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Sorkin Movie Quotes Steve Jobs: ‘If a fire causes a stampede to the unmarked exits, it will have been worth it to those who survive’Posted: April 3, 2015
While we haven’t gotten many details about the Aaron Sorkin-penned screenplay based on Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography, we have previously learned that it will focus on three separate days in the life of the Apple co-founder, with each 30-minute act taking place just before a major product announcement. We also know that Michael Fassbender will star alongside Seth Rogen, Michael Stuhlbarg, Kate Winslet, Perla Haney-Jardine, and Jeff Daniels.
Today we got our hands on a copy of the screenplay (or at least a February 2014 draft of it) which reveals what many already may have already suspected based on previous reports: the three products Jobs will unveil during the biopic are the original Macintosh, the NeXT Cube, and the iMac.
[The movie hits theaters on October 9th]
The film opens with the launch of the Macintosh and a key scene in which Andy Hertzfeld and Joanna Hoffman attempt to convince Steve Jobs to cut the iconic “Hello, I am Macintosh” moment from the computer’s demo due to a voice synthesizer problem. “The first rule of a launch is nothing can crash,” Hoffman says.
That’s followed up by a humorous moment in which Jobs tries to convince his team to turn off the exit signs above the doors to totally darken the room during the event. He even offers to pay whatever fines the fire marshal imposes. “If a fire causes a stampede to the unmarked exits, it will have been worth it to those who survive,” Jobs quips. Read the rest of this entry »
KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has made a few more predictions about what we’ll see from Apple in the near future. According to a new KGI research note, Apple could potentially release cheaper versions of the iMac and iPhone 5s during its developer conference next week to accompany its software announcements.
Earlier today new references to an unreleased iteration of the the iMac appeared in an OS X developer preview, likely indicating the impending release of a new model. It’s quite possible that this could be the cheaper iMac referred to in the report. Read the rest of this entry »


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WE Report: Employee Engagement Key to Overcome Green Fatigue
Companies Must Make Sustainability Commitments Real to Unlock Enthusiasm and Counteract Skepticism
SINGAPORE, NEW YORK, LONDON – May 23, 2023 – Today, WE Communications (WE) released its latest Brands in Motion global research report, “Winning the Battle Against Green Fatigue.” The data reveals that even though employees strongly support their companies’ missions to create a more sustainable world, there is skepticism about their employer’s overall impact, leading many to experience “green fatigue” and some to have deeper concerns about the validity and impact of environmental commitments.
Nearly half of employees surveyed said they suspect their employers are involved in some level of greenwashing — defined as the act or practice of making a product, policy or activity seem more environmentally friendly or less environmentally damaging than it really is.
“A level of fatigue has set in for many employees, despite well-intentioned efforts by their employers to design and launch impactful corporate sustainability programs,” said Hannah Peters, WE’s global lead for Corporate Reputation & Brand Purpose. “Our research proves it’s time to think differently about the way employers communicate internally about sustainability — most employees are optimistic and realistic, but growing skepticism presents real risks.”
BRIDGE THE CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY GAP
For sustainability investments to reach their full potential, executives need to ensure that all employees understand their role in supporting corporate sustainability aspirations and outcomes. However, WE’s study shows a disconnect between leadership and the broader workforce: Almost two-thirds of employee respondents said they have very little or no involvement in their employer’s environmental sustainability efforts, and only 38% know that their companies have made sustainability commitments.
To address this gap, company communications — both internal and external — on sustainability must be clear and focused and deliver tangible proof points showing progress.
“Effective internal communications can mobilize and inspire employees — arguably a company’s most important audience — by engaging with them to not just stay on the climate-transition journey with their employers but to be active participants and ambassadors,” said Kemi Akindele, director, Corporate Reputation & Brand Purpose WE UK. “Turning every employee into a sustainability champion is the key to creating an engaged, inspired and loyal workforce.”
TO ENGAGE EMPLOYEES, MAKE IT REAL AND MAKE IT SIMPLE
WE’s research identifies the top five strategies for an “Employee Sustainability Engagement Playbook” that engages employees and brings them along a company’s sustainability journey, from the initial declaration of a commitment to ongoing progress updates to celebrating milestone achievements.
These five strategies share common themes, including an emphasis on results that can be seen and felt:
- Get specific and make it real: Employees want concrete proof of how their day-to-day work is changing based on the company’s sustainability efforts.
- Step into the spotlight: Employees say that seeing their employer’s sustainability efforts showcased or praised by accredited organizations, such as Fortune and Dow Jones, is the top factor that improves their opinion of their company’s climate-friendly strategies and activities.
- Don’t fear the deadlines: Committing to a deadline also increases optimism and confidence, with 88% of employees saying that their employers will meet some or all of their time-bound commitments.
- Show that everyone’s job contributes to sustainability: Relevant initiatives should be communicated in ways that help employees understand how their roles relate to the company’s broader sustainability plan.
- Make it personal: Take advantage of new and innovative ways to connect with employees, explore their views on sustainability and understand what matters most to them.
“Sustainability commitments are a clear business imperative, and companies are stepping up to meet the challenge with more fervor than ever,” said Peters. “With the right communications mix, leaders can initiate healthy dialogues with employees around environmental sustainability that show they respect their work, their opinions and their ideas — and make it clear that employees play a critical role in near-term progress and long-term success.”
ABOUT BRANDS IN MOTION
Partnering with YouGov, WE surveyed nearly 2,000 employees across a range of industries and roles in three markets — Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States — to understand their attitudes toward corporate sustainability programs.
“Winning the Battle Against Green Fatigue” is part of WE Communications’ Brands in Motion global research. Now in its seventh year, Brands in Motion has surveyed more than 100,000 consumers and business decision-makers about how perceptions shift over time.
WE is one of the largest independent communications and integrated marketing agencies in the world. We’re all about people — both our clients and employees — and we believe in the power of communications to move audiences to positive action. Female-founded, female-led, and fiercely independent, WE has spent more than three decades helping world-class brands tell technology-led transformation stories that shift perceptions and change behavior.
Our global reach includes offices in 21 cities, partner networks that expand our footprint and client capabilities, and a team of more than 1,500 media and content strategists, creatives and data scientists across our technology, health, and consumer sectors. Our work with global brands like Microsoft, Intel, McDonald’s, and Volvo has been recognized by Cannes Lions, PRovoke SABRE Awards and PRWeek Awards, just to name a few.
For more information, press only: Kara Kraft, WE, (503) 443-7143, [email protected]

