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The motorsports destination that’s in the works in the Casa Grande and Pinal County areas is projected to add more than 6,000 jobs to the area, according to a recent report released by the project’s developers.
Approximately 61 percent of the future Attesa employees will reside in Pinal County, according to updated projections from an Economic Impact Study prepared by Elliott D. Pollack & Company.
Casa Grande is projected to benefit the most from incremental local economic activity associated with nearly 5,000 Attesa employees. Maricopa, the county’s second largest city, is projected as the home of nearly 1,600 Attesa employees upon buildout.
Attesa, a $1.1 billion project, will initially recruit over 8,000 workers in the construction and building industry as it produces two racing circuits, a 300-room hotel and 20,000-square-foot conference center, driving club, multi-use venue, waste water treatment plant and solar canopied plaza. Post grand opening, workers will be needed for ongoing home and commercial building, new on-site high tech and motorsports/transportation design companies, retail and hospitality partners, air park businesses, maintenance, security and more.
Tim Kanavel, director of economic development for Pinal County, said, “It will start with construction and then go from there. Jobs are going to be created, ongoing, and most of those people will live in Casa Grande, Maricopa, Eloy and Coolidge. The influx of new visitors and residents will create more jobs at restaurants, retailers and other consumer companies. Attesa is going to bring a lot of jobs and new residents. We’re glad Attesa chose Pinal County as their home.”
“We’re essentially going to build a mini-city,” said Dan Erickson, member/manager of Danrick Builders, the company developing Attesa. “We’re going to welcome tech companies who need to research, develop and test, and people who have a passion for performance cars and driving them at speed, and guests who want to be entertained with uncompromised customer service. To provide the best experience possible, in all those areas, we’re going to need people. And most of them will be local, within the County.”
In addition to those jobs projected for residents of Casa Grande and Maricopa, the report indicates that Attesa will provide employment opportunities for residents of Coolidge (313 estimated jobs), San Tan Valley (over 200 jobs), Arizona City (200 jobs), Florence (160 jobs) and Apache Junction (almost 100 jobs).
Attesa anticipates over 15,000 direct and indirect jobs upon buildout. From groundbreaking, scheduled for first quarter 2018, through Attesa’s subsequent industrial, retail and tourist attraction partner growth, the world’s first motorsports, technology and entertainment community is going to need a wide variety of workers.
“Our partners who test and build and do business at Attesa are going to need workers, that’s for sure,” said Pat Johnson, president of Danrick Builders. “But so will Phoenix Mart, Lucid Motors, DreamPort Village and every other new development planned for Pinal County. And as we develop our 2,500-acre community, and as the other new companies start up and grow, Casa Grande, Maricopa and the rest of the cities in Pinal County had better be ready.”
Since Attesa was announced, the Casa Grande area has been getting a lot of calls about prospective economic development projects. Last November, Lucid Motors announced it will build a $700 million electric car manufacturing plant in the area.
Attesa is working with state universities, community colleges and vocational schools toward making sure the employees of tomorrow can receive the training and education they’re going to need today.
“We’re already collaborating with Arizona at Work and Central Arizona College,” added Kanavel. “We understand what the future holds and we’re darn well going to be prepared.”
Attesa is presently undergoing the entitlement process in Pinal County.


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Well+Good recently surveyed nearly 1,500 people about their sleep habits and health (or, *sigh*, lack thereof). Some key takeaways? 92 percent of respondents report feeling fatigued more than one day per week; 65 percent point to general stress for constantly keeping them awake; and 70 percent say their fitness goals suffer as a result of sleeplessness. When asked how they remedy bouts of insomnia, the majority (53 percent) report turning to meditation, with natural sleep-aids like melatonin (52 percent) and CBD (28 percent) named, too.
Perhaps most strikingly of all, though, is that on average, people report clocking in seven hours of sleep instead of their desired eight. Remember that earlier-cited stat from Gallup? Folks are still logging just about an hour less on average than they did in the mid-20th century. So, it seems like high time we all renew our vows to sleeping our way to better mental and physical health. So let's get started, shall we?
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FedEx Recognized by CIO Magazine as One of the CIO 100 Award Winners
MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 4, 2013 —FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) has been named a recipient of the 2013 CIO 100 Award from IDG’s CIO magazine. The 26th annual award program recognizes organizations around the world that exemplify the highest level of operational and strategic excellence in information technology (IT).
“For 26 years now, the CIO 100 awards have honored the innovative use of technology to deliver genuine business value,” said Maryfran Johnson, Editor in Chief of CIO magazine & events. “Our 2013 winners are an outstanding example of the transformative power of IT to drive everything from revenue growth to competitive advantage.”
“We’re honored to be named a 2013 CIO 100 Award recipient,” said David Zanca, Sr. VP IT, FedEx Services. “I am proud of the FedEx Web Services team’s continuous innovation in the world of e-commerce, connecting businesses and consumers around the globe. We are grateful for the recognition from CIO magazine.”
FedEx Web Services, developed as a streamlined e-commerce connection for businesses and consumers around the world, handles more than 25 million tracking requests per day. In 2012, projections for the upcoming holiday peak shipping season accelerated the need to upgrade Web Services capacity. The move to a virtual environment enabled quadruple capacity for customer facing transactions at a fraction of the cost of a physical implementation, increased visibility and provided customers enhanced flexibility.
Executives from the winning companies will be recognized at the CIO 100 Symposium & Awards Ceremony, to be held Tuesday evening, Aug. 13th at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
About the CIO 100
The recipients of this year’s CIO 100 award were selected through a three-step process. First, companies filled out an online application form detailing their innovative IT and business initiatives. Next, a team of judges reviewed the applications in depth, looking for unique practices and substantial results. Finally, CIO editors reviewed the judges’ recommendations and voted on the final 100.
Complete coverage of the 2013 CIO 100 awards will be online at http://www.cio100.com on August 1, 2013 and in the August 1st issue of CIO magazine.
FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) provides customers and businesses worldwide with a broad portfolio of transportation, e-commerce and business services. With annual revenues of $44 billion, the company offers integrated business applications through operating companies competing collectively and managed collaboratively, under the respected FedEx brand. Consistently ranked among the world’s most admired and trusted employers, FedEx inspires its more than 300,000 team members to remain “absolutely, positively” focused on safety, the highest ethical and professional standards and the needs of their customers and communities. For more information, visit news.fedex.com.
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CIO is the premier content and community resource for information technology executives and leaders thriving and prospering in this fast-paced era of IT transformation in the enterprise. The award-winning CIO portfolio—CIO.com,CIO magazine (launched in 1987), CIO executive programs, CIO custom solutions, CIO Forum on LinkedIn, CIO Executive Council and CIO primary research—provides business technology leaders with analysis and insight on information technology trends and a keen understanding of IT’s role in achieving business goals. Additionally, CIO provides opportunities for IT solution providers to reach this executive IT audience. The CIO Executive Council is a professional organization of CIOs created to serve as an unbiased and trusted peer advisory group. CIO is published by IDG Enterprise, a subsidiary of International Data Group (IDG), the world’s leading media, events, and research company. Company information is available at http://www.idgenterprise.com/.
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With the future of video game golf at EA Sports in flux, one developer is teeing up a simulation that's more than just relief for virtual golfers, but a possible contender to Electronic Arts' own titles.
The Golf Club will be the first original title in three years from Lunenberg, Canada-based HB Studios, which primarily performs contract work on sports games for publishers such as Electronic Arts. HB and EA have had a fruitful relationship for more than a decade, but The Golf Club only exists because of a recent hiccup in that partnership that had nothing to do with HB.
The most recent entry in EA's long-running golf franchise was Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14, which was released last March on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. That series was known as Tiger Woods PGA Tour until October, when EA and the legendary golfer parted ways. But shortly after the launch of PGA Tour 14 last spring, a report indicated that EA had decided to cancel the game that would likely have been released this spring as Tiger Woods PGA Tour 15, even though the company had reportedly been planning to outsource the development of that title.
"We last year had built up a golf team in anticipation of potentially working with EA," said Peter Garcin, executive producer on The Golf Club, in an interview with Polygon this week. "We were potentially going to work with them on doing a port — making some of the Gen 3 versions, the 360/PS3 versions — but then that [...] work, that bidding process, didn't come through.
"It wasn't till later that we learned it was because they were canceling, or delaying — putting the whole series on hold," Garcin added. EA, alongside last fall's announcement of its breakup with Woods, said it had begun working on a new PGA Tour title for "mobile [devices] and next-generation consoles."
When HB's arrangement with EA fell through, the studio decided that it still wanted to make a golf game, so it began development last spring with initial plans to release the title on PS4 and Xbox One. Once the studio started building The Golf Club, it realized that the game had "a lot of cross-platform potential," and the title is now being made on Windows PC as well. In particular, many of the team's ideas for The Golf Club are features that you don't usually see in mainstream sports games: a major focus on the social sharing of user-generated content, with a basis in a robust course creation tool.
"We had a number of really [...] what we felt were innovative ideas that we wanted to explore that we probably would not — that are harder, maybe, to explore under the confines of a yearly franchise," Garcin explained.
As HB said when it announced the game last week, the bedrock of The Golf Club is a course creation setup that the studio promises will be simple enough to use with a controller and deep enough to allow players to build the course of their dreams.
the bedrock of The Golf Club is a robust course creation tool
The creator includes procedural generation technology that HB put a lot of effort into, and the engine gives users the ability to produce a playable course almost instantly just by providing a few parameters like the natural setting and time of day. From there, players can change elements like the width of fairways, the size of greens and the number of bunkers. They can then go deeper to tinker with everything, like altering the terrain or adding natural features such as rivers and trees, or they can design a course entirely from scratch. According to Garcin, HB's technology ensures that the computer-generated course layouts are just as fun as hand-designed courses.
"It's one thing to just generate some landscape and chuck some holes down. But it's another thing to generate it in a way that it seems like it's actually fun to play and is based on real-world construction and that kind of stuff," said Garcin.
He added that the developers have already tried recreating real-life courses using the in-game tools, and they've been able to approximate those existing layouts pretty well: "You can pretty much create any course that you want, and any sort of aspect of that course, using the editor — or you can get very, very close."
Users will be able to upload and download each others' courses, a feature that HB hopes will provide endless replayability. The developers facilitated this by devising a way to keep file sizes down: Instead of downloading all the assets for a course, players just download a relatively small piece of data that gives their game the instructions to generate that course locally in the course creator and make the same custom edits that the original designer did.
By including a course creator in The Golf Club and allowing for infinite sharing of custom courses, HB is sidestepping the traditional basis for simulation sports games: real-life leagues, brands and athletes, which require costly licensing deals. You won't see Tiger Woods or Rory McIlroy in this game, but Garcin believes that licensed content isn't as important for a golf title as it is for, say, a baseball or football game, because players tend to have an attachment to their created golfers instead of real ones.
"It's an opportunity for us to differentiate ourselves as well. We're obviously a smaller studio, and don't have the kind of leverage that the big players would," Garcin explained, discussing the course creator and the lack of licensed golf stars.
HB is also building an expansive suite of multiplayer functionality into The Golf Club, such as the ability to play with friends even when they're offline by competing against "ghost" balls. And the game will set you up with rivalries by matching you against players of a similar skill level. HB is aiming to make the content sharing and the multiplayer features accessible across platforms, but that may be easier said than done, as far as the consoles are concerned.
"You can pretty much create any course that you want"
"There's absolutely no technical reason that we can't do that. That's a goal of ours," said Garcin. "There's obviously, you know, there are platform requirements that, in certain cases, might hinder our ability to do that to the full degree, but we're going to push as hard as we can to make that a reality for people." He added that cross-platform usability is more likely to happen between PC and either console, as opposed to between PS4 and Xbox One.
HB hasn't yet decided whether it will self-publish The Golf Club; the studio is currently "exploring a number of options" on that front, according to Garcin. At this point, HB is conducting closed beta testing, and the game is on track to be released this spring on all platforms.
"We might look at doing an Early Access kind of thing. Because we really want to get it out there as soon as we can," said Garcin, noting that in that case, the PC version would be available ahead of the console releases. "The core of the game is available and ready to be played. And there's still polish to be done, but we'd be excited to get it in people's hands." HB also intends to regularly push post-launch content updates.
EA hasn't yet confirmed that it won't put out a new golf game this year, but it said last spring that it didn't plan to release one until after March 2014. The company released each of the last few Tiger Woods PGA Tour titles by the end of March, just before the Masters Tournament. The Golf Club may be the only option for fans of simulation golf titles this year, and the game looks like it could provide them with something they haven't seen before.


