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Most Corvette enthusiasts are probably aware of the 1963 Corvette built for GM’s design boss Harley Earl. The blue roadster has traded hands a couple of times in recent years most recently selling for $1.5 million in October 2013. But did you know that GM also built a special car at the same time for his wife, Sue? The pink 1963 coupe hasn’t been seen in nearly 40 years, and it’s being sold at Mecum Kissimmee sale later this month.
We’ve already talked about some of the high end Corvettes being offered at the January 2014 auctions including a 1967 L88 coupe, the George Barris Asteroid Corvette, and The Rebel L88 racer. Potentially the most significant Corvette up for grabs next month is The Real McCoy 1956 racer. If it wasn’t for this C1, the aforementioned ‘vettes may not have even existed.
The Mecum Auctions’ 2013 US tour stops in Anaheim, California this weekend. The 3-day extravaganza gets underway Thursday, November 21st at the Anaheim Convention Center. The action will run through Saturday, November 23rd until all of the nearly 700 cars have rolled across the auction block. Velocity will have 16 hours of live coverage spread across each of the 3 auction days. Click past the jump see a few of the 60+ Corvettes being offered this weekend.
When Harley Earl left General Motors in 1963, he was gifted with this unique Corvette Sting Ray Convertible that was customized to his interests by the style department he originally created. The Harley Earl Corvette was the featured vehicle at Mecum’s 2013 Chicago auction and a little after 3pm ET on Saturday afternoon, the hammer fell with the sold price reaching $1.5 million.
Mecum Auctions blows into the Windy City this weekend for their annual sale. This year they christen a new location with 1,000 vehicles including over 90 Corvettes. The 3-day event kicks off Thursday, October 10th and runs through Saturday, October 12th at the Schaumburg Convention Center. Velocity will have 16 hours of live coverage from Chicago.
A rare 1957 Corvette featuring the 283/283 hp (RPO 579E) fuel injection sold for $290,000 at Mecum’s 2013 Dallas Auction.
This Onyx Black roadster is one of only 43 “airbox” Corvettes produced in 1957 which offered a new fuel injection system helping the 283 Cubic inch engine attain the mythical “one-horsepower-per-cubic-inch” threshold for the first time.
The ’57 Airbox Corvette was part of the Buddy Herin collection which also saw the record-breaking $3.2 million sale of the 1967 L88 Corvette Sting Ray at the same auction.
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Right on the heels of the record breaking 1967 L88 Stingray which sold for $3.2M at Mecum’s Dallas Auction September 7, Dana Mecum is out to break his own record for the price paid for a Corvette. The “Dealmaker” knew he’d have to do something spectacular for an encore at his upcoming Chicagoland Auction, October 10-12, and as if pulling a rabbit out of a hat he is magically offering the special modified 1963 Corvette given to Harley Earl by GM honoring his contribution to the corporation and Corvette, Harley Earl’s personal Corvette.
Dana Mecum’s favorite car has to be the Chevrolet Corvette, especially if solely based on the number of outstanding high dollar cars that were hammered down during the last four days of his third Dallas auction.
It was clearly evident that Corvettes carried the four-day auction and were the car of choice for collectors where a new record price was paid for a Corvette ($3.2M, a 1967 L88, fully documented former NHRA record holder and the only ’67 L88 to retain its original body panels).
Of the 172 Corvettes that crossed the block 106 were sold, a 61% sell through rate, for a combined hammer price of $9.106M. Though some buyers were able to grab some excellent bargains during the first two days of the sale, the last two days saw spirited bidding and prices well above average. Almost twenty Corvettes were hammered down above $100K. It seemed as though most restored second generation cars were selling between $100K to $150K and if the car had any rare options it was selling close to or above $200K.
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On Saturday afternoon at the Mecum auction in Dallas, Lot #123 – a 1967 L88 Corvette Roadster from the Buddy Herin collection took center stage. After five minutes of auction banter, the documented 1-20 L88 Corvette Sting Ray became the highest selling Corvette to ever sell at auction with a gavel price of $3.2 million.


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Hobbs has outlined plans to open up to 60 standalone stores and launch a wholesale collection for NW3, its new contemporary sub-brand due to launch in September.
The bridge level womenswear retailer’s chief executive Nicky Dulieu said while she had initially planned to put the younger and more fashionable NW3 brand into existing Hobbs stores, she now believed the concept was strong enough to stand on its own as a separate chain. It will still be stocked in selected Hobbs shops as well as being wholesaled to selected partners. Online giant Asos has also confirmed it will stock NW3 on its website.
Dulieu told Drapers: “We’ve had a fantastic reaction. We’re so excited. We are looking to open six NW3 stores next year but there is the potential for 60.”
NW3, which is named after the postcode of London’s upmarket Hampstead Heath area, where Hobbs was founded 28 years ago, will initially launch into about 20 Hobbs stores.
The brand has been designed by Daniela Boleto, who joined Hobbs as a senior designer from MaxMara last year. She works alongside her mother Helen Boleto, who designs for Hobbs’ mainline collection.
The NW3 collection features 90 pieces with quirky touches including the resurrection of the original 1670 Hampstead halfpenny, the local currency to Hampstead at the time, which appears as statement buttons on blazers and charms on bags and necklaces.
Separately, Hobbs said it would open a flagship store on Long Acre in London’s Covent Garden this autumn. Dulieu said: “18 months ago we would not have considered opening a flagship store, but the market has changed.”
The flagship opening and expansion of NW3 will be spearheaded by newly appointed retail director Alana Mazza. She was previously retail trading director at the now-defunct womenswear chain
Principles. Mazza will oversee Hobbs’ 125 stores and 64 concessions. She replaced Mike Spearing, who has been promoted to business development director. Spearing will retain responsibility for Hobbs’ direct sales, which includes internet and telephone orders. Hobbs said its internet sales continued to grow significantly.
Dulieu said Hobbs would also refurbish its store on Regent Street in central London. The shop will be closed during August while the work is carried out, but will reopen in September to coincide with the launch of the NW3 brand, which will take over the ground floor of both the Covent Garden and Regent Street stores.
Meanwhile, Dulieu said she would put some prices of the Hobbs collection up by 5% where she had introduced more value. However, she said Hobbs would retain its entry-price points.
Hobbs has annual sales of about £100 million.
NW3: the Drapers verdict
NW3 has a clear identity and a strong handwriting. The debut collection for autumn 09 targets a more fashion-forward customer than the core Hobbs range with pixelated prints, felted wool blazers and leather dresses. Along with the Hampstead halfpenny-inspired buttons, NW3 has a specially designed signature print which features pictures of acorns, oak trees, British birds and feathers, which make up the lining of boyfriend blazers and riding jackets, adding a unique, quirky edge. It is clear to see who Hobbs is targeting with the younger NW3 offer, but it still remains true to Hobbs’ stated values of “quality, craftsmanship and the essence of English tradition”.
Right for the market?
NW3 will allow Hobbs to reach out to a new customer, while luring back the old Hobbs customer who has perhaps moved away from the core collection over the past few years because the styling became too classic and mainstream. The tactic is to win back older shoppers with Hobbs while NW3 draws in a new customer group with a mother-daughter shopping experience.
There is little to compete with NW3 on the high street at the moment in terms of styling. But pricing puts it at the top end of the bridge level market with a pleat frill shirt at £99, slim-cut wool trousers at £110 and a boyfriend blazer at £169. Given the current climate, it may take some time for shoppers to swallow tickets like these.

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Samsung shows 24-inch hybrid TV, computer display
Samsung in its home market of South Korea showed off a new hybrid computer monitor that doubles as a TV set. The 24-inch FX2490HD has a built-in TV tuner, a picture-in-picture function and support for 7.1-channel Dolby Digital and DTS audio. There is no word on resolution, but its size would suggest 1080p.
In terms of inputs, the panel has a VGA port and two HDMI jacks. Viewers who want to bypass the computer entirely for music, photo and video can plug flash drives into a USB port. The hybrid monitor will arrive in Korea in August, with a release in the US also scheduled soon. Pricing is set at nearly $470. [via Akihabara]


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Vivo is busy with the launch of its iQOO smartphones and also with the release of its S12 series and Watch 2. However, there is still room for another lineup in the company’s schedule. Earlier this year, the brand introduced the Vivo V21 series in India and other markets. It recently launched the Vivo V23e in some markets which basically debuted a new range of devices for the V-series. The company is yet to disclose more details but we can also expect a Vivo V23 and a V23 Pro to come soon. The Pro variant is expected to arrive in India in January. Today, this particular has passed through the Geekbench benchmark.
Vivo V23 Pro has passed through Geekbench
Vivo V23 Pro will launch in January 2022. Ahead of the official unveiling, the phone is listed on Geekbench with the model number V2132. The listing reveals the performance unit details of the upcoming Vivo handset. According to the information, the phone runs the MediaTek MT6893Z SoC. For those unaware, this is another way for calling the MediaTek Dimensity 1200 SoC which has been present in a multitude of flagship smartphones this year. We assume that more brands will start using it in 2022 for cheaper models and that is very good. This chip is made on a 6 nm process and brings ARM Cortex-A78 cores clocked at 3.0 GHz clock speed. There are three ARM Cortex-A78 cores clocked at 2.4 GHz and four ARM Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 2.0 GHz.
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In addition to processing power, the handset also runs Geekbench with 8 GB of RAM. We can expect Vivo to launch more RAM and storage options for the handset as well. It will come with Android 12 straight out of the box. Depending on the region, the phone will run Funtouch OS 12 or Origin OS Ocean on top of Android. The phone has scored 679 points in the single-core tests and 2,707 in the multi-core department.
According to a recent report, the handset has a 64 MP primary camera. This is pretty much on par with previous releases in this lineup. Moreover, we can also expect an equally impressive selfie camera. After all, the focus of the V-series is offering remarkable selfie cameras. There is still plenty of time before the release of the upcoming device. According to rumors, the official release will happen on January 4. Of course, we can expect Vivo to disclose teasers ahead of any release.


