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Go Airline founder Barbara Cassani has landed her comeback into business in both the UK and Europe.
Cassani has joined the board of quoted Spanish airline Vueling. Separately, she has invested in Britain's newest television venture, Horse & Country TV.
At Vueling, former London 2012 Olympics bid boss Cassani is working-with the businessman who masterminded the 1992 games in Barcelona. The chairman of the budget airline is Jose Miguel Abad, who was chief executive of the city's Olympics board.
Cassani, former UK businesswoman of the year and a forerunner to Lord Coe as Britain's bid chief, says: 'Boy did l have a lot to talk about with Jose!
'l have had a lot of approaches from air travel businesses since l left Go. But l did not want to join just any old airline. l like the Spanish approach and Vueling has gone a long way already.
'The board has an Anglo-American outlook, with chief executive Carlos Munoz a Harvard graduate- - something l relate to with my McKinsey background.'
Cassani will travel to Barcelona twice a month for her job at the airline, which specialises in flights to Europe from Spain.
At Horse & Country TV, Cassani has become a launch investor by putting in £50,000. The start-up will be chaired by former John Lewis chairman Sir Stuart Hampson.
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Heartland Express was one of the first companies to receive the T680 Signature Edition, and it not only paid tribute to Kenworth’s anniversary, but it also happened to be Kenworth’s 750,000th truck produced at the Chillicothe plant: two milestones in one.
A special ceremony took place in May at the plant, with Heartland Express’ CEO Mike Gerdin receiving the keys to the historic truck from Kevin Baney, Kenworth general manager and PACCAR vice president.
“This is a special year for Kenworth. We’re celebrating our 100th anniversary, and our Chillicothe plant met yet another milestone with the production of its 750,000th truck,” reflected Baney. “It’s a tribute to all that have worked at this plant over the years since it opened nearly 50 years ago. We couldn’t be happier this historic truck is going to a long-time customer like Heartland Express. It’s a fleet that began operation just after the Chillicothe plant opened, and it’s in its second generation as a family-run business – growing to more than 6,000 trucks.”
Heartland Express, a public company based in North Liberty, Iowa, has four trucking companies under its umbrella: Heartland Express, CFI, Millis Transfer, and Smith Transport. The T680 Signature Edition is one of more than 500 T680s Heartland has on order with Kenworth in 2023, through its dealer MHC Kenworth – Cedar Rapids.
“We’re so excited to receive this Signature Edition Kenworth T680 anniversary truck. The Century Platinum paint job will really stand out from our traditional white Heartland fleet trucks,” said Gerdin at the ceremony. “We’re so very proud and honored to drive the 750,000th truck out of the Chillicothe plant. The employees here do a great job – they have pride in the quality of the trucks they’re building, and you can see their passion.”

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Xiaomi is readying up a new smartphone likely under its Mi Mix lineup. This is evident from the latest listing on Chinese certification site TENAA which reveals a phone with the model number M1908F1XE. This could be the much-awaited successor to the Mi Mix 3 which was announced in October 2018.
The upcoming Xiaomi phone could either be labelled as the Mi Mix 4 or Mi Mix 3s. The Mi Mix device is expected to come with native support for 5G cellular technology which comes in line with what Xiaomi CEO Lie Jun said previously, stating that a 5G phone will be released in the second half of 2019. This will be the second Mi Mix phone coming with 5G support after Xiaomi announced the Mi Mix 3 5G smartphone at MWC 2019.
Besides the TENAA listing, there is some additional information about the upcoming Mi Mix phone. Xiaomi Product Director, Wang Teng has confirmed that the Mi Mix 4 will also come with a faster wireless charging technology as compared to the Mi 9. This means the Mi Mix 4 will come with a charging solution which will be faster than the 20-watt fast wireless charging support on the Mi 9.
The Mi Mix 4 was previously teased by Xiaomi in March through a post which showed an outline of a phone next to the original Mi Mix, Mi Mix 2 and Mi Mix 3. As compared to the Mi Mix 3, the Mi Mix 4 is likely to offer a higher screen-to-body-ratio.
Rumours suggest that the Mi Mix 4 will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus processor with up to 16GB RAM and UFS 3.1 storage. The phone is expected to come with a QHD+ AMOLED display, HDR10+ support, 60Hz+ refresh rate, an in-display fingerprint scanner and 100W fast-charging. There could be a 64MP primary camera with a periscope secondary lens. The phone is also touted to come with IP68 certification for water and dust resistance.


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Woolworths has launched Metro60, a new app that promises to get groceries to your door in under 60 minutes. Find out more.
Uber has revealed the strangest items drivers have found in the back of cars. Find out what made the list this year.
A Macca's customer says his daughter's not-so-Happy Meal included a "free live toy". Here's what he found.
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“I was booked solid until the end of July. Suddenly, everyone cancelled.”
Jennifer, a frequent Airbnb host in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, NY tells a now-familiar story. As a professor at New York University, she planned to use her additional income to fund a summer trip to Sweden. For many other hosts, the consequences of the COVID-19 shutdown have been more dire.
The tourism industry — including hotels, airlines and short-term rentals — has been blindsided with the swiftness of the coronavirus-induced economic collapse. According to AirDNA, Airbnb lost 43,000 properties from their site from January to March. Though the loss of income has been painful, many hosts have not chosen to pivot to conventional long-term leases. “It’s not possible if you were just renting a room and don’t have kitchen,” says Mark, an Airbnb Super Host, who owns a brownstone in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and saw thousands of dollars disappear overnight. “Also, people are losing their jobs. It’s not like there’s a great tenant pool out there. Frankly, with the spread of the virus, I don’t want strangers coming into my home.” Airbnb’s own data in Nashville, New Orleans, Honolulu and Savannah backs up Mark’s statements, with only 2.8 percent of short-term rentals taken off their site and reappearing on the long-term rental market in those cities as of March 27th.
Another factor is the unpredictability of the crisis. If it ends quickly, Airbnb landlords would prefer to get back to hosting, where they can earn 3-5 times as much money as with a conventional lease, without being beholden to a long-term tenant. Austin Mao, an Airbnb host with 2,000 guests a month in his network of Las Vegas mansions, told the New York Times that he has steadily been forced to cut prices as visitors dwindle. At their peak, each of his homes had been bringing in $10,000 a month, with overheads running at $3,500. The profitable business allowed Moa to expand quickly, starting a construction firm to renovate future rentals. Like similar companies, that firm is now shut down. “I believe this is a harbinger of the next great recession, so I think it’s risky to expand,” he said.
One area that is seeing a boom in Airbnb rentals are smaller rural towns within drivable distances from urban hubs, particularly New York City. Alix Umen and Adriana Farmiga own the Starlite Motel, a recently restored vintage motel in Kerhonkson, N.Y., that had been attracting a steady stream of visitors from New York City, about two hours away. They were recently forced to temporarily close the motel due to COVID-19. However, they have seen a spike in traffic in New Yorkers waiting out the virus in nearby Airbnbs. “It’s easy to spot the New Yorkers in a place like this,” says Farmiga. “They have nice cars, they’re out jogging and walking. But it can really overwhelm a small town.”
To illustrate, Umen expounds. “There’s a local butcher who serves grass fed meat. Within a day or two, people had come in and totally bought him out because they are hoarding the food, which of course means locals won’t be able to buy from him. We understand that it’s good business for people who are renting their homes and apartments but I’m not sure it would be the most conscientious thing for us to do,” she says.
It’s a sentiment shared by many hotel owners around the country who have shuttered their doors while surrounding Airbnb’s have looked to profit from fleeing urban dwellers. “I think it is reprehensible,” says Jeff Bridges in Guerneville, Sonoma County, Calif., who spent a million dollars renovating his R3 hotel after flooding last winter. Now he is seeing Airbnb hosts marketing their rooms with “pandemic discounts” and as “quarantine-ready accommodations,” catering to the exodus of residents from San Francisco, about 1.5-hours to the south. “That is irresponsible if you are coming from an epicenter. That makes a lot of residents uncomfortable,” he told ABC News.
Fortunately for Bridges, the authorities in Sonoma County agree with him and are enforcing a shut-down of all Airbnb’s in the area, though it remains to be seen if that will happen elsewhere.


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The Federal Trade Commission has issued an alert to warn consumers that scam artists are trying to trick people into clicking on links that download malware to their computers.
In this latest scam, reported by the FTC in the report, “Fake Funeral Notice Can Be Deadly To Your Computer,” bogus e-mails are finding their way to the mailboxes with the tag, “Funeral Notification.”
The e-mail message looks like a legitimate mailing from a funeral home. Offering condolences, it invites the reader to click on a link to learn more about the upcoming funeral that isn’t.
Instead of sending you to the funeral home’s website, the link downloads malicious software — malware — to your computer. Malware includes viruses and spyware that get installed on your computer without your consent.
Criminals use malware to steal personal information, send spam, and commit fraud.
In addition to the FTC tips, here’s one street-smart thing to do before you take the fake funeral bait: Check your Facebook and social media postings, first.
Chances are, Uncle Charlie is alive and well and would probably enjoy hearing from you.


