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How to select a crypto currency wallet
Ripple continues to dump billions of XRP on us," said Crypto Bitlod, the petition's sponsor. Causing prices to plummet! Of course, we know that XRP is a reliable currency with great potential, but this behavior needs to stop!"
The chart above shows roughly 20,000 Blockchain.com wallets in August 2012. Note that this is likely an excellent measure of the number of crypto users because at the time, Blockchain. com was the most popular crypto wallet software, so most people who wanted to get bitcoin would download this wallet. com was the most popular encrypted wallet software, so most people who wanted to get bitcoin would download this wallet!
In addition, it was reported that a hypnotist from Russia has helped nearly half of his 20 clients recover their Bitcoin wallet passwords
In addition, keeping a low profile and not showing off your wealth is also an important measure to protect your bitcoin security. As just discussed above, it's not a good idea to share your phone number publicly. And you're even less likely to flaunt the fact that you have a lot of bitcoins in your hand. The more people know that you have a lot of bitcoins, the more likely it is that malicious people will be interested in taking them away from you, excessively! Showing off your wealth can even endanger your personal safety.
Why single out strong decentralized digital assets such as Bitcoin (hereafter referred to as Bitcoin)? Because they can both be traded on an exchange and at the same time exist independently of it, and because they themselves can act as Trading equivalents, for example, there are now many places around the world that support bitcoin trading, where you can Buy a house, car, tuition, pizza, coffee, etc. directly with bitcoin
In this regard, the ministry urged future oversight of anonymous cryptocurrencies. The report notes that while the market value of such tokens remains relatively low, their growing popularity and acceptance on the dark web may eventually Becoming a Real Alternative to Bitcoin (BTC)
Bitcoin SV is now roughly the same price as it was at the beginning of the year due to the Coin Safe downfall controversy and the $100 billion Bitcoin lawsuit Flat. Also after Sun Yuchen's defection from Warren Buffett, Tron is still working towards its lofty goal of becoming a "top 10 market cap" company.
According to CoinMarketCap, more than 40% of the trading volume on Coinbase comes from BTC-related trades. BTC trading can be considered as one of the most important business of Coinbase, so Coinbase also The security of the BTC account system is particularly important, and even its bitcoin wallet system is very different from that of other exchanges. Unlike most exchanges that have relatively fixed wallet clusters, Coinbase makes extensive use of disposable wallets as top-up wallets. and hot wallets, and its cold wallet storage is very decentralized, making it difficult to mine data
Under the license, the company will be able to offer New York residents Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Litecoin and Stellar's buying and selling services


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More predicted layoffs at Motorola Mobility are taking place under the new ownership by Google.
The company is expected to layoff some 1,200 employees working in the United States, China and India, news reports said. That amount represents about 10 percent of its current employees
The news came from a company e-mail handed over to The Journal that
said in part, "while we're very optimistic about the new products in our pipeline, we still face challenges. … our costs are too high, we're operating in markets where we're not competitive and we're losing money."
These layoffs are in addition to a 20 percent cut in Motorola’s employee count which began in August, The Journal claims. It had as a goal to lay off some 4,000 employees as of last year. Motorola had 11,113 employees as of December.
"These cuts are a continuation of the reductions we announced last summer,” a Motorola statement said. “It's obviously very hard for the employees concerned, and we are committed to helping them through this difficult transition."
News about fewer jobs at the company comes at the same time that nationally, the U.S. economy added 236,000 jobs in February, and the unemployment rate dropped to 7.7 percent – a four-year low.
Google purchased Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion largely for its rich patent portfolio. But more recently, The Journal is reporting that “Google executives have referred to Motorola as an insurance policy in case Google loses control of Android to Samsung, which has commanded a growing share of the Android-based device market.”
However, Motorola has seen operating losses in recent months.
In October, Google also warned that Motorola Mobility could see “significant” restructuring charges, according to TechZone360. “Motorola continues to evaluate its plans and further restructuring actions may occur, which may cause Google to incur additional restructuring charges, some of which may be significant,” a Google filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission in October added about Motorola.
Motorola Mobility manufactures cell phones and cable set-top boxes.
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Mazda unveils its new 2.2L clean tech diesel engine, stop-start system
Get ready, Europe, because you're about to get yet another slick new diesel, this time from Mazda. The company unveiled its new 2.2L common-rail turbo diesel for the European market today, as well as several other new green technologies.
The new MZR-CD diesel features ultra high pressure fuel injectors and a lower compression ratio to create 185 hp and 295 lb-ft of torque and boost efficiency and fuel economy. The engine will also feature a Mazda-developed diesel particulate filter that uses a new catalyst activation mechanism that enhances the filter and speeds up regeneration.
Mazda also introduced an advanced engine shut-off program called the Smart Idle Stop System. Most cars that use such a system, namely hybrids, rely on an electric motor to get the car moving while the computer figures out where on the combustion cycle each piston is and restart the engine properly. Mazda's system figures out where the pistons are before the engine restarts and makes sure that the motor is stopped with the pistons on the compression stroke and the expansion stroke in the exact position necessary to ensure the right balance of air volume in each cylinder. Using this technology, Mazda engines will restart twice as quickly as other similar systems, restart smoother and save more fuel.
Not content with just improving the efficiency of the moving parts, Mazda has also developed a new plastic molding technology that allows the company to make plastic parts for its cars that are lighter, use less resources and yet are just as strong as plastics used today. The new process cuts the use of oil-based resins by 20 to 30% and should be able to produce any and all plastic parts needed for a car.
Both the new diesel and the restart system will be available in Europe next year, while the new plastic molding process will likely be integrated into Mazda's production process in the near future.
No word yet on when or if Mazda will bring its new diesel here. Seems like the perfect match for the Mazda6.


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Half of last year's ginseng crop remains unsold as farmers prep for this year's harvest
on Monday in the trade war between the U.S. and China, Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin toured a ginseng farm in Edgar, hearing how ginseng farmers are taking some of the biggest hits from the tariffs.
"That's a huge consequence to rural America, and certainly to Wisconsin's agricultural sector," Baldwin noted.
Six weeks away from this year's harvest, the Ginseng Board of Wisconsin's (GBW) Executive Director Jackie Fett says about half of last year's crop remains unsold. In contrast, they had sold about 90% of 2017's crops last spring, when the tariff on ginseng was still at 7.5%. Now, that number has risen to 41.5%.
Marathon County grows much of the nation's ginseng, and exports about 85% of that to China. But as the trade war continues, China's demand for ginseng is increasing with it, both in the tourists who buy it in China as well as manufacturers who use it in other products, GBW members said.
Ginseng farmer and GBW president Robert Kaldinski says that while markets for ginseng have always been difficult, this is the first time that the issue has been out of their control.
"It's not a fight we picked, you know?" he said.
Expanding markets beyond China is a focal point for the industry right now, Fett explained. "We're looking at India as a market...we're also looking at Australia and New Zealand as a potential market."
But developing new markets is extensive and costly work. "That's very challenging," Fett noted, "and an extreme amount of investment to even, you know, get there."
With last year's surplus sitting unsold and tariffs on the product increasing, that money just isn't coming in. Ginseng farmers are getting $2.85 a pound for ginseng in the
but Kaldinski says the reality is that they're losing about $15 a pound from the tariffs.
"That's pretty devastating to the industry," Kaldinski said.
Baldwin said she had a conversation with the United States Department of Agriculture secretary Sonny Perdue when the second round of payments was in planning, and discussed specialty crops like ginseng.
"It didn't strike me that they were looking at being as creative as we can on how to lessen the harmful impact on these hardworking farmers," Baldwin said.
When asked for comment, Republican senator Ron Johnson's press secretary sent us this quote from an interview Johnson held in March.
“I realize what the administration is trying to do is reset the trading system around the world. We've been taken advantage of. China is the primary abuser: not following the rules, stealing our intellectual property from various means, including cyber theft and industrial espionage, so we’ve had to focus on them. … We have to conclude these deals to really bring certainty and stability to the American economy and to the markets.”
Johnson is also actively pushing the ratification in Congress of the new USMC trade deal to replace the North America Free Trade Agreement, holding multiple roundtables and calls with Wisconsin farmers about the agreement in recent weeks.


