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BISG announced that book industry observer, consultant, and futurist Mike Shatzkin will receive its 2019 Lifetime Service Award.
Octopus imprint Mitchell Beazley will publish a brand-new cookbook from Higgidy founder Camilla Stephens, Higgidy – The Veggie Cookbook.
An official behind-the-scenes book of the record-breaking play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Parts One and Two" will be published by Little, Brown.
Indie publisher Allison & Busby has bagged a "wonderful" historical romance set on the Isle of Wight by debut author Heather Cooper.
Orion Fiction has scooped a "suspenseful page-turner" on new motherhood by Curtis Brown Creative alumna Nikki Smith in a two-book pre-emptive deal.
Dialogue has bought a debut from Nigerian-born author Buki Papillon about a boy's secret intersex identity and his desire to live as a girl.
Mirror Books has acquired the book behind the Netflix series "The Ted Bundy Tapes" with plans to publish next month.
Leading publishing industry figures have hailed the impact of Creative Access after the social enterprise group placed its 1,000th paid intern this week.
Forty-one small presses have made it into the regional and country shortlists of The British Book Awards’ new prize for Small Presses, sponsored by the CPI Group, launched to celebrate the innovative and nimble publishers making names for themselves outside the mainstream.
If you're a scholarly and scientific author and you think the open access movement is irrelevant to your interests, think again. The post Why You Should Care about Open Access: An Open Letter to Scholarly and Scientific Authors appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.
Headline has acquired two books to tie-in with a new TV series based on Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens.
This year’s London Book Fair will host a live podcast stage for the first time with a line-up featuring Ian McEwan, Caroline O’Donoghue, Daisy Buchanan and many more.

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Free Supercharging had to end eventually.
As previously reported, Tesla's supercharging network, in all countries, will no longer be free for new owners, regardless of which Tesla model they own. The free fun had to end eventually. In the wake of this new policy, Tesla has just announced its charging policy that takes effect almost immediately. For all new Model S and Model X vehicles ordered after January 15th, owners will receive 1,000 miles (or 400 kWh) of charging credits that can be updated annually.
Go beyond the 1,000 miles and a small fee applies which, according to Tesla, costs "less than the price of filling up a comparable gas car." Still though, 1,000 miles of free charging is pretty good, but here's where the new Supercharging policy gets interesting: prices will vary depending on which US state you reside. In Europe, however, it'll vary by country. For example, Southern US states will charge about 10 cents per kWh, while Northeastern states can be twice as much. How come? Local regulations, but at least prices include all taxes and fees. With this in mind, Tesla claims a cross country road trip, from Los Angeles to New York, will cost owners about $120, which really isn't terrible.
Los Angeles to San Francisco? $15. But for anyone believing this new policy is simply a way for Tesla to make money, then you'd be wrong. Tesla has made clear that it won't profit from this, but will instead invest the money to continue expanding its supercharging network.


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The Taiwan Stock Exchange’s price leader Largan Precision Co., Ltd. announced its self-clearing revenue in December on January 5. According to its financial report, its December consolidated sales reached NT $5.446 billion, up 5% than its November figure and up 37% from the same period in 2015. Largan’s revenue has maintained at peak, so foreign investors kept on raising their recommendation rating and target price. Hence, on Jan. 5, its closing price increased NT $270, and its stock price closed at a historic new peak of NT $4,050 per share, also a highest-ever new record price of Taiwan Stock Exchange.
Largan expressed, during the fourth quarter of 2016, its consolidated sales came to NT $15.722 billion, up 10% from the third quarter and up 2% from the same period in 2015. The accumulated annual consolidated sales arrived at NT $48.352 billion, slightly down 13% from its 2015 revenue.
As for the outlook of 2017 revenue, Largan explained, in an off season, January 2017 has been sandwiched between New Year Holidays and Lunar Chinese New Year Holidays. Thus, the amount of working days in January was reduced. That is why Largan predicted January 2017’s revenue will drop.
Regarding product specification’s shipment proportion, in December 2016, Largan’s shipment proportion of ten million pixels camera lens stayed at 70% ~ 80% of total shipment. With respect to 8 million pixels and above category, its shipment proportion was maintained at 10% ~ 20% level. As to 5 million pixels and under category, its shipment proportion reached 10%.
Apple’s new iPhone model will carry dual camera in the future. In addition, non-Apple camp’s smartphone dual camera demand will increase. Thus, Largan’s revenue is expected to rise.
Moreover, recently related foreign investors’ reports all positively anticipate Largan’s future revenue growth. Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) expressed on Jan. 4, the recent tightened capacity will help Largan’s revenue growth in first quarter of 2017. Moreover, Largan’s capacity has reached full utilization rate, and iPhone 7 Plus’ stocking-up momentum is not slowing down. Combination of factors above will support Largan’s revenue in first quarter of 2017, so that it will merely drop 20% from the fourth quarter of 2016. Therefore, MSCI moved up Largan’s reasonable stock price from NT $4,500 per share to NT $5,000 per share. Aside from Citigroup Global Markets Inc., MSCI was the second foreign securities firm that predicts Largan stock price will rise to the challenge of NT $5,000 per share.


