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How the new sleep-tracking Nest Hub compares to the original
Google's new Nest display looks the same as before, but can now track your sleep
Google's Nest smart home division has announced a new version of the Hub smart display, featuring sleep tracking technology for the first time. The device first arrived back in 2018 as the Google Home Hub, before turning into the Nest Hub when Google spun off the Nest division. The new model retains the same $99.99 price tag and comes in the same color options of light pink, light gray and dark gray, plus a new pale blue shade called mist.
Although the design of the 2021 Nest Hub is almost identical to its predecessor, a small difference is how the bezel is now flush with the display in a bid to make it easier to clean. The touchscreen display remains the same as before, measuring seven inches and having a resolution of 1024 x 600. This means it lacks HD, but given its size and intended use this shouldn't be too much of a concern.
The newly updated Nest Hub is 4.7 inches tall, seven inches wide and 2.7 inches deep, with a weight of 19.68 oz; this makes it the same size but slightly heavier than the original. Google says its enclosure is made from 54 percent recycled plastic. As before, the new Nest Hub does not have a camera. Google instead saves video calling capabilities for the larger Nest Hub Max.
The new Google device comes the same week Apple has announced an end to its production of the original HomePod — one of two smart home devices for its smart assistant, Siri. Conversely, Google has continued to update and push out new smart home speakers and displays, like the Nest Hub, for its voice A.I., Google Assistant.
The newly updated display will also have the same access to Google Assistant as before, along with a simple interface for controlling connected smart home devices like lights, plugs, thermostats and more. The new Nest Hub will also support YouTube videos, as well as photos and weather forecasts, and continue to serve as a music player. To that end, Google has fitted it with the same audio hardware as the Nest Audio smart speaker. This results in 50 percent more bass than on the previous Nest Hub. A new system called Quick Gestures will also let you pause or play content by tapping the air in front of the display, without actually touching it.
The Nest Hub is priced at $99.99 and is available starting March 30Google
The major new feature of the 2021 Nest Hub is how it can track your sleep, without relying on any wearables or sensors fitted to your bed. The Nest Hub monitors your movement through the night using its integrated Soli sensor with low-energy radar technology. Soli also briefly featured on the Google Pixel 4 smartphone where it enabled hand-gestures for controlling the phone without touching it. The feature does not appear on the newer Pixel 5.
For the Nest Hub, the Soli sensor powers an opt-in system called Sleep Sensing, which analyzes how the person closest to the display sleeps (assuming it is sat on a bedside table and angled towards the bed). It does this based on their movement and breathing, and uses its microphone to detect sleep disturbances like coughing and snoring, as well as light and temperature changes in the room.
Every morning, the display shows a sleep summary detailing how well (or not) you slept. This details how long you spent in bed, along with times of restlessness, snoring and coughing, as well as changes in light detected by the Nest Hub's ambient light sensor. You can also ask the Google Assistant "how did I sleep?" to see your sleep data, which can be shared with the Google Fit app for iOS and Android.
As well as capturing and displaying sleep data, the system "provides tailored bedtime schedules and personalized suggestions developed by a team of sleep scientists and using guidance from organizations like the American Academy of Sleep Medicine," said Google.
These insights are created after monitoring several nights of sleep, and suggestions aim to highlight notable aspects of your sleep then educate you on why they are important and how you can improve.
Google said the Sleep Sensing system is completely optional and with privacy safeguards in place. A visual indicator is used to show when Sleep Sensing is on, and Google says the Motion Sense system only detects motion, not specific bodies or faces. Audio of coughing and snoring is processed on the device itself and not sent to Google servers, the company said. A physical switch can be used to disable the microphone if you don't wish to use it, and Google said sleep data is not used for personalized adverts.
Sleep Sensing is "available as a free preview until next year," said the company, suggesting it intends to charge for the system at a later date. Google, which also owns Fitbit, also said how it will be "looking for ways to work with Fitbit's sleep-tracking features in the future."
The new Nest Hub is priced at $99.99 and is available to pre-order in the U.S., Canada, UK, Germany, France and Australia now, ahead of going on sale on March 30.


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SMSF members should look to invest in companies that will be distinct winners in the technology sector as its evolution continues to cause disruption within conventional society, a global fund manager has said.
“How do you navigate technology as an investor? We think that there are going to be winners out of this space. We also think there are some companies we don’t know as yet as to how they will be affected, and we also think there are going to be some serious losers,” Magellan Asset Management listed funds key account manager Emma Kirk told attendees at the recent selfmanagedsuper Trustee Empowerment Day 2017.
She named Google, Facebook and Apple as organisations Magellan had identified as winners in the world of technological disruption due to their standing as consumer platforms with the ability to provide something unique.
“Apart from Apple, these are essentially advertising businesses. So Facebook, for example, tracks what sites you go to, what you do and they can be very niche in terms of the advertising you get,” Kirk explained.
Organisations providing payment networks, such as Paypal, Visa and MasterCard, were other companies offering good investment opportunities as winners in the technological disruption era, she said.
“Look at payWave. Australians love payWave. I love payWave because I can actually record all my transactions and know exactly where my money’s going,” Kirk said.
“But 85 per cent of the world uses cash so the growth in the payments area is phenomenal.”
Kirk said Magellan had also identified companies providing enterprise software as other winners in regard to technological disruption.
“We have investments in enterprise software such as Oracle. Oracle is a massive database provider and pretty much has a 40 per cent share of the market’s use for databases,” she explained.
According to Kirk, the aim for investors should be to find those companies that are going to be the winners from technology and those that are going to be at low risk of technological disruption.''

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Corona beer's shift in ad strategy leads to football towns
Corona Extra used to be associated with only one kind of beach when it came to advertising and marketing the popular Mexican brew in the United States. And that was a real beach with white sand and ocean waves gently lapping on shore— the kind of beach scene made famous in countless quietly-appealing TV commercials from Corona Extra’s longtime ad agency Cramer-Krasselt/Chicago.
But a couple of years ago, Chicago-based Crown Imports, which distributes Corona in the United States, decided to scrap most of the beach-centric advertising that was so famously attached for so long to the nation’s best-selling imported brew and make the beach advertising concept more of a mindset instead.
With that shift in strategy, Corona’s advertising tagline became “Find Your Beach” and TV ads started to feature Corona beer drinkers enjoying their brew in a range of locations other than the real beach.
That switch also enabled Corona and ad agency Cramer-Krasselt to launch different kinds of promotions such as the current “Find Your Beach For the Game” promotion featuring football coach and ESPN commentator Jon Gruden.
In this instance, “the beach” is one of 30 cities and towns Gruden has designated as some of his favorite places to watch college and pro football, including Chicago, as well as New Orleans, San Diego, Ann Arbor, Pittsburgh and Knoxville, among others.
Winners of the “Find Your Beach for the Game” promotion will win a trip to one of Gruden’s favorite football destinations.
Cramer-Krasselt, which has a major office in Milwaukee, has created three online videos to advertise the promotion. They do a fine job of showing off Gruden, a football jock who has learned to work well in front of a camera. The humor in the online spots, such as it is, will appeal primarily to football fanatics who might be amused by the way Gruden keeps calling an audible to change the plans he has with the buddies he is hanging with.
The Facebook component of the “Find Your Beach for the Game” allows fans to share their favorite football beaches
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Sometimes tech companies come up with design and interface ideas that are so bizarre they become art in their own regard. Microsoft just did that with its announcement to introduce a more "collaborative" feature in Microsoft Teams.
To help us cope with the new normal that is video-conferencing due to COVID-19, Microsoft Teams will soon allow you to enable "Together Mode," which is a polite term for the feature that essentially takes your head and plops it in a new environment with other people. Think auditoriums, board rooms, a library, a coffee break room, and more. And it's a hilarious nightmare.
Jokes aside, how does it work? — Microsoft's Together Mode requires artificial intelligence (AI) segmentation, which takes the clients and places them in a new digital environment to give the sense that you're sitting next to your colleague or class fellow. It goes live in August, and you can expect people to have some interesting reactions.
Wait, what if I don't want Together Mode? — The feature is optional. So if you're not a huge fan of the idea of virtually sitting inside an auditorium next to that one coworker you absolutely cannot stand, that's fine. The company has announced that its traditional virtual meetings will remain in effect and will become more dynamic in the future. This means you will be able to optimize your visual content, personalize meetings, enable broader gallery views, and have virtual breakout rooms because who doesn't like that?
Technology makes distancing more bearable — It didn't take long for tech companies to offer their strategies against distancing-induced loneliness and isolation. Augmented reality, virtual reality, the addition of features for video conferencing tools, and more have entered the mainstream to possibly reduce the psychological toll of being away from other members of the society. Together Mode is just another attempt — however comical a suspended head looks.
Together Mode might not alleviate quarantine blues but it could certainly get people laughing. And that's not a bad idea at all.


