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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037694528789526459.post-43043197449543292016-07-28T08:49:00.001-04:002016-07-28T08:49:29.939-04:00Dominican Republic: Florida's 6th Larger Trade Partner...Come with us @ CAMACOL<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037694528789526459.post-79002992894386206722016-07-27T12:34:00.003-04:002016-07-27T12:34:43.808-04:00TechCrunch falls victim to OurMine hacking group<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Verizon-owned prominent technology site <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/techcrunch" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important;">TechCrunch </a>has become the latest victim of the OurMine hacking group.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">OurMine Security appeared to gain publishing access to the site, which uses the popular content management system Wordpress, and posted its now infamous message.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A post on the site under the byline of Seattle-based writer Devin Coldewey said: “Hello Guys, don’t worry we are just testing techcrunch security, we didn’t change any passwords, please contact us.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The post was then promoted as a ticker, the top banner in red and a the main story on TechCrunch’s front page.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The OurMine posting appeared at around 12.20pm BST (7.20am ET) but was removed within two hours. It was still showing in Google’s index <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/26/ourmine-team-important-message/" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">and cache</a> at the time of writing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The attack on the technology site is latest in a number of high-profile compromises by OurMine, which included the social media accounts of Twitter chief executive <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/11/twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-account-hacked-ourmine-security" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">Jack Dorsey</a>, Facebook CEO <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/06/mark-zuckerberg-hacked-on-twitter-and-pinterest" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">Mark Zuckerberg</a> and Google boss<a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/28/sundar-pichai-hacked-ourmine-group-bitly" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">Sundar Pichai</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">OurMine also claimed responsibility last week for a DDoS attack on Pokémon Go’s servers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The <a class="u-underline" data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/techcrunch" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">TechCrunch</a> attack appears to have leveraged a contributor’s account, rather than a hack on the site’s Wordpress system. In previous attacks, OurMine has used weaker linked accounts to post to services such as Twitter, rather than taking over the user’s social media accounts directly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The attacks underscore the inherent flaws in linked systems: your accounts, or in this case site, is only as resilient as your weakest link. Security experts recommend the use of two-step verification systems to help prevent accounts being compromised. It is unknown whether TechCrunch writer accounts required two-step verification for access to the site’s Wordpress backend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">TechCrunch, which is owned by <a class="u-underline" data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/aol" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important;">AOL</a>, and in turn by Verizon, did not respond to request for comment.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037694528789526459.post-76667962093250784522016-07-26T13:04:00.002-04:002016-07-26T13:04:10.898-04:00The Mall of the Future Will Offer Dinner, Movies, and a Colonoscopy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Runway at Playa Vista in Los Angeles recently added a Whole Foods, a movie theater, and upscale shops and restaurants—retail center staples intended to attract affluent shoppers, condo-buyers, and tech companies to the mixed-use development. The next big tenant slated to move in, however, is a little different: A 32,000-square-foot doctors' office, where the Cedars-Sinai Health System plans to house outpatient services, including cardiology and orthopedics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">While urgent-care centers have been strip-mall staples for decades, the chance to catch dinner, a movie, and a surgical procedure under the same roof is new—and coming soon to a mall near you. The reason is commerce: Mall operators are looking for tenants that trade in entertainment and services to replace the brick-and-mortar retailers slowly being strangled by Amazon.com and its online competitors. Rents, particularly at older malls, are a bargain. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The health-care industry, meanwhile, is moving away from centralized campuses to bring services closer to patients at a time when two key demographics are entering prime years for consumption. Boomers are hitting an age when they can expect to use more health-care services; millennials are starting families and beginning to make doctors appointments for their kids.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Chris Isola, vice president in the health-care service group for CBRE, says the idea of putting medical clinics in malls is one that landlords are just starting to come around to. “I think from Cedars’ perspective, that’s how you capture the younger demographic,” he explains. “The challenge is convincing the landlord of a highly desirable center that there should be a medical clinic. It’s like, ‘This is why you should put Cedars here and not break up the space for five or six boutiques.’”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Gauging just how rapidly health-care companies are absorbing retail space is difficult, because the industry is composed of regional and local players, many of which are using only small amounts of space. CoStar, a commercial real estate data and analytics firm, has begun tracking health-care companies as retail tenants only in recent years, making it hard to measure the industry's footprint. But the consensus among observers is that it's the wave of the future. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“It’s a big part of demand growth for retail space,” said Hans Nordby, managing director for Portfolio Strategy at CoStar. “Ten years from now we aren’t going to think anything about it. It will be like, I went to the strip mall, I saw the doctor, and then I bought a pair of shoes.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Cedars-Sinai isn’t the only health-care provider to take a large space in a retail mall. Others include the Prime Healthcare, which operates a 23,500-square-foot ambulatory care facility at the Plymouth Meeting Mall outside Philadelphia. Last year, UCLA Health put a dozen doctors in a new medical office at the Village at Westfield Topanga, a high-end mall in Woodland Hills, Calif.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Then there's Vanderbilt University Medical Group, which occupies the entire second level at the 100 Oaks Mall in Nashville, Tenn., where patients can pick up a pager when they check in at a clinic, then browse the outlet shops on the lower level while they wait. It used to be that only restaurants would give you a pager to let you know when your table was ready. Now it means the results of your CT scan are in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As this transformation has begun to take shape, strip malls seem to be more popular than traditional malls because they offer medical tenants an appealing prospect: parking spaces directly in front of their stores so the elderly and infirm don’t need to cover large distances, let alone navigate stairs or escalators.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">While outpatient facilities and doctors offices make the move from hospitals and medical suites to the mall, about one-third of the 7,200 urgent-care centers in the U.S. are already there, said Steve Sellars, president of the Urgent Care Association of America. The industry is adding a few hundred new urgent-care centers a year, leading operators to try out new locations. Care Here!, a Brentwood, Tenn.-based health and wellness company, even opened a walk-in clinic in the Nashville airport.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For the health-care companies, softness in the retail market has helped them negotiate favorable leases, including improvement allowances. Medical facilities also look good financially as tenants, with credit profiles that stack up well compared with nail salons and fast-food restaurants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Still, there's a learning curve on both sides, said Sarah Bader, leader of the global health and wellness practice at the architecture firm Gensler. Many landlords are still coming to grips with the idea that medical clinics won't scare off other businesses. And health-care companies are just learning how to use retail space to build stronger relationships with their customers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"It's been a challenge, because health-care systems aren't particularly brand-savvy clients." Bader has been working with such companies as Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital to create a design manifesto for its growing retail footprint. "You want people to know that whether they’re having an operation or going to the pediatrician, they’re in the same health system." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">After a flurry of bizarre reports earlier this week, confirmed then quickly denied, about Roger Ailes' exit from Fox News, it's now official: The chairman and CEO is departing the top-ranked cable news network he co-founded in 1996.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ailes has resigned, effective immediately, 21st Century Fox announced. Rupert Murdoch, executive chairman of 21st Century Fox, will take over as chairman and acting CEO of Fox News and Fox Business Network.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"Roger Ailes has made a remarkable contribution to our company and our country. Roger shared my vision of a great and independent television organization and executed it brilliantly over 20 great years," said Murdoch in a statement. "I am personally committed to ensuring that Fox News remains a distinctive, powerful voice. Our nation needs a robust Fox News to resonate from every corner of the country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"To ensure continuity of all that is best about Fox News and what it stands for, I will take over as chairman and acting CEO, with the support of our existing management team under Bill Shine, Jay Wallace and Mark Kranz."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The official confirmation of Ailes' departure follows a wild turn of events on Tuesday afternoon, when Drudge Report posted and then deleted the news that Ailes would be leaving the company after receiving a buyout from Fox News of at least $40 million.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ailes' exit comes two weeks after he was sued for sexual harassment by former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson, whose 11-year employment at the network ended June 23. The lawsuit, filed in the Superior Court of New Jersey in Bergen County on July 6, claimed Ailes called Carlson a "man hater" and "injected sexual and/or sexist comments and innuendo into their conversations."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In letter from Ailes to Murdoch, obtained by the Drudge Report, Ailes said, "With your support, I am proud that we have built Fox News and Fox Business Channels into powerful and lucrative news organizations that inform our audience and reward our shareholders. I take particular pride in the role that I have played advancing the careers of the many women I have promoted to executive and on-air positions."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ailes added, "Having spent 20 years building this historic business, I will not allow my presence to become a distraction from the work that must be done every day to ensure that Fox News and Fox Business continue to lead our industry. ... I am proud of our accomplishments and look forward to continuing to work with you as an adviser in building 21st Century Fox."