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Hints for Homebuilders Videos Now Online
March 6, 2008 — In keeping with EAA's efforts to offer knowledge and information in the most user-friendly and readily available ways, EAA has created Hints for Homebuilders, a series of short videos that are now available online. Subjects for these initial videos were selected and developed by EAA staff and member volunteers.
"EAA has always been about sharing knowledge among members, and these new video tips are just another way of doing that, taking advantage of the opportunities the Internet provides," said Charlie Becker, director of EAA's member programs. "We're hoping to develop an entire catalog of tips, tricks, and alternative methods that will be valuable to EAA members."
There are currently five videos on display that include tips for composite, tube and fabric, sheet metal, and wood construction methods as well as a general category. A new video "hint" will be added each week and highlighted in e-Hotline. EAA is also asking its members to suggest tips that can be included in the collection.
"The vision for this online video project is that members will submit ideas for building techniques, shop tips, or anything that will make construction of a project easier.or perhaps a subject for which they'd like more detailed instructional information," Becker said. "We're looking for a broad range of tips that appeal to someone just starting out in homebuilding as well as the experienced builder. Remember, if something's new to you, it's new to others as well."
To submit ideas for future Hints for Homebuilders, e-mail Info@EAA.org and please put "Hints" in the subject line. Meanwhile, check out the videos now available online, and look for a new tip every week!


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INDIA: Renault plans entry level car, eyes greater market share
Renault is planning to launch an entry level car in India, with a launch expected by 2015, as it looks to bolster its market share up to 5%, CarDekho.com reported.
The company looks to develop vehicles that will match the car purchasing habits of Indian customers.
Renault, which unveiled its KWID concept at Auto Expo 2014 in New Delhi, will produce the upcoming small car in India, The Economic Times reported. The underpinnings of the new car could be shared with the redi-GO, according to CarDekho.com.
Meanwhile, Renault also plans to tap the MPV market in the country. It is likely to launch the [Dacia] Lodgy in India.

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SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Yonhap) — Hyundai Motor Co. said Friday its compact Kona Electric sport utility vehicle has set a record travel range on a single battery charge in Germany.
The Kona Electric traveled 1,026 kilometers on a single charge in a test at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz, a racetrack in the northern region of Brandenburg, from July 22-24, the company said in a statement.
Hyundai tested three Kona Electric models with the goal of traveling at least 1,000 km between recharges. Two other models also achieved a travel range of 1,024.1 km and 1,018.7 km on the racetrack.
Drivers took turns to drive the models until their 64 kilowatt-hour battery capacity ran out, without turning on air conditioning and infotainment systems, despite hot temperatures, the statement said.
They then drove for 35 hours around the racetrack at an average speed of 30 km per hour, achieving average fuel efficiency of 16 km/h, it said.
The test was held in cooperation with German automotive publisher Auto Bild, and it was independently monitored by Dekra, which operates the Lausitz racetrack.
The Kona Electric with the 64 kWh battery can usually travel about 400 km on a single charge on city roads.
From January to July, Hyundai sold a total of 204,737 vehicles in Europe, with the Kona Electric accounting for 8.1 percent of them, or 16,511 units.
Hyundai has produced the all-electric model at its plant in the Czech Republic since March, to better respond to rising demand for environment friendly vehicles in Europe.
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Malaysian textile manufacturers are looking forward with optimism at the parliamentary endorsement of the TPP at the end of January as the industry can grow by at least 30 percent with the implementation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement said Malaysian Textile Manufacturers Association (MTMA) president Datuk Seri Tan Thian Poh at a press conference after a dialogue on potential economic impact of TPP on Malaysiaâ€™s textile and apparel industry, here, yesterday.
It has been a long wait for the industry since the negotiations started in 2010 and the industry is hopeful that the governmentâ€™s decision on TPP would be worth the wait.
MTMA was involved in the TPP negotiations at various levels, providing industry expectations, reference, technical assistance and support to Malaysiaâ€™s negotiation team.
They expect TPP to bring a new breath of life to the industry. Based on the cost-benefit analysis carried out by the Institute of Strategic and International Studies and PricewaterhouseCoopers, the textile and apparel industry is expected to be the biggest gainer from the TPP, said Tan.
According to Malaysian Knitting Manufacturers Association (MKMA) president Tang Chong Chin, the textiles and apparel industry would be able to grow at least 30 per cent immediately upon implementation of the TPP agreement.
Miti deputy secretary-general (Strategy and Monitoring), Datuk J. Jayasiri, said that the United States procurement sector provided a huge market that was not previously accessible by Malaysia. Moreover , with the TPP agreement coming into effect, 72.9 percent of the textile tariff on 36.44 percent of total exports to the US would be eliminated.
Malaysian textiles and apparel companies are also getting ready to bid for supplying uniforms to the army, hospitals and schools.
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Macy's to reopen 68 stores Monday with plan to open fully by June
Macy's is planning to reopen some stores in states where restrictions placed to stem the spread of coronavirus have been lifted.
Macy's plans to open 68 stores on Monday, the company confirmed to USA TODAY on Thursday, followed by reopening approximately 50 more locations on May 11. If coronavirus rates slide and they gain approval from local and state governments, Macy's would reopen all 775 stores by the middle of June. Macy's did not specify which locations would reopen.
Details of the plan were first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
The retailer will institute several significant changes to the shopping experience, including "no-touch" consultations in beauty departments and the suspension of alteration services. Both employees and customers will be encouraged to maintain social distancing practices, and hand sanitizer stations will be available throughout stores.
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Employees at Macy's must perform wellness checks before reporting to work, and wear masks at all times. Workers "processing multiple goods or interacting with customers at high traffic registers" will wear gloves, says Macy's. The chain says frequently visited locations will be cleaned more regularly.
Macy's closed all of its stores nationwide on March 18and furloughed most of its 125,000 employees later in March.
Several states have eased restrictions enacted to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, which has infected more than 1 million people in the U.S. with a death toll over 61,000, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
The changes have prompted businesses financially hurting the pandemic to reopen some locations. Simon Property Group announced plans to reopen 49 malls in 10 states starting May 1. Meanwhile, Costco said it will return to normal operating hours at its locations but require customers and employees to wear masks.
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Virgin, Utah (August 8, 2018) – Red Bull Rampage is mountain biking’s truest test of skill and mental toughness. Featuring the sport’s best athletes and set in one of the most demanding locations on the planet, the event has evolved over 18 years to become freeride mountain biking’s most coveted title.
The 2019 edition promises to be the best spectator and athlete experience in the event’s history. Today, the near-complete lineup of those world-class athletes has been set, comprised of 10 pre-qualified and 8 invited Wild Card riders. Riders like Reece Wallace and Gee Atherton have competed in the past but haven’t been part of the mix for a few years will return and look to mix it up with veterans like Cam Zink, Carson Storch and Graham Agassiz.
The pre-qualified riders earned their right to compete in 2019 by finishing in the top 10 in last year’s Red Bull Rampage. The remaining eight riders who make up the Wild Card athletes were chosen by a Red Bull Rampage Committee — consisting of pro riders Cam McCaul, Aaron Chase, Nico Vink, Randy Spangler, Dave Smutok along with event organizer Todd Barber — and invited based on the following criteria: past results from similar big bike contests, proven skill, and current video segments.
2018 PRE-QUALIFIED ATHLETES (2018 Top 10)
- Brett Rheeder (CAN)
- Andreu Lacondeguy (SPA)
- Ethan Nell (USA)
- Tom van Steenbergen (CAN)
- Thomas Genon (BEL)
- Tyler McCaul (USA)
- Kyle Strait (USA)
- Szymon Godziek (POL)
- Kurt Sorge (CAN)
- Brendan Fairclough (UK)
RED BULL RAMPAGE 2018 WILD CARD ENTRIES
With the edition of the Marzocchi Proving Grounds many of the still hopeful Wild Card athletes will receive a final chance to earn a spot to this year’s Rampage. This event will take place September 6-8 near Bend, OR., and will allow athletes like Emil Johansson, Jaxson Riddle, Max Fredriksson and for the first time a female Casey Brown the opportunity to compete on the world’s biggest freeride platform. The event will be on a totally new, custom-made course that will mimic Rampage-type features including huge drops, doubles and rhythm sections. For more details on athletes attending and ticketing information visit www.h5events.com
Red Bull Rampage is supported by Kia Motors America, BFGoodrich, Utah Sports Commission and Red Hydrogen.
ABOUT RED BULL RAMPAGE
Featuring a world-class broadcast team including Sal Masekela, Pat Parnell, Tina Dixon and freeride mountain biking legend Cam McCaul, Red Bull Rampage coverage begins Friday, October 25th at 9:00am PST/Noon EST, live and on-demand on Red Bull TV. Red Bull TV is distributed digitally as an app across mobile phones, tablets, consoles, OTT devices, Smart TVs and online at www.redbull.tv.
Limited tickets will go on sale later this summer — find updates at redbull.com/rampage.
ABOUT RED BULL TV
Red Bull TV features beyond the ordinary live events and videos featuring inspirational stories covering sports, music and lifestyle entertainment. Anytime, anywhere. Red Bull TV is available on the web, connected TVs, gaming consoles, mobile devices, and more. Accessible via the web atwww.redbull.tv and its Android, iOS and Windows Phone applications, Red Bull TV is also available as a pre-installed channel on Apple TV and Samsung Smart TVs and as a free, downloadable app on Amazon Fire TV, Kindle Fire, Chromecast, Nexus Player, Roku Players, Roku TV models and Xbox consoles.
ABOUT THE MARZOCCHI PROVING GROUNDS
The Marzocchi Proving Grounds presented by Five Ten will be the first official athlete qualifier for Red Bull Rampage. The event will take place at Oregon Dirt Park, just east of Bend, OR – go to www.h5events.com for more information.
ABOUT UTAH SPORTS COMMISSION:
The Utah Sports Commission is a not-for-profit 501c3 charitable organization governed by an all-volunteer Board of Trustees consisting of statewide sports, business, community, and government leaders. The Sports Commission was created to be a catalyst for Utah in its Olympic legacy efforts and to help enhance Utah’s economy, image and quality of life through the attraction, promotion and development of national and international sports. The Sports Commission works closely with communities, sports entities, and organizations to provide event services ranging from the bid process, on-site logistics, volunteer coordination, sponsorships and promotional opportunities and other related services. For more information, visit www.utahsportscommission.com


