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SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Corey Lang, associate professor of environmental and natural resource economics at the University of Rhode Island, wants to know what value people place on non-market goods, including open space.
“Preserved open space is a public good that isn’t bought and sold in a traditional market place, and thus there is no price on it,” Lang said in a statement. “Because there is no price, it’s difficult to infer how much people value open space, even though it’s clear they do.”
A recent recipient of two Department of Agriculture grants totaling $1 million, Lang plans to research trends associated with the value people place on non-market goods and their impact on the price of additional goods and services. For example, open space such as parks and recreational areas can influence the value people place on real estate.
Lang will conduct his study by examining where people live and how they vote on environmental referenda.
In total, Lang has been awarded more than $2.4 million in research funding over the past seven years since joining the URI faculty. Among his other research interests is the relationship between the local community and the nation’s first offshore wind farm near Block Island.
In a study funded by Rhode Island Sea Grant, using data from real estate transactions and rentals, he is examining the economic impact of the wind farm on tourism.
His 2013 examination of onshore wind turbines in Rhode Island found the installations had no effect on property values.


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National Highway toll plazas to rename as 'fee plazas'
Any structure or booth made for collection of fee will be known as "fee plaza" and a lane at each plaza for smooth passage of vehicles will be known as "FASTag lane".
Sahara's Plaza, Dream Downtown hotels in US up for sale?
The group has been trying hard to raise funds including through refinancing of loans...
New York’s Plaza Hotel auction: A look at the hotel's gilded history
The 282-room iconic hotel is expected to sell for more than $1 billion, ...
Pankaj Mathur appointed as general manager of Pride Plaza Hotel Aerocity
Mathur has over three decades of experience in the hospitality industry and brings with him a wealth of operational & management expertise.
Hotels face headwinds, but investors are bullish
Shares of Indian Hotels, EIH, Advani Hotels, Oriental Hotels and Viceroy Hotels have jumped 9%-64% in the last three months.
Staying at budget hotels to become cheaper in Delhi
As per the Delhi Tax on Luxuries Act (1996), any person, who stays at a hotel room whose tariff is Rs 750 per day or above, has to pay luxury tax.
Permission for release of "Kabali" in 5-star hotels rejected
Citing rules, Bengaluru urban Deputy Commissioner V Shankar has rejected a distributor's application to screen the movie in the hotels, officials said.
Government initiates transfer of ITDC hotels to state governments
Hotel Lalitha Mahal Palace (Mysore) will be transferred to Karnataka government, Hotel Jaipur Ashok to Rajasthan, Hotel Lake View Ashok (Bhopal) to Madhya Pradesh and Hotel Brahmaputra Ashok (Guwahati) to Assam government, Tourism Minister Mahesh Sharma said in a written reply.
Subrata Roy-owned penthouse in Plaza Hotel up for $50 million
The 6,319 square feet palatial property occupies three floors at the top of the hotel which are connected by a curved staircase.
Dues over Rs 800 crore pending against Hotels in NDMC areas
Other hotels which are yet to clear their dues include Hotel Asian (Rs 69.43 cr) and Gesture (Rs 10.15 cr), both of which have been sealed by NDMC.
Railways to unveil vintage hotels on 'Palace on Wheels' coaches
According to the proposal by the heritage wing of the railways, the vintage hotels-cum-restaurants would be built in the coaches of the train.
FabHotels gears up for expansion
The company, which operates in the online brand franchisee segment, secured $8 million in a series A round of funding from Accel Partners.
Treebo Hotels raises Rs 112 crore in new funding round
The deal underlines how companies with favourable unit economics even with a lower market share are able to raise capital in a tough funding environment.
Indians help build Cuba hotels as foreign labour ban weakens
Foreign workers on the Caribbean island signal how critical tourism is now in Cuba and how market forces are transforming its once tightly controlled economy.
Oberoi Hotels & Resorts ranked world's best hotel brand by Travel+ Leisure USA
The awards are an affirmation of The Oberoi Group’s unwavering commitment towards offering guests world-class facilities and unparalleled service.
Overweight Indian Hotels, target Rs 120: JPMorgan
The rundown of US investment portfolio is positive, but the global investment bank awaits clarity on Pierre, NY. JPMorgan expects demand Supply to turn favorable in FY17
Hotels chains get more women on board
This year, the company has allocated hotel-specific targets to its HR leaders in India to increase its workforce percentage of women managers.
US court rejects plea for attachment of Sahara's Plaza and Dream Downtown hotels
In a relief to Sahara, a US court has rejected a plea seeking to attach the Indian group's prized Plaza and Dream Downtown hotels here.
OYO Rooms, Travelport ink new hotel content deal
Travelport's travel commerce platform connects hotel providers and independent properties to its 68,000 connected agencies worldwide.
Indian Hotels sells iconic Taj Boston for $125 million
Taj Hotels will, however, continue to manage the 90 year-old, 273 key hotel under a long-term management services agreement, Rakesh Sarna added
It's People, Product and Profits: Rahul Chaudhary Co-founder, Treebo Hotels
I was fortunate to know the importance of developing, exciting and retaining smart folks in your team, I learnt that a leader needs to take care of people,
Indian Hotels sells Taj Boston for Rs 839 crore
IHC, which runs Taj group of hotels, said net sale proceeds will be utilised largely to retire outstanding debt.
Institutes of Hotel Management to offer 3-year course in vegetarian cuisine
Those in the hospitality industry are divided on usefulness of such a course with some opining that it would restrict employability of the candidate.
Sahara's Plaza Hotel of New York top-ranked hotel for super-rich
The iconic Plaza Hotel of New York has been rated as the top-most hotel by the super rich of the world, as per a new survey.
Hotels, packages segment to be major growth driver: MakeMyTrip
In the fiscal 2015-16, the company which clocked revenue of $336.1 million, had earned 50 per cent revenue from hotels and packages and the remaining from air ticket sales.
Marriott opens Fairfield in Lucknow, to open six more hotels by the end of 2016
The group which has 33 hotels under various brands in the country, would also see two other additions of Marriott Resorts in Jaisalmer and JW Marriott in Kolkata.
Post-Brexit, Britain may need "Hotel California" model
Once the dust settles, Britain could "check out" of the EU by handing in its notice, but effectively stay half-way in the world's biggest trading bloc by joining the European Economic Area along with Norway.
Overweight Indian Hotels, target Rs 160: Morgan Stanley
The financial leverage reduction efforts are well underway. The cash flows from stake sales trump accounting losses, said the Morgan Stanley note.
Indian Hotels jumps 4% as arm sells stake in Belmond
A media report suggested that this is the second such share sale in four months by the Tata group in Bermuda-based Belmond. In February, it liquidated 1.24 per cent stake for $11.96 million (Rs 81.3 crore), it said.
Mid-cap mantra: Indian hotels on the mend to make the most of a rebound
According to analyst, the all-India hotels occupancy rate rose to 62% in FY16 from 58% in FY15, while avg room rates improved marginally.
Private equity players looking to invest in operational hotels
While the number of deals has picked up by 52% year-on-year in 2016, the average deal size has declined by 51% to $4.3 million.
Delhi toll plaza looted, 2 killed in firing
A group of unidentified men opened fired and looted cash from two employees of Badarpur toll plaza in New Delhi.
