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Kids may unknowingly be consuming an animal contraceptive when they eat a chicken sandwich at Chick-fil-A, according to a Moms Across America’s (MAA) report on veterinary drugs and hormones found in food served in the most popular U.S. fast food restaurants.
The nonprofit MAA this month released results from food samples tested for veterinary drugs, including antibiotics and hormones. Health Research Institute, a Fairfield, Iowa, nonprofit independent lab, conducted the testing.
Sixty percent of samples from the U.S.’ top 10 fast food chains also contained the antibiotic monensin, which can cause severe harm in humans and remains unapproved for human use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Zen Honeycutt, MAA’s founder and executive director, called the results “shocking” and “disturbing,” especially because some fast food chains supply school lunches.
Honeycutt and other healthy food advocates on Oct. 17 will present the test results to U.S. lawmakers during a congressional briefing on U.S. food toxicity.
“Thirty million school meals are served to our children each day,” Honeycutt told The Defender, “and for millions of underprivileged children, these toxic meals are their only access to nutrition.” She added:
“The impact of millions of Americans, especially children and young adults, consuming a known animal contraceptive daily is concerning.
“With infertility problems on the rise, the reproductive health of this generation is front and center for us, in light of these results.”
“Toxins like the ones Moms Across America’s testing found in major fast foods don’t belong in anybody’s food, especially children’s food.
“Repeated exposure to them can build up and cause unexpected harms — kudos to Moms Across America for getting this testing done and published.”
Under Baum’s leadership, the law firm has won billions of dollars in consumer fraud and product liability cases against major pharmaceutical and life sciences companies, including Bayer Corp. (formerly Monsanto), Eli Lilly, Forest Labs, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and more.


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Hardware company Lenovo doubled its net profit for its financial first quarter and forecast bright things ahead in the future.
The company, like Dell, has been benefiting from sales of PCs in the enterprise and governmental sector while it said demand was also strong in China.
Its net profit rose to $108.8 million, compared a net profit of $54.86 million in the same quarter last year. That $108.8 million profit is on the back of revenues of $5.92 million.
The company claimed it was now the world’s third largest PC vendor and shipped 23.1 percent more PCs than it did in the same quarter last year.
Chairman of the board Liu Chuanzhi said that in future quarters the world would see the significance of its acquisition of German company Medion, bought last June. It would also see benefits from its joint venture with NEC in Japan.
China accounted for 47.9 percent of Lenovo’s worldwide sales, while in other emerging markets the company also saw significant growth.

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Dutch run booming soft drugs trade
Export of soft drugs from the Netherlands generates two billion euros a year.
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In an interview with Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad, police commissioner Max Daniel has said that the export of soft drugs from the Netherlands generates two billion euros a year.
According to Mr Daniel, 80 percent or some 500 tons of the drugs grown in the Netherlands, is destined for the export market, particularly England, Germany, France and the Scandinavian countries.
The demand for home-grown cannabis has also increased substantially in the Baltic States. In the Netherlands, some 400,000 people use soft drugs like hashish, marijuana or cannabis on a regular basis.
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text: RTI Welcomes Back Clint Forberg as Central U.S. Regional Business Manager RTI has welcomed Clint Forberg back to the company as its central United States regional business manager.By RS Staff Published: August 17, 2017 ⋅ Updated: April 15, 2019 RTI has welcomed Clint Forberg back to the company as its central United States regional business manager. In his new role, he is responsible for sales management and business development across a 16-state territory. Forberg has almost 30 years of experience in the CE industry, most recently as director of dealer development at Kaleidescape. Previously at RTI, he served for nine years as the company’s director of training and eastern U.S. sales manager. Before joining RTI, Forberg contributed to the growth of companies such as Bose Corporation and Clifford Electronics through sales, management, and technical positions. “We are thrilled to welcome Clint back to the RTI sales team,” said Mike Everett, vice president of global sales, RTI. “His intimate knowledge of not only our product lineup but also the broad custom installation industry will prove invaluable in meeting the needs of our customers in the central U.S.” “With RTI’s renewed focus on service and support for its dealer and distribution partners — like the new three-year warranty policy — and the launch of Integration Designer APEX, this is an exciting and pivotal time to be rejoining RTI,” Forberg said. “I’m delighted to be working with the RTI team and all its great partners once again.” SubscribeFor more stories like this, and to keep up to date with all our market leading news, features and analysis, sign up to our newsletter here.


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The minimum price of single-use carrier bags in Scotland is set to increase from 5p to 10p from 1 April 2020.
M&S ‘Fill Your Own’ concept appears in third store, allowing Staines customers to top up groceries without accruing additional packaging.
PepsiCo says it will eliminate all virgin plastic from its Pepsi brand beverage bottles sold in nine European Union markets by 2022.
M&S Food launches Innovation Hub and starts search for people who can drive new product development and packaging innovation.
Iceland reveals plastic footprint and calls for other retailers to become more transparent about their use of the material.
Tesco teams up with door-to-door operator Loop to offer online shopping service where products are delivered in reusable packaging.


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Riot Games, the video game studio behind one of the world’s biggest PC games, “League of Legends,” is revealing more details about its first shooter game.
Codenamed “Project A” since October, the new tactical shooter game’s official name is actually “Valorant” and it’s coming out this summer globally except China, where it will be released later this year. It will be free to play and available on PC.
“Valorant” is set in first-person point of view and features five-person teams. In the game, players armed with weapons and special abilities must fight to see which team will win the best of 24 rounds of gunfights. The aim is to make strategic use of limited ammo and abilities in each round.
While “League of Legends” found success as a global esports competition and popular pastime, Riot Games, which is owned by Chinese tech giant Tencent, made only one video game in ten years.


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The cannabis industry has been growing at exponential rates. By the end of 2015, it is expected that the industry, nationally, will account for more than $3 billion. In Colorado alone, combined medicinal and recreational cannabis sales will total approximately $1 billion. These trends will only continue as additional states pass laws legalizing medicinal and recreational/adult-use cannabis.
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Home Depot on Monday was hit with a proposed class action in California federal court over sales of Monsanto’s weedkiller Roundup, saying the retail giant fails to warn of its cancer risks.
Plaintiff James Weeks said that the warning on Roundup’s labeling gives the false impression that its only risk is eye irritation when its active ingredient glyphosate is known to have links to cancer. Home Depot is provided with a “safety data sheet” by Roundup’s manufacturer, which states that people can be exposed to glyphosate through inhalation or skin contact, according to Weeks.
Weeks also filed a similar complaint against Lowe’s on Wednesday.
“Despite its knowledge of the SDS, defendant does not warn consumers they may be exposed to glyphosate through inhalation and skin contact,” Weeks said. “Defendant further omits proper use instructions, e.g. advising consumers to use a gas mask respirator when using Roundup.”
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Weeks said reasonable consumers such as himself wouldn’t have bought Roundup had they known of its cancer risks or if Home Depot had provided a warning on how to mitigate those risks.
A spokeswoman for Home Depot told Law360 on Tuesday the company is reviewing the complaint.
Weeks alleges that Home Depot violated California’s Consumer Legal Remedies Act by failing to disclose its “probable carcinogenic nature.”
The International Agency for Research on Cancer in 2015 classified glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic” to humans and that non-Hodgkin lymphoma was the most associated with exposure to the chemical, according to the complaint.
“The IARC also found that glyphosate caused DNA and chromosomal damage in human cells,” Weeks said.
The IARC report has been an issue in recent trials over Roundup, which Bayer AG acquired last year as part of the Monsanto merger.
There have been three cases that have gone to trial out of 13,400 pending that allege Roundup causes cancer, and have all resulted in verdicts for the plaintiffs.


