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KENTUCKY LOTTERY SALES CONTINUE ON RECORD-BREAKING PACE
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WTVQ) – Through 11 months of the budget year, Kentucky Lottery sales already have exceeded the previous year’s record sales, the Lottery board was told Friday.
Vice President and Corporate Controller Maggie Garrison reported fiscal year-to-date sales (July-May) totaled $1.45 billion, which is $379.4 million (or 35.3%) more than the same period last year, and $284.0 million (or 24.3%) more than budget.
For context, the Lottery sold $1.2 billion in tickets for the entirety of fiscal year 2020 which ran July 2019 through June 2020.
Scratch-off tickets continued as the biggest driver of increased sales, finishing the period at $880.6 million, which is $223.9 million (or 34.1%) more than the previous year-to-date. Garrison reported internet sales continued their explosive growth, with iLottery Instant Play games finishing the period at $105.5 million.
Total iLottery sales have increased $84.4 million (or 219.7%) from the same period last year. Garrison noted Instant Play sales are now the third highest sales product overall, behind Scratch-off games and Pick 3.
“The entire board is so pleased at how this fiscal year is shaping up to end,” said Board Chairman Mark F. Sommer. “To continue to set and break records like this in the face of the most challenging of circumstances is nothing short of remarkable. We appreciate and commend the hard and very effective teamwork of our staff and Lottery retailers to make this happen.”
In other action, the board approved the Lottery’s budget for FY22. The plan calls for a total sales goal at $1.59 billion. Income before transfer of dividends is budgeted to be $339.5 million.
President and CEO Mary Harville shared news that the Kentucky Lottery was ranked the 2021 Best Place to Work in Kentucky (medium-size company) by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and the Kentucky Society for Human Resource Management.
The award is given based on results of an employee survey of workplace satisfaction and an evaluation of policies, practices, and demographics. The Kentucky Lottery competed in the medium company designation of businesses with 150 to 499 employees.
“To have the designation as the best place to work in the entire state – even in light of circumstances no one ever could have imagined possible – is such a tremendous honor for all of us,” said Kentucky Lottery President and CEO Mary Harville. “We’ve worked hard to create an atmosphere that is a great place to work while at the same time shattering sales records. Those two goals can successfully coexist, and we’re now an example of that. The best interest of our employees has always been top of mind for us as we’ve navigated the challenging times of the last year, and it’s reaffirming to see our employees appreciating what we’ve been able to accomplish.”
In other business, the board approved:
- A contract with SGI/Optimove for a customer data platform, an email marketing solution and related services.
- The FY22 retailer incentive plan, and;
- Rules and regulations for 10 Scratch-off games and new or amended rules for six Instant Play games.
The next meeting of the KLC’s board of directors will be August 27, 2021. The meeting will begin at 10 a.m. EST, and will be held at the KLC headquarters at 1011 West Main Street in Louisville.
The audit committee meeting will begin at 8 a.m. EST, as well as the procurement committee at 9 a.m. EST.


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Years ago, a fake Sony Vice President was created as a marketing push for PlayStation and their array of games and accessories. The commercials staring the character Kevin Butler were hilarious and extremely well-received but stopped suddenly leaving many to wonder why. Let’s revisit some of Kevin’s best moments and find out just what the hell happened to everyone’s favorite pitch man. Out of the big three, Sony easily takes the cake as the best marketing arm out of the major gaming consoles with their promotion of PlayStation. But these marketing promos peaked years ago namely because of the...Read More
E3 is a week-long video games extravaganza. It is our Super Bowl, as it’s the only time of year where developers, journalists, and gaming vendors are in the same location with news that sets the stage for years to come. But what did companies like Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo have in store for us? What does it mean for the future? Read on to see the biggest highlights from this year’s E3… STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT EA held a predictably boring press conference going over sports games that haven’t changed much over the years. But their biggest sell was the beautifully...Read More
The Electronic Entertainment Expo, more commonly known as E3, takes place this year in Los Angeles from June 10-12. It is always a big deal for gamers considering all the game announcements, trailers, and information revealed by the major gaming companies, but this year’s show is setting up to be particularly important as all the major players have something to prove. Microsoft Aside from Nintendo, no company needs to have a huge show more than Microsoft. The company has undergone radical change in the past year, with a new CEO, Satya Nadella, as well as a new head of its Xbox division, Phil...Read More
Sony’s Playstation console has been around since 1995 and many of us all remember the first time we took a disc and placed in that fancy grey box that played cd’s. Almost 20 years later, we’ve all grown up with Sony and to celebrate the release of their 4th console November 15th, we get to relive all the memories in the latest video inspired by the hashtag, #playstationmemories....Read More
Big news, ladies and gentlemen: Sony has officially revealed the release date for its new console at its Gamescom 2013 press conference. The PS4 will launch on Friday, November 15, so mark your calendars and clear that weekend of any plans, folks. As for the PS4’s rival, Microsoft has yet to announce an exact date for the Xbox one, but it will be sometime in...Read More
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Here we regular humans are, bragging about processors ranging from 6-12 cores. But researchers at UC Davis have blown that out the water by developing the KiloCore – a CPU that (as the name suggests) packs 1,000 cores of punch!
Yes, I’m serious… We’re content with processors that are just about fast enough to handle 4k gaming, and yet the world of scientific technology just effectively pantsed every consumer processor manufacturer in the world.
With so many cores, this CPU is extremely good at handling parallel tasks such as encoding video, encryption, and processing scientific data.
But that’s not even the best part, because this beast has the ability to shut down individual cores when not being used… That’s right! Thanks to that small innovation, this chip can conquer 115 billion instructions every second while using just 0.7W of power – that means you could run it off a single AA battery.
“So great,” I hear you proclaim. “When can I get my hands on one?”
Probably never, I’m afraid…
UC Davis had IBM manufacture this on a pretty ancient 32-nanometer process, which is over double the size of the industry’s newest 14nm technique. And this is simply an experiment into what is physically possible.
But running such a huge processor with a small power source raises the questions of popping this into a phone. While all 1,000 cores aren’t necessarily needed now (fewer, faster cores are better at dealing with multiple tasks than many cores), they could save a lot of time in the future with a faster clock speed and more power in, say, a laptop.
Put simply, it’s awesome.
Don’t condemn Snapchat as a ‘child tracking’ privacy threat for introducing Snap Map – blame the parents for not being educated on what their children are using.
Twenty years after the launch of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, science seems to have caught up with the magical universe – making these five spells entirely possible in real life.
With the release of Wonder Woman in cinemas has surely come a renaissance for female leads in superhero films.
I’m faced with a choice… Which music streaming service is the one for me – Spotify or Apple Music? Choices like this shouldn’t be difficult, but yet I stand amongst a smorgasbord of user hostile pros & cons that really shouldn’t exist.
For the next two years, Britain is all about space industry, data protection and automated electric vehicles.
Meet Shimon - a four-armed robot that composes and performs its own Marimba music using artificial intelligence.
E3 2017 was packed with huge video game announcements across a series of vast of press events - but I bet you probably didn’t hear/see these five titles that dropped during the week.
As a fan of the original, the biggest story to come out of Apple’s packed WWDC conference was the stealth announcement of Monument Valley II.
My heart goes out to the victims and their families after these truly reprehensible atrocities. I just have one thing to say about the response to what has happened. Theresa, the internet is not to blame.
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Flannel is comfy.
Mark Byrne, a GQ contributor, called out Seattle for its abundance of plaid.
But for the fashion police at GQ, apparently Seattle's plaid-clad populace (including half of Seattle Weekly's newsroom) is out of touch, earning the city a spot on the magazine's list of the top 40 worst-dressed cities.
The Jet City earned spot #34 on the list, narrowly beating Bruce Springsteen's hometown, Asbury Park, N.J., which clocked in at #33.GQ bashes Seattleites for wearing plaid "20 years post-Nevermind."
"When your city's whole identity is wrapped up in a few years of noisy, adolescent anger, you'd do well to let some of it die off with time, instead of pushing it onward, decade by decade, in a rainy haze of anti-fashion nostalgia," the magazine says.
GQ doesn't list the top five worst-dressed cities online, presumably so you'll go out and buy the magazine.
If you disagree with GQ, you can Tweet editorial assistant Mark Byrne, who wrote the blurb on Seattle, @markwby.


