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Chinese model Fei Fei Sun has been tapped to join the ranks of Kendall Jenner, Joan Smalls, Yang Mi, Hilary Rhoda and Misty Copeland as the face of Estée Lauder.
Known for her runway catwalks for Prada, Dior and Chanel, her plethora of magazine covers and those striking cheekbones and flawless skin, the fashion icon is a natural fit for the luxury beauty brand.
“I am honored to join the incredible women who represent the Estée Lauder brand,” said Fei Fei. “Growing up in China, I never believed I would represent such an iconic beauty brand. This is a dream come true.”
We are thrilled to welcome Fei Fei to the Estée Lauder brand,” said Stephane de La Faverie, Global Brand President, Estée Lauder. “She is a true modern, global beauty who has captured the attention of the fashion and beauty worlds. We know she will help connect our brand with women in her native China and also around the world.”
We can’t wait to see the full campaign, debuting in December.


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The Facebook 3.0 iPhone application is finally available for download in the iTunes store. Though the app was submitted to Apple on Aug. 16, its release has been widely anticipated for months by iPhone users (especially Om).
When we took it out for a test drive, we found that it’s made huge strides over the previous version when it comes to replicating what the full Facebook user experience is like. Not only can you view and RSVP to events, but the Like function is now available. Still, we hope the next version will let us create an event and invite friends directly from our iPhones.
But one of the best new features is the ability to send texts and call your Facebook friends directly from the app, a functionality that’s been in the works for awhile. Not only is the address book integration handy, but it brings Facebook closer to mirroring real-world relationships, just as Liz predicted it would more than a year ago.
While iPhone users can now create and upload photos directly to the app, the time it takes to thumb through friends’ photo albums was still a bit long because it took a few seconds for the photos to load each time.
Overall, the less-cluttered user interface makes it easier to quickly navigate around the app. Though it’s still missing some functions, this app is a notable improvement from the previous version. Readers, what do you think of it? Please share your reviews in the comments section.

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|Tan Cang - Cai Mep container port's workers load containers into Hanjin Colombo ship. (Photo: SGGP)|
The newly built deep-water Tan Cang – Cai Mep container port in Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province received the first ship of a direct shipping lane between Vietnam and the US on July 7.
The boat’s shipping company said it would use six ships, with a loading capacity of 4,000-4,300 TEU, on the route: Malaysia – Singapore – Vietnam – China – Tokyo – Osaka – Long Beach – Oakland.
The ship will leave Tan Cang – Cai Mep port every Wednesday and arrive in the US fifteen days later.


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As 2020 began, a number of state legislators introduced consumer privacy legislation, and it appeared that there was momentum for significant changes to the national privacy landscape. But as COVID-19 interrupted life across the country, many of these bills were put on hold or failed to pass.
The one exception is California, where the ballot initiative that would further expand obligations in the California Consumer Protection Act is moving full steam ahead, despite the challenges of collecting signatures during the pandemic. Californians for Consumer Privacy announced on May 4, 2020, that they had submitted a new ballot initiative, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA, also known popularly as “CCPA 2.0”), to the state of California with 900,000 signatures in order to qualify for the November 2020 ballot.
If passed, the CPRA would change the current California privacy law in several ways, including by creating a California Privacy Protection Agency to enforce the CCPA through administrative actions, enabling consumers to prevent businesses from using or disclosing their sensitive personal information (such as precise geolocation, health information, and financial information), and increasing fines for privacy violations related to children’s personal information.
Meanwhile, across the country, New York’s Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (SHIELD Act), which requires covered organizations to implement information security programs, went into effect on March 21, 2020. There has been no movement on two bills that would further regulate the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information of New York residents, the New York Privacy Act (A8526 / S5642) and the “It’s Your Data Act” (A7736).
For the second year in a row, the Washington Privacy Act (SB 6281) failed to pass, following a dispute among legislators about whether the law should be enforced by the attorney general or through a private right of action. However, Washington legislators did pass SB 6280, which regulates public and private use of facial recognition technology. We provide a review of that new law here.
As we outlined in February, Florida legislators introduced two privacy bills earlier this year. As drafted, HB 963 and SB 1670 permitted consumers to opt out of the sale of certain covered information and prohibited the use of public records requested from state agencies for contacting, marketing, or soliciting consumers without opt-in consent. Both bills were indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration on March 14.
In Hawaii, HB2572 seeks to require explicit consent for organizations to sell geolocation data to third parties or sell “internet browser” information. The bill passed multiple readings in the House as well as its first reading in the Senate before being sent to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health and the Committee on Technology. This bill updates a geolocation bill proposed during the last legislative session.
The governor vetoed that bill for “lack of clarity,” with the understanding that a new bill would be re-introduced to address geolocation privacy. A public hearing that had been scheduled for March 17, 2020, was cancelled the day before and postponed until further notice.
Meanwhile, in New Hampshire, HB 1680-FN, which is modeled on the CCPA and would provide consumers with rights to access, delete, and to opt out of sales, was “referred for interim study” on March 11, 2020, which means it is effectively dead for this legislative session.
Rhode Island’s Senate Judiciary Committee recommended on March 3, 2020, that S 2430 (the Consumer Privacy Protection Act, modeled on California’s CCPA) be held for further study, which means that this bill, too, has died.
As we discussed in March, the Wisconsin legislature proposed a series of three bills requiring “controllers” of personal information to inform individuals of data collection and use practices and creating a right of access (AB 870); allowing a consumer to request deletion in certain circumstances, including where data was being used for direct marketing (AB 871); and requiring consumer consent for processing personal data (AB 872). All three bills failed to pass pursuant to a Senate Joint Resolution on April 1, 2020.