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S&P: $4.00/Gallon Gasoline Will Not ‘Derail’ The US Economy
–$5.00/Gallon Gasoline Presents A Different Set Of Risks
By Brai Odion-Esene
WASHINGTON (MNI) – Ratings firm Standard & Poor’s Friday said it
believes the U.S. economy can weather the impact should the price of
gasoline rise to $4.00 per gallon.
Many fear higher gas prices, pushed up by soaring oil prices, could
have a contractionary effect on U.S. economic growth as consumers cut
back on spending to compensate.
In a report, however, S&P said “We are inclined to conclude that
$4.00 per gallon of gasoline will not derail the U.S. economy, but
acknowledge that $5.00 per gallon presents an entirely different set of
risks, especially as we approach the summer peak driving vacation
According to the Energy Information Administration, the average
price of a gallon of gasoline hit $3.72 this week, up from $3.38 in
“Despite this sharp increase in prices, consumers are not yet
showing any noticeable signs of vulnerability when it comes to
discretionary spending,” S&P said. It pointed out that, as of January,
consumer spending on clothing and accessories was up 5.3% versus a year
ago, spending increased 4.3% at sporting goods, hobby, book, and music
retailers, and the food and drinking establishment business increased by
8.2% year over year.
S&P argued that it seems other factors such as the declining U.S.
unemployment rate are offsetting potential risks to GDP growth
associated with rising crude oil and retail gasoline prices.
S&P added that while rising household energy expenses will, at some
point, become problematic for the U.S. economy, “We are, however,
slightly wary of the general notion that GDP growth would decline by 1%
if crude oil jumps to $140 per barrel in 2012 from roughly $99 per
barrel at year-end 2011.”
It noted that U.S. GDP growth generally remained between 2% and 4%
during the prior recovery cycle — 2002 to 2006 — a period in which
crude oil prices increased by 208% to $61.05 at the end of 2006 from
$19.84 at the end of 2001.
It did acknowledge that many other factors boosted economic growth
during the prior cycle, including job creation and the housing boom,
which helped offset any drags on domestic economic activity associated
with rising crude oil prices.
S&P stressed that while crude oil prices are currently heading
higher, “natural gas prices are at the lowest levels recorded in at
least a decade.
“While consumers are definitely paying more at the pump, many
consumers are benefiting from the lowest winter heating bills in years
due to the combination of natural gas prices and the exceptionally mild
winter in the northeastern U.S.,” it said.
Adding that consumer gasoline purchases currently account for less
than 5% of total personal consumption expenditures, S&P said based on
its analysis, “We find it difficult to believe that anything short of a
major price spike in a category of retail spending that accounts for
less than 5% of total personal consumption can represent a significant
threat to the overall economy.”
Should oil and gasoline prices continue to rise, S&P said it is
entirely plausible that additional incremental consumer spending on
gasoline — and household energy related expenditures in general — will
first come at the expense of various forms of discretionary consumer
“Consumers will be forced to divert money from non-energy related
categories of retail spending, many of which include goods produced
outside the U.S., to accommodate additional dollars spent at the pump
before we reach the point where rising gasoline prices place the broad
U.S. economy at risk of recession,” the S&P report said.
To avoid a recession and keep the recovery chugging along, S&P said
the U.S. economy now requires sustained disposable income growth, coming
from some combination of wage growth and tax policy.
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Japanese video game giant Nintendo has told players of its hit creation Animal Crossing: New Horizons to stop adding political or commercial content, after a variety of users worldwide – including Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigners – started sending their own messages.
Nintendo told businesses and organisations in a press release Thursday to “refrain from bringing politics into the in game,” and said those who breached the guidelines could be banned.
Animal Crossing has been a hit since its launch in March, selling over 20 million copies by September. It allows users to craft tools, decorations and other creature comforts from scratch on their own deserted islands.
However, some users have utilised its features to send political messages.
In Hong Kong, some players have been creating pro-democracy and anti-government content, including flags with protest slogans such as “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times,” funeral photographs of Chinese leader Xi Jinping and “villain-hitting” sessions aimed at Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam.
The game has since been pulled from Chinese grey market online shopping platforms.
US President-elect Joe Biden is also among those who hope to capitalise on the game’s popularity. Biden’s campaign launched its own virtual island last month, allowing players to “volunteer” at the island’s campaign headquarters and visit polling stations. Under the new guidelines, the island is likely to be banned.
Activist Joshua Wong told HKFP that he had taken part in a number of virtual protests in the game this year.
“What Animal Crossing represented was not just entertainment during lockdown, but also a reflection of happenings in real life. It provides an alternative when institutional channels of expression are restricted,” he said.
“It is a shame that Nintendo overlooked the significance of this game.”
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Rumor has it that David Barger, CEO of JetBlue, will be stepping down soon and the sharks on Wall Street are already circling. JetBlue established itself in the early 2000’s as a customer focused airline and in that way sought to distinguish itself from other airlines, in fact, it was the only major airline that was able to turn a profit in the aftermath of the Sept. 11th attacks. Not bad for an airline that was still in its infancy and given the trepidation of fliers at the time.
While other airlines are charging more for less and cutting back services, JetBlue’s model has always been based on customer service with low fares, plenty of leg room, no checked bag fees and TVs in every seat back. Things that build customer loyalty but don’t necessarily add to a company’s bottom line. And that’s a problem for Wall Street. In light of Barger’s upcoming departure, the sharks, err…analysts, are already licking their chops about how a new incoming CEO might “foster a change in strategy throughout the company”, read: squeeze every penny out of customers just to add to the company’s stock value. These changes include cramming more seats into their airplanes and charging fees for checked bags and onboard internet. The sharks - excuse me, analysts - say that, “the revenue benefit to the company would probably trump any customer blowback”.
And there’s the rub. JetBlue has one of the highest ratings of major American airline companies and has been growing since their inception simply because they offer higher value to their customers, but that doesn’t sit right with Wall Street because Wall Street doesn’t understand customer value, they only understand bottom lines and ROI. So the question is, once JetBlue discontinues their customer-friendly services, how long will it be until their customers tell them to take a hike? Or until another airline comes along and offers these same services for free and swipes all of JetBlue’s formerly loyal customers?
To his credit, Barger, who has always had a customer first mentality, isn’t taking things lightly, saying in an interview, “You want to compare my track record to bankruptcies and layoffs? Go ahead. I’ll take that comparison.” But unfortunately for JetBlue, the sharks smell blood and they’re beginning to circle.


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As a whole, remodelers of all types are aiming to increase the professionalism of their companies. Erik Listou, CGR, CAPS, on the other hand, is hoping to broaden that goal and aims to increase the professionalism of the remodeling industry all together.
As a member of the Denver Remodelors Council since its inception, Listou has played an active roll in educating consumers about industry associations and the professionalism of its members.
Helping direct a strategically planned marketing campaign, which now focuses on the consumer and not the remodeler, Listou brought a massive amount of media attention to his local council. The mission statement stands as: “The Remodelors Council of Metro Denver is committed to providing excellence in service to consumers and the industry through continuing education and professional growth of members.”
“What we did in actuality is took the national mission statement and reversed it,” says Listou. “When it comes down to it, our main focus should be caring about the consumer.”
This change in focus resulted in over 800,000 paid and nonpaid ads and annoucements with the Remodelors Council name distributed in consumer magazines in the Denver market in a one-month campaign.
In addition to spreading their new message, Listou also directed more community involvement throughout the Denver area. “We turned our annual garage sale into a public auction that helped generate $25,000, in which we donated to the Home Builders Foundation.”
Individually, Listou has taken his new mission on the air waves, with his local radio talk show, Remodeling with Erik. “The focus of the show is Education, Awareness, Advice,” says Listou. “I have created a persona that consumers and remodelers can relate to as a friend in the remodeling industry.”
The show, which introduces consumers to an array of monthly topics, features guests from all sides of the business discussing that particular subject. “We just completed our monthly segment on bathrooms,” explains Listou. “We featured a very high-end remodeler who does custom-type applications on one show and then also had a remodeler who installs Formica countertops.”
While covering a broad range of topics and reaching consumers on all levels, Listou continually spreads the message about the importance of hiring a professional remodeler that is part of an industry association. “Some of my most asked questions are ‘What did it take to become a member?’ and ‘How do I find a professional remodeler?’” With his Website just about completed, Listou plans to have a neutral place where consumers can go to find out more about association members and locating a professional.
Listou also coordinates educational seminars directed toward the consumer. “We put together a panel of experts in the industry, which combined had 130 years of professional experience, and held it at a high-end kitchen distributor,” he says. “We spoke a lot about design trends and products and then also touched on the importance of hiring a professional.”
Listou says that by increasing his visibility with consumers, his company, Top Quality Remodeling, has benefited tremendously. “I have positioned myself and this company as an industry leader through association involvement and leadership, networking with other related associations and being visible through industry seminars and conferences, therefore making my company stand out from the competition.”


