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“A feast for the eyes”
PR campaign to support Macu-Save launched, highlighting the importance of eye health to the over-50s
Zeon Healthcare Ltd, owners of the recently launched macular eye health supplement Macu-Save, has announced details of a PR campaign to raise awareness of the link between nutrition and good eye health amongst the over-50s.
The Macu-Save campaign, A feast for the eyes, will include national radio and media broadcast coverage, endorsed by a celebrity, highlighting the benefits of good nutrition and the role supplements can play in relation to macular health, together with targeted regional press and radio competitions.
Managing director of Zeon Healthcare, Laurence Smith, told OT: “We are delighted with the successful launch of Macu-Save and the tremendous response we have received from our national press advertising campaign, Don’t turn a blind eye to macular damage. A clinically proven formulation supported by a substantial marketing investment has proven to be a winning combination for us.”
He added: “We now feel more needs to be done to raise awareness amongst the over-50s as to how they can improve their macular health and protect their central vision through good nutrition and the correct supplementation. Which is why Macu-Save is planning to launch such an ambitious PR campaign to directly engage with the 50 plus market over this important subject.”
The Macu-Save brand will continue to be supported by the Don’t turn a blind eye to macular damage campaign, together with in-store promotional activity including point-of-sale and consumer literature.
Macu-Save is a once-a-day, macular eye health supplement, containing meso-zeaxanthin, lutein and zeaxanthin. The company said that the formulation has been developed to improve macular eye health and to help combat the early signs of age-related macular degeneration, by “enriching the macular pigment and protecting the macula against the oxidative stress.”
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In August, a group of food industry participants including leading Hispanic supermarket chains Northgate Gonzalez and Vallarta Supermarkets announced the formation of the Latino Food Industry Association (LFIA). LFIA is a trade group that will represent the interests of Hispanic food sellers and purveyors, and promote their impact on the national economy. LFIA, based in […]
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The latest fashion industry news, the international fashion brand, also available in India– Givenchy has announced that designer Matthew M Williams will be the brand’s new Creative Director.
In the fashion industry news, everyone’s currently talking about how after an incredible journey of the powerhouse designer Clare Waight Keller, the international fashion brand in India– Givenchy on the 16th of June 2020 announced its new Creative Director- 1017 ALYX 9SM founder Matthew M Williams.
The latest fashion news is all about this announcement that stated that the 34-year-old Californian designer will relocate to Paris to pursue his first major Creative Director role at the international fashion brand in India and all across the globe- Givenchy.
The criteria behind the appointment and selection were not clarified by Givenchy, an international fashion brand in India and other parts of the world, but considering that LVMH would be keen to add personal friend Williams to its roster.
The designer earlier has also partnered with LVMH- owned Dior for specialty accessories under the supervision of Williams colleague, Kim Jones.
It’s in the front pages of fashion industry news that Williams 1017 ALYX 9SM occasionally shortened to ALYX was founded in 2015. Designer Williams’ ALYX is backed by the Italian powerhouse Slam Jam and the fashion industry news has witnessed the explosive growth of ALYX in the past several years. After achieving LVMH prize finalists status in the year 2016, ALYX’s menswear line debuted the following year 2017 and gradually grew to surpass the womenswear line in the fashion world. 1017 ALYX 9SM is most celebrated for its signature rollercoaster buckle equipped accessories that in the past have also graced Dior runways and become big celebrities favorite. Williams label inspires designs mostly from subcultures as diverse as rock climbing and music. It has also collaborated with big brands like Nike, ROA, and Black means in the past.
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The designer Williams stated “I am honored to join the House of Givenchy,” he further continued “I am looking forward to working together with its teams, to move it into a new era, based on modernity. In these unprecedented times for the world, I want to send a message of hope, together with my community and colleagues, and intend to contribute towards positive change.”
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In his newly appointed role as Creative Director, the designer will be responsible for much of the tasks such as- developing the creative output of the menswear, womenswear, and accompanying accessories, plus the brand image. The designer will showcase his first collection for the international fashion brand in India and other countries- Givenchy in October.


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A TOWN centre gallery has been given a stay of execution as it celebrates 12 months as a hub of creativity.
Volunteers at the Visual Arts Cheshire (VAC) Gallery were told they would have to vacate their Brunner Court premises in January.
But landlord Cheshire West and Chester Council (CWAC) has relented and said the gallery can remain in the shop, formerly the Full of Beans health food shop, until April.
Gill Snowball, from the VAC Gallery committee, said: “Another three months is like Christmas presents for us, we’re delighted.”
Alan Carr, chairman, said: “It’s breathing space to get something organised so we’re not in the same situation in April.
“What that will be we don’t yet know.
“We’ve either got three months to find somewhere to move into or to get enough funding to say to CWAC ‘how much can we pay you to stay here?’”
The gallery is run by volunteers and initially opened in the square in January 2013.
Since then it has hosted 13 exhibitions, a variety of art workshops, several community support initiatives and an international charitable effort, as well as moving premises from 97 Brunner Court to 93 Brunner Court.
Both premises were empty shop units which volunteers refurbished and turned into galleries at their own expense.
Alan said: “It’s an empty shop – if we weren’t in it, no-one would be in it.
“We’re not gaining anything here, we’re giving.”
Gill added: “This was a very quiet and dull part of town but we’ve really helped to regenerate it along with the new seating.
“This summer Brunner Court took on a really continental feel with buskers and artists working outside.
“In our visitors’ book people have said ‘thank goodness it’s not another cash converter, charity shop or betting shop, it’s something inspiring instead’.
“This could be the way forward to regenerate the high street.”
The committee is keen to find a permanent home for the gallery, which will help with funding bids and plans for exhibitions and workshops.
CWAC councillors have donated some funds to help, including Clr Julia Tickridge who said: “Regeneration isn’t 100 per cent retail led, it can’t be.
“This is the future.”
Anyone who can help VAC Gallery find a permanent town centre home, sponsor an exhibition or help support the group should email email@example.com.


