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Metalshub joins ResponsibleSteel
Düsseldorf, December, 2022 - Metalshub is proud to announce its membership as an associate member of ResponsibleSteel. ResponsibleSteel is the industry’s first global multi-stakeholder standardization and certification initiative advancing sustainability and decarbonization in the steel industry. The forum establishes a global network of sustainability frontrunners willing to come together and drive that development.
Joining ResponsibleSteel is a key step for Metalshub’s sustainability ambition. Metalshub aims to contribute to a more sustainable steel industry by digitally connecting all involved stakeholders along the steel value chain, encouraging them to take a step further on sustainability and enabling them to measure, manage and reduce their CO2 emissions.
The sustainability expert at Metalshub, Maximilian Hettler, emphasizes: “We at Metalshub have the overarching goal to enable suppliers and steelmakers to effectively collaborate with each other to drive forward the decarbonisation of the steel supply chain. Joining ResponsibleSteel will be a great opportunity for us to support the industry on its sustainability agenda and leverage our digital supply chain solution to do so in an effective, data-driven manner.”
Annie Heaton, CEO of ResponsibleSteel happily welcomed Metalshub as a new associate member: “We are pleased to welcome Metalshub to ResponsibleSteel as an associate member. Metalshub, as one of the leading supply chain software solutions in the metals industry, will significantly contribute to helping us achieve our mission and goals.”
“Operating in the world's largest materials sector, which is responsible for more than 7% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, ResponsibleSteel represents members from every part of the supply chain for steel. We are collaborating with companies from multinational mining organizations, international steel manufacturers, processors, and end users, as well as civil society, to identify solutions for manufacturing steel responsibly. Having Metalshub on board will enable us to advance our goal of Scope 3 emissions transparency, and support the manufacture of low-carbon steel globally.” - Annie Heaton further added.
Over the past few years, Metalshub has made substantial investments and efforts to further develop its supply chain software to support its users to move further in sustainability. Specifically, the scope 3 CO2 emission information of raw materials is directly integrated into the procurement transaction processes. Thereby, steelmakers have full transparency on their CO2 emissions from procurement and suppliers can leverage their sustainability efforts at the point of sale. Ultimately, this will enable steelmakers to not only measure but also reduce their supply chain emissions by including sustainability in their daily procurement decision-making. As a member of ResponsibleSteel, we have set ambitious targets for supporting our customers to achieve their sustainability goals and encourage them to become ResponsibleSteel certified producers by complying with the ResponsibleSteel International Standard.*
*Currently, Metalshub helps meet the requirements under Principle 3 and Principle 10 out of 13 Principles in the ResponsibleSteel Standard.
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About Responsible Steel
ResponsibleSteel is an international, non-profit multi-stakeholder membership organisation. Businesses from every part of the steel supply chain, civil society groups, associations, and other organisations with interest in a sustainable steel industry from anywhere in the world are welcome to join. To view the ResponsibleSteel membership list visit: .
ResponsibleSteel’s vision is to maximize steel’s contribution to a sustainable society. Its mission is to enhance the responsible sourcing, production, use, and recycling of steel by:
Providing a multi-stakeholder forum to build trust and achieve consensus;
Developing standards, certification, and related tools;
Driving positive change through the recognition and use of responsible steel.
The ResponsibleSteel International Standard is designed to support the responsible production of steel, as a tool for the achievement of ResponsibleSteel’s vision.
Find issued certificates and their public audit summaries here.
For more information about ResponsibleSteel please visit .
Metalshub is one of the pioneers of digital transformation in the metals industry. The software start-up was founded in 2016 in Düsseldorf by Dr. Sebastian Kreft and Dr. Frank Jackel with the mission to connect companies in the industry with a digital supply chain solution. Digital supply chains can help reduce costs and CO2 emissions. More than 1,300 companies are already using Metalshub, including more than 300 steel mills and foundries that have digitised their purchasing processes with Metalshub. Since the launch of the platform in 2017, more than 1 billion USD in trading volume was concluded through Metalshub.
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The German company PUMA has returned to Fashion Week 2022 with famed stylist June Ambrose (who was named designer and creative director last year) running the show at Cipriani’s in New York, the Futrograde show. Among PUMA’s re-imagining of old and new street wear there was also the collaboration capsule’s like Dapper Dan. Dan’s convergence of high fashion and sportswear, which Dapper Dan said: “the best thing that could’ve happened to fashion.”
“It’s just an incredibly important moment for us for so many different reasons,” said Adam Petrick, chief brand officer of Puma. “Returning to fashion week for the first time in several years is significant because we knew we needed the right combination of factors to be present. With an emphasis on digital, a great lineup of ambassadors and an amazing creative partner in June Ambrose, the foundation and creativity for a great show are there.”
The end of July 2022 PUMA’s second quarter sales earning jumped 18.4 percent, more than 2 Billion Euros.
Chief brand officer Adam Petrick said: “So we’re going to look at our values and core principles, which is sports first. Sports never goes away. It’s something humans love and need, whether it’s the competition or the fitness or just the general health aspects. It’s absolutely not recession-proof, but it’s certainly something that we can count on as continuing to be interesting to our consumer.”
The German brand also launched a parallel Metaverse fashion show experience called Black Station that has exclusive NFTs which are redeemable for a limited-edition physical sneakers. Black Station connects consumers with various web3 activations slated to emerge over the coming years.

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Morrisons potential bidder won't go solo, in talks to join rival bid group
The prospects of an all-out bidding war for UK supermarkets giant Morrisons have receded with news that one of the private equity groups that was interested in it won’t be making a bid on its own.
Morrisons operates one of the ‘big four’ UK supermarket chains, has supply deals with Amazon and also makes the growing Nutmeg clothing range.
US-based Apollo Global Management has said it’s not making a solo bid but it’s in talks to join the Fortress Investment Group-led consortium. That group had already made a £6.3 billion ($8.6 billion) offer that the Morrisons board has backed.
Apollo’s move makes the takeover even more likely and would mean that two of the UK's four largest supermarket chains would be owned by private equity groups, following the recent takeover of Asda. The two largest chains – Tesco and Sainsbury's – remain stock exchange-listed businesses.
Apollo, which has also invested in ambitious watches and jewellery retailer Watches of Switzerland, had said it was evaluating a potential bid earlier this month.
Morrisons shares fell slightly on Tuesday after news that it wouldn't make a solo bid was released. That leaves Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (which had approached the supermarket chain with a quickly-rejected offer in June) as the only other known potential rival bidder. But there has been speculation that Amazon could enter the race, although the American online retail giant has said nothing so far.
Given the likelihood that Morrison's will be taken over, there remain huge concerns about jobs at the chain and UK politicians have also said they're worried that another of the major food suppliers in the country would fall into private equity hands.
Fortress has made plenty of positive noises in an effort to allay these fears. It said it would retain the current management team (which has been responsible for deepening the Morrisons dive into the clothing sector), keep its existing strategy and head office and won't sell off its valuable freehold stores in order to make a quick profit.
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Serving up a treat: Maria launches sweet brand as she gears up for Australian Open
Maria Sharapova’s premium sweet brand is set to fly off the shelves in 2013 if they taste as good as they look.
Sugarpova, the tennis ace’s own creation, will launch in the UK, Japan, Canada, Russia, India and China this year. It has already done well in the America, selling a quarter of a million bags in three months.
This week she’ll be promoting the product in Australia, as she makes her final preparations for the opening Grand Slam of the year.
Making a packet: The Russian launched her sweet brand, Sugarpova, last year and sold a quarter of a million bags within three months
Tasty: You can choose from flavours that include Spooky Sour, Splashy, Silly, Cheeky Flirty, Silly Sour and Chic
The Russian, who claims to have a sweet tooth, invested half a million dollars in the brand. Each bag retails at around £3.70 a bag, a steep price in comparison to a bag of Haribo which is less than half that.
It’s not the first time she has ventured into design, having previously teamed up with Nike and watch-makers Tag Heuer. But this solo project has been more of a challenge for the world No 2.
The brand offers 12 varieties, such as Sporty, which are in the shape of tennis balls, and Chic, which features mini gummy handbags and heels. There is also Splashy, in the shape of turtles and squid, and Sassy Sour.
Sporty: One of Sugapova's variations features gumballs in the shape of tennis balls
Sugarpova consultant Jeff Rubin said that Sharapova has been very committed to the business, and that only the day after winning the French Open she was at the factory conducting taste tests for the product.
The 25-year-old has not ruled out expanding the brand into other areas once her tennis career ends, such as fashion and cosmetics.
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Dean Young, son of Blondie creator Chic Young opened up a chain of sandwich shops last year called Dagwood Sandwich Shoppe.
The Palm Beach Post food critic, Charles Passy, has written up a review of his recent experience eating there.
But the real appeal of Dagwood’s may be its signature Dagwood sandwich. It costs $9.69 – more than anything at Subway, I’m sure – but it’s worth every penny. The chain calls it a “skyscraper” of a meal and they’re right: the fillings include hard salami, pepperoni, cappicola, mortadella, deli ham, cotto salami, cheddar and provolone cheeses, red onions, green-leaf lettuce, tomatoes, fresh and roasted red bell peppers, mayo, mustard and the chain’s “secret Italian olive salad” Oh, and it’s held together with a giant “olive skewer.”
The thing is more than enormous. It’s ginormous! But quantity isn’t taking the place of quality – the meats are all top-of-the-line and the whole thing holds together beautifully, even if it’s a little hard to get your mouth around it. But isn’t that the point of a Dagwood sandwich?
The sandwich web site has a video of what to experience at the restaurant chain. There are currently three shops that are open with 10 more that are opening this summer.


