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Rush’s Morning Update: Disaster!
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Well, isn’t this a kick in the butt! We haveanother story about the “rich” not spending their money because they’re worried about the economy,and as a result, the economy sucks. (MaybeI should say, “still sucks”.)
This one’s in the New York Times, headlined: “Wealthy Reduce Buying in Blow to the Recovery”. Appropriately, the reporter is named Motoko Rich. He writes, “The economic recovery has been helped in large part by the spending of the most affluent. Now, even the rich appear to be tightening their belts.”
That’s right. Last year, higher-income people opened their wallets with more “confidence,” while everybody else was mired in misery. But, Mr. Rich reports, “their confidence has since ebbed, according to retail sales reports and some economic analysis.” To buttress the point, he examines the stock market, luxury hotel bookings, real estate, and upscale retailers. All grim.And all the grim news is coming from households earning more than $210,000 a year –the top 5 percent of wage earners.
That’s the who, what, where, and how of it. But the most important detail– the why– is left out.
What happened between last year and thisthat would cause the “rich” to stop spending? Since Mr. Rich doesn’t tell you, I will:It’s called Obamacare,higher taxes, andvirtually every business sector under attack by the regime. It’s called a liberal takeover of the entire government. It’s called the unmitigated disaster of Obama, Nancy, and Harry! And that’s why the economy sucks!
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Time: 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Place: Mount Adams Pavilion
Carole Feeny calls it “a big boost,” her win Sunday evening at Startup Weekend Cincinnati.
Feeny is the founder of Project Blue Collar. It’s a mission-driven enterprise that hopes to promote the adoption of rescue dogs by selling blue dog collars that carry the slogan, “Support the Underdog.”
It’s a copy cat strategy (no pun intended) patterned after Lance Armstrong’s Livestrong bracelets.
Feeny’s fledgling company was among nine competitors that presented to a panel of judges that included Dave Knox, co-founder of the Brandery startup accelerator; Allos Ventures Director Dov Rosenberg and Jeff Weedman, a Procter & Gamble Co. executive on loan to Cintrifuse, a corporate-led initiative to grow Cincinnati’s innovation economy.
“Here’s the interesting thing,” Weedman said. “There were nine presentations and every one of them got at least one vote from a judge. And the winner was this small startup.”
Feeny said she started the company because she’s passionate about finding homes for dogs rescued from abusive or neglectful homes. She owns two rescue dogs, Roxie and Buster.
“I always have one or two foster dogs around,” she added.
Feeny runs the local office of Creative Niche Inc., a Toronto-based placement firm for designers and creative professionals.
She found a local manufacturer to produce the collars, but she’s still working out details like finding a shade of blue that “pops” and sourcing a stronger buckle. Pet Wants in Over-the-Rhine has agreed to carry the product. Online sales are likely by this fall, she said, at www.projectbluecollar.com. Part of her prize is three months of desk space at the Brandery, where she hopes to refine her marketing approach.
“It was a big boost,” Feeny said of the win. “It certainly provided a lot of validation, and it’s giving us a lot of PR.”
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For the first time, U2 performing in Korea this December
U2 will perform for the first time in Korea this December as part of their “Joshua Tree Tour 2019”.
The concert will be held at the Gocheok Skydome in Seoul on December 8th.
The legendary Irish rock band has sold over 170 million albums and won 22 Grammy’s over their illustrious 43-year history.
In Seoul, tickets for U2.com subscribers will be available starting Monday, June 10 with tickets on sale Wednesday, June 12th on the Yes24 website.
The concert tour gets underway November 8th in Auckland, New Zealand before heading to Australia and Tokyo before Seoul.
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Britain’s factories recorded a surprise fall in production in February, the first drop in activity for almost a year.
Confirming fears of a slowdown in the UK economy so far this year, figures from the Office for National Statistics showed manufacturing output declined by 0.2% in February, falling well behind economists’ expectations for growth of 0.2%.
There was also a sharp drop in construction output, suggesting continued pain for the industry amid the fallout from the collapse of Carillion.
Factories producing machinery such as turbines, pumps, compressors and agricultural toolsrecorded the sharpest falls in February, the worst month for the manufacturing sector since March last year.
Compounding fears for the health of a sector that generally performed better than much of the economy last year, the ONS said there was no evidence that heavy snowfall in February had a negative impact on output.
Overall industrial production, which includes mining, quarrying and energy, rose by 0.1% compared with the previous month. Energy supply provided the biggest contribution, rising by 3.7%, helped by the cold weather.
The figures provide a snapshot of the economy just before the worst of the snowfall from the “beast from the east” in early March, meaning there could be worse news to come from manufacturers.
There had been signs of the weakness for the economy earlier this year from company surveys, which showed falling activity compared with the final months of 2017.
However, there was better news for Britain’s trade deficit – the difference between imports and exports – which shrank more than expected to £10.2bn in February from £12.2bn in January.
Lee Hopley, chief economist at EEF, a manufacturing lobby group, said: “The data looks more like a temporary wobble than a turn for the worse. While other indicators may have softened since the start of the year, ongoing growth in the global economy should continue to spur growth across manufacturing in the coming quarters.”


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What's better than being acknowledged by your own hometown in a magazine?
Fresh-faced Rita Ora glows in her latest spread with Vogue Magazine UK. The #1 selling UK artist is looking very sophisticated in the spread wearing neutral colours and black and white.
Rita, did a great job performing at X Factor UK over the weekend, and even met her style icon - Gwen Stefani backstage.
The Roc Nation artist who was shot by Scott Trindle in Vogue magazine speaks on being a style icon, her fashion inspiration and even meeting JayZ for the first time.
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McDonald’s customers in the U.K. demand a return to plastic straws
A group of McDonald’s customers in the U.K. is demanding the hamburger chain bring back plastic straws. McDonald’s U.K. began phasing out plastic straws in September and transitioning to paper straws, amid pressure from consumers, environmental groups, and in anticipation of new regulations on single-use plastic items. But as Munchies reports, 39,000 people have now signed an online petition asking the company to reinstate their beloved polypropylene drinking tubes. The petition includes some super compelling arguments like the fact that plastic straws allow people to drink a “milkshake proper” and “paper straws go all soggy in your drink.” While the number of pro-plastic straw signatures might seem impressive, a Sum of Us petition last year calling on McDonald’s to abandoned plastic straws fetched nearly 500,000 online signatures. Numbers don’t seem to be on the side of the pro-plastic posse.
And in other news...
- KFC started a website called chickendales.com for kids out there who want to confuse the woman that raised them on Mother’s Day with a personalized video of a sexy, Chippendales-style Colonel Sanders. This is the worst thing since creepy, CGI Colonel Sanders. [Food & Wine]
- Four Loko, a beverage that received an FDA warning, has introduced a new hemp flavored drink. It apparently tastes like “distilling the flavor of a soaking wet Baja sweater into an alcoholic drink.” [Esquire]
- In other KFC news, the fried chicken chain is now partnering with Cinnabon to make Cinnabon Biscuits. It’s the first new dessert at KFC since 2012. [Foodbeast]
- McDonald’s is rolling out an all-vegan, bleeding “Incredible Burger” at restaurants in Germany on April 29. The new patties were developed by Nestle last year. [Veg News]
- Chipotle may be on the upswing, but it hasn’t shed its reputation for foodborne illness outbreaks with the government yet. The company revealed this week that it’s received a new subpoena from U.S. federal prosecutors seeking information related to illnesses at the burrito chain’s locations in Powell, Ohio; Simi Valley, California; Sterling, Virginia; Boston, and Los Angeles. Shares dropped 5 percent following the news. [CNN]
- The FDA found that 21 percent of 89 ice cream production facilities inspected in 32 states in 2016 and 2017 came back positive for harmful bacteria. [People]
- PepsiCo has offered to end lawsuits against small farmers in India who the company claims were unlawfully growing its proprietary potatoes used for Lays chips. Activists and farmers associations have asked the Indian government to intervene, arguing that the farmers have rights to grow and sell registered crops. [CNN]
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JACKSON, Miss. (January 7, 2013)--Daily Equipment Company of Jackson, Miss., has been sold to Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Inc. in Houston, the companies announced Monday in a joint press release.
The terms of the sale were not disclosed.
DEC is headquartered in Jackson, Miss., and has other full-service branches throughout in Biloxi, Miss., and in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport and Lake Charles in Louisiana.
Kent Eudy, MCFA's vice president of sales and marketing, says DEC will continue to operate as Daily Equipment Company, with no changes in leadership, staff or support.
As part of the transaction, Daily will resign its representation of the Crown brand in favor of the Cat lift trucks, Mitsubishi forklift trucks and Jungheinrich brands manufactured and distributed by MCFA.


