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WASHINGTON (AP) - Ben Bernanke wants to know if you are happy.
This is going to be a column about a little "T and A." And before my readers start blushing because of the naughty images that phrase might conjure up, I must confess that it's not what you think. This is a boring old Social Security column, after all.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government's consumer finance watchdog is investigating deals that transferred billions in premiums charged to mortgage borrowers from mortgage-insurance companies to the banks that made the loans.
NEW YORK (AP) - AT&T Inc. said Friday that the shutdown of its second-generation, or "2G," wireless network will be complete by the end of 2016, a process that will force customers with older phones to upgrade to "3G" or "4G" handsets.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Internal Revenue Service may have delivered more than $5 billion in refund checks to identity thieves who filed fraudulent tax returns for 2011, Treasury Department investigators said Thursday. They estimate another $21 billion could make its way to ID thieves' pockets over the next five years.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. economy generated jobs last month at the fastest pace since February, a sign it is resilient enough to pull out of a midyear slump and grow modestly even as the rest of the world slows down.
FREMONT (AP) - Republicans investigating the government's investment in a bankrupt solar panel manufacturer have concluded that the Obama administration ignored numerous red flags about the company's financial viability, leaving taxpayers on the hook for more than $500 million.
ATLANTA (AP) - Chick-fil-A has set a one-day sales record amid an ongoing controversy over a company executive's public stance against same-sex marriage.
NEW YORK (AP) - Shoppers showed some spending muscle in July, once summer clearance sales and the hottest July in 50 years got them in the mood.
NEW YORK (AP) - AT&T Inc. has gone on a shopping spree for wireless spectrum, striking three separate deals that should let it increase its capacity for wireless broadband.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Clothing retailer Gap Inc. said Thursday that July sales at stores open at least a year jumped 10 percent, easily surpassing analysts' expectations, and said second-quarter earnings would rise from last year's results.
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SAN JOSE (AP) - Computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. said it won a "tremendous" victory in its court battle to force Oracle Corp. to continue making software for one of its server lines.
NEW YORK (AP) - Ask five strangers to taste five new diet sodas and you might get one opinion: Try again.
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - A new law in Chile aims to take some of the fun out of fast-food by forcing McDonald's, Burger King, KFC and other restaurants to stop including toys and other goodies with children's meals.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Twitter co-founder Biz Stone hopes to demonstrate that a picture can be worth even more than 140 characters of text.
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) - Alan Mulally is staying at Ford.
LAS VEGAS (AP) - After attempts to hawk 3-D and OLED TVs fizzled in recent years, television manufacturers are taking small steps toward making a new technology, Ultra HD, more viable for mainstream consumers.
NEW YORK (AP) - Aereo, a Barry Diller-backed startup that provides broadcast television channels over the Internet for a monthly fee, said Tuesday that it has secured $34 million in additional funding from outside investors.
CUPERTINO ( AP) - Apple says people spent more than $10 billion in its app store last year, on apps such as "Minecraft," ''Angry Birds Star Wars" and "Sleep Cycle" alarm clock.
Apple's iBeacon now in grocery stores
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest maker of TVs, said Monday that it is tackling the problem of getting ultra-high-definition content to its new TV sets by teaming up with the Internet streaming services of Comcast, Netflix and Amazon.
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Dish Network Corp. has unveiled a new digital recorder system that can record eight TV shows at once and can be controlled by voice.
NEW YORK (AP) - Sony has unveiled a waterproof smartphone that sports a 21 megapixel camera and expands what users can do with it underwater.
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Toyota said Monday that it expects to sell more hydrogen-powered electric cars in the U.S. than previously planned.


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One of the most anticipated smartphones of the year has just been announced by Samsung during an event in Barcelona, during the week of Mobile World Congress 2016. The Galaxy S7 Edge has been a device some have been looking forward to for months, and while it doesn't seem to be a radical departure from last year's Galaxy S6 Edge, it definitely has a little more to offer than the Galaxy S7. We've been covering all sorts of news regarding the new launches today, and those looking to catch up can read all about the Galaxy S7 Edge's specs here. For now though, let's take a look at the actual hardware of the device itself.
The Galaxy S7 Edge comes closer to the Galaxy S6 Edge+ from last year in terms of size, featuring a 5.5-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED display. Crucially however, Samsung have packed in a sizeable 3,600 mAh battery, ensuring this larger display doesn't reduce the overall uptime of the device. There are some other subtle changes around the back of the device, with Samsung giving it a pair of curves around the back of the device and further-reducing the camera bump, too. Typically with Samsung devices, the Super AMOLED display here looks great, and the edge now looks a lot more integrated into the overall panel and doesn't feel quite so strange in the hand as last year's model had a tendency to. There's an always-on display mode here as well, making the Galaxy S7 Edge one of the most flexible devices Samsung has ever launched.
On the inside of the Galaxy S7 Edge is a speedy 64-bit octa-core processor, fast-charging, expandable storage, and there's an impressive 4GB of RAM here. In the short time we had with the device, we were impressed with the overall performance, and it does appear as though Samsung have further cleaned up TouchWiz, giving users a familiar experience that's simpler to use and more immediate in use. There's a full gallery below of the Galaxy S7 Edge – including a few side-by-sides of the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 Edge – from the show floor during their event, and we'll hopefully be able to add more images later on in the week.

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Adventure seekers were lined up before the doors opened February 16th for the two-day 2013 Bay Area Travel & Adventure Show at the Santa Clara Convention Center. By a show of hands at Andrew McCarthy’s Saturday presentation, “The Transformative Power of Travel,” almost everyone in the audience already had a passport. They were at the show to find out how to travel smarter and learn about new destinations.
When it comes to travel, one size does not fit all. McCarthy—a “National Geographic Traveler” editor-at-large, the author of the “New York Times” bestselling travel memoir “The Longest Way Home,” and a movie actor—is an advocate of solo travel, believing it’s easier to connect with people that way.
“I’m interested in moments of connection,” McCarthy says. “I say to people, ‘Hi, I speak English. Can you help me?’ I remember the people that I met, not the Picasso.”
“I find the world a much safer place than we’re led to believe,” he adds to allay the fears of the lone traveler. “I travel to find things out, and traveling has been my university.”
“I enjoy seeing what’s new at the show, and Rick Steves is a big draw for me,” says Joe Lawrence from Mountain View.
Steves is the guru of European travel, and those who came late to his Saturday morning presentation were sitting in the aisle and standing two or three deep to hear his take on “Europe through the Back Door,” which is also the title of one of his 30 European travel guidebooks. In the afternoon, Steves talked about Italy, his favorite European country.
“We’re passionate about our guidebooks. The top nine Europe books are ours. Our books are right up to date,” says Steves. “It’s a $20 tool for the trip of a lifetime for the curious traveler who wants a transformational experience.”
Steves promotes small group tours. “For the right sort of person, our tours make a lot of sense. They give you stuff economically and efficiently that you couldn’t do on your own,” he says. “Our local guides are paid up front. No tipping and no kickbacks on shopping. The kind of people who take our tours are fun-loving, easy-going people who become temporary locals.”
You don’t have to take one of Steves’ tours to benefit from his years of travel experience. Visit his website (www.ricksteves.com) for free information, including a free travel app to upload on your electronic devices. A seminar by Web Buzz columnist Jen Leo focused on the best apps for travelers.
The dilemma of attending the show is deciding which of the many seminars to attend, as some are scheduled concurrently. In addition, exhibitors promoted unique travel opportunities throughout California, the U.S., and the world. For example, visit www.intoreexpeditions.com for information on an insight study trip to Rwanda this summer, showcasing its natural beauty and providing the opportunity to meet Dian Fossey’s endangered gorillas.
Hungry? Visit the Culinary Stage. Want entertainment? The Global Beats Stage had continuous dance and music such as Brazilian dance by Capoeira Irmandade, located in Santa Clara. Want action? Climb a rock wall, try an aerial zip line (www.mounthermonadventures.com), ride a Segway (www.segwaysantacruz.com), walk on water inside a Bubble Roller, and get a free massage at the end of a stimulating day at the 2013 Travel &Adventure Show.
“A few show offers are available only here,” says Ron Lee from Oakland. “The show is definitely worth the price of admission.”


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Jewellery brand’s director says retail is proving very challenging.
Scottish jewellery brand Ortak has announced losses of £77,336 in the 12 months to January 2012, according to the Herald Scotland.
The Orkney-based company, which has around 152 staff members, reported a profit of £111,452 in the fiscal year between 2010 and 2011, and has reported the loss despite a slight rise in turnover to £7.3m.
Ortak’s managing director Alistair Gray said that retailers are facing “very challenging” times at present and that 2012 has been an equally though year. “We don’t see any immediate signs of an upturn,” he told the newspaper.
Gray added that the losses were not just affecting Ortak, and that everyone in the jewellery industry is battling against the recession and increase in raw material prices.
Ortak has restructured its share capital, though Gray has stated that no additional money has been injected into the company, and that the move should solely help to distribute equity more evenly.
Ortak is hoping that the Christmas period will help boost sales, nothing that about 40% of its annual turnover is a product of November and December jewellery sales. The brand recently launched its Poppy Scotland collection, timed to coincide with Remebrance Day.
"We have been continuing to invest very heavily in new product. It is easy when times are tough to cut back on investment in design.
"But we have just launched more than 200 designs for the Christmas season and are revamping our displays and merchandising in store,” Gray told the Herald Scotland.


