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Please vote on June 5, 2018 AGAINST the Re-election of directors Antonio J. Gracias, Kimball Musk, and James R. Murdoch.
Dear Tesla Shareholder,
We urge you to join us in Voting No on the re-election of three directors to the board of Tesla, Inc. at the Annual Meeting on June 5th, 2018. Over the past year, Tesla has failed to hit critical production milestones and has consequently seen its past progress toward profitability sharply reverse. But instead of recognizing the need for independent and effective board leadership, Tesla has re-nominated three directors who exemplify the companys failure to evolve:
We admire Tesla as successful innovator with an environmental mission; however, its continuing success looks more tenuous than ever. Especially in light of Chairman and CEO Elon Musks startling refusal to answer straightforward questions from analysts on a recent investor call, Tesla shareholders need to let the board know that it must raise its game and begin the long-overdue process of renewing its membership and processes by adding currently missing industry, governance, and human capital management expertise. We detail our concerns below.
The CtW Investment Group works with union-sponsored pension funds to enhance long-term stockholder value through active ownership. These funds have over $250 billion in assets under management and are substantial Tesla shareholders.
Deteriorating Financial Performance
While Tesla has never reported a profit, going into 2017 shareholders could reasonably believe that the company was on the path to profitability: Tesla trimmed its losses from 22% of revenue in 2015 to just 9.5% in 2016, even as revenue increased 75%. But since the beginning of 2017, Teslas financial position has deteriorated along every dimension: its losses increased to 17% of revenue for fiscal 2017, and to 19% for its most recent four quarters. Teslas operations are burning cash at an accelerating rate, its capital expenditures continue to increase, and its net change in cash ballooned from -$25.3 million for 2017 to -$398.4 million in the first quarter of 2018. Tesla has so far been able to finance these uses of cash by repeatedly issuing new debt and convertible securities, but its continued struggles have made analysts skeptical that the company could do so again. Partly as a result, Teslas share price has fallen by approximately 4% since last years annual meeting and by 26% since Tesla hit its historical peak in
September of last year.
Strategic and operational challenges
Large losses, a deteriorating cash position, and a falling share price all stem, in our view, from unrealistic
failed to make good on projected production milestones; The Wall Street Journal counted more than 20 missed projections by Tesla between 2011 and 2016, with 10 of these targets missed by an average of a year. More recently, Tesla has repeatedly failed to meet targets for the Model 3: Elon Musk originally predicted that the Model 3 would be available in 2017, with sales of 500,000 a year by 2018. In August 2017, this projection was lowered to 20,000 a month by December 2018. In reality, Tesla made only 2,425 Model 3s in the fourth quarter of 2017, and fewer than 10,000 in the first quarter of 2018.
Now, in addition to falling behind schedule, Tesla must grapple with significant manufacturing defects that have necessitated recalls of the 2018 Model S. At the same time, two crashes one resulting in a fatality - involving Tesla vehicles with Autopilot engaged are under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board. In mid-April, Tesla announced a halt to production of the Model 3, which had been running at less than 50% of the projected 5,000 cars per week. Karl Brauer of Kelly Blue Book notes that:
The problem is the reality is starting to stack up, and thats a reality of accidents the cars have had, quality issues, and massive misses on Model 3 production numbers. You add all that up and theres a real question about whether this company can deliver what it promises.
Worse still, multiple reports over the past two years by The Guardian, Buzzfeed News, and The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) have documented the very high level of injuries at Teslas Fremont, CA plant. For instance, in 2017 Teslas serious injury rate was 30% higher than the industry average for the previous year. Reporters interviewed dozens of former and current Tesla employees, including the former lead safety professional for the general assembly line, who detailed her unsuccessful efforts to draw senior managements attention to what she believed were unacceptably dangerous conditions. We note that this experienced professional reports emailing Teslas Chief of Staff concerning safety lapses, but received no response. Moreover, despite Teslas claim to have lowered its 2018 injury rate to the industry average, the CIR report credibly alleges that Tesla has misclassified many serious workplace injuries as either non-serious or as having occurred away from work. Following the report, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health started an investigation. Given the detailed, repeated, and credible character of these allegations, we would expect a capable and independent board to oversee an investigation of Teslas internal controls, but the board has not reported taking any such action, exposing Tesla shareholders to considerable regulatory, litigation, and reputational risk.
Teslas Conflicted Board Impedes Progress By Deferring to Elon Musk
In response to these considerable financial and operational challenges, the Tesla board has been unduly deferential toward Chairman and CEO Elon Musk. Mr. Musks peripatetic focus he is also CEO of SpaceX, a proponent of the hyperloop, and apparently about to start a candy company is exacerbated, rather than contained, by a board most of whose members have family or non-Tesla ties to him, lack industry experience, and have no track record of effective independent board service at a public company. We understand completely that the current board is in many respects a holdover from Teslas earliest days, when it was a private company fully under Elon Musks control. But since the 2010 IPO, Tesla should have been steadily identifying qualified, independent, and experienced directors to replace board members such as Antonio Gracias and Kimbal Musk, whose presence owes to their venture capital investments and personal relationships to Elon Musk. Now that Teslas IPO is 8 years in the past, a modernization of the Tesla board is long overdue.
Moreover, developments in the litigation that followed Teslas acquisition of Solar City has only emphasized the need for greater board independence. In March, the Delaware Court of Chancery rejected a motion to dismiss a stockholder suit alleging that Tesla directors including Elon Musk breached their fiduciary duties in approving the Solar City acquisition. The court determined that the plethora of personal and business ties between Elon Musk and the other board members made them potentially less capable of offer[ing] resistance to Musks domination and control over the board.
Given the extensive board conflicts, Elon Musks role as Chairman and CEO, and certain supermajority voting requirements, the court concluded that there was a reasonable possibility that Elon Musk could be considered a controlling shareholder. When a controlling shareholder is present, minority shareholders should be especially concerned that the board is genuinely independent, has the experience necessary to question managements plans, and will insist on operational and financial discipline.
Director Nominees Lack Independence, Industry Expertise, or Governance Experience
As described below, all of this years director nominees lack independence, industry relevant knowledge, and a track record of effective service in a governance role.
Antonio Gracias has extensive personal and business ties to Elon Musk, which we believe make him especially ill-suited for a leadership role on the Tesla board. Mr. Gracias, along with his venture capital firm Valor Management Corp., participated in four Tesla venture funding rounds between 2005 and 2008, as well as a pre-IPO venture debt raise in 2009, joined the Tesla board in 2007, and was named Lead Independent Director in 2010. Notably, he does not appear to have served on the board of any public companies that are not associated either with Valor (i.e., its portfolio companies) or Elon Musk. Mr. Gracias has been an investor in multiple companies started by Elon Musk, including PayPal, Solar City (where he was a director), and SpaceX (where he remains a director). Elon Musk in turn has invested in at least one Valor fund, and is a personal friend of Mr. Gracias, to who he gave the second Tesla Roadster ever built.
While Mr. Gracias apparently acknowledges the depth of these conflicts - he (along with Elon Musk) recused himself from the Tesla boards vote on the Solar City acquisition - he has not drawn the obvious conclusion that these very conflicts make him ill-suited to serve as an independent director at all, let alone as Lead Independent Director. That role should be a particularly important one at Tesla, given both the significant strategic challenges facing the company and the reality (just recognized by the court) of Elon Musks effective domination of the current board: the Lead Independent Director should be leading a process of renewing and modernizing the board by recruiting well-qualified, diverse, and independent directors with a combination of industry and governance experience. Given his longstanding conflicts, we see no likelihood that Mr. Gracias will change course and initiate this long overdue process. Indeed, the boards failure to insist that Steve Jurvetson whose own venture capital firm dismissed him following sexual harassment claims resign rather than take a leave of absence signals an extraordinary unwillingness to accept the need to change.
Kimbal Musk is Elon Musks brother, and has served on the Tesla Board since April 2004. He is also the cousin of Lyndon and Peter Rive, Solar Citys co-founders. Kimbal Musk is also an investor in two Valor venture capital funds, which are managed by Mr. Gracias. While Tesla acknowledges that Kimbal Musk is
not an independent director, the board has nevertheless re-nominated him: we view this decision, following both Teslas poor first quarter and the courts citation of extensive board conflicts, all but inexplicable. Or, rather, we would find it inexplicable if Tesla were anything like a well-run public company. Unfortunately, we know exactly why Kimbal Musk was re-nominated despite lacking any relevant industry experience or possessing a track record of effective public company board service (see below), and his re-nomination goes to the heart of the problems with Teslas board: too many of these directors, including all three of this years nominees, are incapable or unwilling to contradict Elon Musks whims and finally insist on a board renewal process that provides shareholders with competent and effective representation.
We further note that Kimbal Musk has served as an independent director at Chipotle Mexican Grill since
2013, a period including the 2014 rejection of the companys executive pay plan by shareholders, as well as a food safety crisis that pummeled the companys sales and from which it has yet to recover. Kimbal Musk is not assigned to any committee by either Chipotle or Tesla.
James Murdoch is CEO of 21st Century Fox, Inc., the parent company of Fox News, and previously served in multiple executive roles at News Corp., the former parent of Fox News and The News of the World, among other publications. Mr. Murdoch has worked almost exclusively for media enterprises in which his father, Rupert Murdoch, exercises a controlling interest. To the best of our knowledge, he has no professional experience in any manufacturing or engineering related field. Given that the simultaneous appointment of Linda Johnson Rice added significant media experience to the board, it is not clear why Tesla would need two directors with media but not automotive backgrounds.
Moreover, as an executive and director, Mr. Murdoch has been caught up in multiple corporate scandals: he had executive responsibility for the UK newspaper News of the World which was found to have printed stories using information obtained through illegal phone hacking, and has been an executive and director at 21st Century Fox throughout the period in which endemic sexual harassment has resulted in numerous settlements, lawsuits, and resignations by executives. Mr. Murdoch has previously served as a director of Sothebys and GlaxoSmithKline, but resigned from both boards after 75% of News Corp.s outside shareholders voted against his re-election in 2011. Despite joining the Tesla board on July 13, 2017, he has not been assigned to any board committees. While adding new directors was a step in the right direction, the choice of Mr. Murdoch as one of those directors does not appear well considered, given his troubled history as an executive and director, the disturbing parallels between nepotistic practices at Fox and Tesla, and his lack of relevant industry experience.
We urge shareholders to oppose the re-election of each of these three directors, and urge the Tesla board to undertake a serious effort to modernize itself in light of Teslas rapid growth and status as a public company.
Executive Director, CtW Investment Group


