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If you use Instagram, you may have noticed a significant change in recent weeks: the platform has gotten rid of its “like counts.” In fact, the viral photo-sharing platform recently elected to make like counts private for thousands of users globally.
While the change in like counts came as a shock to many users, it’s not a new policy. Instagram has been experimenting with hiding like counts from users for months. The Facebook-owned platform started by hiding like counts from groups of Canadian users, and gradually expanded the experiment to six other countries, including Japan, Australia, and Brazil.
So, why is Instagram removing like counts? And how will this considerable shift impact your agency’s use of the platform?
First Things First — Why is Instagram Removing Like Counts?
Instagram seems, at first glance, to be a platform powered by social comparison. So why would it choose, suddenly, to hide likes from users? At the recent Wired25 Conference, Instagram’s CEO Adam Mosseri explained the platform’s decision:
“The idea is to try and depressurize Instagram, make it less of a competition, give people more space to focus on connecting with people that they love, things that inspire them.”
Although creators will still have access to their like count, this information won’t be made public to other users. While the platform’s move may seem like an effort to make Instagram a better place, and to protect the mental health of its users (Instagram has attracted criticism in the past for encouraging toxic comparison), surveys have revealed that the majority of Americans don’t have a strong opinion about whether or not Instagram should display likes.
According to one survey conducted by The Manifest, 55% of Instagram users report having no opinion on Instagram’s new policy, while 20% of people supported it. Only 25% of users opposed the decision, although that minority is vocal, and includes heavy-hitting influencers like Nicki Minaj.
According to most users, though, the shift is a positive one. Many believe that Instagram’s move to hide likes will help to mitigate the adverse effects of declining organic engagement and keep the platform in demand among consumers. Still, the move leaves agencies wondering what to do in light of the disappearing vanity metric.
How Agencies Should Adapt to the Post-Like World
When it comes to agencies and their use of Instagram, the disappearing “like count” is a very positive step. Here are a few things to consider as you plan your marketing for 2020:
With the Right Approach, No Likes is No Problem
Don’t let disappearing like counts scare you. Hidden likes are not a problem as long as you maintain the correct approach to the Instagram platform. Influencer marketing, for example, remains a super-effective way to gain engagement and connect with users.
As long as you continue to provide quality content that speaks to your audience, people are going to continue to engage with it – whether their “likes” are visible or not.
You’ll Need to Start Focusing on Different Metrics
Again, likes are primarily a “vanity” metric. While likes can indicate engagement, they can also be purchased, en masse, from spam click farms overseas.
Now that they’re gone, brands who previously chased likes and prioritized that metric over authentic relationship building will have to shift their approach. This means analyzing how much value they’re offering consumers, and how balanced their interactions as a whole are.
Redefine “Influential” Now
Take this forced pause as a chance to sit down and decide what your brand sees as influential, and what it doesn’t. The next step is to develop a process for creating influential content every single time you set out to write something. The more you focus on creating authentic influence now, the less you’ll suffer later.
Let InThink Help You Connect Authentically
While the disappearance of likes came as a shock to many agencies, it is not the end of the world. In fact, it may represent a hugely positive shift for companies and an opportunity to focus on things outside of bloated vanity metrics.
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The Fright Night Renata Glasc skin was announced by Riot Games on September 8 as one of six new skins coming to League of Legends.
Horror Night resembles this year’s Halloween-themed sale with spooky and spooky designs for Renata Glaske, Nautilus, Urgoth, Draven, and En. Renata Glaske’s new skin is featured alongside Nautilus as the only champion to release a teaser image.
Here’s everything you need to know about Fright Night Renata Glasc.
Fright Night Renata Glasc is featured in a promotional image released alongside Nautilus. However, it is likely to spawn after being streamed on live servers, especially when loaded into games. Renata Glask has a black and gray theme with her new outfit, with an additional green/teal look for the sleeve.
The Fright Night Renata Glasc skin is set to cost 1,350 RP when it hits the live servers.
Fright Night Renata Glasc, along with the rest of her Fright Night skins, is set to arrive in League of Legends Patch 12.18 on September 21.
When Fright Night Renata Glasc hits the live servers, players will be able to purchase her from the store for RP. Additionally, players can try their luck in various ways in the Loot tab, such as Hextech Chests, Skin Orbs, Caps, and more. However, these methods are not guaranteed, so keep that in mind if you really want new skin.
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As an estimated 80 per cent of CV equipment will be able to link up to Apple’s GymKit within a few years, the future will be all about data. Rather than threaten the role of the PT on the gym floor, I think data driven equipment will have the opposite effect and people will need more help, advice and reassurance on how to interpret it most efficiently. And, just as the car industry is having to adapt to the presence of electric cars, the fitness industry will also adapt. It will be more software than equipment led. With Apple, the largest tech company in the world, moving into our space and making it a data game, people’s perceptions of exercise will change. The gym is likely to be incorporated into everyday wellness habits like walking and climbing stairs. Data will give PTs the opportunity to get more involved with their clients between sessions, give personal push notifications, see what their clients are doing when not at the gym and praise them. This innovation will also involve more people from different levels of society, as one of the reasons why lower income groups don’t engage is because they often don’t know where to start. Operators will be forced to adapt, because their clients will adapt, but they should embrace the change.
Original Source: Health Club Management - issue January 2018, pg. 37
Last week an article was published in the Investors Chronicle discussing how 'The Listed Gym Sector is Bulking Up Again'. LeisureDB's statistics and David's insights were quoted.
"Between 2007 and 2011 the industry ticked along quite effectively, but with limited growth due to little innovation. It takes a while for new technology and innovation to have an impact on an industry. Smartphones have revolutionised the way consumers record their daily activity and check their health. The interest in tracking devices and wearable technology could help maintain general interest in fitness and be good for the industry.
The penetration of private health clubs (not under local authority control) has grown from 7.5 per cent to 9.1 per cent in the past four years and the joint public-private penetration is an impressive 14.3 per cent - an all-time high. Although we can point the finger to the rapidly expanding low-cost market for most of this growth, it is worth looking at the underlying technology that makes it possible.
Low-cost clubs are a hub of technology, relying on immediate data science and enterprise security software. Their presence on social media and ability to communicate digitally with customers is impressive and also allows for secondary spend across their mobile platforms.
Timing has played its part in bringing fresh technology, vision, innovation, interest and finance into an industry that we have always believed has enormous potential. Parts of it have been driven from 'data poor' to data-driven businesses and some consumers have turned themselves into walking, running, cycling, swimming and fitness data hubs.
The Gym's successful IPO in November 2015 reintroduced the fitness industry to the City and Pure is about to list, while we understand Bannatyne could also be seeking a flotation. US-based fitness and technology expert Bryan O'Rourke believes the global fitness market will grow by 300 per cent in the next decade. If this happens, it will mean great opportunities for UK brands."
David Minton, Director of The Leisure Database Company
Original article: Investors Chronicle, Bradley Gerrard - The Listed Gym Sector Is Bulking Up
In this weeks 60 Second News; today sees the launch of our first ever LeisureDB Social Media Fitness Index. The report covers quarter 1 of 2016 and compares the UK's top 20 private fitness brands and ranks them based on their performance on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. You can download your copy of the report from our website now for £195 + VAT.
SLM or Everyone Active as they’re better known was announced this week as the new management of Westminster Sports Centre from the 1st July 2016. The 10 year contract will see SLM manage 8 leisure centres.
Frome Sports and Fitness Centre, which is managed by Fusion, opened its doors on Wednesday following their £2million refurbishment. The centre boasts new gym equipment, a large soft play area, new classes in their two new studios and a dedicated cycling studio.
Lastly, we would just like to say congratulations to The Gym Group who have been awarded the Investors in People Gold Accreditation, which is currently achieved by just 7% of organisations.
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In this weeks 60 Second News; yesterday we published our 2016 State of The UK Swimming Industry Report. This year’s report reveals another year of decline with a 1% decrease in the number of swimming sites and a 3% rise in pay and play fees. To get your copy of the report head to website leisuredb.com to download now.
The Virgin Active Health Club (Milhouses) has announced plans to shut on the 30th June and the site has been sold to Oxygen Freejumping who intend to turn it in to a trampoline park. Although there is another Virgin Active less a mile from the site some customers are not happy about transferring their membership to the Broadfield park site.
The Energie group has powered past its £500,000 target on crowd cube, according to an article in Health Club Management this week. The chain which has clubs in both the UK and Europe and includes the budget brand Fit4Less.
Lastly, don't forget to keep an eye out for our brand new LeisureDB Social Media Fitness Index Q1 2016.
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In this weeks 60 Second News: our 2016 State of The UK Fitness Industry Report was released this week and we want to say a big thank you to everyone who has mentioned us in the news or on Twitter. Remember to keep an eye on our Director, David Minton’s, LinkedIn page to join in topical discussions about this year’s report.
Coming soon from 1Rebel is their new offering Ride2Rebel. 1Rebel have converted a bus into a mobile spin studio and will be offering customers the chance to spin hard through the streets of London, whilst commuting to work. The bus will pick up from 4 different locations across London and drop off at 1Rebel. You can sign up now to register an interest in a ticket and receive a 10% discount on packages.
It’s been announced this week that the construction contract for the new Fleming Park leisure centre in Eastleigh has gone to Interserve. The new centre will boast a 15 court sports hall, 2 swimming pools and 3 multipurpose studios and is due to open June 2018.
