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More than 50 breweries from around the world — and right here in Arizona — will pour more than 200 varieties of beer Saturday at the Great Arizona Beer Festival.
The annual event is a chance to sample craft beers and microbrews, from Dogfish Head Brewery’s Chicory Stout to Maui Brewing’s Coconut Porter.
Admission to the outdoor party — which is strictly 21 and older, no exceptions — includes 24 samples of beer, served in a 3-ounce souvenir mug that’s yours to keep.
There’s also live music, food vendors, games, contests and giveaways. Last pour of the day is at 5:45 p.m.
Tickets — including discounted ones for designated drivers — are available online through midnight and at five locations in Tempe and Mesa (find them online at www.azbeer.com/tempe.). You can also get tickets Saturday at the gate.
The festival is a fundraiser for Sun Sounds of Arizona, a reading and information nonprofit that serves nearly 50,000 Arizonans who are blind or otherwise print-disabled.
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Archive for "HTC Vive" Tag
The console model for VR, again.
Travel to a strange realm and explore its mysteries with Marslit Games.
That was a quick turnaround.
That's extremely good on them.
Star Trek: Bridge Crew and Werewolves Within also confirmed.
Good news for proponents of VR.
One day, VR will actually become a big deal like everyone says it will.
A recent update may point to on-going development.
Will support HTC Vive and Oculus Touch controller.
The famed horror film franchise makes the jump to VR.
Both VR headsets haven't been selling gang-busters.
Ubisoft's next few months are pretty VR-heavy.
A steep £70 raise.
With more console players looking to get in on the VR fun than PC players.
It's all about one's family in Frima's Fated.
Wondering the wasteland in my own skin.
Sony's VR headset is expected to get off to a flying start.
'We hate exclusives as much as you do.'
Sam is back and he's serious!
"If you thought playing Fallout 4 in Survival Mode was intense, you ain't seen nothing yet."

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A global sponsorship agreement has been reached between the Argentine Football Association (AFA) and the prestigious crypto casino BC.GAME. The agreement will create synergies between the businesses and casino patrons by giving both brands access to a global audience.
A wide variety of entertainment will be available on BC.GAME for players and fans from all over the world. The Argentine national team will receive support from the crypto casino during the upcoming months, including its World Cup matches in Qatar. Famous athletes like Paulo Dybala, Angel Di Maria, and Lionel Messi will interact with and interact with BC.GAME players.
The collaboration aims to create a global entry point for AFA and BC.GAME to add new revenue streams through various verticals. Both companies will work together for six months with the goal of making the most of their partnership.
Chris Butler, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of BC.GAME, said: “Moving forward, our aim is to introduce mutually beneficial revenue streams as well as providing unhindered access to our massive community of gamers, punters, and football fans who frequent the BC.GAME Casino and social channels. From a business perspective, the Argentine Football Association has proven to be a highly intuitive organization. At BC.GAME, we’re thrilled to find that many of our long-term goals are in perfect alignment with the AFA’s plans to form partnerships with the top companies in the blockchain industry. Moving forward, our aim is to introduce mutually beneficial revenue streams as well as providing unhindered access to our massive community of gamers, punters, and football fans who frequent the BC.GAME Casino and social channels.”
Claudio Fabian Tapia, President of AFA, also added: “We are very happy to present this new agreement with BC.GAME. At AFA, we are always looking for opportunities to harness emerging technologies to improve the experience of our National Team and League fans. This agreement allows us to create new digital products and by this generate a new revenue stream. We welcome BC.GAME as a new commercial partner of our Association.”
Many interesting facts about the market are revealed in the results of the Annual Australian Crypto Survey, which was commissioned by Swyftx, an Australian crypto exchange. It is important to understand that the recent survey of the crypto industry in Australia consists of multiple sections covering the entire market. It is covered in this report […]
Tether USDT is the largest stablecoin by market cap. Also, the token ranks among the top five in the overall market capitalization of all crypto assets. Through several progressive road maps and other development plans, Tether USDT has risen over the years. Recently, the stablecoin announced its launch on Polkadot. USDT is a product of […]
The mission to keep the value of Terra Classic (LUNC) has been undertaken by the entire community, and Binance has managed to always be at the forefront of this. The proposed 1.2% transaction fee burn was fully supported by the community, which caused the value of the digital asset to surge. Now, Binance has joined […]
The Walt Disney Company has recently posted a job advertisement and is looking to hire an experienced corporate lawyer to work on transactions involving emerging Web3 technologies, including NFTs, blockchain, metaverse, and decentralized finance (DeFi). Despite a crypto downturn, global companies are betting big on Web 3 technologies. Even the global financial predicament is unable […]
According to a recent report, Kraken’s new CEO, Dave Ripley, announced that he does not intend to register Kraken with SEC. Security token offerings (STOs) started gaining traction in the crypto industry in 2017 and grew remarkably in 2018. The number of successful STOs increased over the years and is still growing. However, many crypto […]
The long-awaited ‘Ethereum merge’ has battered the graphics card industry in China due to its transition from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus that no longer requires mining. As a result, video cards that were used previously for mining the asset are selling at a discounted price of more than 50%. According to a report, […]


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Almost a year ago it looked like the space at the old 14U coffee shop was going to become a boutique. Clearly that didn’t happen. Thanks to the wonderful world of twitter it looks like we may finally have an answer. Metrocurean’s twitter feed says:
“Philly cheese steak place is replacing 14U coffee shop at 1939 14th St. Owner says he’s aiming for July.”
I’ve emailed the owners but haven’t heard back yet. But of course Metrocurean is one of the most reliable food bloggers in the city, so I give this word a lot of weight.
Are you psyched about a “Philly cheese steak place”?


text: Despite a difficult economic environment, Switzerland’s pharmaceutical industry has continued to expand in the past two years and today accounts for 25 percent of total industrial value added. As such, the pharmaceutical sector is a major pillar of Switzerland’s export industry and made a significant contribution to the growth of Switzerland’s economy over the past decade. This expansion has also led to an increase in the number of jobs by more than 12,000 over the last ten years, bringing the total number of people employed in the industry to 45,500. As shown by a macroeconomic impact analysis, other sectors also benefit from the success of Switzerland’s pharmaceutical companies in the amount of 20.7 billion Swiss francs (value added). This accounted for around 138,000 jobs in these sectors.


