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Vivo did already release a new foldable phone pretty recently, which is the Vivo X Fold+. It came out in late September. But according to Digital Chat Station, the brand is all set to release another foldable phone, the Vivo X Flip. We did recently come to know a little about its specification. However, we had no idea about what the device might look like.
Well, Digital Chat Station has just revealed the schematic of the new X flip. And it seems like a phone that can definitely worry the Galaxy Flip series a little.
Vivo X Flip Design
One of the main issues about foldable flip phones is the small external display. From recent rumors, we came to know that Samsung has been working on their Flip series to fix this issue. But Vivo might be the first one to implement the change.
As you can see from the schematic, the Vivo X Flip is set to come with a rectangular external display. The display sits right below the multi-camera cutout and will likely be relatively large. What’s the big deal about a large external display?
Well, this large-sized display will make the external display of the foldable much more usable. To give you a perspective, the primary use cases for the current Samsung Flip series are for notifications and the camera. But when the external display is relatively large in size, it gains the ability to run apps, which is always a good thing.
The Vivo X Flip’s camera cutout is not telling us much about the camera combo that the phone might have. However, we speculate that it might come with two or three sensors and one LED flash. All of them will be within the circular cutout on the external frame.
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Vivo has been recently using the Zeiss branding for its cameras. We expect to see the same with the Vivo X Flip. Wondering what sensors will the Vivo X Flip come with? Judging by the combination of the X Flip+, there can be one 50 MP primary camera, one 12 MP telephoto, and one 8 MP periscope or 48 MP ultrawide.
However, there is a chance that the X Flip might include all four cameras found in the X Fold+. In that case, the LED flash will not be within the circular cutout. Instead, it will be on the right side of the device, as found on the X Fold+.
Core Specifications of the Vivo X Flip
So, earlier today, we got a sneak peek into what the core specifications of the X Flip might be. Again, this info came from Digital Chat Station. Nonetheless, according to the leak, the X Flip will be powered by a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 CPU.
Yes, it is not the latest and the greatest from Qualcomm. That would be the 8 Gen 2. However, the 8+ Gen 1 is still considered to be a flagship processor. So, even with the last-gen chip, the Vivo X Flip will not disappoint in terms of performance.
Can the Vivo X Flip Take on the Competition
We have seen a lot of great flip phones lately. For example, there is the Huawei P Pocket Series, Moto Razr devices, and, most importantly, there is the upcoming Galaxy Z Flip 5. For Vivo X Flip to make headlines with its latest Flip phone, it needs to do a lot of things right.
That said, from the schematic, it seems like the brand is on the right track. A large external display is surely going to dominate the foldable flip phone market. Now, it depends on the hinge, cameras, and other crucial factors of the phone.
Nonetheless, we are expecting to get more info about the phone in the upcoming days as the device is set to arrive on the market in early 2023. When we get those, more doubts about the device should clear up.


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Sam Wyly, a billionaire Texan, plans to begin a proxy fight today to take control of Computer Associates, the struggling software company.
Mr. Wyly will ask shareholders in Computer Associates to oust the current board and replace it with a board that will elect him as its chairman. His plan is to split Computer Associates into four divisions, which might eventually be spun off as independent companies.
Mr. Wyly said he wanted control because the company's mismanagement has hurt its shareholders, customers and employees, including those who worked for his former company, Sterling Software, which Computer Associates acquired last year for almost $4 billion in stock. ''I see an opportunity to put something right,'' he said.
Computer Associates said in a statement last night that it would fight Mr. Wyly: ''We remain committed to enhancing value for all of our shareholders. The strategy that we have in place, including the product-focus areas and the new business model, will yield substantial dividends for our shareholders, customers, and employees.''
Mr. Wyly's plans set up a battle between himself and another billionaire, Charles Wang, who founded Computer Associates in 1976. Both men are hard-charging entrepreneurs who have been criticized in the past for profiting at the expense of shareholders in their companies. And the public profiles of both men have risen in the last year. Mr. Wang and his close associate, Sanjay Kumar, the chief executive of Computer Associates, bought the New York Islanders professional hockey team. Mr. Wyly, a longtime supporter of President Bush, spent $2.5 million on advertisements attacking the environmental record of John McCain during the Republican primaries.
Computer Associates, which is based in Islandia, N.Y., is the world's fourth-largest independent software company, with more than 18,000 employees. Since being founded by Mr. Wang, it has grown to dominate an obscure but lucrative business of mainframe utility software, the programs that help big computers run smoothly.
But Computer Associates has struggled for many years to overcome criticism that it has high prices and poor customer service. Last October, the company disclosed a change in its accounting practices that has had the effect of clouding the company's financial condition. Earlier this year, the company dismissed hundreds of employees, who were initially denied severance pay, though it agreed to pay severance to some of them after reports that the company was conducting layoffs for economic reasons rather than weeding out poor performers.
Computer Associates has said it is improving its customer service and investing more in research and development. In addition, it said its accounting changes were intended to give investors more information and reflected its decision to offer clients more flexible contract terms, which change the way it books revenue. The dismissals in January were part of a routine effort to rid the company of underachieving employees, the company has said.
Mr. Wyly faces serious obstacles, not least because he will not commit himself to buying shares in the company. In addition, he was criticized in 1995 for a deal with Lehman Brothers in which he profited if the shares of Michaels Stores, a retailer of which he is chairman, fell. In 1979 he settled a civil suit brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission, without admitting or denying wrongdoing, involving a debt-for-stock swap made by a troubled company he ran.
His hope for control of Computer Associates may hinge on Walter Haefner, a Swiss investor who owns 123 million shares, or about 21 percent of the company, worth almost $4 billion. Mr. Haefner's investment, which dates to 1987, has been very profitable, and investors and analysts have assumed that Mr. Haefner is loyal to Computer Associates' current management. But Mr. Haefner has known Mr. Wyly for more than three decades, and Mr. Wyly said he hoped Mr. Haefner would consider his proposal.
Last night Computer Associates said Mr. Haefner continued to support the company: ''We are confident that we have the support of our principal shareholders. In fact, in a recent letter to Mr. Wyly in response to his proposal, our largest shareholder reaffirmed his confidence in the current management team.''
The eight-person board that Mr. Wyly has proposed to run Computer Associates includes Wendy Gramm, the former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; CeCe Smith, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas; and Mark Cuban, the billionaire founder of Broadcast.com. Other proposed outside directors are the venture capitalists Dixon Doll and Bob Cook and Elizabeth VanStory, a management consultant. Mr. Wyly and Stephen Perkins, a longtime business associate of Mr. Wyly's who would become deputy chairman, would be the only board members who are also executives of the company.
Computer Associates now has an eight-person board with three inside directors: Mr. Wang, Mr. Kumar, and Russell M. Artzt, executive vice president for research and development. The five outside directors include Alfonse D'Amato, the former New York senator, and Shirley Strum Kenny, president of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. When he was a senator, Mr. D'Amato received sizable campaign donations from top Computer Associates executives.
Computer Associates' other outside directors are Willem De Vogel, an investor; Roel Pieper, a technology executive, and Richard A. Grasso, chairman of the New York Stock Exchange.
While Mr. Wyly owns only a tiny fraction of Computer Associates, the company's current top executives are big shareholders. Mr. Wang owns about 32 million shares of Computer Associates, or 5.5 percent of the company, according to the company. Mr. Kumar owns another 5.7 million shares, or 1 percent, and Mr. Artzt owns 2.9 million shares.
The executives were given many of those shares in a highly controversial stock grant from the company in 1998. A few weeks after the executives received the grant, which was tied to the company's share price, Computer Associates reported results far short of Wall Street's expectations, and its stock plunged.
A survey of Computer Associates' customers, prepared by the polling firm of Penn, Schoen & Berland for Mr. Wyly, shows that 41 percent of Computer Associates customers are dissatisfied with the company, while only 6 percent are extremely satisfied. If they could, 46 percent of the company's customers would end their relationship with Computer Associates, according to the survey. One in five customers said the company had integrity, while one in three said it was honest.
Most companies have more satisfied customers, said Douglas E. Schoen, who conducted the poll. The survey also found that Computer Associates' customers felt that I.B.M., a big competitor, offered better customer service and better software, he said.
Chuck Phillips, a software analyst at Morgan Stanley, said investors would probably consider Mr. Wyly's offer seriously. Over the last five years, Computer Associates' shares have stagnated, while the overall Standard & Poor's 500 index has doubled. The stock gained $1.36 yesterday, to close at $33.80.
Richard Koppes, a corporate governance expert whose law firm has been hired by Mr. Wyly to advise in the battle, said Mr. Wyly ''has learned his lesson'' from the criticism he received at Michaels Stores. In 1998, the California Public Employees Retirement System, the nation's largest pension fund, said Michaels had ''some of the most egregious corporate governance practices'' at any publicly traded company.
''He spent time talking to Calpers and learned a great deal,'' said Mr. Koppes, the former general counsel of the California pension fund, which is known as Calpers.
B. Joseph White, dean of the University of Michigan Business School, who has also been hired by Mr. Wyly, said he thought Mr. Wyly sincerely wanted to make Computer Associates a better-run company. ''I like the fact that Mr. Wyly's making no great claims about his previous governance practices,'' Mr. White said. ''He's a man who listens and learns.''
Over the next few weeks, Mr. Wyly will meet with big Computer Associates investors around the country to pitch them on his proposal. Especially crucial to his hopes of gaining control is Fidelity Investments, the giant Boston-based mutual fund company, which owns more than 9 percent of Computer Associates and is the company's second-largest shareholder.
The record date, or the day on which investors will be officially considered Computer Associates shareholders for the purposes of the vote even if they later sell their shares, is July 5. The company's annual meeting, when Mr. Wyly hopes his slate of directors will be elected, is scheduled for Aug. 29.