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Doodle Inspirations – January 22, 2021
Following a week of many firsts, here are some stories that got us talking last week: :
While Natty Light is not expensive, they sure know how to spend the money for experiential marketing efforts. Dubbed the “Da Vinci of Debt,” the beer brand has created one of the most expensive pieces of art in the world tipping the scales at representing over $470 million dollars. Constructed with 2,600 college graduate diplomas in the Vanderbilt Hall at Grand Central Station in NYC, this breathtaking, gale-wind design is another installment of to the brand’s 10-year embarkment of helping students and graduates deal with college debt. We love the dimension of the artwork and overall experience this provokes. Props to the brand for thinking through the travel restrictions due to COVID and also partnering with Snapchat in order to make the piece viewable via an Augmented Reality Snap.
As many cinemas remain closed because of COVID, cinema ad sellers have found new ways to diversify their offering and still reach that key cinema lover. Redbox will now be ad supported and sold by Screenvision Media. This will open advertising opportunities to roughly 40 million customers (per month) through the entire Redbox portfolio including kiosks, app, connected TV and VOD platforms. The partnership has reportedly been in the works for about a year and helped catalyze an acceleration in Screenvision’s business plans to expand beyond traditional pre-show advertising. We like the diversification of this offering, but wonder about the comparability of audiences.
Has anyone been able to perfect the al dente noodle? To help make it easier, Barilla has partnered with Spotify to create pasta-specific playlists that can be utilized in order to achieve the perfect noodle consistency. “Playlist Timer” includes Boom Bap Fusilli, Best Song Penne, Simply Classics Linguine and more. We can’t wait to test out the 8 available playlists and see how they stack up.
With the Super Bowl edging closer, more brands are disclosing their intentions to participate in advertising surrounding the big game. New this year will be music-and-video-sharing app Triller. A competitor of TikTok, the brand is hoping an investment in the highly watched event will help increase their current 65 million monthly users. While we’re not privy to what Triller paid for their air time, we know a national spot in the Super Bowl is estimated to set brands back at least $5.6 million per :30 sec TV spot. We are curious to see if this investment strategy pays off in terms of new users and new investors for the brand.

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According to The New York Times, brands are moving boldly into the media business, and are even willing to accept advertising on their content rich sites from competitive products. NBC Universal and Procter & Gamble have set up a pet-focussed Web portal that looks something like a Yahoo or AOL for pet owners, with a […]
Like a lot of people, I take being an American for granted. We’ve got our share of problems here, but for some people it’s still a land of opportunity that they’re grateful for. I learned that once again last week, when I shot and edited a video on behalf of Refguee Resettlement and Immigration Services […]
Ad Age is treating GSD&M CEO, Roy Spence, unkindly. Exhibit A, this headline: The trade mag feels that Spence’s walkabout at a time of massive layoffs at the agency is “a publicity stunt whose timing couldn’t be worse and whose true purpose was never really clear.” What’s the deal? A man can’t walk?
CAMBRIDGE—The final session at Futures of Entertainment 2 is called “Cult Media” and it features four entertainment makers, including Jesse Alexander, co-executive producer and writer on NBC epic saga, Heroes. Henry Jenkins, co-founder of MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program is moderating the panel, members of which are batting the term “transmedia storytelling” around like a […]
“By its very nature, national advertising fuels fears about ubiquity,” Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO said over a decade ago. With Dunkin Donuts and McDonalds competing for his customers, Mr. Schultz is singing a new tune. One he learned from Dan Wieden. “We need to recognize that the category is evolving,” Mr. Schultz told analysts on […]
CAMBRIDGE—Saturday morning’s opening panel at Futures of Entertainment 2 is wholly academic. Sam Ford, the moderator of this panel and one of the organizers of the conference says he found it interesting how one half of the participants here today come from the academy and the other half from industry. He also says many of […]
The Writers Guild strike is basically a debate about how creative types can (or can’t) make money in the new media era, where content is everywhere. In my new column for Talent Zoo, I take a look at agency compensation and the fact we’re all feeling pinched these days. Since there’s no legitimate quantifiable method […]
CAMBRIDGE—It’s 10:00 am and already the man in suspenders has captivated his audience. But another star is now shining bright. Marc Davis, Social Media Guru at Yahoo and a graduate of the Media Studies program at MIT, is talking about mobile media in a panel on the topic at this, the second annual Futures of […]


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The term manufacturing is such a commonplace part of our economic vernacular that its true economic impact often gets overlooked.
Residents of the Quad Cities should appreciate the manufacturing industry more than most with such stalwarts as John Deere, the Rock Island Arsenal, Arconic and HNI, to name but a few.
But knowing about these major employers sometimes doesn’t translate into understanding the massive economic impact manufacturers have in the region and across Illinois and Iowa.
Manufacturing is big. Really big for Illinois and Iowa. That’s why we appreciate the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association (IMA) for hosting a Manufacturing Matters Tour with a recent stop at Deere & Co.’s World Headquarters in Moline.
It’s important that manufacturing is elevated in the public’s consciousness as often as possible, and what better way than by having IMA officials visit factories, educational institutions and economic development centers across Illinois to highlight the vital contributions the manufacturing industry provides to communities large and small.
“Manufacturing is the greatest driver of wealth and economic progress in our nation,” said Mark Denzler, IMA’s president and CEO. “If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s the need for a strong American manufacturing sector and supply chains.”
According to IMA, manufacturing is particularly important in the Quad Cities region, which is dominated by farm machinery, equipment, fluid milk production and meat processing. In Rock Island County alone, the study found the industry creates $4.9 billion in economic output each year — supporting almost 20% of the county’s economy.
“The IMA’s Manufacturing Matters study shows that the sector employs 662,000 men and women in jobs,” said Mr. Denzler. “Throw in the 2.7 multiplier and manufacturing supports more than 1.7 million jobs or nearly one-third of all Illinois jobs. Manufacturing also contributes more than $600 billion in economic output — the single largest share of the economy.”
Manufacturers in Iowa account for 17.36% of the total output in the state, employing 14.90% of the workforce, according to the National Association of Manufacturers. Total output from manufacturing was $33.80 billion in 2019. In addition, there were an average of 226,000 manufacturing employees in Iowa in 2020, with an average annual compensation of $72,750.57 in 2019.
Iowa’s Association of Business & Industry (ABI) also is at the forefront of promoting the manufacturing industry by hosting its annual manufacturing conference as well as other tours and promotional efforts across Iowa.
The more awareness that can be generated about the huge economic impact of manufacturing, the more legislative policies and economic priorities can be advanced to keep this critical industry thriving.