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Mobile video is slated to become a bigger business in 2012, with a number of video ad technology firms upping their mobile offerings.
Companies such as Jivox and Rhythm are aiming to capture more of the ad market in mobile video in the year ahead with new ad formats and technology. eMarketer has predicted that mobile ad spending in the United States would rise 65% this year to $1.23 billion, and then jump again to $1.8 billion in 2012. Some of that growth will come from video ads, with more players jumping into video marketing messages on mobile phones in the year ahead.
For starters, mobile video ad company Rhythm launched a new in-banner video ad earlier this month. This format essentially lets video ads be inserted anywhere mobile banner ads run, and may make it easier for marketers to take existing online video pre-roll ads and plunk them into mobile campaigns. Rhythm said Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and HTC are two of the first advertisers running campaigns using the mobile video unit. Users can interact with the video ad by tapping on it, with custom buttons allowing for interaction and engagement. They can tap to like on Facebook, to tweet, or to purchase a ticket on Fandango, as examples.
Then there’s Jivox, a video ad technology firm which recently raised $8.2 million in venture funding last month. The company will use the money to grow the use of Jivox’s tools across multiple screens, including mobile.
Look for mobile video to be a big part of multi-screen video advertising in 2012, said Jivox CEO Diaz Nesamoney. “TV advertisers will embrace a multi-screen approach, with interactive video ads arriving on Connected TV devices — introduced first via companion apps on tablets/smartphones and eventually via connected devices like Roku and finally via cable set top boxes,” he said.


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May 31 (Reuters) - Warehouse club operator Costco Wholesale Corp on Thursday reported quarterly revenue and comparable store sales that topped analysts' estimates, helped by a rise in membership fees and online sales.
Same-store sales, excluding fluctuations in gas prices and currencies, rose 7 percent in the reported quarter, beating analysts' estimate of a 5.4 percent rise, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Net income attributable to Costco rose to $750 million, or $1.70 per share, in the third quarter ended May 13 from $700 million, or $1.59 per share, a year earlier.
Total revenue rose 12.1 percent to $32.36 billion, beating average analysts' estimate of $31.91 billion. (Reporting by Nivedita Balu in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva)


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ONU: Reporte señala que se desperdician 931 millones de toneladas de comida en el Mundo
More than 930 million tonnes of food sold in 2019 landed in waste bins, according to new UN research, released last March 4, 2021, in support of global efforts to halve food waste by 2030.
17% of all food available to consumers (about 23 million fully loaded 40-tonne trucks) went into trash bins in 2019.
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The primary vehicles had already been developed and have been being examined. Should Zotye stick the touchdown, it’ll be the first Chinese language auto mannequin to successfully enter the US market and begin promoting automobiles. Numerous Chinese language language automakers have prolonged promised they’d take a crack at US gross sales, nonetheless most not too way back, the US-China commerce battle has put a maintain on these plans. Specifically, GAC cited the commerce warfare as a barrier to its American launch. The Chinese language language automaker even arrange reveals at the North American International Auto Current in Detroit to promote its forthcoming cars. Foreign governments and carmakers have lengthy pointed to the investments they’ve made within the United States to argue in opposition to the tariffs. New laws from the federal government, presents future drivers a break from the concern of parallel parking,Â because of the automotive will have the ability to do it itself.
Will unveil its Mustang-impressed electrical SUV as part of its plan to invest $eleven.5 billion electrifying its automobiles by 2022. Diana Lee is an Asian American who has worked within the automotive business for over 30 years. Her expertise is in automotive sales, advertising, consulting, and training as a CPC, ELI-MP. Her first 14 years of her automotive retail occupation had been spent in product sales, finance, and sales management for vendor groups equivalent to Potamkin. The second half of her career was spent launching tasks for automotive producers akin to Ford Motor Company, Jaguar, Lincoln, Land Rover, Mazda, Normal Motors, BMW, Rolls Royce, MINI, and Nissan. She is experienced in automotive promoting and advertising and marketing, teaching, coaching, consulting, finance, e-commerce, efficiency improvement, and buyer satisfaction. four sellers talked about Fiat Chrysler has revived what’s recognized in commerce circles as a product sales monetary institution,â€ Bloomberg reported.
By means of the primary nine months of 2019, U.S. plug-in hybrid and battery electric automobile gross sales remained flat from a 12 months earlier at round 240,000, according to two teams monitoring gross sales. EV gross sales accounted for about 1.9% of U.S. car sales. Japan has since signed a commerce settlement with the United States that features a verbal pledge by Mr. Trump to not proceed with a 25 percent tariff on vehicles and automobile parts. Canada and Mexico reached an agreement to keep away from the tariffs as a part of talks over a North American trade pact. And South Korea signed a revised commerce address the Trump administration in September 2018 that it has long argued should defend it from tariffs. A senior government within the German automotive trade and a extreme-rating European official, every of whom also insisted on anonymity, confirmed the broad outlines of the understanding. Daimler, BMW and Volkswagen declined to the touch upon any talks.
In response to Dr Jonathan Owens, provide chain and logistics skilled on the College of Salford Enterprise School, one situation is the shortage of charging infrastructure on roads in Europe and the US, although he says China is making good strides in this space. Sign as much as receive a quick hyperlink to each free month-to-month scenario of Automotive Data Europe as shortly as its printed. In April, quite a few carmakers, together with Vauxhall , BMW and Honda, launched forward their deliberate summer shutdowns in a bid to minimise any detrimental effects of Brexit, Auto Categorical reported. Underneath the bonnet is a revolutionary new kind of battery which, in contrast to those utilized in typical electrical vehicles, may also energy buses, big lorries and even aircraft. What’s additional, it’s miles easier and cheaper to make than the batteries presently in use in tens of tens of millions of electrical automobiles world large – and, in contrast to them, it should most likely simply be recycled.
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The COVID-19 pandemic changed just about everything about the way we work, live, and socialize.
Website security is a major security concern considering the increasing cases of online hackers and
The world is changing at a rapid pace. Many advancements are happening around us. But
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimisation. It is basically the process of increasing the visibility
During these unprecedented times of the pandemic, businesses are having a hard time managing cybersecurity


