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Was Bitcoin Sold In Nyc In 2012 15/11/2018 · A Brooklyn businessman who tricked investors into buying cryptocurrency coins he claimed were backed by read estate and diamonds pleaded guilty to. NEW YORK CITY – A New York man has been arrested after he reportedly made over a million dollars selling Chuck E. Cheese tokens as Bitcoins on the streets. Marlon Jensen, 36,
Following the Segwit2x working group’s announcement to cancel the hard fork scheduled for next week, many shocked bitcoin proponents revealed their
26/02/2018 · The anonymous owner of Bitcoin.org, “Cobra Bitcoin,” explains his opinion of the situation and declares that Satoshi’s white paper needs to be revised.
Bitcoin.org Owner Wants to Revise Satoshi’s White PaperThe Segwit2x hard fork has been canceled, but the drama is still not over. On November 8, the same day the Segwit2x working group made their announcement, Theymos, one of the administrators of Bitcoin.org declared a desire for bitcoin businesses to make a pledge.
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Despite that, McAfee said he doesn't want to reveal who exactly wrote bitcoin's white paper, as he fears he could "end up destroying an.
8 Dec 2017.
Do we know if Satoshi lurks around hacker news and is having a chuckle.
The whitepaper helped me understand Bitcoin much better than all the.
a wordprocessor; my PDF reader says it is produced by OpenOffice.org 2.4.
If anyone wants to collaborate on a TeX version, let me know!.
In dit artikel kijken we naar Satoshi Nakamoto, de bedenker van bitcoin.
De eerste keer dat Satoshi zijn whitepaper over bitcoin deelde, was tijdens Halloween in 2008.
Hij maakte ook een website met de domeinnaam bitcoin. org en bleef werken.
Want kijk bijvoorbeeld naar verschillende crypto projecten zoals Ripple,
Furthermore, it’s not the first time the owner of Bitcoin.org proposed revising Satoshi’s white paper as Cobra has been pushing the idea on Github back since 2016. At the time, the idea wasn’t favored as many Github developers expressed their dislike for the proposal that summer.
2 May 2016.
Update:Craig Wright's claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto come under fire.
One side wants to keep bitcoin smallish and pure; the other is pushing for it to.
He not only wrote the white paper, but also the first version of the.
This private key is related to a public key that was linked to from bitcoin.org, a website.
r/btc: /r/btc was created to foster and support free and open Bitcoin discussion, Bitcoin news, and exclusive AMA (Ask Me Anything) interviews from.
Press J to jump to the feed. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. r/btc. log in sign up. User account menu. 166. Bitcoin.org Owner Wants to Revise Satoshi’s White Paper. Close. 166. Posted by. u/Bitcoinmathers. 1.
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Publications must mention the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto (pseudonym) .
“Digital gold: Bitcoin and the inside story of the misfits and millionaires trying to.
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“A study of digital currency cryptography for business marketing and finance.
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Bitcoin.org Owner Wants to Revise Satoshi’s White Paper Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 11/10/2017 – 23:00 Additionally, one of the administrators of Bitcoin.org, Theymos, wants the web portal’s recommended businesses such as wallet services and exchanges to pledge that “Bitcoin is not ruled by miners” or otherwise be removed from the site’s link page.


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However, the e-liquid in most vape merchandise incorporates nicotine, an addictive substance that impacts adolescent mind growth. One JUUL pod, the most well-liked vape product, accommodates as a lot nicotine as a pack of cigarettes.
More than one in 4 American teenagers have tried vaping, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A research revealed in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that 12% of sixteen- and 17-12 months-olds have been hooked on nicotine, and raised the alarm about the impact of nicotine on the adolescent brain. The Food and Drug Administration just lately described using e-cigarettes as a “disaster among America’s youth”. The increased use of vapes is pushed, in part, by the assumption that vapes are protected and usually are not addictive like cigarettes.
The smoke-free and tobacco-free insurance policies at schools, businesses, healthcare establishments, and different organizations should also cover e-cigarettes. This will assist non-customers keep away from being exposed to doubtlessly dangerous e-cigarette aerosol. Although the term “vapor” might sound innocent, the aerosol that comes out of an e-cigarette just isn’t water vapor and may be harmful. The aerosol from an e-cigarette can comprise nicotine and different substances that are addictive and may cause lung disease, coronary heart illness, and most cancers. Another promising method is to make nicotine-vaping products dearer.
What’s extra, liquid nicotine also has been linked to seizures, especially when utilizing merchandise like JUULs which include a high focus of nicotine. Perhaps one of the stunning dangers associated with e-cigarettes and vaping is the risk of explosions and fireplace from the units. Fire Administration, officers reported that the form and development of e-cigarettes make them extra prone to explode than different products with lithium-ion batteries.
Selling And Protecting Town’s Well Being
In truth, when the batteries fail, they behave like “flaming rockets.” For occasion, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine indicated in a consensus research report that reviewed more than 800 completely different studies, that utilizing e-cigarettes, or vaping causes health risks. They additionally concluded that e-cigarettes comprise a number of potentially toxic substances that irritate the lungs and trigger numerous health points. But, the FDA has not discovered any e-cigarette to be protected or efficient in serving to smokers quit, based on the American Lung Association. In truth, there is some evidence that the majority smokers today are “twin customers,” utilizing each cigarettes and e-cigarettes. They merely vape in places or in situations the place they cannot smoke like a restaurant or at a friend’s house. Using an e-cigarette is called vaping, although teens check with using JUULs, a pod-sort of e-cigarette, as juuling.
- For instance, a study within the journal, Pediatrics, found that teenagers who never smoked but began vaping had been more likely to strive cigarettes than youngsters who never vape.
- Additionally, several studies point out that vaping may very well serve as a gateway to smoking, particularly among teens and young adults.
- However, nicotine ranges usually are not the identical in all types of e-cigarettes, and sometimes product labels don’t list the true nicotine content.
- They found that kids who vape are more likely to smoke cigarettes or different tobacco products over the next yr than kids who are non-customers.
- What’s more, many people assume that e-cigarettes and podsmall.com vaping are protected alternatives to smoking.
In California, as cigarette smoking among youth has decreased to historic lows, vaping has dramatically increased. While it is decrease than the nationwide common, eleven% of California high school college students in 2018 reported that they used vapes up to now 30 days.
When taxes compelled up the value of tobacco products, Audrain-McGovern says, the variety of younger prospects declined. In addition to the sickness caused by these tainted products, the resulting public well being response has in many ways deepened the divide between vaping shoppers, manufacturers, and some public well being agencies and consultants. This divide is evident even in makes an attempt to name what exactly occurred to victims. Liquid nicotine is particularly dangerous to young youngsters, and reports of poisonings are on the rise. Parents and older siblings ought to be suggested to maintain e-cigarettes out of attain of babies.

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The Settlers gaming series is finally ready to make it’s return as Ubisoft has revealed a release date for The Settlers: New Allies!
Fans were expecting to get their hands on The Settlers reboot, titled New Allies, earlier this year…Alas, it wasn’t in the cards. Thankfully, however, we won’t have to wait much longer as Ubisoft has finally given the game a new release date: February 17, 2023.
In this build-up real-time strategy game, players will settle onto a new land, build their communities, meet new factions, and choose to welcome them as allies or enemies in order to protect and defend their new settlement.
Players can enjoy The Settlers: New Allies in one of three game modes:
Single-player campaign: As the Elari are forced to flee its homeland, they must settle on new and unknown territories. These new Settlers will have to face many challenges on their journey, from the raiding of ruthless bandits to the discovery of the new culture of these lands.
Hardcore Mode: As players will be able to play new scenarios, a wide range of modifiers and conditions will make the AI an even more challenging opponent. Adaptability is key in this new mode that will put the best players to the test, alone or with friends.
Skirmish: Players will be able to experience Solo vs. AI, co-op vs. AI or PvP featuring up to eight players on the 12 maps available at launch.
The Settlers: New Allies is also in development for Xbox, PlayStation, Amazon Luna, and Nintendo Switch. Even better, it will feature cross-play/progression between all versions of the game!


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on speculation from an industry analyst, which GamesIndustry.biz has published. Prudential analyst Jesse Tortora gesticulates wildly in the direction of renewed interest by Apple in the games market
. From the GI.biz article: "We think the videogame market represents a distinct possibility for Apple, especially considering that it recently announced the availability of videogames for its iPod through its iTunes store ... The game console device could be morphed out of some combination of the MacMini and iTV, while the handheld player could be developed as an enhancement for a future version of the widescreen iPod."


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General Motors has extended ship-to-commerce approval to IMPCO Automotive for bi-fuel compressed natural gas (CNG) fuel systems on model-year 2014 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD and GMC Sierra 2500 HD crew-cab trucks.
Trucks equipped with the bi-fuel CNG systems can now make their way through GM dealerships en route to customers, IMPCO notes.
Concurrently, IMPCO confirmed that these systems have attained certification from the U.S. Environmental Protective Agency (EPA) and California Air Resources Board (CARB).
IMPCO Automotive is a unit of IMPCO Technologies Inc. and subsidiary of Fuel Systems Solutions Inc. The company integrates single-tank CNG systems on the GM trucks using GM's OEM processes and standards.