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The way some people arrange funerals is changing
LocalFuneral.co.uk is now online, and the first enquiries have already come in for SAIFCharter members.
The site is the latest example of Golden Charter’s move towards supporting independent funeral directors across a range of areas. Currently open to members of SAIFCharter for the duration of the pilot phase to the end of March, LocalFuneral.co.uk passes at-need enquiries to participating funeral directors.
Julian Walker, SAIFCharter Chairman, explained: “Some funeral directors have started paying other online services to advertise their businesses to people wanting a referral or review of a region’s funeral directors. Our rapidly advancing service is fast learning how best to serve these enquiries for our independent funeral director group.
“National advertising has still to begin, yet we are already seeing the first enquiries coming through and our first funeral has taken place. I would urge all SAIFCharter members to opt in; as an early adopter, your experience will help shape your future with LocalFuneral.co.uk”
As announced in December, the site is now live and accessible to the public, and pay-per-click (PPC) advertising has commenced in those regions with the required level of coverage from participating funeral directors to ensure customer experience is positive.
For more details, please speak to your local Golden Charter representative.Tags: benefit, digital, enquiries, Golden Charter, Julian Walker, LocalFuneral, marketing, online, pilot, SAIFCharter


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India's inflation rate accelerates to a three-year high because of rising food and fuel costs, officials say. India’s consumer price inflation declined to 507 percent in bloomberg | quint is a prices could flare up prices of crops and add to food inflation. India’s inflation rate dropped below 5 percent for the first time in three months food price index rose 326 percent. Publications (506 kb) date : oct 13 “link between food price inflation and rural wage dynamics (2012): “food price inflation in india (2008 to 2010). Food prices rise 2% part of this was caused by surging demand from china and india otherwise, food price inflation will continue to create more global. Food prices and inflation table 1 ratio of consumer price index for food to index for all in india food prices have risen. India's annual retail inflation eased for a second straight month in february to 444 percent as food prices fell, government data showed on monday analysts polled by reuters had forecast february's consumer price inflation to ease to 480 percent from 507 percent in the previous month.
Inflation in general and food price inflation in particular has been a persistent problem in india over the past few years price stability is crucial for susta. Read more about india preview: inflation to surprise reserve bank with month inflation predicted by the daily food price data and cpi food inflation. India’s measure of consumer price inflation, the cpi index, rose 521 percent in december from a year earlier, the ministry of statistics said on friday. Find food inflation latest news food inflation, as measured by consumer food price index lower food prices likely cooled india's inflation. India business news: new delhi: driven by rising food prices and higher pay for government employees, december retail inflation shot up to 17-month high of 5.
The changing politics of food price inflation sonal varma and aurodeep nandi are, respectively, chief india economist and india economist at nomura. Indian food inflation is the latest wholesale price which spends the lion's share of income on food, has been hit hardest india's central bank has. This statistic shows the inflation rate in india 2010-2022 india's inflation rate and economy consumer price index (cpi) of food in japan 2012-2016. Inflation measured by consumer price index (cpi) is defined as the change in the prices of a basket of goods and services that are typically.
Food inflation: find latest stories easing india inflation reprieve for asia's worst bond market official data for consumer price inflation (cpi. Reports on the new evidence of price increases for staple foods in india have evoked surprise and a variety of responses from economic analysts reuters has reported that inflation unexpectedly hit a seven-month high in september as food prices climbed because the wholesale price index (wpi), the main inflation measure. The study analyzes food inflation trends in india over the last decade annual trends show that different commodities have contributed to food inflation in different years and that no single commodity shows uniformly high inflation.
The persistently high food inflation witnessed in india over the past few years has been a cause for concern this column seeks to identify the major drivers of food inflation in india, and to evaluate the extent to which food inflation has had an impact on non-food and overall inflation. Food articles from the inflation in india this accounts for the real money gap that could be determined as the potential determinant for the price rise and. Food inflation up again: why, and where it is so it seems consumer food price inflation stocks with the food corporation of india on july 1 are projected.
India's inflation rate isn't a worry precisely because most of it is about food we do indeed have significant inflation in the price of food in india. Food inflation in india dr aowte yasmeen khalid1 food price inflation is making matters worse for these sections by squeezing their consumption levels. Watch video india’s inflation rate dropped below 5 percent for the first time in three food price index rose 326 percent versus previous month’s 47 percent. Defeating india’s disastrous food price inflation with trade 16 september 2014 author: rajiv kumar, cpr indian economic data in july on industrial growth and inflation was disappointing.


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WASHINGTON The cybersecurity issues that led Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV to remember 1.4 million vehicles this month could poise a problem for cars and trucks from other automakers, a tip U.S. automobile reserve regulator pronounced on Friday.
Mark Rosekind, who heads a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, pronounced his watchdog group is perplexing to establish how many automobile makers have perceived radios from a association that granted Fiat Chrysler.
“The retailer didn’t usually supply radios to Chrysler though to a lot of other manufacturers,” Rosekind told reporters. “A lot of a work now is perplexing to find out how extended a disadvantage could be.”
Rosekind did not brand a radio supplier. Charlie Miller, one of dual hacking experts who unclosed a problem, told Reuters a radio was a Uconnect complement from Harman International Industries Inc (HAR.N). Harman officials were not immediately accessible for comment.
The intensity raises a probability of some-more automaker recalls over hacking vulnerabilities, an emanate that has grabbed a courtesy of regulators, lawmakers and a public. On Thursday, a researcher warned that hackers could feat a confidence smirch in a mobile app for General Motors Co’s (GM.N) OnStar car communications system.
In a initial movement of a kind for a automobile industry, Fiat Chrysler final week announced a remember of 1.4 million U.S. vehicles to implement program to forestall hackers from gaining remote control of a engine, steering and other systems.
The proclamation by FCA US LLC, before Chrysler Group LLC, followed reports that cybersecurity researchers had used a wireless tie to spin off a Jeep Cherokee’s engine as it drove, augmenting concerns about a reserve of Internet-enabled vehicles.
The researchers used Fiat Chrysler’s (FCAU.N) (FCHA.MI) telematics complement to mangle into a volunteer’s Cherokee being driven on a highway and emanate commands to a engine, steering and brakes.
“This is a shot opposite a bow. Everybody’s been observant ‘cybersecurity’. Now you’ve got to step up,” Rosekind said. “You’ve got to see a whole attention proactively traffic with these things.”
NHTSA has already been in hit with a Jeep Cherokee researchers and hopes to learn some-more not usually about their work though how critical a greeting they have seen from a automobile industry.
“It’s not usually about a hack. It’s what a response from a attention has been to see either or not their issues have been concurred and what they’re planning. And that’s a partial we have to see going forward,” Rosekind said.
Rosekind pronounced NHTSA is also collecting information about intensity issues involving GM’s OnStar, though has not begun a grave investigation.
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Dubin start-up Von Bismark, which uses augmented reality to spice up the high-street shopping experience, has raised a €350,000 investment from private investors and Enterprise Ireland. The investment will lead to six new jobs at the company.
A graduate of the NDRC LaunchPad 4 programme, the company’s Wardrobe technology uses live motion capture and allows consumers to control the interface from a number of metres away using only their hands. Utilising augmented reality, users can then try on virtual outfits, take pictures and share content within seconds.
To date, Wardrobe has been used as a marketing and sales tool for retailers and advertisers, with more than 200,000 people in Ireland having interacted with the Wardrobe since launch.
“This investment will allow us to really push on with the roll out of our technology and mature from a marketing and point-of-sale engagement tool to a full in-store e-commerce ecosystem for high-street retailers,” said Von Bismark founder and CEO Eoghan O’Sullivan.
“We’ve built real momentum with our technology since the start of 2013 and had success attracting clients like Vodafone, UPC and AIB, as well as solidifying long-term strategic partnerships with Microsoft, CBS Outdoor, Box Technologies and payment processing giants Datacash. All of this means we’re in a really great place going into the start of 2014.”
Kinect-ing with the consumer
The investment will see Von Bismark create six new positions over the next 12 months, mainly in development and account management. It will also allow the company to port all of its services onto the cloud and build a hybrid system for in-store e-commerce that will merge its existing Microsoft Kinect-based motion capture and facial recognition capabilities with touchscreen and transactional processes.
“We really believe that the high street is going to undergo a fundamental change over the next few years, with Deloitte predicting that retailers will have to shrink their store portfolios by 30-40pc over the next three to five years.
“Their cost bases are too high and having to stock their entire inventory all of the time is absolutely killing their bottom line. We aim to revolutionise the sector by bringing e-commerce in store. We will personalise the consumer’s experience, speed it up and allow them to access more inventory, while reducing the retailers staffing, security, shipping and mark-down costs.”
Von Bismark has launched its new platform for in store e-commerce on 19 September in the Millbank Tower, London, with their partners Datacash.
The company has also signed up its first client for the platform and will be launching a fully digital cyber store for clothing in a major Dublin shopping centre in February 2014.