Lastly, Sports Management reported this week that public health experts have called it unethical to sell junk food in leisure centres. I know I think it’s ok to reward all my hard work with a Mars bar post workout, but psychologist have claimed that leisure centres are failing exercise referral patients by not offering healthy food as a primary option and at a cheaper price. Let us know what you think, send us a tweet @TLDC_UK.
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In this weeks 60 second news: it was reported that Pure Gym’s membership figures have risen by over 50% since they took over the LA Fitness clubs last year. From this Monday, 16th May you’ll be able to see how this compares with the rest of the market when we release the 2016 State of The UK Fitness Industry Report. For more information on what’s covered in this year’s report look out for our press release or head to leisuredb.com.
On Wednesday Sweat Coin was released into the UK Apple App Store. The app converting exercise to a digital currency known as ‘sweatcoins’ which can exchange steps for rewards or even charity donations. Although we haven’t been blown away by the app we do think it has potential.
Lastly, FitGroupUK, a new body consisting of group exercise opinion leaders has been brought together with the ultimate aim of introducing more people to group exercise, given that participation figures plateaued in recent years. Here at LeisureDB we want to know what is your favourite group exercise class and why? Tweet us @TLDC_UK to join the conversation.
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In this week’s 60 second news; more news from the Fitness First sale as Bannatyne’s has announced an interest in some sites. Bannatyne’s doubled its profits last year after refurbishing half their clubs which helped boost member numbers. The chain has acknowledged that the market is polarising and has focused on being a luxury health club.
When ClassPass first landed in the UK it all appeared too good to be true and unfortunately it is. Class Pass has announced this week that it will be upping its prices from £79 to £110. After disputes with some of the more premium offerings available to ClassPass user, which appeared to have been settled, ClassPass is now having to hit the pockets of its customers.
Here are LeisureDB we’ve managed to get our hands on a Skulpt Chisel. Available for $99 the Skulpt chisel measures your muscle quality and fat percentage. It’s based around the theory of tracking results not activity. Keep an eye on our blog for a review of the product.
Lastly, it has been reported by Statista that health and fitness apps are now in the top 10 in the app store beating music, sports and social networking. David, our director has spoken about the rise of brands going from CES to IHRSA this year, and these stats show the ever increasing presence of the digital market in our industry. To read David’s roving report for IHRSA head to theleisurereview.co.uk
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Activity Equivalent Calorie Labelling
The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) in Britain is arguing for ‘activity equivalent’ calorie labelling in order to reduce the UK’s obesity problem. Packaging could be utilised to not only provide nutritional information but also advise ways to change behaviour. Writing in the British Medical Journal, the chief executive of the RSPH, wants labelling to “prompt people to be mindful of the energy they consume and…to encourage them to be more physically active”.
FIBO 2016, Cologne
FIBO broke world records last week with a total of 153,000 visitors including 83,000 trade visitors from over 100 nations. According to the Deloitte study presented at the exhibition, some 52.4 million people are members of gyms at this time and growth of the European fitness market is at 4.9 per cent. The event gained a lot of media attention with nearly 1,000 accredited journalists attending from over 30 countries. Fitness technology, personalised training, functional training and group fitness remained as some of the hottest trends seen at FIBO this year.
New public openings
Chard Leisure Centre – The new £500,000 centre, managed by 1610 Trust, officially opened on 4th April and it boasts a state-of-the-art gym and the UK’s largest Prama studio.
Atherton Leisure Centre – Built on its former site, the new £14.7 million council-run Atherton Leisure Centre also opened on 4th April and is equipped with two swimming pools, a 100 station gym and two dance studios.
Nobody expects to hear that a toilet is cleaner than their gym equipment but unfortunately it looks to be true. A recent study done by Fit Rated involved swabbing 27 pieces of gym equipment at 3 different gyms and they found some pretty gruesome results. Luckily for us though they made these fun infographics to learn all about the bacteria that lingers on our gym equipment…
In this weeks 60 second news; It's been announced that Fitness First has sold its founding site in Bournemouth. The Queen’s Park Health Club has been bought by BH Live for an undisclosed sum will now be known as BH Live Active. Jatomi Fitness CEO Tracey Gehlan, who moved in the industry April last year from Burger King, believes the Fitness Industry needs to learn from the fast food Sector and start engaging children rather than making them wait until they’re 18 for a gym membership. Part of McDonald’s success is that every three year old in the country has heard of them, the fitness industry needs to think of a way it can include the younger generations. Could it be through creating the Ultimate Selfie? Ian Pearson a futurologist, commission by Fitness First claims that by 2046 we will be exercising with performance recording drone-swarms. It could improve technique and allow for video streaming. Further technology advances could allow us to spar with a robot opponent and run the marathon with Mo Farah. Lastly, our director David Minton will be making his industry predictions for 2016 keep an eye on our blog to find out who he believes will be the largest fitness brand in the UK this year and more.
Interesting article in the FT yesterday looking at the rising popularity of pay-as-you-go gyms in the UK containing the following quote from David.
“New technology puts the power into the users’ hands,” says David Minton, director at The Leisure Database Company. “We just haven’t been in that position before and what we are finding is that the consumers love it.”
In those winter months when you look out the window and the wind is blowing the bin down the road, or rain is lashing against the window, the last thing any of us want to do is grab our trainers and go for a run. How do you drag yourself out the door once you’ve returned from work, braced yourself to get changed, and then get back out the door in the freezing cold? The trouble is, Spring is on its way and there will just be more excuses, it’s not only the weather that can put us off leaving the house. I can assure you there are many times when I would rather enjoy a glass of wine than 45 mins on a spin bike. So what is the best way to motivate ourselves to get our freak on, as the Sport England campaign so eloquently puts it?
Our New Year’s resolutions have been and long gone, most of them didn't make it to the end of January and Summer still seems a little too far off to be worrying about that beach body. It doesn't matter who we are, we all need to be motivated in order to wiggle into our costume and make it to the pool, without being distracted with something that is much more important. But what really is the secret to finding this motivation that we all need?
The problem is that everyone is different. All of our fitness goals vary from person to person. Very few of us have the same needs when it comes to our fitness regime. And what works for one person isn't going to work for everyone. I have always believed that if you don’t like sports it’s because you haven’t found the right sport for you. From Zumba and Pilate’s, right through to Weight Lifting and Netball, the classes and training are so vastly spread that there must be one thing you enjoy. I always noticed at school that the girls who ‘hated’ PE, seemed to thoroughly enjoy trampolining and dance. It’s just about our personal tastes.
The second problem I feel comes from the way we advertise and discuss fitness. We make it seem like a chore and that everyone who chooses to visit the gym or join a club, does so based on guilt. Such a negative view on the fitness industry is not the most justifiable basis for a fitness plan. I'm sure most of us have said it at one stage or another ‘I have to go the gym tonight because of the rubbish I ate at the weekend’ or ‘It’s OK I can eat those crisps because I went spinning at lunch time’. By using exercise to make us feel less guilty we are using our HIIT class as a punishment for our junk food crimes. It’s an endless cycle that just creates negativity causing us to give in and stay home with the box of chocolates and think about how terrible you will feel when eventually Summer arrives and you have to dig out the bikini again.
So I have decided to take it upon myself to enjoy my sport and to visit the gym for the thrill and the buzz I receive from it. When I first took up netball at the age of 13 it was for the pure love of sport, the desperation to win and the sense of achievement I felt after I had work my butt off, regardless of the result. This is still true; I still experience this buzz, and funnily enough netball has never felt like a chore. Why? Because I choose to go for the love I first felt as a teenager. But I decided this isn't enough. It’s time I felt like this about all exercise. I've chosen to stop using the gym as punishment. So instead of sitting in my spin class and counting calories, I now get up on that beat and think about how good it feels to actually be able to take part. At the end of the class I love the sense of achievement and the thought that yes ‘this girl can' but more importantly 'this girl does'. I leave the gym with a smile on my face itching to get back. I even enjoy it so much that tonight I'm off to my third spin class of the week, something I never thought I would be doing.
So I challenge all of you to stop thinking about how cold and painful your next run is going to be and instead find a reason that will help you fall back in love with your exercise - no matter what it is, just make it genuine and make sure it has nothing to do with that tiny bikini at the back of your drawer!
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The long anticipated 1Rebel @1Rebel_uk opened this week in the City of London between Liverpool St and the Gherkin on St Mary Axe. Covering 8,000 sq ft that is divided into 2 large studios, 1Rebel offers 2 different classes - Rebel Ride (spinning style indoor cycling workout) and Rebel Reshape (combination of resistance exercises combined with intense bursts on treadmills). These high intensity group exercise classes are available on a pay per visit basis, with no contract and no hidden fees.
Both being keen cyclists, Natalie and myself went along to try out Rebel Ride. What a great lunchtime class! We loved the pumping sound system and the new smooth Matrix bikes which have Look and SPD cleats on every bike - JJ can you make this the new common standard and can all manufactures fall in line? Both of these greatly enhance the experience for the user and when your paying £20 per ride (when you buy 10 sessions up front) or £22 per ride (when you buy 4 sessions) its essential to do everything possible to make sure each ride is the best one yet.
The showers, see photos below, are a work of art and are the best I've seen since Crunch opened. Changing rooms also have heated seating, nice products and fluffy scented towels. Roots & Bulbs are doing the refuelling.
I look forward to my next ride in a few weeks time when it's settled in and before the second site opens at Broadgate in April.