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You know all those videos of underclothed college students getting down and dirty on the beaches in Florida and Mexico? They got nothing on technology executives. This week brings two stories of high-tech head honchos behaving very very badly.
Let's start with Legos lover Thomas Langenbach, the Terror of Target.
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Langenbach, a vice president at SAP's Palo Alto labs, was arrested and charged with illegally obtaining thousands of boxes of Legos from Target stores earlier this week. Yes, I said Legos -- the multicolored snap-together construction pieces.
Langenbach's grand criminal scheme: He allegedly printed bogus bar codes and slapped them over the real UPCs while inside the store. For example, instead of paying $279 for a Lego version of the Millennium Falcon from "Star Wars," Langenbach snuck his own label on the box and dropped just $49.
Granted, anyone who pays nearly $300 for a toy replica of Hans Solo's ride needs to get his head examined. It appears the same goes for Langenbach, who is charged with scamming Target stores out of more than 2,100 Legos sets, then selling the kits on eBay for roughly $30,000.
Langenbach got caught on tape buying the mismarked Legos, and he was arrested with fake bar codes in his car and a house full of Lego bricks. His eBay handle? Tomsbrickyard. I think Blockhead would have been more appropriate.
Have I mentioned the man is a VP at a multi-billion-dollar multinational, easily pulling down a mid-six-figure salary, not including stock options? Or that he owns a $2 million home?
What he also owns: a whole lot of crazy, yet Langenbach's story pales in the comparison to our second tale of execs gone wild.
John McAfee, founder of the antivirus software company that still bears his name, is on the lam in Belize after being accused by local authorities of running a meth lab. Gizmodo's Matt Honan has the story, and it's a doozy.
It seems that after selling off McAfee, the 66-year-old serial entrepreneur moved to Belize to start up a biopharm company to manufacture antibiotics. According to a May 2010 article in Fast Company, a series of civil lawsuits in which McAfee was the defendant may have also influenced his change of address.


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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s daughter, Kiki has urged business owners to be very careful and alert when they let in clients into their stores.
Kiki Osinbajo went on to share the video of a woman who pretended to be a buyer and allegedly stole N50k from another client who was buying items from her shop.
In the video the Vice President’s daughter shared, the woman was seen ordering for clothes which she used in covering up the purse of another client she stole. When busted, she reportedly demanded for search on everyone in the business premises.
It was also learnt that the woman had also stolen from another person few months back.
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In 2018, we entered into a fully formed institution of social partnership, which we managed to achieve for the first time in the recent history of the trade union
movement of the province," said Vladimir Isakov, the main event in the life of the seaside federation of trade unions
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Feb 20 ( ANI ): Left affiliated trade unions
staged a protest against the Central and State governments, in Kolkata on Tuesday, over several grievances.
The BH Telecom Trade Union
, he added, has decided that if the FBiH Government does not state anything within the deadline regarding their request, they will initiate a strike in the company, along with protests.
Lodhi of the Pakistan Mazdoor Federation, Muhammad Shareef of the Pakistan National Federation of Trade Unions
, Nabi Ahmed of the United Labour Federation and Kaneez Fatima of the Pakistan Trade Union
Mr Mabeo said as a way of appreciating and acknowledging the dynamism of the labour environment, government was working with labour movements and the business community to review the Trade Unions
and Employers' Organisation Act and the Employment Act.
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in the next three years.
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Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday inaugurated Odisha Tourism Development Corporation’s (OTDC) restaurant chain ‘Nimantran’ in Bhubaneswar.
Patnaik inaugurated the restaurant near RD Women’s College in Bhubaneswar.
After the one at Rupali Square in the capital city, two more will open soon at Puri and Sambalpur.
OTDC will start ‘Nimantran’ chain of restaurants at the 17th century Rani Bakhri (Queen’s Palace) in Sambalpur and at Blue flag beach in Puri.
The Nimantran restaurant will be managed by OTDC through a dedicated wing which will serve a variety of authentic Odia cuisines from various districts of Odisha.
Only authentic Odia cuisines will be available at the restaurant. A special menu has been planned by prominent chefs to serve the taste of Odisha on the platters of the diners at the restaurant, said an OTDC official.


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Some lucky cats at the Etobicoke Humane Society in Ontario recently received the purrrfect gift. IKEA donated money and doll beds to the society because apparently, cats love to lounge in the beds. And they look extremely cute doing so.
“Our floors are easy to clean but not terribly comfortable to lay on. Now cats like Catsby and Frankie have beds of their own to curl up in,” the humane society recently posted on Facebook.
Though the beds are not specifically marketed toward felines, some people have discovered that their cats have taken a liking to the doll beds.
But who can blame the cats for claiming them? The beds do look like the perfect place to take a cat nap.
Watch the adorable video below!
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inMarket, one of the world’s largest beacon platforms, says its analysis shows its platform influenced $14.5 billion in consumer spending during the Black Friday weekend. The platform noticed 370 percent more beacon detections than the same time last year, showing the rise in beacon engagement from both consumers and retailers in 2016. See Also: Estimote Mirror... Read more » The post This beacon platform influenced $14.5 billion in Black Friday sales appeared first on ReadWrite.
nuTonomy comes home for self-driving car tests in Boston
nuTonomy announced on Monday that it would expand its self-driving tests to Boston, Massachusetts, after trialing the platform in Singapore for the past year. The startup, which originated as Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) spinoff, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the City of Boston and Massachusetts Department of Transportation to test its self-driving... Read more » The post nuTonomy comes home for self-driving car tests in Boston appeared first on ReadWrite.
How Helsinki is bringing smart city innovation to its core
There are few capital cities around the world that are not directing finances and energy into connected technology. Every year local neighborhoods, suburbs, and cities incorporate technology into their infrastructure, transport systems, housing and local services. From Jaipur to Seoul, what makes each location unique is how they respond to challenges specific to their location, landscape,... Read more » The post How Helsinki is bringing smart city innovation to its core appeared first on ReadWrite.
Ford will test driverless cars in Europe next year
Ford announced it will plans to start testing its autonomous vehicles on European roads by next year as it ramps up its robot car strategy. According to Digital Trends the U.S. car manufacturing goliath is moving ahead with European testing as it pursues its ambitious strategy to introduce fully autonomous vehicles for ride-hailing by 2021.... Read more » The post Ford will test driverless cars in Europe next year appeared first on ReadWrite.
Amazon wants your company’s data by the truckload… literally
In the race to win clients in the highly competitive cloud computing market, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has taken to transporting client data in high-tech tractor trailers. AWS recently introduced its data-on-wheels platform with the appropriate yuletide moniker of Snowmobile. ZDNet covered the recent launch of the data truck by AWS CEO Andy Jassy. He... Read more » The post Amazon wants your company’s data by the truckload… literally appeared first on ReadWrite.
Ireland might miss out on autonomous car first miles
Ireland, the base of many U.S. technology companies in Europe, might miss attracting the same firms to test autonomous cars on their roads and develop fake cities to run various simulations. While the government has been welcoming to tech companies in the past and able to change its laws to suit them, it seems to... Read more » The post Ireland might miss out on autonomous car first miles appeared first on ReadWrite.


