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Augmate will be ending their token sale after a successful six months that saw many milestones reached for the company.
Augmate’s MATE™ token began in December 2017, creating a token that allowed anyone to participate in the rise of a global ecosystem of human and device connectivity, starting with the enterprise and quickly expanding to the consumer space. Along their journey, Augmate became the first ICO to feature on Crowdfunder – a campaign crowdfunding site. This offered full transparency and legitimacy to their token, in a rough period of regulations and scams within initial coin offerings. Augmate also made the decision to offer a security token rather than a utility token, ensuring that the company attracted investors that believed in the company and its future.
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A Kmart store that has sat vacant amid the chain’s parent company filing for bankruptcy soon will become a closeout retailer.
Ocean State Job Lot stores is expected to move into the site at 801 Male Road in Wind Gap by the end of the month. Kmart this past March closed the Wind Gap location after parent company, Sears Holdings, announced in August 2019 it would be closing four additional stores in New Jersey and the Wilson Borough location in Pennsylvania. By mid-December 2019, the Wilson Borough store was shuttered after a couple months of liquidation sales.
An employee at the location at 400 N. Best Ave. in Walnutport previously said that store was expected to close in late summer and no one answered the phone at the store on Tuesday. The other shuttered Kmart locations are not being taken over by Ocean State Job Lot nor are any other stores in Pennsylvania, Paul Conforti, the company’s chief marketing officer, told lehighvalleylive.com.
The chain is known for its eclectic assortment of merchandise with departments ranging from health essentials; and beach and pool; to lawn and garden; outdoor living; water sports; and food and beverage; to household essentials; home decor; school and office supplies; pet supplies; and health and beauty. The items also are known to go on the sale racks at a fraction of their typical retail prices.
The Wind Gap store plans as a temporary measure during the coronavirus pandemic to offer curbside orders for patrons who have items shipped to the location. There will be no other delivery services.
Asked about the renovations of the 45,000-square-foot former Kmart space, Conforti said patrons can expect a total new layout reconfiguration at Ocean State Job Lot. The interior also has been repainted and there’s new LED lighting.
Ocean State plans to hire 50 full-time and part-time workers. Remaining positions include field merchandisers, department heads, front end supervisors, sales associates and stock associates. Benefits are being offered to both full-time and part-time associates, including dental and vision, 401K, company-paid life insurance and Paid Time Off for part-time employees, as well as all those benefits plus medical insurance and profit participation for full-time workers. The company did not disclose the starting pay of the positions.
Ocean State additionally is seeking tenants to occupy the remaining 50,000-square-feet of the former Kmart space. The store plans to be open 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Sunday with a special shopping hour on Tuesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. for those at greater risk for COVID-19.
Wind Gap is the chain’s 143rd store across nine states, and the fourth in Pennsylvania. It operates four others stores within an hour drive of Wind Gap, including in Clinton, Hunterdon County in New Jersey and Dickson City, Lackawanna County; Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County; and Montgomeryville, Montgomery County.
The privately-held discount chain was founded in 1977 with annual sales of about $750 million. Conforti told lehighvalleylive.com there are plans to open new locations across the northeast, including in Pennsylvania.
Transform Co., the parent of Sears and Kmart, was formed after Sears Holdings declared bankruptcy in October 2018 beneath a reported $11.3 billion in debt. While the company did re-emerge somewhat after the bankruptcy, Transform still announced in November 2019 it would be closing nearly 100 Kmart and Sears stores nationwide by the end of the year. The move to “streamline operations” also included the area’s last remaining Sears, an anchor tenant at Whitehall Mall.
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Lloyds puts 600 UK branches up for sale
A substantial part of the UK banking network will change hands in the coming days as Lloyds Banking Group starts an auction of branches
Sell-off: Potential buyers of the branches will receive approaches
Over the coming days, Wall Street invetsment banking giants Citigroup and JP Morgan will begin approaching potential buyers of 600 Lloyds branches, which the bailed-out lender is being forced to sell following its taxpayer rescue in 2008.
Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Money, National Australia Bank and a new venture headed by Lloyds of London chairman Lord Levene are seen as the most likely acquirers.
On top of the branches, Lloyds will have to offload around a fifth of its mortgage book and retail deposits to satisfy European Union state bailout and competition rules.
Together the assets on the block constitute Britain's seventh largest lender.
New chief executive, António Horta-Osório, has until the end of 2013 to complete the sale but analysts say a deal could be done by this Christmas. It is understood Citigroup and JP Morgan have agreed to provide a loan of as much as £20bn to expedite a sale.
Horta-Osorio put a moratorium on further Lloyds branch closures on his first day in the job at the start of this month.
His new strategy for the taxpayer-backed mega-bank will be made public in four months' time, but no more specific closures will be announced before the end of this year.
Lloyds is the UK's largest bank group in terms of retail customers, but has closed seven Halifax, 14 Lloyds TSB and 11 Bank of Scotland branches over the last year alone, in the wake of the disastrous takeover of HBOS.
It emerged recently as the most-complained about financial services firm, according to figures from the Financial Ombudsman: Lloyds received nearly 45,000 complaints last year.
Horta-Osorio has pledged to cut complaints by a fifth as part of a drive to improve its poor customer service record.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has declared his company’s Surface tablet marks a new era in which the computer software giant will leave no "stone unturned" in its innovation battle against Apple.
In an exclusive interview, Ballmer admitted to CRN Microsoft and its partners had in the past "ceded some of the boundary between hardware and software innovation" to Apple, but that was about to change.
"We are trying to make absolutely clear we are not going to leave any space uncovered to Apple," said an exuberant Ballmer following the company's annual Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto.
“We have our advantages in productivity,” he said. “We have our advantages in terms of enterprise management, manageability. We have got our advantages in terms of when you plug into server infrastructure in the enterprise."
He said Apple would not get ahead of Microsoft on consumer cloud or hardware software innovation 'on his watch'.
"We do feel empowered to innovate everywhere and bring our partners with us," Ballmer said. "We’re not going to leave any stone unturned, so to speak, as we pursue that."
Ballmer did not discount the possibility that Microsoft’s innovation offensive could include its own smartphone to compete against Apple’s wildly popular iPhone.
He said currently the Surface tablet was Microsoft's focus but strong partnerships with the likes of Nokia and HTC meant it was a possibility.
The software giant shook up the industry by unveiling plans for a pair of tablet computers dubbed "Surface" last month, in a bold move that thrust the world's largest software company into uncharted hardware waters.
Its partners, however, have been left out Microsoft's Surface tablet strategy. Ballmer told CRN if partners want to sell the new Surface tablet, they can buy it from Microsoft.com.
"They can’t order from their normal distribution," he said. "They can order it off Microsoft.com. And they can do what they want off Microsoft.com. But we are not setting up what I would call a typical distribution chain. What our partners choose to do is up to our partners."
The Surface marks the first time ever that Microsoft has tried Apple's long-successful strategy of tightly integrating its own hardware and software together in sleek products.
Microsoft is introducing two tablet products: Surface for Windows RT, a consumer tablet running Windows 8 on ARM microprocessors that Microsoft expects to be used in the workplace, and Surface for Windows 8 Pro, an Intel Core-based tablet that runs the edition of the upcoming Windows 8 operating system for business professionals.