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Tablet Computer Ownership Skyrockets, Forces SMBs To Reconsider Online Marketing Strategies
Written by Tim Morral
Report demonstrates consumers' willingness to embrace tablet devices for entertainment, social networking and digital brand connections.
Adoption rates for tablet devices rose dramatically during the second quarter, according to new research by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA).
The CEA's Consumer Outlook on Tablets: Q3 2012 report revealed that approximately one in three (29%) online U.S. consumers own a tablet as of June 2012 -- a remarkable increase of 9 percentage points over tablet ownership rates reported in March.
Additionally, the report showed that approximately two-thirds of online consumers intend to purchase a tablet device at some point; nearly half (45%) plan to do so within the next two years. Furthermore, shipment revenues for tablets are now expected to hit $29.1 billion in 2012, upwardly revising January estimates by almost $11 billion.
With expected tablet unit sales of 68.5 billion, tablet technology is now the driving force in the consumer electronics industry. Kevin Tillmann, senior research analyst at CEA, notes that the household penetration for tablets is expected to increase even more going forward. "Rarely has a new device category been so quickly embraced by consumers, businesses and education," said Tillmann.
Entertainment and video content viewing continues to be the most popular tablet-based activity, followed by social networking, listening to music and e-reading. In growing numbers, consumers are also using tablet technology as a mobile brand connection resource -- a "go anywhere" tool for performing online product comparisons and purchases.
For some SMBs, the rising popularity of tablets may require a reconsideration Internet marketing strategies. Since tablets tend to be larger and more like traditional computing platforms than smartphones, they are more amenable to online shopping and site navigation. So by targeting tablet users in their companies' online marketing efforts, business owners can deliver enhanced marketing content (e.g. video, interactive content, etc.) to consumers while leveraging one of the nation's hottest consumer electronics trends.
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The Russian authorities intend to allocate 20.7 billion rubles to support demand in the automotive industry. This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov.
The minister held a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the automotive industry. The head of the country instructed to update the development strategy within two months in order to finally resolve the issue with support measures.
“As for this year, a decision was made to allocate 20.7 billion rubles to support demand. First of all, this is the renewal of car loans – 10.2 billion rubles, 4.9 billion rubles – for preferential leasing, 2.6 billion rubles – for discounts on electric transport and 3.3 billion rubles – for gas-engine equipment, ”added Manturov.
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US Consumer Prices Rise Unexpectedly, Prompting Inflation Concerns for Policymakers
Consumer prices in the US surged unexpectedly last month, mainly due to higher rent and fuel costs, as reported by the Labor Department. The inflation rate, measuring the pace of price increases, hit 3.7% over the 12 months ending in August, up from July’s 3.2%.
These figures highlight the challenges facing policymakers in stabilising prices after last year’s rapid inflation.
While the inflation rate has eased from its peak, experts believe the US central bank, which targets 2% inflation, remains concerned. The central bank has already raised its benchmark interest rate to 5.25% to 5.5% to curb inflation and is set to meet this month to consider further increases.
Fuel prices were the primary driver of the consumer price jump from July to August, with a monthly inflation rate of 0.6%, the highest since June 2022. Even excluding volatile food and fuel prices, costs still rose by 0.3%, surpassing expectations.
Housing expenses, a major component of the US consumer price index, continued to rise for the 40th consecutive month, defying expectations of cooling.
The Federal Reserve is unlikely to raise interest rates at its upcoming meeting, given that such rate hikes have limited impact on fuel prices, the key driver of August’s inflation surge.
However, Wednesday’s data may prompt future action. Charles Hepworth, investment director at GAM Investments, noted that the figures “won’t reassure the Federal Reserve that the necessary economic cooling is happening as quickly as they desire.” He suggested a November rate hike remains possible.
Higher interest rates aim to cool the economy by encouraging saving and making borrowing more challenging. In theory, this slowdown should alleviate price increases.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell cautioned last month that inflation remains “too high.” He pledged to raise rates further if necessary to ensure inflation moves sustainably towards the 2% target.


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Above: Facebook Express Wi-Fi as delivered by operating partner Surf in Kenya.
By Claus Hetting, Wi-Fi NOW CEO & Chairman
Facebook is ramping up its public Wi-Fi activities with a new Wi-Fi access point certification program that aims at making the Facebook Express Wi-Fi experience better for users and easier to manage for operating partners, the company said in this statement released Tuesday August 28.
More than a billion people on Earth are still unconnected and Facebook is now ramping up its Wi-Fi activities to address the challenge. Tuesday this week Facebook announced the creation of a ‘new partner ecosystem’ for the company’s public Wi-Fi program known as Facebook Express Wi-Fi.
The idea – says Facebook’s Guy Mordecai in this blog entry – is to smoothly and consistently enable user authentication and account for data consumption. “These new access points help devices better detect the registration pages, which helps more people successfully connect to Wi-Fi networks. They also more accurately account for the amount of Wi-Fi data consumed,” says Guy Mordecai.
The new Express Wi-Fi-certified APs will also allow partnering operators to assign classes to Wi-Fi services, for example for the purposes of offering certain kinds of content for free, Facebook says. Contrary to Google Station Wi-Fi – which is monetised via advertising – Facebook Express Wi-Fi is generally not a free service but relies on the sale of prepaid data bundles via operating partners.


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Last month in B&T Magazine, Sydney creative shop The Hallway was behind the IF section and the agency used the opportunity to give us a taste of its cake club.
The club has now jumped off the pages and become an art exhibition in Sydney.
‘A Piece of Cake Club’ is now showing at ‘Het Papier’ , Brenda May Gallery Annex, in Waterloo. Curated by internationally renowned curator and art historian, Akky van Ogtrop, the exhibition comprises a collection of illustrations selected from The Hallway’s “The Book of Cake”.
Van Ogtrop says “I was so impressed by the high quality of The Book of Cake, the innovative and artistic way it was put together and that it was based on such a special idea…it made me realise that design and the visual arts go together and should be shown in galleries and museums and not only on billboards or on TV”.
“The Book of Cake” is a by-product of “Cake Club” – a pillar of The Hallway’s agency culture, that each week sees a different member of The Hallway’s team bake a cake and link their culinary creation to the life or work of 1960s French filmmaker, the late Jacques Tati. The book contains recipes, their somewhat surreal and obscure rationales, accompanied by illustrations by The Hallway’s staff.
The Hallway’s Creative Partner and ECD, Simon Lee, is delighted with the agency’s foray into the art world: “Cake Club started as a somewhat tongue-in-cheek agency ritual. It’s brilliant that it has captured the art world’s imagination, and I’m extremely proud to share our people’s work with Sydney’s art industry and the general public”.
Art historian, Akky van Ogtrop works as curator with art museums, galleries and contemporary art spaces, presenting exhibitions by Australian and international artists. She is president of the Print Council of Australia and an approved valuer for the Australian Government’s Cultural Gift Program.
At ‘Het Papier’ Akky van Ogtrop presents in association with Brenda May Gallery four exhibitions throughout 2014. Brenda May Gallery opened in 2001 and represents a select group of established and emerging artists, and supports non- represented artists by hosting exhibitions throughout the year.
The show runs from 16 July to 9 August at ‘ Het Papier’, Brenda May Gallery Annex, 2 Danks Street, Waterloo. The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday and everyone is invited to visit the gallery and share ‘A Piece Of Cake Club’.
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Australian medical research institute, The Burnet Institute has launched, How Science Matters podcast. The informative podcast will be co-hosted by former ABC Radio journalist Tracy Parish and Burnet institute director and CEO Professor Brendan Crabb AC. Crabb is also a microbiologist, malaria researcher and will share his knowledge on contagious diseases. How Science Matters was […]


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It's the end of the line for Kmart in Western New York.
The last Kmart store in the market, the one at 1001 Hertel Ave., will close by mid-December. A liquidation sale will begin in the middle of the month.
The Hertel Avenue store appeared on an unofficial list of nearly 100 doomed Sears and Kmart stores that has been circulated by an anonymous former employee, and which was printed in USA Today. The list of closures has not been confirmed by the company, but a company spokesman did confirm the closure of the Hertel Avenue store to The Buffalo News. In a statement sent by email Wednesday, the company said it made the "difficult but necessary decision" to close the store "after careful review."
Another Kmart in Bath, Steuben County, also will close, a company spokesman confirmed.
In August, the company announced it would close its Jamestown store at 975 Fairmount Ave. That store is expected to close in late October.
When the company announced last month that it would close the Jamestown Kmart and 25 other Sears and Kmart stores, it hinted that more closures could be on the way.
"We will continue to evaluate our network of Sears and Kmart stores and cannot rule out additional store closures in the near term,” the company said in a statement on Aug. 6. “Our goal remains to return the company to profitability and preserve as many jobs as possible in the communities we serve.”
At that time, there were about 380 Sears and Kmart stores in operation.
Forbes and other publications have reported there have been significant layoffs at Sears headquarters, and that Sears' corporate office complex in suburban Chicago is pending sale, citing employees who were notified or saw documents backing up the claims.