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- Strike hits banking services in Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh
Chandigarh, Feb 28 () Banking services in Punjab, Haryana and UT Chandigarh were today affected as employees of public sector banks today went on a day-long strike in support of their demands including stringent measures to recover bad loans.
- Sanchi products to be available at PDS and co-op stores from March
INDORE: Sanchi brand products of Madhya Pradesh State Cooperative Dairy Federation will now be available at public distribution shops (PDS) and cooperative societies across the state from March in a phased manner. In the first phase, Sanchi products with long shelf life such as ghee and cattle feed will be available at cooperative stores and PDS. In the second phase, stores with the facility of refrigeration will also store curd, buttermilk and other short shelf life products. “We had approached these cooperative societies to sell our products through them and in-principle approval for the tie up with these societies has been granted by the government,” said a senior official from the state cooperative society. According to the federation, Sanchi milk products will be made available at 4,500 PDS, 4,523 primary agriculture cooperative society and 254 marketing cooperative society across the state from March. “As the in-principle approval has been granted, agreement with each society will be done in phases. Divisional Dugdh Sangh will tie up with rural and urban PDS and societies of their region to sell products.” As per the initial terms and conditions, Sanchi will give commission to cooperative societies for selling their products. Another official from the federation said, “This will help in increasing the reach of Sanchi products in urban and rural areas. Sales are also expected to increase with larger exposure.” Besides by products of milk, Sanchi will also market its cattle feed through Cooperative stores. Looking at the response from these cooperative stores, Sanchi will increase the product list at these stores in future. The sale of Sanchi products at PDS and cooperative societies will start from Bhopal followed by other centers.
- DUBAI DUTY FREE - Vintage Federer packs off Paire
Roger Federer has nothing to prove no points to gain or prizes to win just his craft to show, his wand to wave, magic to weave. On Monday night, when the winter chill spiced the air, the 35-year-old, in his first tournament since that stirring run in Melbourne where he clinched his 18th major title, felt the love of the crowd if not the challenge of his opponent -27-year-old Frenchman Benoit Paire-to score a an artful win in the first round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. Federer, looking to win his eighth title here, a first for him, having captured seven crowns in three other Tour stops besides Wimbledon, came through 6-1, 6-3 in 54 minutes.
- Jewish centers in US cope with bomb threats; graves vandalized
Jewish centers and schools across the nation coped with another wave of bomb threats Monday as officials in Philadelphia made plans to repair and restore hundreds of vandalized headstones at a Jewish cemetery. All 21 buildings, 13 community centers and 8 schools were cleared by Monday afternoon.
- SpaceX to send first paying tourists around moon next year
SpaceX plans to launch two paying passengers on a tourist trip around the moon next year using a spaceship under development for NASA astronauts and a heavy-lift rocket yet to be flown, the launch company announced on Monday. The first such launch is tentatively targeted for late 2018.


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Techy Sum: Daily News (26 October 2022)
Hello everyone, on the nineteenth chapter of the Techy Sum, volume 1, here’s the news that you’ve been looking for:
- AMD releases AM5 AGESA 22.214.171.124, reintroduces C-State Boost Limiter (accidentally removed on version 126.96.36.199) with more than 4 Cores loaded on 5.5GHz.
- “julianxhokaxhiu” on GitHub Gist now found a new method to bypass Windows 11 22H2 clean install “Microsoft-account only” so you can use local (offline) account instead. Let Windows 11 22H2 setup present you with the screen where it asks for an e-mail address (of your Microsoft account); and enter “email@example.com” with “test” as the password. Let setup fail the login, and click on “next.” That’s it. Windows setup will proceed without needing an active Internet connection, and you can create a local account.
- KIOXIA and Western Digital officiate the Fab 7 opening at Yokkaichi, Japan. Total investment in phase one of Fab7 is expected to be approximately one trillion yen, and partly subsidized by Japan government. Fab7 has the capability to produce sixth-generation, 162-layer flash memory and future advanced 3D flash memory. It is scheduled to start shipping 162-layer flash memory in early 2023.
- NVIDIA’s add-in board partners quietly launching the GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB, a variant of the RTX 3060 with a third of its memory size and memory bus-width cut off. It now features 128-bit memory interface, with the same 15 Gbps data-rate, which works out to 240 GB/s memory bandwidth. The rest of the GPU core configuration remain unchanged.
- Scott Herkelman (General Manager for AMD Radeon) in a Twitter post confirms RDNA 3 (including RX 6000 series) GPUs will not use 12VHPWR connector. Meanwhile, AMD has recently confirmed that ‘undisclosed products’ based on RDNA 3 GPU family has successfully completed Vulkan 188.8.131.52 conformity test suite. Support for this graphics API is confirmed for Ubuntu and Windows 10.
- [Leaked] Intel Core i9–13900HK, a 14 cores and 28 threads next-gen mobile CPU resurfaces on Geekbench with score of 1,870 points in single-core (3% higher), multi-core score of 12,436 points (5% higher) than two months ago. It is supposedly going to boost up to 5.36 GHz, presumably 5.4 GHz according to Intel specs, 400MHz faster than Core i9–12900HK with max boost at 5.0 GHz.
- [Leaked] AMD Ryzen 7 7700 specs confirmed on Geekbench, sporting 8 cores and 16 threads, supposedly boosts up to 5.35 GHz (only achievable at 5.28 GHz). It scores of 2,062 points in single-core, slower than Ryzen 7 7600X (2,125 points). However, it is 13% faster in multi-core (12,685 points) compared to 7600X’s 11,215 points.
- ZOTAC launches GeForce RTX 3070 Ti with GA102–150 GPU (6,144 CUDA cores), rated at TDP of 320W, 10W higher than previous lineup of 310W.
- Greg Joswiak, Apple’s Senior VP of Worldwide Marketing confirms that Apple will use USB Type-C on future iPhones, replacing Lightning cable. This is due to EU’s 2024 mandatory USB-C cable on tech devices ruling recently.
- Samsung’s Maintenance Mode will start to arrived on every One UI 5 user worldwide. It allows a user to secure the personal or sensitive data found on a smartphone they need to send off for repair, and recover it only when it is back in their hands. It will be available on certain Galaxy S21 and S22 series units.
- AMD estimates that CXL (Compute eXpress Link; allows add-in boards like GPUs or non-volatile memory devices such as SSDs to access the same bandwidth as the system RAM via PCIe pathways, lowering latency and improving transfer speeds technology) technology could come to consumer platforms in 3–5 years, around 2025–2027.
- Vivo announced that X80, X70 Pro Plus and X70 Pro (Global Editions) are slated to get Android 13 betas (via Funtouch 13 OS) from November 2022.
- MediaTek Dimensity 9200 has made its AnTuTu debut with an overall score of 1,266,102 points, over 10% faster than the MediaTek Dimensity 9000+ and Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1. Its ray tracing-capable Arm Immortalis-G715 GPU scores 550,767 point. The CPU, memory and UX components score 273,413, 246,089 and 195,113, respectively. MediaTek is rumoured to unveil the SoC sometime in November.
- Shutterstock collaborates with OpenAI to offer AI art tool, DALL-E 2 to users and pay artists who helped train it using it’s trove of licensed photos data set.
🎮Video game news🎯:
- Amazon’s Fallout TV series reveals its first official image, shared by Prime Video on Twitter. The folks in the foreground of the image are apparently dwellers of Vault 33. According to the Fallout Fandom Wiki, Vault 33 hasn’t been explored in Fallout lore, only seen previously in Bethesda Pinball.
- The new price recommendations by Steam were shared on Twitter by SteamDB. On a $59.99 game, notably, the price in Turkish lira jumped from ₺92 to ₺510, a 454% increase, while the Argentine peso price increase from AR$649 to AR$3800, a 485% increase. Steam’s recommended prices in Russian rubles are up 75%, the Indian rupee 80%, the Kazakhstani tenge increased by 97%, and the Polish zloty went up by 28%, while Canadian dollar went up by inflation-correlated 13%. For us, Malaysian ringgit Steam price has increased by 40%, really crazy considering our purchasing power. Guess we’ve to find more way to earn money from this newsletter, then. (Half joking, but at the same time, kinda sad for us that are living here in Malaysia.)
- Spotted by PCGamesN, JBMod, a precursor to Garry’s Mod, has finally appeared on Steam, 18 years later from it’s initial release on 1 December 2004.
- The Witcher, CD Projekt’s first game, is getting a full remake with Unreal Engine 5. The remake is being developed by Polish studio Fool’s Theory, the developer of Seven: The Days Long Gone, with CD Projekt providing “full creative supervision.” Fool’s Theory CEO Jakub Rokosz previously worked as a quest designer on The Witcher 2 and Witcher 3.
- Paragon, Epic’s action-MOBA released in 2016, is now back as Paragon: The Overprime. The game is coming to the Epic Game Store in November as early access game. Previously, due to Paragon’s failure (not attained enough audiences), Epic closed the game and releasing all of its $17 million worth of assets, for free, on the Epic Game Store. Several games have already make use of Paragon’s assets: Fault: Elder Orb (2020 on Steam), Predecessor (developed by Omeda Studios, MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) genre).
- Age of Empires’s spin-off, Age of Mythology (released in 2002), is getting a remaster. Announced during Age of Empires 25th anniversary event, Age of Mythology Retold will revamp the original game’s graphics, tweak its gameplay, and in general do for Age of Mythology what the Definitive Edition did for Age of Empires.
- China rolls out Long March 5B rocket to the pad at Wenchang spaceport on Hainan island early Tuesday (October 25), in preparation for Mengtian (“Dreaming of the Heavens”) space module launch, which is the third and final space station module for Tiangong. It is a 58.7-foot-long (17.9 m) and roughly 48,500-pound (22 metric tons) spacecraft designed mainly to host an array of science racks and experiments.
- Soyuz-2.1a rocket launched the uncrewed Progress 82 space cargo toward the International Space Station (ISS) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Site 31 launch pad in Kazakhstan on 26 October 2022, 05:20 local Baikonur time (00:20 GMT). Progress 82 is carrying nearly 3 tons of food, fuel and other supplies for the crew members of the orbiting lab’s current Expedition 68 mission, with total weight of 7 tons. It will head to the ISS for two days, finally catching it and docking Thursday (October 27) at 02:49 GMT on October 28, if all goes according to plan.
- NASA’s EMIT (Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation) instrument on-board the ISS has identified more than 50 methane super-emitters in its first few months of operation, despite not it’s main job.
- The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) photographed a collision (merging) of two galaxies, commonly named IC 1623, that’s triggering lots of star formation, so far invisible to other telescopes. It is producing stars at a rate 20 times faster than that of our own Milky Way galaxy, scientists said. 270 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Cetus. Astronomers believe that it may also be producing a supermassive black hole, which is not visible in the image.
- On Monday (October 24) at 20:25 EDT (00:25 GMT on October 25), the ISS team fired the thrusters on Progress 81, a Russian cargo ship attached to the station, using “Pre-Determined Debris Avoidance Maneuver” (PDAM) method, for a total of five minutes and five seconds to avoid the debris fragment of resulting from Russian test of a direct ascent anti-satellite (ASAT) missile conducted on Nov. 15, 2021, which destroyed a defunct Soviet satellite known as Cosmos 1408, decommissioned since 1980s, according to a NASA statement. The maneuver raised the ISS’s altitude by 0.2 miles (0.32 kilometers) at apogee (its farthest point from Earth) and 0.8 miles (1.3 km) at perigee (its closest point to Earth).
- A microbe nicknamed ‘Conan the Bacterium’ (from deinococcus radiodurans bacteria species) capable of surviving in strong radiation environment, 28,000 times more radiation than what a human can survive, at around 33 feet (10 meters) beneath the surface, frozen and dried out, for 280 million years, if living on Mars, by observing the formation amount of manganese antioxidant. During the experiments led by Michael Daly, professor of pathology at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Maryland and a member of the National Academies’ Committee on Planetary Protection, organisms faced temperatures as low as minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 63 degrees Celsius) and exposure to ultraviolet light, gamma rays and high-energy protons mimicking the constant bombardment of Mars by solar ultraviolet light and cosmic radiation sleeting down from space.
- Astronomers watch DART mission’s asteroid Didymos eclipsing (occulting) stars. The European Space Agency (ESA) supports a project called the Asteroid Collaborative Research via Occultation Systematic Survey (ACROSS) designed to capture occultations. ACROSS deployed networks of observers including amateur and professional astronomers pinpoint the predicted locations across the world to track the path of the asteroid’s shadow, glimpsing a background star flicker out as Didymos moved in front of it. The first successful detection of a Didymos-caused occultation of a distant star came on October 15, from a deployment of six telescopes located in northern Oklahoma. One of the telescopes spotted the fading of a star lasting around 0.13 seconds, slightly shorter than the predicted maximum possible duration event. It was followed on October 18, when a 28-inch (71.12 cm) portable telescope at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia-CSIC, near Granada in Spain, had also recorded an occultation that agreed with the predictions.
- The mission, called Mauve, will be launched in 2024 by the private company Blue Sky Space, which is also developing a commercial exoplanet-watching satellite called Twinkle. It will carry an ultraviolet spectrometer and a 6-inch (15-centimeter) telescope to observe the activity of stars close to the sun, and to look at the effect of solar flares toward the exoplanet.
- Look at the moon’s shadow looming across Earth in last solar eclipse of 2022, in a satellite video provided by Eumetsat (European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites)’s Meteosat-9, U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-Eumetsat’s joint Meteosat-11 satellite. Also, there’s more picture emerges of the partial solar eclipse event around the area of vicinity.
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Huawei Developer Conference 2021 (Together) is set to start on October 22, 2021. According to the information, the tickets for Huawei Developer Conference 2021 are now available through Huawei Pay.
How to get Huawei Developer Conference 2021 tickets?
- Open the Huawei Wallet on your Huawei devices
- Now Scan the QR code of HDC. Together
- Here, select your bank card associated with Huawei Pay to get the tickets
- Afterward, you can make a purchase through the “Cashier Counter”
Huawei Developer Conference 2021:
HDC 2021 will take place from 22nd to 24th October. Songshan Lake, Dongguan city will be the venue for this conference. The HarmonyOS ecosystem, HMS Core 6.0, and the Whole House intelligent system will be the topic of discussion at the event.
However, the new product launch information is still unknown. At the Huawei Nova 9 Series press conference, He Gang, chief operating officer of Huawei’s consumer business and president of Huawei’s consumer business mobile phone product line, announced that the number of users of Huawei’s HarmonyOS upgrade has exceeded 120 million.
The 100 million HarmonyOS smartphones were upgraded in September 13. HarmonyOS was officially launched on June 2, 2021, HarmonyOS 2.0 has exceeded 10 million installations and it was just a beginning. After 15 days, the milestone crossed 18 million users. 25 million upgrades came in the month of the launch.
Last month, on July 8, 2021, Huawei announced 30 million HarmonyOS 2.0 installations in smartphones. On July 29, 2021, at the Huawei P50 series launch event, Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei consumer business group announced to complete 40 million installations on smartphone devices.
In August 2021, HarmonyOS installation exceeds 50 million downloads. On August 30, 70 million installations have completed and in just a few days, this number reached over 90 million.
At present, 400+ application and service partners, 1700+ hardware partners, and 1.3 million + developers have participated in the construction of the Hongmeng ecosystem, and jointly built the world’s largest interconnected all-scenario smart ecosystem.