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|LinkedIn to hit 165m users by 2012 – report|
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LinkedIn’s member base is set to rise to 165 million users by the end of 2011.
That’s the conclusion of a new report by social media agency FreshNetworks. Having tracked LinkedIn’s growth figures over the last three years, it predicts that the company will be well over half way to achieving 200 million users by the end of the year.
This forecast follows the company’s first earnings announcement, published last week, which reported revenue up 120% to $121 million in the last quarter.
“LinkedIn has clearly upped its game in the last nine months, swiftly implementing site improvements in response to user feedback and market demand,” said Charlie Osmond, co-founder of FreshNetworks. “The LinkedIn proposition offers B2B businesses, who are often nervous of using other social media networks for business, the chance to network professionally. Increasingly, LinkedIn is also being used by recruiters and the growing LinkedIn community are spending more time on the site improving their profiles.”
LinkedIn itself estimates that around a million new members join its network every week, which equates to more than one member every second.


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IK Partners is counting on a robust pipeline of small targets in the UK and Benelux as the pan-European GP rolled out its Development Capital strategy in those markets this week, Pierre Gallix, head of the strategy, told Unquote.
Laura Clayfield and Raj Mukherji have joined the London-based mid-market sponsor
Eurazeo and Unigestion among LPs in new fund for industrial tech businesses Raith and AEMtec
BlackRock mulls new vintage of private capital products for sophisticated retail investors in Europe
Global asset manager explores new generation of private market funds for wealthy individuals banking on positive uptake from retail investors
Despite macro woes, sponsor wants to build up on last year’s pace of investment and exceed GBP 400m mark in 2023


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Today is January 13, 2022 Thursday NY, NY USA
The Yen Index is on a downward trend.
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Global trade will see continuing supply chain disruptions.
Extreme rainfall slows the global economy.
Global life insurers' pandemic risk models are adapting to COVID.
New NASA chief scientist to focus on climate change.
USD/JPY is on a downward trend.
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The Russian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade announced on Friday that an informal meeting of the working group on Russia's admittance to the World Trade Organisation would be held on December 10th in Geneva. The session will consider issues connected with Russia's adoption of foreign trade legislation in accordance with WTO rules. Moreover, Russian proposals on access to goods and service markets will also be discussed, as will the agricultural sector. A revised version of the "Report on the Trade-Political System in the Russian Federation" will also be on the agenda. The next official meeting of the working group is scheduled for the end of January 2002. About 50 countries, which are Russia's major trading partners and WTO member-nations, make up the working group. China, which recently became a WTO member, will soon join the body's work.
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A few Singaporeans have countered the new Malaysian chicken export restrictions by listing chicken products on Carousell at exorbitant price rates, deeming them “rare” and “limited edition” goods.
The sarcastic listings, however, seem to to be mere jokes as locals try to seek banter in the export ban, which has come into practice starting today.
An analysis on Carousell Singapore revealed a listing for a S$1,510 takeaway box of Hainanese roasted chicken rice from a food stalls. This is equivalent to RM4,830.
“Get this before chicken rice becomes history,” the seller advised.
The export limitations for chicken products on Malaysian grounds stems from a recent, ongoing chicken shortage.
Previously, on May 23, the Malaysian government declared that it would suspend the trade of 3.6 million chickens per month beginning June 1 in attempt to face domestic supply constraints.


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As SoCal Real Estate recently reported, CBRE reported that, according to ESRI, only 3 percent of the adult population in Southern California (roughly 450,000 residents) had purchased groceries online in the previous 30 days. The firm says, “Technological innovation has been a boon for the average American consumer, but on the other end of the spectrum, it has proven to be the bane of aging retailers who struggle to keep pace with the onslaught of change.”
We spoke with Jeff Moore, senior managing director of CBRE’s Orange County office and head of retail services for CBRE’s Southern California offices, about the health of the Southern California grocery-store sector, especially after recent consolidations, shakeups, and the increasing presence of technology in the sector.
SoCal Real Estate: What is the health of the grocery store sector in SoCal?
Moore: Southern California is the largest grocery market in the nation; therefore, it is the one of the most competitive business sectors in California. Southern California is a desired market into which out-of-state grocers, new chains, and concepts want to expand. The traditional grocery stores like Vons, Ralphs, Albertsons and Stater Bros. now must compete for consumer dollars in a crowded field that includes specialty grocers like Sprouts, Whole Foods, and Bristol Farms; value-oriented chains like Aldi, Grocery Outlet, and Smart & Final; and lastly, discount, big-box retailers like Walmart, Costco, and Target, plus those that focus on ethnic niche demographics and foods like Northgate Gonzalez, as well as other Hispanic or Asian independents that attract loyal followings. Then, add Trader Joe’s to the mix, which is loved not only by consumers, but also by shopping-center owners and city officials for its high foot traffic and sales revenue.
In addition, we are now also seeing a wave of contemporary independent grocers that focus on urban markets and have smaller footprints, such as Erewhon Natural Foods. We are also seeing a new trend of restaurant/grocery hybrid stores and hip convenience stores that are attractive to their targeted demographic and compete for these same dollars. Despite this intense competition, grocery sales continue to increase in terms of overall volume, and this segment is an active and important part of the region’s real estate market.
Where does this sector stand now after the shakeups and consolidations?
We may see more consolidation in this sector as companies compete for market share and also explore different store formats and ways to attract consumers by providing exceptional and unique shopping experiences. The grocers who invest in technology and integrate an e-commerce strategy will likely surpass competition. We will continue to see consolidation as grocers prioritize their geographical footprint to manage efficient delivery of goods to consumers. Grocers will also need the capital and profit margin to be able to invest in omnichannel. Those that are slower to incorporate these ideas in such a fast-moving market will fall behind.
Where is this sector heading and will technology continue to change it?
E-commerce penetration is low in the grocery sector relative to other segments in the U.S., with estimates ranging from 1 percent to 3 percent of grocery sales online versus 9 percent for retail sales overall. Other parts of the world, including the UK and Asia Pacific, have much greater adoption by consumers ordering groceries online. American obstacles include cultural differences as well as logistical challenges. Since 2013, digital sales have increased at a rate of 20 percent annually, with estimates that market share could potentially climb to 13 percent by 2024 as technology improves, consumers become more familiar with the platform, and cultural adaptation to ordering online becomes the new normal. The U.S. is different from other countries in that it is such a vast country, making it more expensive to operate delivery and returns of grocery items and operate cold-storage facilities. In addition, the low margin of the grocery business has kept many grocers from adding an online option. We think that there will be more investment in technology to make in-store shopping and pick-up very convenient. In addition, we think we will see more logistic partnerships between grocers and delivery platforms.
What else should our readers know about grocery stores and technology in the SoCal market?
Technology and grocery stores may have not been used in the same sentence in the past, but Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods is paving a way for that. Whether it is last-mile delivery, e-commerce grocery sales, or business diversification, the industry is changing, and technology will be at the forefront.


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Cadbury is adding Choca-Latte to its Dairy Milk chocolate line-up after the variant was named as the winning creation in the brand’s first Inventor competition.
Created by Callum Clogher, a 17 years old from Ireland, the bar features a mix of coffee cream, vanilla and Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate and is rolling out to convenience stores now.
In addition, Cadbury is calling on consumers to ‘go madbury for Cadbury’ with the relaunch of the Inventor competition for the second year.
From today (September 11), shoppers will have the chance to create their own Cadbury Dairy Milk bar, which could become the next addition to the Cadbury Dairy Milk range in 2020.
Consumers can pick from a range of ingredients including brownie, popping candy, chilli and even edible glitter as well as classic ingredients such as raspberries, raisins and almonds.
There is more than 90,000 different combinations to choose from and once the ingredients are selected entrants will be able to name their bar and explain what inspired their creation before submitting their entry.
Claudia Miceli, senior brand manager at Cadbury at Mondelēz International, said: “We are very excited to reveal Callum as the winner of our first ever Cadbury Inventor competition.
“His creation was both innovative and delicious and is set to be a real hit for retailers and their shoppers. We are thrilled to be re-launching the Cadbury Inventor Competition for a second year to help retailers continue to drive sales of this much-loved brand.”
Consumers can visit www.cadburyinventor.com for more infomation on the new Inventor competition.


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A-1 Self Storage is targeting to complete 1000 new move-ins through its self-service kiosks
November 28, 2012- The California based self-storage company is expecting to handle more than 10,000 consumer transactions by year end. It operates 42 facilities throughout California.
"Adding the convenience of onsite self-service at our facilities has become a bona fide competitive advantage. We are making it very easy for customers to do business with us—we're always open," said Brian Caster, president and CEO of A-1 parent company The Caster Cos.
The self-storage has 17 facilities in San Diego County area and 40 locations nationwide. The company owns A-1 Self Storage, A-1 Car Storage and other commercial properties in California.


