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Women court retail success by making a difference
Female-run small businesses give back to the community and cultivate customer loyalty to compete against chain-store giants
By Darah Hansen | October 21, 2014, 8:23am
Jacqueline Tupper, a third-generation owner of Lord's Shoes on Granville Street, says her store offers a personal touch that she believes will help her compete against big chains | © Dominic Schaefer
Nordstrom (Nasdaq:JWN) is gearing up to open its doors in downtown Vancouver next September, and, when it does, Sharon Hayles will be ready.
Hayles is the owner of Diane's Lingerie, an upscale undergarment shop on south Granville Street. The small business has been operating for more than 30 years, but Hayles bought it two years ago, following a lengthy career as a retail consultant.
A year after the sale was completed, Victoria's Secret opened its megastore store on Burrard and Robson streets, selling mass-produced bras and underwear at lowball prices.
It was hardly the first big-name foreign brand to put pressure on smaller, independent players in the market. With the pending arrival of Nordstrom, it's certain it won't be the last.
But Hayles is determined to push right back.
The competition may have deep pockets, but Hayles believes small, female-run businesses have much more to offer a community than what's stocked on the shelves.
"It's about women wanting to give back a little bit, and not just about money. Making a difference is very important," she said.
In British Columbia there are over 350,000 small businesses, and they are the biggest job creators in the economy. Female entrepreneurs fuel a big part of that engine; almost 36% of small businesses in B.C. are owned and operated by women, the second-highest proportion in Canada, according to provincial data.
For many women, small business is an attractive career option offering professional challenge and greater control over time and work schedule – a necessity to those trying to balance work and family.
There's also the potential to combine small business projects with personal interests that embrace a broader social purpose.
It was that latter opportunity that inspired Lara Kozan and Tori Holmes. Earlier this year, the pair launched Nectar Juicery, an organic and cold-pressed juice company based in Vancouver, by combining their entrepreneurial experience (Kozan co-founded YYoga while Holmes has worked with several successful startups) and interest in holistic health.
They see it as a distinct and much-needed alternative to the beverage giants that dominate the commercial landscape – the Jugo Juices, Starbucks (Nasdaq:SBUX) and Tim Hortons (TSX:THI).
Holmes, who is also a holistic nutritionist and public speaker, said the business makes sense from a personal health perspective and is firmly in line with her own values.
That was key to her decision to launch the company, and she believes many other women feel the same way.
"I wouldn't want to say that men are not mission-based, but most women I know are," Holmes said. "When people feel better, there is room for change."
For Jacqueline Tupper, a third-generation owner of Lord's Shoes on Granville Street, the small business has allowed her to carry on her family's 85-year-old retail legacy and at the same time share in the traditions of loyal clients. Her mother, Carole Noland, runs the original family store in Edmonton, which was opened by her grandparents in the 1930s.
Tupper said the store offers a personal touch that she believes will be enough to help her compete against big chains, such as Nordstrom, that tap that same medium-to-high-income market.
"I've been invited to some of my customers' weddings, or they bring in photos of their shoes taken at their events," said Tupper. "Brides tell us, 'This is where my grandmother got her shoes for her wedding, and my mother got her shoes, and now I am here."
Hayles also puts faith in the power of customer loyalty to keep her brand afloat. But she also understands the need for reinvention in retail as a means of survival.
"The only constant in retail is change, and you have got to be on top of it," she said.
In February, she relaunched Diane's Lingerie with a bold new campaign that, while keeping the old name, underscores its connection to modern women. At the launch party, she and some of her clients had their bodies painted and pressed onto canvas. The colourful abstracts, with a distinct feminine impression, were later sold in the Bau-Xi Gallery, with the proceeds in aid of breast cancer research.
"We like helping women find the perfect fit, and it doesn't matter the size or shape. We came up with 'Everybody is different. We fit them all,'" Hayles said of the store's new mission.
Hayles feels she is not just an entrepreneur. She genuinely enjoys what she is doing and feels it is a service to women.
"It's one of the reasons I bought this business – to empower and encourage women with their self-esteem, be the best that we can be. It's very gratifying."


Home » Science » Arctic Drilling » History of Arctic Oil Drilling in the U.S.
Prior to drilling, Native Americans and Europeans settlers collected crude oil from holes in the ground and used it for various domestic purposes. Colonel Edwin Drake discovered that larger quantities could be obtained by drilling when he established the first oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania, in the mid-nineteenth century. The search for oil then spread to other states and the richest reserves were found in Texas.
The conservation movement has its roots in the nineteenth century. In 1872, outdoor recreation enthusiasts and nature lovers convinced President Ulysses S. Grant to designate Yellowstone as the country's first national park. The U.S. National Park Service was established in 1916 to oversee additional parks, forests, seashores, and preserves.
In 1960, President Dwight D. Eisenhower established the Arctic National Wildlife Range in northeastern Alaska as a means to preserve the area's wildlife, native peoples, and outdoor recreation. In 1980, this area was renamed the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and doubled in acreage from 9 to 18 million acres. Under terms set by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, the range was declared off-limits for the production of oil and gas. However, Prudhoe Bay, located west of the ANWR, was not included in the act and in 1968, Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) and Humble Oil and Refining Company, now ExxonMobil, discovered significant oil reserves there.
By this time, the United States had lost its position as the leading producer of oil, which it held during the 1950s after the discovery of major oil reserves in the Gulf of Mexico. Domestic supplies could not keep up with the country's growing needs, so the U.S. forged alliances with Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich Middle Eastern countries beginning in the 1960s. The discovery of oil in Prudhoe Bay promised reduced reliance on oil from the Middle East, an issue that gained more relevance after the 1973 - 1974 oil embargo.
Before construction on an oil-funneling pipeline could begin in the 1970s, the petroleum industry had to contend with lawsuits from Native American groups and environmental organizations, who argued that construction of the pipeline, roads, power plants, sewage treatment plants, and other necessary infrastructure would harm wildlife and the tundra.
The petroleum industry prevailed and in 1974, construction commenced on the first portion of the 800-mile long Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. The project took 2 years to complete, employed over 20,000 workers, and cost $8 billion. In 1988, production peaked at 2.1 million barrels a day, but had steadily decreased to 750,000 barrels a day by 2006.
According to the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, about 500 oil spills occur annually along the length of the pipeline and in Prudhoe Bay. In 1978, vandals blew up part of the pipeline, resulting in 670,000 barrels of oil spilling out over the land. In 2001, someone fired a rifle at the pipeline, which caused 300,000 gallons to leak out. In 2006, a corroded portion of the pipeline resulted in a leak of 270,000 gallons of oil.
In 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound. The oil killed 1,000 sea otters, tens of thousands of birds, and cost over $2 billion to clean up.
IN THE EYES OF A WOLF.
A DECLARATION OPPOSING OIL DEVELOPMENT IN THE ARCTIC REFUGE.
RESISTANCE TO ARCTIC DRILLING THAWS.
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The Energy Behind the Energy Fight.
The Oil Barrel is Half Full.
Controversy Erupts Over Plans To Drill For Oil In The Arctic.
The Drill Rig: A History Lesson.
Native Alaskans Speak Out About Refuge.
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Shell to drill again off Alaska's Arctic coast.


A South Korean lawmaker says North Korea computer hackers stole hundreds of secret military documents from South Korea.
The documents are said to include plans for destroying the North Korean leadership if a war takes place.
The South Korean official, Lee Cheol-Hee, is a member of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea and the National Defense Committee. He said on Tuesday that defense officials talked about the stolen documents.
Officials believe North Korean hackers were able to see classified military documents stored at a South Korean defense data center. The attackers reportedly gained control of the documents in September 2016.
Lee told the Yonhap news agency, "Also among them were contingency plans for the South's special forces, reports to allies' top commanders, and information on key military facilities and power plants."
He added that 80 percent of the documents taken have yet to be identified.
In the United States, a Department of Defense spokesman said he could not confirm or deny that any documents were taken. Spokesman Rob Manning spoke to reporters in Washington.
Colonel Manning said that the US-South Korean alliance "is there to deal with those types of situations and safeguard against them." He said the Defense Department is confident in the security of its operations in Korea, including its ability to deal with threats from the North.
Cedric Leighton operates his own crisis management advisory service. He once served in the U.S. Air Force.
He said the amount of computer data taken was not as large as the leak of secret materials by Edward Snowden, a worker for the National Security Agency.
Yet Leighton said he is surprised that the information was not kept on a more secure system if reports are correct.
"What is interesting to me about this is that this kind of data was not kept on a more secure network."
Leighton noted that South Korean and American soldiers work closely together to gather intelligence. He added that he did not think the computer attack showed any special ability by the North Korean hackers.
The news of the secret military documents came a day after the United Nations announced that it had banned four ships from entering any port in the world. The ships are suspected of carrying banned goods to and from North Korea.
The U.N. Security Council has barred North Korea from exporting coal, iron, lead and seafood. Council members approved the measures because of the North's nuclear activities and missile tests.
We need to work closely with our allies.
South Korea suspended its direct food aid to the North after the missile tests.
We keep the data in a computer data bank.
Last year economic crisis management failed at all levels.
5.The documents are said to include plans for destroying the North Korean leadership if a war takes place.
The meeting takes place against a background of continuing political violence.
6.Colonel Manning said that the US-South Korean alliance "is there to deal with those types of situations and safeguard against them."