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As a force that nurtures and nurtures the people, agriculture is one of the most vital industries in the US economy. To accompany the growth of the country over the years, agricultural practices have evolved to become more efficient, able to reliably meet the daily needs of the population. But these efficient practices also come with environmental costs, and many farmers and consumers are increasingly looking for more sustainable alternatives.
Organic farming is an approach to farming that attempts to mimic nature and natural processes when raising crops and livestock. Rather than using larger-scale industrial farming techniques, such as genetic modification, monoculture, and synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, organic farmers seek to conserve biodiversity and natural resources on their farmland.
Organic products have seen a boom in demand in recent years, and there are a number of reasons consumers might seek out organic products. Organic techniques are appealing to environmental consumers who value a more sustainable approach to farming that promotes biodiversity, limits pollution and increases carbon sequestration. For meat and dairy consumers, animal production on organic farms is seen as a more ethical and humane way to raise animals, as they have better access to the outdoors, better food and less waste. hormones and antibiotics. Health-conscious consumers can show that organic produce has health benefits, such as greater nutrient density and lower levels of toxic metals and pesticide residues than conventional agricultural produce.
Whatever the reasons, organic farming has grown tremendously over the past decade. In 2008, the United States had 10,903 organic farms covering approximately 4 million acres of farmland. In 2019, there were nearly 16,500 organic farms on 5.5 million acres. And those farms have grown along with consumer demand: Sales of organic produce have more than tripled over the same period, from $3.1 billion to $9.9 billion.


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Downtown department stores and suburban malls were crowded Thursday, as some people looked for sales and others returned unwanted items. Woodfield mall in Schaumburg, for example, braced for 140,000 visitors on its busiest day of the year.
Retailers have suffered a disappointing holiday season this year as cautious shoppers spent conservatively, and the size of the crowds hitting stores in the next several days may determine whether this year is bad for retailers or merely mediocre. As much as 10 percent of holiday sales occur in the week after Christmas, industry analysts say.
Scott Krugman, a spokesman for the National Retail Federation, said people were careful in how they spent their money, and they want a break on prices.
"Consumers have been very cautious this holiday season," Krugman said. "Consumers are looking for bargains, and they are going to find a lot of them right now."
Industry analysts say concerns about the economy and conflict in the Middle East contributed to soft retail sales, and a late Thanksgiving made the traditional holiday shopping season shorter than usual, which also cut into sales.
Research by the Bank of Tokyo indicates sales increased just 2.5 percent in December from a year ago.
"That makes it a disappointing holiday shopping season, weaker than the last two disappointing seasons," said Alexander Paris of Barrington Research, in a bulletin to the firm's clients. "The January sales month will probably be pretty quiet."
Discounter Wal-Mart Stores Inc. set the tone the day after Christmas, saying its results were not what it had hoped for.
"Sales accelerated over the weekend and through Christmas Eve with two of those days over $1 billion in sales," the company said in a statement. "However, the increase was too late and too little for us to reach our sales plan."
The world's largest retailer said it expects sales to be up just 2 or 3 percent for the holiday season.
A spokeswoman for Sears, Roebuck and Co. said shoppers appeared most interested in useful items like cold-weather clothing. Also popular were combination electronic goods, such as TVs with built-in videocassette players or microwave/toaster ovens.
"Functional, practical items were what was selling well in the stores," said Jan Drummond. "The apparel items are not frivolous."
Marc Strich, general manager of Woodfield, said stores in his mall expect a moderate increase in sales over last year.
Casual clothing did well this year, he said, while upscale jewelry did not.
"There is a direct relationship with higher-end jewelry sales and the stock market," Strich said.
Krugman, of the National Retail Federation, noticed a trend this year: Gift certificates were markedly more popular than in the past, which may have temporarily minimized sales results because many stores do not count gift certificates as sales until they are used.
Why the sudden popularity in gift certificates?
"Consumers are shifting the buying burden to the recipient," Krugman said.
The compressed shopping season may have encouraged people to buy gift certificates as a way to save time, he said.
Confidence among consumers has been one of the few bright points in the economy. Earlier this week the University of Michigan's survey of consumer confidence was moderately positive, indicating that people think the economy will improve.
But some shoppers remain apprehensive.
Brenda Garland of Country Club Hills, who was visiting downtown Chicago on Thursday looking to use a gift certificate, said she spent less on presents this season than in the past.
"I have a lot of concerns--the economy, the pending war," said Garland, who also cited a more personal reason for cutting back: "I don't want to owe a lot of money."
Still, people did spend money on less-than-essential items.
"Here at State Street, we do a great business in gourmet foods," said Brad Poterack, an assistant store manager at the downtown Marshall Field's. "Our cosmetics saw some great business, and faux fur and fur-trimmed items seemed to be very popular as well."
Poterack would not discuss sales numbers, but he said many of the shoppers crowding his store aren't concerned about buying for the holidays. "After Christmas, people start to look toward spring."


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DENVER — Spiffit, a SaaS provider of automotive retail sales incentive management dashboards, announced this week that Dealertrack Technologies has certified the integration of its application with the software provider's dealer management system (DMS).
The new incentive interface, approved via Dealertrack’s Opentrack Certification Program, will give Dealertrack’s users the ability to efficiently manage and operate Spiffs directly from their Dealertrack DMS.
“This integration gives Dealertrack DMS users the opportunity to easily implement and manage Spiff programs,” stated Sean Ugrin, CEO and founder of Spiffit. “Forward thinking and innovative Dealertrack dealership customers using Spiffit’s sales performance application dashboards can expect see increased sales and improved management of incentive programs.
Sharon Kitzman, vice president and general manager of DealerTrack DMS, added: "Dealertrack’s DMS Opentrack Certification Program allows dealers to securely integrate their Dealertrack DMS with certified third-party providers and software like Spiffit. In addition to Spiffit, there are more than 70 certified Opentrack partners.”


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There’s a pair of announcements from Intel and Razer today — the former is shipping a new NUC with a massive internal GPU and Razer Core compatibility, while Razer finally hung a price tag on its new external chassis.
Could AMD and Intel be working on a cross-licensing deal? Reports say yes. It wouldn’t be the first time the two companies have signed cross-licensing agreements, though past details have typically focused on x86 CPUs rather than GPU technology.
The Rowhammer exploit doesn’t target software, but DRAM itself — and new research confirms that this problem is still present on both high-end servers with mitigating technologies and at least some Micron DDR4.
Adobe’s new Experience Designer (XD) aims to simplify and consolidate the mash-up of design and prototyping tools currently used by most User Experience designers.
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After an embarrassing delay, Samsung announced on Wednesday its first foldable smartphone, Galaxy Fold, launched in September after have undergone a redesign to account for problems with screen confidence.
Samsung's redesigned Galaxy Fold will debut in September.
The Korean technology giant in a post to the site said the device will be ready for sale in September after missing out on a rollout originally set for April. The new timeline puts the folding handset in direct competition with Apple's iPhone, where new versions are expected to debut the same month.
According to Samsung, the new and improved Galaxy Fold has a top protective layer that has been expanded beyond the frame, making it "clear that it is an integral part of the screen structure and not intended to be removed." A number of early reviewers tried to remove the team and thought it was a screen protector, a user error that broke the smartphone's flexible OLED panel.
Special reinforcements such as "protective caps" are added to the upper and lower hinges and are designed to hold particles outside sensitive areas, while additional metal layers under the Infinity Flex Display help strengthen the mechanism, the company said. Furthermore, the space between the hinge and the chassis is reduced.
The settings will help alleviate issues affecting review units before release that went out to select news sites and media influencers in April. Reliability issues were among the early complaints, and many noticed that a clear curl appears along the hinge line of the 7.3-inch OLED panel after repeated folding and unfolding. Some users noticed corrupted graphics which in some cases made parts, half or the entire panel completely non-functional.
After several reports of screen errors, graphics issues, and other issues, Samsung decided to push back a consumer launch as it considered the situation.
Samsung's announced improvements are in line with previous rumors of Fold's redesign.
In addition to hardware enhancements, Samsung has been working to optimize multiple apps for the unique collapsible screen.
Samsung Electronics CEO D.J. Koh admitted earlier this month that Fold was introduced too early.
"It was embarrassing. I pushed it through before it was clear," Koh said in a statement. "I admit that I missed something on the folding phone, but we're about to recover."
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Last week, two additional dates (Aug. 18 and 23) of the legend’s 40th anniversary celebration of Hot August Night were announced to go on sale today at 10 a.m. Just added: a fifth performance, Aug. 25.
As expected, that continues Diamond’s pattern of performing Thursdays and Saturdays that month. If only there weren’t already a few Tuesday bookings in August, from Regina Spektor and Buddy Guy & Jonny Lang, he could pull a Jimmy Buffett all month long (cf. Mr. Margaritaville’s 1999 live album).
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Books are for everyone… or are they? Various books have been banned for decades, and even still today. Do you know how the US is doing on that front?
Although banned books have existed since their first creation, most people think it’s a thing of the past. Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but that’s not so true. Books are still banned nowadays, even in the US. This is still an issue we’re dealing with and because of it, the last week of September is “Banned Books week”.
Highlighting the value of open access to information, Banned Book Week was first held in 1982 in response to the sudden increase of banned books in libraries, schools, and colleges. In 2018, top challenged and banned books include a myriad of young adult and children’s books that touch on topics like LGBTQI+ characters, teen suicide, profanity, drinking, and even different religious points of view.
Luckily, sometimes the ban just makes these books more powerful. For example, Albert Einstein’s “Essays in Humanism” were prohibited because of their views on the UN, socialism, and pacifism. Other famous fictions that were at some point banned or challenged are The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore, From Here to Eternity by James Jones, and The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Other surprises? The Bible, the Communist Manifesto and even Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Want to know more? Here are some stats on banned books in the US.


