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No5 Savile Row – Wool Month
The Campaign for Wool comes together with its Supporters to celebrate Wool Month 2022, highlighting the many natural attributes and benefits of wool and helping to spread the word about its unassailable environmental credentials. Wool is widely recognised as one of the most sustainable and versatile fibres in the world and as relevant to the very fabric of society today as it has ever been – whether for personal attire, in the home, or for its many fascinating 21st Century industrial uses.
For this year’s flagship event, The Campaign for Wool reminded consumers ‘Why Wool Matters’, and encourages us all to ask more questions about the products we buy and, most importantly, where they come from. Putting the focus firmly on wool’s natural attributes, Wool Month highlights wools renewable, biodegradable and natural benefits and why it is one of the most widely reused and upcycled fibres today.
The theme of this current Campaign is significant as the world battles with climate change and issues around over-consumption, emissions and non-biodegradable waste.
Some of the UK’s most important brands and retailers have participated in this year’s Wool Month, the flagship event took place in London on 5 October highlighting wool’s natural and sustainable qualities in a curated space on Savile Row. The Campaign for Wool was joined by traceable Merino knitwear company Gerber & Co. which special guest, Stefan Gerber co-hosting the event with the Campaign for Wool.
Wool Month products were displayed from brands including M&S, John Smedley, Johnstons of Elgin, Brora, Celtic & Co, Hobbs, Aubin, Yan Tan, Navy Grey, Line the Label, Floor Story, Brockway, Alternative Flooring, Anderson & Sheppard, Herd, Lawton Yarns, West Yorkshire Spinners, Walker Slater, Mother of Pearl, Dashing Tweeds and others.


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A Aptera Motors is preparing to launch the first solar powered car to be mass produced by the end of the year.
A Aptera Motors, an American company, recently introduced the world’s first car solar powered to be mass produced, the first in a series of “environmentally friendly vehicles” that the company intends to offer for private and commercial use in the future.
Compared to other cars on the market, this car will be a very affordable option, since its price will be around $ 25,900.
The model, which bears the same name as the company, is an ultradinamic three-wheel electric vehicle with photovoltaic cells. The company says that at least 90% of the energy powered by the vehicle’s solar panels is used to make the car move.
On a sunny and cloudless day, photovoltaic cells can provide enough energy for the car to travel almost 65 kilometers.
Transport is the biggest source of pollution in the United States. According to the creators, cited by The Washington Post, The Aptera, which resembles the “Batmobile”, is 13 times more efficient than a pick-up powered by gasoline and four times more powerful than an ordinary electric model.
The car is able to go from 0 to 100 km / h in just 3.5 seconds, with maximum speeds of 177 km / h. THE Aptera it is also equipped with a battery that provides up to 1,600 kilometers of range, much more than the 370 kilometers of the Tesla Model S.
However, the vehicle still faces some obstacles. This is the case with your design: according to the creators, whether consumers will want to buy a car that looks like “a mixture of a Batmobile with a beetle” is still unknown.
Despite this, the company announced that, in the last two months, it has received about 7,000 reservations, in addition to having closed a financing agreement in the amount of four million dollars (about 3.3 million euros).
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New USU 'Highlander' Podcast, Magazine Cover Local Outdoors Scene
The Herald Journal Friday, Nov. 29, 2019
People looking for a weekly glimpse into the outdoors industry have a new resource, thanks to a new podcast from Utah State University. USU’s outdoor product design program is 10 episodes into the Highlander Podcast, a weekly interview with figures in the outdoors industry from Cache Valley to international brands. “It’s just a lot of local stories about the importance of the outdoor industry here,” said Chase Anderson, who works in industry relations for the outdoor product design program. “Whether you’re more on the outdoor recreation side, or you’re a brand producing the products, we just want to tell stories why that’s important to the region.” ... The podcast is an outgrowth of Highlander Magazine, a student-produced publication examining the same topics. Student editor Mady Koller said the staff is getting ready to put out the second print issue, and response so far has been good. ... The podcast is available as “Highlander Podcast” on iTunes and other podcatching software, and episodes and articles are available at https://highlandermag.usu.edu.


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Apple has a market capitalization of almost $900 billion. The company also has $268.9 billion in cash and cash equivalents, according to its most recent quarterly financial report released Thursday.
Some believe that charging and spending a grand for a smartphone will usher ushering in a whole new era of consumer behavior.
"I think a couple years ago, nobody would've imagined selling a phone at this price and obviously, you're pretty confident that you can do it," said Steven Milunovich, managing director at UBS Securities, to Cook on the earnings call.
Cook's response was that buying an iPhone X is equivalent to buying high quality coffee.
"I think it's important to remember that a large number of people pay for the phone by month. And so if you were to go out on just the U.S., since that tends to be more of the focus of this call, you look at the U.S. carriers, I think you would find you could buy an iPhone X for $33 a month," said Cook.
"And so if you think about that, that's a few coffees a week. It's let's say less than a coffee a day at one of these nice coffee places."
The tech executive says the price is reflective of the quality of the product.
"In terms of the way we price, we price to sort of the value that we're providing. We're not trying to charge the highest price we could get or anything like that. We're just trying to price it for what we're delivering," Cook said.
"And iPhone X has a lot of great new technologies in there that are leading the industry, and it is a fabulous product and we can't wait for people to start getting it in their hands."
Cook also mentioned that the cost to consumer can be knocked down if they trade in an old iPhone.
"The other thing to keep in mind is that many people are now trading in their current iPhone on the next iPhone. And the residual value for iPhone tends to be the highest in the industry and many people pick up $300, $350 or so for their iPhone and so that even reduces the monthly payment less," Cook said. "And then obviously, some carriers also have promotional things going on. And so I do think it's important to try to place it in that context."
But even with the new iPhone's eye-popping price tag, Apple does not seem to be having any trouble getting customers on board. On Friday, the first day the new model became available at stores, there were thousands of customers lining up around the world to buy the new iPhone X.


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WPHS Students Seek Donations for REAL Food Drive Ending Nov. 30
This year, in conjunction with October’s National Food Day, Live.Life.Healthy (LLH) students at Winter Park High School (WPHS) are participating in a REAL food drive campaign. Promoted to WPHS students during LLH’s Food Day held on October 26, the REAL food drive, an initiative of Amp Your Good, is an online fundraiser where people can donate money towards the purchase of fresh produce. The goal of the LLH food drive is to provide WPHS students-in-need with fresh fruits and vegetables over the holidays when school is out and they may not have access to healthy meals and snacks. Overall, the campaign has a dual purpose – to ensure that every donated food items is able to feed someone faced with hunger and to create awareness of the plight of those struggling with food insecurity. Thirty-six organizations joined forces to help support the Amp Your Good campaign.
Holiday and other food drives typically focus on collecting non-perishable food items which are critical to providing much needed shelf-stable food for those suffering from food insecurity, meaning they are unsure of where their next meal may come from. The REAL food drive seeks to expand the offerings to healthy food items including apples, bananas, oranges, carrots and more. LLH Faculty Coordinator, Meg Pietkiewicz noted, “At Winter Park High School we would like to provide our students with fresh fruits and vegetables that they would be able to take home with them over holiday breaks. We have many students that utilize our food pantry (which consists of canned or boxed food), who would truly appreciate REAL food. We’re partnering with Amp Your Good on this REAL Food Drive so you can donate fresh produce. Currently, we are at 167% of our goal, which equates to 167 lbs of fresh fruit and vegetables. We are [now] hoping to reach 200 lbs. When the produce is delivered, the Live.Life.Healthy students will package the produce in bags for the students to take home.”
The REAL food drive will end on November 30. To donate through LLH, please visit their page REAL food drive page.


