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If the state could add $200 million a year to its coffers without raising tax rates, giving handouts to corporations, borrowing on Wall Street or begging the Feds for more cash, most people would say, "Do it!"
That's what a start-up firm from New York might be able to pull off for Connecticut, with what it says is a simple software program — sending sales tax dollars directly to the state almost as soon as they're rung up at the cash register.
The way state sales taxes have worked for decades, merchants charging the tax have been allowed to wait as long as four months before sending the state its share of taxable sales on food, clothing, screwdrivers or whatever. Some of that money never makes it to the state — the retailer goes out of business or just plain doesn't pay, and hopes the state Department of Revenue Services never catches up.
Capturing that money before it disappears is easy, at least for credit card purchases, say the partners of the New York firm, Sales Tax Automated Collection, or STAC Media Inc. The key is to install software — which STAC claims it has patented — that allows credit card processors to identify what money belongs to the state, and divert it directly into state accounts.
The merchant would never handle the sales tax on credit card sales.
"You cannot manipulate a credit card transaction," said Pino Luongo, one of two partners in STAC.
"It's silly to think of how simple this is," said William Gordon, the other partner.
Simple in concept, at least. Turning on the switch is a different story — technically and politically.
There are other methods of capturing state sales tax dollars, notably a system that lets merchants set up escrow accounts to hold the money before it's finally handed over to the tax collectors. And now, there's a debate at the state Capitol about which method, if any, makes the most sense.
Retailers are opposed. Diverting the money directly would not work smoothly, they argue, in part because only store owners know which purchases are taxable and which ones are wiped out by returns, which can happen weeks later.
And Kevin B. Sullivan, the state's tax commissioner, wants to take the time to make the right decision — even though, STAC's principals say, we should be in a rush as hundreds of millions of dollars are slipping through the cracks every year.
"Fortunately or unfortunately, Kevin is taking a remarkably simple concept and making it more complicated," Gordon said.
Sullivan, a former lieutenant governor and state Senate President, served at the Capitol alongside William A. DiBella, a developer and chairman of the Metropolitan District Commission, who's been hired by STAC to help sell its system in Connecticut. Sullivan is right to be skeptical since it's technically a challenge just to change a tax rate — let alone to alter the way money flows.
Either way, the stakes are high. How high? No one knows because we can't measure the amount of money the state never sees. The sales tax in 2013-14, at 6.35 percent, will raise an estimated $4.1 billion, second only to the $8.95 billion personal income tax.
Credit card purchases account for two-thirds of all transactions, and a higher percentage of total spending. In the current system, the processor sends the merchant the entire amount charged; it's up to the merchant to send in the sales tax to the state, typically monthly for businesses of good size.
The amount that's never sent into the state is at least 4 percent by most expert accounts, and could be as high as 10 percent.
Using cautious math, that's at least $130 million a year for Connecticut, probably a lot more. Think of that total in two months, when lawmakers huddle without sleep for three straight days and nights trying to figure out how to keep the parks open without raising income tax rates.
And that savings doesn't even count taxes on online purchases. That's a whole different issue that Sullivan and others are also addressing. But clearly, an automated system at the credit card processor will make collection of the sales and use tax in online purchases a heck of a lot easier, when and if we can agree to that common-sense change.
Under STAC's method, the processor sends the merchant only the purchase price, and sends the tax directly to the state.
For now, the debate is over a bill before the legislature, which would require Sullivan to study the various options, pick the ones that work and put them in place. Sullivan would prefer to study the issue and get back to the legislature by next Jan. 1, and let the legislature decide in 2014 what to do.
The merchants, through an industry group, say this whole experiment might not work.
"Altering the current process to require credit card companies to remit sales tax to the state of Connecticut, would not increase sales tax remittance," said Tim Phelan, president of the Connecticut Retail Merchants Association, in testimony to the legislature's finance committee. "It will, however, increase the cost of credit to consumers because these regulations would cause credit card companies to invest in new software and create new processes in an attempt to comply with these proposed regulations."
Phelan has a point about cost. As it stands now, merchants typically pay the processors and the credit card issuers between 2 percent and 3 percent of each transaction — more than $1 billion a year. The STAC method, paid by processors, would add about $8 million a year for all Connecticut collections, Gordon and Luongo said.
That's tiny, but neither the merchants nor the credit processors should pay for it — rather, the state should pay. It's the taxpayers who would see a benefit and there's no reason to further burden store owners who would lose the benefit of holding millions of dollars for months before mailing it to Sullivan.
One large processor, First Data Corp., said it helped develop a business called Pay My Taxes, which sets up escrow accounts for sales tax money – a method that would compete against the STAC system. That can be done at no added cost, a First Data executive testified.
Pay My Taxes was developed along with Peter Pavlidis, whose family owns Christie's Diner in Torrington. In 2008, Pavlidis testified, the state shut down his family's Rainbow Pizza because the business didn't have the sales taxes it had collected from customers.
"At that point I said to myself, 'You know, if I could escrow my taxes like I do my real estate taxes, I wouldn't be in this mess.'" Pavlidis said. "That's when I started the company Pay My Taxes LLC in partnership with First Data Corp."
Escrow accounts, which would be competing methods against the STAC system, are not as lock-tight as automated payments to the state, of course. Under one option being discussed, only merchants that are delinquent would be forced to use one of these methods.
Something is going to happen here, because we have graduated beyond 1980s technology under which store owners pore over records for months before figuring out how much to send in. Merchants that send in their taxes on time should not object to progress, and giant chains that are already fully automated have no right to sit on the money in the first place.
STAC is working with several states including Texas and New York, none of which has made a commitment yet. "Somebody is going to say 'Hey, I'm not going to waste another $100 million before I take my finger out of my ear'," Gordon said, demonstrating why he needs the well connected DiBella to deliver a smooth sales pitch.
Regardless, Gordon is right. Gordon and Luongo say their patent covers any system that splits sales tax at the processor and sends it to states — their software or anyone else's.
Whether they do or don't have a lock on the idea, it seems easy to do and, as Sullivan agrees, it's probably where we'll be in five years. We can wait till next year and get it right. But with the windfall, the winners should be the taxpayers — with a lower sales tax rate and a higher collection rate.

