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Analog TV Conversion: The Law Few Want To Think About…YetWed Nov 14, 2007 @ 12:33PM PST
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Columbia University law professor Tim Wu got a big laugh recently at the 2007 New Yorker Conference when he told the audience: “February 2009, if you own a television set and you don’t have cable and satellite, it will go blank that day.”
As countless stories appear in newspapers and magazines examining how the WGA strike threatens to take popular television sitcoms and dramas off the air, few seem concerned with the telecommunications act that could silence television altogether for nearly 30 million viewers. On February 19, 2009, thanks to a law passed by Congress last year, television stations will no longer be allowed to broadcast in analog. That means if you don’t have a digital television, say goodbye to “House,” “The Simpsons” and “Grey’s Anatomy.”
U.S. broadcasters are promising to air more than $327 million in ads in the coming year to educate consumers about the switch. Legislators in Congress are currently debating whether to subsidize the cost for consumers to buy a digital-analog converter box.
Perhaps consumers will use the new law as an excuse to put the remote control to rest and finally read “Anna Karenina.” Fat chance? Consider a new study by the Consumer Electronics Association that says that 22% of analog TV owners say they plan to "do nothing" when the nation switches to Digital TV.


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The luxury shop Trois Pommes has denied discriminating against Oprah Winfrey, who asked to look at a "Jennifer" purse, designed by Tom Ford and named for actress Jennifer Anison.
The owner put the incident down to a language barrier. "This is an absolute classic misunderstanding," shop owner Trudie Goetz told Reuters.
The sales assistant wanted to show Winfrey that the purse was also available in other materials, which may have given the TV host the impression the shop didn't want to sell her the purse, Goetz said.
"Of course that's not the case. Who wouldn't want to sell a purse for 35,000 francs?" Goetz said.
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The new sponsors for the award-winning TV game show, ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Series 2-The Rebirth’ has been unveiled. The new sponsors are UP, Payattitude, Payarena, and HopePSBank. The companies are members of UP Group- a Nigerian payments and financial technology company and leaders in digital payments innovation.
The new sponsors were unveiled at a special sponsor and host reveal event held at the Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos, on Sunday, February 6, 2022. The popular TV broadcaster, Frank Edoho, also returned as the show host as he was revealed to the guests and audience who watched the event on live stream amidst cheers and applause.
Delivering his keynote speech at the event, the Managing Director ofUP, Agada Apochi, explained the group’s decision to sponsor Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Series 2-The Rebirth’was borne out of the desire to educate, excite and entertain Nigerians by bringing back the game show that keeps families at the edge of their seats.
Apochi further stated that the investment in the game show was not only aimed at promoting the brands in the company’s portfolio but geared towards building a better future for Nigeria by informing, educating, and entertaining them.
“Entertainment brings people together, whether it is football or show. It brings families, colleagues, together. It is for that reason we are investing in entertainment. For that reason, we are bringing back Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?. For us in the UP group, we should invest in this TV game show not only because we want to promote our brands but also because we want to see a better Nigeria. You would agree with me there is no better way to build a better future for Nigeria than investment in education”, he said.
According to him, the show would help promote knowledge acquisition and allow Nigerians to realise their economic dreams by winning cash prizes every week for 52 weeks.
He further disclosed that the company would be leveraging its expertise in technology to open up the space. Nigerians can now participate in the show from the comfort of their homes using the Payattitude USSD code *569# or USSD codes of Payattitude partner Banks. “This is the first of its kind. With ease from your hand-held device, you can download the Payattitude app or dial *569#, and you can then link your Banks’ accounts to Payattitude. For the first time, you no longer need SMS code to play a game of this kind, which is the first of its kind in Nigeria,” he added.
In his remarks at the event, Hakeem Condotti, the Chief Executive Officer of BLK Hut, the franchise owner of ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’ in Nigeria explained that ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Series 2-The Rebirth’ is produced in Nigeria by BLK Hut under the license of Sony Pictures. He noted that BLK Hut was ready to deliver international, creative, and quality content for the admiration of Nigerians’.


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In parts of the world, heavy duty commercial vehicles are usually restricted from driving at night due to noise. Most notably in Stockholm, the don’t allow these types of vehicles to drive through the city centre at night and delivery access often takes places when shops and restaurants are preparing for the start of the day’s business. As this is during the morning rush hour, a new pilot study to test silent overnight deliveries has been introduced.
Taking place at six McDonald’s restaurants in Stockholm, Sweden have been using a hybrid truck from Scania that is operated by HAVI. The deliveries are being sent via silent electric powered vehicles in an attempt to minis delivery trucks getting stuck in traffic and causing delays.
The way it works is a chargeable hybrid truck from Scania runs with a combination of electricity and fossil free fuel. Not only does it eliminate noise, it also dramatically reduces the emissions of particles and carbon dioxide. In addition to this, the plug-in hybrid truck also utilises geofencing technology. This means it has the ability to adapt itself to the driving conditions in a predetermined area. Virtual traffic zones help the vehicle determine which mother the vehicle will use and can adapt its speed to the real-life speed limits.
The city of Stockholm are cooperating with HAVI, KTH, UE, McDonald’s and Scania for the this initiative and it is also part of a wider project in the EU: Eccentric Stockholm. The hybrid truck currently has the ability to drive in silent electric mode for up to 10 kilometres and can ‘efficiently deliver goods on practically empty streets at night’.
The battery is charged by external power sources and via regeneration. This means that the truck’s movement is turned into electricity each time the brakes are used. The restaurants also have electrical charging stations near by meaning the truck can charge its battery while loading, unloading, and during driver breaks ensuring it won’t run out of power and disrupt people in the city centre.
When longer routes are necessary, the vehicle can run its internal combustion engine on HVO which boasts 90 percent reduction in emissions. Thanks to software tools from Scania, the truck can change over automatically to quiet and emission free electric power when arriving in environmentally sensitive urban areas. They truly have thought of everything.
The team behind the project will be studying how much of an environmental benefit is gained by not having trucks in traffic queues and we can’t wait to read all about it!


