, individuals are incentivized to help build a ubiquitous network in days and weeks, not years or decades. People eliminate the capital costs and associated red tape, establishing part ownership of the network, along with earning crypto tokens called MOBILE.”
Helium Mobile is slated to launch in early 2023. According to the announcement, mobile plans will start from $5/month for 1GB of data. Other pricing info, including about different subscription plans, is coming soon.
In related news, Helium core developers published a proposal to move the network to Solana earlier this month, citing the need for better scalability in light of rapid network growth. The final vote tally will be revealed later today.
David is a crypto enthusiast and an expert in personal finance. He has created numerous publications for different platforms. He loves to explore new things, and that’s how he discovered blockchain in the first place.


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Did Zuck Take Us For A Ride?
I’m sure that most of you have heard by now, that Mark Zuckerberg and his wife are donating 99.9% of their wealth to charity. It was a news headline this week. They made the news public through a facebook news post. Its was a long post and it concluded with an open letter to their new daughter. It is heartfelt. Really. Most of the open letter to their daughter, was about changing the world. It was saying that they were donating almost all their money to various charitable causes, because they are thinking of the future. Our generations of future children are going to have a horrible world to come in to, if we don’t act, and act quickly. They tackle philosophical ideals, and aim to take down world hunger, poverty, and other grand scale problems. It is a beautiful thing, if it is true.
We are coming to a time and age, where our world billionaires are beginning to really think about the world. it becomes something greater. I get a sense, that many of them are getting that, “With great power comes great responsibility”. Not only this, but it also deals with the way that our media portrays billionaires. They put them in the light of money hungry and greedy tyrants. I think we are beginning to see the opposite. For those who feel that these billionaires are taking us for a ride, you need to see the good that they are doing.
- Billionaire angel investor Sean Parker recently has stated in multiple interviews, that he is now going to devote most of his time and energy on solving the world’s largest problems. He has begun working on a mobile app to tackle corruption in politics and make the system more transparent. He is also spreading his tentacles into other areas of philanthropy.
- Elon Musk, another one of the world’s most powerful people, took all of his earnings from the sale of his second big tech startup in Paypal, and immediately invested it into 3 different companies that move humans forward. One of those is Spacex, which will keep up space travel. Solar city aims to rid the world of energy problems by installing solar panels across the US. His last company Tesla, is a full range of electric powered automobiles. He chooses to make huge waves in the world’s biggest problems, by making businesses. Imagine that. The world’s largest problems solved, by evil businesses, portray this way by our mass media providers.
- Manoj Bhargava, the founder of four hour energy. We all know and drink those little convenience store energy jolts. What many of us don’t know is just how rich the founder is. He has been said to have $4 Billion dollars in net worth. What surprised me is what he was doing with his money. He is working on developing a vessel, that will float around the ocean and collect water. On the boat will be 400-500 machines that will filter hundreds of thousands of gallons of water at a time. This is his method at solving the fresh water crisis.
In my next post I will come back to Zuckerberg, and show why he does what he did.


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ABC NEWS – by Landline Fiona Breen – “To combat the drift away from wool production in Australia, European luxury fabric and suit makers have set up Wool Excellence Clubs, rewarding what they say are the very best Australian wool producers with top prices.”
FARM WEEKLY – by Kathryn Fleay – “COLD, windy conditions did little to deter the loyal clients at Arrin Park’s on-property ram sale last week, where the top price reached $900.
The quality of the 42 Merino and 10 Poll Merino rams impressed the return buyers, and saw Arrin Park’s overall average reach $627.
The sale started strongly with the top-priced ram being the first on offer and selling for $900. “
FARM WEEKLY – by Lynette Carew-Reid – “ROCK solid prices from start to finish reflected the evenness of quality throughout the Chirniminup Dohne ram sale at Nyabing on Monday.
The 120-ram yarding posted a $2300 top but it was the consistency of prices that set a $1378 average that was a real highlight.”
FARM WEEKLY – by Jodie Rintoul – “STRONG competition from mainly local buyers and a quality presentation of rams was the ideal combination at last week’s Wongan Hills and Districts Stud Sheep Breeders Association annual ram sale to ensure a solid result.”
THE WEEKLY TIMES – by Jenny Kelly – “YOUNG Merino ewes sold to $274 at Hay today in a sale that most people rated as very good without being exceptional.