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Subway says it is removing from its bread a chemical reportedly found in Yoga mats, following a petition pressuring it to nix the ingredient.
“We are already in the process of removing azodicarbonamide from our bread as part of our bread improvement process,” Subway said on Facebook on Wednesday, responding to angry comments. “While the ingredient is approved by the USDA and FDA, it will be removed from all our breads soon,”
More than 66,000 people have signed a petition on the popular food blog foodbabe.com to remove the chemical, which is used only in North American restaurants and is said to be found in yoga mats and shoe rubber.
A Subway representative told the Associated Press that the process began before the petition, but did not say when it will be complete. “The complete conversion to have this product out of the bread will be done soon,” Subway said in a statement.
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2008 Child's Play Charity dinner auction
Lots include a signed Master Chief helmet, bronze-cast WoW orc, signed Black Dreamcast and a microwave from Harmonix.
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SEATTLE - Dec. 1, 2008 - Hurry before it's too late! Tickets are selling faster than the proverbial MMO on launch day for the 2008 Child's Play Charity dinner auction to be held on Dec. 9 in the Washington State Convention and Trade Center's skybridge; ticket sales will close this Friday, Dec. 5 (unless sold out prior). The event annually hosts over 400 videogame industry professionals and community members for an evening of drinks and silent bidding, followed by a plated banquet and live auction to benefit sick children in over 50 hospitals around the world. Contributions to the charity already exceed $450,000, passing the halfway mark for this year's goal of $750,000.
Notable silent and live auction items will include:
- A microwave from Harmonix
- A Halo 3 Master Chief helmet signed by Bungie, Roosterteeth and Penny Arcade staff
- A bronze-cast World of Warcraft statue of an orc and wolf mount, given exclusively to Blizzard Entertainment employees
- A mint-condition, limited edition Black Dreamcast autographed by former Sega President Peter Moore
Dinner auction tickets may be purchased at http://www.childsplaycharity.org/cpdinner.php for $125 per person, $60 of which is tax deductible. Corporate table sponsorships (seats 10) are still available. Contact firstname.lastname@example.org for further information.
About Child's Play: Child's Play is a non-profit organization begun in 2003 by Mike "Gabe" Krahulik and Jerry "Tycho" Holkins, the creators of the Penny Arcade comic strip, as a way to help sick children and show the world the softer side of people who play videogames. Through the generosity of gamers and the videogame industry, Child's Play has raised nearly four million dollars in toys, games and cash for sick children through an ongoing online toy drive and annual charity auction. Now in its sixth year, Child's Play has developed a worldwide network of beneficiary Children's Hospitals in order to brighten hospital stays for children internationally. For more information, visit www.childsplaycharity.org.
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Joining Gossip Girl‘s Jordan Alexander, the beauties show off the latest the lingerie brand has to offer. Fans’ most-loved styles are being reimagined in an eco-friendly fabric, delivering an ultra-soft and breathable material with greater care towards the environment. Rihanna‘s personal favorite — the Micofiber T-shirt bra also receives an updated look, boasting lightly padded cups and a caged back, alongside barely-there infinity edges across the neckline for gentle support. “I’m obsessed with the T-shirt bra. The fit is amazing and it’s so light, almost like you aren’t wearing anything at all,” the mogul and mother of two shares in an exclusive press release.
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India will exempt Canada for three months from its policy that so-called pulse crops such as peas and lentils must be fumigated with methyl bromide to kill insects before leaving the country of origin, the Canadian government said on last Thursday.
The move resolves for now a disagreement that threatened C$1.1 billion ($827.5 million) in annual trade.
Sources in India said the exemption applies to all countries and crops, but Canada, as the biggest pulse exporter, was affected most. The Indian government could not be immediately reached for confirmation.
Canada is the world‘s biggest exporter of pulse crops, a popular protein source in India, the world‘s largest importer. Exporters include Glencore Plc agriculture unit Viterra Inc and AGT Food and Ingredients Inc.
The exemption, extending one that was due to expire on Friday, will allow Canada to continue shipping to India protein-rich pulse crops without fumigating with the ozone-depleting gas. Its use is restricted in Canada.
The exemption applies to shipments that leave Canada on or before June 30.
India´s fumigation policy is aimed at preventing the import of pests, but Indian agricultural analysts see this as a non-tariff barrier to curb imports and support local prices, especially when New Delhi has surplus stocks of pulses and a new wheat harvest is under way.
Canadian exporters have said that sales to India dried up in the past month due to uncertainty.
That uncertainty continues and will limit Canadian sales to India for delivery in July and later, said Gord Bacon, chief executive of industry group Pulse Canada.
“We have the same situation that we had” leading up to the March 31 deadline, he said.
Even so, Canadian exporters have found ways around India‘s policy, by sending crops due to arrive after the exemption expires to other ports for fumigation before landing in India, said Chuck Penner, analyst at LeftField Commodity Research in Winnipeg.
“In the end, there was a lot more smoke than fire in this whole event,” Penner said.
Canadian industry and government officials are looking for a long-term solution, Bacon said, and are awaiting a response from New Delhi to a case it made in India this month. Canada contends that cold winters kill the pests India is concerned about and any live insects found in shipments are fumigated in Canada with other gases. ($1 = 1.3293 Canadian dollars)


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Sales of Vita have been sluggish, just like when Nintendo launched its gaming handheld at $250. The difference is that Nintendo quickly reacted with a drastic price drop.
Meanwhile, Sony digs in its heels: This year would be "too early" for a price drop, Sony's game studio chief Shuhei Yoshida told Eurogamer at the Gamescom show.
"Cost reduction is one area our engineering team is working on. But we just launched the platform earlier this year. It takes time to do so," he said.
But price isn't determined by cost of goods alone. The public has decided that it doesn't want to pop for Vita at $250. Demand isn't there at $250, and this may not be a problem that new games and features alone can solve. It's not too early for a price drop -- if anything, one is long overdue.