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Apple will redesign Macs, Apple Watch in 2021, analyst predicts
Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has predicted that the tech giant will release the next generation of MacBooks and Apple Watches in the second half of next year, 9to5Mac reported on Wednesday. The products will have a redesign, according to Kuo.
There’ll be two new versions of the Apple Watch next year, Kuo predicted, with “innovative health management functions and improved form factor design.” Meanwhile, next-gen Macs will reportedly have more of an industrial feel.
Kuo also predicts the iPad Air will be given 5G connectivity in 2021, as well as a mini-LED display.
On the other hand, Kuo said he expects the AirPods 3 launch to be delayed from early next year until April or June 2021.
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It's concerning especially as the problem is widespread in Denmark which supplies a lot of pork to Britain. There are bound to be lots of parents who will now worry about buying pork.
The reality is that this is a problem stemming from excessive antibiotic use within intensive farming (geared to supply supermarkets) and not all pork.
I headed to East Lancashire yesterday to interview Paul White from Roaming Roosters who supply free range pork to find out more about the difference between intensive and outdoor reared meat - video coming very soon.
I saw where the pigs breed, live and are butchered. This kind of access would be unthinkable in intensive farming. There are farms like Roaming Roosters all over the country and and they often have online shops making higher welfare meat more accessible even if you don't live locally.
I am happy to continue buying my bacon and sausages from farms like these and hope that the MRSA scare encourages more shoppers to stop buying meat from supermarkets and source it instead from smaller, more responsible suppliers.


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A new company is reviving a relic of the Space Age — novelty freeze dried "astronaut ice cream" — with hopes of transforming it into a gourmet dripless dessert treat.
Creator Rob Collignon loved to eat the inaccurately named snack as a child (inaccurate because astronauts never took ice cream into space; Tang, yes, but no freeze-dried Friendly's).
Collignon knew the joke ice cream was lousy, but he had "nerdy love for space," so he always ate it when he got a chance. Now, 34, the still-Space-Age-obsessed adult created his own Mercury Project and called it Gastronaut Ice Cream.
That's where the magic takes place: The unit cools the bars to -50 degrees (yes, we're talking Celsius, aren't you?) and then sucks out all the air. Over the next 14 hours to a few days, the ice in the bars turns to gas and evaporates, leaving behind the tiny telltale holes.
The best way to eat a dry, crumbly Gastronaut Ice Cream bar, Collignon said, is to "snap off pieces and pop them in (your) mouth (like) a chocolate bar."
That's where it dissolves in the mouth into something akin to an ice cream soup.
We sent Collignon's galactic gelato into the Daily News' famed "Taste Kitchen" — where testers found it drier than the surface of the Moon and as pleasant as sucking on a meteorite.
"If I want to chew salty Styrofoam, I'd eat a rice cake. And it would cost a lot less," said one reporter, who sampled the Mexican Chocolate Chip variety. "It tastes like when I was a kid and ate a handful of cocoa powder thinking it would taste like chocolate."
All testers found these UFOs (Unidentifiable Freeze-Dried Objects) salty at best and unpalatable at worst.
"Sad!" added one tester (who was not Donald Trump).
"Annoying," added another. "I don't know why someone would take the greatest thing in the world — the thing that I scream, you scream and we all scream for — ice cream, and do this to it," said a third tester. "It's an abomination of the natural order of things (that I like)."
Of course, Collignon admits he's not out to put Haagen-Dazs, Ample Hills or even Ben and Jerry out of business — "Don't worry, frozen ice cream is still delicious and you should enjoy it all the time," he said — but thinks his treat has a place in the dessert universe.
"With Gastronaut, you can eat artisanal ice cream on the subway even when the air conditioning is broken," he said.
Others obviously agree. Once Collignon had fully tweaked his process, he declared himself ready for launch in the form of a Kickstarter campaign last month that raised $70,453 — far more than the original $9,500 ask.
"The fact that so many people are interested in a freeze-dried ice cream makes me feel like less of a freak for working so hard on this over the past couple years," Collignon said.
Gastronaut Ice Cream is available at gastronauticecream.com.