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Actress Jennifer Grey isn’t one to shy away from tough subjects. She’s been vocal about getting a nose job and how it made her feel invisible, and she even penned a memoir about her time in the spotlight, Out of the Corner, which debuted earlier this year. The 62-year-old is getting candid with Prevention about her hair loss journey and how she’s restoring her tresses.
The Dirty Dancing star first noticed a change in her hair during the pandemic. “I didn’t know what to attribute it to—if it was because I wasn’t cutting my hair, because I wasn’t going to salons, or because I wasn’t coloring my hair,” she says. “Or if I was just home too much. I didn’t know what was going on.” Grey noticed that her ponytail was getting skinnier and her hair was looking a little bit “lackluster,” she says.
Having sported voluminous curls for years, hair was a key part of Grey’s identity. “I’ve always had a lot of hair and I’ve always been known as the girl with a lot of hair,” she says. “It was something that just came into the room with me and kind of made an impression, but [now,] I wasn’t going in any rooms and I wasn’t making any impressions, I was just in my house.”
When Grey was finally able to go to a salon, she consulted her hairstylist. Grey recalls telling her stylist: “I don’t know what’s happened to my hair. It just doesn’t feel as good.” Still, she realized that the change was subtle. “It wasn’t balding, there was nothing I could point to. I only mentioned it to my hairstylist because I trusted her, and she told me that I had to go see Harklinikken.”
There are so many hair loss treatments that say they make the best products for thinning hair. But after consulting with her personal stylist, Grey decided to take a chance and to make a consultation with Harklinikken. Grey said that at first, she was hesitant…even skeptical. But when she met the founder of the brand, she changed her mind. “He looked at my hair, and he explained to me what was happening…I immediately knew I was speaking to someone who cared and who had devoted his life to scalp health and treating hair loss.”
Harklinikken founder Lars Skjøth explained to Grey that “hair health is completely contingent on scalp health.” She tells Prevention that the connection between scalp health and hair growth “never even occurred” to her. “Scalp is a continuation of our skin, that we care so much about taking care of,” she says, “but I was using all these products and covering up the fact that my hair quality was declining.”
Harklinikken also explained that the changes that Grey noticed in her hair were age-related, too. And there’s research to back this up. One study found that more than half of postmenopausal women will experience female hair loss. “I never considered myself someone who would be a candidate for hair loss because I always had so much,” Grey says. She points out that she didn’t know how much her hair thinning had become a problem until it started to get better. “I didn’t know what I was missing because [the hair loss] was so subtle and gradual.”
After her consultation with the brand, Grey says that founder Lars Skjøth taught her how to use three simple products to get her hair back on track. “It’s only a few products and it’s very simple,” Grey says. One interesting step, which Grey was concerned about at first, was washing your hair every day. But, she says once her scalp was clean, she started noticing progress.
“I could not believe the dramatic difference in the before and after pictures, all of the hair line had filled in, my part became tighter, and my hair just kept growing.”
Although she discovered her hair thinning while in isolation, Grey says that by the time quarantine restrictions were lifted, her hair felt better than ever. “I was alone during the pandemic and not really out and about, but by the time I came out of the pandemic, my hair was ready.”
Now that Grey has seen the results herself, she has become one of the many celebrity ambassadors for Harklinikken, and swears by their products.
Grey admits that she’s been lucky in her own journey, and says she doesn’t take anything for granted. “I’m happier because I’m older, I’m happier because I’m happier, and then I get to have the added bonus that my hair is better, it’s kind of like a cherry on top.” She says that “if you’re unhappy, your hair isn’t going to make you happy. But if you’re happy, your hair can make you happier.”
When we asked Grey if she had any last words of wisdom for women who may be struggling with hair loss, she said “love yourself and continue to love yourself as you get older. You lose some things, but what you’re gaining so far outweighs what you’re losing if you do it right and you know how to adapt.”
Now that’s a message worth repeating.
Madeleine, Prevention’s assistant editor, has a history with health writing from her experience as an editorial assistant at WebMD, and from her personal research at university. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in biopsychology, cognition, and neuroscience—and she helps strategize for success across Prevention’s social media platforms.


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Johnson & Johnson has proposed an $8.9 billion settlement for more than 60,000 people who claim that talcum powder products caused them to develop ovarian cancer or mesothelioma.
Under the proposal, a subsidiary company that Johnson & Johnson created to resolve the talc litigation will re-file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and seek court approval for the settlement.
The $8.9 billion settlement is a massive increase from a $2 billion settlement that the company offered in 2021. The amount would be payable to plaintiffs over the next 25 years.
Over the past few years, Johnson & Johnson has been hit with several multi-million dollar jury verdicts involving women with ovarian cancer who used talc products for feminine hygiene.
Many other lawsuits allege that asbestos contamination in talc products caused plaintiffs to develop mesothelioma, a type of lung cancer.
For example, in November 2020, the company was ordered to pay $120 million to a woman from New York who blamed baby powder on her mesothelioma.
Erik Haas, Johnson & Johnson’s worldwide vice president of litigation, said in a statement:
“Resolving these cases in the tort system would take decades and impose significant costs on LTL and the system, with most claimants never receiving any compensation.”
Johnson & Johnson denies any wrongdoing in the settlement, but the company stopped selling talc-based baby powder and other talcum powder products in 2020. Last year, the company announced plans to stop selling all talc products worldwide.


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DS Lite to Shine in June
So much for the theories about a May release alongside New Super Mario Bros. Oh well.
Nintendo has been on a roll with its twin-screen DS, which has been a hit worldwide. Now after pushing out the redesigned DS Lite in Japan earlier this year following a Christmas period where the portable was impossible to come by, the company is getting ready to release the new DS in the West.
The sleeker DS Lite will be out in North America on 11 June for $130. Unlike in Japan, where the DS Lite was sold in white, blue and navy variants, the portable will only be available in white.
The release is being timed to shortly follow the release of New Super Mario Bros - the first 2D platform style Mario game in over a decade - on 15 May. There had been rumours earlier this year that the game would come out alongside the DS Lite. While that won't happen now, there's still a good chance of a bundle when DS Lite launches.
"DS Lite and New Super Mario Bros. represent a double shot of gaming excellence," says Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime. "We've got something for both lovers of beautiful, new gadgets and fans of old-school gaming."
The main changes to the DS Lite are aesthetic. The system is less bulky and comes in at two-thirds the size and about a fifth lighter. There's a new, longer stylus and the two LCDs are also much brighter now.
Nintendo hasn't said yet when Europeans can expect to take delivery of the DS Lite but today's news suggests that it'll be late June at the earliest and probably later still.
Editor, Kikizo Games


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Early customers that stormed the Sabon Tasha market in Kaduna metropolis to shop for ingredients which they have been short of for days were shocked by the high prices demanded by the sellers, as business resumed, following the relaxing of curfew by the Kaduna State Government.
When AUTHENTIC News Daily first visited the market around 8:40am, only few traders were seen, with prospective customers seen desperately searching for ingredients, especially onions.
On a return visit to same market an hour later, it was observed that though the sellers of such sought for ingredients, especially vegetables, had arrived and were making brisk sales even though they were demanding exorbitant rates.
A single bulb of onion which is usually sold for N10 or N20 was being sold for N50 grudgingly by the traders.
This is because, they were selling about three pieces for N200 to the desperate buyers.
It was observed that the traders, from different ethnic groups and religions were united by business, exchanging hugs and pleasantries, apparently happy to see each other after three days of 24-hour curfew was relaxed.
A trader, who simply identified herself as Mama Nkechi who sells cooking oils and grains expressed joy that business had resumed. She was even happier to see that no harm befell any of her neighbours at the market.
“As you can see, we are happy to be back to business. It was unfortunate that the crises affected us. We business people are one, we don’t differentiate between religion or ethnic group,” she told AUTHENTIC News Daily.
Another trader, Malam Abubakar Mai Alubasa said they thank God the curfew was relaxed. He said that in the market they are one, in spite if religious and ethnic differences.


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Make it clear: Editorial on food safety authority's e star-rating module
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India — the agency that administers the country’s food safety framework — has signalled an intention to introduce a star-rating system to assess the quality of food products. Under this system, the healthiest food products will get five stars and the least healthy would get one. But paediatricians, nutrition and public health specialists, and consumer rights advocates have expressed concern regarding this strategy. They believe that the star-rating module can be both misleading and manipulative: it may give consumers a false sense of security while harming their health. Front-of-pack warning labels on food and beverages high in salt, sugar or fat, they argue, would be a better alternative. Internationally, the idea of putting FOP warning labels on unhealthy food products has gained traction. Chile and Peru have already implemented such warning labels that name the excess ingredient while the European Union put in place new rules, including one to identify the ‘primary ingredient’, in 2020. Many countries are considering following their lead and India has reasons to do so. Cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and other lifestyle ailments are on the rise in India, driven by unhealthy diets.
The FSSAI must consider other, attendant realities. In 2009, pictorial warnings on the packs of tobacco products were made mandatory in India. The Supreme Court upheld the practice of carrying pictorial warnings on 85% of the packaging space of tobacco products in 2018 despite opposition from vested interests. A survey conducted by the Union health ministry revealed that about 62% of cigarette smokers and 52% of bidi smokers had been compelled to think about quitting because of those large, graphic warnings on the packets. In a country where access to education and awareness levels are unevenly distributed across socio-economic constituencies, clear, pictorial warnings may be a better deterrent than benign models such as the star-ratings. Something similar can, therefore, be done in the case of packaged food products that have ingredients that cross the safety limit of consumption. The explicit messaging may compel manufacturers to reformulate their products, keeping safe consumption modules in mind, in order to steer clear of negative public perception. A tepid culture of consumer rights and awareness makes matters worse in India. The Indian consumer must know — and be given the right to know — the truth about the nature of the edibles they desire. The government must facilitate such knowledge.


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Fast-casual chain Panera Bread (Sunset Hills, Mo.) enters Manhattan today with its first location in the city, reports QSR magazine. The restaurant is located at 330 Seventh Avenue, while three more Panera locations will follow this year, at East 86th Street, 5th Avenue, and Union Square.
“For Panera, our model is around the suburban marketplace,” says Scott Davis, executive vp and coo, reports QSR. “So it took a while for us to get a sense of really how to go into an area like Manhattan. It can be daunting when you’re standing from the outside looking in.”
Panera restaurants average 4000 square feet.


