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Scottsdazzle: Downtown Scottsdale hosts a month-long holiday celebration with signature events and sights
Downtown Scottsdale hosts a month-long holiday celebration with signature events and sights.
By Susie Timm
The holiday season will be significantly more festive in Scottsdale this year with the debut of the month-long holiday celebration Scottsdazzle.
Scottsdazzle officially kicked off with a tree-lighting ceremony on Nov. 25 when Mayor Jim Lane and members of the Scottsdale City Council lit a one-of-a kind to Arizona tree, imported from Italy. The tree boasts over one million customizable lighting options and glows nightly on the Soleri Bridge.
Scottsdazzle incorporates several signature events scattered throughout December as well as other ongoing festivities. The signature events include:
I Spy Santa ArtWalk: Marshall Way Art Galleries hosts a fun scavenger hunt on Dec. 8, starting at 6 p.m. Improvisational elves on the streets in festive costumes will direct guests with clues along the ArtWalk and into galleries where additional clues and gallery engagements occur. Holiday musical elements on the streets, a Santa’s House, and costumed characters will liven up both the streets and the galleries and provide photo opportunities.
Santa Wine Around: Join the Scottsdale Wine Trail wineries on Dec. 15 at 6 p.m. for a wine tasting extravaganza. Come dressed as Santa or Mrs. Claus and receive a commemorative wine glass.
Beyond these signature events, downtown Scottsdale will be decorated with hanging poinsettias baskets and feature additional holiday spirit with the following:
Cowboy Christmas: Enjoy the themed décor and entertainment in Old Town throughout December. Gary Sprague, the Singing Cowboy, will sing and read excepts from his book How a Cowboy Saved Christmas on Saturdays including Dec. 3, 10, and 17 on afternoons between 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. There’ll also be free horse and carriage rides on Thursday night Art Walks in December from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. up and down Marshall Way between Main Street and 5th Avenue. Live entertainment will also be featured.
Sugar Plum Avenue: Fifth Avenue will be buzzing with activities. Fridays on 5th Ave from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. feature live entertainment and happy hour specials at participating bars and restaurants on Dec. 2, 9, 16, and 23. Saturday afternoon shopping specials and entertainment will happen each Saturday including Dec. 3, 10, and 17 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Downtown merchants are partnering with East Valley Institute of Technology students to create gingerbread houses to be on display in over 20 windows on 5th Avenue. 5th and Wine will also host a holiday sugar plum fairy tea in early December to compliment the décor and theme.
Life-size Menorah: Located at Civic Center Plaza, it will be lit nightly during Hanukkah.
For more information visit, scottsdazzle.com.
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Shiseido Announces Joint Venture in Turkey
Posted: October 24, 2011
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In recent years, Shiseido has been promoting initiatives to strengthen its business scheme. Specifically, the company commenced operations by establishing wholly owned sales companies in Russia in 2008 and Vietnam and Switzerland in 2010, as well as by launching business operations in Greece by establishing a joint sales company with a local leading distributor in 2010. Shiseido has devised the New Frontier Strategy under its current three-year plan (April 2011–March 2014) and is seeking to strengthen its response toward emerging countries as a means of developing the next growth engine following China. The company has entered several new markets as of late, including Mongolia, South Africa, Georgia, Colombia, Moldova, Panama, Armenia and Belarus.

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While Oculus had once supported the Rift on both Mac OSX and Linux with early builds of their SDK, it was back in early 2015 that they indefinitely “paused” support for those platforms. Now Oculus founder Palmer Luckey says that whether or not the Rift supports Mac is “up to Apple” and the performance of the computers they decide to release.
Speaking to Shacknews during a recent Microsoft event, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey said support for the Rift on Mac OSX was a matter of Apple releasing a computer that could handle the performance demanded by the Rift.
“If they ever release a good computer we will [support Mac OSX],” Luckey said. He elaborated, saying that even Apple’s top-end desktop system doesn’t meet the hardware specification set by Oculus for Rift support.
“It just boils down to the fact that Apple doesn’t prioritize high-end GPUs. You can buy a $6,000 Mac Pro with the top-of-the-line AMD FirePro D700 and it still doesn’t match our recommended spec. If they prioritize higher-end GPUs like they used to for a while back in the day… we’d love to support Mac. But right now there’s just not a single machine out there [from Apple] that supports it. So even if we can support on the software side, there’s just no audience of [Mac users] that can run the vast majority of [VR] software out there.”
Luckey is of course speaking of the ‘Oculus Recommended Specification’, which asks for a minimum of Nvidia GTX 970 / AMD R9 290 GPU (or equivalent), an Intel i5-4590 CPU (or equivalent), 8GB of RAM, along with 3x USB 3.0 ports and 1x USB 2.0 port. Oculus set this bar to allow developers to target a known hardware configuration that’s capable of providing consistent rendering performance in the face of the considerable demands of the Rift (90 FPS in 3D at 2160×1200). The company is working with certain computer partners to certify systems as ‘Oculus Ready PCs’ which meet these specifications while staying under a $1,000 price tag.
Oculus had supported Mac and Linux intermittently with their SDK throughout the years, but officially “paused” support for those operating systems back in 2015. Oculus has since formed a partnership with Microsoft for purported plug-and-play support for the Rift in Windows 10, as well as Xbox One game streaming in VR.


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The campaign acknowledges the wide range of “travel personalities” and serves as a platform to address the different wants, needs and aspirations of customers. Hertz will use the platform to illustrate the flexibility provided by its products and services and its ability to fulfill a variety of travel preferences. The campaign debuts this week, with the launch of a “Getaway Giveaway” sweepstakes and contest, a multi-million dollar advertising campaign, and an online consumer engagement platform. The first television ads are scheduled to appear on May 4.
“This campaign is about the customer and how Hertz aligns with their lifestyles and travel preferences,” said Mark P. Frissora, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Hertz Corporation. “With state-of-the-art technology, best-in-class fleet of cars, unrivaled ease-of-use, convenient locations, and exceptional customer service, Hertz understands each customer is different, some of us are the Gas and some are the Brake, and offers flexible solutions to meet the variety of different travel and transportation needs.”


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Madden NFL Superstars has finally hit the top of one of our weekly AppData lists. The Electronic Arts spinoff of its Madden franchise has been picking up steam as it goes, an added over half a million players during the past week. Of course, EA has also promoted the game heavily, so it can’t yet be considered successful.
Here’s our emerging games list, which counts fast-growing titles still under a million monthly active users:
Top Gainers This Week – Games
|1.||Madden NFL Superstars||946,835||+541,879||+134%|
|6.||i Like Slots||511,004||+190,368||+59%|
|11.||Robot Unicorn Attack||336,398||+149,092||+80%|
|13.||Chucke la taupe||371,303||+143,018||+63%|
|14.||Bubble Town: Party Planet||869,627||+142,249||+20%|
|16.||My Sweet Shop||310,562||+120,622||+64%|
|17.||CBSSports.com Franchise Football||553,260||+119,670||+28%|
|20.||Univers des Trois Royaumes||288,754||+107,337||+59%|
Critter Island, by LOLapps, isn’t growing quite as fast as the EA title, and the game appears to be having trouble with its retention as well, drawing only nine percent of its MAUs back as daily active users. But like EA the game is crossing the important million MAU mark, and it’s possible the DAU picture could improve with time.
Ranch Town is a much older title farming title. We recently talked to the CEO of its maker, Meteor Games, and heard that the company is focusing in on more in-depth games; in the meantime, it appears to be putting fresh resources into promoting its older games.
La Tomatina, although a rare Spanish-language game, is not particularly notable, involving a fairly simplistic mechanic of hurling tomatoes at friends’ portraits. At number five, Green Farm is a lot more interesting. The recently-released farming game by mobile developer Gameloft is suggesting that better graphics could revive the farming genre.


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The big reveal for the S650 Ford Mustang is just days away, and we’ve gotten yet another teaser from Ford Motor Company to raise anticipation for the event, which will take place in Hart Plaza, right on the Detroit riverfront. A video posted by Ford on various social media channels shows off the push button start for the Mustang, along with a demonstration on how to push it, followed by the V8 engine revving up. And if we do say, that engine seems to have a healthier growl to it compared to before.
The font of the new Ford Mustang ignition button is very fighter jet. And if we look at the cockpits of some of America’s most formidable dogfighters, such as the F-22 Raptor or the F-18 Hornet, the font appears to be very similar, if not identical to what US Air Force and US Navy aviators are accustomed to. Those of you who have watched Top Gun: Maverick may notice the same. It’s also another aviation easter egg that Ford designers are known to drop from time to time, as we currently see a “Ground Speed” speedometer in both the outgoing S550 Mustang as well as the Mustang Mach-E. This tie-in is partly because the Ford Mustang shares a namesake with a famous World War II aircraft, the P-51 Mustang.
S650 Ford Mustang: Details
The S650 Ford Mustang will debut as a 2024 model year vehicle and will feature a new exterior and interior design, coupled with some technology and engineering surprises. Beyond that, it’s going to be very similar to today’s S550 Mustang, as both the 2.3L EcoBoost and 5.0L Coyote V8 engines are expected to return, as well as both manual and automatic transmissions.
The expected all-wheel-drive and hybrid variants of the future muscle car have been canceled. Regulations are pushing V8 passenger cars out of political favor, but the S650 Mustang will hold on and be the last eight-cylinder muscle car standing. The competition is going electric (Dodge Charger EV Banshee) or phasing out their entries in the segment entirely (Chevrolet Camaro).
It’s sad to see the end of an era, but we have to take what victories we can, and that means having this next-generation Ford Mustang roar into the sunset before electric whistling becomes the new normal.