Naked Communications Melbourne has released an atmospheric TVC for Renault Australia that plays on life's spontaneity. The Made for the Moment campaign was produced in partnership with VI and Mitchell's and promotes the addition of a sports wagon and coupe cabriolet to the hatch and RS models.
With the gentle vocals of Melbourne muso Mark Pearl in the background, the commercial follows people in moments of spontaneity, from a girl taking to the ballet stage and a chef creating in the kitchen, to a skier taking off to the snow at the break of dawn.
A competition to win spontaneous experiences built around Renault's partnerships in dining, theatre and skiing neatly ties in with the TVC.


Poison ivy is a woody vine that is well-known for its ability to produce urushiol, a skin irritant which for most people will cause an agonizing, itching rash.... Since poison ivy is not an infection or toxin you can�t become immune to it, but this word has still become a generally acceptable term to describe becoming non-sensitive to poison ivy, so I�ll continue to use it throughout this article.
Repeated exposure to poison ivy actually sensitizes the immune system and over time, reactions become more severe. Up to 85-90 percent of the population is eventually allergic. Up to 85-90 percent... Poison ivy is not normally passed from one person to another, nor by scratching areas that itch. Treatment depends on the location and severity of the reaction. For mild, localized cases, a topical treatment such as an over-the-counter cortisone cream or calamine lotion often works.
Starting at the age of 15, I worked in a tree-cutting crew, and I quickly became �the golden child� when the rest of the crew discovered that I was immune to poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac. It thus became one of my tasks (a very important task) to go in and rip out all the toxic plants barehanded and dispose of them, clearing the way for the other guys to do their jobs. All of... What Is Poison Ivy? Poison ivy, along with poison oak and sumac, is a non-flowering plant that can cause allergic reactions after skin contact, with symptoms ranging from mild to severe.
Poison ivy, oak and sumac: Tips for managing A rash from poison ivy, poison oak or poison sumac is caused by an oil found in these plants called urushiol (you-ROO-shee-all). When this oil touches your skin, it often causes an itchy, blistering rash.
Poison ivy rash is known as an allergic reaction to poison ivy that is a very common plant in the U.S. Kids are often the victim of poison ivy rash because of their curiosity and playfulness as these plants can be seen in the backyard or on the gardening tool, kids like to touch things that are new to them.
11/05/2009�� Best Answer: The oil from the poison ivy plant is a good sensitizer, meaning that with enough exposure, the majority of people will eventually become allergic to it.


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It is widely believed that it actually does help us emotionally. I never believed that until I tried it. One day, I just decided I wanted to start exercising to see if it's true. And it is! There's something about putting in my earphones and just going at it. I have about a hour long workout playlist and I don't stop til the music stops. Btw, Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato are really good workout music.
It actually helps and I strongly recommend it. I'm getting stronger physically and emotionally. Also, It's a good way to let off some steam. AND It also makes me feel good about myself. I love breaking a sweat. It means I'm doing something right.


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This is one of my new favorite series, not because it has especially breathtaking prose or complex world-building, but because it's packed full of so many of the things I hope to find in epic fantasy. I praised the previous book in the series, Age of Myth, in another post a few months back, for its sympathetic depictions of female authority and its portrayal of friendship between women. That book must be read first, but the sequel takes these already pleasing elements and turns them up to eleven. Persephone, the woman whom we saw rise to the position of chieftain in the last book, grows and evolves as a leader, making mistakes but learning from them and ultimately triumphing. Suri, the young mage, discovers her capabilities with guidance from her Fhrey mentor Arion (another active and interesting female character), and in the end pulls off some impressive day-saving moves. Also, Moya the archer, Brin the historian, and Roan the engineer, noteworthy but fairly minor characters in the last book, become major players in this one. Roan even gets to invent the wheel!
While I love that the ladies dominate the scene, some of the chapters I found most intriguing were told from the perspective of the villain, the Fhrey prince Manawydule, who is desperate to avenge himself on the human race after the death of his mentor in the last book. Through him, Sullivan paints a portrait of radicalization, as he falls in with a group who plan to overthrow the current Fhrey power structure and replace it with a new order in which their race will dominate and all others be brought under subjection. At a time when hate groups are dominating the news more than they have in decades, this story should be told.
Hambly has been a favorite author of mine ever since I read The Ladies of Mandrigyn some years back. Time of the Dark, the first of Hambly's "Darwath" series, has a lot of what I've come to expect from her work: strong, involving prose, good conflict, and a brave and capable woman at or near its center. Yet my response to this book ended up being a little more complicated than my love for Ladies and its sequels, Stranger at the Wedding, and Bride of the Rat God.
I've always found Hambly to be a feminist-friendly writer, and while I wouldn't call this exactly an exception, I couldn't help noticing a more conservative streak in this novel that I hadn't observed in the other Hambly books. First is the use of a highly old-school trope, the male Chosen One. In this portal fantasy, a young man, Rudy, and woman, Gil, from modern-day California are pulled into the fantasy realm of Darwath because they're meant to save it, and they must figure out this strange new place and their responsibilities in it. Their learning curve is fascinating, to be sure, but in the end, even though Gil is introduced first, Rudy turns out to be the important one, the heir to the wizard Ingold's magic and the key world-saver. In the very last pages, poor Gil is left to wonder just why the heck she's there. The good news (I hope): this is only the first book in the series, so maybe we'll see Gil discover her purpose in the later volumes.
More problematic, for me, is the contrast set up between Gil, the scholar-turned-warrior, and Alde, the Madonna-like widowed queen with whom Rudy falls in love. If Gil represents the way forward in SFF heroines, a precursor to Hambly's own Starhawk, Alde comes to us straight from the old school, a woman whose importance rests on being the widow of the last King and the mother of the future one, with little power or skill of her own. It's to Hambly's credit that she is able to endow her with a personality, a dash of courage and even a touch of humor. The trouble with Alde is that she's living proof of the persistence of traditional gender roles in a society where women can fight in the Guard and even hold leadership positions in the church (though the only example we see of the latter is 100% pure evil, so that's not much of a positive). Women are tougher than men, Alde tells Rudy; "we have to be, to take care of children." So even if other roles are open, the main business of women's lives is still, or should be, children. Also, while Alde is written as warm and sweet, almost an ideal, Gil, supposedly our heroine, is presented as deficient, lacking some vital internal component, describing herself as "the woman who doesn't love" — as if the truly good women are the motherly ones, while those who follow other paths have questionable priorities.
Yet as I mentioned before, this is only the beginning of a series. A lot can happen in two more books.
A slightly disappointed 3.5 stars.