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757 Accelerate picked six more companies for its mentor-driven startup acceleration program.
They are: Nuekie, health and beauty products for people of color; Xperience Robotics, an artificial intelligence-based software platform that uses wearable sensors to track patient's movements; Forefront, a premier training provider; Metallum3D, a metal 3D printing platform; Redactable, a web application used to redact files; and Addison Weeks, a creative furniture hardware company.
The 12-week program that aims to move startup companies from the pre-revenue stage to profitability and job creation begins Aug. 26 and runs through Nov. 22. It includes customized and curated connections to mentors with entrepreneurial, industry and subject matter expertise to help grow their businesses quickly.
With meetings twice a week, the program covers subjects such as legal issues, customer and sales pipeline development, marketing and branding, business model validation, financial model development and management of investors and investment.
At the end of the three months, the companies are able to pitch to more than 30 investors based in Virginia and North Carolina.
Evans McMillion, 757 Accelerate's executive director, said the cohort is chosen based on a rigorous selection process that included 130 applicants this year.
She said each application was reviewed and scored by a group of entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders who picked 16 finalists for in-person interviews.
"The 16 finalists came to the area for a full day of interviews by our 15-person interview committee," McMillion said.
She said the chosen companies scored high in the following areas: strength of their founder or founding team; size and strength of their specific market; whether their product or technology solved a significant problem; stage of business development; and likelihood of scalability.
"We are really excited about the strength of the founders chosen for cohort 2 and the fact that they represent a diverse mix of local and out-of-area companies addressing big problems and helping us retain and attract business to Hampton Roads," she said.
Three of the companies – Nuekie, Xperience Robotics and Addison Weeks – are based in Hampton Roads. Forefront and Redactable are New York-based companies and Metallum3D is out of Charlottesville.
Josuel Plasencia, cofounder of Forefront, said in a news release that the interconnected and global economy enables economic activity and development to stretch beyond a few specific hubs.
"Businesses thrive where there is a community of capital, advisers and innovation, and that is the community that 757 Accelerate has created in Hampton Roads," Plasencia said.
McMillion said part of 757 Accelerate's mission is to help retain and attract promising businesses to Hampton Roads.
"Both our research and experience has shown that startups and early-stage companies will go and thrive where there is capital, mentorship, and a culture of innovation," she said. "By offering each startup $20,000 during the program, aligning with a strong source of (follow-up) capital like 757 Angels, and tapping into the deep knowledge of the business leaders in Hampton Roads and throughout Virginia, we offer our cohort founders access to the kind of capital, connections, customers, and business acumen they need to accelerate the growth of their company here in Hampton Roads."
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McMillion said the program, which was launched in 2018, partners with regional corporations and six Hampton Roads' cities to offer the companies access to potential customers and key economic development connections to support the growth of their businesses in the region.
McMillion said a couple of changes have been made for this second cohort, which includes assuring that the participating companies complete the program even more prepared to raise private capital post-program.
And, she said, the program will also focus earlier on driving the participants toward specific business-based milestones to help them stay focused on the key performance metrics that drive growth.
"We are also planning on adding an additional stop on the investor roadshow to expose our founders to more early-stage angel investors," she said.
Sandra J. Pennecke, 757-222-5356, firstname.lastname@example.org


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Supporting Black-owned businesses is a great way to use your dollars to fight for racial justice. Now, Google is making it easier for users to locate and patron Black-owned businesses by adding a badge to companies’ Google profiles.
The badge is a black heart over an orange three-striped background. Business owners can verify their business by mail, phone, or email to have it added to their page. The company has similar badges for women and LGBTQ+ led businesses.
The badge is part of Google’s pledge to improve “initiatives and product ideas that support long-term solutions” for racial equality. Google and popular business review website Yelp have both reported a surge in searches for Black-owned businesses recently. The new badge can be a great solution for increasing the visibility of Black-owned businesses and making it easier for customers to support these businesses.