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Gov. Whitmer clarifies face mask order
Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order Friday that offers clarifications about the recent face mask order.
The order requires Michiganders to wear a mask in indoor public spaces and crowded outdoor spaces.
It clarifies businesses may not assume an unmasked customer cannot wear a mask due to medical reasons, but can accept a customer's verbal statement to that effect.
It also states public safety officers are expected to wear a face covering unless it interferes with their responsibilities.
And wearing a mask at a polling place for voting is encouraged, but not required.
“Wearing a mask is the right thing to do to protect our families, our businesses, and our economy,” said Governor Whitmer. “If everyone in Michigan masks up, we can save thousands of lives and put ourselves in a better position to send our kids back to school in the fall. For the safety of our loved ones and our dedicated first responders on the front lines: mask up, Michigan.”
“COVID-19 is far from over - people are still getting sick and dying,” said Katie Scott, RN, vice president of the Michigan Nurses Association. “As a nurse, I'm worried that many people are not taking the pandemic seriously enough. Don't wait until COVID happens to you or a loved one to take action. Wearing a mask is a simple step that protects everyone.”
Although a face covering is strongly encouraged even for people who are not required to wear one, the requirement to wear a face covering does not apply to individuals who, among other things:
- Are younger than five years old
- Cannot medically tolerate a face covering
- Are eating or drinking while seated at a food service establishment
- Are exercising when wearing a face covering would interfere in the activity
- Are at a polling place for purposes of voting in an election.
The governor's office cited three studies on possible benefits to mask ordinances.
- A study on different regions in Germany suggests the adoption of mandatory mask ordinances decreased the daily growth rate of COVID-19 infections by 40%.
- Modeling from the University of Washington similarly indicates that more than 40,000 lives would be spared nationwide if 95% of the population wore a mask while in public.
- A study conducted by Goldman Sachs concluded that a federal mask mandate could save the U.S. economy from taking a 5% hit to our GDP.


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Thomas Cook plans to cut 2,500 jobs in the UK as a part of its turnaround strategy which also involves the closure of 195 UK stores among its 1,069 high street travel agencies. Most of the job cuts would be within its retail network and in back-office and administrative positions. Specifying the locations at risk of job losses, Thomas Cook said its head offices at Peterborough in east England, Preston and Accrington offices in the north west are likely to bear most of the redundancies.
Thomas Cook job cuts amount to 16% of its 15,500 workforce in the UK and Ireland. The job cuts at Thomas Cook are a result of its struggle over the past two years with falling sales leading to a string of profit warnings, forcing it to renegotiate bank loans and make disposals to cut debt. Earlier this week Thomas Cook said it had decided not to sell its under-performing French business and would instead begin a restructuring programme to revive the unit.
The decision to cut jobs was blamed on last year’s deep losses. Thomas Cook reported a statutory loss of £590m for the 12 months to the end of September – worse than the £518m loss recorded the previous year. Shares in Thomas Cook, which have risen 78% so far this year, were 0.3% up at 85.6 pence by 12.25 pm, valuing the business at around £777m.
Thomas Cook got into financial peril in 2011 when its overseas operations went haywire. Unrest in the Middle East and North Africa affected its extensive operations in Egypt and Tunisia. Since then, the travel company has struggled with high debt and the wider downturn in the global travel sector, running into debts of about £788m.


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Buckets of cash help fund new initiative.
Birmingham start-up Buckt has hit its crowdfunding target after a successful two month campaign.
The business, founded by entrepreneur Daniel Bridgewater, has managed to secure £5,000 to enable them to launch in the West Midlands in January.
Buckt is a mystery subscription box inspired by the idea of a bucket list. Each month subscribers get 8-10 activities delivered to their door for as little as £15.Each box includes tickets to top venues and attractions, exclusive discounts on higher end bucket list activities, invitations to obscure activities reliant on participation, and money-can’t-buy challenges.
As well as smashing their crowdfunding target, the start-up – which is the first of its kind in the UK – has achieved early success.The business recently announced that it has successfully managed to secure a place on the exclusive Amazon Launchpad development programme. Through the scheme, businesses are provided mentoring and support to help them successfully grow and scale using Amazon.
Alongside this, founder Daniel was one of five invited to pitch to ‘dragons’ and a live audience at the entrepreneurial festival MADE16 in Sheffield. The business was also a finalist for the Baldwins Kickstart competition ran by national accountancy firm Baldwins, where they competed for a £20,000 prize.
When asked about the crowdfunder, Daniel stated: “It has been a challenge but I’m over the moon to finally hit the target! The belief people have shown in the brand, which was only an idea a few months ago, is unbelievable.”
He continued: “This is going to allow us to launch with a bang! Our first box, set to go out in January, is full of phenomenal activities that I know our subscribers are going to love”.
Buckt, which states its mission is “to make people feel alive again”, has already secured some big businesses for their boxes including a national chain of ice rinks, a provider of helicopter tours, a coding academy, a live music promoter and a national football team amongst many others.
Subscribers can expect an inspiring box worth over £100 in January. You can sign up for yours at www.buckt.uk.


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It may not be the kind of big, well-promoted event we're used to from Apple, but a report claims Cupertino is heading to Moscow for an iTunes event on Tuesday evening which could finally bring the company's music offerings to Russians.
You’ve got to hand it to criminals -- sometimes, the tricks they come up with to dupe folks out of money is just amazingly clever. For example, the case of a gang of 11 in England who used stolen credit cards to buy their own unknown music from iTunes and Amazon and score big on royalty payments.
Looking after a big iTunes library can be a problem. We started ripping our CDs in the early days of the iPod when disk space was still at a premium, and as a result a good chunk of our library consists of poor quality, low bitrate MP3s. It’s enormous, too, and fear of losing the lot means we’re constantly spending cash on ever larger hard disks. And then there’s syncing.
Not a big fan of Apple’s built-in iOS iPod app and wishing you could simply replace it with another one of your choosing? Apparently so was developer Clever & Son, who are planning to bring just such an offering to the App Store soon.
If you’re a fan of old-fashioned terrestrial radio, you’ve probably already discovered ooTunes Radio, one of the biggest and best iOS apps that pulls in live AM/FM broadcasts from over 150 countries -- and thanks to a new 4.0 update, looks good on the iPad while doing it.
Remember RealNetworks, the once-giant streaming company who boldly circumvented Apple’s FairPlay digital rights management to make their own media player work with iTunes files? Now they’re back with Rinse, a new effort to organize and clean up your iTunes library. Wait -- what?
If the rumors are yet again to be believed, Apple is reworking the $99 per year MobileMe service to include something called a “music locker” -- cloud storage to keep your music library available from anywhere with an internet connection, and it may come with a $20 per year price tag.
Jon Bon Jovi created a stir today by telling The Sunday Times Magazine, "I hate to sound like an old man now, but I am, and you mark my words, in a generation from now people are going to say: 'What happened?' Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business."
Sorry Jon, but you do sound like an old man. And not just an old man, but an old man that's had way too much money for too long.