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Did you watch the 360-degree video promo of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, on Facebook? There are almost 7 million fans who got their first view of the latest edition of the cult series through the video.
And while Facebook experiments with new ways to make the Newsfeed, the ultimate window into the online world, VR video (360-degree virtual reality video) seems to be the next big thing to catch on. Click on this link, for a quick peek.
In Facebook’s News Feed, when the video plays, users can choose what angle they want to see it from. Each video allows users a completely spherical—that is, 360-degree—view on both web and mobile devices, creating a more immersive experience. On the web one can do this by dragging around the video with the cursor, and on mobile devices it can be done by dragging with finger — or even just by turning / tilting the device. Users can hold up their phones and the 360 video will follow as they turn.
“Imagine sharing not just moments with your friends online, but entire experiences and adventures” wrote Mark Zuckerberg after Facebook acquired Oculus, the virtual reality company in March 2014. No more imagining – Facebook has already begun incorporating Oculus technology into its 360 Videos. Facebook’s move to launch 360 videos in News Feed, gives users a new visual form to explore. This way, Facebook will stay fresh for consumers by offering the most vivid way to connect with places they can’t go.
Facebook is keen to popularize this 360-degree virtual reality video format as it’s a gateway to a platform that the company thinks is the future of social networks. It is also opening up the format to advertisers, with the first “immersive stories” coming from brands like AT&T, Corona, Nescafe, Ritz Crackers, Samsung, GoPro, Vice and Walt Disney World. It might also partner with camera manufacturers including Theta, Giroptic, and IC Real Tech to create in-app “publish to Facebook” options for their 360-degree kit.
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FIFA 22 is full steam ahead with Team of the Year rolling and plenty of other FUT action in store.
But that's not all fans have to look forward to, as EA has revealed the next steps for the game with Title Update #4. With that, let's dive right into what we know so far!
Latest - Out now on consoles
Good news, Title Update #4 is now available on Playstation and Xbox consoles, and Stadio too!
Consoles users are due a hefty update, and that is what they will now get as part of Title Update #4!
Title Update #4 went live on PC on Tuesday, January 11th, and it was expected that it would launch on all other platforms around Monday, January 17th per EA's typical release schedule.
After a lengthy delay after the last update, EA is pulling no punches with the newest patch notes!
EA did not release an update for FIFA 22 for well over a month, so there is plenty of patches across a variety of game modes.
The gameplay, in particular, has caught the eye though with some notable changes arriving in the game.
One member of the FIFA community has described the patch as excellent as the gameplay has reverted to a more balanced style like we saw early on in FIFA 22.
Find out more about the "excellent" patch reverting back to realistic gameplay.
Title Update #4 is not the only update bringing changes to the game.
After the recent hacking scandals, EA has introduced changes in an attempt to ensure mistakes like this don't happen again.
Read more about the security changes and hacking scandals here.
Meta is a moving target
From the outset of FIFA 22, we have seen a resurgence in the use of centre-backs in comparison to FIFA 21 with pace being less crucial in defensive situations.
The fact the likes of Man City's Ruben Dias have been useable in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team is refreshing, to say the least after a plague of full-backs being used last season.
However, that plague looks to be returning! Full-backs seem to have broken the shackles of poor defensive positioning and once again returned to the top table.
The more special cards (with higher pace) we see added to the game, the faster we need our defenders to be.
We hope that this trend is quickly stamped out, but the signs all point to full-backs once again being used in the middle of defence.
Click here to read about how centre-backs are once more becoming obscolete in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team.
Title Update #3
Title Update #3 was released on PC and Stadia on Wednesday, 3 November, before then being to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S on Tuesday, 9 November.
Changes were brought into all the major areas of the game, including a supposed fix for the free-kick glitch which does seem to have quietened down in recent weeks.
We have seen several bugs in FIFA 22, so make sure you are aware of the gameplay glitches that could cost you games.
Read all about Title Update #3 including the full details and patch notes.
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Barking and Dagenham Chamber Business Awards 2016 launched
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The Barking and Dagenham Chamber of Commerce Business Awards have officially launched giving local companies and entrepreneurs a chance to have their achievements celebrated.
Back for a second year, the awards will be split across 12 different categories including three new additions – Business and Social Responsibility, Young Entrepreneur or Businessperson and Innovation and Use of Digital Media.
The awards, which are free to enter, will be presented at a prestigious black-tie dinner at Dagenham and Redbridge Football Club on July 14 and Chamber president Mark Bass hopes as many companies as possible will enter.
“It’s an ideal opportunity to be independently assessed and to put yourself up against your peers,” he said.
“It’s also a fantastic opportunity to showcase yourself and highlight your successes and show to others that yours is a business that achieves something.
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“In the past award winners from the borough have gone on to win bigger regional awards, so this is a great platform.”
The Party Box, in Becontree Avenue, Dagenham, dominated last year’s awards winning Business of the Year and Best Sole Trader Micro Business while boss Donna Pike took home Business Person of the Year.
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All entries for this year’s awards must be in by 5pm on Friday, April 29.
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When Kristine Akins had a second bike stolen in 2010, the veteran entrepreneur didn’t get mad. She got even. In 2011, she founded BikeTrak, a startup that is building GPS-powered security devices for bikes. Embedded in the bicycle, the unit will automatically alert riders and police when a bicycle is stolen, then pinpoint where the bike is at any given time. “It’s a complete system for thwarting bike theft,” says Akins. The system operates at the nexus of several cutting-edge technologies, including GPS, cellular chip and “machine-to-machine” communications. “There were significant challenges,” says Akins. Other technical hurdles include ensuring the unit isn’t on or activated when the bike is accidentally jostled or when the rider moves the bike, and embedding the device, with its three antennas, in the actual bike frame. Akins is testing a “Beta I” version of BikeTrak this month — the initial round of units will be built into the water cage — and hopes to release about 200 products this summer, just before the September Interbike trade show in Las Vegas. Akins has been working with Portland police on the device and says detectives “love the idea” of an automated system. Would-be vigilantes, take note. A notice on the BikeTrak web site likely will read: “Don’t go after the thief yourself.”
Bicycle security devices
Received $150,000 in convertible note funding. “We’re looking at getting $750,000 before launch,” says Akins. Named as a semi-finalist in Angel Oregon 2012. Two full-time employees, several part-time and contractor workers. Retail launch price is $299. “This is heavy-duty technology, but we hope to get prices down over time.”
“Bikes are so easy to steal,” says Akins. “If thieves think they might be tracked, they’ll probably think twice. Ninety percent of thieves are idiots. But we’re struggling a bit in terms of publicizing where the unit will be located on the bike.”
Monday, July 07, 2014
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Named after the 2010 experiment by Thomas Ryan, "Robin Sages" are fake social media profiles designed to encourage linking and divulging valuable information.
Tuesday, June 03, 2014
Citing the transition to catch shares management as a key to rebuilding stocks and reducing bycatch, 13 species caught by the West Coast trawl fishery today earned designation from the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) as sustainable.
Friday, July 18, 2014
BY JASON NORRIS | OB GUEST CONTRIBUTOR
Back in May, we shared a common Wall Street quote about investing, “Sell in May and go away.” Fast forward to July and the most common question we have been getting from clients is, “When is the market pullback going to occur?”
Thursday, July 10, 2014
BY TOM COX | OB BLOGGER
Tom Cox interviews Dr. Mark Goulston, author of Just Listen, Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone.
Tuesday, July 08, 2014
BY LINDA BAKER | OB EDITOR
The New Yorker recently published a sharply worded critique of “disruptive innovation,” one of the most widely cited theories in the business world today. The article raises questions about the descriptive value of disruption and innovation — whether the terms are mere buzzwords or actually explain today's extraordinarily complex and fast changing business environment.
Update: We caught up with Portland's Thomas Thurston, who shared his data driven take on the disruption controversy.
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Some people think Amazon’s winking eye logo is starting to look like a hoodwink.
Tuesday, July 01, 2014
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Demand for organic food continues to soar: Last year, sales of organic food rose to $32.3 billion — up 10% from 2012. In Oregon, organic produce wholesaler Organically Grown Co. has been championing organic growing methods for four decades.
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How George Fox has become one of Oregon's largest private universities.
Forest Grove sees growth in the burgeoning food and beverage scene.
Lane Powell Shareholder Susan K. Eggum has been elected as vice chair of programs and projects for the International Association of Defense Counsel’s (IADC’s) Employment Law Committee.
Geffen Mesher is saddened to announce the passing of long-time shareholder, Tom “Mike” Anderson, who died on July 10, 2014, from liver disease diagnosed after recent heart surgery. He was 55 years old.
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Rivian’s first product, the 2022 R1T full-size pickup, is in production and the first impressions, even from us, are positive.
This appears to bode well for the company’s efforts to raise additional funds, as the recent initial public offering shows.
Rivian set the price of a share in its IPO at $ 78, which was higher than many expected. However, the IPO was oversubscribed and when the shares started trading Wednesday on the Nasdaq Global Select Market index, under the RIVN symbol, the price exploded to the upside.
Rivian’s stock price ended the day at $ 100.73, up 29%. Based on the number of shares outstanding, Rivian’s market value is now $ 85.9 billion, which roughly equates to General Motors at $ 86 billion and tops Ford at $ 77.4 billion. Tesla, of course, is much larger, valued at over $ 1 trillion.
We remind you that Rivian delivered only 156 examples of the R1T at the end of October and expects to reach that figure up to 1,000 units by the end of 2021.
Rivian managed to raise $ 11.9 billion by going public, making Rivian’s IPO the seventh largest on record. The figure is likely to rise as underwriters have an option to purchase up to 22.95 million additional shares at the opening price of $ 78.
Rivian builds first example of R1T for customers – September 2021
Demand for Rivian stock would always have been strong given the current frenzy around electric vehicle startup listings. However, unlike many of its rivals, Rivian is already building a credible product, and the company has indicated that key investor Amazon, which had a 20% stake in Rivian prior to listing, along with other equity investments, plans to buy more shares. Ford is also a key investor in Rivian.
Both companies also have agreements with Rivian for vehicle development programs. Amazon commissioned Rivian to build 100,000 electric vans. A handful of vans were delivered earlier this year, and Amazon hopes to have the entire fleet operational by 2030.
Ford said it will use Rivian’s skateboard platform for an unspecified future EV. Rivian was also supposed to build a Lincoln EV at its Illinois factory, but that project was canceled in April 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic took hold.
In previous documents, Rivian revealed it was burning up serious money as it ramped up for September start of production of the R1T, with losses for the first half of 2021 standing at $ 994 million, which was almost the total amount the company lost in 2020 and roughly double what it lost in 2019.
Most of the costs have been associated with R&D spending, and this decline is set to continue through the end of 2023. The company expects its losses to amount to approximately $ 8 billion by that date as it seeks to expand its business. its production capacity, including the production of batteries, and add new templates. Rivian said that after the United States, it will focus on expanding into Western Europe before expanding into Asia.
A conventional IPO is unusual for an electric vehicle startup, as most have opted for the quickest route of going public through so-called “reverse mergers” with shell companies of special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs).


