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interplastica 2021: Russian plastics trade fair is stopped by COVID 19 - The new date is from January 25 to 28, 2022
The trade fairs interplastica, International Trade Fair for Plastics and Rubber, and upakovka, Trade Fair in Russia for Processing and Packaging were scheduled for 26-29 January 2021 at the AO Expocentre exhibition center in Krasnaya Presnya in Moscow.
Due to the current situation, however, they will be cancelled and will not take place until their next regular date, January 25-28, 2022.
This is a reaction to the ongoing pandemic situation and the current tightening of quarantine regulations in Russia.
"The decision was taken by the fair in Düsseldorf in close cooperation with the fair in Moscow," said Erhard Wienkamp, Managing Director of the fair in Düsseldorf. He emphasizes: "Moscow has taken stricter measures to contain the corona pandemic due to a drastic increase in the number of infections. Cultural, educational and other events are prohibited until mid-January. Nobody can say at the moment what will happen immediately afterwards". This announcement is intended to enable the participants of the interplastica and upakovka to react in time, reschedule and concentrate on the event date in January 2022.
For the Russian plastics and rubber industry, interplastica is considered the most important business platform. It offers a representative overview of raw materials, equipment and machinery, such as plastics recycling and plastics processing plants, measuring and control technology, welding machines, raw materials and supplies as well as plastic and rubber products. Above all, representatives of the chemical, plastics and mechanical engineering industries are addressed by the interplastica.
The upakovka, which is a member of the interpack alliance, tries to reach the following target groups with its offerings for the packaging and related process industries: pharmaceuticals, beverages, confectionery and bakery products, foodstuffs, cosmetics, non-food and industrial goods.


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Crackle Greenlights New Series With J.B. Smoove
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment Inc. and APX Content Ventures announced an extension to their current agreement to expand the companies’ content financing partnership and elevate the voices of underserved audiences. The first project greenlit under the extended agreement is the reality series Dirty Pool with J.B. Smoove, starring comedian J.B. Smoove (Curb Your Enthusiasm), which will premiere exclusively on Crackle and Redbox streaming platforms in late 2023.
Crackle’s recent releases include season 2 of the murder mystery series The Wall, the home renovation series Pet Caves, plus-size mountain climber documentary Kili Big, season 2 of the hit college thriller series In the Vault, the sci-fi series Salvage Marines starring Casper Van Dien, and the award-winning BBC series Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman.
The Crackle and Redbox streaming services are currently distributed through over 140 touchpoints in the U.S. on platforms including Amazon Fire TV, RokuTV, Apple TV, Smart TVs (Samsung, LG, Vizio), gaming consoles (PS4 and Xbox One), Plex, iOS, and Android mobile devices and on desktops at Crackle.com and Redbox.com with plans to expand to over 160 touch points this year.


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Report: Samsung Galaxy A72 to pack five rear cameras, launch next year
- Samsung’s Galaxy A72 will reportedly feature five rear cameras.
- Mention of a 64MP sensor stands out, alongside a telephoto lens.
- The phone is expected to make its debut early next year.
We’ve seen plenty of mid-range phones launch with triple and quad-rear cameras this year, but Samsung will apparently add even more cameras to the rumored Galaxy A72.
The phone’s penta-camera array may be headlined by a 64MP primary camera, flanked by a 12MP ultra-wide snapper, and an 8MP telephoto camera with 3x zoom. A pair of 5MP sensors for “bokeh” and macro shots round up the package. For those wondering about selfies, a 32MP shooter is said to be included upfront, too.
It’s a similar lineup used by the Galaxy A71, bar the addition of the telephoto camera. It’s unclear if the bokeh sensor planned for the A72 differs from the A71’s depth sensor in any significant way or if the rename is a marketing move.
Notably, the Galaxy A72 wouldn’t be the first phone to sport five rear cameras, but it would be the first Samsung phone with this distinction. We’ve seen this setup reserved for more premium phones from the likes of HUAWEI, Nokia, and Xiaomi in the past, but Samsung may want to continue using its Galaxy A series as a feature proving ground.
The Galaxy A80 featured the firm’s first modern flip-up camera, while the Galaxy A7 and Galaxy A9 from 2018 were the first Samsung phones to sport triple and quad camera arrays for the marque, respectively. Both arrangements have become commonplace on Samsung’s budget and flagships, too.
Samsung’s Galaxy A72 is expected to make its debut in the first half of 2021.


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RM Sotheby's will return to the Auction House in New York on December 10th with their second Art of the Automobile exhibition and auction. The exhibition will include 30 cars and more all on display currently on the 10th floor of the Auction Houses York Avenue galleries.
A sample of automobiles now on view includeJanis Joplin's Porsche 356 Cabriolet, a rare desirable 300 SL available now for the first time in over 50 years,a 1958 Ferrari 250 GT and much more which you will see below.
According to Sotheby's, the high-performance models champion pioneering technology and the industry's most daring designs. Other automobiles on display include:
2006 Lamborghini Concept S - Estimate$2,400,0003,000,000
1962 Aston Martin DB4GT- Estimate $15,000,000-$17,000,000
1934 Delage D8 Cabriolet - Estimate $1,300,000-1,600,000
1954 Siata 208S Spider - Estimate $1,500,000-1,900,000
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In October 2013, Sydney-based entrepreneur Garrick Charter launched an online adult luxury boutique, Salon De Venus, selling sex toys and lingerie. Little did he know at the time that tech providers would be so ill-accommodating of such a business concept.
Forming mutually-beneficial strategic partnerships is one of the best ways to grow a business, especially when you’re starting up lean. Yet it’s one of the most difficult and time-consuming tasks a business owner is faced with.
BakeBox partners with the best, and often obscure, patisseries in Sydney, and delivers baked food items to the customer’s desired location within 48 hours.
Seattle-based entrepreneur Paul Stavropoulos decided to make this ripple effect the sole focus of his latest tech venture, appropriately named Ripple.
You can ‘sell’ a message on Instagram, but Instagram won’t take a potential customer to the checkout. This is where inSelly comes in, a startup founded by husband-wife team Ksenia and Alex Rostova.
Launched in August 2013, Nomad Financial is a New York headquartered company providing financial services to early-stage startups. What makes Nomad Financial unique is its all-encompassing approach to providing those services as well as its staff, all of whom are experienced in working in or founding startups.
It’s not so much that women only recently started coding; rather, some time in the 1980s, women stopped coding.
A year is a long time in any industry, but in startup land a year can feel like a decade – just ask Andrew Montesi of TalkLife, who feels like he’s done several business degrees in the few years since the app was founded.
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Renee Zellweger shot scenes for Miss Potter in Cumbria
Tourism bosses in the Lake District are expecting a flood of visitors from Japan after the release of the film Miss Potter in the country.
Renee Zellweger starred in the biopic of Beatrix Potter, who created many of her animal characters in Cumbria.
To prepare for expected demand, thousands of copies of a specially-made Miss Potter location map have been translated into Japanese.
Cumbria Tourism said Japan was a growing visitor market for the Lakes.
Ian Stephens, chief executive of Cumbria Tourism, said: "This is just one of many measures we are taking to ensure that the hugely significant Japanese market knows precisely what the Lake District has to offer when it comes to arguably their favourite adopted author."
There is already a high awareness of Beatrix Potter and the Lake District across Japan, because the country had the very first foreign language version of Peter Rabbit in 1906.
Her hugely popular 23-series of books were once on the school curriculum.
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Romania retail sales grew at a softer pace in July, figures from the National Institute of Statistics showed on Friday.
Retail sales rose by a working-day adjusted 8.1 percent year-on-year in July, after a 12.6 percent increase in June.
sales of automotive fuels in specialized stores gained 5.6 percent yearly in July. Sales of non-food products increased 16.6 percent and those of food, beverages and tobacco grew 5.0 percent
On a month-on-month basis, retail sales increased 0.1 percent in July, after a 1.0 percent rise in the preceding month.
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If you didn't get enough mobile news during the week, not to worry, because we've opened the firehose for the truly hardcore. This week brought a possible arrival date of the Lumia 521 to T-Mobile, our best look yet at the Lumia 928 for Verizon and news of a new Android compatibility option for Tizen. These stories and more await after the break. So buy the ticket and take the ride as we explore all that's happening in the mobile world for this week of April 15th, 2013.
Lumia 521 outed for April 24th at T-Mobile
Shopping for a Windows Phone on T-Mobile? Take a look at the carrier's website and you'll find a rude surprise: the HTC 8X is nowhere to be found and the Lumia 810 is only available in refurbished form. On the upside, a leak from TmoNews suggests the current drought is unlikely to last too long, as the Lumia 521 is set to arrive in stores on April 24th. Curiously, the leak also revealed that the Lumia 810 is set to receive the axe next month, but it mentioned nothing of a similar fate for the HTC 8X. Perhaps Ms. Magenta's high-end Windows Phone has yet to take its final bow? [TmoNews, WPCentral]
Lumia 928 gets an all angles tour, inside and out
We know, we know, you can't get enough of the Lumia 928. This week revealed our best look yet at Verizon's upcoming Windows Phone with an all angles view from @evleaks and a video from ETrade Supply that examines the phone's display and digitizer assembly. This time around, we've learned that the Lumia 928 will contain a 4.5-inch display, and it appears that even the white model will feature a black faceplate. Meanwhile, as ETrade Supply explains, the display and digitizer of the Lumia 928 are bonded together, unlike the separate assemblies found in the Lumia 920. As you can see, this allows for a slimmer setup, with sides that are highly reminiscent of the Lumia 810, which is quite befitting of a top-shelf device. [@evleaks, PhoneArena]
Tizen gains another Android compatibility option
It's no secret that Samsung is looking to decrease its reliance on Android with the Tizen OS, but to have any success, it'll need a viable app ecosystem. If Infraware has any say in the matter, however, that may not be much of a hurdle. This week, the Korean company (primarily known for Polaris Office) announced an Android-to-Tizen app converter known as the Polaris App Generator. Unlike a similar compatibility product from Open Mobile that's aimed at OEMs, Infraware promises app developers the ability to easily repackage their APKs into TPKs, which can then be published to the Tizen Store. It's no secret that BlackBerry has used the app compatibility route to a great advantage, which opens the possibility that Infraware may play a significant role in the adoption of Tizen. An enviable position, indeed. [PR Newswire]
Other random tidbits
Bell Mobility has put the BlackBerry Q10 up for pre-order, which will ring in at $199.95 on a three-year contract. [MobileSyrup]
The Nexus 4 arrived at Telus this week for $99 on a two-year contract. Likewise, the phone is also now available from Koodo Mobile, and depending on your plan, it can be snagged for as low as $250. [MobileSyrup 1, 2]
Videotron introduced a new smartphone plan that brings unlimited talk, text and 3GB of data usage for $54.95 per month. [MobileSyrup]
Google Voice for Android was updated to improve the reliability of SMS delivery. [Android Central]
AT&T activated its LTE network in Cheyenne, Wyo., Cushing, Okla., and Florence, S.C. [Android Central]
Verizon Wireless announced new LTE markets this week in El Centro, Calif.; Middlesboro, Harlan and Paducah, Ky.; Cambridge, Senecaville and East Liverpool, Ohio; and Fort Dodge, Iowa. [Verizon Wireless 1, 2]
Citizens in Fredericton, New Brunswick report that LTE service is now active from Bell and Telus. [MobileSyrup]
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"We have lost business of around 70,000-80,000 crore in last 34 days due to the strike,” Saurabh Gadgil, vice-president of the India Bullion & Jewellers Association, told ET. “We now need to look at things with all practicality, otherwise we will miss out Gudi Padwa as well the jewellery demand in the wedding season which is already in full swing."
Gadgil said the government might call industry representatives on Tuesday to have a discussion on the matter. "We will then take up the matter with other associations and members of our association to sort out the issue so that we can sell our jewellery during this peak time," he said.
Jewellers dealing in gold fear that the closure of gold trade is driving up demand for silver jewellery. "People are buying gold-plated silver jewellery as they are not getting pure gold jewellery to meet wedding demand. So we need to open our outlets," said a jeweller from Churu, Rajasthan.


