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Google will no longer trust WoSign and StarCom certificates July 25/2017
Google reports that in the coming months, it will completely stop cooperation with certificates issued by WoSign and StarCom certification centers. The change will take effect with the release of Chrome 61, which is expected in mid-September. It will affect the certificates issued before October 21, 2016, the period of validity of which has not yet expired.
Last year, Google Chrome 56 stopped trusting the certificates from WoSign and StarCom, released later October 21, 2016. After the release of Chrome 57, the browser partially stopped trusting the old certificates. An exception was made for websites that are among the first million in the Alexa rating. From now on, all certificates from these centers will be banned.
"Starting with Chrome 61, the white list will be removed, which will lead to a complete cessation of trust in the existing root certificates of WoSign and StarCom and all certificates that they have given out. Websites that still use certificates from StarCom and WoSign should urgently consider replacing them, so as to minimize any inconveniences to Chrome users," reports Google.
It should be recalled Mozilla announced about freezing its cooperation with WoSign and StartCom in September 2016. Starting with the Firefox 51 the certificates are considered to be invalid. At the same time, the support of certificates issued before October 21, 2016 is still preserved.
Google updates the guidelines for assessors third time this year Aug 05/2017
It's third time this year that Google has updated the guidelines for assessors (experts assessing the quality of search results and the pages displayed in it). This time, the changes are even smaller than in the previous version of the document, which was published in May 2017.
The latest innovations will mainly be interested to SEO specialists who work with non-English pages.
For instance, the pseudoscientific and fake content details have been clarified, comments displaying pornographic ads on websites that do not contain adult content have been removed, new examples of pages with the lowest quality have been introduced, as well as a completely new section on the display of results in English for non-English-speaking locales.
There are changes that are purely of a natural style: for example, the selection of some words in italics has been removed. The section on using the Foreign Language label for pages in a foreign language like Ukrainian and Russian is replaced with an example of Catalan and Spanish.
A complete guide for assessors Google is a 160 pages book.
It should be recalled that the Google assessors guide has already been updated in March and May this year. The main changes aimed at combating dubious content in search results took place this March. The largest May updates affected the assessment of the quality of news websites, in particular the use of the "Upsetting-Offensive" label that was introduced in March.
Instagram launches tags for sponsored posts June 17/2017
Instagram added a new feature to mark the paid posts with the "Sponsor of publication" label with the indication of the partner company. This information was reported by the service press.
In the coming weeks, the new label will begin to appear in advertisements and bloggers’ “stories” all around the world. When you click on it, users will be able to go to their business partner account.
The content creator and its partner will have access to statistics for each publication when the label is used. This will help them understand how subscribers interact with similar materials.
Content creators will see this information in the Statistics section in Instagram, as well as their partners on their Facebook page.
Instagram authorities believe that the innovation will strengthen the atmosphere of trust inside the service.
To date, a new feature is only available for a small number of companies and content authors. In the coming months, developers are planning to launch it for a wide audience along with official rules and guidelines.
Publishers have found a way to beat Facebook's ranking algorithms July 25/2017
The AdAge Edition noted that publishers have found a way to beat Facebook's ranking algorithms. They began to attach short videos in MP4 format instead of pictures; since videos re usually given priority in the users' tapes.
New tactics are used by large publishers, such as BuzzFeed, and smaller ones, among them is ForShitsAndGiggles.
For example, the 48-second "video" published by BuzzFeed has received more than 1.4 million views in just a couple of weeks:
Other examples also include short videos that last only a few seconds.
The Facebook representative in the AdAge commentary says that the social network does not prioritize the video before other types of publications in the news line. But if the user usually interacts with the video, he will often see posts of this format in his tape:
"We are constantly improving the news line to show you the most relevant stories, and prevent attempts to deceive the system."
Nevertheless, Russ Torres, the USA Today Network vice president of video content and strategy believes that in fact Facebook promotes the video in line.
BuzzFeed and ForShitsAndGiggles have not yet commented on this aspect.
Google Image Search loses market share to Amazon and Facebook Aug 14/2017
The share of Google in the search market grew from 58.84% in October last year to 64.8% in March 2017. At the same time, the share of Google Image Search fell to 21.8% in favor of Amazon and Facebook. This information has come from analysts of the American company Jumpshot in partnership with co-founder Moz Rand Fishkin.
During the research, they analyzed search data in Google Search, Images, Maps, YouTube, Yahoo, Bing, Amazon, Facebook, Reddit and Wikipedia for the period from October 2016 to May 2017 with a sole purpose to determine the resources that accounted for the largest number of search engines Sessions and traffic.
Generally, at this period Amazon's share went up from 0.4% to 2.30%, and Facebook's 0.8% to 1.5%. Bing and Yahoo both showed growth of up to 2.4%, while Google Maps was ranked up to 1.2%. The activity of Google Search, Bing, Amazon and Facebook showed growth, while Google Images, YouTube, Yahoo and Google Maps lost their positions.
The report also included data on search volumes and CTR in the US. The number of search sessions in Google has exceeded 30 billion a month (as of October 2016). By May 2017, the growth trend remained at the level of 10-15% compared to the previous year.
The results of the organic search in 2016 went down to the bottom. In December they were ranked at 54% (despite the fact that in January and February of the same year their level was at 57% and 56%, respectively, and taking into account the traditional activity stop after the winter holidays).
November 2016 gave the highest rates of search activity without clicks and was ranked at 45.5%. At the same time, the lowest indicator was in October, which is only 40.3%.
According to Jumpshot, the largest traffic is generated by Google: about 63% in May 2017, with about 60% in October 2016. During this period, YouTube also showed better results and went up by 0.2%, while Amazon rose by 0.1%. Traffic from Facebook, Yahoo, Reddit, Imgur and Bing almost died, and that’s only Wikipedia that remained at the same level.
Google My Business has added a tool for website creation June 17/2017
Google My Business has launched a new tool using which users will be able to create a free business card website for their company.
You need to verify ownership of the company page in My Business to access the tool. The data and photos placed on it will be used to create the website. The website appearance can be configured, and its contents supplemented.
If you change the company’ data, the website will be automatically updated. In addition, it will be optimized for cross-platform devices.
Having created a website you can publish it immediately or do that later.
A window that offers you to create a website appears after the confirmation of the company page. This function is also available in the "Website" menu.
For more information about this feature see the Help Center.
According to Google, 60% of small businesses do not have their own website. With the help of a new tool they will be able to create them.
Seo Facts #151
In Q3 2015, 78% of Facebook’s $4.3 billion in advertising revenue worldwide came from ads on mobile devices. (eMarketer)
Seo Facts #107
Email marketing was the biggest marketing channel on Black Friday 2015, driving 25.1% of all transactions, according to Custora. Beyond email 21.1% of sales originated through organic search and 16.3% through paid search, while social media (including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest) drove only 1.7% of sales. (Source: Custora)
Seo Facts #152
Instagram reports 400 million users with over 75% living outside the US as of September 2015. (Source: Instagram)
Seo Facts #114
Separate research from Experian Marketing Services is in line with the Yesmail study. According to the Q2 2015 data, 48% of all emails sent by Experian clients were opened on desktop devices and 40% of emails were opened on mobile phones and ereaders. Some 12% were opened on tablets. (Source: eMarketer)
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U.S. spending on search marketing will reach $31.6 billion in 2015. (MediaPost)
Seo Facts #54
June 2015 research of marketers by Ascend2 showed 89% worldwide rated SEO successful at achieving objectives of improved search rankings, website traffic and lead generation. (Source: eMarketer)


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Black Works Studio (BLK WKS) has announced the release of Killer Bee Swarm, a cigar handcrafted in Esteli, Nicaragua at Fabrica Oveja Negra. This limited edition cigar will begin shipping to select retail partners this week.
Killer Bee Swarm features a Cameroon wrapper with a Maduro and Candela linear cap, a Nicaraguan Habano binder and filler tobaccos from Nicaragua. It will be presented in a Corona vitola (5 x 46) in 24-count boxes with an MSRP of $10.50 per cigar.
“To say I’m excited about this release is an understatement. Cameroon is one of my favorite tobaccos and I’ve worked a long time to develop a cigar that highlights the distinct profiles it possesses. The Swarm is bold, spicy and extremely complex. It’s very unique, but also true to the style of the Killer Bee line,” said James Brown, creator of Black Label Trading Company and Black Works Studio and owner at Fabrica Oveja Negra.
For all the latest news from Black Works Studio, visit ovejanegracigars.com.

