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Investors worldwide have grown more cautious about the outlook for the economy and corporate profits.
Gold is what investors buy when they suspect that financial policymakers are making mistakes. If we're on the road to recovery, why do they continue to buy gold?
Just as Joseph stored food ahead of a drought, banks should build capital for lean times.
Banking woes, rising debt levels, and unemployment will put consumers in greater trouble, economists say.
Many nations have begun to tighten their credit reins in an effort to curb rising prices.


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Outdoor sports brand came to the transition of the crossroads
For the general public, the sport has a variety of forms, can be in the sports field, you can also in the gym can also be any outdoor sports for the place. To some extent, only to get rid of the limitations of sports scenes, the potential of sports consumption will be fully mobilized. No matter what kind of scene in which exercise, equipment is always unavoidable topic. However, in recent years, the global sporting goods industry development trajectory point of view, if the sports equipment is restricted by sports venues, then their development will encounter bottlenecks.
The traditional sports brand all experienced ups and downs, and ultimately to embark on a road of life, if blindly stressed the functionality, we will encounter the front of the problem. Adidas, Puma are relying on this idea was able to reverse the decline. Outdoor industry is also known as the sunrise industry, but outdoor sporting goods are facing the traditional sporting goods brand has been or are experiencing problems.
As a large sports industry, the United States outdoor sports industry development with a certain industry guidance. It is reported that the United States each year more than 140 million people to participate in outdoor sports, including golf, snow, wild camping and other projects are more preferred Americans. According to market research firm NPD data show that in the year to October 2015, the United States outdoor sports supplies increased by 6.7%, the total value reached $ 18.8 billion.
And compared to the traditional sporting goods retailers, outdoor brands to respond to changes in the market more sensitive. More and more young people began to go outdoors, which gave the outdoor sports brand more opportunities. But in the final analysis, traditional sporting goods and outdoor sporting goods are snatching the same market, it can be said that the two are not particularly clear boundaries, so it is likely to encounter similar problems.
In accordance with traditional thinking, to participate in outdoor sports is mainly a number of specific groups, but this old yellow calendar has long been turned. People wearing professional outdoor sports shoes is not necessarily to participate in a field event, it may be to go to work or join a friend party. Steve Barker of the American Association of Outdoor Industry (OIA) has said that more and more consumers are starting to change their minds and begin to reduce the purchase of high quality outdoor equipment and turn to outdoor lifestyle products.
US "outdoor" magazine stakeholders also expressed a similar view, "outdoor leisure will be more and more away from those remote wilderness of large outdoor travel, replaced by everyone can participate in the experience, even in the city, people Can also be easily connected with the outdoors. "This is a trend, in fact, outdoor sports manufacturers are put forward new challenges. North America's outdoor industry is the most developed, and therefore more industry representative.
Perhaps by the impact of the US sports environment, the US outdoor sports brand is also more inclined to some traditional sports practice. Like Colombia for three consecutive years to sponsor the ring Mont Blanc endurance race, in addition, Colombia is also the beginning of 2016 and Premier League giants Manchester United signed a club outdoor sports apparel partner. Throughout the world of football, with the category of sponsors of the case is rare, because it does not match the characteristics of outdoor industry, and Colombia has bravely took this step.
In 2016, Colombian revenue grew 3% year on year, net profit rose as high as 10% to $ 192 million. In the fourth quarter of last year, Europe, the Middle East and Africa became the most eye-catching overseas markets, net sales rose 20% year on year, on the contrary, the Canadian market is poor performance, while Latin America and Asia Pacific market is still the main force of the Colombian overseas market. In North America, outdoor sports supplies competitive pressure is not small, in addition to the United States, Canada's local brands are also quite competitive.
As the biggest opponent of Colombia in the United States, The North Face's momentum is relatively stable. Over the past five years, The North Face's sales have grown by $ 400 million to $ 2.3 billion. The next five years, The North Face hopes to increase this figure to 3 billion US dollars, which means that the brand will continue to increase product sales growth.
It is not easy to achieve this goal, because the impact of the US retail crisis, The North Face's annual results of a 2% decline, especially in the fourth quarter dragged heavy legs. It can be said that The North Face is experiencing a difficult period, the company needs to respond to the existing situation in order to return to the performance track.
Recently, The North Face made a slight adjustment to the company's executive team, but also reorganized the business unit, the company's business into four categories, namely, mountaineering products, mountaineering leisure products, urban exploration products and fitness products. This also shows that The North Face in the main outdoor characteristics at the same time, also began to strengthen the development of leisure and fitness products, in order to reach a wider range of consumers.
According to the company's estimates, in addition to mountaineering products, the other three categories in the next five years the average sales growth will reach about 10%, especially fitness products will be more prominent. These three categories will undoubtedly become the main determinant of The North Face's performance growth. In contrast, the average growth rate of traditional mountaineering products can only reach 4% -6%, but this will still be the brand's main category.
Parent company VF Group is ready to continue to strengthen its own sports sector, so that the North Face sports attributes more focused. The group has the original fitness brand Lucy into the The North Face, thus strengthening the North Face fitness products category. In addition, the city to explore the product line will become the main thrust of the Asia-Pacific region, the next five years, there will be 100 new stores in Greater China, Singapore and other places set up. On the whole, The North Face wants to achieve the goal or to rely on overseas markets, especially the Asia-Pacific and European markets.
North American outdoor brands are making themselves more sports, more casual, and in-depth force Eurasian market, which makes some local brands become tense days. Not long ago, domestic outdoor brand Pathfinder announced the first quarter of this year earnings, net profit fell by about 29% year on year. According to the "2016 China Outdoor Products Market Research Report" shows that despite the rapid development of China's outdoor sports, but the physical retail industry decline, the industry slowdown, market competition gradually intensified. Outdoor sports goods market is in the product transformation and consumption restructuring of the adjustment period.
The North Face Asia Pacific senior marketing director Lin Haiyun said that now the outdoor market has too many similar products, so the equipment on the competition more and more intense. A brand needs to stand out, there must be a core value can not be copied. In other words, in addition to rich product categories, but also to adapt to the trend of experiential consumption.
Similarly, the European outdoor leader brand Jack Wolfskin is also in trouble, there is news that its parent company Blackstone Group is ready to transfer control of the brand creditors, thereby reducing the debt of 80 million euros. In 2011, Blackstone Group acquired Jack Wolfskin for € 700 million. In March 2015, Jack Wolfskin to recover the Chinese market agent, since then, the brand in the Chinese market also went downhill.
Jack Wolfskin's high debt almost decides that no one will pay for it, so equity swap is a viable option. If the Blackstone Group really accepted this practice, it also shows that the Group has completely lost confidence in the outdoor brand. Jack Wolfskin poor performance in the past two years, the European base camp is being North American brand invasion, and overseas markets also suffered major setbacks.
Outdoor sports goods brand to the transition of the time, the outdoor card has obviously lost the role of the label, the rest is more homogeneous. The so-called consumer transformation is the key to enrich the product attributes, get rid of the restrictions on consumption scenarios, the US brand has been in this regard to seize the initiative. Of course, the outdoor sports market still has great potential for development, for the brand, the personality is particularly critical.