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The UK’s biggest bank HSBC has sharply downgraded its forecast for the UK economy, predicting it to shrink by 10.3 per cent this year and only grow six per cent in 2021.
The latest figures are markedly more pessimistic than its previous prediction of a 7.8 per cent contraction in 2020 followed by growth of 6.2 per cent next year.
It is also much more gloomy than the Bank of England, which said the UK economy would return to its pre-coronavirus size by the end of 2021. The BoE said the economy would shrink 9.5 per cent this year and grow nine per cent in 2021.
By contrast, HSBC today said in a report that the UK economy would likely be 4.5 per cent smaller by the end of 2021 than it was at the end of 2019.
The giant UK lender contrasted its new forecasts with some relatively rosy commentary that has recently come from the Bank of England.
The BoE’s chief economist Andy Haldane has been particularly bullish. He wrote in the Daily Mail last week: “Now is the time to see the economic glass as half-full not half-empty.”
He has previously pointed to payments data that showed a relatively rapid rebound in spending as the coronavirus lockdown was eased.
Recent UK economy data ‘worse than expected’
But HSBC senior economist Elizabeth Martins said recent economic data was underwhelming. The UK economy crashed by an historic 20.4 per cent in the second quarter, which “was worse than we had expected,” Martins said.
She said that unlike Haldane, “recent data outturns have made us more pessimistic about the lasting economic impact”.
Martins added: “The UK is far from back to normal.” Official figures from the end of July showed only 5.5 per cent of those who had been furloughed had returned to work, she said. And “a significant number of businesses have simply not reopened”.
However, Martins said there had “clearly been green shoots” since April. The easing of lockdown has increased activity and fiscal incentives like the “eat out to help out” scheme have boosted the economy.
HSBC maintained its previous prediction that unemployment would hit 7.2 per cent by the end of the year, which would likely see around 3m out of work.
It was better than the BoE’s 7.5 per cent prediction, however. HSBC said this reflected a better-than-expected second quarter for employment.


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“What does the future of marketing look like, and how should brands prepare themselves now to thrive in the future?”
Here Is What I Said
Marketing has become about smart technology. The winners and losers will be defined by those who evolve strategically. CMOs are on track to spend as much as CIOs (Gartner) this year on technology, and most are very willing to invest big money to get the results that are being demanded from them. When talking to groups of CMOs it is common to have them trade “tips” on software solutions that each other are using.
Marketing technology stacks are common among the best marketers, but most are finding that there is a disconnect between the promise of results and the reality. While some of this failure is because CMOs have chosen the wrong tool for the job, most is due to a lack of tool level strategy integration.
With the glut of money being poured into technology acquisitions, the focus has been on hiring technologists (tool-level specialists) to manage and implement, not marketing strategists. Understandable, but for brands to stay ahead of the curve and win they need to invest in strategy closer to the tool, not just from the top as it usually is.
Here’s why, a Kitewheel study discovered that 72% of agencies use less than 40% of their software tools every week. It’s hard to imagine that B2B companies are doing much better. This begs the question, how much sales revenue is being left on the table? CMO’s who drive a sustained effort to bring in marketers who know strategy, can look for integration and usage opportunities, provide strategic technology acquisition recommendations, and that are technology savvy, will give them the edge in the MarTech Arms Race.
Read the full article and my comments on Inc.: These 17 Social Media Power Players Agree On 1 Thing (And It’s a Must-Have For Your Business). Connect with Peter Kozodoy on Twitter at @peterkozodoy.


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Ban won’t Help in Maintaining Declining Population, says Conservationists
Conservationists have cautioned that the government may have placed a blanket ban on a few pesticides but this won't provide immediate results. Bee population will not meet a jump as still a number of problems have to be tackled in order to prevent its deterioration.
This comment was preceded by the European Commission. It made an announcement that there would be ban oncertain pesticides known as "neonicotinoids" which have been associated with the plunge in bee numbers. This decision was supported by 15 out of the 27 EU states.
In a report by the University of Reading, it has been explained by the researchers that intensive farming and urban development are other causes responsible for decline in bee population in UK.
However, some claims by experts at Shropshire's Harper Adams University show that farmers may have to suffer because of this decision. This may have serious implications on the productivity. This move has been termed as a tough situation for the farmers in dealing effectively with pests, some of which are becoming resistant to other pesticides.
Conservationists have pointed out that the ban has no scientific backing and it will make things harder for the farmers. A report has been prepared that has asked the government to take steps that support wildlife-friendly farming.
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Bob Burrowes, Century International's chairman and managing director, said: 'We have a strong customer base in the UK, where I see our optimum fleet size as 3,000 vehicles. We are keen to spread the risk particularly in view of concern over changes in the traditional relationship between UK manufacturers and the rental industry.' Century International's UK programme would entail a maximum acquisition of 5,000 vehicles a year.
The European fleet is not yet large enough to warrant centrally negotiated supply deals, but as it gets to its target of 8,000 vehicles this will come onto the agenda. Century International operates from 11 French locations, with three more planned, one branch in Dublin, and will open a centre in Brussels this year, before moving into Germany in early 1998.
Century has exported its package for business customers called 'Corporate Choice', which won accounts with major fleets including Michelin and British Coal in the UK.


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AN AEROSOL manufacturer has tabled plans for Irvine’s old Simclar electronics factory – six months after we revealed they were in talks with the American owners of the building.
Barony Universal Products, of Auchinleck, want to turn the former electronics plant into a production, storage and distribution depot.
They have lodged full plans and drawings with North Ayrshire Council and, if given the green light, will bid to buy the building from the New York-based Kauffman Organisation.
Barony representatives visited the site in Riverside Way back in October last year.
Managing Director Stuart Shaw told the Herald at the time that the credit crunch had killed off any hope of them pursuing their interest.
But newly submitted plans show Barony want to sub divide the plant’s existing production area to create an aerosol process area and laboratory, seven aerosol production lines and a finished goods area.
Liquid petroleum gas and ethanol tanks would also be constructed and fenced off in the 18-acre factory grounds.
New York property giants The Kaufman Organisation bought the Simclar site for £8m in 2001 and granted a new 25-year lease to Fullarton Computer Industries Ltd, who were later bought out by Simclar.
They claim the value of their investment halved following Simclar’s departure and subsequent liquidation three years ago and have since struggled to find a new owner for the building.
Melvyn Kaufman, son of the founder of the real estate firm, is still pursuing a legal action against the electronics firm amid allegations of asset stripping.
Simclar were later cleared of any wrongdoing over the closure in a probe by the Department of Trade and Industry.