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In its latest move to drum up more store traffic and new customers, Lowe’s announced on Thursday a partnership with Petco Health and Wellness that will see the home improvement giant test small Petco shops inside its own mega-stores. The “shop-in-stores” will offer shoppers items like dog food, kitty litter and vaccinations for their pets.
Lowe’s and Petco said the first shop-in-store location will open in the San Antonio area next month, with another 14 in Texas and the Carolinas following in March. The Petco shops will be 1,100 square feet in size, only 1% of the size of a typical Lowe’s. But the potential payoff for Lowe’s comes from adding more categories for customers to shop for—categories that are connected to the home but that Lowe’s itself doesn’t specialize in. The hope is that the partnership will bring more shoppers to its large network of stores.
“It gives us another way to deliver on our larger total home strategy,” Lowe’s chief brand and marketing officer Marisa Thalberg told Fortune in an interview. “We aspire to make homes better for all, and that includes pets in what we’ve really seen as these two concurrent booms happening in the past couple of years through the pandemic.”
Lowe’s, like its larger rival The Home Depot, has indeed been riding a wave of home improvement spending. It recently said it expected comparable sales, which strips out the impact of newly closed or opened stores, would be up 33% for the fiscal year about to end compared to 2019, before the COVID-19 outbreak. At the same time, Lowe’s projects comparable sales could fall as much as 3% in 2022 as shoppers return to more normalized spending behavior with the pandemic finally easing, prompting it to look for new sources of growth.
Petco, along with rivals PetSmart and Chewy, have benefitted from the pet spending surge stoked by the pandemic. It stands to benefit from more exposure to potential new customers, given Lowe’s large network of 1,700 stores. (Lowe’s has not said how much it might expand the Petco shops beyond the pilot.) The American Pet Products Association has forecast industry sales growth of 6% this year.
In recent years, Lowe’s has amped up efforts to cast a wider net in winning over shoppers, vastly expanding its holiday season assortment to include items like exercise bikes, to name but one example. At the same time, while it sells some pet-related items, notably carpet cleaners, Lowe’s acknowledges it is not known for pet products. “Petco is true expertise,” says Thalberg. “So I think it loans immediate excitement and credibility.”
The idea of teaming up with another retailer with deeper inroads and experience in key product categories is a growing trend among big box retailers. Most notably, last year Target began opening Ulta Beauty shops at its stores; Macy’s opened some Toys ‘R’ Us shops; and Kroger announced it will sell Bed Bath & Beyond items.
Each Petco shop within Lowe’s will prominently feature the pet retailer’s logo. Each will sell some items from Petco’s WholeHearted line of pet food and treats, and each will offer in all 700 items, along with some basic health services such as vaccination, microchipping, prescription pest prevention, and mobile grooming.
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text: In November 2011, in honor of the highly anticipated debut of the never-before-seen 2013 Ford Mustang, Ford and Team Detroit turned to Facebook with the hope to generate increased buzz and excitement for the release. In collaboration with Team Detroit and Buddy Media, Ford developed a Facebook experience teasing fans to unlock four exclusive photos of the new automobile. For every five thousand shares of the campaign, one image would be revealed. Ford fans were more than game – within five days, the campaign had received over 13,000 shares! Ford’s campaign launched on November 11, 2011. In addition to their more than 13,000 shares, the Ford Mustang tab was viewed over 150,000 times. Additionally, the wall posts relating to the reveal had over 2.4 million impressions on Facebook.


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Ad tax hike could undermine media, says association
The Hungarian Advertising Association (MRSZ) has called on the government to drop plans to raise advertising tax from the current 5.3% to 7.5%, arguing that the move could undermine media outlets, according to Hungarian online news portal index.hu.
MRSZ Chairman Zsolt Urbán emphasized that the planned ad tax is against the interests of the Hungarian economy, according to reports.
The association put out a statement a day after Lajos Kósa, the Fidesz parliamentary group leader, said the government plans to raise the levy. Kósa said the tax could remain in place for “about four years” until it generates enough to cover refunds the state must pay because the European Commission deemed the tax discriminatory in an earlier form, Hungarian news agency MTI reported.
The Fidesz government has been playing with the idea of modifying the ad tax recently; however, communication on the issue has been mixed. In April, Kósa was reported to have said Hungary would not introduce a mooted 9% advertising tax - almost double the current measure - in 2018, adding instead that “we would like to cut the advertising tax,” Hungarian wire service MTI reported earlier.
The MRSZ previously also cried foul about the announced plans for doubling the measure.
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Latest Q4 data shows Chinese companies like Xiaomi, Vivo and Oppo have captured 38.9 per cent of the Indian mobile phone handset market.
Bangalore, March 1, 2018: Significant reduction in the Q4 2017 business share is a reason to worry for the Indian mobile phone makers. If one goes by the latest data then Chinese companies have strengthened their position in the Indian mobile phone market.
However, South Korean giant Samsung remained among the top players with a share of 24.2 per cent.
Stiff competition from China has restricted the market for Indian companies like Micromax Informatics, Lava International Ltd. and Karbonn Mobiles Pvt Ltd to 15 per cent in Q2 2017.
Rohan Charles Egbert, Manager (Sales) for South Division, Lava International, said, “Our contribution to the market is down from previous years. Overall, the industry has been suffering as we struggle to match the prices offered by Xiaomi especially in the budget segment.” He added senior managers at the company have been quitting as the future is uncertain.
While Indian companies struggle, statistics show Chinese maker Xiaomi to be the most purchased brand in India with a share of 26.8 per cent in Q4 2017.
Responding to an email, Karthik P S, Business Development Manager at Xiaomi Technology said, the company expected yet bigger profits in 2018. He added the reason for Chinese companies’ success is their pricing strategies and superior product offerings.
Bernice D’souza, an economist based in Bangalore, said, “A careful analysis shows the gains in market share have been mostly in the budget to mid-pricing segment. Indian companies need to innovate and bring better products for budget consumers to regain back their position.”
Vinita Udiaver, a user of Xiaomi said that she is satisfied with the phone and it was a reasonable buy. She added that it worked as well as the higher end phones.


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After weeks of alarmingly weak sales, many in the industry are pinning their hopes on driving some revenue over the upcoming Bank Holiday. Our headline Promotional Index is 62% – the proportion of companies across all the retail sectors currently carrying price promotions. This is up from 57% last week. Within this number, fashion is up from 50% to 57% week on week, and department stores from 30% to 67%.
Among the fashion players, Dorothy Perkins is offering up to 30% off everything (including dresses, tops, shoes, swim, holiday). Wallis and Laura Ashley are also offering up to 30% off everything, while Warehouse is up to 20% off everything. Some are already discounting new ranges and collections. Karen Millen have 20% off on their spring edit this week and Monsoon are offering 30% off spring dresses. Peacocks have 20% off spring picks and The White Company have 30% off summer clothing.
Department stores have jumped on the May Day bank holiday promotional bandwagon. HoF have gone into a ‘Brand Event’ offering up to 30% off and John Lewis are offering to price match competitors. Debenhams are promoting a ‘New Season Spectacular’ with up to 25% across all departments. Harrods, Harvey Nichols and Liberty all maintain full prices.
In marked contrast, the footwear sector has moved in the opposite direction. Four weeks ago our Promotional Index for footwear stood at 56%. It has trended progressively down in the weeks since and is currently at 25%. Clarks and Office both have run promotions throughout this period, while most of their key competitors have resisted.
The very weak ONS retail sales numbers for March were a warning. April has been much worse. Apart from not having Easter this year, demand in April has been weaker still and a growing number of retailers are wondering what to do. Having pressed the price button and seen no response, they feel helpless. To a degree, everyone is in the same boat. However, this is not democratic and some brands are far better able too deal with this than others.