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China has announced it will allow the importation of fresh blueberries grown in the US as part of an agreement expected to help the country meet its commitments outlined in phase one of the US-China trade deal signed in January.
Under the agreement, China is required to purchase an additional US$200bn of US farm products over the next two years, with US$50bn of that to be spent on agricultural products.
The announcement, posted on the General Administration of Customs China (GACC) website, indicated fruit grown in California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington would gain import access.
However, it is stipulated the orchards and packaging plants must first be approved by both the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and GACC.
Further to this, blueberry orchards and packaging plants that intend to export fresh blueberries to China must have a traceability system in place in order to accurately trace the source of non-compliance in export products.
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Page 26 • AIRCARGO ASIA-PACIFIC MAR-APR , 2019 First of a kind Customs platform will be offered globally by Dubai Customs World to all countries WHAT is being described by its creators as ‘a first-of-a - kind platform’ in Customs management has been developed by Dubai Customs World, drawing on the experiences of Dubai Customs. Customs World says the ‘disrup- tive’ platform – called RIISE - “will be rolled out globally to empower different countries with a cost-ef- fective and sustainable Customs system that allows them to effec- tively and transparently manage core Customs activities and con- duct trade in the global market”. It also claims the new system is expected to ‘raise the ranking of the UAE and the countries that will use it on the global indexes, increase their revenues, facilitate trade and secure borders and the supply chain’. Customs World www.cus- tomsworld.com is a subsidiary of Dubai’s Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation (PCFC). RIISE was developed in association with Dutech www.dutech.com, which is PCFC’s technology arm. RIISE provides straightforward solutions that are built on archi- tecture incorporating advanced techniques such as AI, prediction, natural language processing and blockchain. “To further solidify our commit- ment to make this world a safer place, the system recognises the threats and increasing challenges of today and provides the levels of border integrity that govern- ments and their communities ex- pect in such a way that sets world benchmarks for cross border trade,” said Nadya Kamali, Cus- toms World’s chief executive. “RIISE is built with a vision to be the number 1 partner of choice for governments to protect their borders and facilitate trade fol- lowing the standards and require- ments of the World Trade Organi- Nadya Kamali, ceo Customs World zation, SAFE and Kyoto. “It is a disruptive option to a stale market currently monopolised by compa- nies with a 1990s mentality dumping legacy technology and rebranding old process- es,” she claimed. RIISE is an open source solution. A support team at Cus- toms World will be available to help Customs administra- tions that decide to apply the new system. China Airlines joins the CEIV Pharma group CHINA Airlines Cargo Services cargo.chi- na-airlines.com (CACS) has become one of the small number of car- riers certified under IATA’s CEIV Pharma program for the de- livery of time-critical, temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals. The carrier’s CEIV certification promotes Taiwan as a pharmaceutical air cargo hub. Only 17 carriers currently have the CEIV accreditation (CEIV stands for Center of Excellence for Independent Validators in Pharma- ceutical Logistics). “We value every chance we get to provide our transportation services to suppliers,” said Eddy Liu, CACS’ vice president. “The construction of a more-complete operating process and more-pro- fessional personnel training stand- ards will help ensure the quality and timeliness of pharmaceutical logistics.” The temperature-controlled shipping containers introduced by China Airlines in 2013 proved popular with customers, according to Liu. The carrier also has invested heavily in facilities and services at Taoyuan International Airport, as well as in specialist staff training. China Airlines has boosted its freight stations around the world to 35. It is keen to leverage these to grow global pharma traffic in co-operation with shippers, freight forwarders and partner airlines.


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Marvel’s Avengers developers have broken their long silence. They will introduce a new character to the game to increase the waning interest.
Marvel’s Avengers game, which made a big impression when it first came out, lost this popularity later on. The fact that there are very few superheroes in the production, which is a Live Service game and becomes repetitive after a while, reduced the interest in the game. But the game’s developer, Crystal Dynamics, intends to regain the waning interest.
Spider-Man is coming to Marvel’s Avengers this year
Without mentioning Spider-Man before, Crystal Dynamics’ Black Panther DLC has been postponed to a later date due to the death of famous actor Chadwick Boseman. The interesting point is that the Spider-Man character will only be available to PlayStation users. The long silence of the dev team worried some fans.
Senior game designer Scott Walters confirmed that the developer team is developing Spider-Man for 2021, although there are no details about the character, it is on the way. “We’ve always planned to release Spider-Man for PlayStation owners in 2021,” Walters said. “The character is on the way, so we’ll be making more announcements later this year.”
To announce the arrival of the Black Panther DLC on August 16, Marvel’s Avengers held a free weekend event on Steam, PlayStation, and Stadia. Usually, the game had several hundred simultaneous players in real-time, but due to the free event, this number has set a new peak with over 10,000 players in 24 hours.


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Armenia’s Retail Flower Trade: Getting Worse by the Year
Armenian exports of flowers have shot up in the past two years.
According to data supplied by the National Statistical Service, 300 tons of flowers, bulbs and decorative plants were exported in 2013 and 2014 with a total value of US$2 million.
One of the major exporters, according to data from the Ministry of Finance, is a company called Ecotomato Ltd. founded in 2011 in the Kotayk village of Goght. Aram Gharibyan, an adviser to President Sargsyan, owns a stake in the company and Dutch tulips grew in the hothouses he built in the village.
Armenia Flower/Plant Exports (tons)
Parallel to the rise in exports, Armenia has imported fewer flowers. Imports of flowers and decorative plants dropped from 73 tons in 2011 and 2012 to 60 and 57 in 2013 and 2014 respectively.
|Armenia: Exports of flowers, bulbs, and decorative plants||Armenia: Imports of flowers, bulbs, and decorative plants|
One of the importing companies, Av Group Ltd., was founded in 2012 by Gagik Vanetsyan, husband of Margarit Azaryan, who heads the personnel department at the presidential office.
Another importer is L and M Ltd., founded by Larina Bichakhchyan, who runs the retraining and development team at AmeriaBank.
The well-known company Brabion Flower Service, founded by the Chobanyan brothers, is another importer.
Flowers from Ecuador
In the past three years, Ecuador has become the largest source of flowers, bulbs, and decorative plants imported into Armenia, surpassing Holland. Imports from Turkey have also been registered in the last two years.
While Armenia grows its own flowers, small retailers are complaining that business is down. Siranoush Hakobyan, whose been selling flowers for 23 years in her small Yerevan shop says that sales are down and the prices she pays are up by 20-25%.
Hakobyan told Hetq that last year she paid 10,000 drams for locally grown Dutch tulips which now cost 12,000 a bunch.
|Siranoush’s shop||Flower World shop|
Vartiter Baghdasaryan, a floral arranger who sells her wares out of a store called Flower World, remembers that the shop was once full of flowers. On holidays, the store would sell out by 10am. Today, days go by without a potential customer setting foot in the store.
“This was been the worst year in the past fifteen,” says Baghdasaryan. “We’ve posted a loss. Our items have a short shelf life. If the goods don’t sell we have to dump them. For New Year’s people would flock and buy flowers with abandon. But this year has been different. We buy at inflated prices and sell cheap.”
Baghdasaryan says that they purchased Goght grown flowers per bunch (20 flowers) at 18,000 prior to New Years, as opposed to 10-12,000 previously. But they have been forced to sell the flowers at cost in order not to lose permanent customers.
They have sold single flowers at 800-1,000 without a profit.
Retailers do not know how much the depreciation of the AMD has affected their business this year.
All they do know is that the retail flower trade is getting worse by the year.


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The stock-trading app went offline in March 2020 as the stock market plunged due to coronavirus fears.
The more than 600-point bump is welcome news for investors.
The Dow Jones dropped more than 1,100 points Wednesday.
Apple says COVID-related disruptions and silicon shortages are hitting its business, though apparently less than at other tech giants.
The tech giant is set to release quarterly earnings on Thursday, offering the latest sign of how COVID-19 is impacting tech.
The PlayStation portfolio is poised to get a little bigger.
Sony's adding to its game lineup after Microsoft's high-profile purchases of game makers Bethesda and Activision Blizzard.
From Robinhood to r/WallStreetBets, here's where they are now.
The tech giant says its iPhone sales grew more than 9% from the previous year, marking continued demand for 5G iPhones.
A pandemic, economic uncertainty and an international chip shortage apparently haven't slowed the tech giant.