NHAI issues code of conduct for toll plaza operators
The NHAI has issued a code of conduct for toll plaza operators that includes a manual on how to behave with courtesy with road users.
Sahara Group inks Rs 10,000 crore deal with 'Qatar fund' for sale of hotels
Appearing for the group, Kapil Sibal promised Rs 300 crore more by August 3 and said group wanted to transfer to SC-created Sebi-Sahara account Rs 200 crore.
Sarovar Hotels eyeing 10 hotels in Africa, enters South Sudan
Sarovar Hotels is planning to operate 10 hotels in Africa and has forayed into South Sudan by taking over management of Panorama hotel.
Broke Vijay Mallya bought property worth $10 million in Trump Plaza last month: TV reports
According to reports, Mallya paid a token amount of $4.6 million in 2010 for the penthouse, which is in his daughter's name Tanya.
E-toll starts from Monday! Now, make cashless payments at 275 toll plazas
FASTag will offer near non-stop movement through toll plazas and convenience of cashless payments with nationwide inter-operable electronic toll collection.
Five entrepreneurs redefining the boutique hotel landscape
Here are five entrepreneurs, who have shunned their well-paying corporate jobs to chase their boutique hotel dreams:
My picks: Sarovar Hotels' Ajay K Bakaya never passes up a chance to try crème brûlée
Bakaya says his favourite movie is Chariots of Fire. It uses the backdrop of Olympics to highlight human struggle.
Maharashtra paid Rs 798 crore for closure of toll plazas: RTI
Of the 53 plazas maintained by the MSRDC, only one was closed for which the full and final payment return amounted to Rs 168 crore, he said.
Israel's leading hotel chain, Dan Hotels to venture into India
One of Israel's oldest and prestigious hotel chains Dan Hotels is set to venture into India with its first overseas facility coming up in Bengaluru.
The other Watergate Hotel scandals you haven’t heard of
In its new incarnation, the Watergate is trying to reclaim the glitz and glamour of its pre-Nixon era — when Stevie Wonder would play tunes on the lobby piano.
Brigade Enterprises to hive off hotel business into separate arm
The Bengaluru-based developer hold hospitality assets under the parent company, while Brigade Hospitality Services Ltd (BHSL) is into management of a range of hospitality projects.
Overweight Indian Hotels, target Rs 160: Morgan Stanley
The Indian hotel industry has been through long down-cycle and it looks like that it is on cusp of an uptrend, said the note.
Berggruen to add up to 10 Keys Hotels by 2017-end
A brand of Berggruen Hotels, Keys Hotels is funded by Berggruen Holdings, a New York-headquartered proprietary fund.
Indian Hotels jumps 2% as MS doubles target price
Shares of Indian Hotels surged 4 per cent in Thursday's trade after foreign brokerage Morgan Stanley upgraded the stock to overweight from underweight earlier, expecting a comeback of pricing power for hoteliers.
India's best workplaces of 2016: Hierarchies, a strict no-no at Marriott Hotels
On the face of it might look simple but there are a lot of well thought out strategies and initiatives that goes into taking care of the employees.
EU likely to clear unconditionally Marriott's purchase of Starwood Hotels
The deal will put Marriott's brands including the Ritz-Carlton and Starwood's Sheraton and Westin chains under one roof to create the world's largest lodging company.

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A new generation is on the rise: the digital generation, born into a digital world. How are they interacting with technology?
Fifty-one percent of households with a 3- to 15-year-old have a tablet. Forty-two percent of the children in those households are using tablets, and 28 percent of 3- to 4-year-olds use a tablet in the home. In contrast, only seven percent of households with kids and teenagers had a tablet in 2011.
These young users have access to smartphones too, sometimes even their own phones. Twenty-seven percent of children 5- to 15-years-old use a smartphone to access the Internet, but texting is by far the most popular activity. Among 8- to 11-year-olds, 94 percent texted from their phone, and among 12- to 15-year-olds, it increases to 96 percent. The older group uses their phones for more activities like sending and receiving pictures and making phone calls.
Internet usage among children and teens is also high. Ninety-two percent of 12- to 15-year-olds, and even 29 percent of 3- to 4-year-olds use the Internet. The rate of abstinence from the Internet is 60 percent for the 3- to 4-year-old group, but only seven percent for the 12- to 15-year-old group.
But parents are taking note. Ninety percent of children have received advice for how to stay safe online, and 79 percent of parents have talked to their child about staying safe, including 45 percent that do so monthly.
For more usage statistics and info on how much YouTube children are watching, view the infographic from Ebuyer below:


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An MP3 player you can talk to...
Muttering nutters with headphones
A US firm specialising in metadata for music files is working with a voice recognition company to enable voice-controlled music devices for use where hand control is impractical.
Gracenote is working with voice recognition specialist ScanSoft and early products will be aimed at Japan.
Ross Blanchard, a Gracenote veep, said voice recognition would make devices easier to use: "For example, these applications will radically change the car entertainment experience, allowing drivers to enjoy their entire music collections without ever taking their eyes off the road."
Alan Schwartz, vice president of SpeechWorks, a division of ScanSoft, said speech is a "natural fit for today's consumer devices, particularly in mobile environments, and the increasing portability of large libraries of music and video files make speech a necessary interface for safety and convenience for entertainment devices."
Apart from allowing navigation around songs the technology will also allow you to ask for music by genre, ask for more information about a song or even hear similar tunes.
The firms hope to have products ready to market by the end of 2005. Gracenote works with new media firms such as RealNetworks and iTunes as well as consumer electronics brands like Clarion, Kenwood and Pioneer.
In June last year Apple did a deal with BMW linking its iPod music player to the car's existing stereo controls on the steering wheel. ®


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Black Restaurant Week: Across U.S., Events Remind Diners, 'We're Here. Support Us'
Oakland is a city that's rapidly gentrifying, shedding much of its African-American population along the way. The California city, which was 47 percent black in 1980, is now divided roughly into a quarter each of black, white, Asian and Hispanic residents.
The sense of the city's changing identity has ended up helping Adrian Henderson's business. He's co-owner of Kingston 11 Cuisine, a Caribbean restaurant in a neighborhood that's changed so much lately that it goes by the dual name of Koreatown Northgate.
"Here in Oakland, folks are seeing black folks being pushed out," Henderson says. "We're a community-based restaurant, so people of color are supporting our business. Any black-owned business or restaurant is being over-supported now, which is great, right?"
To help spread the word about which restaurants are in fact owned by African-Americans, Henderson participates in Bay Area Black Restaurant Week. Over the past couple of years, such promotions have spread to essentially every major city with a substantial African-American population, including Houston, Detroit, Charlotte, Atlanta and New Orleans, along with smaller cities such as Richmond, Va., and Madison, Wis.
"Some of the restaurants that participate in black restaurant week want to remind African-American consumers that are conscientious with their dollars that they're there," says Marcia Chatelain, a Georgetown University historian who is working on a book about race and fast food.
During the promotions, diners can often receive multi-course meals at a discount. In some cities, however, it's simply a way of drawing attention to what's on offer all the time at black-owned restaurants, a pure exercise in branding and promotion. Chicago's version is going on . Baltimore's Black Restaurant Challenge is continuing throughout most of February. Other cities will follow course throughout the spring.
The idea seems to have spread around the country largely through social media, with local events sponsored variously by public relations consultants, a wine distributor, a radio station and the restaurants themselves.
