text: The ESIC Pharmacist Association (ESICPA) is learnt to have decided to approach the Supreme Court for a direction to the Corporation to remove medical professionals from holding charges of drug stores and pharmacies in corporation-run hospitals, and appoint pharmacists in these posts. Sources from the association informed that they will wait till a decision on a pending contempt petition with Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) is come out. The contempt case is with respect to an order by CAT in November 2017 on promotional cadre creation by ESIC which is allegedly using delaying tactics in implementing the Tribunal order. The ESICPA’s prayer in the tribunal court was for creation of five promotional posts. Presently the pharmacists have only one promotion post, ie, senior pharmacist. They had wanted for promotion posts of senior pharmacist, chief pharmacist, pharmacy officer, deputy director of pharmacy and director of pharmacy. Although the Tribunal ordered the Corporation to create these posts, countering the order the Corporation filed a case in the Delhi High Court by assuring that they will create two promotional posts, senior pharmacist and chief pharmacist, and a decision on the rest would be taken later. But they did not keep their promise given to the court even after one year, following it ESICPA filed a contempt case with the CAT, said Sunil Dhankhar, chairman of the association. Slamming the Corporation for delaying in implementing the tribunal order, he said ESIC should create the promotional posts as soon as the Tribunal orders its judgment further. Similarly, it should stop giving charges of pharmacies to the doctors who are encroaching the professional rights of the pharmacists by handling the departments of drugs and pharmacies in all ESI hospitals. All over India, there are 163 ESI hospitals and 10 super specialty model hospitals are functioning. In all these health centres, the posts of ‘store manager’ and ‘assistant store manager’ are held by doctors. In addition to this, there are some non-sanctioned posts like ‘central store manager’, ‘deputy store manager’, ‘assistant store manager’, ‘store in-charge’ etc, which are also controlled by medical officers. This is against the “Norms of Staff & Equipments for ESIC Hospital and Dispensary 2011” framed under the Drugs and Cosmetic Act, Pharmacy Act and the MCI Notifications dated 11.3.2012, he said. Talking about higher grades, Dhankhar said had the corporation created the post of chief pharmacist, 62 employees would have been promoted to that post by this time, but ESIC is dragging its feet. According to him, out of the 700 direct pharmacist employees of ESIC, 400 are working in the national capital. In the five ESI hospitals in Delhi, five pharmacies and 33 dispensaries are functioning. Apart from the direct staffs of the corporation, there are state controlled staffs also working in ESI hospitals. In 22 states, the hospital staffs are appointed and controlled by respective state governments. So, the ESICPA’s demand for promotional cadres will generally make an impact on the services of the directly recruited pharmacists only. Since similar issues are faced by pharmacists in various central government hospitals, railways, defense, etc, associations of pharmacists in various hospital sectors have unanimously taken a decision to take their decades-long demands such as rationalization of staff pattern & pay-structure, creation of promotional cadres and upgrading of basic qualification for pharmacist post, etc to the union government. The associations want to establish the fact that their issues are based on human resources issue in the national health sector. Discussions in this regard will be held in the programs of pharmacy week celebrations in next week all over the country, said Sunil Dhankhar.


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Mercedes-Benz India launched the all new CLS Class at Rs. 67.67 lakhs in Mumbai. The new CLS Class” Sense and sensuality” comes with a 3.5-litre V6 petrol mated to latest 7G-Tronic gearbox.. It produces 306hp@6500 rpm and 370Nm@3500 – 5250 rpm.
Only one variant is launched CLS 350 BlueEfficiency Avantgarde.
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Trump Administration Passes Rule Requiring Sounds in 'Quiet Cars' by 2020
【Summary】Electric cars do not offer the roar of a high-performance engine like the muscle cars of the past. But EVs will soon will make their own signature sound, as the Trump administration passed rules to require automakers to install some type of sound emitting device to electric powered vehicles.
WASHINGTON — Electric cars do not offer the roar of a high-performance engine like the muscle cars of the past. But EVs will soon will make their own signature sound, as the Trump administration passed rules that require automakers to install some type of sound emitting device to electric powered vehicles.
Manufacturers of "quiet cars" which include EVs, plug-in hybrids and vehicle equipped with start-stop technology and will be required by 2020 to emit engine-like sounds while running, the Department of Transportation (DOT) ruled Monday. This leaves one important question, "What is considered an engine-like sound from a electric car with no gasoline engine?"
The ruling for "quiet cars" mandates that car manufacturers install external speakers on vehicles to emit a fake engine sound. Manufacturers will have until September 2020 to meet full compliance — a one-year extension from the deadline placed under the Obama administration.
The rule was first demanded by Congress in 2010 following safety concerns that quiet cars were hazardous to blind or hard-of-hearing pedestrians. However, the Trump administration delayed the implementation of the Obama-era rule earlier last year to conduct a review of petitions from automakers.
Nissan, for example, had argued that the alert was only needed for up to 12.4 mph. The rule announced Monday will be mandated for cars moving at speeds of up to 18.6 miles per hour.
The auto industry has already made attempts to please drivers of high-performance cars that are equipped with modern, fuel efficient engines that are much quieter.
Ford used the audio system's speakers in the passenger compartment of the 2015 Mustang equipped with the EcoBoost engine.The speakers pipe in the sounds of an engine throttling up. However, this artificial engine noise is meant for the driver—not for pedestrians outside of the car. BMW uses a similar system on its turbo-powered vehicles.
DOT estimates that hybrid or electric vehicles are 19 percent more likely to collide with pedestrians than traditional gasoline-powered vehicles being they are so quiet. The agency estimates there are about 125,000 pedestrians and cyclists injured each year on U.S. roads.
The rule, according to the Federal Register, will mandate that automakers meet 50 percent compliance by September 2019. The rule will allow for variations in the car sound that automakers use.
The decision is especially suited toward California, a state where automakers must sell more electric-powered vehicles in order to meet the state's stricter emissions requirements.
DOT's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that under the rule, the car-like sounds will be added to about 530,000 model 2020 vehicles and once implemented will prevent 2,400 injuries annually.
Now, cyclists and pedestrians just need to take out their ear-buds while pedaling down the road or crossing the street, so they can hear when an electric vehicle is approaching.
Originally hailing from New Jersey, Eric is a automotive & technology reporter covering the high-tech industry here in Silicon Valley. He has over 15 years of automotive experience and a bachelors degree in computer science. These skills, combined with technical writing and news reporting, allows him to fully understand and identify new and innovative technologies in the auto industry and beyond. He has worked at Uber on self-driving cars and as a technical writer, helping people to understand and work with technology.
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Toyota has released details of its 2012 Toyota Venza crossover, which debuts with a new three-trim strategy.
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The Albert Heijn supermarket group is refusing to sell 1.5 litre bottles of Coca Cola and Fanta Orange in protest at a sharp price rise.
A spokesman for the supermarket firm said the increase would put up the price of a bottle from €1.22 to €1.35. Coca Cola has not made a proper case for the price hike, the spokesman said.
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Brembo's growth an example of Michigan's comeback, role as global center of the automotive industry
May 21, 2014
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
LANSING, Michigan – Michigan is the worldwide center of the automotive industry, and Gov. Rick Snyder today saluted Brembo, a global leader in brake technology, for its decision to expand its operation in Homer, Michigan.
Snyder joined Brembo Chairman Alberto Bombassei to celebrate the grand opening of a 150,000-square-foot addition of manufacturing, office and warehouse space to accommodate an increase in North American orders and allow for future growth.
The Italian company, which has its North American headquarters and tech center in Plymouth, plans to invest about $115 million through 2015 and create more than 100 new jobs. The company has 450 people working in Homer as a result of the expansion.
“We’re proud that Brembo recognized the advantages of working and expanding in Michigan,” Snyder said. “This is a world-class company tapping some of the great talent and opportunities here in Michigan. Brembo’s continued commitment sends a strong message around the world that Michigan’s comeback continues. We’ve created the environment for companies to grow and thrive.”
The new jobs at the Brembo Homer facility are among the quarter-million new private sector jobs created in Michigan since the end of 2010 as the state’s economy grows.
Snyder and Bombassei met in Italy on March 31, discussing the company’s growth and investment in Michigan. The governor also toured a Brembo product exhibition area, the Testing and Validation Department and a machining plant on his recent European trade mission trip.
The Michigan Economic Development Corporation is supporting the project by uncapping a previous MEGA tax credit to allow for the additional jobs.
“We’re happy that we have expanded our operation in Michigan,” Bombassei said. “We chose Michigan because of the automotive and manufacturing talent available here as well as the strong relationships we have built with our business partners.”
The company today known as Brembo was founded in 1961 and supplies braking systems to makers of automobiles, motorcycles and commercial vehicles worldwide as well as clutches, seats, harnesses and other components for the racing sector.
Brembo opened its first Michigan operation in 2002 and produces brake rotors, drums, calipers and corner assemblies at its Homer facility.