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In June, computer hardware stores had sold out of its newest graphic processors.US Retail Sales And Industrial Output Suffer Declines Due To Harvey.Ant Financial Offers Face Scan Service For Package Pickup In China.We are happy to announce that from now on you can mine Dash.
A small blog dedicated to anything to do with cryptocurrency. 26 July 2017.I will quote this article: There are so many cryptocurrency ICOs.Since June, AMD has been talking about the red hot demand all thanks to the mining of cryptocurrency.The Japan Cryptocurrency Business Association made up of various regional exchanges is preparing to draft.Cryptocurrency Mining is the act of participating in a given peer.
Bitcoin news roundup, August 6, 2017 - Deep Dot Web
Japan's Cryptocurrency Business Association Plans for
Kekcoin is a 100% PoS coin where 60% of the 10 million premine will be given away for free in Airdrops to the first 600 that sign-up.
Is Bitcoin Mining Profitable in 2017?Cryptocurrency mining has been used by cybercriminals to make a quick and.
Nvidia, another graphic chip card maker, has seen its products sell out and its shares rise as a result.Top 5 Cryptocurrency ICOs for June and July 2017. Shares 12K.
Bitcoin news roundup, July 30, 2017 - The Bitcoin NewsSo now when you know what a crypto-currency is we can now understand the mining of these.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) wowed Wall Street Wednesday (July 26) after posting news of a strong showing in its second quarter.


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India Equity Partners buys Sagar Ratna
Fund will be used to open 200 more outlets over three to four years
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New York-based private equity fund, India Equity Partners, has bought a controlling stake for 180 crore in Sagar Ratna Hotels, a 25-year-old popular chain specialising in South Indian cuisine. The funds will be used to open 200 more outlets over three to four years and revamp the format of the existing 70 restaurants, most of which are in North India, said a person close to IEP. While the chain's founder, Jayaram Banan, will continue to be the chairman, the operating partner at IEP, Arvind Nair, will join as the chief executive officer. IEP founder and managing director Gaurav Mathur will become a non-executive director.
Sagar Ratna Hotels, which has been on the block for over a year, saw a revival in investor interest with a few PE players, including IEP, initiating talks to buy the company early this year. Sagar Ratna Hotels Pvt Ltd, which runs the chain, posted a net profit of 10 crore on sales of close to 70 crore in the year ended March, according to industry estimates.
- Microsoft starts retailing of Amazon Echo devices online and in stores
- ShopClues launches its first offline store in Lucknow
- Crocs opens its 100th store in India
- Williams-Sonoma, Inc. announces partnership with Reliance Brands for India Market
- Instant noodle brand YiPPee crosses Rs 1,000 crore sales mark
- Myntra CEO & CFO quit
- Levi Strauss plans to launch IPO
- Coffee Day Enterprises profit up by 60% in Q2 results
- Ecommerce to contribute 11% of FMCG sales by 2030: Nielsen
- Perpule Raises $4.7 million in Series A to Fuel Omni-Channel Retail & Consumer Commerce in India


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Free courses for Southend businesses
The University has secured funding to offer free and subsidised business support workshops and training to Southend-based businesses.
The programme, which will be running between now and March 2011, offers a range of workshops aimed at helping local companies boost their business.
Free workshops will be available to eligible businesses via the University's Business Hub in Southend and half-price courses will be offered by the University's Business and Management Training team and South Essex College.
The workshops, which are also open to not-for-profit, social enterprises and community enterprises, cover a range of topics including ‘effective e-mail campaigns, ‘sales success for all’ and ‘social media marketing’.
The project, supported by the East of England Development Agency and Southend Together, is designed to the responsive to the needs of Southend businesses, with workshops run by the Business Hub being specifically designed for this project.
By using funding from the Higher Education Innovation Fund to support the Southend Economic Participation Programme, the University secured a grant of up to £50,000 from the East of England Development Agency for this project. This will part-fund a project worth almost £100,000 to support growing businesses in Southend.
Julie Jones, Business Hub Manager at the University, said: ‘This is a fantastic opportunity for Southend businesses to benefit from a wide range of free and half price workshops to help sustain and grow their businesses.’
For further information please go to http://www.essex.ac.uk/ads/businesssupport
For more details please contact the University of Essex Communications Office on 01206 872400 or e-mail email@example.com
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The EVGA GeForce GTX 960 delivers incredible performance, power efficiency, and gaming technologies that only NVIDIA Maxwell technology can offer. This is the perfect upgrade, offering 60% faster performance and twice the power efficiency of previous-generation cards.
To great fan fare and some deplore, in a livestream announcement last night, Nvidia introduced us to the new Shield Android based console. Featuring the new Nvidia Tegra X1 processor and backed up with a 256-core Maxwell GPU equipped with 3gb of ram, this new console is certainly one of the more capable that we have come across.
Welcome to our first Podcast! We have decided to do a Weekly Tech Podcast were we go over the reviews we have done for the week, tech news for the week and anything else that is going on in the current week.
A new website has been launched by NVIDIA called Made to Game. It teases an upcoming project that is said to be a brand new gaming platform. This new platform will be unveiled next week at an event in San Francisco.
It looks like NVIDIA is dominating the GPU market. According to the latest report from Jon Peddie Research (JPR) in Q3 of 2014 NVIDIA secured 76% of the GPU market share leaving AMD with just 24%. Both Matrox and S3 are now out of the game with Matrox losing its small 0.10% market share to NVIDIA.
The GeForce GTX 970 memory allocation issue just does not seem to go away for NVIDIA. Earlier this week a class action lawsuit was filed against NVIDIA for deceptive business practices and misleading advertising dealing with the GTX 970. Now Jen-Hsun CEO of NVIDIA has made an official statement on the NVIDIA blog.
It looks like the GeForce GTX 970 memory allocation issue is not going to go away for NVIDIA. Owners of the card have put together all of the technical information and have filed a class-action lawsuit in a US Court (District Court for the Northern District of California). The lawsuit is titled, “Andrew Ostrowsky (and others in similar situation) vs. NVIDIA Corporation and GIGABYTE Global Business Corporation”. The lawsuit accuses the defendants of unfair, unlawful, and deceptive business practices, in three separate charges, and misleading advertising, demanding for Jury Trial.
NVIDIA has upset many mobile gamers by disabling overclocking on their mobile GPUs in the GTX 900M series in a recent driver update. Under pressure from any angry users NVIDIA plans to revert this change and bring overclocking back to mobile GPUs.
ASUS’s latest GeForce GTX 960 graphics card has been revealed and it is the mini version we all were hoping for. This card is of course built for compact mini-ITX motherboards. The card more or less looks identical to ASUS’s GTX 670 Mini and GTX 760 Mini graphics cards. The dual-slot card is only 17cm long and features an aluminum heatsink stack that is cooled by a “CoolTech” fan, which is a hybrid between a top-flow and lateral-flow fan.
NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 960 is here and it is really going to hit that sweet spot for gaming when it comes to the price / performance ratio. MSI of course have released a few different GTX 960 models (4 currently) and today we will be taking a look at their highest performance part the GTX 960 Gaming 2G. This card of course falls in MSI’s very popular gaming line and comes with a factory overclock bringing the core clock up to 1216 MHz and the boost clock up to 1279 MHz. The card also ships with MSI’s new Twin Frozr V cooling solution that has many new improvements that we will go over in detail. Being part of the Gaming Series this card uses MSI’s Military Class components and also comes with a great software suite. Will this be the GTX 960 for you? Read on as we find out!
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A delay would take away some of Qualcomm's lead, she said.
A bigger problem is that mobile TV is an optional service, and many consumers may think twice these days before spending an additional $15 a month, Abraham said.
“They've got the clouds of the economy hanging over them,” she said.
Qualcomm's mobile TV service offers 15 channels of broadcast programming on the same frequency that previously carried one analog station. It requires a compatible phone. There are currently seven MediaFLO phones available, four from AT&T and three from Verizon.
More phones are expected in the next six months.
Qualcomm has 100 Media-FLO transmitters ready to be turned on and says it stands to lose “tens of millions of dollars” if the transition is pushed back four months, Chief Operating Officer Len Lauer said.
“We have very much complied with the laws and guidelines set by Congress and the FCC,” Lauer said. “We believe they need to hold to the date we've been promised.”
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Atlantis Paradise Island is set to complete its major renovation project in July, the property announced this week.
The projects include a complete renovation of the Coral Towers and a “fully transformed” Marina Village.
“We’ve taken a step back to look to the future of Atlantis and truly understand what motivates today’s travelers to choose a destination,” said Howard C. Karawan, President and Managing Director of Atlantis, Paradise Island. “This July, we will introduce the newly renovated Coral Towers at Atlantis along with a brand new Marina Village that will allow our guests to connect with Bahamian culture.”
The changes include a new lobby lounge, redesigned contemporary rooms and suites and a new blue and white poolscape designed by architect Jeffrey Beers.
The new Marina Village will have a focus on authentic Bahamian experiences, with shopping from local artisans on weekend markets and seasonal festivals with music from Bahamian musicians. It will also debut an authentic fish fry, along with conch salad and a beer tasting hall.
Coral Towers is now taking reservations for travel beginning in July, with rates starting at $329 per night.