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2 Russian email services Mail.ru and Yandex Mail have become 4th and 5th largest email services in Europe in terms of unique visits, reported ComScore. Focused solely on Russian-speaking audience, Mail.ru and Yandex Mail attracted 42,77 million / 25,14 million unique visitors in June 2012 alone.
Increase in email usage in Russia is not surprising, given the rapid growth of Russian Internet audience overall. Comparing to the average for Europe 14% increase, the amount of visits for Mail.ru and Yandex Mail went up by 22% and 37% correspondingly.
Interestingly, being the largest online audience in Europe, percentage-wise Russia is only 7th, when it comes to email usage. According to the ComScore report, 69,9% of Russian Internet users visited any of web-based email services in June 2012.


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ITC gears up for big FMCG sales push through paanwallahs
The strategy is in sharp contrast with that of rivals, which mostly sell confectionery, snacks and at best sachets of shampoos and detergent through paan shops.
ITC, on the other hand, even plans to sell its premium cookies and cream biscuits through them. It will offer Sunfeast biscuits, Yippee instant noodles, Vivel soaps, Mangaldeep agarbattis, Dark Fantasy Choco Fills and Choco Meltz biscuits, Delishus cookies and Engage deodorants through these outlets, known to the trade as the paan-plus channel.
As part of the initiative, ITC is sprucing up the outlets and training the paanwallahs to sell soaps, biscuits and noodles.
Directly servicing the paan shops over decades has allowed ITC to forge close ties with them, said Sanjiv Puri, the company's divisional chief executive in charge of FMCG trade marketing and distribution. These outlets are already contributing significantly to some of the product categories, he said, declining to elaborate on the numbers.
"Several of the paan-plus shops in prime localities in cities have their own dedicated clientele and sell an assortment of consumer products," Puri said. "Consumers can top up their requirement from such outlets the way neighbourhood convenience stores serve the purpose in the West."
ITC has already made some progress with its initiative, having reached over 10 lakh paan-plus outlets with its packaged food, personal care and stationery products.
That's almost half the number of stores that ITC reaches directly with its non-cigarette FMCG products.
ITC's FMCG products are sold in more than 60 lakh outlets across the country. This campaign has given ITC a big lead in the paanplus channel, especially over peers such as market leader HUL, which has a much bigger advantage in its reach through neighbourhood stores, a senior analyst said.
"Being a relatively new entrant, it is still some years before ITC can build kirana store access like HUL," the person said. "It is here the paan shops can boost ITC's market share."


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SALEM, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire Liquor Commission wants to replace a liquor store near the Massachusetts state line with one that’s twice as large.
The Eagle-Tribune reports legislative committee is expected to recommend that the House include funding for three new stores, including one in Salem on Route 28, in the state’s capital budget.
Craig Bulkley, chief of administration, said it could be a couple of years before a new 20,000-square-foot store would open.
He said the current building was originally built as a state police barracks. It was never intended to be a retail outlet.
Salem ranked fourth among state stores for sales with $22 million in the fiscal year ending in June. The Hampton store on Interstate 95 was the top-ranked store with $31.3 million in sales.


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Campaign Highlights Most Powerful Press Ads of 2014
The most powerful press ads of the year have been highlighted by Campaign magazine in its annual.
A clever nautically themed John Lewis ad for Southampton was named the best local press ad of the year while the Sunday Times rich list featuring “fat cats” including Sir Richard Branson and Simon Cowell scooped the top prize for the nationals.
Government campaigns featured in both lists with a Department for Transport ad appearing in the nationals list and Public Health England and Scottish Government campaigns in the local press top 10.
Car manufacturers also featured heavily with Volkswagen and Fiat featuring in the nationals list and Citroen and Renault featuring in the local press list. Three retailers – John Lewis, Aldi and B&Q – had work featured in the local press list.
In December each year, Campaign magazine publishes its annual list of top tens from the year including national press ads, local press ads, radio ads, digital innovations and outdoor ads.
Separately, Newsworks has published a list of the top 10 ads in its creative showcase which have received the most views. Local Media Works, the marketing body for local media, also has a gallery showcasing strong creative work from local press titles.


text: Singapore's economic growth slowed for three months to March, after the acceleration in the previous quarter, as evidenced by preliminary estimates from the Ministry of Trade and Industry, published on Friday. In the second quarter, gross domestic product grew by 3.8 percent compared to the same period last year, which is below the growth of 4.3 percent, noted in the first quarter. The industrial sector in the quarter to March expanded by 8.6 percent year-on-year, while the construction sector declined by 4.4 percent. In the industries producing services, growth was registered at 3.4 percent. On a quarterly basis, seasonally adjusted and on an annual basis, the economy grew at a slower rate of 1.0 percent compared to a growth of 1.5 percent in the previous quarter.


