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Big Tech has fired more shots in the war of censorship.
First Twitter bans President Trump from Twitter and now Google removes Parler from their app store.
Trending: Is Rudy Giuliani In Hot Water Right Now?
A Google spokesperson declared that Parler has become a “public safety threat” and the app has now been officially removed from the Google play store.
This is why President Trump warned lawmakers to take a stand against Big Tech companies like Google but they were too slow to act.
NEW: Google suspends social media platform Parler from its Google Play app store until the company adopts content moderation policies following the attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters. https://t.co/WWcjCPmrg0
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 9, 2021
Google removes Parler, popular with Trump supporters, from app store for Android https://t.co/l8P5uBAlaV
— CNBC (@CNBC) January 9, 2021


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HANDICRAFT TRADERS PROTEST ‘MALPRACTICES’ BY VENDORS
‘They Sell Fake Goods In The Name Of Kashmir Craft’
Srinagar, May 3: Boulevard shop owners dealing in handicraft items Thursday suspended their work to protest against the vendors selling fake articles in the name of Kashmir art. They also demanded limiting the number of vendors in the area.
The handicraft dealers started protest demonstrations when a team of officials from the Handicraft Department arrived in the area for routine inspection. The handicraft dealers demanded that “vendors should be removed from the area as they are eating up the business of shopkeepers.”
Protestors demanded that the authorities should immediately remove the street vendors who occupy the footpaths and sell ‘fake ‘articles in the name of Kashmiri handicraft goods.
“We are not against the checks conducted by any department but we want justice. We pay all the taxes towards government, but suddenly vendors open their stalls in front of our shops and start selling fake articles in the name of Kashmir art. But no one initiates any action those erring vendors,” shopkeepers said.
The shopkeepers threatened that they won’t open their shops till the government imposes blanket ban on street vendors at Boulevard road.
“These vendors are giving bad name to our handicraft trade as they sell handicraft items brought from outside the state in the name of Kashmir handicraft,” Pervaiz Ahmad, a handicraft shop owner said.
“These days we are hardly receiving any tourists as they purchase items from these vendors because of cheap cost, but they (tourists) are not aware that these vendors are cheating them by selling Amritsar shawls and carpets and branding them as Kashmiri items,” he said.
“It is an irony that these vendors are selling machine-made shawls in the name of Kashmiri Pashmina shawls. Yesterday one of my clients was cheated when he was sold a shawl and was told by the vendors that shawl is Pashmina,” Bashir Ahmad, a handicraft dealer said and added that if the authorities don’t take action, time will come when the Kashmir’s handicraft sector will get destroyed by these unscrupulous elements.
“We carry out regular market checks to ensure that the vendors don’t sell imported items in the name of Kashmiri goods,” Deputy Director, Quality Control Handicraft Department told Greater Kashmir.
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Mystik Lubricants recently renewed its title sponsorship of the Terracross Championship series, providing a unique opportunity to showcase the Mystik product line.
Now known as the Mystik Lubricants Terracross Championship (MLTC), the 2013 season consists of three race events. The first takes place at the ERX Motor Park in August and is followed by Haydays Snowmobile Grass Drags in September, both of which are in Minnesota. The third race will take place in Las Vegas with a date and venue to be announced soon.
“We partnered with Joe Duncan and his team for one of the two Terracross races during its 2012 inaugural year and were so pleased with the success of the event that we wanted to renew and expand our partnership in 2013,” said Karl Schmidt, general manager of petrochemicals and lubricants for CITGO Petroleum Corporation. “The Terracross Championship provides us an opportunity to showcase our products to an audience that enjoys watching athletes push themselves and their machines to their fullest potential.”
This is the second season of the Terracross Championship series, which invites some of the most recognized powersports and action sports athletes racing side-by-sides, utility quads and sport quads on the toughest manmade tracks imaginable. The participation as title sponsor of MLTC gives Mystik Lubricants substantial brand visibility alongside other nationally recognized brands such as Polaris, Kawasaki and Rath Racing.
“We’re excited to have Mystik Lubricants as our title sponsor,” said Joe Duncan, executive director of the Terracross Championship series. “The success of our first season is driving us to work harder to create more challenging courses, resulting in more hardcore performances for our fans. Because the Mystik Lubricants brand and products carry such industry credibility and are known for their proven performance in tough conditions, our riders have come to depend on Mystik products in their engines to help them dominate in their respective events.”


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RealNetworks has released financial results for the last quarter of 2007, showing nearly 30 percent sales growth in its RealGames division to $30.9 million, as the company prepares its latest games platform and makes further inroads to the living room with XBLA and Wii offerings.
The RealGames division also saw 26 percent growth over the entire year, with sales of $108.5 million. Overall, RealNetworks saw record sales of $156.9 million in the quarter and profits of $2.7 million, and record sales of $567.6 million in its full year, with profits of $48.3 million.
The company also notes that it has recently partnered with Spill Group, gaining exclusive syndication rights for Spill Group's "Family" section of key portals, including Games.co.uk, Jeux.fr, Gioco.it, Jetzspielen.de, Spelletjes.nl, Spela.se, Juegos.com, Gry.pl, Gamesgames.com and Ojogos.com.br. The partnership is expected to increase RealGames' reach by some 20 percent.
Real also says in addition to preparing its next casual games platform, it's extending its reach off PC onto new platforms. More than 40 of its titles have been ported to mobile phone for Europe and the U.S., where it says it's started to "achieve solid results."
The company also says its "next frontier is connected living room consoles," and is currently working on bringing casual titles to both Microsoft and Nintendo's platforms, the fruits of which will be seen in 2008 on Xbox Live Arcade and the Wii, though the company did not say whether disc based or via WiiWare.
Said Real CEO Rob Glaser, “2007 was a strong year for RealNetworks. We crossed half a billion dollars in revenue for the first time, and more than doubled our adjusted EBITDA. We formed deep alliances with Viacom’s MTV Networks and Verizon Wireless, continued to lead in casual games, and introduced the innovative RealPlayer 11.”


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Amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, Patanjali Coronil kits have observed huge sales, crossing above Rs 241 crores in past four months. More than 2.5 million kits have already been sold and the numbers are rising continuously as per the company officials.
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The businesses of all the other immunity boosters prevalent in the market are going to be surpassed by Baba Ramadev’s Patanjali in view of increasing demand of coronil kits. It is expected that this medicine will cross the benchmark of 1 crore units, valuing above 500 crores by Diwali across the nation.
As per Patanjali Ayurveda CEO, Acharya Balakrishna, “The overwhelming response that the Coronil kit has got from people is the evidence of the product’s success across the country. By Diwali, the number of sales will cross over 1 crore, which means Coronil is being used by people for both prevention and treatment of the covid-19.” He further added “Our experts are minutely examining the outcome of the clinical analysis of all the covid-19 patients who are using the Coronil-kit for boosting immunity. Very soon we will come out of the exhaustive findings of our product.”
As the cure for this life-threatening virus is still not approved by WHO, Patanjali received severe backlash for promoting Coronil in the name of antidote initially. Perhaps the company alleged 100 per cent favorable results during the clinical trials on the Covid-19 patients (excluding the ones on life supporting system). In the aftermath, the Ministry of Ayush imposed a brief ban on its advertisements. Finally, the Company modified its promotion and started selling Coronil as an ‘immunity booster’.
The kit consists of three products namely, Coronil, Swasari Vati and a bottle of Anu Talia oil. On October 18, the company concluded deals of 25 lakh kits through various selling portals. The overwhelming sale of the product is the true validation of people’s trust in the brand.


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Looking for new innovation opportunities? - Here's some to watch for in 2015!
The market researcher has published a new piece of insight titled; “Snapshot: Beauty Trends to Watch in 2015” which forecasts the top six trends it believes has the potential to take off this year.
The trends are not listed in order of preference or magnitude, and includes innovation examples and some consumer survey data.
"These trends are likely to impact the beauty industry by influencing future innovations and represent high potential avenues for brands to explore," associate analyst, Jamie Mills, tells CosmeticsDesign-Europe.com.
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Looking for new innovation opportunities? - Here's some to watch for in 2015! 1. Smarter skin care 2. Photo-ready cosmetics 3. Personalization gets personal 4. Perfumes plus


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9 food ingredients we eat in the U.S. that are banned in other countries
Posted on Wednesday, Jul 03, 2013
Dr. Jayson Calton and certified nutritionist Mira Calton’s new book,
"Rich Food, Poor Food", was released in March and is a comprehensive handbook of grocery store aisles that takes you step-by-step through the store and helps you to avoid foods containing the 150 “poor” ingredients, such as disodium EDTA, benzoates and high fructose corn syrup. ABC News reporter Susanna Kim talked with the Caltons and chemist Derek Lowe to find out why these “poor” ingredients are hazardous to your health.


