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The Indian government has just banned a total of 118 apps, according to fresh reports just coming in. The decision by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology comes amid ongoing tension between India and China.
The newly banned apps join the other 59 that got the chop back in June, among them the popular TikTok, UC Browser and even WeChat, just to name but a few.
PUBG is perhaps the most high profile app that has fallen victim of the tensions in eastern Ladakh. Others on the list include Baidu, Alipay, Youku, CamCard, Cut Cut, VooV, Tencent Weiyun, Rise of Kingdoms, Zakzak, and so on.
The images below have a list of all the banned apps (118 in total). Be sure to click/tap on the image to view it.
Device makers such as Xiaomi and Realme have also had to make changes to their software to accommodate this ban. And from the look of things, more app developers may be forced to make drastic changes to their code in order to survive the ban.
Below is the full statement released by the Indian government regarding the ban of PUBG Mobile and other apps in the country:
According to the document above, the ban on PUBG Mobile and other apps in India is primarily because of security concerns. Apparently, these apps are malicious in that they transmit sensitive user data to servers located outside India.
Since the government sees this as a national security concern, the apps in question have been banned from both the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. The ban also extends to non-mobile usage of the apps in question.
It remains unclear if the government will ease its stance against the affected Chinese apps. As usual, though, we will keep an eye on this and let you know in the event of any changes.
Update 1 (September 08)
IST 01:00 pm: PUBG Coropration has officially responded to PUBG Mobile’s ban in India. In the response, PUBG Corp. has stated that it will no longer authorize the PUBG MOBILE franchise to Tencent Games in India. Therefore, the South Korean company will be solely responsible for publishing the game in India.
PUBG Corp. is willing to work with the Government of India to get the game unbanned and it states that it will be fully compliant with Indian laws and regulations.
Update 2 (November 12)
IST 03:10 pm: PUBG Corporation has reportedly announced that it will be making its way back to India in a new avatar. The company has, however, not yet shared a specific launch date for the “new game” which has been specifically created for India.
Apparently, it will be investing around $100 million in the country in order to give a boost to the esports community as well as local video game, entertainment, and IT industries ecosystems.
The company also made the following statement:
Privacy and security of Indian player data being a top priority for PUBG Corporation, the company will conduct regular audits and verifications on the storage systems holding Indian users’ personally identifiable information to reinforce security and ensure that their data is safely managed.
Update 3 (January 25)
IST 02:32 pm: As per a new development, the Indian government has decided to continue the PUBG ban along with the rest of the Chinese apps and isn’t planning on a reversal any time soon.
Update 4 (May 06)
IST 04:30 pm: PUBG Mobile is coming back to India as Battlegrounds Mobile India according to a an announcement from the company. Pre-registrations for the game are set to begin soon.
Update 5 (May 14)
IST 05:10 pm: Krafton has confirmed that pre-registrations from Battlegrounds Mobile India will begin on May 18 on the Google Play Store. Those who pre-register for the game will get a chance to claim specific rewards once the game goes live.
Update 6 (May 18)
IST 10:02 am: Pre-registrations for Battlegrounds Mobile India has finally started on the Google Play Store. Those interested in getting their hands on the game can head here to pre-register.
People who pre-register for Battlegrounds Mobile India will get some cool rewards when the gave finally goes live.
Update 7 (May 20)
IST 10:08 am: Those waiting for the release of Battlegrounds Mobile India may have to wait until June 18 according to industry sources as per a report. However, Krafton is yet to finalize a date for the launch.
Update 8 (May 22)
IST 10:08 am: A fresh report reveals that all data of Indian players in Tencent’s PUBG Mobile is still intact. However, it’s unlikely that Battlegrounds Mobile India will let players retain any items or stats from their PUBG Mobile accounts.
This is because Krafton might land themselves in hot water if they’re found to be associated with Tencent for Battlegrounds Mobile India. Tencent was the reason why PUBG Mobile was banned in the country in the first place.
IST 06:40 pm: It seems Battlegrounds Mobile India is facing resistance even before the game could launch in India as per a report.
Arunachal Pradesh’s Member of Legislative Assembly — Ninong Ering — conveyed to PM Modi in a letter that “this is a mere illusion and a trick to relaunch the same game with minor modifications.”
Ninong Ering claims that this is Tencent’s “indirect way of entering India” and capturing data of Indian citizens. That said, this might be the beginning of another disappointing period for mobile gamers in India.
Update 9 (June 21)
IST 04:15 pm: Krafton’s Battlegrounds Mobile India is apparently sending user data to servers in China according to a test run by IGN India.
This discovery may lead to the rebagged PUBG Mobile game for India being banned in the country again. But we’ll have to look out for more developments on this.
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Rollable OLED displays are exciting - as these displays can enable new device form factors - such as TVs that roll up into a small cylinder or a tablet-sized device that can roll-up into a pen.
Rollable OLED TVs
In early 2019, LG launched the world's first rollable OLED device - a TV that rolls into its base. The 65" Signature OLED TV R has three viewing options - full view, line view and zero view. This is a radical new TV form factor, which will be probably be highly expensive when it starts shipping during 2019 (we still do not know the exact release date and price). The TV offers the highest image quality - enabled by OLED technology.
Rollable mobile devices
While LG is leading the race to rollable OLED TVs, many display makers are developing smaller rollable OLED displays for mobile devices. Back in 2016, for example Samsung Display demonstrated a beautiful rollable OLED, a 5.7" display that featured a Full-HD resolution (386 PPI) and a curvature radius of 10 mm. The whole display is 0.3 mm thick and weighs 5 grams. We do not know yet when SDC plans to commercialize such a display (the company is currently focused on developing its foldable OLEDs).
The latest rollable OLED news:
In CES 2018, LG Electronics demonstrated its 65" rollable OLED TV prototype, showing how such a display can be used to create a TV that rolls into its base. Last month we reported that LG plans to showcase its rollable TV again at CES 2019, and now Bloomberg reports that LG aims to actually release this TV as a commercial product in 2019, citing "a person familiar with the matter".
It was already reported before that the rollable TV will take "center stage" in LG's CES event - which hinted that LG is indeed close to commercializing such a device. In 2017, LGD did say it plans to bring rollable OLED TVs to market by 2020.
The Fraunhofer FEP institute, the Holst Center and other partners have developed a 15-meter long OLED lighting panel, the longer OLED device ever (beating their own 2017 record of a 10-meter OLED). This work was done as part of the Lyteus, the EU's €14 million initiative within PI-SCALE.
The partners in this project say that this is the first OLED produced using a new unique roll-to-roll (R2R) process that combines the performance of an evaporated OLED stack with solution processing of auxiliary layers.
LG Electronics demonstrated its 65" rollable OLED TV prototype in 2018, showing how such a display can be used to create a TV that rolls into its base.
Engadget says that LG has plans to showcase a rollable TV again in CES 2019 (January 9-11). Engadget says that according to its information the rollable TV will take "center stage" in next year's event - which may point to the fact that LG is close to commercializing such a TV. In 2017 LGD did say it plans to bring rollable OLED TVs to market by 2020.
A team at Queen's University Human Media Lab in Canada developed a new concept device called MagicScroll that features a rollable display wrapped around a cylinder that can be rolled to scroll the information. The display can also be rolled up to act like a regular tablet.
The display used in this demonstration is a 7.6" 2K rollable OLED. This is actually a tiled display made from two 5.5" FHD OLEDs taken from two LG Flex 2 smartphones (thank you Andrew M. Abrams from SCMR for clarifying this!).
China-based AMOLED producer EverDisplay has recently demonstrated several flexible AMOLED prototypes at a trade show in China.
First up we the edge-type 5.5" FHD (402 PPI) AMOLED display, with a curvature radius of R6.5. The thickness of this display is 1.61 mm.
LG Display is demonstrating its latest prototype at CES, a 65" rollable OLED TV that can roll inside its base when not in use. The video below shows this display in action, although we cannot see how the display actually rolls inside the box which is a shame:
Remember that this is still just a prototype display, and it's likely that LGD has no immediate plans to actually release such a display. Last year LGD said it plans to bring rollable OLED TVs to market by 2020.
LG Electronics is bringing its new OLED TV lineup to CES this week, and LG Display already said it will demonstrate a 88-inch 8K OLED panel at the trade show. However the most exciting display will probably be LGD's newest prototype - a 65" rollable OLED TV that comes with a base that holds the TV when it is rolled away.
This is a prototype display, and it's likely that LGD has no immediate plans to actually release such a display. Last year LGD did say it plans to bring rollable OLED TVs to market by 2020.
Following LGD's recent demonstration of a 77" flexible and transparent OLED display, the company has now decided (according to Business Korea, anyway) to start producing rollable large-area (55 to 75 inch) OLED TVs in 2020.
LGD will produce these rollable TVs in its upcoming P10 OLED fab in Paju. The P10 is LGD's most ambitious OLED fab - with a price tag of over $8 billion, it is expected to commence production in 2018, although it will take some time before mass production begins. The P10 will exclusively be used to produce OLEDs - both OLED TV panels (9-Gen or 10-Gen substrates, it seems LG did not decide yet) and small/medium flexible OLEDs.
OLEDNet posted an article detailing the OLED technologies LG Display will showcase at CES 2017 in two days. LGD's most innovative displays will be a rollable 77" OLED TV panel and a double-sided UHD 77" display. LGD was also supposed to showcase a rollable OLED TV in CES 2016 - hopefully this time the company will actually show such a display in public.
In addition to those 77" displays, LGD will also showcase a 55" transparent FHD OLED. LGD demonstrated a similar display at CES 2016, but hopefully this new display will be closer to commercialization and maybe LGD will indeed detail such plans at CES. OLEDNet says that the new transparent display will feature improved colors and more natural image quality.
Two months ago Taiwan's ITRI institute demonstrated a foldable AMOLED display - which fold both inwardly and outwardly. Last week at Touch Taiwan, ITRI demonstrated a rollable AMOLED:
In addition to the foldable OLED, ITRI showed 36 different flexible display technologies - including new materials, substrates and patterning equipment.