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Jessica and Jim Vaglica are giddy with excitement this weekend after their recent purchase of a 21-foot recreational vehicle.
As reported by the Detroit News, the new, $20,000 2013 Palamino Puma Unleashed toy hauler RV provides lots of features designed to accommodate the Wyoming, Mich., couple’s extreme sports hobbies that include motorcycling and power golf carting — messy pursuits that their 43-year-old 24-footer could not quite accommodate.
“The whole back end of this RV opens up to a big ramp, so we can just ride everything straight out the back,” said 35-year-old Jessica Vaglica, a college student-accounts manager. Her 37-year-old husband is a warehouse manager. “Right where the toys go are two queen-size beds that lift hydraulically to the ceiling to make room for them. And a nice outside feature is a water nozzle so you can spray off your (hobby vehicles), an outdoor shower, and a 15-gallon fueling station.”
And as far as creature comforts are concerned, the new digs have it all over the used RV that the couple is selling. The Puma Unleashed sports a microwave, a freezer and a digital audio system with built-in speakers that can integrate everything from an iPod to Bluetooth.
No wonder recreational vehicle sales and RV camping are surging in Michigan despite occasional $4-a-gallon gas and intermittently wet weather that might have washed out vacation visions. The solid boom has helped create more business at many of the state’s RV campgrounds as well.
Sales of RVs in Michigan through May this year are up strongly over a pretty good 2012 at the state’s 90 dealerships. Michigan dealers sold 5,142 towable RVs, by far the most popular type, or about 2.3% more than a year ago, according to the Michigan Association of Recreation Vehicles and Campgrounds (MARVC), which represents the dealers. They sold 383 typically more costly “motorhomes,” up 36.3% over a year earlier.
Nationally, according to the Michigan association, RV dealers sold about 128,000 towables through May, up 11.1% over a year ago, and about 16,000 motor homes, up by 30.4%.
“There’s been a lot of pent-up demand from people who have discretionary income who decided to make the investment in a motorhome,” said Bill Sheffer, director of the Michigan association, based in Okemos. “The economy, in their minds, is fairly stable, and they feel they can make that commitment.”
Dennis Anderson, marketing manager at General RV Center in Wixom, said that so far, “This is the best year in company history. And last year was actually very good as well.”
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Sales of second homes soared last year and accounted for more than a third of all residential sales transactions, according to a study released Tuesday.
The study, conducted by the Washington-based National Assn. of Realtors, showed that nearly one in four U.S. homes bought in 2004 was purchased for investment purposes; 13% were bought as vacation homes.
Together, that constituted the surging second-home market, which accounted for 36% of the 7.7 million homes sold in the country last year. Second-home sales were up 16.3% over 2003.


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(Beyond Pesticides, July 26, 2017) Campbell Soup Co. announced that it will leave the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) by the end of the year over concerns that the trade association no longer represents its views concerning labeling of genetically engineered (GE) food. Campbell’s President and CEO Denise Morrison said that while the company does not question the safety of GE food, it recognizes that most consumers want to see GE ingredients on the label. Meanwhile, Campbell’s has supported the GMA digital disclosure and lists ingredients that “may be derived from crops grown from genetically engineered seeds” on its website.
The move by Campbell Soup comes as USDA is pondering possible disclosure options under the “compromise” bill on labeling genetically engineered food passed last year by the U.S. Congress. The company says, “While this legislation offers a range of disclosure options for manufacturers, we will introduce an on-pack statement as we know that’s what the overwhelming majority of Americans support. We’re working on language that provides specific ingredient information and supports the science that GMOs are safe.” A number of other companies have also announced their intention to label GE ingredients, while similarly maintaining their safety.
USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has extended to August 25 the comment period for responding to 30 questions regarding the implementation of the law. The law includes labeling options other than on-package labeling, such as QR codes and websites, which would only serve to hide the information this law was passed to provide. It also allows USDA to decide which GE ingredients must be disclosed. Commenting provides a chance to help shape USDA’s proposal. So far, more than 3100 people have sent comments to AMS in response to a Beyond Pesticides alert.
- The definition of “bioengineering” must include all forms of genetic engineering including newer forms like CRISPR and RNA interference (RNAi). Definitions should be compatible with those recommended by the National Organic Standards Board.
- Each GE ingredient must be identified, including highly refined GE sugars and oils and processed corn and soy ingredients. Even if they are so highly processed that the GE ingredients are present only at undetectable levels in the final product, they are still GE foods.
- GE ingredients must be identified on product labels, or product shelves in the case of raw foods. All products required to have labels should included identification of GE ingredients on the label.
- There must be no delays in making regulations effective. Manufacturers have already had years’ worth of notice and preparation to provide this information, at the state and federal level. Indeed, many major food companies have been labeling for some time.
Send your comments to AMS in support of your right to know now! Deadline extended until August 25, 2017.
USDA regulations will determine whether genetically engineered (GE) ingredients are identified on product labels, or hidden behind high-tech codes. Genetically engineered foods pose risks that are not considered by regulators. Consumers have a right to know whether the products they buy contain GE ingredients. This information should be on the product label.
Genetically engineered foods pose risks that are not considered by regulators. The most dependable way to avoid GE ingredients is to buy organic, but all consumers have a right to know what is in their food.
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When Suzuki left MotoGP at the end of 2011, it was with a promise to return in 2014. Since then, there have been a string of news stories pointing to an imminent return, with reports gaining a massive boost once (clearly leaked) 'spy shots' of the brand new inline four MotoGP bike Suzuki is working on emerged.
But bringing Suzuki back into the fold has not proved to be easy. Hamamatsu bigwigs visited the Brno round of MotoGP in August last year to talk to Dorna boss Carmelo Ezpeleta about a possible return, and also to clear up confusion which then existed about the rules. The outcome of those talks was not as Suzuki had hoped: Suzuki had told Ezpeleta that they were only interested in signing a one-year contract, Ezpeleta refused, saying Suzuki must sign up for a minimum of three years, to ensure some kind of continuity; the Japanese factory also stated categorically that they would not make a return if a spec ECU with spec software were to be implemented, Ezpeleta reiterated his position that the Grand Prix Commission would implement rules as they saw fit, regardless of what Suzuki felt about it. The spec ECU - at least in terms of software - was later dropped, removing one obstacle, but Suzuki have still to commit to a return to MotoGP.
Suzuki bosses were in the MotoGP paddock once again on Wednesday, holding meetings with senior Dorna executives about testing through 2014. Dorna once again told Suzuki they were welcome to join in any of the tests organized for the MotoGP teams throughout the year. Dorna Events Managing Director Javier Alonso told the (Dorna-owned and run) MotoGP.com website that "the doors are open for them".
There are, however, conditions. Suzuki is only welcome if they enter the championship using an existing team. In practice, that would mean using the infrastructure of one of the teams already on the grid - the Aspar team is the hot favorite, given their past talks with the factory, and the fact that Aspar rider Randy de Puniet is close to signing a testing deal with the factory - rather than creating a team structure from the ground up for their MotoGP effort. Suzuki would prefer the latter - owning and managing your own team allows for a lot more control - but Dorna is siding clearly with the teams. "We commit with the teams that are here with us today," Alonso told MotoGP.com, "they will keep the right to continue to be here."
Suzuki has not committed to plans to test - though reports from Japanese journalists such as Akira Nishimura are promising - and part of this ambivalence is one of the reasons for the conditions being put in place. Suzuki have a history of falling short of their commitments to the series, and Dorna CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta is believed to have felt betrayed by Suzuki, after the factory reneged on a number of previous agreements. When the Rookie Rule was introduced in 2009, Suzuki asked for and were given an exemption, allowing them to sign Alvaro Bautista for the 2010 season. When it became clear that Suzuki were struggling with engine durability in 2010, the first year of the durability rules, Suzuki asked for and were granted an increase in their allocation, from 6 engines to 9 engines. The following year, despite promises that they would field a two-man team, they cut back to just a single rider, leaving the 2011 grid at just 17 men.
Dorna is keen to avoid future instability caused by factories such as Suzuki - or Kawasaki, when the factory withdrew at the end of the 2008 season - and is therefore looking to consolidate the grid using the existing teams, and offering the infrastructure of those teams to factories who may wish to enter the series. The same system works well in World Superbikes, where six factories participate, but only one through its own team structure. Both BMW and Honda have made further moves towards the factory-supported private team system in WSBK this year, BMW withdrawing their factory team, and now funding and preparing their WSBK effort through the BMW Goldbet Italia team, while HRC has stepped up backing for Ten Kate, turning the Pata Honda into a fully factory-supported effort through the Dutch Ten Kate organization.
Will Suzuki acquiesce to Dorna's demands and enter MotoGP in 2014 on the terms issued by the series organizer? Official statements are hard to come by, the Japanese factory playing their cards close to their chest. But given the ongoing talks with teams about managing an effort in 2014, and the likelihood of Randy de Puniet signing up with Suzuki as test rider in the next few weeks, it seems almost inevitable.


