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Mastercard firmly believes that crypto and blockchain know-how can convey far more worth to monetary industries as soon as it will possibly remedy the important thing problems with safety and ease, Tech Crunch reported, citing the corporate’s EVP and head of crypto and blockchain Raj Dhamodharan.
Dhamodharan made the feedback throughout a blockchain-focused panel at Mastercard’s North America Innovation Day on Could 23.
‘Plenty of promise’
Dhamodharan stated that crypto and blockchain know-how has been gaining extra traction worldwide by the day; nevertheless, their use instances are at present restricted because of a scarcity of complete safety and complex person interactions.
“Instilling belief within the blockchain ecosystem is a essential step in realizing its full potential.”
In line with Dhamodharan, as soon as these points are resolved, manufacturers and corporations would change into far more assured about participating with the web3 trade.
He added that most individuals view crypto as an funding alternative, however the “know-how itself holds plenty of promise” past simply being a great way to maneuver and retailer capital.
Mastercard’s EVP of safety and cyber innovation Johan Berger stated in the course of the panel:
“What you want for this tech to scale globally is interoperability and underlying safety of belief.”
Mastercard’s regular push into crypto
Mastercard was one of many first conventional monetary establishments to begin participating with the crypto trade.
The corporate has steadily expanded its repertoire of crypto providers by partnering with numerous trade gamers like Binance, Gemini and Paxos over time. Many exchanges provide debit and bank cards which might be powered by Mastercard.
The corporate can also be closely concerned in serving to governments determine central financial institution digital currencies and the underlying funds infrastructure.
Dhamodharan joined Mastercard in 2010 and have become head of the crypto division in 2019. He has been main the corporate’s aggressive push into crypto in recent times and considers the trade to be a chance slightly than a risk to its dominance within the funds sector.
He stated in an interview with Protocol in 2022:
“We don’t give it some thought that manner [as a threat] in any respect. I am going again to the maturity cycles of varied applied sciences in crypto. Probably, probably the most mature one is crypto as an funding asset class.”
Dhamodharan additionally stated on the time that Mastercard acquired into crypto as a result of its buyer base was involved in buying Bitcoin and different cryptocurrencies. He added that Mastercard’s intent is to offer a secure manner for its customers to expertise crypto.
The put up Mastercard’s crypto head stresses security, simplicity for blockchain’s full potential appeared first on CryptoSlate.


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Leverkusen, Germany, March 31, 2021 - Biofrontera AG (NASDAQ: BFRA; Frankfurt Stock
Exchange: B8F) (the "Company"), an international biopharmaceutical company, will be releasing its
financial results for the fiscal year 2020 on Monday, April 12, 2021.
Conference calls for shareholders and interested investors will be held on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, at the following times:
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Please dial in 10 minutes ahead of time to ensure a timely start of the conference call.
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Biofrontera AG is a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development and sale of dermatological drugs and medical cosmetics.
The Germany-based company, with over 150 employees worldwide, develops and markets innovative products for the care, protection and treatment of the skin. The company's lead product is the combination of Ameluz®, a topical prescription drug, and medical device BF-RhodoLED® for the photodynamic therapy of certain superficial skin cancers and their precursors. Ameluz® has been marketed in the EU since 2012 and in the United States since May 2016. In addition, the company markets the prescription medication Xepi® for the treatment of impetigo in the United States. In the EU, the company also sells the dermocosmetics series Belixos®, which offers specialized care for damaged or diseased skin.
Biofrontera is the first German founder-led pharmaceutical company to receive a centralized European and a US approval for a drug developed in-house. The Biofrontera Group was founded in 1997 by the current CEO Prof. Dr. Hermann Lübbert and is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Prime Standard) and on the US NASDAQ.www.biofrontera.com.
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In the top-secret headquarters of Industrial Light & Magic, a group of artists, engineers, sound designers, and storytellers are hatching plans to build the coolest "Star Wars" theme park ever imagined.
The ILMxLab, the special effects company's research and development arm, is prototyping virtual reality and augmented reality technologies that will allow park-goers to "step into a cinematic moment in a physical space." These experiences could open the door into the "Star Wars" universe in a way traditional rides could never do.
At the Bloomberg Businessweek Design 2016 conference in San Francisco, Tech Insider had the chance to sit down with Vicki Dobbs Beck, the executive in charge of the ILMxLab.
"What you get, obviously, in a theme park is 100% control over your physical environment, as well as whatever digital elements you interject into that world," Dobbs Beck says.
Disney, which purchased Lucasfilm for a mammoth $4 billion in 2012, announced plans for "Star Wars" theme lands at its parks in Orlando, Florida, and Anaheim, California, in late summer 2015.
Plans for the parks have been kept tightly under wraps, though we do know there will be two big attractions — one that depicts a battle between the First Order group and the Resistance, and another that puts park guests in control of Han Solo's Millennium Falcon.
While Dobbs Beck declined to say whether virtual reality would play a role in the rides, it seems more than likely based on ILMxLab's involvement in the parks' development.
The group builds immersive entertainment experiences for the home and public venues like theme parks. The first major product rollout, called "Trials on Tatooine," was developed for the Oculus Rift headset and allows wearers to take in a scene on the desert planet from the perspective of a Stormtrooper. Users can also wield a lightsaber, an experience that Dobbs Beck says brought some fans to tears at the Game Developers Conference in March.
The ILMxLab also created a system which allows movie directors to preview a set design in virtual reality before it's constructed. This ability helped Gareth Edwards, director of the upcoming "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," visualize the sets in his movie and make cost-saving edits.
From a consumer perspective, the appeal of virtual reality is the ability to experience piloting an AT-AT or sitting in the cockpit of a X-wing from the comfort of a theme park ride.
"We are looking at ways to use the movies as portals to enrich and expand the universe of the film," Dobbs Beck says. "I sometimes think about it as, the movie is linear and [virtual reality] is like punching through a scene and opening it up in another direction or dimension."
Dobbs Beck confirmed that members of the ILMxLab have visited The Void, a company based outside Salt Lake City, Utah, that is developing a theme park that blends physical environments with virtual reality.
"It's an interesting concept," Dobbs Beck says.
While Disney has yet to announce an official opening for the "Star Wars" parks, several reports say it is set for a 2018 debut.


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(Yicai Global) Dec. 11 -- Chinese fitness startup Supermonkey has completed its C-round financing worth millions of yuan so it can open more stores nationwide.
A sports industry fund co-sponsored by Sequoia China and the Chinese Culture Group led the funding, which pushed Supermonkey's value to more than CNY1 billion (USD151 million), online media outlet 36kr reported.
Its existing venues host an average of 10 classes a day, more than double most other fitness clubs, Tiao Tiao, founder, said. The firm already has a waiting list that's twice as long as its existing customer base, which he considers ample justification for expansion.
The company has 30 gyms in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, and hopes to expand to new cities, including Guangzhou, Chengdu, Hangzhou and Nanjing. Supermonkey will directly manage the new locations and will open some simultaneously in the new target regions. It is already looking into potential sites and recruiting personal trainers.


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As revealed during a panel at this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego, and put together by NeoGAF, new details have been revealed regarding BioWare’s next addition into the Mass Effect series, which includes a bunch of new information and the confirmation of the return of the Mako.
The troublesome vehicle from the original Mass Effect will make a comeback in the next Mass Effect game, which suggests that planetside exploration may also make a comeback. What’s more, this new Mako is touted to be more responsive than its predecessor.
Additionally, it has been suggested that the next Mass Effect will take place during Commander Shepard’s lifetime, but it will not involve Shepard themselves. No timeline was announced during BioWare’s panel at Comic-Con, however.
It was also reiterated that the next Mass Effect will not be a continuation of Shepard’s story; it’ll be an entirely brand new story. It was also hinted that old Mass Effect characters may appear.
As for the game’s multiplayer component, it’s suggested that cooperative gameplay will more important than competitive.
Some armor sets for both male and female humans were also showcased, but it was said that the designs could completely change in the final version of the game.
Additionally, it also seems that the next Mass Effect will provide players with as much choice as possible during play. On a technical standpoint, the game’s animation team is touted to be doing things that the studio “ couldn’t even dream about before, ” thanks to the Frostbite 3 engine.
Furthermore, it has also been restated that the next Mass Effect will not be titled “ Mass Effect 4 ”, and it has been confirmed that the main character will be human.
We’ve established that the next Mass Effect game will reference the series’ original trilogy , but the game itself will not be directly related to it. During BioWare’s panel, it was revealed that the next Mass Effect is “ years away from launch. ”
In-progress footage of BioWare’s next Mass Effect was revealed during this year’s E3 , where several members of BioWare’s team discussed the studio’s goal to create a story that can be discovered as interactive fiction.
You can watch a brief demonstration of the Mako in action via the embedded video below. We’ll bring you more news on the next Mass Effect should further information reach our ears.
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Launched in 2018, ION is a joint venture between sustainability pioneer, Bee’ah, and Crescent Enterprises, a diversified global conglomerate. As companies which share a vision for environmental sustainability, Bee’ah and Crescent Enterprises have combined their strengths to form ION; with the aim of driving a green fleet management enterprise in the UAE and across the wider MENA region.
His Excellency Khaled Al Huraimel, Group CEO of Bee’ah, said, “As a pioneer for sustainable quality of life, our mandate for the future encompasses all industries, including transportation. Through our partnership with Crescent Enterprises, we are proud to have developed a green mobility solution that is encouraging sustainable travel alternatives and behavioural changes among commuters. ION’s presence at WFES affirms that the transportation sector in the UAE is evolving, complementing the nation’s transition to a sustainable economy.”
ION’s appointment as the sustainable transport provider for WFES 2019 reaffirms its leadership in innovative green transport solutions. Through the collaboration between WFES and ION, this year’s event has reinforced sustainability objectives, registering a lower carbon footprint than ever before.
Samer Choucair, Executive Board Member for ION, commented, “With its progressive mindset and ambitious goals like Vision 2021, the UAE has the potential to become an early adopter of fully green mobility solutions. Through ION, we set a precedent for private sector participation in the sustainability drive; and facilitated a significant shift in commuter habits. We are proud to partner with WFES and support the event’s position as an influential platform for encouraging dialogue and action towards a sustainable future. This partnership demonstrates that eco-friendly transportation is gaining greater traction in the UAE, and we look forward to sustaining this momentum in building a zero-emission transport system.”
From electric bikes to buses, trucks, and even charging stations, ION is transforming multi-modal, inter-urban, transport networks across the Middle East. To make green transport solutions affordable and accessible to all, ION has deployed Tesla cars through popular ride-hailing platform, Careem. Apart from serving individual commuters, the company has also been supporting entities and events in reducing their environmental impact. Earlier last year, ION had extended its services to the Sharjah FDI Forum, as the official sustainable transport partner for the event.
In addition to extending its support at WFES, ION is showcasing its innovative mobility solutions at Bee’ah’s stand at the event. Participants can visit stand 5230 in hall 5, to experience ION’s electric bikes and other new products first-hand, and to explore the future of mobility in the UAE.