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Senate Commerce Committee Chair Pushes One-Sided 13(b) Fix
The one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in AMG Capital Management, LLC v. FTC has renewed calls for Congressional action to expand and codify the Federal Trade Commission’s enforcement authority under Section 13(b) of the FTC Act. Last Thursday, we wrote here about the agency’s most recent open meeting, during which Commissioners heard from a key Senate staffer that Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell (D-WA) intended to introduce what she hoped would be a bipartisan fix. Yesterday, Chair Cantwell’s bill was made public, and its terms render any hope of bipartisan support a long-shot, at best, with little likelihood of garnering the Republican support needed to clear the chamber.
The bill’s release followed the May 2 release of a Senate Commerce Committee report entitled Restoring the Federal Trade Commission’s Authority to Protect Consumers and the Marketplace – an 80-page report, more than 50 pages of which purported to list dollar amounts received in each state due to “FTC cases resulting in significant refunds” (many of which were settlements never actually litigated under Section 13(b)). The report echoed much of what we heard from Commissioners last week – that AMG has created an enforcement void for the agency and no alternative enforcement approaches come close to 13(b)’s ability to protect consumers and provide monetary redress. The report couched the court’s decision as particularly damaging to the agency’s efforts to curtail “Big Tech and Pharma’s ability to harm consumers and fledgling businesses.”
In unveiling the report, Chair Cantwell said, “Congress can act to stop this from happening in the future and restore this vital authority to the FTC so it can help return money back to consumers’ pockets.”
As an initial matter, it’s important to emphasize that the Supreme Court did not take any authority away from the FTC that needs to be “restored”; it concluded 9-0 that the FTC did not have the authority in the first place. A remarkable result given the fractiousness of this Court, fully on display in recent days.
More importantly, not mentioned anywhere in the report is the Commission’s highly creative, year-long response to the AMG decision. Chair Cantwell should expect Republicans to ask why a Section 13(b) fix is even necessary, given the muscularity shown by this Commission in seeking other ways to pursue monetary remedies by relying on (and stretching) existing statutes, coordinating with State AGs, and loudly proclaiming its Penalty Offense Authority through the issuance of 1,870+ notices to U.S. businesses. And, of course, as Justice Breyer put it, reliance on Section 19’s “coherent enforcement scheme,” which allows the Commission to obtain monetary relief by first invoking its administrative procedures and then Section 19’s redress provisions.
Much like the House-passed Consumer Protection and Recovery Act (which we wrote about here), Senator Cantwell’s bill would explicitly authorize the FTC to seek permanent injunctions and other equitable relief, including restitution and disgorgement, to redress perceived consumer injury, when it is in the public interest. And, much like the House bill, it would vastly expand the FTC’s enforcement authority, far surpassing what the agency thought it had pre-AMG.
Notably, Senator Cantwell’s bill would broaden Section 5 of the FTC Act by inviting the Commission to cast off the constraints of its unfairness, deception, and substantiation policy statements and turn the courts into instruments of its agenda to rewrite the law:
“(3) Limitation.—For a violation of Section 45(a)(1) of this Title, the Commission may seek, and the court may order, equitable relief under paragraphs (1) or (2) only if the violation involved the type of conduct that a reasonable person would have fair notice, consistent with due process requirements, could constitute an unfair or deceptive act or practice or an unfair method of competition (within the meaning of Section 45(a)(1) of this Title)."
It will take years of court decisions to flesh out what “fair notice” and “public interest” mean, but the answer probably won’t matter since “could constitute” is a license to substitute possibilities for probabilities in the elements of all violations. The central achievement of the unfairness policy statement was to commit the Commission to applying a cost-benefit analysis before condemning an act or practice. The deception policy statement stopped the Commission from finding fault with any statement that had a “tendency or capacity” to mislead. Now the Commission has to prove a likelihood. The new 13(b) would be easier to prove than the old Section 5.And what is fair notice of what could be unfair? The best answer is almost anything that an interest group complains about: a cookie, a dark pattern, an omission.
Another consequence of this language would be to consign Section 19’s “coherent enforcement scheme,” to history. And the new 13(b) would be easier to invoke than most of the specific statutes the FTC enforces. Truth in Lending Act? COPPA? Who needs them?
Fanciful? Hardly. The Commission showed the way with its antitrust authority. Last year it rescinded its competition policy statement and said the antitrust laws no longer defined unfair methods of competition. From now on, competition at the Commission means equity for employees and marginalized constituencies. We’ve already heard Chair Khan complain that predatory pricing is too hard to prove. If local stores can’t compete with a national retailer, enjoin the chain. This bill would give the agency a license to enjoin competition itself.
The FTC Act already has a standard that is well understood for granting redress. Section 19(b) authorizes compensation to consumers for conduct that a reasonable person should know is dishonest or fraudulent. There is no lobby for scammers, and Republicans would likely support a 13(b) fix that targeted dishonest or fraudulent conduct, and included other guardrails (e.g., Senator Lee’s (R-UT) S. 3410, the Consumer Protection and Due Process Act). Apparently, however, the Commission’s allies aren’t ready to settle for sensible solutions, as evidenced by the Cantwell bill, which seeks power without limits.
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Texas Scientists Use Mullite Oxide to Clean Diesel Exhaust in Cars
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Mullite replaces platinum, a precious metal that is expensive to mine and limited in supply
University of Texas at Dallas scientists found that a material called mullite, which is from a family of oxides, could replace platinum on diesel exhaust from automotives.
Platinum has been the go-to material for
because diesel exhaust emits more nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxode than gasoline vehicles (however, diesel engines are generally more efficient). To reduce the amount of these pollutants from diesel exhaust, platinum is commonly used.
The problem is that platinum is a precious metal, mainly because it is limited and very expensive to mine. For 10 tons of platinum ore mined, only 1 ounce is usually usable.
Another issue was that diesel engine exhaust was recently added to the
World Health Organization's list of items that are carcinogenic in humans
. Hence, finding an alternative that could clean diesel exhaust up further was pretty important.
Enter Dr. Kyeongjae Cho, study leader and professor of materials science and engineering and physics at UT Dallas. He and a team of researchers set out to find the alternative, and discovered that mullite was exactly what the doctor ordered.
After synthesizing mullite and using computer models to see how it consumes nitric oxide/nitrogen dioxode, it was discovered that an oxygen-based composition of mullite is not only cheaper to produce than platinum, but it also reduces diesel exhaust pollution 45 percent more than platinum.
"Our goal to move completely away from precious metals and replace them with oxides that can be seen commonly in the environment has been achieved," said Cho. "We've found new possibilities to create renewable, clean energy technology by designing new functional materials without being limited by the supply of precious metals."
This new mullite discovery is already being commercialized as Noxicat.
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Its too bad
8/20/2012 8:14:46 AM
Every time I read mullite, I think mullet and the image of red-neck crystals with bad hair cuts cleaning car exhaust.
RE: Its too bad
8/20/2012 8:21:32 AM
i've always believed that billy ray cyrus should be put in a gas pipe.
RE: Its too bad
8/20/2012 9:26:30 AM
Do you literally mean something that you put over your back side to filter out the noxious emissions?
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With advancements in recent technology, many consumers are now making purchases using their mobile devices. As a result, merchants are taking note of the popularity of mobile payment technology and are beginning to accept mobile transactions. Since mobile payment technology is new, there is now a heightened concern on how secure and safe purchases will be. Tokenization is a form of security for mobile transactions and has several key benefits.
What is Tokenization?
Tokenization is the process of replacing a debit or credit card number with a valued “token”. Tokenization takes personal information, or the primary account number, and replaces it with non-sensitive data, such as symbols, letters or any other random sequence of tokens. For instance, tokenization would convert a customer’s credit card number to appear as EWK1928402EAC904 as a token. These numbers and letters are randomly produced each transaction to help heighten protection and security.
How is it secure?
Before tokenization, traditional payment processors used the magnetic stripe on the back of the consumer credit card, which led to several high-profile data breaches. While the traditional magnetic stripe processing method is efficient, it doesn’t come with the added level of security that tokenization provides. Tokenization, on the other hand, tokenizes customer information each time a payment is made and is useless for any cyber criminals since they cannot use the unique codes to replicate credit cards. Merchants will not need to make major adjustments to their current payment systems to use tokenization, unlike EMV, which will require merchants to purchase an EMV-capable terminal. Tokens are configured in the same way as card information, which will allow merchants to make only minor changes to their payment terminals.
"Tokenization is a very useful solution that can protect cardholder data at many points in the transaction lifecycle, especially post-authorization and for recurring transactions once a card has been presented," spoke Rob Sadowski, director of Technology Solutions for RSA.
Pros of Tokenization
Tokenization has several benefits in the payment industry. Perhaps the most apparent is that it protects cardholder data during a transaction, which prevents cyber criminals from accessing credit card information and using it for fraudulent purposes.
Another great feature of tokenization is that it is implemented to work with the top mobile walletsthat consumer’s use – Apple Pay, Android Pay, and Samsung Pay. None of a consumer’s private cardholder information is linked directly to their phone and is completely hidden from the retailer – only the processing company holds the consumer’s personal banking information. As a result, tokens benefit mobile devices since they signify a consumer’s personal details but withhold them from merchants. These qualities will drastically lessen the chance of fraud from occurring and consumer’s can rest assure their mobile wallet will protect their cardholder information via tokenization.
Tokenization technology will make a difference in the future of the payment industry and change how mobile payments are processed. With enhanced levels of security, tokenization will become a great advantage to stop fraud and data breaches from occurring.