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Industry analysts are not optimistic of California sports betting becoming legal, in a retail or online capacity. Both Proposition 26 and Proposition 27 will be voted on in early November, and require 50 percent or upwards of the vote to pass – something that looks increasingly unlikely.
Despite marketing spend pushing half a billion US Dollars in the debate over legalization, intrinsic parties remain at loggerheads and there is little consensus. Marketing spend is expected to continue to be high in the coming two months as commercial operators push for legal online betting, while the two dozen Indian tribes argue for only in-person sports betting at tribal casinos and racing venues.
And that’s just marketing spend on trying to win a referendum vote to pave the way for legalization; which would not come without further legal battles, analysts suggest. California is undoubtedly one of the markets with greatest potential in the fragmented US market, with online gaming and sports betting to be worth billions should it be legalized.
Where does support lie?
Proposition 27, backed by commercial operators, has attracted support of Major League Baseball, but support overall has been more muted. Caesars Entertainment, another commercial operator has decided to remain neutral given its existing agreements with tribes operating in CA.
The marketing battle has been bad-blooded, and there seems to be no sign of it cooling, either. Proposition 27’s marketing appeals to voters to “support small tribes” and “address homelessness”, mentioning 85% of tax revenue would be earmarked for homelessness and mental health solutions. Considering the bulk of tribes oppose 27 and instead advocate Proposition 26, this understandably hasn’t gone down well and increased the animosity between the two propositions.
Ultimately, the next two months will see a continuously fierce battle between commercial juggernauts and tribal operators in the state of California. Lack of legalized sports betting would probably only be considered damaging to the consumer, but given lack of consensus and stakeholder’s desire to claim as much of the CA pie as possible, it’s looking increasingly unlikely in the short-term.
Meanwhile there’s little movement in TX (Texas) and OK (Oklahoma) plus FI (Florida), the other three states earmarked as huge potential growth areas moving forward.
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Dark Dimensions releases vinyl of new Spetsnaz albumPosted on 10/07/13
One of Sweden's leading EBM duo returned after 5 years of silence with "For generations to come". Released on CD on the 1st of March 2013, the band now sees that album re-released on vinyl on the 19th of July 2013.
The vinyl will be released in a very limited edition of 300 (200 black and 100 dark blue vinyl) hand-numbered copies including a lyric sheet.
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Car sales slump as scrappage scheme comes to an end
Sales of new cars were down 13.2 per cent last month compared to July 2009, according to figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
A total of 136,446 new cars were registered in July although sales for the first half of the year were up 15.1 per cent on the same time last year.
SMMT chief executive Paul Everitt partly attributes the slump to the ending of the car scrappage scheme. He said: 'a drop in private registrations compared to the scrappage-fuelled months of 2009 was expected and has brought the first market decline for 12 months'.
Sales of new cars in July are down on last year but the outlook remains positive
He added, 'subdued consumer confidence and a still fragile economic recovery make the outlook for the remainder of 2010 challenging, but a stronger than expected first half means full-year volumes are still forecast to exceed 2009's total.'
The SMMT predicts 2010 year-end sales to be up 1.2 per cent on last year as sales of diesel and alternatively fuelled vehicles continue to soar.
The three best-selling models in July 2010 were the Ford Fiesta, Vauxhall Astra and Vauxhall Corsa.
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Last week was a dull one for new releases, so consequently there are no new entries in the top 40 chart this week. The top 10 is also largely unchanged, you boring sods. Wii Fit is #1 for the twelfth week (but only the third week running), followed by EAâ€™s big bad Don The Godfather II at #2 and FIFA 09 at #3. Carnival: Funfair Games is back in the top 10, up from #16 to #10. People must really like shooting plastic ducks.
Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party has been advertised heavily on TV recently, helping it rise up from #21 to #15. Sega Mega Drive Collection is also back on the rise up from #36 to #25. Iâ€™m guessing thatâ€™s because Sega has finally got round to publishing more copies.
Halo Wars has dropped out, as predicted in last weekâ€™s chart. It looks like Wanted: Weapons of Fate will soon be joining it, currently hanging on at #40. You might say itâ€™s not wanted after allâ€¦


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Wait, that’s a hybrid?
The Ferrari LaFerrari was one of the highlights of the 2013 Geneva International Motor Show in 2013. It has since captured the hearts and minds of both Ferrari and automotive enthusiasts around the globe, even if it is a hybrid and its name is a bit odd.
We’ve seen the Ferrari LaFerrari in the flesh at the auto shows, but it still isn’t 100-percent ready for public consumption and driving. So, the master of spy shots and exhaust notes, Marchettino, was able to capture the V-12 hybrid hyper car going through its paces around the Fiorano racetrack.
The Ferrari LaFerrari is capable of producing a total of 950 horsepower and 664 lb-ft. of torque using both the electric motor and 6.2-liter V-12 engine, allowing it to reach 62 mph in less than three seconds. It’s going to be a monster, and judging by the sounds in the video, will scream like one too.