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From driverless cars to software-defined anything, here are the top ten disruptive techs for this year.
Disruptive technologies introduce cheaper and better ways of doing things, bucking the trend that has come before and sending researchers researching and investors investing.
This year we’ve seen an influx of technologies hit the mainstream that have been disruptive, from home automation devices to digital currency finding a foothold in the market. Here are ten disruptive technologies for 2014.
With the launch of Android Wear, Google’s very own smartwatch-dedicated operating system, smartwatches seem to have finally hit the mainstream. The LG G Watch and Moto 360 were the first Android Wear devices announced, and will beat Apple’s rumoured iWatch to the market.
Health and medical smartbands are also set to revolutionise the healthcare sector, monitoring patient status 24/7 opening up many doors for hospitals and carers.
Devices like Fitbit and Jawbone, and many like them, continually analyse calories burnt, steps taken, and hear rate, providing all this information to help you live a healthier lifestyle whilst providing an invaluable data mine to the manufacturers.
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are basically in every smartphone released now. They include devices such as gyroscopes, accelerometers and magnetometers. These sensors are increasingly being deployed in more and more everyday household products, from t-shirts to car wheels. These sensors go hand in hand with the explosion of the Internet of Things, enabling firms to collect user data from practically any object you can place a MEM system on.
Driverless cars made a big entrance in 2014, especially with Google’s effort. The steering wheel-less four-wheeler is currently being tested in the hope of bringing the technology ‘into the world safely’.
The cars are equipped with multiple sensors and navigation equipment that them drive themselves, and will only have an emergency stop button for humans.
Microsoft has unveiled a new cloud-based machine learning platform called Azure ML, which enables companies to use cloud to build applications based on big data and predict future events.
Aimed at acquiring more customers in the ‘hot’ field of machine-learning, Azure ML had been in a trial period for about a year.
The product is designed to enable companies to launch predictive applications much more quickly than traditional development methods. It also allows customers to publish APIs and web services on top of the Azure ML platform.
Microsoft is touting the product’s ability to build big data applications to predict, forecast and change future outcomes as a gamechanger.
Joseph Sirosh, Microsoft corporate VP, said, "Traditional data analysis let you predict the future. Machine learning lets you change the future."
Sirosh cites few examples such as users will be able to forecast demand, predict disease outbreaks, and even predict and prevent crime, which sounds straight out of sci-fi movie scenarios.
Apps are continuing to grow faster and faster, and are smaller and more targeted than before. In terms of mobile gaming apps, the market by 2016 for mobile gaming will be worth $28.9bn, a growth of over 38% on the 2014 figure of $20.9bn.
Mobile gaming is also kicking dedicated handheld gaming devices such as Sony’s PS Vita and Ninetendo’s 3DS into a sharp decline.
Software Defined Anything
Software-defined anything, or rather, SDx, is the term for the growing market shift for infrastructure programmability driven by cloud computing.
Under the moniker of SDx comes software-defined networking (SDN), software-defined computing, software-defined data centres, and software-defined storage (SDS).
SDx also includes intitiatives like OpenFlow, OpenStack, the Open Compute Project and Open Rack.


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Hepatitis C had affected 10 million people in Pakistan.
Treatment of the disease is costly especially impoted drugs are three times more expensive.
Currently the treatment cost 300,000 rupess but now it will come down to 100,000 .
CEO BF bioscience , Osman Khalid Waheed told on the inauguration of the company.
The company is a joint venture of Ferozesons Pakistan ltd and Bago Group of Argentine.
It has been set up in Lahore at Sunder Road, Raiwind.


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The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on Thursday passed the bipartisan Senate Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Act of 2023. The legislation, among other highlights, increases FAA safety inspectors, air traffic controllers and FAA oversight of foreign repair stations; requires FAA safety technology deployment to prevent near-misses, 25-hour cockpit voice recorders and investigations of service difficulty reports; and sets refund standards for non-refundable tickets, protects vouchers for five years, prohibits fees for family seating and triples fines for airline consumer violations.
The bill must now be passed by both the full Senate and House of Representatives before it can be sent to the president’s desk.
According to U.S. Travel Association EVP of Public Affairs and Policy Tori Emerson Barnes, “the Senate Commerce Committee’s passage of an FAA reauthorization bill is a critical step toward ensuring the long-term safety and modernization of the U.S. air travel system, in addition to boosting air traffic controller staffing levels to meet growing demand.”
Travel Agency Network Updates
World Travel Holdings has announced a multimillion-dollar technology investment in its B2B division. What does this mean? In 2024, the size of the IT team will increase by a dozen positions. The additional IT professionals will allow the company to accelerate current initiatives, simultaneously creating solutions and new technology.
Elsewhere, Avoya Travel released its schedule of in-person and virtual events for 2024. In-person events include Avoya Regionals, Avoya Socials, the Avoya Land Forum, Million Dollar Showcase and Avoya Conference. Virtual events include the newly rebranded Early Success Masterclasses and Destination Days.
Caribbean Remains Hot
With a record winter tourist season on the horizon and 10 consecutive quarters of growth, Jamaica is reporting visitor arrivals of approximately 4.1 million for 2023. This represents a 16 percent increase over 2022 and a 7.5 percent increase over 2019. Of this total, more than half of the island’s visitors are from the U.S. alone at approximately 3 million.
On the hotel front this year, Jamaica expects to add 2,000 new rooms with the debuts of the first 1,000 rooms of the 2,000-room Princess Grand Jamaica, the 753-room Riu Palace Aquarelle and the 450-room Unico Hotel in Montego Bay.
Anguilla also set some records in 2023. The Anguilla Tourist Board this week announced a considerable increase in tourist arrivals to the island last year, with the total number of stopover arrivals reaching an all-time high of 95,944 (surpassing the previous record set in 2019). In terms of overall visitor arrivals, which also includes day-trippers, Anguilla closed the gap compared to its metrics in 2019. The recorded 2023 figure of 155,732 visitor arrivals is only 6 percent lower than the 2019 number.
Good to know: To build off this success, the Anguilla Tourist Board will be expanding its marketing efforts in 2024, unveiling new destination pillars and entering new markets as they work towards increasing arrivals and occupancy levels as they grow Anguilla’s tourism industry.
Stats of the Week
New market research commissioned by travel subscription company eDreams revealed that the majority of consumers (84 percent) are prioritizing travel within their household budgets in 2024. Only 5 percent of U.S. respondents said they didn’t think it was important to budget for travel. Top of mind for travelers when booking is cost-effectiveness as well as health and safety. When looking at younger travelers, to try and determine what travel could look like in the coming decades, many are prioritizing digital connectivity or social inclusiveness.
What does this mean? In the U.S., 44 percent of Millennials and Gen Z prioritize social inclusivity and values when considering their travel choices, while that’s the case for only 29 percent of Baby Boomers. Similarly, 35 percent of Gen Z travelers highlighted the importance of digital connectivity for communication and work while traveling as a top priority, compared with 7 percent of those over 65.
It’s important to note, however, that more than two thirds of hotels continue to experience staffing shortages, according to a new survey conducted by the American Hotel & Lodging Association. To try and fill those roles, hoteliers are offering more pay and a host of incentives to attract and retain talent. Over the last six months, 82 percent of respondents have increased wages (which hit a record-high average for hotels in December 2023), while 59 percent are offering greater flexibility with hours and 33 percent are expanding benefits. Nonetheless, 72 percent say they are still unable to fill open positions.
30Under30 Nominations Now Open
Nominations for Travel Agent's 30Under30 for 2024 are now open! You may nominate yourself or pass the word along to a qualified candidate you know.
What to know: Nominees must be 30 years old or younger as of December 31, 2024, currently work at any level as a travel consultant, have completed a significant project for his or her travel agency, and be recognized by leaders of his or her organization as an emerging leader. The deadline to be considered for the 17th edition of the program is March 1, 2024.
Please make sure to fill out the form in its entirety and don't be shy about bragging a little—it will help us make our decisions! We hope to hear from you and good luck!