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7 Blockchain Megatrends You Should Know in 2023
The crypto industry is building more and faster than ever. In this article, we'll dive deep into 7 key trends you have to know about.
Bull markets attract millions of newcomers to the crypto industry. But where most investors leave during the inevitable bear market, developers tend to stick around and build new things. While most people stop paying attention, the most interesting innovations are being built, which tend to lay the foundation of the next uptrend. The essential building blocks for DeFi and NFTs were both built out during the 2018-2019 bear market and in turn led to the mania that followed.
With Bitcoin doing relatively well again, there are speculations that the crypto bear market could be behind us already. We might be ready to enter a new phase of growth and expansion that will bring more value and benefits to its users and stakeholders. Now that we have set the stage, let us explore some of the biggest trends blockchain developers are working on now.
Real-world assets (RWAs) are physical assets that have value in the real world, such as real estate, art, and commodities. According to a report by Citigroup, the tokenization of RWAs is a $4 trillion to $5 trillion opportunity that could unlock new sources of capital and value creation. Tokenization is the process of converting these real world assets into digital tokens that can be traded on a blockchain. This allows for fractional ownership, increased liquidity, and lower transaction costs. The private equity market is expected to become the most "tokenized" asset class due to its liquidity and ability to be fractionalized.
While earlier attempts to develop tokenized assets based on the ERC-20 standard did not live up to the hype, increasing legal clarity in jurisdictions like Singapore, Dubai and Germany and the introduction of new token standards such as ERC-721 and ERC-4626 have brought about innovations and new possibilities in this field. This has led to the emergence of many different RWA projects such as Maple Finance, Goldfinch, Polytrade, Blocksquare and Centrifuge. These projects are leveraging blockchain technology to create new financial products and services that were previously impossible. Global firms such as Goldman Sachs, Boston Consulting Group, and Siemens are also exploring the potential of tokenized assets.
The tokenization of RWAs is still in its early stages, but the potential is significant as the addressable market is in the trillions. It has the potential to democratize access to investment opportunities, increase liquidity, and unlock new sources of value creation. As the technology continues to mature and new standards are developed, we can expect to see more innovative use cases emerge. The future of finance is tokenization, and those who embrace this trend will be well-positioned to benefit from the opportunities it presents.
For more on RWAs check out our primer or our list of RWA real estate projects
Ordinals are a new innovation powering Bitcoin NFTs and other digital artifacts. Bitcoin has been largely left out of the NFT craze due to its limited scripting capabilities and high transaction fees. However, the ordinals protocol, introduced by Casey Rodarmor in January 2023, has opened doors to a substantial, untapped market in the form of Bitcoin NFTs. The protocol is not based on smart contracts but on satoshi inscriptions through basic Bitcoin scripting features and standard P2TR transactions. In simple terms, people can now add digital files such as pictures or audio to a single satoshi. This makes the protocol simple, elegant, and efficient. The ordinals project is unique because it directly inscribes onto satoshis, the smallest denomination of bitcoin, without needing another chain or token.
The ordinals protocol has gained momentum over the past month, signaling a possible new frontier for the biggest cryptocurrency. The protocol allows for the Bitcoin version of NFTs, described as "digital artifacts" on the Bitcoin network. The process stays entirely on the Bitcoin network and does not require a sidechain or additional token. The ordinals project is not the first to try bringing NFTs onto the Bitcoin blockchain. Counterparty was the first platform to inscribe NFTs on Bitcoin's network with the Rare Pepe collection in 2014. However, Rare Pepe didn't do much to boost mass demand, but one of its NFTs from 2016 sold for $3.6 million at a Sotheby's auction about a year ago.
The ordinals protocol has sparked a debate over the place for NFTs in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Old school Bitcoiners consider ordinals a waste of block space that should be for transactions, whilst others think it actually makes Bitcoin more secure as it leads to more and higher transaction fees. Nonetheless, with over 1 million ordinals already in existence, the market seems to have decided that this is going to be a thing. As the technology continues to mature and new standards are developed, we can expect to see more innovative use cases emerge, for example ordinals for Real World Assets or new games leveraging the innovation.
The integration of DeFi and NFTs is a megatrend in blockchain that is creating new use cases, products, and services. DeFi and NFTs have largely operated in separate silos, with little interaction or synergy between them. However, this is changing as more projects and platforms are exploring the possibilities of combining DeFi and NFTs. The integration of DeFi and NFTs has the potential to unlock liquidity and expand accessibility to NFTs, most notably via fractionalization and pooling. This will democratize access to investment opportunities and increase liquidity.
NFTperp is one of the innovative projects in this area that allows users to trade perpetual futures. Yes, this means leveraged speculation on the future price of NFTs. The peer-to-peer liquidity protocol, NFTFi (NFT Finance), is another project that is exploring the possibilities of combining DeFi and NFTs. NFTFi allows users to pool NFTs and lend them out to earn interest. This creates a new source of value creation for NFT holders and expands the use cases for NFTs beyond just collectibles.
Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) are a cutting-edge technology that is gaining attention in various fields, particularly in the area of blockchain. ZKPs allow for the verification of information without revealing the underlying data, providing a high level of security and privacy. Most blockchains are public ledgers, making them transparent at the cost of privacy. Institutions need privacy and seem especially interested in this technology.
ZKPs can help improve the scalability of blockchain networks by allowing for the verification of transactions without the need to store and process all the transactions in the network. This lowers the transaction costs, latency, and congestion of the network. ZKPs can also enable off-chain computation and verification, which, in turn, enhances the throughput and performance of the network.
These valuable properties have led to substantial capital flows to the leading projects building out ZK technology such as new Ethereum layer 2's like ZKsync, Zk-Starks, Aztec Network and Polygon's zkEVM and various other projects like DeGate and zkRouter.
Decentralized social media is a new paradigm that aspires to challenge the dominance of centralized platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Decentralized social media platforms bring social media onto the blockchain, giving users more control over their data, content, and interactions, as well as more freedom of expression and diversity of opinions. And of course there are entirely new monetization options for both creators and consumers through tokens and NFTs.
As of late, decentralized social media platforms are gaining market share in the broader blockchain ecosystem. These platforms are more resistant to censorship than traditional centralized ones and offer users greater control over their data. Decentralized social media platforms operate in a system of governance instead of the word of a few individuals to make decisions. DeSo, Nostr, Lens Protocol, and Steemit are some of the platforms that are leading the way in decentralized social media.
On Steemit, users are incentivized to share quality content through rewards of tokens which could be used to access premium features, tip other creators, or exchange for other goods and services. DeSo is a decentralized social media platform that aims to give users more control over their data, content, and interactions. DeSo is built on a blockchain that allows users to own their data and content, and to monetize their content directly from followers and fans without relying on ads or third-party platforms.
Interoperability is a trend in blockchain that is key to its mass adoption. Most current blockchains operate as isolated islands, with separate protocols, consensus mechanisms, and native tokens. This creates a lot of friction and inefficiency for users who want to move across different chains or use applications that require multiple blockchains. Interoperability offers the solution to this problem and enables seamless cross-chain communication between blockchains, making the technology more accessible and user-friendly.
Cross-chain protocols such as Stargate, ThorChain, LayerZero, Axelar, Hera Finance, and MultiChain allow blockchains to interact directly with each other, without intermediaries or trust assumptions. Users would be able to choose the best blockchain for their needs and seamlessly move assets and data across different chains. In a not-too-distant future, constantly switching blockchains, dealing with many different wallets and holding dozens of tokens to pay for fees will be a relic of the past.
The convergence of AI with games, metaverses, and NFTs is a brand new trend in blockchain that has the potential to revolutionize the gaming industry and the metaverse as a whole. The rise of generative visual AI models such as Midjourney and Dall-E raises optimism for future virtual worlds entirely developed by AI and which can be owned and monetized by users through tokens and NFTs. AI-generated games would be decentralized and trustless gaming environments, where players can own their assets and identities, and participate in governance and economy. This extends into broader metaverses and would be a key feature of Web3 entertainment. Solutions such as IMGNai, which, though still an image generation tool, aims to be a platform for creating AI-generated games, are leading the way in this area.
The metaverse is a convergence of digital technology to combine and extend the reach and use of cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence (AI), and blockchain. The fully realized metaverse won’t be just for gaming. It will be a digital playground for friends and a commercial space for companies and customers. The metaverse will contain a vast amount of data generated by AI. By combining AI with other technologies like AR/VR and blockchain, the metaverse will become a more immersive and interactive experience. We're just getting started and the possibilites are endless, think games that are completely personalized, intelligent NFTs, characters with profound personalities and many things we just can't imagine yet.
The 7 key trends discussed here showcase the level of innovation, and sometimes pure genious, present in this industry. Blockchains and crypto are still in their infancy and knowing these trends in 2023 can help you be early to the next big thing. At Flagship, we'll be paying close attention to these megatrends over the next months and years! Don't forget to subscribe to our newsletter if you'd like to receive updates on these trends and much more directly in your inbox.
Disclaimer: Nothing on this site should be construed as a financial investment recommendation. It’s important to understand that investing is a high-risk activity. Investments expose money to potential loss.


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Baldur’s Gate 3, Yoko Taro, and Malaysian games galore!
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Pizza Hut today announced it is extending its operating hours to ensure your pizza cravings are met whenever they strike.
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As part of extended hours, thousands of Pizza Hut locations nationwide will now stay open until midnight or later, with several restaurants even staying open as late as 2 a.m. local time.
Fans taking advantage of the extended hours can enjoy the full Pizza Hut menu for delivery, or carryout past the stroke of midnight in select stores across the country.
The brand says the move to extending its hours of operation represents a nod to the trend toward late-night dining among the younger generation and is “seizing this opportunity to satisfy these after-dinner hankerings.”
Additionally, Pizza Hut is also leveraging its partnerships with aggregators to expand customers’ accessibility and unlock the ability to service customers with ease. To optimize the delivery-specific operations, Pizza Hut is using the cutting-edge Dragontail technology to support the goal that each menu item arrives hot and fresh.
Pizza Hut says it is excited to take its commitment to customer satisfaction to new heights – and hours – while evolving and growing with the dining habits of today’s generation.
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Wilder Hosts Cartwright’s First-Ever Indoor Farmer’s Market | News, Sports, Jobs
Farmers’ markets are often reserved for the summer months, but Trisha Wilder, manager of the Cartwright Farmers Market, couldn’t see why an event with so many benefits for local artisans and farmers couldn’t take place during the summer months. winter too.
Wilder hosted Cartwright’s first-ever Indoor Farmer’s Market event Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Community Building in Riverview Park. This event hosted four different vendors, including Wilder herself, each offering a unique mix of products and a friendly smile to everyone who stopped by. Even though the cold weather made summer products like food items impossible, other products without seasonal restrictions were available.
Amelia Ward, one of the vendors, displayed a myriad of artistically crafted products on her table, ranging from knitted hats and wine cozies to bracelets and earrings. Ward attended the Cartwright Farmers Market as a first-time vendor last summer and really enjoyed the experience, so when Wilder got in touch with this event, Ward was more than happy to attend.
“I love creating stuff, and I have so, very little room to store it. So I thought I’d share it,” Ward said. “I love the joy it brings to people.”
Jeff Mayer, a local farm owner, was another vendor offering local items. Mayer’s table featured farm-fresh eggs, dog chews, and homemade soap in a variety of flavors. They also sold cuts of chicken and duck meat raised on their farm. Mayer said this was his third year there and business got better every year.
“We get lucky on some days, because we have a little different product than a lot of people are used to seeing at the farmer’s market. So with our whole chickens and things like that, it’s not always what you see at the market,” Mayer said. “It’s been getting better since we started, every year because we have returning customers.”
Other unique items included her soap and dog chews. Mayer said they learned to make soap when they had 80 pounds of leftover lard they didn’t want to waste. The dog chew was invented in the same way.
“The dog chews are our novelty that we’re sort of adding to. Since we’re taking the time to raise the birds as best we can, we don’t want to see any waste,” Mayer said.
Dog chews were made from by-products that might otherwise go to waste after processing, such as pig ears and chicken feet.
Speaking of dogs, Kristina Coltrain and her son Jacksyn had a table laden with gourmet dog treats. It was their first time at the farmer’s market and she said the people had been very friendly. Kristina said they started making dog treats in the fall.
“I love to cook and I love dogs, so it’s a good combination for me,” she said.
As Wilder hosted the event, she also had a table set with breads of all flavors available for purchase. Wilder actually started out as a salesman in 2018 before taking over running the Cartwright Farmers Market in 2019 after former managers retired.
According to Wilder, the market has grown exponentially since she took over. At the start of its first summer season, they had few vendors and low attendance with only six or seven returning vendors. By the end, Wilder said returning sellers and attendance had doubled.
“When I took over, (the market) was kind of, I don’t mean dying, but it was (declining),” Wilder said. “I was able to bring him back really strong at the end of that first season.”
Wilder said that even after COVID hit in his second season as manager, they managed to grow a bit more in this season with various safety precautions in place. Finally, in 2021, Wilder estimated that around 40 vendors were present throughout the summer season. The summer season lasts from May to October.
As the next step in the growth of the Cartwright Farmers Market, Wilder hopes they can secure consistent indoor winter markets like the one on Saturday.
Although there aren’t many vendors ready for the market on Saturday, Wilder thinks more will come for the next event on Jan. 22. Attendance was relatively low the first time around, but as the markets become more regular, more foot traffic is expected.
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Another small town Walmart is closing in Illinois. Should Aledo be concerned? WRMJ reached out to Walmart corporate about the future of the Aledo store and this was the response this morning: “We have no plans to close other area stores at this time.” One of the Illinois stores that closed in July was in Clinton and City Administrator Tim Followell believes shopping trends—like e-commerce, are having a huge impact on retail brick and mortar stores, especially in small towns.
The other Illinois Walmart set to close is in Pana. The store originally opened in 1983. Clinton, Illinois has a population just over 7,100 and Pana, Illinois has a population of just over 5,500.