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When a ship as long as the Empire State Building is tall got lodged diagonally across the Suez Canal on March 23, it provided immediate and exceptional meme fodder. This mammoth symbol of the hubris of capitalism, run aground by a windy day — like a modern-day Titanic, if all the passengers were giant metal boxes, no one died, and everyone was on Twitter.
For the logistics industry, though, the canal blockage was just the latest and most visible manifestation of the relentless cascade of problems created — or at least catalyzed by — the Covid-19 pandemic.
“It’s really just another example of how crazy things have been over the past year,” says Eytan Buchman, chief marketing officer of the online freight marketplace Freightos.
Even before the 220,000-ton Ever Given got stuck, global supply chains were facing a laundry list of stressors, from skyrocketing prices and container shortages to port congestion and unrelenting consumer demand.
For the average shopper, most of these pressures have only been noticeable when they’ve gone to buy a couch or fix their washing machine and been met with months of delays. But as the pandemic drags on and the problems continue — now exacerbated by a very big ship that, in six days, held up nearly $60 billion in global trade — there are signs that we may eventually feel the crunch in our checkout carts, too.
“Rather than a very sexy explosion in prices overnight or a total lack of capacity, you’ll see a very, very long and drawn-out death by 1,000 small changes over the next couple of months or weeks,” says Buchman.
By the time the Ever Given was refloated on March 29, more than 350 container ships were waiting to pass through the canal. In the coming days and weeks, those ships will all descend on ports at the same time — an effect that will be felt first in Europe and later on the East Coast of the US, where many of the ships are scheduled to stop before returning to Asia.
“There will be more congestion and more ships that are stuck waiting, and then there will be a knock-on effect where it’ll be harder to get those same ships back to Asia,” thereby exacerbating existing container and commodity shortages, says Buchman.
For a sense of just how much stuff was left idling in the ocean as workers tried to free the stuck ship, Jett McCandless, CEO of the supply chain visibility company Project44, likened the cargo to the contents of nearly 900,000 two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartments.
So while ports and terminals are no doubt working overtime to deal with the surge of ships that is set to arrive, he says, “when it comes to transportation supply chains, this really is a physical world. So just like there’s a traffic jam during rush hour because there’s only so many cars you can drive down a big highway, [at ports], there’s only so many trucks, there’s only so many people with cranes.”
Because of the scale and complexity of these supply chains — and because massive ships and the steel containers they carry aren’t the kind of thing you can scale up overnight — there’s little chance of these problems easing anytime soon.
“People should get comfortable waiting,” says McCandless.
Much of the surge in demand for products like bicycles, furniture, and home appliances has been driven by consumers’ lifestyle changes during the pandemic — as they’ve spent more time at home and less money on services like haircuts or dining out, they’ve purchased huge quantities of stuff to meet their needs.
The ripple effects of this spending shift are everywhere: Peloton said in February that it planned to spend more than $100 million this quarter to expedite shipping for its exercise bikes and treadmills, opting to pay as much as 10 times more to ship the products by air rather than deal with ocean freight delays. In March, Costco reported shortages of imported cheese, olive oil, and lawn equipment, among other merchandise, which it attributed to backlogged ports. Nike, Urban Outfitters, Crocs, and Yeti have likewise reported inventory issues in recent months.
Cardboard boxes are also more expensive than ever thanks to the boom in online ordering, prompting producers to shift away from paper production in order to focus on churning out material for boxes.
And with a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill passing last month, consumer spending seems likely to continue — provided there are, in fact, goods on the shelf. US retailers reported record-low inventory levels relative to sales in January, according to the most recent data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, even as consumer-goods imports reached a record high.
“If demand in Western countries continues like it has for the last nine months, these disruptions will go into 2022,” says McCandless.
What might eventually rein in consumers’ appetites is higher prices, he says. Already, some companies have begun passing along a portion of their higher shipping costs to consumers — and those that haven’t are likely considering it, especially if investors are pushing them for higher profits or if they simply don’t have the capital to absorb the costs themselves.
In January, Freightos surveyed 901 small- to medium-sized importers and found that 77 percent experienced supply chain difficulties over the past six months; of that group, 44 percent raised their prices as a result. Unlike big-box stores, these companies have little negotiating power with carriers and suppliers and have therefore been hit even harder by shipping costs and delays — yet another way the pandemic’s effects are being disproportionately borne by the little guys (even if, in this case, the “little guys” still bring in millions in revenue).
Given that these problems are so widespread, it will be hard to pinpoint which price increases can be attributed to the Suez blockage when they arrive — though coffee seems to be one category that could see a direct impact. As Bloomberg reports, containers of robusta coffee — used in Nescafé and other instant coffees — were among the delayed cargo, and the canal supports almost all of the coffee beans that Europe imports.
It’s hard to know what other goods were on the delayed ships, exactly, since that information isn’t part of the vessels’ public data, but experts say it’s just about every category of product.
“Name a brand, and it would be unusual if they don’t have something impacted by this,” says McCandless.
So far, the companies that have reported having shipments held up range from Ikea to heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar, potentially setting back building construction alongside home-improvement projects. A tea maker with 80 containers of tea onboard several vessels called the situation “chaos,” while a Dutch sex toy company bemoaned the late arrival of 20 containers filled with dildos, vibrators, and other merchandise.
It’s not just obstructing goods on their way to stores or warehouses (or people’s bedside drawers), either. There are also countless raw materials, machine components, and spare parts that are made in Europe and used by US manufacturers, says Saar Yoskovitz, CEO of Augury, a company that uses AI to monitor machine health in manufacturing.
“If spare machine parts are held up, manufacturers may be facing stalled production lines due to machine downtime,” he says. “At the same time, many manufacturers that are running low on raw materials, or are out completely, will need to ramp up production once backlogged materials or components arrive to meet demand.”
He points to one of the great supply chain incidents of our time — the great toilet paper shortage of 2020 — as a prime example of this: Wood pulp was one of the materials that was severely delayed.
As one advisory from shipping giant Maersk warned, “Even when the canal gets reopened, the ripple effects on global capacity and equipment are significant,” adding that the blockage will trigger “a series of further disruptions and backlogs in global shipping that could take weeks, possibly months, to unravel.”


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Who doesn’t love summer? Longer days, warmer weather, tax-free shopping.
States across the nation kick off sales tax holidays in July and August. Stroll into your favorite store during these windows of time, and you may be able to purchase items without being charged state sales tax.
Think of it as a way to boost your savings — and a rare opportunity to get an upper hand on the taxman.
In many of these summer sales tax holidays, back-to-school items are exempt, including everything from clothes to school supplies. Other states extend the savings to things like personal computers.
And this summer two states, Florida and Tennessee, are debuting new sales tax holidays that have nothing to do with back-to-school supplies.
Holiday dates and the spending caps for exempt items also differ from state to state. So, check your state’s rules before heading to the store. For most of the states in the following list, you can click on the state name to learn more.
States with upcoming sales-tax holidays include:
- Alabama: July 16-18
- Arkansas: Aug. 7-8
- Connecticut: The state has yet to officially announce 2021 dates, but last year its back-to-school sales tax holiday started on the third Sunday in August.
- Florida: July 1-7 (the new Freedom Week Sales Tax Holiday) and July 31-Aug. 9 (the state’s usual back-to-school sales tax holiday)
- Iowa: Aug. 6-7
- Maryland: The state has yet to officially announce 2021 dates, but its back-to-school sales tax holiday historically starts on the second Sunday in August.
- Massachusetts: Aug. 14-15
- Mississippi: July 30-31, Aug. 27-29
- Missouri: Aug. 6-8
- New Mexico: The state has yet to officially announce 2021 dates, but last year its back-to-school sales tax holiday started on the first Friday in August.
- Ohio: Aug. 6-8
- Oklahoma: Aug. 6-8
- South Carolina: Aug. 6-8
- Tennessee: July 30-Aug. 1 (the state’s usual back-to-school sales tax holiday); July 30-Aug. 5 (a returning sales tax holiday for food); July 1, 2021-June 30, 2022 (a new yearlong sales tax holiday for gun safety items)
- Texas: Aug. 6-8
- Virginia: Aug. 6-8
- West Virginia: The state has yet to officially announce 2021 dates, but statutes indicate it will start on the Friday prior to the first Sunday in August.
According to the Sales Tax Institute, statewide sales tax rates range as high as 7.25% in California — and 11.5% in Puerto Rico — not counting any local sales taxes. So, you stand to save a nice bit of cash by taking advantage of sales tax holidays.
Disclosure: The information you read here is always objective. However, we sometimes receive compensation when you click links within our stories.


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St. Ewe Free Range Eggs have been awarded a silver Taste of the West Award within the first year of trading.
A judging panel made up of expert chefs, food technologists and manufactures commended the brands yellow yolk and taste.
Rebecca Morris who, with her husband Andy and parents Richard and Christine Tonks, runs the family business on the Roseland Peninsula, Cornwall is delighted with the achievement.
“The Taste of the West Awards is so highly respected in the industry we’re very proud to be the only egg producer to win an award,” she said.
The family recently diversified their established free-range egg business by building a packing station on the farm enabling them to supply eggs direct to supermarkets and stores.
Having worked with a local designer to develop the brand and packaging, they are now looking to expand the business in the South West.


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Police have urged consumers to throw out strawberries purchased over the past week in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria after needles were found inside the fruit.
Industry Development Officer Jennifer Rowling of Queensland Strawberry Growers Association released a statement on Wednesday of the company's suspicions.
'At this time, the Queensland Strawberry Growers Association have reason to suspect that a disgruntled ex-employee may have orchestrated the occurrence, wherein sewing needles were found in a number of strawberries, in Queensland and Victoria,' the statement read.
'To our current knowledge, two labels, Berry Licious and Berry Obsession are the only affected lines.
'We will update the Australian public as news becomes available to us.'
Joshua Gane was one of the many who found a needle in his strawberries.
Driving with a friend,Haoni van Dorp, the two purchased a punnet of strawberries on Sunday afternoon.
Van Dorp says he bit into one and swallowed half of a sewing needle, before the pair found another.
Police believe the needles may have been deliberately planted with the perpetrator wanting to cause harm.
Gane posted the ordeal to Facebook, along with a picture that shows a metal pin poking out of a strawberry.
Van Dorp had to be taken to the emergency room with 'severe abdominal pain.'
Queensland's Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said anyone else who had bought the brands of strawberries without signs of tampering should return them to the store or throw them away.
'While it is expected that berries picked early last week would now not be useable, many people freeze the fruit for later use,' she said.
'If you are in doubt, just throw them out.'
Dr Young said that any strawberries bought from September 13 are safe.
'Any strawberries that you are certain are not the brands Berry Licious and Berry Obsession, are safe,' she confirmed.
'If you believe you have eaten a needle, we would recommend you speak to your doctor or call 13 HEALTH.
'There is no reason to stop eating strawberries, we just need to be aware of this incident.'
This article originally appeared on New Idea.


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LEPHALALE — Black Friday began in the USA in 1932 and traditionally starts the day after Thanksgiving. It marks the beginning of the Christmas gift shopping season.
Why the term Black Friday? It is the day when retailers finally begin to turn a profit for the year. In accounting terms, operating at a loss (losing money) is called being “in the red” because accountants traditionally used red ink to show negative amounts or losses.
The American concept has taken South Africa by storm with more and more retailers cashing in on the concept. And it is believed that this day in 2016 was more popular than in previous years due to increased social media advertising and users.
Recent stats released by a marketing agency, 25AM, suggests that the social media conversation around this event has almost tripled in comparison to the same period last year.
Additionally many new brands have joined this annual shopping extravaganza.
As to whether Black Friday would have an impact on the economy, it is still unsure.
Economist Azar Jammine believes that people are under a lot of financial pressure and flocked to the stores to buy items on discount and he also believes that the majority of the products bought are for the festive season.
Lephalale Mall’s Marketing Manager, Janette Kruger, says that they have not seen the Mall this busy since the opening of the first and second phases in 2012 and 2014 respectively. Although there was a major influx of feet and vehicles to the centre, the atmosphere was generally peaceful and crime incidents were at an all-time low.
Lephalale Mall’s retailers reported making anything from double to quadruple their normal sales on Black Friday and they are generally very pleased with their turnovers achieved.


