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WASHINGTON — A judge on Monday refused a U.S. Justice Department request to delay a preliminary injunction that bars the government from accepting or reviewing China safeguard petitions.
Senior Judge Richard W. Goldberg of the U.S. Court of International Trade issued a one-sentence order three days after the Justice Department filed a motion for a stay. The federal agency argued in its motion filed Friday for a limited stay, at a minimum. That would have left intact the CIT’s preliminary injunction against imposing threat-based safeguards but would have allowed the government to self-initiate safeguards, consider and analyze pending petitions and hold consultations with China.
Goldberg’s ruling was a procedural victory for the U.S. Association of Importers of Textiles & Apparel, which brought the lawsuit against the government on Dec. 1, and another roadblock for domestic textile and apparel producers concerned that unrestrained imports from China are already flooding the market.
“It is an indication the judge has real confidence in his decision to grant the preliminary injunction,” said Brenda Jacobs, the lead counsel for the USA-ITA.
The USA-ITA sued five federal agencies seeking a permanent injunction, alleging that the government violated its own published regulations and the Administrative Procedures Act when it agreed to accept safeguard petitions based on the threat of market disruption as opposed to actual harm.
The government has until Monday to respond to the USA-ITA’s opposition to the government’s motion to dismiss the case. The Justice Department has also said it plans to file an appeal of the preliminary injunction with the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.
Goldberg’s rulings have thrown into question the timing of potential China safeguards, which are essentially temporary quotas. A coalition of domestic textile and apparel groups, and the union UNITE HERE that filed 12 China safeguard petitions in an effort to curb the flow of Chinese imports could be forced to file new safeguard petitions, this time based on actual market disruption, if the CIT case or appeals process drags on.
“The judge is taking the [safeguard] process out of play by the extent of his actions,” said Auggie Tantillo, executive director of the American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition. “This is indicative of the U.S. government’s inability to provide effective safeguard remedies. If it’s not a 17-month delay in producing [safeguard] regulations, it’s a set of rules that take 120 days to adjudicate, and now there is an extra layer of complexity because a judge is putting everything on ice.”
“Azzedine has been one of the biggest influences in my life. He has always been such a strong, loving, fatherly figure to me. I call him Papa. His designs are indescribably unique, they are pieces of art. He knew how to make the female form look its loveliest. I have so many memories of him; my favorite might be during my first show with him in Paris. He liked me and he wanted to help me get more work. He called all his friends at Kenzo and Comme des Garcons, and asked them to book me. They said, ‘But she can’t walk!’ And he said, ‘but she has such a great ass!' His friendship and support has been the great privilege of my career. I can't imagine life without him. Repose en paix mon Papa.” - @stephanieseymour tells @wwd. #wwdfashion (📷: @steveeichner) #alaia #azzedinealaia
Azzedine Alaïa, flanked by two of his closest friends, models Stephanie Seymour and Naomi Campbell.
He designed Seymour’s dress for her 1995 wedding to Peter Brant, and treated Campbell (who famously called him Papa), like a daughter. For more on the legendary designer, tap the link in bio. #wwdfashion #alaia #azzedinealaia
Azzedine Alaïa's “I-did-it-my-way” ethos stood out starkly at a time when brands are experimenting with consumer-facing fashion shows, coed formats and trans-seasonal collections – anything to perk up lackluster sales of ready-to-wear in an age of Insta-everything. “It’s not creation anymore. This becomes a purely industrial approach,” the late designer told WWD in an interview last year. “But anyway, the rhythm of collections is so stupid. It’s unsustainable. There are too many collections.” Read more about the iconic designer’s life and work on wwd.com, link in bio. #wwdfashion #azzedinealaia (📷: @WWD Archive, 1986) #alaia
Sneaker reselling app @goat’s latest exhibit, "The Greatest: New York," tells the story of New York's sneaker culture. To celebrate the exhibit, an intimate crowd gathered on Thursday night at the pop-up gallery space, located at Platform in Culver City, to hear guest speaker and illustrator @esymai talk about her own rise in streetwear and women in the business. "For me I'm just someone who is creative. I like to create things," said Chang. #wwdfashion
Azzedine Alaïa, one of the most iconic couturiers of the modern era whose body-con designs defined Eighties fashion, has died in Paris. The diminutive Tunisian-born designer, known for his structured knitted dresses with fitted waists and impeccably cut, figure-hugging second skin silhouettes was deeply admired by his peers, and counted supermodel Naomi Campbell - his adoptive daughter - among his inner circle, one of a gang of glamazons including Farida Khelfa, Carla Bruni and Stephanie Seymour who became ambassadors of his style. (📷: Alexandre Guirkinger) #wwdblast


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LG waited longer than normal to announce its big 2018 flagship phone, but it finally took the wraps off the LG G7 ThinQ a few weeks ago. Today, the phone is available for purchase on most US carriers. While LG has had trouble competing with the likes of Samsung, it’s still targeting the same premium space. Although, it’s got an iPhone-style screen notch now. That’s what consumers want, right?
The LG G7 ThinQ is the epitome of all things 2018 in smartphone design. It has a glass back, dual cameras, and a display notch that isn’t done particularly well. The missing bit of screen provides a place for the camera, earpiece, and some other sensors. It does seem a little excessively large for how compact these components are, though. In addition, the G7 has a “chin” at the bottom with a larger bezel than the top and bottom. This asymmetric look isn’t as striking as the iPhone X it imitates. The 6.1-inch 1440p display is also an OLED, which lacks the vibrancy of modern OLED panels.
Inside, this phone has all the current flagship hardware you’d expect with a Snapdragon 845, 64GB of storage, and 4GB of RAM. Unlike many other current smartphones, the company has opted to keep the headphone jack for the G7 ThinQ. LG also touts the G7’s unique speaker design that uses the entire chassis as a resonator to boost sound output.
You may be wondering about the name — specifically the “ThinQ” bit. Well, that’s LG’s expanded brand for all its AI technologies. What that means for the G7 is that there’s an AI mode in the camera that looks for objects it can identify and offers possible filters. It’s not very accurate or useful, but LG didn’t even develop any AI software or hardware for this phone. It just licensed a machine vision library from a third-party.
The LG G7 ThinQ is available from all major carriers in the US except AT&T. Apparently, AT&T chose to sell the LG V35 instead of the G7. This marks the third variant of the V30 that LG has sold since it debuted last year. At other carriers, the G7 ThinQ will run you $750, give or take a few dollars. Carriers offer payment plans to split the cost over two years. It will launch on Google’s Project Fi soon, as well. If you don’t want to go through carriers, the phone is also available from Amazon.
Google’s AI-Focused Tensor Processing Units Now Available in Beta
Google is ready to open up its Cloud TPU platform to developers and researchers looking to test machine learning workloads — and it's got a new, more powerful Cloud TPU design than the chips we've previously discussed.
Windows Server 2019 Now Available In Preview With New Web Interface, Higher Costs
Microsoft's Windows Server 2019 is now in preview mode, with a new web interface, fresh security features, and oh yeah — higher prices.
Developer Accidentally Makes Forza Horizon 4 Available for Download 4 Months Early
Forza Horizon 4 isn't set to come out for four more months, but the developers accidentally pushed it out to some fans over the weekend. Of course, downloaders have harvested a partial list of cars from the game files.
Most Commercially Available Graphene is Actually Pencil Lead
We now know why graphene research may have had so many problems over the last few years — most of the graphene you can buy isn't graphene at all.

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General Motors and Honda announced plans on April 5 to co-develop a series of affordable electric vehicles based on a new global architecture using GM's next-generation Ultium battery technology.
The companies are working together to enable global production of millions of EVs starting in 2027, including compact crossover vehicles, leveraging the two companies’ technology, design and sourcing strategies. The companies will also work toward standardizing equipment and processes to achieve world-class quality, higher throughput and greater affordability. The compact crossover segment is the largest in the world, with annual volumes of more than 13 million vehicles, according to the press release.
GM and Honda also will discuss future EV battery technology collaboration opportunities, to further drive down the cost of electrification, improve performance and drive sustainability for future vehicles.
GM is already working to accelerate new technologies like lithium-metal, silicon and solid-state batteries, along with production methods that can quickly be used to improve and update battery cell manufacturing processes. Honda is making progress on its all-solid-state battery technology, which the company sees as the core element of future EVs. Honda has established a demonstration line in Japan for all-solid-state batteries and is working toward mass production.
“GM and Honda will share our best technology, design and manufacturing strategies to deliver affordable and desirable EVs on a global scale, including our key markets in North America, South America, and China,” said Mary Barra, GM chair and CEO, in a statement. “This is a key step to deliver on our commitment to achieve carbon neutrality in our global products and operations by 2040 and eliminate tailpipe emissions from light duty vehicles in the U.S. by 2035. By working together, we’ll put people all over the world into EVs faster than either company could achieve on its own.”
Toshihiro Mibe, Honda president and CEO, added, that Honda is committed to reaching its goal of carbon neutrality globally by 2050, which requires driving down the cost of electric vehicles to make EV ownership possible for tmore customers. By collaborating on technology, Honda and GM expand sales of electric vehicles.
The scale and wide consumer reach of GM and Honda will provide the low cost production and battery foundation needed for a new series of more affordable vehicles for customers, said Doug Parks, GM executive vice president of global product development, purchasing and supply chain. “Our plans include a new all-electric product for North America positioned at a price point lower than the upcoming Chevrolet Equinox EV, building on the 2 million units of EV capacity the company plans to install by the end of 2025,” he said.
GM and Honda have developed a close working relationship over many years, including several projects in recent years focused on electric and autonomous vehicle technologies. In 2013, the two companies began working together on the co-development of a next-generation fuel cell system and hydrogen storage technologies. In 2018, Honda joined GM’s EV battery module development efforts. In 2020, GM and Honda announced plans to co-develop two EVs, including the Honda Prologue, to be launched in early 2024, soon followed by Acura’s first EV SUV.
Further, the companies have an ongoing relationship with Cruise and are working together on the development of the Cruise Origin, one of the first purpose-built fully autonomous vehicles designed for driverless ride-hail and delivery.