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Although Honda has already issued multiple recalls to recall back their models fitted with the faulty Takata airbags, it looks like it is not good enough as it was reported that the faulty airbag might have been the cause of a fatal accident this week.
It was reported that the latest incident happens in Malaysia. The vehicle was a 2004 Honda City. Honda has since added that the vehicle involved was recalled in 2015 but was never repaired.
The incident believes that be the 23rd death caused by the airbag of which 19 were from Honda Vehicles. It is estimated that Honda has already recalled 11.4 million units of their Honda models here in the US and is planning to recall 5.1million more at a later date.
If you model is one of those that has been recalled, please do not wait to get the airbag replaced.


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The company says it is enjoying strong sales, and wants to expand its number of stores. Aftermarket analyst Brian Taylor believes Motor World and Halfords are benefiting from the ageing vehicle parc.
“Accessory shops tend to deal with the owners of older cars. With today’s vehicles lasting longer, and with owners keeping them longer, sales of accessories are likely to increase,” he says.
Motor World was formed in 2000 when management led by John Moussell bought the business from parent company Finelist, which went into receivership. With 230 outlets around the UK, it is the second biggest car parts and accessories chain after Halfords. It has appointed Clearwater Corporate Finance to advise on the flotation.
Halfords raised gross proceeds of £266.7m from its initial public share offering earlier this month. The shares were sold at 260p each, broadly in line with expectations, valuing the company at £593m. The net proceeds of about £135m, together with an estimated £195m of borrowings under new bank facilities and available cash balances, will be used to reduce debt.
The CVC Capital Partners company, which has 387 stores in the UK, expects to achieve £578.6m turnover in 2004 (£525.8m in 2003), and £79.2m operating profit before goodwill and exceptional costs (£50.8m in 2003).


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The Delhi Petrol Dealers Association demanded withdrawal of the increase in value-added tax (VAT) on petroleum products, saying diesel sales fell by 79 percent in May. According to the association, 1.73 crore liters of diesel were sold in May this year, while eight crore liters of diesel were sold in Delhi in the same month last year. In a letter to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the organization said that the price disparity due to VAT with neighboring states like Uttar Pradesh and Haryana is having an impact on the sale of petrol pumps. On May 5, the Delhi government had increased the Value Added Tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel to 30 percent.
79 percent drop in diesel sales
Anil Bijlani, president of the organization, said, “Diesel sales fell by 84 percent in April. Diesel sales fell 79 percent in May despite restrictions being relaxed. Former president of the organization Nischal Singhania said that the primary reason for the minimum reduction in diesel sales is the huge difference of about Rs 7 per liter with neighboring states. As a result, Delhi is losing both sales and revenue. Singhania said that Delhi is incurring a revenue loss of Rs 58 crore per month due to higher taxes.
Also read: Petrol-diesel can be expensive, this state government can increase VAT, know the rate of your city
The organization said that the price of diesel in Delhi was Rs 69.39 per liter on June 4, while in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh it was Rs 62.68 per liter and Rs 63.45 per liter respectively. In Punjab it was 63.30 rupees per liter. The organization said in the letter that the reduction in VAT rates will also provide relief to the common citizens of Delhi, as the increase in diesel prices affects all commodities.


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This success follows innovative action taken by the company to extend its offering to consumers. In August, Pinduoduo launched its grocery delivery service Duo Duo Maicai to meet growing demand amidst the fallout from the pandemic.
What’s behind the success of China’s social commerce app Pinduoduo?
The workload like this whatsapp number list allows both the vendor and the affiliate to focus on. Clicks are the number of clicks coming to your website’s URL from organic search results.
US consumers spent a record $204.5 billion online throughout the 2021 holiday shopping period
According to figures released by Adobe as part of its Digital Economy Index, US consumers spent a record $204.5 billion throughout the 2021 holiday season, denoted as 1st November – 31st December. This spend represents a rise of 8.6% from the previous year, and was driven by categories including toys (5.4 times more online sales compared to pre-season levels), video games (4.5x), gift cards (3.6x) and books (3x more).
The data also gives an insight into changing shopping habits throughout the holiday season as a whole, as Adobe found that consumers were spreading their shopping out beyond big sales events like Cyber Monday, and beginning to spend earlier. The weeks before Thanksgiving (1st – 24th November) were up 19.2% on 2020, while spend during Cyber Week (the five days between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday) actually fell by 1.4% compared with 2020. Spend then rose again between 30th November and 31st December, coming in at 5.6% above 2020 levels.


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2021 Annual Awards in Hunan.
Reviewing unit for map People’s Network Changsha November 12 electric spicy cabbage beef, red-burning cinnamon, rural blood duck … November 11th, 2021 Xiangcui Global Conference and "Hunan Cuisine" small procedure launching ceremony held in Changsha .
The event site, Xiang Thai Kao Yaoquan, Xu Ju Yun announced that seven prourse dishes became the 2021stion, and 6 dishes became a 2021 classic Hunan.
This year, the world’s global release of the gathering of the food, focusing on the Hunan vegetable industry, exploring the excellent products of Hunan cuisine, enhances the influence of Hunan cuisine products, the wind direction of Hunan cuisine innovation; based on big data, through real, professional, authority evaluation system, Cultivate a batch of popular names and hunger, establish a group of well-known brands that have been highly respected, intended to fully show the boom and vitality of Hunan cuisine, leading all Hunan vegetables, and returns to the product.
Today, Hunan dishes have more than 4,000 dishes, more than 300 famous dishes, become a big cuisine that is comparable to Chuancai cuisine. In the "2020 Chinese Catering Brand White Paper" mentioned that Hunan cuisine has jumped into the most exclusive dinner of the most popular eyeball in 2020, with the strongest expansion capability.
The booming of the Hunan cuisine industry, the inheritance and innovation of Hunan dishes, is needed to show.
After statistical analysis of the Hunan’s overall catering market in Hunan Province, from the sales volume, technical index, epidemic trend, praise rate and other aspects, a total of seven roads 2021 Xiangcub, and six 2021 classic Hunan cuisine. The chef from the major catering companies exhibits a hand, and there are 13 award-winning works at the scene, and in the face of T-Xi Shi.
After the show, Wei Zheng, Vice President of Hunan Province Catering Industry Association, Vice President and Secretary General, Secretary-General of Hunan Province, awarded the awards of the 2021 Hunan Cuisine Winners. 2021 Classic Hunan Cuisine was issued by Director of Changsha City Internal Trade Industry Management Office. Under the witness of many guests, the "Hunan Cuisine" applet officially launched the line.
Liu Ke, a "Hunan Cuisine" magazine, Hunan Cuisine, Executive, Liu Ke, said that a small procedure for serving the Hunan Cuisine is intended to provide a more convenient and comprehensive information exchange platform for Hunan vegetables, and create a better development environment for Hunan cuisine. .
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KUCHING, April 8: Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan has acknowledged his mistake of not putting on his face mask after eating in Matu due to a rushed schedule, and said he is ready to pay the compound of flouting the Covid-19 standard operating procedures (SOP).
“Yes, I admit my mistake. I myself was not aware too because my officer told me we cannot be late for the next function so I had to leave in a rush, but if I’m compounded, I will definitely pay the amount,” he said.
When addressing the Sarawak Timber Industry Development Corporation (Pusaka) 2021 Special Assembly at Wisma Sumber Alam here today, he said he had already been contacted by the police and was informed of his compound.
He explained that he was buying and eating some of the local delicacies while visiting the stores in Matu, and that was why he took off his face mask in the first place.
After he was told to rush to the next event by his officer, he said he had to be quick.
“I wanted to be fast, so I was paying the store owners for some of their food and drinks and told my officer to pick them up later.
“So, I was not aware that I had forgotten to put my mask back on when I was walking. Then, I was contacted by the police and they say ‘Datuk, you have gotten a compound’,” he said light-heartedly.
Awang Tengah, who is also Minister of Industrial and Entrepreneur Development cum Second Minister of Urban Development and Natural Resources, was responding to a video of himself that showed him without a face mask in Matu which went viral on social media recently.
In the video, he was also seen handing money to the store owners unmasked before leaving in his car. — DayakDaily


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The “selfie economy” is becoming a significant factor in online sales of winter sports products. Purchase pattern data from shopping portal Tmall 天猫 shows that those who bought winter sporting goods were also likely to invest in seasonal makeup like moisturizers, and photo equipment like selfie sticks and waterproof cameras. The trend was most obvious in users born between 1995-1999, a generation of digital natives.
Why it matters
Selfie culture isn’t just changing the winter sports market, it’s changing the landscape of digital China.
Jiayang Fan at the New Yorker lays bare the omnipresence of selfies and photo beautification in her piece on internet celebrities and beautification apps:
Worldwide, Meitu’s apps generate some six billion photos a month, and it has been estimated that more than half the selfies uploaded on Chinese social media have been edited using Meitu’s products. [A famous online influencer] told me that it is considered a solecism to share a photo of yourself that you haven’t doctored. “Selfies are part of Chinese culture now, and so is Meitu-editing selfies,” she said.
So what’s the takeaway?
From a corporate point of view, selfies need to be considered as a usability issue for any product or campaign where they might play a role. Product features designed to support or enhance selfies, and experiential, digital or meatverse marketing campaigns designed to encourage them, deserve a very close look if you’re targeting China. There are even, as Ms. Fan points out, opportunities for creative product collaborations directly with selfie apps:
[Selfie app] Meitu has recently started partnerships with a number of cosmetics brands, including Sephora, Lancôme, and Bobbi Brown; users can test products on their selfies and then be redirected to the brands’ Web sites to place their orders.
From a safety perspective, though? Don’t ski and selfie, kids.