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By Charlyne Varkonyi Schaub
Hurricane Andrew changed the way we look at windows. Since that devastating storm in 1992, South Florida building codes have been revised to require hurricane shutters or storm-impact products whenever we change windows or exterior doors.
No worry. The designs can be very fashionable – and they are available in any style from contemporary to classic.
Impact-resistant glass is also a crime deterrent. “Burglars cannot break the glass,” says Hillary Bale, vice president of the Custom Door Shop in Delray Beach. “Even the fire department had to be trained to saw into the concrete around the door to open it.”


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Trudeau spent about 14 years at Hilton & Hyland and represented celebrity clients in noteworthy deals like the sale of Kenny Rogers’ Liongate Estate in Bel Air for $46.25 million in 2015.
Rayni and Branden Williams, founders of The Beverly Hills Estates, also spent over a decade at Hilton & Hyland before creating the new brokerage in November 2020 and officially opening in April 2021. Trudeau will join the company’s ranks of more than 35 agents.
“I am incredibly grateful for all of the support I received from Hilton & Hyland,” Trudeau said in a statement. “I look forward to continuing the next chapter of my career at The Beverly Hills Estates.”
“We are ecstatic that Mia is joining our team and confident that her deep knowledge of the Los Angeles market and design will be an invaluable asset to our Beverly Hills Estates family,” Rayni Williams said in a statement.
While at The Beverly Hills Estates, Trudeau will also continue to run Plank & Stone, an architectural surfaces retail store and design house she launched in 2018.
“We look forward to forming an incredible collaboration with Mia and working together to continue to sell incredible properties in Los Angeles and beyond,” Williams added.


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Hawker Beechcraft celebrates 80 years
Hawker Beechcraft celebrates its 80th anniversary this year. Since its founding in 1932, the company has produced many business, civil and military aircraft in the world.
Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas and with maintenance and manufacturing locations worldwide, the company traces its roots to the pioneers of aviation and throughout its history has generated products of quality, safety and value that established benchmarks for the industry.
“As we recognize this special anniversary and celebrate our proud past, we look forward to more milestones to come as we carry on Hawker Beechcraft’s legacy of innovation in the aviation industry,” said Steve Miller, chief executive officer, Hawker Beechcraft.
Hawker Beechcraft’s 80th anniversary is being celebrated in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Hawker 125 series – represented today as the Hawker 900XP. The Hawker 125 series is the world’s best-selling midsize business jet series.
“Hawker Beechcraft changed the course of general aviation,” added Bill Boisture, chairman, Hawker Beechcraft Corporation. “Its proud history has included the delivery of more than 54,000 aircraft to customers around the world, and its heritage of leading edge technology and performance will continue to be an integral part of its future.”
In 1932, Walter H. Beech left an executive position with Curtiss-Wright Corporation to start designing and manufacturing airplanes in Wichita, with his wife and business partner, Olive Ann Beech. While many warned that there was no market for a cabin biplane with a luxurious interior in the midst of the Great Depression, the two visionaries forged ahead with their plans to build the “finest aircraft in the world” and changed the course of general aviation.
Their philosophy was one of quality, advanced technology, customer satisfaction and business integrity: a philosophy the company continues to hold today as it has throughout the years.
While Beechcraft’s company history spans 80 years, its innovative history can be traced as far back as 1920, when test pilot and designer Harry Hawker and three others bought the assets of the Sopwith Aviation Company and formed H.G. Hawker Engineering. This company would go on to create some of the most technologically advanced and industry-leading products in aviation and later became a part of the Hawker Beechcraft product line in the mid-1990s.
From the company’s first product, the 200 miles-per-hour Beechcraft Model 17 biplane known as the Staggerwing, to its latest aircraft, the Hawker 4000 super-midsize business jet featuring advanced composite material, the Hawker and Beechcraft brands have revolutionized the aviation industry for 80 years.


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MoneyGram Appoints James Shields as CFO
MoneyGram International has named James Shields as chief financial officer (CFO).
The company said Shields and chief executive officer (CEO) Pamela Patsley will work from Dallas, but that the company has not yet announced if it is moving its headquarters there. Moneygram has said it may relocate its headquarters to Texas or Colorado.
Shields, most recently the treasurer and senior vice president of finance for Miami-based Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, was previously the treasurer of Dallas-based chemical manufacturer Celanese. He also previously worked as vice president and CFO for consumer markets at Denver-based Qwest Communications International.


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Well someone out there will soon have the keys to the very first Tesla S Convertible in the world. A California design company just sold its first production model on Ebay Thursday, with the winning bid coming in at $100,000. The asking price had been $125,000.
The company behind it, other than of course, Tesla, is Newport Convertible Engineering, a company known for its convertible conversions. Back in April of 2014, NCE started talking about its plans to develop a Tesla S convertible and it released several computer-generated images of its design. At the time, it also said it had a Chinese investor lined up to buy 100 of them. No word on if that is still the case, but we do know they’ve built at least one of them, the one that sold Thursday.
According to a news story on ABC 7 News, turning the Model S into a convertible wasn’t that difficult. NCE’s CEO and lead engineer Al Zadeh said the Tesla is a well-built vehicle which made it a little easier to customize the car.
“Tesla was actually a very, very good challenge being one of our very first electric vehicles, but I think I did a pretty good job overall at the end,” he said.
The company plans to make more, and any Tesla S owner can opt for the conversion which runs $29,000. You just simply send it over to NCE and let them do what they do best. If your not a fan of soft-tops, Newport Convertible Engineering is now developing a creating a Tesla hard-top coupe, but it will cost you a bit more, coming in at $49,000. So something for everyone.
NCE is an automotive design company that’s been around since 1983. The company says it’s created open top variants of the Rolls Royce, Mercedes Benz, Ferrari, BMW, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Dodge, Ford, Honda, Jaguar, Lexus, Mazda, Nissan, Tesla, Porsche, Toyota, Lamborghini, and Volvo.
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While the leaked benchmark scores are indeed disappointing, they're not painting the whole picture.
Moto Z2 Force with shatterproof display launched in India for Rs 34,999; to start selling from 16 February on Flipkart
The Moto Z2 Force Edition offers a shatterproof display, which was first seen on the Moto X Force couple of years ago
Roland Quandt has shed some light on the specs of this new chipset from Qualcomm which is expected to be announced at MWC 2018 this month.
Essential's PH-1 was launched in August and comes with a bezel-less screen and titanium body.
Qualcomm’s always-connected PC platform is in a nascent stage, but if the devices we saw today are anything to go by, the future is certainly promising.
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 845 mobile platform to power next generation flagship devices; Samsung to be the chipmaker
The 845 mobile platform is a successor to 2016's Snapdragon 835 and will drive improved performance, better power efficiency, and improved image processing.
Xiaomi will finally unveil its new flagship, bezel-less smartphone, the Mi Mix 2 in an event in Beijing. The event will go live at 11:30 am Indian time.
But everyone knows that with the Google Pixel, hardware is just half as important as software.
Android Police spoke to sources familiar with Qualcomm plans, who have confirmed that there hasn't been a Snapdragon 836 in the works
Xiaomi bezel-less Mi Mix 2, its second iteration of the smartphone is set to be unveiled on 11 September after a confirmation by the company CEO, Lei Jun.
With the launch of Huawei's Kirin 970, we thought that this is the best time to compare the flagship mobile SoCs from leading mobile manufacturers.
The report points out that the Snapdragon 670 is likely to come with an octa-core Kryo CPU packing two high powered Kryo 360 cores.
A day before the Galaxy Note 8 launch reports suggest that Samsung has reserved the first lot of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 845 chipset for the Galaxy S9 and S9+
According to the listing, Nokia 9 is expected to sport a 5.3-inch Quad HD display with an effective resolution of 2560 x 1440.
Moto Z2 Force has been tipped to come out with the latest Snapdragon 835 processor, 6 GB of RAM, 128 GB internal storage and 3,000 mAh of battery life.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 836 on the upcoming Google Pixel 2 is believed to have the same GPU and CPU combo that is available on the Snapdragon 835, but will be clocked higher.
A leaked image was shared on Twitter of what is rumoured to be the new Nokia 8. The image clearly shows both sides of the phone revealing the dual rear-camera module which shows off the Zeiss branding of the latest Nokia smartphone.
Sony is expected to use a “Full Active QHD” display that would cover the entire front face of the phone.
OnePlus 5 with Snapdragon 835 and dual cameras now available in open sale with prices starting at Rs 32,999
Chinese smartphone OnePlus 5 will be available on open sale starting Tuesday on online marketplace Amazon.in and oneplusstore.in.
According to the listing, Moto Z2 will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 along with 4 GB RAM and 64 GB internal storage.