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Dineout Services Pvt Ltd, which runs online restaurant booking site Dineout.co.in, has raised Rs 60 lakh or $115,000 in angel round of funding from the founders of Travel Boutique online, a B2B online travel agency. For more details of the quantum of stake involved in the funding click here.
The site helps consumers book their tables at restaurants in Delhi and get discounts in return. The startup, which took its website live in February this year, is currently present in Delhi NCR and has partnered with more than 200 restaurants.
It has attracted investment from Travel Boutique Online co-founders Ankush Nijhawan and Gaurav Bhatnagar. In April this year, MIH Group, a subsidiary of South African media conglomerate Naspers and owner of social networking site Ibibo, had acquired a 51 per cent stake in Gurgaon-based Tek Travels, which owns Travel Boutique Online.
Dineout currently claims to be clocking 8,000 bookings a month. "We plan to have 15,000 bookings a month by March 2013. We will use these funds to invest in technology and will be launching a mobile app for iOS and Android this year," said Jain. The company is also looking to expand operations in other cities like Mumbai and Bangalore.
Dineout was co-founded by Ankit Mehrotra, Sahil Jain and Nikhil Bakshi. Sahil is an IIM graduate, who returned to Delhi after a stint in the US with an analytics company for 1.5 years. He was joined by Ankit, an investment banker by profession, living in London for the last 10 years, who also quit his job to come back and start Dineout. Third founder Nikhil is from the financial background, and was working with DSP Blackrock for five years. Vivek too joins from a completely diverse background -- he served the Navy before this for 10 years.
The startup competes with Tablewalla.com (which recently went live accepting table bookings for restaurants in Mumbai and Delhi), JustEat that allows users to order food as well as book tables across in over 2,000 restaurants in Bangalore, Delhi and Mumbai and TableGrabber, which offers table booking in Delhi-NCR. Then there is Bookurtable that also allows both ordering and booking in Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi/NCR, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune and Poshvine that offers booking in premium restaurants in Bangalore.
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Isle Book-keep, from Sandown, has beaten off stiff competition to become a finalist in the category ‘Purpose before profit’ in the Lloyds Bank Business Excellence Awards 2021.
The Lloyds Bank British Business Excellence Awards (BBEA) celebrates and showcases the resilience, innovation and creativity of British businesses.
To date Isle Book-keep has planted over 260 trees and growing (latest figures are shown on their website). 6 months into starting the business we have achieved Silver Xero Partner status, a great base of clients, regular expert speaker on Quickbooks Live Ask The Expert, numerous success cases with helping clients, recognised expertises in areas such as the construction industry with more certifications.
Lucy Johnson MAAT, Business Owner and Accountant, Isle Book-keep said:
“We are thrilled to be among the top business in Britain by becoming a finalist in these very prestigious National business awards. Being a finalist is testament to the innovation, hard work and dedication shown by our team during the last year.”
Event Director of The Lloyds Bank British Business Excellence Awards (BBEA), Sarah Austin said:
“Our awards are a national platform to showcase, celebrate and honour the very best of British business. Becoming a finalist is a very impressive accolade; all our finalists stood out as truly creative and innovative during a turbulent year for British businesses; they have proven their companies to be resilient, entrepreneurial and really are best of class.”
All finalists will present to the judging panel in September, then the winners will be announced at the awards ceremony in November. Tickets to attend the ceremony are available to purchase through the website: https://britishbusinessexcellenceawards.co.uk
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Glass Act: Benefits of recycling glass are endless
Glass is not trash.
That's the message the newly formed nonprofit Glass Act the Art of Recycling wants to send out.
Why is it important to recycle glass?
Glass is heavy, said Annie Collins who is spearheading the effort to educate the public on the benefits of glass recycling and to get people involved.
"And it doesn't decompose for over a million years. So it just lays there in the landfill. It goes nowhere and it's costly," she said. It's costly for the city and for businesses — such as restaurants that use bottles and glassware — to dispose of it.
"We can stop that cycle," said Collins. "We can not only not put it in the landfill, but we can repurpose it for something really useful."
For example, recycled glass can be finely crushed into sand that can be used in sandbags.
But Collins said she was told by people in the construction business that there is no shortage of sand here.
"We have sand, I was told. But there is a lot, a lot, a lot of things that can be done with sand. And one of them is sandblasting," she said.
A glass-crushing machine Glass Act intends to purchase can finely crush sand for any kind of use.
"Which means powder-like. So that's a unique use. So that's what we're looking for. It can be used with landscape. Not only for just setting stone and for landscaping," she said.
Decorative sand can be used as mulch. Recycled glass can be used in decorative concrete, countertops, pools, stepping stones, pottery or terrazzo flooring.
Colored bottles can be crushed into little chips called cullet.
"That cullet can be used for the terrazzo," said Collins. "And there (are) folks who would be interested in creating that because there is no one around here that does terrazzo."
Collins was told Alexandria used to have a recycling program but doesn't know what happened to it.
But this project won't be a city project, stressed Collins. It would be run by all volunteers.
"This is grassroots and everyone in the community needs to be participating," she said. "It's going to have to run that way.
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Glass Act is hosting pop-up parties in different neighborhoods. People can bring glass bottles and use a small glass crusher donated by Embers Catering and Events. It only crushes one bottle at a time, unlike a bigger machine Glass Act is raising funds to purchase.
Colored sand and glass beads also are available for people to look at and handle at the pop-ups.
Someone asked how would colored sand be made. Would a dye be added? The answer is no. The hue comes from the glass crushed. To get blue sand, only blue bottles could be crushed together.
"Every neighborhood will get that kind of insight into what we want to do, and of course there will be a huge educational component to this as well," said Collins.
Sherrie Somers attended a pop-up party held in the Garden District where she lives.
"I come from Colorado, where recycling and repurposing is part of the culture," she said.
She is enthusiastic about this being an option in Alexandria.
"I'm excited about it mostly because it's more than recycling. It's repurposing," said Somers.
Others attending the pop-up were getting ideas on how they would use the recycled products in their landscaping.
Collins said she would love see a glass art studio in the future because glass can be recycled endlessly.
Making big plans
Glass Act taking donations to purchase a used glass crusher that is bigger than the one donated by Embers. It costs about $16,500 and is in Minneapolis. A new crusher costs about $43,000, and it would have to be assembled. The used one already is put together. All they would have to do is pick it up.
To recycle a large amount of glass, a big crusher is needed. The machine can process two tons of glass an hour into sand or cullet. It also will sift out pieces of metal or paper, like the labels.
They would like to purchase and install the machine by Oct. 1.
Glass Act is looking at locations where they can house the crusher. It would have to be in an industrial area, preferably in a warehouse. Ideally, they would like to have a location they can use for free or for trade.
As soon as they can find a location, people can start dropping off their glass at the recycling center.
A drive-thru will have bins set up and signs over each stating what color glass goes in each bin.
The center will be open to anyone regardless of where they live.
Plans are also in the works to have pick-up available for a fee. That will start within a certain radius before expanding.
Volunteers will collect glass once a month from people who sign up for the pick-up service then take it to the collection site where it will be crushed by other volunteers.
The recycled glass products will then be sold and picked up at the warehouse.
"Once we get into production will post a list of items available," Collins said.
Are you interested?
A small survey was conducted on Glass Act's Facebook page concerning glass recycling. About 272 positive responses were received quickly, so Collins said there are people in the community who are interested.
"The three questions of that survey were: Would you recycle if it was picked up at your home for a small fee? Would you drop it off at a collection site if it were free? And would you volunteer or would you be able to?" said Collins.
Fifty-two percent said they would prefer to have their glass picked up. Eighty-three percent would drop it off. Collins pointed out that some people answered yes to both pick up and drop off options.
About 76% said they would be willing to volunteer.
"Overall I felt like we got a good response — enough response — to start moving forward," she said.
This project has been in the works since January after Collins was searching for guest speakers for the Rotary Club of Alexandria's weekly luncheons. She found two Tulane students who started a recycling program in New Orleans.
Collins and Alexandria City Councilwoman Catherine Davidson, who is also a Glass Act board member, were both impressed with the presentation. They thought that it could be done here as well.
"If they can do it, we can do it. There's no good reason we don't have glass recycling in this region," said Collins.
They visited New Orleans to see the glass recycling operation and Collins visited several more times.
Since the format the New Orleans people was working, Collins said they decided to implement that one here.
"Recycling is on the lips of everyone right now with global warming and all these things," said Collins.
And there is never going to be a shortage of glass, she added.
For more information, email Annie Collins at firstname.lastname@example.org or visit the Glass Act Recycling Facebook page.


