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Sugar, You’re Breaking Our Heart!
By CareerSmart Learning Contributor, Feb 26, 2015, as published by Healthcare Hot Spot
According to the American Heart Association, cardiovascular disease claims a life every 90 seconds in the United States, totaling more lives lost each year than all cancers combined. Recently, a 15 year study completed by the CDC firmly linked added sugar to a sharp increase in cardiovascular disease.
How Much Is Too Much?
Americans who consume more than 21 percent of their daily caloric intake in the form of added sugar double their risk of heart disease and death. Twenty-one percent may seem like a difficult number to reach, yet consuming a single 20-ounce soda per day equates to a diet with a 15 percent added sugar intake. A diet consisting of a 15 percent added sugar intake causes a 38 percent increased risk for cardiovascular disease, according to the study.
With over 100 names for sugar and sugar alcohols, most prepackaged food contains sugar in one form or another, including inconspicuous items like tomato sauce and soy milk. Despite an already sugar-laden diet, most Americans consume 22 teaspoons of added sugar each day. The AHA recommends no more than six teaspoons per day for women and nine teaspoons per day for men. That’s approximately 100 calories per day for women and 150 calories per day for men.
Putting It In Perspective
The AHA notes that over the past 30 years, Americans have added more sugar to their diets than ever before. The good news is that 70 percent of Americans have an estimated added sugar intake of 10 percent, which is in line with the recommendations of the World Health Organization.
The bad news is that at least 10 percent of Americans are estimated to have a daily added sugar intake of 25 percent or more. To put those numbers in perspective, the U.S. population as of 2014 was roughly 319,000,000 and growing. That means that approximately 31,900,000 people are eating more than double the recommended amount of added sugar each day and have a 50 percent higher chance of developing heart disease.
A Change In Perspective
While many people are aware that too much sugar causes obesity, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure, the study by the American Heart Association is one of the first to significantly link heart disease and excessive sugar intake. Avoiding sweetened drinks (the largest source of added sugar in Americans’ diets), dairy and grain-based desserts, yeast breads, candy, and ready-to-eat breakfast cereals is a great start to cutting added sugar from the diet. Currently, there is no mandatory food label listing for the amount of added sugar; however, the FDA is proposing adding this to all food labels. Many major food manufacturing and the sugar industries are opposing this change, citing the difficulty to calculate added sugar and that there is no dangerous properties in sugar. A change in perspective concerning reduced sugar intake is needed for healthy nutrition and can be brought about by knowledgeable healthcare professionals and further research.
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The American jewelry house of Verdura will celebrate its 75th anniversary with a special exhibition of more than 150 pieces created by the legendary jeweler Duke Fulco di Verdura. “The Power of Style: Verdura at 75” will open October 14 and continue through December 23 at 745 Fifth Ave. in New York, a gallery next to the company’s flagship store.
Among the pieces on display will be two Verdura Maltese Cross cuffs created by di Verdura for Coco Chanel in 1930. Chanel is known to have worn the cuffs, one on each wrist, throughout her lifetime. They are considered icons in the world of fine jewelry.
Di Verdura began his career working with Chanel in Paris. He moved to the U.S. in 1934, opening a boutique in Hollywood where he catered to celebrities and socialites. Ward Landrigan purchased the company in 1984, six years after di Verdura’s death. Today he is the company’s chairman and CEO.
“For thirty years it’s been my dream to share Verdura’s genius with a wider audience and bring him the recognition he deserves,” Landrigan said. “Collectors from around the world have readily agreed to lend their private treasures for three months and many have shared their reminiscences of time spent with Verdura.”
In addition to dozens of di Verdura’s signature jewels, the New York exhibit will include objets d’art, archival materials, personal miniature paintings and rare period photographs.
The exhibition will be curated by fashion designer Carolina Herrera and her husband Reinaldo Herrera, longtime friends of di Verdura. Several pieces from their private collection will be on loan to the show.
Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime jewelry event!

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Jumia is poised to become the first African start-up to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
MTN-backed e-commerce company Jumia is set to become the first African start-up to list on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
This as the Nigeria-based start-up filed for an initial public offering (IPO) on the NYSE yesterday, as reflected in documents from the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
According to reports, the firm can list on the NYSE as early as next month.
Banks leading the IPO include Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Berenberg and RBC Capital Markets.
MTN, Jumia's largest shareholder, recently said it plans to generate more than $15 billion over the next three years through asset sales. Jumia Group secured over EUR300 million (R4.9 billion) of funding from MTN in 2016.
The first MTN asset sale move was last week's announcement that it will dispose of its associate in Botswana, Mascom, for $300 million (R4.3 billion).
In a short statement sent to ITWeb following Jumia's IPO filing, the mobile operator says: "MTN is aware Jumia has publicly filed its registration statement and is working on the IPO which is focused on raising capital for growth.
"As we discussed at our results on 7 March, MTN has completed a review of the markets in which we operate to ensure appropriate strategic and operational fit. We have also reviewed our e-commerce and towerco portfolios, which include Jumia, and determined that these are not strategic for us over the long-term."
Jumia was launched in Lagos in 2012 by Jeremy Hodara and Sacha Poignonnec, ex-McKinsey consultants, along with Tunde Kehinde and Raphael Kofi Afaedor.
It then expanded to five other countries: Egypt, Morocco, Ivory Coast, Kenya and SA. In 2014, the company launched offices in Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana, Cameroon, Algeria and Tunisia, and it was present in 14 African countries in 2018.
The company, which was given a $1 billion valuation in 2016, had four million active consumers at the end of 2018.
Jumia became the first African start-up unicorn in 2016, achieving a $1 billion valuation after a $326 million funding round that included Goldman Sachs, AXA and MTN.
In its filing, Jumia says its mission is to "improve the quality of everyday life in Africa by leveraging technology to deliver innovative, convenient and affordable online services to consumers, while helping businesses grow as they use our platform to reach and serve consumers".
The Jumia platform consists of its marketplace, which connects sellers with consumers; logistics service, which enables the shipment and delivery of packages from sellers to consumers; and its payment service, which facilitates transactions among participants active on its platform in selected markets.
The company operates in six regions in Africa, which consist of 14 countries that together accounted for 72% of Africa's GDP of EUR2 trillion, and 74% of African consumer expenditure of EUR1.4 trillion in 2018, according to the IMF and Euromonitor, respectively.
"Though still nascent, we believe that e-commerce in Africa is well positioned to grow. In 2018, less than 1% of retail sales for countries measured in our footprint in Africa were conducted online, compared to nearly 24% in China, according to Euromonitor," says Jumia.
Commenting on the Jumia IPO, Byron Lotter, portfolio manager at Vestact Asset Management, says: "The IPO could value the company at a solid $1.6 billion. That puts it in line with Dis-Chem, Resilient and Tsogo Sun. In case you forgot, Jumia is an online retailer with over four million users, predominantly in Nigeria."
According to Lotter, the NYSE has the liquidity and appetite for these types of businesses. "After many successful tech IPOs in the last 10 years, US investors are not scared to put money into a company that made a loss of R2.7 billion last year.
Jumia reported a loss of EUR170.4 million in 2018.
"As you may have noticed, the JSE has been very unforgiving and sceptical of late. Understandably so. As the gateway to Africa, I'd say this is a missed opportunity for the JSE."
Lotter points out that at the end of December, MTN owned 31.28% of Jumia, which values its stake at R7.15 billion.
"That is juicy. MTN have already indicated they plan on selling the stake to pay off debts. Considering MTN's already hefty exposure to Nigeria, as well as Nigeria's propensity to turn ugly on its private sector, I'd say cashing out is a good idea."


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Mobile users in the UK will soon be able to unsubscribe from commercial text message services by sending the keyword “STOP” to originators.
The plan, which begins to go into effect August 1, will make it possible for users who have signed up for premium services such as ringtones, logos, games, adult entertainment, chat, travel reports and other types of information to easily end the messages.
“It gives the consumer greater control,” said Sally Anne Partoon, spokeswoman for the Mobile Data Association (MDA). The MDA is the UK-based organization that came up with the consumer protection scheme.
A variety of firms providing such services on British networks such as those operated by Orange, T-Mobile, O2 and Vodafone are cooperating to implement the plan, Partoon said.
Unsubscribing has always been an issue with cell phones and other mobile devices. Because of the limited amount of text that can be seen on the screen, there is little room for unsubscribe information such as is commonly used in email.
A survey by a regulatory organization demonstrated the widespread use of premium services in the UK. Just under half of the respondents to the survey said they had used at least one premium rate text service. Ringtones were the most widely used service, according to the May 2003 UK study by the Independent Committee for the Supervision of Telephone Information (ICSTIS), the regulatory body that oversees premium rate services.
More than 62 percent of respondents to the study had downloaded a ringtone. Two-thirds of them had received unsolicited promotions inviting them to reply using a premium rate number.
“It should be just as easy to unsubscribe to a service as to sign up for it in the first place,” said Rob Dwight, spokesman for the ICSTIS. “It’s easier for consumers to have confidence to sign up for services knowing that if you send that one word off, the service will be stopped.”
Dwight noted that the “STOP” command will be only for services that the consumer has signed up for already, “not for typical spam messages like, ‘Congrats, you have won a prize, call this number.'”
Providers of services to users signing up for the first time will be required to comply with the code as of August 1. In some cases, providers will have until November 1 to comply, for example if they are third party senders.
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UK Dairy Day - September 13th 2017
Wynnstay will be exhibiting at this year’s UK Dairy Day, a dedicated annual one day event for dairy farmers at Telford International Centre on Wednesday 13th September.
The Wynnstay stand will showcase a selection of innovative products and services available to dairy farmers to help them improve and develop their own enterprises. On the stand the capabilities of the VES cyclone fan will be demonstrated along with the new Surepulse inserts which are proven to significantly improve teat condition.
Calf Specialist Jess Charlton will be on hand to demonstrate the H&L 100 milk machine and discuss the importance of calf weighing and monitoring, a service which is freely available to Wynnstay customers through the Wynngold Calf Metrics tool.
The Wynnstay Dairy Team will be on hand to answer any questions and offer advice at a key time of year when many decisions and plans are being made in the run up to winter.
Customers can also pick up a free copy of the Wynnstay Dairy Catalogue which provides a one-stop-shop for dairy farmers, and sign up to receive regular updates from the Wynnstay Dairy Team.
The event runs from 8am – 5:30pm and is free to attend. A warm welcome is extended to all to call by the Wynnstay stand, located in the Ludlow Suite (L6) for light refreshments and to see what Wynnstay has to offer.
We look forward to seeing you there!