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Tile Shop hits the marble floor running
Is Tile Shop the fastest-growing specialty building product retailer in the country? Or does it just seem like it?
In the span of a month, Tile Shop locations cropped up in Tulsa, Danbury, San Antonio and Oklahoma City. And since it went public in August 2012, the Minneapolis-based retailer has been expanding aggressively. Twenty stores opened in 2013, debuting in new markets amid a beefed-up corporate infrastructure.
CEO Robert Rucker says earnings will come for the Tile Shop, which swung to a slight profit in the fourth quarter after two years of much bigger losses.
“While we made progress in strengthening The Tile Shop brand and infrastructure this past year, we recognize that we have more work in 2014 and beyond,” said Rucker in a prepared statement. “We continue to firmly believe that as our new stores mature, the company will return to the historical levels of profitability.”
One reason for that optimism, said Tile Shop COO Chris Homeister, is changing consumer tastes. “We feel that the timing within the industry is absolutely right,” he said. “There continues to be a growing acceptance and desire to have hard surface flooring and tile. We’ve been warmly received everywhere, even though we don’t advertise very much. We rely upon word of mouth and social media.”
Joan Storms, senior VP equity research at Wedbush Morgan Securities, believes it’s the fastest-growing retailer of its kind, just ahead of Lumber Liquidators. Publicly traded Tile Shop is aided by a “strong and best-in-industry store model supported by strong sourcing margins, since they source direct,” she said in an email.
The company is planning another 20 new stores in fiscal 2014. And Homeister said they’ll be staffed by designers who know the product: “We feel we can inspire people when we bring them into the store.”
Taking the show online
Darrell Wabschall is a man on a mission.
The founder and CEO of the Vendor Center, the business-to-business, password-protected Web service, believes that there is a better way to efficiently connect retailer buyers with vendors and their products.
Brewing for the past six years, the idea for Vendor Center started out as an online trade show concept and soon morphed into something more permanent. “This is information that is valuable to retailers every day, not just once or twice a year,” he said. “It’s a 21st century solution that surprisingly hasn’t been adopted yet.”
Wabschall, a former home product marketer on the trade show circuit, said the germ of his idea was born at a hardware market, when a retail customer explained that she was going to go sightseeing instead of visiting Wabschall’s booth.
“That’s when it hit me,” he said. “I just busted a gut to get a booth, and a potential customer was going sightseeing. It’s a 1960s business model, masquerading as an up-to-date model,” he said.
There are those who disagree. And they’re quick to point out that the face-to-face interaction and walk-up-and-touch-it features of the current market system will never lose their appeal.
Wabschall believes the Vendor Center can find a role as a supplement to the existing go-to-market system, providing 24/7 information and interaction.
The Vendor Center is a system open to retailers for free. Revenue is generated from fees from participating vendors. “I like to use the analogy that it’s Wikipedia meets You-Tube meets Amazon.com,” Wabschall said. “It’s everything a vendor could possibly want a retailer to know about their product.”
Weiman cleans up nicely
A proliferation of specialty surfaces in the house — from stainless steel appliances to granite countertops to any number of glowing rectangles — means one thing: more specialty cleaners.
That’s the attitude at Gurnee, Ill.-based Weiman Products, which last month acquired several brands formerly in The Homax Group.
Mass merchants dominate cleaning product sales, but home improvement stores have an opportunity in the cleaning aisle, especially as the products continue to specialize, according to Weiman CEO Carl DeMasi.
“The overall market continues to grow, particularly the specialty cleaning sector,” he said. “Consumers are looking for advice, and the hardware store can provide that.”
Under the deal, Goo Gone, Magic, Stone Care International, OOPS! Paint Remover and Gonzo join the Weiman family of products, including the market-leading Weiman Cook Top Cleaner.
The company declined to reveal the terms of the deal. But DeMasi was open about the selling proposition of a specialty cleaning product. “They have to work,” he said. “Quality is No. 1. You need innovation. Not just another ‘me, too.’ ”


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Currently, the mobile applications market is worth about $6.8 billion. And its all set to grow to $25 billion in the next 4 years. And India will be at the forefront of this growth story.
Presenting the five trends that will very soon take the mobile app world in India by storm.
1) Business Apps :- In India, there has been a boom in gaming and other leisure mobile applications. But, till now there has been no mobile applications used by the business community. In the western countries, there has been a surge of business apps recently.
There are apps that have various business functionalities like stock market tracking, uploading videos and presentations to the cloud, social networking (yammer), analytics tools, mind maps, etc. The few business apps that exist in India like the NSE trading mobile app are very complicated to operate and very few people know about their existence. But this is about to change. Many of the mobile app developers in India are entering into this domain. Many of them already have expertise in this field as they have developed products for foreign companies. And now India Inc also feels the need for business apps to aid them.
2) Cloud Computing
Although there has been much innovation and R&D in cloud computing, not a lot of it has reached the mobile application domain in India. In the U.S., the increase in cloud computing apps has been exponential. These are among the most popular apps sold on the iPhone and Android marketplaces.
According to a recent survey the cloud computing apps have the following number of users:-
a) Location (38%) like Visa
b) Notification (36%) like Facebook
c) Rating&Reviews (11%) like IMDB
d) Photo (8%) like instagram
e) Check-ins (7%) like four square
In India,their growth has been slow up till now, mainly due to the unavailability of fast internet connections on the phone. But now with the advent of 3G and faster data transfer speeds, this domain is all set to grow at a very fast pace.
3) Location based apps
LBA are used in a variety of contexts, such as health, indoor object search,entertainment, work, personal life, etc. It includes services to identify a location of a person or object, such as discovering the nearest banking cash machine or the whereabouts of a friend or employee.
It can be also used in other creative marketing purposes as well. For example, the popular Finnish iPhone game Shadow Cities, which recently made its debut in the U.S., uses the city of each player as a game board, allowing them to roam their neighborhood casting spells and taking over city blocks. Players can engage with others nearby by either teaming up or fighting over territory.
It presents a valuable opportunity to marketers that want to foster emotional connections with their audiences.
These apps have not found a market in India because:-
a) they have never been customized for the Indian market.
b) slow data transfer rates and poor GPS facilities.
c) lack of awareness of these apps among the users.
But now several developers have already started venturing into this domain. Eg; An Indian developer has developed an app called hoppr which is based on Foursquare’s idea and also gives location based discounts.
4) Mobile Payment
Mobile payment is an alternative payment method. Instead of paying with cash, check, or credit cards, a consumer can use a mobile phone to pay for a wide range of services and digital or hard goods. This segment is expected to exceed $300B globally by 2013.
In India, due to issues in security and unreliable internet, this market is still nascent. But as awareness about this technology spreads, the market will expand because this has many advantages like cash free transactions, instantaneous payments, etc. There has been a growth in the mobile banking segment in India as many players like mcheck have forayed into it.
5) Windows Phone
Although, till now, the user interface of the windows phone OS has been very poor and there are very few apps for this as compared to iPhone or Android, it is going to change very soon.
Microsoft has officially announced the first details of Windows Phone 8 (Apollo) that include a better interface and many new features. The partnership with Nokia is certainly helping, as will the announcement that the Windows Phone Marketplace is now up to 100,000 apps with more coming – from the PayPal support for Wallet to iPhone must-haves like Words with Friends and Audible, plus Zynga’s newly acquired Draw Something. Although this phenomenon is not particular to India as this market will grow at a very fast pace worldwide, but as the India is going to grow faster, so this will be a market to keep an eye out for.


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L’amour is in the air with fashionable cell phones
Nokia’s high-end L’Amour Collection of stylized cell phones is now available in Canada, the firm reported last month. The 7380 handset is a lipstick-shaped phone that is small enough to fit in a handbag or pants pocket. It features a mirrored display for lipstick touch-ups and hairstyle checks. The mirror acts as the colour display screen once the phone is turned on. In addition, the phone is keyless and offers an iPod-like click wheel to call friends. The 7380 phone is designed for those who want to make a statement, Nokia says, and is not meant to be used for everyday use, but as an “evening phone.” The phone is priced at $775 and available at retailer Holt Renfrew. For more information on the Nokia 7380, visit www.nokia.ca.
Would you like some robotic cookware?
Vita Craft Corp., a cookware company based in Shawnee, Kan., has developed a set of pots and pans that feature embedded RFID chips. Dubbed “robotic cookware,” the chips in the cookware use a proprietary signal to communicate with chips in the cooktop and in special recipe cards that monitor each cooking step of a particular dish. The company says the line of cookware is designed to regulate the induction temperature throughout a dish’s cooking cycle to avoid burned or undercooked meals. A recipe card is dropped into boiling water which the system then reads. The system prompts the cook for the ingredients and also tells them when to pull stuff off the heat. Each tag can incorporate 23 separate recipe steps for such dishes as chili and mashed potatoes.
Gadget gives driver green lights and a fine
Recently, a man from Longmont, Col., was caught with a device that lets him change traffic stop lights from red to green — just so he wouldn’t be late for work. Jason Niccum bought the device, called an Opticon, two years ago on eBay for US$100. He received a US$50 fine for interfering with a traffic signal and had the gadget confiscated. The device is similar to ones that firefighters use to change lights when they respond to emergencies. It does so by emitting an infrared pulse that receivers on the traffic lights pick-up. Niccum was caught when city traffic engineers noticed repeated traffic disruptions at certain intersections everytime a Ford pickup passed by. The city of Longmont plans on upgradiing its Opticon system this year to block any unauthorized light changing signals.
Get a car despite bad credit
Is bad credit preventing you from owning a car? Worry no more, particularly if you live in Dallas. Credit-impaired drivers in that city can drive off the lot of North Texas Motorcars with a new car — but with some strings attached. On the dashboard of thesecars is a black box that starts flashing on the first day a car payment is late. After four days of non-payment the car won’t start. The box is called an On Time unit and is mostly installed at used car dealerships that provide financing to customers with bad credit. The On Time units are also being shipped to dealerships with a GPS system in order to track down cars that have missed payments. According to officials, the device has helped reduce late payments by 70 per cent and also improved customer satisfaction levels. The On Time device is complicated enough that customers cannot disable one. Once the car is fully paid for, the black box can be easily removed.