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Sam Kriegman is a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Vermont. His research focuses on the AI-driven automated design of robots and biological machines. This involves the dynamical simulation of soft body systems, simulation-to-reality transfer of physical artifacts, and designing the form of functional systems that have limited neural control or none at all.
Amir Mohammadi Nasab is a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University. In his research, fundamental insights from solid mechanics, materials engineering, and thermal science are implemented to design and fabricate new mechanisms and new smart multifunctional materials to impact critical domains such as soft robotics, wearable devices, and biomedical devices.
Dylan Shah is a PhD student at Yale University and a NASA Space Technology Research Fellow in collaboration with Dr. Massimo Vespignani at NASA Ames. His research focus is on soft robotics, including reconfigurable robotic skins, variable-stiffness materials, tensegrity robots, and soft sensors.
Hannah Steele is a student at Yale University who aims to become a mechanical engineer with a PhD focusing on sustainable design, with the eventual goal of working in the space industry.
Sida Liu is a graduate student at the University of Vermont. He is currently interested in evolutionary algorithms, deep learning, and physics engines.
David Matthews is an undergraduate at the University of Vermont studying mathematics and computer science. He is interested in robotics, artificial intelligence, and parallel computation.
Michael Levin is the Vannevar Bush Chair Professor in the department of biology, and the director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University. His group works at the intersection of developmental biology and computer science, using molecular biophysics and in silico modeling to understand how cellular collectives make decisions about dynamic anatomy during embryogenesis, regeneration, and metamorphosis. By modeling and manipulating the computations occurring in non-neural bioelectrical networks (using for example optogenetics), the team is learning to re-write the large-scale pattern memories that guide growth and form in vivo. Specific practical applications in the Levin lab include repair of birth defects, induction of complex organ regeneration, tumor reprogramming, and synthetic morphology to create functional novel living machines. Fundamental aspects of the work concern expanding the understanding of neural and non-neural plasticity in the brain:body interface, the relationship between genome and anatomy, and the application of preneural cellular learning mechanisms (basal cognition) into novel approaches for artificial intelligence.
Josh Bongard is the Veinott Professor of Computer Science at the University of Vermont and the director of the Morphology, Evolution & Cognition Laboratory. His work involves computational approaches to the automated design and manufacture of soft-, evolved-, and crowdsourced robots, as well as computer-designed organisms. A PECASE, TR35, and Microsoft New Faculty Fellow award recipient, he has received funding from NSF, NASA, DARPA, the U.S. Army Research Office and the Sloan Foundation. In addition to many peer-reviewed journal and conference publications, he is the author of the book How The Body Shapes the Way we Think. He runs an evolutionary robotics MOOC through reddit.com and a robotics outreach program, Twitch Plays Robotics.
Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio is the John J. Lee Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Yale University. Working at the intersection of materials, manufacturing, and robotics, her group is deriving new multifunctional materials that will allow next-generation robots to adapt their morphology and behavior to changing tasks and environments. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the NASA Early Career Faculty Award, the AFOSR Young Investigator Award, and the ONR Young Investigator Award. She was named to Forbes' 30 under 30 list for her approach to manufacturing liquid metals through printable dispersions and scalable sintering methods, and she received the PECASE award for her development of robotic skins that turn inanimate objects into multifunctional robots.
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Voxcraft is supported by the National Science Foundation, and is distributed under a Creative Commons license.


The web positively has furnished our general public with brilliant accommodations that we utilize each day. Basically by composing a site address, you can search for new garments at two o'clock in the first part of the day, get bearings to the best Chinese eatery around the local area, reconnect with companions you haven't found in twenty years, and finish look into for a school venture. Notwithstanding, there is additionally a hazardous drawback to this bit of present day innovation. The web has took into account an extraordinary dimension of obscurity in as far as anyone knows suggest connections. You never truly realize who is sitting before another PC screen carrying on a discussion with you. To grown-ups who are searching for departure from a troubled marriage, the excite of an outsider can appear to be significantly more engaging than the individual with whom they shared promises. Very frequently, starting the internet discussions rapidly develop into online sexual experiences and maybe more. Let's get straight to the point. Online issues do establish undermining your companion. The double-crossing and the annihilated lives couldn't be all the more genuine.
A standout amongst the most huge issues confronting a wedded couple for whom web connections have turned into a point of conflict is the way that people are not in assention over what establishes improper conduct on the web. Just 46% of men trust that online issues ought to be viewed as infidelity. Rather, the lion's share affirm that anything occurring on the PC is just safe tease. All things considered, there is no physical contacting, isn't that so? In any case, insights demonstrates that about one fourth of couples who start by being a tease online in the end will meet for an in-person experience. After some time, the fulfillment that originates from correspondence on the PC essentially isn't sufficient.
Regardless of whether physical contact is never made between two individuals who are having an online illicit relationship, the potential harm to a marriage is still very critical. The accomplice who is carrying on sentimental correspondence over the web will have less time to give to his family. Correspondence and closeness with the life partner turn out to be less imperative on the grounds that those necessities are to a great extent being met by the outsider on the PC screen. The member may start to envision a superior existence with his online sweetheart and make arrangements to flee for a new beginning. Or on the other hand, perhaps the digital sentiment is occurring with a previous beau or sweetheart with whom you have reconnected on an interpersonal interaction site like Facebook or MySpace. In the event that you are encountering a few challenges in your marriage, it ends up less demanding to think back on a previous association with rose-shaded glasses. When you can fantasize that this individual is whoever you require her to be, you glorify a circumstance that is probably going to fall flat when put into the real world.
Lamentably, the multiplication of online issues has made them a factor in an expanding number of separation cases. Separation lawyers presently report that online sentiments add to 33% of separation prosecution! This is a startling measurement that should fill in as a reminder for any individual who conceives that the web offers a sheltered method to be a tease and that most likely your companion will get it. Truth be told, the generally new routine with regards to web analytical administrations has detonated in notoriety as of late. Suspicious life partners presently can procure an expert to follow conceivable online disloyalty using email addresses or other data. When assembling this kind of proof, married couples must be extremely watchful. John Mayoue, a separation lawyer from Atlanta, shares that, "A companion has a privilege to security even from his or her own life partner. It's the most convincing proof you'll have in a separation case, yet in addition the most full of potential risk." Unauthorized utilization of a private email address is illicit and may leave any assembled proof forbidden, also make you liable of perpetrating a genuine wrongdoing.
In the event that you speculate that your companion might participate in an online issue, you ought to consider a telephone call to a lawyer as one of your first activities. You will require legitimate guidance in the event that you choose to seek after an examination concerning your life partner's exercises, and surely will need portrayal should the circumstance at last lead to a separation. There are clashing sentiments with respect to regardless of whether online undertakings can be viewed as infidelity while deciding justification for separation in Texas , so an accomplished family law lawyer will have the capacity to reveal to you the best methodology for petitioning for a separation in this circumstance. The individual in question additionally will manage you through each progression of the touchy procedure and create an outcome that abandons you and any kids in as great of a situation as could be expected under the circumstances.