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According to a report by the Times newspaper British tourists have been forced to sleep on beaches as the hotels they booked are closed.
Tourists were left bewildered, disappointed and stranded when they arrived at the hotels they had paid for, only to discover that they were still closed due to the lockdown.
Loveholidays was one of the main culprits, according to the consumer watchdog Which? Those who chose not fly home or sleep on beaches booked alternative accommodation, the watchdog said.
Paul Davis booked a £1,500 holiday to Spain on 1 July, and when he arrived in Salou on the Costa Daurada, the 4R Regina Gran hotel was closed.
He told the Times newspaper, “When we pulled up, I thought we must have the wrong hotel, it was all shut and hadn’t been opened for a good while.
“It’s disgusting. We were fortunate enough to have the money to stay somewhere else but lots of other people probably aren’t in that position.”
Rory Boland, editor of Which? Travel magazine said, “It is beyond belief that holidaymakers have been left in a position where they have either had to fork out hundreds of pounds for alternative accommodation or risk being left with nowhere to sleep.”
A spokesperson for Loveholidays said, “We wholeheartedly apologise to the affected customers for the inconvenience and distress this has caused.
“Our customer services team is in contact with them to resolve matters to their satisfaction and ensure that they can enjoy the rest of their holidays.
“We are not aware of customers sleeping on the beach and would be horrified if this was the case as we have a 24/7 in resort helpline number that customers can – and should – call if they face issues at their destination using the number set out in their booking documentation and on our website.”
Loveholidays added,”We are working closely with all our suppliers to understand which hotels are open for customers but unfortunately some closures were not communicated to us prior to customers travelling to those hotels.”


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Fan token market capitalisation grows by more than 60%
The fan token market is growing at an unprecedented rate. Since this June, it has grown by about $157 million (~£118 million) in market capitalisation.
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A fan token is an NFT that is linked with a football club that offers some benefits and acts as a governance token.
According to FanMarketCap, the market capitalisation of all fan tokens is just over $417 million (~£314 million). Some of the most valuable fan tokens include Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Manchester City (CITY), issued by a major Socios provider and based on the Chiliz blockchain network. It is noteworthy that the total market capitalisation has grown by more than 60% over the past six months.
Alexandre Dreyfus, the founder and CEO of Socios and Chiliz, noted that all fan tokens in the Socios and Chiliz ecosystem have been sold for $250 million (~£188 million). In his opinion, the market will grow by $10 billion (~£7.5 billion) in the next five years.
Why tokens are in demand
Along with NFTs, fan tokens are a rapidly developing category of digital assets used to enhance fan engagement. It is worth noting that fan token holders can buy tickets to exclusive seats, for example, next to commentators, take part in special events, and communicate with players live. Fans also get discounts on souvenirs in club marketplaces and other perks.
Dreyfus stressed that fan tokens are not cryptocurrencies, but rather digital assets. “You cannot spend fan tokens to buy something, you can own fan tokens to get fan benefits,” Dreyfus said.
In June 2021, the Portuguese Football Federation announced that it was launching fan tokens of the national team on the decentralised Socios platform. Since 2019, similar tokens have been launched by the largest football clubs in Europe, including Barcelona, Juventus and Paris Saint-Germain, among many others.
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AT&T LAUNCHES FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND U.S. GAME DEVELOPER COMPETITION FOR WOMEN WITH “AT&T UNLOCKED GAMES”
Continuing Its Dedication to Gender Equality, AT&T Commits to Elevating Women in Game Development with Groundbreaking Platform
Developers Can Submit Entries at www.ATTUnlockedGames.com Starting Today through Oct. 26
AT&T is calling for women game developers and women-led development teams to showcase their talent in an all-new competition geared toward increasing women’s participation and visibility in the gaming world.
Today through Oct. 26, AT&T Unlocked Games will be taking open submissions from women developers across the U.S. Six will be chosen to participate in a livestream development pitch for a chance to receive $50,000 toward the final development of their game, mentorship and additional support to elevate their game – and their talent – within the industry.
In 2019, only 24% of respondents from a survey of game developers identified as women in the United States.i But women account for 46% of all game enthusiastsii. With AT&T Unlocked Games, AT&T is elevating, empowering and connecting women developers and women gamers to bring their creations to the world of gaming and inspire more women to do the same.
“The disparity in the number of women developers to women gamers hit home for us,” said Shiz Suzuki, assistant vice president, AT&T – Sponsorships and Experiential Marketing. “As an active member of this industry, we saw an opportunity to not only support underrepresented developers but help bring their games and stories to life through our position as an endemic brand in the gaming space.”
Hosted by well-known streamers AnneMunition and Bnans, and simulcast on AT&T Twitter on Dec. 2, the six finalists will demo and pitch their game live on Twitch to a team of End Bosses, experts from across the gaming spectrum who will select a Grand Prize winner and Runner-Up. Additionally, fans will have the chance to vote for their Gamers' Choice winner.
The Grand Prize winner will receive:
- $50,000 to fund final game development and/or offset game development costs.
- A dedicated activation, AT&T Unlocked Games at Dreamhack 2021, inspired by their game brought to life by AT&T, where they can demonstrate and debut their work. They’ll also receive complimentary travel, VIP attendance and spending cash for themself and a guest.
- Mentorship and paid lifetime membership to International Game Developers Association (IGDA).
- Promotional and marketing support from AT&T, including a $3,000 credit to be used toward AT&T products like phones, tablets and hotspots to help keep their teams connected, test on mobile, work on design elements or capture their game in action.
In the weeks and months following the competition, AT&T plans to document the winners throughout the development process, providing exclusive behind-the-scenes content and a peek inside their journey across AT&T owned social channels, culminating at DreamHack 2021. Pending COVID-19 restrictions, AT&T will create an AT&T Unlocked Games at Dreamhack 2021 experience that will allow gamers to interact with the AT&T Unlocked Games Showcase winner, runner-up and Gamers’ Choice winner.
In addition to IGDA, AT&T Unlocked Games is collaborating with game developer organizations such as Society of Women Engineers and Women Who Code to help promote the competition and drive submissions.
Developers can learn more and submit their entries at www.ATTUnlockedGames.com starting today through Oct. 26. Follow along with @ATT and #ATTUnlockedGames to see which developers are chosen, their journeys and to learn more about the End Bosses.
i State of the Industry: Mental Health in Gaming, Take This., 2019
ii Women Account for 46% of All Game Enthusiasts: Watching Video Content and Esports Has Changed How Women and Men Alike Engage with Games, Newzoo Gamer Segmentation, 2019