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‘Resident Evil 7’ Release Date, News & Update: VR Compatibility Promises To Be Grand
Capcom is committed to making “Resident Evil 7” another blockbuster and much of that falls on the VR compatibility expected to highlight its features upon release.
The game is not expected until January, 2017 thought the people behind the horror-game promise something special. In fact, Capcom didn’t hide the fact that development costs hit the roof though the company managed to balance the expenses from getting out of hand.
Controlled costs without sacrificing quality
All this was revealed by Capcom in a Q&A with Gaming Bolt. The developers emphasized on the use of tools to help keep the development cost in control without sacrificing the game quality expected for the upcoming horror game.
“We believe we have succeeded in optimizing our development process via fundamental technologies including our 3D scanning system, lighting and shading, which allowed us to minimize additional costs while achieving high-quality development.”
“Resident Evil 7” was shown of at E3 with gamers getting a front seat on what the game will be offering. A trailer of that can be viewed below.
How much for a copy of “Resident Evil 7”?
With the excitement spurred, the next question for gamers who plan to play “Resident Evil 7” is how much it will cost. Attaching the VR feature does hint at a pricier game version which hopefully will not be unreasonable.
This is despite the marked improvements that “Resident Evil 7” has to offer. 3D scanning, shading and lighting have improved and those alone could account for ramped up costs. There were some glitches seen when the game debuted at E3 though all that are expected to be resolved before it officially launches in 2017.
“Resident Evil 7” will come out with versions for the PS4, Xbox One and the PC with the game taking off from the events of “Resident Evil 6”. There will be a brand new protagonist and the game will be played using a first-person perspective.
Capcom reveals that the game takes place in a rural area of the southern United States in and around a large plantation mansion, PSU reported.


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Allright Call Of Duty fans, time to open up those wallets and fork out twelve buckaroos. Treyarch has released the soundtrack to Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies, which features 17 tracks composed by the team at Treyarch. You can get the soundtrack on Amazon, iTunes, Zune, and any other digital retail outlet. Now you and your friends can have the music playing while reenacting the game in your living room! …..weirdos
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"Sealy continues to raise the bar in social media for the mattress industry," said Jodi Allen, chief marketing officer, Sealy. "We have the largest fan base of any of our other major competitors combined, and our new campaign is about engaging these consumers in new and different ways, while also featuring our latest innovative products through a monthly mattress giveaway."
The new campaign will build on the company's 2011 social media launch with renewed focus on Sealy as a curator of bedroom taste by centering on:.
Posting original content relevant to bedding culture
Sharing special offers, sneak previews and new releases with fans
Leveraging reoccurring monthly themes including a monthly mattress giveaway and music playlists fit for the bedroom
Ongoing movie, bedding and hotel features and reviews
"We have grown our social media presence through meaningful engagement in conversations around beds and bedroom culture," said Allen. "By placing a greater emphasis in social media as a part of our new marketing strategy, we recognize the importance of these conversations in building consumer trust and increasing visibility."
About Sealy Sealy® owns one of the largest bedding brands in the world, with sales of $1.3 billion in fiscal 2012. The Company manufactures and markets a broad range of mattresses and foundations under the Sealy®, Sealy Posturepedic®, Optimum™, Stearns & Foster®, and Bassett® brands. Sealy operates 25 plants in North America, and has the largest market share and highest consumer awareness of any bedding brand on the continent. In the United States, Sealy sells its products to approximately 3,000 customers with more than 7,000 retail outlets. Sealy is also a leading supplier to the hospitality industry. For more information, please visit www.sealy.com.


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With great horsepower, comes great responsibility. That’s the case of the new Ford GT. The Hypercar that debuted in the Detroit auto show in 2015 was an instant hit. From being the sleekest babe in the auto show to having specs that made everyone’s jaws drop to the floor, the Ford GT hypercar has really got it all!
With a twin-turbo charged EcoBoost V6 engine that promises more than 600 horsepower, to carbon ceramic brakes, the hypercar is the future. To visualize how it looks, think futuristic. It looks super and it rides super. Plenty of torque, no complicated electric-boost function and a beast of an engine, makes this car as ready to take off as a fighter jet.
Ford has said that production of the Ford GT will begin from next year and not more than 250 of these beauties will be in production every year. The price is an arm and a leg; just kidding. Ford has priced it to be equal to or more than that of the Lamborghini Aventador. Costing around 250,000 pounds, the GT supercar is as expensive as one of the most popular cars in the world. We think it is time to start saving up, don’t you?


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Toshiba's decision to give way on the disk format was apparently made after examining cost issues related to the Sony technology. The merged format will make use of Sony's 0.1 millimeter Blu-ray disk technology with Toshiba's software in place for reading and writing from the disk and handling copyright protection. Toshiba's 0.6 millimeter HD-DVD disk technology will be dropped. The resulting technology will be offered as a new format. It's unclear at this point if the new format will adopt the Blu-ray or the HD-DVD name, or if something completely new will be used.
Sony announced late last year that the next generation PlayStation would make use of the Blu-ray format. The Nihon Keizai article reveals that, as part of the compromise, Blu-ray supporters Sony and Matsushita were demanding the highest possible storage space for future IT and game applications. This would suggest even though Blu-ray as it was known is gone, the new merged standard will end up serving as the format for PS3.
Expect further announcements later this week or at E3.
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The Hungry German has closed its doors
THE Hungry German may have closed its doors on Friday, but they aren't finished serving the Gladstone Region just yet, owner Monika Riedel says.
The food trailer business moved into the Goondoon St site six months ago, enabling them to offer a wider range of German food.
Despite their final day of trading on Friday being one of their busiest days since opening, Ms Riedel said there was just "not enough business" to keep a permanent store open.
"I only opted to give it a go for six months here and see if business picks up," Ms Riedel said.
"But we know (the) economy is very slow at the moment."
Ms Riedel said they tried morning, night and weekend trading but business didn't pick up as they hoped.
"If it would be for just lunch trading, we would be fine. Our food sells really well at lunch."
"We've got a lot of regular people and I know there are a lot of sad people around Gladstone that will miss us but unfortunately we can't survive on three-hour lunch (windows)."
Although she felt "awful" about closing, Ms Riedel said they have plans to go in a different direction in the near future.
"We have got another plan in action already," she said.
"We have built a charcoal grill which is from Europe as well."
"It will be the same food, it will be all the sausages (and) there will be some other food on there as well."
"We will only be taking that to events and markets and it's only going to be for fun - not as a job as such."
The new business idea is still in the works and Ms Riedel said she wasn't sure whether they would continue to operate under the same name.
Ms Riedel said she had enjoyed her time owning The Hungry German and serving the Gladstone community.
"My whole time, even in the van, I've not ever had one bad review … it's all really well received," she said.