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siêu thị Daimaru ở Osaka, Nhật Bản yêu cầu nhân viên nữ khi đến kỳ cần đeo biển "đang bị" để anh em còn biết mà...
A department store in Japan is reportedly "rethinking" a new policy of having female employees wear a badge with a cartoon character (nhân vật hoạt hình) dubbed “Miss Period” that signifies they're menstruating (kinh nguyệt).
The Daimaru department store in Osaka introduced the voluntary (tự nguyện) badges (huy hiệu) in October following an employee's suggestion (gợi ý của nhân viên).
...Higuchi said the so-called "period (kỳ kinh) badges" were supposed to create empathy among coworkers (thông cảm của đồng nghiệp), including allowing longer breaks (nghỉ ngơi dài hơn) and extra help (giúp đỡ hơn) for employees on their period.
Higuchi told the BBC that reactions to the badges were mixed (cảm xúc lẫn lộn).
"If you saw a colleague was having her period, you could offer to carry heavy things for her, or suggest she takes longer breaks, and this support would be mutual,” she said.
She added that the company will reconsider how to keep the information within the staff without revealing it to customers.
The controversy (gây tranh cãi) comes at the same time local media has reported that some Japanese companies are banning female employees from wearing eyeglasses, with some saying they make women look "cold" or don't allow people to see their makeup.
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A Stockton youth worker and shop owner has spoken out after being the victim of verbal abuse and intimidation by a gang of thugs for six months.
Since February, 39-year-old Silver Johnson, who runs the Enter the Asylum alternative clothing store on Stockton High Street, believes she and her customers, including teenagers, are being targeted because they are different.
Last week two boys were attacked - one outside of her shop and another attending an event organised by Silver.
Silver, a mother-of-five from Stockton, said: “We started off having a bit of chew, nothing major, but over the last six months it has escalated.”
PC Debbie Morgan, Stockton’s Minorities Liaison Officer said: “We take all form of hate crime extremely seriously.”


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German fashion retailer Gerry Weber recorded a slight dip in revenues in its latest financial year, while earnings before tax plummeted.
According to its preliminary results, Gerry Weber raked in â‚¬900 million (£766.67 million) in revenues in its 2015/16 financial year, compared to â‚¬920.8 million (£784.62 million) the prior year.
Meanwhile, consolidated reported EBIT ranged between â‚¬13-14 million (£11-12 million) compared to the â‚¬79.3 million (£67.55 million) recorded in 2015.
However, the retailer said this was in accordance with management‘s guidance of consolidated EBIT of between â‚¬10-20 million.
Combined revenues of the retailer‘s core brands Gerry Weber, Taifun and Samoon was around â‚¬717 million (£610.88 million), a 10.9 per cent decline on the previous year.
Gerry Weber also attributed the difficult market environment and low footfall figures for the 7.6 per cent decline in like-for-like revenues.
The retailer, which has stores and concessions all over the UK and Europe, warned that the current 2016/2017 financial year will continue to be a difficult one.


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With the support of its sponsors, WISE put together this project in an effort to better support the outpouring of requests from the field for mentoring, networking and an easily accessible member directory.
The Web site offers a new design with the new WISE logo and several other links including a discussion forum, event links and a job bank.
â€œAnother important feature of the new Web site is the women-owned business directory,â€ noted Jennifer Walzac, WISE membership chair. â€œHaving a publicly accessible directory of these businesses is not only valuable to the business owners, but it provides value to the industry as a whole.â€
Added Joy Creasy, PSP, WISE communications committee chair, â€œWeâ€™re very excited about the new Web site. Security is already such an e-powered industry, it only seemed natural to e-power ourselves. The most exciting part of the Web site is the new discussion forum, a meeting place where men and women in the organization will mentor each other, discuss industry issues and build an even stronger network.â€
WISE greatly appreciates the support and assistance that its Web construction company, Mochanin LLC, continues to provide. Information about Mochanin can be found at www.mochanin.com or through a link on the WISE Web site.
WISE is focused on assisting women by providing professional development, mentoring, networking and greater industry exposure. WISE encourages the development and training of higher-caliber, talented women from which industry companies can hire and recognizes companies that are successfully promoting women.


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By Jill Penley
COVID-19 caused one of the county’s largest employers, Parkdale Mills, to suspend operations in late March, affecting hundreds of Johnson Countians, but this week employees of the Mountain City Plant 16 were directed to return to work.
Many manufacturers have made adjustments and adaptations in an attempt to stay operational. Parkdale Inc., the largest yarn spinner in the U.S. headquartered in Gastonia, N.C, responded to the urgent call for medical supplies and built a supply chain virtually overnight to fast-track the manufacturing of medical face masks to help hospitals, health care workers and citizens battling the spread of the COVID-19 disease. Parkdale Inc. helped lead the effort to build the coalition with HanesBrands, Fruit of the Loom, and six other companies to set up a manufacturing supply chain and begin ramping up production of the masks.
Johnson County businesses are all beginning to open, albeit with restrictions in adherence with state and federal guidelines to reopen safely, including strict hygiene practices and continuing social distancing requirements. Some local businesses remain closed, however, struggling to survive. While small businesses face many challenges, 2020 seemingly deals blow after blow, drastically altering business practices and causing some small business owners to consider closing.
Restaurants are directed to strictly adhere to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines and to follow additional safeguarding measures. These measures include additional employee and consumer protections, including providing ServSafe COVID-19 training for all employees, limiting the number of customers in the restaurant to 50 percent seating capacity, spacing tables six feet apart, limiting tables to no more than six guests per table, keeping bar areas closed, not having live music, and screening customers for illness upon entry.
Restaurants are also directed to place hand sanitizer stations in the restaurant lobby, bathrooms, and cashier stations, sanitize all front-of-house contact surface areas, use disposable menus, or sanitize menus between each use, sanitize chairs, tabletops, and tabletop items after each user.
They are also directed not to use self-serve buffets, beverage re-use stations, or condiments that could be used by multiple tables. While all these requirements are meant to stop the spread of COVID-19, they come at a cost to the business owner, and some have such a slim profit margin, staying closed seems the only solution at this time.
Retail stores are instructed to limit the number of customers inside a store to 50 percent or less of the occupancy limit, establish one-way aisles and customer traffic patterns, increase curbside pickup options, and assign dedicated staff to prompt customers to follow social distancing procedures. Retail businesses are also required to establish enhanced cleaning protocols, use separate designated entrances and exits, use plastic shields or barriers between customers and clerks at service counters, and prohibit the use of reusable bags. The new guidelines, while being utilized, are an enormous expense to a business.
Tennessee was one of the first states to begin reopening businesses in phases. Gov. Bill Lee reports Tennesseans have worked to slow the spread of COVID-19.
“Like the rest of the country, Tennessee has taken an unprecedented economic hit with families and small businesses feeling the most pain,” Lee said. “We must stay vigilant as a state, continue to practice social distancing, and engage in best practices at our businesses so that we can stay open.”


