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With summer fast approaching, many parents will be taking their little ones on holidays.
As we all know children love splashing about in the pool on holidays, with many of them using inflatables to play with.
Buying inflatables can be a tedious task for parents who have to blow them up - which can more often than not leave them feeling pretty light-headed afterwards.
But now a mum has shared a genius tip for inflating things - and there's no need to splash out an electric pump.
Revealing all in the Facebook group Extreme Couponing and Bargains run by Holly Smith, the penny-pinching parent told of how all you need is a hairdryer and a plastic bottle.
The clever mum shared a picture of how she had cut a bottle in half before attaching the capped end to the hairdryer .
Stressing how important it was to use the cool setting, Holly was able to inflate the family's paddling pool in under 30 seconds and shared a picture of her Labrador posing inside it.
She wrote: “Save yourself some pennies on an expensive pump... Cut the top off a juice bottle and use your hairdryer (make sure it’s on a cool setting obviously)!
“Pumped up my pool in less than 30 seconds.”
The post has since gone viral and fellow parents have thanked Holly for sharing the tip.
“Could have done with this last year hahaha” wrote one.
A second said: “Happy days there’s are pump sorted for holidays may go get that unicorn inflatable now.”
A third added: “I will be trying this... guess who didn't buy a pump last year when they bought the paddling pool.”
“Bought the pump today, where was this post yesterday” said another.
This trick will definitely come in handy for the summer !
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This was reiterated during a meeting held in the Chinese city of Shanghai, attended by 70 Iranian knowledge-based companies and more than 100 Chinese technology firms.
A high-level Iranian delegation of scientists, technologists and researchers headed by Vice President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari attended the business and technology meeting during the first day of their visit to China.
Getting to know the latest scientific and technological achievements of the two countries, as well as assessing the markets were among the other goals of the meeting.
The Iranian business and technology delegation will attend another meeting later on. The second meeting of the delegation will be held in Shenzhen on November 13, in the presence of Vice President Sattari.
The meeting also seeks to expand exports of knowledge-based products through Chinese partners.
In this visit, executives from knowledge-based companies from various important scientific fields accompany the Iranian delegation.
Information technology, stem cells, industrial machinery and equipment, advanced materials and health are the fields of activity of these Iranian knowledge-based companies.
Shenzhen is a major city in the Chinese province of Guangdong. It is the hub of electronics and information technology.
China is currently the most populous country of the world, with a high GDP of more than $12 trillion. It is also the second largest economy in the world with one of the largest global markets.
In addition to being one of the world’s largest exporters, China is also recognised as one of the world’s largest importers.
China imported nearly $1.5 billion in 2017. In addition, getting familiar with China’s export structure is of great importance.

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Lovech-Based Great Wall Car Plant to Make 5000th Car by end-2014
The Lovech-based plant of Chinese carmaker Great Wall will manufacture its 5000th car by end-2014, according to Andon Dimitrov, CEO of Litex Motors AD.
In an interview for the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency (BTA), Dimitrov says that the Lovech-based plant assembled around 2500 vehicles of the Chinese Great Wall brand in slightly over two years and the output was sold mostly on the domestic market.
The company expects to set foot on new markets in the years to come and will therefore need to boost its production capacity.
As of December 2013, the plant exports around 100 vehicles a month to Italy.
The company also exports cars to Macedonia and by end-2014 it is expected to set foot in Serbia, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia.
By 2016, the output of the plant is to be available on 16 European markets.
According to Ilia Terziev, CEO of Litex Motors, the company seeks to become an established brand on the domestic market.
Terziev reminds that the company provided 27 vehicles of the Great Wall H6 type to fire departments in the country in February 2014 and in end-March 2014 they provided 51 pick-up Steed 5 vehicles to the Ministry of Environment and Water.
The CEO of Litex Motors explains that the aim is to have the components of the vehicles manufactured and supplied by Bulgarian companies in 4-5 years' time.
Currently, the vehicles assembled in Lovech use Bulgarian car batteries, lubricants and liquids.
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Infinix introduced its new smartphone “Concept Phone 2021” which is actually pretty awesome!
The brand has done something out of the box by providing a ton of flagship features that will surely trigger big names especially Android OS smartphones.
Talk about its features that haven’t been introduced before, it comes with a 160-watt fast charger straight out of the box that will be able to charge a 4000 mAh battery (0-100) in just 10 minutes. 10 freaking minutes! That’s true and it has been tested by multiple Tech YouTubers. It also has a light at the back that flashes when your phone is being charged.
Still, Xiaomi beats Infinix with its 200 HyperCharge Fast Charging technology that lets you charge your phone in just 8 minutes.
The company names it as Ultra Flash Charge system that is built around an 8C battery. We had concerns about its heating but according to the company, the Infinix Concept Phone 2021 has 20 temperature sensors around the device to ensure its temperature remains under 40° (104°F).
According to GSMarena, If the phone goes over, or the phone senses a higher than expected voltage or electromagnetic interference, the security protection kicks in to avoid any damage. All told, there are 60 security protection mechanisms.
Not only that, as we said it has a ton of flagship features. Triple camera setup with a main lens up to 64 megapixels, 8 megapixels ultra-wide-angle lens, and a periscope lens with 60X digital zoom. Whereas a 32-megapixel selfie camera at the front. The camera design looks amazing though.
When it comes to hardware, it is powered by a 64-bit octa-core processor ARM Cortex-A76 at 2.05GHz with ARM Mali G76 GPU. with 8 gigs of Ram and 128 gigs of massive storage with UFS 2.0. Build quality looks rock-solid as the front and back are protected with Gorilla Glass with an aluminum frame that looks amazing.
Not only that, high refresh rate is the vibe these days. And this bad boy is vibing at a 120Hz refresh rate with a huge 6.67 inches super AMOLED panel that’s actually curved. These curves cover up to 88 degrees curved.
An aggressive move by Infinix as this phone will be a big threat to flagship-level smartphones by top brands like Samsung, Xiaomi, Oppo, Oneplus, Huawei, and somewhat Nokia that have captured the market for many years. The company hasn’t revealed its price but it’s expected to be around a mid-range segment price to gain a huge market.
Hardware is damn heavy, no doubt about that but these underdogs have a pathetic user interface that makes the user experience worse. It comes with Android 11 plus 120Hz refresh rate and AMOLED display will make gestures and effects smooth but the user interface will only be tested when the phone arrives in the user’s experience.
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opportunities in developing economies, however, is dealing with challenges simultaneously. With increase in per
capita income, developing economies are further expected to emerge as major markets for halal food in a decade.
As countries in the Asia-Pacific region are undergoing infrastructural development with better and advanced
connectivity, retail shops are witnessing transition in terms of storage facility and kind of inventory.
The halal food sector is expanding at a phenomenal rate globally. Several well-known food firms are making use of
this invaluable resource to promote more halal products and win over customers. These food firms have made it
simpler to choose halal food by offering processed food from many cuisines and by creating quick and readily
cooked food. Not only are their food products becoming available in supermarkets, hypermarkets, and many online
platforms, but they are also growing their distribution network. Advances in the halal food sector propels the start of
a potentially enormous market, driven by a sizable, rapidly expanding, and youthful Muslim populace in Muslimmajority
nations, who want goods and services consistent with their Islamic lifestyle. According to the study
conducted by Pew Research Centre, 60% of the global Muslim population is under thirty.
Moreover, countries across the globe are modifying their Islamic economic plansto suit market demands and further
increase consumer trust in halal products. For instance, the 207 million-strong Muslim nation of Indonesia enacted
the Halal Product Law in 2019, requiring all consumer goods and associated services to be halal-certified before
being imported or exchanged within the nation. The rule has several limitations, such as the acceptance of haram
goods like alcohol, pig or pork byproducts, blood, and meat that hasn't been killed in accordance with Islamic law.


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Coca-Cola HBC Finance B.V. has issued its first green bond driven by “strong investor demand”, raising €500m in support of its sustainability projects.
The packaging company says that net proceeds of the green bond will be allocated toward projects that meet the eligibility criteria outlined in the Group’s Green Finance Framework.
Coca-Cola HBC says they will accelerate the progress of the company’s NetZeroby40 and Mission 2025 commitments, including circularity, energy efficiency, water stewardship, biodiversity and community programmes, innovation in sustainable packaging, and support of sustainable agriculture and procurement.
The issue of the green bond reinforces our position as Europe’s most sustainable beverage company.
The Group’s Mission 2025 Sustainability Commitments are to reduce water used per litre of beverages by 20% vs. 2017 in plants located in “water risk areas” and help secure water availability for all its communities in water risk areas.
Coca-Cola HBC is a “growth-focused” consumer packaged goods business and strategic bottling partner of The Coca-Cola Company.
Commenting on the bond issue, Chief Financial Officer of Coca-Cola HBC, Ben Almanzar, said: “This milestone demonstrates that sustainability is embedded in every aspect of our business, including our financing strategy.
“The issue of the green bond reinforces our position as Europe’s most sustainable beverage company. Most of all, it was made possible by the unmatched commitment of our teams to achieve net zero across our entire value chain by 2040.”