text: Microsoft seems to be on a roll when it comes to supporting the Apple Watch. Yesterday we reported that the company was bringing OneDrive support to the device, and now its adding a feature that could be quite useful for those in the business world. An update to the Microsoft PowerPoint app for iPhone and iPad arrived in the App Store today, and aside from a single line mentioning bug fixes and performance improvements, the focus is entirely on newly added PowerPoint Remote for Apple Watch. As the name implies, this allows users to control PowerPoint presentations entirely from their wrist. This includes starting the show and navigating between slides, but it also shows useful information like the time elapsed since the presentation began, the number of slides, and the number of the current slide.


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Chances are you live a stone’s throw away from a Thai restaurant in your neighborhood, and you’ve got a go-to local favorite for pad thai. These days I often find myself traveling north of Berkeley, where there’s quite a few wonderful Thai eateries clustered in Albany, El Cerrito and San Pablo locales.
A new study from Consumer Reports finds varying levels of 4-MEI –listed as a carcinogen in California — in popular sodas. The chemical is created during the manufacturing of caramel color used to dye sodas brown. Coke has reformulated its sodas to bring down levels, but Pepsi is still transitioning.
In 2011, California listed 4-MEI, the chemical that Coke and Pepsi used to obtain caramel coloring for their colas, as a carcinogen. Both sodas have been reformulated for sale in the state — but tests show 4-MEI is still common in Pepsi colas sold elsewhere.


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ShopKeep and MasterCard have entered a marketing partnership that includes pushing merchants to adopt the EMV standards.
Merchants who participate in MasterCard's Easy Savings program can received a 20% rebate on purchases of point-of-sale hardware from ShopKeep. Items eligible for the rebate include printers and cash drawers.
Additionally, small business customers in the Easy Savings program will receive an Apple Pay and EMV-compatible card reader from ShopKeep.
The card networks have set an Oct. 1 liability shift deadline to transition to EMV payments, and small businesses are reportedly lagging in their migration. Javelin Strategy & Research estimates that barely a quarter of small businesses may be EMV compatible in time.
“As the U.S. transitions to EMV technology, our participation in this program will help more independent merchants in America ensure they have the appropriate technology in place,” Norm Merritt, ShopKeep's chief executive, said in a news release.


