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If you’ve read our article on the figures behind the data explosion, you’ll know that we’re currently swamping ourselves with an unprecedented amount of digital data, and the rate at which we’re generating this information is increasing exponentially. So, are we surpassing our own capacity to store and retain this data? Do we run the risk of creating more information than we know what to do with?
The invention of the Integrated circuit is credited to American engineer Jack Kilby, a distinction for which he won the Nobel Prize in Physics back in the year 2000. Integrated circuits contain numerous transistors set into a semiconductor, nowadays silicon, and are used to store and process digital information quickly and efficiently. Integrated circuits paved the way for the birth of the digital age and are used in all of the miraculous everyday devices that we now take for granted. It wasn’t always this way however, and it took the financial might of the US Army and Navy to help get Kilby’s project the backing it needed to come to fruition.
The brilliance of the integrated circuit – a term which includes microprocessors, memory chips and ASICs – is that they are small, cheap to produce and perform reliably. A memory chip the size of a little fingernail can currently store 1,000 times more data than a palm-sized floppy disk of ten years previously, but can progress keep marching on at such an unbelievable rate? As strange as it may seem, it looks as though it might.
In February 2012, scientists at the University of New South Wales developed the world’s smallest transistor – both the smallest the world has ever seen, and quite possibly the smallest that the world will ever see. The transistor works on an atomic scale, sending an electric current across a space mere nanometres wide, and the scientists report that the device works in exactly the same way that current transistors do, suggesting that we have come one step closer to achieving quantum computing. As if that wasn’t enough, later in 2012 Harvard researchers revealed that they had developed a technique for storing data on strands of DNA – if you think that a current 3 terabyte disc-drive can hold a lot of data, remember that just one double strand of Human DNA is thought to contain one Exabyte of information, so a single DNA-based microprocessor could theoretically hold all of the data we’ve created throughout recorded history and then some.
While the volume of digital data being generated in the present day can be a little intimidating, the storage methods we have at our disposal, and those we are set to produce over the next few years, suggest that no matter how much data we create or acquire, there will always be ample storage with which to contain and process it. There’s no reason to worry about storing your data, so you may as well get back to generating it! Take a look at some of our flexible data capture methods to help you generate the information you need, or contact us to find out more about the benefits of digital data storage.


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WARREN — Retail industry executive Steve Glucksman has returned to Art Van Furniture as vice president, real estate, franchising and new business development.
Glucksman, who has over 25 years of industry experience, previously served as senior vice president of strategic business development and store operations at Art Van Furniture. He left Art Van Furniture in January 2014 to join Ashley Furniture as executive vice president of stores and licensed operations under its Ashley Furniture HomeStores division.
In his new role, Glucksman will focus his attention on new store and franchise growth opportunities.
He earned his Bachelor of Science in Economics from Southern Connecticut State University.

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Writer and activist Monica Lewinsky has joined forces with Reformation and Vote.org for the brand's new You've Got the Power campaign, which features its workwear collection.
"Another faceless brand telling you to vote isn't going to cut through, so they teamed up with someone iconic who would. As a changemaker and activist, Monica has been advocating for women to use their voices and embrace their power for decades," a press release announcing the launch read.
According to the release, the new You've Got the Power collection includes blazers, skirts, dresses and more. As part of the campaign, Reformation worked with Vote.org, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, to create a one-stop hub with voter information and will donate proceeds from the You've Got the Power sweatshirt to the organization.
Lewinsky, 50, a former White House intern who was embroiled in political scandal in the late '90s after former President Bill Clinton admitted to having an affair with her, has worked as an anti-bullying advocate for many years, referring to herself as "patient zero" of online harassment in reference to the widespread public shaming she faced in the wake of that affair.
Lewinsky later launched the #DefyTheName campaign in 2018 and 2017's #ClickWithCompassion campaign to align with National Bullying Prevention Month, and earned a master's degree in social psychology from the London School of Economics.
"While Ref knows that a powerful outfit alone isn't going to create a more perfect union, putting it on and going to the polls is a damn good place to start," this week's press release stated.
Over on Reformation's website, the brand states, "Together with Monica Lewinsky and Vote.org, we're reminding you that you've got the power. And that you need to vote this year."
Lewinsky is also quoted on the website, saying, "Voting is using your voice to be heard, and it's the most defining aspect of our democracy."
Lewinsky was photographed for the campaign in a variety of looks, including the brand's Veda Ashland Leather Trench, a black belted Mikol Knit Dress, and a polka-dotted georgette Lysander Dress. She was also snapped wearing the tailored Caiden Two Piece skirt set, styled with a light blue pinstripe button-down and a dark tie, and the brand's Classic Relaxed Blazer.
Check out some images of the collection below.


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Social media app Snapchat has introduced a new way of browsing products through its camera, with a lense that aims to make the shopping experience more personal.
App users can already use the platform to try-on digital products and make click-through purchases. According to the site, its users are now engaging with its augmented reality (AR) features more than six billion times per day, with 93 percent of those using the additions for AR shopping.
The increase in use has pushed the company to launch a new type of shopping lens, allowing users to easily swipe through multiple products in the app. Details on price, colour, size and similar items suggestions will be available to view, with the likes of Ulta Beauty and Mac Cosmetics already using the feature for their own products.
App users will continue to be able to share their purchases with friends and try them on through AR filters.


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(but hold on to the sauce — it might be worth a mint)
AWARD-winning boyband BTS — we’re talking the American Music Awards, the South Korean Order of Cultural Merit, and the Guiness World Records, among other recognitions — apparently have a hankering for 10 pieces of Chicken McNuggets, medium fries, and a medium Coke. Since last week, Filipino fans have been able to enjoy the same thing the boys (namely Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V, and Jungkook) like to order.
The BTS Meal, available from June 18 until supplies last, is pinned on the McDonald’s Famous Orders program. Previous collaborations were with rapper (and Kylie Jenner’s ex) Travis Scott and singer J Balvin. The Famous Orders program was launched last year, with a Superbowl commercial featuring the favorite orders of several celebrities (from the commercial, we found out Kim Kardashian likes six-piece chicken McNuggets, a cheeseburger, a vanilla shake, an apple pie, small fries, and honey dipping sauce).
“No matter who you are, everyone has a favorite McDonald’s order — even some of the biggest celebrities,” said Assistant Vice-President of Marketing and Channels for McDonald’s Philippines Oliver Rabatan during an online press conference the day before the release. “BTS are longtime brand fans, who, no matter where they travel… enjoy McDonald’s.”
The BTS meal was launched in the US last year, and has gone on to be present in over 50 markets. The nuggets-and-fries combo come with a limited-edition spicy cajun sauce and sweet chili sauces, which, according to the brand, are based on “popular recipes” from McDonald’s South Korea.
The BTS meal arrived to the Philippines amid much fanfare: the week before the release, McDonald’s got their restaurant crew together for a BTS TikTok challenge. Earlier this week, McDonald’s BTS-themed photobooths were placed in some stores. On a more philanthropic note, McDonald’s gave a first taste of the much-awaited offering to healthcare workers prior to the June 18 launch. Through McDonald’s Kindness Kitchen, over 2,000 BTS Meals were distributed to select hospitals and vaccination hubs.
BusinessWorld snagged the meal last week and got the familiar snack of nuggets and fries (P270). It all comes down to the sauces, ranking the creamy Cajun sauce, with its spicy-creamy notes, our own favorite (the sweet chili sauce tasted — well, like sweet chili sauce, and nothing much else). We’d petition McDonald’s to keep the Cajun sauce a store staple if we could.
Of course, aside from having what the boys are ordering, the fans are crazy about the BTS-themed packaging. Using the band’s signature color — a light purple — the global giant fast-food brand splashed the McDonald’s nugget box, the paper cup, and the paper bag with the BTS logo and colors. Some fans have already taken to social media to show off what they’ve done with their merch: cellphone cases, journals, and toys. “Now we’re excited to give BTS fans a new way to connect with their favorite band through the McDonald’s food they love,” said Mr. Rabatan.
PS: Hold on to your sauces. In 2018, a sachet of McDonald’s Szechuan Sauce from 1998 (following a push from cartoon Rick & Morty) sold for about $14,700.* The seller had found it in an old car he had bought. Due to the publicity from the cartoon’s mention (and the sauce’s sale), McDonald’s briefly brought the sauce back. Current prices on eBay for the sauces range from $5 to $300. Who knows? In the future, one might be sitting on a gold mine — thanks to the boys.
For now, the boys of BTS are saving fans a bit of money. If one orders the BTS Meal through the McDelivery App from June 25 to 27, only ₱7 will be charged as the delivery fee (terms and conditions apply). — Joseph L. Garcia