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Envi, the team of engineers charged with developing electric vehicles for Chrysler, has been disbanded. A spokesman told Reuters that development of electric cars will be integrated into the company's traditional structure. “Envi is absorbed into the normal vehicle-development program,” Chrysler spokesman Nick Cappa told the wire service.Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800
As a lack of production capacity restrains its growth, Hyundai will consider a second U.S. assembly plant. "That's something that we're going to look at," Hyundai Motor America CEO John Krafcik said last week at the Detroit auto show.Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700
Audi R8 GT Spyder - a mere £200k You didn’t think that Audi – Kings of the niche-fill – would settle for producing just 333 tin-top Audi R8 GT, did you? Of course not, so you’ve been expecting the next instalment in the race to make the most expensive Audi, and here it is – the Audi R8 GT Spyder. Just as it was with the R8 GT Coupe, the R8 GT Spyder will be limited to just 333 cars and all of those will come in LHD, even though Audi expect 30 to be sold in the UK.


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SimpliSafe Names Christian Cerda CEO
BOSTON, Dec. 03, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SimpliSafe®, maker of award-winning home security systems, today announced the appointment of Christian Cerda as CEO. Cerda is succeeding CEO Chad Laurans, who together with his wife Eleanor founded SimpliSafe in 2006. Both Chad and Eleanor will remain SimpliSafe Board Members, with Chad serving as Chairman. The changes are effective December 3, 2019.
Cerda joins SimpliSafe from iRobot, where he served as Chief Operating Officer. As COO, he was responsible for worldwide Product, Marketing, Sales and Operations. A proven leader with a passion to drive rapid scale across global markets, Cerda has also held management positions with Whirlpool, The Boston Consulting Group and Procter & Gamble.
“Chad did nothing short of disrupting a sleeping industry and create an entirely new value proposition for people seeking greater peace of mind,” said Cerda. “SimpliSafe’s technology, customer-centric view, and focus on the mission to make every home secure, positions it perfectly for driving continued rapid growth domestically and internationally. I am excited to carry the torch forward with this amazing team.”
SimpliSafe is one of Boston’s largest privately-held technology companies and winner of the most awards in the industry. The company has nearly 800 employees and protects more than 3 million people.
“Christian is the perfect person to kick SimpliSafe into an even higher gear,” said Laurans. “SimpliSafe is poised to become a true consumer technology giant. Christian’s track record of globally scaling an innovative consumer product while keeping the customer experience front and center is exactly what SimpliSafe needs to make that happen.”
About SimpliSafeSimpliSafe fundamentally changed the alarm industry, pioneering a new way to make home the safest place on earth for everyone. Founded in 2006, SimpliSafe now protects millions of people and is committed to its founding goal: to make every home secure.
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As citizen uprisings go, it was rather scrumptious. Instead of chants and bullhorns, the protest in San Francisco’s Lower Haight on Oct. 2 featured bourbon apple walnut crumble pie and Madagascar vanilla ice cream con sea salt.
Street Sweets, an unlicensed open-air food sale, was a defiant response to the city’s closure in June of the popular Underground Market, a monthly event that allowed aspiring Bay Area chefs to test their fare on thousands of local appetites. Health department officials said the market lacked permits and posed potential dangers with unsafe cooking conditions and food that was prepared without following health codes.
Vendors saw it differently: “An incubator for food start-ups,” said Willi Schrom, co-owner of Jilli Ice Cream.
“Having a thousand or so people walk by your logo and taste your stuff was great,” said Kai Kronfield, whose candy company Nosh This began at the market and is now sold in stores. “I miss it a lot.”
Street Sweets is the latest miniature “pop-up market” (others include gatherings of Vietnamese food vendors and pies-in-parks events) attempting to fill the Underground Market’s void. It also showcases the larger frustrations felt by some trying to enter the city’s vibrant food community.
Interviews with a dozen people involved with food start-ups said the city’s rules make it expensive and difficult to be entrepreneurial — hence many try to avoid the city’s permitting system entirely.
Indeed, the city can seem to overstep.
Paula Tejeda, owner of The Girl from Empanada, said that when she tested the market by selling her stuffed breads from a basket carried around the Mission, she was confronted by city officials who demanded to know if she was collecting sales tax properly.
“Their badge in hand, they then asked me where can they find the Tamale Lady,” Ms. Tejeda said. “How insane is that?”
Such confrontations are not just reserved for aspiring food professionals. On Oct. 1 a small bake sale in Golden Gate Park by parents to benefit the Rocky Mountain Participation Nursery School, a preschool serving 22 children, was shut down for lacking a permit.
“If there was some expedited and lower-cost permit system, then we’d be interested,” said Daniel Ransom, a parent, adding that the annual bake sale raises just $1,500. “But as it stands it’s a very complicated and bureaucratic process.”
Sharon Miller, executive director of the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, a local nonprofit organization that assists fledgling businesses, said San Francisco is among the nation’s most expensive cities for start-ups, especially food, in part because of fees and permits and a labyrinthine system not clearly explained to beginners.
“There’s less openness on how people can get started,” Ms. Miller said. “It’s really hard for small businesses.”
Rajiv Bhatia, director of environmental health at the city’s health department, which inspects and regulates eating establishments, said that the rules are not too strict. “We’re very supportive of creative business enterprises,” Dr. Bhatia said.
But he seemed dismayed that the city closed a preschool bake sale. “The laws are designed for people trying to make a living doing this,” he said.
Food sellers who pursue substantial revenue, he said, should be able to rent commercial kitchen space (for as little as $20 per hour) and follow health codes that protect the public from food-borne illnesses.
As proof of the effectiveness of the city’s rules, Dr. Bhatia said that from 2006 to 2008 there were only four outbreaks of illnesses traced back to food handlers — just about one per year in a city with 4,500 licensed eating establishments, the highest number per capita in the nation.
Iso Rabins, founder of the Underground Market, said he required vendors to follow safe food handling procedures, and during the 18 months the market operated, more than 50,000 patrons were served and there were no reported illnesses.
“They shut down the Underground Market because this was the most visible example,” Mr. Rabins said. But aspiring chefs’ ambitions and the public’s appetite has led to “a lot of interesting pop-ups going on right now,” he said.
Dr. Bhatia was unsure about the legality of these new smaller markets — they could be considered private events — but said that regulating them would be “infeasible” because they are secretive and spontaneous.
Perhaps trying won’t be necessary — these spinoffs could soon be returning to their mother ship. Both Dr. Bhatia and Mr. Rabins hinted that the Underground Market might reopen, maybe within weeks, this time complying with regulations.
“We want to make it work,” Dr. Bhatia said.


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SIOUX FALLS, S. D. (KELO AM) - As you kickoff the summer travel season this weekend, remember to keep your vehicle’s tires properly inflated.
Rubber Manufacturers Association Vice President Dan Zielinski says properly inflated tires help save lives and money at the pump. He says when a tire is underinflated it internally builds up heat. Over time that heat can start to affect the internal components of the tire and that can weaken them leading to a blow out.
Zielinski advises checking pressure when your tires are cold and use the correct inflation pressure.
He says your tire’s correct pressure is found on a label on the driver’s side door or the owner’s manuel, it’s not the maximum pressure on your tire’s sidewall.
Zielinski says properly inflated tires can save 11 cents a gallon at the pump and help them last longer with simple montly maintenance.