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RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – Breast cancer is the leading cancer for women and its incidence has increased by more than 20 percent worldwide since 2008.
One in eight women develops breast cancer and prevention and early identification is critical to successfully treatment of breast cancer.
The Mediterranean diet—a diet rich in olive oil, fish, fruits and vegetables (along with red wine) has been shown in numerous studies to reduce the incidence of heart disease in several clinical trials.
It has been suggested that the Mediterranean diet, rich in plant foods, fish and olive oil, may reduce the risk of breast cancer. Now, a new study just released from Spain further supports this theory.
Many studies have been done examining the Mediterranean diet and its impact on health. The Lyon Diet Heart Study, the first clinical trial to demonstrate the beneficial effects of the Mediterranean diet in reducing heart disease, also found that the diet substantially lowered the risk of cancer generally by 61 percent.
The new study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, found that the Mediterranean diet with olive oil reduced breast cancer risk by 62 percent.
In the diet, women were assigned randomly to groups—Mediterranean, low fat, etc. Each group had different doses of olive oil. The group with the highest olive oil intake seemed to derive the biggest benefit. However, the group with the biggest benefit obtained nearly 15 percent of daily calories from olive oil. That is a lot of olive oil consumption.
Results showed that women who took the Mediterranean diet with extra-virgin olive oil had a 62 percent relatively lower risk of malignant breast cancer. The risk reduction for the Mediterranean diet with nuts was “nonsignificant,” but the risk was still less than with the low-fat diet.
In the study, the research team calculated that for each additional 5 percent of calories that come from olive oil, women might reduce their odds of developing breast cancer by around 28 percent.
Overall, the results showed an inverse association between the Mediterranean diet plus olive oil and the incidence of breast cancer, suggesting that extra-virgin olive oil can help prevent breast cancer.
The mechanism of this reduction in cancer (and heart disease risk) is likely due to the reduction of inflammation in the body. Inflammation is associated with the development of cancer and heart disease.
Since there’s no downside to a Mediterranean diet, and it’s in line with everything else we know about nutrition, we highly recommend it. Eating veggies and healthy fats are good; sweets and processed foods are bad.


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Since Nintendo’s E3 2019 presentation, we’ve seen incredibly little information on Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Now, at long last, Nintendo has announced an Animal Crossing Nintendo Direct is on the way.
The Direct is due to take place this Thursday, February 20, 2020. It’s set to reveal an “in-depth look” at the game, which is just shy of four weeks away from release. The broadcast will show approximately 25 minutes of new information, streamed across Nintendo’s YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter pages. You can watch the Direct at 6 am PT/9 am ET / 2 pm GMT.
It’s been an incredibly painful wait for Animal Crossing fans everywhere. Players have spent months picking apart various screenshots and commercials. Nintendo has dropped small nuggets of information here and there, but there’s been no major update in over nine months.
Nintendo originally announced Animal Crossing in 2018 with an original release date of 2019. However, during Nintendo’s E3 2019 Direct, they revealed that the release date would be pushed back to March 20, 2020, in order to give developers a better work/life balance. A decently long Nintendo Treehouse episode accompanied the presentation. We saw roughly 24 minutes of gameplay through Treehouse back in June, but since then, there’s been little information.
Recent Animal Crossing: New Horizons announcements haven’t been particularly well-received. Nintendo recently announced that Animal Crossing: New Horizons would not support cloud saving. They also confirmed that there would only be one island per Switch, a huge blow to many fans. Nintendo somewhat backtracked on their first statement, saying that “the ability to recover Animal Crossing: New Horizons save data from the server in the event of console failure, loss or theft will be available to Nintendo Switch Online members sometime in the future.”
Animal Crossing: New Horizons will arrive on Nintendo Switch on March 20, 2020. A gorgeous Animal Crossing-themed switch is also available for pre-order, releasing March 13, 2020.
Are you excited about the Animal Crossing Direct? Let us know in the comments below!


text: A launch date has been rumoured for the Star Wars: Episode IX product range, including the LEGO sets, that will be taking place in the run-up to the film's release next year. Star Wars: Episode IX will arrive in cinemas next December to conclude the Skywalker saga. As is tradition, the film's merchandise will have a launch date ahead of the movie's release date. Star Wars collecting website Yakface is reporting that Force Friday III will take place on Friday, October 4, 2019. If this turns out to be accurate, it suggests that Lucasfilm is moving the merchandise release closer to the film release in an attempt to address disappointing sales. During the Disney era of Star Wars, toy and other merchandise sales have been disappointing for retailers and licensees, decreasing with each subsequent film release. As well as Hasbro and other Star Wars licensees, the LEGO Group will have a range of merchandise to launch alongside Episode IX. It is expected to be the third wave of LEGO Star Wars sets launching in 2019. Rumours should be treated with caution until the information shared is officially confirmed by Lucasfilm or the LEGO Group. The latest LEGO Star Wars is 75251 Darth Vader\u2019s Castle. With the current promotions at shop.LEGO.com, anyone ordering the set will get\u00a040299 Kessel Mine Worker and 42093 Christmas Carousel for free.