Lauran Smith, the organizer of Chicago Black Restaurant Week, works as a public school guidance counselor. "For me personally, it came from the fact that I really did not feel like I was celebrating my history enough, and food is something I like," she says. "I created black restaurant week for Chicago to celebrate the fact that we have a lot of delicious businesses in our community."
Spreading the word has worked. In 2016, eight restaurants participated in Memphis Black Restaurant Week, attracting a total of 3,135 customers. Last year, the number of restaurants grew to 14, which collectively saw more than 6,200 patrons walk in the door over the course of the week.
It wasn't rocket science, says Cynthia Daniels, a social media manager who came up with the idea in Memphis. The city already held celebrations for nearly every other type of food — Italian, Mexican, barbecue. HM Dessert Lounge, the black-owned restaurant she was working with, didn't have a marketing budget. By banding together with others, the event was able to draw a considerable amount of publicity, which has also been the case in other cities.
"When black restaurant week started, we were new, so it gave us a lot of exposure," says Terrence Callicutt, an owner of Scoops Parlor, a Memphis ice cream shop that also serves sandwiches and crepes.
The type of restaurants that are included in various cities range from takeout joints that serve fried fish and chicken to high-end establishments such as the 40/40 Club in Manhattan, a lounge co-owned by hip hop mogul Jay Z.
Overall, African-Americans lag when it comes to running restaurants. Blacks make up 13 percent of the population, but only 8 percent of restaurant owners and the same share of restaurant managers, according to the National Restaurant Association.
There are African-Americans who are celebrity chefs, such as Carla Hall and Pat Neely. In general, however, blacks often struggle to come up with the capital necessary to open and run restaurants, in part due to the legacy of lack of wealth formation among African-Americans and ongoing discrimination. "Most black restaurant owners, they take their life savings, open the restaurants and hope for the best," Daniels says.
Black ownership of restaurants, along with other types of businesses, was often more robust during the Jim Crow era of segregation, at least in some cities. Black-owned businesses served black customers that white owners could not or would not. "There have been black-owned restaurants as long as there have been racially segregated neighborhoods," says Sharon Zukin, a sociologist at Brooklyn College.
Black restaurants provided important meeting places during the civil rights era. Paschal's Motor Lodge and Restaurant in Atlanta was a regular gathering spot for Martin Luther King and allied activists. "If you wanted to know what was going on, that's where most of the discussion ... and where much of the planning was taking place," Andrew Young, a King aide who went on to become mayor of Atlanta, told The Washington Post in 2011.
Following passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, blacks could eat at the lunch counters or restaurants of their choice, no longer restricted to places in their neighborhoods. Roughly around the same time, the construction of interstate highways tore through many traditionally black urban centers, displacing residents and disrupting business. And the rise of fast-food chains didn't help local restaurateurs.
"There was a real clear downfall in black restaurant ownership after Jim Crow ended," says Angela Jill Cooley, the author of To Live and Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South. "Black diners had different options then. They didn't necessarily have to stay in their 'race businesses,' as they would have called them at the time."
Blacks remain the most underrepresented racial or ethnic group when it comes to overall business ownership, according to a working paper by University of California, Santa Cruz economist Robert Fairlie. It continues to be harder for them to get credit to start restaurants. It's common for African-Americans who complete culinary training to go into catering, which has far less overhead than restaurants that require large floor spaces and staffs.
Black restaurant week organizers say that patrons don't always know about the options that do exist. Sometimes, even black food entrepreneurs weren't aware of how many colleagues they have in their cities. The events have brought them together in many cases to share information about trends and employees. "It's made people want to start their own businesses," says Smith, the organizer of Chicago Black Restaurant Week.
The main thing it's done is underscore the number of restaurants owned locally by African-Americans, in hopes of attracting more support. "It highlights a strong need for African-Americans to support Africans-Americans in restaurants," says Todd Richards, a chef and cookbook author in Atlanta. "We can't talk about discrimination if we're not going into our own restaurants and supporting them."
Of course, black restaurant owners are happy to welcome customers of all backgrounds. Pass Da Peas is a carryout spot in Milwaukee offering wings, catfish fingers and ribs. It doesn't typically see a lot of white customers, but black restaurant week brought more around.
"I got a bunch of Caucasian brothers and sisters coming in, and I was taken aback," says owner Thromentta Anderson.
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“It’s what I enjoy doing, and I’m able to do it,” she told the Today Show before stepping on to the runway in a mocha-colored floor-length gown.
Discovered at 13, while riding a New York City bus with her mom, she landed the cover of Vogue only three years later. That was back in 1947, when $7.50 an hour was the going rate for the gig.
PHOTOS: The Worst Fashion Trends of All Time
“It meant nothing to me,” she recalls of seeing her first cover, “except that I thought I looked like a little boy.”
The octogenarian beauty has long shed any hint of tomboyish-ness. Her iconic white hair, which she’s left dye-free for decades, has set the highest bar for aging gracefully.
She’s had a little help, according to Today show correspondent and interviewer Jenna Bush Hager (yes that, Jenna). Dell’Orefice admits to using fillers for “cracks in the ceiling,” but it takes a lot more than an injection to be one of the most in-demand models after 66 years in the business. Her shoulders thrust back in triumph, projecting a couture-worthy regality uncommon on the runway these days.
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It’s the kind of peacocking pride only a veteran of the business can pull off. It’s also a throwback to the days before slump-shouldered models, minimalism and Kate Moss made high fashion more bone-dry.
PHOTOS: Fashion Week’s Most Ubiquitous Fashionistas
She’s onto something: Older women with cash to spare have become a coveted demographic for marketers of luxury products. As a result, fashion has started is taking cues from women once considered past their prime.
Even outside fashion’s tiny bubble, women, not girls, have taken the reigns of style. The most powerful cross-generational trendsetter in America today is a 48-year-old mother of two. That would be Michelle Obama, as if you couldn’t guess.
At a Fashion Week event on Friday she was photographed linking arms with 28-year-old Olympian Ryan Lochte, looking every bit the model of the moment.


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According to Vogue, cleavage is dead. Women are choosing to opt for higher necklines due to the influx of online creeps harassing women over their seductive photos.
Last time I checked, cleavage is still alive and well, continuously used as a tool of sexual empowerment by women. Vogue needs to take a seat, and stop reading into the fashion choices of a few celebrities at an awards show.
This article displays women as weak, changing their style completely in order to protect themselves against online comments.
Stylist Elizabeth Saltzman told Vogue she now considers how models will be perceived on Instagram if they show too much up top, which is absolutely ridiculous. All that does is perpetuate the idea that women are objects, dictated by what the male eye chooses to focus on.
It’s also a pathetic turn for the fashion industry, as it puts style campaigns in the hands of anonymous online actors, who should have no say in how fashion should be produced.
This article also drags bras into the midst of this vague argument, saying that more comfortable bras are now in high demand, and the demand for push up bras is going down. Contrary to “popular” belief, women are allowed to own both “comfortable” bras and push up bras — it’s not one or the other, leave the bras out of this.
Vogue further goes on to say that women choosing not to show their cleavage is, “rejecting the stereotypes of gender.” Showing your cleavage isn’t necessary to display that you’re a woman, and the physical attributes of a person in no way define their gender no matter what.