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By Ian Bush
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Google has named a Chester County community as Pennsylvania’s leader in the digital economy. That translates to real-world dollars.READ MORE: Philadelphia Tourism Officials Question Whether Gun Violence Epidemic Will Impact Ability To Attract Visitors
For Exton, it’s all about using the web to its fullest.
“Businesses are embracing the Internet to find new customers or connect with existing customers and really to grow their operations,” Google director of small business engagement Scott Levitan said. For its “eCity” awards, the search and advertising giant looked at how many businesses have a website.READ MORE: Phillies' Bryce Harper Vows To Play Again This Season, But No Date For Return: 'I Will Be Back At Some Point'
“Will that website show up on my mobile phone? Are you using social media?”
And how much the businesses spend on ads on Google. Perhaps more a marketing exercise than a true measurement, then, but Kim Mercadante with the Riverstone Cafe in Exton says she sees a difference in the local economy:
“I think it’s really holding its own. New places are opening up here every day.”MORE NEWS: Philadelphia Police Officer, Montgomery County Sheriff's Deputy Injured In Fourth Of July Parkway Shooting Identified
Bear, DE and Princeton, NJ are Google’s other eCities in our area.


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Cost Firms Approve IPO, with revenues doubling 12 months over 12 months
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Payment company Affirm filed its IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday and plans to trade on the Nasdaq under the symbol “AFRM”.
The San Francisco-based company, founded and run by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, offers online installment loans. Affirm was one of the most popular startups in the field. Earlier this year, it announced a partnership with Shopify that will allow merchants to offer installment loans on products they sell, and it works with 6,500 merchants including Peloton, Expedia, and Walmart.
The eight-year-old company had sales of approximately $ 510 million for the fiscal year ended June 30, an increase of 93% over the previous year. For the three months ended September 30, revenue increased 98% year over year, while net losses decreased approximately half to $ 15.3 million.
Even if they don’t charge interest, Affirm earns a fee for helping a trader sell. On the consumer side, they earn interest income from loans they buy from banking partners. Affirm also earns interest on some consumer loans. The rate they charge varies based on consumer creditworthiness, but often starts at 0%.
Affirm said gross merchandise volume – a key metric in the payments industry – was up 77% year over year. It has more than 6.5 million customers. Around 64% of the loans on Affirm this year were taken out by returning consumers.
The company plans to offer two classes of shares, which is increasingly common among Silicon Valley startups. Class A has one vote while Class B common shares have 15 votes. Max Levchin, the founder, chairman and managing director, will have voting control over the company.
Affirm is one of a wave of startups looking to go public before the end of the year. DoorDash and Airbnb both filed for an IPO within the last week.


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On April 20th, I spent the day in downtown Los Angeles helping Pando Populus with the inaugural JUNK BATTLE! event. The format was a mix between TED-style talks and a design competition with innovations developed by teams from UCLA, ArtCenter College of Design, California Institute of the Arts, and LA Trade Tech College. Teams were competing to see who can create the coolest stuff from big piles of their own institution’s trash. Pretty awesome.
During the half-day event, the teams presented their research, prototypes, and final designs on stage in front of an audience, as well as the judges:
- Ken Bielenberg, computer animation pioneer
- Mark Eckhardt, Chief Executive Officer of COMMON
- David de Rothschild, Adventurer, activist
- Kathy Schlein, entrepreneur and business leader
The judges asked follow-up questions to dig deeper into their teams’ work. At the end of the event, judges picked a winner based on criteria focused on showing a strong understanding of the waste stream from their institutions: the process students used in dealing with and understanding the waste, the end result of their work, and the possibilities for scale.
Throughout the event, speakers came on stage to address various topics around trash, including single-use plastics, LA county’s recycling efforts, a systems-thinking approach for a zero-waste campus, e-waste, and microplastics, just to name a few.
Event speakers included the following:
- Marcus Eriksen, Adventurer, environmentalist, and founder, 5 Gyres
- Bonny Bentzin, Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer, UCLA
- Heather Repenning, VP of the Board of Public Works, City of Los Angeles
- John Bielenberg, founder of the Think Wrong Institute, Future Partners, COMMON and Project M
As a co-founder of a creative studio that helps companies tackling climate change launch creative solutions, I was inspired by what I learned from the speakers and the stories they shared with the crowd. As an adjunct faculty member at CCA, I was excited to see the amount of work that was generated and quality of the final designs, as well as the enthusiasm from all the students involved in JUNK BATTLE!.
Everything is connected
As part of the Pando Populus core team since the start of the non-profit in 2014, I’ve seen the amount of work the organization has done on the ground in LA county and beyond since that time. (Read about our road trip to Pando in the fall of 2017.)
Pando was founded by taking inspiration from the oldest and largest living organism on the planet with the aim to create a more ecologically balanced culture. Since pando the tree is a quaking aspen grove in the middle of Utah that extends over 100 acres from a single rootball, one of the mantras of Pando Populus is “Everything is connected.”
I believe in this mantra. So much that I can’t help but think and see the world with this in mind.
Many of the speakers touched upon ideas and shared stories that fall under this mantra: the broken system in place that sorts trash, how “away” isn’t really “away,” how the materials in products affect supply chains which then affects ecosystems once those products are discarded, how the environmental impacts of plastics in oceans affects sea life and coastlines, and how consumers’ purchases affect the strain of finite resources from the planet.
As speaker Marcus Eriksen put it, “Change the product, Change the system. Change the narrative.”
Young minds and future leaders
What would happen if every design school brought JUNK BATTLE! to the classroom? Onto their campuses? Imagine students, primed for learning and eager to get their hands dirty, getting a first-hand look at their footprint on the world.
Designers produce waste, but what if we were able to change the narrative that we can reverse this, where we can design not just products, but systems that are regenerative.
Climate change is here. There is no stopping it. At this point, the most important thing is for everyone to step up and understand their place in the world, to get a better sense that the things we produce have to go somewhere. And that there are repercussions if that somewhere isn’t considered.
Out of the classroom and into the board rooms
JUNK BATTLE! was created to raise awareness that colleges and universities produce a ton of waste. Perhaps JUNK BATTLE! sets its sights on large companies, local governments, sprawling counties, or other industries such as apparel or electronics.
How might we get the message of JUNK BATTLE! in front of key decision-makers to show them the evidence of how our footprint is affecting other aspects of life in front of them and beyond?
How might we incentivize companies to design products with a cradle-to-cradle approach?
How might we push for city governments to incorporate policy that puts the planet and people before profit?
How might we encourage designers to approach their work through a regenerative mindset?
How might we vote with our dollars so that companies know that consumers want higher-quality, longer lasting products?
And the winner is
The team from LA TradeTech took home the first ever JUNK BATTLE! grand prize award. Their project took a holistic approach to the waste that LATTC generates, creating furniture out of junk cardboard, refurbishing computers that had been thrown away, and creating a system for reusing old concrete for permeable walkways and outdoor structures.
UCLA mounted an exhibit featuring a dozen individual exhibits, including posters about waste, books documenting each designer’s own experience with consumption and the trash it produces, and artifacts ranging from a hat crafted out of glass bottles and pistachio nuts to a piano keyboard refurbished from old computer parts.
CalArts created a blow-out performance piece with percussion instruments crafted out of coffee cups, an homage to the quilting heritage of our grandmothers, and spoken word. The CalArts team rethought their campus based on zero waste and sustainability goals.
ArtCenter aimed through their work to draw attention to the community garden on the Hillside campus, with the aim of revitalizing interest in it. The team’s presentation focused on carefully-crafted herb and garden boxes created from wooden pallets and designed to nest along either side of the landmark campus bridge.
Trophies for the event were made by LA artist Jackie Rabbit – out of junk! – and were a show-stopper all their own.
Mairead Delaney, who produced JUNK BATTLE! for NCompass in collaboration with Valerie Coleman, said, “I was completely blown away by what the schools produced – and by the thought and work the students put into it.”
Judge Kathy Schlein adds, “A number of teams produced prototype-worthy deliverables that could, with some tweaking, become the start of a new enterprise.”
We expect JUNK BATTLE! 2019 to expand considerably out of this prototype event. One local municipality whose Chief Sustainability Officer attended the event is hoping to expand the competition to include teens in her area.
From the individual product designers to large corporations that mine, extract, and use precious (and finite) materials from our planet, to the average consumer, we need to inform, pressure, and change the narrative so that each and every player involved in the designing, mining, and purchasing can make better decisions to ensure a healthier planet for all living species on earth.