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BOSTON (Reuters) - Jeffrey Saut simply looks up to remind himself which tech stocks will be hot in 2011.
Saut, chief investment strategist for brokerage Raymond James, says he is betting on companies that are leaders in cloud computing -- using Internet technology to move computers and information away from desktops and into remote data centers.
Despite the surge in cloud computing stock prices last year, investors are expecting an encore in 2011 as the revenue growth for these companies rises faster than the broader technology landscape.
Will Danoff, who manages the $72 billion Fidelity Contrafund, is among the most closely watched investors who has embraced the cloud. He says that the cloud is one of his investing strategies for 2011 because he expects companies that sell into the sector to outperform the broader market.
IT research firm Gartner estimates that companies that sell software as a cloud-based service will see revenue growth accelerate this year, climbing 16.2 percent. Last year sales grew an estimated 15.7 percent.
The sector is drawing attention because its sales are revving up just as growth in overall technology spending is on the decline. Gartner sees worldwide tech spending growth slowing to 5.1 percent this year, down from 5.4 percent in 2010.
Buyout speculation on cloud computing leaders sent valuations in the sector to nosebleed levels last year. Cloud pioneer Salesforce.com Inc trades at 122 times next year’s average forecast for earnings per share, compared to a ratio of 13 times for tech blue-chip IBM.
Oracle Corp Chief Executive Larry Ellison last year told Reuters that he looked at buying Salesforce, but that its CEO, Marc Benioff, wanted too much money for the software maker.
Reuters also learned on Wednesday Ultimate Software Group Inc could be the next to go on the block. Ultimate said it has “no present intention” to sell itself.
Some investors are nervous about the high valuations commanded by cloud computing companies, whose volatile trading has led to precipitous declines on some days last year.
But there is simply too much momentum behind the sector to falter this year. “It will probably still emerge as a leader,” said Steve Goldman, market strategist at Weeden & Co in Greenwich, Connecticut.
The optimism on the sector is underpinned by the belief that companies behind them are fundamentally reshaping the way businesses use technology, investors and analysts said.
Cloud leaders like Salesforce.com sell their software through web browsers, saving customers the expense and time of buying and maintaining expensive computer servers.
When Benioff founded Salesforce more than a decade ago, his goal was to make running software for managing corporations as easy as using Amazon or Ebay.com Inc to buy goods. Industry analysts say that to a great extent he has succeeded.
Besides ease of use, cloud computing saves money by providing huge economies of scale. It offers businesses centralized software, storage and computing services that are less expensive to procure. That model is somewhat similar to the one that online retailers like Amazon use to provide discounted goods to consumers.
Raymond James is betting on that the model will work.
Saut says his company estimates that embracing the cloud will shave some 30 percent off his company’s annual IT budget, which runs at about $170 million per year.
The big names in cloud computing also rank among last year’s top-performing stocks: VMware Inc, which sells software to build clouds, saw its shares more than double in 2011. Salesforce.com, which sells software that workers access over the Internet from web browsers, soared 80 percent.
NetApp Inc and EMC Corp, which both sell equipment for storing data in the cloud, were also top gainers in 2010.
Wall Street analysts say they are constantly peppered with questions from portfolio managers eager to profit from the surge in popularity of cloud stocks.
Industry analysts say that cloud computing projects tend to generate quick returns on investments, which means that companies are able to quickly recoup the money they spend on the projects and see tangible benefits to their businesses.
That resonates with Fidelity’s Danoff, who holds cloud players including Google Inc, Amazon, Salesforce, NetApp and Citrix Systems Inc.
Quick and demonstrable returns on investment mean that it is easier to get chief financial officers and chief executives to approve budgets for projects, Danoff said.
“CFOs and CEOs will say ‘Yes Mr. CTO, this is a good thing. We’re going to save money by spending money,'” Danoff said.
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Tech Capital, LLC Provides $2 Million Asset-Based Loan to Gemini Duplication, Inc.
Loan will support company’s acquisition strategy and technology investments
San Jose (July 12, 2017) — Tech Capital, LLC, the asset-based finance company and wholly-owned subsidiary of Tech CU, today announced that it has originated a $2 million asset-based loan for Gemini Duplication, Inc. The company provides statewide legal document evidence retrieval for California attorneys seeking to expedite benefits in workers’ compensation claims.
The highly-fragmented niche was ripe for consolidation and a company with advanced business tactics. The company was founded in 2004 by Dan Mora. Already an industry technology leader, in 2010 Gemini began a “LEAN journey,” diligently identifying waste, improving quality and turnaround time, and ultimately capturing significant market share. As inaugural president of the trade association CWCSA, Dan worked with the California legislature, Department of Industrial Relations and Department of Workers’ Compensation to help pass a bill and regulation resulting in fixed price billing, along with new payment term guidelines. With the new legislation now in effect, payment terms have stabilized and, more importantly, payment processing speed has increased significantly.
“Our ability to adjust to the new statute and regulation has created an opportunity for industry consolidation. With our early investments in technology and LEAN business processes, we’ve been able to acquire smaller companies and integrate them easily,” said Dan Mora, Founder and CEO of Gemini Duplication, Inc. “This loan allows us to accelerate our growth by providing working capital to support our acquisition strategy and technology investment. We are in a complex niche; Tech Capital was able to understand our unique needs and worked with us to create a loan structure to meet our business requirements.”
“We worked closely with Gemini Duplication to ensure that they received a loan perfect for their circumstances,” said Joe Anzalone, Managing Director of Tech Capital, LLC. “Our relationship based approach allowed us to understand the essential elements of Dan’s business model and deliver a customized lending solution that meets Gemini’s working capital needs.”
Tech Capital, LLC began providing asset-based loans in late 2015 for companies (manufacturers, distributors and service companies) in need of revolving lines of credit for debt refinancing, equipment purchases, or as a supplement to working capital.
For more information on Tech Capital, visit: https://www.techcu.com/Business/Business-Loans-and-Lines/Tech-Capital-LLC/.
Tech CU is also a top originator and a preferred lender for SBA guaranteed loans. To learn more, visit https://www.techcu.com/Business/Business-Loans-and-Lines/SBA-Loans/ or contact Tech CU at (800) 448-1467.
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The last quarter of the year will be a testing time for the government. With its honeymoon period well and truly over and the complete package of the public sector spending cuts subject to detailed media scrutiny, questions will once again be raised about the sustainability of economic recovery. This probably seems strange coming after the UK economy recorded its third successive quarter of positive growth, and at the fastest quarterly rate (1.2 percent in Q2) for nine years.
But, as somebody once said, statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is seductive, but what they conceal is vital.
A breakdown of the latest GDP figures shows that, in industrial terms, construction grew by a massive 9.5 percent in just three months and on the spending side, six quarters of destocking finally gave way to restocking. Near double-digit quarterly growth (an annual rate of more than 40 percent) is unsustainable in any industry and particularly while asking whether spending growth will be strong enough to sustain demand when stocks are back to “normal”.
It is the shape of growth as much as the headline number that is important. In the pre-recession period, overall growth was buoyant but it was disproportionately dependent on consumers who spent and borrowed and a government that spent and borrowed. The other bits of the economy, investment and trade, underperformed and the unbalanced GDP profile was always likely to end in tears.
Commentators and policymakers have therefore been talking about a rebalancing, with trade and investment assuming a larger role. This is making a virtue of necessity, given the government’s financial pressures and the difficulties in the personal sector (the debt overhang, slow growth of earnings, higher prices of many essential items, higher taxes and so on). In this context, a more competitive currency and global growth are key to recovery in the UK. So, since the recovery has now lasted half as long as the recession, what progress has been made to rebalance?
There is only some modest comfort for the chancellor ahead of his spending cuts announcement in the latest set of national accounts. The most positive news was on investment, which rose by 1.4 percent in the three months to June, while Q2 this year was 3.7 percent higher than last. In real terms, however, investment is still lower than in 2008.
Disappointingly, the contribution from net trade (the difference between exports and imports) was negative for the fourth consecutive quarter. Weaker sterling has not provided the export bounce expected, perhaps because the UK’s key market, the European Union, has been sluggish or perhaps because companies have used sterling’s fall to rebuild margins.
Worrying from HM Treasury’s point of view was the continued growth of government spending, the target of chancellor George Osborne’s attention on 20 October. In the period covered by the election campaign and the first two months of the new government, spending rose by one percent after adjusting for inflation. Had spending been held at the Q1 level, GDP growth would have slipped under one percent.
These figures have ensured that the chancellor’s announcement will be examined rigorously for clues about the sustainability of recovery. Consumer spending growth has been positive but constrained, but with earnings growth still slow, above-target inflation and tax increases in the pipeline, it is unreasonable to expect more in 2011. The evidence that the private sector is now ready to fill the gap left by a public sector in retreat is mixed at best.
Getting the public finances in shape, however, was always going to be a tightrope walk without an obvious safety net other than interest rates staying historically low. As much as anything, it will be a test of nerve and it has to be hoped that Mr Osborne does not lose his balance.
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Samsung Galaxy S5 Sales: Will it Break Galaxy S4 and S3 Records? Good Business Expected from Flagship Smartphone
By Raymond Ronamai | April 15, 2014 9:03 PM EST
Samsung Electronics is expecting big from its recently released flagship smartphone, Galaxy S5 with its sales expected to beat Galaxy S4 and S3.
New Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphones are seen on a display at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
Samsung Galaxy S5 was unveiled on 24 February before it was released into the market on 11 April. It received mixed reviews from critics upon unveiling, with some praising it as a good upgrade from its predecessor, while some were disappointed as some of the speculated features were not seen.
Analysts and fund managers claimed that the impressive initial sales of the phone will remove the concerns of the investors on the business of company's new device, reported The Korea Times.
"Against earlier expectations, the S5 was well-received by consumers in the global market. We don't have any plans to advise our big clients to unload their Samsung stock," a senior fund manager from a US based investment bank in Seoul told The Korea Times in a telephone interview.
"Samsung's smartphone business has been faring well since the introduction of the first Galaxy mobile phone. The S5 will be a major turning point for Samsung's mobile business. That's why Shin Jong-kyun, the company's mobile chief himself, checks sales figures and stock movements," a senior Samsung executive told the paper.
Samsung Electronics told the daily that 1.3 times as many S5s were shipped on 11 April as it did for S4s, when it was launched a year ago, owing to huge demand of the new device in some European countries, and at least 35 million units are expected to be shipped in the second quarter of this year.
Galaxy S4, which was initially released in more than 110 countries, set a new record by selling more than 10 million units in less than a month, breaking the earlier record of 10-million mark in 50 days. Galaxy S5 is expected to do even better than its predecessors. It has been launched in 125 countries and made available on major retail stores - Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and US Cellular.
Samsung Galaxy S5 sports a 5.1-inch Super AMOLED display with full HD (1920x1080p) resolution, powered by 2.5GHz Snapdragon 801 (32-bit architecture) series processor and runs on Android v4.4.2 KitKat OS. It also has a few value-added features like fingerprint sensor for secured unlocking of the screen and safe mobile payment, water and dust-resistant certifications, camera with fast autofocus speed up to 0.3 seconds, advanced High Dynamic Range (HDR), and fifth generation Wi-Fi 802.11ac and 2X2 MIMO with Download Booster.
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Brumlow Mills adds former Spartan execs
July 9, 2001,
Three casualties of the now-defunct Spartan International are back in business and calling Brumlow Mills, based here, their new home.
Dwyer and Kirsh both held similar titles most recently at Spartan. Weltzer was Spartan's vp, sales.
The three new executives have been hired to aid Brumlow Mills' new initiative to expand into importing and new product categories. Spartan International shut down in May. All three positions are new and were created for Dwyer, Kirsh and Weltzer.
"First and foremost, Mitchell Brumlow welcomed the three of us like family, and it's an honor for us because he's done such a great job with the company, and he's made us feel so welcome," Kirsh said. "We're glad to be able to bring to the company a new perspective — importing. We're here not to make any changes, but just enhance an already great and successful company."
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THAILAND - The new Chinese ambassador to Thailand insisted yesterday that rail-link cooperation with the mainland would be advantageous for Thailand and the region.
In his first press conference since taking the post in Bangkok last month, Ambassador Ning Fukui said: "This is one of the four major projects China will be pushing in the future". Other bilateral cooperation would include education, new energy and water management, he said. The ambassador said China's prosperity would also be linked to the development of its neighbours.
Trade between China and the ASEAN was worth US$400 billion (S$501 billion) in 2012, and the aim is to boost the value of trade to $1 trillion by 2020.
Beijing has been pushing for an ambitious Trans-Asian Railway link with Southeast Asia, which it says will offer great economic advantages to the ASEAN bloc.
"We have had close cooperation between the Chinese and Thai sides, but it's still in the stage of consultation," the ambassador said.
He added that cooperating over the high-speed rail link with China would be positive in many ways, given Beijing's ability to build bullet trains, that are already popular in China, as well as low construction costs. Thailand also stood to gain due to its location.
Ambassador Ning also spoke of Beijing's determination to push for stronger ties with the Kingdom, adding that large Chinese firms were planing to boost investment in Thailand in the near future. The envoy said Chinese PM Li Keqiang would visit ASEAN next month.