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Like it or not, your business needs Millennials. It doesn’t matter what type of industry you’re in. Within the next two years, the globe’s latest crop of twenty and thirty-somethings will command more spending power (PDF) than any other generation in history. That means in order to succeed, you’re going to have to learn to cater to this rapidly rising demographic.
But for some small business owners, trying to figure out who Millennials are and what they actually want is a little bit tricky. Of course, the perception of the group as social media savvy and spending most of the day on their smartphones i partially born out by data. But how on earth are brands supposed to capture their attention?
That’s precisely what family-owned snack food provider Lehi Valley Trading Company has set out to discover.
In April, the Arizona-based snack food company celebrated the launch of Snackworthy — a new, budget-friendly line designed to fill a perceived market gap for healthy snacks that provide exceptional value for the money. But after conducting some key market research prior to this year’s launch, the Lehi Valley team made a pivotal decision to build Snackworthy around just one consumer demographic.
You can guess who they settled on.
According to Marketing Director Jacque Taylor, researchers found that Millennials are the perfect consumers for any value brand. Not only are they now America’s most powerful consumer bloc, but when it comes to food, affordability completely guides their buying habits. More important still, Lehi Valley’s research validated widely published anecdotal evidence that appears to suggest Millennials very well may be the most health-conscious generation ever.
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“Millennials are more focused on healthy eating, and are shifting more of their spending to organic and natural foods,” Jacque told Small Business Trends.
“So we knew to appeal to Millennials, our value brand could not be another ‘me too’ conventional snack line, but had to offer a ‘better-for-you’ positioning.”
Fortunately, Lehi Valley already had plenty of experience in creating the sort of “better-for-you” snacks that Millennials appear to be seeking out. For over 30 years, the company has produced a wide range of snack foods under multiple brands that have always placed a deep emphasis on healthy eating and natural ingredients.
Yet in order to go all-in for the Millennial generation, the team decided to kick things up a notch with Snackworthy.
The entire brand is built around the claim that each product in the Snackworthy line is “Simply free from 100+ unworthy ingredients”. That lengthy list covers everything from certified colors and high fructose corn syrup to bleached flour and antibiotics.
“Many of the snacks in our line also offer additional nutritional benefits such as being USDA organic, gluten-free, whole grain, zero trans-fat and sodium wise,” Jacque said.
Ingredients aren’t the only element of the Snackworthy line that has been completely designed for Millennials, either. Low retail price points, kraft-style packaging and distribution all feed into the brand’s trendy, health-savvy approach — and it’s all been thoroughly studied and plotted out.
“From primary research data with Millennials, their feedback would indicate that Snackworthy is a compelling brand concept that delivers against Millennials’ need for and want of an authentic, better-for-you snack brand at a value price,” Jacque said.
That research will soon be put to the test as Snackworthy products begin to hit store shelves across the country. But to be honest, success appears more than likely. After all, Snackworthy has only been around for a few months, and its products have already started bagging major retail awards.
And even if the new line is well received, Jacque says that Lehi Valley’s work to build Snackworthy into a formidable brand is only just beginning.
The Importance of Selling to Millennials
“Millennials are now America’s most powerful consumer bloc. Any company in the consumer packaged goods space will need to develop a strategy to meet the specific and unique needs and wants of this important consumer demographic,” Jacque said.
“To gain long-term success for the Snackworthy brand, we must continue to gather consumer feedback, even after the brand launches in market, to insure that we are indeed getting everything right for the target demographic.”
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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The Allegheny County Health Department has removed a consumer alert for Mallorca on the South Side.
The Health Department had initially issued a consumer alert for the Spanish restaurant on East Carson Street on May 20. The alert was removed on May 23.
Upon conducting a food safety assessment of Mallorca, health inspectors said they found seven high-risk violations, including unsafe thawing of fish and unsafe cooling of other foods.
Inspectors also said they found foods being kept in unsafe packaging.
According to the Health Department, the restaurant lacked proper temperature monitoring of foods. In one instance, officials reported foods being stored in a cooler at 70 degrees. Regulations require that food be held at 41 degrees or below.
In addition, inspectors described soiled surfaces, dirty dishes, employees failing to wash their hands and several cockroaches.
In all, Mallorca was cited for over 25 violations. The restaurant has now addressed the issues and the consumer alert was removed.
For a list of consumer alerts issued in Allegheny County, click here.
Note: This story was updated on May 23 to include the removal of the alert.


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In the latest development in a long and complicated series of ongoing lawsuits between the two companies, Judge Lucy Koh has found that Samsung did not willfully infringe Apple patents. Last August, a jury ruled in favor of Apple, awarding the Cupertino company $1.05 billion in damages after it found Samsung guilty of infringing on patents for features including the ‘380 “bounce back” scrolling functionality. Samsung’s lawyers asked Koh to consider whether or not the ruling could be challenged during the post-verdict proceedings. While Koh overturned the jury’s ruling that Samsung’s acts of patent infringement were willful, she denied Samsung’s motion for a new trial. This means that she also denied Apple any damages enhancement for willful infringement, which could have resulted in a tripling of parts of the award, according to Foss Patents’ post detailing the case’s background and analyzing Koh’s latest ruling.
The Verge has posted a PDF copy of Koh’s ruling.


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Shoes and Salads
By George Anderson
Payless ShoeSource is getting into the grocery business, sort of.
The footwear chain has opened a 700-square-foot Express Store in an HEB in Laredo, Texas, according to a report on the Visual Store Web site. Payless will own and operate the store.
John Haugh, chief marketing officer and senior vp of business development, Payless said, “Seasonal footwear has been available in a limited way in grocery stores for many years. But this is the first time we’ve executed a full store-within-store setup in a grocery store. We know that consumers will appreciate the convenience this approach delivers.”
Moderator’s Comment: What are your thoughts on the
Payless Express Store operating inside a HEB supermarket?
Payless gets more exposure and HEB gets paid for the space.
We can’t help but wonder, however, if HEB wouldn’t be better off building its
own brand (although probably not shoes) in that 700-square foot space.
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BTG (the Dutch Trade Association for Large ICT and Telecommunication Users) is working together with SmartCom Summit in 2021 to promote the exchange of insights and experiences with new developments in the field of smart communications.
SmartCom Summit will organize three online Summits this year, supplemented with monthly opinion articles from experts in the market, interviews with key players, case stories and best practices. Last year, SmartCom Summit published an annual trend report covering topics such as Future of Work, Smart Society, Broadband, CX/CPaaS, Cloud & APIs, and Internet of Things. BTG works closely with its members and solution partners to resolve market imperfections resulting from these trends. TGG, a subsidiary of BTG, offers as a service organization various products and services that respond to market needs.
“Some SmartCom Summit objectives tie in well with our activities, such as those of the BTG expert group Smart Society. BTG works from ecosystems and sees this collaboration as complementary“, says Petra Claessen, CEO BTG/TGG.
The first online Summit under the SmartCom Summit label was produced last Summer, with Dutch journalist and talk show host Charles Groenhuijsen as presenter and moderator. “The BTG/TTG network was precious at the time,” says SmartCom Summit founder Rob Kurver. “This collaboration with both providers and users of SmartCom technology and solutions is a reinforcement of the SmartCom ecosystem that is now rapidly emerging.“
This year, three online SmartCom Summits are on the agenda (March 23, June 22, October 26), consisting of a talk show, breakout sessions, online expo and networking. All Summits bring thinkers, decision-makers and users together and are about the impact of, and need for, modern technology on a personal, company and social level: Smart Communications, Smart Companies and Smart Communities.
With online talk shows, trend reports, frequent analyzes, interviews, case stories and opinion-forming messages, SmartCom Summit is growing to be an engaging platform for the ecosystem of providers, distributors and users of smartcom techniques and services.


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CORNWALL – A production plant in Cornwall’s east end for snack food maker Leclerc is getting some government help.
The Cornwall and The Counties Community Futures Development Corporation is giving $50,000 to the company under the province’s Eastern Ontario Development Program.
While the EODP funding was approved in May after receiving an application from the company, the CFDC had planned for a photo-op today (Dec. 4). But that event was cancelled due to “unforeseen circumstances.”
The plant, in the former 160,000 square foot Philips Canlyte plant at 525 Education Road, is expected to open by spring.
The company will be buying a high-speed production line that will produce 1,200 peanut-free granola bars per minute. The entire plant will be peanut-free.
The $9.5 million project is expected to create 80 jobs over four years.
Leclerc is creating a substantial number of local jobs.


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Avast vs Mcafee in our news:
2021. Investor consortium to acquire McAfee for $14B
Cybersecurity software company McAfee took another interesting twist today when an investor consortium consisting of six investment firms announced that they were purchasing the company for $14 billion. The investor group companies will each be providing financial and operational resources. How that will work isn’t completely clear. The company will certainly have a lot of bosses to deal with. It’s worth noting that McAfee built in a “go shop” provision into the deal, a fairly common practice that gives it 45 days to find a better price. While that is an unlikely outcome, the provision provides shareholders with some proof the company got the best deal it could for them.
2021. NortonLifeLock and Avast merge in $8.1B deal
U.S. cybersecurity firm NortonLifeLock has acquired Czech rival Avast for $8.1 billion in order to create a global consumer security powerhouse. NortonLifeLock, formed in 2019 as a spin-off from Symantec, says the deal will create an industry-leading consumer cyber safety business and dramatically expand its user numbers thanks to Avast’s 435 million-strong customer base. Avast, founded in 1988, focuses on cybersecurity software for consumers and small and medium-sized businesses and describes itself as one of the largest security companies. However, the company has not been without controversy during its near-25-year history.
2021. McAfee sells its enterprise business
Security firm McAfee is selling its enterprise business to a consortium led by the private equity firm Symphony Technology Group for $4 billion. It should pair well with RSA, another enterprise-focused security company the private equity firm purchased last February for $2 billion. McAfee President and Chief Executive Officer Peter Leav says that his company has decided to direct the firm’s resources to the consumer side of the business.
2016. Avast Antivirus acquired competitor AVG
Avast, one of our the most populer antivirus applications, is acquiring one of it’s biggest rivals, AVG Technologies, for $1.3 billion in cash. The deal will give Avast access to over 400 million devices that currently use Avast or AVG’s software. This includes 250 million PC and Mac users, and 160 million mobile users. The actual acquirement process will take a few months, but you can expect positive changes in threat detection efficiency already in the near future. Avast will be able to gather more threat data to improve user protection on PC, Mac, mobile, and even start branching out into Internet of things hardware. And Avast will have access to AVG’s Zen mobile technology that’s used to protect an entire family’s devices from just one primary device. The combo also means they’ll be able to improve technical support to business users.