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Table grapes from California will be allowed entry into Western Australia under strict import conditions.
The WA Department of Agriculture and Food (DAFWA) will amend its import conditions for fresh Californian table grapes into the State in response to a change in Commonwealth import conditions.
Californian table grapes are already imported into other parts of Australia, subject to Commonwealth conditions.
DAFWA Director General Rob Delane said WA was free of several damaging pests and diseases including a fungus called Phomopsis viticola which is found in many other grape growing regions in Australia and internationally.
The Commonwealth Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) last week issued a final report recommending that fresh table grapes from California be permitted entry to WA subject to appropriate biosecurity measures.
Mr Delane said DAFWA had advised that Phomopsis viticola presented a disease risk and appropriate biosecurity protection measures were required.
He said in this case, the export standards which California has in place reduced this risk to an appropriately low level.
The produce must be healthy and can only be imported from approved counties in California with pre-export inspection and certification by US authorities. There is also off-shore pre-shipment inspection or on arrival inspection and clearance by DAFF.
“I understand that local growers are concerned about the importation of table grapes from California,” Mr Delane said.
“DAFWA is committed to ensuring WA has the measures needed to provide the appropriate level of biosecurity risk mitigation for our industries, environment and community.
“We also need to ensure these restrictions are based on science and comply with trading requirements.”
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Considered one of the top holiday traditions in the south for nearly seven decades, the Macy’s Great Tree Lighting will once again kick off the holiday season spirit on Sunday, November 20 at 7:00 p.m. Live performances by soul singer Aloe Blacc, country artist Craig Campbell and GRAMMY Award-winning artist and actress Michelle Williams will headline the beloved holiday celebration, joining the Macy’s All-Star Holiday Choir, the Macy’s Great Tree Children’s Choir, the Macy’s Magical Stars and of course Santa himself will make an appearance during the show.
Macy’s has brought the magic of the holiday season to generations of Atlantans, and this year marks the 69th year with the Great Tree lighting up the city’s skyline. The event takes place at Macy’s Lenox Square Mall at 7:00 p.m., on Sunday, November 20, 2016. A pre-show concert featuring performances and behind-the-scenes interviews by the evening’s entertainers will begin at 6:30 p.m. The celebration will be capped off with a fantastic fireworks finale set to holiday music – a moving and memorable way to kick off the holiday season! The Great Tree will be on display from Sunday, November 20 through January 1, 2017.
“During the holidays, Macy’s is known for our magical holiday experiences. We are pleased to continue to be a part of Atlanta’s most cherished tradition of the season for our customers and the community with the 69th annual Macy’s Great Tree Lighting,” said Dennis Witte, Macy’s executive vice-president and regional director of stores.
Again this year, Macy’s will light an ecologically-friendly, reusable tree which stands 56 feet tall and is adorned with 45,000 white and multi-color sparkling LED twinkle lights. More than 8 miles of light strings will be draped around the tree. The giant star atop the Great Tree will shine more than 56 feet above on the roof of the Macy’s at Lenox Square Mall.
For the last decade, young patients of the Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta have served as the honorary tree-lighters. Helping to ‘flip the switch’ and illuminate the Macy’s Great Tree this year are Aflac Cancer Center patients Maybin Hornick and Abraham Carpenter.


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The Samsung GALAXY S5 is on its way Vodafone. We've got an exclusive colour, and have had an exclusive interview with Samsung to boot. What did we learn?
Earlier this month, Samsung unveiled its latest and greatest flagship, the Galaxy S5, to the world. At Vodafone Social we were pretty excited to be able to say that we’ll be stocking the new Android powerhouse (which will be available to pre-order on 28 March), and today we can officially announce that the gold colour option will be a Vodafone exclusive from launch.
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To celebrate, we’ve been having a chat with Samsung to find out more about the Galaxy S5, and to figure out what makes it tick. And it turns out the answer is…You.
Bigger and better
James White is Samsung Mobile’s Head of IM Strategy & Mobile Product Marketing, which means he knows the Galaxy S5 better than almost anyone on the planet. So what’s the story? We started off with the first thing people notice: design. So what’s shaped the Galaxy S5’s looks?
“Increasing the screen size has to be benefit-driven.”
“I think design is still one of the most important purchase decision-makers that we hear from our consumers,” James says. “We’ve evolved the design with the Galaxy S5 so that it follows on naturally from the Galaxy S4 but, we’ve also introduced some new elements.
“We’ve focussed on a ‘modern glam’ look for our design inspiration for the new Galaxy S5. That’s represented in the four colours we’ve got available, as well as the introduction of texture.
“One of the key things for us is about not only delivering a product that’s beautiful and has the best design we can possibly deliver, it also needs to be functional. I think that’s one of the big learnings with the Galaxy S5: we’ve got a stunningly designed product that’s also really functional. It’s IP67 rated – meaning water and dust resistant – and it’s much more ‘life-proof’ than ever before, which we know is important for our consumers.”
The shape and size of a phone is usually determined by the size of the screen, but Samsung’s managed to buck that trend on the Galaxy S5:
“It’s a real tribute to the engineering prowess that we have within Samsung that our R&D guys have managed to increase the screen size in the Galaxy S5 to 5.1-inches without increasing the footprint. That’s really important: when it’s in your pocket or in your hand there’s no increase in size, yet you’ve got a bigger screen to enjoy the range of services at your fingertips.
“And on that score, looking at the way that Samsung and Vodafone are working together is great,” James adds. “The services that Vodafone offers, such as Spotify and Sky Sports Mobile TV, really leverage the 4G network and come to life on the Galaxy S5. In that respect, increasing the screen size has to be benefit-driven.”
A much sharper focus
With past launches, Samsung’s been accused of throwing almost too much new software at the wall at once. That’s really not the case with the Galaxy S5; the Unpacked launch event in Barcelona used the words ‘simple’ and ‘focussed’ several times, and the result is a phone that’s free of clutter, but with big, clear plus points. We asked James if this was a conscious choice:
“We listened to the 200 million Samsung Galaxy owners,” he explains. “We’ve really asked people what was important to them and what they wanted from the next Galaxy product. We need to deliver a phone that’s not only a phenomenally advanced piece of technology, but also meets those consumer needs. So we’ve gone back and tried to make a phone that really does that.
“We’ve really asked people what was important to them and what they wanted from the next Galaxy product.”
“The camera, for instance, is still such an important feature in a smartphone. So we’ve focussed on delivering what we believe will be the best smartphone camera on the market.” As well as stressing the camera improvements, Samsung has put a lot of time into making its fitness tracking service a winner, too:
“We’re really excited about S Health,” James says.
“This version, which is S Health 3.0, is probably the most holistic fitness tracker out there. It obviously tracks calories you’re consuming, your exercise, distance and steps, but what we’ve done differently is build both the service and the technology to support it. To that end, the Galaxy S5 has an integrated heart-rate monitor, which adds huge value to what the app can track.
“All that’s within a single device, but it’s also deeply integrated within the new wearable range – the Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo and Gear Fit. They all have heart-rate monitors as well, they all track that data during your exercise and they all sync to the phone when you next have it with you. So you can pick your phone up from your gym locker, and all that data will already synced.
“Fitness is a real opportunity to bring more value to people,” he adds. “The smartphone is probably the single most advanced piece of technology we own, and we have it with us pretty much every minute of the day. Because of that, there will always be a load of new services like this that help us get even more out of our phones.”
And then there’s battery life, which remains a hot topic in mobile.
“I think battery life can be one of the biggest consumer pain points,” James says. “We’ve all had the frustration of having a phone running low on battery, and you just can’t do without that connectivity these days. So what we’ve introduced with the Galaxy S5 is the Ultra Low Power mode, which you can activate if you’re running low on power. It’ll significantly increase the time that the Galaxy S5 will stay alive and in contact.”
In focussing on the display, camera, battery and S Health, Samsung’s really simplified what the Galaxy S range is about, while improving it at the same time, which James tells us was the ultimate aim:
“The Galaxy S5 is the most advanced smartphone we’ve ever launched,” he says in closing. “We’ve advanced the technology but also – importantly – focussed on what that delivers.”
Is the Samsung Galaxy S5 your next phone? Let us know your thoughts below. You’ll be able to pre-order yours through Vodafone UK, exclusive gold colour et al, from 28 March. Click here for more info.


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While carmakers are developing their products to be BSVI compliant, the government has started introducing BSVI fuel in the Delhi. Price of BSVI fuel is the same as BSIV compliant fuel as of now
In a recent announcement at the Rajya Sabha, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar announced that fuel confirming to the upcoming BSVI norms is now available in Delhi. Cost of the BSVI compliant fuel remains unchanged. As per the new regulation, all vehicles sold after 1st April 2020 will need to comply with the stringent BSVI emission norms. Certain manufacturers like Maruti Suzuki, Honda Two Wheelers and Mercedes-Benz are ready with their BSVI compliant vehicles. Maruti Suzuki has already introduced the Alto, Wagon R, Swift and Baleno with BSVI engines. Similarly, Mercedes-Benz recently brought the E-Class and Honda two-wheeler has unveiled the Honda Activa 125 with a BSVI ready motor.
Last month, Mahindra announced their BSVI plans and claimed to be almost ready for the switch. The company confirmed that they will introduce petrol-powered BSVI vehicles in the months to come and diesels towards the end of 2019. Although all the car and bike makers are gradually getting ready for the BSVI upgrade, there is still an air of uncertainty with regards to availability of fuel. With the launch of BSVI fuel in Delhi, the government has surely taken the first step, but no official announcements have been made for the rest of the country.
Meanwhile, the shift to BSVI norms is surely going to come at a cost. While manufacturers are investing to upgrade their engine, this cost is sure to be transferred to the end customer. At a press conference in Mumbai, Pawan Goenka said that diesel vehicles are expected to cost almost Rs 1 lakh more while petrol-powered offerings will only demand about Rs 25,000 more. Meanwhile, Maruti Suzuki announced that they will try to offset the price hike by increasing localization of their products.
Although we are just eight months from the deadline, a lot of pieces to the BSVI puzzle are still missing. While manufacturers seem to be doing their part, we are waiting for more clarity from the government with regards to availability of BSVI fuel.