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CheatCC helps readers face their Monday by bringing you several hot new titles!
A Justice League film will come to theaters first says actor.
Great savings on multiple PlayStation platforms!
What new is introduced with the update? Well, “shiny new Spartan profiles,” which brings in new ways to customise your profile, along with new unlockable items, too.
Even with Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s relatively imminent release just peeping over the horizon, the game’s launch trailer has cropped up a little bit early--a little over two weeks early, actually.
Whilst the game shares dark tones with Dark Souls, Lords of the Fallen will apparently be “not as bound to be doomed as in Souls,” as described by Gop. “We were not after that degree of dark."
The lack of respawning does have its benefits, despite its inconvenience, and Assassin’s Creed developer Ubisoft is hoping that players of the upcoming Rainbow Six Siege will utilize the lack of respawning to benefit and highlight their teamwork.
Share Play, YouTube support and more coming soon!
Did the sci-fi hit sell better on the Xbox or PlayStation?
Even boosts sales of the Wii U!
Indiegogo started basically to pester Valve.
Now you can see it on the big screen in August of 2015
Nearly half the size of the full game.
Drops again after maintenance, no reason given for the drop.
In a recent interview, Resident Evil Revelation 2’s writer, Hiroshi Yamashita, discussed his inspiration as a writer for an episodic game series, as well as also writing Claire’s return to said series.
In light of a recently released trailer launched by Polish developer Destructive Creations regarding its upcoming PC shooter, “Hatred”, Unreal Engine 4 developer Epic Games has requested that the logo for its engine be removed from the game's trailer.
Thankfully you won’t really have to wait all that long to get your hands on three new maps, as the IMC Rising DLC will be available for Xbox 360 users early next week, on Tuesday, October 21.
Blizzard has introduce a couple of new ways for new players to take part in the World of Warcraft-StarCraft-Diablo MOBA.
Pokémon game director Junichi Masuda has revealed that the social media network, Twitter, had a part to play in catalysing Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire’s development, inspiring him to develop the games ever since he first joined Twitter.
According to a recent survey reported by MCV, the PlayStation 2 has been given another reason to be commemorated: the greatest console ever.
So, here’s a curious thing you don’t see everyday: four young Berks County men were arrested last week on Wednesday, October 8, under the allegation of smuggling thousands of grams of cocaine inside Xbox consoles.
Coined as the “PlayStation Official League”, the new platform is said utilize matchmaking to offer players numerous prizes across multiple triple-A titles. PlayStation Official League itself will launch tomorrow, in Spain to begin with.
Pick up Halo: Spartan Strike for $5.99 on Steam or your Microsoft mobile device.
Suicide Squad will follow current Batman v. Superman movie!
Major Nelson brings us the skinny on all the new and improved features.
Yet another nail in the coffin for those hoping to see him strap on a proton pack again.
It's also a horse and it's also magic.
Early user guide reveals iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3.
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In 2009, total recordable injury and illness rates decreased by eight percent, while cases involving days away from work, job transfer or restriction also decreased by eight percent.
“Worker safety is a top priority and a non-competitive issue in the meat and poultry industry,” said AMI President and CEO J. Patrick Boyle. “These numbers reflect the continued efforts by our industry to make meaningful and measurable improvements and we hope to build on this record of success as we strive to ensure our workplaces are as safe as possible.”
To access the full report go to http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/osh/os/ostb2435.pdf.
Rising feed costs hurt profit outlookA food industry analyst said that rising feed costs have wiped out profit prospects for U.S. pork and poultry producers next year, likely curbing expansion plans and leading to a cutback in chicken production.
BB&T Capital Markets analyst Heather Jones said that as corn prices raise above $5 a bushel, estimated 2011 hog production margins slipped to a loss of $4 per slaughter animal, down from a per-head profit of $4 three weeks ago. Chicken producers are also expected to lose money next year.
“The very meaningful increase in feed costs that has been unmatched by improvement in customer demand will result in sustained losses for poultry producers,” Jones said in the report. “Thus, we expect a meaningful reduction in supply,” beginning in early 2011.
To read the Cattle Network article in its entirety, go to http://www.cattlenetwork.com/Soaring-Feed-Costs-Erase-Profit-Outlook-For-Chicken--Pork--Analyst-Says/2010-10-26/Article.aspx?oid=1276924&fid=.
Source: Cattle Network
Le Mars, Iowa, to get new pork plantNorth American Co-Pack Iowa announced that it be building a new pork production facility in Le Mars, Iowa, and may eventually employ up to 100 people. Bret Peterson, the company’s chief financial officer, confirmed the move in an interview with theLe Mars Daily Sentinal.
“We are coming to town,” he told the paper. “We are excited to be there.” More information will come available as the project moves forward, he said.
North American Co-Pack Iowa plans to provide a full range of processed pork products to retail, food service and industrial markets, according to information from Iowa Department of Economic Development (IDED). The plant's focus will be sliced meats and other ready-to-eat food processing, according to IDED.
IDED provided a $255,000 High Quality Jobs Creation award in September, and North American Co-Pack Iowa is making a $1.3 million capital investment and create 54 jobs initially. The company will locate in an existing facility in Le Mars.
Source: Le Mars Daily Sentinal
Gold'n Plump unveils addition to ground chicken line-upGold'n Plump Poultry has added an even leaner option to its already popular Recipe Ready Ground Chicken line-up. Available nationwide and sold under the Gold'n Plump brand, lean ground chicken can be found in grocers' fresh meat cases in both tray packages (95% lean) and new, compact "chubs" (93% lean) for easy storage and stacking in refrigerators and freezers. Also available in the frozen meat case, the 93% lean chub features a full-color photograph of a ground chicken dish as well as easy meal ideas. The ideas are intended to help educate consumers on how to swap-out healthier ground chicken for ground beef in traditional dishes such as tacos, lasagna, chili, and Sloppy Joes. Since most recipes typically require one pound of ground meat, the ground chicken packages are available in convenient 16-ounce sizes.
"Consumers continue to look for healthy, family-friendly meal ideas and ground chicken has a more neutral flavor base than beef, so it's a natural choice for dishes like chili and spaghetti-especially for finicky kids. Healthy eating doesn't have to be 'boring' or 'bland'-it can be delicious," said Sara Danforth, product manager for Gold'n Plump Poultry. Danforth also explained that while education is important, Gold'n Plump recognized that consumers are busy-particularly those with school-aged children. That's why the company clearly labeled fat content and provided easy meal ideas on the front of the label, instead of inside or on the back.
Source: Gold’n Plump
Catelli Brothers names new director of retail salesAfter 18 years of holding the positions of vice president of sales and general manager of Boston Lamb & Veal/ Superior Farms, Ray Capozzi returns to Catelli Brothers as director of retail sales, it was announced by Anthony Catelli, President and CEO. Catelli Brothers, headquartered in Collingswood, N.J., is part of the Fontelli Food Group, one of the largest veal and lamb purveyors in the country.
Capozzi started his career in the meat industry with Swift & Company in 1975. In 1987 he became Director of Lamb Sales at Catelli Brothers, a post he held for five years before joining Boston Lamb & Veal, which later was absorbed by Superior Farms.
Source: Catelli Brothers
Al Fresco sausage wins Cooking Light awardal fresco was recently named a winner inCooking Lightmagazine's 2010 Taste Test Awards for its Sweet Apple chicken sausage. Featured in the magazine's October issue,Cooking Light's Taste Test Awards celebrate a year-long search for the most delicious and nutritious food products from hundreds of brands in 50 bestselling grocery store and artisanal categories.
"We are ecstatic to have received this award from Cooking Light for our all natural Sweet Apple chicken sausage," said Sarah Crowley, al fresco's Senior Brand Manager. "Cooking Light is the leading voice in light and healthy cuisine, and we are honored to have received this nod from their editors."
Cooking Light editors chose products available in major supermarkets nationwide and then vetted those products against nutrition standards, omitting any with artificial trans fats, artificial sugars, or too much salt. The 200 products that made the cut were then tasted "blind," with the brands of each product unknown to the tasters until after the winners were selected.
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[Pitchcare (press release)] - The league's best pitches were determined by a marking system used by referees and away managers during the season, before the final winners were decided after detailed inspections by Dr Stephen Baker, head of soils and sports surface science at the


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It took only a few years for high-definition televisions to make the transition from high-priced novelty to ubiquitous commodity—and they now seem to be heading for obsolescence just as quickly. At the Consumer Electronics ...
(AP) -- YouTube is making its long expected foray into live streaming by launching an experimental trial with four new media partners.
(PhysOrg.com) -- Software developed at Oxford University is making it possible to fuse real and 3D computer-generated visuals on the fly.
New technology developed by a collaboration between the UA and the University of California, Los Angeles, provides real-time monitoring of streaming video to optimize network traffic.
A trip down to the local DVD store has slowly become a thing of the past thanks to the rise of video streaming services, which allow viewers to indulge in back-to-back episodes of hit TV series like House of Cards and Breaking ...
When Martin Kaellstroem was a young adult, he lost both his parents to cancer. It became a spur for him to seize the day, as a person and an entrepreneur.
Google has bought virtual imaging patents from Taiwanese supplier Foxconn that could be used in its interactive "Google Glass" devices, according to a document acquired by AFP on Saturday.
It's the bane of streaming media—the endlessly spinning cursor on a dark screen, or the final minutes of a favorite show freezing to a halt when the wireless signal weakens. A new technology developed by researchers at ...
Google late Friday put out word that it won't add face-recognition features to Glass, in a bow to privacy fears raised about the camera-enabled Internet-connected eyewear.
Google Glass was a common sight as software savants shared visions of games, weather reports, news and more delivered to the Internet-linked eyewear.


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Balter bought by CUB
Peter Filipovic discusses the buyout of the craft beer.
Balter Brewing has confirmed its sale to the country's biggest brewer, Carlton & United Breweries.
Announcing the sale today, Balter CEO and co-founder Ant Macdonald said the CUB buyout would help the company fund its next stage of growth.
"This deal will help us achieve our sustainability goals, upgrade capacity and hospitality at our Gold Coast brewery and create new jobs," he said.
Founded by surfers Mick Fanning, Joel Parkinson and friends in 2016, Balter has fast become one of Australia's biggest independent breweries, and an obvious takeover target for the multinationals.
The brewery has been surrounded by buyout speculation from day one, given the celebrity involvement, and that of other high profile investors such as former Channel Nine boss, David Gyngell.
There were also co-founder Josh Kerr's links with Saint Archer, the San Diego 'lifestyle beer brand' started by a harem of surfers, skateboarders, artists and entrepreneurs in 2013, then flipped to US brewing giant MillerCoors two years later.
Balter's founders insisted from day one it would not be another Saint Archer, so there is an air of cynicism surrounding today's news.
As recently as January 2018, head brewer Scott Hargrave told beer website The Crafty Pint that capitulating to a buyout, "would be like bringing a virus into the industry I love".
"That was never the intention with the guys who wanted me to be part of it."
Reflecting on those words today, Hargrave says much has changed for both him and Balter in the intervening period.
"I've just got cop that on the chin," he says.
"I hope even-minded people out there would realise that you don't think the same way when you're 17 as what you do when you're 45."
The sale of Balter, like that of Pirate Life to CUB in November 2017, highlights that breweries with highly fragmented ownership structures will always be vulnerable to a takeover.
Growing a brewery requires ongoing investment in expensive equipment, marketing and distribution channels.
Investors are often confronted with the prospect of having to tip more money into the business before having seen a return – or see their shareholdings diluted.
Hargrave says his own mindset changed as Balter began to confront these types of realities.
"We've got 49 shareholders that need to have their investment in us protected – people who put their life savings into us when it was just an empty shed," he says.
"How else are we going to repay them for allowing us to build our dream?
"We have 65 staff whose jobs we wanted to ensure were safe. I had an awakening that, you know what, I've got to think beyond my own stance, my own ideology."
Meanwhile, competition in the craft beer landscape continues to heat up, so there are no guarantees that Balter will continue to enjoy the same rapid growth as an independent.
Balter's flagship XPA and minimalist brand aesthetic had some clear air in the market at the time of their arrival, but times have changed.
"It's like XPA built its own little beer style, and it has now been populated by other beers bearing that name, at times with a similar sort of template, so that's pretty flattering," says Hargrave.
"But there's probably another 100 more breweries in Australia now than when we started, if not more.
"It all adds up to much fiercer market competition, and us having to be really adult about this stuff now."
Balter's sale is the second such transaction of 2019, following Asahi's purchase of Brisbane outfit Green Beacon in August.
The Independent Brewers Association said in a statement that this activity demonstrates its members, "are successfully tapping into the growing thirst for independent beer".
"The continued growth and excitement the independent brewers are experiencing is driving the large brewers to be far more acquisitive.
"Independent beer is at six per cent of the total beer market by volume and growing rapidly at 25 per cent versus the previous year."
The association congratulated Balter, while noting that its membership had already lapsed.
"As they have made the decision to sell the business to a large brewer, they made that decision in full knowledge that they are no longer eligible to be a member of the IBA," it said.