The choice to flaunt our cleavage is a tool of empowerment. It’s a statement that we are proud — proud that we have overcome, and continue to overcome the daily challenges of sexism — sexism in the workplace, sexism in our social lives, even sexism in politics.
Every day women are flooded with images and information that tell us that our bodies aren’t good enough, aren’t attractive enough. Cleavage is a way to give a middle finger to that, because we are confident enough to not be defined by boundaries that the media presents to us.
If we choose to freely display our bodies then more power to us. It’s a statement that a woman’s intelligence is not defined by her looks.
The power of femininity is incredibly strong, and embracing that femininity makes a girl feel like a woman. It’s the sensation of desirability that can add to a woman’s confidence, and hey, who doesn’t love a little extra attention sometimes?
This article is a thinly veiled, sexist attempt to define women by their appearances, and control their sexuality.
Women can dress however we please, and we sure as hell don’t need a fashion magazine telling us that it’s time to adopt a “more demure look.”
The cleavage is here to stay.
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Aberdeen's CRM Top Ten
Market analysis and positioning services firm, Aberdeen Group, releases report, "What Works: Ten Significant CRM Implementations of 2000."Aberdeen Group, a market analysis firm that helps information technology (IT) vendors establish a leading presence, has published its list of the top ten customer relationship management (CRM) implementations of 2000.
The list comes as a result of the Aberdeen report, "What Works: Ten Significant CRM Implementations of 2000" that uses a case study approach to providing the information. Each individual award was based on a case study on the CRM supplier, the customer, and the implementation strategy.
The case studies were compiled from in-depth research of CRM suppliers, customers, and implementation strategies. Along with CRM market information, the report illustrates the global acceptance of CRM, vertical market orientation, and penetration of ASP-based solutions. "We looked for real business problems, their solutions, and concrete return on investment," says report editor and Aberdeen research director Denis Pombriant. "We asked, 'What works in the real world?' because we wanted to report on more than just vendor market share."
|The top ten recipients are as follows:|
|6||FirePond||Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield|
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The knitwear capital of India, Tirupur, is facing a crisis with a decline in exports and job losses. Five lakh small and micro industries have been shut down in Tamil Nadu.
The city's exports have dwindled from Rs 26,000 crore to Rs 24,000 crore. Apparel exports were already struggling against low-priced goods from China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Cambodia.
Kumar Duraiswamy, chief executive, Eastern Global Clothing, said: "They are 10 per cent cheaper than us. When we sit for business we have to quote 10 per cent less than in these countries, then only we are in the game. We faced huge loss in jobs, it continues till date, we are facing same losses."
The city's business was financially hit by demonetisation, as the cash crunch crippled its supply base.
Also, the introduction of the national tax GST stopped many incentives. For instance, a 7 per cent cut in duty drawback made Tirupur even less competitive locally and globally.
"After these two economic corrections we have been shifted to intensive care unit. Now we need to have proper medicine to come out and function and grow," said R Senthil Kumar, CEO of Premier Export Corporation.
With less work, the income for Kabir Ahmad, a tailor with an exporter has, declined from around Rs 15,000 to Rs 7,000 per month. The father of two children says he has borrowed around Rs 20,000 to tide over the crisis.
"Earlier, we used to get a job for five to six days. Now, we get just for two days a week. There's no job with exporters or domestic suppliers. If this continues I would have to look for some other job only," he said.
Tamil Nadu minister D Jayakumar said the GST is a continuous process and probably in the next meeting they will try to "reduce it to zero per cent for job work".
The third-party credit rating by banks following Basel norms, industrialists say, puts small and micro industries under severe financial stress. Many local banks are no longer ready to extend loans without favourable certification, shaking up the hand-holding Tirupur model.
S Sakthivel, Executive Secretary, Tirupur Exporters' Association, says, "It's an imploding bomb placed underneath us. It is all given to foreign agencies. Nirav Modi's company has been rated AAA till he fled the country. At the same time, no performing micro and small industry have been given even a B rating."
Tirupur directly employs six lakh people, but it lacks adequate housing, healthcare and transport facilities. Most factories spend up to Rs 90 every day for each worker towards transport alone.


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For Immediate Release:
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Privatization of Liquor Corporation Will Do More Harm Than Good
ST. JOHN’S, NL– Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Public and Private Employees (NAPE) President Jerry Earle is warning against the privatization of the Newfoundland and Labrador Liquor Corporation (NLC) on the heels of a position paper from the local chapter of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) calling on government to review the NLC with the goal of privatizing the crown corporation.
“It is no surprise that the CFIB is lobbying the government to privatize liquor stores as they are the ones who will reap the profits,” said Earle. “One of the biggest issues however is on the other side of the equation – the lost revenue to the provincial coffers. In the last five years alone, the province received over $700 million from the NLC. These funds are used to help provide the public services, like healthcare, that the people of this province depend on every day.”
The privatization experience in other jurisdictions across Canada has proven to be less than successful. For example, since privatization, Alberta has foregone over $1.5 billion in tax revenue, despite increases in per capita alcohol consumption. A review of Alberta, BC and Saskatchewan, found liquor prices were higher, on average, in the two privatized provinces – BC and Alberta. Apart from the economic impact, research shows that privatization of liquor stores has profound social and public health consequences. Recent reviews in BC, for example, have shown a much higher liquor law compliance and enforcement rate in public liquor stores (e.g. checking for I.D, not selling to intoxicated patrons, not selling to minors, etc.). Other jurisdictions have also experienced increased incidents of impaired driving and alcohol–related deaths after privatizing liquor stores.
“The CFIB is using a one-sided telephone poll of 114 of its own members – small and medium sized business owners – to argue for the privatization of liquor stores in this province. We are hopeful that the current government and the opposition parties see through this ploy for what it really is – an attempt to transfer public funds into private hands,” stated Earle. “Experience in other parts of the country has shown that privatization has led to lower government revenues, higher prices for the public, and increased social harm. Our union will do everything in its power to ensure that the liquor corporation continues to stay in the hands of the public for the good of the province.”
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New orders for long-lasting U.S. manufactured goods unexpectedly fell in October to post their largest decline in nearly two years and business capital spending plans dropped, according to a government report on Wednesday that pointed to a slowdown in factory activity.Meanwhile, unemployment claims unexpectedly dropped. The numbers still aren't good, however.
The Commerce Department said durable goods orders tumbled 3.3 percent, the largest decline since January 2009, after surging by a revised 5 percent. Economists had expected orders to be flat in October after a previously reported 3.5 percent jump.
Excluding transportation, orders dropped 2.7 percent, the biggest fall since March 2009, after a revised 1.3 percent increase in September, which was previously reported as a 0.4 percent. Economists had expected orders excluding transportation to rise 0.6 percent in October.
The drop in orders last month was almost across the board, with hefty declines in bookings for machinery, computers, communications equipment and defense aircraft.
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Perran Jervis, head of retail and consumer goods at TLT, comments on the news that Facebook is launching shopping on WhatsApp and Instagram.
"The news that Facebook is throwing its hat into the ecommerce ring will provide yet another boost to the continuing growth of online shopping.
"Retailers will no doubt embrace this 'super-omnichannel' environment, but according to our latest research, their logistics networks would currently be unable to cope with this spike in demand.