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Moms and dads are paying close attention to the food our children and families eat. USDA and FDA must get pink slime out of ground beef now or, at the very least, require labels to list it as an ingredient. That way, we can decide whether or not to buy it for our families.
We did it. Pink slime is on the run!
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You did it! Thousands of MomsRising members joined the chorus of concerned consumers about the presence of pink slime, also known as “LFTB” (lean, finely textured beef) in cafeterias, restaurants and supermarkets. Your voice made the difference and major changes have been made within corporations and the government affecting the food our families eat. In a matter of days:
The government decided to allow school districts across the country to reject pink slime as part of their federally subsidized school foods programs.  Safeway --the 2nd largest supermarket chain in the country --announced that they will cease selling ground beef made of pink slime in their 1,400 stores nationwide.  Kroger - the LARGEST supermarket chain in the country with 2,435 supermarkets in 31 states, will no longer sell the additive in their beef  Pink slime is on the run! But it still isn't out of every grocery store, and labeling still isn't required. Let's increase the momentum. *Tell the USDA and FDA to get pink slime out of all ground beef now, or at very least to require labels to list it as an ingredient so that we can decide whether or not to buy it for our families. http://action.momsrising.org/sign/nopinkslime/?source=taf Even though supermarket chains like Kroger and Safeway will no longer sell pink slime, and schools now have some say in whether or not to purchase meat containing LFTB, more work is needed to make sure all families know what they are eating when they buy meat at the store or when their children eat lunch at school. What is pink slime? "Pink slime" is a term used to describe a food additive made from spare beef trimmings that are treated with ammonium hydroxide to kill off E. Coli, salmonella, and other possible bacteria.  Until we raised our voices, it was in grocery stores, cafeterias, and restaurants across the nation. In fact, merely one week ago, an article noted, "ABC cited a former U.S. Department of Agriculture scientist in saying that 70% of supermarket ground beef contained the additive."  That is all about to change! Our voices are being heard! But we're not done yet. Pink slime is still unlabeled and being sold in many grocery stores. *Let's increase our momentum and tell the USDA and FDA to get pink slime out of ground beef now, or at the very least to require labels to list it as an ingredient so that we can decide whether or not to buy it for our families. Click here: http://action.momsrising.org/sign/nopinkslime/?source=taf Why are mom and dads so concerned about what our families eat? Our children are facing increasing health risks related to their diets. As parents, we make every effort to feed them quality, wholesome foods but we can’t do that if we don’t even know what’s in the products we buy. It’s time to take pink slime off of the menu and off of grocery store shelves--or at least require it to be listed on food labels so moms and dads can decide what’s in the best interest of their families. Please spread the word and share this letter with neighbors, family, and friends. When moms speak-up families benefit! - Monifa, Kristin and the whole MomsRising team  CBS News - http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57398066-10391704/usda-schools-can-decide-if-pink-slime-will-be-served-in-school-lunch/  ABC News - http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/safeway-to-stop-selling-pink-slime-textured-beef/  Wall Street Journal - http://online.wsj.com/article/AP63ff1496b4174ca6bdf5daf752e40881.html  ABC News - http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/is-pink-slime-in-the-beef-at-your-grocery-store/  LA Times http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-pink-slime-20120309,0,1330346.story
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Lessons Learned: Parched Brewery
In the Bintani Lessons Learned series, Brews News revisits businesses a year on from a significant milestone like opening, expanding or raising capital to find out what the experience has been like and what lessons others might learn.
Parched Brewery in Brisbane’s West End is set to reach its first year in business, having learned the importance of adaptation and resilience for a new brewery.
The business, which opened in December last year, experienced an eventful first year with a number of large-scale challenges impacting the business.
“We’ve had our fair share of challenges since opening last December,” head brewer and owner Carl Hallion told Brews News.
“In January, COVID lockdowns had a big impact on business and unfortunately new businesses that opened in 2022 didn’t see much if anything in the way of government support.
“We then got hit with the flood in late February which had a big impact. We lost a full 10hL batch of beer as well as significant damage to equipment and the business interruption.”
The flooding disaster, which impacted many regions including South East Queensland and Northern New South Wales earlier this year, continues to be an ongoing issue for many businesses, including Parched.
“Insurance has taken 10 months to process our claims and we still have repairs and compensation outstanding,” Hallion said.
“We’ve had to cover that in our working capital which makes things a bit tougher in year one.
“We’ve been able to manage around it but a new brewery doesn’t really need more challenges like this. Fortunately we did get some flood assistance which offset the lack of COVID assistance.
“In general, 2022 was a tough year for a new business. We’ve needed to be extra vigilant on our cost structures and really focused on building our support base. We’ve been lucky that local support has been strong and we’re really happy to be part of the West End community.”
Budget and marketing
For any new brewery, understanding cost models is important however, Carl said it’s also important to refine costs as the business grows.
“A couple of key lessons is to make sure you have your cost models right and keep refining them as you go,” he said.
“The one thing you can guarantee is that your cost base will move pretty quickly at the moment with inflation and being new, so staying on top of it and focusing on margin over volume should be the first goal.”
As other new breweries have noted, finding the right marketing strategy is key in creating a unique brand however, forging a point of difference for customers can be difficult, as Parched learned.
“I think our marketing plan has also had to adapt with the shifting environment and it’s an area you need to stay on top of from day one,” Hallion said.
“Fortunately my wife is a guru so we’ve been adapting as we learn but you need to match the marketing plan to the business model before you start operating and then constantly refine it to define your market and get your message out.”
In terms of build costs for any breweries-in-planning, Hallion offered sage advice.
“I’d also plan to have about 30 per cent of your build costs in a project fund and at least 20 per cent in working capital. In other words, I’d fund at least 50 per cent more than your budget for the build.
“You need to cover rising costs, unpredictable revenue and also the unknowns that you can’t possibly plan for and only find out once you get into it.”
A focus on community
Despite its first year providing difficult challenges to manoeuvre, Carl Hallion noted how the year brought many successes for Parched.
“We’ve kicked some great goals and have built a fantastic operation,” he said.
“The brewpub venue has featured in several “Brisbane’s best brewery/venue” style articles and has developed a great reputation with its customers.
“I think our staff play a huge role in that. We’ve been lucky enough to have some great people come on board and be part of our journey and I think they make a real difference.
“Particularly for our locals who feel like they are greeting friends and not just staff when they come in.”
Parched’s beers also performed strongly at this year’s Indies, picking up five medals for its Smiling eyes Irish red ale, Mi Amigo Pagara Mexican lager, Snafu Dos XPA, Because I’m Hoppy NEIPA and Brave New World Hazy IPA.
The business also launched its wholesale program in the second half of the year with over 35 venues and bottleshops stocking its beers.
While the brewery has drawn successes with its beers and brewpub model, it has also looked into giving back to the local community in West End with its 4101 Community Hop(e) initiative.
“The 4101ers have been great,” Hallion said.
“We’ve been embraced by them from day one but never more so than following the floods. That was the catalyst for our 4101 Community Hop(e) Initiative.”
Based on the brewery’s 4101 WCIPA, with 4101 being the postcode for West End, the initiative sees 10 per cent of sales revenue from the beer go towards local community programs.
“We saw how great the community was and wanted to find a way to play a bigger role in the community,” Hallion explained.
“We love the program and have helped West End Film Festival, Micah’s [Projects] Hope on Boundary café and their Street to Home program as well as local community gardens.
“We are planning on getting the 4101 into local bottleshops in West End to help build this program further.”
In terms of the immediate future, Hallion explained the brewery is looking forward to a busy Summer period.
“We have a huge function season coming up and are pretty heavily booked through to Christmas. We still have some availability left but we are filling it fast,” he said.
“The upshot is we’ve realised what a great functions space we have in the venue so we’ll keep building that side of the business.”
Looking ahead, wholesale and brand recognition will be a key goal for the business, as Hallion explained.
“Broadly we have a vision to get better at everything we do so I want to keep us pushing down the path of continuous improvement,” he said.
“Our next goal is to become a first choice selection for venues and customers in and around Brisbane and recognised as a destination in the West End. So far, so good.
“Oh and I’d like a holiday at some stage, but that might be in 2024.”


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When most of the terms of trade are against farmers, doubling their income by 2022 will be a challenge unless we address the post-production issues
On the one hand, rainfall is either elusive or extreme, causing crop losses in successive seasons. On the other hand, farmers across the country are committing suicides because they have excess production in their granaries but no one to give them fair price for their produce. “At a time when most of the terms of trade are against farmers, doubling their income by 2022 looks like a very difficult challenge unless we address the post-production issues,” said M I Ganagi, Chief General Manager, NABARD, during a conference on River Rejuvenation hosted by the Art of Living Foundation earlier this month.
The latest report by the Committee on Doubling Farmers’ Income (DFI), which is headed by Ashok Dalwai, secretary for Government of India and former Additional Secretary, Union Agriculture Ministry, has recommended a transition from a price-based support policy to an income support policy to “accord importance to value realisation from post-production activities”. According to the DFI Committee, only increasing the Minimum Support Price (MSP) may not always have a positive outcome from the macroeconomic point of view. A potentially more beneficial means of raising farm incomes is by reforming the marketing system of agricultural produce and “developing new institutions and reviving existing ones to facilitate linking of the farmer to the markets”.
But it is easier said than done. Speaking to Down To Earth on the sidelines of the conference, he said, “From the time a farmer comes up with his produce till the time his produce reaches consumers, there are lots of intermediaries, with each one getting better share than the farmer. The only way forward is to break those channels. We have to revive that basis philosophy of collectivisation and aggregation. There is a need for more farmer producer organisations (FPOs) that will enable farmers to directly give their produce to processing companies.” He echoed what the DFI committee has suggested: integrating small and marginal farmers into the agricultural market system is possible with the help of farmer producer and village producer organisations (FPOs/VPOs).
The NABARD official moves beyond FPOs and floats the idea of creating federation of FPOs. “We want all these FPOs to work on the model of Amul. If five or six companies come up with different products and establish linkages downward, I think the revolution is made. They can build their brand of millets and vegetables. We need to take those steps. We have done it in village level or taluka level,” he adds.
Karnataka, for example, has developed 92 FPOs so far for marketing of various horticultural products directly to the processors. There are 14 exclusive farmer federations on organic produce and millets, according to the data of Ministry of Food Processing Industries. The Raitha Mitra Farmers Producers’ Company is a classic example wherein the company buys chia seeds from growers and sells them for a marginal profit. With growing demand for chia, Raitha Mitra is now planning to foray into the retail market by launching chia seeds for supermarkets.
Besides harping on the need for FPOs, the Dalwai Committee report has also broadly called for creating “an enabling environment for post-production activities”. But according to Ganagi, one of the major issues faced by farmers is inadequate warehousing facilities at the village level, leading to huge post-harvest losses and distress selling. The government, according to him, needs to relook at the idea of providing subsidy for creating rural godowns.
The committee also strongly recommends stepping up of institutional credit on a large scale, estimating that the country would need about 10,000 wholesale and nearly 20,000 rural retail markets to achieve the desired market density to build a pan-India system. “Institutional credit is one of the factors, but not ‘the’ factor. In 2003-2004, the flow of institutional credit was Rs 80,000 crore. Now it is Rs 10 lakh crore. The problem is not the credit, but the way it is being channelised. Currently, bulk of the agricultural credit goes into giving farm loans. The focus needs to be given on assets creation in rural areas,” concludes Ganagi.
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NEW YORK — Lumene is proving that an unknown brand to most American consumers can achieve relevance in the U.S. market, despite rampant stockkeeping-unit rationalization, consolidation of retailers and an overall tough economic climate.
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Lumene, a well-established brand in Finland, came to America’s shores in 2003 through an exclusive launch in CVS Pharmacy, which devoted major real estate to both its skin care and color cosmetics lines.
The success in CVS, especially in skin care, has enticed other retailers to add the line, which, in addition to 7,100 CVS doors, is now in 3,400 Walgreens units, 400 Ulta stores and 103 Sears locations. It is also offered in select Target, Wegmans and Meijer stores.
Lumene’s growth beyond CVS is in a sense a testament to the marketing power of CVS, which helped make Lumene a recognized brand. It also serves as a textbook example of how to conquer American shoppers for the myriad European brands hungry for domestic expansion. “I think we’ll see many European beauty companies eyeing the U.S. now,” said Faith Hope Consolo, chairman of Prudential Douglas Elliman’s retail marketing and sales division.
What retailers said helped Lumene stand out in a crowded skin care market is its Finnish ingredients such as Arctic heather. Buyers singled out Lumene for breaking through the clutter and selling at a time when other European imports, including at Isadora at Walgreens and a cadre of foreign brands at Target, didn’t resonant with shoppers. “Lumene is in a great spot for people looking for luxury and high-end ingredients at mass,” said Joe Pastorkovich, vice president, North America. “Also, the natural Arctic super ingredients play a role in the brand’s appeal,” he added.
With its newly minted distribution, Lumene is taking the next step, repackaging to help shoppers even better comprehend the products and adding more high-technology ingredients. These moves come at a time when consumers research ingredients on the Internet and feel prepared to make their own selections at mass locales. The company plans to have the new packaging in place for early next year.
The fresh look for Time Freeze offers suggested age ranges (using a scale on the box) to help shoppers easily find what’s right for them. There is more imagery hammering home the Finnish heritage including a Finland stamp. There are cutouts so shoppers can see the items and a color scheme helps identify the different target uses of items.
Under the Time Freeze banner is a new eye treatment featuring Metabiotics Resveratrol to help prevent signs of aging by promoting firmness and collagen production of the skin.
Proprietary ingredients including Arctic cloudberries have helped Lumene stand out on shelves. That message is augmented with a new Vitamin C+ collection introducing Arctic cloudberry nectar. The nectar has detoxifying properties to make skin look brighter, explained Tiina Isohanni, global vice president of category management and innovation for Lumene, who said there are hundreds of other ingredient stories Lumene has in its pipeline.
A new Spa line is inspired by the Finnish nature and Arctic spa tradition of sauna. The Spa line is enriched with Arctic roseroot and contains 90 percent natural ingredients and 100 percent natural fragrance. The collection includes cleansers, scrubs butters, a serum and lotions. Prices are at less than $15.
Finally, in its premium beauty range there is a new advanced formula featuring Arctic Sea buckthorn. The combination of Arctic Sea buckthorn nectar with Arctic Sea buckthorn oil creates a protective network of 16 natural antioxidants to safeguard skin against free radicals and harmful environmental influences, said Isohanni.
Retailers said shoppers once again are looking for natural products, especially those that perform. “We think shoppers are educated about what they are looking for in skin care and we have new products that are priced right and new packaging that is going to really stand out on shelves,” concluded Pastorkovich.