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Between 2006 and 2012, illegal smuggling of this product grew by more than 15%. The trade is largely run by organized crime. Government policy can be blamed for at least part of the problem.
Am I talking about cocaine? Marijuana? No, just the humble cigarette.
A recent report from research group KPMG, and commissioned by Philip Morris , revealed that while total consumption of cigarettes in Europe has fallen in recent years, the illegal contraband and counterfeit trade has grown from 8.3% of total consumption to 11.1%. The report suggests that the high profitability and low risk of penalties attracts organized crime, which can use the trade as a cash cow to fund far more objectionable activities. An ad from British American Tobacco goes as far as to suggest that the trade could even be indirectly funding terrorism.
There's a black market for everything
But why are people buying illegal cigarettes? Restrictions differ from country to country, but on the whole, cigarettes are legal and can easily be purchased. The trouble is that, because taxes and regulations vary so widely between countries, the price for consumers varies as well. A pack of Marlboros costs 6.69 euros in Sweden, and 13.18 euros in next-door Norway. In Ukraine, they sell for just 1.31 euros.
The differential makes it easy for smugglers to buy large quantities in cheap countries, bring them into more expensive countries, and sell them at some in-between price to profit. These large quantities are available in part because the large cigarette companies overproduce in cheaper countries. Ukrainian authorities estimate that the world's four leading tobacco companies -- Philip Morris, Japan Tobacco, Imperial Tobacco, and British American Tobacco -- produced about 130 billion cigarettes in the country in 2008, 30% more than the local market consumed or legally exported. The rest simply disappeared into the black market, making Ukraine one of the top sources of non-counterfeit black market cigarettes.
What's the impact?
Apart from the whole "funding organized crime" thing, the trade has a negative impact on both countries and cigarette manufacturers. It is estimated that governments around the world lost $40 billion to $50 billion in tax revenue in 2006, and that's just from lost cigarette taxes -- the losses are higher if you factor in things like unpaid income taxes from the money smugglers make.
As for manufacturers, there are two problems they face. The first should be obvious: If any of them are knowingly involved in undeclared overproduction, they may be criminally liable. Even if they aren't knowingly involved, government authorities are likely to decide that manufactures are at least partially responsible for cleaning up the mess. The report by KPMG, for example, was only commissioned by Philip Morris as part of a 2004 legal settlement with European regulators.
The other problem is that not all illegal cigarettes are legitimate ones being smuggled. Many are simply counterfeits, dressed up to look like a real pack of Marlboros or Superkings, and thus are not just a source of lost tax revenue but also lost sales for the companies. In 2012, 2.4% of all illicit cigarettes in Europe were counterfeit Philip Morris brands.
Not just Europe
While the KPMG report focused on Europe, this is not just a European problem. The United States is structurally very similar to the European Union, in that different states have different taxes and regulations and travel between states is relatively easy, far easier than travel between EU states, even. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms estimates that the illegal cigarette trade costs local, state, and federal governments nearly $10 billion a year.
Because cigarette manufacturers in the U.S. are allowed to have more ornate packaging that is harder to duplicate, counterfeits are less of a problem here. However, Altria has noted that counterfeits do account for part of the trade and are a problem for American manufacturers like itself, Lorillard , and Reynolds American.
A new law in Congress is intended to include certain United States territories in the definition of "state" to better enhance existing cigarette smuggling laws.
The Foolish bottom line
Research has shown that raising taxes on cigarettes reduces smoking, especially among kids, and that's a good thing. But the ATF has found that there is a direct relationship between taxes and illegal smuggling as well. Even if counterfeiting is a small part of the problem, the black market cigarette trade is bad for manufacturers, as it increases their liability and hurts their already embattled public image. Add these companies to My Watchlist to stay updated with any developments.
Tobacco companies have been under siege in the U.S. for decades, as waves of litigation, regulation, and anti-smoking campaigns have given the industry a black eye. Yet Philip Morris International focuses on overseas markets, where business prospects generally look brighter. Investors have been happy with its stock's performance, but is Philip Morris still a buy? Find out in The Motley Fool's premium research report on the company, which includes in-depth analysis of its opportunities and challenges ahead. To claim your report just click here now.
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National restaurant chain announces new Plattsburgh location
It's official! Chick-fil-A is opening a location in Plattsburgh.
Real estate developer Neil Fesette confirmed the news to NBC5 Thursday morning.
Fesette said the restaurant would be located in front of the Holiday Inn on Route 3.
A spokeswoman for Chick-fil-A confirmed the new Plattsburgh location.
"We are always evaluating potential new locations in the hopes of serving existing and new customers great food with remarkable service," she said.
NBC5's Liz Strzepa first reported on the prospect of a new drive-thru restaurant at the location in January.
The Plattsburgh Planning Board said at the time that it had received a proposal for the restaurant, but was not able to say what it would be.
Plans include a new access road, double-lane drive-thru, parking and access to the Holiday Inn parking lot.
Chick-fil-A is based in Atlanta and has more than 2,100 locations across the country. The Plattsburgh location will be the only one of its kind within 200 miles.
There are other locations in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, but none in New York or Vermont. Just remember, all locations are closed on Sundays.
Fesette did not say when construction would begin or when the restaurant would open. The restaurant spokeswoman also could not offer a timeline for the new location.
The news in January sparked lots of conversation on Facebook. What do you think of the announcement?


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Although Taylor Swift is everywhere these days (not that we mind...), she's yet to conquer our smartphones' displays with the firm grip she has on the music industry. Inevitably, and to the delight of millions of fans out there, that's about to change pretty soon! Game publisher Glu Mobile announced the development of a new game in partnership with the pop star. According to the blurb, this won't be a mere one-off cash grab, but a multi-year collaboration forged to create a "new, one of a kind digital gaming experience"
Given Taylor's popularity and talent, it's no surprise that Glu is thrilled with this development. "We realize that her global fan base expects a new and highly differentiated mobile gaming experience,”
said CEO Nicolo de Masi, ensuring fans that the company is "committed to designing never before seen gameplay elements that utilize Taylor’s unique creativity."
Glu does have the credibility and know-how to tackle this project, for it previously launched the very successful "Kim Kardashian: Hollywood"
. The Kim-spired game generated $43 million in its first three months and holds top ratings in the App Store and Google Play.
Sounds great so far, where do we sign up? Well, it will be a while before we get to play with the Glu-Swift creation, as all we know is that the title is scheduled for "late 2016". Ah, maybe it will make for an awesome Christmas gift for Swifties! Glu hasn't announced the platforms, but it's a pretty sure bet that the game will hit Android and iOS.
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Mulberry closes its boutique in Paris, meanwhile Hermès reopens in style in Milan. Sliding doors in high-end retail. The English brand decided to withdraw early from the rental contract for the Parisian store. Why? Due to the decline in tourists in pandemic times. Meanwhile, after a year, the French fashion house has completed the renovations and reopened the store in via Montenapoleone, the largest outside France.
Hermès reopens in style
“The spirit of Faubourg 24, moves entirely to Via Montenapoleone 12 – is the comment of Axel Dumas, president of Hermès -. In a year, in which Italy has been deeply affected by the health crisis, we are pleased to welcome our Italians customers, whom we thank for their loyalty”. It was reported by the agency AdnKronos, which also provides the photo. The brand has been present directly on the Italian market since 1987. The new space is 950 square meters, and is the largest European store outside of France.
It features a staircase with leather handrails and, on the third floor, there is an atelier that houses an expert leather craftsman and a tailor shop. The boutique reopened on Thursday, July 8. For the occasion, Hermès has launched a special capsule limited edition. This includes a silk twill yoke, a Constance bag, a skateboard and a longboard, all with the Faubourg Tropical pattern. High quality piece is a leather Gris-gris in the shape of a cocktail glass, as a tribute to the Milanese tradition of the aperitif.
Mulberry will close its Parisian shop at 275 Rue Saint Honoré. The British brand said it is withdrawing from the lease of the venue, and plans to close it by September. At the same time, notes Fashion United, the brand plans to reopen a new store in the French capital “once international tourism returns”. Mulberry will use the savings generated by the closure (10.8 million pounds after tax) to strengthen the cash position, and support investment opportunities “in line with its strategic plans”.