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Cash Suvidha Join Hands with StoreKing to Serve Rural Markets
Cash Suvidha, a digital fintech platform under Usha Financial services has recently made an announcement of its partnership with StoreKing, a rural digitalization and commerce optimization platform that links rural India with technology.
With a view to extend lending services to retailers in rural part of India, this partnership between two has been formed.
With this partnership, the two companies aim to bring access to financial services in the nooks and corners of the country and thus in this direction, they plans to extend loans worth Rs 30-40 crore to over 2500 retailers per year.
Through this partnership, Cash Suvidha has already successfully disbursed loans worth Rs 1 crore in just one month.
On one hand Cash Suvidha has a strong presence in North India, empowering more than 32,000 SMEs by providing variety of loans in Delhi NCR, Banglore, Pune, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Rajasthan. On the other hand, StoreKing with its strong network of 47,000 stores across 10 states has been enabling retailers to sell more products and services to the walk-in customers.
Therefore, through this strategic tie-up Cash Suvidha is being able to tap into new markets and geographies such as the rural parts of Gujarat, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
Commenting over the recent development, Utkarsh Gupta, Head of the Alliance from Cash Suvidha in a press interview said, that with the help of StoreKing’s transactional data of over 50,000 retailers, we have achieved full data integration with StoreKing.
He said that this integration is allowing us to use our proprietary Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven systems to determine the best leads for credit, and match them with the perfect kind of product.
Since its operation, the company has been profitable and has raised a total debt of $5.2 million with successful disbursal of 154 Cr. Loan.
With its vision to provide easy access to credit and working capital to SMEs, 80% of its loans are targeted towards SME sector in India.


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Appropriately qualified persons for the provision of veterinary medicinal products are more likely to be referred to as “registered veterinary medicinal product advisors”.
When the government relaxed veterinary prescription regulations, the term “SQP” was coined to refer to an agricultural trader with the necessary certification to sell these products directly to farmers. But the name didn’t stay and the Veterinary Medicines Education Regulatory Authority wants it to be changed.
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AMTRA Secretary General Stephen Dawson said, “We are delighted that so many other industry organizations, corporations and animal health companies are now willing to accept the RAMA title and help promote an official name change.
“This is an issue that has been on our radar for a while as we feel that the SQP name does not reflect the skills of those who have completed the training and qualification and also maintain their continuing education and continuous learning. Pet owners don’t understand the initials “SQP”, but neither do they understand “Appropriately Qualified Person,” which is very vague.
“The Registered Veterinary Medicines Advisor, or RAMA, details the important role these people play in a larger animal health plan, and we appreciate the enthusiasm across the industry to support this move,” he added.
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The term is increasingly used by various industry organizations, including AHDA, NADIS, SCOPS, and COWS. As a co-regulator, Vetskill has confirmed its longstanding support for such a change. Global animal health company Zoetis recently launched RAMA Connect, a new platform that meets RAMA’s business needs through training tools, seasonal campaigns, and various other resources to help RAMAs make the most of their role.


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Axie Infinity is launching the Filipino Fiesta Contest in celebration of the country’s Independence Day. Being one of the major communities of this game, there will be unique benefits to players from this region. The team is also offering a first-time feature that Lunacians from the Philippines will enjoy.
1/ Introducing Fortune Chests 💫
We’re excited to reveal Lunacia’s first-ever Fortune Chests during our Filipino Fiesta Contest!
Here’s everything you need to know 🧵👇
— Axie Infinity (@AxieInfinity) June 9, 2023
Details of the Axe Infinity Filipino Fiesta Contest
The Philippines Independence Day celebration will take place on the 12th of June. However, Axie Infinity does not want to limit the fund to a one-day event. Instead, this competition will begin on the 9th of June and continue will the 13th of June. Within this period, players will be opportune to engage in Origins battles and earn various rewards.
The Filipino Fiesta Contest is special. As a result, there will be unique rewards for participants from the country. Some of the benefits include unique avatars and stickers. The team promises to unveil Filipino-themed decoration rewards that participants will benefit from.
Although this contest is open to everyone, interested contestants must meet certain criteria to become eligible. The first step is earning Fortune Chests. These are digital items that unlock the missions that players can undertake to earn rewards.
Axie Infinity is launching Fortune Chests as part of the Filipino Fiesta Contest. These in-game assets contain various digital items and are also keys that players can use to access missions. Players who complete these tasks they access via the mystery boxes will earn more rewards.
There are different categories of these Fortune Chests. Players will unlock these items according to their positions on the leaderboard. Higher-ranking participants have significant chances of getting rarer boxes. The Aurora Chest, for example, has a 3% maximum drop rate. However, anyone who obtains it has the probability of earning 100,000 $SLP.
However, the prize pool is not limited to only veterans. Newbies and amateur players have a decent chance of earning the Bronze Chest. This box guarantees between 10 and 1,000 Runes. In addition, low-ranking participants who receive this box may also get $SLP and other rewards.
Meanwhile, these digital assets are most valuable during the Filipino Fiesta. Therefore, players should unlock their boxes between the 9th and 13th of June to receive the maximum benefits. Anyone who opens theirs after the event will only receive a single moonshard. This is regardless of what type of chest they have. More so, users cannot earn Fortune Chests if their daily Stamina is exhausted.


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President Joe Biden asked his administration to review how cannabis is classified under the Controlled Substances Act this month — a move food and beverage producers in the space are watching closely after years of stalled federal legislation.
Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recommended that marijuana be reclassified, according to a letter sent to the DEA by HHS Secretary Rachel Levine, first reported by Bloomberg.
HHS said it completed an 11-month research period about the safety of marijuana and its classification.
Erwin Henriquez, a market research consultant at Euromonitor International, said the eventual rescheduling could be good news for food and beverage companies wanting to be part of the cannabis-infused market. But in the short term it will not spur greater availability of the products. Henriquez added that the administration’s move could benefit producers focusing on medicinal products as opposed to adult-use cannabis, which is legal in select states.
“It’s still not making adult-use legal, so for that we will need a lot of other things to be in place.” Henriquez said about the potential rescheduling. “I don’t think we’re at a point where large CPG companies are going to be like, ‘Ok now things feel safe.’”
Demand for cannabis-infused food and beverage products continues to grow despite the uncertain legislative situation. It is projected to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 19.32% by 2027, according to TechNavio.
Currently, cannabis is classified as a Schedule I drug, a category intended for drugs with a high potential for abuse among those who consume it. HHS recommended the drug be moved to Schedule III, which are accepted in medical use and indicate a lower potential for abuse.
The cannabis food and beverage sector, which analysts believed held promise during the second half of the 2010’s, saw stagnation earlier this year when the FDA failed to regulate the drug on a federal level. But the news about government departments taking another look at how cannabis is regulated has sparked renewed hope.
Previously, Biden pardoned all prior marijuana simple possession offenses last October. Last week, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the president has “always” been in favor of legalizing use of the drug for medical purposes.
Potential hope for THC-infused products
After continuous hurdles in achieving federal legislation that would make the drug more accessible to consumers, the industry may have reason to be optimistic about the reclassification.
Many in the industry saw funding drop when the FDA failed to regulate cannabis, but now producers began to see positive signs following the recent rescheduling announcement.
Cannabis grower Canopy Growth, which beverage giant Constellation Brands bought a 35.7% stake of before transitioning to a “passive” role last fall, saw its stock price rally last week, gaining nearly 50% at peak rally, SeekingAlpha reported. Other cannabis producers including Tilray and Trulieve Cannabis Corp. saw stocks increase 28% and 62%, respectively, following the news.
Despite Canopy’s stock price increase, the company has a long way to go to restore its prior financial standing. The spike in its stock price last week followed an 84% drop in its price over the last year, according to SeekingAlpha. Last October, Constellation reported a $1.1 billion writedown in the value of its 2020 investment in the company.
Given the legal gray area where cannabis companies can only sell their products in select states, some have resorted to other streams of income. Tilray announced last month it reached a deal with Anheuser-Busch to purchase eight of the alcohol giant’s beer and beverage brands. While terms of the deal were not disclosed, the company said that it will bump Tilray up to the 5th largest craft beer company in the U.S.
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WEST SPRINGFIELD – Brooks Associates Inc., a dealer of precision metal-working equipment based in Norwell, will spend $75,000 to $80,000 exhibiting at Eastec 2011 at the Eastern States Exhibition Grounds in West Springfield.
That includes bringing in equipment that can sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and setting up and staffing the company’s booth at the three-day fair, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
And Peter J. Klier, an owner of Brooks Associates, said it might take a few months, but he expects to generate $3 million to $4 million worth of orders from contacts the company makes this week in West Springfield.
“Manufacturing is coming back,” said Klier, who owns the company with brothers Joseph D. Klier Jr. and Michael R. Klier. “It’s manufacturing that is really leading this country back out of the recession.”
James H. Cepican, general manager of the tooling and accessories division for Citizen Machinery Inc. in Agawam said industries like medical devices, aeronautics, electronics and alternative energy are all seeing orders pick up. That demand trickles down to the mom-and-pop job machine shops that proliferate here in the Pioneer Valley. As their orders pick up, they buy more and newer equipment to maximize productivity.
“The end of 2010 was very strong and it continued on,” Cepican said. “ March was one of our best months ever. Manufacturing is just really hot right now.”
Among the models Cepican will have on display is a $230,000 milling machine that can turn a 12-foot-long bar of stainless steel into thimble-sized parts for spinal implants.
“We’ll have a machine over there that makes bone screws,” Cepican said.
Interest in Eastec is one gauge of that recovery, said Kimberly L. Farrugia, senior show manager for the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, the Michigan-based organization that puts on Eastec every year. There will be 500 exhibitors at Eastec this year, up from 486 in 2010. Organizers expect about 14,000 visitors, up from about 11,000 last year.
Eastec also promises 130 new products introduced since the last Eastec on display this week at the Big E, Farrugia said.
Admission is free to those who registered by the end of last week. Admission at the door is $50. Eastec runs from 9 am. to 5 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday.
On Thursday, 250 vocational-school students from around the region will attend the show, Farrugia said. They’ll get a chance to visit booths and check out new technologies.
Nationally, factory orders rose 3 percent to a seasonally adjusted $463 billion in March, well above Wall Street economists’ forecasts of a 1.9 percent pickup, the Associated Press reported last week.
The U.S. Census Bureau also announced that manufacturers sales and shipments for March, adjusted for seasonal and trading-day differences but not for price changes, was estimated at $1.2 trillion, 2.2 percent from February 2011 and 0.4 percent from March 2010.
The reason, economists say, is that the relatively weak U.S. dollar is making American-made goods less expensive than foreign-made goods and things Made in the USA are more affordable to foreign buyers.
“Reshoring,” said Joseph D. Klier said. “A lot of our customers are bringing production back from overseas. They don’t like the quality and the product is too expensive to ship. Also it increases the lead time. In New England we can turn orders around quickly.”