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The latest data from the national statistics institute (INEGI) show that inbound tourism expenditure in Mexico more than doubled in year-on-year terms, to US$6.5bn in the fourth quarter of 2021. This put inbound tourism expenditure 8% above its fourth-quarter 2019 (pre-pandemic) level.
Why does it matter?
Although Mexico's tourism sector will benefit from a continued improvement in epidemiological conditions (both domestically and abroad), it is nonetheless likely to lose some steam in 2022. In order to assess Mexico's tourism outlook, it is important to parse the disaggregated data.
INEGI classifies international tourists into three broad categories: border tourists, non-border tourists and same-day travellers. Border tourists are typically those who enter Mexico for migration-related purposes and as such have little impact on the country's main tourist hubs. The same-day travellers category is more significant, as it covers those who visit the country for short excursions. Total spending by same-day travellers in October-December was about a third lower than before the pandemic, largely because cruise tourism is still in a slump. The most relevant category for the Mexican economy is non-border tourists, as they are responsible for more than four-fifths of overall tourism expenditure (despite making up less than a third of arrivals). Total spending by non-border tourists was 14% higher in the fourth quarter of last year than in 2019.
Two main factors were behind the strong performance of non-border tourism. First, non-border tourism from the US soared: US arrivals to Mexico in the fourth quarter surpassed pre-pandemic levels by more than 17%. This made up for still-weak tourist arrivals from other important source markets, such as Canada and the UK (down by 45% and 42% respectively, relative to pre-pandemic levels). Secondly, the average non-border tourist spent much more generously than before the pandemic, probably reflecting a combination of higher disposable income and pent-up demand on their part.
Heading into 2022, it is unlikely that US arrivals will continue to prop up Mexico's tourism sector, especially as that country winds down its long run of ultra-loose monetary and fiscal policy. However, a recovery in arrivals from other source markets will help to mitigate the risk of a hard landing for the sector. According to the tourism secretary, the total number of international flights scheduled to arrive in Mexico in 2022 is already 2% higher than in 2019.
In our view, inbound tourism growth will slow somewhat in 2022 as US demand tapers off. Nevertheless, Mexico's tourism sector will remain more dynamic than the overall economy (which will not return to pre-pandemic levels until 2023), helping to provide much-needed opportunities for investment.


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The neighborhood bakery and coffee shop, a Louisville staple for more than three decades, is calling it quits with its last day open being Saturday, Dec 10.
**This article is based on information sourced from news websites, cited within the story**
A Louisville, Kentucky favorite for the sweet tooth crowd, Sweet Surrender Cafe in the Clifton area announced that it will be permanently closing next week, due to various challenges. According to a recent report, Owner, Jessica Haskell stated:
The challenges of the current labor market, inflation, and the continuing pandemic created a perfect storm that we can no longer weather.
She also offered a sentimental statement to the customers who have patronized the business over the years, on a Facebook post, stating:
Through birthdays, first dates, engagements, showers, weddings, anniversaries, baptisms, holidays, and every kind of occasion life throws at us, it has been our greatest honor to serve dessert to the Louisville community. We thank you for making us part of your celebrations year after year for the past thirty-five years.
The post also asks customers to continue following them on social media because they will be posting information about equipment sales and pop-up events. Additionally, they will post updates on what's next for the business or the space that it has occupied for 35 years.
Sweet Surrender Cafe is located at 1804 Frankfort Avenue. Hours of operation for its last week in business are Wednesday and Thursday 4-9 p.m., Friday 4-10 p.m., and Saturday 2-10 p.m. (source).
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Now in its third year, the IoT Global Awards have grown into a highly anticipated industry event, with an increase of over 300% in submissions from 2018-2019 alone. Its mission to search out and recognise the people, enterprises and products making serious waves in the IoT sector, has become a well-worn seal of excellence for previous winners.
MachNation, a testing and benchmarking firm for IoT platforms, has launched MIT-E Performance (MIT-E Pf).
Alan Grau, VP of IoT at Sectigo, has been fascinated by business since the age of 10. Along the way, other people’s mistakes have taught him only to hire friends if they’re qualified, and to be ready for competition and opportunity wherever it comes from.
SPONSORED INTERVIEW: Bruno Jacobfeuerborn is chairman of the supervisory board of 1NCE, the provider of simplified flat rate connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT).
Kerlink, a specialist in solutions dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT), announced its expansion into South Africa and a distribution agreement with IoTdc, a distributor of connected hardware and device-related applications for the IoT in that country.
Rockwell Automation, Inc. has agreed to acquire privately held Avnet Data Security, Ltd, an Israeli-based cyber security provider with more than 20 years of experience providing cyber security services.
Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, reports that, after the successful integration of Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT) in the U.S., IDT began operating in the market under the name of Renesas Electronics America Inc. as of January 1, 2020. IDT was acquired on March 30, 2019.
Particle has appointed three new people to its board of directors. They are Liz Tinkham, former managing director at Accenture, Carlos Kokron, vice president, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and managing director, Americas for Qualcomm Ventures, and Sameer Reddy, partner at Energy Impact Partners, to its board of directors.
Cisco has unveiled further details behind its technology strategy for building a new internet — one designed to push digital innovation beyond the performance, economic and power consumption limitations of current infrastructure.
Hansen Technologies, a global provider of software and services to the energy, water and communications industries, is changing its organisational and leadership structure. As part of this move, Sigma Systems, acquired by Hansen Technologies in May 2019, will combine with the latter’s telecom and Pay-TV business to become Hansen’s Communications Division.
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We were all hoping for new Animal Crossing: New Horizons gameplay footage to come soon, and today’s Nintendo Direct presentation today definitely delivered on that!
In the Nintendo Direct, we were treated to a five minute trailer sharing more about New Horizons and some of its exciting new features like crafting and outdoors furniture. Although some of the trailer was a recap of what we learned at E3, there’s plenty of new footage we can pour over soon to find details we didn’t previously know.
Check out the full 5 minute trailer yourself below to see everything that was shown in today’s Nintendo Direct:
Animal Crossing: New Horizons releases next year on March 20th, 2020 for Nintendo Switch! You can pre-order the game at Amazon, GameStop, and Best Buy. Stay tuned to Animal Crossing World for more on Animal Crossing: New Horizons as we approach the release date next year.


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Vote for us this February in the Tesco’s #BagsofHelp initiative
Operation Farm are bidding to bag a massive cash boost from the Tesco Bags of Help initiative to fund their ‘Operation Farmer Project’ aimed at
‘Inspiring the next generation of cooks & gardeners’
Tesco teamed up with Groundwork to launch the monthly funding scheme, which sees grants of £5,000, £2,000 and £1,000 – all raised from the 5p bag levy – being awarded to local outdoor community projects.
Three groups in every Tesco region have been shortlisted to receive the cash award and this month shoppers are being invited to head along to Tesco stores to vote for who they think should take away the top grant and Operation Farm is one of the groups on the shortlist!!
The aim of the Operation Young Farmer Project is to ….offer kids workshops in:
- Gardening workshops to reconnect kids with nature and where their food comes from – container planting, community orchard & allotment skills and seed planting workshops to other kids at community events. This will link to the curriculum and use tools from the RHS Campaign for School Gardening
- Cookery sessions to encourage kids to cook and eat healthy produce and teach vital life skills – ‘cook what is grown’ sessions, prepare food to run stalls at community outdoor events
Operation Farm Board Member, Ali Shockledge said,
“We are crossing our fingers, spades and wooden spoons for this funding, as the project is really needed in this area; kids are telling us they want to try out gardening and cooking for the first time or for more experienced kids it’s about extending their knowledge and skills”
Voting is open in stores from 1 February to 25 February. Customers will cast their vote using a token given to them at the check-out in store each time they shop.
Tokens are available in the following local stores:
- Shaw Express
- Lees Rd – Oldham
- Failsworth Extra
- Oldham Extra
- Denton Express
- Hattersley Extra
- Ashton-u-Lyne Express
- Hadfield Station Rd express
Tesco’s Bags of Help project has already delivered over £25 million to more than 3,000 projects up and down the UK. Tesco customers get the chance to vote for three different groups each month. At the end of each month, when votes are collected, three groups in each of Tesco’s regions will be awarded funding.
Lindsey Crompton, Head of Community at Tesco, said:
“We are absolutely delighted to open the voting for February. There are some fantastic projects on the shortlists and we can’t wait to see them come to life in hundreds of communities.”
Groundwork’s national Chief Executive, Graham Duxbury, said:
“We’ve been thrilled to see the diversity of projects that have applied for funding, ranging from outdoor classrooms, sports facilities, community gardens, play areas and everything in between.
“We’re looking forward to learning the results of the customer vote and then supporting each group to bring their project to life.”
The Bags of Help scheme is permanently open for applications and anyone can nominate a project at any time – whether it’s Tesco customers, colleagues or the community groups themselves. Just ask in store for more information or visit the Bags of Help website, visit www.tesco.com/bagsofhelp/


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News: 54 new destinations added to the Business Traveller package.
Vodafone has extended its Business Traveller package to include 54 new destinations as part of an expansion of its roaming offering.
The operator will now allow business travellers on selected business price plans to take their home price plan abroad to nearly 100 destinations, with Australia, India and the United Arab Emirates now accessible through the plan.
The plan comes from £3 extra per day and means that users will have access to as many calls and texts and as much data as they do at home.
Vodafone also added 28 destinations to the consumer package Vodafone WorldTraveller, as well as expanding its 4G roaming footprint with the addition of Morocco, Turks & Caicos and Uruguay.