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Nearly 15% of women have already started their own businesses since having children proving that ‘mumpreneurs’ are a growing force in the UK economy and will increasingly ditch the 9 to 5 in favour of being their own boss.
Forty four per cent of respondents felt that the emergence of online social networks is creating more opportunities for women in business today.
Choosing the hours they work (62%), achieving a better balance between their work and family life (50%) and being their own boss (38%) were the top 3 most cited reasons by mumpreneurs.
For women looking to start their own business nearly a third would look to turn their living rooms, kitchens or bedrooms into boardrooms and a quarter will focus their efforts on selling goods or services just online. Thirteen per cent were thinking of ways in which they could help other working mums and dads as inspiration for their start-ups.
Ivan Croxford, General Manager Digital Marketing Services, BT Business, who commissioned the survey, said, “We’re witnessing the rise of the mumpreneurs. Mums across the UK are embracing the internet and keeping the UK’s entrepreneurial spirit alive.
We’ve seen evidence of this on our social business network, BT Tradespace where we’re increasingly connecting with women starting their own businesses. We need to ensure that this vital community gets the right support to thrive.”
Mum-of-two Tabitha Potts is a classic example of a successful ‘mumpreneur’. After having her two sons, Tabitha spotted a gap in the market for eco-friendly clothing and toys for children, and decided to set up Mimimyne.
Tabitha said, “I know many women that are balancing their family life, run their own business and are the major bread winner. The Internet has opened up a world of new possibilities and now with social business networks, mums across the UK are really grasping the opportunity to create a market for a new business idea from the comfort of their homes. Mumpreneurs need to be given the right support to bloom!”


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In this brave new world of heightened fraud schemes, technology is a two-edged sword, says Banigan, Global Marketing Leader, Insurance, at IBM.
"Insurers, rightfully so, want to make things more convenient for their policy holders," Banigan says. "They want to improve engagement with them through technology and approaches like connected devices - the Internet of Things.
In an interview about evolving fraud trends and solutions, Banigan discusses:
- Today's top fraud threats;
- What's wrong with many traditional counter fraud solutions;
- How IBM is helping customers improve fraud detection, investigation and resolution.


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Unilever is acquiring Dutch meat substitute company The Vegetarian Butcher, as it looks to expand its portfolio of plant-based foods.
Jaap Korteweg, a ninth-generation meat farmer, became a vegetarian and founded The Vegetarian Butcher in 2007 to satisfy his own need for quality ‘meat’ which was not produced from animals.
The firm’s product range – which includes ‘vegan smokey hotdog’, ‘vegan nochicken nuggets’ and ‘vegan nomince’ – are sold in more than 4,000 outlets in 17 countries.
Unilever and The Vegetarian Butcher started working together in 2016 when they jointly launched ‘vegetarian meatballs in satay sauce’ and ‘vegetarian meatballs in tomato sauce’, which were marketed under the Unox brand.
Currently, Unilever sells nearly 700 vegetarian products in Europe. In the Netherlands, these include products from Unox, Knorr, Hellmann’s, Conimex and Ben & Jerry’s brands.
With the acquisition, Unilever said it is responding to the growing trend among consumers to increasingly opt for vegetarian and vegan meals.
According to IGD research published earlier this year, 52% of British grocery shoppers say they either follow or are interested in following a plant-based diet. Health and ethics are said to be the main motivators for ditching meat.
Nitin Paranjpe, president of foods and refreshment at Unilever, said: “The Vegetarian Butcher is a brand with a clear mission, many loyal ambassadors, a good following on social media and a strong position in the market.
“The brand will fit in well within our portfolio of ‘brands with purpose’, which have a positive social impact, are better positioned to meet the needs of consumers and are growing faster. Importantly, this acquisition will help us to accelerate our journey towards more plant-based food.”
The Vegetarian Butcher employs approximately 90 people, who are expected to remain with the business under Unilever ownership.
The acquisition is being made for an undisclosed sum and is expected to be completed before the end of 2018.
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Samsung's next-generation DeX dock has leaked, courtesy serial tipster Evan Blass, ahead of the February 25 launch of the Galaxy S9 and the Galaxy S9+. And by the looks of it, Samsung will be looking to give the DeX, a big overhaul of sorts. For one, Samsung is apparently renaming the thing, calling it the DeX Pad in its second-generation avatar, which as the names suggest would also mean, a redesigned chassis. Unlike the original DeX, the DeX Pad, would dock the upcoming Galaxy S9, Galaxy S9+ in a flat position.
Dock the upcoming Galaxy S9, Galaxy S9+ in a flat position, courtesy the redesigned DeX, would allow users to use the phones' display as a touch pad. One of the biggest drawbacks of the original DeX was that it would make your Galaxy S8 or Galaxy S8+ stand there like a dumb dodo unlike Microsoft's Continuum that lets users use their Windows 10 Mobile phone as a trackpad. Going forward, it seems, DeX would add that functionality.
The DeX Pad, as per the leaked renders, is also seen a newly redesigned ventilation port, a full size HDMI port, two full size USB ports, and a USB-C port for power input. There is no Ethernet port, however, suggesting that Samsung may just have decided to do away with it, instead relying completely on Wi-Fi as an alternate source of online connectivity.
Samsung will likely announce the DeX Pad along side the Galaxy S9 and the Galaxy S9+ on February 25 ahead of MWC 2018 in Barcelona. The Galaxy S9 and the Galaxy S9+ will be incremental upgrades to the Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8+ at least as far as design is concerned. Which means, ideally both of them will come with Samsung's hallmark bezel-less Infinity display and an unusual aspect ratio of 18:9.
Elsewhere, the Galaxy S9 and the Galaxy S9+ are also said to house stereo speakers tuned by AKG. The leaked renders also show off a new speaker out at the bottom which seemingly confirms Samsung would be looking to change things around with the speaker setup on the Galaxy S9 and the Galaxy S9+.


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Jaguar to offer 4WD across its range – but does that mean for the UK too?Tue, 04 Dec 2012
Jaguar has revealed it plans to offer all wheel drive models across its range for future models, but will the UK get the chance to buy a 4WD Jaguar? Not only was the lack of a four wheel drive platform hampering sales, but it was cited as one of the main reasons Jaguar hadn’t given the green light to an XF Estate. But things have moved on in the last couple of years and Jaguar has recently launched a 4WD XJ and 4WD XF (although not for the UK) and finally delivered the XF Sportbrake (but without a 4WD option).
Mercedes S-Class Maybach spied (video)Thu, 21 Aug 2014
The Mercedes S-Class Maybach hits the Nurburgring The new Mercedes S-Class is already starting to proliferate, with a wide range of engines, two wheelbases and the CL Coupe’s replacement – the new S-Class Coupe – already hitting the market. But Mercedes are far from finished extending the S-Class franchise, and we’ve got two more versions of the S-Class Saloon – the Maybach and Pullman – still to come, and the arrival of the S-Class Convertible still to come. And now it looks like the S-Class Maybach – effectively a replacement for the ill-fated Maybach brand – is getting closer to debut with this S-Class Maybach spotted testing at the Nurburgring.
Kia Proceed GT (2013) first specs of Kia's warm hatchMon, 03 Dec 2012
Here are the first official specifications of Kia's warm hatch, plus a new sketch: the Proceed GT. Following on from last week's sketch, Kia has confirmed the car will get over 200bhp, and boast a 7.9sec 0-62mph time. Kia Proceed GT: the new details With 201bhp, the Proceed GT sits a rung below the Focus ST and Vauxhall Astra VXR on the hot hatch ladder.


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Hyundai Tucson, Jeep Compass among SUVs tested by IIHS: What was the result?
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has tested 20 SUVs in its latest side crash test program, where 19 of them failed to perform as per expectation. These SUVs include some models that are sold in the Indian market as well. The models tested by IIHS include Hyundai Tucson, Jeep Compass, and Volvo XC40.
IIHS claimed that out of all the 20 SUVs tested in the side crash test program, nine models scored acceptable ratings. These nine models include Volvo XC40. Eight other SUVs received marginal ratings. Jeep Compass and Hyundai Tucson were among them along with other models. All the SUVs tested by IIHS were 2021 model year vehicles.
IIHS has introduced the new side crash test program to address safety requirements for high-speed crashes, which cause severe fatalities. According to IIHS, the new side crash test employs a heavy barrier travelling at a high speed to simulate a striking vehicle. The barrier weighs 1,896 kg, which is close to the weight of a modern midsize SUV. The barrier hits the test vehicle at a speed of 60 kmph. Both the weight and the striking barrier speed have been increased in the new side crash test program.
Speaking about the test result IIHS has said that these ratings were not unexpected. IIHS Senior Research Engineer Becky Mueller said that these results aren’t great but these were expected as IIHS has adopted a more stringent test method. "Obviously, these results aren’t great, but they’re in line with what we expected when we adopted this more stringent test," said Mueller. Among other SUVs tested were some SUVs that are expected to be launched in the Indian market in near future. These include the Audi Q3, Jeep Renegade, and Kia Sportage.