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The common factor in these robberies is how the suspect or suspects operate. Authorities say the suspect tends to hit small businesses with few employees, sparse security, and that are close to freeways.
The search is on for the armed suspect or suspects who held up a pet store and beauty supply store within a week's time.
Murrieta Police believe the robberies are tied to a series of other holdups in western Riverside County.
The latest robbery happened Thursday just after 5:30 p.m. on the 39800 block of Alta Murrieta Drive.
According to police the suspect went inside a beauty supply store and demanded money at gunpoint. The three female employees complied and the suspect left.
Meanwhile in Moreno Valley an increase in robberies led the Riverside County Sheriff's Department to issue a business alert.
"It appears that most of these robbers are coming armed, covering their faces, wearing dark hoods, and they are looking for money," said Riverside County Sheriff's Sgt. Joe Borja. "It appears that if you give over the money that nobody gets hurt."
The sheriff's department doesn't believe the robberies in Moreno Valley are the work of a single suspect. They are asking store owners to remain on the lookout for any suspicious activity.
Mike Cruz owns Plaza de Majorca. He says he has taken steps to ensure his tenants' safety during business hours.
"Of course we have security, that also helps out a lot," said Cruz. "Of course p.d. is always here, we know them pretty well. We just make a phone call and they come right away."
Surveillance cameras are an added measure that Ruben Gomez took after his Audio Galaxy store was robbed a few years ago. While it may not stop a robbery, he is hopeful it will help investigators should it happen again.
"We're trying to just stay prepared and try to avoid any conflict," said Gomez.
Police advise businesses that if they are confronted, to comply with a robber's demands so no one gets hurt.
Police say a witness may have seen the suspect's face as he was leaving. They are in the process of producing a composite sketch of the suspect.


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Another attempt is underway to privatize Pennsylvania’s state-run liquor system and end the monopoly of state-owned stores being the only place to buy distilled spirits.
A proposed constitutional amendment introduced by state Rep. Natalie Mihalek is the latest effort in a decades-long campaign by state Republicans to do away with a system in place since the end of Prohibition, the legacy of anti-alcohol Gov. Gifford Pinchot.
“It is time to bring our liquor laws into the current century,” said Mihalek, R-Upper St. Clair, a member of the House liquor control committee.
“The pandemic proved that it was far past time to get government out of liquor sales,” she said. “When the world stopped in March 2020, consumers were quite frustrated that the drinks they looked forward to after a hard day were being rationed.”
Nationwide, 17 states control liquor sales in some way, including Pennsylvania and six others that run retail stores. About 600 state-run Fine Wine & Good Spirits locations are managed through the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board. According to the PLCB 2021 annual report, there are more than 5,200 employees across in-store and administrative positions.
Leaving the question to the voters is a new tactic for privatization proponents. It is unclear where voters stand on the issue. Recent polling is unavailable, but polling from 2013 — the last time lawmakers tried to privatize the system — showed mixed results.
State-run liquor stores set records for sales and revenue generated last year. In the 2020-21 fiscal year, state stores generated $2.91 billion in sales. That resulted in about $765 million going to Pennsylvania’s General Fund, the PLCB reported. Of that, $580 million came from liquor and sales taxes. Of the net income remaining, $185 million was transferred to state coffers.
Sales and taxes at PLCB stores have increased every year since 2013, with the exception of 2020, when stores were closed for a few months because of the pandemic.
Outside a liquor store in Leechburg, Armstrong County, Rich Szarek said he is in favor of privatization.
“It’s long overdue because you would have more choices and cheaper prices,” the Gilpin man said. “Most stores close early, and the government can’t run anything efficiently.”
Michael Mosorjak also believes privatizing liquor sales would result in lower prices and better selection. A former employee at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, the Johnstown resident said he would love to buy Armagnac, a special French brandy, or Noilly Prat vermouth for martinis, but the Fine Wine & Good Spirits store in Hempfield had none the day he visited.
“You can’t get [them]here,” he said.
Tom Charley, whose family’s Shop ‘n Save store in Greensburg, has in-store beer and wine sales, is in favor of the state removing itself from the alcohol business.
“The concept of government opening it to the free market makes all the sense in the world,” said Charley, who sells beer in an abutting storefront at another supermarket. “The people absolutely will benefit from the competition.”
If the state system ever is privatized, Charley said, his stores would seek a license to sell distilled spirits.
“We would go 100% into it,” he said.
For those hoping that such a proposed constitutional amendment is around the corner, don’t pop the cork yet.
The proposed amendment “may not have traction yet,” said state Rep. Eric Nelson, R-Hempfield.
For Pennsylvania, there could be lessons to learn from Washington state, where nearly 59% of voters supported privatizing liquor sales in 2011, becoming the first state since Prohibition ended to dissolve a state-run monopoly on liquor sales and distribution.
Two studies of what happened in Washington after that vote showed that liquor prices went up significantly, and many voters who had supported privatization came to regret it.
A 2020 report from California–based Alcohol Research Group found there likely were enough Washington voters who came to regret supporting privatization that, had there been another vote on the issue, the outcome likely would have been different.
Following privatization, Washington saw its number of liquor stores increase five-fold.
“One reason why voters wanted to change their vote was they wanted the number of liquor stores to decrease,” said researcher Meenakshi Subbaraman, who authored the report.
Public health concerns also became an issue. Subbaraman said a 2021 study she authored showed that government control of liquor led to lower alcohol–related mortality.
Furthermore, Washington now imposes the highest liquor tax — $35.31 per gallon on spirits — of any state, as a means to compensate for revenue lost after privatization. Pennsylvania’s excise tax rate of $7.41 per gallon on spirits ranked 21st, according to the Tax Foundation. Subbaraman said the high taxes haven’t led to better public health outcomes.
“Taxes really aren’t stopping people from drinking as much. So in terms of public health, you are not really lowering availability,” Subbaraman said.
Mihalek pushed back on the studies, citing differences between her push in Pennsylvania and what Washington passed.
She said Washington’s privatization came with a range of restrictions on mom-and-pop stores and created high taxes on liquor sales that went into effect immediately, which Mihalek said she doesn’t support.
“If you look at Washington state’s liquor laws, you will see that they tacked on one of the highest taxes in the nation when they privatized the sale of liquor … [and the taxes] went into effect almost immediately,” Mihalek said.
A 2019 report from Alcohol Research Group shows that from 2012-14 liquor prices in Washington increased 15% for 750-milliliter bottles and 4.7% for 1.75-liter bottles. In the two years after that, the prices went up 3.9% for the 750-milliliter bottles and 6.5% for 1.75-liter bottles.
Past studies have shown that state-controlled liquor states have slightly higher costs than states with privatization, but the Alcohol Research Group said Washington’s neighboring states with state-controlled liquor laws (Oregon and Idaho) saw their prices increase more slowly than Washington’s from 2012-16.
Oregon also has lawmakers pushing to privatize its system. It is not a full-control state like Pennsylvania, but it does control the distribution of liquor and doesn’t permit spirits sales in grocery stores. Last fall, a grocery association group filed for a pair of 2022 ballot measures that would allow Oregon grocery stores to sell spirits.
Past reviews have shown that Pennsylvania has comparable liquor prices with neighboring states — which include both state-controlled and private operations.
For example, a 750-milli-liter bottle of Jim Beam bourbon costs $20.09 after taxes at PLCB stores in Allegheny County. At A&C Beverage in Youngstown, Ohio, that same bottle costs $20.37 after taxes. A clerk at Ashebrooke Liquor Outlet in Morgantown, West Virginia, said the same bottle costs $23 after taxes.
Ohio and West Virginia are partially state-controlled liquor systems that control the distribution of spirits.
Mihalek rejects the idea that privatization in Pennsylvania will lead to higher prices and pointed to liquor shortages during the pandemic as flaws of Pennsylvania’s state–controlled system.
“It has been modernized over the years, but at every turn we find that customers want convenience and competition. We have no more business in the liquor business than we have in running the pharmacies or gas stations,” she said. “During the pandemic, we saw how flawed our liquor laws were as stores were closed and supplies rationed, with the latter continuing even in the recent months.”
State Rep. Emily Kinkead, D-Brighton Heights, opposes privatization. She said she thinks it would result in higher prices and create a gaping hole in the state budget.
“It funds the state police, and [Republicans] are never going to not fund the state police,” Kinkead said. “It is going to come from somewhere, and mostly tax increases on alcohol purchases.”
On average over the past five years, PLCB records show, $30 million has been contributed each year to the annual $1.4 billion state police budget.
Staff writers Joyce Hanz and Joe Napsha contributed. Ryan Deto is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Ryan by email at firstname.lastname@example.org or via Twitter @ryandeto.