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HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- China's trade surplus widened in October from September, even as import growth outpaced export growth for the month, government data showed Wednesday. The nation's trade surplus widened to $27.15 billion for the month from $16.9 billion in September, according to government figures cited by the state-run Xinhua news agency. The figure was slightly larger than expectations of $26.4 billion, according to a poll of 12 economists by Dow Jones Newswires. Imports grew 25.35% for the month, while exports were up 22.9%. The result will likely provide further ammunition for critics who say China is deriving an unfair trade advance from an undervalued currency.
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"We can confirm that the Australian ‘Wake Up’ campaign, which involves a series of experiential activities taking place across Sydney and Melbourne, was created by RIM Australia. A reveal will take place on May 7th that will aim to provoke conversation on what ‘being in business’ means to Australians."
Countless pundits, including us, pointed the finger at Samsung, which we agree seems an obvious choice given the relationship between the two companies. Samsung's recent marketing campaigns have called Apple fans "sheep" and poked fun at them for waiting in line for the next iPhone.
But it seems like RIM is showing us a new side of its company.
An Australian blogger happened to be at the store in question and caught the incident on video -- skip to 40 seconds in to see what all the hubbub was about.


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AP released a story today about Winn Dixie being acquired by Bi-Lo for $560 million.
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The supermarket chain Winn-Dixie is being sold for $560 million to Bi-Lo, the companies said Monday, creating a large grocery operator in the South.
The combined company will have about 690 stores and 63,000 workers in eight states in the southern U.S. Winn-Dixie Stores will become a privately held subsidiary and its ticker will be removed from the Nasdaq.
Each Winn-Dixie stockholder gets $9.50 per share in cash, a 75 percent premium to the Jacksonville, Fla. company's Friday closing stock price.
Bi-Lo, based in Greenville, S.C., runs 207 supermarkets in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee.
Winn-Dixie runs about 480 grocery stores, including approximately 380 in-store pharmacies, in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia and Mississippi. It has about 46,000 employees.
SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR COUPONERS?
BI-LO is very similar to Winn Dixie in terms of Make a Meal and What a Deal offerings. They also have buy one get one free sales.
The good thing is that offer a rewards card and they have a clear coupon policy.
They also offer FueylPerks like Winn Dixie.


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BARCELONA—Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today outlined the company’s Windows mobile vision to an audience of about 300, plus a crowd that listened and watched in an overflow area on TV monitors.
The occasion? To name just a few, Microsoft officially announced Windows Mobile 6.5, a Windows Marketplace store for selling applications and a desire to get Windows on more phones.
The computer software giant, which has been intimately involved in the wireless business much longer than Apple and Google, is garnering more attention now as it puts more punch into its strategy. Myriad reports leading up to MWC discussed Microsoft’s My Phone sync product and even the possibility – which Microsoft denied – that the company would build its own smartphone.
Ballmer pointed to Microsoft’s strong history in the Windows Mobile ecosystem, including 500,000 software development companies and millions of units sold. “But the time has come to do more,” he said.
Windows phones need to come in different shapes and sizes to fit each individual owner, and Microsoft has to make sure, with its partners, that there is a Windows phone that meets each individual’s needs, including in the areas of productivity and social interaction, he said.
In an earlier interview, Tim McDonough, senior director for consumer experiences at Microsoft, explained the company is investing in three areas: helping people stay closer to what matters to them; empowering people to act; and letting consumers choose the devices and applications that uniquely apply to them.
In the area of staying closer, “we’ve done a lot of work to make Windows Mobile better looking and more useful at the same time,” he said. For example, end-users are able to customize their home screen with most-used apps.
The user interface (UI) overall is refreshed in version 6.5, which includes Live Messenger and HotMail. In another example of taking a popular desktop feature onto mobile, a high-performance browser allows for zoom, pan and double taps.
Microsoft confirmed it will offer an apps store, called Windows Marketplace, where end-users can get applications, which can be downloaded to a phone or a PC. No details were given as to when the marketplace will open for business.
Regarding personal choice, the strategy is to get Windows 6.5 on phones that are high end as well as less expensive. McDonough would not comment on the timing of Windows Mobile 7, which some expect to arrive next year. Given that version 7 could be coming next year, how many handset manufacturers might wait? McDonough couldn’t comment on that but said the company is seeing an enthusiastic response to 6.5; some handsets already are in the pipeline for 6.5 updates.
The latest version of Windows Mobile is shipping with Flash Lite, but there’s no word on when or if Microsoft will debut its Silverlight on mobile.
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MyTravel hunts more takeovers
MyTravel chief executive Peter McHugh today said he is looking at other major takeover opportunities besides the potential £500m deal to buy First Choice's mainstream UK package tours operation.
McHugh, who recently admitted he is in early talks with First Choice, refused to name names.
But his comments triggered speculation that he is mulling a £450m takeover of Thomas Cook's UK business or even a tilt at Thomson.
A Thomson deal would be so large that MyTravel would have to sell large parts to satisfy the competition authorities.
Holidaybreak was also seen as a target.
McHugh has pulled off a dramatic turnaround in the fortunes of the company in the past two years.
Today he reported that operating profits jumped 20% to £61.7m in the 12 months to 31 October, its first profit for five years, despite tough markets.
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WASHINGTON, March 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Internet for Advancement, the nationwide small company coalition supporting digital marketing, is urging two new associates of the Federal Trade Fee (FTC) – Andrew Ferguson and Melissa Holyoak, the two confirmed by the U.S. Senate this week – to safeguard electronic advertising and marketing for smaller companies.
“Congratulations to Commissioners Ferguson and Holyoak. With digital advertising challenges surging to the forefront of FTC priorities, we hope you will contemplate the hundreds of thousands of start up prospects and careers, financial advancement, and consumer benefits digital advertising and marketing gives, primarily for smaller corporations,” reported World-wide-web for Progress Government Director Brendan Thomas. “Several of our users would be unable to market at all with out electronic advertising, so as you consider procedures to safeguard shoppers and promote competitors, you should don’t forget that facts and digital advertising help save Us citizens time and income, boost competitiveness and choice, and split down limitations to opportunities for people today of all backgrounds.”
Online for Growth has warned that sprawling new net laws would damage alternatives for compact corporations to compete against significant organizations and damage their buyers, who reward from well timed, appropriate advertisements on social media, web-sites, and other platforms. In an open letter to the FTC, retailers, realtors, contractors, publishers, and extra, explain their reliance on absolutely free and lower-expense electronic advertising and promoting instruments, which an State-of-the-art Recognize of Proposed Rulemaking on Professional Surveillance and Details Security could severely disrupt.
“Smaller organizations have experienced immensely in excess of the earlier few years due to the twin challenges of COVID-19 and surging inflation,” they write. “But some of the proposed improvements could intestine the efficiency and effectiveness of digital promotion… Elevated expenditures and most likely decline of shoppers would be devastating for numerous little corporations and millions of Individuals we utilize.”
The FTC has operated without the need of a total commission for over a year. “We hope the addition of two new commissioners will build a much more well balanced solution to digital marketing,” explained Thomas. “Portray the entire net, like electronic promoting, as ‘commercial surveillance,’ could impair what have come to be fundamental requirements for tiny companies and any person accustomed to easy-to-use, accessible on-line communications and professional expert services, all the things from email to video streaming.”
In addition to advocating for digital marketing at the FTC, Net for Growth has despatched tens of thousands of letters to customers of Congress and structured dozens of meetings with federal lawmakers weighing charges to eliminate customized promoting, this sort of the Banning Surveillance Marketing Act and The American Facts Privateness and Defense Act. Online for Expansion supports countrywide facts privacy legislation to simplify a pricey patchwork of point out info privacy rules, just one that avoids weighty fines and penalties for smaller corporations devoid of the very same methods as substantial firms to comply with sophisticated or imprecise laws, and which preserves their potential to securely use info and electronic advertising and marketing to innovate and increase. Web for Expansion has also raised difficulties with expenditures this kind of as the The united states Act that would dismantle advertising and marketing networks helping compact publishers to earn cash flow.
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“My father used to say never complain if you are busy,” says Gabriela Hearst. We are speaking on the afternoon of American Thanksgiving, but Hearst isn’t on the sofa watching the parade while the turkey is in the oven. She’s hopping into an uber to get from one meeting to another. Busy she is.
From December 2 to 9, the fashion designer is donating 100 percent of net profits across all products in her flagship stores in New York and London and gabrielahearst.com to Save the Children to support relief efforts in war-torn Yemen. “The war in Yemen continues, but it has disappeared from our screens,” says the designer. “The media is fickle and has a short memory. But I wanted to do something for the 12 million children that need our assistance and funds.”
It’s not the first time Hearst has partnered with the organisation. In 2017, she raised over £450,000 for Save the Children by selling her sought-after bags on Net-a-Porter. “The environment and children are the two things I am really focused on—when you put those two together, that’s the future.”
Hearst launched her sustainable eponymous label in 2015 and it has since amassed a large number of devoted followers. Tailoring is her signature and the Nina bag, first launched in 2016, quickly became one of the industry’s most-wanted—its waiting list is rumoured to be as long as the Hermès Birkin's.
“I am very protective of our handbag business,” Hearst admits. “I don’t subscribe to the idea of handbag collections; I do around eight a year and not all of them would see the light of day the next year. This is also a lot more sustainable, as you can calculate how much you are making and cutting.”
Sustainability is a watchword for Hearst. The designer grew up on a ranch in central Uruguay, far from a city. Her family’s limited but beautiful wardrobe was created by a seamstress and lasted for generations. The designer’s daughters frequently wear their aunt’s clothes, to her, that is the definition of sustainable consumption.
Yet the fashion cycle seems unstoppable, with endless shows and collections and clothes that lose their appeal within a season. Among the memeable Gvasalia outfits and Supreme collaborations, it’s sometimes hard to cancel the noise. But Hearst doesn’t believe in trends and never has. “When you are using beautiful fabric, materials that are precious, you have to make sure they last, you can’t favour a trend. Instead, you want to create something that you’ll wear for the rest of your life.” Hearst has carved a niche for herself, creating conscious, chic and timeless luxury—and demand is high.
Earlier this year, the luxury conglomerate LVMH, which owns Dior, Givenchy and Fendi, among others, bought a minority stake in the company. What does that mean? The luxury giant is watching closely—and the customer wants a brand that is responsible, sustainable and transparent.
“More and more people are researching before they invest their money: and it’s important that as a company we do our homework, and go in-depth about our product and impact. We have an obligation to make a product better if the customer is choosing to give us their money.”
Is sustainable fashion economically divisive? “Inequality is not a fashion problem—we can’t blame everything on fashion. I grew up in Uruguay pre-globalisation; scarcity was part of the way we lived. People didn’t have a lot so you bought things that lasted.”
While fashion is frequently considered frivolous, Hearst is quick to point out how much brands do for the causes close to their hearts.
“Fashion is what I do and what I love—I have been doing this for over 15 years. And while fashion people get a lot of bad press, Ralph Lauren created campaigns for breast cancer awareness and Calvin Klein is known for its long-standing support of amfAR and the fight against AIDS. Fashion is making progress, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t figure out a better way to do this—we put a man on the moon. There has to be a way.”