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What happens when a Greenlandic startup decides to ship Arctic ice to Dubai?
"The world's purest ice" is now shipped to Dubai from Greenland.
When a Greenlandic startup decides to ship the “world’s purest ice” to the exquisite bar tables in Dubai, its social media platforms were immediately stormed by outrageous commentators. Some furiously grill the startup with “How can you plunder this 100,000-year-old pure ice, make it travel thousands of kilometers, just to satisfy for a few minutes the hubris of a few inconsistent billionaires?” Occasionally, some rather neutral comments like “Why do we find this so distasteful? Is it because we think there is much difference between ice cubes made from ancient ice and French spring water?” pop up, hinting at the often-neglected reality behind global trade. Rarely will “Yay I can’t wait for it” appear in the stream of comments.
These reactions took the founders of Arctic Ice by surprise. Samr Ben Tabib, co-founder and chairman of the startup, thought that these comments were not fair. They came up with the idea three years ago when one of the co-founders was trapped in the water for 45 minutes because of the “black ice.” “You don’t easily see it under the sun because it is crystal clear,” Tabib says. “In Greenland, people have to go almost everywhere with a boat, and it usually sails very fast.” Therefore, as Tabib points out, the black ice can be quite dangerous for the locals. But at the same time, consuming this ice is a common practice in Greenland.
With a dedicated vessel, the staff from the startup harvest the black ice from the sea and then send it to the island’s capital Nuuk for the cleaning and lab checking process. This process, according to Tabib, makes sure there are no “thousands-year-old bacteria” and it doesn’t taste salty—two things that most people are doubting on social media. In terms of purity, test results provided by the startup indicate that the ice reaches 2.8 TDS, which is very low in natural water. TDS stands for total dissolved solids and represents the total concentration of dissolved substances in water. For reference, distilled water is often around 0.5 TDS. The startup claims that the annual discharge of ice from Greenland’s ice sheet is estimated between 260-280 gigatons. And it only aims to extract 0.000000005 percent of the discharged ice. It also says in an Instagram video that picking up the floating remnants would help ease the rising sea level since it is going to melt anyway.
The Greenlandic startup was founded in 2022, and after much preparation, it finally shipped its first batch of 22 tonnes of ice from the fjords of Greenland to its Dubai distributor after traveling for six weeks across a distance of around 17,000 kilometers. According to Searoutes.com, the most fuel- and time-efficient journey as of now would lead to at least 1 tonne of CO2 emission. The cargo ship would start from Nuuk, cross the North Atlantic Ocean to Aarhus in Denmark, then go southward, cross the Mediterranean Sea, and go through the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea before it eventually reaches Dubai. While the company is seeking carbon offset programs while getting access to a shorter route that would shorten the journey to 32 days, the carbon footprint of the product is at the center of hot debate on social media.
Despite the fierce criticism, the startup believes its approach could help ease the economic issues that the world’s largest island is facing. Greenland’s economy depends almost exclusively on exports of shrimp and fish (over 90 percent of its exports) and an annual subsidy of over $500 million from the Danish Government, which accounts for 20 percent of the island’s economy and over half of its public budget. It is recognizably one of the smallest economies in the world and struggles with low levels of qualified labor, geographic dispersion, lack of industrial diversity, and dependence on public budget.
“We want to help the local community and also give the fishermen a new opportunity to make money instead of catching fish,” says Tabib. “They can catch some ice and sell it to us.”
Tabib says the locals are already doing it, carrying standardized boxes with around 50 kilograms of ice and selling it to the startup. The company also says it aims to use carbon-neutral vessels in the future.
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Bus is city visitors’ first choice
A new academic study reveals more people use the bus to get into our cities than any other form of transport, bringing billions of pounds into city centres. The study by the University of Leeds, commissioned by Greener Journeys, revealed 33% of city centre visitors made their most recent trip by bus, more than any other mode of transport, with 30% making their most recent trip by car, 22% cycling or walking and 15% boarding the train. It also found bus users spend an average £54 per city centre trip and make up 29% of all city centre spending. People who walk spend on average £41. The research suggested 30% of shoppers rely on the bus as they have no access to a car or van, with a further 6% having only infrequent access.
Researchers questioned almost 4,000 UK residents who live outside of London and are over 17 years of age. The research also showed that 30% of people have no access to a car, with a further 6% only having infrequent access, emphasising how invaluable public transport is for access to shops and services. Further questioning revealed that without bus services, 16% of bus users would not have undertaken their planned activity, 4% would have switched to shopping from home and 24% would have travelled to a different location.
Altogether, when all shopping and entertainment destinations are considered, buses are the second most common form of transport and bus users are responsible for 22% of spending. 22% of respondents got on the bus last time they went shopping and of those with limited availability to cars, this rose to over a third. In town centres, cars were the most popular transport choice, 47% travelled by car in their latest visit, 28% walked or cycled and 23% used the bus. Across all destinations, when questioned on why they preferred the bus, 23% said they found it less expensive, with 17% indicating it was an easier option and a further 14% suggesting it avoided parking difficulties.
Transport Minister, Baroness Kramer, said, ‘This study shows how buses enable millions of shoppers to get to the shops and businesses that are the crucial backbone of our economy. Supporting and sustaining affordable, accessible bus services is key to strengthening our high streets, helping businesses of all shapes and sizes to prosper and ensuring communities across Britain continue to thrive.’
Chief Executive of Greener Journeys, Claire Haigh, said, ‘These figures highlight the crucial importance of reliable, frequent bus services to the health and prosperity of shops and businesses across the UK and especially to those in the centre of our biggest cities. Thriving, vibrant city centres are a crucial part of the economic and social fabric of this country and Government, councils and businesses should all take notice of the vital importance of good bus services to their ongoing success. The research outlines that people want more frequent, more reliable bus services to ensure they can travel to town and city centres. This means, as we outline in our Bus 2020 Manifesto, it is essential that Government expand the support available to local authorities and bus operators for installing bus lanes and other priority measures.’


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The famous London venue had a brand overhaul at the beginning of the year, in an attempt to appeal to a much wider audience.
The new logo makes use of the distinctive silhouette of the great hall, which was designed for use across a variety of media. The colour palette for the new icon harks back to its Victorian heritage with the use of vibrant reds and golds.
4. Hillary Clinton
Unsurprisingly, in 2015 the former first lady of the United States officially announced she running for President. Perhaps a little more surprising, though, was that Mrs Clinton set social media ablaze with the big reveal of her new brand identity.
In 2015 the global laser printers manufacturer launched its new brand identity. The new logo was a distinct departure from its former, familiar red diamond logo.
The new identity captures the company’s continuing evolution, and aims to reflect its expanding openings and possibilities in the form of the shutter emblem.
In 2015 the UK’s most watched TV service unveiled a new logo. The new logo is a huge move away from its predecessor. Its angular form aims to suggest the company’s agility, choice and sense of form, whilst retaining the brand’s red heritage.
Although probably not an obvious change, in 2015 Facebook made a couple of tweaks to its famous logo. The new logo marked the first time the company had changed its typeface since it launched as “The Facebook” way back in 2004.


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Consumer electronics company Microsoft recently added the Windows 10 IoT Core feature, an operating system that is built for the Internet of Things, in its update to simplify matters for developers.
Microsoft refers the IoT Core feature as an OS version that is primarily optimized for smaller devices, aiming to make it easier for developers to create Windows Platform applications. It also has robust built-in security and management tools that match a device environment.
The Windows 10 IoT Core is designed to power the Windows system in a supported device. With this operating system, it now becomes easier for users to integrate richer experiences with their devices such as cloud-based services, online storage, searching, and user interfaces.
“Windows 10 simplifies the Internet of Things by powering smart devices that bring intelligence to the edge and the cloud for deeper insight,” wrote Microsoft in its site.
The system was formerly called “Windows Embedded” and it can be used by industrial-device and small-device software developers. The company encourages commercial builders and makers to use the system. With IoT Core, projects such as Air Hockey Robot, Picture the Weather, Connected Clock Radio, and Plot My Face can be created.
Another interesting preview of an operating system is that users can now host Nano Server containers on a 64-bit Windows 10 IoT Core and its Enterprise version.


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Bronies with 3D design skills have an official outlet for hocking My Little Pony creations thanks to a partnership between Hasbro and Shapeways.
Emails between Samsung and Google show that the search giant planned to help shoulder some of Samsung's burden of defending itself against Apple's patent infringement claims, court testimony revealed.
The latest trailer for Disney's retelling of Sleeping Beauty starring Angelina Jolie shows off some spectacular CG monsters.
Amazon and CBS are replicating their "Under the Dome" partnership for another TV series from Steven Spielberg, this time a space thriller starring Halle Berry called "Extant."
The latest Mustang is the first that's been designed to appeal to a truly worldwide audience. This is the story of how Ford designers and engineers balanced international desires with American heritage.
Petcube is designed to keep your animal happy when you're out. Shine a laser around the room and make Fluffy burn some calories.
Apple is counting on the $249 iPad Mini to draw you into its stores. But it's hoping you end up buying a $499 iPad Air instead.
The move could help Cisco shore up its position in the network security industry after losing market share in the last few years to more competitive rivals including Palo Alto Networks and Check Point
The world's largest social network expands its app strategy with a program that lets people chat in groups using pseudonyms.
Finland-based Rovio also says it plans to "simplify" its company based on three key areas: games, media, and consumer products.


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Barely hours after its official reveal, UK network Three have announced they’ll be stocking the Xperia ray on release day.
Set to arrive in black and champagne, for the classier phone customer, it’s under 10mm thick, and runs the newest version of Android, Gingerbread 2.3.
Sony Ericsson are keen to stress the 3.3-inch touchscreen has is a no-airgap display, meaning reduced glare and sunlight interference.
Its Mobile Bravia Engine means all your pictures should appear pin-sharp on the Xperia ray’s capacitive touchscreen, whilst Sony’s (previously unmentioned) own on-demand Qriocity video service looks set to go head-to-head with HTC’s own Watch service. Facebook inside Xperia will also be baked into the Xperia ray, bringing some clever Facebook integration across the smartphone.
Sylvia Chind, head of handsets at Three said, “The Sony Ericsson Xperia ray, with the latest in Android software, is an excellent addition to the Three smartphone range. The sleekly designed and technology-laden device will appeal to people who not only want a great looking handset but also the most up-to-date in terms of technology.”
We’re not sure if it’s the most up-to-date, arriving into an increasingly busy smartphone crowd, with some packing 3D cameras and dual-core processors. More news when it arrives at Recombu Towers.


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DVST8 BBD is the stimulant pre-workout from the reputable Inspired that you can currently only purchase in Australia and New Zealand. The supplement has a different formula compared to any of the versions of DVST8 in the US, including Worldwide and DVST8 Of The Union. It also leaps out on shelves thanks to its eye-catching label design featuring a fierce wolf graphic covering the bottle from top to bottom.
We’ve got Inspired and DVST8 BBD back in the news this week as the supplement exclusive to Australia and New Zealand, is actually about to get an all-new flavor. That tasty expansion is Malibu Breeze, a strawberry watermelon concoction. To make sure it stands out even more than the others, the brand has inverted the label of Malibu Breeze DVST8 BBD, making it a mostly white design with a black outlined wolf graphic.
Inspired is expecting its new and sixth overall flavor of DVST8 BBD to arrive in Australia first and begin hitting its many retailer partners within the next few weeks. It’ll join the supplement’s first three flavors Concord Candy, Laguna Sunrise, and Northern Lights, and its two additions from earlier this year in Black Nebula and Candy Cloud.