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Apple is researching ways to implement its Force Touch technology into Mac keyboards, according to a patent published on Tuesday, a move that would not only cut down on key height by removing physical switches, but expand a device's overall utility.
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The new Apple TV has been revamped both inside and out, sporting an entirely new operating system dubbed tvOS that brings it even closer to iOS, along with an overhauled Siri Remote featuring voice input and a fantastic clickable trackpad. But it's what's yet to come -- namely, the growth of the Apple TV App Store -- that will make or break the next-generation set-top box.
After spending $11.2 billion across fiscal 2015 on capital expenditures, Apple anticipates that it will ramp up its investments in manufacturing, data centers, facility and retail infrastructure to $15 billion over the next year.
The last week of October was (relatively) upbeat for Apple, with blockbuster quarterly results, the launch of a redesigned Apple TV, and plans to bring Apple Pay to new countries.
As shipments of Apple's latest and greatest Apple TV reach eager customers, some may be disappointed to find Apple's Remote app for iOS and watchOS incompatible with the new model, meaning all tvOS navigation and text entry must be conducted via the included Siri Remote and onscreen keyboard.
After two years of exploration work, Google is said to be "folding" its web-based Chrome OS into its mobile Android platform, creating a single operating system strategy that it expects to unveil in 2017.
UK Apple customers will soon be able to stream catch-up episodes of their favorite BBC programs on the big screen, as the storied broadcaster announced plans to bring a version of its iPlayer service to the new Apple TV.
Apple News is already seeing strong adoption, with more than twice as many readers as Apple Music has listeners -- no doubt because News is effortless to use, with no subscription plan or signup required. Apple is now expanding News app's publisher base by publicly documenting its underlying "Apple News Format" specification.
After announcing intent to produce mobile titles for smartphone like iPhone earlier this year, Nintendo on Wednesday announced "Miitomo," a freemium app scheduled to see release in the first property will see release in March 2016.
Two days before Apple's fourth-generation Apple TV is set to ship out to customers, the company on Wednesday confirmed it will add Apple Music compatibility to the set-top box's voice activated Siri search feature in an update early next year.
IBM is benefiting hugely from its internal Mac adoption program, saving about $270 per Mac versus Windows PCs, Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a Tuesday fiscal results call.
Apple on Tuesday updated its Apple Pay roster to include Kohl's, marking the arrival of the platform's first store-branded credit card.
Microsoft's latest efforts to shove Windows PCs back into relevance in the Post PC era have found willing volunteers among some PC bloggers ready to exchange their credibility for enthusiastic reviews of Surface Book and Pro 4, apparently under the premise that Windows can be reanimated back into a viable monopoly via hybrid Tablet PC-style convergence. But that's delusionally wrong, here's why.
Apple released significant updates for iOS, OS X, and watchOS this week, but ran into serious issues in China, even as it tried to put a positive spin on its environmental efforts there.
Apple was slapped with a class-action suit on Friday, claiming that the company failed to properly warn users that the new Wi-Fi Assist feature in iOS 9 will use data from their cellular plan.
Following the release of iOS 9.1 on Wednesday, Sprint announced that iPhone users updating their firmware will be able to take advantage of improved Wi-Fi Calling, expanding on Apple's Continuity feature.
Apple on Tuesday was granted patent rights to an all-purpose docking solution for iPad and embedded sensor technology that could one day lead to an iPhone capable of informing its user of changes in temperature and humidity.
Ahead of the launch of the iPhone 6s, Apple saw continued market share gains across most of the world's largest smartphone markets, according to the latest sales data from Kantar Worldpanel.
Japan's major architecture, engineering firms going "all iPad" in support of Apple, Inc. iOS enterprise push
Apple's mobile enterprise ambitions are beginning to shift the market in Japan, where large architecture, engineering, construction and operations firms have already moved to standardize on iOS and iPads for their enterprise tablets.
Ford has begun updating existing vehicles on the road to support Apple's Siri Eyes Free for iPhone, now available to download on systems running its second-generation Sync infotainment platform.
IBM's internal deployment of Mac hardware has been a resounding success, the company announced this week, with rapid adoption and very little need for employee technical support.
While Apple's Continuity feature allows users to place calls and texts within its own ecosystem of products, AT&T plans to bring those same capabilities to a range of LTE-capable devices sharing the same phone number, regardless of platform, thanks to a new service called NumberSync.
This week saw Apple honor Steve Jobs on the fourth anniversary of his death, and simultaneously make a series of small-scale product announcements, while putting out fires related to iPhone battery life and iOS security.
The Lightroom photo workflow apps for iPhone and iPad are now completely free to use, ditching a former requirement to sign up for a Creative Cloud subscription or own the desktop software.
After transit directions made their debut in iOS 9 last month, work continues toward building out support for the new Apple Maps feature, the latest additions being information for areas in Boston, Mass. and Sydney, Australia.


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Natural disasters can wreak havoc on locally owned businesses. Staffing issues and less work for employees that are able to make it into work may lead business owners to consider shutting their doors until the crisis has passed.
However, the potential for even lower sales and the loss of future return customers must be weighed. Luckily, some businesses make the choice to continue offering their services to the best of their ability, even in the face of nearby tragedy.
Business As Usual
Families small and large often plan their summer vacations, reunions, and lakeside weddings well ahead of time. Campsites, small boats, and houseboat rentals can be hard to come by if one waits too long to make their reservations.
Marinas are not in the business of canceling on their customers and taking the risk of losing not only that future business. For this reason, these companies have done their best to keep providing the best possible services in their usual manner despite the recent disaster that has stricken the area.
A business is only as good as their team of hardworking employees. Natural disasters can cause so many to be displaced from their homes and usual routines. Fortunately, many staff members have been able to put all of this aside in favor of continuing to show up and provide the high level of customer service for which their company has become well known.
Lakeside marina and campground employees are still sounding chipper on the phones when customers call, smiling as they greet them, and having fun while training customers on the ins and outs of operating their rented vessels.
Young and old, vacations are meant to provide a chance for rest and relaxation. The best companies make it a point to give their customers the highest level of quality services. Even in times of crisis, a lakeside business, such as those offering houseboat rentals, will see to it that their visitors enjoy all of the amenities in which they choose to partake.
Marinas like this will not close restaurants, bait shops, and reservation desks early just because of nearby events. Instead, they are more likely to increase their efforts in order to offer customers relief from the stress and worry they may be feeling.
Any business that is both willing and able to continue operating in their normal fashion during a natural disaster should be considered when looking to book a family vacation. These companies will welcome you with open arms and smiling faces, not just this year, but for many years to come.


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Thereby increasing the need for health protection products as well as healthy foods helping to increase immunity.
The outbreak of acute respiratory infections caused by novel coronavirus or COVID-19 has disrupted production and business activities in Vietnam since the first virus infection was announced in late January. In addition to the declines in tourism and related services, this epidemic also affects cross-border trade, negatively affecting manufacturing, agribusiness and many other industries.
Consumer behaviors also will change during the outbreak as well as the period after the epidemic passed, according to Kantar research. The spread of coronavirus has become a global emergency. In the short term, the sense of health protection of Vietnamese consumers will therefore increase significantly.
To stay safe and protect themselves, consumers will tend to restrict daily activities that have a high level of interaction with other people. Shopping frequency will probably decrease and instead, shopping cart sizes will increase in every purchase. However, this can still affect short-term retail and consumer goods sales.
Spending on food and beverage (F&B) and other outdoor consumer activities tend to be reduced during the outbreak due to the fact that people will go out or to amusement parks, shopping malls and other entertainment spots less often. Even so, the consumption of fast-moving consumer goods at home is expected to maintain growth and be affected less than external consumption. Household cleaners and personal hygiene products including hand sanitizer, germicidal dry hand sanitizer, wet paper tissues are more consumed due to the increased need to protect themselves. This can lead to an increase in hand lotion by consumers who wash their hands too often resulting in dry skin.
Healthy foods like fruits, fruit juices, vegetables that help boost immunity will experience a sharp increase. Consumers also tend to stock up on ready-to-eat foods such as instant noodles, sausages, and snacks at home, especially in areas where there is infection or in isolated areas. In terms of retail, during this period, smaller, cleaner and closer locations such as groceries, mini supermarkets and convenience stores will take precedence over traditional markets or supermarkets. In addition, the outbreak of the coronavirus is also significantly increasing the number of online shopping transactions and home delivery services.
On top of that, the delay of import-export activities due to the outbreak of Covid-19 is creating challenges for suppliers and sellers in the process of production, distribution and storage of goods. Therefore, in the fight against Covid-19, supply will decrease, which leads to the increase in prices, making consumers more restrictive and considerative in spending.
Firstly, the awareness of health and hygiene of Vietnamese consumers will increase, thereby promoting the development of hygiene, personal and family care products including soap and hand wash water, antibacterial dry hand sanitizer, house cleaning products, paper tissues. These items are still modest in terms of both users and consumption, but are expected to become more popular as more and more people start to get used to buying these items and using them more often.
Secondly, in 2020, e-commerce market share is expected to increase due to its convenience and less direct interaction when shopping. Online-to-offline (OTO) and e-commerce shopping models are suitable and meet the needs of Vietnamese consumers in the meantime. Online shopping platforms and delivery services are expected to grow strongly both in the number of buyers and in revenue thanks to the participation of new buyers who have never experienced online shopping, and the increase in spending from people who have already conducted cybershopping.
Finally, the emergence of shopping channels including mini supermarkets, convenience stores and e-commerce reflects the changes in shopping behaviors of Vietnamese consumers. From using only one or two main shopping channels, shoppers are gradually turning to multi-channel shopping, integrating multiple channels, reinforcing the growing trend of multi-channel retail in the retail and fast-moving consumer goods market in the near future.
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Local Wireless Network Upgrades Extend Access to Advanced Products, Services and Applications
GREEN BAY, WI., DECEMBER 29, 2011 – AT&T* today announced the availability of its mobile broadband network along the Wausau-Green Bay corridor area, extending access for advanced mobile services, devices and feature-rich audio and video content to customers, including those who live, work and travel in Bonduel, Krakow, Shawano, Tigerton, Wittenburg, Pulaski and on highway 29 between Wausau and Green Bay.
AT&T is an industry leader in delivering the benefits of mobile broadband networks, devices and applications. With the nation’s fastest mobile broadband network, AT&T provides accelerated mobile data speeds and simultaneous voice and data capabilities for an amazing wireless voice and data experience. In the first 6 months of 2011, AT&T invested over $100 million in its wireless and wireline networks across the state.
“We want customers to have an extraordinary experience wherever they access our network., We’re always looking for opportunities to provide an enhanced customer experience and this investment in the local wireless network between Wausau and Green Bay is just one way we’re accomplishing that,” said Scott VanderSanden, president of AT&T Wisconsin.
AT&T’s mobile broadband network is based on the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) family of technologies that includes GSM and UMTS, the most widely used wireless network platforms in the world. AT&T has the broadest international coverage of any U.S. wireless provider, providing access to voice service in more than 225 countries and data service in more than 200 countries. AT&T also offers voice and data roaming coverage on more than 135 major cruise ships, as well as mobile broadband services in more than 130 countries.
“Demand for wireless bandwidth is growing rapidly, and we want to meet that demand for our customers,” said Dave Fine, AT&T’s vice president and general manager for the Wisconsin area. “We’re excited to bring mobile broadband to the Wausau – Green Bay corridor.”
AT&T also operates the nation’s largest Wi-Fi network** with more than 29,000 hotspots in the U.S. and provides access to nearly 190,000 hotspots globally through roaming agreements. Most AT&T smartphone customers get access to our entire national Wi-Fi network at no additional cost, and Wi-Fi usage doesn’t count against customers’ monthly wireless data plans.
For more information about AT&T’s coverage in Wisconsin or anywhere in the United States, consumers can visit the AT&T Coverage Viewer. Using the online tool, AT&T customers can measure coverage quality from a street address, intersection, ZIP code or even a landmark.