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It looks like the heated kitchen battles of Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma is returning for a new season. According to the 30th issue of Weekly Shounen Jump! Magazine, the anime adaptation of Yuuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki’s original manga series will get its third season this Fall 2017.
The announcement also features a new teaser visual for the manga, which features Souma Yukihira, Erina Nakiri, Azami Nakiri (Erina’s father), Eishi Tsukasa (Council of Ten first seat), and Rindō Kobayashi (Council of Ten second seat).
Not only that, the series will also be getting a brand new OVA in July. They will be bundling the new OVA in DVD format, and will be included in the manga’s 25th volume limited edition release. It will also feature some of the members of the Council of Ten for the first time in the anime.
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Rhode Island’s Senate Finance Committee took up cannabis legalization on Wednesday, adding momentum to the push for cannabis law reform across the northeast United States. But, in a departure from other states in the region, Rhode Island lawmakers are considering state-run sales.
A state-run cannabis model has yet to be implemented in the United States, though such proposals are increasingly common. Rhode Island lawmakers debated the merits of such a model the same day that a task force in North Carolina suggested that this framework could also work in their state. (Some provinces in Canada have opted for government-run cannabis sales.)
Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo’s fiscal year 2021 budget includes a cannabis legalization proposal that “would create the strictest regulatory framework for any state in the country that has legalized marijuana,” Liz Tanner, Rhode Island’s director of the department of business regulation, said during a presentation on Article 13, or the “Adult Use Marijuana Act.”
(Read Cannabis Wire’s coverage of the budget, unveiled in January.)
Front and center during Wednesday’s discussion: New Jersey voters’ recent decision to pass a legalization measure, Massachusetts’ mature market, and states like New York and Connecticut that are teetering.
“Adult use marijuana is readily available to Rhode Islanders in Massachusetts and that access is set to expand greatly and continuously. As such, a strict regulatory structure is required for Rhode Island to prepare for and address the externalities of regional legalization,” Tanner said.
Tanner showed a map of Massachusetts, emphasizing the border jurisdictions that have licensed retail cannabis just north of Rhode Island’s border.
“This regional landscape guarantees that Rhode Island will now be dealing with the consequences of marijuana legalization in law enforcement, public health, climate issues, and beyond in an effort to have the most control possible over how this issue is addressed,” Tanner said. “This will ensure that marijuana would be tightly-controlled with the greatest priority on health and safety.”
Municipalities would have control through zoning and permitting authority, and can ban licenses by ordinance through 2021. After that, local bans would need to be enacted through referendums. Local jurisdictions could also collect local impact fees to offset costs related to local regulation, like initial licensure.
Matt McCabe, a chief data analyst for Rhode Island’s Office of Management and Budget, discussed the financial side of the proposal, and said that the best analogy in the state for adult use cannabis might be gaming. Using Colorado and Washington as models, and using federal survey data to estimate cannabis consumers, McCabe estimated that a full first mature year of cannabis sales could be $160 million, bringing the state a revenue share of around $50 million.
Senator Susan Sosnowski asked whether other states involve departments of agriculture in regulations.
“This is a product that’s being grown, just like the medical marijuana that’s being grown,” Sosnowski said.
Senator Louis DiPalma mentioned that the medical cannabis landscape in Rhode Island has “morphed,” and that the regulatory framework still hasn’t quite come together cohesively. He added that he’d have difficulty answering questions from constituents about the nitty gritty of regulations.
“Why is this a better model than the Massachusetts model?” he asked.
Pam Toro, associate director and general counsel overseeing cannabis, answered that this model was proposed after research, including a New Hampshire-style state-run liquor model.
“We came up with this model that is albeit different from Massachusetts. And we believe that having the state be responsible for the retail outlets, the state will be directly controlling the products, the pricing, the potency, and the market. So this was an effort to do something that, yes, is different, but really focuses on the public health and safety,” Toro said.
Senator Ryan William Pearson followed up by requesting more information, perhaps in a written form, about how the medical and adult use markets would “mesh” and “meld” together. He also asked if an analysis had been done about how the demand for medical cannabis would change if adult use became legal.
Toro answered that no such analysis had been done, and said it involves “balancing” to ensure that medical cannabis patients can access their products.
Pearson also asked how long it might take for Rhode Island’s market to mature.
“Other states have seen upwards of six months or a year,” McCabe said, and estimated that he thought the Rhode Island adult use cannabis market would “stabilize” within a year.
Senator Walter Felag, Jr. asked if the medical cannabis program would be regulated separately. Toro responded by confirming that would be the case, because, for example, caregivers can grow cannabis for patients, but in the adult use program, there would be no home growing. And there would be a potency cap for adult use cannabis, but that cap wouldn’t apply to medical products.
Senator James Seveney asked about the “opportunity cost” of approaching adult use with a state-run liquor store model.
“Have you guys looked at what it’s going to cost us to go down this path as opposed to license private sellers to go out and do it, and then just tax them? I mean, how much money are we leaving on the table by making this a state operation?” Seveney asked, adding that he’d want this analysis in writing. He also asked if it’s be more or less expensive for someone to buy an ounce of cannabis from a state-run store, or a private store. McCabe said that prices would vary based on potency, with the more expensive and higher potency products only available on the medical market.
Senator Thomas Paolino said that whatever model Rhode Island goes with needs to be competitive with both the illicit market, and neighboring states.
Toro said that regulators don’t really want to compete with the illicit market, they want to outperform unlicensed activity, and that because it wouldn’t be profit-driven, Rhode Island would be in a good position to do so.
Paolino said that he isn’t sure that he would support legislation that banned growing, because if he wants to buy apples, he can, and if he wants to grow them, he can.
“I do appreciate that, in terms of your concerns about the right to grow, but we’re trying to really just strike a balance. And hopefully, if we have a good adult use availability of products in terms of product choice, variety, and competitive pricing, our view is that this would develop very similar to the alcohol market post-prohibition,” Toro said.
“Director, with all due respect, I think that says something,” DiPalma said, that Rhode Island would be the first state with state-run adult use cannabis sales. “I think we need to look real hard.”
DiPalma also asked for an analysis of the unintended consequences, both positive and negative, of legalization.
Rhode Island was represented during New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Regional Cannabis Regulation and Vaping Summit last October, which brought together governors, lawmakers, and regulators from New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Colorado in midtown Manhattan to debate cannabis policies, from legalization to vaping.
Cuomo and Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont urged states in the region to link arms on cannabis policies, acknowledging how small northeast states could mean residents in non-legal states crossing borders for legal cannabis next door.
“This patchwork quilt of regulations makes no sense at all,” Lamont said at the summit. “My state of Connecticut, people cross the border. They drive up to Massachusetts where they buy some cannabis and bring it back, and that makes a real problem for our state police.”
New Jersey voters overwhelmingly passed a legalization measure on Election Day, and now lawmakers in the Garden State are actively hammering out the implementation framework.
At Cuomo’s cannabis summit, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy told Cannabis Wire and a small group of journalists, “The more coordinated and harmonious we can be, the better off we’ll all individually be. Obviously, we’d keep our own legislative reality. Your executive order authority is your own, but I’m optimistic we can do this in a way—this being both vaping and adult use of recreational marijuana—in a coordinated way.”


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With a strong global market forecast for tyre-derived fuel, Australia’s largest tyre recycler, Tyrecycle, is expanding its operations across Australia, with a strong commitment to investment in new plants and technology.
The recently released Global Tyre Derived Fuel (TDF) Market Report 2021: Industry Analysis 2017-2020 & Growth Trends and Market Forecast 2021-2025, highlights that the shift to TDF is increasing at speed, with cement and paper and pulp industries taking the lead.
The research report estimates the global TDF market will reach a valuation of US$430.3 million by the end of 2025.
Jim Fairweather, Tyrecycle CEO, says while the global market forecast is encouraging, Australia’s tyre recycling industry needs to embrace innovation and raise awareness if it is to expand into a globally sustainable business.
“The global research report solidifies the need to build confidence in the sector with a genuine commitment to embracing new opportunities,” he says.
As end-use industries regain momentum in the post-COVID-19 economy, analysts anticipate that will further stoke the usage of TDF, often used as a supplemental fuel at cement and paper and pulp facilities, providing improved boiler efficiency, a reduction in carbon emissions and lower fuel costs.
“It’s the kind of projections the sector needs to back itself. At Tyrecycle, we are gearing up for significant expansion in our production capacity and capability for TDF,” Fairweather says.
Tyrecycle, listed as a leading global player in the TDF market in the research report, is investing more than $40 million to expand its operations across Australia to cater to growing national and international demand.
The company has a new plant set to open at Erskine Park in Sydney in coming months, with a second new plant scheduled to be operational in Western Australia later this year.
It is also bolstering its South Australian operations, further strengthening the company’s capabilities across its national footprint ahead of the Federal Government’s ban on the export of whole-baled tyres.
“It is a transformative change that offers the tyre recycling sector a significant opportunity to raise the stakes in achieving better and more sustainable environmental outcomes,” Fairweather says.
“However, while regulation will go some way towards addressing the important role that waste tyres can play in helping to progress a circular economy, further incentives for tyre recyclers to invest in higher end product development will also be important.”
In Australia each year, approximately 465 kilotonnes of tyres reach their end-of-life. Tyrecycle, as the nation’s largest recycler, having been in the market for close to 30 years, accounts for only 9 per cent of the collection, processing, and remanufacturing of those waste tyres.
“That paints a clear picture of just how much more work there is to be done in further highlighting the potential of the industry,” Fairweather says.
The National Circular Economy Roadmap highlights that Australia currently lacks the necessary market demand for recycled products.
“Expanding meaningful partnerships, both locally and globally, will be key to supporting competitiveness and scale for Australian manufacturers, as we seek to progress improved access to export markets and supply chains,” Fairweather says.
“We all need to be smarter about how we use the earth’s limited resources and that requires government, industry and consumers to accept responsibility for the role they each have to play in driving sustainable change.”


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Released last week, IOS iOS 12.1.4 fixed a critical bug in FaceTime and eliminated two dangerous vulnerabilities “zero day”. In addition, iOS 12.1.4 positive impact on the speed of the iPhone — reported by users themselves and proved testing. But have you changed the battery life on iPhone running iOS 12.1.4? Comparison of iOS and iOS 12.1.3 12.1.4 on various models of iPhone gave the answer to this question.
iOS vs iOS 12.1.3 12.1.4: comparison of battery life
Comparison of battery life iOS and iOS 12.1.3 12.1.4 on various models of iPhone held a YouTube-blogger iAppleBytes. He tested iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6s, iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 under the control of two firmwares in the benchmark Geekbench 4.
Testing has shown that iOS 12.1.4 have not been visible improvements in terms of autonomy. On the other hand, the deterioration didn’t happen. Given that iOS 12.1.4 aimed at addressing the serious problems of the operating system to preserve battery life you can enjoy. Such technical updates to fix critical problems, often adversely affect the autonomy of the iPhone.
In iOS 12.1.4 of this, fortunately, did not happen. The battery life of the iPhone is largely unchanged compared to iOS 12.1.3.
Much more noticeable changes can occur in iOS 12.2 — next firmware for iPhone and iPad, which is now in beta testing. It is expected that Apple will release iOS 12.2 in March. It is possible that the firmware will be released after the end of March the presentation of Apple. According to the latest rumors, it could be held on March 25.