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The day when Apple launched iPhone no one would have ever imagined that it will revolutionize the mobile apps. Today more than 1.2 million apps are available in App Store with over 75 billion download apps. Google Glass which is a revolutionary device with many consumer and business capabilities is also picking up the similar trend. Google Glass is a wearable device which was developed by Google with the purpose of producing a mass marketing ubiquitous computer. It has been developed in such a manner that information can be displayed in the smartphone and wearer can communicate with internet via natural language command. Initially people were skeptical about Google Glass but now people have now come to know about the power of this device. Businesses across various industries are leveraging this technology to connect with their clients in order to serve them best services. If it will be successful it will certainly boost the Google glass application development as its beneficial both for business and end user. The annual sales forecast report for Google Glass published by the Business Insider shows that Google glass is going to reach 21.1 M dollar sales in 2018.
How it is going to help businesses across different verticals:
Google’s purpose of developing Google Glass was to create a hands free device which could make communication fast and easy and fast. It seems that Google Glass is an ordinary Glass but this is not actually true. Google’s purpose of creating Google Glass is to set mega trends in wearable technology. Currently not everyone can see the future of this device but if you look from futuristic point of view then you can realize that this device can be widely used from traffic control to the high tech medical industry. Before creating this device, Google could understand the power of eyes as everything starts by seeing the thing first. Google has tried hard to bring mobile and computing technologies more close to our eyes. Today many businesses across different industry verticals are using Google Glass as a tool to sort out the problem.
In B2B world, it is being used as a language translator in real time. This glass can zoom in and translate text in a preferred language immediately. Its ability to scan and translate the document sitting in front of you without using another device is tremendous beneficial when traveling and conducting business internationally. Opportunity remains in this area for app developers, as an app which can translate voices in real-time would take this function to the next level.
This device has been used in on education sector to train and develop professionals. Training tutorials can be recorded from the first-person perspective, but perhaps more importantly trainees can solicit help via Google Glass and stream what they see in front of them in real-time to the person they are speaking with. This opens the door for app developers to create app to make training and development more interactive.
Augmented reality is the new trend which is being used to create virtual world of physical world. This technology is being used by many industries to revolutionize their business performance. Businesses do not use this directly but they can be used through devices which are mobile and wearable. Companies are creating augmented based Google Glass applications for many industries like retail, gaming etc. Let’s say you were selling furniture. The customer can look at their own living room and “add” the piece of furniture they are considering to what they see while wearing Google Glass so that they can picture how the new piece would fit and look in their space.
There are many opportunities for developers to create augmented reality based on Google glass applications for various industries. B2B organizations are also using wearable devices to increase employee productivity. Recent research reveals that effective use of wearable devices in organizations can increase work productivity.
The biggest benefit of wearable devices is use of big data which can be used by the companies to get the right business decision at the right time. We all know that Google Glass is leading in wearable industry. It has been predicted that Google Glass will surely bring great innovations in the healthcare industry. Companies are developing Google Glass apps for healthcare industry to bring across various advancements.
How it will help end users:
Use of Google Glass is not limited to only businesses. It can be used by end users for various purposes like breaking down the language barrier, exploring the vacation destination with the help of augmented reality, health fitness, road traffic and security and many which you can't imagine.
It is difficult to say about the exact future of Google Glass but on the basis of its features and the way businesses are using this device, it can be said that its area of usage is endless and there is a huge scope for developer to create Google Glass app for various industries for varied purposes. This device can revolutionize the industries in the same way as mobile has done.


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It seems that these days, the thing holding most in-the-know Mac users back from buying a new machine is the impending release of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). Many users would rather deal with their antiquated hardware a little longer and wait until the release instead of being subject to Apple's $129 OS upgrade tax. Who can blame them?
While Apple is currently seeding release candidates of its next operating system to developers, others are busy speculating when it will hit shelves. At this phase of the game, it isn't too difficult to guess when the operating system will be ready. Nonetheless, Think Secret goes as far as reporting that, according to its sources, the new cat will escape on or around October 26.
Proving that every once in a while the planets do align, AppleInsider also declares that its sources are pointing to announcements coming at the end of the month. Once again, this appears to be happening sometime between the 22nd and 27th.
To us, it seems that no insider would know exactly when 10.5 will be released unless Apple plans to push it out the door ready-or-not-here-we-come style. This doesn't seem entirely unbelievable—what we will learn is just how badly Apple wants to get this bad boy out the door and just how badly the software engineers in Cupertino want to go on vacation.


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By Crystal Colwell / November 7th, 2013
Legend of Raven was originally announced by Nicalis as a PlayStation Vita title. While the game is still going to the Vita, it will also be available on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It will be a cross-buy and cross-play title for the PS4 and Vita. It has also been announced that the game will feature online network battles that will use lag-free GGPO technology. I’ve no clue what that is but I like the sound of it being lag-free!
LEGEND OF RAVEN FIGHTS ITS WAY ONLINE
2D fighter is coming to more platforms with a host of improvements
Santa Ana, Calif., (November 4, 2013) – Nicalis, Inc., developer and publisher of independently awesome video games has announced that the 2D fighting game, Legend of Raven, initially announced as a PlayStation®Vita title (via the PlayStationⓇNetwork) is now coming to PlayStation 4 (as a Cross-Buy Cross-Play) and Xbox One. Additionally, Legend of Raven will feature online network battles using “lagfree” GGPO technology.
Legend of Raven Features
■Cross-Buy (via PSN)
Buy the PS Vita or PS4 version and get the other for free!
■ Cross Play! (via PSN)
Cross Play allows up to 2 players to face off against each other in a real-time match whether they’re on the PS4 or the PS Vita!
■ Official GGPO netcode!
Battle your online friends, lag-free with the official GGPO netcode!
■ All new original soundtrack!
Featuring a new soundtrack featuring the track “Fight” by female fronted rock quintet, The Dirty Youth. Rock out here: http://youtu.be/wX1wPLjPhlc
■ Refreshed UI, stages and special effects!
Legend of Raven has been further improved with new UI effects, backgrounds and artwork!
The year was December 25th, 1926. Japan was on the verge of welcoming a new era…the era of “Koubun”.
Instead a revolution broke out, led by those who hoped to revive the Land of the Gods, Japan, and return her to its former glory. The Prime Minister’s cabinet, the police department, the Zaibatsu families, the mass media…the flow of information to the outside world was immediately suppressed.
Out of options, the old government resorted to creating a group of elite assassins, called the “Yatagarasu” in order to maintain order and suppress the rebellion.
These government agents have become known as the “Government’s Dogs” by the general populace. Now, they are on the move towards “Iga-sei”, which is said to still function as the government’s intelligence hub.
Legend of Raven continues Nicalis’ partnerships with ultra-talented and super-awesome independent developers. Previously Nicalis has teamed up with 8bits Fanatics (1001 Spikes), Edmund McMillen (The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth), Studio Pixel (Cave Story, Ikachan), Nicklas Nygren (NightSky), and Terry Cavanagh (VVVVVV).
More information can be found on the official website at http://nicalis.com/legendofraven/
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Forbes has announced its first-ever Under 30 Summit Africa will be held in Botswana on April 24-29.
The summit will bring together 600 participants for mentorship, networking and important conversations centred around sustainability, innovations and entrepreneurship.
DID YOU KNOW
Forbes is coming to Africa
Botswana for the first time
Who are the speakers at the Forbes Summit?
1. H.E. the President of Botswana Dr. Mokgweetsi Eric Masisi
2. Mr. Patrice Motsepe – Founder & Chairman of African Rainbow minerals
3. Dr. Precious Moloi Motsepe- Co-founder and CEO of Motsepe Foundation
4. Ms Elsa Majimbo- Comedian, author and social media sensation
5. Mr. Sjoerd (George) Bos- Founder water company
6. Mr Shadrack Frimpong – Founder Cocoa 360
7. Ms. Sophia Danner- Okotie- Founder Besida
8. Ms Nelly Cheboi- Founder and CEO Tecklit Africa
9. Mr. Ajay Yadav –Co-founder and COO Simplified
10. Mr. Brandon Moak- Co founder and CTO of Embark Trucks
11. Ms. Mitchell Egger- Co founder and CEO of Bio Milq
12. Mr. Nadav Ossendryver- Founder and CEO of Latest Sightengs
13. Mr. Zan Dapcevic- Co founder and CEO of Academia
14. Ms. Evenlyn Kachaje-Legal officer
15. Ms Amntle Mumsy Moremi- Under writer commercial Lines,BIC of BIHL
What is the schedule of the event for the Forbes Summit?
24 April- A Taste of Botswana (Gaborone)
25 April -The African Century Inspiration, Innovation, Exploration (Gaborone)
26 April -The Flying Summit (flying to Kasane) Kasane
27 April- Service and Culture (Kasane)
28 April -The Under 30 Sunrise Safari (Kasane)
Which business sectors are participating?
4. Creative Arts
5. Technology & Innovation
7. Food processing
9. Health consultancy
11. Property Development