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On Friday, December 1st, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) agreed to allow trading of bitcoin derivatives on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE), and the Cantor Exchange. The CME and CFE both self-certified new contracts for bitcoin futures, while the Cantor Exchange self-certified a new contract for binary options on bitcoin. The CFE plans to launch its futures on December 10th, with the CME coming in at a close second on December 18th. Cantor has not yet announced the official date of its bitcoin swaps launch; however, its website is already accepting registration to participate with a $100 down payment.
These contracts will allow traders to bet on the prices of the cryptocurrency without actually owning any bitcoins themselves. These contracts will allow traders to bet on the prices of the cryptocurrency without actually owning any bitcoins themselves. According to the CBOE and CME, their bitcoin futures products will be settled in cash. This development speaks to the recent trend of mainstreaming cryptocurrency in the marketplace by eliminating the need to obtain it in order to gain exposure to changes in its price. These contracts will allow traders to bet on the prices of the cryptocurrency without actually owning any bitcoins themselves.
The conditions of the agreement between the CFTC and the three exchanges were discussed in detail for a significant period of time before the announcement was officially made. All three parties consented to much more thorough contract design and settlement as well as information sharing with underlying cash bitcoin exchanges for increased surveillance.
After the products are launched, the CFTC will continue to monitor the exchanges where they are traded. There remains much regulatory uncertainty regarding the treatment of cryptocurrency derivatives, and the CFTC’s future pronouncements on these products at the CME, CFE, and Cantor Exchange may provide insight into how the Commission will handle future applications.
The CFTC also announced its intent to collaborate with the National Futures Association (NFA) in the interests of further monitoring bitcoin derivative trading on the exchanges. Regardless of the CFTC’s efforts to ensure fair trade, the Commission still issued a warning along with the bitcoin derivatives announcement that this particular market is largely unsupervised and carries a unique set of risks, accompanied by at times extreme volatility that should be acknowledged.
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Habanos looking at massive shortages. Consumers, retailers, and official Habanos distributors are facing shortages that are only growing. The reason is a perfect storm of circumstances to which the Cuban cigar manufacturer, Cubatabaco, does not have an answer. A shortage of large wrappers due to far from good crops in combination with a rise in demand. Add in the Covid-19 pandemic, which is the cause of much lower production and a heavy disruption in the supply chain are causing havoc in the stock of Habanos, and its exclusive distributors worldwide. The only thing that would make the situation more dire for Habanos would be the end of the Cuban embargo.
Among the first to reach out to Ministry of Cigars about the shortages were retailers in The Netherlands and Germany. Both Habanos Specialists and La Casa del Habano franchises. Large cigars have been an issue for a few years, but it is getting increasingly to get them, even for La Casa del Habano stores. A lot of brands and vitolas are currently not available for retailers, as distributors don’t have stock. And distributors can’t get stock, as there simply aren’t enough cigars being made in Cuba at the moment. Our friends at L’Amateur de Cigare heard the same stories from retailers and wrote a piece on the issue last week.
Not just the Benelux and Germany
“90% of the Cuban catalog is out of stock. For the remaining 10%, you can get deliveries every day if you want, but essentially small formats – smaller than the robusto. There are no robustos or anything larger than that,” says a French retailer to L’Amateur de Cigare.
“There has been a shortage in supply for premium cigars (Behike, limited editions, etc.) for several years,” explains Nicky Meire, the marketing director of Cubacigar, the importer for Benelux. “But this year, shortages are also sometimes affecting standards, like the Partagás D4 or P2, and all robustos more generally. We even sometimes run out of José L. Piedras or Quinteros! Deliveries still arrive regularly; we receive cigars – just not enough of them.” The president of Italian importer, Diadema, Andrea Vicenzi concurs: “There are issues on all types of products, but shortages are more frequent on large formats.” “I think the word ‘shortage’ is a bit strong,” counters Juan Giron, the communication manager of Spanish importer, Tabacalera. “But we do occasionally run out of stock on certain lines, which obviously represents an inconvenience for our customers.”
The covid-19 pandemic is partially to blame for the current stock issues. Cuba did not escape Covid-19. Several factories had to close, either for a few days and others, like the big La Corona factory in Havana, had to close the doors for two months. The factories that remained open could only work on half capacity due to social distancing. This even though the tobacco industry has been exempted from the lockdown measures. The cigar industry is fundamental for the island’s economy, and Cuba considers it an essential industry. “When a positive case is identified in a galera, four lines around the infected individual, in total 25 rollers, re immediately sent home to isolate for one week,” explains Nicky Meire, who recently returned from a trip to Cuba.
A large number of factory workers were sick, and those who are sick cannot work. Since schools are not open, many parents who work at the factory have to stay home to take care of their children. And most factories do not have the physical space to maintain social distancing while producing the same number of cigars. Even if they did, the packaging department would be the following bottleneck, with a lack of space for social distancing. Even if they would have, box factories could not provide enough cigar boxes anyway. Factories tried to counter the problems by rotating teams and adding Saturday as a working day. But it isn’t enough to make up for lost time and production. “The cigar is an artisan product,” explains Juan Giron. “This is not an industry where you can increase output at the push of a button.” Several sources revealed to Ministry of Cigars that Cubatabaco produced less than 70 million cigars, about 70% of their production in the last few years.
When the cigars are ready, the next issue follows. Most of the cigar transports are cargo on regular, commercial, passenger flights. Since those flights are a rare thing nowadays, so is the opportunity to export cigars. Part of it is solved by sea freight, but that makes cigar transports less flexible. The travel time is longer and the orders have to be large enough to fit in a 20 or 40-foot container. 5th Avenue, the Habanos distributor for Germany, Poland, and Austria, and PCC (Asia Pacific) are using sea freight as a way to get stock in.
For years, Cuba has been facing issues in the agricultural and pre-industrial areas of the cigar industry. There aren’t enough large wrappers to make all the large cigars that consumers want. Crops aren’t good enough to supply those large leaves.
In 2019, Cuba had a large and good crop. But the farmers had a lot of problems last year, with barely making the minimum of hectares of tobacco set by the Cuban government. And the outlook for 2021 isn’t too favorable due to severe tropical storms at the beginning of the 2021 tobacco season.
And with all the hardship when it comes to growing tobacco, producing cigars, and getting them to the destination comes another problem. A growing demand, which is usually a good problem to have. People working from home have more time to smoke, and demand goes up. Others, who instead of going to restaurants have no choice to stay home light a cigar for the first time, and become regular smokers, creating more demand. In some countries, the demand for Cuban cigars went up by more than a quarter.
Some distributors have the stock to manage the extra demand, but they won’t be able to do that for long. “It hasn’t affected our turnover yet, because we can dig into our stock,” explains Andrea Vicenzi for Italy. “But we may feel the effect more strongly in the coming months.” “A few years back, we took the position of keeping a year’s stock of all lines, in our main bonded warehouse,” relates Jimmy McGhee, communication manager for Hunters & Frankau, the exclusive importer of Cuban cigars to the United Kingdom. “This policy may have preserved the British market to a certain extent.”
And what happens with a drop in production and a rise in demand? People start to hoard, scared of missing out. You can say that Cuban cigars are the equivalent of toilet paper at the start of the pandemic. People are stockpiling, only contributing to the situation. And that creates other problems, such as rumors and conspiracies. A popular one is that the Chinese buyers of Altadis are stockpiling cigars for the Chinese market. Even though logic and facts do not support those rumors.
“We will never sacrifice the quality of our cigars to meet demand,” says Habanos. “Because we know that when our aficionados smoke a Habano, they are looking for a unique, high-quality experience, and our main objective is to give them that experience. We are convinced that once the global situation has returned to normal, supply will become more stable.” And with that, Habanos realizes that the problem will drag on for a few years. Due to the shortage of tobacco, plus all the backorders, Habanos simply can’t make up for it next year.
So if you are a tobacconist or a fan of Cuban cigars, expect shortages for at least the next three years. And without creating another run, we suggest either stock up on your favorite marca and vitola, or looking at alternatives. Cuban alternatives, or cigars from other countries, countries with fewer production problems.
all the quotes are courtesy of L’Amateur de Cigare & Laurent Mimouni