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Charlotte’s Internet inventory is risky in Wednesday’s session after Charlotte’s Internet Holdings (TSX:CWEB) (OTCQX:CWBHF) reported a decrease than estimated income and revenue for the second quarter.
Income Soars 45%, However Under Estimates
One of many firms which have managed to construct a worthwhile operation on the again of hemp-based CBD merchandise is Charlotte’s Internet Holdings, and at present, it’s the greatest firm in its specific line of enterprise. The corporate launched its Q2 2019 outcomes in the present day, and though it did handle to show a revenue, it was decrease than what it generated within the prior-year quarter.
Revenues soared by as a lot as 45% year-over-year to hit $25 million, up from $17.2 million that it had generated within the prior-year quarter. Earnings for the interval stood at $2.2 million, which mirrored a big drop from the $3.7 million that the corporate generated within the second quarter final yr.
Analysts had been projecting the corporate to report a revenue of two cents a share on income of $26.Three million.
The corporate additionally said that 53% of its revenues had been generated by its retail shops; nonetheless, on the identical time, bills shot as much as $16.2 million. Within the prior-year quarter, bills got here in at $8.2 million.
>> HEXO Inventory: A Story of Two Halves, So What’s an Investor to Do?
Proper now Charlotte’s Internet inventory is down 8.10% after dropping as a lot as 15% earlier within the day.
The corporate additionally launched a variety of recent merchandise throughout the quarter, together with CBD gummies. Moreover, Charlotte’s Internet has expanded its operations considerably and in addition spent closely on R&D. This specific initiative meant that the corporate used up as a lot as $15.1 million of its operations money within the first six months of the yr. In 2018, it had solely used up $6.1 million within the first half of the yr.
Though the corporate’s earnings shrunk on this quarter, it must be reiterated that Charlotte’s Internet Holdings’ enterprise technique is past reproach and it has helped the corporate to emerge because the market chief in hemp-based CBD. The Farm Invoice that was handed in 2018 legalized hemp in the US and that has confirmed to be a selected enhance for the corporate at massive.
Along with that, it’s essential to understand that the CBD market is predicted to develop at a breakneck tempo over the following few years. In keeping with one estimate, it could possibly be value as a lot as $22 billion in 2022, and Charlotte’s Internet is constructing in the direction of cornering a serious chunk of that market.
Regardless of in the present day’s fall, Charlotte’s Internet inventory has soared over 80% previously two months.
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In India success is all about a well designed car with enough features and a competitive price. The best example for this is the recent addition in the SUV segment, the Mahindra XUV500. The credit of its success lies in its toughness, radical design, breathtaking features and impressive pricing.
It has proved to be the best priced car and its success is well explained by the fact that Mahindra & Mahindra had to stop taking fresh bookings after receiving 8000 bookings. Ever since its launch, other potent brands are also in the race to come up with a similar product but the most interesting part is that Hyundai is also competing with them.
Hyundai, which recently launched Hyundai Santa Fe, is now planning for a low cost SUV and surprisingly, ahead of all, they are ready with a concept. The Concept design will be showcased at the upcoming 2012 Auto Expo.
image – Hyundai Compact SUV just for illustration
As being reported, the car will be under 4 meters and could probably have Tucson looks. Hyundai Tucson, if you don’t remember, was a crossover SUV launched by Hyundai a couple of years back. Unfortunately it could not sell enough Tucsons and the car turned out to be a disaster.
Now, after many years, the brand is all set to rock the compact SUV segment with a low cost offering. Speculations say that it would be priced around Rs. 10 Lakh and will be packed with interesting features. Earlier the Tucson was brought via the CBU route, which was quite expensive but now with enough local vendors in its favor, the brand has the potential to impress the customers.
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Oklahoma City’s COOP Ale Works has been invited to take part in the ninth annual Boulder Strong Ale Festival, the brewery announced recently. The festival will be hosted by Avery Brewing Co. on Feb. 18-19. The Friday session will be 5 to 10 p.m. and the Saturday session will be noon to 5 p.m. COOP announced they will share DNR and the 2009 Territorial Reserve Oak-Aged Imperial Stout. Other breweries taking part will be:
-Dogfish Head (Delaware)
-Ommegang (New York)
-Oskar Blues (Colorado)
-Pizza Port (California)
-Redstone Meadery (Colorado)
-The Bruery (California)
-Trinity Brewing (Colorado)
-Victory Brewing (Pennsylvania)
A limited number of tickets may still be available. If you’re interested in a road trip, click here for tickets.
Ladies and gentlemen, I promised on Friday that you’d get an exclusive beer announcement today. Well, say hello to the newest addition the Mustang Brewing Co. lineup…
Mustang Pawnee Pale!
As you can see on the label, Pawnee Pale will be an American pale ale. Here is the beer description provided by Mustang president Tim Schoelen:
“Bringing the best of Old World East and New World West together is what makes Pawnee Pale a truly American-style pale ale. A tantalizing blend of German Perle and U.S. Pacific Northwest hops give this beer a moderate, citrus, hop quality. American, British, and caramel malts provide a rich maltiness not found in most pale ales. At 6% ABV and 42 IBU’s, Pawnee Pale is distinctly hopped, yet still carries that session beer quality you have come to expect from Mustang.”
Schoelen said Mustang has received many requests for an IPA, but struggled with how they could make one in the session beer range. Thus an American pale ale was the answer. The Pawnee Pale was anonymously debuted at a tasting panel at McNellie’s OKC in December, and Schoelen said it by far was the choice of beer fans among the six beers tested that night. The beer is set to be released March 1, and you can expect it in stores a week to two weeks after that.
But stop the presses, people! On top of the fact that we just announced the release of a new beer, The Thirsty Beagle has even more exciting news to pass your way: Pawnee Pale will be Mustang’s first beer brewed in Oklahoma. Through a partnership with Choc Beer Co., Mustang will brew all of its kegs of Pawnee Pale at the Choc facility in Krebs. Bottles will still be brewed in Wisconsin. But the Pawnee Pale you get on tap at local watering holes will be an Oklahoma-made product.
This will be Choc’s second beer partnership in Oklahoma, following last year’s release of Choc/Marshall Wild Brew, and obviously Mustang’s first in-state brewing partnership. Schoelen also confirmed that Pawnee Pale hopefully will not be the last beer brewed at Choc. A second beer tested at the tasting panel will also be released in 2011, Schoelen said. One potential plan would see demand for Pawnee Pale ramp up beyond what can be produced locally, sending brewing to Wisconsin to make room at Choc for the next addition to the Mustang line-up. However it shakes out, it sounds like another big year ahead for Mustang.
Hello beer fans of Oklahoma! Please check The Thirsty Beagle blog first thing Monday morning for an exclusive beer announcement! You’ll see it here first, people! I can’t stop using exclamation points! Until then, here’s some beer news to tide you over.
-Congrats to McNellie’s Tulsa for making the list of Draft Magazine’s 100 Best Beer Bars in America.
-One man’s list of the top 10 beer moments in Oklahoma in 2010. I found this link on Facebook, and a few people there commented that Oklahoma legalizing homebrewing should have been on the list. I would have to agree. But otherwise, a good list.
-Word on the street is that the first public offering from Redbud Brewing Co. will be in stores any time now. Cuvee 1, a Belgian-style golden ale. Check your local store for availability. I’ll have more on Cuvee 1, and the upcoming Cuvee 2, coming up on the blog.
The newest homebrewing club in the Oklahoma City area — the Red Earth Brewers — recently announced that a call for new logos for the club resulted in a pair of choices.
To recap, the club started with this:
And now has upgraded to this and this:
Personally, I prefer the hand/mug logo over the bottle cap logo. I’m not sure if one will win out over the other eventually, or if the plan is to use both. Any REB members know the scoop?
I spoke recently with Choc’s Zach Prichard because I’ve really been looking forward to Choc’s new Oak Aged Quad. Here’s a quick update: Choc is expecting to have the Oak Aged Quad in bottles by the end of this week. After that, it’ll spend two to three weeks in the bottle for conditioning. Beer fans can expect to see Oak Aged Quad on store shelves by the end of the month. In case you don’t remember my earlier OAQ post, here’s a refresher: Choc will release only 1,080 numbered, corked-and-caged 750-ml (25.4 oz.) bottles. The beer is a spin-off of Choc’s award-winning Signature Belgian-Sytle Quad. The OAQ will check in at 11% ABV.
I traded e-mails recently with Mustang Brewing president Tim Schoelen following his recent tasting panel event at McNellie’s OKC. Schoelen and Mustang brewmaster Gary Shellman rolled out six varieties of beer for the panel as they look to select the next addition to the Mustang lineup. Schoelen reports that one beer stood out over the other five, and that Mustang fans should be on the lookout for news on a new beer pretty soon.
Not an advertisement for McNellie’s here. A tip, actually, that Chase Healey — formerly of COOP Ale Works, now of Redbud Brewing — will be sampling some of his new Redbud Pale Ale starting at 5 p.m. today at McNellie’s OKC.
In other local beer news:
-Pete’s Place Beer Dinner Vol. 6 is set for Jan. 14 in Krebs. Call (918) 423-2042 to make reservations.
-The final cases of Marshall’s El CuCuy India-Style Black Ale shipped last week, so pick some up soon if you want to try it, or want to try some more.
-Mustang Brewing released this statement in mid-December. Meant to post it sooner: “The final 600 cases of Mustang Amber Lager will be bottled (Dec. 15). Get it while you can! We’re putting the brakes on any more Amber Lager production until next winter. Golden Ale and Washita Wheat will stay available year-round in bottles and kegs. Our new beers for 2011 will be announced soon.”