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4J Studios has said update 9 for Minecraft Xbox 360 will include more than just The End and its Enderdragon. According to tweets from the studio noticed by OXM, the studio is planning on adding more featured from the PC version earlier than originally planned. “The plan has changed a little, you will see more,” read the tweet. This means climbable vines, and further down the road: Spawn Eggs, Ocelots and texture pack support. 4J is considering making Superflat worlds deeper as well. Good to hear.
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-- Report recommends up to ZAR2 billion fund to aid suppliers believed at risk from cheap imports
-- Separate report from divided panel recommends focus on few specific sectors
JOHANNESBURG--The Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) and South African retailer Massmart Holdings Ltd. (MSM.JO) merged entity should pay more to support local suppliers, possibly up to 2 billion rand ($239.1 million), says a report produced by Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz.
To enhance local suppliers' capacity and job creation, the two companies should develop a fund that would spend between ZAR500 million to ZAR2 billion over the next five to 10 years, says the report, seen by Dow Jones Newswires and co-authored by Mr. Stiglitz and Genesis Analytics economist James Hodge.
Last year, South Africa's competition authorities approved Wal-Mart's $2.4 billion bid to buy a majority stake in Massmart. The deal closed in 2011 but three government bodies and a local union appealed the decision, arguing that not enough had been done to protect local manufacturers and suppliers, which they believed were at risk of closing down if Wal-Mart increased cheaper imports.
When competition authorities signed off on the Wal-Mart and Massmart merger last year they did so with a few caveats. The companies agreed not to cut any job for the first two years, honor union bargaining agreements for three years and invest ZAR100 million in a supply-chain training program to improve the competitiveness of local industry.
In March, the competition appeals court said there was "insufficient evidence" that the merger would harm public interests enough to overturn the approval but ordered a three-person panel to be formed with a representative selected by the merged parties, the government and union to put forward recommendations on how the fund should be run.
Over the weekend, the panel submitted its report, but in a sign of tension between the parties, the Massmart and Wal-Mart appointee to the committee, University of Cape Town professor Mike Morris, opted to write his own report due to disagreements on content.
Mr. Morris recommended a fund that would be focused on a few specific sectors with a large number of small to medium sized businesses that could benefit from the fund and provide niche products to the retailers. His report didn't reject the initial ZAR100 million rand figure as too small.
A spokesman for Massmart and Wal-Mart said the companies' lawyers are reviewing the report and will lodge a written response to the appeal court which will then take into account all the information before making a final decision.
The Stiglitz-Hodge report also noted with concern the recent story from the New York Times about Wal-Mart's activities in Mexico and said while it was outside their remit it "seems to demonstrate deficiencies in Wal-Mart's internal structures."
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India has agreed to remove a longstanding barrier to U.S. agricultural trade and allow imports of U.S. pork and pork products into India.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a statement on Monday that Washington is working to ensure that products are shipped to India as soon as possible.
“India’s agreement to allow U.S. pork imports for the first time is great news for U.S. producers and for Indian consumers,” Tai said.
“This new opportunity marks the culmination of nearly two decades of work to gain market access for U.S. pork to India,” Vilsack added, saying that the news signals strengthening U.S.-India trade relations.
In 2020, the United States was the world’s third-largest pork producer and second-largest exporter. Last year, the United States exported more than $1.6 billion of agricultural products to India.
India and the U.S. had agreed to expand agricultural trade at a revived U.S.-India Trade Policy Forum in New Delhi last November. A meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Joe Biden also ended with an agreement to strengthen relations through trade.
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The cost of app marketing is at an all-time high, according to app marketing technology company Fiksu. Boston-based Fiksu has been analyzing trends in app marketing for the last four years, and in June of this year, the Cost Per Loyal User Index (CPLUI) -- which measures how much money brands spend to acquire regular users of their iOS apps -- peaked at $2.23. According to Fiksu, a regular user is someone who uses the app at least three times.
Marketing is the way companies interact with consumers to create relationships that are beneficial to both parties. Businesses use marketing to identify their audience before advertising to them. Today, this is most visible through social media interactions and contests.


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West Australian-based live export shipper, Wellard, is to send its first consignment of beef cattle to China from south eastern Australia.
About 2000 head will be supplied to Rongcheng HCMH Trade and Service Company, a subsidiary of the Tai Xiang group which specialises in processed and frozen food products.
Wellard’s managing director, Mauro Balzarini, said although the shipment would be relatively small, it was the largest consignment of this type organised so far by Australian exporters.
“It represents a very significant step in the company’s implementation if its strategy for China,” he said.
The company has not yet specified when its consignment will depart Australia or from where.
The sale contract is also still subject to various conditions and receipt of a deposit and completion of letter of credit requirements.
The cattle would be quarantined on arrival in China and then processed in a purpose-built facility which has been accredited under Australia’s Exporter Supply chain Assurance Scheme (ESCAS).
“We have been working very hard to develop the china market for a long time and I congratulate Wellard’s China team, Particularly Scot Braithwaite, Bernie Brosnan and Eva Fu for their fantastic marketing effort,” Mr Balzarini said.
He said the Chinese market offered big potential for Wellard and the Australian cattle industry in general.
He was confident the first shipment would pave the way for more regular trade and live exports to China.
This would benefit Wellard’s business stakeholders and more Australian producers as China’s demand specifications were different to the import requirements of Indonesian and Vietnamese live cattle buyers, which currently take cattle from northern Australia.
“We see this as the start of a long-term relationship with clients in China in the same professional way we have worked closely with our customers in other markets for the past three decades, including establishing ESCAS supply chain integrity with a special emphasis on animal welfare.”
Early this year Elders’ then-subsidiary, the North Australia Cattle Company, shipped Australia’s first vessel to China departing from Portland in Victoria.
Elders had previously freighted live beef cattle in two air shipments to China, as had Ruralco’s Frontier International.


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Citing a person familiar with the situation, the technology website confirms several details of the next major Mac OS X upgrade first reported on Tuesday, including a scheduled release as soon as Macworld 2009 this coming January, and that it will not introduce any major new features.
Instead, Snow Leopard is said to focus heavily on performance optimization and security, a move that will in all likelihood widen the gap between Mac OS X and Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system in those areas.
"Things like the MacBook Air, iPhone, iPod touch, and other mysterious devices that have yet to be announced need better performance for better battery life, and that's definitely something Apple wants to excel at in the years to come," wrote Ars' Jacqui Cheng.
Unconfirmed is whether the software will be shown off or discussed at the company's annual developers conference next week. However, AppleInsider in recent weeks has been told to expect discussion of "another big cat" at the event.
Also unconfirmed, but somewhat likely, is that Apple will completely wrap Snow Leopard in its Cocoa application programming interface (API) set, meaning that applications written via the company's legacy Carbon API will fail to run on the new system.
Adding corroboration to an AppleInsider report published last September, Ars adds that Mac OS X 10.6 is expected to support only Intel-based Macs, leaving owners of PowerPC-based systems of yesteryear out in the cold.
Update: Ars updates its report saying: "There may be some disagreement here as to what exactly "Cocoa-only" means, so take that into account when thinking about this. For example, Apple may only axe Carbon UI stuff."


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Consolidating audio books Sexy chatting online without registration
It was printed books on a screen, not remotely exploring digital’s potential, and at worst a small threat to bricks and mortar retailers.Sure self-publishers could earn a notional 70% royalty, and that sector bloomed and boomed, but never enough to seriously challenge the existing order, even if some seemed to think otherwise in those heady days of 2010-13 when some seriously believed self-publishers would inherit the Earth. Big Pub learned it could contain the ebook beast it had fed and nurtured by the simple expedient of keeping ebook prices at a level that would not cannibalise print sales.
And there are numerous smaller subscription players thriving in Europe.For consumers, readers and listeners pay less and get to read or listen to more.It’s counterintuitive, and at the heart of Big pub’s wariness of the subscription model. But Storytel has also demonstrated that less is more for publishers.But as Storytel prepares to go head to head with Audible and Kindle Unlimited in Germany, one of the world’s biggest book markets, the book industry seismometer will be registering activity.
This is the first rumbling of a seismic shift in the publishing landscape as publishers in a major book market prepare to give Amazon a run for its money by backing a model they have long chosen to keep at arms’ length.
But with the move into Germany, the home of Audible, and only possible with the active engagement of Germany’s publishers, we see Big Pub finally ready to seriously test-drive and evaluate the twin offerings Storytel brings to the table: a viable challenger and counter-balance to Amazon’s dominance of the digital market, and the prospect of seeing the Storytel model in action in a fully mature market.


