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LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Technavio has been monitoring the CBD oil market and it is poised to grow by USD 3.52 billion during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR of over 32% during the forecast period. The report offers an up-to-date analysis regarding the current market scenario, latest trends and drivers, and the overall market environment. Although the COVID-19
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This article was originally published on iHeart CBD Oil. To view the original article, click here. You may have heard the phrase ‘CBD’ spreading like wildfire today. Indeed, CBD-infused projects are all the craze, and the market for CBD is ever-expanding. But what exactly is CBD, and what does it do? This article gives a
“I started ordering it for them as well and at one point I realized this was a serious business opportunity,” says Chandrakant, the founder and director of CBD Store India, one of the country’s first licensed importers and distributors of CBD products. “Today I have got about 5,000 regular customers and we make over ₹1
Introduction Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) with endoscopic sphincterotomy (ES) is widely applied as the standard management of bile duct stones.1,2 Although generally considered safe, ES still carries some risks of complications. The short-term complications include procedural bleeding, pancreatitis, cholangitis, and perforation, whose overall incidence ranges from 2.5– 13.1%.3–7 As for long-term complications, Oliveira-Cunha et al8
Everyone loves their life. So, all want to be healthy. No one wants to writhe in pain. However, leading a healthy lifestyle is not as easy as it seems. It includes regular exercising and intake of nutritious food. Apart from this, it also includes the use of other healthy products such as CBD oil. If
CBD is an abbreviation for cannabinoid. Cannabinoid is a natural substance found in cannabis, also known as marijuana, and also in hemp plants. Today, you can find CBD oil in capsules, oil bases for vaporizers, tinctures, food items, and beauty products such as bath bombs or lotions. Unlike its cousin THC, CBD is not intoxicating
Although the acronym COPD may not sound like a familiar health condition, it’s the third most common cause of death by disease in the USA. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease affects more than 15.3 million Americans, deteriorating the quality of life and shortening lifespan. While doctors consider COPD incurable, researchers are analyzing the efficacy of several
By Denise Mann HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, April 29, 2021 (HealthDay News) — CBD is all the rage, and millions of people are turning to it for a host of reasons, including pain relief. But despite CBD’s popularity and widespread use, new research finds it’s actual benefits are less clear.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, July 1, 2021 / PRNewswire /-Commercial cannabis supplier DeepSix CBD has announced the grand opening of a new store in Park City Center. Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This new place will open in July 2, 2021, Offer delta Eight THC and CBD products known in the retail chain. “We are excited to increase our footprint.
At the centre of the storm around the Narcotics Control Bureau’s investigation into the alleged drug trafficking in connection with actor Rhea Chakraborty — given bail by Bombay High Court on October 7 — following the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput and what has now become an ‘inquiry’ aimed at “uprooting the drug citadel
Thinking about how to really create your own exclusive logo online – today it is available completely free of charge. You need to know the market demands and clarify the company’s policy – this will be appreciated even by the most demanding customers. Therefore, it is worth considering in advance the legend of a startup
There has never been a time that CBD oil has been as popular as it is right now. The passing of the Farm Bill in 2019 made it possible for the scientific community to study it and see what it can do for consumers. Every company that has launched provides users with a different opportunity.
Cannabidiol – known more generally by its abbreviation, CBD – is becoming commonplace in the UK market. A growing collection of products now incorporate the product. In fact, the cannabinoid can now be found in chocolates and drinks and even in clothing and pillows, to name a few! Yet, CBD oils and e-liquids remain among
You’ve probably heard the health claims: CBD will help relieve stress. It’ll help you sleep. It’ll even boost your mood. If there’s an ailment, it’s likely CBD has been offered up as a possible remedy. How can three little letters have such a big health impact? And how do you know whether CBD products could
Almost 100 different types of cannabinoids are found in Cannabis, but only two of them stand out from all the rest. One is a psychoactive agent, and the other is a potent analgesic, anti-inflammatory and anxiolytic. Yes, we’re talking about THC and CBD, respectively. The latter is the most studied phytocannabinoid, according to this study,
LITCHFIELD — In the first few minutes listening to George Manzone, owner of the Litchfield County CBD Co., one might take him for a scientist or medical doctor, as he easily rolls out words like “endocannabinoid system,” “cerebellum” and “terpene enhanced glycerides.” With further conversation, it becomes apparent that he is a bit of both.
It wasn’t so long ago that a frightening new lung disease linked to vaping dominated the news cycle. Although it might feel like a distant episode to Americans overwhelmed by COVID-19, during the summer of 2019 the vaping crisis became a national obsession. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued an alarming report that attributed
Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) Also known as ibuprofen (brand names Advil, Motrin) and naproxen (Aleve) NSAIDs are another class of pain relievers sold over the counter. They’re helpful at reducing pain caused by inflammation — like arthritis or an athletic injury — and can also aid with fevers and mild pain from headaches and muscle
A new study published in a notable medical journal has found that cannabidiol (CBD), one of the multiple compounds found in cannabis, does not impair one’s ability to drive. That’s good news for the growing number of people who utilize CBD products in a medicinal way, but there is a point of caution. The same
“Hemp-Derived Cannabidiol Market is growing at a 11% CAGR during the forecast period 2021-2027. The increasing interest of the individuals in this industry is that the major reason for the expansion of this market”. CBD is the abbreviation for cannabidiol. It is the second most common active ingredient in cannabis (marijuana). Although CBD is an
Apart from vaping e-juice made of PG, VG, water, and flavorings, people also vape CBD vape liquid made from CBD oil from the hemp or marijuana plant. It is usually used for health purposes, although there are some people who do this for leisure especially if it has significant levels of THC, which makes users
Cannabis is a well-known and commonly utilized plant species. We often see cannabis as a naturally occurring psychoactive substance that produces THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol), which we use to get “high.” Although cannabis and its compounds are available on the market for recreational purposes, it also has a wide range of additional applications. Science and experts have
An increasing number of dog owners are using CBD treats to promote better health. So, how do you choose the right CBD dog treats? CBD may help ease pain related to arthritis or joint problems and improve the overall wellbeing of your four-legged friend. If you need help finding the right product, here are our
o this day, Chris Morgan still doesn’t know if a chance bump to the head, a high fever the next day, or some combination of both caused his daughter, Jaylin, to begin experiencing seizures at two years old. But he does know, according to his podcast, JASA Talks, that when she refused to wake from
There is no doubt that CBD was an active health product back then. If you live in a state that is currently regulated, you may feel that the CBD has gone from being superior to all parents at the same time. Coffee shops selling CBD lattes, spas that offer a CBD urge leading companies to
The popularity of CBD products has rocketed over recent years, and this has been fueled by increased research and great press reports about the benefits of CBD. Over the past few years, there have been many developments within the CBD industry, with many states changing laws to make CBD products more accessible. In addition, there
HUNTSVILLE and DECATUR, Ala. – This week, Governor Ivey signed a law legalizing medical marijuana. It will come in the form of tablets, capsules and gummies, and only at the recommendation of a patient’s doctor. As for who supplies the product, that’s yet to be determined. It is also going to be a tight race,
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The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) categorizes cannabis, also known as marijuana, as a Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act. Medicare does not cover cannabis, although it may cover cannabinoid-based medications. Individual states vary in the legalization of recreational or medical cannabis within state boundaries. This article explores Medicare’s coverage of cannabis-based prescription medicine