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BELVIDERE, Ill. (Reuters) -- There is a "better than 50 percent chance" that Fiat S.p.A. will increase its stake in Chrysler Group in July, CEO Sergio Marchionne said today.
Fiat has an option to buy a 3.3 percent stake in Chrysler from the retiree healthcare trust affiliated with the UAW beginning in July.
The trust, known as the VEBA, "is not a natural shareholder" and will want to sell its stake, Marchionne told reporters here. "I'm happy to help them with that."
Fiat took management control and a 20 percent stake in Chrysler three years ago when the automaker emerged from a government-funded bankruptcy. Since then, Fiat has raised its stake in Chrysler to 58.5 percent.
The VEBA, which is not managed by the union, owns the rest of Chrysler. The VEBA's stake in the U.S. automaker is managed by an independent fiduciary.
Starting in July, Fiat has the option to buy 40 percent of the VEBA's stake in Chrysler in small increments. Fiat can buy a maximum of 3.3 percent of Chrysler every six months. This option expires in 2016. Marchionne did not say how much he was willing to pay for the stake.
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On another topic, Marchionne said Fiat is open to expanding its newly announced partnership with Mazda Motor Corp. and building the Japanese automaker's vehicles at Fiat and Chrysler factories worldwide.
Marchionne said he was open to additional partnerships to help lower the automaker's costs and expand its global reach.
"We will continue to look at other bilateral arrangements," Marchionne said. "We're totally open."
Fiat has already built the small Fiat 500 in a joint venture with Ford Motor Co.'s Ka; the Fiat Punto with General Motors Co.'s Opel Corsa; and the Fiat Seidici with a Suzuki Motor Corp. mini-SUV, sharing the investment costs of around 1 billion euros ($1.26 billion) needed to develop each new car.
"The economics make it very difficult" for most automakers to continue to produce all their own platforms and powertrains, Marchionne told reporters. "We're willing to engage in discussions with anyone else."


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Louisiana would have the highest combined state and average local sales tax rate in the country if Gov. John Bel Edwards' proposed budget changes go through next month.
At 9.1 percent, Louisiana currently has the third highest sales tax rate, when the state and local sales tax levies are taken into account, according to The Tax Foundation. And Edwards has proposed adding another penny to the sales tax starting April 1, meaning the combined local and state sales tax would jump to an average of 10.1 percent.
No other state has a combined sales tax over 10 percent currently. Tennessee comes closest, with a 9.46 percent rate.
Increasing the sales tax wasn't necessarily Edwards first choice for a source of revenue. Sales tax hikes tend to hurt poor people more than others, since people who are poor spend a larger share of their income on purchasing items.
But the Edwards administration is in a bit of a bind. Low oil prices and a gross underestimation of the amount of revenue certain tax changes would produce has left a large deficit in the state's current budget. Gov. Bobby Jindal and the Louisiana Legislature's habit of using temporary funding sources to cover ongoing expenses has also exacerbated what was already a shaky financial situation.
Louisiana needs an additional $700 million to $750 million by June 30 to keep hospitals, colleges and universities solvent, Edwards said earlier this week. The sales tax increase is expected to bring in $216 million over three months to help plug this hole.
Officials all agree that the $700-million-plus hole couldn't be closed by cuts alone. New revenue will be needed, and there aren't many places to turn with only a few months left to raise the money.
A sales tax hike is one of the only options Edwards and legislators know will reliably bring in money quickly. For example, the elimination of business tax breaks -- or even an income tax hike -- wouldn't bring in money fast enough to plug the $700-million-plus hole by June 30, they said.
Still, many people aren't happy about the arrangement. Republicans don't like raising taxes in general. Democrats aren't keen on raising the sales tax, since it affects poor people more acutely. Having the highest state/local combined sales tax rate in the country -- and one of the highest poverty rates -- isn't desirable overall.
The Edwards administration has said they don't want the sales tax hike to be permanent. It's supposed to be a temporary fix -- until more sustainable forms of revenue are implemented.
Louisiana Senate President John Alario said he expects the sales tax hike legislation to include a trigger that would cause the sales tax to return to the current rate, once other, more sustainable tax changes are made. In other words, the sales tax would automatically be lowered once the state started collecting other forms of new revenue.
But eventually, the governor would like to make at least one permanent change to the sales tax, attaching the levy to a broader range of things. His overall tax proposal includes the addition of the sales tax to some services, so it isn't just a tax on tangible goods.
That type of sales tax change would mean more middle-and-upper income people, who tend to purchase more services than poor people, would be contributing more to the sales tax revenue stream. But those changes can't be implemented as quickly as a straight-forward traditional sales tax hike, and would likely come later.
Ironically Louisiana's state sales tax -- the one Edwards has control over -- is actually fairly low at 4 percent. Overall, it ranks 38th out 50 states and the District of Columbia.
But the state's local sales tax rates in places like the City of New Orleans are among the highest in the country, and driving the overall rate up. Edwards has no control over the local sales tax rates.
Tax Foundation analyst Scott Drenkard said Louisiana has generous breaks on homeowner taxes, so localities like New Orleans have had to raise sales tax rates very high to make up for a loss of revenue on property taxes.
House Speaker Taylor Barras, R-New Iberia, did not return phone calls or texts for comment. The Edwards administration did not return phone calls and emails for comment.


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As part of the funding awarded to Saffron Walden Town Council from the Government’s Shared Prosperity Scheme we are continuing to support small startup business in the Uttlesford area, the next market will be a Spectacular Spring Makers Market, taking place in Saffron Walden Town Hall on Saturday 6th April. We would like to encourage crafters and makers in the Uttlesford area to apply for a pitch.
Pitches include a table, chairs and insurances, thanks to the awarded funding, meaning new traders will only need to bring their stock, float, food and drink.
For more information email email@example.com or call 01799 619 845.
Said a Town Council spokesperson “The Makers Market is a fantastic opportunity for crafters and makers to come along and promote their small business. Do get in touch to book your pitch!”
*The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a central pillar of the UK government’s Levelling Up agenda and provides £2.6 billion of funding for local investment by March 2025. The Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills. For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-shared-prosperity-fund-prospectus
Please note this project is to primarily support businesses and traders in the Uttlesford District area, those interested outside the District are still invited to get in touch and can be added to the waiting list.
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Some things are difficult by design.
Consider Amazon. The company perfected the one-click checkout. But canceling a $119 Prime subscription is a labyrinthine process that requires multiple screens and clicks.
Or Ticketmaster. Online customers are bombarded with options for ticket insurance, subscription services for razors and other items and, when users navigate through those, they can expect to receive a battery of text messages from the company with no clear option to stop them.
These are examples of “dark patterns,” the techniques that companies use online to get consumers to sign up for things, keep subscriptions they might otherwise cancel or turn over more personal data. They come in countless variations: giant blinking sign-up buttons, hidden unsubscribe links, red X’s that actually open new pages, countdown timers and pre-checked options for marketing spam. Think of them as the digital equivalent of trying to cancel a gym membership.
There are plans in both the House and Senate to tackle dark patterns. And there’s movement at the state level, too. California strengthened its data privacy laws to include certain dark patterns and, in Washington State, lawmakers included similar language in a failed privacy bill of its own.


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Palm Hires New SVP of Product Development
Palm has quietly hired a new Senior Vice President of Product Development, taking over for the departed Mike Farese who left last September. The new SVP Mike Bell comes to Palm after a 16 year tenure at Apple, where he was vice president, CPU Software, in the Macintosh Hardware Division. According to Palm's executive bio, Bell led a host of efforts in a variety of roles, including overall product development leadership for the Airport line of products and low-level software for all Macintosh hardware products.
The Silicon Valley gossip and rumor site Valleywag is speculating that Palm has been keeping a low profile on the hire for undisclosed reasons.
Palm has hired Mike Bell, a 16-year Apple veteran, as its SVP of product development. But you'll never hear that from Palm. The hiring of an industry veteran for a top executive spot is something normally trumpeted as loudly as possible. But Palm is desperately trying to keep quiet the fact that it won over Bell shortly before Christmas. Why the silencing effort? Jon Rubinstein, Apple's chairman, was part of Steve Jobs's turnaround team before he left Apple in 2006. Since he joined Palm last year, the smartphone maker has been hiring a number of Apple engineers. There have been "screaming matches and threats of lawsuits," says a plugged-in source.
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Huawei seems to be all out gung-ho about dual rear cameras this year. After launching the Leica-certified P9, the company’s offline-only offshoot Honor launched the relatively affordable Honor 8 and now, the company has come up with an even more affordable option in the Honor 6X. Successor to the Honor 5X , the Honor 6X brings dual rear cameras to the masses. Interestingly, the dual-camera setup isn’t the only highlight of the Honor 6X.
The Huawei Honor 6X comes with an all-metal unibody and a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner. The phone comes with a 5.5-inch 1090p curved 2.5D screen and an octa-core Kirin 655 processor with 3GB/4GB RAM options available. The phone will further be available in 32GB and 64GB memory options. The dual-SIM phone is backed by a 3,340mAh with support for fast charging.
The dual camera setup, in case of the Honor 6X is however different from the one on-board the Honor 8 or the Huawei P9. The Honor 6X comes with two main camera sensors: one 12-megapixel with PDAF and another 2-megapixel one. On the front, it comes with an 8-megapixel camera.
The Honor 6X will be available in the colours: Blue, Gray, Silver, Gold and Rose Gold, starting at 999 Yuan (roughly Rs 10,000) for the base 3GB RAM and 32GB memory version. The top-end Honor 6X with 4GB RAM and 64GB memory will cost buyers 1,599 Yuan (roughly Rs 15,500). The phone will be available for buying in China from October 25. There is however no word on when the phone will be available globally.
Honor recently launched the Honor 8 in India at a price of Rs 29,999. Just like the P9, the Honor 8 has two cameras on the rear — dual 12-megapixel with dualLED (dual tone) flash — wherein one takes monochrome shots the other takes photos in colour (RGB). The camera lenses in the case of the Honor 8 are not Leica-certified though.
The phone’s software algorithm then merges both the images into one and creates the final photo. The monochrome images can take in 300 per cent more light and 50 per cent more contrast than coloured photos, according to Huawei. The Honor 8, in addition, also has an 8-megapixel camera on the front.