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Different Ways To Sue Walmart
As the largest company in the United States, Walmart employs millions of people and produces more transactions than any other company. It also faces the most lawsuits. While some of these lawsuits involve contract disputes, the vast majority of these lawsuits are personal injury claims filed by individuals who have been injured at Walmart or due to Walmart’s negligence. That begs the question: How many different types of personal injury lawsuits does a company like Walmart face in a typical fiscal year? Below, we’ll discuss some of the most common lawsuits filed against Walmart.
Walmart faces more slip-and-fall lawsuits than any other company on Earth. While some of these lawsuits are related to the sheer size of the company, others are related to the fact that they leave stock in aisles, don’t clean up wet floors, and otherwise expose customers to danger.
Negligent security lawsuits
Walmart is often sued on the grounds of negligent security. If a gunman goes into a Walmart and starts shooting people, it is likely that Walmart will be sued for failing to secure the premises. Walmart has a duty of care to ensure the safety of their guests, so if a violent act occurs on their premises, a plaintiff may be able to recover damages.
Walmart doesn’t produce anything, but it does make products available to the public. If one of those products explodes and causes injury, Walmart is typically named in the lawsuit against the manufacturer for placing the dangerous product into the customer’s hands. Walmart may not absorb the brunt of the bill for such a lawsuit, but they will be liable under the law.
Walmart has been implicated in helping opioid companies illegally place drugs in the hands of addicts. They recently offered $3.1 billion in compensation to state governments that paid billions in health care costs related to opioid addiction. Walmart is not the only pharmacy to face allegations such as these.
Theft of biometric data
Walmart is scanning your face and using the biometric data to run searches, according to a recent lawsuit filed in Illinois. The plaintiffs allege this violates state law and that customers must be informed that their biometric data is being used.
Civil rights lawsuits
Individual Walmarts have been sued for racial profiling and other civil rights violations. In one case, a Walmart was charged $4.4 million after an employee who repeatedly called police on Black customers chose one who decided to fight back.
Shopping cart lawsuits
If an employee strikes you with a shopping cart, and you sustain a medical injury, you can file a lawsuit. Such lawsuits are less uncommon than you might think.
Employee misconduct lawsuits
Walmart is responsible if its employee causes an injury to a customer or a member of the public. If a Walmart employee causes a car accident while on the job, Walmart can be sued so long as the employee was executing their employment duties. Assaults committed by employees against the public are also filed against Walmart directly.
Talk to a Tampa Personal Injury Lawyer Today
The Matassini Law Firm files lawsuits on behalf of injured plaintiffs against negligent defendants. Call our Tampa personal injury lawyers for a free consultation and we discuss your options immediately.


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The warden is to meet with officials in the coming days as serious concern is expressed by councillors about the state of certain parts of the town.
As well as illegal dumping and dog fouling problems, councillors have said there is a huge problem with teenagers dumping empty beer bottles all over the town.
Independent Cllr Pat O’Malley revealed that during a recent clean-up, he and another colleague picked up no less than 40 empty quart bottles of spirits as well as various other beer cans and bottles in the Knather area.
He said more needs to be done to make a link with the young people of the town to show them they have a responsibility to make Ballyshannon look cleaner.
He suggested the litter warden could look at possibly school projects in a bid to catching the younger people at an early age in order to educate them.


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A new playstation could launch in USA next month. It's actually a modified Sony Playstation 2 called PStwo. Along with PStwo comes with GTA: San Andreas. The new version of the console would be around 30 per cent smaller than the current hardware, according to the Hollywood Reporter, which claims that industry insiders expect the device to roll out on October 26th at a $149 price point.
"Sony has not commented publicly about the device but has already applied for the copyright of PStwo," explained analyst P.J. McNealy of American Technology Research. "A new box and console design will make the system fresh."
If Sony really is going to launch the PStwo this Christmas, it would go some way towards explaining the ongoing low inventory levels of the PlayStation 2 in the USA - which could be down to the company trying to clear out the channel ahead of the new hardware launch.
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Tesla to Release Affordable EV in 3-4 Years, Talks Future Buyout
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Tesla wants to release a quality, yet affordable EV (unlike the Nissan Leaf)
Now that Tesla Motors has
freed itself of federal debt
, many are wondering, "What's next for the automaker?" According to its CEO, creating a quality electric vehicle that is also affordable is the main goal.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that his company's Model S is a great EV, but it's a luxury car that is out of the price range of many consumers. He compared it to the Nissan Leaf, which is an affordable EV, but lacks quality (in Musk's opinion).
“With the Model S, you have a compelling car that’s too expensive for most people,” said Musk. “And you have the Leaf, which is cheap, but it’s not great."
Musk said the ideal affordable Tesla EV would be available in about three to four years, and would be sold for under $40,000 USD. It would also have a range of about 200 miles per charge.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk
paying off its $465 million federal loan
from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) an entire nine years earlier than expected last week, some suspected that Tesla's next move would be an acquisition by larger companies like Daimler AG and Toyota Motor Corp. Daimler AG has 4.87 million Tesla shares valued at $425 million and Toyota has 2.94 million shares valued at $257 million.
While Musk recognizes that an acquisition is possible in the future, he doesn't see his company being sold to another automaker.
“Tesla just seems very expensive [to other automakers],” said Musk. "I’d guess it would come from outside the auto industry. It would be a buyer with a very large cash position."
Musk said Apple is a large company that could qualify as a suitable buyer for Tesla at some point.
However, Musk isn't selling anytime soon. He wants to stick around to continue selling Tesla's popular Model S sedan (the company sold 4,900 in the first quarter), seeing
(Tesla's profit came in at 12 cents a share for Q1, which was a boost from a loss of 76 cents a share in Q1 2012) and developing the affordable Tesla EV.
"What the world really needs is a great, affordable electric car," said Musk. "I’m not going to let anything go, no matter what people offer, until I complete that mission.”
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5/27/2013 11:43:59 PM
I see your point, but propulsion is the largest energy need for a space ship. Are you suggesting that there is an electric propulsion method that is feasible for something of the size of a manned space ship?
RE: Buy Tesla
5/28/2013 8:51:48 AM
Electric propulsion exists and has been utilized in space for many years. The problem with it is not its efficiency (it's as much as a factor of 1,000x more efficient than any chemical rocket motor). It's that the thrust is so low. Electric thrusters do not have enough thrust to get something off the ground -- and may not for a few decades.
As far as manned? Once in space you could gang enough of the electric thrusters together to get the thrust you need for movement in space. (Even breaking orbit or entering orbit is a small fraction of that needed to get off the ground.)
RE: Buy Tesla
5/28/2013 9:19:47 AM
Ion engines have their places in long distance travel because they have plenty of time to accelerate. I don't think it will ever be able to launch something into orbit from earth.
I think the laser launching platform and orbital elevator are both pretty cool ideas.
We've already figured out how to negate gravity. The problem is the device takes up the space of a large room and massive amount electricity. It makes an antigravity field of less than 1 cubic foot lol.
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Drones aren’t a brand new invention on the tech market, but they’ve certainly become much more widespread in use over the past few years – after all, anything that’s been the subject matter of a South Park episode is bound to be a popular topic.
A serious upgrade from your average remote-controlled helicopter toy, a typical drone has a quadcopter design and a built-in camera for film and photography.
Drones have become a hit with hobbyists across the globe, so it was only a matter of time before some business-savvy entrepreneurs figured out how to use drones to turn a profit.
Let’s take a look at some of the ways drone are being used for commercial gain, plus new Australian laws coming into effect which will change the way drones are allowed to operate.
Taking surveys (no, not that kind)
Naturally the camera component of a drone plays a big part in its business applications, and not just for getting unique photography angles and famous landmarks and beautiful scenery (although it’s worth noting that the real estate industry has begun generating regular demand for drone photography). Much more cost effective than hiring a helicopter, drones open up a more accessible way to survey large areas of land from above for construction and civil planning.
The agriculture industry takes this one step further by utilising drones to remotely map their crops and check their growth progress and condition. With the right equipment, it’s even possible to implement aerial thermal imaging to monitor greenhouses and detect plant diseases, saving hours of labour that would be otherwise spent checking the crops manually.
Getting goods from A to B
Perhaps one of the most controversial uses of drones outside of military applications, delivering physical products via drone has been discussed for a long time but the real-world practice faces a lot of obstacles. After all, with no human physically present to guard the goods, many people have joked about shooting the machines out of the sky to claim a potluck prize of some poor soul’s online shopping order. Despite all of this, some companies are forging ahead and working drones into their delivery operations.
In April this year, Australia Post announced that they would be the first major logistics company in the country to conduct drone delivery trials for small parcels. Provided the service could be operated securely, this development could pave the way for quick delivery of time-critical items such as medicine, or just add a bit more excitement to your average parcel delivery. You can check out one of the test flights here.
A product which has considerably lower stakes than online shopping orders is take-out food. Domino’s Pizza has recently joined forces with drone company Flirtey for trialling drone pizza delivery in New Zealand and they already have their eyes on other countries, including Australia. We can’t decide whether we prefer the idea of pizza being delivered by airborne drone or DRU, the adorable pizza robot unveiled this year.
Ditching the selfie stick
This is a bit of a fun one – created by Australian inventor Simon Kantor, the ROAM-e drone is essentially a flying selfie stick. That’s right: if you’re prepared to pay up, you can wave goodbye to looking like a dork in public and having awkward arm angles in all of your holiday shots. The ROAM-e is also packing facial recognition software so it will track the movement of your face rather than the location of your paired smartphone which acts as a controller, allowing for some pretty awesome-looking camera angles and better ease-of-use.
For most of us, a selfie is just a bit of fun and we don’t expect to make any money off our mugshots, but for trendy bloggers collecting ad revenue from the views of their 50+ thousand followers, the ROAM-e just might give their content the creative edge needed to keep people’s interest.
How the Australian legal landscape will change
Revised Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) regulations are coming into effect, changing the way Australians may use remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) which has become the official legal term for drones. Previously, all drones being flown commercially required prior approval from CASA, regardless of their size. However, as of 29 September 2016, very small drones (under 2kg) will have reduced regulatory requirements, cutting some of the red tape before flight. Anything larger will require a remote pilot license to fly, with the exception of medium (25-150kg) drones being flown over privately owned land, so that’s good news for some tech-savvy farmers.
Naturally, there are a number of standard operating regulations in place to keep drone use as safe as possible for both recreational and business operators, such as:
This might put a damper on some people’s plans to take pics at their next music festival, but it’s fair enough. After all, drones still have a relatively short battery life and the last thing the technology needs is an incident with a crash-landing drone taking someone’s eye out at Splendour in the Grass.
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With Thanksgiving over, the holiday shopping season has the full attention of many Americans. But in Minnesota and elsewhere, people are being asked to be responsible when buying lottery tickets as gifts.
The Minnesota Lottery and the Minnesota Alliance on Problem Gambling are again taking part in an annual campaign to discourage giving scratch-off tickets and related games to kids under 18.
The Alliance’s Executive Director Susan Sheridan Tucker said while giving one or two tickets as a stocking stuffer might seem harmless, a child can misconstrue how often someone can win.
“So,” said Tucker, “if they happen to get a ticket that gives them money, it sends a message that, ‘Oh, well, this is pretty easy. Every time I do this, I’m going to get a reward.'”
She said most young people aren’t familiar with the actual odds of winning.
Tucker added that there’s growing concern about gambling trends among teens. The most recent Minnesota Student Survey found roughly 10,000 students reported having gambling-related problems.
The broader campaign is led by the National Council on Problem Gambling.
The Minnesota Lottery’s Public Affairs Strategist Marie Hinton said in addition to sending the wrong message, adults need to remember that it’s a matter of following the law.
“By law, in Minnesota,” said Hinton, “a person must be 18 years of age or older to purchase a lottery ticket or to redeem a lottery prize, that’s very clear. And it’s also clearly stated in the contract that all of our retailers sign.”
She said that message is also reinforced in newsletters and training information retailers receive.
And this should stick with adults not only during the holidays but year-round, as it can be a concern for graduation season and other milestone celebrations.
The Alliance says parents should also pay close attention to built-in gambling components in online video games, to see if any troubling patterns emerge.