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The tech enabled product discovery and trial platform Smytten (Surfboats Solutions Private Limited) has raised ₹100 crore on its Series A1 round of investment led by Fireside Ventures Investment Fund – II and Roots Ventures-II.
L&L Partners advised Surfboats on the deal.
The transaction team was successfully led by Partner Nitin Gera supported by Associate Kartik Chatrath.
Smytten is India’s largest premium discovery and trial platform and operates a multi category online sampling platform for premium consumers and brands as offering free trials and curated shopping across 20+ lifestyle categories like beauty, skincare, health & wellness, through 700+ premium brands and more through its platform.
Post this transaction, Surfboats intends to focus on expansion of business and brand building, and accordingly plans to utilize the funds to acquire customers, hiring key employees and further acquisition of customers and users.
In addition to Fireside and Roots, the round witnessed participation of inter alia Waao Partners, Hero Growth Fund, Neelanchal Edifice, and Mr. Rishabh Mariwala. It is understood that pursuant to this round, the valuation of Surfboats has doubled.


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At a recent event in their Washington DC headquarters, the Inter-American Development Bank’s Multilateral Investment Fund showcased the results of a new survey conducted among high-growth women entrepreneurs in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Undertaken in concert with Ernst & Young, the study, WEGRow: Unlocking the Growth Potential of Women Entrepreneurs in Latin America and the Caribbean, utilizes a blend of qualitative and quantitative methods, focuses on nine countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay), and explores the issue of what makes high-growth women entrepreneurs tick. High-growth in this case means that the firms in question have grown by 20% or more for at least the past three years.
What did the study find? Among other things that:
- the women are likely to come from entrepreneurial families,
- they started with a growth intention from day one, and
- these high-growth women entrepreneurs have strong support networks which allow them to shoulder the responsibility that a high-growth enterprise entails.
Recommendations for future action? Strengthening the entrepreneurial ecosystem to provide better support networks for these and other women, providing better access to capital, and promoting policies that can enable growth and provide better support for women to “balance” for the many roles they juggle. Just as important, perhaps – showcasing these women as role models, in order to make them less unique and increase community acceptance of women business owners who are not afraid to dream big.
This study comes on the heels of a ground-breaking effort, the WEVentureScope, published by the IADB-MIF last year. Muchas gracias, MIF!
For more about the report, including video commentary from some of the women entrepreneurs profiled in the report, visit: wegrow.fomin.org


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That’s up roughly 20% from record levels in 2013 and a fourfold increase since 2003.
“The bleeding of manufacturing jobs to offshore has stopped,” the authors wrote. “In the last decade, the U.S. has gone from losing about 140,000 manufacturing jobs per year to gaining 10,000 or more per year. There are still 3 to 4 million manufacturing jobs offshore, a huge potential for U.S. economic growth.”
Those U.S. companies who reshore are particularly keen on the homegrown image of a “Made in USA” label, as well as the opportunity to automate and redesign their products in this country, TRI says. Reasons against offshoring include lower quality, longer lead times, higher freight costs and rising wages. Foreign firms are also investing here because they want to take advantage of government incentives and a skilled workforce.
Reshoring in 2014 was strongest in the Southeast and Texas because of the region’s lower wages, lower taxes and right-to-work laws. Reshoring is balanced between high- and low-tech jobs, while foreign direct investment is stronger in high-tech.
The top industries for reshoring include transportation equipment, electrical equipment, appliances and components, computers and other electronic components. Foreign direct investment is more heavily weighted toward transportation equipment because of the ongoing investment in automotive assembly plants and related suppliers.
More than half of the reshoring came from operations that had been in China, followed by Mexico and developing countries, as well as Canada, likely due to a recent period of high currency value. However, not as many U.S. companies with operations in Europe are reshoring, likely due to less rapid wage gains, low intellectual property risk and higher quality of goods produced there.


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Photo of St. Vincent waiting tables, via Instagram
Patrons visiting a new taco shop this weekend in Dallas noticed a familiar face waiting tables: Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent).
Resident Taqueria, which opened this week, is owned by Clark's sister and brother-in-law. According to social media accounts, the singer has been taking orders, refilling napkin dispensers and essentially functioning as any non-celebritiy waitress might.
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Jacksonville, Fla. (Sept. 7, 2022) — Today Acosta previewed results of its Online Grocery Landscape Report, a new shopper insights study on the attitudes and preferences surrounding online grocery shopping habits. Conducted this summer through Acosta’s proprietary Shopper Community, the research found that nearly 60% of those of those buying online groceries started in the past two years, and nearly one in five online grocery shoppers intend to do more of their shopping online in the next year.
The new study shows that consumer grocery shopping behavior continues to evolve alongside the ongoing acceleration of digital commerce and innovation in traditional retail. Acosta will share its findings at Groceryshop on Sept. 19-22 in Las Vegas.
“More than half of American households are buying groceries online at least occasionally, compelling the need for retailers to provide more personalized and enhanced experiences around value, convenience, and food discovery in order to increase their share of omnichannel shoppers,” said John Carroll, Chief Growth Officer at Acosta. “Since most online grocery consumers shop the same retailers online and in-store, the brands and retailers that offer strong online and in-store shopping solutions are best positioned to win by nurturing even deeper consumer loyalty. And as wallets tighten due to inflation and shoppers do more pre-shop planning online, an omnichannel focus becomes even more critical.”
Online Grocery Landscape Report Key Findings
Insights from Acosta’s proprietary Shopper Community illustrate the new normal in the online grocery space along with evolving expectations and opportunities in the omnichannel marketplace.
The New Normal
- Consistent with levels observed in fall 2021, half of U.S. shoppers are at least occasionally purchasing grocery items online.
- More than half (57%) of online grocery shoppers say they stick with the retailers they shop in-store, thus providing omnichannel-focused retailers with a big advantage in building loyalty with consumers.
- A significant majority of online pickup shoppers (7 in 10) go into the store when picking up an order, mainly to grab a forgotten item or to pick out something personally. This shopping behavior presents an opportunity to re-engage the shopper in-store.
- Top online grocery retailers are getting high marks for shopper satisfaction, but shoppers still desire better ease of finding deals, product availability, and reasonable delivery/pickup fees.
- Consumers are still experimenting and determining their preferred delivery fulfillment options, with only 57% using a single mode. Millennials are utilizing at-home delivery at nearly twice the rate of Baby Boomers.
- Nearly one-third of online grocery shoppers use subscriptions, with pet needs and coffee/tea at the top of the list.
Shaping the Future
- While 46% of shoppers utilize retailer websites to place orders, there is slow adoption to retailer apps with more than a quarter of respondents declaring that they currently do not use retailer apps.
- Digital coupons are embraced by 80% of online shoppers, with younger shoppers more likely to look for them while they shop.
- The balance between online and brick-and-mortar continues to evolve, with more online grocery shoppers preferring the in-store experience for discount opportunities and new product discovery.
Acosta conducted the research in June of 2022 through its proprietary Shopper Community with input from more than 750 U.S. online grocery shoppers across a range of age groups, behaviors, and preferences.
Acosta @ Groceryshop 2022
Groceryshop 2022 in Las Vegas is focused on the rise of eCommerce and the changing consumer behavior reshaping the industry. With a firm grasp on the consumer mindset from a CPG and retailer perspective, Acosta is a leading provider of market insight on omnichannel and digital commerce solutions.
The Acosta leadership team will be onsite at Groceryshop, Booth 247 in Mandalay Bay, to provide further details about the Online Grocery Landscape Report and the company’s comprehensive omnichannel solutions and technologies that enable clients to succeed in the grocery space. Acosta’s digital commerce solutions include e-commerce insights and analytics, e-account management and retailer.com strategy, demand generation and retail media, full-service Amazon growth, digital shelf monitoring and optimization, and content syndication and management services.
Acosta will be joined by 345, a cloud-based platform changing how retailers and brands manage their businesses, and OeP, an Acosta-owned company with an end-to-end suite of solutions for brands to maximize their business on Amazon. Attendees are invited to book time with Acosta at Groceryshop at this link.
Acosta's suite of progressive, commerce-centric solutions enables today’s biggest brands, retailers, and foodservice providers to win in the modern marketplace. Since 1927, Acosta has developed trusted relationships and unmatched scale. In a complex and fast-evolving omnichannel world, Acosta’s network of companies allows us to connect with shoppers wherever they are. Through data-backed growth strategies and exceptional customer experiences, we are connecting tomorrow’s commerce today.
345's fully integrated platform is changing how retailers and brands manage their business and plan for the future with the smart integration of store planning, merchandising, sales, and marketing. Learn more at this link.
About OeP, an Acosta Company
With 20+ years of collective experience, OeP helps brands capitalize on Amazon’s growth, using data-driven strategies executed by experts, enabled by technology, and aligned with Amazon’s dynamic platform and KPIs. Learn more at this link.