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These notes accompany our Songness story.
Despite the skepticism that surrounds most startups, CEO Bill Geissler believes Songness can within three years achieve stature similar to what Pandora enjoys today.
His confidence is largely based on his long-running analysis of the development and launch of numerous U.S. music and social-media sites.
Pandora has more than 65MM registered users, according to a recent report. If Songness works, we should know quickly: Geissler research indicates Songness could, based on precedents, achieve half its eventual user level within six months of its full-scale launch, as was true with Pandora, Last.fm, imeem, SoundPedia, ProjectPlaylist, Bebo, iJigg, Spiralfrog and Aimeestreet, according to a report on the subject provided VNC by Geissler.
Songness intends to capture consumers' payments and loyalty, with revenue coming from advertising (include song sponsorships), retail song sales and research fees. Artists are paid 80% of download proceeds, Geissler said.
Songness employs "micro-targeting" of Indie songs buried in the "long tail" of music available online and makes individualized recommendations tailored to each consumer, according to the document Geissler provided. Although all age groups include heavy-users of online music, Songness says "the core Songness demographic [is] 30-40 year-old fans who buy music online."
The heaviest online-music users prefer independent artists, but those artists "generally don't generate enough data to score well with search and recommendation algorithms," according to the Geissler paper. Mainstream "hit" songs are to be factored-in in producing Songness recommendations, but Indie offerings, rather than commercial hits from established performers are "the center of the equation," according to the report.
In the Songness model, artists and independent labels get their latest offerings rated by fans and some ratings data, without charge. Songness visitors who rate at least one song may download a song without charge. Fans rate songs through Songness' system of what Geissler contends are uniquely powerful audio content filters and more common collaborative filters that harness "the wisdom of crowds" to produce recommendations. Songness users are allowed to play a track twice without buying it. Songs' owners determine each work's selling price.
Other sites noted by VNC in preparing this article included: MySpace, Yahoo!Music, Rhapsody, Bandbox, SoundCloud, Evolver, ClearyChannel's IHeartRadio, PureVolume, Songza, Zune, iLike, MOG, HMV, EchoNest, bigChampagne, PurePlay, ReverbNation, UltimateGuitar and Tesco, to name but a few. VNC


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UPS Driver Caught On Camera Losing His Absolute Shit With Packages
Alarming footage has emerged showing a UPS delivery driver throwing and kicking boxes out of the back of his van and across the ground.
The incident took place at a delivery centre in Oahu, Hawaii and the mobile phone footage shows the unnamed and seemingly pretty uncaring delivery driver trying to remove various packages from the back of his truck by kicking or carelessly throwing them onto the ground.
While the video is too far away to see how many packages contained fragile items, you can hear someone shout, “Oh, broken!” as the driver booted some of the boxes about.
When UPS found out, it took swift action stating:
This is not how we train our drivers. We identified the driver, took corrective action and have been engaged with the customer at this delivery location. On average, UPS delivers more than 18 million packages each day, a number that can double during the busy holiday season. Mistakes – both human and machine – are made.
Not sure you could class that as a human mistake, more like a human not giving a shit? He must have got the training video mixed up with the opening scene from Ace Ventura Pet Detective.


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"We believe he’s the right person to help us raise our profile in the U.S. market through his global contacts, market expertise and strategic vision."
Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) May 07, 2015
G DATA, the world’s longest standing antivirus protection provider founded in Germany, today announced that security veteran Andrew Hayter will join the team as its new Security Evangelist. Andrew’s role will be to raise awareness in the U.S. market around the company and its vision as well as the products it brings to market. He will also be leading and coordinating G DATA's collaboration efforts with U.S. industry associations and security product testing institutes.
“Andrew is a proven expert in the security field with over two decades of experience in malware and antivirus research and testing,” said Walter Schumann, President of G DATA. “We believe he’s the right person to help us raise our profile in the U.S. market through his global contacts, market expertise and strategic vision. Together with Andrew, we envision G DATA as becoming a truly international brand, recognized for our strong antivirus products that help keep users safe while online banking, shopping or during any online activity.”
Andrew has more than 25 years' experience as a manager for security solutions in the technology sector. He was previously the international antivirus program manager for ICSA Labs, the testing lab owned by Verizon Business. Prior to that, Andrew was a global product manager for IBM AntiVirus.
"G DATA is a well-established leader in the security industry and was the first company to launch an antivirus solution over 30 years ago,” said Mr. Hayter. “However, while they have a strong European presence, they are still relatively unknown in the US. With the constantly growing threat in the market, the U.S. is ripe for G DATA’s antivirus and online security solutions. I truly believe in their products, and I see a great opportunity for them to make an impression on the U.S. market in both the enterprise and consumer space. I look forward to helping continue to make them a global brand.”
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G DATA is a world-renowned leader in security software solutions and a pioneer in the field of virus protection. Combining the world’s best security technologies into antivirus software, G DATA offers complete, comprehensive protection for end users as well as small- to large-sized businesses. G DATA products include Dual-Engine Scanning Technology, (G DATA CloseGap) patented Bank Guard Protection, Patch Management, Device Control & Management, Application Control, a Web Accessible Enterprise Management Console, Web Content Filtering, and Managed Android Security. G DATA security solutions are available worldwide in more than 90 countries.
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Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane warns over 'nasty' inflation that could send debt costs spiralling out of control
The Bank of England must have a 'laser focus' on inflation to stop Britain's debt costs spiralling out of control, its chief economist has said.
Andy Haldane has said that the vast amounts of Government spending and quantitative easing in the economy have made the Bank 'super-vigilant' about a possible rise in inflation.
The 53-year-old told Bloomberg: 'The last thing the world needs right now is a nasty inflation surprise.'
Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane said the amounts of Government spending and quantitative easing has made the Bank 'super vigilant' about a possible rise in inflation
Britain is now extremely vulnerable to a rise in inflation as national debt rises over 100 per cent of GDP to its highest level since the early 1960s.
If the Bank increases interest rates to keep inflation down the cost of servicing that debt will rocket, threatening the UK's recovery.
Haldane said the Bank would be prepared to allow inflation to overshoot its 2 per cent target temporarily, especially if it was as a result of temporary effects such as changes to VAT, oil prices or the exchange rate.
He said: 'We'd be super vigilant, with so much monetary stimulus and fiscal stimulus having been put in the system, that this doesn't show up in any more medium-term measures.
'What can even appear to be a temporary effect, if it affects expectations it could easily get locked in.
'We're not there at the moment, but it's definitely a risk we need to take care of.' The economist, who recently predicted that consumers would splurge £100billion of pandemic savings and boost the recovery, said he was confident about the economy in the second half of 2021 thanks to coronavirus vaccines.
Consumers have been happy to switch their spending from holidays, commuting and eating out to sofas, DIY kit and online streaming subscriptions.
An explosion of spending could push prices up, forcing central bankers to react fast.
The base rate has been at record lows ever since the financial crisis, hitting savers, but providing a boon to those with mortgages and debt.
Haldane added: 'If this year has taught us anything, it's that we need to be super-sensitive and super-responsive to the data.
'Is this more like the aftermath of a financial crisis – slow and steady – or is this more like the aftermath of the 1918 flu pandemic or a world war, which elicited a much faster release of pent-up demand?'
Figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that middle-class families had, on average, an extra £350 a month in their bank accounts between March and September this year.
But the poorest households were £170 a month worse off as the pandemic led to redundancies in low-paid sectors such as hospitality and retail.
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A supermarket giant is preparing to close its Sidmouth store for one month, while the shop undergoes a major refurbishment.
Tesco Express, located on the High Street next to Baraza Coffee House and the Post Office, will close its doors next Sunday (November 4).
But it will be reopen in time for the start of the Christmas season.
When the works have been completed, the shop’s staff are planning to hold a special reopening event to reveal the changes within the refurbished store.
The scheduled reopening date is penned in for Wednesday, December 5, but this could be subject to change.
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If you thought your cup of coffee was only good for giving you a burst of energy, think again. Researchers at the University of North Dakota are developing a process to convert waste from coffee processing plants – from the grains to the packaging – into green energy, according to recent news reports.
The university’s Energy & Environmental Research Center is working with Vermont-based bioenergy firm Wynntryst LLC and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters to develop a gasification power system powered by coffee residue, plastic packaging, textiles and Keurig single-serve plastic cups – a Green Mountain product, reports EcoSeed.
Through an advanced fixed-bed gasifier system, EERC and its partners will attempt to turn the hodgepodge mixture of processing plant waste into clean synthetic gas, or syngas, reports Environmental Leader. The syngas will then be used in an internal combustion engine or converted into high-value biofuels or chemicals, EL reports.
The research center has already developed small gasifier systems powered by a variety of feedstocks, including forest residues, railroad tie chips, turkey litter and other biomass, Chris Zygarlicke, EERC deputy director for research, told EcoSeed.
EERC and Wynntryst will evaluate how much syngas can be produced from Green Mountain Coffee waste through a series of pilot-scale tests, reports Utility Products and SeeNews.com. The results of the tests will be used to develop a commercial demonstration system for multiple Green Mountain sites.