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Robert Eaton, of Russell Eaton salon in Leeds, has been named one of UK hairdressing’s most exciting talents after winning the COLOUR EXPERT award in the prestigious national competition, Most Wanted.
Robert won the trophy in front of an A-List crowd of hair, fashion and media VIPs on Monday 5th September at the Most Wanted Grand Final, which was hosted by comedian Rob Beckett at London’s historic Guildhall. Session stylist Johnnie Sapong and celebrity hairdresser James Brown were among the 600-strong audience, alongside leading talent agencies, top-notch journalists and more than a few celebrities.
Launched 16 years ago, the Most Wanted Awards, presented by leading industry magazine Creative HEAD, recognise the most outstanding individuals, teams and salons in UK and Irish hairdressing, with 14 highly competitive categories, including two especially for salons in the Republic of Ireland. Judged by hair, fashion and business experts including A-list hairdressers Adam Reed and John Vial, Beauty Director of InStyle, Cassie Steer, session stylist Sam McKnight and founder of Very Exclusive fashion website, Sarah Curran MBE, the awards celebrate absolute excellence – from phenomenal colourists and business front-runners to the teams delivering the pinnacle of customer service.
Robert Eaton beat off stiff nationwide competition to win COLOUR EXPERT. Judges were impressed by Robert’s bold colour techniques that hit the runway at the PPQ show, where the pressure was on to reflect the fashion brand’s daring aesthetic.
Robert wins a Most Wanted trophy, an exclusive prize courtesy of category sponsor Wella Professionals and a year-long programme of print and online editorial coverage in Creative HEAD magazine. Catherine Handcock, Publisher of Creative HEAD says: “Winning a Most Wanted award is a clear sign that you’re operating at the very top of your game. Robert Eaton rightly takes his place among hairdressing’s elite, and can look forward to an exciting year ahead as his victory is celebrated in Creative HEAD and beyond!” After the 14 Most Wanted winners of 2016 had been named, the packed crowd celebrated with cocktails and dancing in the Guildhall Crypt until the wee small hours.


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When will VW owners have a piece of mind? Owners of VW Polo are the most vulnerable to crime in the country. When parking their vehicles in shopping complexes they are not sure if they will find them intact, with lights or bumber. The bumper and lights are being removed by criminals.
The Volkswagen Group needs to do something about this so they can give their customers a piece of mind. First, the car ranks at the very top of the country’s most hijacked passenger vehicle brands according to Ctrack, a global vehicle tracking service. It gets involved in more fatal crashes on South African roads.
The video has now emerged showing a man effortlessly stripping off the headlights of a red VW Polo in a space of approximately ten seconds, before he gets away. The incident happened on Tuesday 15 February.
The theft of VW headlights is not only in South Africa, but it's said to be common practice in Maputo and Mozambique where headlights are engraved with the number plate or VIN number to curb these thefts. The cost is approximately R17,000.00 for a set of LED or zenon lights; it’s understandable why they are being stolen.
The latest crime stats showed a rise, and even opposition political parties like DA have requested police minister to appear before parliament as they believe he is failing to protect South Africans. Motorists are urged to take precautions .
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Shinkong Mitsukoshi (SKM) is actively developing new business platforms, with the aim of creating a richer and more diverse retail ecosystem. SKM officially announced today that it will enter the Taiwan outlet market and create a new type of international lifestyle outlet center - SKM Park. The launch of SKM Park is a significant milestone for SKM, as it expands and diversifies the company’s business footprint.
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Central Pattana is on Saturday (August 31) formally adding Central Village to its roster of shopping malls that includes Central Plaza, Central Festival and Central World.
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With construction of its luxury Central Village now 70 per cent completed, Central Pattana Plc (CPN) on Wednesday opened the booking for the second phase of retail space after the first phase was completed.
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Under the "Bangkok Outlet Experience" concept, the 5-billion-baht Central Village is designed to be a check-in point where tourists can drop by any time they are going to or from the airport.
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The ribbons have been cut for the official opening of The Outlets Hiroshima, a shopping, dining and entertainment destination.
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Shopping mall developer Central Pattana (CPN) will spend THB5 billion (US$158 million) to develop Thailand’s first international luxury outlet mall.
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For many years, I worried the green vehicle movement was going to do away with performance cars.
It’s been a long road for Coda Automotive, the electric car start up out of California trying to introduce a more affordable all-electric sedan for the driving masses.
For many years, major auto shows attendees could count on seeing new hybrid or electric vehicles being heavily marketed.
Fisker may manufacture some of the sexiest electric vehicles on the planet, but it's beginning to look like the cars may have some serious issues.
For an individual, moving to a hybrid or electric vehicle may or may not pan out in the long run.
There are currently many factors working against electric vehicles that effectively prevent them from going mainstream.
When it comes to electric vehicles (EVs), one of the claims that has long been debated is the alleged savings in greenhouse gas emissions.
Tesla certainly makes some of the coolest electric vehicles out there on the roads today.
GM and Nissan have published their respective January (2012) sales figures for the green Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf.
Calling all Electronauts! Come in Electronauts! Please report at once to the BMW Mothership for an important announcement!
When it comes to green electric vehicles, many new cars sport very odd and unattractive designs, at least IMHO.
The Coda electric vehicle (EV) has a rather interesting history.
The 2012 North American International Auto Show in Detroit is poised for imminent kick off, with a number of new concept cars surfacing ahead of the
The Bay Area wants to be known at the "Electric Vehicle (EV) capital of the United States."
Mitsubishi has begun producing the North American version of its i-MiEV electric car at its Mizushima manufacturing plant in Japan.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) first began using the Miles Per Gallon Gasoline Equivalent (MGPe) in the window stickers of early green vehicles like the Nissan Leaf and the Chevrolet Volt.
Nissan already has the Leaf, and now the company is moving forward on electrifying the compact commercial vehicle market.
The Star Wars prequels have stirred up a lot of things, but even if you loathe the most recent movies, we think you’ll enjoy this electric vehicle the films inspired.
French automaker Renault has opened reservations for its Twizy electric vehicle, which is manufactured in Spain and expected to go on-sale in the European market sometime at the end of this year.
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- Excerpts from a TGIF 2 Minutes written 11 1/2 months ago follow.
- Today, the US Fed is not finished raising interest rates.
- Inflation is still around for multiple reasons.
- Note the emphasized comments in bold.
Wind back to October 2022: A question that may be on a number of people’s minds was, “How long will it take to tame inflation?” Unfortunately, there was very little telling. Part of the reason is that inflation is always part of a complicated economy. Predictions about the timing of inflation (and hard-landing/soft-landing) are nearly impossible.
To add to the confusion, emotions – specifically people’s expectations of inflation – are part of what keeps inflation around. In this inflationary cycle (as of October 2022), inflation had already stuck around longer than at almost any time in US history; long enough to increase people’s expectations that inflation would not go away quickly. The US Fed had stated one of its original intentions was to lower consumers’ inflationary expectations. But the Fed may have missed that boat late in 2021 due to forces out of its control, namely, the pandemic aftermath. Note that today in late September 2023 inflation is still running strong.