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UPPER MERION>>Do you necessarily need an olive tree climbing to the sky right through the floor of a restaurant to top off your experience there?
Probably not, but it certainly enhances the ambiance, while somehow symbolizing the camaraderie thriving underneath it, as guests of MidiCi, The Neapolitan Pizza Co., discovered on opening day recently.
“It’s lovely, especially with all the lights on it,” marveled one patron, whose table happened to be located near the unique centerpiece at King of Prussia Town Center’s latest fast casual eatery.
The meticulously maintained olive tree has a name, Isabella, explained Dawn Fisher, who co-owns the first MidiCi (pronounced Mee-Dee-Chee, meaning “you tell me” in Italian) restaurant in Pennsylvania with her husband, Phil Fisher.
“She is a black olive tree and she’s growing right from the earth. One of the things we’ve been told from the growers is that it’s not uncommon for the trees to drop their leaves as they adjust to a new environment. But in all the months she’s been planted here she’s never dropped her leaves. Her energy is phenomenal, and she seems to really love it in here,” Fisher said.
The California-based pizza franchise with a mission “to bring friends together” was created as a gathering spot for food, drink and conversation over a menu focusing on flash-fired, authentic Neapolitan pizzas made in front of you with basic, simple ingredients and baked to perfection at around 1,000 degrees in 90 seconds in a hand-crafted, wood-fired oven from Naples.
The menu — created by a couple of renowned pizza chefs — also features non-GMO appetizers, salads, meatballs, Italian gelato and a signature dessert, Nutella calzone, featuring whipped cream, raspberries and the famous hazelnut-chocolate concoction.
Diners can choose from traditional and signature menu items or create their own personalized Neapolitan pizzas in the invitingly wide-open, briskly humming kitchen that rivals Isabella for the spotlight in the restaurant.
It’s all part of the young chain’s culture — nourished by founder Amit Kleinberger’s philosophy that “pizza is not meant to be just eaten,” but shared and celebrated, “fostering real human connections and togetherness” — that so enchanted the Lehigh Valley couple seeking their first entrepreneurial venture, explained Fisher, a teacher in the Allentown area.
“My husband and I have always been sort of entrepreneurial for 30 years, but a few years ago a job change for him caused us to get more serious about it,” she said. “We looked into seven different franchises, and when we saw this we knew this was the culture we wanted to be part of … family, good whole foods and being able to see your food being made. We were completely immersed in the culture we saw but hadn’t tried the food yet. So we flew out to California to see the operation, met the CEO and it confirmed everything we saw on paper. It was exactly what we were looking for. Then we tried the food, and it was phenomenal. The dough is made with four simple ingredients: flour, yeast, water and salt. Our prosciutto is imported from Italy and aged 18 months.”
Despite the upscale atmosphere — “fast fine” is the designation of choice, reportedly coined by the chain itself — Fisher is proud of the restaurant’s affordable menu, which offers pizzas starting at $6.50.
“We wanted it to be a place where the whole family can come to eat often,” she said. “In California it’s typical for the lines in the evening to stretch around the building, and that word from California has now made it across the country.”
The geniality of the staff of around 65 people forms the essence of the all-important MidiCi culture, Fisher noted.
“When we came together for the first time we didn’t talk about food for the first three hours. We talked about each other and what it was we were looking for. These are people from all different walks of life who have different goals and dreams who can be very proud of what they’re putting on the table. And that’s why they’re all here,” she said.
As newly inducted restaurateurs, Fisher and her husband already have their sights set on launching a second MidiCi, possibly in their own neck of the woods in the Lehigh Valley.
“This location in King of Prussia is fantastic. We feel we’re in the best place we could be. Our biggest concern,” she added, laughing, “is that choosing our next place will be really challenging, because this place is so wonderful.”
MidiCi, The Neapolitan Pizza Co., is located at 201 Main St., King of Prussia. Hours are Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 11 to 1 a.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.


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- Aug 02, 2015 23:21 IST
Now, in the age of the internet and e-commerce, having too many apps on your handtop is the equivalent of going through a long, cramped main street rather than a shopping mall.
- Jul 26, 2015 23:31 IST
The controversial taxi service, Uber, has been in the news for safety-related issues, but there is no doubt that it has revolutionised the business by bringing in "ride sharing" - the business of linking unused taxi capacity with passengers through a mobile app that becomes an online marketplace.
- Jul 19, 2015 22:41 IST
Putting two and two together, I can only say that the potential for growth is immense, but the app economy will likely grow in fits and starts. This is because unlike the IT services industry that saw the rise of giants such as TCS, Infosys and Wipro, apps are increasingly developed by smaller “boutiques”
- Jul 13, 2015 19:00 IST
The India and Greek crises are quite different from each other – but both have in common a history of high government spending, a threat to foreign exchange rates and a sharp wound on national pride.
- Jun 29, 2015 01:32 IST
Time and again I recall the garment industry to get a better perspective on India’s IT industry because there are tectonic shifts in the industry that makes some pessimists look askance at the future of the industry.
- Jun 22, 2015 13:19 IST
I had an interesting evening last week, attending a session that showcased Xiaomi's Mi4 smartphone .
- Jun 15, 2015 14:12 IST
The big question is whether India's media or govt should accuse the US of "visa terrorism".
- May 31, 2015 20:39 IST
In this Era of Smartphone Confusion, with multiple brands, impressive features, competitive price-tags and innovative branding, what to keep in mind, N Madhavan explains through three simple laws.
- May 24, 2015 23:27 IST
Satya Nadella seems set for his next big purchase -- and Microsoft has about $95 billion in cash. That is about Rs 600,000 crore! Reports came at the weekend that the software giant pulled back from acquiring Salesforce.com, arguably the biggest small-business software company located in the cloud (or the internet).
- May 22, 2015 22:45 IST
Youth, optimism and thinking big are now the defining traits in a city whose mild weather is heated up by young and restless entrepreneurs. In such a mood, reckless, impulsive talk is not just accepted. It is almost celebrated.
- May 17, 2015 23:44 IST
Just when India is warming up in a heated debate on net neutrality, here comes some interesting news. Last week, US telecom operator Verizon Communications announced it will acquire AOL (America Online) for $4.4 billion (or about Rs 28,000 crore).
- May 10, 2015 16:50 IST
Events over the past week show how Big Brother may watch you more and more as you shop online in India. And whether that is a good thing or not depends on you.
- May 03, 2015 23:38 IST
IT SHOULD not surprise long-time watchers that India’s software service companies are facing multiple challenges. No honeymoon lasts forever.
- Apr 27, 2015 16:27 IST
I sat at my computer on Saturday and felt my chair shaking. Within a minute, I was logged on to Twitter and sharing my experience, like dozens of others across India. Over the next few minutes, I had checked and shared a link from the Indian Met Department that tracks seismic events (it still had no information yet). Many others chipped in. Over the next few minutes, we got news of the epicentre being in Nepal.
- Apr 19, 2015 23:07 IST
While India saw heated protests and a debate last week over Net Neutrality -- the call to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) for strictly separating content (apps) and carriage (data plans), the European Union’s Competition Commissioner took a step forward in another side of the business by charging Google with defying what is called “search neutrality”.