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Zara pulled an advertising campaign featuring mannequins with missing limbs and statues wrapped in white from the front page of its website and app on Monday after it prompted calls by some pro-Palestine activists for a boycott of the fashion retailer.
Inditex, which owns Zara, said the change was part of its normal procedure of refreshing content. It did not comment on the boycott calls but said the ‘Atelier’ collection was conceived in July and the photos were taken in September.
In a statement issued days after the controversy first emerged, the fashion label said, “Unfortunately, some customers felt offended by these images, which have now been removed, and saw in them something far from what was intended when they were created. Zara regrets that misunderstanding and we reaffirm our deep respect towards everyone.”
Zara’s Instagram account saw tens of thousands of comments posted about the photos, many with Palestinian flags, while “#BoycottZara” was trending on messaging platform X. In one of the photos, a model is pictured carrying a mannequin wrapped in white, in another a bust lies on the floor and another features a mannequin with no arms. Critics said they resembled photos of corpses in white shrouds in Gaza.
Zara said at the launch of the collection on December 7 that it was inspired by men’s tailoring from past centuries. The photos appear to show an artist’s studio with ladders, packing materials, wooden crates and cranes, and assistants wearing overalls.
The reaction highlights the heightened sensitivity international brands are navigating as fighting across Gaza intensifies and calls for company boycotts rise. The CEO of Web Summit resigned in October after comments he made on the Israel-Hamas conflict.
The photos, which were featured on Zara’s online store home page on Monday morning, were no longer visible on the website or its app by 1230 GMT. A link on the UK website to Zara Atelier led to a page showcasing last year’s collection. The collection, of six jackets, is one of Zara’s most expensive, priced from $229 for a grey wool blazer with chunky knit sleeves, to $799 for a studded leather jacket.
It’s not the first time an advertising campaign has landed a fashion label in controversy. French luxury group Kering last year set up a group-level position to oversee brand safety after advertising images from its label Balenciaga featuring children sparked a backlash that dented sales. Dolce & Gabbana was removed from ecommerce sites in China in 2018 after a campaign showing models struggling to eat typical Italian food with chopsticks – decried as racist by local celebrities and social media.
Zara last year came under fire from some Palestinians and Israelis after the head of the retailer’s local franchise in Israel hosted a campaign event for an ultranationalist politician.


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Samsung is reportedly planning to unveil the Galaxy Note 9 earlier than expected due to multiple reasons, including low sales of the Galaxy S9
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It seems like we may get to see the next Galaxy Note device from Samsung earlier than expected. According to a report by the Korea Herald, local parts manufacturers for Samsung’s Galaxy Note 9 smartphone have stated that the company is preparing to unveil its next smartphone earlier than previous year’s launches dues to multiple reason. This includes low sales of the Galaxy S9 smartphone. Display industry sources note that Samsung began production of 6.38-inch OLED displays for the Galaxy Note 9 in April, which is about 2 months earlier than before. As such, Samsung is likely to roll out the device as early as August, which is a month earlier than what it did for the Galaxy Note 8 last year.
The report also brings up rumours about Samsung planning to unveil the Galaxy S10 in January, possibly during CES 2019. It adds that the company might use the MWC 2019 event for unveiling its foldable smartphone.
This lines up with a previous report which also claimed that Samsung was planning to unveil the Galaxy Note 9 smartphone in July or August. The same report noted that the Galaxy Note 9 would be powered by either the Snapdragon 845 or the Exynos 9810 depending on the region. The device is expected to sport a 6.4-inch Super AMOLED display with an aspect ratio of 18.5:9 resolution. Further, the Galaxy Note 9 is also expected to feature a 4000mAh battery, which would be a huge jump from the 3,300mAh battery used on the Galaxy Note 8.
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With the end of the year nearing, there's renewed hype on what can be expected of the Nintendo Switch. That's because the awaited event for the console draws closer, where we'll hopefully learn some new information about the console.
According to Polygon, this event may happen on Jan. 13, 2017. What's more, the report states that the Nintendo Switch may be featured at a five-hour event to be held in New York. The event will include a streamed presentation from the night before, something that's supposed to be the Tokyo webcast of the event. As expected, the event will also feature the details about the hardware.
Furthermore, industry makers and stakeholders will also be at the Tokyo presentation, wherein they will experience the event live. This isn't a surprise, since the announcement is also supposed to reveal the price and release date beyond the March 2017 launch timeframe.
So far, this announcement appears to be part of an invitation to a private hands-on event for the Nintendo Switch. This follows the expected official Jan. 12 presentation.
The Nintendo Switch has been wrapped in mystery for long enough. And this would definitely be a nice step towards more revelations, particularly because it will allow gamers to gauge where exactly they can place the hybrid-console in terms of the gaming sphere.


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Later this year Tesla will task hackers with breaking into a Model 3 and if they manage to it they will win a Model 3.
Before we continue, this is not an invitation to start taking a crack at random Model 3’s in the wild, not that we think black hat hackers would need an invitation.
So why then will Tesla ask hackers to crack into its car?
The firm will be taking part in the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest being held in Vancouver, Canada in March of this year. The contest is run by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative.
The contest will feature five categories, namely:
- Web browsers
- Virtualisation software
- Enterprise applications
- Server-side software
Apple, Google, Microsoft and VMware are among the targets selected by the Zero Day Initiative for the event.
It should be pointed out that Tesla does run its own bug bounty program. This program has seen the firm able to deliver over the air security updates to Tesla vehicles.
That’s a good thing because according to a report by Tech Crunch, there is no guarantee that a vulnerability will be found at Pwn2Own. That having been said, vulnerabilities are usually found in 50 percent of the targets.
Whether hackers will rise to the challenge of hacking a car remains to be seen. The automotive category is new at Pwn2Own but perhaps the lure of winning a Tesla Model will be temptation enough.


text: Halo Infinite’s creative director was reassigned off that team, reports Kotaku, in a leadership shakeup coming about a year before the game’s planned launch. Tim Longo, who was creative director for 2015’s Halo 5: Guardians, was reassigned to another role within 343 Industries last week, and this week left the studio altogether. Microsoft confirmed the departure in a statement to Kotaku. Executive producer Mary Olson is now in charge of Halo Infinite’s campaign team as its lead producer, Microsoft said. The statement noted that “the overall creative vision and production of the game remains led by Chris Lee, Studio Head of Halo Infinite.” No reasons were given for Longo’s reassignment or departure. Halo Infinite is expected in the last three months of 2020 and will be a launch title for the next Xbox console, codenamed Project Scarlett for now. The game has been described as a “spiritual reboot” of the nearly 20-year-old franchise. “These changes have no impact to the release date for Halo Infinite” Microsoft said in its statement.


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A British supermarket is selling supersized Braeburn apples after unusual weather conditions in the spring produced a crop of giants.
The latest frost for nearly 20 years in April meant fewer apples grew, with as much as 10% of the country’s Braeburn crop affected. However, farmers were surprised to find that the reduced crop had grown to more than twice the normal size and weight.
Weighing in at an average of 450g each, the apples dwarf the typical 170g Braeburn and will be the biggest apple sold by Morrisons in living memory.
Braeburns are typically picked in the autumn and require three weeks’ rest at chilled temperatures to sweeten. The cold April stopped apple trees from flowering fully, limiting the pollination essential for fruit growth. However, favourable conditions later in the growing season gave a nutrient boost to the remaining apples which had got off to an early start, allowing them to grow to their giant size.
Despite not meeting its usual specifications, the retailer has decided to take the giant-sized crop from its British growers and 120,000 apples will go on sale over the next fortnight.
“These giant British Braeburn apples offer great value,” said Mark Booth, apple expert at Morrisons. “Our relationship with our growers meant we were able to take the whole crop from our apple farmers and ensure these huge but delicious apples are eaten.”
Melvyn Newman, a grower from Howfield Farm, Chartham in Kent said. “Over a third of our Braeburns this year are a much bigger size, and with a smaller crop overall it would have been heartbreaking to leave oversized fruit on the trees when they are just as tasty and with better colour.”
The move is the latest to reduce waste in the supply chain and spare British growers from dumping imperfect but perfectly edible apples. When temperatures dropped to -4C in April it caused a blemish known as “frost ring”, which leaves a mark around the circumference or large marks on the skin of the apples.
The Bramley cooking apple crop was particularly badly hit, but Tesco announced in September that it would relax its normally tight specifications to ensure the crop goes on sale.