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Rebuild in America
Jesse Jackson | 5/15/2009, 9:25 p.m.
An estimated 7.2 million U.S. jobs are dependent on auto manufacturing. These aren't simply jobs in Detroit. Shut down auto production and you don't just lose autoworkers, as Leo W. Gerard, United Steelworkers international president says, you "drive down overall employment, from people to make auto catalogs and shipping boxes to workers making glass for windshields, rubber for tires and other materials."
And many communities will feel the devastation beyond Detroit. "Shreveport is nowhere near Detroit," says Cedric B Glover, the Mayor of Shreveport, La., "but making quality American vehicles . . . has created terrific business opportunities in our community for other manufacturers, auto dealers, advertisers, radio and TV stations and dozens of other local companies." And these companies, the mayor notes, "form the tax base to pay for local services like schools, police and fire departments."
This is why President Obama and Congress stepped in to rescue Chrysler and General Motors from bankruptcy. GM got $15.4 billion in loans from taxpayers, with billions more to come. The U.S. is likely to end up the majority owner of the company. Yet GM is now circulating a document that says that, under its new plans, the number of cars made abroad in low-wage countries and sold in the U.S. will roughly double. We didn't bail out GM so it could profit from moving more jobs to low-wage markets abroad.
Any demand to rebuild in America will immediately unleash cries about protectionism. But protecting American jobs and the American economy is exactly why taxpayers are being asked to save GM.
Moreover, the Europeans don't hesitate to demand conditions on the assistance they give their companies. The Italians provided $1.7 billion in aid to Fiat, but on the condition that the plants stay open in Italy. France loaned $8.5 billion to its big three automakers, but again with pledges to retain plants. "It is my responsibility," says French Primed Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, "to keep jobs in France."
For too long, the U.S. has let multinational companies and banks define our trade policies. So now we import $41.5 billion in cars and light trucks from Japan and $7.5 billion from South Korea. Yet we export only $534 million worth of cars to Japan and $373 million to South Korea. This isn't about taste or quality. They keep their currencies low, and use a range of non-tariff measures to help limit imports. They are committed to sustaining a strong auto industry.
But now we're saving GM and Chrysler, not so their investors can make bigger profits, but so that Americans aren't ravaged by the loss of jobs and the depleting of entire communities. Autoworkers have agreed to unprecedented cutbacks in pay and benefits and retirement protections to keep those jobs here. "The bottom line is, GM would rather pay $2 an hour and it's a slippery slope downward," said Alan Reuther, the UAW's legislative director. "If GM is going to be getting government assistance, they ought to be maintaining their manufacturing footprint in the U.S. rather than going off to China, Mexico and South Korea."


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Over the past decade, the meat-free meat market has exploded. In the old days – aka the ’90s – vegans basically had to choose between salty cardboard and bland cardboard as alternatives to meat. Today, however, plant-based meats – especially ground beef and plant-based burgers – literally bleeding for our attention. But they are all fake meat Equal strong And delicious? I reached out to nutritionists to weigh in on what to look for and what to avoid when buying plant-based meat.
First of all, it is important to remember that fake meat brands and companies are on the market for different reasons. “Some are designed to appeal to meat lovers as a plant-based alternative, with the look and feel of meat,” Maddie Pasquariello, a registered dietitian in Brooklyn, told Mic. really. These are products like the Impossible Burger or the Beyond Burger, which aim to mimic the experience of eating meat as closely as possible. Others are simply designed to be healthy meat alternatives and don’t necessarily taste like meat, cook like meat or even look like meat at all, Pasquariello explains.
So when you’re shopping for plant-based meat alternatives, you should first consider what you want other than imitation meat. Do you want it to look and taste like animal meat, providing a good source of protein and other nutrients, go for it. good for the environmentor some combination?
The best butchers also tend to be the most processed.
If you are looking for the most meat-like experience, the Impossible Burger and Beyond Burger are the top ones and they have the added benefit of being greener Dana Ellis Hunnes, a registered dietitian in Los Angeles, assistant professor at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, and author of Recipe for Survival: What You Can Do to Live a Healthier and Eco-Friendly Life, tell Mic. “Beyond and Impossible burgers taste delicious but are higher in processed products that are higher in saturated fat,” she said. That doesn’t mean they aren’t good for you, but Hunnes advises against making them a daily staple.
Plant-based meats made from whole foods are more nutritious.
“Typically, the most nutritious plant-based meats you will find will be those made with simple whole ingredients,” says Pasquariello. She recommends reading labels to make sure what you buy contains limited fiber, protein, and additives.
And, Hunnes notes, you should be especially vigilant about the sodium and fat content. “[Plant-based meats] are still a highly processed food, and they often have a lot of added sodium, and depending on the brand, a lot of saturated fat,” she explains.
If you are not educated on how to read the name of food, Pasquariello has some advice. “Try to look for plant-based meat alternatives that contain at least 8-10g of protein per serving (or more – some provide up to 20-30g), with at least 5g of fiber per serving and 300mg sodium or less per serving,” she says.
But don’t just focus on nutritional content; look at the ingredients, too. “Ingredients that sound like an actual food tend to be less processed and healthier than those that are highly processed and hard to spot,” says Hunnes.
The plant-based meats recommended by nutritionists can come as a surprise.
One of Pasquariello’s favorites is the brand’s black bean burgers Realistic vegetables. “They are high in protein, as well as fiber, and have no saturated fat. The ingredients list is simple, they’re high in vitamin A and magnesium, while being relatively low in sodium — a lot of money for you,” she says. While they may be a relatively unknown option, a quick search reveals them to be in the refrigeration section of some grocery stores, as well as some online market.
Hunnes likes Dr. Praeger .’s Perfect Burgers Best because they contain recognizable ingredients and have a healthier nutritional profile than a lot of processed foods. In fact, many of the dozens of nutritionists I contacted for this article said these veggie burgers were their favorites, citing the good balance between flavor and aroma. taste and nutrition. To be honest, I was surprised by this; I have been a vegetarian for decades and have never tried these. The packaging looks a bit medical and I am always skeptical about products packaged under the doctor’s name – nuances of Dr. Atkin’s – but it just goes to show that you can’t judge a burger by its exterior.
You probably shouldn’t eat plant-based meat every day.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you shouldn’t eat meat with every meal, even if it’s plant-based. “I would have a hard time saying that any vegan burger is a healthy food,” says Hunnes. “Most of them are not a healthy food, they are not necessarily healthy foods either. They are an eco-friendly and humane food, and as a vegan, from those two aspects, I recommend using vegan meat as a ‘treat’ food. or once-a-week food, rather than daily food – but animal meats should not be a daily food. ”