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Adidas is going green.
The sportswear company says it's planning to use only recycled plastics by the year 2024.
Adidas has announced that it will eliminate the use of so-called "virgin" plastic, including polyester.
That includes the use of those plastics in its offices, retail outlets, warehouses and distribution centers.
The global use of plastic has increased 20-fold over the past 50 years.
Just 14-percent is collected for recycling.
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Dress-down suits Austin Reed
REPORTS of the death of the suit were greatly exaggerated - but so too are today's tales of the demise of dress-down, according to fashion group Austin Reed. After being battered by the dress-down trend, sales of suits at Austin Reed began recovering last November, said chief executive Roger Jennings.
But there has been no corresponding fall in casualwear and Jennings believes both have become staple parts of the working wardrobe.
So while sales of the group's new 'reed' smart/casual range surged by 26% last year and now account for more than a quarter of menswear turnover, sales of the traditional suit also ended their long decline, resulting in a 3% like-for-like increase for Austin Reed's menswear division.
This was despite a disappointing performance from the womenswear side, which Jennings said moved too far away from its traditional tailoring towards to occasion and casualwear.
Elsewhere in women's fashion, the Country Casuals business turned in another strong performance, pushing like-for-like sales ahead by 11% on the back of the new Petites range.
Womenswear accounts for about 60% of Austin Reed's business and helped the group push profits ahead by 21% to £8.m, as sales for the year to 31 January rose by 6% to £116.2m. The dividend total is raised by 3% to 8p.
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- In 2020, poison control centers received 554 calls about children accidentally ingesting THC edibles.
- A decade prior, they received just 19 such calls, according to The Washington Post.
- Experts attributed the spike to the rise in legal marijuana across the US.
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Poison control centers in 2020 received 554 calls related to children accidentally ingesting THC edibles, a number more than 29 times higher than the number of calls it received a decade ago, The Washington Post reported.
According to the report, poison control centers in the US last year reported 554 cases of children accidentally ingesting their parents THC edibles, compared to 19 similar cases in 2010 before recreational marijuana had been legalized by any state in the US.
Around 400 reported cases involved children under the age of five, according to the report.
Poison control officials told the Washington Post that spikes can be attributed to when states legalize marijuana for recreational use. The legalization of recreational marijuana has been linked to a rise in emergency room cases of children accidentally consuming THC products.
ABC News previously reported that in Colorado, where the drug was legalized in 2014, cannabis-related poison control cases per year rose by 34% each year on average. According to The Post's report, when Massachusetts legalized recreational marijuana in 2018, there were 52 cases of accidental ingestion in emergency rooms. In 2020, there were 257 cases.
Marijuana is popularly consumed in brownies, cookies, gummies, or other candies, which can lead to concerns of accidental consumption among children, Insider previously reported.
When children accidentally ingest marijuana, they can become dizzy and lose their balance, have trouble staying awake, become paranoid or confused, or experience an increased heart rate, according to the report. The long-term effects of adolescent marijuana consumption are not known, since it is illegal and has not been thoroughly studied.
Diane Calello, executive and medical director of the New Jersey Poison Control Center told The Washington Post that similar packaging of regular candy products and marijuana products can lead to confusion and accidental ingestion by minors.
Some states with legalized marijuana have set guidelines to set related products from too closely resembling products that do not contain THC. As The Post noted, California doesn't permit edibles shaped like people or animals, and North Dakota prohibits the sale of all edibles entirely. Other states, like Utah, allow certain edibles while prohibiting sweet treats like brownies or candy.
The most recent state to legalize recreational marijuana was New York at the end of March. As Insider previously reported, 16 states and Washington, DC, have legalized marijuana for adults over the age of 21. It's legal for medical use in 36 states.


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Using Technology to Deepen Democracy, Using Democracy to Ensure Technology Benefits Us All
Monday, July 29, 2013
Reactionary Tech Press Puts the Shine on Poison Apple
John Herrman at Buzzfeed and also Gawker's Valleywag Sam Biddle have pointed out a host of headlines in the reactionary pop-tech press every one of which trumpets "news" of a cheap iPhone for gizmo-fetishists to salivate over. Quite apart from the vulgar spectacle of saucer eyed techno fashion victims consuming landfill-destined crap while the world burns and congratulating themselves on the innovative individualism signaled through their slavish brand loyalty to a multinational corporation, the headlines on display are especially appalling since they focus on an incidental reference to a possible device in what was in fact an investigative report on behalf of China Labor Watch (read the report itself here) revealing nearly a hundred flabbergasting labor abuses in plants assembling these crappy gizmos for so many suave liberals who fancy themselves progressives signaling their progressivism when they brandish these commodities brought forth in unspeakable exploitation, violence, and suffering. The report documented underage labor, sexual and ethnic discrimination and abuse, horrendous living conditions, excessive working hours, routine contract violations, unsafe working environments and pollution, and so much more. Apple has responded to the report saying all this is news to them, but since it isn't news to anyone we know that this is a lie. Do by all means continue to enjoy your poisonous Apple products, though, "technoprogressives."


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We take a deep dive into the company looking to buy Australia’s most successful buy now, pay later provider.
The post All about Square, the US company acquiring Afterpay (ASX: APT) shares appeared first on The Motley Fool Australia. –
As part of the takeover offer, Afterpay investors will see their shares in the buy now, pay later (BNPL) giant transformed into Square stock at a ratio of 0.375 Square Class A common stock for each Afterpay share.
Square is a US-based payment processing provider. It has performed exceptionally well on the New York Stock Exchange in recent years.
The news broke this morning and the Afterpay share price is rocketing, up 23.18% on its previous close. Shares in the BNPL giant are trading at $119 apiece at the time of writing.
Afterpay’s board has already recommended the offer to its shareholders.
As the owners of Afterpay shares may soon become Square shareholders, let’s take a deep dive into Square and its time on the NYSE.
What is Square?
Afterpay investors may soon see their shares transformed into Square stock. But what is Square and what does it do?
Square’s business model comes down to its 2 products.
The first is Square’s point-of-sale (POS) offering. It allows businesses to process card payments quickly and efficiently with set fees.
In addition to its POS system, Square offers a range of Square Readers. Square Readers are POS hardware that can be used through a smartphone or tablet app, allowing businesses to use their POS systems anywhere they have a mobile signal.
Square’s second product is Cash App. Cash App lets users transfer money to others, purchase goods, invest in stocks, and even buy Bitcoin.
Cash App also has a Boost feature that gives customers discounts, cashback, or even Bitcoin rewards when making purchases. Our colleagues over at The Motley Fool US recently reported on Square’s Boost feature’s profit model.
Square’s performance on the NYSE
Market watchers likely know about the outstanding performance of Afterpay shares and might worry this acquisition could stall their investment’s growth.
Fortunately, Square is also a major stock market mover.
Square’s initial public offering (IPO) happened way back in late 2015.
Under its prospectus’ offer, Square shares went for US$9.00 ($12.26 at today’s exchange rate). Now, shares in Square are swapping hands for US$247.26 ($336.73).
That leaves Square shares a whopping 2,647.33% higher than they were just under 6 years ago.
On the other hand, the Afterpay share price has gained 3,176.61% since it merged with formerly ASX-listed Touchcorp back in July 2017 to create the Afterpay we know and love.
The Motley Fool US recently reported that analysts expect Square’s sales growth to increase by 110.6% over the US 2021 financial year (which ends 30 September). However, it is expected to slow in the coming US financial year to a growth rate of 14.1%.
Additionally, Square has been performing better than Afterpay on their respective markets in recent times.
The Square share price has gained 11% year to date, and 83% over the last 12 months.
Afterpay share price snapshot
Afterpay shares haven’t been doing nearly as well lately.
They have gained 0.8% since the start of 2021. However, they are currently trading 69% higher than they were this time last year.
The post All about Square, the US company acquiring Afterpay (ASX: APT) shares appeared first on The Motley Fool Australia.
Should you invest $1,000 in Afterpay right now?
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The online investing service he’s run for nearly a decade, Motley Fool Share Advisor, has provided thousands of paying members with stock picks that have doubled, tripled or even more.* And right now, Scott thinks there are 5 stocks that are better buys.
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Despite consumers nearly doubling their ethical household spending in the last five years, most of 17 million turkeysÂ farmed in the UK are reared to what the RSPCA deem to be ‘unacceptable’ animal welfare standards.
The RSPCA’s own ‘Freedom Food’ scheme has launched a campaign this Christmas to highlight the plight of farm animals, and to urge people to look for their logo when shopping this year.
MostÂ of us will suffer from furry teeth, a bloated gut and/or a massive hangover at some point overÂ Christmas, but forÂ a dog overdoing it could be fatal. Chocolate contains a bitter alkaline called Theobromine which is harmless to humans, but a potential killer to dogs.
The RSPCA has long campaigned against feeding dogs chocolate – especially at Christmas, when tree decorations, chocolate boxes and unsuspecting owners provide lots of opportunities for theobromine poisoning. Last year the Veterinary Poisons Information Service received 790 calls about chocolate poisoning; this year the figure is already at 844. Steve Cheetham, RSPCA head of veterinary services, says: “Special chocolate drops are available from pet shops if you want to give your dog a chocolate treat.” These are made of carob and so contain no theobromine.