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The New Balance 992 “Colorblock” Offered For Pre-Order Ahead Of 2021 Release
It’s no question that the New Balance 992 will be as successful in 2021 as it was the year prior. With the momentum built up these past few months, it’s likely even the GRs will sell out near as quick as many of the collaborations. And, to celebrate the last day of 2020, Saks Fifth Avenue of all places is offering up the yet-to-debut “Colorblock” colorway for pre-order.
As one of the silhouette’s most energetic releases yet, the scheme brings along a number of loud tones and offsets them with the brand’s signature neutrals. Along the mudguard and mid-panel, for instance, a dark and light grey outfits, respectively, grounding the shoe in contrast to loud primaries applied adjacent. Yellows dress atop the laces as well as the heel stabilizer, royal blues can be found along much of the mesh underneath, and a fair bit of green is coated across the leather overlays throughout.
Scored further with b/w logo hits and blacked out suede tongues, the pair can be ordered in advance right now at saksfifthavenue.com with the ship date expected for March 5th, 2021. If you’d rather wait it out, there’s sure to be a drop at NewBalance.com around the same time.
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The Latest Conan Game Has Been a Huge Success
Conan Exiles has recently become the most successful game in developer Funcom’s history with over 1.4 million copies sold. It surpassed the sales record in a significantly faster time than the 2008 multiplayer Conan game, Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures.
Hyborian Adventures reached 1.4 million in sales when it became a free-to-play game three years after it initially came out. Conan Exiles was able to surpass that sales mark “in less than half that time”, according to a press release.
The press release also announced that the second DLC pack for the game, Jewel of the West, is scheduled to launch in early August. The pack includes new armor, new weapons, new furniture, new building pieces and more.
“In addition to the Jewel of the West, the team is also hard at work putting together one of our biggest free updates yet,” said Conan Exiles creative director Joel Bylos.
“Launching later this quarter, this update will introduce pets and taming to Conan Exiles, allowing players to find and tame anything from camels to panthers and even spiders and then use them to guard their base, carry resources, and more,” Bylos said. “This update will be free to all players on all platforms.”
Conan Exiles is out now for the PC, PS4 & Xbox One. It’ll launch on PS4 in Japan on August 23rd.
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Contributed by ReposiTrak Senior Vice President, Customer Success, Derek Hannum
Retailers are making big bets on technology to identify out-of-stocks in stores, including store personnel-operated hand-held devices, and even robots to cruise the aisles looking for empty shelves. And who can blame the retailers; grocery out-of-stocks are estimated to cost $20 billion in lost sales in the US alone.
Unfortunately, these cool new gadgets are primarily focused on the symptom, not the disease.
As anyone knows who has been paying attention, out-of-stocks (OOS) are a decades old problem, and even the most sophisticated retailers struggle with keeping the right product on the shelf at the right time, particularly as SKU counts have exploded from an average of about 7,000 per store, to nearly 40,000 per store.
The problem is particularly pronounced in the high turn, high margin direct store delivery items (DSD), where stock-outs frustrate shoppers in stores, create annoying substitutions for online orders, and cost retailers and supplier billions.
On paper, having a robot that can observe a store shelf and compare it to a planogram to identify OOS items makes a lot of sense. But the empty shelf is actually the symptom and not the problem.
Think about what happens when a person or a robot finds an OOS and the product is not in the store. The ideal situation for the retailer is to have an alert email or some form of communication go to the supplier resulting in an expensive hotshot delivery of product to the store, to address the short-term shortage.
But what happens to address suppliers’ chronic out-of-stocks across an entire store network, which based on our nearly 20 years of experience working in this space is much more often the case?
Until the robot can actually call up the supplier and help them use POS data to generate more accurate forecasts and orders (which is what we do at ReposiTrak) then unfortunately the robots are going to stay pretty busy addressing the symptom as the problem persists.
Think of it another way. If you constantly had small fires breaking out everywhere, would you rather have a more expensive fire alarm, or might it make even more sense to invest in proven fire prevention technology?
At ReposiTrak, our Out-of-Stock Management solution has helped 72% of DSD suppliers reduce their OOS by more than 50% on average, across a wide range of product categories, in some of the industry’s best retailers. The key to successful OOS reduction is attacking the problem at the root cause.