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Malibu Boats Takes Home Top Innovation Awards for 2022
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Malibu Boats™, the global leader in watersports towboat sales, has received two prestigious industry innovation awards. First, Malibu earned the top spot in the “Trailers, Parts and Trailer Accessories” category at the illustrious Miami Boat Show. Then the following week, the Malibu Wakesetter 25 LSV took home a Water Sports Industry Association Product Innovation Award at the annual WISA Summit.
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“The Malibu Boat Trailer has many remarkable features including automatic water-level sensing, sealed metal frame, stowable chocks, steppable reinforced wheel fender platforms, and remotely mounted out-of-the-water hydraulic tank,” said judge Gary Reich. Malibu’s trailers also include reverse lights (an important safety feature that’s a glaring omission from many other trailer manufacturers) and a convenient hand brake that adds extra protection from the trailer from rolling when unattended or at steep boat ramps.
“Our new trailer designs are just one example of how Malibu innovates across the entire integrated owner experience,” said Ritchie Anderson, Chief Operating Officer. “To many manufacturers, trailers are just another component to outsource. But to Malibu, every component provides an opportunity to innovate and bring added value to customers. So we brought our trailer manufacturing in-house to create breakthrough.”
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Ryanair was always known as the lowest of the low-cost airlines. Now it is beginning to evolve its approach to customers
Of the total revenue of € 6.5 billion –ancillary revenue being € 1.5 billion –that the Irish low-cost airline Ryanair Ltd earned in financial year ending March 2016, its operating profit was € 1.4 billion. What’s more, it continued to offer lowest fares while driving down unit costs even as its competitors such as easyJet saw their unit costs go up. It had a fleet of 383 aircraft and flew about 119 million people annually to over 200 airports in 33 countries from 85 bases. What’s more, the company’s market capitalization had doubled to reach the €18-billion mark.
It’s not like things were bad in the past. In 2013, Ryanair’s revenues were € 4.9 billion, and the profits were € 0.57 billion. Valued at € 9.4 billion, the airline carried 81.5 million passengers on 1,600 routes through 57 bases. Having pioneered Europe’s low cost carrier (LCC) market, Ryanair had become Europe’s largest airline as well.
So why was Chief Executive Michael O’ Leary a troubled man? As Prof Sean Meehan of IMD Business School, Lausanne, Switzerland, who documented the company’s changing business stance and customer service for his MBA program students as a basis for class discussion, puts it, “Despite being an industry leader, Ryanair was far from loved. Its operational model, which enabled such low-cost flying, had a side effect as a service that was seen as far below industry norms.” For Meehan, customer centricity has been a passion and he has been studying it for the past 25 years.
“I became interested in Ryanair’s value proposition and how they implemented it,” he says, adding how he had been tracking the company for 15 years. When it changed its value proposition, Meehan decided to document the journey for his students. For the first time, Ryanair was set to go beyond the strategy that had worked for it since its inception in 1985: Get in there first, pile it high, sell it cheap.” Would it work?
Calling Ryanair a very strong brand, Meehan qualifies it as one where there is awareness, relevance, and trust. “The brand awareness of Ryanair is almost universal. I don’t think the brand was weak,” he says, adding, “There was a lot of negative projection, however. The reputation of the airline among customers was not positive. The company also courted controversy and criticism for what was perceived as a customer unfriendly, some would say hostile attitude to customers. ” Michael O’Leary’s now infamous lines such as: “We care for the customers in the most fundamental way possible: we don’t screw them every time they fly”; “People say the customer is always right, but you know what – they’re not. Sometimes they’re wrong and need to be told so”; and “We don’t fall over ourselves if they say, ‘My granny fell ill.’ What part of no refund do you not understand? You’re not getting a refund so @#$% off”, were mentioned cheekily in the business world and disliked by the customers.
When Meehan approached the company people regarding the case study, they readily cooperated with him in terms of interviews and company data. The March 2017 case study was broken down into two parts, A and B. According to Meehan, “Case A asked whether such an adaption makes sense. The B case documents the evolution and implementation of Ryanair’s response, a change program called “ALWAYS GETTING BETTER” (AGB).
Case A also pointed out the challenges the company faced when it came to customer satisfaction. Despite having the best punctuality record and fewest complaints and lost baggage incidents, the airline’s reputation took a beating from customers who were vocal about being treated badly. Complaints included a difficult-to-use website, too much fine print, boarding procedures that could be far simpler, carry-on baggage restrictions, and unsympathetic ground and flight crews. There was also an impression that Ryanair served only secondary airports; it may have been the case in the beginning but by 2012-end, 7.5 per cent of its flights served four largest European airports – Barcelona, London Gatwick, Madrid, and Rome Fiumicino. The perception that the top management wasn’t ready to listen and there was a certain “machismo” within the company, made matters worse. Businesswise, an internal business study showed O’Leary that customers did not mind paying a little extra for higher quality flying experience.
He had to address both business and customer centricity issues simultaneously. Just before the company’s 2013 annual general meeting (AGM), a customer having to pay €188 more to change his flight to return to the scene of crime where his family had been murdered, got a lot of bad press. At the AGM, O’Leary was called a bully and the airline was criticized for its culture. Contrary to his previous stance, this time O’Leary took personal responsibility for, what he termed, a “macho and overly abrupt nature”. Just a month later, he posted on the company website with a request: “…we want to keep improving our services, which is where you can help me. Please send me your suggestions as to how Ryanair can further improve our industry leading customer experience.”
The company proactively addressed issues that could be sorted right away. For instance, doing away with the “Recaptcha” security feature, permitting its customers to carry a second carry-on bag, launching “quiet flights” that took off before 8 am and after 9 pm, letting the customer correct minor booking errors within 24 hours for free, as well as bringing down considerably the fee for standard hold luggage and reissuance of boarding cards.
That couldn’t have been enough, however. O’Leary scouted around for a new chief marketing officer and found one in Kenny Jacobs, who had worked with companies such as Moneysupermarket.com and had been the brand director of Tesco UK. More changes were carried out. The company website was made easy to navigate, a member service “My Ryanair” helped customers fill in their booking data only once, new searches such as “Share fare”, and “Find fare” were appreciated by customers, a new mobile app was also introduced, as were different language websites for major EU markets such as Italy and Spain. The company even introduced its first television ad campaign in 2014, and formed a new division called Ryanair Labs, which comprised of 200 programmers, digital marketing experts, mobile developers and web analytics experts to capitalize on the digital platform and bring more visibility where it mattered.
What gave the customers a pleasant surprise was the introduction of selecting a seat for a fee. It is worth mentioning here that unallocated seating had been a big contributor to Ryanair’s quick turnaround time and market leaders had thought it would never be changed. But it was, and things worked out for the better. Meehan notes, “Jacob’s AGB encompasses a digitalization program that he believes can enable Ryanair to become the ‘Amazon of Travel in Europe’.” The B case study, he says, asks whether this is a realistic ambition, and allows for an exposition of several related strategic concepts: Business system alignment, strategic positioning, market evolution (and response), customer centricity and innovation. Four specific learning objectives are particularly well addressed: (1) Understanding customer centricity. (2) Understanding strategic alignment. (3) Understanding whether and how successful incumbents can embrace change. (4) Understanding how incumbents can best embrace digitalization. The use of the case is described in a teaching note published this month.
According to the Martin Hilti Professor of Marketing and Change Management at IMD, Ryanair has been able to achieve what it set out to do. Why, in 2016, Ryanair became the most visited airline website in the world. Of its 15 million app users, 65 per cent were making three or more annual trips, and business customers, a sector that had not warmed up to the airline until now, make for 24 per cent of all its customers. Thanks to the digital push, the company’s cost of customer acquisition is now as low as € 0.16, as against its competitor’s € 0.91. The case is an attractive one to teach because the situation is so dynamic. Since the date of the case the company continues to post stellar results but also continues to experience the pains of hyper growth and is continuing to adapt in the face of that.
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Profile: Professor Sean Meehan: http://casium.net/professor-sean-meehan-imd/