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There is a new website for you to visit for the best deals on vans – Intelligent Van Leasing The new van website is the sister
BVRLA Chief Executive Gerry Keaney’s response to the launch of the Government’s consultation on reform to Van VED. Commenting on the announcement, Keaney said: “We
The 100 per cent electric Renault Kangoo Van Z.E.33 has reaffirmed its match winning credentials by being named ‘Best Electric Van’, with the prize being
A new tie-up will see customers of fleet software specialist FleetCheck given access to some Freight Transport Association resources in order to help them raise
The Fiat Doblo is the best van for passing the first-three-year MoT test, according to Government figures obtained by Honest John Vans.
Nissan, the world’s leading electric vehicle manufacturer has today announced its new longer range, zero-emissions van that goes further than ever on a single charge.
With April 25 marking national ‘Hug A Plumber Day’ and the start of the CV Show, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles will be using its presence at
The New PEUGEOT Expert has won yet another award, having been honoured as ‘Best Newcomer’ in the 2017 Trade Van Driver magazine awards.
Renault Trucks will be present at the International Transport and Logistics Week trade show (SITL) which will be held at the Porte de Versailles exhibition
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The male stars of TV series Made in Chelsea will be among the celebrities heading to the NEC’s Clothes Show Live.
The SW3 charmers Jamie Laing, Spencer Matthews, Oliver Proudlock, Stevie Johnson and Andy Jordan will be fronting catwalk shows and meeting fans at the five day event which runs from December 5 to 9.
Joining the well heeled TV stars are some of the UK’s top names in vlogging.
YouTube favourites Jim Chapman, Fleur De Force and Alfie Deyes will all be making special appearances at the show over the weekend.
Jamie Laing is returning to the festival of fashion and beauty as the presenter on the Image Catwalk in association with Company.co.uk from December 5 to December 7.
Then on the December 8 and 9 he will be hosting at the Alcatel Onetouch fashion theatre.
Andy Jordan is also coming back to the show with his lifestyle clothing brand, Jam Industries.
One of the original stars of ITV’s Made In Chelsea, Ollie Locke, has parlayed his love for personal grooming into a new career as style and beauty expert for men. He will be presenting on the Image Catwalk on December 8 and 9.
PointlessBlog’s Alfie and beauty vlogger Fleur will be at the show on December 6, appearing on the main stages as well as meeting fans.
Jim, best known for vlogging on pop culture and men’s fashion, will be at the NEC on December 7, co-presenting in the Alcatel Onetouch Fashion Theatre in association with Capital FM alongside TV and radio’s Rick Edwards.
Other celebs attending the show are The Only Way is Essex alumni Amy Childs and Lauren Goodger, former Made in Chelsea regular turned model and fashion designer Millie Mackintosh, pop acts Neon Jungle and Jetta, and singer and presenter Peter Andre.
Select Model Management will also be on the look out for the next Erin, Kate or Jourdan.
The winner of the “Face of” Clothes Show competition will get the chance to become the face of Barry M Cosmetics’ next campaign as well as fronting next year’s Clothes Show Live Bright Young Things Campaign.
Whereas Select used to just send scouts out looking willowy young hopefuls, now they have a dedicated area complete with a photo studio and catwalk show
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IKEA UAE, a member of Al-Futtaim group of companies, noted that the campaign to buy used furniture for resale, launched by the IKEA group, is not available in the UAE market.
A source from IKEA UAE said today, Thursday, in a statement to Al-Bayan, that the campaign that was launched in 27 countries around the world does not include the UAE.
The Swedish “IKEA” giant group in the field of installable furniture announced yesterday the launch of an unprecedented campaign to buy and sell used furniture, as it seeks to transform its business model into a recycling economy.
This campaign, entitled “Payback Friday”, which is held on the occasion of the annual marketing day known as “Black Friday”, allows customers to obtain a voucher worth up to half the price of the basic commodity, according to the company “Ingka”, which manages Nearly 90% of IKEA stores are worldwide.
The campaign, which is being held for the first time, is scheduled to take place between November 24 and December 3, 2020.
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In the fight against obesity, Americans need to re-learn proper serving sizes for meals,,,,
SUNDAY, Dec. 7 (HealthDay News) -- All-you-can-eat buffets, super-sized meals and cavernous drinks may help keep your wallet full, but they're also helping to expand your waistline.
Nutrition experts say portion control is one of the biggest factors in successfully losing weight. But Americans aren't very good at recognizing reasonable portion sizes anymore.
"If people could cut down on their portion sizes, this would be the single greatest way to combat the creeping obesity epidemic," said Madelyn Fernstrom, founding director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Weight Management Center. "It's such a simple concept, but it's hard to do. There's so much hidden fat in food, it's hard to know what a serving size is."
And, if you think consuming more food than you should at one meal isn't a big concern, consider that just "100 calories a day more than you need adds up to 10 pounds in one year," said Miriam Pappo, clinical nutrition manager at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. "That's only one or two tablespoons of salad dressing," she added.
A recent study of 120 healthy adults found that when people were given the right size portions, their weight loss efforts were much more successful. Men in the study were told to eat about 1,700 calories daily, while the women were advised to eat 1,365 calories. Both groups were also told that their diet should consist of 55 percent carbohydrates, 25 percent protein and 20 percent fat.
In addition, 30 men and 30 women were given prepackaged entrees of meat and rice and were told to add two large salads, fruit and two glasses of skim milk a day. The remaining men and women were coached on making healthy choices but were allowed to select their own portions.
In two months, the women given prepackaged portions lost 12 pounds, while those
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MEDFORD, OR -- (Marketwired) -- 07/09/13 -- Lithia Motors, Inc. (NYSE: LAD) today announced that its second quarter 2013 earnings will be released before the market opens on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. A conference call to discuss the earnings results is scheduled for the same day at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
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Lucky Dino: A white label success story
Esports Entertainment Group, through its Malta licenced subsidiary (Esports Entertainment), has acquired a Malta-licenced online casino operator – Lucky Dino Gaming Limited for $30million. The deal was announced last December but was finalised this month.
This deal sees Esports Entertainment Group gain access to Lucky Dino’s high end casino platform.
Why Lucky Dino?
Lucky Dino first started off as a single brand white-label casino operator. White labels usually have their integration ready and outsourced software deals also in place. Due to its usual outsourcing, white-labels are not in full control of their roadmap and may prove to be costly.
However, Lucky Dino were able to evolve into much more than a single brand white label casino operator. The online casino operator has an impressive portfolio which offers remarkable simplicity, scalability and flexibility. Features that any investor would be interested in.
Lucky Dino is now a multi-brand, leader and technology business rather than a single brand white label operator.
The online casino operator also boasts an impressive combination of processes, tools and solutions that include affiliate marketing software, payment servers, and a gamification and loyalty engine in their CRM system.
The CEO of Esports Entertainment Group, Grant Johnson, feels that this acquisition is vital for the Esports organisation to continue their expansion.
In addition to further strengthening our tech stack, Lucky Dino’s assets will give us a substantial foothold in multiple new jurisdictions across Europe, particularly in Scandinavia where Esports are extremely popular, and with Lucky Dino’s 25k monthly active casino players we will have tremendous cross-selling opportunities with our SportNation and VIE.bet betting platforms.
According to Johnson, in recent years Lucky Dino has experienced exponential growth with an 86% annual growth rate and the main aim of this acquisition is to bring the casino online platform to the US market, joining its VIE.bet Esports betting platform.
The online casino platform also registered revenue of $21.5million and EBITDA of $4million in their 2020 financial year.
Lucky Dino’s new adventure shows that white label operators are more than capable to evolve into something much bigger. Their journey is one that should bring about a level of admiration and respect among other operators and it may also push other white label operators to evolve into what Lucky Dino has become.
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“Japanese office worker Satoshi Tada pays for shopping, wins free food and gets store discounts all by waving his cell phone. The world’s top firms such as Visa Inc and Nokia are still mostly testing phone use for payments, but in Japan, more than 50 million, or about half of all cell phone users, already […]
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FIFA issues statement taking shots at EA's dominance of football games
FIFA has issued a statement saying football games "must involve more than one party controlling and exploiting all rights".
The on-going fracture between EA and FIFA seems to have widened over the weekend, as the football body issued a statement seemingly directly targeted at EA, noting that it believes football gaming and esports "must involve more than one party controlling and exploiting all rights".
It's been a pretty electric week in the world of football games – after EA suggested that the FIFA series may drop its now-classic branding, the publisher has trademarked EA Sports FC – hinting at what the future of the series may look like.
This apparently happened because FIFA was apparently looking to more than double the cost of its licence, looking at charging EA over $1 billion per every four-year World Cup cycle to retain the FIFA branding.
Now, as if in direct response to EA's public gestures towards ditching the FIFA name, the football body has repsonded with a statement that pulls no punches.
“FIFA is bullish and optimistic about its long-term future in gaming and eSports following a comprehensive and strategic assessment of the gaming and interactive entertainment market,” the statement says.
“Technology and mobile companies are now actively competing to be associated with FIFA, its platforms, and global tournaments. Consequently, FIFA is engaging with various industry players, including developers, investors and analysts, to build out a long-term view of the gaming, eSports and interactive entertainment sector.”
That could spell bad news for EA: though PES-successor eFootball seemed to fall at the first hurdle with its botched launch earlier this year, there are other football gaming competitors out there that could pose a viable threat to FIFA – the recently revealed UFL football, for one.
As if to challenge EA directly, the statement also notes FIFA is "excited about using the FIFA World Cup [and FIFA Women's World Cup] as platforms to launch and integrate exciting new games and eSports offerings."
It's an exciting time to be a football game fan – it looks like things are about to really shake up for the first time in over a decade.