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Murdoch held a series of meetings this afternoon with Fox News staffers, to let everyone know that he is now in charge. "He thanked us for all the work we were doing. And he said it's been a difficult 10 days or so, and he said, 'I'm here and I'm in charge,'" Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren told Adweek and TVNewser not long after the news broke.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Other than Ailes leaving the channel he co-founded nearly 20 years ago, Van Susteren said Murdoch told staffers, "he will be keeping things status quo. There's no change, except that Roger won't be there."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Fox News' chief news anchor Shepard Smith declined to comment about Ailes' departure when approached by Adweek today at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, shortly after the news broke. Smith would only say, "It's very nice to see you."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">While Fox News and Fox Business anchors like Greta Van Susteren, Kimberly Guilfoyle and Maria Bartiromo publicly supported Ailes, other former Fox News staffers anonymously told CNNMoney that they had also been harassed by Ailes but were reluctant to speak out due to nondisparagement clauses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Meanwhile, the network's star anchor, Megyn Kelly, had remained conspicuously silent about the allegations. Then on Tuesday, New York magazine reported that Kelly told 21st Century Fox's investigators that Ailes made unwanted sexual advances toward her 10 years ago when she was at Fox News.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That news seemed to have been the last straw for News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch and his sons, 21st Century Fox co-chairman Lachlan Murdoch and CEO James Murdoch. According to the New York report, 21st Century Fox lawyers had given Ailes a deadline of Aug. 1 to either resign or potentially be fired for cause.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Soon after, the news of Ailes' departure briefly appeared on the Drudge Report, setting off a surreal chain of events in which some outlets "confirmed" Ailes' exit while his spokesperson, Irena Briganti (who could also be on the way out, New York reported earlier today), told Adweek and other outlets that the news was "completely wrong." Those "confirmations" were later walked back by the network, as negotiations continued to finalize the terms of Ailes' departure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Carlson, who joined Fox News in 2005 and was co-anchor of the network's top-rated morning show, Fox & Friends, for more than seven years before she was replaced by Elisabeth Hasselbeck, claimed that things came to a head in September when she met with Ailes, whom she said told her, "I think you and I should have had a sexual relationship a long time ago."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ailes will remain as a 21st Century adviser to Murdoch for the time being, as he plans his next move. When asked by Adweek last November what else he hoped to accomplish, Ailes said, "I don't feel any different in my brain than when I was 30 years old. I have the same sort of reaction to new ideas and new things as I did then. I realize I look bad, but I don't feel bad. I'm constantly trying to invent different ways to do things. If you're going to be a television executive, you have to change with the times."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As with any major revamp of a big airport, the cost of dragging LaGuardia Airport into the modern era is measured in billions of dollars. It started at $3.6 billion, but that was just for a three-story terminal to replace a 1964-era shell that leaks water, squeezes travelers, and inspired U.S. Vice President Joe Biden to dub the runt of New York’s three main airports a “third world” facility.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The refit of the central terminal, also called Terminal B, rose to $4 billion with the later addition of a “Great Hall” entry to connect the 35-gate structure with Terminal C. The entire project also seeks to expand onto real estate now allocated to parking, hard up against the traffic-clogged Grand Central Parkway. The planning and design work alone got $1 billion back in 2004.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Major infrastructure projects in New York City rarely come in under budget or without surprises along the way. The total cost of LaGuardia’s rebirth has been dribbling out slowly, with each increase noted in an obscure press release or at a meeting of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey. Commissioners even <a data-tracker-action="click" data-tracker-category="nav" data-tracker-label="inline_link.01" data-web-url="http://therealdeal.com/2016/03/24/will-laguardia-cost-5-3b-or-4b-depends-on-your-math/" href="http://therealdeal.com/2016/03/24/will-laguardia-cost-5-3b-or-4b-depends-on-your-math/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(43, 0, 247); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-out;" target="_blank">disagree about what to include</a> in the price, and whether past funds should be included to offset it. And there may indeed be some surprises before it’s done. That doesn’t sit well with public interest watchdogs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“It’s time now for partners to bring greater transparency to the overhaul and build confidence in the project by posting clear budgets and timelines to the project website,” said Joseph Sitt, chairman of New York infrastructure advocacy group Global Gateway Alliance, in an email.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">LaGuardia Gateway Partners, the <a data-tracker-action="click" data-tracker-category="recirc" data-tracker-label="inline_link.02" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-29/america-s-worst-airport-to-get-4-billion-swedish-massage" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(43, 0, 247); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">winning consortium</a> for the project, took over management and operations at Terminal B last month. The partnership consists of Vancouver-based Vantage Airport Group Ltd., Swedish construction firm Skanska AB, and Paris-based Meridiam SAS. Terminal B, which houses eight carriers, including American Airlines Group Inc., Southwest Airlines Co., and United Continental Holdings Inc., was designed to handle 8 million annual passengers. Last year, it hosted 14.3 million. By 2030, it’s expected to handle 17.5 million per year. The Federal Aviation Administration restricts LaGuardia operations with landing slots due to congestion, as the agency does at John F. Kennedy International and Washington-Reagan National.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">All told, the airport’s total projected cost including work at Terminals C and D, redesign of roads, parking structures, and other infrastructure, is likely to run as much as $8 billion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">One of the project’s big funding sources is Delta Air Lines Inc., LaGuardia’s largest operator by passenger share and arguably the most aggressive in terms of trying to become the New York metropolitan area’s “hometown airline.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“This doesn’t happen without Delta Air Lines,” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said in a July 2015 <a data-tracker-action="click" data-tracker-category="recirc" data-tracker-label="inline_link.03" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-27/n-y-to-overhaul-laguardia-consolidate-terminals-cuomo-says" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(43, 0, 247); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-out;">speech</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">On Thursday, the Port Authority will debate whether to spend $600 million to complement the money Delta will spend to revamp Terminals C and D. The Atlanta-based airline won’t say how much it plans to spend for the new 37-gate dual terminal. The Port Authority’s agenda says “approximately $4 billion for design and construction work,” subject to commissioners approving a new lease with Delta, “as well as other agreements relating to the project.” Under the deal, Delta would pay no rent on the terminal and would get a new lease, through 2050, to match the length of the lease granted LaGuardia Gateway Partners for Terminal B. In 2012, Delta began a more than $100 million improvement <a data-tracker-action="click" data-tracker-category="nav" data-tracker-label="inline_link.04" data-web-url="http://news.delta.com/delta-breaks-ground-laguardia-terminal-expansion" href="http://news.delta.com/delta-breaks-ground-laguardia-terminal-expansion" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(43, 0, 247); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">project</a> at Terminals C and D, to add larger clubs, new dining options, and a bridge that connects the terminals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">One question that arises is what Delta may want in return for its magnanimity. Aside from its role in the renovation, Delta has also been seeking to have the Port Authority scrap a regulation limiting flights at the airport to 1,500 miles. The “<a data-tracker-action="click" data-tracker-category="recirc" data-tracker-label="inline_link.05" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-04/what-s-stopping-laguardia-flights-from-going-farther-west-than-denver" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(43, 0, 247); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">perimeter rule</a>” has been a critical factor in how airlines have structured their schedules at the other two city airports, Newark Liberty International, a United hub, and JFK, the primary home of JetBlue Airways Inc. as well as a Delta stronghold. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“American and Delta would serve the local, New York-to-Los Angeles, and beyond markets from LaGuardia, assuming [they] had the terminal facilities to accompany a high-yield service,” says Robert Mann, an aviation consultant in Long Island and former American executive. “United Airlines is placing its bets on Newark alone.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the past, carriers such as American and JetBlue have argued that LaGuardia, in its current state, isn’t prepared for long-haul flights. Sitt, the alliance chairman, said the Port Authority should consider scrapping the rule to boost competition among area airports.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Delta “looks forward to taking the next steps” on its LaGuardia work, a spokeswoman said, declining further comment. A Port Authority spokeswoman referred questions about the project to the agenda for the July 21 meeting, declining further comment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The full project is expected to finish in 2022. As part of it, LaGuardia may well have a new feature the Port Authority isn’t ready to discuss: nonstop flights to the West Coast.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #383838; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AICO y CIAC
suscriben acuerdo de cooperación el marco de la III Cumbre Empresarial
de la Alianza del Pacífico</span><span style="color: #383838; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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que al momento de hacer negocios e invertir en un país un elemento
clave a considerar es contar con un mecanismo de resolución de
conflictos en el lugar donde se celebra el contrato, los Centros de
Arbitraje de la Alianza del Pacífico (Bogotá, Lima, México y Santiago),
la Comisión Interamericana de Arbitraje Comercial <strong>(CIAC)</strong> y la
Asociación Iberoamericana de Cámara de Comercio <strong>(AICO)</strong>,
suscribieron un acuerdo en el marco de la III Cumbre Empresarial de la
Alianza del Pacífico. La Secretaría Ejecutiva para impulsar el Acuerdo
estará a cargo, durante los primeros dos años, del Centro de Arbitraje
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Cámara Argentina de Comercio y Servicios (CAC) se realizan para
capacitar emprendedores a través del programa CAC Emprende, el
último martes 5 de julio la Entidad llevó a cabo junto a Google
la charla “Potenciá tu estrategia de comunicación”. <br />
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Iberoamericano de Emprendimiento</strong></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Andaluza de promoción Exterior colaborará con la Cámara de
Comercio, Industria y Navegación para impulsar la celebración
‘XLIII Asamblea General de la Asociación Iberoamericana de
Cámaras de Comercio (AICO)’, que organizará la entidad cameral en
la capital andaluza el próximo mes de noviembre. <br />
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continuar siendo una estrategia de crecimiento hacia afuera, pero
enfatizando la agregación de valor, con una PYME más globalizada
e integrada a las grandes cadenas mundiales de producción y consumo".