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In a blog post, Comcast said it has deployed DNS Security Extensions — dubbed DNSSEC — throughout its nationwide network and will immediately make validating servers available to any of its customers that want to experiment with this emerging security technique.
In addition to this public trial of DNSSEC validation services, Comcast says it will digitally sign all of its own domain names — more than 5,000 in total — using DNSSEC by the first quarter of 2011.
Philadelphia-based Comcast is a cable provider with about 26 million television and 16 million Internet subscribers in 39 U.S. states.
By the end of 2011, Comcast says it will have production-quality DNSSEC resolution services available to all of its business and residential customers.
“There is often talk about a chicken-and-egg sort of problem with DNSSEC. People don’t want to sign their own domains with DNSSEC until people are validating signatures,” says Jason Livingood, Executive Director of Internet Systems Engineering at Comcast. “We want to explain how we as an ISP have a road map for validating signatures with DNSSEC.”
DNSSEC is an Internet standard that prevents spoofing attacks by allowing Web sites to authenticate their domain names and corresponding IP addresses using digital signatures and public-key encryption. When DNSSEC is fully deployed, Internet users will be able to verify that the Web sites they visit are digitally signed.
On this side of the border, a spokesperson for Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) Inc. said the telco is “monitoring” DNSSEC but is “not in a position to comment on any deployments at this time.”
Rogers Communications Inc. has “no immediate plans for DNSSEC,” a spokesperson for the Toronto cable company stated in an email.
DNSSEC “is a more significant a consideration” in networks using Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), the spokesperson wrote.
Comcast is believed to be the first U.S. carrier to announce plans to support resolution of DNSSEC queries for its customers as well as to sign its own domain names using DNSSEC.
“There are no large U.S. ISPs that have been publicly resolving and signing using DNSSEC in a large trial. But there are lots of people doing small little tests of DNSSEC,” says Paul Hoffman, Director of the VPN Consortium and an active participant in DNSSEC standards development work by the Internet Engineering Task Force.
Hoffman says until now no U.S. carrier has committed to DNSSEC resolution, which could be a stumbling block to DNSSEC deployment.
“Many people have been worried that there would be a lot of people signing their domain names, and no one checking for the resolution,” Hoffman says. “A major ISP doing both halves of the equation with DNSSEC is a big deal.”
DNSSEC is a hierarchical system, and it requires authentication at every step in the process of matching a domain name with the corresponding IP address. In order for a user to receive an authenticated response from a popular Web site such as www.amazon.com, DNSSEC needs to be deployed on the Internet’s root servers, the .com domain servers operated by VeriSign, and the DNS servers operated by Amazon or its Web-hosting company. Consumers who visit Amazon’s Web site also need their ISPs to validate the digital signature they receive.
DNSSEC is in the process of being deployed across the Internet’s infrastructure. The DNS root servers will be signed in July, and VeriSign has committed to supporting DNSSEC on the .com and .net servers by early 2011. The U.S. federal government is deploying DNSSEC across the .gov domain, and the Public Interest Registry is supporting DNSSEC in .org.
Once the DNS root servers as well as popular top-level domains such as .com and .net are signed, DNSSEC is expected to be widely adopted by Web site operators such as Amazon.
Until now, U.S. ISPs have been slow to commit to DNSSEC. That’s why Comcast’s DNSSEC announcement is significant.
“The intention of the trial is to see what things [happen] operationally with DNSSEC and to get ready to do this for the entire customer base once the root is signed and once the major top-level domains are signed,” Livingood says.
Comcast said its public trial of DNSSEC includes immediate availability of DNSSEC validating servers using an Internet addressing and routing scheme known as Anycast.
Comcast has 12 sites across its network that process and cache DNS queries, and all 12 of these locations will handle DNSSEC resolution during the public trial.
“Our subscribers should be able to expect the same level of service for our DNSSEC servers as with our regular DNS servers,” Livingood says. He added that “the critical difference with this trial is that DNSSEC will be on the servers that are very close to the customers just as the nomral DNS servers are so they won’t see a performance hit when they are using these on a trial basis.”
Until the DNS root servers are signed, Comcast will use what’s called a trust anchor repository to validate DNSSEC queries at the top of the DNS tree. Comcast is using IANA’s trust anchor repository for its public DNSSEC trial.
Comcast is promising an easy transition to production-level DNSSEC resolution services for its customers.
“When we turn on DNSSEC for all of our customers nationally in 2011, it will happen automatically,” Livingood says. “We will have tested it, and it will be seamless. People will not have to change their IP addresses. It will all occur behind the scenes.”
Comcast also revealed its roadmap for signing its own domain names by March 2011. Comcast already has end-to-end DNSSEC validation on several domains including www.comcast.org, www.mycomcast.org and www.comcastbusiness.org .
“We have 5,000 top-level domains that we manage like Comcast.net that we’re talking about signing,” says Chris Griffiths, manager for high-speed Internet engineering at Comcast.
Comcast is using Nominum’s authoritative DNS software for its DNSSEC trial and deployment.
“Comcast is one of Nominum’s largest DNS customers and has long been a model for the industry on how to do DNS right,” Nominum said in a statement. “Their plan to deploy our DNSSEC solution to combat cache poisoning and help mitigate other online threats is a significant milestone in the evolution of DNS technology and will help make the Internet a safer place for everyone.”
Comcast said that the cost of deploying DNSSEC for both resolving queries and signing its domains is minimal.
“It’s not a huge investment,” Livingood says. “We upgraded the hardware on the servers in the past six months to be able to handle the computational load for signing this number of domains. But it hasn’t required a substantial investment, although we have been working closely with our vendors to make sure the tools were easy to use and that it was not an onerous process.”
Comcast has been experimenting with DNSSEC since 2008, when a high-profile flaw in the DNS — commonly known as the Kaminsky Bug — was revealed. DNSSEC is the only long-term fix for preventing Kaminsky-style attacks.
“Back then, we started working on all the operational issues of how difficult it is to sign zones, how difficult it is to do key roll-over and what are the challenges related to validating domains,” Livingood says. “We sent a lot of feedback to the vendors we use…We think we’re at the stage where a lot of this stuffy is ready to use.”
Comcast is hoping that its public trial of DNSSEC resolution services and its commitment to signing its own domains will prompt other carriers to follow suit.


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Burlington, Vt.-based Lake Champlain Chocolates has created a new line of micro-batch, organic bean-to-bar chocolates dubbed Blue Bandana.
This “flanker” brand allows the company to target new consumer demographics while protecting its established market position. It is also an indicator that demand for bean-to-bar chocolate is gaining wider consumer recognition. And, it underscores a direction within the premium chocolate market: separating those producers creating chocolate from scratch (chocolate makers) from remelters (chocolatiers). The chocolate maker’s emphasis on terroir, plant genetics, and vintage harvests parallels wine production.
Some of the inspiration behind the brand’s creation was “sparked by questions raised during factory tours, of consumers wanting more information about the origin of the ingredients,” explains founder Eric Lampman. The experience led him in 2009 to trace the supply chain to its origins and review all the supply and process layers involved with sourcing. He also traveled to cocoa farms and experimented with beans from a half dozen countries before launching Blue Bandana.
The new line features three origins: Madagascar 70%, Guatemala 70% and Madagascar Wild Pepper. The latter, which uses pepper called voatsiperifery native to Madagascar, was a finalist in the 2012 Good Foods Award. These 2.3-oz. bars retail for $7.00.


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Shenzhen news network May 14th news (reporter Zhang Zhao) 14 reporter learned from the Shenzhen Municipal Council, April 30th to May 12th this year, Shenzhen City Council and Shenzhen Zhongxin Electronic Commerce Trade Promotion Center (hereinafter referred to as the UTS Security Center) received a total of 23 cases of excellent fashion shopping mall (hereinafter referred to as the excellent shopping network) trading information of suspected leak caused consumer complaints cheated money transfer. Deceived consumers from all over the country, including Guangdong, Beijing, Hubei, Heilongjiang, Shandong and other provinces and cities, the cumulative amount of 120 thousand yuan cheated.
consumers after the purchase of an excellent network cheated
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City Council, the process is basically similar to the consumers being cheated. Consumers are reflected in the excellent shopping network orders and pay a single payment soon after the success will be claimed to be excellent shopping network customer service phone. The "customer service" to tell consumers under a single time, personal information, purchase items and price information content, obtain the trust of consumers, with excellent shopping network system upgrade, technical failure, system failure, customer service, warehouse stock consumers for the purchase of more similar goods are defined as wholesalers and other reasons, require consumers to refund, re orders or pay an extra fee.
then the "customer service" by sending phishing sites and other means taking consumers’ bank accounts, payment password and other information, the consumer bank card or credit card amount in various forms to go. Which was transferred up to 18373 yuan. The current consumer demand is to optimize the purchase of the network to make a reasonable explanation of the transaction information leakage, and compensation for the amount of compensation. According to the relevant media reports, deceived consumers to discuss claims for collective rights, has set up an excellent network rights activist QQ group, up to 140 members of the group, the group claimed to have cheated the total amount of more than one million.
May 8th, the city council interviewed the excellent shopping network. The City Council pointed out that the 2014 amendments to the "consumer law" increased consumers’ personal information protection regulations, the operator has a clear responsibility to ensure the safety of consumers’ personal information obligations, and the provisions of its staff shall be kept strictly confidential to consumers’ personal information. In this case, the disclosure of personal information of consumers and their property rights and interests are violated, the consumer confidence and property safety seriously affected. Excellent purchase network should be as soon as possible to find out the truth of the cause of the information leakage, giving consumers a reasonable and credible explanation.
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interviews in the City Council in the process, excellent shopping network to reflect the site in the early April 27th and received calls to reflect the consumer complaints cheated, as interviews in May 8th, received a total of more than and 700 cases of complaints and advice. Excellent purchase network organization investigation of the system vulnerabilities and internal risks, did not find anomalies, initially ruled out the possibility of internal staff leaked. During the May Day, a large number of consumers to focus on the phone to reflect the situation has attracted the attention of the optimal purchase network. Excellent shopping network again through technical means of investigation, found in the centralized period has a large number of the same IP use a lot of data on the superior network to buy "hit the library", and immediately take measures to shield the IP, and set up by the