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Best Nissan Deals & Incentives in May 2020
There are a host of Nissan car incentives available to buyers in May 2020. Keeping in mind the current crisis caused by the Coronavirus pandemic, Nissan has announced many payments and lease relaxations. Here are some important points to note if you are looking to buy or lease a Nissan car.
Deferred payments for those affected by the Covid-19 crisis
Nissan is offering an option of deferred payments for lease as well as finance. Buyers purchasing a new Nissan vehicle are also eligible for deferred payments up to 90 days from the date of purchase.
Buyers can lease the 2020 Armada for a sum of $671 for three months for a period of three years. However, the amount will be due at signing. There is also an additional bonus of $2,000 cash. Not just this, Nissan is also offering the 2020 Leaf EV for $199 per month with a sum of $3.499 due at signing.
Buyers can enjoy 0% financing and up to $15,00 cash bonus on Nissan vehicles like the Maxima, Pathfinder, Rogue and Rogue Sport as well as the 2020 Altima. Vehicles like the 2020 Armada and 2020 Kicks are available at 0.9% APR finance offer for three years, while the 2020 Titan is available at 0.9% APR finance offer for five years. Buyers can also get up to $2,000 bonus cash on these vehicles.
Nissan dealer incentives also include cashback offers. Starting with $750 for the 2020 Sentra, the company is offering up to $2,000 in cashback for cars like the Armada, Kicks, and the 2020 Altima. Nissan is also offering up to $4,00 cashback for cars like the Rogue and Rogue Sport, Leaf, Titan, and Maxima.
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Nissan has come up with many attractive offers for customers. These are particularly beneficial right now, given the financial crisis lurking around because of Covid-19.
If you would like to know more about the features of a Nissan car, or test drive one, you can head over to our North Carolina Nissan dealership today. Visit the Deacon Jones Nissan dealership in Goldsboro, NC, which also serves residents from Greenville, Kinston, and Rocky Mount.


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LEWISTON — There will be lots of holiday events at the Wisdom Women’s Center in December.
Card making will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 5; ornament making will be held at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 9; holiday songs and stories will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 12.
Two cookie baking times are set, at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 10, and 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 16. Only those who participate in the baking sessions, or bring a home-baked batch, can participate in the swap and take home a box of cookies.
The annual Christmas party is will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 11. (Snow date Dec. 12 in the morning.) Help with the preparations is welcomed that morning, and with clean-up at the end. Guests are invited to bring snacks, beverages or sweets to share. Lunch will be provided.
And, to help with the holiday stresses, there is a stretch and relax morning starting at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 17. Reiki will be offered at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 23. Sign up at the center for a 15 minute session. Also, the center has a meditative gathering circle daily at 9:15 a.m.
There will be a dilly bread making class at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 18. Come enjoy the results and take home some leftovers.
The Art Van will be at the center at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 24.
The Book Club continues with the little book soon to be made into a movie, Hector’s Search for Happiness. The group will meet at 12:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 15, with Ann Auer leading discussions. The group will be picking a new book for the new year. Copies of books are available at the center.
The weekly writing workshop with Pat Gardiner continues each Monday at 10 a.m. The monthly Playing with Poetry class offered by Kathryn Tracy is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 10. There will be a special guest poet visit. This group time includes gently experiencing poems through both reading and writing.
Regular end of month activities include the monthly women’s clothing give-away at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 18, BINGO at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 23, followed by the December birthday party at 12:30 p.m.
Support for family caregivers is available at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesdays, and a weekly Al-Anon group, the only one in Lewiston, meets at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesdays.
The BLT group for Bisexual, Lesbian and Transgendered women and their friends or family will meet at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 18.
Sales from new product line, handmade items benefit Wisdom Women’s Center
Now available at The Center for Wisdom’s Women are body care products from the Magdalene Community of Thistle Farms. Located in Nashville, Thistle Farms is a residential program and social enterprise of women who have survived prostitution, trafficking and addiction. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/ThistleFarms.
The body products are hand-made and infused with essential oils. Products available at the center include body butter, body balm, room spray, lotion, lip balm, lip smoothies and scented candles, along with a winter survival kit, a travel kit and an essential oil kit.
Handmade at the center
Also available are Wisdom Boxes and Gratitude Beads made by women at the Center.
Gratitude Beads are small strings of beads to help you develop an attitude of gratitude. Each one comes in a pouch with directions for use and a quote about gratitude. They are $5 each or five for $20.
Wisdom Boxes are small, uniquely embellished boxes that contain a blessing or affirmation. They are $2 each or three for $5.
By purchasing these items you will be sharing the work of the center and raising funds to help support women who have survived prostitution, addiction and other traumas.
Plans to grow calendula
Funds raised from these sales will seed the development of the center’s own social enterprise – growing and processing calendula. Calendula is an herb thought to be particularly healing for women who have been abused. The dried flowers can be made into a soothing salve and other healing products.
For more information, contact The Center for Wisdom’s Women at 513-3922 or stop in at 97 Blake St. (off Bates Street between Pine and Ash, behind Healey Terrace.) The center is open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to noon on Fridays.


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Issues around mask usage have caused a Saskatoon business to start seeing people by appointment only.
McQuarries Tea and Coffee Merchants, a longtime staple on Broadway Avenue, switched to curbside and delivery to continue operations at the beginning of the pandemic. In early June, the store reopened to the public, but on Sept. 28, it will be locking its doors once again as a safety precaution.
"It's not a daily thing per se, but at least once or twice a week, someone will come and they're not wearing their mask," said Adam Anton, who has been running the family-owned business since 2011. "People, I don't know, they don't seem to take it very seriously."
Anton said while no one has been "really outrageous" about the mandatory masks, he's heard a range of reasons as to why they can't wear their mask, with one of the most recent being vertigo.
"We just don't want to take any chances," he said.
Anton said his staff are in a high-risk age bracket and that some of the patrons at the store are elderly. He said people refusing to follow the guidelines are putting everyone at risk.
He said he understands there are people who cannot wear a mask, but noted there have been months for people to adapt to life during the pandemics. Anton said the shop started to provide masks to those who don't have one for free, but said if you refuse to wear a mask, you won't be permitted inside.
He's felt some frustration at people flouting the rules.
"There's an instinctual threat response that I initially get, because there is a small chance — but a very real chance — that I could get a disease that could potentially kill me," he said. "So usually, I start to feel angry about it, because it feels very inconsiderate and reckless."
Dr. Saqib Shahab, Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer, said earlier this month that consistent mask use can slow down the spread of COVID-19.
"If the choice is between keeping schools open, keeping businesses open and doing the simple act of putting a mask on when indoors in a public place, versus having an increase in transmission, which may result in school closures or many lockdowns, I think I would definitely recommend the simple act that keeps everyone safe," Shahab said.
DeeAnn Mercier, executive director of the Broadway Business Improvement District, said it's troubling to hear some people are not taking the guidelines seriously.
"It's very frustrating to hear that businesses are trying to take precautions to keep their employees and customers safe, also to give every one piece of mind, and yet, it doesn't seem like people are willing to work with that."
Mercier said that for small, family-run shops, a single case of COVID-19 could result in a prolonged closure, as full staffs may have to isolate.
"It's not just as easy as a clean up and then back to work," she said.
Marilyn Braun-Pollon, vice-president of prairie and agri-business for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), said small businesses in Saskatchewan are already facing "extremely challenging times." She said 76 per cent of Saskatchewan businesses are open, with roughly half fully-staffed, but only about 36 per cent are making normal sales.
"We have a long-road to recovery and lots of challenges ahead," she sad.
Braun-Pollon said the public has a role to play in ensuring these businesses remain open and the CFIB is encouraging people to think and shop local.
"At the end of the day, we really do want to see as many businesses survive as possible and right now is the best time to support small business," she said. Adding: "There's no economic recovery without small business recovery."


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The cruise ship will join its two sister ships – to be delivered in 2022 and 2024, respectively – in Royal Caribbean International’s fleet, an industry leader in innovation, clean technology, and breakthrough ship design.
Michael Bayley, President and CEO, Royal Caribbean International, gave the following statement: “These are exciting times for Royal Caribbean, and we have an incredible partner in Meyer Turku to bring to life now three vessels of what will be a remarkable class of ships.
Building on our vision with the addition of a third order is a testament to our confidence in the innovative design and energy-efficient technology and engineering that will, without a doubt, make Icon class a game changer.”
Royal Caribbean currently has three Icon class cruise ships on order to go along with two more Oasis class ships. The Oasis class are the largest class of cruise ships in the world.
Royal Caribbean has given few details about the Icon class ships. We do know that they will be around 200,000 gross tons in size and be powered by LNG.
Cruise Fever will have more about this new class of ships from Royal Caribbean when more details are announced.
Royal Caribbean currently has 26 cruise ships in service.