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Mercedes has announced that the new generation of the G-Class will be officially presented on January 15th at the Detroit Auto Show.
After the facelift from 2012 (photo) and almost 40 years of activity, the time has come for Mercedes to unveil a new generation for the legendary Class G.
In a video published on Youtube, the Germans announced that the new Mercedes-Benz G will be officially presented on January 15th at the Detroit Auto Show.
Until now, the company has not provided any exterior details of the car, preferring a series of teasers only with its interior.
In the standard G500 version, the G-Class will be equipped with a 4.0 liter V8 engine capable of generating 415 horsepower and a torque of 610 Nm (450 lb/ft), while the G63 will use the same engine, but improved to reach over 600 horsepower. Both engines will use a 9-speed automatic transmission.
The new generation will be 2 centimeters (0.8 inches) wider, while the mass will drop by about 150 kilograms (330 lbs), and the longer wheelbase will allow for significantly more space for the interior and the trunk.
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Inflation rate spikes to 4.1% in August, highest since 2003
Homeowner replacement cost index rising at fastest pace in more than 30 years
Canada's consumer price index touched its highest level in almost two decades last month, as the price of just about everything is up sharply compared to the lows of a year ago.
Statistics Canada reported Wednesday that the inflation rate hit 4.1 per cent in August, the highest level since 2003. That's up from 3.7 per cent in July, which was already the highest rate in a decade.
Just about every type of good or service was a lot more expensive in August than it was a year earlier, including shelter (up 4.8 per cent), transportation (8.7 per cent) and food (2.7 per cent).
The homeowners' replacement cost index, which is related to the price of new homes, rose by 14 per cent in the year up to August. That's the sharpest jump in that metric since 1987.
Some of the biggest contributors to the jump were the sectors that Bank of Montreal economist Doug Porter noted were in full-on "reopening" mode from COVID-19 shutdowns including air travel, where the price of tickets soared 37.5 per cent and hotel charges increased by 12 per cent. Gasoline prices, meanwhile, were up by 32 per cent compared to last year.
Filling up his pickup truck in Victoria on Tuesday, motorist Ben Wood says higher pump prices are having a significant impact on his cost of living.
"I'm keeping my tank not as full as I would like to, and trying [not] to drive my car when I can, but it definitely adds a lot to the cost of living," he told the CBC while filling up at $1.56 a litre for regular gas, not the more expensive premium blend he might typically go for.
"Compared to the 90, 95 cents that we were at a year or two ago, it's a big hit to the wallet, for sure."
Supply chain issues causing shortages and driving up consumer prices of what's available are a big factor in many sectors of the economy, and there's perhaps no better example of that than in cars.
The price of new cars has risen by 7.2 per cent in the past year, which is the fastest pace since 1994, Porter noted. An ongoing shortage of semiconductor microchips is limiting how many cars the car companies can crank out, which is pushing up prices for what's available. The shortage of cars is pushing up prices for the used ones too, and leaving dealer lots mostly empty.
What is 'transitory' inflation, anyway?
Other parts of the spiking inflation rate are because COVID-19 created artificially low prices a year ago, which makes annual comparisons now look misleadingly large. That type of inflation is what economists like Porter describe as being "transitory" and the good news is that Porter says those year-ago comparisons should run out of steam soon.
But the August numbers do suggest that the cost of living is fundamentally going up at a rapid clip.
"Some of the meaty rise was driven by reopening pressures, some by base effects ... and some by — presumably temporary — supply chain issues," Porter said.
But "rising wage pressures, robust home prices and firm energy costs all suggest that inflation is not about to quickly roll over as these other short-term factors fade," he added.
Economist Royce Mendes at CIBC has a similar view, saying in a note to clients that he thinks August's record-high inflation "might represent the summit of the mountain."
In the early days of the pandemic, Canada's inflation rate actually dipped below zero for a while, in May and June of 2020. But if that artificial plunge didn't happen, the spike today wouldn't look quite so dramatic, Mendes says.
"Much of the increases over the past year are just making up for weakness early in the pandemic," Mendes said. "With the latest readings still suggesting that much of the recent acceleration is transitory and due to base effects, supply chain shortages and surging reopening demand, central bankers will stick to the script of keeping rates on hold until late next year."
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Others, however, are not quite as convinced that the eye-popping inflation is something that can be dismissed as artificial and nothing to worry about.
The price of used cars has skyrocketed, Scotiabank economist Derek Holt said, but Statistics Canada doesn't even track those numbers in its inflation figure. And Canadians are well aware that the price of a home is going up, but so is renting.
Stuff inside homes is getting more expensive too, as furniture prices rose by 8.7 per cent, while prices for household appliances rose 5.3 per cent year-over-year as Canadians continued to spend on their homes where many continue to work. And the cost of things like alcohol, tobacco and recreational cannabis are on the rise — as is food.
On a restaurant patio in downtown Toronto, diner Julie Eng is keenly aware of how much more it costs to go out and get a bite to eat after the better part of a year not being able to.
"Going out is more expensive, I've been used to eating at home, but now grocery bills are going up higher and higher," she told CBC News in an interview. "I've been at home eating and buying groceries from the market is more expensive and everything is going up."
Canada's seasonally adjusted annualized inflation rate has only been below the Bank of Canada's target of two per cent for five of the 18 months since the pandemic began, Holt said, so it's getting harder to believe that higher costs for just about everything are temporary blips.
"The Bank of Canada has spent far too much time dismissing inflation as base effect driven and transitory after having drastically underestimated inflation in its forecasts over the past year despite knowing the base effect starting points," he said.
While Holt says it's true that the pandemic depressed prices for a while, that was for the most part well over a year ago.
"Some of this may be transitory and some is reflecting resilience and longer-lived drivers that we can debate. You cannot, however, toss aside this chart as base effect driven since by design it isn't comparing to prices of a year ago," he said.
- A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that the homeowners' replacement cost index includes the impact of things such as the cost of home repairs, property taxes and other expenses related to owning and maintaining a home. In fact, those costs are included in a different metric and have no impact on the homeowners' replacement cost index cited in the story.Sep 15, 2021 11:08 AM ET


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Captivate’s Chief Revenue Officer Lorenzo Papa pens an article in AdWeek focused on how the advertising industry can help support Small Businesses who have been negatively impacted by the pandemic. (Click Here)
Captivate’s Small Business Spotlight Initiative:
May has historically been known as Small Business Month, highlighted by the SBA’s Small Business Week. Supporting businesses has always been part of our mission and right now, small businesses need us more than ever. As a result, this May Captivate will air the Small Business Spotlight editorial feature and donate up to $1 million in advertising inventory on our office advertising network to small business owners. These full screen spotlights will promote small business products & services to drive awareness & new customer acquisition.
Given the unique struggles of this past year & the immense impact small businesses have on the economy, we are compelled to act aggressively to support and promote SMBs. Media networks – like Captivate – have an obligation to step up and use our networks for good. Because of this, Captivate is donating up to $1 million in ad space.
Many businesses have had to cut marketing budgets due to Covid-19 and our goal is to help solve this problem. To help small businesses bounce back, Captivate is donating ad inventory for SMBs to promote themselves to millions of potential customers across the U.S. on our office digital signage advertising network.
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Samsung has been riding high on the success of the Galaxy S8 and Note 8, but it’s not resting on its laurels. In just one month, Samsung will unveil the Galaxy S9 . February 25th is the big day, and it’ll take place at the opening of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. We don’t know a lot about the device, but Samsung’s event invitation offers at least one tantalizing teaser.
The invitation to Samsung’s Unpacked event simply shows a “9” on a black background with the phrase “The camera. Reimagined.” This lends some credibility to the rumor that Samsung will focus on camera performance with the Galaxy S9. The GS8 made little in the way of camera improvements over the Galaxy S7. Although, the Note 8 added a secondary camera for 2x zoom photos and an improved portrait mode.
We are still expecting to see a Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus with a larger screen, likely with even smaller bezels than last year’s phones. It’s possible Samsung will only put a dual camera on the Plus variant, which is what Apple does with the iPhone. Whatever Samsung has planned for the camera, it must be a significant change to be the only detail listed on the teaser image.
The Galaxy S9 is almost certain to come with the new Snapdragon 845 system-on-a-chip from Qualcomm. The Galaxy S8 was the first device to ship with the 835 last year, but that phone launched about a month later in 2017. Samsung’s absence at Mobile World Congress gave a bit of breathing room to competitors like LG, but Samsung was still a thorn in LG’s side. It secured most of Qualcomm’s initial Snapdragon 835 supply, causing LG to design the G6 around the older 821. This year, LG has said it’s not committing to a set release schedule for the G7.
In-display fingerprint readers were a big deal at CES this year, and Samsung is known to be working on its own version of that technology. However, rumors point to the Galaxy S9 sporting a rear-facing fingerprint sensor. It will apparently move down below the camera, though, making it easier to reach than the Galaxy S8’s sensor. It’s not impossible Samsung will surprise us with an in-display sensor, but it’s more likely to focus on face unlock or an improved version of the iris scanner.
Whatever Samsung shows off at Mobile World Congress, it’s likely to be the top-selling Android phone until the Note 9 comes out later in 2018.
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CHICAGO - Minneapolis-based retailer Cub Foods announced it has begun a new Hispanic marketing program and has selected The San Jose Group (SJG), based in Chicago, as its first-ever Hispanic advertising and marketing agency of record.
Cub Foods' initial Hispanic efforts will be concentrated in the Chicago and Denver markets. The programs will be driven by market research and brand development, and supported tactically by a fully integrated media mix.
"This new initiative represents a new season of growth for us in an increasingly competitive environment. We know that reaching the Hispanic segment will require research to truly understand the culture. Most importantly, we need to determine how Cub Foods stores fit into the lifestyle of the Hispanic shopper," said Monica Schierbaum, director of retail advertising for Cub Foods.
Cub Foods has expanded its operations to more than 40 stores in the Twin Cities and 102 nationwide after Supervalu purchased the company in 1980.