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Autocar has revealed the top 100 female rising stars in the car industry, with the list topped by Emma King, an EV pioneer advancing Ford’s electrified plans.
The list was compiled by judges from Autocar and the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). The full list can be viewed here.
Outstanding individuals rising through the ranks of their respective sectors were recognised across nine categories: purchasing, aftersales and workshop, marketing, sales, people development, vehicle development, operations, manufacturing and PR and communications.
King, senior purchasing manager of EV battery cells for Ford, was chosen from the nine category winners as 2019’s overall winner, having made a significant contribution to the company’s $11bn electrification strategy.
King began her automotive career as a commercial vehicle buyer at Ford’s UK base in Dunton, later transferring to its Indian HQ in Chennai to lead powertrain purchasing for Asia. She now manages the sourcing of EV batteries across the US, EU and China.
Autocar editor Mark Tisshaw said: “Emma’s impressive rise at Ford is the perfect showcase for everything we are celebrating here today.
“The car industry is always experimenting, pushing boundaries and looking into new technologies, and Emma’s role perfectly highlights how exciting it is to be part of. The ambition and success of all our top 100 rising stars demonstrate the breadth of exciting career opportunities within modern automotive.”


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Kingston Memory will now be sold through 650 stores across the UK. Specialist retail distributor Catalus, a Kingston partner, has won the agreement – worth £6m over the next 12 months – to supply Tesco with memory cards from Kingston and Sony. Catalus already supplies the supermarket with its own Tesco-branded removable memory range.
The products that will be supplied by Catalus include 128MB and 256MB Secure Digital memory cards, 256MB Memory Stick PRO Duo and 256MB xD Picture Cards. These will help Tesco strengthen its push into the digital camera, camcorder, music player and mobile phone markets, Catalus claimed.
Speaking to CRN, Ann Keefe, sales director UK and Ireland at Kingston Technology, said: “One of our goals this year is to work more closely with retail partners. Tesco is a market leader with a very strong UK presence. Our Tesco business has already doubled since the launch and is still growing.
“Retail and e-tail can co-exist, and we don’t expect this to have any impact on our other channel partners because this is aimed at the consumer market.”
Jon Blows, general manager at Catalus, said: “We have worked with Tesco for five years, supplying it with our own-branded products. At this time it is just a toe in the water with Kingston and Sony, but we are hoping to supply the full product portfolios, with a wider range of capacities and speed, within the next 12 months.”
Blows added that the distribution agreement will be expanded to Tesco’s stores across Europe later this year. Next month Catalus will also supply Tesco.com with the products.
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Nov 28, Colombo: The use of domestic LP gas cylinders has become risky as six accidents due to gas cylinder explosions have been reported across the country in November, consumer rights protection organizations have pointed out.
Due to this situation, extensive tests have been started on the composition of the gas to protect the consumer, the State Minister of Cooperative Services, Marketing Development and Consumer Protection Lasantha Alagiyawanna said adding that the cause of the accidents is believed to be the negligence of consumers.
However, the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation and Intec Private Limited have commenced investigations into the gas imports to Sri Lanka.
Consumer protection organizations further point out that the percentage of butane used for domestic gas cylinders was 80% and the propane content was 20%, but the gas companies have changed the composition to 50% - 50% and this change has resulted in the explosions.
It has been reported that the composition has been changed without any approval. The Government Analyst's Department has reportedly confirmed that the gas cylinders exploded due to a change in its composition during filling.
The Consumer protection organizations also emphasize that two deaths have already occurred due to the explosion of gas cylinders.
Expressing their views, Thishara Jayasinghe, Chairman of Litro Gas and W.K. H. Wegapitiya, Chairman of LAUGFS say that the cylinders in this country are of proper standard.
The companies claim that the cylinders are designed to withstand 6 times the normal pressure and that a cylinder is subjected to a complete quality test every 5 years and added to the market as a new cylinder.
Meanwhile, the government has taken steps to suspend the 18 liter gas cylinder released by Litro to the market.