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Tata Motors is gearing up for the Auto Expo 2018 and has lined up a wide range of products for the Indian market. We had already reported about the upcoming Tata premium hatchback which will be showcased at the biggest auto show in the country. Now, Tata Motors has teased the X451 premium hatchback ahead of its debut.
Tata Motors has revealed a new teaser image of the X451 premium hatchback which reveals the headlamp cluster and bonnet of the car. The headlamp looks to be a full-LED unit and the sleek design of the lights render the car a futuristic look. Overall, the design looks completely different compared to current-gen Tata cars.
The Tata X451 premium hatchback will also feature the company's Impact Design 2.0 which will bring in radical changes to the design philosophy. The hatchback is expected to get flared wheel arches, and prominent hump in the window line similar to the Nexon and the front grille is likely to be sleeker than the Nexon. The rear profile is also expected to get sleek tail lights to enhance the sporty look of the hatchback.
Tata Motors' X451 premium hatchback will be the first car to be based on the new Advanced Modular Platform (AMP) which is developed in-house by the Indian automaker. Mechanically, the premium hatchback is expected to draw power from the existing 1.2-litre turbocharged petrol engine producing 108bhp.
There is also a possibility of Tata Motors utilising the 1.2-litre naturally aspirated engine from the Tiago hatchback. The diesel variant of the car is likely to get a 1.05-litre turbocharged engine with higher power output. Tata Motors will reveal the new premium hatchback at the Auto Expo 2018 in February.
Apart from the X451 premium hatchback, Tata Motors will also showcase the H5 premium SUV which is expected to be named as Tata Atmos. The SUV will be based on the Land Rover Discovery Sport's platform and will be offered in a five-seater and seven-seater variants.
Tata Motors will also reveal the new Light Commercial Vehicle (LCV) and a Medium/Heavy Commercial Vehicle with an all-new design. In 2018, Tata Motors is keen to enter the premium car space with its new hatchback and SUV. Both the vehicles have already been spotted on Indian roads.
DriveSpark's Thoughts On Tata X451 Premium Hatchback
Tata Motors' Impact Design language has been successful in the Indian market with the vehicles such as Tiago, Nexon, Tigor and Hexa. Now, the new premium hatchback promises to be a similar product with an all-new design language. When launched in India, the premium hatchback will rival the likes of Maruti Baleno and Hyundai i20.


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The cost of shipping large volumes of cargo has fallen 95% since 2008 to a new all-time low. That might mean the global economy is in big trouble. But it’s only part of the story.
If you wanted to, you could rent a 168-meter cargo ship tomorrow for around $4,000 (fuel not included). That ship (similar to the one in the photo below) can carry 50,000 tons of dry goods – that’s as much as 10,000 elephants. If the ship were filled with coal, you’d be able to power 24,000 apartments in Singapore for an entire year.
Or, for about the price of renting that ship for two nights, you could stay at the nicest suite at the Ritz Carlton in Singapore (around 280 sq. meters, great views) for one night.
About eight years ago, renting that ship for a day would have cost you closer to $80,000 – a lot more than a night at the Ritz.
What’s happened? The Baltic Dry Index, which tracks the price of shipping dry bulk cargoes (iron ore, coal and grain, for example) by sea, just hit another all-time low. It’s down 96% from its highs in 2008, and down 60% from its 2015 highs. It’s even down 25% from the December 2008 lows of the global economic crisis.
A lot of people look at the cost of shipping cargo as an indirect way of measuring the health of the global economy. “The [Baltic Dry Index] has always been used as a bellwether indicator for global trade conditions and the state of the international economy,” says Business Insider (in an article titled “We just got a major sign that world trade is crashing”).
Part of the problem is that the prices of the commodities these big ships transport have dropped. The Reuters/Jefferies Commodity Research Bureau Index, which looks at the price of a range of commodities like oil, wheat, gold and gas is down 24% so far in 2015.
It makes sense that if the stuff you’re transporting falls in value, the cost of transporting the (now cheaper) stuff should also fall.
The cost of renting out these big ships has fallen a lot more than the prices of what they ship, though. Some people think this means commodity prices are going to fall even more.
But the cost of renting cargo ships is also based on supply and demand. During good times for the industry a few years ago, when there was more demand for shipping than there was supply, some shipping companies ordered more ships. But because they take years to build, these new ships only became available recently – a long time after the extra demand had gone away.
So now the shipping industry has a lot more ships than customers. Every day that a ship sits empty, the owner has to pay around $10,000 (depending on the size, age and location of the ship) for maintenance, upkeep, fees, and many other things. So the owner would rather rent out the ship at a loss (at, say $4,000 a day) than make nothing at all on his ship. (The owner would like to rent the ship out for a lot more. But, because there’s so many more ships than there is demand, he can’t.)
A lot of shipping companies are struggling. The share prices of many dry bulk-shipping companies, like New York-listed Scorpio Bulkers, Genco Shipping & Trading, Eagle Bulk Shipping, and Diana Shipping have fallen sharply. Worldwide, a number of companies in the sector have filed for bankruptcy.
The Baltic Dry Index will probably remain low for a while. The economic slowdown in China – a major customer of big ships – will hurt demand. Lower commodity prices are also hurting demand. But the bigger problem is there are just too many ships. And that’s not going to change until more shipping companies go out of business – or until the Ritz starts renting them.


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Police in riot gear on Thursday broke up a picket line of striking stevedores in the Portuguese port of Setubal to clear the way for strikebreakers hired to resume shipments of cars made at a nearby Volkswagen plant nearby.
Thousands of cars have piled up at the port and at the Volkswagen Autoeuropa plant since the strike began on Nov. 5, forcing the manufacturer to cancel seven shipments.
Stevedores tore down the fences around the main access road to the port and sat and lay in front of a bus with strikebreakers before police hauled them away one by one, while others shouted “Go away, go away!”.
Stevedores’ union SEAL accuses the port authorities of a “criminal wage discrimination” against the majority of stevedores who have no permanent contracts and are usually hired for a day’s job.
Volkswagen Autoeuropa said in a statement the ship’s loading on Thursday was made possible thanks to guarantees provided by the government and the port operator. It said no alternative shipping route was capable of handling its production volume.
The plant makes more than 880 cars per day, including the new T-Roc SUV. Autoeuropa is Portugal’s single largest exporter.
The union said 30 strikebreakers had been hired specifically by the car manufacturer to load the ship with some 2,000 Volkswagen cars that had been piling up at the port and were paid far more than workers usually were.
Volkswagen would not comment on the hiring of strikebreakers.


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Controversial Nollywood actress, brand ambassador and mother, Tonto Dikeh just got a deal worth N100 million.
The actress according to her, is the first Nigerian celebrity to sign an endorsement deal worth that amount.
Zikel Cosmetics has signed Tonto to be the face of the brand and also as a partner.
She took to her Instagram to break the news, with great excitement and joy.
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KING TONTO joins the ZIKEL COSMETICS family as its Brand Ambassador and the first Nigerian to be paid a whopping sum of N100,000,000 per annum as endorsements for a makeup brand in Africa ! Legally endorsed and managed by
Manifield Solicitors (@manifieldsolicitors).
Welcome King Tonto . Our everyday crush (Thanks @vugo24 )
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The Second Place Goes To…
Apart from poker there are a handful of other popular iGaming platforms that Russian audience enjoys on a regular basis.
The second place goes to Sportsbook.
While the term is not that popular on Russian Google (only 1600 searches a month), Yandex reports over 350,000 monthly searches.
Basically, Sportsbook is an online betting service. Its popularity is quite understandable due to the recent restrictions of all Russian land-based gaming venues to just four remote zones. Russian audience still likes to do some betting, so they’re simply moving to the online.
One thing that goes almost head to head with Sportsbook is online roulette. While Google indicates around 135,000 searches a month, Yandex reports a number near to 350,000 (similar to Sportsbook).
Roulette has some historical popularity in Russia, so the fact that it’s also popular online shouldn’t be a surprise.
Google Trends doesn’t have much to say about roulette as the information is biased by some sudden spikes in interest due to certain pieces of news.