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(Taco) Belles of the ball! Lesbian couple wins fame online after posing for romantic prom pictures in their favorite fast food chain
- Riley Papile and her girlfriend Abby Creneti hired a photographer for their prom pictures
- Photographer Rachel Beck suggested a photo shoot at a local Taco Bell in Horsham, Pennsylvania
- The LGBT couple dressed up for the shoot ahead of the senior prom which will be held later this month
- Riley, who is a senior, inspired the idea for the shoot because she eats at Taco Bell every week
A teenage lesbian couple took their prom pictures at Taco Bell before the dance because it is their favorite fast-food joint - and the photo shoot has since gone viral.
Riley Papile and her girlfriend Abby Creneti hired a photographer to take their prom pictures before the dance at their high school in Horsham, Pennsylvania.
In honor of Riley's love for Taco Bell (and their empty stomachs), the couple decided to take part of their pictures at their favorite fast-food chain ahead of the dance on May 25.
Dressed up: Riley Papile (left) and her girlfriend Abby Creneti (right) took part of their prom pictures at Taco Bell because of how much Riley loves the fast food restaurant
Hungry: The photo shoot was scheduled ahead of the senior prom at Hatboro-Horsham High School in Pennsylvania
Friends: Riley even hoped behind the counter during the shoot because she is known by most of the employees at the local Taco Bell
'I eat at tacos probably five days a week on average,' Riley told PEOPLE. 'I am not proud of it, but man those tacos are good.'
The couple already wanted to incorporate tacos into their pictures because of how Abby asked Riley to the junior prom, which was held in April.
Abby, who is a junior at Hatboro-Horsham High School, asked her girlfriend to her prom with a sign that read, 'Ry, taco 'bout prom?'
Their photographer, Rachel Beck, came up with the idea to take the shoot to Taco Bell, which neither teen opposed.
So on the day of the shoot, they dressed up in floor-length dresses, makeup and styled hair before heading to a local Taco Bell.
Drink up: The couple said the photo shoot was perfect because they were hungry anyway
Pose: They did receive some weird looks from people at the fast-food chain, but the couple said it was a fun shoot
Cute: Abby (right) asked Riley to her junior prom in April with a sign that read, 'Ry, taco 'bout prom?'
Beautiful: Many people were supportive of the couple's creative idea to shoot at Taco Bell. The restaurant even shared Riley's post and called them the 'Queens of Taco Bell'
During the shoot, the couple shared tacos and quesadillas while laughing about the bizarre looks they were getting from onlookers.
Riley, who is known by most of the Taco Bell employees, even jumped behind the counter for part of the shoot.
On social media, people were commenting on the creativity of the photo shoot and how touched they were by their LGBT relationship.
Taco Bell even retweeted their photo shoot calling the couple the 'Queens of Taco Bell'.
But Riley admitted to Fox News that the people in the fast-food chain were not impressed by the dressed-up couple.
'We got a lot of weird stares from customers as we were both in gowns in a fast food restaurant,' she said.
Overall, it was a fun experience for the couple who are now turning their sights on the senior prom to be held later this month.
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It doesn’t seem like the protein craze will wane anytime soon among health and fitness enthusiasts. Simultaneously, more of these Americans are leaning towards a plant-based diet. Pea protein started to boom in food and beverage applications only in the last few years.
Riding on this momentum, Iowa-based World Food Processing, an ingredient manufacturer, recently received a letter of no objection from the FDA for its PurisPea ingredient, adding to the product’s safety credibility. Grown locally in the US in Oskaloosa, Iowa, the ingredient is also marketed for its organic and non-GMO properties.
“Achieving GRAS status adds yet another layer of confidence and another advantage for manufacturers who want to create foods and beverages with mass-market appeal,” said Tyler Lorenzen, president of World Food Processing’s proteins and ingredient subsidiary.
The new whey
A study published last year in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition found that pea protein may produce the same bicep muscle thickness improvements as whey protein.
“It’s [also] absorbed at a comfortable rate supporting satiety,” Lorenzen told NutraIngredients-USA. “Containing all essential amino acids, pea protein has a [protein digestibility corrected amino acid score] of .82.”
Lorenzen also contended that the ingredient is comparable to or better than whey protein in its amount of branched chain amino acids.
Interviewed at Supply Side West last fall, Lorenzen said that he thinks pea protein can be the new whey. “People want protein, they want different delivery methods, but they also want different combinations,” he said. “From amino acid content to clean label claims to sustainability and cost of goods, we think PurisPea can be very good for sports nutrition.”
Food and beverage applications
In addition to bars, dry shake mixes, and other formats popular in the sports and fitness sector, World Food Processing said that PurisPea is also safe for use as a protein source in foods such as bakery products, snack foods, cereals, and imitation dairy products that were designed to cater to consumers with an active lifestyle.
For example, the Colorado-based baking mix company FlapJacked uses a blend of PurisPea’s pea protein and whey protein isolate to pack 20 g of protein in each serving.
“PurisPea checks all the boxes in terms of today’s food trends,” Lorenzen said. “It’s clean, non-GMO, devoid of the eight common allergens and it’s lightly processed with no harsh chemicals, all while being the only non-GMO pea protein grown and manufactured in the U.S.”


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Olympics Notes: Match-Fixing, Gambling Are Hot-Button Topics For IOC
Published July 27, 2012
DOPERS CAUGHT: NBC News’ Kevin Tibbles reported WADA has already “banned more than 100” athletes from the London Games for testing positive for banned substances. The positive tests were caught by a "new drug-testing program that screens their blood even before they leave home” ("Nightly News," NBC, 7/25).
SOCIAL MEDIA TRACKER: Social Agility co-Founder Tony Burgess-Webb said that the company “uses more than 50 metrics to calculate the scores posted on its continuously updating London 2012 Social Media Scoreboard.” In Toronto, Morgan Campbell noted the company found that Coca-Cola, British Airways and adidas “have surged to the top of the social media medal table.” Companies gain points “for being active on platforms like Facebook and Twitter, and for creating web pages specifically for their Olympic campaigns.” By Wednesday afternoon, Coca-Cola’s “score of 298 placed it atop the ‘Top Performers’ scale,” with employment agency Adecco “at the bottom” with a score of 15 (TORONTO STAR, 7/26).
CYBER SECURITY: In L.A., Ryan Faughnder noted Olympic security officials are “bracing for an onslaught of cyber assaults that could easily surpass the 12 million attacks a day, or 500,000 an hour, that were logged" during the ’08 Beijing Games. More than 3,500 IT engineers and technicians "have been assigned to monitor the Games' computer systems and networks.” IOC TOP sponsor Atos is “monitoring more than 11,000 computers and servers” from a deployment center (L.A. TIMES, 7/26).
SHIPPING SAMPLES: In London, Neate & Gibson noted there is a process to ensure Olympic athletes’ drug testing samples “are not tampered with during” the Games. UPS, which won the delivery rights to the Games, indicated that it had “the delivery of urine and blood samples ‘locked down to a very few’ highly trained drivers.” UPS has developed “its own information and communications technology to ensure that managers are alerted immediately if anything goes amiss in the delivery of the samples to the laboratory” (GUARDIAN, 7/26).
GET YOUR TOYS HERE!: The WALL STREET JOURNAL’s Alice Speri noted with 10,000 official items for sale, the London Games "offer the largest variety of Olympics paraphernalia ever.” LOCOG organizers hope to sell more than £1B ($1.6B) of merchandise “from toys to egg cups.” Retail analysts “hate to dash any Olympic dreams, but they have their doubts.” Kantar Retail Insights Dir Bryan Roberts: "I'd be amazed if they got anywhere near that." Verdict Research estimates that the Games “will generate a total of £100M ($157M) in Olympics-related sales this quarter -- including official and unofficial products, as well as food.” LOCOG has said that merchandise sales of £1B ($1.6B) would result in £80M ($125M) “in profits and help balance its books” (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 7/25).
PANNING FOR GOLD: REUTERS reported that Indian athletes who win Gold Medals will "be rewarded with an additional Gold Medal weighing five kilograms." Athletes who win Silver and Bronze will also be awarded 3kg and 2kg Gold Medals, respectively by the Sahara Group, which has interests in the financial sector, media and entertainment, housing and sport (REUTERS, 7/26).
GOT TO BE THE SHOES: Adidas revealed its new shoe called the adizero Primeknit on Thursday. The shoe is adidas' first one-piece upper performance running shoe featuring a new seamless engineering technology. Adidas created 2,012 individually numbered pairs of the adizero Primeknit knitted in the same red and white colors adidas athletes will be competing in at the Games (adidas).


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Internet of Things (IoT) devices must grapple with many problems as IoT becomes a more mainstream technology, such as a lack of regulation and confusion over data ownership, The Los Angeles Times reports. “As with many emerging technologies, security is not effectively built into most connected devices today," said Independent Security Evaluator’s Ted Harrington said. "The primary development priority for most manufacturers of connected devices is to build functionality first and foremost." Then there’s the data issue. "The manufacturer of the device owns the data," Harrington said. "Most companies store it, either on premises or in cloud solutions. … In many cases, access to the data or even the data itself is sold to third parties, such as advertisers.”
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The charity sector has long been calling for a single-contact solution that allows for the seamless setup and management of card transactions, without the hassle of dealing with multiple parties. That’s why we’re delighted to announce the launch of GivingPay, a speedy and secure solution to the often-convoluted process of charity donations.
The culmination of a 9-year partnership with CommittedGiving, the charity payment services and online fundraising provider, GivingPay will get the most out of our payments platform.
Thanks to our all-in-one Converged Commerce™ solution, charities will be able to support seamless functionality across multiple channels, including online, e-commerce and telephone. Not only this, but the service will also allow the use of multiple local and alternative currencies, as well as 15 different languages, vastly expanding their potential reach.
With our innovative payments portal, charities will gain total control and visibility of their transactions, thanks to a central hub in which they can view, export, easily reconcile or refund payments 24 hours a day, seven days a week.