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Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, mentioned as a part of the federal government to deal with unemployment, no fewer than 1000 unemployed youths could be empowered to amass expertise in digital pictures.
He disclosed this in Lagos in the course of the unveiling of Canon 10000VP digital gear in partnership with KAS Prints below its KP2 Partnership Programme for printers, graphic artists, print entrepreneurs and digital photographers.
The programme supported by the Nationwide Directorate of Employment (NDE), in line with the Minister would instantly empower 1000 youths throughout the six geopolitical zones.
Keyamo disclosed that the beneficiaries who’ve proven willingness and the zeal could be chosen via the Federal Authorities’s database of unemployed youths.
He mentioned, “The preliminary project we have with KAS is that, with this new acquisition that we have, we are going to set them up in six geopolitical zones. When they set them up, they want to train our youths free of charge. And so we have a preliminary projection of about 1000 youths where they will absorb them into this centre, they will train them at no cost to the Federal Government.”
The Minister mentioned the Canon 10000VP digital printing machine which might print “at speed of light” would assist rising entrepreneurs and professionals within the occasion business.
In the meantime, Canon Central and North Africa (CCNA), a pacesetter in imaging options, on Saturday launched Canon Discovery Week for skilled photographers, novice or occasional, to entry the providers of the corporate.
That is simply because the imaging options supplier launched eight new units for each skilled and novice photographers.
Gross sales and Advertising Director, Canon Central and North Africa, Amine Djouahra, mentioned the assorted workshops could be a chance for individuals to work together with skilled Canon customers as they study from them.


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SMEs and enterprises are quickly adopting cloud computing as an alternative to physical servers. This, according to ATTILA NARIN of Amazon Web Services, is because cloud computing offers numerous benefits including lower costs, easy and quickly deployment and robustness.
Over the past few years we have seen that cloud computing is becoming the new normal for larger companies across South Africa and around the world. As well as the rapid enterprise adoption of the cloud, small businesses and start-ups are also becoming part of this growing trend. Migrating to the cloud is giving smaller organisations the ability to access near endless amounts of compute, storage and other technologies over the internet, on a pay as you go basis, lowering the overall cost of their IT and increasing their agility and pace of innovation.
In the pre-cloud world, when you asked an engineering team how long it might take to get a server to try something new, typically it would take 10 – 18 weeks. In this new world of cloud, not only can a company spin up hundreds of servers in minutes and pay only for what they use, but they have access to a very robust, full-featured technology platform that lets them go from idea to launch in record time.
For start-ups and SMEs this is good news as employees now have the opportunity to test new concepts in a much shorter time-frame and with a lot less IT investment risk. As a result, both start-ups and SMEs are evolving to be far more dynamic and innovative.
The question is not, therefore, whether you should move your activities to the cloud – it’s when you should and how quickly.
One of the main benefits of cloud computing is agility. For a start-up or SME, being able to adapt to uncertain market conditions or quickly change direction of their business to better fit with the needs and wants of customers is critical. Being able to quickly change their strategy is leading to many smaller organisations taking on older, more established players which is disrupting many, often decades old, industries.
If you think about what’s happened in the last few years, we have started to see many longstanding businesses and industries that have been completely disrupted by new companies in a very short amount of time. The best example is the growth we have seen in Internet based businesses such as Netflix, Airbnb and Dropbox. The reason for the disruption is these more agile companies have been able to rapidly experiment and test out new ideas. Those ideas that fail can be shut down quickly and inexpensively and those that succeed can be allowed to quickly grow. This is leading to many new companies taking on larger organisations, for example, in industries such as financial services.
A good example of a South African company in the financial services sector that is using AWS to flourish is Entersekt. Entersekt provides authentication solutions to customers which is making the online world a safer place to bank and shop. Entersekt has been able to build a service that can scale to millions of users by using the cloud while giving customers a more secure and better retail banking experience all while reducing online phishing fraud to an absolute 0%. Although it may be expected that a technology like this would come from one of the world’s largest banks or credit card companies, in New York, London or Hong Kong, instead it came from an agile, fast moving and fast thinking cloud based start-up based out of Stellenbosch.
As well as giving smaller organisations the ability to experiment quickly and scale up to take on larger companies, the cloud is also giving them the ability deploy their applications in multiple regions around the world with just a few clicks. This kind of global reach was previously only available to the world’s largest multinational companies. Now, with the cloud, it means a start-up can go global from day one and can increase their chances of success and also rapidly increase their customer base.
A good example of a fast growing company from South Africa that is seeing many of these benefits is Travelstart. Travelstart has been able to rapidly grow their Middle Eastern business using AWS while reducing downtime by 25%. Started in 1999, the company has grown to become Africa’s largest travel booking website offering flights, hotel bookings, car rental, vacation packages and a range of insurance services. The company operates in more than 15 countries across Africa and the Middle East. By using the cloud to rapidly grow their business, Travelstart is able to take on the world’s largest companies in their field while also increasing their reliability and levels of customer service.
Cloud computing gives businesses of any size access to storage, compute, database and many other technologies on a pay as you go basis from anywhere in the world. This is democratising the business world by giving small companies access to the same vast amounts of technology that were only in the realms of the world’s largest organisations in the past. I look forward to see the cloud continue its rapid growth in South Africa and look forward to see more start-ups expand their businesses around the world thanks to the cloud.
* Attila Narin, Head of EMEA Solutions Architecture and Business Development, Amazon Web Services
How to create an esports team
2018 was a landmark year for South African esports as one of the country’s best teams took the battle overseas and made waves in the international scene. A year ago Bravado’s top Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) team relocated to Arizona in the U.S., a venture dubbed Project Destiny, where they used the opportunity to train as full-time professional athletes and conquer the best teams out there.
Project Destiny was a massive success. A year later and Bravado’s CS:GO team had carved a name for itself through several high-profile victories and invitations to top tier tournaments. Clearly this is not the end of the story and the team has been reflecting on the lessons and opportunities.
Team captain Dimitri “Detrony” Hadjipaschali helped lead Project Destiny and gleaned a considerable amount on what needs to go into an esports team.
Team for the right reasons
For aspirant pro players who want to up their game, pun intended, he advises starting at the basics: why do you want a team?
“In recent times, people want to create a team with no direct intention, not knowing if they want to do this casually and socially, or professionally. Doing this professionally requires risk. It depends on how much work and sacrifices are contributed to the cause of creating a team. Playing socially is fine, part-time, as many people do, but playing professionally and wanting to reach the top one day, purely depends on your dedication, motivation and intention.”
Put in the hours
Like any aspirant pro athlete, preparation requires hours of training. Bravado’s players all put in several hours of training daily, 7 days a week, and Project Destiny’s full-time pros worked multiple training sessions every day, usually in the morning and afternoon for 4 hours each, as well as competitive matches in the late evening.
But even Bravado members who are not full time still put in hours of training every day. Serious players need to find the time and build up their dedication because this level of performance is simply the bar set in esports. Said Dimitri:
“The general esports title or game a team competes in will require anything, if not more than, a traditional sport outside of esports would require to get to the top.”
Fortunately, you don’t have to go all-out from the start. Esports are tiered with the top players in the highest tiers. So there is space to cut your esporting teeth while making room for it in your life. But never forget that to be one of the best means no half-measures. In esports, you have to commit to win.
“A good team player is an individual who views his team as a single unit and not just himself as an ‘individual player’ in the bigger picture,” said Dimitri. “They put their team first and before themselves. This is the first main fundamental of a mindset required for a team player.”
Pro teams shouldn’t be mistaken for gaming clans, which are more casual and where gaming is a hobby. Even though they can be very competitive, clans mostly play for fun and entertainment, whereas a professional team is highly competitive with goals that it sets out to accomplish.
This is important because it helps the team members agree on the importance of those goals and the focus required. If you are not willing to show up every day to play the same game, partake in training exercises and learn from feedback, a pro career won’t work for you:
“Playing professionally requires aligned individuals where they share common goals and have equal intentions to realize what they want to achieve and what it takes to compete at a high level.”
Professional athletes aren’t created overnight. It takes many years of focus and dedication while also pursuing studies or working at a day job before someone manages to ascend into a paid career. Esports is the same and demands patience alongside dedication.
Esports teams amplify this requirement. While in Arizona, Bravado applied the maxim “Teams who work together win together.” Household chores were divided up between players, creating a sense of common responsibility. This repetitive reinforcement of team values is crucial for success, whereas impatience for a team to ‘click’ is a recipe for disaster:
“Often, teams do not achieve their desired results and achievements in the short run and immediately resort to a roster change. Or someone in the team is replaced without a completely valid reason. This underestimates the importance of sticking together to create synergy in the long run.”
He also added that using time smartly is perhaps even more important than the amount of time spent on training. The team under Project Destiny used a full-time coach who helped set routines, objectives and priorities:
“The mistake with teams struggling to improve these days is that they do not know and understand how to work with limited time, and how to do this best and constructively as possible. Often teams that aren’t at a top competitive level yet arrange bootcamps, but set the limited time they have with each other incorrectly, or rather not to the best potential.”
When Bravado embarked on Project Destiny, it aimed to put South African esports on the map and serve as role models for aspirant players in the country. By those measures, it has been a huge success and Bravado continues to grow and educate. Through the ongoing support of sponsors Alienware and Intel, Bravado continues its mission of creating esporting excellence and opportunity for South Africans.
Learn more at bravadogaming.com or contact Bravado’s players directly via their social media accounts.
Opera reveals SA browsing habits
Opera, one of the world’s major browser developers, and leader in AI driven digital content delivery and discovery, has released its State of Mobile Web 2019 report, revealing that nine out of ten people in South Africa use their mobile browser every day.
Other Key findings from the report include:
- Internet users in Africa use their browser to access social media domains such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Instagram, followed by entertainment and search websites
- Opera News users in Africa spend 50% of in-app time watching videos
- South Africans pay six times more per gigabyte of mobile data than people in India
- Opera Mini saved users nearly 100 million USD in mobile data in 2018
The report reveals that the Opera mobile browsers and standalone news app were used by nearly 20 million internet users in Africa and by more than 350 million people globally in the first quarter of 2019. The State of Mobile Web 2019 report also shows that Opera experienced a growth of more than 26 percent of its user base year on year, compared to the first quarter of 2018 in Africa.
“We are thrilled to see that our mobile browsers and news app have grown by 25 million monthly users in the last year, ” said Jørgen Arnesen, Head of Marketing and Distribution at Opera. “The new Opera News app has led this positive growth, as well as the introduction of new features to our mobile browsers like built-in VPN and crypto wallet. The successful partnerships Opera has with major smartphone manufacturers in Africa have also contributed to this massive growth”.
The 2019 edition of the State of the Mobile Web report looked into the use of the Opera Mini browser and the Opera browser for Android, and it shows that mobile browsing is one of the most popular online activities among African internet users. For example, in South Africa, nine out of ten people use their mobile browser every day, an activity they prefer over the use of other applications like YouTube.
The report also revealed that on average, Africans using Opera spend more than 30 minutes browsing online each day. The most browsed category of websites was social media platform domains such as Facebook, YouTube and Instagram, followed by search engines like Google, and entertainment and sport websites.
100 million dollars saved on mobile data
In the State of the Mobile Web 2019 report, Opera gives detailed insight into the use of the data savings feature in the Opera Mini browser, and compares the average price of mobile data in 20 countries in Africa. The results revealed that the data compression mode in Opera Mini saved users nearly 100 million USD of data in 2018.
In this analysis, Opera also compared the costs of data in some African countries with the cost of mobile data in India and Germany. The outcome of this analysis showed that South Africans pay six times more per gigabyte of mobile data than Indians and almost the same price as Germans for one gigabyte of mobile data.
Rapidly changing news and video consumption landscape
The report takes a look at the trends of news and video consumption across Africa. This includes analyzing the usage of its standalone Opera News app, which grew from launch to over 20 million users in a period of one year. Categories like breaking news, local news, and entertainment were the favourites among users in the first quarter of the year.
Video content is also becoming more popular among people who use the Opera News app. The report shows that people spend 50 percent of in-app time inOpera News watching videos on Instaclips, the recently added video feature on the news app.
The usage of Instaclips keeps growing since its test launch in December 2018: in Q1-2019, Instaclips registered a total of 122,000 videos uploaded in different languages such as English, Portoguese, French, Arabic and Swahilli.
Expanding beyond browsing to fuel digital transformation
Opera’s commitment to digital transformation in Africa is ongoing. Beyond the development of its mobile browsers and standalone news app, Opera has made major investments on the African continent, expanding its services to other technology areas such as FinTech and digital advertising.
In 2018, Opera announced the launch of OKash, a fintech micro-lending solution that quickly gained traction among mobile internet users in Kenya. Today, OKash ranks among the most downloaded micro lending applications among Kenyans and its user base keeps on growing.
In May 2019,Opera announced the introduction of Opera Ads, a new advertising platform that allows media agencies and publishers to run more targeted marketing campaigns through the Opera platforms.
The full version of State of Mobile Web 2019 report is available to read online or for download by clicking here.