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Scientists draw out all-natural meat flavors from mushrooms
Tuesday 20 September 2011
All-natural, vegetarian meat-flavored food products made from mushrooms could satisfy carnivores without harming the earth - or laying a finger on any bovine beasts.
At a time when environmentalists and health authorities are mounting loud, vocal campaigns to reduce the amount of red meat consumption, scientists are mining the potential of mushrooms to produce natural "meaty" flavors, cow-free.
After fermenting oyster mushrooms with the addition of amino acids and sugars and heat-treating the different samples, scientists from the US and China found that the mushrooms produced flavor profiles that ranged from meaty, sweet, earthy, musty, pungent and caramel.
In their study, published online in the International Journal of Food Science & Technology last week and reported by FoodNavigator.com, researchers at the University of Arkansas called their findings a first: while previous studies were able to demonstrate the formation of volatile compounds from edible mushrooms, the production and isolation of meaty flavor compounds has never been reported, they wrote.
The findings could have significant implications in the food industry as a meat flavor enhancer which is all-natural and convincing.
"Nearly 80 percent of the flavours and fragrances used world-wide are produced chemically ... However, the increasing health and nutrition-conscious lifestyle trend globally, warrant the use of natural flavours in foods," researchers wrote. "Consumers prefer natural flavours to synthesized flavours."
Attaining the right flavor balance is also extremely important for food manufacturers in order to be able to pass the product off as an acceptable replacement for consumer palates, they added.
Red meat has been suffering a bad rap recently. Health authorities have been sounding the alarm about the health risks of eating too much meat, including the increased risk of cancer and heart disease; a rising middle class in China and India is pushing up consumption to potentially unsustainable rates; and environmentalists vilify this food group as the bane of Mother Nature's existence.
Meanwhile, in the race to create man-made, laboratory meat and make it commercially available, an international panel of scientists met earlier this month to establish an MO outlining common positions and attract funding.
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- Land Rover has officially released images of the 2013 Range Rover and has also let the world know that it is now much lighter than before. It is mated to an eight-speed gearbox as standard and has 12cm added to the legroom, most of it in the rear. Has the best SUV in the world just got better? Click Here for More
- Mercedes-Benz has officially discontinued the ultra-premium brand, Maybach. Although no official press release has been issued; the company released the price list for its 2013 models in which the Maybach column simply says ‘discontinued’. Click Here for More
- The Range Rover Evoque has been one of the most successful models for the Tata-owned luxury brand. Land Rover has already sold over 88,000 units in more than 170 countries since July 2011 and has now upped the production to cut waiting period for the smallest Range Rover. For the first time JLR will run its Halewood’s facility around the clock with addition of 1,000 new employees to build the Evoque and Freelander 2. Click Here for More
- Our friends at OnCars have caught the Ssangyong Rexton W testing in India. This car, which was unveiled at the 2012 Busan Motor Show in Korea, is a refreshed version of the Rexton II. Mahindra may launch this car in India by the end of this year or early 2013 to compete with SUVs like the Toyota Fortuner, Ford Endeavour, Hyundai Santa Fe and others. Click Here for More
- The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission have issued a recall of 23,000 Chinese vehicles made by Great Wall and Chery. The commission confirmed that the engine and exhaust gaskets of these cars contained asbestos (carcinogen), which is prohibited in Australia. The companies have been directed to stop selling affected cars and owners have warned from performing do-it-yourself repairs with these parts.
- Porsche will debut a new wagon concept of the Panamera at the Paris Motor Show in September. The model will be used to judge reaction and may be built in future as another high volume product in next couple of years.
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The decline of the cashier began when supermarkets started installing self-scanners at checkout lines. That technology, however, was always aimed at people buying just a few items, not those with full shopping carts.
Going cashier-free (or at least drastically cutting the number of cashiers) has become a growing trend in retail establishments . Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) tried to lead the way with its Amazon Go convenience store concept, where customers are automatically charged for their purchases, and don’t need to scan anything, nor stop in a checkout line at all. After some technical setbacks, it appears the first couple of stores not on an Amazon campus will soon open in Chicago.
More traditional retailers have not gone anywhere near that far, of course, but the idea cashier-free checkout lines has gained favor with a growing number of chains, including Walmart‘s (NYSE: WMT) Sam’s Club and Dollar General (NYSE: DG). In addition, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is developing software that will allow retailers to go cashier-free.
What’s happening in retail?
Reducing the number of cashiers a store needs — or even eliminating them altogether — allows retailers both to cut labor costs and to reallocate staff to the task of assisting customers elsewhere in the store. Those are no small matters at a time when many major chains have been raising wages in an effort to find and retain quality staff as low unemployment rates have shrunk their available labor pool.
Amazon’s Go is the most hands-off model possible. The Microsoft technology, which the company has discussed with Walmart, would work in a similar manner, according to Reuters.
Walmart is using a scaled-back version of that system at some Sam’s Club locations, including a prototype small-format store in Dallas. This technology, embedded in the Sam’s Club app, allows customers to scan the barcodes of the items they’re buying as they shop. Payment is handled through the app; when they finish shopping, they simply show their e-receipt at the door and leave.
Dollar General is testing similar technology in 10 of its stores. Its DG Go app allows customers to scan items with their phones as they go, then complete their purchases at a self-checkout lane. That test will expand to 100 stores in the second quarter, according to remarks made by CEO Todd Vasos during the chain’s Q1 earnings call.
Target (NYSE: TGT) has taken a more measured approach. Thus far, it has only expanded the number of self-checkout lanes at some of its stores.
Walmart, it should be noted, tried Scan & Go at its namesake stores, but has dropped the effort there, Supermarket News reported. Now, the chain is testing “Checkout with Me,” which decentralizes the process. Store employees with mobile devices will be able to scan purchases and take digital payments anywhere in the store, according to the trade magazine.
What does this mean?
In 2016, 3.5 million American workers held the job of retail cashier, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That number has likely fallen given the numerous closures of chains including Toys R Us and H.H. Gregg, and the ongoing shrinkage of others such as Sears and Payless.
The return of a modicum of wage growth and the difficulty of filling openings due to a tighter labor market are giving large retailers strong reasons to pursue this technology. Once it becomes familiar to consumers — and presumably, popular — others chains will follow.
Expect it to follow a similar adoption arc to the one mobile ordering has charted in restaurants. Giant Starbucks led the way, others followed, and now offering app-based ordering and payment has become an industry standard.
Cashiers probably won’t vanish entirely at most stores, but their numbers will shrink considerably. The advantages of switching to higher-tech solutions in terms of cost and customer convenience simply make it illogical for retailers to keep using people in many of these positions when the resources required — both human and financial — could be better deployed elsewhere.
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So far, investors have been pretty displeased by Apple's recent iPhone update. By the close of trading on Monday, Apple shares had fallen to just $450, more than 10% below where they stood a week earlier.
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Apple's fall seems to be largely a reaction to the company's decision to charge $549 for the unlocked iPhone 5c in the U.S. (and more in most foreign countries). Investors are particularly worried that Apple will struggle to grow without a cheaper iPhone.
However, these concerns are overblown. In fact, Apple's pullback over the past week has created a great buying opportunity for investors who missed out on the stock's summer run-up.
Reasons for panic
Most of the investment community was blindsided by Apple's decision to introduce the iPhone 5c at a premium price point, rather than making it an entry-level phone. Many analysts are now worried that iPhone sales will fall short of their prior estimates, due to the lack of a $300-$400 iPhone.
The iPhone 5c turned out to be more expensive than most analysts expected (Photo: Apple)
If anything, the initial downbeat reaction has been increased by the apparently slow pace of iPhone 5c pre-orders. Apple began taking iPhone 5c pre-orders last Friday, and most colors and options are still available for delivery this Friday (the release date).
Moreover, Apple did not release a pre-order total on Monday, as it has generally done for recent iPhone launches. Analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray believes that customers may have pre-ordered 1 million iPhone 5cs in the first 24 hours of availability, far less than the 2 million iPhone 5 pre-orders achieved in the first 24 hours last year.
Don't sweat the demand
There are a few reasons why investors should take all of these findings with a grain of salt. First, the iPhone 5s -- Apple's new top-of-the-line model -- hasn't even been available for pre-order. Devoted Apple fans are more likely to want the 5s rather than its less-powerful sibling. In the U.S., the $100 price difference between the two models is not a big stumbling block, compared to the overall cost of smartphone service.
Second, some analysts have pointed out that iPhone 5 supplies were very tight initially, due to manufacturing challenges. By contrast, the iPhone 5c's plastic casing and similarity to the iPhone 5 have probably helped Apple avoid similar supply constraints. In other words, it's not necessarily a bad thing that the iPhone 5c is still in stock.
Finally, many smartphone users in the U.S. -- still the largest iPhone market by far -- upgrade every two years. Since the iPhone 4S was released in October of 2011, much of the U.S. upgrade demand may be pushed out to October and thereafter. By contrast, the iPhone 4 was released in June 2010, so last year there were plenty of people who had already reached the two-year mark and were ready to upgrade when the iPhone 5 was released in September.
It's also worth noting that Apple's new agreement with Japan's largest wireless carrier, NTT DoCoMo, opens up a large new market. Apple is already the leading smartphone vendor in Japan, and this partnership should further entrench Apple there. A deal with China Mobile, the largest carrier on the planet with over 700 million subscribers, is probably not far behind.
Thus, the apparently negative demand data that has trickled out over the last week is not so clear-cut. This is not the first time that Apple-watchers have predicted doom, and so far iPhone sales growth has continued. Therefore, I am inclined to give Apple the benefit of the doubt for now.
On the flip side, as I wrote last week, Apple's new iPhone strategy should be very good for the company's margins. The iPhone 5s maintains the iPhone 5 form factor, which should help Apple avoid a repeat of the spike in production costs seen last fall. Moreover, the iPhone 5c is cheaper to produce than the now-retired iPhone 5, because it uses a plastic casing.
One potential hiccup is that yields for the iPhone 5s fingerprint sensor have been low so far. This could weigh on Apple's gross margin, but more importantly could impose severe supply constraints for several months.
Foolish bottom line
If Apple can ramp production effectively this fall (which primarily means improving yields of the fingerprint sensors), the company should be able to return to solid earnings growth. Last year's drop in margin creates relatively easy comparable earnings figures for Apple to beat.
The margin benefits of Apple's current strategy -- compared to the alternative of releasing a cheaper iPhone -- give Apple the ability to grow EPS even without rapid sales growth. This fact seems to have been overlooked amid all of the panic-selling in the past week. (Moreover, iPhone 5s supply seems more likely to be a constraint on sales than tepid demand.)
Apple trades at around eight times expected fiscal year 2014 earnings, if you subtract its substantial cash reserves. This sort of valuation is only appropriate for a broken company. Savvy investors should therefore view Apple's recent drop as a good buying opportunity.
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The only people who know how to properly fold clothes are those who have experience working in retail. And the only people who like folding clothes don’t actually exist. It’s a necessary evil on par with standing in line at the DMV to get your driver’s license renewed, but like almost every task these days, you may soon be able to enlist the services of a robot to do the damn thing for you. International researchers have programmed a dual-armed machine to fold a pile of laundry, according to Mashable.
In the video below, you’ll see the giant robot devised by a team of researchers from the U.K., Czech Republic, and Greece. The massive machine is designed to isolate and pick up a single garment from a pile of crumpled clothes, recognize its category (as well as its color and shape), unfold the piece of clothing, place it flat on a table, spread it out, and fold it in several steps. “To our knowledge,” the researchers write, “this is the first work addressing the complete unfolding and folding pipeline on a variety of garments, including T-shirts, towels, and shorts.”
There’s no denying that it’s freaking cool, but as Mashable points out, it’s also ridiculously slow:
That means you’re probably not going to be able to bring one of these bad boys home any time soon—and even if you could, where the hell would you put it?—so in the meantime, you might as well learn the easiest, most effective way to fold a dress shirt.