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The famously tight-lipped Steve Jobs has surprised again with a missive on the Apple website detailing the company’s new environmental stance. Jobs, says:
"Apple has been criticized by some environmental organizations for not being a leader in removing toxic chemicals from its new products, and for not aggressively or properly recycling its old products… Today is the first time we have openly discussed our plans to become a greener Apple. It will not be the last. We will be providing updates of our efforts and accomplishments at least annually, most likely around this time of the year. And we plan to bring other environmental issues to the table as well, such as the energy efficiency of the products in our industry."
Not included in the above quote are numerous facts and figures offered by Jobs (see them here) that give Apple a better look than groups such as the Computer TakeBack Campaign and the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition have tagged the company with. Speaking of which, it’s not likely the new statement will quell the protests from the afore-mentioned groups, but Jobs’ statement of intent is a good start.


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The Nigerian German Chamber of Commerce in Lagos in collaboration with KPMG Nigeria and EY Nigeria, is hosting a Business Success Series Talk on Tax Planning for Investors and Businesses on June 17th 2022 at 11am.
Wole Obayomi- Partner and Head of Tax, Regulatory & People Service, KPMG Nigeria, will be speaking on Managing Tax Risks in a fast-changing Fiscal environment.
James Adeagbo Partner -Tax Services EY Nigeria, will be speaking on Tax for Investors.
The Webinar is the latest in the NGCC Business Success series and is expected to last for an hour and fifteen minutes including questions and answers.
DG of the chamber Marilyn Rapu said “Business owners will find these business success series timely and useful as they engage online with our experts’ wide and in-depth knowledge.”
You can register here for the webinar: https://bit.ly/3NHeUrd
or simply send an email to firstname.lastname@example.org confirming your attendance.


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It’s been a long time coming, but then it will be a long time staying. 1,000 years, if the engineers are right. Millenniata’s 100GB Blu-ray disc will hold data for that long and more.
We first wrote about the M-DISC technology and its laser-burnt surface pits back in August 2011. Now Verbatim and Millenniata have a 100GB M-DISC you can buy, with Verbatim making the discs using Millenniata’s technology.
It’s a write-once product for consumers and small-to-medium enterprises and will work in any BDXL capable Blu-ray drive.
Testing by Verbatim parent Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Millenniata and independent third parties, according to internationally accepted lifetime testing standard ISO/IEC 16963 (2nd edition), has shown an “average lifetime of significantly more than 2,000 years with no more than one failure per 100,000 discs expected, after more than 1,000 years at 250C (770F) and 50 per cent relative humidity.”
That means it's safe for many centuries “in a typical home or office environment”, according to Verbatim and Millenniata.
M-DISC, paper, flash, disc and tape longevity
Millenniata also has 4.7GB (DVD) and 25GB (single-layer Blu-ray) M-DISC products available. A 50GB M-Disc Blue-ray product is expected by the end of March this year.
The 100GB M-DISC will be available through Verbatim and Millenniata channels by the end of February 2015. No price was provided.
The storage Vulture says...
Hey, perhaps they'll be a subscription deal – all OPEX and no CAPEX. Say $2/month for 2,000 years? That's only... let me thumb the calculator... $48,000. It's a steal. We'd need an inflation uplift, of course ... ®


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Despite a 13pc decline in the number of US mobile gamers in the last year, new research from comScore predicts that this market is set for growth, fuelled by increased smart-phone adoption.
The overall decline in mobile gaming in the last year was driven by a 35pc drop among non-smart-phone subscribers, who make up around 80pc of the market. By contrast, the number of gamers via smart phone increased by 60pc.
“Although the number of mobile gamers has declined in the past year, there is reason for significant optimism about the future of this market,” said Mark Donovan, comScore SVP mobile and senior analyst. “As the market transitions from feature phones to smart phones, the dynamics of game play are also shifting towards a higher quality experience. As a result, we can expect to see a profound increase in adoption of this activity, both in terms of audience size and overall engagement.”
Gaming on smart phones
According to comScore, the ascent of the mobile gaming market depends not only on smart phone subscribers’ higher propensity to play games on their mobile devices, but also their heavier gaming activity across nearly every dimension. Smart-phone subscribers (47.1pc) are three times more likely than feature phone subscribers (15.7pc) to play games on their device at least once a month. They are more than five times as likely to play games almost every day.
Smart-phone subscribers also install significantly more games on their devices with 27.3pc having installed at least one game compared to just 5.6pc of feature phone subscribers. A third of smart-phone subscribers with games have more than five games installed on their phones, while less than 1pc of feature phone subscribers have that many games installed.
“Smart phones offer a more accessible and compelling mobile gaming experience that is enabling adoption of this behaviour, even among consumers who have not traditionally been gamers,” added Donovan. “Marketers and advertisers ought to be paying close attention to the opportunity this presents for reaching consumers in new and engaging ways in a cross-platform environment. The potential for highly creative marketing efforts is exciting.”
The genre with the highest penetration among smart-phone subscribers is arcade puzzle games at 12.9pc, followed by card games (11.9pc), word/number games (11.4pc) and casino games (7.6pc).
Article courtesy of Businessandleadership.com
Photo: Smart-phone subscribers (47.1pc) are three times more likely than feature phone subscribers (15.7pc) to play games on their device at least once a month, comScore reported


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Innovative technologies and approaches have fueled an explosion of products taking advantage of silver's antibacterial properties. Consumers today can buy clothes, disinfectants, laundry machines and other items that utilize silver as an active agent.
"People have found out you can use [silver] far more effectively when you shrink it down," says Andrew Maynard, science adviser to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, a joint effort of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Pew Charitable Trusts. "The range is quite incredible. It's as if a lightbulb has suddenly gone off."
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Jane Laporte, who was involved in London Greenpeace in 1989/90, gave evidence for the Defence as part of the Publication section of the trial. Helen Steel (McLibel Defendant) was in the witness box for 4 days giving evidence on Publication and the Counterclaim.
The Judge refused to grant Helen & Dave's application to issue "Third Party Proceedings" against three of the enquiry agents formerly employed on behalf of McDonald's to infiltrate London Greenpeace.
The court had already heard much evidence about the import of five consignments of Brazilian beef for McDonald's UK stores in 1983/4. These shipments only came to light due to a confidential letter mistakenly disclosed to the Defendants in 1994 by McDonald's lawyers, in a bundle of other documents. Clearly, McDonald's would have preferred this to remain a secret. An earlier letter from the US Corporation to a member of the public in the UK in 1982 had stated "we can assure you that the only Brazilian beef used by McDonald's is that purchased by the six stores located in Brazil itself". The shipments also contradicted McDonald's stated policy of only using European-produced beef in the UK.
Lord Vestey, Chairman of Vestey Group Limited, was served with a subpoena by Helen Steel and was forced to come to court to be questioned. In 1983 he was Director of the Vestey family group of companies, who had supplied McDonald's UK with the Brazilian beef from the Vestey plant at Barretos (in the state of Sao Paulo). A letter written at the time, from David Walker (Chairman of McKey Foods, then a subsidiary of McDonald's UK) to the managing director of Weddels (a Vestey subsidiary) revealed that the imports were a matter of great controversy. The letter stated that Prince Philip (President of the World Wildlife Fund) had recently met the President of McDonald's Canada, and had said : " 'So you are the people who are tearing down the Brazilian rainforests and breeding cattle' to which the reply was: 'I think you are mistaken', whereupon HRH said 'Rubbish' and stormed away". Following this, the letter stated that the Chairman of the McDonald's Corporation, "issued a worldwide edict that no McDonald's plant was to use Brazilian beef". The very same letter revealed that McDonald's UK, had given Walker permission to use the Brazilian beef imports.
Since the Brazilian shipments were being arranged at the time of this dispute with Prince Philip, Lord Vestey had been asked by David Walker to write a letter 'confirming' that the beef was not "coming from reclaimed land from destroyed rainforests"
Lord Vestey delivered the requested letter in which he stated that the cattle supplied to the meat plant were not from any rainforest region. However, in court, the assurance given in this letter was completely blown apart. When questioned by the McLibel Two, Vestey admitted that the origins of over 150,OOO head of cattle slaughtered annually at the plant were untracable. They had been transported into central Brazil (Sao Paulo) to be fattened up before slaughter. Brazilian experts for the McLibel Defendants have given evidence that cattle reared in ex-rainforest areas in other states are routinely taken to Sao Paulo state for fattening. Lord Vestey was one of the last witnesses to appear in this courtcase.
As McSpotlight has already reported, the court heard that McDonald's stores in Brazil itself are still supplied from cattle raised on recently cleared ex-rainforest land (in western Goias state) from which indigenous peoples were violently removed.
This testimony caps two years of evidence whereby, for maybe the first time in history, a multinational corporation has been effectively put on trial over their business practices - junk food products, exploitation of workers and animals, advertising strategy and damage to the environment. The alternatives have also been successfully aired and defended. Despite the unfairness of the battle and the oppressive libel laws, and the Defendants' exhaustion, the general feeling of observers is that McDonald's critics have been completely vindicated by the evidence during the trial.