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Bilibili grew one of China's biggest esports businesses. Now it has to wrangle with Tencent.
"Should Bilibili keep expanding and become a larger player, their relationship with Tencent will surely deteriorate."
Bilibili purchased exclusive broadcasting rights to League of Legends tournaments, like the pictured 2020 championship.
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Considered China's third-largest game-streaming company, Bilibili has long walked a tightrope to keep the nation's biggest tech companies happy. But to keep growing, it will have to face off with China's entertainment powerhouse, not to mention one of its own investors: the mighty Tencent.
It may be a relative unknown in the U.S., but Bilibili is used by just about every Gen Z Chinese person with an internet connection. A diehard anime fan with a degree in programming named Xu Yi founded it in 2009 as a website for anime video and relevant user-generated content, named after a popular character in a Japanese manga series. After a few years, Bilibili had become not just the country's leading anime community, but its leading video platform, a kind of YouTube for China. Since then, it has diversified, hosting all kinds of entertainment content: lifestyle vlogs, documentaries, movies — and gaming.
Now, after a $4 billion IPO on the Nasdaq in 2018 and an upcoming $2 billion secondary listing in Hong Kong, Bilibili is flush with cash, and its component pieces are beginning to form a closed circle, allowing different products and services to feed traffic and revenue to each other. In other words, it's on the cusp of being something not just big, but huge — large enough to threaten Tencent at the apex of Chinese entertainment technology and trigger the tech giant's defensive instincts.
"Should Bilibili keep expanding and become a larger player, their relationship with Tencent will surely deteriorate," Charlie Chai, vice head of research at the Shanghai-based equity research company 86Research, told Protocol.
Bilibili's big break
Bilibili's ascension began when it figured out that mobile gaming was the best way to monetize its anime fans' loyalty. In 2014, the company successfully distributed a game by miHoYo, the Chinese company that, in 2020, released the worldwide hit Genshin Impact. Bilibili's biggest break came in 2015, when it obtained the Chinese licensing rights to Fate/Grand Order, or FGO, an immensely popular game derived from a Japanese anime franchise that at one point contributed to over half of Bilibili's total revenue. From the day Bilibili listed on the Nasdaq in 2018, mobile gaming has consistently been its biggest source of revenue. Some users call FGO the game that made Bilibili's Nasdaq listing possible.
But there's more to gaming than mobile. Bilibili embraced its early successes by expanding aggressively into other areas, notably esports and livestreaming. "You can say [Bilibili] has done vertical integration," said Zeng Xiaofeng, vice president at Niko Partners, a gaming analytics firm focusing on China.
It founded an esports club, Bilibili Gaming, in 2017, which is now home to a number of professional teams in China, winning top places in national tournaments. The company also manages tournaments, like the esports Shanghai Masters it launched in 2019. It spent a whopping sum of 800 million RMB (about $123 million) in 2019 to purchase the exclusive broadcasting rights to League of Legends tournaments. And its Bilibili esports livestreaming platform is now third only to that of Huya and DouYu, both of which have heavy investment from Tencent.
Investors have noticed. In January, its esports subsidiary received 180 million RMB (about $28 million) in its first round of funding. Zhang Tao, the CEO of one of the investors, Chengdu B-Ray Media, told Chinese press that "Bilibili esports has set foot in all levels of the industry value chain." All three investors in Bilibili esports have state backing; first- and second-tier city governments see esports as the next opportunity to attract young talent and stimulate economic growth.
Beware a Chinese tech titan scorned
Bilibili has so far managed to walk a careful line between China's behemoths. Tencent thrice invested in Bilibili, but just when everyone started to think of it as a Tencent associate, Alibaba declared a plan for strategic cooperation with Bilibili too. Currently, Tencent and Alibaba respectively own the second-largest stake (12.6%) and fourth-largest stake (6.8%) in Bilibili.
Bilibili isn't the only company performing this kind of balancing act — this is life as a yaobu gongsi (腰部公司), literally a "waist-level company," a term that refers to companies that aren't tiny, but aren't yet titans; big enough for the nation's tech giants to consider valid opponents without seeking to crush them in the marketplace. In this way, it's not unlike Q&A site Zhihu, video-sharing app Kuaishou and ecommerce company Vipshop. Each is valued at billions of dollars and is a household name.
Many yaobu companies — like Xiaohongshu, which has replaced Instagram in China, and Didi Chuxing, the unrivaled rideshare leader — take investment from competing giants. They are too big to be bought out, but they're still dwarfed by Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent.
If non-titans fail to tread carefully, their larger peers can make life very difficult. In 2013, Alibaba famously decided to block Mogu, an ecommerce challenger, from connecting to its website. Mogu has never really recovered. More recently, ByteDance had the nerve to ascend from China's second tier into its first, resulting in a ferocious reaction from the top dogs, especially Tencent. Tencent-owned WeChat has blocked its users from accessing almost every ByteDance product. "ByteDance and Tencent's relationship went sour because they had some historical clashes, and it gradually reached the point of no return," Chai said. "It's a deliberate choice [by ByteDance]."
By contrast, Bilibili is trying to walk the line. ("Bilibili has chosen not to offend anyone," Chai said.) The company did not respond to Protocol's request for comment. In October 2018, Bilibili and Tencent announced an anime streaming collaboration. Bilibili's CEO Chen Rui commented, "Bilibili needs more powerful partners to achieve the goal [of promoting Chinese anime], a goal that's shared by Tencent." Just two months later, Alibaba became Bilibili's partner in ecommerce, and Chen Rui released a similar message: "On a platform as large as Taobao, the creative and quality content produced by Bilibili users will be seen by more people."
The final mile
However careful it has strived to be, Bilibili is at a tipping point where it could soon become a giant itself. It's diversifying its product and reaching into sub-industries the tech titans have traditionally controlled, including social media, ecommerce and even online payments. Its future likely depends on how it can continue to navigate the dynamics of competing alongside the existing mega-players.
Any fallout could be painful. Because Tencent owns or operates several blockbuster games in China — League of Legends, Honor of Kings, PUBG — as well as platforms Huya and DouYu, it can throw its weight around in the gaming sector. This is why Alibaba's own esports championship doesn't involve any Tencent-owned games, and creators on ByteDance's short videos platforms are banned from streaming Tencent games.
"There's definitely a monopoly in this industry," said Zeng, the gaming analyst, "and it's a powerful monopoly by Tencent." That power can backfire: The merging of Huya and DouYu, brokered by Tencent, is currently under an antitrust investigation.
Contacted by Protocol, Tencent's spokesperson said: "We take an open-platform approach and partner with different category leaders to create value for users, as well as generating synergies with our core businesses."
There are signs of potential further friction. Tencent is reaching deeper into the anime world, Bilibili's core industry, taking back franchises it once leased to Bilibili to broadcast. Meanwhile, Bilibili is moving into the traditional entertainment production industry — arguably Tencent's home court — by investing in heavyweight films, TV series and even a New Year's Eve gala that younger Chinese viewers might enjoy (in contrast to the more staid, if slickly-produced, CCTV special). And in January, Bilibili reportedly registered a domain for, and recruited developers to, its own payment system, an area in which Alibaba and Tencent are some of the world's most powerful companies.
Early signs suggest that could all be straining Bilibili's thus-far cordial relationship with Tencent. Especially when it comes to livestreaming, Bilibili is now seen "not as a useful partner, but a disobedient opponent," an anonymous Tencent employee, told Chinese media outlet Ran Caijing.
Bilibili has tried to talk nice, but its actions have spoken louder than its words as it cements a reputation as a major player in China's entertainment industry. The only thing that now stands between it and greater success is Tencent. This last hurdle will be the highest.
Zeyi Yang is a former reporter with Protocol | China. Previously, he worked as a reporting fellow for the digital magazine Rest of World, covering the intersection of technology and culture in China and neighboring countries. He has also contributed to the South China Morning Post, Nikkei Asia, Columbia Journalism Review, among other publications. In his spare time, Zeyi co-founded a Mandarin podcast that tells LGBTQ stories in China. He has been playing Pokemon for 14 years and has a weird favorite pick.
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CDC warns of swine flu for holidays
By Associated Press and Mike Stobbe |
PUBLISHED: November 25, 2009 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: September 11, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.
ATLANTA — Let us give thanks — and pass the Purell.
Your family might be sharing more than turkey and pumpkin pie this Thanksgiving. Swine flu may be on the table — and at crowded airports and shopping malls.
Just as the pandemic seems to be waning around the country, health officials are worried that holiday gatherings could lead to more infections. So the government has launched a new travel-health campaign.
"It"s important to remember the things that everybody can do to stay healthy," said Dr. Beth Bell of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Thanksgiving is typically followed by at least a modest bump in early seasonal flu cases, according to reports from the past few years. But this, of course, is not a typical year. Swine flu is a new virus that accounts for nearly all flu cases now.
Despite weeks of declining infections, health officials are staying vigilant. The federal government is putting up posters in airports, seaports and border crossings in time for Thanksgiving. The campaign includes advertisements with slogans such as "Stop, Wash & Go."
The CDC urges people to travel only if they are well, get vaccinated against swine and seasonal flu, wash their hands often, and cover coughs and sneezes with a tissue or sleeve.
Some 33 million Americans are expected to hit the nation"s highways over the Thanksgiving holiday, a slight increase from last year. About 2.3 million more will travel by airplane.
The elbow-to-elbow conditions expected on many flights may pose more of an infection threat than a runny-nosed tyke at the other end of a Thanksgiving dinner table. One CDC official even suggested asking that a sick passenger be moved to another part of a plane.
But that"s not likely to happen on a crowded airliner or bus, and it isn"t much of a solution anyway, said a few people waiting at Atlanta"s downtown Greyhound station on Tuesday morning.
"That"s just putting it next to somebody else," said Judd Nelson, 39, waiting to start a two-day bus trip to Phoenix.
Nelson had not been vaccinated against swine flu, and he did not have any hand sanitizer. He was resigned to his fate if someone with swine flu happens to be aboard his bus.
"The way I look at it is, if I get it, I"m going to get it no matter what," he said.
Swine flu has sickened an estimated 22 million Americans, hospitalized about 98,000 and killed 4,000 since it was first identified last April. It is similar to seasonal flu but poses a much bigger threat to children and young adults.
Usually, seasonal flu is just getting going in late November, and holiday get-togethers allow illness to jump from small pockets to other parts of the country. Swine flu, in contrast, has been widespread for months.
"It"s not like we expect to see a bunch of infected people going to uninfected cities and towns," said Andrew Pekosz, a flu expert at Johns Hopkins University.
The swine flu pandemic hit in two waves: first in the spring, then a larger wave that started in the late summer.
For the past three weeks, fewer states have been reporting widespread cases. School closings have dropped to the point that there were none Monday — the first time that"s happened since late August — though there were six Tuesday, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
But there are still plenty of ill people — as many as during the peak of many regular flu seasons, CDC officials say.
Indeed, disease trackers are quick to say that flu is unpredictable. A variety of things could happen, including a third wave or a mutation that could make the virus more deadly or less susceptible to medicines.
"We really don"t know what the trajectory is going to be," said Bell, a CDC epidemiologist who has been a leader in the agency"s swine flu response.
Seasonal flu usually emerges at this time of year, but some experts think swine flu will muscle aside the seasonal viruses. That probably will not be known until next month, said Dr. Richard Whitley, an infectious diseases specialist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
At New York"s Pennsylvania Station, Katie Almroth was waiting to board a train Tuesday with her 11-month-old daughter Anna, who"s been vaccinated for seasonal flu but not for swine flu. They were headed to Harrisburg, Pa., to visit relatives for Thanksgiving.
The 33-year-old nurse from Jersey City, N.J., said she was not worried about traveling during the swine flu pandemic, but felt more comfortable on a train than an airplane with her daughter.
"I must admit I did bring little wipes along," said Almroth, showing the antiseptic wipes she had tossed in her bag with small bottles of hand sanitizer.
Associated Press Writer Stephanie Nano in New York contributed to this report.
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CDC travel advice: http://tinyurl.com/holiday-travel
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MONSTA X's Kihyun Talks About An Accident That Almost Happened While Filming "Jealousy" MV
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MONSTA X recently appeared on the March 28 broadcast of SBS LoveFM's "Song Eun Yi and Kim Sook's Unni's Radio."
During the show, the group discussed their recent mini album "The Connect," and first place promises. They also shared stories from filming the music video for their title track "Jealousy."
When the other members named Kihyun at the best at acting cool during this music video, he revealed, "While I was trying to act cool, an accident almost occurred. It was a scene where I'm burning a piece of paper, and I didn't see the tiny candle below me. The lower part of me felt hot so I looked, and my clothes had caught on fire. Thankfully, I didn't get hurt."
MONSTA X also commented how Hyungwon looked the best. The members explained, "In the music video, Hyungwon played the role of an absolute power who brings all the members together. There was not a single moment where he didn't look cool. His existence in and of itself is cool."
In response, Hyungwon commented, "I think it's because I slept well since it was filmed at night, and my face wasn't swollen while filming."
MONSTA X will be continue their promotions with "Jealousy," and perform on music shows for the first time this week.
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New research reveals more than 1 in 2 (58%) of European and UAE businesses expect to implement video analytics solutions over the next two years.
Video technologies and video content are fast becoming a central part of organizations' core IT functions, according to an IDC White Paper, sponsored by Milestone Systems.*
To date, most video surveillance systems operate at the edge of an enterprise and are mostly disconnected from core IT assets such as ERP and CRM systems, content management platforms and collaborative applications.
However, with the proliferation of new uses for video that go beyond traditional security applications and the growth of analytics made possible with AI, a majority (58%) of European and UAE organizations expect to implement video analytics solutions with additional analytical capabilities over the next two years.
Over the same period, the number of organizations using video technologies as an advanced technology platform connected to other systems, whether inside or outside the organization, will more than triple, from 8% to 26%.
"Video analytics solutions are rapidly changing status from a standalone edge technology to a core intelligent IT asset, and it's safe to say that the smart money is moving to video."
Jos Beernink, acting VP EMEA, Milestone Systems.
This ever-closer relationship between camera and sensor data and core IT assets reflects a general move among organizations towards to a future IT architecture in which data management and analysis happens in an "intelligent core" fed by data and information from users, systems, sensors, and outside sources.
"To this end, organizations need to build their video solutions around open platform technology that ensure the widest compatibility with systems and devices, while providing scalability and future proofing their investment."
Jos Beernink, acting EMEA VP at Milestone Systems
• 58% of European and UAE organizations expect to implement video analytics solutions with additional analytical capabilities and connect to more digital assets including cameras and sensors within two years.
• In the same period, the proportion of organizations "using video technologies as an advanced technology platform connected to other systems, inside and/or outside the organization" will rise from 8% to 26%.
• Over the next 24 months, the majority (84%) of European and UAE organizations plan to deploy advanced video technologies, such as video analytics and sensor information.
• 26% of the organizations plan to establish a video technology platform centrally, which would be connected to other systems.
• Organizations around the globe expected to spend $2.0 Billion in 2021 in Video Surveillance Analytics (source: Worldwide Video Surveillance Analytics Forecast, 2021–2025, IDC #US47835921, June 2021).
• Transport & Logistics and Critical Infrastructure show the most advanced level of maturity in terms of Video Technologies usage.
• Among the key capabilities required over the next three to five years, buyers highlighted process automation, facial recognition, smart analytics, artificial intelligence, and centralized cloud-driven deployment (source: Worldwide Video Surveillance Analytics Forecast, 2021–2025, IDC #US47835921, June 2021).
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There has been a major management change at The Colibri Group.
Thomas Bendheim has been appointed Colibri's president and chief executive officer. Frederick N. Levinger, who built the company into one of the most successful and best-known U.S. suppliers to independent and chain jewelers, remains as nonexecutive chairman.
No explanation was given for the change either in the memo or the official announcement.
The Colibri Group earlier this year was bought by a group composed of three major investment firms and Levinger. The largest investment firm is from China.
Bendheim was most recently president and CEO of Rheingold Brewing, the beer company, a position he held since 2002. Prior to that, he was executive vice president and chief operating officer of Dooney & Bourke, where he was instrumental in the revival of that brand.
Levinger and his father bought Colibri in 1971. In recent years it made some strategic acquisitions, including Krementz (1997), Seth Thomas clocks (2001), and Princess Pride lockets (2004).