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Ducati is to test the latest version of their Desmosedici GP12 engine next week at Mugello. Ducati team manager Vitto Guareschi said that Franco Battaini is to start testing the bike, complete with the new engine, next week, in preparation for handing the machine over to Nicky Hayden and Valentino Rossi for a final test on the Monday after the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello. If that test is successful, then both factory Ducati riders will have the new engine available as part of their allocation from Laguna Seca, the race directly after Mugello.
BMW Motorrad is recalling 1,414 units of its 2012 BMW S1000RR superbike because of improperly manufactured connecting rod bolts. Due to a manufacturing process error, the connecting rod bolts could become loose during high engine temperatures and/or high engine operating speeds. If the bolts do come loose, the result could be a catastrophic engine failure (their words, not ours).
With the engine of Dani Pedrosa’s Honda RC213V suffering a failure on Tuesday, HRC decided to sideline all Honda riders for the second day of testing at MotoGP’s second Sepang testing week. Giving up the ghost on Pedrosa’s 36th lap, HRC flew the motor back to Japan last night for Honda engineers to examine. However with the engine not arriving at HRC’s race shop until around lunch time today, Honda chose to sideline its factory and satellite riders until a determination for the failure could be ascertained.
I was flipping through some photos from the 2011 EICMA show, and found these shots of the Ducati 1199 Panigale‘s Superquadro engine. Unfortunately at the show, Ducati had its 1199cc v-twin motor behind a Lexan case, which created a bit of a glare, reflections, and of course had smudges from the touchy-feely Italian crowd. But still, the photos give a good idea of what’s going on in Ducati’s most-advanced production engine to date, and are better than just looking at the CAD renders (photos & movie).
If you look at the shots very closely, you can almost see where the 195hp and 98 lbs•ft of torque is lurking inside. Visible are the gear/chain-driven cams, which help aid the 15,000 mile service interval (and help avoid the almost yearly Ducati tax that came with the old motor design). Also visible is the new wet slipper clutch ride-by-wire system, which help complete the Superquadro’s departure from what we used to think of as iconic elements to Ducati’s twins. Photos after the jump.
I’ll admit, I’m pandering to the crowd on this one. When we brought you the first images and details of the Ducati Superquadro motor, a recurring theme in the comments was how the motor bordered on art. While I’ll agree that a finely-built motorcycle has an aesthetic worthy of the MoMA (I fully expect the 2012 Ducati 1199 Panigale to be jaw-dropping beautiful), a motorcycle engine might be a tall order.
Content to let that one go and move on, Ducati ruined the whole thing by posting a bunch of artsy fartsy images of the 90°, overly-square, 195hp v-twin motor. Now, even I’m not bull-headed enough to avoid putting two and two together, so here you go you Ducatisti Asphalt & Rubber readers, more images of the Ducati Superquadro engine for you to drool over. Enjoy.
UPDATE: Ducati has added English subtitles to the video. Huzzah!
We don’t know why Ducati only has this video out in Italian, but there’s some good bike porn of the Ducati Superquadro motor being developed and worked on, not to mention some shots of the Ducati 1199 Panigale. Hopefully Bologna posts up an English version of the video (we’ll add it if/when they do), so the rest of the motorcycling world can hear about the company’s new Superbike engine. Until then, our translation goes something like, “the bike, it goes a verrry fasst!”
Ducati has a new flagship Superbike coming out soon, if you hadn’t heard the news. Powering the Ducati 1199 Panigale is a new 90° v-twin motor dubbed the Superquadro (Ducati mini-site here), which the Italian company officially unveiled today. Confirming the specs we released back in November of last year, the power plant boasts 195hp and 98 lbs•ft of torque, making the Ducati Superquadro motor a new direction for Bologna, in more ways than one. For starters, the Superquadro is the first production motor in the company’s history that’s is fully-integrated into a bike’s chassis, thus putting final confirmation that the 1199 Panigale will use the MotoGP inspired “frameless” chassis design (not that we were really doubting this).
Deriving its name from the massively over-sqaure cylinder design, the Superquadro is the most powerful motor to come in a production motorcycle from the Bologna brand. Other highlights include the use of hybrid chain/gear-driven camshaft, titanium valves, a wet slipper clutch, ride-by-wire throttle actuation, 15,000 mile major service intervals, and a rider-selectable “riding mode” system. Boasting that the company built the Superquadro motor with a clean sheet of paper, the company has proven once again that there are no sacred cows in Bologna.
Someone at Honda must have forgotten that the company has already used the Integra name, as Honda Motor Co. has released details on its new mid-sized motorcycle motor. A two-cylinder 700cc four-stroke lump, the Integra motor promises to be a class leader in fuel-economy for the Japanese brand.
Boasting 40% greater fuel efficiency from other “sport” motors in the 500cc-700cc class, the Integra motor can do 63 mpg (US) according to our rough calculations of Honda’s consumption figure of 27km/L. Perhaps more interesting than its fuel economy, Honda has also stated that the new motor can be coupled to the company’s second generation dual-clutch transmission, the first generation of which can be seen on the Honda VFR1200F.
Ducati Corse continues to battle a war on two-fronts: both by trying to market itself out of an otherwise disastorous MotoGP season, and also to rapidly develop and search for answers to the lackluster Ducati Desmosedici GP11. The latest news out of Bologna now leans more towards this latter effort (or is it the prior?), as Ducati Corse has announced that it will bring a version of its 2012 chassis to Assen for Valentino Rossi to use in the Dutch TT.
The Ducati Desmosedici GP11.1, as they’re calling it, features a modified motor, and will debut Ducati’s next-generation gearbox: the Ducati Seamless Transmission (DST). Ducati hopes bringing out the new chassis, which has already been given the nod by both Rossi and teammate Nicky Hayden, will not only help turn around the season’s results, but also expedite development for the Ducati Desmosedici GP12. Along with a new carbon chassis, the GP11.1 features an inverted swingarm design, which sees the rear shock mounted higher-up with a special rear-subframe assembly.
The British Motorcycle Industry Association is reporting that the 2011 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R was the best selling 651cc-1000cc motorcycle on the island nation for the month of November (with a whopping 17 sales!), despite the fact that the 10R has been put on a technical hold by Kawasaki, and not a single machine has made it to a British customer. Leaving aside the obvious problems of counting your chickens before they’ve hatched, and the validity of the MIA’s statistics just generally, it will be interesting to see how this “technical hold” affects Kawasaki’s sales for the superbike-derived ZX-10R as we get closer to the prime sportbike selling season.
Already under some controversy for coming to the United States sans about 20hp, the technical hold on what many believe is a piston wear issue is another blow to Team Green. While A&R‘s ZX-10R launch invite must have gotten lost in the mail (that’s what you get for being one of the first to break Kawasaki’s lowered RPM news), it would appear from one owner’s video that the 2011 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R is more than capable of ludicrious speed in street form (not that we condone such a thing). Video of a 300+ km/h top speed run after the jump.


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Ghana Trade Fair Company Limited in partnership with the Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) will tomorrow 25th February 2016 host the 20th edition of Ghana International Trade Fair in Tamale.
The 20th Ghana International Trade Fair will held at the Tamale Sports Stadium from February 25 – March 7, 2016.
This was the outcome of a series of meetings held between the two organisations in Accra and Tamale.
The fair on the theme “Two Decades of International Trade Fairs in Ghana: Exploring Business Opportunities in the SADA Zone of Ghana”, seek to harness the vast investment potentials in the Savannah Ecological Zone.
The investment potentials include iron ore, lime deposits and other minerals and raw materials, emerging market potentials for manufacturing, distributors, agents, exporters and importers of both domestic and industrial products and services will be showcase to the rest of the world according to the SADA CEO, Mr. Charles Abugre.
Mr. Abugre said as part of the planned arrangement for the fair, “We would be inviting prominent paramount chiefs from our neighbouring countries to deepen our cultural linkages, promote peace and open up our countries for cross border trade.”
According to Mr. Abugre “when the International Airport is completed, travel time amongst ECOWAS countries will be within two hours, (and) this will further promote businesses in the SADA zone.
He expressed great appreciation to the Board and Management of Ghana Trade Fair Company Limited for deciding to organise the fair in Tamale, adding that the journey to open up the Northern half of Ghana was a laudable one.
Mr. Abugre made a passionate appeal to Ghanaians especially the people of the SADA zone, agencies, departments and stakeholders to not only participate but support the event, stressing that the fair offers a unique opportunity to map, organise and present investment opportunities to the global investment community to explore in that part of the country.
For his part, the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Trade Fair Company Limited, Dr. Erasmus Ebenezer Okpoti Koney said since the establishment of the Ghana Trade Fair in the 1960s his organisation has never organised The Ghana International Fair outside the shores of Accra.
He revealed the move to organise the fair in Tamale is strictly in line with the company’s re-branding drive, which is to ensure that exhibitions and for that matter International fairs are brought to the doorsteps of all the regions in Ghana.
Dr. Koney posited that this initiative hinges on two core values; first the identification of Trade and Investment potentials in the host region, and then secondly, a strategic partner to collaborate in order that the fair could be effectively and successfully executed.
“Early part of this year SADA successfully organised an Investment forum in Tamale, dubbed SADA Business and Investment Forum 2015 (SABIF 2015) and this absolutely fits into our core mandate as market leaders in the exhibition industry”, Dr. Koney stressed.
He equally expressed delight with the arrangement as far as the fair is concerned, and that with the wealth of experience and resources these two agencies are pulling together, the fair would leave an everlasting impact on exhibitors and all stakeholders.
His Excellency President John Dramani Mahama will be the specail guest of honor for the fair including chiefs and opinion leaders in the SADA Zone.


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Engineering firm Renold said sales and orders have continued to grow in recent weeks, keeping it on track to double adjusted operating profits during this financial year.
Renold, which is based in Wythenshawe, Manchester, and makes gears, chains and couplings, said underlying sales in the three months to the end of June were 12 per cent ahead of the same period last year while orders surpassed that figure.
Revenues in Australasia, China and India rose by more than 20 per cent.
Shares in the company ticked up 0.75p or nearly two per cent to 40p after the update.
Renold's products are used in sectors including leisure, energy, steel, mining, transport and food processing.
They feature in London Tube Station escalators, Big Ben's clock tower and the Oblivion ride at the Alton Towers theme park.