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TVR, the embattled sports car maker owned by Russian oligarch Nikolai Smolensky, has parted company with its marketing chief Ian Law.
It is not known whether Law, who was appointed director of marketing and press at the company following the departure of Phil James last year (MW September 8), has a job to go to.
A TVR spokeswoman denies Law’s departure was anything to do with the cost-cutting taking place at the UK’s biggest independent sports car manufacturer.
The company announced it was closing its Bispham factory and cutting 71 jobs earlier this year. Last month it said it was moving to a former wartime Lancaster bomber factory near Blackpool Airport. However, the deal is thought to be a stop-gap as it involves a relatively short-term rolling lease.
Although TVR, which says it wants to become “another Aston Martin” producing 5,000 cars a year for sale globally, has yet to file its accounts for last year, it is still understood to be making heavy losses. It made a pre-tax loss of &£11.8m in 2005, equivalent to about 70% of its &£16.7m turnover. It is not thought that Law will be directly replaced. Managing director David Oxley and new communications chief Nigel Gordon Stewart are expected to oversee marketing.


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In the current market, millennials are putting pressure on the leisure tourism industry with very specific demands. Hotels, airlines, and restaurants alike are going all out to ensure that they are ready to host these new-age travellers. Here, we round-up the top 10 trends driving millennial travel choices. Last minute travel A sign that they
The 2017 edition of The Arabian Travel Market will take place at the Dubai World Trade Centre from 24-27 April 2017 with key themes centered around tourists seeking adventure, culture, heritage, wellness & spa and cruising experiences. ATM 2017 will integrate the experiential theme across all of the show verticals and activities, including focused seminars
New data from trivago has revealed that intra-regional travel is the top vacation choice for MENA residents during Eid. Sharm El Sheikh ranked first in the list of the top 10 travel destinations MENA residents visited during Eid Al Fitr 2016 – followed consecutively by Dubai, Makkah, Hurghada, Cairo, Medina, Istanbul, Doha, Beirut and Bahrain.
As the Middle East’s travel industry grows in tandem with ever advancing technology, a shift towards internet-based technology and the growing importance of social media for information searches are gaining momentum. An infographic, prepared ahead of the e-Travel Middle East conference highlights some of the top travel trends being seen in the Middle East, including
Teenagers who have grown up in Dubai are internationally-minded, well-travelled young adults of the world, who have seen the city grow and have also welcomed a number of their visiting friends and family to the UAE. So what do they think of Dubai as a family holiday destination and what advice do they have for
A recent report from compareit4me found that 80% of travellers have experienced some sort of travel-related incident. Incidents listed, included flight delays taking the top spot, followed by illness and then by trip postponement or cancellation. The survey also highlighted that theft was the top fear at 52%, followed by concern about injury or accident


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KOLKATA: Global laptop and tablet makers say that launch of more than a hundred products in India is held up due to the country’s decision to introduce mandatory certification, and that they will increase prices by about 5% to meet the compliance cost.
Industry officials said that several globally launched products of brands such as Lenovo, Acer, Hewlett Packard (HP
) and Samsung
are unlikely to hit the Indian market soon due to a delay in procuring the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) certification.
The Manufacturers Association for Information Technology (MAIT), the apex body of computer hardware industry in India, has estimated the mandatory certification to cost around Rs1,000 crore a year for computer manufacturers.
“There is no way we can absorb this huge compliance cost,” said Amar Babu
RK, MAIT president and MD at Lenovo India. The industry is already under pressure due to exchange rate fluctuation and overall slowdown impacting sales growth, he said, justifying companies’ decision to pass on the complying cost to consumers.
From January 3 this year, the government made BIS certification mandatory for import of 15 electronic products. It was done to curb entry of substandard and spurious electronic items that can be a health hazard and a security risk.
The problem is not much for TVs and many other products as most companies make or assemble these products within the country, and the number of models being imported is small. In case of tablets and laptop, however, firms import the products and refresh their models almost every quarter.
Industry officials alleged that the process of BIS certification takes an average of 45 days, depriving Indian consumers the access to the latest models available in other countries. S Rajendran, chief marketing officer at Acer India
, said, “At a time when the industry sales is badly impacted with poor consumer sentiments, the approval process has become a major sore point.” Lenovo’s Babu said the company has some 15 new models stuck in the approval process.Sunil Soni
, director-general at BIS, however, denied any delay in the approval process and said most models are cleared in aweek’s time. “There are some 50-60 applications which are pending but that is due to improper application by the manufacturer and hence the fault is on them, and not on us,” he said.
Soni said BIS plans to introduce a computerised application system next month to streamline the process and speed up approval. Most big markets in the world have mandatory certification for electronics products to be launched there. CE marking is the identification mark that a product meets the European standards, while the FCC Declaration of Conformity in mandatory in the US.Anwar Shirpurwala
, executive director at MAIT, said that the approval process in India is not well set yet, impacting product planning of the companies and even making some companies hold back launch of some of their new models here.


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In Cannock Chase, the Labour-led District Council have introduced charges for town centre businesses who want to display A-boards and have street furniture (tables and chairs) outside their businesses.
The policy is a direct tax on local small businesses in Cannock Chase and in danger of further undermining our town centres. Small cafes could be expected to pay as much as £500 a year to have tables and chairs outside their shop.
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BlackBerry recently refused offers to sell off various chunks of the company to interested parties like Microsoft, Google, Lenovo and Apple. This is the first time Apple has been mentioned in connection with the now-off BlackBerry sale.
This is according to Reuters which reported the stricken Canadian firm believed that breaking up the company and flogging off bits and bobs would have been detrimental to the interests of customers and shareholders.
Apple and Microsoft were apparently interested in acquiring a substantial patent stash, but BlackBerry spared its remaining loyal supporters the pain of seeing their beloved company fall into enemy hands.
The other two tech companies sniffing around BlackBerry's still-twitching carcass were Cisco and Lenovo, according to the report, with the latter long thought to be interested in a takeover bid.
Doubt, doubt and more doubt
BlackBerry's immediate future was cast into yet more doubt earlier this week it announced it would abandon pursuing takeover, which would have taken the company private once again.
Instead it secured $1 billion (about £625m, AU$1.06) in funding from Fairfax Financial - which had led the consortium planning to take full control in the first place - among other investors.
The Waterloo-based company let CEO Thorsten Heins go too, replacing him for the time being with John Chen. Chen's first act in the big chair was a vow that BlackBerry will continue making smartphones.
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A local group is joining a lobby effort to keep community gardens open during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying those spaces are vital lifelines for some Londoners to access fresh, healthy food.
It’s more critical than ever that people have a way to grow their own produce or bring home additional food as the public health crisis puts pressure on food supply chains and grocery stores, the chairperson of the Middlesex London Food Policy Council said.
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“In a normal year, (community gardens) are important for supplementing not just the amount of food, but the quality of food. Food security is not just about the amount of food you have. You need to have fresh food, culturally appropriate food,” said Benjamin Hill, who is also a Western University professor who teaches about the philosophy of food.
“We’re concerned about that for this year in particular,” he added, saying the council is expecting more people to need help and support accessing food.


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MONTEREY, Calif. — Within the locally grown movement, there’s a new way of doing business, and it may become the newest industry acronym — VBSC.
The values-based supply chain model is designed to overcome barriers buyers face when they want to purchase locally grown produce.
Barriers include a price premium (up to 10%) buyers incur, delivery logistics, timeliness and consistency of deliveries, limited product selection/volume and seasonality, said Shermain Hardesty, extension economist agricultural and resource economist for the University of California-Davis.
She was one of six panelists at the “Locally Grown: Supply Chain Success Stories” workshop at the Produce Marketing Association Foodservice Conference & Exposition on July 31.
The tenets of VBSC call for treatment of growers as strategic partners (not input suppliers), increased volumes through product aggregation, differentiated products/local branding, and rewards and responsibilities distributed equitably across the supply chain. It also includes a story of the people and business practices behind the products, Hardesty said.
UC-Davis researchers recently studied supply chain solutions to problems associated with supplying locally grown product to foodservice operators.
The research showed that for distributors to be successful, they need to find the right balance of small, midscale and large producers in their networks, said Gail Feenstra, a food systems analyst at UC-Davis.
Food safety is another challenge.
“Unless smaller growers are exempt, they will need to prepare for the (good agricultural practice) standards coming down from the federal government,” she said.
To better handle the distribution and marketing challenges small growers face, aggregation hubs or regional food hubs in various forms are emerging to consolidate product.
“These may involve existing distribution warehouses, or they may involve farmers markets as the distribution or food hub,” Feenstra said.
Communicating stories about the grower may soon trump “local” in the consumer’s mind, she said.
“People want to know how their food is produced, who is producing it and what their story is,” Feenstra said. “If there’s a good communication stream, that may be the most critical element in what defines value for these value-based supply chains.”
The other four session panelists were part of one of the successful supply chain collaborations UC-Davis studied and held up as an industry example.