"According to the UK's top 100 retailers, rapid delivery is now a key deciding factor for consumers with 83% of retailers planning to offer next day delivery or faster in the future and 29% aiming for same day delivery. Half (46%) of UK retailers say the future of their business now depends on improving fulfilment and logistics.
"Social media buying is likely to increase the number of smaller purchases people make, increasing pressure on logistics and delivery performance further still. This will also increase the rate of returns – already 27% on average for the UK's top 100 retailers, rising to 58% for some.
"Retailers will need to fundamentally re-think their logistics functions and embrace new technologies and partnerships, so that they are able to quickly adapt to these rapid changes in how people shop and give customers the experience they're looking for."
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IKEA’s Christmas Goat, often times the target of arson and self-immolation, now faces a new threat that has IKEA management troubled.
A Facebook event which translates as “Set the goat on fire, they can’t stop all of us” is scheduled for December 1. Over 4,000 Icelanders have marked themselves as interested or going to the event, which is set to take place at IKEA in Garðabær, where the Christmas Goat is erected.
Guðný Camilla Aradóttir, the PR manager for IKEA in Iceland, told reporters that the Christmas Goat is under heavy surveillance around the clock. As one of the stated reasons for the goat-burning event is that Christmas keeps getting aggressively marketed earlier and earlier each year, Guðný addressed this point specifically.
“This is something we hear every year,” she said. “This hasn’t changed in many years. It’s just how some people are.” She added that she believes critics of the early Christmas season are but a vocal minority, pointing out that some of their Christmas items have already sold out.
On the subject of the possible deliberate burning of the goat, Guðný was adamant.
“I want to appeal to the common sense of the arsonists, because this is just dangerous, to themselves and to others,” she said. “Vandalism is really boring. It is not our plan that people see [the goat] as some kind of enticement or challenge.”
For would-be challengers to the goat, it should be noted that The Christmas Goat is indeed under heavy security following several instances of deliberate arson. That said, high winds have also torn the goat down on at least two occasions, and faulty wiring led to it setting itself on fire in 2015.
The curious will just have to wait until December 1 to see if a jubilant mob burns down the Christmas Goat or, like the Area 51 raid, some people simply show up to hang out and have a good time.
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From 27-29 September, some of the most prestigious people and brands in the textile, tailoring and fashion arena gathered at the National Exhibition and Convention Centre in China for the Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics – Autumn Edition.
One of the world’s largest and most extensive apparel fabric exhibitions, over 4,400 exhibitors from 33 countries and regions, plus circa 80,000 trade buyers attended the biannual event. It is therefore a prime platform for showcasing the latest premium cloth and accessories, as well as highlighting the upcoming seasonal trends.
This year, our cloth collections were presented via our Asian distributor Shanghai Kang Chuang Textiles, and the event was a great success!
Spread across 240,000 sqm, visitors could meander their way through a sea of display areas and product zones – exploring the industry’s latest textile innovations to source the most stylish and on-trend fabrics.
Our booth featured various suiting and coating samples, all of which appeared to pique the sartorial fancy of many delegates – popularity that resulted in the establishment of some key trade relationships and a positive sales elevation for Dugdale Bros.
Organisers of the event shone the spotlight on Asian trends – encouraging buyers to attend the pavilions from Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Thailand, to learn about the emerging fashion innovations.
One of the particular highlights from the fair was the quartet of Japanese trends from the Japan Pavilion Trend Forum – Egoist’s Essence, Lost in Utopia, Rustic Logics and Fashionista.
The Korean Pavilion was also a notable area, where exhibitors such as Alphafabric revealed unique fabrics, including vibrant tweeds and ornate jacquard. This Pavilion also featured an AW19-20 trend area, where the theme – Redefine – was inspired by sustainable fashion and creative individualism in minority groups.
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Apple launched the 8th Gen iPad and revealed the Indian pricing last month. However, during the launch event, the company didn’t reveal the sale date of the latest iPad. Now, the latest tablet goes on sale in India today on Flipkart. The iPad comes with Apple A12 Bionic chipset, LTE connectivity, TouchID sensor, and more.
Apple iPad 8th Gen sale, offers, price in India
The 8th generation Apple iPad is available for purchase from Flipkart. The e-commerce giant has revealed some interesting launch offers. To start with, customers can avail 5 per cent cashback on Flipkart Axis Bank credit card. HDFC Bank debit card users can get an instant discount of INR 1,500. Furthermore, users who buy the iPad will get 10 per cent off on purchase of select items in the Fashion category during Flipkart Big Billion Days Sale.
Coming to the price, the Apple iPad 8th Gen price in India is INR 29,900 for the 32GB Wi-Fi model. The 128GB Wi-Fi option is priced at INR 37,900, though it is not available on Flipkart at the time of writing. The Wi-Fi + LTE model is priced at INR 41,900 for 32GB option and INR 49,900 for 128GB variant. The tablet is available in Silver, Space Grey, and Rose Gold colour options.
Apple iPad 8th Gen specifications and features
Apple iPad 8th Gen flaunts a 10.2-inch LED-backlit display with a screen resolution of 2160 x 1620 pixels. The display comes with 500nits brightness, 264ppi pixel density and oleophobic coating. The eighth-generation iPad now comes with A12 Bionic chipset.
As per Apple, the entry-level iPad is up to 2x faster than the top-selling Windows laptop, up to 3x faster than the top-selling Android tablet and up to 6x faster than the top-selling Chromebook. The A12 Bionic SoC brings Neural Engine for augmented reality apps. The engine will also enhance photo editing, Siri performance, and more.
The latest iPad also supports first-generation Apple Pencil and supports gigabit-class LTE connectivity. The brand has added Touch ID for unlocking the iPad. The company says users will get all-day battery life with the new iPad.
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Let’s Golf! 3 by Gameloft hit the market last week and has added some cool new features to the popular Let’s Golf! franchise. Let’s Golf! 3 features 3D courses, far and exotic new locations (including outer space), multi-player options (play on same device now available), in-game chat and social invitations via Facebook, Gameloft Live, email and more.
You can also create your own avatar with tons of combinations to choose from. Unlock new modes, and for a change of pace, you can play some challenging Mini-Game Mayhem games like Catch the Star, Target Range, and Putting Master. Play them all to perfect your skills and you’ll become a pro of the game in no time.
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Square Enix Games has announced that the classic Super Famicom RPG LIVE A LIVE will be coming to PC, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5.
Originally released in Japan in 1994 for the SNES, LIVE A LIVE features a unique gameplay style where players control multiple characters across different periods, from the prehistoric to the future, and all genres, including sci-fi, western, and martial arts. Originally released for the Nintendo Switch in 2022, the creators of the game, Square Enix, recently announced the game’s release to PC and PlayStation via their blog.
LIVE A LIVE PC and PlayStation Release Date
The iconic RPG, LIVE A LIVE, will be released on April 27, 2023, for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC via Steam. PlayStation Plus members and those that pre-order the game on Steam will receive a 20% discount.
A playable demo on the PlayStation Store is also available.
LIVE A LIVE Gameplay and Story
The game’s story is divided into eight tales, each with a different protagonist, setting, and gameplay mechanics. Players will start in the prehistoric era, where they control a caveman who must battle against other tribes and fierce animals. The subsequent chapters include a futuristic sci-fi setting, a western-style story with a gunfighter, and a martial arts tale set in Imperial China.
In each chapter, players must use different strategies and tactics to overcome the challenges and enemies they encounter, with their own unique mechanics and story.