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The e-way bill was first implemented on February 1. The portal had crashed within a few hours then leading to a halt in billing.
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The principal chief of the Cherokee Nation has asked Jeep to stop using the tribe’s name on its SUVs.
The Jeep Grand Cherokee is the brand’s best-selling model, while the Jeep Cherokee is its third best-selling. Jeep recently unveiled a redesigned version of the Grand Cherokee, and the company has sold SUVs under the Cherokee brand name for about 45 years.
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President of Global Pulse Confederation
“Pulses truly are the food of the future. They are the future of food because they provide phenomenal nutrition. With the pandemic causing new concerns about food supply chains, we expect more consumers to turn to plant-based proteins. And pulses will increasingly be the source for new plant-based products. From plant-based meats to pea-milk, snack foods and pet foods, we are really in the early stages of uncovering the true market potential of pulses.”
We have an important guest for Miller Magazine’s August issue: Ms. Cindy Brown, the President of Global Pulse Confederation (GPC). GPC is the peak body of the global pulse industry. It represents all segments of the pulse industry value chain from growers, researchers, logistics suppliers, traders, exporters and importers to government bodies, multilateral organizations, processors, canners and consumers. The GPC is the sole international confederation for the pulses industry, facilitating free and fair trade and increasing production and consumption of pulse crops worldwide. It has 24 national association members and over 500 private company members.
Ms. Brown was elected GPC President in June 2019. She leads an Executive Committee of over 30 international members. She answered Miller Magazine’s questions on the mission of the GPC, the importance of pulses in terms of world food security, and Covid-19 impact on the pulses market. She said COVID-19 has had a significant impact on pulses markets. “The billions of people around the world who have been in lockdown have become more conscious of the foods they are eating, and many are seeking out healthy, shelf-stable foods like pulses. With the pandemic causing new concerns about food supply chains, we expect more consumers to turn to plant-based proteins. And pulses will increasingly be the source for new plant-based products.” she comments. She expects that the global consumption of pulses will increase a minimum of 10% versus 2019. As the first woman President of the Global Pulse Confederation, Ms. Brown encourages more women to become involved in agriculture and the pulses industry.
Ms. Brown, first of all, I want to thank you for accepting our interview request…Could you please tell us about your background? How did you get into the pulse industry?
My background is in agriculture. I grew up on the family farm and have been involved with the business since I was a kid really. In fact, I am still living in the house I grew up, which sits at the entrance to Chippewa Valley Bean. My father, Russell Doane, was the first President of Chippewa Valley Bean Company, and grew our first crop of kidney beans in 1969. I took over as President at Chippewa Valley Bean 10 years ago. And, I am proud to say that during that time we have grown the company by more than 200%. And I am equally proud that in June 2019, I became the first woman President of the Global Pulse Confederation.
Could you give us some information about the Global Pulse Confederation? What is the mission of GPC?
GPC has served the global pulse industry for more than 50 years. GPC has 24 national association members and over 500 private company members. GPC has a mission to create greater awareness and consumption of pulses, to enhance food security and environmental sustainability, and to improve market information and international market access for the benefit of the global pulse industry and pulse consumers.
‘WE ARE IN THE EARLY STAGES OF UNCOVERING THE TRUE MARKET POTENTIAL OF PULSES’
You define the pulses as “future of food”. Why do you think so?
Yes, pulses truly are the “food of the future.” They are the future of food because they provide phenomenal nutrition. Research shows that populations that regularly consume pulses are shown to live longer. They are a low fat, high fibre sources of protein that are full of vitamins and minerals.
And pulse fractions – particularly pulse proteins – are the up and coming stars of the food manufacturing sector.
From plant-based meats to pea-milk, snack foods and pet foods, we are really in the early stages of uncovering the true market potential of pulses. And equally important, increased production and consumption of pulses helps address climate change because they have a low carbon footprint, enrich the soil and use less water than other major sources of protein.
Do you think the world knows the nutritional benefits of pulses? What is GPC doing to raise awareness on this issue?
In 2019, nearly 900 million people suffered from serious malnutrition. At the same time, 600 million people were categorized as obese and 2 billion overweight. So, clearly the world’s leaders do not understand enough about the nutritional and health benefits of pulses. But GPC and its members have made tremendous progress in this area. The International Year of Pulses was a major achievement and helped bring much-needed attention to the nutritional benefits of pulses. And now with World Pulses Day taking place each February 10, we have a great annual opportunity, along with our partner UN FAO, to remind the world of the tremendous nutritional and other benefits of pulses.
How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected the pulse markets?
COVID-19 has had a significant impact on pulses markets. The billions of people around the world who have been in lockdown have become more conscious of the foods they are eating, and many are seeking out healthy, shelf-stable foods like pulses. Consumer demand for bulk, packaged and canned pulses has been particularly strong. However, there has also been a decrease in demand in certain sectors such as hotel, restaurant and institutional (HRI) trade.
The number of people who are vegans or flexitarian is growing. The plant-based meat made from pulses is becoming popular. Can you share some information on the growing plant-based protein market and your opinion about its future?
In the U.S., the annual retail food market grew only 2.2 percent in 2019, according to industry trade groups. However, according to the Plant Based Foods Association, plant-based foods sales increased by over 11 percent in the same period. Plant-based meats sales in U.S. have performed particularly well over the past few months. IRI retail sales data shows that plant-based meat experienced triple-digit sales growth—compared to the same weeks in 2019 but were particularly high in March due to pantry stocking.
Do you think the pandemic could lead to stepping up consumer demand in plant-based protein?
Yes, we expect the pandemic will result in increased consumer demand for plant-based proteins. Even before the pandemic, the plant-based protein market size was projected to grow from USD 10.3 billion in 2020 to USD 14.5 billion by 2025. With the pandemic causing new concerns about food supply chains, we expect more consumers to turn to plant-based proteins. And pulses will increasingly be the source for new plant-based products.
Can you share GPC’s forecast for global pulse production and consumption for this year?
We do not have precise numbers available as pulse crop production is still underway in the Northern hemisphere countries. We expect to see an increase in the production of lentils, faba beans, colored beans, white beans and black beans. Dry pea production is expected to remain relatively flat. Global kabuli chickpeas production is expected to drop in response to excess inventories from prior years. On the demand side, we expect that global consumption of pulses will increase a minimum of 10% versus 2019. For some pulses such as beans, the increase in demand would likely be even higher but it is constrained by a lack of inventories.
Which regions or countries do you see as potential new markets for pulses? In which countries/regions is the demand for pulses increasing?
The Asia Pacific region is expected to experience the highest annual growth rate in terms of the plant-based protein market. The young demographics in many parts of the Asian Pacific and growing interest in plant-based products have resulted in manufacturers expanding their scope in the region. We expect much of the new demand for pulses will come as a result of product innovations and globalization of eating habits. Let me give you an example. In Japan, there is not a history of eating pulses in savory dishes. However, relatively recently western-style hotdogs with chili beans were introduced at thousands of 7-Eleven stores throughout Japan. And Starbucks introduced Tex-Mex wraps with beans at their Japan stores. As we increasingly see a broad array of new products featuring pulses such as alt-milks, yogurts, snack foods and even seafood, we will find great potential in not just Asia but all global markets.
The USA is one of the top pulses exporters. I wonder how Americans interest in pulse consumption in their diets. What can you say about the pulse consumption trend in the USA?
Per capita pulse consumption has increased significantly in the United States but much of that increase has been driven by value-added products rather than traditional home cooking. Products with chickpeas are super popular right now with hummus, pulse-based pastas and chickpea snacks all experiencing incredible growth over the past several years. In addition, as the Hispanic population in U.S. continues to grow, we have seen more Hispanic style products with black and pintos beans being offered by large food manufacturers. Lastly, the pea fractions market is growing astronomically as evidenced by the number of new products and manufacturing facilities.
Is there anything you would like to add?
Personally, I want to encourage more women to become involved in agriculture and the pulses industry. It is a great profession with limitless potential. In terms of global markets, I want to make sure that national associations and individual company members continue to work closely with GPC to maintain market access for pulses and advocate for great inclusion of pulses in diets. And in terms of health and nutrition, I want to help spread the word to governments that including pulses in food distribution programs is a great investment as it will lead to better health of their citizenry and lower healthcare costs.


