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Improvement of 8% seen in the lab-based ethanol combustion

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Press release December 1, 2021 Big news in Croatia: From today you can use cryptocurrencies for grocery shopping Electrocoin is now collaborating with Konzum, Croatia’s largest supermarket chain, and as of today it is possible to buy more than 12,000 items from Konzum’s online store using the PayCek system. Zagreb – Thanks to the partnership between Electrocoin, one of the fastest-growing Croatian fintech companies, and Konzum, Croatia’s largest supermarket chain, we have some big news from Croatia for you – bread, milk, or for that matter any household and hygiene product can as of today be paid for using cryptocurrencies.

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FlokiCoke, one of the first Floki meme token projects to work collaboratively with a manufacturer to produce Coke, today announced that its presale will begin on December 18, 2021.

FlokiCoke is different from regular meme tokens because this business will have tangible assets and generate real profits for investors. Profits from beer and NFT sales will be used to buy back $FlokiCoke tokens, further boosting the token price. The overarching goal of FlokiCoke is to assist with the adoption of cryptocurrency by increasing its appearance in mainstream media. FlokiCoke aims to be the most-known and most-used cryptocurrency in the soft drink industry.
FlokiCoke to Launch Presale for First   Reflection Floki Token and Coke DrinkFlokiCoke was built on the Binance Smart Chain. Twenty-six percent of the overall tokens have been set aside for presale. The total supply is 1,000,000,000,000,000 and the presale rate is 1 BNB = 430,000,000,000. A soft cap has been set at 300BNB with a hard cap at 600BNB. The initial market cap is estimated at $630,806. FlokiCoke will be listed on PancakeSwap. 

FlokiCoke is also hosting a presale whitelist competition. There will only be 200 whitelist spots available, and there are eight different ways to enter. Visit gleam.io/JuS0g/flokicoke-presale-whitelist-contest for more details about the content and information on how to enter.

Why choose $FlokiCoke?

• Contract audited
• KYC verified
• Doxxed team
• Initial burn 50% token
• Liquidity will be locked for two years
• Auto-buyback built-in
• Anti-whale contract design
• Tangible asset

Before the presale, the FlokiCoke token was audited by InterFi, an independent, smart contract auditing firm. The token is KYC-certified by an independent auditing firm and has a KYC badge from the PinkSale. All team members are doxed to increase investor confidence, and the development team does not hold any $FlokiCoke. The team has committed to never hosting private sales.

Auto-buyback has been built into the smart contract function to automatically buy back and burn various amounts of $FlokiCoke upon the sale of any FlokiCoke tokens. Auto-buyback helps stabilize the token price, benefiting investors more than manual buybacks.

To assist with marketing, 5 percent of $FlokiCoke tokens have been reserved for airdrops, CEX and digital marketing. Additionally, 4 percent of every $FlokiCoke transaction is reinvested for marketing activities, allowing for a continual increase in the marketing budget. A consistently funded marketing strategy will boost brand awareness and attract new investors.

“FlokiCoke's meme culture is strong,” said FlokiCoke Founder and CEO Cody Lai. “Our community loves and lives for the memes, and we strongly believe that the only way to truly take cryptocurrency mainstream and ensure mainstream adoption is by leveraging the power of memes.”

For more information, visit flokicoke.com and follow FlokiCoke on Telegram, Twitter, Instagram and Github. Find out more about the presale at gleam.io/JuS0g/flokicoke-presale-whitelist-contest.

NFT platform and curated marketplace ArtGrails (https://www.artgrails.com/), today announced that Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's notorious “fixer” and author of the New York Times #1 bestseller “Disloyal: A Memoir”, will display and auction the first page of his memoir backed by a non-fungible token (NFT) containing a video of Cohen writing the page at Miami Art Week this week. The ArtGrails NFT exhibition will run from December 1 through December 12. 

The successful bidder will receive the original manuscript, which was handwritten by Cohen while serving the first days of his federal sentence in New York's Otisville Prison, as well as a never before seen NFT-backed video of Cohen working on the memoir's first pages from his holding cell. The video, recorded by an unnamed colleague, was filmed just before the former Trump attorney was sent back to his luxury Park Avenue apartment to serve the rest of his term.

Bidding will begin on December 1 at 5 PM Eastern Time and will go on till December 12, 5 PM Eastern Time; the auction is accessible via www.artgrails.com. In addition to the manuscript, ArtGrails is releasing a set of fixed price Cohen's prison badge in an NFT Edition release on December 12 at 4 PM Eastern Time, which will feature three different levels of rarity - Open, Gold and Grail. 

ArtGrails is a curated NFT experience, and as such, we are working with some of the highest caliber creators and artists in the market today.”  Says ArtGrails.com founder, Avery Andon. “When Michael [Cohen] came to me after deciding to release his manuscript and federal prison badge, I knew this had to be a project facilitated by our platform. Integrating an NFT into the release of these one of a kind physical items, not only validates them using blockchain technology, but it also gave us the ability to incorporate some creativity into the release.” 