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- July 2, 2020
- Digital Marketing
The ecosystem for digital marketing, advertising and copywriting may soon be undergoing a major transformation. For nearly a quarter of a century, data brokers, market researchers, and online advertisers have relied on third-party cookies to collect internet users’ digital footprints to build valuable market insights. But that may not be the norm for long.
While such a common, widespread industry practice has sparked some fierce debates over the ethics and legality of corporate mass surveillance, its proponents shockingly face a massive blow when Google, the largest industry facilitator, has finally relented to the other side.
On 14th January, Google announced that it will start phasing out the use of third-party cookies across its native web browser, Chrome. The initiative, known as Privacy Sandbox, outlines a series of open-standard measures that seek to make “third-party cookies obsolete” by further limiting the advertisers’ access to user information.
These measures will restrict the ad-tech companies’ abilities in identifying users and their behaviors across multiple platforms (cross-site tracking) at any stages of buyer’s experience (multi-touch attribution) and even based on their past online activities (retargeting).
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Why Does Google Roll Out The Initiative In Stages?
This clampdown against third-party tracking—following hard on the heels of online users’ demand for better transparency over how their data is used—is not the first initiative introduced to the browser market. Safari and Firefox have already instituted their own mechanisms against intrusive cross-platform tracking as early as 2017—partaking in a broader movement to enhance user privacy by making these changes as a default option.
However, unlike the steps taken by the other two browsers, the plan laid out by Google since August last year will take two years to go in full effect, according to Justin Schuh, the director of Chrome engineering. Such a gradual implementation is highly necessary to enact an effective ecosystem-wide change, as reported by the company.
Accounting for nearly 66% of the browser market, Google recognizes that taking drastic, immediate measures would tip the balance of the industry as most websites currently operate on an ad-supported business model. Undermining the current system in place can jeopardize the presence of smaller players and create a market monopoly. Ultimately, this will inhibit content diversity since most companies, by then, will lack the market capital and interest to deliver content with high-end user experience.
Such a decline in quality would definitely spell trouble for Google, which also operates the Internet’s largest search engine. Therefore, this initiative is important to foster a market ecosystem, in which publishers can still thrive and profit from programmatic advertising without neglecting the users’ concerns over data privacy.
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How Will The Privacy Sandbox Shape The Future Of Digital Advertising?
To kick-start the initiative, Google Chrome will roll out new technologies that limit obscure cross-site tracking—starting from next month—by treating every cookie as first-party by default unless stated otherwise. To prevent cross-site information leakage, cookies labeled for third-party use must be accessed over a secure HTTPS connection.
These technologies also ensure that Google has provided adequate infrastructure support for publishers to operate their websites with greater transparency, from ad selection to federated authentication.
For instance, to protect data anonymity, the Privacy Sandbox mechanisms will shard highly sensitive web identities and store the user-level information exclusively in the browser without any option to export. Advertisers can only access this fragmented data via Google’s own application programming interface. This arrangement enables advertisers to obtain highly accurate information about their target demographics. It also assists them in gauging sales conversions without compromising the users’ personal information.
Likewise, the company develops new anti-fingerprinting measures—released later this year—to halt covert tracking or similar workarounds. Device fingerprinting is an intrusive method of building audience personas by gleaning user information from their devices’ specific and unique configurations.
The main criticism leveled at this advertising technique is that the consumers have zero control over the type of information relinquished to the advertisers as it is stored on the server-side. In contrast, cookies are stored on the users’ end and can be removed at any time by users themselves.
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So how will these new measures impact on digital advertising, then?
The responses from the industry players so far have varied. Marketers that rely on first-party cookies haven’t been greatly affected. Meanwhile, those solely utilizing cross-site advertising strategies begin to recalibrate their business models to fit the changing infrastructure. We highlight there are four ways, in which market players will pivot their ad targeting strategies on this new environment:
1. The Rise of Contextual Targeting in Digital Advertising:
With user data becoming increasingly less granular, the focus of advertising has started to shift from tracking down users’ online activities to figuring out what content they consume. Often known as contextual targeting, this advertising strategy enables marketers to target ads to users who visit or search keywords, topics, and websites relevant to their advertised products and services. It is important to note, however, that proximity and language play a crucial role in how contextual advertisements are catered to the audience.
Ad-tech companies with cross-site tracking verticals will stand to lose in this new environment as the avenues to glean user information across platforms continue to dwindle and eventually disappear. Soon, tailoring advertisements to consumers based on their online signifiers would become more cumbersome and less lucrative. For example, intrusive pop-up ads strewn across the Internet would be dramatically reduced as Google would actively delimit websites with such configurations. Consequently, ad-tech companies wholly reliant on third-party cookies must rebuild their strategies based on the contextual behaviors of the users.
Moreover, with a greater focus on contextualized marketing, advertising collaterals would predictably transcend the mere formats for digital branding. Departing from third-party data collection, advertisers must focus on capturing audience attention more effectively through heightened media experience.
Even better, with the rise of Internet-of-Things, companies now can integrate their digital forte to collect customers’ information while concomitantly elevating their buying experience. Check out the ad made by Amazon below, which showcases the company’s latest initiative in revolutionizing the in-store digital experience!
In 2016, Amazon successfully redefined online retail with Amazon Go, the first hybrid store that allows customers to enjoy hassle-free grocery shopping through automated payment and checkout process on a digital app. With greater demand for contextual targeting, we will see more companies emulating Amazon.
2. Content Marketing To Dominate The Conversation Around Digital Advertisements:
Sans cross-site programmatic tactics, the power of digital advertising would largely concentrate on the media owners and content creators. Under this new paradigm, industry players must rely on first-party audience insights provided by relevant marketing channels, either their own or those purveyed by others. These channels encompass websites, OTT media services, in-house software programs, among many others.
Within the current industry, however, some advertisers still craft their strategies around harvesting clicks and conversions generated by online users across the web. While this is significantly easier to perform, the measured results are less accurate. It requires advertisers to bombard the customers with content, even at the expense of quality.
Nonetheless, with the cookie crackdown in progress, advertisers must eventually forgo the practice. They need to conceptualize strategies that pivot around industry-specific goals and procedures. Such a migration would see a tremendous drop in clickbait content and other invasive advertisements. This, in the end, will help publishers generate impressions and data with better value.
The erasure of third-party cookies from the market ecosystem also spurs more cross-collaborations between publishers and advertisers. In other words, publishers will allocate more time and resources to provide high-quality, organic content to entice advertisers. To accomplish this, publishers must gauge their organic content in terms of traffic and engagement whereby they can auction off slots adjacent to their most visited pages to prospective marketers.
Additionally, SEO and SEM—the fundamental elements of digital content creation—will take center stage of the new advertising landscape. Marketers and advertisers alike will utilize these online tools to enhance their digital presence as they operate independently of cookies. The analytical data obtained from the optimization results will offer great insights into the audience’s varying media consumption patterns.
3. First-Party Data Gains Greater Importance:
As the backbone of digital advertising, first-party cookies will become more valuable for identifying market demographics. Unlike its third-party counterpart, the first-party data is primarily designed to enhance the user experience when visitors access the websites. It helps publishers identify the users to implement settings suited to their browsing needs.
Many publishers are already incorporating first-party cookies to execute their day-to-day operations. Those who haven’t will likely follow suit to assist them in collecting user-level information with better accountability.
With the ever-growing prominence of first-party cookies, we will see a rising trend of paywalls for premium content. Meanwhile, those with the ad-monetization model in place will employ registration requirements from visitors in exchange for their value offerings.
Currently, the market challenge lies in how publishers can remain privacy compliant when integrating first-party insights into their programmatic strategy. Internet users will likely push for greater transparency thanks to Google. The market for first-party data also transforms, in that the supply side will exert more power than the demand side. The sudden increase of advertisers in need of new marketing spaces is a contributing factor.
4. Marketing Agencies Reaffirm a Strong Foothold in Digital Advertising:
There’s no denying that Google’s clout on the data market is massive. When the news first broke out, Reuters reported that the market shares of several advertising software companies dipped, including Criteo SA by 8% and Trade Desk inc. by 1.4%.
While Google isn’t likely affected by its own decision as it still relies on other means of data collection—primarily first-party analytics, including from YouTube, the sudden loss of market confidence indicates that the rest will be greatly affected. Google corroborates this with its own study on the pivotal role of cookies in digital advertising. The study analyzed the impacts of user tracking in 500 publishers. It finds that publisher revenue declined 52% on impressions sans cookies, with news publishers experiencing a sharp 62% drop.
But the absence of cookies can be a gold mine for some. Taking advantage of this change, some marketers have planned to consolidate their buying power to become premium publishers. They do so by converting their business models into walled gardens—a closed ecosystem where they have full control over applications, content, and media.
But switching to this lucrative business model isn’t always feasible. To help brands execute first-party data strategies, advertising agencies are often called in for negotiation and consultation. The market trend supports this conjecture. As reported by Adexchanger, Omnicom Media Group has managed to cinch more than 50,000 deal IDs across its clients.
Also Read: How to Drive Better Marketing Results with LinkedIn Polls
The Future of Data Collection:
Although Google’s decision to remove third-party cookies will disrupt digital advertising, some of these changes are inevitably for the better. For years, users have lamented the invasive nature of third-party cookies. They deem the lack of transparency in data transactions could potentially risk their online safety. But there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Google’s participation has served as a wake-up call for other industry players to take the issue of privacy more seriously.
Of course, valid criticisms over market monopoly by big technological companies, like Google and Apple, still exist. After all, our extensive dependency on their technological offerings necessitates greater accountability and transparency on their end. Nonetheless, the announcement from Google is still a victory, albeit small, in the grand scheme of things.
But we are still hopeful that more tech firms will take great strides in a positive direction. Being less reliant on third-party cookies, companies in droves will realize the significance of quality over quantity in advertising strategies. In fact, some industry players are vying to reach the cultural prominence of tech giants like Google and Facebook. They are competing against one another to develop sophisticated and highly retentive advertisements to the market. Not only has this fostered a safer environment for online marketing, but it also stimulates more vibrant technological innovation.
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On 18 May 2021, Google held its annual I/O event showcasing the company’s innovations and features for its everyday consumer and corporate users.
Being outside of the U.S., it is an open secret that Singapore users may not be getting all the announced features. This article breaks down what will be available to everyday consumers, especially if you are living outside of the U.S.
The spotlight of the show, Android 12 promises many upgrades which are finally released to the public. In summary, it gets a massive aesthetic redesign, better battery optimisation, more transparent privacy controls, optimised notification display and improved camera features.
Material You integrates personalised design elements according to your home screen background, and Quick Tiles replaces the round widgets on the notification screen with larger rounded rectangles to show more information. You will see incoming notifications in full rather than a link to the app as Google prompts developers to follow suit.
A privacy dashboard found on Android 12 also enables detailed privacy controls to explicitly prevent apps from using sensitive data like your location or your camera. Users will even get a little green dot on the top of the screen to indicate camera and microphone usage, or switch them off entirely at a system level. In addition, Google Photos now has a new locked folder feature to safeguard private images that can be secured by using a password or biometric login.
With Android’s Nearby Share (Google’s answer to Apple’s Airdrop), it will be easier to share information and files between Android 12 devices. This includes WiFi credentials without the need of using QR codes.
The camera app on Android 12 devices gets a slew of new features through its improved algorithms. The improvements are responsible for a more accurate colour balance, shadows in photos and mapping out different hair types. Aside from the algorithms, users may create short animations from a series of photographs through the “cinematic moments” feature.
Smart Canvas: Smarter, connected workspaces
Amid the tightening workplace restrictions in Singapore, Google’s Smart Canvas comes just in time, with the aim to increase productivity while working remotely. With this add-on, productivity suites such as Google Docs and Meet are interconnected, making it possible to join a call directly from the Google document itself.
With a feature known as “smart chip”, users can tag their fellow colleagues directly to a task or sentence that requires their attention, or link to another document, which can appear as a hovering window for a quick preview.
A responsive timeline feature is also included to keep track of multiple overlapping tasks among the team. Other additional features include grammar correction and suggestions that will be built right into the Google productivity suite along with formula suggestions in Google Sheets.
The merger of WearOS and Tizen
With this merger, future Samsung smartwatches would essentially run on Google WearOS. Thanks to the combined effort of both companies, users can expect to see improvements in battery life, app loading times and smoother animations.
This merger will also offer a larger range of apps and watch faces for users to choose from. Like other smartwatches running on WearOS, offline versions of Google Maps, YouTube Music and Spotify will be included as well.
At the time of this writing, features such as the Google Workspace integration with Google Meet are already available. The Android 12 public beta is currently only available on selected devices such as the Google Pixel 3 and newer.
For existing Samsung smartwatch customers, the company promises 3 years of software updates on existing products, and will also make it easier for customers to export their health data onto future devices.