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Facebook is now advertising for 13 blockchain-related jobs, its careers site shows; nearly double as many as in December. At the end of 2018, the social media empire's blockchain team stood at 32 personnel according to a LinkedIn search, having publicly launched in May.
Recent adverts for a technical 'Marketplace Payments Blockchain' role (which is no longer accepting applications) could add further weight to speculation that Facebook is creating a stablecoin for WhatsApp transfers in India. Another ongoing vacancy for a 'Brand Strategy' manager might also suggest that the company is ramping up for a pending launch date, with such hires typically corresponding with the end of a product’s technical development phase. Still, the company has been tight-lipped about the full nature of its blockchain tech ambitions for its two billion users, and its plans remain unconfirmed.
Several listings, including a Data Scientist role, that appeared in December are still open, although all positions, bar one, were removed from the site temporarily over Christmas.


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Offices open at Liberty store
PROPERTY group Marylebone Warwick Balfour will today officially open 350 new workstations based in London's famous Regent Street Liberty store it acquired last year as part of a plan to double its serviced-office portfolio within one year to 13,000 units.
It will make the group the second-largest offices provider in Europe as it rolls out more premises in the Continent's major capitals.
With rentals running at around £15,000 a year, serviced offices at first attracted mainly start-up companies. Now 50% of its customers are major corporations keen to take advantage of serviced offices and the economies they offer.
Chief executive Richard Balfour-Lynn said when it took over Liberty it was aware of the potential for its 80,000 square feet of office space and the opening will be the first stage in a series of moves taking place at the store, which fronts Regent Street and extends into the 'Tudor' building set in Great Marlborough Street.
Having appointed ex-Clairol and Coats Viyella fashion retailer Fiona Harrison as chief executive at the world-famous store Harrison is now engaged in reestablishing Liberty as an internationally-renowned luxury goods name.
The store is to undergo a £4m to £5m refurbishment that will close its lower ground, ground and first floors. Marylebone Warwick Balfour is now a hotelier and Balfour-Lynn is worried that the recent setback to the United States economy could lead to fewer American tourists using his London hotels.
Balfour-Lynn said he is adopting a 'prudent approach' for the remainder of the year. Meanwhile, his £6.5m refurbishment of the five-star Howard Hotel will be complete by the summer and ready to welcome its first guests.
MWB's other five-star hotel in Park Lane will be completed in September 2002. Work on its hotel, office and residential scheme on West India Quay will start next year.
In the six months to December pre-tax profits were £4m, held back by a £1.8m loss at Liberty. The loss depressed earnings per share to 3.7p, down from 4.8p.
Marylebone Warwick Balfour shares fell 6p to 253 1/2p.
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Students living on campus at the University of Arizona may find shopping for their own groceries hard. Prices of food items, such as Oreos, peanut butter, granola and Top Ramen at on-campus markets were priced higher than when they were found at grocery stores such as Safeway and Fry’s.
The prices of 50 items were analyzed and compared between the three on-campus markets, Park Avenue Market, U-Mart and Highland Market and the grocery stores Safeway and Fry’s.
Of the 50 food items that were compared, there was an average of 29.80%* increase on prices for products sold at the campus markets** than the same items sold at Fry’s and an average of 38.82% increase of prices compared to Safeway.
A dozen eggs at the Highland Market costs $3.59, while at Fry’s, a dozen eggs costs $1.99. Folger’s coffee at the Park Avenue Market costs $8.79 but the same product at Safeway costs $5.99.
Todd Millay, the senior director of the Arizona Student Unions, said in an email response that the reason the prices at the UA are higher than a grocery store chain such as Safeway is because they do not have the volume to buy inventory at the cheaper prices of chain grocery stores.
He also said the Student Unions’ large facilities come with many other costs that contribute to the higher prices at the UA markets.
“Our electric bill, IT needs, facilities costs, etc. are much higher than a grocery store,” Millay said. “In order to cover those costs, our prices in certain products, particularly prepackaged goods, will naturally be higher. For non pre-packaged foods, we are commonly at fair market prices.”
“The reason why there may be price discrepancies between PSU, Highland market or U-Mart is still debatable,” Millay said. “Currently, those operations finances run independently from one another, so our managers have flexibility to adjust pricing to some extent to ensure they have a sustainable operation.”
Michaela Davenport, the student director of Campus Pantry, said the higher prices found at the UA market does affect students, especially those living on campus.
Campus Pantry is a student-run organization that offers free groceries to supplement the needs of students, faculty and staff on campus.
“I think it definitely affects students, especially students, maybe, who have difficulty obtaining transportation or something like that, and sort of depend on these close-to-campus resources,” Davenport said.
Spencer Ciammitti, a sophomore studying molecular and cellular biology who lives at Árbol De La Vida, said, “I get most of my groceries off campus just due to the price gouging. I don’t want to overpay, and saving money is a major goal of mine in college.”
Davenport said the abnormally high prices potentially have an effect on many of the students on campus who already struggle with food insecurity.
The 2016 Campus Climate Booklet said “52% of undergraduate and 29% of graduate respondents indicated that they often or always ate unhealthy or nutritiously unbalanced meals because healthier options were too expensive or inaccessible,” and according to a survey created by the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, 41% of four-year university students experienced food insecurity.
The USDA defines food insecurity as “a lack of consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy life.” However, Davenport said that for college students, food insecurity can manifest in many different ways.
“It’s not necessarily about a constant state of hunger, right?” she said. “It’s not like all the time you’re starving or anything like that, but it could be at the end of each month before you get your last paycheck for the month and you’ve paid all your rent and your utilities and stuff, you don’t quite have enough money to make it stretch or you have to really make meals last.”
UA is considered to be located in a “food desert,” Davenport explained. Food deserts are areas that are not accessible to fresh groceries and therefore add to the overall food insecurity of those living there.
“If you think about where is Fry’s and where is Safeway, not close enough to walk, not really anyway,” Davenport said.
A lot of industries on campus, not just food, seem to have higher prices than those same industries off campus, Davenport added. She said that some housing units are charging $1,000 per person per month.
“So, I think businesses and stuff close to the university think that being close to the university, ‘Oh we can charge these prices,’ but I don’t think for a lot of low-income college students who attend this university, I don’t think that is fair or equitable,” Davenport said.
Lucas Quilter, assistant administrative director of SafeRide and a junior studying political science, said that SafeRide, an ASUA-sponsored student-run carpool-ride share program, is meant to be a solution to the lack of accessible and safe transportation on campus.
Quilter said that SafeRide’s goal is to ensure that students on campus know they have someone to call when they don’t feel safe, or even if they just don’t want to spend money on other ride share programs such as Uber or Lyft.
“That’s where SafeRide comes in,” Quilter said. “We are free and unlimited. You can use us however many times you want to go within our two-mile boundary to get to restaurants, shopping centers, El Con, Walmart, Target [and] any of that kind of stuff. We help people who don’t want to pay $5, $10, $15 in Uber charges to get in and around the hot spots of Tucson.”
Grocery stores are included in the two-mile boundary that SafeRide drives to, according to Quilter.
“If you are trying to pay $6 for a carton of eggs, we can do that for you” Quilter said. “Or if you are trying to pay $2 for a carton of eggs we can also bring you there.”
Davenport said that while she would like to know why these prices at the UA markets are higher than prices at other grocery stores, the Student Union has worked a lot with Campus Pantry to supply food to students in need.
She said they donated the space that Campus Pantry currently uses in the union and provide produce from the rooftop gardens, among other things.
While these higher prices found at campus markets should be talked about and lowering them could help students, lowering them will not fix food insecurity on campus, Davenport said.
“Food insecurity does not exist because the high prices charged at the Student Union,” Davenport said. “Food insecurity exists because college is expensive, because rent is outrageous, because healthcare is ridiculous, because all these other factors. So, I think this is a symptom that helps perpetuate food insecurity for sure, I don’t think it’s helpful that we charge high prices here, but also I don’t think that’s necessarily the main thing we should be tackling.”
Davenport said she believes the true solution to food insecurity lies in institutional change.
For more information on Campus Pantry, which offers free groceries to students, visit their website at campuspantry.arizona.edu. SafeRide offers students free rides to nearby groceries stores. For more information, visit their website at azsaferide.wixsite.com/saferide or call 520-621-SAFE (7233).
*CORRECTION (9/10/19, 10:14 p.m.): The original analysis of the percentage difference between groceries at Fry’s, Safeway and on-campus stores were incorrect. The percentage difference should state, "Of the 50 food items that were compared, the average prices for products sold at the campus markets cost 68.71% more than the same items sold at Fry’s and an average of 38.82% more than prices compared to Safeway."
**prices for campus markets were taken from the product with the lowest price of all of the markets or from the price of one product if it was only sold at one market.
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The England-based international ticketing services company See Tickets announced a data breach this week that impacted over 300,000 customers.
According to a filing with the authorities in the state of Maine, the Vivendi Ticketing-owned company claimed 333,498 people were affected during a breach earlier this year. However, the company did not become aware of unusual activity until May, and the breach was not entirely discovered until July 21.
In the filing, See Tickets said its third-party cyber forensic specialists determined that unauthorized parties inserted malicious code into a number of its e-commerce checkout pages, gaining access to customer names, addresses, and payment card information between February 28 and July 2, 2023.
“Please know that protecting your personal information is something we take very seriously,” See Tickets said in a statement to the affected customers. “We conducted a diligent investigation to confirm the nature and scope of the compromise. We also took steps to reduce the likelihood of a similar incident occurring in the future, and we continue to make additional improvements that strengthen our cybersecurity protections.”
The company noted that while they do not have evidence that any information has been fraudulently used, they will offer 12 months of complementary identity monitoring and identity restoration services through Kroll.
Anyone with further questions regarding the breach is urged to reach out to See Tickets’s assistance line at (866) 731-2485.
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Amid repeated hints that lawmakers would require Apple and other platforms to allow third-party app stores and sideloading of applications, Apple released a white paper defending the current App Store model as a necessity for security.
This is the second time Apple has released a report as an appeal to legislators' cybersecurity sensibilities. In June, Apple released a colorful, consumer-oriented guide to understanding the risks of sideloading, featuring illustrated characters navigating life in a post-walled garden world. The new report is more academic and less of a storybook.
Lawmakers and consumer advocates have argued that Apple controlling the only means to get apps onto an iPhone creates a monopolistic system unfair to developers forced to pay a percentage of app earnings. Apple and many (but not all) security experts frequently worry that sideloading removes Apple's ability to pre-scan apps for malware and remove it from circulation.
The Apple white paper poses the argument that Android, which does not restrict users to the Google Play store, has a larger problem with malware. Nokia Threat Intelligence reports, cited by Apple, clock 15 to 47 times more malware infections in an average Android phone than in an iOS one.
That number combines Android malware downloaded directly from the Google Play store and sideloaded from other stores. A representative from Apple told reporters that sideloading increases the likelihood of malware even when the malware is not sideloaded — malware makers enjoy the flexibility of distributing malware on the Play Store until they are caught, then moving malware to third-party hosting for a second life. With iOS, once the malware is off the store, it is gone.
Apple's report notes that the average cost to an organization of a single employee's phone being infected with malware is around $10,000. The report also notes that federal agencies offering guidance on best practices for phone safety, including CISA and NIST, recommend always using the official store.
Epic Games recently lost nine of 10 claims in a lawsuit against Apple to allow it to distribute Fortnite outside the App Store, though a judge ruled Apple could no longer ban developers from directing users to external payment systems outside its own platform. Apple this week appealed that ruling.
In its report, Apple argued that third-party stores, with less stringent protections against copyright infringement and hacked apps, can damage developers' brands.
Talking to reporters, Apple said that a debate over sideloading is more focused on developers' interests than those of users — that people who own phones might prefer security to a wider choice of marketplaces. It hoped that this report would help defend that vision of users.