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New Pick n Pay app gets 10 000 downloads in 1 day
By Thembelihle Mkhonza - Aug 10th, 11:33
Retailer Pick n Pay app exceeds 10 000 downloads within first 24 hours of its release, with numbers continuing to grow. Retail giant last week released the latest version of its mobile app for Android.
On Monday, the iPhone version was released, and the retailer expects comparable download volumes.
The app offers practical updates that have been designed to enhance the Pick n Pay shopping experience. It also brings all the functionality of the Smart Shopper kiosk to the palm of users’ hands.
Head of Customer Experience for PnP Online, Georgina Muirhead “The Pick n Pay shopping experience has always been about convenience and the app has been designed to bring ease and simplicity to grocery shopping”.
“We’ve been listening to our app users and we wanted to bring them the features they’ve been asking for. We believe this latest release offers a greatly improved user experience, as well as several new features our users will love,” said Muirhead. © 2017 Independent Media and affiliated companies.
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Pick n Pay online visitors grow
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Visitors to the Pick n Pay Online Web site increased by 32% year on year, according to the retailer's interim results for the 26 weeks ended 27 August 2017.
British fashion returns to growth for the first time since Brexit vote
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The British fashion market has returned to growth after consecutive months of decline dating back to June 2016, at around the time of the Brexit vote.
H&M denies incinerating tonnes of unsold usable clothing
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H&M has been accused of burning tonnes of unsold items every year, flying in the face of its widely-publicised sustainability drive.
Lewis acquires cash furniture retailer for R320m
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Linh An, who is 1.62 m tall and weighs 49 kg, eats only raw food and refuses to consume any starch, protein, or fat in an effort to drop an additional 4 kg.
The 25-year-old Hanoi girl learned about her eating regimen from a video on a social media account that claimed the method could help her “cleanse the body, improve health, and help lose 2 kg per week, without relying on drugs or rigorous exercise.”
In the comments section under the video, which has tens of thousands of likes, some people say they have lost at least one or two kilograms after using the diet plan for 7 days. This gave Linh An hope after many previous strategies.
An always has celery juice and a half an apple for breakfast. She consumes a half-carrot, three okra, some purple cabbage slices, and a half-dragon fruit at lunchtime. She then serves herself pineapple juice, an apple, and a veggie salad for dinner.
An was delighted to see her waist shrink as she lost 1.5 kg the first week. But that’s not enough. An intends to follow the diet for a few more weeks and then begin fasting again.
Do Thao, a 28-year-old from Ho Chi Minh City, has been infatuated with “beautiful, white, and slender” standard.
She obsessively watches videos on social networks about trends celebrating slim figures. After a while, Thao stopped gaining weight, but her skin turned darker, her hair started falling out, and she saw that her body seemed to retain water.
She had had to come up with a new strategy: she had to eliminate all carbohydrates.
Nutritionists estimate that persons like Thao, who is 1.6 m tall and weighs 50 kg, need 1,200 calories per day on average. But social media videos tell her to stick to 300–500 calories per day. Thao weighs each meal prior to eating using a small electronic scale to prevent over-absorption. She thinks that even just a one gram deviation can make her gain weight.
A typical lunch for Do Thao consists of lightly roasted chicken breast, bell peppers, cabbage and lettuce. Photo courtesy of Thao
Psychologist Nguyen Ngoc Hoang, a member of the Vietnam Psychotherapy Association, says the idea that “being thin is being attractive” has been inspired by media worship of Korean and Chinese celebrities.
In addition to social media, Hoang claims that heavy advertising for cosmetic surgery and body products promotes unrealistic body standards and leads many people to follow severe diets and/or exercise excessively.
According to a VnExpress reporter’s survey of TikTok, the hashtags #lose weight (1.2 billion views), #eatclean (1.9 billion views), and keto diet (2.3 billion views) are the most popular diet tags on the platform. Much of the information under these tags supports fasting, offers quick ways to lose belly fat and details extreme weight loss competitions.
Facebook is also filled with groups that discuss weight loss methods. In a private group with nearly 300,000 members, people shared information about herbal teas, weight loss pills, fat-burning candies, fat-burning creams, and natural powders.
Some group members who sell such products promise they are “100% natural, with no side effects, and cause no fatigue”.
However, a 2022 survey by Tokyo-based Novo Nordisk Pharma Co., Ltd. showed that people who use diet foods, herbs, or functional foods, have the lowest successful weight loss rates – only 5%. Research also shows that diets, vegetarian diets, or food supplements often do not bring about the desired results.
There are no comprehensive statistics on how many Vietnamese people use extreme weight loss techniques right now, but in a survey conducted by VnExpress on 200 readers last November, 79% said they consistently exercised every day to lose weight, 19% said they used food diets they followed on social media (fasting, dieting, raw food, etc.), and 2% tried food supplements or underwent plastic surgery.
Implementing a food diet when one is overweight or obese may be beneficial, according to Dr. Le Thi Hai, former director of the Center for Nutrition at the National Institute of Nutrition, but medical advice is required.
According to experts, many people are trying to lose weight quickly by dieting, eating raw food, eating only green vegetables, or drinking only water. These methods can help reduce body weight by a few kilograms but may lead to other problems such as rapid heartbeat, overworked liver, muscle loss, and osteoporosis.
Hospitalizations due to rapid weight loss have become more frequently recently.
A 30-year-old Hanoi woman lost three kilograms in February 2023 after eating weight-loss candies for a week, but she also developed red skin, acne on her face, felt dizzy from exhaustion, and needed hospitalization for treatment.
After taking weight reduction tea for 5 days, a 35-year-old female patient was admitted to the hospital in March 2022 with fatigue and dizziness.
Since butting back on protein, fat and carbohydrates, Linh An often feels fatigued, experiences migraines, shortness of breath when climbing stairs, has menstrual problems, lacks focus at work, and occasionally faints for no apparent reason.
However, she insists these symptoms are normal. “I can’t stop tormenting myself if I can’t lose weight,” Linh says.
For Do Thao, extreme dieting may not only be harming her health, it’s also made her socially withdrawn. She’s stopped hanging out with friends and she now skips all her company’s corporate events.
“I’m determined not to eat such food [served at social gatherings] because I don’t know how many calories, fat and sugar are used in such processed foods,” she says.
In addition meals with enough nutrition, Huyen Trang often snacks on fruit to have more energy before exercising. Photo courtesy of Trang
Huyen Trang, a 22 year-old from Nghe An, was 70kg when she almost died trying to “drink water for 24-72 hours instead of eating.” After that incident, she gradually learned how to eat and exercise in a healthier way.
At her doctor’s suggestion, she now uses a scientific food diet with a balance of nutrients including protein, vegetables, fruits, and starch. She rarely eats sweets or fried food, instead preferring foods heavy in nuts and olive oil instead. She visits the gym once a week to reduce body fat and increase muscle.
She says these new methods have helped her weight, albeit in a slower manner than when she used supplements or fasted.
“However, I feel more healthy and can focus better at work rather than feeling tired and hungry like before,” she says.
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For the past several months, analysts have been predicting the local online advertising is likely to remain hot. As new numbers from BIA/Kelsey show, local online media is gaining not so much because it can tap smaller marketers that have tended to be overlooked by major media, it’s because traditional outlets are losing ground in general. The researcher is forecasting that local online media will grow from $15.2 billion to $36.7 billion, for a compound annual growth rate of 19.3 percent over the next four years.
In terms of total spending, online only had a 5.4 percent slice of the local ad revenue pie in 2009. Mobile had just 0.1 percent. By contrast, newspapers had 21.5 percent, the second largest category after direct mail had 28.9 percent share of total local ad expenditures.
While it’s clear that online and mobile have a great deal of room to grow, there is some pessimism about how fast and far the local web’s gains can go. As local researcher Borrell Associates forecast last fall, the growth rates for online ad revenues were expected to top out at a gain of 12 percent. In 2010, Borrell projects growth of just 5 percent.
Overall, BIA/Kelsey says that the U.S. local ad market should hit $144.9 billion by 2014, for a modest 2.2 percent starting from last year. Looking at ad spending from the local perspective, a meaningful recovery should take hold by 2012 after continued slowness this year and the next.