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An irreverent look at Wall Street
Monday, December 28, 2009
Christmas spending up 3.6%
And with the deflationistas saying we have a 5% deflation rate, wouldn't that make sales up 8.6%--according to "their math?"
Just another prediction made by the bears found wanting!
But speaking of predictions, Doug Kass is out with his, warning again that a geopolitical event will cause the market to go down.
I guess that what you say when you can't find an economic reason,and you're in the double dip camp.
Oh that's right--Dougie says stocks will drop 10% in the first half.
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Exactly one week ago Facebook introduced a new feature called 360 Video, which started rolling out into the News Feed section of users. At the moment this is only available to desktop and Android users, but it is planned to release on iOS in the coming months.
Last year Facebook bought Oculus VR (for over $2 billion and Facebook stock), the startup company responsible for the virtual reality headset, the Oculus Rift. This was Facebook’s first step into creating and interacting with more immersive content. While 360 Video is certainly not on the same level as the Rift (we got the chance to use a demo Oculus Rift earlier this year), it’s certainly a step into the same direction.
What is 360 Video?
It is video content specifically created to interact with – you can change the viewpoint and see the world in any direction. On desktop you click and drag your mouse cursor to change your view, while on mobile platforms you merely need to tilt your phone to experience it. We posted a great example on our Facebook page yesterday, featuring Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Though only appearing on Facebook now, 360 degree video is not a completely new feature. Youtube started showcasing this technology back in March 2015, launching with a series of videos from companies such as Red Bull Racing. Video has been a big focus of Facebook recently, one which has been very successful for the social media company, even competing with YouTube in terms of views. With 360 Video available on both platforms now, one of YouTube’s slight advantages has been taken away.
How are these videos created?
These videos are made by using “a special set of cameras is used to record all 360 degrees of a scene simultaneously”. Which sounds similar to the infamous “bullet time” scenes made popular by The Matrix movie in the late 1990s, or the Max Payne series of video games in the early 2000s.
Facebook seems to have cherry-picked a select number of brands to highlight their new video feature (such as GoPro, Saturday Night Live, and Discovery to name a few). You can use the hashtag #Facebook360 to search for similar video content on Facebook.
Make Your Own
But these videos won’t just be limited to large production companies. Regular consumers can also jump into the latest video craze. If you’re looking to create your own 360 degree content, you’ll need to invest in a specialised video camera, such asthe Giroptic 360cam (available to pre-order at $499.00), or the Ricoh Theta (£269.99). Last year Bubl raised almost 350,000 Canadian Dollars for their Bublcam via Kickstarter (the project goal was 100,000 Canadian Dollars).
A new era of video content has arrived, and we’re looking forward to seeing what companies will be producing. From exploring our world, to marketing materials, there are sure to be many ways of utilising this technology. It will also be interesting to see how both Facebook and Youtube compete even further on the video front.


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Google added a share button to search results
How many times have you been asked something so incredibly straightforward that the effort of asking the question likely far surpasses the effort involved in just Googling it in the first place? Probably at least once or twice, hence the existence of LMGTFY. Until now there was no particularly easy way of directly sharing search results, but Google’s working on that.
The latest Google app beta for Android now includes a convenient way to share a Google search with others. Android owners with the beta version of the Google app will now see a "share" button on their search results page. Tapping this brings up a share menu, which includes a "search.app.goo.gl" link. Fling that off to whoever is bothering you and you’ve got the perfect mix of passive aggressiveness and genuine helpfulness.
However, as 9to5google notes, the link only appears to share the text of your search terms, rather than the results that you yourself see when you made the search query. As such, your recipient may not see the same results as you, since Google personalizes results based on what it knows about you. Being able to share identical results would certainly make responding to banal questions more seamless — firing off personalized results may just end up creating even more questions.
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While many opt to “sell in May and go away,” investors who stick around may be better off rotating into more conservative picks, such as consumer staples and sector-related exchange traded funds.
For instance, the Consumer Staples Select SPDR (NYSEArca: XLP) tries to reflect the performance of the Consumer Staples Select Sector Index, which is comprised of consumer staples stocks taken from the S&P 500 Index. The fund includes a broad range of consumer stocks, including 23.4% food & staples retailing, 21.2% beverages, 19.2% household products, 18.2% food products, 16.6% tobacco and 1.3% personal products.
The sustainable nature of the consumer staples sector could help investors weather a potential storm in the summer months. Since April 30, 1945, the S&P 500 rose in price an average 1.4% from May through October, compared to an average 6.8% from November through April, writes Todd Rosenbluth, S&P Global Market Intelligence Director of ETF Research, in a research note.
However, Sam Stovall, a S&P Global Market Intelligence equity strategist, pointed out that investors would be better off rotating to more defensive sectors of the S&P 500 index, like consumer staples, noting that the sector rose an average 4.6% in the May through October period since 1990 and outperformed the S&P 500 70% of the time, the most of any of the 10 GICS sectors.
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Gicsa to invest US$167 million in Mexico
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MEXICO – Next year the real estate developer Gicsa will inaugurate a new shopping center in the country that will require an investment of US$167 million.
"We are bringing an outlet in the Riviera Maya to open next year, with an entertainment offer under the malltertainment concept," Abraham Cababie, the company's CEO, said in a statement. The manager stressed that in 2021 this center will be the only inauguration the company will carry out while projects for 2022 such as the expansion for Explanada San Luis Potosí, Explanada Aguascalientes and Paseo Metepec already began.
Regarding the possibility of having new facilities’ closures, in the face of a rebound in coronavirus infections, Cababie indicated that they are close to the authorities to know the measures that will be taken in this regard. "There is concern because the decision taken by the government to minimize infections is important, since the closures do affect us a lot, if there were any, we would return to what happened in April and May," he added.
He indicated that the alliance with Rappi, during the second quarter of the year, contemplates the incorporation of its commercial partners to the delivery platform to sell products through it. With this, the company mitigated, in part, the fall in traffic, derived from the closure of businesses due to the health emergency.
The manager said that they expect more partners to get on this platform. In addition, he explained that the company is working on some modifications to collaborate in the delivery of products acquired through electronic commerce, with the incorporation of delivery units, such as lockers and others.
"We are growing so that they can be collected, we are making important advances to go up to our projects. It is not possible for all of them to adapt, but we will soon start with six or seven of them," Cababie added.
The company recently opened Explanada Culiacán under this concept, which required an investment of US$128 million. "We inaugurated this project during the most aggressive time, the decision was to continue working with the projects that we had in advance and to carry out openings. This concept is adapted to the new forms of coexistence, since it widely allows circulation of people ", specified the CEO. The format, in which entertainment options play a very important role within complexes, was launched by the company four years ago; Gicsa currently has five of these developments and, according to Abraham Cababie, this will continue to be its expansion focus for years to come.


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A.P. Moller-Maersk is expecting its logistics revenue to overshadow its ocean business around the middle of this decade. Amidst rising inflation and the Ukraine war, shipping activities have taken a back seat. Peak freight rates have started to normalise due to low demand and decreased congestion, thereby nudging the company to explore more options.
Moller believes that they can provide more value to their customers, not only in terms of ocean freight share but with their logistics needs as well. The firm’s revenue grew 37per cent in their last quarter, thanks to higher freight rates negotiated in early 2022 when space demand was at a peak, with their net profit jumping to a record of $8.9 billion from $5.4 billion a year earlier. The company has also pumped billions of dollars into its container lines.