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037694528789526459.post-24314681637729242852016-07-20T14:04:00.001-04:002016-07-20T14:04:36.739-04:00Is This What You Had in Mind for Retirement? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Here’s What Actual Retirees Found Out</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Pre-retirees expect inheritances and income from selling a home to play bigger roles in retirement than they do now, a poll finds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large; line-height: 29.124px;">Retirement can seem like an abstract idea until we're alarmingly close to it. It's a little like dying—inevitable, but who wants to think about it. For that reason, many of us put off important moves that could make old age easier for us and our heirs, such as estate planning and writing living wills.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 29.124px;">When pre-retirees do contemplate retirement today, </span><a data-tracker-action="click" data-tracker-category="nav" data-tracker-label="inline_link.01" data-web-url="http://www.about.us.hsbc.com/~/media/us/en/news-and-media/160716-generations-and-journeys.pdf" href="http://www.about.us.hsbc.com/~/media/us/en/news-and-media/160716-generations-and-journeys.pdf" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(43, 0, 247); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; line-height: 29.124px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">a new survey</a><span style="line-height: 29.124px;"> (PDF) by HSBC Group suggests, we're either working off a new model of funding it or we're out of touch with where our money actually goes in retirement, as the chart below shows. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The way retirees today fund their spending differs from what pre-retirees expect for their future, according to results from more than 1,000 Americans surveyed. Their responses were part of a larger effort in which more than 18,000 working and retired people in 17 countries were polled on retirement issues.<span class="annotation" id="footnote-1468949268307-ref" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><a data-tracker-action="click" data-tracker-category="nav" data-tracker-label="inline_link.02" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/#footnote-1468949268307" rel="footnote" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b00f7; outline: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">1</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The survey found that Americans, on average, spend five more years in the working world than their global peers, for a total of 35 years. Also, today's pre-retirees expect to save for seven more years than current retirees did. That makes sense since Americans lack much of the mandated level of savings and social services that are the norm in many other developed countries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Other survey highlights: </b></span></div>
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<li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; display: block; line-height: 1.75rem; margin-bottom: 0.3125rem; padding-left: 1.875rem; position: relative; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Pre-retirees in the U.S. are more likely than current U.S. retirees to expect future retirement income from selling property, either by downsizing or selling a primary or secondary home—17 percent vs. 10 percent. Among the 17 countries surveyed, that compared with 26 percent for Australian pre-retirees, 9 percent for workers in Mexico, and 4 percent for pre-retirees in Egypt.</span></li>
<li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; display: block; line-height: 1.75rem; margin-bottom: 0.3125rem; padding-left: 1.875rem; position: relative; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></li>
<li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; display: block; line-height: 1.75rem; margin-bottom: 0.3125rem; padding-left: 1.875rem; position: relative; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A higher percentage of pre-retirees with children expect to feel happy in retirement than do childless workers—71 percent of working adults with kids, compared with 66 percent of those without children. </span></li>
<li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; display: block; line-height: 1.75rem; margin-bottom: 0.3125rem; padding-left: 1.875rem; position: relative; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></li>
<li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; display: block; line-height: 1.75rem; margin-bottom: 0.3125rem; padding-left: 1.875rem; position: relative; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Cash is what 52 percent of retirees are using to fund their retirement, followed by stocks (38 percent), mutual funds (32 percent), and a spouse or partner's income (29 percent). The average across 17 countries is 41 percent, and the U.S. is topped only by Hong Kong, at 62 percent, and Singapore, at 59 percent.</span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037694528789526459.post-80712280791564956522016-07-19T09:32:00.003-04:002016-07-19T09:32:26.667-04:00The Energy “Death List”: <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Who’s On It and Who’s Next? *</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In June, Warren Resources filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The Houston-based company was just another one added to the group of 150 North American industry filings over the last year and a half since the oil decline started.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large; line-height: 23.8112px;">Warren Resources could also be found in the 2015 publication of an “oil company death list” put out by Oxford Club investors’ network out of Baltimore. 19 companies were accused of “toxic” debt-to-equity ratios on the list. Since it was published, eight of the companies on the list have </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large; line-height: 23.8112px;">filed for protection, another was purchased at a low price, and few still are trying to keep their head above water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Out of the eight companies that filed for bankruptcy, seven have headquarters located in Houston: Energy XXI Ltd., Goodrich Petroleum, Halcón Resources, Hercules Offshore, Linn Energy, and Vantage Drilling, and of course, Warren Resources. The remaining company that filed, Magnum Hunter Resources, had relocated to Irving from Houston just before filing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Both Magnum and Hercules recently surfaced from under the shadow of bankruptcy, but Hercules quickly had to file for Chapter 11 again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">LRR Energy, one of the companies on the death list, was recently purchased by Vanguard Natural Resources, another Houston-based company that was also listed. By the middle of Friday, the firm was trading treacherously low, just under $1.40 per share on the Nasdaq.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Other listed companies trading close to $1 per share include Midland’s Legacy Reserves, EXCO Resources out of Dallas, and the Pennsylvania-based Rex Energy. Houston’s EV Energy Partners, which is handled by EnerVest, is seeing prices barely over $2 per unit. Another company, Exterran Partners out of Houston, was recently renewed into Archrock Partners.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Three out of the four companies left on the death list are still alive:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Houston-based Sanchez Energy Corporation, Tetra Technologies Inc. out of The Woodlands, and Denver’s Antero Resources. The remaining company on the list out of the original 19 is Midland’s Parsley Energy and is said to be “thriving.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Gone are the days of $100 per barrel oil after mid-2014. In February, prices dropped down to almost $25 per barrel before jumping back to over $45 per barrel on Friday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Haynes and Boone has followed 157 North American energy firms that have filed for protection since the start of 2015 through June of this year. 82 of them, over half of the original number, are based out of Texas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Besides the companies on the death list, some of the largest filings include Berry Petroleum, Breitburn Energy Partners, Midstates Petroleum, Paragon Offshore, Quicksilver Resources, Sabine Oil & Gas, Samson Resources, Sandridge Energy, Seventy Seven Energy, Swift Energy, and Ultra Petroleum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Houston’s C&J Energy Services and Frisco’s Comstock Resources are just some of the companies trading for less than a dollar per share on the stock exchanges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Solid Internet connections aren’t available everywhere. If you want to watch streaming movies and TV shows on an <a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/220446/how-to-see-if-a-flight-offers-wi-fi-and-power-outlets/">airplane</a>, on the subway, or somewhere out in the wilderness away from cellular towers, you can download them ahead of time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Not every service offers a download feature, but quite a few services allow you to download videos ahead of time so you can take them with you. This could save lots of valuable cellular data, too, especially if you’re <a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/163464/bill-shock-how-to-avoid-22000-or-more-in-international-roaming-fees/">roaming internationally</a>. Let’s take a look at some of your options.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Amazon Video app available for <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amazon-video/id545519333?mt=8&tag=823814-20">iPhones and iPads</a>, <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.avod.thirdpartyclient&hl=en&tag=823814-20">Android devices</a>, and Amazon’s own Kindle Fires allows you to download videos to your device so you can watch them offline.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just download the app and sign in with your Amazon account. Find the movie or TV show you want to watch and tap the “Download” button to the right of it. Downloaded videos will appear in the “Downloads” section of the app later, so you can open the app and watch them–even without an Internet connection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This feature is only available in the Amazon Video apps for iOS, Android, and Amazon’s Fire OS. You can’t do this from the website, so you can’t do it on a laptop. You need a smartphone or a tablet–and not a Windows tablet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">YouTube offers this feature, but only if you pay for YouTube Red (which actually isn’t a bad deal if you use Google Play Music, which is included–you get both Google Play Music’s music library as well as YouTube Red for the same price you’d pay for Spotify or Apple Music.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To download a video, open the YouTube app on an <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/youtube/id544007664?mt=8">iPhone, iPad</a>, or <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.youtube&hl=en">Android device</a> and tap the menu button next to a video. Tap “Save Offline” and you’ll be prompted to choose which resolution you want to download the video in. Higher resolutions offer a better quality video, but take more space on your device.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You’ll find the videos you saved for offline use under the profile tab. Tap “Offline Videos” and you’ll see a list of videos you can watch offline.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This feature is only available in the YouTube app for iPhones, iPads, and Android devices. You can’t do this from the YouTube website, so you can’t do it on a laptop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Amazon and YouTube both offer this feature as part of their streaming plans, which is convenient. However, you can gain access to a much wider selection of videos if you’re willing to pay per video–either as a temporary rental or as a purchase you can watch as much as you want.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This is also convenient because some of these services allow you to download videos to a Windows PC, Mac, or Chromebook. You can save videos and watch them on a laptop or a Windows tablet, while Amazon and YouTube only offer this feature in their mobile apps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You have quite a few options here, including:</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><strong>iTunes (Windows, Mac, iOS)</strong>: Apple’s iTunes is available for <a href="https://www.apple.com/itunes/download/">Windows</a> and included on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. It allows you to rent movies, purchase individual episodes or entire seasons of TV shows, or purchase movies. If you choose to rent a movie, you’ll have thirty days to start watching it. After you start watching it, you’ll have 24 hours to finish. if you plan on going for a trip, you can rent several movies from iTunes, download them to your Windows PC, Mac, iPhone, or iPad and get around to watching them any time within 30 days without an Internet connection. If you purchase an episode of a TV show or entire movie, you can download it and watch it whenever you want with no expiration.</span></li>