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States Eagerly Await Black Friday and Holiday Sales Tax Revenue
Not just retailers and shop-till-you-drop gift buyers are looking forward to Black Friday and the bustling holiday shopping season. State tax collectors are hoping for a big haul from taxes on those sales.
About 10 percent of annual state sales taxes come in to state coffers in January from holiday season sales, topping most other months in which about 7 percent or 8 percent of the taxes are collected, according to an estimate by Ron Alt, senior research associate at the Federation of Tax Administrators.
Remittances in January 2013 were 12 percent higher than they would have been if the holiday sales were excluded, said Alt. “States do bring in a lot of sales tax in the final quarter (of the year),” he said. “Those generally show up in the January numbers, particularly from large retailers who remit monthly.”
According to figures compiled by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, June generally is the biggest single month for state sales tax collections, because of accruals at the end of the fiscal year in most states, said researcher Lucy Dadyan. Other than June, January shows up as one of the best months in the calendar and “that’s in general attributable to holiday season shopping,” she said.
National figures can be skewed, but monthly state receipts show the importance of holiday sales. For instance, in Maryland in January of this year, $404 million was reported in sales taxes, the best of any month except June, when tax collections were about $717 million. The same held true in 2012, when Maryland reported $421 million in sales tax receipts in January, the best of any month except June at $706 million.
Charles Zogby, Pennsylvania’s secretary of the budget, said in his state “it’s fairly clear” that sales taxes spike during holiday season. He said January and February combined sales tax receipts were $110 million above the monthly average for any other two months. “Black Friday being the marquee of that holiday (shopping), it’s an important part of our sales tax revenue stream,” he said.
Rockefeller senior fellow Don Boyd noted that the sales tax coverage in most states is broader than just sales of tangible goods. Restaurant meals and hotel taxes, for instance, wouldn’t necessarily increase due to Black Friday shopping, he said, so the shopping bulge is not quite as important as a percentage of sales tax receipts as it is for retailers’ percentage of business. “It’s probably less than the big retailers who rely on this time of year,” Boyd said.
The National Retail Federation says holiday sales can represent as much as 20 percent to 40 percent of annual sales. In 2012, holiday sales represented 19.3 percent of total retail industry sales for the year.
The federation projects sales late this month and in December will increase by almost 4 percent, to $602.1 billion, over 2012’s 3.5 percent growth. Significantly, this is higher than the 10-year average holiday sales growth of 3.3 percent, the NRF said.
Just a slice of those sales occur on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, so named because it typically is the date when store profits go “into the black” for the rest of the year. Just like tax holidays – dates on which the states suspend sales taxes on back-to-school or other goods – some analysts say that the special days just shift buying to those dates and do not increase sales or sales taxes overall. But unlike sales tax holidays, holiday shopping is not tax free.
“While you might pull a lot of people in (for Black Friday), how much of it is taken away from other sales dates?” said Alt. “But there are some people that claim that just the aspect of a ‘special day’ and special sales get people to buy things that they ordinarily wouldn’t.”
Barring unforeseen events at the federal or global level, this promises to be a good year for holiday shopping, according to NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay.
“Overall, retailers are optimistic for the 2013 holiday season, hoping political debates over government spending and the debt ceiling do not erase any economic progress we’ve already made,” Shay said.
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One federal action that would make both states and brick-and-mortar retailers happy would be the online sales tax bill making its way, slowly, through Congress.
Shop.org, a NRF website that tracks online sales, forecast online sales to grow between 13 percent and 15 percent during the 2013 holiday season.
“Online and mobile continue to be a leading area of growth for retailers,” Shay said, citing the shop.org projection.
The legislation, officially called the “Marketplace Fairness Act,” would allow states to require sellers on the Internet to collect state sales taxes just like stores with four walls and a door. State officials say it could mean another billion annually in lost revenue. They say it’s not a tax increase, per se, just a collection of taxes rightfully due.
The bill passed the Senate on a bipartisan 69-27 vote in May and is supported by President Barack Obama. Online retailers had been the biggest opponents of the legislation, but that has begun to change with the decision of Amazon and Wal-Mart, two of the nation’s biggest online retailers, to support the bill. The big companies say it’s unfair to require online businesses to collect sales taxes only in states where they have a physical presence such as a distribution center.
A couple dozen state lawmakers travelled to Washington recently to press for the legislation in the House, which so far has not acted. “If we don’t get this done this session, 50 states are being held hostage,” said Alabama state Rep. Gregory Wren, a Republican.
One alternative to making all online sellers collect and remit sales taxes to the states is the “small seller exemption,” which would exempt online sellers doing less than $1 million in business. This is attractive to some on Capitol Hill. But a study by the University of Tennessee Center for Business and Economic Research found that the impact of such an exemption would be minimal, because it would only affect a very small percentage of online sellers, only 26 out of 1,000 or about 2.6 percent.
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In 2008, Honda had talked of a successor to the popular NSX supercar – however, the Japanese automaker couldn’t find a business case to develop the car. According to insiders, Honda never gave up on the plans for an NSX successor and the car is expected to live on in a different form.
The next NSX is expected to be marketed as a more eco-friendly sports coupe, which can be “driven with either a clutch and an engine only, the engine and motor only, or the motor only,” says our source. Manual and automatic transmissions will be offered.
Power will come from either a 2.4L 4-cylinder or a 3.5L V6. The 3.5L V6 is expected to produce somewhere north of 400 horsepower. The model will also employ a version of Honda’s SH-AWD system, but Honda will apply NSX concept technology by fitting the rear-drive-based SH-AWD setup. Sources say that Honda will opt for the front-wheel-drive Accord platform as a base for the car but engineers will swap the front and rear around to create a rear midship AWD package.
If the coupe gets the green light, it will hit showrooms as early as 2014. it is still unclear if the car will make it to the United States.
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Alacra announced the release of Alacra Pulse Professional, the premium version of its Alacra Pulse platform. Alacra Pulse finds, filters, and packages web-based content so that users can consume information about a company. The Pulse Platform reads and analyzes news stories and blog posts from more than 2,900 mainstream and alternative media RSS feeds searching for specific types of business information. The new Alacra Pulse Professional provides: the ability to create portfolios or watch lists; daily email alerts of the latest events on companies in portfolios; and information sharing.
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Evenflo started a voluntary recall of convertible car seats and booster seats late last week that could impact a number of Chicago families.
The recall involves seats made between 2011 and this year, including select Momentum, Chase, Maestro, Symphony, Titan 65, SureRide, SecureKid, Snugli All-in-One and Snugli Booster models.
In a press release, the company said that while the harness crotch buckle meets crashworthiness requirements, the buckle may become resistant to unlatching over time when food and drinks are spilled on it and prevent parents from getting their child out of the seat.
Evenflo said it is doing the recall in light of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ordering a recall of Graco Children’s Products in February for the same buckle issue.
A free remedy kit is available. Visit buckle.evenflo.com or call (800) 490-7591 to see if your seat is on the list.


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No matter how careful your crews are, accidents happen. When you damage a customer’s property, the best way to manage it is by getting out in front, says Tom Hougnon, president and chief operating officer of Reliable Property Services.
The company, which has locations in Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, has a system in place to let customers know as soon as possible if there’s any damage to their property during a storm.
Whoever does the damage reports the incident to their supervisors. That information then gets relayed to a call center which will alert the sales team to call the client and explain what happened. Crews are equipped with tablets and cellphones so that they can take photos of the damage to send to the customer or anyone working on repairs.
“We feel it’s important to be the one giving them the news not them getting the news elsewhere as much as possible,” Hougnon says.
We feel it’s important to be the one giving them the news not them getting the news elsewhere as much as possible.” Tom Hougnon, president and COO of Reliable Property Services
Reliable tries to get properties back to normal, or as close to normal as possible as soon as possible.
For example, if a plow knocks over a stop sign, the company will just go ahead and install a new one. Or if a light pole goes down, they will call an electrician to fix the problem.
If Reliable can’t fix a problem right away, like replacing a tree, they will document it and handle when they’re able.
Then, at the end of each season, they give each customer a damage report. Crews even take photos and videos of properties before and after the snow season.
“We try to be as upfront with the customer as we can when we make a mistake or have damage at the property. That’s pretty key to us, he says.”
Reliable tries to alert customers of any damage in 30 to 45 minutes, even if it’s an email in the middle of the night. The note will include what happened, what to expect on the property and what Reliable plans to do to take of the issue.
For the rest of this article on lawnandlandscape.com, check out bit.ly/propertydamage.
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During the November #landscapechat, we tweeted about raising prices to weed out unprofitable jobs.
Turns out some of our readers care more about their hearts than their pockets! That’s especially good to see this time of year.
l&l’s 20th webiversary
Lawn & Landscape is celebrating 20 years online and this month we took a look back at how the internet is changing the way people shop for landscaping companies.
To see how review sites like Angie’s List and Yelp are playing a role, and to see how companies are using their own websites to stay ahead of the competition, turn to page 74.