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Under the 2nd Bundesliga, local championship rounds are held in a total of eight regional leagues and organized by the respective state associations, sometimes in cooperation, sometimes alone. In the past 33 seasons, a total of 16 different players have been top scorers in the Bundesliga. Adidas refused to pay the outstanding sum of 1.4 million euros. At the end of March 2020, Adidas announced – despite a profit of several billion euros in the previous year – due to the COVID 19 pandemic that it would not pay the contractually agreed rents for its closed retail stores. At the end of June 2020, Karen Parkin, HR Director who had been in office until then, announced that she would be leaving the Adidas Group. As of July 2020, the CEO Kasper Rorsted took over the management of the human resources department on an interim basis. Likewise, he traded to the Tampa Bay Lightning in July 2021. After two years in Wolfsburg, 93 DEL games and 65 points, Olimb returned to his home club in July 2021. Through the ISL and the Adidas International Relations Office, Horst Dassler bribed sports officials for years in the 1980s and influenced elections in order to get his favorite officials into top positions.
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With temperatures set to reach 30 degrees in the capital over the weekend, many will probably crack out the deck chairs to catch some summer sun.
But mattress maker Simba has gone a step further: it has spent seven months working on a rather snazzy sun-lounger complete with an SPF “facial misting system”, drink cooler and solar powered phone charger.
The Simba Blue is “the world’s most advanced sun lounger” according to the firm and is actually available for use at beach club Blue Marlin Ibiza.
It’s also available for pre-order for a limited time for a cool £45,000.
What else do you get for that eyebrow-raising price? An in-built safe to store your valuables, a Wi-Fi hotspot, and an “ambient LED parasol system” which features a sleep-inducing shade of amber on an evening FYI. And to make sure you don’t end up with sunburn there’s actually Violet-Plus technology to monitor UV and track Vitamin D.
Oh, and there are cooling ventilation channels to help regulate temperature.
As for that SPF50 facial misting system mentioned above that’s included in the headrest, that features aloe, rosewater and bamboo, because of course it does.
And to really ramp up the image of relaxation, Simba said it’s developing an app to have food and drinks delivered from bar to the sun lounger.
It's not the first time Simba has branched out from its mattress making efforts. In fact, last month it unveiled what it billed as the world's most advanced airline seat that monitors noise and temperature.
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The best thing resellers can offer to customers is expertise.
Customers crave knowledge. They want to know exactly how to protect critical data properly. A reseller's expertise in complex, high-demand technologies - such as encryption - which many companies are now struggling to understand or deploy correctly, is a huge plus both for the reseller and its customers.
Plus, because of a lack of the practical skills needed for implementation in most companies, as well as the know-how, resellers with such knowledge can charge premium consulting rates.
Immersed in technology as we are, it's all too easy to forget how confusing data protection is to the average person. A few will cheerfully admit to being computer illiterate, but many customers know just enough to make resellers feel comfortable about indulging themselves in techo-babble. However, this can result in a client being sold a solution that they don't know how to deploy properly or a reseller could lose the sale because the client just didn't get it.
Experts also often skip over the information that is of most use to non-experts. As an example, the next time a computer virus is on the prowl, skim through the stories covering the problem. Around 99 per cent of the articles will tell people how their machines got infected and what havoc the virus will wreak. Very few, if any, of the stories will tell people what they really want to know - exactly how to purge their machines of the digital plague du jour. Technical professionals are good at terrifying people, but are not as skilled at helping them figure out the nuts and bolts of safe computing.
Right now, Visa International estimates that at least 50 per cent of all retailers were unable to meet the 30 June deadline for compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). All organisations that store, process or transmit credit card payments are required to demonstrate compliance with PCI DSS, a set of basic standards to bolster data security. But payment card issuers were forced to relax the deadline when many merchants reported they'd be unable to meet it.
Merchants have struggled mightily to comply with the standard, but many failed while others gave up in frustration. Having just coped with Chip and PIN they were sure they'd met their responsibilities for the foreseeable future.
But why so much difficulty in complying with what so many in the security industry say are basic, common-sense security measures? Obviously education and expertise is needed. Solution vendors and resellers can do customers a true service by educating them on data security. By clearly explaining how technology, like encryption, works – and how to best deploy it in any given situation, resellers can make data more secure and foster solid relationships with customers. So start sharing what you know.
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‘Regenerated’ showcases the work of three leading contemporary makers based in Birmingham’s unique Jewellery Quarter..
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"Everything is Changing,'' Sports Direct entitled its most recent annual report. Mike Ashley, who started the retailer more than 30 years ago, should heed that advice -- and take the company private.
Investors have been prepared to put up with the owner of Newcastle United's foibles -- among them taking stakes in competitors including Tesco and Debenhams -- as long as the sporting goods retailer was performing.
Now it's not. Revenue growth has slumped, as the chart above shows. On Friday, the company warned it won't meet its full-year Ebitda target of 420 million pounds ($612 million), blaming unseasonably warm weather and poor trading conditions on the high street. Sports Direct had already cut the target from a lofty 480 million pounds in July.
Now Ebitda may be as low as 380 million pounds, and investor scrutiny is only going to get more intense. Sports Direct has already attracted ire over its unusual corporate governance arrangements as well as a lucrative bonus plan that pays out millions of pounds to executives and employees.
Then there is inexorable rise of JD Sports. Unlike Sports Direct, which relies on a stable of lower priced own brands, it is able to stock the most up-to-date styles from the big sportswear houses. Historically, JD, which stocks the sort of hot trainers that hipsters -- or fitsters -- really want, has traded at a discount to Sports Direct. That has now reversed, as the chart below show.
JD Sports' announcement before Christmas that it expects full-year pretax profit will be 10 million pounds more than analyst estimates only makes Sports Direct's performance look even worse.
The 40 percent decline in Sports Direct's stock price in the past three months has cut Ashley's personal wealth to $3.9 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. But he already owns 55 percent of the retailer, and the rest is valued at about 1.2 billion pounds, making a buyout affordable.
The company doesn't have a huge burden of existing debt that could complicate an LBO. At 370 million pounds, annual Ebitda is more than twice Sports Direct's 137 million pounds of long-term debt, according to Bloomberg data.
Sports Direct is getting almost as cheap as a pair of one of its own-brand trainers. That's a bargain that Ashley might find hard to resist.
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Nishikori at Sony event in Tokyo
Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy student, Kei Nishikori, is one of the three global ambassadors of the Sony brand and recently spent a full day with the company last Monday the 17th in Tokyo. Sony was celebrating their official sponsorship of the governing body of soccer, FIFA, and brought Kei in to help promote their marketing efforts.
Kei spoke about his role as a Sony spokesperson, his love for soccer (specifically Liverpool), and the soccer team he played for in his younger days. Kei’s popularity has risen off the charts in his home country of Japan and the media turnout for this event was incredible.
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The founder and chief executive of Huawei Technologies Co. says the U.S. government is underestimating the Chinese tech giant, and within a few years no one will be able to catch up with its 5G technology.
Speaking Tuesday to China’s state broadcaster China Central Television, Ren Zhengfei said a reported move by the Trump administration to temporarily ease export restrictions against Huawei was meaningless, as the company has already made preparations for such an eventuality, including stockpiling chips. He also said Huawei could make its own chips, though that doesn’t mean it intends to stop buying U.S. chips.
Zhengfei said Huawei’s 5G technology would not be affected by a U.S. export ban, and that within two to three years, no company will be able to match its 5G technology.
“The current practice of U.S. politicians underestimates our strength,” he said, according to a translation by TRT News.
Ren said retaliation from the U.S. was inevitable. “We sacrificed [the interests of] individuals and families for the sake of an ideal, to stand at the top of the world,” he said, according to the South China Morning Post. “For this ideal, there will be conflict with the United States sooner or later.”
On Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. officials will announce later this week that some companies would be granted 90-day exemptions to the U.S. export ban against Huawei, a move that could give Huawei and U.S. companies more time to find backup solutions, as well as serve as a bargaining chip to potential new trade talks with China.
Last week, the Trump administration announced a ban on U.S. technology and services to Huawei, among other foreign-owned companies, on national-security grounds. On Sunday, Alphabet Inc.’s