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Tamil Nadu and Karnataka have deferred to Monday taking a decision to resume manufacturing in their respective states citing that separate guidelines would be given by the governments.
Both states house large auto makers such as Ashok Leyland, Hyundai and Toyota Kirloskar, besides Wistron and Foxconn, the contract manufacturers for smartphone maker Apple.
The Tamil Nadu government in a statement said that an expert panel which has been commissioned to study whether industrial operations could be resumed will submit its report on Monday to chief minister Edapaddi K Palaniswami. Based on its recommendations, the government will take a call. Till then, the lockdown would continue, it said.
Karnataka industries secretary Gaurav Gupta in a letter to industrial units wrote that a separate order with regard to operating of industries is under examination of the State government and the lockdown would continue.
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PARIS — German flavor and fragrance manufacturer Symrise has snapped up two U.S. fragrance suppliers that specialize in scents for the home.
With the acquisitions of Teterboro, N.J.-based Manheimer Fragrances and Intercontinental Fragrances of Houston, which were announced Friday, Symrise aims to bolster its position among the leading home fragrance, or air care, businesses in North America. The Holzminden, Germany-based firm also said it plans to open a global air care center at an unspecified location in the U.S. next year.
Hermès is launching a Laundromat pop-up shop in NYC - dubbed Hermèsmatic - where customers can bring their old scarves to be dip-dyed by an expert. Get all the details on WWD.com. #wwdnews (📷: @donstahl)


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There is an ARCO gas station at Northeast Seventh Avenue and 99th Street. The last three times I went there for gas, all the pumps had signs saying they were out of gas and only had diesel. They keep the price signs and all the pump-area lighting on, so it’s impossible to tell before pulling in. Lately, there are never any cars at the pumps. They’ve blocked the pumps with orange traffic cones. I wonder what they are selling in the store that could make enough profit to keep all that lighting on — and not have to sell gas.
— Earl Kolanda, West Hazel Dell
As you must have noticed, Earl, that station no longer is ARCO. It may become ARCO again, said a staff member who asked to remain anonymous — but for the time being, it is doing business with a different supplier. The station painted over its tall blue-and-white ARCO sign and reopened its pumps after dispensing no gasoline for a few weeks.
“We had a lot of problems with corporate,” confessed this staffer, who said that because of difficulties with electronic bank transfers, the station “is no longer in (ARCO’s) good graces.”
ARCO had demanded that the station buy its gasoline in advance. Making prepayments of many thousands of dollars is impossible while also making payroll and the mortgage, this staffer said. So: “We ended up getting gas from someone else.”
According to industry sources, ARCO keeps its prices low by eliminating frills including credit card sales, and by charging a fee for each debit sale — and by frequently insisting that franchisees buy gas in advance. A wire service story that ran in The Columbian in November 2011 detailed a lawsuit filed by a Tacoma ARCO owner claiming the company holds its franchisees to restrictive contracts that allow for very little profit. The Tacoma owner claimed that his gasoline supply was cut off because he was late paying for gas. That’s exactly what the 99th Street staffer claimed.
Contacted by email, a spokesperson for ARCO owner BP had no comment. Stay tuned.
— Scott Hewitt
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It may be the worst of times when it comes to the economy in general and advertising spending in particular, but the 2009 NAB Show was not a pity party. Expectations were so low going in that the turnout and atmosphere in Las Vegas were pretty good. There is reason to hope for better days ahead.
Not that we ever ran into anybody who said “Business is great! We’re having our best year ever.” Far from it. But there was a clear understanding by broadcasters that their company is not alone in being hard pressed, that broadcasting is not alone in being a hard-pressed industry and that the best approach is to focus on doing business the best you can and invest very, very carefully for future growth.
To that end, there was great excitement among television station owners about the potential revenues from mobile DTV. This is not a far-off fantasy anymore. The consumer electronics companies are manufacturing receivers and many more models will be coming into the market very soon. Chip production in ramping up and consumer demand is certain to be high, even in this tough economy.
For TV stations, adding mobile DTV is a relatively small capital expense compared to what they just went through to convert from analog to digital for their main broadcasting signal. Content rights still have to be negotiated with the networks, but mobile DTV also opens up a whole new world where cable networks and other content providers not currently a part of broadcast television will be wanting to partner with TV stations owners to deliver content to mobile devices. And, of course, locally produced news, weather, traffic and sports reports can be put out on a station’s mobile channel(s) just as soon as the equipment is in place to transmit. It shouldn’t take long to recoup an investment of less than $200,000.
Radio isn’t on the cusp of any new technological advance of that magnitude, but the business also isn’t dead or dying. Radio is the most local of local media and stations are still producing healthy cash-flow by figuring out more and more ways to connect local businesses to local audiences. That’s not just with spots, but via the Internet and with mobile marketing. Cell phones are now ubiquitous and radio stations need to be connecting with their listeners, particularly the young demos, via texting and audio/video streaming to those ever-present phones. At more than one NAB Show session we were reminded that local stations have some of the strongest brands in their markets and the Internet, cell phones and other mobile devices just offer new platforms to expand those brands. And that applies to both radio and TV stations.
Back to the technology issue, there was incremental advancement for radio on display in Las Vegas. Until now, cell phones that included FM receiver chips required the use of the headphone wires as the FM antenna. But there are now two models – the Nokia 5030 and Motorola ROKR EM35 – with the FM antenna designed into the circuit board. Thus, consumers are able to use Bluetooth wireless headsets or Bluetooth-enable speakers to listen to radio on those cell phone. Look for more models to incorporate that design feature. And there’s still reason to hope that the wireless telephone industry will embrace FM receiver capability as the cheapest and most effective way to meet federal government demands for them to come up with a viable emergency notification system.
HD Radio may be old hat by now, but incremental improvement is still important. At long last, chips are much, much smaller and aren’t such power hogs. Thus, iBiquity’s booth at the NAB Show had on display a tiny – so tiny, we noted, that it would be easy to lose – AM/FM analog/digital HD Radio receiver. One that would fit in the palm of you hand with room to spare. HD Radio is, slowly but surely, becoming ubiquitous, with more and more receiver models on the market and automakers gradually incorporating them into the OEM product line.
Despite a star-studded lineup, attendance was down this year for the NAB Show. And by star-studded we’re talking Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, Kelsey Grammer and Vin Scully. So, those of you who weren’t there really missed out. Given the state of the economy, it was expected that the turnout would be down sharply, so the folks at NAB were pretty proud to post the attendance figure of 83,842. Yes, that was far from the 105,259 at the 2008 show, but nicely topped fears we’d heard expressed before the show that the count would be 80K or below.
We talked with quite a few vendors who said the exhibit floor activity surpassed their expectations. Granted, those expectations were pretty low as they headed to Las Vegas. One vendor said there was “a sigh of relief” on Monday when people actually showed up on the floor in good numbers and began visiting booths. What we heard repeated over and over was that while the number of attendees was down, as everyone had expected, the quality was up. People whose companies were paying to send them to Las Vegas were there for a reason. They knew what they were looking to buy and they had money to spend on it.
So, we can report with assurance that Radio ain’t dead, Television ain’t dead, the Vendors to radio and TV ain’t dead and the NAB Show ain’t dead. For that matter, the US economy ain’t dead, although it is pretty sick at the moment. This too shall pass.
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DALLAS Feb. 5, 2002 Diabetics are no longer limited to a high-carbohydrate/low-fat diet, according to the latest guidelines issued by the American Diabetes Association (ADA). While that is still considered a healthy diet, they may now choose a high-monounsaturated diet instead.
Dr. Abhimanyu Garg, professor of internal medicine and chief of nutrition and metabolic diseases at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, served on the expert panel of 12 convened by the ADA that formulated the new evidence-based guidelines, which emphasize individualized diets and a variety of food choices. Gargs research showing the benefits of a high-monounsaturated fat diet was instrumental in leading to the change in guidelines.
In the past a diet rich in carbohydrates and low in fats was recommended to all patients with diabetes, Garg said. We found that a diet rich in monounsaturated fatty acids led to improvement in HDL (high-density lipoprotein) cholesterol, triglycerides and most importantly, diabetes control.
Now diabetics can choose a diet rich in carbohydrates or a diet rich in monounsaturated fats. We can now offer them a choice, which they are more likely to stick to and are more compliant with, Garg said. ,p>The guidelines include several new recommendations for treating the disease that affects some 16 million Americans. The recommendations indicate that:
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One of adland’s nice guys, Willie Pang (lead image), has returned to the advertising fold as the newly appointed general manager of Amazon Ads.
A tech native, Pang joined GroupM in 2015 as chief digital officer and in early 2018 was elevated to the role of MediaCom CEO (now EssenceMediaCom).
Pang quit GroupM in August 2021 to take up the role of CEO of digital payments company Lime Pay (that would later rebrand to April).
On his move back to adland, Pang told B&T that he’d “missed the energy and creativity so much and I’m super excited”.
On his role at Amazon, Pang said “it’s a very nascent business” and the local Aussie ops “are definitely on the agenda for Amazon globally”.
Pang added: “My two years at April were great to get my head around a start-up and fintech and I learned so many things that I am sure I will put to good use in my new role.
“Is now a good time to return to adland? Look, I think it’s a tough time for every industry at the moment but for me, at a personal level, I could see the consumer adoption of Amazon… there’s millions and millions of customers using Amazon’s services and that’s not just as an ecommerce retailer, it’s broader than that, it’s Prime Video and all the subscription services and things like Twitch.
“Amazon is one of the biggest publishers in the country and I just don’t think that’s very well understood by marketers and corporations. I think for those who use Amazon’s ad services, they don’t realise the ROI is just phenomenal and there’s a real job to be done in raising that awareness,” he said.
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- Features and specifications of the new HP Omen laptop
- Pricing details for the HP Omen Transcend 14
Exciting Launch of HP Omen Transcend 14 Gaming Laptop at CES 2024
HP is all set to unveil the new HP Omen Transcend 14 gaming laptop at CES 2024. The laptop offers impressive features and specifications for gamers looking for a high-performance device.
The HP Omen Transcend 14 comes with a powerful processor and graphics card, making it ideal for gaming enthusiasts. With its sleek design and advanced cooling system, the laptop promises a smooth gaming experience.
For those interested in purchasing the HP Omen Transcend 14, pricing details will be announced soon. Stay tuned for more updates on this exciting new gaming laptop!