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Time is starting to run out for businesses to implement a strategy to comply with GDPR.
It’s by no means too late – but it is imperative for organisations to understand the complexities of the regulation sooner rather than later, allowing them enough time to roll out a compliance strategy, and for each department to comply with the new regulations.
Groups including the CBI and the Federation of Small Businesses say UK companies are waking up to the new compliance rules but too many are still unaware of GDPR or have not fully grasped its implications.
One of the main talking points regarding the regulation is the fines, as reported in The Financial Times this week was that the fines will sky rocket under GDPR and in some cases, companies risk being fined up to 4% of their annual turnover.
Although the ICO have said they do not want scaremongering and that fines will be a last resort, businesses will still have to spend time getting GDPR ready. In particular, businesses that process large amounts of data may require a major overhaul of their data processes.
In a recent YouGov study, it found that only 3 in every 10 UK businesses have started preparing for the GDPR. After the recent publicity of the law in the news, hopefully, more businesses will have become aware of the regulation and start to work on getting GDPR ready.
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Heatwaves and severe floods have sent tomato prices up 400% in India, as the crops require “bodyguards”.
Severe climatic conditions in India affect crops, with tomato crops being particularly affected.
Tomatoes have become so expensive that stores need “bodyguards” to protect them, Vice News reports.
Prices have risen 400% in recent weeks, with a kilogram now costing more than a liter of petrol.
What is behind the tomato shortage in India?
Heavy and scorching rain heat waves It has caused floods, landslides and hundreds of deaths in India in recent weeks. The amazing weather also meant the country faced severe tomato shortages as the disease devastated the crops.
Prices in major cities such as Mumbai and Delhi have risen from 40 rupees (€0.44) per kilo to more than 160 rupees (€1.76), according to The Guardian. Just a few months ago, the commercial price of tomatoes It fell to less than rupees (€ 0.02), devastating farmers.
As a staple in much of Indian cuisine, many households are now turning to canned goods to fill the void.
until fast food McDonald’s has announced that it will no longer serve tomatoes.
Has risen costs It has also led to looters targeting farms and delivery trucks, Vice reports.
India faces fatal weather fluctuations
In June it is hot A hot wave India experienced temperatures of up to 43.5 degrees Celsius.
Hospitals were overwhelmed in two of the most populous states and morgues were filled to capacity, killing nearly 170 people.
July hasn’t brought much relief, and this week New Delhi recorded its wettest July in 40 years. Flood At least 100 people were killed in northern India.
The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued red alerts (highest alert level) in the northern states of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Haryana, as heavy rains triggered floods and landslides.
India is not the only country that has faced deadly floods in recent weeks. Japan It experienced the “heaviest rain ever” earlier this week, while the US state of Vermont is currently dealing with catastrophic rains that led to the declaration of a state of emergency.
Heavy rains also hit parts of Europe, with a state of emergency declared in the northwest Bulgaria Last month.
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Passenger car retail sales in China, the world’s biggest auto market, fell 80% in February because of the coronavirus epidemic, one of the country’s industry associations said.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a “super bad feeling” about the economy and needs to cut about 10 per cent of jobs at the electric carmaker, he said in an email to executives seen by Reuters.
Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla and the world’s richest person, said on Friday he was terminating his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter because the social media
Tesla in June achieved its highest monthly sales of China-made vehicles since opening its Shanghai plant in 2019, data showed on Friday, as the US carmaker ramped up output
Nissan Motor Co and Renault SA agreed on Monday to a sweeping remake of their two-decade-old automaking alliance that will put them on equal footing and see the Japanese company
Volkswagen first-half operating profit is expected to come in at around 11 billion euros ($13 billion), it said on Friday, even surpassing pre-pandemic levels on the back of strong demand in Europe and the United States.
Booming sales in China helped propel German luxury carmaker BMW to stronger profits in the first three months of the year even as its home market Germany trailed the ongoing recovery in global car markets from the worst of the pandemic shutdowns.
Daimler will keep a 35% stake in the trucks division it plans to spin off this year, the luxury carmaker said on Friday, giving more details on a landmark corporate split it hopes will boost share values.
Porsche AG shares made a strong start on Thursday after Volkswagen defied volatile markets to list the sports car brand at a valuation of 75 billion euros ($72 billion) in Germany’s second-biggest market debut.


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originally as a downstream industry chain electricity supplier and the courier industry is not only cross each other, where customers, Jingdong (micro-blog) and other expensive mall layout of logistics warehousing, more reverse into the electricity supplier sf. Although the electricity supplier SF temporarily not as strong competitors, but the traditional express enterprises have expressed dissatisfaction with the electricity supplier "work" and hope that industry associations can make the restrictions on electricity.
(micro-blog) is the representative of President Yu Weijiao, firmly opposed to self logistics business enterprise, he believes that such a cross-border electricity supplier and express industry are easy to cause confusion. I hope the post office and Courier Association to introduce relevant regulations to prohibit electricity supplier companies to enter the logistics industry."
has this requirement not only a ripeness, according to informed sources, there have been several courier companies to the post office, Chinese express association made a similar request, but the relevant departments have not any action.
, after all, we need to follow the laws of the market, why other industries can not do express logistics, such a request is ridiculous." Electricity supplier industry sources said. Caused the express industry is the fundamental reason for dissatisfaction with the interests, according to the information disclosed by the media, the Jingdong plans to do this year turnover of 60 billion, the company plans to turnover is 10 billion, this is a huge cake.
public information display, including Jingdong mall, shop No. 1, where a large number of B2C vertical electric, are facing financial pressure, still grind invested logistics construction layout.
with the biggest Jingdong in the mall for example, this year is the large-scale investment in logistics for third years, also spend most of the year, is expected to invest 35-36 billion yuan, including land, property and equipment procurement.
In fact, the fact that
is not an easy thing to do for the electricity supplier companies, especially in the capital of the winter, the huge investment in logistics and even make their high cost, not profitable.
why do we insist on vice president of China Express Association, Dava, electricity providers to do a logistics enterprise can not choose".
Dawa pointed out that the courier industry after 2009 have a clear legal status, encountered many problems and difficulties in the development of. "Now we have to solve is that there is no problem, the next step is not good."
fact, the development of the courier industry is seriously lagging behind the electricity supplier industry, the high rate of complaints, such as violent sorting, items were lost, was replaced, courier delays later, claims rights difficult. It is also at the expense of the user, the focus on playing the service brand electricity supplier can not stand.
the third party logistics has not much, but the user for the third party logistics the complaint rate is still not high, the user experience is very important for us, is the core competitiveness, if the third party logistics can meet the requirements, why we do not save money not.


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October 16, 2017
The fifty-six exhibitors participating at FireNZ 2017 were pretty well set up by end of day one on Wednesday 11th October and looking forward to a further two days of networking, proposing and presenting products and services to colleagues as well as current and prosepctive clients at the Show.
At the RyanFire Products stand, director Paul Ryan said he looks forward to the Conference and Exhibition. “It’s obviously the most specific event to our industry and it’s a great opportunity to network, build brand awareness and of course make sales. People come to our stand to chat. Some say ‘we’ve heard of you and have been meaning to talk’. Because we do so much business online, it’s a great to put faces to names.”
With Jonathan Hooper at Hydroflow Distributors’ stand was Jack Carbone, all the way from Pennsylvania, world headquarters for Victaulic. This was Jack’s third trip to New Zealand for Victaulic, supporting the sales and marketing effort. Jack said, “we always have something new to bring to show, this is really important.”
This writer was the first to sign up at Bensan Distribution to win a new iPhone. Sales and technical support, Kevin Roughead said this was their third year at the the Exhibition and this year they were launching their new fully approved Protec system.
Pertronic Industries sales and marketing manager, Rob Fenton, endorsed Paul Ryan’s comments. “It’s a really important industry function,” he said. “It’s about waving flags and promoting – brand awareness for our companies and sales opportunities for our products.”
FireNZ 2007 provided us a platform to get updates on all facets of the fire engineering industry. The presentations were informative and inspiring. It was also a fantastic opportunity to network with others in the industry. – Mona Liu, Origin Fire
The highlight of FireNZ 2017 was being able to Immerse myself in the talks and thoughts of experts in fire engineering across the country and from around the world. This platform provides not only the well-prepared presentation, but also face-to-face communication. Presentations initially provide a good chance to learn, face-to-face chats provide in-depth ways to understand the design concept of the high-quality work. – Dr Alex Zhu, Origin Fire