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Magna chief seeks further improvements in European operations
Canadian autoparts manufacturer expects to close and consolidate some of its facilities in Europe.
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AURORA, Ont. – Magna International Inc. chief executive Don Walker says the company’s European operations are improving, but work still needs to be done, including the closing and consolidation of some of its facilities.
“We’re much more disciplined now in our quoting for new business, which has had a negative impact in the short term on our sales, but we believe it is the right direction for the long term to make sure we will be growing profitably,” he told an investor conference in Detroit.
Walker said the auto parts company is also continuing its restructuring efforts in Europe where margins remain well below operations elsewhere, but was not specific.
“We’re taking further restructuring actions in certain operations, including closures and consolidations of a number of facilities over in Europe,” he said. “Most of this will take place over the next two years.”
Looking to 2016, Magna said it expects its revenue will be about US$3.6 billion higher than in 2014.
The outlook for 2014 was based on light vehicle production of 16.7 million in North America and 19.1 million in Europe.
North American sales for Magna are expected to be between $16.8 billion and $17.4 billion, while its European operations should bring in $9.5 billion to $9.9 billion. The auto parts conglomerate has 120 facilities in Europe that employ more than 46,000 people.
Sales in the rest of the world, which includes China and India, are expected to grow to between $2.3 billion and $2.6 billion.
Complete vehicle assembly sales are forecast in the range of $2.6 billion to $2.9 billion.
Walker said the company is looking to see continued significant growth in China and India where vehicle production is forecast to climb.
Six new facilities will start operations in China by the end of 2016.
“We expect to double our sales between 2013 and 2016 there,” Walker said.
He also said the company could make an acquisition if the opportunity is right, but that it was not the top priority.
“I don’t want to make an acquisition for the sake of making an acquisition,” he said. “Quite frankly, we’ve looked at a lot and some of them we don’t have a willing seller and some of them are just overpriced, in our opinion.”
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The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) is set to host the 2021 edition of the Lagos International Trade Fair (LITF) which will hold from November 5 to 14.
The event, which will be hybrid – both physical and virtual formats due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will hold at the Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS), Lagos, as announced yesterday by the Chairman of the Trade Promotion Board (TPB), Mr Gabriel Idahosa, in a media briefing in Lagos.
The fair, which is the biggest in Nigeria and indeed the West and Central African sub-region, according to Idahosa is the 35th to be organised by LCCI.
The 10-day event he said will host over 1,500 expected exhibitors from about 16 countries and African businessmen and women in the African hall, adding that the objective of the hall is to bring exhibitors from all African countries under the same umbrella to showcase their goods, services, arts, crafts, regulatory services and particularly to promote Intra-African Trade.
“LITF platform is a great opportunity to do this. In further pursuit of this objective, we will have the Africa Special Day at the Fair this year. Investment and trade promotion agencies of some African countries have shown interest in this.”
According to Idahosa, the new changes introduced in recent years to the fair include automation of booking, that is the online registration and payment; Noise management and LITF Radio; Use of marque tents by exhibitors to improve the ambience of the fair and the Exhibitor Service Centre which would be improved. He promised better facilities and adequate security.


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According to research from statisticbrian.com there are over 645 million people using Twitter in the world. Every Bruins fan among those 645 million knows exactly what #NHL15Bergeron signifies.
From May 5, 2014, until June 1, 2014 at midnight, NHL fans placed votes for their “favorite” player to advance through three rounds of competition in order to claim the prestigious recognition of becoming the next cover star of the popular video game created by EA Sports: NHL 2015.
This isn’t the first time EA Sports has engaged its customers in a cover vote. It has been done in the past with another famous EA Sports game known to football fans as Madden. This concept of cover voting started back in 2012 for the Madden game and now occurs every year.
This is a great way to market to that young audience. Let’s face facts, did you remember that EA Sports’ first ever NHL video game came out in 1991? That seems so long ago – freshman year at Curry College for me.
The video game company has to come up with ways to engage their customers and keep its product on the minds of the fans that buy the games, who have the attention span of a snapchat posting. I have a son who is 11 and the first thing he did after the voting closed was complain to me that he can’t see the winner until the NHL awards are announced later this summer. EA Sports grabbed his attention with both hands.
EA Sports also encouraged fans to vote everyday on the its website and across social media by using hash tag, NHL 15 along with their favorite players name. EA Sports even ran a “Twitter Thursday” promotion in which votes counted double on Thursdays, I can pictur the media in Boston flooding the votes every Thursday last month to get Boston Bruins forward Patrice Bergeron more votes.
This is a brilliant way to get fans excited for the release of a video game. It has become so big that some of the mainstream sports sites, like ESPN.com and SI.com, both even posted the bracket updates, think March Madness brackets, on their sites as the results changed weekly.
EA Sports will announce the final results of the cover votes on June 24, at the NHL awards. There are two finalists from rival cities this year, and judging by who they are, Boston Bruins’ center Patrice Bergeron and Montreal Canadiens’ defenseman P.K Subban. I get the feeling there will be two different covers one in the U.S. and a different one north of the border.
Either way it’s a phenomenal campaign in which to engage fans. At the very least, EA Sports has come up with a campaign that other brand managers may want to take note of.


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Turtle Bay Resort on Oahu is celebrating the season’s North Shore surf with fall rates starting at $209 a night for newly renovated ocean-view accommodations. Be there for the kickoff to the world’s top surf competitions with fall rates for travel from September 1 to November 27.
Clients can experience Turtle Bay’s recent renovations, including newly renovated guest rooms; two new restaurants with farm-to-table and sea-to-table cuisine; the new Nalu Kinetic Spa and Wellness Center; and two new retail outlets with exclusive coastal styles. Plus, the fall lineup of North Shore surf events is are great for surf enthusiasts. Clients can check out the HIC Pro at Sunset Beach from October 28 to Nov. 10 or the REEF Hawaiian Pro at Haleiwa from Nov. 12-23. The Vans World Cup at Sunset Beach runs Nov. 24 to December 1.
Turtle Bay also offers value with a lineup of on-site activities – from stand-up paddle boarding and surf lessons at the Hans Hedemann Surf Center to Segway tours, hiking and mountain biking.