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Businesses in the Irish motor industry are being given the opportunity to celebrate their successes over the past year with the launch of a brand new Irish Motor Industry Awards programme.
Backed by the Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI ), the official voice of the motor industry in Ireland, and sponsored by Castrol Professional, the specialist lubricants and business improvement solutions provider, the awards are now open for entries from any franchised dealership in the country.
Award categories include Best Retail Operation Of The Year/Aftersales Operation Of The Year/Innovation Of The Year/Franchised Dealership Of The Year and Unsung Hero Of The Year.
“Although the motor industry has been struggling with enormous challenges over the past two years, there are still some remarkable successes in the sector, as businesses have adapted to the downturn through innovation and an increased customer focus,” said Alan Nolan, director general of SIMI. “We want to recognise the achievements of those who have excelled during a very difficult period and we believe that the whole industry will benefit from celebrating such positives from the last year.”
Dave Watson, head of Castrol Professional in Ireland, added: “We’re very pleased to join SIMI in recognising best practice in the franchised motor trade. We work with hundreds of dealerships in Ireland and have seen for ourselves how well many have adjusted to the economic circumstances by implementing positive, constructive changes to their operations. I very much look forward to applauding not only the award-winners, but also the industry in general.”
The awards ceremony will take place at Killashee House Hotel in Naas, Co Kildare, on 16 November 2010, during the SIMI annual conference.
For full details of the 2010 SIMI Irish Motor Industry Awards in association with Castrol Professional, visit www.irishmotorindustryawards.ie


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At the recent Frankfurt show, Bentley global head of sales and marketing Kevin Rose revealed to Automotive News Europe that the new Bentley SUV (EXP 9 F concept pictured) will be powered by a 12-cylinder engine that produces between 575 and 650 hp. He also confirmed the high-rider’s relation to the next-gen Audi Q7 and Porsche Cayenne.
Clearly, the 12-pot in question is likely to be a W12, and looking at the output range, a pair of turbochargers should be involved. The four-, five- or seven-seat vehicle “will be as capable off road as the Range Rover,” Rose boldly claimed, adding that it is expected to create a new segment. It will be the world’s most powerful and luxurious SUV, according to the Crewe crew. ANE speculates that Bentley’s first SUV could cost as much as 180,000 euro when sales begin in 2016.
It may not exactly be in a class of its own when it comes out, though – Rolls-Royce is reportedly considering an ultra-luxury SUV too.


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Facebook’s New Comment System: All You Wanted to Know
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The latest comes in the form of Facebook’s newly launched comments plug-in, a powerful system that is bound to re-define how users comment on Blogs and other social media sites. You can grab the code for comments box from Facebook’s social plugin section here.


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Asos Advances to Record After Sales Growth Beats ExpectationsSarah Shannon
Asos Plc, the U.K.’s largest online-only fashion retailer, rose to a record in London trading after saying second-quarter sales growth accelerated as young U.K. shoppers sought out its budget-price fashions.
Total retail sales rose 37 percent to 186.5 million pounds ($281 million) in the three months ended Feb. 28, the London-based retailer said, faster than the median estimate of a 35 percent increase from five analysts compiled by Bloomberg. Asos’s growth was 30 percent in the first quarter. The retail gross margin fell 0.5 percentage point as the company sold more clothes than expected in the U.K., where it has a lower margin than internationally because of the burden of value-added tax.
Asos revenue has been buoyed by free worldwide delivery, in-country management teams in France, Germany and a focus on adding fashion content such as style blogs and fashion advice to its website to attract and retain viewers. The retailer said it expects the retail gross margin, a measure of profitability, to improve during the year as last year’s price investments aren’t repeated and it improves sourcing.
“With investment in new territories rising, and the U.K. lapping its price incentives, margins and growth should rise in the second half and beyond,” Wayne Brown, an analyst at Canaccord Genuity, said in a report. He upgraded his recommendation from neutral to buy.
Asos shares rose as much as 7.1 percent in early London trading to the highest intraday price on record and were up 6.5 percent at 3,314 pence at 8:55 a.m., bringing this year’s gain to 23 percent and giving the company a market value of 2.73 billion pounds.
“Our U.K. performance remained ahead of expectations” at 28 percent sales growth, “with particularly strong trading during the peak December period,” Chief Executive Officer Nick Robertson said in the statement. “We remain positive in our outlook for the year” through August.
While the market remains “challenging across the piece,” shoppers are starting to increase basket sizes again in the U.K. and its offering fewer discounts, Robertson said in a phone interview.
The executive ruled out another “step-change” in discounting like last year when it cut the price of its own-label ranges to lure shoppers. Still, Asos will be “forever tweaking” prices, he said.
Country-specific websites in China and Russia are on track to open this year, Robertson said, with India and South America next on the agenda after.


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The Wolfenstein games have offered exciting action and adventure over the years, and 2017’s entry Wolfenstein: The New Colossus was well received by gamers and critics alike.
But even though Bethesda’s series has done pretty well until now, there’s more Wolfenstein coming our way, as a new game in the franchise will be hitting shelves this summer. Titled Wolfenstein: Young Blood, this new game in the Wolfenstein series brings co-op multiplayer gameplay to the table and a new protagonist, as stalwart BJ Blazkowicz is no longer the lead character in the game.
The game’s differences to its predecessors are partly due to the fact that Young Blood is being co-developed by Arkane Studios – these are the people behind the great Dishonored games, known for their open-ended gameplay. So it’s no surprise that Wolfenstein: Young Blood will be more like Dishonored, as Gustafsson admitted in the interview.
“I think players will see a lot of similarities to level design in the Dishonored games, so in that sense it can be a little bit different as an experience but it can be for the benefit of the game, especially when it comes to finding different ways of approaching a combat scenario or a mission in general”, said the game’s executive producer.
Sadly, the price for more open-ended gameplay has been a cut in the game’s story elements, something which was also necessary due to the game’s new focus on co-op gameplay.
“The open-ended structure and co-op aspect has made it a little more difficult when it comes to the narrative”, said Gustafsson, adding that the game will have a shorter campaign but more gameplay time, while the story will be “a little bit lighter, not only in tone but also when it comes to the amount of content”.
And this might be a bummer for those who’ve enjoyed Wolfenstein’s admittedly good stories until this point, and to those who are not fond of co-op gameplay and prefer to play through the game solo (which is still possible as your sidekick in the game can be controlled by the AI if you would rather not play with another human).
Hopefully though, Wolfenstein: Young Blood will still be a game worth playing through when it launches later this year.
Note: Wolfenstein: Young Blood will be released on July 26, 2019. Available on PS4, Xbox One, PC and Nintendo Switch.