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Nigeria’s economic growth for the third quarter of 2023 is projected to be weaker on the back of the slow expansion in the monthly Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), analysts have said.
This comes before the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) is expected to release the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) report for Q3 next month.
According to the latest monthly PMI by Stanbic IBTC Bank, the headline index for August dipped to 50.2 from 51.7 in July. But it improved marginally to 51.1 in September. Readings above 50.0 signal an improvement in business conditions, while those below show deterioration.
“Q3 growth will come out weaker than what was recorded in the previous quarter on the back of the impact of the petrol subsidy removal and naira devaluation, which has constrained activities in the real sector of the economy,” Gbolahan Ologunro, portfolio manager at FBNQuest, said.
He said the GDP might be within the range of 1.95 percent or two percent. “The challenging economic condition witnessed during the third quarter, pretty much extended from Q2.”
Africa’s biggest economy grew marginally to 2.51 percent in Q2 from 2.31 percent in the previous quarter. But on a year-on-year basis, it slowed from 3.64 percent in the same period of last year.
“Casting the mind back to Q2, you did realise that services powered the growth in that period although agriculture picked up and industry contracted,” Israel Odubola, a Lagos-based research economist, said.
He added that for Q3, the trend will stay the same and that services will continue to lead growth; while agriculture and industry have been affected by economic challenges.
“On a balance of factors, I am of the view that growth for Q3 will hover around two percent, which is still suboptimal considering the country’s potential growth.”
The PMI index, which measures the performance of the private sector, is derived from a survey of 400 companies from agriculture, manufacturing, services, construction and retail sectors.
It is a composite index based on five individual indexes with the following weights: new orders (30 percent), output (25 percent), employment (20 percent), suppliers’ delivery times (15 percent) and stock of items purchased (10 percent), with the delivery times index inverted so that it moves in a comparable direction.
“I would be surprised if the economy grows more than one percent, especially with the softness in the currency market. Manufacturers and big agricultural producers are struggling with securing foreign exchange in order to get inputs for their businesses,” Ikemesit Effiong, head of research and partner at SBM Intelligence, said.
The Tinubu administration’s reforms such as the removal of petrol subsidy and naira devaluation, implemented in the second quarter of the year, increased the cost of living in the country.
The removal of the fuel subsidy tripled the petrol price to N617 from N184, causing public transportation providers such as buses, tricycles and motorcycles to raise transportation fares.
The floating of the naira increased the official exchange rate from N463.38/$ to N 782.68/$ as of Thursday while the parallel market rate stood at N1,150 /$.
The high cost of dollars and the implementation of a 7.5 percent value-added tax on diesel imports, which was suspended last month, pushed its pump price to as high as N1,200 per litre.
Data from the NBS shows that the continued depreciation of the naira was a major contributing factor to the country’s inflation rate which rose to an 18-year high of 26.72 percent in September from 25.80 percent in the previous month.
Inflation and the exchange rate are still going up making the cost of raw materials for industries to be expensive, according to Gabriel Idahosa, deputy president of Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
“Nigeria’s GDP will continue to slow until the first quarter of next year when we might likely see any significant change in direction,” he said.


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Earlier this past year it was revealed that Sony was coming out with a nifty update for LittleBigPlanet 2 that would turn your PSVita into a controller for the game.
This news came out long before the reveal, and release of the new Nintendo Wii U, but in a sense its the exact same thing. You link up your PSVita, and its your controller for the game.
Sony has now revealed via their official Blog that the update that fans have been waiting for is going to now be live starting today on the PSN for $4.99.
Here is their official press release:


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Lithium Ion Batteries Starting Fires in Richland Landfill
Richland Sanitation officials remind residents, as we start off a new year, to NOT include any cellphone or other lithium ion batteries with their trash. These are not the AA or AAA batteries commonly used in TV remotes, or children's toys.
If you pop off the back of your cellphone, you will see one of these style batteries. They're used to power virtually every digital device. Much bigger versions are the ones used in electric or hybrid cars.
The reason for the warning is the Horn Rapids Landfill has seen it's share of fires the last few years, including a couple in 2018. Those fires, combined with reports of others at landfills on the West Coast, are due to these batteries sparking fires.
It happens commonly in one of two ways. Although they're considered 'dead' (too weak to power a device or worn out) they still can spark. The terminals often come in contact with other metals creating sparks. Or the battery case becomes damaged and the lithium ion item explodes. 65 percent of landfill fires in CA are said to be attributed to lithium ion causes.
If you do need to replace such batteries, check with your local City Hall about when and where there are drop off sites or events. Place the batteries in a zip lock bag and dispose of them properly. Don't just throw them in the trash, they could cause a fire.


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Nielsen recently hosted and participated in the kick-off webinar of the LEAD (Leading Executives Advancing Diversity) Network’s Diversity & Inclusion Best Practice series with Unilever to explore the challenges women face and how they are communicating and engaging to create equality.
On average, 91% of European women say they have shared or primary responsibility for daily shopping, household chores and food prep. All of this amounts to additional demands each week, less time to meet them and even less time available for family, friends and activities.
By 2028, women will own 75% of the discretionary spend, making them the world’s greatest influencers. But they're also shouldering more of the household burdens, feeling less financially secure and still are facing serious barriers when it comes to equality. It's time brands wise up to women.
For brands to succeed today, they need to find ways to address the challenges women face. Making up half of the population, women are key influencers across the globe. And the reality is that women still shoulder most of the household responsibilities.
In a new gender-focused study, we looked at consumer confidence, economic sentiment and spending intentions by gender over the past five years to understand how the needs and wants of female consumers have evolved.
In addition to being hyper connected and digitally driven, Millennials are focused on personal experiences. And for many, those experiences happen away from home. Notably, Millennials are very interested in travel—and shopping along their journeys.
In addition to being hyper connected and digitally driven, Millennials are focused on personal experiences. And for many, those experiences happen away from home. Notably, Millennials are very interested in travel. In fact, they travel more than any other generation, including Baby Boomers.
As a consumer group, Millennials are just starting to flex their spending power, which will grow significantly in the coming years. While they’re years from fully establishing themselves, they’re already having a marked impact on the global consumer landscape.
This report is focused on the female shopper in the UK. It has been created for International Women’s Day by Women In Nielsen, an employee resource group within our UK business supporting diversity and inclusion.
VOD is fast becoming a part of daily viewing habits for many around the world, regardless of age. In fact, among the 65% of global respondents who watch any type of VOD programming, more than four-in-10 say they watch at least once a day.