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VAT Relief Expected to Lift Gold Market
EghtesadOnline: Gold traders will benefit from the new government decision to adjust value added tax on gold trade, head of the Mashhad Gold and Jewelry Union said.
“VAT relief could encourage people to buy gold. This can ultimately help revive the gold market,” Mohammad-Baqer Ma’boudi-Nejad was quoted as saying by Bank-e-Mardom (people’s bank) website.
The government recently announced new tax rules, as per which the original value of gold will no longer be taxable and VAT will be levied only on services, profit and fees.
“Compared to the past gold buyers will pay 8% less,” Ma’boudi-Nejad said, expressing the hope that the decision would stimulate Iran’s gold market in which prices have gone through the roof leaving most jewelers in a quandary.
“By removing VAT on the value of gold, we expect improvement in the work of companies producing ornaments. We also are hopeful about a [reasonable] increase in the demand for the metal,” he was quoted as saying.
Jewelers for long had said that VAT should be levied only on fees they charge for “making jewelry”. Observers say the competitive edge of domestic gold and jewelry producers was undermined under the previous VAT system.
They argue that high VAT on gold pushed the people to buy scrap gold and used jewelry, which is a bane for the jewelry industry. VAT on gold further undermined demand because of the higher prices leaving the people with little option but to buy trinket and costume jewelry.
Jewelers charge 9% VAT on sales as per existing laws. One gram of 18-karat gold in the local market Sunday was quoted at 10.5 million rials, the Tehran Gold and Jewelry Union website said.