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SAN RAMON, Calif. – April 6, 2020 – Five9, Inc. (NASDAQ: FIVN), a leading provider of the intelligent cloud contact center, today announced that it has launched a COVID-19 Resource Center to provide customers and partners with easy access to tools and tips on how to enable the ever-increasing number of work from home contact center agents.
As the COVID-19 crisis rapidly unfolds, people are uncertain and looking to organizations to help them with their questions and needs quickly and with empathy. Now it’s more critical than ever to deliver the type of exceptional, uninterrupted service customers expect and deserve.
“Five9 is here as a trusted resource for your business during these unprecedented times,” said Dan Burkland, Five9 President. “As part of our efforts to help organizations overcome challenges and ensure business continuity, we are committed to enabling your agents to work remote in as little as 48 hours.”
The website includes tips to equip and empower agents to effectively work from home, and how businesses can rapidly move their contact center to the cloud. It includes practical guides, blogs and videos to help businesses navigate through these challenging times.
To complement these tips and tools, Five9 recently launched the Five9 FastTrack program which offers a 48 hour turnaround time to quickly migrate contact center to the cloud and support a work from anywhere model as contact centers are rapidly looking to move to a remote workforce.
Existing Five9 customers were able to easily move to a work from home model. Five9 has already assisted tens of thousands of agents transition to remote work and continue to deliver uninterrupted service to their customers during these trying times.
Five9 is a trusted resource for the information needed to provide world-class customer experiences. To learn more, click here.
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So that RIM tablet? It's not going to be a tablet in the standard sense.
Boy Genius Report said on Thursday that it confirmed with multiple sources that the upcoming Research In Motion tablet will be a "companion device." Where have you heard that before? Oh right: The ill-fated Palm Foleo. The "best idea" Palm founder after its announcement but before a single product was ever shipped.
Why did Palm cancel the Foleo? For the same reason RIM will find out soon enough: companion devices don't really makes sense. BGR says the BlackBerry tablet won't have its own cellular connection so it will only be useful via a Bluetooth connection to a BlackBerry or Wi-Fi. So it's basically an extra display for a BlackBerry that will also have some multimedia functions, including reading e-books, Web browsing, and photos.
According to the report, the device is scheduled to ship by December. No price was mentioned. But we're not exactly holding our breath here.


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By Amanda Cline – email@example.com – Staff Writer | Oct. 1, 2014 |
The days grow shorter, the nights get cooler and the beer gets better. As the leaves in Asheville, the self-proclaimed Beer City, begin to change their colors, local breweries brew fall-flavored beers.
“I’m not sure why beer drinkers seem to go crazy this time every year. Maybe the drop in temperature and they are excited to enjoy pumpkin beers and warm up a little? Or maybe football season coinciding with the fall brews,” said Michael Hefner, a UNC Asheville senior.
With so many breweries in the area, Hefner said he believes tourism in the craft brew industry helps the local community.
“The Asheville beer community is a unique aspect of living in the area. I believe we tied with Portland a few years back for Beer City USA. I think it’s a valuable part of the community and brings in a lot of revenue and also in most cases breweries and pour houses are central to supporting the local music scene,” Hefner said.
A musician himself, Hefner performs at breweries in the area and also enjoys the craft brews, he said.
“I drink craft beer because I believe that brewers working on a smaller scale create a higher quality product in most cases. They care about what they are putting out into the world. Also I like to support local brewers and my community,” Hefner said.
The ever-popular Wicked Weed Brewery proudly offers its new fall beers this season. The pumpkin-themed brews include Pumpk-Anne, Burning Ham Smoked Pumpkin Porter and Jack O’Hammered.
“The Pumpk-Anne is our most popular. It’s not like the porter and sour, which isn’t everyone’s taste. We’ll probably continue to brew it through the fall,” said Suefan Hobgood, an employee at Wicked Weed.
Known as a traditional pumpkin ale, Pumpk-Anne offers beer lovers a yummy taste of fall with hints of pumpkin, pumpkin spice and vanilla.
“(Fall beers) go well with the season. People like their lighter beers during spring and summer. They like the spices of the fall beers. They go perfect with leaf season and crisp evenings,” Hobgood said.
Smaller breweries also try their hand at creating their version of a fall brew.
“The new Oktoberfest that Fonta Flora Brewery put out is my favorite fall beer right now,” Hefner said.
Fonta Flora is one of two breweries located in Morganton.
“For us, this is the best kind of non-traditional Appalachian beer. It’s a very traditional classic malt forward drinking lager. People having that beer helps bring in fall and reminds them of leaves changing color,” said Todd Boera, head brewer at Fonta Flora.
Oktoberfest is not a beer that represents the usual brews produced by Fonta Flora, Boera said.
A Warren Wilson College alumnus, Boera said the brewery mixes weird and unusual ingredients in its beer.
“We have a new roasted sunflower saison, an acorn beer, as well as a beer brewed with black walnuts. We’re also using some hay grown at Warren Wilson,” he said.
No pumpkin is used in the making of Oktoberfest, Boera said.
“The pumpkin ale trend is ridiculous because so many people don’t use North Carolina pumpkins in their brew. Wicked Weed is on point with what they’re doing,” he said.
Fonta Flora will be releasing a beer crafted from sweet potatoes from North Carolina. Boera said that it’s important to brew seasonally, as it’s a celebration of seasonal crops.
“Drink a beer right now because it’s fall. Colder nights call for a more malty taste on the pallet. It’s an important part of life to celebrate the ushering in of a new season,” Boera said.