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Sweet shop owner thanks community for support through first year
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The owner of a sweet shop has thanked her community for their support throughout her first year of trading.
Fay Dewing owns Sew Sweets on Fakenham's Market Place after she took over last February. The first time business owner has faced one of the most daunting periods for shops during the coronavirus pandemic.
Despite the difficulty, and only able to trade for six months out of the first 12, Mrs Dewing expressed her thanks to the people of Fakenham.
“The comments and messages have been really good, and it makes it worth struggling through the tough times for,” she said.
“We had nice comments online, people popping in and saying they would rather shop local and picking something up, and others saying how lovely it is to see you.”
The 55-year-old was involved with the shop in 2019, helping out the previous owner Lisa Mallet when the shop was known as Sweets n Things.
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She also runs a click and collect dry cleaner service, as well as making school uniforms modifications on-site.
The owner said over the summer as parents were preparing to send their children back to school she was working 90 hours a week to add logos for all of Fakenham’s pupils.
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Despite the knock to her momentum, such as only opening for seven weeks before the first national lockdown, and events being cancelled, Mrs Dewing is just glad to still have a shop.
“I’m still happy I have the shop, there is nothing you can do to ever plan for what happened,” she said.
“If we can get through this we can get through anything and if we can survive this there is not too much to worry about.
“We were getting busier and busier every week and we knew what we were doing was working.”
The shop also lost the info-hub back in November, but Mrs Dewing said there will be a notice board at the shop with vital information, as well as space for local businesses to leave their cards.
For the next year, she just hopes they can open for six days a week and she can make plans that can actually go ahead.


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Naomi Campbell is one public figure that will never go out of style, and she has the accolades to back it all the way up. At this year’s prestigious Fashion Awards, the British Fashion Council has confirmed that Naomi Campbell will be honoured with the Fashion Icon award, for her impressive 34-year-long career, extraordinary contribution to the global fashion industry, and philanthropic work. This was announced at a glamorous cocktail reception at The Ritz in London.
“We cannot think of a more deserving recipient than iconic Londoner Naomi Campbell, she has achieved exceptional work in the industry,” said BFC chief executive Caroline Rush. “Naomi represents female empowerment, activism and glamour and her voice is used for great impact. We are thrilled to present the Fashion Icon award to Naomi and acknowledge her for her remarkable contribution to the global fashion industry, and we look forward to celebrating with her in London in December.”
The woman who gave definition to the word, ‘supermodel’, made history when she became the first black British model to appear on the cover of British Vogue in 1987, and the first black model to appear on the cover of French Vogue the following year. To date, she has appeared on the front of more than 500 magazines.
Campbell will join distinguished predecessor, Donatella Versace (as Fashion Icon award winner), who was honoured with the title in 2017.


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SNIA releases 'green storage' metrics
January 21, 2009 -- The Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA) Green Storage Initiative (GSI) group has released the first tools for classifying and measuring the energy consumption of storage systems.
Dot Hill ships 2.5-inch SAS arrays
January 19, 2009 -- Dot Hill Systems has announced two entry-level RAID arrays equipped with small form factor (2.5-inch) SAS drives.
Seagate debuts 3.5-inch enterprise drives
Seagate has added a pair of high-speed 3.5-inch drives to its Cheetah portfolio, with higher capacity points and lower power consumption than previous models.
Fujitsu boosts array performance
Fujitsu Computer Systems today announced the availability of a new family of midrange storage systems that uses quad-core processors and advanced cache management to double the performance over previous models.
Samsung, Imation launch SSD drives
At the Storage Visions Conference in Las Vegas this week, Samsung and Imation introduced enterprise-class solid-state disk (SSD) drives.


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Ibidunni Ighodalo, wife of Ituah Ighodalo is dead
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Ibidunni Igbodalo, wife of the popular Lagos Pastor, Ituah Ighodalo, is dead.
She was in her forties.
The former Miss Lux Beauty Pageant was the CEO of Elizabeth R Events.
She was also the founder of the Ibidun Ighodalo Foundation.
The foundation has helped couples have children via IVF.
Ituah Ighodalo later issued a statement confirming his wife’s death:
“The Ighodalo and Olaleye Ajayi families are deeply saddened to announce the sudden loss of our beloved wife and daughter Mrs. Ibidunni Ituah-Ighodalo who passed away in the early hours of today.
“As you will understand, this is a difficult time for our families and we will appreciate some privacy during this time. All information of burial proceedings will be provided in due course.”
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The video itself is pretty short, as is the case with most Instagram videos. The video (check it out above) shows off the Red Dot Design Museum and then the camera zooms in multiple times to show us the words on the side of the building. Now there’s no real need to zoom in so closely but we’re guessing is probably trying to tease the zoom effects of the upcoming handset/camera.
Not much is known about the Samsung Galaxy K right now, save for rumors, which includes a 4.8-inch Super AMOLED display with a 1280×720 HD resolution. It is also rumored to run on the hexa-core Samsung Exynos 5 chipset accompanied by 2GB of RAM, a 20MP rear-facing camera featuring 10x optical zoom, a front-facing 2MP camera, and it is also expected to come with Android 4.4.2 KitKat on board.
No word on how much it will cost or when it will be released, but it will be announced on the 29th of April according to the invitation. The event starts at 11AM local time (Singapore) which means that for those of us stateside, you can tune in at around 8PM. If you liked what you saw in the Galaxy S4 Zoom, check back with us on the 29th of April for the details.