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Posts Tagged “Chilean blueberry imports”
Outlook — California citrus shipments will be down this season, while Chilean blueberries arriving in North America are expected to increase. We also take a peak at New York state produce shipments.
With a final shipment of California navels, the total was about 94 million cartons for the 2015-16 season, which was the second largest on record. The upcoming season is expected to be 10 to 15 percent less, amounting to about 84 million cartons.
The California navel orange crop as well as the specialty citrus – led by mandarin oranges – are coming along fine. Harvesting and shipping of navel oranges should be getting underway any day now, while mandarin shipments have already started. California continues to the leading shipper of fresh market citrus in the United States. While early shipping volumes for mandarins have been down a bit, the crop matures, the numbers are expected to increase.
San Joaquin Valley grapes and vegetables – grossing about $4100 to Chicago.
Chilean Blueberry Imports
The U.S. and Canada received 69 percent of the 91,500 metric tons of blueberries exported by Chile during the 2015-16 season. Light blueberry harvest began in August, with peak volume expected to begin at the end of November and continue until the first or second week of March.
Apple shipments from West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania are forecast to increase over 41 million pounds this year across the three states, according to the USDA. Meanwhile, imports of Chilean blueberries continue to increase.
Pennsylvania apple shipments should see a 32-million pound increase over 2014.
Meanwhile, West Virginia apple shipments are expected to increase by 8 million pounds, while Maryland apple shipments are projected to have a 1.6 million-pound hike.
Pennsylvania, which had 493 million pounds of apples in 2014, ranked fourth among 29 major apple-producing states. West Virginia ranked ninth, with 82 million pounds last year.
Chilean Blueberry Imports
Chilean blueberry production will continue to grow during the 2015-16 season, and global exports of fresh blueberries will be in the range of 218 million to 241 million pounds. This means an increase of 7 to 19 percent over the previous season’s exports of 203 million pounds.
North America is by far the largest export market for Chilean blueberries, with 67 percent of Chilean blueberry exports landing in this market during the 2014-15 season. Europe comprised 23 percent of Chile’s fresh blueberry exports and Asia 10 percent.
Chile’s blueberry acreage continues to expand, with about 39,289 acres currently planted. In 2014-15, Chile exported a total of 34.1 million boxes, with over 19 million boxes shipped to North America. In 2015-16, exports to America are projected to exceed 20 million boxes and reach new historic highs.
The first export peak is expected to be similar in timing to 2014, with projected exports of 9-13 million pounds in December.


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I am seeing a technology shift that only happens every 10 to 15 years – one in which companies will become “composites” of other companies.
Uber is a perfect example. It didn’t have to build its own mapping, payment, or communications services. Instead, Uber is a composite of what it considers the best of those programs and more — Google Maps, Braintree (payment), Twilio (for mobile SMS), Oracle, etc. Uber was able to quickly connect to these systems using little pieces of code called APIs.
MuleSoft is in the business of APIs, and today’s announcement of MuleSoft’s latest $128 million financing round at a $1.5 billion valuation is evidence that this trend is more than gathering steam. [Disclosure: I am an early venture investor in MuleSoft.]
Companies pursuing API-led connectivity strategies include MasterCard, Unilever, Nestle, Tesla, Intuit, BSkyB, Verizon, News Corp and Sutter Health. This shift it is only possible because of a once-in-a-generation convergence of megatrends: cloud, mobile, and the “Internet of things.”
If you’re not taking full advantage of this trend, your organization could be “Uber-ed” and out-innovated, just like the taxi companies have been. Uber has upended the global taxi industry in large part by using APIs masterfully. In just a few short years, Uber has become seemingly ubiquitous and is reportedly valued at $50 billion. The old-world taxi companies are struggling to compete with this API-savvy juggernaut. You don’t have to be in the transportation industry to be Uber-ed. Any business without a viable API strategy stands to be altered on this scale.
Why CEOs Should Care
Companies are currently spending more than $590 billion per year to integrate existing, disparate systems. Traditional businesses rely on large sales forces, paperwork, and fax machines to generate revenue with customers and through partners. This is expensive, time consuming, and scales only as fast as the sales force grows. Today’s startups eliminate much of this friction, time, and cost by building their solutions with best-of-breed components, which they access via APIs, or “application program interfaces.”
Using APIs as building blocks, Uber was able to go to market far more quickly and nimbly than its competitors. What’s more, in August 2014, Uber launched a publicly-accessible API that would become the foundation for their digital ecosystem, allowing companies like OpenTable, Google and United Airlines to embed Uber into their apps.It’s a mutually beneficial arrangement: Uber reaches more customers and establishes new revenue streams, while app providers like United Airlines, Open Table, Google Maps and others can offer a transportation service to their customers and profit from it at the same time.
Contrast this with Hertz, Avis, and other rental car agencies that have been United Airlines partners for decades, but are nowhere to be found in the United mobile app. That’s because these rental car companies don’t have an API (or at least not one that’s public). OpenTable, Google Maps, Starbucks, and dozens of other apps offer the Uber service — but not services from Uber competitors like Lyft — so there is definitely a first-mover advantage in each market.
Another simple but enormously successful example is UPS, founded 108 years ago. UPS has captured a large share of the parcel-shipping market for the burgeoning online commerce sector by publishing an API – just a few lines of code – which makes it easy for shopping sites to integrate shipping seamlessly into their online check-out process.
The “Connected Era” is Happening Now
There are progressive management teams productizing their company’s value-add as a service via APIs now, allowing any connected business to instantly become a customer or partner. Everything and everyone will be connected digitally – including customers, employees, partners, and even “things” like appliances and cars – all through APIs. How a business wins or loses is increasingly dependent on how well they connect to external third party apps, devices and services.
News Corp Australia’s CIO Tom Quinn last year declared a “cloud first” strategy that gets rid of hundreds of applications residing in the company’s data centers. This shift requires big changes in the way IT is delivered. Said Quinn: “Technologies are changing so fast, and new systems are coming onboard so often, that you don’t want to be locked into a big monster piece of tech. We are not holding the business ransom to detailed, intricate, costly in-house development in order to get things hooked together.” With APIs, you can hook, and unhook, to the best available software and services on your own timetable.
Sutter Health is a large hospital network in California serving more than 10 million patients each year. It created an app in three months with APIs, versus nine months without, to help diagnose and better treat an autoimmune disease. Previously, accessing information across multiple data sources used to be a huge challenge. Now it’s possible to get real-time access to healthcare data. The Sutter Health app connects disparate data—from EMRs to administrative systems—and can display this data on any device.
So whether you’re the CEO of a Fortune-500 company or small business, building a company from scratch or reinvigorating a well-established one, you owe it to your stakeholders to explore what APIs can do for your business.
Gary Little is a general partner at Canvas Venture Fund, an early-stage venture-capital firm based in Menlo Park, CA. He serves on the boards of Adara, Evernote, MuleSoft, PeopleMatter, Sonatype, and Totango.