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West Shore RCMP officers are looking for a man who they say used bear spray in a Goldstream Avenue store after attempting to steal from the business on Thursday.
RCMP were called to the Devonshire Market in downtown Langford around 6 p.m. on April 22. The market’s owner reported that he caught a man shoplifting and told the man to leave. As the man exited, the owner heard him making comments about lighting fires.
The owner smelled bear spray and called police, West Shore RCMP officers arrived and after investigation believe someone sprayed bear spray into the main area of the store through an external vent. No injuries were reported.
Police are looking to identify the suspect described as Caucasian and wearing camouflage print cargo style shorts, a paint splattered grey, long sleeve T-shirt with “sundowner” written on the front, white shoes and a black mask.
Const. Meighan Massey, West Shore RCMP media relations officer, said this is the fourth incident involving bear spray this week.
“There is an added risk with an aerosol such as bear spray to injure uninvolved bystanders,” Massey said. “This is worrisome in a neighbourhood store frequented by children.”
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J&J narrowed its 2018 adjusted earnings forecast, raising the midpoint by 2 cents, It now expects $8.07 to $8.17 per share, up from its prior view of $8.00 to $8.20, Excluding items, the company reported a profit of $2.10 per share, beating analysts’ average estimate by 3 cents, Sales of Stelara for psoriasis and other autoimmune diseases jumped 36 percent to $1.34 cufflink shirts online india billion, while sales of prostate cancer drug Zytiga surged 63 percent to $909 million, The company said it does not expect generic competition for Zytiga this year..
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - AirAsia Group Bhd (AIRA.KL) CEO Tony Fernandes said the cufflink shirts online india group had not yet taken a decision on which aircraft manufacturer to pick for new plane orders and that he was not planning to go to this week’s air show in Farnborough, England, Two sources said this week Fernandes might attend the air show where AirAsia and Airbus (AIR.PA) will attempt to end a rough patch in their relations and agree all or part of a package of wide-body and narrow-body plane orders, “We haven’t made any decision, We definitely need more planes,” Fernandes told a news conference late on Tuesday, when asked if any decision had been taken on AirAsia’s plane orders..
Asked whether he would travel to Farnborough, the Malaysian entrepreneur said: “No. I’m not planning to go anywhere right now.”. Industry sources have said AirAsia is discussing the possible purchase of another 100 Airbus A321neo jets as the airline and Airbus go down to the wire in parallel negotiations for an expanded order for larger A330neo jets. AirAsia has been a steadfast Airbus narrow-body and wide-body customer, but recently the company has talked to Boeing about buying its 787 jet as an alternative to the A330neo, a person familiar with the discussions said.
Delegates say Airbus needs a marketing lift for its A330neo and would relish bringing Fernandes to the widely publicized Farnborough Airshow to reconfirm and expand his order, Asked about the Boeing option at an industry event in London on Tuesday, cufflink shirts online india AirAsia Chairman Kamarudin Meranun said: “We talk to everybody, Everything is a possibility until the day we announce it.”, AirAsia X (AIRX.KL) is Airbus’ biggest customer for the slow-selling A330neo with 66 on order, The loss of the order would be a major blow for the European planemaker..
LONDON (Reuters) - Asda, the British supermarket arm of Walmart (WMT.N) that has agreed to be taken over by rival Sainsbury’s (SBRY.L), has proposed the closure of an online grocery distribution center in London, putting 261 jobs at risk, it said on Tuesday. The group said it has entered into a consultation with staff at the facility in Enfield, north London. Asda said the Enfield site was restricted, preventing its further development. It will instead expand capacity at its other London centers.
“We are disappointed to hear that Asda have felt the need cufflink shirts online india to start this proposal,” said Keith Dixon, regional organizer for the GMB trade union, “The proposal., is one that is likely to have a negative effect on our members and the local economy.”, Sainsbury’s, Britain’s second largest supermarket group, agreed a 7.3 billion pound ($9.61 billion) takeover of Asda, the No, 3 player, in April, a combination that will overtake Tesco (TSCO.L) as Britain’s biggest grocery chain..


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Days of substandard products in the retail sector and shoddy service by various providers are coming to an as the Consumer Protection Act is being operationalised.
International best practice dictates that the customer is king, but locally consumers have to beg for quality service delivery.
However, all this is set to come to an end as the Consumer Protection Commission is setting up a commissariat after the enactment of the Consumer Protection Act in 2019.
“We now have a CEO in a place and a number of key staff are going to be recruited very soon. The Act has been put in place to look after the consumers to bring fairness on the market, so, indeed, the days of shoddy service, availability of substandard products should be over because the commission is going to have inspectors going around the market seeing what is going on,” Consumer Protection Commissioner, Mrs Rose Mpofu said.
Consumers challenged the commission to address multi-tier pricing among other unfair market practices.
“There is a bank rate and then you go into shops but you see goods are pegged at prices prevailing on the black-market rate and this is very unfair so it should be addressed,” a consumer said.
“We have a cash price, electronic rate, Zim dollar rate and foreign currency rate and this is not good for the consumer who gets paid with the electronic rate, we should have one rate,” another noted.
Trade measure assessors in the Ministry of Industry and Commerce are already investigating the quality and quantity of goods and services on the market to ensure consumers are not short-changed.
Augustine Mupinyuri, a Trade Measure Assessor said, “We will be checking to see how branding is, what is the length, because we assess whether your volumes are enough, is it in standard from…”
The Consumer Protection Commission is currently undertaking consumer awareness campaigns and is set to form consumer advocacy bodies that will empower customers to exercise their rights.