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DETROIT – The Harper Food Center on Detroit’s east side was burned down and destroyed in a fire that happened Saturday night.
Harper Food Center is on Harper near Chalmers. Video footage of the fire showed flames shooting from the building.
UPDATE: Detroit grocery store destroyed in large fire on city’s east side
An investigation into the cause of the fire is ongoing.
Local 4 News shot footage of the aftermath Sunday morning. The building is a complete loss.
Stay with Local 4 News and ClickOnDetroit as this story continues to develop.
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Hot Faucets Save Companies Time & People Money!
It’s an unspoken rule in the office: the start to any successful career involves doing the office coffee rounds. Recent studies have revealed, however, that this could be costing the company more than just a few minutes of the workers’ time each day.
The average time spent making warm beverages by those entering the world of work may seem menial when spread over the course of a day, but in actual fact adds up to roughly an hour each day.
This same study shows that on average, an entry level employee spends a total of five hours every week making tea and coffee for their co-workers – which works out to a whopping 12% of their time at work spent in the kitchen.
Employees in the northern parts of the UK have an even rougher deal, however, with graduates in Yorkshire dedicating more than seven hours a week getting drinks. This menial task amounts to nearly one full working day for each week of the year!
The same survey showed that men spend longer making hot beverages than women, although this was unclear as to whether they did more rounds or simply took longer to deliver the hot drinks than women did.
Another scary statistic indicated that Brits spend around £6.3bn a year on take away coffee, which works out to £122m a week nationally and – horrifyingly – £15,725 through their lifetime individually!
Since the statistics were revealed late last year, more than two thirds of coffee drinkers surveyed have said they have the intention of cutting down on their expensive habit, opting to make their own coffee in the office or at home. For some, it’s believed, choosing to do so could easily help them to save up for a holiday over the course of a year!
With such eye-opening information on how time and the cost of coffee can take its toll, it is clear why more and more people are buying water coolers with both a hot and cold water faucet for their offices and homes. Imagine how much time and money you could save yourself, and others, if you did the same? The clock’s ticking.


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Fred Razak, chief trading strategist at CMTrading, says Walmart’s intention to buy out and delist Massmart is good news for the retailer.
In August, Massmart said its board of directors reached an agreement with Walmart to buy all the shares in Massmart.
Massmart is one of South Africa’s largest and most prominent retailers and owns top brands like Makro, Game, and Builders.
Walmart offered R62 per share – a 53% premium to the closing share price before reaching the agreement.
Razak said buying out and delisting Massmart positions the American retailer for the next five to ten years.
Massmart has had a few difficult years, and in August, it announced a 51% decline in headline earnings for the 26-week period that ended June 26.
It translates to a potential loss of R975 million compared with a R645 million loss in the previous comparable period.
These figures won’t have factored into Walmart’s decision to buy out the beleaguered retailer, said Razak.
“These deals don’t happen overnight. Ultimately, they won’t be thinking about the business for today. They are thinking five to ten years down the line,” said Razak.
“Walmart is Amazon’s biggest rival. While Walmart is a retailer and Amazon is a digital presence, they compete for the same people’s attention.”
Africa is one of the fastest growing population areas in the world, which makes it a future battleground for big retailers.
Walmart’s contention is that the retail experience still has much to offer, particularly in emerging markets like Africa.
“Amazon is restricted when it comes to feeling and touching the products. In rural areas, people still like to go into a store and see what’s on offer,” he said.
Razak explained that Walmart’s vetting regarding the quality of products and brand standards would also help them to expand in Africa.
He believes Massmart’s challenges go beyond logistics disruptions during the pandemic and the KwaZulu-Natal looting.
He said long-term mismanagement also played a role and that it would take time to fully position the brands for expansion.
“Mismanagement doesn’t necessarily mean being corrupt about how they allocate the funds,” he said.
It can include losing clients, not maintaining high customer satisfaction standards and a lack of sales morale.
Razak believes that while changes will be implemented slowly in the Massmart stable, most stores won’t be closed down, and its brands won’t vanish from the South African retail space.
“To build a recognisable brand takes decades, and Walmart won’t want to give that up,” he said.
“I don’t think they will change the names, but they will do brand refreshes alongside new logos,” he said.
He added that the Walmart culture is geared toward maximising retail, and that’s what people will see in South Africa.
“New, highly efficient versions of the brands we knew before expanding into Africa and potentially dominating the space much as they do elsewhere.”


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Spartanburg man's idea for game turns into bonanza
Michael Hicks just has to laugh sometimes.
It was four years ago that the Spartanburg man picked up a dryer hose and a golf ball and invented Accuthrow -- a game of dexterity and skill that captivated adults and children, boys and girls alike.
It developed a small following in independent toy stores across the Upstate and word began to spread until hundreds, and then thousands, were sold.
Now, Accuthrow is everywhere.
It was one of the most-popular items at the recent International Toy Show in New York.
The toy has been on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, the CBS Early Show and QVC.
Hicks has been featured in Playthings and Inventors Digest magazines.
And thousands of the simple toys, which come in blue and red, are flying off the shelves at eight Upstate Wal-Marts at $6.94 each.
"It's been a lot of work, perseverance and effort," Hicks said. "Sometimes I just laugh. It's just a tube and a ball. But it's easy and challenging at the same time. It's good wholesome fun for the whole family.
"And it's addictive. When you do it once, you're going to go for two."
Hicks said the end-aisle placement in area Wal-Marts, which also display videos of how the toy is played, has helped sales skyrocket.
While he didn't give specific numbers, Hicks said he has already sold 10 times as many Accuthrows in the first five months of this year as he did in all of 2002.
Hicks said the Accuthrow was recently recognized with an official U.S. patent.
And those numbers are just going to keep growing.
A new tube and ball design have made the product what Hicks envisioned when he "first thought of it."
While one color, yellow, has already been phased out by weak sales, a purple toy should
be out this year.
Wal-Mart will soon put Accuthrows in as many as 24 stores. And the major retailer is considering putting the toy in more than 500 stores across the region.
Market Link Industries, the Spartanburg-based sales force behind Accuthrow, is talking with Kmart, Toys 'R' Us and other major retailers about placing the product in their stores.
Accuthrows are already available in Canada through one distributor and may be available in Germany, Spain and other parts of Europe by year's end.
And QVC is thinking about bringing Hicks back on for another spot - more than 4,000 sold in six and a-half minutes of airtime the first time.
"And that was during Oprah," said Hicks of the TV goddess that commands nearly 25 percent of the 80 million afternoon viewers.
The success does not come as a surprise to Joanne Hayes-Rines, publisher and editor of the Boston-based Investors Digest.
Hayes-Rines compared the Accuthrow, which will be featured in the July/August issue of the magazine, to the Frisbee and yo-yo as toys that can be simple to pick up but challenging at the same time.
"All consumer products, it's better if you can understand it quickly," she said. "You only have about five seconds of that shopper's attention. If they have to pick it up and read the directions, they're not going to be taking it with them."
It's all pretty heady for Hicks, who spends many days delivering Accuthrows to area retailers.
The evenings are spent filling out paperwork, handling the toy's Web site (www.accuthrow.com) and spending time with his 15-year-old son, who holds the current single-person Accuthrow record with 377.
"It's a lot of 15-hour days," said Hicks, who said he wanted to invent something useful to keep from working long, hard days.
His son's record will be in jeopardy later this summer, when Hicks is planning to hold a day-long Accuthrow exhibition and contest in Spartanburg.
He hopes to establish records for single-users, multiple-users and tricks at that time.
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In a hilarious turn of events on the launch of Alphabet, now the parent company of Google, Microsoft has trolled Alphabet’s domain: abc.xyz
Microsoft has (according to unconfirmed reports) registered domains resembling closely to the newly launched Alphabet site:
The sites redirect the users to Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, as the pun intended names were noticed by the internet community recently.
Alphabet has already been trolled by the similar naming troll domain by Microsoft and China’s ban on the Alphabet site over censorship issues when it was less than a day old.
The screenshots attached verify that the IP location (highlighted in red) of abc.wtf and ASN indeed belong to the Redmond-based Microsoft.
What will be the future of the .xyz domains registered by the Microsoft is unknown so far. Microsoft has not commented on the matter.
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Specialising in tensile fabric and ETFE from facilities in South Wales: Architen Landrell joins Made in Britain.
Established in 1984, Architen Landrell manufacture tensile fabric structures, ETFE foil cushion roofing and lightweight membrane cladding. The company exports their products around the world and have completed more than five thousand successful installations, with 48 countries being home to an Architen Landrell structure.
Christopher Rowell, Managing Director said: “As the only ETFE foil cushion manufacturer in the UK, and the largest and most experienced tensile fabric manufacturers in the UK, we’re thrilled to have the recognition that our products are all ‘Made in Britain’ and we are proud to continue a long history of British manufacturing.”
Architen Landrell will use the Made in Britain mark on their website, sales literature, quotations and manuals.