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Below hype: Nano logs 2 lakh bookings
Bookings for the world's cheapest car Tata Nano failed to live upto the hype of half a decade, logging 2.03 lakh bookings from 6.1 lakh forms sold in the fortnight during which the bookings were open.autos Updated: May 05, 2009 08:27 IST
Bookings for the world's cheapest car Tata Nano failed to live upto the hype of half a decade, logging 2.03 lakh bookings from 6.1 lakh forms sold in the fortnight during which the bookings were open.
A majority of 70 per cent of the bookings were financed and the remaining were paid by cash, adding Rs 2,500 crore to Tata's coffers. Interestingly, only 20 per cent of the bookings are for the cheapest variant, the standard Nano, while 30 per cent were for Nano CX and the remaining for the top end variant.
About 4,000 cash bookings were made online through www.tatanano.com.
Though the numbers are healthy in isolation, and way more than the 50,000-60,000 units of the car that Tata would be able to produce this year, they do not measure up to the hyperbole that had surrounded the car since it was showcased in the Auto Expo last year.
The number of bookings also do not make Nano the best-selling car in the country yet: the Maruti Alto, which is priced almost twice as much as the Nano, sells an average of 2.4 lakh units per annum.
The first 100,000 allottees from among the applicants will be chosen through a computerised random selection procedure, and the announcement will be made before June-end. The first deliveries of the car would commence in July, and are expected to be completed in the last quarter of 2010.
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Tony D Vs YouthOracle – Dont Flop ‘Raise The Bar’ [Rap Battle] [@TonyDPoison @Youthoracle]
Leading UK based battle rap broadcasters, Dont Flop Entertainment, have released a brand new rap battle from their hip hop event Raise The Bar.
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Rick Niello prefers to be an auto dealer. But these days he feels more like a property developer.
Latest on his to-do list: building a BMW "satellite dealership" at the Elk Grove Auto Mall and buying an office for the managers of The Niello Co. in Point West. He expects to close escrow on both this month.
Then there's the BMW Fulton Avenue expansion that would include a parking garage of up to three stories, the first for a dealer on the corridor. Plus he's moving two other Sacramento dealerships, for Porsche and Audi.
In its 41 years, Niello said, the company has never had as many expansion projects going at the same time as it does today. Niello credits the "continued vibrant growth of Sacramento" and strong brands.
The company employs 450 at eight sites and had revenue of nearly $300 million last year, he said, and first-quarter 2004 figures were better than a year earlier.
Still, there's a limit to the construction. The company intends to keep growing but after these projects, Niello said, "we'll take a deep breath" for a while.
Elk Grove will sell used in first two years: As a satellite store, the new BMW dealership in Elk Grove won't sell new cars for its first two years, Niello said. It will sell certified used BMWs plus run parts and service departments.
Only a handful of BMW satellite stores operate nationwide; California has none.
BMW doesn't assign Niello enough new cars to stock two dealerships. But nearly 5,000 BMW customers live in the Elk Grove area, and the closest BMW dealer, on Fulton, is more than 20 miles away.
Besides, Greater Sacramento and the BMW brand keep growing.
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The Ninth Circuit on Monday overturned a lower court's ruling that several hundred Affinity Logistics Corp. retail store delivery drivers in California were independent contractors, saying that substantial evidence exists to show that Affinity maintained control over the drivers' working conditions.
General Motors Co. said Monday it is recalling 3.16 million cars in the U.S. with an ignition switch defect similar to one that prompted an earlier recall of 2.6 million vehicles, caused at least 13 deaths and 62 crashes and spawned government investigations and scores of lawsuits.
General Motors Co. has repaired only about 155,000 of the 2.6 million vehicles recalled in February due to an ignition switch defect, while the automaker remains adamant that a growing supply of parts will allow it to complete the replacements by October, according to a memo released Monday by congressional investigators.
The European Union's antitrust enforcement arm on Monday cleared Federal-Mogul Corp.'s bid to purchase competitor Honeywell International Inc.'s brake parts business for $155 million only after Federal-Mogul agreed to sell off a pair of brake pad factories to allay the watchdog's competition concerns.
Singapore tiremaker Giti Tire Pte. Ltd. is investing $560 million in a new manufacturing plant in South Carolina, company executives and South Carolina Gov. Nikki R. Haley announced Monday.
People sometimes ask me, “How did you manage to succeed in your career?” My response is always the same, “I just have a lot of friends,” says Sharon Flanery, chairwoman of Steptoe & Johnson PLLC's energy and natural resources department.
Asked to get coffee? Check. Mistaken for a court reporter or a secretary? You bet. Grabbed and kissed by a client? Yes, on several occasions. Propositioned by a partner? More than once. Passed over for a plumb legal assignment, which was instead given to a male colleague? Never, ever, without a spitfire of a fight, says Marguerite Willis, co-leader of Nexsen Pruet LLC's antitrust and unfair competition practice.
Tesla Motors Inc.'s Thursday announcement that it will not sue other companies that use its patented electric car technology leaves critical legal questions unanswered that may discourage anyone from taking up the offer, attorneys say.
The Seventh Circuit on Friday ordered the “scofflaw” owners of a trucking company to pay $600 a month out of their retirement funds until they cover back pay intended as redress for unfair labor practices, or face being taken into custody.
Efforts by Rep. David Camp, R-Mich., to bar use of the "last in, first out" accounting method would blow a big hole in the balance sheets of already struggling manufacturing and retail businesses, all in the name of raising new tax revenues, experts say.
A California appeals court on Thursday affirmed a jury verdict in favor of BMW North America LLC in a suit alleging it refused to repair a lemon car, saying the lower court wrongly denied the car owner’s proposed jury instructions but that the instructions wouldn’t have changed the suit's outcome.
A Michigan federal judge on Thursday rejected a bid by TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. to stay a patent suit over camera technology in cars, ruling that potential reviews by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and an investigation by the U.S. International Trade Commission did not merit halting the case.
Virginia consumers on Thursday urged a California federal judge to remand their case from multidistrict litigation accusing Hyundai Motors America and Kia Motors America of overstating vehicle fuel efficiency, arguing Hyundai's opposition to the remand makes misconduct claims against their counsel that distract from the issue at hand.
A group of insurers on Thursday urged the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to deny automotive body shops’ bid to centralize five cases accusing the insurers of conspiring to manipulate car repair costs to reduce their payments, saying the allegations are too dissimilar.
General Motors Co. said on Friday it is recalling more than 500,000 current generation Chevrolet Camaros because a driver’s knee can bump the key fob out of the run position and cause the vehicle to lose power, an issue that has led to at least three crashes.
Private equity firm American Securities may roll together three auto-parts makers and take the combined company public at a valuation of $4 billion including debt, while Alibaba is drawing up more detailed regulatory filings to appease investors in advance of its U.S. initial public offering.
Seeking to solidify its patent litigation team in Silicon Valley, WilmerHale recently hired a former Hogan Lovells partner with an extensive background in the automotive and technology sectors and experience tackling intellectual property disputes in both China and the United States.
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Review: You won’t have to hop in Doc Brown’s Delorean to get a chance at playing this seminal racing classic from Sega. An HD facelift, online multiplayer, and arcade controls await you in Daytona USA for Xbox Live Arcade and PSN Network.
Xbox Live gamers in Europe will have to wait until 2012 for Jurassic Park, says developer.
Amazon removes PSN codes and vouchers, declares Playstation Network products "currently unavailable."
With more gaming publishers turning to the sale of downloadable content to battle sales of used games through third parties, a large portion of the gaming population is still hesitant to try DLC packs for games.
Japanese electronics giant Sony said on Wednesday that it had locked down thousands of user accounts after it had detected a large number of unauthorized sign-in attempts. The news comes nearly six months after the company suffered a massive security breach in…
Extended Cut edition Blu-rays of Green Lantern that are purchased at Best Buy will be packaged with a PlayStation Network download code for a character skin in Batman: Arkham City.
"Only On Playstation Network" campaign kicks off weekly PS2 releases for Playstation 3.
Sony has confirmed that the PlayStation Network is down. No word on how or why the service is once again down, and Sony isn’t sure when it will be back up.
The former director of the U.S. National Cyber Security Center will become Sony's new chief information security officer.
Sony CEO Howard Stringer says PlayStation Network has added 3 million new customers since a massive data breach forced the company to shut it down.
Thank to Sony's PlayStation Network data breach and resulting shutdown of network services, upstart video streaming service Vudu got a massive boost in market share in 2011.
Sony reveals the PlayStation Network PLAY series, with pre-orders for four upcoming PSN games serving up bonus content, including a free download of PAYDAY: The Heist.
Cybercrime seems to be skyrocketing this year and more companies are finding themselves under-prepared for digital attacks. A new study highlights the rapidly rising costs of dealing with cyber-based attacks.
Bethesda Softworks confirms an August 3 release for Brink's DLC pack Agents of Change, which will be a free download to all for the first two weeks.
Fans of the legendary GoldenEye game will be able to play an upgrade version on Xbox 360 and the PS3 this fall.