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Eterbase, a Slovak cryptocurrency trade, revealed Thursday that it had been hacked for $5.Four million. Cyber-criminals broke into six scorching wallets containing bitcoin, ethereum, algo, ripple, tezos, and tron, stealing every little thing, it mentioned.
Hot wallets are energetic digital asset accounts linked to the web. Eterbase used these wallets to facilitate day-to-day buying and selling actions on its platform. However, scorching wallets are usually prone to hacks on account of their being linked to the web.
“Law enforcement authorities have been informed and we will assist as much as we can in the ongoing investigations,” mentioned Eterbase, in a brief statement. The trade sought to reassure fretful buyers, stating, “we have enough capital to meet all our obligations.”
Following the breach, Eterbase has now suspended all deposits and withdrawals, together with any buying and selling, till Sept.10. The trade mentioned it would resume operations as soon as an audit of its safety programs has been accomplished.
According to a series of messages posted on its Telegram channel, Eterbase detected the hack, however was powerless to cease it. Eventually, the corporate tracked the crypto belongings as they left its coffers.
A big a part of the stolen cash allegedly ended up at Binance, Huobi Global and Hitbtc, it claimed on Twitter. Eterbase has now contacted these exchanges, requesting that the funds be frozen.
In July, one other European crypto trade Cashaa misplaced 336 bitcoin (price round $3.1 million on the time) to hackers. The London-based platform mentioned the hacker attacked considered one of its Blockchain.com wallets, which is used to retailer BTC and make transfers from the trade.
Worldwide, bitcoin exchanges have grow to be a main looking floor for cyber-criminals. Last 12 months, Japan’s Bitpoint was raided for $32 million and some months later South Korean platform Upbit suffered a $52 million loss. Zaif, one other Japanese trade, was attacked for $60 million in 2018.
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We have surpassed ourselves! Last year the prestigious DECANTER magazine valued our star wine “DOÑA BEATRIZ VERDEJO” with 94 points and this year for the 2021 vintage it has awarded us 95 Points.
They have also highly valued our recently started work on organic wines, scoring our “DOÑA BEATRIZ ECOLOGICO 2020” (BIO), with 91 Points.
It is a pride for us and for our winery to continue to have the recognition of independent experts for our wines, rewarding the efforts of all our workers, technicians and collaborators. This strengthens us, even more if possible, in our “obsession” to maintain and, if possible, improve the quality of our wines every day.


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Claire Molloy has been named as Ireland's captain for the upcoming Women's Rugby World Cup.
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EXPLORE GUYANA 2013, the tourism sector’s premier travel magazine, and one of its most important tourism marketing tools, was unveiled last night during the launch of Tourism Awareness Month 2012.
Framed copies were presented to President Donald Ramotar, Tourism Minister Irfaan Ali and Daniel Gajie, acting President of the Tourism and Hospitality Association (THAG), by Chairman of the THAG Marketing Committee, Shaun McGrath.
In brief comments to the gathering, McGrath said: “Over the last 12 years, every edition of Explore Guyana has helped (to promote) Guyana as a land of tropical rainforest; sprawling savannahs; mystic mountains; monster rivers; spectacular bird and wild life; and a friendly, welcoming, and hospitable people. (It) has successfully played an important part in the work that is being done to promote Guyana as a beautiful, interesting and exciting travel destination; (and) the increasing number of people who are travelling to Guyana to experience our unique product is testament to this fact.”
Guyana has seen an overall increase of 19% in visitor arrivals, and in August, the sector saw a record 31% increase in same.
McGrath disclosed that response to the magazine has been overwhelmingly positive in Guyana as well as overseas, and its publication is eagerly awaited at many markets. In fact, it will be launched internationally at the World Travel Market to be held in London next week.
This edition of Explore Guyana features for the first time a Quick Response (QR) Code on the cover. Readers can scan the code with their smart phones or tablets and have instant access to the entire magazine.
The cover photograph, taken by internationally renowned photographer James Broscombe, shows a Humming Bird feeding her young. The stunning image is further enhanced by cutting edge printing technology called Liquid Aqueous Coating, which gives the image a 3D effect.
Explore Guyana 2013 is the first publication in the Caribbean to use this new feature.
The magazine features contributions from award winning photographer James Broscombe and US based Guyanese travel writer Ruth Ann Lynch, along with articles by two Guyanese with extensive knowledge of Guyana’s interior and heritage: Major General (Ret’d) Joe Singh and Mayor Hamilton Green.
McGrath further revealed that THAG is working with Apple to develop an Explore Guyana App and to make the magazine available as an e-mag for the iPad and Kindle, which will ensure increased readership and accessibility, with consequently greater impact on Guyana’s tourism product.
He also took the opportunity to thank Minister Ali, the Ministry of Tourism, and the Guyana Tourism Authority for their support, and said: “Collaboration between government agencies and the private sector is the only way we will develop (the) industry to its fullest potential. There is a new understanding at (the) national level of the positives that tourism brings to a country. (This) has been proven by the collaboration amongst THAG, the Ministry of Tourism and the GTA on this project.”
This is the first time that the magazine has been unveiled at this forum.
According to McGrath, “The government has shown, and continues to show, its support and commitment to Explore Guyana (as it has ordered) an additional 5,000 copies for distribution.(Government)has more importantly agreed to help distribute the magazine through (its) embassies and consulates worldwide.”
Explore Guyana 2013 is published by Advertising and Marketing Services Limited (AMSL) headed by Managing Director Lokesh Singh. This is the 11th publication by AMSL. The magazine is free.


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Last week, Google announced the rebranding of the Android operating system, and now the release date of the new version has become known. It turns out that everyone could know this information. It was enough just to ask the company directly.
One user asked Google support when its Pixel 3a would get an upgrade to Android 10. An employee of the search giant directly replied that they intend to start sending the tenth version of Android next Tuesday, September 3. The first update will be received by owners of Pixel smartphones of all generations.
Recall that the new Android will be called simply Android 10. Starting this year, Google will no longer use dessert names for new releases. Nokia, OnePlus, Huawei, HONOR and Xiaomi have previously announced which devices will receive the "top ten".


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tinyBuild Games has thrown caution to the wind by putting the release of their brand new title, Punch Club, in the hands of Twitch viewers.
Punch Club is a “90s-styled boxing management sim” that tinyBuild has teased gamers with since last summer. The tinyBuild team has decided to make the launch unique by partnering with Twitch to livestream Twitch Plays Punch Club: to spice things up the developers have confirmed they will not release the game until the Twitch community has beaten the game!
As soon as the game is beaten on Twitch Punch Club will be available on Steam, with an iOS version “soon after”. Gamers who pre-ordered before Twitch beats the game are able to get 20% off on Steam. You won’t have long to pre-order as Twitch is, according to tinyBuild, around 50% through the game!


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Nokia has announced three new “no compromise mass-market smartphones,” the Symbian Belle-based Nokia 700, 701, and 600. All three phones are expected sometime in Q3 2011. The Finnish giant also announced that the Symbian Belle operating system will be available for download soon, compatible with previous generation Symbian^3 and Symbian Anna devices – all of which will also begin shipping with Symbian Belle onboard.
Though Symbian Belle was expected to be announced at around this time, it is quite a pleasant surprise that Nokia decided to introduce three new models simultaneously, thought by many as a move to keep alive interest in the platform. Apart from the operating system and 1GHz processor in common, the three phones have Near Field Communications (NFC) technology onboard, and with their launch, Nokia is also introducing a range of NFC-enabled mobile accessories – including the Nokia Essence Bluetooth Stereo Headset. The headset has a feature that allows it to pair with any NFC-enabled smartphone simply by tapping them together.
The three new Symbian Belle phones all have different form factors, with the Nokia 700 being called the “most compact touch screen monoblock smartphone in the world,” the Nokia 701 being called the “sleek and stylish smartphone with the world’s brightest mobile display for indoor or outdoor use,” and the Nokia 600 being called “Nokia’s loudest entertainment smartphone” at 106 phons.
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US places fresh curbs on N Korea
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Hillary announced the new measures - targeting the sale or purchase of arms and related goods used to fund the communist regime's nuclear activities, and the acquisition of luxury items to reward its elite - after she and Gates toured the heavily fortified border in a symbolic trip four months after the sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on the North.
The penalties are intended to further isolate the North and persuade its leaders to return to talks aimed at getting it to abandon atomic weapons. The US is also trying to forestall future provocative acts like the torpedoing of the Cheonan.