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While the latest wave of iPad Pros and MacBook Pros feature lovely mini-LED displays, there are still rumors that Apple has plans to utilize OLED displays in the future. In fact, there may even be double-stacked OLED devices on the way.
According to Korean site The Elec, Apple is in talks with Samsung and LG to utilize OLED displays with a two-stack tandem structure on future iPads and MacBooks. It sounds like a weird thing to do, but it does mean those screens can be even brighter than they are now.
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The Elec’s report claims that this tandem display structure would involve two layers of red, green and blue emissions layers that could offer up to double the brightness compared to Apple’s existing OLED devices — like the iPhone 13.
But what devices will get these new displays, if this rumor pans out? The Elec claims that iPad displays will come in 11-inch and 12.9-inch sizes, suggesting that the iPad Pros are due for this particular upgrade. As for MacBooks, the cost of OLED displays, and Apple’s continuing use of LCD on lower-end models, means the MacBook Pros are the most likely candidates.
The report also claims that the two-stack iPad displays will include low-power LTPO panels. While iPad Pros have offered ProMotion since 2017, a switch to LTPO would likely mean the tablets would offer a much larger range of refresh rates — possibly even ranging from 10Hz to 120Hz like the iPhone 13 Pro and the iPhone 13 Pro Max.
It’s not entirely clear what this means for mini-LED, which appeared on iPad Pros and MacBook Pros earlier this year. We had heard rumors Apple was planning to add mini-LED displays to even more products over the next couple of years, but it’s not clear whether that is still the case. Especially with all the supply chain issues affecting the tech industry, Apple included.
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Mini-LED offers an advantage over standard OLED panels, offering better brightness, contrast, and coloring, but is generally considered to be more expensive due to its lack of widespread adoption. What Apple has planned is anyone’s guess, and a tiered approach to product displays may wind up confusing people.
Of course, this isn’t the first we’ve heard about iPads getting OLED displays either. The first OLED iPad was originally rumored to arrive in 2022, though more recent rumors have shot down that possibility. The Elec also claims that this launch has been pushed back to 2023 or 2024. Meanwhile, the two-stack OLED MacBook might launch in 2025 — provided there are no delays.
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Copy that DVD in a second, IBM says
Published 10:00 pm, Sunday, March 25, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO -- IBM Corp. will unveil a pair of tiny chips today that can transmit huge volumes of data by beaming light pulses through plastic fibers, an approach that uses far less energy than pushing a stream of electrons through copper wires.
IBM said its prototypes can transmit 160 gigabits of data per second -- reducing the download time for a feature-length high-definition video from 30 minutes to one second.
The prototype chips are of a type of processor called a transceiver -- a device that can both send and receive data.
IBM Vice President and technology guru Bernard Meyerson said that within a few years, these light-based transceiver chips could be used to transmit huge volumes of data in critical chokepoints on the Internet or in large computer networks.
This will be especially important as the advent of high-definition video dramatically increases the volume of data flowing through networks.
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Analyst Lawrence Gasman of Communications Industry Researchers in Virginia, said that one type of 40-Gbps transceiver costs about $25,000 today. Based on IBM's designs, he estimates that it could sell its 160-Gbps chip for about $500 to $600 -- about the cost of a 10-Gbps transceiver today.
For the foreseeable future, this laser-driven transceiver technology is likely to find its use in Internet routers and switches and network server centers, which ship huge volumes of data at high speeds.


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Palm sells 1m Centros
Palm today announced that it has sold 1 million of its Centro smartphones, which has company representatives attributing to its lower price tag. According to The NewsMarket, the phone accounted for 11-percent of all domestic mobile phone sales during 2007, and is currently available in 10 countries - Palm also confirmed it has desires to sell the device in additional areas, but has not announced a formal timeframe for the move.
Despite a large boost in sales, the Centro has attributed to a large loss on behalf of Palm, with the company posting a $31.5 million loss in 2008. This is mainly due to the significantly lower cost than the Treo smartphones - the Centro typically sells for around $100 from AT&T.


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A group of US consumers has surprised companies and economists by splurging on Taylor Swift concerts, trips to Paris and dining out — even as their savings decline.
Call them the YOLO consumers.
It’s a cohort that’s never let go of the “you only live once” ethos that emerged during the existential upheaval of Covid-19. They’ve continued spending on experiences for longer than most expected — and they’re a key part of the surprisingly resilient US economy.
“We appreciate there are heightened concerns around the state of the consumer as of late,” Josh Weinstein, chief executive officer of cruise operator Carnival Corp., told analysts at the end of September. But consumers are still booking more cruises than ever before, he said, and they’re “continuing to prioritize spending on experiences over material goods.”
Take Carli Simpson. The 25-year-old executive assistant and her boyfriend are forgoing physical gifts for the first time this holiday in favor of trips to Colorado in January and Florida in March. The travel allows them to enjoy more time together. “The pandemic, too, kept us from going anywhere,” Simpson said in New York.
YOLO spending has helped to power the expansion of US gross domestic product, which grew at the fastest pace in nearly two years in the third quarter. The data was at odds with warnings of a looming recession.
The YOLO phenomenon doesn’t preclude a slowdown in the coming quarters, or even a recession. There are signs that even wealthier shoppers are pulling back. Savings have dwindled from pandemic highs, and while inflation’s trajectory has moderated, its steady rise has outpaced wage increases. Higher interest rates are an additional hurdle.
Add it all up, and the outlook is challenging for many companies, especially those selling merchandise such as clothing and appliances. But with unemployment remaining near record lows, consumer spending has defied expectations — and experience-focused companies are at an advantage.
Live Nation Entertainment Inc. is one example. The owner of Ticketmaster is already seeing record levels of demand for concerts next year, even after a banner summer headlined by music icons Swift and Beyoncé. Executives mentioned an upcoming tour by Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny as part of a “strong concert calendar” for 2024.
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In other industries, Delta Air Lines Inc., hotel operator Marriott International Inc. and luggage maker Samsonite International SA have all seen revenue rise for 10 consecutive quarters, although the pace has moderated.
The portion of Americans who say they plan to travel to a foreign country during the next six months is at the highest on record, according to a closely-watched survey of consumer confidence published in late October. That’s despite a drop in consumer confidence to a five-month low in the same survey.
After all — YOLO.
“When things are good, you take advantage of it,” said Kam Sidhu, the 46-year-old owner of a Montessori school and some fast-food restaurants, who traveled to New York from Montgomery, Alabama, with her 15-year-old daughter and a friend. They were planning to see the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade and some Broadway shows. She’s also planning a cruise to celebrate the new year with her family.
While she’s a bit cautious about the economy with the war in the Middle East and the upcoming US presidential election, she said the pandemic made her realize, “Wow, we really need to be out there with each other. Just human experience — together.”
In response to heightened demand, United Airlines Holdings Inc. is expanding flights to some international destinations for the winter. Along with American Airlines Group Inc. and Delta, it’s adding more flights and new cities next summer — mainly to tourism-focused areas across Europe. In the domestic market, by contrast, demand has waned and discounting has increased.
Samsonite CEO Kyle Francis Gendreau recently told analysts he sees “tremendous momentum as we think about the end of ’23 into ’24,” particularly in North America and Europe. US economic data show luggage sales rose 22% in the third quarter from a year earlier.
Dining is also part of the trend. “The younger you go,” Starbucks Corp. Chief Marketing Officer Brady Brewer told investors recently, “the more likely they are to splurge in restaurants and bars as the one place where they want to spend.”
Many retailers, meanwhile, are reporting sluggish spending on appliances, electronics and apparel. Target Corp. CEO Brian Cornell recently told analysts there have been seven consecutive quarters where discretionary goods have declined both in dollar terms and by volume across the industry.
Macy’s Inc. CEO Jeff Gennette said last week that consumers “are under pressure” and “in some cases, shifting toward experiences and away from our discretionary categories.” His company’s comparable sales fell 7% year-over-year in the third quarter.
Discounts are expected to be among the highest for apparel on Black Friday, according to Salesforce Inc., a software company that tracks online sales. It expects US online sales during November and December to grow around 1% year-over-year, the slowest pace in five years.
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Companies are trying to adjust to consumers’ preference for experiences over physical goods. Signet Jewelers Ltd., the owner of Kay Jewelers and Zales, is putting a twist on jewelry purchases by offering more customization, with the aim of boosting declining sales. Shoppers can use augmented reality in stores and online to choose a specific mounting or gemstone for an engagement ring — or work with a jeweler to design a piece from scratch.
“We saw that couples, as they were shopping for an engagement ring together, wanted to have a more interactive experience,” said Jamie Singleton, Signet’s chief consumer officer.


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CELTIC have unveiled their latest New Balance third kit for the 2018/19 season.
The Hoops surprised fans last year as they brought out a vivid cactus jersey, meaning they had THREE green kits for the season.
However, the American brand have changed things up this year after launching a luminous yellow and black top.
New Balance teased fans last night as stars Scott Sinclair, Mikael Lustig and Leigh Griffiths featured in a promotional video.
But fans have been left extremely unimpressed with the latest jersey.
@Decky67 said: "Announce Adidas" and @bee_bk0505 said:"Announce termination of kit designers contract."
@Sean_mara wrote: "Yuck!" and @Barrymc010279 hit out: "End of the road for New Balance surely."
@SaukBhoy said: "Possibly one of the worst kits I’ve seen not just for Celtic but in football in general. A horror show."
But some fans were pleased with the bright top as @_DG7_ said@ "Imagine not liking this top."
@diarmuidward said: "That is tasty" and @craig33holland said: "Love it."
The new kit could make its debut in Trondheim in the second leg of the Champions League qualifier against Rosenborg later this month.
The Norwegian champions dramatically SACKED their manager Kare Ingebrigtsen just six days before their trip to Parkhead.
Meanwhile, Celtic stopper Dedryck Boyata is being targeted by Lyon.
The Belgian international has already been lined up with a move to Lazio or Fulham following his World Cup displays.
But the French giants have joined the interest as they weigh up a move for the 27-year-old who has just 12 months remaining on his Hoops deal.