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As Electrek wrote in April, we’re still suffering from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico a decade later. Scientists are finding oil from that spill in the livers of fish, and on the deep ocean floor. So it’s a small consolation that $192,000 of Pinellas County, Florida’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement was spent on the US East Coast’s first inductive wireless bus charging station.
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Now that battery-powered buses are becoming more cost-effective and able to handle almost any urban routes, manufacturers are looking to expand their production to satisfy the demand from transit agencies turning to electric when updating their fleet.
Proterra, a manufacturer of large all-electric buses in the US, has been talking a lot about production expansion lately after sales being up 220% since last year. The company hired Tesla’s former Vice President of Manufacturing to lead the expansion at their facility in Greenville, South Carolina, and their new factory in Los Angeles County.
Last week, the company confirmed having secured an impressive $140 million investment to finance this important expansion of their production capacity. expand full story
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While companies like BYD and Proterra are ramping up production of their all-electric buses and delivering them to transit services around the world, the city of Montreal decided to start its fleet of zero-emission vehicles for public transit using a new electric bus developed in Canada and in partnership with the Quebec government.
The deployment was delayed by a few years, but now the city’s public transit agency has received delivery of the new electric buses and will put them to the test early next year. expand full story
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A deal between the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (SJVAPCD) was announced today to award funding for the purchase of “15 Proterra Catalyst buses, 11 Proterra depot-chargers, and 4 Proterra fast-chargers”. expand full story
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Over two years ago, Tesla open-sourced all its patents for electric vehicles – a surprising announcement in our IP-centric business climate. CEO Elon Musk explained the move as being in line with Tesla’s mission to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport:
“If we’re all in a ship together and the ship has some holes in it, and we’re sort of bailing water out of it, and we have a great design for a bucket, then even if we’re bailing out way better than everyone else, we should probably still share the bucket design.”
We might get access to yet another bucket design thanks to Proterra, a leading manufacturer of all-electric buses. The bus maker announced today that it will be opening its proprietary “on-route fast-charging technology” on a royalty-free basis. expand full story
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Proterra, a leading manufacturer of all-electric buses, unveiled this week a new battery pack to power its Catalyst XR bus pictured above. The new pack holds 28 percent more energy which adds up to an impressive 330 kWh of energy capacity.
As of March 2016, Proterra had 63 buses on the roads across 10 states. Now the company says that all current Catalyst XR customers will receive a complimentary upgrade with the new battery pack. expand full story
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Transport for London (TfL) and electric vehicle manufacturer BYD announced last week that the city of London is putting in service its firsts long-range all-electric double-decker buses – picture above.
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Daimler is bringing a battery-powered bus to market in 2018
Daimler released its latest report for its bus division this week and confirmed its plan to bring a battery-powered bus to market in 2018 as part of its E-mobility platform.
The German automaker is planing two powertrain additions to its Citaro bus (see above): E-CELL, the battery-powered version, and F-CELL, the hydrogen fuel cell version.
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The China-based electric car and bus manufacturer BYD (Build Your Dreams) announced the delivery of the world’s largest electric bus fleet to the city of Shenzhen in China. expand full story
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China opens a new fast-charging station with 25 chargers at 360 kW
While Beijing completely shutdown today after issuing its first ever ‘Red Alert’ over smog, the city also announced the opening of an impressive new electric bus charging complex in the Chaoyang district. The station features 25 chargers at 360 kW and 5 chargers at 90 kW, making it one of the most powerful charging station for electric vehicles in the world.
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The city of Sion in Switzerland approved a pilot project with two all-electric and fully autonomous buses which will hit the road as soon as spring 2016. The project could become the first fully autonomous public transportation system in operation.
The buses are being introduced in collaboration with the city of Sion, France-based electric bus manufacturer Navya and self-driving software firm BestMile. expand full story
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The China-based electric car and bus manufacturer BYD (Build Your Dreams) announced today that it won an important request of proposal from Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) for a contract to supply up to 800 electric buses to state transit authorities, agencies, universities, or institutions.
The deal simplifies the procurement process, now any transit agency or public institution in Washington is able to order electric buses from BYD’s selection of 30 to 60 feet battery-powered buses. expand full story
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Proterra impresses again with its entirely battery-powered bus: the Catalyst XR. The South Carolina-based company announced today that its 40-foot bus drove 258 miles on a single charge under test conditions at Michelin’s Laurens Proving Grounds (LPG).
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XI’AN, China — A nationwide real estate downturn, stalling exports and declining consumer confidence have produced what a Chinese cabinet adviser, quoted on the official government Web site on Thursday, characterized as a “sharp slowdown in the economy.”
Though the Chinese economy continues to expand, construction workers are losing jobs in droves and retail sales grew last month at the slowest pace in more than three years. Investments in fixed assets have increased more slowly this year than in any year since 2001.
The most striking feature of the slowdown is that it extends beyond the coastal provinces, which depend on exports and are closely linked to the global economy, to the country’s far more insular interior, including cities like Xi’an here in northwestern China.
China’s unexpected economic difficulties are starting to unnerve investors in world markets, especially commodity markets, as China is the world’s largest consumer of most raw materials and the second-largest consumer of oil.
A deepening slowdown would ripple across the world economy. Until now, China’s economy barreled ahead mostly unhindered as the main engine of global growth, even as Europe struggled with its government debt crisis and the United States limped along with a crippled housing market.
Government indexes show real estate prices are falling in more than half of the country’s top 70 urban markets, Xi’an among them. Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services and Moody’s each issued reports on Thursday warning that many of China’s real estate developers face a severe cash squeeze as apartment sales slow to a crawl. The developers still owe heavy interest payments on bank loans.
“Weak property developers in China are likely to face a test of their survival this year,” S.& P. said.
China’s economy was 8.1 percent larger in the first quarter of this year than a year earlier, but virtually all of that growth took place last year. The economy barely grew in the first quarter compared with the fourth quarter of 2011, and the second quarter of this year is likely to show even less growth from the preceding quarter, said Diana Choyleva, a China economist in the Hong Kong office of Lombard Street Research.
The World Bank also warned on Wednesday of a slowdown.
“Clearly the economy is much, much weaker than most people thought until recently,” Ms. Choyleva said. “They have a real mess on their hands.”
China is the world’s largest importer of a long list of commodities, like iron ore and copper. It has also been a big buyer of European factory equipment and luxury goods. The United States economy is much less exposed to a slowdown in the Chinese economy, with exports of goods to China representing less than 0.7 percent of American economic output last year.
Benefiting from heavy government spending on highways and other infrastructure and voracious demand for apartments as poor laborers arrived from the countryside, China’s inland cities had continued to expand even when the rest of the world’s economy fell into serious difficulty in late 2008 and early 2009. But now the economic troubles are evident here in Xi’an, an economic cornerstone of northwestern China that serves as one of the country’s largest transportation and distribution hubs and a manufacturing center for everything from bulldozers to aircraft components.
Sun Yufang, a wholesale dealer in Xi’an in ovens, ranges and water heaters, said that residents had nearly stopped outfitting new apartments or redecorating old ones.
“We didn’t really feel the global financial crisis, but this year, we’ve really felt it — I don’t see a solution unless people start buying,” Ms. Sun said, sitting in a spacious shop with no customers in sight.
Premier Wen Jiabao expressed concern last weekend about the economy after an inspection tour to Wuhan in east-central China. He then led a cabinet meeting on Wednesday that produced the government’s strongest statement yet.
The government should “place stabilizing growth in a more important position and carry out pre-emptive policy adjustments and fine-tuning more forcefully according to the changing situation,” the cabinet statement said.
An explanatory statement from the official Xinhua news agency drafted on Wednesday and posted on the Chinese government’s Web site on Thursday cited Zhang Liqun, a senior economist advising the cabinet, as saying that, “the sharp slowdown in the economy has aroused attention from policy makers.”
A preliminary reading of a monthly purchasing managers index showed that manufacturing had continued to weaken in May, with the index falling to 48.7 from 49.3 in April; a figure below 50 indicates a slowing sector.
The cabinet called for stimulating the economy through faster construction of railroads, schools, clinics and other infrastructure. With the Chinese economy still heavily dependent on investment spending, some economists are optimistic that China can quickly reignite growth.
“When you’ve got state banks lending to state enterprises to implement the state’s five-year plan, you don’t have a lot of downside to investment,” said Paul Gruenwald, a former International Monetary Fund official in Hong Kong who is now the chief Asia economist at ANZ, one of Australia’s biggest banks.
China has the financial resources to expand government spending sharply. China has a low ratio of debt to economic output, even when sizable local government debts are added to the national debt. Chinese banks have among the world’s lowest rates of loans to deposits, although some banking analysts have questioned whether many loans by state-owned banks to politically influential borrowers will be repaid.
But with the country having finished building much of its infrastructure, it is having a harder time finding further projects that can pass cost-benefit analyses. The Chinese interior has been the biggest beneficiary of infrastructure spending over the last decade, but now shows signs of catching up with the more developed coast.
The Xi’an airport opened a third terminal and another runway on May 3, giving it the capacity to handle as many passengers as John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, despite considerably smaller daily traffic. Bullet trains connect Xi’an to Zhengzhou, nearly 300 miles to the east, while no fewer than three concentric beltways encircle Xi’an, although traffic jams continue to bedevil the ancient city’s core.
One more big infrastructure project remains: the city opened its first subway line late last year, plans to finish a second line later this year and has begun construction on a third. But crisscross the city these days and there are fewer streets torn up for building projects than in the past.
At the same time, residential real estate construction has slowed sharply after the government imposed a stringent ban last year on the purchase of multiple homes in an effort to discourage speculation and make housing more affordable. Wei Li, a real estate broker in downtown Xi’an, said that prices had fallen 20 percent since the start of this year for new apartments in the hundreds of towers under construction on the city’s periphery, but she said downtown real estate prices were stable. Construction material vendors here, however, say that apartment prices are also falling in downtown neighborhoods.
Developers across the country have responded to the drop in prices by abandoning the longstanding practice of floodlighting construction sites and working around the clock. They have cut back to one daytime shift, sharply reducing the demand for construction workers.
“It’s getting harder and harder to find work,” complained Li Bo, a construction worker here.
Xi’an is best known in the West as an ancient capital of China, a Silk Road entrepôt that is home to the terra-cotta warriors. But modern-day Xi’an also plays an important role in the Chinese economy as a regional economic hub with eight million residents.
Store owners and other traders from across northwestern China converge at large covered markets here to buy goods, making Xi’an one of the best places to take the pulse of China’s interior. And now, that pulse feels weak for consumer spending.
Until late March, Ma Xiechuan sold pork at his butcher shop here by hacking large chunks and handing them to lines of customers to take home and carefully slice and dice. But with sales now down by a third, he has so much extra time that he deftly wields his steel cleaver to produce thin slivers, ready for the customer’s wok.
“It’s the fastest downturn in business I’ve seen in more than 10 years here,” Mr. Ma said.
Yian Leilei, a wholesaler of tablecloths and car seat covers, said that sales nose-dived after Chinese New Year on Jan. 23 and had not recovered. Wang Heiyen, a wholesaler of insulated food and beverage containerssaid his sales were sliding steadily and customers were becoming ever pickier. Ding Lei, the co-owner of a paint and plaster store said his sales had halved since the start of this year. “People are just not buying apartments,” Mr. Ding said. “It was O.K. in 2009. I’ve never seen it as bad as it is now.”
Mayor Dong Jun of Xi’an expressed worry in a post last week on the city’s Web site.
“The economic situation in the whole city from January through April this year is not that optimistic,” he said. “Maintaining the growth rate continues to be very difficult.”