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An article published Wednesday by the Intercept reveals new details of how Apple works with law enforcement when faced with a court order. Though this new information does not come as much of a surprise, it calls Apple’s privacy posturing into question, and comes amidst other revelations that make it particularly troubling.
The new revelations have to do with Apple’s Messages app, as Sam Biddle of the Intercept reports:
Every time you type a number into your iPhone for a text conversation, the Messages app contacts Apple servers to determine whether to route a given message over the ubiquitous SMS system, represented in the app by those déclassé green text bubbles, or over Apple’s proprietary and more secure messaging network, represented by pleasant blue bubbles, according to the document. Apple records each query in which your phone calls home to see who’s in the iMessage system and who’s not.
This log also includes the date and time when you entered a number, along with your IP address — which could, contrary to a 2013 Apple claim that “we do not store data related to customers’ location,” identify a customer’s location. Apple is compelled to turn over such information via court orders for systems known as “pen registers” or “trap and trace devices,” orders that are not particularly onerous to obtain, requiring only that government lawyers represent they are “likely” to obtain information whose “use is relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation.” Apple confirmed to The Intercept that it only retains these logs for a period of 30 days, though court orders of this kind can typically be extended in additional 30-day periods, meaning a series of monthlong log snapshots from Apple could be strung together by police to create a longer list of whose numbers someone has been entering.
Again, given that Apple was included in the list of companies accessible to the National Security Agency’s PRISM program when it was exposed in 2013, this is not so surprising. What makes it newsworthy, however, is Apple’s subsequent posturing as a staunch defender of privacy.
“Phone companies routinely hand over metadata about calls to law enforcement in response to pen register warrants,” Biddle reports. “But it’s noteworthy that Apple is able to provide information on iMessage contacts under such warrants given that Apple and others have positioned the messaging platform as a particularly secure alternative to regular texting.”
Indeed, these latest revelations come in the wake of Apple’s high-profile “fight” with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in which Apple refused to assist the FBI in unlocking the phone used by an alleged mass shooter in San Bernardino, California, claiming it would compromise its incredibly secure password protection technology. But not everyone bought the official story of what really went down between Apple and the FBI. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, for one, has said the FBI’s claims of helplessness in that case were “bullshit.”
The latest revelations about Apple’s Messages app are another blow to the company’s trustworthiness, which could have implications beyond the iPhone. Earlier this week, for example, prior to publication of the Intercept‘s article, it was reported that the Apple Watch may soon be able to “track sleeping patterns and fitness levels.” Given that the lie exposed by the Messages app article related specifically to Apple’s location tracking, this could be cause for concern. “It’s not certain how the sleep tracking would work (most likely through motion),” Engadget reports, “but the watch would gauge your fitness by recording the time it takes for your heart rate to drop from its peak to its resting level.” If such information became available to police it would seemingly represent a serious privacy violation, with little legitimate value to law enforcement, but the possibility of this happening seems increasingly likely.
When it comes to saying one thing and then doing another, though, Apple may not be the worst offender. News of issues related to the Messages app broke the same day as a major Associated Press investigation into nationwide law enforcement abuse of confidential databases.
“Police officers across the country misuse confidential law enforcement databases to get information on romantic partners, business associates, neighbors, journalists and others for reasons that have nothing to do with daily police work,” the investigation found.
“Criminal-history and driver databases give officers critical information about people they encounter on the job. But the AP’s review shows how those systems also can be exploited by officers who, motivated by romantic quarrels, personal conflicts or voyeuristic curiosity, sidestep policies and sometimes the law by snooping. In the most egregious cases, officers have used information to stalk or harass, or have tampered with or sold records they obtained.”
Given that the new revelations about Apple’s Messages app originated with documents from a state police agency, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s Electronic Surveillance Support Team, rather than some top-level federal agency like the NSA, it seems clear that Apple’s Messages metadata is likely available to a similar range of law enforcement agencies as those found abusing more conventional databases by the AP. Like every other form of electronic communication, the best assumption to make when using an Apple device is that if the government (or any other sufficiently sophisticated actor, for that matter) really wants your information, they’ll find a way to get it.
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Nick Williamson, key account manager for Mucci Farms, showed off an exciting new product at the Southeast Produce Council’s Southern Exposure in Orlando, FL. Mucci's greenhouse-grown Cherto tomato is a cherry tomato-on-the-vine, and it comes in a resealable top-film package.
Mary Blackmon, founder of Farm Star Living, rolled into Southern Exposure 2017 with Fill My Cart to find the must-have produce that should be filling grocery carts: Spice World’s garlic and ginger, Well Pict’s strawberries, NatureSweet tomatoes, Southern Specialties French beans, pistachios from Wonderful, Galas from Fowler Farms and Good Foods’ avocado-shaped chunky guacamole pack.
This year’s Potato Lover’s Month Retail Display Contest winner will be taking a cruise, but the big question is whether they’ll bring Mary Blackmon, founder of Farm Star Living, and Seth Pemsler, the Idaho Potato Commission’s vice president of retail/international, along for the trip. Hear all about that, and IPC’s Field Force superhero, in this video from the Southeast Produce Council’s Southern Exposure.
Craig Kelly, IFCO’s vice president of sales, didn’t have to travel very far to get to this year’s Southern Exposure, but every day his company’s RPCs journey through the global market. The environmentally friendly RPCs circulate through the supply chain, going from field, to a distribution or cooling center, then to the retailer and back to IFCO, where they’re cleaned and sanitized before setting off again.
With an easy-to-peel rind, Sunkist's Gold Nugget mandarins are currently at the peak of their season, as are the company's candy-like Pixie tangerine. Julie DeWolf, Sunkist's director of retail marketing, took some time at the Southeast Produce Council's Southern Exposure to discuss the varieties and other peak-of-season options.


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Phys.org: Satellite technology shows Amazon absorbing less carbon due to less rainfall
The forest that remains is receiving less rain, which in turn is making it less green which means the trees that are there are pulling in less carbon dioxide from the air around them.
Amazon rainforest does not ‘green up’ during the dry season
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Clinton Township Council voted to approve buying the vehicle for the volunteer unit. A 2014 Chevrolet Tahoe four-wheel-drive SUV costing $54,727 will be obtained through the Cranford Police Cooperative Pricing System.
The Cranford agency takes bids from sellers of cars, trucks and other items and then other towns and departments can buy the item for the same price, Township Administrator Marvin Joss reported at the Feb. 12 Council meeting, where the purchase was approved. There was only brief discussion; only Council President Peter Marra and Council members Brian Mullay and Amy Switlyk were present.
According to Joss, since many members take part in the buying cooperative, prices are lower than if the municipality sought bids itself. The vehicle was among the big-ticket items included in a capital spending ordinance Council approved last year, he noted.
The biggest single planned purchase is $400,000 to be set aside toward a pumper truck for Annandale Hose, the primary company serving the township.


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Amazon’s checkout-free grocery stores could be coming to the UK and Europe, if its recent intellectual property filings are anything to go by. Bloomberg reports that the retailer has successfully registered trademarks for slogans “No Lines. No Checkout. (No, Seriously.)” and “No Queue. No Checkout. (No, Seriously.)” with the UK Intellectual Property Office, hinting that it’s already planning to its high-tech Amazon Go stores outside of the US.
The registered strap lines were first used in a promotional video (shown below) for Amazon Go when the company first unveiled the concept in December 2016. In it, shoppers are shown signing in on the Amazon Go app, filling their bags and then leaving the store without stopping to check out. Sensors can detect the products and automatically bill the customer. Amazon calls it the “Just Walk Out Shopping” experience and has already opened its first store for employees in Seattle.
While Amazon has yet to confirm its expansion plans (the company also has registrations pending with the European Commission), major UK supermarkets will be keeping a keen eye on things. In a bid to mirror Amazon, Tesco recently confirmed it’s trialling a new one-hour delivery service, but is currently only offering the option to select customers and staff in London zones 1 and 2.
Rupal Karia, managing director of retail and hospitality, UK & Ireland at Fujitsu comments:
“As the days of tilling as we know it are numbered, the news that Amazon Go may be making its way to the UK brings us much closer to that day. In most cases, shop processes have been the same for decades; the launch of Amazon Go demonstrated how Amazon is pushing the boundaries of retailing – changing the model of a physical store as we know it.
“Amazon Go is an example of how retailers can harness technology and embrace innovation in their physical stores to create that invaluable seamless customer journey. Now that the level of customers’ expectations is at an all-time high, retailers need to find ways to match it and ensure they are differentiating themselves from their competitors. In fact, our recent study found that 8-in-10 consumers would spend more with retailers that have a better technology offerings, which means that whilst high street stores hold greater opportunities than ever, those unwilling to embrace technological advancements will not reap the awards. Shopping instore is now very much experiential, and by bringing innovative new ways to shop retailers can enhance that experience to make it more interactive and digitally enabled. Those that do will be the retailers that stand out against a noisy retail landscape.”
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“You don’t see it unless you pay attention to your grocery bill,” John Beghin, an Iowa State University economist, says. “We don’t have a sales tax on foods in Iowa, but the sales tax applies to soft drinks, so in a sense, we have an implicit soda tax in Iowa.”
The state’s six percent sales tax is charged on bottles and cans of soda pop. far less than the “sin” state taxes charged on alcohol and tobacco products purchased in Iowa. Policymakers in Iowa have argued significant increases in the taxes on cigarettes, for example, will help curb smoking.
There is now a stigma attached to smoking, because of the cancer risk — making it easy for policymakers to hike taxes by a dollar-per-pack, but Beghin says increasing taxes on high-calorie sodas may increase awareness of the health issues associated with obesity. “We need to start somewhere signaling to people that the current lifestyle is not that healthy,” Beghin says. “The soda tax may not be the best idea, but maybe a mild reminder you shouldn’t overconsume those products.”
Berkeley, California’s “sin” tax on soda is a penny per ounce and it applies to syrups added to coffee as well as soft drinks. Diet cola is not subject to the city’s tax. Iowans, by the way, will consume 136 million gallons of soft drinks this year.