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I just had to share this immediately!!!!!!! I just came across this news a few moments ago and it blew my mind… On November 1st 2016 Lego will release The Beatles Yellow Submarine Lego Set. yep, this is real.
The Lego Ideas website Introducing the set to the world.
The Beatles Yellow Submarine Lego Set (article from Bored Panda)


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OAKLAND, Calif. — Bill O'Donnell illegally self-medicated with marijuana for years for a combat injury and post-traumatic stress from military service in Vietnam — landing him in jail once for possession.
Today, O'Donnell, 58, legally selects medical marijuana pot brands from the "bud tender" at the Coffeeshop Blue Sky in downtown Oakland. And he feels proud the dispensary soon will pay taxes on his purchases — thanks to Oakland's passage of the nation's first cannabis taxation law on July 21.
"I've gone all the way from doing 60 days in jail to paying taxes on this," O'Donnell said. "I'm glad to help out — legitimately."
When 80 percent of Oakland voters approved a gross receipts tax that charged the city's four pot dispensaries $18 for every $1,000 in revenue, they added political smoke to efforts in other California cities to treat municipal budget deficits by taxing medical marijuana revenues.
The Oakland vote also stoked a calculated self-taxation movement by cannabis advocates. Oakland medical pot dispensaries that all but begged to pay new taxes are backing a 2010 ballot initiative drive to legalize marijuana for personal use and soothe the Golden State's fiscal woes with more than $1 billion in state cannabis taxes.
"This is just one tax of many. It's one battle in a big war," said Richard Lee, owner of Coffeeshop Blue Sky. "It's a reverse tax revolt: No taxation without legalization."
Lee, founder of TaxCannabis2010.org, also is president of downtown Oakland's Oaksterdam University, an unusual trade school that teaches marijuana cultivation, retail management and advocacy.
He says the school expects to donate $500,000 for signature gathering for the proposed California Cannabis Initiative.
Read more at SacBee.com


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A number of Grand Theft Auto fans have been left believing that they could be seeing GTA 6 before the end of May – but is that really going to happen?
It’s been nearly eight years since Rockstar Games released the critically acclaimed GTA V, marking the ninth installment to the popular franchise. Even though it is nearly a decade old, the game is still going strong thanks to GTA Online.
However, some fans are waiting for a fresh coat of paint, specifically, GTA 6. There have been plenty of rumblings about what could come next – including locations, characters, and even a storyline, but there hasn’t been anything official just yet. Though, that hasn’t stopped fans from having hope.
The new date that some fans are pointing to for an official reveal is May 12th. Why that date? Well, in the absence of E3 this year, Geoff Keighley is hosting his own games showcase and there is an early surprise spot.
“May 12, 12pm ET/9am PT, join Geoff Keighley for a surprise game reveal,” the Summer Games Fest post reads, without any hint at the developer, publisher, or any other distinguishable clues about what the title could be.
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Despite lacking clues, GTA fans believe that it is their time to shine because they just want to see the new game. There have been so many false dawns in recent months – with a huge number of fans believing that the game was going to be revealed towards the end of March.
Some news has suggested that GTA 6 is unlikely to come anytime soon, claiming that the game is barely in pre-production – though that has been contested by Rockstar insiders who believe it is more than halfway done.
Whether or not we’ll see GTA 6 On Tuesday, May 12 is up in the air, but Rockstar has a tendency to do things in their own way.
GTA IV was revealed in partnership with Microsoft, but GTA V was built up on social media before an announcement. We’ll just have to wait and see what they do this time around.


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Judge views Levandowski’s financial antics with an “incredibly jaundiced eye.”
Author: Timothy B. Lee
Report: Nissan shot down Apple deal to avoid becoming Foxconn of cars
Nissan says it wants to “adapt their services to our product, not vice versa.”
United Airlines orders 200 vertical-takeoff electric airplanes
Startup Archer received investments from United Airlines and Stellantis.
Months after buying Uber self-driving project, Aurora signs Toyota deal
Aurora is planning to test self-driving Sienna minivans later this year.
Tesla buys $1.5 billion in bitcoin, sending its price soaring
“I make jokes about Dogecoin, but they are really meant to be jokes,” Musk said.
Apple’s car project could put it on a collision course with Tesla
Why I don’t expect Apple to focus on driverless taxis or delivery services.
Amazon will use cameras and AI to monitor delivery drivers
Footage of potentially dangerous situations will be uploaded to the cloud.
Amazon begins delivering packages with prototype electric trucks
Amazon is aiming to put 100,000 Rivian electric trucks on the road by 2024.
Tesla reports its first annual profit
Tesla made a $721 million profit thanks to $1.58 billion in regulatory credits.
Sidewalk-robot startup celebrates 1 million deliveries
Low speeds enabled Starship to launch its service safely and quickly.


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An early investor in Spotify, the digital music service, is in talks to lead an enormous funding spherical being assembled by one among Europe’s largest digital banks.
Sky News has learnt that Dragoneer Investment Group has been in discussions about injecting a considerable sum of money into N26, which relies in Germany.
The funding would worth N26 at $10bn, making it one of many continent’s most dear fintech corporations.
It was unclear on Monday whether or not a deal had been signed or whether or not it might nonetheless falter, though one rival banking trade govt stated they anticipated the deal to occur.
In May 2020, N26 introduced an extension of its Series D funding spherical, with its backers together with a Singaporean sovereign wealth fund, Li Ka-shing’s Horizons Ventures and Insight Venture Partners.
Earlier that year, the company introduced that it was pulling out of the UK market, citing Brexit-related points relating to its European banking licence.
It was unclear, nonetheless, whether or not N26 had made important inroads right into a sector which has turn out to be fiercely aggressive, with competitors from the likes of Monzo, Revolut and Starling Bank.
Revolut grew to become Britain’s most dear start-up earlier this year when it confirmed it was elevating money from buyers at a valuation of greater than $30bn.
N26, which was based in 2013, has greater than seven million clients.
An N26 spokeswoman declined to remark, whereas Dragoneer didn’t reply to an emailed request for remark.