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Cold-pressed is hot
It’s been less than a year since 28-year-old Darden grad Hillary Lewis sold her first bottle of cold-pressed fruit and vegetable juice, and her products are already making their way to grocery shelves nationwide. Crafted here in Charlottesville, Lumi (which stands for Love yoU Mean It) Juice is 100 percent organic juice made from cold-pressed fruits and vegetables. A system called high-pressure processing uses extreme water pressure to preserve the nutrients and flavor of the ingredients, while giving the juice a a 40-day shelf life. Lumi hit the market in November 2013, and the company announced last week that as of September 1, it is the only cold-pressed juice offered at more than 100 Fresh Market grocery stores across the U.S. including the one in the Albemarle Square Shopping Center. It’s also offered in Safeways on the East Coast, Mid-Atlantic Whole Foods, and through Relay Foods, the Charlottesville-based online grocery service. But no matter how wide Lumi’s distribution circle gets, juice names like Belmont Beet and Wahoo Orange keep it close to home.
Beer and a movie
For the fifth year in a row, New Belgium Brewing Company is traveling around the U.S., showcasing its most esoteric beers paired with short films created by fans in the New Belgium Clips Beer and Film Tour. The stop in Charlottesville is Friday, September 12, at Washington Park. It begins at 7:30pm, and all proceeds will benefit Better World Betty and the Charlottesville Area Mountain Biking Club.
Savour scales down
Savour Restaurant owner-chef Ed Nafei closed the doors of his 140-seat Emmet Street space this past spring. A nebulous outgoing message on the gourmet restaurant’s voicemail implied that a new endeavor may be on the horizon, but we haven’t heard much from the guys over there since the April closing. But last week we caught wind of Nafei’s plan for Savour, and it turns out he’s moving it east to join forces with a nearby bed and breakfast.
Doc and Paula Findley, owners of Prospect Hill Plantation Inn Bed and Breakfast in Louisa County, were searching for a way to revamp the 18th century inn’s restaurant, which traditionally only served meals two nights a week.
“That model lends itself well to being a special occasion-type restaurant,” Doc Findley said. “Our overnight guests love it, but Prospect Hill is too beautiful of a location with too fabulous of a history to only be serving dinner two nights a week.”
Findley said the goal was to drum up enough bed and breakfast business to warrant a nightly dinner service. When he and Nafei met this summer, the timing seemed right for everyone involved.
“I wanted something smaller, more intimate,” Nafei said.
The restaurant located inside the inn will be rebranded as Savour Prospect Hill, and Nafei said guests will recognize a lot of menu items and concepts from the original restaurant, like couscous-stuffed quail, North African Merguez lamb sausage, and curry scallops.
Nafei’s first day in the new space’s kitchen was Friday, August 29. For the remainder of September the restaurant will maintain its Friday-Saturday schedule, but starting in October, the new Savour will serve dinner seven nights a week.
Peking Chinese Restaurant was the only Downtown spot that offered a cheap pan-Asian lunch buffet, offering all the classics like miso soup, sushi rolls, vegetable lo mein, and General Tso’s chicken, plus fruit, dessert, and sodas. A sign appeared in the window last week announcing that Peking has closed, and the space is available for lease. The good news is, it’s relocating and rebranding. Keep an eye on the old Dragon Lady Chinese location on Ivy Road, where Osaka Eastern Hibachi officially opened for business on Saturday, September 6.
Hot off the presses
Our Local Commons, an online food resource for Charlottesville that reaches “beyond the flavor” to tell the stories behind local food, has just published its second book. Co-founders and photographers Andrea Hubbell and Sarah Cramer Shields work with a team of writers and food enthusiasts to compile narratives about local chefs, farmers, bakers, and other craftspeople in the food and drink world. Our Local Commons—Charlottesville, is a softbound book with 160 pages of photographs, recipes, interviews, and stories. It includes feature-length stories about grass-fed beef, the relationship between a farmer and a caterer, a local nonprofit that teaches city youth about nutrition and cooking skills, coffee roasting, and Piedmont Virginia Community College’s culinary arts program. To order the book (or last year’s Volume I), visit www.ourlocalcommons.com/book.


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For the second time in less than a month, Microsoft cloud-based services suffered a major technical glitch and crashed worldwide. The outage left millions of Microsoft users around the globe without access to Office365, email, or the Skydrive. After Office 365 was unavailable for a period of approximately four hours, services were restored.
Microsoft Office 365 is a paid email, web apps, collaboration, and file sharing program that publicly launched earlier this year. It was designed to compete with Google Docs, but has had several reliability issues and faces an uphill battle competing with Google Docs’ free price tag. When Office 365 experienced a 3-hour long system-wide failure less than a month ago, the company offered its users a 25% discount to compensate for the trouble.
Although Microsoft originally blogged that the downtime was due to the southern California power outages, this post was quickly removed from the site. Later, Microsoft tweeted to an Office 365 customer that the preliminary root cause was a DNS issue and that they were working diligently to restore service.
Since Office 365 is specifically targeting business customers, a market sector that requires close to 100% up-time, these two occurrences of system-wide downtime may drive customers to the competition. However, even the ultra-reliable Google Docs, which claims to have 99.99% uptime, just experienced a system-wide failure two days ago.
At around 5:00 AM (ET), Microsoft announced the restoration of Office 365 and informed customers that the other Microsoft products would be back online soon.
The recent Google Docs and Microsoft cloud-based failures should remind users that downtime is a real risk regardless of where a server is based. In order to minimize the impact of downtime, businesses should also store data locally and have contingency plans in place.


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Preview: Free Comic Book Day is Going to Be in Sanity, AZ
Free Comic Book Day is almost here, and we have a preview of one of the comics you might find at your local store. The recently Kickstarted comic in Sanity, AZ will get a preview comic, showing off a peek at the eclectic art and writing that’s in store for people.
Welcome to Sanity, Arizona. It’s a small town, near the middle of the Mojave Desert, run by a different type of human. The natives of Sanity move a little bit slower, smile a little bit longer, and eat sausages made of tourists. This horror series follows the story of a different type of society, one that functions of its own accord and would rather be left alone than participate in the world the rest of us dwell in. Unfortunately for them, and everyone else, people tend to find themselves in Sanity, AZ.
The three issue series will be released in July, August and October with a trade paperback collecting them all in December of this year.