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Harbin economic, trade fair commences
Updated : 2021-06-15
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This year's fair, with the theme of "technology empowers a new era and joins hands to build a new pattern," combines exhibitions, forums, negotiations and other business activities.
The exhibitions include eight professional sections for technological innovation, trade in services, regional cooperation, comprehensive revitalization, brand promotion, imported goods, mechanical and electrical equipment, as well as large machinery.
These exhibitions see the participation of a total of 1,739 enterprises from 28 countries and regions, displaying 5,522 kinds of products across 59 categories.
Meanwhile, the online displays include 29 VR exhibition halls for the guest of honor, Azerbaijan, and the guest city of Xiamen, as well as for Russia, Japan, South Korea and countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative.
Among the exhibits are those highlighting industrial projects and development achievements related to the China Heilongjiang Pilot Free Trade Zone, fashion and culture from Heilongjiang province, gathering brands and featured products from Heilongjiang's 13 cities.
Additionally, this year, service support for financing, legal consulting, intellectual property, market supervision, business environment supervision, network security supervision, certification and free-trade agreements are set up online for the first time to meet the diverse needs of participating merchants.
Harbin announced lists for projects to improve people’s livelihoods.
The total scale of Harbin's “4+4” modern industrial system reached 621.37 billion yuan in 2020.
Heilongjiang recently announced the Regulations on Promoting the Development and Application of Big Data in Heilongjiang Province (Draft).
The Harbin City Social Credit System Construction Promotion Regulations were formally implemented on Feb 1.


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iGuzzini President named Entrepreneur of the Year in the “Globalization” category of the EY Awards 2017
9th November - During the award ceremony held at Palazzo Mezzanotte, headquarters of the Italian Stock Exchange in Milan, Adolfo Guzzini, iGuzzini’s President, picked up the Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 Award in the “Globalization” category of the EY Awards.
The jury, chaired by Gianni Mion, Fila and Space3 President, awarded the globalisation category prize to Adolfo Guzzini, acknowledging the entrepreneur’s commitment to innovation and business excellence. The award is also an endorsement of Adolfo Guzzini’s commitment to enhancing social wellbeing through growth and development, a direct outcome of spreading the importance of light culture at international level.
“This acknowledgement proves our strong contribution to promoting the “Made in Italy” hallmark worldwide by manufacturing innovative lighting systems that encompass attractive designs, scientific research and new technologies,” said Adolfo Guzzini. “We collaborate with the best architects, lighting designers, universities and research centres around the world in order to pursue growth and evolution and enhance wellbeing for people, society and the environment, through light” concluded Adolfo Guzzini.
The Entrepreneur of the Year Award, established in the USA in 1986 and subsequently promoted in 150 cities in 65 different countries, aims to celebrate the entrepreneurs that have successfully created and sustained their companies’ growth, while also contributing to the local economy through initiative, creativity and dedication.


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Tata Mall, which will be a subsidiary of Tata Industries, has hired a mix of internal recruits and some from Tata Administrative Services, he said.
Amazon wants kirana stores to serve as delivery points for products bought on its site. It has also listed a few kiranas as sellers on its portal.
The Porter, a Mumbai-based online logistics marketplace to book trucks and tempos, has raised Rs 35 crore round led by Sequoia Capital India.
We would refrain from putting in fresh money into telecom stocks and would rather wait for Reliance Jio to enter into the market, says Choksey.
A fresh confrontation erupted today between the Delhi government and Lt Governor Najeeb Jung over drafting of five Bihar policemen into Anti-Corruption Branch.
Unlike yesterday, the tremors experienced in the two states and their common capital Chandigarh were mild.
As soon as the tremors were felt, people rushed out of their buildings to open grounds. A majority of people, who were already sleeping in open areas, also panicked.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who was presiding over a meeting with senior officials to review rescue and relief works, came out rushing with the officials.


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4 April 2023, Budapest – Parliament's Committee on Economic Affairs adopted the report of the Hungarian Competition Authority on its activities in 2022 and its experience in applying the Hungarian Competition Act. At the hearing, Csaba Balázs Rigó, President of the GVH, stressed that the Hungarian people can count on the Hungarian Competition Authority in 2023 as well.
In total, the Hungarian Competition Authority (Gazdasági Versenyhivatal – GVH) achieved HUF 2 billion in consumer compensation and imposed fines of around HUF 3.7 billion in 2022. Last year, the national competition authority initiated competition supervision procedures against 101 undertakings, of which 57 were fined and only 5 of them used the legal remedy, which is the result of the GVH's new strategy of cooperation.
According to the Annual Report adopted by the Economic Affairs Committee at its meeting on 4 April, the GVH's strong action against cartels continued in 2022: the authority imposed 80% of competition fines for restrictive agreements, the vast majority of which were for the most serious cartel-type infringements.
The GVH has also repeatedly analysed the effects of its anti-competitive activities, based on international methodologies. Based on a conservative calculation, the prevention of the harmful effects of the anti-competitive agreements, dominant position abuses and anti-competitive mergers detected in the last five years has brought a total benefit of HUF 55 billion 412 million to the citizens of Hungary.
Csaba Balázs Rigó stressed at Tuesday's committee meeting that "the main objective of the national competition authority in 2022 was still to protect the Hungarian people and to help businesses that strive to comply with the law. The GVH's main priority was to ensure the legal protection of Hungarian families and to strengthen consumer protection action for families. In addition, the GVH is also actively doing its part to fight inflation, with the aim of bringing inflation in Hungary down to single digits by the end of the year."
In this context, the President of the GVH said that the Competition Authority is conducting a number of accelerated sector inquiries in the food sector to investigate in detail the reasons behind food inflation in the food sector, which are of competition law concern. Furthermore, a working group is already working on the creation of an online price monitoring database.
After the meeting, Erik Bánki, Chairman of the Economic Affairs Committee, stressed that "In the recent uncertain and unpredictable global economic environment, there is a greater need than ever for active and proactive competition authorities. Protecting families and bringing down inflation caused by war and misguided Brussels sanctions are top priorities. The report adopted today proves that Hungarian people and Hungarian undertakings can count on the Competition Authority."
The GVH's 2022 Annual Report is available in full on its website.
In the latest episode of the GVH Podcast, published today, President Csaba Balázs Rigó talks about the results achieved by the national competition authority last year. Why 2022 was a success year in international activities, why it is worth cooperating with the Competition Authority, and what tools does the GVH use to protect consumers and steer businesses in the right direction?
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Joker’s Stash, a Dark Web destination that specializes in trading in payment-card data, has added 1.3 million credit and debit cards to its inventory, belonging to Indian banking customers. Researchers said it’s the largest stolen payment card cache ever put up for sale.
According to Group-IB, the cybersecurity firm that found the listing, the data haul represents around $130 million given that each card record is being offered for $100. Joker’s Stash is advertising it under the “INDIA-MIX-NEW-01” heading.
Where the card data came from is unclear – Group-IB said in a media report that it was likely skimmed from compromised point-of-sale systems or ATMs. In its listing, Joker’s Stash said that the stolen info includes both track 1 and track 2 data that’s included on a card’s magnetic strip (name, card number, expiry and potentially the CVV, plus addresses and other discretionary information used by the bank for fraud protection purposes).
Anyone purchasing the information can create cloned cards to physically use at ATMs or at in-store machines that aren’t chip-enabled; or, they can simply use the information to buy things online.
The listing says the card data is 90 to 95 percent valid – and Group-IB said that researchers independently verified the information as consisting of real card details. About 18 percent of the records come from one particular Indian bank. Most (98 percent) of the cards are Indian but about 1 percent are from Columbian banks, according to the firm.
The fact that all of the records were put up for sale at once is unusual, according to Ilya Sachkov, CEO and founder of Group-IB. Typically, card data dumps are rationed out to avoid attracting notice from white-hats. The decision to provide the data trove en masse indicates that the purveyors are looking to monetize the cards quickly, before consumers report them as compromised and banks start canceling them.
“This is indeed the biggest card database encapsulated in a single file ever uploaded on underground markets at once,” Sachkov told BankInfoSecurity. “What is also interesting about this particular case is that the database that went on sale hadn’t been promoted prior either in the news, on card shop or even on forums on the Dark Net. The cards from this region are very rare on underground markets. In the past 12 months, it is the only one big sale of card dumps related to Indian banks.”
Joker’s Stash “poses an evolving and enduring threat to consumers and retailers affected by fraudsters populating the market,” according to research last week from Recorded Future. Its infrastructure consists of more than 500 domains and 54 servers; these are typically spun up and used for surges in available data to provide better support to clients that buy in bulk.
“Recorded Future assesses with high confidence that Joker’s Stash will remain a popular marketplace for threat actors to advertise and sell compromised credit cards, as spikes in marketplace activities have coincided with major breaches,” the firm noted.
What are the top mistakes leading to data breaches at modern enterprises? Find out: Join experts from SpyCloud and Threatpost senior editor Tara Seals on our upcoming free Threatpost webinar, “Trends in Fortune 1000 Breach Exposure.” Click here to register.