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TV Ads Address Tough Economy posted 8:35 pm Wed October 01, 2008 - Birmingham, AL reporter: Ebony Hall posted by: Ebony Hall
The average consumer seems to be spending less these days, worried about what the economy will do next. Now retailers look to find ways to get Americans to spend their ever tightening household budgets on their products. They are using ads that play on the tough economic times. One home depot ad even says, "We know times are tough."
UAB's Dr. Bob Robicheaux says retailers are being more sensitive to customer needs.
"Any retailer who is worth his salt should be out there working as hard as they can everyday to deliver better prices to their customers."
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Online Casino Accused of Slowing Productivity
A recent study by an American internet consultancy firm has revealed that gambling at online casinos may be behind low productivity levels amongst U.S. employees. Among the activities participants in the 2005 Internet Usage Study by Burstek Internet Consultants admitted to enjoying on the job is gambling at online casino sites. Nearly a fifth of the 10,688 participants across the U.S. admitted to playing at online casinos during working hours.
78.1 percent of all participants in the survey admitted to accessing the internet at work for personal use and entertainment. 72.3 percent of total internet usage represented personal visits to websites, in particular shopping and entertainment sites. The number of men playing at online casino sites during working hours more than tripled the number of women, and the age group predominantly associated with the activity was 25-40 year olds. While most respondents said they were aware of their company’s policy toward personal internet usage and gaming at online casinos, many said that they only play during periods of “down time,” while others stated they visit online casinos during lunch hours only.
Despite the U.S. government’s ban on gambling at online casino sites, a record number of Americans admit to regularly playing online. Several recent surveys have indicated that nearly one in five U.S. residents has frequented online casino sites in the past or is still doing so. Currently 80 percent of the worldwide revenue generated by the gaming industry comes from U.S. players.