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CHICAGO — At a table with a half-dozen enraptured Borders executives in a private room at the French bistro Mon Amí Gabi, between sips of Côtes du Rhône, the fledgling British novelist Steven Hall began telling the Nicole Kidman story.
“I had Nicole Kidman call me at home,” he said, in his Manchester accent. “She wanted to know if I’d change the main character of my book from a man to a woman, so she could play her. But I didn’t give it to Nicole in the end.”
Over the next three days, the story would be retold to Barnes & Noble employees over dinner in Minneapolis, and to dozens of independent booksellers in Portland, Ore. With any luck, the story would ensure that Mr. Hall’s unfamiliar name, and more important, his new book, stuck in their memory. And that they then would sell, sell, sell.
This is the pre-publication book tour, a ritual an increasing number of authors are enduring so that their books can have a fighting chance in an industry that issues, by some estimates, more than 175,000 titles a year.
Unlike the postpublication book tour, which focuses on publicity and public appearances, the pre-publication tour is meant to win the hearts of the front-line soldiers in the bookselling trenches, and more and more publishers are finding it an indispensable part of their marketing plan.Continue reading the main story
While major decisions are left to the bookstore chains’ influential buyers, the people out in the field — the store managers and the clerks — can wield considerable power over how long books continue to be displayed on prime tables at the front of the store, and therefore over the what their customers choose to buy and read.
In January, about two months before Mr. Hall’s novel, “The Raw Shark Texts,” was scheduled to hit the shelves, Canongate U.S., Mr. Hall’s publisher, footed the bill for four days of wining and dining, with Mr. Hall pitching his book in person to people who can help determine whether it sinks or swims.
Like a novice politician, Mr. Hall shook hands and talked patiently with booksellers both small and powerful, from an assistant store manager in Minneapolis to the head buyer at City Lights, the renowned San Francisco independent.
There were four long dinners on his schedule, plus a handful of media interviews, a book signing, three photo shoots and a meet-and-greet at Powell’s Books in Portland.
It was heady stuff for Mr. Hall, who before this had never left Europe. He was born in Derbyshire, England, outside Manchester, and now lives in Hull, a “tiny, deprived, poor little city,” he said.
He is cheerful, apple-cheeked, often ebullient, even while traveling without a heavy winter coat in Chicago and Minneapolis at the end of January. “I thought, ‘Oh, it’s America, there are beaches there,’ ” he said, shrugging.
The trip is the kind of socializing opportunity that most unknown authors would relish. For first-time novelists like Mr. Hall, the odds of scoring a best seller are practically nonexistent.
But Canongate U.S., an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, is betting the ranch on “The Raw Shark Texts,” a postmodern psychological thriller and love story. (Mark Haddon, the author of the best-seller “Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” contributed a blurb, calling it “the bastard love-child of ‘The Matrix,’ ‘Jaws’ and ‘The Da Vinci Code.’ ”)
It goes on sale in the United States today, and the publisher has already printed 100,000 copies, a huge run for a relatively small independent publisher. Canongate has vowed to spend $150,000 on a marketing campaign to promote the book.
The film rights were sold to Film Four in London for a sum in the mid- to high six figures, in a frenzied auction involving Warner Brothers and New Line. The book is to be translated into 24 languages, including Mandarin, Bulgarian and Slovak.
And the novel has already received admiring reviews in The Los Angeles Times Book Review and Publishers Weekly, along with a mention in GQ.
None of that guarantees a best seller, of course. So publishers like Grove/Atlantic have turned to the so-called pre-pub tour, laying the groundwork early and telling prized booksellers in person that this is the big book they are pushing this season.
Mr. Hall was not depending entirely on the pre-pub tour to start word of mouth. He had been doing his own promotional work long before the book went on sale, regularly updating a MySpace page (myspace.com/stevenhallbooks). Powell’s Books in Portland invited him to write a Web log on the bookstore’s site for a week in March.
“I’m like a parent,” Mr. Hall said. “It needs my attention right now. I’m doing everything I can to help it until it can stand on its own two feet.”
Indeed, by the time the book is on the shelves, the promotional work is almost over.
Morgan Entrekin, the publisher of Grove/Atlantic, is credited with inventing the pre-publication tour a decade ago when he circled the country with Charles Frazier, the author of “Cold Mountain.” The book was a smash, selling 1.6 million copies in hardcover and spending 61 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list in hardcover and 33 in paperback.
In a business that is becoming increasingly driven by online retailing and corporate buying decisions, booksellers are all too eager to meet authors and publishers in person.
After leaving Chicago, Mr. Hall and his publishers were off to Minneapolis for an interview at Minnesota Public Radio (his second interview ever), a quick photo shoot and, later that night, another dinner with Barnes & Noble executives.
“I can go back to 70 employees in my store and say I talked to the publisher, and that will motivate them to hard sell,” said Russ Wilbur, the store manager of the Barnes & Noble in downtown Minneapolis, at a dinner where he was seated next to Mr. Hall. “I’m telling you, that’s the book business. That’s how it works.”
In Portland, the visit was timed with the annual Winter Institute, a two-day conference of hundreds of independent booksellers sponsored by the American Booksellers Association, a trade group representing independently owned bookstores. Each publisher was allowed to bring only two authors, creating an exclusivity that BookExpo America, the major industry event of the year, lacks.
At dinner there one night, Mr. Entrekin stood up, wineglass in hand, for a speech in which he called Mr. Hall’s book “the most original novel I’ve read in 10 years.”
In attendance were some of the biggest names in the tightly knit world of independent bookstores, who are still not accustomed to being wooed over fancy dinners. “This is a new thing,” said Mitchell Kaplan, owner of Books & Books in Coral Gables, Fla. “Only three times a year do we network like this with publishers and authors. We’re reading it before the hype hits.”
Nancy Rutland, the owner of Bookworks in Albuquerque, met Mr. Hall in Portland. “It makes a huge difference,” she said. “Now I’ll want to read the book, and then we’ll try to get him to Albuquerque.”
Booksellers usually view the dinners as a grand gesture by the publisher, said Paul Yamazaki, the chief book buyer at City Lights.
“What they’re trying to do is make a statement about the book,” he said. “They want you to go read it, and it gives them another five minutes. But you can’t manufacture these things. If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work, and the book has to deliver,” he said. “Ultimately it’s about the book.”
But the effects of meeting an author in a social setting are undeniable. “The back story with Steven is that he’s from where he’s from — he’s a working-class guy,” Mr. Yamazaki added.
“I wasn’t going to read it,” another bookseller said, “Until he said that Paul Auster of ‘City of Glass’ was one of his major influences.”
By Thursday night in Portland, a group of authors was busily signing books in a ballroom at the Doubletree Hotel. Mr. Hall was looking bleary-eyed, taking slugs from a bottle of Budweiser between signing books. He was eager for this trip, to be followed by months of the real book tour, to be over.
“It’s a bit of an odd system,” he said. “You take a writer, the kind of person who wants to sit on his own for three years at a time, and then make them go to a bunch of dinner parties.”
Friday morning, on Feb. 2, he was on a plane back to England.
“It’s quite weird to be hyped-up and talking to a couple hundred people about the book,” he said, “to going home and sitting with my Xbox.”
All the pre-pub hoopla had Mr. Hall hoping for a best seller, he said, and if that did not happen, he was bracing himself for a “world of pain.”
“There’s a big part of me that’s saying, careful — not a single book has been sold,” he said. “Everyone loves me now, but if the book doesn’t sell, I’ll never be able to show my face in America again.”Continue reading the main story