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Spring storm threatens to damage Utah’s fruit crop
PERRY, Utah – As this wet, spring storm rolls in and gets colder, Utah fruit growers are keeping a close eye on the temperatures the next couple of mornings. The success of the crop in big orchards and the tree in your backyard hinges on a few degrees. Several fruit growers said the upcoming weekend would be a nail-biter.
“Blossoms are in full bloom,” said Jordan Riley, who grows fruit for Rileys Farm Fresh in Perry.
Fruit trees, including cherries, peaches and apples, are in bloom all across the Wasatch Front. That’s when the bud is most vulnerable to the cold, said Riley.
“Freezing is just the act of losing heat,” he said. “So, if that blossom is closed up, that’s holding onto heat. Right here, this block is full bloom, all the way open,” he said pointing to the orchard in front of him. “So, it’s more vulnerable, and once those petals fall off, it’s just that much more vulnerable.”
Approximately 6,000 acres of farmland statewide are in fruit production, according to the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food. Annually, tart cherries are a $17.5 million business in Utah, followed by peaches which generate $6.9 million in sales each year.
Many peach blossoms in Utah lost their fruit in a cold snap, last month. The peach crop was hurt more in Utah County than Box Elder County, Riley said, because the trees bloom earlier in Utah County.
Fruit growers, like Riley, are especially nervous about the temperatures forecast for Saturday morning. If the mercury stays around 30 degrees, the fruit crop should be OK. When the temperatures drop below that, fruit can be damaged.
“It’s a cold, crisp clear sky that usually takes the crop,” he said.
Peaches, apricots and cherries are the most vulnerable now. But, he’s also worried about another part of the fruit producing equation: pollination.
“We are right now standing next to thousands of bees,” he said, pointing to several boxed hives.
But, they’re not out buzzing until the temperature hits 50. That’s a problem for the fruit crop.
“The day I wanted those bees the most when they were on a semi truck coming to Utah,” he said.
He had a tough time getting the bees out of rainy California in time to pollinate their apricot crop.
“When the apricots were in full bloom, we were rushing to get them out of the almond groves and it was a couple states away.”
He’ll won’t know how much of the apricot crop he lost for a couple of months.
“There is no way to tell until you see fruit,” he said. “Fruits that were not pollinated will shrivel up and fall off. The others will start to grow.”
This week, professional growers will blow warm air through their orchards to save the fruit. At home, if the tree isn’t too big, Riley recommends throwing a tarp over it. He says that can make a difference.
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While China’s bicycle rentals on-demand startup, Ofo is gearing to enter India early next year, its Indian counterpart self-drive car and bike rental firm Drivezy has decided to get ready for the challenge by raising a whooping Rs 65 crore ($10 million) in a part-equity and part-debt round.
Formerly called JustRide, an equity investment totalling $5 million was made by American and Japanese investors, which included Axan Partners, Das Capital and IT Farm, while a consortium of banks and NBFCs including Mahindra Finance, ICICI Bank, Cholamandalam Finance and Shriram Finance have gone for a $5 million investment in debt in Drivezy.
Transportation is considered as backbone of any modern economy. However, rapid motorisation effectuates its own set of issues. While on one hand the burgeoning number of vehicles on road has become a menace in metros across India, a number of cities suffer from lack of good urban commuting solutions. The concept of car rentals may be simple, but it holds immense potential. Be it the positive impact of rental vehicles on the environment or reducing the number of vehicles out on the streets, the shared economy of self drive car rentals can be considered as a promising solution to a number of problems plaguing the urban India right now.
The startup will use the money raised to enter new markets across India and abroad, revealed Ashwarya Singh, CEO and co-founder, Drivezy in a statement. It will also use a part of the capital raised to create rental coins, its own private currency. Drivezy recently announced the launch of its private Initial Coin Offering (ICO). It has partnered with Japanese payment firm Anypay for the same. The startup plans on introducing bitcoin as a payment option as it believes by developing initiatives around it will allow for global ownership of its fleet.
“We have started accepting cryptocurrency such as bitcoin for transactions on our platform. We have seen 150-160 transactions through that mode so far,“ said CEO Ashwarya Singh in a statement to Economic Times.
Drivezy, which is currently claiming to earning an impressive Rs 1.3 crore in monthly revenues, is focused on scaling its fleet by more than six times to 8,000 divided 50-50 between cars and bikes. The company is focused on turning profitable by March next year.


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The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) reports another significant increase in sales of the attached (townhouse) category this month. Sales increased 46 per cent, with 340 units sold in May 1999, compared to 232 units sold the same month last year. The average price of a townhouse in Greater Vancouver is $ 224,750, up two per cent from 1998.
"The jump in sales in the attached category is likely a result of buyers who are moving up from their apartments into affordable houses," says Dick Coates, REBGV president. "Also affecting sales is the increase in mortgage rates, which has pushed first time buyers and buyers with guaranteed mortgage rates into the real estate market."
Continuing its 1999 upward pattern, overall sales for Greater Vancouver detached, attached and apartments reached 2,068 units, an increase of 23 per cent from 1,674 units sold in May 1998.
The Board also reports increased sales in the detached category of 23 per cent, with 1,220 units sold compared to 987 sold in May 1998. The average price of a detached home in Greater Vancouver is $357,560, down two per cent from one year ago.
"The steady decline in the supply of homes continues, however, the supply of active listings relative to sales is highest in the apartment category. This further indicates consumer demand for larger homes," says Coates.
Apartment sales were up by 12 per cent, with 508 units sold in May 1999, compared to 455 units sold in the same month last year. The average price for an apartment in Greater Vancouver is $ 182,038, up seven percent from the same time last year.
Bright spots in May 1999 compared to May 1998 include:
Burnaby North up 51% (62 units sold from 41)
Burnaby South up 22% (43 units sold from 35)
Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows up 14% (121 units sold from 106)
North Vancouver up 31% (114 units sold from 87)
Vancouver (East) up 29% (205 units sold from 158)
Vancouver (West) up 65% (175 units sold from 106)
West Vancouver up 41% (58 units sold from 41)
Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows up 147% (47 units sold from 17)
North Vancouver up 161% (34 units sold from 13)
Vancouver (East) up 46% (22 units sold from 15)
Vancouver (West) up 79% (52 units sold from 29)
Richmond up 40% (63 units sold from 45)
Burnaby (South) up 72% (43 units sold from 25)
Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows up 233% (20 units sold from 6)


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Oppo launched the A55 5G reduction in January, and now the company is seemingly working on a 4G version of that model. In addition to for it’s now no longer lawful using but some other chipset to legend for the lower tier connectivity – the phone even looks diversified.
We now know that courtesy of the leaked render it’s doubtless you’ll maybe well maybe per chance additionally think about below, which showcases the Oppo A55 4G in all its glory in the three colors it could well probably probably maybe well well arrive in – gloomy, inexperienced, and blue/aurora.
The A55 4G has a gap-punch selfie digicam in the cease left of the visual show unit because it’s doubtless you’ll maybe well maybe per chance additionally think about, whereas the A55 5G goes with a more retro looking waterdrop notch. The 4G phone additionally has a 50 MP main rear digicam, whereas the 5G variant has to beget effect with 13 MP. Clearly, there were a kind of corners minimize there in bellow to ascertain a 5G capable SoC in such an cheap tool.
The A55 4G has no such constraints, since the 4G chipset must be more affordable, thus allowing Oppo to employ more on diversified ingredients. Speaking of, it’s miles going to soundless maintain a 5,000 mAh battery with 18W charging enhance, according to a recent certification.
The fingerprint sensor is it looks to be embedded in the energy button on the upright side, and that 50 MP main digicam on the reduction could be joined by two additional sensors – these assuredly is a pair of pointless 2 MP macro and depth sensors as is the case for the A55 5G. We would now no longer be bowled over in any respect to ogle the 4G model rocking a MediaTek Helio G sequence SoC, by the methodology.
Now that the leaks maintain started, we’re hoping for more information regarding specs to be outed quickly – or Oppo could per chance well maybe lawful beget this phone legit already.


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Bella Hadid Apologizes for Fyre Festival Promo
Bella Hadid has apologized for taking part in a promotional shoot for Fyre Festival. The 20-year-old model urged fans to buy tickets to the event, organized by rapper Ja Rule and technology entrepreneur Billy McFarland, which was set to take place over two weekends, beginning on Friday.
People paid thousands of dollars for travel packages to the Exuma Cays to see performances from Blink-182, Major Lazer, Tyga, Pusha T, and Desiigner, but the festival was canceled on Friday after complaints from ticket holders. Hadid was among a group of models, including Kendall Jenner, Emily Ratajkowski, Hailey Baldwin and Chanel Iman, who took part in a photo shoot to promote the festival last year, and posted dozens of snaps on social media to tease the festival, but these have since been deleted. The model shared a heartfelt apology on Twitter on Saturday, and hoped those who had purchased tickets and were currently stranded in the Bahamas made it home safe.


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Mobile app users beware. Some of those mobile apps that you are downloading, even from what you think are from trusted sources, may be leaking out your passwords or personal information.
According to the latest security threat analysis by Zscaler, cloud gateway solutions provider, 10 percent of mobile apps leak passwords and login names, and about 40 percent of mobile apps communicate with third parties.
Threat analysis from Zscaler's ThreatLabZ also showed that 25 percent of mobile apps expose personally identifiable information.
Zscaler noted that there are over one million mobile applications currently out there, and more than 1,500 new apps are being released every week. With the popularity of mobile devices and free apps, users are sometimes misled to think that downloading apps from what they think as trusted sources are secure. On the contrary, Zscaler said this is not always the case.
Threat analysis tool
Using the Zscaler Application Profiler (ZAP), a free online tool for assessing mobile apps for security risks, ThreatLabZ analysed hundreds of mobile apps and found that "many popular apps leave user names and passwords unencrypted."
The same lab team also found out that some apps are capable of sharing personal information - such as names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers - and communicating with third parties, including advertisers.
"App stores have strict guidelines about which logos and colours developers can use, yet application security remains largely unenforced," said Michael Sutton, vice president of Security Research, Zscaler.
To protect users from threats posed by mobile apps, Zscaler is offering its ZAP tool to help mobile app developers, users and enterprise IT groups can easily assess the security risks of apps before they are installed.
Sutton added that the easy-to-use ZAP tool can also analyse installed apps if they are violating any privacy guidelines.
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A family in Marlton plans to open three locations of speed waxing franchise LunchboxWax in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and recently opened the first in-state location in Marlton.
Dale Westergard, Brittany Ishman, and daughter Devon Kilgariff previously owned a Two Men and a Truck location in Marlton and this month opened LunchboxWax, a boutique waxing salon that specializes in working with LGBTQ+ clients, particular transgender clients.
“The proven business model of LunchboxWax is what drew us to the brand and we are excited to show the Marlton community all that the waxing salon has to offer,” Westergard said.
LunchboxWax in Marlton, and soon others, offers hair removal services from top to toes. The franchise has a proprietary three-step speed-waxing process that, according to the company, is less painful than traditional waxing.
“Dale, Brittany and Devon are the perfect franchise partners to introduce LunchboxWax to New Jersey,” said Christo Demetriades, COO of LunchboxWax in a prepared statement. “Their experience operating various businesses has made it evident to our team that they will thrive as LunchboxWax owners. We could not be more excited to see them continue to expand with our brand and bring new salons to markets throughout the Northeast.”
The salon is located at Marlton Crossing Shopping Center at 101 Route 73 South Unit 167B. First-time clients can buy one, get one waxing service for free.