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Following hard on the heels of the new CT 200h S with its tax-beating 87g/km emissions, Lexus has introduced another addition to its full hybrid luxury hatchback range. The new CT 200h Advance is packed with premium equipment features, such as rain-sensing wipers, cruise control, auto-dimming rear-view mirror, and a new MoveOn integrated satellite navigation system. It also introduces a new upholstery – Tahara – that supple and strong like leather, but lighter and much cleaner to produce in terms of carbon emissions and potentially hazardous by-products.
A new Lexus LS will be launched in December, and true to its heritage it will be rich in high-tech features for safety, dynamic performance and on-board entertainment and information. Early details have been released about the UK range, will include both a long-wheelbase, full hybrid LS 600h L and a return for the petrol V8-powered LS 460.
Even before the LS appears on Britain’s roads, one of North America’s top custom car design houses has given the new limousine a make-over for this year’s SEMA show in Las Vegas. This formidable LS 460 F Sport by Five Axis was shown for the first time, alongside an array of Lexus concept and competition cars.
The Lexus LF-LC concept coupe that was the star of this year’s Detroit motor show has gone on to make headlines on the other side of the world. A new version of the attention-grabbing design study was unveiled at the Australian International Motor Show in Sydney.
Lexus has long promoted excellence in design and it’s building its reputation further with the launch of the first Lexus Design Award. Open to designers across a huge range of different fields, from fashion to architecture, it will celebrate and support the world’s finest new talent with a showcase for the winners at next year’s Milan Design Week.
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CADBURY Schweppes said yesterday the salmonella scare in the summer cost it £30million - £10million more than expected.
The sweets giant was forced to take over a million chocolate bars off UK shelves following the outbreak in June.
A pipe at its plant in Marlbrook, Herefordshire, had caused the contamination.
Sales of chocolate bars like Dairy Milk plummeted.
Chief executive Todd Stitzer said: "2006 was a challenging year."


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As reported by IGN, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has notified its members thatE3 2023 He was Deleted. The event was supposed to take place from June 13-16 at the Los Angeles Convention Center and was supposed to be the first edition open to the public since 2019.
Again according to IGN, the email sent to ESA members states that E3 will still be a “famous event and brand” but a 2023 edition.You did not get the necessary benefit To represent the size, power and influence of the gaming industry.
to update: ESA and Red Pop published an official press release, which we reproduced below:
“This was a difficult decision because of all the efforts we and our partners put into making the event happen, but we had to do what was right for the industry and what was right for E3. We appreciate and understand that the companies affected will not have their playable demos ready, and the resource challenges have made Attending E3 this summer is a hurdle they were unable to overcome. For those who committed to E3 2023, we regret that we were unable to curate the exposure you deserve and expect from ReedPop events.”
Perhaps the news will not surprise many. We have known for some time that Sony and Nintendo did not participate in the event, as well as Microsoft which, however, has plans to stage a show in conjunction with the event. While a few days ago the important defections arrived in Ubisoft, Sega, Tencent and Devolver Digital. In short, the cancellation is up in the air and now sadly the confirmation has arrived.
E3 2023 had the task of bringing the event back into fashion after three years that were surely destined to be forgotten. In fact, we remind you that the 2020 and 2022 editions were canceled due to Covid-19, while the 2021 edition took place only digitally, with little success. At this point, it’s not clear what the future of the event will be, but the odds certainly don’t look the best.
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You think you’re making a cool cosplay music video, and then Square Enix slaps you with a lawsuit, and you’re forced to pay $325,000 for paying tribute (*cough*) to one of their properties.
That’s exactly what happened to Korean producer “Phantom Productions.” It seems that they used unauthorized bits and pieces of the Final Fantasy VII Advent Children film in their video. That was f-up number one. The other, of course, was that they used the video for commercial purposes. Korean courts sided with Square Enix, and the makers were ordered to pay 400,000,000 won ($325,000) settlement for copyright violation, says Sankaku Complex.
Those with a Nico Nico Douga account (Japanese) can watch the video here. The rest can check it out at Sankaku. If you can read Japanese, the viewers are laughing heartily, especially at the mid-video dance sequence.
If I was Square Enix and saw this piece of sh*t, I’d sue too.
[Update: English-language press release was just sent out on this suit over “Sonata of Temptation” by popular Korean pop singer IVY. Check out the full release after the jump.]
Tokyo, Japan (August 5, 2009) Square Enix Co., Ltd.’s (Square Enix) copyright infringement lawsuit against Korean entertainment production company Fantom Entertainment Group (Fantom) and music video producer Hong Jeong-ho resulted in a damage award of 300 Million Korean Won (approx. US$244,000) to Square Enix at the conclusion of the trial in March 2008. Following an appeal lodged by the defendants, on July 3, 2009, the Seoul High Court ruled that Fantom and Hong Jeong-ho should pay 400 Million Korean Won (approx. US$326,000) to Square Enix.
In light of this development, Mr. Yasuhiko Hasegawa, Square Enix’s General Counsel: “We have been consistent in our claims during this lawsuit regarding the value of FINAL FANTASY® VII ADVENT CHILDRENTM and our FINAL FANTASY series, as well as the damages the company has suffered as a result of the modification and adaptation made without obtaining permission. The initial amount awarded in this case, 300 Million Korean Won, was the largest the courts in South Korea have ever awarded in cases infringing one single work of art, and having this figure increased to 400 Million Korean Won following an appeal by the defendants is further affirmation of the severity of this copyright infringement as well as the recognition and value the FINAL FANTASY series has attained in South Korea. Square Enix will continue to take decisive action against any infringements upon our intellectual property, recognizing that this property is one of our most crucial resources.”
(Summary of Events)
In March 2007, Fantom began the for-profit online distribution of a music video for the song “Sonata of Temptation” by popular Korean pop singer IVY containing an unauthorized live-action scene-for-scene adaptation of a scene from FINAL FANTASY VII ADVENT CHILDREN. In response to an injunction filed by Square Enix, the Seoul Central District Court ordered Fantom to cease distribution and sales of the video as of April 6, 2007, and subsequently, on March 13, 2008, ordered Fantom to pay damages of 300 Million Korean Won. Fantom and Mr. Hong Jeong-ho appealed this decision and the case was elevated to the Seoul High Court, which on July 3, 2009, issued the decision ordering Fantom and Hong Jeong-ho to pay damages of 400 Million Korean Won.
About FINAL FANTASY VII ADVENT CHILDREN
Released in September 2005, FINAL FANTASY VII ADVENT CHILDREN is a CG animated film which was published as a sequel to FINAL FANTASY VII, a PlayStation® game shipped in January 1997. The film has been released in both dubbed and subtitled versions in 70 countries, and has shipped over 4.1 million DVD/UMD discs worldwide without theatrical screening or TV animation. In April 2009, it was released on Blu-ray Disc™. The film has received great praise, as evidenced by special invitations to the 61st and 62nd Venice International Film Festivals in 2004 and 2005, as well as being honored with the “Prix Zone05” at Zone05 in France, the “Honorary Maria Award” at the Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya in Spain, and the “Best Visual Designer Award” at the 11th AMD Award in Japan. It was released in Korea in June 2006 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.


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As you are aware, the Government of India has issued a circular on recommencing the delivery of non-essential items in Orange and Green Zones in the country. Post this Government declaration, realme is happy to announce the commencement of online orders of its products starting 4th May. The brand has started online sales of its smartphones and accessory products through online channels which include realme.com, Flipkart, and Flipkart, and Amazon. Meanwhile, the offline channels in green and orange zones have resumed operations complying with Government directives.
We have been receiving a massive amount of orders online since Sunday midnight and will be able to meet the current demand through our inventory stocks till the factory reopens. The brand has approached the State Government to get necessary approvals for reopening limited production lines with measures to ensure the safety of our employees. If we receive the approval, our factory’s primary task will be on producing the new Narzo series and the popular existing models including realme 6 series.
Also, the service centers in Green Zones and Orange Zones are gradually starting operations in accordance with the respective State Government advisory and guidelines. For the warranty of realme products which expired during the whole lockdown period, we have decided to extend it till June 30th.
Finally, we want to reinstate that realme along with partners will ensure strict social distancing precautions while operating and making sure that the orders are delivered safely to the customers. realme has also procured necessary permissions for the vehicles to pick up goods and steps are taken to ensure proper supply to the customers.