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China will carry out pilot projects for the integration of domestic and foreign trade and form a batch of replicable experiences and practices to promote this trading form within three years, according to a circular released by the Ministry of Commerce on Tuesday.
The circular, issued by 14 central government departments including the Ministry of Commerce and the National Development and Reform Commission, said the government will facilitate the leading roles of its pilot free trade zones and other key platforms in integrating domestic and foreign trade in line with international rules in selected areas.
China will cultivate a group of companies with integrated management systems of domestic and foreign trade and build a number of platforms to support this sector within three years, according to the circular.
To support trade integration, the document stressed improving laws, regulations and supervisory rules and further aligning domestic trading rules and standards with global ones involving intellectual property rights protection, customs clearance and product certification, among other aspects.
The circular said efforts should be made to help companies such as cross-border supply chain service providers navigate operations in markets at home and abroad. Promoting integrated trade requires nurturing new business modes, such as digital development backed by modern information technology.


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More new phones coming out of Mobile World Congress this afternoon, with ZTE getting in on the action this time around. The Chinese hardware manufacturer has outed 3 new handsets named Amigo, Blade and Skate...
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The DogHouse – Opening Soon
Scotland-born brewing juggernaut BrewDog has announced a two-year blueprint for the expansion of its Murarrie beer campus. After making waves with the launch of its humungous brewery and taproom DogTap, the crew has revealed plans for a neighbouring craft-beer hotel called The DogHouse. While an Australian first, The DogHouse Brisbane will be BrewDog’s second beery hotel, following on from its first foray into accommodation with The DogHouse Columbus – which opened at the brewery’s Ohio hub in 2018. The team will break ground and commence construction on a planned four-storey, 30-room hotel on a vacant lot adjacent to the Murarrie headquarters later this year. Once complete, The DogHouse will boast an assortment of rooms and suites, each with beer fridges in the shower, a mini bar stocked to the brim with local brews, beer-infused toiletries, a tap system in your room for keg-fresh pours and potentially a swim-up pool bar. BrewDog is looking to open The DogHouse Brisbane in 2022, and will also look to simultaneously update DogTap with a new mezzanine and function area inside the taproom space as well as an expanded walk-in takeaway shop and larger kitchen. What’s more, soon the brew crew will reveal details on another Brisbane taproom, with an inner-city taproom site soon to be secured.


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If you didn’t know it before you signed onto Twitter this morning, you certainly know it now: today is Earth Day.
Tweets and Facebook posts mentioning the 40-plus-year-old holiday have been on the rise in recent years. There were a combined 895,000 of them in 2013 and 1.2 million in 2014, according to social media analytics firm Crimson Hexagon. Already in the last 24 hours there have been 221,000 posts mentioning the day — nearly 100,000 in the hour between 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. EDT.
With sustainability en vogue, brands are out in full force.
Nissan, for its part, was savvy for touting its electric cars:
— Nissan (@Nissan) April 22, 2015
Tesla, another green automaker, went the humblebrag route, with a retweet of a compliment from electronica star deadmau5:
— Tesla Motors (@TeslaMotors) April 22, 2015
Indeed, a common refrain from brands was a near-desperate attempt at showing how much good they do for the environment. No, really! Just ask JetBlue:
— JetBlue Airways (@JetBlue) April 22, 2015
And Tyson Foods, which is touting its environmental bona fides by claiming it eliminated truck delivery miles (but glossed over its less than sterling environmental record, practically everywhere else).
Tyson eliminated over 60.8 million truck miles during FY2014 via direct ship, rail, & ocean partners#EarthDay https://t.co/XHcMegZFig
— Tyson Foods (@TysonFoods) April 22, 2015
This brings up a significant issue. Last year, brands with horrible environmental records were flat out shameless on April 22. And as consumers become increasingly attuned to the issues of greenwashing, brands risk getting tuned out on Twitter. Do we really need today’s deluge of enviro-friendly tweets from the likes of Redbull, Cap’n Crunch, Asics, Stella Artois and Burger King?
In 2013, the number of critical posts mentioning both “greenwashing” and “Earth Day” clocked in at 140, according to Crimson Hexagon. That number may be small, but it more than doubled in 2014 to 297. Indeed, a new study by Horizon Media and social analytics firm Distillery found a drop in consumer interest and importance placed on the holiday.
Two in 10 (23 percent) of the respondents said they will be celebrating Earth Day this year, down 5 percent from last year. More than three-quarters (79 percent) did agree the day is an “important” one, but that number is down 11 percent from the previous year.
“The mainstreaming of ‘green’ has made environmentalism more ordinary, but it has also created a savvy public more primed to dig up dirt that belies corporate intentions,” Horizon Media’s Kirk Olson wrote in a statement. “Our research suggests that as green causes proliferate, consumers expect brands to carry the financial and activist burden on their behalf.”
Be that as it may, not every brand tweet was a waste of space this morning. Here, then, is the best of the rest on brand Twitter. Domino’s went for humor and actually kind of scored.
Intel got inside, too. And scored extra geek points for referencing Moore’s Law.
— Intel (@intel) April 22, 2015
Petco went cute and hit the right chord.
Leave it to NASA to remind us what the day is really about, though.
— NASA (@NASA) April 22, 2015
With additional reporting by Tanya Dua. Image courtesy Burger King.
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Online trend 1st gained popularity in South Korea in the 2010s
Common etiquette suggests it's rude to watch strangers eat their meal while out at a restaurant. But a growing online trend offers a reprieve for gastronomical voyeurs.
Twitch, the live streaming platform typically associated with video games, launched a "social eating" channel this month, where people can watch and interact with people as they eat.
It's part of Twitch's growing creative channel, which includes live demonstrations of painting, drawing and costuming.
The social eating trend first gained notoriety in South Korea, where it's become known as muk-bang, or literally "eating broadcast."
The most popular muk-bang streamers crack into piles food totalling thousands of calories, chatting with and answering questions from fans. Many of them, including a woman known as The Diva, can be found on Korea's YouTube-like platform Afreeca, but archives can be found on YouTube, some with millions of views.
North Americans are no stranger to food porn on YouTube, of course. Websites like Buzzfeed and other solo streamers attract thousands of views when posting clips of people devouring trendy fast food like Taco Bell's Doritos Tacos and Burger King's Mac and Cheetos.
'Like going out to a restaurant with your friends'
So far, Twitch streams on the social eating channel are considerably more relaxed. Streamers casually eat meals such as hot dogs or nachos while playing video games or listening to music.
In most cases, they aren't mimicking the gargantuan meals of muk-bang veterans, nor are they sampling the weirdest new fast food trends. For Twitch, the "social" half of the label is as important as the "eating" half.
"Its main purpose is to enjoy food in a social setting, much like going out to a restaurant with your friends, providing interactive entertainment around mealtimes for anyone watching," according to Twitch's social eating FAQ page.
"The appeal may be in companionship, albeit remote companionship over the internet," the BBC said in a 2015 report on muk-bang. "It feels like a dinner party where the diners are talking from different rooms."
Primarily a gaming-centric streaming site, Twitch launched its creative channels in 2015 with a weeks-long broadcast of every episode of Bob Ross's The Joy of Painting. It attracted hundreds of thousands of viewers. It also recently ran a 24-hour marathon of Julia Child's The French Chef.
While these older shows generated much of the initial attention for Twitch creative, the space appears focused on individual creators streaming their own artistic pursuits.
Twitch streamers already have a food sub-channel on creative, but the social eating category was added for those who want to eat food online instead of — or in addition to — preparing the food themselves.
Binge drinking, eating pet food banned
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- Primarily drinking alcoholic beverages, such as taking shots, drinking games, binge drinking or drinking parties.
- Eating items or food not meant for human consumption, such as pet food, toxic substances, bodily fluids, refuse or inedible objects.
- Food challenges or contests, such as chugging, snorting or binge/speed eating.
- Food challenges or contests involving the exchange of money, goods or services, such as eating or shots, for dares or for money.
- Feeding others, such as pets or babies.