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The iPhone 7 has not been released yet, but the Apple fans are already talking about the upcoming iPhone 8. Today we will talk about this upcoming device and some of the features that it will most likely come with.
iPhone 8 to come with a n AMOLED display
According to reports, Apple has been negotiating with Samsung in order to bring the AMOLED technology to the iPhone. In other words, there are high chances that we will see an AMOLED display on the iPhone 8.
It is good to know that the AMOLED display technology uses way less power than the LCD ones, which means that Apple will be able to extend the battery life on its upcoming smartphones, if they will use these new displays manufactured by Samsung.
A Unique Waterproofing Patent
Back in November 2015, Apple has filed a new patent which means that the iPhone 8 could come with a unique waterproofing technology. The patent application has been filed under the number of 20150326959 and has a “Liquid expulsion from an orifice” title. This new technology will use a new mechanism that will enable the iPhone 8 to dry itself by just pumping liquid out of it via the speaker grilles.
Apple will most likely significantly boost the specifications of the iPhone 8. First of all, the RAM will be boosted up to 4GB and new powerful A11 processor will be added. At the same time, a DSLR camera will most likely be added along with a wireless charging feature and lithium-air batteries. Without any doubts, the iPhone 8 will be a revolutionary smartphone and there will be a good amount of people who will want to purchase it, even if it will most likely be very expensive.
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Property developer Lend Lease has rolled out a New Zealand shopping centre fund, The Australian reports. The fund has been launched with four properties worth $153 million that the company secured through its last year’s acquisition of ING Retail Property Fund.
The four centers comprise three Dress Smart outlet centres in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, and the Meridian Mall, the largest central shopping centre in Dunedin. The properties will seed the Lend Lease Real Estate Partners New Zealand Fund, a wholesale investment fund, in which the company will have a 5.3 percent investment.
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Tesla Loses Almost $700 Billion of Market Value in Just 12-Months
As first reported by Yahoo Finance, Tesla has lost more than $670 Billion in market value after it plunged from more than $1.2 trillion to $530 billion in the last 12 months. In relative terms, that’s roughly two Metas, three Disneys, four Nikes, or the entire value of Berkshire Hathaway in value.
The news is shocking, however, hardly surprising given that Tesla was once valued higher than every car company on earth combined despite selling nearly 2 million fewer cars than GM. And while profits have risen considerably in recent months, the brand’s future is teetering on the brink with court filings in California labelling the technology as nothing more than false advertising.
While Musk continues to distract himself by scaring away advertisers on Twitter, competition is increasing in the EV space. Volkswagen, Audi, Polestar, and even smaller manufacturers such as Rivian and Lucid are proving Tesla’s technology is no longer head and shoulders above its peers – let’s not forget Tesla relies solely on camera technology, no Lidar.
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Serving as a distraction, Elon’s $44 Billion takeover of Twitter has flown a red flag for his management style. The Conversation details Musk’s “extremely hardcore” style of management recalling his recent mismanagement of employees, including the laying off of around 3,700 employees (roughly half of the workforce), stopping employees from working from home, and cancelling employee lunches.
This took a turn for the worst on November 17th, 2022, when Musk sent an email to staff asking for a commitment to a self-described “extremely hardcore” Twitter that “will mean working long hours at a high intensity”.
In the email, employees were given less than 24 hours to respond, or take a severance package. So many employees ended up leaving (around 500 staff reportedly said goodbye) that Twitter locked all staff out of the office until the following Monday.
Investors at all ends of the market are hesitant to spend, dumping Tesla amidst inflation and a cost of living crisis. And while Elon Musk continues to incessantly remind investors that Tesla’s record profits are going to happen in the future, his marketing spiel is beginning to fall on deaf ears.
It’s becoming increasingly clear that we’re years away from full self-driving capabilities, the Tesla Cybertruck may never happen, and the Tesla Roadster is but a pipe dream. No amount of ‘affordable’ Tesla Model 2 news has done enough to shift the stock price and with Elon preoccupied with Twitter, it’s not hard to see how Tesla has lost more than $670 Billion in market value.
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Kenya’s fruits and vegetable export defied the effects of Coronavirus to rise by Sh5 billion.
According to the Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Kenya (FPEAK), between January and June this year, the sector earned Sh81 billion compared to Sh76 billion in the same period last year.
The organization CEO Hosea Machuki noted that despite the pandemic that hit the European Union (EU) leading to lockdown, demand for vegetables and fruits was still high.
He said that the sector was making between Sh9 billion-12 billion every month adding that they expect this to rise to Sh15 billion in September.
“The pandemic adversely affected the agriculture sector but the exports of vegetables and fruits earned the country Sh81B at the height of the crisis,” he said.
Hosea termed the high flight charges and the attacks of fresh produce by a moth as two of the major challenges currently facing the sector.
“We have seen an increase in the number of interceptions of export produce in the EU and we are working with KEPHIS to address this,” he said.
At the same time, The Kenya Flower Council is projecting that the floriculture sector will fully recover by mid next year from the effects of COVID-19 pandemic.
Already, flower exports stand at 70 percent from a low of 30 percent at the height of the pandemic which saw the collapse of the Dutch auction and lockdown in Europe.
According to the KFC Chief Executive Officer Tulezi, the sector was on the recovery trail with the EU market opening up following the recent lockdown.
Speaking in Naivasha after meeting stakeholders, Tulezi noted that the only drawback was the slow recovery at the Dutch auction.
“We are projecting that we shall recover by June 2021 and already farmers have recalled their entire workforce following the troubled period,” he said.
On flights, he said that farmers were currently paying double compared to the period before the pandemic hit the world.
He said that the government was yet to release the Sh1.5B stimulus funds towards cushioning flower farmers from the effects of the pandemic.
“We wanted the funds to be used to cushion farmers from the high cost of flight charges but the government is non-committal to this,” he said.
Tulezi added that the pandemic was an eye-opener to the sector adding that some farms would be forced to merge and others close down.
“COVID-19 has exposed our vulnerability and we shall have to address and reduce the cost of production to survive,” he said.


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Intl prices of Indian saffron sky high
As Afghanistan’s saffron exports were hit after the Taliban took over, the prices of Indian saffron skyrocketed in the international market from Rs 1.4 lakh per kg a few months ago to Rs 2.25 lakh per kg. In India, 12 metric tonnes of saffron is grown in four districts in Jammu and Kashmir– Pulwama, Budgam, Srinagar and Kishtwar. The world’s most expensive spice is used in food, perfume, dyes, and for medicinal purposes.
“Saffron producers (in India) are flooded with enquiries from the US, Belgium, New Zealand, Canada and the Gulf nations,” Mohammad Qasim Ghani, Joint Director, Agriculture Extension, Kashmir stated. “Iranian saffron prices, too, have become expensive by Rs 30,000 per kg in the Indian market since the supply side from Afghanistan dried up,” commented Nisar Ahmad Dar, cofounder of Pampore-based Al Ansar Saffron & Dry Fruits. Meanwhile Vijay Kumar Bhuta, president of the Bombay Dry Fruits and Date Merchants Association hopes that India’s trade with Afghanistan will normalise soon.