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The White House announced the winner of their tech hire grants. Atlanta was already named a Tech Hire city back in March. This week ATL Tech Hire got word that they have been awarded $4 million in federal grants to support the program. ATL Tech Hire is on a mission to train young adults under-represented in the IT workforce for jobs in tech. It's an initiative led by the Atlanta Workforce Development in partnership with tech square labs and the Iron Yard.
Its official, Global Payments is in the process of moving their corporate headquarters to Buckhead. Economic development officials confirmed that the payment processing company plans to invest about two-hundred and $20 million into Atlanta. According to our partners at the Atlanta Business Chronicle. About 18 million will go towards the new headquarters in a 30 story office tower on Lenox road. That's expected to bring in about 150 jobs with an average salary of $200,000. However, a bulk of Global Payment's investment will be put into a data center expansion.
Georgia Tech sealed a deal to buy some real estate from Lockheed Martin. The agreement includes four buildings and 52 acres on Lockheed Martin's south campus in Marietta. The property for sale had housed the Air Force's F-22 Raptor program. That fighter plane is no longer in production.Georgia Tech says the sale will allow the University to expand their research capacity and relieve crowding.
The Technology Association of Georgia is bringing the tech community together to fight hunger with some friendly competition in Bytes for Bites. To join, local tech companies can sign up between now and July 10th.The goal is to get at least 50 companies to raise $25,000 or 100,000 pounds of food for the Georgia Food Bank Association. The contest ends July 22nd and the company who raises the most pounds of food per employee will win the highly coveted tag cup. Click here to join.
Uber says they want to make pricing easier to understand for its customers and that means we won't be seeing any more surge rates. The ride-sharing company announced the app will show the total price as soon as users order a ride. Riders must now enter their final destination address ahead of time to see the actual fare they'll pay for the ride. The Uber app will calculate these upfront fares from point-A to point-B based on distance, time, traffic, and demand.
Fiat Chrysler is moving up the release of a software fix aimed at preventing rollaway accidents similar to the one that killed actor Anton Yelchin. The car maker had already recalled over a million vehicles to fix electronic gear shifters before Yelchin's death.
Finally, a new survey finds older drivers want technology in their cars that might help them stay behind the wheel instead of handing over their keys. According to the online study by insurer The Hartford, 76 percent of drivers age 50 and older say they would look for a car with the latest safety features like blind spot warning, lane departure warning and advanced headlights. The study suggests older drivers associate advanced technologies with enhanced safety.


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Now that they are no longer selling phones and without continued losses from their Mobile division, it seems that LG’s financial results couldn’t be better.
It’s been a while, just a year, LG left the mobile industry at least as a leading player, although the South Korean manufacturer remains well linked both as component supplier like at the time of keep the promised support for its old usersthat little will be migrated to other brands but that for now they will continue to receive Android 12 and, at least on a couple of phones, also Android 13.
Be that as it may, it seems It’s all good news for the South Korean manufacturer Now that it no longer has mobile phones in its product portfolio, and as our colleagues from AndroidPolicethe company already anticipates that their economic results have improved now that they do not sell smartphones boosted by the best quarter in history in its home appliance division.
LG’s figures don’t lie, has posted a new record in its fiscal second quarter of 2022 with some $14.7 billion in revenue, an increase of 15 percent or so from the same period in 2021, though the increased production costs and global problems in supply chains have clouded this milestone curbing profits.
Perhaps it is global warming and not its products that makes LG grow meteorically, because as we said its air and appliance solutions division has enjoyed its best quarterly financial year in its entire historyentering 6,111 million dollars and signing the best result of all the divisions of LG Corporation.
It is easy to understand that obviously mobile phones have not had much to do with the best results in the history of LG’s home appliance division, but the truth is that without the continuous losses of LG Mobile, now the global results are more positive than never.
As for smartphones, it is a reality that LG turns a year old this week just outside the sector as a leading manufactureralthough the truth is that it is still linked as a supplier of screens, cameras and other components to other brands, selling phones for its 5G network in South Korea and working on the definition of the 6G standard which is under development and in which they and Samsung are two of the most involved actors.
LG is still linked to phones, yes, but now you don’t lose as much money as before designing and building smartphoneswhich also the general public was not accepting with the best of critics, so in the end it seems that we have all won in this movement that nobody expected from a pioneering manufacturer in the mobile industry for over 20 years.
The reasons for its failure are many and not one in particular, because almost like Google did for a long time, the truth is that LG knew how to make good phones but then it was not clear how to sell themin addition to its poor software support, ongoing technical problems with several of its entry-level trim models and poor execution of innovative projects like the modular LG G5the double screens of its latest LG V ThinQ or the Wing T-shaped rotating panel.
In any case, the only truth is that LG always knew how to be at the forefront and that’s why we miss himso here is this article to celebrate that your results have improved… If they will return one day, time will tell!


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Chloe Ferry cuts a casual display in a black crop top and ripped denim jeans as she picks up a package from her beauty salon in Newcastle
Chloe Ferry cut a casual display in a black crop top and ripped denim jeans on Thursday as she ran some errands in Newcastle.
The former Geordie Shore star, 27, was pictured heading to her beauty salon in the ensemble while wearing a big smile on her face.
The brunette beauty did some heavy lifting carried a huge package out of her salon, proving she’s happy to get stuck in.
She paired her trendy ensemble with a square pair of sunglasses and black and white Nike trainers.
Chloe looked happy and relaxed during her busy day of activities and complemented her outfit with a black handbag.
Trendy: Chloe Ferry cut a casual display in a black crop top and ripped denim jeans on Thursday as she ran some errands in Newcastle
Stylish: The former Geordie Shore star, 27, did some heavy lifting as she emerged with a lardge box
Chloe looked incredible as she posed in a grey sports bra and matching cycling shorts on Wednesday for a sizzling Instagram snap.
She showed off a perfect pink manicure as she posed in front of her mirror.
Last month, the former Celebrity Big Brother housemate Chloe enjoyed a party at her new salon before it opened for the public.
She then held a more private launch ceremony for friends and family later in the evening.
Chloe posed for a slew of snaps outside the venue while surrounded by her new seven-member team.
‘Prosecco, DJ, Saxophone Player, cake, cheeseboard, pancakes, discounts off treatments and much more!’ she wrote in a caption on an Instagram post as she promised a memorable launch night for her guests.
‘We are now fully open and taking brand new bookings… offering you all aspects of beauty and aesthetic treatments!’ the reality star added.
While the others pictured were in their all-black uniforms, Chloe stood out in a baby-pink ensemble.
Work out: Chloe looked incredible as she posed in a grey sports bra and matching cycling shorts on Wednesday
Celebration: Chloe, (fourth from right), was seen celebrating the opening of her salon with pals in a picture shared on Instagram last month


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The canteen in the sole of each flip flop holds about one ounce of liquid Nike Metcon Online Store
main purpose of these is for that," Bill Smith with the Sioux Falls School District said.
Smith says parents should be concerned. Forty four percent of students in the district said they used alcohol at some time last year. That's down from ten years ago at 64 percent. But Smith says that's still nearly one in two teens drinking underage.
Grant: Do you think alcohol or do you think water?
Smith and Granville say parents should take the first step and educate themselves on any new products kids might use to hide alcohol.
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"Of course its illegal for people under 21 to possess alcohol and I think the Nike Lebron 11 Low Release Date
"For some of them I think it's probably a challenge. To see if they can get over on the teacher or whoever is in charge of them," Granville said.
Mom: Water, I would think.
It's these sandals Granville is afraid teens will find. From far away, the Dram by Reef, looks like a normal shoe, but get closer and you'll notice a compartment built into the sole, designed to hold any beverage of your choice.
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Smith says the Dram has been on the district's radar since last school year.
"Somebody might put up a smoke screen that they're for some other purpose but I believe that's what that's for. That's the position the school districts going to take," Smith said.
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Parents of teenagers have mixed feelings about the shoes. No, I would not like that but someone who might be running who may want a little bit of water. Maybe.
"We have a challenge in our community that we need to keep working Nike Metcon Rose Gold Release at and this would be another example of how we want our community to make sure that they're being on the alert," Smith said.
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"If students wear these to school and we see them we're going to ask that our administrators call their parents and talk with them about what those are really for," Smith said.
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KPMG secures pre-pack rescue for Swoon
18 Dec 2019
KPMG has secured the future of online furniture designer and retailer Swoon after the failed business was sold out of administration in a pre-pack deal which will save all jobs at the company
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Will Wright and Steve Absolom, partners with KPMG, were appointed joint administrators of Sourceable Ltd in mid December.
Immediately following their appointment, the joint administrators completed an agreement to sell the business and assets to Swoon Editions Ltd, which is majority owned and managed by the founders of Swoon. The transaction will see all 21 employees transferring.
Swoon Editions intends to complete all outstanding customer orders.
Nick Holloway, director at KPMG who led the sale, said: ‘We are pleased to have been able to execute a deal that preserves the business and employees, especially in the context of the current UK retail climate, when the only alternative would have been a shut-down.
‘The sale will ensure continuity of the Swoon brand, including their in-house design team, as well as ensuring the fulfilment of outstanding customer orders.’


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The plan focuses on social and environmental goals. Profit is secondary. Across the EU, the Commission has 2.8 million organizations working for the social economy.
In the Netherlands, the social economy is hardly used as a concept. We know a growing number of social firms and social enterprises that put social impact first. At the same time, the number is still limited compared to other EU Member States. The Netherlands now mainly has a culture in which the profit and efficiency-oriented business community forms the basis.
Although the EU has actually strengthened this culture in recent decades, the Commission is also opting for a different focus with the SEAP. The Commission wants to support the social economy sector. This is done in the first place by sharing knowledge and promoting the importance of the social economy. Member States are expected to make greater use of existing opportunities to support and encourage social enterprises. This is how they argue for tax benefits. They also want more opportunities to be offered to social enterprises to successfully tender for tenders.
Social policy within the EU is the responsibility of the Member States. The Netherlands is therefore not obliged to pursue a more active policy towards a social economy in its own country. But from De Omslag’s point of view, we do see the SEAP as an important incentive for the new government to make our economy more social and more solidarity-based. At the conference “It is possible” on February 15, 2022, we will therefore pay attention to the SEAP and how the Netherlands can implement this in policy.