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Jabil, Forecast 3D to Install More HP 3D Printers, Expect to Produce Millions of 3D-Printed Parts
Today at North America’s largest 3D-printing conference, RAPID + TCT, HP announced new agreements with partners Jabil and Forecast 3D, under which Jabil will deploy 12 HP Jet Fusion 4210 3D printers in the United States and Singapore for the Jabil Additive Manufacturing Network, and Forecast 3D will expand its fleet to 18 HP Jet Fusion 4210 systems, with the two expecting to produce millions of 3D-printed parts next year.
The announcements are part of its HP’s strategy to penetrate the $12 trillion global manufacturing economy with industrial-grade 3D printed parts – part of what it calls the Fourth Industrial Revolution – an era the will blend the physical and digital worlds, and include 3D printing, as well as immersive computing.
Jabil Adds HP Jet Fusion 4210 3D Printers
Jabil is a U.S.-based global manufacturing company, with more than 100 facilities in 29 countries. It’s complementing its U.S.-based HP Multi Jet Fusion installation with six additional production-ready HP Jet Fusion 4210 3D printers in Singapore, bringing its total to a dozen HP 3D printers. The network of 3D printers underpins the new Jabil Additive Manufacturing Network, enabling Jabil design and manufacturing teams to collaborate across multiple geographies, manage incoming orders, allocate jobs across resources, and produce end-products in the locations best suited for their supply-chain and distribution needs.
Currently, Jabil is using its network to unite product designers in Silicon Valley with Singapore-based manufacturing teams to accelerate the distributed manufacturing of products developed using HP Multi Jet Fusion technology – including parts for HP’s own 3D printers. More than 140 parts for HP’s Jet Fusion 300/500 full-color 3D printers are being produced by Jabil in what’s believed to be the most 3D-printed parts for any commercial product in the world.
John Dulchinos, vice president of digital manufacturing at Jabil commented,: “HP Multi Jet Fusion gives us the foundational 3D-printing platform we need to deliver truly industrial-grade, production applications for our globally distributed customers. Our aim is to harmonize the multiple regions, technologies, materials, and manufacturing workflows of the 4th Industrial Revolution and HP is an important partner in that effort.”
Forecast 3D Adds Six New HP Jet Fusion 4210 3D Printers
Forecast 3D, one of the oldest and largest privately held 3D manufacturers in the United States, is adding six new HP Jet Fusion 4210 solutions to expand its fleet to 18 systems in response to increasing customer demand.
Forecast 3D plans to produce several million end-use parts on HP’s 3D printers in the coming year, delivering commercial-grade applications for clients in multiple industries, including the medical, consumer goods, aerospace, defense, and auto sectors.
Corey Weber, CEO of Forecast 3D, commented: “Our customers across all industries have spoken – and they are looking for more of the speed, quality, and cost benefits for production applications unleashed by HP Multi Jet Fusion. We are investing in this important 3D-printing technology platform as we scale up to meet rising demand from international and domestic clients seeking to reinvent their product life-cycle.”
Stephen Nigro, president of HP Inc. 3D Printing, commented: “From multinational design engineering and manufacturing, to localized production, industry leaders such as Jabil and Forecast 3D are demonstrating 3D printing’s expanding role in the digital transformation of the $12 trillion global manufacturing economy. HP Multi Jet Fusion customers and partners represent critical links in a new value chain that’s rewriting the rules of design, production, and delivery, ultimately ushering in a new era of digital manufacturing.”
HP at RAPID + TCT
Attendees at the RAPID + TCT conference can learn more about the entire HP Jet Fusion portfolio, including the new full-color HP Jet Fusion 300/500 series, at HP’s booth 1330. HP’s Nigro will speak in the general session on Thursday April 26th at 8.30 am.
For more information on HP 3D printing, visit HP here.
- April 2018: HP Now 3D-Printing Parts for 2D and 3D Printers; Sees Increased 3D-Printer Demand
- February 2018: HP Launches its First 3D Printers that Can Produce Functional Parts in Full Color
- January 2018: HP Brings Multi Jet 3D-Printing Solutions to India
- November 2017: New HP Jet Fusion 3D 4210 Printer with Lowest CPP for Large-Scale 3D-Printing Manufacturing
- October 2017: HP Opens New 3D Multi Jet Fusion Customer Lab in Palo Alto
- September 2017: HP Names Henkel First Global 3D-Printer Reseller, Also Expands European 3D Reseller Network
- September 2017: New from HP: Custom-Designed Shoes Created with HP 3D Printing and Scanning
- August 2017: HP Inc.: How 3D Printing is Set to Change Manufacturing
- June 2017: HP Inc. Signs Ricoh Japan, Mutoh, as ‘Master Partners’ to Sell HP 3D Printers in Japan


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Ubuntu Aims For Top 50 iOS/Android Apps
Besides announcing two partners shipping Ubuntu phones in 2014, Mark Shuttleworth's comments around the app ecosystem were also interesting.
Mark said in his phone call this morning that he's pleased with Ubuntu's app ecosystem along with its HTML5-based platform for phones/tablets but one of their main focuses is to grow the ecosystem.
By the time there's Ubuntu phones on the market, Mark hopes to see the "top 50" apps from the Android and iOS stores available for Ubuntu on mobile. With the "top 50" list changing month-to-month, it might be hard to meet, but we'll see how interested developers are in Ubuntu for mobile once we have a better idea for the phones, etc.
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The mystery Motorola device that leaked over the weekend has made another appearance online along with more details and a look at the specs.
In an extensive post from Spanish blog ProAndroid, we get to see almost every angle of the Motorola phone. ProAndroid also lists out all the specs. It still isn’t clear what the device is called, but clearer photos of the back glass now reveal a ‘Motorola One’ logo, confirming that the device is part of the One line.
The leak also gives us a better look at the pop-up camera system, which is combined with the rear camera in one module.
ProAndroid also unveiled more details about the mysterious glowing fingerprint scanner. An LED ring around the rear-mounted fingerprint scanner would activate when the phone was in use with a ‘breathing’ animation. In other words, the LED ring would slowly turn on and off.
El LED trasero del nuevo Motorola "todo pantalla", en vídeo!
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The LED ring is also reportedly configurable, which means users can turn off the light entirely or adjust how it works. Additionally, users should be able to control how the LED ring lights up during phone use, for notifications, emergency alerts and when charging.
According to ProAndroid, the device includes a 6.39-inch, 2340 x 1080 pixel resolution IPS display. It also has a 3,600mAh battery and is powered by a Snapdragon 675 and 4GB of RAM. The Motorola phone also has 128GB of storage that users can expand with a microSD card. Finally, the phone sports a 64MP, f/1.8 rear camera along with an 8MP, f/2.2 second camera and a depth sensor. The retractable selfie camera is a 32MP, f/2.0 shooter. It has USB-C charging and a headphone jack.
The phone reportedly runs Android 10. ProAndroid says it can’t confirm if the device runs Android One or full Android.
Ultimately, the phone seems like an excellent package from Motorola. Unfortunately, the device still remains a bit of a mystery. Other than the Motorola One branding, it remains unclear which phone this is. Hopefully, we learn more in the coming weeks.
It’s also worth noting that ProAndroid conducts a fairly in-depth review of the phone’s performance and camera. If you’re curious about how the phone works, click through to read the blog’s full breakdown.
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As relations between the United States and Cuba continue to normalize, an increasing number of travel companies are creating tours that allow Americans and other foreign travelers to visit the island. One of the companies traveling to Cuba, Journeys International, is offering a new Rhythm of a Lively Land itinerary with two departure dates in 2016— Feb. 9 (a women’s-only trip) and March 22.
Trip leader Joslin Fritz utilizes her fluency in the Spanish language and Cuban culture to guide guests around the cities of Havana, Cienfuegos, and Trinidad. There, they’ll have the opportunity to chat with local artisans, young entrepreneurs, social welfare program managers, and arts associations’ leaders about their daily lives, including their businesses and unique histories.
During the 10-day itinerary, guests are also introduced to fruit vendors at a neighborhood farmers’ market, a bodega (a small grocery store) manager to discuss Cuba’s ration system, and the headmaster of a school. There will also be time to take in the natural landscape of the Caribbean island on a tour of Topes del Collantes National Park. Journeys’ co-founder Joan Weber and destination specialist Lene Miller join trip leader Fritz on the February and March 2016 departure dates, respectively. For more information, call (800) 255-8735 or visit journeysinternational.com/cuba.


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Covered in detail in a release on General Electric’s site, a GE development team has come up with a way to get rid of pesky heat within electronics without making a sound. Utilizing technology modified from the bellows that cool down high-velocity jets, GE’s Dual Piezoelectric Cooling Jets (DCJ) use half the power of a traditional fan, are completely silent during operation and just as efficient as a typical fan. If this technology is incorporated within laptops, consumers will ultimately have more battery life due to the reduced power needs of the DCJ.
Due to the simple design of the DCJ, the technology will also result in much higher reliability than traditional fans and will help consumer electronics manufacturers save money on future repairs that are required due to extensive heat damage. When cooling a device, the DCJ can move one cubic foot of air per minute.
In regards to the adaptation of the jet engine technology, General Electric VP Chris Giovanniello stated “With new tablet and netbook roadmaps moving to platforms measuring less than 6mm high, it is clear that consumers are demanding thinner and more powerful electronic devices. GE’s patented DCJ technology not only frees up precious space for system designers, but it consumes significantly less power, allowing as much as 30 minutes of extra battery life. Best of all, DCJ can be made so quiet that users won’t even know it’s running.”
At this time, General Electric is providing DCJ demo kits to consumer electronics manufacturers that are interested in licensing the technology for future products. Representatives expect the new cooling technology will be rolled out into a new generation of laptops, tablets and other consumer electronics products by late 2013 or early 2014.
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US retail sales unexpectedly fell in April as households cut back on purchases of cars and a range of other goods, pointing to a slowdown in economic growth after a temporary boost from exports and inventories in the first quarter.
The economy's outlook was also dimmed by other data today which showed a decline in industrial production last month.
The weak reports came in the midst of an escalating trade war between the US and China, which has triggered a massive stock market sell-off.
Economists have warned the trade tensions could undercut growth. Following the retail sales report, some economists trimmed their second-quarter growth estimates.
The Commerce Department said retail sales slipped 0.2% last month. Data for March was revised slightly up to show retail sales surging 1.7%, the largest increase since September 2017, instead of the previously reported 1.6% jump.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast retail sales gaining 0.2% in April. Retail sales in April increased 3.1% from a year ago.
Excluding cars, fuel, building materials and food services, retail sales were unchanged in April after an upwardly revised 1.1% acceleration in March.
These so-called core retail sales correspond most closely with the consumer spending component of gross domestic product.
They were previously reported to have soared by 1% in March.
US consumer spending accounts for more than two-thirds of economic activity.
While March's strong core retail sales set consumer spending on an upward trajectory in the second quarter, last month's weakness suggested the pickup in consumption could be moderate.
Consumer spending in the US grew at a 1.2% annualised rate in the first quarter, the slowest in a year.
The US economy grew at a 3.2% pace in the January-March quarter. The economy is losing momentum in part as the boost from last year's $1.5 trillion tax cut package fades.
In April, sales at car dealerships dropped 1.1% after accelerating 3.2% in the prior month. Online and mail-order retail sales dropped 0.2% last month.
Sales at building materials and garden equipment and supplies dealers tumbled 1.9%. Receipts at clothing stores slipped 0.2%, likely reflecting deep price discounting by retailers trying to work off excess inventory. Households also spent less on personal grooming.
Sales at furniture outlets were flat. But receipts at service stations increased 1.8%, likely boosted by more expensive gasoline. Receipts at hobby, musical instrument and book stores gained 0.2%.
Sales at bars and restaurants climbed 0.2% in the month.