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Over the past decade, Michigan, the traditional home of the U.S. auto industry and a hub for manufacturing, has seemed perfectly fine ceding leadership in electric vehicle infrastructure to the West Coast.
Last week, Michigan Governor Gretchen Witmer introduced two projects that could go a long way to turn that impression around: one involving dynamic wireless charging infrastructure for a public road, the other adding charging waypoints to a popular charging route.
The in-road charging system, which would allow vehicles to charge as they drive, hasn’t yet been detailed, but it would be given a one-mile pilot-project installation in the Detroit area, according to the Detroit Free Press. It might potentially leapfrog an Indiana project that’s already in its first phase and would enter a similar operation level in 2022 or 2023.
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Whitmer also last week announced the Lake Michigan EV Circuit, a route especially aiming to attract electric-vehicle-driving tourists from Chicago and Milwaukee. Whitmer's office, in a press release, called the circuit “the best new road-trip for EV owners in America,” and noted that it will tie coastal communities, parks, and tourism attractions into the wider EV charging infrastructure, keeping in mind high summer utilization and challenging winter conditions that result in reduced EV battery range.
The network will be initially funded at $1.25 million, with a feasibility study, then installation grants coming from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) Charge Up MI program. It notes that the hardware will be either DC fast-charging or Level 2, “depending on the electrical infrastructure at the host side.”
AeroVironment DC fast charger, part of West Coast Electric Highway - Centralia, WA
Level 2 aside, that closely aligns with what Oregon, Washington, and California undertook a decade ago, when they established the West Coast Electric Highway, a network of DC fast-chargers spaced 25 to 50 miles apart. In October, those stations are due to start receiving a second generation of charging hardware.
In 2019, the Detroit area finally started getting more DC fast-chargers, but that didn’t extend much of the convenience to the rest of the state.
That’s not to say Michigan hasn’t tried. We’ve outlined some of the pushback the state has faced in the past. Just four years ago, one of the largest utilities in Michigan withdrew plans for 30 fast-charging stations because of challenges from various interests—including the network operator ChargePoint.
Factory Zero - GM Detroit-Hamtramck revamped for EVs
But in light of high-profile electric vehicle manufacturing in Michigan—with the Ford F-150 Lightning, GMC Hummer EV, and Jeep plug-in hybrid models soon due to be assembled in the Detroit area and the Chevy Bolt EV already made there—it’s good to see some of those challenges passed and Michigan stepping up.


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DeAndre Cortez Way, aka Soulja Boy, aka Soulja Boy Tell 'Em has never returned to the career high of his hit Crank That (Soulja Boy). But Mr Way is a Renaissance man: rapper, producer, actor, and now peddler of knock-off smartwatches.
Soulja Boy this week launched his new line of merchandise, which includes games consoles (read: cheap emulator boxes), a smartphone and the SouljaWatch, a smartwatch that costs just $19.99 and looks quite a lot like an Apple Watch.
Most of the marketing material is just pictures of Apple Watches with "SouljaWatch" slapped on the screen. If you click through to actually buy one of these smartwatches you'll get to choose whether it ships from China or Russia, and whether you want a retail box or not. Nothing suspect here at all.
Read this: The best (real) smartwatches you can buy
The watch can allegedly do calls, messaging, sleep tracking, and has built-in GPS. It works with Android and iOS, and even rocks a 0.3-megapixel camera. But we have so many questions. What operating system does it run? Can we have one? Is any of this legal?
We put these queries to a representative on the site's 'SouljaChat' but at the time of writing we've had no response. Rest assured, we won't stop until we get answers.
Is it a scam? Well, Polygon has already done some digging on the SouljaGame consoles, which are apparently poorly rebranded emulators. We suspect the SouljaWatch is running on Android (the below video strongly suggests this is not Wear OS), and while Soulja may have done enough due diligence to avoid any legal hubbub, we wouldn't be surprised if Apple is on his case about those promo pictures before the week is out.
Anyway, here's a video of Soulja Boy previewing the watch.
— Soulja Boy (Drako) (@souljaboy) December 3, 2018
"We're going viral just in time for Christmas," he says. Just not for the right reasons.
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Retail sales (YoY)
Consensus (7.5%) / Previous (7.2%)
Adjusted by working days, retail sales increased by 6% year on year in April, below market expectations. This is the worst result in 2018 so far, but we are still optimistic, as it may be a consequence of one-off effects.
The worse-than-expected data could be primarily traced back to the early Easter effect, translating into growth of just 2.6% YoY in food shops. It's also worth noting that one-off disbursements such as bonuses in the public sector and vouchers for pensioners probably only had an impact in March. Automotive fuel sales remained robust, with the 8.6% YoY increase significantly beating the 2017 yearly average. Retail sales in non-food shops fit the trend of what we've seen throughout 2018, with 9.2% YoY growth.
Breakdown of retail sales (% YoY, wda)
While the April reading missed market expectations, there's no reason to worry. Continuous wage growth and a high level of households willing to spend will remain major driving forces for the sector. Against this backdrop, we expect more than 7% YoY retail sales growth in 2018 as a whole.


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12 December 2012, Singapore – Consumers have proven that Angry Birds cake, plush, toys, iPhone cover, theme park and even cable car is NOT enough. On the 3rd anniversary of the phenomenal mobile puzzle game Angry Birds that took the world by storm, Rovio Entertainment, the creative company that created the game announced the producers that they have signed to produce a 3D-animated feature – Angry Birds the movie that is slated to be released on theatres on summer 2016. .
John Cohen, producer of the successful Despicable Me, has taken up the job. In addition, former chairman of Marvel Studios and executive producer of Iron Man, David Maisel, is set to executive produce the upcoming 3D-animated feature of Angry Birds. Following Marvel Studios’ model, which was architected by David Maisel, Rovio will produce and finance the movie outside the studio system and retain full creative control while creating innovative entertainment at the highest level of quality.
It will be one of the most anticipated movie come summer 2016. Angry Birds the game has a huge number of followings. The original game itself has been downloaded more than 1 billion times across platforms and versions. And it is still a very popular game; the latest release of the game – Angry Birds Star Wars, became the number 1 best selling iPhone App chart in mere 2.5 hours upon release. Angry Birds itself has evolved rapidly from a casual mobile puzzle game into entertainment, publishing, and licensing to become a widely recognized international brand.
The collaboration of David Maisel and John Cohen is a great start to producing a hit animated film. John has hands-on producer background while David has the expertise in establishing and running a successful studio. John Cohen most recently produced Illumination Entertainment/Universal Pictures’ Despicable Me in 2010 and executive produced Illumination/Universal’s Hop in 2011.
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UAE | Traffic and Transport
Luxury cruise ship to begin sailing from Karachi to Dubai next month
Residents and tourists will be able to travel between Dubai and Karachi on a luxury cruise ship when the service starts early next month.
- "We will sail our first luxury cruise from Karachi to Dubai on November 7," said Rizwan Mohiuddin, President of Gulf Dream Cruise.
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Without adequate bus shelters, people are facing a rough time waiting in the blistering summer heat.
Reader is concerned that passersby might injure themselves unknowingly.
The King Faisal Street had pedestrian crossings, but they have faded with time.
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The social site's new feature will allow users to take a photo of real life objects, and shop for similar items online
In the eight week of our ten week series with IQ by Intel, we look how content is being seamlessly synced between screens.
Medium is a new online publishing tool from Biz Stone and Evan Williams that organizes shared content under popular categories.
Most Facebook users in the US are at ease with the personal information they give out on the social network. Women are more okay with it than men, as are younger people compared to their elders.
The UK band takes content sharing to the next level by creating their latest video from crowdsourced fan photos of music festivals.


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A private equity firm has paid over $133,000 for the homeloan.com.au and homeloancalculator.com.au URLs, in yet another sign the market for URLS is continuing to grow even more important and lucrative.
Both purchases come after a string of expensive purchases in the past year. Woolworths reportedly bought Hardware.com.au for $33,000, while Zoupon turned into Deals.com.au after a $100,000 transaction.
The real estate market for URLs is also heating up, after investmentproperty.com.au sold for $125,000 last year – although a failed bidder criticised the transaction and said it was overvalued.
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Aura Capital has confirmed to SmartCompany it spent over $100,000 for homeloan.com.au last week. It also spent $33,000 to buy homeloancalculator.com.au, after the previous owner let the name lapse. This is the second-highest price ever paid for a URL bought after a name lapse.
Aura Capital director Calvin Ng told SmartCompany both purchases were “purely opportunistic”, although the business does have investments in home loan companies and services.
“We haven’t determined the exact strategy for these yet, it’s opportunistic,” he says. “The guy who owned the calculator URL had let it lapse, and so we just snapped it up.”
“Two weeks prior to that we were contacted about the homeloan.com.au URL, and the two URLs together made the transactions more attractive.”
Aura Capital, which has investments in the minerals, insurance and hospitality industries, has dealt with large URL transactions before. In 2007, it spent over $1 million on 1300homeloan.com.au, and was also involved in the sale of electricity.com.au, which sold for about $30,000.
“This space is really heating up,” Ng says. “It’s just becoming more competitive.”
Buying a simple and memorable URL is essential for any successful business. But as so many of them have been scooped up since the late 1990s, buying the most popular website names becomes an expensive proposition.
Some businesses view it as an investment. Last year, Zoupon purchased Deals.com.au for over $100,000, although co-founder Adam Schwab told SmartCompany at the time he felt it was an investment in the business.
Many businesspeople are also finding it lucrative to become individual domain traders, recognising URLs that are likely to become popular and then selling them for a premium.
Ng says about 35,000 people search for “home loan calculator” every month, and about 200,000 search for “home loan” every month, all but guaranteeing high Google rankings for these URLs.
And although he says the exact opportunity for these URLs hasn’t been confirmed yet, it’s an example of how businesses should be paying attention to movements in the URL space if they want to scoop up a bargain.
“This is a very competitive space, and we’re also watching to see what happens.”