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The SABC, South Africa’s public broadcaster, has partnered with The Loeries, Africa and the Middle East’s premier brand communications festival, in support of growing creative excellence in Film and the Radio & Audio categories.
The Loeries Film and the Radio & Audio categories attract a number of entries from around the region and the SABC will support the work being done by the Loeries to further enhance and bolster the creative product that is aimed at consumers.
“Creativity and advertising are two permanent features that are at the heart of the SABC and the SABC is extremely excited to revive our relationship with the Loeries through this partnership,” says Dichaba Phalatse, marketing manager, Video Entertainment SABC.
Africa and Middle East has a thriving Film and Radio & Audio industry and there will be a dedicated awards evening to recognise those who are creating the most innovative work in these categories. The Loeries Film & Radio Awards in partnership with SABC, to be held during Loeries Creative Week, promises a night of excitement where the work and people of the industry will be celebrated at a red-carpet event.
“We are excited to have the SABC join us again as a partner, ” says Loeries CEO, Preetesh Sewraj, “This partnership will help support the Film and Radio & Audio industry, across Africa and the Middle East, by helping shine a spotlight on the brands, agencies and production companies that are pushing creative innovation forward.”
The 2023 edition of The Loeries will once again recognise brand communication that arises from innovative thinking with the goal of enhancing the consumer experience when they engage with brands and their advertising content.
Work that was commercially published, launched or aired to a substantial audience from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023 is eligible to enter if it was created within the Africa Middle East Region or exclusively for the region. The Loeries celebrates 45 years of rewarding creativity and Loeries Creative Week will be held in the City of Cape Town in October 2023.
Visit loeries.com for information on how to enter. Entry deadline is 31 May 2023.
The Loeries, a non-profit company, is Africa and the Middle East’s premiere initiative that recognises, rewards, inspires and fosters creative excellence in the brand communication industry. As the highest accolade for creativity and innovation across our region, the Loeries promotes and supports creativity by helping marketers, agencies and consumers appreciate the value of ideas and fresh thinking.
Culminating in the biggest creative gathering across the region, Loeries Creative Week brings together the best innovative minds from our industry for a festival of networking, inspiring minds and recognising great work.
The Loeries is the only award across Africa and the Middle East that informs the global WARC Creative 100, a showcase for the best creative work in the world. Successor to the prestigious Gunn Report, WARC collates the most important advertising awards from around the world to produce a global list that ranks the most creative companies and campaigns.


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Friday, November 29, 2013
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MORROW — Hundreds of people hoping to get their Black Friday shopping done early began camping out at the Old Navy check-out lines in Morrow after their Thanksgiving dinner Thursday.
The line snaked around the store with customers clutching their sale items, and despite the holiday delays, were laughing and chatting with their fellow check-out line mates as they waited for more than an hour.
Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving and is widely considered the official start of the Christmas shopping season in the United States.
In recent years, retailers even began opening extremely early or the night before offering promotional sales to kick off the holiday shopping season.
Extreme shoppers have also been known to camp out in front of major retailers the night before to guarantee access to the store when it opened, however there were no reports of this kind of activity this year in Clayton County.


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- The NFT marketplace is now integrated into the Ethereum Layer 2 protocol, Polygon, as it aims to expand into the blockchain gaming ecosystem.
- Magic Eden’s profile keeps rising within the crypto space even though it only started operations last year.
The popular cross-chain NFT marketplace, Magic Eden, is now part of the Polygon ecosystem as it looks to expand the development of exciting blockchain games and brand onboarding into the Web3 space.
Polygon welcomes Magic Eden
With its entry into the Polygon ecosystem, the NFT marketplace will utilize the Polygon network to dive deeper into the blockchain gaming and NFT spaces. In addition, the expansion will provide the fast-rising NFT platform with the ability to support Polygon’s range of features and serve its developers and creators.
Already, the collaboration has exposed Magic Eden to strategic partnerships with other world-class developers in the blockchain gaming industry. So far, the NFT marketplace has partnered with Kakao Games, Boomland, Block Games, and others to debut another exciting gaming project on the Polygon Launchpad in December.
The Polygon protocol is home to some of the industry’s largest Web3 gaming projects, such as Ubisoft, Atari, Decentraland, Animoca Brands, and The Sandbox. In addition, the Ethereum Layer 2 protocol has partnered with other non-crypto-related firms like the social media giant Instagram, Disney, Stripe, and Starbucks.
Zhuoxun Yin, the co-founder of Magic Eden, noted that the integration into Polygon is an exciting phase in the history of the NFT marketplace. Magic Eden’s drive is to achieve a multi-chain future to facilitate the platform’s rising profile in the digital asset industry.
With this integration, Magic Eden would further onboard other global brands and new users into its ecosystem and continue pushing Web3 games to fans. Polygon also has a host of other Web3 players as partners. Hence, Magic Eden is proud to find itself among them as it strives to discover additional utilities for NFTs.
The Polygon network currently supports over 37,000 decentralized apps (dApps); it also has close to 1.8 billion in processed transactions, as revealed by the information on its website. Furthermore, Magic Eden’s partnership with Polygon could pave the way for the NFT platform to leverage the added opportunities in the ecosystem to expand its reach.
Magic Eden’s rising profile
Launched in September 2021, Magic Eden has witnessed rapid growth in a reasonably short period. It has an average of 10 million active user activities per month, with more than 20,000 traded NFTs daily. Despite the current market correction, the NFT marketplace continues to record steady market performance to consolidate its position as a fast-rising NFT platform in the industry.
In June 2022, Magic Eden raised $130 million in a fundraising event, pushing its market valuation to $1.6 billion. Meanwhile, the platform’s current valuation is more than $2.5 billion in net NFT trading volume. However, the general NFT market has been in a bearish phase for most of the year as the total NFT sales continued to plummet consecutively for months since April, per multiple on-chain data.
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Aldi creating 200 Bathgate jobs amid boost for suppliers
Discount grocer Aldi today said it would be creating up to 200 jobs in West Lothian as it pledged to boost its range of Scottish food and drink produce.
The German-owned supermarket, which already works with more than 80 of the country’s suppliers, said the number of products sourced from Scotland would rise from 350 to more than 400 over the next two years.
Its pledge was announced at a supplier conference in Glasgow, attended by more than 200 delegates, where it also announced plans to invest £22 million in new chill facilities at its Bathgate headquarters – which recently underwent a multimillion-pound extension – in a move that will create up to 200 jobs.
By the end of this year, Aldi’s store network in Scotland will total 78, bringing its workforce to more than 2,600. The group is set to open a new branch in Dumfries at the end of this month, with others to follow in Drumchapel, Montrose, Fort William and two in Edinburgh – in Oxgangs and the Cameron Toll shopping centre.
Giles Hurley, the retailer’s managing director for UK & Ireland, said: “We have seen our customer numbers in Scotland increase by a staggering 280 per cent since 2010.
“Over the coming years, as we increase our range of Scottish products, we expect to grow our market share considerably and attract even more shoppers into stores.”


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Floki collaborates with Binance Pay
Floki Inu is an innovative project that seeks to promote crypto adoption. Floki Inu has come together with Binance Pay to make Flokis available for purchase and use.
According to a Floki tweet, this collaboration will allow Floki users to purchase goods and services across the Floki ecosystem.
Additionally, this partnership will work towards bringing cryptocurrencies closer to mainstream users by opening up access to the Floki community. And allowing them to benefit from digital assets.
Floki Inu is committed to making cryptocurrency more accessible and user-friendly. With this collaboration between Floki Inu and Binance Pay, users can now easily and securely make transactions using Flokis.
It is hoped that these combined efforts will help drive further crypto adoption more simply and securely. We are confident that Floki Inu and Binance Pay will continue to make great strides in the cryptocurrency space together.
Additionally, Floki users can now make transactions with merchants around the world using Flokis as well as other cryptocurrencies; supported by Binance Pay. This is a key step towards greater financial inclusion and we are proud to be part of this journey.
With Floki Inu’s collaboration with Binance Pay. Floki users now have access to an efficient, convenient and secure payment system for their everyday needs. The Floki team looks forward to continuing the joint efforts in driving global crypto adoption further.
With this collaboration, Floki Inu continues its mission of making digital assets accessible to everyday people and businesses. The Floki team is excited to be taking part in the revolutionary changes, that Floki Inu and Binance Pay; will bring about in the world of digital payments.
About Shop Floki
Floki Inu is a global financial technology company that enables businesses to accept payments and manage their finances in cryptocurrencies. Floki has been at the forefront of driving global cryptocurrency adoption.
And it continues to do so by partnering with industry-leading companies like Binance Pay. Floki Inu strives to make digital currency accessible and secure for everyone.
About Binance Pay
Binance Pay is a secure and fast payment platform that enables merchants to accept payments in cryptocurrencies. It supports 30+ cryptocurrencies, including Floki tokens, as well as eight fiat currencies.
With its low fees and easy-to-use interface, Binance Pay is becoming the preferred choice for many businesses worldwide.
Floki Inu and Binance Pay are both committed to making cryptocurrency a mainstream payment option. Floki tokens can now be easily accepted by merchants via the Binance Pay platform. Helping to expand Floki’s reach and increase global crypto adoption.
Floki and Binance are confident that this collaboration will help accelerate the growth of digital payments worldwide.
What do you about this collaboration between Floki and Binance Pay? Please do tell us in the comment section!