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Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik helped introduce the Agriculture Intelligence Measures (AIM) Act. This legislation would ensure the Secretary of Agriculture is fully informed of all imminent domestic and foreign threats against American agriculture.
“In the North Country, we are especially fortunate to have safe and reliable access to an abundant food supply thanks to our farmers and agribusinesses, but the COVID-19 pandemic has certainly taught us that the supply chain is vulnerable and must be protected. I am proud to cosponsor this legislation to encourage interagency coordination and protect our farms, food, and industry from threats both foreign and domestic,” said Congresswoman Stefanik.
Representative Rick Crawford (AR-01) who helped co-lead the bill added, “Because of the hard work of our farmers and researchers, Americans enjoy the most dependable food system in the world. However, the complex supply chain and invaluable nature of the agriculture industry means it is particularly vulnerable. Over the last year, we’ve all seen the chaos that can come from a single pathogen or uncertainty in the grocery store aisles. Agriculture security is national security, and the AIM Act is a critical first step to safer food, safer farms, and a safer future.”


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Cheeze, the new-media shop, is launching a dedicated search engine unit as part of its online service offering.
The launch is designed to capitalise on the increasing importance of search engine listings to online marketing strategies. It aims to enable clients to use search engine listings to their maximum potential, securing listing locations that will give them the biggest exposure.
Cheeze was set up by Grey Interactive's ex-media director Jamie Riddell last year, and focuses on all media. The agency launched a banner advertising production division this summer and already has an online media planning and buying service in place.
Riddell, the joint managing director at Cheeze, commented: 'Our decision to supply search optimisation has been driven by the sheer number of clients asking for help in this area, and we see it as just another tool in the online marketing tool box.'
The service aims to give Cheeze's clients reassurance about their online promotional spends. 'We believe many companies are throwing their money at this with no guarantee of results. We're going to change this,' Riddell said.
Cheeze's clients include Exchange & Mart and the travel brand First Resort. The agency also provides training and consultancy to Saatchi & Saatchi and Carat.


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The new Venza is sleek 😍😍
Toyota stopped the production of the Venza in 2015 because people are not really buying it.
Toyota Motor is resurrecting the Venza crossover as a new hybrid model as it pivots to electrify its vehicle lineup.
The Japanese automaker unveiled the midsize crossover as well as a redesigned Sienna minivan virtually on Monday. Both vehicles will exclusively be available with gasoline-electric hybrid powertrains.
“Both of these products, I think, really represent our next step to what we committed that we will have 100% electrification across our entire lineup by 2025,” Bob Carter, executive vice president of sales for Toyota Motor North America, told reporters during a call. They’re “two exciting products.”
Hybrids, unlike all-electric or plugin hybrid vehicles, do not require drivers to plug the vehicles in to charge their batteries.
The Venza will be available beginning this summer, followed by the Sienna toward the end of the year, Carter said.
Photos of the 2021 Toyota Venza
Toyota discontinued the Venza crossover after roughly seven years of production for the U.S. in 2015, leaving a gap between its top-selling Rav4 compact crossover and large Highlander SUV. Carter said the Venza is “perfectly positioned” in “the white space” between those models.
Toyota expects to sell about 50,000 Venza models annually, according to Carter. That compares to more than 400,000 Rav4 models or 240,000 Highlander vehicles per year.
The five-passenger 2021 Venza is estimated to achieve 40 miles per gallon combined in some models, according to Toyota. Powering the vehicle is a combination of a 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine and three electric motors.
The Venza is a sleek-looking crossover that features several characteristics of Toyota’s current lineup including duo grilles, hybrid badging and lighting. It will be produced and imported from Japan.


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Picanova teams up with Embody Digital, who wins Visual 1st ‘Best Technology’ Award
Picanova and Embody Digital teamed up for Visual 1st that took place in San Francisco last week. Ari Shapiro, Founder and CEO of Embody Digital, presented his solution to create personalized avatars from 3D scans. As a highlight, Embody Digital animated Hans Hartmann, Chair of Visual 1st, who was 3D-scanned by Picanova’s full body scanner during photokina at the end of September in Cologne. The partnership was a great success, resulting in the ‘Best Technology’ being awarded to Embody Digital for animating Picanova’s 3D scan during the conference.
Ari Shapiro, Founder of Embody Digital, comments: “We are thrilled receiving this award. The ability to control our online digital personas - what we look like, what we say and how we are seen - has never been greater than what is possible today with 3D scanning and embodiment technologies.”
“The award shows us that 3D scans and animated avatars for gaming or sporting apps are the future. We will continue working together with Embody Digital and offer our combined products and services to various industry sectors worldwide” said Philipp Mühlbauer, co-founder and managing director of Picanova Group. “Besides animating people from their 3D full body scans, we look forward to also deriving measurements for cloth fitting purposes.”


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Two leaders of e-commerce in Africa, Africa Internet Holding (AIH), Africa’s largest internet incubator and mobile service provider, MTN have today announced the beginning of a new partnership. Consequently, MTN and Jumia are now joining up to offer a comprehensive online and mobile service to MTN users in Ivory Coast.
The partnership will introduce a new way for Customers across Ivory Coast to pay for their Jumia purchases, securely and efficiently, using the MTN Mobile Money system, along with access to exclusive offers and discounts in Jumia Ivory Coast.
Jumia in turn gets to set up a ‘Jumia Corner’, where customers will be able to get support from Jumia staff or pick up orders placed on Jumia that were paid for using the Mobile Money system, in MTN branches across Ivory Coast. The first 80 customer service points will launch on Tuesday at MTN’s leading branch in Plateau, the business capital of Ivory Coast.
Jeremy Hodara, CEO of Africa Internet Holding pointed out that partnership between AIH and MTN will in time spread to other ventures, including Jovago, Kaymu and Easy Taxi.
The partnership is as a result of an agreement signed, by Millicom, the international telecommunications and Media Company and Rocket Internet to partner with MTN to develop their African online company AIH, in December 2013.
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The Pandemic's Effects on Business Models P1509 June 2020
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Because the coronavirus-disease-2019 (covid-19) pandemic has triggered shelter-in-place and lockdown orders around the world, the majority of employees in many industries are working from home, students are learning online, and many social gatherings have moved from the real world to the virtual realm. As a result, collaboration-tools, online-learning, and communications-technology companies have seen their business increase rapidly during recent months. Because digital-platform-based business models are benefiting from social-distancing measures, companies such as Google (Alphabet; Mountain View, California), Amazon.com (Seattle, Washington), Zoom Video Communications (San Jose, California), and Coursera (Mountain View, California) are thriving in a very challenging environment.
The covid-19 pandemic is creating challenges for some business models that companies designed to address needs in regular times. For instance, Facebook (Menlo Park, California) reports that because of the pandemic, total messaging and video calling across its social-networking and messaging platforms and services increased substantially in some regions. But Facebook does not monetize its messaging and video-calling services and is therefore seeing no financial benefits from their increased use. In fact, Facebook is losing revenue because of pandemic-related decreases in digital-advertising spending. And many internet-service providers have decided to lift their data-consumption limits to benefit people whose online activities have increased because of the pandemic. As is the case for Facebook, companies such as AT&T (Dallas, Texas), CenturyLink (Monroe, Louisiana), and Comcast Corporation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) are providing customers with additional services but extracting no additional revenue from doing so.
Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) professor Zhu Ning and collaborating researchers from other institutions recently looked at pandemic-driven changes that will affect companies in China but also likely apply to companies around the world. According to the researchers, new business models are emerging in multiple areas—including health care, retail operations, office work, and education—and an increasing number of businesses will shift their offline services and offers online. These changes come as no surprise, but the pandemic certainly accelerated the rate of change in the business world.


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Dole Food supplier Huelquen Farms, in Paine, Chile, achieved the Rainforest Alliance certification, the company announced July 26. The farm grows 100 hectares, or around 247 acres, of table grapes under the Westlake Village-based Dole Food label and was successfully audited to the Sustainable Agriculture Network Standard. The Rainforest Alliance is an international nonprofit organization Read More →Read More →
Capital markets have discovered the Tri-Counties in a big way in 2017. This might be a permanent change in the way wealth is created and distributed in the region or a warning sign that markets are close to a peak. On May 23, The Trade Desk, the region’s only IPO of 2016, announced that existing Read More →Read More →
Agribusiness giant Dole Food, the tri-county region’s largest private company, filed for an initial public offering of up to $100 million with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 24. Owner David Murdock, 94, is taking the company public for the third time. He ranks fourth on the Pacific Coast Business Times Region’s Richest list, Read More →Read More →
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Westlake Village-based Dole Foods is facing a criminal investigation from the U.S. Department of Justice over a listeria outbreak that killed four people. The Wall Street Journal first reported the news April 29. In January, Dole Foods suspended production at its Springfield, Ohio, processing facility and removed products from 23 U.S. states and three Canadian Read More →Read More →
Dole Food Co. Chief Executive Officer David Murdock and a former executive of the fresh-fruit producer were ordered to pay $148.1 million over allegations they drove down the value of the company so Murdock could take it private on the cheap in a $1.2 billion deal, Bloomberg News reported Aug. 27. Murdock received an “improper Read More →Read More →
Wall Street trusts billionaire David Murdock of Dole Food Co. to repay his debts but doesn’t agree with his valuation logic.
Murdock succeeded in taking the Westlake Village-based firm private on Oct. 31 in a deal that valued the company at more than $1.6 billion when counting net debt, fees and expenses. At the same time, investors clamored to help Murdock take on debt to finance the deal, with a reported order book of more than $10.5 billion for only $300 million in debt.Read More →