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New iPhones to Get 2 New Features – Rumor
A well-known insider Sonny Dickson has recently claimed that the next-gen iPhone may get two new features. He has been accurate in the past, so his words should be trustworthy.
The first feature deals with charging. Dickson believes that the next-generation iPhone will support fast charging thanks to what he calls “Tristar 3, Hydra” chip. It is currently unknown what standard the technology will support, but we know it will come to all new iPhones next year. Sadly, there’s no mention of wireless charging.
The second feature is an iPhone 8 exclusive – Tap to Wake. Apple may add the ability to preview the notifications and other things on the Lock screen by tapping it. Similar feature is already present on many Android phones.
Normally, Apple finalizes the specs and features of new devices in the first quarter, so looks like fast charging and Tap to Wake will make their way to iPhones in 2017.
Apple is expected to release three iPhone models this year. The iPhone 7s and iPhone 7s Plus will get LCD screens and other incremental updates, whereas the iPhone 8 may feature a brand new AMOLED display, top-of-the-line specs, and new design.
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There’s no doubting that China’s exports to the Middle East have rocketed in the past decade, making it the Middle East’s number one supplier.
But in a region that desperately needs jobs, Chinese exporters have left little untouched, as two recent articles underscore.
The first article describes what is apparently the last Keffiyeh factory in Palestine. Hirbawi textiles is a family-run factory set up in the 1960s. It produces the headscarves famously worn by Yassir Arafat.


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I wrote a few days ago about the latest news regarding the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Basically officials had stated that they had no intention of canceling or even postponing the games but that they were awaiting until May to make a final decision.
But as things have escalated pretty darn quickly over the past few weeks, it looks like they are reconsidering their decision. Now, they are giving themselves a mid-April deadline to make a final decision about a potential postponement.
Personally, I can’t see them going through with the games that are scheduled July 24, 2020.
First, I think that the date of the games is still going to be in the thick of things even if things do start to slow down disease-wise over the summer.
It’s very possible that in the month of July things will feel much more in control and disease transmission rates will be severely reduced. But you have to give extra time for people to return to normal and feel comfortable with traveling and being in crowds again.
I do not think that July will be enough time for people to get to that place. Maybe it will but I don’t think so.
If they want to hold the games with no crowds or spectators then that might be able to work in July but I imagine that would still require a substantial amount of testing on athletes and staff members to ensure that people carrying the disease are not co-mingling or competing.
The bigger problem is with qualifications. Per Heroux, only 57 percent of spots have been filled for Tokyo. So there are still a lot of qualifications that need to happen and that could be a nightmare logistically. The head of USA Swimming and the head of USA Track and Field are both calling for a postponement of the games which I think is the likely outcome.
The question is will they be postponed by a couple of months or will they be postponed until 2021?
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has recently announced that De Stefano Cheese Co. from Pomona, California is urgently recalling several cases of Parma Boneless Ham as it failed to be presented at the U.S. point of entry for inspection. The recall has also been classified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as a Class I recall. This means that the affected products may present a “health hazard situation” whereby consumption of it can lead to serious health consequences or even death.
The lack of inspection issue was said to have been discovered during a routine record verification by the Public Health Information (PHIS). Both the FSIS and Di Stefano Cheese Co. have not received any reports of adverse health reactions linked to the affected Parma ham products so far.
As much as 1,280 pounds of Di Stefano Cheese Co.’s Parma Boneless Ham are subject to the said recall. This includes the 15 lb. cases of “Ruliano Collezione Regale” Parma boneless ham that has the case code 14260 and 15 lb. cases of “Ruliano 24” Parma boneless ham that have a sell by date of 08-02-2016. The said products were produced in Italy.
Customers who have bought the affected Parma ham products are urged to stop consuming them immediately. Moreover, they are also asked to discard the affected products or return to the place of purchase. FSIS says that it will also post the retail distribution list of the affected Parma ham products on the FSIS website when it becomes available.


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Seeing as how she’s the newest member of the British royal family – even though she’s not technically one of them just yet – Meghan Markle’s fashion choices meet with plenty of discussion and scrutiny. And the outfit that she wore on her first official outing with the Queen was no exception. People wondered if her striking white beret was a subtle nod to somebody she had spoken about before.
Meghan’s clothing has been analyzed by the media and the public for a long time. On the day of her engagement to Prince Harry, many photographs were taken, and each of them was observed with a critical eye. The outfit that drew the most attention was an embroidered Ralph & Russo sheer dress. Royals tend to shy away from sheer. It’s considered far too risqué.
Yet Meghan was happy to pose in one, and her fans were thrilled. The former actress wasn’t about to bend to all the fashion demands of the royal family, of which there are plenty. Royal girls shouldn’t wear bright nail varnish, for instance, and royal boys must wear shorts until they’re eight. And duchesses and princesses should never, ever show cleavage or bare legs.
Meghan was happy to break that last rule as well. In her engagement photos with Harry, she appeared to be wearing no tights. She’s not alone in ditching them, however – Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, has also done so every now and again. It was still a pretty daring choice, by the standards of the royal family, for Meghan to take, though.
But people nonetheless loved those choices, and soon the Meghan Effect began to take hold. Fashion fans wanted to get their hands on virtually everything that she was seen wearing, in fact. The white coat that she sported in the engagement photos proved particularly popular. Indeed, the website of its designer, Line the Label, crashed due to the sudden wave of interest. The co-founder of the company subsequently announced that he was renaming the jacket “Meghan.”
The media has observed that there are sometimes hidden meanings in Meghan’s outfits and jewelry choices. And when she visited Birmingham with her husband-to-be on March 8, 2016, people noticed that she was wearing a bracelet with a small cross on it. It was a sign, it seemed, that she had been baptized into the Church of England, which Queen Elizabeth II is the head of.
The white jumper that Meghan wore that day drew comments as well. March 8 was also International Women’s Day, and people wondered if Meghan’s choice of white was a nod to the Suffragettes and women’s rights movements. Many powerful women throughout history, including Hillary Clinton and Shirley Chisholm, have worn white during iconic moments.
And for her first outing with one of the most powerful women in the world – Queen Elizabeth II – Meghan again opted for a white ensemble. Appearing alongside the grandmother of her husband-to-be at a service to mark Commonwealth Day on March 12, she wore a gorgeous blue dress with a white coat and matching white beret.
But it seemed that there was more to the headwear than just its color. Meghan’s beret was designed by Stephen Jones, a favorite of Princess Diana, the mother-in-law whom Meghan will never meet. Before her untimely death in 1997, Diana was often seen sporting berets. And the connection most certainly didn’t go unnoticed by those reporting on the event.
“Meghan Markle’s beret today is by Stephen Jones, also preferred milliner of the late Princess Diana, who wore one of his berets in 1982,” wrote CNN reporter Kate Bennett on Twitter. “I love a fashion homage. Also, I’m not crying, you’re crying.” Moreover, the ways in which Diana’s influence remains visible in the modern royal family has been often remarked upon.
Meghan’s engagement ring is also a tribute to Diana. Harry helped to design it himself, in fact, with the assistance of royal jewelry-makers Cleave and Company. The main stone is a diamond from Botswana, the place where Harry fell in love with his future bride. But the two diamonds on each side of it are from Diana’s personal jewelry collection.
Harry spoke about his mother and the ring during the first post-engagement interview that he and Meghan conducted. “The little diamonds either side [of the ring] are from my mother’s jewelry collection, to make sure that she’s with us on this crazy journey together,” he told the BBC. “Obviously, not being able to meet his mom, it’s so important to me to know that she’s a part of this with us,” Meghan added.
Harry said in the same interview that he believed his mother would have been “best friends” with Meghan. “It’s days like today when I really miss having her around and miss being able to share the happy news,” he added. “But you know with the ring and with everything else that’s going on I’m sure she’s…” “She’s with us,” Meghan finished for him.
So it’s not in the least bit surprising that Meghan would choose to emulate Diana through her fashion choices. And it isn’t just the beret, either. When Meghan stepped out in a checked jacket during a visit to Cardiff Castle in January 2018, the media pointed out that Diana, too, had been a fan of check-print outfits.
Meghan also likes the designer Amanda Wakeley – she wore a Wakeley coat and dress along with the white beret, in fact. And Diana was a big fan of her as well, often being photographed in outfits from the designer. Meghan isn’t the only royal to follow in Diana’s footsteps in that regard – Kate Middleton has also been seen wearing Wakeley dresses.
The similarities between Meghan and Diana as people are another thing that the media has picked up on. Both were or are considered slightly rebellious, especially regarding their fashion choices. Diana famously didn’t always wear gloves back when it was a royal requirement. Reportedly, she thought that they made her seem unapproachable.
Eleri Lynn, the curator of the exhibition Diana: Her Fashion Story, spoke to Hello in 2017 about Diana’s choices. “She abandoned the royal protocol of wearing gloves, because she liked to hold hands when visiting people or shake hands and have direct contact,” Lynn explained. “She also stopped wearing hats because she said, ‘You can’t cuddle a child in a hat.’”
And that opinion seems to be one that Meghan shares. She’s shaping up to be every bit the down-to-earth royal that Diana was. When she visited Cardiff Castle, for example, she was snapped playing table tennis with children at a charity event. And when she went to Birmingham in March 2018, she met a group of schoolchildren and knelt down to speak to them at their level.
But Meghan will only officially become a royal when she marries Harry, and that’s set to happen on May 19, 2018. Royal-watchers are buzzing about what Meghan might wear for the big occasion. And there’s a strong possibility that Meghan might pay tribute to Diana on that day, too. In fact, she may even choose to wear one of Diana’s tiaras as she walks down the aisle.
“Both on her wedding day and on a number of other formal occasions, Princess Diana wore a tiara owned by her family, known as the Spencer Tiara,” insiders told Marie Claire on March 19, 2018. “There are rumors that the Spencer family may lend it to their nephew’s bride for the occasion of their wedding in May.” If so, that’s very exciting news indeed. And there’s no doubt that Meghan would look absolutely fantastic in it.