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Google losing the antitrust lawsuit brought by Epic Games concerning the Play Store will have far-reaching implications for the mobile app economy.
The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.
In the jury’s view, Epic showed a “preponderance of evidence [that] Google willfully acquired or maintained monopoly power by engaging in anticompetitive conduct” regarding both the Android app distribution market and Android in-app billing services for digital goods and services transactions in worldwide markets, exclusive of China.
Why did Google lose when Apple won? And what does the ruling mean for the app economy? Let’s explore.
A difference in openness
Turning the clock back, the differences between Epic’s case against Apple and Google were clear to some. In a reasonable victory lap, technology and markets analyst Ben Thompson reminded folks that he pointed out the critical difference between the two cases years ago. In his view, Apple offered a fully closed ecosystem, while Google proffered its own with a veneer of openness, belied by the company’s deals with OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) who built the hardware that its mobile operating system ran on, making the twin suits far from identical.


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Local floral shop Just Roses said between yesterday and today they will make over 250 floral deliveries.
Drivers pack up their trucks with about 20 different arrangements and then hit the road.
Top three delivery spots are offices, schools and hospitals.
The drivers have to be quick too. Mike Mcalerney from Just Roses is on the move once he gets to his destination.
Mcalerney said he will stop at the shop to re-load about three times throughout the day.
He said his delivery role is small compared to the work everyone else is putting in back at the shop.
Inside the florists are working non-stop to get the arraignments together for delivery and the customers inside the shop.
The shop was a popular place for men today.
Never less than 10 in the shop at once picking out flowers.
In the floral world it's all hands on deck to spread the love on Valentiine's Day.
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12, founded by Halsey Minor, who also founded News.com publisher CNET Networks, has been engaged in a struggle with some of its financial backers, which include Netscape Communications co-founder Marc Andreessen and Angel Investors chief Ron Conway.
Officials for 12 Entrepreneuring were not immediately available for comment.
There had been complaints 12 was spending too much money in relation to the return it was getting on its investments. 12 will refund some of its remaining money to its backers, sources confirmed.
The company, which launched in February 2000, had raised $137 million over the past 18 months. The money was invested in Web services companies, including Grand Central, Oxygen Software and iBuilding, which has since gone out of business.
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Norwich retail crime crackdown thwarts thieves
Norwich is not a soft touch for thieves - that is the message police chiefs have issued after a successful crackdown on retail crime in the city after a fall in shoplifting.
Figures show that increased police patrols and closer working between police and shop workers, has helped thwart thieves operating in the Heartsease and Thorpe Hamlet neighbourhood.
Between December and March offences fell to 36 - 10 fewer crimes than the previous four-month period.
In the months of November and December, 19 crimes were recorded compared to 29 for the same months the previous year.
The issue was adopted as a priority by the Heartsease and Thorpe Hamlet Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNT) in November.
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SNT Sgt Julie Johnson said: 'Shoplifting costs businesses millions of pounds in lost revenue every year - a cost that gets ultimately passed on to the public.
'Norwich is not a soft touch for thieves and we hope this period of intense activity has helped raise the profile of additional crime prevention measures that can be taken.'
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Working with local retailers, the SNT carriedout a number of actions. These included:
High visibility and undercover police patrols in hot spot areas.
A series of impact days - high visibility police work targeting Anglia Square.
Promotion of existing Shop Watch schemes to improve communication between shops and police, warning of known shoplifters in the area.
Pro-active policing at stores frequented by thieves.
High-profile Christmas crime prevention campaign.
For further information being carried out by the team to address local crime and anti-social behaviour concerns visit www.norfolk.police.uk
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As 2009 sneaks its way into the annals of history, many are taking this time of year to join for the holidays or reflect on the year that was. As the most measurable, social year in human history, the tools of 2009 showed us how fast something can catch on, who is talking about what and how small the world has become. In that spirit, we have created some data visualizations to show how Christmas buzz is taking shape and what products are being talked about on the web.
Christmas, though confined to a day or two in December, is a buzz term all year long, with an escalation of thousands per day starting in the Fall and ratcheting up to a fever pitch as the holiday grows closer. Though we haven’t seen the full spike mature yet, tweets containing either the term “xmas” or “Christmas’ are now nearing 20,000 per hour or over 300 per minute.
Compare this to last year when we showed a very similar graph and tweets for “Christmas” were topping out at 40k per day and you’ll get a sense of how much Twitter has exploded in 2009.
Since November 1, Google News is showing 111,493 new results and a massive 106 million new blog results for the term “Christmas”, driven in part by the indexing of tweets, as the search giant makes a meaningful move into the real-time future.
As the social web matured this year, photo and video sharing has become second nature to many. With more smartphones and applications making this type of engagement possible, expect to see these sectors flourishing in 2010. Notice below, videos tagged “Christmas” on YouTube pushed the video portal to its public API return max for a tag to 1 million by mid-December.
President Obama is one of the most talked about people on Twitter year round, but in this season, he and Santa duel for prominence in the public’s mind.
In the epic battle of love vs. hate, there is a clear winner on Twitter this holiday season.
An important trend for 2010, as recently described by Pete Cashmore, is location-based social networking. And in the spirit of special sharing, here is a new feature set we at Wiredset are rolling out with Trendrr for the very first time: Data surrounding “check-ins” on Foursquare. Here’s a sample look at possible holiday activity in the Big Apple, as shown in “check-ins” per day.
And where are the “Twitterati” spending their shopping time? This graph, first shown by Jennifer Van Grove in a piece on Black Friday, shows how the rest of the heavy shopping season buzz panned out — with Amazon staying on top of giant retailers on Twitter.
Here is a look at Twitter buzz for two personal devices that captured America’s attention, harnessed imagination, and drove innovation in 2009. To put the buzz in perspective, most TV shows get less than 5,000 tweets per week. This shows the conversation levels per day.
With an average of over 100 million blog results returned for a typical Google search, iPhone is clearly the hottest blog topic in the smartphone category. Here’s a look at some others in the blog space.
10. Video Games
The multi-billion dollar gaming industry is here to stay and will be a staple this holiday season in many homes. You can see the peaks driven by a flurry of new game announcements this fall, followed by a look at how new games are fairing on Amazon.
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Xpediator has welcomed Jonathan Wright to the Group’s operational board as chief operating officer UK logistics.
Wright joined the Taygroup 2002, which was bought by Bibby Distribution in 2010, working his way up to the position of managing director. He is also an investor and commercial director of Xpediator’s start-up business Delamode Distribution.
“Having worked with Jonathan for the past 5 years, I have seen first-hand the sector knowledge and business development capabilities he brings. So I am delighted he will be leading all our UK logistics activity, as I am confident Jonathan’s drive and skillset will prove highly valuable,” commented Xpediator chief executive Stephen Blyth.


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Problems with its new distribution center continue to plague Victoria’s Secret Direct. Because integration issues in the DC are preventing the women’s apparel merchant from meeting expected volume, it is reducing catalog circulation to suppress demand.
As a result, its sales could fall by as much as $150 million in the fourth quarter, according to officials of parent company Limited Brands.
The Reynoldsburg, OH-based DC, which opened in August, includes such bells and whistles as high-bay reserve storage capability, dynamic location picking systems, high-speed multiple staging conveyor systems, and hand-held and laser-reading scanning technology.
But ramping up the facility to full capacity has taken longer than anticipated, and the business is suffering.
Sales at Victoria’s Secret Direct plunged 64% in August because of shipping delays. The division rebounded in September as revenue grew 27% and October sales rose 5%. But Limited Brands says October sales were driven by record-breaking redemptions of a $25 discount apology offer sent to customers who experienced problems due to the DC operational issues.
Tammy Roberts Myers, Limited Brands’ associate vice president of external communications, says the company has “taken steps to control demand in order to protect our customers’ experience with Victoria’s Secret Direct.”
Those steps include reducing catalog and e-mail circulation; getting rid of shipping incentives; eliminating the November clearance Web window; and cutting other planned promotions and marketing related to Victoria’s Secret Direct business.
“We have not quantified our reductions externally,” Myers adds. “The duration of these changes will depend on demand and our ability to take care of our customers going forward as we make improvements in our new distribution center.”
Limited Brands posted a 48% drop in its third-quarter profit as interest expense ate into the retailer’s bottom line. The company said on Nov. 20 that it recorded earnings of $12.1 million, or 3 cents a share, in the quarter ended Nov. 3, compared with $23.5 million in the same period last year. Third-quarter sales fell 9%, to $1.92 billion, compared to $2.11 billion in the same period last year. Same-store sales decreased 3%.
What exactly are the problems with the new DC? “The issue is the unique combination and integration of the systems and processes we are using in the new DC, against the high unit velocity, SKU diversity, and scale in our direct business,” Myers says. “No one has done it in exactly this way on this scale with this particular mix of applications.”