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The Packer-Kerr 'relationship' speaks to modern heterosexual attraction.
Sally Rose Local shares had their worst week in six months as signs of improving economic conditions in the US made global investors nervous that the Federal Reserve might start withdrawing its stimulus as...
Eli Greenblat The ''tip-tap'' of someone tapping away on a mobile phone is certainly less jolly than the tune of sleigh bells or a chorus of carol singers, but the unmistakeable beat of fingers rapping against a...
Eli Greenblat Wesfarmers chief Richard Goyder has sent a clear message to Canberra not to interfere with the nation's supermarket sector, warning that an attempt to cap the market share of Coles and Woolworths...
Clancy Yeates Retail giant Wesfarmers has experienced a marked bounce in sales since the election.
Eli Greenblat Wesfarmers will thrust nearly $600 million of cash into shareholders' pockets as a reward.
Wesfarmers shares sag despite reporting rising sales in all its retail businesses, with the strongest growth coming from Coles and Bunnings.
Paddy Manning Once-powerhouse resources division is barely profitable at current coal prices.
Elizabeth Knight The good news is that Wesfarmers delivered a fine set of retail numbers in its quarterly sales report on Wednesday.
Elizabeth Knight Company delivers fine set of numbers, but Woolworths may at last be getting its act together.
London Archie Norman is chairman of ITV He advised Wesfarmers on the acquisition of Coles, of which he became a director First thing in the morning on November 20, 2007, Richard Goyder, chief executive of Wesfarmers, and I walked in the front door of the vast Coles Headquarters in Melbourne, known then as ''Battleship...
Archie Norman Archie Norman, chairman of British commercial television network ITV, sees a bright future for supermarkets in Australia.
Troubled department store Target continues to drag down Wesfarmers’ otherwise strong performance.
Glenda Kwek Wesfarmers shares suffer biggest fall in almost two years after the company sharply lowered Target's earnings forecast.
Wesfarmers chief executive Richard Goyder is hopeful the conglomerate will seek out new acquisitions offshore in the years ahead.
Lucy Battersby Wesfarmers appoints Business Council chief executive to its board
Nathan Bell Wesfarmers paid a very high price for Coles but started to see a turnaround in the business in late 2009.
Eli Greenblat Supermarket chain Coles continues to drive profits at Perth-based conglomerate Wesfarmers.
Colin Kruger GetUp! confirmed it has dropped Wesfarmers from the anti-poker machine campaign.
Kylie Williams Retail WESFARMERS' retail businesses - especially Coles - are driving its growth.
Madeleine Heffernan Wesfarmers chief executive officer Richard Goyder says consumer confidence in ‘‘hypochondriac’’ Australia is improving.


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Speculation has been building for a while on a whether a merger is in the cards to bring together Lenovo Group Ltd., a Chinese computer maker with its North American headquarters in North Carolina, with BlackBerry, according to the Triangle Business Journal.
Lenovo has again denied rumors of BlackBerry-specific negotiations, our sister publication in Raleigh reports — perhaps because an all-out acquisition doesn't make sense for the two companies, according to at least one analyst.
However, a portfolio acquisition or licensing agreement might, the report says.
Thorsten Heins, CEO of BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY), has previously refused to comment on the possibility of a sale of his company.
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14th October 2017, New Indian Express: ECOLOGIC- Pavitra Sriprakash, the Chief Designer and Director of Shilpa Architects writes about how to make shopping more sustainable during this Diwali.
Your shopping choices can be sustainable now!
Bust out the new clothes and sweets; our favourite festival is here! It is time to get set for the week of fun and frolic. But remember that the choices we make at this time of the year can particularly impact the environment.
The obvious ones are of course the crackers and the pollution. To be fair, there is a lot more sensitivity towards these causes in recent years. We hear of more and more people supporting a noise free Diwali because they care about not disrupting natural habitats and about not wrecking the air quality during the festival. Every such individual’s decision nudges public opinion and social attitudes towards the cracker industry, child labour, and notorious working conditions. Now, the Supreme Court has taken notice too. Icons and public figures appeal to children about the fight against crackers; but this affects jobs, especially around Sivakasi.
When it comes to shopping, what can you watch out for to make your shopping choices more sustainable this year?
- Opt for ways to get to the stores with the minimal footprint — this could mean online shopping, and neighbourhood shopping to eliminate driving or even using public transport for some!
- Carry your own shopping bag and water from home in metal containers to quench your thirst.
- Avoid plastics and packaged items using styrofoam.
- Buying local products or goods produced by local artisans and craftsmen promotes local economies and reduces pollution caused by transport vehicles. For esxample, diyas and lamps.
- Eating healthy is a challenge these days. You would do well to avoid processed foods that includes refined sugar, excessive salt and preservatives.
- As a gesture, share your joy with a visit to an old age home or an orphanage.
- Pick sustainable clothing as well — buy a handmade garment which is responsibly sourced and produced.
Earlier this year, Reciprocity Foundation, an NGO that promotes economic, social and environmental sustainability or reciprocity, had a plastic bag exchange programme at a sustainability fest in the city. The promise was that for every five plastic bags brought in, a canvas bag will be given in exchange to promote an eco-friendly choice. The idea was to rid plastic and dispose plastic waste from homes through approved recycling channels, and also to make people learn not to sully roadsides, choke drains and streams.
Instead, they were shocked to find people queuing with suitcases of plastic bags for exchange, some brand new and unused! They later found that on hearing about the exchange scheme, some folks had gone into stores, and asked for extra plastic shopping bags just to exchange. Surely, the plastic bag is the first thing to eliminate.
Raise the bar — enjoying Diwali in a holistically sustainable way is not about firecrackers alone. There’s more to it. Be aware!


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After transitioning from 32-bit apps to 64-bit apps on the iOS App Store,and in a step to continue the transition from 32-bit apps to 64-bit apps, Apple started to send live warning for users on macOs 10.13.14 ,the warning message will appear once you open a 32-bit app and you can dismiss it by clicking the “Okay” button.
Apple informed the developers on June 1 that the coming update of macOS after macOS High Sierra won’t run 32-bit apps without compromise.
In addition to the warning message, Apple lets you check for 64-bit compatibility via the system report feature.
In the end, Apple believes that this transition will give the users a better experience with the apps and a better performance of the system.
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A popular Bath-based doughnut company will be making an appearance in Bristol this Halloween.
The Happy Donut is a female-LGBTQ+ owned bakery, famed for its vegan goods - which the owners boast have "zero planty taste".
The Bristol pop-up will take place at the Black Sheep tattoo parlour in Brislington - which will also be offering flash tattoos throughout the day.
The Bath-based bakery's last pop-up was hosted in LUSH's Bath shop to celebrate the two businesses' collaborative doughnut, The Comforter, which was inspired by one of the treatments at the spa that goes by the same name.
The previous event was extremely successful, said a Happy Donut spokesperson, with the sweet treats selling out in less than one hour.
There will be a range of goodies on offer this Sunday in Bristol, including doughnuts, rocky road, shag cake, cookies, cookie sandwiches, doughnut burgers, brownies and more.
The owners emphasise that although everything they make is 100 per cent vegan, by taste it is impossible to tell as their aim is to make vegan food which is equally as tasty as non-vegan versions.
The pop-up opens at 11am and runs until 4pm, or until all doughnuts have sold out, while flash tattoos will begin from 10.30am. Black Sheep is located at 153 Wick Road, Bristol BS4 4HH.
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|HOW ELECTRIC CARS WILL CAUSE THE NEXT OIL CRISIS|
Aruba, March 17, 2016 - A shift is under way that will lead to widespread adoption of EVs in the next decade.
With all good technologies, there comes a time when buying the alternative no longer makes sense. Think smartphones in the past decade, color TVs in the 1970s, or even gasoline cars in the early 20th century. Predicting the timing of these shifts is difficult, but when it happens, the whole world changes.
It’s looking like the 2020s will be the decade of the electric car.
Battery prices fell 35 percent last year and are on a trajectory to make unsubsidized electric vehicles as affordable as their gasoline counterparts in the next six years, according to a new analysis of the electric-vehicle market by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). That will be the start of a real mass-market liftoff for electric cars.
By 2040, long-range electric cars will cost less than $22,000 (in today’s dollars), according to the projections. Thirty-five percent of new cars worldwide will have a plug.
This isn’t something oil markets are planning for, and it’s easy to see why. Plug-in cars make up just one-tenth of 1 percent of the global car market today. They’re a rarity on the streets of most countries and still cost significantly more than similar gasoline burners. OPEC maintains that electric vehicles (EVs) will make up just 1 percent of cars in 2040. Last year ConocoPhillips Chief Executive Officer Ryan Lance told me EVs won’t have a material impact for another 50 years—probably not in his lifetime.