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Now that the streaming apocalypse is fully upon us, how are people in the home-entertainment business coping? Mostly by reducing expectations for those once lucrative discs.
With revenue shifting toward established subscription video-on-demand services such as Netflix, Amazon and CBS All Access, and even more competition from Disney Plus and Apple TV Plus, studios are increasingly pinning their hopes on their own streaming offerings, while targeting collectors for purchases on any format of their choosing, be it disc, digital or a combination. Other companies have found new opportunities for niche streaming services and ad sales on apps.
Studios are still pushing discs for sale, piling on bells and whistles in hopes enhanced offerings will appeal to viewers that want to see special-effects extravaganzas in the highest resolution possible, or luxuriate in their favorite movies or shows without having to worry about occasional buffering or spotty availability on streaming services. The holiday shopping period is traditionally a prime time for studios to promote souped-up movies and TV shows for purchase, and this year is no exception: Warner Bros., for example, recently released what it billed as the “ultimate makeover” of “Wizard of Oz” on Ultra HD Blu-ray with 4K resolution. There are plenty of standard Blu-ray collections available for purchase as well.
Kathi Chandler-Payatt, executive director and entertainment industry analyst for the media entertainment practice at market research firm the NPD Group, says there are enough hardcore collectors to keep the newer disc formats viable in the streaming age.
“[Collectors] want to make sure that not only do they get the best experience, they’re guaranteed an experience, and they don’t have to get it on Disney Plus in a format that is potentially not 4K,” she says.
Sales for 4K UHD are relatively tiny, but they are growing. U.S. spending on 4K UHD discs rose 11% during the first nine months of the year, according to studio-backed org DEG — The Digital Entertainment Group. The bigger problem is that overall sales for discs dropped at a faster rate: During the comparable period, they fell 18.5% to $2.3 billion. It’s only when you add in digital purchases, what the industry calls electronic sell-through, that the picture improves slightly: Overall purchases dropped around half as much — 8.66% to $4.2 billion through Sept. 30.
When you take discs out of the equation, there’s growth on the sales side: Electronic sell-through grew 6.7% to $1.9 billion through the first three quarters of this year, and was up 13.1% during the third quarter, when it brought in nearly $700 million in U.S. consumer spending.
Just because people aren’t buying physical media doesn’t mean they’re not amassing collections of movies and TV shows, says Marcy Magiera, editor for DEG.
“People are increasingly buying digital copies of their favorite entertainment,” she says. “Is that as huge a business as DVD was? No, not yet. It’s a whole different world than it was when DVD ruled.”
In 2005, DVDs generated $16.3 billion in sales, accounting for 64% of the home video market. Last year, disc sales barely passed $4 billion, or just above 17% of total U.S. home entertainment spending, per DEG.
Another sign of the fading appeal of discs: Samsung announced earlier this year that it would no longer introduce any more 4K Blu-ray player models on the U.S. market.
DVD began losing its luster when the Great Recession hit in 2008, bringing with it a dramatic drop in consumers’ discretionary spending. At the same time, streaming video started to come on consumers’ radar. Blu-rays had hit the market in 2006, but never took off the same way as the older disc format. In 2018, only $1.8 billion in Blu-ray discs were sold, with DVD accounting for $2.2 billion in sales.
“From the height of DVD through to it being worth really nothing, it was just a handful of years,” says attorney Robb Klein, who co-leads Sheppard Mullin’s entertainment and digital media practice. “It literally just disappeared, almost overnight.”
The drop-off created a ripple effect throughout the industry that has been a boon to some and a bust to many. It was an especially big blow to independent filmmakers who relied on DVD presales for a large portion of their financing.
Netflix, the company arguably most responsible for killing the DVD boom, started out as a mail order disc rental business in 1997. It introduced its streaming service in 2008, but its DVD business was still humming at the end of 2011, with 11.04 million subscribers. As of third quarter 2019, Netflix has just 2.28 million subscribers to its disc service in the U.S. In contrast, it has 60.62 million streaming service subscribers domestically and 158 million globally.
But that huge growth has come at a steep price. The company’s massive spending to create and acquire content for its streaming service has left it with a staggering $12.43 billion in debt, according to its most recent quarterly earnings report, up from $10.36 billion at the end of 2018.
As old media titans launch competitive streaming services, they’re feeling the fiscal pinch, too. In November, Viacom reported that its adjusted operating income fell 21% from $736 million to $581 million year-over-year in the third quarter, due to increased investment in content, “including a higher number of series produced for multiple platforms, as well as the company’s direct-to-consumer streaming services.”
One man who benefited from physical media’s fall is Rich Hull, who launched his Spanish-language streaming service Pongalo in 2014 from the rubble of the DVD makers that put out multiple-title Mexican movie discs sold at such stores as Walmart.
“A lot of those guys took on way too much debt at a time when debt came a lot easier, and when the DVD market crashed, they were getting crushed under all these loans,” says Hull. “So I went to all their lenders and said, ‘I’ll give you pennies on the dollar for that loan that’s secured by those movies.’ Netflix, Hulu and those guys were not around at the scale they are now, so it seemed like those digital rights were not really worth anything. So I probably picked up $50 million of production value of movies for around a million bucks.”
Similar to popular English-language streaming services such as Xumo, Tubi TV and Pluto TV, Pongalo offers viewers a monthly ad-free subscription for $5.99, but most choose to watch for free, with ads.
“In early days, we probably tried to bombard them with ads in the hopes that they’d buy a subscription to get rid of the ads,” says Hull. He sold the company to Discovery Communications-backed Vix in August and now serves as the parent firm’s chief strategy officer. “Now, we not only try to not bombard them with ads, we also try not to bombard them with the same ad.”
Ads are also big business for Roku. The company, which made the first streaming player for Netflix in 2008, now makes less money on device sales than it does on what it terms “platform revenue,” which includes money generated by the AVOD apps it carries.
“A flat subscription fee doesn’t scale unless you get more subscribers, but ad revenue gives them much more ability to be profitable because it scales with views,” says Chandler-Payatt.
The category with the biggest growth in U.S. home entertainment spending should come as no surprise: subscription streaming. According to the DEG, U.S. consumers spent $11.6 billion through the third quarter of this year on SVOD, a 22.9% gain from the same period in 2018. That boost more than overset a 5.9% drop in VOD revenue (to $1.5 billion) and helped boost total digital spending to nearly $15 billion through the third quarter — a 17% increase.
Those are notable gains. But Ted Schilowitz, the first-ever futurist-in-residence at Paramount Pictures, cautions Hollywood denizens to keep one thing in mind: “Not everybody lives in the most advanced technology bubble,” he says. “The people who work in certain sectors where they’re just bombarded with all the latest technology and all the latest options forget that not everybody has high-speed bandwidth, not everybody has the most advanced displays.”
In other words, there’s still a market for discs, just not nearly as big a one as even a few years ago, and ample reason for studios to chase after streaming revenue themselves.


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Forecasting will become essential from farm to distribution with lots of elements of adaptability and variables as part of the plan of any company/farm of any size.
No longer can we assume straight line supply chains, in fact they were never straight. Rebuilding supply chains with new elements, vision and technology will be crucial to ensure resilience for next global event.
IRVINE, California. – March 24, 2020 – We are in an unusual time and it shows in how consumer behavior has placed an unprecedented burden on crucial supply chains – not just toilet paper and cleaning supplies, but various food staples as well. At least temporarily, panic and uncertainty have resulted in demand spikes that for most within the food chain are unsustainable. And, at least for now, the feeling of uncertainty remains.
SAN DIEGO California. – March 28, 2020 – The second annual San Diego Angel Conference, the largest pitch contest in Southern California, announced investments totaling $400,000 in three companies, AgTools, Noria Water Technologies, and Visicell Medical, made during today’s event. Due to the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), the conference was held digitally, with more than 690 registrants from all over the United States and the world, including Canada, India, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, and Myanmar.
IRVINE, California. – November 4, 2019 – AGTOOLS, the data analytic service for the produce industry, has entered an agreement as preferred content provider with BLUE BOOK SERVICES, the leading credit rating and business information company for the fresh fruit and vegetable industry. Through this agreement Agtools, with market data coverage of over 500 specialty crops, will be used by Blue Book to deliver accurate, timely market data to its thousands of members and readers. Improving profitability for users is at the core of Agtools.
IRVINE, California. – October 10, 2019 –UST Global, a leading digital transformation solutions company, has launched a partnership with Agtools Inc., a provider of a cutting-edge data analytics service for the Food Supply Chain. Agtools’ online service covers over 500 fruits, vegetables, nuts, herbs and ornamentals enabling supply chain stakeholders, including all major food retailers, to optimize their forecasting, planning, purchasing and merchandising which results in reduced food waste, and increased sustainability for both farmer/shippers and buyers.


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Chinese telecom giant Huawei believes that concerns over security were misconceptions and that it will overcome any misgivings from potential clients across the globe.
Ross Gan,worldwide head of corporate communications,Huawei,said,We adopt an open attitude towards security concerns and believe that the brand will overcome any misgivings. With the company expected to spend close to $2 billion between 2011 and 2016 in India across operations,R & D and manufacturing,Gan said that Huawei was open to all options to address security concerns in the country.
Our common policy is that you show us the hoops and we will jump through them for you. Over the last decade,Huawei has invested in countries all over the world with tremendous success, said Gan. He added that despite murmurs of government control Huawei was a hundred per cent private corporation. To make ourselves more transparent,we have even made our audit report open to all though we are not a publically listed company, said Gan.
Huawei is presently focusing on increasing its presence in India,which it considers a top-level priority in the telecom sector. Ying Weimin,president,GSM,UMT and LTE network,said that Huawei predicts aggressive LTE (Long Term Evolution) growth in India in 2012 and that Mukesh Ambanis Reliance Industries (RIL) would lead the charge.
Though 3G provides excellent speeds,with only a 5 MHz bandwidth in India,it will not function as well when the number of users increase. LTE is faster,has higher throughput and is more cost effective, said Weimin.
Though Huawei hopes to tap a potential $10 billion telecom equipment market in India by 2016,Dabing He,president,Huawei enterprise division,said that the company would provide end-to-end solutions,devices and terminals
However,with margins from India lower than the rest of the world,the company is presently focussing on ways to penetrate the market.
(The correspondent travelled to China as a guest of Huawei.)
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Toyota Motor Corp. said a Congressional effort to help spur auto sales by offering consumer incentives should be offered equally across all vehicles in the market — so foreign brands don’t miss out.
“We want to make sure that everybody gets the same treatment,” Irv Miller, vice president for environmental and public affairs, for Toyota Motor Sales USA, said at the Detroit auto show. Mr. Miller said he is concerned that lawmakers could seek to differentiate the incentives to favor the domestic auto makers. “I’m worried about that,” Mr. Miller said.
Last week, members of Congress started pushing legislation to help boost sales by allowing consumers to deduct from their taxes interest payments on car loans, as well as excise and sales taxes on cars. Another idea under discussion would provide grants to consumers who trade in older models for new, more fuel-efficient cars. Lawmakers want the programs to be part of an economic stimulus under development by President-elect Barack Obama and congressional leaders. — Kate Linebaugh