Bidding was slow with restockers appearing cautious of the money involved in funding replacement sheep.
The opening pen of 514 Merino ewes from Mooloomoon was an example of how the sale flowed.”
THE WEEKLY TIMES – by Xavier Duff – “ONE of Victoria’s biggest farms has been sold to US investors in a surprise deal believed to be worth $50 million.
The historic 6,880ha Banongill Station near Skipton owned by former VFL footballer and retirement village owner Stewart Gull and his wife Sue has been sold to an American superannuation fund.”
NZ FARMER – “Crossbred wool prices appear to have levelled after an offering of 12,000 bales went to the Christchurch wool sale on Thursday.
After a declining market the last few months prices looked to have stabilised for crossbred pre lamb and hogget fleece.
Crossbred fleece prices were mostly firm compared with the last sale on September 8 and hogget fleece was slightly cheaper.”
SHEEP CENTRAL – “MEDIUM and broad Merino wool prices fell 30-40 cents this week as currency fluctuations made buying more expensive in US dollars. Australian Wool Exchange senior market analyst Lionel Plunkett said crossbred wools also had a lacklustre week, also losing as much as 40 cents.”
NBR by Tina Morrison – “New Zealand wool prices generally advanced at the country’s latest weekly auction, which featured the greatest number of bales on offer in the season so far.”
AUSTRALIAN WOOL INNOVATION – Wool market review – week ending 23 September 2016 (Week 12)


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Musk said the satellites had been fitted with VisorSat that acts as a set of shades that keep the sun from reflecting off the satellites.
US Senate committee approves anti-child porn bill after addressing Google, Facebook encryption concerns
US tech companies believe that the proposed law goes too far to weaken privacy protections for ordinary users.
SpaceX has not confirmed if the leaked pictures are genuine, although one of the pictures show a label on the devices that says they are prototypes and SpaceX’s property.
Centre likely to reduce syllabus for upcoming academic year, announces Ramesh Pokhriyal; classes were delayed due to COVID-19 outbreak
The coronavirus outbreak has led to delay in starting classes for the new sessions and postponement of exams.
Facebook CEO said there is a model coming out of countries like China that have quite different values than Western countries.
Asian Americans use digital, streaming services for TV viewing more than other groups in the US, says study
The Nielsen company study said that Asian Americans are becoming key consumers and influencers in entertainment and gaming.
When this is over, what will the internet be? Inequities in access thrown into sharper relief by coronavirus outbreak
India has 451 million active internet users, second only to China. A solid 66 million of these are between 5 and 11 years old. This is the kind of data point that puts a gleam in the eyes of tech bros who think that India’s education crisis can be solved with a mobile phone in the hand of every child.
Jio Platforms strikes third unit stake deal; raises $8 billion in two weeks post-Facebook, Silver Lake, Vista investment
Unlike traditional mobile carriers which depend on voice services to make money, Ambani has pitched Jio as a trailblazer tech company by offering cheap mobile data plans that helped hundreds of millions of Indians use the internet for the first time
Jio-Facebook agreement vindicates Indian way of doing business: By responding to needs of bottom of the pyramid
What is the Jio-Facebook deal all about? Putting it simply, it is about one of the most successful Silicon Valley enterprises investing in India’s large, rapidly growing and attractive digital market
Connectivity as a human right: Significance of the Facebook-Jio deal and how it ties into Zuckerberg's 2013 vision
While Jio has paved the way for wide access to the internet in India, this alliance between Facebook and Jio will help make internet access more worthwhile
Coronavirus crisis underscores urgency of bridging divide between India's digital haves and have-nots
36 percent of Indians have internet access out of which only a third are women. This is not a digital divide anymore; this is a digital ditch.
Telecom shares drop 13%; surprise loser against other sectors as global lockdowns drive online sales from gaming to food delivery
In Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, a combination of high fixed costs, debt and market disruption has left telcos significantly underperforming the data-hungry businesses their networks carry
Vint Cerf has also served on the US government's National Science Board for six years.
The biggest lesson for working from home: Less is better, especially fewer gadgets and fewer work apps.
Memes have become efficient vectors of bad advice, often with urgent instructions or dystopian graphics.
On top of that, home networks — such as the Wi-Fi routers that residents set up — can be finicky.