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SOFTBANK SON HAS A CHINA PROBLEM ALIBABA HELD HOSTAGE
And it is not going away. Alibaba stock is stuck in the mud. To understand the story, you have to understand China. Bloomberg and CNCB eat up the regulatory clampdown nonsense, which I call the American view. That’s not what’s going on. Americans like everything wrapped into a tight package of cause and effect. China doesn’t engage in short term thinking. But the real target of China is Masayoshi Son.
Unlike the US that dropped Nuclear Bombs on Japan for revenge, China still wants revenge on Japan. Unrequited ancestral hatred from Japan’s WWII atrocities. America is the fast-food centre of the world; they have no memories. China remembers.
Though trade has greatly improved relations, China remains unforgiving of Japanese atrocities against the Chinese during WWII. These include killing 10 million Chinese. Unit 731 torture, including live dissections. The Japanese also did this to captured American POWs. But Americans have goldfish memories. The Japanese were absolutely out of control. At some point, China won’t care who is pushing Japan’s buttons. Japan has to be careful and cannot rely on the US Politicians to come to their defense.
Now after watching Americans exist Afghanistan, the people of Taiwan, Japan and Australia are feeling a bit uncomfortable with their “fair weather” American “friends.”
The oft-cited claim that the shipping lanes are being blocked is completely false. Shipping experts say the US line is propaganda. Click here for why. The last thing China wants to see is Japan acting aggressively on behalf of the US government. To China, any aggression or bullying in any form from Japan is intolerable. The US seems to be pushing Japan into confrontation, just as they pushed Australia over the cliff. Sending weapons to Taiwan is a great fire starter.
Jack Ma tried to launch the ANT IPO but got tangled in his inner shyster.
Masayoshi Son would have been a big winner both with ANT and Alibaba. But all while the ANT IPO scheme was being hatched, Ma and Son were exchanging drawings; how weird. During this time Son hatched his own plan to sell ARM, the British Semiconductor architectural firm to NVIDIA. This is a $2 billion a year company being sold for a staggering $40 Billion. That alone should raise eyebrows.
The MA Problem:
First Jack Ma claimed he had a 10% ownership interest in ANT. He reported that to Chinese Regulators. But that was false. Through a complex arrangement of offshore corporations and agreements, Ma actually had over 50% control of ANT and some 28 other investors were destined to become billionaires from the IPO. One of the largest proxy investors was Softbank’s Son. That lack of clarity and intentional deception won Ma the wrath of the Chinese Government. In their eyes, Ma was a famed Chinese Billionaire turned ungrateful and dangerous shyster.
For Ma to be a shyster was bad enough but add traitor:
Shortly before the ANT IPO was pulled, Son had made a deal to sell ARM to an American firm, NVIDIA. In spite of all the entreaties by NVIDIA and ARM to supply everyone with ARM technology, the promise is hollow. America practices hegemony. Ask Intel the endless victim of US Hegemony. This irksome technology blocking strategy always eventually fails, but it causes delays until China can develop its own self-sufficiency. And then the US company has a giant new Chinese competitor. This idea of “Stoping China” doesn’t stop China, it grows China.
More simply nobody can or would want to “STOP CHINA” unless they had a defective brain. It is a weird Nancy Kerrigan kneecapping foreign policy that fails every time. Yet these stupid politicians do it repeatedly.
Hegemony is a very strange concept. It is completely self-destructive. Yet populist politicians sell this lunacy to the angry dope in the street.
It attempts to block China from obtaining technology. It began with Obama; you know the “cool” but low tech Black guy. Obama blocked sales of Intel X86 CPUs to prevent China from using them in a new supercomputer. China never hid how they intended to use chips when they made the purchase order. Intel was grateful for the sale. Obama intervened and called off the sale. The Cool Black guy was going to “Stop China.” How well did he do?
Obama thought it was a good idea to block intel xenon and X-86 chips so China could not build their proposed Supercomputers.
In April 2015, the administration of President Barack Obama blocked a sale of Intel Xeon processors for China’s Tianhe-2 supercomputer. A few months later Chengdu Haiguang IC Design Co. was producing their own X-86 chips. By June Chinese had their own fast 64 bit RISC chips and built the world’s fastest supercomputer. Who in the heck was advising Obama? Intel was screaming at Obama to no avail. Mr Low tech “Cool” Black guy knew all. Besides Intel did not want to be called Racist by calling Obama stupid.
Today, China is the world leader in producing RISC-V chips which are open source and have fewer instruction sets than ARM chips. The loss of the sales of Intel to China delivered a death blow to Intel. As a result, Intel missed out on the entire handheld revolution. Intel became untouchable in Asia and it has only gotten worse.
Chinese Loongson just launched its fast Intel and AMD competitor CPU:
Click here for more. The importance is that this X-86 styled CPU is 100% native-born with Chinese Architecture and a unique instruction set. And it is as fast as AMD’s 1st generation Ryzen. Keep blocking Intel and AMD technology sales and this happens.
These Low tech politicians have no comprehension of how technology works.
This is that Nancy Kerrigan kneecapping foreign policy lunacy. Its goal is to “STOP CHINA.” That is the way stupid politicians think. Look at Vietnam. What were they going to stop then? The domino effect of Communism. How did that work out in Vietnam? Failure. Then you have Afghanistan. The US was going to stop the rebels in a Civil war. 21 years of wasted trillions and lost US lives for nothing at all.
So quite naturally these same losers that presided over Afghanistan wanted more US Troop involvement, more bombing. This was Tom Cotton’s view. This was Nixon too. Have to bomb them into the stone age. It always fails.
Worse, technology has a shelf life like bananas. Block technology sales and your chips rot on the shelf.
When you block your technology from wide distribution, you are out of business. Intel is out of business in the handheld markets because of Obama, Trump and Biden. Apple dumped Intel to avoid US sanctions over Intel Chips. They now make their own CPU chips. Google is doing the same. These idiot politicians have destroyed history’s greatest semiconductor company.
Look at Biden now.
He is giving money to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company to build a fab plant in Arizona. For what? To compete with Intel? FAB is the lowest end of the spectrum. Any hint of overcapacity results in bankruptcy. Margins are razor-thin and the work is manpower intensive. The kind of work Americans hate.
Intel is rightly livid about this Biden stupidity. How could you possibly get lower-tech than Obama, Trump and Biden. The three stooges of technology. And all of them have harmed Intel, the greatest semiconductor company that ever existed.
Because of Hegemony, the world continues to remove American made components to avoid US Sanctions.
Do you realize that Huawei’s 5G has basically removed all US-made components from its boards and telco switches? No Asian manufacturer wants US components because they come with sanctions. Why do you think Apple dumped Intel CPUs and now makes their own in China? Apple wasn’t going to let some flake like Trump or Biden harm them. Apple knows the Hegemony game and so does everyone else at this point, except apparently NVIDIA.
Trump blocked Android but was too stupid to know it was open-source. Did this guy live under a rock in the fog?
The proprietary Android only deals with sync and the Google Store. Since Trump’s threat, Huawei has produced its own Android Interface called Harmony and Samsung has created its own Linux platform.
The offshoot of this was literally thousands of Google Store competitors appeared all over the globe almost overnight. Trump is terrible for business. He is a lunatic, no intelligence at all but had a propensity to meddle in everything. A full-blown incompetent in all things.
The point of this discussion is that nothing will stop the dumb politicians from using Hegemony to block Arm Technology and even NVIDIA technology. The deal is worthless to anyone including NVIDIA.
Intel knows this and that is why they are roaring forward with RISC-V, open-source chips that cannot be blocked by stupid politicians. Intel the greatest semiconductor company in the history of the world, castrated by politicians, the intellectual bottom rung. Of course, Tom Cotton could show his anger and military acumen and bring in the Tanks and blow Intel facilities to bits. He would if he could; he’s that kind of populist idiot.
NVIDIA already gets all the ARM technology it wants.
How does a competitor that is presently using ARM benefit from going to a competitor like NVIDIA to get ARM technology and at the same time reveal their future chip designs to NVIDIA? It is lunacy. ARM should not be integrated with any chip maker. They license chip architecture and should never be affiliated with a chipmaker. It is a form of anti-trust.
All during this time, Jack Ma knew that Mr Son was planning to sell ARM to NVIDIA and China figured Ma should have attempted to stop this insanity. Instead, Ma was working his own scheme to include Son as one of his Proxies for the ANT IPO. Both Ma and Mr Son were damaging China. It looked like a shyster convention all at the expense of China and the Hong Kong Exchange.
Lots of companies oppose the ARM sale to NVIDIA. Microsoft, Apple, Google, Qualcomm and China. Most recently the British Government says they may block the sale on the basis of National Security.
Boris Johnson has taken the view that triggering a cold war with China is not a good idea. Clearly, he has watched Australia destroy itself by engaging China. Further, NVIDIA would suffer no detriment if the deal was blocked. Britain would benefit from increased China trade. There are no reasons for Britain to approve this merger other than wanting to start a Cold War with China. There is NO BENEFIT to Britain to approve the NVIDIA ARM merger but there is plenty of detriment.
China’s main thrust is to bury Softbank and Mr Son. That is how angry China is over the ARM sale. Softbank’s growth has all come from Chinese stocks and investments.
Here are some of the actions China has taken to disabuse Mr Son since the ARM sale proposal:
- ANT IPO scuttled. This sent Son’s largest holding Alibaba down 39%.
- Alibaba then fined 2.4 billion dollars. This continued the onslaught against Alibaba stock.
- China torpedoed the DIDI IPO. Softbank was the primary investor, down 36% since the IPO. Click here for more.
- China attacked online Chinese Educational stocks and other holdings of Son.
- Alibaba had a recent sexual attack of a female employee by her manager. The government is looking into that too, #metoo! Alibaba stock is further depressed.
Son’s largest holding is Alibaba. China is not about to let Mr Son enjoy a windfall or benefit from an ANT IPO.
All Son could say was maybe he should consider a buyback of Softbank shares.
Wrong answer Mr Son. China will stop at nothing to block this deal. The deal has to be concluded by March 2022 or the deal is off. So this is going to be a long painful slam of Alibaba and Son. The fact that Son is Japanese is not helping. Japan’s largest trading partner is China.
Allow me to introduce insider Trader Sen Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, another Trumper slime bucket.
This Southern Fried Nitwit bashes China day and night, yet secretly owns Alibaba Stock and was selling September Calls at strike $230. When Biden stupidly and illegally delisted some Chinese Stocks, Tuberville congratulated BIDEN in a public tweet showing support for the US to get tougher on China Stocks. All along this Trump slime was selling more Alibaba calls and NOT REPORTING his insider trades. So in addition to being a two-faced Southern Fried Phony self-dealer, he was commenting a crime.
Alabama seems to have a surplus of flakes that it elects. How does this state expect not to be the laughing stock of the nation? And to send a self-dealing criminal to Washington that has the IQ of a goldfish is extraordinary. Do these politicians have any morals at all.
Rest assured, Tommy Tubertrumpville is a Xenophobe by day and a self-dealing inside trader, by night. Another unqualified slime ball self-dealer in the US Senate. He’s been there less than a year and already he’s a slime. Good luck America.
Little does Tommy Tubertrumpville know, that he is actually helping China crush Softbank and Mr Son, while filling his own pockets of course.
With DELTA COVID raging, especially in the United States, there is a high likelihood of a global recession. Three public school teachers died this week of COVID in Miami. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was quick to point out that these teachers were defying his anti-mask orders. DeSantis, another Trumper idiot, said he was not going to pay Teachers that wore masks to work. The GOP loves this guy. China has to love him too for keeping COVID raging in Florida.
Just yesterday a Carnival Cruise ship at sea announced it has 3 cases of DELTA COVID. Populist politicians are calling for no masks.
US Consumer Confidence just collapsed to a decade low. That is an ominous sign since the consumer has been carrying the economy for two years. The insanity of renters not paying rent and not being evicted for a year and a half is pushing landlords into bankruptcy.
Joe Biden’s protectionism and continuing Trump’s tariffs have demolished the supply chain and Tariff exemptions ended last month. Inflation is raging. There are food shortages. Biden’s Infrastructure pork house will only inflate US prices higher to the private sector with his “BUY AMERICAN” rubbish.
And to those that think Buy American is good, it does nothing but cause inflation and strangles the private sector. For example, a small business wants to expand but needs a metal building. Buy American and Biden Tariffs, make rolled steel, the globe’s commodity steel, the stuff any third world country can make, 300% higher than it is anywhere else in the world. Thus the company that wants to expand, can’t afford to build a metal building and will hold off until prices collapse. If the companies are large enough like Ford, they move the Truck manufacturing lines to Mexico where they can get sheet steel at a 300% discount. That kills demand for the US Protectionist sheet steel.
10 million not paying rent and squatting on rental properties for a year and a half is suicide.
Yet the press and politicians act like a great wrong is committed if the deadbeats are evicted. The mom and pops with a few rental properties will go broke but that’s ok with the media and Politicians.
Even Joe Biden’s claims of wonderful employment show the fastest-growing jobs are bartenders, busboys, and hotel domestics. Oh except for the massive rise in Government workers and Government Unions. That Greedy US Taxpayer has to be made to pay up!
Then through the magic of regressive math. Persons who run out of unemployment benefits are then removed from the pool of workers seeking jobs. So the unemployment rate magically drops when in fact millions remain unemployed as the workplace utilization tanks. Real Black unemployment is running at 9%!
Biden wants to tax the rich and Corporations while increasing government spending.
You can’t take from the productive private sector and give it to the unproductive government sector without causing a recession.
And where is Joe Biden? He’s hid’in as if this will all go away. He keeps talking up vaccines. But if Delta doesn’t seem to care if you have a COVID vaccination, then what is the point of 3 booster shots? Why not 5 or even 10 booster shots?
All these spell Consumer Weakness… and China will pound on Mr. Son and Softbank investments until the cows come home.
Sadly for Alibaba shareholders, China will not let Alibaba rise until several events occur.
- The NVIDIA ARM merger must be called off
- Meng Wanzhou must be returned to China; this is a side issue but makes China increasingly aggressive.
- Mr Son needs to sell his Alibaba holdings and stop buying Chinese Stocks if he continues to attempt to harm China’s economy.
- This is a lesser issue but it grates China’s nerves. Huawei, has offered open access to their 5G networks for experts to find any valid claim of their hardware sending data to Beijing or anywhere else. ITs and Telco engineers know there is no security risk with Huawei hardware. They have published detailed independent reviews but US Politicians in Xenophobic mode don’t care about facts. They only care about populist propaganda. The fact the USA has no 5G seems so insulting to the US that they are willing to lie endlessly about Huawei and in the case of Meng Wanzhou, to kidnap her and hold her hostage.
China is sending clear warning signals to Mr. Son and he is playing games acting oblivious. That is a real mistake. Each day this goes on, Jack Ma runs the risk of criminal charges for his failed disclosures of ANT proxy investors. If China wants to, it can freeze Mr. Son’s Alibaba shares and interests in ANT. China can bring Jack Ma to heel and could fine him, bring criminal charges and force liquidation.
China is no longer playing games with Softbank’s Mr. Son. If the NVIDIA deal goes through, China will blow up Softbank and Mr. Son and Jack Ma. Jack Ma is a disrespectful shyster and as far as I can see, he’s pretty much out of business and his money is not going to leave China.
Don’t buy into the cover story of increased Chinese Regulations. Son and Softbank and Ma are the targets.


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For many years, Sundown in the City was a popular event for many Knoxville residents. For 15 years, it was a free concert series put on by AC Entertainment taking place in Market Square and drawing thousands of Knoxville residents. This year, however, Sundown in the City has been replaced by the Market Square Concert Series.
It will take place on Thursday evenings during this spring and summer, sponsored by the City of Knoxville, WDVX, and Stellar Visions and Sound. It is meant to draw a family atmosphere and celebrate local and regional musicians. The series kicks off on Thursday, April 26th with a concert by the Grassroots Gringos, a local Knoxville bluegrass band. More dates and performances are expected to be announced soon.
One of the reasons cited for Sundown in the City’s cancellation is that the event had outgrown its location in recent years. When the series was started 15 years ago, it was started to bring people downtown. In recent years, the event had drawn crowds of more that 12,000 people.
In addition to the Market Square Concert Series, on Tuesday nights Market Square will all be home to Jazz on the Square, which was started last summer. Starting on May 1st, local jazz musicians will take the stage every Tuesday night from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. In addition to these summer concerts, Market Square also has “Shakespeare in the Square” and “Movies In the Square.”
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A smartphone and a box of Pringles: You do not need much to transform yourself into a legendary rock star. Right on time for the kick-off of the 2011 festivals season the popular potato chips brand Pringles found its artsy side and launched its own air guitar app. Similar to Apple’s GarageBand for the iPad, users can compose their own rock songs and try out 15 different virtual instruments.
New instruments can only be unlocked by scanning the barcode on the Pringles packaging – an interesting way to market a product in a playful way. There are also badges that can be shared with friends on Facebook, too. Once all the Pringles have found their way into your stomach, you may reuse the packaging as a loudspeaker. At least that is what another promotion campaign of Pringles is suggesting. The app gets promoted via a video showing a bunch of nerds playing music with their Pringles make-do, the Pringles Crunch Band:
‘Once you rock you can’t stop’:
And that’s how it works:
While the app is for free, it is only available in the UK and Sweden at the moment, because Pringles thinks the most suitable target group lives there: “Music has been used as a social channel connecting people with the Pringles brand in many of their previous campaigns. The reason for rolling it out again now is that Pringles’ target audience is Scandinavian youth; a demographic that loves and defines themselves by their music.” (M.A. Adolfson, Art Director der betreuenden Agentur CP+B). Pringles was sold in April by Procter&Gamble to its big competitor, US based Diamond Foods, for US$2.4 bn. The company has been active in social media since long and ranks 11th in the ranking of the sites with the biggest reach on Facebook, having more than 15 million fans there world-wide.