2017 May Grand Sumo Tournament was held in Ryogoku Kokugikan at Tokyo. On the 15th day, there was the match of Yokozuna Harumafuji vs. Yokozuna Hakuho in May 28. Hakuho beat Harumafuji by "Yorikiri" that mean "forcing out", so Hakuho was 15 wins and he won 2017 May Grand Sumo Tournament. It was Hakuho' 38th victory for the first time in a year.
On the same day, there was a match of Sekiwake (the Junior champion) Takayasu vs. Ozeki Terunofuji. Takayasu lost Terunofuji by "Kotenage", so Takayasu was 11 wins and 4 loss. But he won the Technique prizehe and will be promoted to the Ozeki (second-highest rank wrestler) in the next tournament.
Akira Takayasu was born at Ibaraki prefecture in 1990 (Age 27), he is part-Filipino (mother) and part-Japanese (father). Takayasu had played baseball until junior high school and didn't play Sumo. But after graduating from junior high school, he wanted to earn money with his own body and was apprenticed to Stable Naruto.
In the beginning as an initiation, because the Sumo practice was hard so Takayasu descended and went home sometime. But as Takayasu was well built, he went up the rankings gradually.
In 2010 September Grand Sumo Tournament, Takayasu won title in the makushita division (the third highest division in sumo) and became the second division wrestler(Jyuryo). In Jyuryo, he earned more wins than losse 3 tournaments in a row and became the top division wrestler (Maegashira) in 2011.
After that Takayasu experienced a rise in performance, he won the Outstanding performance prize 3 times, the Technique prize 1 time and the Fighting spirit prize 4 times until 6 years. Then his performance was 11 wins and 4 loss in before last tournament, and was 12 wins and 3 loss in last tournament.
In a criterion of Grand Sumo Tournament, if the wrestler of junior champion second grade (Komusubi) of junior champion was 33 wins or more in 3 continuous tournaments, he will be promoted to Ozeki. So Takayasu exceeded the criterion in this tournament. In 31 May, the messenger of Sumo Association arrived and told Takayasu that he was promoted to the Ozeki (the title-conferring ceremony) at Imperial Hotel, Tokyo.
Yokozuna Kisenosato is so precious to Takayasu. They belong to the same Tagonoura stable and practice Sumo everyday. So it is one of the reasons why Takayasu became stronger. And when Kisenosato showed ring entering ceremony (Japanese say "Dohyo iri"), Takayasu followed the Yokozuna into the ring with a sword. It is called "Tachimochi" in Japanese. But the Ozeki can not done "Tachimochi".
This youtube's video is the title-conferring ceremony of Takayasu. Then he is not married yet and still single. So his next goal is to find a good wife and to be promoted to Yokozuna.
Yokozuna Hakuho rest the tournament, is his retirement nearly?


In February, I attended the AI Futures Policy Lab in Montreal, part of a Canada-wide series of workshops seeking to engage "future policy leaders" in conversations about the thorny questions raised by rapid advancements in the development of artificial intelligence. Hosted by Element AI and presented by CIFAR in partnership with Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship (BII+E), the labs have been the linchpin of CIFAR's AI & Society program, and a complement to the $125-million Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy.
Brent Barron, CIFAR's director of public policy, said the inspiration for the workshop series came when he realized that the conversations about AI-related policy questions often simply aren't happening at the government level. "We're trying to start the conversation now, before particular areas [become] urgent and reaction-driven," he told me.
When I walked into the room, several dozen participants were hunched around tables, designing fictional AI products from the future: a voice-recognition device that sounds an alarm when people use too much jargon in meetings, or an autonomous public transit system that chooses the route based on energy conservation. The concepts were just barely grounded in reality, but they were feasible enough to prompt animated conversations about how to handle the policy concerns associated with such technologies.
It may seem outlandish to dwell on imaginary outcomes for AI when there are already so many concrete concerns related to bias, privacy, and so on, but the reality is that even our near-term future with AI remains shadowy and difficult to predict. To set the stage for meaningful AI policy, we need to acknowledge that the questions still outnumber the answers. Beyond that, we need to get creative as we try to envision the impacts of autonomous systems. AI research is advancing so rapidly, we need every possible tool to keep stakeholders — that is, everybody — engaged in the conversation.