Railways earned over Rs 9,000 cr from cancelled and waitlisted ticket charges in last 3 years; maximum ticket purchases made online
The information was provided by the Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS), in response to the RTI application filed by Kota-based activist Sujeet Swami
In blurring the divides between mainstream culture, alternative subcultures, and the grassroots counterculture, the internet is reducing elitism that comes with homogenous cultural consumption and moulding India’s cultural sensibility in a decidedly democratic way.
Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple are under a series of investigations for using their clout to defend market share, monopoly.


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The Adelaide Central Market has advised its voluntary Sunday trading trial will not continue.
“We would like to thank our Market community and customers who have supported our traders throughout the trial,” read part of the statement announcing the news.
The trial started in March 2019, before pausing due to COVID-19 restrictions, and kicking off again later in the year.
Traders were given the choice as to participate or not, with the likes of Barossa Fine Foods, Charlesworth Nuts, and Marino Meat and Food Store all taking part.
The Adelaide Central Market is open Tuesday – Saturday, including late nights until 9pm on Fridays.
- SA bushfire key resources – links, contacts, and donationsSome important information considering the ongoing bushfire threat in South Australia.
- Photos and latest updates from the Cherry Gardens bushfireThe latest Cherry Gardens bushfire updates and gallery of images.
- Sparkke at the Whitmore appoints new Head Chef Kane Boase to brewpubWith 20 years in the industry, Kane brings extensive experience from a range of Adelaide’s most prestigious eateries, including Botanic Gardens Restaurant, Fino Seppeltsfield, and 2KW.
- SA Health issues health warning regarding bushfire smokeSmoke blanketing South Australia may pose health risks to people with chest or heart conditions. SA Health are recommending people stay indoors and shut windows and doors.
- Cookbook Review: The 5-Minute Vegan Lunchbox, by Alexander HartCOOKBOOK: 52 fast, healthy vegan recipes that are creative and tasty enough to appeal to everyone, particularly given they are so quick and easy to prepare.


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Facebook admitted that its Conversion Lift tool overestimated the return on investment on ads between August 2019 and August 2020. An issue that skewed the data advertisers used to determine how much to spend on their advertising campaigns. To correct his mistake, Mark Zuckerberg’s company distributed millions of dollars in loans to some of its advertisers, the Wall Street Journal reported. But is it really enough?
Thousands of affected advertisers
According to Facebook, the Conversion Lift tool will help you “understand the real value of your Facebook, Instagram, and Audience Network ads in driving sales and conversions.” At least if a calculation problem does not get into the middle between August 2019 and August 2020 like in a year.
In fact, during this period, the tool overestimated the results of the ads served on the social networks of the Facebook group. If Mark Zuckerberg has tried to fix its mistake by redistributing credit to some of its advertisers, this solution is nowhere near enough for Florian Adamski, global managing director of the Omnicpm Group’s holding company: “That is not the case.” as if it were over after paying a few thousand or millions of dollars. This mistake goes much further. We need to find a way to repair the damage done and make sure it doesn’t happen again. “
In the same category
Snapchat launches Spotlight to compete with TikTok
It is understood that this measurement error had a huge impact on the marketing budgets of thousands of advertisers. Currently, however, Facebook does not allow how much they were affected or how it happened. Likewise, they ignore how the compensation amount was calculated by Mark Zuckerberg’s company.
Facebook, used to overestimate advertising data
Unfortunately, this new bug is not an isolated incident in Facebook’s history. For example, in 2018 a complaint was filed against the social network, which was then accused of inflating its advertisers’ video audience. To repair this damage, the company then agreed to pay compensation in the amount of 40 million dollars or 36.5 million euros. Previously, Facebook also admitted a measurement error in 2016 that affected instant items as well as errors in ad reach and the number of approvals and likes.
Keep in mind, however, that Mark Zuckerberg’s company isn’t the only one affected by bugs of this type. Recently, LinkedIn admitted that more than 418,000 advertisers were affected by ad measurement errors.


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Byotrol plc is calling on the UK Government to change the rules which deny hand sanitising products the ability to say whether they are effective against Coronavirus to help consumers.
The UK government has advised the general public to use hand sanitiser to combat the spread of COVID-19 when soap and water aren’t available. Ironically, hand sanitisers in the UK are not permitted to make efficacy claims against specific germs, including the novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 which causes COVID-19.