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First Range Rover known as #001, launched in January 1970 and still with original chassis, engine and gearbox is set to sell for more than £150,000 at auction after complete restoration
- On launch Land Rover described it as the most versatile car in the world
- Designed to combine comfort and on-road ability of Rover saloon with off-road skill of Land Rover
- Stylish two-door model was originally delivered to Michael Forlong, who produced two Range Rover promotion films
- It then had a number of owners before vanishing until the 1990s when an enthusiast discovered it
- He then spent six years carrying out restoration on the off-roader
- Known as #001, it has a 3.5-litre V8 engine and 135bhp
The first Range Rover production car, which set the benchmark for luxury 4x4s, is expected to sell for more than £150,000 when it comes up at auction.
Land Rover launched the Range Rover in 1970, describing it as the most versatile car in the world.
It was designed to combine the comfort and on-road ability of a Rover saloon with the off-road skill of a Land Rover.
Land Rover launched the Range Rover in 1970, describing it as the most versatile car in the world
Today, it remains the benchmark in luxury off-roaders and looks at home on a farm, outside the Ritz or in the car park of a Premier League football ground.
And it was this two-door, green model with the registration YVB 151H, which started it all - and it is expected to prompt a fierce bidding war among enthusiasts and investors.
The car was built between November 24, 1969 and December 17, 1969 before being registered on January 2, 1970.
The car was designed to combine the comfort and on-road ability of a Rover saloon with the off-road skill of a Land Rover
Petrolheads: Car collectors will appreciate the work that went into the car's engine
Now known as the Range Rover Classic, the stylish two-door model was originally delivered to Michael Forlong, who produced two Range Rover promotion films.
It then had a number of owners before vanishing until the 1990s when an enthusiast discovered it.
He then spent six years carrying out a meticulous nut-and-bolt restoration on the off-roader.
The owner has now decided to sell the first Range Rover - known as #001 - and there is expected to be serious interest in it.
Silverstone Auctions will sell the car at its Salon Privé sale in London on September 4.
It was this two-door, green model with the registration YVB 151H, which started it all - and it is expected to prompt a fierce bidding war among enthusiasts and investors
The car is being offered with an estimate of around £100,000 to £140,000, but it is thought it could still fetch considerably more.
It is also likely to catch the eye of Jaguar Land Rover, which recently bought dental entrepreneur Dr James Hull's huge collection of Jaguars.
In a statement, the auction house said: 'Having owned this iconic motor car for more than 20 years our vendor has decided it is time to pass the responsibility of owning YVB 151H to a new custodian.
'The sympathetic and meticulous restoration has proudly stood the test of time making #001 a hugely significant motor car worthy of serious consideration.'
The car is known as a 'matching numbers' model. This means the original chassis, engine and gearbox along with the original aluminium bonnet and bodyshell.
Despite having only two doors, the first Range Rover production car set the benchmark for luxury 4x4s
Under the bonnet is a 3.5-litre V8 engine which developed around 135bhp and gave it a top speed in excess of 100mph.
Nick Whale, the managing director of Silverstone Auctions, added: 'It is wonderful to be able to offer this iconic British model for auction at the UK's finest concourse event.
'These cars are incredibly popular and we expect a significant amount of interest when it goes under the hammer.'
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Thousands of migrant workers cross the border into Thailand each year from neighboring countries, with the greatest numbers coming from Burma. An estimated 1.8 million to three million migrant workers live in Thailand, many of them unregistered. These workers are employed in labor-intensive export industries such as seafood, garment manufacturing and agriculture.
Labor registration is complex and leaves migrant workers dependent on recruiters and employers. Indicators of human trafficking are common, including document confiscation, restrictions on free movement, debt bondage, wage theft and excessive recruitment fees. Local police often overlook abuse, and have even been implicated in trafficking schemes. Discriminatory labor law prevent migrant workers from forming labor unions.
The seafood industry, in particular, has had serious concerns with labor trafficking, child labor, and debt bondage, among other abuses. The Food and Agriculture Organization has estimated that up to two million people are employed in the seafood industry in Thailand, and 90% are migrant workers, but only a third of them are legally registered. In a recent report by the U.N. Inter-agency Project on Human Trafficking, 57% of migrant workers surveyed had at least one indicator of forced labor and 33% were trafficked into forced labor.
ILRF’s research into shrimp production in Thailand has uncovered a range of serious labor problems in Global Aquaculture Alliance certified shrimp processing facilities supplying major western retailers, including utilizing underage workers, nonpayment of wages and charging workers excessive fees for work permits. Finnwatch, a Finnish NGO, has documented similar conditions at processing plants for two of Thailand’s largest tuna exporting firms: Thai Union Manufacturing and Unicord. Using that research, ILRF was able to connect tuna from these two processors to each of the three biggest suppliers of canned tuna in the United States (Bumble Bee, Starkist and Chicken of the Sea). These significant contributions add to the growing evidence of systematic abuse of migrant workers in every step of the supply chain in Thailand’s seafood industry.


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Nigerian Designers Make Their Mark At NIVEA Accra Fashion Week SH19
When it comes to fashion in West Africa, Ghana and Nigeria are always pushing the boundaries, so it is not surprising there had to be a great representation of Nigeria at the just ended NIVEA Accra Fashion Week SH19, which took place at the Tang Palace Hotel.
The five nights of fashion saw various celebrities from Nana Akua Addo, Ama K Abebrese, Eazzy, Too Sweet Annan, Dandira, Efe Keyz, Moesha, Elikem The Tailor, Gifty, and much more take to the night to be a part of the charity fund raiser.
However, there is no denying that the rich colors, glitz and styles of the various Nigierian designers went unrecognized. Designers such as Tolumi TFP, Cocomanella, House Of Irawo, and the amazing students from Valissimo School took the center stage on the runway.
Tolumi TFP brought fashion to a hault with her smart and stylish casual collection filled with palette colors, whilst cocomanelle brought tremendous modern chic outfits and silk garments. Noticeably, House Of Irawo took to the center stage with beautiful couture pieces that could easily be recognized. Nigeria definitely left it's mark.
The celebrity filled week also saw many faces such as Deborah Vanessa, Nana Akua Addo, Ama K Abebrese, Eazzy, Too Sweet Annan, Dandira, Efe Keyz, Nikki Samonas, Moesha, Elikem The Tailor, Gifty, and much more take to the night to be a part of the charity fund raiser. As well as diplomats from various embassies such as the Namibian Embassy, the Angolan Embassy, the Morrocan embassy and more.
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Australian health and wellbeing network Tonic Heath Media has announced the launch of its inaugural ‘Nutritious and Delicious Healthy Agency Cook Off’.
The industry-first initiative will bring together the cream of Australia’s media agency staff for an innovative (and competitive) cookery competition hosted and judged by renowned celebrity chef Luke Hines.
The event will also feature a healthy eating masterclass from Tonic Health Media’s Dr Norman Swan.
Taking place on Tuesday 13 February at Sydney’s iconic Fish School, the cook-off will see more than 13 teams from across media agency land face each other to take home the prestigious title of agency land’s culinary champion.
The Nutritious and Delicious Healthy Agency Cook Off has been created by Tonic as a response to its recent Tonic Healthy Living series of events.
The sessions saw Tonic hit the road, talking to media agency staff in person about the physical and psychological stresses they encounter.
Tonic’s commercial director, Jack Mortlock (pictured above), said: “This is an agency initiative that we are launching to promote what we preach, namely health and wellbeing.
“We have been out on the road talking to the industry, and understand that physical wellbeing leads to mental wellbeing, and in turn a happier and more productive industry.”
“We really wanted to show people how it’s easy to whip up a delicious and healthy meal quickly and easily that will also even be therapeutic for both their health and their soul.”
Mindshare chief investment officer Nicola Lewis said the competition was a great way to bring the industry together with a positive spin.
“Modern life can often lead to a sense of feeling overwhelmed, a feeling that can negatively impact our nutritional choices,” she said.
“More than ever, it is incredibly important to make the right choices when choosing how to fuel ourselves and our bodies.
“Tonic Heath Media are great partners when it comes to exciting and useful ideas to help initiate change with respect to our health and wellbeing, with the inaugural Healthy Agency Cook Off just one example of a challenge that matters.”
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Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, has changed his Twitter name to Tim Apple in an apparent reference to Donald Trump fudging up his name at a recent televised meeting.
Cook was attending an American Workforce Policy Advisory Board meeting on Wednesday (March 6) with the president when the mishap happened, and social media hasn’t stopped talking about it since.
You’d think the CEO of America’s first trillion-dollar company would be a reputable enough figure for the President to know who he actually is. It’s possible it was just an error, but that’s up to you to decide.
It’s entirely possible Trump simply got his words mixed up. Perhaps he meant to say Tim and Apple separately as he was trying to express gratitude to both Tim Cook and Apple?
Not to worry though, because Cook has joined in with the laughter by changing his Twitter name to Tim Apple, using the tech giant’s logo. Genius.
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When did the Fiesta Island Philippines tourism campaign program was launch?
The first campaign launched by the DOT was in 1994 with the slogan “Fiesta Island Philippines!”
Was Wow Philippines a campaign launched by the Department of Tourism?
Wow Philippines (stylized as WOW Philippines) was a tourism marketing campaign used to promote Tourism in the Philippines. The name of the campaign also served as the tagline of the campaign.
What is the history of tourism in the Philippines?
Tourism in the Philippines traces its origins during the ancient times when the first set of people chose to migrate through land bridges, followed by the other sets of migrations from the Malayan archipelago in the south and Taiwan in the north.
What is the tourism marketing campaign title of the Philippines?
MANILA– The Philippines is repurposing the word “fun” in its old tourism slogan, “It’s More Fun in the Philippines”, by involving the travelers themselves and incorporating sustainability in the refreshed campaign.
The global economic crisis of 2008 pulled countries around the globe into a recession. Following the Asian economic crisis in 1997, the 2008 crisis imposed new challenges to the Philippines as a developing country.
How did Philippine travel agency start?
WOW Philippines Travel Agency Company, a Philippines based Travel Agency whose head office is in Manila, started its operations in 2005 under the name of WOW Philippines Travel Company, a private company not affiliated with the Philippines Government.
What is the Philippine tourism tagline?
because “It’s more fun in the Philippines.” Department of Tourism, in partnership with BBDO Guerrero has come up with the new tourism slogan – It’s more fun in the Philippines. Tourism Secretary Ramon Jimenez Jr. said during the event that they “want the world not to watch but to participate” in the new campaign.