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We told you Google was having trouble mass-producing its latest Nexus installments and meeting demand, even more than usual, and N6’s failed US launch just adds fuel to the speculation fire.
While owners of flagship devices and even mid-rangers from household Western mobile brands are holding their breaths in anticipation of Android 5.0 Lollipop updates, Huawei dropped a massive bombshell bound to hurt its already shady stateside reputation.
Don’t make any plans for gadget holiday shopping just yet, as you might end up hating yourselves for jumping the gun. A number of drool-producing smartphones are on their way to US carriers and “Uncarriers”, including the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge and HTC One M8 for Windows.
Samsung’s Q3 earnings report has revealed a drop in profits worldwide as a result of lower smartphone sales. International profits for the company were down by nearly 60 percent for the quarter compared to 2013, and they ended at just $3.9 billion. Though the drop is not something investors want to see, Samsung had expected a smaller quarter, at least in terms of profits.
Google has revealed some of the new security features in Android L in a blog post. The company says Android L is the first version of the mobile operating system that turns on encryption by default, and it has many other security features that can be utilized if necessary. Google says these new features will roll out with Android L to devices within the coming weeks, at least for some smartphones and tablets.
We doubted Samsung all the way when the company promised us the quirky, revolutionary Galaxy Note Edge phablet would enjoy a wide-scale global launch. The 5.6 incher simply felt too experimental and rough around the edges (pun intended) to hit as many store shelves as its standard, “normal” Note 4 sibling.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- A new coffee shop called “Dumb Starbucks” opened over the weekend in Los Angeles’ Los Feliz neighborhood and gave out free coffee to locals who were smart enough to wait in line.
We're now open for business! Visit us at 1802 Hillhurst Ave in Los Angeles. pic.twitter.com/WnVefrYM9b— Dumb Starbucks (@dumbstarbucks) February 7, 2014
“We are aware of it and looking into it,” a Starbucks spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal.
The restaurant offered patrons drinks like “Dumb Vanilla Blonde Roast,” “Dumb Chai Tea Latte,” “Dumb Caramel Macchiato,” “Dumb Venti,” “Dumb Grande,” and “Dumb Tall.” The store also sold “Dumb” CD compilations at the counter.
Enjoy our full menu of coffees and cold drinks pic.twitter.com/wPacrEEH9k— Dumb Starbucks (@dumbstarbucks) February 8, 2014
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According to a “frequently asked questions” handout that is available at the establishment, the restaurant is using the Starbucks Corp. name and logo “for marketing purposes.” The handout claims that what Dumb Starbucks is doing is legal under the “fair use” doctrine.
“Although we are a fully functioning coffee shop, for legal reasons Dumb Starbucks needs to be categorized as a work of parody art. So, in the eyes of the law, our ‘coffee shop’ is actually an ‘art gallery’ and the ‘coffee’ you’re buying is considered the art. But that’s for our lawyers to worry about. All you need to do is enjoy our delicious coffee!”
But with the appearance of celebrities over the weekend who tweeted photos of the coffee shop, and a neighbor telling the Los Angeles Times that film crews had been there just a few days before, many are wondering just who the publicity is for.
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Microsoft Corp planned on Monday to announce its move into a new business, unveiling a database software that works with a rival to its Windows operating system, a move that takes aim at a market long dominated by Oracle Corp. The new database product will work with the Linux operating system. The move is the latest to show Microsoft’s increasing willingness to work with competing products, a radical change for the once fiercely protective company.
In an era of excessive amounts of data, much of it used by companies trying to win more business and establish competitive edges, data management has become critically important.
Overall database-software sales, well north of $30 billion, and have kept rising even though spending in information technology has been generally lackluster, said Gartner analyst Merv Adrian.
“If you look at the companies that are transforming and disrupting industries, it is often with data at the core,” said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president for cloud and enterprise at Microsoft. “All of them are using data in a much richer way now to understand their customers.”
Microsoft’s SQL Server business has been behind No. 1 Oracle, which has more than 40 percent market share in database software and works with Linux, Adrian said.
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Cleveland police will auction abandoned, forfeited and salvaged cars Saturday, Oct. 1.
The auction will begin at 9 a.m. at the city’s Impound Lot No. 2, located at 4300 Bradley Road. Vehicles will be available for inspection one hour before the auction. At least 60 cars are up for bid, including Cadillac, BMW and Lexus models.
Buyers must put down a 10 percent cash deposit and pay the balance in five days. All sales are final. None of the vehicles come with a warranty or guarantee.
Money generated from the sale of forfeited autos will go to the Law Enforcement Trust Fund (LETF). The LETF is used to buy items including personal body armor, on-board mobile computers for police patrol cars and has funded investigations involving internet crimes against children. Money generated from the sale of abandoned vehicles will go the General Fund.
For more information, you can contact Cleveland Division of Police Vehicle Custodial Unit at (216) 623-5342.
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January 16, 2008
Food supplement regulation changes in many markets across the globe are fostering supplements industry growth in emerging economies, according to the International Alliance of Dietary/Food Supplements Associations (IADSA).
Easing of regulatory restrictions and closer working arrangements with governments had seen markets such as Romania and Turkey achieve buoyant sales in the past decade, said IADSA global market analyst, Peter Zambetti. He noted that while developed markets such as the European Union, the UK and the US are growing at an average of four to six per cent annually, emerging markets are notching an impressive annual growth rate of 17 per cent.
"The global supplement market is currently valued at $50 billion, and in general emerging markets are growing much faster than developed markets," Zambetti told more than 200 attendees at a recently held conference in Turkey. "In 1997 Turkey's dietary supplement market was only $8.1million, whereas in 2006 it was valued at $195 million — an average annual growth of 23 per cent over the last 10 years." Romania had grown 20 per cent growth in three years.
Other speakers at the conference included European Union head of food law Basil Mathioudakis, and Dr Hans Verhagen from the European Food Safety Authority NDA panel. "Overall the event was a huge success, and we were especially pleased with the positive attitude of the Turkish government towards our sector," said Muge Cakir, executive director of Turkish food supplements association, BesDesDer. "Turkey's food supplement market is booming — in the last two years the sector has doubled. There are still discrepancies that exist with some products which we believe should be regulated as foods but are still classed as drugs, but we are constantly working to address these issues and increase the credibility of the sector."
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Fisheries around the globe generate a whopping $246 billion in annual revenues, according to a new study that for the first time tallies the value of all the indirect industries linked to the lucrative but fragile resource.
How much money does the fishing industry make globally?
In 2018, global fisheries and aquaculture amounted to approximately 179 million tons, with a “first sale” value estimated at US$401 billion, generating over US$164 billion in exports, including 60 percent from developing countries.
How much is the fishing industry worth Worldwide 2020?
Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the global market for Seafood estimated at US$113.2 Billion in the year 2020, is projected to reach a revised size of US$138.7 Billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 2.9% over the analysis period 2020-2027.
How much money is made from fishing each year?
U.S. commercial and recreational fishing generated $208 billion in sales, contributed $97 billion to the gross domestic product and supported 1.6 million full- and part-time jobs in 2015 — above the five-year average — according to NOAA’s Fisheries Economics of the United States report released today.
How much fish is consumed worldwide?
Global seafood production reached a level of 179 million metric tons (MT) in 2018, with all but 23 million MT going to human consumption.
Are fish populations increasing?
2020, shows that on average, scientifically-assessed fish populations around the world are healthy or improving. 2020 counters the perception that fish populations around the world are declining and the only solution is closing vast swaths of ocean to fishing.
What is the value of the fishing industry?
The fishing sector in the United States was valued at 10.05 billion U.S. dollars in 2020, down from the previous year’s size of 10.11 billion U.S. dollars. The sector was forecast to reach 10.58 billion in 2021.
Which country is the largest fish producer?
China (58.8 million tons) China is the ruler of the world’s largest fish producer. This Panda country leaves far away its competitors, including India with a distance of six times more. With a total global fish production of 178.8 million tons, one third of the world’s fish production comes from China.
How much revenue does the seafood industry generate for Louisiana?
They provide jobs, income and tax revenue, but they also generate innovations that protect our coastlines and help keep our waters pristine. One out of every 70 jobs in Louisiana is related to the seafood industry, which as a whole has an economic impact of over $2.4 billion annually for Louisiana.
How profitable is the fishing industry?
The commercial fishing and seafood industry — harvesters, processors, dealers, wholesalers, and retailers — supported 1.2 million jobs in 2016, generating $144 billion in sales impacts and adding $61 billion to the GDP.
Is fishing good for the economy?
Estimates suggest that the economic contribution of the U.S. fishing industry is nearly $90 billion annually, and supports over one and a half million jobs (National Marine Fisheries Service [NMFS] 2014).
How much fish does the world consume a year?
What is our global seafood consumption footprint? According to calculations using baseline data from 2011, global demand for seafood destined for human consumption is 143.8 million tonnes per year, and the overall consumption footprint, which also includes other uses of seafood, is 154 million tonnes.
What country consumes the most fish per capita?
Maldives Country Unit Honduras kg Hong Kong kg Hungary kg Iceland kg.
How are fish populations estimated?
The most basic probability sampling procedure used in fish population sampling is simple random sampling, in which a predetermined number of sampling sites is selected from all possible sampling sites such that every potential site has an equal chance of being selected (Hansen et al. 2007).
Are fish populations declining?
Many freshwater fish species have declined by 76 percent in less than 50 years. The global assessment, described as the first of its kind, found that populations of migratory freshwater fish have declined by 76 percent between 1970 and 2016—a higher rate of decline than both marine and terrestrial migratory species.
What is happening to the world’s fish supply?
Overfishing statistics: The trends are clear Nearly 80% of the world’s fisheries that are already fully exploited, over-exploited, depleted, or in a state of collapse. Worldwide, 90% of the stocks of large predatory fish, such as sharks, tuna, marlin, and swordfish, are already gone!.
How many fish are in the World 2020?
The best estimates by scientists place the number of fish in the ocean at 3,500,000,000,000. Counting the number of fish is a daunting and near-impossible task.
How much money does commercial fishing bring to the economy?
The economic assessment revealed that the industry contributes more than A$436 million in revenue annually to the NSW economy and accounts for about 3,290 full-time jobs. This includes the fishers, service industries, sales and marketing.
How big is the global fishing industry?
The global fishing nets market size is expected to reach USD 2,017.7 million by 2028, exhibiting a CAGR of 12.2% during the forecast period. The COVID-19 outbreak has affected various industries worldwide.6 days ago.
What countries rely on the fishing industry?
Fish, crustaceans, molluscs, etc Country Capture Total China 17,800,000 81,500,000 Indonesia 6,584,419 23,200,000 India 5,082,332 10,800,000 Vietnam 2,785,940 6,420,471.
Which fish is most consumed worldwide?
The latest report by the UN shows that tuna is the world’s most consumed and the second most wild caught fish in the world.
What states produce the most seafood?
Alaska. Surprisingly, Alaska is the state that produces the most seafood in America. More than half of all American seafood by pounds comes in through Alaskan ports. Alaska was responsible for over 5.4 million pounds of caught product in 2018—over four million pounds more than the next highest state, Louisiana.
What is one way Louisiana contributes to the nation’s economy?
Louisiana supports the U.S. economy by providing five of the nation’s 15 largest ports by shipping volume, and Louisiana’s navigation industry accounts for $11 billion in annual economic output.