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The National Confectioners Association has released “Seasonal Confectionery Purchase Decisions: 2020,” the third report in its three-part series on COVID-19 confectionery shopping trends.
“Seasonal and holiday celebrations have changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, reshaping shoppers’ engagement with seasonal confectionery,” NCA President & CEO John Downs said. “The insights unveiled in this report will help the confectionery industry address new holiday celebrations and traditions through merchandising and marketing that reflects these unusual times.”
The report combines shopper survey data and recent sales data to investigate shoppers’ new approaches to purchasing seasonal confectionery products during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to providing the latest shopper insights, the report highlights new confectionery purchasing patterns and usage occasions, including the rise of e-commerce for seasonal confectionery sales and seasonal confectionery’s heightened role as a source of holiday fun.
The full report is available to NCA member companies, Sweets & Snacks On Demand participants and select retail partners at CandyUSA.com/COVIDReports. An executive summary of the report is also available to the entire confectionery industry.
Key highlights include:
• Seasonal confectionery enjoys high engagement as 84 percent see it as a fun part of special celebrations and 78 percent say sharing and gifting seasonal confectionery is a great American tradition. This is exactly why seasonal permissibility is high, with 82 percent of Americans agreeing that it is okay to enjoy seasonal confectionery during holidays and special occasions.
• Supermarkets are the most commonly shopped channel for seasonal confectionery, followed by supercenters. But it is e-commerce that leaped years ahead in engagement, with online candy sales up 100.3 percent during the 26 weeks ending September 6, 2020. Online ordering with the local grocery store for delivery or pickup overtook online retailers as the biggest online channel for confectionery. The seasonal aisle is fun and inspiring to 77 percent of shoppers and 76 percent like browsing for new items when buying seasonal confectionery.
• Shoppers like to celebrate the seasons in style; 87 percent prefer seasonal confectionery featuring packaging, shapes, colors, flavors or characters that reflect the season.
• The pandemic has resulted in financial pressure for many Americans, and more are prioritizing promotions and price in their decisions. Seasonal confectionery already enjoyed very high promotional efficiencies prepandemic. Purchases are influenced by shoppers’ own preferences (59 percent), price (43 percent) and sales promotions (40 percent).
• Parents see confectionery as integral to seasonal celebrations, and 90 percent discuss the importance of balance and treating with their children. Key educational years are when the kids are between seven and 12 years of age.
• At the same time, nine in 10 parents monitor their kids’ candy consumption, with limiting consumption to a few pieces a day until it runs out being the most popular system as it relates to the seasonal haul.


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Susan Cianciolo’s current solo show at Bridget Donahue Gallery is unfinished. That isn’t just a reference to the raw edges on the cardboard shipping boxes that sit in rows on the floor, or the threadbare quilts on which the boxes rest. The artist herself has been sneaking into the second-floor gallery to tinker with her cardboard “kits,” well after the show opened weeks ago. “That’s a secret,” she adds, slyly.
Entitled “if God COMes to visit You, HOW will you know? (the great tetrahedral kite),” the exhibition is a diary of sorts, not only of Cianciolo’s career as an artist, but also her work as a fashion designer and her role as a mother, daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter. “I grew up with my parents and my grandparents and my great-grandmother all in the same house,” she says. “Very old-fashioned Italian.”
Nestled in the cardboard kits, which can be explored by request with the help of Donahue, are vintage bloomers worn by the artist, step-by-step instructions on how to make a denim skirt, handmade dolls, Polaroids, sketches from previous shows, collections, and performances, and a lone coin that Cianciolo herself was surprised to discover. “My daughter might have snuck that in there,” she says.
Lilac Sky Cianciolo, the artist’s seven-year-old daughter, collaborated on many aspects of the project, most notably a cardboard “Money Machine,” with a drawn-on keypad to make withdrawals. “She understands economics,” Cianciolo says. “I came home one day and she says, ‘I did a performance in the park, and I had a bucket out and people gave money.’”
Her daughter’s desire to perform may be genetic. A few years ago, Cianciolo took on the role of The Doctor of Divinity in a German production of Hamlet, for which she was also the costume designer. The reconceived version was an homage to the late Jack Smith, the pioneering underground filmmaker whose use of decadent costumes and steadfast divergence from the norm had a substantial impact on Cianciolo. “We felt Jack Smith’s spirit was really there,” she says. Tomorrow night, June 30, Cianciolo and Mark von Schlegell, the play’s director, will celebrate the launch of a book commemorating that performance with a discussion of Smith’s legacy and screening of his films. The event marks a collaboration across two generations of gallerists—Donahue and Barbara Gladstone, who represents Smith’s estate—as well as artists.
The launch of Portikus Catalog Nr. 179, “Jack Smith: Hamlet,” will take place June 30 at New York’s Bridget Donahue gallery, 99 Bowery, 2nd floor.