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Retail sales rose over 8 percent this holiday season showing signs of a strong consumer economy.
Context: The economy has received bad news after bad news in 2021 but retail sales this holiday season are positive news for the economy.
Joe Biden has a worse rating on the economy than Jimmy Carter, but consumer spending seemed to not pay attention.
And that may be accurate. Factoring in inflation retail sales were up just 1.7% year over year.
Between the beginning of November and Christmas Eve, online sales were up 11% and in-store sales are up 8.1 percent.
Why this matters: The increase is the strongest showing in 17 years. But with inflation, it is actually a weak showing.
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May Ends with a Retreat
The Week on Wall Street
Stocks struggled during a 4-day market week as the U.S.-China trade standoff continued to weigh on the minds of market participants. From the Friday, May 24 close to the Friday, May 31 close, the S&P 500 retreated 2.62%; the Nasdaq Composite, 2.41%; the Dow Jones Industrial Average, 3.01%. The MSCI EAFE index of overseas stocks dipped just 1.47% in a week.[i],[ii]
Trade is dominating the conversation in the financial markets, with developments steadily unfolding. Wednesday, China’s state media suggested that the country could soon cut off exports of rare earths to the U.S. Late Thursday, the Trump administration announced 5% tariffs on all imports from Mexico, effective June 10; these taxes could rise in the coming months.[iii],[iv]
Meanwhile, on Main Street...
The Conference Board’s consumer confidence index soared to 134.1 in May, its highest reading since November; the consumer view of present economic conditions was the best since the end of 2000. Additionally, the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index ended May at 100.00, near the 15-year peak of 102.4 seen earlier in the month.[v],[vi]
Spring also brought a solid advance in consumer spending. April’s gain was 0.3%, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.[vii]
While Wall Street remains cautious and concerned about trade, consumers appear to be upbeat, sensing widespread economic prosperity. This underscores the fact that the state of the economy does not necessarily correspond to the state of the stock market (and vice versa).
THE WEEK AHEAD: KEY ECONOMIC DATA
Monday: The Institute for Supply Management releases its latest factory purchasing manager index, which takes the pulse of the U.S. manufacturing sector.
Tuesday: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks on monetary policy at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Wednesday: Payroll giant ADP releases its May private-sector employment snapshot.
Friday: The Department of Labor presents its May employment report.
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Tuesday: Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Salesforce (CRM)
Thursday: Beyond Meat (BYND), J.M. Smucker (SJM)
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Drake has nabbed 12 nominations for the 2016 Soul Train Awards.
An online retailer has pulled a Halloween costume that made light of the recent jewelry heist involving Kim Kardashian West.
Miley Cyrus is taking issue with the CW series, “Supergirl,” because she says having a show with a gender attached to it is “weird.”
Amazon is launching a paid streaming music service, the latest entry in an increasingly crowded field.
The daughter of “Fuller House” star and “The View” co-host Candace Cameron Bure has been eliminated from NBC’s “The Voice.”
Khloe Kardashian described the incident as being “incredibly traumatic” for her sister.
Comic books and pumpkin seed packets are among the treats that will help push Halloween spending to an estimated $8.4 billion.
The executive producer of “The Apprentice” says he doesn’t have the right to release footage from the reality TV show.
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The South Korean company said in a regulatory filing that it decided to stop manufacturing Note 7s for the sake of consumer safety.
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Worries about the safety of Samsung’s replacement Galaxy Note 7 smartphones have consumers fretting.
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March 28, 2021 Press releases have always been a valuable vehicle for a company to broadcast its news and promote its achievements to its customers and market. Technology vendors typically leverage press releases to announce the availability of new products and services, the signing of agreements with customers and partners, and the completion of similar […]


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We've heard rumblings that Verizon plans to brand Motorola's new pair of Xoom 2s as "DROID Xyboards" when it launches the pair of slates, but so far neither company has had anything to say on the matter, despite a number of leaks. Today the Xyboard leak train continues courtesy of a report out of CNET, which corroborates the rumors that Verizon plans to give the new tablets the DROID Xyboard branding. Both devices will share the same specs with their international brethren, meaning you can expect them Xyboards to feature 1.2GHz dual-core processors, 5-megapixel cameras, 1.3-megapixel front-facing shooters, 1GB RAM, Gorilla Glass, and Honeycomb. The larger 10.1-inch Xyboard will reportedly be marketed to business customers and will include a stylus, while the smaller 8.2-inch model will be marketed as more of a media consumption device and will include 2.1 virtual surround sound. Both will come to Verizon with 4G LTE connectivity. There was no mention of how much either Xyboard will cost when they're released (we've heard pricing will start at $429.99), but CNET claims that they'll both be launching this month. More photos of both Xyboards are available at the source link.
The folks at CNET also spent some quality time with the Motorola DROID 4, a device that's been the star of a string of recent leaks. The report didn't have any details to offer on the 4G LTE slider (not that we needed any thanks to all of the leaked details that have come out), but CNET did take a couple of quick photos of the DROID 4 both with its keyboard exposed and with it hidden away. Check them out below.
For those that may have missed it, the rumor mill has claimed that the DROID 4 could be launching as soon as December 8th, which just so happens to be the same date that a leaked Verizon minimum advertised price list showed that the Xyboards might be coming. If that date holds true, expect to hear official word from the folks at Motorola and Verizon soon. It's worth noting that December 8th is also the most current rumored release date for Verizon's Galaxy Nexus, meaning that next Thursday could end up being a pretty big day in Big Red Land. Any of you planning on picking up one of the devices in the rumored December 8th quartet?