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ShopAtHome.com said Tuesday it saw a 24 percent increase in its traffic on Cyber Monday from the same day in 2011.
The Greenwood Village-based discount-coupon search engine recorded 737,425 visits to its website on Monday, Nov. 26.
Cyber Monday — the first Monday after Thanksgiving — has become a digital counterpart to Black Friday, the traditional kickoff to the holiday shopping season.
For the entire holiday weekend, Thursday through Monday, ShopAtHome.com recorded 2,966,096 visits, up 23 percent from the same period a year ago.
“While shoppers are still a big fan of Cyber Monday shopping, they are spreading out their purchases across the entire holiday weekend, something we expect to continue in the years to come,” Marc Braunstein, founder and CEO of ShopAtHome.com, said in a statement.
The most popular browsing period was 8 to 10 a.m. MST.
The company says it serves some 12 million consumers a month.
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How much YouTube pays for 1,000 views, according to creators
- YouTubers can earn money from a cut of ad revenue on both their shorts and long-form videos.
- Creators said they got paid between $1.61 and $29.30 for 1,000 views on long-form videos.
- Shorts made much less money, with creators earning $0.04 to $0.06 per 1,000 views.
How much a YouTube creator earns for 1,000 views can change based on a variety of factors, from the type of content they make to whether they do short-form or long-form video.
Insider has spoken with dozens of creators to understand what they earn for 1,000 views, otherwise known as their RPM rate (revenue per mille).
Eight YouTubers who make long-form videos shared how much YouTube paid them per 1,000 views, and their answers ranged from $1.61 to $29.30.
At the highest end was YouTuber Josh Mayo.
“It’s grown to this massive business that is very lucrative, and I’m very thankful for all of it,” Mayo said, adding that his RPM rate went from around $6 in October 2021 to $29.30 in October 2022, growth that he attributed to creating creating more content around personal finance. (Read more about Mayo’s business.)
YouTube creators can earn 55% of the revenue from Google-placed ads on their videos when they join the YouTube Partner Program, or YPP. To qualify for the program, they must have 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of watch time on their long-form videos.
Creators also recently became able to earn money from YouTube shorts, its short-form video offering. Creators who reach 10 million views in 90 days on Shorts, as well as 1,000 subscribers, are able to join the Partner Program.
So far, these YouTubers have not earned as much money per 1,000 views as long-form creators.
Seven YouTubers shared how much they earned per 1,000 views from shorts. Their RPMs ranged from $0.04 to $0.06.
“Perspective is key here,” YouTuber Riley Lemon said. “Yes, right now, you wouldn’t be able to quit your full-time job from shorts alone, however, it presents a unique opportunity to grow your personal brand on YouTube at a rate that hasn’t been achievable for most creators.” She made $383.13 in a month for 7 million views on shorts.
In this case, YouTube pools revenue from ads on Shorts. YouTube pays an undisclosed amount to record labels for music licensing, and creators get 45% of the remaining money based on their percentage of the total shorts views on the platform.
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Boston, MA – Imaginatik, named as the most comprehensive innovation management provider by Forrester Research, is proud to announce the general availability of the Innovation Central Spring 2017 release – with major enhancements to the company’s market-leading enterprise innovation software platform.
IC Spring 2017 makes it easier than ever to scale innovation practices across a large, global organization – thanks to a simpler, more intuitive user experience design; an enhanced and expanded mobile interface; and the addition of out-of-box “Innovation Playbook” packages.
“In today’s world of constant connectivity and data-fueled insights, it is more important than ever before to involve everyone in innovation,” according to David Boghossian, General Manager of Imaginatik’s software business. “IC Spring 2017 makes that available immediately from the plant floor to the flight deck.”
The new Innovation Central distils innovation best practices into cost-effective, easy-on “Playbooks” packages. Each Playbook organizes Imaginatik’s market leading innovation expertise into a pre-configured software environment, best-practice process guide, and right-sized consulting support.
The Spring 2017 release includes a Playbook series for Continuous Innovation. At low cost and with minimal setup time, any company can now create a steady flow of improvement ideas for process excellence, IT systems, safety, product management, and other operations-oriented challenges.
In addition, a more intuitive user experience throughout Innovation Central, combined with significant enhancements to the mobile interface, make it easier and more compelling for employees across the enterprise to get involved and to stay engaged over time.
Kai Chuang, CTO of Imaginatik, added “Our Spring 2017 release significantly lowers the barriers to engagement in, and adoption of, innovation processes across the enterprise. It’s a major step forward for any organization looking to foster a culture of innovation.”
The latest release of Innovation Central further bolsters Imaginatik’s market-leading position, recognized by both analysts and customers like. According to the Forrester Wave, Innovation Management Solutions, Q2 2016, “Imaginatik has the most complete innovation management solution.”
The company is confident that its renowned customer service and best-of-breed features will continue to win over customers throughout the market. According to Jamie Tallon, Director of Product Innovation at ICON plc, “Imaginatik has the most comprehensive innovation software platform in the marketplace. Innovation Central enables innovation at all maturity levels that will transform your organization.”
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“Put your money where your faith is”
February 16, 2007
Winnipeg, Man. — Gary Hawton has had a lot of time to think about ethical financial investing. After all, he’s been investing since he was twelve years old.
Today he is the CEO of Meritas Mutual Funds – a socially responsible investment (SRI) company in Cambridge, Ont. “This is deeply inside me. I feel I’ve been gifted to understand this. [It] is truly a way for me to be salt and light in the world, to have a meaningful impact in not just corporate Canada, not just corporate America, but corporate world,” says Hawton.
To that end, Hawton and Michael Jantzi are inviting pastors, congregational leaders, business people, pension plan holders – in fact anyone – to attend the Mennonite Church Canada Ministers’ Conference one day prior to the general assembly in Abbotsford, BC, this July. The event will tackle the often sensitive subject of money and faithful living.
Sven Eriksson, Denominational Minister for MC Canada, believes the topic is compelling enough to open the invitation to anyone outside the usual inner circle of ministers who have traditionally used the day for connecting and supporting one another. “Responsible use of money is the second most frequent theme in the gospels,” said Eriksson. “The first is kingdom building.” The two seem inextricable linked, he added.
“The big idea,” says Eriksson, “is that what we do with our money has a lot to do with our faith.”
Part of this “big idea”, says Eriksson is that pastors want to be better equipped to build relationships with business people who have sometimes felt out of place in the church, so it’s natural to bring the two groups together.
Hawton concurs. “I think God is bringing [business] people into our church and we need to have pastors and people there who aren’t intimidated by them and who are able to discern how those people are best utilized in the church and outside of the church,” said Hawton.
Whether you are a pastor, a business person, or worker in any one of thousands of jobs, chances are you’ve invested somewhere. SRI leaders want to bring greater awareness that ethical investing is simply the right thing to do.
Michael Jantzi says that in many parts of the world, SRI is the fastest growing segment of the investment market. Jantzi is President of Jantzi Research, the Toronto-based investment research firm that is a pioneer of socially responsible investment in Canada. American investment funds that screen companies for their environmental, social and governance performance total $2 trillion – about 10 per cent of total investments. Canada lags behind, with SRI investments of $65.5 billion, or three to five per cent of total investments, he said.
"It's not that long ago that if you mentioned socially responsible investing to someone you would get curious looks and strange smiles,” said Jantzi in a previous interview with The Record. “They would say: 'Isn't that an oxymoron?' "
But that is changing. Hawton recalls how Meritas challenged Pepsico on its zero response to the HIV-AIDS pandemic in Africa and other countries. It took several tries, but Pepsico finally heard the clarion call when it became clear that company’s reputation and brand credibility were at stake.
“If a third of your employees and a third of their family and a third of your customers are dying, there’s probably a business impact,” says Hawton, reciting what it took to get Pepsico’s attention. “Let’s figure out how to address the problem so that you are a sustainable business, long term. And the great thing is that along the way you may save thousands of lives.”
Since then, Pepsico has developed unprecedented access to AIDS education and healthcare for its employees and the communities where they operate, says Hawton – programs that weren’t previously available.
While consumers may see SRI as a passive way of moral investing, SRI industry leaders often see it as an opportunity to challenge corporate behaviour.
Aber Diamond is a company Hawton is currently challenging over the issue of blood diamonds – gems harvested in third world countries where people pay the harvest price with their lives. While their Canadian operations are sound, Aber recently purchased a retailer with no known checks and balances regarding diamond sources.
“All of my assets are God’s, which he has entrusted to me as his steward. If we’re going to own shares or mutual funds, we need to understand that we own each of the companies that are inside that mutual fund, and we have to take responsibility for how those companies act, how they earn money. There is no way that God wants to earn money by owning Playboy shares, or by owning shares in a company that manufactures landmines,” said Hawton passionately.
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The Tulane Family Business Center is hosting a forum on how family-owned companies can manage compensation for relatives in ways that are fair and work for the business. The forum takes place March 8 from 8 a.m. to noon at the Kendall Cram Lecture Hall in the Lavin Bernick Center for University Life on Tulane's campus.
The featured speaker is W. Kent Lutz, founder of the Lutz Institute, which consults with family businesses. Lutz also is an assistant professor in entrepreneurship and economics and former director of the Goerner Center for Family & Private Business at the University of Cincinnati.
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It’s the last week of September and you know what that means! It’s Banned Books Week! Oh, you didn’t know?
Well, each year during the last week of September, libraries nationwide sponsor events to honor books that have been banned and to teach the importance of freedom of speech.
While many classic books that have been banned — like Catcher in the Rye and Grapes of Wrath — there have also been a number of recent books that have been banned, including the supernatural tween hits from Twilight and Harry Potter.
Here’s some more information, if you’d like to find out what Banned Books Week events are happening at a library near you.