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The world is currently facing a very crucial situation. The pandemic resulted due to the spread of the COVID-19 virus has affected the whole world to go downhill causing various problems in many sectors. However, the introduced vaccines have gained the potential to mitigate the spread of the virus to a certain extent. Today, we at BuzyFeed are going to reveal the Samsung device holders a piece of interesting news related to the vaccination process.
Samsung Pay is a mobile payment and digital wallet service by Samsung Electronics that lets users make payments using compatible phones and other Samsung-produced devices. Samsung devices that support Samsung Pay are now given the ability to store the digital version of the COVID – 19 vaccination cards. Some countries have already issued a regulation saying that if the citizens do not have the COVID – 19 vaccination cards with them, they are not permitted to enter public places. So, this is a very timely necessity for people around the world. Samsung has introduced this process by having a partnership with healthcare nonprofit The Common Project. Users are supposed to download the CommonHealth App which is freely available at the Google Play Store. After that, you have to follow the given instructions properly to get the COVID -19 vaccine record from participating pharmacies, health systems, and health providers. When users gain the access to their COVID-19 credentials via the CommonHealth app, users are given the opportunity to add it to their Samsung Pay Wallet. So, when you reach the Samsung Pay app home page, you will see the Covid-19 Vaccine Pass.
However, for locations such as restaurant, offices or any other place where they don’t accept the digital form of you vaccination card, you may have to provide the paper version of your vaccination card. When analyzing the mobile payment market share of Apple and Samsung, Apple dominates. So, the probability of people using Samsung’s digital wallet is comparatively less. This concept of digital vaccine cards is embraced by the world gradually. Last June Google introduced an Android built-in passes system for Android users to store their digital vaccine card on their phone. Some states of America also have introduced this digital vaccine card for their residents. However, no one can deny the fact that digital vaccine cards are much easy to handle than paper form. It also contributes to reducing the spread of the virus as well.
Folks! That’s it for today! Let’s meet soon with another interesting article.


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Hero MotoCorp on Monday announced a partnership with U.S. premium electric motorcycle and powertrain maker Zero Motorcycles to develop high-end electric motorcycles. The collaboration comes as the local two-wheeler maker is targeting electric motorcycles and high-end products. Hero MotoCorp’s ambitions to move upmarket aren’t new, and with the advent of electric vehicles, the company is setting its sights on the premium electric motorcycle category.
An official statement from Hero MotoCorp said the partnership will combine Zero’s expertise in developing powertrains and electric motorcycles with the Indian company’s manufacturing, sourcing and marketing scale. The partnership follows Hero MotoCorp’s $60 million investment in Zero Motorcycles in September 2022. The partnership means that Hero can sell Zero Motorcycles in India through its vast dealer network, while the US company can manufacture its products locally in India.
Also read: What’s it like to ride a Joy Mihos electric scooter?
Speaking of this partnership, Hero MotoCorp Chairman and CEO Pawan Munjal embarked on a journey into the era of sustainable and clean mobility technology. “Our partnership with Zero Motorcycles is an important milestone in our journey towards an era of sustainable clean technology in mobility. With Zero as our partner, we look forward to accelerating the transformation of electric vehicles in India and our global markets,” said Munjal explain.
Zero Motorcycles CEO Sam Paschel said both companies are committed to changing the riding experience and bringing great innovations to the world. “With these shared passions, we look forward to delivering exceptional value, performance and fun to our customers,” he said.
However, despite the announced partnership, neither company has revealed anything about their product strategy. Interestingly, Hero MotoCorp launched its first e-scooter Vida V1 a few days ago, a premium electric two-wheeler, marking the local brand’s entry into the EV segment.
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Infrastructure hydrogen is steadily powering a revolution in motoring. Whereas global sales of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles currently stand at around 3,000 a year, toyota has said that it expects more than 30,000 hydrogen vehicles to be sold annually.
Toyota is aiming at building 30,000 hydrogen fuel cell cars by 2020.”.
Hydrogen cars uk 2020. It has some heavyweight backing, with toyota for instance. The hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (fcev), which simply runs on pressurised hydrogen from a fuelling station, produces zero carbon emissions from its exhaust. Find out how technology and infrastructure is developing as we look to the future with hydrogen.
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Renault megane tce 140 rs line 2020 uk review. Hugo spowers, chief engineer and founder of riversimple, poses for a photograph with one of his company's hydrogen powered 'rasa' cars in llandgynidr, near brecon in wales on november 23, 2020. There are many benefits to owning hydrogen cars.
Hydrogen for cars is a stillborn idea due to the fact that the vast majority of it is produced by burning fosils. Both electric and hydrogen cars are crucial for future. Hydrogen has long been touted as the future for passenger cars.
Working out relative running costs depends on what you are paying for fuel. 1 click here for an interactive map of the country's hydrogen filling stations. From crossovers to 100% electric vehicles, drive into the future today.
Discover toyota mirai, the future of hydrogen cars. As hydrogen cars have been a relatively new concept to the public they are starting at a fairly high price. We predict that by 2020 we will see a massive drop in price as the need for fuel cell cars grows.
Renault megane tce 140 rs line 2020 uk review. South korea's hyundai claims to be the current world leader, selling 5,000 units of its nexo model in 2019, followed by the toyota mirai. How the fuel cell works, where the uk's filling stations are and how expensive they are to run by matt allan monday, 23rd november 2020, 10:15 am
A full hydrogen tank will last around 300 miles (approx. The toyota mirai saloon and the hyundai nexo suv, while at the 2019 frankfurt motor show, bmw showed an x5 with a hydrogen fuel cell that it says won’t be available to. Just days after the announcement of prime minister boris johnson's plans, the uk's sole hydrogen car maker riversimple has unveiled its first production car.
The wiltshire town is where the uk’s first fully renewable hydrogen station opened in 2011,. Hydrogen vehicles solve so many of the problems associated with battery electric cars, and yet they have all but disappeared from the discussion on the future of the automobile. Fuel cell cars are not cheap, and are generally more expensive to buy than electric cars too.
Despite the announcement of a £23 million fund to improve infrastructure in 2017, very few refill stations can be found in the uk. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are expensive to buy and expensive to fuel in 2020. For the time being, hydrogen cars still have a longer range than purely electric cars.
But while the technology exists to convert cars to hydrogen, the refuelling infrastructure required is still in its infancy. Nissan uk, experts in tech & performance. Tesla model 3 standard range plus 2020 uk review.
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There are only two currently available in the uk: Plus, locate mirai fueling stations & view mirai photos on the official 2019 toyota mirai site. The facts years of meticulous research, rigorous testing and lots and lots of innovative.


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Minister: ČEZ mulling lithium car battery plant in north Bohemia
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The Czech energy giant ČEZ is considering the construction of a factory to produce lithium batteries for electric cars in North Bohemia in the next few years, according to the country’s minister of industry and trade, Karel Havlíček.


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Found out late last week that StudioPress along with several other companies merged together to form Copyblogger Media LLC, which is a new consolidated company led by Copyblogger founder, Brian Clark. Asides from themes and plugins, this new company will offer online education and a suite of software tools for WordPress.
Here’s a few excerpts from the official announcement posted on the StudioPress blog:
We’re excited to announce that StudioPress and several other companies are coming together to form Copyblogger Media LLC. This is a new consolidated company led by Brian Clark, founder of Copyblogger.
I am one of the owners of this new company, while Nathan will remain as the lead developer of Genesis. We’re very excited about the development community which has surrounded Genesis, and there is so much to look forward to. Craig will continue to handle the business-side of StudioPress, while I will still remain an integral part of the entire project.
About Copyblogger Media, LLC
Joining Brian Clark and myself in this new venture as partners are Sean Jackson (creator of Scribe SEO), Tony Clark (co-creator of Teaching Sells, Third Tribe, and a new WordPress product called Premise), and Sonia Simone, Senior Editor of Copyblogger and co-founder of Third Tribe with Brian, Chris Brogan, and Darren Rowse.
As a full-fledged new media company, Copyblogger Media, LLC will have multiple lines of business, including online education and live events. But the thing that caught my attention was Brian’s vision for a suite of software tools, specifically for the WordPress space.
Read more about the Copyblogger Media LLC merger here.
I wasn’t quite sure what to make of this when I first found out about it but as I continued reading the post, I realized that this move would not only be beneficial for the groups involved but also for the WordPress community. Why? Because the people involved in this merger are not only good at what they do, but they also offer good quality products and services that comply to WordPress standards. So I really believe that this development is a win-win situation for both the company and the WordPress community. I’m looking forward to the products and services that this company will be coming up with and offering us in the near future.
If you’re currently a client of StudioPress, you have nothing to worry about this recent development. Brian Gardner said that it’s business as usual, he and his original team aren’t going away and that this merger would only bring better products, services, updates and support to current StudioPress clients.
Btw, for StudioPress affiliates like me, please take note that the StudioPress Affiliate Program is no longer with E-junkie and has switched over to ShareASale. You have until Sept 30th to switch to the new program. Old affiliate links not updated after that date will not receive credit for affiliate sales. Please refer to this post for further information.
What do you guys think of this merger? What products or services would you like to see Copyblogger Media LLC come up with and offer to the WordPress community? Please share your thoughts.