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There’s a saying that a year is a long time in politics. However, it’s eternity in the sector of information and communication technology. Today, we are living in 2015, where hover boards, nanotechnology and quantum internet are no longer mere figments of reverie. Moving back fourteen years from now, the world appears to be a very unalike place. Then, about 400 million people were using the internet. Now, internet penetration has crossed the 3 billion mark according to Internet World Stats. And, more than two-third of that populace is connecting to the internet via handheld devices, viz. smartphones and tablets. When smartphones were pretty much in inception phase, about a decade ago, it was thought they would remain elite consumer products for a very long time. But how wrong that prophecy has turned to be!
In the past 20 years, technology has evolved at such a colossal scale that people back then might never have thought the things we see for real now could ever exist. We have overseen the emergence of internet, e-commerce, e-mail services, smartphones and social media, and their growth into widely used means of technology, without which it’s hard to imagine human lives now. It appears that almost everything that there ever was to create, has all been created. However, those who believe that scientific innovations will come to a standstill soon are living in fallacy. Business Insider published an article recently, which gives a hint to our future. It says we’ve actually seen nothing till now and scientific innovations 20 years down from now will make previous developments look completely pale.
Spare a thought or few, and get few ideas about where the technology sector is heading now, you’ll realize how much is yet to come in scientific world, and ultimately to everyday human life. The technology world is standing at a crossroad and full of potential, and within few years, we’ll be living in the virtual world for real, dominated by artificial intelligence, virtual reality and robots. Below are 10 such emerging technologies, which appear likely to be a fundamental part of human existence in the next few years.
Google driverless car
Google driverless car is powered by artificial intelligence, using input from video cameras inside the car, a sensor on top of the vehicle and several radar and position sensors attached to multiple positions on the car. “You can count on one hand the number of years it will take before ordinary people can experience this.” the words from Google co-founder Sergey Brin pretty much sums up how far we are from using the machine on everyday basis.
Oculus Rift is the future of gaming. Developed by Oculus VR, this remarkable 3D headset gives you the feeling of actually being inside a video game. Priced at 300$, it is significantly cheaper compared to other virtual reality gadgets. Add to that, this gadget comes as a package of development kit, we can have every premonition that this is just the beginning of next-generation gaming.
3D printing, the technology with which you can forge your digital design into a concrete real-life product, is not anything new for cutting-edge mechanical industries. However, personal 3D printer is certainly a ground-breaking idea. Form 1, is exactly such personal 3D printer. The price now is quite staggering at $2799 but it will surely change the way we produce in coming years. For now, let’s just hope the manufacturer cuts the price by a thousand dollar or two.
Parallella is all but surefire to change how the computers will be made in future. Developed by Adapteva, simply put, these are supercomputers for everyone. These are energy-efficient and are built to process complex software simultaneously and effectually. With Parallella, everything from real-time object tacking to speech recognition will be more robust and smarter. These Linux supercomputers do not cost much either, available at just 99$.
Google is taking augmented reality to a whole new pinnacle with Google Glass. Its prototype was released to limited cluster in US in 2013 for 1500$, which was later expanded to general public as well in 2014. Carrying Google’s mission of producing mass-market ubiquitous computer, Google Glass allows users to view social media feeds, Google Maps, text, navigate with GPS, take photos and send messages via voice commands. Slowly, other companies are also trying something of this kind.
Touchscreen devices have boomed momentously in recent years and we are more than pleased with them. However, a new form of display technology might make touchscreen display obsolete pretty soon. A 3D image projected into space – a “screenless display” – can convey information that a 2D image presented on a screen cannot, and is close to becoming a practical reality. There are three categories of screenless display technologies evolving currently, viz. visual image display, retinal display and synaptic interface.
Telepathy is the ability to transmit one’s thoughts into the mind of another person and vice versa. Thanks to Barcelona’s Starlab and Strasbourg’s Axium Robotics group, telepathy is on the verge of being more than mere fiction. Recently, participants located about 8,000 kilometers away from each other were able to communicate simple greetings between their minds via internet. It uses series of electrodes attached to transmitters on a person’s scalp to read the patterns of brain activity.
Liquid data storage devices
All kinds of data surrounding us are in solid form ultimately, from data in cell phone to that in cloud server. The problem with this is that the solid storage devices are smashable. However, things may change pretty soon with the advent of liquid storage devices. Researchers at University of Michigan and New York University have succeeded in designing a method to store digital data in liquid form. 1TB liquid storage can ideally fit in a tablespoon and this means storage capacities will dramatically increase in coming years.
Nanotechnology, which is the technology at nano level, allows for remarkable precision and provides a way to copy nature’s work at its most basic functioning. Nano is a very small unit of measurement. To put it into context, nanometer is one-billionth of a meter. Nanotechnology is growing in just about every field from engineering and computing to medicine and manufacturing. In medicine, often referred as nanomedicine, nanotechnology means we can prevent or cure diseases at the root level before they spread over the body.
Researchers have been working at using quantum technology to make the internet a lot safer. The technology in question for this is quantum key distribution or QKD. Using this technique, internet networks transfer photons in definite quantum states to create a cryptographic key. Using quantum key distribution, data can be encrypted over ordinary, non-quantum networks due to its higher degree of mathematical complexity. The research is underway and we can expect it to be the next genesis of today’s Internet.
Technologies come and go. Some keep up their early promises and go on to become integral part of our lives forever, while some fail utterly and are soon forgotten. As new technologies come and replace the old ones, they also change the way we live. With every evolvement in technology, we soon have to adapt to them and begin to live in an entirely different way. Over the years, we’ve seen technology change our lives in so many ways and in so many different aspects. Often, technology is condemned for jeopardizing our lives in one way or the other, whether it is for making us too much technology-dependent or for slaying our precious time by making us tech-addicts. However, it should be remembered that technology is a tool and how we use them entirely depends on us, be it for good or for bad. Here below are 8 different aspects of human life, which technology has changed.
The days of message passing via pigeons and Morse code seem like fairytale to present generation. We remain connected to our kinsfolk 24 hours a day through mobiles and internet. Technological feats in communication have led to situations where we forget to talk to our neighbors but chat for hours and hours to people overseas.
Evolution of technology has completely changed our food habits. In the past, people would mainly eat whatever they could prepare in their houses. However, in modern times, due to impact of advertisements and ease to find nearby dining places, dining outside and ordering branded food items have become very common.
Computing started through abacus in the ancient times. It developed gradually into Pascal’s calculator and later Babbage’s analytical engine. Computing development itself was the frontrunner for technological progress. Now, we live in the world where the computing power of cell phones is far greater than that used by NASA during 60s to go to moon.
Travel has become extremely easier because of technological progress. We can easily learn about our potential destinations and what we can do over there. It’s easy to find hotels, make flight arrangements, find travel agencies and also be safe and secure during our travels. Long gone are the days when we would have to plan our travels months earlier.
Technology itself is some sort of business and it surely has had massive impact on the way businesses run over the years. Emergence and growth of e-commerce websites has been considered one of the remarkable technological developments of the past 20 years. One no longer has to actually go to a shop to buy things and spend hours searching for the right item.
Technology has provided us with endless means of entertainment. There are so many gadgets and even more ways to entertain ourselves in modern times. We can play games on the palm of our hand, read books on an E-book reader which can contain thousands of books in it and watch movies with finest theatre-like experience even at home.
They say education changes our lives. The way we educate ourselves and our children, however has been completely changed by technology. We have come through many schooling systems and over the years, methods of learning have improved. There are apps to teach kids alphabets, E-book readers to read books and smart classes where studying is a real fun activity.
We are living in the world of digital diagnostics, ultra-fast scans and digital therapy. It’s very easy to monitor our overall health situation and we can have full body checkup within a matter of few hours. It’s easy to keep our body under check, as health related information is very easy to get and medical services are very sophisticated enough. With medical advancements, it has become very rare that people die with unidentified diseases.
Technology keeps on evolving. To sustain on the long run, it should fulfill its early promises and evolve as the needs of people change. Technology should also be considerate to the environment, nature and future generations if it’s the one for future. Technology has changed our lives all the time and will continue to do so. Technology is like a stallion, we should be able to tame it or else, it can ruin our lives and fortunes. We are yet to see lots of things in technological field, as there’s no limit to human imagination and innovation. So let’s hope for better technologies in future, which also ensure better quality of human lives.


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Seattle/IBNS: Amazon is likely to lay off thousands of employees and implement cost-cutting measures as the last few quarters haven't been profitable, media reports said.
The e-commerce company might fire as many as 10,000 employees starting as soon as this week, according to New York Times.
If the total number of layoffs stays around 10,000, it would be the biggest layoff in the history of Amazon.
The job cuts will target the devices group, including the one responsible for the Alexa voice assistant, along with the retail division and human resources, NYT reported citing anonymous sources.
Amazon, after a months-long review, has cautioned employees in some unprofitable units to look for other opportunities within the company, the Wall Street Journal reported.


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BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese model in widely derided advertisements for Italian fashion line Dolce & Gabbana has apologized for her appearance in the campaign.
Zuo Ye said on her Weibo microblog that as a recent college graduate, she hadn’t had time to consider the effect of the ads, in which she was filmed trying to eat pizza, spaghetti and a giant version of a cannoli pastry using chopsticks.
“I will grow from this experience and will better display the character of a Chinese citizen,” Zuo wrote in the posting dated Monday.
Following the criticism of the ads, the Milan designers canceled a Shanghai runway show last year meant as a tribute to China, as their guest list of Asian celebrities joined protests.
Many Chinese social media users called the advertisements racist and based on outdated stereotypes.
As retailers began pulling their wares, co-founders Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana went on camera to apologize. The pair appeared in a nearly 1 ½ minute video posted on Weibo, saying they hoped to be forgiven and will do their best to better understand and respect Chinese culture.
The advertisement controversy was aggravated by insulting remarks made on the Instagram accounts of both the company and Gabbana against China and Chinese people. The company blamed hackers for the Instagram comments.
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A sharp rise in the valuation of Tesla stock this week launched company founder, Elon Musk, into the number two spot on the international rich list.
Elon Musk now sits behind only Amazon-founder Jeff Bezos on the international rich-list, following a sharp rise in the valuation of Tesla this week.
In the last seven days alone shares in the electric vehicle manufacturer rose from $447 (approximately AU$607) to $558 (approximately AU$758), representing an increase of approximately 25 per cent.
Market capitalisation now sits at $526.45 billion (approximately AU$715 billion).
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, this has boosted the 49-year old entrepreneur’s net worth to $136 billion (approximately AU$185 billion), putting him comfortably in front of previous second-place holder Bill Gates (with a net worth of $129 billion – or approximately AU$175 billion).
For reference, the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, has a net worth estimated at $183 billion.


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DIAMOND BAR, Calif. — About 49% of all late-model pickups are modified with specialty-equipment parts and tires, according to new research from the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA).
"The pickup truck market is the largest segment of the specialty-automotive aftermarket and a key opportunity for businesses," Gavin Knap, SEMA director of market research, said.
The "2022 SEMA Pickup Accessorization Report" provides a review of how the pickup-accessorization landscape is evolving, including sales forecasts and types of parts pickup accessorizers buy and how they buy them.
Additional findings from the report include:
- Pickup owners spent $16 billion on specialty-equipment parts in 2021;
- There are more than 29 million late-model (2010 and newer) pickups on the road, and about half of them are modified;
- 62% of late-model pickup accessorizers buy off-road-focused parts for their truck;
- 84% of late-model pickup accessorizers plan to make additional modifications in the near future; and
- 45% of specialty-equipment businesses see electric pickups as an opportunity.
As pickups remain the single-biggest segment in the specialty-equipment parts market, SEMA said the report will help businesses learn more about pickup owners, what they do after their parts are installed and analysis of the emerging markets for compact and electric pickups.
The report is available for download at sema.org/research.


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Google is like the protective older sibling of the internet. And like any good big bro (or sis) they want to keep you safe. Google announced that they will soon show a "not secure" warning for any site that is not SSL compliant and exclude it from search results. The change will be effective when Google version 62 launches in October. We've talked … [Read more...] about Google Will Stop Showing Any Website That is Not Secure. Is Yours?
As of late, many social media sites have started to update their security platforms to higher standards. Facebook and Twitter have most recently started the big push towards more security for your profiles. Facebook made the move to offer HTTPS security at the end of January, and now Twitter has joined the club. Twitter made a statement Tuesday, … [Read more...] about Are you worried about online security?


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Consumer Protection Priority for New Agency
It appears that the establishment of the new consumer protection agency may to some extent be acting as a stimulus to consumer activity. There has been mixed response to speculation that Harvard professor Elizabeth Warren will be appointed to head the fledgling Consumer Financial Bureau, but it appears that support for this move is growing. It was reportedly Professor Warren’s idea, way back in 2007, to set up a consumer protection agency in the first place, and having served in a position of oversight in the US banking bailout strategy, as well as being a consumer advocate and bankruptcy expert, she certainly fits the bill for this position. The other serious contender for this post is Michael Barr, currently Treasury Department Assistant Secretary. Both of these candidates are serious about bringing about solid, workable changes to the way financial institutions and loan agencies interact with consumers, with consumer welfare being of paramount importance – which makes a whole lot of sense when considering that consumer spending is believed to account for up to 70 percent of US economic activity and is crucial to economic recovery.