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The rising focus on automation to increase the productivity will provide an impetus to the optical sorter market. Automation in several industrial sectors has led to the development of centralized waste management solutions for the effective management of the waste, thereby driving the industry growth. They implement image-processing software and high-speed cameras to quickly scan and sort waste materials.
There is a high demand for environmental resources with more countries becoming industrial economies and a rise in the population growth. The technology is extremely important for solid wastes as well as in the recycling industry as they help in segregating several materials. Moreover, the recycling plants can package and disperse a high amount of materials by implementing the technology in busy facilities, thereby driving the optical sorter market demand.
Optical sorters are replacing manual sorting processes in the food industry owing to the rising labor costs, shortage in the labor force, and an increased demand from consumers who want high-quality systems. The rising labor costs are compelling several industries to implement these systems to perform critical and time-consuming tasks. The food industry is increasing its focus on implementing automation for increasing the productivity. From receiving raw products to inspecting the finished products, these systems are being implemented into the production lines to help in inspecting the production volumes. Moreover, these systems help in detecting and removing foreign material & defective products and help in achieving enhanced product quality and reduced operational costs, thereby driving the optical sorter market demand.
Strict government regulations regarding food safety is a major factor driving the optical sorter market growth. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has set certain laws for ensuring the quality of food. These need to be very strictly observed to avoid inquiries from the FDA. Several businesses and companies are adopting innovative sorting machinery to meet the quality of their products. In addition, the Europe optical sorter market will witness a high growth of over 9% CAGR over the forecast time span owing to the rapid generation of e-waste. In the region, electronic & electrical waste is the highest growing waste. Recycling of these waste products has become crucial as it consists of several hazardous materials.
In the optical sorter market, hybrid sorters are witnessing a high demand from the food industry. These are powerful sorters that use a combination of proven air separation technology and food safety optimized flap separation that sort acceptable products. The companies are developing these platforms owing to the growing demand for high hygiene standards to be used in wet or dry food processes. China and Japan are experiencing a high adoption of these advanced sorting solutions owing to the faster technological adoption and rising industrial sector. Industries are deploying fully-automated sorting technologies for carrying out the business operations and processes. These factors are providing several growth opportunities to the optical sorter market growth.
In MEA, the optical sorter market is gaining traction owing to the growing adoption of these systems in the mining industry. In the mining industry, these systems help in detecting & sensing the molecular composition of the materials & minerals such as gold, platinum, tanzanite, gemstones, and others. The systems allow the major mining companies to reduce mineral dilution, lower transport costs & strip ratios, optimize process flows, and remove containments, thereby driving the implementation of these systems and positively impacting the optical sorter market growth.


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Samsung’s name was thrown into the smart speaker arena early on as one potential player who could disrupt the current control by Google and Amazon. They attempted to deflect those rumors by suggesting that market isn’t viable right now.
But a couple months must do a whole lot of good for mulling over market viability, because they’ve just turned 180 degrees on that position. Samsung Mobile chief DJ Koh confirmed with CNBC that the company is, in fact, working on a smart home speaker.
There aren’t any details to be had, but the thinking is that it will have Bixby at its core, what with Samsung rolling it out on a massive scale and planning to have it be more than just a smartphone-bound assistant.
It also isn’t yet clear if this thing will only be compatible with Samsung’s family of devices, though it’ll certainly be better if you do have a Samsung-heavy home. Expect to hear more as we inch closer to the holiday season where Apple’s Homepod is set to enter the scene.


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White Castle's Craver Nation loyalty program is hosting a "Slider Bombing" promotion, where fans can take pictures of other people and replace their head with a Slider without them knowing. Photographers with the most creative pictures "hijacked by the Crave" can win a new digital camera. The challenge ends June 11.
Additionally, the chain is hosting a buy-one-get-one promotion for its breakfast sandwich line. Craver Nation members can receive a coupon for a free breakfast slider or breakfast toast sandwich with the purchase of one.
Finally, Craver Nation members were given a sneak peak of a new dessert coming soon to the White Castle chain – Shake Parfaits. The offerings will be available in strawberry or Oreo flavors.
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New Delhi: IT company Tech Mahindra will market enterprise products and services of Chinese telecom company Huawei across 44 countries, including India, under an agreement signed between the two companies today.
“Tech Mahindra, a specialist in digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering and Huawei Enterprise Business Group (EBG) have signed a global partnership agreement. Basis this agreement, Tech Mahindra will market Huawei’s enterprise products and services across 44 countries including India,” the firms said in a joint statement.
The alliance would also involve launching a joint go-to-market strategy by leveraging each other’s core strengths. “Huawei and Tech Mahindra complement each other well, and, more importantly, we work towards the same goals.
As specialists in our respective domain, we now work together to present competitive solutions for the global enterprise market,” Huawei India, President, Enterprise Business Group Derek Hao said.
Under this partnership, Tech Mahindra would take Huawei’s enterprise products and services and build solutions around various platforms and solutions of the Indian firm. The platforms and solutions are in areas of Internet of Things (IoTs) such as connect care, connected car, connected factories and fleet management solutions, and solutions in areas of utilities such as smart cities, smart metering and smart grids, the statement said.
“This partnership enables us to implement our unique solutions along with Huawei’s innovations and latest ICT infrastructure to bring faster ROI (return on investment) for our customers,” Tech Mahindra President Enterprise Business Manoj Chugh said.
The partnership will help Tech Mahindra gain access to newer enterprise markets in geographies like Europe, Latin America, Africa, India, Middle East and South East Asia while enabling it to provide maximum value to the clients, the statement added.


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The Department of Trade said undercover surveillance of local businesses has found some gas stations and one major supermarket to be the main culprits that have been price gouging since the passage of hurricanes Irma and Maria.
The department’s director, Karia Christopher, said she is waiting for instruction from Premier and Minister of Finance Dr D Orlando Smith on how to proceed in relation to the businesses caught.
She declined to publicly name the offenders.
“I’m not able to say the exact supermarket. I’ll leave that for the boss (Premier) to say, but we only found one large supermarket that had excessive price gouging for necessity items like water, sanitary stuff, [and] basic stuff,” Christopher explained.
“What we can say comfortably is that there is an issue with the gas stations for sure. Our research has shown that gas prices have gone up approximately $3.30 per gallon as opposed to let’s say last month,” Christopher claimed during a meeting with residents in the Third Electoral District yesterday, September 27.
The trade director noted that her department identified the offending businesses by monitoring them covertly.
“We go almost as secret shoppers to go and check to see; that’s how it is; we don’t go looking like Trade [Department representatives]. We go as customers and so we try to make sure that we speak for the community because it’s sad if persons want to basically profit off of a very destructive situation like this.”
“Once the premier tells us what he wants us to do, then we will be guided by his directives,” Christopher added.
She, in the meantime, said most other businesses have dropped their prices back to market value, adding that her department will continue to monitor shopping prices.
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Investing in automation
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Solutions has set its sights squarely on the future of mobility with a major investment in automated logistics solutions.
Wallenius Wilhelmsen has signed an agreement to acquire 70% of Syngin Technology LLC, a leading provider of automated logistics solutions for disposition of used vehicles through an electronic marketplace currently operating in the US and Canadian market.
A foundation for the future
The acquisition of Syngin marks the entry into the Full Life Cycle Logistics space for Wallenius Wilhelmsen and lays a solid foundation to meet customers evolving needs.
The future of logistics lies in combining digital services, physical assets and a deep understanding of logistics flows. With Syngin we boost our digital capabilities, setting us up to better support the changes we see in our customers’ needs for the future.
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Syngin streamlines the movement of vehicles handled by fleet leasing companies and remarketers to auction houses through a virtual marketplace that matches these stakeholders with transportation providers and repair centres.
Using a holistic value chain approach and applying re-engineered processes coupled with an integrated software platform, the system enables highly efficient and cost-effective transportation for the unified eco-system around used fleet vehicles.
The combined strength to scale
The addition of Syngin into the Wallenius Wilhelmsen family represents a significant opportunity to scale the WW Solutions offering to new customers and new locations.
It is also an important step in realising WW Solutions’ ambition to develop and deploy digital solutions to help customers manage their business better, faster and smarter.
Looking at the full lifecycle
“I am thrilled about the acquisition of Syngin”, says Ray Fitzgerald, COO of WW Solutions.
“In late 2017 we announced an ambitious strategy to offer ‘full lifecycle logistics’ services and now six months in we have made our first acquisition in this space. The joint capabilities of WW Solutions and Syngin represent a unique opportunity for development both before and after the vehicle’s first point of sale", he adds.
The current owners of Syngin will maintain an ownership stake of 30% and stay highly involved in the business for the foreseeable future.


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The preparations have started for the 19th edition of SIGN Istanbul 2017 that is organized by İFO Fuarcılık every year. SIGN Istanbul 2017 will take place at Tüyap Beylikdüzü from 04 - 08October 2017. The fair is expected to be attended by 400 exhibitors coming from 31 countries and to be visited by 22.500 domestic and international professionals. SIGN Istanbul, the biggest fair in Eurasia in its own field, will host the exhibition of all innovations in the sector in the fields of Digital Printing, Textile Printing, Sign Technology, Visual Communication, Led & Led Display, Industrial Printing, Promotion and 3D Printing.
SIGN Istanbul was identified as a ‘‘Sign making fair’’ when it was organized for the first time but now it is recognized as the biggest fair in Eurasia in its own field as an international platform where a wide range of products, services and technologies are exhibited. The previous edition of SIGN Istanbul hosted the highest number of visitors of the last 18 events. The registration process for the 19th edition that will take place on October 04th-08th, 2017 is still continuing for those companies wishing to participate in the event. Sector representatives wishing to reach out to the new markets in the Eurasian region and to expand their coverage prefer SIGN Istanbul again for the next year as well. Exhibitors will take the opportunity of strengthening their existing relationships and meeting with the best stakeholders in the sector and analyze your competitors in terms of products, services and prices.
SIGN İstanbul 2017 provides its exhibitors with the opportunity to demonstrate their products and technologies as well as a profitable platform to enable them to expand their trade volumes. Exhibitors will meet with domestic and international textile producers, advertising agencies, advertising companies, industrial advertising producers, digital printing centers, suppliers of machines and materials, sellers of retail materials, printing houses, architects, engineers and academicians to establish cooperation during the event.
The 19th edition of SIGN İstanbul will last 5 days from 4th - 8th October 2017 and start on Wednesday. For more information about participation in the event, you can visit www.signistanbul.com.