AutoDecept wrote: Gamma X is up now!
Wait...have there been other new outer space men releases since Onell offered the metaluna mutant and the recent little dude last week?
What are those you guys are posting? 2.0's? Re-issues with improvements?
Netkid wrote: Wait...have there been other new outer space men releases since Onell offered the metaluna mutant and the recent little dude last week?
and the glow Colossus Rex is debuting at nycc in october.
no official word on whats next.
And a new Alpha 7, which I also missed.
"COMING SOON!!! Gemini Cosmic Radiation. Stay tuned for more details."
Awesome job! Been meaning to ask. Are those Galactus feet in the background?
Ah awesome. Too bad they never made any plain clear parts of Terra Firma, otherwise your Sue Storm would of been even more perfect. Also love the fact that you included Impy. Everyone always forgets about poor Impy.
Looks like the same situation as Cosmic Radiation Gamma X is happening with the Cosmic Radiation Colossus Rex: a case has been set aside for online sale and will go up on the website Friday at 9:00.
xanthax wrote: Anyone else get the bonus gitd weapon set? My shield did not have a clip. The bag was taped shut too.
i got one with my infinity 2.0 and the exact same, no clip, bag taped.
Ditto on that, I got 2 and they both were taped shut minus the clip.
Also it should be noted, I love the way this Colossus Rex looks! The glow with the Silver accents looks so good!
I wouldn't expect a clip with the glow gear - the weapons are ABS plastic and on their own sprue, the clip is a PVC plastic part (meaning it's run along with the figure). There aren't extra clips since they're tied to the production of the figures... you're gonna have to steal one.
I gotta assume Gemini and Orbitron are in the batch to finish the set since they share weapons sprues.
And let's not forget the fugitive from ALGOL.
yeah, i heard all three white stars were coming this week along with the glow.
I'm torn about being excited for more White Stars. It's nice to finally finish the set, but I never much loved them in the first place. At least we can put them behind us and move on to some other better thing. I'm hoping we get wacky colors and more painted stuff when the whole Cosmic Radiation cycle ends - very happpy to have glow, but I'm more excited to see what's next. Like that Algol fugitive. This is gonna kill me.
With the theme, I wonder if the Fugitive from Algol is a repainted to look Two Bad.
Drop tonight 9pm Eastern! Cosmic Radiation Cyclops!!!


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Two years ago, in January 2017, the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson was proud to support the launch of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
Janssen's Johan Van Hoof explains why – and highlights the progress we've made since on epidemic preparedness.
It is often said that we should hope for the best but prepare for the worst.
The world learned the truth of these words the hard way in 2014-2016, when local outbreaks of the Ebola and Zika viruses became global threats in quick succession, without vaccines or treatments to stop them.
In fact, although Ebola and Zika have been known for several decades, these were the first major epidemics – ever – of these pathogens. And as the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo shows, these threats aren't going away.
As the world grows ever more connected, global partnerships are essential to tackle such complex challenges.
That's why Janssen has joined with leading partners in collaborations aimed at leveraging our vaccine expertise to help prepare for worst-case scenarios – before they strike.
One of the first study volunteers is vaccinated with the Janssen Ebola vaccine in Sierra Leone, Africa.
Two years ago, in January 2017, we were proud to support the launch of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. I myself became a member of CEPI's Scientific Advisory Committee.
CEPI was born out of the lessons learned from the Ebola and Zika crises – specifically, the sobering reality that the world did not have vaccines at the ready to combat outbreaks of these and other neglected diseases of the developing world that have global epidemic potential. The organization aims to address this gap by working with the private, public and academic sectors to fund the discovery and development of new vaccines to the point that they can be stockpiled for late-stage clinical studies and, if needed, deployed for emergency outbreak response.
Only by working in common cause – with organizations like CEPI – can we truly achieve the goal of pandemic preparedness.
Since CEPI's formation, the world has made great progress in the areas of Ebola and Zika. For example, Janssen is in a late stage of developing an Ebola vaccine. So CEPI focused on a key question: Which viruses could strike next?
The organization identified the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), Lassa and Nipah viruses as its initial priority pathogens for vaccine development. There are currently no licensed vaccines to protect against these diseases, all of which can cause serious complications and are associated with significant mortality.
Janssen is working in partnership to achieve progress. Because we understand that no single company or organization can do it alone.
In September 2018, Johnson & Johnson entered into a new project with CEPI and The Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford to help deliver a vaccine against MERS-CoV, and explore new vaccines to prevent Lassa and Nipah.
About few months later, Janssen took an additional step towards a future free of pandemics, joining forces with the UK Government and partners from academia and industry to create the U.K.'s first-ever dedicated Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre (VMIC).
These collaborations build on a long-standing and robust commitment by Johnson & Johnson to pursue pandemic preparedness. Through our Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, we are actively engaged in developing new vaccines and/or treatments to combat a wide range of infectious diseases that are already pandemics, such as HIV, or that have pandemic potential, including Ebola, Zika, and influenza.
In all these areas, Janssen is working in partnership to achieve progress. Because we understand that no single company or organization can do it alone.