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Year-end residential sales figures are in and it's now official, Alabama home sales in 2011 experienced growth of two percent from the prior year.
Provided quickly before the proverbial "so what", the encouraging news is that the 2011 results snap a 5-year string of year-over-year declines in sales growth for Alabama's residential real estate market.
Alabama home sales also outperformed the greater US market that registered sales growth of 1.7 percent in 2011 as reported by the National Association of REALTORS (NAR).
Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, said these are the early signs of what may be a sustained recovery. "The pattern of home sales in recent months demostrates a market in recovery", he said. "Record low mortgage interest rates, job growth and bargain home prices are giving more consumers the confidence they need to enter the market."
See ACRE infograph for visual display of our state's trends associated with closed transactions by unit since 2007.
The 2011 sales results were also the first annual sales data that were not skewed by artificial federal stimulus as the most recent home buyer tax-incentive expired on June 30, 2010, which bolstered sales in the comparative years of 2009 and 2010.
Baldwin County led Alabama's midsize market peer group in 2011 sales growth of 18 percent from last year with Lee County (up 17%) a very close runner up while Cherokee County (up 25%) and Selma (8%) led the rural markets. Post-disaster sales surged in Tuscaloosa (12%) and this market comfortably captured the sales title for the state's metro markets with Mobile County (3%) in 2nd place.
Local Results: 14 out of the 25 local reporting associations (56%) reflect sales gains from the prior year. In 2011, sales in mid-size markets (up 6.4%) have outperformed both metro markets (up .01%) and rural areas (down .07%). Go here for detailed local figures.
Encouraging news from the Gulf Coast was the order of the day in 2011. Baldwin County condo sales in 2011 increased by 18% when compared to 2010.
As the Alabama real estate market transitions into 2012, statistical volatility is still anticipated. However, the volatility of data may begin to temper for the first time in several years, as there will be no home buying tax-incentives in play in either year (2011 or 2012) that in the recent past has skewed comparative annual figures.
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Norwegian studies increases questions regarding whether some ways to revealing of information violate records secrecy laws in Europe in addition to the U . S ..
By Natasha Artist and Aaron Krolik
Trendy dating services like Grindr, OkCupid and Tinder tend to be distributing owner know-how like a relationship options and exact place to marketing employers in many ways that can violate comfort rules, according to the latest review that reviewed a few of the world’s most acquired Android os apps.
Grindr, the world’s hottest homosexual relationships app, transmitted user-tracking codes plus the app’s label to greater than 12 organizations, primarily observing people who have his or her sexual placement, according to research by the document, that has been revealed Tuesday through Norwegian customers Council, a government-funded not-for-profit firm in Oslo.
Grindr furthermore sent a user’s location to a number of providers, which will after that display that records with quite a few various other ventures, the state stated. Once the ny occasions tried Grindr’s Android software, it shared accurate latitude and longitude data with five agencies.
The professionals in addition reported that the OkCupid application sent a user’s ethnicity and answers to particular member profile inquiries — like “Have your utilized psychedelic drugs?” — to an enterprise that assists corporations tailor selling messages to owners. The occasions found that the OkCupid website experienced just recently posted the over 300 advertising and statistics “partners” in which it might probably reveal users’ ideas.
“Any customers with a typical wide range of applications within their phone — which range from 40 and 80 applications — have their unique information shared with hundreds or maybe many celebrities online,” explained Finn Myrstad, the electronic insurance director for all the Norwegian buyer Council, just who oversaw the report.
The report, “Out of regulation: How Customers are Exploited by way of the web marketing markets,” adds to an expanding human anatomy of studies subjecting a massive environment of companies that freely track vast sums men and women and peddle her sensitive information. This security system helps scores of companies, whose figure tends to be not known eventually consumers, to silently account anyone, desired them with advertisements and strive to sway their behaviors.
The review shows up only 2 weeks after Ca set in benefit a broad brand-new buyer privacy legislation. On top of other things, legislation needs many businesses that swap owners’ personal stats for the money or additional payment enabling individuals effortlessly cease the spread out of these critical information.
And also, regulators into the E.U. are actually improving enforcement of their own data shelter rules, which prohibits employers from collecting private information on religion, race, sexual orientation, sex life and other sensitive matter without a person’s explicit agreement.
The Norwegian group said it filed claims on Tuesday inquiring regulators in Oslo to research Grindr and five ad techie firms for conceivable violations associated with the European facts safety laws. A coalition of customer people in america said they transferred letters to North american regulators, including the lawyer simple of California, advising them to inquire if the businesses’ ways broken federal and state laws and regulations.
In a statement, the accommodate Group, which possess OkCupid and Tinder, stated it caused exterior agencies to help along delivering services and discussed best specific individual data regarded needed for those work. Accommodate extra so it complied using privacy legislation along with strict legal agreements alongside vendors to guarantee the safeguard of users’ personal information.
The document discusses just how manufacturers embed program from advertising technology businesses to their software to track individuals’ app incorporate and real-life venues, a frequent practice. To assist creators place advertisements as part of the software, post tech firms may distribute customers’ facts to advertisers, custom promotional facilities, area info agents and post networks.
The non-public records that listing systems ingredients from applications is typically tied to a user-tracking rule definitely unique each smart phone. Agencies use tracking codes to construct prosperous pages consumers gradually across numerous programs and sites. But even without the company’s true names, anyone such reports models is discovered and based in reality.
For the state, the Norwegian customer Council chose Mnemonic, a cybersecurity firm in Oslo, to look at how offer techie system extracted user info from 10 popular droid software. The results suggest that some businesses handle close details, like gender desires or pill behaviors, no differently from much more innocuous expertise, like beloved food.
On top of other things, the specialists unearthed that Tinder delivered a user’s gender along with sex anyone ended up being trying big date to two marketing companies.
The experts did not try iphone 3gs apps. Adjustments on both droid devices and iPhones enable individuals to limit post monitoring.
The club’s discoveries describe just how tough it will be for even the intrepid owners to track and prevent the spread of the information.
Grindr’s software, for instance, involves systems from MoPub, Twitter’s ad services, that acquire the app’s name and a user’s highly accurate device venue, the report claimed. MoPub in turn claims it may reveal consumer data with well over 180 lover firms. One particular couples are an ad techie vendor held by AT&T, which may display info with well over 1,000 “third-party professionals.”
In a statement, Twitter and youtube believed: “We are presently analyzing this problem to understand important source the sufficiency of Grindr’s agree system. At the same time, there is impaired Grindr’s MoPub accounts.”
AT&T rejected to review.
The spread out of consumers’ place also painful and sensitive help and advice could offer specific dangers to people that use Grindr in places, like Qatar and Pakistan, wherein consensual same-sex erectile functions become unlawful.
The report’s results in addition improve questions about the scope that companies are obliging employing the brand new Ca convenience guidelines. The law calls for many companies that take advantage of marketing consumers’ personal statistics to conspicuously publish a “Do Not just Start Selling your Data” solution, enabling folks to end the spread of these critical information.
But Grindr’s stance concerns that strategy. By agreeing to the coverage, the webpages states, customers “are aiming you to disclose” her personal information “and, therefore, Grindr cannot provide your personal reports.”
Mr. Myrstad believed most customers were comfortable discussing his or her data with applications they dependable. “But this study clearly implies that most apps neglect that trust,” this individual said. “Authorities really need to cause the rules we, assuming they’re not suitable, we must make smarter formula.”


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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- General Motors might trump Ford's $2.9 billion bid for Land Rover, the off-road subsidiary of BMW.
Robert Hendry, chairman of Adam Opel, GM's main European subsidiary, said: "Land Rover is a great brand, and until the [Ford] transaction is a legal deal it is possible that GM could intervene."
Hendry said GM also regarded Rover's Mini brand as a high-value marque. BMW has vowed to retain the Mini name and shift production to its Cowley plant near Oxford.
Ford officials last night claimed their agreement with BMW was "watertight" and should be completed by the middle of the year.
BMW admitted last week that it had received several serious offers for Land Rover before siding with Ford.
GM has only a modest European presence in off-road vehicles and light trucks, unlike in North America.