Unlike in Europe, the MHRA regulations state that any hand sanitiser which makes claims against COVID-19 – or the transmission of the virus which causes it – needs to be licensed as a medicine to be sold in the UK.
Chester-based Byotrol plc, which makes INVIRTU alcohol-free hand sanitiser wants to see changes to the way hand sanitisers are regulated in the UK. It says that this is limiting consumers’ ability to be confident that the product they’re buying is effective.
Byotrol’s Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Trevor Francis, believes the current approach is unreasonable, “There has never been a more important time to select a hand sanitiser which is proven to be effective. Many people – both professionals and consumers – are purchasing and using hand sanitiser for the first time. They simply aren’t aware of the vast differences in quality and efficacy of products on the market thanks to the censoring of product claims by the MHRA. Hand sanitiser is not, and never will be, a medicine. But it can be an important weapon in preventing the spread of germs and its use in a pandemic is absolutely vital.”
Before the pandemic, it was commonplace for hand sanitisers to list specific pathogens relevant to the sector they were used in. This gave professional users and consumers some confidence that the product they had selected would meet their individual needs.
However, during the pandemic, the MHRA has policed the market more aggressively. In 2020 it determined that 341 products on the UK market were making medicinal claims relating to COVID-19 or Coronavirus and approached the 69 manufacturers to remove the claims from marketing materials.
The result of the MHRA rule is confusion amongst professionals and consumers about which products are proven to be effective against Coronavirus and how best to protect their employees, visitors, or families. It comes as the hand sanitiser market is flooded with a multitude of products that are ineffective, dangerous, or just haven’t been tested to the accepted UK / European standards.
Dr. Trevor Francis explains, “What the industry needs is a sensible regulatory regime to provide consumers and professionals with clarity on which germs a product has been tested against to the proper industry-standard tests and how long it takes to work. Any confusion only serves to hinder our progress in reducing the transmission of COVID-19.”


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Mexican Chef Gabriela Cámara has been running a massively popular seafood restaurant in Mexico City for 20 years called Contramar.
May. 22from Press Play with Madeleine Brand
California is known as the capital of health and wellness fads. But when and how did the Golden State get that reputation?
May. 23from Press Play with Madeleine Brand
American garlic growers have struggled to compete with cheaper Chinese imports of the aromatic kitchen staple.
The Economist says 2019 is the year of the vegan , claiming a quarter of American millennials identify as vegan or vegetarian.
May. 21from Greater LA
The work of catering chefs largely exists behind the scenes—especially where lavish dinners and high-profile fundraising events are concerned.
May. 17from Good Food
The life of LA chef Roy Choi seems ready made for TV. The Kogi founder went from a rough-and-tumble life in Koreatown to running an empire of restaurants and food trucks.
Roy Choi’s new KCET show “ Broken Bread ” highlights the work of many individuals and organizations affecting social change through food.
On June 15, noted taco expert Bill Esparza is bringing a new taco festival to the ROW DTLA , featuring a slate of nearly 50 taqueros personally curated by the man himself.
Joy in Highland Park is an offshoot of chef Vivian Ku’s successful Taiwanese cafe, Pine & Crane .
In California, it’s illegal to salvage recently dead wildlife from the side of state roads and highways. But a bill advancing through the state legislature might change that.
May. 15from Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Producing enough food to feed the world’s 7 billion people is a huge stress on the earth. We get tips on how you can shop, cook, and eat without exacerbating climate change too much.
Few food TV shows have resonated like “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat,” which launched Samin Nosrat into the stratosphere after earning rave reviews last year.
May. 10from Good Food
The holy month of Ramadan began earlier this week. After sunset, many will break their fasts with customary meals.
James Whetlor began his culinary career as a chef in London but has since turned to farming goats—which he claims is a sustainable and healthy alternative to eating beef.
LA Times restaurant critic Patricia Escarcega recently visited Fonda Mixcoac in Anaheim, where she tried a selection of Mexico City-style antojitos, including a 29-inch cheesy,…
Millennials get blamed for killing a lot of things: napkins, marriage, department stores. The raisin has been inching closer to that kill list.
May. 7from Press Play with Madeleine Brand
In Venezuela the economy has collapsed.