Binance:Offers mobile app and probably the fastest growing exchange. If you need to pick only one, this is the best and #1 in 2019.
CoinMama: Old but gold and let you buy BTC and ETH instantly.
If you live in a country where it's not easy to get Bitcoin, you can use any of these three websites. All three of them offers to buy Bitcoin using a credit/debit card.
Note: This list is starting from easy to use exchanges and moving towards some of the advanced exchanges.
Binance is a rapidly growing exchange that concluded its ICO a few months back.
Though it is based out of China, it doesn't serve its native country but is open to almost all countries around the world.
Since its ICO to till date, it has grown tremendously and is now placed in top 10 cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. It now has more than 140 altcoins listed on it which are only increasing as the days are passing.
Binance being a centralized exchange has taken a unique take to expand its business and also provides a decent discount for day traders if they use BNB coins. BNB is Binance Coin which is the native currency of this platform.
Binance's fee structure is also unique. To start with they have 0.1% standard trading fee which is already quite less than other peers. You can even reduce your fee further if you pay your trading fee in BNB according to the below-shown structure.
Binance is one of the few exchanges that offers mobile app for iOS and Android. Being using it for a while, I find it too easy to trade cryptocurrency while on the move. You can watch this video to learn how to use their mobile app.
They also have aggressive plans like multi-lingual support, mobile apps for both iOS and Android users, Binance Angel Program, and the Community Coin Per Month etc for more adoption of their platform.
BitMex is high volume crypto exchange created by a talented team of economists, high-frequency traders and web developers for the crypto community.
Here you will never find any issues regarding the liquidity of your cryptocurrencies.
The primary currency traded on this exchange is Bitcoin and its future contracts.
Apart from Bitcoin contracts, one can also play around with future contracts for altcoins such as Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Cardano, Litecoin, Ripple.
KuCoin is another easy and hassle-free cryptocurrency exchange. KuCoin offers many popular and unique coin such as DragonChain, $KCS, and many others. Just like Binance, they offer a fully functional mobile app for Android and iOS.
To get started with KuCoin, you can deposit any crypto of your choice ex: BTC and start trading. Personally, I have been using KuCoin since last quarter of 2017 and they are getting popular day by day.
Changelly is one of the easiest ways to get ahold of various cryptocurrencies.
Changelly has a proven track record of consistently good products being put out into the crypto-space.
One of the best things about Changelly is that you don't need to go through any lengthy verification or registration process. You just log in with your email ID (or any email ID) and start exchanging!
Currently, it supports more than 35 cryptocurrencies along with fiat pairs such as USD/EUR. It is one of the best and easiest to use exchanges out there. If you want to know more, check out Harsh's review on Changelly.
Usually, when using Changelly, a crypto-to-crypto exchange takes 5 to 30 minutes.
They charge a commission fee of 0.5% on each trade, which I think is minimal in exchange for the volatility and risk that they bear on behalf of their users. In addition to the commission, a miner's fee is also paid by the user and is deducted directly from their crypto balance.
But all you need in order to buy from Changelly is a VISA/MasterCard (credit/debit card) or any Changelly-supported cryptocurrency and a wallet where you want to receive your new coins.
Head toward CoinSutra's Cryptocurrency Exchange – Changelly, and follow the steps given in this guide.
Note: Though this guide shows how to buy Ripple in exchange for BTC, the process is exactly the same to buy any other Changelly-supported cryptocurrency.
Huobi Pro is an international cryptocurrency exchange that originated in China but now has moved across the world to serve a maximum number of investors. It is based out of Singapore and has been operating in this space successfully for the last five years.
As we speak, it occupies the #3 spot on CoinMarketCap's list of exchanges by volume and has 244 cryptocurrency pairs. Hence, needless to say, of this, you will never face liquidity problems on this exchange.
Bittrex is a US-based cryptocurrency exchange that provides you the option to trade more than 190 cryptocurrencies at a time. They are well-regulated and compliant with all of the current US rules, so crypto users need not worry about the safety of their funds.
Bittrex handles one of the largest BTC trading volumes out of all the exchanges in the world.
Here, the users (buyers/sellers) decide the rates in which they want to trade, and Bittrex charges them a small service fee for providing this platform (0.25%).
To get started with Bittrex, you need to register and log in through your email ID, but to withdraw funds, you need to do a KYC by submitting your ID documents and phone number, as well as enabling two-factor authentication for higher limits.
But one good thing about Bittrex is the account verification happens quite fast.
Basic Account – withdrawal funds worth up to 3 BTC/day.
Advanced Account – withdrawal funds worth up to 100 BTC/day.
Bittrex is a "crypto-only" exchange, meaning it doesn't allow you to deposit fiat currencies such as USD, EUR, GBP, etc.
They provide access to advanced trading tools like candlestick charts and crosshairs, but the user interface is quite clean and intuitive, so newbies should have no problems.
Founded by Tristan D'Agosta, Poloniex has been operational since January 2014 and is undoubtedly one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world.
It is based out of the United States and offers +100 cryptocurrencies to its users to trade.
When you talk about trade volumes, nothing beats Poloniex. In 2017, Poloniex had the highest volume for ETH because it supports an independent Ethereum market as well as a BTC market.
It is a crypto-only exchange, but you can start trading easily by depositing USDT (Tether dollars).
Poloniex also has zoomable candlestick charts for 5-minutes, 15-minutes, 30-minutes, 2-hours, 4-hours, and 1-day, along with a stop-limit feature for advanced cryptocurrency traders.
So if you are looking to trade a variety of altcoins, then you should give Poloniex a shot.
Remember: As soon as you sign up for Poloniex using your email, do make sure to enable two-factor authentication!
Bitfinex is another one of the largest and most popular cryptocurrency exchanges out there.
Update: They have added a lot more cryptos recently.
Unlike Bittrex and Poloniex, you can trade using USD (with a wire fee of at least $20). Also, users will need to pay a trade fee which varies from 0.1% to 0.8% (details here).
On Bitfinex, if you are a pro-trader, you will find advanced trading tools such as limit orders, stop orders, trailing stop, fill or kill, TWAP, and others, along with different market charts.
To get started on Bitfinex, you need to register, verify your ID, and authenticate yourself. It typically takes 15-20 business days after submitting valid ID proof before you're accepted into the platform.
And whenever you get bored with the web version or want to trade on-the-go, you can use Bitfinex's Android and iOS mobile apps.
Using the above cryptocurrency exchanges will allow you to buy almost all of the cryptos you could ever want to buy.
However, there are a few more cryptocurrency exchanges that you should have an account with, as there are a few coins that are only available there. It's a good idea to have an account on most of these, which will save time when you discover a winning coin.
I will update this post as I find other trustable and feature-rich cryptocurrency exchanges. For now, you can consider joining our Telegram channel to stay updated with all the latest info.
I hope these insights help you in choosing the best cryptocurrency exchange for you to use.
Don't use these exchanges as a wallet to HODL your cryptos.
If you are storing cryptocurrencies on these exchanges for a few hours or even a few days for the sake of trading, then it's probably OK. Otherwise, this is a bad practice.
Large-scale hacks like Mt. Gox can happen at any time. I would strongly recommend you to use the Ledger Nano S or a wallet like Exodus, where you can store a lot of different cryptos and control your private keys.
So now it's your turn to tell me: Which one of these exchanges do you like the best? Also, what's another great exchange that I haven't listed here? Let me hear your thoughts in the comments below!


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Google Toolbar Autofill Doesn't Work
By Elizabeth Valentine
If Autofill is not working with your browser, disable the feature in Chrome or uninstall the Google Toolbar in Internet Explorer before re-enabling or re-installing the feature, which can help reset its functionality. The Google Toolbar for Firefox has been discontinued and is not available for versions higher than Firefox 4, so Google strongly recommends discontinuing the use of the Google Toolbar and running Firefox's own automatic fill add-ons.
Click the "Chrome Menu" icon on the browser's toolbar and select "Settings." Click "Show Advanced Settings" and deselect "Enable Autofill to fill out web forms in a single click" under the Passwords and Forms section. Reselect the "Enable" check box and click "Manage Autofill settings." Verify your street address and credit card listings, as desired, and click "Done."
To uninstall the Google Toolbar, click the down arrow next to the wrench icon on the toolbar. Select "Uninstall" from the menu and click "OK." To install the toolbar again, visit the Toolbar home page. Click "Download Google Toolbar," review the Terms of Services and click "Accept and Install." Add a new Autofill profile by clicking on the wrench icon, selecting the "Autofill" check box on the Autofill tab and clicking "Add new profile."
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Elizabeth Valentine is an experienced freelance writer. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Management and has also worked as a beauty advisor. She has published more than 250 pieces of content at sites such as Associated Content and eHow, having been working in the field of writing since 2007.


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Avantis Systems awarded €300K contract to deliver Virtual Reality headsets and software to schools in Malta
In Virtual Reality News February 22, 2022 – Avantis Systems Ltd., a provider of classroom-focused technology products and services, has been awarded a contract by the Government of Malta for the supply, delivery and commissioning …
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Kid Cudi's Augmented Reality live performance startup Encore raises $9M and launches 'Encore Studio' App
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8th Wall and Ready Player Me partner to bring custom, interactive avatars into web-based Augmented Reality experiences
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Immersive Tech's Synthesis VR company launches full support for Android standalone/mobile HMDs for location-based VR operators
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$(document).ready(function(){

	//get Therapeutic Area list
	getTherapeuticAreaList();

	//get msl list
	getMslList();

	// therapeutic area add/edit action
	$('#therapeutic_area_add').click(function() {
		var s_therapeutic_area_name = $('#txt_therapeutic_area').val();
		if(s_therapeutic_area_name == '') {

			$('.alert-message').html('Please enter the therapeutic area name');
			$('#popupCommonAlert').modal('show');

		} else {

			var frm_serialize_data = $( "#frm_therapeutic_area" ).serialize();
			// console.log(frm_serialize_data);
			$.ajax({
				type:"POST",
				url: "/therapeutic_area_add_edit",
				data:frm_serialize_data,
				success:function (callback) {
					try {
						if (callback.s_status != 'success') {
							$('.alert-message').html(callback.data);
							$('#popupCommonAlert').modal('show');
						} else {
							$('.success-message').html(callback.data);
							$('#popupCommonMessage').modal('show');
							$('#frm_therapeutic_area').trigger("reset");
							getTherapeuticAreaList();
						}

					} catch (s_error) {
						$('.alert-message').html(callback.data);
						$('#popupCommonAlert').modal('show');
					}
				}
			});
		}
		return false;
	});

	//open edit therapeutic area popup
	$(document).on('click','.therapeutic_area_edit',function(e){
		$('#hid_therapeutic_area_id').val($(this).attr('therapeutic_area_id'));
		$('#txt_edit_therapeutic_area').val($(this).attr('therapeutic_area_name'));
		$('#hid_edit_therapeutic_area').val($(this).attr('therapeutic_area_name'));
		$('.edit-therapeutic-area-alert-msg').addClass('hide');
		$('.edit-therapeutic-area-response-msg').html('');
		$('#popupEditTherapeuticArea').modal('show');
		return false;
	});