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The UK carrier Three has announced that it will begin its 4G LTE rollout in four major UK cities starting in December of this year, with a further 42 cities due to be added by the end of 2014. According to its website, London, Birmingham (including the surrounding West Midlands), Manchester, and Reading will receive 4G coverage by the end of the year. Unlike other British carriers, Three is not charging a premium for its 4G services, as long as customers have compatible devices.
Customers who have compatible devices (Three's 4G network will work on the 800 MHz and 1,800 MHz frequencies on LTE bands 3 and 20) will be automatically upgraded with no extra fees. The carrier is also notable for being the only UK operator to offer truly unlimited mobile data with no exceptions, dubbed 'all-you-can-eat data' by the company.
Three already claims the fastest 3G network in the UK due to the implementation of HSPA+ and DC-HSDPA technology, which allow theoretical browsing speeds of up to 6 and 12 Mbps respectively. The company claims its 4G network will allow browsing speeds of up to 14 Mbps, which although is almost five times faster than standard 3G speeds, it still puts it behind the leader EE, which has doubled its LTE browsing speeds in several UK cities, allowing for theoretical browsing of up to 60 Mbps.
Three, along with the other British carriers EE, O2 and Vodafone, will all support LTE browsing on the new iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s, both of which were announced yesterday at Apple's iPhone event in Cupertino, California. Both devices are compatible with the 800 MHz and 2,600 MHz frequencies, which were unsupported by the iPhone 5. Both O2 and Vodafone now allow customers to register their interest for the new devices, which are due to be released next week.


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As the United States gears up to go toe-to-toe with China over trade barriers and tariffs, whispers of an impending trade war swirl on the wind in international relations circles… well, blare from the nearest television screen, actually – we’re well-past whispering at this point. But although the combatants have taken up arms and fired a few warning shots, the carnage has yet to begin in earnest.
It might be a good time, then, to take a look back at some of the biggest trade wars of yore to see how they turned out and what the fallout was.
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
It’s every international studies student’s favorite Ferris Bueller reference today, but in 1930 when the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act was passed, no one was laughing. The country was a year into the Great Depression and Smoot and Hawley, a pair of protectionist Republicans, decided that their previously proposed tariffs were just the thing to boost American businesses and bootstrap the economy back to robust health.
Although industry luminaries like Henry Ford lobbied hard for a veto, the bill passed into law, and the result was another depressing instance of nationalists effectively stabbing their own country in the gut. In a period where the diving value of the dollar might otherwise have increased export activity and helped the economy stagger out of the Depression, trade partners instead retaliated with their own protectionist tariffs on American goods. Unemployment in the U.S. promptly doubled.
Not until FDR and a Democratic Congress passed the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act in 1934, delegating bilateral tariff negotiation to the President, did the country start reversing the protectionist penalties.
Of course, it’s exactly that Act that has placed tariff powers in President Trump’s hands and lead to the current crisis, which just goes to show there’s basically no right move to prevent trade wars. Although Smoot and Hawley both lost their seats in the next election, which was a good start.
The Anglo-Irish Trade War
Even as the United States was shooting itself in the foot with the Smoot-Hawley Tariff trade wars in 1932, England and Ireland were exercising their own ancient grudges in slightly less lethal venues than the recently settled Troubles.
A newly independent Ireland sought to distance itself from its former overlord and encourage development of native industry through steep protectionist trade policy, mostly aimed at England. England, of course, retaliated in kind.
Not only that, but England was demanding repayment of annuities that had been granted to Irish farmers under its rule. Unable to collect through the Free Irish government, it tacked on a 20 percent tariff to try to get the money that way.
Both sides came to their senses in 1935 and negotiated a partial cease-fire, starting with coal and cattle… respectively, the major exports of England and Ireland to one another. But Ireland continued strongly protectionist policies through the 1950s, stunting trade growth and leading to high emigration rates that didn’t reverse until the late 1960s.
The Banana Wars
The Banana Wars lasted 20 years but many in the U.S. have never heard of them. They were largely proxy wars waged by U.S. multinational corporations via Latin American banana-growing countries versus the European Union.
The trouble started in 1993 with the E.U. giving preferential access to its banana markets (the largest in the world) to Caribbean nations, many of which had been colonies of current E.U. members. This was accomplished by levying heavy tariffs on Latina American bananas.
Naturally, this hit the pocketbooks of the U.S. corporations who owned the big Latin American plantations, and they weren’t slow to rope U.S. politicians into the fray. Although the U.S. wasn’t one of the exporters involved, it raised the case with the World Trade Organization and suddenly two heavyweights were facing off over the matter.
The dispute occasioned eight separate WTO cases and provoked a spate of retaliatory tariffs imposed by the U.S. against a handful of European products.
In 2009, the E.U. finally agreed to start dropping the tariff rates over an eight year period. The primary beneficiary of the organization’s capitulation? E.U. consumers, who had been paying inflated banana prices for years as their access to the large Latin American supplies had been restricted.
The Méline Tariff
The Méline tariff doesn’t get a lot of notice outside of France, because it ultimately didn’t have a lot of bite. It marked an end to the period of free trade between England and France begun in 1860 with the Cobden-Chevalier treaty and is viewed as the signature piece of economic legislation of the Third Republic.
The tariff resulted from an unusual alignment of industrialists and workers, none of whom wanted to compete with cheap products from the industrial powerhouse of England. But at the same time, the relationship with that country wasn’t something politicians wanted to risk in a full-blown trade war.
In fact, at the same time it was theoretically targeting English imports, France was entering into the Entente Cordiale with their cross-Channel rival. The bond was strong enough to lay the foundation for the Great War a decade later… not what you would expect for countries going toe-to-toe in an all-out trade war.
In fact, some scholars think the Méline tariff was effectively a phony war, a piece of legislation designed to placate domestic interests without actually interfering with international trade.
The United States-Canada Trade War
During the Civil War, the Canadian-American Reciprocity Treaty held down disputes on the northern front as the war drove massive imports to the North to supply its armies in the field. But afterward, protectionist policies in the U.S. stuck a knife in it on the theory that rebuilding U.S. industries needed to be defended from foreign competition. Tariffs quickly replaced it.
Canada, naturally, retaliated in kind. The two nations never really stopped duking it out for 75 years, when the cross-border spat flared into the larger and more dangerous Smoot-Hawley trade war.
But the proximity of the two countries and the respective demographics made it a strange sort of battle while it lasted. Companies weren’t strongly anchored in either country and could—and did—easily relocate to avoid the tariff structures. Singer sewing machines, Westinghouse, and International Harvester all simply picked up and moved manufacturing into Canada to avoid paying the high import duties. In all, some 65 U.S. manufacturing plants closed down and re-opened on the other side of the border… leaving unemployed Americans in their wake.
Not until NAFTA arrived in 1994 was the damage finally fully repaired and trade relations normalized again between what should have been two of the most natural trade partners in the world.


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Man spends £80,000 on scratchcards - and wins nothing
So why did he do it? And why might his collection eventually pay off?
The Daily Mail reported that Mannix, a 42-year-old from Cheshire, has 100,000 scratchcards. His collection encompasses almost every card the National Lottery has ever produced - except for the 1994 Christmas scratchcard which he has never been able to track down.
Around 10,000 of them have never been scratched, but the vast majority of them have expired since, so hold no value in themselves. And of the ones that have been scratched, none of them have been redeemed.
He told the newspaper that he did it for the fun of collecting. However, it could prove highly fruitful. He is now selling the cards, and hopes to make £500,000.
Unusual collections pay offIf he gets his asking price, its an impressive return. And it's not the only odd kind of collection that can fetch a surprising amount of cash.
In October last year one man's collection of Star Wars memorabilia from the 1970s sold for £7,000. The highest sum was earned by a figure of Han Solo in carbonate, which went for £1,000. It helped that many of the figures were still in their original packaging.
Old mobile phones are also attracting investors, and the more unusual or rare items can fetch surprising sums. A rare phone from the early 1980s can sell for £1,000 or more in the right condition. Meanwhile more common phones from the later 1980s can still be worth more than £100, and the Motorola 3300 GSM, which was the first phone to accept texts, can sell for up to £300 with the original box.
In the US Starbucks gift cards are considered major collectors' items. As we reported last month a limited edition card which cost £280 and was only loaded with £250 of credit was up for sale. Just 1,000 were made, and theory were changing hands for almost $1,000 dollars on eBay.
Less lucrativeSadly not every unusual collection will fetch good money. Sugar packet collections are known to lead fans far and wide in their quest for unusual examples, but the official organisation of sugar collectors in the UK, the UK Sucrologists Club, says it does not endorse the buying and selling of sugar packets as it wants this to be a hobby for enthusiasts.
Meanwhile BT phonecards were all the rage back in the 1980s, but since they stopped producing the cards, the number of collectors have dwindled, and collectors are now lucky to get 10% of the sums these cards were worth back in their heyday.