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The University of Michigan/Thomson Reuters index for consumer sentiment was up to 84.1 from a low of four months of 80 during March. Economists had projected the index to by 83 after a preliminary reading for April of 82.5.
Consumers became more optimistic over current conditions than at any one period since July of 2007, thanks to stock prices at near records, smaller numbers of unemployed and higher values on property helped with household finances.
Consumer sentiment is going higher, said one economist, which means people have been getting new jobs or wages have increased and they feel more stable about their financial situation.
Estimates from 63 economists in one survey ranged from a low of 78.5 to a high of 85. In the five years prior to December of 2007, the index had an 89 monthly average. Following the start of the recession in December of 2007, the monthly average contracted to 64 for 18 months starting in January of 2008.
Stocks were lower on Friday following results from Visa, Inc to Amazon.com that disappointed while at the same time tension in Ukraine escalated.
The consumer sentiment index measures the views of American’s personal finances.
The data released today is in line with other data regarding sentiment. A consumer comfort index from Bloomberg was up last week to a level that was its highest since August of last year, as more Americans became more upbeat about providing for the family than at any one time in the past six years.
Gains in consumer sentiment have translated to stronger sales. Cars as well as light trucks sold during March at an annualized rate of 16.3 million, which was the fastest rate since May of 2007. The pace in February annualized for the year was 15.3 million.


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Clonezone, the British-based gay retail chain, has apparently fallen victim to the global economic downturn.
PinkNews.co.uk has reported that the company, which runs ten stores as well as an online store selling gay-related products, has gone into administration.
Clonezone’s products include books, magazines, DVDs, designer underwear and other gay lifestyle items.
The company told the website that it was not prepared to comment to the media at this point.
According to some reports, stores in Leeds, Brighton, Newcastle and Bristol have already closed while the fate of the Soho, London, store is unclear.


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Intel is encourage on high of the semiconductor market as the firm with the friendly income for 2019 – after rating 2d at the encourage of Samsung in both 2017 and 2018. The principle factor at the encourage of this alternate is declared to be a lowered quiz for DRAM, which has hit Intel’s opponents no longer easy.
DigiTimes experiences that “Intel reclaims high situation in semiconductors” when the usage of the income of the numerous companies as a basis for its rating. It’s reported that in 2019 the market as a total saw a dip of 12% in income in contrast to 2018, one thing that had a larger impact on other companies than it had on Intel.
Andrew Norwood, study VP at Gartner says: “Oversupply in the DRAM market helped push the total memory market down 32.7% 2019. The memory market accounted for 26.1% of semiconductor gross sales in 2019 and was the worst-performing procedure segment,”. Samsung is larger on memory production than Intel, which has led to Samsung being hit more tough by the decrease in quiz.
Gartner – the study and advisory firm talked about earlier – has also made a prediction for how the semiconductor market is going to construct throughout the year 2020. At the birth place, at the cease of 2019 a 12.5% increase was estimated. Alternatively, since the COVID-19 outbreak Gartner has revised its world semiconductor market outlook this year to a 0.9% dip.
Kitguru says: Intel and Samsung are swapping areas as the chief of the semiconductor market. Alternatively, both companies will contain many challenges sooner than them in 2020.