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TPM Authentication Is Out There, But Not Widely UsedTPM Authentication Is Out There, But Not Widely Used
Trusted Computing Group's hardware authentication technology pervasive, but rarely 'switched on'
January 4, 2011
Installed within hundreds of millions of endpoints worldwide, the hardware authentication chips built around the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) specification have long been billed by some as a security panacea. But even after widespread proliferation of TPM hardware, the vast majority -- 99 percent by some estimates -- are left turned off.
Critics say the inflexible and costly nature of deploying hardware-based authentication within environments increasingly infiltrated by consumer devices will keep TPM from ever catching on in a major way. But TPM advocates believe it is simply a matter of further educating organizations that they already have deployed the hardware necessary to vastly improve security in order to build TPM use to a meaningful inflection point.
Developed by the multivendor Trusted Computing Group (TCG) consortium, TPM is a cryptographic processor that can store crypto keys that enable platform authentication. "It shifts the focus to a device-centric model for security -- authentication is based on the device. In the perfect world, a user logs into their device, and the device logs them into all the services to which they belong," says Stephen Sprague, CEO of Wave Systems, a firm that specializes in TPM consulting. "Within the identity space there has been an enormous amount of work done around people. [Authentication] is dramatically easier to use when you make it on machines because you don't have all the problems associated with people. There's no personally identifiable information -- it's machine-identifiable information."
For more than four years TCG has evangelized TPM as member vendors ramped up production of TPM chips starting. TCG estimates that OEMs have shipped well more than 300 machines with TPM chips. Today nearly all business-class endpoints come already equipped with TPM.
"TCG as a standards organization enables the building blocks for the supplier community to commercialize. The supplier then builds commercial businesses around these. In the case of TPM, the semiconductor and PC OEMs have commercialized the distribution of these building blocks. Now the ISVs and end users are deploying the capabilities of the trusted platform," says Brian Berger, chair of marketing on the TCG board.
Tracking the use of these chips, however, is an inexact science because no real mechanism exists to count how many TPMs are turned on. According to Sprague, the industry consensus is that no more than 1 to 2 percent of TPM chips are actually being used.
While this year has seen some encouraging TPM use cases crop up -- for example, PricewaterhouseCoopers recently started rolling out deployment on 30,000 of its 150,000 user install base -- it's clear that the crypto chips are not yet making a dent in the authentication and security market. According to Sprague, one of the biggest inhibitors is lack of awareness.
"They have no knowledge that it exists in the box," Sprague commented about low usage rates. "Ninety percent of the time when we walk in the door we're educating the CIO, the CISO, and the procurement people that they actually have something already in the box, and they go, 'Really? On everything we have?'"
But some analysts say the microscopic usage points to deeper problems than lack of awareness. For example, Gartner analyst John Pescatore recently wrote in a blog post that the hardware-based authentication model is too restrictive in this age of consumerized IT. "In the commercial environment trends like consumerization are pushing in the opposite direction -- more and more frequently business will be done from hardware running applications where both are chosen by the user. Trusted Computing that focuses on user lockdown is aiming way, way behind the duck," he wrote.
And according to Adrian Lane, analyst/CTO of Securosis, desktop virtualization and cloud computing for securing endpoints and users are more cost-efficient and effective than depending on dedicated hardware. "[It's] cheap, fast, easier to manage, and much more flexible in capacity. Desktop virtualization is inherently more secure as I centrally patch, manage AV, and maintain good images of user environments," he says. "So why do I want to use dedicated hardware? It's more secure as it's harder to break ... at least without having possession of the hardware. But it costs more, and it's more to manage, hardware tends to be very inflexible, and gets old really fast."
TPM also might not be as secure as initially sold. Just last year, researcher Christopher Tarnovsky announced that he managed to hack an Infineon TPM chip.
But Wave Systems' Sprague says for many organizations, flipping the switch on a fleet of previously inactive TPM chips can have an immediate and positive security impact.
"In the overall scope of things, if the average IT security department did nothing in the next year but turn on their TPMs and use them, they'd do more for cybersecurity than any other investment they could make," he says.
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More than 900 retailers have partnered with a new Australian venture that could see them channel millions of dollars to charity through an online shopping platform.
Expedia, THE ICONIC, ASOS, Katies, Pillow Talk, Rebel Sport, Dan Murphy’s, Estee Lauder, Interflora and Weight Watchers are some of the big names working with online fundraising shopping platform, The Generous Shopper.
The ecommerce platform is the brainchild of a husband and wife team who want to tap into the $14 billion that Australians are spending online every year.
And the best part? It doesn’t cost shoppers or charities a cent.
The retailers donate a percentage of each dollar spent by online shoppers to The Generous Shopper, which distributes funds to charity.
The process is simple – users register, pick a charity and download a plugin or click the link to their preferred retailer and start shopping.
Co-founder Sarah Chatterjee said there was potential for millions of dollars to be donated.
“This is a really easy way that everyone can do their shopping online and give money to a cause close to their hearts at the same time,” Ms Chatterjee said.
“Australians already lead the US in our average online spend per capita, and are second only to the UK, so the potential is huge. Who doesn’t want to feel they can do some good whenever they shop?”
The Generous Shopper has partnered with eight Australian charities on launch: Assist a Sista, Beyond Blue, CARE Australia, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Destiny Rescue, Good Return, Habitat for Humanity and World Animal Protection.
Nicolle, co-founder of Assist a Sista said the charity fell in love with The Generous Shopper concept.
“It’s heartening to see so many retailers are already on-board. In an increasingly tough landscape for fundraising, we are thrilled that The Generous Shopper will provide help for our Assist 2 Learn program. This program allows us to provide new uniforms, backpacks, shoes and extracurricular activities for every child that has to start a new school when they enter refuge,” Nicolle said.
“One online shopper could raise hundreds of dollars every year, and won’t even need to change their shopping habits.”
Patrick Schmidt, CEO at THE ICONIC, said the company is very pleased to be one of the first Australian retailers to align with this new charity donation model.
“The Generous Shopper is an inspiring initiative that we’re proud to partner with,” Mr Schmidt said.
“At THE ICONIC, unparalleled customer experience is our number one priority and we’re always looking for new and innovative ways to delight shoppers. The ability to easily and seamlessly pay it forward at purchase is a wonderful enhancement to the services we already offer customers.”
Funds raised by shopping are calculated by retailers and distributed to charities by The Generous Shopper. Donation amounts are pre-determined by retail partners, and range from one to 35 per cent of the purchase price. The Generous Shopper then distributes a minimum of 50 per cent to charity.
The Generous Shopper team will increase the donation level to 75 per cent once the platform reaches the first $1 million in revenue. The remaining 25 per cent will be used to cover the cost of growing The Generous Shopper community and administering the service.
The charity partners on the launch
Assist A Sista helps survivors of domestic violence creating havens for women (and sometimes men) and their children once they have exited a refuge and are commencing their journey towards a safe new life in a new home
beyondblue is working to reduce the impact of depression and anxiety in the community by raising awareness and understanding, empowering people to seek help, and supporting recovery, management and resilience.
CARE Australia is an international humanitarian aid organisation fighting global poverty, with a special focus on empowering women and girls to bring lasting change to their communities.
The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre assists and empowers asylum seekers to engage and work within the community. The ASRC works at an individual and structural level in trying to create the most just refugee determination system possible.
Destiny Rescue is dedicated to rescuing children from human trafficking and sexual exploitation.
Good Return connects Australians to the working poor in the Asia Pacific who need a small loan to start or expand a small business, grow their income, and lift themselves out of poverty.
Habitat for Humanity works in thousands of communities and has built, rehabilitated and repaired well over 600,000 homes, sheltering more than 3 million people.
World Animal Protection has been moving the world to protect animals since 1981. They are the world’s leading animal welfare charity, active in more than 50 countries across Australia, Asia Pacific, North America, Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. World Animal Protection works tirelessly to protect animals in all walks of life.
Ongoing, Generous Shoppers will be empowered to add their favourite charity to this initial list.
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Port Helps Drive Expansion of Virginia Economy
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Port Helps Drive Expansion of Virginia Economy: Analysis Shows Jobs,
Spending, Labor Income, GSP All Increasing
University-Led Study Shows Multiple Benefits of Healthy, Expanding Port
THE FISCAL YEAR 2018 VIRGINIA ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF THE PORT OF VIRGINIA (pdf)
Norfolk — The Port of Virginia® continues to be an expanding and significant economic force in the Commonwealth’s economy, says study conducted by The College of William & Mary that focuses on the overall value of the port to the Virginia economy during fiscal year 2018 (FY18).
The results of the study were released today at the Governor’s Transportation Conference by John F. Reinhart, CEO and executive director of the Virginia Port Authority. In early 2019, the port contracted with the college’s Raymond A. Mason School of Business to measure the combined economic benefit of the port’s six terminals to Commonwealth’s economy during the 12 months from July 1, 2017 – June 20, 2018.
“We are building the foundation processes to create a steadily growing flow of cargo through this port for decades to come,” Reinhart said. “We are speaking with our customers and the cargo owners using this port to better understand what their needs are today and will be twenty years from now. This information helps us build our model for sustainability and better execute our core function of serving our customers. The positive result of our effort is being felt throughout Virginia in terms of job creation and economic investment.
“The Port of Virginia is growing and the investments we are making are yielding world-class results. We are having positive effects on the Virginia economy and the goal is to be able to drive economic growth for decades to come. The cargo will go where it is treated the best and as this port grows, so do its benefits to all Virginians.”
The port contributes to Virginia’s economy in three ways: the transportation of export and import cargo within Virginia and across it from other states and countries; the export of goods made in Virginia; and the added processing and distribution of imports retained in the Commonwealth. Driven by an increase in imports, the port completed fiscal year 2018 (FY18) having handled 2.8 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), which is a volume increase of 2.4 percent when compared with fiscal year 2017.
“[The] availability of a unique deep-water port . . . able to handle a variety of container exports through nearly 30 international shipping line services direct to more than 90 foreign ports, provides global market access for Virginia businesses. Bottom line: this expands the volume they can produce and sell profitably. The production of Virginia-made exports is a major economic contribution attributable to Port of Virginia operations,” the study’s executive summary said.
The last economic impact study, also conducted by William & Mary, assessed the port’s economic impact during FY13: the comparison of FY18 and FY13 showed:
“The findings of this work emphasize the importance of The Port of Virginia and further underscore why a healthy port is critical to so many sectors of the economy as we go forward,” Reinhart said. “The work is not done: we will continue to listen to the customers and cargo owners, continue to invest for the future and continue to work to get better. This is what a world-class port looks like.”
The study’s authors are Dr. Roy L. Pearson, a retired W&M research economist who specializes economic impact modeling and Dr. K. Scott Swan, an internationally recognized professor of international business, innovation and marketing at W&M.
The Virginia Port Authority (VPA) is a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The VPA owns and through its private operating subsidiary, Virginia International Terminals, LLC, operates four general cargo facilities: Norfolk International Terminals, Portsmouth Marine Terminal, Newport News Marine Terminal and the Virginia Inland Port in Warren County. The VPA leases and operates Virginia International Gateway and Richmond Marine Terminal. A recent economic impact study from The College of William and Mary shows that The Port of Virginia helped create more than 397,000 jobs and generate more than $92 billion in total economic impact throughout the Commonwealth during fiscal