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Lots of industries have been affected by the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia. While some of these industries are still going, it seems that Nintendo has decided to temporarily stop digital game purchases from their Russian Nintendo eShop.
According to the details posted, Nintendo’s payment processor used in Russia has suspended the service. With this, Nintendo placed the eShop into maintenance mode, disallowing Russian users to make any transactions. Here’s what the translated message posted on the Russian eShop says:
Due to the fact that the payment service used in Nintendo eShop has suspended the processing of payments in rubles, Nintendo eShop in Russia is temporarily placed into maintenance mode.
We apologize for any inconvenience caused. We will share updates as the situation develops.
As of the moment, there is still no news about when the return of the eShop will be in Russia. Stay tuned for more details!


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PHOENIX — Independents Week, which celebrates and encourages patronage at locally owned businesses, returns this year from June 25 to July 4.
Presented by Local First Arizona, Independents Week is an annual summer campaign to rally the community behind the importance of supporting small businesses. It’s part of a national effort among independent business alliances and Local First networks.
To participate, visit localfirstaz.com and download the digital call-to-action card, or bingo card, or pick up a physical one, said Thomas Barr, vice president of business development at Local First. Visit any participating business to fill spots like supporting a women-owned business, getting coffee from a local coffee shop or visiting your favorite local takeout shop.
Completing a vertical or horizontal line gives you a chance to win prizes, including tickets to Jack Harlow, Arizona Diamondbacks, Phoenix Rising and Anger Management Comedy Night at the Orpheum Theater in Flagstaff. Completing the whole card might win you a curated grand prize pack.
Participating businesses include retail and restaurants like ice cream shops, but also advertising companies, office supply companies and museums, including the Children’s Museum of Phoenix.
Read more of this story from the Phoenix Business Journal.


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A cutting-edge kit that consumers can use to have their individual microbiome analyzed could provide insight into sleep problems.
It is not easy to give your doctor objective information about how well you sleep, or to understand why you are having trouble sleeping, said Colin Lawlor, chief executive officer of SleepScore Labs.
"You can remember how well you're eating and how much you exercise, but when it comes to sleep, you might know you have a problem, but most people can't describe it," he explained. "And it is even more difficult to solve."
With the Explorer kit, made by uBiome, consumers submit a feces sample that is subjected to 16S gene and shotgun metagenomics sequencing to assess at microbes in the gut.
In addition to the effect of microbes on gluten sensitivity, inflammation, lactose intolerance, weight, and metabolism, the analysis looks at levels of bacteria that produce neurotransmitters involved in natural sleep rhythms, such as serotonin and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA).
"We can offer information on serotonin-producing microbes and report whether they are average, low, or really high," said Sarah Gupta, MD, director of medical affairs at uBiome. The report also provides information on ways diet and lifestyle can help change these levels.
People want to know if there is something they can do through diet to sleep better.
"People want to know if there is something they can do through diet to sleep better," Gupta told Medscape Medical News. "If I ate more probiotic yogurt, would I sleep better?"
Results of the microbial change can be monitored with a second test.
Gupta said she would love to see SleepScore Labs test results after a diet change designed to boost bacteria related to sleep. With about a quarter of a million microbiome samples, the tests offer insight when you compare your own microbiome with "the world's largest dataset."
This type of benchmarking is increasingly the way for "citizen scientists," Gupta said. "they want this information about their body."
The microbiome kit was just one of the new technologies looking at sleep that were presented at the Consumer Technology Association 2019 Digital Health Summit in Las Vegas.
There are thousands of products that claim to help you sleep better, but it's hard to know which ones work. "There are some great solutions out there," Lawlor told Medscape Medical News, "but how do you measure their effect?"
No-Contact Sleep-Quality Monitoring Technology
Another technology presented at the summit can be used to measure the quality of sleep. The SleepScore app measures wakefulness, light sleep, deep sleep, and REM sleep by allowing a smartphone sitting on a bedside table to bounce low-power radio-frequency energy off the body every 30 seconds.
An algorithm in the app — developed in partnership with ResMed, a company that specializes in continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machines and breathing masks — generates a score from 0 to 100 to indicate the quality of a person's sleep.
The data can provide doctors and patients with objective sleep information so that they can have a meaningful conversation about sleep.
"If your score is above 78, your sleep is better than normal; if it is below, then it is worse," Lawlor explained.
The company has more than 50 million hours of sleep data, "so we have a pretty clear picture of sleep norms for age and gender," he said. The goal is to find the biggest gaps and issues, and help people solve their problems.
The app offers breathing techniques for relaxation and other advice, suggests optimal wake up times for your sleep profile, and has a smart alarm so that you wake up during a light cycle in your sleep. It also offers clinical data on the effectiveness of sleep products on the market, such as snoring solutions, white noise machines, and blue light filtering.
New Insights Through Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing with new technologies is where the real revolution lies, said Daniel Kraft, MD, chair for medicine and neuroscience at Singularity University, a global learning and innovation community that uses exponential technologies to tackle the world's biggest challenges.
"We are starting to move from spot-selection personal quantified self-analysis to much more quantified health, he said. When Fitbit came out, it was used by a small group; "now millions of people using Fitbits offer a way to connect the dots — crowdsourcing insights — "which is much more meaningful."
"Insights into the microbiome, glucose monitors, metabolic data from breathing into a handheld device — all this in combination gives us new ways of getting detailed information," Kraft explained. These become effective when you can send patients home armed with a way to monitor and track their health "instead of sending them home with pamphlets."
Increased tracking and monitoring of activity can have a real impact on disease. "We can use these tools to track not only vital signs, but also behaviors," he added. Already, diabetic coaching and wearables can reverse type 2 diabetes. "Data, chat bots, and human coaches" can be used to offer effective support.
The challenge is to take these emergent technologies and integrate them in a useful way. "We are entering an era of health-utility technology," Kraft said. "We are gaining the ability to optimize health and wellness and detection early."
Lawlor is the chief executive officer of SleepScore Labs. Gupta is director of medical affairs at uBiome. Kraft is founder and chair of exponential medicine.
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Yet another company has announced a recall of 1.9 million pounds of chick products after three people in Minnesota were infected with salmonella enteritidis after eating the company’s cordon bleu stuffed chicken breast. Aspen Foods is the second chicken product company to formally announce a recall after Barber Foods had to recall 1.7 million pounds of frozen, stuffed and raw chicken products not too long ago.
Aspen’s products are distributed nationwide under brand names like Sysco, Safeway Kitchens, Kirkwood and Antioch Farms. Some of these brands may be familiar because many are sold by large box stores in bulk. All of the frozen, raw, stuffed and breaded chicken items being recalled were produced between April 15, 2015 and July 10, 2015 with “best if used by” dates between July 14, 2016 and October 10, 2016.
This recall comes a little late when one considers that the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service was first notified of the cluster of salmonella cases in Minnesota on June 23, and it was known that the cases were related to Aspen Foods. Although most of the product is supposed to be cooked already, the fact that some of it is actually raw means that it could cross-contaminate in the kitchen, making others very susceptible to getting sick.
The Aspen Foods and Barber Foods recalls are not uncommon in the chicken industry, as salmonella contamination has been an ongoing problem in American chicken production. IN July/2014 Foster Farms suffered an outbreak in California. This caused the USDA to be stricter in governing the poultry industry.


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Minister in the President's Office (Regional Administration and Local Government Authorities), Selemani Jafo has hailed Coca-Cola for investing in secondary school sports competitions (Umisseta) once again this year, pledging that his ministry is committed to provide full support to the beverage company.
Jafo made the remarks on Friday in Dodoma when launching 2018 Directive Seminar for sports officials across the 26 regions of Tanzania. Accompanied by his deputy minister, Joseph Kakunda, the minister noted that the government recognizes Coca-Cola's contribution in developing sports talents amongst the youth.
"I was extremely impressed with the coordination of Umisseta sports competition last year, and for this I am grateful to Coca-Cola... I am aware that the agreement was for them to sponsor these sports competitions from 2015 to 2018 but I am urging them consider extending this timeframe so that they can eventually take ownership of these competitions," said Jafo.
He further called on the Sports Council of Tanzania (BMT) to work on an arrangement that will see local sports clubs groom football talents that are discovered during Umisseta competitions as this will give them an opportunity to further develop their talents.
"Our objective for Copa Coca-Cola is to support the youths as they participate in sports, so for the first time, this year we will go to Tanga and Mtwara as well, and we will distribute jerseys, along with the sports kits," said Ms Sialouise Shayo Coca-Cola Brand Manager in Tanzania.
For his part, Kakunda thanked Coca-Cola for the sponsorship, noting, "one of the main challenges is how to nurture talents discovered from Umisseta competitions. Mrisho Ngassa, Juma Kaseja, Leodger Tenga are some of the few talents discovered from Umisseta."