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May 24, 2016
Frozen Food Recall Creates Consumer PR Problems
Listeria. Ask most folks what it is and what it does, and they would have a hard time explaining it. But ask them if they want it in their food, and they know full well it’s very bad. Just the mention of the word leads consumers to stop buying, much less consuming certain products. Now the outbreak scare extends to frozen food, some bought as far back as 2014.
According to the Associated Press a “massive frozen foods recall” has been initiated. The recall involves fruits and vegetables shipped to all 50 states as well as Canada and Mexico. Regulators are worried they will have a tough time getting consumers to check through their freezers, so they are tossing a fairly wide net.
The recall includes more than 400 products from Pasco, Washington-based CRF Frozen Foods. The food is sold under 40 different brand names at retailers including Costco, Target, Trader Joe’s and Safeway. According to reports, eight people have come down with Listeria, and two have died, though other illnesses contributed to their deaths.
CDC response team representative Matthew Wise told the AP: “Unquestionably, this is a lot of product. … It reflects the severity of Listeria as an illness, the long duration of illnesses and the outbreak and the long shelf life of the products…”
There is nothing in that statement that allows for much in the way of hope or does anything to assuage consumer fears. Worse, even though the CRF plant has closed, the company still can’t find the cause of the contamination. They knew which plant it came from, but they don’t know what caused it.
At this point, the only positive call to action the company has is to send concerned consumers to an online list of recalls to see if their food made the “maybe” list.
From strictly a PR perspective, keys to re-establishing consumer trust in cases such as these are quick answers and definitive decisions. You need to convince people your products are safe, and to do that, you need to show them you know what happened and how you fixed it.
In this case, the company involved doesn’t yet know what happened, and it’s likely most people won’t take the time to check the recall list. They’ll just toss out what they have and buy it somewhere else. Because of this, multiple brands and retailers have a vested interest in finding and communicating specific answers as soon as possible. Wait too long and you will give consumers time to change their buying habits for good.


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Neighbors who’ve recently driven by the farm of Anna and Eric Lancaster have noticed something out of the ordinary. Where tomatoes and peas usually grow, close to 300 pumpkins and gourds have sprung up over the past three months.
Growing pumpkins is a new experience for the Lancasters, who last year sold fresh vegetable soup, jams, jellies and pickles with produce grown on their farm.
This year, they took on the challenge of providing pumpkins for Pumpkinpalooza, downtown Starkville’s fall/Halloween celebration that begins at 6 p.m. tonight.
“When we decided to do it, we just wanted a fall crop, something different than turnip greens or having a second crop of tomatoes,” said Anna Lancaster. “We figured our kids, which are 6 and 10, would have fun watching the pumpkins grow.
“It’s turned a few heads, too,” Lancaster added. “We’ve had several people stop to look at what we had and even saw someone walking through it.”
Lancaster will sell the pumpkins for anywhere between $1 and $6, depending on the size. Considering this year’s harvest was a “trial run,” she’s pleased with the results. And despite having a farming background, growing pumpkins was a learning experience.
“There’s normal diseases pumpkins can get,” Lancaster said. “And just keeping them watered and spraying for squash bugs. And every once and a while, turtles will come and bust up your pumpkins.”
More than 5,000 people are expected to attend this year’s event, the second in Starkville Main Street’s “New South Weekend” lineup. Each of the four New South Weekend events falls on the day before a Mississippi State University home football game. The Bulldogs host South Carolina at 11:21 a.m. Saturday.
The event, held on Main Street, is free. Residents and visitors are encouraged to shop at Main Street stores and eat at downtown restaurants, which will stay open late.
Pumpkinpalooza debuted last year and drew 5,000 people. This year’s event was featured in Mississippi Magazine, the first Starkville festival to gain statewide exposure, Starkville Main Street Manager Jennifer Gregory said.
“I think it’s so popular because it’s a family friendly event with a Halloween theme,” Gregory said. “Most kids are going to wear their Halloween costumes, and parents are going to buy pumpkins. We realized there was a void for this type of an event two years ago.”
Pumpkinpalooza will start with a Mississippi State pep rally featuring mascot Bully and the MSU cheerleaders in front of the pumpkin patch. Main Street merchants will host trick or treating, and retailers will feature MSU Fashion Board models dressed in Halloween makeup and hair.
The Starkville Area Arts Council will have a free pumpkin painting station, and Dandy Doodlez will hold a face painting booth. Starkville Community Market vendors will sell baked goods and tailgating items.
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text: Carlyle Group and other shareholders of Ctrip.com are continuing to offload holdings in the Nasdaq-listed Chinese travel portal. The shareholders yesterday offered to sell 2.197 million American depositary shares (ADS), or 14 per cent of the outstanding shares, in a deal jointly led by Credit Suisse First Boston and Merrill Lynch, sources said. The deal size could be increased 15 per cent or 329,550 ADS if demand from investors was strong. The disposal is the third time the shareholders have cut their Ctrip stake after the six-month lock-up period expired in early June. Shortly after the lock-up period ended, the existing shareholders sold a 21.61 per cent stake in Ctrip to Jasdaq-listed online shopping centre operator Rakuten for US$109.64 million, at US$33 per ADS. Four months later they sold 1.05 million ADS at US$40.60 each, reaping US$42.63 million. Pricing will be fixed after the US market close tomorrow but it is estimated existing shareholders will reap at least US$100 million. Shares in Ctrip have nearly doubled since its Nasdaq listing one year ago. Earlier this month the shares touched an all-time intraday high at US$56.91 per ADS after it revealed a deal with Dallas-based Pegasus Solution that would give Ctrip access to Pegasus's reservation database of more than 60,000 hotels worldwide.


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Pitney Bowes Inc.PBI has signed a mail transformation deal with one of Europe's leading providers of customer communications, Communisis. Through this 10-year collaboration, Pitney Bowes will facilitate Communisis in becoming the transactional services' world leader.
For this, the company will introduce transformational mailing insertion software and solutions for Communisis at the latters' Transactional Print and Mail Center of Excellence project in Yorkshire, UK. With this integrated solutions, Pitney Bowes will help the advancement of Communisis' transactional mail services to its clients via leveraging efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
Notably, Communisis, which is enjoying a speedy development with the physical and digital communications offering to its top clients, seeks to further intensify its foothold in the domain. Pitney Bowes' expert aid will help the company in processing and distributing hundreds of millions of transactional mails for its customers.
The latest deal strengthens Pitney Bowes and Communisis bond, which has tasted success in their former endeavor. Previously, Pitney Bowes fruitfully supported Communisis in its first Transactional Print and Mail Center of Excellence project in Liverpool, UK.
As a matter of fact, Pitney Bowes has been focusing on stabilizing its mailing business by undertaking strategic marketing initiatives like go-to-market strategy and SaaS-based SMB relay communications hub. Particularly, the launch of Relay Multi-Channel Communication Suite is expected to boost the performance of its SMB segment, going forward. This apart, over the past few months, Pitney Bowes has introduced several new products and services across its portfolio, that is expected to augment top-line growth in the near term.
Consequently, we believe the company's three major targets for the latter half of 2015, namely, stabilization of its mail business, growth in digital commerce and improvement in operational excellence, are already showing signs of success.
However, although the Communisis alliance promises strong long-term prospects, in the near term Pitney Bowes may face challenges due to the prevailing softness in the European economic environment.
Pitney Bowes currently carries a Zacks Rank #4 (Sell). Better-ranked stocks in the industry include Sharps Compliance Corp. SMED , Sealed Air Corp. SEE and CECO Environmental Corp. CECE . While Sharps Compliance sports a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), CECO Environmental and Sealed Air hold a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
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Middleton Shopping Centre has revealed a new plan to put a focus on local businesses to support Middleton retailers.
The centre’s wider strategy includes letting agents in Barker Proudlove, which will be working alongside Middleton team to ensure a diverse mix of local independents alongside its existing brands over the coming months. The centre is already in early talks with a number of local organisations which have expressed their interest in being part of the town centre scheme.
Marie Gribben, centre manager at Middleton Shopping Centre, said: “UK retail has gone through some enormous changes over the past year. While this has meant the unfortunate closure of some popular brands, it does present us with an opportunity to shake up the centre offering, and increased support for local independents will play a big part in that.
“We have a great mix of retail at the centre, offering a blend of big-name brands that our customers know and love and in recent months, we’ve begun talks with other fantastic local brands.
“We have always been committed to ensuring we provide our customers with a diverse mix of shops, cafés and services, and this move will ensure we continue to do just that, while also providing support for many smaller businesses in the local community. Our approach is collaborative, and we’d encourage any local businesses looking for new premises to get in touch.”Back >