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Nova Scotia RCMP Warns Internet Users Regarding Online Scams
Nova Scotia Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) claims that fraudster is trying to con money from unwary computer users by "fining" them allegedly corrupted internet transactions, reported thechoricleherald.ca on March 22, 2013.
RCMP in Pictou County (Nova Scotia, Canada) has received four complaints regarding a scam e-mail that seems to be from the police, Sgt. Alian LeBlanc as informed in a statement printed by thechroniceherald.ca on March 22, 2013. But he said that there's no way to verify exactly the number of people who have received the official looking email.
The scam email provides a connection to what looks like official website and asks the recipient to offer $100 plus taxes as the police have found the recipient has downloaded the movies illegally.
The fine is ought to pay via U-Cash and the recipients who received the notice are offered an exact number to utilize for the transactions.
But if you give any personal details to this website, it will go unswervingly to the scam artist, he said.
In some examples, the recipient's computer solidified and could be no longer used. It was then declared that if the fine was compensated, the computer would be made functional within 1 to 72 hours after payment is acknowledged.
This is not a genuine e-mail and the RCMP does not interact with the common people about fines or police matters in this manner, the RCMP said as it distanced itself from these online scams.
Some tips are advised by RCMP by escape these scams, which are don't click any link or attachment in the emails that makes strange claims (like downloading music and music illegally) and you can also update your anti-virus software often, and scan for computer viruses periodically.
Moreover, RCMP is not the only government agency in the world that is oppressed by cyber crooks in their malicious campaigns. In February 2013, a ransomware locked up the computers of German consumers on behalf of the country's Federal Criminal Police (BKA) and the Society for Prosecution of Copyright Infringement (GVU), security firm Avira exposed. Victims were charged of committing eight diverse crimes, including copyright violations, terrorism and distribution of unlawful content.
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The market for 9mm ARs is booming — literally — since they’re cheap to buy and feed, and easier to shoot than traditional AR platforms.
Some 3-Gun competitions now have a 9mm AR division.
It’s about time that their growing popularity was recognized.
In the gun world, 9mm ARs are likely the next big thing.
Felex has always ridden the crest of the wave in terms of new firearms and products.
We were not disappointed.
The “Mad Russian” had the entire table inside his legendary gun vault covered with 9mm AR pistols, carbines, SBRs, rifles and suppressors.
Gun Point’s 9mm pistol, which sports an MVB Industries micro buffer, is by far the most balanced and quickest-handling AR pistol I’ve ever seen.
Many of his SBRs and PDWs were one-ofs — made to a client’s specifications.
All were made with the best AR parts, including capture screws — a boon to AR builders.
Gun Point’s production gun, Felex said, was recently used in a LEO match in California, where it shot 1 MOA — a 9mm carbine that can shoot 1 MOA!
There were other shockers.
Gun Point is set to release it’s own 9mm suppressor with an MSRP of $450. That’s an incredible value for a locally made, quality can.
Also, the firm is about six weeks away from releasing a 9mm Glock AR, which all of us agreed would be a real game-changer. To be clear, when the Glock AR becomes available, we will conduct a full review.
Felex has too many options and too many packages available to name them all here, most with MSRPs from $1,600 to $2,000. But if you want a Gun Point AR in any caliber, the best thing to do is call or stop by and talk to Felex and his staff.
Of course his AKs are the best around, but that’s another story.
Thanks to Felex and his staff for a great time, and to Mike Lang for putting this video together.
Mike and Lee


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U.K. government statistics show fresh fruit and vegetables are not as good for us as they were 60 years ago. The report, by nutritionist and chiropractor Dr. David Thomas, shows the content of natural minerals, such as iron, calcium, copper and magnesium, has decreased by up to 76 percent since 1940. The growth of intensive farming methods, which use artificial fertilizers to get plants to grow bigger and faster, is blamed for the decline.
Dr Thomas said: "The findings suggest that our diet is now far less nutritious than it was 60 years ago. It is likely that levels of a whole host of other trace elements which have proven benefits to health and whose absence can create disease conditions, have also been depleted. "Nowadays you need to eat three times as many oranges as you would have done in 1940 to get the same amount of iron. Dr Thomas compared statistics for the mineral content of fruit and vegetables in 1940 with the latest figures from 1991. He based his analysis on data from The Composition of Foods, a comprehensive study of the content of all major foods dating back to 1940.
In vegetables the level of magnesium had dropped by nearly 25 per cent, calcium by 46 per cent, and sodium by 50 per cent, while copper levels had slumped by more than 75 per cent. In fruit, sodium had dipped by 27 per cent, iron by 25 per cent and copper by 20 per cent.
A lack of iron can impair intellectual functions, while calcium is vital for strong teeth and bones, particularly in children. A shortage of magnesium can lead to neurological and heart problems.
Although modern intensive farming allows fruit and vegetables to grow faster as they receive lots of nutrients, it does not necessarily create produce with the same amount of minerals as in previous generations. A greater number of crops growing in one area means less nutrients from the soil per plant.
The figures were published under the auspices of the Medical research Council, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food & Royal Society of Chemistry. Dr. Thomas said eating fruit & vegetables is still beneficial but continuing falls in nutrients could lead to deficiencies in some consumers. The findings confirm an earlier study, published in the British Food Journal, which found similar changes in the nutritional composition of 20 fruits & 20 vegetables between the late 1930s & the early 1990s.
Mike Lean, professor of nutrition at Glasgow University who is also a director of the Health Education Board for Scotland, said: "Advice at the moment is to eat a minimum of five portions of fruit and vegetables combined every day. Maybe we should be eating considerably more than that and taking supplements."
The Healing Power of Minerals, Special Nutrients and Trace Elements by Paul Bergner includes USDA figures that show a decline in mineral and vitamin content of several fruits and vegetables between 1914, 1963, and 1992. Table 1 is a summary of mineral decreases in fruits and vegetables over a 30-year period, adapted from Bergner’s book.
Table 1. Average changes in the mineral content of some fruits and vegetables†, 1963-1992
Mineral Average % Change
† Fruits and vegetables measured: oranges, apples, bananas, carrots, potatoes, corn, tomatoes, celery, romaine lettuce, broccoli, iceberg lettuce, collard greens, and chard.
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Bergner P. The Healing Power of Minerals, Special Nutrients and Trace Elements; Prima Publishing. Bergner is the clinic director of the Rocky Mountain Center for Botanical Studies, and editor of Clinical Nutrition Update and Medical Herbalism newsletters.


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Dame Dash and Kanye West are bailing Karmaloop out.
While earlier this week it seemed that things were going south for online streetwear distributor Karmaloop, they may have found a way out of their imminent bankruptcy. After inspiring one of the best memes in recent memory, Dame Dash has confirmed that he and Kanye West will be buying the site, announcing the partnership in an Instagram video today.
While Kanye remains silent, and frankly, uncomfortable throughout the clips, Dame Dash makes good on his promise to buy the brand. He also hints at "a couple of other cool things" that he'll be doing with Ye, but stressed that none of it would be musical.
Take a look at the clips (complete with extensive captions) below.


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