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Spy doll banned in Germany
Buying a doll for your kid just isn’t what it used to be. Nowadays you need to make sure the little toy won’t spy on your family. ‘My Friend Cayla’, a little interactive toy that’s already got in trouble in Norway and in the US for putting children’s privacy at risk, is now causing distress in Germany.
The Federal Network Agency (Budesnetzagentur), the body that oversees telecommunications in Germany, has echoed consumer organizations in other countries raising concerns that privacy intruders can easily hack the toy and spy on children or even talk to them through the doll, the BBC reported.
Cayla connects to the internet in order to answer simple questions from children, much like Amazon’s Alexa or Google Assistant, but obviously without providing the same level of security. In fact, according to the BBC, the decision from the German watchdog amounts to a ban, so parents should in fact destroy the toy. In Germany it’s illegal to sell or possess a banned surveillance device.
The European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, has launched an investigation to see whether toys like My Friend Cayla are in breach of EU data protection regulations, the BBC reported.
Meanwhile, it shouldn’t be a shock to anyone that in Britain some people are not as alarmed as officials in other European countries — according to the BBC, the Toy Retailers Association has said the toy “offers no special risk.”
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Fans of the Pirate Bay website in Stockholm protest a Swedish police raid.… (Peter Sunde )
Americans downloaded nearly 760 million songs using the BitTorrent file-sharing network in the first six months of this year -- surpassing the number of digital tracks purchased over that same period, according to a new report.
BitTorrent's technology allows Web users to share large files by downloading small pieces from many computers at once. Although not all music available on BitTorrent is pirated the majority of the songs delivered through the network are not licensed.
The findings of London researcher Musicmetric suggest that turning to the courts to block access to sites that facilitate illegal downloads -- as happened earlier this year in Britain, where Internet service providers were ordered to block access to the Pirate Bay -- is doing little to deter piracy.
"There was no significant change in the number of illegal downloads," said Marie-Alicia Chang, Musicmetric's co-founder and head of business development. "In other words, if people want to combat it ... singling out certain services isn't really going to do anything."
The U.S. continues to lead the world in BitTorrent use, based on Musicmetric's examination of individual file downloads.
Americans used the file-sharing network to grab 97 million albums and singles in the first half of the year (assuming an album contains 10 tracks, the total number of song downloads would exceed 759 million). By contrast, U.S. consumers bought 698 million digital singles in that period, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Gainesville, Fla.; Albany, Ga.; Fairbanks, Alaska; Lexington, Ky.; and Tallahassee, Fla., lead the nation in per capita downloads. But big cities including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago lead in total BitTorrent use.
The most popular downloads read like a Billboard chart. They include L'il Wayne and Drake's "The Motto," Jay-Z and Kanye West's "Watch the Throne" and Big Sean's "Finally Famous." In Los Angeles, rapper Tyga, music producer and DJ Skrillex and the rock duo The Black Keys are more popular than elsewhere in the country, based on BitTorrent downloads.
Online piracy decreased slightly in countries where people have access to licensed streaming services such as Spotify and Pandora, which serve as alternative sources for free online delivery of millions of songs. Spotify is available in five of the 10 countries where use of BitTorrent is shrinking -- including Britain and the U.S.
"If you’re trying to kill piracy by whatever means, whether it's by legal means or by creating new ways for consumers to get content, you need to know if you're having any effect," said Gregory Mead, Musicmetric's co-founder and chief executive. "We report the numbers."
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Spotify subscribers grew 33% in the last year
House bill would cut fees for Pandora, other Internet radio services
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CF Industries Holdings, Inc.’s CF shares have gained 29.1% so far this year. The company has also outperformed its industry’s rise of 19.7% over the same time frame. Moreover, it has topped the S&P 500’s 12.4% rise over the same period.
Let’s take a look into the factors behind this Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) stock’s price appreciation.
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What’s Favoring CF?
Strong demand of nitrogen fertilizer, higher nitrogen prices and upbeat outlook have contributed to the rally in the company’s shares.
CF Industries is benefiting from higher nitrogen prices as witnessed in the first quarter of 2021. The company’s average selling prices in the quarter were higher on a year-over-year basis across most segments due to lower global supply availability.
The company expects nitrogen pricing to be positive in 2021 as global nitrogen supply and demand balance has been significantly tightened by low global coarse grains stocks-to-use ratios as well as higher energy prices in Asia and Europe. As such, higher nitrogen prices are expected to drive the company’s sales and bottom line.
Moreover, CF Industries should gain from higher nitrogen fertilizer demand in major markets. Global nitrogen demand is expected to remain strong this year. Strong crop commodity prices are contributing to higher demand globally. Industrial demand has also recovered from the pandemic-related disruptions.
The company, in its first-quarter call, said that it sees around 90-92 million planted corn acres in the United States in 2021. It also expects higher canola plantings in Canada to support nitrogen demand. Moreover, CF Industries projects higher nitrogen demand in North America for industrial uses. The company anticipates nitrogen requirements in other regions to remain strong this year, which is likely to be driven by strong demand for urea imports from India and Brazil.
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Stocks to Consider
Other top-ranked stocks worth considering in the basic materials space include Nucor Corporation NUE, Cabot Corporation CBT and Impala Platinum Holdings Limited IMPUY.
Nucor has a projected earnings growth rate of 285.3% for the current year. The company’s shares have surged around 123% in a year. It currently sports a Zacks Rank #1. You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.
Cabot has an expected earnings growth rate of around 126% for the current fiscal. The company’s shares have rallied 55% in the past year. It currently carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
Impala Platinum has an expected earnings growth rate of 225.2% for the current fiscal. The company’s shares have surged around 137% in the past year. It currently carries a Zacks Rank #2.
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According to a stock exchange disclosure late last week the logistics firm Gati Ltd. is looking for a strategic partner or a financial investor for its cold chain business, Gati Kausar. Gati Kausar, one of the largest refrigerated trucking networks in India, is involved in cold chain transportation across the healthcare, meat and poultry, bio-pharma, frozen and fresh produce, dairy products, organized retail and quick service restaurant markets.
Previously known as Kausar India Ltd, the firm was renamed as Gati Kausar India Ltd. last year recently added 65 refrigerated vehicles to the existing fleet of 215 vehicles for its full truck load services for long haul transportation and services from distribution centers or cold storage facilities across India.
Another cold chain business in India, West Bengal-based Karnimata Cold Storage also recently announced plans to go public on BSE SME platform. Incorporated in 2011, Karnimata is engaged in the business of cold storage and trading of agricultural commodities currently specializing in potatoes. Its first cold storage unit is operated in Medinipur district with an installed capacity of 1,81,000 quintals for preservation of potatoes.
Aryaman Financial Services has been given mandate for the issue which constitutes 25 percent of the post paid-up capital of the company. The company intends to use the funds to augment its capital base for providing seasonal loans to farmers and traders.
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Congratulations to the Winners of the 2010 Toyota Sweepstakes!
Randall and Deanna Myers
of Stony Point, North Carolina
Randall and Deanna Myers of Stony Point, North Carolina will be pulling their pop-up camper with an all-new 2010 Toyota 4Runner after winning the Toyota Sweepstakes at Camping World earlier this year. Mrs. Myers thought it was a joke when Good Sam Club Executive Director Michael Siemens called to inform her that she was the sweepstakes grand prize winner.
“I told him he was lying and that nobody really won those kinds of things,” she said. “Boy, I guess I was wrong! I still didn’t believe it for like a week.” Mrs. Myers said she had never before won a sweepstakes, and that she entered the Toyota Sweepstakes online.
The 4Runner is the first SUV she has ever owned, though she had admired the 4Runner for some time.
“Now I have one of my own,” she laughed. “How lucky am I?”
The Myers’, who are Good Sam Club members, bought their 1987 Jayco pop-up in
February of this year. Mrs. Myers said they bought the camper so they could explore the outdoors with their one-year-old son Rhet. They plan to use their new 4Runner to pull their camper and for daily driving.
“And who knows?” said Mrs. Myers. “With the durability of the Toyota 4Runner, this
could stay in our family and turn out to be my son’s first car when he turns 16.”


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India’s Media & Entertainment industry is poised to double in size by 2017. The FICCI-KPMG report released at the inaugural ceremony of FICCI Frames 2013 in Mumbai today, said the industry, whose current size is estimated at Rs 91,700 crores is expected to touch Rs 1,66,000 crores by 2017.
“This industry is an economic enterprise, which is capable of creating employment and wealth much faster than most other sectors and with the ability to be a force multiplier,” said Uday Shankar, Chairman of FICCI’s Media & Entertainment Committee. He said the growth of the industry should be supported by bold policy and regulatory initiatives. During his introductory remarks, Shankar, who is also CEO of STAR India, however, lamented lack of reliable data on audience measurement across verticals of the media and entertainment sector. “There are 140 million cable and satellite homes but the measured universe is 62 million households. I do not know how many subscribers I have with a particular MSO and the MSO doesn’t know how many households his LCO delivers the signals to” he said.
Delivering the key note address, Andy Bird, Chairman, Walt Disney International said his company is betting big on India “as the media & entertainment industry here is poised for a huge leap forward, with rapidly rising middle class and their traditional focus on the family”.
The FICCI –KPMG Report said that television continues to be the dominant segment of the M&E sector, although new media like animation, VFX, gaming and digital advertising are expected to post strong double digit growth during the next five years. In 2012, the television segment accounted for 45% of the Rs 83,100 crore market. Its share is likely to go up to 50% by 2017, with a size of Rs 84,760 crores of the Rs 166,100 crore market. Print media is expected to post a moderate Combined Annualized Growth Rate (CAGR) of 8.7% to touch Rs 34,020 crores from the 2012 level of Rs 22,410 crores. Indian film industry is slated to grow from the present Rs 11,240 crores to Rs 19,300 crores in 2017.
Similarly, the size of the advertising industry in India is estimated to be Rs 36,200 crores. Print media continues to account for a larger share at 44.7 % , followed by TV 38.2 %. By 2017, it is estimated that the size of the Indian advertising industry would be Rs 63,000 crores with both print and TV having a share of 38-40 % each. Digital advertising is estimated to post a robust 32.1 % growth to reach Rs 8,720 crores from the current modest level of Rs 2,170 crores.
FICCI Frames 2013, aims to deliberate on the growth of the industry and find ways to maximise both its creative and economic potential. The range of topics being covered include digitization, censorship, marketing, exhibition and distribution. South Korea is the partner country this year.
India’s Minister of State for External Affairs, Preneet Kaur, South Korea’s Deputy Minister for Culture, Sports and Tourism, Dr.Soon Tae Park, President, FICCI, Naina Lal Kidwai shared the dias with Mr. Uday Shankar and Andy Bird at the inaugural session that was moderated by well known filmmaker Karan Johar. Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor joined the guests for the traditional lighting of the lamp.