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- The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Tuesday, August 4
- National cyber-security response, skills development crucial to Australia's economic future: Cisco
- DHS warns about privacy implications of cybersecurity bill
- Apple computers vulnerable to 'Thunderstrike 2' firmware worm
- Cleaning up botnets takes years, if ever, to complete
in-memory processing - News, Features, and Slideshows
Analysts predict a strong uptake of in-memory technologies and cloud BI, new use cases for big data applications and more business collaboration next year.
Gartner has issued the following missive to CIOs: Familiarise yourself with key data warehousing trends and how they will impact the technology deployed to deliver business analytics during 2011 and 2012.
The next generation of cloud computing will be based on in-memory technology and rely on high-speed broadband infrastructure investments, according to SAP global co-CEO, Jim Hagemann Snabe.


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Savers have been left high and dry by the deirsory rates on offer in high street savings and current accounts since the financial crisis.
Prior to the credit crunch best-buy savings rates, particularly cash Isas, were on the whole offering rates higher than inflation. According to the Bank of England in 2008 new savings accounts paid an average of 6pc versus an inflation rate of 4pc.
These days are now long gone, at present the best easy-access (or no-notice) account currently pays 1.6pc at three building societies – Coventry, West Brom Earl Shilton. This is below the official inflation rate of 2.2pc at the end of October, which some analysts believe is artificially low and that in fact inflation is a lot higher in real terms.
If you are prepared to keep your money away for five years there are some bonds that beat inflation, with the best Aldermore’s offer of a 3.15pc for a return in 2018. These figures are gross – before the reduction of tax.
But millions of savers who cannot afford to lock away their savings for such a long period of time and are unwilling to gamble their savings on shares in the stock market have lost out.
Research by Woodruff Financial Planning which analysed the performance of the index of 90 day notice bank accounts versus both measures of inflation, the consumer price index and the retail price index, found that over five years the average savings account has grown by 6.1pc.
In contrast the consumer price index is up 26.1pc, while the retail price index has grown 15.7pc.
The below charts show both measures of inflation as a constant versus the performance of savings accounts. As the two charts show savings accounts have been destroyed by inflation, losing 15.8pc and 8.3pc in value over five years.
Dan Woodruff, financial planner at Woodruff Financial Planning, said: "As the data shows the average bank account currently provides you a 0.95% annual return. If you have £10,000 in savings that’s going to give you an annual return of £95. Hardly anything to get excited about. If you’re a basic rate UK taxpayer, you could pay 20% tax on the interest, leaving you with £76.
"I would urge investors who want to beat inflation to look at buying a cautious multi-asset fund that aims to deliver a 5pc to 6pc return without taking on too much risk. Unfortunately bank accounts do not beat inflation."


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The acquisition will support the company's technology platform THG Ingenuity, which CEO Matthew Moulding reveals may receive additional investment this year
The Hut Group (THG) has acquired language translation and localisation services company Language Connect, ploughing more investment into its THG Ingenuity platform.
The global language services provider will be integrated into THG Ingenuity, which supports both external clients' and its own systems, including its health and beauty brands.
Matthew Moulding, founder and CEO of THG, said: “I’m delighted to welcome the Language Connect team to THG.
"In Language Connect, we have made a significant investment which supports our international growth plans; making translation more efficient for our customers around the globe.
"It also marks another step in the growth of our proprietary technology platform, THG Ingenuity, following the acquisitions of UK2 and Hangar Seven last year.
"We expect to make additional investments this year to grow the platform further.”
THG Ingenuity currently offers clients such as Nintendo, Honda and the Daily Mail Group with digital support.
Its capabilities include hosting services, digital commerce technology, data science, transaction and finance management, and translation and language services.
Language Connect's clients, meanwhile, include blue-chip companies such as Reuters, Twenty First Century Fox and Norton Rose Fullbright.
Ben Taylor, Co-founder of Language Connect, added: "I have closely followed the growth of THG as one of the UK’s leading technology companies and particularly its impressive expansion into international territories.
"I am confident in the Group’s ability to accelerate the business forward and create exceptional opportunities for our people in this exciting new chapter.”


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Chevrolet Cruze cars have been recalled by General Motors Company for an adjustment in the model's engine to prevent any possibility of fire. The models in the year 2011 and 2012 are included in the recall after a number of reports of fire in these models' engine. No casualties have been reported in these fire incidents; however the company has decided to recall the vehicles of the defective models to prevent any future accidents.
Around half a million cars are included in the recall. The recalled vehicles would be from United States as well as several other countries where the specified models have been sold. Authorities have taken notice of the defect in the car engine and called for action by the automaker to rectify it.
The company has taken this step to satisfy the customers who would be questioning the safety of driving the Cruze. "The most important thing for our customers to know is that we are proactively working to assure the Cruze is the safe and durable car they purchased. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused by these actions," GM vice president of global quality Alicia Boler-Davis stated in a recent statement as reported at detroitnews.com.
The owners of the cars that need the modification will receive the service without any extra charges and the procedure will be conducted in a time frame of around half an hour. The company is ensuring that every defected vehicle gets the modification done and there are no cases of fire as have been reported earlier.
The recall will incur huge expenses for the motor company but has become necessary to save this model which is very popular in the global market. Chevrolet Cruze is one of the most popular models by General Motors and sold globally by the company. So it is very important for the company to maintain the sales that bring profits for them.
When defects are reported in the released models by the automakers, they need to be addressed on an urgent basis as risk of life increases in such cases. The company becomes responsible if an accident occurs because of those defects. So they try to every extent that no casualty takes place and their reputation also remains stable. General Motors is also taking action for the same purpose and repairing the cars to avoid any mishap.


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Local Merrill Lynch advisors make Forbes “Best-in-State Wealth Advisors” list
Merrill Lynch announced recently that two Delray Beach financial advisors and seven Boca Raton financial advisors were named to the 2019 Forbes “Best-in-State Wealth Advisors” list.
In Delray, Lawrence Eaton and Michael Halperin made the list. In Boca, Christina Cleveland, David Feigelman, Joel Joachim, Robert Marton, Barry Mordis, Michael Passeroff and Matthew Rogge.
In all, 1,019 Merrill Lynch advisors are included on this year’s list, the most of any firm.
One Boca advisor was named to 2019 Barron’s “Top 1,200 Financial Advisors” list, Barry Rubin.
New stores at Town Center Mall
New York-based Pookie & Sebastian has opened its first Fla. store in Boca’s Town Center Mall.
Pookie & Sebastian is a fashion-forward, contemporary boutique specializing in women’s apparel, trendy jewelry and accessories.
Established in 1997, the retailer is family owned and based out of Manhattan. The new store is located next to Bloomingdale’s.
Additionally, women’s apparel retailer Talbots has recently relocated to the Terrace near Chico’s. The new space features 5,000-square-feet of women’s clothing, shoes and fashion accessories.
There is a new pop-up boutique at the mall as well. French heritage womenswear brand, Equipment, has a new 1,498-square-foot store.
It will remain open for one year and will house the brand’s signature silk shirting and cashmere assortments, along with a full range of Equipment’s newly expanded ready to wear collection, including a well-rounded offering of updated classics and modern silhouettes.
“Boca Raton is an exciting location for our Equipment popup, as Southeast Florida is an international hub and preeminent shopping destination for locals and travelers alike,” said Equipment Chief Brand Officer Sarah Rutson. “Shoppers here can enjoy a fully encompassed brand experience, currently only available in four other cities around the world.”
Delray Beach’s JuiceBuzz MRKT + JUICERY consolidates
After only one year of its next-door neighbor shops, JuiceBuzz is combining its two stores into one, offering the best of both offerings.
After serving up organic cold pressed juices, smoothies, and açai bowls for almost 6 years, Juicebuzz was informed that the lease on their original 6 NE 5th Ave. location will not be extended.
So, the company will move all operations into the shop next door. It opened its door there last June for its holistic MRKT. The store is under a different landlord and lease.
JuiceBuzz MRKT + JUICERY will continue to juice organic cold pressed recipes in a commissary kitchen and will then sell them through the MRKT, with other “grab n go items.”
There will be a one year anniversary and open house from 5-7 p.m. on June 15 at 2 NE 5th Ave.