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ICLEI: Focus on cities and transport responses – India
India announced the world’s biggest nation-wide lockdown affecting the lives of 1.3 billion people on 24 March. Initially set until 15 April, the quarantine has been extended to 3 May as a pre-emptive measure to contain the infection. In transport, it meant the stop of about 13,000 trains run daily by the India Railways, all flights, and most public transport services, to discourage the inter and intra-city mobility of people. In all twelve major Indian ports, screening, detection, and containment protocols for people and goods have been established.
Public transport, including shared mobility and paratransit services, has been suspended during the lockdown. As a consequence, walking, cycling, or personal vehicle trips are restricted to access essential services like groceries and hospitals.
Cities are still required to ensure basic services. Some cities like Delhi are operating bus services at 30 percent capacity to safely ferry people involved in the provision of essential services. However, operations of mass transit systems, such as the metro, are completely halted at the time of writing. Though essential and emergency services are available, selective movements of people to access essentials are permitted due to which travel frequency to places like grocery markets, food warehouses, farmers’ markets, specialty food shops, drug stores, and pharmacies dropped by over 70%.
It is anticipated that once lockdown is over on 3 May, selective regional travel might be permitted based on the number of active COVID-19 cases. The national government has already demarcating regions as red, orange, and green zones, which shall dictate the flexibility in the movement of people....


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Demand for small turkeys spikes for the coronavirus Thanksgiving
A week before Thanksgiving, the CDC announced that Americans should not celebrate Thanksgiving with people outside their home to prevent travel and gatherings.
Many people are following these precautions, or at least planning smaller celebrations, which means less food and smaller turkeys.
This has put Turkey's supply chain in an interesting position as it tries to figure out how to adjust supply to changing demand.
"We'll manage," Dan Bailey of Bailey Turkey Farm in Lyme, N.H. told Yahoo Finance. "We cut them in half and make breasts. A man called and wanted six legs, drumsticks and thighs and said," We have three people, so two each. "
With the traditional big Thanksgiving gatherings canceled, Bailey and his colleagues need to get creative.
"It's hard to explain today that meat freezes and you can use it to make cakes and anything," he said.
For Bailey, at least, he assumes he will have a demand that is in line with supply, with few birds left.
Frozen turkeys are pictured in a freezer during the coronavirus pandemic in the Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, New York, the United States, on November 19, 2020. REUTERS / Carlo Allegri
Turkish farmers usually get their "vacation birds" right on July 1st, and there's not that much a farm can do to ensure the turkeys stay small other than get them later, Bailey said.
On a larger scale, Ariane Daugin, the managing director of D’Artagnan, has also seen the demand for small birds rise.
"We saw a significant reduction in the size of the turkeys!" she wrote in an email. Daugin said the New Jersey-based meat company, which sells a variety of products, forecast the need for smaller birds last April when the turkeys were born and set up for demand six months later.
By Wednesday, D’Artagnan expects 21,000 turkeys to be sold - "many £ 12, many even smaller £ 8". But Daugin said it could be the same total turkey weight it was last year when the company sold 16,000 turkeys with an average weight of 16-18 pounds.
Jay Jandrain, CEO of Butterball, told Yahoo Finance that the company commissioned a survey of 1,004 households in September and found that 75% of respondents would choose the same size as usual - or larger.
"There is a desire for slightly smaller turkeys, but what is important is that most say they are planning the same size or even a larger turkey than last year," said Jandrain of the study.
In addition to the little turkeys, D’Artagnan's Daugin pointed out another unusual change to this Thanksgiving Day - the realization that some households may not be the most suitable bird for a small group.
"Many households have switched to geese (10 to 12 pounds) or ducks (5 to 6 pounds)," she wrote in an email. "We also saw venison and bison loins rise sharply."
Lower prices go hand in hand with lower demand. According to the American Farm Bureau, the average cost of a 10-person Thanksgiving dinner - the standard for measuring - has fallen to its lowest level since 2010, just $ 46.90.
Ethan Wolff-Mann is a writer at Yahoo Finance, focusing on consumer affairs, personal finance, retail, airlines, and more. Follow him on Twitter @ewolffmann.
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Simon Fraser University is the first Canadian post-secondary institution to accept Bitcoin for the purchase of textbooks, and to install automated Bitcoin vending machines (AVMs) campus wide. The new announcement comes shortly after the institution began accepting bitcoin as donation.
Bookstores at each of SFU’s three campuses in Vancouver, Burnaby, and Surrey, will now accept Bitcoin for the payment of retail transactions, and AVMs will be installed in these locations, allowing the public to purchase the virtual currency.
“It is our mission to challenge and engage students and provide them with learning opportunities not only inside the classroom but also outside,” says Mark McLaughlin, SFU’s executive director of ancillary services. “SFU has one of North America’s most prominent Bitcoin student clubs and they have asked us to help introduce Bitcoin to the SFU community. As a university focused on innovation, we want to provide our students the opportunity to try digital currencies like Bitcoin through AVMs and within the bookstore and other retail locations on campus.”
The bookstores will begin to accept Bitcoin as a form of payment starting May 26. BitSent, a Canadian company, is providing the AVMs.
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(Reuters) – KFC, the world’s largest chain of fried chicken restaurants, may face pressure from consumer and environmental groups to change how its poultry are raised after McDonald’s Corp (MCD.N) said it would switch to chicken raised without human antibiotics.
McDonald’s will phase out chicken raised with antibiotics that are important to human health over two years to allay concern that use of the drugs in meat production has exacerbated the rise of deadly “superbugs” that resist treatment, Reuters reported last week. Within days, retailer Costco Wholesale Corp (COST.O) told Reuters it aims to eliminate the sale of chicken and meat raised with human antibiotics.
KFC is owned by Louisville, Kentucky-based Yum Brands Inc (YUM.N), which has no publicly stated policy on antibiotic use in the production of meat it buys. Chick-fil-A, another chicken restaurant chain that competes with KFC, says about 20 percent of the chicken it serves is raised without any antibiotics, and that its entire supply chain will be converted by 2019.
Both McDonald’s and Yum are stepping up efforts to win back younger and wealthier diners lured away by chains such as such as Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc (CMG.N) and Panera Bread Co (PNRA.O), which boast antibiotic-free meats and other high-quality ingredients. Yum’s KFC restaurants in China two years ago suffered a massive sales hit following local media reports that a few poultry farmers supplying KFC fed excessive levels of antibiotics to their chickens.


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Sainsbury’s has revealed an Argos store is due to open this week in one of its Nottingham supermarkets.
Argos will open inside the Sainsbury's tomorrow, November 20, in Perry Road, Basford.
The new store has also created 12 new jobs.
Carl Tranter, Sainsbury’s Nottingham Perry Road store manager, said: “We are thrilled to welcome the Argos team and even more fantastic colleagues to our store in Nottingham.
"The opening is great news for our customers, who are always looking for easier, more convenient ways to shop.
"We look forward to offering them an exciting range of products at fantastic value.”
There are more than 280 Argos stores in Sainsbury’s supermarkets, with 60 percent of Argos’s total sales online and 85 percent of customers choosing to collect their goods in-store.
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Major leaders from top casino site operators have flocked to Barcelona this week for the annual SBC Summit featuring iGaming operators, affiliates, suppliers, and regulators from around the world.
The event, which will feature industry veterans alongside new online casinos, allows operators and suppliers to showcase their next generation of products - with an impressive list of keynote speakers also in attendance.
Among the industry leaders present will be the likes of Bet365, who boast an impressive 53 million customers, with representatives from the likes of VideoSlots and Slots Million - whose founder and CEO Charles Gross will be speaking at the event - also making the trip to Catalonia.
VP of Casino at CasinoSource Lee Gwilliam has also made the trip and will be featured as a speaker across multiple panels at the event. With decades of experience in the casino industry, Lee will be sharing some insights and expertise on content marketing and how innovation in other industries is crossing over to the iGaming sphere.
All in all 250 expert speakers will share valuable insights on the overarching issues facing the industry and how they influence day-to-day operations in sports betting, online casinos, affiliate marketing, casino payment methods and compliance and safer gambling verticals. Some software providers who have confirmed their attendance include Yggdrasil, FSB, and Evoplay.
Speaking on the event previously, Rasmus Sojmark, Founder and CEO of SBC, said: "The pace of change in the online casino industry can be difficult to keep up with, so bringing together many of the sector’s thought leaders to share their ideas about the next big trends was a key goal for us when planning SBC Summit Barcelona.
"We’ve delivered an exceptional speaker line-up for the Summit’s casino and gaming content, and delegates will also find plenty to interest them in the exhibition, where some of the most creative studios will be showcasing their new titles and the leading platform suppliers will be presenting the next generation of iGaming technology."


