| london's trendiest boutique goes online (uk)
Shoreditch is home to many hidden gems one of which is a designer fashion boutique called Start; a favourite shopping spot for celebrities, fashionistas and musos alike. The stores hand-picked clothing and accessories from both legendary and up-and-coming designers has now launched its own website. Philip Start founded the original boutique in 2002 along with ex-musician wife Brix Smith-Start, he told Vogue; It was always our intention to re-create the Rivington Street shop online, especially due to the popular demand from our international customers," he continued. We hope to give our existing customers as well as lots of new ones, who are unable to come in to the shop, the same service and experience as if they were in the Start stores. It is also great to give our wonderful and eclectic selection of designers another window to show off their talents." The boutique also includes one-off pieces not found anywhere else in the world.
McLean's MicroStrategy Nets Three More Clients
MicroStrategy, the McLean-based data mining company, has been busy landing customers -- three in one week, to be exact. MicroStrategy nabbed an account with KB Toys Inc., the mall-based toy retailer. KB Toys will use MicroStrategy's software to keep track of inventory and improve the supply chain between its vendors and stores. Two days later, MicroStrategy announced that its software will be used by shipping giant DHL Express to analyze sales, marketing, finance and operations across the company. .
Guard your property
China is now Australia's second largest export market, after Japan, and China is starting to consign the theft of intellectual property to the past. In recognition of this, Austrade has organised a seminar next week for businesses trading with China, or planning to do so in the future, on how they can protect their intellectual property and make it a key part of any business plans they have with the area. Despite its past and the perceptions that still linger, China has acknowledged the right to foreign traders' intellectual property and has set in place laws to protect it. But at issue for many small businesses, says Austrade, is the enforcement of the rules and the adequacy of any penalties for breaching those rules. The Federal Minister for Trade, Warren Truss, says that along with the huge business opportunities that are available to small businesses contemplating moving into China, there are also risks.
Virgina Tech Killer Bought Supplies Online
Cho Seung-Hui, killer of 32 on the Virginia Tech campus last week, bought at least five 10-shot magazine clips on eBay Inc.'s Web site for one of the two guns he used, the same gun he purchased in February from a Wisconsin online dealer. Cho first purchased two 10-round clips for a Walther P22, a .22 caliber semiautomatic pistol, on March 22 from eBay seller "bullelk14," which is an account associated with Elk Ridge Shooting Supply, a Rigby, Idaho-based eBay store whose owner touts it as a "small family-owned business." According to eBay records, Cho paid US$38.99 plus $5.75 shipping. The second eBay transaction was finalized the next day, March 23, when Cho bought three more 10-round clips for a P22, this time from eBay seller "oneclickshooting" for $59.99. Police have said that Cho was armed with two semiautomatic pistols, a Walther P22 and a Glock Model 19 9-millimeter.
4-H clubs make changes to prevent swine disease spread
(AP) -- Minnesota 4-H clubs are taking a new step to prevent the spread of diseases among swine, hoping to head off a proposal by the Minnesota Pork Producers calling for the slaughter of all swine exhibited at county fairs or shows. The change itself is fairly simple, involving the process for how identification tags are applied to the ears of 4-H hogs. But 4-H and industry officials said it's significant because it reduces the chances of hogs from different farms coming together, as well as the chance of people spreading disease from one farm to another. "We're being proactive," said Jodi Bakke, Kandiyohi County 4-H coordinator. "We don't want to be contributing to any livestock disease." The change requires 4-H families to obtain and attach ear tags and complete identification affidavits, rather than having it done by 4-H staff or trained volunteers who come to their farms or do it at centralized events.
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