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The World Bank lowered its 2022 growth forecast on Tuesday to 2.9%, down from the 4.1% estimate made in January and the 5.7% surge seen through 2021.
The massive gap between rich and poor Americans costs the US economy more than $300 billion every year, study says
The top 10% is the only group to have their income share grow since 1979. That's slowing economic growth, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Deloitte lays out 4 steps to keep the climate crisis from tanking the global economy over the next 50 years
Tackling climate change will require massive investments, but it can leave the world economy $43 trillion richer by 2070, according to Deloitte.
Just a third of the money from the government's massive Payroll Protection Program actually helped keep workers employed, study says
The program was "highly regressive," researchers said. Of the $510 billion in initial PPP loans, $366 billion went to the US's top earners.
'Sin taxes' are meant to push people away from booze and cigarettes, but they mostly hit those who can least afford to pay
Just 10% of US households account for 80% of sin tax revenue, according to an NBER paper. Many of them are in the lowest income and education groups.
The Tulsa Race Massacre worsened economic inequality through massive destruction of wealth and haunting news coverage, researchers found.
Giving people an equal shot expands the economic pie for everyone, economists said in a Thursday paper.
Wealthy Americans' incomes surged the last 50 years. NBER researchers think this created a "vicious cycle" of tumbling rates and a yawning wealth gap.
Rich countries' failure to vaccinate the world will do $2.3 trillion in economic damage, The Economist says
Biden hasn't spent $16 billion to vaccinate the world, and other rich countries are lagging. The price tag for the world economy will be much larger.
Wages have barely budged since the 1970s while productivity has stagnated. A new NBER paper argues automation played a bigger part than we knew.
The government's $5 trillion stimulus gamble mostly paid off — but missed poorer Americans along the way
Using the IRS to send stimulus payments glossed over roughly 12 million Americans with incomes below the tax-filing threshold, Fed researchers said.
Americans have saved $1.6 trillion since the pandemic started and it poses little inflation risk, the Fed says
Americans were sitting on $1.6 trillion of cash even before Biden's stimulus sent them more direct payments. The Fed estimates a third will be spent.
Federal Reserve researchers simulated 2021 growth 1 million times. Disappointing global growth practically guarantees US underperformance.
Boosted unemployment benefits supported the labor market better than expected, University of Chicago study says
Extra unemployment payments during the pandemic boosted consumer spending while also keeping more Americans in jobs, the UChicago study found.
If a second round of payments goes out, Americans expect to save more of the cash and use slightly less for paying down debt, the researchers said.
Boosted unemployment benefits didn't incentivize Americans to stay jobless, Fed study shows — diminishing one of Republicans' key arguments against extra payments
The findings suggest the supplement was meant "to provide the income needed for households to make essential purchases and payments," the Fed said.
Global corporate profits tanked 33% through 2nd quarter and won't rebound 'anytime soon,' JPMorgan says
The tech and consumer staples sectors suffered the smallest profit slumps, while energy and consumer discretionary firms endured the largest declines.
Redistributing wealth to poorer Americans by taxing monopolistic entities can help prevent financial crises, the Fed researchers said.


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"The growth in the number of developers should be significant over the next years," John Andrews, president with Evans Data Corporation said in a presentation at the AjaxWorld conference in Santa Clara, California.
Based on an international survey of developers, Andrews said that the adoption rate of the Ajax developer platform is "as extreme as any of the other technologies that we are tracking," comparing it to the adoption rates of Eclipse and Flash.
The firm estimates that there were 10.8m software developers worldwide in 2004, which is set to increase to 17.1m by 2009. Currently 1.7m developers write code in Ajax and another 1.2m have evaluated the technique and are preparing to start using it, said Andrews.
Ajax is a Web development technique that allows developers to create interactive Web applications.
A static webpage exchanges data only when a user clicks on a link or button. Ajax applications transmit data behind the scenes, making for more responsive and user-friendly online applications that resemble regular desktop applications.
The technique is best known of its applications by consumer websites like Digg, Flicr and Gmail.
Enterprise adoption is important for the Ajax market because it tends to drive sales of commercial developer tools and services. Most of today's the consumer facing applications use internally developed tools or open source too ls such as the Dojo Toolkit.
In the enterprise space, Ajax is mostly used for business to business e-commerce applications and consumer e-commerce applications, said Andrews, but he projected that it will soon broaden its reach.
"You should be pretty bullish [about the future of Ajax]. Forty per cent of the developers are quite enthusiastic and expect their usage of Ajax to increase by more than 50 percent next year."
Enterprises warm up to Ajax
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We are Creative Abby and not D&Ad: Ajay Chandwani
Creative Abby has come a long way from the iconic advertising award it symbolised for several decades. From the traditional print and TV excellence in creativity that it stood for a long time, Creative Abby touches a wide spectrum of fields, making it more than just an advertising award. Many a creative reputation has been built first on the Abby stage before making an impact at Cannes, Clio and One Show, says Ajay Chandwani.
Creative Abby has come a long way from the iconic advertising award it symbolised for several decades. From the traditional print and TV excellence in creativity that it stood for a long time, Creative Abby today touches a wide spectrum of fields like direct marketing, design, film, print and radio craft, digital and mobile making it more than just an advertising award. Many a creative reputation has been built first on the Abby stage before making an impact at Cannes, Clio and One Show.
This year, there have been nearly 4,200 entries from 137 different companies. These include agencies, direct, design, digital, film and radio production houses. While the traditional favorites like print, film, radio and out of home and integrated remain the core of Abby, newly introduced categories in Digital, Design, Film Craft and Direct have seen a huge jump in participation.
Digital and Mobile entries have shot up nearly five-fold, registering the biggest jump in the Festival. Forty digital companies and agencies participated in such diverse new sub-categories like rich media, branded content and games, WAP sites, online video and virals, creative use of social media and applications on mobile. Surely this is an indication of the changing times.
Forty-one Design companies and agencies took part in the popular Design category with participation from global and Indian design houses. The film craft category has also grown big with 21 film production houses taking part. So, Brand Abby is not just a platform for agencies, but also a diverse range of companies.
A total of 79 judges led by nine Jury Chairpersons hammered out the winners over eight days and some nights of hard fought verdicts. As many as 56 agencies, design, digital, direct and film and radio craft companies were represented in the juries.
Some of the judging issues that came up this year concern standards of shortlisting or voting for metals. While judges felt last year saw a lot of mediocre advertising due to difficult market conditions, a lot of the jury members felt we should not be harsh in setting unrealistic standards of festivals like One Show or D&AD, since GoaFest is an Indian advertising festival that honours Indian advertising.
Some jurors felt that it is harder to get a finalist or a metal at GoaFest now than even at Cannes and other festivals. Is this because Indian judges tend to be harder on Indian creative than their international counterparts? Or is this because we apply international festival norms on judging Indian advertising even though we are judging most Indian creative work which won’t even be entered internationally for several reasons?
Come on guys, we are Abby and not D&AD! A young Hindi or Tamil writer is waiting to be recognised for work on Indian ethos, which will only happen if there is shared vision of what to look for. Thankfully, our judges have been on international juries and have selected winners at GoaFest, which have gone on to win in Cannes and other festivals. So, some soul searching and a common shared vision of what is fresh will go a long way in setting benchmarks with the jury being taken from a wide spectrum of Indian companies.
I would like to thank the jury members for all the time and passion put in by them in arriving at the results. Brand Abby has come a long way and that has only been possible due to the enthusiastic participation by companies and juries alike.
Till next year… let’s raise a toast to the best work that wins this evening!
(Ajay Chandwani is Chairman, Creative Abbys at GoaFest 2010 and Director, PerceptH.)
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We are excited to share the news that a new book by Habitat for Humanity International CEO Jonathan Reckford is to be released on October 8.
The book, Our Better Angels: Seven Simple Virtues That Will Change Your Life, includes a foreword by President Jimmy Carter and shares many Habitat stores that will inspire any reader who supports our Habitat mission.
100% of all proceeds from Jonathan’s book will go directly to Habitat International to further support our work around the world.
Advance copies are available online at Amazon.com at $24.99 (free shipping with Amazon Prime). And, if you go to Amazon.Smile.com, you can designate Habitat for Humanity of Craven County to receive a donation from your purchase!


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Starbucks shares which were down during the early hours trading on Thursday’s session after American coffee chain company delivered a growth in its global sales along with an adjusted earnings for the third fiscal quarter that were higher than most analyst estimates.
For its quarterly earnings report, the company posted earnings of 55 cents per share. While it met most analysts estimates of 55 cents EPC, the company’s revenue missed on most forecasts reporting only $5.66 billion missing estimates of $5.75 billion.
The company also cut its forecast for its full year earnings. Starbucks initially forecasted that its earnings per share would go from around $2.08 per share to $2.12 to now at a range of $2.05 to $2.06 per share. Starbucks also announced that its revenue growth forecast remains at a range of 8% to 10%.
Along with the weak revenue and a lower forecast for its full year earnings, Starbucks shares lost around 6% following the release of the quarter earnings report.
However, Starbucks was able to record their highest same-store sales in the United States for the quarter which rose by 5% due to the company’s recent move to come up with so called “instagrammable drinks” one of which was called the Unicorn Frappuccino which received an overwhelming response. This is the fifth consecutive quarter that the company posted upbeat same store sales in the U.S. However, Scott Maw who stands as Starbucks chief financial officer stated that the company remains more conscious regarding the ongoing quarter following ongoing concerns regarding the weaning retail sector.
Global same-store sales for the company was at around 4% during the quarter slightly missing most analyst estimates of a 4.9% growth. According to the company, the decline in their sales despite the reception of their new colorful available for a limited time only drinks were offset by the lower than expected sales in Starbucks core beverages.
However, it was the performance of its Teavana stores that impacted and resulted into most of the company’s losses. The company announced on Thursday that all 379 of its Teavana stores will be closed due to its underperformance. This will cut more than 3,000 jobs and will take place starting 2018.
Starbucks also announced that it has ongoing plans to expand and increase its overall presence in Asia following the failure of more than 300 Teavana stores in the United States. The company announced that it would be buying around fifty percent worth of stakes in more than 1,000 Starbucks stores all over China. The deal which would setback the company for about $1.3 billion would give the company full ownership of all Starbucks branches in the country.