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Jaeger-LeCoultre received three first prizes during 2013 ViennaTime watch fair held on November 14-17. The winners of the vote held for ViennaTime and MunichTime exhibitions were announced at the official ViennaTime opening ceremony on Thursday, November 14. Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Master Ultra Thin Jubilee watch took the first prize in two different categories. The following day, the Master Grande Tradition Tourbillon Cylindrique à Quantième Perpétuel Jubilee won the top prize at Chrono Awards in Austria.
Die Presse watch competition
The readers of „Die Presse“, a renowned Austrian newspaper, chose Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Master Ultra Thin Jubilee as the winner in the „Classic elegance” category out of 33 other models from various watchmaking brands.
Jaeger-LeCoultre CEO Daniel Riedo received the prize in Vienna and highlighted the spirit of invention that has been guiding Jaeger-LeCoultre’s artisans for 180 years. “The Master Ultra Thin Jubilee mechanical watch represents an important milestone for Jaeger-LeCoultre.The watch combines simplicity and elegance with Fine Watchmaking and is an eloquent tribute to Jaeger-LeCoultre’s pioneering role in the sphere of ultra-thin watches.”
Public vote at MunichTime
The Master Ultra Thin Jubilee was also elected as the winner in the Innovation category (price range 10,000 – 40,000 euros) by the public casting their vote at MunichTime Fair. Over 12,000 visitors attended the exhibition on November 1-3, 2013. Jürgen Bestian, General Manager of Jaeger-LeCoultre Northern Europe, received this prestigious award on behalf of the brand.
On Friday, November 15th, two Austrian economic magazines Trend and Format hosted the 11th Chrono Awards gala to announce the winners in various watch categories that had been elected by the magazines’ readers. The first prize in First Class category (watches from 25,000 euros) went to the Master Grande Tradition Tourbillon Cylindrique à Quantième Perpétuel Jubilee.
These prestigious awards for the timepieces of the Jubilee collection Hommage à Antoine LeCoultre mark another highlight in Jaeger-LeCoultre’s 180-anniversary year, attesting to the leading positions of Jaeger-LeCoultre in the sphere of Fine Watchmaking.


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Nigeria occupies 7th place on PoS transactions in Africa
Nigeria occupies seventh position among African countries where the use of point of sale (PoS) form part of transactions, Nigeria CommunicationsWeek has learnt.
CBN, E-PPAN kick off cash-less economy sensitisation in Ondo
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The iPhone 14 series launching in September 2022 will start at Rs. 79,990. Apple’s flagship lineup — including the iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max — is currently on sale at discounted prices for Valentine’s Day. Indian customers looking to buy the iPhone 14 series can get the launch price significantly reduced, making the effective starting price as low as Rs. 42,000. Cumulative discounts are calculated after applying all offers, including credit card offers and instant cash back offers.
Third Party Authorized Retailer apple equipment, iVenus has roll out The latest offers for the iPhone 14 series. The net effective price of the vanilla iPhone 14 in the series is Rs. 37,900 on sale at the online retailer’s site cap. Discounts include instant iVenus store discount of Rs. 8,000 and Rs. HDFC Bank Card 4,000 Cash Back Offer.
Meanwhile, customers can also join it and leverage their old phones for exchange value and bonuses up to Rs. 30,000.
online list s price iPhone 14 In India it is Rs. 79,900 for the base 128GB storage variant. This makes the total discount applied on the phone up to Rs. 42,000, more than 50 percent after club store discounts, card and EMI cashback, old handset exchange value discounts and exchange bonuses, according to the website of authorized third-party retailer iVenus.
on the other hand, iPhone 14 Plus Offered at a net effective price of Rs. 46,990 which includes an iVenus discount of Rs. 9,000, and the same bank offers as the iPhone 14.
iPhone 14 is roll out Last year in India, it featured Apple’s proprietary A15 Bionic SoC, a 6.1-inch Super Retina XDR OLED display that delivers 1200 nits of peak brightness and supports Dolby Vision.


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Thursday, 1 Aug 2013
SingTel and Visa have announced a strategic alliance that will enable consumers in Singapore and Australia to pay for goods and services using their smartphones at all Visa payWave acceptance points worldwide.
Tuesday, 26 Feb 2013
Visa and Samsung have announced their alliance that pairs Visa's payment technology with Samsung's mobile devices to accelerate the adoption of NFC payments globally. Read on to uncover details of their agreement.