May. 7from Greater LA
In 2005, most citrus trees in Florida were dying or infected with the insidious citrus disease known as Huanglongbing, HLB, or citrus greening. California was spared at the time.
May. 4from Good Food
With a menu full of Oaxacan specialties and a deep bench of mezcals, Madre has been quietly winning over diners in the South Bay, not typically known as a destination for regional…
Elisa Callow takes a close look at where to eat, shop, and gather culinary inspiration on L.A.’s eastside in her book “ The Urban Forager .”
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Apple TV+ has struck a deal with The Jim Henson Company to produce a rebooted Fraggle Rock series, bringing the ’80s children’s puppet classic into the 21st century with all-new underground adventures. Apple has also snagged streaming rights to the full 96-episode series back catalog, the tech giant confirmed Tuesday on Twitter.
Attention silly creatures — a reboot of the Emmy Award-winning series #FraggleRock is coming soon to Apple TV+.
— Apple TV (@AppleTV) May 26, 2020
The rebooted full-length series and classic 1983-1987 episodes chronicling the adventures of Gobo, Red, Boober, Mokey, Wembley and Uncle Travelling Matt (all returning for the new show) complement the platform’s short-form series, Fraggle Rock: Rock On! The mini-sodes produced remotely due to the COVID-19 crises launched last month; a star-studded finale featuring Alanis Morisette, Common, Tiffany Haddish, Neil Patrick Harris, Ziggy Marley and Jason Mraz premiered Tuesday.
Apple TV+ will drop the Fraggle Rock back catalog for subscribers in 100 countries on Wednesday, May 27.
The new series of Fraggle Rock is being produced by The Jim Henson Co. (exec producers Lisa Henson and Halle Stanford) in association with New Regency (exec producers Yariv Milchan and Michael Schaefer). Long-time Henson collaborator John Tartaglia (Splash and Bubbles, Fraggle Rock: Rock On!) is also executive producing, along with showrunners/writers/EPs Matt Fusfeld and Alex Cuthbertson (American Dad!). Rita Peruggi (The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Yo Gabba Gabba!) is the producer. Harvey Mason Jr. is executive music producer for the series.
Original puppeteers Dave Goelz (Boober/Uncle Traveling Matt) and Karen Prell (Red) are attached.


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Dublin, January 6, 2023 /PR Newswire/ — “Latin America NFT Market Intelligence and Future Growth Dynamics Databook – 50+ KPIs for NFT Investments by Key Assets, Currencies and Distribution Channels – Q2 2022” report added of ResearchAndMarkets.com Recruitment.
NFT industry latin america It is expected to grow by 48.4% on an annual basis, $5,871.1 million 2022.
The NFT industry is expected to grow steadily over the forecast period, registering a CAGR of 34.8% from 2022 to 2028.His NFT spending in the country is $5,871.1 million reach 2022 $31,994.3 million By 2028.
nonsubstitutable Token (NFT) Market latin america It has expanded rapidly in the last few years. The Brazilian athlete’s presence on the NFT marketplace has boosted the widespread adoption of his NFTs among the general public.
Additionally, these countries have also seen a significant increase in the adoption of NFTs in the art industry. Recruitment by visual artists and big names in the music industry is driving the growth of the NFT industry. Brazil.
The NFT industry has recorded strong growth over the last four quarters, BrazilNFT Marketplace seeks to tap into the potential of a high-growth market.
As the popularity of NFTs continues to rapidly gain momentum globally, publishers expect more and more sports teams to collaborate and launch NFTs soon.
of NFT Marketplaces Brazil has chosen eco-friendly methods to attract more artists to its platform, which in turn helps foster their growth.
Hic et Nunc, major BrazilCreate your artwork on the Tezos blockchain, the underlying NFT marketplace for artists around the world. ethereumAdditionally, the cost of the energy-efficient Tezos blockchain is 30 cents compared to $200 to perform a single transaction with ethereum blockchain.
As the popularity of NFTs continues to grow globally, Brazilian startups and artists are raising millions of dollars by creating NFT collections and selling them.
of March 2022Lumx Studios, one of the leading startups from Rio de Janeiro The company that develops the experience in the Metaverse has announced that the company has acquired 2 million reais Enter the NFT market with the 55Unity collection. To date, the 55Unity collection remains the largest collection project, with 3,000 tokens sold in 28 hours.
of September 2021Monica Rizzolli, Generative Art NFT Collection, Fragments of an Infinite Field 28.35 million reais at auction.