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#1243154: Mastercard Launches Identity Check to Improve Fraud Detection
Today’s topics include Mastercard improving fraud detection with Identity Check, and Huawei coming out with an Arm-based server CPU.
In an effort to reduce fraud while making it easier for merchants to accept online payments, Mastercard is implementing its Mastercard Identity Check technology, based on the EMV 3-D Secure 2.0 specification that provides a layer of security for online payment card transactions when the payment card itself is not present for physical verification.
With Identity Check, Mastercard is integrating machine learning artificial intelligence capabilities that verify more than 150 variables as part of a transaction process to help credit card issuing financial institutions make rapid, accurate decisions.
With the 2.0 version of the EMV 3-D Secure specification, 10 times more data than what was possible with version 1.0 of the specification can be passed through on each transaction, providing financial institutions with more data points on which to base a payment authorization decision.
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Ether, Ethereum’s native cryptocurrency, hit another all-time high of $ 4,634 on Wednesday, according to CoinGecko. In terms of growth, the price of ether this year far outperformed Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market value.
It also has some well-known fans, including billionaire Mark Cuban.
“I have my fair share of Bitcoin, but I’m more of an Ethereum maxi,” Cuban said on a recent episode of the Next with Novo podcast. In the crypto space, calling someone a “maximalist” of a particular coin usually has a negative connotation, but the Cuban uses the term to show that he prefers Ethereum over other blockchains.
For Cuban, Ethereum is characterized by its usefulness. Not only is Ethereum the most widely used blockchain, its smart contracts, which are collections of codes, power most blockchain-based projects, from decentralized finance or DeFi applications to non-fungible tokens or NFTs.
“We are experiencing an onslaught with many different blockchains competing,” said Cuban. “When they start using smart contracts, we’ll find that things really level off. It will depend on applications and integrations. “
Cuban previously said that Ethereum’s smart contracts “really changed everything” in the crypto space.
“I like [ether] more [than bitcoin] because I can see an unlimited number of uses that will change the business [and] Consumer world forever, ”Cubans tweeted on October 16. “And to use them, you have to buy [ether]. “
Cuban is still investing in other cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and other altcoins. He also owns NFTs and many blockchain companies.
But “as an investment, I think Ethereum has the greatest advantage,” Cuban previously told CNBC Make It. He sees Bitcoin more as a store of value and an alternative to gold.
However, despite Cuba’s approval, it is important to remember that all cryptocurrencies come with risk due to their volatile and speculative nature. Financial experts warn that investors should only invest what they can afford to lose.
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LG G5 News
February 28, 2017 - LG's newest flagship device - the G6 - was finally revealed at Mobile World Congress 2017. The Canadian release date is wrapped in mystery, but it will be available soon.
February 24, 2017 - Boldly go where no cookie has gone before! The Oreo Space Dunk challenge just might be more than a fun marketing gimmick.
December 21, 2016 - We've picked the five best Smartphones released this year: Apple iPhone 7 Plus, Pixel Phone by Google, iPhone SE, LG G5 and Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge.
December 20, 2016 - With 2017 just two weeks away we are taking a look back at all of the phones & smartphones that were released in Canada in 2016. We saw just 36 phones released this year with LG leading the way with 7 phones. Click through for a breakdown by manufacturer, month and full list of phones.
May 10, 2016 - Mobile tech is closing in on making VR accessible to everyday smartphone users. Find out how.
April 8, 2016 - The LG G5 is now available for purchase. Click through for specs, pricing and availability.
March 31, 2016 - There are significant pricing differences between wireless providers in Saskatchewan/Manitoba/Quebec and the rest of Canada. We have created an infographic, which is updated monthly, to reflect the current varying costs for the same service across the provinces. Click through for the full details.
March 14, 2016 - You can now reserve LG's new flagship, the LG G5! Click through for specs, carriers, pricing & details.


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Glossier – the US-based make-up and skincare titans – have only ever once bestowed their glorious gifts upon the UK. That was back in 2017 and, since then, it’s been an online shopping-only fate for those on this side of the Atlantic.
But praise be! Because, as of tomorrow (November 20), a temporary store will be popping up in Covent Garden’s Floral Street, allowing people to browse IRL until February 9 2020.
Cannily landing just in time for Christmas party season to help London cover up its collective month-long hangover, the pop-up hasn’t taken its location for granted - adorning its walls in oodles of flowery paper. They’ve also kitted the shop out with a pastel-pink model of London’s skyline, and will be donating £5 to the Young Women’s Trust for every limited-edition umbrella sold in store.
Rain, rooftop views and a hefty pinch of ‘Grammable cuteness? Glossier’s adapting so well to London, it seems silly not to stay…
Once you’ve shopped and then dropped, why not stop into one of London’s cosy winter pop-ups?


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By now we’ve seen virtually every single member of the society “going iPhone.” Why would the famous controversial rapper Eminem be an exception. He doesn’t want to be, at least when it comes to embracing Apple’s mobile platform.
That said, we’re hearing he (along with his crew) is preparing to launch an iPhone game to promote its comeback album – Relapse. They say the game continues the teaser video for his new 3 A.M., in which Slim portrays a murderous maniac running through the woods.
And that’s about all we know at this stage. Scrap that, we also know the release date which is set for May 19th, although Apple has a final saying on that one…


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In news that may come as a surprise to some gamers, Elden Ring hasn’t even scratched the top ten most played games of Q1 2022 in the USA. As reported in Exputer, that’s according to new information gathered by The NPD Group, which has compiled a list of the most played games in the USA, according to NPD’s PlayerPulse.
Although Elden Ring has been a commercial smash since its release back in February, it hasn’t made it into the list in as high a position as some might have perhaps expected. Instead, it’s sitting at number 20 in the rankings, with games such as Minecraft, The Sims 4 and even Skyrim coming in higher than the FromSoftware giant.
According to a tweet shared today by The NPD Group’s Mat Piscatella, many of the games that beat Elden Ring aren’t even from the last ten years, which speaks to their longevity to be honest, even if the figures are a bit surprising.
However, there are plenty of factors to explain the game’s absence from the top ten. Firstly, the game was only released at the back end of February. Also, while it has enjoyed huge sales figures so far, there will still be a large chunk of the gaming community who perhaps haven’t been able to play it yet due to its price point (in these challenging financial times, not everyone has a spare £50-60 to splash out on a new game right now). So it might be that a significant audience of players are waiting until the game makes its debut on one of the subscription services such as Xbox Game Pass. In addition, the game’s notable level of challenge may be another reason why it’s not being played as often as other, less taxing titles.
Whatever the reason, it may be that by Q2 or Q3, things look a bit different in terms of rankings. It’ll be interesting to see if the data changes, given Elden Ring’s popularity.


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Gray Rohrer, 10/15/2013 - 12:49 PMORLANDO - Enterprise Florida, the state’s public-private economic development arm, will again ask lawmakers for $3 million to promote Florida’s business climate, the organization’s CEO Gray Swoope said Tuesday.
Lawmakers turned down Enterprise Florida’s $3 million request this year, caught up in criticism that its “orange tie” business marketing plan wasn’t inclusive of women. But Swoope says the funding is essential to getting a positive message about Florida’s business climate to executives around the globe. After missing out on state funding, he’s putting together a $1.2 million marketing campaign paid for by private businesses and local economic development organizations.
He cited the elimination of the sales tax on manufacturing equipment as a “story that needs to be told” outside of Florida. The marketing campaign will push that message in business publications and television advertisements in the U.S. and internationally, he said.
“We’ll want to be in business publications, we’ll do mixed media. It’ll include print advertisement, it’ll include social media, it will include actually some limited television marketing. But it’s all telling our story,” Swoope told The Florida Current after speaking to a crowd at the Florida Chamber of Commerce’s Future of Florida Forum. More here.