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(KCPW News) In November, KCPW reported on the international trade negotiations that were being held at Salt Lake’s Grand America Hotel, as well as the protests that surrounded the talks. The Salt Lake round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations didn’t garner a lot of attention at the time, but now there is greater scrutiny of those negotiations, thanks to Wikileaks. KCPW’s Roger McDonough had a chance to speak with Iliana Solomon, Director of the Sierra Club’s Responsible Trade Program, to find out more.
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I was recently asked by Venture Beat to provide insight into 5 marketing trends that I saw surfacing while on the ground at SXSW Interactive this year.
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SXSW Interactive 2016 kicked off this week with thousands of marketers descending upon Austin, Texas for food, fun, and a glimpse at new and emerging technologies that will impact how brands connect with consumers. Even in its 23rd year, SXSW Interactive’s influence and role in innovation is not waning.
Several trends surfacing this year will greatly impact how brands and consumers interact. Here are 5 to keep an eye on:
1. Virtual reality is everywhere
Virtual reality (VR) has been a key part of the SXSW experience for the past few years, with the Game of Thrones VR experience and Samsung’s Gear VR both standing out in past years. This year, virtual reality is at the forefront.
Panels are on tap to discuss everything from Cinematic VR, virtual football, and VR storytelling to city planning using social VR. And the event features various branded installations such as the Samsung Gear VR Lounge and the McDonald’s Loft.
The McDonald’s Loft is showcasing a V-Artist virtual reality experience that transports attendees into a Happy Meal Box and inspires creativity. This installation is a lot of fun and one to check out for a fully immersive virtual reality experience.
Samsung has also pushed to bring VR to conference goers wherever they are via its #VRonDemand campaign and provide portable VR experiences. Gear VR is a great example of making virtual reality accessible to the average consumer.
If you tweet at #VRonDemand and respond to their invite via DM, the Samsung Mobile US team will bring a Samsung Gear VR experience to your location.
Within an hour, I had the Gear VR headset on at the corner of Trinity and 3rd for a portable VR experience. Marketers must pay attention to Gear VR as it will quickly become one of the most accessible forms of VR for consumers.
2. Social media to social messaging
Twitter made its micro-messaging app debut at SXSW in 2007. In 2016, the focus of many panels is discussing the shift that’s happening with consumers moving from social media to social messaging. This includes the rise of the conversational user experience as well as the next multibillion-dollar opportunity: marketing in messaging.
Leading up to SXSW 2016, there has been a seismic shift in consumer behavior towards intimate sharing and the rise of narrowcast networks. Platforms such as Twitter are integrating features normally associated with the more private Snapchat platform. Facebook views Messenger as a primary commerce driver moving forward.
This shift is redefining how brand marketers approach connecting with consumers. It’s becoming less about the hallmarks of social media marketing, which included personification of the brand in a witty way and more about enabling conversation. Marketers need to find the key moments to passively enable a conversation through visual language or by creating compelling customer experiences via messaging channels.
With this macro shift in consumer behavior combined with the signals given by the platforms in response to where they are placing their bets for the near future, there could be a new platform unveiled at SXSW that meets the needs of today’s consumers who want a more intimate way to share and connect.
3. Artificial intelligence and emotive robotics
Over the past year, robotics and artificial intelligence have seized media and consumer interest. Now we’re hearing many robotic and AI topics being discussed at SXSW 2016 – think living with robots, the role of autonomous cars, and how emotive robotics can enhance our lives.
One of the best robotic panels from SXSW 2015 came from MIT social roboticist Cynthia Breazeal. Breazeal talked about emotive computing, which is based on systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, process, and simulate elements of human behavior. She also introduced an emotive AI called Jibo. Jibo is back this year, and the discussion is focused on how it has evolved and how it can enhance our lives.
Jibo is one of the most advanced robots on display at SXSW this year, offering a two-way interactive and expressive experience that is helpful and thought provoking to the user, making it feel like a human-to-human interaction.
For digital marketers, emotive robotics opens up new possibilities for delivering highly contextual content and could serve as an access point into IoT-based behavioral data. The key to the concept of emotive robotics is its ability to take a consumer’s emotional response into consideration, making consumer interactions with these devices more positive and personal.
4. Dark social
No, this is not the name of a new Indy spy drama; it’s a real trend surfacing during the interactive conference. Dark social is the sharing activity that is somewhat invisible to traditional analytics. It’s becoming more important as the shift towards social messaging takes place.
It’s the culmination of referrals and sharing of content that originates from instant messages, emails containing links, and, most recently, the rise of ephemeral social communication platforms such as Snapchat, WeChat, and WhatsApp.
A recent study by Radium One found that 59% of all online sharing is via dark social and 91% of Americans regularly share information via these methods. 72% of sharing is simply users copying and pasting long URLs and either emailing or texting the information.
What makes cracking the code with dark social even more important is the sharp rise in adoption of ephemeral social communication apps. The convergence of social and mobile is here, and the percentage of content shared will continue to rise at an exponential rate in 2016.
Marketers need to start thinking about dark social and its role as part of their customer experience.
5. Connected everything
From panels discussing connected hardware to events showcasing the car as a new marketplace and the countless wearables and IOT-based devices to be showcased on the conference floor, connectivity and streamlining a consumer’s ability to interact with technology is on full display.
One key experience is Sony’s Future Lab Program, which showcases the latest innovations from Sony as it launches the N wearable at SXSW.
This device acts like a wearable Amazon Echo, shaped like a neck collar so as to not hinder movement. It responds to pre-programmed audio commands and takes hands-free pictures.
Sony is looking to solicit live feedback and refine the prototype based on conference-goers’ user testing. This transparent approach to testing gives attendees a sense of ownership and demonstrates a great approach to testing innovation at SXSW.
The brand experiences that are on full display at SXSW are a strong indicator of what brand-to-consumer interactions will look like in the very near future. Marketers must leverage technology and digital innovation to create more convenient, more engaging, and more enticing customer experiences.
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On Thursday, Toys R Us opened the virtual doors to Toys R Us Movies. Toys R Us Movies is a new digital service that offers streaming rentals and full downloads of more than 4,000 movies and television shows. Families with children are the target audience for this service. Toys R Us Movies provides rentals for more »
The latest YouTube update for Android brings welcome changes for devices running Froyo and Gingerbread. They’ll now be able to experience the newest YouTube interface and preload videos.
Netflix recently updated its Android app with a new interface that looks pretty much identical to its iOS counterpart. Unknown to us at the time, Netflix also added a feature that lets a smartphone or tablet act as remote control when paired to a PlayStation 3 that’s running Netflix at the same time.
Wrestling fans can now turn to Hulu Plus to catch up on the televised shows put on by the company every week. Starting today, a multi-year agreement between WWE and Hulu goes into effect. WWE shows will be available to watch on Hulu Plus the day after they air on television.
Roku today announced that its tiny wireless streaming player, the Roku Streaming Stick will be available starting next month. If you’ve always wanted to stream video and music on your television, be prepared to grab this streaming device which is roughly the size of a USB flash drive – for $99.99. You just need to more »
One of the big themes at E3 2012 was gaming on a second screen. Nintendo showed us how it plans to take the touchscreen on the Wii U GamePad, and incorporate it into various games and software on the Wii U. At today’s Nintendo event, the company provided a first look at its online media more »
WeatherNation today launched a 24-hour weather news service for Sony Entertainment Network customers. If you’re using a Sony device such as Internet connected BRAVIA TVs, Blu-ray Disc players or Blu-ray Home Theater you’ll receive video and updated news coverage of current weather events with high-quality graphics. Thanks to an all-meteorologist staff who are utilizing the more »
Netflix implemented a new feature over the past few days called post-play. We encountered post-play recently while watching Netflix through the desktop site. Today, Netflix has formally introduced the feature in a blog post.
The PS3 will get a proper YouTube app once the PlayStation Store updates at some point today. It’ll be located under the “My Channels” section of the XMB as a free download. YouTube says this app has been optimized for the PS3 and large televisions.
Aereo is moving right along after avoiding a preliminary injunction proposed by major television networks. Aereo is still restricted to those who live in New York City, but anyone that’s curious can try out the service for free. If you want to continue using it, you’ll have a few pricing options to choose from.