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Revenue management is constantly changing. Here are four tips to help manage the evolution and boost the bottom line.
Lauren Rawlins has more than 15 years of hospitality experience, and previously was director of leisure sales at the Turtle Bay Resort on Oahu’s North Shore.
Developing a hotel is an incredibly unique and rewarding business venture, but it’s not one for the faint-hearted. From conception to ribbon-cutting, the hotel…
The longtime hotelier most recently served as GM of The Roosevelt New Orleans, A Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
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Customer booking trends are always changing, and it isn’t getting any easier for hotel companies to keep up.
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Buying carrots from Israel is not at the top of my shopping list any time of year, but that’s what one local farm market is selling currently. Even when root crops aren’t at their prime in the spring, buying at least Canadian carrots is a priority for me.
We all have issues and concerns around food and food security, so it’s been interesting recently to spend two sessions with a concerned group of local people drilling down on this topic.
Provincial health authority staff brought us together May 8 and again on May 28 to talk about things like gleaning vegetables, agri-tourism, ugly produce and how to advocate for better food security. We came up with all kinds of ideas.
The formation of a community food council and education for kids around cooking skills and eating local got the most votes. I learned that there’s a precedent for these discussions elsewhere in Nova Scotia.
Actually, I had heard Inverness councillor Jim Mustard speak about food security. The notion of a Cape Breton food hub, he said, took shape between 2012-14. It began with producers and grew to include public health, fisheries, farmers markets, producers and government.
Today, the Pan Cape Breton Food Hub Co-op operates as a non-profit linking local food producers to local consumers. The food hub works with about 40 producers throughout Cape Breton Island and carries out education.
Since 2013, the Halifax Food Policy Alliance has been working to build a healthy, just and sustainable food system for the Halifax Region. Last October at the Devour Food & Film Fest, the documentary film ‘Six Primrose’ about the Dartmouth North Community Food Centre provided an excellent idea of the positive impact food connections can offer.
With a large urban garden and an industrial kitchen, the food centre supports individuals to grow, cook, buy and share health food. It’s about nurturing strength and resilience.
We already have some great innovations in the Valley. The free lunch program Sharing Our Underappreciated Produce, or SOUP, is one of them. Starting slowly over a few years, SOUP has grown into a seven-day-a-week program spread between Middleton and Wolfville.
Sarah MacDonald, a community food developer with the Canadian Mental Health Association, launched the SOUP program in 2015 to fight food insecurity. Her dream is further expansion across the province.
Former Berwick restaurateur Jenny Osburn has been struggling with how to fund free school lunches. She wants to take the conversation to another level.
Starting salad bars at two schools was a terrific start, Osburn noted because vegetable and fruit consumption went way up. Hopefully other schools will foster salad bars and more local food.
I have to mention farmers like Patricia Bishop and Josh Oulton of Taproot Farm who note on Facebook when they have crops available for gleaning. Why let the spinach and cherries rot?
The Wolfville Farmers’ Market also has some super initiatives underway.
Lindsay Clowes, who manages the WFM2Go program, speaks positively about Nourishing Food Bucks. This program works with the Wolfville Area Food Bank to identify people who would benefit from support to buy healthy produce, but would also benefit from the social engagement that is part of the market environment.
The food bank selects participants, often single moms with kids, and the market provides Market Money, during the harvest season, to participants. Using Market Money means there is no stigma attached when participants access this support.
Personally, I would like to see better quality food served in hospitals. Food is an important part of healing, but you wouldn’t know that watching trays uncovered. Toronto chef Joshna Maharaj spoke here several years ago on just that topic.
Finally, I remember the wisdom of one of our elders, Peggy Hope Simpson.
“We must protect vulnerable farmland,” she said.
“It becomes clearer with every day that N.S. will need all its farmland in the future to be able to feed itself. The day is coming when it will be uneconomic to transport food from long distances, making our ‘buy local’ just the beginning.”
It makes sense to me that a food council in this region, whatever its name becomes, could bring people together, could educate and support.
The Annapolis Valley is vital to food production in this country and there are more food-related improvements we can get excited about making.
Former Advertiser and Register reporter Wendy Elliott lives in Wolfville.


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The official Instagram account of Comic Con India announced the dates for their Hyderabad event on April 26, 2023.
Hyderabad Comic Con will be a two day convention and will be held at HITEX on Oct 14-15, 2023.
Comic Con India (CCI) is a series of annual comic-based conventions held in India. The first edition was held in New Delhi in 2011 and over the years has expanded to other major cities in India such as Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad and Ahmadabad.
Jatin Varma, the founder & managing director of Comic Con India, launched the first comic con in India in Delhi in 2011. Since 2014, Comic Con India has been conducted in collaboration with ReedPop, the organisers of the New York Comic Con and the MCM London Comic Con.
In 2023 Comic Con India was held on the following dates:
- Bengaluru: Nov 19-20, 2022
- Delhi: Dec 9-11, 2022
- Mumbai: Feb 11-12, 2023
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Tile Partners for Humanity (TPFH), the partnership of tile industry members serving Habitat for Humanity, has merged with Mountain Re-Source Center (MRC), a nonprofit organization working to place donations of building materials and other products with nonprofit partners around the country.
Together, the two organizations will fulfill a pledge to Habitat for Humanity International to provide $5 million worth of tile industry products and services.Click
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TPFH formed in 2002 when Curt Rapp, CEO of The Tile Doctor, and Gray LaFortune, executive director of the Ceramic Tile Institute of America, partnered with Habitat for Humanity. Over an eight year period, Rapp and LaFortune worked with the Tile Council of North America, Ceramic Tile Distributors Association, Ceramic Tile Education Foundation, National Tile Contractors Association, and Tile Heritage Foundation to guide TPFH and direct more than $18 million of materials and services to Habitat for Humanity and other nonprofit partners


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As the US Hispanic population continues to rapidly increase, many Latinos are attempting to carve out their own slice of the American pie by starting their own businesses. In fact, Latinos are starting businesses at higher rates than any other ethnic group with Latinas and Millennials leading the charge. According to the 2017 Hispanic Wealth Project Report, Latina entrepreneurs own 17 percent of all women-owned businesses and represent 50 percent of the growth in Latino small business starts overall.
With that said, many Latino business owners still face many obstacles, particularly when scaling their businesses. The Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative released findings from their “State of Latino Entrepreneurship 2017” study which analyzed data from over 5,000 Hispanic-owned business to gather insights on the successes, and obstacles this emerging group of entrepreneurs face. Their study found that funding and access to capital remain major barriers for these business owners. According to the report, 12% of Latino-owned businesses received bank loans, compared to 18% of white-owned businesses. And, Hispanic entrepreneurs take advantage of loans provided by the US government’s Small Business Administration at even lower rates. While some Latino entrepreneurs are able to get access to funding by pooling together resources from family, friends and personal credit, scalability is hindered by not accessing more traditional small business loans and lines of credit.
Small businesses fuel our national economy and given that Latinos are increasingly becoming the New Mainstream, the growth and success of Hispanic-owned businesses should be a vital part of that the economic strategy.