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Despite it being roughly the millionth time she has likely addressed the issue, author Sophie Kinsella responds to the prickly ‘Chick lit’ question with patience and diplomacy. Mostly, it’s by offering alternative names for the genre, ones that seem less ghettoizing and more appealing to male readers.
Alberta Ballet continued its 48th season Thursday night at the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium with yet another large-scale literary classic, David Nixon’s Northern Ballet adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers.
Yellow Pages launched on Friday its national Shop The Neighbourhood campaign in Calgary aimed at celebrating and supporting small businesses and encouraging shoppers to buy local.
Solange Tuyishime was 12 when she and her family fled the war and genocide in Rwanda. When they arrived at a refugee camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo, UNICEF helped them survive a raging cholera outbreak. A 20-litre water container was critical to that survival and the young Tuyishime regularly carried one on her back and another container in her hands to bring clean, safe water for her family. Tuyishime eventually made it to Canada, where she became a star athlete and student and eventually crowned Miss Canada International.
More than 400 of Calgary’s top medical minds, business leaders and philanthropists celebrated at a gala 10 years of discovery at the Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI).
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CALGARY - A Calgary marketing engagement agency, with many global brands as clients, continues to expand with a new partnership with a New York City-based brand research consultancy. Cult Collective Ltd. is hooking up with Brand Keys Inc., which specializes in predictive brand equity, consumer loyalty and engagement metrics, with offices in major markets.
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For the Calgary HeraldThe Riesling revolution I recently spent a week in Germany for its annual wine auction, an international event that draws collectors from around the world. If the prices that the recent vintages commanded at auction is any indication — and it often is — then it’s safe to say that Riesling is poised to reclaim its rightful place at the top of white wine realm. I say reclaim because there was a time when German Rieslings — or Hock, as it was called at the time — were the most collectible and desired wines in the world. The wines suffered a decline in popularity for decades mainly due to the boatloads of mass-produced dreck fobbed off on the masses by a handful of large players. That, combined with the ever-changing whims of wine fashion, created a huge challenge for the quality producers, whose numbers are legion.
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An online home and garden furnishings marketplace, which has its headquarters in Banbury, has reported significant growth during the Covid-19 crisis.
OnlyHome.co.uk experienced 205 per cent year-on-year revenue growth in April and May this year, compared to the same period last year. When looking at sales that were generated specifically by advertising pay-per-click advertising, revenue growth was even greater at 305 per cent.
OnlyHome.co.uk sells a wide-range of furnishings, including furniture, accessories, soft furnishings and contemporary and traditional lighting.
The website also offers hundreds of small, independent retailers the opportunity to sell products through its site. The company said that without the high volume of sales that were achieved some of its suppliers would have had to furlough, or even lay off, staff and potentially could have closed altogether.
Catriona Mason, head of partnerships at OnlyHome.co.uk, said: “Few things have brought comfort to people during these challenging times, but investing in home improvements has definitely been one of them, and as well as helping people mentally this has also benefited the economy.
“By supporting OnlyHome.co.uk, customers have not only helped themselves at this difficult time, they have also helped British businesses stay open, keep trading safely and keep the cogs turning of the wider economy. We thank everyone for supporting OnlyHome.co.uk, for supporting a nation of small businesses striving to keep going and look forward to continuing to grow and helping more people. “
Nick Handley, head of performance marketing at ecommerce agency Fluid Digital, which leads OnlyHome.co.uk’s Google advertising, said: “I don’t think anyone could have anticipated the measures the country would have to take, the number of lives that would be lost and suffering that would occur.
“People’s homes have become even more central to their lives and making them look and feel nicer is clearly one way residents are trying to ease the pain. The success of OnlyHome.co.uk’s campaign has been phenomenal and it’s great to see how this has benefited the wider economy and the public at large. The results mirror what we have seen with other home and garden retailers and we think growth will continue as long as people feel that their homes are the safest place to be.”


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By BizLED bureau
March 13, 2015: While Apple Watch will be released on April 24, pre-orders will start from April 10. With this development, the sapphire industry in China is optimistic and looking towards a buoyant growth. Apple?s smartwatch cover is made of sapphire glass. This is expected to boost sapphire manufacturing, particularly in China.
It is expected that total shipments of Apple Watch in 2015 will be about 20 million units. Among the various Apple Watch models, only the Watch Sport range will not use sapphire glass on the watch?s cover display; all the others will use it.
A report forecasts that about 30.8 million millimeters of two-inch equivalent sapphire ingot will be required for Apple Watch covers in 2015 itself, which is almost 18% of sapphire ingots produced worldwide for a year. Fuelled with this increasing demand, the sapphire industry will witness significant growth in 2015, particularly in China.
To qualify to be on the Apple watch, the sapphire glass needs to go through double-sided polishing and 2.5D process, so that it becomes thicker as compared to other products.
Apple had announced that sapphire covers for Apple?s smart watches will be procured from two Chinese suppliers?Lens Technology and Biel Crystal.
Lens Technology?s revenue in 2014 was RMB 14.49 billion, of which 47.44% of he revenue came from Apple order.
China?s sapphire manufacturers have the geographical advantage that help them to work with each other, and Lens Technology and Biel Crystalwill will also support each other during the R&D stage. The alliance with apple will also help Lens Technology and Biel Crystal to increase and improve their production and processing capabilities, and will also support them to increase their yield rates.
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EA has launched an Online Pass system in an effort to slow the sales of used games – a significant market from which retailers make money but games publishers don’t. But these new initiatives aren’t a threat to US retailer GameStop, apparently.
Online Pass gives purchases of new games a one-use code to get full access to its online play features. For second-hand buyers to access online features, they need to purchase a new code of their own for $10.
This threatens the sale of used games, from which GameStop makes a pretty penny, but it’s not worried. In fact, the retail giant seems optimistic about it, with the firm’s COO Paul Raines saying in a recent earnings call: "We are pleased to participate in the launch of Electronic Arts online pass and sales of DLC on new titles.
"We support the creation of added downloadable content for popular franchises, as we see that as extending the life of titles and broadening the base of game players."
He went on: "We do not anticipate an impact to our used margins due to this program. The amount of used game buyers currently playing online is low, and as it grows, our proprietary models will manage trade and sale pricing to reach margin goals.
"Lastly, we believe that the Online Pass process will allow publishers to better leverage their IP content through DLC sales to both used players and new game buyers," added Raines, saying GameStop is leading the charge for the sale of DLC in-store via code cards.
EA’s Online Pass system has already been emulated by THQ, confirming today that UFC Undisputed 2010 will come with a similar one-use code for access to multiplayer, with additional codes on sale for used buyers.
Ubisoft has also said it’s ‘watching closely’ EA’s strategy and plans to adopt a similar code system eventually, indicating that it may go so far as to making portions of its games available as downloadable content which’ll be free to new game buyers, and paid-for to second hand customers.