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CICC to Acquire China Investment Securities for $2.5 Billion
(Bloomberg) -- China International Capital Corp., the bank that has brought some of the country’s biggest state-owned firms to market, agreed to buy China Investment Securities Co. to gain a foothold in the retail-brokerage business.
CICC, known as the Goldman Sachs of China, will acquire the brokerage from Central Huijin Investment Ltd. for 16.7 billion yuan ($2.5 billion), the Beijing-based firm said Friday in a statement. Huijin, a unit of China’s sovereign-wealth fund, and other unnamed parties own 28.6 percent of CICC, and that stake will rise to 58.7 percent after the deal is completed.
Buying China Investment Securities marks a major strategy shift for CICC, which stood out from the nation’s other investment banks by focusing solely on institutional and wealthy clients. Under former Chief Executive Officer Levin Zhu, CICC executives debated creating a retail network, but didn’t proceed because of concerns that doing so would crimp margins, people with knowledge of the matter have said. The companies had combined assets of 186 billion yuan at the end of last year.
“It’s a good fit strategically,” Lucas Wang, a Hong Kong-based analyst at First Shanghai Securities Ltd., said before the deal was announced. “CICC has been strong with high-net worth clients, while China Investment has an extensive reach to small retail customers.”
Trading in CICC shares, which have declined 7.9 percent this year, was halted in Hong Kong Friday after the firm said in a filing that a statement on the acquisition was pending. CICC has been granted a waiver by the Hong Kong Stock Exchange so that the deal will not be treated as a reverse takeover, according to the statement.
Set up in 1995, CICC was part-owned by New York-based Morgan Stanley until 2010. Run by Zhu, the son of then-Premier Zhu Rongji, CICC brought some of the country’s biggest state-owned firms to market. Beijing-based CICC is trying to reinvent itself under CEO Bi Mingjian after its ranking as the top Chinese brokerage by revenue in 2005 tumbled to No. 23 a decade later.
CICC raised $811 million from an initial public offering in Hong Kong last November, earmarking money for expansion in equity sales and trading, wealth management and international business. Last year, surging income from brokerage commissions and asset management helped drive up profit.
“The wealth-management industry of China is entering a period of rapid growth against a background of increasing household wealth and strong demand for investment products and related services,” CICC said in the statement. It estimated that China’s total household assets increased 60 percent to 176 trillion yuan from 2012 to 2015.
Shenzhen-based China Investment Securities was 17th in last year’s revenue rankings, while Citic Securities Co. was first, according to Securities Association of China data.


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An electric guitar belonging to the late rock legend Jimi Hendrix has sold for more than £160,000.
Jimi Hendrix's Japanese sunburst electric guitar has sold for more than £160,000 ($209,000) at auction.
The late music icon - who chocked on his own vomit and died at the age of just 27 in September 1970, and was one of the first rock stars to join the famous cult 27 club - used the popular instrument after being discharged from the army in 1962 and when he performed for acts including the Isley Brothers.
The classic piece went under the hammer at GWS Auctions and was only expected to fetch £38,000 ($50,000), but it sold for £138,000 ( $180,000), plus fees, meaning the total spent on the sought-after instrument by the winning bidder was £165,000 ( $216,000).
As per the description of the guitar on GWS' website, Hendrix used the instrument when he ''played on the Chitlin' Circuit with the likes of Wilson Pickett, Slim Harpo, Sam Cooke, Ike and Tina Turner and Jackie Wilson before moving to Harlem, New York in early 1964.''
Hendrix's friend Mike Quashie - who influenced the 'Purple Haze' rocker's music - signed a letter confirming the electric sunburst belonged to the rock legend before his passing last year.
The listing stated that the guitar is ''in well-loved condition'' and was ''keep it in its original state'' without any strings on it.
The Hendrix sale comes just two months after Kurt Cobain's acoustic guitar from Nirvana's iconic 1993 'MTV Unplugged in New York' performance sold for a record-breaking $6 million (£4.85 million) at auction.
The 1959 Martin D-18E - which was often out of tune - was expected to fetch between $1million (£810,835) and $2 million (£1.62 million) at the online 'Music Icons' sale hosted by Julien's Auctions, but it ended up breaking the record for the most expensive guitar ever.
The priceless instrument - which was bought by an Australian businessman - succeeded the black Stratocaster owned by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, which sold for $3.95 million in 2019, as the most expensive guitar.
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NEW DELHI: Asia’s gasoline markets weakened on Tuesday as COVID-19-related mobility restrictions in China hit demand sentiment.
The crack dropped to $9.99 a barrel, down by $8.89 from Monday. In physical markets, Unipec and Vitol purchased a cargo of 92-octane and 95-octane gasoline respectively.
Anti-COVID lockdowns have dampened consumption of transportation fuels in China to a point where some independent refiners have attempted to resell crude purchased for delivery over the next two months, traders and analysts said.
Meanwhile, the naphtha crack in the region rose for a second straight day to $121.68 a tonne, up $11.07 from Monday’s close.
Price reporting agency Argus launched a new non-Russian diesel cargo assessment delivered into the Antwerp-Rotterdam-Amsterdam (ARA) port complex, the agency said in a statement published on its website on Tuesday.


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A new report says that Grand Theft Auto V’s on-stream Twitch viewers more than tripled to 523 million in 2019, up from 138 million in 2018. The State of the Stream 2019 report, created by StreamElements and Arsenal.gg, shows off the major changes in viewership numbers for various streamers, platforms, and games over the past year. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds notably dropped off the top 10 games entirely. While PUBG had 416 million views in 2018, it fell below #10 game Hearthstone’s 217 million views for 2019 and so didn’t make the cut. Again, all of these figures are for Twitch, which still commands the overwhelming majority of game streaming views.
League of Legends has reclaimed its top Twitch spot from Fortnite, growing in views from 929 to 990 million while Fortnite dropped from 1.2 billion to 884 million. That’s likely helped by a crossover boost from some 159 million people watching Teamfight Tactics and getting interested in Riot's core game.
The remarkable rise of Grand Theft Auto V’s popularity can be attributed to some big-name streamers taking an interest in the GTAV roleplaying scene. Roleplay in GTAV took off in 2017, but has really only grown since then. You can do lots of things in it. For example, you can pretend to be a vampire nightclub promoter or start a meme gang based on old GTA.


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REDDING, Calif. - A Redding Reptile store has found their 14-foot long python named "Eres" after it went missing due to the evacuations of the Carr Fire.
According to a Facebook post from Redding Reptiles, they found "Eres" on Monday, it was reported that the snake escaped the store located at 991 Lake Blvd C, Redding.
The Redding community has shown a massive amount of support to find the reptile on Facebook.
"Eres" was found safe and sound, according to the owner of the store.
Julia Yarbough interviewed the owner about finding the snake.


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Data Journalism Top 10: Solar-Powered Batmobile, Hungarian Money Abroad, Migrants Dying in Qatar, Open Windows & COVID-19
For decades, environmentalists have been dreaming about climate-friendly transportation. The arrival of hybrid and electric cars has brought us one step closer to travelling without damaging the planet. And this year, a California start-up promises to push the technology even further by rolling out the first mass-produced solar-powered car. Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from February 22 to 28 features this story alongside an investigation by the Guardian into deaths of migrant workers in Qatar, a cross-border project revealing Hungarian money flowing overseas, and a creative infographic about animals in space.