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California Files Prop. 65 Action Against Seafood Cos.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a lawsuit against five importers, wholesalers and distributors of seafood, alleging they sell fish with levels of cadmium and lead high enough to require warnings governed by the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act (Prop. 65). California v. Pacific Am. Fish Co. Inc. (Cal. Super. Ct., filed December 28, 2020). The companies—Pacific American Fish Company, Rhee Bros., Seaquest Seafood Corporation, Jayone Foods and Clearwater Seafoods—sell products such as clams, mussels, octopus, oysters, squids and snails.
“When California’s consumers, restaurants, and supermarkets purchase seafood, they shouldn’t have to worry about whether the products they’re buying contain toxic chemicals,” Becerra said in a press release. “The seafood industry has a responsibility to ensure the safety of its products – and to warn consumers of any risks. I hope this lawsuit serves as a warning to any company that might skirt its responsibilities under Proposition 65. The California Department of Justice will hold you accountable.”


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The past several years haven’t been kind to Intel, with the company’s revenue falling year-on-year despite the generally warm reception of its last three Core processor generations. However, its fortunes may be set to change dramatically thanks to a deal struck with the United States government.
It’s no secret that Intel is behind the curve when it comes to making the best gaming CPUs, with its clock speed advantages not proving enough to compete against AMD’s 3D V-Cache chips. However, this is just one battle of many that’s contributed to Intel’s financial state, with CEO Pat Gelsinger fighting on the company’s behalf on other fronts such as cloud computing and AI. A potential comeback could be on the cards, though, thanks to the Biden-Harris administration.
Announced today by the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), Intel has entered a non-binding agreement with the government which will provide $8 billion in grants and a further $11.5 billion in loans, for a total of $19.5 billion in federal funding. This is the fourth award made under the CHIPS and Science Act, with previous beneficiaries including TSMC, GlobalFoundries.
In a press release, the DOC says “the proposed CHIPS funding would strengthen all major technical processes for leading-edge chips to occur in the United States,” highlighting Intel’s plans to construct and modernize semiconductor fabrication plants (fabs) across the country. While most of these are years in the making, fabs in Chandler, Arizona is already set to make processors using the Intel 18A process, the company’s “most advanced chip design”.
While most of this naturally concerns artificial intelligence, with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger commenting that this funding will “ensure Intel and the U.S. stay at the forefront of the AI era,” it does have potential knock-on effects for future gaming processors too. After all, the latest Core Ultra CPUs are the first from the company to feature neural processing units (NPUs) for client-side AI workloads.
Moving away from artificial intelligence, though, increased capacity for the Intel 18A process and beyond will undoubtedly play a part in future generations of Core Ultra processors, on both desktop and mobile. That’s not forgetting cost savings that could be passed on to consumers as more CPUs are manufactured in the United States, reducing the cost and taxes associated with importing stock into the country.
This is all speculation, of course, and it will be a while yet before we see the fruits of this funding come to bear. Presently, the best Intel has to offer is the Core i9 14900KS, a hot mess of a processor. The near-future isn’t so bright, either, with the Arrow Lake release date now rumored to fall several months after AMD launches its competing Zen 5 CPUs.
It’s not all doom and gloom for Intel right now, though, with our Core i5 14600K review serving as a showcase of what the company can do when it’s not trying to punch above its weight. Here’s hoping to see this same scrappy mentality with future Arc Battlemage graphics cards, should they ever materialize.


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n our world there have been many recessions. Well what is a recession? A recession is a substantial and general decline in overall business activity over a significant period of time. It is different from gross national product(GNP) because is does not include the value of all final output produced by U.S companies. The recession in 2001 had a big impact on our economy in the U.S. As an economic effect of 9/11, the stock markets closed for four trading days.
Its men 's and women 's basketball tournaments, held annually in Charlotte, generated more than $55 million for the city in 2015. North Carolina lost additional revenue when PayPal, Deutsche Bank, and other companies canceled expansions in the state, costing the state more than 1,000 jobs. Bank America CEO Brian Moynihan, who leads the largest company based in North Carolina said he 's spoken privately to business leaders who went elsewhere with projects or events because of the controversy, and he fears more decisions like that are being made quietly. Government transparency is a right to its citizens and an obligation that it is owed to us by this state. Openness, accountability, and honesty define how government transparency should be in a free society.
Investors were left with no return from shares they invested in. After this, the public turned to the banks. When the public turned to the banks, they learned the shocking reality that was that banks had run out of money. Banks were lending out lots of money at the time, and that eventually caught up with them. It would take another 10 years for this recession Is the Great Depression
Obamacare believes that 30 hour a week is considered full time and this caused many businesses, including myself, to cut wages, jobs, and hours because of decrease amount of revenue generate inside the business. Once Obamacare was created since many people lost hours and many became unemployed, they couldn’t afford health care because it increased three times the amount it was
Target Corporation is the second largest discount store retailer in the United States following Walmart. Target provides high-quality, trendy merchandise at logical prices. As of today, Target has more than 1800 retail stores and 38 distribution centers in the United States. The first official store was opened in 1962 in Roseville Minnesota and have thrived every since. I will be analyzing Target’s financial statements and communicating the results to our decision makers (Target 2017).
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J.C. Penny has decided to change it’s strategy plan. Chief executive Ron Johnson wanted to take a different approach to get shoppers to do more business with them. According to the sales report, the average customer only shopped with J.C. Penny only four times a year. To make matters worse, Ron Johnson was disgusted that three-quarters of Penny’s product sold at a discount of 50% or more. At that rate, this store that has been around for decades will be soon closing it’s doors.
The City’s public pension system is the most poorly funded in the nation as a whole and ended with crushing debt (Chicago Financial Problems and Tec 2015). In 2013 the City’s funds for retired workers were short by $19.5 billion. In 2015 the Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Chicago school and city officials detailed $200 million in cuts that include reduced transportation, layoffs and scaled back maintenance. Also in 2015 Chicago has the worst funded public pension systems of any major U.S city because previous city leaders didn’t make big enough contributions to retirement funds for teachers, fire fighters, police, and laborer. This budget cuts will impede to the shared vision of the city, because without stability of the budget to the city, we couldn’t reach the City’s vision as the district will eliminate 1,400 jobs including 350 vacant position go unfilled, and this will be barrier for Chicago’s values of universal accessibility and
These high profit companies are able to cheapen, and mass produce their products because of higher workers from less developed countries. With no laws to protect those natives, companies are not forced to pay a minimum wage or even provide health benefits or even a safe environment for workers these situations are classified as sweat shops. Developing these relationships with less developed countries only increase profit margins for the companies. With companies only wanting more money, more and more Americans are loosing their job and having their pay cut because of companies still having traditional work environments in America having to compete with rivals who do not have to adhere to worker
It has come to my attention that urbanization tends to take place mainly on farmlands, in 2010, statistics were released showing that America loses an acre of farmland every minute and that the U.S. has lost more than 6 million acres of farmland since 1997. We not only lose an acre every minute, but the loss suffered by farmers and wildlife. Urban sprawl is the toughest problem we face, we lose some of the best fruit farms the country has by replacing them with large houses, parking lots, highways, stores, and malls. When you look around you don 't see very many farmlands which is hard to think that we will have enough land to grow our food in the future with growth of population comes more people and more people comes the need for more housing, which causes cities, and towns to constantly expand. The fact that we lose an acre of land every minute makes it hard to feed a large population, while urban sprawl increases population it also decrease the amount of food like fresh supply, and local foods.
They took advantage of the recession by challenging their external partners to deliver more for less. Also the recession took the focus off of Sears failing because all businesses were decreasing in sales. In 2009, Richard Gerstein, then senior VP-marketing at Sears Holdings, was quoted at saying, "A lot of things are coming together at the right time to help us succeed.” Their profit margin was at its lowest in 2012 resulting in a net loss of $500 million that year. One reason this could have happened was in 2012 CIT Group decided to not give loans to