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As offices prepare to reopen, business leaders in the region are making, or planning to make, significant changes to the working environment in a bid to recover from the effects of the global pandemic.
More than a third of Midlands businesses (35%) plan to create permanent remote roles, as companies make a major shift towards new ways of working.
According to the latest BDO ‘Rethinking the Economy’ survey of 500 mid-sized businesses, 20% of Midlands companies intend to adapt their office space, with more than half (55%) looking to introduce agile or hybrid working on a permanent basis.
A third admitted that they expect the majority of staff to work from home for at least two days a week once offices reopen. As such, one of the main priorities for mid-sized businesses is to invest in technology to support more employees working remotely.
Tim Foster, partner at BDO in the Midlands, said: “It’s clear that agile, or hybrid working will take precedence in the regional workplace over the coming months, as companies continue to respond and react to the valuable lessons of 2020.
“This is particularly pronounced in traditional Midlands sectors, such as manufacturing, where there is a real step
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THE Enugu Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, ECCIMA, has extolled Anambra State presence and participation in the 30th Enugu International Trade Fair.
The fair took place at the Permanent Site, Trade Fair Complex, Golf Estate, GRA Enugu from April 5 to April15.
Emeka Udeze, the president, ECCIMA, noted that Anambra produced arrays of personalities known for industry and enterprise with immense contributions to National development.
Udeze commended Governor Willie Obiano for his laudable efforts at developing the state through the provision of infrastructure, security and stable business environment.
“The development strategy that has been adopted by Anambra State Government toward the holistic development of the state is quite impactful and commendable.’’
He noted that Anambra had received wide accolades from international organisations such as UNICEF, UNIDO and UNESCO.
He added: “the participation of the South East states in the Enugu International Trade Fair is important in consolidating efforts toward building common economic bloc and promoting investment opportunities within the corridor”.
Christian Madubuko, the Anambra commissioner for Trade and Commerce, commended Government’s consistent support toward participation in the fair.
Madubuko pointed out that in 2017 fair; Anambra recorded three awards for distinguished performances in three different categories.
The awards are the best state stand with SME innovative products, the packaged state pavilion on investment opportunities and the most dynamic participating state.
Madubuko said the state, through the Ministry of Trade and Commerce would work in concert with Consumer Protection Council to rid the state of unfit edible products.
This he explained was in line with Obiano’s emphasis on quality service delivery, stressing that the state would not be a dumping ground for substandard products.
Daniel Okoli, the permanent secretary, Anambra Ministry of Trade and Commerce, thanked the members of ECCIMA for gracing the Anambra Special Day at the fair.
He also commended the Anambra contingent for concerted efforts at organising exhibitors and other activities in the state pavilion.
The products displayed in Anambra pavilion include mineral deposits iron stone, kaolin/clay, bentonite, lignite, gypson, coal, sand stone and crude oil.
Others are the locally made gas cookers, ovens, pressure kerosene stove, pop-corn machine, pyroysis machine that converts plastic to petrol, potato battery cell that generates about 5 to 10 voltage/electricity current from potatoes and tomatoes.
Also in display are Anambra Rice, herbal mixtures, insecticides, car wash; garments of all sorts, shoes, caps, travelling bags and camping bed.
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The New York Times recently reported the grant of $1.5 billion to chipmaker GlobalFoundries by the US government. This grant is intended to increase the supply of legacy computer chips made in the USA. Such chips are critical for both the US auto and defense industries. The investment by the US government in this industry makes sense from the viewpoints of national defense as well as technical and economic competitiveness. How about semiconductor return on investments for the private investor? In this regard we took a look at GlobalFoundries, Nvidia, Taiwan Semiconductor, and Intel.
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History of Investing in Semiconductor Companies
Getting in on the ground floor when companies like Intel started making computer chips was very profitable. It could be compared to investing in General Motors when it became available by a public offering in 1916.One share of today’s Intel stock was worth $0.76 when first available in 1984. Its top price in 2000 was $73.19 and it traded for $12 at the depth of the Financial Crisis. The stock peaked again at $64 in 2021 before falling to $26 at the end of 2022. It rose to $50 at the end of 2023. The stock trades today at $43 and has a 1.15% dividend yield. A basic problem with semiconductor stocks in general is that the industry is prone to boom and bust cycles. A problem in regard to individual semiconductor stocks is that the technology keeps advancing and those who do not keep up see their profits plummet as their chips become obsolete. On the other hand, a company like Nvidia is at the right place at the right time with chips that dominate the AI world and went up six-fold in 14 months.
Nvidia Success Story
A share of today’s Nvidia stock sold for $0.82 when it went public in 1999. Nvidia is best known for making the GeForce graphics processing units that are the backbone of PC gaming, 3D rendering, and video editing. The stock had risen to the $7 range by 2016 before peaking at $75 in 2018 and then $315 in November of 2021. It fell with the overall market as the Fed began raising interest rates and bottomed out at $121 October 2022. That was when its dominance in emerging artificial intelligence applications paid off and it went to $726 by the middle of February 2024. Rather than choosing to make general purpose chips, the three founders of Nvidia choose to make chips for the video game market. They did this because of the potentially huge market and the unique challenges of that were not answered by general purpose computing. Thus they established an extremely high tech niche that serves as a defensive moat keeping competitors out. They have followed the same track producing specialty chips in a high cost of entry business. The same strategy appears to be the case with chips for AI and is paying off handsomely.
Taiwan Semiconductor’s Rise to Semiconductor Dominance
Taiwan Semiconductor was founded in 1987. It was the first dedicated semiconductor foundry. That is, they make chips designed by others. Today those others include Broadcom, Nvidia, MediaTek, Apple, Qualcomm, ARM, UNISOC, AMD, Marvell, HiSilicon, and Spectra7. The company has had a compounded annual growth rate of 17.4% over its entire history. A share of today’s stock first sold for $6.50 in US markets and today sells for $126.99. By working with numerous companies, Taiwan Semiconductor has been able to avoid much of the ups and downs that plague the semiconductor industry.
Investing in GlobalFoundries
The US investment in GlobalFoundries has to do with national defense and overall technical and economic strategy. How good of an investment is GlobalFoundries for the average investor? Their story starts in 2008 when Advanced Micro Devices decided to spit off their chip fabrication operations and only do design. The resulting company went private and only became a public company in October of 2021 with the stock selling for $48.74. Since then GFS has cycled up and down about every two months. Its high was $78,94 and its low was $38.81 over the last twenty-eight months. Today the stock sells for $53.38, has a 29.1 PE ratio and does not pay a dividend.
How Should You Invest in Semiconductor Companies?
The world is increasingly reliant on the little semiconductor chips that run computers, smartphones, and the world of smart appliances. This niche is not going away and can only grow. In addition, this is a high cost of entry business. Intel is investing $20 billion for one fabrication site in Ohio and plans to invest $80 billion more for four more facilities over the years. Taiwan Semiconductor is spending a similar amount of money for their first fabrication facilities in the USA. Even these tech giants have needed assistance from the US government via the Chips Act to follow through with these investments.
If you have a crystal ball you can predict the next stock surge with a company like Nvidia. A safer approach is to look for long term gains with companies like Taiwan Semiconductor, Nvidia, Intel, or GlobalFoundries, use a dollar cost averaging approach, and be able to sleep at night.


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Last ditch rescue talks to save My Local convenience shop chain with around 2,300 jobs at risk
Fears: The My Local convenience chain faces an uncertain future
My Local faces an uncertain future after its owners called in emergency help to try to save the business.
Around 2,300 jobs at the convenience chain’s 140 stores are at risk after KPMG was asked to draw up options which include placing the firm into administration.
The chain was sold by grocer Morrisons in October to investment group Greybull Capital, which owns airline Monarch and has just bought the Scunthorpe steel plant from Tata.
Morrisons had sold My Local after a failed attempt to launch a number of convenience stores to take on rivals.
It had snapped up high street sites left vacant when video rental chain Blockbuster went in to administration.
But many of the sites were in the wrong location and Morrisons later ditched them.
The purchase by entrepreneur Mike Greene through Greybull surprised analysts because they did not have the same scale as their supermarket rivals.
In recent weeks the firm has been trying to sell 25 stores to cut costs. My Local declined to comment.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 13 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Leader Phone Chairman & Founder Michael McKibben announced today the launch of the Leader Phone iPhone Audio Conferencing App, which he calls “the only app that offers multiple, cutting-edge audio conferencing features that turn your iPhone into a mobile conference calling center.”
The download is free from the App Store, and comes in both a Lite (free) version for casual users and a Pro version for “power users.”
According to McKibben, “You can handle all your audio conferencing needs on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, and still enjoy all our advanced features.”
The Leader Phone iPhone app is different from other audio conferencing apps because it taps the power of the innovative engineering of both Leader Phone and the iPhone.
“The Leader Phone iPhone App actually syncs your conference calling with your iPhone contact list and iPhone calendar,” says McKibben. “This allows you to use our instant Call Now! feature to eliminate PINs altogether if you choose.”
The Leader Phone iPhone app includes advanced features such as call recording, call reminders, group calling (the Call Now! feature) and automatic add-in of late participants.
Present Leader Phone users are happy to see this new app coming from Leader. Mike Strall, National Accounts Executive for Memphis-based Empire Foods says: “Empire has been delighted with Leader Phone audio conferencing – great quality, innovative features, along with improved productivity. We are looking forward to using their new iPhone app – it will only make our conference calling even more convenient.”
Leader Technologies® Incorporated is a software development and marketing company specializing in social media and unified communications. Its technologies are patented and patent pending. Its brands include Leader Phone® audio conferencing; Leader Meeting™ web conferencing; Leader Alert® for voice, text and email alerting; Leader® Voice Mail for social services virtual voice mail; and Leader2Leader® social media platform. Leader provided the primary communications and collaboration system for the Governor of Louisiana in the state’s Hurricane Katrina life-saving and disaster response. Leader has also provided counter terrorism support and alerting technologies to the Departments of Homeland Security and Defense. In the wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy, Leader Alert® is now deployed with increasing frequency within secondary and higher education for school safety and security applications.
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For additional information, go online to Leader Phone® www.leaderphone.com or contact John Needham at (614) 890-1986.
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FIH Mobile Ltd (富智康), a handset manufacturing arm of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密), yesterday said it is making mobile phones for new customer InFocus, helping the US projector brand tap the smartphone market.
It is the latest move by FIH Mobile, which was formerly named FIH International Holdings Ltd (富士康控股), to expand its customer base outside of Apple Inc to Chinese smartphone start-ups.
FIH also makes phones for Xiami Corp (小米) and Huawei Technology Co (華為).
Instead of just manufacturing phones, at slim margin, FIH Mobile now “designs, develops and manufactures the phones for InFocus,” Charles Lin (林佳億), a senior director of FIH Mobile, told reporters.
FIH Mobile is also exploring new business opportunities in the Greater China region, targeting new Chinese mobile phone brands, Lin said.
Since more than 50 percent of its components, such as camera modules, come from Hon Hai Group (鴻海集團) subsidiaries, FIH Mobile is able to make high-quality phones at affordable prices, Lin said.
Hon Hai Precision is the flagship company of Hon Hai Group.
To save on costs and time to market, FIH Mobile is now using handset chips from Qualcomm Inc and MediaTek Inc (聯發科), Lin said.
InFocus, which is shifting its business focus from the projector business to consumer products, debuted its first smartphones in Taipei yesterday before a launch in China next month.
InFocus’ goal is to become one of the top five mobile phone brands in Taiwan within two years and to make it onto China’s top 10 list within three years, InFocus chairman John Hui (許立信) told a media briefing.
The Portland-based company plans to roll out three or four new smartphones by the end of this year.
InFocus also plans to enter the tablet market. The company is scheduled to launch its first tablet in October in its home market, Hui said.
The tablet will be made by Hon Hai Precision, which also makes LCD TVs for InFocus.
The newly launched IN610 and IN810 smartphones are priced at NT$11,900 and NT$13,900 per unit.
The phones, powered by Google’s Android system, are equipped with 5-inch and 6.1-inch screens from Sharp Corp, since the trend is to use screens bigger than 5-inches for phones, rather than 4.3-inch displays.
UNCONVINCING: The US Congress questioned whether the company’s Chinese owners pose a national security risk and how the app might influence young users TikTok chief executive officer Shou Chew (周受資), confronted with an unforgiving, distrustful US Congress, tried to give answers in his testimony on Thursday that avoided offending either the US government or China. However, his evasiveness left Congress unsatisfied, with representatives hungrier than ever to punish TikTok for ties to its parent company ByteDance Ltd (字節跳動), based in Beijing. He did not bring his company any closer to a resolution. Politically, TikTok is in a tougher spot. Its executives had been discussing divesting from ByteDance to resolve US national security concerns, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. However, China this week said
The Investment Commission yesterday approved a Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) application to invest an additional US$3.5 billion in its Arizona subsidiary to manufactured advanced chips. The world’s largest contract chipmaker’s board of directors last month approved the funding project after TSMC started moving manufacturing equipment into the fab in December last year in preparation for the production of 4-nanometer chips next year. TSMC said it has also commenced the second phase of facility construction in Arizona. The second fab is to produce semiconductors using 3-nanometer technology in 2026. Altogether, TSMC plans to spend US$40 billion on the Arizona fabs, doubling its
KEY SECTOR: Taiwan’s new chip legislation is insufficient, and a more strategic ‘chip act’ that covers the whole semiconductor ecosystem is needed, MediaTek’s chairman said MediaTek Inc (聯發科) chairman Rick Tsai (蔡明介) yesterday urged the government to formulate a state semiconductor strategy and comprehensive “chip act” that includes local chip designers and smaller-scale semiconductor companies, as they are facing intensifying competition from China. The government is playing an increasingly important role in safeguarding the local semiconductor industry’s competitiveness, given that the US, the EU and Japan are offering hefty subsidies and significant tax incentives to build semiconductor capacity domestically, as they have realized the strategic importance of semiconductors, Tsai said. To implement such a program, the government should take steps to finance a “chip act,” Tsai said
Microsoft Corp has threatened to cut off access to its Internet search data, which it licenses to rival search engines, if they do not stop using it as the basis for their own artificial intelligence (AI) chat products, people familiar with the dispute have said. The software maker licenses the data in its Bing search index — a map of the Internet that can be quickly scanned in real time — to other companies that offer Web search, such as Apollo Global Management Inc’s Yahoo and DuckDuckGo. Last month, Microsoft integrated a cousin of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s AI-powered chat technology, into Bing. Rivals