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Some Romaine Is OK To Eat, But Beware California, CDC Says
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has traced an ongoing E. coli outbreak to romaine lettuce grown in the Central Coastal region of California.
Lettuce from other parts of the U.S. and Mexico is safe to eat, the CDC says. However, if you're not sure where your romaine lettuce came from, err on the side of caution and throw it out, health experts say.
A total of 43 people in 12 states have been infected in this outbreak. No deaths have been reported.
The CDC first announced the outbreak a week ago, warning consumers to stay away from all romaine lettuce until more was known about the outbreak.
Now the agency is narrowing that warning.
"Check bags or boxes of romaine lettuce for a label indicating where the lettuce was harvested," the CDC writes. "Romaine lettuce labeled with a harvest region outside of the Central Coastal growing regions of northern and central California (such as the desert growing region near Yuma, the California desert growing region near Imperial County and Riverside County, the state of Florida, and Mexico) is not linked to this outbreak."
Lettuce from a greenhouse or grown hydroponically is also safe.
The warning still applies to all forms of romaine lettuce, including romaine heads, romaine hearts and salad mixes.
If you had lettuce from the Central Coast in your fridge, the CDC recommends a thorough cleaning.
The current outbreak is not related to the romaine lettuce E. Coli outbreak from earlier this year, which was traced to a canal in Arizona.
This outbreak is tied to a series of E. coli infections in 2017. That outbreak was tied to leafy greens, but the specific source was never identified.
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France-based httv is launching a new software platform, httvBOX, at IBC.
The HbbTV-based software platform, which will be available for connected TVs and set-top boxes, will offer functionalities including user-based profiles, personalized mosaic, push video-on-demand, catch-up TV and online enhanced EPG.
“With a client device offer such as httvBOX and its head-end approach, httv brings to the hybrid market full end to end innovative solutions,” said Jean-Christophe Jubin, sales and marketing director at httv.
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A flaw was just discovered in bluetooth that would allow a bad actor to track a wide range of devices. These devices include iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches. Other devices are any laptops running windows 10 and fitbit wearables. However Andriod devices are not at risk.
A reported by TNW, Boston University researchers, Johannes K. Becker and David Starobinski, discovered the vulnerability.
Researchers from Boston University (BU) have discovered a flaw in the Bluetooth communication protocol that could expose most devices to third-party tracking and leak identifiable data […]
The vulnerability allows an attacker to passively track a device by exploiting a flaw in the way Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is implemented to extract identifying tokens like the device type or other identifiable data from a manufacturer […]
To make pairing between two devices easy, BLE uses public non-encrypted advertising channels to announce their presence to other nearby devices. The protocol originally attracted privacy concerns for broadcasting permanent Bluetooth MAC addresses of devices — a unique 48-bit identifier — on these channels.
However, BLE tried to solve the problem by letting device manufacturers use a periodically changing, randomized address instead of their permanent Media Access Control (MAC) address.
The vulnerability discovered by BU researchers exploits this secondary random MAC address to successfully track a device. The researchers said the “identifying tokens” present in advertising messages are also unique to a device and remain static for long enough to be used as secondary identifiers besides the MAC address.”
Basically, it is possible to link the current address to the next one and therefore identify as the same device. This allows someone to be able to track the device indefinitely. However only at the short range of bluetooth signals.
The researches have propsed a solution.
To protect devices from address-carryover attacks, the researchers suggest device implementations should synchronize payload changes with MAC address randomizations.
With Bluetooth device adoption growing at a massive scale, they caution that “establishing tracking-resistant methods, especially on unencrypted communication channels, is of paramount importance.”
They didn’t explain if Apple would even be able to fix this vulnerability and implement this change in an over the air update. However in the meantime there is a simple workaround.
“Switching Bluetooth off and on in the System Settings (or in the Menu Bar on macOS) will randomize the address and change the payload.”
If you want to read the full paper that contains the findings, you can read it


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In putting together the budget passed Monday night, Independence city staff figured in anticipated recovered costs from adjusting the city's schedule of fees.
The biggest adjustment is an addition that has caused much social media consternation – a convenience fee for online bill payments. For utility bill payments, it will $4.95 per transaction for credit/debit card or eCheck payments made on the utility billing website or automated call line (maximum transaction of $750). For non-utility bills such as business licenses, permits or court payments, the fees are 2.95 percent per transaction for credit/debit card payments and $0.50 for eCheck payments (maximum transaction of $15,000).
The council unanimously passed the new fees, which take effect July 1.
“One of the costs the city has been incurring for many years is credit card processing fees,” City Manager Zach Walker said to the council before the vote, explaining that beforehand all taxpayers had been subsidizing the credit card fees (assessed by payment provider) for the convenience of fellow taxpayers who chose those payment methods, and such fees are similar to what one pays when buying concert or game tickets online with a credit card.
Mark Bowman, the city's IT director, said the convenience fees cover the service fees charged by the payment provider. By state law, the city cannot make a profit off city service fees, and Bowman estimates the city has paid about $500,000 in credit card processing fees for a few years now.
The city estimates that with the new convenience fees and other fee adjustments, the city will recover about $577,500. Changes to the drop-off depot fees, if approved, will not go into effect until Jan. 1, 2019.
The convenience fee does not apply to mail-in payments or any form of walk-in payment, and utility customers who have signed up for the automated bank draft payments will not be charged.
REZONINGS: A zoning change the council approved Monday involved the former GEHA building off U.S. 24 and the former GEHA employee parking lot across Atherton Street to the north.
The former change, from neighborhood commercial to service commercial, had been unanimously recommended by the Planning Commission and by city staff. The second change, from office-residential to industrial, allows for training for a truck-driver training school on the site and temporary storage of National Guard vehicles. The Planning Commission had not recommended the change, with a 2-2 split and two members absent, and staff said it envisions lighter uses for the site.
The truck driving school, run by Warner Enterprises, plans to use space in the GEHA building, as well the National Guard and possibly a gym.
A couple dozen nearby residents had attended Monday's meeting in opposition to the latter rezoning, and two expressed concerns that the trucks would harm quality of life in the adjacent neighborhood and adversely affect U.S. 24 traffic.
GEHA has owned the sites since the company moved to the Hartman Heritage Center commercial district a couple years ago.


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Infiniti will debut the M Hybrid and Infiniti Performance Line G Coupe at the LA Auto Show.
Not much details are revealed on the M Hybrid as of now, but it promises V8 performance with four-cylinder fuel economy, and will go on sale during next spring.
As for the IPL G Coupe, this is the first car in the so-called Infiniti Performance Line, which is exactly what the name suggests, a line-up of performance-tuned Infinitis. The car will be powered by a 348-horsepower variant of the 3.7L V6 out of the G37 Coupe. Moreover, it will get sports-tuned suspension, and a sporty exterior.
More information will be revealed during the LA Auto Show.
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Infiniti at the Los Angeles Auto Show
A new power player is set to join the Los Angeles scene on November 18th as the 2012 Infiniti M Hybrid makes its North American debut at the Los Angeles International Auto Show. The M Hybrid, based on the popular Infiniti M sedan, promises V8 performance with 4-cylinder fuel economy – without compromising driving excitement or trunk space. It will be available at Infiniti retailers nationwide in spring 2011.
Infiniti will also showcase the new Infiniti G25 Sedan, which joins the G Line in September. The 2011 G25 Sedan shares the same dynamic exterior, interior and chassis as the G37 Sedan, but with a smaller displacement engine. The 2.5-liter DOHC 24-valve V6 produces 218 horsepower and 187 lb-ft of torque. It will have a starting Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price* (MSRP) of $30,950 USD.
In addition, Infiniti will display the new 2011 Infiniti Performance Line G Coupe, prior to its December on-sale date. The IPL G Coupe, the first vehicle in the new Infiniti Performance Line, features a 348-horspower 3.7-liter V6, sport-tuned suspension and exclusive sport exterior and interior treatments. Images of the IPL G Coupe are attached to this document.
Please join us on November 18th, time to be announced, for more information.


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Airline and holiday operator Jet2 are preparing for a "surge in demand" for trips to Jersey this summer after they confirmed they are open to holidaymakers.
The Government of Jersey updated its requirements for entry, which clarified that those on the mainland can visit with much looser restrictions than in place for travel to the rest of world.
Jersey is part of the United Kingdom Common Travel Area, but is self-governing which means it has different rules to other locations.
It doesn't fall within the green, amber or red lists, so there's no need to have a PCR test before leaving the UK, or to quarantine upon arrival back to the UK.
In a statement on their website, Jet2 said: "Following the updated travel advice ... customers can be assured that Jersey is very much a go-to destination this summer.
"The advice makes it clear that because Jersey is part of the UK Common Travel Area, there is no need for green or amber arrival customers to have a PCR test before leaving the UK or for them to quarantine when returning to the UK. "
Following the change in advice, Jet2 have "significantly expanded" their flights and holidays to Jersey, with 11 weekly flights to the destination over the summer.
Jet2.com and Jet2holidays will operate the following services to Jersey this summer:
- Birmingham – weekly Saturday services
- East Midlands – weekly Saturday services
- Leeds Bradford – three weekly services (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday)
- Manchester – three weekly services (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday)
- Newcastle – weekly Saturday services
- London Stansted – two weekly services (Tuesday and Saturday)
Jet2's CEO has praised the Jersey Government for its "simple, clear advice" and believes there'll be strong demand from holidaymakers this summer.
Steve Heapy, CEO of Jet2.com and Jet2holidays added: “The Government of Jersey should be commended for taking a leadership position and providing simple, clear travel advice for customers.
"As well as making this advice accessible and not a mass of confusion, the Government of Jersey has demonstrated a strong commitment to reopening travel properly, with an approach that is based on data around vaccination and infection rates. We know our customers will welcome this advice and we look forward to other Governments following this approach of clear, easy-to-understand travel advice which is based on data.
"With flights and holidays on sale to Jersey from six of our UK bases this summer, we know there will be very strong demand on the back of this update.
"We very much look forward to taking customers on their well-deserved holidays to Jersey this summer and cannot wait to get going.”