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Financial Times: Chart of the week: how to sell smartphones in China
Published: 2 April 2012
Source: Financial Times
CCS Insight was quoted in this article about the growing mobile phone market in China.
Geoff Blaber, analyst at CCS Insight, told beyondbrics: “The reality is, despite the challenges in China, the opportunity is just too big to ignore. It seems odd that, despite China’s millions of mobile customers, the likes of Apple and Nokia are only now making a bigger effort. It looks late, but there are significant problems to deal with. There are several different [network] standards. It’s not a straight market to cater to,” said Blaber.
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- USD remained stable in Asia as traders looked forward to the release of the latest U.S. job report
- Analysts expect the job report to show the economy added 186,000 jobs in November,
- Traders also watch the latest development on the US-China trade front closely.
On Friday, the USD remained stable in Asia as traders looked forward to the release of the latest U.S. job report due later today.
The U.S. dollar index was unchanged at 97.380 by 05:30 GMT. The index tracks the USD against a basket of other currencies.
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Analysts expect the job report to show the economy added 186,000 jobs in November, up from 128,000 jobs reported in October, and 155,000 in Nov 2018.
The projected unemployment rate is expected to hold steady at 3.6% unchanged from October and down slightly from Dec 2018.
Sino-U.S trade front
Traders also watch the latest development on the US-China trade front closely, a Trump said, “something could happen” and on whether the U.S. will impose new tariffs on Chinese goods starting Dec 15.
On Thursday, Trump made a positive remark about the possibility of ending the trade dispute soon. But, it came after he had made a negative one saying the deal could wait until after the U.S. presidential election in Nov 2020.
The USD/CNY pair traded 0.1% lower to 7.0417.
The EUR/USD pair changed little at 1.1102 as data on Thursday showed that German factory orders unexpectedly declined in October.
The GBP/USD pair was also near flat at 1.3156.
Reports this week suggested that U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson could win a majority at next week’s election, paving the way for Britain to leave the European Union on Jan 31.
The USD/JPY pair dropped 0.1% to 108.68.
Meanwhile, the AUD/USD pair and the NZD/USD pair both gained 0.2%.


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Well, the dress has been found ... to be a fake!
The thief who took the gown says he took the dress from Lupita's room at The London after finding the door ajar.
[Image via WENN.]
The supermodel said of her 2007 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show ensemble:
"I wasn’t scared (about the value) it hurt. Yeah, diamonds hurt. I don’t know about wearing diamonds on your crotch. It’s like you’re walking and scraping. This is not cohesive to get a man. No man wants a scratchy vagina. That’s not sexy. Nobody wants bruises on their vagina."
[Image via AP Images.]


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The metaverse journey and what this means for businesses
There’s a lot of marketing hype surrounding the metaverse but what does it actually mean and how does this impact businesses?
Following on from Evessio’s well-attended speaking session at International Confex 2022 surrounding the new world of the metaverse, we published an article on the impact of the future of the metaverse and the impact on the events industry. (link to article) But what does the future of the metaverse mean for businesses on the whole?
Read more at: https://eventsroom.com/live/en/node/newsarticle-the-metaverse-journey-and-what-this-means-for-businesses?type=NewsArticle
Read similar stories at: https://eventtechnology.org/category/technology-news/audience-response-news/


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The latest package holidays sales figures from the UK show that all of the islands are up on last year with Minorca proving particularly popular at the moment while key competitors such as Turkey, Portugal and Egypt are struggling while Greece is proving to be fairing surpassingly well, according to Hugh Morgan, the Managing Director of The Monarch Travel Group yesterday.
We've just had the Abta convention in Turkey and while I would not use the words green shoots' there was definitely a sense of optimism with regards to the coming year and the current state of the holiday market mirrors that.
Overall, the package holiday market is looking good and the industry is more up beat than it has been over the past few years with the British economy showing encouraging signs and the Pound remaining strong, Morgan added.
We (Monarch) are expanding our airline fleet for next year so we will have more capacity to meet an expected increase in demand, he said.
However, before the Summer, we need to get through the winter and that is not looking too good at the moment.
The latest package holiday figures show that the Spanish market is down five percent, the Balearics down four percent and Majorca down six percent with even the Canaries posting a mixed bag of results with the market down two percent overall.
But, this winter, the Balearics, and Majorca in particular, is going to have more regular air links to the UK than it has for many years so that should fuel an eventual improvement in the holiday market.
There is, nevertheless, a problem for the main tour operators and that is the September increase in VAT in Spain.
Yesterday, the head of operations in Spain and Andorra for tour operator TUI AG, Ian Livesey, told the President of the Balearics, Jose Ramon Bauza, that many of the tour firms are going to have the revise their prices because of the VAT hike and that could hit holiday sales to the islands in the long term. Hugh Morgan admitted that, considering that prices have gone up by around five percent in the Balearics as a result of the rise in VAT, he is surprised that package holidays to the Balearics are already selling very well. It definitely shows how much the British public love the islands, he claimed.
But Livesey warned Bauza that holiday makers are looking for value for money more than ever because of the European wide recession and any increase in prices reduces a destination's ability to be competitive. And the Balearics has to be aware of the increasing competition it faces, he warned.


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CHEP launches next generation FMCG Retail Display Pallet
Packaging and container company CHEP Australia has released a new “next generation small foodprint retail ready” display pallet, developed in consultation with manufacturers and retailers for the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) retail supply chain.
CHEP said the new FMCG Retail Display Pallet “represents a step change for the industry” and builds on the success of its first generation retail display pallet tool.
The pallet has been engineered to fit the majority of manual handling equipment used in Australian FMCG supply chains and its advanced features include the ability to beam rack where other retail display pallets cannot.
“We put the pallet through rigorous testing to achieve a maximum fork entry width of 735mm on the same footprint,” said Frank Vittoria, CHEP Business Development Manager. “This design achievement means most manufacturers and retailers can integrate the display pallet into their operations without the need for any capital investment,” he said.
New design compatible with existing CHEP timber pallets
During the design phase, CHEP said the team looked at ways to incorporate the new display pallet into existing racking infrastructure. The result was the development of a “racking cradle” that enables display pallets to be racked and is also compatible with CHEP’s timber pallets, which the Company said would give warehouse managers the convenience and flexibility of racking the new display pallet or timber pallet within the same infrastructure.
“We conducted tests in accordance with ISO standards to ensure that the FMCG Retail Display Pallet could be beam racked under load at elevated temperatures, and the results were positive,” Mr Vittoria said.
Anti-slip technology used
CHEP said the FMCG Retail Display Pallet also boasts anti-slip technology for increased safety. The top deck features additional rubber grommets to minimise load movement, resulting in better load containment, and the fork lift entry points have been fitted with rubber grommets to ensure the display pallet will not slip off fork tines while in transit.
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Reduced risk of product damage through one-touch movement from manufacturer to retail floor
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Why department stores are in deep trouble, in one chart
Source: ONS, ConsumerCast
The department store as a retail format is in deep, deep trouble. The fate of House of Fraser, rescued for £90m by Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley after being put into administration, as well as the recent profit warnings at John Lewis and Debenhams (the third this year), are proof of this. But why have the problems facing them become so critical now?
Since the beginning of this year, sales through their stores have fallen off a cliff. They have declined for five months in a row and were down by nearly five per cent in both April and July. This would be bad enough on its own. But with costs of everything from staff to business rates and merchandise rocketing, and profit margins, particularly at House of Fraser, already thin, the trading situation has knocked a whole load of extra nails in the coffin of department store retailing on the high street.
The irony is that, on a total basis, they are not performing that badly, with sales up 2.2% in the past year – not spectacular but not catastrophic either – driven entirely by online sales growth. However, with a high fixed cost base in stores and online facing extra costs ranging from fulfilment to customer recruitment, the net effect on profitability for department stores has been especially damaging.
Furthermore, there is little prospect of rapid growth in consumer spending to come to the sector’s aid. Discretionary spending is being dampened again by food and petrol price inflation and households are busy adjusting for a long period in 2016 and 2017 when they spent ahead of net income growth, suppressing expenditure until at least next year.
Is there any hope for the sector? Well, not without some painful and far-reaching surgery to their property portfolios, which is at the heart of their malaise in terms of costs. At the same time, they need a fundamental shakeup in their product offer to answer the question: why shop with us online/in our stores and not with pureplay operators? Own and exclusive labels, tip top environments with great service and exclusive experiences (not just copycat rollouts of high street casual restaurant chains) are all going to be part of this. If, and only if, department stores tackle the scale of change needed then they will survive, but otherwise they face a swift and nasty commercial death.