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JUSTICE FOR THE PIECES
Byline: Nancy Brumback
CHICAGO — Two-piece bridal gowns are becoming increasingly popular, with a continuing trend to simpler looks with sleeveless styles, often accompanied by a matching shawl, according to retailers shopping the National Bridal Market at the Chicago Apparel Center Sept. 23-26.
Owners of bridal shops generally reported business has been good this past year, although most did not see the surge of “millennium brides” wanting to get married in the year 2000 that had been predicted a year ago. Most also reported business is continuing strong for the spring-summer 2001 wedding season.
While many manufacturers were showing some color on wedding gowns, most often in embroidered trim, retailers were skeptical how well that would play with brides in their markets.
Dori Klubertanz, buyer and manager for Yost’s in Madison, Wis., said she expected an excellent year.
“We’re selling well into June already,” Klubertanz said.
Her brides are looking for simple styles with some crystal beading rather than lacy trim.
“They’re starting to look at halter styles and sheaths again, and we’re selling a lot of shawls,” said Klubertanz, who said she was a little hesitant about two-piece styles. “That market is a little limited. We are not going to stock up on a lot of them.”
She did, however, like two-piece styles for bridesmaids’ dresses.
“They can buy the top and skirt in different sizes, and that can be wonderful,” she added.
Klubertanz liked some bridal gowns with colored embroidery from Monique Bridal, as well as some styles in larger sizes from Paloma Blanca. Most bridal gowns in her shop, which she described as moderately priced, are under $1,000, although some brides are willing to go up to $1,200.
Karen Chase, owner of Mecklenburg Bridal Gallery, Charlotte, N.C., had a strong year and has seen no drop-off in business for the coming season.
She finds brides putting “an emphasis on strapless” styles, with “some asking for more tulle.” Cleaner, simpler lines are popular, she added, and pastel colors, especially lilac, celadon, platinum and pewter, remain popular for bridesmaids’ dresses, and “two-piece is big for brides and maids.”
Chase was also looking for younger designs in mother-of-the-bride dresses.
“The mothers don’t want to look like mothers,” she added, citing strong styles from Daymor, Junnie Leigh and Montage.
Bobbie Ziffren, owner of Bobbie’s Bridal in Peoria, Ill., reported business “about doubled this year with no drop-off” for the coming months.
In this conservative Midwest market “a lot of girls are looking for dresses with sleeves or small sleeves.” Two-piece styles for bridesmaids are also popular, Ziffren said. While the top-selling colors for bridesmaids’ dresses are black and silver, any shade of purple and the darker tones of burgundy and navy are also strong.
Ziffren liked some rainbow colors like pastels shading into one another, which were shown at this market for bridesmaids’ dresses for summer.
Jo Graves, owner of Sher’s in Louisville, Ky., thought the 2000 wedding season was actually down slightly from the previous year, but that 2001 looks stronger.
Red and periwinkle have been strong colors for attendants in her market, but she expects the pastels to dominate in the spring. Brides are going more upscale in their dresses, Graves said, “with lots of high-fashion looks” and not much lace. “Contemporary, sleek, elegant” styles are important, said Graves, who expects to sell wedding gowns with color-touches of lilac, pink and green.
“The manufacturers are going into color and I think it’s great,” she said, giving brides an opportunity to coordinate their dress, attendants’ dresses and flowers.
Brides are also adopting a different headpiece, with porcelain flowers in pastel shades on a base that can be kept as a family heirloom, with veils separate on combs. Mothers, she noted, are looking at tailored suits with beaded or embroidered accents and a more youthful look. Graves said “high-end moms” are also looking for brighter colors, and she particularly liked lines from Maggie Sottero and Pronovias.
Jinny Bartusick, owner of Jinny’s Bridal, Huntington Beach, Calif., did see a boost in business from millennium brides that is continuing into the coming year.
She sells a lot of strapless styles “for beach and Las Vegas weddings.” Bartusick has also seen a “huge” two-piece business for bridesmaids’ gowns. Some weddings, she said, feature different styles in tops and skirts for bridesmaids, depending on their body type, but all in the same color.
“It’s nice because you can make the dress fit without a huge alteration bill,” Bartusick noted.
Periwinkle, silver and platinum remain popular colors for bridesmaids, she said.
Kym Sigler, vice president of Minton’s in Mobile, Ala., noted, “Millennium brides happened, but business is still great.”
Sleeveless bridal gowns in chiffon, georgette and silk, some with colored beading, are popular in her market, while bridemaids’ gowns are tending toward two-piece styles in periwinkle, lilac, sage and gold, with navy remaining strong.
Sigler said the average price for a wedding gown in her shop is $600 to $700, a price point that has held for several years.
Annette Kowalski, owner of Annette’s Bridal in St. Catharines, Ontario, noted her brides “really want the new look: two-piece, embroidery, beadwork.” Sleeveless is “big time,” she said, and the brides “love the shawls,” so much so that “We even make shawls for gowns that don’t come with them.”
Marty Boikess, vice president, sales and market development for Alfred Angelo, felt retailer attendance at this market was “off from last year,” but that the retailers at the market were buying.
“Millennium brides were a bust,” he added. “It was just a normal year.”
He expects a trend toward more color on bridal gowns to continue. For bridesmaids, Alfred Angelo was showing hot colors, including orange and coral.
Steve Siegel, manufacturer’s rep for headpiece company Edward Berger, agreed that “2000 was not what it was cracked up to be, with the first six months better than the last six.”
Siegel expressed some concern about Internet competition in the bridal business, with people offering styles from his catalog on a Web site, then calling to order the merchandise.
Marie Camp, owner of Just Adorable by Marie, a line of dresses and accessories for junior attendants, also noted a somewhat lower retailer attendance at this show.


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Monday is rolling out its news Core i7 chip -- code-named Nehalem -- a week after the chipmaker slashed revenue forecasts, according to a report.
For the first Core i7 models -- targeted at high-end desktop computers -- Intel set up an unusual early commercial kickoff, starting with midnight PC sales in Tokyo Saturday night, the
Wall Street Journal
The early selling was scheduled to continue Sunday in U.S. retail outlets and at manufacturers' Web sites. Participants include mainstream PC makers like
, which is offering new systems priced at $949 to $3,699, and specialty makers of gaming systems such as
, which is offering models from $2,495 to more than $8,000, the newspaper reports.
PCs that use Core i7 are expected to be particularly fast for chores such as manipulating photos and videos. The advances grew out of competitive issues that Intel faced when it began planning Nehalem five years ago, the
Intel last week reduced its revenue forecast for the fourth quarter by more than $1 billion -- indicating a sharp drop in business since mid-October -- while other tech companies announced big job cuts.
This article was written by a staff member of TheStreet.com.


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Uber drivers will be banned from using vehicles that are not a hybrid or fully electric in London from 2020, as part of a plan to help tackle illegal levels of air pollution in the capital.
While hybrids such as the Toyota Prius have become synonymous with the ride-hailing service, today just under half of its London UberX drivers have an electrified vehicle. The firm said that must rise to 100% by 2020.
Diesel-powered cars on the app’s other services, such as UberXL for larger cars, will also be banned from 2020 in the capital.
For other UK cities blighted by dirty air, where fewer UberX cars are electrified already, the 100% hybrid and electric deadline is 2022.
In the longer term, the US company said that by 2025 all of its cars in London must be fully electric or a plug-in hybrid, on which the battery typically lasts about 40 miles before switching to petrol.
Jaguar Land Rover followed Volvo this week by promising to no longer launch new models that are not electrified to some degree, though it will continue selling existing petrol and diesel models.
Uber said it was prioritising London, where dirty air causes nearly 9,500 deaths a year, because the city had a particular severe problem with particulate pollution and toxic gases from vehicles.
Fred Jones, Uber’s head of UK cities, said: “Air pollution is a growing problem and we’re determined to play our part in tackling it with this bold plan.”
Uber’s 40,000 licensed drivers in London will also be given financial assistance to switch to a new car, with grants of up to £5,000 towards a hybrid or fully electric car.
The grants will be funded with £2m from the company but users of the app will also pay for the switchover, through a 35p surcharge imposed on all London trips from October. Uber has already added 100 Nissan Leafs, the world’s most popular electric car, to its London fleet earlier this year.
Uber will attempt to lure the drivers of London’s oldest, dirtiest cars to ditch them and use its service instead, by offering drivers of pre-2005 cars a “scrappage” voucher of £1,500 to use Uber rides instead.
Campaigners welcomed the company’s initiatives. Chris Large, of the sustainability charity Global Action Plan, said: “The speed of Uber’s commitment to move away from diesel reflects the urgency of action to address our air pollution health crisis.”
The company’s announcement ramps up what is shaping up to be a green taxi war in the UK, centred on London.
In July, the company that makes black cabs unveiled its new, low emissions taxi, which runs for about 70 miles off a battery before switching to a petrol engine. Under Transport for London rules, all new black cabs from 1 January 2018 will need to be electric.


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Indiana economy ‘humming like an Indy car engine’ thanks to global market interest: Gov. Holcomb
Indiana governor speaks on World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland panel Monday
Live from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb previewed his panel at the conference on "Mornings with Maria" Monday, claiming the state's economy is "humming like an Indy car engine" thanks to global market interest in advanced manufacturing.
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM DAVOS: WHAT TO KNOW
GOV. ERIC HOLCOMB: Advanced manufacturing is in our DNA. It has been since we started as a state back in 1816. So nothing new to us. Obviously, when you see the supply chain disruptions that are occurring, whether it's baby formula or wheat or gas, you name it, it just really reminds us and accents the importance of making sure that we have not just in time, but just in case supply chains that are up and about.
Obviously the state of Indiana, our economy because of our international connections and our domestic manufacturing that's occurring in our state, our state economy is humming like an Indy car engine, which will race this Sunday. But, you know, we're overperforming right now, beating all expectations. We had a $500 million last month over the prospects and projections for one month. So obviously, the state of Indiana is growing and in part it's because of our relationships all over the world.
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The new Apple Watch Series 4 has sensors that can automatically detect if the wearer trips and falls. It's ideal for people who might be prone to falling, such as the elderly. If someone with the new Apple Watch falls, and has the new feature activated, a pop-up will ask if they're OK. If they don't respond, it will sound an alarm and then automatically call emergency services.
The feature is off by default, since Apple says "high impact activity" can appear to be a fall for some people. If you want to turn it on, here's how.
When I tested this feature during our review, I noticed it sometimes takes a few seconds laying on the ground before it activates, but it seemed to work most times when I fell down purposefully in a gym. It's not 100-percent fail-safe, and Apple warns that it can't detect all falls.