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Brandi King, winner of the “Spring Vol Court Speaker Series” at the University of Tennessee, and her partner officially launched Rentique, the truck-based, dress rental start-up, yesterday with a grand opening at The Casual Pint in Hardin Valley.
The idea is to rent quality clothing at reasonable prices for special occasions to a target audience – women between 15 and 35 years old.
We stopped by the grand opening and captured this photo of Brandi (left) and Jenifer Sanabria, her Co-Founder, in front of their former bread delivery truck.
Here are two more photos – a rack of dresses in the Rentique truck and King in front of some of the dresses.
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Amid extended lockdowns and work-from-home arrangements, Thai island resort Kamalaya Wellness Sanctuary and Holistic Spa is seeing a rising trend among corporates for holistic wellness solutions that can help teams reconnect.
First opened in 2005, the Koh Samui resort has traditionally been popular with leisure guests seeking its diverse wellness programmes that include anti-stress and burnout prevention. This has now expanded to include the corporate and MICE markets, with demand, both local and overseas, expected to account for almost a third of its business in 2022.
“The corporate and MICE markets are looking to evolve their experiences to include tools that assist in reconnecting teams, embracing change and dealing with long term anxieties caused by the pandemic-induced extended lockdowns," said Bruce Ryde, general manager and brand strategist who joined Kamalaya Wellness Sanctuary and Holistic Spa last month.
"This has meant a marked uptick in enquiries for programmes and retreats that assist in these areas, particularly at a senior leadership level."
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Stress reduction, team dynamics and embracing change are recurring themes that businesses have highlighted in the last 12 months, added Ryde, who previously headed luxury brands strategy for Marriott International and IHG.
Senior management from multinational companies, embassies and NGOs are interested in professional team-building and personal mentoring, while enquiries for wellness-focused incentive programmes have also increased.
While the demand for wellness is largely domestic currently, Ryde is confident that short-haul markets like Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and potentially the Middle East, will be key.
“It is still difficult to know how the global markets will reopen. But one thing that has been apparent is that Asia's poised to become a much larger consumer of holistic wellness tourism,” he said.
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What happened: Alibaba’s courier app Cainiao Guoguo announced today on China’s microblogging service Weibo that the company will recruit 100,000 more deliverymen within the next three years. The company added that it aims to increase the average income of its delivery fleet by more than 20% during the same period. Launched in 2016, Cainiao Guoguo is a one-stop package tracking and order-placing platform.
Why it’s important: The competition between Alibaba and JD.com is expanding beyond e-commerce business to logistics, a sector with significant overlap with their core business. Cainiao Guoguo’s announcement comes two days after news began circulating widely about JD.com replacing fixed salaries with commission-based wages for its more than 100,000 deliverymen, likely resulting in lowered compensation. China’s express delivery market has recorded sharp growth over the past few years, however, the logistics sector still depends heavily on manpower. Chinese tech giants including Alibaba, JD.com, and Meituan are working on their own autonomous delivery solutions to reduce labor costs.


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The Federal Trade Commission submitted two reports that were requested by Congress as part of the fiscal year 2020 spending bill that funds the FTC and other agencies. The reports outline the agency’s work in the areas of consumer privacy and the use of potential additional resources.
The first report outlines how the FTC uses its current authority to protect consumer privacy and data security. The second report includes an analysis measuring how the FTC has used its current authority to protect consumer privacy and data security and what additional resources would be needed to expand its efforts.
The Commission voted 4-0-1 to send the two reports to Congress. Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter did not participate. Chairman Joe Simons along with Commissioners Noah Joshua Phillips and Christine S. Wilson issued a statement. Commissioner Rohit Chopra issued a separate statement.
The Federal Trade Commission works to promote competition and to protect and educate consumers. You can learn more about consumer topics and report scams, fraud, and bad business practices online at ReportFraud.ftc.gov. Like the FTC on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, get consumer alerts, read our blogs, and subscribe to press releases for the latest FTC news and resources.


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Live photos of the new Genesis G80 hit the NetMarch 24, 2020
The photographs show not only the appearance of the expected news, but also the interior.
Already very little is left before the official presentation of the new premium third-generation Genesis G80 sedan. Today, live pictures of the new car have appeared on the Web. After a generation change, the car received some features of the sister crossover GV80.
In the front of the car, attention is attracted by a large pentagonal radiator grille, as well as two-row optics of the head light. The silhouette of the model combines the style of a luxury sedan and a sports coupe. In the new interior photos, you can have a good look at the steering wheel and an updated front panel.
Experts made the layout, in which the space in the cabin became visually larger, and the review became much better due to the thinner front pillars and a different design of the rear view mirrors.
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Patrick Moody, Spokesman for Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital
Are you trying to eat healthier in 2020? New nutrition facts labels out this year might make it a little easier to do so.
All food products made by large companies are now required to use a redesigned nutrition facts label.
Here are some of the changes you’ll see—and why they were made:
Realistic serving sizes. Serving sizes have been updated to reflect how much people actually eat and drink today. For example, the standard serving size for ice cream was previously 1/2 cup. But most people eat more than that in one sitting. So it’s been updated to 2/3 cup. Likewise, the serving size for soft drinks has been updated from 8 ounces to 12 ounces.
Eye-catching calories. Some changes to the labels are visual. For instance, calorie counts and serving sizes are now in larger, bolder type—making them easier to find.
Comparing calories can help you choose the healthier of two food or drink options in the store.
Spotlight on sugar. The new labels now also identify how many added sugars are in a product. These are reported both in grams and as a percent of Daily Value (that’s the recommended amount of added sugars you should limit yourself to each day).
Some sugars occur naturally in healthy foods like fruits, vegetables and dairy products. But added sugars are extra sweeteners—such as syrups, honey or concentrated juices—added to a food during processing.
Why the emphasis on added sugars? Research shows it’s hard to meet your nutrient needs while staying within daily calorie limits when you get more than 10% of your total daily calories from added sugars.
Needed nutrients. The list of vitamins and minerals that must be included on labels has also been changed to better highlight common gaps in the American diet. For instance, the old labels listed vitamins A and C because most Americans weren’t getting enough of those at the time. But that’s changed. Now research shows we aren’t getting enough vitamin D and potassium. So they’ll appear on more labels now.
All nutrients are reported as percent of Daily Value. But now, vitamin D, calcium, iron and potassium are also reported in actual amounts.
Patrick Moody is the director of marketing and public relations at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital. For more information about local community health programs, visit HenryMayo.com. ν


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Lawmakers were putting the finishing touches Friday night on a compromise bill that would lead to a temporary pause in California's effort to force more online retailers to collect sales taxes.
A vote was expected before midnight on AB155, one of the last major bills remaining in the final hours of this year's legislative session.
The compromise between lawmakers, Amazon.com and traditional retailers would delay the expanded online tax collections until at least September 2012. That would give Amazon and other retailers time to lobby Congress for national rules governing online sales taxes.
It would eliminate an estimated $200 million in tax revenue the state had been counting on this fiscal year while ending the threat of an expensive fight over an Amazon-sponsored 2012 ballot referendum to repeal the tax change.
Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, said Thursday that the compromise provided the state with certainty of future revenue.
The debate over whether online retailers must collect taxes from customers in other states involves billions of dollars across the nation.
A 1992 U.S. Supreme Court decision involving a mail-order company established that retailers only have to collect state tax if they have a physical presence in the state, such as a retail store. Customers who buy from out-of-state retailers are supposed to pay the sales and use tax directly to their home state, but few do.
As Amazon and other online retailers took a larger share of the market, traditional retailers argued that the tax rules unfairly cut into their business by giving online sellers a price advantage. State and local governments also cried foul about outdated laws that never envisioned a retail store in every Web browser and cost them tax revenue.
California this year joined a growing wave of states that tried to boost tax collections by expanding the definition of "physical presence" in the state to include marketing affiliates, who steer online customers to the retail site, and sister companies such as Amazon's Silicon Valley subsidiary that developed the Kindle electronic book reader.
Internet retailers said the move was illegal. Amazon cut ties to California affiliates and has spent more than $5 million to gather signatures for a referendum to repeal the law since Gov. Jerry Brown signed it June 28.
AB155 would eliminate the language Brown signed until at least Sept. 15, 2012. When it does take effect, it would apply only to sellers with at least $1 million in annual sales, up from $500,000 in the law Brown signed.
The amendments also would require large online retailers to notify customers that they owe state tax and provide a total amount of annual purchases potentially subject to the tax.