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New Riverland ad urges tourists to be on 'river time'
A tourism advertisement showcasing South Australia's Riverland will premiere in cinemas across the state today.
The commercial is part of the State Government's Best Backyard campaign, which aims to encourage South Australians to holiday closer to home.
It features several local businesses, including Banrock Station, the Wilkadene Woolshed Brewery and the Overland Corner Hotel.
Tourism Minister Leon Bignell says the commercial focuses on the region's relaxed way of life.
"Well it's all about being on 'river time' and we know that the river has that nice, gentle pace to it and that's what we want people from Adelaide, in particular, to just escape the hustle and bustle and let their bodies return to a more normal pace," he said.
"We want to see people getting up ... there and inject even more money into the local economy."
The region's peak tourism body, Destination Riverland, says it is confident the new advertisement will help attract more visitors to the region.
Chairwoman Joan Hall says it captures the diversity of the Riverland and its experiences.


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What makes Africa special?” an emcee asked a crowd of about 250 people at the African Student Union’s (ASU) seventh annual cultural show.
“It’s where my mom came from.” “The diversity.” “To be from there is so rich,” audience members replied.
Held on May 11 at the Stevenson Event Center, the theme of the night was “Our Africa.” ASU chose this theme after anger and dissatisfaction with the media’s misrepresentation of Africa, such as the continent experiencing only extreme poverty or lack of resources. To combat these stereotypes, ASU decided to showcase what Africa means to its members.
“We want to show you that, what is our Africa is not what you think it is or what you say it is,” said ASU co-chair Simi Ojelade.
The night consisted of skits, traditional dances from several African countries and a game of Kahoot, a form of trivia, asking a variety of questions about Africa such as, “Which country in Africa has the largest movie industry?” and “Which African country hosts the largest number of refugees?”
ASU members lightheartedly portrayed some of the struggles of being first-generation African Americans through skits. Actors recreated situations of their parents meeting their significant other, finding out about body piercings and getting an A-minus grade on a test. Each situation ended with a parent taking off their sandal and chasing their child off-stage. ASU co-chairs expressed wanting to poke fun at these experiences and claim them as their own.
“It’s one of the parts of growing up with African parents,” said ASU co-chair Blen Tewodros. “It’s difficult for the parents to get accustomed to the culture and us wanting to go out, or getting an A-minus. This is not to say that it is every African story, they are things we personally felt our parents have pushed on us.”
ASU also sold a variety of traditional Jamaican dishes, including jerk chicken, beef or tofu, rice with red beans and greens.
Preparations for the cultural show began five months in advance to coordinate dance practices, dress rehearsals and costumes.
The Sudanese Dance Group performed a traditional sword dance. Dressed in elaborate and colorful garments, female dancers moved around the stage, shaking their shoulders, while holding swords.
A second group performed two dances from different Ethiopian and Eritrean tribes, as well as a ceremonial wedding dance. The dancers were dressed in variations of white embroidered dresses.
The event ended with a fashion show of ASU members wearing traditional attire from Kenya, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana and other African countries. Some outfits were very traditional and reflected the culture of each country. Others were more modern and paired with jeans.
Models strutted down the stage and posed for pictures to a combination of current and traditional African music, showcasing the unique and diverse culture of each country in an effort to demonstrate that there is more to Africa than what is commonly portrayed by media.
Members of ASU, such as emcee Lewis Odiase, expressed the desire that students leave with a different and broader understanding of the life and people of Africa.
“A lot of the way media portrays Black people and Africans, like if you’re from Africa you live in a hut, or if you’re Black all you do is rap,” said third-year and emcee Lewis Odiase. “We want to portray them in a correct and accurate light, show all the things we have in our culture [and] actually understand that what media portrays is not the truth and see just how beautiful our culture really is.”


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There is an urgent need to improve large-scale grain and produce storage in Africa to reduce food losses to protect consumers from the serious health consequences of high aflatoxin levels, experts have said.
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If you’ve used StubHub before, then it was probably to buy overpriced tickets to a sold out live music or sports event. Well it looks like the eBay-owned ticket seller wants to expand beyond the music and sports category into theme parks, museums and movie theaters. But how would StubHub movie tickets sales even work?
And would people be willing to pay more for movie tickets to sold out movie screenings? I know even in Los Angeles, the movie mecha of the world, it’s fairly easy to find a ticket to the hot movie of the week at least somewhere (of course big event movies like Avatar and Chris Nolan films sell out all IMAX screenings for the first few days of release).
“We’re not quite at the movie theater stage yet,” Michael Katz, StubHub’s head of merchant services cautions. “It may not start tomorrow, but being a marketplace for fans to access entertainment experiences is certainly how we’re looking at things moving forward.”
How StubHub Movie Tickets Sales Could Be Great
A deal with movie theater chains could see StubHub become a rival to Fandango and MovieTickets.com. Variety, who broke the story, speculates how that kind of deal could work:
One way could be to broker partnerships with large exhibition chains. The company already started offering live theater tickets through pacts with companies like Nederlander to fill seats at Hollywood’s Pantages Theatre for “Wicked,” for example, and shows on Broadway like “Book of Mormon,” through Telecharge. While exhibitors have never been keen on discounting tickets through other sellers, StubHub could prove helpful in filling screenings during off-peak hours like matinees or weeknights when business is slower.
Now this could be awesome, incentivizing movie-going to less popular films or less popular time slots with cheaper ticket prices. StubHub has done this model with concerts, selling unsold tickets at a discounted price to fill events. StubHub claims to have helped crack down on illegitimate scalpers by providing consumers with a safe place to buy extra tickets.
StubHub, of course, also offers an eBay like experience allowing their users to sell their purchased tickets to events, and that might be another option for how they will handle movie tickets.
How StubHub Movie Tickets Sales Could Be Horrible
What worries me here is there really isn’t a secondary market for movie tickets right now, but if StubHub enters the game it could create one. This could encourage people to purchase tickets in bulk for big blockbuster films like Star Wars: The Force Awakens with plans to resell the tickets for a profit on StubHub.
In big cities like Los Angeles, this could be a bigger problem as reserved seating is offered at most venues. Imagine if “scalpers” bought up the middle sections to big blockbuster films to sell on StubHub, making it harder for someone to buy a “good seat” at ticket price. But again, the demand would have to warrant that kind of activity, which might not be an issue except for the biggest of event movies.
Apparently the idea came about when Regal Cinemas’ opened the first 4DX theater in the United States in Los Angeles’ L.A. Live and people started selling the Transformers: Age of Extinction 4DX tickets on StubHub. An experience we reviewed here.Cool Posts From Around the Web:


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September 2 - Hill Dickinson has appointed Caroline Thomas as a new partner at its Hong King practice, effective September 5, 2016.
Thomas specialises in insurance, shipping and competition law with a focus on dispute resolution and regulation.
United European Car Carriers (UECC) is calling for aggressive emissions targets to be set by the EU under the proposed move to include shipping in the Emissions Trading System (ETS).
Logistics and transportation solutions company BDP International has appointed Neil Wheeldon to serve as chief strategy and innovation officer, a newly established role at the company.
Newbuild multipurpose ship orders will not hit pre-pandemic levels this year, according to Drewry’s recently published Multipurpose Shipping Forecaster report.
DP World has partnered with UK-based development finance institution and impact investor CDC Group to create an investment platform in Africa.
Quality Cargo Networks (QCN) is positive regarding the future of in-person networking events and has outlined a number of upcoming events.
Lars Hedderich is stepping down from his role as managing director of the Eurogate Intermodal (EGIM) on December 31, 2021.
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Slumping Economy is Driving Americans to the Web to Save on Prescription Drugs
WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK — April 6, 2009 — The amount of people searching for prescription drugs online jumped 34% from the first quarter of last year to the first quarter of this year according to PharmacyChecker.com, based on analysis of traffic to its site, a leading destination for consumers seeking to safely save on prescription drugs. The jump in traffic to www.PharmacyChecker.com indicates that more people are looking to reduce drug spending.
"In these rough times, more people are searching to find medication at lower cost and we are glad to help," said Tod Cooperman, MD, President of PharmacyChecker.com. "The alternative is to stop treatment, which can be disastrous." A recent survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation showed that forty percent of Americans have trouble paying for drugs and twenty-nine percent of these people have skipped a prescription due to cost.
The PharmacyChecker.com site allows consumers to compare prices on drugs available from licensed pharmacies in the U.S. as well as in Canada and other regulated countries -- which are most likely to offer the highest savings to Americans on brand name medication. PharmacyChecker.com monitors these sites for compliance with the membership terms of its Verification Program that include pharmacy license verification, checking prescription requirements, and mystery shopping.
"The U.S. government permits personal importation of medications even though, technically, importation is not legal," noted Dr. Cooperman. "Americans should take full advantage of this opportunity if they do not have drug coverage or if their coverage makes medication too costly. Brand name medications can often be purchased at a 70% savings abroad. Similar savings on generics can be found right in the U.S. by price shopping online. But it's most important to avoid sites, whether U.S. or foreign, that have not been verified."
PharmacyChecker.com operates the largest independent verification service of U.S. and foreign online pharmacies. Its verifications are used by Google adWords, Yahoo Search Marketing, and Microsoft adCenter to qualify online pharmacy advertisers, providing visitors a safer shopping experience. It also provides one of the largest drug price comparison websites, which is free to consumers.
PharmacyChecker.com is a privately held company based in New York. It has no ownership in or from companies that sell or distribute pharmacy products. The company also operates www.MedicareDrugPlans.com where seniors can compare, rate, and review Medicare Part D prescription drug plans.
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SEC Charges Adult Entertainment Token Platform With 2017 ICO Fraud
The Securities and Exchange Commission accused Jonathan Lucas, a 27-year-old manager in the online adult entertainment market, of managing fraudulent coin transactions (ICO).
According to the SEC lawsuit, the company claims that investors can buy their day and use it to request certain adult direct promotions on the platform.
“The Fantasy Market is a market for customer-based digital presentations,” according to the company’s LinkedIn profile. “Our tokens control what the players say and do during the show.”
All company team members, except Lucas, were made according to the complaint, which listed many of the Company’s misrepresentations about promoting ICO.
The ICO runs from September 3 to October 16, 2017, with the aim of collecting $ 25 million, selling 125 million FMT, and complimenting each token with 20 cents, according to the white paper marker.
For six weeks, Fantasy Markets collected $ 63,000 of crypto currency from more than 100 investors for fraudulently offering and selling unregistered digital securities – CEO Lucas even said he had $ 2 million to $ 25 million. Target dollars collected.
The SEC said that Lucas was promoting FMT sales by misleading future investors.
He told investors that there was a private pre-sale of an accredited investor, but this never happened. Lucas also said that the tokens will be listed on the main exchange and the company has verified that its investors are accredited; Neither claim is true.
The company makes another false statement when confirming that all transactions have been secured, because users can only buy tokens with Bitcoin or Litecoin on the ERC-20 blockchain, which does not occur.
In fact, according to the SEC’s guess, no day was issued, and his request for Astralum never came. Received money flows into marketing, not into product structure.
The SEC filing is accompanied by an approval decision, which means that the defendant has taken a decision against it.
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How Bitcoin Is Used by Activists and Refugees to Promote Human Rights
CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen is joined by the Human Rights Foundation’s Alex Gladstein and Syrian entrepreneur Moe Ghashim to discuss how cultural context shapes the way people view bitcoin, including stories from the Middle East.Many bitcoiners see cryptocurrency as a cypherpunk tool that enhan …


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The Ford Motor Company is recalling more than 500,000 sport utility vehicles across the United States due to fire hazards resulting from a possibly cracked fuel injector.
Ford, the second-largest car dealership in the United States, said while the likelihood of fires was rare, it was obligated to offer the recall after being notified of at least 20 such incidents. The recall affects the company’s Bronco Sport and Escape SUVs manufactured between model years 2020 and 2023.
FORD EXPLAINS HOW TO MAKE AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE GO FURTHER IN THE COLD
According to the company, a cracked fuel injector can cause fuel or fuel vapor to build up and cause a fire under the vehicle’s hood. Repairs are not yet available, but Ford is working on a software update that will alert owners if their vehicle’s fuel injector is compromised.
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“If a pressure drop in the fuel rail is detected, engine power will automatically be reduced to minimize any risk, while allowing customers to drive to a safe location, stop the vehicle and take arrangements for maintenance,” the company said in a statement.
Despite the recall, Ford is not urging consumers to stop driving the models in question. Instead, the company says if drivers suspect there’s a problem with their vehicle, they should take it to a dealership and have it inspected.
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If there is a problem, Ford will replace the cracked fuel injector. The company is also extending its warranties to cover a cracked fuel injector for up to 15 years.


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Hyundai IONIQ is the first car ever to gets 3 electric powertrain options in a single body. With uniqueness being the hallmark of this model, Hyundai’ ‘ION’ comes from the name of an electrically charged atom while ‘Q’ depicts visual breakthrough thus spelling IONIQ as a new approach to the vehicle. The sole image of Hyundai IONIQ depicts a saloon shape and sharp shoulder line besides a coupe like roofline at the rear.
To be offered in Plug-In, EV and Hybrid versions, Hyundai IONIQ is built on a brand new platform so as to accommodate all these engine options, all of which are fuel efficient and offer lower auto emissions.Hyundai Blue Will Concept
The hybrid engine uses the gasoline burner and motion of the vehicle to charge its battery. Promising sporty handling and efficient propulsion, Hyundai IONIQ once launched will compete against hybrids such as the Toyota Prius, Chevrolet Volt, and Nissan Leaf.
Hyundai’s hybrid project goes back to 2009 when the company showcased the Blue Will concept car while in 2012 released details on a concept that had a small petrol engine range extender driving its rear wheels along with an electric motor. The Blue Will concept car featured a 1.6 liter petrol engine and a 134 bhp electric motor.
Hyundai recently celebrated sales of 1 million cars in the UK where in Hyundai UK boss Tony Whitehorn spoke of low emission vehicles soon becoming an integral part of the company future growth with plans to introduce 22 such vehicles by the year 2020.