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Latest Road Tests and Reviews
Renault has announced it will be unveiling its new one-tonne pick-up, the Alaskan, in Medellin, Colombia on the evening of June 30. According to Renault, the Alaskan will be a high-end pick-up for business and Read More
Honda has gone five steps further than other manufacturers – by slamming its Civic Type-R across Europe, benchmarking five of the continent’s legendary circuits.
Manufacturers of all kinds of vehicles struggle to resist the allure and clubhouse gloat rights that come with a successful assault on Green Hell, the northern loop of the legendary old Nurburgring circuit. So many try but a great many fail dismally. In fact, the list is so long that if the Nordschleife wasn’t so utterly incredible in every way, most would simply dismiss it as cliche.
Honda took the front wheel drive lap record in 2014 – so played the “been there, done that” card and took the Civic on a tour of duty, using top drivers to benchmark the car on five different circuits. Continue reading “Honda throws down front-drive gauntlet with five-track attack” »
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Unless your surname’s Google and you’ve got more money than well, anyone, some vehicles aren’t that easy to protect – if it doesn’t fit into an insurer’s drop-down menu on their website, you’re stuffed.
But if you’ve been scratching your head about how to insure your soulless autonomous robot car appliance, there’s good news.
Even though the automotive soothsayers reckon that it’ll be 2050 before commercialised, fully-autonomous cars hit the road, a British insurer has already stepped up. Continue reading “Insurance for soulless autonomous robot ‘cars’” »
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Ford is going above and beyond with its Everest display at Fieldays – even building a mountain.
Its ‘Off the Grid Experience’ has – aside from the hill/mountain – has a bridge, water wade and axle articulation holes to demo the off-road capability of its Aussie-developed SUV.
Visitors to the stand will be able to have a pedal in the new Everest Titanium,under the watchful eye of professional drivers, over a course designed to show features like the vehicle’s hill skills – both descent control and launch assist. Continue reading “Ford mountain Everest sales assault” »
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Jaguar says its dealers are being hammered with pre-launch orders and sales enquiries for its first-ever SUV.
The F-Pace officially appears on showroom floors next month, but the first of the off-road Jags to land in New Zealand will be on show at Fieldays this week.
“The F-Pace is one of the most highly anticipated models the brand has seen and we anticipate the first edition models will sell quickly,” said Steve Kechington, general manager for Jaguar Land Rover. Continue reading “Jag rolls out F-Pace at Fieldays” »
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Ridiculous can be both a compliment and an insult. With the Jeep Wrangler-based ‘Brute’ pickup, it is definitely the former.
Fiat Chrysler New Zealand has dipped into the American after-market to launch the 5.5-metre long double cab – that’s 150mm longer than Ford’s Ranger – into the New Zealand market.
This monstrous ute starts life on Jeep production lines as a four-door Wrangler Unlimited model – and then things go a bit mad.
The mild-mannered Jeep goes to American Expedition Vehicles in Montana, where it has its chassis modified and stretched.
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It could be genius – or it may not – but Maserati will give its Levante luxury SUV a very public baptism of fire at the legendary Goodwood Festival of Speed.
The Levante – which hits these shores early next year – is the company’s first crack at the lucrative SUV market, and its abilities on attack have been the source of much speculation.
It weighs 2100-odd kilos, is 5m long, has a 3m wheelbase and towers 1.6m high – displaying dynamic driving, at pace, up that hill, is going to take an effort. Continue reading “Maserati takes luxury SUV to Goodwood” »
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An internet auction for a replica of the Back to the Future DeLorean hit 88mph and just kept on going.
Auction bosses were left scratching their heads when the bidding war on Yahoo Auctions Japan spiralled out of control for a non-working ’replicar’ of the vehicle that starred alongside Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd in the blockbuster trilogy.
The auction hit a staggering ¥9,999,999,999 (NZ$91.5m) late on Monday night, local time, after attracting a ¥1.5bn bid earlier in the night. It is the highest bid the auction site can accept. Continue reading “Replica Back to the Future DeLorean hits $91.5m at auction” »
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The new generation of Mitsubishi Triton shrugs off it’s predecessors reputation for being as uncouth as a bull in a China shop, it is by far a much more refined proposition.
We were impressed with the new Triton on first acquaintance when we drove it briefly at the media launch drive around Wellington in April. It was smooth, quiet and responsive with relatively decent handling for a light commercial vehicle – almost car-like in fact. Continue reading “Mitsubishi Triton 4×4 GLS review” »
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07 Sep Social Media Roundup: Best In Class Beer Brands
There’s plenty of big money to make big moves in the beer business. Enough for extravagant Super Bowl ads. Enough to create cans for every NFL team in the league. Enough to change your name to America. And while that money may pay for these big plays to get people talking, the craft breweries are working their way to the top of the beer business … through social. Grab a beer and take a look at a few of our favorites.
Stone Brewing is building a craft beer empire with production facilities from Southern California to Richmond to Berlin and along with it, they’re building a social media empire as well. In fact, according to data from Sprinklr, they’re both the most engaging and the most loved craft brewery on social media. We’re especially digging their Facebook presence for its use of properly-credited user-generated content and video, featuring the faces behind the beer, that Facebook so handsomely rewards these days.
Much like the craft brewers themselves, we’re big supporters of quality over quantity, especially when it comes to social media content, but we’re willing to give Deschutes Brewing a little slack. Sprinklr data tells us they were posting more than 10 times a day across channels, but with plans for a new East Coast brewery and distribution to several new markets, they have a lot of news to spread … and they’re using Twitter to share every drop of it. The content can be a little all over the place, but they’re really using that channel to keep their thirsty beer fans informed.
So, Stone is the most engaging and most loved, Deschutes is the most active, but who deserves a toast? New Belgium Brewing. Not only do they have a different strategy for their different social channels (smart) and repurpose content in clever ways across channels (efficient), but they use their content to tell their brand story instead of simply pushing product (hallelujah). You can take one look at their Instagram page and know what they’re all about: great beer, bikes, their people, sustainability, and plenty of fun. We’ll cheers to that.
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New Mexico-based industrial 3D printing technology manufacturer Optomec is reporting that their Aerosol Jet 5X printing system has been getting quite a bit of attention from companies creating products for the Internet of Things (IoT). The advanced five-axis 3D printer is capable of printing simple electronics, sensors and antennas directly onto three-dimensional objects and surfaces, and the technology has created interest from a wide range of industries. Companies that design or manufacture products and devices for the aerospace, defense, industrial manufacturing, consumer electronics and the healthcare industry are all lining up to get their hands on the new, advanced 3D printer.
Manufacturing connected products, or devices and objects that can connect or gather and transmit data wirelessly to the internet, all have obvious uses for the technology. The Aerosol Jet 5X allows these companies to easily research, prototype or manufacture small runs of Internet of Things connected devices at a significant reduction in cost from traditional methods. The next generation of smart devices will require tightly integrated 3D antennas, sensors and other circuitry that are not typically very easily incorporated into them without increasing their size and weight.
“With the Aerosol Jet 5X system we expect to iterate quickly to provide optimized 3D printed electronic solutions enabling engineers to create smaller, lighter, and more efficient products,” explained Steve Crynock, a GE Healthcare Systems AME Senior Electrical Process Engineer.
The 5-axis motion printing platform on the Aerosol Jet 5X is a cost efficient method of including integrated electronics into a wide variety of plastic, ceramic and metal 3D structures. The use of IoT connected devices is expected to exponentially grow throughout the automotive, aerospace, consumer electronics, defense, healthcare, and power generation industries within the next decade. The Aerosol Jet 5X was developed with these new applications in mind, and Optomec expects their system to create an entirely new generation of lightweight, high performance consumer and industrial IoT applications and devices.
“We are pleased to see the rapid adoption of our recently introduced Aerosol Jet 5X system by multiple companies across a variety of industries. This solution is enabling next generation 3D electronics in ways not possible with current manufacturing methods,” said Optomec Director Aerosol Jet Product Management Mike O’Reilly.
The Optomec Aerosol Jet Systems for 3D printing electronics joins their LENS metal 3D Printers as many industries goto additive manufacturing systems. Optomec systems are widely used due to their ability to reduce final production cost and improve performance. Their unique 3D printing solutions work with a broad spectrum of functional materials, including electronic inks, multiple structural metal materials and even biological matter.
Here is a video of the Aerosol Jet 5X system in action printing advanced electronics and sensors on 3D surfaces:
The Optomec patented additive and aerodynamic material deposition abilities of the Aerosol Jet 5X system allows features to be printed at sizes ranging from several millimeters in width down to as small as ten microns. The Aerosol Jet 5X technology can be configured to handle rapid prototyping, low volume manufacturing or it can be scaled up to meet high volume production needs. The printing system will support a variety of functional materials, including adhesives, polymers, conductive inks and dielectric materials. Deposition of these available materials can be made on flat or 3D surfaces, or even low temperature substrates, which offers users a wide range of applications. Discuss this new technology in the Optomec Aerosol Jet 5X 3D Printer forum over at 3DPB.com.
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BYD Automotive Massive Layoffs ReportedBy Scott Doggett August 31, 2011
Chinese battery and car maker BYD Co. is laying off a large number of workers, according to the weekly Chinese newspaper Economic Observer. Most are from the BYD Automobile sales company, and all will leave the company by the end of September, the newspaper reported. BYD employees told the newspaper that the company was firing workers, but estimates about the number of people being laid off varied. One BYD employee reportedly said that the BYD Automobile Sales Co. plans to reduce its staff from 2,600 to 800, laying off 1,000 employees in the first sweep. The company, in which Warren Buffett holds a stake, has been struggling to sell battery-electric and hybrid-electric vehicles in China, and efforts to export them to the U.S. have thus far proven unsuccessful.
Within hours of the newspaper's report, a BYD Co. official told Dow Jones Newswires that the company had no intention of reducing its sales staff, despite a sharp fall in car sales that led to a plunge in its first-half earnings. The company is 10 percent owned by a unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. However, the official said, without elaborating, that the company's sales department is undergoing a restructuring process. BYD announced last week that its net profit dived 88.6 percent in the first half due mainly to a 23.4 percent drop in car sales to 220,131 units. The company said it expects sales to remain slow in the second half amid weak consumer confidence.
In March, Reuters published a lengthy special report that raised a number of questions about the troubled automaker. Based on interviews with industry consultants and executives as well as diplomatic cables revealed by WikiLeaks and provided to Reuters by a third party, the report described a record of BYD stealing designs from rivals, using those savings to undercut competitors on price and scrimping on safety. According to the U.S consulate in Guangzhou, China, BYD sold some vehicles almost at cost to boost its market share and may have advertised safety ratings it did not earn on one model, Reuters reported. The scorching assessment of BYD by U.S. officials carried the title, "BYD seeks to 'Build Your Dreams' -- based on Someone Else's Designs."