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Posted Sun Sep 25, 2011 at 01:05 PM PDT by Tom Landy
Marvel's patriotic superhero is already suiting up for both high-definition formats in late October!
As previously reported, Paramount is preparing 'Captain America: The First Avenger' Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy combo pack and 'Captain America: The First Avenger - 3D' Blu-ray 3D/Blu-ray/DVD combo pack for a fall release, and now that date has been officially confirmed for October 25.
The action-packed adventure stars Chris Evans as Steve Rogers, the scrawny weakling turned super-soldier and future leader of The Avengers. The film co-stars Hugo Weaving as Red Skull and Samuel L. Jackson reprises his role as Nick Fury.
The releases will feature 1080p video, a DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 soundtrack, and supplements will include: Commentary by director Joe Johnston, director of photography Shelly Johnson and editor Jeff Ford; Deleted scenes with optional commentary; the Marvel One-Shot: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer; Outfitting a Hero; Howling Commandos; Heightened Technology; The Transformation; Behind the Skull; Captain America Origins; The Assembly Begins; and trailers.
Suggested list price for the Blu-ray is set at $42.99 and the Blu-ray 3D is $54.99.
You can find the latest specs for 'Captain America: The First Avenger' and 'Captain America: The First Avenger - 3D' linked from our Blu-ray Release Schedule, where they're both indexed under October 25.
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Streamers (R2) in April
Metrodome have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of Streamers on 21st April 2008 priced at £15.99. Matthew Modine stars in Robert Altman’s gripping portrayal of the lives of four American paratroopers as they prepare to be shipped out to Vietnam.
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Outlet in Folkestone, Kent will include gaming space, games library, food and drink, and play host to tournaments
Chaos Cards is one of the bigger and better online retailers selling tabletop games in the UK at the moment, and now the company is making its move onto the High Street with a new real-life shop down in Kent.
The brick and mortar outlet will be based in Folkestone’s Sandgate Road and will span a sizeable 4,000 square feet.
As well as games to buy, the shop will have room to play, a library of titles to crack open and try, food and drinks, and ‘regular’ tournaments and events held in-store.
Doors will open on the first time on Saturday April 29th, and to celebrate there will be a host of games available to play, including Gorechosen, Arkham Horror: The Card Game and Magic: The Gathering on the board and card side of things, plus Test of Honour, X-Wing, Runewars and Guild Ball for miniatures fans.
A Magic tournament will be held upstairs, with a Pokémon TCG competition on the Sunday. Also on the Sunday will be demos of sci-fi wargame Infinity and open access to the catalogue of games.


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People are increasingly turning to snacks as their days get busier and their wallets get thinner. I explored the trend in a story in this week’s Personal Journal and showed how restaurant chains are catering to on-the-go consumers with smaller, cheaper and more portable menu items like tiny sandwiches and tortilla-wrapped chicken tenders.
Fully 56% of Americans said they ate snacks three or more times daily in 2007 and 2008, up from 42% in 2001-02, and 11% in 1977-78, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
And it’s not just that people are snacking more often – the very definition of what constitutes a snack is changing. Younger consumers are more likely to define almost any food as a snack. Market research firm Mintel International Group found that 62% of people between the ages of 18 and 24 consider side dishes such as fries or onion rings to be snacks, compared to just 35% of those 65 and older. McDonald’s has discovered that more and more people are ordering fries on their own – not just as a side to a burger. And people are picking and choosing small, single items from restaurant menus to make their own meals, like a side salad and a burger or a small sandwich and a drink.
These changes can save people money and lower their caloric intake – if they simply stick to those smaller servings. But as is often the case with snacking, it’s hard to just stop at one cookie – or one chicken snack wrap.
Julie Petersen, a stay-at-home mom in Missouri whose family has turned snack food into meals said, “When you’re already stressed out about money, you just don’t want to deal with the extra stress of making something healthy. You want something easy.”
Readers, do you find yourself grazing throughout the day to save time or money?


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Amazon Can Have its Cake and Eat it, Too
Amazon is so massive, even an announcement of it entering a new domain can cause the valuation of other retailers to fall. Its entrance into Israel will necessarily change the market
For daily updates, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here.More noteworthy, however, is that according to documents obtained by The Verge, those employees were fired by an algorithm that tracks productivity. Amazon’s algorithm can automatically issue warnings and even termination letters for employees who fail to meet their quota. In a comment, Amazon clarified that a human supervisor must first approve any terminations, and also give any notices. tech talent. Amazon’s dominance has drawn the interest of researchers in recent years, many of which see the company as a symbol for the reemergence of monopolies. When Amazon announced its intention to acquire Whole Foods in 2017, the valuation of all other food retailers dropped, said last year in an interview with Calcalist Lina Khan, then director of legal policy at Washington-based anti-monopoly think tank the Open Markets Institute. “What other company can sink the valuations of Fortune 500 companies just by announcing an intention to enter their domain?” When Amazon mentioned the possibility of entering the healthcare industry in 2018, tens of billions of dollars were erased from the valuations of other companies in the domain, Khan said, adding that when one player has such a large influence, it signals the system is deeply flawed.
That way of thinking is not limited just to academics; in U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Democratic primary campaign, a major tenet was her call to break up tech Giants such as Amazon.Amazon’s imminent entrance into the Israeli market will presumably shake up local retailers and force them to become more innovative and efficient. It will benefit local consumers, though not necessarily competitors or employees. As Kahn explained, those who must contend with the challenges posed by the likes of Amazon are not consumers, but regulators and politicians via political tools. Israel’s tech industry may be at the forefront of technological innovation, but Israeli consumers themselves have yet to truly feel the impact of those companies that best symbolize the economy of the 21st century—whether because they were barred by local regulators, like Uber was, or because they have kept away from a small market like Israel. Amazon’s arrival stands to change this reality, for better or for worse.