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Cattle Rise to Record as Japan’s Meat Demand May Gain Amid Nuclear Concern
Cattle futures surged to a record on bets that meat demand in Japan will increase amid concerns that farmland and animals were tainted after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami damaged nuclear units.
Retail-beef prices in the U.S. last month climbed to an all-time high. The nation’s cattle herd dwindled to the lowest since 1958, and meat exports have surged, spurred by a demand in emerging markets. Shrinking domestic supplies are increasing costs for supermarkets and restaurants.
Tyson Foods Inc. (TSN), the largest U.S. meat processor, said today that Japan may increase imports in the short term. Global food prices jumped 25 percent in 2010 and climbed to a record last month, according to a United Nations index. Surging costs contributed to uprisings in northern Africa and the Middle East that toppled leaders in Egypt and Tunisia.
“The Japanese people have an interest in buying U.S. beef,” said Don Roose, the president of U.S. Commodities Inc. in West Des Moines, Iowa. “There’s a concern with the contamination level. The U.S. and foreign products get a nod” over Japan’s products and production, he said.
Cattle futures for June delivery gained 1.675 cents, or 1.4 percent, to settle at $1.19575 a pound at 1 p.m. on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Earlier, the most-active contract rose to a record of $1.198. The price has climbed 28 percent in the past 12 months.
U.S. consumers may pay as much as 5.5 percent more for meat this year with prices rising faster than overall food costs, the USDA has forecast. Last week, wholesale beef climbed to the highest since at least January 2004.
Beef is “probably the biggest concern” among commodity expenses for Wendy’s/Arby’s Group Inc., Chief Executive Roland C. Smith said this week. The cost of the meat may rise 15 percent or more this year, the company, the third-biggest U.S. hamburger chain, has forecast.
Japan was the largest importer of U.S. pork and the third- largest buyer of U.S. beef last year, government data show. In Japan’s northeast, hazardous radiation levels are delaying repair work at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant, site of the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
Surging prices of corn, the main ingredient in livestock feed, have boosted costs for meat producers. In Texas, the leading U.S. cattle producer, the worst drought in 44 years is forcing ranchers to reduce herds.
“With the high price of beef, it’s getting real hard to move in the States, but export demand is really strong,” said Troy Vetterkind, the owner of Vetterkind Cattle Brokerage in Chicago. Japan has “been having to buy more beef, pork and chicken because of the problems they’ve got, so that’s been a pretty major factor,” he said.
More Japanese demand for chilled fresh pork over frozen products signals the country may have little meat available at the retail level, Smithfield Foods Inc. Chief Financial Officer Bo Manly said today at an industry conference.
Hog futures for June settlement fell 0.325 cent, or 0.3 percent, to $1.0315 a pound. Earlier, the price dropped 3 cents, the CME’s limit. Yesterday, the commodity reached $1.0415, the highest for a most-active contract since at least April 1986.
Feeder-cattle futures for August settlement rose 1.25 cents, or 0.9 percent, to $1.40575 a pound. Earlier, the price climbed to a record of $1.409.
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As China and the United States engage in high-level negotiations over a possible trade deal, it’s puzzling to see what’s been left off the table: the Chinese internet market. China blocks or hinders nearly every important foreign competitor online, including Google, Facebook, Wikipedia in Chinese, Pinterest, Line (the major Japanese messaging company), Reddit and The New York Times. Even Peppa Pig, a British cartoon character and internet video sensation, has been censored on and off; an editorial in the Communist Party’s official People’s Daily newspaper once warned that she could “destroy children’s youth.”
China has long defended its censorship as a political matter, a legitimate attempt to protect citizens from what the government regards as “harmful information,” including material that “spreads unhealthy lifestyles and pop culture.” But you don’t need to be a trade theorist to realize that the censorship is also an extremely effective barrier to international trade. The global internet economy is worth at least $8 trillion and growing, yet the Trump administration has focused chiefly on manufacturing, technology transfers and agriculture, and does not seem to have pressed for concessions on this issue.
Sheltered from American, Japanese and European competition, Chinese internet businesses have grown enormously over the past decade. Nine of the world’s 20 largest internet firms, by market value, are now Chinese. Some of this growth reflects the skill and innovation of Chinese engineers, a vibrant start-up culture and the success of Chinese business in catering to local tastes. But it’s hard to believe that this has been unaided by censorship.
And the barriers to foreign competition have more than just economic effects. Without any better options, Chinese users are forced to put up with companies like Tencent, which owns the private messaging app WeChat, and the online payment company Ant Financial, whose privacy violations are, amazingly, even more troubling than those of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. By tolerating Chinese censorship, the United States encourages other countries to do the same.
When it joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, China agreed to a broad liberalization of trade in services, including data processing and telecommunications. China’s internet policies must be understood as a violation of these commitments. China will presumably counter that its internet policies are “necessary to protect public morals or to maintain public order,” invoking the relevant exception to the World Trade Organization’s rules. But while that exception might justify bans on gambling sites or even Peppa Pig, in the case of most of China’s internet barriers the real purpose seems to be the protection of homegrown business interests.
Why is the United States not demanding change? It’s not as if we lack leverage. Chinese firms like Tencent and the online retailer JD.com have aggressively pursued operations in the United States, seeking to take advantage of our open internet and open market. The Office of the United States Trade Representative even cited Chinese internet blocking as a trade barrier in 2016. Why allow a country to do business here if it won’t let us do business there? The basic principle of trade policy is reciprocity: Lower your barriers and we’ll lower ours. When it comes to the internet economy, the United States has unilaterally disarmed and is being played for a fool.
为何美国没有要求中国进行改变呢？我们并不像是缺乏手段。诸如腾讯和在线零售商京东等中国公司已经在美国大举拓展业务，寻求利用我们开放的互联网和开放的市场。美国贸易代表办公室(Office of the United States Trade Representative) 2016年曾把中国的互联网屏蔽行为列为贸易壁垒。如果一个国家不允许我们在它那里做生意，为什么要允许它在我们这里做生意？贸易政策的基本原则是互惠互利：你们降低你们的壁垒，我们就降低我们的。在互联网经济方面，美国单方面解除武装，是在被中国愚弄。
Particularly baffling is the attitude of the major American internet firms, the victims of China’s internet trade policy, whose strategy has largely been one of appeasement. Google did retreat from the Chinese market in 2010 because of concerns about censorship and industrial espionage, and it did complain for a while about Chinese obstructions. Yet last year we learned that Google was effectively giving up the fight, building a censored search engine for the Chinese market and begging for access.
Also disappointing has been Facebook’s approach. Even though Facebook has been banned in China for years, Mark Zuckerberg, its chief executive, has made embarrassing efforts to ingratiate himselfwith China’s president, Xi Jinping. (At one point gossip pages even reported that Mr. Zuckerberg asked, in vain, for Mr. Xi to give an honorary Chinese name to his unborn child; Mr. Zuckerberg denied that this happened.)
Appeasement does not make effective foreign policy or trade policy. The United States, with the world’s largest economy and its most important internet sector, should be negotiating from a position of strength. If the Trump administration wants to be tough with China on trade, it should demand meaningful access to the Chinese internet market, on pain of denial of access to American markets for Chinese firms.
That is how trade negotiation has always proceeded, and the internet ought to be no exception. We otherwise run the risk of winning the battle for the past while surrendering the battle for the future.