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WOOSTER — Floating heads, tombstones and bones litter the yard.
And on the night of trick or treat, the Powers home on Arthur Drive takes a ghastlier turn with mummies attempting to claw their way out of an upstairs bedroom.
"We have a projector set up in the middle window," said Sarah Powers, who decorates her home each year with her husband and two children. "It’s really cool."
Nearly 50 different items are strewn about the yard, a few lit from below to create an even spookier effect. The family spent about $30 this year to add to their extensive haunted collection. Powers also got creative, using foam, mannequin heads and cheese cloth to create the spooky heads staked in the yard.
"We light them from below and it looks like they’re floating," she said.
Not everyone puts so much effort and money into their scary displays. For the second straight year, Americans’ Halloween spending is projected to drop slightly, according to the National Retail Federation’s annual survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics.
With an estimated $8.8 billion spent on candy, costumes, decorations and greeting cards, it’s still expected to be the third-highest figure in the survey’s 15-year history, just off the peak of $9.1 billion in 2017 and last year’s $9 billion. The survey shows the average shopper plans to spend $86.27 this year, down 52 cents from last year’s projection.
The decline is "not significant," said Kathrine Cullen, a spokesperson for the retail federation who added that the overall trend of greater spending on the holiday was holding true.
"Back in 2009, it was less than $5 billion in planned spending, and it’s close to $9 billion this year," she said, adding that she believes the final Halloween spending numbers will exceed projections.
That’s because Halloween offers as many ways to celebrate as it does different types of candy to fill a trick-or-treater’s bag — whether that’s dressing up, getting spooked at haunted houses or delighting every kid in the neighborhood.
"We actually have more family members show up than we will for Thanksgiving and Christmas," said Kurt Harvey, a 49-year-old tech engineer for the Iowa Department of Transportation and Halloween fan.
Harvey said he will celebrate Halloween with up to 30 family members — plus those hundreds of kids.
None will go away empty-handed on his watch. And for those with peanut allergies or an aversion to sweets, the Harveys have prepared coloring books.
"These young kids today go through so much at school and at home," he said. "For one night, a young kid can just be a kid for a couple of hours. It's worth it. That's why we do it."
While coloring books may suffice for little ghosts with allergies — or an upcoming dental appointment — candy is still the season’s champ.
Last year, candy and chocolate manufacturers reached $4.5 billion in retail sales for the six weeks leading up to Halloween, compared with $4.2 billion for the Christmas season and $3 billion for Valentine’s Day, according to Christopher Gindlesperger, vice president of public affairs and communications at the National Confectioners Association.
"It’s our Super Bowl," Gindlesperger said.
If that’s the case, Skittles must be the New England Patriots, at least if you go by the past decade’s sales data from bulk candy seller Candystore.com, which ranked Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups next, followed by M&M’s.
And like football teams, every region seems to have a favorite sweet, so CandyStore.com released a map showing each state’s top pick. In Ohio, M&M's was the most popular candy, having sold 166,398 pounds. Ranking second and third are Starburst and Blow Pops.
While the average consumer is expected to spend around $25 dollars on Halloween candy, the average parent spends $10 dollars more, according to a survey by Bid-On-Equipment, an online shop that sells industrial equipment including machines for making candy.
"It makes a lot of sense to me, because we always had extra candy for me and my siblings when I was young," said Matt Zajechowski, a spokesperson for Bid-On-Equipment. "And as soon as my parents bought candy from the store, I wanted to get into it before Halloween."
The Powers family in Wooster used to pass out full-size candy bars, but Sarah Powers said: "I told my husband, ‘This is a little much.’"
She spent about $30 on three or four bags of candy this year. Two days before her neighborhood’s trick-or-treating, she admitted they may need to buy more.
Another major purchase for the season includes costumes — and not just for people.
Claudia Arnold, owner of a 5-year-old schnauzer and a 5-year-old pug in Amarillo, Texas, adores cute outfits displayed in pet stores and started to dress her dogs four years ago. This year’s costumes will be Olaf, the snowman in Frozen, and a unicorn.
"My dogs hate it, but I still do it anyway," Arnold said with a laugh.
Spending on pet costumes is projected to reach $490 million this year, more than double what was spent in 2010, according to the National Retail Federation.
David Lummis, pet market analyst for market research publisher Packaged Facts, attributes the increasing pet-related sales to "humanization" — when people treat their pets as members of the family. For instance, taking pets on a family trip or to work or dressing them up like babies to celebrate holidays.
"Almost any trend in the human market now is being carried over into the pet market," Lummis said.
As for humans, the National Retail Federation projects spending for costumes at $3.2 billion. They can run the gamut from inexpensive homemade projects to the elaborate cosplaying typical at a comic book convention.
Budgeting $40 dollars on costumes for her family, Christina Williams, a mom of two girls ages 11 and 5, plans to be a scary Barbie this year in the garage she converted into a haunted house.
"Kids will hide inside the garage and try to scare people," said Williams, who lives in Onsted, Michigan. "Over time, it's turned into a party."
At the more ambitious extreme, Shaohua Xu spends around $200 dollars for each year’s Halloween costumes. The 28-year-old landscape designer living in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, brainstorms his costume at least a month before Halloween and enjoys acting as characters from TV shows.
To embody Myrtle Snow, a witch from American Horror Story, Xu watched makeup tutorials on YouTube and practiced at least five times putting the glue and silicone masks on.
All the trouble was worth it, though, after Xu delighted his friends with his costume.
"You’re being yourself for 365 days. And for one night, I could be someone I want to be and experience that person’s life," Xu said. "This is just fun and amazing."


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Senior trade officials of India and South Korea on Tuesday discussed ways to boost chain supply and expand bilateral trade cooperation.
India and South Korea promised to work on ensuring stable supply chains and expanding bilateral trade and investment, Seoul’s trade ministry said.
Special Secretary Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (Logistics) Sumita Dawra who is in Seoul for a four-day visit met South Korea’s Deputy Trade Minister Jeong Dae-jin, according to Yonhap news agency.
Dawra shared the need to work more closely in supply chains facing fast-changing global circumstances and voiced hope for more excellent investment in his nation by South Korean firms, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy.
Jeong called for enhanced bilateral cooperation in responses to climate change and supply chains as key strategic partners, particularly as South Korea seeks a free and prosperous Indo-Pacific region under its new strategy.
The Indian official shared the need to work more closely in supply chains facing fast-changing global circumstances and voiced hope for greater investment in his nation by South Korean firms, according to the ministry.
During the first nine months of this year, bilateral trade came to US$22 billion, with the comparable figure for all of 2021 coming to $23.7 billion, according to government data.


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Lab supply firm celebrates three decades with €10m contract
Clare company Reagecon Diagnostics will mark 30 years in business next year. In the intervening years, the laboratory supplier has expanded its reach to 178 countries worldwide.
Reagecon makes physical and chemical standards and reagents used in laboratories to calibrate scientific instruments in the food, pharmaceutical and other sectors.
The company employs 100 people at a 64,000 square foot facility in the Shannon Free Zone and an overseas office in the Chinese city of Shanghai.
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When food retailer Co-op started to develop its ecommerce offer in 2019, it couldn’t have predicted that the COVID-19 pandemic would force it to rapidly accelerate that development. In the space of a year the supermarket went from 32 stores offering an online ordering service to 800 stores equipped to fulfil an ecommerce offer.
Co-op’s decision to partner with delivery and fulfilment cloud platform provider Bringg allowed it to significantly scale up its online presence, while offering one-hour delivery at a 20% price reduction compared to pre-pandemic levels. In addition, the retailer grew ecommerce sales twentyfold in 2020 but, thanks to improved route optimisation, it still managed to lower both its cost per delivery and the number of miles driven.
Multiple delivery options win over customers
Bringg worked with Naveo, developer of the Connected Commerce online grocery platform, to facilitate end-to-end ecommerce, pickup and delivery. This allowed Co-op to manage, automate and measure multiple delivery models and quickly deploy, optimise and scale up grocery ecommerce during the pandemic. Customers were quickly won over by Co-op’s award-winning digital grocery and fulfilment experience, which offered reliable and convenient one-hour, same day and next day grocery options.
Co-op consistently achieved customer satisfaction ratings of more than 90% during the pandemic thanks to end-to-end automation and optimisation across ecommerce and delivery.
One of the ways the supermarket improved the customer experience was by offering better visibility and communication. As they shop, consumers know when their order will be delivered and track it from start to finish.
Sustainability no longer a nice-to-have
But as well as improving efficiency, business leaders need to show that they’re minimising the environmental impact of their operations. Retailers often fail to consider the environmental impact of fewer miles driven and the reduction of paper processes when choosing a delivery fulfilment platform.
Sustainability comes to the fore when things are done in a more automated way, with less paper, and retailers can partner with fleets that are more focused on reducing their carbon emissions. For Co-op, Bringg’s platform was even able to suggest deliveries be made by walkers in areas where that was most appropriate.
Shipping from a store is also up to 30% less carbon-intensive than shipping from a warehouse. And Co-op was able to batch orders to send full lorries and optimise capacity – fewer lorries on the road equals fewer carbon emissions. If customers are aware of the option to batch orders by delaying delivery a day or two, they’re often more willing to choose the more sustainable delivery option.
Post-purchase surveys revealed nearly 90% of Co-op’s customers were satisfied with the ecommerce service.
That figure is even more impressive when you consider that Co-op runs its own internal fleet, but also works with four other delivery fleets, which creates additional complexities. Managing that process is only possible with data-led technology that’s able to coordinate several fleets of vehicles and optimise delivery operations.