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Most of us would agree that 2021 has been a hell of a year, or perhaps for some of us, just plain hell. While the global coronavirus pandemic continues largely unabated, users are also under attack from viruses and threats of the digital kind.
While it might seem like now is an odd time to focus on cybersecurity, particularly given the pressing events unfolding around the world, there is a distinct link between COVID-19 and digital security. Namely, hackers are using the pandemic to profit and have decidedly upped the ante when it comes to attacks.
Much like fighting against a physical virus, staving off internet nasties involves good online hygiene and equipping yourself with the right tools for the job. We help fight the novel coronavirus with facemasks and hand sanitizers. Similarly, to keep digital threats at bay, we need sensible digital defenses.
Here, we go over some of 2021’s key cybersecurity threats and a few actionable ways to keep your devices secure.
The Key Threats in 2021
As many digital security experts and think tanks have noted, cloud jacking represents a prominent cybersecurity threat this year and into the future. The reasonable thinking behind this is that an increased reliance on cloud computing and platforms to store and manage data will lead to an advanced level of risk.
Leading security firm Sophos suggests in its Threat Report that misconfigurations will be a key element in many incidents. In addition, cloud code injection attacks, direct to the cloud’s code or a third-party library, are a worrying development that can lead to data manipulation and theft.
Work From Home Concerns
In line with governmental restrictions and suggestions, a vast number of people are continuing to work from home as opposed to in an office environment. And working from home more often than not involves the staff’s own devices and home networks.
Two primary concerns with the remote worker situation are that individuals are less likely to have proper perimeter security on their home networks and staff devices are potentially compromised and therefore represent a significant security risk. In fact, security researchers at WatchGuard predict that 25 percent of all data breaches this year will be the result of remote work practices.
When the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and devices first began to emerge on the market, there was a flurry of media attention pointing out the potential risks of IoT. While the volume of IoT threat-focused media has died down somewhat, the inherent IoT’s security risks certainly have not. Neither has the market. In fact, predictions from Fortune Business and others estimate that IoT will become a one-trillion dollar industry as soon as 2026.
The intensifying and encompassing spread of IoT devices and tools in businesses and in private homes is a risk that should not be overlooked, for the simple reason that more connected devices mean more potential access points and vulnerabilities for bad actors to exploit.
Additionally, because IoT is constantly evolving and changing, there are many opportunities for hackers to find and capitalize on new vulnerabilities. Likewise, security experts have to try and keep on top of an ever-adjusting landscape.
Drive-by Downloads and Malvertising
The face of malware has changed significantly since the days when you had to click a link to unwittingly infect your own system. Now, malvertising and drive-by downloads mean you don’t even need to actively open anything and your device is compromised.
With the latter, simply visiting an infected website can allow malicious code access to your computer or phone. These threats take advantage of any vulnerabilities, or exploits, such as a browser or app that is out of date, to install unwanted code.
How to Protect Your Devices?
Before we go over the essential cybersecurity tools you need, it’s important to remember that good digital hygiene practices are still one of the best ways to thwart attacks. With that in mind:
- Use multi-factor authentication for all of your accounts whenever possible.
- Don’t use passwords that contain personal information or are easily guessed. Instead, make sure all your passwords are around 12 characters long and contain a mix of upper and lower-case letters, numerals, and special characters. Additionally;
- Use a password manager, such as LastPass, to keep all your account information secure, don’t let your devices remember all your logins.
- Sign out of sites and accounts when you’re no longer using them.
- Double-check all of your third-party browser extensions and app for permissions and to ensure these programs don’t have access to your information. Remove any extensions you no longer need.
- Avoid using your devices in free public wifi zones.
- Choose cloud storage providers very carefully, make sure your pick has high-level security protocols in place.
- Make sure you’re using a good firewall program. Businesses need enterprise-level protection.
- Always install updates whenever they are available for your operating system and any apps. Unpatched issues lead to data leaks.
After you’ve shifted your online practices and habits to encompass the above considerations, invest in some quality cybersecurity tools:
Virtual Private Network
A Virtual Private Network (VPN) serves several security concerns: firstly, it creates a private network for you to browse on, and secondly, a VPN app encrypts any data in transmission, making it near impossible for a threat actor to see or interfere with your information.
As a result, your VPN app makes using free public wifi safe and secure, something that is an absolute no-go without protection in place. When installed on a router, VPNs can also encrypt a whole network and any connected IoT devices.
Choose a high-quality paid subscription. While a free VPN sounds great, the reality is that many actively sell client data. Remember that if a service is free, you are the product.
Antivirus & Antimalware
It’s a good idea to have both antivirus and anti-malware installed on your devices. While the former was once the cybersecurity gold standard, today’s threats are too advanced for antivirus alone.
You can think of antimalware as the more modern version of antivirus, these programs can also detect suspicious links in text messages and on websites, and so help prevent drive-by downloads and malvertising-based threats.
Although not mentioned above, phishing remains a huge threat in 2021, and bad actors are always coming up with novel ways of dressing up their fraudulent messages, such as masquerading as the World Health Organisation.
To help avoid phishing, firstly learn more about it, and secondly, consider an email scanner. These applications trawl through your emails and help weed out anything unsavory.
Despite the scope of the threat landscape, taking some time to ensure good digital hygiene and investing in quality cybersecurity tools can make all the difference, and keep your devices and your data safe in 2021 and beyond.
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For a self-professed control freak, technical difficulties are the devil himself. Yet renowned photographer and San Francisco Art Institute alum Annie Leibovitz channeled her ’70s-era EssEff cool when a slide-projector clicker recently bedeviled her at the Regency Ballroom.
Hosted by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Modern Art Council, led by award chair Courtney Dallaire and MAC President Candace Cavanaugh, most of the 500 fans at SFMOMA’s newly branded Contemporary Vision Award Dinner didn’t seem to mind the snafu.
However, these modernists eagerly anticipate the month of May, when they move back into the museum’s snazzy new Snohetta-designed building.
“There’re so many new and younger faces at this event,” noted SFMOMA trustee Katie Schwab Paige. “I’m so impressed and excited for the museum.”
Initially dubbed the Bay Area Treasure Lunch, this 16-year tradition (honoring such creative minds as Wayne Thiebaud, Richard Serra, Jony Ive) has evolved mightily in size and scope as a crucial fundraiser for SFMOMA education and exhibition programs.
“Our honorees are either from or influence the Bay Area,” said trustee Alka Agrawal. “But the title change reflects that SFMOMA is now a world-class cultural institution.”
Following Leibovitz tributes by SFMOMA Director Neal Benezra and new Chronicle Art Critic Charles Desmarais, guests dug into their Paula LeDuc dinner in between that slideshow and conversation with Leibovitz and Chronicle Books CEO Nion McEvoy, an SFMOMA trustee and passionate photography collector.
While attending SFAI, Leibovitz began her career as a 17-year-old photographer for the then-fledgling rock ’n’ roll magazine Rolling Stone.
“Ah, to be young, in San Francisco and working for Rolling Stone; it was glorious to be taken seriously,” Leibovitz recalled. “But no one knew what to do with us.”
Her former colleague, author-editor Ben Fong-Torres, sighed, too, about those dreamy days.
“We were just kids, creating this thing no one understood yet,” he marveled. “Occasionally we’d go on assignment together; I’d take notes as Annie set up the shot. To put the subject at ease, she’d casually ask a few questions. And in that process, Annie developed her distinctive visuals.”
Tick-tock: Time was the essence and on dazzling display via historically exquisite timepieces recently at Fort Mason Center during the 34th San Francisco Fall Antiques Show, which was dubbed “Time After Time: Bringing the Past Present.”
The five-day fair kicks off with a glamorous opening-night gala where patrons gladly pay big bucks in support of Enterprise for High School Students’ career and college counseling programs.
But savvy connoisseurs also know those ducats buy early shopping-op access and entree to one of the city’s most lively and bountiful McCall’s Catering cocktail buffets.
“I was so honored to be chosen as show chairwoman,” said beloved and talented interior designer Suzanne Tucker. “However, I requested three things: designer vignettes return to the entry foyer; more art; and more contemporary dealers. I think we’ve achieved a real ying-yang among the design and art here.”
Artistic edge: Among potential shoppers at Hedge Gallery in San Francisco, where Christie’s recently hosted a sneak peek of its Nov. 9-13 Post-War & Contemporary Art Sale, were youthful-looking tech types.
All admired the show-stopping works by Robert Motherwell, Joan Mitchell, Richard Diebenkorn and Ruth Asawa. But this new breed especially admired the coveted “Lockheed Lounge” by Marc Newson, which Christie’s first sold for a paltry $105K in 2000.
Fast forward to spring 2015: Newson, the industrial designer who recently joined forces with his pal Jony Ive on the Apple design team, created this aerodynamically shaped fiberglass piece in an edition of 10. At a Phillips London auction in April, the lounge was pronounced “the most expensive design object ever” when it sold for a record-breaking $3.7 million.
Though a highlight of this November sale, Christie’s set its “Lounge” price prior to the Phillips’ auction. So with a listed estimate of $1.5 million to $2 million, somebody got a bargain.
Not surprisingly, most auction houses are attracting tech types. And April 2015 sales among the top three houses (Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Phillips) shattered previous records when, combined, they sold a whopping $2.7 billion worth of art in a week and a half.
“Tech buyers aren’t the core of our existing client base, but they’re definitely an emerging market,” noted Christie’s Americas President Brook Hazelton, with a smile. “But just to clarify those sales numbers, $1.7 billion of those total sales were sold just by Christie’s.”
Catherine Bigelow is The San Francisco Chronicle’s society correspondent. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org