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Travellers flying from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol will soon be able to use a new luggage delivery service between their hotel and the airport.
London City is the first European airport to offer this baggage delivery service, which allows passengers to have their bags transferred between the airport and central London.
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The Portuguese association of safety and security companies, Apsei, has started a campaign to drum up business abroad for small and medium enterprises among its members, Security Magazine reports.
The Portuguese magazine, citing a written statement issued by Apsei, says the year-long campaign will focus on the Chinese, Emirati and Moroccan markets.
The campaign, called Portugal Safe, will help Portuguese companies in the fields of electronic security, fire safety, occupational safety and the safe transport of dangerous goods to do business abroad, Apsei says.
Security Magazine says the campaign is meant to develop the capacity of Portuguese SMEs to export the products and services they sell.
Promotional events and market research abroad are intended to make those products and services more conspicuous in foreign markets, the report says.
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In their official release they state that the “significant increase in financing originations is in large part due to the launch of Bizfi, a connected online marketplace designed specifically to help small businesses compare funding options from different sources of capital and get funded within days.”
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French Connection no longer connects with American shoppers.
The British retailer plans to close 17 of its 23 U.S. stores, including its only California store at 101 Powell St.
French Connection currently occupies 8,000 square feet on the corner of Powell and Ellis streets, one block from the Powell Street cable car turnaround. The space has been marketed at least since February 2010.
Closing the "underperforming" U.S. stores will cost French Connection almost $10 million, and will reduce annual operating losses by about $4.9 million.
Indeed, the brand has been struggling for several years, and last fall it announced that it would close all 21 of its Japanese stores, as well as underperforming stores in Northern Europe. It plans to focus on the British and Irish markets.
For the fiscal year ended January 31, 2010, French Connection reported a net loss of about $37.9 million on revenue of about $326.5 million.
The company also announced that it has agreed to sell its Nicole Farhi brand to Los Angeles-based OpenGate Capital for about $7.6 million.
"The strategic review is now complete," said Stephen Marks, chairman and CEO of French Connection. "We have had to make some tough decisions, but our exit from the Japanese market, the reduction of our U.S. retail presence and the sale of Nicole Farhi, together with a reduction in our overhead base, leaves us with a continuing business that we expect will be both profitable and cash generative even in the current difficult economic environment."
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“By adding a more realistic sense of touch to its iPhone, Apple Inc may have conquered a technology that has long promised to take us beyond merely feeling the cold glass of our mobile device screens,” Jeremy Wagstaff and Michael Gold report for Reuters. “In its latest iPhones, Apple is expected to include what it calls Force Touch, allowing users to interact more intuitively with their devices via a pressure-sensitive screen which mimics the feel and response of real buttons. In the long run, the technology also promises new or better applications, from more lifelike games and virtual reality to adding temperature, texture and sound to our screens.”
“Apple hasn’t disclosed what it will announce at an event on Wednesday, but reports have said it will unveil new iPhones incorporating a version of the Force Touch technology already in some laptop touchpads and its Watches,” Wagstaff and Gold report. “‘Here we go again. Apple’s done it with gyroscopes, accelerometers, they did it with pressure sensors, they’ve done it with compass, they’ve been great at expediting the adoption of these sensors,’ said Ali Foughi, CEO of US-based NextInput, which has its own technology, trademarked ForceTouch. ‘Apple is at the forefront.'”
“Haptic technology – a tactile response to touching an interface – isn’t new, even in mobile devices. Phones have long vibrated to alert users of incoming calls in silent mode, or when they touch an onscreen button. But efforts to go beyond that have been limited,” Wagstaff and Gold report. “Apple seems to have solved such problems, experts said, judging from their trackpads and the Watch. Indeed, the trackpad carries the same sensation of a physical click of its predecessors, but without the actual pad moving at all.”
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PC maker HP is planning to expand its reach in the country, as the company is planning to add 250 outlets this year.
The Omen series will available starting 15 March and it will include 5 notebooks and 1 desktop model
“Right now we have 450 stores in the country and we are going to add 250 more stores this year,” Ketan Patel, Senior Director, Personal Systems Business, HP Inc told Gizbot.
The company has also announced its foray into gaming section in India with the launch of OMEN series of products. It had earlier been launched in parts of the US and China among other places.
Regarding its competition with the existing players in the segment, he said, “This product is for gaming community and HP never had in this segments so the people had choices of other brand now we coming in this segment and the kind of engineering, reliability, performance, after sales services, the kind of retail network in India and the great legacy which customers are looking at and the entire range is very unique that we are giving to everykind of gamer.”
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Deutsche Telekom AG, T-Mobile’s parent company, is looking to sell off its Dutch unit.
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The Dutch unit of the company isn’t a huge part of Deutsche Telekom’s overall business. The segment accounted for just 2.5 percent of overall revenue, while the United States and Germany accounted for more than two thirds of the company’s sales last year.
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One of Cleveland’s most popular and well-known landmarks is closing its doors after almost three decades in business.
Larchmere Tavern is shutting its operations for good as the COVID-19 pandemic appeared to have destroyed business, according to owner Fred Vrabel.
When the pandemic first began, Vrabel said he vowed to keep the business open, a business his wife Laurie built nearly 30 years ago before she died from cancer in 2016.
Within the year, the restaurant lost about $120,000 in sales and launched a GoFundMe to help recover some of the loss and pay down the Small Business Administration loan Vrabel received.
Yet, despite all of those strong efforts to keep Larchmere open, it is still closing up shop for good.
To visit the tavern while it is still open, you can find it at 13051 Larchmere Blvd. on Cleveland’s East Side.
Here is the announcement on the restaurant’s Facebook page:
Will you miss Larchmere Tavern when it closes?
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Newthorpe’s last remaining family shop is set to re-open after a £100,000 refit.
Barlows butchers, on Main Street, has been closed for refurbishment for a fortnight and its family owner, Scott and Kelly, are now itching to re-open on Monday, March 9.
Kelly, 37, said: “It’s been a long time waiting to re-open, we’ve been planning the refit for ages. We’ve spent over £100,000 on the shop, so it’s a totally new look now.”
The award-winning butcher has been running for over 65 years, started by Scott’s grandparents, Frank and Una.
Scott received a Butchers Q Guild award in 2010, presented by Heston Blumenthal.
But Scott, 40, said the shop has had its ups and downs.
He added: “There are so many shops closing now – we have another butchers in Kirkby and one of our competitors there has just gone into receivership after 100 years.
“It seems a shame if you’ve been part of the community for so long. We’re the only shop left in the village now.
“It’s especially difficult around here with all the supermarkets opening, so we’ve had to make massive changes or we wouldn’t be here.”
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ST. LOUIS - Several pharmacies in the St. Louis area are now selling the first-ever pseudoephedrine-based decongestant that apparently cannot be used to make methamphetamine.
Highland Pharmaceuticals in suburban St. Louis is the maker of Zephrex-D, which has been rolled out over the past week or so. Company spokeswoman Emilie Dolan says the company hopes to sell the product nationally within a year.
The federal Drug Enforcement Administration has been reviewing the drug, but the status of its testing wasn't immediately clear.
Pseudoephedrine found in cold and allergy pills is a precursor for most meth recipes. Federal law requires stores to keep pseudoephedrine-based products behind the counter, and two states -- Mississippi and Oregon -- require a prescription.
Missouri has been especially hard hit by the meth epidemic, but there is no statewide prescription law. More than 70 cities and counties have adopted their own prescription ordinances.
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Do you have lab products that you want to market to life science researchers? Are you interested in meeting with hundreds of active researchers to sell your lab equipment? If you answered yes to either of these questions, consider attending the 2015 39th Semiannual Biotechnology Vendor Showcase™ at the University of California San Diego in February!
Attending a Biotechnology Vendor Showcase™ at UCSD gives YOU the chance to meet with nearly 500 active life science researchers in need of new lab equipment to help with their work. The event is located on campus, as close to the research labs as possible, making it convenient for the researchers to take a break from their work to come visit the show and discover the best and newest products and technologies that will help move their work forward.
Exhibitors meet with researchers at the 38th semiannual Biotechnology Vendor Showcase™ event in San Diego to demonstrate their lab equipment.
UC San Diego is a thriving research market that receives millions of dollars of funding annually to assist with ongoing research and help start new projects:
- In the 2012 fiscal year, UCSD ranked 12th in the amount of life science R&D expenditures with $624,881,000.
- UCSD ranked 8th with $362,004,733 in NIH funding received in the 2013 fiscal year.
- In 2013, UCSD broke ground on the $269 million, 350,000 square foot Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute Building, which is expected to be completed in 2016.
- UCSD School of Medicine Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology was named a key site in a national, multi-institution, multi-year $41.6 million program to speed drug discovery, development, diagnostics and therapies for patients with autoimmune disorders, primarily rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and lupus erythematosus.
Science supply companies market their lab products at a vendor show in San Diego.
The 38th semiannual event in Spring of 2014 had 447 attendees! Of those, 175 were professors, post docs and purchasing agents, and 63 were lab managers. The balance were research associates and postgraduate students.
Exhibitors at the 2014 Spring and Winter events were very successful in finding new leads interested in the equipment they supply:
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- A company selling a product that costs anywhere from $69,000 to $135,000 reported making 4 quality leads. If each of those leads purchases 1 product 1 time, they have the ability to bring in anywhere from $276,000 to $540,000!
- One company in attendance reported that of the 150 people who visited their both, 20 were quality leads. People who buy their $400 product generally buy 4 products at a time, 3-4 times a year. That's a potential of anywhere from $96,000 to $128,000 if all 20 of those leads come through.
- A company that reported 30 quality leads had a product that costs $100 each, and customers buy 2-3 products 2-3 times a year. Anywhere from $12,000 to $27,000 could be brought in from those leads.
- "This was an excellent show!!! There were a ton of researchers and I was able to get a ton of leads!! I will be back next time!!"
- "I really enjoyed the diversity of equipment and demos available at this vendor show. Everyone was very friendly and I will definitely recommend this show to fellow staff and lab personnel."
- "Very well organized show."
Some happy scientists show off their new shirts from a biotech showcase event.
Exhibitors at this event not only get a prime opportunity to find new life science sales leads, but they also receive a free lunch and have the chance to win prizes for completing a survey at the end of the show. If you're looking for a fun, professional, and active event in which to market your life science lab products, look no further than the 2015 Biotechnology Vendor Showcase™ at UCSD this coming February. View more pictures from the 2014 San Diego event and visit #scienceninja to see what fun is waiting for you at the 2015 event. If you are interested in helping researchers find the best new products to use in their work, visit the links below:


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Leaks of the soon to be unveiled Surface Pro 8 with 120Hz and thunderbolt has surfaced ahead of Microsoft’s September 23rd hardware event. The hardware event will see some upgrades to the current line of GO, Pro, and Microsft tablets and laptops.
Twitter account Shadow leak shared a picture of the new Surface Pro 8 in Chinese, these show narrow bezels and the new Thunderbolt ports. According to this leak, the new tablet will ship with Windows 11, a 13-inch 120Hz screen and replaceable SSD Hard drives.
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The replaceable SSDs on the Surface Pro 8 now joins the host of the Pro X, Pro 7 and Surface Laptop 4 that has these feature already.
Microsoft has slated its Surface event for the 23rd of September this year. The Redmond-based company says it would talk about “devices and Windows 11.”
The company has sent invites to media houses for what’s next for Microsoft and its Surface platform. Its invite page shows a teaser picture of a Surface tablet. Probably the Surface Pro 8, that’s if Microsoft goes by that name.
The Fall hardware event will be virtual. Cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19 continues to surge in the United States. There have been reports of a Surface Duo successor flying around, the Duo 2 version.
According to reports, the biggest changes happening are; the cameras, 5G support and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 processor. Even an NFC chip for contactless payment has been rumoured for the Surface Duo 2.
Just maybe we might see the Successor to the Surface Book 3. Also, another talk of the day would be Windows 11, Microsoft will be releasing it as a free upgrade on October 5th.
Meanwhile, It’s Microsoft turn to share its most innovative hardware products for the year, Apple just had theirs. The Cupertino company released the iPhone 13, Series watch 7 and new iPad.
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Trump Renews European Tariff Threat
U.S. threat of 25% tariffs on cars from Europe is back on.
The U.S. threat of 25% tariffs on cars from Europe is back on.
President Donald Trump revived that likelihood earlier today on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
“If we don’t get something, I’m going to have to take action,” he told CNBC. Trump later clarified to Fox News: “If we can’t make a deal, we’ll have to put 25% tariffs on their cars.”
Trump wants Europe to relax its protection against agricultural goods from the U.S., an option France has resisted. He recognizes that hiking the current 2.5% tax charged by the U.S. on imported cars would get the attention of Germany, which happens to be Europe’s largest national economy. After all, the American market is a huge buyer of that country’s luxury cars.
If Trump does make good on his tariff threat, he would justify it on national security grounds. The president used the same argument in 2018 to rationalize U.S. tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum, which continue. The White House has refused to show Congress a Commerce Dept. analysis about the risk to national security risk caused by importing cars and auto parts.
Ready for War
The EU says a boost in U.S. auto tariffs would violate World Trade Organization rules. Maybe so, but the WTO is famous for its leisurely decision-making process. And Europe is eager to avoid disrupting its lucrative car exports.
Just in case, the EU has teed up retaliatory tariffs on $39 billion worth of American products if the Trump administration does hike import taxes on cars. But the bloc would rather not go there.
Last summer Sabine Weyland, the EU’s trade chief, described the back-and-forthing between the U.S. and Europe as a “morale-sucking, growth-slowing series of skirmishes” that distracts both markets from addressing “real” trade threats from China.
Which Way Out?
So where do we go from here? Rearranging the U.S. trade relationship with Europe is proving nearly as difficult as doing the same with China.
Trump’s renewed tariff threat on European cars is a reminder of his determination to shake up the structure of U.S.-EU trade, no matter how long it takes. But still unclear is what the “something” he’s looking as an acceptable solution will look like.
How GM, Toyota and a Couple of Gutsy Managers Made the U.S. Version of the Two-Seater a Reality
According to Sandor Piszar, Chevrolet truck marketing director, “We engineer and build our trucks with customers’ expectations in mind.”
Effective management is a timeless skill—as demonstrated by this treasure of an article from the AutoBeat Group archive. Although the tools of the trade have changed and proliferated, the basics remain the same. Here are 8 old school (and just darn practical) rules for being an excellent manager.


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CHINA, Beijing. China's hunger for meat is unbroken. Especially for pork, there is still a big gap between self-sufficiency and demand.
China also imported record quantities of meat in July. According to customs statistics data, total imports amounted to almost one million tons; that was 437,000 t or 78% more than in the same month last year. The invoice for this amounted to € 2.43 bn., which means that meat importers spent around € 987 mill. more than in July 2019. The quantities of pork and by-products purchased were particularly well up on the same month of the previous year, with an increase of 87.1%; growth in beef was more modest at 35.1% compared with the same month of the previous year.
The gap between demand and domestic production caused by the aftermath of African swine fever (ASF) has caused China's meat imports to grow more than ever before this year. According to the General Customs Administration, the total reference quantity from January to July 2020 amounted to 5.75 mill. t, an increase of 2.45 mill. t or 74.2% compared to the corresponding period of the previous year. The related import expenditure almost doubled to € 15.52 bn.
Pork was in particularly high demand, with international purchases, including slaughter by-products, rising by 98.2% to 3.38 mill. t compared with the first seven months of 2019. Pork accounted for 2.56 mill. t of this total, which represented a strong increase of 138.5% on the previous year. Cumulative imports of beef amounted to 1.20 mill. t, 41.5% more than in the same period of the previous year.
In the period under review, Chinese importers spent the equivalent of around € 7.5 bn. on purchasing pork and its by-products on the world market, and for beef the bill amounted to € 5.12 bn. Detailed data on the likewise increased imports of poultry and lamb were not included in the trade statistics. On the other hand, the customs authorities announced that six new US meat exporters had been approved to supply the Chinese market at the end of August; in addition, three companies from Uruguay had had their export licenses returned.


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SFV MANUFACTURINGRecent and archived news stories on: Aerospace, Agribusiness, Chemicals, Electronics, Energy, Fabrication, Industrial, Plastics, Textiles...
Amgen Inc. has successfully blocked Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Sanofi from selling a competitor to its cholesterol drug Repatha.
Galpin Motors announced Thursday that the sports car VLF Rocket V8, formerly known as the Galpin Rocket, is in production at a Michigan speed shop.
Amgen Inc. on Monday announced that it has filed for market approval for its osteoporosis drug romosozumab in Japan.
Eco-friendly cleaning products developer Grab Green has received $2.5 million in a financing round from Stoneway Capital.
Strategic Partners Inc. has entered an agreement with a Japanese apparel manufacturer to produce Cherokee brand medical uniforms for sale in Japan.
Avery Dennison Corp. has agreed to acquire pressure-sensitive materials manufacturer Hanita Coatings RCA Ltd.
Vitamin manufacturer Natrol on Nov. 28 announced the appointment of Tom Zimmerman as its new chief executive.
Capstone Turbine Corp. said it will cut expenses by changing its audit firm and bringing in-house the investor relations functions.
Teledyne Technologies Inc. has announced that it acquired Hanson Research Corp., a developer and manufacturer of instruments used in the pharmaceutical industry.
Ten months after its unveiling, the space vehicle VSS Unity completed its first free flight on Saturday at the Mojave Air & Spaceport in the Antelope Valley.
Shares of California Resources Corp. (CRC) soared 44 percent Wednesday as hopes of higher prices revived the entire oil sector.
Cherokee Inc. will acquire footwear maker Hi-Tec Sports International Holdings B.V. for $96 million, the company announced on Monday
Hydrogen leak detection equipment manufacturer H2Scan Corp. has named Michael Allman as its new chief executive.
The share price of California Resources Corp. rose nearly 20 percent Tuesday on higher prices for crude oil and news that billionaire George Soros increased his stake in the company.
Consumer electronics manufacturer Samsung Electronics will acquire audio products developer Harman International Industries Inc. in a deal valued at $8 billion.


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New BlackBerry Launching on T-Mobile
T-Mobile Wednesday announced the launch of its first 4G BlackBerry, the BlackBerry Bold 9900. The smartphone became available on presale Wednesday and will be released officially August 31.
The 9900 is billed as the thinnest BlackBerry ever and boasts both a touchscreen and a keyboard. It will retail for $299.99.