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NBA Star Luka Doncic Hits Court With Gohan Sneakers
Dragon Ball has amassed a massive following over its tenure, and its fans come from all walks of [...]
Dragon Ball has amassed a massive following over its tenure, and its fans come from all walks of life. From celebrities to athletes, there are plenty of famous fans carrying the banner for Son Goku, and fans learned one NBA has got it bad for Gohan.
Recently, social media began buzzing when photos of Luka Doncic went viral, and they are all about his sneakers. The professional basketball player hit the court in some sweet new kicks, and they have a rather familiar Super Saiyan painted on the side.
So, it is up for fans to decide whether they prefer these Gohan kicks to the ones brands like Adidas whipped up.
Luka wearing "Gohan" PG 2.5s tonight from r/nba
As you can see above, Doncic hit the basketball court a couple days ago rocking some custom Nike shoes. The PG 2.5 sneakers were customized to feature Gohan, and fans will recognize the hero from his Dragon Ball Z prime. It is hard to mistake Teenage Gohan here, and Doncic was able to draw Saiyan pride from his sweet kicks.
For those of you unfamiliar with Doncic, the athlete is a talented one, and Gohan would have some trouble fighting him on the court. Doncic hails from Slovenia, and his towering 6'7 frame helped push him into the NBA starting this year. After a stellar European career, the athlete put his name in for the NBA draft in 2018, and the Dallas Mavericks scooped up the player. Doncic also plays for the Slovenian national basketball team, and fans are wondering how long it will take before the player is recruited by Goku to represent Universe 7 in some multiverse sports tournament.
Of course, fans will know these shoes aren't the first Gohan has gotten. In fact, the Saiyan got some official kicks from Adidas earlier this year when the sneaker brand began releasing its much-hyped Dragon Ball line. Gohan's shoes were quick to sell out, but there are more kicks coming soon for characters like Shenron.
So, how do you like these Gohan kicks...? Let me know in the comments or hit me up on Twitter @MeganPetersCB to talk all things comics and anime!
Dragon Ball Super: Broly officially releases in Japan this December, so fans will get to see more of Super Saiyan Blue Goku in action soon enough. Funimation will be bringing the film to theaters in the United States on January 16th. Dragon Ball Super currently airs its English dub on Adult Swim during the Toonami programming block Saturday evenings at 9:30 p.m. It is also available to stream on Funimation and Amazon Video. The Japanese language release of the series is complete, and available to stream on FunimationNOW, VRV, and Crunchyroll.0comments


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The advent of DDR5 RAM is due for consumer release very soon, and ADATA made a new announcement today for what it has in mind for future XPG products. If you thought high speed DDR4 memory kits with 4,000 MT/s were already fast, you’re about to gawk at what the future holds. ADATA has plans to launch XPG branded DDR5 memory kits with 12,600 MT/s eventually.
ADATA announced its plans for high-performance DDR5 memory kits alongside many other new products during a recent digital showcase. The spokesperson was brief about the announcement, but the presentation did show that the modules will reach the ludicrously high speeds at a voltage range of 1.1-1.6V. The official JEDEC spec for DDR5 dictates voltages of 1.1.
ADATA also skipped mention of pricing, availability, and a release date, but did indicate these will be part of a second wave of DDR5 products. The debut performance XPG DDR5 module will cap out at the top of the JEDEC spec of 8,400 MT/s and be available later this year.
While it comes as no surprise that companies are already planning to sell the fastest DDR5 memory kits possible, the first generation of DDR5 compatible CPUs will be a ways behind in terms of speed support. Even the 8,400 MT/s kit will be more than substantial for Intel’s upcoming Alder Lake platform rumored to launch this October. Alder Lake will only officially support 4,800 MT/s, so anything above will technically be considered overclocking. AMD will follow suit with DDR5 support for its Zen 4 CPUs in late 2022.
The important takeaway here is that your DDR4 isn’t quite obsolete yet. Official support will have to catch up, and DDR5 modules will need to improve timings over release generations for better latency results to make DDR4 truly obsolete. The good news is that CPU generations should make huge spec improvements over the next four years. Perhaps official support will come sooner than we expect for these blazing fast memory like the ADATA XPG DDR5 kits rated for 12,600 MT/s.


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SK Telecom first to lower monthly rates
The South Korean government is reportedly placing pressure on local cellular carriers to lower their pricing structures. SK Telecom, the largest mobile provider in the country, is the first to respond to demands from regulators. The company will reduce its monthly charge by 1,000 won (~$0.92 USD) by September, bringing the average monthly fees down to approximately 11,000 won (~$10.21 USD), alongside other promotions and plan changes.
The pressure on telecom companies is part of the government's broader strategy to combat rising prices for consumer products. Regulators from the Korea Communications Committee suggest the changes in SK Telecom's plan pricing will have a combined annual benefit of approximately 750 billion won (~$696 million USD).
Cellphone services only represent a small percentage of consumer spending, however the government has also influenced companies in other sectors, such as fuel providers, to make similar cuts in prices. Aside from pressure on private companies, import tariffs for food goods have also been reduced. [via Wall Street Journal (sub. required)]


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Washington, D.C. – On February 14, Sen. Rand Paul and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, both of Kentucky, joined Oregon Democratic Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden in introducing legislation to allow American farmers to cultivate and profit from industrial hemp.
The Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2013 would remove federal restrictions on the domestic cultivation of industrial hemp. Specifically, the bill would remove hemp from the Schedule I controlled substance list under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, and would define it as a non-drug so long as it contained less than 0.3 percent tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).
Prior to World War II, Kentucky provided 94 percent of the nation’s industrial hemp. Today the U.S. is the world’s largest consumer of hemp, but it remains the only major industrialized country that bans farming the product. U.S. imports have consistently grown over the past decade – increasing by 300 percent over that period.
Earlier this week, the Kentucky State Senate Agriculture Committee unanimously approved legislation that would set up a state permitting program for the growth of industrial hemp. And today, the Kentucky Senate passed SB 50, which establishes oversight for Kentucky farmers to cultivate legalized industrial hemp. It now awaits a vote in the Kentucky House of Representatives.
“The Industrial Hemp Farming Act paves the way to creating jobs for Kentucky,” Sen. Paul said. “Allowing American farmers to cultivate industrial hemp and benefit from its many uses will boost our state’s economy and bring much-needed jobs in the agriculture community. Today’s State Senate victory, coupled with the efforts Sen. McConnell and I are making here in Washington increase my confidence that they will soon payoff, to the benefit of Kentuckians.”
“I am proud to introduce legislation with my friend Rand Paul that will allow Kentucky farmers to harness the economic potential that industrial hemp can provide,” Sen. McConnell said. “During these tough economic times, this legislation has the potential to create jobs and provide a boost to Kentucky’s economy and to our farmers and their families.”
The Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2013 is the Senate companion bill to H.R. 525, which was introduced last week in the House with 28 original co-sponsors. Libertycrier


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So a robber walks into a flashy new digital bank …
December 22, 2010 by Dave Haynes
I like the overall approach of the new Citibank flagship store in New York’s Union Square.
The digital is designed right into the overall look and feel, there’s interactive this and that, and the bank has a very crisp, minimalist feel to it. But this odd thought occured to me. If some hood walked in to rob this branch, where would he start? Where would he go? Would he touch a screen and select ROB?
Anyway … maybe that’s an unintended design plus. Or an intended one?
The release says the new branch will offer:
- Six interactive sales walls which let customers browse information on Citi’s products and services;
- Enhanced image ATMs that eliminate the need for envelopes when making cash or check deposits;
- Free online access and Wi-Fi for customers;
- 24/7 access, from the ATM lobby, to customer service experts via video-assist – the first of its kind in the U.S.;
- Media walls that allow customers inside the branch and pedestrians on the street to view information about Citi, live market updates, global and domestic news and local weather and time;
- Access to global experts via private two-way video conferencing;
- A private seating lounge for Citigold customers, Citi’s premium banking service.
I’m not sure what it is that makes people more interested in market updates and global and domestic news when they walk into a bank (I doubt they are), but at least this throwaway content looks well executed.
As with just about any flagship job, don’t expect to see this out in the local branches anytime soon, though the bank says there will be more in key markets (presumably Chicago, LA, Duluth).


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We as fans are collectively excited about the creation of a new Star Trek TV show. CBS has brought on a great creative staff for the new series, however they have made one fatal flaw in the distribution of the new show.
The company CEO himself has decided to debut the first episode on primetime television and then make all new episodes only available through the CBS all access paid subscription service.
This essentially limits distribution of the new series and puts a nail in the coffin of any chances that it may have at being truly successful.
The purpose of this petition is to directly email the CBS executive staff and CEO requesting to reverse this decision and make Star Trek available as a broadcast tv show so everyone may enjoy it.
CSI: Cyber, one of the worst reviewed television series ever is given a primetime slot, but Star Trek is left to be viewed through an online pay service.
Fans of Star Trek want and deserve better.
Science fiction and fantasy television shows are giving many other television networks egregious amounts of revenue and ratings. Why can't Star Trek be given the proper platform to do so as well?
We as fans demand that Star Trek not be exclusive to CBS all access and be available to all as a broadcast TV series.


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(Bloomberg LP via Shari Oster) Online crowdfunding sites have been the place to raise money to research the theory of everything or back a San Francisco startup. Now, Chinese tech companies are using them to crack the U.S. market.
Yet these aren’t exactly struggling startups.
China-based campaigns represent over 10 percent of the funds raised in the first three months of this year on IndieGoGo, and are its fastest growing foreign market. Overall, the San Francisco-based platform has raised $850 million from 6 million people in more than 600,000 fundraising campaigns since its inception in 2008.
Take for example XGimi Technology, a Chinese manufacturer of miniature, home-theater projectors that are Internet-enabled. The company, based in the western China city of Chengdu, raised more than $300,000 this year for a new LED projector on the crowdfunding website IndieGoGo Inc. All while getting glowing coverage from tech blogs.
Back home, it hardly needs cash or publicity. It’s already raised 400 million yuan ($61 million) and is valued at more than 1 billion yuan by investors, including Mango TV, part of the popular state-owned television broadcaster Hunan Broadcasting System. Having sold some 200,000 units last year, and forecasting sales this year of between 400,000 to 600,000, it claims to be the biggest pico-projector seller in China. Chinese premier Li Keqiang stopped by during a visit to Chengdu startups in April.


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ATLANTA — ExamWorks Group Inc., which provides independent medical examinations and other services for the insurance and legal industries, said Thursday that it and a mix of shareholders are offering $164.8 million in stock in an initial public offering.
The stock is being priced at the low end of the company’s previously announced range of $16 to $18 per share.
Overall, the Atlanta-based company and its shareholders are offering 10.3 million shares at $16 apiece. The company is offering about 7.7 million shares while selling shareholders are offering about 2.5 million. Meanwhile, the company granted underwriters a 30-day option to buy up to an additional 1.5 million shares to cover any excess demand.
The company expects its stock to begin trading as “EXAM” on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday.
ExamWorks has said it expects net proceeds to the company of about $118.8 million and it will use most of it to repay debt.
Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse and Barclays Capital are joint underwriters for the offering.