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The estimated average return from email marketing has increased since 2012 (£21.48 to £24.93 per £1 spent). The ROI is perceived to be higher across B2C marketing (£30.52), says Tim Watson.
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One of Europe’s leading integrated marketing service providers, Mailigen, has received an over half a million USD seed fund from Europe, Asia and the U.S., with the biggest part being raised from FlyCap, a Latvia-based investment fund.
The received funding will be spent on technology improvement and the development of unique marketing features - one-stop marketing platform - allowing companies to automate their email marketing strategies. A robust infrastructure, in-depth data analysis, event management, responsive email templates, mobile version of the platform and video integration are just some of improvements to be accomplished within Mailigen in 2014. Part of the funding will be spent on an educational program, events and other marketing activities to develop the email marketing industry in Northern Europe.
“The role of email marketing in the overall marketing strategy grows significantly. The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) National Client report from February 2014 showed the estimated average return from email marketing has increased since 2012 (£21.48 to £24.93 per £1 spent). The ROI is perceived to be higher across B2C marketing (£30.52),” says Tim Watson, a Direct Marketing Association member and founder of Zettasphere.
“The case of Responsys, which established their Nordic office in Denmark, and the case of Core Relations, which in the Nordic market sells and services Exact Target that was just bought from Salesforce for 2.5 billion USD*, are just a couple of examples emphasizing the rapid development of email marketing in Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands, as shown in a recent study presented on the Email Vendor Selection website**. In order to take advantage of the greater potential of the email marketing industry in Northern Europe, recently we took over LeaderSend.com, a transactional email service, so as to cover full email automation services. Now we are going further and with the additional resources will challenge the global market,” says Janis Rose, CEO of Mailigen.
From a small European-based email service provider, Mailigen.com has developed into an integrated marketing platform offering email, mobile and social media marketing platforms to customers in more than 100 countries all over the world. Beside the U.S. which is the main target market, Mailigen has already established its presence in China and Russia as well.


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News that will make iPhone users very happy.
Rumours are emerging about what Apple have planned next for the iPhone and it sounds very intriguing.
According to Ming-Chi Kuo, a tech analyst who has been pretty on the money with these things in the past, the new model will have a 6.1 inch display – even bigger than previous iPhone Plus handsets.
It will also have TrueDepth camera technology, used to for Face ID.
Best of all though, Kuo says it will retail $550 (around €447).
That’s a seriously good price for an iPhone and likely cheaper than some of the best comparable Android phones, though we don’t know what that’ll mean in terms of quality.
Kuo says that the lower price is to help Apple increase their market share in China.
The brand didn’t have as much success with the costly iPhone X as anticipated and so might be dipping its toe further into the mid-range smartphone market.
If it does, it won’t be Apple’s first ‘budget’ handset – that came with the iPhone SE in 2016.
Nothing has been confirmed but it’s thought that the announcement could come at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June.
The company has already rolled out two cheaper iPads to compete in a competitive tablet market it’s been struggling in.


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JOBS are heading across the Tasman from New Zealand as food, sauce and coffee maker Cerebos Gregg's closes its south Auckland factory and moves its food production to Sydney.
The NZ plant will close just before Christmas with the loss of 125 jobs.
The East Tamaki factory had become too costly and inefficient to run, so food production will move to Sydney and coffee production will go to Dunedin, the company said on Thursday.
"This is a truly sad day for everyone involved," chief executive Terry Svenson said in a statement.
"Our East Tamaki factory now needs major capital investment. But we can't justify continuing to invest money in this ageing plant when we already have more modern manufacturing facilities capable of increased volumes."
The East Tamaki factory will close on December 19.
The staff would have their jobs up until that date and the company would in the meantime help them find work elsewhere.
The Service and Food Workers Union says Cerebos Gregg's had spent $NZ10 million ($A9.56 million) upgrading its Dunedin factory but that wouldn't create more jobs.
It would be difficult for the workers as none of the big food factories nearby were hiring, said union spokesman Chas Muir.
Around half of them had given Cerebos loyal service for more than 10 years, he added.
"Although the work is not highly paid, it is well above the minimum wage, with stable hours of work," he said.
The union blames government policies for the job losses.
"Government's lack of support for manufacturing is hitting areas like food processing hard," Mr Muir said.
"That flows on to families and communities."
The government was very happy to promote New Zealand as a low-wage/insecure work destination for multi-national companies, but did nothing to keep decent jobs in sectors such as food manufacturing, he said.
Cerebos Gregg's is the only New Zealand manufacturer producing instant coffee. It currently employs about 450 people in New Zealand and 500 in Australia.
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Here's Every Product ColourPop x Sephora Is Launching
ColourPop just wouldn't be ColourPop if it didn't drop surprise products, seemingly, out of thin air. The brand's launch at Sephora, which will be the first time the cult-favorite online retailer pairs up with a brick-and-mortar store, officially rolled out starting Oct. 23. But instead of, say, releasing one new gorgeous palette to celebrate this beauty wedding of sorts, the brand announced that it will tease a new product every day of the week.
That's why we urge you to keep your eyes peeled here. Until this beautiful madness ends on Oct. 31 (when the full collection drops and you can finally purchase everything), this is where you'll find all the new products. Without further adieu, we give you all the fresh ColourPop goodies your makeup-loving heart can stand.


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Because of the Covid-19 outbreak and the far-reaching government measures, both businesses and consumers are looking for other ways to bring supply and demand together. From a digital flea market during King's Day to a run on home delivery slots at supermarkets. There are also all kinds of new initiatives that use technology to bring parties together to support local suppliers or help vulnerable groups. The Corona crisis is changing the playing field. Both for companies that use a platform as an intermediary between consumer and supplier (think of Airbnb or Uber) as well as umbrella platforms on which organizations jointly sell products or services. There are five striking developments that are causing a changed platform economy.
1. Integration of 'no contact' rules
The government measures to prevent the spread of the virus are clear: stay indoors as much as possible and keep 1.5 metres away from others. Platforms should also integrate this rule.
Due to the nature of the service one organisation will find it more difficult to implement than others. For example, it is a lot harder for an Uber driver to keep his distance during a taxi ride than it is for a home delivery courier who leaves the order on the sidewalk or in the portal. And there are even more examples. PostNL lets deliverers sign the orders themselves and when booking through Nature.house a potential tenant can choose the option 'no contact with the landlord'.
2. Shipping integrally arranged
According to PostNL, we’re experiencing an 'online explosion'. Post and parcel services have increased their capacity by 40 percent, because web shops are growing by 30 to sometimes as much as 800 percent. People no longer only buy from well-known e-commerce parties, but local entrepreneurs also sell their products online. Often these web shops are not (yet) sufficiently equipped to meet the larger and sudden customer demand. One of the things that is often not too well arranged is the shipment of the goods. A platform such as Marktplaats has had a shipping-integration for some time now, where a seller can easily make a package including a track & trace shipping label ready for shipment via Marktplaats messages. Due to the increasing customer demand and the tight capacity at the large logistics service providers, such as PostNL, there will also be room for new platforms. Good examples of this are courier platform Brenger and ishipit for delivery jobs in the neighbourhood.
3. Quickly set up new platforms
The Corona crisis is hitting a number of sectors hard. All kinds of initiatives to support affected entrepreneurs, from vegetable growers to pub owners, are shooting up like mushrooms. In many places, local producers are joining forces now that they cannot sell their products to restaurants and other catering establishments, and are selling 'support your locals' boxes. But there are also numerous aid projects to support care workers or the elderly. Petbnb, for example, brings dog owners into contact with dog guardians. Now the platform offers the service free of charge for elderly people who dare not go outside or caretakers who are now short of time to go for a long walk with their faithful four-legged friend. The speed with which these initiatives are set up, marketed, delivered and paid for are a direct result of smart entrepreneurial spirit during the current lock-down.
4. Streaming services also deployed in existing sectors
Not only are new initiatives coming on stream, services are also being reinvented in existing sectors. Take, for example, a civil-law notary's office that is now introducing 'video as a service' to provide clients with advice remotely. Providers of these services, such as Zoom, 24sessions and Teams, are now getting a gigaboost, but will not completely disappear from the scene after the crisis because organisations have made lasting changes. Entrepreneurs are obliged by Covid-19 to look differently at their customer contact moments and consumers are willing to go along in innovative ways to still be able to purchase a service.
Or a music teacher who no longer comes to give guitar lessons at home, but offers this through a streaming service. This is not entirely new, by the way, because there are already platforms where content is successfully offered via streaming services for a fee. For example, you can take a guitar lesson via udemy.com.
5. Cashless is the new normal
Cash money can be used in fewer and fewer places. An evolvement which was expected, because the WHO warned that cash money could be a spreader of the virus. Moreover, it is easier to keep your distance with a pin-payment or an online payment request. For platforms, it is good to see if there is still an exchange of cash or payments via an invoice within the processes. With invoice payments there is also much less certainty whether the payment will actually be made; which at times of crises you may want to take into consideration.
Take the guitar teacher, who now offers his lessons online, who can function very well in the 'cashless society'. A student takes a video lesson via a streaming service. For this lesson a financial compensation has been agreed in advance. Possibly this lesson is paid in escrow, which is only released after the online lesson has ended and the student accepts this, for example by giving a thumbs up to release funds.
Of course -it is anyone's guess- but it is likely some of the changes mentioned will have a lasting impact. Even after relaxation of the measures to prevent the spread of the Corona virus. Change often means progress and we are happy to think along with you to help our partners during these challenging times.