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The GST Council in its 43rd meeting held on 28th May 2021 at New Delhi took
the important decisions related to changes in GST interest and penalties for late filing of GST returns.
The Ministry of Finance released a Press release on the 5th October, informing about the recommendations made in the 42nd GST council meeting via video conferencing. The meeting was led by the Finance Minister Shrimati Nirmala Sithraman and the finance ministers of all the states and UTs associated with it.
In 40th GST Council meeting held under chairmanship of hon’ble Finance Minister Mrs. Nirmala Sitharaman through video conferencing, GST Council has recommended to give one time opportunity to such GST return defaulters.
V J M & Associates LLP


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The gambling industry is full of folks who like to talk and that made for some very quotable quotes this month. Here are a few of the top words of wisdom from the industry’s movers and shakers.
1. There is a sense of community and sharing and entertainment that happens inside a casino that you cannot replicate online. Most people want to interact with other humans. That’s never going away. – LoCaid, CEO, Rip Gerber on why igaming isn’t a threat to land-based casinos.
2. In a market the size of Nevada, we probably feel that we don’t need to share liquidity. – Caesars Interactive CEO, Mitch Garber speaking on his company’s future plans for regulated online poker.
3. We’re very big supporters of shared liquidity. Nevada will have a healthy business on its own. I think it’s in everybody’s interest at the end of the day that there be compacts among states and that there be shared liquidity. – Caesars Interactive CEO, Mitch Garber speaking on his company’s future plans for regulated online poker.
4. We love football but it needs a kick up the arse. In most other areas of life people can be open about their sexuality and it’s time for football to take a stand and show players it doesn’t matter what team they play for. – Irish bookmaker Paddy Power’s new campaign touting tolerance in professional soccer.
5. Let them know that this is something you want and that WSOP.com online poker is fully regulated and legal in the state of Nevada. If the credit card issuer will still not let you make this transaction, you may want to try a different card. – WSOP.com reps on what to do if your credit card company decides online poker is still illegal.
6. Caught playing iPhone game at 3+ hour Senate hearing – worst of all I lost! – Tweet from US Senator John McCain.
7. “Yes, we shouldn’t expect our Senators to pay attention for 3 whole hours. It’s just bombing another country, after all! – Tweet from US astronomer, Phil Plait.
8. Americans account for nearly 10 percent of the global online gaming marketplace at a time when the business is illegal in all but three American states. It is past time for policymakers to put necessary safeguards in place. – American Gaming Association President and CEO, Geoff Freeman.
9. Make sure you leave your Laptop’s at home for this trip and enjoy some live action. – TwoPlusTwo Forum Poster, Ace King reacting to news that poker professionals’ laptops had been hacked at a tournament in Barcelona.
10. Odds are we won’t see as much late action coming in on the Sunday Night game since so many gamblers lost everything early on. – Don Shapiro, Gambling911.com describing how sportsbooks came out on top in a big way on Week 3 NFL games.


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New Castle News
NEW CASTLE —
All Mason Work wanted for Christmas was a basketball.
But when the 8-year-old New Castle boy left Walmart Thursday, he was the excited owner of a new scooter, a toy equalizer gun and a pair of Spiderman boots, in addition to a blue and white Wilson basketball. All the items were stacked in a buggy being pushed by New Castle police officer Aaron Womer.
It was Womer’s first time helping with Shop With a Cop, an effort pairing Walmart with police to buy gifts for underprivileged children.
He found it highly rewarding.
“It was definitely a good experience,” Womer said. “It’s good to take the kids out and see their faces when they get what they want.”
Womer also was assigned to help Hailey Fulkman, 6, who picked out a Barbie bicycle with training wheels, a Barbie helmet, a jewelry set and a doll.
Both Hailey and Mason attend New Castle’s Thaddeus Stevens School.
The 116 children who benefited from the shopping spree were selected by their schools. The idea is for them to buy toys and needed clothing for themselves that Santa otherwise might be unable to bring them. But some buy gifts for their siblings or other family members, too.
Each child received a gift card for $130 and cash registers in the store rang up more than $15,000 in merchandise from the event.
The money came from donations — big and small — from throughout Lawrence County.
Santa Claus greeted each child with a candy cane before he or she was paired off with an officer or other volunteer to start shopping.
The front of the store was crowded with about 300 people at the outset. In addition to the children, there were parents, grandparents, guardians and more than 40 volunteer shoppers.
Mason’s grandmother, Teresa, who lives on the city’s West Side, was with him Thursday.
“The police department called and told us he was picked to shop,” Workman said.
Mason was more excited about going shopping with a policeman than he was about buying things for himself, she said.
“We donate to the program every year,” she said. “I can’t say no to kids.”
Work said she also donated money to Santa Lane at the Croton School, because some children there had no money to buy presents at that shopping spree.
“Things are so tough right now,” she said. “To make a child smile, that makes my heart sing.”
Shopping volunteers included state police and officers from departments countywide; personnel from Lawrence County’s sheriff, adult probation, juvenile probation and prothonotary’s departments; the New Castle Fire Department; the Crisis Shelter of Lawrence County and community members.
Stacy Payne, Walmart’s store manager, noted this was the 13th year for Shop With a Cop at the New Castle store. The company also donates money toward the effort.
“It’s something we’ve been doing for years” as a joint effort between Walmart and the police departments, Payne said.
But she was most impressed with the size of this year’s local event.
“I’ve never seen one so big in 11 years.”
Kristy Taylor, who lives on Neshannock Avenue, was there with four of her six children.
Three were chosen to go shopping through John F. Kennedy School. The fourth, 2-month-old Savannah Mielke, was too tiny to take part in the shopping, but slept soundly in an infant seat in a shopping cart, oblivious to the activity around her. Taylor’s boys wanted “Flipeez,” animal hats with flopping ears.
Thursday’s event was organized by New Castle patrolman John George, with Lt. Sheila Panella assisting in planning and setup.
“My stomach’s in knots. I didn’t sleep last night,” George said while the children were assembling.
“Without the donations we received, we wouldn’t be able to do this,” he added.
Donations are taken throughout the year and George already is accepting them for next year.
“I hope to get to a point where we don’t have to make any cuts,” he said. “I don’t want to leave out any kids.”


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The current market is volatile, as strength in energy stocks offset the tech stock selloff of 2022 and the U.S. bank crisis of 2023. The impact of rising interest rates and inflation is gradually weakening consumer demand. Economists expect a mild recession in mid-2023, but strength in the first-quarter macroeconomic data is building the suspense. Is a recession a false alarm or delayed? These macro numbers will determine whether the central bank hikes interest rates.
Investing in the five-year growth story
The market uncertainty has created an opportunity to buy growth stocks at a discounted value. Once the bearish momentum from a recession is over, two growth stocks could increase significantly in the recovery rally. The macroeconomic uncertainty has delayed electric vehicle (EV) and e-commerce growth and faded the crypto buzz.
But these growth waves could revive in the next five years; it’ll likely take three years for the economy to recover from a recession and two years for the secular growth wave to materialize before growth rates normalize. Five years is an estimated time frame. It could take longer if there is another macro or industry-specific challenge.
Fintech company Nuvei (TSX:NVEI) is in the payments business. It provides e-commerce companies, gamers, financial services, and digital products a platform to send and receive money from different countries and currencies, including crypto. The very nature of the business depends on business and consumer sentiment. The more transactions on its platform, the higher the revenue for Nuvei.
Nuvei stock fell 65% in early 2022 when the tech and crypto bubble burst. It fell another 60% between April and December 2022, as rising interest rates slowed consumer demand.
Nuvei has many growth catalysts, like the recovery of e-commerce volume and an increase in crypto value. The company is riding the secular wave of global payments through different modes. It recently acquired Paya to enter the non-cyclical verticals like utilities and government, giving Nuvei a stable source of revenue. Government contracts have many indirect benefits. They add value to the service quality, helping companies win more orders.
Nuvei has a sufficient cash reserve of $752 million to fund losses, tap growth opportunities, and withstand a recession. It also has the right business and technology to recover in a growing economy.
BlackBerry’s (TSX:BB) turnaround is delayed for a long time due to various industrial and macro headwinds. This software and cybersecurity company has the tech and the advantage of government contracts. However, the macro weakness has forced businesses to postpone IT spending, reducing BlackBerry’s cybersecurity revenue.
Moreover, supply chain issues have created production bottlenecks in auto production, delaying BlackBerry’s royalty revenue from the QNX system. But these delays did not impact BlackBerry’s long-term growth prospects of EV adoption and Internet of Things (IoT) proliferation for mission-critical applications.
BlackBerry has the financial flexibility ($487 million cash and no debt) to handle losses and fund research and development. An economic recovery could boost BlackBerry stock, as it realizes the pent-up demand in its order book.
How to invest in these magnificent growth stocks
Now is a good time to start buying these magnificent growth stocks. Nuvei and BlackBerry stocks have jumped 61% and 22%, respectively, year to date, but they could fall if the recession hits. Instead of waiting for the recession dip, start buying them in small quantities, as they are trading at a discount from their average trading price.
If you invest a little over $400 every month through the 2023 bearish market, you can reduce your purchase cost. After these stocks bottom out in a recession, you can stop buying and hold them for the next five years to take advantage of the recovery rally and secular trends.


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Before you submit that headshot of yourself on LinkedIn or Facebook, you might want to consider — does it really show you in a good light?
A new study finds that people can glean wildly inaccurate first impressions of people based on slight variations in how a person’s face is presented.
“The findings suggest that the images we post online can affect us in unexpected, and undesired, ways, subtly biasing other people’s decisions,” Alexander Todorov of Princeton University said in a press release.
Read the whole story: Discovery News
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The latest fashion job news to come down the wire is that Bally creative directors Graeme Fidler and Michael Herz have resigned, according to WWD. While nobody was available to comment, rumors are already swirling that they may be taking over Emma Hill's former spot at Mulberry.
Fidler and Herz helmed the brand Aquascutum before joining Bally in 2010. They will officially leave in September, and fans can enjoy one last women's collection from them for spring 2014. Sources also predict that either menswear designer Alexandre Mattiussi or John Vizzone (once the senior vice president of Ralph Lauren's Purple and Black Label lines) may be the next in line to creatively direct the Swiss brand.
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Lupita Nyong'o's Stolen Pearl-Covered Oscars Dress Has Been Recovered
The thief returned it to the scene of the crime in a pretty strange fashion.