The re-release features the same HD-2D visual style as the popular Octopath Traveller 2 and a new, rearranged soundtrack by the original composer, Yoko Shimomura.
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- Kentucky schedules beef finishing workshop
- Significant challenges
• Farmers will be able to make a decision about whether they want to go to a completely pasture-based system or if they want to do a grain-on-grass supplemental system
• There are pros and cons to both, and there are risks, different costs and different product quality.
Greg Halich, UK assistant Extension professor in agricultural economics and one of the workshop organizers, said there are significant producer challenges in such a system.
"Bringing animals to a finishing weight in a reasonable time frame is no easy task and requires not only a fundamental understanding of how beef cattle mature, but also an understanding of the capabilities and limitations of various forages. Butchering can be a challenge, with issues such as federal inspection, aging and scheduling being potential problems. And marketing may be the biggest obstacle to selling grass-finished animals," he said.
Meyer said the workshop is a response to help both sides of the supply chain.
"We're trying to help satisfy that consumer demand (for a locally produced product) and really help producers find a way to profitably provide consumers with what they're looking for," he said.
The first day's session will include discussions about pasture management, production costs, production systems, cattle breeds, marketing systems, market outlets and butchering and processing. The second session will go into more depth. Participants will have a chance to analyze specific production and marketing scenarios.
"If you're running 100 head of stocker cattle right now, you're not going to finish all those head and have a market for it all right away. You're going to have to grow your business," Halich said.
For that reason, he said, all aspects of a successful locally produced beef operation would be explored — everything from different types of forage and finishing methods through options for processing.
Meyer and Halich will teach the workshop along with other members of the UK College of Agriculture and Cooperative Extension staff and faculty, including Extension Meat Specialist Gregg Rentfrow, Extension Beef Cattle Specialist Jeff Lehmkuhler and Sarah Lovett, Extension associate in agricultural economics.
To register for the workshop sessions, contact Lovett at 859-257-7272, ext. 281 or firstname.lastname@example.org or the local county Extension office. These offices can be found at http://ces.ca.uky.edu/ces/. Cost per session is $10. Lunch is included.


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Today the online gaming firm said amounts wagered in the first half of the year were up 11%.
Sportingbet, which has customers across Europe, Australia, Canada, South America and South Africa, said it continues to monitor regulatory developments - a reference to a likely clampdown in Greece.
Online betting in countries such as Germany, Greece and Spain is still unregulated.
Transactions from these countries, which are expected to implement regulation this year, are on the "grey market" which makes up most of online firms' revenues.
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Company: HBO Video
How he’s leading: Starting in 2000, when it released the first season of “The Sopranos” on disc, HBO has been a crucial pioneer in DVD’s lucrative TVprogramming category.
That first season of “The Sopranos” has brought in more than $100 million in DVD sales to date, while HBO miniseries “Band of Brothers” has surpassed $200 million, making it the most lucrative TV-on-DVD release ever.
Now the pay cabler is hoping hi-def presents another offer its viewers can’t refuse.
“The Sopranos: Season 6, Part 1” just became one of the first television releases to get the Blu-ray and HD DVD treatment.
“DVD technology unlocked the value of the television business for Hollywood,” McGee says.
He says HBO will be in the download business sometime in 2007, but he doesn’t see the TV-on-DVD sector tiring out any time soon.
POV: “While sales on all DVD as a category has leveled off, what’s continued to grow is TV-on-DVD,” McGee says. “Anyone who tells you they knew TV-on-DVD would grow to the size it has is lying to you.”
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?Dominique Piotet, CEO of UNIT.City: “NEST is about startups and their development. A platform where you can grow, learn, find investors, and reach the international level. Startups have always been in the DNA of UNIT.City, so the launch of NEST is one of the most important events in the history of the innovation park.”
NEST is in an active phase of development and now includes Bootcamp and eResidence:
✅ Bootcamp is a free intensive 3-month training for breakthrough startups. As part of Bootcamp, office space is provided at UNIT.City for the entire period of classes.
✅ eResidence — another part of NEST. This is an opportunity to virtually test all the benefits of residency at UNIT.City: access to the community, contacts of company founders, events, and educational content of the innovation park.
?As part of the NEST presentation, jury members selected seven startups who were given the opportunity to participate in the unique Bootcamp program. Jury members:
? Dominic Piotet, CEO UNIT.City ;
? Andrew Komarovsky, CEO and co-founder of Sector X Acceleration Platform ;
? Andrew Sorohan, Team leader at uventures Western NIS Enterprise Fund Enterprise Fund ;
? Rick Rasmussen, Research Fellow and Faculty Member, University of California, Berkeley
Yesterday all teams pitched their projects and it was really inspirational presentations – good luck to the teams!
⭐ Streamline Ukraine — supply chain planning AI
⭐ Storiki — SMM-stories for fashion brands in 24 hours
⭐ Elomia — a virtual psychologist
⭐ Highers — a platform for students to find work
⭐ Inncorn — an agricultural holding of vertical farms
⭐ Watched — a platform for researching reactions to content
⭐ Impactoria — a platform for evaluating charitable organizations
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The Moto Z4 probably won’t land for many months if it launches at all, but we’re already hearing rumors about it. Or, at least, we’re hearing rumors about an unannounced Motorola flagship that’s probably the Z4. What it’s actually referred to as is the Motorola Odin, but that’s apparently a codename. According to a source speaking to XDA Developers, this unannounced handset will also be using an unannounced chipset, namely the Snapdragon 8150, which is rumored to be the name of Qualcomm’s next flagship smartphone chip and is likely to power many of 2019’s best phones. The Moto Z4 – or whatever this ends up being – could also have an in-screen fingerprint scanner, as the company is apparently working on software to handle such a scanner. The source can’t confirm whether Odin itself will have a fingerprint scanner in its screen, but that’s a flagship feature, so it’s a likely candidate. The new phone will also apparently run Android 9 Pie and support Moto Mods, including the 5G Moto Mod, which has been announced but won’t land until 2019. Little storage and limited availability That all sounds promising, but not all the news about the Moto Z4 is quite so good. For one thing, the source says it will have 4GB of RAM and just 32GB of storage, the latter of which is very lacking for a flagship and the former is at best ordinary. Though it’s possible that other versions with more storage and RAM will also land…. [Read full story]
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A global pandemic has not stopped tourism in Franklin County.
“It’s just been greatly reduced,” said David Rotenizer, the county’s director of tourism.
“Someone traveling the county along (U.S.) 220, (Virginia) 40 or another route happens to stop for gas, a meal or some form of permitted retail sales – that is technically tourism,” Rotenizer said. “The launch of the tourism season has not really started in full yet. As spring arrives and the weather warms, travelers who seek Franklin County as a destination would normally be hitting the area in force.”
Due to the closings of primary county assets, including Booker T. Washington National Monument, the Blue Ridge Institute and Museum and Harvester Performance Center – which Rotenizer considers likely the strongest generator of inbound travel in the off-season – Franklin County communities have seen a decrease in revenues.
That inbound travel “helps to fuel the local economy through meals, lodging, and sales taxes and through supporting local jobs,” Rotenizer said. “The marinas and retail in Smith Mountain Lake have seen off-season activity decline as well. Tourism is about more than just attractions. It’s also about small businesses. The No. 1 activity for travelers is shopping.”