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Earlier this month, Reggie went back to college. Now, now we’re learning that the former Nintendo of America honcho’s next lecture will be at SXSW 2020.
Reggie Fils-Aimé will give a keynote address at the annual conference on technology, film, and music, to be held March 13-22, 2020 in Austin, Texas. A statement from the conference organizers notes that Fils-Aimé oversaw Nintendo of America “during its most successful era,” including three console launches. Fils-Aimé’s topic category will be “convergence,” the conference said.
Since Nintendo, Fils-Aimé has gone on to start a consultancy based in Kirkland, Washington, and last month was named Leader in Residence for the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University, where Fils-Aimé graduated in 1983.
A fan favorite among Nintendo’s vast audience, Fils-Aimé stepped down as president and chief operating officer of Nintendo of America in April, succeeded by the perfectly named Doug Bowser. (We are still awaiting the appointment of Doug Thwomp, however.)


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More than a third of female entrepreneurs are saving nothing for their retirement, according to the latest Scottish Widows Women and Retirement report.
The number of female entrepreneurs in the UK has hit an all-time high of 1.7m, the report stated, but 600,000 of those are not currently saving for their retirement.
Of those that are saving the women in employment generally fare better.
The report found fewer than half of self-employed women are saving the minimum recommended level compared with 56 per cent of women that are employed by a company or organisation.
The report suggested the 46 per cent of self-employed women who are saving the minimum adequate level were among the best savers in the country, with an average savings rate of 16 per cent of income.
This compared with 14 per cent among self-employed men and was also higher than the average saved by both employed men and women at 12 per cent and 10 per cent, respectively.
Jackie Leiper, pensions director at Scottish Widows, said: “A growing number of women are taking charge of their careers by launching their own businesses or working as freelancers – 700,000 have set up on their own since 2005, and 1.7m women are now self‐employed.
“This raises real concerns when we consider that women are historically under‐prepared for retirement and that self‐employed women do not benefit from the safety net of auto‐enrolment, which has helped boost female employees’ savings since its introduction."
She added: “The good news is that when self‐employed women do save adequately, they actually put more of their income aside than anyone else – but the proportion of female entrepreneurs saving at all has not grown in the past decade.
"It’s clear that reform is needed to drive a step‐change in retirement preparations for the self‐employed, in the same way that auto‐enrolment has for employees in the workplace.”
Since 2007/08, the average savings rate for self‐employed women who do save has grown 5.2 per cent, according to the report, significantly exceeding the rate amongst women working for an employer which stands at 3.6 per cent.
One reason for the polarisation in savings can be put down to the wide variation of business earnings of female entrepreneurs, as 80 per cent of self-employed women who save inadequately earn less than £20,000 per year.
Anna Lane, founder and CEO of The Wisdom Council, a majority female‐owned business operating in financial services, said: “Ambition is a major theme that shines through from the women I work with and this is reflected in the increasing number of female entrepreneurs.
"There is a disconnect however with their aspirations and how it will be realised financially, with few having even considered anything other than personal savings to start their own business.”
She added that 30 per cent of businesses fail in the first two years and so this risk paired with the risk of not putting money aside for the future was a double‐edged sword often faced by female entrepreneurs.


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That's funny. The stats show that the bankrupt or going bankrupt cities are and have been run by democrats for decades with the promises of helping minorities to garner votes. Programs that get funding and then fail and crime that increases.REPUBLICAN sponsored corporate fascism destroyed our inner cities....offshoring jobs, wealth, strung out on credit once the actual wealth was stolen....Republican Wall Street theft of 30 years of housing equity, lousy boardroom decisions to spend untaxed, surplus wealth busting unions, creating products no one wants....which is why GM and Chrysler ended up leaving Ford the last solvent US car manufacturer after the previous 116 car makers all folded, or merged out of existence. Endless growth isn't possible, and casino capitalism isn't capable of steady, smooth operation of businesses long term.
Why? Because they free handout mentality does not work. Democrats have demonstrated this from one city to the next.


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We know that interest in cryptocurrencies, and indeed Scotland’s cryptocurrency Scotcoin, has grown over recent years. It is also clear that many of those people who are interested in Scotcoin don’t fully understand the financial benefits of buying it now. In this blog, we will go over some the top economic reasons for purchasing Scotcoin today.
1 – Scotcoin Value is Stabilising
Over the last year, we have seen the price of Scotcoin fluctuate, but still steadily increasing its value in relation to Bitcoin. This rise has seen Scotcoin value rising from roughly 0.15 of a Bitcoin per million with an increase of nearly 25 times to 3.5BTC per million; and against the value of US Dollar and British GBP the rise has been even greater with a growth of nearly 35 times to its present value of USD 2200 and GBP 1750 to a million Scotcoin. The rise has seen Scotcoin gain credibility as a financial instrument, which allows for a greater trust in the longevity and integrity of the currency. As the pound sterling has fallen in the wake of the Brexit vote, Scotcoin has gained friends and value too.
2 – Unstable Global Economy
All around the world, we have seen an ever more unstable economic climate, but during this uncertainty, cryptocurrencies like Scotcoin have been stable, or increasing in value, as their value is not directed correlated with the stock markets. In 2008, this instability led to an economic collapse due to debt levels being too high and unsustainable. Since the collapse, the levels of debt have continued to increase, and over the next few decades, we may see another collapse, which would see many of your traditional investments decrease in value. This collapse would not affect Scotcoin, and in fact, the worse traditional economies get the better it is for cryptocurrencies. That is why it makes smart economic sense to invest in Scotcoin as part of your investment portfolio.
3 – Strong Growth over the Year
If we take a look at the value of Scotcoin over the last year we can see that the value has grown strongly, although with a volatile last few months. This volatility has led to a decline in price, however, this decline can be attributed to a pause as market participants wait for the next big rise in value.
4 – Looking for an alternative to Cash
In many Western countries around the world, we have seen an increasing desire to do away with cash in favour of digital payment methods. This is good for Crypto Currencies like Scotcoin as payments through the present system lack the privacy that cash offers. Crypto Currencies , on the other hand,are digital cash and offer the privacy that consumers desire and can’t get from usual payment methods. So, with the trend that cash will increasingly be sought to be done away with, we will see an increased demand for Crypto Currencies which can only lead to the value of Crypto Currencies like Scotcoin increasing.