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Lockheed Martin, the Pentagon's No. 1 weapons supplier, reported a quarterly profit that handily beat analysts' expectations, as sales of its Sikorsky helicopters pushed total revenue up 14.8 percent.
The company also raised its adjusted profit and sales outlook for the year.
Lockheed shares were up 1.4 percent in premarket trading on Tuesday.
The company said third-quarter sales in its rotary and mission systems business unit jumped 55 percent to $3.35 billion, which included about $1.2 billion from sales of Sikorsky military and commercial helicopters. Lockheed completed the $9 billion acquisition of Sikorsky from United Technologies in June.
According to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S calculations, the company's income from continuing operations was $3.27 per share, versus the average analyst estimate of $2.87.
Net income more than doubled to $2.40 billion, or $7.93 per share, in the third quarter ended Sept. 25, from $865 million, or $2.77 per share, a year earlier.
Net income included a one-time special cash payment of $1.8 billion from the company's $5 billion tax-free deal to merge its information systems business with Leidos Holdings earlier this year.
The company said it raised its adjusted outlook 2016 profit forecast of $11.1 to 11.45 per share to $12.10, and adjusted sales of $45 billion to $46.2 billion to $46.5 billion.
Net sales rose to $11.55 billion from $10.06 billion a year earlier.


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Travel Weekly China's second annual CruiseWorld China will
be held at Le Royal Meridien Shanghai on March 30, 2016.
The one-day event will bring hundreds of travel agents and
cruise industry leaders together for networking, learning and discussion about
the rapidly growing cruise market in China.
“Our very first CruiseWorld China in Shanghai was such a
great success in 2015 that we are expecting a sold out event this March,” said
Bob Sullivan, president, Travel Group, Northstar Travel Group. “We’re confident
this event, with a great roster of top cruise line and industry executives, will
be as well received by the travel agent and cruise market as the first.”
Among topics to be discussed are ships launching in 2016
and new market opportunities, charter cruise sales in China, consumer trends in
the cruise industry, how technology is affecting demand, potential growth
markets, and traveler loyalty. The full roster of speakers will be confirmed soon.
“We are honored to
have so many high-level industry executives at our event,” said Susan Li, editor,
Travel Weekly China. “They recognize the importance of the travel agent
community in China and are dedicating their time to share their viewpoint on
today’s trends and issues.”
Major sponsors at CruiseWorld China include Carnival Corp.,
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. and Starwood
Hotels & Resorts Worldwide.
“We are excited about the CruiseWorld China event in
Shanghai,” said Rebecca Zhang, group publisher of Travel Weekly China. “It
supports our overall mission to grow and strengthen the dialogue and business relationships
between travel agents and supplier communities."
Cruise lines are making significant investments in China.
Royal Caribbean International's Ovation of the Seas, entering service this
spring, will homeport in Tianjin. Princess and Costa are building ships for the
Chinese market (the Majestic Princess will debut in 2017 and the two Costa
ships are due to enter service in 2019 and 2020). In the meantime, Costa will
have four ships based in China in 2016, and Princess will have two.
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings will have ships from all three of its brands
(Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises) sailing
in Asia in 2016 and is building a ship customized for the Chinese traveler for
launch in 2017.
For more information, visit www.cruiseworld-china.com.


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MADRID — Battling a second recession in three years, Spanish designers sent out less flash and embellishment at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid because nobody can afford to make it — or buy it, they said.
Domestic spending from 2008 through 2012 dropped 12 percent, according to the National Statistics Institute, or INE, with a significant decline of 9.3 percent in the clothing and footwear sector. Even Inditex, parent of Zara and Massimo Dutti, felt the pinch, reporting first-quarter 2013 net revenues up just 1.4 percent.
In addition, INE figures released last month indicated a Spanish household’s average expenditure for the same period has tumbled 12 percent — to 28,000 euros, or $37,400 at current exchange, annually.
With local media here suggesting “cracks of silk in the bubble,” designers claimed there is little chance the fashion sector will implode like housing or Spain’s recent bid for the Olympic Games. Modesto Lomba, president of the Spanish fashion designers association, ACME, and owner of the 25-year-old label Devota & Lomba, said, “We’re no worse off than any other domestic sector.” “Some will fall by the wayside,” he predicted, “but those of us that survive will be stronger because of it.” Brave words from Lomba, who suspended payments earlier this year with, to date, no potential buyers on the horizon. Nonetheless, he showed at fashion week alongside Victorio & Lucchino, favorites of the Duchess of Alba, and Sita Murt. All three are in various stages of bankruptcy.
The six-day Madrid event, which ended Sept. 17, featured 44 designers, including a group of 10 newcomers and a trio from Peru, this edition’s guest country.
With dates conflicting with London Fashion Week, only a handful of international buyers trickled in from Denmark, Mexico and Hong Kong, said a spokeswoman for IFEMA, a self-financed public consortium that organizes Madrid’s fashion-related events.
Teresa Helbig had one of the week’s more consistent statements as she opted for shorts, skirts, pants, jumpsuits and traditionally the brand’s featured item and best seller, dresses. Sweet summer frocks and silky gowns for night came in black and white with a Seventies vibe and girlish crocheted treatments.
Helbig’s commercial director and husband Chema Pare Monroy said the family-run Catalan label is 80 percent made-to-measure and 20 percent wholesale, including bridal. “We are very small [14 employees], with a philosophy of step-by-step growth” that includes an embryonic flurry of export activity to Russia, the Middle East, Panama and, more recently, London.
Swimwear and lingerie producer Andrés Sardá called up Jane Fonda’s Barbarella in a slick, sexy show dubbed “Nude on the Moon.” Creative director Nuria Sardá, daughter of the founder, sent out galactic cutouts, stripes, multiple straps, florals and brief vinyl cover-ups in hot colors like yolk-yellow, orange and purple for maillots, retro two-piecers and skimpy bikinis.
Agatha Ruiz de la Prada took inspiration from Spanish artists like Eighties sculptor Susana Solano and graphic collage painter Pep Guerrero. To wit, models’ faces were spray-painted blush pink, and cotton shifts and separates sported dégradé and bold brushstroke effects. There was a casual ankle-length dress with polka dots as big as tennis balls, oversize pumpkin shapes and the ubiquitous sacred heart. As always with Madrid’s multifaceted designer (more than 40 licenses at last count), color defied economic malaise — coral, yellow, fuchsia and lime, for example.
Angel Schlesser worked mainly in white for easy, textured separates including cropped tops, skirts and a wider pant. He added a mix of all-size checks on below-the-knee dresses, flowers for one-piece dressing and python-printed gowns for night. The brand is on the move, said press director Anabel Martí, with a change of retail location earlier this month — to a 1,400-square-foot space on Madrid’s Callejón de Jorge Juan in the luxury shop-heavy Salamanca area and the simultaneous opening of a showroom on Milan’s Via Savona. Stella McCartney is said to be eyeing Schlesser’s previous locale. Currently, Schlesser sells through five company-owned stores and two franchise operations in Spain, plus select corners in El Corte Inglés. In addition, Martí confirmed continued growth for the designer’s fragrance business in such markets as Russia, the Middle East and Asia.
Roberto Verino laid off the frou and feathers in favor of trim little jackets and shorts in raffia; skirts and skinny pants under the Galician designer’s signature three-quarter-length trenchcoats; jungle florals and mix-and-match animal prints for long fluid gowns, and turbans. There also were double-breasted men’s suits in white and navy blue linen by Madrid manufacturer Fuentecapala.
The Muñoz twins, Aitor and Iñaki — co-owners of Ailanto, a Catalan women’s label with international accounts in the U.S. and Japan — tapped into a casual-chic concept inspired by Brazilian artist Roberto Burle Marx. It was a singular take on femininity, exclusive abstract and floral prints, geometrics, texture, tropical colors and softer shades of mint green, pink and peach — and like everyone else here, black and white. There were lots of shorts and cropped pants, jumpsuits and rain jackets in plastic-coated cotton, and longer-length dresses.
@margotrobbie steps out onto the red carpet wearing @miumiu. The actress is nominated for “Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role” in “I, Tonya” at the #SagAwards. (📷: Stewart Cook) #wwdfashion
For @massimogiorgetti of @msgm, the Nineties are his favorite decade. “They had a huge impact on my personal growth. What I like of the Nineties is that they are not so precise in terms of style as other decades…there was actually a bit of everything,” he said. As seen on MSGM’s Spring 2018 show: tie-dye and a bit of grunge, two styles that are synonymous with the decade #wwdfashion #wwddecades (📷: @kukukuba)
Breaking News: @hedislimane joins @celine as its new artistic, creative and image director. One of fashion’s preeminent image-makers and trendsetters, Slimane is to join the LVMH brand on Feb. 1 and unveil his first fashion proposition for men and women next September during Paris Fashion Week. It marks a major homecoming for Slimane, who cemented his reputation – and influenced men’s tailoring for more than a decade – as the designer of Dior Homme between 2000 and 2007. He went on to reinvent and ignite the house of Yves Saint Laurent, which he rechristened Saint Laurent, between 2012 and 2016 – all the while maintaining a close relationship with the Arnault family, which controls LVMH and Dior. Read the full exclusive story on WWD.com. Link in bio. #wwdnews #wwdfashion
“Personally I believe the Eighties have been the richest and more vivacious period for international fashion,” Giorgio Armani said when asked what his favorite decade of fashion is. It was a moment of disruption and experimentation and only thinking back to the first years of that decade is always an emotion for me, for what they have meant to me and my work.” The influence is clear in @giorgioarmani spring 2018 collection, pictured here, which was full of bright colors and unexpected prints. Read more about which decades designers loved most on WWD.com #wwdfashion #wwddecades (📷: @aitorrosasphoto)
For Lady Gaga’s only Italian show on her “Joanne World Tour,” the singer wore a range of @versace_official outfits. The standout piece: this custom-made bodysuit inspired by the brand’s spring 2018 collection. #wwdfashion (RG: @ladygaga)
@_camillaruth_ is expanding on the wellness-craze concept with @westbourne – a new NYC restaurant that’s both a healthy-minded café as well as a business that gives back to the community. Marcus works with the Robin Hood foundation to give back to The Door, a non-profit providing youth development services, and also hires employees through The Door. Read our full interview with Marcus on giving back through food on WWD.com. #wwdeye (📷: @lexieblacklock)