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Apple told him to pay staff for luggage checks outside the clock
LOS ANGELES: The California Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Apple You must pay employees for the time they spend waiting for their bags and personal electronic devices to register when they leave work. The decision means that the tech giant will have to pay millions of dollars to more than 12,000 workers per hour in California retail stores that fall under the mandatory baggage search policy.
According to court documents, it is required that you disconnect before undergoing an exit search that can take 5 to 20 minutes. On the busiest days, employees say the waiting time can be up to 45 minutes. Those who refuse to have their belongings checked are subject to disciplinary measures, including termination.
A lower court had previously sided with Apple , ruling that time spent by employees waiting for the exit searches cannot be considered “hours worked” under California law.
Apple representatives could not immediately be reached for comment.


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Delhi’s economy is facing its worst recession in many decades. Though the government has eased restrictions and allowed businesses to restart, more than two months of lockdown and flight of migrant workers from urban & industrial centers have crippled our state’s economy.
CII in their stead reached out to various industries across all sectors to understand the issues faced by them and the overall economic impact of the pandemic and the consequent lockdown.
Every sector is feeling the pain in some way or the other because of this pandemic.
So this year, they will be working with the Indian Government and industry to bring back growth to the economy and try to mitigate the enormous human cost of the pandemic by protecting jobs and livelihoods.
Keeping the main agenda to bring back Delhi’s economy on track, the Delhi chapter of CII are organizing a CII Delhi E-Conclave: “Building Delhi for a New World” on Friday, 3 July 2020 through a virtual platform from 10 am to 2.30 pm.
This conclave will focus on strategies with a core focus on bringing growth back to Delhi’s economy.
Some of the key sessions will focus on areas like:
- real estate
- start-up, tourism
Along with these, there will also be a special session with Bollywood actress Taapsee Pannu.
You can register for the conclave by registering through this link:
ED is proud to be their blog partner.
Digital Parliament Wants To Bridge The Gap Between Political Parties And Indian Citizens With Their New YouTube Show


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If you're sporting Verizon's variant of the Tab 7.7, then you're probably sick of Honeycomb. Good news for you! The ICS update is ready to go and should begin rolling out in the coming days.
The Galaxy Tab 7.7 has been banned in Germany for a while. Now, though, the 7.7" tablet is officially banned throughout the whole of the EU. Previously Apple was able to enforce a ban on the smaller of the Tabs because it has proven in German courts that it owns the design IP for black rectangles in reference to the Galaxy Tab 10.1. In Germany, Apple can enforce this injunction against the Tab 7.7 due to a principle known as "kerngleicher Verstoß", or "violation sharing the same core".
Verizon Wireless has just made public an official list of handsets on the network poised to receive Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OTA updates, most being devices for which such updates were a given at this point:
- HTC ThunderBolt™
- DROID Incredible 2 by HTC
- HTC Rhyme™
- HTC Rezound™
- Motorola XOOM
- DROID BIONIC™
- DROID RAZR™
- DROID RAZR™ MAXX™
- DROID 4
- DROID XYBOARD 8.2
- DROID XYBOARD 10.1
- Samsung Galaxy Tab™ 10.1
- Samsung Galaxy Tab™ 7.7
- Spectrum™ by LG
No timeframe was provided, but this is probably the most authoritative ICS update list you'll see out there, if for only one reason: in the end, it's Verizon that decides whether or not a device on its network gets updated.
The Ice Cream Sandwich-packing Galaxy Tab 2 it may not be, but the Galaxy Tab 7.7 that Verizon unveiled at CES last month still isn’t to be dismissed out of the gate – the now-official tablet will be arriving in stores on March 1st, complete with:
- 7.7 inch, 1280×800 Super AMOLED Plus display
- 1.4 GHz Dual-Core processor
- Android 3.2 with Touchwiz
- 16 GB storage
- 3 MP rear camera with LED flash
- 2 MP front-facing camera
- 7.9 mm thickness
- SD card slot
Sure, Android 3.2 (Honeycomb) is a tad outdated, but still, it would be hard to resist the largest Super AMOLED Plus display to date, right?
The tablet flood continues, the latest from Sammy is the Galaxy Tab 7.7 for Verizon. This little guy hopes to stand out from the crowd with the largest OLED display Samsung has ever put on a tablet: a 7.7 inch, Super AMOLED Plus Display.
The "Plus" on the end of "Super AMOLED Plus" means "not pentile," so you're even getting the full compliment of subpixels. It looks like this:
Now for the bad news, it's only Android 3.2, and it's got Touchwiz, and lots of crapware.
While we've yet to actually see a release date for the Galaxy Tab 7.7 that Samsung debuted back in September, the company has now dropped the kernel source code for the device. In the past, this usually indicates an impending release, so we're willing to bet that availability will be officially announced at CES next week.
For those who need a reminder of what the Tab 7.7 is all about:
- 7.7-inch 1280x800 Super AMOLED Plus display (the first tablet to have this)
- 1.4GHz dual-core Exynos
- 3MP rear shooter, 2MP 'round front
- Android 3.2
- 5,100mAh battery
Of course, a lot can change in three months, so we may actually see some changes made to the specs of the device before its release.
Samsung's Galaxy Tab 7.7 seemed like a promising tablet when announced at IFA, despite the fact that it was evidently not headed for the U.S. Those hoping to get their hands on the device however will be interested to learn that the 7.7 has disappeared from IFA altogether. All that is left of the device's display is a drab curtain and velvet rope.
The latest news has come in the form of an official statement from Samsung, sent to thedroidguy indicating that the removal of the 7.7 from IFA did in fact have to do with a court decision made on September 2nd.
If the insanely high-res screens of the Galaxy Note and Galaxy Tab 7.7 have you drooling, you're certainly not alone. But if you live in the US, it's all too likely that you will never have the opportunity to see either of the devices in person.
Thanks to Samsung's Unpacked app, we already knew that the South Korean company would be announcing the Galaxy Tab 7.7 today, but now we have official confirmation along with a full list of specs to match.
It goes without saying that the latest addition to Samsung's tablet family will have a 7.7-inch display, but this display will pack a resolution of 1280 x 800, the same as the recently announced Samsung Note smartphone.


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The Concours Mondial du Sauvignon Blanc is an international wine competition that focuses exclusively on Sauvignon Blanc wines from all over the world. It was created in 2010 by the organizers of the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, which is one of the world’s largest and most influential wine competitions.
The main objective of the Concours Mondial du Sauvignon is to showcase the diversity and quality of Sauvignon Blanc wines produced in different regions and countries. Every year, a panel of expert judges evaluates the wines based on blind tastings and awards medals to the top-performing entries.
The competition is open to all producers of Sauvignon Blanc wines, whether they are small boutique wineries or large commercial producers. The competition attracts a large number of entries from all over the world, making it one of the most important events in the Sauvignon Blanc wine industry.
For the first time in history the Concours Mondial du Sauvignon was held outside Europe. 50 international judges gathered in Franschhoek, South Africa from 14-16 March 2023 to taste 1210 Sauvignon Blanc wines from around the world. The results were announced on 20th March at Prowein 2023.
This year South Africa has emerged as a major Sauvignon Blanc producer, achieving 56 medals (26 gold and 30 silver), along with one Trophy. Our congratulations to Villiera on being awarded the Tonnellerie Sylvain trophy for their Villiera Bush Vine.
Read the full press release here.


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Talabat, the leading online food delivery, and q-commerce platform, has launched a Sustainable Packaging Program to minimize plastic waste and carbon emissions across the region, starting with pilot operations in Qatar and the UAE.
According to the statement, the launch is part of Delivery Hero’s (Talabat’s parent company) global rollout of the program, across eight markets.
Talabat’s new packaging, which will be available for adoption by a select group of restaurant partners and vendors, is 100 percent plant-based and free of perfluoroalkoxy-alkanes (PFA), which are known as “forever chemicals” as they cannot be broken down by nature.
“Globally, I think everyone can agree that a plastic-free world is imperative. Statistics from the National Geographic and Ellen MacArthur Foundation show that currently 91 perfect of the world’s plastic is not recycled – and 70 percent of plastic ends up in landfills or the natural environment. By 2050, the amount of plastic in the ocean will outweigh fish. That is the enormity of the challenge that, as a planet, we are facing. Regionally, our ultimate goal is to create a more sustainable delivery ecosystem by constantly introducing industry-leading standards and innovations, and that every product purchased through our talabat platform be delivered in sustainable packaging.”
“Also, as part of Delivery Hero, who are introducing this same initiative initially in eight markets around the globe – Qatar, the UAE, Austria, Chile, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, and Singapore, we are able to produce this packaging at scale, to deploy 10mn units globally by the end of 2022, which makes it a cost-effective solution to normal packaging for our restaurant partners and vendors,” Mr. Rodriguez further added.
Talabat has previously taken steps to minimize plastic use by introducing a “no-cutlery” default option at check-out for all orders placed through the app, which resulted in a 74 percent rise in no-cutlery orders in just a few months in Qatar, saving over 10 million plastic cutleries.