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A password-free Internet: This project sounds strange at first, but it is actually the proclaimed goal of the so-called FIDO-Allianz.
The cooperation between several well-known tech companies such as Google, Apple and Microsoft, which first appeared more than ten years ago, is working on completely eliminating passwords, which are seen as potential security gaps.
Apple already introduced the so-called passkeys for iOS 16 last year; Google has also been working with the new method since May 2023.
With the online payment service PayPal, the next tech giant will soon start with the Passkey-Technologie.
The feature was officially announced in October 2022, but at that time it was only available in the US.
PayPal will expand the Passkey option in the coming weeks
eligible customers on Apple devices and Google Android devices in Germany. The company explained this in a press release.
With this introduction, PayPal promises, as with Apple and Google before, a quick and secure login in the respective account.
How to create PayPal passkey on iOS and Android
With Apple devices, the creation of the passkey – as soon as it has been activated – should be displayed when the PayPal website is called up via the Safari browser for the first time.
If the customers have then logged in for the last time with the classic user name and associated password, identification is carried out using Touch ID or Face ID.
If this is done, the passkey has been created successfully. In addition, these are synchronized in the iCloud keychain so that they are always accessible in Apple devices from iOS 16, iPadOS 16.1 or macOS Ventura.
For Android devices, however, at least operating system version 9 is required.
Here, too, a classic PayPal registration via the Chrome browser is required, which is then followed by the button
Create Passkey indicates.
The user is then prompted to identify himself in the same way as the respective device is unlocked – i.e. either by PIN, fingerprint or face recognition. The respective passkey should then be created in Android and can be used for logging in in the future.
Passkeys – what are they anyway?
Passkeys are a new standard that is being gradually introduced by the FIDO Alliance mentioned at the beginning.
These replace the classic passwords with cryptographic key pairs and digital credentials. This includes, for example, biometric login data, such as those already created to unlock smartphones.
The advantages are apparent: In addition to the elimination of passwords, which can quickly be forgotten in the case of high complexity, such biometric data is particularly protected against any phishing attempts and other attacks.
Are passkeys the future of IT security? Will you switch to the new login option as soon as possible or stick with the classic password? Do you use a password manager and if so, which one? Let us know what you think in the comments!


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Guinness swallowed in revamp
DIAGEO is hammering itself into a unified global drinks company - and is downgrading one of its best-known brands, Guinness. In an exercise dubbed One Business One Name, it is axing the GuinnessUDV name from its premium drinks business.
From 1 July, the word Diageo will be used on all its literature and staff contracts. Thousands of trademarks will be moved to Diageo, formed in 1997 by merging Guinness and GrandMet. This demotes the Guinness name, once one of the best-known in the corporate world, merely to a product brand. UDV (United Distillers & Vintners) will disappear.
Diageo denied speculation that downplaying Guinness, brewer of the famous black stout, is a step towards selling it off. But its Pillsbury food business has already gone, Burger King will soon be sold and the emphasis is on bedding in the £5.7bn Seagram drinks acquisition.
Does beer fit with a focused global spirits group, selling drinks such as Johnnie Walker scotch, Smirnoff vodka and Captain Morgan rum? 'It could be said that Guinness is not really that synergistic,' said one analyst. 'It's a speciality beer business. It has not been as effectual in the US as hoped.'
Guinness's global volume sales are slowing, down 1% in the half to December. Nevertheless, international brewers such as Interbrew would love to get their hands on the beer, with its grip on pub distribution in the UK and Ireland, despite never owning a pub chain.
Diageo, up 10 1/2p to 830 1/2p, said the time is right to ditch the GuinnessUDV name. 'We wanted to acknowledge the 3,500 people joining from Seagram just as much as those from Guinness and UDV. They all work for Diageo.' It said the process began two years ago when Diageo decided to exit from food and to merge Guinness brewing with UDV spirits.
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Renault Zoé Z.E with Biotherm
Energy efficient environmental solutions are hot property at present, none more so than with the motoring fraternity. With soaring oil prices and government backed initiatives commonplace, electric propulsion is seemingly the future.
See more of Renault’s latest eco addition, the Zoé Z.E
This realisation has sparked ferocious competition between mass-market manufacturers to offer the consumer desirable zero emission run-arounds. As such, French motoring monolith, Renault last month announced the Zoé Z.E - the first 100% electric ‘Spa’ concept car, part of Renault’s recently unveiled vision for a cleaner, more affordable future.
Having pitched not one but three all-electric concepts at the recent Frankfurt Motor Show, Renault is now honing its concepts for the market place. It’s all in the details, apparently. Not content with simply saving the planet, the car manufacturer has also collaborated with L’Oreal-owned skin care experts Biotherm to create an air conditioning system capable of hydrating the occupants’ skin while providing also a more traditional temperature control facility.
With over 50 years of scientific know-how in the virtues of cellular skin mechanisms and aromatherapy benefits, Biotherm’s automotive debut takes the form of cabin-mounted particle and toxicity filters, ensuring a crystal clear in-car atmosphere. Most impressively of all, Biotherm has also developed a dynamic system that can electronically diffuse essential oils dependant on driver mood - rousing in the morning, calming returning from work, and awakening while driving at night.
The Zoé Z.E’s green credentials are equally impressive. Renault collaborated with partner Nissan on the power source (Nissan’s own LEAF is coming to market at roughly the same time), with charge times at around 4-8 hours. A ‘Quickdrop’ rapid battery exchange will also be available, taking only three minutes after locating an appropriate energy station: the next big challenge is a logistical one.
The production version of the Zoé Z.E is expected to launch in 2012 - along with production-ready versions of Renault’s other conceptual designs. We can’t wait for our thoroughly efficient onboard pampering session, but also expect more brand partnerships at this burgeoning end of the market. As carmakers enlist sympathetic products and manufacturers to bolster the holistic impact of their wares, the roads of tomorrow could be a very different place.


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Green car sales surged by 215.75 percent in Romania in the first six months of the year, reaching 982 units, from 311 in the same period of 2016, according to statistics with the Association of Automobile Manufacturers and Importers (APIA), consulted by AGERPRES.
Between January and June 2017, compared with the first six months of the previous year, the share of “green cars in total sales was 1.7 percent locally; sales of electric cars increased by 197.1 percent, while hybrid car sales recorded an increase by 218.1 percent.
At the same time, according to the cited statistics, in June 2017, 265 electric and hybrid vehicles were sold, up 56.08 percent from the previous month’s, 169.
Topping the ranking of the most traded hundred-percent electric vehicle brands in the first six months of the year is Mercedes-Benz , with 32 units, followed by BMW (29), Renault (12), Audi (8), Volkswagen and Volvo (5 units each), Mitsubishi and Porsche (4 each).
At the same time, most hybrid cars sold in Romania from January to June 2017 were Toyotas (791 units), followed by Lexi (72), Kias (8) and Mercedes-Benzes (2).
Official statistics show that last year the number of new hybrid and electric cars sold in Romania was 1,183 units, up 138 percent from 2015, out of which 167 were hundred-percent electric vehicles.
A new edition of the Car Scrappage Plus Programme, launched on May 10, for the purchase of environmentally-friendly cars, is currently underway.
Under it, the value of one eco-ticket for those who want to buy a new hundred-percent electric vehicle is 10,000 euros, and 4,500 euros for the plug-in hybrids.


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Funko has released previews of the new Nightmare Before Christmas Vynl Sets, Mystery Minis, Hikari, Plush and Vinyl Figures. The new Nightmare Before Christmas collectibles will be released this Fall. The new Vynl. Sets, Pop! Pens, Mystery Minis and Supercute Plush are currently available at EntertainmentEarth.com while the other collectibles will be available exclusively at their respective retailers.
Pajama Jack is flocked, Oogie Boogie and Zero glow in the dark and all three are available exclusively at Walgreens.
Hot Topic Exclusive Nightmare Before Christmas Snow Globes
Hot Topic Exclusive SuperCute Plush Lock, Shock and Barrel available exclusively through Hot Topic.
FYE Exclusive Dr. Finkelstein
Super Deluxe vinyl figure of Jack Skellington with Zero
Hot Topic Exclusive Jack Skellington Skull with gothic tree artwork
Oogie Boogie and Behemoth Vynl Set, Lock and Shock,
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- President Donald Trump tweeted that the US has a “a Trade Deficit with Canada.”
- The tweet comes after audio of a speech was released in which Trump recalls bluffing to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about the trade imbalance.
- The US, however, does not run a trade deficit with Canada, according to the US Trade Representative.
President Donald Trump reiterated a misleading claim about trade between the US and Canada on Thursday after reports that the president bluffed about the relationship to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
“We do have a Trade Deficit with Canada, as we do with almost all countries (some of them massive),” Trump said. “P.M. Justin Trudeau of Canada, a very good guy, doesn’t like saying that Canada has a Surplus vs. the U.S.(negotiating), but they do…they almost all do…and that’s how I know!”
Trump’s tweet came the day after The Washington Post released audio of a fundraising speech the president gave in which he admitted to bluffing the Canadian Prime Minister on the US-Canada trade imbalance.
“Trudeau came to see me. He’s a good guy, Justin. He said, ‘No, no, we have no trade deficit with you, we have none. Donald, please’,” Trump said. “I said, ‘Wrong, Justin, you do.’ I didn’t even know … I had no idea. I just said, ‘You’re wrong.'”
The problem is that Trump’s assertion is incorrect based the latest data.
According to the US Trade Representative, the US actually maintained a $US12.5 billion trade surplus with Canada in 2016, based on the most recent data available.
The US did run a goods deficit of $US12.1 billion, but it made up for it with a $US24.6 billion surplus in services trade, such as intellectual property and travel.
Even looking strictly at goods, the deficit is not large compared with years past. Commerce Department data shows that the 2016 deficit was the smallest since 1993 and well down from a peak of $US78.5 billion in 2005.