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Former Arcandor chief executive Thomas Middelhoff has denied he played a part in the downfall of the retail and tourism group.
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Discrepancies between real-world diesel emissions and what they document throughout testing in Europe have been a difficulty for a while , but the concern hasn’t really caught traction until VW’s gross flouting of regulations got here to gentle. When you have a look at it from a automobile maker’s perspective, they need to construct what’s going to promote. Be sure you catch the 36-web page Efficiency Automobile of the Yr 2010 complement, free with the January 2011 issue of CAR Journal out now.
On the public facet, the government has already offered tax breaks to domestic EV manufacturers BYD and Kandi Applied sciences Group as a part of its makes an attempt to cut carbon emissions and enhance environmental sustainability. Many of those manufacturers are not often seen in America due to limited production and high pricing.
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Retailers have warned that coalition plans to axe ‘best before’ labels from food are not a “silver bullet” for defeating waste.
The government is set to issue new guidance to retailers urging them to minimise their use of the labels.
The new guidance, part of a drive to cut the billions of pounds’ worth of food thrown away by consumers every year, will instead stress that the labels are simply a guide to food quality and not safety.
But the British Retail Consortium laughed off suggestions that amending labels was “the key to tackling food waste”.
“As with so many areas of public policy, it is easy to get fixated on one part of an issue as a ‘silver bullet’ solution,” said BRC spokesman Richard Dodd.
“The idea that they are the cause of food waste is wrong. There certainly is scope for developing a better understanding among customers of what the dates mean.
“[But] helping customers better manage the buying, storing and using of food would be a more effective way of battling food waste.”
He added that approval from the European Union would be required to enforce changes to labelling requirements.
The row comes after the Local Government Association estimated that a total of £14bn of food is thrown away each year.
“Staples such as mushrooms and tomatoes are routinely marked ‘best before’ when all that happens when they reach these dates is the food loses a bit of colour or goes a bit soft,” the Sunday Telegraph quoted a coalition source as saying.


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Xbox One matches PS4 with 1 million sales in 24 hours
The rival consoles are neck in neck in everything from sales figures to hardware problems as we approach the PS4's UK launch
Monday 25 November 2013
It seems that the spectacle that attended the launch of the Xbox One last Friday was more than posturing, with Microsoft announcing that their latest console sold more than one million units in 24 hours.
This means the company has at least equalled the sales figures for the rival PS4, although it should be noted that whilst Microsoft launched in 13 markets on 22 November, Sony’s sales of more than one million in 24 hours came only from North America. The PS4 launches in the UK this Friday.
Microsoft said that the “Xbox One is now sold out at most retailers” and that the company is “working to replenish stock as fast as possible to meet the unprecedented demand from our customers.”
The company also gave out a number of different statistics for the console’s launch, noting that in a day’s worth of play gamers worldwide had killed roughly 60 million zombies in Dead Rising 3, driven more than 3.6 million miles in the racing game Forza and executed over 7.1 million combos in the beat-em-up Killer Instinct.
“We are humbled and grateful for the excitement of Xbox fans around the world,” said Yusuf Mehdi, vice president of marketing and strategy. “Seeing thousands of excited fans lined up to get their Xbox One and their love for gaming was truly a special moment for everyone on the Xbox team.”
However, the launch has not been without its problems and various videos have surfaced on YouTube showing the Xbox One experiencing noisy disc drive failure. Gaming blog Kotaku has dubbed the problem the ‘Disc Drive of Doom’, continuing the tradition of alliteratively named hardware failures. The launch of Microsoft's previous console, the Xbox 360, was notable for its own ‘Red Ring of Death’.
Microsoft has issued a statement saying that the issue is “affecting a very small number of Xbox One customers” and that the company is “working directly with those affected to get a replacement console to them as soon as possible.”
The PS4 experienced its own hardware faults on launch, with a recurrent failure to connect to displays described by Sony as affecting only a “very small percentage of total units shipped”.
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ISLAMABAD: While Pakistan is exploring Chinese markets for its products after signing a free trade agreement in 2006, some unscrupulous people smuggled about 560kg of heroin to the country in rice containers via Sost Dry Port in Gilgit-Baltistan.Sources in the Customs Department told that the Chinese authorities had recently seized heroin concealed in rice containers and reported the matter to Pakistan government.
The sources did not disclose the quantity of rice. China is not a traditional market for Pakistani rice.
Member Customs Mumtaz Haider Rizvi told : “We have not received any official word from the Chinese customs authorities” about the incident, but sent a request to get an official confirmation from them.
Mr Rizvi said action would be taken against the culprits after receiving complete information from China.
A source in the customs department said the Chinese officials had earlier seized 10kg of heroin in a container exported via same route, but they didn't report the case to the Pakistani authorities apparently because of a lesser quantity of the contraband item.
The source said that there were a few officers in the customs collectorate of Rawalpindi who solely managed postings and transfers at dry ports and got their favourites appointed at Sost port.
Pakistan's bilateral trade with China swelled to $5.563 billion in 2009-10 from over $3 billion in 2004-05 after signing the Free Trade Agreement in November 2006. Pakistan's export to China is slightly over $1 billion.
Former commerce minister Humayun Akhtar Khan, who had negotiated and signed the FTA with China, ruled out the possibility that the alleged seizure of heroin could trigger restrictions on Pakistani exports to China.
He told that nowhere in the world trade activities were curbed to control drug trafficking. He, however, said that it was inefficiency of customs intelligence and anti-narcotics force which were responsible to control movement of illegal items across the border.


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Make the most of recycling this Christmas
With the introduction of new materials to the blue recycling bin in the summer, Highland Council residents are being encouraged to make full use of the improved service this festive period.
Since the summer householders have been able to recycle envelopes (plastic windows removed), cardboard food and drink cartons, aerosols and clean plastic pots, tubs and trays - as well as paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, food tins and drink cans.
Councillor Allan Henderson, Chair of The Highland Council’s Community Services Committee said: “Taking full advantage of adding these extra items to blue bins is not only good for the environment but will also save space in people’s refuse bins over the busy Christmas period. A handy tip to save space in your blue bin is to make sure all cardboard boxes, plastic bottles and juice cartons are flattened when you put them in. By increasing the amount we recycle we are saving Council taxpayers’ money as landfilled material costs Highland Council nearly £150 a tonne, with landfill tax alone making up £82.60 of this amount.”
Households are reminded of the changes to collection dates over the Festive period: Anyone who normally has a Friday collection will have their bins emptied on the Tuesdays preceding Christmas Day and New Year’s Day(22nd and 29th Dec) and those with a Tuesday collection will have their bins emptied on the previous Saturday (19th and 26th December). Stickers will be placed onto householders bins that are affected by the change to collections.
Councilor Henderson added: “I would also urge householders to recycle as much other stuff as possible - in particular all those heavy glass jars and bottles of which we all have so many during the festive period, using Recycling Points and Centres. If everyone in the UK recycled one more glass bottle it would stop nearly 4,000 cars worth of CO2 getting into the atmosphere.”
Imogen Percy-Bell from the Council’s Waste Awareness Team said: “Christmas is often a time when we have a clear-out of clothes, toys, books, household goods, making space for new possessions. Again we should all be thinking how we can recycle, or even better, find a new use for these items by donating them to charity shops or offering them on internet reuse sites or newspaper small ads. Most Recycling Points and all our Recycling Centres now have textile banks and many Recycling Centres have reuse containers for donations.”
Recycling Centres are open throughout the Christmas period except Christmas Day, Boxing Day and 1st, 2nd January. Check The Highland Council website: www.highland.gov.uk/recycle for full details of Recycling Centre opening hours and to check your Christmas refuse and recycling collections.
Inverness residents are also reminded to make maximum use of their food waste collection service not forgetting to include items such as turkey bones, plate scrapings, tea bags and coffee grinds as well as the usual fruit and vegetable peelings. If your caddy has gone missing, please get in touch and a new one will be delivered to you.