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DareNFT's Gaming Partners
DareNFT is looking to dominate the market and has already partnered with one of the world's most reputable game publishers, OneSoft. In Q2,2021, OneSoft ranked 15th in the global market as one of the most popular publishers, with nearly 200 million reported installs on Google Play and Apple Store, respectively.
In partnering with OneSoft, DareNFT will apply its revolutionary NFT 2.0 protocol to create a full-packaged service of onboarding traditional games into NFT games.
Regarding traditional games, DareNFT also has another notable partner, which is the Summoner Era game, an interesting mobile game that would like to turn itself into an NFT game.
Besides that, a wide range of NFT gaming studios have already contacted DareNFT and officially become DareNFT's partners, such as: Planet Sanbox, Warena, Knightwar The Holy Trio, Dragon Kart, etc.
DareNFT will support these NFT gaming studio partners with DarePlay’s unique feature, creating Rent-to-Earn and Lease-to-Earn marketplaces for players making peer-to-peer exchange.
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By Wednesday, June 20, KFC Singapore deepens its commitment to help the environment by no longer using plastic straws and cup lids for dine-in customers and in all 84 stores in the whole country. However, for takeout orders, lids will still be provided.
KFC launched its “No Straws Initiative,” a program to reduce its single-use plastic items, which amount to a whopping 17.8 metric tonnes per year.
The general manager of KFC Management, Ms. Lynette Lee, said, “We recognize that every little bit counts and are proud to be the first fast food restaurant in Singapore to champion this movement, one straw at a time.”
While KFC is the first fast food chain to embark on more policies dedicated to preserving the environment, more and more establishments in Singapore and all over the world are embracing this sort of change. Last month, Millennium Hotels and Resorts (MHR) properties announced that they are phasing out the use of plastic utensils and straws by June of 2019.
Environmental programs like Straw-Free Singapore, which raises awareness of how plastic straws damage both land areas and bodies water, as well as encourages companies to adopt straw-free policies, are also gaining traction.
Many Singaporeans would like to see more pro-active initiatives on the part of the government. Ten environmentalist groups wrote an open letter two months ago, stating that regulatory actions like reducing plastic straws, recycling plastic and imposing a minimal tax on using plastic shopping bags will have positive effects for the future.
But there are certain legislators who believe that plastic bags are necessary for everyday life in Singapore, including Dr. Amy Khor, Senior Minister of State for the Environment and Water Resources, who said earlier this year that plastic bags are necessary for the hygienic disposal of waste due to the humid and warm climate of the country.
Dr. Khor said last March, “In Singapore, a more sustainable approach is to tackle the excessive consumption of all types of disposables,” but that “imposing a charge or ban on disposable plastic bags and substituting them with other types of disposable bags is unlikely to improve environmental outcomes.”Follow us on Social Media
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Other states tax takeout cappuccino, movie tickets and personal trainer sessions. Why not California?
A woman looking for the cheapest jolt of caffeine on the menu at an Alhambra Starbucks offered one response: She's already broke.
"There must be some other way," said Gwen Angert, 38, a student at the California School of Professional Psychology who says she and her classmates have up to $80,000 in education debt. "We're struggling to make ends meet."
Her friend Chris Fyfe, 25, chimed in: "I don't know if people will continue buying things if prices go up."
News that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration is exploring potential tax hikes on personal services, some prepared foods and other items to help close a budget gap was not warmly received by consumers and business owners Friday.
A coffee shop owner in Koreatown fretted that such a tax could help push her out of business. A personal trainer in West L.A. wondered if it would make customers think twice about going to work out. Movie patrons at the Grove complained that tickets cost too much already.
But one group -- economists -- is fond of the idea. They have long urged the state to tax services, saying there is little rationale to California's current tax system, a crazy-quilt of levies that they say encourages consumers to spend money in some places and not others.
"There is no reason to exclude services from sales tax," said Alan Auerbach, a professor of economics at UC Berkeley. "It discourages people from buying goods in favor of services."
Auerbach, like other economists, says state officials should tinker with the tax code to bring fairness to it, not just to squeeze more money out of it. He suggested they might even cut a tax when they impose new ones -- something that is not in the cards in cash-strapped Sacramento.
The ideas being studied by the administration are geared toward closing a budget gap that the governor says has now grown as large as $20 billion -- while the economy goes south and tax receipts dwindle. The hunt for potential tax hikes is occurring even as the governor has continued to say publicly that he will resist them and his staff denied Friday that they were considering new taxes.
Schwarzenegger has to put out a revised budget plan May 14. Lobbyists and state officials have been told by his staff that if the deficit has grown considerably by then, the governor is prepared to consider a tax increase. The administration appears to be targeting items that now escape taxation.
Food has traditionally been exempt from the sales tax because it is a necessity and adding to the cost of it would hit the poor particularly hard. So the state taxes food consumed at a restaurant and not food taken out, presumably to be consumed at home.
But economists question whether a mochaccino is a necessity. Same with an artisan goat cheese pizza purchased at a gourmet food shop.
One proposal the administration is exploring would lift the tax exemption on such takeout foods, raising as much as $750 million. Steven Sheffrin, a professor of economics at UC Davis, says that may be easier said than done; the question is where to draw the line.
He cites an old tax rule in New York that classified doughnuts as tax-exempt only if they were beyond a certain size. Tax officials presumed that at that point, they were too large to consume in one sitting in a restaurant.
Jessica Cho, owner of Coffee & U in Koreatown, is less concerned with bringing fairness to the tax code than with keeping her shop open. She says taxing takeout beverages is a lousy idea.
"The economy is bad," she said Friday afternoon in her cafe, whose brown suede lounge chairs sat empty.
"My business is very, very slow, and there's already too many taxes -- sales tax, business tax, taxes everywhere. I may give up my store."
Cho said that since she opened in January, many other stores have closed in the area and her business has lost about $4,000 each month. Next month, she may shutter the place. "It's a bad idea," she said of the tax.
At the Grove, movie patrons expressed shock at the thought of ticket prices rising.
"For people who don't have very much money, it is a luxury to come to a cinema," said Frankie Gillard, 43, a production manager from West Hollywood, as she exited a showing of "Iron Man." "To tax it is insane. They should raise the taxes on people who are the most wealthy, not the people who make less than $50,000."
Giuseppe Restreppo, 20, who works at the theater's customer service counter, expressed dismay that prices could go up.
Still, Restreppo said he's amazed at how many people go to the movies at already high prices -- as much as $12.75 on Saturday night.
"We still have thousands of people come here," he said. "I don't think it will matter."
In West L.A., personal trainer Jennifer Matthews, 29, said that adding to the cost of sessions could affect her business.
"If my customers are going to have to pay more, they're going to think about that every time they pay, and they may decide not to," she said.
Matthews said trainers might decide to absorb the cost to keep customers, perhaps by lowering prices or throwing in freebies.
Many attorneys share her view. They could be required to add levies to their fees if the sales tax is expanded.
"Right now, it's really expensive for someone going to court in the United States," said Kenneth Petrulis, an attorney specializing in trust and estate law. "If you start putting on another tax, it's not a tax on the attorneys, it's a tax on the people who need attorneys.
"People turn to attorneys when they are in dire need, their life is ruined or they're facing adversity," he said.
Not every business owner resists charging customers more on behalf of the state, however.
"We pay taxes for everything, so why not pay taxes for services?" asked Echo Park hair stylist Rosa Martinez, 39, who charges $8 to $12 for haircuts. "It's not too much money."


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The recently unveiled Samsung Galaxy S5 handset has now been listed at two online retailers in Europe, with pricing, giving us a rough indication of how much the South Korean giant's latest flagship smartphone will cost when it hits other markets, including India.
The Galaxy S5 is listed for pre-order on Clove UK, and for registration for notification on Amazon Spain. The Clove UK price for the Galaxy S5 is GBP 550 (approximately Rs. 56,900), though the retailer has specified the price could change by launch. This is the price for the 16GB variant, and available in White, Blue, Black and Golden.
On Amazon Spain, the Samsung Galaxy S5 has been given a price tag of EUR 729 (Rs. 62,200 approximately), however, users will only be able to register for further notification, and not place an order yet. The price given is for the 16GB built-in storage variant, and available in all four-colour variants.
According to previous reports, the Samsung Galaxy S5 will arrive at a price tag cheaper than its predecessor, Samsung Galaxy S4, at launch. According to a Korean publication, it has been claimed that Samsung is also considering pricing its latest 2014 flagship lower than the competition, such as the Sony Xperia Z2.
Notably, the Xperia Z2 was on Monday listed for pre-order in several European nations, on official country-specific Sony pages. For the Xperia Z2, prices were lowest in Germany, where Sony had listed it at EUR 599 (roughly Rs. 51,000).
We'd first heard of the rumoured lower pricing of the Galaxy S5 in a report earlier in February that suggested that Samsung would price its latest smartphone lower than the previous Galaxy S flagships. As per the report, the lower pricing suggestion for the Galaxy S5 has been recommended by wireless carriers. However, the reports did not indicate what the actual pricing of the Galaxy S5 will be for any market.
The Samsung Galaxy S5 was launched on 24 February at MWC 2014. The Samsung Galaxy S5 runs Android 4.4.2 KitKat out-of-the-box. It features a 5.1-inch Super AMOLED display with a 1080x1920 pixel full-HD resolution. It comes with 2GB of RAM and will be available in 16GB and 32GB inbuilt storage models, with microSD card expandability up to 64GB. The Galaxy S5 sports a 16-megapixel rear camera with HDR (for video as well), and a 2.1-megapixel front-facing camera.
Connectivity options include 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac with MIMO functionality, ANT+, Bluetooth 4.0, USB3.0, NFC, and Infrared remote functionality. It features a 2800mAh battery, rated to deliver 21 hours of talktime, and 390 hours of standby time.