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EBay Inc. might be violating false-advertising laws if it does not warn consumers that some items billed as upscale jeweler Tiffany Co.'s products by sellers on its Web site are not authentic, a federal appeals court said Thursday.
But online auction site operator eBay won significant victories in rulings by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that said it did not engage in trademark infringement or trademark dilution in its use of jeweler Tiffany & Co.'s trademarks. Those rulings upheld the findings of a lower court judge.
Tiffany sued eBay in 2004, saying eBay engaged in trademark infringement, trademark dilution and false advertising because most items that sellers list for sale as genuine Tiffany products on its sites were fakes.
The appeals court left in place a finding by the lower court that eBay did not violate false advertising laws but returned the case to the judge to consider that issue again.
The three-judge panel said in its written ruling that it had difficulty with the lower court's reliance in its ruling on eBay's assertions that it did not know which listings offered counterfeit Tiffany goods. The 2nd Circuit noted that eBay advertised the goods sold through its site as Tiffany merchandise.


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Opening on Tuesday is the newest addition to Ambler, The Ambler Bake Shop. Lori Trivelli, owner of the newest bakery, told Patch that both she and her husband, Jeff, love tasting and creating good food, and when they were looking for business opportunities and found the bakery in Ambler, it was the perfect fit.
Trivelli said they moved north after her husband was transferred to Philadelphia for his job, and the bakery will reflect the combination of cultures.
The bakery will offer cakes, pies, cookies, cinnamon buns and sticky buns, as well as some southern specialties from growing up in Georgia, including cobblers, pecan pies and her own sweet potato soufflé.
The bakery will also have fresh made breads available around 2 p.m., fresh and warm, just in time for dinner.
There will also be seasonal flavors and items at the bakery.
Featured in the mornings will be the Chew-Choo Pack, a cinnamon bun or a sticky bun and a 16 oz. coffee in a traveling pack, perfect for the train, and only $2.
Trivelli will also have specialty cakes, including party cakes and traditional wedding cakes. As well as cupcake towers that can serve 10 to 150. Cupcake towers have a faster turnaround than traditional party cakes.
There will also be drinks, including milk and coffee available.
Trivelli said she is open to feedback, suggestions and hearing what Ambler wants to have in the bakery.
She told Patch that her philosophy to the bakery is, "Bake it and they will come."
"I Love the fact that we [chose Ambler]" to open the business, said Trivelli. She said the community has been very supportive and excited, and she said, "that adds to the excitement."
"Can't wait to open the doors and start serving people," she added.
The Ambler Bake Shop will be open Tuesday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and closed on Mondays.


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SAN ANTONIO – As we see at Port San Antonio and Geekdom, the tech community in San Antonio has grown exponentially over the last five years — and there is no sign of slowing down.
TechFuel is a local startup pitch competition hosted by Tech Bloc and sponsored by the Bexar County Economic & Community Development Department.
The award? $100,000 in non-dilutive cash prize money.
“Don’t fall in love with your product, fall in love with your problem because your product will be pivoting and your product will be led somewhere else, right? You have to just fall in love with the problem that you’re going to be solving,” Ileana Gonzalez said.
Gonzalez knows the local San Antonio tech sector well.
“I went to UTSA, got really involved there. I ended up being student body president my senior year. I was an entrepreneurship major and so I got into pitch competitions,” Gonzalez said.
Gonzalez helped build the San Antonio tech sector to where it currently stands. When it comes to TechFuel, the idea is to help the community and local entrepreneurs.
“The support of the county has been amazing,” she said. “We are so appreciative of them because I don’t know of any other county that does this for entrepreneurs and their tech ecosystem, and so I’m super excited to bring it to light.”
Applications are open right now with a deadline of Sept. 25. The actual competition is during San Antonio startup week, and the final day of competition is Oct. 21 at the Tobin Center.
“Just the experience Itself teaches you a lot, right? Because this is a five-minute pitch, five-minute questions and answers, strike out or strike in right. And so your storytelling side of the pitch competition is just super important. And so even going through the process teaches you so much as an entrepreneur,” Gonzalez said.
She has seen the city grow firsthand and helped shape it. She knows how important competitions like TechFuel are to local companies and to the city.
“Not only are we pushing San Antonio, we’re pushing our state. And like I said, we are a part of that triangle. And so what it means for San Antonio is to place us in the map, that there are things happening here,” Gonzalez said.
You can learn more about TechFuel and apply here.


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We are still recovering from the absolute shock of finding out famed bridal designer, Vera Wang is 70-years-old.
What the actual f*ck!?!?
Twitter was sent into meltdown when one user shared a photo of the fashion designer with the caption:
Vera who turns 71 next month, has been posting fierce looks to Instagram amid the Coronavirus lockdown.
Fans have been left in awe of her incredible physique exclaiming she must have discovered the fountain of youth.
One wrote, "Vera, the eternal teenager 👋👋👋👋👋❤❤❤❤."
More comments on her recent photos read, "70?! 😭," and, "Oh my you look soooo good!! I hope you share the secret to such flawless skin when I get to your age I want to look like you💕💕💕🇹🇹🇹🇹🙏🏾."
Vera recently spoke to Harper's Bazaar about her workout habits during quarantine and said she continues to exercise most days, even if she doesn't particularly enjoy it.