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The third annual Venture135 conference (formerly the Southeast Fintech Venture Conference) will kick off on November 21-22 in Charlotte, NC. This two-day fintech-focused event brings together entrepreneurs, investors, and financial service executives from all across the Southeast.
With a unique program format, Venture135 is intentionally intimate in order to create a beneficial experience for attendees.
This year’s keynote speaker is Tim Sheehan, the co-founder and CEO of kids financial education and savings app Greenlight. Greenlight provides a safe way for parents to give their kids money, approve spending, and prepare them for financial independence.
In just a few years, the startup has grown considerably, with over half a million parents using the app today. They recently closed a $54 million Series B to fast-track that scale.
Prior to Greenlight, Tim was the Lead Entrepreneur In Residence at Georgia Tech’s startup incubator, the Advanced Technology Development Center. Earlier in Tim’s career he was Director of Yahoo! Finance, helping to grow it to the #1 finance site in the world.
Additional speakers will include investors and top fintech experts.
The Startups: Demo Day
Day one will include a pitch party, networking session and will end with the Queen City Fintech Demo Day, where the latest company’s in Charlotte’s fintech accelerator will show what they’ve been working on.
Day two will feature the IBM Hyper Protect Accelerator Demo Day powered by LinuxONE. The recently-launched accelerator program was designed to build and scale the next generation of fintech and healthtech companies that require highly-secure data protection. This Demo Day will kickoff IBM’s first Healthtech Summit, a one-day event held in parallel to Venture135.
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Study: Parents Choose Children over Environment
It seems reasonable to assume that American families actively support "green" initiatives in their consumer habits, but a recent study shows that American parents have other things on their minds.
In its first PersonicX® Consumer Dynamics study, Acxiom of Little Rock, Ark., found a meaningful pattern in middle-class American households: Children were significantly less likely to be present in "green" households. The highest environmentally indexing clusters fall into two general groups, those who are younger, still single, and looking for something to take care of ("Greenhorns"), and those who are more senior, still married or now single, and looking for something to take care of ("Greener Pastures").
When compared to the national population, Greenhorns are more than 60 percent more likely to purchase automobiles that reflect their support of the environment. Greener Pastures are more than 40 percent more likely to pay more and give up convenience to purchase products that are environmentally friendly. Though they may come from a variety of incomes, net worth, and areas of population density, these groups undoubtedly share a heightened concern for the environment, as well as the time to act on that concern.
This PersonicX Consumer Dynamics study indicates that many parents direct their efforts to saving time and money -- over the environment -- while raising children, demonstrating a need for more convenient, less expensive ways to go green.
"As a father, I understand that parents have their hands full every day just making sure their kids eat well and act right. They care about the environment, but it is difficult to focus on green initiatives when their attention is taken by the here and now," said Louis Rolleigh, product leader of PersonicX. "But it may also be true that companies that produce convenient, cost-effective environmentally friendly products aren't getting their messages through to decision makers in these households."
Greenhorns are typically 24 to 45, have no children in the home, are renters with some homeowners mixed in, are low-middle to upper-middle class, and live in cities and city surroundings. Greener Pastures are over the age of 66, and they may be married or single, but -- again -- have no children in the home. They are mostly homeowners with some renters, and again span the middle class ranks, while living in rural areas as well as cities and surrounding suburbs and towns.
"This finding is provocative," said Rolleigh, "because it shows us that you don't have to be free of financial concerns to choose environmentally conscious behaviors. Greenhorns and Greener Pastures span the income level of what we call 'middle class,' but they are willing to pay more for environmentally friendly products and services. And they may be more 'urbane' and live in cities, but they may also be people in remote or less populated regions of our country."
PersonicX is a segmentation system that clusters households into 70 distinct categories and 21 life-stage groups based on various characteristics. When analyzing the PersonicX clusters, Acxiom researchers found there were distinct PersonicX clusters that demonstrated green tendencies in the Greenhorn group.
Acxiom makes information intelligent for many of the world's leading and most dynamic companies, enabling them to acquire new customers, retain their most valuable customers, communicate with customers in the methods and times they prefer, and make profitable marketing and business decisions.


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Run The Country to promote a GMO Free USA and world, plant-based diets, and active lifestyles.
Safe and Healthy Food Supply
The world’s food supply is under siege. Powerful multi-national corporations such as Monsanto have laid claim to food—from the DNA within the world’s seeds, to the plants those seeds become, to the products produced from those plants. And now through biotechnology, corporations routinely release genetically modified organisms and their partner poisons into the environment. Once released, these organisms and poisons contaminate and pollute natural plants, animals, soil, air, and water. Biotech corporations create GMOs, but they can’t control them. Neither can they control the extent of the damage that has and will result as these organisms and poisons continue to pollute the world and sicken natural species, including you and your children.
These corporations control governments, and bribe, threaten, sue, and silence their opposition. Above all else, they lie.
Monsanto and their bullying buddies defeated California’s Proposition 37 in November 2012, a proposition that would have labeled GMOs. They did it by immersing the airwaves and media in slimy and illegal lies backed by millions of dollars. They repeated the same lies in 2013 to defeat Washington state’s labeling initiative, I-522.
As a result, GMOs remain unlabeled in California, Washington and the United States. However, things are changing. According to the Center for Food Safety, “In 2013, nearly half of all U.S. states have introduced bills requiring labeling or prohibiting genetically engineered foods.” And Connecticut and Maine have passed labeling laws that will become active when enough other states pass similar legislation. We have a right to know who’s profiting from our food choices. Beyond that, we have a moral obligation to boycott lying corporate tyrants.
When enough people realize that Monsanto and gang lie, we will inoculate ourselves against the power of their lies and the poison in their products.
We are Running The Country to promote the world’s access to a safe, healthy, and public food supply!
Epidemiologists and millions of people around the world know that the world’s longest living people live their long and peaceful lives on plant-based diets. And a plant-based diet is not only best for human health, it’s best for animals, it’s best for the environment, and it’s best for the world’s food security. In spite of these well-known facts, corporate interests and our corporate-influenced regulatory system pump out billion dollar lies promoting food and food like substances that are now responsible for virtually every major cause of U.S. disease, sickness, and premature death.
We are Running The Country to promote healthy plant-based diets!
It’s no secret that Americans don’t get enough exercise. And it’s no secret that our butt-sitting, TV-watching, and lazy lifestyle is resulting in a host of physical, mental, and emotional problems. We are designed to move, to walk, flex, lift, push, pull, sweat, and run. When we do so, we experience multiple benefits.
We are Running The Country to promote active lifestyles!
We all want to enjoy safe and healthy foods, healthy diets, and active lifestyles. With that in mind, our mission is your mission.
We are honored to represent you, run with you, and speak for you as we Run The Country.
We commit to you and the people of the world to fulfill our mission.
We invite you to run with us as we Run The Country!


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Santa Monica, California, July 1, 2014 - Apogee Electronics, a dedicated "Made in the USA" manufacturer and industry leader in digital audio recording technology since 1985, is celebrating America's birthday by offering up to 44% off incredible gear for musicians and audiophiles. Now through July 8th, customers in the US can take advantage of the lowest prices on the most advanced audio interfaces for creating or listening to music on iPad, iPhone and Mac. Sale items will be available exclusively through the Apogee web store and include new and refurbished products, many of which feature free Apogee Assure premium tech support, extending warranty coverage to 2 years.
Save up to 44% off on the latest Apogee products:
To further commemorate the 4th of July, Apogee is pleased to announce its “Star-Spangled Jammer” video contest. From now through July 6th, contestants can enter to win an Apogee JAM by submitting a video of an original version of “The Star Spangled Banner” on the instrument of their choice.


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The combination of an improving job market, pent-up consumer demand, less drag from U.S. government policies, and a brighter global outlook is boosting optimism for the rest of 2014.
New analysis finds that the market earned revenues of $8.80 billion in 2013 and estimates this to reach $10.57 billion in 2018.
The U.S. economy grew at a 2.6 percent annual rate in the October-December quarter, slightly more than previously estimated, as consumer spending rose at the fastest pace in three years.
Small businesses may get an export boom under trade agreements the federal government is hammering out with Pacific and European countries.
Orders to U.S. factories for long-lasting manufactured goods rose in February by the largest amount in three months, helped by solid gains in demand for airplanes and autos.
China's manufacturing fell to an eight-month low in March in another sign of slowing growth in the world's No. 2 economy.
A measure of the U.S. economy's health rose in February by the largest amount in three months, suggesting growth should rebound following a severe winter.
The Federal Reserve says factory production surged 0.8 percent, nearly reversing a 0.9 percent plunge in January that was due mainly to weather. February's gain was the largest in six months.
January U.S. cutting tool consumption totaled $158 million, up 14.5 percent from December’s total and down 10.6 percent from January 2013.
Manufacturing activity in the Southeast increased in February, driven by strong improvements in all areas except employment, according to the Southeast’s Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) report released today.
U.S. hiring improved in February from the previous two months despite a blast of wintry weather, likely renewing hopes that growth will accelerate this year.
Continued strong demand for the Ford Focus, the best-selling nameplate in China last year, helped Ford China increase sales by 67 percent in February, with 73,040 vehicles sold.
Orders to U.S. factories fell in January for a second straight month but a key category that signals business investment plans rebounded. That could be an indication that businesses are becoming more confident.
A private survey shows that U.S. companies added slightly more jobs in February than in the previous month, but harsh winter weather weighed on hiring for the third straight month.
Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in February for the ninth consecutive month, and the overall economy grew for the 57th consecutive month, say the nation’s supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM Report On Business.
"The concept of a polar vortex doesn't feel good, but it's good for business," said Kane Calamari, a vice president at Ace Hardware Corp.
Oil prices jumped nearly $2 a barrel Monday as Russia's military advance into Ukraine raised fears of economic sanctions against one of the world's major energy producers.
As the spring thaw begins, automakers will see if the slowdown was due to historic cold temperatures and snowfall — as many believe — or if there are deeper reasons for sagging demand.
America's top three automakers said the month started slowly but sales began to recover in the second half, a sign that fears of a broader auto sales slowdown may be unfounded.
Like their peers in other sectors, industrial manufacturing CEOs are much less worried about the global economy than last year, although exchange rate volatility and energy costs are still big concerns.
China's manufacturing weakened in February and employers cut staff at the fastest rate in nearly five years, a survey showed Monday, adding to signs growth in the world's second-largest economy is cooling.
Nissan says its sales were up almost 16 percent to just over 115,000 despite repeated winter storms that struck much of the country. Chrysler sales rose 11 percent to nearly 155,000.
The U.S. economy grew at a 2.4 percent annual rate last quarter, sharply less than first thought, in part because consumers didn't spend as much as initially estimated. Severe winter weather is expected to further slow the economy in the current quarter.
The Labor Department says the four-week average was unchanged at 338,250. Applications are a rough proxy for layoffs. The average is not far above pre-recession levels, a sign companies are laying off few workers.
American businesses ordered fewer durable manufactured goods in January, cutting demand for planes, autos, and machines. But a key category that reflects business investment rebounded on the strength of demand for electronics and fabricated metals.