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Shish Wraps, a Mediterranean Grille and the newest addition to Brown Street, is set to open Wednesday, Feb. 27.
The restaurant will offer a relatively new kind of eats for all on campus, specializing in marinated shish kabobs wrapped in pita bread. The restaurant will also be accepting Flyer Express as a convenience to University of Dayton students.
Since the restaurant is located just off campus and the owners are a pair of Lebanese-American brothers, both are UD alumni, the UD Marketing Club has been
working closely with Shish Wraps to help prepare for its grand opening.
Deanna Tomaselli, who heads the external relations for UDMKT, is also in charge of the “Shish Committee,” which is a group of around 17 UD students who are helping to market for the new restaurant.
She said she contacted owner Simon Abboud at the beginning of the school year after hearing about the restaurant from UDMKT
president Dara Paxson, and they have been working together to promote the grand opening ever since.
Abboud is a first-generation Lebanese-American who, along with his brother, learned how to cook from his mother. They
quickly noticed the lack of Lebanese food during their years studying at UD, and decided to share their recipes with the UD campus and the rest of the Dayton community.
“The founders have found a unique horizontal rotisserie style grill with 30 inch skewers that help maintain all the flavors in their specially marinated meats while cooking them to perfection,” according to the restaurant’s website, shishwraps.com where students can also find their menu.
“I would encourage UD students to try Shish Wraps because it sounds delicious,” Tomaselli said. “They also take Flyer Express, and their prices are very affordable for poor college students.”
To promote the grand opening, members of the “Shish Committee” will wear T-shirts from the restaurant and hand out menus throughout campus
so students can see what they offer, according to Tomaselli.
“Shish has promotions going on so the first 100 customers will get a free T-shirt,” Tomaselli said, “And there will also be chances to win $25 gift cards.
“There is nothing like it on campus, and I think a lot of students are really going to enjoy it.”


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Whole grains, legumes, and vegetables enjoyed one year at the top of the burger heap. In 2015, “the best burger of the year,” as declared by GQ, was from New York City’s Superiority Burger, a tiny vegetarian joint run by former upscale pastry chef Brooks Headley. The recipe, per the restaurant’s 2018 cookbook, includes red quinoa, yellow onions, chickpeas, walnuts, carrots, potato starch, and other general pantry items. In 2016, the Silicon Valley-based Impossible Burger made its restaurant debut at David Chang’s Momofuku Nishi, boasting a development price tag of around $80 million. (Chang himself, of course, had been famously anti-vegetarian until he tasted the fake-bloody fruits of tech labor.) Though Beyond Meat’s eerily meat-like veggie burger beat the Impossible Burger to market by three years, the latter marked the high-end launch of a tech burger, a meatless alternative that finally — finally! — carnivores could feel good about eating. Or at least that’s what they thought.
In the Superiority Burger Cookbook, the burger recipe’s headnote makes mention of these new studs of the vegetarian world, calling out “the modern gaggle of vegetable patties that bleed and squirt and ape.” Headley’s version is their opposite, “meant to be a Luddite response” to tech-world innovations, and is also “recognizable as food.” (A scathing juxtaposition.) But this philosophy is not so fashionable, as more and more restaurants opt to put ready-made patties on their menus. As of November, 2018, the Impossible Burger was available in 5,000 restaurants across the U.S. — up from 50 just one year prior.
It’s revealing to compare the quinoa and onions that make up the Superiority Burger with the ingredients that comprise the Impossible Burger and its ilk, which share more with frozen supermarket staples like the Boca Burger. Look no further than the Impossible Burger’s ingredient list, per Serious Eats:
Water, textured wheat protein, coconut oil, potato protein, natural flavors, 2% or less of: leghemoglobin (heme protein), yeast extract, salt, soy protein isolate, konjac gum, xanthan Gum, thiamin (vitamin B1), zinc, niacin, vitamin B6, riboflavin (vitamin B2), vitamin B12.
As for the Beyond burger, its array of ingredients is even larger:
Pea protein isolate, expeller-pressed canola oil, refined coconut oil, water, yeast extract, maltodextrin, natural flavors, gum arabic, sunflower oil, salt, succinic acid, acetic acid, non-GMO modified food starch, cellulose from bamboo, methylcellulose, potato starch, beet juice extract (for color), ascorbic acid (to maintain color), annatto extract (for color), citrus fruit extract (to maintain quality), vegetable glycerin.
No wonder these burgers have been so quickly adopted by fast-food chains. In fact, White Castle added Impossible to the menu in 2018, and Carl’s Jr. picked up Beyond Meat this year. To many vegans, this was a marker of success — despite the fact that these restaurants still sell cheaply-produced meat and still deny most of their workers a living wage. But “fake meat,” as manifested by these beefy non-beef patties, remains a major point of contention — legally and culinarily — for the culture at large.
In a recent Guardian article, food writer Bee Wilson discusses her concern that vegetarian options might always be perceived as healthier than meat, despite their individual nutrition facts. Meanwhile, laws are being passed in the United States to ban the word “meat” from the packaging of animal-free products, in order to protect the livelihood of the livestock industry. In her 2018 book Burger, Carol J. Adams (who’s also the author of The Sexual Politics of Meat) argues that these new editions of the common foodstuff have taken “the non-meat burger” from “the chewy cardboard mocked by food reviewers” into a possible vegan future. And the mainstream press remains obsessed with what these veggie burgers mean for the future of food, even as beef consumption remains high in the U.S. — hitting record levels in 2018, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The issues that these burgers raise are more significant than whether they taste good when they come off a barbecue grill. The combination of millions of dollars in venture capital, tech-bro culture, and the expensive and ethically dubious development of burger patties that only appear to bleed — it’s a story that would have to be made up if it weren’t already true. It also raises further questions: What distinguishes environmental stewardship from a ploy for profits? What is the true environmental impact of this product?
Vegan scholar Garrett Broad has made a point of pursuing answers. In a 2017 essay for Civil Eats, he explores the utopian claims that CEOs of tech-based food startups frequently make. “We’re lucky that for the first time in a long time, profit-seeking behavior and what’s good are aligning,” Ethan Brown, Beyond Meat’s CEO, tells Broad in an interview. (Meanwhile, Tyson Foods bought 5 percent of Beyond Meat in 2016.)
Brown argues that companies such as his can change which crops are grown on a large scale. Widespread demand for lentils instead of beef would undoubtedly be better for the health of our soil and water. But turning the lentils into a processed meat-like product, rather than selling them directly to consumers, introduces a middleman of questionable necessity. The result is more industrialized processes and a higher price tag. Consider this: Beyond Meat costs nearly $12 per pound. Grass-fed beef can cost as little as $3.70. A pound of dry lentils, meanwhile, sells for less than $2.
Could the future of the vegan patty be one of uniform flavor manufactured by a handful of companies? The burger holds an especially firm grip on the U.S. psyche: an accessible and versatile protein source that requires no utensils, nor even a plate. The “Americanness” of the hamburger, as Adams writes in Burger, arose from the new availability of cheaper, more available beef in the 1800s. There are centuries of culture at play when we reach for fatty protein stuffed in a bun.
As more folks want to eat less meat, lab-made products offer options that don’t demand a whole new sensory vocabulary. But convenience and familiarity are dubious drivers of the food economy. After all, they’re a major reason for the success of factory-farmed meat despite its myriad problems involving human and animal exploitation, environmental racism, and greenhouse gas emissions.
“It’s frustrating to me that vegans and vegetarians get knocked for this so much — that because they don’t eat meat, they shouldn’t crave some of the characteristics, like juiciness, or that ‘meaty’ texture of a ‘real’ hamburger,” says Lukas Volger, author of the cookbook Veggie Burgers Every Which Way and editorial director of Jarry magazine. He acknowledges the nostalgia factor, but the proliferation of meatless burgers remains troubling to him. He’s someone who has used the veggie burger as a way to explore the textures and flavors of the whole grains, legumes, and vegetables that mark more old-school versions of the dish.
“I know that a number of chefs are throwing their support behind these burgers, which seems to be really boosting their profile, but they’re still highly processed foods,” says Volger. “As a diner, seeing an Impossible Burger on the menu is the sign of an uninspired chef.”
A future food system that doesn’t mimic meat’s mistakes could still be possible — but it might require going back to basics. Light up the stove: there are lentils to boil.
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Sirona Dental Systems (ticker: SIRO, exchange: Privately Held)
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Schick Technologies, Inc. Fiscal 2005 Second Quarter Earnings Release Scheduled for November 10 LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y., November 4, 2004 -- Schick Technologies, Inc. (OTC BB: SCHK), a leader in proprietary digital imaging technologies for the dental market, today announced that it will report its financial results for the fiscal second quarter ended September 30, 2004, on Wednesday, November 10, 2004, at 4:00 p.m. ET, and hold its conference call on Wednesday, November 10, 2004, commencing at 5:00 p.m. ET.
What: Schick Technologies Fiscal Year 2005 Second Quarter Conference Call
When: Wednesday, November 10, 2004, 5:00 p.m. ET
Webcast address: http://www.fulldisclosure.com, or www.streetevents.com
Dial-in numbers: 800-798-2864(domestic), passcode # 77373633 or 617-614-6206 (international)
Contact: Kevin McGrath, Cameron Associates, 212-245-4577 Kevin@cameronassoc.com
An audio digital replay of the call will be available from November 10, 2004, at approximately 7:00 p.m. ET until 11:59 p.m. ET on November 17, 2004 by dialing 888-286-8010 (domestic) or 617-801-6888 (international) and using confirmation code # 94684393. A web archive will be available for 30 days at www.fulldisclosure.com and www.streetevents.com.
The Company's earnings release, which is expected to be issued on November 10, 2004, and any other financial and statistical information disclosed by the Registrant during the conference call will be available in the "Investors" section of Registrant's web site at http://www.schicktech.com
About Schick Technologies
Schick Technologies, Inc., an ISO 9001 certified company, designs, develops, and manufactures innovative digital radiographic imaging systems and devices for the dental and medical markets. The Company's products, which are based on proprietary digital imaging technologies, create instant high-resolution radiographs and offer significant advantages over conventional x-ray devices.