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The average wedding in North Carolina cost $29,500 in 2019, according to The Knot, the world’s top wedding planning website. That number dropped to $19,000 in 2020, with the majority of weddings scaling back on guest lists and other amenities, but weddings this year and in the years ahead are expected to creep back up toward that 2019 figure.
The venue typically takes up a good chunk of that figure — couples in the Tar Heel State spend an average of $10,500 on their wedding site. The engagement ring comes in next ($5,900), followed by the food, the band, the photographer and the dress.
Usually, the wedding planner and the venue are a bride and groom’s first big decision (after the engagement ring, of course). From there, though, each decision can have a trickle-down on the local economy. Even outside of the event-related expenses, when a wedding is hosted in Sanford, out-of-town guests need a place to sleep (hotels). Guests need to eat before and after the ceremony (restaurants). Men and women need things to do while in town (golf courses, downtown boutiques, local breweries).
While the total economic impact on Sanford and Lee County hasn’t been studied, a 2018 study by the Reg Murphy Center for Economic and Policy Studies found that the wedding industry in Glynn County, Georgia (a coastal area that is only slightly larger than Lee County) generated roughly 300 jobs, $7 million in labor income, $16 million in economic output and $8.5 million in total value added.
Florist Katie Thomas, owner of KatieDid Florals in Sanford, moved to the area from Danville, Virginia, recently and officially transferred her business in 2019. Her business focuses almost solely on weddings, and even in her short time here, she’s seen the industry grow rapidly in Lee County.
“We’re seeing just so many new venues in these last few years, both in Lee County and in the surrounding counties,” Thomas says. “These new venues beget so much business locally. The more venue choices we have — and the more venues we have that appeal to different tastes — then the more couples we’ll bring in.”
While many couples from this area are choosing to stay close to home for their wedding, the big impact is coming from out-of-town couples from Raleigh, Cary and all over the state who are looking for more intimate, rural settings and those looking for more “bang for the buck” over more pricey venues in larger cities.
The growth is keeping Thomas busy. If she wanted, she could book a wedding every week at this point. While flowers may not take priority over the dress or the venue, they’re definitely a Top 5 “must” on the average bride’s list, she says.
“Flowers mean different things to different people,” she says. “For me, it’s my way of bringing joy to your wedding day. When I design for a couple, it’s different every time. The season, the venue, the couple’s tastes, their favorite colors … they all play a role in what we choose.”
The trickle-down effect is visible with Thomas’s business, as she tries to always include local growers during peak flower months. When those aren’t available, she also grows her own blooms.
“My goal is for my couples to walk into their reception area for the first time and have that A-Ha moment,” she says. “We’re doing a lot of outdoor weddings in Sanford, and flowers can definitely become the focal point in those ceremonies. When we get it right, the couple never regrets spending on flowers. I’ve never had a couple say, ‘I wish we’d done fewer flowers.’ They just bring a special element to a wedding — they’re a memory that will last the rest of their lives.”
Capturing those memories is the role of a wedding photographer, another “Top 5” must-have for couples who’ll be looking back on those photos for the rest of their lives.
Alicia Hite shot her first wedding 11 years ago, and her business has grown in recent years right alongside the local wedding industry. Today, Hite shoots about 35 to 40 weddings in a year. Of those, roughly 25 are here in Sanford.
The importance of a seasoned, talented event photographer cannot be overstated, Hite says (and not just because she’s a seasoned, talented event photographer). The role is not something a couple should just hand off to their best friend who happens to have a good Nikon with a quality lens.
“You’re hiring all of these vendors to make it a perfect day, so you want a photographer who’s going to capture every detail and every memory,” Hite says. “It’s not just shooting the bride and groom, it’s getting shots of the invites, the ring box, the details in your wedding gown. I pick up on those things when I shoot a wedding — you don’t have to tell me, because you have more important things to worry about.”
Hite understands that when couples look back on photos of their wedding day, they’ll also be looking for photos of grandparents who maybe have since passed on or children who have grown. Hite says she makes sure to capture as many off-the-cuff, non-posed moments as possible. A laugh from grandma. A smile from dad. Happy tears.
According to The Knot, the average wedding photographer will cost you about $2,400. The website, heartofncweddings.com, has that figure between $3,000 and $4,000. Hite says a good photographer will work hand-in-hand with florists, caterers and other wedding vendors to get the perfect shots.
“You do enough of these, you eventually become a team,” she says. “We’re all in this together.”
The growth of the wedding industry in Lee County has not been lost on local business leaders. Sanford’s Tourism Development Authority recently created a wedding venue directory on its VisitSanfordNC.com site, and the TDA’s executive director Wendy Bryan says weddings have become one of Sanford’s biggest draws for out-of-towners.
“We have a large number of wedding venues considering the size of our county. And a lot of them are rural venues — which are extremely popular right now, especially during the pandemic when more and more people want that outdoor space,” Bryan says. “Another thing that became popular was these micro-wedding packages, because guest lists had to be reduced. These were a hit for a lot of our venues. And of course, when our venues are busy, our vendors are busy. Everybody’s working together and supporting each other, and we want to be here to support them.”
Businesses you wouldn’t necessarily associate with weddings are benefiting also, says Meg Moss, Sanford Area Chamber of Commerce executive director. Sanford has a growing number of Air BNBs. Rental businesses are more in demand. Deep River Sporting Clays is hosting more groups as part of wedding packages. Groomsmen and bridesmaids are shooting golf or taking a kayak down the Deep River with Endor Paddle. Downtown Sanford’s The Chocolate Cellar has all sorts of gifts for wedding guests.
But another big factor in Sanford’s recent popularity is its location, Moss says. Being smack dab in the middle of a coastal state with great year-round weather is good for business.
“Being well centered is a big part of it,” Moss says. “A lot of our couples and guests are coming here from the beach or the mountains … meeting in the middle. We’re being recognized as one of the nation’s top micropolitan areas (No. 5 on a recent national list), and just the name ‘Sanford’ is getting a lot of positive attention lately, whether it’s because of our new jobs, new housing developments or, now, its wedding venues.”
Sanford will align itself as even more of a wedding hub on Aug. 15, when the TDA hosts its first Carolina Classic Wedding Showcase at the Dennis A. Wicker Civic Center. According to Bryan, more than 60 vendors are signed up to showcase their venues and skills for prospective brides and grooms from all over the state. The event will also feature a fashion show, information sessions, set-up wedding scenes and a chance for a wedding or honeymoon giveaway.
“We hope this is the first of many,” says Bryan. “Our goal is simply to promote tourism in Lee County, and we’ve found that promoting our wedding venues and vendors is an excellent way to do that.”


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DUBAI: Lebanese blogger and entrepreneur Karen Wazen has landed herself a new fashion campaign, this time with Italian luxury label Prada.
The fashion house is unveiling its fall-winter 2021 womenswear collection on Thursday at 4 p.m. (Saudi time).
Wazen, who is an eyewear designer and has a brand bearing her name, shared images with her 5.5 million Instagram followers featuring statement pieces from Prada’s upcoming collection.
The Dubai-based fashion influencer wore a satin top and pants in purple, pairing the outfit with an off-white purse and black pointy-toed heels. Dangly black Prada earrings completed the look.
Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons will have a conversation to discuss the new launch following the new collection’s release.
Marc Jacobs, US model Hunter Schafer, film director Lee Daniels, DJ Richie Hawtin, and Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas will join the conversation virtually. The talk will be moderated by YouTube’s Derek Blasberg, who is a US journalist and author.
The collaboration between Prada and Simons was first announced last year.
The Italian has been the creative force behind one of the most successful luxury brands for 30 years, while Simons is considered to be one of the fashion world’s biggest talents.
His future has been the subject of intense speculation since he left Calvin Klein in 2018. He was previously creative director at Jil Sander and Dior. He also has his own label.