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In January 2011, Shandong Province, the construction machinery industry management office granted me the honorary title of "2011 annual construction machinery industry backbone enterprises in Shandong Province".
In January 2011, the selection committee of the Chinese aluminum industry top ten vendors I awarded medals and certificates of the 2010 top ten manufacturers of aluminum industry.
In March 2011, Linqu Disabled Working Committee of the People's Government awarded our company "the county Fucan help illness advanced unit" title.
In March 2011, Weifang City, to create a harmonious work leading group awarded our company "harmonious enterprise in Weifang City" title.
In March 2011, Weifang City Consumers Association awarded the company the title of "2010 Customer Satisfaction Unit".
In June 2011, Weifang City Banking Association awarded the honorary title of Weifang City banking best credit credit customers.
In August 2011, China built aluminum Industry Research Institute of China Building Materials Circulation Association and home building materials jointly identified as the 2011 national home building materials, profiles the industry's top ten most influential brands.
Knowledge of Weifang City in January 2009 granted 2008 intellectual property work advanced unit "title. The company Weifang City Federation of Trade Unions awarded "city's three LianChuang to trust grass-roots trade union the advanced Zhigongzhijia" title.
January 9, 2009 Linqu Radio and TV organizations Huajian Cup 2008 the Linqu Ten News "contest began.
In February 2009, China Aluminum as the first session of the Chinese aluminum industry hundred enterprises. 2008 Industry hundred enterprises in Weifang City Medals.
In March 2009, company chairman Wu Weiguang awarded the title by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of China, the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association awarded the "National non-ferrous metals industry labor model.
March 15, 2009, the company obtained the title of Weifang City, 2008 5-star consumer satisfaction units.
March 6, 2009, the Binzhou City Real Estate Association delegation to visit the company.
2009 Yuehua Jian aluminum construction windows and doors in Inner Mongolia Decoration Industry Association recommended to use the product for Inner Mongolia, real estate, windows and doors processing enterprises.
Wu Weiguang, chairman of Taiwan to investigate the April 15, 2009.
April 15, 2009, the CPC Shandong Provincial Committee, Governor Jiang Daming visited our company in Weifang, Party Secretary of the CPC Xinqi accompanied down.
April 18, 2009 Comrade Ding Sanlian, deputy general manager of sales companies to obtain the title of Linqu model workers.
April 20, 2009, the famous Korean actor Pu Jungui to visit our company.
April 24, 2009, the Japan External Trade Organization Yamaguchi Information Center trade specialists Harada Mr. Geng Liang to visit our company to discuss cooperation matters.
May 18, 2009, China Construction Metal Structure Association Vice Chairman and Secretary-General Liu Zhe of Shandong Construction Machinery Association Deputy Secretary-General Deflection to inspect the company.
May 23, 2009 the CPC Jiangsu Province Peixian party and government cadres delegation to visit the company.
May 4, 2009, the company unions celebrate May 4th Table Tennis Competition.
Organization of cadres and employees of the Company in June 2009 to Weihai, Penglai travel.
June 12, 2009 the Secretary-General of the national non-ferrous metals Standardization Technical Committee Ge Lixin standard preparation group led by company research.
July 13th, 2009 the fourth guidance inspection team leader of the provincial party committee to study and practice the scientific concept of development activities, member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC Provincial Committee Liu war and Provincial Organization Department Deputy Director of Research Li Gang to China Construction Company to inspect the work.
July 18, 2009, the two plants to start construction.
August 26, 2009, the company sent to participate in the 2009 Project Hope dreams University knot knot of donors 6 poor students subsidized ceremony.
August 5, 2009 Secretary of the Party Committee of Shandong Provincial Agricultural Bank, governor Diao Khin Yi to visit our company.
September 11, 2009, Qingdao Construction Committee, building materials enterprises in Qingdao delegation to visit the company.
September 15, 2009 Linqu on Zhuang junior high school sent a banner proclaiming, "donations to schools love spread campus
September 4, 2009 Fifteenth Shandong-Taiwan Economic and Trade Fair during the one hundred Dr. Weifang line "activities, the company has 17 doctoral tours.
October 12, 2009, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in the Wei Liu Wei, sending cadres to the inspection branch construction.
October 17, 2009 Japan-China Industrial Science and Technology Exchange Association Secretary, Senior Managing director Eiichi Yamaguchi to visit the company to discuss cooperation matters.
March 13, 2008, deputy director of the Shandong Provincial People's Congress Chen Yanming to visit the company.
In early March 2008, Ren Jie, Guo Feng, general manager and the Wuwei Yun vice president, technology minister, went to Germany to participate in the Nuremberg Fenestration.
April 2008 Wu Weiguang, chairman the Weifang Municipal United Front Work Department of the CPC Municipal Personnel Bureau, the Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce, the Municipal Federation of Industry and Commerce, City SME Bureau five departments jointly awarded the "excellent socialism with Chinese
characteristics in Weifang City builders & rdquo ; titles.
In June 2008, the party branch Communist China Weifang Municipal Committee awarded the title of "advanced grass-roots party organizations in Weifang City".
In mid-July 2008, building windows and doors decoration industry in Inner Mongolia issued by the Chamber of Commerce to the company "Inner Mongolia architectural curtain walls and windows industry Achievement Award 2008.
July 13, 2008, led by the Weifang Municipal CPPCC Vice-Chairman Du Guozhong, the inspection team to research for enterprise transformation and upgrading, adjusting business strategies, improve management, enhance the capability of independent innovation and other aspects of the experience and practice.
July 14, 2006, one imported from France, the largest profiles fluorocarbon coating production line Huajian Aluminum successful trial production.
September 30, 2006, the Shandong Provincial Party Committee Secretary Zhang Gaoli to my research.
November 20, 2006, the company China aluminum trademark was identified as a famous brand in Shandong
November 28, 2006, the Chinese aluminum brand aluminum for the title of national exemption.
In October 2005, was awarded the title of brand-name products in Shandong China Aluminum Signs Architectural Aluminum.
Shandong Huajian Aluminium Co., Ltd. officially opened on July 25, 2005!
In October 2005, the Shandong Provincial Department of Construction and the Provincial Construction Machinery Association visits accreditation, I was named one of six strong aluminum profiles in the province, and ranked the first of six strong. Electrophoretic coating profiles and insulation broken profiles, was named the province's building systems brand-name products.
In October 2003, the Chinese aluminum brand aluminum was awarded the title of the Shandong-free products.


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T-Mobile announced on Thursday that it had entered into a partnership with Apple, but more details are sketchy so far.
AT&T’s wireless subscribers will soon see their monthly bills as videos with detailed explanations for all charges.
In the annual rankings of major U.S. cellphone carriers, Verizon Wireless retained the top spot while AT&T once again brought up the rear. But AT&T can at least note that its 4G LTE network was the top-ranked among carriers.
AT&T may be bringing FaceTime over cellular capabilities to a larger pool of customers than it originally said. On Wednesday, some users with unlimited data plans and non-LTE devices reported that the feature was enabled for them.
A man who exposed a major privacy weakness that divulged email addresses of iPad users on AT&T's network plans to appeal his conviction on two felony charges.
Looking to add your AT&T iPad to a Mobile Share data plan? It's (still) not as easy as it should be.
AT&T said it is ahead of schedule for 4G LTE network deployments and has now reached 103 cities in the U.S.
Just weeks after the iPad mini made its debute, LTE-enabled versions of the tablet are now on sale at retailers.
AT&T is trying to entice tablet shoppers by offering $100 discounts with a two-year data contract. But it's worth considering the cost of a yearly data plan to determine whether this is a deal.


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Google has reportedly rolled out an in-ad survey that would let users give a feedback about the ads they choose to hide or close.
Dmg:events has announced the fourth edition of Ad:tech, a digital marketing and advertising conference.
Facebook has been reportedly testing an auto play video ad unit, which is now in its final stages and will be released soon.
Microsoft's latest ad takes aim at Apple Macs, saying the lack of touch screen on the systems make them inefficient while planning a wedding.
Facebook said that it is switching to fewer but bigger ads on the right-hand column of the desktop PC version of its website.
Samsung has again taken the way of pulling down rival Apple's products in its latest ads for Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1.
Facebook is releasing its long-awaited video-advertising product today, as the world's largest social network moves to diversify its revenue by tapping into television-marketing budgets.
Google and Facebook have refused to change their policies on selling advertisement for legal weed, for now.
Thakur also said that the ads have photographs of Sonia Gandhi as chairperson of UPA along with prime minister Manmohan Singh which is improper. While the post of prime minister is a constitutional position, chairperson of UPA has no constitutional or administrative authority.
The petitioner claimed that the ads do not present any relevant or useful facts for the public. Instead, they appear to fulfilling political agenda of political party in power, she said. "The only focus is on the so called achievements of 9-year UPA rule in the country. This waste and misuse of public money for self-oriented political goals cannot be permitted," she said.
Social activist Nutan Thakur on Monday filed a public interest litigation in the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court against union government's Bharat Nirman advertisements and use of Congress president Sonia Gandhi's photographs in them. The PIL seeks ban on advertisements of political nature and restriction on putting photographs of non-constitutional political persons.
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The MMC issued warnings to 21 doctors from across the state, including four from Mumbai, for promoting their work by way of advertisement.
Police have added the charges of death due to negligence against the contractor, Kishan Kumar of an IT building in sector 22, and handed over the body of labourer, Lal Mohammed, to his kin on Monday. The contractor Kishan yet to be arrested and condition of other four labourers stated to be stable.