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The shopkeepers in city defied the state government’s directives on Covid-19 and opened their shops on Saturday. The Beopar Mandal had already announced that the shopkeepers will be opening their shops on weekends, even as a curfew will be placed across the state.
Shops in almost all phases of city remained open, including in areas like Phase 3-B2, Phase V, Phase VII, Phase IV, Phase IX and Phase II. The shopkeepers said that they had to open their shops as they were suffering financial losses due to the weekend curfews.
President of Mohali Beopar Mandal, Vineet Verma, said that the shopkeepers did not want any confrontation with the district administration and added that shopkeepers had to open their businesses as they did not have any other option to save them. “In the last four or five months, many shops were shut due to poor response of customers. The adjoining cities like Chandigarh and Panchkula decided not to impose any lock down on weekends, then why it could not happen in Mohali? It is part of the Tricity,” said Verma.
Verma further added that the shopkeepers were ready to follow all guidelines to prevent the spread of Covid-19, but shutting down shops was not the solution. He said that shopkeepers across the city had responded to Beopar Mandal’s call.
Secretary of Beopar Mandal, Sarbjeet Singh Paras, said that due to opening of shops in Chandigarh, people in the city chose to go shopping there, which made the local business suffer. He added that there must be uniformity in the guidelines to ensure financial safety of shopkeepers.
Senior Vice-President of Phase 3-B2 market, Akwinder Singh Gosal, said that the shopkeepers could not pay their basic expanses including salaries of their employees, power and water bills if shops were closed for longer.
Deputy Commissioner (DC) Girish Dayalan was not available for comments.
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Kenyan woman accused of stealing Sh72million from US University
A 39-year-old Kenyan woman living in the US is facing charges of stealing more than $700,000 (Sh72.4million) from the University of Connecticut by diverting the money to her bank accounts after posing as a representative of Dell Computers.
According to the arrest warrant application, Ms Muthaini Nzuki, created an account with the vendor company, posing as a Dell employee, and synched up her account and UConn’s account by entering Dell’s federal tax ID and imputing an invoice number and amount owed from any Dell invoice to UConn.
UConn police said they were alerted on June 21 that $773,079.35 (Sh80million) was stolen from the university and they launched an investigation.
The investigation revealed that the University of Connecticut’s routing number was used between April 12 and May 19 and that someone who was not authorized diverted the payments.
Between April 12 and May 19, Nzuki is accused of diverting money from an approved Dell banking account to an account she created 32 separate times.
Nzuki used an assumed name of a person who turned out not to be an actual Dell employee and used a free email service in Germany to create the email she used to open the account.
Ms Nzuki has been charged with first-degree larceny and first-degree computer crime and is being held on $1 million (Sh103million) bond, but it was lowered to $500,000 (Sh51.75million) . She is due back in court on December 1.


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In order to give priorities to original reports, Google is changing its search algorithm. On Thursday, In an official blog post, Google insisted that “Recently, we’ve made ranking updates and published changes to our search rater guidelines to help us better recognize original reporting, surface it more prominently in Search and ensure it stays there longer”.
Google has distributed new instructions to a group of 1,000 human reviewers who will help Google implement this algo. It’s an initiative by Google to power high-quality journalism in twenty-nineteen, the world of fakes.
This news is disturbing to millions of web owners as nobody outside Google actually knows what changes the company is going to implement and it is sure that it will change thousands of business models with it.
While we typically show the latest and most comprehensive version of a story in news results, we’ve made changes to our products globally to highlight articles that we identify as significant original reporting. Such articles may stay in a highly visible position longer. This prominence allows users to view the original reporting while also looking at more recent articles alongside it.Richard Gingras, VP News, Google
There is no absolute definition of original reporting, nor is there an absolute standard for establishing how original a given article is. It can mean different things to different newsrooms and publishers at different times, so our efforts will constantly evolve as we work to understand the life cycle of a story.
According to the company, the 1,000 raters across the globe are instructed to use the highest rating that indeed means very high-quality posts for original news reporting.
It is still not clear what kind of algo will come into existence as we all know that Google is the biggest manipulator of search results and privacy. It will be quite interesting to know whether the new algo will disturb the trending SEO market or not.


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Nissan puts Signal Shield to reduce smartphone distraction at the wheel
As we all know, using a smartphone while driving a car can be quite a dangerous thing. And we all know why we should pay attention to the road, not to the phone, right? A recent study confirmed that even using a hands-free system can be just as distracting for drivers as holding the phone to the ear, not to mention texting while driving. Of course, there are some apps available that claim to reduce the distraction (as for example Samsung’s “In-Traffic Reply”), but their effectiveness is still to be proved in practice. Nissan, however, has another idea – the company bets on a special compartment that blocks mobile phone signals.
The company’s concept solution is called Signal Shield and represents a modified armrest compartment, covered with conductive wire mesh material, which blocks all cellular, Bluetooth, or Wi-Fi signals, thus preventing the drivers from being distracted by their smartphones. Basically, it is a modern incarnation of the good old Faraday cage, discovered in the 19th century, and maybe is just as effective, as we can guess after watching the video that Nissan UK has posted recently in Twitter.
So far, it is an entirely conceptual product that Nissan demonstrates with its Juke cars, but we don’t know yet if the company will offer it in its vehicles soon … or at all. Take a look yourself and, if you wish, share your thoughts about Nissan's “invention”:


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Jack Ma resigns as Ali Baba’s Chairman.
Ali Baba, one of the world’s largest e-commerce companies, founder Mr. Jack Ma has resigned as its chairman. He will be replaced by Daniel Zhang, the company’s chief executive and accountant by training. Jack Ma had announced his retirement last year. Jack Ma stated that he will concentrate more on philanthropy and focus on education in rural areas.
According to Forbe’s , Jack Ma’s net worth is $34.4 billion, making him the richest man in China. Ali Baba has been listed in the New York Stock Exchange since 2014.
Jack Ma will still retain a 6.22% share and will remain on the board of directors until the next Annual General Meeting in 2020 and thereafter he will join the corporate governance body of 38 members.