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Major brands like Mattel, Barbie and Zara are all trying to break gender stereotypes in their ad campaigns. But Molly Logan, co-founder of agency Double Dutch, plans to take women’s empowerment to the next level. She wants to change the way agencies themselves are run.
“Ad agencies tend to privilege men and youth. I’ve seen so many talented women pushed out of the ad industry because of their age. So instead of changing the system, why not create our own?” Logan said. “Imagination has the power to transform anyone. We’ll start with teen girls, and then we’ll go from there.”
The idea of Double Dutch is simple: Team bright teen girls with seasoned female ad executives to reinvent strategy, production and marketing. Double Dutch is the in-house for-profit creative agency within a non-profit organization called School of Doodle, a free online education and content creation hub by and for teen girls. At School of Doodle, members (“Doodlers”) can watch informative videos featuring creative experts, read content picked by editors and post their own artwork. While any content marked as “Public” can be seen by anyone, only 13- to 19-year-old girls can become account holders.
Logan founded School of Doodle as a Kickstarter project in 2014, for which she raised around $107,000 including funds from Arianna Huffington and Pussy Riot. For the time being, School of Doodle has three full-time employees including Logan and 12 teen girls on the payroll to keep the platform up and running. They work together to produce organic content for School of Doodle and occasionally they work with brands who want to serve sponsored content on the platform. In the latter case, those girls participate in the actual pitch process, the same way ad executives work with brand marketers. And they get paid for it.
“Girls shouldn’t give their ideas for free. Of course, school is always their first priority. Four of them will be able to work with us full-time this summer,” said Logan. School of Doodle declined to name any of it clients.
Logan brought the philosophy of School of Doodle to Double Dutch in hoping to bring teen girls’ creativity everywhere, beyond the School of Doodle site itself. Different from School of Doodle though, Double Dutch is a for-profit full-service agency.
Double Dutch is in its infancy as Logan is still assembling a team and looking for brand clients. But she told Digiday that one thing is clear: Like School of Doodle, girls on the team will have the power to choose Double Dutch’s brand partners and the agency’s campaigns will be “positive and highly inclusive.” “We will value quality over quantity. It’s fine if we do only two ad campaigns this year,” said Logan. “My dream is to make Super Bowl ads with the teen girls in our community.”
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Pernod, the maker of the Royal Stag and Imperial Blue whiskies, has mostly been a profitable company in India but was considered small in sales terms. That is changing now, gradually.
In the financial year ended March, Pernod Ricard registered gross turnover of Rs 8,614.5 crore, 19.37 per cent higher than the previous year’s Rs 7,216.4 crore, according to data sourced from analysts tracking the liquor industry and closely following Pernod Ricard. The company is not listed in India. Net sales has been assumed at half of this at Rs 4,307.2 crore for FY14 versus Rs 3,608.2 crore the previous year.
In terms of bottom lines, Pernod’s net profit grew 18.3 per cent over the previous year to Rs 810.3 crore in 2013-14. During this period, USL, struggling with operations in a weak market, reported a loss of Rs 4,489 crore. The company is now controlled by British liquor giant Diageo, which is attempting to clean up its books after auditors and minority shareholders questioned USL’s accounting practices.
On November 28, minority shareholders of USL rejected as many as nine of the 12 resolutions tabled at the company’s annual general meeting.
Among the rejected proposals were USL’s pacts with entities connected to the erstwhile promoter Vijay Mallya. This included pacts dated September 30, 2011 and December 22, 2011 between USL and United Breweries Holdings Ltd (UBHL) that required UBHL to sell to the firm certain immovable properties.
Shareholders also rejected a loan agreement between USL and UBHL, dated July 3, 2013, and did not approve a licensing proposal tabled by USL to manufacture and distribute Diageo’s ‘Bottled in India’ products. The licensing agreement, said analysts, was a key one since it would have added Rs 600 crore to USL’s turnover, something it badly needs at this stage. Its earnings before interest and tax would have improved by around Rs 60-70 crore, analysts said.
Some other resolutions that did not get the nod included a services agreement, dated July 3, 2013, between USL and Kingfisher Finvest India; and sponsorship pacts, dated June 11, 2013, between USL and United Racing & Bloodstock Breeders, besides another between USL and United Mohun Bagan Football Team Pvt Ltd.
The company is expected to go back to shareholders to again seek their approval on all special resolutions, in an extraordinary general meeting likely to be called in 45 days.
In 2013, after buying a 25.04 per cent stake in USL, which triggered the mandatory open offer, Diageo had seen just 0.4 per cent of the company’s shareholders tendering their shares — in one of the weakest open offers that year. In 2013, Unilever’s open offer for HUL was subscribed 67 per cent, and GlaxoSmithKline’s offers for GSK Consumer Healthcare and GSK Pharma was subscribed 92 per cent and 100 per cent, respectively.
Diageo, however, is preparing to push its brands aggressively in India, following the acquisition of a controlling stake in USL. The company had in August launched a premium variant of its popular Smirnoff vodka, Smirnoff Black, and then followed it up with the launch of a pre-mixed vodka, Smirnoff Ice. The company also sells brands like Johnnie Walker, Guinness beer and VAT 69.


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Shanghai plans to build Nanjing West Road business circle into a more prosperous commercial hub with retail sales volume exceeding 100 billion yuan (about 14.5 billion U.S. dollars) in 3 years, according to the 2023 Forbes China Jing’an West Nanjing Road Forum held in Shanghai recently.
The Nanjing West Road business circle is located in the core high-end service agglomeration belt in Shanghai’s Jing’an District. Last year, the business circle saw annual retail sales volume totaling more than 78 billion yuan, according to Commerce Commission of Jing’an District.
An implementation plan on optimizing the consumption environment in Jing’an District was released during the forum. The plan is centered on optimizing the access and operation services for consumer enterprises, promoting the vitality and diversification of consumer market supply, as well as creating a window to show the world with Shanghai’s consumer economy.
The plan is the first of this kind issued at the district level in Shanghai, aiming to further create a world-class consumption environment, and welcome more commercial and trade enterprises to do business in Jing’an.
Statistics show the total retail sales of social consumer goods of Jing’an District ranked the first in the downtown area of Shanghai in 2022. More than 70 percent of the top 100 world-renowned brands have opened stores in Jing’an.
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Save the Chickens!
By Stateline.org, Nov. 23rd 2014
Battery cages, they're no good!
Battery cages should be banned because they are harmful and unkind to chickens.
What are battery cages and why are they so bad?
Battery cages are small cramped cages where hens are kept in chicken farms. They provide an average of only 67 square inches of floor per hen, which is less than an 8x10 sheet of paper! California banned battery cages and all eggs from the cages because it is unkind to the chickens. Six other states argue that this will cost too much money in replacing the battery cages and don't want to do it.
Why should we replace battery cages?
Europe already banned battery cages in 1999, but gave farmers 12 years to get rid of the cages before it was made illegal. It will cost 120 million dollars to replace all of the battery cages or they have to stop selling eggs to California all together. California has refused to buy any eggs that were laid by hens in battery cages. Joe Maxwell, a farmer and vice president of an animal rights group said, "What farmers and ranchers need to recognize is that consumers are demanding higher animal welfare, and some customers are willing to pay higher prices if they know that the animals are well treated."
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Fife Flyers players joined forces with Specsavers to look out for the safety of youngsters this winter as they gifted high visibility vests to fans.
Members of the Specsavers Dunfermline store team attended the Flyers game at home on Saturday 20 October against Nottingham Panthers, armed with reflective vests for young supporters.
The donation was made by Specsavers as part of its pledge to help children stay safe and be more visible to drivers when out in busy streets and public areas.
A word from the store director
Andrew Hepburn, store director at Specsavers Dunfermline, said: ‘We continually look for ways to give back to the local community and this donation is a fantastic way to help spread the road safety message.
‘It was great to cheer on the Flyers and our star player Chase Schaber for the game and then to support our community with the interval vest donations.’
Specsavers stores in Glenrothes, Leven and Dunfermline are part of Fife Flyers Great 8 sponsors this season. This is the third consecutive year the Glenrothes and Leven stores have supported the Flyers and 2018 sees the additional backing from Specsavers in Dunfermline.
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The Big Lots nationwide retail chain has announced plans to close dozens of stores. Officials with the company say they are not giving specific store locations at this time and officials wouldn't specify if the store located on North Avenue in Grand Junction would be impacted.
A total of 85 merchandise stores and 41 furniture stores are slated for closure. No word on total job losses, but the company says as many as 25 to 30 employees per store could be affected.
The closings are part of the company's strategy to improve its bottom line.
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Plant-based, vegan, and vegetarian diets have gained significant popularity due to their potential health benefits, reduced environmental impact, and ethical considerations regarding animal welfare. While these dietary choices offer numerous advantages, it is important to consider the potential negative effects, particularly related to deforestation and quality of ingredients. By analyzing both the benefits and disadvantages, you can make informed decisions about these dietary lifestyles.
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What to watch for today
The PlayStation 4? Rumors abound that Sony will announce the successor to its 77-million selling PlayStation 3 video game console. The 3 is seven years old; a new model would face much more competition, from Microsoft’s Xbox and Nintendo Wii as well as games for smartphones and tablets.
Monetary policy moments. We’ll see minutes from the Bank of England and the US Federal Reserve, along with price level stats from the US and Germany.
Other announcements today include earnings from Crédit Agricole, France Télécom, Accor and the Dish Network.
While you were sleeping
Deloitte & Touche was sued over Chinese accounts. A group of funds have are claiming the auditor failed to properly check out ChinaCast Education, which caused huge losses to investors before being delisted from Nasdaq. All the big accounting firms’ China operations have come under suspicion recently.
Bad numbers from BHP Billiton as its boss stepped down. The Australian firm reported an expected 43% fall in half-year profits due to declining metals prices, and wrote down about $3 billion in its aluminium business. Andrew Mackenzie will take over as Marius Kloppers resigns, one of more than 20 mining CEOs to quit or retire in the last two years.
The FBI looked into the Heinz deal. Following an SEC probe into insider trading in Heinz shares, the FBI has launched a criminal investigation. An unknown Swiss account bought $90,000 worth of options a day before Warren Buffett and 3G Capital acquired Heinz for $23 billion. The suspicious deal was worth $1.7 million after the buyout was announced.
Japan posted its largest ever trade deficit. Even as exports are up on the back of a weakening yen, imports are up faster, mainly due to energy. Japan’s trade deficit in January widened to ¥1.6 trillion ($17 billion), 6.4% up from a year earlier. The weakening yen has other downsides too: LVMH, a French luxury conglomerate, raised prices in Japan by about 12%.
Are we approaching “peak hack”? In the past two days, the Twitter feeds of two major corporations have been hacked, computers were hacked at Facebook and then Apple, and a cyber-security company traced hackers to a Chinese military installation.
Dell really is worth as little as its founder thinks. Facing a plan to take the company private and reorganize it, Dell reported a 31% drop in earnings and 11% drop in revenue. This news undermines some shareholders’ arguments that the buyout offer, led by founder Michael Dell, is too small.
Quartz obsession interlude
Gwynn Guilford on how not to launch a Google for China. “On [Kai-fu Lee, the former head of Google China and current venture capitalist]‘s Sina Weibo microblog, which has 30 million followers, he wondered, among other things, why taxpayer money was being invested in developing a search engine and why the Communist Party had appointed its head. “If back in the day America’s Democratic Party had appointed [Olympic swimmer] Michael Phelps to be the CEO of Google, could Google have beaten Yahoo and become the leading search engine?” wrote Lee, according to Fei Chang Dao, a blog that monitors free-speech issues in China.” Read more here.
Matters of debate
Will Twitter file for a secret IPO? It might help the company avoid the disappointment of Facebook or Groupon, but it could backfire too.
Can the US economy survive the sequester? It would be better not to know.
China’s new leader needs to get a grip on North Korea. We’ve had crazy neighbors before, too. It’s tough.
US corporate profits in Bermuda are more than 1000% of the country’s GDP. That’s surprising, right?
You can tattoo fruit. Yes, they’ve already put an Apple logo on an apple.
Big Brother really is watching. A woman caught her fiancé cheating via Russia’s local equivalent of Google Maps.
It took jewel thieves just 5 minutes to steal $50 million. Now that’s productivity!
Alligators in your backyard. Climate change has the big lizards heading north from their traditional habitats.
Our best wishes for a productive day. Please send any news, comments, tattooed fruit or Playstation 4 consoles to email@example.com. You can follow us on Twitter here for updates during the day.