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TeamGroup is a company that manufactures ram. They are releasing their Elite series DDR5 memory in 2021.
Taipei, December 1, 2020 — TEAMGROUP, as a global leader in computer memory, recognizes the significance of staying ahead of the curve in the next generation of DDR technology, and will release ELITE series DDR5 memory in 2021.
The business has astonished the globe with its superior R&D skills and great product quality with over 20 years of expertise producing DDR3 and DDR4 products. TEAMGROUP has been actively developing and working with our IC manufacturing partners to pioneer and prepare for the DDR5 memory standard since it was introduced by JEDEC.
With its first DDR5 memory under its worldwide top-selling ELITE memory product brand, TEAMGROUP is leading the way. It intends to produce a 16GB 4800MHz module that runs at 1.1V instead of the previous generation’s 1.2V. The data transmission rate has been raised to 4,800–5,200 Mbps, a 1.6-fold increase while power consumption has been reduced by 10%.
DDR4 memory with error correction code (ECC) currently needs an extra chip on the PCB, while DDR5 memory enables on-die ECC, a feature that self-corrects single-bit mistakes, significantly increasing system stability. The current generation’s efficiency gains, which may be used for big data and AI computing and other related applications, have sparked a lot of interest.
TEAMGROUP has made extensive preparations in 2020 to seize the lead in the DDR5 market, and will deliver its products in tandem with Intel and AMD’s DDR5 platforms. DDR5 memory from the business is anticipated to be available in Q3 2021. TEAMGROUP has always been a global leader, and it will continue to be as it introduces more powerful and reliable next-generation goods to customers across the globe.
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By CannaSafe 2 years ago
By: Chuck Epstein
In an effort to standardize quality and safety standards for medical cannabis, the California House passed a bill on Friday, September 11, to mandate that all medical cannabis be laboratory tested.
California bill (AB 266) requires medical cannabis to be lab tested for regulatory purposes on or before July 1, 2017. Specifically, the bill mandates the following:
• The issuance, renewal, suspension, denial, and revocation of conditional licenses;
• Procedures for appealing fines and the appeal of denial, suspension, or revocation of conditional licenses;
• The application, licensing, and renewal forms and fees;
• A time period in which the bureau shall approve or deny applications for a conditional license;
• Qualifications for licensees;
• Set standards for certification of testing laboratories to perform random sample testing of all medical marijuana.
To establish and maintain state standards, the bill would make all companies connected with the sale and production of medical cannabis subject to the International Organization for Standardization, ISO/IEC 17025. These requirements would apply to all entities, including third-party laboratories, engaged in the testing of medical marijuana. Meeting these ISO requirements would mean that all affected parties meet standards similar to state statutory environmental, agricultural, consumer protection, and food and product safety requirements, including sanitation standards, according to language in the bill.
“Passing this bill is a major advance for the state and the nation,” according to Matt Haskins, CEO of CannaSafe Analytics. “This bill will help protect the health and safety of medical marijuana patients that purchase from licensed dispensaries throughout California by requiring all medical cannabis to undergo quality and safety testing by accredited laboratories. This means patients can rely on receiving medical-grade products that are free of any pesticides, harmful microbiological contaminants and accurately labeled for dosing “Haskin said. “Bill AB 266 now makes this a reality.”
Both Nevada and Washington already have similar regulations to California AB 266 in place. California’s regulations require all medical marijuana testing labs hold an ISO/IEC 17025:2005 accreditation as a prerequisite to state licensure. California has an estimated medical cannabis patient population of 575,000, according to GreenWave Advisors of New York.
The Importance of ISO Standards
Lab testing follows rigorous standards. In a 2013 white paper, “Cannabis Testing Labs: Standards and Accreditation,” prepared by Botec Analysis Corporation, William Anderson, PhD, noted that no state or industry standards existed then, but that “existing industry participants indicate the need for significant improvement in testing quality and a strong desire for clear testing standards.”
The paper was written when the Washington State Liquor Control Board was mandated to act due to the passage of state bill I-502 which called for the state to develop a plan for the regulation of cannabis testing labs. Since no such regulations existed, the state needed a framework to meet the bill’s legislative mandate. Anderson’s 2013 paper addressed that the industry needed to develop a basic protocol of testing requirements, lab accreditation, proficiency testing, and lab infrastructure development.
While most of these issues could be done in a realistic time frame, Anderson noted that there was one exception: getting the needed ISO certification that meets regulatory and industry quality standards. ISO is a quality certification that give the “provision by an independent body of written assurance (a certificate) that the product, service or system in question meets specific requirements.”
“There are certain standards of performance and certification that cannot be realistically met by any lab in Washington, such as the ISO-17025 accreditation. The State [of Washington] must expect it to take some time, perhaps 2 to 3 years, for the cannabis lab infrastructure to develop capabilities matching those seen in some other testing industries.”
Anderson’s prediction happened sooner than he predicted. By 2015, the ISO-17025 standard was being met by labs, such as CannaSafe Analytics in Pullman, Washington. CannaSafe Analytics inspects for potency, terpene profiling, foreign matter inspection, moisture and water activity, residual solvent analysis, and microbial limit tests, according to the company’s web site.
Cannabis Testing to Become Big Business
While meeting clinical testing standards will benefit California consumers, it will also propel the emerging cannabis testing sector. Cannabis testing is projected to be a $800 million industry if national legalization happens, according to Greenwave. In Nevada, where testing is already mandatory, state law mandates that every five pounds of medical marijuana be tested. Nevada is setting a national standard on medical marijuana quality by mandating that each dispensed product is tested for eight specific impurities, including microbials, heavy metals and pesticides. Each test costs between $500 and $1,000, according to Todd Denkin, CEO and president of Digipath, Inc., a sophisticated cannabis testing company.
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2020 is going to be one of the biggest years in the global games industry. We have seen the beginnings of new console generations before, but this one certainly feels different. Yes, there is the launch of the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X to look forward to, both of which will put powerful new hardware into living rooms around the world.
However, 2020 will also see the full consumer launch of Google’s Stadia, plus its expansion to more markets worldwide. Meanwhile, Nintendo’s Switch and Switch Lite continue to blur the lines between what we traditionally called handheld and console gaming, and Apple’s Arcade is creating real maturity in the mobile gaming market.
It’s going to be busy and noisy, but there is one core theme that we see running through 2020, and that is game consistency. In the past, many in the games industry have seen development as being device-centric. That is, the game is built with the device it is running on. For example, Super Smash Bros for Wii U, as opposed to Super Smash Bros for 3DS. This might have been acceptable in the 2010s, but it won’t be in the 2020s. Developers need to achieve a consistent experience and adopt a game-centric approach.
Gamers are increasingly demanding comparable experiences, wherever they play their favourite game. Just look at Fortnite and Minecraft, two of the biggest games in the world right now. Most consumers no longer distinguish between Fortnite for Xbox One, or Fortnite for iOS. They only see them as different ways of accessing the same core Fortnite experience.
This is not an entirely new trend, but 2020 will be the year when developers need to adopt this thinking on a much wider scale, as consistent experiences become the norm. As we well know, this is much easier said than done though. How can you offer similar game mechanics on a low specification Android phone as you do to a bespoke gaming PC, while getting the most out of both?
There are two major areas of technology that are pushing the frontiers of game-centric development forward. The first is the consumer roll-out of cloud-based gaming. Google’s Stadia and Microsoft’s XCloud might face teething problems at launch, but they will revolutionise the relationship people have with the games they play. When the same game is being streamed to you whether on a smartphone, tablet, laptop or TV, your relationship is more than ever with the game, and not with the console or device.
The second is the increasing acceptance amongst the biggest games companies of the need for cross-play, so anyone can play with their friends online regardless of the device they are using. Again, this fuels the move to seeing the game you play as a consistent experience that exists no matter how you choose to access it.
This all comes with development challenges. As the number of ways to access games increase, the demand on studios developing the newest and most sought-after games becomes ever greater. Bringing games to more platforms is no drag-and-drop exercise. It takes real expertise and problem solving to know how to make games run consistently across devices, as well as close collaboration between teams.
2020 is going to be another busy year for studios, but one filled with opportunity. Amazing games can now reach larger audiences than ever before. As we move to a world where everyone is a gamer, we want to help studios deliver the best experiences to players, regardless of device.