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Dunnes, which has made much of its Irishness in recent months, increased its stake from 23.7% to 24.1%.
Tesco, which is spending €5m on its high-profile price-cutting campaign, has just extended its Irish border store price cuts to 11 outlets in the Dublin area. But according to Irish sources Tesco has been hit by the controversy over its decision to import some lines directly from the UK, while squeezing shelf space devoted to Irish suppliers.
Tesco admitted that since launching the new strategy, it had removed 350 Irish lines on the grounds of poor sales, but that a fifth had been restored in response to consumer demand.
Almost half the Republic's shoppers believe Dunnes stocks most Irish goods compared with one in 20 for Tesco, a survey by Empathy Research found.
"There is some negative sentiment about Tesco," says David Fitzsimons, chief executive of Retail Excellence Ireland. "One reason Dunnes has been doing well is the tagline it has been using - 'the difference is we're Irish'."
Musgrave's SuperValu has also joined the 'patriot game' with price cuts carrying the message it is "continuing to support Irish brands and Irish jobs".


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Apple is using (and touting) too much of Google’s technology at the moment to sue Google by name. By suing Google’s most prominent handset partner, they are isolating Android rather than Google as a whole. Can you imagine Apple touting Google technologies in their presentations (They do it often) while there is a huge public lawsuit going on between the two companies at the same time?
Is Google too important for Apple to sue? Maybe, but I have a feeling that Apple would like to have its own Maps applications sooner rather than later.
At the iPad event last month, Steve Jobs touted Google’s mapping back end as the heart of the iPad’s Maps application. Also skip ahead to 23:00 for more Google Maps and Youtube luvin’.
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ARTEX Composite Doors bagged a prestigious order of IIT, Patna (CPWD) project from renowned construction company M/S, Shapoorji Pallonji & Co. Ltd of worth Rs.1.5 crore.
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In order to strengthen our sales network in Latin America and display the latest range of GOSGO Performance & Safety Footwear we are going to mark our presence in FIDAE 2014, Chile and Expo Seguridad, Mexico.
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In efforts to strengthen the sales network and display the latest range of GOSGO Safety Footwear in the Middle East Region, participation in Intersec 2014, Dubai came across as the right platform.
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GOSGO is a renowned name in Performance footwear category and is now ready to create its flagship in the Safety footwear category as well. GOSGO safety footwear range has now got CE certification and the products comply with European standards.
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Budweiser, from the production line of Anheuser-Busch InBev’s (AB InBev) said it will be launching a campaign as it enters multi-year partnerships with the Premier League and LaLiga.
According to Chief Marketing Officer of AB InBev, Pedro Earp, “As the world’s most valuable beer brand, we will launch a global ‘Be a King’campaign in conjunction with these partnerships. This campaign will inspire fans around the world by bringing them closer to the kings of the game.
Activations for the campaign will include limited edition bottle packaging, showcasing the iconic league trophies, exclusive viewing parties, broadcast media assets and content partnership designed to celebrate the greatness of the players on the field and the cultural impact of the players off the field.”
“We are excited to kick-off these long-term partnerships with the Premier League and LaLiga, two world-class football competitions. These partnerships will allow us to further connect with key consumers and football fans across the globe. We are passionate about football, and so are our consumers, so we couldn’t be prouder to celebrate the sport, the players, and most importantly, the fans.”
He went on to say “These new partnerships will be activated across five continents and in more than 20 countries including the United Kingdom, China, South Africa, India, Chile and Nigeria.”


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Norway has only 5.26 million people—about half the size of Los Angeles County in population, and with only about 35 percent of LA's vehicles on its roads. But there's one measure in which Norway trumps America's most saturated EV market. Per capita, Norway has more electric car owners and drivers than anywhere else in the world. But why? Widespread incentives play a part, as do steep taxes on gas and diesel vehicles—and the fuels themselves—but what else is it about the country and its people? Is it because Norway, with the second longest coastline in the world behind...
Epic electric road trip: After 3 years and 33 countries, it's a wrap
Wiebe Wakker took one very long drive in an electric car—for a total of 1119 days, covering 59,000 miles and traversing portions of 33 countries on the way from the Netherlands to Australia. It was, by just about any standard, an epic road trip. Wakker reached Sydney last Sunday, April 7, and...Bengt Halvorson
Obama, buy that Volt!
Our current President, Donald Trump, has made it abundantly clear where he stands on electric cars. It’s quite a contrast to our former President, Barack Obama, whose administration widely supported policy fostering more fuel-efficient vehicles, greener energy, and the path to more vehicles...Bengt Halvorson
Could grassroots racing bridge the electric-car culture clash?
The daily news cycle already provides plenty of fodder for taking sides for or against electric cars. In the real world it’s just not that polarizing. Most people who decide to embrace electric vehicles probably understand that EVs do anything but preclude driving enjoyment; and many want to...Bengt Halvorson
2019 Nissan Leaf Plus: Drive review of long-range electric car
If more power, a 226-mile range, and a $39,405 base price—before considering the full $7,500 federal EV tax credit you can still get—collectively seems like the sweet spot for the Leaf, you probably have GM to thank. Nissan has admitted that it never planned to push the Leaf above a...Bengt Halvorson
2019 Jaguar I-Pace electric car range: Why the short circuit?
It’s not unusual for fuel gauges on gasoline cars to be inaccurate. Often they can hug "Full" so long you might suspect it’s malfunctioning—only to then swing rapidly toward the halfway mark and below. Usually these idiosyncrasies are no big deal. When the low-fuel light and chime...Bengt Halvorson
Colorado, which is taking steps to adopt California’s EV mandate, has always had a different wildcard factor affecting road trips: altitude. The state has the highest portions of the Interstate highway system, including routes spanning past 11,000 feet and varying several thousand feet. Even with a number of electric cars like the Chevrolet Bolt EV now offering well over 200 miles of EPA-estimated range, the range anxiety that was once the norm for any highway trip in more level states still looms large here, where the long grades can be a true test. That’s exactly what I had in...


text: With private hire firms such as Uber facing stricter rules in the capital it seems that London are finally giving something back to the drivers of the city, today releasing a statement that they will introduce new measures to support black cabs and private hire vehicles. "The taxi trade is an icon of our city and should be supported," Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said. "While the legitimate private hire trade is an asset to London, we must not be complacent in ensuring it is safe for passengers. The need for greater enforcement and compliance, as well as stricter entry requirements, is clear for all to see." Today it was announced that Transport for London (TfL) will be introducing 20 more bus lanes and boosting the number of taxi ranks in the city, giving the industry a big boost over the coming years. The regulators will also roll out journey details on its popular online journey planner tool, as well as making sure all cabs can take payment through credit and debit cards.