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Although China isn't Apple's most profitable country for iPhone sales, it is where the majority of the devices are manufactured. And, however unlikely, such a ruling would have a huge effect on Apple since the iPhone provides two thirds of its revenue. Bloomberg notes that the company's suits are based on three "non-standard essential patents" that cover power management and a touch-screen tech like 3D Touch used in Apple's current iPhones.
Cupertino's legal team sued Qualcomm for $1 billion claiming that the company's patent licensing practices abused its position as the world's leader chipmaker. "Apple employs technologies invented by Qualcomm without paying for them", Trimble added.
The latest suits come at a crucial time for Apple.
Apple is now rushing to manufacture as many iPhone 8, 8 Plus and iPhone X models during its busiest sales period of the year. Suppliers and assemblers in China are rushing to churn out as many new iPhones as possible ahead of the key holiday season, so any disruptions would likely be costly. In the most recent development, Qualcomm is now filing a lawsuit against Apple with the intent of having all iPhone production and sales halted in China.
This legal battle kicked off in January, when Apple filed a lawsuit claiming that Qualcomm was holding payments for ransom. In July, it filed a similar claim in the United States, pointing to six patents that it said Apple was in violation of.
Between the $2 billion in licensing fees Apple is refusing to pay and the $773 million fine from Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission, Qualcomm is now looking at an empty dinner plate. Qualcomm stock is down 19 percent this year compared with a 35 percent gain by the benchmark Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Index.
EPS for NextEra Energy Inc (NEE) Expected At $1.76
The fund owned 120,100 shares of the utilities provider's stock after purchasing an additional 11,100 shares during the quarter. It worsened, as 90 investors sold VZ shares while 700 reduced holdings. 22 funds opened positions while 65 raised stakes.
Florida detective captures 9-foot-long anaconda
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In the U.S., the majority of cards being issued as a part of the EMV migration will be contact cards. Although the number of merchants with contactless capability is increasing, the places cardholders can use a dual card that includes contactless capabilities is still limited. The number of merchants that can accept contactless has been elusive, perhaps because the number is not impressive. 700,000 sites is often mentioned with a majority of those representing vending machines and parking meters.
The UK has a different environment altogether with a much higher acceptance level and issuers who provide dual contact and contactless cards as a matter of course as this article in This is Money reported. Not all consumers are on board, however;
Banks and building societies, on the whole, now send out contactless debit cards with current accounts as standard even if customers haven’t requested it.
[Banks and building societies] have seen a surge of This is Money readers annoyed by this development and wanting their bank card to not carry the feature.
There have been reports that scanners can readily capture card data causing cardholders to take unusual measures:
Some are concerned about security. From Tuesday, minimum spend on contactless cards per shop rises to £30 from £20, meaning more could be spent in a frenzy if a thief stole the card.
Also, an investigation by Which? showed scanners can be used to swipe details – it has prompted some to stick foil in their purse or wallet in a bid to prevent this from happening
Overview by Sarah Grotta, Director, Debit Advisory Service at Mercator Advisory Group
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New sat-nav technology from UK start up Camvit promises to help drivers optimise their driving to improve fuel efficiency
Business people running company cars - and indeed fleet managers - have plenty of reasons to think about the greenness of their choice when selecting new vehicles. There are hefty tax implications associated...
How will the global pledge to 'protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems' shape the global economy?
A photographer by trade, IKEA's Hege Sæbjørnsen explains why a desire to make a positive social and environmental impact prompted a career change
Any watering down of the Carbon Price Support mechanism would deal a grave blow to UK decarbonisation efforts, warns Sandbag's Phil McDonald
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The rise of CATL and the decline of Soho China.
The blockchain revolution is coming. And China wants to be at the center of it.
On changing climates and geopolitics.
On Taiwan, China's biggest influencers, outer space, and Simandou.
In supply chains, the White House, diplomacy and Taiwan.
Plus, the best new China books.
From Eric Schmidt's new role in the U.S.-China tech rivalry to China's social safety net.
From drug cartels to multinationals to German businesses.
Plus, 'terror capitalism' in Xinjiang.
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Adidas Yeezy Powerphase Calabasas Black Release Date
The third colorway of the retro trainer inspired Adidas Yeezy Powerphase is set to release globally on March 17th. Yeezy Mafia reports that this drop will be available on Adidas.com as well as at Yeezy Supply. We believe this is the final colorway of the Powerphase, but who knows what Kanye and Adidas have up their sleeves...
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Coming just a day after its unofficial holiday, New Jersey legalized recreational marijuana. The legalization came after months of discussion on how to go about sales, and roughly 67% of NJ voters approved of the idea.
The legalization of recreational marijuana meant that 13 stores could begin selling the products. Seven of those stores are located in South Jersey, making for easy access to anyone over 21, including college students, to light up.
One of the seven stores nearby that gained major buzz on its first day is The Botanist in Williamstown, New Jersey.
Customers flocked to the store as early as 5:30 a.m., even though sales wouldn’t begin until a few hours later.
Marvin Wash, a former New York Jets defensive end, was the first person to purchase adult-use marijuana at The Botanist. He discussed how impactful that day was as well as how it would help the players in the NFL.
“Today was a big time that everyone in the Atlantic states have been waiting for,” Wash said. “[I’m] happy for athletes, as this is pushing the ball further down the field and including more professional sports teams, it will lead to that wall falling. [This] will lead to professional athletes being able to treat and medicate with cannabis.”
Though it was a great day for people hoping to legally purchase, Rowan University will still not allow marijuana on campus.
The campus’ daily mail discussed the consequences of underage possession and the potential danger of the recreational drug.
“While adults in New Jersey may purchase cannabis for recreational use starting Thursday, April 21, cannabis possession is still prohibited under federal law and, as a result, is NOT permitted on Rowan University property,” the email read.
Regardless of the news, students still look forward to the benefits that the cannabis industry will bring to New Jersey as well as weighing the potential problems.
Though recreational marijuana is now legal in New Jersey, there are still many steps that will be taken to ensure the safety and security of the community as well as those who can legally purchase it.
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WITH A TWINGE of guilt, Tenneco Inc. Chairman James L. Ketelsen said last November that he hoped Thomas Wolfe was wrong, and you could go home again.
Ketelsen had good reason to be anxious. He was fielding questions about Tenneco`s plans to buy International Harvester Co.`s ailing farm-equipment business, except for its big tractor plant at Rock Island, Ill., one of the Quad Cities. The Houston-based executive grew up just across the river in another of the four closely knit border towns, Davenport, Ia., and he knew that the plant`s closing would deepen the area`s economic woes.
Well, since then, Ketelsen has gone home--once, to visit his mother at Christmas.
And from what he says, nobody snubbed him, proving perhaps that it is safer to bring the homefolks bad economic tidings than to betray them in print. It is also clear that his guilt has been assuaged.
IN AN INTERVIEW with The Tribune, the 54-year-old Tenneco chief stressed a widely held view that drastic action is needed to revive the troubled industry. He said he sympathizes with the 1,200 Rock Island plant workers who will lose their jobs, but he argued that much more suffering would be in store if the industry doesn`t get its manufacturing capacity back in line with today`s depressed sales levels.
''The fact is that if we don`t get this industry down in size so that we can make money at these levels, then we`re going to be vulnerable to foreign competition over the long run, and the outlook will be even worse,'' he said. Consequently, he maintained, ''I think there will be very few losers in this situation, and I don`t think there will be any losers if you look at what it means over the long term.''
IN THE WIDE-RANGING interview, Ketelsen also gave new details about Tenneco`s plans to merge the Harvester operations into its J.I. Case Co. tractor unit. He talked about his expectations for the combined business and responded to continuing skepticism among stock analysts about whether the deal makes sense for Tenneco, a diversified oil and gas concern.
Under the proposed terms, Tenneco would pay Harvester $430 million for its unprofitable farm-equipment operations in North America and Great Britain. Case has also suffered huge losses, and Tenneco executives figure that merging the operations would provide economies of scale and make Case a stronger competitor to Deere & Co., the industry leader.
Federal antitrust approval, the last obstacle to deal with, had been expected by early February, but Ketelsen said government delays may push the approval back until the end of February.
While government lawyers sift through truckloads of company documents, teams of Tenneco officials have been studying what to do with the Harvester facilities and personnel and crisscrossing the country to decide which of the companies` 400 overlapping retail outlets to close, Ketelsen said.
IN THE CHICAGO area, Tenneco expects to keep Harvester`s engineering center in suburban Hinsdale open, he said, but could dismiss some of its 800 workers or transfer them to Case headquarters in Racine, Wis., or to a plant. Harvester Chairman Donald D. Lennox said recently that Tenneco had offered jobs to some managers at Harvester`s farm-equipment headquarters near O`Hare International Airport, but Ketelsen didn`t know how many of the office`s 150 workers would be asked to stay.
At East Moline in the Quad Cities, Tenneco will restart combine production briefly in late March or April, two months later than Harvester had planned, Ketelsen said. However, he added, it is unclear whether Tenneco will call back any of the 600 workers on temporary layoff there.
According to Ketelsen, Tenneco also hasn`t decided whether to exercise an option to buy Harvester`s money-losing French and German units as well.
''It makes sense to do it if we can make a rational business out of it,'' he said, adding that the decision could hinge on how many jobs the French government would allow Tenneco to cut. ''But we don`t want to take on an operation that`s going to lose $30 million a year.''
THE TENNECO teams have made more progress in other areas, he said.
According to Ketelsen, Tenneco has already picked the winning dealers, mostly Harvester outlets, in two-thirds of the overlapping cases, and is negotiating cash settlements with the ones to be closed.
Tenneco officials have decided on both the logo and the colors that will adorn the combined company`s machines, but Ketelsen said that until the choices are announced at a dealer meeting, he will reveal only that the color includes some red, a Harvester hallmark.
The access to Harvester`s much larger dealer network and its full line of farm machinery--Case makes only tractors--are two of the chief reasons why Tenneco made the deal. But, Ketelsen said, the key to making Case profitable could be Tenneco`s ability to absorb even higher losses over the short run.
LIKE OTHER industry executives, Ketelsen, a former Case president, sees a huge inventory of unsold machines as one of the main culprits in the farmpment makers` troubles. But the only cure is an expensive one--to cut back production and wait for retail sales to catch up.
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He thinks that keeping Case`s tractor plant in Racine closed through mid- March--it has been down since late December--and running the combine line at East Moline ould enable the merged company to soak up the extra inventories by the end of third quarter.
Another problem, Ketelsen acknowledged, is that the merged company could see its share of market drop to 33 to 35 percent from the current 36 to 37 percent after the deal is closed, as some Harvester loyalists switch to other brands.
Some analysts, however, say the drop in ger problem than he expects. And given the bleak outlook for the farm economy, the analysts argue that Tenneco could earn a better return by writing off the Case unit and investing its money een, however, insists that the combine company is likely to start earning money as early as this year`s fourth quarter and could make a
''decent` profit in 1986. What`s more, by 1988, when all uld be achieved, he said, he fully expects the combined company to be an ''above-average performer'' by Tenneco standards, whether there has been a pick-up in industry sales.
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You've probably heard that the white "Pinnacle" Air Jordan 1s will see a U.S. release this weekend, but they're not going to be very easy to come by. Thankfully, NikeLab's 21 Mercer location will be giving 'heads a better chance at these and another one of the year's best.
Along with the white "Pinnacle," the "Shattered Backboard" Jordan 1s will be releasing at NikeLab via the brand's new online raffle system. First unveiled last month, this policy was introduced as the latest measure to prevent automated bots and make the buying process simple and fair. So far, it's been met with positive feedback, and it looks like it could end up being your best shot at these Jordan 1 releases.
For the full rundown, head over to Nike now. Sign ups begin at 6 p.m. EST, so keep an eye out for a Tweet from Nike's social media.