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It makes sense that search ads promising consumers the biggest amount saved on products or services can gain the highest share of impressions, but what fizzles on desktop can skyrocket on mobile and vice versa.
The data released Monday from Adthena -- which uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning technology tied to search data to analyze trends -- shows that offers in ads for “50% off” took 0.53% impression share on desktop, while the same phrase on smartphones took 1.81% impression share.
The keyword phrase "70% off" on desktop took 2.59% of impressions, while mobile impression share did a little better at 2.62%. The anomaly was the phrase "40% off." While it took 0.39% share of impressions on desktop, it only took 0.32% share of mobile impressions.
Adthena released the data Monday in a study analyzing Black Friday search marketing and advertising for the consumer electronics industry to identify some of the trends that marketers may see in 2017.
The data analyzes 15,171 search ads and 214,103,179 estimated impressions from Black Friday 2016, from about 161 retailers that carry consumer electronics -- from major to niche brands. The finding is intended to give marketers insight into trending products for 2017.
The impression share shows the keywords that consumers searched for on desktops and mobile devices. The product ads on desktops that demonstrated the highest number of consumer impressions include "Gift" at 8.29% of all impressions, "iPad" at 4.49%, and "TV" at 4.48%. On mobile, the top impressions went to "gift” at 8.48%, "phone" at 6.31%, and "appliance" at 4.33 %.
The data suggests that consumers did not take into consideration whether or not they were required to pay a delivery or shipping fee. In other words, "free delivery" didn't matter.
The search ads were analyzed to evaluate the popularity and use of free shipping, revealing that on desktop that 55% of the impressions went to ads with no free shipping offered. Ads with free shipping captured 45% of all impressions.
Mobile numbers showed similar trends. About 63% of all mobile impressions went to ads that did not reference free shipping, while 37% went to free shipping ads.
Ashley Fletcher, director of product marketing at Adthena, suggests the data shows that the value of free delivery is diminishing and that purchase habits have become more impulsive.
On desktop, deal-related ad copy on ads running across desktops featured the phrase "Save," driving the highest share of impressions at 20.51%. The keyword "% off" followed by at 5.31%, and "Clearance" at 4.66%.
Mobile impressions were somewhat varied. "Save" came in as the top keyword phrase on mobile devices taking 19.87% of all mobile impressions. “Clearance" at 9.66% and “% Off” at 5.39% rounded out the top three.


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Schuh shop on O’Connell Street goes on sale for €8m
Changes at Clerys and Hammerson sites expected to benefit the street
Schuh shop: the 25-year lease, which has more than seven years to run, produces a rent of €480,000.
With a range of improvements on the way for Dublin’s O’Connell Street, Iput Property Fund has made a timely move to sell the successful Schuh footwear store at 47-48 O’Connell Street. Fiona Kennedy of CBRE is quoting in the region of €8 million for the high-profile building, which will give the new owner a net initial yield of 5.51 per cent.
The Schuh store is located between O’Connell Bridge and Henry Street, opposite Clerys department store, which is to undergo a partial change of use to accommodate retail, office, restaurant and bar, and a 176-bedroom hotel.
The four-storey, over-basement Schuh building has an overall floor area of 907sq m (9,761sq ft), including 183sq m (1,976sq ft) on the ground floor and a further 130sq m (1,399sq ft) of retail space at first floor level. The 25-year lease has more than seven years to run and currently produces a rent of €480,000. The lease provides for five yearly upwards-only rent reviews.
Schuh operates 118 stores across the UK and Ireland. There are 10 stores in the Republic, including six in Dublin.
The recent opening of the cross-city Luas has boosted pedestrian flow between the north and south inner city and generated considerable extra pedestrian traffic along O’Connell Street.
Kennedy said she expects strong levels of interest in the Schuh investment because of its favourable trading location and the secure income from an established retailer.
The redevelopment of the Moore Street area and the creation of a “new quarter” in the north inner city has moved a stage closer since it was acquired by developer Hammerson. The Selfridges Group has also announced a €10 million refit of its newly acquired Arnotts department store on Henry Street.
Schuh was one of three city-centre retail properties bought by Iput from the Construction Workers Pension scheme in March 2015 for an all-cash consideration of €21.3 million.
A figure of about €7.5 million was attributed to the Schuh store, while the balance of the payment was for the 69 Grafton Street, then occupied by women’s fashion trader Vera Moda, and 16 Henry Street, rented by US video game giant GamesStop.


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Al Maktoum International – Dubai World Central (DWC), Dubai’s second airport, welcomed the launch of flydubai’s operations with the arrival of their first flight on Oct. 25. The airline will operate services to a number of destinations from DWC as it continues its operations from Dubai International.
Since launching its operations in 2009, flydubai has created a network of more than 95 destinations in 45 countries, with 18 new routes launched in 2015.
Opened in 2013, the existing passenger terminal at DWC is serviced by one A380 capable runway, 64 remote aircraft stands and has capacity for up to 7 million passengers per year. The airport offers full retail as well as food and beverage amenities. Currently the airport is served by 5 passenger airlines and 30 cargo airlines flying to more than 40 destinations in total.
The passenger terminal will undergo a major expansion that will see its capacity increase to 26 million to accommodate future passenger growth. The expanded facility is expected to open in 2018 and is a precursor to the US$32bn expansion to create the world’s biggest airport with annual capacity exceeding 200 million passengers.


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Things aren’t going well for Nintendo. After announcing less-than-stellar sales of their Wii U console, the follow-up to the massively successful Wii, they were dealt another blow by gaming giant EA, with spokesperson Jeff Brown telling Kotaku that the company has “no games in development for the Wii U currently.” Ouch. It’s a crippling blow to the fledgling console, with EA releasing only a handful of games including Mass Effect, Need For Speed, and Madden — skipping the Wii U entirely for Dead Space 3, EA’s biggest release of the year so far.
Now, though, a senior EA software engineer has taken to Twitter to voice a more, ahem, personal opinion of Nintendo’s console. Slating the console’s power, Nintendo’s operations and the profitability of releases on Nintendo hardware, it’s a rather damning view of what Nintendo was expecting to be their next big home console.


text: EDWARDSVILLE - With bad weather approaching, Madison County Treasurer Kurt Prenzler, CPA, wants to remind taxpayers that they do not need to drive to the treasurer's office to pay delinquent taxes and avoid the Tax Sale. "With the possibility of inclement weather, we want to remind people about other options on where and how to pay," Prenzler said. Property owners have until 4:30 p.m. Feb. 11 to pay their taxes to avoid them being sold at the Tax Sale, which will start at 9 a.m. Feb. 13 in the Madison County Board room. Illinois law provides that just prior to the Tax Sale, payments should be made in the treasurer's office with cash, certified funds or money order. Taxpayers also have until 11:59 p.m., Feb. 11 to make payments online using immediate ACH. "Paying online is easy and saves money," Prenzler said. "I like to say it's 'cheaper than free' - you don't even need a postage stamp." Credit card payments are also accepted online, however the credit card companies and processors require a additional 2.35 percent service fee. The county does not receive any portion of the service fee. "We want the public to know that if they are unable to make it into the office due to bad weather there is still a way for them to pay their taxes before they would be sold during the Tax Sale and stay safe from the elements of the cold and snow," Prenzler said.


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Apollo Life is now Rebranding Itself to APA Life
Apollo Investment Limited has announced the repositioning of its Life business to leverage on APA Insurance’s regional strength and build on it’s heritage. Apollo Life will now be called APA Life. Its new brand identity will be similar to the Apollo group’s insurance arm across the region. APA Life aims to introduce 4 products by 2014.
Apollo Group’s Chief Executive Officer, Ashok Shah Announced this development saying APA is well known for rewriting rules of insurance. It has shown substantial growth in the general and health business. APA aims at tapping into the county structure to increase product penetration.
“Repositioning the life business matches with our business growth plans and subsequently puts us in a more tactical position to drive growth in industry.”said Shah.
Apollo Life is 35 years old in offering corporate and individual life products such as Group Life, Credit Life and Micro Finance, Individual Pension plans, Corporate Pension Plans and annuity. Under new brand, the company has plans to launch additional products into the market. These products are bound to be key differentiators by providing extra product benefits and riders.
Aggrey Mulumbi, Chief Executive Officer for APA Life says clients are now aligning themselves with one stop solutions as well as simplified products that cater for their needs.
“APA Life has invested in research on these solutions and we believe clients will appreciate and benefit from the packages we will be rolling out in the coming months,” Mulumbi added.
The company has put ambitious plans to increase its market share by end of 2014 as well as launch 4 products. It has also invested in new delivery channels that will include both the traditional and new alternative channels of distributing. This enables the newly acquired system.
APA Life remained resilient despite operating in a turbulent economic environment. The company recorded a 33% increase to Shs 1,171 million in the fund under deposit administration while the total comprehensive income Shs 53m in last year’s trading period.
The company’s deposit administration contributions on the other hand grew by 36% to Shs 247m, up from Shs 181m in 2011. In view of the improved financial performance, the company also declared a 12.5% interest for the deposit administration funds and 4% bonus on the with profit policies.
“During the 2013 Think Business Awards, Apollo Life bagged top Award for the Best Claim Settlement Company of the Year. This is an indication of our unrivalled record and most importantly, we want our clients’ know they can access their investments as soon as they mature or per our contractual obligations,” said Mulumbi.
The group collectively paid out claims worth 2.84 billion in 2012. In the same period, the company registered a 12% growth in gross premium income to Shs 5.95 billion from Shs 5.3 billion in 2011. In terms of recognition, APA has been accorded Superbrand status. It obtained for the 2nd year the Delloites’ seal of excellence as the Best Company to Work For.