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Financial institutions in the United States have lost at least $873 million in potential revenue, due to the fact that 5.8 million customers attempted – and failed – to open accounts online. According to the research “2011 Online Account Opening: Faulty Process Hobbles FIs in the Battle for Customer Acquisition, Profitability and Retention” conducted by Javelin Strategy & Research, 53 percent of the applicants involved in the study have been able to successfully open and fund their account. The other half has abandoned the process and had to go to the branch to complete the rest of the application process.
As more customers decide to embrace online (and mobile) banking, the ability to successfully open an account, while seemingly simple, can be a critical event. Research has shown that once customers open online accounts, they tend to stay with these accounts. The reasons vary, but one reason frequently cited is the tendency to use online bill pay capabilities as part of the overall online banking experience. This bundling of capabilities provides a strong incentive to remain with that financial institution, unless there is a compelling reason to leave. Consequently, if a potential customer cannot successfully open an online account, there is a risk that a competing institution may gain the business, as well as a long-term customer relationship.
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. The UK’s largest bakeshop brand is investing ₤ 8m on a brand-new crumpet line at its Burnley bakery, which it claimed will certainly be operational in October. It also includes an ₤ 18m invest in a brand-new thin bagels line at its Stockton bakery, which was disclosed earlier this year, as well as is due to be running in June 2022.
Three new distribution depots in Widnes, Bognor Regis and Banbury will certainly also be opened to replace existing websites in Speke, Waterlooville as well as Buckingham. Warburtons stated there will certainly be no headcount reductions as part of the relocation and added that it is presently in the procedure of hiring for an additional 150 distribution functions.
Incorporated with Warburtons existing infrastructure– which comprises 11 bakeshops, 18 depots as well as the Bolton head office– the new websites will certainly enable it to deliver the two million items to shops within 12 hours. It will likewise permit Warburtons to grow and also meet the altering preferences of consumers, it added.
Additionally, business is buying enhancing the environmental qualifications of its fleet of almost 1,000 automobiles by introducing new electric and pressed gas lorries, along with ‘dramatically updating’ the technology used throughout the entire distribution network. It comes as the company’s first 16-tonne all-electric vehicle hit the trail last month.
” Investing in our framework is key to ensuring the long-term success of our fifth-generation family company,” claimed chairman Jonathan Warburton.
” Consumer preferences are altering, and also we work hard to see to it we are giving a variety of items to satisfy consumer demand. This financial investment program will certainly enable us to much better respond to these tastes for non-bread baked products as well as satisfy the expanding need for crumpets and bread alternatives such as thin bagels.”
He added that Warburtons bakes 24/7, 364 days a year, providing to 19,000 shops every day so the investment in 3 new depots will certainly have a “important duty” in sustaining its clients.
The program will certainly put down a ‘strong system for the future of Warburtons’, it clarified, boosting distribution, as well as assisting it to delivery on its calculated client partnerships. In April, business started the Co-op own tag bread contract which it satisfies with Jacksons.