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Bull of the Day: Finisar
by Brian Bolan Published on November 06, 2013
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Lower CapEx Guidance from Ma Bell
Nearly the entire fiber optic industry had a dimmer switched lowered on their stock prices on October 24. AT&T reported earnings and after increasing CapEx spending in the 3rd quarter, analysts questioned if that rate would continue.
but the CapEx spending cut was only 5%
A simple search of the AT&T conference call transcript reveals the truth of what was said versus how it was interpreted. The CFO stated "we are not trying to limit CapEx spending by a standard compared to last year."
He went on to say "I think we said in the past that we would expect the CapEx for this year to be in $21 billion range and for '14 and '15 to be in the $20 billion range and at this time we are not adjusting that or changing that." So while CapEx may be shrinking, it’s not as much as you may have believed. It’s also not so likely that this means a 5% cut across the board and fiber could even see an increase in CapEx.and on Valuation he says:
The valuation of FNSR looks very attractive. While the trailing PE is well ahead of the industry average, the forward PE of 21x is right in line with it. More conservative measures like the price to book multiple and the price to sales multiple each show FNSR trading at a multiple that is less than half the industry average. As analysts continue to move estimates higher, the valuation will only become more attractive unless the stock vaults well above the recent 52 week high.
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As some states start lifting COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions, the agriculture industry continues to struggle under a largely shut-down America. The industry is experiencing losses in the billions between the dairy, meat, and produce sectors.
REVIVING URBAN LIFE - AN INNOVATIVE SOIL-BASED INDOOR VERTICAL FARM THAT BRINGS THE PRODUCTION OF FOOD TO THE PLACE IT IS CONSUMED
Supplyshark Gives Agriculture Industry a New Way to Connect to Buyers in Wake of Food Supply Chain Disruption
A new company, named Supplyshark, has stepped forward to provide a new way for those in the agriculture industry to connect to buyers and vice versa. The organization is offering a free 90-day subscription during the pandemic to show support to farmers and other suppliers.
Houston-based AG&P Americas has launched a new service line offering workforce solutions for the U.S. agriculture sector amid shortages in seasonal farm labor.
Solectrac is currently selling a 30 HP 4-WD compact electric tractor and a 40 HP utility tractor while developing its eFarmer model for row crops and a 70 HP model for more demanding tasks. These climate-smart electric tractors have the power and torque to outperform diesels at low speeds and match their performance at higher speeds.
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By carefully tailoring the environment to the exact requirements of the crop, such as through using LED lighting to produce the exact light spectrum needed for optimal photosynthesis, it is possible to obtain yields hundreds of times higher than traditional agriculture.
WITH ITS ABILITY TO SUPPORT A BUSINESS FROM THE HEADQUARTERS THROUGH THE ENTIRE SUPPLY CHAIN, THE ST. LOUIS REGION HELPS MANY COMPANIES SERVE THE WORLD
The final session of FreightWeekSTL 2020 featured new insight into the post COVID-19 trends for industrial user site selection and the St. Louis region's role in that. To talk about those trends, the St. Louis Regional Freightway turned to Doug Rasmussen, President and CEO of Steadfast City Economic & Community Partners
In spring, farmers' stores of winter veg will be running low and the new season's crops are not yet ready to be harvested. This period is called the "hungry gap". During the hungry gap, Britain relies even more heavily on imports to feed itself.
With the propagation of its initial hemp crops for the season complete, they have cited Violet Gro's LED grow lights as their primary light source for their greenhouse operations, which include the 1,500 square-foot structure pictured below - as well as plans to utilize Violet Gro for an expanded 300,000 square-foot grow facility.
INDOOR AG-CON KICKS OFF NEW FREE WEBINAR SERIES WITH UNITED FRESH PANEL DISCUSSION ON PRODUCE TRENDS, BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDOOR GROWERS
Free Monthly Virtual Events To Share Content Originally Planned For May 2020 Annual In-Person Conference Postponed Due to Covid-19 Pandemic
The delicacy of our food supply networks has been exposed, and now is the time to reflect on how our systems could change for the better, as well as our behaviour as consumers - demonstrated by those who have pledged to support local businesses more during this time.
Fluence and Compassionate Cultivation will conduct several studies over a 12-month period to evaluate and improve the sustainable production of cannabis with LED lighting solutions
The accelerator's second class is advancing innovative solutions to empower the next generation of farmers
Gotham Greens' locally grown produce and line of salad dressings and sauces bring freshness to more grocery baskets during COVID-19 pandemic, underscoring the benefits of regional food supply chains
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EXO hits the Billboard's Boxscore Charts!
Michelle Cho, May 25, 2017, 11:01 a.m.
EXO is the only K-pop group on Billboard’s Current Boxscore list. The chart lists the top 100 shows (individual shows) that have been held in the U.S. EXO has managed to be the ONLY K-pop group on the charts placing #8 with the Los Angeles show of their ‘EXO’R’DIUM’ tour.
The amazing boys sold 8668 seats out of the 9739 that were opened for sell at Inglewood’s ‘Forum.’ The total amount of tickets sold was roughly $1,436,158 USD.