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Barcelona repurchase rights to sell Nike merchandise
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Barcelona expect the move will provide a 37 per cent increase to their income from licensing and merchandising, according to the Spanish publication Palco23.
The agreement will enable the Spanish club to act as a distributor rather than a purchaser.
Barcelona have repurchased the rights to sell club-themed Nike products from the US company, according to the Spanish publication Palco23 - a move which the Catalans expect will increase their merchandising income significantly.
The buy-back coincides with Barcelona's ambitious new digital strategy. The club recently announced that by adopting a fan-centred approach to content, they aim to make their digital business one of their biggest sources of income.
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There’s a bit more Marvel’s Midnight Suns news today, as 2K revealed the latest vampiric DLC with Blood Storm, and news about additional versions.
Well that’s kinda of a mixed bag
So, first, Blood Storm is coming. A part of Marvel’s Midnight Suns’ vampire-focus DLC storyline, the X-Men’s Storm will be included in the game for the first time, and she’s set to bring the thunder and the lightning.
Blood Storm adds in the title hero as a playable, but also brings with it both new missions and an unlockable “final showdown”. While it sounds like you can play the Blood Storm story all by itself, beating it and the previously released Deadpool, Venom, and Morbius packs will open up a new challenge. 2K isn’t saying what that is exactly, but it’ll apparently be “an age-old monster of myth”.
The pack will launch for all versions of Marvel’s Midnight Suns on May 11th, which is the same day that the game comes to Xbox One and PS4. You’ll be able to get the full DLC schedule for those new platforms too, if you get the Season Pass, or the Legendary Edition of the game.
You’ll notice though, that we didn’t mention the Switch version. Unfortunately, and according to 2K, that’s been canceled. So if you were looking forward to a little portable Marvel Comics action, it’s not in the cards.


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BY NEWS AGENCY, MAY 22, 2023, 3:56 PM
Nigeria’s importation of raw sugar rose to N1.54tr between 2017 and 2022, an analysis of quarterly reports of the country’s foreign trade reports released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has shown.
The reports indicated that the country imported the commodity mostly from Brazil which accounted for 99.3 per cent of the product which is to the tune of by N1.53tr.
Brazil is followed by Andorra with N5.7bn, France with N4.8bn, Switzerland N1.9bn and the United States of America N18,351 of the product.
The analysis by yearly importation showed that the product was imported more in 2021 gobbling N425.5bn. This is followed by importation in 2022 amounting to N350.8 and in 2020.
This is followed by N177.7bn of the product imported in 2017, N165.8bn in 2019 and N160.1bn in 2018.
The Nigerian Sugar Master Plan (NSMP) was launched in 2013 as a harbinger to ensure sustainability of production in the country.
With the country overly dependent on imported refined sugar, the masterplan, termed Backward Integration Policy (BIP), engendered development of the sector with the establishment of Dangote Sugar Refinery, BUA Sugar Refinery and Golden Sugar Refinery.
These refineries have ensured that the country made headway in its drive for self-sufficiency.
However, the lack of adequate sugar plantations for raw sugar to meet the demand of the refineries has led to over-dependence on its importation.
According to the Executive Secretary/Chief Executive, National Sugar Development Council (NSDC), Mr. Zacch Adedeji, Nigeria consumes 1.7 million metric tons of sugar annually with the majority used by manufacturers.
With the refineries producing 3.5 million metric tons of refined sugar annually, Nigeria has the edge to export to other African countries when the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) is fully in place in the continent.
But another integral component of the PIB is the creation of plantations, for which Adedeji stated the country would require 250,000 hectares of land to produce raw sugar that would stem the importation of the product.
Even though there are four major investors in the sector, KIA Group, Africa Dangote Group, BUA Group and Flour Mills, with sugar plantations in the country, subscribing to the BIP was not adhered to judiciously.
Thus, Adedeji last year announced to the sugar companies that allocation of raw sugar would no longer depend on the size of refining capacity but on the extent to which operators have complied with the BIP policy.
He stated that the new system was to reward efforts put in complying with the BIP, and urged the companies to reinvest profits into the country by establishing sugar estates.
This, he said, would enable the country to be self-sufficient in the production of sugar through the 250,000 hectares needed to produce the 1.7 metric tons consumed annually.
With the realization that closing the gap in achieving production is still a long year ahead, President Muhammadu Buhari, also approved a N30bn infrastructure intervention to drive development in the sector.
The intervention was for infrastructure development to accelerate sugar backward integration programme projects for irrigation infrastructure on 10,000 hectares of sugar plantations located at six BIP sites namely; Numan-Adamawa state; Sunti-Niger State; Lafiagi-Kwara State; Bacita-Kwara State; Toto and Tunga-Nasarawa State.”
Similarly, the failure to achieve optimal investment led to the approval of the federal government to extend the BIP for another 10 years.
The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, had said the extension was to allow self-sufficiency in the commodity.
He added that four investors have jointly created 15,000 jobs, and acquired about 200,000 hectares of land to grow sugarcane and produce sugar locally.
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Unilever to introduce recyclable tubes across entire toothpaste portfolio
By 2025, Unilever’s oral care brands – Signal, Pepsodent and Closeup – have announced plans to convert their entire global toothpaste portfolio to recyclable tubes.
Traditionally, toothpaste tubes are made from a combination of plastic and aluminium. Although giving the packaging its flexibility, it makes it difficult to recycle. The new tubes, instead of aluminium, will use material made mostly of High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE).
“Recyclable tubes mark a key milestone in our packaging journey and, more significantly, they have the potential to transform the whole oral care industry. Together with our manufacturing partners, we’re making the new design available to any producers interested in adopting the new material, with the ambition to accelerate industry change.” says Babu Cherian, R&D oral care packaging director at Unilever.
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Video game packaging appears to be on the rise. And not just the conventional plastic-case-that-holds-the-disc-and-manual. I’m talking upscale, high-end presentation packaging. The same kind we know (and love) around here at SunPack.
Perhaps it’s the fairly limited rollout of games for the latest generation of gaming consoles that is causing video games to up their packaging ante. It’s no secret that the amount of games for PS4, Xbox One, and Wii U is low. Or maybe it’s just that video game packaging is taking a page from the book of presentation packaging. High-end presentation kits add value to any product, even video games. And that added value means a higher price tag. Which is why we’re about to see a lot more “Collector Editions.”
It all comes down to how to sell something for more. Items like video games can be difficult to upsell. What can you add to a video game to increase sales? In the past companies have tried to use downloadable content (DLC), such as a cool in-game weapon or costume. But digital content can be a tough sell. After all, there’s nothing to physically hold in your hand. Video game buyers still go back to the inclusives, the SWAG. They want stuff.
Hence the popularity of Collector’s Editions. Let’s cut to the chase: they are a product launch kit at their core. It starts with a custom box that can look like almost anything: a treasure chest, an ammunition locker–something iconic to a specific game. Inside is the game, of course, but with a die cut foam insert you can include almost anything. A figurine of a favorite character. Dog tags or keychains. A bonus disc or a flash drive. This organized, creative presentation kit can be the difference between someone paying MSRP for a game…and someone shelling out the big bucks.
Don’t believe me? Take a look at some of these upcoming video game launch kits.
Packaging News reports that this crowdfunded game will come in a launch kit that includes a paperback book, a badge, and a t-shirt!
Geek.com reports that Wii U’s Xenoblade Chronicles is getting a presentation packaging boost including on of our favorites: a custom USB drive! That includes the soundtrack! Genius!
Street Fighter V
According to Crunchyroll, Street Fighter is getting what looks like an e-flute box housing the game and a custom statue for its Collector’s Edition.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Gamespot recently posted that the highly-anticipated installment of the Deus Ex line is getting a custom launch kit with a combination of digital and physical SWAG with its “Augment Your Preorder” campaign.
Augment. That’s an interesting word. But it’s a word that presentation packaging knows well. With something as elegantly simple as a box, you can make a product go from utilitarian to heirloom. Shelf fodder to keepsake. And gamers are paying for these augments, these upgrades. Go ahead. Check those preorder prices and tell me that high end custom packaging doesn’t add value to a product.