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NEW YORK - There will be no storybook ending for Borders. The 40-year-old book seller could start liquidating its 399 remaining stores as early as Friday.
The Ann Arbor, Michigan-based chain, which helped pioneer the big-box bookseller concept, is seeking court approval to liquidate after it failed to receive any bids that would keep it in business. The move adds Borders to the list of retailers that have failed to adapt to changing consumers' shopping habits and survive the economic downturn, including Circuit City Stores Inc., Blockbuster and Linens 'N Things.
On Thursday, Borders is expected to ask the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of New York at a scheduled hearing to allow it to be sold to liquidators led by Hilco Merchant Resources and Gordon Brothers Group. If the judge approves the move, liquidation sales could start as soon as Friday; the company could go out of business by the end of September.
Borders' attempt to stay in business unraveled quickly last week, after a $215 million "white knight" bid by private-equity firm Najafi Cos. dissolved under objections from creditors and lenders. They argued the chain would be worth more if it liquidated immediately.
"We were all working hard toward a different outcome, but the headwinds we have been facing for quite some time, including the rapidly changing book industry, e-reader revolution, and turbulent economy, have brought us to where we are now," said Borders Group President Mike Edwards in a statement.
Simba Information senior trade analyst Michael Norris said a Borders liquidation could have far-reaching effects, putting thousands of people out of work at a time of high unemployment, particularly in Michigan where Borders is based. The chain, which has been shrinking in recent years, currently has 10,700 employees.
Norris predicts the closing also could cause sales of electronic books to fall. Borders, for one, entered the electronic book market with Canada's Kobo Inc. last year. Owners of the Kobo e-reader will still be able use Kobo software to buy and read books. And Kobo officials said users of Borders e-book accounts, which began transitioning to Kobo in June, will be able to access their e-books uninterrupted.
"Bookstore employees don't just sell books, they sell the activity of reading, and this decision throws thousands of them out of work," he said. "This industry is going to slowly figure out that a lot of e-book readers still use bookstores all the time to discover what's new before heading home to buy it for their e-reading device."
The loss of Borders stores will also deal a blow to U.S. shopping malls, according to real estate sources.
Borders' move to close 228 stores while it reorganized in bankruptcy protection already increased the collective vacancy rate of shopping centers that contained a Borders to 9.3 percent from 4.2 percent, estimated Chris Macke, senior real estate strategist at CoStar Group, the nation's largest provider of real estate data. Macke calculated the liquidation of the rest of the chain could increase the vacancy rate on that same basis to 18.8 percent. Borders stores average about 25,000 square feet (2,322 square meters), about half the size of a football field.
But perhaps the biggest impact of Borders going out of business will be to the consumer. Asia Lyons, 32, was at a loss Monday when she learned she would have to find somewhere new to shop for books. The New Yorker, a manager at Starbucks, buys 50 to 100 books a year for her and her daughter and usually buys them at the Borders near Penn Station.
"I like to see the book in front of me and know what I'm getting," she said. "I don't even know where another book store is around here."
It has been a long fall for Borders since Tom and Louis Borders opened their first store in 1971, selling used books in Ann Arbor. At its start, the brothers were mostly interested in offering other bookstores a system they developed for managing inventory.
But in 1973, the store moved to a larger location and shifted its focus to selling new books and expanding, helping pioneer the big-box bookstore concept along with Barnes & Noble Inc. At the time, Waldenbooks and B. Dalton mall chains, with small stores and 20,000 to 50,000 titles, were growing rapidly. The new superstores, by contrast, offered between 100,000 and 200,000 titles, as well as enticements to linger like comfortable chairs and attractive lighting.
Kmart Corp. saw the potential and acquired Borders in 1992, forming a book unit with Waldenbooks. It then spun the bookstores off as a separate company in 1995, the same year Amazon started selling books online.
Borders was slow to adapt to the changing industry and lost book, music and video sales to the Internet and other competition. Sales began to fall, leading to a revolving door of CEOs. By the time Borders' current CEO, financier Bennett LeBow, came aboard in May 2010 after investing $25 million in the company, bankruptcy was already looking like a strong possibility.
Borders filed for bankruptcy protection in February after being hurt by tough competition from online booksellers and discounters. It hoped to successfully emerge from bankruptcy protection by the fall as a smaller and more profitable company, but pressure from creditors and lenders eventually led the chain to put itself up for sale and finally, seek approval to liquidate.
At its peak, in 2003, Borders operated 1,249 Borders and Waldenbooks, but by the time it filed for bankruptcy protection in February that had fallen to 642 stores and 19,500 employees. Since then, Borders has shuttered more stores and laid off thousands.
Borders says it expects to be able to pay vendors for all expenses incurred during the bankruptcy cases.
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campaignlive.co.uk, Friday, 27 October 2000 12:00AM
The interactive TV technology company NDS Group has appointed a director of interactive advertising. Rahul Chakkara will be responsible for developing NDS's interactive TV advertising tools to enable its customers to deliver interactive TV advertising, and to ensure that it is acceptable to consumers. Chakkara was previously the associate director at Procter & Gamble and spearheaded the creation of P&G's first interactive TV ads.
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Apple Stock Price Prediction As FOMC Meeting Approaches
Apple stock (NASDAQ: AAPL) price is up 1.44% on Monday. The shares of the biggest tech company in the world started the day with a strong surge, but the sellers came at $178.98. At press time, the stock changed hands at $177.16.
After facing strong selling pressure at the end of last week, Apple shares showed a strong rebound on Monday. The stock is now trading 1.9% above its last week’s lows. However, the positive price action could be short-lived as the stock has yet to break above its resistance level.
NASDAQ: AAPL Remains Unfazed By The iPhone 15 Launch
According to the latest reports, iPhone sales account for almost 40% of Apple’s yearly revenue. However, after the recent launch of the iPhone 15, Apple stock price has failed to experience any significant buying pressure. This suggests that many investors find the stock to be overvalued at the current level.
Apple Inc. is currently the biggest company in the world, with a market capitalization of $2.77 trillion. The stock of the American tech giant has generated astronomical returns since the start of 2023. However, the bulls have failed to gain any strength above the 2022 peak of $183.
Apple Stock Price Prediction
I have repeatedly mentioned the significance of the $183 level in my previous forecasts. This level is the most critical level on the following chart, which is acting as a strong resistance level. Due to a rejection from this level on the weekly timeframe, Apple stock price prediction is not looking quite bullish to me.
A breakdown below the $172 support level may push the price toward the 200 MA, which currently lies at $165. Due to the FOMC meeting on Wednesday, the price action is expected to remain volatile this week. Analysts are expecting the US Fed to keep the rates constant in this week’s meeting.
In the meantime, I’ll keep sharing updated Apple forecast and my personal trades on my Twitter, where you are welcome to follow me.