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FRANCISCO LACHOWSKI photographed by BRANISLAV SIMONCIK for the September issue of GQ PORTUGAL. Designer INGO WILTS brings together styles from the 80’s and 90’s in the autumn / winter collection from HUGO BOSS.
Väter und Söhne – Francisco Lachowski with his son Milo in the SS 2016 issue of GQ Styles Germany for an editorial that celebrates the father and son relationship.
Francisco Lachowski and good friend Marlon Teixeira are featured in an editorial titled “Movie Stars” for Italian GQ December 2015, photographed by Fabrizio Scarpa.
GQ Editor selections of the best spring gear from the June issue available through online retailer, Mr Porter.com
Your first look at a limited edition piece from this year’s GQ collaboration with Gap and the 2014 Best New Menswear Designers in America winners, all on sale at select Gap stores worldwide and gap.com on Tuesday, September 30th. Below you can see Francisco sporting looks from Brooklyn Tailors.
Francisco Lachowski and Adrian Wlodarski are featured in the October 2012 issue of Spanish GQ, photographed by Sergi Pons.
Top Brazilian model Francisco Lachowski featured in the latest issue of GQ Italia for an edtorial titled “Jeans Story” that is all about …you guessed it, denim.
Centerpiece of your wardrobe, jeans, without you even realizing it defines your style and (will not mince words) your personality.
Following an editorial-driven tour of Japan, Francisco Lachowski published work gains momentum once more with a recent wave of stories that include one for Novembers issue of GQ Russia.


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Crook Cam: BPD looking for woman, attempted to steal items at Kroger on Phelan
Police say the woman tried to hide stolen items in a diaper bag, but was stopped by an employee when exit door sensors sounded off.The clerk was able to retrieve the stolen items but the woman left the store before officers arrived.
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Battlefield V developer is reportedly prototyping a battle royale mode
If you can’t beat ’em, battle royale ’em.
Following in the footsteps of battle royale sensations like Fortnite, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, and now potentially Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, EA DICE is reportedly prototyping a battle royale mode for the upcoming Battlefield V, according to a report by VentureBeat citing an anonymous source with insider knowledge of the studio.
For anyone sleeping under a rock (or maybe just not paying attention to recent gaming trends), the battle royale mode became a popular genre after the early access release of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds last year, followed by team-based, horde-mode shooter Fortnite added its own 100-player mode. One player (or teams of up to four) battle to be the last one standing against numerous other players on a single map.
There are few details on DICE’s battle royale mode, including how many players could be duking it out for supremacy. Considering that Battlefield V is likely launching around this fall, it may be unlikely that a battle royale mode will be ready if it’s only in a prototyping phase. Still, it could just as likely be released as a free, downloadable update to the base game later on.
EA declined to comment on VentureBeat’s initial report.
There’s no doubt that EA would love to get a slice of the pie that’s currently earning Fortnite $1 million a day on mobile alone and $126 million in February. Reports of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 developer Treyarch abandoning its single-player campaign for a possible battle royale mode can only bolster its fellow competitors to get in on the action.
Joseph Knoop is a gaming writer for Daily Dot, a native Chicagoan, and a slave to all things Overwatch. He co-founded the college geek culture outlet ByteBSU, then interned at Game Informer, and now writes for a bunch websites his parents have never heard of.


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MELAKA, April 7 (Bernama) — The Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority (Fama) targets sales of around RM20 million from its “My Best Buy” programme this year, compared with RM15 million last year.
Fama deputy director-general of operations Zainal Abidin Yang Razalli said the programme is expected to be held 1,600 times nationwide throughout the year, in 200 locations and involving between 30-40 entrepreneurs in each location.
“The ‘My Best Buy’ programme is a direct sales programme aimed at consumers in housing areas, government offices and communities, offering various food items and daily necessities at affordable prices.
“The programme has received very encouraging response from consumers since it was introduced in 2014,” he told reporters at the ‘My Best Buy’ @ Le Tour de Langkawi (LTdL) 2019 event here today.
Also present was state Communications, Multimedia, NGO, Youth and Sports exco Kerk Chee Yee, who represented Chief Minister Adly Zahari.
Zainal Abidin said the programme was held 412 times at 11 locations nationwide from January-February this year, with sales totalling RM3.08 million.
He added that the “My Best Buy” @ Le Tour de Langkawi (LTdL) 2019 will be held in six locations, with a sales target of RM500,000.
He said that Melaka was the second location for the programme which kicked off in Tampin, Negri Sembilan yesterday, adding that it would also be held tomorrow at Dataran Putrajaya, followed by Dataran Warisan in Taiping, Perak (April 10), and Underwater World and Kuah, Langkawi (April 12 and 13). — Bernama


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Eicher Motors share price declined over 1 percent intraday on February 4 after research house Citi downgraded the stock to neutral from buy and also cut the target price to Rs 21,800 from Rs 25,600 per share.
According to Citi, the recent volume trajectory and tepid demand leads it to trim volume and margin expectations.
The research house believes that RE will continue to dominate the premium cruiser segment.
“Our thesis of long-term premiumisation stays and do not expect a sharp pick-up in volumes over the near term,” said Citi.
The downgrade is on the absence of sufficient upsides and uncertainty over BS-VI platforms, it added.
The company’s sales for the month of January 2020 fell 13 percent at 63,520 units against 72,701 vehicles in January 2019.
At 1143 hours, Eicher Motors was quoting at Rs 19,689.65, down Rs 233.75, or 1.17 percent on the BSE.
News Source:- Moneycontrol


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Under Steve Ridgway’s leadership, the industry submitted its plans for a Sector Deal earlier last month.
The Government has been clear from the outset that any industry which submitted its plans with ‘one voice’, clear leadership and a plan for the future would be granted a long-term deal for policy, planning and boosting overall competitiveness.
The industry came together with a clear plan to boost connectivity, productivity, skills and to create a new idea, "tourism zones". With the publication of the White Paper, we have a much clearer idea of the road map for landing the Tourism Sector Deal.
- On the Sector Deal, the White Paper has only eight industries listed, with tourism named as one: “We know that these partnerships can work – from our experience of decade-long partnerships such as the Auto Council and the Office for Life Sciences to more recent collaborations including tourism, creative industries, space and professional and business services.”
- The next stage will now lead to Sector Deals being struck with industries who have demonstrated, a) clear leadership, b) represents the breadth of the sector, c) rigorous analysis of the strengths/weaknesses and d) impact on productivity.
White Paper highlights:
Under the Sector Deal section: “We know that these partnerships can work – from our experience of decade long partnerships such as the Auto Council and the Office for Life Sciences to more recent collaborations including tourism, creative industries, space and professional and business services.”
Under Productivity Challenge section: “We will work closely with sectors such as hospitality, retail and tourism on each of the foundations of productivity in order to be able to progressively drive up the earning power of people employed in these industries and enhancing our national productivity.”
Under the Britain and the World section: “We must do more to export and promote what we do to the world’s fastest-growing economies, where there is a strong appetite not only for our goods but our world-class services, from tourism and healthcare to professional and financial services, and for cultural collaboration too.”
Steve Ridgway is meeting the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Secretary in the coming weeks to start discussions, and we anticipate hearing some good news in the new year.


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Levi Roots Soft Drinks has launched re-branded packaging as part of an ongoing revamp across the entrepreneur’s entire food and drink range.
The new-look tropical fruit-flavoured carbonated and still soft drinks, produced under licence by Vimto UK, will roll out on-shelf this month.
The packaging features a new image of Levi Roots while retaining the green, yellow and red colours of the Rasta flag together with the strapline: “Put some music in your glass”.
Nina Uttley, Levi Roots Brand Manager, said: “We are excited about introducing an image of Levi on pack because it will help reinforce the brand’s authentic Caribbean roots. This should strengthen brand recognition on-shelf, which will attract both new and existing consumers alike, supporting further growth of the soft drinks range.”
The rebrand also includes a name change for its no added sugar Coconut Water ‘n’ Lime flavour to Coconut Cooler. This is available as a two litre zero carbonate and a 500ml no added sugar still juice drink. The new name is now in keeping with the rest of the range, with other flavours including Caribbean Crush, Tropical Punch and Jamaican Sunset.