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Here is what you need to know.
The Fed is expected to hike rates on Wednesday. Data compiled by Bloomberg shows a 99% chance the Fed will hike rates at the conclusion of its two-day meeting.
Consumer confidence spikes to its best level since 2000.The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index jumped to 138.4 in September – from 133.4 in August – hitting its best level in 18 years.
A quirk that’s distorted the stock market for 20 years is finally gone. Companies with high-quality credit have traded at a discount to their low-quality peers for the last two decades, but Bank of America says things are changing and offers some recommendations as to how traders can take advantage.
FTSE Russell is expected to include Chinese stocks when it rebalances on Wednesday. The move, which has been years in the making, could push billions of dollars into the Chinese market, helping to stabilise it in the midst of its trade war with Washington.
Deutsche Bank held internal talks about a merger with Swiss giant UBS. Senior Deutsche Bank staff held talks about a tie-up with the Swiss bank UBS, and a merger with Commerzbank, Germany’s second-biggest bank and a key domestic rival, the German newspaper Handelsblatt reports.
Arby’s parent company is buying Sonic in a $US2.3 billion deal.Inspire Brands, the parent company of Arby’s, will pay $US1.57 billion in cash, or $US43.50 per share, for the burger chain Sonic. The deal amounts to $US2.3 billion when including debt.
Nike’s gross margins miss. The sneaker giant beat on both the top and bottom lines, but shares slumped more than 4% after Tuesday’s closing bell as gross margins and sales in both China and Latin America missed estimates.
Stock markets around the world are higher. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng (+1.15%) led the gains in Asia and France’s CAC (+0.22%) is out front in Europe. The S&P 500 is set to open up 0.21% near 2,922.
Earnings reporting is light. Bed Bath & Beyond reports after markets close.
US economic data trickles out. New home sales will be released at 10 a.m. ET. The US 10-year yield is down 1 basis point at 3.09%.
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A 5-year-old girl is being hailed for influencing a restaurant chain to ditch single-use plastic straws in favor of biodegradable paper alternatives, all thanks to a heartfelt letter that she sent to the company.
Pizza Express, an Italian food restaurant with over 470 branches worldwide, recently announced their decision to drop the wasteful utensils on their Facebook page.
The company’s statement was posted alongside a photo of a letter from Ava: a young customer who wrote to Pizza Express asking if they could stop giving away straws at their restaurants.
Ava’s letter read: “I am writing to you to ask if you could stop using plastic straws because they are very bad for animals. They can get stuck in their mouths and noses. Could you only use straws if people ask for them because I don’t want any animals to get sick.”
A Pizza Express spokesperson responded to the letter, saying:
“We pride ourselves on listening to our customers, so when Ava, aged five, sent us a letter asking us to stop putting plastic straws in her drink because ‘they are very bad for animals’, it spurred us to make a change.
“We are now phasing out single-use plastic straws from all our 470+ restaurants from this summer, and we’ll be replacing them with biodegradable and recyclable paper versions.”
Then, as a means of verifying that the letter was real, the company wrote a follow-up statement reading: “For the record, Ava’s letter is genuine and it’s truly amazing and wonderful that somebody so young wrote to us with such a caring and compassionate message.”
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Statistics Canada reports manufacturing sales down 0.2% in January
Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales fell 0.2 per cent to $56.1 billion in January.
The agency says it was the fifth consecutive monthly decline.
Economists had expected a drop of 0.5 per cent for January, according to financial markets data firm Refinitiv.
Statistics Canada says sales were down in nine of 21 industries, led by lower sales in the transportation equipment and petroleum and coal products industries.
Sales of transportation equipment fell 6.0 per cent to $9.9 billion in January due to longer temporary shutdowns at some assembly plants as well as the recent closure of the General Motors plant in Oshawa, Ont. Petroleum and coal product sales fell 5.2 per cent to $5.9 billion due to lower sales volumes and lower prices.
In volumes terms, manufacturing sales fell 0.4 per cent.
- Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales fell 2.0 per cent in August
- Statistics Canada says retail sales rose 0.6 per cent in July
- Statistics Canada says retail sales climbed 1.1 per cent in September
- Consumers flocked to online shopping as pandemic hit, with e-commerce sales up 99 per cent
- Q2 condo sales down 50 per cent from last year, but prices are up: TRREB
- Two Mississauga residents enjoying lotto wins
- Mississauga to ask region to temporarily ban the sale of non-essential goods at big box stores
- Peel Region sets record high for COVID-19 cases today
- Region will not prohibit big box stores from selling non-essential goods in Mississauga
- Police investigating robbery in Mississauga