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Defence-run canteen stores department (CSD) supplies sub-standard food items without quality testing
According to CAG, "CSD head office (HO) shortlisted only 520 items for testing against 956 food and liquor products procured. But out of shortlisted, only 448 were sent to the labs between 2014 and 2015.”
Rugby-Departing Larkham backs Brumbies to return stronger
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Zara opens biggest store in Mumbai; to launch online store by year-end
Spanish fashion brand has 21 stores in eight cities across the country and plans to open 2-3 stores a year going ahead.
Department of Telecommunications creates investment facilitation centre
According to a notice on DoT’s site on Tuesday, KK Sahara, director (IP) and Manish Shukla, ADET (IP), will be in charge of the cell.
Rajya Sabha pays tributes to departed members, adjourned
The members of the upper house remembered parliamentarians, including sitting members Anil Madhav Dave of the BJP and Palvai Govardhan Reddy of the Congress, who passed away in the past few months.
Glimpse the luxury store of the future
With "connected" clothes rails and "smart" mirrors, online luxury retailer Farfetch believes it has created the store of the future. Using the latest software and hardware, the retailer aims to help luxury brands gather more information on customers in stores and online. (Bloomberg)
Microsoft plans to store data in DNA
New York, May 27 (IANS) Microsoft is planning to start storing its data on strands of DNA within the next few years, the company's computer architects have revealed.
Passengers departing IGIA to be benefited as fee cut: Experts
According to a tariff order by the DGCA issued on Friday, departing domestic passengers will now have to pay Rs 10 as a UDF charge.
Tax department notifies form for Aadhaar-PAN linking
The department has specified in detail the procedure for quoting of Aadhaar in new PAN application and for changes or correction in PAN data.
Fashion sale: Amazon to open temporary physical stores
While the company calls it an end-of-season sale, it acknowledged that the brands and sellers on the platform are also looking to sell a lot of their existing inventory before GST kicks in.
Monuments under review by Interior Department
An executive order signed last month by President Donald Trump directs Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to review 27 national monuments established or expanded by three other presidents since 1996.


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Marquis Jet’s Randy Brandoff said his jet card company is well positioned to take advantage of the shifting sands of the corporate jet market. Brandoff, the newly appointed executive vice president and chief marketing officer for Marquis Jet (Booth No. 291), said the company’s business is down slightly for the year, but demand is actually on the rebound.
“We are in a very good place on the aviation pyramid,” Brandoff told NBAA Convention News. “During the thriving years of the economy we were in the logical spot for people trading up from airline first class. Now in a tougher market, when people are getting out of whole [private] aircraft and certain fractional arrangements, we are the logical trade down–still with the same level of service, safety and security, but in much more manageable, bite-size arrangements.”
Marquis Jet is the exclusive provider of jet cards for fractional giant NetJets and NetJets is Marquis Jet’s only provider of lift. NetJets has not been immune to the downturn in the economy. As has been heavily reported, Richard Santulli, NetJets founder, chairman and CEO, resigned on August 4. Santulli had acquired Columbus, Ohio-based Executive Jet Aviation in 1986 as a platform upon which to launch NetJets, which began growing substantially in the mid-1990s. Berkshire Hathaway chairman and billionaire Warren Buffett, a NetJets shareowner, was so impressed with NetJets that he bought the firm in 1998 for $725 million, keeping Santulli as CEO. But this year, NetJets reported pre-tax losses of $602 million for the first six months, compared with gains of $447 million in the same time frame last year. When Santulli resigned, David Sokol, the chairman at Berkshire-owned MidAmerican Energy Holdings, was named chairman and interim CEO of the fractional provider.
“This is a great year for Marquis to take market share,” Brandoff continued. “This past September was very bullish and we are optimistic that the fourth quarter will be very strong. In down markets there is a flight to quality, especially if a person is worried about [his or her] charter company cutting corners.”
Brandoff said that Marquis’ customers also were less likely to defer or reschedule travel due to economic considerations, as opposed to a whole aircraft or aircraft share owner. “If you buy a 25-hour card, typically you are buying it for specific flights in the upcoming year and you are probably going to take those trips,” he said. “It is different if it is your own plane and you decide, ‘Yeah, I’ll take that trip next month when the price of fuel is down.’”


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Microsoft leads Wall Street lower, but retailers gain
By Rodrigo Campos | November 14, 2012 9:28 AM EST
Stocks sold off late in the session on Tuesday, led by a slide in Microsoft shares, though retailers were a notable bright spot after Home Depot raised its outlook.
After the closing bell, Cisco Systems
"Home Depot did say something about housing, which was perceived as positive and was behind the earlier rally," said Richard Sichel, chief investment officer at Philadelphia Trust Co.
"That was tempered by Microsoft, to some extent, and probably more so by the 'fiscal cliff,'" he said.
The S&P 500 is down 2.7 percent so far this month and closed below its 200-day moving average for a fourth day in a row, a technical indicator that suggests the recent declines could gain momentum. The moving average is currently at 1,381.58, and failure to rise above that level suggests market weakness.
Concerns about the looming "fiscal cliff" kept investor activity subdued as lawmakers returned to Washington after the November 6 election, when President Barack Obama won a second term while Democrats added to their margin in the U.S. Senate and picked up seats in the House of Representatives.
The market is grappling with how a divided U.S. Congress will deal with the series of mandated tax hikes and spending cuts that start to take effect next year and could take the world's largest economy back into recession. However, serious negotiations are still weeks away, analysts said.
The Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> fell 58.90 points, or 0.46 percent, to 12,756.18 at the close. The S&P 500 <.SPX> dropped 5.50 points, or 0.40 percent, to 1,374.53. The Nasdaq Composite <.IXIC> lost 20.37 points, or 0.70 percent, to 2,883.89.
Dow component Home Depot Inc
Microsoft shares fell after Steve Sinofsky, head of the Windows unit, left the company. Sinofsky was considered the driving force behind Windows, the company's biggest product.
Technology shares led the market's decline, with an S&P technology index <.GSPT> down 0.8 percent.
Just over 6.2 billion shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq and NYSE MKT, below the daily average during November last year of 7.33 billion shares.
More than two issues fell for every one that rose on both the NYSE and the Nasdaq.
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The president of the Confederation of Employers of Albacete -FEDA-, Artemio Pérez, has announced the decision of the jury of the Business Awards San Juan 2019-XX Edition, whose award ceremony will take place on June 28 at the Palacio de Congresses City of Albacete.
Thus, the company Captain Denim has been awarded in the category of Innovative Company in Quality and Environment, thanks to the constant evolution of the production processes that has been carried out focused on minimizing the impact that as an industry exerts on the environment.
For years, the denim company works with renewable energies: solar panels as support and biomass as the main source of energy, using organic matter such as almond shells, peach kernels or olives, to put into operation all the machinery of the factory.
Also, Captain Denim has implemented different innovative manufacturing processes with which it has managed to produce ecological, sustainable and high quality garments.
Currently, the company is working with Aitex on a new R & D project through which it will implement a process that favors the reduction in water consumption - more than 80% - and in the generation of wastewater - more than 90% - compared to traditional processes.
According to the bases of these Awards, the Jury that awards the Awards is composed of nine members: Four representatives of the Executive Committee of FEDA, three representatives of the Public Administration -local, autonomic and state-, a representative of the University and a representative of the entity or institution sponsoring the respective prize. The number of members is always odd. The Jury is chaired by the president of FEDA and acts as secretary of the Confederation, Vicente García Martínez.
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Brands risk backlash over Black Lives Matter. Should they still speak out?
Global brands including L’Oreal and Adidas have recently been accused of racist behaviour, ranging from discriminatory hiring practices, to lack of diversity in marketing campaigns, to unequal treatment of people in their stores.
The allegations follow a flood of corporate messages in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and racial justice amidst global protests sparked by the death of African-American man George Floyd in police custody in the US last month.
The dissonance between some brands’ statements about equality on social media and their internal behaviour has led to harsh criticism from employees and consumers and demands for real change.
Local luxury label Zimmermann also came under fire this week after fashion watchdog Diet Prada leaked an old version of its hair and make-up guidelines for store staff, which many people pointed out were virtually impossible for black women to follow.
“Hair can be worn in soft, textured loose waves, or blow-dried straight with a center parted [sic] or side part,” the document states. According to Diet Prada, the guidelines were used up until September 2019.
Just a few days before, in response to Zimmermann’s Instagram post in support of Black Lives Matter, a former intern in the US, Desiree Celestin, accused the brand of turning a blind eye to another employee’s racist remark towards a black model.
Zimmermann has since released a statement acknowledging that it needs to do more to fight racism.
“We have a responsibility to actively do better and make changes without delay, not just in America but here at home in Australia and in our teams globally,” the brand said.
Given the backlash that Zimmermann and other brands have faced after voicing their support for the Black Lives Matter movement, it might not be surprising that some businesses have stayed silent on the topic, wary of saying or doing the wrong thing, or drawing attention to past mistakes.
But some marketing experts think brands should still speak out, even if they are not perfect allies yet.
“We should still encourage brands to take a social stand, even if it comes across as opportunistic. It still pushes the public debate over the long term,” Abas Mirzaei, a senior lecturer at Macquarie University who has been studying ‘woke’ marketing campaigns for the past two years, told Inside Retail.
“Even if Pepsi is opportunistic and Adidas comes under pressure, they trigger the social debate which is really important for any cultural change.”
Mirzaei acknowledged that for change to occur, however, brands need to do more than just make statements.
“If we’re still fighting against racism in 10 years’ time, then Nike can’t just change their logo. We’re going to be asking what else have you done? How many black people have you recruited?”
Louise Grimmer, a senior lecturer at University of Tasmania’s business school, has a slightly less positive view of corporate statements about Black Lives Matter, but still acknowledged the role they can play in making society a better place.
“There is no denying of course that major brands such as Nike have an incredible influence over consumers and many would argue that their stance on Black Lives Matter has been very significant in contributing to the conversation,” Grimmer said.
“I think Nike is one of those brands that can very easily demonstrate a clear alignment between their core brand values and movements such as Black Lives Matter. But there are other brands that I don’t think can so easily make this connection.”
Yatu Widders-Hunt, a director at Cox Inall Ridgeway, said brands have a history of making a difference on key social issues.
“I think brands can be vocal and values driven on these issues. We have already seen some powerful examples of sustained leadership on issues such as marriage equality and constitutional reform, which has helped to drive social change,” she said.
Regardless of what brands have done in the past, Widders-Hunt urged them to think beyond social media to make a difference in the future.
“Looking at how brands ‘live these values’ is also important – do they have Reconciliation Action Plans for instance? Being part of social campaigns is important, but commitment, action and sustained support are the most important things. We have a long road ahead of us,” she said.