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Healey: a sports marque reborn
- Classic British sports brand to be relaunched
- Two new models to carry Healey name
- First prototype already being tested
An iconic British sports car name could be reborn this year, with the arrival of new, 21st-century Healeys.
A British-American consortium called HFI is reviving the brand, perhaps best well known from the Austin-Healey collaboration, which produced cars such as the Sprite, 100 and 3000 models. HFI hopes to relaunch the marque with two new models.
It has bought the Healey Automobile Consultants company that Donald Healey established in 1955. HFI managing director Tim Fenna told the Daily Telegraph: 'I'm pretty excited about it. We've been working on this for two years.'
Fenna told the paper that the one prototype is already being tested, while work on the platform for a second is also underway.
Nanjing Automobile, the successful bidder for MG Rover, also says it plans to build sports cars at Longbridge carrying the Austin-Healey name.
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The No.1 hero of Tollywood, Superstar Mahesh Babu’s Magnum Opus 1-Nenokkadine will be coming out with its much awaited audio on 19thDecember 2013 at Shilpa Kala Vedika. South India’s No.1 film promotion agency Shreyas Media will be handling this prestigious event. This will be their 190th event. Shreyas Media promises us that 1-Nenokkadine’s audio launch will be the grandest audio launch event and will be executed in a style that has never been done before. Taking things to the next level, the audio launch event will also streamed live to numerous movie theaters across the state.
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Apple creates some of the most meticulously detailed products in the world, so it makes sense that its big-box stores are just as carefully crafted. With Foster + Partners completing its sixth project for the tech giant — a new store in Dubai that generated media hype due to its carbon-fiber “solar winged-windows” — it is fitting that the latest installment of our Architectural Details series features one of the most high-tech façade designs in the world.
Located in the Dubai Mall, a highly trafficked urban center with over 80 million visitors annually since opening in 2014, the new Apple Dubai Mall holds a coveted spot across from the Burj Khalifa overlooking the famous 900-foot-tall Dubai Fountain. The store was designed to inspire civic engagement from the street level with a focus on opening outward toward the community, unlike traditional mall-based retail.
Foster + Partners collaborated with Apple’s Chief Design Officer Jonathan Ive to design this seminal project. The two-story structure features a sweeping, 186-foot-wide 18-foot-deep terrace that provides unparalleled views of its prominent surroundings. Wrapping the front façade, a massive oriel window includes a unique system of 18 moving “solar wings” that shade the terrace during the day and open dramatically at night to reveal stunning views. The design is a contemporary take on the traditional Arabic Mashrabiya, a projected bay window characterized by its decorative wooden screen.
These interactive shutters, inspired to look like an eagle flapping its wings, showcase the classically bright Apple interior and its elegant display of products. The lightweight carbon-fiber wings themselves create a theatrical experience for onlookers and shoppers inside the store. Each wing includes multiple layers of tubes that form a dense but permeable “net” that precisely filters light.
Solar Wings — middle module, upper mechanism reflected plan. The carbon-fiber wings resist oxidation and are extremely lightweight. Each wing is 37.5 feet tall and 10 feet wide and weighs 1 ton.
“Following an in-depth study of sun angles, the rods have been distributed in higher concentration where the solar radiation is the most intense over the year,” said Foster + Partners in a statement. “The unique pattern allows clear views out for people standing on both levels of the store, and the sunlight streaming through the wings casts dappled shadows deep into the interior.”
Left: Solar Wings — middle module, sectional elevation. Right: Solar Wings — schematic mechanism. Each wing is constructed out of 340 carbon-fiber rods whose geometry was carefully designed to never intersect. The wings are motorized and take one minute to open and close.
Visitors can enter the store through full-height, glazed pivoting doors on both levels. A specially designed accessories display area called The Avenue will exist on the lower level along with Apple’s signature display tables and a grove of trees with circular planters — a new feature Apple is incorporating into its stores similar to the other Foster + Partners projects on Regent Street in London and Union Square in San Francisco.
Apple is in the midst of reimagining its retail presence as “town squares” or “social schools” where residents and tourists can come to peruse the latest tech gadgets or take classes on photography, video, coding, social media and more as part of its new global in-store experience, “Today at Apple.” The new San Francisco store even includes an outdoor public plaza where visitors can relax and enjoy free Wi-Fi. In this case, Apple’s distinctive façade further heightens the company’s connection with and influence on community life.
Photos by Nigel Young
This change in Apple’s retail approach shows its newfound commitment toward creating community and providing entertainment rather than simply selling products. In 2014, the former CEO of fashion brand Burberry, Angela Ahrendts, was brought on to overhaul its retail offerings. With this news and the opening of a new Apple Store in Dubai, the company is clearly taking major strides toward a more holistic and perhaps artistic way of making Apple’s brand even more visible and bold to the public — a paradoxical idea because its stores are usually crystal clear “barely there” pieces of architecture.
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, a firm that has taken on the role of designing Apple’s smaller stores with a picture-perfect brand identity, most recently completed one for the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto. It also headed up the design of the iconic 5th Avenue Cube and the new store inside the World Trade Center’s Oculus.
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But of all the stores that populate cities around the globe, Apple Store Dubai is possibly the epitome of this quasi-social entertainment space the company is working toward creating. It evokes an immediate sense of spectacle as soon as you see it from the street.
Stefan Behling, Head of Studio, Foster + Partners, thinks the structure will become a “true people’s place” and inspire the evolving role Apple Flagships will have in the future of the communities they inhabit around the world.
Photo by Nigel Young
Foster + Partners is also recently completed Apple’s new 175-acre campus in Cupertino, California. Holding up to 12,000 employees, Apple Park resembles a massive spaceship complete with the world’s largest panels of curved glass. It has been lauded as one of most energy-efficient commercial buildings created to date.
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Tesla Motors Unveils Its $35,000 Model 3 Electric Car, Pre-Sells a Ton of Them
A very real "shut up and take my money" scenario.
Tesla’s big on high performance electric cars, but they’ve generally been priced out of range of most of the population. The Model 3, unveiled last night, aims to change that, and despite its price being still a bit high, starting at $35,000, and its late 2017 shipping window, they’ve already sold a whole lot of them.
In the first 24 hours of preorders yesterday, during most of which the car had yet to be revealed at all, at least 130,000 were spoken for. That’s even more impressive considering that the required downpayment was $1,000. Luckily for those preorder customers, the car sounds exactly as impressive as we’ve come to expect, though $35,000 is, of course, the starting price before any options are added (and without factoring in any environmentally friendly incentives).
However, even that cost of admission gets you plenty of bang (or not, because of the lack of a combustion engine) for your buck. As Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk put it at the unveiling event, “You will not be able to buy a better car for $35,000.” The Model 3 goes from o–60 in under six seconds, achieves at least 215 miles of range on a single charge, seats five adults “comfortably” according to the presentation (you’ll have to be the judge on that one), is promised to hit the highest safety ratings, and comes with the same autopilot features found on other Tesla vehicles.
So, with the Model 3 and its oncoming competition, be prepared for a near future of more and more electric-only vehicles on the road. Also be more prepared for people doing dumb stuff like this with them, I guess. Drive safe.
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The iPhone 5 has been called the slowest smartphone in "Which?" magazine's recent tests, with the Samsung Galaxy S4 coming out on top. These results shouldn't be surprising seeing as how the iPhone 5 was released in September of 2012. iPhone 5 users should be flattered, if anything, that their beloved handset is still a benchmark, and that almost a year later a new smartphone won't be a winner unless it can compete with the current iPhone model.
The iPhone 5 is running a dual core 1.2 GHz A6 processor w/ 1GB of RAM, this versus the S4's quad core 1.9 GHz processor and 2 GB RAM. It only makes sense that that S4 stats nearly doubled that of the iPhone. But hardware isn't everything, and if speed and power were the most important features than everyone would be driving pick-up trucks and sports cars.
The team over at MacWorld says the iPhone 5 as a daily use phone seems less glitchy than the Galaxy S4, that can be attributed to the finely tuned operating system Apple has worked out for us. Samsung's TouchWiz isn't exactly perfect yet according to reports. Don't be sad iPhone 5 users (myself included) many still prefer the iOS experience over faster hardware anyday.
Which? included several other smartphones in its test, including the latest offerings from HTC and BlackBerry. Here’s how the top 7 looked:
1. Samsung Galaxy S4
2. HTC One
3. Sony Xperia Z
4. Google Nexus 4
5. Samsung Galaxy Note 2
6. BlackBerry Z10
7. Apple iPhone 5
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Freelancing in the Netherlands? There’s a new way for you to swap cash for office space, on the fly.
Deskbookers, an online platform for booking work and meeting spaces, today announced that it has secured $1.6 million in seed funding from Point Nine Capital and a couple angel investors with experience in the booking and travel space--Arthur Kosten (former CMO of Booking.com) and Marcel Beemsterboer (co-founder and former CEO of Emesa.nl).
Point Nine Capital, which led the round, is a Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm primarily focused on SaaS and online marketplaces. The firm, which invests both in Europe and the U.S., now has 55 companies in its portfolio and has raised a total of $100M for its three funds. One of its notable investments was an early bet on Zendesk, the customer service and support system today trading on the New York Stock Exchange (under ZEN) for around $25.50 per share.
On Deskbookers, Point Nine Capital’s newest investment, you can search among four general categories of spaces: meeting spaces (for larger groups), meeting rooms (for smaller groups), training rooms, and workspaces. You can filter by how many people you need to accommodate, pricing, as well as other parameters, such as whether there's free parking or WiFi available.
Though it’s far from the first company to target freelancers looking to rent out space for meetings or other work, Deskbookers claims be Europe’s largest.
One of the big names stateside is New York-based WeWork, which has raised over $1 billion in funding. Even before the company's $434 million round this past summer, the company had been valued at around $5 billion, joining fellow sharing economy companies Uber and Airbnb in the unicorn club. Today, WeWork operates in 13 cities in the U.S., three in Israel, and one each in the U.K. (London) and the Netherlands (Amsterdam).
"I consider WeWork a brand or label in our industry," said Deskbookers founder Jeroen Arts in an email. "It is a subset of (fantastic) venues that clearly sets the bar for providing a great work environment. However, Deskbookers operates on the meta level and includes WeWork-kinds of venues in a broader offering. We also provide a great end-to-end experience for customers and venue hosts."
Deskbookers, which takes a 15 percent cut of every booking processed on the site, says they're currently processing millions of Euros in annual revenue. They wouldn't get any more specific than that, but they say they do about 7,000 bookings per month, with nearly 100,000 bookings processed to date.
The seed funding will be used to “double down on expansion and growth,” says Deskbookers founder Jeroen Arts. That means launching in five new countries (including the U.K.), going mobile, and adding new features. The 23-person, Amsterdam-based company will also be building out its product and marketing teams.
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I was tipped off that a widespread effort is underway to game the Books category of iOS apps in the iTunes App store. It appears that a coordinated effort is underway to use iTunes accounts to purchase specific apps to drive them up in rankings.
This of course affects those who have unauthorized charges to their credit card, and also those developers with apps in competition for rankings in the book category.
My guess would be that the unethical developer behind this push would also game up competitors apps so that it is unclear which is at fault or benefiting the most from the hacking. It seems that Apple should have checks and balances to detect for and trigger a flag when a previously unpopular, over-priced iOS app is suddenly in the top 10.
Evidence of folks who have discovered hacks are currently in the comments for some of the apps that have made their way up through gaming. Currently “Conan 3” an app described as “this is a application to read book” by Thuat Nguyen is in position #9 in the books category today. One of the reviews is as follows:
Someone out there is hacking into people’s iTunes accounts. This just happened to me last night. Luckily, my bank is right on top of things like this and did not authorize release of the funds and closed the account. Keep a watchful eye on your account information….often!”
Here’s a screen shot of that app’s preview page as it stands. Here are a few tweets about folks getting their iTunes account hacked and an article from May on what the fallout when your iTunes account gets hacked.
Consider updating your iTunes password to include numbers, characters and capitalization!