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Rip Your Own DVDs or Blu-rays</h3>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Lastly, if you have movies or TV shows on physical DVD or Blu-ray discs, you can “rip” them to digital video files you can more easily take with you. Store these files on a laptop, smartphone, or tablet and you can watch them without taking the disc with you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You can rip DVDs and Blu-rays with a variety of programs, but we particularly like <a href="https://handbrake.fr/">Handbrake</a>–it’s free, and contains presets for ripping files compatible with iPhone, iPad, Android, and more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Netflix doesn’t yet offer this feature, but rumors suggest Netflix is working on it. If and when Netflix does offer this feature, it will likely work in a similar way to the Amazon Video and YouTube apps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Kopchak said he's done extensive research on the forensic differences between traditional hard-disk drives and modern SSDs. His work is applicable to law enforcement, electronic discovery (the software process used by attorneys to gather digital evidence), and anyone who wants to make sure their "delete" button does what it says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Kopchak plans to present his full research, 101 Sentient Storage — Do SSDs have a mind of their own?, on Aug. 5, 2016 at the Defcon 24 conference in Las Vegas. "The goal of this study was to demonstrate and quantify differences across a sample pool of drives in an array of tests conducted in a controlled environment. These tests explored the variations between drive firmware, controllers, interfaces, operating systems, and TRIM state," he wrote in the session description. "This presentation will demonstrate these differences and provide a framework to allow forensics investigators to determine the likelihood of successful deleted file recovery from an evidence bearing solid state drive."</span></div>
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Since its commercial introduction in 2007, the Airbus A380 has brought a long-lost sense of glamour back to travel. Its first-class cabins feature private showers and buttery leather armchairs. It sports in-flight lounges where bartenders mix bespoke cocktails. A broad staircase reminiscent of a 1920s ocean liner links the two decks. Financially speaking, it’s a disaster of similarly grand proportions.</div>
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An initial flood of interest from airlines has turned into a slow drip, and Airbus is leaning heavily on one customer, Emirates, for sales. Not a single U.S. carrier has bought one, and Japanese airlines, among the biggest cheerleaders for huge planes, have taken just a handful. Airbus has delivered 193 A380s—early on it predicted airlines would buy 1,200 supersize planes over two decades—and has only 126 in its order book, to be built over the next five years or so. Worse, many orders appear squishy, because airlines are shifting away from superjumbos. As the aviation world starts gathering on July 11 for the Farnborough International Airshow in England, where carriers often announce big orders, there’s little indication any A380 contract will be unveiled.</div>
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Airbus concedes its timing was off with the A380, which lists for $433 million but almost always sells at a discount. The financial crisis hit just as production was picking up in 2008, and soaring oil prices made airlines reluctant to buy the four-engine behemoth. The company only last year managed to start breaking even on production, and it’s acknowledged it will never recoup the €25 billion ($32 billion) it spent on development. Zafar Khan, an analyst at Société Générale, says the concern is that if production slips far below 30 planes a year, the program could fall back into the red. “The crying happens when it’s losing money,” Khan says.</div>
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Axing the A380 outright is hard to do. Besides the embarrassment of admitting defeat on the program, Airbus would need to write off factories across Europe and redeploy thousands of workers. Airlines would see the resale value of their A380s plummet, and the plane’s demise would leave airports worldwide questioning the wisdom of facilities constructed to accommodate it; Dubai, for instance, built a dedicated terminal for the A380.</div>
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The A380 was a prestige-fueled project for Airbus and the European governments that backed the program. The company had been successful with its A320 single-aisle jet introduced in the 1980s, but it wanted a bigger piece of the lucrative long-range market. With the managers who hatched the plan two decades ago long gone, the ardor has abated, says Richard Aboulafia, a longtime critic of the plane and vice president of aviation consultant Teal Group. “Nobody seems to want this plane other than Emirates,” he says. “The A380 might just make it until 2020, but even that’s almost optimistic at this point.”</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">These days, many of us regularly feed pieces of ourselves into machines for convenience and security. Our fingerprints unlock our smartphones, and companies are experimenting with more novel biometric markers—voice, heartbeat, grip—as ID for banking and other transactions. But there are almost no laws in place to control how companies use such information. Nor is it clear what rights people have to protect scans of their retinas or the contours of their face from cataloging by the private sector.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There’s one place where people seeking privacy protections can turn: the courts. A series of plaintiffs are suing tech giants, including Facebook and Google, under a little-used Illinois law. The Biometric Information Privacy Act, passed in 2008, is one of the only statutes in the U.S. that sets limits on the ways companies can handle data such as fingerprints, voiceprints, and retinal scans. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A</span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">t least four of the suits filed under BIPA are moving forward. “These cases are important to scope out the existing law, perhaps point out places where the law could be improved, and set principles that other states might follow,” says Jeffrey Neuburger, a partner at law firm Proskauer Rose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The bankruptcy of fingerprint-scanning company Pay By Touch spurred BIPA’s passage. Hundreds of Illinois grocery stores and gas stations used its technology, allowing customers to pay with the tap of a finger. As the bankrupt company proposed selling its database, the Illinois chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union drafted what became BIPA, and the bill passed with little corporate opposition, says Mary Dixon, legislative director of the Illinois ACLU.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Under the Illinois law, companies must obtain written consent from customers before collecting their biometric data. They also must declare a point at which they’ll destroy the data, and they must not sell it. BIPA allows for damages of $5,000 per violation. “Social Security numbers, when compromised, can be changed,” the law reads. “Biometrics, however, are biologically unique to the individual; therefore, once compromised, the individual has no recourse, [and] is at heightened risk for identity theft.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In April 2015, Chicagoan Carlo Licata, a Morgan Stanley financial adviser, sued Facebook under BIPA, arguing that the company violated his privacy by using its facial-recognition software to create a detailed geometric map of his face and tag him in photos. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Facebook plaintiffs, whose cases have been consolidated in California, where the company is based, passed a crucial test in May. Facebook had argued that according to its terms of use, disputes should be handled under California law, which lacks BIPA-style protections for biometric data. The judge didn’t agree, ruling that BIPA applies. In a June 29 filing, Facebook made the same argument as Take-Two—that the plaintiffs lack standing to sue because they haven’t claimed harm. Google, meanwhile, is challenging BIPA as unconstitutional on the grounds that one state can’t set rules for the rest of the country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">National efforts to establish biometric guidelines haven’t gone well. In 2014 a Department of Commerce agency led an effort to develop a code of conduct for companies using facial-recognition technology, but consumer advocates withdrew from the group the following year, saying tech companies refused to consider the most modest of privacy protections. The effort yielded an unenforceable set of privacy recommendations, published in June.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In Canada and Europe, Facebook stopped offering tag suggestions on photos following pressure from regulators to obtain consent to collect people’s images. In the U.S., BIPA has become a target. Just before Memorial Day, with the Illinois legislature rushing to finish its session, Democratic state Senator Terry Link proposed an amendment to the statute that would have excluded photos and digital images from protection and neatly undercut the lawsuits. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The company’s ads claimed that Elimidrol will help users
“permanently overcome withdrawal – the first time” and “leave addiction
behind permanently.” Sunrise also claimed that “Elimidrol is the difference
between just another failed attempt and lifelong success.” The FTC charged
that these claims were not substantiated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/160706sunrise-stip.pdf?utm_source=govdelivery">proposed
stipulated court order</a> prohibits Erickson and Sunrise Nutraceuticals
from making claims regarding the treatment of opiate dependence, addiction,
or withdrawal, unless they have competent and reliable human clinical
testing to support such claims. The defendants also must have such testing
to support claims that a product cures, mitigates, or treats any other
disease, including claims relating to other substance use disorders. In
addition, the defendants must have competent and reliable scientific
evidence for efficacy claims for any health-related product.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Finally, the proposed order imposes a judgment of $1,398,037,
with all but $235,000 suspended based on the defendants’ ability to pay. If
they are later found to have misrepresented their financial condition, the
entire judgment will become due.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The FTC is a member of the National Prevention Council, which
provides coordination and leadership at the federal level regarding
prevention, wellness, and health promotion practices. This case is part of
the FTC’s ongoing efforts to protect consumers from misleading health
advertising and advances the National Prevention Council’s goal of
increasing the number of Americans who are healthy at every stage of life.