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A Problem For E-Readers: Hackers
E-readers continue to gain popularity and are sure to play a major role in gift-giving this holiday season. While it seems like a really convenient way to read books and magazines, not all publishers have been eager to move to electronic format. One reason why? Hackers. If savvy computer users can figure out a way to get past security copyright features, then the books can be distributed online for free. That's a problem that plagues music and movies. According to a report today, this is becoming a problem for the Amazon Kindle as well.
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An Israeli hacker claims to have broken the copyright protection on Amazon's Kindle e-reader, reports say.
The hack will allow the ebooks stored on the reader to be transferred as pdf files to any other device.
If only such hackers would use their genius for good instead of evil! But this is pretty awful news for the Kindle and its e-reader brethren. The last thing books and magazines publishers want is to end up in the same predicament as their peers in the music and movie industries who constantly worry about bootlegging. The digital nature of those mediums makes it pretty impossible to avoid anyway. But books aren't as susceptible to bootlegging problems in their native form. Could this news make publishers reconsider allowing the medium to go digital?
Maybe, but I doubt it. At this point, the e-reader revolution appears to be well-underway. Like with music and movies, publishers will likely join studios in prosecuting those who distribute or download content illegally. The potential upside also remains pretty great for publishers, as the costs saved by not having to print and ship the books is quite significant. With that said, I wouldn't expect hackers to suddenly stop making things difficult for e-readers. As a result, book bootlegging will likely become an ongoing problem for e-readers.


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dELiA's coming to West Town Mall
Another retailer aimed at teenage girls and young women is coming to West Town Mall this fall.
dELiA's, which sells apparel, accessories, footwear and room furnishings targeted at 12- to 19-year-olds, plans to open Nov. 1.
The 3,672-square-foot store will be the first in Knoxville and will be located near Sephora.
"dELiA's will arrive just in time for holiday shopping. West Town Mall is thrilled to be able to offer this popular retailer to the community," Lauren Abernethy, area director of mall marketing and business development said in a press release.
The news of dELiA's comes as youth retailer Forever21 also gets ready to open a 10,000-square-foot store this fall.


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Apple is setting itself up for a confrontation with Google over its talked-about ad blocking feature that is set to be introduced in its latest mobile operating system.
Apple’s latest iOS 9 will allow third-party developers to introduce apps that will enable ad blocking on Safari, its mobile browser. If millions of Apple’s mobile users utilize this for a faster browsing experience, the move could disrupt a growing $70 billion mobile-marketing business, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
This cripples revenue for publishers and tech firms that are already facing losses from present-day ad blocking. A study by Adobe and PageFair shows ad-blocking extensions in desktop web browsers result in $22 billion in lost revenue to the websites that host ads.
Any form of ad blocking on mobile devices will hit Google especially hard. A Goldman Sachs report estimated that the company earned around $12 billion in mobile search revenue, with 75% of it generated from users of iPhones and iPads. Online advertising contributes around 90% of Google’s annual $66 billion revenue.
The ad-blocking feature also doesn’t include blocking within apps, a distinction that benefits Apple, since it takes a 30% cut on money generated from apps.
“It seems like this is part of the ongoing tussle between these two entities,” Peter Stabler, a Wells Fargo analyst, told the Journal. “It’s yet another arrow that Apple can put into the ankle of Google.”
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The fast growing e-commerce market in the country will touch $84 billion in 2021 from $24 billion in 2017 on account of a healthy growth in organised retail sector, a report said on Tuesday.
A fast growing economy and robust demographics provide a positive outlook to the consumer businesses in India, the report by Deloitte India and Retail Association of India said.
These factors will fuel the retail market growth in the country, making India the third largest retail market in Asia and fourth largest in the world, it said.
The retail market in India is expected to grow to $1.2 trillion by 2021 from $795 billion in 2017, it said.
“Further, as the internet penetration in the country increases and more international retailers start operating in India, the share of organised retail market is expected to increase from 12 per cent in 2017 to 22-25 per cent by 2021.
This will also be driven by the growth of e-commerce market from USD 24 billion in 2017 to USD 84 billion in 2021,” the report said.
The report titled ‘Unravelling the Indian Consumer’ said increasing online shopping, smartphone usage and internet penetration across semi-urban and rural segments would help boost the sales.
Given the strong retail and consumer outlook, India is expected to witness redefining trends in the consumer market which will shape the future of the retail industry, the report said.
It added that consumer experience will be the key focus of the companies.


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EA Sports held a developer chat yesterday and The Gaming Tailgate noted some of the news to come out of that with discussion having taken place regarding the upcoming demo for NCAA Football 12. There will be two separate matchups to choose from and five Nike Pro Combat uniforms available to unlock through play. The structure would be similar to last year which instead had four matchups and offered all of the Pro Combat uniforms.
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With more than 90 million copies sold to date, EA Sports’ Madden NFL series has garnered a legion of loyal gamers around the world since its 1989 debut. Always looking for authentic gameplay and attention to detail, these fans will get to experience an added dose of reality when Madden NFL 12 hits store shelves on August 30.The latest Madden NFL iteration features a smorgasbord of additions that make the game truer than ever to the real thing, including players suffering on-field concussions. Continue reading Madden NFL 12 Poised for Unprecedented Realism


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Integrating several marketing channels into a unified campaign is generally a good idea. When reaching out to technology purchasers—consisting of multiple decision-makers with divided attention spans—integration can be the difference between achieving real notice or being pretty much overlooked.
That was a key consideration for Hewlett-Packard Co., whose enterprise services division
rolled out its “Evolve, Compete, Succeed” campaign earlier this year in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The goal was to hit the target market with a variety of channels, including print and banner ads, a campaign microsite, a CIO video series, live events and custom nurturing of marketing-qualified leads.
“Because of our objectives—both to create awareness and demand generation—we wanted to have all these touch points and elements in the campaign,” said Natasha Sandoval, marketing campaign manager at HP Enterprise Services EMEA. “We wanted to accelerate exposure of our content around messages to potential buyers—the IT audience.”
HP specifically wanted to promote its application services,
which help customers update their legacy applications. Sandoval cited the shifting of technology to the cloud, the rapid adoption of mobile technology and the challenge of Big Data and analytics, among other points of concern for these companies.
“We view this as a growth area,” Sandoval said. “Right now, companies are spending 80% of their IT budgets on maintaining these legacy applications and just 20% on innovation. But the world is moving on fast-forward and we want to flip that ratio.”
HP's campaign was created and managed by TechTarget,
“Technology marketers need to come to the realization that online media is converging in how it's presented to the target audience,” said Marilou Barsam, TechTarget senior VP-corporate and client marketing. “We tried to provide full-coverage ad formats.”
Despite the focus on updating legacy technology, HP's campaign included a fair share of legacy marketing channels, specifically a partnership with Financial Times
. That included print ads in the publication's IT-intensive Connected Business
section, with ads aligned with scheduled content.
HP also sponsored Financial Times' CIO Interviews
video series featuring large-company CIOs. The online ads within this series linked to a microsite
developed by TechTarget, containing other Financial Times
videos, white papers and social media links.
A particularly engaging ad unit developed by TechTarget for the campaign featured ways for a viewer to interactive with HP messages. Within the single ad unit, called Demand Engage,
were separate tabs linking to videos, white papers and a Twitter feed. This enabled, Barsam said, “immediate nurturing.”
“Technology marketers might look at these as good examples of converging online marketing efforts, but to the prospect it's simply convenient,” Barsam said. She added that technology sales cycles are shorter than ever—down to six months or less—and interactive, multi-ingredient ad units provide access to more material, faster.
HP's campaign is based thoroughly on content, Sandoval said.
“Especially in the areas we're talking about, such as cloud and mobile, you lose credibility if you can't offer something beyond the slogans,” she said. “It's important to get specific, to show customers not only that HP focuses on these areas but also what we have to offer.”
The yearlong campaign is ongoing. HP did not reveal the budget, but Sandoval said this global, multielement program “isn't cheap.”
The results so far, however, have made her happy. Response to the Demand Engage ad units featured a 34% engagement rate (390 white paper downloads out of 1,160 opens), with 11% of viewers going on to open another piece of content—a key indicator of interaction. Sponsorship of Financial Times'
CIO Interviews captured 20,246 views per video; a dwell time of nearly 90 second each on average; and a 0.96% click-through rate from the banner ad to the microsite.
TechTarget took all respondents, defined as those who downloaded one item, as well as active leads (those with multiple relevant activities) and prospects (those with multiple downloads) and passed along the top marketing qualified leads to HP sales.
Follow-up emails captured open rates of up to 20% and a CTR of 6.3%. Sales so far are up 16%, according to HP.