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Progressive Adds Michigan To Its Homeowners Rollout.
Progressive chose Michigan for the next step in its foray into homeowners coverage because it has a strong homeowners market and a friendly regulatory environment, said Karen Barone, a homeowners product manager for Progressive. Barone also said Michigan was attractive because of cross-selling opportunities with Progressive's auto products. Progressive has been selling auto coverage in Michigan since late 1995.
The homeowners product will be sold through 80 independent agents in Michigan. The agents who were chosen for the inaugural sales were singled out by sales territory managers based on their sales volume and relationship with the company, Barone said. The product had a similar debut in Arizona where 190 agents now sell homeowners coverage. Glenn Renwick, chief executive officer of insurance operations, reported in July that the homeowners line in Arizona had about 500 policyholders and almost no losses.
During the homeowners debut in March, Progressive said by offering the coverage it is adding a sales link that already exists for its auto competitors. The four--State Farm, Allstate, Farmers and Nationwide--control 45% of the homeowners market.
Progressive will be using a software tool created by Marshall & Swift, a building costs and underwriting consulting firm, to help agents guide homeowners who are incorrectly identifying the true replacement cost of their home. The program, Home Profiles, a software tool that prices the individual components of a residence, is incorporated in the agents' quoting software. The program prompts the agent to ask customers about unique characteristics of their homes. For example, it asks whether the interior floors are primarily hardwood or wall-to-wall carpeting and if the kitchen interior contains custom or contractor grade cabinets, Barone said.
Progressive expects to continue the homeowners rollout this year in Maryland and other states yet to be announced. The insurer also plans to sell the product via its direct sales channel this year.
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A flurry of brazen thefts have left retailers worried about organized thieves.
Best Buy said this week that its business was facing new pressure from organized thefts, and it was implementing new security measures in certain areas. One tactic includes putting QR codes on products behind lock-and-key. That allows customers to scan the codes and then check out, so associates do not need to unlock the items right away.
“We are finding ways where we can lock up product, but still make that a good customer experience,” Best Buy CEO Corie Barry said on an earnings call Tuesday. “In some instances, we’re hiring security. We’re working with our vendors on creative ways we can stage the product.”
Still, she said, the pressure was visible in the company’s financials — she named it as one reason that Best Buy saw a decline in its profit margin rate — and “traumatizing for our associates.”
About 69% of retailers said they had seen an increase in organized retail crimes in the past year, pointing to factors including the pandemic, policing, changes to sentencing guidelines and the growth of online marketplaces, according to a recent retail security survey from the National Retail Federation, an industry trade group. Respondents said the groups involved have become more aggressive and violent.
This month, a group of about 80 people rushed into a Nordstrom outside San Francisco and stole merchandise, with many escaping in speeding cars. There were also “smash-and-grab” robberies at other retailers in San Francisco around the same time, including Louis Vuitton, Saint Laurent and Burberry, according to The San Francisco Chronicle.
“Our priority has always been and will remain the safety of our people, whether that’s the pandemic, whether that is unruly customers, whether that is outright theft, which is a great deal of what we’re seeing right now,” Barry said this week. “This is a real issue that hurts and scares real people.”


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New V8-powered supercar replaces the successful 720S.
McLaren has unveiled a replacement for the hugely successful 720S supercar – the 750S.
Arriving as the lightest and most powerful series-production McLaren, the 750S brings more power than its predecessor and a greater focus on driving fun than before.
Things are centred around the same 4.0-litre turbocharged V8 petrol engine as you’d find in the 720S, but power has been increased by 22bhp to 740bhp, while total torque stands at 800Nm.
As a result, 0-60mph will take just 2.7 seconds in both coupe and Spider versions, while flat-out both models will manage a top speed of 206mph. In fact, the coupe will race from zero to 124mph in just 7.2 seconds.
Thanks to revised materials, the 750S is also 30kg lighter than the 720S with a dry weight of 1,277kg. Carbon-fibre racing seats included as standard help with the weight-shedding measures, while the new 10-spoke lightweight forged wheels save 13.8kg. Even the windscreen glass, which is thinner than before, helps reduce weight by 1.6kg.
A front track widened by 6mm helps to improve grip, too, while the hydraulic steering system has a faster ratio and a new power-assistance pump. A new nose-lift system reduces the operating time to four seconds – over the ten seconds of the 720S – which means you can quickly and easily raise the nose of the car to navigate speed bumps.
The exterior has been revised with a new lower nose section, an extended front splitter and new rear wheelarch vents while the carbon-fibre rear wing has been lengthened. In the middle of the rear sits a new centre-exit exhaust which, McLaren states, takes inspiration from the one fitted to the P1 hypercar.
Inside, there have been some big changes. There’s a new driver display – which takes many cues from the new Artura hybrid – which has controls for both the powertrain and handling modes on either side. It means that the driver can easily cycle through different settings without having to take their hands away from the wheel.
A new central screen offers Apple CarPlay smartphone mirroring, too, while both the rearview and surround-view parking cameras have been made clearer than before.


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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Today's shoppers consider dairy products prime ingredients in their good-nutrition menu, said Linda Gilbert, president of HealthFocus, a Des Moines, Iowa-based market-research firm.
The finding is part of a recent HealthFocus study that also showed consumers' top priority is good taste, that they believe good nutrition is individual (based on a person's life stage and health condition), and that they are looking for nutritional solutions to "fill in the gaps" created by fast-paced living and hurried eating habits. The study also indicated consumers' priorities include efforts at self-education and self-medication.
Retailers can make the most of consumers' behaviors and attitudes with well-planned marketing and merchandising strategies that emphasize dairy products' nutritional qualities and their role in promoting bone, heart and digestive health, Gilbert told attendees at the International-Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association's 36th Annual Seminar & Expo here.
"Dairy has strong equities in health and wellness. And consumers said they prefer to get their nutrition through a balanced diet, from a variety of foods and from eating naturally nutritious foods," Gilbert said.
Even though they may have concerns about some dairy products' fat content, the respondents said they value dairy products as good protein sources. Milk and chunk cheeses top the popularity list. A full 60% said they use full-fat cheese at least once a week and 51% use low-fat milk at least once a week.
She warned, however, that consumers get bored and downright edgy when they're being told something over and over again that they already know.
"Consumers consider themselves somewhat knowledgeable and they want to get credit for that. They, for example, already know calcium is good for their bones. We should be telling them something new," Gilbert said.
In-store dairy managers can enhance programs that communicate the benefits of dairy products by building upon what consumers already know, she said. For example, another ingredient in milk -- vitamin K -- improves the absorption of calcium.
Instead of just telling them that milk contains vitamin K and magnesium as well as calcium, it's better to provide pieces of information that are related to each other, such as the connection between vitamin K and calcium. The information, too, should be delivered in a number of different venues such as point-of-sale materials and radio and ad circulars, in order to surround the consumer with data, Gilbert said.
While most shoppers today choose foods for health reasons, the trend is toward "usually" and away from "always." Gilbert attributes that direction to consumers' unwillingness to compromise their quest for taste.
The HealthFocus study was designed to identify current issues in health and nutrition behavior and attitudes, assess the trends in consumer priorities regarding nutrition issues, develop an understanding of where consumers are headed in their behavior toward their health and diet, and determine what nutritional issues will be important in the near future.
Fifty-two percent of the consumer-respondents said they're concerned about too much fat in their own diet, 46% are concerned about too much fat in their family's diet, and 37% worry about fat in their children's diets. Gilbert noted that while 44% of consumers "always" or "usually" maintain a low-fat diet, that's a decrease from 48% in 1996 and from 53% in 1994.
"Consumers who worried about dietary fats have already made the changes they are going to make," Gilbert explained.
They strongly voiced their misgivings about the taste of no-fat or low-fat products, including dairy items.
Among those who have tried or will try low- or no-fat dairy products, 21% "strongly agree" or "agree" that if a product is low- or no-fat, it will not taste as good as the "full-fat" variety. Indeed, 21% said they won't even try a product if it's labeled low-fat or no-fat.
A full 54% said they would use low-fat products more often if they tasted better, but for now, 31% said they would rather eat fewer full-fat foods rather than opt for reduced-fat foods.
There's no doubt that taste is king, Gilbert pointed out. The most successful no-fat or low-fat dairy products are those that involve little taste trade-off, like reduced-fat milk, yogurt and cream cheese.
Respondents in the survey said there's a definite taste trade off in low-fat cheeses, but some said they've actually grown to prefer 2% milk over whole milk. They said there's no taste compromise in no- or low-fat yogurt or cream cheese.
Taste is the driver when it comes to changing brands, too. While 58% of consumers are influenced to try a different brand because it offers better nutritional value, 60% said taste would lead them to try another brand.
In a move away from all the attention they paid to no-fat and low-fat items when nutrition labeling became mandatory, consumers are now showing increased interest in the positive benefits of foods, such as qualities that strengthen the immune system and boost energy levels.
Since most of the respondents said they're looking to fill nutritional gaps with food, there's a big opportunity for fortified products like orange juice with added calcium and yogurt with live cultures, Gilbert said.
She added that there's even room for herbal infusions, and that is already showing up in some beverages. More than three-quarters (79%) of the consumers surveyed were interested in data on building their immune systems with foods and more than half (69%) wanted information on high-energy foods, Gilbert pointed out.
"We get a lot on energy management. There is big opportunity there. People want to reduce the let-down they feel in the afternoon, and they also say they're often too wound up at the end of the day to go to sleep," she said.
HealthFocus surveys, such as the one summarized here, are conducted every two years, and done in two stages. By telephone, respondents are recruited and qualified as primary grocery shoppers. Then, they're mailed and asked to complete a written survey with more than 300 questions on it.