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According to OpenCongress.org, which tracks legislation introduced to the U.S. Congress, Representative Sam Farr (D-California), co-chair of the Congressional Travel and Tourism Caucus, introduced on Feb. 24, 2010, H. R. 4676, the Travel Regional Investment Partnership (TRIP) Act, which will provide US$50 million (over a five year period) in matching grants to destination marketing organizations and their strategic partners.
To direct the Secretary of Commerce (The Honorable Gary Locke, former Governor of Washington State) to establish a competitive grant program to promote domestic regional tourism.
Excerpts follow from the bill as introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives:
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
(3) The United States travel and tourism industry is worth more than $691,000,000,000 annually in direct spending, of which more than 85 percent is the result of domestic travel. Including indirect spending, such industry tops $1,200,000,000,000 in spending.
(6) The current economic downturn has created the most difficult economic environment for the domestic travel and tourism industry since the period following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
(7) The travel and tourism industry has contracted by nearly $130,000,000,000 in 2009 alone. The domestic tourism economy has fallen by nearly 4.5 percent during 2009, twice the rate of the overall economy of the United States.
(8) Domestic spending on travel and tourism has been in decline since the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2008, while employment in the travel and tourism industry has been falling since the second quarter of such year.
(9) Public-private partnerships have been underutilized in the promotion of travel and tourism and are a dynamic tool in creating new domestic tourism markets and promoting domestic regional tourism growth.
Congress finds the following:
SEC. 3. DOMESTIC REGIONAL TOURISM GRANT PROGRAM.
(a) Establishment by Secretary of Commerce- The Secretary of Commerce shall establish a competitive grant program, administered by the Office of Travel and Tourism Industries, to promote domestic regional tourism growth and new domestic tourism market creation.
(A) SUBMISSION- An eligible entity seeking a grant under this section shall submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such form, and with such information and assurances as the Secretary may require.
(1) NON-FEDERAL FUNDS- As a condition of receipt of a grant under this section, the grant recipient shall provide, either directly or through donations from public or private entities, non-Federal matching funds, in cash or in-kind, in an amount equal to the amount of the grant.
(g) Authorization of Appropriations- There is authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for each of the first 5 fiscal years that begin after the date of enactment of this section for grants under this section, and such amounts appropriated shall remain available until expended.
Editor’s Note: Track details at http://www.opencongress.org and track H.R. 4676 – The newly introduced (Feb. 24, 2010, in the U.S. House of Representatives) legislation follows in the footsteps of another bill, the Travel Promotion Act, as reported by CNN. Preliminarily, the ATTA views these two legislative concepts promising for the adventure tourism industry, especially if these efforts contribute also to economically depressed, yet culturally and environmentally rich areas in the rural United States.


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We recently brought you the news of Obsession Bows (part of the Arcus Hunting family) naming Outtech as its sales/marketing partner, and another company, Banks Outdoors, is also calling on Outtech to help increase brand awareness and ultimately drive more sales.
Banks Outdoors manufactures high-quality, durable hunting blinds and feeders. Specifically, they’re best known for their rotational molded hunting blinds that work just as well for bowhunting as firearm hunting. In addition to blinds and feeders, they offer watering systems for wild game, utility sleds and ice fishing shelters that double as hunting blinds.
“The entire Outtech team is excited to be partnered with Banks Outdoors,” said Outtech Vice President John Seliga. “Their rotational molded products are best in class with unmatched quality and bring a huge benefit in the field to any serious hunter.”
“Teaming up with Outtech brings an exciting new flavor to the Banks Outdoors brand,” said Banks Outdoors Sales Manager Mitch Banks. “This partnership will allow us to spread our wings and bring a lot of new opportunities to the table. When you can combine Outtech’s sales and marketing force with a brand that takes pride in its quality, the possibilities are endless.”
Established in 1989, Outtech Inc. is a 100 percent employee-owned company based in Aurora, Ohio. With specific strengths in sales and marketing, the company maintains a portfolio of well-known brands across hunt, camp, fish, shooting sports and outdoor lifestyle categories. For more information, visit www.teamouttech.com.


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Crews are still struggling to remove Ever Given, a stranded container ship longer than the Eiffel Tower, and a look at the type of cargoes waiting to pass show the shipping delays will affect a range of industries.
With the success of AI/ML in areas like image recognition, medicine, and the web, why are we only seeing incremental gains in the supply chain? What’s throttling AI’s ability to drive optimal supply chain performance?
Ranjit Notani, co-founder and CTO of One Network Enterprises, and Joe Bellini (COO), will explode common myths about AI/ML and why network strategies are essential to success in Supply Chain Control Towers.
One of the largest container ships in the world has been partially refloated after it ran aground in the Suez Canal, causing a huge jam of vessels at either end of the vital international trade artery.
Join Bob Bowman, managing editor of SupplyChainBrain, as he moderates a lively panel discussion with forward-thinking leaders who are looking to swap tips and share stories to inspire and invigorate your plans for automation.
Sandow’s Material Bank, the world’s largest B2B material marketplace for architecture and design, offers designers the ability to sample hundreds of materials from all over the globe.
To successfully deliver sample orders on-time, in-full, and at no charge to the customer, Material Bank implemented Locus Robotics Multi-Bot Fulfillment Solution to increase operational flexibility and decrease employee walking time, enabling associates to pick a very diverse group of materials quickly and accurately.
A fire at a semiconductor factory in Japan, cold weather in North America and ongoing competition for chips are all hitting the global auto industry at the same time, threatening to exacerbate supply shortages of a key component that began late last year.
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September 14, 2011
Shift4 Puts The ‘Zen’ Back Into Payments
LAS VEGAS (Marketwire) Wednesday, September 14, 2011 — Shift4 Corporation, already the world’s largest independent card-present gateway, today makes another move into the card-not-present sector by announcing an integration to the popular Zen Cart e-commerce solution.
The integration combines the simplicity that made Zen Cart popular with the security that only Shift4 can offer.
“This integration presents a great opportunity for Zen Cart users,” said Shift4 CEO Dave Oder. “Not only can we help keep them secure and compliant by removing cardholder data from their systems, we can also give them additional control by keeping the shopper on their site during checkout.”
Shift4 plans to offer the same pricing structure for Zen Cart and other e-commerce transactions as it currently offers for brick-and-mortar clients, meaning Zen Cart users who switch from their current solution to Shift4’s integration could save nearly 50 percent on transaction fees.
In addition to a substantially lower cost structure, Shift4 also offers a host of features designed to simplify payment processing for merchants. From world-class, 24/7 customer support to enterprise-wide auditing and reporting functionalities, all of Shift4’s value-adding components are included with their DOLLARS ON THE NET® gateway at no additional cost.
While the integration is to be initially marketed primarily to existing Shift4 clients who use Shift4 in their retail store locations, this pricing structure will no doubt attract new clientele.
This integration module is currently available. Merchants not yet using Shift4 can request more information from firstname.lastname@example.org.
About Shift4 Corporation
Founded in Las Vegas in 1994, Shift4 Corporation is the world’s largest independent gateway, serving more than 20,000 clients in several industries, including Hospitality, Retail, Food Beverage, Mail/Telephone Order, and e-Commerce. Boasting more than 350 POS/PMS integrations and maintaining absolute bank- and processor-neutrality, Shift4 is proudly merchant-centric, helping clients secure the best discount rates while providing industry-leading security, speed, and reliability. Recognized as a pioneer of Tokenization, Shift4 has processed more than three billion tokenized transactions since it coined the term in 2005. Shift4’s DOLLARS ON THE NET® solution provides unparalleled pre- and post-settlement auditing capabilities, fraud protection, and drastically simplified PCI-compliance. For more information, visit www.shift4.com.