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Jack Goschke, the owner of California Brewing Co., has died.
The Shasta County Coroner's Office confirmed that Goschke died Wednesday morning at his Anderson home.
He was 50. There was no cause of death given.
Goschke opened his brewpub in Palo Cedro in the Holiday Foods shopping center in February 2014.


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China's Leading Shipbuilder Profit Plummet
China CSSC Holdings Ltd announce net profit shrank by 62.91 percent year-on-year in first half 2012.
The Shanghai-based firm said in a report filed to the Shanghai Stock Exchange that its business revenue totalled 13.14 billion yuan in the first six months, accounting for 51.75 percent of the annual plan.
Earnings per share stood at 0.345 yuan, down from 0.93 yuan in the first six months of 2011, said the company.
CSSC attributed the profit slump to a decline in ship prices and a relatively narrower decline in production costs, as well as losses from ship alterations and lower diesel engine prices.
Due to a significant decrease in the prices of shipping products this year, the company expects its profit in the first three quarters to drop by about 80 percent from the same period last year, it said.
Shares of CSSC ended 3.11 percent down to 18.41 yuan per share on Thursday at the Shanghai Stock Exchange.


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Inspired to diversify their employee-owned business, Malco Products has revived an abandoned factory and its iconic brand from the bottom up.The U.S. has been bleeding manufacturing jobs for decades. Back in 1980, for example, more than one-third of men with a high school degree worked in the manufacturing sector. But those numbers soon began a rapid decline fueled by a combination of factors ranging from the rise in automation and rising competition with nations like China to an increase in the so-called “skills gap” that left many manufacturing jobs unfilled due to a lack of workers qualified to fill those openings. That’s why, today, manufacturing jobs make up about 8% of total employment, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
One of the primary concerns about the loss of manufacturing jobs, of course, is the sense that Americans have stopped making the kinds of durable products that initially drove the post-World War II economic boom—and the sense of pride that came along with it. That feeling of loss was only heightened when companies moved those jobs overseas. The pain was especially intense inside the communities that used to rely on those jobs.
Consider the case of DeWitt, Nebraska. Population: about 500. Since 1924, DeWitt had been home to the iconic brand of Vice-Grip locking pliers. But in 2008, the corporate parent of Vice-Grip decided to close the factory and move the operation to China—which cost 330 employees their jobs and identities. It ripped out the heart of the community as well.
Owning Their Future
But what the citizens of DeWitt didn’t yet know was that another company nearly 500 miles away in Minnesota was paying attention to their situation.
Malco Products in Annandale, which started in 1950, manufactures high-quality, specialty hand tools used that help construction contractors, including folks who service heating and air conditioners, do their job better. Malco was originally a family-owned business but, in 1999, it sold part of the company to its employees through an employee stock ownership plan or ESOP. By 2018, the associates owned 100% of the business.
Starting back in 2015, Malco also began another evolution in its history when it took its first steps to open its books to all of its associates to start teaching them what it truly meant to be owners. “I wanted the Malco employees to think and act like the business owners they had become,” says Mardon Quandt, Malco’s president from 2013 to 2020. He did that, in part, by embracing the principles and practices of The Great Game of Business. They began by educating every employee-owner on business and financial literacy to create a true line of sight into how their job was connected daily to the company’s success. They could measure their success both in terms of the company’s stock price and their share of the company’s Stake in the Outcome bonus. “Associates became more engaged since they had a greater stake in the performance of the company,” says Quandt, who has handed off the reigns to Rich Benninghoff as Malco’s president in 2021.
Another lesson the Malco team learned from playing The Great Game of Business was the power of diversification in business. Similar to how SRC had grown from a single factory into a holdings company made up of multiple businesses operating in various markets, the Malco team wanted to broaden their own offerings.
That led them to that abandoned factory back in Nebraska—which they began the process of acquiring in 2017. The plant, which they reopened in 2018, gave them capabilities they didn’t have in their existing facility in Minnesota—such as forging and heavy manufacturing—they also saw an opportunity to reintroduce the locking pliers, which was made in that facility for generations. “This was the largest and most ambitious expansion of the company in its history,” says Quandt, who adds that the new plant was acquired debt-free.
The Nebraska facility also had another advantage: a skilled labor force ready to get back to work.
But to make the expansion successful culturally, Malco’s management team realized they needed buy-in from all of their employee-owners. So, beginning in 2019, the company set a Critical Number to incent employee-owners from Minnesota to travel to Nebraska and spent time in the new plant to spread their knowledge and expertise. They then followed up the following year with a new Critical Number to get 70% of associates to work at the other Malco location to learn and establish the new facility. “The goal was to get our associates to feel like owners of that plant as well,” says Quandt. “We needed involvement at all levels of the company to make it a success. The Great Game of Business has ensured that we have had the resources needed through High Involvement Strategic Planning, communication, and continuous improvement to make that happen.”
Bringing The Jobs Back
While the onset of the pandemic in 2020 threw off some of Malco’s plans, they’ve successfully launched four of their newest products—including locking pliers under the brand “Eagle Grip”— on Amazon in 2021. Not only are the pliers racking up hundreds of five-star reviews—they’ve already earned the reputation as being the strongest on the market—they’re selling like crazy.
“Reinvigorating the DeWitt facility has been a full-team company effort,” Benninghoff said. “There’s been a lot of collaboration and team involvement in getting the products to the shelves.”
Perhaps just as importantly, Malco has brought back 60 high-quality manufacturing jobs to DeWitt.
As Moria Holly, the Village’s Clerk and Treasurer, told the Beatrice Daily Sun: “I know it’s been a huge relief for a lot of people who live in DeWitt to have that workforce back in town.”
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In partnership with FIS, Payapps held a webinar to discuss how variations affect the industry and ask if they are one of the most pressing risks we face.
During the hour discussion hosted by Payapps Head of Partnerships, Angus McAlpine, Iain McIlwee, CEO at FIS, Bill Bordill, Quantum Expert at Decipher, and Kevin P’ng, Commercial Director at BW: Workplace Expert gave their expert views on the fundamental questions which included:
- How are variations affecting the industry and are variations one of the biggest risks faced?
- How can you ensure correct valuation and payment for construction variations and what are your rights?
- What are the alternative methods of resolving variation-related disputes and how can disputes be avoided?
- How can variations be minimised and is it the client’s role to assist with this?
- What does a good variation process look – how can it be managed more efficiently upstream and downstream, and what part can technology play?
Payapps has created a report that details poll survey results and the discussions held during the webinar.
To read the report in full visit: www.payapps.com/reports-uk/download-report-managing-construction-variations