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Toyo Ink SC Holdings Co., Ltd., the parent company of the Tokyo-based specialty materials manufacturer Toyo Ink Group, announced plans to double the laminating adhesives production capacity from the current level at its Malaysia-based subsidiary Toyochem Specialty Chemical Sdn. Bhd. By strengthening its global supply chain, the Toyo Ink Group plans to expand sales of high-functionality and environmentally friendly solutions, such as solvent-free adhesives, the demand for which is expected to grow worldwide. Expansion work is now under way at the Malaysian site with full operation slated to begin in the third quarter of 2023. Once in operation, Toyochem Specialty Chemical is expected to serve as the mother factory of laminating adhesives within the Asian region, especially high-performance products, which is an area of core competency for the group.
At present, the demand for laminating adhesives, which are mainly used to coat multilayered films in flexible packaging structures, is expanding within the retort food pouches and pharmaceutical packaging sectors, primarily in Asia. This includes applications such as PTP (press through package) sheets, a common form of blister packing for drug tablets. Rising populations in countries across Asia are expected to further propel the growth of the retort pouch sector by about 10% over the next five years.
“The Toyo Ink Group has long been a pioneer in developing high-performance adhesive solutions together with our subsidiary Toyo-Morton, who is Japan’s largest producer of laminating adhesives,” said Toshinori Machida, executive operating officer of Toyo Ink SC Holdings. “We’re now looking to bring our unique brand of packaging adhesives, coatings, and inks to other regions of the world, in line with our global expansion plan. In addition to Malaysia, we’ve recently bolstered our production infrastructure in China and Turkey. And our Turkish facility is set to serve as the supply hub for markets in the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. To ensure a stable supply to meet future demand, we’ve set a target to increase our global production capacity for laminating adhesives by one-and-a-half times the current level by the end of 2027.”
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Take a good look at the Kno textbook tablet at left because you might not ever see it again. Kno is getting out of the hardware business and, as reported earlier, taking another $30 million from Intel Capital, Advance Publications (owner of Conde Nast), and its previous investors (Andreessen Horowitz, Floodgate, First Round, and SV Angel). The company is now confirming the reports. CEO Osman Rashid puts it to me this way: “We have accelerated our 2012 strategy to 2011. Our long-term plan was always to support multiple platforms.”
Kno started selling its textbook tablets last year, with a $599 single-screen version and an $899 dual-screen. But, as I’ve noted before, competing against the iPad and Android tablets makes absolutely no sense. If a student is going to buy a tablet, they will buy one of those first. Nobody is going to carry around two tablets. Plus, you can’t play Angry Birds on a Kno.


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Thousands of music fans in New York City made their way out to Randall’s Island to celebrate the first weekend of June at Governors Ball Music Festival. The rain held out until Eminem’s closing set Sunday night, giving everyone the chance to strut their best looks during the day. Being that the festival took place in one of the fashion capitals of the world, it is not a surprise that these festival goers were some of the best dressed I have seen all year.
From trendy shades to dazzling denim to stylish stripes, all of today’s latest trends and styles were present at the festival. Whether they were riding solo or rolling deep with a squad, the attendees of Governors Ball showed their unique style all weekend. The warm summer days brought us vibrant and colorful outfits that will surely influence the rest of the festival fashion scene all season long.


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HYDERABAD: The pandemic has changed the concept of how we unwind and chill. It has brought back board games on the table and video game consoles into living rooms. While online gaming companies have seen a record rise in revenues, board games have taken both kids and adults down memory lane.
Prateek Ojha, a city-based concept artist, believes that the pandemic has boosted online gaming. With a lot of free time at their disposal, many have joined virtual platforms where they can socialise with friends and family over a game. “It is a good source of entertainment and allows players to spend quality time with their friends from a distance. This is what has boosted the business as many games are selling like hotcakes during the pandemic,” he says.
In these stressful times, gaming is therapeutic and helps preserve mental health. “So many people can now play to their hearts’ content, something they couldn’t do before the pandemic due to their busy lives. This has led the gaming industry to grow significantly,” he says.
For Jacob, a hardcore gamer, video games began as a hobby, which quickly turned into an addiction. He also claims to have set up a YouTube channel where he uploads videos of him playing games and acing at it. “Video games are the cherry on top of my day,” he says.
The pandemic has also shown us that no one is too old for board games. Seventy-six-year-old Shubhashini Devi is happy that she gets to spend quality time with her grandchildren's daughters as they all play 12 KATTA, Ludo and Snakes & Ladders.
“It reminds me of my childhood days. Today’s generation is so much into gadgets and technology that they rarely have the opportunity to learn such interesting and entertaining games. These games improve one’s competitive spirit,” she says. The septuagenarian proudly shares how she taught her younger generation these classic games and made their pandemic safe and interesting.
Never too old to play Kids (3-15 yrs)
- Guessing games
- Brain games
- GK games
Teens (16-24 yrs)
- Action games
- Call of duty
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When Alexandra Fine was gearing up to launch her company's second gadget, a handheld vibrator engineered to mimic human touch, she knew Kickstarter wasn't likely to accept her application. The crowdfunding website does not support sex toys and rejected Fine once before.
So, Fine did what any strong-willed person would do: She wrote a letter.
"We made an appeal to them. 'Hey, we're not doing anything weird. We're normal. We're makers, too!'" Fine says, recalling the plea she made to Kickstarter last summer.
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On Nov. 3, the Fin vibrator by Fine's company, , hits Kickstarter. It's the first erotic product (lest you count a ) to tap into the site's nearly 12 million backers -- a milestone that Fine credits to the vibrator's innovative and intuitive design.
It helped that Kickstarter's offices were located down the street from Dame Products. Fine and her cofounder Janet Lieberman, an MIT-educated mechanical engineer, frequented their meet-ups for makers and shared their mission of bringing gender equality to sexual pleasure.
"They were like, we're going to champion this," Fine tells Business Insider.
Unlike most vibrators, the Fin is worn between the fingers during use to optimize agility. It can be placed at the fingertips, the base of the palm or the backside of the fingers, giving the wearer direct contact with their partner or themselves with reinforcement from Fin.
The company's first product, , (which launched on rival crowdfunding website Indiegogo) was hands-free. It tucked into the vagina, providing clitoral stimulation during sex. But Fine says the biggest piece of feedback they received from customers, who were split between men and women, was that Eva created a barrier between the wearer and her partner.
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NAM urges U.S.-China cooperation for safe imports.
Press Release Summary:
August 14, 2007 - According to Jay Timmons, NAM's senior vice president of policy and government relations, variety of strong actions are needed to respond to safety and health issues posed by faulty Chinese goods. Timmons pointed to reports of contaminated pet food, fake pharmaceuticals, toys and jewelry with dangerous levels of lead, poisoned fish, and other unsafe products. China must make broader use of internationally recognized quality certification programs.
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NAM Urges U.S.-China Cooperation For Safe Imports
Press release date: July 18, 2007
"The situation demands action on China's part and, as necessary, pressure from the United States to prompt that action," Jay Timmons, the NAM's senior vice president of policy and government relations told the Senate Commerce Committee. "But a healthy, long-term U.S.-China bilateral trade relationship is in both countries' interests. Therefore, it's important we take advantage of every opportunity to work cooperatively on issues of mutual concern."
Timmons pointed to reports of contaminated pet food, fake pharmaceuticals, toys and jewelry with dangerous levels of lead, poisoned fish and other unsafe products as representing a serious problem. "A variety of strong actions are needed to respond to the safety and health issues posed by faulty Chinese goods," Timmons said.
This includes expanding efforts to ensure the quality of imports and addressing the resources provided to agencies such as the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS).
"China must make broader use of internationally recognized quality certification programs," he said. "This includes permitting U.S. testing and certification providers to operate in China.
"To ensure the safety of our imports, we must take care to approach it as a health and safety issue," Timmons said. "Using safety to achieve disguised protectionist aims will undermine the seriousness of these concerns, while strengthening the hands of those abroad who seek any justification for economic retaliation."
Timmons' complete testimony is available at nam.org/s_nam/sec.asp?CID=202137&DID=233361 The National Association of Manufacturers is the nation's largest industrial trade association, representing small and large manufacturers in every industrial sector and in all 50 states. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the NAM has 11 additional offices across the country. Visit the NAM's award-winning web site at www.nam.org for more information about manufacturing and the economy.
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By Emmanuel Elebeke
The National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA today launched the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation, NDPR compliant visitor’s book in Abuja.
The book launch is the first time an agency of government in Nigeria is implementing a major aspect of the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation, NDPR provision.
Launching the booklet, the Director General of the Agency, Kashifu Inuwa, explained that the Data Services Protection Limited (DSPL) patented visitor’s book was selected amongst the most innovative NDPR product at 2021 Privacy Week organised by NITDA.
The visitor’s book pages are duplicates and works by making personal data details on the visitor’s book invisible on the first page, while capturing the data on the duplicate page.
According to him, the visitor’s book is cheap in comparison with the expensive digital visitor’s management solutions.
He, however, noted that the visitor’s book is an addition to the processes of computing the visitor’s data electronically.
According to Inuwa; “NITDA is statutorily mandated by the NITDA Act of 2007 to, inter alia; develop regulations for electronic governance and monitor the use of electronic data interchange and other forms of electronic communication transactions as an alternative to paper-based methods in government, commerce, education, the private and public sectors, labour and other fields, where the use of electronic communication may improve the exchange of data and information.”
He said; “recognizing that many public and private bodies have migrated their respective businesses and other information systems online, information solutions in both the private and public sectors now drive service delivery in the country through digital systems. These information systems have thus become critical information infrastructure that must be safeguarded, regulated, and protected against atrocious breaches.”
“Data protection applies to all transactions intended for the processing of Personal Data, notwithstanding how the data processing is being conducted or intended to be conducted in respect of natural persons in Nigeria,’’ he said.
According to him, some organisations in Nigeria were caught scrambling to comply with the NDPR when it was launched in 2019. “Most organisations especially Small and Medium Businesses (SMB) are finding it difficult to comply with some of the basic requirements of the regulation due to financial constraints,” he added.
NITDA Director-General disclosed that a recent study has revealed that many Nigeria public institutions and small business owners are still confused by the rules around data protection and privacy regulations.
“Disturbingly, out of 30 surveyed, 100% confirmed their paper visitors’ books are not confidential and do not protect the visitors’ personal data. Another 98% admitted they do not dispose of paper visitor books securely and confidentially – leaving the personal data of millions of employees and customers at risk,’’ he added.
He categorically explained that when putting NDPR procedures in place, it’s very likely that many organisations did so with one big misconception that the new law only affects data collected online. The NDPR is technology-agnostic. It applies to all acts of personal data collection and processing, no matter how and where it takes place, visitor data, employee personal data, etc.