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State-owned Canara Bank Ltd plans to raise capital by selling shares to financial institutions and is looking to hire merchant bankers for the same. The bank is planning to raise up to Rs3,500 crore through qualified institutional placement (QIP). According to analysts, Canara Bank is among the state-owned banks in which the government may infuse capital early. With a capital adequacy ratio of 12.45% at the end of September, Canara Bank's capital position is well above the regulatory requirement 10.25%.
Giving fillip to this search for houses is the buzz that property prices have bottomed out, and that many aspiring homebuyers are looking for good deals. The increased online house hunting is not translating into actual sales, and the real estate transactions on ground are still quite low. Let's read on to know why house sales are low despite more people going out to enquire about them. In the past few years, property prices have been either stagnant or have even corrected in some locations.
Asked if the government had asked the oil companies to skip the monthly revision, the official refused comments. The price of subsidised LPG was last raised by Rs 4.50 per cylinder on November 1 to Rs 495.69, according to a price notification issued by state-owned firms. Initially, the hike in LPG rate was Rs 2 per month which was raised to Rs 3 from May this year.
It's commonplace to blame the promoters of bankrupt companies of gaming the system for years by diverting funds, wilful defaults, perpetrating fraud and indulging in malfeasance. In many cases, their businesses caved in due to lax government response, policy perversions, harsh judicial interventions or even wrong incentives. Rakhi Mazumdar & Rachita Prasad get behind those macro mess-ups. De-allocation of Electrosteel Castings' North Dhadu coal block in Jharkhand hurt three 60MW power plants & a sponge iron unit.
To increase their chances in the latest tender floated by state-run Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) for hiring of tankers, domestic shipping companies are asking for an easing of the vessel-age criteria. Early this month, separate tenders were floated by two state-owned oil refiner-marketer companies, IOC and Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPC). They want to hire a VLCC and a Suezmax tanker, respectively, for a contract period of five years.
It helps no one, Mazumdar-Shaw wrote on the microblogging platform, Twitter, responding to Pai who called the lapse a substantial matter. It forced the board, former employees and other founders of Infosys to bring back a reluctant Nilekani as the chairman. Mazumdar-Shaw on Saturday said Infosys had admitted to procedural lapses and the move to file a settlement plea with Sebi was to pay a fine for that.
Experts said returns from bitcoins could attract 20-30% tax, depending on whether they are categorised as business income or capital gains. There is no specific amendment to income tax law required to determine bitcoin taxability, he said. Alternatively, revenue officers could levy long-term or short-term capital gains tax on bitcoin returns. Long-term capital gains tax at 20% would be levied if bitcoins were held for at least 36 months.
GroupM had said last week that India would be among six countries driving up ad spends in 2018, while Dentsu had forecast an ad growth of 12.2 per cent for 2018. Magna, however, also said that India's 2018 adex growth would continue till 2022 by which time the domestic ad market would touch Rs 1.08 lakh crore in size, pushing India up the pecking order of global ad markets.
Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio are set for another bout after the fight in the telecom space. This time, the telcos are pitching against each other to grab a larger pie of the country's cloud services market and are in the running to become government-empanelled cloud service provider. The government would give empanelment to 15 firms for providing cloud services to Central, state, and local governments, and public sector bodies in India. Jio and Airtel have already build infrastructure to provide cloud services.
As tax officials chase to meet stiff revenue targets amid sluggish growth, there is a sudden surge in prosecution notices slapped by the income tax (I-T) department. Now, prosecution proceedings are being initiated for not filing tax returns or for short or even delayed remittance of tax deducted at source by business entities. A prosecution notice can be unnerving to most tax payers, particularly ones with limited resources and legal assistance.
Reliance Retail wants to expand its business-to-business play by foraying into distribution of apparel, FMCG and white goods directly to neighbourhood and kirana outlets since it wants to tap a larger pie of the market considering scope of exponential growth in organised retail, currently limited to 8% of the total market. While initially Reliance Retail would start with distribution of their private brands, subsequently it will be expanded into the mainstream brands as well, the executives said.
Former State Bank of India (SBI) chairman Arundhati Bhattacharya has said the issue of moral hazard was an important issue in the context of the resolution under the IBC, recently amended to bar promoters from bidding for their assets. The hazard is that others, who may not have the problem, would deliberately do things so that they can pare their debt and come back.
A sharp rise in assets under management of mutual funds, primarily driven by inflow of retail money over the last couple of years has significantly lifted the profitability of fund houses focusing on retail AUM. In the financial year 2016-17, the top six fund houses saw their net profit jump 22 per cent from an aggregate of Rs 1,778 crore in FY16 to Rs 2,171 crore in FY17.
Back in the day, when Goenka joined the board of Jay Shree in 1984, his Duncans group was one of the leaders in the plantation business. Our chairman invited them to join our board out of friendship, mutual trust and admiration, said DP Maheswari, Jay Shree Tea's managing director. I have not been able to attend any board meeting of Jay Shree in the past two years.
After hitting out at the government on social media, retailers are gearing up to protest against revised merchant discount rates (MDRs) for debit card transactions. MDR is the rate charged to a merchant by a bank for providing debit card transaction service. This is going one step forward and two steps backward, said Anand Agarwal, chief financial officer, V-Mart Retail. While brick-and-mortar retailers have been the most vocal in their protests, e-tailers do not seem to be in a hurry.
Future Group is looking to unlock data of around 500-million consumers who have shopped on its offline stores across 255 cities in the country, offering technology start-ups to build models and solutions to increase engagement with them. Our first goal is to build a data lake and understand the customer profile. Future Group has also partnered with tech giants Facebook and Google to provide a host of analytical help.
India-based multi-brand retail giants are questioning any demarcation in labelling rules between them and single-brand retailers. This has been a major demand of a host of global entities, including furnishing giant Ikea and infotech major Apple. We work with some of the international retailers and relabelling that has to happen when the products enter India is a concern, he had said.
Suzuki Motor Corp. is trying to insulate its Indian unit from the risks involved in developing electric vehicles even as the outcome of such efforts will benefit Maruti Suzuki India Ltd directly. The role of Maruti in these partnerships may best be limited to that of a procurer of lithium ion battery packs and of electric vehicle platforms from the Toyota-Suzuki partnership. It will, of course, sell those to Indian customers if the electric vehicle market takes off in the country.