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For years, we’ve been hearing rumors of Project Titan, aka the Apple Car. But Apple is notoriously tight-lipped about the stuff that never makes it to market, and so all we had were rumors. Interestingly, though, as of this week, Apple’s made it official — they’ve built the software to help a car drive itself.
Tim Cook spoke with Bloomberg about the project, calling it “the mother of all AI projects.” For now, it appears Apple isn’t building a car, but instead is building a system for car manufacturers to install. Keep in mind that iOS 11 will be arriving this fall with feature that turn it into a defacto “brain” for your car, including lane guidance and speed limits, so we may be seeing a small piece of Titan sooner than we thought.
How will Apple stand out in a crowded field? Google, Tesla, and of course the automakers themselves are all working with autonomous vehicle technology. Cadillac, in fact, debuted a form of “super cruise control” just this year that allows the CT6 to drive itself down specific types of highways. But Apple has some advantages, not least an iPhone in millions of pockets, and that might make all the difference. We’ll see as Project Titan becomes an actual product.


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MG's first SUV will come with both petrol and diesel powertrains.
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The MG E ZS pure electric SUV is reported to make its way to the Indian market.
Gaurav will oversee the marketing, sales, customer delight and dealer development functions.
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The Baojun 530 is the third addition to the Baojun lineup that broke cover at the 2017 Auto Guangzhou.
Called the MG HS, the new premium SUV will be MG Motors' flagship and most advanced model in the global market.
The test mule was caught on camera during its test rounds in Gujarat.
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The event saw participation from over 125 students across 26 groups representing 5 cities across Gujarat.


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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) --After more than tripling in the main session, shares of Smith Micro Software continued higher in after-market trading Thursday.
There was no direct news, but the company SMSI, +0.00% introduced voice messaging and fax software for Macintosh computers earlier in the week. The stock surged 4 1/16 to 5 13/16 during the session, but jumped to 8 3/4 after hours. It was the busiest stock on Island.
Beyond.com BYND, -4.64% shares edged higher in the evening session after the company said it has received a five-year, $4.5-million contract to deliver and maintain Microsoft software on 3,500 computers at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Beyond.com is working with Intellisys Technology Corporation. Ahead of the announcement, the stock dipped 3/32 to 9 13/16, but moved to 10 13/32 on Island.
Harbinger stock rose on Island after the company hrbc said its strong sales of it software for e-commerce should help it meet or beat analysts' profit expectations for the fourth quarter. First Call reports the consensus estimate of 8 cents per share. Additionally, the out look for next year is "favorable." The stock closed up 5/16 at 18 5/16 and moved to 19 1/4.
Executone Information Systems jumped on active trading on Island as a Wall Street firm talked up the stock. Gilford Securities is "bullish" on the stock and expects good news from a shareholder meeting next week. The company elot will ask shareholders next week to OK the sale of part of its business so it can concentrate on running electronic lotteries. The shift would involve changing the company's name to Elot. See Thom Calandra's StockWatch. Shares gained 1 11/32 to 4 3/32 during the regular session and climbed to 5 1/4 on Island.
Aftermarket Technology said it expects to match analysts' projections for the fourth quarter. Additionally, the company atac said it sees earnings hitting $1.25 per share next year. Analysts surveyed by First Call expected the maker of car parts to earn $1.17. Ahead of the release, the stock gained 11/64 to 8 43/64.
Credence Systems cmos posted pro forma net income of $9.5 million, or 42 cents a share, excluding charges. This compares to a net loss of $8 million, or 39 cents, in the fourth quarter last year. Analysts projected a profit of 31 cents for the quarter. Sales jumped to $80.2 million in the quarter from $22.4 million. Shares closed up 1 11/16 at 71 1/16.
Broadbase Software said it will spend $331 million stock to acquire Rubric. The company bbsw said the acquisition will boost its online marketing effort. Broadbase shares dipped 3 7/16 to 92 ahead of the acquisition but has doubled in less than seven weeks.
Pegasus Communications announced after the market closed that it plans to acquire 6 independent DirectTV providers for approximately $100.9 million in cash and stock. After these acquisitions, the media company pgtv will own 57 percent of independent DirectTV providers across the country. Shares closed down 3 5/8 at 76 1/2.
Gtech and the New Hampshire Sweepstakes Commission have scrapped talks for the company gtk to provide online and instant ticket products and services over the next 6 years. Ahead of the news, Gtech shares slid 1/2 to 19 15/16.
Shares of Vertel lifted off in pre-market trading Thursday, putting a 50 percent, Wednesday gain to shame.
Vertel vrtl rocketed 7 17/32, or 234 percent higher, to 10 3/4 in Instinet trading. The company announced Wednesday afternoon the release of E-ORB, a new product for the telecommunications industry. The product can operate in a number of telecom environments, including Linux and Windows NT of Vertel provides products for broadband Internet and telecommunications networks. The stock tallied a 54 percent gain in Wednesday's regular session.
Datatec Systems datc shot up 1 15/16, or 51 percent, to 5 3/4 over Island. The company announced that it was selected to deploy IBM's network services offering. The company helps gather and manage design elements and project-related information that comprise any deployment project. IBM shares IBM, -0.72% are advancing 2 29/128 to 120 1/2 in Instinet trading.
Baker Hughes' shares bhi lopped off 4 1/2, or 20 percent, to 18 in Instinet. The Houston-based oil services company said after Wednesday's close that it had uncovered various "accounting issues" at one of its business units that may negatively impact its financial statements. The pre-tax effect is expected to be in the $40 million-to-$50 million range. This has led the company to postpone a proposed $200 million note offering. Late on Dec. 1, Baker Hughes warned of a possible operating loss for its fourth quarter, leading to a drop in First Call consensus estimates from a gain of 4 cents a share, to a loss of 2 cents. See related story.
Among other pre-market decliners, Tyco International tyc tanked 7 3/4, or 21 percent, to 18 1/2 in Instinet. The company said early Thursday that the SEC was conducting a "nonpublic, informal inquiry" relating to accounting procedures in connection with acquisitions. "We remain confident of our accounting methodology, our public disclosures and the continuing strength of our business," said L. Dennis Kozlowski, Chairman and CEO of Tyco. Share were knocked lower in mid October after a Wall Street newsletter accused Tyco ofaccounting manipulation.
InsWeb INSW, +2.71% added 1 to 29 3/4 in Instinet. The online insurance provider will provide the technology to power Microsoft's Insurance Center. Users will be able to access InsWeb services across the entire Microsoft network. Shortly, MSN Insurance Center will be accessible via WebTV and Microsoft Money 2000. Microsoft shares were up 3/8 to 92 1/8,
Lycos lcos rose 2 13/16 to 80 1/2 over the Island ECN on reports the Web portal would take its European joint venture public. The IPO of Lycos Europe, which is 50 percent owned by the Web portal, is expected early next year, according to the Financial Times. The other half is owned by German media giant Bertelsmann and Lycos Europe's chief executive. The IPO would represent 15-to-20 percent of the venture, the FT reports, and could value the search engine at approximately $4 billion.
Separately, Lycos announced the roll-out of Lycos Asia. The Singapore site's launch comes after the company and Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. signed a $50 million joint-venture agreement in mid-September.
Among other Net stocks seeing activity, Yahoo yhoo climbed 2 3/8 to 323 over Island after seeing earlier losses, Amazon AMZN, -0.41% added 4 7/16 to 93, EBay EBAY, -0.05% stepped up 2 3/16 to 164 5/8 and CMGI cmgi climbed 4 7/8 to 193 15/16.
Engage Technologies ENGA, +0.00% was trading up 1 5/8 to 73 5/8 over Island. After the market closed Wednesday, the company posted a fiscal first-quarter net loss of $10.5 million, or 22 cents a share, 6 cents narrower than expected. In the comparable quarter last year, the company lost $10.8 million, or 26 cents. Revenue in the quarter climbed 423 percent, year-to-year, to $8.3 million. CMGI owns 82 percent of the Andover, Mich.-based company.
Shares of Gateway gtw slipped 7/16 to 65 3/8 in Europe, according to market makers at Madoff Investment Securities. Confirming a recent rumor, the companysaid late Wednesday afternoon that Ted Waitt will step down as chief executive, with President Jeff Weitzen taking the top spot. The San Diego-based company said Weitzen will continue to run worldwide operations. The shift at the second-largest seller of direct PCs will take place at the end of the year. Gateway stock has lost about 14 percent since the beginning of the month. See related story.
Among other boxmakers, Dell Computer DELL, -0.06% inched 5/16 higher to 43 13/16 over Island.
Dell announced late Wednesday that it is teaming up with National Instruments NATI, -0.10% to produce workstations loaded with technology that engineers use for measurement. National Instruments' shares edged hiked up 1 15/16 to 31 over Island.