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“A meeting of the board of directors of the Company will be held on June 18, 2018, to consider the proposal to buy-back the fully paid up equity shares of the Company and the matters related thereto,” DCM Shriram said in a regulatory filing.
The primary objective of a share buyback programme is to arrest the fall in the value of a stock by reducing the supply of the stock, which essentially pushes up the share price through a better P/E multiple. The other objective is to improve earnings per share (since the same dividend amount is now distributed among fewer shares).
Thus far in the calendar year 2018, the stock price has more than halved from Rs 558 to Rs 271, as compared to 4% rise in the S&P BSE Sensex till Monday. The scrip touched a 52-week low of Rs 223 on May 16, 2018 on the BSE in intra-day trade.
DCM Shriram had reported 68% year-on-year drop in net profit at Rs 510 million in March quarter (Q4FY18), due to poor performance of its sugar business. It had posted profit of Rs 1,560 million in year ago quarter. Operations revenue was down 3% at Rs 15.66 billion against Rs 16.16 billion in the corresponding quarter of previous fiscal.
“Sugar business is experiencing difficult price situation with prices significantly below cost. Industry has been pursuing with government for immediate support as well as a rational policy framework. There is need for urgent action in this regard to ensure that farmers’ interests are protected,” Ajay Shriram, Chairman & Senior Managing Director, and Vikram Shriram, Vice Chairman & Managing Director, said on the performance of the company.


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The United States Mint this month will release its fourth and last Coin & Chronicle Set of the year, this one featuring Lyndon B. Johnson.
This year’s first two sets for Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower had limits of 17,000 and sold out within 15 minutes of their release. The third set for John F. Kennedy with its 50,000 limit took a bit more than two weeks before becoming unavailable […]
The Royal Canadian Mint this week introduced its first holiday-themed $25 for $25 product, the 2016 $25 Winter Fun Silver Coin.
Buying options include the coin by itself, for its face value, or bundled together for $45 with the new 2015 $20 Gingerbread Man Silver Coin […]
October releases from the Perth Mint of Australia feature several new gold, silver and platinum coins that showcase a variety of themes.
They include Year of the Monkey coins, a two-ounce gold high relief kangaroo coin, a star-shaped coin, a map-shaped coin, a five-ounce high relief koala silver coin and a platinum Australian Wedge-Tailed Eagle coin […]
Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge makes one of its last appearances on a United States Mint collectible product with today’s release of a 3-inch, 5-ounce silver coin depicting a design emblematic of the site in Delaware.
This brand new coin is the fourth of five this year and the 29th overall in the U.S. Mint’s series of America the Beautiful Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coins […]
New America the Beautiful Quarters with a design emblematic of Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware appear on this week’s sales report.
United States Mint products with circulating-quality Bombay Hook quarters launched last Wednesday, Sept. 30. Product options include rolls and bags of quarters struck in […]
The Royal Canadian Mint just introduced an adorable holiday-themed collectible, the 2015 $20 Gingerbread Man Silver Coin.
This release is the latest from the Mint’s series of coins that are in 99.99% pure silver and sold at their legal tender face value of $20. The price includes free ground shipping and there is no tax […]
Today, Oct. 6, the United States Mint released the 2015 Bombay Hook Quarters Three-Coin Set. Quarters of the set commemorate the national wildlife refuge in Delaware.
This latest America the Beautiful Quarters Three-Coin Set is the fourth one this year, and it is the 29th overall in the program […]


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Fintech startup Mylapay has raised Rs 4.6 crore ($550K) in a seed round led by venture capital firm CDM Capital. The round also saw participation from Singapore based Saison Capital (Credit Saison’s Venture Capital arm) and 77 Capital (lead by Amit Goel).
The proceeds will be used to enhance its cloud-based infrastructure and strategically expanding the scope of its business operations.
Founded in 2019 by Mohanraj Ravi, Santhakumari Dhana Balakrishnan and Sundar Balasubramanian, Mylapay empowers payment aggregators and banks across the globe with a suite of payment processing capabilities, facilitated by a simplified API connection.
Mylapay claims to have shown progress over the past three years, with a 70% growth in FY 2023, and a sustained EBIDTA positive performance for two years running. The firm has expanded its reach by securing key partnerships with many payment aggregators and gateways and has taken its first steps into the international market with a UAE-based client.
The Chennai-based startup recently obtained approval from EMVCo for its EMV 3-D secure server product called ‘Mylapay Secure’.