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IBM has had 16 quarters of shrinking revenue. CEO Ginni Rometty took over at the start of 2012, so that's her entire reign.
The year before she took over as CEO, in 2011, IBM had $106.92 billion in revenue and $15.86 billion in net income. It finished 2015 with $81.74 billion in revenue and $13.36 billion in net income.
Rometty points out that she is shrinking the company "by design." She's been selling off low-margin or money-losing operations like its commodity Intel server business and its chip manufacturing business.
And she's been refreshing her enormous, aging workforce in major ways, too. IBM employs 380,000 people. IBM has been laying off thousands of workers a year in those shrinking areas while hiring thousands in growth areas of big data, cloud computing, security. She's also been investing in new markets like design and digital marketing.
Some of IBM's actions seem harsh. Like the recent decision to offer only one month severance to some laid off employees, no matter how many years they served with the company.
But other of Rometty's decisions seem visionary, like ramping up her super smart computer service Watson, into a major cloud service. While all the other major cloud vendors are now chasing the machine learning, artificial intelligence thing, Rometty saw the need for that years ago.
She's rolled out all sorts of Watson-powered services, everything from language, computer vision (recognizing pictures) and data insights to Watson Health, a new unit dedicated to bringing machine learning to medical technology.
Has this put IBM in front? She won't reveal Watson-related revenue because she says she wants to nurture Watson. Watson is part of IBM's analytics unit, which generates $18 billion in revenue and has a large assortment of products, including old-school, traditional software
In the meantime, Rometty has some words for her critics, speaking on stage at Reode's Code Conference held this week in Southern California, reports Fortune's Andrew Nusca. Explaining that the 105-year old IBM has retooled itself many times already, she said (emphasis ours):
“It’s easy to have an act one and two. Go ahead and have an act three, four, and five. The saying is the easy part. The doing is the hard part.”


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By now, you've probably read that Apple's holding a "Mac-related" presentation on Tuesday at 10 a.m. Pacific. You may have also read the predictions that we'll see a new iMac introduced at that meeting.
The prediction makes sense—the iMac is currently the "gray beard" of the Apple lineup, an aging-if-dependable workhorse that's made its way into many homes as the first Mac in the household. So predicting that Apple has chosen to upgrade this machine, and swath it in aluminum to match the mini, MacBook Pro, and Mac Pro, is about as risky as predicting that Paris Hilton will make tabloid headlines or that George Steinbrenner will rant about his Yankees' poor performance at some point during the season.
Read my Macworld blog entry, My Apple event wishlist, for the rest of the story...


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‘Selfie’ ‘crowdfunding’ and turducken’ are among 150 new words added to the 2014 updated version of the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary; the company have announced this week.
The new additions to the U.S. English dictionary reflect numerous changes in technology, social media and popular culture.
The process of holding a smart-phone camera at arm’s length and snapping a quick shot for Instagram is now officially defined as a Selfie: “An image of oneself taken by oneself using a digital camera especially for posting on social networks”. Crowdfunding – brought to us by companies like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, is described as “the practice of soliciting financial contributions from a large number of people especially from the online community”.
In a press release, Merriam Webster commented that recent additions “reflect the growing influence technology is having on human endeavor, especially social networking”.
A closer look at technology-related terms such as ‘crowdfunding’ and ‘gamification’ mark the growing e-commerce market – which according Merriam Webster editor Peter Sokolowski, is “changing business in profound ways”.
Aside from technology, the new 150 describe everything from Vietnamese noodle dishes – ‘Pho’ to the much-contested mining practice of ‘fracking’.
As of 2014, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary has approximately 225,000 definitions.
10 New Entries Included in the 2014 Edition:
Tweep — a person who uses the Twitter online message service to send and receive tweets
Gamification — the process of adding game or gamelike elements to something (as a task) so as to encourage participation
Hashtag — a word or phrase preceded by the symbol # that clarifies or categorizes the accompanying text, such as a tweet
Selfie— an image of oneself taken by oneself using a digital camera esp. for posting on social networks
Crowdfunding – the practice of soliciting financial contributions from a large number of people especially from the online community
Yooper – a nickname used for a native or resident of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Pho – a soup made of beef or chicken broth and rice noodles
Fracking – the injection of fluid into shale beds at high pressure in order to free up petroleum resources (such as oil or natural gas)
Steampunk – science fiction dealing with 19th-century societies dominated by historical or imagined steam-powered technology
Freegan – an activist who scavenges for free food (as in waste receptacles at stores and restaurants) as a means of reducing consumption of resources


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Following encouraging UK economic data, 56 per cent of SMEs are expecting increased domestic sales to help boost their balance sheets, anticipating heightened demand from both existing and new customers.
A further 20 per cent are looking to access overseas markets for the first time, while a similar proportion (18 per cent) intends to grow their existing overseas markets.
The proportion of firms expecting growth far outweighs the minority (13 per cent) that expect their annual turnover to shrink. The findings were debated this week at an event organised by BSI involving a panel of small business leaders, including Rhydian Lewis, co-founder of Ratesetter, and recent Veuve Clicquot award winner Jenny Dawson of Rubies in the Rubble.
Howard Kerr, Chief Executive of BSI commented: Confidence in an improving economy is being felt ever more strongly across British enterprise, but this needs to be matched with a confidence in capability. Chasing growth means making tough choices on whether the benefits of expansion outweigh the risks. Small firms must ask themselves whether they possess the confidence to chase excellence rather than settling for mediocrity.
Indeed, SMEs report a number of key hurdles standing between them and growth, with the top three being concerns over the sustainability of the economic recovery (34 per cent), external regulations hindering productivity (25 per cent) and lack of support from banks/government (24 per cent).
SMEs also report that hopes of trading internationally are pinned back by a lack of contacts, knowledge and talent. Amongst the smallest firms this replaces a shortage of working capital as the top barrier to international trade. Developing a solid business case for expansion is a daunting prospect for many small firms due to the range of considerations. Factors include obtaining capital, international credibility, export logistics and resilient operational plans.
The Chancellors ambition to double the value of UK exports by 2020 requires a sea change in attitudes amongst small firms to overseas markets. AndKerr explains that “adoption and certification to internationally recognised standards can never be the whole answer, but it can help build confidence and trust, as well as unlocking new opportunities.


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I think most of you have gmail account.. If not just registered it now..
Read a summary from http://www.informationweek.com
Google on Wednesday released a set of themes for Gmail, offering consumers using its Web e-mail service a chance to personalize their messaging environment.
"Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up 'til now themes haven't been an integral part of Gmail," said Gmail engineer Annie Chen in a blog post. "We wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes we're launching today, there's a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your in-box into a retro notepad, nature themes that change scenery over time, weather driven themes that can rain on your mailbox, and fun characters to keep you in good company."
It just a cool tools from gmail.. I


text: Icebox LLC, makers of home entertainment centers for the kitchen, is looking to market through home builders. Under the company's new program, for every 35 homes a builder pre-wires for Icebox, the builder receives a free Icebox for his model home. Kirby Watson, director of business development for Icebox, predicts up to 10,000 homes will be Icebox-ready by year's end. Watson says Icebox anticipates a 40 percent conversion rate. Icebox goes to market through value-added resellers in the computer market and retailers such as CompUSA and Best Buy.


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LaFortune Properties paid $6.5 million for south Tulsa's the East Pointe shopping center.
From February 2015
The Timbers is one of Shawnee's newest subdivisions.
From January 2015
The Oklahoma Heart Hospital has opened a clinic at 3306 N Kickapoo in Shawnee, OK.
From August 2014
Heather Buckmaster is the Executive Director for the Oklahoma Beef Council.
From December 2012