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D-Link 3Q revenues to exceed NT$10 billion
Irene Chen, Taipei; Steve Shen, DIGITIMES
D-Link expects its revenues to grow 10-12% sequentially to exceed NT$10 billion (US$304 million) in the third quarter, up from the NT$9.63 billion it recorded in the second quarter, according to company president JC Liao.
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Cyptocurrency innovation has made virtually everything in the digital world susceptible to tokenization, and intellectual property is no exception to the trend thanks to non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
NFTs – intangible assets that give their holder a unique certificate of authenticity – are gaining ground in the patent market through the optimization of several critical operations.
The music, art and even video game industries have all witnessed the potential of NFTs to safeguard value; now, intellectual property is being protected in this way also in the field of corporate patents.
The tokenization of these patents is carried out through the blockchain, which allows the parties to guarantee the traceability of the operation, as well as its centralization in one place.
“The current process requires lawyers, contracts, and a lot of bureaucracy, now, using NFTs, the entire model is simplified and all the information is in one place: the blockchain,” she told Bloomberg Línea Lavinia Meliti, who directs the strategy. and execution of IPwe’s business initiatives, a global platform for patent transactions.
Meliti indicates that NFTs offer a great opportunity if we take into account that “worldwide patent transactions, which are mostly licenses and acquisitions, are US$ 180 billion per year, which is a small percentage”.
“What if it gets to 10% or more? (This is) good for innovators, owners, partners, for finance, for service providers, and for society,” she said.
Lavinia Meliti indicated that she likes to refer to NFTs “as digital repositories that store all the information relevant to a patent in a single secure set – and this is happening for the first time in the history of patents.”
Instead of “having to go to multiple places where information about a patent can be stored, everything will exist in one place and the holder will control what can and cannot be seen and by whom”.
She says that “the concept of patents has existed for thousands of years, and the legal frameworks that support them have been in existence since the 15th century. Today, there are around 20 million patents worldwide that are granted by approximately 200 independent national patent offices that exist in each country that grants the patents.”
Incidentally, IPwe has partnered with tech giant IBM to tokenize patents in different areas such as electric vehicles or (soon) the metaverse – the so-called next internet age.
The company facilitates these transactions in Smart Pools, which are a type of patent bank in which patent holders offer their NFT-based licenses to consortium members – many are SMEs – to drive innovation at all scales.
Lavinia Meliti told Bloomberg Línea that she will launch a Smart Pool focused on blockchain patents, “allowing their holders, large companies, to share them with other companies”.
“We will have several of the largest blockchain patent holders in the world, located in Asia, Europe and North America,” said the executive, who did not reveal the names of the large corporations, but informed the interest of several participants in Latin America, as these see potential in markets such as Colombia and Mexico.
As for the participants, she commented that the profiles are divided between the holders of these patents and the members, who pay a kind of subscription to be able to use these technologies.
Small and medium-sized companies with revenues of less than US$1 million per year will have free access to all available patent portfolios.
Patent holders contribute their patents to Smart Pools, where they are then tokenized through NFTs. “If the patent holder decides to license it, license tokens linked to the original NFT will be created,” explains Meliti.
Thus, the tokenized patent license is transferred to the licensee for as long as it is in effect. And thanks to smart contracts, licensees get reminders when those licenses are about to expire.
“The smart contract is integrated into the NFT with standardized terms associated with each patent. The patent holder sets out the terms of their contract, what is public and what is not,” she adds.
According to the expert, “the capital, the parties to the transaction have the transparency, standardization of information and the ease of interaction they need”.
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UK: Sweatshop labour uncovered in Olympic factories
The organisers of the London 2012 Olympics are introducing new measures designed to protect workers producing merchandise for this year's games after evidence of exploitation was uncovered.
Researchers working for the TUC and Labour Behind the Label groups discovered child labour, excessive hours, poverty pay, dangerous working conditions and an absence of independent trade unions at factories in the Olympic supply chains.
Following the discoveries, the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) has now agreed to get tougher on the factories involved.
LOCOG will publish the names and locations of factories in China and the UK covering over 70% of the licensed products produced for London 2012, with a focus on licensees that still have production remaining.
It will make information about employment rights, based on national laws and LOCOG's ethical code, available in Chinese and English, and establish a Chinese language hotline so that workers who feel they are being treated unfairly can either call or text to complain about their treatment.
It will also provide training for some of the workers in the various Olympic supply chains to make them more aware of their rights.
LOCOG has also committed to work with Play Fair 2012 and to transfer the lessons learned to the International Olympic Committee and future Games organisers.
"LOCOG had gone further than any previous Games' organisers in adopting an ethical code and complaints mechanism, but as our research shows this hasn't been nearly enough to prevent abuses from taking place," said TUC general secretary Brendan Barber.
"However it's not too late to make a difference for workers producing goods for London. We welcome LOCOG's acknowledgement that further action is necessary and its commitment to act immediately to ensure that factory owners can no longer exploit workers in the name of the Olympics.
"We're hopeful that a marker has now been set for all future Games and that the International Olympic Committee will play a leading role in taking this work forward so that the exploitation of workers in Olympic supply chains can become a thing of the past.
"This groundbreaking agreement should also help lead to better working conditions throughout the sporting industry."
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Xbox Boss Says Studio Acquisitions Are “Good For The Industry”
As the biggest companies in the video game industry need to grow their kingdoms to remain their upward trajectory in comparison to their arrivals, it has become more common for these companies to acquire other studios and companies to achieve these goals. Sony recently acquired Housemarque, the studio behind Returnal, and Nintendo added Luigi’s Mansion 3 developer Next Level Games to their empire as well. Microsoft has been especially focused on acquiring studios in recent years, with Bethesda Softworks being their most recent significant studio acquisition. Now, Xbox head Phil Spencer has commented on these studio acquisitions, claiming that they are “good for the industry.”
Xbox boss Phil Spencer recently spoke with IGN about the future of Xbox, as well as their recent acquisition decisions. The conversation just happened to follow new comments made by Sony representatives insinuating that Microsoft is being hasty with their numerous acquisitions. Spencer fought back on that by suggesting that starting a new studio is risky, but acquiring an established studio helps mitigate that risk. He also believes that studio acquisitions are beneficial for the industry, as he states. “It doesn’t mean every team has to end up selling their studio, but I think it is a natural and healthy part of our industry that certain teams will start a studio—many of them will fail, we know most small business will fail, whether it’s videogames or anything else,” he said.
But those that make it through—and it’s such a kind of risk-filled journey for them—to get to the point to create real value, I’m always going to congratulate [them] when teams get to where they realize that value through acquisition, or just massive independent success if that’s the path they also start to go on.”
In the recent past, Microsoft has suggested that they still plan to acquire more major studios and build their portfolio. Spencer further states that more mainstream-focused games and family-friendly franchises will be a big part of those future acquisition plans. Whatever studio acquisitions Microsoft makes in the future, so far they’ve proven themselves to be a good home for studios looking to increase the size and scope of their properties. Now let’s see if Microsoft will acquire the studio behind Bubsy the Bobcat.
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Kylie Jenner finally gave credit to Vlada Haggerty, the makeup artist who created the concept of “melting lips” long before the Kylie Lip Kits made their debut. Last year, the 19-year-old business mogul was accused of ripping off Vlada’s artworks.
Lips dripping with pigments are now associated with Kylie’s successful cosmetic brand and on Friday, she shared a four-way photo of melting lips and mentioned the makeup artist who conceived the concept.
It was in December 2015 when Kylie first shared the photo on her brand’s Instagram account. The picture then vanished from the account after it came to Vlada’s attention that her photo was “reproduced.” Kylie’s company did not address the accusations. A few months later, Vlada then threatened to sue the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star after she shared another image with an uncanny resemblance with Vlada’s work.
The photo shows an open mouth with heavily pigmented lips. The model’s hands are embellished with a shiny gold powder. The California-based artist took to Instagram to air her annoyance.
While several news outlets picked up the story and started crediting Vlada for her work, Kylie’s team again remained mum and simply deleted the photo. Vlada told Refinery29 that the brand never tried to communicate with her.
“Nobody reached out to me before or after the incident. I did message the brand through Instagram on the day of the repost, but there was no response. Crediting artists is essential, but this goes beyond that. It’s theft; this is our livelihood…I see these things happen too many times to artists. We are all trying to make it, and this business is extremely competitive. I would ask anyone at this level use the proper channels to obtain images.”
It appears that Kylie’s team finally learned its lesson after the recent upload which gave a shout-out to Vlada.
This isn’t the first time that the raved-about cosmetics faced controversy. In July, a New Zealand-based beauty vlogger expressed disappointment that Kylie’s new eyeshadow palette shared similarities with her BH Cosmetics.
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Another accusation is that the formulation of the lip kits is similar with ColourPop, another famous brand of lip products but with more affordable price tags. In a YouTube video, beauty blogger Stephanie Nicole claimed that Kylie’s Candy K shade has an identical formulation with ColourPop’s Clueless.
“All she is doing is basically lending her name out to a brand that knows that no matter what it is, people will wait in line. So when they saw the huge response, they cut some corners, and took a good formula and made it cheap.”
Stephanie noted that the reformed Candy K shade, although brighter, is “significantly more watery” than the previous formulation that’s creamier. Despite her speculations, she still praised the Kylie Lip Kits for fulfilling its promise to stay on the wearer’s lips all day. However, Stephanie would rather buy ColourPop because they could be bought for at least $6 as opposed to the Kylie Lip Kits priced from $15 to $29.
Apart from Stephanie, cosmetic bloggers NikkieTutorials and Grace Ha likewise claimed that the Kylie Lip Kits were “repackaged” ColourPops. The two later erased their posts, making some wonder that they have been contacted by Kylie’s team.
Although it is fairly common in the industry for beauty brands to just rely on a single manufacturer, some think that Kylie’s team is not being fair for charging that much for its “repackaged” lip kits.
Fans, however, do not seem to mind falling in line for Kylie’s creations. The lip kits even raised half a million dollars for Smile Train, a charity that provides free surgeries to children with cleft lip or cleft palate in developing countries.
Kylie’s brand created a special edition shade called Smile which quickly sold out. The first sale took place in October which raised over $159,000. Now that the second run has finished, People reports that the total collections reached $500,000.
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GLASGOW-based coffee supplier CG Coffee has introduced a new Italian coffee roaster into the UK.
The contract to distribute the Caffe Carraro roaster coincides with the company’s relocation to new premises, from where CG Coffee will also be offering free barista training.
CG said it hopes the contract will help it increase its projected turnover from £1m this year to £1.5m by 2015.
Founded just under three years ago by Carlos Avila and Gary Wright, the company has sold 60,000 kilos of coffee in the last year, as well as doubling the size of its warehouse in Govan from 1500 to 3000 square feet.
“We’re delighted to work in partnership with Caffe Carraro, a passionate family run business, to introduce a new quality coffee and brand to the UK market,” said Avila.
“Caffe Carraro has been roasting coffee in the Veneto region of Italy since 1927 and has since expanded to over 15 countries worldwide.
“And following research indicating that the licensed trade is now ready to invest in the coffee it sells and is eager to learn how it is prepared, where it comes from and the quality of the beans, we have opened a free barista training facility for clients at our new warehouse.”
Prior to founding CG Coffee, Avila was the front man for Costa Wholesale for 18 years, while Wright had experience working for Matthew Algie and Costa Coffee.
The company’s clients include Italian restaurant chain Di Maggios, Costley & Costley Hoteliers and Cafe Gandolfi, as well as North Lanarkshire Council.