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Almost 2 billion data records were breached in 2018.
Are your GDPR and cyber security defences strong enough to prevent and quickly detect data breaches?
Last week, I met a few small business leaders who said they don’t process personal data because they’re a small business. I had the opportunity to open their eyes as we discussed the updates to their privacy notices. It seems there is still a real lack of awareness about GDPR, cyber security risks and the real and present threats to personal data.
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Stiktu 2.0 Now Out and Available Worldwide
Today we released the 2.0 version of Stiktu, our social AR app. With this release, for iPhone and Android, we’ve released Stiktu globally to everyone. Read our full press release and check out the video below! And download Stiktu today!
Layar, the world’s leading mobile augmented reality provider, today announced the global release of Stiktu - a free mobile application that allows users to remix the real world.
Stiktu is the social and user-generated equivalent of Layar, allowing users to add their own drawings, text, images and stickers to magazines, posters and more by simply scanning them with a smartphone. These creations can then be viewed by anyone who scans the same item. The social elements of Stiktu ensure that users can connect by discovering, liking, sharing and commenting on interesting posts.
“With Stiktu we really put the power of augmented reality in the hands of the people. I truly believe that this is the most innovative app currently available in any app store. Stiktu opens tremendous new possibilities to interact with the physical world around us. At Layar, we want to democratize space and Stiktu is the app to help us reach that mission.”
- Raimo van der Klein, co-founder of Layar.
In 2011, Layar began exploring new ways to liberate space and enable users to create their own augmented reality. Inspired by street art and other artistic and creative subcultures, Stiktu became a social network in which users can express themselves and view the creations of others.
In December of last year, Stiktu was released to a select group of European countries, providing the opportunity to gather user feedback about the features and usage of the application.
“Over the past months, we have been focused on improving the user experience, and we have learned a lot from our users about their use of Stiktu. With every release, we have seen the levels of engagement growing as users return on a daily basis to create posts and interact with others. These numbers and incoming requests for a global release by people all over the world helped us decide to take this step and open up Stiktu to the rest of the world.”
- Maurice Groenhart, Product manager of Stiktu.
As of today Stiktu is available worldwide for iPhone and Android.


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Nearly a year and two months after its launch, the brand Windows Phone Marketplace, reached 50,000 apps – at least according to census of the blog All About Windows Phone. One third of the apps have been added in the last three months, 16 percent have only been in more than one month ago.
The counting of the blog excluded deleted apps. Of 50 126 apps, around 6000 apps are not available. U.S. users currently have access to about 42 655 apps only.
The blog had reported 45,000 apps not even a month ago the milestone of 40,000 apps and on 12 December. The trend was still suspect that Microsoft the 50,000 in January would have together. Most recently it went but faster than expected. The quota is now approximately 265 new products per day. Middle of November, there had been daily 165 new apps.
Next Microsoft’s Marketplace is growing more slowly than a few years earlier, started competing offers. Apple’s App Store already recorded over 500,000 apps in May 2011, while for the Android Market the Market observers Distimo estimated 380 297 apps in October.
Microsoft itself points since the start of the application platform, it did not go to a large number of apps, but about the quality. Therefore, it is talking to official figures – which it would not look good anyway – even back.
You may receive the Windows Phone Marketplace now more positive response from the mobile partnership between Microsoft and Nokia. Currently, for example, calls are routed through a distribution agreement with the second-largest U.S. mobile operator AT & T. It provides for a market launch of Windows Phone from Nokia smartphones in early 2012. Until the end of October Lumia presented models 800 and 710 are available only in few European or Asian countries.
App volume in Windows Phone Marketplace between October 2010 and December 2011 (Chart: All About Windows Phone)


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Amazon really wants you to join the Amazon Prime family and buy all of your stuff from them. To help with this, Amazon is reportedly in talks with Dish, T-Mobile, and Verizon to sell wireless phone plans for free or as little as $10 a month. This comes from Bloomberg, who talked with people who had knowledge of the plans.
Reportedly Amazon is hoping by offering free or very cheap phone plans so they can build loyalty with their customers. Helping Amazon grow and keep customers locked into the Amazon ecosystem.
Update: Bradley Matinger, an Amazon spokesperson, reached out to Cord Cutters News with this statement on Bloomberg’s story: “We are always exploring adding even more benefits for Prime members, but don’t have plans to add wireless at this time.”
T-Mobile, in a statement to Cord Cutters News, said, “Amazon is a great partner to T-Mobile in many areas, and we are always interested in working more closely with our cross-town neighbors in new ways. However, we are not in discussions about inclusion of our wireless in Prime service, and Amazon has told us they have no plans to add wireless service.”
According to Bloomberg, Amazon is reportedly trying to work out a deal to offer unlimited plans for free. If Amazon is unable to reach a deal to do so they want the price to be around $10 a month.
This move would expand Amazon’s lineup of services by offering Amazon branded plans to its customers. According to reports, Amazon could start selling wireless plans as soon as next month. However, there are issues to work out first before this deal can be finalized.
A partnership with Amazon could boost Dish, Verizon, and T-Mobile, helping them grow as cheaper phone plans have started to cut into their profits and subscriber.
This is not the first time Amazon has gotten into the wireless market. In 2014 Amazon launched the Fire Phone, a short-lived smartphone running its own OS. Now though, they want to sell the wireless plans and let you use any phone you want.
No word yet on if you would need to be an Amazon Prime member to get these cheap plans but it is very possible.
Mobile phone service is becoming a very competitive market. Recently many cable companies have started selling mobile plans to help offset loses in TV subscribers. There is also a growing number of smaller resellers like Mint, whose cheap plans starting at $15 put pressure on larger carriers.
No word yet on a launch date but reports have said Amazon could announce wireless plans as soon as this month.
Would you let Amazon be your mobile phone provider?