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Kroger is recalling spinach sold at grocery stores in more than a dozen states due to possible Listeria contamination. The Kroger Fresh Selections Tender Spinach was sold in ten-ounce bags and had a "best if used by" date of September 16.
Governor Steve Beshear has decide to expand the board of the new health insurance exchange, while also naming those members today. The now-19 member board includes top level officials from Kentucky’s major insurers, including Anthem, Humana and Bluegrass Family Health.
A new Courier-Journal Bluegrass poll shows a near majority of Kentuckians oppose President Obama’s health care law, with a clear majority against the mandate requiring Americans to buy health insurance or pay a fine. But that same poll indicates overwhelming support for several key parts of the Affordable Care Act.
The Hobby Lobby retail store company has gone to court to fight the controversial federal mandate on contraception. The craft and hobby store chain, which operates several stores in Kentucky, is the latest in a series of organizations to challenge the Health and Human Services mandate.
A bone marrow drive is being held in honor of a former junior-high football player in Vine Grove, Kentucky. Tyler Hendrieth was diagonsed with leukemia after his seventh grade year and needs a a bone marrow transplant from a perfect match donor.


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As it launches a search for a new CEO, Orlando-based Red Lobster likely will have to deal with questions about Kelli Valade’s mysterious resignation from the job after just eight months, industry watchers say.
“The restaurant industry is kind of like a small town. People obsess about what everybody else is doing,” said San Diego-based restaurant analyst John Gordon. “Now, Red Lobster has somewhat of a dark mark on its tail because Kelli has left after only eight months.”
Valade’s resignation, revealed Monday, is effective April 15, and Red Lobster said in a news release the search for her replacement is expected to begin immediately. Valade took the helm in August.
Nicole Bott, Red Lobster’s senior director of communications, did not answer questions from the Orlando Sentinel about the search or Valade’s resignation, saying the company is not providing additional information beyond its news release and a statement that said the business respected her decision.
“During this time of transition, we are grateful to have ... an incredibly smart and talented leadership team in place to lead us forward as we search for a successor,” the statement said.
When Red Lobster revealed longtime CEO Kim Lopdrup was retiring last year, the company said they had engaged The Elliot Group to conduct the search for his replacement. Officials with The Elliot Group could not immediately be reached for comment.
Bob Gershberg is the CEO and managing partner of St. Petersburg-based Wray Executive Search, which specializes in restaurant and hospitality leadership searches but is not involved in Red Lobster’s hunt.
“I think the candidates are going to have to have a real full understanding of what went wrong,” Gershberg said. “Candor and transparency are absolutely essential.”
Gordon previously told the Orlando Sentinel that Valade’s short tenure was “very, very, very bad.”
“I’m not sure I agree with John [Gordon] that it’s very, very, very bad,” Gershberg said. “Maybe one ‘very bad.’”
He said if the relationship was not working, doing something sooner rather than later was the wise move.
“Having the wrong CEO in a company can be devastating. Whereas conversely, having the right CEO can create immeasurable value for all stakeholders,” Gershberg said. “Any savvy leader understands that if things are not going well you’ve got to make this move.”
Gershberg said he does not expect much more information to be released until the search is completed.
“On the surface, [the CEO job is] appealing,” Gershberg said. “The company that now owns and controls it, I don’t know enough about to really give you an answer.”
The more than 700-restaurant seafood chain was sold by publicly traded Darden Restaurants in 2014 to private equity firm Golden Gate Capital.
In 2020, seafood supplier and Red Lobster stakeholder Thai Union along with a group of investors and Red Lobster management acquired the rest of the seafood restaurant company from Golden Gate Capital. Thai Union is based in Thailand, is on the Stock Exchange of Thailand and has seafood brands including Chicken of the Sea, John West, King Oscar and others.
That sale came following concerns from outside analysts over a loan reaching maturity and while the coronavirus pandemic crippled much of the restaurant industry. Red Lobster completed refinancing that debt last year.
Before that refinancing and sale, the loan had more than $355 million outstanding as of a June 2020 report from Moody’s.
The investor group in the deal was named Seafood Alliance and included key shareholder Paul Kenny, former CEO of Asia’s Minor Food. Kenny, a Red Lobster board member, is now expected to be a “liaison” between Red Lobster’s leadership and the board during the transition.
Gordon said his expectation is that Red Lobster has to bring in a replacement as qualified in casual dining as Valade. Anyone else who is not as qualified would be a step down, he said.
Gershberg, however, noted executives can move across industries.
“There are not many casual dining brands with 700 units,” Gershberg said. “However, when we talk about top leadership positions, it’s always important to be open to not the exact match.”
Prior to joining Red Lobster, Valade had been president and CEO of Black Box Intelligence since 2019 and before that spent more than 22 years at Brinker International, including as brand president for Chili’s Grill & Bar.
Before Valade, Lopdrup had been at the helm of Red Lobster since 2014 when Darden Restaurants sold the brand to Golden Gate Capital. He previously worked as Red Lobster’s president from 2004 to 2011 when it was owned by Darden.
“Kim was strong enough and legend enough that Golden Gate didn’t mess with him,” Gordon said. “We all knew that he was going to have to retire at some point.”