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Northern Foods’ move into in-flight catering in collaboration with DHL represents a significant diversification for the company and a new supply model for the airline sector which may interest other food companies. Ben Cooper reports.
When Northern Foods CEO Stefan Barden said last month that the company had invested some GBP500,000 in developing new business areas, it was clear that diversification was the order of the day. But not everyone would have predicted a move into the highly specialised area of in-flight catering.
However, once announced last week, Northern Foods’ partnership with DHL in providing in-flight catering for British Airways’ (BA) short-haul flights out of London Heathrow would seem to make perfect sense.
With its experience in providing quality prepared food at a price for UK supermarket own-label ranges, Northern Foods had the right credentials for BA, while DHL has the logistics experience and technologies to create the necessary efficiencies BA was looking for.
“We supply ready meals, sandwiches and salads for the major retailers which is really what the offering is for British Airways passengers so it’s very much a case of utilising our existing business,” says Andrew Hanson, head of communications at Northern Foods. “We have very specific skills in one area; we can use our existing sites to produce the product and DHL will manage everything in terms of the supply chain. We’re very much sticking to core skills.”
The DHL/Northern Foods partnership has been awarded one of three in-flight contracts announced by BA last week following a tender process. The companies will jointly provide catering services for short-haul flights from Heathrow for a ten-year period from 1 April 2010. BA did point out, however, that the actual contract was with DHL, but stressed that Northern Foods’ involvement was an integral part of the deal.
Like Northern Foods, DHL can also hold up the work it does with UK supermarket chains as underlining its credentials in providing efficient logistics, as Chris Jackson, global vice president Airline Logistics at DHL Exel Supply Chain, explains: “We work in supply chains that are incredibly efficient,” he tells just-food. “If you work for the likes of Tesco and Sainsbury’s in food distribution it has to be incredibly efficient, and we’ve applied that to [the] BA [contract].”
The traditional model for in-flight catering is effectively a ‘one-stop shop’, with companies such as Gate Gourmet providing a complete service of food preparation and delivery. While this is not the first move by a logistics company into the in-flight catering sector, the involvement of a food specialist so closely in the contract marks a break with the past.
BA’s general manager of catering operations, Simon Soni, told just-food that it certainly represented a departure for BA. “It’s a new departure for us; it’s not entirely new in the industry. There are other companies that do a logistics-style model.”
However, what marks out the DHL/Northern Foods link-up, Soni stresses, is the closeness of the collaboration between the food and the logistics providers. “The relationship between DHL and Northern Foods is not a pure subcontracting relationship,” Soni says. “It’s not just that DHL have gone off to buy a commodity from Northern Foods. They’ve formed a partnership themselves to bring this new idea to market. And so Northern Foods are an integral part of that process. Our contract is with DHL but the reason we’ve signed up with DHL is because it’s DHL and Northern Foods as a package.”
Soni also believes that Northern Foods’ market knowledge will prove extremely valuable. “One of the big benefits for us in being linked with a company like Northern Foods is they can bring us a lot of understanding in terms of what consumers are buying,” Soni says. “One thing we don’t have as an airline is detailed point-of-sale information as to what it is that our customers are choosing to eat”.
That said, BA has retained Gate Gourmet and another specialist, Alpha Flight, for its Heathrow long-haul and Gatwick and other airports in-flight contracts respectively. The three BA contracts combined are reportedly worth in the region of GBP1.8bn, though BA would not confirm that figure.
Jackson says DHL would be keen to work with Northern Foods on other supply contracts in the UK or even in other parts of Europe. Hanson also confirmed that Northern Foods was open to the idea of taking the collaboration with DHL further. “This is something that both companies have to prove can work but we believe it has good potential for the future and DHL shares that vision as well,” Hanson told just-food. However, he would not comment specifically on speculation that Northern Foods was looking at a similar move into railway catering.
Meanwhile, DHL says it may look to partner with food companies in other countries in similar collaborations. “We’re certainly looking for the right partner for the right opportunity,” Jackson says. “Northern Foods were brilliant for BA. It would be great if we could expand their range to cover a greater area because they’ve done a brilliant job getting us where we are. It might be on a global basis we look for another partner in another location.”
For both logistics specialists and food companies, the in-flight catering market, estimated at around EUR12bn globally, would appear to represent a significant business opportunity. And if the DHL/Northern Foods partnership does prove to be a sucessful new model for servicing this sector, other food companies may well look for a slice of the action.


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That’s what a group of young business professionals gathered to find out Thursday evening at the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce's Hype Miami panel discussion involving some of the local leaders in the industry. The discussion was held at the Miami Innovation Center.
A group of about two dozen professionals listened to a panel of experts speak about Miami's cultural image, how young entrepreneurs could gain footing in the city and the impact of big events, such as Art Basel and the Ultra Music Festival.
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The innovative Chinese company, Huawei is again in the news and not because it has dislodged Apple in second place in the global smartphone market. CNBC reports in what seems to be a re-hash of an advisory issued six years ago, that the heads of CIA, FBI, and NSA warned the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee that Americans should be cautioned against buying Huawei and ZTE smartphones, two popular Chinese brands. Ironically, the U.S. brand, Apple, has been accused also of spying on user data.
FBI Director Chris Wray issued the strongest ever statement against the popular brand, “We’re deeply concerned about the risks of allowing any company or entity that is beholden to foreign governments that don’t share our values to gain positions of power inside our telecommunications networks. That provides the capacity to exert pressure or control over our telecommunications infrastructure. It provides the capacity to maliciously modify or steal information. And it provides the capacity to conduct undetected espionage.”
Is life imitating art in the post-Cold War era? Is your innocent little phone, a depository of confidential information moonlighting as a spy? Huawei, based in Shenzen China is a 30-year old company but has only been producing handsets since 2003. Present in 170 countries, it has shipped over 139 million units, and in Sept. 2017 dislodged Apple’s firm position as the second most popular brand and is now just behind Samsung. However, this second place position is disputable because Counterpoint Research claims that it is highly popular only in China, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East but not in Northern America. Furthermore, none of its models have ranked as the best selling models with the top spots claimed by iPhone, Oppo, and Samsung.
So, is this commercial witchhunt or a legitimate concern about possible “undetected espionage”? Here’s what the U.S. consumer market was warned about six years ago – a deja vu to current claims:
Huawei has faced grave accusations from the U.S., Australian, and Canadian governments. The U.S. Congress has even gone to the factories but isn’t convinced six years after the initial controversy that Huawei is above board and is not a security threat. Why then were Huawei and ZTE allowed to sell (and prosper) in the U.S. market even after the congressional committee (back in 2012) declared that it had no confidence in these two Chinese companies as far as providing infrastructure, equipment, and services in the U.S. because of the risk to cybersecurity? In particular, there was fear that embedded electronic bugs that could transmit data furtively back to China. Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee claimed that there was a legitimate concern because of the potential leak of trade secrets. The U.S. at that time was reeling from a cyber-attack that exposed 300B worth of trade information that would impact U.S. market competitiveness. Congress has also admitted it was protectionist because Huawei was producing cheap but high-quality products that will potentially outsell U.S. brands at home and internationally.
Back in 2012, Huawei and ZTE have denied the claims and have declared that they are not under the control of the Chinese government. At that time, both companies were told that in order to continue doing business in the U.S., there must be complete disclosure of information – including financial records to ensure that these companies are not merely puppets of the Chinese government. Some quarters referred to this pressure as China-bashing.
Fast forward to 2018, despite its attempt to “sanitize” its image and prove that it is not beholden to the Chinese government, the effect of the announcement on Huawei is disastrous. In the midst of this latest controversy, talks collapsed between ATT and Huawei with the American telecommunications carrier pulling out of their deal. Congress has also an impending bill that will ban government employees from using Huawei phones. Furthermore, in what is seen as commercial pressure, a bill (companion bill to Defending U.S. Government Communications Act) is being introduced by Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, that will prohibit the government from engaging in a contract with companies that use Huawei or ZTE products, equipments or component parts. He is the same congressman who asked for a show of hands on whether they should recommend to Americans the use of smartphones produced by Apple’s Chinese competitors.
Huawei claims that they are in the U.S. for business and not likely to engage in cloak-and-dagger activities. They had reacted strongly to allegations during CES. Huawei released a statement saying that the Congressional report “employs many rumors and speculations to prove non-existent accusations…We have to suspect that the only purpose of such a report is to impede competition and obstruct Chinese ICT companies from entering the US market.”
Whether the claims are true or proven to be high-level paranoia, it pays to be cautious when using our smart devices. Here are some ways we could protect ourselves from inadvertently leaking information to both iOS and Androids.