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According to the November MasterCard Spending Pulse report, there was a clear shift in consumer spending from Black Friday to Thanksgiving Day this year. Retail sales on Thanksgiving were up 23.68% year-over-year, while Black Friday sales were up only 2.87%.
Thanksgiving and Black Friday together accounted for an 8% lift in sales over last year.
In line with trends seen by SpendingPulse all year, more consumers took advantage of online shopping deals. On Thanksgiving Day, online holiday shopping grew 19.4% year-over-year, and was up 12% on Black Friday.
“MasterCard Advisors research has shown that 70% of consumer spend on Black Friday occurs at the first two stores a shopper visits,” said Sarah Quinlan, svp/market insights for MasterCard Advisors. “With these kinds of holiday shopping statistics, it’s no wonder retailers are competing to open earlier and earlier every year so they can be the first to capture those critical dollars.”


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Beyond consumerism, Extended Reality (XR) expected to be significant in areas like medicine, education, job training and disaster relief. Yet, there are no legal protections examining the "heightened privacy risk."
Edge solutions are reducing latency by minimizing how data move inside the chip to address customer needs for smart retail and smart cities.
Decades of progress on workplace equality are on the line as worries over health care costs and mortality rates lead employers to reject older applicants, especially women.
As our interactions with devices accelerate toward a world of ambient computing that derives intent to deliver curated CX, fashion brands are looking to smart fabrics and new mediums that let consumers buy online, using photos to electronically try on and style outfits.
Companies that facilitate desired user outcomes will position themselves as best-in-class, during and after COVID.
Lobbyists, Republicans push to give immunity to corporations against negligence claims, as insurance industry predicts largest event in its history.
Content developers can help consumers "in these fluctuating moments" by exploring five search behaviors "playing out across markets." Think with Google found people are searching along these topics.
More people are hearing birds singing in urban and suburban settings as COVID-19 turns down noise volumes around the world, John Fitzpatrick, Director of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, told Reuters.
Search intent signals help marketers engage today's consumers who expect curated CX. And search behavior is driven by six canonical need states that should inform your marketing strategy.
Future of Privacy Forum's 2019 Policy Papers winner, Algorithm Impact Assessments under the GDPR: Producing Multi-layered Explanations, focuses on how GDPR's dual governance approach: individual rights and systemic governance "interact and overlap."
To "keep up with today's curatorial consumer" who controls their content consumption, marketers are cooking with data signals, creative and media to "co-create end-to-end content experiences."
Amazon announced two AI services positioned to help contact centers tackle data silos at its re:Invent event in Las Vegas this month, said Karl Walder, managing director at Oigo.cx.
This past August, HUD (the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development) released a proposed rule that "creates three affirmative defenses for housing providers, banks, and insurance companies that use algorithmic models to make housing decisions.
Customer experience leaders strive for operational efficiency, effective IT environments and cost reductions as they navigate license and infrastructure costs, volume fluctuations and siloed data.
Business leaders check shareholder primacy in the face of rising social activism and the media's push for accountability.
More Gen Xers and millenials are buying multigenerational homes to care for family, ambient tech poised to deliver helpful -- not just merely smart -- experiences for communal living.
Ambient computing is anticipated to make technology fade into the background, quietly tracking metrics to derive needs, intent, and offer the promise of better living.
Older Americans are favoring on-demand platforms and voice assistance, but concerned about privacy and security.
Now that CX is the new battleground, personalized, creative content for emotional connections with your brand "matter even more"
PROGRESS LIMITED BY GAPS in access and lack of data about women and girls, burdening advocacy and policy development.
THIS MONTH the administration signed an executive order creating an AI initiative program. It "orders the federal government to direct existing funds, programs, and data in support of AI research and commercialization."
PRIVACY LOCALISM fills gaps in privacy laws, as routine and random surveillance in public spaces proliferates in data-rich urban environments, producing and storing massive datasets available through open data programs for publication, analysis or redistribution.
CUSTOMER-CENTRICITY and reducing customer effort, strategic to realizing competitive business advantage
THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN CX and AI forges on to the front line of business excellence. The new rules of CX go beyond CRM and metrics. AI will dominate in the new battleground for competitive advantage.
THE LARGEST GATHERING of Edge and Fog influencers meeting at Fog World Congress. The Edge computing market estimated to reach over $6 billion by 2022 as IoT to produce mammoth amounts of data, expected to reach over 1.5 GB per person, per day.
Lawmakers, lending and building adapt to growing multigenerational household trend. Shifting demographics, rising material costs and smart technology are driving societal change.
SHIFTING DEMOGRAPHICS LEADING business and markets to adapt, embrace new ways to engage the 65-plus population, embrace multigenerational workplaces and age-smart practices.
AFTER SPRING BREAK in the country, many city dwellers long to create a nature vibe in their urban space. Perhaps even googling "ideas for making my balcony feel like nature." Here's a curated guide.
CLOUD COMPUTING MAKES it cost-effective for contact centers of any size or budget to scale up their IT, engage the power of analytics. Summary data won't give you what you need to understand complex patterns.
USING, COMMERCIAL, SOCIAL and historical data mining to determine threat levels. Unintentional discrimination can happen when police rely on machines for their suspicion detection.
CX AND UX with cognitive technologies can decrease Churn and increase Loyalty. Measuring customer experience according to only qualitative data and contact center performance doesn't give you the quantitative data you need to deliver higher end-to-end experiences across multiple devices.
SOMEBODY'S GOING TO MAKE THE KIDS BE ACCOUNTABLE Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being asked to comply with fairness and due process. Last week, AI NOW Institute proposed an early stage framework structured around Algorithm Impact Assessments (AIs)
MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS tell us what's likely to happen, but they can't say why. Researchers are asking AI to explain its decisions to people. Questions about the disconnect between how humans and machines make decisions have given rise to a call for data transparency and novel field of research: Explainable AI.
NYC TO INVESTIGATE automatic decision systems. Algorithms used by automated decision systems can produce bad decisions. The prospect of bias can happen from inequality in application and consequential decision-making.
MODERN LIFE IS raising questions about the data ownership landscape. Dr. Barry Devlin an expert on business insight has proposed that consumers should have the right to license their own data to other parties. The European Union is giving consumers more control with the General Data Protection Regulation.
COMPANIES NEED INSIGHT into what's important to consumers before even engaging with them. Insight starts with first-party data and extends to machine learning. The two help marketers understand new audiences that are similar to the best customers, and be useful across new placements and media touch points.


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Last month, Microsoft announced its new console, the Xbox One.
It has cool multimedia, voice-control, and motion-sensing thingamajigs. But Microsoft sort of forgot to announce any games for their game console!
Oh, they also forgot to say how much it will cost and when it will come out.
Today at the E3 conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft announced that Xbox One will cost $499 and be available Nov. 30.
Microsoft claims to have "more titles in development now than in any time in Xbox history." They also announced more than a dozen of them. Here are the ones you need to know about.
First, they showed off footage from the new Metal Gear Solid game, The Phantom Pain.
It's the first MGS that takes place in a big Grand Theft Auto–style open world.
But it's also got all of the familiar sneakery.
And a sniper unnecessarily wearing a bikini. Games are really growing up!
They announced a new franchise, set in ancient Rome. It was announced by a guy with a really, really deep voice.
It's called Ryse and it features a pretty rousing Gladiator-style speech, before a group of legionnaires storms a beach in skirts.
It looks like a sword-fighting action game.
It's being developed by Crytek, the graphics savants behind the Crysis series.
It will be available for the Xbox One at launch.
Also, there's a new Killer Instinct! There hasn't been one of those since 1996! It's exclusive to Xbox.
Insomniac Games, the studio behind Ratchet and Clank, is working on a new game called Sunset Overdrive.
It's an over-the-top, parkour-style climbing and shooting game. It seems very tongue-in-cheek.
And there's a new futuristic mech shooter from Respawn, who used to do the Call of Duty games. It's called Titanfall. Looks like CoD with, like, 30% Halo. A nuanced blend.
Forza Motorsport 5 is also on its way. Microsoft brought out a real McLaren P1 onto the stage. Forza 5 must be pretty close to the real thing.
The Forza folks touted something called a "Driveatar," a cloud-based system that tracks your driving style. It can drive as you when you aren't available to play. So your friends can play you when you're asleep.
And Minecraft! There's going to be a special edition on Xbox One.
Quantum Break is a science-fiction game from Remedy that combines gameplay and episodic television. The creators claim that decisions made in gaming affect the TV show.
It involves freezing time, and a hero named Jack. He touches women when they're frozen.
It looked pretty, but we didn't see any actual gameplay.
D4, a cel-shaded game from the Japanese developer Swery, is also in development for Xbox One.
Project Spark, from Microsoft Studios, is a world-creation game that you can talk to.
If you have Smartglass, you can finger-swipe sculpt the world you make.
It seems very obviously inspired by Minecraft. But it looks more like Fable.
The tools to make your own generic fantasy game! At least you won't have to keep buying them.
Microsoft also talked a little bit about the new Xbox Live.
You can use Smartglass to start a single or multiplayer game, buy in-game features, and view your friends' game progress.
And Twitch, the game-streaming giant, is built into Xbox Live.
And you'll be able to have as many friends as you want. (You can only have 100 now.)
And, thank god, Microsoft is moving from Microsoft points to your local currency.
And in a move that will really please fanboys, a new game from the people who made cult favorite Panzer Dragoon: It's called Crimson Dragon.
Capcom is making Dead Rising 3, an open-world zombie sequel. Could be good, but The Last of Us has raised the bar on the genre.
In it, you run around and kill zombies. It's really, really violent.
For RPG fans: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is coming to Xbox One. Projekt Red says it will be 100 hours long.
It looks, to use a term of art, epic as fuck. Take note, Game of Thrones fans.
A lovely, indie-looking game called Below followed.
We didn't learn much about it.
And, of course, there's a new Halo game, coming in 2014.
It's "A Halo FPS for a new generation of hardware": They didn't call it Halo 5, but that's what it looks like.
DICE showed off new footage from Battlefield 4, after some technical difficulties. It's what you would expect: lots of gruff voices, "sick graphics," and loud shooting. Meaning thousands and thousands will play it.
Microsoft also announced a redesigned Xbox 360. "It's smaller and sleeker," and it's available today.
There are still hundreds of titles in development for Xbox 360. Including Grand Theft Auto 5.
And World of Tanks, a beloved PC game. It's free.