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A shareholder class action lawsuit was filed against Wells Fargo on Monday that alleged the firm misled investors about its financial performance and the success of its sales practices.
The lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court of Northern California, comes nearly a week after Wells Fargo chief executive John Stumpf faced Senate lawmakers about his oversight at the bank.
It also singled out Stumpf and Carrie Tolstedt, the now-retired executive at the center of the scandal, for selling more than $31 million of their stock in Wells Fargo at "artificially inflated" prices.
Wells Fargo has said its board will assess whether to cancel or claw back any incentive compensation paid to Tolstedt.
The complaint also criticizes the firm's cross-selling strategy, saying it failed to disclose material facts about its practices that were aimed at fulfilling sales quotas.
Wells Fargo has long been the envy of the banking industry for its ability to sell multiple products to the same customer.
The San Francisco-based bank has said it has fired 5,300 people over the matter and would eliminate sales goals in its retail banking on January 1, 2017.
Wells Fargo declined to comment on the matter.
Up to Monday's close, shares of the company have fallen more than 10 percent since Sept. 8 when it reached a settlement with regulators, wiping off more than $25 billion of market capitalization.


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The two stars are an even bigger force to be reckoned with as a couple, with “Kimye” (Kim + Kanye) news making the headlines on a weekly—if not daily—basis. Time recently gave each a spot on its 2015 list of most influential celebrities, as well.
PR and marketing pros whose brands don’t release platinum albums or star in reality shows may think it impossible to compete with celebrities who hold that much clout online and off.
However, brand managers can glean several insights from the way Kardashian and West connect with their followers.
Here are four ways you can influence consumers the way Kimye does (or is it do?):
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It used to be a simple apple a day that kept the doctor away, but these days the shelves are laden with food products containing added ingredients that, their manufacturers claim, help keep ill-health at bay.
But with concerns about food safety and diet at an all-time high, it is no wonder the functional food category is faced with regulation over the type of health claims it makes. The European Regulation on Nutrition and Health Claims, which aims to restrict certain claims and to ensure others are scientifically proven, is in the final stages of debate before being made law across the European Union.
Functional food manufacturers, aware that the directive has the potential to mould the development of their industry, have through the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) set up the Lifestyle and Dietary Trends (LDT) Industry Group to make their voice heard on key issues (MW last week). The FDF says the aim of the group, which has ten launch members, is to act as a forum to help members keep up to date with trends, to share information on key research and product developments and to promote wider industry discussion and debate about the sector.
But some observers see the new body as nothing more than a lobby group, launched to coincide with the finalisation of the regulations and their implementation during the UK’s forthcoming presidency of the European Union. Former Marks & Spencer food buyer Rob Seary, who launched a number of functional food products for the retailer, says: “The cynical perspective would be that it is just a back door to getting the ear of government.”
Although estimates of the value of the functional food market vary from &£825m (Mintel) to &£1.2bn (IGD), there is consensus that it is growing and will continue to do so as scientific research and product development become increasingly sophisticated. The market has a wide range of products including pro-biotic (bacteria-containing) and cholesterol-reducing dairy products, pro- and pre-biotic (bacterial growth-promoting) cereals, juices with added calcium and fibre and a number of other items with added antioxidants and Omega-3 oils. A number of major food manufacturers, such as Nestlé
and Danone – which are members of the LDT group – and Unilever Foods UK, already have a presence in this market.
The EU’s plans to regulate nutrition and health claims were first introduced in July 2003, with the aim of fostering consistency across the continent. The proposed regulations, which stipulate that all health claims must be scientifically proven, will affect all food categories, but functional foods in particular will feel their impact.
Which? campaign team leader Miranda Watson says: “At present there is no requirement for manufacturers to prove the claims that they make, so they can say any number of things. It means that consumers do not know what they are purchasing.”
Some manufacturers in the UK are members of the Joint Health Claims Initiative, a body which has drawn up a voluntary code of practice to ensure that claims made about food products are scientifically proven and legally acceptable. Trading Standards officers are also responsible for health claims on food and will investigate any claims that they believe to be untrue.
Seary, who is now a senior recruitment consultant at Nigel Wright Consultants, points out that few manufacturers would want to jeopardise their reputations by making false claims. He says: “Food is a hot topic at the moment and retailers are trying to get the message out that they care for consumers, so few companies would risk making false health claims.”
The proposed European regulations not only stipulate that all claims must be scientifically verifiable, they also ban psychological and behavioural claims, as well as more general espousals of non-specific benefits relating to good health or wellbeing, such as references to refreshing body and soul or restoring natural balance. There is also a ban on endorsements by charities or the medical profession. An existing ban on claims about prevention, treatment and cure will be retained, although claims that a product could reduce a particular disease risk will be permitted.
The EU also proposes that scientific verification of claims will have to be established through a formal procedure ahead of any product launch. It is proposed that the new system will be supported by a register of approved claims, a generic list of well-established and scientifically approved claims and quantitative criteria for nutrition claims, such as nutrient profiling.
But last week, the European Parliament’s Environment Committee, one of three bodies that is looking at the regulations, voted against a number of the proposals including one that would force manufacturers to obtain prior approval for health claims. Instead, it opted for a voluntary notification scheme. It also voted against plans to ban implied health claims. But more importantly, it voted against nutrient profiling. This comes just weeks after the European Parliament’s Industry Committee and the Internal Market Committee also voted against profiling, delivering a blow to the introduction of new nutrition-labelling systems such as the traffic light scheme (MW March 24). At the end of May, the European Parliament will vote on the final form of the regulations, which will then be implemented by the European Commission during the UK’s presidency of the EU. Watson says that nutrient profiling is crucial to this debate as it makes it clear exactly how healthy any product is. The system would also prevent manufacturers adding functional benefits to products with high sugar, fat or salt content, he says.
While Which? is planning to lobby for these amendments to be reinstated, the LDT group is expected to lobby to keep them out.
John Bevington, chairman of global food research and consultancy group Leatherhead Food International, which already has a Wellbeing and Functional Foods Forum, points out that if the regulations end up being too prescriptive they will act as a barrier to smaller manufacturers entering the functional foods category. Bevington, a former Unilever marketer and general manager, adds: “The new regulations could make it difficult for anyone other than the big boys to have claims approved.”
In the long term, the regulations could also become a barrier to innovation and new product development, says Rimi Obra, a nutritionist with freelance food consultancy Purely Nutrition.
Whatever the outcome, a great deal is at stake for functional food manufacturers. In the short term, the regulations will be at the top of their agendas.