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Rihanna and luxury brand conglomerate LVMH have announced the suspension of Fenty's ready-to-wear fashion line.
“Rihanna and LVMH have jointly made the decision to put on hold the ready-to-wear activity, based in Europe, pending better conditions,” reads a joint statement obtained by Bloomberg.
LVMH will continue to back the cosmetic and lingerie lines of Fenty. A $115 million round of funding was announced on Wednesday by private equity fund L Catterton; the sum will assist in Fenty's transition to retail, according to a statement.
Fenty's collaboration with LVMH was announced in 2019. LVMH is home to such esteemed brans as Louis Vuitton, Givenchy, and Dior.


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Americans don’t consume enough vegetables and fruits.
Just 9 percent of Americans eat the recommended amount of vegetables each day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and 12 percent eat the recommended amount of fruits.
For children, those numbers are even lower; one study found that many American toddlers go days without one serving of fruits or vegetables.
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FCA to Pay $300 Million Fine for Emissions-Cheating Vehicles
【Summary】The investigation found that more than 100,000 Ram and Jeep vehicles with the available 3.0-liter turbodiesel engine were equipped with defeat devices that would help them pass emissions testing.
The Volkswagen "Dieselgate" scandal brought emissions-cheating devices to light, as well as the tactics used by automakers skirt the necessary regulations to pass emissions testing. While Volkswagen is one of the more prominent brands for its cheating diesels, other automakers are at fault for doing similar things with their respective diesel engines. The latest brand to reach an agreement with the federal government for its vehicles that cheated emissions regulations is Stellantis, formerly known as Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA).
FCA To Plead Guilty
Back in May 2017, the Department of Justice sued FCA. The federal government accused the automaker of installing emissions-cheating devices in approximately 100,000 Ram and Jeep vehicles with a diesel engine. Initially, FCA denied the accusation, but after five years, it looks like FCA has entered into a plea deal with the federal government to the tune of $300 million in fines.
As Reuters reports, the plea deal is expected to be unveiled as early as next week and has already been negotiated with the U.S. Justice Department. After the plea deal is unveiled, the automaker will then have to enter its guilty plea at a subsequent hearting in a U.S. district court claims the outlet.
Reuters claims that FCA and officials from the Department of Justice have been negotiating for years on a deal. Now, FCA is ready to plead guilty to conspiracy criminal charges for equipping Jeep and Ram vehicles with the 3.0-liter turbodiesel engine with an emissions-cheating devices. The device would help the engine pass emissions testing, but would allow the engine to behave differently on the road. Affected vehicles include 2014 to 2016 Ram 1500 and Jeep Grand Cherokees.
FCA Is Getting Off Light
While the $300 million fine is a lofty fee, some of the automaker's employees are reportedly in hot water because of the situation. Two FCA employees are being accused of conspiring to install the defeat devices, while another is reportedly facing charges for misleading regulators.
Compared to the fee that Volkswagen had to pay, which was $2.8 billion for its diesel emission scandal that affected roughly 600,000 vehicles, FCA is getting off fairly light. We doubt the U.S. government will force FCA to invest heavily into EVs or set up a new company to install chargers across the country, either. Still, having FCA admit to wrongdoing is bad for the company and could put the automaker in the hot box with consumers.
Vineeth Joel Patel
Joel Patel has been covering all aspects of the automotive industry for four years as an editor and freelance writer for various websites. When it comes to cars, he enjoys covering the merger between technology and cars. In his spare time, Joel likes to watch baseball, work on his car, and try new foods
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Amazon Games has responded to criticism of female representation in Lost Ark.
Since the MMORPG arrived in the west last month, some players have expressed disappointment in both the gender locked classes and the prevalence of revealing female outfits.
In a statement to Eurogamer, Amazon Games' franchise lead Soomin Park has noted that changes on both issues are on the way.
The class of your in-game character is tied to their gender. For example, only men can be warriors and only women can be mages.
A blog post from developer Smilegate last year acknowledged this as an issue, but Park states the female Berserker is the next class to hit the game in Korea.
"First let's start with gender-locked classes," Park told Eurogamer. "This is something that will roll out over time. Classes are tied pretty closely to their character models in terms of function and animation, so bringing opposite gender characters to a class takes more work than just making a differently gendered model available.
"However, Smilegate RPG is actively working on this; the female Berserker is the next class coming to Korea. While not every class in the game currently has a male and female counterpart available, we made an effort to include those that do in our launch class lineup.
"In the future, Smilegate RPG will be creating more counterparts for classes that are still gender locked, and we will bring these to Arkesia in time."
Players have also been critical of the female armour sets, many of which are overtly revealing - something Emma brought up in her Lost Ark review.
Park continues: "As for armour sets, while we aren't altering any of the original costumes from the game, we are making adjustments so that the more revealing options won't be front and centre in places like our marketing or the initial character creation screen (although the original character creator outfits are still available in-game as early drops).
"We are also including in some new outfit options that are not quite as revealing, but these are an addition and not a replacement.
"As we are aware of the balance between hardcore fans who want a Lost Ark experience that is close to the original Korean version and new players who may not like the current armour and costume options, we are adding outfits and alternatives to the game instead of taking away options."
Lost Ark has proven exceptionally popular since its release.
However, that's also brought issues. Players in Europe had to contend with huge wait times owing to the game's popularity and while the Europe Central server cannot be expanded, a new Europe West server was implemented.
What's more, 1m bot accounts have been removed, further improving wait times.
New content is on the way later this month, including an end-game Abyss Raid, story content, and more.