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The world lost one of the best collaborators of all time over the weekend. Virgil Abloh refreshed the art and fashion worlds with community spirit, always portraying a deep understanding of how powerful people are when they come together.
“‘Two heads are better than one’ is something I firmly believe in. Collaboration is what happens with everyone in my offices and I believe in extending that outwards. I look for someone that has an authentic voice that, together, we could make something we couldn’t make individually.” —Virgil Abloh, Abloh-isms [Princeton University Press].
—Sadie Bargeron, Brand Editor
*All social-listening data featured in this newsletter is in partnership with social media intelligence platform Digimind.
CHINA COLLAB SPOTLIGHT
A 360-degree study on one of the latest China-based collaboration campaigns
THE UGG X FENG CHEN WANG LOVE STORY
UGG x FENG CHEN WANG
Launched exclusively to China through UGG’s WeChat store on November 15, followed by a global launch on November 22.
For AW21, UGG has released a second capsule with London-based Chinese designer Feng Chen Wang. The footwear can be worn as both a boot and sandle, inspired by Ying and Yang.
On Weibo, the hashtag #UGG x Feng Chen Wang# has been read almost 4million times and there have been 29k discussions around it, which was down to the popularity of UGG rather than awareness of Feng Chen Wang.
KOLs contributed to mentions, with popular actress Song Yanfei 宋妍霏, idol Yamy, and actress Zhou Dongyu 周冬雨 posting photos wearing the products.
In general, the multidimensional design attracted the most compliments, with consumers saying it’s playful, fun, cool, unique and attention-grabbing.
Feng Chen Wang told Jing Collabs and Drops about her strategy toward collaborations with larger, more established brands, having previously also worked with Converse: “For my own design, I prefer to draw inspiration from personal stories and talk with the community to reflect more diversification. With collaborations, I dig deep into the history of the brand to research how our partnership aligns, to find the unique points that connect us.” The designer continued to explain how two different kinds of DNA can spark new, innovative thoughts and more memorable products.
GLOBAL COLLAB SPOTLIGHT
Analysis of a recent release that has sparked global conversations
SACAI AND NIKE KNOW X MARKS THE SPOT
KAWS X SACAI X NIKE
DATE: The “Neptune Blue” and “Team Red” colorways released exclusively on Sacai’s site and kawsone.com on November 26, with a wider launch on other platforms, such as Nike’s SNKRS, on November 27. The “Reed” and “Purple Dusk” pairs will debut on December 9, followed by other retailers on December 10.
First previewed back in March, KAWS and Sacai have teamed up to launch their Blazer Low in two more styles of “Neptune Blue” and “Team Red.”
As consumers have been waiting since March to hear more about the release, when KAWS and Sacai finally posted the four colorways of the collab with the release date, the comment sections had a buzz of relief.
The general consensus online is that people like the collaboration, but it’s not a special hit for resellers which might be because it’s not impossible to attain, made available on two of the brands’ websites instantly, and via raffle on other platforms.
According to Lyst, the launch of a KAWS x Sacai x Nike blazer, resulted in a 140 percent jump in searches for Nike Blazers in general, while “Nike x Sacai,” “KAWS” and “KAWS x Sacai Nike shoes” were among the most used key terms.
Associate at creative agency AndArt Agency, Sabina Apostoloff said that the collaboration signals a continued demand for the Brooklyn-based artist’s signature motifs. “KAWS has been dropping sneaker collabs since 2002, and there still appears to be a vast demand for his designs; previously released KAWS x Nike sneakers have sold out within minutes, and their resale values often rocketed to over 500 percent of the original price. Since KAWS and Sacai have both independently teamed up with Nike before, the three-way powerhouse collaboration seems like a natural progression.”
VIRAL COLLABS: BY THE NUMBERS
Measuring the latest trending partnerships via consumer behavior and global conversation
On A Bathing Ape’s (BAPE) official Instagram, the most-liked comment about the new Vans x BAPE drop is: “this would have gone hard in 2016.” Some people enjoyed the coming together of two iconic streetwear brands, but others critiqued the designs as lazy. Weirdly, Vans didn’t post about it on their account at all on November 29, the day of release.
The majority who have discussed Supreme x Skittles online seem to love it, unsurprised by the randomness because of the skate-brand’s history of partnerships. Some called it the “best collab yet”, while others are annoyed that it is only being sold in the U.S.
In comparison to the Peleton collaboration, the upcoming Ivy Park x adidas collaboration has received more positive feedback on social media. Set to launch in December, it has already picked up online momentum due to teasers on Ivy Park and adidas Instagram accounts. In the annual Year in Fashion index, Lyst reported their previous collab to be the most-searched-for of 2021.
JING DAILY’S MODERN COLLECTIBLES
In this series, we invite influential voices to discuss noteworthy collaborations: modern collectibles
Art toy and contemporary art collector James Li is the founder of CHOCO1ATE Artspace in Beijing, a member of the UCCA International circle and founder of street-fashion media group SIZE MEDIA.
MODERN COLLECTIBLE COLLAB:
BE@RBRICK Jinx 100% & 400%
As League of Legends enters its second decade and the TV animation League of Legends: Battle of Two Cities is released, Riot Games looked to the production level of international movies and rich, detailed content. The Battle of Two Cities presents the most original League of Legends city-state story. As the main character in the series, Jinx’s instantly-recognizable appearance combined with the rich story setting behind the characters was really positively received. On this occasion, Riot Games and BE@RBRICK launched the joint BE@RBRICK Jinx 100% & 400%, which combines the head IP of the art-toy world with the super-popular characters in the esports world, and the global, ultra-limited release has made it highly exclusively and sought after.
The collaboration between Riot Games and BE@RBRICK is their first esports project and the first esports BE@RBRICK collaboration. The launch of this product coincided with the League of Legends global finals. China’s Edward Gaming (EDG) team has won the trophy three years in a row; this has made Chinese esports fans, who aren’t art collectors, join the fan frenzy making this product really popular, surpassing the same type of products during the same period.
As the official offline sales partner of this product, we also contributed a lot to the sales performance. We invited the chief sharing officer of CHOCO1ATE and well-known female artist Lin Yun to shoot a promotional video with our special display stand. The powerful impact of this collaboration is bound to set off some trends in esports culture and the art in the market.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Collabs and Drops is honored to feature exclusive interviews on the latest collaborations.
THE DALMORE TURNS TO BLOCKBAR FOR FIRST NFT
We can exclusively announce that Blockbar.com is launching The Dalmore Decades No.4 Collection via non-fungible token (NFT) on December 7 at 10am EST, by raffle. It’ll retail at USD$137,700 and can be purchased via Ethereum (ETH) or credit card. The news follows Blockbar 1’s collaboration with premium whisky brand Glenfiddich in October of this year, foreshadowing how the luxury consumer goods market can benefit from NFTs.
Co-founder of BlockBar 1 Dov Falic explained the appeal to Jing Collabs and Drops, “The biggest drivers for luxury spirits brands are transparency and reaching a new audience of consumers. For blockbar.com, using NFTs to authenticate rare wines and spirits attached to a physical bottle allows us to offer customers complete transparency of products that lead straight back to the brand owners. We also act as the catalyst for luxury spirits brands, such as Glenfiddich, Penfolds and The Dalmore, to reach a new audience of younger, more digital savvy crypto collectors — an audience the brands wouldn’t reach through the traditional route to market.”
COPERNI BAGS MAISIE WILLIAMS FOR FIRST COLLAB
For the first time since relaunching three years ago, Parisian womenswear label Coperni has released a co-branded capsule. And it’s with mega-KOL and Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams. Starting off strong on the partnership-front, the brand told Jing Collabs & Drops how they plan on navigating co-branded lines, mentioning an upcoming project with London-based jewelry brand Alan Crocetti and a well- known Asian sunglasses company.
CHINA C&D COLUMN: C-BEAUTY SINGLES’ DAY
For the China Collabs & Drops Column of November, Jing Daily features director Gemma Williams looked into the beauty collabs of Singles’ Day 2021. Local beauty disruptor Perfect Diary’s sales reached 291 million yuan in sales, which was a steep drop from the previous Double 11’s high of 602 million yuan. Another hot contender in the C-Beauty sector, Guochao brand Florasis, also saw sales dive — last year they topped 519 million yuan but this year fell off to 307. This downspell has forced local C-Beauty brands to ideate inventive new ways to capture young consumers.
ON OUR RADAR
Jing Daily’s collabs-to-watch this month
SWAROVSKI X NIKE
The two brands have been working on products together for five years. The latest Swarovski x Nike crystal-covered Air Force one will be released exclusively via the SNKRS app on December 1.
SHANTELL MARTIN X B&B ITALIA
In celebration of the Cameleonda by Mario Bellini, Shantell Martin has joined B&B Italia, creating an “immersive artwork” in the B&B Italia flagship store in Miami. It will run from December 2 to January 3.
KAPPA X PALACE
For the first time, Italian sportswear brand Kappa has joined Palace for a FW21 capsule collection, set to come out on December 3 in the U.S. and UK, and December 4 on WeChat. It’s a nostalgic concotion of 90s British football culture and Kappa’s Italian archive.
CROCS X SALEHE BEMBURY
One of the most-hyped collabs of 2021, the Salehe Bembury x Crocs have finally been given a release date of December 14 and 15 via a raffle on the brand’s official website.
KIDROBOT X METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
To commemorate the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 150th anniversary, it is releasing a second line of Dunnys in partnership with art and collectibles organization Kidobot. They’re available to pre-order at KidRobot.com for a limited time, with estimated shipping for Q4 of 2022.
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JING’S COLLABS CATCH UP
Check out the Jing Group’s latest coverage on collaborations in China’s luxury industry
POP MART’S KEITH HARING EDITION SIGNALS ITS GLOBAL ART IP AMBITIONS
“Keith Haring is one of the most famous pop artists globally,” POP MART tells Jing Culture & Commerce via email. “In addition to selling in China, POP MART hopes to reach more overseas consumers through this collaboration.”
SHOULD BRANDS DISTANCE THEMSELVES FROM “CONTROVERSIAL” CELEBRITIES?
Aside from extreme cases like Kris Wu and Zhang Zhehan, brands could face a backlash if they are not loyal to their ambassadors.
CAN DEJAWOO CHANGE THE LUXURY RESALE GAME IN CHINA?
Recently, dejaWOOO, a fashion resale aggregator that makes it easier for Chinese fashion consumers to search for, discover and purchase pre-owned luxury and designer fashion worldwide, officially launched after receiving its first pre-seed investment.
All social media data is sourced from social listening tool Digimind.


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Client Talking Points
Practically overnight, gold fell nearly $100 to $1400/oz. What's the catalyst? A stronger US dollar that has kept appreciating in value over the last three months has helped pop the great commodity bubble brought on by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. We had a 40-year low in the US dollar and 40-year high in gold (read: top) in 2011 that was simply unsustainable. Gold prices are crashing and the metal is going down in flames. Further downside pressure will be exacerbated as fund managers and the retail crowd all flee the crowded theater in an effort to escape, which will drive the ask price lower and lower.
Consumption = Growth
As commodity prices head lower across the board, consumption in the US has increased which in turn has driven growth. It's really not that complicated when you think about how the downturn in commodities has helped drive growth. When people encounter lower gas prices at the pump and cheaper food at the grocery store, they tend to consume more.
If you look at the complexion of the S&P 500’s Sector returns for April to-date, it’s the same story (Consumption vs Commodities):
- US Healthcare Stocks (XLV) = +4.18% for APR to date
- US Consumer Discretionary (XLY) = +2.66% for APR to date
- Basic Materials (XLB) and Energy (XLE) = -1.65% and -1.12% for APR to date, respectively
The pundits who have been marketing gold under the guise that the end of the world is coming can no longer play that card when the S&P 500 is up +11.5% year-to-date.
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Top Long Ideas
Decent earnings visibility, stabilized market share, and aggressive share repurchases should keep a floor on the stock. Near-term earnings, potentially big orders from Oregon and South Dakota, and news of proliferating gaming domestically could provide near term catalysts for a stock that trades at only 11x EPS. We believe that multiple is unsustainably low – and management likely agrees given the buyback – for a company with the balance sheet and strong cash flow as IGT. Given private equity’s interest in WMS (they lost out to SGMS) – a company similar to IGT that unlike IGT generates little free cash – we wouldn’t rule out a privatizing transaction to realize the inherent value in this company.
With FedEx Express margins at a 30+ year low and 4-7 percentage points behind competitors, the opportunity for effective cost reductions appears significant. FedEx Ground is using its structural advantages to take market share from UPS. FDX competes in a highly consolidated industry with rational pricing. Both the Ground and Express divisions could be separately worth more than FDX’s current market value, in our view.
HOLX remains one of our favorite longer-term fundamental growth companies given growing penetration of its 3D Tomo platform and high leverage to the 2014 Insurance Expansion from the Affordable Care Act.
Three for the Road
TWEET OF THE DAY
"Commodity margin clerks will be ordering lunch in today, big opportunity for Seamless Web." -@ReformedBroker
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"The trouble with normal is it always gets worse." -Bruce Cockburn
STAT OF THE DAY
China's economy grew 7.7% in the first quarter of 2013, missing estimates.