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However, it has led to fear and panic especially in Jos, the capital of Plateau state. According to Daily Trust many consumers began to ask dealers for proof that they were selling genuine rice.
According to dealers, the panic led to low sales of rice. One customer at a store located at Bukuru, a major commercial location of Jos, said: “We just want to be sure we are not paying to carry plastic home to our families, we have read reports warning about this plastic rice in the market. One has to be careful.”
The customer who preferred to remain anonymous said she learnt of the alert from many neighbours and relatives, who informed her they had to carry out the tests to confirm the commodity before they bought.
She said she had to search for the report herself, and to proceed to share same to alert unsuspecting consumers who may be risking to buy plastic for meal.
And she too has spread the news: “I had to share the news too, to help others, i never read anything about the source of this information from all the reports I saw,” she said.
A major dealer of rice in Jos also said that he spent the last five days persuading consumers to patronize him, however he still made low sales.
Balarabe Adam said: “I have old stock. I don’t know for sure if there is anything like plastic rice in circulation. I don’t have such in my store.
“Customers are not taking this news lightly. They are insisting on tests to ascertain the genuiness of the commodity before they will buy. We are allowing for that because we want to sell.”
Meanwhile, there is some good news for consumers as confirmed reports state that the price of local rice in the country has crashed in some states across the federation.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) quotes the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as saying the agricultural initiative ‘Anchor Borrowers Programme’ which the federal government launched recently, is responsible for the drastic change in prices.


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ALLENTOWN, Pa.Jan 25 2017 - A Lehigh County man is being held without bail following his arrest Friday for allegedly shoplifting $14.53 worth of merchandise from an Allentown market.
District Judge Michael D’Amore denied bail when he arraigned Thomas M. Strohl late Friday night on two sets of charges because of multiple warrants for the 53-year-old for failing to appear in court.
Allentown police were dispatched to Ahart’s Market at 1421 W. Allen Street shortly before 5:15 p.m. Friday for a shoplifter being held by store security. The shoplifter later identified as Strohl allegedly tried to steal three food items worth $14.53 and was a suspect in an earlier shoplifting at the store, according to court records.
Strohl, no confirmable address, initially gave police his brother’s name and birthdate.
The 53-year-old is also the suspect in a June 2016 theft from a Boost Mobile kiosk in the Lehigh Valley Mall.
A manager reported to township police that the register was missing $120 when an employee opened for the day. Mall security provided surveillance footage that showed Strohl entering the mall shortly after midnight and walking to the kiosk.
A security guard had allowed Strohl into the mall because he recognized him as a Boost Mobile employee, not aware that Strohl had recently been fired.
In the Whitehall Township theft case, Strohl was originally scheduled for an Oct. 12, 2016, preliminary hearing. In an unrelated case, he was expected in Lehigh County Court on Aug. 11, 2016, for his formal arraignment on charges he passed bad checks.
He’s now in Lehigh County Jail awaiting preliminary hearings tentatively scheduled for Jan. 27 on charges of theft, retail theft and false identification to police.


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Fannie Mae sells $1 billion in bills at lower rates
Sept 4 (Reuters) - Fannie Mae, the largest U.S. home funding source, said on Wednesday it sold $1 billion of benchmark bills at lower interest rates compared with last week's sale of similar maturities.
Fannie Mae said it sold $500 million of three-month bills due Dec. 4, 2013 at a 0.039 percent stop-out rate, or lowest accepted rate, down from the 0.045 percent rate for $1 billion of three-month bills sold Aug. 28.
The company also sold $500 million of six-month bills due March 5, 2014 at a 0.070 percent rate, down from the 0.082 percent rate for $1 billion of six-month bills sold a week ago.
The three-month bills were priced at 99.990 with a money market yield of 0.039 percent. The six-month bills were priced at 99.965 with a money market yield of 0.070 percent.
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As the #foodporn movement continues to rise, looking to social media for restaurant recommendations is becoming the norm. Which is why one restaurant in London is giving their customers the tools they need to take professional food pics.
Dirty Bones is a chain of restaurants that just opened its fourth location in Soho London, and has turned its new eatery into an Instagrammers paradise. More specifically, the restaurant is supplying patrons with what they call Instagram kits, which will allow hungry patrons to snap top-quality photos of their beautiful meals.
The kit includes a wide angel camera lens that can be attached to a smartphone, a small LED camera light, a charging dock to support multiple smartphones, and a tripod selfie stick, which allows customers to take aerial shots of their meals.
The restaurant has been tuned in to social media since opening, crafting unique and shareable offerings like the Sour Cream Pringles Rim Bloody Mary and The Fab Cocktail to celebrate Pride. But with the restaurant chain now offering Instagram kits for their customers, their social media numbers are poised to rise above competitors.
According to Dirty Bones, “People love to share what they’re eating on social media, so we wanted to put together something that made it easier to get that perfect shot regardless of the lighting or time of day. More and more people are also using Instagram to help them decide where to eat, so as a restaurant group, it’s key for us to make sure that people are getting the best possible shots of all our dishes and drinks.”
Not only is the restaurant providing Instagram kits to make sure their food is photographed at a professional level, but they’ve also curated their menu to make each dish stand out on social media. The restaurant explained in a statement that “Dirty Bones’ menu has also been curated to provide picture-perfect, shareable content, with new trending dishes such as Fish Tacos standing alongside the iconic Mac Daddy Burger and Cheeseburger Dumplings.”
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Together with a Washington Post columnist, Geoffrey A. Fowler, they discovered a disastrous situation about privacy, dubbed DataSpii, to add-ons or plug-ins of the browsers (extentions) that make browsing better by finding coupons or remembering passwords.
Those extensions, offered up on stores run by Chrome and Firefox and therefore presumably legit, are also watching every click and then putting it all up for sale.
Jadali found that the extensions were leaking, in near real-time, personal, sensitive data on the websites we’re browsing, primarily on Chrome, but also on Firefox. The leaked data included the following types of personal and corporate data:
Personal data: personal interests, tax returns, GPS location, travel itineraries, gender, genealogy, usernames, passwords, credit card information, genetic profiles.
Corporate data: company memos, employee tasks, API keys, proprietary source code, LAN environment data, firewall access codes, proprietary secrets, operational material andzero-day vulnerabilities.
According to Ars Technica, it was about data from more than four million users. The extensions collected “the URLs, webpage titles, and in some cases the embedded hyperlinks of every page that the browser user visited,” Ars reported.
They didn’t just steel web histories, but some of these extensions peddled them, publishing the histories through a fee-based service called Nacho Analytics that uses the tag line “See Anyone’s Analytics Account.”
– Hover Zoom
– SaveFrom.net Helper
– FairShare Unlock
– Branded Surveys
– Panel Community Surveys
Fowler says that they found for sale the following data:
I’ve watched you check in for a flight and seen your doctor refilling a prescription.
I’ve peeked inside corporate networks at reports on faulty rockets. If I wanted, I could’ve even opened a tax return you only shared with your accountant.
I found your data because it’s for sale online. Even more terrifying: It’s happening because of software you probably installed yourself.
Google decided to remove extensions from its Chrome Web Store a day after Jadali and the Post published their stories. It also remotely disabled those extensions on the millions of computers that had them installed. Mozilla removed and disabled its one DataSpii extension in February. A week later, Nacho Analytics announced a “data outage.”
According to Ars, Nacho Analytics’ founder and CEO – Mike Roberts announced in an email that the site would no longer accept new customers or provide new data, but that the existing customers would be able to still access any data they’d previously bought. Also, he explained that the site had suffered a “permanent data outage” due to a third-party supplier no longer being available.
How it works
Sam Jadali says that the URL data from websites is imported directly into customers’ Google Analytics accounts, which includes sensitive information, such as names of medical patients who got test results from a patient care cloud platform used by medical services.
Ars offered some redacted screenshots showing data slurped from Tesla’s network and then sent to Nacho Analytics and eventually imported in Google Analytics.
According to a spokesperson from Google, the company decided to suspend multiple Analytics properties owned by Nacho Analytics for violating Google terms of service and is investigating additional accounts which could be connected or integrated with Nacho Analytics.
What to do?
Find out if DataSpii is spying on your clicks, by viewing your extentions:
in Chrome, enter this URL in your browser: chrome://extentions
in Firefox, enter this URL in your browser: about: addons
If you see any of the extensions listed above, just remove them. Still, Jadali mentioned that a remotely deactivated extension did not stop the data collecting process. You need to remove the extention to stop the data collection.
Moreover, Jadali advises those who used the addons to change their passwords.