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Honor, a sub-brand from one of the biggest smartphone maker Huawei has unveiled a new smartphone, Honor V10 in an event in China today. Honor has become one of the popular brands in Nepali market because of its phones that are suitable for Nepali customers.
Honor V10 features a bezel-less 5.99 Inch ‘Full View’ display with an 18:9 aspect ratio and has a pixel density of 403ppi. The smartphone runs on Huawei’s own HiSilicon Kirin 970 Octa-core (4×2.4 GHz Cortex-A73 & 4×1.8 GHz Cortex-A53) processor. Huawei claims that the phone has a neural processing unit(NPU) for Artificial Intelligence(AI) and machine learning related functions which are similar to iPhone X.
The phone features dual camera setup on the rear. The first one has a 16-megapixel sensor and the second one is 20-megapixel with an aperture of f/1.8 which is idle for low light shooting. It has a dual-LED flash. Front facing camera has a staggering 13 MP sensor with the aperture size of f/2.0. For those who are more interested in the phone, we have a detailed technical specification below.
- Display:99-inch (78.6% screen-to-body ratio)
- Resolution: 1080 x 2160 pixels FHD+, 18:9 ratio (403 ppi density)
- Processor: Hisilicon Kirin 970 1.8GHz octa-core
- Rear Camera: Dual | 16 MP (f/1.8) + 20 MP, phase detection autofocus, LED flash
- RAM: 4GB | 6GB
- OS: Android 8.0(Oreo)
- Storage: 64GB | 128 GB
- Front Camera: 13 MP, f/2.0
- Battery Capacity: Non-removable Li-Po 3750 mAh battery
- Connectivity: WLAN, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS, NFC, Radio, USB 2.0
- Sensors: Fingerprint (front-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass
Availability and Launch Date
Honor V10 has been launched in three RAM and storage variants. The 4GB RAM and 64GB storage variant is priced at Chinese Yuan (CNY) 2,699 (roughly Rs. 42,000), 6GB RAM and 64GB storage variant is priced at CNY 2,999 (roughly Rs. 46,800), and the 6GB RAM and 128GB storage variant is priced at CNY 3,499 (roughly Rs. 54,600).
The smartphone has been launched in China but will be launched globally on December 5 at an event in London. V10 is already available for pre-orders on various Chinese online shopping sites and will go on sale from December 5.
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Stocks have recovered 32% and are only down 12% from the Feb all time highs. In the mean time, the economy has been completely shut down for 2 months and a plan to reopen has many health officials shuddering. Should we trust this v-shaped recovery or is this just another bull trap?
Businesses like travel and retail were hit the hardest as social distancing prevented these businesses from opening or functioning anywhere near full capacity. Stores have scrambled to adapt by building ecommerce websites on platforms like Shopify but there are many others that have folded. Airline stocks have plummeted 75% and are hoping to rely on a government bailout. The government did promise to bail them out but they are doing so by printing money. Printing money is never a good thing as it leads to dilution. Look at what happened to Venezuela.
Investors are currently delusional to value the markets like they were in 2019. Right now, all their hopes and dreams are banking on the economy opening back up and returning to the same consumer spending levels as last year. This will not happen though. People will wear masks going out in North America, this is a sign of fear. Less Americans will go out to restaurants, pubs, malls, amusement parks, etc for the next few years or until a vaccine is discovered. Even with a vaccine though, it will take a while to administer to the entire population and in the meantime, businesses will continue to suffer.
I would proceed with caution right now if you are going to invest in the stock market and do your due diligence for the companies you are looking to buy. For the long term investor, its not as critical but I am waiting for a pullback because of my belief that the stock market will eventually reflect the recession we are soon to be in.


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Country's drug controller General of India (DCGI) has written a strongly worded letter to Rogerio Gaspar, Director, Regulation and Prequalification, WHO informing that all control samples of the products have been found to be complying with specifications.
"Further, DEG and G were not found to be detected in these products and the products have been found not to have been contaminated with DEG or EG as per the test reports. These reports have been made available to the aforesaid Technical Committee which is examining them," VG Somani said in a letter dated December 13.
Somani said that the statement issued by the WHO in October led to a narrative being built internationally targeting the quality of India pharmaceutical products.
"This in turn has adversely impacted the image of India's pharmaceutical products across the globe, and caused irreparable damage to the supply chain of pharmaceutical products, as well as repute of the national regulatory framework over an assumption that has yet not been substantiated by the WHO or its partners on ground," it said.
He said that alerts and the communication received from the onset of the event in Gambia have contained references to the deaths of the children and have been presented in such a light as if the cough syrups was the primary cause of mortality.
"It is clear that perhaps premature deduction was drawn on September 29th itself regarding the cause of death. Every subsequent alert or publication from the WHO only s e e m s to be a reaffirmation of this deduction, without waiting for independent verification," it said.
The drug regulator has been writing to the WHO continuously ever since the incident asking them to share the details. However, in the letter he said that in the present communication WHO has declared its mandate to be of "identification of global public health risks alone" and has announced that the responsibility of "establishment of causality of deaths" rests with the countries in question. "This is a strangely contrary position to the one adopted in the earlier communications where WHO had affirmed its commitment to provide granular details of the incident on causal relation. It is also a departure from the inflections expressed in the statements issued earlier by the WHO," the letter said.
So far Gambia has also not found any direct causal relation between the cough syrup consumption and the deaths, and that certain children who had died had not consumed the syrup in question.
The drug regulator has asked the WHO to provide details to the technical committee of subject experts constituted by the government to arrive at the conclusion based on all the facts and evidence available. "We would be more than willing to consider permitting WHO representatives to interact with this technical committee," the letter said.
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An Australian Competition and Consumer Commission inquiry into the country’s dairy industry recommends a mandatory code of conduct be introduced to address power imbalances in the supply chain.
Commissioner Mick Keogh said Australia’s dairy industry introduced a voluntary code of conduct following the milk price drop in April 2016 and he said this had worked – to an extent.
“From what we can see, some of the changes that have occurred have resulted in improvements,” Mr Keogh said.
“Some of the bad practices are not there anymore, but there are no consequences if processors don’t adhere to the code. And not all processors are in the [voluntary] code.
“The inquiry has recommended change is needed, but it is limited in the voluntary code and if it is not enforced the industry could go back to the way it was,” he said.
Introducing a mandatory code of conduct would address problems caused by bargaining power imbalances between processors and farmers, the commission said in its interim report based on a 12-month inquiry.
As well as addressing power imbalances, a mandatory code would improve price and production signals, stop practices where risk is transferred inappropriately and increase competition for farmers’ milk.
“What’s clear is that processors, often under pressure from supermarkets or export market competition, use their relative bargaining power to shift risks onto dairy farmers. The power imbalance is evident in the nature of contracts between the processors and farmers. These involve uncertain pricing information and contract terms which deter switching,” Mr Keogh said.
“A code would strengthen dairy farmers’ weak bargaining position and therefore improve competition at the farmgate,” he said.
The inquiry also analysed the impact of $1 per litre private label milk on earnings through the dairy supply chain.
Dairy farmers believe the low price devalues their efforts, Mr Keogh said, however the inquiry found farmers earned the same regardless of whether the milk was sold as private label or branded milk.
“Farmgate prices are quarantined from other costs which affect the prices paid by supermarkets and the margins earned by processors,” Mr Keogh said.
“We don’t think that an increase in the retail price of private label milk would necessarily benefit farmers, and that any additional profit would mainly be captured by the major supermarkets and processors,” he said.
The commission’s inquiry found major supermarkets leveraged their buying power to lower wholesale processing costs and capture profits from processors, with most cost savings passed on to consumers.
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission made eight recommendations in its interim report and is now asking for industry feedback on these before presenting the final report to federal government in April 2018.
Visit www.accc.gov.au/about-us/information-for/agriculture/dairy-inquiry/interim-report to read the report and email feedback to firstname.lastname@example.org by January 31, 2018.
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EA Sports promises big things from Madden 13
With the imminent release of Madden 13 EA Sports has promised that this year's release will be more innovative than ever before.
The head of EA Sports, Andrew Wilson admitted that compared with FIFA, NHL and Fight Night, the Madden series hadn't brought as much innovation but all that will change with Madden 13.
He confessed, "I do believe that Madden did not have the level of innovation that some of our other franchises have had. I think they were still doing great things, they were great playing games and they were significantly more than roster updates. I look at the budget, time and hours going into making those games. I look at the team this year and they made a concerted effort to put Madden right up there with FIFA, NHL and Fight Night Champion. They want to leave no doubt with fans that this is the most amazing Madden ever built. Based on what I've seen from the reaction I'm seeing from press, I think they've come very, very close to sealing that. Certainly by the time we launch, when we finish with the polish and all that, we'll have delivered."
"What I can say is that the core gameplay team is 50 percent bigger this year than it was last year," Wilson continued. "So as one touch point, and there is a lot of investment that goes outside of core gameplay when you think about connected-careers, everything about online seasons and cross-platform play, but the piece that changes how you play the game, that 11-on-11 twitch football, is a 50 percent bigger team. That's a big increase."
Madden 13 will be released on August 28th.
- Bungie explains their latest weapon balancing efforts in Destiny, promises more is coming
- Blizzard aiming to release Hearthstone on Android tablets by the end of the year
- Former BioWare man Casey Hudson hints at an Oculus Rift project
- Dark Souls on PC to switch from Games For Windows Live to Steam next month
- Square Enix announces details and pricing on the premium livestream of Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival 2014
- First Challenge Mode DLC arrives next week for Alien: Isolation
- Metallica to close out this year's BlizzCon
- Free DLC adds a new skin and runes to Shadow Of Mordor
- ESL Gaming app arrives for the Xbox One