Publishers expect similar trends to develop over the next two to three years in the Mexican NFT market. Several brands have already started incorporating his NFTs into their marketing strategies, and with increasing frequency. This trend is expected to intensify domestically in the short to medium term. Mexico farther away. Publishers therefore expect increased adoption of NFTs among brands to drive future growth of the country’s market.
A music festival uses NFTs as part of its marketing strategy. MexicoOver the past 12 months, the popularity of NFTs has continued to grow. amid the growing debate on NFTs at Mexicomusic festivals are starting to use NFTs as part of their marketing strategies.
of March 2022Cerveza Tecate Pa’l Norte, one of the biggest music festivals Mexico, announced the creation and sale of NFTs. In particular, NFTs, created specifically for this event and offering lifelong benefits to their owners, were part of Cerveza Tecate’s marketing strategy.
Football League launches NFT Collectibles to generate new revenue stream amid pandemic impact on revenue
of April 2021the country’s top football league, Liga MX, has announced the launch of the NFT collection at the beginning of the 21’/22′ season. August 2021To launch the NFT collection, Liga MX has launched a strategic collaboration with Bondly, the NFT marketplace that puts NFTs up for auction.
Notably, Liga MX is one of the first football leagues to launch an NFT collection. Globally, several individual teams have entered his NFT space and announced merchandise sales.
The football club has entered into a strategic partnership with the NFT platform to launch NFT merchandise.
Several global football clubs and players have entered the NFT space and are launching NFT merchandise.A similar trend can be seen MexicoAt , a football club partners with a global NFT platform to launch NFT.
of February 2022, the Atlas Futbol Club has announced that the club has entered into a strategic partnership with French NFT platform Sorare. This will allow fans to trade his NFT cards for their favorite players.
NFT helps communities rebuild underserved villages in Mexico
From its geographical position, Akumalsmall village of mexican Yucatan In the peninsular region, most government funding for development projects did not reach villages. This is why the area and most of the population were underserved for many years. However, a local bakery owner Jennifer Smithlaunched the Akumal Arts Festival in 2018.
Notably, the event brought together artists from all over the world who visited the area to decorate the town with beautiful images. The arts festival has caught the attention of local authorities and there is currently minor development work taking place in the area.But in 2022, thanks to NFT, the Akumal Arts Festival Akumal Communities rebuild underserved Mexican villages.
of January 2022gathered hundreds of artists from all over the world Akumal A festival sponsored by Third Rail Art. These artists have created murals, organized various community-driven interaction programs, and conducted workshops during art festivals.
of April 2022, Third Rail Art dropped some mural animated NFTs selected from the festival onto the Street Art NFT platform. Called the NFT-4-GOOD collection, 85% of NFT’s proceeds will be donated to the Akumal Cultural Foundation. These NFTs were designed by the artist who created the original mural in partnership with Cryptic Gallery.
As the NFT market matures and develops, Mexicopublishers expect more innovative NFT use cases to emerge in the next three to four years.
Cryptocurrency Exchange turns popular Mexican game into Solana-based NFT experience
Funding through NFTs is the most common, with a growing number of use cases. Many organizations around the world use NFTs to raise money for their nonprofits.In particular, a similar trend can be seen MexicoWhere Cryptocurrency The exchange turns a famous Mexican game into a Solana-based NFT experience.
of October 2021FTX, one of the leading Cryptocurrency The exchange announced that the company is transforming the famous Mexican game Loteria into Solana’s NFT-centric game. Among other things, the company said funding from the project would benefit nonprofits.
This is a bundled service that combines six reports covering regional insights along with data-centric analysis at the regional and country level.
1. Latin America NFT Market Insights Brief
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3. Argentina NFT Market Intelligence and Future Growth Dynamics Databook
4. Brazil NFT Market Intelligence and Future Growth Dynamics Databook
5. Colombia NFT Market Intelligence and Future Growth Dynamics Databook
6. Mexico NFT Market Information and Future Growth Dynamics Databook
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NFT Market Size and Forecast by Major NFT Collecting Assets, 2019-2028
music and sound clips
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NFT Market Size and Forecast by Currency, 2019-2028
NFT Market Size and Forecast by Distribution Channel, 2019-2028
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