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To Combat Widespread Job Loss, Stay Local and Look to Import Replacement
At a time when businesses pivot from making booze to hand sanitizer, and from sewing t-shirts to facemasks, we look at the cities that have already successfully re-localized industry.
Amid the grim reality of COVID-19, one of the rare feel-good storylines has been a local business that changes its manufacturing setup in an immediate response to the pandemic.
“The example we reference regularly is of the Evergreen Cooperatives in Cleveland. A project of the Democracy Collaborative, the Evergreen coops feature a solar panel factory, greenhouse, and a laundry that services local healthcare institutions,” says Moriarty. Evergreen’s Fund for Employee Ownership also helps convert small businesses into worker-owned cooperatives, a growing trend in the “silver tsunami” movement of retiring baby boomers whose children do not want to take over the family small business.
Founded 20 years ago, Democracy Collaborative has been thinking about how to build a national, truly democratic economy where ownership is broadly held, says Ted Howard, its co-founder and director. The current economy common in the United States is extractive, he says: “highly productive, it keeps producing but not creating substantial wealth. It’s extracting and concentrating in fewer and fewer hands.”


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Date: Tuesday, August 14th, 2012, 06:09
Category: iPad, iPhone, iPod, News, retail
Ok, you might not walk into GameStop that often unless you’re a gamer or parent of a gamer.
This might change in the future, as the struggling retailer has announced plans to embrace the iOS as a gaming platform. Per SFGate, the company began a program last fall of buying up used iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches from consumers, then sending them to a “Refurbishment Operations Center” in Texas where the devices are cleaned up and repaired. Once they’re in nice working order, the devices are returned to GameStop stores where they’re sold at a decent markup. The items are also being sold on GameStop’s web site.
Analyst Michael Pachter of Wedbush Securities thinks that the Apple refurb business could be a gold mine for GameStop. Even if GameStop resells just 5 percent of the 230 million Apple devices estimated to be in the hands of U.S. consumers, it could bring in about US$1 billion in new revenue in the next few years.
Pachter also thinks GameStop could make a killing by selling prepaid phone plans with those used iPhones, “since a lot of their customers are teenagers with money to spend but no credit to get a regular phone plan.”
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.


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Google wins major Android Auto partnership with Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance
After years of sitting on the fringes, Google has finally made inroads into the automotive industry in a new partnership.
As part of a push to modernise in-car functionality and entertainment, Google has partnered with the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance to bring Android Auto to millions of cars worldwide. This isn’t just Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi simply allowing Android Auto to run when you plug in an Android smartphone to the system, the entire system will be built on and run Android.
This is a huge move for Google as the alliance sells more vehicles than any other automaker in the world. After having spent so long trying to break into the market, this could be the in that Google needs to make Android a successful infotainment operating system.
Other auto manufacturers have been reluctant to adopt Android. This is, in part, due to not wanting to cede control to the tech industry, but also because of concerns around the security of more open platforms like Android being installed in automobiles. If a carmaker adopts a system from the likes of Bosch, they’re able to skin it how they wish and can capture the valuable customer data for themselves. With Google at the helm, it’s going to be a system that looks almost identical – or at least familiar – between different cars, and Google is likely to take control of most of the data being captured.
A move to bring Android Auto as the default to more cars should also improve the car industry’s ability to adapt to change. With the advent of smartphones, many automakers have struggled to update car interiors to a point where people can seamlessly connect their device. Even now it’s a somewhat overly complex process, but a lot of companies are beginning to provide the most basic of phone functions – such as navigation and Bluetooth connectivity – as standard in their entry-level vehicles.
The decision to opt for a Google-built Android system instead of a custom interface came about because people are already very familiar with Google’s apps, with the alliance’s executives claiming most people just use phone navigation over their own in-car systems. The alliance is also already comfortable with the software as it’s been using it as an option for its cars for many years.
Don’t expect your new and shiny Renault / Nissan / Mitsubishi to come equipped with Android right away though. The alliance states that the system will roll out globally in 2021, giving drivers access to Maps, the Play Store and Google’s voice-activated Assistant.
It’ll be interesting to see what comes next for Google and Android Auto. We already know that Volvo has said its next-generation of in-car systems will be powered by Android – although it’s not yet known in what guise – so the pressure is on for other automakers to make up their minds or fear being left behind.


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Special Christmas Markets will pop up along Portobello Road on Sunday 13 and Sunday 20 December from 10.00 am to 5.00 pm. Visitors will be able to shop for gifts, clothes, food, drink and more at the markets.
They will be held in partnership between Kensington and Chelsea Council, Portobello Green Market and the Westway Trust.
As well as a range of goods, there will also be street food on offer, drink, including mulled wine and mince pies. It will be one of the few Christmas markets in the capital after many were cancelled earlier this year.
A range of covid-secure measures will be in place, including the road closure to traffic, allowing for greater space to socially distance. Market Stewards will be on hand to support.
The main Portobello Market will be open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday throughout December.
The latest market news can be found on @VisitPortobello on Twitter and Instagram or at www.VisitPortobello.com and for Portobello Green at @portobellogreenmarket or www.portobellofashionmarket.co.uk
Christmas Markets Popping Up in Portobello


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Associated Press launching Its NFT Marketplace on Ethereum
The Associated Press (AP) has developed a digital art NFT marketplace and is now making it available to collectors.
With this platform, you will be able to trade tokenized photographs with anonymity—meaning you can trade digital photos without worrying about exposure.
The biggest development for the AP is that their NFT system will include digitized photos of space, climate, and war taken by AP photojournalists.
Notably, Xooa will be one company that builds the marketplace needed to make the initial NFT drop.
Zach Danker-Feldman, Head of Marketplaces at Xooa, is pleased with this innovation. He has said he feels it will represent a powerful link between the virtual world and the real world.
Another exciting component of this launch is that users will be able to mint their NFTs on the Ethereum (ETH) and Polygon networks.
Apart from that, the marketplace will support secondary transactions of debit card payments which helps boost demand for the token.
After its monumental innovation, AP is collaborating with crypto wallet giant Metamask and other major companies such as Binance, Fortmatic, and Coinbase to create the card.
More features have been announced including the ability to withdraw from other marketplaces.
Add social media capabilities to the platform, and provide new content concepts & off-chain benefits for NFT holders.
Disclaimer: Cryptogurukul has no relationship to these projects, and there is no endorsement or investment advise. Please seek professional advice before taking financial risks.