The FTC thanks the Office of Dietary Supplement Programs in the Center for
Food Safety and Applied Nutrition at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
for its assistance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The Commission vote approving the stipulated final judgment
and order was 3-0. The FTC filed the proposed order in the U.S. District
Court for the Southern District of Florida, West Palm Division.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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court approval and have the force of law when signed by the District Court
judge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The Federal Trade Commission works to promote competition, and
<a href="https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/bureaus-offices/bureau-consumer-protection?utm_source=govdelivery">protect
and educate consumers</a>. You can <a href="http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/?utm_source=govdelivery">learn more about
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Mitchell J. Katz<br />
<em>Office of Public Affairs</em><br />
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<em>Bureau of Consumer
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Pole dancing, bungee jumping, a woman eating maggots: at any given hour, millions of Chinese are live-streaming all of this and much more on their smartphones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Crazes come and go at neck-snapping speed in the world’s largest online marketplace, but China’s live-streaming phenomenon shows staying power and is already a significant business. Tiny startups and internet giants alike are making money selling virtual gifts—flowers, cars, toys—to people keen to reward their favorite live-streamers. As the business matures, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and others may start selling ads on the most popular streams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> "This isn’t a fad that will disappear, as the business model has proven to be viable," said Zhu Xiaohu, managing partner at GSR Ventures Management Co., who invested in Inke, one of about 200 live-streaming startups that have attracted an estimated $750 million in venture capital. "But the amount of interest in this sector is so high, bubbles could be forming and many will fail."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the U.S., tech companies are eager to make live streaming more popular. Twitter Inc. last year acquired the app Periscope and has integrated live video into its main product. Facebook has made it possible for users to stream live and has boosted the prominence of such broadcasts in its news feed. Mobile app YouNow has taken off among teens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But the Chinese version of live-streaming has caught on much more quickly and broadly. Tens of millions of young people (many of them single men) live in soulless megalopolises far from where they grew up and are seeking human connection—even if it means watching and interacting with a stranger eating dinner. "China’s wide adoption of mobile phones and the loneliness brought on by a fast-paced migrating society means people are more willing to connect this way," says Jia Wei, who runs the live-streaming division for Nasdaq-listed social media app Momo Inc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Many streams—known as showrooms—feature ordinary people doing remarkably ordinary things. Zhou Xiaohu, a 30-year-old safety foreman at a construction site in Inner Mongolia, is one of 10 million active users on Inke, a two-year-old Beijing startup. Like many Inke users, Zhou logs on after work and watches until bedtime. Zhou, who’s single and bored, flicks through other people’s showrooms and sometimes streams footage of himself eating dinner and watching television. He has plenty to choose from; as many as 60,000 people are broadcasting at the same time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“It satisfies my needs,” says Zhou, who has spent about 700 yuan ($105) gifting people he follows and earned about 200 yuan in return. “Think of it as a substitute for TV shows and games.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Li Wenqi, a 31-year-old Chinese hairdresser based in Kobe, Japan, takes followers to tourist attractions and dining spots. A tour of Tokyo’s red-light district is his most popular stream so far. More than 3,000 people watched as Li wandered the neighborhood for about six hours—even though he never ventured indoors. "I just have this urge to share," he says. "I want others who haven’t been to Japan before to know what it’s like here."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Li has delegated two trusted fans to maintain order in his showroom; they can silence or kick out viewers who use vulgar language or stir up trouble. Two months into his sideline, Li has earned about 15,000 yuan from virtual gifts sent by fans on Momo’s app. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The most popular streams attract as many has 400,000 people at a time. They often feature famous people. Wang Jianlin, founder of real estate colossus Dalian Wanda Group, streamed video of himself playing poker with associates on a private jet via an app backed by his son. More than 300,000 people watched, and many sent virtual gifts to China’s richest man. Many showrooms feature women wearing revealing clothes and doing pretty much anything that comes to mind—shopping, playing video games, seductively eating fruit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Top streamers earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a month, according to Momo’s Jia. They get as much as 50 percent of the revenue generated from admirers’ virtual gifts; the hosting companies keep the rest. While streaming is a relatively small chunk of revenue for big companies like Alibaba and Tencent Holdings Ltd., the addictive videos are a useful way to keep users locked into their sites. Smaller companies are doing a thriving business. In the first quarter, Momo generated $15.6 million in gift commissions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In an effort to stand out on camera, live streamers have been known to pull crazy stunts—drinking themselves into oblivion, say, or munching maggots. China’s regulators are watching and cracking down on anything deemed pornographic or a potential danger to the state. When dozens of young women popped up online suggestively eating bananas, the authorities were quick to kick them off the web. The official scrutiny has forced companies to hire teams of censors; at Inke 1,000 people screen every showroom for content that’s critical of the government, pornographic or violent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Censorship isn’t much of a concern for Li since he focuses mostly on travel and leisure in Japan. "I enjoy interacting with other people this way," he says. "It’s much faster and more gratifying than other forms of social media."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The price tag for the biggest diamond found in more than 100 years proved too rich for even the deepest wallets at an auction in London.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The 1,109-carat diamond that’s called Lesedi la Rona, or “our light” in the Tswana language spoken in Botswana where it was found, was expected to sell for about $86 million, based on a diamond sale in May. That would have made it the most expensive rough gem on record. Instead, the highest bid of $61 million didn’t clear the so-called reserve price at a Sotheby’s auction on Wednesday night, leaving it unsold.</span></div>
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“Sotheby’s orchestrated a worldwide marketing campaign that garnered huge levels of interest, but the auction just seemed to stall,” Edward Sterck, an analyst with BMO Capital Markets in London, said in a research note Wednesday. It’s unclear what happens next, he said. “We would see the potential for a private sale,” possibly with an agreement where Lucara retains some interest in the upside from the polished stones, Sterck said.</div>
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The massive diamond was unearthed at Lucara Diamond Corp.’s Karowe mine in Botswana. The Vancouver-based company is gaining a reputation for producing the world’s biggest and best stones and sold an 813-carat diamond for $63 million in May, a record, to Nemesis International DMCC, a Dubai-based rough-diamond trading company.</div>
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Lucara fell as much as 18 percent in Toronto after the failed sale, the biggest intraday decline since September 2013. The shares were down 15 percent to C$3.35 by the close.</div>
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The Lesedi la Rona, just smaller than a tennis ball, is second in size only to the Cullinan, a 3,106-carat gem found near Pretoria in South Africa in 1905. It was cut to form the Great Star of Africa and the Lesser Star of Africa, which are set in the Crown Jewels of Britain.</div>
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The world’s biggest and rarest diamonds had proven more resilient than smaller rough stones -- what mined gems are called before they’re cut and polished. Prices for rough diamonds slumped 18 percent last year, the most since the financial crisis in 2008, amid lower demand and an industrywide credit crunch.</div>
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The diamond auction took place during a week of contemporary art sales in the U.K. On Tuesday, Sotheby’s sold 52.2 million pounds ($70 million) of art as Asian and U.S. collectors went shopping, taking advantage of the drop in sterling after Britain voted to exit the European Union.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 8pt;">Greater Miami and the Beaches is renowned for luxury spas that are ranked among the "Best Spas in America." Celebrate with us during July and August as we feature Miami Spa Month where you can enjoy special treatments for $109 at Miami's premier spas.</span><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">For more GMCVB Marketing Programs, visit</span><a href="http://www.miamitemptations.com/" style="color: white;">MiamiTemptations.com</a></span>.</td></tr>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12pt;">Miami-Dade Transit Tracker App</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">The free Miami-Dade Transit Tracker App makes it easier than ever to have a fun-filled Miami-Dade County vacation on public transit. Metrorail, Metrobus and Metromover offer excellent travel value in Miami. They connect you from airport to hotel to scores of popular tourist destinations, by rail or by road. It’s a big system, but the MDT Tracker App puts it all in order for you. Download MDT <span style="font-size: 8pt;"><a class="Miami-Dade transit app" href="http://www.miamidade.gov/transit/transit-tracker-app.asp" target="_blank">Tracker App</a></span> from the App Store or <a choice="1" class="Google Play MDT app" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.miamidade.TrainTracker&hl=en" target="_blank">Google Play</a> now! </span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12pt;">More Than Just A Ride To The Airport</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Now your SuperShuttle pick-up is faster and more efficient than ever with their new App! Faster booking & check-in, secure transactions and you can even locate your shuttle! SuperShuttle is the “official” airport shuttle operator at MIA and has “exclusive” curb side access at the MIA arrivals terminal. Their service offers shared-ride or private transportation to or from the airport, ports, hotel, home, or office. You can download the App and book your ride or call 305/871-2000. </span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12pt;">More Options Than Ever</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">No matter where you’re headed, getting around Miami and Beaches is easier than ever thanks to new and exciting transportation options. From the Citi Bike program operated by DECOBIKE to the free trolley service available in several neighborhoods, quality taxi and limousine service and the ultra-convenient Miami METROMOVER and METRORAIL including direct service to MIA—we promise you’ll get there. Miami will soon enjoy access to high speed rail thanks to the new GoBrightline train service connecting the destination with other major cities in Florida.</span></div>