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Alphabet (Google) subsidiary Wing has become the first company in the United States to deliver packages by drone. In Christiansburg, the small Virginia town chosen as Wing's test location, the 22,000 residents can order products normally shipped by FedEx, medicine from Walgreens and a selection of candy from a local business -- all of which will arrive via drone. Wing, which already operates in two Australian cities as well as Helsinki, announced in a statement that the first drone-powered deliveries had taken place Friday afternoon in Christiansburg, "paving the way for the most advanced drone delivery service in the nation". One family used the Wing app to order Tylenol, cough drops, Vitamin C tablets, bottled water and tissues, the statement said. An older resident ordered a birthday present for his wife.
Trust me, I have no intention of trusting autonomous vehicle braking. One of the terms we see pop up in almost every technical vector is autonomous vehicles. As with 5G, the autonomous vehicle landscape is fraught with hype. That has even spilled over to the consumer marketing arena with tons of ads for automobiles showing hands-off braking, lane navigation, self-parking, and more. Depending upon with whom one speaks, autonomous vehicles are anywhere from level 3 to level 5. Of course, the only one who believes we are at level 5 is Elon Musk, with his claims for Teslas.
Global Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Automotive Market has valued 566.80 Mn in 2016 and is estimated to reach US$ 10,600.3 Global Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Automotive Market is segmented by technology, offering, process, application, and geography. By technology, Global Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the automotive market is divided into Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Context Awareness, natural language processing. Based on the offering, Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Automotive Market is categorized hardware and software. By process, the market is fragmented into Data Mining, Signal Recognition, and Image Recognition.
The Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS) will begin its journey on 6 September 2020 and cross the Atlantic Ocean, from Plymouth to Plymouth. Like its namesake in 1620, MAS will rely to some extent on favourable weather to complete its crossing as it will be powered by state-of-the-art hybrid propulsion system, utilizing wind, solar, state-of-the-art batteries, and a diesel generator. MAS will carry three research pods containing myriad sensors that scientists will utilize to conduct persistent, ground-breaking research in meteorology, oceanography, climatology, biology, marine pollution and conservation, and autonomous navigation. MAS is being coordinated through a partnership lead by ProMare, a non-profit charity established to promote marine research and exploration throughout the world. The research pods will be coordinated by Plymouth University, a world-leading centre of excellence for marine and maritime education, research and innovation.
The Assam Company India Ltd on Friday said it is aiming to increase its output by nearly fivefold to 50 million kg within next five years with introduction of advanced technologies. The company acquired by Abu Dhabi-based BRS Ventures a year ago and currently has 15 tea gardens, is looking to utilise artificial intelligence, including smart drones, in the field of tea farming to achieve its target. "Our aim is to bring technology and innovation at the forefront of the tea industry. This will not only impact the lives of 26,000 farmers at our estates, but the entire workforce employed in the tea sector across the country," BRS Ventures Chairman B R Shetty said at a press conference here. The company is optimistic that focus on enhancing the lives of the farmers and upgrading the production facilities by optimizing efficiencies will see a remarkable change in the Indian tea industry in the days to come, he added.
The development of driverless car technology is on the rise, and automakers are investing millions and billions to be the first to market with their lineup of autonomous vehicles. But which company has made the largest investment in self-driving cars? Here's a look at what some of the top companies have invested in their driverless vehicle programs so far. The investment into the autonomous vehicle industry has reached over $100 billion, with the leader in spending investing more than half of this number, according to a report by Leasing Options. The report indicated that Volkswagen is driving the charge when it comes to driverless technology with an investment of $54.2 billion and 57 percent share in total industry investment of self-driving cars.
If you have seen one of the many schematic charts full of logos illustrating the autonomous vehicle ecosystem, you would be forgiven for being confused. Most, like the one linked to in the above paragraph, dive deep into the layers of technology involved in enabling cars to drive themselves. It provides a nice summary for people in the industry (with good eyesight). To the layperson, however, this can add to the confusion about how autonomous vehicles work. Also, it is important to note that the majority of the companies and the technologies represented only have to do with the vehicles.
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Machines' ability to learn by processing data gleaned from sensors underlies automated vehicles, medical devices and a host of other emerging technologies. But that learning ability leaves systems vulnerable to hackers in unexpected ways, researchers at Princeton University have found. In a series of recent papers, a research team has explored how adversarial tactics applied to artificial intelligence (AI) could, for instance, trick a traffic-efficiency system into causing gridlock or manipulate a health-related AI application to reveal patients' private medical history. As an example of one such attack, the team altered a driving robot's perception of a road sign from a speed limit to a "Stop" sign, which could cause the vehicle to dangerously slam the brakes at highway speeds; in other examples, they altered Stop signs to be perceived as a variety of other traffic instructions. "If machine learning is the software of the future, we're at a very basic starting point for securing it," said Prateek Mittal, the lead researcher and an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton.
Earlier this month the thermal imagery manufacturer FLIR bought the UAV developer Aeryon Labs for $200 million, beating their previous record in publicly disclosed drone investments of $134M. This has been yet another signal that even though the drone industry suffered some hard hits in 2018, the period of consolidation, larger investments and serious R&D advances is ahead. In fact, if one were to look at merely the investment figures for 2018, it wouldn't even be that easy to tell that the drone industry struggled. Records were set, partnerships formed, and accelerators continued to support exceptional start-ups. A total of $702 million was invested into the drone industry in 2018 (up from $625M in 2017), $483 million of which was funnelled into the top 20 drone deals.


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Dallas, TX (PRWEB) June 13, 2013
Automotive Service and Repair Week (ASRW) is excited to announce Ford Motor Co. will be exhibiting at the 2013 event. ASRW will take place Thursday and Friday, Oct. 17-18, with education beginning Wednesday, Oct. 16, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.
“Every year, ASRW attendees express a great desire to interact and engage with the OEMs to discuss access to repair information, parts information and new vehicle technologies,” said Dan Risley, ASA interim executive director. “As the first of the OEMs we’re in discussion with to formally commit to ASRW, we are appreciative of Ford’s participation in this year’s event.”
Ford will be exhibiting on the ASRW show floor in an all-new area. Additional details and participants will be announced in the near future.
“Ford has had a long standing, positive business relationship with ASA and its members, and we are pleased to continue our support of ASA at one of the industry’s most important trade shows,” said George Gilbert, crash parts merchandising manager, Ford Customer Service Division.
About the Events
ASRW includes the International Autobody Congress & Exposition (NACE) and the Congress of Automotive Repair & Service (CARS), making it the industry’s leading event for dedicated professionals to conduct business, network and engage in industry issues. The Tradeshow News Network (TSNN) has recognized ASRW 2011 and 2012 as a Top 250 U.S. trade show.
NACE – the world’s collision repair event – represents the only B2B event of its kind specifically designed for collision repair industry professionals from around the globe. NACE features a comprehensive educational Conference and Exposition with hundreds of diverse exhibiting companies displaying the latest equipment, products, services and technology available to today’s collision repair industry.
CARS – the premier event for automotive service professionals – features a high-quality education lineup led by industry leaders, along with an exhibitor showcase of automotive service and repair related equipment, products and services.
ASRW is produced for the Automotive Service Association (ASA) by Hanley Wood Exhibitions, a division of Hanley Wood, LLC – a premier media and information company. For additional information, contact ASRW at P.O. Box 612128, Dallas, Texas 75261-2128; call (888) 529-1641 or (972) 536-6444; or visit http://www.ASRWevents.com.
About the Sponsor
The Automotive Service Association (ASA) is the sponsor of ASRW and two of its shows, NACE and CARS. ASA is the largest international not-for-profit trade association of its kind dedicated to and governed by independent automotive service and repair professionals. ASA advances professionalism and excellence in the automotive industry through education, legislative representation and member services. For additional information about ASA or to join, go to http://www.ASAshop.org.