	//edit therapeutic area
	$('.btn_edit_therapeutic_area').click(function() {
		var frm_serialize_data = $( "#frm_edit_therapeutic_area" ).serialize();
		// console.log(frm_serialize_data);
		$.ajax({
			type:"POST",
			url: "/therapeutic_area_add_edit",
			data:frm_serialize_data,
			success:function (callback) {
				try {
					if (callback.s_status != 'success') {
						$('.edit-therapeutic-area-response-msg').html(callback.data);
						$('.edit-therapeutic-area-alert-msg').removeClass('hide');
					} else {
						$('#popupEditTherapeuticArea').modal('hide');
						getTherapeuticAreaList();
					}

				} catch (s_error) {
					$('.edit-therapeutic-area-response-msg').html(callback.data);
					$('.edit-therapeutic-area-alert-msg').removeClass('hide');
				}
			}
		});
		return false;
	});

	// msl add action
	$('#msl_add').click(function() {

		//blank the edit id
		$('#hid_msl_id').val(0);

		var s_msl_first_name 	= $.trim($('#txt_first_name').val());
		var s_msl_last_name 	= $.trim($('#txt_last_name').val());
		var s_msl_email 		= $.trim($('#txt_email').val());
		if(s_msl_first_name == '') {
			$('.alert-message').html('Please enter the first name');
			$('#popupCommonAlert').modal('show');
		} else if(s_msl_last_name == '') {
			$('.alert-message').html('Please enter the last name');
			$('#popupCommonAlert').modal('show');
		} else if(s_msl_email == '') {
			$('.alert-message').html('Please enter the email');
			$('#popupCommonAlert').modal('show');
		} else {
			var frm_serialize_data = $( "#frm_msl" ).serialize();
			// console.log(frm_serialize_data);
			$.ajax({
				type:"POST",
				url: "/msl_add_edit",
				data:frm_serialize_data,
				success:function (callback) {
					try {
						if (callback.s_status != 'success') {
							$('.alert-message').html(callback.data);
							$('#popupCommonAlert').modal('show');
						} else {
							$('.success-message').html(callback.data);
							$('#popupCommonMessage').modal('show');
							$('#frm_msl').trigger("reset");
							getMslList();
						}

					} catch (s_error) {
						$('.alert-message').html(callback.data);
						$('#popupCommonAlert').modal('show');
					}
				}
			});
		}
		return false;
	});

	//open edit msl popup
	$(document).on('click','.msl_edit',function(e){

		$('.edit-msl-alert-msg').addClass('hide');
		$('.edit-msl-response-msg').html('');

		var form_data 	= new Object;
		form_data.msl_id = $(this).attr('msl_id');

		$.ajax({
			type:"POST",
			url: "/msl_get",
			data:form_data,
			success:function (callback) {
				try {
					if (callback.s_status != 'success') {
						$('.alert-message').html(callback.data);
						$('#popupCommonAlert').modal('show');
					} else {
						$('#msl_form_edit_div').html(callback.data);
						$('#popupEditMsl').modal('show');
					}

				} catch (s_error) {
					$('.alert-message').html(callback.data);
					$('#popupCommonAlert').modal('show');
				}
			}
		});
		return false;
	});

	// open delete msl popup
	$('.btn_delete_msl').click(function() {

		$('.delete-message').html("Are you sure, do you want to delete this user?");
		$('#popupCommonDelete').modal('show');

	});

	//delete msl user
	$('.delete_entity').click(function() {
		//alert($('#hid_msl_id').val());

		var form_data 	= new Object;
		form_data.msl_id = $('#hid_msl_id').val();

		$.ajax({
			type:"POST",
			url: "/msl_delete",
			data:form_data,
			success:function (callback) {
				try {
					if (callback.s_status != 'success') {
						$('.alert-message').html(callback.data);
						$('#popupCommonAlert').modal('show');
					} else {
						$('#popupCommonDelete').modal('hide');
						$('#popupEditMsl').modal('hide');
						getMslList();
					}

				} catch (s_error) {
					$('.alert-message').html(callback.data);
					$('#popupCommonAlert').modal('show');
				}
			}
		});
	});

	// msl edit action
	$('.btn_save_msl').click(function() {
		$('.edit-msl-alert-msg').addClass('hide');
		$('.edit-msl-response-msg').html('');
		var s_msl_edit_first_name 	= $.trim($('#txt_edit_first_name').val());
		var s_msl_edit_last_name 	= $.trim($('#txt_edit_last_name').val());
		var s_msl_edit_email 		= $.trim($('#txt_edit_email').val());
		if(s_msl_edit_first_name == '') {
			$('.edit-msl-alert-msg').removeClass('hide');
			$('.edit-msl-response-msg').html('Please enter the first name');
		} else if(s_msl_edit_last_name == '') {
			$('.edit-msl-alert-msg').removeClass('hide');
			$('.edit-msl-response-msg').html('Please enter the last name');
		} else if(s_msl_edit_email == '') {
			$('.edit-msl-alert-msg').removeClass('hide');
			$('.edit-msl-response-msg').html('Please enter the email');
		} else {
			var frm_serialize_data = $( "#frm_edit_msl" ).serialize();
			$.ajax({
				type:"POST",
				url: "/msl_add_edit",
				data:frm_serialize_data,
				success:function (callback) {
					try {
						if (callback.s_status != 'success') {
							$('.edit-msl-alert-msg').removeClass('hide');
							$('.edit-msl-response-msg').html(callback.data);
						} else {
							$('#msl_form_edit_div').html('');
							$('#popupEditMsl').modal('hide');
							getMslList();
						}

					} catch (s_error) {
						$('.edit-msl-alert-msg').removeClass('hide');
						$('.edit-msl-response-msg').html(callback.data);
					}
				}
			});
		}
		return false;
	});
});

/*
* Get Therapeutic Area list
*/
function getTherapeuticAreaList() {
	$.ajax({
		type:"POST",
		url: "/therapeutic_area_list",
		data:'',
		success:function (callback) {
			try {

				if (callback.s_status != 'success') {
					$('.alert-message').html(callback.data);
					$('#popupCommonAlert').modal('show');
				} else {
					if(callback.i_record >= 8) {
						$('#therapeutic_area_list_div').addClass('scroll-table');
					} else {
						$('#therapeutic_area_list_div').addClass('no-scroll-table');
					}
					$('#table_therapeutic_area_list').html(callback.data);
				}

			} catch (s_error) {
				$('.alert-message').html(callback.data);
				$('#popupCommonAlert').modal('show');
			}
		}
	});
	return false;
}

/*
* Get MSL list
*/
function getMslList() {
	$.ajax({
		type:"POST",
		url: "/msl_list",
		data:'',
		success:function (callback) {
			try {

				if (callback.s_status != 'success') {
					$('.alert-message').html(callback.data);
					$('#popupCommonAlert').modal('show');
				} else {
					if(callback.i_record >= 8) {
						$('#msl_list_div').addClass('scroll-table');
					} else {
						$('#msl_list_div').addClass('no-scroll-table');
					}
					$('#table_msl_list').html(callback.data);
				}

			} catch (s_error) {
				$('.alert-message').html(callback.data);
				$('#popupCommonAlert').modal('show');
			}
		}
	});
	return false;
}


Interested in owning a Habitat Home in Davie County?
If you answer "yes" to the following questions, you might qualify to buy a Habitat home!
Have you had steady income for the last 18 months?
Have you lived in Davie County for the last 12 months?
Is it overcrowded in your home? Are you living in substandard housing?
Do you live in a crime-ridden neighborhood?
Are you making monthly payments on all your debts?
Are you willing to work 400 "sweat equity" hours on Habitat homes or at the ReStore?
Do you have less than $2,000 in non-medical collections?
Do you have a good payment history on current debt?
Are you unable to qualify for a conventional home loan?
Note: Payments on current housing expenses (rent payment, taxes, insurance, utilities, etc.) and payments on current debt (like credit cards, automobile loan, medical debt, student loan, etc.) may not exceed 40% of gross monthly income in order to be considered for a Habitat home.
You may also Print a copy of the questionnaire and either drop it off at the Habitat ReStore or send it to the attention of the Habitat for Humanity Family Selection Committee at P.O. Box 1384 in Mocksville.
Attend a Davie Habitat Homebuyer Orientation to submit an application with copies of supporting documents (blank application form may be picked up at the ReStore).
You must return 2 signed forms: Personal Information Authorization & Release and the Verification of Employment proceed with the application process! With your signed permission, Habitat will: run a credit check, verify employment, and verify lease information on each adult 18+ who will live in the house. Habitat will also check for outstanding judgments or unsatisfied housing-related accounts.
Allow a home visit by the Habitat Family Selection Committee.
Upon review of your application materials, you will receive a letter either requesting more information or a letter indicating the Board of Directors' decision.
When you are approved...you may begin to work on your sweat equity hours, attend required homebuyer classes, and begin to make payment on your closing costs.


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