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A press release from AT&T claims Apple iPad activations from Nov. 1 through Nov. 3 were up 200% over the same launch period last year. The statement, from AT&T’s Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO, AT&T Mobility, attributes much of the growth to the excitement about the new iPad Air, as well as AT&T’s Mobile Share option, allowing customers to add an iPad to their existing plan for $10 per month.
Some of the growth from last year’s numbers could also be attributed to AT&T’s Next device upgrade plan, which lets customers get a phone or iPad for zero money down. The Next plan, launched in July, spreads device payments over a period of two years, allowing qualifying customers to upgrade after 12 months in the plan.
The upgrade plan must be attached to a wireless service plan (albeit with no long term contract), otherwise, if the wireless service is cancelled the customer must pay the remaining amount on the device.


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When IT leaders push back on “citizen development” they are just displaying their closed mindedness and incompetence. Every successful organization is – right now, today – full of citizen developers, people using whatever technology tools they have available (and often finding ways to get around IT limitations to get additional Read more…
This decade will see the rise of carbon-neutral supply chains which will impact businesses everywhere – even those far removed from serving tech firms in Silicon Valley. As more Fortune 500 companies join this trend carbon-neutral requirements will be pushed deep down the supply chain to the point that companies Read more…
This evening I was at a major national electronics retailer to purchase a new television. I recently moved into a new place and needed a television sized appropriately for the room (and, my old television being plasma, something that would run cooler to save money on air conditioning.) (more…)
This is a product idea I have for Uber. I’m hopeful they will, one day, implement it.
Allow users to better understand and communicate pick-up locations at complex locations (stadiums, airports, conference centers, etc.) and special events (Super Bowl, Golf Tournament, etc.)
In many of these instances it is very difficult for a requestor to understand and communicate their location to the driver in a manner that is consistent with the vehicle pick-up regulations.


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After recently being ranked Number One in Overall Customer Satisfaction in Southern California based on the National Survey Systems move-in surveys for the six months ending September 30, 2002.
Posted January, 22nd 2003
MBK Homes has announced that the opening of its beautifully decorated model homes will take place on September 28th, 2002 at its highly anticipated single-family collection, SylvanOaks at Ladera Ranch.
Posted September, 18th 2002
Not only are the homes at HighPointe at Eagle Glen stunning homes with the ultimate in style and amenities, they have been designed with special attention to save energy, conserve natural resources and encourage recycling.
Posted September, 3rd 2002
With the first phase already sold out, Berkeley by MBK Homes has recorded a steady sales pace and reported a strong demand at its limited collection of 83 distinctive town homes in Brea.
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SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio police are trying to find a man who they say was caught on surveillance cameras overnight, stealing items from a West side Family Dollar store.
Officers responded to a call for a ringing alarm at the business shortly before 2 a.m. Monday.
When they arrived in the 7400 block of W. Military, they noticed a glass window had been shattered.
Police say the burglar gained entry through it and stole merchandise from the store.
They say surveillance video shows the man loading items, including electronics, into a trash bag and shopping cart.
Officers later found that shopping cart with the merchandise still inside around the side of the building.
They spent about an hour searching the area, on the ground and from their helicopter.
However, they did not find the burglar.
A store manager said it appeared that police did recover most of what had been taken.


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BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB)–May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month, and with temperatures rising many are planning to spend more time outside, but before you soak up the sun, one local dermatologist is urging you to take caution.
Skin cancer is a common sight for Dr. Jon Ward of Dermatology Specialists.
“We see skin cancer everyday. In the office on average, I’d say about 50 cases a week,” said Ward.
Dr. Ward said the key to avoiding skin cancer is taking protective measures to prevent it entirely.
“Your best defense is protective clothing so hats with a wide brim and rashguards, and then as a backup is applying sunscreen on any exposed areas, and reapplying every 1-2 hours,” he said.
Dr. Ward says there are 3 different types of skin cancers you should be aware of:
“You have the non-melanoma skin cancers which is locally aggressive, and then you’ve got melanoma which often spreads to lymph nodes,” he said.
Dr. Ward also recommends you are screened for skin cancer annually.
The screenings are quick, painless and take minutes. He said these screenings often lead to early detections of skin cancer which could be pivotal for a patient’s treatment.
“What you’re looking for is any mole that changes shape, color or size for no reason or you’re looking for a spot that is not a mole that is growing rapidly and bleeds for no reason. That is a big red flag,” he said.
Dr. Ward has been offering these free screenings through his office at Dermatology Specialists for 17 years. He said he feels they’ve made a difference for those who don’t have access to medical care.
“Every year we get 2 to 3 melanomas and we save lives. It’s so rewarding,” he said.
Free screenings are available to any adult who has not been screened by a dermatologist in the last
12-months. A full list of participating locations can be found here. Call 877-231-3376.


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It's almost time for Easter, but there has been some confusion over whether chocolate eggs count as "essential" shopping.
With shops enforcing a host of buying restrictions to stop people stockpiling and strict new measures in stores, it's difficult to know the rules for buying Easter treats for the family.
You may not be able to take the family or your partner shopping, but every supermarket is doing their best to ensure Easter can still be celebrated despite coronavirus.
It's important to check the websites to avoid shopping during priority slots for the NHS, elderly and vulnerable over the Easter weekend.
Here's what you need to know:
The supermarket announced last week it had lifted restrictions across Easter eggs.
Sharing an update with customers, Sainsbury's chief executive said: "We have been working hard with our suppliers to improve our product availability.
"We have removed limits from Easter eggs immediately as we know families often want to buy more than three and we have plenty of these in all stores and online."
The store has confirmed that Easter Eggs are not limited per customer but have urged shoppers to adhere to the two-metre rule social distancing while in their supermarkets.
Over the weekend Asda will be open 8am to 8pm on Good Friday, Saturday and Easter Monday, but will be closed on Easter Sunday.
Ahead of the Easter weekend Tesco has announced it has lifted its three items per customer limit across most products, meaning there's no longer a limit on seasonal chocolate.
Restrictions still apply across toilet rolls and paper goods, household and personal cleaning products including hand sanitisers, packets and tins of food, including pasta and rice, fresh eggs and home baking.
Tesco is reminding everyone to buy only what they need and has implemented more safety measures, including a "one-in, one-out" system in stores and introducing one-way aisles.
Extras, Superstores and Metro stores will be closed in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on Easter Sunday.
The budget supermarket has lifted most restrictions in-store as stockpiling eases so there's no limit on Easter eggs.
Aldi is also donating almost half a million Easter Eggs to vulnerable families and children, in partnership with Neighbourly.
Every store will donate up to 50 Easter Eggs each day until April 11 in a bid to cheer people up.
Aldi will be open 8am to 8pm on Good Friday, Saturday and Easter Monday, but will be closed on Easter Sunday.
The store still has a three-product limit across specific grocery items, and a maximum of any two packets of toilet roll.
However, the cap is not applied to Easter Confectionery.
Waitrose is open 8am to 8pm on Good Friday, closed on Easter Sunday and open 8am to 7pm on Easter Monday.