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Brite Payments Group’s CEO Lena Hackelöer sat down with Payment Expert to discuss the early rise of the second-generation fintech from its roots in Sweden.
Hackelöer delved into the importance of instant payments in the current payments industry, discussing the positives for both merchants and customers.
“When we talk about instant payments, we’re talking about a few seconds for payments which have benefits both for the consumer and the merchant,” said Hackelöer.
“From a consumer point of view, making a fast payment is always nice, receiving a fast payment is especially nice… It’s not a common standard today.”
With the rapid nature of ecommerce payments and the need for a quicker service from consumers, instant payments have become an increasingly popular method of payment to not appease customers but to attract new customers too.
However, before Hackelöer founded Brite Payments, she worked with the now popular ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ service Klarna. She reflected on her time at Klarna when a real shift in alternative payment methods was happening, also discussing what she has applied from her time at Klarna and applied it now at Brite.
“I ended up spending seven years there and at that time, one of the things when I look back now is that there really was no best practice in payments,” commented Hackelöer.
“It was the beginning of the rise of alternative payments and a lot of the growth in the category as we know it today, was still in its early days back then.
“If I look at today’s payment landscape in 2022, we’ve seen the rise of several payment companies, we’ve seen their strategies when it comes to their offering from a shift to consumers and their experience being several monetization models when it comes to payments.”
Hackelöer went into detail about many more topics during the interview, from the challenges of starting a company on the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic, to what Brite Payments has in store in the near future.


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Epic Games is looking to take advantage of a new law in South Korea that will force Apple to open its App Store to outside payment systems.
Vlad Savov and Mark Gurman
Bridgetown residents will put their imaginations and dice-rolling skills to the test with a full weekend of Dungeons and Dragons gaming next month.
The City of Perth splashed $100,000 on a pop-up arcade and “pop culture hub” that attracted just 6000 people to the CBD across three days over the Easter weekend.
Next month, a new generation of video games will be born. We take a look at the technology and trends shaping how your kids — and you — will play video games.
Australians are turning their backs on illegally downloaded films, television shows and video games, with a new survey showing the number of people pirating content is at a five-year low.
The ACCC is taking Sony Europe to court, alleging the video game maker told customers they could not get a refund for PlayStation games that didn’t work.
Say goodbye to all your free time!
Back when I was young and sort of cool, board games were very uncool. Now that I’m very uncool, board games apparently have become cool.
Figures released by regulator the Gaming and Wagering Commission in State Parliament show gross gaming revenue at Crown casino fell almost 10 per cent in the 12 months to June 30.
Australians can get their hands on a brand new version of Monopoly with a cheeky new take on the iconic game rewarding cheating.
Will Channel 10’s Family Feud replacement deliver the same success as the UK format?
Parents worried about their children playing the popular online shooter game Fortnite need to “chill out” according to a Perth academic who argues it has many benefits.
The creator of Space Invaders is “shocked” by the way video games have evolved since 1978.
Shonica Guy claims the poker machines give an unrealistic expectation of winning.
His 5.5 million fans - and gamers - can rejoice.
© West Australian Newspapers Limited 2021


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University of Arizona scientists have developed sunscreen that doesn’t penetrate into the skin. The product is working its way toward store shelves with help from the University’s commercialization office.
All sunscreen products on the market pass government safety tests. But some people don’t like the idea of applying chemicals that penetrate into their skin to prevent sunburn and skin cancer. And organic products degrade within a few hours and have to be reapplied often.
UA chemistry and biochemistry professor Douglas Loy worked with graduate student Stephanie Tolbert to come up with a novel formulation that stays on top of the skin. The formula is made of ultraviolet light-reflecting tiny plastic particles that contain the active ingredient.
"Essentially we’ve been able to provide the protection from a UV-absorbing sunscreen, but without the intrusion into our bodies,” Loy said.
But unlike other areas of basic research, funding for sunscreen research at universities is not readily available. Much of the laboratory work is conducted either in connection with other projects or outside the country, he said.
Loy’s and Tolbert's work is being supported by Tech Launch Arizona, which helps university researchers get their products to market.
“Tech Launch Arizona provided funds to help us take this to where it actually would be transferrable to commercial entities,” he said.
The sunscreen has been licensed to a Mexican cosmetics and pharmaceutical company for further development.


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Drinks for Dhs4 and 50 per cent discount all day? Here's where...
This top Marina eatery is celebrating its birthday with some seriously good deals…
The Scene by Simon Rimmer has become somewhat of an institution for homesick Brits whether it’s for a traditional roast or after work drink with some brilliant views.
But to celebrate its fourth birthday this year the popular eatery it’s giving back to its customers, and offering the first drink for all guests through the doors on Friday November 9 for just Dhs4.
It’s set to be an all day party at the hotspot next Friday as the venue goes all out for its annual birthday bash. From doors opening at 8am until 2am, they’ll also be offering a 50 per cent discount on everything on both the food and drink menu.
ALSO READ: 10 things to look forward to in Dubai this November
So whether that’s kickstarting your day with a half price breakfast, 50 per cent off a family roast, or heading to their recently re-opened terrace for a sundowner, you’ll be able to do it for half the usual price.
There’s also a very special guest in town to kick off the celebrations from Monday November 5 as the man behind the menu Simon Rimmer will be on the pots and pans from Monday to Friday.
Guests can book in for limited meet and greet slots with the Strictly Come Dancing alumni from 6pm to 10pm each day through the week.
We know where we’ll be next week…
The Scene by Simon Rimmer, 4th floor, Pier 7, Dubai Marina, 8am to 2am, Friday November 9. Tel: (04) 4222 328. thescenedubai.com
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American model Lauren Layne is well-known among her fans because of her stunning looks, insane model physique and, most importantly, her previous association with Victoria’s Secret.
Although the model does not represent the lingerie giant anymore, she continues to titillate her fans with her beautiful and sultry snaps on Instagram on a weekly basis.
Following her picture-posting ritual, Lauren recently shared a stunning photograph on Instagram which sent a wave of excitement through her legions of followers.
In the pic, the model could be seen wearing a stunning red one-piece swimsuit with a cut-out design to accentuated her enviable figure, particularly her well-toned thighs. The plunging neckline of the bathing suit exposed her bare chest and also allowed her to show off a glimpse of her perky breasts — a move that set pulses racing.
In terms of her beauty looks, Lauren stunned everyone with her natural beauty as she opted for an almost makeup-free look. She let her slightly damp, raven-colored tresses down and accessorized with a few delicate bracelets on both the wrists.
As she informed her fans in the caption, the stunning swimsuit was from the Season 2 of Lauren’s self-titled swimsuit collection, which will be launched soon. With the onset of summers, there are high chances that many of her fans will be eager to get their hands on the stunning beachwear and a look at the comments sections proves that as a lot of her female fans showed interest.
Prior to posting the racy snap, Lauren posted an up-close monochromatic photograph where she looked nothing short of gorgeous. Wearing a low-neck black bustier top with a zip-up front, Lauren wore a full face of makeup and accessorized with hoop earrings. She let her tresses cascade over her shoulders and looked straight into the camera to pull off a very sultry pose.
As of this writing, the picture garnered close to 6,000 likes and almost 200 comments wherein fans praised the hot model for her stunning looks and natural beauty. Commenting on the picture, one of her fans said that Lauren is underrated because she is prettier than many other mainstream models, while another one said that he is surprised as to why Victoria’s Secret didn’t cast her for their 2018 annual extravaganza because Lauren is top model material.
Even though Lauren shot to fame because she walked for Victoria’s Secret, an article by Hollywood Life revealed that she became popular on social media in 2014 when Justin Bieber — who was 20 at the time — allegedly posted a picture of Lauren on his Instagram, where she was featured blowing a kiss.
At the time, Bieber was vacationing with girlfriend Hailey Baldwin (now his wife), and soon after posting the picture, he deleted it after fans started raising their eyebrows.