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Italian Competition Authority AGCM fined Apple and Samsung a 5 million Euros and 10 million Euros for “planned obsolescence” of their mobile devices.
After a long investigation conducted by the Italian Competition Authority AGCM, the agency has fined Apple and Samsung a 5 million Euros ($5.8 Million) and 10 million Euros ($11.5 Million) for “planned obsolescence” of their mobile devices.
According to the Authority, the tech giants companies would have provided software updates on devices that were not able to support them, without providing accurate and correct information and without allowing any subsequent uninstallations
Both companies are accused to have been slowing down their old devices with the intent of encouraging users to purchase new devices.
In particular, Samsung was challenged for the update issued on May 2016 for Galaxy Note 4, while for Apple the AGCM questioned the update issued on September 2016 for the several devices supported at the time (i.e. iPhone 6 and 6s); Apple failed in providing the correct information of consumers about the effects of the updates that had an important impact on the performance and autonomy of the batteries.
“As a result of two complex investigations, the Italian Competition Authority – AGCM has ascertained that companies of Samsung group and Apple group have carried out unfair commercial practices in violation of Articles 20, 21, 22 and 24 of the Consumer Code in relation to the release of some firmware updates for their mobile phones which caused serious malfunctions and significantly reduced their performance, in this way speeding up their replacement with more recent products.” ” AGCM said in a statement.
“The two companies have induced consumers – by insistently proposing to proceed with the download and also because of the significant information asymmetry of consumers vis-a-vis the producers – to install software updates that are not adequately supported by their devices, without adequately informing them, nor providing them an effective way to recover the full functionality of their devices.”
Back in December 2017, Apple apologized for slowing down older iPhones, the company introduced features, that impacted the iPhone 6, 6S, 7 and SE, to cope with aging batteries.
On the other end, In January Samsung announced that it “does not provide the software updates to reduce the product performance over the life cycle of the device.”
Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer.
Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US.
Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines.
Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.


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Lidl UK claims top prize, also walking away with the accolade for Multiple Spirits Retailer of the Year
8th February 2017: Lidl UK triumphed at last night’s Drinks Retailing Awards 2017, as the supermarket was crowned Supermarket of the Year, outperforming rivals Aldi, Morrisons and Waitrose.
The retailer also claimed the top award for Multiple Spirits Retailer of the Year, outstripping all other contenders including Aldi, Tesco and Waitrose, at last night’s prestigious ceremony held at the Dorchester Hotel in London, alongside an audience of the industry’s biggest players.
These accolades follow the growing success for Lidl over the past year for its beer, wine and spirits range including being crowned the International Spirits Challenge’s Spirits Supermarket of the Year twice in a row. It also comes after Lidl was awarded Retail Spirits Buyer of the Year at last year’s 47th International Wine & Spirit Competition, as well as scooping the top prize at the World Whiskies Awards in March 2016, ‘World’s Best Blended Limited Release Whisky’ for its own-brand scotch whisky, Glen Alba 22 Year Sherry Cask Finish Blended.
A 9.4% year on year sales increase for Lidl also buoyed the retailer’s market share by 0.3%, leaving the supermarket holding 4.5% of the UK grocery market*.
The Drinks Retailing Awards, whose judging process is one of the most rigorous and thorough of all the industry awards, cover the entire breadth of the take-home market, with Lidl’s performance this year showcasing its incredible success having delivered excellent service, range and value nationally for shoppers.
Commenting on Lidl’s outstanding achievement at last night’s awards, Paul Gibson, Lidl UK’s Buying Director said: “Last night’s awards reflect another fantastic achievement for Lidl UK, and these are testament to all the hard work and effort put in by all our teams from across the business. They also showcase how our increasingly impressive range is continuing to change the British public’s perception of our products, as we continue to deliver on quality and value to our shoppers every day.”
OLN Editor Martin Green added: “Lidl has done a fantastic job on its range of beers, wines and spirits, hunting out a plethora of high-quality drinks sold at affordable prices. Its own-label drinks have regularly beaten far more expensive brands in blind taste competitions, and that is a great credit to its team. Layout and merchandising in-store makes it easy and enjoyable for customers to browse the aisles, particularly a point-scoring system for its wines. Lidl has been rewarded for placing such a strong focus on its drinks range by growing sales faster than any other supermarket, and it is a highly deserving winner this year.”
*Kantar Wordpanel, 7th February 2017


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Seller of Online Currency May Have Been Victim of Fraud
By BOB TEDESCHI
Published: August 27, 2001
Flooz.com, a purveyor of online currency used as electronic gift certificates, officially ceased operations over the weekend, according to its chief executive, Robert Levitan. It fell victim to a softening economy and a sour investment atmosphere. But Internet fraud may have sped its demise, a person close to the company said.
The company, this person said, had unknowingly sold $300,000 of its currency, known as flooz, over the last three months to a ring of credit card thieves in Russia and the Philippines, before being alerted by the F.B.I. (A spokesman for the F.B.I., citing the bureau's policy, declined to say whether it was investigating.)
Stolen credit card numbers were used online to buy the flooz currency, which, until recently, could be used as gift certificates at scores of retail Web sites, including those of J. Crew, Barnes & Noble and Tower Records. Flooz.com's credit card processing company, which Flooz.com executives would not identify, also alerted the company about the fraud, after the Flooz.com charges showed up on the monthly statements of people whose credit cards, or card numbers, had been stolen.
To cover any future refund requests from those credit card customers, the processor withheld daily reimbursements to Flooz.com from credit card sales and froze other accounts until it held $1 million of Flooz.com's money by the second week of August, the person close to the company said. Because customers were still redeeming thousands of dollars' worth of flooz daily at online merchants, "it created an untenable cash flow situation," the person said.
Flooz.com, which is privately held, said on Friday that it would close operations and file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Robert Levitan, Flooz's chief executive, declined to comment on whether credit-card fraud had been detected.
In an interview late last week, he said the company began struggling earlier this year after cuts in spending by its biggest corporate clients, which had formerly bought flooz to use as awards in employee incentive programs. He declined to identify those clients.
Mr. Levitan said that until last week company executives had hoped to find a buyer capable of reviving the Web site. "We were trying very hard to satisfy all of our constituencies," he said, "but we could not continue the business in these challenging economic times."
Mr. Levitan would not say how many people own flooz currency, but given the company's sales history, that number is almost certainly in the thousands. Depending on how and when they paid for the currency, customers who have not redeemed it may not be able to get a refund from their credit card issuers. Merchants stopped accepting the currency in early August, when Flooz.com informed them that it had suspended its Web site operations.
Flooz.com's problems reflect the difficulty of creating a successful online currency — a point that Beenz.com, another company with its own Internet scrip, underscored last week when it, too, suspended operations. But Flooz.com's troubles also reflect the fragility of credit arrangements for e-commerce businesses that lack a deep well of cash.
And last week, the Internet retailer Buy.com filed documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission saying the company may have to close its operations if it cannot find a replacement for its current credit card processor. On Friday, however, the company said it had renewed agreements with major credit card companies and would continue in business as usual.
James Van Dyke, an analyst with Jupiter Media Metrix , said Internet businesses already paid higher credit card fees than did their traditional counterparts. The higher fees, he said, reflect the higher risk to the processor of doing business with unstable e-commerce companies, as well as the increased risk in serving customers whose true identities are nearly impossible to discern online.
When a retailer is fiscally strained — as is Buy.com, which recently lost its Nasdaq listing — credit card processors are naturally wary that the business will shut down and leave behind a long list of creditors in a bankruptcy proceeding.
When fraud hits, Mr. Van Dyke said, it is also typical for banks to protect themselves by tightening credit terms with the merchant. Without a patient and deep-pocketed set of investors to provide enough cash to survive through a crisis — something almost unheard of in today's Internet circles — "the merchant can really get soaked," Mr. Van Dyke said.
The fastest-growing method of Internet fraud, Mr. Van Dyke said, involves credit cards and credit card numbers stolen by thieves in Eastern Europe and Russia. Such thieves, he said, "pay 100 brilliant computer programmers $15,000 a year — if they're lucky — to sit there and bang away" at an e-tailer's site, buying goods. "They'll make it look like they're coming to the site through a U.S. router somewhere, so the credit card processors don't pick up on it."