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Wooden Tooth Records has officially opened its brand-new downtown location at 108 E. Congress St., which is a fantastic combo of loud music and a craft beer bar.
For the old-school Tucson scene kids from the early to mid-2000s, it’s nostalgic to walk into the former Red Room space because the walls are still red, the same bar is intact, and old furniture can be found at the bar. As a matter of fact, someone actually reached out to Wooden Tooth owners, Jake Sullivan and Kellen Fortier, and offered to return an original green bench seat from the Red Room (you’ll find it here near the bar).
For years, Sullivan and Fortier have had some sort of connection to Tucson’s food and beverage scene. Before opening the very first Wooden Tooth Records in the back of Cafe Passe on Fourth Avenue, they actually worked there, too.
“We’ve been working on this for quite some time, and we can now proudly say that the second location of Wooden Tooth Records is open,” Sullivan and Fortier shared on Facebook. “We’ll be planning a big grand opening soon, but for now we’re just excited to be able to open our doors and share the space with you.”
The new downtown spot is open 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. on Sunday – Thursday and 11 a.m. – 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
“We couldn’t have done it without the help and generosity of a lot of people, for which we are extremely grateful. This building holds a lot of memories for many Tucsonans and we are incredibly honored to be able to finally open the doors once again.”
At the moment, they’ve got five canned beers including Dragoon IPA, Barrio Blonde, and Spellbinder from Wren House Brewing Company, a couple of June Shines, Tepache, and fancy water in a bottle.
You’ll notice a lot is happening in the area, too. Wooden Tooth Records is sandwiched between Blue Front, a new restaurant concept from the minds behind Penca Restaurante, and Shirt Shop Mercantile, which is set to be a coffee shop/bakery combination.
So, stop on by, thumb through some records, grab a beer at the bar, perhaps fumble through even more records after that, and support the dudes that have been feeding our ears since 2015.
The new Wooden Tooth Records shop is located at 108 E. Congress St. and the flagship location is found at 426 E. Seventh St. For more information, visit woodentoothrecords.store.
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2016 has been a very interesting year indeed for the New Jersey online gambling industry. The industry is all of three years old and it has had a very exciting existence so far. In fact, the just concluded year has been full of exciting and significant events, both for the land based and online gambling industries. This is a good time to review the growth of online gambling in the state. And perhaps get an idea about where it is headed this year.
One of the most interesting features of the 2016 online gambling year has been that international brands have become very popular. PokerStars is a relatively new entity in the market. It is able to contribute between $150,000 and $275,000 to the approximately $2 million that Resorts Atlantic City makes from its online gaming operations every month.
The Launch of New Jersey Online Gambling
This wasn’t always the case. When online gambling was launched in the state at the end of 2013, known brands became immediately successful. There was a lot of speculation about how the land-based casinos would jockey for space in the industry. The situation was indeed free for all as the different casinos teamed up with multiple gaming platform providers to launch a number of brands. In many, many casinos had gaming sites under their own brands in addition to ones that had the brand of their platform provider.
It became immediately clear that players were opting for gaming sites that had the names of local casinos, perhaps on account of increased comfort level with these brands. Besides, companies such as Party Poker were unable to reconnect with customers after a seven-year pause in their operations in the New Jersey market. In any case, people prefer to trust their money to a well-known local brand instead of a disembodied internet-based entity. Online operators will also have to acknowledge that a lot of their problems have originated from the period prior to 2013 when the gambling space was occupied by many fly by night websites. Another important factor is that land based casinos could easily and cost effectively advertise their gaming sites.
New Options Offered by New Jersey Online Gambling Sites
Gamblers in New Jersey also were given a great many exciting new options in 2016. For starters, a land-based casino in Pennsylvania has launched a New Jersey facing gambling site called PlaySugarHouse.com. This licensed website has become very popular in the short time that it has been online. This testifies to the high quality of gaming that it offers. At the same time, the Golden Nugget Casino gaming site also started offering live dealer games. Pala Bingo was also launched in 2016. It has quickly climbed to the top of this segment.
The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement has also been taking the right steps. This is to ensure that regulated operators get a fair playing field. The gaming body has entered into an agreement with leading regulator Kahnawake Gaming Commission. The companies that do not have a New Jersey licence will have restricted access to the market in the state. This will definitely go a long way to ensuring that legitimate and regulated operators will be able to function profitably.
The online gambling market in New Jersey has evidently matured over the past three years. Players are also less loyal to any particular brand. They prefer to move from one site to another depending on what promotional offers or new features are available. The industry is expanding at a very fast pace and it is showing no indication of slowing down. However, operators will have to watch out for the future. The market is too small to allow them to continue growing!


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Retail loans reached 168 UAH bil in 2013 in Ukraine, according to the National Central Bank. This is 3.71 % more than in the previous year.
Historically, retail loans in Ukraine reached an all time high of 269 UAH bil in 2008 and an all time low of 16.1 UAH bil in 2004. When compared to Ukraine's main peers, retail loans in Poland amounted to 555 PLN bil, 103 RON bil in Romania and 9,957 RUB bil in Russia in 2013.
Ukraine has been ranked 40th within the group of 64 countries we follow in terms of retail loans.
A retail loan is a loan provided by a bank to a physical person.


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The pint-sized version of the HTC One has finally been unveiled by the company and the world gets to see official images of the mobile phone for the first time.
It brings a 1.4GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, Ultrapixel rear camera and a 1.6-megapixel one on the front. The device also sports 4G support and Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean all inside its 4.3-inch display.
The HTC Mini has an obvious rival in the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini so it will be interesting to see which comes top of the pint-sized devices when both of their flagship handsets have been so successful.
Release dates have been pretty vague for Australian carriers as HTC is still only giving “summer” as a confirmed time of arrival for the handset.
The device will be launched internationally in August with the UK getting its hands on it then, but when Aussies and the US will actually get it remains unclear.
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From an outsider's perspective, the care, effort and data science that can go into making a seemingly minor change in the user experience can look like madness. Who cares enough to change a star to a heart or swap out one shade of blue for another?
What took you so long, Tumblr?! Following the lead of Facebook and other social platforms, Tumblr is finally joining the mobile messaging party. Yep, users can now engage in real threaded, instant messaging on the Web and Tumblr's mobile app.
The future is clearly a mobile one. If you haven't figured that out by now, then best of luck to you. Still, over the next year, the degree to which mobile will transform customer engagement and envelop other channels is going to take many businesses off-guard. That's according to a new forecast from Forrester, which put mobile's ascension in stark terms.
Snapchat is killing it. The app is currently enjoying 6 billion video views a day, sources tell the Financial Times. If accurate, that's up by about 300% since May. What's more, those numbers aren't far off from the 8 billion daily video views that Facebook presently sees across mobile and desktop.
Threatening to bust the mobile boom, app makers are playing a dangerous game with people's personal information. That's according to new and highly credible research, which tested 110 of the most popular Android and iOS apps on the market to see which ones shared personal, behavioral, and location data with third parties.
Facebook has acquired more than 50 companies since its founding, about a fifth of which are directly related to mobile devices and technology. The newest Q3 earnings report from Facebook shows that all those acquisitions are paying for themselves. Mobile advertising revenue represented approximately 78% of all ad revenue for the third quarter of 2015, up from 66% in the third quarter of 2014.
Facebook appears to have a posting problem. Over the past year, the share of users updating their status is down from 50% to 34% -- while the share of those posting pictures is off from 59% to 37% -- according to new data from market research firm GlobalWebIndex.
Bubble! Like the jerk of a knee, that's how plenty of people are responding to word that Activision Blizzard is dropping $5.9 billion on King Digital -- the maker of mobile gaming sensation Candy Crush Saga. "This is just one of a number of valuations that are increasingly unrealistically high," according to Mike Wade, professor at the IMD Business School in Switzerland.
Apple watchers are pretty excited about what looks to be a dedicated indoor positioning app. First noticed on the App Store by developer Steve Troughton-Smith, this weekend, the Indoor Survey App should help businesses map out their physical footprints. From there, they can show shoppers around, direct them to particular products, and encourage them to stick around for a bit longer.
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(Yes, two Rants this week. There is a lot peeving me this week.)
"As more of us indulge our passion for local, organic delicacies, a growing number of Americans don’t have enough nutritious food to eat. How we can bridge the gap."
Many of us celebrated Thanksgiving recently, probably enjoying a bounty of food, possibly including some local and/or organic foods. Some of us might have turned up our nose at boxed stuffing, boxed potatoes, canned vegetables or similar such items. For others though, such foods played a central place in their dinners, if they could even afford that much. It is very disturbing that in our plentiful country, there are still so many people who cannot afford adequate food.
You should read a new article in Newsweek magazine, "Divided We Eat," by Lisa Miller. It is a disturbing look at how: "Food has become the premier marker of social distinctions, that is to say--social class." It also offers some suggestions for changing this situation.
About 17% of Americans are "food insecure," meaning that they sometimes run out of money to purchase food or they run out of food before they can obtain more money. That is almost 1 out of 5 people, a significant problem. Food insecurity is higher in the South, in big cities, and families headed by a single mother. This has led to a 58.5% increase in food stamp use over the last three years. But that also seems to go with increased obesity, and a recent study has shown that women and children on food stamps are more likely to be overweight.
It is not a matter of nutritional education. "Lower-income families choose sugary, fat, and processed foods because they're cheaper--and because they taste good." Even though some low-income neighborhoods are "food deserts," lacking a significant supermarket for fresh produce and such, others are not, and there is little difference in the buying patterns of these low-income people. Michael Pollan stated: "Essentially we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food."
I have mentioned it a number of times before, that local, sustainable, organic products need to be much less expensive before they can spread to the wider community, before they stop being elitist. That is not easy to accomplish and will require a united effort on many fronts. Some efforts are being taken on the local level, such as efforts to allow food stamps to gain extra credit at farmers' markets. But much more needs to be done, starting with a greater awareness of the issue. If local is so important to us, then helping local people who are food insecure should be important as well.
If you are working on this issue, please add a comment and tell us what you are doing. Let us know about some of the local efforts to help in this regard.