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DHL EXPRESS DELIVERS US DONATION OF 1.5M PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE DOSES TO THAILAND
Press Release: Bangkok, 30 July 2021
Rigorous planning undertaken by DHL to ensure supply chains support the vaccine’s stringent temperature requirements
DHL Express, the world’s leading express service provider today successfully delivered the first batch of 1.5 million Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine doses donated by the United States government to Thailand. From door-to-door in just three days, DHL Express flew the vaccines in thermal packaging and subsequently arranged for it to be sent directly to a designated warehouse in Thailand.
The arrival of 1.5 million doses, part of the US donation to Southeast Asian countries, aims to help Thailand and the region accelerate their vaccination programs and provide equitable access to immunization as to keep their populations safe, and ensure that their economies can recover quickly.
“We are deeply grateful for the trust that our customers have placed in us in handling this precious cargo. It marks another milestone in combatting the spread of Covid-19, assisting the country's recovery and protecting healthcare professionals on the frontline from Covid-19 infection. We are proud to leverage our capabilities and network to transport this life-saving cargo in accordance with the stringent logistics requirements to get through the pandemic,” said Herbert Vongpusanachai, Managing Director at DHL Express Thailand & Head of Indochina. “To date, DHL has transported close to 550 million vaccine doses to 147 countries worldwide. This is in line with our mandate of connecting people and improving lives and we are proud to continue playing an active role in seeking a safe, new normal for the businesses and communities we serve.”
One of the key challenges faced in the shipment of the COVID-19 vaccines is the stringent temperature requirements of the vaccine. The vaccine was delivered in specially designed thermal shipper packaging customized by the manufacturer. Each shipment was packed with dry ice to regulate the temperature, enabling its use in locations that lack the physical infrastructure to otherwise maintain the required temperature. Temperature trackers equipped with sophisticated GPS technology are fitted within each thermal shipping box to provide full visibility throughout the shipment’s entire journey.
DHL Express arranged for the collection of the vaccines from facilities in the US before it was airlifted to the DHL Express Bangkok Hub and Gateway, where they would then be distributed to designated locations in Thailand.
More than 9,000 life sciences and healthcare specialists work across DHL’s dedicated global network so that pharmaceutical, medical devices, clinical trials and research organisations, wholesalers and distributors, as well as hospitals and healthcare providers are connected across the value chain and through digitalisation, from clinical trials to point of care, and every step in between.
DHL’s portfolio for the healthcare industry includes 150+ pharmacists, 20+ clinical trials depots, 100+ certified stations, 160+ GDP-qualified warehouses, 15+ GMP-certified sites, 135+ medical express sites, and a time-definite international express network covering over 220 countries and territories.
On a global scale, logistics providers are challenged to establish medical supply chain rapidly to deliver vaccines of unprecedented amount of more than 10 billion doses worldwide—also in regions with less developed logistics infrastructures, where approximately 3 billion people live. To provide global coverage over the next two years, DHL estimated in its vaccine logistics whitepaper that up to 200,000 pallet shippers and 15 million cooling boxes as well as 15,000 flights will be required across the various supply chain setups.


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Muse Wearables has already completed product design for the tracker and is now working on fabricating the product. They have also initiated work on the manufacturing moulds. It will also be filing for intellectual property protection for the technology.
The company hopes to bring out the first batch of finalised products in the next 20 days. The company is aiming to hit the market by the end of June 2020 with a price of around Rs 3,500 a device and plans to sell the wearable product in 70 countries where it already has sales.
K Prathyusha, chief operating officer, and head of Hardware Engineering, Conzumex Industries, which operates the brand Muse Wearables, said, “Our main objective with this product is to facilitate identification of patients who have COVID pneumonia sooner so that they can be treated more effectively. We are developing algorithms to estimate body temperature from skin and ambient temperature, heart rate and motion sensing." This will also help the general public for proactive health monitoring along with fitness tracking and sleep tracking.
Ajay Yathindra, CPO, Conzumex Industries said, “Our Muse Health App has the ability to get notifications from other Apps and send it to our tracker. Upon receiving notifications, the tracker will vibrate and indicate via LED to update the user. So users can opt to get notifications from Aarogya Setu App, in order to not miss any important alerts related to COVID.”
George Francis, CTO, Conzumex Industries said that the company has created its backend such that users can trigger an SOS alert in case of emergencies, which will be followed up through teleconsultations, thereby enabling us to provide an end-to-end proactive health monitoring system to the users. It is also creating a Digital Health ID for every user so that users can choose to share their health data with others like doctors etc by providing access to their health ID. It is also useful in automatic activity tracking (such as steps, calories, distance), automatic sleep tracking with battery life of up to four weeks on a single charge, among others.


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Photo Gallery: Wine tasting class
You might not know what a wine’s “nose” is. You might not know the differences among zinfandels, pinot noirs and syrahs. There’s a chance you don’t know the effects of spitting out wine versus actually ingesting it.
It’s OK you’re not alone, and you’re not without help.
Whether you’re an aspiring wine expert or someone who just saw “Sideways” on DVD, there are more than a few ways Inland Empire residents can find wine enlightenment.
And in most cases, you learn that wine is not something to fear. Not anymore.
“You just have to know what you like, and understand that it’s something to be engaged in everyday life,” says Elizabeth Schweitzer, master sommelier and instructor of a six-week course that focuses on wines of the world.
The class meets twice a week, Mondays at the Filippi Winery in Rancho Cucamonga and Thursdays at other locations in the area.
“We’re kind of a gypsy group right now,” Schweitzer says.
Eleven people showed up for a recent Thursday class at Saffron’s Cafe in Guasti, which tackled wines from the West Coast and South America. Schweitzer brought eight wines, and provided food, including cheese and chocolate.
In addition to the traditional table settings, class members were given scribble sheets and small notebooks to jot down their observations. Everything from how a wine smelled to what food the class would pair with it was discussed.
“Does it taste the same way it smelled?” Schweitzer asked. “Sometimes you have to think about the balance of the wine, almost more so than the flavor.”
The class also learned that spitting out the wine provides a different experience to the taste than swallowing it.
But one integral concept that was emphasized to this group was that it’s not really about the wine itself, but everything surrounding it.
“Every bottle, every taste, every experience has to be taken individually,” Schweitzer said. “Who are you with, what are you eating, did you have a bad day? Wine always gets the blame. I try to make every wine work, even if it’s (dirt) poor.”
Schweitzer’s class certainly isn’t the only way to gain intricate knowledge about wine. There are also places like The Wine Tailor, also in Rancho Cucamonga, which let customers have a hand in creating their own custom wines.
In addition to frequent tastings, The Wine Tailor also holds the “Chocolate Decadence” event, which pairs up wines with the ideal chocolate.
“What we want to do is show that wine isn’t as scary as the experts have made it out to be,” said Ken Lineberger, co-owner of The Wine Tailor.
The ever-present “wine snob” label has hovered around the industry since its beginnings. While it’s fading, it’s still a point of discussion.
“Back in the old days, the people that were drinking the wine for taste were drinking the expensive and complex stuff, so they became very elitist,” Lineberger said. “There was nothing for the masses to drink. But wineries have now shown that you can have complexity in lower-priced wines – but that stigma keeps a lot of people away.”
The concept of wine tasting and wine education has changed to make wine more accessible to the typical consumer. As a result, interest has risen, especially in this area.
“We’re seeing a more informed and educated client,” said Linda Rouyer, the owner of Saffron’s Cafe who is opening up a number of other restaurants in the area. “People are always interested in wine, and this area has a lot of historic richness. I could see it becoming a natural spot for more (wine education) to occur.”
But for that to happen, wine experts and other people in the industry will have to stay the course.
“We’ve opened the petal,” Schweitzer said. “Now we have to make sure it blooms.”
A bottle of red, a bottle of white…
Find one that satisfies your appetite. Check out this list and find a place where you can learn more about wine.
256 S. Main St., Pomona.
(909) 623-7600; www.dba256.com.
4231 Wineville Road, Mira Loma. (951) 685-5376.
Joseph Filippi Winery and Vineyards
12467 Base Line, Rancho Cucamonga.
(909) 899-5755; www.josephfilippiwinery.com.
Wine tasting room is open every day.
Olive Avenue Market
530 W. Olive Ave., Redlands.
(909) 792-8823; e-mail to email@example.com.
Monthly wine tasting.
Packing House Wine Merchants
540 W. First St., Claremont.
(909) 445-9463; www.packinghousewines.com
Wines by the glass every day and tasting on Saturdays.
The Wine Tailor
8916 Foothill Blvd., Rancho Cucamonga.
(909) 481-5050; www.thewinetailor.com.
Wine tasting every day, classes planned for the spring.