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USE of "legal highs" that have led to a rise in people needing hospital treatment could increase significantly in Scotland in the coming weeks, campaigners have warned.
NHS Lothian yesterday revealed that more than 20 people had needed treatment after taking the substances, a large proportion of whom had taken one product called Ivory Wave, which is sold as a concentrated form of bath salts. About half of these patients were admitted to hospital after suffering symptoms such as paranoia, hallucinations, psychosis, palpitations, insomnia and anxiety.
The drugs charity Crew 2000 also revealed it had received many inquiries from people asking about Ivory Wave in recent weeks.
They warned that publicity around the product was likely to lead to a spike in people trying it and subsequently an increase in those suffering negative effects.
The reports follow concern about other "legal highs" like mephedrone, which has now been made illegal.
But as more products have been made illegal, fears have been raised about other chemicals coming in to take their place.
The latest is Ivory Wave, which has been described as "the strongest party powder there is", and is freely available online and also in "head shops".
The substance is usually snorted, but can be taken orally.
NHS Lothian said it was offering advice about the products following a significant rise in patients attending their hospitals with drug-related symptoms.
Jim Sherval, a specialist in public health at the board, said: "The chemicals used in legal highs change all the time, so people can never be certain what they are actually taking and what the effects might be.
"In most cases, the products have not been tested, so little is known about how toxic they are.
"It is important that people understand that just because a substance is legal or claimed to be legal, it doesn't mean it is safe.
"We need to get across the message that these legal highs pose a real danger." Matt Straw, a project co-ordinator at Crew 2000, said a product similar to the new Ivory Wave had been available previously containing the chemical MDPV, which was banned in March.
He said the new batch was being billed as "new formula legal in the UK" and appeared to have the same effects as previous Ivory Wave formulations.
Other NHS boards contacted by The Scotsman yesterday said they had not yet seen people needing treatment after taking Ivory Wave, but they were aware of the potential.Mr Straw said he feared that news of Ivory Wave would spread across the country and more people would become curious about it.
"The way these things tend to go is that once people are more aware of something, that is when the Google searches start, as soon as there is publicity," he said.
He added that in previous cases of legal highs appearing in the news, even negative coverage encouraged people to take the products.
The charity is advising people determined to try Ivory Wave to take care over the amount used, as only a few grains were enough to have an effect.
"The biggest worry about strong drugs like this is that people are either unaware of the small dose required or unwilling to take in that information. They will take much more than is required, and that will lead to more negative, toxic effects," Mr Straw said.
The Scottish Government said it was tackling the problem of "so-called legal highs".
"We support the UK government's proposal for a holding category for emerging substances where more evidence is needed," a spokesman said.
From simple stain remover to illegal drug
MANY so-called legal highs managed to remain outside the reach of the law because they were sold under the guise of having more innocent purposes.
Products that are now illegal were in the past sold as everything from plant food to stain remover.
Mephedrone was banned last year, but prior to that was widely available online and in shops that sell drug-related paraphernalia.
While it was technically legal to sell it, it was still an offence to advertise it for human consumption, and so was often sold as plant food or as bath salts, although it had no effect as either product.
A second substance outlawed last year was GBL. It had been available as a stain remover, superglue remover and paint stripper. It is now a Class-C drug. Another that avoided criminalisation through classification was BZP, which was sold by some companies as a natural food supplement, even though it was neither naturally occurring nor had any real dietary benefit. It is now termed a Class-C drug.
Also targeted by the government last year was a substance known as spice, a herbal smoking mixture, which was advertised as an "aromatic pot pourri" but was found to be as powerful as some strains of strong cannabis. This substance is now classified as a Class B drug.


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Punjab to set up centre for mushroom cultivation at PAU
The Punjab government will soon set up a Centre of Excellence for mushroom cultivation at Punjab Agriculture University (PAU) in Ludhiana.punjab Updated: Dec 21, 2015 19:53 IST
The Punjab government will soon set up a Centre of Excellence for mushroom cultivation at Punjab Agriculture University (PAU) in Ludhiana.
The step is aimed at giving further impetus to the state government’s programme of crop diversification, an official spokesperson said.
The centre will cater to the needs of mushroom growers and primarily focus on the issues related to quality supply of mushroom seeds, marketing support, processing and the new technologies to save their crops from the vagaries of weather, he added.
As part of the drive for giving new push to crop diversification plan, the state government has given special focus to mushroom cultivation -- both Oyster and Button varieties -- which resulted in the production of 5,044 metric tonnes in the state during the last year.
The growth in production was both in respect of Oyster and Button mushroom varieties.
Three villages of Ludhiana, one of Gurdaspur, two of Sangrur, two of Sri Mukatsar Sahib, one of Barnala and threeof Pathankot were adopted.
First Published: Dec 21, 2015 17:12 IST


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What is digital piracy? | Trade Standard News
Jumping a red light and downloading movies or series from Torrent and myriad other websites are both illegal and punishable under the law. But how many of us think twice before clicking on that tab to download copyrighted content?
Over a decade ago, pirated PC games were all the rage, and Delhi’s infamous Palika Bazaar did a good business selling them. A set of CDs cost between Rs 500 and Rs 30, depending on who you are – a confused newcomer or a repeat visitor who struck a chord with shopkeepers.
Today, in the digital age, piracy is rampant as consumers seek to dodge the fees demanded by premium streaming sites or watch the latest cricket match or the big screen outing for free.
So what exactly is digital piracy? The term refers to the illegal copying or distribution of any copyrighted material via the Internet. Primarily, it negatively impacts the revenue of creative industries – like film, TV, publishing, music and games.
According to DataProt, global annual revenue losses due to digital piracy range between $40 billion and $97 billion for global film industries.
According to a joint report released by Akamai and MUSO, India ranked third among consumers of pirated content in 2021. Between January 2021 and September 2021, India recorded 6.5 billion visits to websites piracy, after the United States at 13.5 billion and Russia at 7.2 billion.
It may seem like a victimless crime, but the criminals who operate these hijacker websites can sometimes be part of dangerous organized crime groups that use your money to commit far more serious crimes.
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The elderly are frequent targets of telemarketing frauds and sweepstakes scams. Studies reveal that “fraudulent telemarketers direct anywhere from 56 percent to nearly 80 percent of their calls at older customers.” On this program Officer Bobby Keen with the Pasadena Police Department Community Service Division helps us learn how to protect our elderly loved ones from Identity Theft and Senior Scams.
Americans lose an estimated $40 billion each year to the fraudulent sale of goods and services over the telephone. One sweepstakes-related scam alone detailed on CBS’s 60 Minutes reportedly bilked seniors in 24 states out of an estimated $5 billion. Studies of consumer fraud estimate that between 20 to 60 percent of adult Americans report being a victim or attempted victim of fraud. The National Center on Elder Abuse estimated that nearly one third of all elder abuse cases involved financial exploitation.
Listen in with us for important information!