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SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE
Public Affairs Office
Contact: Adrienne Fairwell
Phone: (803) 898-5287
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 9, 2007
South Carolinians to Soon See Additional Savings on Grocery Bill
Beginning November 1, 2007 there will be no state sales and use tax on unprepared food items
Columbia, SC…Taxpayers will soon see savings when buying unprepared food items. Effective November 1, 2007 the current three percent state sales and use tax rate on unprepared food items will be eliminated.
Legislation recently passed and signed by Governor Mark Sanford states that unprepared food items which lawfully may be purchased with United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) coupons i.e., food stamps and electronic benefits transfer cards will be exempt from the current three percent state sales and use tax rate.
This exemption does not apply to local option taxes administered and collected by the SC Department of Revenue on behalf of counties and other jurisdictions, unless otherwise specifically exempted.
Unprepared food items do not have to be purchased with USDA coupons in order to get the exemption, and food purchased with USDA food coupons will continue to be free from the tax. Additionally, persons 85 years of age and older purchasing unprepared food items will receive the state sales and use tax rate exemption.
For a listing of food eligible for the state sales and use tax rate exemption and frequently asked questions please visit the South Carolina Department of Revenue Web site, www.sctax.org, and scroll to "What's New."


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Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld explained that the vision of India he depicted in the house’s Paris-Bombay-themed fashion show Tuesday was “a fantastical idea of India.”
That goes without saying. The setting – in Paris’ Grand Palais – was a decadent banquet of high tea treats and crystal chandeliers.
The clothes too, with their embroidered pearls and matte gold and silver detail, were spectacular in a fairy-tale kind of way.
The Bombay blowout hinted at a kind of fin-d’epoque lavishness that the luxury-goods industry has grappled with for a few years now. Throughout the economic upheavals of the last three years, high-end fashion houses have sought to balance the escapism that clients often buy into to justify a splurge with a new frugality and changing perceptions of wealth, as captured by the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Mr. Lagerfeld said this collection – dedicated to the craftsmen who manufacture for Chanel – is “a struggle against morosity even with what little remains,” Mr. Lagerfeld said after the show. He described India as a country where “even the poor have dignity…even poor women own three gold bracelets.”
The clothes and accessories were strictly for the 1%. There were nehru jackets in ivory, sweaters that draped over the shoulder like a sari, and thigh-high flat white boots that looked like the leggings, or churidars, men and women wear under larger tops.
They were heavy on embroidery and other couture techniques that are dying out – specialized craftsmanship that Chanel has invested to maintain, by buying up small French suppliers in recent years. (It just acquired its eighth supplier, Atelier Montex for crochet and needle-work, this week.) Though the clothes from the craftsmanship collections aren’t usually as breathtakingly expensive as Chanel’s couture line, they are more elaborate – and costly – than the standard ready-to-wear.