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Jeff Whatcott and Mike Quinn Join Executive Team; David Mendels and Deb Besemer Join Board of Directors
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., January 12, 2009-Brightcove Inc., the leading online video platform, today announced that former Acquia and Adobe(R) (Nasdaq:ADBE) vice president of marketing, Jeff Whatcott, and former FAST Search & Transfer vice president of sales, Mike Quinn, have joined the company's executive team. In addition, long-time Adobe executive, David Mendels, and former chief executive officer of BrassRing and executive vice president of Lotus Development, Deb Besemer, have joined Brightcove's board of directors. Together these additions bring a wealth of successful management, strategic and technology experience to the Brightcove team.
"Our newly expanded leadership team sets the stage for what should be another remarkable year for the company," said Jeremy Allaire, Brightcove chairman and chief executive officer. "Despite the economic challenges, we have a lot to look forward to walking into 2009 - a fantastic customer base in terms of numbers and quality, a global growth market, a strong revenue position and the success of Brightcove 3. We've seen tremendous growth in our platform business and expect to continue to build on the solid lead we have in the online video platform category with the help of the new additions to our team."
These new additions come on the heels of another strong year for Brightcove, having recently completed a third consecutive year of triple-digit revenue growth. The company expects to reach profitability in 2009 and retain a strong cash balance sheet, enabling continued product investments and expanded sales and marketing initiatives worldwide.
As senior vice president of marketing, Jeff Whatcott will be responsible for leading Brightcove's product marketing and marketing communications activities. Whatcott joins Brightcove from Acquia, the commercial open source company behind Drupal, where he was vice president of marketing. Prior to Acquia, Whatcott led marketing, business alliances and business operations for Adobe's enterprise and developer products, including LiveCycle(TM), Flex(TM) and ColdFusion(TM). He also served as vice president of product management at Macromedia, running product management, product marketing and technical evangelism for the Flash(TM) Platform. Whatcott first worked with Brightcove founder and CEO, Jeremy Allaire, at Allaire Corporation where he served as director of product marketing.
As senior vice president of sales for the Americas, Mike Quinn will oversee Brightcove's sales in the Americas. Quinn brings more than 20 years of sales management experience, most recently serving as senior vice president of sales for the Americas at FAST Search & Transfer, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2007 for $1.2 billion. Prior to FAST, he served in leadership positions at Akamai and UUNet.
David Mendels is a recognized leader in the development and strategies behind rich Internet applications. He brings nearly two decades of experience as a general manager, corporate strategist, thought leader, and deal maker focused on making the Internet easier to use for consumers and developers. At Macromedia, Mendels served as executive vice president and general manager, leading product development, marketing, and alliances including the setup and launch of international operations in Latin America and Japan. In this role he directly managed Macromedia's flagship products, including the Flash and Flex line, Macromedia Studio and ColdFusion. David joined Adobe following its acquisition of Macromedia in December 2005 and led the company's Business Productivity business unit where he was responsible for $1 billion in revenue from products including Adobe Acrobat(TM), Acrobat Connect(TM), LiveCycle and Flex.
Deb Besemer brings nearly 30 years of software industry experience, most recently serving as CEO of BrassRing, where she grew their SaaS business 10X over several years, resulting in a successful acquisition by Kenexa. She also spent 12 years at Lotus Development where she was responsible for all worldwide operations, including sales, regional marketing, business partners and channels, consulting and support. This encompassed overseeing 4,000 people and more than $1 billion in revenue.
Brightcove today also announced the transition of former senior vice president of marketing and strategy Adam Berrey to its Strategic Advisory Board. Berrey joined Brightcove in 2005 to lead the company's marketing efforts and has been instrumental in driving Brightcove's emergence as the industry's leading online video platform. Berrey joins existing Strategic Advisory Board members Adam Gerber, chief marketing officer of Quantcast; Jeff Jarvis, interactive journalism professor and veteran editor / blogger; Paul Vidich, special advisor to AOL; and Tim Hanlon, executive vice president and managing director of Publicis Groupe's VivaKi Ventures.
Brightcove is an online video platform. Media companies, businesses and organizations worldwide use Brightcove to publish and distribute video on the Web. Founded in 2004, Brightcove is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business with offices across North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit http://www.brightcove.com.
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Winter has arrived in Santa Fe. And with it comes the parade of winter-inspired events. We are all ready for warm drinks and outdoor lighting displays around town. It's a magical time when the imagination is given reign over the world of dreams. So it's fitting that Santa Fe Botanical Garden invites you into the place of its dreams with GLOW, a festival of winter lights at the new grounds on Museum Hill.
Every Thursday through Saturday for the entire month of December, the garden will be illuminated, fires will burn, live music will play and hot chocolate and hot cider will be served as the garden opens its gates after dark to welcome the winter—all for an $8 admission ($5 if you're a Botanical Garden member).
The garden, open since July, expects this inaugural event to become a Santa Fe tradition. "We want it to become a family tradition. This is our gift to the community," says Fran Cole, public affairs director.
Although GLOW will be the first light festival for SFBG, the use of light exhibitions in gardens is not new. "Botanical gardens across the country have winter light festivals. It's sort of a botanical garden tradition," Linda Melbourne, the organization's managing director, explains.
This event, however, will not be holiday themed as many light festivals are, she says. It will instead focus on welcoming winter and the atmosphere the chilly season brings.
The lighting design for the grounds was created by local design group Samuel Designs. Lisa Samuel and her team worked hand-in-hand with the Botanical Garden to best execute the vision.
"We have designed a sequence of displays that will be unusual and spectacular," says Melbourne.
On Dec. 4, a special preview party is set to unveil the garden's transformation, offering spiked hot chocolate and homemade cookies along with a free surprise gift for every attendee. Live music and fires throughout keep the night lively and warm.
Along with the illumination, the garden features unique visitors. Christy Hengst's unusual flock of porcelain birds will be joining the festivities. Finished with their international travels, the screen-printed birds will be available for sale as well as displayed throughout the garden's two-acre property.
For everyone from tantrum-prone toddlers and horny teens to the singular nature observer and silver couples, GLOW is a chance to bundle up and enjoy the beauty of nature. Perfect for family night and date night alike, come take a stroll under the stars. As the days grow shorter and the nights longer, we could all use a little more light. Let GLOW lead the way with its escapists dream, a retreat to delight in the grandeur of winter.


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Posts Tagged ‘Dell’
People who own Dell Latitude 6430u laptops are complaining that their pricey new computers are emitting a smell similar to cat urine.
Attorneys for hedge-fund manager Steven A. Cohen are disputing federal civil charges that he failed to prevent insider trading at SAC Capital Advisors.
The Dell board unanimously recommended the offer from Michael Dell to take the company private for $24.4 billion, or $13.65 per share.
by John Callegari Published: May 13, 2013
Tags: Acer, bill, Charles Schumer, copyrights, court, Davidoff Hutcher & Citron, Dell, HP, inventions, Law, patent infringement lawsuits, Patent Quality Improvement Act, patent troll, patents, rights, science, Systemax, Technology, trademarks, trial
A bill introduced by U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer would head off so-called “patent troll” firms that seek quick settlements from harassing infringement suits.
The Wall Street Journal said that the Blackstone Group scrapped a plan to buy most of Dell Inc.’s outstanding stock for $14.25 per share.
PC sales have now fallen from their year-ago levels in four consecutive quarters, a slide that has been accelerating amid signs that the economy is improving.
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is proposing an alternative to the $24.4 billion plan to sell slumping PC maker Dell to a group led by founder Michael Dell.
Dell Inc. laid out the advantages of the transaction in a regulatory filing Monday, three days after a major shareholder ridiculed the buyout as a rotten deal that undervalues the business.
Shares of Dell climbed in premarket trading Tuesday on reports the personal computer maker is nearing a deal to go private worth between $23 billion and $24 billion.
by John Callegari Published: October 18, 2012
Tags: Acer, Amazon Kindle Fire, androids, Apple, ARM-based processors, Dell, Google Nexus 7, GroupGifting.com, Harbes Family Farm & Vineyard, HP, IHS iSuppli, iPad, laptops, Lenovo, Microsoft, mobile computers, mobile devices, PCs, portable computers, Samsung Galaxy Tab, tablets, Technology, Windows
For the first time since the dot-com bust of 2001, worldwide personal computer shipments are set to decline this year.


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With Twitter facing an ongoing challenge driving usage rates, the company is investing heavily in live streaming platform Periscope to drive engagement and ad revenue as video use continues to grow.
Articles Tagged ‘mobile’
Mobile users may discover some applications on their own, but in fact, app advertising is the driving force responsible for 57 percent of new app downloads. And for app advertising to continue to attract a steady stream of loyal users, app marketers must perfect their courting skills.
Viacom has entered a unique relationship with Snapchat that includes new ad sales and content opportunities, reflecting how the advertising marketplace is evolving thanks to mobile.
This past week, the media happily announced that Echo was “all growed up.” An astounding adulthood spurt given that Echo is mainly relegated to kitchens and has the key functionality of telling you the weather and managing your Spotify account while your fingers are full of cookie dough.
Mobile marketing is a rapidly changing landscape and 2016 will see even further evolution. Last year witnessed a huge rise in all kinds of mobile advertising, including traditional mobile site ads and in-application mobile ads, and consolidation of mobile ad networks.
Italian fashion house Versace is letting consumers put their own touch on some of its most well-known codes with a new Emoji mobile application.
Mobile loyalty programs will likely hit 3 billion rewards cards by 2020, with beacons leading the charge in redemption effectiveness, according to a new report from Juniper Research.
A recent Nielsen study shows that consumers use nearly 30 apps per month regularly. However, 60 percent of smartphone users have fewer than two shopping-specific apps, while 21 percent do not have any, according to Forrester.
Despite the fact that consumers basically carry computers in their pockets, marketers are still counting on them to get out their scissors and Ziploc bags before heading to the store.
German automaker BMW is partnering with mobile application Moovit to bring its ride-sharing service to a larger audience.


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Patricia Nash fans can win one of her purses
The Courier Journal
Handbag and accessories designer Patricia Nash is making a personal appearance at Macy’s to premiere the brand’s new fall collection.
If you are one of the first 10 shoppers who make a $100 or more purchase of Nash’s merchandise, you’ll also receive a $20 Macy’s gift card.
Macy’s shoppers will also have the chance to register to win a one-of-a-kind Patricia Nash handbag.
Nash will be at Macy’s in Oxmoor Center, 7900 Shelbyville Road, from 1 to 3 p.m. Thursday.