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McQueens Dairies opens new depot in North EastSeptember 30, 2020
McQueens Dairies are proud to announce the opening of our new depot in Stockton-On-Tees, as part of plans to expand into the region to meet the rising demand for doorstep milk deliveries.
This exciting new expansion comes as the demand for doorstep deliveries has increased, especially in recent months. With more people looking to more sustainable swaps to their daily life, a surge in milk deliveries has had. This will be the fifth depot we have in England, the first in the North East, with 4 other depots in Scotland.
This new depot has allowed us to create 13 new jobs so far and will enable us to deliver to even more doorsteps throughout Stockton and surrounding areas.
McQueens Dairies Depots
Ruairidh McQueens, Sales Director of McQueens Dairies said “Our new Stockton-on-Tees distribution centre is our fifth in the north of England and will join our busy depots in Mansfield, Huddersfield, Warrington and Preston.
“Demand for doorstep deliveries has been increasing for some time now and since the coronavirus pandemic hit the country we have seen demand increase further as customers looked for safer and reliable food delivery services and our decision to open this new depot reflects that demand.”
Chris Norton, depot manager for the Stockton facility, said: “It is exciting for all of the new depot and delivery staff who are delivering fresh milk daily to our customers’ doorsteps, and for McQueens Dairies to become part of the Stockton-on-Tees and County Durham community.”
Mr McQueen added: “Our customers are at the heart of our business and are who make the business the success it is. We still deliver to people who have been customers since we started 25 years ago are committed to giving every customer, old and new, the very best service and product in the market.”
McQueens Dairies was founded in 1995 by company chairman Mick McQueen and wife Meg, and now operates distribution depots in Scotland and the North, employing hundreds of staff. The couple’s five children now also hold senior positions within the business.
We deliver milk, juice and eggs straight to your doorstep before 7am. Place your order for a doorstep delivery today.


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Verizon Wireless has lastly landed that iPhone. So far, the sales of the iPhone 4 on the Verizon network are anonymity, and several guess that the sales haven’t been that strong based partially on the lack of outlet at stores on open day.
The lack of outlet might not be an excellent sign with Verizon CFO Fran Shammo announcing at a Morgan Stanley conference that several of the purchasers of the iPhone 4 on Verizon have bought online. 60% of the iPhone 4 smartphones that Verizon has sold online, Shammo declares. One of the methods that Verizon enticed customers to the iPhone 4 on its network was to recommend a unlimited data plan for $30 monthly.
That indefinite plan was surely what moved several users to transfer from AT&T where they might have been grandfathered into the AT&T indefinite plan on the iPhone 4. On the other hand, Shammo notes that the indefinite plant will not last longer and the reports said that the plan might stop as soon as this summer. Shammo said the unlimited data plan was “not a long-term solution.”
Verizon has beforehand noted that it will strangle data for the top 5% of users, particularly in areas where those serious users pressure the velocity of the network on the whole. Verizon moreover observes more income in taking away the unlimited plan. “We have a very big opportunity at Verizon Wireless because 67 percent of our customers are either feature phones or multimedia phones. We see the potential of our customer base spending in that $30 to $50 range,” Shammo said. Some of the characteristic and media phone users be able to choose for an not obligatory basic data plan for $10 for each month.


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- 72% decline in sales in April-June as compared to January-March
- Unsold inventory also decreased as sales exceeded new launches
Jun 30, 2020, 10:47 AM IST
new Delhi. The lockdown imposed due to the coronavirus epidemic has had an adverse impact on the sale of homes in the country's seven major cities. In the first six months of 2020, there has been a 49 per cent decrease in house sales compared to the first half of 2019. This is stated in the report by property consultant Enrock. According to the report, 57,940 units have been sold between 2020 and January to June.
Sales drop by 46 to 51 percent in major seven cities
Sales in the major seven cities of the country have fallen from 46 to 51 per cent. There was only 22 per cent of sales in the second quarter compared to the first half of 2020. Sales between April-June 2020 declined by 72% compared to January-March 2020. Whereas in the second quarter of 2020, there has been a decrease of 81 per cent in sales as compared to the second quarter of 2019.
56% drop in new launches
In comparison to 2019, there has been a decline in new launches so far this year. According to the report, new launches decreased by 56 percent between January – June 2020. The report said that the real estate sector was affected in a big way due to the nationwide lockdown in the last week of March. Due to this, the new launch was banned. The report noted that unsold inventory declined 2 percent in the first half of 2020. This decline in unsold inventory has been reported due to higher sales than new launches.
Survey conducted in these cities
- National Capital Region (NCR)
- Mumbai Metropolitan Region


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The Coolest System And Cloud Platform Companies Of The 2022 Big Data 100
Part 5 of CRN’s Big Data 100 includes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the big data system and cloud platform space.
Top Executive: CEO Frank Slootman
Snowflake initially focused on providing cloud-based data warehousing services following its 2012 launch. But in recent years, especially since its blockbuster IPO in September 2020, the company has broadened its sights to become “the data cloud” with a broad—and growing—lineup of offerings spanning data warehouse, data lake, data engineering, data science, data sharing and data application services.
More recently Snowflake has been expanding its service offerings for specific vertical industries, debuting in March the new Retail Data Cloud and Healthcare & Life Sciences Data Cloud solutions.
Also in March, Snowflake struck a deal to acquire Streamlit, the developer of a framework for accelerating the creation of data applications
For the company’s fiscal 2022 ended Jan. 31, fast-growing Snowflake reported revenue of $1.22 billion, more than double the $592 million in revenue reported for fiscal 2021.


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Sweetwater in Fort Wayne, Ind., the third-largest music instrument and pro-audio retailer in the U.S., has re-launched inSync, a leading resource for daily music news and product research.
Sweetwater.com’s home page has been completely redesigned, providing greater ease of use for searching and browsing musical instruments and pro-audio gear, plus, for the first time, inSync—Sweetwater’s proprietary news, information, research, product demo, and rich-media feature, which has been given a prominent position “above the fold” on the company’s home page.
Sweetwater first launched inSync in 1997, and it has been updated nearly every weekday since. Its purpose was to share news about the industry and new products, as well as educate. From the beginning, inSync included a “Word for the Day” and “Tech Tip of the Day” to help readers understand new terms and get the most out of their equipment.
Edited by Editorial Director Mitch Gallagher, the new inSync will feature daily—often hourly—updates, including music industry news, product reviews, videos, tech tips, buyer’s guides, interviews, and more in one easy-to-use interface.
Over the years, Sweetwater has created more than 1,450 videos and more than 20,000 informational and technical articles, dealing with virtually every aspect of the gear that Sweetwater sells and services. These videos and articles have been integrated into inSync, categorized by subject, and can be easily searched or browsed. Whether you want to find product reviews for guitars or tech tips for your iOS device, everything is now just one or two clicks away.
Chuck Surack, founder and president of Sweetwater, says, “The re-launched inSync will serve as the central hub for all educational resources at Sweetwater.com. We are setting a new industry standard for providing the most complete and up-to-date information, in a variety of formats, on everything musicians, recording engineers, producers, and other music professionals and amateurs need at their disposal.”
Hundreds of articles from print newsletters and catalogs are now available online, as well, with rich media, including images, videos, and audio demos embedded into the articles. Readers can join the conversation in the comment section under each article or share articles via social buttons for Twitter, Facebook, and more.
Since its “sneak preview” launch in February, inSync readership has gone up by a factor of 20. Thousands of daily readers flock to inSync for the latest news, and more than 150,000 customers receive the inSync e-digest, a free weekly newsletter summarizing everything from the past week into a single e-mail.
From the beginning, Sweetwater has been committed to providing accurate and useful news and research. The re-launched inSync will continue and expand on this tradition with its newly designed, all-inclusive, and easy-to-use interface.
Check out inSync at www.sweetwater.com/insync.


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Uber is hiring an auto safety official to oversee vehicular safety research to give the green light for self-driven cars to be safe on the road again.
Uber has been seriously taking self-driving vehicles into consideration as a strong addition to their arsenal of services.
Unfortunately for auto-pilot cars, during testing phases in March 2018 for Uber’s self-driven taxi in Arizona, an accident occurred killing a pedestrian who was walking across the street.
Due to this accident, self-driven cars have been labeled as unsafe for the public, and the crash itself was entirely avoidable if a driver was behind the steering wheel.
In addition to Uber’s move, during November 2018, Waymo, a self-driving technology development company which is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc, hired former National Transportation Safety Board chair Debbie Hersman as its chief safety officer to oversee the design and production of their safety program.
Meanwhile Uber has also been doubling down on food delivery, starting with groceries in Canada after Uber Eats.
One of the company’s fastest-growing unit, Uber Eats is hiring a head of grocery product so they can start delivering groceries to their customers’ doorstep without having to step a foot outside, waiting for the groceries to arrive.
They boast a speedy delivery of fewer than 30 minutes, ultimately 30 minutes faster than most of the people needing to go out for their groceries and return home.