<strong><span style="color: white; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12pt;">Digitally Dispatched Car Sharing Services</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="color: white;">The popularity of this type of service available through mobile apps continues to grow for companies such as UBER, which is now available in 45 countries and more than 270 cities around the world. A similar service is offered by LYFT in more than 90 cities enabling passengers who need a ride to request one from drivers who have an available car.</span> </span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12pt;">Get a Taxi in One App</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">ZabCab, ZabCab Driver, and ZabCab Front Desk are companion apps for consumers, drivers and businesses. They work together to help passengers find taxis – and taxi drivers to find passengers – quickly and easily from a smartphone. They are available to download at the App Store and Google Play.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12pt;">Travel Updates</span></strong><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">• Mobile Passport Control App at Miami International Airport (MIA)</span><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">• Get in the Fast Lane at MIA! TSA Pre-Check Now Available for Southwest Airlines and JetBlue</span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12pt;">Local Interest</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">• Florida Tax Watch Study Details Benefits of Expanding Florida Tourism</span><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">• National Travel and Tourism a Big Win for Industry<span style="color: #009ac8;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #009ac8;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #009ac8;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #009ac8;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td style="letter-spacing: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 609px;" valign="top"><strong><span style="font-size: 8pt;">FOR THE MONTHS OF JANUARY – MAY 2016, HOTEL ROOM OCCUPANCY IN GREATER MIAMI AND THE BEACHES REACHED 81.3 PERCENT, ONE OF THE HIGHEST IN THE SELECT GLOBAL HOTEL MARKETS AND RANKING AMONG THE TOP FIVE.</span></strong><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong><strong>DEMAND FOR TRAVEL TO GREATER MIAMI AND THE BEACHES DURING JANUARY – MAY 2016 REMAINED STRONG RANKING #1 IN REVENUE PER AVAILABLE ROOM (REVPAR), #2 IN AVERAGE DAILY ROOM RATE (ADR) AND #3 IN HOTEL ROOM OCCUPANCY AMONG THE TOP FIVE SELECT GLOBAL HOTEL MARKETS AS PROVIDED BY SMITH TRAVEL RESEARCH.<br /></strong></strong></span></td></tr>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 8pt;">$189.36</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 8pt;">-4.1%</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong>$229.42</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong> 82.5%</strong></span></div>
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<tr><td style="letter-spacing: 0px; padding: 10px; vertical-align: top; width: 609px;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">On July 1, 2016 GMCVB President & CEO William D. Talbert, III, CDME officially began his tenure as the new 2016-2017 Board Chair of VISIT FLORIDA. The Board of Directors is the organization’s private sector governing body who, along with the members of its 11 committees, provide guidance, input and insight into the evolution of VISIT FLORIDA’s marketing programs. Appointed by Enterprise Florida in conjunction with the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, the 31-member board is comprised of representatives from key sectors of the tourism industry and is balanced geographically throughout the state. The nine-member Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, made up of the officers and standing committee chairs, includes Gene Prescott, President - The Biltmore Hotel, who will serve as Treasurer; and Simone Champagnie, FIU Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management Executive Director of Development, who will serve as Secretary. Other Miami-based board members include Past Board Chair Andrew Hertz, President & General Manager - Miami Seaquarium; and Christine Duffy, President - Carnival Cruise Lines. VISIT FLORIDA – the official tourism marketing corporation for the state of Florida – promotes tourism to Florida through sales, advertising, promotions, public relations and visitor services programs. As a public/private partnership, VISIT FLORIDA serves more than 11,000 tourism industry businesses.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.6667px;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.6667px;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.6667px;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.6667px;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong>It's Time to Spa! GMCVB's 9th Annual Miami Spa Month Returns July 1, 2016</strong><br />Miami Spa Month, one of GMCVB’s most popular monthly Temptations programs, returns to the destination beginning July 1, 2016! Greater Miami and the Beaches is renowned for luxury spas that rank among the “Best in America,” and are beloved by spa connoisseurs around the world. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em><strong>WWE Entertainment</strong></em><strong> Ranks #6 and #8 in Nielsen's Cable Top 25 Ratings for the Week Ending June 26, 2016</strong><strong><br /></strong><em>WWE's WrestleMania</em> Week drew record-breaking crowds to Miami and Beaches in April 2012<span style="font-size: 8pt;">. <span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Nielsen ratings are the audience measurement systems developed by the Nielsen Company in an effort to determine the audience size and composition of TV programming in the United States.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong>GMCVB President & CEO to Attend Grand Opening Ribbon-Cutting for First U.S. Property of Latin American Based Atton Hotels - Atton Brickell Miami</strong><br />On July 7, 2016, GMCVB President & CEO William D. Talbert, III, CDME will join Miami city officials and business leaders for the official grand opening ribbon-cutting for Atton Brickell Miami, Downtown Miami’s newest hotel and landmark U.S. property for Latin American-based Atton Hotels.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Talbert, III, CDME, President & CEO of the GMCVB will attend the retirement celebration for former City of Miami Police Major Delrish Moss, a veteran law enforcement officer and supporter of Greater Miami’s travel and tourism industry.<span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">In March 2016, Moss was appointed Police Chief of Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. He was appointed to the position over 53 other applicants.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></td><td style="padding-left: 10px; width: 289px;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong>Join the Movement: Vote for Vacations, Vote for Miami!</strong><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">If you’re in the New York City area on Tuesday, July 6, 2016, join GMCVB President & CEO William D. Talbert, III, CDME and the Miami Team for the Vote for Miami 2016 Campaign Rally at The Shops at Columbus Circle. Americans continue to leave more vacation days on the table year after year and it’s time to take a stand. Vacation seekers can join the #VOTEMIAMI2016 campaign via <span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><a class="VoteMiami 2016" href="http://www.votemiami2016.com/" target="_blank">VoteMiami2016.com</a></span></span></span></span></span></span> to cast their vote.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong>GMCVB President & CEO Will be a Featured Guest on Pete de La Torre's Radio Show "<em>The Voice of Business Miami</em>" on July 7, 2016</strong><br />GMCVB President & CEO William D. Talbert, III, CDME will be a featured guest on Pete De La Torre’s “<em>The Voice of Business Miami</em>” show on July 7, 2016. Mr. Talbert will be promoting the newest happenings in Greater Miami and Beaches, including Miami Spa Month, signature attractions and events, the Miami Beach Convention Center renovation and the business of tourism.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong>PortMiami Ushers in New Big Ship Era with Special Event July 9, 2016</strong><br />On July 9, 2016, GMCVB President & CEO William D. Talbert, III, CDME will join Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez, PortMiami officials and partners will celebrate “History in the Making” the arrival of the MOL Majesty container ship – the first Miami-bound Neo-Panamax vessel to transit the expanded Panama Canal.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong>TSA Precheck Enrollment</strong> <strong>July 19-23, 2016</strong><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">A TSA Precheck enrollment event in the Miami area has been scheduled for the week of July 19-23. The site will be located at the Hilton, Miami Airport, located at 5101 Blue Lagoon Dr, Miami, FL 33126 USA and will be open for enrollments during the following hours: Tuesday and Wednesday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="border: medium none currentcolor; height: 180px; letter-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 300px;" valign="top"><strong><span style="font-size: 8pt;">International Family Campaign</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">The International Family Campaign was launched early June targeting families in Argentina, Mexico and Colombia, who have shown an interest of vacationing in Miami.</span><strong><span style="font-size: 8pt;">July 4th Fireworks Will Be Lighting Up The Miami Sky</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Check out the <a href="http://www.miamiandbeaches.com/event/independence-day/16819">Independence Day Fireworks Celebrations</a> on MiamiandBeaches.com to find the most spectacular July 4th fireworks displays.</span><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Vote Miami 2016: Vote for Miami for Chance to Win Miami Vacation</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Miami is rallying Americans to vote for something that really matters…their right to vacation! There are many reasons to love every bit of Miami and Beaches. From our unique, vibrant cultural experiences to our multi-faceted arts scene, the beach and beyond.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="border: medium none currentcolor; height: 180px; letter-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 300px;" valign="top"><strong><span style="font-size: 8pt;">GMCVB Multicultural Tourism Hosts Planning Meeting for 3rd Annual Art of Black Miami to be Held During Art Basel Weekend</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">GMCVB Multicultural Tourism Team held its first planning meeting for the 3rd Annual Art of Black Miami event on June 23, 2016. More than twenty (20) local artists and organizations convened to discuss this year’s format. The discussion was engaging and attendees are looking forward to more national exhibits and enhanced connectivity to the various neighborhoods. </span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size: 8pt;">GMCVB Multicultural Tourism VP Attends NiteCap-Live in Miami Gardens</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Connie Kinnard, GMCVB of Multicultural Tourism attended NiteCap-Live on June 25,2016 which was a one-on-one formatted conversation about the future of Miami Gardens with the city’s Mayor, Oliver Gilbert III, and award-winning author and journalist Peter Bailey.