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MyFitnessPal Security Breach]
On March 29, 2018, it was reported that data of more than 150 million users of a popular fitness and dietary app called MyFitnessPal have been hacked. Users’ usernames, email addresses and passwords were stolen. The company then started to notify their users about the situations via in-app messaging and emails days after they noticed that an unauthorized person had successfully accessed the data a month prior. The company then urged their users to immediately change their passwords. Unfortunately, it is still unclear who had orchestrated the data breach which stole the data of millions of users.
Under Armour, which is MyFitnessPal’s parent company, claimed that the users’ financial information were not affected by the breach of data in any way. As the company does not require any government issued identifiers like driver’s license numbers of social security numbers, the damage of the data breach is considered as moderate. Currently, the company is working on figuring out how the hackers had the ability to get into their system without being noticed.
And although having your fitness and dietary progress stolen by a hacker may seem like it’s not much of a big deal, it still holds more power if you look at the bigger picture. For instance, the app has the ability to know the precise performance and location data of its users. Meaning, if someone else has access to a user’s account, they will be able to know where exactly a user is and how fast the user is going. The users will then be placed in potential danger and can be easily tracked by the person who has their data.
Getting Your Data Secured
This incident is an important reminder for everyone that any type of data can easily be hacked in this age of modern technology. In order to secure their private data, listed below are some of the things that individuals can do in order to secure their own private data.
1. Using Complex Passwords
While some people may prefer generic and easy password, it is still best to at least put an effort in setting your passwords. Though it is a very small detail, hackers may still end up having a hard time in cracking your password if you set it into a difficult one, thus protecting your account until the issue is fixed.
2. Reading Through the Terms and Services Conditions
While most people like to skip on reading the terms and services, it is still of great importance for the users to have knowledge about what the company plans on doing with the data that they share with the app. It is important for the users to know just what it is that the app can do.
While breaches like these are becoming common today and companies have the ability to protect their users, it is still important that the users take precautionary measures in protecting their private information.


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Filed under: Auctions
Although many of us are tightening our budgets and spending less this year, some people out there are continuing to indulge themselves. One example: at an international auction that took place this past Saturday an Italian white truffle sold for $200,000. The tuber weighed just over 2 lbs and was bought by casino mogul Stanley Ho from Hong Kong, who must really love truffles because he bought another enormous white truffle last year at a similar auction for $330,000.
Climate change is largely to blame for the rising price of truffles, since they grow naturally in forests (and aren't commercially cultivated) they've been particularly susceptible to Italy's recent mix of drought and torrential rains.
How long to truffles keep? I'd be tempted to save it and resell for a profit!
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In this week’s roundup we take a look at some of the potential implications of the massively popular ChatGPT AI and look at the latest cyber security incidents to have hit the headlines.
This week’s observation from our Incident Response Team
The introduction of ChatGPT's AI technology in November 2022, while revolutionary, is also susceptible to exploitation.
This may attract novice cybercriminals and increase cyber risks. The potential for abuse has been a hot topic among cybercriminal forums, where discussions on using ChatGPT to enhance various cyber threats such as phishing emails, faster malware deployment, and more effective Business Email Compromise (BEC) are taking place.
As a result, organisations and individuals should be aware of the potential risks associated with this technology and take appropriate measures to protect themselves. This can include educating employees on how to identify phishing attempts, implementing strong security measures such as firewalls and antivirus software, and regularly backing up important data. Additionally, staying informed about the latest developments in the world of cybercrime (such as by reading these weekly reports) can help organisations and individuals stay ahead of potential threats and mitigate their impact.
Something a bit different this week as we share the list of the top 10 most exploited vulnerabilities of 2022. There’s a high chance some of these will make it into the 2023 list too as organisations fail to patch them. We recommend that organisations patch for each of the below as soon as possible.
- Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228)
- Follina (CVE-2022-30190)
- Spring4Shell (CVE-2022-22965)
- Google Chrome Zero-Day (CVE-2022-0609)
- F5 BIG-IP (CVE-2022-1388)
- Microsoft Office Bug (CVE-2017-11882)
- ProxyNotShell (CVE-2022-41082, CVE-2022-41040)
- Zimbra Collaboration Suite Bugs (CVE-2022-27925, CVE-2022-41352)
- Atlassian Confluence RCE Flaw (CVE-2022-26134)
- Zyxel RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2022-30525)
Here’s a roundup of the cyber security incidents that have made headlines this week.
10 million JD Sports customers impacted by cyber attack
JD Sports, a sportswear chain, announced a possible data breach that may have put information of 10 million customers at risk. The hackers may have accessed names, addresses, email accounts, phone numbers, order details, and the last four digits of bank cards for online orders from November 2018 to October 2020.
The company said it was reaching out to affected customers and stated the impacted data is "limited". It further noted that it does not hold full payment card information and does not believe that hackers gained access to account passwords.
Retailers are often targets of cyber-crime due to the collecting and storing of a vast array of personal and financial information including names, addresses, credit card numbers, and purchase histories, making them a valuable target for cyber criminals. In addition, retailers often handle a large volume of transactions, making them an attractive target for financial fraud.
Additionally, many retailers have outdated or insufficient cybersecurity measures, making them vulnerable to attacks. As a result, retailers must prioritise protecting their customers' data and investing in strong cyber security measures to stay ahead of potential cyber threats.
The amount of customer records potentially accessed as a result of the JD sports incident is shockingly high and pertains to a two year period of online orders.
While passwords and payment information was not disclosed, Personal Identifiable Information (PII) such as contact information was. This exposes users to targeted phishing attacks for the purposes of fraud. The scope of the attack was extended to subsidiary brands of the JD sports group. Anyone who has made an online order from the JD sports group over the time period in question should be extra vigilant of phishing emails and fraud.
Russian Cyber Gang Killnet attacks multiple Ukrainian Allies
A pro-Russia hacking group, Killnet, has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack that disabled the websites of over a dozen US hospitals this week.
The group, known for launching DDoS attacks, stated it took down the websites of 14 US hospitals, including Stanford Healthcare, Duke University Hospital, and Cedars-Sinai. Killnet also launched DDoS attacks against several medical facilities in the Netherlands with the University Medical Centre Groningen being the largest.
Killnet has been conducting DDoS attacks against government agencies and firms since the start of the war in Ukraine. Targets have included British, Spanish, and Norwegian hospitals.
Further highlighting the geopolitical risks The UK’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) last week warned of increased targeted attacks from Iran or Russia, mainly in the form of phishing attacks aiming to steal sensitive information.
Cyber attack on financial data group impacts trading
Ion Markets, a financial data group, has suffered a cyber-attack that impacted its cleared derivatives unit. The Dublin-based firm said the attack was contained to a specific environment, and services are being remediated. The Futures Industry Association is working with clearing houses, trading platforms, and regulators to evaluate the extent of the attack's impact on trading, processing, and clearing. This comes a week after a glitch at the New York Stock Exchange caused market chaos.
A client alert stated that all emails from ION or affiliates were being investigated by security staff. Fidessa, acquired by ION in 2018, notified that a cyber incident involving LockBit and VMware servers was the cause of the issue preventing access to certain systems. LockBit is ransomware that blocks access to computer systems and often demands a ransom payment. Fidessa stated that the spread was limited to cleared derivatives front, middle, and back offices services for clients and no other products or business lines were affected.
If you are worried about any of the threats outlined in this bulletin or need help in determining what steps you should take to protect yourself from the most material threats facing your organisation, please contact your account manager, or alternatively Get in touch to find out how you can protect your organisation.


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Many of those international customers looking to get their hands on an iPad 2 won’t have much longer to wait: Apple confirmed on Tuesday that it will launch the newest revision of its tablet in 25 countries on March 25. That announcement seems to fly in the face of rumors of a constrained supply.
The countries receiving the iPad 2 on Friday were initially announced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the iPad 2 launch event earlier this month. They include Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.
The iPad 2 will go on sale online at 1 a.m. local time on March 25 and at Apple Stores and authorized resllers at 5 p.m. local time the same day. The devices will bear the same suggested retail prices as their U.S. counterparts, in the respective currencies of those countries: $499, $599, and $699 for the 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB Wi-Fi models respectively, and $629, $729, and $829 for the 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB Wi-Fi + 3G models.
One country absent from the international iPad 2 launch, though, is Japan. Though Japan had been included on the initial list of nations due to get the iPad 2 on March 25, Apple said last week that it would be delaying the launch of the iPad 2 there, due to the natural disasters that have impacted the country in recent weeks.
The iPad 2 launched to great success in the U.S. on March 11, with many retail locations selling out of their supply almost immediately. Even several days after the launch, most Apple Stores held little or no stock, and online shipping times still remain in the range of 4 to 5 weeks as of this writing. One rumor earlier this week suggested that the international launch would be delayed due to short supply, but that, at least, appears to be untrue.
Apple’s announcement also said that the iPad 2 will go on sale in Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, and additional countries beginning in April, with more international availability and pricing announced in the coming months.
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For better or worse, Starbucks has transformed coffee culture forever. Its logo is instantly recognisable globally, but at the cost of becoming a ‘ubiquitous’ symbol of single-use waste. The enterprise is now aiming to phase out its disposable cups entirely by 2025.
If you’re feeling a twinge of guilt for that pumpkin spiced latte phase you go through every Autumn, don’t beat yourself up. We’re all victims of mainstream coffee culture.
Since sprouting up globally in the 1990s, the Starbucks consortium in particular has grown at a relentless pace. Frankly, if the mere mention of coffee doesn’t bring to mind that weird green mermaid logo, you’re either miles away from a major city, or own a coffee machine yourself.
The major drawback of commodification on this scale is that corners are almost always cut for the sake of convenience and profit margins, often at the expense of the environment. If you hadn’t already gathered, we’re of course referring to its ‘iconic’ single-use cardboard cup, of which 6bn are offloaded onto customers every year.
Despite how, technically, they are recyclable – which is commendable – Starbucks’ size and international reach means it cannot solely rely on the social responsibility of customers to act consciously. The fact that these cups are still found by the thousands in landfill and littering the streets is evidence of that.
Directly from the mouth of its own chief of sustainability, Michael Kobori, the brand’s single-use cup has been described as a ‘ubiquitous symbol of throwaway culture.’ Considering there’s almost as many disposable cups sold in 12 months as there are people on the planet, I’d say that’s a fair statement.
So, as brands transition to models more in tune with conscious consumerism, what has Starbucks got planned?