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Rainfall in Lahore, Sahiwal, Okara, Jhelum, Kasur, Muridke, Kot Momin, Toba Tek Singh and other cities of the province reprieved the people.
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On the other hand, Pakistan Metrological department has predicted that another westerly wave (weather system) was likely to enter Pakistan during the next 24 hours which would persist till Saturday.
Temperature in different cities of Punjab are as follows:
KARACHI - Following are the foreign currency exchange rates for US Dollar, Saudi Riyal, UK Pound Sterling, U.A.E. Dirham, European Euro, and other foreign currencies in Pakistan open market on February 9, 2023 (Thursday).
Source: Forex Association of Pakistan. (last update 09:00 AM)
|UK Pound Sterling||GBP||331||334.2|
|Hong Kong Dollar||HKD||35.08||35.43|
|New Zealand Dollar||NZD||173.63||175.63|
KARACHI – The price of a single tola of 24-karat gold in Pakistan is Rs193,700 on Thursday. The price of 10 grams of 24k gold was recorded at Rs166,070.
Likewise, 10 grams of 22k gold were being traded for Rs167,318 while a single tola of 22-karat gold was being sold at Rs 195,157.
Note: The gold rate in Pakistan is fluctuating according to the international market so the price is never been fixed. The below rates are provided by local gold markets and Sarafa Markets of different cities.
|Lahore||PKR 193,700||PKR 2,350|
|Karachi||PKR 193,700||PKR 2,350|
|Islamabad||PKR 193,700||PKR 2,350|
|Peshawar||PKR 193,700||PKR 2,350|
|Quetta||PKR 193,700||PKR 2,350|
|Sialkot||PKR 193,700||PKR 2,350|
|Attock||PKR 193,700||PKR 2,350|
|Gujranwala||PKR 193,700||PKR 2,350|
|Jehlum||PKR 193,700||PKR 2,350|
|Multan||PKR 193,700||PKR 2,350|
|Bahawalpur||PKR 193,700||PKR 2,350|
|Gujrat||PKR 193,700||PKR 2,350|
|Nawabshah||PKR 193,700||PKR 2,350|
|Chakwal||PKR 193,700||PKR 2,350|
|Hyderabad||PKR 193,700||PKR 2,350|
|Nowshehra||PKR 193,700||PKR 2,350|
|Sargodha||PKR 193,700||PKR 2,350|
|Faisalabad||PKR 193,700||PKR 2,350|
|Mirpur||PKR 193,700||PKR 2,350|


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The NCUA released its latest video in the agency’s free monthly economic update series. The November analysis features the latest economic trends and an in-depth discussion about the potential impact that recent events—particularly Hurricane Sandy—will have on credit unions.
“Overall, the economic statistics released over the past month have been modestly better,” said NCUA Chief Economist John Worth. “The economy is showing signs of solid economic and job growth which provide key support for credit union fundamentals going forward.”
The national labor market has seen a steady gain in jobs particularly within the last four months. Consumer confidence reached its highest levels in more than four years in October. Home prices also continued to show a steady and modest rise for most of the year. In the video, Worth additionally discusses the potential economic implications Hurricane Sandy will have on credit unions going forward. Credit unions with members directly impacted by the storm will likely experience an increase in loan delinquencies. However, Worth notes that as the recovery progresses there may be a modest boost to loan demand as homeowners and businesses replace damaged property.


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Microsoft is rolling out a brand new answer-all coverage characteristic for Place Of Job 365 and Trade On-Line. It’s designed to stop electronic mail storms (reply allpocalypse), while loads or lots of people get started replying to an electronic mail thread after any individual forgot to BCC everybody or a distribution list was misconfigured.
the brand new block feature will mostly receive advantages large companies, and is to begin with being rolled out to locate 10 answer-all emails to over 5,000 recipients inside of 60 mins. “through the years, as we accumulate utilization telemetry and purchaser comments, we predict to tweak, superb-track, and strengthen the reply All Typhoon Coverage characteristic to make it much more useful to a broader vary of Administrative Center 365 customers,” explains Microsoft’s Alternate transport staff.
Answer-all e mail storms are an issue that impact businesses huge and small, and have been occurring for many years. Microsoft had its personal infamous incident back in 1997, which employees fondly discuss with as Bedlam DL3. Around 25,000 people were on a distribution record and stored replying to the thread, producing 15,000,000 electronic mail messages and 195 gigabytes of information. The incident overwhelmed Microsoft’s own Trade mail servers, and the corporate rolled out a message recipient prohibit in Change to check out and tackle long term issues.
Microsoft still suffers from reply-all electronic mail storms, although. Remaining year a GitHub notification prompted an e-mail hurricane for thousands of Microsoft employees. Back in March, thousands of Microsoft staff had been also caught in a answer-all email thread that was once briefly shut down inside half-hour.
Microsoft’s new reply-all e mail block feature will stay in position for four hours after it’s robotically caused, sufficient time to prevent people from asking “why am I on this electronic mail thread?” masses of occasions. the brand new characteristic appears to be running for Microsoft’s personal staff. “Humans nonetheless behave like humans no matter which corporate they work for,” says the Alternate crew. “We’re already seeing the primary version of the characteristic successfully scale back the impact of reply-all storms inside Microsoft.”


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The Escondido Police Department released video captured from a 7-Eleven convenience store.
The woman is seen with her face covered, wearing a bandana,santa hat and sunglasses.
She brandishes a weapon and forces a customer to the ground.
The clerk drops to his knees as the woman hops over the counter and grabs the cash.
After getting the cash, the woman walks out the door,into a waiting car.
Police said she has robbed 6 businesses in the past 3 weeks.
She tried to rob another but didn't get any money, police said.
All of the businesses were either convenience stores or fast-food restaurants.
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“Coffee and kleina,” reads a large sign at a roadside coffee shop by one of the main roads in Reykjavik. Not so many years ago, such a billboard would simply have read: “Kaffi og kleina” – in the language of the Vikings, the official language of Iceland.
It is a privilege of the few to be able to read and write Icelandic, a language understood by only around 400,000 people worldwide. Icelandic, in which the historic Sagas were written in the 13th and 14th centuries, has changed so little since then on our small and isolated island, that we can still more or less read them as they were first written.
But Iceland is not so isolated anymore, and there are signs its language is facing challenges never seen before. Following the economic crash of 2008, and the subsequent collapse of the Icelandic currency (making Iceland a much cheaper destination than before), tourism has emerged as the largest industry in Iceland, with 2.5 million tourists expected to visit a country of 350,000 people this year alone.
And everyone is catering to the tourists in English, of course. At restaurants and coffee shops, people are frequently greeted in English rather than Icelandic, and often Icelandic will get you nowhere if you want to order food or drink. Companies use English names or are rebranding themselves in English. The importance of tourists to the economy is rapidly making English not only a second language in the service industry, but almost the first language. (The irony of this article being written in English is certainly not lost on me.)
There are other warning signs. Icelanders have always been very proud of their literary heritage, boasting that we write and read a lot of books. However, Icelanders bought 47% fewer books in 2017 than they did in 2010, a very sharp decrease in a matter of only six years. In a recent poll in Iceland, 13.5% of those who responded had not read a single book in 2017, compared to 7% in 2010.
Iceland has a wonderful tradition of giving books as Christmas presents, with people reading into the night on Christmas Eve. However, even this may be under threat: in 2005, an Icelander received an average of 1.4 books as gifts at Christmas; this number is now 1.1, with 42% of Icelanders not receiving a single book for Christmas according to the most recent poll.
And we must consider the effect on our youngest generation. In Iceland, foreign films or TV shows have always been shown with subtitles, rather than being dubbed, resulting in most Icelanders being able to speak English. While Icelandic broadcasters have always dubbed cartoons and children’s shows, the online world has no borders. Kids today have almost an unlimited access to entertainment in English – movies and TV series on streaming services, video games, YouTube. Recent research shows an alarming rise in students under 15 struggling to read their own language. And they are picking up English at a much faster pace than before – it is not strange to hear them speaking it in the playground.
Will Icelandic soon become the second language of Icelanders? All languages evolve, but so far we have managed to help Icelandic adapt to technological changes by creating new words for modern inventions such as the telephone (sími), TV (sjónvarp), email (tölvupóstur) and computer (tölva). Further evolution is, of course, inevitable. But with the ubiquity of English, is the Icelandic language at risk of disappearing more or less completely, and sooner rather than later?
And this, of course, leads to the question: what value does a language have? If it is in danger, should we make an effort to save it?
In my mind, the answer is clear. Not only should we make an effort, but it is almost our moral obligation. First and foremost, we need to keep reading and writing in Icelandic. There are various efforts that can and have been made on that front. The government (led by a prime minister who holds a degree in Icelandic literature, and happens to be a leading expert on its crime fiction), has recently proposed that the state should reimburse 25% of the costs of publishing books in Icelandic. This legislative proposal could turn things around.
On a smaller scale, but with similar objectives in mind, myself and fellow crime writer Yrsa Sigurðardóttir set up a debut author award last year in Iceland. The Svartfuglinn (Blackbird) prize is for new crime fiction in Icelandic, in order to encourage emerging authors to keep writing in the language. In a similar spirit, Iceland’s leading producer of audiobooks has announced a goal to publish one new audiobook per day in Icelandic.
But there is another sign of salvation on the horizon, from an unlikely source. Icelandic rap has been growing in popularity in recent years, and the leading artists in that genre usually write their lyrics in Icelandic, rather than English. Looking at the top songs in Iceland on Spotify, there are four Icelandic rap songs in the Top 5 – all performed in Icelandic. So, perhaps there is still hope.


text: We mentioned the opening of the Mighty Healthy NYC Pop-Up Shop, which will begin on March 6th through the 14th at Reed Space. To commemorate the occasion, Mighty Healthy announced one of their collaborations that will be exclusively found in-store. MH has joined forced with Black Scale with co-branded designs found on the front and back. Stop by Reed Space starting tomorrow to pick up this limited shirt in either white or black. Via Mighty Healthy.