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Paper packaging solutions distributor Antalis has unveiled a new Smart Packaging Centre at its headquarters in Coalville, North West Leicestershire, England to support bespoke packaging solutions and services.
Smart Packaging Centre is a design lab and solutions centre where the company’s designers will conduct a comprehensive review of their packaging requirements on-site to solve the logistical challenges faced by customers.
The centre joins Antalis’ European network of design facilities featuring 15 packaging designers across its labs in France, Poland and Germany.
Businesses can visit the centre to interact with the company’s designers to create new packaging designs and live samples for their products.
The designers will then test and modify these samples according to clients’ requirements at a one-stop packaging workshop in the centre.
Antalis packaging technologist Jason Poxon said: “Recognising the rising challenges facing our customers, particularly those in the e-commerce, logistics and manufacturing industries, who are under immense time and cost pressures, we’ve invested heavily in creating the new Smart Packaging Centre to address this.
“The result is the ultimate one-stop-shop, where businesses can have all their packaging needs taken care of under one roof – making the process of creating and adapting bespoke packaging quicker and easier than ever before.
“By hand-picking the latest innovations and machinery in packaging, we have drastically cut the time it takes to design, manufacture and test packaging.”
In addition, the facility features Impact CAD software suite which will be integrated into the company’s Zund G3 L-2300 cutting table to speed up the packaging design process from weeks to hours.


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This is one man's way of kicking his dog-hating girlfriend to the curb.
A Virginia beagle-owner who was forced to pick between his partner and his pet made the obvious choice in a hilarious Craigslist ad that seeks a new home for his "purebred."
"My girlfriend does not like my beagle Molly. SO I have to rehome her," the unidentified Roanoke man wrote in the post that's accompanied by a photo of a sad-looking pooch.
He goes on to detail his pal — a wealthy purebred that he's had for four years who likes games but is "not totally trained" and "stays up all night yapping" — before making clear it's his "gold-digging" girlfriend that's getting the boot.
"Will NEVER greet you at the door after a long day or give you unconditional love when you're down. Does not bite but she can be mean as hell!" the man writes.
"So … anyone interested in my 30-year-old, selfish, wicked, gold-digging girlfriend?"
He says his long-haired, "high maintenance" companion who has expensive taste for food is "free to any willing home."
"Come and get her! Me and my dog want her rehomed ASAP!!" the ad says.
The woman ended up "being rehomed by her original breeders," her parents, after the posting was published last week.
"Molly and I are looking for a new one," the man says.


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After more than 13 weeks since Apple dropped Google Maps in favor of its own proprietary maps app, Google finally released a native Google Maps app for iPhone and iPod Touch. The Google Maps app has already taken the No. 1 spot on the top free iPhone apps chart, proving that iPhone users were indeed clamoring for an alternative to Apple’s maps. The trivia game YOU DON’T KNOW JACK, which launched last week, took the No. 10 spot. The mobile release is integrated with the Facebook version of the game which our sister site Inside Social Games reviewed favorably here.
As usual, not much changed in the top free Android apps chart, with Instagram gaining over Facebook Messenger to take the No. 3 spot and top 25 newcomer Bubble Worlds taking the No. 22 spot.
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It's a space ship, it's a community center, it's a donut, it's a walrus, it's freudian, it's a Walgreens. A Curbed reader sends in photographs of Collins Avenue's wacky new Walgreens, now taking shape at 14th Street, calling it "unsheathed", which seems quite appropriate. The new store, which broke ground earlier this year, is the third exotic (which is putting it mildly) Walgreens on Miami Beach built by the developer duo Seth Gadinsky and Daniel Hotte and architect duo Robert Brown and Frank Demandt.
Each of their Walgreens is an architectural extravaganza with its own distinct look. This one is art deco meets PoMo, while the Walgreens over on Alton Road is more MiMo/Midcentury Modern and the team's Walgreens up on Normandy Isle a swirly, tossed-bowl-of-contemporary-modernism looking place that would make Zaha Hadid proud.
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Fidelity Bank Plc said it plans to launch the GreenMall, an online market place with fully integrated e-commerce capabilities for online payment engine, delivery logistics, advertising boards, and business networking opportunities, for SMEs. This was disclosed by the Executive Director, South, Fidelity Bank, Aku Odinkemelu, at the bank’s South-East Regional SME conference recently.
Odinkemelu, noted that the numbers of SMEs in Nigeria has increased from 17 million in 2011 to 37 million as at 2013. According to her, the sector now employs 60 – 80 per cent of the workforce while contributing over 60 per cent to the country’s GDP.
She expressed concern that SMEs in Nigeria were faced with key challenges. These challenges, she enumerated to include, low level of business management capacity; inadequate business processes; inadequate research/market information to determine business viability; poor access to market; limited access to the export markets; inadequate record keeping; absence of proper business planning; lack of long term strategy and poor business model; low technology leverage; key man risk, etc.
She stated that the Fidelity approach comes handy. According to her, the bank work with a network of pre-qualified SME-friendly professional services firms who provide business management capacity building support and services to our SMEs at discounted rates. “We have developed a partnership with Sage to develop FSBA+, a product that integrates Sage One Accounting Software to the FSBA to enhance recording for our SMEs,” she maintained.
Continuing, she explained that funders should allow nil/low-cost of banking transactions to enable MSMEs build up relevant transactions/activity history to position them more strongly for formal lenders (e.g. Fidelity Small Business Account); de-risk the sector by developing and offering customised product paper loans that could take the following forms: Cluster Lending Programmes that identify industry and market peculiarities ( Fidelity Aba Leather Cluster Credit Product Paper, Obosi Industrial Cluster Credit Product, Credit Product for Medical Doctors and pharmacists, Fidelity Commercial Support Short Term Loans for identified business cluster, etc), among others.


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Village Roadshow threat to sue pirates and block downloading websites
THE guys behind Mad Max and The Lego Movie are determined to crack down on pirates, and they’re giving it all they’ve got.
HAVE you ever illegally downloaded a movie? Australian film distribution company Village Roadshow wants to sue you.
Chief executive Graham Burke has revealed that the company intends to sue whoever they find to have downloaded one of its movies and it also plans to block pirating websites.
“It’s wrong. [Pirates] have been warned, notices issued that they have been doing the wrong thing. Yes, we will sue people,” Mr Burke told SBS TV’s The Feed.
When questioned about whether he was worried about his company’s reputation when it takes on everyday Australians, who may struggle to pay the fines, he said he couldn’t care less.
He said piracy was theft and those who engaged in it should be dealt with, regardless of whether they could pay up.
On top of suing, the distribution company of Hollywood blockbusters such as Mad Max: Fury Road and The Lego Movie wants to lead a push to have piracy sites, such as The Pirate Bay, blocked through new anti-piracy legislation.
“We are absolutely in the process of implementing action to block illegal sites,” Mr Burke told The Australian.
“We are going through the legal preparation at this stage and will be ready in October to go to the courts and ask them to block sites.”
Tom Godfrey, of consumer advocacy group Choice, told news.com.au that blocking sites would almost be useless in the fight against piracy.
“Anyone who has access to Google will be able to get around Australia’s internet filter,” he said. “This whole exercise has purely been about some very, very big players trying to prop up their business models and take out competitors.”
He also believes that blocking sites would hurt competition international companies have stimulated, rather than actually stop pirates.
“Fair enough if they want to wipe out The Pirate Bay and the like, but they’re using the pirating issue to also limit Australians access to international competition,” Mr Godfrey said.
“The reason behind piracy in Australia has been clear for a long time and it’s cost, timeliness and accessibility.
“Actually give people what they want, when they want and most would stop pirating.”
Streaming services, such as Netflix and Presto, have begun to stem the tide of piracy by finally giving consumers what they want: complete seasons of shows on demand at the same time at elsewhere in the world for an affordable price.
However, some content owners continue to try to protect their old business models, locking up content and charging a premium.
“For a long time the market has been under-served by the content industry,” Mr Godfrey said.
“That’s why there was such a huge appetite for Netflix. Finally you have a company who gets what people want.”
If it goes ahead with blocking, Village Roadshow would be the second major company to express its desire to have pirating sites such as The Pirate Bay blocked using the new legislation, after Foxtel said it was preparing for action earlier this month.
A Foxtel spokesman told news.com.au: “The Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill does nothing more than give copyright holders similar rights in relation to foreign websites, which steal their content, to those they would have if the sites were based in Australia.
“Because these pirate sites do not exist in Australia, rights holders are not able to take direct legal action against them.
“Similar laws exist in Europe, the UK, Singapore and many other jurisdictions.
“Foxtel and other rights holders are currently assessing what action can and should be taken to give effect to the legislation.”
While it might seem as simple as presenting the Federal Court with links to illegal content, rights holders have to meet strict criteria to prove that the website’s main purpose is to host copyrighted content.
This includes testing whether people would be impacted significantly by blocking the site and blocking the site was in the public interest.
Successful court action would force internet providers such as Telstra and iiNet to block access to those sites from Australia.
However, similar systems have been used overseas in countries including the UK, with little success. Some of the most popular torrenting sites in the world, including The Pirate Bay and Kickass Torrents have all been blocked, but locals have continued to find ways to download content.
Typically, within hours of an internet provider blocking a site, hundreds of mirror sites that offer the same content pop up. When the first wave of mirror sites are taken down or blocked, more sites crop up to replace them. It’s a never-ending circle.
However, The Pirate Bay, the world’s biggest torrenting site, now stops most internet service providers from blocking it. It works by hiding identifying information about The Pirate Bay from internet providers, making it harder for it to be blocked.
Village Roadshow and Graham Burke haven’t hid their disdain of pirates in the past, even going as far as comparing them to terrorists and paedophiles.
“The problem is urgent as piracy is spreading like a highly infectious disease and as bad habits become entrenched, they become harder to eradicate. Also of course high speed broadband is just around the corner,” the company wrote in its submission to the government’s copyright consultation last year.
“The dangers posed by piracy are so great, the goal should be total eradication or zero tolerance. Just as there is no place on the internet for terrorism or paedophilia, there should be no place for theft that will impact the livelihoods of the 900,000 people, whose security is protected by legitimate copyright.”
Last night, Mr Burke compared pirates to drunk drivers during his interview on The Feed.
“It’s no different to the highways of Australia, where we are pretty damn safe because drunken driving and high-speed driving is kept somewhat under control. If there were no [anti-piracy] laws, if there were no regulations, we wouldn’t be safe out there,” he said.
Mr Godfrey told news.com.au that the fear campaign and the demonising pirates was all part of the plan.
“The industry wants people to be afraid, but [Graham Burke] is actually going up against the people who are funding his business. It’s the same people going into cinemas that are the ones that are downloading,” he said.
“They need to acknowledge that they need to evolve their business models. And the answer for that is giving people content affordably, easily and on time.”