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Worrying Trend for Aussie Retail
31 January 2020
Precious Metals CommentaryGold continued higher this week to $1,577 and silver slightly higher at $17.90. Obvious concerns of the coronavirus sent the AUD/USD lower to 0.671c, which saw an all time high AUD gold price of $2,362 on Thursday, before retreating back to $2,346 at time of writing.
Gold remains in a steep uptrend in AUD terms, with the likely near term catalyst being the news of how the virus progresses globally in the next two weeks. Given the fact that anyone with the virus can be contagious for two weeks despite having symptoms, we probably won’t know the true severity of the situation until another week or so, but reported cases have the potential of going parabolic given the long incubation period.
Fears of the economic effects of the coronavirus have impacted commodity prices this week. Brent crude is down 7%, copper fell by 9%, platinum fell US$27 an ounce and palladium dropped over $100 an ounce. Global stock markets largely shrugged off the event so far which is bizarre. We do not expect news to get better any time soon, so expect markets to wake up in the next few trading days.
Worrying Trend of Aussie RetailTowards the end of last year, we saw a number of retailers going into voluntary administration, with Harris Scarfe (66 stores, 1800 employees) and Bardot (54 stores, 530 employees) being the most high profile. Other companies include burger chain Benny Burger, seven Red Rooster outlets in Queensland, fitness company Muscle Coach, the restaurant chain Criniti’s, discount chain Dimmeys and Co-op Bookshop.
Most of the stories cited the impact of online shopping and while certainly that has been a challenge to bricks and mortar stores, it isn’t a new development and we note that online retailers like Stylerunner and Zauli were also affected.
Come January, however, we saw a flood of store closures and voluntary administrations:
- Jeanswest - voluntary administration, 988 employees affected
- David Jones - 2 store closures
- EB Games - 19 store closures
- Mc Williams Wines - voluntary administration, 146 employees affected
- Bose – closure of all stores
- Curious Planet – 63 store closures
- Kaufland - complete withdrawal from Australia, 200 employees affected
After a flat October for retail sales, November showed a stronger than expected 0.9% increase resulting from growth in business on Black Friday. However, that may just be Australians doing Christmas shopping earlier at discounted prices.
It will be interesting to see December’s retail sales figures when they come out next week. We think that the January store closures and voluntary administrations indicate that consumers are tapped out and that even businesses doing sales aren’t making much profit on them due to discounting.
The fact is that household debt levels are far too high and this prevents retail spending. With house prices in Sydney and Melbourne recovering, there will be no relief on that front and as we have pointed out in past updates, interest rate cuts crimp the spending power of savers while those with mortgages continue to maintain repayments to get ahead of their debt instead of spending the savings from the rate cut.
As Ross Gittins asked a couple of weeks ago, if the RBA continues to cut rates, in whose interest will it be acting, saying that it was “time for Reserve governor Dr Philip Lowe to stop doing more harm than good and turn the management of demand back to the people we elected to run the economy”.
Maybe the RBA should pay attention to more “qualitative” factors for guidance on how its policies are affecting the average person. A recent Roy Morgan web survey showed that 40% of Australians think 2020 will be ‘worse’ than 2019, the highest figure for nearly three decades.
Those results, when compared with a Gallup International Association survey, had Australia as one of the least confident countries in the world about 2020. Our 12% “Next Year Better” was equal 43rd out of the 47 countries surveyed with only Italy, Jordan and Lebanon having lower responses!
Our 40% “Next Year Worse” result was number 7, with the six countries more negative being Lebanon, Hong Kong, Jordan, Italy, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Thailand.
Just think about that for a minute. Australians are up there with countries like Lebanon (in economic meltdown with cash withdrawal limits of $1,000 per week) and Hong Kong (democracy protests) in terms of pessimism. More the luckless country than the lucky country.
That survey is backed up by Digital Finance Analytics, which reported an all-time low household financial confidence index of 81.2 that they attribute to weak wages growth as the main underlying cause.
Job security is also weighing down sentiment, as the chart above shows with more people feeling less secure in their job. Another pointer to what is driving that is the quality of jobs that are being generated. The chart below from job site indeed shows that “almost half of jobs created over the past year were part-time, with 40% of employment growth over the past 5-years part-time”.
Lower interest rates and the talk of Australian QE, we suggest, will not do anything to address this lack of confidence and it could be argued that such low rates and QE talk is sending a signal to Australians that things are bad and so be cautious. The complete opposite of what the RBA wants to achieve.
Central Banks will never admit to the adverse effects of easing monetary policy, but anyone can see them if they open their eyes. The latest rate cut cycle towards 0% has lead to massive asset price inflation, with housing prices and the ASX moving much higher, but that only benefits the wealthy portion of the population that already hold those assets (some may say ‘boomers’). The majority of the working age median income earners are simply struggling to pay off their inflated home loan and this will drag the economy down in the long run.
We would also argue the recent rate cut cycle is only going to exacerbate inequality in Australia as it has benefitted the “haves” at the expense of the “have nots”, but easing rates is the only tool the RBA has, and QE will do much of the same. Asset prices may rise further and the AUD will likely suffer, but the new wave of full-time workers simply turn into debt slaves with million-dollar housing loans.
The underlying economy will not have lasting long-term structural benefits from the result of manipulating interest rates as low as possible. Perhaps the goal of Central Banks is to get rates to zero before the next crisis in order to bring on the absurdity of negative interest rates as the ‘solution’.
CoronavirusInto that shaky environment now comes the coronavirus. While it started out as a Chinese problem, the situation has accelerated with nine confirmed cases in Australia. On top of that is the direct impact to Australia from reduced Chinese tourism and a hit to our exports to them.
We won’t bother covering the coronavirus itself as we are sure you have already read about it elsewhere, and with it being such a dynamic situation, anything we write today will probably be out of date in a day. Let’s just hope the trajectory of the chart below does not continue at this rate for too long.
We would note that the coronavirus comes at a time when China’s economy is at a critical point and it may tip the balance to the downside.
Economic advisory GnS Economics said this month prior to the coronavirus becoming an issue that “the Chinese economy has reached or is very close to reaching the point of debt saturation” and “is actually a massive and vulnerable Ponzi-scheme waiting to collapse”.
There have been other vocal long-time Chinese bears, like Kyle Bass, but to-date China has failed to crash as predicted. It may be that the coronavirus is the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
If China breaks, others will follow as it is not just China that is at a critical point. Global debt levels reached a new all-time high of close to $253 trillion and 322% debt-to-GDP ratio (according to the Institute of International Finance).
At the same time, China’s bank assets as a percentage of global GDP has ballooned from a mere 9% in 2005 to a whopping 50% in 2018.
As to protecting oneself for a global economic storm if this virus gets out of control, GnS Economics recommend “paying back as much debt as possible, accumulating sufficient cash reserves and, if practically possible, obtaining some physical gold”.
We aren’t sure why they added the “if practically possible” to that recommendation, as ABC Bullion tries to make buying physical gold as easy as practically possible.
As to how much is practical, venture capital firm Collaborative Fund suggests “putting extra padding around the risks you can see is one of the only ways to prepare for the risks you don’t see”. No better example of that than the coronavirus, which is a risk no one saw two weeks ago.
Until next time,
John Feeney and Bron Suchecki
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British online stores aren't tablet-friendly
Shopping is the number one activity carried out on tablets in the UK, yet only a small number of the IMRG/Hitwise Top 100 Online Retailers have a tablet-optimized website, according to recent research by mobile marketing agency Somo.
Tablet users convert more and spend more yet a disappointing number of UK's top 100 online retailers don't cater for them. According to Somo's analysis, that figure stands at a paltry ten.
Furthermore, just 26% of the IMRG/Hitwise Top 100 Online Retailers had an iPad app and even less (20%) had Android tablet apps. Some stores haven't even caught up with smartphones with 43% having no iPhone apps and 63% with no Android app.
Nick Hynes, Chief Executive Officer at Somo, said online retailers are failing to implement some "very basic stuff". Incredibly only 57% of the online retailers had a website that worked on mobile. PC World, Thomson and BHS are among 20 top retailers that were found to have no tablet and smartphone apps or sites.
"A well built site does retailers the world of good, allowing customers to make shopping comparisons on their phones while in store, and browse leisurely at home on their tablet," said Hynes. "These companies have to start looking at the role that mobile plays in their customer journey; at the moment they're missing a trick."
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Not only Diablo Immortal matters but instead, multiple other Blizzard projects that are coming to the mobile platform. Among them, a new Warcraft title that has similarities with one of the most successful mobile games, Pokemon GO.
In a new article, Pcgamesn reported about this earlier today, discovering the possibility of Blizzard making a new Warcraft mobile game. According to the announcement, Cory Stockton, which is a lead content designer on World of Warcraft is a huge Pokemon fan, which explains the purpose of him being the chosen one to lead the whole project.
Pokemon GO has been quite a successful video game on the mobile platform since… ever. With that being said and the extravaganza of Blizzard aiming to develop more games on the Mobile Platform may bring us somewhat an already seen idea.
There’s nothing about being unique nowadays. Multiple new ideas found in video games are either stolen or completely reworked upon existing ones, with a slight change so it doesn’t contain the same feel. With that being said, the possibility of Blizzard developing Pokemon GO Alike video game holding the title “Warcraft” in it, will surely spread even more controversy, but also confirm the aim of the company to move towards something new, and that is to become a Mobile developer.
However, more potent evidence regarding this case cannot be found, except a few slices of information in Kotaku’s recent Diablo 3 press.


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LG unveils new smart TV line-up in Bahrain
Manama, May 21, 2013
LG Electronics has unveiled its new range of smart TV products in Bahrain, a report said.
Senior company officials, along with those from local dealer the AJM Kooheji Group, were present during the event last night at the Diplomat Radisson Blu Hotel, Residence and Spa, according to the report in the Gulf Daily News.
"This year is important for LG because it marks the beginning of a new TV era," said LG Electronics Gulf president D Y Kim.
"With the new products, we are now in a strong position strategically to lead the industry."
He said the company's television segment represented 45 per cent of group sales from premium televisions.
"We wish to increase the premium share to 60 per cent by the end of the year, with 70 per cent of the TV portfolio compromising smart TV sales," he said. – TradeArabia News Service


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An intercontinental team of buyer teams and NGOs denounced Google’s bid for sporting activities smartwatch-maker Fitbit Thursday, stating it would threaten privateness and grant the lookup large unfair accessibility to a new marketplace.
Google’s $two.one billion (approximately Rs. 15,686 crores) acquisition of the maker of smartwatches and health and fitness trackers was unveiled in November and rang alarm bells amid world-wide regulators around antitrust and privateness concerns.
Fitbit is a pioneer in the marketplace for linked watches and other actual physical action sensors that evaluate the variety of day by day methods taken, energy burned or several hours of snooze.
A team of 20 NGOs “have substantial considerations” that the takeover “would be a recreation-changer not only for how men and women interact with the on-line globe but also for electronic and similar well being marketplaces,” a assertion stated.
“Regulators about the globe… ought to hence give it their utmost focus,” they stated, contacting it a “check scenario” on struggling with down huge tech corporations.
The teams involve BEUC, which unites EU buyer advocates, as very well as the Purchaser Federation of The usa in the US and electronic legal rights teams in Mexico, Brazil and Australia.
EU antiturst regulators, who are to make a decision on the transaction by July 20, are in particular involved with Silicon Valley giants shopping for their way into new parts and then stifling competitiveness.
“Wearable equipment could change smartphones as the major gateway to the World-wide-web, just as smartphones changed particular personal computers,” the NGOs stated a assertion.
“Google’s growth into this marketplace, edging out other rivals would therefore be substantial,” they included.
A Google spokesman turned down the statements.
“Through this method we have been apparent about our dedication not to use Fitbit well being and wellness info for Google advertisements and our duty to offer men and women with alternative and command with their info,” the spokesman stated.
“Equivalent to our other goods, with wearables, we will be clear about the info we accumulate and why. And we do not offer particular information and facts to any one.”
In February, the European Information Security Board urged Google to make key assurances on privateness and info in advance of it authorized the buyout.
Australia’s Level of competition and Purchaser Fee past thirty day period raised concerns that the transaction could “even further entrench” Google’s dominance and “adversely have an affect on competitiveness in numerous electronic advertising and marketing and well being marketplaces.”