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Man tries to sell cat online, duped of ₹1 lakh
According to the police, the complainant, a student from Andheri (West), had put up an ad on OLX to sell his cat. On August 22 he received a phone call from the cyber-fraudster who expressed interest in buying the pet.Updated: Aug 29, 2019 06:58 IST
A 21-year-old man who was trying to illegally sell his cat on an online marketplace app was duped of ₹1 lakh by a cyber-fraudster who posed as a potential buyer. The DN Nagar police registered a first information report (FIR) against the fraudster on August 25.
According to the police, the complainant, a student from Andheri (West), had put up an ad on OLX to sell his cat. On August 22 he received a phone call from the cyber-fraudster who expressed interest in buying the pet.
The fraudster said he would make an advance payment and asked the complainant to download an e-wallet to his phone. The complainant complied and the fraudster then sent him a link to launch the transaction for the advance payment, police said. However, instead of crediting money into the complainant’s account, money was being withdrawn from his account.
In five transactions, a total of ₹1 lakh was withdrawn from his bank account, following which the complainant realised he had been duped. He then approached the DN Nagar police and an FIR was lodged under sections 419 (impersonation) and 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code and 66C (identity theft) and 66D (impersonation using computer resource) of the IT Act.
The police are also considering action against the complainant for the illegal sale of his cat. Online trade of animals is prohibited under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Pet Shop) Rules, 2018. “We will take a legal opinion on the matter and take appropriate action,” said Parmeshwar Ganame, senior inspector of DN Nagar police station.
“OLX prohibits all illegal acts on its platform. Therefore, all advertisements relating to the sale of animals which are not allowed to be traded in accordance with the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, are prohibited. In addition to wild animals, we also do not allow any advertisements which relate to the sale of dogs - which is regulated by the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Dog Breeding and Marketing) Rules,” said an OLX spokesperson.


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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Putting animal rights over fashion and its own vibrant shopping scene, West Hollywood’s leaders voted to approve on Tuesday a first-in-the-nation ban on the sale of fur clothing within city limits.
The five-member City Council of the tiny, tony municipality wedged between Beverly Hills and Hollywood voted 3-to-1 with one abstention to endorse the ordinance, which would take effect in 2013, said City Councilman John Heilman, who voted “no.”
The ban was tentatively adopted by the council on September 20 and had been expected to win easy enactment two weeks later. But it ran into stiff opposition from the local Chamber of Commerce and the fur industry, whose main trade group, the Fur Information Council of America, is based in West Hollywood.
Ultimately, the city’s famously left-leaning political establishment embraced the ban, won over by supporters’ arguments that furs are produced from animals that are inhumanely killed for their pelts.
The latest vote came shortly before 1 a.m., capping a contentious, hours-long debate.
“We made history. We’re the first place in the world, I believe, certainly the country, to take that step and ban fur,” said Ed Buck, an organizer of the local group Fur Free WeHo.
Opponents predicted dire consequences for local retailers. They said nearly half of the 200 apparel stores in town sell at least some fur items, and that merchandise made with animal pelts is estimated to account for up to $2 million in revenues for those businesses each year.
“I am just so baffled by this. This is pure politics at its worst,” said Keith Kaplan, executive director of the Fur Information Council.
Contrary to the impression both sides initially gave that Tuesday’s action was final, city officials corrected themselves on Wednesday to clarify that final adoption and enactment requires yet another vote, expected to occur in two weeks.
FURNITURE IS FINE
As passed by the council the measure would outlaw the sale of any garment made “in whole or part from the pelt or skin of an animal with its hair, wool or fur.”
The ordinance cites as explicit examples furs made from a fox, mink, rabbit, bear, seal or chinchilla. Clothing made from wool sheared from sheep is not affected by the ban, nor is furniture or leather goods.
The council also adopted an exemption for “vintage” garments containing fur.
The effective date of the measure was pushed back to September 21, 2013, from June 30, 2012, as originally proposed, in part because city officials want to conduct their own study on how the ordinance will affect businesses, Heilman said.
The delay also gives officials time to finalize details on how the measure will be enforced, said Michelle Rex, an aide to City Councilman John D’Amico, who spearheaded the ban.
But she said penalties for violations, which would be considered an “administrative offense” rather than a crime, would range from warnings to fines.
West Hollywood’s proposed fur ban is not the first action city officials have taken on behalf of four-legged creatures. In 2010, the town took a stand against the puppy mill industry by banning the sale of dogs and cats from pet stores.
By then, the city already had gained attention for outlawing the declawing of pet cats in an ordinance that was challenged by the veterinary industry and eventually led to passage of a California state law barring cities from adopting similar measures.
The city in 1996 also passed California’s first ban on so-called “Saturday night specials,” inexpensive pistols seen as contributing to impulsive gun violence.
Despite years of protests against fur clothing by animal rights activists, consumers are still flocking to fur. Total sales nationally last year rose 3.1 percent to $1.3 billion, according to the Fur Information Council.
(This story corrects with city officials saying one more vote is needed for final passage and enactment; conforming paragraphs 1, 2, 5 and 9)
Reporting by Jason Kandel; Writing by Steve Gorman: Editing by Alex Dobuzinskis and Cynthia Johnston
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Infobip Brings Chinese Enterprises and Organizations to a Global Arena
Infobip, leading communications platform company for businesses, providing Chinese enterprises, financial institutions and organizations mobile messaging solutions, will showcase how any Chinese entity can reach and support its global market at MWC Shanghai from June 27th to June 29th, 2018.
By using Infobip’s OMNI solution, Chinese businesses can choose the optimal communication channels when reaching their international customers and clients, including SMS, number of chat app messages, email, voice, in-app push messages and Rich Communications Services (RCS).
Xiaomi, a leading global internet company with smartphones and smart hardware connected by an IoT platform at its core, uses Infobip’s Application Program Interface (API) in multiple ways. Services utilized include One Time Password (OTP) communications for account registrations, and 2-Way SMS allowing for added engagement with the company’s global customers. According to the analyst consulting firm PwC, China’s online retail sales reached 1.4 trillion Yuan, approximately 218,2 billion USD in the first quarter of 2017. A striking 32.1 percent higher than just one year ago.
To schedule an interview with Infobip at booth N1.C70 at MWC Shanghai please email us at: [email protected]
Founded over a decade ago by two young developers Infobip grew into an international business with offices on six continents offering proprietary, in-house developed messaging platform with the capacity to reach over six billion mobile devices connected to over 800 telecoms networks.
Infobip innovates at the intersection of Internet and telecoms technologies, creating new ways and opportunities for businesses and their end users to interact over mobile devices. The company serves and partners with leading mobile operators, OTTs, banks, social networks, tech companies and aggregators.
Xiaomi is an internet company with smartphones and smart hardware connected by an IoT platform at its core. Xiaomi was founded in 2010 by visionary entrepreneur Lei Jun and a group of accomplished engineers and designers, who believed that high-quality and well-designed technology products and services should be accessible to the world. The company’s mission is to relentlessly build amazing products with honest prices to let everyone in the world enjoy a better life through innovative technology. With presence in more than 70 markets worldwide, Xiaomi is a global player that has successfully achieved a foothold in key international markets.
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Lightmap has announced the availability of HDR Light Studio v3.0. New features include localized exposure, color and saturation tools using new light blending modes, custom fall-off curves, a new color system for lighting artists, and Collada support.
“The new blending modes for lights in version 3.0 are awesome,” said Bruce Bigelow, creative director and partner at Electric Art, via a press statement issued by Lightmap. “ because you can dodge and burn huge areas of high-res HDRI backgrounds instantly and with an incredible smoothness you can’t achieve in any other software. With the new custom fall-off curves, new light shapes are infinite. It’s a quantum leap from 2.0.”
HDR Light Studio is a lighting toolkit that can be used stand-alone by importing 3D scenes into LiveLight, or in conjunction with a number of Live plug-in partners, including KeyShot, Maxwell Studio, Deep Exploration, VRED and Patchwork3D.
“The new blending modes in v3.0 are game changing additions to HDR Light Studio. The ability to fine tune exposure, color and saturation within the software is invaluable. It can make the difference between a nice image and an amazing one,” according to Greg Peruski, CGI artist at Mid Coast Studio via the Lightmap press statement. “I also appreciate the ability to place a back-plate image in the LiveLight window now. It makes the process of lighting more intuitive … Being able to see your lighting in context with the back-plate is a huge benefit.”
For more information, visit Lightmap.
Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.