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A look at how York County played in, worked around and made it through a snow day on Monday:
Neither rain, nor sleet...
U.S. Postal Service mail carrier Rick Bazemore drove 30 miles to deliver his mail route in Clover.
"I've been doing it for 16 years and never missed a day or a delivery - knock on wood," he said.
In the Piggly Wiggly parking lot on U.S. 321 in Clover, Bazemore exchanged some friendly words with Merita Bread delivery man Kevin Hinson.
"The mailman never quits!" Hinson yelled as he rolled a stack of bread through the slushy parking lot.
"Neither does the bread man!" Bazemore yelled back from his mail truck.
Debbie Melton, a 22-year veteran of the Post Office, was running behind schedule Monday as she made her residential deliveries in Rock Hill.
"You just have to take it easy and be safe," she said.
Feeding the masses
At Kinch's restaurant in downtown Rock Hill, cooks hustled to prepare hot meals for city of Rock Hill utility crews, Comporium Communications workers and others whose jobs required them to be on duty.
"We were open when we had 18 inches," owner Kinch Edwards said, recalling the blizzard of 2004. "We try to make every effort for the townspeople who have to be here."
Extra drivers were called into Domino's Pizza on Herlong Avenue, where pie-makers planned to take delivery orders until roads turned impassable, a manager said.
"It's going to be a good day for us," said operating partner Mike Post. "As long as we can drive, we'll be here. We're like the post office."
Customers rushed into Lowe's to buy bags of snow-melting salt mixture, a manager said, and the store sold out of sleds and shovels over the weekend before any snow hit the ground.
Across town at Home Depot, supplies of salt bags ran out by midmorning.
"If they keep buying like this, we may not have many left," said Kim Crump, a manager at Lowe's.
The routine, not so much
At the Times Turnaround convenience store at the normally heavily traveled intersection off U.S. 21 and Business 21 just north of Gold Hill Road, workers saw several vehicles having trouble making it through just that small incline on U.S. 21 heading north toward the store.
"It is pretty bad out there; the road right here is slippery," clerk Judy Davis said.
Coffee and spirits
Baxter Village's town center full of shops and restaurants was quieter than usual Monday, with a couple of exceptions.
Business was brisk at Starbucks, where an employee said the hot chocolate kept flowing.
Down the street at Grape Vine Wine Shop and Wine Bar, owner David Sills opened at the usual 11 a.m., hoping to attract Baxter residents who stayed home.
"It's a snow day, man," Sills said. "Time for a party."
Sills has opened on snow days since the store opened. The first three years, no one came, he said. That changed last March, when Sills, expecting another slow day, told an employee to stay home.
"I came in alone," he said. "I was absolutely slammed."
Monday was no different.
"We were busy all day long," said Sills who plans to open at 11 a.m. today. "It's been a slamorama."
Stocking the pantry
Shoppers in Fort Mill cleaned out grocery stores shelves, stocking up on staples and a little extra.
"We've been selling a lot of milk and bread," said a Bi-Lo employee. "And a lot of beer."
Supermarkets including Harris Teeter, Bi-Lo, Lowe's Foods, Walmart and Food Lion were open all day and planned to reopen today.
Rescuing the stranded
Eddy Evans, operator of Evans Tire & Wrecker Service on S.C. 160 just north of Gold Hill Road, said his workers responded to calls to pull vehicles from roadsides starting long before dawn and have remained busy all day.
"All we can do is pull 'em out of the ditch if they get in it, and hope that most people don't get in the ditch in the first place," Evans said. "But I'll come get 'em if they need it."
Evans, who has operated since 1979, even has offered tire tubes to kids who were seeking an old-fashioned way to go sledding.
And then there was fun...
Sledders flocked to the Rock Hill School District office on Anderson Street and the Winthrop Coliseum to speed down the hills, over and over again.
Technique was simple: Get a good push from a friend and go.
"What do I like about the snow?" said 7-year-old Chase Feenstra. "I like crashing the sled."
Chase, her 5-year-old brother Mason and their 4-year-old sister Danica were among the early crowd at Winthrop.
Mason particularly enjoyed making a large snowball - and then eating it.
"They love it," said Dad, Tim Feenstra. "They kept asking all day yesterday until 10:30 p.m., 'When will it snow?'"
At the school district office, 12-year-old Hailey Blythe was introduced to tubing. Her dad, Lloyd, bought a truck tire inner tube when he discovered sleds were sold out in area stores.
"The secret to this?" Lloyd Blythe said. "Put your bottom in it and hang on."
Sean Robinson, Michael Wingard, and Ben Robertson - childhood friends now in their 20s - took turns sledding down a hill in Clover.
"This is the hill we sledded down in the days of our youth," Robinson said.
Autumn Sterneman, 9, and Noah, 13, Sterneman came along and took a few turns on the hill.
"I wanted my son to come build a snowman with me, but he's watching cartoons," said Jessica Stevens, 25, who was one of few people out walking downtown Clover. "We're going sledding tomorrow."
It's good to have people...
Clover Police Capt. David Dover stood at the corner of Main and Bethel streets, tasked with taking winter pictures for a collection of Clover photos throughout the seasons.
He said Chief Randy Grice would have been out there had he not volunteered to do it.
"It just isn't right for the chief of police to be out working in the weather," he said.
- Reported by Shawn Cetrone, Andrew Dys, Matt Garfield, Jamie Self, Don Worthington


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You know about vapourware, products that exist only on press releases. But how about a product that protects against a threat that doesn’t exist? The antivirus industry is racing to protect handheld computers from viruses, worms and trojans – at least once those vapours start to materialize.
Not that the threat isn’t real. Popular handheld devices such as Handspring Inc.’s Visor Deluxe and the Palm Inc.’s IIIxe come installed with 8MB of RAM and may run versions of the same software found on less handy devices. Already, PDAs can be carriers for viruses spread through e-mail attachments: An infected attachment is received on a wireless PDA, and when the user does a synchronization with a desktop computer, the infected file passes onto a hard drive, perhaps unnoticed. And as handheld devices become more popular, more powerful and more likely to hold or access confidential information such as chequing accounts, they’ll become more appealing to virus writers.
That’s bad news for PDA users, but it means business for antivirus crusaders. McAfee.com Corp. has unveiled an on-line Wireless Security Center, where for US$29.95 per year, users can purchase a subscription that includes VirusScan for Handhelds, which protects PCs from viruses spread via wireless or infrared data transfers with handhelds. Meanwhile, Symantec Corp. has announced the development of a version of its Norton AntiVirus software created for the Palm OS platform.
Researchers say it’s only a matter of time before viruses targeted to these devices appear “in the wild” – that is, in the computing world where you and your love bugs send e-mail every day. Robert Frances Group’s Adam Braunstein predicts that we’ll see viruses that affect PDAs themselves within the next year. “Wherever there’s a widely popular platform that people use, there’s a virus,” says the senior research analyst at the Westport, Conn.-based company – or at least there will be.


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New York regulators on Thursday approved dozens of licenses to grow cannabis as part of the highly anticipated Empire State Cannabis Recreation Program.
New York Cannabis Control Council She said It signed “the first 52 adult-use cannabis licenses for plantations throughout the state.”
“The first cannabis product on dispensary shelves will come from hard-working family farmers in New York, not from companies out of state.” announce on Twitter.
New York’s political leaders announced the announcement as a major step toward the state’s planned launch of retail cannabis later this year.
“New York farms have been the backbone of our state’s economy since before the American Revolution, and now, New York farms will be at the heart of the more equitable cannabis industry in the country.” She said in the current situation. “I am proud to announce the first licenses to grow cannabis for adult use in the state, and I am proud of the work that the Office of Cannabis Management and the Cannabis Control Board are doing to increase and operate cannabis sales to adults as quickly as possible without compromising our mission to advance the communities and individuals most affected by the past century of cannabis prohibition.”
Last month , declared Hochul The Seed Opportunity Initiative, which requires that the first 100-200 dispensary licenses in New York be granted to individuals with previous convictions related to cannabis, or who have family members with such convictions on their records.
As part of this initiative, New York farmers who grow hemp have already been given the first fork in growing hemp for the adult use market.
Farmers must comply with the quality, health and safety requirements set by them [Office of Cannabis Management]Hoochul’s office explained in the initiative announcement. “They should also be involved in sustainability and equity-related extension programs that will help build the first generation of cannabis owners across the entire supply chain. These conditional licenses allow farmers to grow cannabis in the 2022 growing season.”
New York Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes said Thursday that “the approval of the first 52 temporary cultivation licenses will help create a responsible start for the [New York state] The cannabis industry by giving farmers the ability to produce enough produce and stock for Social Justice retail dispensaries to meet the expected initial legal market demand.”
“We are well on our way toward achieving our goal of creating a viable and inclusive pathway for minorities and small farmers to have the opportunity to create intergenerational wealth for their families and communities. I am proud of the work done to date by the New York State Office of Cannabis Management and the Cannabis Control Board, and I look forward to the That our actions bear fruit.
New York legalized recreational cannabis use last year when the then government. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into law.
But the regulated market has been slow to take shape under Cuomo, who resigned in August amid allegations of sexual misconduct.
Since becoming the state’s first female governor, Hoechul has been determined to run the adult-use program.
In September, she said Ending late appointments To the cannabis management office.
“The New York cannabis industry has been on hold for far too long – I’m making important dates for the Office of Cannabis Management appointment for success so they can succeed,” Hochul said in a statement at the time.
New York officials hope that sales of recreational utensils will begin later this year. Until then, New Yorkers can always cross the bridge into New Jersey, where adult dispensaries are scheduled to open next week.