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On the ABC show “Shark Tank,” aspiring entrepreneurs pitch their products to venture capitalists in hopes of obtaining funds to further their dreams.
Students in Lehigh’s Integrated Business and Engineering (IBE) honors program
do much the same every December before a group of “tigers”—entrepreneurs, consultants and business owners associated with Ben Franklin Technology Partners
. The “Tiger Sessions” culminate the yearlong IBE capstone senior design program course.
“As part of the capstone course, students work with outside clients—startup companies and entrepreneurs in the early stages of product development who are trying to grow their vision—and spend a year on a specific product,” says Pat Costa
, professor of practice, who teaches the course.
At the most recent Tiger Sessions on Dec. 10, one IBE group pitched NEATCap, a “cap” that reduces the harmful noise to which infants are exposed in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Over-stimulation caused by jet ventilators, diagnostic alarms and other noises in NICUs can inhibit the infants’ sleep habits and slow brain development.
Other IBE products presented included a feedback tool designed to address stroke errors in rowing; stainless steel ‘beans’ put into coffee to make it less hot; and an unmanned aerial vehicle prototype whose potential applications include bridge monitoring. The latter project is highlighted in the video embedded in the sidebar.The world at their disposal
Students in the NEATCap group worked from scratch to develop an effective medical device. In their presentation, seniors Ben Sargent, Tommy Witmer, David Root, Meghan Dano, Seseg Tyryshkina, Xander Berry and Ory Ball gave detailed data on NEATCap’s design, clinical research, marketing strategies and sales projections.
The students highlighted what they see as NEATCap’s advantages over MiniMuffs, a similar product now on the market, which sells for less than one-tenth the price of NEATCap but must be thrown away after each use. NEATCap is designed to be used for the entire length of an infant’s stay in the NICU.
“[We] reached out to many relevant people in the industry, including nurses, neonatologists and NICU coordinators, to understand the field and ultimately build recommendations,” says Witmer, an IBE and finance double major. “In the capstone class, there is no assigned textbook. You have the world at your disposal in terms of resources, and it is up to you to decide which ones to pursue.”A tough audience
The four tigers judging the NEATCap presentation were familiar with healthcare and medical devices. They praised the students for a professional presentation and innovative product, but also gave constructive feedback.
“Hospitals will likely throw away a lot of NEATCaps, so $150 apiece might be high,” said Cindy Miller, an industry professional who trains CEOs of small medical device and healthcare companies.
The IBE students said they learned more from the experience than they could by reading a book or taking a test.
“There was certainly a common theme among the tigers—assumptions need validation,” Sargent says. “The tigers wouldn’t settle for our conservative estimates. This attention to gathering hard evidence for our assumptions was the most important advice they gave.”
“The capstone class teaches students to take the initiative and be go-getters,” Witmer says. “When we graduate, our interactions with co-workers will be key facets to our success, and our exposure to the real world will improve our effectiveness in public speaking and simple one-on-one dialogues with industry professionals.”
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Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) has high hopes for its video on demand (VOD) platform, dubbed Facebook Watch.
The social networking behemoth has invested quite a bit in original programming, news shows, and live sports — and that budget is set to expand significantly in coming years. Starting Wednesday, international users will also be able to access the platform, but as MarketWatch points out, people still aren’t really aware that it exists:
Despite the global rollout and Facebook’s up-to-$1 billion investment in the platform, half of adult Facebook users don’t even know Watch exists, according to data gathered by The Diffusion Group.
The firm surveyed 1,632 adult Facebook users in mid-2018 about their awareness and use of the VOD platform. Fifty percent said they had never heard of Watch, while 24% said they had heard of the service, but had never used it. Five percent said they had used Watch, but not recently.
Only 6% said they use Watch every day, and 8% use it on a weekly basis. Those aren’t great numbers, and Watch’s future may just depend on international markets embracing it in a way that the U.S. hasn’t.
Facebook Inc shares closed at $163.04 on Friday, up $0.51 (+0.31%). Year-to-date, FB has declined -7.61%, versus a 8.69% rise in the benchmark S&P 500 index during the same period.


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ESET releases beta version of security software for home users
Dubai, August 6, 2014
IT security provider ESET has released the beta version of its ESET NOD32 Antivirus 8 and ESET Smart Security 8 for home users.
Users can enjoy a new technology feature that helps to discover and fight botnets like Windigo with Botnet Protection or protect their devices against malware which misuses zero-day exploits thanks to enhanced Exploit Blocker feature, the company said.
They can keep their sensitive data safe with the best anti-phishing solution on market and manage anti-theft feature for all their devices linked to my.eset.com, it said.
The company is slated to launch the final versions of both these solutions at the upcoming Gitex Technology Week taking place in October.
The new products offer users a great balance of protection and usability, without compromising system performance, enabling them to enjoy safer technology.
Before official release of ESET NOD32 Antivirus 8 and ESET Smart Security 8, both products are subjected to thorough testing. Users can access and test out the precursors of the final products – with all announced security features and improvements inside- thanks to ESET Beta Program, a statement said. – TradeArabia News Service


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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York says it's now No. 1 nationally in yogurt production.
State statistics show New York producers churned out 692 million pounds of yogurt last year to take the top spot. California was No. 2 after producing 587 million pounds.
New York yogurt plants have nearly tripled production in the last five years.
New York is also the fourth largest milk producer in the country. Over the last five years, milk production increased by 1 billion pounds to over 13 billion pounds in 2012.


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KRIMS Skin and Laser Clinic, on October 29, organised Sparsh – a Skin Care Workshop by Dr Tulika Arbat in Nagpur. The workshop, which was attended by more than 50 aestheticians from the city, was organised by KRIMS Hospitals in collaboration with corporate trainer and brand consultant Nityanand Tiwari.
The workshop was organised with an intention to educate aestheticians about skin care and its clinical aspects. Dr Tulika Arbat, who is a Consultant Dermatologist, specialises in Advanced Dermatology procedures. Dr Arbat began by presenting a talk on basic skin care which covered causes and cures of various skin problems like acne, skin darkening, hair fall, excess facial hair, etc. Dr Arbat also spoke about special skin care tips for salon treatments like threading, waxing, facial, bleaching etc.
Dr Arbat informed about various facilities available at KRIMS Skin and Laser Clinic including Chemical Peeling, Radio Frequency Laser, Electro cautery, Derma Roller Therapy, Acne Treatment, Scar Removal, treatment for hair loss, etc.
Speaking about the workshop, Dr Arbat said, “Patients nowadays are very conscious about their skin and appearance. Proper skin care is not just a sign of vanity but also good health. Increased stress, irregular schedules along with environmental pollution has led to many skin problems, which affect a person’s self-confidence deeply. This workshop gave me an opportunity to talk about various skin problems and how to deal with them. The aestheticians got to know the finer details of how to address basic skin problems before they refer the patient to the doctor.”
Dr Arbat’s address was followed by a motivational session by Nityanand Tiwari.


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Next Car Game is the next game to pop up on Steam Early Access, meaning one and all can pay $25 to test drive Bugbear's breakneck racer - and eventually get the final version, of course. According to Flatout studio, the currently available build is pre-alpha, and features two cars and three tracks to go vroom around.
Next Car Game has been in Early Access since Christmas, albeit through Bugbear itself. In fact, the studio released a playable build as early as November, just after canceling its Kickstarter, making it available to anyone who put down the money to pre-order the game. Interestingly, Bugbear canceled the Kickstarter campaign after raising around $82,000 of a $350,000 goal, but according to its site the studio has now raised over $500,000 through pre-orders.
Next Car Game is set to ride onto PC in "early spring 2014."


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A Long Island mother watched in horror yesterday as a brazen carjacker commandeered her car and sped off with her 3-year-old daughter in the back seat, police said.
Suffolk County Police said the unidentified 38-year-old victim had finished shopping at a Costco store in Melville and placed her daughter in a child seat at 1:45 p.m.
She placed her keys in the ignition to activate the car’s air conditioning and walked away to return her shopping cart to a nearby collection area.
A man, described as white and in his 30s, hopped into the front seat of the Pontiac Grand Prix with the tot in the car, police said.
The mom ran back to the car and clawed at the driver-side door in a futile attempt to stop the thief. But he pulled away, dragging the woman several feet.
Police said he drove for a mile before abandoning the car in a nearby parking lot and fleeing on foot. A passer-by noticed the unattended child, who was unharmed, and called cops.
The suspect has yet to be caught.