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Twitter has adopted what’s identified as a “poison pill” as a way to fend off a $43 billion bid from Elon Musk to purchase the firm. Poison drugs, also recognised as shareholder rights options, are intended to stop hostile takeovers, and the board voted unanimously to approve a evaluate that would dilute Musk’s stake in the social media company.
Twitter’s poison pill is developed to kick in when any shareholder acquires at minimum 15% of its superb inventory without the need of the board’s Ok. Which is usual of these measures, explained Donna Hitscherich, director of the private fairness method at Columbia Enterprise University.
“What the tablet provides is that everyone, except the triggering particular person, or the poor shareholder, whoever strike that threshold stage, will get to invest in added shares of the enterprise at a discounted,” Hitscherich explained.
What that usually means is that the possession share of the shareholder who is making an attempt to take more than the firm would be way much less. Ten decades back, Netflix applied a poison capsule to fend off Carl Icahn. In 2018, the board of Papa John’s applied one to limit the command of its founder.
“The only way to get close to the poison tablet is to run what we get in touch with a proxy contest, which is a contest to unseat the directors,” claimed Steven Davidoff Solomon, a legislation professor at College of California, Berkeley.
He reported the poison capsule was common in the 1980s and as a result of the mid-’90s. It was witnessed as a affordable insurance plan policy for a company’s board.
But then there was a backlash, explained Evan Rawley at the College of Connecticut. Poison capsules begun to look like organization board customers had been just attempting to secure their positions.
“Those people today may possibly not be the ideal reps of the shareholders a lot more broadly in that minute,” Rawley said.
Throughout the 2000s, corporations began having rid of poison capsules. According to the web page Deal Stage Knowledge, as of Friday early morning much less than 2% of U.S. publicly traded companies have an active poison capsule in area.
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Destination Canada wants to go beyond VFR tourists from India: Emmanuelle Legault
India has always been a traditional VFR market for Destination Canada, thanks to its huge Indian migrant community. But the NTO now wants to have a bigger slice of the Indian tourism pie.
Speaking exclusively to Express TravelWorld, Emmanuelle Legault, vice president – International, Destination Canada, stated, “We have seen a significant increase in tourist arrivals from India in 2017. That includes a lot of VFR numbers coming into Canada. But going forward, we want to target a different type of traveller from India. We are working with both media and trade partners to try and get the traveller who wants to come here with his family. We want the bit more high yield consumer to come as a tourist and as a traveller, not necessarily as a VFR.”
Ontario, Vancouver and British Columbia have been regular destinations for the India market. Elaborating on the new regions it is looking to promote, Legault said, “Regions to the East have lots of opportunities. Now with flight connectivity to Montreal, we want Indians to take that second flight and travel to places like Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Lots of Indians are now looking at very high end products that include nature based, culinary and local experiences. The new age Indians are curious about such experiences. And there is also potential for Manitoba for the experiences it offers like polar bears and immersive indigenous culture.”
Commenting on the potential of the young demographic in the India market, Legault admitted that it was not a target audience they have gone after in the past. “But going forward, this is the segment we are really looking to go after, because we are seeing this segment as travellers who are more curious and want to explore the unexplored regions I talked about earlier. They are the travellers of the future,” she added.


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20 Percent of BlackBerry 10 Apps are Android Apps
March 27, 2013 11:32 AM
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Developers thought making native BB10 apps was risky
Developers didn't want to take a chance with a native app for
the new BlackBerry 10 (BB10) platform
, so it turns out that one in five BB10 apps are actually Android.
According to Martyn Mallick, BlackBerry's vice president for global alliances and business development, about 20 percent of the 100,000 BB10 apps available are Android apps.
BlackBerry realized that not all developers were going to be onboard with making native BB10 apps -- it's a brand-new platform, and it's a risk since it's hard to tell how well the platform/devices will sell at launch.
To address this, BlackBerry allowed the use of an emulation engine to port Android apps onto BB10 devices.
“We give them a very nice on-ramp to get onto the platform,” Mallick said. “Our users deserve to have great content. If that is the fastest way we can get some of that content, that’s great."
But that doesn't mean that BlackBerry isn't trying to get developers to make native apps for BB10. It's offering a $10,000 guarantee for developers making the native apps and even promised that its first batch of BB10 devices will only have one of two screen sizes to avoid fragmentation.
BlackBerry's new BB10 line was announced in January 2013, and
the first device -- the Z10 -- shipped in the U.S. on March 22.
Earlier this month, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins said Z10 sales in Europe were encouraging, and even mentioned that the
"product is attracting users that are currently on other platforms."
However, it's understandable why developers would be nervous. Not only is BB10 a new platform, but BlackBerry hasn't had it easy in the recent past. Many corporations and government agencies, which are some of BlackBerry's best customers, dropped their devices for iPhones and Android devices instead.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) ditched their BlackBerrys in May 2012 in favor of iPhones while the Immigration and Customs Enforcement followed suit in September. In October, the Defense Department left its BlackBerrys behind and chose to go with Android and Apple devices instead while the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
left BlackBerry for a new fleet of iPhone 5s
the U.S. Defense Department announced that it will
open its communications networks to iOS and Android
devices by next February.
Just last week, BB10 failed to pass security requirements for
use in the UK government
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Speculators were wrong
3/27/2013 12:49:04 PM
We had all these people saying that 80% were Android apps but now they'll have to make up something else to criticize the platform.
RE: Speculators were wrong
3/27/2013 4:30:29 PM
If you just get an android phone you can get the other 80%.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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Mobile news roundup for Tuesday 10/8.
Mobile malware threats are "all hype," Twitter security researcher Charlie Miller told the Hacker Halted conference in Atlanta last week.
Android security panic has hit Defcon 1. Security solutions firm NQ Mobile reports malware attacks on Google's open-source mobile operating system more than doubled in 2012, infecting 32.8 million devices worldwide, and the problem looks like it will get worse before it gets better. Lookout Mobile Security recently identified BadNews, a new malware family discovered in 32 Android applications with combined download totals between 2 million and 9 million.
The increased security threats posed by BYOD, as well as more sophisticated mobile malware, are fueling growth in mobile security services, according to ABI Research.
While Apple's walled-garden ecosystem has traditionally spared its iOS mobile operating system from the malware threats plaguing Google open-source Android platform, researchers say that iOS device profiles used by mobile operators could offer hackers a means to attack iPhones.
Apple Senior President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller took a potshot at rival Google following a report that its open-source Android operating system is to blame for close to 80 percent of all mobile malware threats identified in 2012.
New Android malware applications intended to wreak havoc on both mobile and desktop devices have been discovered in the Google Play storefront, software security firm Kaspersky Lab reports.
Samsung Electronics is at work to patch a security flaw afflicting a number of devices running Google's Android, leaving them exposed to malicious apps that could result in hackers gaining root level permissions.
Developers have identified a security flaw afflicting a number of Samsung Electronics devices running Google's Android, leaving them exposed to malicious apps that could result in hackers gaining root level permissions.
An estimated 18 million Android users will encounter mobile malware between the beginning of 2012 and the conclusion of 2013, according to a new forecast published by Lookout Mobile Security. The firm adds that the likelihood users will encounter malware or spyware threats depends heavily on their geography and behavior.


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Quincy, Massachusetts-based Retail Business Services has appointed Marty Wolfe to chief technology officer, joining the information technology leadership team led by Rom Kosla, EVP, IT and chief information officer.
Wolfe is joining Retail Business Services from IBM, where he most recently served as global CTO and VP of IBM’s retail, CPG, logistics and travel industries.
“We’re pleased to welcome Marty to the team,” Kosla said. “His deep experience in retail and related industries, where he was responsible for driving digital transformation, will be valuable as we continue to transform IT for Ahold Delhaize USA companies. As each of our companies continue to serve connected customers and drive aggressive omnichannel growth, the role of IT has never been more important.”
Wolfe brings a combination of business acumen, technical depth and industry expertise to the role, with a deep background in both digital transformation and hybrid cloud journeys.
“I’m excited to join the organization at this pivotal time for Ahold Delhaize USA companies,” Wolfe said. “Retail is rapidly changing and technology is a differentiator that enables retailers’ abilities to compete. I look forward to supporting Retail Business Services in its Evolve IT journey, which is key in enabling Ahold Delhaize USA brands to win now and into the future.”
Retail Business Services, ranked No. 25 on Fast Company’s 2022 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators, is the services company of grocery retail group Ahold Delhaize USA, providing services to five omnichannel grocery brands, including Food Lion, Giant Food, The Giant Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop.
Retail Business Services leverages the scale of the local brands to drive synergies and provides industry-leading expertise, insights and analytics to local brands to support their strategies with services including business integrity services, business services, communications and omnichannel service, finance business services, financial planning and analysis, human resources, indirect sourcing, information technology and pharmacy services.