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Namco Relases FY2003/2004 Results, Talks Current FY Plans
05.21.04 - 1:48 AM
Namco has posted its financial results for the fiscal year 2003/2004. The company reported sales of 172.59 billion yen ($1.53 billion US) and a net profit of 7.55 billion yen ($66.79 million US). Its most popular title during the 12 months ending on March 31st was the multiplatform fighting game Soul Calibur II. With its fourth installment, the Taiko no Tatsujin series has reached sales of two million copies. Sales of the two GameCube RPGs, Tales of Symphonia and Baten Kaitos: Owaranai Tsubasa to Ushinawareta Umi, among others, however did not live up to expectations.
For the current fiscal year ending ending on March 31st 2005, Namco predicts sales of 188 billion yen ($1.66 billion US) and a net profit of 8.5 billion yen ($75.19 million US). In order to achieve these projections the company plans to release 103 titles (compared to 53 titles during the previous fiscal year) and ship 18.80 million copies of software (compared to 16 million copies during the 12 months which ended on March 31st). Among those titles will also be launch titles for both Sony Computer Entertainment's PSP and the Nintendo DS. The two handhelds will be available in Japan in late 2004. At last week's E3, Namco demonstrated an enhanced version of Tales of Eternia for PSP.


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AirAsia Starting To See Markets Open Up
The AirAsia Group is starting to benefit from a recovery in demand as travel restrictions ease in its main Southeast Asian markets, and it expects this momentum to continue through the end of this year and early 2022.
AirAsia said it aims to fly 61% of pre-COVID-19 pandemic capacity in the domestic markets in which it operates by December.
AirAsia’s core Malaysia-based operation, AirAsia Malaysia, has been suffering this year due to domestic movement controls in place since January 2021, as well as international travel restrictions. However, AirAsia Malaysia more than doubled the number of passengers carried in September compared to August, with load factor rising significantly month-over-month.
This increase was mainly driven by the introduction of a travel bubble for the Malaysian resort destination of Langkawi (LGK), which allowed domestic visitors from September and international visitors from mid-November.
AirAsia Malaysia has “observed a continuous improvement in bookings” since September, Bo Lingam, CEO of the group’s aviation operations, said. The recovery was further boosted when domestic interstate travel was allowed to resume more broadly from Oct. 11. Some international travel restrictions were also relaxed.
International traffic should also benefit from the introduction later this month of a vaccinated travel lane (VTL) between Malaysia and Singapore. The VTL will enable AirAsia Malaysia to restart its Kuala Lumpur (KUL)-Singapore (SIN) service from the end of November.
The AirAsia Group’s other carriers in Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines have also seen “a significant increase in seats sold for immediate and near-term travel,” Lingam said.
AirAsia “expects to see a continuation of this upward trend throughout the fourth quarter and well into 2022 as global travel restrictions continue to ease,” Lingam said, adding: “The upcoming year-end holiday season will further spur air travel demand, especially in the visiting friends and relatives (VFR) as well as the leisure and spontaneous travel markets.”
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Tesco has come in for a fresh round of criticism over the pay of its senior executives.
Investment group CtW has written to senior independent director Patrick Cescau calling on him to voice shareholders’ concerns over pay and the perceived underperformance of Tesco’s US business at tomorrow’s AGM.
"Poor performance and inadequate disclosure at Tesco's US venture are at the heart of mounting investor concerns over the board's strategic oversight and commitment to transparency and pay for performance," CtW wrote.
Cescau joined the Tesco board in 2009 after standing down as chief executive of fmcg giant Unilever. His involvement comes after CtW earlier this month wrote to Tesco shareholders questioning the £7m pay of Fresh & Easy boss Tim Mason.
Meanwhile, shares in the Tesco took a tumble yesterday after City analysts questioned the profitability of the UK’s largest retailer. Citigroup said Tesco had adopted a “more aggressive policy” than rivals over its accounting practices.
“If we put Tesco on more comparable accounting to other companies in our sector, it appears to be a much less profitable entity,” the broker claimed.
Shares in Tesco slid by 2.5% in the wake of the comments.
Tesco takes over US supplier duo (22 June 2010)
Tesco defends pay of Fresh & Easy chief Mason (18 June 2010)
Cescau is the latest heavyweight to join Tesco's non-execs (17 January 2009)


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Microsoft has published a new Windows Phone update, build 8107, to resolve a problem where the soft keyboard sometimes disappears, leaving users no way to type anything on the phone. The bug can affect any handset on any carrier, so it should be rolled out to everyone as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, Microsoft isn't willing to say who will actually receive the update, or when.
During the troubled rollout of the NoDo update, the company published a useful guide to tell users how far through the approval and deployment process their particular combination of handset and carrier were, allowing them to have a good idea when each upgrade would be available.
However, in a blog post announcing the new patch (or rather, confirming: the update had already started to roll out some days previously) on Friday, Eric Hautala, General Manager of "Customer Experience Engineering" at Microsoft, said that going forward, the company would no longer provide such detailed information. Major feature updates will still be publicised, but minor patches—security updates, stability improvements, bug fixes—would now be secret. There would be no posts to the Windows Phone blog to announce their availability and no updates to the published schedule to inform users of when they'd actually be able to install the update.
This isn't a new policy as such; it's the same policy that the company used when it launched the operating system. But the response has been uniformly and consistently hostile. Windows Phone users want to know what patches are out there, and they want to know when their mobile operators are stiffing them.
At the end of 2011, former Microsoft employee Charlie Kindel made the argument that consumer-favoring decisions—tight regulation of carrier crapware, uniform hardware specifications and hence good software compatibility, centralized operating system upgades—were hindering Windows Phone's acceptance among network operators. The carriers were denied the ability to remove features they didn't like and to put their own stamp on the software.
The ability to bar updates was perhaps the biggest obvious concession that Microsoft made to the phone networks; while it was far from the sole cause of the NoDo issues (a software failure to check for free disk space before performing the update, and Samsung's decision to silently ship two different hardware versions of its Focus were also big issues), it was one of the most aggravating. Being denied an update because it's not compatible with your phone hardware is frustrating, but understandable—it's better to have no update than a bricked phone. Being denied an update because your mobile operator can't be bothered to sign off on it is a whole lot more annoying: there was no technical reason for the delays, just mobile operators making a nuisance of themselves.
In the wake of the NoDo issues, we were concerned by this very problem, but the swift and universal roll-out of the major Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" upgrade did a lot to convince us that the procedural problems were all fixed. It appears that our hope was misguided.
The entire rationale for carrier testing and approval is unclear, with Microsoft conceding that Apple doesn't bother asking for the mobile operators to test or approve iOS updates before shipping them. There's generally no benefit to consumers from giving carriers this kind of control, but as a minor concession to make the phone networks a little happier about the platform, it's understandable.
Keeping the availability and timing of updates secret similarly offers no benefit at all to consumers. Microsoft watcher Paul Thurrott has opined that the decision to stop keeping customers in the know might even be a deliberate ploy to keep the carriers on-side by sparing them from embarrassment. Obviously, Microsoft can't afford to poison the various relationships it has with partners, so it's understandable that the company avoids making its its partners look bad even when they screw up—the company avoided pointing the finger at Yahoo! when Yahoo!'s broken mail servers caused excessive data usage, for instance, and it avoided calling out Samsung for its Focus hardware shenanigans.
But when an operator is refusing to allow distribution of a small, low-risk update that everyone needs, we think that perhaps it's the time to do the right thing by the users and let them know what's going on. Until every update goes as smoothly as the Mango update, Windows Phone customers deserve the extra information.