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Winning Fantasy 5 ticket sold in Hobe Sound worth more than $170,000
HOBE SOUND — Better check those numbers.
A quick pick ticket sold at a Cumberland Farms store in Hobe Sound was the sole winner in Monday night's Fantasy 5 drawing.
The ticket is valued at $174,383 and was sold at the store at 8685 SE U.S. 1.
Winning numbers are: 1-3-21-30-32.
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Apple is coming with tons of products and services in the future, and one of them is the upgraded Apple News subscription service. It is being called the Netflix of News and Magazines. Although we have reported about this earlier today, we’ll tell you about Apple’s upcoming service in case you are unaware.
It will be Apple’s take on delivering news and magazine content to its subscribers. The service will be announced on 25th March and it will be Apple’s first big announcement this year. It was last year when the company acquired a paid subscription app called Texture, which provides unlimited access to a large range of magazine publications for a monthly fee to its subscribers.
According to reports Apple Inc is planning to merge Apple News with Texture, and the result will be the upgraded Apple News service. Currently, Apple news provides news to its users free of charge, but after the announcement of the upgraded news platform, it won’t be free anymore. A report on Buzzfeed stated that there will be different paid options for the users to choose from just like Netflix and according to their choice of plan they will get what they opted for.
Users might be charged $10 (Rs 700) per month to avail Apple News service. The company has also released some screenshots of what the upgrade of the News service would look like on top of iOS 12.2 beta. However, the pricing of the service is not final as there have been reports that the company has had some disagreements with other news publishers.
This was about the revenue being divided between Apple and the news publishers. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, several publishers are not happy with Apple’ plans to keep about half of the revenue from the upcoming news subscription service. So this means that the proposed pricing of the service is not yet final and may be changed later if the Cupertino-based technology giant is not able to come to an agreement with the publishers.
We should also mention that a media report has also speculated that Apple may have to change the date of the launch of its upcoming news service if the disagreement is not solved timely. And since Apple hasn’t as yet made an official announcement about it, we cannot entirely rule out the possibility of this happening.
As of now, Apple has not commented on the matter. With the recent drop in sales of iPhones that the company has faced, it has started focussing on services business, which has continued to grow consistently.
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We have heard of several small Tesla Powerpack projects in the UK over the last year, but a company has now deployed a much larger project that became the biggest behind-the-meter battery in the country when it came online last month.
Now energy company KiWi Power bought 4.8 MWh of Tesla Powerpacks to build a battery system at Cenin Renewables in South Wales – pictured above.
The company says that it built the installation in three months in order to “provide firm frequency response (FFR) to National Grid after winning a two-year contract offering 24-hour availability at £19/MW per hour.”
FFR is similar grid service to stabilize the network that Tesla’s giant battery pack in South Australia is performing and making millions doing it.
The energy market in South Wales is not as volatile as in South Australia. Therefore, there isn’t an opportunity as important to make a profit, which is why the system is also smaller, but it could also eventually make better use of the renewable energy production on site.
But they are focusing on FFR for now says Quentin Scrimshire, KiWi’s head of energy storage:
“The site gets additional benefits like resilience in the future when it’s not providing FFR and there’s some other value that we can unlock behind the meter. At the moment we’re just focusing on FFR but it’s a future-proofed battery, we can do everything with it,”
“Frequency response is not going away and with the system needs and product strategy it’s clear that National Grid has got a requirement for frequency response that looks a little different from how it looks today, but it’s certainly something that batteries will provide. But we see it being a full mix. That’s Kiwi’s selling point; we get maximum value through lots of different services and we think that’s the future – stacking services on top of each other is going to get us maximum value,”
The system was completed last month and it has been in operation for a few weeks now.
This is one of several recent Powerpack projects for Tesla, including the recent delivery of a Powerpack system to SpaceX’s new spaceport in Texas and a new Powerpack system that brought a business almost completely off-grid in France.


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Dirk Meyer Leaves Job As AMD CEO By Mutual Consent
Although AMD standalone GPU sales have overcome Nvidia sales, the company is not doing too well in the CPU area where Intel is the leader and it doesn’t seem like there will be any changes very soon. In order to try to change that the AMD Board of Directors and the company’s CEO have decided to part ways by mutual consent, and now Thomas Seifert has been appointed as the interim Chief Executive Officer.
AMD didn’t give any official reasons why Dirk Meyer left the company, but like said, things didn’t go too well at the chipset maker and when things go wrong, you must find a scapegoat, usually being the leader. The Chairman of the AMD Board, Bruce Claflin, is now looking for a new CEO as the company’s CFO, Thomas Seifert, said that he doesn’t want the job and his position as CEO is only temporary.
We don’t know whether Mr. Seifert would have done a better job than Mr. Meyer, and we don’t know who’s going to be appointed as AMD CEO. Read more details about Meyer’s departure at this link here.


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PR Week have an interview with Sam Yagan, CEO of Match.com – discussing the company’s PR methods.
Yagan talks about their marketing and PR work, much of it centering around their new Stir events they launched last May.
With Match, these offline events are as much about brand-reinforcement amongst their core users as they are about trying to crack the offline model.
Yagan also highlights their biggest challange as safety – following embarrassing PR moments for the company in the past year – which perhaps points to more efforts to right this bad publicity in 2014.
He says: “Safety and security is always a concern. We are working to educate members about safety and strive to put the best measures in place. Our goal is to put the right tools in customers’ hands to protect themselves through on-site messaging, dating, and have a feature where they can report concerns.”
Read the interview here.


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Why Shenendehowa has yet to sell valuable land in Clifton Park
Developers interested in the 35 acres owned by the Shenendehowa Central School District in the heart of Clifton Park, New York will have to wait longer before trying to buy the property.
It has been 18 months since the board of education approved trying to sell the landlocked acreage, but the district has yet to market it to potential buyers.
The district won't move forward until the town rezones the property, said superintendent Oliver Robinson.
The current zoning designation limits the potential uses to public, institutional or recreational development, according to John Scavo, town planner.
Under the proposed "town center" plan, the land would be available for commercial uses similar to those on Route 146, such as retail and office buildings up to three stories high.
The 35 acres owned by the district are off Route 146 and Maxwell Road, just north of the Shatekon Elementary School and east of the Clifton Park-Halfmoon Library on Moe Road.
The land is in a part of town where there has been considerable commercial growth in recent years, including new hotels and restaurants.
Town officials are now studying a draft version of the proposed rezoning. It won't be voted on by the Town Board until after a public hearing is held, which will likely be in early fall, Scavo said.
Once the new zoning is approved, Robinson said the school district will issue a request for proposals to find a buyer rather than list the land with a commercial broker.
Any sale must ultimately be approved by district voters. The revenue would be used to build a new school to handle increased enrollment.
Shenendehowa, with 9,766 students, ranks No. 6 on the current Albany Business Review list of top-performing school districts in the region.
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Chicago—Sept. 24, 2015—Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is seeking price cuts from suppliers that produce goods in China, saying the retailer should share in the savings generated by China's devaluation of the yuan, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Wal-Mart managers in recent weeks have contacted more than 10,000 suppliers in various countries, all of which have manufacturing facilities in China, seeking cost cuts of 2 to 6 percent on mainly general merchandise, including home furnishings, apparel, health and beauty products, appliances, electronics and toys, according to a consultant who advised Wal-Mart on the move and spoke on condition of anonymity to protect his relationship with the retailer.
The company is telling suppliers that they should pass on the savings arising from the yuan devaluation so Wal-Mart can achieve EDLC, or "everyday low cost," its term for the tight cost controls needed to keep prices low for consumers, according to executives at two vendors of durable goods, who also requested anonymity. Both were asked for cuts in the lower half of the 2 percent to 6 percent range. Both said they planned to negotiate a reduction in the proposed cuts.
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