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Tinder’s mother organization have acquired “the relationship app” Hinge.
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Fit people, which operates online dating apps like Tinder and OkCupid, completed the purchase for the 7-year-old software Hinge on Thursday, as a result of its purchase of a big part share in Summer 2018.
Consistently, Hinge features placed alone because the substitute for Tinder, a means to get away from the shallowness and disappointment of turning through trading-card pages in an unlimited carousel. The self-proclaimed “relationship software,” Hinge matched up men based on her common buddies, got purportedly “designed become deleted,” and boasted enjoy as the center company advantages — deliberately decentralizing the gamification main to swiping software but never very pursuing the sophisticated matchmaking formula promises of Match.com or OkCupid.
In essence, all matchmaking programs offer you the same task, and that is entry to individuals who may want to big date your, many apparatus for sifting through them. You will find little or no concerning the tech alone that makes one and/or other more valuable, therefore purchase an innovative new relationships app is practically literally simply buying more customers.
At this time, it appears just like the forseeable future will dsicover every biggest matchmaking software winding up in the same possession, one among the many reports of market consolidation we’re witnessing with what antitrust professional Tim Wu keeps known as second Gilded Age, and that’s possibly abstractly scary — but extra tangibly when you think of myspace just like the best company which could potentially prevent they.
Something Hinge, and exactly why would fit people need it?
The dating software industry is a massively profitable one, specially given that app-makers posses figured out how-to monetize all their specific services: Match’s fourth-quarter revenue for 2018 indicated that Tinder added 1.2 million new registered users just last year, and that it introduced $805 million in revenue — above twice as much year before. Overall, fit people brought in about $1.7 billion, a fairly large display of a growing pie. Analysts estimate the global relationships app industry are well worth about $12 billion per year by 2020.
The dating software empire owned by the umbrella organization InterActiveCorp (IAC) got created in 1995, with Match.com as its foundation. What’s more, it operates the research tips guide and college-rating company the Princeton Analysis, and from now on owns upward of 45 dating-related enterprises, such as 25 purchases. Following its incorporation last year, they began aggressively courting purchases, including OkCupid last year, next lots of seafood in 2015 — four several months before their first general public supplying, of which it had been valued at $2.9 billion. Their crown jewel is actually Tinder, that has been created by IAC’s internal incubator Hatch laboratories and founded in 2012.
Hinge, on the other hand, practically hit a brick wall at release. Creator Justin McLeod states this complete out the first year with just a few thousand users and $32,000 in lender. They didn’t read quick consumer increases until 2014, relying seriously on advertising that notable it the alternative to Tinder. While Tinder did its better to complement people with complete strangers, Hinge suggested it might be slightly decreased alienating and perplexing if the fits comprise predicated on mutual fb buddies.
By 2015, it was popular, and McLeod ended up being declaring it positioned 35,500 dates and 1,500 relations each week. However the software got extremely unattractive, and fell under feedback for attracting an elitist urge to abandon the masses of Tinder and migrate to one thing even more insular. They didn’t look like anything the firm had been attempting to hide. A Hinge spokesperson informed Vox’s Dylan Matthews at the time: “Hinge people is 99 per cent college-educated, therefore the most well known companies consist of banking, consulting, mass media, and style. We recently receive 35,000 users attended Ivy Category institutes.”
And even though the consumer base was actually growing, McLeod advised mirror Fair that consumer pleasure ended up being losing continuously. The business surveyed their consumers at the conclusion of 2015 and discovered that 54 percentage of the customers reported “feeling lonely” after swiping, and this 81 % have never ever receive a long-term connection. Hinge published its results with a buzzy press drive, calling they “The Relationship Apocalypse.” The app have a big aesthetic overhaul, therefore got relaunched in October 2016 with a $7 fee every month supposed to weed out the unserious. Brand new pages provided both photos and “icebreakers” — various private questions from where consumers could identify three to answer and display on the pages. Most importantly, these were in positioned in a vertical scroll.
“We’ve swiped leftover on swiping,” the organization launched. “Instead of … racking up suits, people build relationships the rich stories in your visibility to get more person discussions. it is like Instagram pages for dating.” And then: “$7 try below your own month-to-month Netflix or Spotify subscription, and no place near the cost of eHarmony ($60/month) or Match.com ($42/month). However it’s enough to make certain everybody is on a single webpage and not only utilizing Hinge for recreation.”
But within per month, it had been offering some users life time free subscriptions, and also by 2017, the free of charge tier had been back for app luxy everybody. Today, the main differences between the no-cost and advanced models are selection possibilities. The cost-free app lets customers filter for sex, venue, age, top, ethnicity, and faith. Hinge popular — in fact it is nonetheless $7 30 days — contributes added filter systems for government, ingesting, smoking cigarettes, medicine need, whether people enjoys kids, and if they desire youngsters. In addition it includes unlimited wants and the means to access “Hinge Specialists” to greatly help artwork your visibility.


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According to the latest figures, sales of motorcycles in Europe appear to be riding into the head wind as the North American markets.
Great news for motorcycle manufacturers, but not so much for the likes of Vespa, Europeans continue to look to the saddle with two-wheeled sales outpacing those of its smaller cousin, the moped.
Experts looking for trends in the latest motorcycle sales found good news in Europe with new registrations continuing to grow.
Coming on the heels of two U.S. studies around rider safety, the topic is also enjoying the spotlight at an annual motorcycle conference being held in Europe, in a way officially making it a worldwide concern.
According to the latest registration numbers out of Europe, motorcycles are becoming more popular than ever, but is it at the cost of the scooter?
According to the latest registration numbers, an increased number of Europeans are taking to two-wheels and motorcycles are more popular than ever.
OCT 06, 2015 - A news item that may go unfairly unreported today should be among the top two-wheeled headlines for riders across all motorcycle types and interests. An agreement between some of the largest motorcycle manufacturers will essentially affect any rider buying a new motorcycle or safety accessory in the near future that uses any type of electronics.