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Gigabyte has confirmed that Intel will launch its Rocket Lake CPU refresh in March, as part of an announcement touting its own PCIe 4.0 support. Gigabyte announced today that if you own a Z490 motherboard, you'll be getting a UEFI update to support Rocket Lake CPUs with full PCIe 4.0 support.
The rest of the PR goes into detail on how Gigabyte engineered their motherboards to handle the higher heat output of PCIe 4.0, and the fact that addressable BAR support is coming to the company's motherboards as well. Addressable BAR is the same feature AMD debuted as Smart Access Memory earlier this year.
The March 2021 date confirms what we've heard previously -- late March is more likely than early March. It's going to be genuinely interesting to see how Cypress Cove performs against AMD's Zen 3. Generally speaking, based on leaked benchmarks and early data, we're looking at impressive gains for Intel in single-thread performance. Multi-thread performance estimates for the Core i9-11900K have varied. In some cases, the 11900K is almost a match for the 10-core Core i9-10900K. In a few leaked results, it's actually been faster on eight cores than Comet Lake was on 10.
The debut of Rocket Lake will, at the very least, pry Intel off of Skylake. Skylake bears the strange ignominy of being Intel's most-successful core (in terms of the total number of chips shipped over the past five years that use the microarchitecture), while simultaneously representing a CPU all of us will be glad to see the last of. Skylake, Kaby, Coffee, and Comet all share an excellent underlying architecture -- if it had been anything less than that, Intel could never have relied on it for five years running in the first place. At this point, however, everyone is ready to see what Willow Cove brings to the table. Right now it looks like the CPU will combine 14nm Comet Lake clocks with a more advanced 10nm microarchitecture.
As for the chip's competitive standing against AMD, we can make a few safe guesses there. The consistent emphasis on high single-thread performance suggests Intel will try to take back the space in gaming that AMD recently carved out for itself. I'm not going to try to predict exactly how an eight-core Core i7 will stack up against a Ryzen 7 core, but Intel's historic practice has been to price its chips more expensively than their AMD counterparts. If Intel parks the Core i9-11900K at $450 - $550, AMD will almost certainly retain a price/performance advantage on its own eight-core chips. If Intel prices aggressively against AMD's eight-core CPUs, AMD will still have the option to cut its own top-end prices and attack Intel with higher core counts, as it's done consistently since 2017.
Rocket Lake is an important launch for Intel, if only because it's become critical that the company demonstrate some forward momentum for itself outside of mobile. Rocket Lake is a stopgap -- Alder Lake, which likely drops in 2022, will usher in Intel's hybrid CPU technology and a new LGA1700 socket -- but it could be a highly competitive stopgap for Intel in the $200 - $400 range, depending on how the company prices it.
Of course, all of this theorizing assumes you'll be able to buy a CPU in the first place. Whether that's a good bet or not remains to be seen. Supposedly we'll see better availability on a lot of hardware by the end of Q1, but given how bad things have been for months, I'm not going to blame anyone who looks at that with skepticism.Now Read:


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Those of you who www.makingonlinenews.net/2020/11/13/making-online-news take in online media often question its purpose and its foreseeable future. In actual fact that it is a vital tool. Online news allows people to communicate their sights, support or perhaps oppose a particular issue. It is just a fast-paced method and, typically, it is a great place to start. But how does it work? And exactly how does it affect the future of writing? Here are some ideas to keep in mind the moment reading news online.
First, there is no perfect ideal of online writing. The ideal-typical form of web based journalism can be not an melding of different forms. Newsrooms must in order to adapt to the changing requirements of a speedily evolving data environment. This requires tough choices about goals, valuations, and requirements. And newsrooms must grapple with the business aspects of on the net publishing. This, in turn, can possess implications how the newsroom is arranged and been able. In order to make the very best use of the technology and make the most of the newsroom, newsrooms must change.
In order to take part in the study, information outlets required their own primary domain including least 20 million specific visitors per month. Pew Analysis Center utilized Comscore info to determine this, and news stores that fulfilled these requirements included digital-native news web publishers like Axios and HuffPost as well as legacy news companies such as Fox News. Of these, 97 news stores met conditions. While the set of winners is definitely not exhaustive, it does show the importance of news sites.


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Eateries think small to fight food waste
Updated: 2013-01-26 03:47
By Cheng Yingqi (China Daily)
Staff members hold plates, encouraging diners to finish their meals, at the entrance to the Qingdao Seaview Garden Hotel in Shandong province on Thursday. [Photo/Xinhua]
Nearly 750 restaurants in Beijing have joined a campaign against wasting food by offering smaller dishes.
The restaurants are also encouraging diners to take their leftovers home.
"We have tried to stop the wasting of food since 2006," said Lin Suqin, the manager of the capital's Hongbinlou restaurant.
"For example, if customers want to order a large portion of a dish when there are fewer than six people at the table, the waiter must ask the foreman to check the customers' real needs before they order, to avoid waste."
The restaurant now offers dishes half the size of those served normally.
To enhance public awareness of food waste, the restaurant chain run by the Beijing Meizhou Hotel Management has placed posters on walls to remind customers to take away their leftovers, and it offers environmentally friendly containers for the food to be packed in.
The campaign comes after legal and agricultural experts said that wasting food should be a crime.
"I am proposing that the government makes regulations and policies to encourage people to despise the wasting of food, and to treat it like a crime", said Yuan Longping, an agricultural scientist.
According to research by China Agricultural University, 8 million metric tons of food protein and 3 million tons of fat were wasted in China in 2007 and 2008 — meaning the food wasted each year can feed nearly 200 million people.
Meanwhile, supply and demand in China's grain market has become tighter in the past decade, under pressure from an increasing population, according to CBN Daily in Shanghai.
Yang Lin, an employee at a State-owned enterprise in Beijing, said, "Wasting food is a bad habit, and my friends and I are definitely against it. Sometimes the waste is a bit severe because we have to drink wine and socialize with leaders, and we actually don't have much time to eat."
Xiao Chao, an employee at a foreign-funded enterprise, believes food waste is rooted in Chinese culture.
"It has something to do with our eating traditions and culture. Westerners eat from individual plates, so people can choose the appropriate amount of food.
"The Chinese, by contrast, share dishes. So it is difficult to order the right amount of food for all the people," he said.
"Besides, the Chinese regard it as polite to treat friends to a sumptuous feast, which will inevitably result in food waste."
Ji Yerong contributed to this story.
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Regional Victoria will be the first to get a taste of 5G tech and sky-speed Internet, thanks to Spirit’s new $1.7 million deal with the Victorian State Government.
See the press release below:
Spirit Telecom has signed a $1.7 million deal with the Victorian State Government to deliver super-fast internet, using 5G technology to the state’s regional city of Horsham.
After a thorough tender process, Spirit has been awarded the job to take on the project and is thrilled to be delivering its super-fast Internet in the region. The deal will enable the rural community and businesses of Horsham, a population in excess of 20,000, to have the same access to Internet services as metropolitan, interstate and international counterparts; finally bridging the digital divide between metro and regional areas.
Spirit’s sky-speed internet is a genuine NBN alternative and will deliver the region with Fixed Wireless, super-fast Internet with speeds up to 1,000Mbps, that’s 10x faster than the NBN’s 100Mbps plan.
Spirit’s $1.7 million deal with the Victorian State Government will see five towers developed across five districts in Horsham. These radios will transmit Spirit’s Internet, using beam-forming technology, which is the first ratified technology of the global 5G standard. The transmission will be via the air and will cover a 10km radius from each tower throughout Horsham, including the Horsham CBD, Horsham Enterprise Park, Aerodrome and freight terminal precincts. In addition, the network may be capable of providing services to businesses outside Horsham in locations such as Longerenong, Dooen and Haven.
Spirit’s Managing Director, Geoff Neate said the deal with the State Government is a testament to Spirit’s strong offering in the market and its ability to deliver on what they’ve promised.
“We believe our offering is market leading and will put to bed the mindset that 5G technology is purely a mobile play. We will deploy a super-fast internet ring around Horsham using the latest technology via a partnership with the State Government. The project will reinforce Spirit as a leader of high-speed Internet in the Telco’ industry. It also fulfils the demands of businesses and consumers for a fast, reliable broadband service that actually delivers on what it promises. This is what we hang our hat on and are looking forward to strengthening the Horsham community’s access to super-fast Internet.”
Minister for Regional Development Jaala Pulford says,
“We are putting Horsham businesses on an even playing field with those in Melbourne and in other global centres – giving them the connectivity they deserve.”
“This project will be a game changer for local businesses. Symmetrical gigabit broadband will make them more efficient and change the way they do business and the products they offer locally and globally.”
Spirit anticipates completion of the project by the end of 2019 but the first services, available in limited areas, could be
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Sony sues Gymchark over user-generated videos
Sony Music Entertainment has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against fitness apparel brand Gymshark, valued at approximately $1.3bn, Music Business Worldwide reports. Sony claims that Gymshark “has achieved its success by infringing sound recordings and musical compositions belonging to a number of different content owners on a massive scale”. According to the filing, Gymshark has “largely eschewed traditional advertising” and has instead promoted its products in videos posted to the likes of Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook. This may be an important case, because it highlights the place where platform-wide licensing deals for use of music in user-generated content meet the world of sync licensing. Regular users can use music in their videos, but rules change when it comes to brands and influencers paid by those brands, which is a commercial activity.