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Historical Stock Chart
2 Years : From May 2011 to May 2013
General Motors Co.'s (GM) chief executive on Monday said the auto maker is interested in taking over Ally Financial Inc.'s international operations, and is the "natural buyer," according to Bloomberg News.
"We're interested in it, but we're not going to bleed to buy it," Dan Akerson said in an interview with Bloomberg.
The bank today said it expects to sell its international business.
Full story at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-14/gm-ceo-interested-in-buying-ally-s-internation-operations.html
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In 2017 there were a number of significant stories involving social media: Facebook managed to convince many snapchat users to switch to Instagram, Donald Trump has been communicating official state policies through 140 characters on Twitter and Apple have recently announced new plans that will alter the way which people interact with their mobiles.
This year social media is going to create more of a storm as new technologies are set to go mainstream.
Below are the top 5 social media marketing trends this year will likely bring;
- Augmented Reality
- Influencer Marketing
- Live Streaming
- Digital Hangouts
- Stronger Governance Policies
Apple recently announced 2 new phones at the first ever event at the new Steve Jobs Theatre. These were the iPhone 8 and iPhone X. Both of these devices have been built with a new chip that will allow users to experience augmented reality experiences. While augmented reality is going to be impacting the mobile gaming niche to start, do not be surprised if social media networks soon find ways to incorporate the new technology also.
For example, Instagram or snapchat are soon to reveal supporting filters that will enable users to take a selfie with celebrities that are projected through augmented reality.
There are many marketers who now solely use Instagram influencers as their main marketing to get their brand name or products to their potential customers. Influencers are people who have hundreds of thousands of followers who interact with their profiles daily. An influencer will charge a fee to promote a companies product.
Companies such as Rolex, Hubspot and North Face all use influencers in their marketing strategies.
This year it was found that many brands who opted for traditional marketing strategies struggled to connect with their audience on social media.
Next year you can expect that many of these brands will embrace influencer marketing as a way to connect with their audiences.
Live streaming was once just a novel gimmick, yet now it has become a huge part of social media, especially on Facebook. No doubt you have seen many brands, big and small, use live feed to connect with their audiences.
Even very small businesses have increased their following greatly by live streaming engaging content to their audience which is then shared, liked or commented on which attracts new followers.
Expect many more brands and businesses will start using live stream as part of their content marketing strategy.
Have you heard of “Houseparty”? Houseparty is a video hangout platform that has more than 1 million users every single day. Mostly it is used by Gen Zers to hang out with their friends digitally. However, the platform has become so successful that it has caught the eye of Facebook who are now looking at ways to create similar functionality within their own platform.
In 2017 videos became really important on social media and the use of video as a marketing strategy increased dramatically. It seems only natural that the next step will be live group hangouts. So expect the possibility that Facebook will announce a similar product and win over many of Houseparty’s users!
Stronger Governance Policies
After numerous controversial decisions took place during the 2016 presidential election, Facebook, Twitter and other social sites have started to govern conduct on their platforms in a much more hands-on way.
Recently, Facebook handed over thousands of adverts that are thought to be connected to Russian meddling and in addition, are investing in new artificial intelligence as a form of monitoring.
Given the criticism that both Facebook and Twitter received in 2017, you will likely see new codes of conduct being put in place that protect brands from future criticism.
So there you have the top 5 social media marketing trends this year will likely bring. Of course there are likely to be many more plus some surprises along the way!
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South America Soy Growers May Get 2-Year Window for China Sales
(Bloomberg) -- South America’s main soybean-producing nations could benefit from higher demand from China through 2020 thanks to a Sino-U.S. trade war, according to one of Uruguay’s largest farm companies.
“Uruguay and South America in general have an opportunity as a provider of oilseeds to China, which would stop buying at higher prices from the U.S.,” Jose Pedro Sanchez, chief executive officer of Union Agriculture Group Corp., said in a telephone interview in Montevideo.
U.S. soy that otherwise might have gone to China could displace Uruguayan soy in Europe, Sanchez said. In that scenario, China would probably end up buying almost all of Uruguay’s soy, he said.
China slapped tariffs on a range of U.S. agricultural products including soybeans earlier this month. Since March, trade tensions and a deep drought have caused Uruguayan soybean prices to trade above benchmark futures in Chicago for the first time in years. China purchased more than 80 percent of Uruguay’s soy in 2017, according to export promotion agency Uruguay XXI.
Sanchez, whose company controls grain trader and farm supplier Granosur SA, said Uruguayan producers that still have soy left over from the 2017-18 harvest should sell at current prices.
“Our recommendation today for 2019 soy is not to sell,” he said. “It’s best to wait a little for things to calm down.”
Uruguayan farmers are recovering from a severe drought that led to output in the 2017-18 season falling to about 1.3 million metric tons from a record 3.9 million tons in the previous season, according to data compiled by Deloitte LLP. The area planted has steadily fallen from a historic high of 1.5 million hectares (3.7 million acres) in 2013-14 as farmers stopped planting the crop on less-productive fields amid rising costs and a drop in global prices.
Sanchez said the acreage may be close to bottoming out at around 1.2 million hectares, but that depends on whether banks will finance planting this season and extend repayment deadlines on existing debt.
“The sector doesn’t need soft loans or loan forgiveness. The only thing it needs is more time to pay,” he said.
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Ikea’s 2020 Plastic Bans Imminent: Dangers to Environment Must Stop!
Ikea, one of the largest retails in Sweden, announced recently that it would put a stop to the sale of indivisible-use plastic items come 2020. The company also says that the restriction will spread across every branch operating under its management worldwide. It, however, promised to produce materials that will have the ability to accommodate amendment, reselling and renewal in the coming years.
Ikea’s decision is a sharp response to a declaration by the governing body of European Union. EU is ready to prohibit plastic products, such as balloon rods, straws, cutlery, cotton buds, and drink sticks for stirring. Indivisible-use plastic has the potential to destroy marine habitats.
This action is among its strategy to manufacture Ikea goods with the objective of utilizing only recyclable and renewed products. Also, it plans to make zero-emissions possible latest in 2025. Another benefit is that the amount of zero-meat bites and foods in its outlets will be increased.
The CE working for Inter Ikea Group, Tobjorn Loof, explained that the retailer has the avenue to motivate and facilitate better living for a billion individuals, through its coverage and weight. Loof added that this could be achieved within the bounds of the earth. Ikea is devoted to leading collaborated work with everybody, whether suppliers of unrefined materials or its buyers, as well as its partners, Loof concluded.
On the 28th of May this year, the European Commission introduced the idea of prohibiting indivisible-use plastic items like plastic straws and cotton buds. Piling up wastes from these products usually results in tedious work for producers who clear the waste, in a bid to cut down on marine debris.
According to the documents that contain the proposed policy, indivisible-use plastic materials with already made options will face bans and better products that are environmental-friendly and livable will be produced instead.
The document also asks nations under EU to take 90% of indivisible-use plastic bottles for drinks, come 2025, then manufacturers should assist in covering expenses of waste control, as well as tidying up.
Frans Timmermans, the EU Vice President, explained that there is no doubt about plastic waste being a huge matter. He added that Europeans must come together and take action that will combat the issue. This is due to how plastic waste accumulates in the air, oceans, soil, and food.
Scientific research spells negative evaluation
Heaping of plastic in oceans across the world is now a primary legislative issue for various governments to confront. Scientists constantly give out a warning on the impact of plastic waste on food cycle.
In a publication of research findings in one internet-based journal for science, it was reported that an estimated waste ground of about 79,000 m.tonnes contains 1.8 plus trillion fragments. This volume has been created inside the famous Pacific Ocean, and its major constituents are fishnets, ropes, plastic bottles, and packaging.
Early in the year, Britain released a statement that it decided to place an embargo on plastic straws sales as well as other indivisible-use materials.
The European Parliament, as well as the Council, will have to endorse the proposal drafted by the organization. The Commission also stated that it’s optimistic about getting a positive response before European polls come up by May next year.
Antagonism from plastic firms
An organization that represents producers of plastics, Plastics Europe, said that it’s in support of the “overall goal” in the policy. However, additional resources should be provided for the control of waste, to strengthen better disposal of used materials. P. E added in its comment that prohibiting plastics is not the way out. Other materials may lack better sustainability.
When the worldwide evaluation was analyzed, just 14 percent of existing plastics are used for renewal. The degree of renewal is very bad, in comparison to alternative materials which constitute 58 percent paper and about 90 percent iron with steel is renewed.
Research reveals that the weight of plastic will surpass that of fish in 2050 when the ocean volume around the world would be measured. This information has geared policy formulators, persons, and industries to take quick steps.
In May, a team of over 40 firms, which includes Coca-Cola, Unilever, Procter & Gamble, and Nestle promised to cut the quantity of plastic materials they utilize and dispose of in the UK.
Another company that is ready to follow the trend is Starbucks. It announced some months ago that it wants to introduce a grant contest valued at $10 million, to request for designs of a cup that will be simpler to renew.
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Bravo Crunchy Delights feature premium meat or poultry as the
first ingredient, plus mixed vegetables and quinoa. Crunchy Delights are
available in chicken, beef, turkey and duck varieties.
In the June 2022 issue of Petfood Industry, read about vegan formulations, mergers and acquisitions, and pet supplements.
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By Lindsay Beaton
Those in the supplements space are answering consumer calls for functionality, traceability, and simple education on what’s right for their pets.
Healthy M&A activity as well as expanded production capacity investments helped pet food companies continue to grow in 2021.


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64bits now from Qualcomm using the ARM based architecture. The game is afoot the Apple A6 cpu is now going to compete with another 64bit cpu.
Qualcomm finally unveils its high-end 64-bit enabled SoCs, but they won?t be available until the first half of 2015.
Qualcomm has launched its first batch of ARM v8-based SoCs last month, but this time around it is detailing its plans for the high-end segment. The Snapdragon 810 and …
Read more: http://vr-zone.com/articles/qualcomm-unveils-64-bit-snapdragon-810-snapdragon-808/75434.html


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FDA Begins Considering What Foods are “Natural”
Posted on Wednesday, January 13th, 2016 at 8:01 am
We have all seen packages of food that have the word “natural” on them. Have you ever wondered what that really means? The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has started questioning it. They are now considering what foods can be labeled as “natural”, and are seeking public input about it.
People who seek out natural foods to feed their families are doing so because they want to help keep their families healthy. This could mean they seek out products that have been labeled as organic. The FDA has regulations about the use of the word organic. This helps families to know that what are buying truly is organic.
Food is not allowed to be called organic unless the producers (or, in some cases, manufacturers) provide certification that agricultural ingredients have been produced under conditions that would meet the definition of organic. The FDA includes labeling standards based on the percentage of organic ingredients in food.
The word “natural”, however, had no such regulations. When you see the word “natural” on a food label, you might assume that the ingredients include a lot of healthy foods and very little (or no) questionable ingredients. That simply is not the case. The FDA does not restrict the use of the word “natural” on a food label except on foods that have added color, synthetic substances, and flavors.
It is understandable that people are not thrilled that food manufacturers can toss the word “natural” onto any product label they want. Doing so gives consumers the mistaken impression that the are food they are buying is better, or healthier, for them than it really is. The word “natural” is being used in a way that is intentionally misleading.
In December of 2015, the Food and Drug Administration was inundated with comments about the use of the word “natural” on a food label. The comment period will close on May 10, 2016. Many consumers are calling for the FDA to regulate the use of the word “natural” on a food label (like they regulate the use of the word “organic”).
The information on the FDA website about the use of the term “natural” in the labeling food products (that are intended for humans to eat) has a short summary. The key part says that the FDA is seeking comment on the use of the term “natural” on food labels, including foods that are genetically engineered or contain ingredients produced through the use of genetic engineering.
It will be quite some time before consumers learn what the FDA decides about the use of the word “natural”. All we know for certain is that a decision will not be made before the comment period is over.


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LyondellBasell: PE-HD from Münchsmünster
LyondellBasell Industries of Rotterdam, Netherlands, has started operation at its production plant designed for polyethylene of high density (PE-HD), situated at the site in Münchsmünster, Germany. After two years of construction, preparatory tests and test runs on the plant’s components, the equipment is now up and running. Its annual capacity is 320,000 tonnes. Permanent staff currently amounts to 65. The company delivers the products to customers in Europe and in the Middle East. The PE-HD has outstanding properties in terms of stiffness/toughness ratio, excellent impact resistance, high resistance to stress cracking, as well as improved processing features.
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