In addition to the NFT-backed physical manuscript page, written on Cohen's personal letterhead, and his actual Prison Badge from Otisville Federal Prison, the team at ArtGrails is making available limited release NFT versions of Cohen's Otisville Federal Prison badge.  These NFTs will be released in three different levels of rarity, “open”, “gold”, and “grail”. 

ArtGrails will host a VIP party and Q&A media event in Miami's design district on Friday December 3rd; the event will feature a live video appearance by MIchael Cohen who will read from his manuscript and also take limited questions from event attendees and media. 

For more on ArtGrails and updates on Michael Cohen's NFT releases, visit: ArtGrails.com

About ArtGrails

ArtGrails is an NFT technology platform that aims to lead the market in high-end, exclusive, luxury collectibles sold as NFTs.  The high-touch, exclusive NFT platform has a hands-on approach to curating and selling contemporary art and believes in a future where every piece of art is tied to a unique NFT identifier, immutably tied to a blockchain.

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The word innovation is often thrown around like many other business buzzwords. Real medical device innovation takes effort and is truly valuable. Here are a few key ingredients that will improve the odds of achieving this elusive goal. What is it anyway? Recently a group of StarFish leaders went through an exercise to precisely define […]

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Mainland Chinese Truck Market Continues to Deteriorate, Supply Constraints Add to Production Woes

The policy-induced pre-loaded consumption has given mainland Chinese medium- and heavy-duty truck (MHDT) market a chill since July, with production cutting by nearly 60% as compared with the same period of last year. The current supply chain constraints caused by semi-conductor and power shortages will weigh on production activities into 2022. In our November 2021 forecast, we expect the mainland Chinese MHDT production to further loose around 25,000 units for the second half of 2021 and 15,000 units for the first quarter of the next year.

High inventories of China 5-level trucks remain the biggest dragger

Owing to the OEMs' price competition, the pre-buy activity in preparation for the China 6 emission rules were greatly amplified, resulting in an over-storage of China 5-level trucks across dealer channels in the first half of 2021. By the end of October, nationwide MHDT inventories are calculated at 260,000 units, still way higher than the typical rates of 150,000-170,000 units. Roughly two thirds of inventories are China 5-level trucks, despite a closure of registrations in major markets such as Hebei, Shaanxi, and Shandong. A part of the unsaleable trucks has flowed into the second-hand market with price depreciating up to 50%. Such price differential, coupled with common concerns over increasing usage cost, makes China-6 level trucks even less favorable. Although the final chance to register a China 5-level truck is set on December 31, 2021 in some regions, the high inventory pressure will likely deepen into early 2022 before the full clearance of new China 5-level trucks in the market.

Semiconductor shortage gets worse but under control

The global automotive semiconductor shortage has worsened by the pandemic resurgence in Malaysia and Vietnam since the summer months. To minimize losses under the tighter resources, some OEMs have prioritized production to bestselling models or new models that need to be pushed to the market, while some OEMs have placed orders of key accounts the first in line. Moreover, there have been cases of pausing acceptance of advanced orders because of the uncertainty about final deliveries. As a result, the average lead time of new trucks in most manufacturers are extended from one week to above four weeks. The sophisticated premium models that account for less than 10% market share suffered the most, with production line rates almost halved for several brands. We expect the semiconductor supply chain to stay gloomy for the coming months, but its impacts on the MHDT production should be manageable under sluggish sales of China 6-level trucks.

Power shortage risk may persist in the medium term

The coal supply disruption stemming from the mainland Chinese government's energy consumption control has triggered a severe power crunch across the nation, with more than 20 provinces experiencing different degrees of load shedding measures since mid-2021. Except for three northeastern provinces - Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang where the residential sector is affected, most provinces have kept power rationing measures within energy-intensive industries. Some energy-intensive industries such as aluminum, electronics, and steel are ordered to curtail capacity by 20-30% in the second half to meet carbon reduction commitments, posing more hurdles to automotive supply chain and industrial freight transport. On one hand, the softening demand for China 6-level trucks has hindered truck makers to pass the inflating producer cost on to retail prices. On the other hand, the continued downswing in industrial output will undermine the road freight recovery. Although the government has fine-tuned policies to ramp up coal production and reined in coal and power prices, an upturn is not likely to emerge until the second quarter of 2022 when the winter heating season ends. Given the government's anti-pollution ambitions, the supply disruption risks may sustain for quite a while.

With de-stocking of China 5-level new trucks, we predict MHDT inventories to rebuild from the third quarter of 2022, supporting some improvements in production. However, the expected slowing economy as well as economic reform measures including property deleveraging, financial de-risking, and industrial decarbonization will continue to act as a drag from the demand side. The recently released State Council's guideline on antipollution campaigns which highlight a nationwide elimination of China 1-3-level trucks by 2025 may bring a turn to the market, while its practical enforcement and impacts remain uncertain before the issuance of more specific measures.

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