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VoIP provider Dialpad has announced the acquisition of a video conferencing company, Highfive. The purpose of the purchase is to add room-based video to Dialpad’s suite of services, including computer video conferencing. Neither of the two companies released financial details of the acquisition.
Dialpad is the company that developed the popular video conferencing service UberConference. UberConference does have a built-in video conferencing feature, and this acquisition will add enhancements to their existing video capabilities. To date, UberConference is mostly known for its calling features. Dialpad not only offers its users conference call solutions and a VoIP platform, but also has a contact center solution.
As stated by Dialpad, by using Highfive technology, any home office or office space can become a smart meeting room. Best of all, this service will work with existing hardware and SIP-enabled conferencing providers.
Craig Walker, CEO of Dialpad, believes that this acquisition will give Dialpad a superior spot in the market and allow Dialpad to offer a comprehensive solution to its customers. Walker stated: “We realized we really want to double down on video – and not with a mindset of ‘hey, video as a standalone thing is going to be a big investment,’ but video, as part of business communications, has to be excellent and has to be part of a Unified-Communications-as-a Service (UCaaS) system.”
Highfive CEO Joe Manuele commented: “What’s truly exciting about this combination is the joint heritage – both companies are truly born in the cloud, running on hyperscale, global infrastructures.” Highfive will provide Dialpad with the ability to connect rooms, interact with other video services using Meeting Connector technology, and provide legacy device support with Room Connector.
Another interesting facet of this acquisition is that Highfive was the last, dedicated video service provider, and this acquisition ends the video specialist field. Manuele mentioned that the company was considering other options but decided to integrate into a larger UCaaS stack. “While we have developed a scalable, born in the cloud video solution set, it was becoming harder to compete with competitors who were offering inferior ‘free’ video services as part of a UCaaS stack,” he noted.


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Apple is expected to be hosting its fall media event on September 9, which will focus on the company's next iPhones.
This news is according to a Buzzfeed source, who says that the company is intending to hold the week during the week of September 7, with Wednesday September 9 being the most likely day.
Force Touch on iPhone 6S has recently been revealed, and we should expect shortcuts and faster actions across iOS. According to 9to5Mac, Force Touch on the iPhone is different to the function on the Apple Watch. It is designed to "skip existing lists of options or button presses."
An example given was a user looking up a location on Maps, and using Force Touch to instantly begin turn by turn directions. Alternatively, Force Touching a link in Safari will bring up a preview of the webpage, or you can use it to look up the definition of a word.
Force Touch is something we had on our IGN list of things we want in the iPhone 6S. The first supposed leaked images of the new phone were circulating the Internet last month.
Matt Porter is a freelance writer based in London. Make sure to visit what he thinks is the best website in the world, but is actually just his Twitter page.


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Australian travel retailer Flight Centre expects to more than double its network and business in India over the next five years.
Flight Centre, listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, debuted in India 10 years ago and now considers the nation one of its top five corporate business markets globally.
“India is an emerging market and a long term business for us,” said Rob Flint, executive GM – Asia and global corporate told the Economic Times.
“We are expecting a high double digit growth from this market over the next five years.”
Flight Centre currently operates a corporate travel arm FCm Travel Solutions along with leisure travel company Flight Shop in India. The company currently has 12 operational stores in the country and plans to open 10 more next year.
“We currently do about Rs 200 million (US$3 million) of business in India and believe that to be a leader in our space in India, we need to do at least Rs 500 million of business. We want to get to that level in the next five years,” added Rakshit Desai, MD India, FCm Travel Solutions and Flight Shop.
Consumer travel accounts for about half the company’s turnover currently but it sees the corporate market as its main growth driver. The entire Flight Centre India operations posted profit growth of 12 per cent this year against last.
The company entered India by buying New Delhi-based travel agency Friends Globe.


text: Amanresorts, the hotel chain with luxury resorts in exotic Asian and South Pacific locations, looks set to expand worldwide in a deal with United States property investor Colony Capital. Colony said yesterday it would invest, over time, up to US$100 million in the chain's immediate owner, Credicom Asia. Credicom is owned by publicly listed Belgian company Credicom, in turn 85 per cent owned by Paris-listed luxury hotel owner Societe Immobiliere Hoteliere. The first stage of the deal, will see Colony will pay $55 million for a 30 per cent stake in Credicom Asia and then up to another $20 million by the end of December next year, bringing its total to 37 per cent. Denver-based investor Donald Sturm will co-invest with Colony for a quarter of the deal. Apart from Amanresorts, which consists of 18 hotels existing and under development, Credicom also owns Saresco, France's largest duty-free airport retailer, the L'Ermitage Hotel in Los Angeles and other land for hotel development, including 121.5 hectares overlooking St Tropez in France. Its assets are said to be worth more than $450 million. Amanresorts hotels include sites in Bali and Java (Indonesia), Thailand and Bora Bora (Tahiti). Colony described the deal as one of its biggest international investments and 'a major step in expanding the Amanresorts name worldwide'. Colony owns the Mayfair Hotel in New York and Orchid Hotel at Mauna Lani in Hawaii. Immobiliere Hoteliere, controlled by the Vaturi family, is a developer of four and five-star hotels and claimstotal assets of $1 billion.


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The Swiss textile company Albiro, which has recently bought the Kadinjaca factory in Uzice, plans to establish a logistics center for the region in this city, the company’s owner, Benedikt Schweighart, said during his visit to Uzice.
– The short-term goals of the company are the stabilization of production, expansion of the client network and new products, and in the long term, the company in Uzice should become a logistics center for the market of states in the region, Austria and Switzerland, which will bring new jobs to Uzice – said Schweighart, as announced on the city’s website.
Albiro has facilities in Switzerland and Austria. In buying Kadinjaca in Uzice, they kept all the employees. The company was founded over 190 years ago, as a family company. They produce work and protective clothes.
The deputy mayor of Uzice, Dragoljub Stojadinovic, said that the city was ready to provide them with full support in their further work and development.
In addition to members of the City Council, Ivan Stanisavljevic and Slobodan Kuzmanovic, the meeting was attended by the director of the Regional Chamber of Commerce of Uzice, Ana Lapcevic.


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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has seized 6,669 bags of rice worth N90 million smuggled into the country through the land border.
Addressing newsmen in Lagos yesterday, Deputy Comptroller and National Coordinator, Comptroller General, Strike Force, Mr. Abdullahi Kirawa, said the rice that has been intercepted by the Strike Force team was equivalent to 11 trailers.
He warned that the rice being smuggled into the country is less nutritious compared to locally produced rice, urging Nigerians to patronise locally made products.
According to him, the seizure of goods made by the CGC Strike Force team from August 11 to September 18, 2018 in total value was N414,712,500. He added that the seizures were based on credible intelligence gathering by Customs Intelligence Unit (CIU).
Giving breakdown of the seized items, he said they include second hand clothings and 640 bales of shoes in 1×40 container worth N32,000,000; 18×20 and 3×40 containers of unprocessed/firewood worth N144,000,000; 2×20 containers of wet blue worth N123,727,500; 59 bags of 50kg sugar worth N590,000 were seized respectively.
While seven seized means of conveyance with four cars worth N6,000,000, two trucks worth N6,000,000 and 1 Mercedes Benz bus worth N1,500,000 were as well intercepted.
However, other items also seized were frozen poultry with quantity of 45 cartons valued at N225,000; vegetable oil in 26 kegs x10 litres valued at N130,000 and 14 kegs x25 litres valued at N140,000, used vehicles seized were Madza 323 car worth N750,000; Toyota Hilux N11,500,000;
Toyota Avensis car worth N1,800,000; Lexus ES 350 valued at N2,500,000; Toyota Venza worth N5,500,000 and Ford Transit Bust FTC loaded with contraband goods valued at N1,750,000 including 6,669 bags of rice (50kg) worth N90,000,000 were all seized.
He said the total value of the seized goods is N414,712,500, adding that NCS and its men are also not relenting especially in the months of ember. He said the service is working round the clock to ensure that illicit trade does not thrive in the country.
To tackle smuggling activities around the borders, he said NCS formed synergy with its other sister agencies such as Nigerian Army, Navy, among others, to track the nefarious activities of smugglers.