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Strategic Meetings Summit London, 26 September,
September 29 2022, Kimpton Fitzroy London
Friday 30 September 2022, JW Marriott Grosvenor
Following a tournament in which fans from 24 European nations frequently informed us football was “coming home” (or “coming Rome”, as eventually proved the case), travel managers across the region are now wondering whether the same is about to prove true for business travel.Europe is currently in its holiday season. Traditionally, the busiest time of the year for business travel immediately follows in September. Will September 2021 prove the point at which the bookings graph shoots up again for the first time since coronavirus practically wiped out corporate travel 18 months previously?BTN Europe canvassed the views of four different European travel management associations. What emerges is a tale of two Vs: vaccination and variants. The mood is slightly different in each country. But overall the story is that recent optimism about vaccination finally opening the door to travel resumption (though never to the same levels as pre-Covid for environmental reasons) is now tempered by fear that contagious variants may delay the great return yet again.The view from FranceFrance has no restrictions on domestic travel but that is set to change as President Macron tries to push up doggedly low vaccination levels. “As education was obviously not enough, the French government has decided to take strong measures which will force the most reluctant to be vaccinated,” says Michel Dieleman, president of the Association of French Travel Management (AFTM).From 21 July, anyone boarding a flight or inter-city train will need to show a health pass proving they have either been fully vaccinated or tested negative. The same holds true for entering restaurants, bars, cafés and shopping centres.
People are not ready to return for large face-to-face events. For the time being, what we will see is travel that’s absolutely necessary for doing business
France has higher vaccine scepticism than other Western European countries but AFTM international director Claude Lelievre believes most business travellers have already received their jabs. “People who travel abroad often have to be vaccinated anyway,” he says. AFTM is confident business travel is on the cusp of a comeback once France’s annual summer shutdown is over. “Business trips will recover for sure in September as they always do after the summer break,” Lelievre says. AFTM’s best guess is that volumes will be around 50 per cent of what they were in 2019, although it warns that figure could be significantly lower if Covid variants start to inflict damage.Lelievre is less optimistic about the conference sector. “People are not ready to return for large face-to-face events,” he says. “That will take some time to recover. For the time being, what we will see is travel that’s absolutely necessary for doing business.”
The view from GermanyGerman travel management association VDR is seeing distinct signs of an uptick in business travel activity even during the holiday season that is now under way. “The last couple of weeks have been really promising,” says VDR president Christoph Carnier, who is also head of procurement category for travel, fleet and events at the science and technology company Merck. VDR is detecting a shift from air to rail and car rental for domestic trips.Cross-border travel within the EU plus Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, is now permitted on production of the EU Digital COVID Certificate. The certificate confirms that the holder has been vaccinated, had a recent negative test or has immunity after previously contracting the virus. A recovery in travel to other European countries has thus far been slow, according to Carnier. Whether that will change come September is finely balanced. If the health situation does not deteriorate he expects that “individual trips will see a big increase. There is an appetite to meet in person again.” On the other hand, Carnier warns, “the Delta variant means there is another wave coming. The question is how hard will that wave hit us? How many people will need treatment in hospital? In the end, whether there are hospitalisations or not will be the deciding factor.”Like his AFTM counterparts, however, Carnier does “not expect big meetings for the rest of the year. People are reluctant to attend and are waiting for the situation to calm down.”
The view from Denmark“There are definitely signs of
opening up. It will be in the autumn.” That is the positive view of
Anne Mette Berg, general manager of the Danish Business Travel
Association, who summarises the prevailing mood as one of “cautious
optimism”.Denmark was one of the first countries back in April
to introduce a digital pass, called the Coronapas, similar
to the more recently launched EU Digital COVID Certificate, which has
been used to gain admission to public spaces. Restrictions on
capacity for meetings is being lifted from 1 August and available
meeting space in Denmark is hard to find for September to November.
“There is a willingness to start travelling again. I think we have to
live with the risk from now on,” says Berg.
The view from SwitzerlandAssociation of Swiss Travel Management president Dominic Short was thrilled to attend his first post-coronavirus in-person conference last week. The event took place at a convention centre which opened at the Hyatt Regency Zurich Airport in April 2021 but is only now able to accept groups. “It was super-busy and everyone was very happy to be there,” says Short.Meetings booking are gradually recovering for Swiss venues, but so far, says Short, it has all been local business. Domestic travel has reopened fully but at present most trips are by engineers, builders and others travelling to work on location. “Big companies are still reluctant to move their people back into offices,” says Short, an attitude which is holding back white-collar travel. Short links the sluggish recovery to Switzerland’s generous financial support for businesses, with the government continuing to pay 80 per cent of the wages of furloughed employees, and most employers topping up the remaining 20 per cent in the pay packet. “People are not in a hurry to return to work when they are well covered,” says Short.Although Switzerland lags behind much of Europe with its vaccination programme, summer holidays are selling very well. But there is no sign yet of improved bookings for business travel. “We’re waiting to see what will happen to the holidaymakers,” says Short. “If we come out of the summer without a massive pick-up in infections, then there will be a big upturn in business travel. But no one is terribly optimistic.”


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Emerging Irish companies looking to conquer export markets could benefit from teaming up with partners on the ground in each territory, according to Grant Kinsman, chief executive, H2 Compliance.
‘‘In our early days, we teamed up with strategic partners in the US, who could identify potential clients who needed our service,’’ said Kinsman.
‘‘That worked fantastically well. They referred us to an enormous number of clients. In our area, you actually have to be based in the EU, so those guys could not provide the service themselves.That helped us get really good clients very quickly.’’ Kinsman said H2 used a variety of routes to market, often running workshops overseas to attract new business.
Attracting an audience
‘‘Workshops are a really good way to attract an audience, which is genuinely interested in the topic,’’ he said. ‘‘Just recently in both San Francisco and New Jersey, we had 30 or 40 people spending three to four hours with us.
‘‘These are not selling type events, they are more about explaining the company’s obligations and the solutions available.
‘‘We try to make it relevant based on their particular products or problems. That has been very effective for us.’’
H2 Compliance was established by the company’s chief technology officer John Hayes and chief operating officer Kevin Hoban in June 2006. The firm employs ten people in Dublin, Cork and New York, helping them to fulfill works with more than 100 clients their obligations under EU chemical and environmental regulations.
Kinsman said that the majority of the company’s customers were US headquartered firms operating in the pharmaceutical, IT, mining and natural resources sectors.
He believes that much of the firm’s success has been down to the impact of the EU-wide Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (Reach) Directive, agreed in December 2006.
‘‘Reach was going to be enforced in 2008, and we very quickly spotted the business opportunity that had arisen and were first movers on to that landscape,’’ he said. ‘‘As first mover, you can educate, train and develop potential customers and bring them on board as a client over time.
‘‘Reach has multiple registration requirements and deadlines up to 2018 and it will continue to run after that. Once you have established a client and what services they require, the work recurs each year over multiple years.’’
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H2 has been short-listed as a finalist in the Services Category of the Small Firms Association’s National Small Business Awards 2011.
‘‘Last year was a key milestones in the Reach directive for classification and notification of particular substances or chemicals,’’ said Kinsman. ‘‘We knew that would lead to some additional registration this year and it has proven that way.’’
The company has also secured sales for its own software tool. ‘‘As we delivered our solutions using a very productive piece of software, some of our clients said: ‘that is what we need in our environment’, so we have ended up licensing our own software branded Element1 to a number of different clients, although originally that was not a focus,’’ said Kinsman.
‘‘We are now a multi-million euro company. We are more than e1 million, but not e10 million yet. We will continue to add resources, with maybe one or two hires next year.
‘‘We have made a significant investment in rebranding all marketing collateral ahead of marketing campaigns in North America, Europe and emerging markets in 2011. Over the next two to three years, we will be looking at other related pieces of legislation we could again take first mover advantage on.’’


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Apple is locked in a race for subscribers with Amazon, Google and others as streaming music becomes the dominant form of paid music consumption.
The tech giant on Monday announced that its streaming music service now has 38 million paid subscribers, up from 36 million in February. These figures are still lesser in comparison to Spotify’s 71 million premium subscribers.
Apple said Eddy Cue, Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services, disclosed the most recent subscriber number for Apple Music at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. At SXSW, he also talked about Apple’s acquisition of Texture, a distributor of digital magazines.
Eddy said the world has about 2 billion potential subscribers who have both the access and the means to pay for streaming music, but Apple Music and Spotify’s subscribers have only reached a little more than 100 million combined. He also batted away another suggestion that Apple might buy Netflix, even as it ramps up a huge apparatus to produce its own original shows and movies. Cue said that Apple is “completely all in” on its content plans, which includes a $1 billion budget for originals. But asked if Apple, which has a gigantic $283.1 billion in cash reserves, would buy a media production giant like Netflix or Disney, Cue dismissed the idea, saying the company isn’t chasing “quantity.”
Earlier this year, Apple started shipping its new premium smart speaker, which works exclusively with its music streaming service. The company also hired singer Anderson Paak for a new Apple Music-exclusive track to go along with its new 4-minute long HomePod ad starring FKA twigs and directed by Spike Jonze.
With Spotify gearing up to go public in a matter of weeks, the competition between both the music streaming service is something everyone in Silicon Valley will be closely watching.