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Apple has introduced its latest iOS version, after which users will not have to face the problem of security coming to the device. That is, an attempt has been made to fix the security version with the help of the latest iOS version.
Apple has rolled out iOS 14.4.2, iPadOS 14.4.2 and watchOS 7.3.3 to facilitate its users. With the help of this new OS, the security problem facing the users in the old device has been fixed. Along with this, the company has also issued an advisory for its users, which provides information about upgrading as soon as possible. There are also many important information related to this on the company’s security page, which states that the new update is WebKit Security Fix. Which is used on Apple’s browser engine and Safari web browser.
Enhanced Security Feature in iOS 14.4.2
Apple says that WebKit security may have been misused. So the company has also released iOS 12.5.2 and iPadOS 12.5.2 to patch the WebKit security issue in older iPhone and iPad models running iOS 12. Let us know that the company had rolled out iPadOS 14.4 a month ago and has now released iPad 14.4.1. Apple released the iOS 14.4, iPad 14.4, and watchOS 7.3 feature updates in January. A new major update to the latest iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch models is due later this year.
The company’s iOS 14.4.2 update is available for all devices on the iPhone 6s and beyond. At the same time, iPadOS 14.2.2 has been introduced for all models of iPad Pro, iPad Air 2, iPad 5th generation and all models, iPad mini 4 and all subsequent models and iPod touch. At the same time, iPadOS 12.5.2 can be used in iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Air, iPad mini 2, iPad mini 3 and iPod touch. Apart from this, watchOS 7.3.3 will fix the security problem coming in Apple Watch Series 3 and above. If you have not received the notification for the new update then you can check it by going to your device’s settings.
Apple in its support page stated that a security vulnerability has been found in the Webkit, which is used in iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation). The Cupertino-giant said that the flaw could lead to universal cross-site scripting. Apple stated that it was aware of the bug. “Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited,” the note read.
Users who have iPhone 6s and later can update their phones to the latest iOS 14.2.2 to fix the vulnerability found in the WebKit. iPad users with iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later can update their devices to iPadOS 14.2.2. For Apple Watch users, the update applies to Apple Watch Series 3 and later. To download the latest iOS update, go to your Settings > Software Update and tap on Install Now.
Apple has been reportedly testing the iOS 14.5 update. Apple had said that it plans to bring in new emojis with special emphasis on the COVID-19 vaccine. It will also replace the headphone emoji with its AirPods Max emoji. “iOS and iPadOS 14.5 beta 2 includes an optimization to reduce the appearance of a dim glow that might appear at reduced brightness levels with black backgrounds,” reads Apple’s beta notes read.


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Clothing chain Next Plc has purchased Fabled by Marie Claire, a premium beauty and wellness retailer, from Ocado Group.
The purchase was for a small upfront payment; the agreement includes “an earn-out based on sales in each of the four years ending January 2021 to January 2024, with a minimum guaranteed payment of 3 million pounds ($3.78 million),” reports Reuters.
Founded in 2016 by the eponymous fashion magazine, Fabled by Marie Claire trades online through Fabled.com and a dedicated store in London, operated by Marie Claire Beauty Ltd. It sells products from brands including Nars, Tom Ford and Yves Saint Laurent.
“The recent JV with [Marks & Spencer] has meant that the center of gravity at Ocado Group has shifted,” said Ocado chief executive officer Tim Steiner. “In the light of our strategic evolution ... we decided that it would be in the best interests of all parties to now pass the baton so that Next can take Fabled forward.”


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A jury of eight granted Apple $290 million in damages from rival Samsung on Thursday, in exchange for the South Korean electronics maker copying the patented software and hardware designs of the iPhone and iPad.
The verdict was reached in court in San Jose after two days' worth of deliberations. Jurors were deciding how much money to award Apple out of a possible $380 million decision.
The $290 million will join nearly $600 million that Samsung was already ordered to pay in the initial trial with Apple. This latest retrial was held to determine damages related to five specific patents in the suit.
Thursday's decision brings Apple's total awards from Samsung to over $900 million.
The verdict comes in the second week of a retrial to determine how much more Samsung owes Apple after the Cupertino, Calif.-based company's decisive $1.05 billion victory last year. Following that verdict, Judge Lucy Koh vacated roughly $405 million in damages and set the retrial in motion.
The $290 million verdict is nearly $100 million less than the $380 million Apple sought in the retrial, but far above the $53 million Samsung said it owed. In a series of seemingly desperate last-minute attempts to delay the verdict, Samsung first moved for a mistrial on racial grounds, and then asked Judge Koh to stay the case pending a possibly years-long reexamination of a key Apple patent.
Judge Koh denied both motions, and the new verdict brings Apple's total award in the landmark patent dispute to over $900 million.
The retrial involved testimony from Apple's marketing chief Phil Schiller, who revealed that the original iPhone was a massive "bet-the-company" gamble that ultimately paid off. Following the iPhone's success, Samsung began manufacturing devices that copied the look and feel of it, as well as the iPad.
"There were huge risks," Schiller said about the original iPhone. "We had a saying inside the company that it was a 'bet-the-company' product. We were starting to do well again in iPod. Then here we're going to invest all these resources, financial as well as people, in creating this product."
Closing remarks were given by both sides in the trial on Tuesday, setting the stage for the jury's deliberations. Apple's attorneys said the company has a chance to be "made whole" by reinstating $380 million in vacated damages, while Samsung's lawyers argued that Apple exaggerated the importance of the five patents involved in the case.


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The opportunities of Big Data are limitless for making business, the global economy and our society work better. The new reality is that Big Data has become one of our most valuable emerging natural resources.
Steve Mills, IBM
This is due in large part to the economics around lower computing costs and the enormous advancements we’ve made in developing new technologies that can analyze data regardless of what kind, where it resides or how fast it is moving.
In financial services, Wall Street firms are generating five new research documents every minute. Nearly $100 billion in total sales are missed each year because retailers don’t have the right products in stock to meet customer demand. Earlier this month, the United Nations issued a report stating that the world has nearly as many cell phone subscribers as inhabitants.
These six billion global mobile phone subscribers are demanding unique and personalized offerings that match their individual lifestyles.
Applying analytics to these challenges is boosting economic competitiveness and defining new winners across business and government. Just think of a chief marketing officer who can glean valuable information on consumer sentiment from streaming social media as it happens. Using that information, the CMO can adjust marketing campaigns accordingly.
Big Data is a term that is used to describe the onslaught of information the world faces daily, and explores the growing volume, velocity, veracity and variety of data. While Big Data implies “a lot of data,” it also means being able to discern useful information from noise, trends from incomplete data, and the need to look at multiple facets of the data.
These are exactly the types of challenges that IBM will be discussing this week at our seventh annual IBM Information on Demand and Business Analytics Forum (IOD12). The conference brings together more than 11,000 of the world’s leading experts to share insights and lessons gained by applying information management and analytics to Big Data. We’ll feature 700 technical sessions across several key tracks, 110 hands-on labs, and more than 300 client speakers exploring how Big Data is helping them gain competitive advantage.
In addition, we will introduce a series of new products and services to help clients continue to make sense of their data and use it in new and more meaningful ways. This includes predictive analytics software for healthcare providers that helps identify early intervention and coordinate patient care; a digital marketing analytics appliance for CMO’s to create more targeted campaigns; and new streaming analytics software that allows communications service providers to analyze network data 90 percent faster to reduce customer churn.
These new capabilities, combined with IBM’s newest member of the PureSystem family, PureData System, are helping businesses better meet their growing data challenges by reducing complexity and improving IT economics.
We recently released a study with Oxford University around Big Data adoption, validating these same key themes. The research showed that early adopters are gaining a competitive advantage with 63 percent of respondents citing Big Data and analytics as a competitive advantage. However, less than half are currently analyzing social media data.
These findings suggest that governments and businesses are taking a pragmatic approach to Big Data by first focusing on the tremendous untapped value still locked away in internal systems. This is why the market for business analytics is growing faster than the overall IT industry. IDC estimates enterprises will invest more than $120 billion by 2015 to capture the impact of analytics across hardware, software, and services.
What was clear in our findings is universal for both government and business. Combining analytics and Big Data makes it easier for leaders of all types to understand the world around them better than ever before, predict what’s likely to happen in the future, and use that knowledge to make more informed decisions.
By the end of IOD 2012, I hope we will have shared IBM’s deep industry knowledge and showcased our leadership in Big Data and analytics. We have the opportunity to help businesses, governments, healthcare systems, and educational institutions take advantage of all of the information right in front of them, and make better, more effective decisions for themselves and the people they serve.