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Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Wednesday expressed pressing concern over non-availability of swine flu medicines at chemist shops and hospitals in Kashmir.
President DAK and flu expert Dr Nisar ul Hassan said lack of medicines to treat swine flu is putting lives of patients at serious risk.
“While the drug department had asked pharmacies to maintain adequate stock of Oseltamivir and Zanamivir, two key drugs for swine flu, they are not available in the market,” he said.
Dr Hassan said in order to better access these medicines, Union Health Ministry has placed them under schedule H1 of the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, which means all drug stores can sell them. However, the retailers have to sell them against a prescription, he added.
“Earlier, these drugs belonged to schedule X category that required a special license to stock them.”
“One of the main reasons of chemists not to keep these drugs available is “lack of “awareness” about this directive,” he pointed out.
Dr Hassan said shockingly, swine flu medicines are not even available at hospitals.
“Although SKIMS and SMHS hospitals have a limited stock of oseltamivir tablets for adults, no liquid for pediatric use is available; he said adding there is no inhalational Zanamavir available which in certain situations is life-saving.”
“With the recent government panel recommendations against mass vaccination which will leave many people unprotected, antiviral drugs have become an important line of defense against flu,” said Dr Hassan
He said studies have shown that swine flu drugs if given early prevent risk of flu complications and death. “Clinicians should prescribe them as soon as possible and should not wait for lab test results which could be fatal,” he advised.
“As the swine flu virus has undergone a change, it is likely to infect more people. The mutated virus is behaving unusually as it is causing deaths in young and healthier people,” he cautioned.
Swine flu has killed 1,714 people this year, six times the deaths recorded last year, with 34,009 cases reported across the country so far.


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Google has formed a partnership with medical and consumer goods firm Johnson & Johnson that will see the development of robots to help surgeons in the operating room, according to an announcement made on Friday. Johnson & Johsnon said that the deal should be completed in the second quarter, but is still awaiting a review by antitrust regulators. Google will specifically be working with Ethicon, a J&J division dedicated to surgical technology. In particular the robots...
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India’s largest car maker Maruti Suzuki is planning to setup brand centres across the country in major urban cities to showcase new products and emerging technologies of the company. The brand centres are aimed towards boosting the image of Maruti from a small car manufacturer to a technologically advanced vehicle maker. The proposed brand centres will be located at upmarket locations across the country with an investment of Rs. 1000 crores.
Maruti Suzuki currently has a brand centre in the Vasant Kunj area of South Delhi and plans to open sixteen new centres that would engage customers towards the new products and modern technologies that the company will be launching in the future. Around Rs. 60 crores will be spent on acquiring the properties in upmarket locations followed by developing the location into boutique style places. The proposed centres will be act as a brand builder for the company and will not transact any kind of commercial business of sales and service at any of the locations.
The first phase of opening brand centres includes cities like Kolkata, Chandigarh, Chennai, Kochi, Jaipur, Indore and Bangalore. Maruti Suzuki more popularly known for its small cars wants to strengthen its image in the country as also a premium manufacturer with products in the Rs. 10+ lakh category to be launched in the coming months. The company is also diversifying into different segments like MUVs, Crossovers, SUVs which form over 20 percent of the Indian passenger vehicle market.
After Suzuki’s decision to invest in the Gujarat plant as a fully owned subsidy, Maruti has over Rs. 7000 crore as surplus to invest in brand building and image makeover activities. Moreover, the company has a complete new lineup of products waiting to be launched in the coming months starting with the SX4 sedan replacement, the Ciaz sedan that is scheduled for a festive season launch this year followed by the new generation SX4 Crossover to be launched in 2015. The company also has a compact SUV in the works that will make its debut in the coming years.
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December 19, 2017
A data aggregation startup in the suburbs of Washington DC is aiming to be a specialist provider of demographic data on Indians for commercial use. Apriori, founded by Igor Kyrylenko, sifts through publicly available data to craft profiles used to evaluate credit worthiness and to sell targeted consumer products in one of the world’s fastest growing economies, which is also digitising rapidly. (more…)
December 19, 2017
BENGALURU: A data aggregation startup in America is aiming to be a specialist provider of demographic data on Indians, a market that is gaining currency as the country digitises rapidly and accurate information on a growing population of middle class consumers becomes valuable. ￼Apriori, based in a Washington DC suburb, relies on information from voter registration data and the India Post among others, to analyse and draw inferences on consumer behaviour that is used primarily by financial services companies including credit bureaus and insurance providers.
July 27, 2017
McLean, Virginia, July 7th, 2017 – Apriori, an international data aggregator, has signed an agreement with TransUnion Software Services Pvt. Ltd. (TUSSPL), Apriori announced today. Apriori will provide TUSSPL with its database that has been aggregated from various sources.
TUSSPL, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of TransUnion LLC, provides electronic application approval and identity and verification solutions to credit institutions in India, enabling faster and easier disbursal of credit to individuals and companies across the country. It will use the Apriori database for verification purposes and to establish age and identity information provided by credit applicants, most of whom are “unbanked,” meaning they do not have accounts at banks or other financial institutions. (more…)
May 12, 2017
TruNarrative: “Our partnership with Apriori Data in India fuses leading data coverage with TruNarrative’s global Fraud, Identity and AML software that delivers a true consortium to eliminate criminal activity and improved customer experience.”
TruNarrative, a global provider of fraud and compliance risk solutions, has partnered with Apriori, an international data provider to allow their customers to access India’s wealth of data, enabling businesses to safely grow market share with the knowledge they have a robust way of verifying local citizens. (more…)
October 17, 2016
Credit bureaus, financial institutions, marketers, and others can gain access to government-issued identification records on nearly 2 billion consumers through data aggregator Apriori. The company, which was formed two years ago, focuses on obtaining and processing data from emerging markets. It has obtained all records available on every registered voter 18 years and older in India. Nearly 900 million records are available. All data, which comes directly from the India Electoral Authority in each state and territory, has been parsed and cleansed.


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Friends help keep Scheele’s mart in place
By Deirdre annon
Current Staff Writer
Scheele’s Market, a treasured neighborhood institution in Georgetown, has a new lease on life thanks to an agreement reached earlier this month between the new owner of the building and a community group dedicated to saving the store.
Jordan O’Neill, who bought the property at the corner of 29th and Dumbarton streets in February, agreed to maintain the first-floor retail space as a corner market for the next 15 years. Current tenants and longtime store operators Shin and Kye Lee agreed to a five-year lease with an option to renew for an additional five years. And Friends of Scheele’s, a community group that formed to help maintain the rare neighborhood shop, helped coordinate the deal.
“Scheele’s Market is a neighborhood treasure,” O’Neill said of the shop, which provides fresh produce and pantry staples and still offers charge accounts to customers. “I’m very happy to be able to work out an arrangement where we can keep Mr. and Mrs. Lee in the neighborhood. They are a beloved part of the community, and are well-respected, hard working, and do everything they can to make sure the store runs efficiently.”
In order to keep the Lees as tenants, O’Neill agreed to lease the space at a price they could afford, and Friends of Scheele’s, a neighborhood group that organized to help save the market, will subsidize the remainder of the rent, bridging the gap between the lease terms and the market value of the space. The group will also raise money to help pay the property tax, a cost that is often passed on to tenants of commercial space.
“The value of Scheele’s is tremendous because it is a touchstone in the community,” said Malcolm “Mike” Peabody, the president of Friends of Scheele’s. “Neighbors meet each other at the store, we pass along information, we become friends — the market has made a community out of a bunch of city blocks that otherwise wouldn’t occur.”
Peabody said neighborhood residents have come to rely on Scheele’s Market, which has been in operation for more than a century, for things like last-minute ingredients for evening meals and as a place to chat over morning coffee. When the Scheele family decided to sell the building in 2008, it was unclear whether a new owner would allow the Lees, who have operated the store for the last 20 years, to maintain the market. Other options included bringing in a different retail establishment or possibly converting the place into a single-family home. Peabody and other neighbors decided to take an active role in trying to maintain the market.
“In effect, what we were saying to each other is that this market is so important to our community life that we are ready to subsidize the store so that the store owners can get by,” said Peabody, who worked with Marilyn Melkonian to spearhead the effort to save the store. “It’s worth it to do this.”
Friends of Scheele’s is continuing to seek support from the community as the group raises money to help keep the store going.
Georgetown, which was once home to a number of corner markets, has seen one after another close in recent years, as competition from large supermarkets proved too much for small grocers. Griffin’s market at 27th and P streets closed this year, and while Sara’s Market on Q Street is still open, it added a dry cleaning service to help maintain the store.
“It’s important to have a store a few steps from home that gives you the ability to run out for milk or pick up a few ingredients to put together a meal — that’s the way of life people want in a city, to not have to get in their car and drive to a supermarket,” said Georgetown advisory neighborhood commissioner Tom Birch, whose single-member district includes the shop.
“The Lees have become part of the community; we have taken them into our hearts as they have with us,” he added. “Scheele’s Market is the pulse of community where all intersect with each other, and I’m glad they were able to come up with a plan that works for everybody.”
This article appears in the Dec. 28 issue of The Georgetown Current newspaper.


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