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The Shoe Surgeon and his team take the iconic Nigel Sylvester Air Jordan 1 and elevate the shoe using lux materials. The include python, distressed detailing, interior suede lining and waxed laces.
As the final moments of winter sweep throughout the country, Nike makes the most of this time with two new â€œRealtreeâ€ camouflage iterations of the Air Force 1 Low. Its hunting-focused aesthetic â€” in practice […]
With February just around the corner and another Black History Month on the horizon, Nike and Jordan Brand releases for the aforementioned holiday are already beginning to surface. Jordan Brand releases remain among the most […]
Although the Ultra Boost 19 is all the rage right now with budding releases and collaborations due out in the new year, the 4.0 continues to hold the mantle with partnering pairs for the time […]
Tokyo-based Cav Empt embarks on a budding collaborative path with Nike bridging founders Sk8thing and Toby Feltwellâ€™s design language with the Swoosh imprint. Alongside a foundational tracksuit, the brand founded in 2011 has re-imagined the […]
Following last yearâ€™s â€œUtahâ€ project, which saw Ronnie Fieg and KITH work alongside adidasÂ for an extensive ready-to-wear collection, the two realign for a follow-up release thatâ€™s expected to drop soon. A first look at the […]
Kawhi LeonardÂ has reportedly signed an endorsement deal with the newly resurgentÂ New BalanceÂ Basketball division, according to Chris Haynes at Yahoo Sports. The multiyear deal willÂ make Kawhi the face of New Balance Basketball. Leonard, 27, was said […]
Nike Kyrie 5 â€œLittle Mountainâ€ PE Dubbed theÂ Nike KyrieÂ 5 â€œLittle Mountainâ€ PE, the shoe odes to Elizabeth Ann Larson, Irvingâ€™s late mother, who was an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. A […]


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Intel unveils Cloud 2015 vision
Expanded Cloud Builders and smart technology at heart of Intel strategy
Intel has launched a three-pronged drive into cloud computing, with the announcement of the Open Data Centre Alliance, an expansion to its Cloud Builders program, and the unveiling of its ‘Cloud 2015 vision'.
At a global launch yesterday, Intel discussed how it aimed to drive programs to help companies to deploy public and private cloud computing to maximum effect.
The Cloud 2015 vision was described by Intel as a guiding principle of cloud computing, that includes federated, interoperable clouds, automated movement of software application and resources and the development of client aware clouds that are able to detect client devices and deliver services accordingly.
Intel will support this vision through the development of a range of technologies, in areas such better encryption and security for data in public clouds, increased energy efficiency, and better management and virtualisation.
For the Open Data Centre Alliance, Intel has helped to form a customer-driven group of enterprise IT users, which will work together to develop road maps for cloud computing, to increase operability and reduce costs and complexity for cloud deployment.
The third element is the expansion of Intel's Cloud Builders programme, to increase the availability of tested reference architectures to help companies deploy and expand their use of cloud.
The program, which was launched earlier in the year, has now expanded to include more vendors, and is now able to deliver its first 20 reference architectures, which have been designed to lower the risk for customers to build or enhance their cloud deployments, based on modular not commoditized architectures, and with principles of openness and interoperability.
The program consists of vendors including Canonical, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, EMC, Enomaly, Eucalyptus Systems, Gproxy, HP, IBM, Joyent, Microsoft, NetApp, NetSuite, Novell, Parallels, Red Hat, Univa and VMware.
Boyd Davis, VP Intel Architecture Group and GM of Data Centre Group Marketing for Intel said: "The response has been overwhelmingly positive, customers were looking for recipes on how they can deploy cloud solutions, and the cloud builders program is really about bringing together the various providers of technology and integrating them into solutions that work together and have been tested in a lab so that customers have a predictable result."
"The industry has an opportunity to accelerate the potential of cloud computing, delivering even better industry economics through this transformation," said Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager, Intel Data Center Group. "With the Open Data Center Alliance we now have the world's top businesses focused and actively engaged with Intel and the high-tech industry, accelerating solutions to the cloud's key challenges. "The server industry has gone through an amazing transformation since the Intel Pentium® Pro's introduction in 1995; our goal is to ensure that cloud computing continues to deliver breakthrough economics based on the same fundamental principle -innovation on open, interoperable standards."


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WASHINGTON – EWG applauds Sen. Jeff Merkley (D- Ore.) for introducing a common-sense approach to GMO labeling that both the food industry and consumer groups can support. The bill, titled the Biotechnology Food Labeling Uniformity Act, is co-sponsored by Sens. Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.), Jon Tester (D., Mont.) and Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.). Scott Faber, EWG’s senior vice president of government affairs, said in a statement:
Sen. Merkley has offered a path forward on GMO labeling that gives consumers what they want while also providing flexibility to the food industry. The Merkley bill is the kind of common-sense solution consumers have been waiting for.
Even members of the Senate Agriculture Committee who voted this week for the Deny Americans the Right to Know, or DARK, Act acknowledged that it was flawed and would need to be revised to pass the Senate. Sen. Merkley’s approach is an alternative that works for both consumers and food companies and, unlike the DARK Act, could pass the Senate and be signed into law by President Obama.


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Heineken “Cheers to the Unexpected" Campaign
Heineken unveiled a new U.S.-led integrated marketing campaign dubbed "Cheers to the Unexpected." The series of television commercials, digital spots and outdoor branding pull from U.S. insights, which show that Heineken drinkers thrive for spontaneity and those who embrace it are happier in life, according to the company. The first of four spots, "New Friends," features a guest walking unknowingly into a wild house celebration where he becomes the life of the party. A second spot, "Introduction," released in time for the World Cup, makes soccer the focus. The additional two spots will debut throughout the remainder of 2018 — one this summer and the other around the holiday season. The new commercials were created by Publicis Worldwide New York.


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HTLS 2020: Michelin star chefs Gaggan Anand, Massimo Bottura share how food eating will change in a post-Covid world
When one found it difficult to even cook eggs, Covid-19 pandemic made sure that it came with game changing skill which saw people baking their own bread in their kitchens amid the coronavirus lockdown and highlighting the same, Michelin star chefs Gaggan Anand and Massimo Bottura asserted at the 18th edition of the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit about how it has increased the value of their profession while promoting culture. Answering Indian chef, restaurateur and author Ritu Dalmia’s question on how the pandemic has affected his journey, Gaggan revealed, “It’s a perfect break for chefs like us who were always on a plane and away from the restaurants. The chefs will rediscover themselves during the pandemic. In India, this is not considered among the top professions but now as Covid-19 made people turn to their kitchens and start making bread, hopefully our profession gets its due recognition.”
Speaking at the 18th edition of the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit and talking about the hit on food business especially on fine dining, Gaggan said that he regrets closing a restaurant followed by Covid-19 when “everything fell apart.” The Thailand-based Indian chef, “Luckily in Thailand we managed to be non-Covid as social distancing was not applicable to our society and we continued with fine dining.” Since people no longer have the time to travel and finances to spurge on luxury eating, Covid-19 became the biggest threat to fine dining and Gaggan shared how chefs who passed out with him in 1997 and 2000 are currently sitting jobless.
Italian restaurateur and Michelin star chef himself, Massimo Bottura humbly accepted praises as Ritu gushed about how he started out with canteens and later bought Italy on the map with regards to food sustainability and awareness. During the lockdown, with his family under one roof, Massimo decided to share their life with the outside world through Instagram but without filter.
Talking about the essence of food and how it is his foundation, Massimo asserted how to distribute food to those who need it most and the purpose of a restaurant in 21st century. “I thought of my restaurant as a laboratory of ideas, a place to learn and grow, to keep ourselves from isolating in our kitchen. Restaurant do not exist only to serve a meal but to start a culinary revolution – one that is leading chefs to step out of the kitchen and connect with communities in the world through hospitality.”
Massimo said that a chef can be the one who influences agriculture, culture tourism, training and social issues and has the enormous potential. Having spent 35 years in the business, Massimo said that restaurants in 2020 have a sense of responsibility. Elaborating on the work by his non-profit organization – Food for Soul, amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Massimo revealed, “We promote culture, develop knowledge and promote social responsibility under the eyes of everyone. We have almost 11 kitchen feeding more than 500 meals every day preparing approximately 8000 meals a day.”
He added, “In our society the grandmother, the old ladies, the specially-abled kids make tortellini and sell it to people who don’t have time to cook tortellini. It is a culture of giving.”
Gaggan then shared how food eating is going to change in the post-Covid world. He said that the need to the hour was to wake up, redefine tourism and luxury and go towards sustainable goals. “The problem with third world countries is that preserving our culture and food is diluted. “In India, it’s sad to see that we give more preference to Chinese food. It’s time to rediscover our food, our culture. It’s time to redefine tourism, food, travel. It’s a big challenge to all in the industry,” Gaggan said.
Asking chefs to rethink about food and rethink about how we cook, Gaggan added, “Cooking is the most human thing. The animals and us, the only difference is that we cook. Everybody eats. We eat to have peace in our life. Animals eat in aggression, a banana or a meat.”
Elaborating on the lines of culture and saying that “it is not a storage place that we have in mind”, Massimo called for a revolution to end food waste. “Better food education begins with our children – appreciate food, value it, encourage food systems that distribute food to those who need it most, re-educate people and teach them to have respect for people who cook and pay respect to ingredients” stressed the three-Michelin-star-awarded chef. Asking to make these ethical choices a part of our daily lives, Massimo said that the need of the hour was to invite ethical and healthy food making processes that minimize on wastage. He concluded, “To change quickly, simplify things instead of complicating it. Take small steps like I did in kitchen quarantine. Food For Soul is a cultural project and not a charity project.”
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Peak industry group for the grocery sector, the Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) has welcomed an announcement from the minister for small business, Bruce Billson, on the government’s review of competition law.
The ‘root and branch’ review panel will be chaired by Professor Ian Harper, and comprising Peter Anderson, Su McCluskey and Michael O’Bryan SC, all of which have extensive industry experience and expertise.
The AFGC’s CEO, Gary Dawson said that the competition review represented one of the most significant reviews in a generation in terms of its potential impact of the Australian food and grocery sector.
“The food and grocery sector is an extremely competitive, dynamic and critical sector… It is also a sector where issues have arisen in relation to market power imbalance, vertical integration and excessive regulation, all of which are within the ambit of the ‘root and branch’ review," said Dawson.
“Competition policy remains a crucial element of the regulatory setting across the supply chain and greatly impacts decisions on investment and employment that shape the direction of food and grocery manufacturing sector.”
Dawson says that the Food and Grocery Industry Code of Conduct – which was developed and agreed to by the AFGC, Coles and Woolworths late last year – is consistent with the direction of the ‘root and branch’ review.
“(The code) was aimed at improving the operation of our competitive market by increasing transparency and certainty for supermarket suppliers, and explicitly prohibiting a number of anti-competitive behaviours,” said Dawson.
“The Code… will be progressed in tandem through the government’s regulatory review process this year with a view to it being tabled as a prescribed code under the Competition and Consumer Act.
“The Food and Grocery Code establishes a clear set of principles relating to key aspects of trading relationships between retailers and suppliers and will provide greater certainty and clarity about dealings in the industry without adding complexity or cost in a fast moving consumer goods sector.
“We look forward to seeing both the industry code of conduct and the outcomes of the competition law review work together to strengthen the food and grocery sector.”