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The Sitka Farmers Market will introduce its new tote bags on July 27.
The new tote bags will be for sale at all of our Sitka Farmers Markets for the rest of the season, or until we are sold out. The tote bags cost $10 each, but a purchase of at least $50 from the Sitka Local Foods Network farm stand will get you one free tote bag.
The bag is 10 ounces of durable cotton (so you can wash it), and there is a wooden button so you can close the bag to keep items from falling out. In addition to using the bags to haul your Sitka Farmers Market produce purchases, you can reuse it when you shop for groceries.
“There will be a plastic bag tax ballot initiative on the October city ballot, so we decided it was time we started selling reusable tote bags at the Sitka Farmers Market,” Sitka Local Foods Network board president Charles Bingham said. “We have too much plastic litter, and using reusable bags will help with that problem.”
The tote bag sales will serve as a fundraiser for the Sitka Local Foods Network, which hosts the Sitka Farmers Market each summer.
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Representing Visteon Corporation's vision of mobility in 2020, this concept car was on display at the Consumer Electronics Show last week. Displays can be customized for the region, owner and user, in line with Visteon's focus on alternative uses for the car, including car sharing and short-term rental. The climate system has been moved out of the cabin and into the trunk to maximize space for the driver and passengers. In place of traditional rear-view mirrors, a display shows images from a panamorphic 180-degree rear-view camera. The e-Bee is compatible with electric vehicle and hybrid platforms. Recyclable expanded polypropylene material is used to reduce the vehicle's weight.
— NWautos staff


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BlackMesh, Inc., a provider of information technology solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, today announced that CommonPlaces, a developer of e-business solutions, selected the company to host its key customer Web sites, including Greenopolis.com, an educational and collaborative "green" social networking Web site owned by Waste Management, Inc.
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Seaweed company AgriSea NZ knows a lot about adversity, so perhaps it was par for the course that dairy prices plunged just as the business reins were handed to the founders’ kids.
Pasture and animal nutrition for the dairy industry was a mainstay of the Paeroa-based business, so the 2015 dairy downturn was a gut punch for Tane and Clare Bradley, who had just taken over the daily running of the family-owned company.
They had to let go nine of their 30 staff and close a seaweed brewing and fermenting plant in Gisborne. Tane Bradley (Ngāti Maniapoto) still gets queasy recalling those days. But when your product has been called “snake oil” by a then-prominent soil scientist and your family has fought every inch of the way for more than 20 years to win the confidence of the country’s agriculture, horticulture and viticulture sectors, you don’t fold under pressure.
Far from crippling AgriSea, the dairy downturn taught it to run faster and in more directions. When the young couple put the books under the microscope, they realised beekeepers were buying AgriSea’s organic seaweed nutrition product intended for livestock, to add to bees’ sugar water feed when they removed honey from the hive. Unbeknown to AgriSea, some Waikato and Wairarapa beekeepers – and their bees – had been finding AgriSea’s organic product just the supplement they needed.
AgriSea got a biochemist from Auckland University to help them refine the product for bees, a $74,000 Callaghan Innovation grant in 2017 to formally trial the product for hive health, and launched AgriSea Bee Nutrition. Today this bee product contributes 15% of the company’s total revenue. It is being exported to Australia for the second year and there is some market testing in the US.
There’s now friendly rivalry among those pioneering beekeepers over who was the first to stumble on the product, says Clare Bradley. But even more exciting than the new product was the Callaghan grant, she says. “It was a big step for us. Until then everything we’d done [in R&D] had been self-funded. We’d knocked on many doors without success. That period was tough on us but it actually made us much smarter”.
That self-funded research includes $1 million-plus for a decade-long project on the ecological effects on the marine coastal seaweed species, Ecklonia radiata, AgriSea’s main resource. It is harvested from remote East Coast and Northland beaches by contracted local residents.
Today, with staff numbers back to 30-plus, AgriSea is in growth mode. And seaweed as a biostimulant to support sustainable farming is becoming a “huge growth phenomenon” overseas, says Clare Bradley. Biostimulation involves the modification of the environment to stimulate existing bacteria. AgriSea which began as a cottage business brewing certified organic seaweed products for home gardens, and seaweed creams and soaps, has never claimed to be a fertiliser maker, but has marketed itself as an organic supplement provider for soil, animal and plant health. Growing international research has resulted in the “biostimulant” label.
AgriSea claims to be New Zealand’s leading biostimulant input manufacturer and the single biggest investor in research in this field. It also makes products under its Ocean Organics brand for gardeners and personal health. The company devotes more than $200,000 each year to R&D.
Recently the business moved from a cluster of small buildings in a Paeroa back street to the 20ha former Silver Fern Farms processing site on the main road south of Paeroa. It was a big financial step for the Bradley’s who say the company is turning a profit after losses in the dairy downturn, which means they can forge on with expansion plans. These include developing Ocean Organics, the cosmetic and human nutraceuticals side of the business which has never been marketed, taking on more staff and brewing more product.
AgriSea is starting to be taken seriously. Dairy company Fonterra has expressed interest in AgriSea’s work on developing an animal nutrition Ecklonia seaweed formula for testing on ruminant animals, along with a new product containing terrestrial plants as well as seaweed. The country’s largest farmer, state-owned Landcorp is trialling its product on one of its central North Island farms. And in a left-field use of AgriSea’s waste seaweed, Crown Research Institute Scion is investigating seaweed for use in nano-cellulose crystals to make high tensile strength, lightweight fibre for use in items where heat needs to be dispersed or reduced – such as batteries, phones, aircraft interiors and computers.
The company is also involved in a $13m Waikato University algal biotechnology research project in the Bay of Plenty, investigating commercial applications for seaweed. The Bradley’s hope this project will be a step towards their dream of farming seaweed in land-based facilities to extract nitrogen runoff from sea and river water. With sea levels rising and millions of dollars having to be spent on stopbanks, the time is right for land farms where the seaweed cleans and filters nitrogen and contaminants, they say.
Always willing to push boundaries, AgriSea is a founding member of Poutama initiated hemp cluster, MIHI. They hosted the last MIHI get together and more recently got alongside Poutama and Ojibway Hempire to explore new product development through blending seaweed, hemp and CBD. At the very least as the hemp/cannabis industry develops in New Zealand AgriSea will be there to ‘biostimulate’ it!!
AgriSea has come a long way since 2012 when Tane Bradley’s mother Jill Bradley firmly declared that the company she founded with husband Keith Atwood would be “mainstream” by 2015. Back then “organic” was still almost a dirty word to farmers strongly influenced by the deep-pocketed marketing of the synthetic compound fertiliser and mineral industries. About 98% of AgriSea’s target farmer market was not organic. But with farmers under pressure to farm more sustainably, Jill Bradley was confident AgriSea’s research would soon get its mainstream acceptance.
Tane with assistance from Poutama will be in Canada to promote AgriSea at the 46th Apimondia International Apiculture Congress, Montreal, 8-12 September 2019.


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WhatsApp users on both Android and iOS can create a status using their voice. On Monday users spotted a notice from WhatsApp confirming the…
People using ‘corona’, ‘lockdown’ as passwords
Research by NordPass has found that people continue to use simple passwords, including trending words and topics, despite security advice.
The password manager company found that people draw inspiration from current affairs when it comes to thinking up a new password. As such, passwords such as “corona” and “corona01”, or similar variations, have been used hundreds of thousands of times since 2020.
“Lockdown” and its variations have also trended, with people using the words as a password over 62 000 times.
But NordPass found that people don’t only draw inspiration from the pandemic. Other events that have inspired passwords include the 2020 US presidential election and more recently, Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Harry and Meghan.
So what’s the problem with this?
“The main issue with such passwords is that they are very easy to crack. In fact, a hacker can crack any dictionary word, as well as any name, almost instantly,” Chad Hammond, security expert at NordPass, notes.
The more complex a password, the less easy it is to guess or use software to crack.
As such, NordPass suggests using a manager to generate and store passwords.
You can also use services to make you aware if your password is compromised in a breach. Many password managers, including ones in internet browsers, are able to do this.
Meanwhile, the website HaveIBeenPwned is able to identify if your email, phone number, or password has been compromised in a breach.
Read more: Here are the most common passwords of 2020
Read more: Kaspersky finds risky password trends in South Africa


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'People's Manifesto for Wildlife' urges government, businesses, and individuals to wake up to dramaatic decline in UK species
Labelling pesticide use on fruits and vegetables, creating wildlife ponds in every industrial estate, and creating temporary habitats by growing flower mixes in areas earmarked for future developments...
New report from WWF and Resource Association says companies should be charged for using packaging and products containing no recycled materials
New study from WWF suggests net zero emissions by 2045 is possible for the UK - provided changes in industry, energy and lifestyle roll out nationwide
New Economic Foundation's Duncan McCann considers how to climate-proof digital technology
Global fashion search platform Lyst reports 47 per cent increase in searches using sustainability-related key words this year


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"Even if the Fed can’t strip the inflation measurement of all
items going up in price, it has a built-in excuse, provided recently by
economist Ed Yardeni: One must decide whether prices are going up because of
"excess demand" or supply disruptions. As Yardeni wrote in his morning piece
April 11: "Raising interest rates when supply shocks may be the main reason for
higher commodity prices could be a mistake, especially when there is no evidence
that core-inflation rates are rising too."
"Rising commodity prices resulting from supply disruptions — rather than driven
by demand — may take the steam out of the global boom, and slow U.S. consumer
spending and overall economic growth."
See? Rising prices will correct
themselves if they’re due to supply disruption, an argument that he leans
toward. (Rising prices couldn’t possibly come from too much
money-printing, could they?) The Fed need do nothing. Thus, I believe
(for not just this reason, but others that I have articulated) that only one
more rate hike remains in the Fed’s quiver.
That said, I still think we
could see data that would persuade the Fed not to even give us that much.
If there is a nasty sell-off into earnings season, if we do in fact see some
negative economic data, coupled with problems in the real-estate market (none of
which would shock me), the Fed might be inclined to stand down on May 10. Either
way, the rally that we get when the Fed decides it’s done will be the last one
before serious downside action occurs.
Does the Fed really ‘know’ what’s going on?
MSN Contrarian Chronicles, 4/17/2006