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Marlborough: AV Booster Club meat raffle
October 20, 2012
Assabet Valley Athletic Booster Club is sponsoring a meat raffle Oct. 20, from 7 to 11 p.m., at the Moose Lodge #1129, 67 Fitchburg St., Marlborough. Join in for a chance to win great cuts of meat and raffle prizes. Enjoy music, food and fun in support of Assabet Valley's no-fee athletic programs. Tickets for meat and raffle prizes to be sold during the event. For additional information, contact the AV Athletic Booster Club via email at firstname.lastname@example.org or visit http://assabettech.com under Aztec Athletics>Booster Club.


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Mumbai: Paytm‘s wholly-owned subsidiary Paytm Money launched its technology development and innovation centre in Pune. It also plans to hire over 250 front-end, back-end engineers and data scientists to build new wealth products and services.
The new Pune R&D centre, according to the company will become a prominent centre for technology innovation in wealth management.
“We are very excited to launch our Pune tech R&D centre. And looking forward to developing new wealth management products and disruptions in Pune,” said Varun Sridhar, CEO – Paytm Money.
Sridhar said the company’s vision is to leverage technology to lower costs for consumers, provide a solid, innovative and stable platform.
However, he pointed out that the company’s vision could be achieved by solid engineering talent. “We need solid engineering talent to ensure we meet our ambitions, said Sridhar.
Choosing Pune for the R&D centre, Sridhar said that the city is famous for its high-quality education, offers a great talent pool along with good infrastructure and great weather.
“We believe Pune is poised to become an innovation hub for fintech and was a natural choice for Paytm Money’s expansion plans,” Sridhar commented. Pune as a city is an R&D hub for many of the top global and local companies across verticals. Along with that has a vibrant startup culture, robust infrastructure and top engineering schools.
The company has launched a slew of new products and services aimed at seasoned investors and new investment users. It aims to achieve over 10 million users and 75 million yearly transactions in FY’21 across users from small cities and towns.
Paytm Money wants to simplify investments and wealth creation for retail investors. The new Pune facility will focus on driving product innovation, specifically for equity, mutual funds and digital gold.
The company’s expanded focus on hiring stems from its commitment to delivering a superlative user experience leveraging robust operational competence, agile technology infrastructure and a team of diverse domain experts.


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According to an AMA statement issued on June 27, new research suggests that self-regulation has failed dismally in reducing junk food advertising during children’s television viewing times.
Professor Geoffrey Dobb, AMA vice president, said in the statement that that junk food advertising to kids should be banned through government regulation as the industry has not effectively regulated itself.
The statement cited research by the University of Sydney and the Cancer Council New South Wales, which found that the frequency of fast food advertisements remained unchanged overall since self-regulation began.
Geraldine Kurukchi, a spokesperson for the AMA, said that junk food advertising on television is currently regulated by two industry-developed marketing codes.
“The first was developed by the Australia Food and Grocery Council, and the second is the Quick Service Restaurant Industry Initiative [QSRI] for Responsible Advertising and Marketing to Children,” she said.
QSRI has failed, suggests research
The QSRI is a self-regulatory initiative that began in August 2009, with signatories including McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut but not the AMA, Kurukchi said.
Under that code, signatory companies agreed that all marketing communications and advertising of food and beverage combinations to under-14s must represent healthier lifestyle choices, as determined by a defined set of nutrition criteria for assessing children’s meals and physical activity.
Further, companies committed to ensuring that nutrition information was available on their websites or upon request in restaurants and, wherever practical, displayed on packaging.
According to the study, which compared a period before (May 2009) and after (April 2010) the QSRI initiative, the mean frequency of fast food ads significantly increased over the study period, from 1.1 per hour in 2009 to 1.5 per hour in 2010.
In addition, the frequency of ads for unhealthy fast foods remained unchanged at 1.0 per hour overall, and during kids’ peak viewing times at 1.3 per hour, the study said.
Dobb said in the statement that childhood obesity is a major health problem in the community and glossy advertising, especially in peak children’s television viewing times, is a major contributor to unhealthy eating.
He pointed to an AMA web poll conducted in October last year, which showed that 88 per cent of people who visited the AMA’s website supported a ban on junk food advertising during children’s television time.
Food council says AMA is wrong
In response to the AMA’s claim and call for an advertising ban, the Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) said in a statement that the medical body was wrong to say that food industry codes have failed to reduce advertising to children.
AFGC Chief Executive Kate Carnell said that its Responsible Children’s Marketing Initiative (RCMI) has reduced the number of adverts targeting children for high fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) foods.
Carnell added that the RCMI code, according to independent research, found only 2.4 per cent of adverts on children’s television were for high fat, sugar and salt foods – from March to May 2010.
Those adverts, which were shown during children's view times, were primarily placed in error by advertising agencies, she said in the statement.