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Losing farmland to… farming
In the District of North Okanagan, B.C., a cannabis grow-op application is facing strong public opposition. The proposed facility would be located on 2.3 acres of farmland, but the cannabis would not be grown in the soil. Instead, marijuana plants would be grown in a large indoor facility, and some local residents say the concrete floor of the building will ruin the soil for good.
The application has been sent to the Agricultural Land Commission – a tribunal set up to protect agricultural land in B.C. – which should take around 60 days to issue a ruling.
Workers Compensation Boards are grappling with the reality of medical marijuana. While some provincial boards do cover medical marijuana claims, getting approved for coverage is not easy. Melissa Ellsworth of Nova Scotia recently won a tribunal ruling – after five years – to become one of only 10 people covered in the province. New Brunswick covers the most claims at 71. The Canadian Forces, on the other hand, covers medical marijuana for more than 7000 vets.
The Muscowpetung First Nation in Saskatchewan has filed a statement of claim against the Saskatchewan and federal governments over the right to regulate the sale of marijuana. Based on the principle of self-governance, the First Nation wantsOI a declaration that they have the right to sell and regulate cannabis, and that federal marijuana laws do not apply on their land.
In Akwesasne, Ontario, indigenous-owned cannabis producer Seven Leaf is hoping to get their pot to market by June. Lewis Mitchell, a former police chief, is the director of Seven Leaf, reflecting the transformation of cannabis from contraband to crop. In Canada, that is. The Akwesasne reserve straddles the Canada-US border, and while marijuana is legal in Canada, it remains very much illegal in New York State. Past high profile drug busts have given Akwesasne a reputation for smuggling. It’s a reputation that doesn’t sit well with residents.
For sale: Cannabis… shop.
Six provinces allow private retailers to sell cannabis, but getting a license to do so is not easy or quick. Predictably, licensed retailers can now sell more than just cannabis – they can also sell themselves. New Leaf Emporium, one of two licensed retailers in Moose Jaw, SK, recently sold for $1.6 million in cash and stocks to National Access Cannabis Corporation (NAC). NAC already operates 21 stores in Alberta and Manitoba, and plans to leverage existing supplier relationships and sales infrastructure as it expands into the Saskatchewan market.
According to the CBC, NAC has also considered partnering with some of the 25 businesses in Ontario who (literally) won the cannabis license lottery. Under Ontario law, those cannabis licenses cannot be transferred, but that hasn’t stopped a rush of investors from looking for partnerships – reportedly offering up to $5 million dollars for the opportunity to share in the profits.


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SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Oompa-loompa doompadee doo, a new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory series is coming soon!
Netflix has acquired the rights to retell the fantastical stories of children’s author Roald Dahl, whose books have spurred several movies (and remakes of those movies) like Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, and of course, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
According to the company, Taika Waititi and Phil Johnston are already working on the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory series, which will expand on the characters and world Dahl created.
Netflix and its partnership with the Roald Dahl Story Company aim to create a “unique universe” based on the beloved stories, which will cross animation, live action films and episodes, games, immersive experiences and even live theatre.
“As we bring these timeless tales to more audiences in new formats, we’re committed to maintaining their unique spirit and their universal themes of surprise and kindness, while also sprinkling some fresh magic into the mix,” Netflix said Wednesday.
Over 300 million copies of Roald Dahl’s books have been sold worldwide, the Roald Dahl Story Company reports.


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AN Antiques Road Trip expert was left lost for words when they sold a wooden letterbox for a HUGE profit.
Tim Medhurst and Izzie Balmer went head to head to try and make the most amount of money in a recent episode of the BBC show.
Antiques dealer Tim got his hands on a wooden letterbox for just £140.
As the pair watched it go up for auction, Tim said: “I just think it’s charming, isn’t it?”
Izzie confessed: “I can see why you bought it. I’d have bought it we would have been fighting for it!”
The auctioneer went straight from selling it for £100 to £300.
More and more people were starting to how an interest in the letterbox, and it soon got up to £700.
“I’m speechless already,” Tim confessed.
And it didn’t stop there as it soon reached the £1,500 mark.
They finally sold it for a whopping £2,200.
Tim proudly stated: “Highest ever sale on the Road Trip.”
He added: I don’t know what to say…
“I’ll buy the last fish and chips and I’m going home.”
It comes days after Izzie was left shocked after a “risky” pendant that sold for a HUGE profit.
The TV star took the delicate Edwardian pendant to auction after buying it for £140.
It ended up making a huge £100 profit.
The first bid for the pendant was £65 and the price started to “climb quickly” to £140, before continuing to go up to £240.
“Oh I can breathe,” she exclaimed as the price went up – with the hammer going down at £100 profit. “That’s incredible.”
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The price of bitcoin has fallen 49.5% from its high of $19,782 all the way down to $9990 as of February 22nd. Since the stock market peaked in late January, Bitcoin is down 15% while gold is down only 3%.
Some unfamiliar with Bitcoin as an investment vehicle may be confused as to why I would compare Bitcoin and gold. However, the comparison makes sense when considering what exactly each of these commodities represents. Gold has long been considered the “gold standard” when it comes to discussing stores of value. A store of value is anything that maintains its value without depreciating. Gold and other precious metals have long been used in this capacity because of their relative ease of transport – even the U.S. was on still on a gold standard1 as late as 1971!
Gold makes logical sense to many as a store of value simply because we know people are willing to pay for it. Humans have always placed a large value on gold due to both its scarcity and its stability, not to mention how it looks. Those who invest in gold can logically conclude that the commodity will be valuable because people will always be interested in jewelry and in holding a valuable commodity that is not backed by a single government like currencies. These factors make gold a useful store of value and something that can be counted on as relatively stable compared to the market.
It is quite a bit more difficult to understand why Bitcoin is considered a store of value. What intrinsic properties of Bitcoin make it valuable at all? Those excited about cryptocurrencies have touted Bitcoin’s decentralized nature, relative anonymity, ease of transfer, and scarcity as sources of intrinsic value. However, all of these qualities are worthless if Bitcoin fails to establish and maintain usefulness as a medium of exchange.
Current news paints a bleak picture of Bitcoin’s future as a medium of exchange – in just the past several weeks, China has imposed a restriction on Bitcoin mining and investing, Korea banning the cryptocurrencies entirely, and JP Morgan barred credit card users from buying coins. As if this news wasn’t bad enough, Bitcoin’s recent failure to maintain any semblance of value during the stock market’s downturn has left even the most crypto-happy investors quite concerned about its future.


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DIY Femtocell Hack Sniffs Out Malware on Mobile Phones
In last week’s edition, we highlighted a presentation at Black Hat Las Vegas by researchers who figured out how to hack a femtocell portable cellular base station in order to intercept all data transmitted by nearby mobile handsets. They informed device makers such as Verizon about the exploit so it could be remedied.
This week, Wired reported that the good guys have devised a method for using a femtocell to detect malware on mobile phones. In a presentation at the Def Con hacker conference in Las Vegas, researchers from LMG Security demonstrated a system they built for less than $300 that can view data transmitted from smartphones, through a femtocell, to a cellular carrier’s network. This allows a phone’s user to monitor his or her own data traffic for malicious activity.
“If your phone is infected … it can send audio recordings, copies of your text messages, and even intercept copies of your text messages so you never receive them,” LMG’s Sherri Davidoff told Wired. “Our goal is to give people the ability to see the network traffic” to determine if this is occurring.” The LMG jury rig not only allows traffic monitoring, says Wired, it also gives the user the ability “to stop the data from being passed to attackers from infected phones, alter it to feed the attackers false data, or pass commands back to the smart phone to remotely disable the malware.”
The researchers went a step further, releasing a paper describing their method that includes information so consumers can build the system as a DIY project. for others to use to develop their own system.


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Gates on Xbox: 'we've got a Ferrari, they've got a Ferrari'
"Bill Gates, speaking at Microsoft's meeting with financial analysts today, explained that the company believes the hardware specifications of its Xbox 360 and those of Sony's PlayStation 3 are both top-notch. However, Gates said, Microsoft's head start should give it a key advantage: "Our view is, basically, we've got a Ferrari, they've got a Ferrari. Our Ferrari is leaving the starting line substantially before their Ferrari is. In most races that's a very nice thing.""