</span><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="border: medium none currentcolor; height: 180px; letter-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 300px;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong>GMCVB Returns From Successful Chicago Sales Blitz</strong><br />GMCVB Convention Sales Team returned from a successful sales blitz to Chicago, IL USA. The Team made presentations at 15 association and corporate companies in Chicago and the suburbs.<br /><br /><strong>GMCVB Convention Sales Team Sells the Destination at Smart Meetings East National Held in Miami June 26-28, 2016</strong><br />GMCVB President & CEO William D. Talbert, III, CDME provided a warm welcome to the attendees from across the nation of Smart Meetings East National held at the Trump National Doral. The event brought more than 60 planners for three days of networking and getting to know Miami.<br /><br /><strong>GMCVB Convention Sales Team Attends CVENT Connect Conference June 26-28, 2016</strong><br />GMCVB Convention Sales Team attended Cvent Connect in Las Vegas, NV USA June 26-28, 2016. Cvent CONNECT is an annual conference where group business, corporations and associations come together to connect, learn and engage with like-minded professionals.<br /></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="border: medium none currentcolor; height: 180px; letter-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 300px;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong>GMCVB Media Relations Assists French Press Group in Partnership with The Setai</strong> <strong>Hotel Miami Beach</strong><br />GMCVB Media Relations Team partnered with The Setai Hotel Miami Beach which hosted a group of French media, June 26, 2016. The GMCVB provided itinerary enhancement for the group who were in Miami to review the Setai and write about the destination.<br /><br /><strong>GMCVB Media Relations Assists Italian Travel Vlogger</strong><br />GMCVB Media Relations Team assisted Italian travel vlogger Sara Izzi, June 27 – July 2, 2016. Sara was in Miami to do research for a Miami City Guide (guide + video).<br /><br /><strong>GMCVB Media Relations Assists Australian Freelancer</strong><br />GMCVB Media Relations Team assisted Australian Freelance Journalist Karen Halabi, June 25 – July 2, 2016. Karen was in Miami doing research for feature stories for<em>TheLuxeTraveller.com</em>, a luxury travel advisory website. She will also be doing a Miami story forTravel2Next, a popular online B2B travel site.<br /></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="border: medium none currentcolor; height: 200px; letter-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 300px;" valign="top"><strong><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Dirt Devils Mountain Bike Festival July 9-10, 2016</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">The City of Miami's Historic Virginia Key Park will host the upcoming Dirt Devils Mountain Bike Festival July 9-10, 2016 for riders of all ages! </span><span style="font-size: 8pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong>2016 FISU World University Netball Championships - Miami - July 13-17, 2016</strong><br />Miami will be the proud host of the Fédération Internationale du sport Universitaire (FISU) World University Netball Championships to be played on the campus of St. Thomas University on July 13-17, 2016. Netball America Inc. is hosting the prestigious event along with FISU and USA International University Sports Federation.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="border: medium none currentcolor; letter-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 300px;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"></span></span><span style="font-size: 8pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 8pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Promote your business domestically and abroad! Sign up now for <strong>GMCVB Travel Industry Sales Missions</strong>. Spots are quickly filling for the following opportunities:</span><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong>Northeast Sales Mission</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">New Jersey, Long Island, Connecticut and New York City</span><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">September 6-9, 2016.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong>Canada Sales Mission</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Toronto and Montreal</span><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">October 3-7, 2016.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="border: medium none currentcolor; height: 150px; letter-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 300px;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">J<strong>une Partner Networking Mixer</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">On June 23, 2016, The Vagabond Hotel hosted GMCVB’s June Partnership Networking Mixer at their chic, recently renovated property located at 7301 Biscayne Boulevard in Miami.</span><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; 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<tr><td style="border: medium none currentcolor; height: 150px; letter-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 300px;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">GMCVB representatives domestically and all around the globe promote Greater Miami as the premier destination for leisure and business. Read their updates here.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="color: #1876bc; font-family: "Century Gothic";"><strong>• </strong>Caribbean</span></strong></span><br />
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<tr><td style="width: 59px;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">7/1-8/31</span></td><td style="vertical-align: middle; width: 121px;"> <a choice="1" class="Miami Spa" href="http://www.miamispamonth.com/" target="_blank"><img align="left" alt="Details About This Event" height="25" src="http://gmcvb.informz.net/GMCVB/data/images/wh_assets/buttons/details_white.png" style="border: 0px currentcolor;" width="100" /></a></td><td style="vertical-align: middle; width: 433px;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Miami Spa Month</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="width: 59px;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">7/4</span></td><td style="vertical-align: middle; width: 121px;"><a choice="1" class="Independence Day 2016" href="http://www.miamiandbeaches.com/event/independence-day/16819" target="_blank"><img align="left" alt="Details About This Event" height="25" src="http://gmcvb.informz.net/GMCVB/data/images/wh_assets/buttons/details_white.png" style="border: 0px currentcolor;" width="100" /></a></td><td style="vertical-align: middle; width: 433px;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Independence Day Celebrations in Greater Miami and the Beaches</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="width: 59px;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">7/8</span></td><td style="vertical-align: middle; width: 121px;"><a choice="1" class="Black Violin" href="http://www.smdcac.org/" target="_blank"><img align="left" alt="Details About This Event" height="25" src="http://gmcvb.informz.net/GMCVB/data/images/wh_assets/buttons/details_white.png" style="border: 0px currentcolor;" width="100" /></a></td><td style="vertical-align: middle; width: 433px;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Black Violin</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="width: 59px;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">7/9</span></td><td style="vertical-align: middle; width: 121px;"><a choice="1" class="International Mango Festival" href="http://www.fairchildgarden.org/" target="_blank"><img align="left" alt="Details About This Event" height="25" src="http://gmcvb.informz.net/GMCVB/data/images/wh_assets/buttons/details_white.png" style="border: 0px currentcolor;" width="100" /></a></td><td style="vertical-align: middle; width: 433px;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">International Mango Festival</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="width: 59px;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">7/9-7/10</span></td><td style="vertical-align: middle; width: 121px;"><a choice="1" class="Dirt Devils" href="http://www.ridedirtdevils.com/" target="_blank"><img align="left" alt="Details About This Event" height="25" src="http://gmcvb.informz.net/GMCVB/data/images/wh_assets/buttons/details_white.png" style="border: 0px currentcolor;" width="100" /></a></td><td style="vertical-align: middle; width: 433px;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Dirt Devils Mountain Bike Festival</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="width: 59px;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">7/12-7/17</span></td><td style="vertical-align: middle; width: 121px;"><a choice="1" class="Netball" href="http://www.netballwuc2016.com/" target="_blank"><img align="left" alt="Details About This Event" height="25" src="http://gmcvb.informz.net/GMCVB/data/images/wh_assets/buttons/details_white.png" style="border: 0px currentcolor;" width="100" /></a></td><td style="vertical-align: middle; width: 433px;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">FISU World University Netball Championships</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="width: 59px;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">7/14-7/18</span></td><td style="vertical-align: middle; width: 121px;"><a choice="1" class="MB Bruthaz" href="http://www.miamibeachbruthaz.com/" target="_blank"><img align="left" alt="Details About This Event" height="25" src="http://gmcvb.informz.net/GMCVB/data/images/wh_assets/buttons/details_white.png" style="border: 0px currentcolor;" width="100" /></a></td><td style="vertical-align: middle; width: 433px;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Miami Beach Bruthaz</span></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037694528789526459.post-55495043086800653482016-07-01T10:10:00.004-04:002016-07-01T10:10:52.074-04:00Spanish authorities raid Google offices over tax <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Spanish officials raided Google's Madrid offices on Thursday in a tax probe, authorities said, barely a month after the internet company had its headquarters in France searched on suspicion of tax evasion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A spokeswoman for Google said in a statement the company complied with fiscal legislation in Spain just as it did in all countries where it operated. The company was working with authorities to answer all questions, the spokeswoman added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Google is under pressure across Europe from politicians and the public upset at how multinationals exploit their presence around the world to minimize their tax bills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Google, part of Alphabet Inc, pays little tax in most of Europe because it reports almost all sales in Ireland. This is possible thanks to a loophole in international tax law and hinges on staff in Dublin concluding all sales contracts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Paris raid aimed to establish whether Google Ireland has a permanent base there, and whether the firm was meeting its tax obligations. It was part of a probe into aggravated tax fraud and organized laundering of the proceeds.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037694528789526459.post-12319862204261568042016-06-30T09:42:00.002-04:002016-06-30T09:43:24.863-04:00FTC efforts to stop Fraud<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Testifies on Efforts to Stop Fraud Affecting Older Americans Before Senate
Judiciary Committee</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Federal Trade Commission highlighted to Congress its