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H&R Block spat with HSBC may kill refund anticipation loans
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- James Dornbrook, Staff Writer
H&R Block Inc. is in the midst of a dispute that may keep it from offering tax settlement products such as refund anticipation loans during the coming tax season.
The Kansas City-based tax preparer (NYSE: HRB) and several of its subsidiaries filed suit against HSBC Bank USA on Friday for allegedly refusing to honor its contractual obligations to provide financing for tax settlement products.
“The tax preparation fees from clients that would leave Block and go to a competing tax preparer are critical to Block’s business,” the company stated in the court filing. “Such lost clients may not return to Block for years, resulting in a loss of revenue associated with those clients for an unknown number of years into the future.”
H&R Block said that if HSBC Bank does not live up to its agreements, H&R Block will not be able to offer instant refund anticipation loans and refund anticipation checks during the coming 2011 tax season. H&R Block said it cannot find a comparable alternative source of financing for these products at such a late date.
The company’s share price dove in Monday trading, falling 11.5 percent — or $1.42 — to close at $10.94. It had dipped as low as $10.76, according to Yahoo Finance, and the trading volume was more than four times greater than the average during the past three months.
For its most recent fiscal year, which ended April 30, H&R Block reported $146.2 million in revenue from loan participation fees and related revenue. About 40 percent of its tax preparation clients bought a settlement product in fiscal 2010.
“Block’s inability to offer these popular products this year would damage or destroy Block’s relationships with the millions of clients who desire them, would injure Block’s reputation and customer good will, and cannot be remedied by mere monetary damages,” Block wrote in the court filing.
James Dornbrook reports about banking, financial services, manufacturing and sports business for the Kansas City Business Journal. Contact him at email@example.com or 816-777-2204. Read his blog postings at KCBizBeat or follow him on Twitter.
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Kid Casters Teams Up with KeepAmericaFishing
Keep kids interested in fishing by getting them gear made just for them.
Kid Casters, a new youth fishing brand owned by Lil Anglers, LLC, has teamed up with KeepAmericaFishing® and the American Sportfishing Association in hopes of igniting a passion for fishing within our younger generations. Several products in the Lil Anglers line will bear the KeepAmericaFishing logo, including Kid Casters fishing jerseys, No Tangle rods and reels, and other innovative products aimed to inspire new fishermen and help get them started enjoying the sport. Lil Anglers will donate a portion of proceeds from the sale of these products to KeepAmericaFishing.
“Our mission began with a strong desire for creating a more enjoyable fishing experience for kids, as well as their parents or guardians,” says Lil Anglers CEO and co-founder Ralph Duda III.
“Youth participation in fishing is trending lower each year,” comments Liz Ogilvie, KeepAmericaFishing director. “The products Lil Anglers are putting to market are not only colorful and fun, but they also eliminate several of the challenges that face beginner fishermen. Those things combined could keep kids fishing longer, hopefully throughout their lives.”
The branded products can be purchased on the Kid Casters website at www.KidCasters.com and at retailers like Walmart, Bass Pro Shops, Toys”R”Us, Dicks Sporting Goods, Kmart, Sportsman’s Warehouse, and Academy Sports + Outdoors. Kid Casters are truly “Where Fishing Begins!”


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Revolut crowdfunding £4 million on Seedrs, launching ... Revolut announced on Thursday that it plans to raise the sum through the Seedrs crowdfunding platform at some point later this year. It follows a hugely oversubscribed £1 million crowdfund on rival platform Crowdcube last July. The raise represents a coup for Seedrs, which has a fierce rivalry with Crowdcube. Revolut: All the latest news and updates from the ... Mar 22, 2018 · Revolut is using the $66m funding from its investment round in July 2017 to add new features including an integrated investment platform, from which users will be able to buy stocks and bonds. The bank also recently introduced cryptocurrencies to its app, allowing users to hold, exchange, spend and transfer digital currencies. Revolut Raises $500M, Aims For Profits In 2020 | PYMNTS.com The global financial platform’s total raised in the funding rounds is now $836 million. Revolut plans to implement a lending service, extend its high-interest savings accounts beyond the U.K Revolut Raises $500M to Become UK’s Most Valued Fintech
13 Dec 2018 Revolut has obtained the European banking licence and announced its investment platform in the UK and Europe at the beginning of 2019.
22 Mar 2017 Thomas Davies, Chief Investment Officer at Seedrs, told BI in an email that the platform was getting more raises over £1 million and said: "We 2 Aug 2018 Investors who invested in fintech startup Revolut on crowdfunding platform Crowdcube have realised returns of around 19x this week. It has developed a platform allowing users to transfer, exchange, and spend money with a multi-currency card that is accepted everywhere. Revolut currently 13 Dec 2018 Revolut has obtained the European banking licence and announced its investment platform in the UK and Europe at the beginning of 2019. 27 Apr 2019 Iqbal Gandham, of investment platform Etoro, said: “We need to bring Digital bank Revolut will offer a free investment service this summer, 5 Apr 2017 Note to UK investors: You cannot use the Revolut app likewise for transfering funds from on p2p lending platform in the Eurozone to another
What is Revolut? - BBC News
Nov 23, 2018 · Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange. It includes a pre-paid debit card, currency exchange, and peer-to-peer payments. It is on a mission to build a fair and frictionless platform to use and manage money around the world.
Actually, after a little research you would definitely find some fintech companies that focus on commission-free trading (think ‘ Robinhood’ in the US), but Revolut is about to become the first digital bank to integrate an investment platform into its app alongside all other everyday banking services that it provides to its customers.. However, such success cannot come without hard work
1 Aug 2019 “We've made sure that investing through Revolut is low-cost, easy to use and available to everyone, even if they only want to try with very small 14 Aug 2019 At the end of July, challenger bank Revolut launched a free trading platform, offering UK customers the ability to buy and sell shares with “zero Revolut is a London based investing platform and a crypto-friendly internet banking application.While new funding valued Revolut at $5.5 billion, the reports on 24 Mar 2020 Decentralized prediction market platform Augur is set to launch its second version on the Ethereum network in early June.
1 Aug 2019 “We've made sure that investing through Revolut is low-cost, easy to use and available to everyone, even if they only want to try with very small
13 Mar 2020 Revolut has launched gold trading for its Premium and Metal customers. They can now invest in gold exposure which is backed by real gold 26 Feb 2020 Revolut has raised over €460 million in a funding round, raising the overall While Revolut is not revealing investors for this round, previous to build a global financial platform — a single app where our customers can 24 Feb 2020 A spokesperson for Revolut said the investment wasn't truly a focus platform— a single app where users can manage their daily finances, 1 Aug 2019 Revolut will provide European customers with free trading of US Banks are adding investment capabilities and investment platforms are 14 Mar 2017 App-only bank Monzo says in its investment deck Last week, Revolut also partnered with property investment platform Bricklane to offer an
We're going to launch a commission-free trading platform so you can invest in stocks, bonds and ETFs with Revolut. 19 Sep 2019 Investors are often required to buy a minimum of one share in a company. That's not a problem if the cost of a single share is low, but shares in 1 Aug 2019 Revolut's trading feature lets users buy or sell popular U.S. stocks from the online brokerage space with its own commission-free stock trading platform. looking to lure in millennials who normally shy away from investing. 6 Jun 2018 British digital-only bank Revolut said on Thursday it is building a The move pits it against the investment platforms of established financial 4 Nov 2019 Why its hot: Back in August, Revolut launched a commission-free launch of this service is to make trading and investing accessible to a wider audience. crowdfunded its app on Seedrs, a UK-based crowdfunding platform. revolut has a high customer base- six million customers of which major Investors should ask themselves are the FREE Trading platforms really FREE?