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Crypto Coins News - Ratings - Reviews
Cryptocurrency exchange startup Coinbase has issued new comments in its ongoing dispute with the IRS.
The firm filed last week to officially respond to the so-called “John Doe” case instigated in November by the IRS, which is seeking to obtain three years worth of customer records in a stated bid to catch tax cheats.
Specifically, Coinbase is asking that the court hold off a decision on a motion filed by one of its customers as well as the IRS summons itself, until March at the earliest.
Coinbase is also going public about how it believes the effort could cost much-needed time and resources.
Specifically, the startup said it may face as much as $1m in legal expenses as part of what it called “an extraordinarily broad” summons in last week’s court filing. As CEO Brian Armstrong wrote in a blog post published over the weekend, this comes in spite of what he called the startup’s cooperative track record when it comes to working with the IRS on its investigations.
“I believe Coinbase and the IRS fundamentally want the same thing: for all US users of virtual currency to pay their taxes. And I believe our prior actions demonstrate that we are committed to making this happen. I also feel that the IRS sending us a John Doe summons on all customer accounts is not the best way for us to mutually accomplish this objective.”
Armstrong went on to advocate that the IRS use 1099-B, a tax form issued by brokers in the US that reports information on the sale of stocks and bonds, among other assets, suggesting that accepting data in this fashion could actually help the IRS in the long term.
Ultimately, he concluded, the case risks becoming a lose-lose situation for all stakeholders involved.
“A protracted legal battle, seeking to reveal private information from people who are not evading taxes, would be bad for Coinbase, the IRS, and many US citizens,” he wrote.
Disclaimer: CoinDesk is a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which has an ownership stake in Coinbase.
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Skip to comments.A Year’s Supply Of Rice
Posted on 10/09/2012 7:03:04 AM PDT by blam
A Years Supply Of Rice
By Addison Wiggin
October 8, 2012
Better buy now, advised the rice merchant in Tehran.
The retired factory guard took him up on the advice, buying 900 pounds of the stuff to feed his extended family for the next 12 months.
As I was gathering my money, the retiree told The New York Times, he got a phone call. When he hung up, he told me prices had just gone up by 10%. Of course, I paid. God knows how much it will cost tomorrow.
Irans currency, the rial, collapsed 40% last week under the pressure of Western sanctions and homegrown blundering. Were not sure if Iran is in hyperinflation, as Cato Institute researcher Steve Hanke asserted in Fridays 5 Min. Forecast, but at the very least theyre on the cusp.
Austrian economists describe three stages of inflation. In the first stage, people still hang onto their money, expecting prices to come down. In the second stage, people part with their money to stock up on goods before prices rise again. In the final hyperinflationary stage, people buy anything they can get their hands on even if they dont need it because the goods are more valuable than the currency.
As we said on Thursday, Iran today is looking more and more like Iran during the 1978-79 revolution. Now theres corroboration from someone who lived through those days.
The new government wanted to prevent flight capital from leaving the country, recalls Chicago-based derivatives specialist Janet Tavakoli, who married an Iranian while in college.
In the panic to leave the country with some of their wealth, she wrote in her 1998 book Credit Derivatives, citizens found that although there was an official exchange rate of 7 tomans (10 rials) to the U.S. dollar, there was no means to convert money. Banks were closed much of the time. The government put a further restriction on conversion of currency. Citizens could take only $1,000 in U.S. currency out of the country and could take only a suitcase of clothing. The idea was to prevent citizens from taking valuable carpets, now labeled national protected works of art, out of the country.
Before a currency goes into free fall, she writes now at Huffington Post, its value can be chipped away while a distracted population fails to notice that the currency buys cheaper-quality clothing and less food in a package at a grocery store Thats the current situation with the U.S. dollar.
Iran, she says, is far beyond that stage. Where it leads this time, we have no idea
but its nowhere good.
For this economy to really get going, interest rates must “necessarily skyrocket.” Why would any bank want to lend money when most interest rates, to say nothing of the Fed rates, are WELL BELOW the actual rate of inflation.
For banks to want to lend, first they must have some assurance that what they get back is actually WORTH MORE than what they lend out.
As inflation has taken its toll over the decades, the quality of our food has deteriorated. In order to keep prices competitive, companies are adding more and more cheap crap to our food. It could be part of the explanation as to why more and more people are becoming obese.
Why would any sane person buy top quality roast beef at the deli when it costs $9.99 a pound?
When was the last time you saw heart wrenching stories of middle class people losing their jobs, homes, medical coverage etc.? About 4 years ago?
I'm sure a lot of young families would love a "fixed" income like SS instead of constant threats of losing jobs, or hours, or benefits, etc...
Bernanke thinks they can manage the economy and prevent the bad things from happening.
Romney probably isn’t making inflation an issue because its hard for many people to understand when interest rates for long term mortgages are 3.5%. He has used the price of gasoline which is one of the indicators though.
First of all they eat real rice and not the crap most Americans think is rice.
Huge difference in taste and nutrients. Rice is easy to grow, store, and cook.
I was being a bit snarky...
personally, I’ll stick to egg noodles, black beans, oatmeal, stuff like that stored in bulk.
I tend to think the popularity of rice has to do more with how many people worldwide live in coastal zones that make rice agriculture easy.
Doesn’t something like 35% of the worlds population live with 100 miles of the ocean? Maybe not that much, but it’s still a huge number.
I figured you were but others aren’t. For storage rice is an ideal item. Its extremely compact, easy to store and cheap. A years worth of rice also takes up significantly less space then a years worth of potatoes. I also have the beans, oatmeal and such but not as much.
-——It continues to amaze me Romney and the GOP are not making inflation an issue.——
The inflation will continue and cannot be stopped until the debt is repaid. That will not happen in the next four years. As a matter of fact, payback for being set up by Bush may be Obama’s revenge.
Shelled pecans here in 'pecan country' are $8.00 a pound.
I can pick up 50 pounds of pecans (in under one hour) from 'volunteer' trees growing on the sides of the roads here.
My biggest producing pecan tree dried from a lightening strike this year.
SS receipients received a 3.6% raise last year and are projected to receive another this year.
I might pay that much for shelled pecans, such a pain! probably take me an hour to shell a pound...how much is time worth?
Sorry about that my post should have read for two years in a row people on SS didn’t get a raise....
Didn’t mean this year, guess I was more tired than I thought.
uh, you do know that “fixed” income for alot of people isn’t that much?
I know a lady you gets 500.00 a month, that’s it. That’s not enough to pay for anything.
gas prices are reflected in food prices...cost lots more for gas for trucking is reflected in food prices and everything else you purchase...Food prices can go up by the day...back in the Carter adm. a can of beans may have been upped in price 3 times on the top of the can....the cost inflation is because of the cost it will be to replace that can on the shelves next time the store has to purchase it...
During Carters adm. inflation (or interest) was reflected in what banks paid on CD.s It was 16% interest...don’t know enough to figure out why the fed or how the fed keeps inflation at 1%
As I understand it, the Federal Reserve bankers are stealing hand over fist...that’s where the difference is going. But what do I know?
I know nothing about that either...but was raising 5 kids the first 2 years of Carter (then one son went into the navy and the other Air Force) When your feeding a house full, food can cost a small fortune. Those families raising kids today have my sympathy. And us seniors that have investments bringing in 1 or 2 % have a little problem...I am doing all right but have kids and grandkids and the grandkids are having a problem finding a job....
Prayers up for your family and all who are in a similar situation of need.
much appreciated. TY