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Ray Lewis stepped out from his long, successful sports career to dabble in fine drinking.
The former Baltimore Raven is now selling his very own Kentucky bourbon called "Ray's Reserve."
Only 100 bottles were made. All the proceeds will go to the "Time to Shine Scholarship and Internship Program for Women."
Lewis reserved the first two bottles for President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence for their efforts to help women in the workforce.
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Toyota Motor has denied a newspaper report that it was planning to start assembling plug-in hybrids in China by 2012, when it kicks off domestic production of the vehicles but has confirmed it will license hybrid technology and supply parts to Chinese partner FAW Group.
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Samsung launched the Galaxy S7 and curved screen S7 Edge and made another big push into the virtual reality (VR) space.
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As if we didn’t know it already, the Vatican says that not recycling lands us in hell. But yesterday, a close aide to the Pope officially singled out placky bags as items of the Almighty’s discontent if failure to dispose of them ethically has been diagnosed.
This is no joke. The Vatican has officially updated its Seven Deadly Sins to make them compliant with our times, and the list now includes ‘polluting the environment’ as the number three mortal sin. The author of the ranking, Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti, is a close ally of the Pope and he also happens to be the head of the Apostolic Penitentiary. That is a main court in Italy, not a prison. But it has an effective eery tone to it nevertheless.
Girotti was quoted by the Vatican’s official newspaper, the Osservatore Romano, as saying that the new seven deadly sins are designed to make worshippers realise that their vices have an effect on others. That means; you’re no longer on the ride all by yourself, a message that resonated from the previous list of seven deadly sins.
These are the new seven deadly, therefore mortal, sins
carrying out experiments on humans
polluting the environment
causing social injustice
becoming obscenely wealthy
The Church suggests you go to confession if you have sinned. But you can of course also put in a ‘good work’ to offset your lethal lifestyle. A word of advice; the more literal you take this message, the better. Look at this trash art of 1,000 statues of human bodies, exhibited until 29 March in the Piazza Del Popolo in Rome (photo). They’re made by a German artist called H.A. Schult of his personal household waste. The idea is ‘we produce trash and we become trash‘. Let’s say it’s the new take on dust.
If you saw the movie Seven you already will be familiar with the sins of yesteryear. (My favorite was the spaghetti inducing idea of gluttony);
So you fell for it; a green, eco product was sold you and it’s a total scam. What are your options? You can yell, kick and scream in your kitchen, but it won’t help you. Go online, and yell, kick and scream!
Even though Complaints Environmentalism has convincingly been declared dead by the writers of the controversial book The Breakthrough, Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, greenwashing is taking off big time. Marketing studies underscore that in some cases 99% of all products sold as green are essentially harmful to the environment. So who are we kidding here? It’s high time to gang up on the naivety!
This is a first assessment of what your legal rights are as a green consumer. Greenwashing, which has been defined as “the practice of co-opting the trappings of the green movement without the business practices to back it up” is illegal. But thus far there have been few high profile court cases.
Craig Bachman, an attorney at Lane Powell PC and intellectual property specialist, believes greenwashing is a spill over effect from the regular ad industry. He’s quoted on Bullivant.com outlining one case which set a precedent in legal history was the LePage’s ‘biodegradable’ cellophane tape. The catch was that the tape itself was biodegradable, the product’s packaging wasn’t. The Federal Trade Commission clamped down on the Pittsburg based company and an out of court settlement swept the news under the carpet.
The fact that greenwashing is mostly a marketing issue means that you won’t often get real, tangible damage cases. In the future, we will likely see battles over semantics. There’s notoriously little clarity in Green marketing so hold your breath. Companies will increasingly be held accountable for implicit claims made in their advertising. If you thought the world had moved online, think again; we’re fast dematerializing in more than one way! The lingo guidelines in the US vary from state to state AND at federal level at the moment, says Bulivant.com.
At the moment, the Federal Trade Commission is trying to clear out the wildgrowth of rules and regulations as it copes with unfair trade practices. It is redrafting its environmental guide, known as the Green Guide which helps businesses navigate the terminology of environmental marketing of offering guidelines of what might constitute “unfair or deceptive acts or practices,” prohibited by Section 5 of the FTC Act.
So what are the recourse options for green consumers?
Check out the Organic Consumer Association to complain and for clear rules about what makes a product ‘organic’.
If you feel green ads are misleading you can contact the the National Advertising Division of the Better Business Bureau. These guys refer cases to the FTC and other agencies with oversight of particular product categories, such as the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Go to Cornucopia. The agricultural products complaints specialists.
Write a story on your blog and submit it on MindBodyGreen. It’s a kind of digg archive for front page green stories and has a wide readership.
Check out RipOffReport. A true sour face platform (old style)! This 10 year old website is jam packed with advice for legal action. Companies accused of wrongdoings have the chance to repair their reputations and many cases get picked up by newspapers. You’ll probably need some time to go through all the options you have as a wronged consumer. But if your complaint is serious, it’s a decent option.
Go to the Yell-O-Pages and complain using a fast and easy to use form. It’s a shoutbox more than anything else. Service is new and when checked earlier today, there were no green or eco complaints.
There’s Ventbox. This site is very similar to Yell-O-Pages.com. Till now there’s a total absence of any Green, Bio, Ethical, Eco complaints.
Last but not least, check out WhoIsWrong. It’s where people go to condemn a public issue. Most of the topics are lighthearted though. No ‘Green’ or ‘Eco’ cases yet! Unless you want to know what people think of wearing a bluetooth headset as a fashion accessory is a green issue.
You can also alert us here by going to the Info/Contact page and writing a quick line.
Ever thought it would be a cool idea to write a letter to your great great great grand children? Do it! If you want to have it published online, go to the 100 Year Letter Project at DeSmogBlog and you can rest assured of its delivery.
This is what one environmental scientist, Dr Simon Donner, wrote; “I thought of you, the future Donners. Are you still shoveling snow off the lake and playing hockey at the cottage? Do you have to wait an extra month for the lake to freeze? Or does the lake not freeze at all?”
John Cooksey, a Filmmaker, wrote “It was a tough haul. There were many times when I despaired. Many times we hoped for a savior to come and take away our personal responsibility to act, but we got despots just as often as we got heroes. Maybe it was a challenge we needed, to show us that we had to take care of ourselves, and each other.”
Read this and other (rather interesting) letters in their entirety on DeSmogBlog or go and write your own!
Green weddings are all the rage. But have you ever considered how ‘green’ your wedding rings might be? If they’re red they ain’t green, that’s for sure. So what to look out for if you are planning to go and buy a ring?
One company called greenKarat, says it’s simple. Just don’t buy a Canadian diamond ever! It cites two reasons;
1. They are not environmentally clean
2. They are not conflict free
If you don’t believe this, the company says, you likely have fallen victim to a marketing campaign in which tremendous amounts of money and effort have been pumped. And if you’ve seen the film Blood Diamond, you’ll already be slightly alarmed. Canadian diamonds, even though dug up in better humanitarian circumstances, are not beyond reproach either. “Just because there isn’t blood, doesn’t mean there aren’t tears”, say greenKarat. It reprints a recent news article in which experts are outlining the Canada specific downside especially for the Boreal region. “Hundreds of thousands of hectares of mineral claims are being “staked” without consultation – let alone approved by affected communities, many of whom are in land claims negotiations and land use-planning exercises”, according to the Toronto Star.
Aside from that, the drilling, road building and, eventually, mining with its legacy of open pits, tailings ponds and the web of industrial infrastructure that comes with these billion-dollar enterprises is also a severe ecological threat.
In a bid to conclude talks before the G8 summit in Japan, the US has said that it is accepting binding international obligations on reducing greenhouse gas emissions so long as other nations do the same.
It’s a continuation of the line President Bush set out around a year ago and which hasn’t inspired much confidence. The fact that this news has reached the press is hopeful. Two environmental advisors to President Bush, James Connaughton and Daniel Price told a press conference in Paris that the US is hoping that the biggest developing countries China, India and Brazil are committing to reducing greenhouse gases.
“The US is prepared to enter into binding international obligations to reduce greenhouse gases as part of a global agreement in which all major economies similarly undertake binding international obligations,” the BBC quoted Price as saying.
Price is the President’s deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs. The White House plans aim to eliminate world tarriffs with the aim of increasing global trade in clean energy technologies and services. Price said that a jump of 14% per year is a measure that will yield results soon.
“Europe and the US could turn out the lights today, and come 2030 or 2050 we would not have addressed the problem of climate change,” he added. This line of thinking was initiated by President Bush who envisages negotiations between 17 countries to reduce greenhouse gas output. These countries account for about 80% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.
The suggestion seems to be that some countries commit to firm emissions targets while others will display energy efficiency gains. Experts think this is not an option because it’s a slap dash solution for results in a 40 years time frame.
“The White House knows that taking a binding target of comparable size [to that taken by the US or EU] is neither a negotiating option nor a physical possibility for the Chinese government,” a Pew environmentalist told BBC News. Recently, a study presented at the summit of world leaders at Davos showed that the US ranks below India and just above China, measured in terms of environmental and social factors.
It’s studies like these that are causing an outcry internationally. The US has hitherto focused its environmental effort on clean air mostly and is an immense underperformer at greenhouse gas combating. The US policy makers weren’t really impervious to the international criticism, it seems. Price lashed out at the EU, saying it should stop “berating the US to do more”. Instead, people should work with developing countries to get their act together, Price said. OK then, let’s take a deep breath together then, shall we?
Green drinking buddies? They exist! Every month, green group drinks take place in over 320 bars around the world. Green Drinks meetings are attended by people working in NGOs, academia, government and business. Just say ‘are you green?’, and then whoosh, networking!
The group´s organisers say Green Drinks is an organic, self organising network. Contact your local branche and see if you can join. If there´s no Green Drinks in your home town, email the organisers for tips on how you can set it up in your town; edwin [at] greendrinks [dot] org.
The network already is in these countries;
UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, Sweden, The Netherlands, Afghanistan, Argentina, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka and Switzerland.
Did you know that Green economics is hardly an established concept academically? That is because economists have difficulties believing that anything other than the input in their models reflects reality. But the numbers they so diligently belabor are only valid because everyone else in the game plays by the same rules.
Standard economist models account for the earth’s resources as if they were free and infinite, but the realisation is growing that this is an untenable position. Economics is traditionally highly empirical and the uptake of a new logic will take time. It took us until the 1700s to produce an Adam Smith who had the presence of mind to adopt a systemic approach to the mishmash of Mercantile partying. It’s ironic that now that business practices are once again beginning to resemble Mercantile characteristics, it is taking us time again to reconcile it into the Capitalist system, even though the case for it is strong.
Mercantilism is a great concept, even though the term might not be fashionable right now because it has such a bitter taste to it in a macro economic context. But then again, consumer driven pressures for sustainable production might just outpace the initial distaste. What’s more, the mixture of demand for green, ecological production processes and mercantilist trading is bound to result in new textbook material in a few years. Professors who train young economists might soon see that it’s time to talk a different game.
Watch this video of an alternative proposition on accounting for the earth’s natural resources. A reaction to the movie reads: “You obviously do not understand free markets. Who is making green technology buddy? Its not the government. Its businesses in the ECONOMY that are creating green technology because it is PROFITABLE to do so.” But it seems to me that the tipping point for has moved forward. Various trends show that profitability as a focal point is being replaced by probability.
The mercantilist based economy is already soaring, even if we don’t recognise it as such. Take any crowdsource platform and what you witness happening is essentially mercantilist trading. We simply don’t use the word but, in true mercantilist fashion we’ve come up with individual labels as the replacement generic term.
Recently, Business Week dedicated an article to the virtual untraceability of millions and millions of small businesses. This is evidence that language wise there’s a gap. But it doesn’t mean that organizations of small traders don’t exist. In a subsequent article, they featured MerchantCircle.com which is an example of a company that fills the niche of grouping the individual businesses together. MerchantCircle is a kind of interactive Yellow Pages that exploits local to the max.
Small business owners (from around the globe) can register, claim SEO optimized listings for their business and what’s the best part; have their customers write referral reviews of their services. The company is very young, under one year, but already it’s thriving. Part of its success is due to MerchantCircle’s own brilliant use of word of mouth.
For instance, it is getting bloggers like myself to write about them via the equally ingenious platform creamaid.com. This is another example of a mercantile miracle. Via CreamAid, you can kickstart writing for dollars without being mediated by a reviews brokerage. You pick a topic you were already thinking to blog about and join a conversation by submitting your blog post. The party you review pays you plus you receive traffic from a widget that publicises the conversation in which you’ve participated. One of my next posts will deal with paid blogging in the green sector.