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New information on Razer’s Kazuyo controller have been discussed by MacFormat, offering idea on the accessory’s special features, consisting of totally remappable buttons and a slim hard-shell lawsuit style.
Although not envisioned, the report additionally recommends that the last version of the controller could feature full-sized analog sticks for enhanced manage.
While pictures of the accessory were originally leaked last month, the controller appears to have gone via a small redesign ever since, now featuring a much more spherical style which appears to surround an iOS gadget with a more safe and secure fit.
Furthermore, the report likewise keeps in mind that Razer could deliver an accompanying application with its controller that will function as a shop for appropriate games and permit customers to tweak numerous setups, namely switch tasks and sensitivity. The app will likewise manage to work as a combined user interface for a user’s purchased games and offer advertisings and listings for special bargains.
The Razer Kazuyo could sign up with an expanding market of iOS video game operators, which currently features the SteelSeries Stratus, Logitech PowerShell and MOGA Ace Energy, and will quickly consist of Mad Catz’s C.T.R.L.i operator since later this month.
At the present point in time, numerous video games supply iOS 7 controller assistance, consisting of titles like Rayman Fiesta Run, Bastion, and Asphalt 8: Airborne.
Added developers have additionally pledged to create operator support into their apps now that equipment is offered to consumers, as even more iOS games show up to be obtaining updates that enable it.


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(MENAFN - Arab News) Riyadh Economic Forum (REF) concluded with key recommendations primarily suggesting to take the advantage of rain water in the Kingdom amounting to 150 billion cubic meters per year and import water from Sudan in accordance with the international conventions.
Saad Al-Mujel, head of REF and deputy chairman of the board of the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI), patronized the closing session of REF, which wrapped up here Wednesday.
The last-day of the forum discussed a study on water as a major economic resource; a prerequisite for sustainable development and enhancement of small and medium enterprises' (SMEs) role in the national economy.
Addressing the gathering, Al-Mujel praised continuous support of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah toward sustainable development and implementation of rules and regulations in the Kingdom.
"REF is part of our commitment to better developments and relations with private and government institutions in the Kingdom. It aims to serve through implementing innovative social initiatives that are aimed to boost the national economy," Al-Mujel added.
Under the chairmanship of Abdul Rahman bin Mohammad Al-Ibrahim, the chairman of the general establishment for water desalination, the forum focused on the water as an economic resource for the sustainable development in the Kingdom. It recommends the establishment of water resource management for the council's areas and pricing according to demand and supply.
"We should exert great efforts to grow our knowledge and experience in all sectors to enhance and encourage the people to boost economy," Al-Ibrahim said.
Some economists and consultants pointed out that water can become an economic resource with the help of productive use of water and correct consumption rates across the Kingdom.
The last-day of the forum also focused on the role of SMEs in economic development. The forum recommended working on the development of policies and regulations of the current funding.
The study called for taking advantage of the experiences of a number of countries to develop the funding policy, including the establishment of specialized banks to finance SMEs.
The forum recommended the establishment of specialized companies to lend for the purchase of machinery and services and to increase working capital.
It also called for working on the development of a mechanism for cooperation among government agencies to unify efforts and the promotion of SMEs sector.
According to the forum's study, "about 49 percent of enterprises do not use the technique, and that 19.9 percent of installations has done a feasibility study before the start of the activity."
The study called for using support as a tool to restructure sectors to bridge gaps in the market needs. It posed six initiatives to develop the SMEs sector. The include initiative to establish a development company for SMEs as a partnership between the government and the private sector, the legislative amendments and procedures needed to assist SMEs in obtaining government contracts, the industrial and commercial clusters, the business networks, providing an integrated business plan for facilities with similar actions, restructuring of the SMEs sector.
Some economists and business persons said they were ignorant about the problems discussed at the forum. They mentioned that they were ready to cooperate in the matter of crystallizing the forum recommendations "but government should adopt theses suggestions to boost the national income."
Speaking to Arab News, many consultants said they had to look for sustainability and development through research and accurate data. "There is a need to update Kingdom's rules and regulations and method of cooperation in all government and private sectors to support the Saudi economy," one of them said.
The panelists said people should be encouraged to start their own business. "We have to ensure the participation of small and medium companies to boost the national income," one panelist said.
Apart from the government officials and institutions, some 101 local and international economic consultants, decision-makers, and businessmen and women exceeding 1,500 attended the session.
The three-day forum, organized by the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI), aimed to participate in the economic growth of the Kingdom.


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Fawry continues to have a great run on the Egyptian Exchange. The Egyptian electronic payments company that went public less than a year ago now has a market cap of EGP 13.3 billion (USD 830 million). Its stock price has increased by almost 300% to EGP 18.78 (USD 1.17) since its debut on the Egyptian Exchange in August last year.
After an initial surge during the first two months of the stock market debut, Fawry’s share price remained almost flat until March. In fact, they saw one of their lowest points on March 18. when the company’s stock was trading at EGP 7 per share.
For context, Fawry had gone public with its shares priced at EGP 6.46 apiece, and the price increased by over 31% on the first day of its trading to EGP 8.48.
Since its lowest point in March, Fawry has seen an increase of over 250% to climb to EGP 18.78 on Monday, July 6. If the stock continues to do well, the Egyptian company may hit a billion-dollar market cap within the next few weeks.
Fawry currently offers over 250 electronic payment services through its network of over 105,000 service points across 300 cities in Egypt, including ATMs, mobile wallets, retail shops, post offices, and little vendor kiosks.
The surge in its stock price coincides with the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has accelerated adoption of digital payments and e-commerce all across the region. As the leading player in Egypt in the payments space, Fawry is receiving a lot of interest from investors.
We will be able to learn more details of how the pandemic has helped the Egyptian company increase its revenues when it announces the results for the second quarter within the next few weeks.
Its revenues in the first quarter of 2020 were EGP 257.99 million (USD 16.04 million), up from EGP 173.88 million (USD 10.81 million) for the same period in 2019. The profits of the Egyptian company had increased by over 80% to EGP 38.04 million (USD 2.37 million) in 2020 Q1. It had made EGP 20.9 million (USD 1.3 million) in 2019 Q1.
USD 1 = EGP 16.08 at the time of writing.
This article first appeared on MENAbytes.


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Thailand’s Announced Tourism Slogan For 2022
Published: October 2, 2021 at 12:21 am
Thailand has announced a tourism slogan to promote the country to international tourists next year:
“Visit Thailand 2022, Now Even More Amazing Thailand Has It All.”
PBS World reports that the tagline was revealed on September 30 at an online conference of the CCSA or Center for Economic Situation Administration. Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha presided over the meeting, which also authorized the establishment of a tourism marketing fund for Phuket and incentives for medium and small businesses.
Officials have decided to support the tourist promotion fund with contributions from both the private and civil sectors. The fund will promote tourism in Phuket and turn the island into a “world-class” destination via less bureaucracy and sustainable growth. The CESA also authorized reducing the quarantine period from 14 to 7 days and the return of flights from Russia to Phuket beginning at the end of October.
Additionally, the Thai government authorized subsidized measures to help small and medium-sized businesses to retain their workers. From November through January 2022, each worker would get a subsidy worth 3,000 baht every month. Businesses must keep at least 95% of their staff and pay workers at minimum wage at least to be eligible for the subsidy. According to Thai PBS World, Thailand has about 480,000 SMEs with less than 200 employees each.
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Minnesota’s VC take rises to $38M in Q1
Minnesota companies raised $37.5 million in the venture capital during the first quarter, up from a revised fourth-quarter total of $27.7 million, according to the MoneyTree Report.
Nine companies completed rounds of financing during the first quarter of 2013, although MoneyTree attached a $0 figure to one of the deals.
Two deals alone accounted for more than half of the total amount raised during the quarter.
Minnesota companies pulled in less capital combined in the first quarter than they did in the year-ago period, when the state recorded $91 million in investment, according to MoneyTree, which is compiled by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association using data from Thomson Reuters.
Nationwide, investment fell 12 percent to $5.9 billion in the fourth quarter, down from $6.7 billion in prior three-month period. Investment in the medical-technology industry fell 20 percent to $509 million in the first quarter. Software companies nationwide raised $2.3 billion, the biggest amount of any industry.
In Minnesota, five of the nine deals recorded in the first quarter went to medical-technology companies.
Large first-quarter deals previously reported by the Business Journal include UpdateLogic’s $11 million round of financing. The Plymouth-based tech company distributes software updates to TVs and other consumer electronics. Med-tech firm Holaira, which is developing technology for treating lung disease, raised $10 million.
MoneyTree previously reported that Minnesota startups raised $19.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2012, which would have been a record low. However, it has since revised the fourth-quarter total to $27.7 million.
Katharine Grayson covers med tech, clean tech, technology, health care and venture capital.
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