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It seems like Palworld fatigue would be setting in on the internet after the whirlwind few days the game has experienced since entering Early Access on January 19. Yet, the game is gaining popularity, having eclipsed six million units sold in just four days. Palworld has become a massive hit in Asia, helping the game to an all-time peak of 1,864,421 concurrent players. This surpasses Counter-Strike 2’s record of 1,818,773, placing Palworld in second place all-time, behind PUBG: Battlegrounds’ 3,257,248. It will probably be difficult for Palworld to supplant that record, but the game is still continuing to grow its playerbase.
Our team has spent a lot of time in Palworld, and we published our first impressions of the game yesterday. We’re really excited to see what developer Pocketpair is going to do with its newfound success, as the game could definitely benefit from some new features and enhancements. However, for its price, Palworld offers an impressive amount of content.


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2021 Tesla Model Y pictures
Introducing the 2021 Tesla Model Y
2021 Model Y: Tesla Unveils its Affordable Crossover EV, Set to Debut in Fall 2020
Tesla has unveiled its Model Y all-electric crossover, set to hit the market in fall 2020 with an initial starting price of $68,000 and 450 km of range. Two more-affordable versions will be produced for spring 2021.


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Greater China is now Apple’s number two market after North America, comprising 24% of its business. In October, Apple CEO Tim Cook told investors he expects Greater China will eventually become the company’s top global market. To be sure, Apple faces challenges in Greater China. Sales in the region rose 14% in the company’s first fiscal quarter ended December 26 to $18.4 billion, compared to 70% in the same period a year ago. In a January earnings call, Cook said Apple is starting to see “signs of economic softness” in Greater China. Does the tech giant have staying power in what is now its number two market?
At times controversial, China’s Anti-Monopoly Law is playing an increasingly important role in the country
Apple China is back in the reckoning; Walmart announces brave expansion plan and Alibaba gives the YunOS a renewed push.
Multinationals in China are coming under increased scrutiny due to allegations of tax evasion.
What does the prominence of successful business women, despite pressures from society and family, say about the glass ceiling in China?
This week, China’s factory activity improved a little even as factory employment figures slumped; Adobe announced its intention to shutter its China R&D center while other MNCs remain upbeat; and the Alibaba share price fell after last week’s spectacular IPO.
In China’s fast-changing business environment, multinational companies are finding it increasingly hard to compete with Chinese companies. Our experts offer strategy tips that will help MNCs navigate China’s business landscape. Multinational companies (MNCs) in China are finding it hard to navigate what is an increasingly rough terrain. The economy is slowing, the cost of doing business in China is rising, and to add […]
A combination of factors such as a slowing Chinese economy, rising costs, lethal competition and increased government scrutiny are changing the dynamics of business for MNCs in China. How should they cope? In the past three decades, China was the place to be for multinational companies (MNCs): a cheap labor force, effective infrastructure and an increasingly […]
In China’s increasingly competitive cosmetics market who will come out ahead and who should re-evaluate? Stepping into the cosmetics section of any Shanghai-based department store means entering a brightly lit wonderland of shiny displays, impossibly beautiful faces plastered on the wall, and a barrage of demonstrations. Groups of young, fashionable girls cluster around the stands, trying […]
Patrick Horgan, Regional Director, North-East Asia, on how Rolls-Royce diversified in China. Unknown to many, China’s engagement with Rolls-Royce, the iconic British multinational company, goes back nearly a century. In 1919 the first airmail service between Beijing and Tianjin was powered by Rolls-Royce engines on a Handley Page aircraft. In 1963, Rolls-Royce sold Dart engines […]


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Will! Microsoft could see upside from Xbox sales-analyst Wednesday December 11, 6:10 pm ET
LOS ANGELES, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - News) should see its current quarter results lifted by the strong holiday season performance of its Xbox video game console and related game software, an analyst said on Wednesday.
Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Charles Di Bona, in a research note, said Microsoft stood to benefit from higher sales of more profitable game software even as discounts cut into its revenues from sales of the money-losing Xbox console itself.
"Preliminary reports from retailers indicate that game software is moving extremely well this holiday season as discount-driven console sales through the fall have boosted the installed base," Di Bona said.
Hang in there. gme will be the next star bucks. Sales are booming. The fools of the world are still chasing these ridiculously high priced tech stocks and paying no attention to the companies that are actually making money with real growth. This is a 30 dollar stock within a year. Don't let them sucker you out of your shares in the next day or two when Christmas retail sales suck. It is gonna happen. I hope we dip down to 15 or so and I will buy all I can. This is the real deal folks.


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A screenshot from the Castro commercial 'Where is the dress from?'.
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It doesn’t matter if the commercials are for clothing, food, kitchen appliances or even water. Advertisements in Israel repeatedly and persistently feature sexist themes and harmful gender stereotypes.
Ahead of International Women’s Day, the Women’s International Zionist Organization (WIZO) has released its annual ranking of the most sexist commercials in Israel last year.
In the top spot? A controversial Castro ad titled "Where is the dress from?"
The commercial, starring Castro presenter and TV host Rotem Sela, showed Sela kidnapping, robbing, murdering and burying the body of a young woman who refused to tell her where she bought her dress. The ad garnered so many complaints that it was barred from airing on Israeli television by Israel’s TV authority.
“This ad was ranked first place by WIZO because of its use of violent motifs to justify chasing after a sexy item of clothing,” the organization said in a statement. “The commercial reinforces and promotes gender stereotypes that women are ready to kill each other over a dress, and that their only interests are their external appearances.”
In second place, WIZO ranked a pair of anti-gambling PSAs from Mifal Hapayis, Israel’s national lottery. One of the commercials featured a woman so obsessed with shopping that she ignored her boyfriend’s proposal and shrugged over him dumping her, while the second featured a man so addicted to his phone that he didn’t pay attention during couple’s therapy or the birth of his child. WIZO said it was even worse to see such stereotypes be reinforced in an ad from a public body.
WIZO rounded out its top five worst offenders of the year with an ad for faucets that reimagined the faucet options as naked men being admired by a woman; a commercial from the chain Hatzi Hinam (Half Free) that features two women fighting over feeding a man on Passover; and an ad for a diet system, which claims that every woman’s greatest fantasy is to lose weight.
In addition to the 2018 rankings, WIZO included a top three worst offenders list for the past decade. Topping the list is a 2009 commercial for the Mei Eden in-home water dispenser. The ad features a half-naked Bar Refaeli lying across the kitchen counter, attempting to seduce the man in the house into drinking water.
That ad, WIZO said, “displays a submissive feminine image, a servant, confined to the kitchen... minimizing and determining the place of the woman as required to satisfy the will of the man.”
Despite the offending campaigns, WIZO CEO Gila Oshrat is still hopeful that the trend is heading in a positive direction.
“Over the past decade, there have been huge changes in the presentation of women in commercials,” said Oshrat. “Today we see less pornographic representation or reinforced stereotypes in advertisements.” However, Oshrat said, the problem still remains, and “there is no doubt that this infiltrates us as a society and distorts our social perceptions, especially among young people... we hope that the advertising market will adopt a higher level of self-regulation to prevent sexist advertising, which no longer has any place in our lives.”
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LOS ANGELES — VR Bangers’ has released its newest 6K UHD scene, “Sorority Hookup: Wanna Cum Buying?” to launch its Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday and Cyber Monday revenue with a batch of attractive schoolgirls.
“Sorority Hookup: Wanna Cum Buying?” attributes Scarlit Scandal, Kenzie Reeves, Vanna Bardot and Morgana Rain as co-ed shoplifters out to really save for the duration of their Black Friday buying spree, but “they’ll be caught red-handed and punished for their crimes in VRB’s attractive fashion,” mentioned a organization rep.
“Even even though saving some income on a new iPhone or tv is nice, paying out significantly less for porn is constantly even more enjoyable, specially when it includes reductions on VRBangers.com, VRBGay.com and VRBTrans.com,” the rep notes.
The offers cover everything from particular lifetime memberships, two-for-a single provides and other reductions on the sites’ normal charges.
“We would not be VR Bangers if we did not celebrate Black Friday and Cyber Monday with a blast,” mentioned producer Roman Lit. “Personally, I am most hyped about our newest VR porn scene which is variety of a spin-off of the ‘Sorority Hookup’ saga.”
“Our oldest followers should definitely enjoy this idea as significantly as I do!” Lit enthused. “The newest virtual reality porn film mixed with lowered charges of our solutions should be a purpose excellent sufficient to persuade all the horny guys to join, rejoin or extend their membership on VRBangers.com!”