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Skype now on Symbian Belle phones
Skype is now available on Nokia phones running Symbian Belle
Skype has released a new version of its mobile app for the Symbian Belle operating system. Previously, Nokia handsets running Symbian Belle had no way of running the VoIP app.
The release of this new version is quite timely because a number of smartphones are expected to be updated to Symbian Belle on 8 February, including the Nokia N8, Nokia E7 and the Nokia C6-01.
This new release of Skype supports voice calling, instant messaging and updates the user interface to match Symbian Belle. Overall performance has also been improved, with the only downside being that video calling isn't supported.
Currently the new version of Skype is only available in the US but should be hitting the UK market in the next couple of weeks.


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The world’s first commercial spaceline targeting the tourism industry, Virgin Galactic, has picked Spaceport Sweden as its first operational base outside of the United States. The space launch centre is located in Kiruna, and hopes to become Europe’s hub for the burgeoning travel sector set to liftoff in the coming years.
Virgin Galactic also named the five travel companies that it would train to become “Accredited Space Agents” (ASAs). These agencies will be the only firms allowed to sell suborbital space flights with Virgin. The new ASAs are The Search in Malmo, Upplevelseakuten AB in Stockholm, Ice Hotel Travel in Jukkasjarvi, Area Travel Agency in Helsinki, and Hannibal & Marco Polo A/S in Aarhus.
Carolyn Wincer, Head of Astronaut Sales for Virgin Galactic, told the Swedish Space Corporation: “We were extremely impressed with the professionalism and innovation shown by travel agencies in the Scandinavian region. Travel agents play an important part in Virgin Galactic’s distribution process.”
Johanna Bergstrom-Roos, information manager of Spaceport Sweden, added “We have been looking forward to the announcement of Virgin’s winning ASAs. They will now become part of a truly unique and exciting new sector within both space and tourism. Spaceport Sweden will provide infrastructure, services and adventures for space tourism.”


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PAUANUI CRAFT BEER & GIN FESTIVAL (SOLD OUT)Sep
24Saturday, Doors open at 12:00pm
A big new event is coming to Pauanui town, brought to you by Harcourts Pauanui…. the inaugural Pauanui Craft Beer and Gin Festival!!! Whangamata has Beach Hop, Whitianga has Scallop Festival, Tairua has the Wine and Food Festival and now it’s time to put Pauanui on the map with its very own large event!
Set down for the afternoon of Saturday 25 September, the Pauanui Club is hosting the event with craft beer breweries, gin distilleries, a band and DJ, food trucks, a coffee cart and more, this is an event not to be missed and will bring people from all over!
An idea coming to life by Pauanui Club Manager, Gary Smith that he “knows will be well received and hopes that if this year is successful, it will grow each year and just get bigger and better!” When approaching the breweries and distilleries to pitch the idea, it was their passion for their craft and enthusiasm for the festival that has meant this inaugural event is now going to be larger than initially planned.
Sponsorship in small towns is always hard with the same businesses often being hounded to contribute, but Harcourts Pauanui were excited to be part of new and different event for the town and are hands on with the organising.
And just to top it all off a percentage of the proceeds from this year’s event will be donated to a national charity on the back of the Pauanui Sports and Recreation Club’s Corporate lunch – 23 October 2021 another event well worth checking out!


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Profits double at bullish Thorn
Wednesday 23 August 1995
Thorn EMI, the music and rentals business that is considering a demerger, reported a bullish set of quarterly results yesterday but warned that one-off gains meant current growth rates would not continue for the rest of the year.
Reporting doubled pre-tax profits of pounds 64m for the three months to June, Sir Colin Southgate, chairman, said the results were boosted by the elimination of losses at the Rumbelows chain of electrical stores, which were closed earlier this year.
The inclusion of figures from the Toshiba-EMI joint venture also led to sharply higher profits at the EMI music-label subsidiary.
"As a result, we would caution against extrapolating this quarter's growth rate to the year- end," Sir Colin said. "However, our performance in the first quarter leads us to anticipate another good year."
Shares in Thorn, which have almost doubled this year on de-merger speculation, fell in early trading yesterday as the company failed to make any further comments on the separation of its music business, but closed 4p higher at 1,437p.
At the company's annual meeting in July, Sir Colin confirmed that a demerger would be in the best interests of shareholders. The company will consider plans to hive off its rental business, which includes the Radio Rentals chain and the fast-growing Crazy George's format. The HMV record chain will be included with the EMI music business. City analysts expect the split to go ahead next year.
Several American groups are rumoured to be interested in acquiring EMI, including Disney, Viacom and Dreamworks, the David Geffen-Stephen Spielberg entertainment company that recently signed George Michael from Sony.
EMI is Britain's last remaining large record label, competing against Time Warner of the US, Sony of Japan, Bertellsman of Germany and Polygram, part of the Dutch group Philips. The break-up value of the group is estimated at around pounds 6.4bn. EMI could be worth pounds 4.6bn, the rentals business pounds 1.5bn and HMV around pounds 300m.
All three of Thorn's main businesses reported strong growth in the three months to June, contributing to doubled group profits of pounds 64m. EMI saw profits increase 20 per cent to pounds 40m. Profits at the rentals business rose by 42 per cent to pounds 36m, helped by the sale of Rumbelows, which recorded a loss of pounds 6m in the same period last year.
HMV also improved, helped by the opening of 20 more stores, while stronger trading at Dillons, the bookstore group bought from the receivers earlier this year, lifted like-for-like sales 3.6 per cent.
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Geiger Names Gemline 2020 Production Partner Of The Year
Geiger (PPAI 105182, D12) has named Lawrence, Massachusetts-based supplier Gemline (PPAI 113948, S11) its 2020 Production Partner of the Year. Gemline is already a Platinum Partner, the top tier Lewiston, Maine-headquartered Geiger awards to any production partner.
“Our preferred production partner program is set up to benefit our production partners and our sales partners,” says Jo-an Lantz, MAS, Geiger’s president and CEO. “Our sales partners have incentives to do business with our preferred partners, ensuring that we reward the partners who take care of our team the best. This ensures a smooth experience for everyone, including the client.”
Kim Beaudin, director of vendor relations, adds, “Gemline excelled at providing differentiated products during 2020 including high-quality PPE.”
Geiger’s sales with Gemline increased in 2020, a year where most businesses experienced a decline. “In addition to product development, they reliably provided kitting and drop-shipping services,” says Beaudin. “Having true partners like Gemline in 2020 was critical to our ability to meet our clients’ needs. For example, when freight issues occurred, Gemline helped us work through them far beyond what we saw from others.”
Gemline was selected from 60 production partners as the winner after a thorough review of service, sales, product safety and other factors including compelling new products. Instead of a physical award, Geiger made a donation to the Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence in Gemline’s honor.


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