Rotenizer said the county is collaborating through a COVID-19 Task Force coordinated by the Department of Public Safety. The task force involves all county departments and constitutional offices, the towns of Rocky Mount and Boones Mill and various state and regional agencies.
A Franklin County Small Business Task Force was established at the onset of the emergency with representation from the two towns, the Franklin Center, the Smith Mountain Lake Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Office of Economic Development and Franklin County Tourism.
“A result of these task forces is communication, collaboration and mutual support,” Rotenizer said. “A landing page was created for the county website as resources are known and become available. We want to support our businesses and make sure they are aware of resources and help that is available. We are all in this together.”
One industry bearing the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic is the local bed and breakfast industry.
Amy Worley Vann, owner of The Claiborne House in Rocky Mount, said they are technically open with responsible social distancing practices, but have only had one couple visit since mid-March.
“Our business is driven by the tourism to Franklin and Henry counties and off of the Blue Ridge Parkway,” she said. “Due to the cancellations of graduations, the Martinsville races and weddings, we have definitely felt the lack of guests.”
Vann said she has minimized contact between owners and guests by using self-check-in methods and allowing guests to show themselves to their rooms.
“We used to always greet our guests, show them to their rooms and host a big breakfast in the dining room where everyone gathered,” she said. “This has changed.”
Vann said the rooms have not changed, but the focus is on keeping them clean and sanitized has, to ensure guests are safe.
“The details and the feeling of being at home is the heart of a bed and breakfast,” Vann said. “Our new normal may be getting the guests outside more – enjoying our garden or fire pit, rocking on the porch or using the outdoor kitchen. Hopefully our family can show those out of town guests that a small town is good for the soul.”
Early Inn at the Grove co-owner Bryan Hochstein said his bed and breakfast has seen only four guests since Virginia’s stay-at-home order was enacted.
“All guests stayed on different days and had the place to themselves,” Hochstein said. “There was a local couple just needing a night away from home, followed by two guests on business. We’ve been using the down time to clean, declutter and disinfect.”
Early Inn is also practicing social distancing, conducting meetings by reservation and rescheduling weddings and other events.
All employees have been furloughed until customers are allowed back on a regular basis.
“My employees’ reaction to the pandemic has been the most uplifting,” Hochstein said. “We don’t know what the future holds, but they’ve all displayed incredible poise and character. This is a very tough business climate for us, but they’ve shown me that no matter how bleak it may seem, you just have to have faith that there are better days ahead. June 10 (the scheduled lifting of Virginia’s stay-at-home order) can’t come soon enough.”
Rotenizer said it has been “remarkable” to observe the business adaptation to the changed business climate.
“This is most apparent within the Franklin County craft beverage industry – the craft breweries and distilleries in particular,” he said. “The Smith Mountain Lake chamber hosted a virtual business after hours. The Rocky Mount Burger Company has been hosting virtual social fun games. And we had an unexpected event attract national attention when Twin Creeks Distillery distilled hand sanitizer – now how cool was that? It goes on and on with the human spirit of ingenuity.”


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The game launched in episodic format for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC starting February, before seeing a retail release containing every episode in March. The number represents retail sales and all season passes for the digital download version.
The report also reveals that sales for Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate have surpassed 3.4 million worldwide. We last heard the 3DS title topped three million shipments, with one million in western territories.
As for Capcom’s future titles, the publisher said it hopes to sell 2.5 million of its recently announced Monster Hunter Stories for 3DS and two million copies of Street Fighter V for PlayStation 4 and PC.


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BOOKSELLER Amazon has reacted to a problem with its Kindle app update 3.6.1 for Apple iOS and updated it, but apparently some users are still unhappy.
Yesterday the advice from the firm was if you see the update, do not approach it. "There is a known issue with this update," it said in a note on its download webpage.
"If you are an existing Kindle for iOS user, we recommend you do not install this update at this time."
Those that did apply the update found that it wiped their Apple devices and stripped content like books they had paid for and previews of titles they had downloaded.
Updating people's software only to create problems is considered bad form. The users that were led down this path were not happy.
"It's update is a dog. All of my samples have been deleted from my device. I added a few back and then found they were deleted again overnight," said one.
Since that update, Amazon has revisited the webpage and the update. Version 3.6.2 of the Kindle app for iOS includes both a fix for the registration issue and "Various Bug Fixes and Security Fixes", according to the shiny new information there.
However, the criticisms are still there. One user, posting a review into the Apple iTunes App store, said that this, their second update, was still a "disaster", while another denounced Amazon's efforts as more "crap" than "app".
So far we have had no noises out of the UK Amazon press people about what went wrong and what further, if anything, the firm is planning to do about it. µ
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Neil Shah, research director at HongKong-based Counterpoint Research, said on Saturday its channel checks pointed to numbers for the quarter in the range of 700,000 to 800,000 units, down from about a million a year ago. For the whole of 2018, Apple was set to sell about 2 million phones – a drop of about a million from last year, he said, as Indians balk at high prices for the devices, driven by trade tariffs and a weak rupee cufflink and watch box uk sale. “Sales are set to drop for the first time in four years,” Shah said. “If you look at Q3 – it was 900k last year and this (year) is almost 450k..
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Beloved by millions of fans all over the world, this iconic superhero is expected to bring us an “Iron Man wave” in the weeks to go! To catch this exciting moment, Hot Toys is very proud to present the first-of-its-kind Iron Man CollARTible Expo at Miramar Shopping Centre in Hong Kong from April 22 – May 9, in line with the movie launch.
At the exhibition, the first-of-its-kind life-size War Machine statue will be proudly unveiled! What’s more, Hot Toys’ full-range Iron Man collectible figures series will be showcased together for the first time! To add to this event more creative elements, Hot Toys has invited a total of over twenty distinguished artists from the U.S., Japan, Korea and Hong Kong to customize their own thematic projects on Hot Toys’ Iron Man Mark III collectible figure!
The list of leading international designers, to name but a few, include the 3D key artists Mr Anthony Mestas, Mr Bernardo Esquivel, Mr Heath Hammond and Mr Jesse Lincoln from Sideshow Collectibles, Japanese designers Mr Peiper and Mr Kaz, Korean painter Lalla, celebrated designers from Hong Kong including Mr Elphonso Lam, Mr Eric So, Mr Kenny Wong, Mr William Tsang, Mr Winson Ma and many more.
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wu jingsong, the vice director of anhui development and reform commission,came to anhui electric (group) shares co., ltd. to have a investigation.
on the afternoon of april, 1, wu jingsong, the vice director of anhui development and reform commission, came to our company to have an investigation on the development of new energy industry. liu maosong, the director of chuzhou development and reform commission, yang dongpo, liu rongxiang, lu jintang, zhao kuang, the leaders of tianchang escorted mr. wu to our company.
mr. wu went to the industry park first, and the leaders of our company gave a report on the development of new energy. then mr. wu went to the worksite of new energy, and learnt about the installation of the equipment.
in recent years, our company keeps a quick step in improving the ordinary industries, such as instruments, cables, and so on. at the same time, our company focus on developing new energy industry., which mainly develops, manufactures and sales wind technology products and energy battery etc.
during the investigation, mr. said anhui electric (group) shares co., ltd. is one of the largest companies of tianchang, and anhui electric should contribute to the local economy.