multi-faceted approach to protecting older Americans from fraud in <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/public-statements/2016/06/prepared-statement-federal-trade-commission-protecting-older-americans?utm_source=govdelivery">testimony
today before the Senate Judiciary Committee</a>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Testifying on behalf of the Commission, Lois Greisman,
Associate Director of the FTC’s Division of Marketing Practices, described
the FTC’s law enforcement efforts that have halted scams that included
older Americans among their targets, such as imposter scams, computer
technical support and health care-related frauds, as well as sweepstakes
and prize scams.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The testimony noted that in 2015, consumers age 60 and over
primarily complained about government imposter scams, which was one of the
FTC’s top complaint categories in 2015. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">According to the testimony,
all consumers are potential fraud targets, and except in connection with
prize promotion and lottery schemes, seniors are not more affected by fraud
than younger consumers. A lot of the scams affecting both seniors and
younger Americans involve criminal conduct and are based overseas, so the
FTC has worked closely with criminal law enforcement agencies and
international authorities. The testimony described how the FTC worked with
the U.S. Department of Justice on recent cases involving alleged
sweepstakes scammers based in Jamaica and the Netherlands, and has provided
training for law enforcers in India where many frauds originate.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In addition, the testimony described the agency’s education
and outreach programs that reach tens of millions of people each year
through its website, news media, and partner organizations that provide
consumer information on the FTC’s behalf. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The testimony also explained that
the FTC has developed an outreach program specifically for active older
adults, called <a href="https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/features/feature-0030-pass-it-on?utm_source=govdelivery">Pass
It On</a> where consumers can find videos, articles and blogs about scams
and how to avoid becoming a victim.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Commission vote approving the testimony and its inclusion
in the formal record was 3-0.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Federal Trade Commission works to promote competition, and
<a href="https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/bureaus-offices/bureau-consumer-protection?utm_source=govdelivery">protect
and educate consumers</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can <a href="https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/?utm_source=govdelivery">learn more
about consumer topics</a> and file a <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/complaint?utm_source=govdelivery">consumer
complaint online</a> or by calling 1-877-FTC-HELP (382-4357). Like
the FTC on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/federaltradecommission?utm_source=govdelivery">Facebook</a>,
follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/FTC?utm_source=govdelivery">Twitter</a>,
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and <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/stay-connected?utm_source=govdelivery">subscribe
to press releases</a> for the latest FTC news and resources.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037694528789526459.post-56132910573609785482016-06-29T08:54:00.001-04:002016-06-29T08:54:37.214-04:00FREE Miami-Dade Transit Monthly Bus/Metrorail Pass <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Bus/Metrorail Passes to Miami-Dade County Residents who qualify.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-stretch: normal; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-indent: -0.25in;">Must present last year’s W-2 or the last (2) Two
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Scammers want your money, but they don’t want to get caught taking it. That’s why fraudulent telemarketers ask people to pay with systems that deliver a quick, anonymous cash payout like cash-to-cash transfers or cash reload card PINs. However, it’s <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2016/06/ftc-alerts-telemarketers-tsr-prohibits-certain-payment-methods" style="color: #2b93d9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">now <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">illegal</strong></a>for telemarketers to ask for payment by:</div>
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<li style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px;">cash-to-cash money transfers — like those from MoneyGram and Western Union</li>
<li style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px;">PINs from cash reload cards like MoneyPak and Vanilla Reload</li>
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The FTC amended the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) to ban these practices starting June 13, 2016. If a telemarketer asks you to use one of these payment methods, he’s breaking the law.</div>
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The amended Rule also bans telemarketers from calling to ask for your bank account information and using it to create a ‘remotely created check’ that you never see, or sign. If a telemarketer you haven’t done business with calls to ask for your bank account number for any purpose, say ‘No’ and hang up.</div>
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You have other protections under the Rule, including:</div>
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<li style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px;">limits on <a href="https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0198-telemarketing-sales-rule" style="color: #2b93d9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">when telemarketers can call</a> and what they must tell you</li>
<li style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px;">limits on <a href="https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0198-telemarketing-sales-rule" style="color: #2b93d9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">“hang-up” calls</a> and rules about transmitting caller ID</li>
<li style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px;">limits on <a href="https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0259-robocalls" style="color: #2b93d9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">robocalls</a></li>
<li style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px;">the <a href="https://donotcall.gov/" style="color: #2b93d9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">National Do Not Call Registry</a></li>
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If you hear from telemarketers who don’t follow the rules, hang up and <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/complaint" style="color: #2b93d9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">report them to the FTC</a>.</div>
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alertas y noticias sobre salud (en inglés)</a><span style="color: black;"> de las
áreas que planea visitar</span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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reducir el riesgo de coágulos sanguíneos</a><span style="color: black;"> mientras
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">CANNES, France — Will Smith remembers when he was obsessed with winning. "I found myself promoting something because I wanted to win, versus promoting something because I believed it was helpful," he commented on stage at Cannes Lions. It was this era — around the time of "Men in Black" and "Wild Wild West" — that he got caught in the whirlwind of success. "I started to taste global blood. My focus shifted from artistry to winning."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What he discovered (and what Hollywood and marketers everywhere still are) is that the winning-is-the-only-thing strategy doesn't really work anymore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"Back in the '80s and '90s, you put out a trailer with all the explosions, and it took until Wednesday before people realized your movie was shit," said Smith. In today's rapid-fire social world, however, the response to products, films, and brands is instantaneous: "You're going to know right away if your product is meeting its promises."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Smith thinks this is a good thing. "It's like a new idea that we have to make good movies," he says. For marketing and sales, it means a deeper connection to your audience. "If people don't want it, you're not going to be able to sell it."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Smith made the point by revealing that even his daughter was now immune to his charms. During the international tour for "Whip My Hair" (remember that earworm?), Willow told her dad she was ready to go home — and to make her point, she shaved her head. "[The tour] wasn't what she wanted. There was no sales pitch I could make to her because she didn't want it."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This was something of an epiphany for the actor, who made a mental shift "from product to people." He explained: "It was so explosive in my mind that selling, marketing, creating cannot be about me." The lesson for marketers is clear: If you're not listening to your audience, your promotions will fall on deaf ears. (And to employers: Good luck telling your team to do something they don't believe in just because you've mandated it.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Smith wasn't the only one to underscore this new reality for the world of advertising. In a panel yesterday on ad blocking, R/GA's Jess Greenwood said the biggest challenge with native advertising is "shifting the mindset away from the idea that you can buy your way into people's lives." Mobile banner ads, for example, are creating what Greenwood calls "an absolute emergency": 66% of users find them useless or annoying. 60% of mobile banner ad clicks are mistakes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"We're moving from a world where advertising can work on the basis of captive attention to a world where advertising has to capture attention," said Mark Thompson, president and CEO of the New York Times Company. Advertising that doesn't compel consumers won't stand out from the rest of the digital noise. And, even worse, people can shut you out for good: "If we're destroying this one opportunity we have to get good reach," Greenwood warned, "we're in trouble as an industry."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For Will Smith and Mark Thompson, it all comes back to telling a great story. The New York Times is on track to generate $60 million in native advertising revenue this year, and Thompson said success in this burgeoning field requires content that's creative and truly journalistic. For Smith, storytelling is "the universally relatable emotion." It turns out that the "power of the story," which drew him to acting, is also the key to a great brand. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2016/06/whos-calling-its-not-osha?utm_source=govdelivery">Who’s
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">By Lesley Fair<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Spoiler alert: If the villains in a thriller appear to be
vanquished with 20 minutes left in the movie, you can bet they’ll make a
dramatic reappearance. A case filed by the FTC targets a B2B tactic that
small businesses started seeing years ago, but – to quote <i>Poltergeist II</i>
– “They’re ba-ack.” And the defendants in the sequel have added what the
FTC says is a bogus imposter angle.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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