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Offer flexible work hours, sabbaticals and nap rooms to create a productive work culture for millennials.
KOLKATA | BENGALURU: Startup founders, who face long hours, huge workloads and a relentless pursuit of revenue and profitability, have another Key Responsibility Area of sorts — coming up with policies that keep young employees engaged and on their toes.
Young CEOs at startups are getting as involved as their HR teams in rolling out initiatives as diverse as ESOP repurchase plans that unlock value to letting employees design their own work hours/places and learning allowances to nap rooms, to keep the workforce hooked and happy.
“A startup by design calls for innovation, agility, and dynamism, and to manage a workforce in such a culture, the HR practices need to be one step ahead in these attributes,” says Rajesh Yabaji, CEO of logistics tech startup BlackBuck, which is nearing unicorn status after its latest Series D fundraising round last month.
In four years, BlackBuck has twice bought back some stock options held by employees. The first was in 2017 and the second happened recently, when about 100 employees liquidated a certain portion of their ESOPs.
The total ESOP transaction was close to ?37 crore in the round, generating a lot of excitement among the employees who exercised the opportunity to unlock value — even as some others chose to hold on. “We strongly believe in creating programmes which can spur fast growth and long-term value creation for employees,” said Yabaji, who also leads several fitness initiatives internally.
Hiring and retaining the right people can make or break a business — and founders are doing what it takes to create a productive work culture.
Cashback website Cashkaro offers flexible working hours to all employees with dependents, while Wingify has complete flexibility around office timings and leaves.
“Ours is a very flexible culture. There are people who don’t come in four days a week. We need to be available for our customers 24/7, and as long as people are delivering, that’s all that matters,” says Sparsh Gupta, CEO, Wingify.
The company is equally flexible about giving sabbaticals to employees who may want to take time off to pursue their own ideas. Alternatively, there is an option to come in and use the company resources to work on their own ideas for a few hours every day.
When it comes to dealing with a young, dynamic workforce, a one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t work.
Some founders are, therefore, experimenting with more radical ideas.
Deepinder Goyal, CEO of Zomato, is talking about 26-week parental leave for both men and women, while online mattress company Wakefit has created nap rooms at its office, starting this month.
“After a lot of research and consumer surveys, we figured that workplace wellness and naps for productivity are high on employees’ radar,” says Chaitanya Ramalingegowda, co-founder, Wakefit. “They are especially useful for employees who need a quick shut-eye to be more productive; even for women employees who may be pregnant or have cramps.”
Other companies such as Rentomojo and Cloud Nine Hospitals too wanted to set up nap rooms, with help from Wakefit, he says.
The co-founders of Razorpay, Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar, implemented an opendoor policy to make old and new employees feel it was a mission in which they are in together.
All meeting rooms in Razorpay are glass partitioned, to promote and practise a transparent work culture.
With more than 60% of its employees under the age of 30, Mathur believes millennials “like to interact with brands that are open, transparent and stand for more than just their bottom line”.
Several startups are playing to their strengths and ensuring that employees also get the advantage.
At ed-tech platform Great Learning, for instance, other than a learning allowance for all employees, the company also sponsors those employees who want to take up courses to up-skill themselves. Employees have to pay a fraction of the cost of the programme upfront, depending on the number of years spent at Great Learning, and the balance is reimbursed over time, says co-founder Hari Krishnan Nair.
“Any startup is less about the idea and the funding, and more about people. Bright young people have more options today. If you want to get the best out of them, it’s important that companies adapt to their needs rather than asking them to adapt to traditional corporate culture. And here, founders have a key role to play,” says Wingify’s Gupta.


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Three Ky. companies among 30 recipients of Trade & Industry Development’s 2013 CiCi Awards
FRANKFORT, Ky. (March 14, 2013) – Trade & Industry Development, a leading magazine dedicated to site selection, has included three Kentucky companies, General Electric (GE), Berry Plastics and Amazon, in its 8th Annual CiCi (Corporate Investment & Community Impact) Awards. The projects are among the top 30 economic development projects in 2012 and were selected from hundreds submitted from across the country.
“These awards not only recognize the growth and success of these companies, but they also honor the Commonwealth and our ongoing commitment to economic development,” said Gov. Beshear. “With Berry Plastics in Madisonville, GE in Louisville and Amazon in Winchester, these three distinct regions in Kentucky are showing their ability to earn national and international recognition.”
The CiCi Awards, created in 2006, are a dual-awards program highlighting the largest corporate investments, as well as recognizing projects that may not involve large investments but make the most notable impact on communities. Numerous criteria are considered for the “Impact” division, including new jobs created, current jobs retained, unemployment figures, income level of the region and plant closings.
“It is with great pleasure that Trade & Industry Development magazine is able to bestow three CiCi Awards this year to companies that have announced major and impactful development projects in Kentucky during the year 2012,” said Scott Swoger, publisher of Trade & Industry Development magazine. “It speaks volumes about the business climate in Kentucky that a leader of GE’s stature has chosen the commonwealth to make one of the top 15 largest capital investments of the year in the state. And it is equally gratifying to recognize that two more high-profile companies, Amazon.com and Berry Plastics, have also chosen to invest in areas that will benefit from the jobs and state revenue they will generate.”
GE continued its initiative to reverse decades of outsourcing, launching several new product lines at its Louisville Appliance Park in 2012, including the GeoSpring hybrid water heater and French door refrigerator. The projects are part of GE’s commitment to invest $800 million in Louisville by 2014. The company has already created about 3,000 new jobs.
Berry Plastics Corporation reopened its Madisonville operation in 2012, investing $96 million in the plant and creating more than 400 full-time jobs. Earlier in the year, Berry had shuttered the facility, which had approximately 140 employees, due to a redistribution of production at its other manufacturing facilities. The company has more than 950 current employees in Kentucky at facilities in Franklin, Danville, Louisville and Bowling Green and reconfigured its Madisonville operation to increase the company’s production capacity.
“Berry Plastics’ decision to reopen its Madisonville, Kentucky, facility is a testament of the positive impact that can result by companies working as a team with their local communities,” said Jon Rich, chairman and CEO of Berry Plastics. “We are extremely appreciative of the commonwealth of Kentucky, Hopkins County officials and the city of Madisonville for their joint support, which allowed us to reopen the facility, creating the opportunity for new jobs within the region and specifically the Madisonville community.”
In May 2012, Amazon announced its decision to build a new 70,000-square-foot customer service facility in Winchester, creating more than 550 full-time and 600 seasonal and part-time jobs in the state by 2017. Amazon subsidiaries currently operate fulfillment centers in Louisville, Lexington, Campbellsville and Hebron, but the Winchester facility is Amazon’s first customer service center in Kentucky.
“We are excited to be a member of the Winchester community,” said Alex Krueger Amazon’s site leader at the Winchester Customer Service Center. “Also, we’re grateful to the elected officials and community leaders who have worked with us to make this site a reality.”
For more on Trade & Industry Development’s CiCi Awards, visit www.tradeandindustrydev.com.
Information on Kentucky’s economic development efforts and programs is available at www.ThinkKentucky.com.


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DMP Brings New 2D/3D Hardware Graphics Acceleration Technology to MIPS-Based(TM) Devices Running Android(TM)
TOKYO and SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 17, 2010 -- MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for home entertainment, communications, networking and portable multimedia markets, and Digital Media Professionals Inc. (DMP), a leading provider of 3D/2D graphics cores for digital consumer, automotive, industrial, and entertainment applications, today announced that DMP has become a member of the MIPS Alliance Program for its Android™ on MIPS initiative. The alliance will ultimately enable SoC developers to create MIPS-Based™ SoCs with DMP PICA/SMAPH series graphics IP cores.
DMP's OpenGLES1.1/2.0 and OpenVG1.1 graphics IP cores including its PICA/SMAPH series cores are developed for high performance and low power embedded applications, fulfilling the increasing need for visually-rich user interfaces in products running Android. MIPS Technologies and DMP are initially working together to develop a reference platform based on a MIPS32® Malta™ development board and a DMP PICA200 3D graphics IP-based GPU (NV7). The companies plan to display the jointly-developed platform at the Embedded Systems Conference in Tokyo, May 12 – 14, 2010.
"We are learning from customers that the Android platform is gaining increasing popularity in the embedded space. At the same time, Android has raised the bar for graphics requirements in terms of performance, interactivity and resolution. DMP's embedded graphics cores, with proven performance and built-in low power design, combined with the widely adopted MIPS architecture, will enable customers to develop world-class products leveraging Android for a broad range of consumer applications," said Tatsuo Yamamoto, president and CEO, DMP.
"MIPS Technologies welcomes DMP to the thriving ecosystem of companies providing cutting edge technologies for Android on MIPS development," said Art Swift, vice president of marketing, MIPS Technologies. "This alliance provides a rich and sophisticated graphical user interface technology for developers of MIPS-Based products. The market for Android-based mobile devices is really taking off, and through alliances with leading companies like DMP, we are paving the way for the next generation of mobile and digital home products that will deliver an even richer user experience."
About Android on MIPS
Leveraging its leadership position in the digital home, MIPS Technologies is spearheading efforts to make Android a reality for a wide range of consumer electronic devices. With Android and the dynamic open source development community around it, developers can easily and quickly create new applications, and OEMs can leverage a fast-growing set of applications for their devices. The extensive MIPS ecosystem around Android enables OEMs to quickly optimize Android for their specific platforms and debug their solutions across the entire software stack. For more information about the Android platform and MIPS, or to access the full source code for MIPS Technologies' port of Android to the MIPS32® architecture, including a reference binary and documentation, please visit www.mips.com/android or email firstname.lastname@example.org.
About MIPS Technologies, Inc.
MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:MIPS) is a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores that power some of the world's most popular products for the home entertainment, communications, networking and portable multimedia markets. These include broadband devices from Linksys, DTVs and digital consumer devices from Sony, DVD recordable devices from Pioneer, digital set-top boxes from Motorola, network routers from Cisco, 32-bit microcontrollers from Microchip Technology and laser printers from Hewlett-Packard. Founded in 1998, MIPS Technologies is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices worldwide. For more information, contact (408) 530-5000 or visit www.mips.com.
Digital Media Professionals Inc. (DMP) is a world-class leader bringing 2D and 3D graphics solutions to market from Japan since its founding in 2002, and is currently developing graphics IP cores based on DMP's cutting edge 3D graphics technology, DMP Maestro Technology.