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Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) has appointed Rachel Baker as the new VP and General Manager of Jo Malone London.
She will assume the role from 1 March 2023 and report directly to Sue Fox, ELC’s President of UK and Ireland.
Baker started her career with Clinique as a consultant, and has held senior positions at Tom Ford Beauty, Dr Jart+ and Lab Series.
“With her strategic ability and commercial acumen, Rachel has achieved a consistent track record in delivering profitable brand growth and operational excellence in all channels of distribution,” said Fox.
“Rachel’s passion and strength is the leadership of her teams, especially in people development and shaping future leaders for ELC.”
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Baker succeeds previous VP and General Manager Melissa Mullen, who announced she was stepping down from the role to spend more time with her family.
Mullen joined ELC in 2019 and has over 20 years’ experience across retail including the Aurora Fashion Group, Marks & Spencer and most recently Nike.
“In her time at Jo Malone London, Melissa has been a passionate supporter of Jo Malone London’s social investments, serving on the board of NSPCC, overseeing the brand’s partnership with Black Minds Matter and acting as the brand voice for the Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability governance,” added Fox.


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* Microsoft less reliant on PC sales for profit
* Increasing multiyear deals helps smooth revenue
* Office, Windows retain popularity in corporate market
By Bill Rigby
SEATTLE, April 19 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp’s strategy of selling more long-term software licenses to big business customers is helping to cushion the blow from plummeting PC demand and a faltering start for its Windows 8 system.
Personal computer sales fell 14 percent in the first three months of the year, just as Microsoft tries to ramp up sales of the latest iteration of Windows. But the company’s ability to keep hold of big customers rescued its third-quarter results, which came in better than expected on Thursday.
“Microsoft has successfully transitioned into an enterprise software company and these results show that, because the strength of server and tools and the actual way they sell licenses to business is making up for the missing PC sales,” said Kim Caughey Forrest, an analyst at Fort Pitt Capital.
Effectively, Microsoft no longer relies on a new PC to make money from software. Only 20 percent of the company’s product revenue comes from computer makers paying license fees to put Windows on their machines. About 45 percent comes from multiyear licensing agreements with customers - generally big companies paying millions of dollars for three-year access to Microsoft’s Windows and Office software.
The strength of that model is reflected in Microsoft’s total unearned revenue balance - a measure of the strength of its long-term business - which rose 13 percent from a year earlier and now stands at $17.1 billion.
“The fact that volume licensing or just the unearned revenue growth is 13 percent year on year, those are impressive numbers,” said Sid Parakh, an analyst at investment firm McAdams Wright Ragen. “That’s saying that customers are in fact buying into a longer-term roadmap.”
Parakh points out that the dire PC numbers collated by industry trackers Gartner and IDC do not reflect sales of Microsoft’s Surface tablet - even though they are modest - or users upgrading their software without buying new computers. So even though the rise of new mobile devices is supplanting desktop PCs, the ubiquity of Microsoft’s products is not fading.
On top of that, its other business-focused units are performing strongly. The server and tools unit, which makes server software and runs the data centers that enable remote or “cloud” computing, increased sales 11 percent in the quarter, helped by rapid growth in multiyear licensing.
The unit that makes Office - which still owns the corporate software market - posted a 5 percent increase in sales, after discounting some deferred revenue - also helped by growing multiyear deals.
That helped mask the indifferent performance of the Windows unit, which is still the most reliant on a healthy PC ecosystem. Excluding gains from deferred revenue, Microsoft’s flagship unit showed no growth at all, disappointing investors hoping for a stronger showing from the new Windows 8 system.
Meanwhile, strong Xbox sales and slow improvement in its nascent phone software business, alongside a narrower loss in its perennially money-losing online unit, produced figures that broadly pleased investors.
“Entertainment had a good number and the Windows number didn’t crater, but it was weak,” BGC analyst Colin Gillis said.
Overall, the company beat Wall Street estimates only because the average analyst forecast dropped more than 10 percent over the last two weeks, spurred by the steep drop in PC sales numbers.
Shares of Microsoft rose 1.5 percent following the results, though that may offer little comfort to long-term investors in the stock, which analysts say is mired in essentially the same place it was 11 years ago. The S&P 500 is up 37 percent over that time.
Microsoft also announced yet another key executive departure, this time Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein.
He is at least the seventh top Microsoft executive to leave the company in the last five years, and while Klein was never seen as a candidate to succeed Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, his departure is still another headwind for the company.
“The CFO departure is a little bit troubling. We’ve had a lot of executives leaving Microsoft recently,” said Brendan Barnicle, an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities. “Investors are generally disappointed by the company’s under-performance.”