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21 June, 2007: Signs are everywhere that the once-hot online travel business is beginning to slow down.
Bookings from Expedia´s North American Web sites rose by only 1 percent in the first quarter of this year, for example.
There were reports as early as last year that the online travel industry could be heading towards a serious slow-down in part due to consumers´ desire to hunt for the cheapest priced holiday, according to research by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
One report noted that online travel agency efforts to grow the industry may be out of date.
"Online travel agents are not yet providing sufficient differentiation in their offering, so it is not surprising that consumers are simply looking at the cheapest price – because to them everything looks the same," said David Trunkfield, a PricewaterhouseCoopers director.
"Providing different, unusual products, bundling various offerings together, delivering exclusive content to consumers on a number of online platforms will all contribute to a strong business model for the future," he said.
The anticipated slowdown has prompted some sites to look for creative new offerings.
Yahoo, for example, continues to revamp its travel site to offer new mapping features and a chat-based collaboration tool. There´s also a personalized trip recommendations and travel deals.
"What Netflix has done for movies and what Amazon has done for book recommendations we´re doing for travel recommendations," said Jasper Malcolmson, director of Yahoo Travel.
Yahoo travel combines Yahoo FareChase, which finds low-priced air fares, with Yahoo Trip Planner, a social network for travelers and would-be travelers to plan trips and create interactive maps.
The site will allow people to insert tags, like "romantic" or "family-oriented," so others can find trips with similar themes.
In addition, Yahoo is offering Yahoo Messenger Flight Planner, an instant messenger plug-in that people can use to plan trips together in real time. The site also features new mapping technology that allows other, more detailed maps to be layered over a Yahoo map.
Research from Harris Interactive conducted on behalf of Yahoo found that of more than 2,300 adults, 43% had not decided where they want to spend their summer vacation and about 70% had not locked down their summer travel plans yet.
"Our intention is to become the site for people who haven´t made up their minds about where they want to go," Mr Malcolmson said.


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The Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration submitted its proposed Phase 2 GHG/MPG rule for trucks and trailers to the Office of Management and Budget on June 3 for required regulatory review.
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May 25, 2016 - Industry News
The recall, limited to 55 vans in the 2015 and 2016 model years, will address the risk of windows separating during a crash.
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May 3, 2016 - Industry News
The recall, which covers multiple models, will address a weld-related steering issue in nearly 4,800 pickup trucks and SUVs.
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April 18, 2016 - Industry News
The recall covers 321 Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana vans that were shipped to final-stage manufacturers missing the tire pressure monitoring system.
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April 4, 2016 - Industry News
Automatic emergency braking could take longer to develop in large commercial trucks because of the unique challenges in vehicles that are larger in size and heavier in weight.
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The recall, tied to contamination on the electric power steering control circuit board, affects 442 pickup trucks in the 2015 and 2016 model years.
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March 17, 2016 - Industry News
Volvo Trucks North America has issued a recall of certain VNL, VNM and VNX truck models because some of them may have steering shafts that could separate, resulting in complete loss of steering.
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The tire pressure labels on 2,278 2015-2016-MY 2500 and 3500 vans contain inaccurate information, according to NHTSA.
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February 9, 2016 - Industry News
In more than a thousand trucks in the 2013-2016 model years, the brake pedals are at risk for detaching.
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January 14, 2016 - Industry News
Recent analysis by ATA of crash and mileage data has shown a decline in the rate of truck-involved fatalities in both the short and long term.
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January 7, 2016 - Industry News
The action covers nearly 9,500 FEC52, FEC72, FEC92 and FGB72 trucks in the 2012-2015 model years.
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December 28, 2015 - Industry News
Dealers need to replace a faulty console compartment lid latch assembly in 8,763 2016-MY trucks.
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December 21, 2015 - Industry News
Notice affects some model-year 1998 -2005 vans whose bumpers might not prevent a vehicle from traveling under the trailer in a crash.
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December 8, 2015 - Industry News
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has proposed rules that would require “more robust” rear impact guards on trailers and semitrailers. The stronger guards would remain effective at up to 35 mph – compared to 30 mph for current guards.
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November 10, 2015 - Industry News
The recall, which Cummins will oversee, covers more than 3,000 Mack and Navistar trucks equipped with the ISL G natural gas engine. The trucks are potentially at risk for oil leaks that pose a fire risk.
Tags: Mack Trucks, Recalls, Mack TerraPro, NHTSA, Cummins, 2010-MY, 2016-MY, Mack Granite, Mack LR, Refuse Trucks, Construction Fleets
The recall affects 288 vehicles at risk for steering problems related to faulty gear pumps.
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October 20, 2015 - Industry News
The American Trucking Associations has decided to “urge” both truck and car manufacturers to equip all new vehicles with automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems and that ATA has “offered its support for a potential regulation” addressing this type of collision-mitigation safety technology.
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October 8, 2015 - Industry News
UPDATED -- More than 6,700 McNeilus trucks are equipped with Kidde fire extinguishers that may be defective.
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September 10, 2015 - Industry News
January 2014 incident saw trailer dropping off the tractor's fifth wheel, striking two pickup trucks and killing their drivers. Fontaine says the unit was not defective, but will replace others like it.
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September 9, 2015 - Industry News
The recall affects 1,655 2014-2015 model-year Ram 1500 diesel 4x2 trucks.
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August 21, 2015 - Industry News
The recall, which involves just 199 vehicles, will address a front suspension issue.
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July 7, 2015 - Industry News
The recall, set to begin Aug. 7, affects 21 2015-MY Western Star 4700, 4800 and 4900 trucks.
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June 17, 2015 - Industry News
The manufacturer is issuing two separate recalls covering a total of 5,286 trucks.
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The action, which affects 2,124 Mack trucks with Cummins Westport ISL gas engines, will address an engine cooling issue that increases the risk of fire.
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June 15, 2015 - Industry News
More than 40,000 Sprinter 2500 and 3500 vans need new passenger-side frontal air bags because the existing ones have defective inflators.
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The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has gripped the world and South Africa has been no exception. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on 23 March 2020 that a 21 day nation-wide lockdown would be in effect from midnight, 26 March 2020 up to midnight, 16 April 2020.
Whilst the lockdown is something that is entirely outside of your control, every business owner must ensure that it at least controls what it can. Ensuring that your business complies with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI Act), once it commences, is one factor you can manage by making sure that your business can continue to function during these unprecedented economic times.
During the lockdown period the entire country, or at least those businesses who consist of the necessary means to continue to operate remotely, will be doing so. Most business’ manual analogue operations will be halted or, at least, severely limited. Although the majority of electronic systems are expected to experience strain and backlogs, they will continue to operate, specifically in those instances where business transactions can be concluded entirely via electronic means. It remains important to bear in mind that these systems will most likely operate under severe strain and pressure. Whilst service providers carry great responsibility to ensure continued and uninterrupted use of these systems, it is something which, in these uncertain times, they unfortunately cannot guarantee.
With South Africans obliged to stay at home, resulting in an increase in online electronic activity (whether it be for business or recreational purposes), and with the proposed implementation date for the POPI Act looming ever closer, it is essential for every business to consider their existing data protection mechanisms and systems, especially now that a large portion of their workforce will be operating form various remote sites and away from their usual place of business and on-site systems.
Globally COVID–19 has placed a shadow on almost every other matter which, prior to the pandemic, seemed to be dominating the media and news. It remains to be seen whether or not the President will still announce that the POPI Act will come into effect on 1 April 2020.
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There has been a flurry of talk amongst the foodie rumor mill since spring, but as more details are being released, the day is getting closer before Bellevue can say they are one of the fortunate cities to have a Din Tai Fung – the award-winning family of dumpling-style restaurants in half a dozen countries across Asia. Set to open this fall on Lincoln Square’s 2nd floor near the sky bridge that connects Lincoln Square and Bellevue Place, the Bellevue location will be the only other US location, second to the one in the Los Angeles area. The new restaurant will fill the only location that has gone unoccupied since Lincoln Square’s opening. The space is 7,000 square feet and will seat 220 customers.
So what’s the big deal about dumplings? It’s the exotic xiao long bao or soup dumplings that have captured the interest and obsession of many who have been fortunate to sample these traditional delights; many restaurants may try, but most often fail at the tricky preparation. Freshly-made dough formed into a small parcel holding a savory pork broth, then steamed to perfection; it sounds like magic, a strange and wonderful combination of opposites. The dumpling dough is rolled delicately thin, but with enough elasticity to fully encapsulate broth, which is gelatinized to allow for it to be used as a stuffing. The texture has been described as truly unique and almost dream-like, as it’s a combination of both solid and liquid, with the delightful sensation of taking a bite out of soup. For many who have traveled overseas, as far as Taipei for the real thing, the arrival of Din Tai Fung and its internationally-recognized soup dumpling prowess is welcome news for those looking for a truly unique food experience. The Din Tai Fung staff is currently in training to perfect their dumpling-making art, and their progress can be seen at a viewing area in Bellevue Square Mall as a promotion for the upcoming opening.
Along with their soup dumplings, Din Dai Fung’s menu includes other popular and well-recognized favorites like steamed pork buns, as well as pork and shrimp shaomai, but when the lines start to form, definitely make a note to remember xiao long bao when placing your order this coming fall.