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UK to Be Worse Off In Every Scenario
LONDON (Dispatches) - The U.K. would be worse off in every scenario should it proceed with Brexit, according to a leaked government analysis of the economic impact of leaving the EU.
The analysis, titled “EU Exit Analysis - Cross Whitehall Briefing” and dated January 2018, looked at three possible scenarios: a no-deal scenario, in which the U.K. would revert to World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, a comprehensive free-trade deal with the EU and a continued single-market access through a European Economic Area membership.
The document, which was meant to be shown confidentially to cabinet ministers this week, was leaked in what was described as an “embarrassing” development to Prime Minister Theresa May and Brexit Secretary David Davis.
Under a no-deal scenario, the U.K. would see economic growth reduced by 8 percent.
Under a comprehensive free trade agreement with the EU, growth would be reduced by 5 percent over the next 15 years. However, if the U.K. retained access to the single market and be a European Economic Area member, economic growth would be reduced by only 2 percent.
Nonetheless, the impact assessment does not take into account the short-term effects that Brexit will have on the economy, such as adjusting the economy to new customs arrangements and rules, which could prove worse than the aforementioned statistics.
When looking at the sectors most affected, the document stated that manufacturing, retail, cars, food and drink, and chemicals would all face negative effects in all three scenarios.
All regions of the U.K. would also be affected negatively, with the northeast, the West Midlands and Northern Ireland facing the biggest declines in economic performance.


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Asus has partnered with Amogha Computer Needs in Bangalore to unveil India’s biggest Republic of Gamers (ROG) store in the city at Jayanagar.
The gaming brand store, which is the third of its kind in India, sprawls over about 800 square feet. Here, gamers can experience the latest technology and hardware first hand without having to buy any of the devices. The first two stores were set up in 2016 in Kolkata and Bhubaneshwar.
There’s also a product demo zone and experience centre where visitors can test new hardware. The latest Asus ROG GL552, a mainstream gaming laptop well-equipped with Quad core 6th Gen Intel core i7 (Skylake) and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 900 series graphics will be showcased at the store.
There’s a ‘Battle Ground’ where a total of 10 gamers can compete against each other and experience LAN gaming at its best. On February 11, the store will host a ‘Counter Strike: Global Offensive’ gaming tournament with a prize pool of ₹1,40,000.
Gamers can visit the store from Monday to Sunday between 11.00AM to 09.00PM. Registrations for the tournament can be done on the Asus website.


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HARTLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Deer Crack kills.
Once dispersed, deer herd to it like moths to a flame, and Deer Crack creator Tom Parshall said a standard 4.4-pound package — which retails at about $6 — will attract deer for a good part of the whole Michigan hunting season.
The precise formulation and balance of 13 minerals is to the deer what crack is for humans, Parshall said, thus the aggressive product name.
If he’s boasting, it’s only because he can back it up.
The product Parshall began formulating in 1995 in his grandfather’s barn — “with two shovels, a wheelbarrow and $79,” Parshall said — is now sold in countless Michigan gas stations and general stores, and even sporting goods retail giant Dunham’s Sports.
In fact, Parshall and business partner Rich Owens — who make up Deer Crack LLC — sell Deer Crack to retailers in 46 states.
The duo still make Deer Crack in the same old Hartland Township barn, but now they make a whole lot more of it: several batches, each one weighing in at nine tons.
“Initially, hunting-supply stores laughed us out of their places with our product,” Parshall said.
But they aren’t laughing anymore.
“So we went on a marketing attack, targeting gas stations, because we know hunters a lot of times go to gas stations before they hunt,” Parshall said. “We couldn’t make it fast enough.”
Now, everyone wants it, he said, and the reason is primarily its resounding results.
“Deer Crack works fantastic, and after a good rain, it penetrates the ground, letting those minerals in, and the deer can’t stay away,” said Miles Gee, a Hartland Township hunter who has been a Deer Crack buyer for many years.
“It’s great, especially for people who go up north hunting and aren’t there all the time,” Gee said. “You put a little Deer Crack down, and you’re good to go.”
With Michigan’s archery deer season in full swing, Parshall has noticed a 10 percent growth in business, a growth he mostly attributes to the state lifting the baiting ban it had imposed since 2008.
Parshall said the ban, imposed to reduce the spread of chronic wasting disease, was “shameful.” It cost his company in the realm of $500,000 over three years, with some hunters fearing tickets from the Department of Natural Resources over that period despite controversy over whether the product was actually bait or not.
“The baiting ban killed us,” Parshall said. “Shame on them for passing that law without thinking about all of Michigan.”
Brent Rudolph, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources deer-program leader, said the bait ban was difficult to enforce. In 2008 and 2009, the DNR issued approximately 1,300 baiting tickets, compared to 4,000 baiting complaints and nearly 1 million total hunters in the woods each year.
With the bait ban lifted, hunters will be able to use two gallons of bait spread over a 100-square-foot area. Rudolph said products like Deer Crack are categorized as mineral blocks, and count toward a hunter’s two-gallon limit of bait.
Potent as it is, though, most hunters won’t need close to that much Deer Crack to have deer hanging out near them.
“Because of its formulation, deer generally get access to Deer Crack within a couple days, so if you refresh your site with a standard amount maybe four times per year, you’ll have plenty of deer coming around the whole time,” Parshall said.


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Why Social Media Marketing Will Make You Question Everything
Today, socializing and engaging with people has shifted to tapping the screen from the traditional sending of card invites. Social media sites and platforms have offered countless ways for socializing. According to 2017 statistics, about 81 percent of the whole US population have social media accounts. More than half of Americans have full access to the internet and spend about 30% of their entire time on social media.
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Marketers continued to put more dollars toward data-driven marketing in Q1 2014, according to research released earlier this month by Direct Marketing Association (DMA) and Winterberry Group. More than 40% of US marketing professionals said they increased spending on data-driven marketing in the first quarter of this year, compared with 38.4% who said the same in Q4 2013.
However, data-driven marketing investments may have hit a lull—at least in Q2 2014. More than half of respondents didn’t expect to change their spending on this tactic in the second quarter, compared with 36.5% who said it would rise.
DMA/Winterberry reported slowed growth in both revenues—which hit a two-year high in Q3 2013—and profitability from data-driven marketing in Q1 2014. Around 45% of respondents said that their revenues had increased quarter over quarter. Profitability gains slowed for the first time in Q4 2013, and the trend continued in the first quarter of this year: 37% of marketers reported growth in profitability from data-driven marketing in Q1, compared with 45.3% in Q4 2013.
However, respondents were positive about both revenue and profitability growth for Q2 2014, with nearly 60% expecting the former to rise and just over half saying the same for the latter.
According to data released in April 2014 by SoDA, marketers’ confidence in data-driven optimization—one opportunity of data-driven marketing—increased between 2013 and 2014. Fully 42% of client-side marketers worldwide said their organization was ahead of the curve when it came to data-driven optimization in 2013, and this rose to 47% this year.
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