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Karachi, March 15, 2017 (PPI-OT):President of the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) Shamim Ahmed Firpo has urged the government to refrain from allowing sugar exports as it would result in escalating the prices of this essential commodity in the local markets, resulting in overburdening the common man and affecting a wide spectrum of relevant industries at a time when the holy month of Ramazan was just a couple of months away.
In a statement issued, President KCCI cautioned that sugar consumption touches the highest level during Ramazan as people buy plenty of juices, beverages, bakery items and sweets for Iftar thus, any move to export sugar will exorbitantly raise its prices in the local markets and create problems for everyone.
He was of the opinion that it was not the right time to export sugar as the current prices in local market were higher as compared to international markets and it seems that sugar producers were attempting to make higher profits by raising prices in the domestic markets.
Shamim Firpo feared that initially sugar producers are seeking permission to export this commodity but later on, they will be insisting subsidy due to lower global prices. He noted that sugar was currently being sold in the local markets at the rate of Rs60 per kilogram whereas this commodity was available in the international market at $489 per ton i.e. Rs50 per kg.
He advised the government to avoid taking such steps which create more problems for the general public, particularly the poor segment of society as they are already pretty much distressed and overburdened in the ongoing era of inflation in which prices of almost all the commodities have escalated sharply and some of the basic commodities being used at every household have gone beyond the approach of common man. He said that that in order to protect the sugar industry, the government has already imposed 20 per cent customs duty and 20pc regulatory duty to discourage import of cheaper sugar.
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Asda was the first to put up the price of 250g of own-label English mild white Cheddar by 9% to £1.77, or £7.08/kg, which represents the first retail increase since May. That has since been followed by the other leading supermarkets, who have all price-matched Asda at £7.08/kg, according to The Grocer 33 data.
The price increase has been on the cards since Asda announced in July that it was increasing the price it paid supplier First Milk Cheese Company for cheese by £300/tonne. Asda said it had made the move to ensure that milk continued to go into making cheese at a time of severely restricted supply. This week’s price increase equates to £600/tonne.
The price of cheese has risen dramatically over the past year. Twelve months ago, mild English Cheddar cost an average of £4.80/kg in the leading supermarkets. But increases of nearly 50% have seen the average price rocket to £7.08. Many processors had put up the prices paid to farmers in recent weeks in recognition of cost increases on farm, prompting the retail increases, said Huw Thomas, head of market information at DairyCo.
Supermarkets had also suffered some reduction in margins over the past year, he claimed. A further industry source, who did not want to be named, said Asda’s move was a case of “margin maintenance” as it sought to get its margins back to previous levels.
“Energy and packaging costs have gone up a lot, putting pressure throughout the chain,” the source said. “The supermarkets won’t want to take those out of their margins.”
Asda is also believed to have launched a promotion on Smartprice cheese, with the company offering its cheapest Cheddar at £1.87/kg this week. Asda would not confirm whether a major cheese promotion was under way.


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Swiggy took to Instagram to share a video of a man mimicking celebrities accepting their food orders. The clip has gone viral online with over a million views.
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By Shubhi Mishra: If you are looking for something to make you laugh out loud, stop right here. We have the perfect video with us that we want to tell you about. So, a clip of a man mimicking celebrities accepting their food orders has gone viral online. The clip was shared by Swiggy and has left the internet in splits.
The now-viral video was jointly shared by a content creator named Jagjyot Singh and Swiggy on Instagram. In the clip, Jagjyot can be seen mimicking celebrities such as Varun Dhawan, Kartik Aaryan, John Abraham, Ranveer Singh and Guru Randhawa accepting their food orders. With Varun’s trademark smile and Kartik Aaryan’s style of waving at the paps, Jagjyot did it all and made the internet chuckle.
Moreover, don’t miss the on-point mimicry of Ranveer Singh and his enthusiasm in the end.
“Can you guess what these celebs must have ordered?” read the caption of the post.
Watch the viral video here:
The video amazed over a million views after being shared online. Instagram users couldn’t help but laugh out loud and express their opinions in the comments section.
“Guru with his hand rubs,” a user wrote.
Another user commented, “Industry walo tumhara ek actor idhar hai (Bollywood, one of your actors is here).”
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In his message titled ‘The WTO at 20’, director general Roberto Azevedo noted that “over the years, the WTO has helped to boost the trade growth, resolve numerous trade disputes and support developing countries to integrate into the trading system…”
However, African industries need to add value to most of the primary produce. Adding value includes, and is not limited to, packaging and labelling products, quality and standards, and safe, environmental – conscious products.
Firms in Africa nonetheless face high production costs due to poor social and physical infrastructure, including power shortages, lack of access to credit and skilled labour, among others.
Read more. Source | www.myGov.go.ke


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Engadget is reporting what everyone who has a twitchy refresh button already knows: iTunes 9.0.2 is out, bringing support to Apple TV 3.0. The iTunes update is available through Software Update, and the Apple TV update is right there in the box that says "Apple TV" on it.
The Apple TV update refreshes the look of the main menu, Genius Mixes and internet radio. It also adds iTunes Extras and LP support. Here's the official press release.
Notice any other new stuff? Tell us in the comments.


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Canadian cannabis can sell for $3,000 to $5,000 a pound on the illicit market in the U.S.
Interstate marijuana trafficking is about to become more widespread in the Midwest now that legalization has taken hold in Illinois and Michigan for adults 21 and older.
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It’s illegal to take cannabis and cannabis products, including those with CBD, across the Canadian border, whether you’re leaving or coming to Canada.
While new announcements from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection may be a sigh of relief for the industry, there remain a few concerns as Canada marks this historic day.
The long-running comedy "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" poked fun at four different types of Canadians crossing the border.
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Mayor Nicic emphasised the significance of this investment for the city.
– The arrival of Capitol Park to Zajecar brought a fresh shopping experience and created a new city centre, but more importantly it brought new jobs to our community. This demonstrates the city’s progress and proof that we are heading in the right direction. Once again we want to thank Poseidon Group for investing in Zajecar and making it a part of their retail park family – Nicic said.
Seventeen well known Serbian and international brands, among which are JYSK, Studio Moderna (Top Shop), Extreme Intimo, Opposite shoes, Djak sport, Lilly, LC Waikiki, New Yorker, Deichmann, N Sport, MSG Elektronic, Gigatron, DM, Intersport and Exclusive change exchange office opened their doors, while Sinsay will be opened in June and Il Giardino café during the following months.
During the day, visitors enjoyed great discounts and in-store promotions as well as a variety of entertainments in the retail park. Local cultural centre performances and a concert by Zeljko Vasic were followed by fireworks which concluded the day’s activities.
On May 9, Leskovac got its first modern retail facility – Capitol Park


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CHICAGO, April 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Ryerson Holding Corporation (NYSE: RYI), a leading value-added processor and distributor of industrial metals, announced today that it will host a conference call to discuss first quarter 2021 financial results for the period ended March 31, 2021, on Thursday, May 6th, at 10 a.m. Eastern Time. The live online broadcast will be available on the Company's investor relations website, ir.ryerson.com. Ryerson will report earnings after the market closes on Wednesday, May 5th.
Ryerson Holding Corporation's First Quarter 2021 Earnings Call Details:
An online replay of the call will be posted on the investor relations website, ir.ryerson.com, and remain available for 90 days.
Ryerson is a leading value-added processor and distributor of industrial metals, with operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and China. Founded in 1842, Ryerson has around 3,900 employees in approximately 100 locations. Visit Ryerson at www.ryerson.com.