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DETROIT — Record electric vehicle sales in the fourth quarter helped to push Tesla Inc. to its second-straight quarterly profit, giving bullish investors optimism that sustained black ink lies ahead.
The Palo Alto, California, company said it made a net profit of $105 million from October through December, or 56 cents per share — but still posted an annual loss of $862 million.
The fourth-quarter earnings almost certainly will continue Tesla’s meteoric stock appreciation. Shares rose more than 11% in after-hours trading Wednesday to $647.93
The company said in its quarterly investor letter that it expects to “comfortably” exceed production of 500,000 vehicles at its factories in Fremont, California, and Shanghai.
Tesla said it is starting to ramp up production of the Model Y small SUV in Fremont, a key product for the company. Deliveries are to start by the end of March.
“We continue to believe our business has grown to the point of being self-funding."
The Model Y will be able to go up to 315 miles per charge, an increase over Tesla’s previous estimate of 280 miles, according to the letter.
Model Y production in Shanghai will start in 2021. The company also said it plans to start producing limited numbers of its electric semi truck this year.
Tesla also said in the investor letter that it’s moving ahead with preparations for a factory near Berlin, and the first deliveries from the factory are expected next year.
Tesla expects net profits going forward, with some possible exceptions at times surrounding the launch of new products.
“We continue to believe our business has grown to the point of being self-funding,” the letter said.
Tesla shares have more than tripled in value since May of last year, pushing the company’s market value above giant German automaker Volkswagen as well as the combined values of General Motors and Ford.
The electric vehicle and solar panel maker’s fourth-quarter revenue grew 2% to $7.38 billion as Tesla delivered about 112,000 vehicles during the period and a record 367,500 for the full year.
Fourth-quarter revenue figures beat Wall Street estimates of $6.99 billion, but net income fell short of the $152.4 million expected by analysts polled by FactSet.
Tesla continued to build its cash balance during the fourth quarter, reporting $6.27 billion available. That’s up from $5.34 billion at the end of the third quarter.
Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives called Tesla’s performance “potentially game changing,” and a sign of what could be a new era for CEO Elon Musk and the company.
“We would characterize the fundamental performance as impressive with clear momentum looking ahead as a global inflection in EV (electric vehicle) demand appears on the horizon,” Ives wrote in a note to investors Wednesday.
Key to future earnings will be production at Tesla’s new factory near Shanghai, and demand for electric vehicles in China, the world’s largest auto sales market, as well as sales of the mass-market Model 3 in Europe, Ives wrote.


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Ford dropped a teaser image of its new 2020 Shelby Mustang GT500 today, and confirmed a key powertrain detail by explaining the car would use a supercharged V8 to make more than 700 horsepower.
The displacement of that engine has not been verified, but rumours suggest a blown version of the 5.2-litre V8 under the hood of the current GT350.
The teased image shows the gaping maw of the new Shelby, flanked by massive air intakes and what looks like a pair of bulging fenders, likely to fit a set of wider tires. That would make sense: additional rubber may prove to be somewhat of a necessity, considering this will be the most powerful production car to wear the Blue Oval badge.
Ford did not release many other details, but it’s safe to expect to see the car go on sale 2019 as a 2020-model-year Mustang. The GT500 nameplate was last worn by a new Mustang in 2015; more recently, Ford’s Shelby-branded offerings have included the tamer GT350, which to be fair boasts an incredible 526 horsepower.
Ford was basically forced to offer more than 700 horsepower in the new Shelby — its arch-rival, Chevrolet, offers the Camaro ZL1 with 650 hp, and of course Dodge’s Challenger Hellcat brings 707 hp to the table, never mind the Challenger Demon’s 840 hp.


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Baylor University political scientist Patrick Flavin's forthcoming study in Social Science Research finds that people in states with higher public goods spending (on "libraries, parks, highways, natural resources and police protection") report higher levels of happiness.
It's not clear whether they are happier because they have better services, or whether people who choose to live in places where they don't have to pay for their neighbors' kids' education, parks, etc, are selfish, miserable fucks.
In his study, published in the journal Social Science Research, Flavin analyzed data on respondents' self-reported levels of happiness for 1976-2006 from the General Social Survey, a representative sample of Americans that monitors social characteristics and attitudes of Americans and is a project of the independent research organization NORC at the University of Chicago. Flavin also analyzed detailed government spending data for states from the U.S. Census Bureau for 1976-2006. Revenues to fund state public goods are raised from a combination of state taxes and transfers from the federal government to states, averaging 22.5 percent of total state revenues for that 30-year period.
"We can look at the city where people live, their neighborhoods, and see how public goods spending predicts happiness after taking other important factors, such as marital status, health, education and income, into account," Flavin said.
He also found that public goods spending has broad benefits across income, education, gender and race/ethnicity lines.
"Compared to a lot of the other government spending, public goods tend to be less controversial between liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, compared to poverty assistance or unemployment benefits, where there is definite disagreement between political parties," Flavin said. "I think there is less political conflict over public goods spending simply because if they government doesn't provide them, they won't be provided at all."
State Government Public Goods Spending and Citizens' Quality of Life [Patrick Flavin/Social Science Research]
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Superdrug hunts shop for reward scheme launch
By Daniel Farey-Jones, campaignlive.co.uk, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 11:40AM
Superdrug is searching for a CRM agency to handle the launch of its first reward scheme.
The retailer, which intends to launch the scheme in May, is handling the search process itself.
Its decision to establish a loyalty scheme comes 15 years after rival Boots started its Advantage Card scheme.
Dan Jarvis, Superdrug head of marketing, said: "We are looking for a fully integrated CRM agency that can design campaigns, work within our brand guidelines creatively, segment, execute and monitor, measure and report.
"This year it’s all about our customer – rewarding loyalty, offering the best everyday accessible beauty on the high street and online, and doing it in an unmistakably Superdrug style. We look forward to finding the right people to work with on this exciting project."
Superdrug also works with advertising agency HMDG, point-of-sale agency APS, and PR agency ZPR.
The retailer is part of the world’s leading international health and beauty retailer, AS Watson Group, which operates more than 9,000 stores in 33 markets worldwide.
AS Watson already has more than 35 million customers signed up to its loyalty schemes.
This article was first published on campaignlive.co.uk
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A logjam of IPO approvals may hold back an offering by Jinjiang International Hotels Development, the largest hotel operator in the mainland. Regulators have been busy with the giant Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and now have an approvals backlog that may push the hotel offering into next year, market sources said. Jinjiang planned to go before the listing committee of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange this month but had to wait because it does not yet have the green light from the China Securities Regulatory Commission, the South China Morning Post reported. A final decision could be made within two weeks. The company manages about 250 four and five star hotels in Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang and Jiangsu and the Jinjiang Inn chain of three-star hotels across 10 provinces.
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