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Delphi has reported third quarter net income of $5.2bn on revenues of $4.4bn though the results included gains of $5.7bn related to the GM settlement and restructuring agreements executed in September.
Delphi received cash of $1.2bn from GM related to these agreements, net of $300m of repayments made to GM under the advance agreement. With the cash received from GM, available cash was $1.9bn at 30 September.
Separately, Delphi filed a motion with the US bankruptcy court in New York on 7 November seeking authority to continue use of the proceeds from its DIP credit facility until 30 June pursuant under an accommodation agreement to be entered into between Delphi and lenders.
As part of its ongoing transformation process, on 29 September Delphi transferred $2.1bn of net unfunded hourly pension liabilities to the GM hourly pension plan. GM also received an allowed administrative claim of $1.6bn and assumed approximately $6.8bn of post-retirement benefit liabilities for some active and retired hourly employees, and for this and other claims, received an allowed general unsecured claim of $2.5bn.
Primarily as a result of the assumption of these hourly employee benefit obligations by GM, Delphi recorded one-time gains totaling $5.7bn, including a net reorganisation gain of $5.3bn.
Q3 revenue at $4.4bn was down from $5.3bn in the third quarter of 2007 due to an 11% decrease in GM North America (GMNA) production volume and Delphi’s continued divestiture of non-core businesses. Sales to GM represented 31% of total Delphi revenue in the third quarter of 2008, down from 38% in the third quarter of 2007. Non-GM revenue was $3.0bn for the quarter, representing 69% of third quarter revenue, compared to 62% for the same period last year.
Apart from the GM gain, net income in 2008 was affected by a reduction in warranty costs of $217m primarily related to GM’s forgiveness of $112m due under the warranty settlement agreement. Offsetting these items for the third quarter of 2008 were GMNA volume reductions. The net loss in 2007 included interest expense on pre-petition bankruptcy claims of $369m contemplated in Delphi’s confirmed plan of reorganisation and US hourly workforce transition charges of $197m.
GM has expressed doubt its former parts operation will emerge from bankruptcy any time soon.
“Given the current credit markets and the challenges facing the automotive industry, there can be no assurance that Delphi will be successful in obtaining $3.8bn in exit financing to emerge from bankruptcy,” GM said in an SEC filing on Monday.


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AnalysisIf Equifax's mother-of-all-security-disasters last year underlined one thing, it was that big companies think they can weather just about anything cybercriminals and regulators can throw at them.
One unpatched web server, 147 million mostly US customer records swiped, and a political beating that should pulverise a company’s reputation for good (“one of the most egregious examples of corporate malfeasance since Enron,” said US Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer), and yet Equifax is not only still standing but perhaps even thriving.
While it’s true the full financial consequences yet to unfold, it’s hard not to notice that its shares last week rode back to within spitting distance of where they were before the breach was made public.
It all stands in fascinating contrast to what is happening in the UK and Europe, where the mood over database security breaches is darkening. It’s not that there are necessarily more of them so much as the speed with which they are being revealed.
Last week’sBritish Airways hack makes an interesting case study, not simply because of the technically embarrassing fact cybercriminals were able to skim up to 380,000 transactions in real time but the speed with which the company owned up to the calamity.Confessions
According to BA, the attack began at 22.58 BST on August 21, and was stopped at 21:45 BTS on September 5. This meant BA had taken 15 days to notice hackers were grabbing its customers’ card numbers, but under 24 hours to tell the world via Twitter and email a contender for a world record for computer security breach confessions.
Security analysts RiskIQ have speculated that the same gang was behind June’s Ticketmaster web breach , which took a still fairly rapid five days to surface after being discovered on June 23. Perhaps the best example of how the security breach atmosphere is changing is T-Mobile US, which uncovered miscreants slurping account records of 2.2 million customers on August 20 and revealed that fact only four days later.
Compare this haste to Equifax, which detected its breach on July 29 last year, but only told the world months later on September 7.
Why the sudden hurry? In the case of BA, officially, the answer is Article 33 of Europe's GDPR , under which cyber-break-ins involving personal data must be reported within 72 hours. Security breaches are now understood as having their own lifecycle. At the user end, a recent report from EMW Law LLP found that complaints to the UK's Information Commissioner after May’s GDPR launch reached 6,281, a doubling compared to the same period in 2017.
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“This is definitely due to the awareness and the run up to the GDPR,” agreed Falanx Group senior data protection and privacy consultant Lillian Tsang. But there’s more to it than that. “Reporting a breach shows awareness, the notion of “doing” something even if the breach cannot be mitigated quick enough. It does show pragmatism, rather than a reactive stance of yesteryears.”
Breaches will never become just another battle scar to be marked up to experience they are too serious and expensive for that no matter what the shareholders think when share prices recover. What is becoming stressful is the speed of disclosure.
“Crisis management is a relatively new yet vitally important area to focus on. As more chief staff realise that it’s a case of when rather than if a breach occurs, it is highly possible that more businesses have a ready-made crisis procedure waiting for a potential strike,” said ESET security specialist, Jake Moore.
As the breaches keep coming however, he believes an example will eventually be made of someone. “The ICO are likely to want to stick the GDPR message to a high-profile company to show its magnitude and therefore companies are ready to show that they are more compliant than ever before.”
It could be that BA’s rapid breach disclosure has set the benchmark at the sort of uncomfortable standard many, including its competitors, will struggle to match.
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What was once seen as a third-quarter recovery for tech investors has turned out to be a flop.
The Nasdaq Composite plummeted 5.1% this week after falling 5.5% the week prior. The worst two-week period for the market occurred over those two weeks, when the tech-heavy index dropped more than 20% in March 2020 at the start of the Covid-19 epidemic in the United States.
Next week marks the end of the third quarter, and if the Nasdaq doesn’t reverse the 1.5% decline that has occurred during the past five trading days of the quarter, it will record losses for the third straight quarter.
Investors have been selling off tech equities since late 2021 on the grounds that they will be disproportionately impacted by rising interest rates and inflation, according to the argument. Currently, the Nasdaq is just a little bit over its June low from the prior two years.
The Fed’s ongoing rate hikes, which on Wednesday raised benchmark interest rates by another three-quarters of a percentage point and signalled they might go further higher, had a disastrous impact on the markets. The Fed is trying to bring inflation down from its highest levels since the early 1980s. The central bank raised its federal funds rate for the third time in a row by 0.75 percentage points, bringing it to the highest level since early 2008, which is between 3% and 3.25%.
The 10-year Treasury yield has increased to its highest level in 11 years as a result of rising rates, which has strengthened the dollar. American exports become more expensive as a result, affecting IT companies that rely significantly on exports.
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Consumers in the United States are enthusiastic about the flavor and potential health benefits of olive oil but still a bit hazy on how to select, evaluate and describe this ancient but increasingly popular food product, according to a new survey released this week by the Olive Center at the University of California, Davis.
A survey report, which also suggests opportunities for olive oil producers to better package and market their products, is available from the Olive Center.
“The survey revealed that consumers clearly need more information that will help them understand the choices in olive oil that are available to them,” said Dan Flynn, executive director of the UC Davis Olive Center and a co-author of the study.
“With the olive oil industry in the United States now experiencing a renaissance, this is the perfect time for producers to help consumers better appreciate the flavor contrasts between fresh extra virgin olive oil and substandard oils,” Flynn said.
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