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Google and Facebook face big fines from Paris for violating cookie rules.
The conspiracy theories and election fraud claims that stoked anger before the Jan. 6 assault are still readily available online.
Action to be taken for failing to allow French users to easily reject cookie tracking technology.
Antitrust enforcer says US tech giant is of ‘paramount significance across markets,’ as regulator targets anti-competitive practices.
Emmanuel Macron is angling to push ahead new rules on tech companies, change global tax rates and rethink the EU’s role in the world.
The ruling comes as Russia is increasing the pressure on online platforms over content moderation.
A 14,000-kilometer internet cable in the Arctic could connect Japan to countries including Finland and Ireland in 2025.
DMA should have ‘clear-cut provision’ for national regulators, Mundt tells POLITICO in interview.
The handling of a Facebook privacy case casts a shadow over Dublin.
The Digital Markets Act is Europe’s latest attempt to rein in the power and size of Big Tech companies.
European Parliament’s draft rules force Big Tech to open up and curb intrusive online ads.
The US platform and four French NGOs will face off in court Thursday about hate speech online.
The European Data Protection Supervisor wants to talk about alternative enforcement models.
From blocking the Facebook-Giphy merger to joining up its digital regulators, the UK is striking out on its own.
Investment is important to ‘stop the cycle’ of harms, said Timnit Gebru.
Tech companies have until early this week to delist the e-commerce website.
Ministers sign off on new EU tech rulebook to curb abuse and harm online.
Dublin and Luxembourg are to play a smaller role, and the European Commission takes on new enforcement powers.
A state agency used new powers for the first time to order the delisting of US online marketplace Wish.
Everything you need to know on Brussels’ plans for political ads on social media.
Casting the net too wide could snare local successes; a more limited scope could lead to confrontation with the US.
Top Gaia-X officials addressed concerns around foreign members and internal divisions in the alliance.


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- Apple's CEO Tim Cook said that Apple Pay is growing faster than PayPal when it comes to adding new users and growing the number of transactions.
- Cook said that Apple Pay is now completing nearly one billion transactions per month, which is more than twice the volume of a year ago.
- Apple Pay has become a popular form of payment in recent years, especially in the US where it is accepted at around 65% of all retailers. It will soon be compatible with several public transit systems, including New York and Chicago.
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Apple Pay is growing at a faster rate than PayPal, according to Apple's CEO Tim Cook.
In a call with investors on Tuesday, Cook discussed the progress of Apple Pay – Apple's digital wallet that lets people make payments with their iPhone – during its most recent quarterly results.
Cook said that Apple Pay is now completing nearly one billion transactions per month, which is more than twice the volume of a year ago. In the past three months, it has launched in 17 new countries, which means its reach now extends to 47 markets in total, including the entire European Union.
Cook also commented on how Apple Pay stacks up compared to its competitors. He said that during the most recent quarter, it had outpaced PayPal in both the number of transactions per month and the number of new users added.
Cook was likely referencing numbers reported earlier this month in PayPal's second-quarter earnings. PayPal said that it added nine million new members during the second quarter. It also said that engagement per active account increased by 9% to 39 times a year.
Cook didn't disclose Apple's equivalent numbers and a spokesperson did not respond to Business Insider's request for further comment. But his remarks indicate that Apple Pay added at least nine million new users during the quarter.
Apple Pay has become a popular form of payment in recent years, especially in the US where it is accepted at around 65% of all retailers. By the fall, it will also be compatible with several public transit systems, including New York and Chicago. However, it's also a newer payment system and therefore has more room to grow than its more established rival PayPal.
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The Fire TV Stick 4K Max has several enhancements over its predecessor that, according to Amazon, add up to a 40% boost in performance evaluation.
The Fire TV Stick 4K Max has 2GB RAM third times the amount of RAM as the Fire TV Stick 4K.
Similarly, the new Fire TV Stick's CPU and GPU cores are 100 MHz quicker than the previous model.
The Fire TV Stick 4K Max, according to Amazon, features a MediaTek MT8696 SoC and a different GPU than the Fire TV Stick 4K.
The new SoC enables Wi-Fi 6 connection, allowing the Fire TV Stick 4K Max to stream 4K video at higher download speeds.
To make use of the streaming stick's higher download rates, you'll need a Wi-Fi 6 router.
Dolby Atmos, Dolby Vision, HDMI ARC, HDR, and HDR10+ are also supported with the Fire TV Stick 4K Max.
Aside from the improved speed, the user will see a smart screen UI that is nearly comparable to the previous version.
The Max, on the other hand, comes with a new remote that supports Alexa voice control.
Wi-Fi 6 offers faster speeds and better performance than Wi-Fi 5, particularly in congested networks, and Amazon's Fire TV Stick 4K Max is the first media streamer under £100 to support the standard.
Support up to 5.1 HDMI audio pass-through, Dolby Atmos, 7.1 surround sound, 2-channel stereo, and Dolby Atmos.
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Coronavirus Update: Pakistan records 1,594 fresh cases
The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the country has soared to 532,412 with addition of 1,594 new cases while the countrywide death toll jumped to 11,295.
According to the latest update released by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) Pakistan has recorded 48 more deaths during the past 24 hours.
The NCOC said the positivity ratio of infections was recorded at 3.95 per cent. The total number of recovered patients stands at 486,489.
So far, Sindh has reported a total of 240,570 infections, Punjab 153,410, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 65,287, Balochistan 18,736, Islamabad 40,713, Azad Jammu and Kashmir 8,795, and Gilgit Baltistan 4,901.
Sindh government on Friday allowed shopping malls in Karachi to remain open on Saturdays and Sundays.
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Taipei, Taiwan – HTC plans a worldwide launch this month of a new ad campaign that will star actor Robert Downey Jr. and highlight the change that HTC has brought to the cellphone industry, the company announced.
The campaign will include ads in cinemas, online media, and traditional media including television. In such countries as the U.K., U.S. and Taiwan, the campaign will also include experiential events in which people “will be able to experience the various creative interpretations of HTC for themselves,” the company said.
This TWICE webinar, hosted by senior editor Alan Wolf, will take a look at what may be the hottest CE products at retail that will be sold during the all-important fourth quarter. Top technologies, market strategies and industry trends will be discussed with industry analysts and executives.
New York – No new NEC-brand or Verizon-network Casio G’Zone smartphones will make their way to the U.S. market now that NEC has decided to stop developing, manufacturing or selling smartphones other than those already on the market.
The phones are made by NEC CASIO Mobile Communications, an NEC subsidiary that is 70.7-percent-owned by NEC. Another 20 percent of the subsidiary is owned by Casio Computers, and the remainder is owned by Hitachi.
Bellevue, Wash. – T-Mobile USA’s net new subscriber additions surged in its second quarter on the strength of its LTE rollout, aggressive “uncarrier” strategy and iPhone launch, but the initiatives produced a sharp rise in operating expenses that produced an operating loss and net loss for the quarter.
Bellevue, Wash. — T-Mobile is expanding its LTE smartphone selection with the addition of three new LG smartphones, which will also expand LG’s smartphone selection within the T-Mobile lineup.
The models include the G-series flagship G2 and the Optimus F6. Their price and availability will be announced in “the coming weeks,” T-Mobile said.
New York — LG’s new G2 smartphone will be its first flagship smartphone to be launched by all four national carriers and “will represent our largest mobile phone launch with the biggest marketing program ever,” an LG spokesman told TWICE.
LG promised a multimillion dollar marketing campaign that will include TV, digital and print media.
Los Angeles – MVNO FreedomPop, which recently launched free and paid-for 4G mobile and wireless home-broadband service, launched its first LTE device, a mobile hot spot that works on Sprint’s 3G CDMA and 4G LTE networks.
Port Washington, N.Y. — More than 60 percent of smartphone owners are aware that they can trade in their existing device for a new device, and more than half of smartphone owners plan to do so when they get a new phone, The NPD Group found in a consumer survey.
Currently, only 13 percent of smartphone owners said they traded in their previous mobile device.
Redwood City, Calif. — Startup MVNO Zact, which launched flexible-plan cellphone service on June 6, has expanded its cellphone selection with the addition of two Samsung smartphones, which join two LG smartphones.
All are Android-based phones that run on the Sprint network and offer 4G/LTE service where available in Sprint’s footprint.
Washington — The Obama administration vetoed an import ban imposed by the International Trade Commission (ITC) on older cellular-equipped iPads and iPhones that operate on the AT&T network.
The ban, sought by Samsung, would have gone into effect today had not the U.S. Trade Representative issued the veto.
U.S. trade representative Michael Froman said he issued the veto because the ban would harm consumers and the U.S. economy. He said Samsung could pursue enforcement of its cellular-related patent by seeking monetary damages in courts.
San Diego — Leap Wireless International reported declining revenue for the second quarter of 2013, ended June 30.
Leap was acquired by AT&T last month.
Total revenues for the second quarter of 2013 decreased 7 percent to $731.5 million when compared with the prior-year period. Service revenues decreased 9.7 percent: $731.5 million in the second quarter vs. the prior-year’s $786.8 million.