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Following the ongoing success of The IMAX Experience® at five popular Ster-Kinekor sites – Gateway in Durban, The Grove Mall in Pretoria, Cape Gate in Cape Town, Baywest Mall in Port Elizabeth and Cradlestone Mall in Krugersdorp – the country’s leading cinema chain officially launched its sixth IMAX® theatre on 15 December.
Joburg movie audiences can now enjoy the world’s most immersive cinematic experience in the 375-seat IMAX® theatre, which forms part of the new Ster-Kinekor state-of-the-art, ten cinema complex on the rooftop of Eastgate Shopping Centre. Built as a bespoke IMAX theatre, this cinema boasts the biggest screen of all six IMAX theatres across South Africa.
The IMAX theatre played host to the Official South African Special Event Screening of the highly anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens: An IMAX 3D Experience. The more than 300 attendees – VIP guests, celebrities, media and Star Wars ‘super fans’ (suitably dressed for the occasion) – settled into the brand new IMAX seats and marveled at the impressive, ceiling to floor and wall to wall screen. Following speeches by the film’s distributor, The Walt Disney Company Africa, Ster-Kinekor and IMAX Corporation representatives, the audience was treated to a movie experience of inter-galactic proportions, as the audience travelled back to a galaxy far, far away…
“With all the action, drama and adventure that this film brings to the big screen, watching it in our new IMAX theatre takes the cinema experience to a whole new level. Directors produce films to be experienced on the big screen, I don’t think you can get much better than watching the most anticipated film of the year in the world’s most immersive cinema format – IMAX,” says Wanda Matandela, CEO of Ster-Kinekor Theatres.
“Having achieved the most pre-ticket sales for any IMAX film that has been released at Ster-Kinekor to date (27 700 as at morning of 16 December), the excitement among Star Wars™ fans has been palpable with the film’s official South African release yesterday, two days before its US release.
“At the end of business on Tuesday (15 December), pre-ticket sales for the film across all Ster-Kinekor cinema experiences – IMAX, Cine Prestige 3D and Ster-Kinekor 3D and 2D cinemas – had amassed to 63 200. This figure makes Star Wars: The Force Awakens the film with the second most advance bookings for Ster-Kinekor in recorded history,” comments Matandela.
The IMAX Experience
The new IMAX theatre at Eastgate Shopping Centre is fitted with a floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall IMAX screen, superior acoustical treatment and IMAX’s unique double-projection and sound technology. In this immersive cinema environment, audiences become part of the movie, as they battle the dark forces and get caught up in all the non-stop action!
IMAX’s cutting-edge dual-projection system delivers crystal-clear images which, coupled with its customised theatre design and powerful digital sound system, creates a unique cinema environment.
Giovanni Dolci, VP Theatre Development, EMEA at IMAX Corporation, says: “It is wonderful to expand our IMAX network in South Africa once again with our partner Ster-Kinekor, so soon after the launches of Baywest Mall and Cradlestone Mall in the middle of this year. We are impressed with the performance of the initial five sites, and look forward to this new theatre achieving equally positive results.
“We entered into our partnership with Ster-Kinekor at the end of 2013 to raise our visibility in South Africa and set the stage for mutual growth opportunities in the region. It is encouraging to see that this is proving fruitful, with the Ster-Kinekor Eastgate site opening just six months after the Baywest and Cradlestone IMAX openings.
“South Africa was one of a number of new markets that we entered in 2013, and it is clear there is a growing appetite for IMAX in the country. We look forward to working with our valued partner to further entrench the IMAX brand locally, with the upcoming launch of the next Ster-Kinekor IMAX theatre that is slated to open in mid-2016 at the new Mall of Africa development in Midrand,” comments Dolci.
In addition to the exciting new IMAX theatre, Ster-Kinekor has a number of other special treats and innovations in store for movie lovers at Eastgate.
“All ten of our cinemas are fitted with the latest in digital technology and projection for crystal clear images and surround sound. This, combined with luxury seating in the cinemas, two ultra-luxury Cine Prestige 3D cinemas, a further two cinemas with 3D capability, an exclusive SK Club lounge, delicious new catering options and self-service terminals to purchase and pay for tickets and catering, all live up to our promise to deliver the best entertainment experience for our audience.
“Going to watch a movie is as much about the cinema experience as it is about the story unfolding on the big screen. It’s all about creating ‘great moments’ at every touch point with every visit, and I am confident that our new site here at Eastgate is poised and ready to deliver on exactly that. Everything about this complex has been devised with only one end goal in mind: a great experience for our customers,” concludes Matandela.
Fans of The IMAX Experience® at Ster-Kinekor Eastgate are in for a treat over the next few months with the release of a variety of movies for the whole family to enjoy: The Finest Hour; Deadpool; Divergent Series: Allegiant Part 1; Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice and The Jungle Book.


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Kai Ryssdal: A couple of weeks ago on this program, we had analysts predicting the economic crisis could put the brakes on corporate efforts to green their businesses. One exception, they said: Eco-friendly changes that save companies money. From the Marketplace Sustainability Desk, Sarah Gardner says that’s exactly what’s happening with the company behind the grand-daddy of all those sports drinks. Gatorade.
Sarah Gardner: Business isn’t exactly bubbly at PepsiCo these days. Profits were down 10 percent last quarter, and the company is planning factory closings and layoffs. But one thing PepsiCo won’t be laying off is its water conservation campaign…
Edrian Oliver: We challenged ourselves to save 20 percent per gallon of Gatorade. And, as of right now, we’re tracking at 15 percent, current to date.
That’s Edrian Oliver. He manages PepsiCo’s Gatorade plant in Dallas, Texas.
Oliver: Water is critical to our operation. It’s the main ingredient in our products. We’re a major water user.
The plant here pumps out millions of gallons of Gatorade and Propel fitness water every year, and it takes more than twice as much water to do that. Water’s used for everything from cleaning the plant to purifying the water for the drinks to cooling the products.
[swishing sound] But that’s not the sound of water you’re hearing. That’s the sound of Gatorade bottles being sterilized with ionized air, instead of hot water. PepsiCo was among the first to adopt the technology a few years ago.
Oliver: So you see the bottles are upside down right now. After that air sprays in, that ionized air, everything that could have possibly been a contaminant is out of the bottle.
But the most recent water-saving change at the plant is one inspired by the severe drought in Atlanta. The Gatorade plant in that city was under the gun last year to save water, co managers there started using a silicone spray to lubricate the conveyor lines instead of H2O. Now, all eight Gatorade plants in the U.S. have made the switch.
Eudell Hall: Now, if you notice, we have a much drier floor.
That’s longtime Dallas Gatorade employee Eudell Hall. She says safety has improved as well, because the floor’s not as wet and slippery. These water conservation efforts are saving the plant 12 percent on its water bills. PepsiCo executive Tim Carey says the company’s trying to conserve power in its operations as well. Total utility costs have dropped over 30 percent.
Tim Carey: If you do sustainability right, not only do you help the planet, you do good things for the earth, you should save money at it and in some cases the returns are quite attractive.
Those returns can extend beyond the factory floor. Eudell Hall got so jazzed about conserving at work she started doing it at home too.
Hall: I really do cut my water off when I’m running it in the face bowl or maybe I don’t do the dishwasher as often.
Of course, PepsiCo’s environmental critics say the company could really save water by giving up products like Aquafina, but the company defends bottled water as healthy and convenient, and told Marketplace it’s ramping up efforts to soften Aquafina’s environmental impact.
In Dallas, Texas, I’m Sarah Gardner for Marketplace.
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The world’s biggest maker of TVs will unveil the first sets powered by Tizen software at theConsumer Electronics Show this week, and all the Web-connected models it sells this year will run the operating system. The company also may demonstrate at CES how the TVs communicate with its washing machines, refrigerators and vacuum cleaners.
The internet is full of stories like: Samsung is about to launch 'the most seductive TV of all time' at CES http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/3/7487209/samsung-tizen-tv-seductive-advertisement-at-ces-2015
The controlling Lee family is trying to reinvent Samsung as a purveyor of Internet-connected appliances to grab share of a market that may be worth $7.1 trillion by 2020. Samsung wants to generate revenue from Tizen applications and services just as Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google do from their operating systems, and the Suwon-based company is emphasizing TVs and consumer electronics after falling a year behind schedule on a Tizen-based phone.
“In smartphones, there’s no chance that Samsung’s Tizen can edge out the two dominant operating systems,” said Claire Kim, a Seoul-based analyst at Daishin Securities Co. (003540) “But in TVs, Samsung may have a chance.”
Samsung’s rise to No. 1 in global phone sales depended on Google’s Android. Nearly all of the 243 million smartphones Samsung shipped through Sept. 30 ran the software, which Google typically gives away in return for mobile advertising revenue and a share of app sales.
Building the TV business around Tizen will help create “a much more intelligent and integrated system,” Won Jin Lee, executive vice president at Samsung Electronics, said in a Jan. 1 press release.
Samsung’s initial forays into Tizen haven’t developed a breakout hit. Its first phone using Tizen was more than a year behind schedule. The wristwatches Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo were released in April, and both are compatible with many of Samsung’s Galaxy phones.
The company should improve its future competitiveness by pushing ahead with initiatives for its “smart home” and “smart health” businesses, co-Chief Executive Officer Kwon Oh Hyun told employees in a Jan. 2 message.
Samsung will be the biggest exhibitor of consumer electronics at the Las Vegas show, displaying TVs, tablet computers, smartphones, printers and cameras. The company will show off its Galaxy Note Edge phones with a wraparound screen, its virtual-reality headset and audio products.
Operating profit at the consumer-electronics division, which oversees TVs and appliances, probably dropped to 250 billion won ($227 million) in the fourth quarter from 660 billion won a year earlier, according to the median estimate of six analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News.
In the third quarter, the unit’s profit dropped to 50 billion won from 350 billion won because of falling prices and competition with Japanese and Chinese producers.
Vice Chairman Lee Jae Yong is helping oversee Samsung’s transition as he takes more of a leadership role since his father, Chairman Lee Kun Hee, was hospitalized in May.
Samsung is transferring about 500 engineers from its mobile-phone division and allocating them largely to the Internet initiative, people familiar with the matter have said.


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Sheridan Faculty of Business Travel and Tourism students network with industry professionals
Sheridan Faculty of Business Travel and Tourism students recently had an excellent opportunity to network with industry professionals and fellow students from several Ontario colleges at the 15th Annual Students-in-Travel Conference and Trade Show hosted at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
About two dozen Sheridan Tourism and Travel Students attended the multitude of workshops and displays presented along with several members of the Sheridan program faculty. The event gave students the opportunity to network, learn about jobs in the Travel industry and meet our industry partners.
“The trade show portion, which featured over 20 industry suppliers, including Transat Holidays, Westjet, Airmiles, and more, gave us the opportunity to see Sheridan Travel and Tourism graduates in action including Morgan Stock (2008) and Mauricio Canjura (2007) both Sheridan Tourism Grads who work for TNT Tours,” said Victoria Renton, Sheridan Travel and Tourism Program Coordinator.
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