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Gold gained in Asia on Friday in an offensive physical purchases, but in thin markets trade with largest buyer China market closed.
China is the public holiday, but all other general region mostly reopen to commemorate the day of the week.
On the Comex division NYMEX, gold futures for delivery in June traded at $ 1,284.00 a troy ounce, up 0.05%, after hitting a session low overnight of $ 1277.40 and a maximum of $ 1293.10.
During the night the prices of gold fell after data showed consumption and personal income jumped more than expected in March, a day after the Federal Reserve official said it was lowering the size of their purchase program monthly cash bonuses that has supported gold since 2012.
The Labor Department reported previously as the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week rose by 14,000 to 344,000 of the total as revised up from 330,000 the previous week reading.
Analysts were expecting unemployment claims falling into 11000-319000. Compensation disappointing jobless figures, the DOC reported earlier that personal spending rose 0.9% U.S. in March from an upwardly revised 0.5% reading the previous month, beating expectations of 0.6%.
Consumer spending is the largest U.S. economic growth of single component, representing up to two-thirds of economic activity.
The report added that personal income rose 0.5%, beating expectations of a 0.4% increase.
Moreover, the Instituto Supply Management said its manufacturing PMI jumped to 54.9 last month from 53.7 in March, exceeding the expectations of a reading of 54.3.
Reports came a day after the data showed the U.S. economy will grew at an annual rate of only 0.1% in the first trimester, well below expectations of a 1.2% expansion, although the markets attributed to the poor performance to harsh winter weather who discontinued previous trade this year .
Although sharp slowdown in the growth of the Federal Reserve official said on Wednesday that it would reduce their buying of monthly cash bond to $ 45 billion from $ 55 billion, as although the growth was almost flat in the first trimester, the economy has shown signs of gaining momentum the last few weeks.
Bond buying support the prices of gold to weaken the dollar. Investors were looking towards the ahead to April’s NFP report on Friday, which is expected to show that the recovery on the labor market continued, which further reduces the yellow metal.


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Por favor não parem, trabalho perfeito, nostálgico, me lembra da minha infância com os meus amigos jogando o HL1 e se divertindo. Com essa engine o jogo ficou muito lindo, eu sei que não é fácil fazer este jogo do zero mas eu pagaria qualquer valor caso este jogo esteja a venda no steam, não importa quanto tempo demore.
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Seems like Fallout 4 trailer has been already created. According to the recent post on LinkedIn by a Mirada Studios artist the video for one of the most anticipated games in the world has been in production since December 2014.
The artist has already edited his portfolio, but the Internet never forgets. So here’s a little screenshot for you.
The studio Mirada Studios is actually a Guillermo del Toro production company. The artist behind the aforementioned video has previously worked on trailers for Far Cry 4 and Forza, which makes the whole thing pretty believable. LinkedIn update stated that he was working on the Fallout 4 trailer between December and March.
According to the recent rumors Fallout 4 will be unveiled at E3. The game will be shown behind closed doors, but the trailer will likely be presented during the Bethesda own E3 conference.


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June 28, 2023 — Today, Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC) and Union Wine Company, a pioneer in the premium wine movement, announce our market expansion effective July 1.
With this agreement, RNDC now represents Union Wine in nine new states plus the District of Columbia, an addition to the existing 16 state alignment. The partnership will now include Alaska, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, North Dakota, New York, South Carolina, South Dakota, and the District of Columbia.
“We’re thrilled to expand our relationship with Union Wine Company,” said Bob Hendrickson, Chief Operations Officer. “Over the years they have been known to push boundaries in the fast-paced canned wine category, and our shared commitment to excellence and growth is what makes our partnership work. We look forward to providing the support to elevate their brand and achieve their goals.”
As the largest family-owned winery in Oregon, Union Wine Company launched in 2005 with the goal for creating the tastiest wine at the best price possible. The company’s success is centered around innovative processes aimed at continued positive results and evolving with the industry.
About Republic National Distributing Company
As a top beverage alcohol distributor in the nation, RNDC’s national reach helps suppliers by building strategic relationships with on- and off-premise customers to elevate their brands and reach their target consumers. RNDC currently operates in the District of Columbia and 38 states across the United States. To learn more, visit www.rndc-usa.com or contact Kanchan Kinkade, Vice President, Corporate Communications at firstname.lastname@example.org
A family-owned winery in the Pacific Northwest. For information about the company and its brands, visit unionwineco site.


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Did you know Halloween is the second most expensive holiday for consumers, behind only Christmas? Yep. Didn’t think so. In fact, the National Retail Federation said the average person is expected to spend more than $75 on decor, costumes, and candy.
Target plans to hire about 70,000 seasonal workers for the holiday shopping season, down about 20 percent from a year ago. The discounter is aiming to be more efficient in its hiring practices.
A Minnesota business that’s brought Christmas cheer to families for years is in jeopardy. Bob Kendall’s five-year-old reindeer bull, Claus, was shot and killed two weeks ago. Claus was the head of Kendall’s reindeer clan, and would spend the holiday season in huge outdoor Christmas displays alongside the family’s other animals. “Claus was…very sincere, and he’s very loving and he always will come up to you because he always wants his apple,” Kendall said. He recalls the fateful day he found Claus.
The State Fair is still a week away, but stores are already thinking ahead to winter. From the decorations to the seasonal hiring, the holidays are trending earlier and earlier each year. Michael Hagie, owner of the 50th and France boutique Gather, said inquiries for holiday gifts started months ago.
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On a sleepy Apple Valley street just a few miles West of the Minnesota Zoo, is one of the Twin Cities’ finer holiday light displays — a spectacular show of color and motion, all synchronized to its very own radio station.
More than likely, you now have a gift or two that you’re not so sure about. If you’re hitting the mall or trekking to the post office to return a present, you may want to keep some common gift return pitfalls in mind.
What is it about Christmas that brings us back to childhood?
Christmas can be one of the loneliest days of the year for those without friends and family.
Many of us will have Christmas gifts on their minds tonight or tomorrow morning. So we thought about an age-old question that deserves a few answers this time of year.
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was busy Monday with travelers flying in just in time for Christmas, and the loved ones waiting for them
Christmas shopping sales aren’t expected to be as good as retailers had hoped, but lots of shoppers out Monday might make up some of that difference.
For one Twin Cities family, Santa Claus came a little ahead of schedule, but only because he’d lost his way and needed some directions.
It’s Christmas Eve and many procrastinators still have some shopping to get done. Malls and shopping centers in the Twin Cities have been packed this holiday shopping season.


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U.S. Waives Sanctions for Iran's Chabahar Port Project
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has granted a sanctions waiver for the Indian-Iranian port project at Chabahar. The joint venture would otherwise be prohibited by the American ban on transactions with Iran's shipping industry, and the exemption ends an extended period of uncertainty over the port's future.
Chabahar's enhanced seaport will boost Indian trade volumes to and from Central Asia, but it will also serve American interests. It will facilitate the delivery of international aid and other goods for Afghanistan's U.S.-backed government, thanks to surface transport routes connecting Chabahar with the Iranian-Afghan border. The waiver includes an exemption for a proposed railway line along this route, and for its use to transport non-military goods across Iran to Afghanistan.
"This exception relates to reconstruction assistance and economic development for Afghanistan. These activities are vital for the ongoing support of Afghanistan's growth and humanitarian relief," a State Department spokesperson said in a statement.
A new Indian-run port at Chabahar will also serve to counterbalance China's regional influence. China's government recently financed a competing port project just across the border in Pakistan, where it is investing up to $60 billion in a giant network of transportation and energy infrastructure, the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
For India, the port offers a way to deepen its trade ties with Central Asia, and it builds on existing trade relationships with Iran. India is one of the largest consumers of Iranian oil, and has indicated that it intends to continue buying Tehran's crude regardless of the American sanctions regime. For now, the State Department has granted India a separate waiver to permit the continued trade in petroleum products.
State Department warns of Iran's tanker risks
The State Department has warned that the American "maximum pressure campaign" on Iran comes with legal consequences for those who disobey Washington's sanctions. On Wednesday, U.S. special representative Brian Hook suggested that shipping interests and foreign governments should also be concerned about the safety of Iran's tanker fleet, which is now blacklisted by the U.S. Treasury.
"From the Suez Canal to the Strait of Malacca and all choke points in between, Iranian tankers are now a floating liability," he told media. "Countries, ports and canal operators and private firms should know they will be likely responsible for the costs of an accident involving a self-insured Iranian tanker."
Hook pointed to the disastrous accident aboard the Iranian Suezmax Sanchi earlier this year, and he warned that the National Iranian Tanker Company's vessels have increased the odds of a casualty by turning off their AIS transponders. "These transponders are designed to maximize visibility at sea and turning them off only increases the risk of accidents and injuries. Self-insured Iranian tankers engaging in unsafe behavior, with many tons of crude oil on board [are] courting environmental and financial disaster," Hook said.