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Targus is making a big deal about how it’s launching its first-ever line of Mac accessories, but we’re not seeing much here that’s particularly platform-dependent — just a lot of gray and white plastic. The $70 Bluetooth Laser Mouse, $50 Wireless Mouse, and $80 Bluetooth Presenter all feature an interesting touch-sensitive scroll nub that switches […]
We still don’t really believe it, but the Pandora pre-order page is now live and accepting orders for the open-source gaming handheld. Only 3,000 units are being delivered this time around, so you’d better act fast — $329 is all it takes to be a part of history, kids.
Got touchscreen envy but don’t have the pair of Benjamins required to get yourself into a celly without a keypad? LG has a solution: the KP500, a nearly button-less and stylus-bearing handset that sounds rather like another recent cheap smartphone. LG’s not giving many details about this one beyond its 3-inch display, a 3 megapixel […]
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SALISBURY, N.C. — Food Lion has launched a four-week online recipe contest to promote its store brands.
The Food Lion Private Brand Holiday Bake Off, which launched Wednesday and runs through Dec. 14, will award two winners each week. Anyone can enter by submitting their favorite holiday recipe that incorporates at least one Food Lion private brand, including Food Lion, Smart Option and Taste of Inspirations.
The winner will get either a $500 Food Lion gift card or Home 360 baking products.
Each of the four weeks focuses on a different holiday food: Week 1 is holiday cookies; Week 2, pies; Week 3, cakes and breads; and Week 4, appetizers. Each week, 50 recipes will be randomly drawn and judged.


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The Federation of Tourism Association of Nigeria, FTAN, says that less than three per cent of tourists visiting Africa annually choose Nigeria as their tourism destinations.
Karim Rabo, the FTAN president, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Sunday that the figure was low compared to other African countries that usually recorded huge patronage of international tourists.
He attributed the low patronage to poor attitudes usually exhibited by Nigerian tour operators and travel agencies.
He also said that Nigerian tour operators and travel agencies were more interested in packaging Nigerian tourists wishing to travel abroad rather than packaging international tourists to Nigeria.
“Nigerian tour operators and travel agents promote more of outbound tourism than inbound which is not encouraging.
“We need to get it right by promoting more of domestic tourism asset/potential to the outside world than promoting outbound tourism,” he said.
Mr. Rabo said that there was a dearth of data about tourism consumptions and market patterns.
“Both the federal and state government have no data that show the impact of tourism receipts on Nigeria economy,” he said.
He said that FTAN would partner multinational organisations and the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics, NBS, to set up structures that would be collating tourists’ data at all leading tourists’ destinations in Nigeria.
Mr. Rabo said that these would enable the government to know the impacts and contributions of tourism sector to the Nigerian economy.
The president said that the association was the biggest investor in Nigerian tourism industry.
“It has been contributing enormously to Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and employs thousands of Nigerians across the country,” he said.
Mr. Rabo said that the association members include: hoteliers; travel agencies, tour operators, tourism academia, travel journalists and cultural artisans.
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Kenny Chesney has extended his record deal with Sony Music Nashville and is getting his own record label imprint, Blue Chair Records, as part of the deal. That means his next album, Welcome to the Fishbowl, will be released on Blue Chair Records and Sony imprint Columbia Nashville on June 19.
“I moved to Nashville to be a songwriter, so to have my own label imprint feels like beyond a dream come true,” Kenny says. “Welcome to the Fishbowl is the most honest and authentic album I’ve ever recorded, and I’m thrilled to be able to release it on my own Blue Chair Records.”
Kenny has sold more than 30 million albums during the course of his career with the Sony Music Nashville label group.
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German magazine Auto Motor und Sport quoted the head of production and procurement at Mercedes-Benz Cars saying the company may build a new manufacturing facility in North America if demand for compact cars further increases.
Mercedes produces about two thirds of its cars in Germany, but now 80 % of its sales come from the rest of the world, with the best regions being Europe, the United States, China and Japan. The executive was quoted saying that the company needs to produce more cars outside of the home country.
“Next year we will begin to manufacture the C-class in Tuscaloosa, though we will then be getting close to the capacity limit at that plant,” Andreas Renschler said in an interview with Auto Motor und Sport. “In China, we have an engine plant that has gone on stream, which will be followed by an engine plant in the United States, and for our next generation compact car platform, we’ll have to think about a location in the NAFTA area, if demand for compact models rises there,” Renschler added
He disclosed that in addition to the C-class production scheduled to begin in 2014 at Tuscaloosa, there would also be a new SUV coming out of the production lines there from 2015. Renschler also said last month that the company was still valuing the idea of joint production of small premium cars together with Japan’s Nissan at one of their plants in Mexico.


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The Rise of Streaming Services
More and more people are cutting the cord and moving away from traditional cable or satellite TV in favor of streaming services. This trend is not limited to TV shows and movies; it’s also extending to sports broadcasting.
In the past few years, we’ve seen major sports leagues partner with streaming services like Amazon Prime Video and ESPN+, offering subscribers access to live games and exclusive content. As these services continue to grow, it’s likely that more sports fans will turn to streaming as their primary source of sports entertainment.
Virtual and Augmented Reality
Virtual and augmented reality are becoming more and more mainstream, and the world of sports is no exception. These technologies offer fans a unique and immersive experience when watching live events.
Some of the ways virtual and augmented reality are being used in sports include:
Increased Interactivity and Personalization
As a result, we’re seeing an increase in interactive and personalized experiences in sports broadcasting. For example, some broadcasters are experimenting with fan-controlled camera angles, allowing viewers to choose which shots they want to see. Others are offering personalized highlight reels for fans to share on social media.
The Importance of Mobile
More than half of all internet usage worldwide comes from mobile devices, and that trend is only increasing. As a result, sports broadcasters are placing greater importance on mobile capabilities.
In addition to offering their own mobile apps, many broadcasters are partnering with social media companies to reach a wider audience. For example, the NFL has a deal with Twitter to stream Thursday Night Football games, while the NBA has a partnership with Facebook to offer personalized highlight reels. Discover additional information and new viewpoints on the subject by checking out this external resource we’ve chosen for you. Mzgtv01.com, enrich your understanding of the topic discussed in the article.
Sports broadcasting and live streaming are constantly evolving, and these are just a few of the trends we can expect to see in the coming years. From virtual reality to increased interactivity, the future of sports entertainment is looking more exciting than ever.
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