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HP, EMC get into store rage (geddit!?!)
You're terminated, EMC
After the public humiliation HP delivered at its Stress Free conference in New York a few weeks ago, the company has finally put the boot into EMC's goolies by terminating its storage agreement with the firm. HP said EMC will continue to work together on interoperability and that warrants and contracts for existing customers will remain intact. However, said Nick Dagg, enterprise storage marketing manager at HP UK: "The decision to part ways with EMC was a decision made in the best interests of HP customers." EMC customers may, however, demur. ®
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in my debate with Roger Ver. Im a natural talker and love connecting with people. Equinox is our version 2 of Bitcoin Interest where we have made a massive overhaul of the coin and everything that goes with. However, some members of the community wholeheartedly believe there wont be a split, some believe there will and one chain will die off rather quickly, and others think things could end up like the Ethereum network fork, which also had no replay protection but both chains. Equinox features will begin to roll out at the end of September. Changing from Equihash to ProgPoW, interest is getting better with Segregated Pools. Mining reward for solving a block will no longer be halved. Bitcoin SV and the exchange considers it an altered version of the Bitcoin Cash protocol. I wanted to post this here as a reference. With all thats happening and even though the fork is still about two and half months away, two exchanges have come forward with their plans for the fork.
Ostaa bitcoins mobiili luotto, Suomen bitcoin, Bitcoin hinta index - reaaliaikainen bitcoin hinta kaavioita, Miten bitcoinin market cap työtä,
Two exchanges have announced their plans concerning the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) fork planned for November. Exchanges Begin to Announce Fork Plans. In regard to the exchange calling Bitcoin SV an altered version of BCH, the firm Coingeek believes Coinex should define the Bitcoin ABC client in the same manner. Weekly - 1,600 19,200 BCI per year. Bitcoin (BTC) is known as the first open-source, peer-to-peer, digital cryptocurrency that was developed and released by a group of unknown independent programmers named Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008. What did you change? Nchain CEO: The Winning Chain Will Compete for Votes Under Nakamoto Consensus. You can even look up the exchange rate for a transaction in the past. Click here - Equinox - to learn more).
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Best of the Web for Windows users - 9 - 15 October 2016
This week we have learned that the next major update to Windows 10 will debut in March 2017 and that it will focus on making the jumping between PC and smartphone easier than ever. Also, recent changes in Windows Insider builds suggest that other important features are coming. To learn more details, as well as other interesting news about products like Xbox One, HoloLens, Windows 10 Mobile and Skype, read this week’s recap:
Microsoft: the news of the week
These articles are this week's most important news in Microsoft's ecosystem:
Windows 10’s next major update to debut in March - Microsoft is planning at least two major updates to Windows 10 next year, and the first (codenamed Redstone 2) will likely arrive in March.
Windows 10 Redstone 2 will make jumping between PC and phone even easier - Microsoft is working on bringing a contextual user interface to Windows 10 that will pop up a notification telling the users that they are able to sync an app’s state from another device and continue exactl y from whe re they left off. This will be done with the help of Cortana, which will show a notification whenever there's an app available to sync states.
Five surprises in the latest Windows 10 Insider build and what they mean - Most of the changes in the latest Windows 10 preview release, build 14942, look like minor tweaks. But they point the way to more significant changes to come next year. Here's what to look out for.
Gartner: Global PC shipments fell 5.7% in Q3 2016, eighth quarter of decline in a row - Gartner estimates worldwide PC shipments fell 5.7 percent to 68.9 million units in Q3 2016, marking the eighth quarter of PC shipment declines. According to the firm’s numbers, this is “the longest duration of decline in the history of the PC industry.”
Instagram officially jumps from Mobile to Windows 10 PC - Now you can install the popular image sharing app right to your Windows 10 PC, Surface, or laptop. No Xbox or HoloLens, yet.
Xbox One + PlayStation VR = surprising success - the headset easily displayed games running on the Wii U and Xbox One and even showed a Windows desktop when plugged into a PC tower.
Xbox One sales beat the PS4 in the US for third month in a row - Microsoft's Xbox One sales appear to be picking up in the US. Xbox One was the top-selling console in the US during July, August, and September, according to the NPD group.
Might this be the canceled Microsoft Band 3? - A user the Windows Central forums has posted images of what appears to be a Microsoft Band 3 prototype, with waterproofing and a few other features.
HoloLens Availability to Expand Internationally - Microsoft announced that it is accepting pre-orders for its HoloLens mixed reality headset in six additional countries: Australia, Ireland, France, Germany, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
Microsoft Adds HP Elite x3 Smartphone to Windows Store, $799 - Microsoft has begun to sell HP’s Elite x3 smartphone at its Windows Store. The handset is one of the most powerful Windows 10 Mobile-based devices and the one of a few initially aimed at the business professionals on a company contract. The fact that Microsoft has started to sell the HP Elite x3 indicates that the smartphone is now available to general consumers as well.
This is NYPD's official crime-fighting phone - You may knock the unpopular Windows Phone platform, which commands less than 1 percent of the phone market, but the NYPD believes Microsoft was the most appropriate way to go. The department looked at Apple's iOS and Google's Android, but picked Windows Phone for its security features and the ability to remotely manage the thousands of devices in the hands of officers.
Windows Mobile and the enterprise Part I: Out of sight, out of mind - Microsoft has strategically sheltered Windows 10 Mobile in the enterprise while it waits for the current smartphone season to undergo a paradigm shift. How Microsoft waits for the imminent industry shift in mobile computing, however, is just as important as why they wait.
Skype for Linux 1.10 introduces video calls between Linux users - You’ll be able to make video calls but only to other users on Linux. Hopefully, it shan’t be too long until Microsoft rolls out support for calls between Linux users and users on other platforms.
Cool tips and guides
We would like to share several tips and guides from other websites in the tech blogosphere:
The Samsung Galaxy Note7 Recall Crisis: Explained - Where did it all go wrong? It’s a long road that the brand will walk and surely various agencies will get involved too, but for now, it’s safe to suggest that the Note 7 isn’t in our recommended list of smartphones.
What Sleep Tracking Apps Can and Can’t Tell You - Activity trackers and sleep tracking apps will happily give you stats on your sleep: How many hours you were in the sack, for example, and whether that sleep was good “quality.” But you can’t take those numbers at face value, and some of them are flat out wrong.
It’s time for laptop companies to switch to Precision Touchpad - Unfortunately, many PC OEMs haven't been equipping their laptops with Precision Touchpads. Microsoft's Surface Pros and Surface Books include them, as do a handful of others such as the Dell XPS 13 and HP's EliteBook Folio G1. But many others we've seen, such as the HP Spectre x360 and Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, use custom drivers, typically from Synaptics. As such, they can't take advantage of the new Windows capabilities.


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- 20+ Delicious Emmy Awards Cocktails and Snacks
- Every Food Is a Snack Now
- Crazy Fried Chicken
- Daniel Boulud Is Cooking for Air France
- This Kind of Food Is Both Filling and Insanely Good for You
- Donald Trump Deposed in Lawsuit Against José Andrés
- Here's One Controversial Way to Reduce Methane Emissions
- WikiLeaks Hack Reveals John Podesta's Secret to Creamy Risotto
- Michelin-Starred Ramen Restaurant to Open Second Location
- Mary Berry's BBC Show Could Launch Before Channel 4's Bake Off Debut
According to an article in Metro New York that was picked up by Eater.com, fast-food restaurants like McDonald's, White Castle and Dunkin' Donuts receive tens of thousands of dollars worth of benefits each year under New York City's Industrial and Commercial Incentive Program, effectively giving them tax breaks to move into low-income communities. The far-reaching program—meant to encourage economic development outside the 59th Street to 96th Street zone—goes beyond fast-food restaurants to a variety of projects, certainly; but given that obesity rates are higher in Central and East Harlem than in the rest of the city, it's important to point out the government's role in contributing to the problem.
One proposal that might offer some small-scale help for those seeking healthier food options is the city's proposed "Green Carts" program, which is similar to People's Grocery in West Oakland, California. If passed in the next few weeks, the bill would provide 1,500 new permits to street vendors who exclusively sell fresh fruits and vegetables—favoring vendors who'll operate in neighborhoods with the lowest consumption of greens. Considering there are only 400 such "green carts" in the entire city right now, the new ones would be a welcome addition, especially in areas that need them the most.