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Posted on: January 27, 2015
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issue over 600 recalls a year in an effort to reduce injuries and fatalities on our roads. However, the issuance of recalls does not necessarily mean vehicles are becoming more dangerous.
In an effort to avoid automotive related injuries, automakers will issue their own recalls anytime a concern may arise. These recalls are actually good for the consumer creating an improved product.Read More →


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In March 2019, T-Mobile announced that they have started to test home Internet services using LTE. At the time, this program offered LTE home Internet to 50,000 households to begin testing out T-Mobile’s hardware ahead of their 5G home Internet service launch. Since that announcement, T-Mobile has slowly been rolling out invites to the service. This week T-Mobile reached out to a new group of testers to invite them to test out their home Internet service.
“We’ve tripled our LTE coverage as we work to create a network where everyone in America has access to fast and reliable home internet, no matter where they live,” T-Mobile says in a statement on its website.
This new T-Mobile Home Internet service offers 50 Mbps home Internet (due to “LTE network and spectrum capacity constraints”) for $50 a month with no data cap. T-Mobile is quick to add that the new 5G home Internet service will be far faster when it launches. According to T-Mobile, this service comes with no annual contracts, no data caps, no hidden fees, no price hikes, and no hardware costs.
This could be an excellent option for Americans living in markets with data caps. Using T-Mobile Home Internet could give you an opportunity to stream all you want without worrying about your data cap.
So if you been hoping for an invite to test out T-Mobile’s new home internet service make sure to check your email. Want to see if T-Mobile Home Internet is available in your area? You can do so by visiting T-Mobile’s website HERE.
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text: We're excited to announce that we've partnered with our pals Joe and Nick of The Found Footage Festival to bring A.V. Club readers a specially curated Found Footage section. Twice a week for the next 12 weeks, you'll find new gems—which Joe and Nick mostly find at rummage sales and resale stores—sure to tickle something in your psyche. The first week's theme is "exercise awareness week." Look for videos every Tuesday and Thursday.


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LICENSEES shouldn’t underestimate the value of bottled water and soft drinks with provenance, drinks firms told SLTN.
Adrian Troy, marketing director at AG Barr, said “provenance and product benefits are becoming increasingly important to consumers, particularly in relation to water”.
“People are not only looking for water brands they know and trust, they are increasingly conscious about the source of the water, which reinforces the provenance message,” said Troy.
Customers are “increasingly interested in understanding the brands they choose to purchase”, according to Carol Saunders, head of customer marketing at Highland Spring Group.
Therefore, she reckons a dedicated water menu is “key for the on-trade”.
“Naming the still and sparkling water so consumers can make a choice based on provenance and quality that they enjoy, in the same way they would wine or other beverages, is also important,” said Saunders.
To capitalise on this, Saunders added that operators should “ensure that staff are familiar with the range of products and those which have an origin in Scotland so that they can help customers choose local drinks”.


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Police have called for managers of a Sutton Coldfield supermarket to be stripped of an alcohol licence after allegedly being caught selling fake wine.
A Birmingham City Council licensing sub-committee today (Feb 8) heard Trading Standards officers found 41 bottles of counterfeit wine at KVK Supermarket in Eachelhurst Road, Walmley.
The meeting heard Trading Standards were called by a member of the public who had purchased six bottles of Yellow Tail wine from the store, also known as Nisa, in November.
Three of the bottles “had different colour liquid inside and did not taste the same as the others”, and Casella Brands, the owner of Yellow Tail, confirmed these were counterfeit, the meeting heard.
Trading Standards visited the shop on two occasions and seized bottles of Pinot Grigio, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Shiraz bottles bearing the Yellow Tail label which were confirmed to be fake.
The meeting heard the person in charge of the shop had initially said the items were bought from Bookers cash and carry in Warwick, but officers were “unable to reconcile” items listed on the receipt with the items seized.
Another member of the public contacted Casella to say their bottles of wine did not taste right, and the manufacturer confirmed these too were counterfeit.
Explaining the possible origins of the fake wine, papers to councillors from Trading Standards state: “It would appear that this is a large-scale operation, (probably originating abroad) using organised crime gangs in the UK to distribute and sell the products.”
The meeting heard lab analysis showed the wine was not unsafe to drink – but that this was likely to be in order to “prolong the scam”.
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Chris Jones of West Midlands Police said: “The alcohol could not have been bought legitimately, could not have been bought from a cash and carry.
“The only way this alcohol could have been bought is off the back of a lorry with a white van man.
“The premises didn’t know if this was fit for public consumption – they wouldn’t have had a clue.
“The only thing they were worried about in my opinion was buying cheap alcohol, selling it at full retail price, making as much money as humanly possible.
“West Midlands Police would suggest due to the facts in front of you that the licence be revoked.”
Martin Williams, of Birmingham City Council's Trading Standards team, told the meeting: “What is concerning, particularly to us and Yellow Tail, is that if people buy a product and […] say to their partner ‘this is no longer any good – I don’t want you to buy this any more’ - the damage it does to the brand, when people don’t even realise it is because it is a counterfeit product, can be untold really."
He added it was an "isolated event in Birmingham" but said: “There were some bottles found in Dudley and there appear to be bottles found in different parts of the country – some were in the South and some were in the North.”
Kuladevi Thavarasa, licence holder at the shop, said staff at the shop had bought the wines from a delivery man while she was isolating and preparing for her mother's funeral - and that she and the staff did not know they were counterfeit.
She said: “I sincerely apologise for this one incident or mistake – the first and last, only time.”
The licensing sub-committee, chaired by Cllr Phil Davis (Lab) and also including Cllr Mary Locke (Lab) and Cllr Bob Beauchamp (Con) are due to publish their decision within five days.


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Bumble Bee debuts new value-added products
Bumble Bee is debuting new value-added items with a focus on affordability.
The San Diego, California, U.S.A. based company, owned by Fong Chun Formosa (FCF) Fishery Company, has begun selling newly introduced Bumble Bee Prime Protein on the Run snack-kits, designed for a portable lunch or snack on-the-go or at home. Each kit includes a 2.7-ounce can of tuna with an easy-peel lid, Partners artisanal crackers, a utensil, and a sweet caramel treat in a pop-open, easily recyclable box, the supplier said in a press release. The kits, which retail for a suggested USD 2.99 (EUR 2.59) each, are now available at most U.S. grocery chains, including Albertsons, Hannaford, Southeastern Grocers, and Publix. Tuna flavors include Zesty Lemon, Black Pepper, and Mild Jalapeno.
Bumble Bee has also upgraded the packaging on its Bumble Bee Prime line of gourmet canned tuna and salmon products, which also retail for USD 2.99 each, and added a new item. Its new Prime Solid White Albacore in Olive Oil “combines the benefits of albacore with the goodness of olive oil,” Bumble Bee said. The complete Prime canned product line also includes Solid White Albacore Tuna in Water (Low Sodium), Tonno Yellowfin Solid Light Tuna in Olive Oil, and Atlantic Skinless and Boneless Salmon in Water.
“We believe that everyone deserves to eat well – no matter what. That’s why we’re selling the Bumble Bee Prime line at mainstream retailers at an affordable price,” Bumble Bee Senior Vice President of Brand Marketing Dan Hofmeister told SeafoodSource.
While Bumble Bee has been impacted by the same inflationary pressures that have challenged the entire food and beverage sector, Hofmeister said the company has been able to control costs.
“Fortunately, our category scale, diversified supply matrix, and integration with our new ownership, FCF Co. Ltd. – a global leader in seafood sourcing – has enabled us to retain our exceptional value-proposition despite rising costs,” Hofmeister said. “Even in times such of these, we are confident our canned and pouch tuna products will continue to be among the most affordable proteins on the planet.”
The Bumble Bee Prime Fillet line is known for its “superior quality and unique upside-down gold can,” Hofmeister said. “Seeking to retain these recognizable equities with our loyal buyers while also capturing the attention of new category buyers, we simplified the branding and elevated the design to match the quality in the can.”
Bumble Bee is also seeking to feed growing demand in the snacking category, Hofmeister said, with its Prime Protein on the Run kits, what he declared to be the first premium tuna snacking solution in the category.
“Consumers are snacking now more than ever and are increasingly looking for high-protein, portable snacks without compromising on taste,” he said.
Shelf-stable tuna sales have declined this year, but certain sub-segments are growing, Hofmeister said.
“Both Premium Tuna and Ready-to-Eat Kits have posted double-digit sales growth versus 2019,” he said.
Bumble Bee is also taking advantage of the growing trend of premium tuna marinated in olive oil.
“Consumers prefer olive oil because it’s more flavorful, delivers more omega-3s, and it helps retain the moist texture of the tuna. All of the Protein on the Run kits are marinated in olive oil,” Hofmeister said.
Canned and pouched salmon have experienced a boost in demand as consumers have been cooking more at home and “have rediscovered the flavor and convenience of packaged salmon,” Hofmeister said.
“We’re glad to see more consumers benefiting from the straight-from-pantry convenience of canned salmon, which was actually the first product that the Bumble Bee Seafood Company sold when it was founded by salmon canners over 120 years ago,” he added.
As part of its company-wide sustainability commitments, Bumble Bee is also focusing on recycled packaging. In 2022, the supplier is launching replacing the plastic on all of its tuna multipacks with paperboard, using recycled board that is 100 percent recyclable.
“We produce 26 million multipacks per year, so this change from plastic to paperboard will make a significant impact on the amount of plastic waste that is created each year,” Hofmeister said.
Photo courtesy of Bumble Bee Seafood Company


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ADRANOX® is proud to announce the achievement of MDR certification for 10 new products registered as class IIa and IIb medical devices.
The updating process based on the new Reg. 2017/745 which began in 2021 for all class I medical devices has now also been completed for the new class II disinfectant and detergent products. So today, all the products in the portfolio are “MDR certified”.
Moving forward, ADRANOX® will continue to innovate and develop new and better medical technologies thanks also to the people who are deeply committed to this goal every day.
This marks another major regulatory milestone for the company and demonstrates its commitment to providing the highest quality products to its customers, protecting the health of patients all over the world.