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Global financial advisory ACA Group has pulled the plug on the proposed acquisition of the Japanese company BitFlyer Holdings. Bitflyer Holdings is the parent company of the BitFlyer digital asset exchange with a substantial share of the Japanese market.
The ACA Group has previously entered into a OK with some BitFlyer shareholders to buy a majority stake in April. At that time, the value of the majority stake was pegged at 370 million yen, or about $370 million, and industry analysts generally expected the deal to go through.
According to a Nikkei report, the deal was canceled by the financial advisory firm with few details shared with members of the public. However, some reports show that BitFlyer’s financial situation is not as rosy as the company paints.
The Tokyo-based exchange recorded a loss of around $6.9 million in 2019 and failed to recover the loss in the years that followed. Falling digital asset prices appear to have hit the business hard as the light of a bull run fades.
Nikkei reports that ACA Group’s intention was not to retain majority ownership. Instead, he planned to sell the holdings once the value rose to make a quick profit. However, unsavory global macroeconomic conditions dampened the enthusiasm of policymakers within the ACA Group.
The plan to buy a slice of the pie isn’t the first time the two companies have crossed paths, as in 2018 the ACA Group spotted a security flaw in BitFlyers’ operations that ultimately led to the theft of funds from the companies. clients. The exchange said it would use its funds to reimburse customers affected by the security breach at nearly 46.3 billion yen ($319.7 million).
Since the incident, the exchange has attracted more than 2.5 million users, but the company faces the difficult task of avoiding competition from Binance as it returns to Japan after nearly four years.
A bad series of botched acquisitions
The failed acquisition of BitFlyer appears to be a symptom of an even bigger problem for the digital asset industry. Since the beginning of the year, there have been numerous reports of botched acquisitions, which often undermine investor sentiment.
Galaxy Digital has ended its planned $1.2 billion acquisition of virtual currency custodian BitGo in a move that has rocked the industry. The reason given by Galaxy Digital was the “failure to deliver” BitGo’s financials according to a previously signed agreement.
Thailand’s Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) has also pulled out of its proposed 51% takeover of Bitkub due to the barrage of regulatory actions facing the digital asset exchange as Thai regulators ramp up the against operators in the sector.
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Social media site Reddit is attempting to cover up the scale of a massive data breach that has exposed thousands of its users real identities.
Reddit, the fourth most popular website in the US, quietly informed its users yesterday that a data breach had leaked user information. However, the actual truth is more disturbing.
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Personal email address connected to thousands of accounts have been revealed, linking real names with Reddit accounts. This makes their past post history — on a site that sells itself on anonymity — a target that can be scraped to reveal plenty of private, highly personal details.
For years Reddit has encouraged people to openly engage in discussions where they reveal deeply personal details, bare their souls, and post fantasies and kinks. Steve Huffman, the site’s co-founder and CEO, has previously said that “privacy is built into Reddit.” It is the anonymity that Reddit promises that makes the site “more like a conversation one has in real life,” Huffman claims.
This breach originally occurred at TypeForm, but because Reddit required users to enter their usernames on that third-party site, their privacy is now compromised and their real identities have been exposed.
Screenshots of the Reddit announcement regarding the data breach can be seen below:
With credentials being bought and sold on the dark web for serious money, significant breaches – often in the millions, and sometimes including card data – seem to be more and more commonplace.
Based on the data stolen, here are specific types of information that are of value to cybercriminals. According to TrendMicro, hackers search for these data because they can be used to make money by duplicating credit cards, and using personal information for fraud, identity theft , and even blackmail. They can also be sold in bulk in deep web marketplaces.
- Member name
- Date of birth
- Social Security number
- Member identification numbers
- Email address
- Mailing and/or physical address
- Telephone numbers
- Banking account numbers
- Clinical information
- Claims information
End users are almost never the target of cybercriminals who are out to steal sensitive information in bulk, unless an individual is connected to an industry (for example, Spear Phishing). However, end users can be affected when their records were part of the information stolen from big companies. In such cases, it is best to take note of the following practices.
- Notify your bank. Verify your account details and change PIN codes.
- Double check email addresses from incoming emails. Cybercriminals can pose as bank representatives and ask for credentials.
- Do not click suspicious looking links or download files from unknown sources.
- If credentials or financials have been tampered, contact the breached company and ask if they can assist in enrolling in a fraud victim assistance program.
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As we've previously reported, starting Friday it's going to cost you to park at a state park. What you might not know is that if you buy the new Discover Pass online, by phone or from a retailer, your $30 annual pass will be Ticketmastered with a $5 convenience fee. Here's how to avoid the fee atop the fee.
As it happens, not everyone is pleased with the extra surcharge. State Senator Kevin Ranker (D-San Juan Island), who championed the recent passage of the Discover Pass as a way to forestall the closure of state parks for lack of funding, says the state agencies administering the pass (the Departments of Natural Sources and Fish & Wildlife, respectively) never made clear their intention to tack on the $5 fee.
"If back in February I had been told that the state was going to pass these [processing] fees along, I would have been saying [that the Discover Pass costs] $35 from the beginning. The issue isn't that $35 is totally out of line. It's that we sold this as a $30 annual fee."
Bryan Flint, communications director for the Department of Natural Resources, pushes back. "[The processing surcharge] was part of the conversation," says Flint. "Fish and Wildlife made it clear to the senator in January of this year and it was part of the discussion at the legislative level."
All the exciting legislative-versus-executive branch rancor aside, why hit the public with an extra $5 in the first place? Well, the legislation was written so that the entire $30 fee will go into a fund to help maintain state-owned land for recreational use. But when you create a new program like this, there are costs involved, from setting up the website to answering phones to printing and mailing out the passes. That, long story short, is where the $5 comes in.
A broader question is whether the state should be in the business of charging its park-going citizens convenience fees on top of parking fees. If, in other words, the state should be treating its nature-loving citizens like concertgoing customers.
Brian Joplin, who is in charge of implementing the Discover Pass for Fish & Wildlife, says an invisible hand will tell us if it shouldn't.
"The marketplace will determine whether $35 is too much," Joplin says. "There are other price points."
As of yesterday afternoon, Joplin says, 6,800 people have signed up for the pass either online, by phone, or at one of 600 retailers selling the pass. All paid $35.


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California-based tech start-up AiFi has just debuted its fourth and largest autonomous store in Shanghai. Founded by Steve Gu and Ying Zheng, the company specializes in autonomous computer-vision technologies applied into stores of all scales and sizes, from pop-ups to supermarkets.
In the past, AiFi has also partnered with five of the top 10 U.S. grocery chains. Most famously, AiFi grabbed headlines for its autonomous nano-convenience store at Amsterdam’s Schipol Airport’s Albert Heijn.
Most recently, AiFi raised $14.5 million as part of a ‘pre-series B’ round, involving Qualcomm Ventures, Cervin Ventures, TransLink Capital and new investor, Plum Alley. Since its inception in 2016, the company has raised a total of $30 million.
Deemed as the world’s largest autonomous store, the 4,000 sq ft hybrid convenience-mart stocks over 2,000 SKUs from fresh meat to snacks and withholds both AI-powered and cashier shopping experiences.
This is the company’s fourth store in Shanghai, amongst the many competitors in China. At peak, there were nearly 200 unmanned convenience stores opened in China by the end of 2017, with a forecasted total market size of RMB3.3 billion ($505.3 million) by this year. Realistically, many of these unmanned stores had quickly folded within the year as the novelty wore off.
A hybrid model was built to allow customers to shop autonomously, tied with its AiFi app otherwise checkout through cashier for those who prefer the assistance and interaction, designed to gradually introduce autonomous solutions to consumers. “The hybrid approach offers retailers a way to introduce the autonomous experience to customers and get everyone accustomed to the pleasures of no more frustrating waiting in line while simultaneously avoiding crowds, which is especially important during the pandemic,” said Steve Gu, CEO and Co-founder, AiFi.
AiFi uses its proprietary autonomous store platform OASIS and a cost-effective computer vision solution that enables a quick turnaround time to deploy their technology. Its technology can track shopping behaviour with high accuracy as customers travel and select items throughout the store.
AiFi also claims to keep identities private with no facial recognition or biometric data stored. “We are delivering a contactless, fast, and enjoyable shopping experience to customers while providing detailed inventory and analytics that make for a very efficient operation for retailers. We are also completely GDPR and CCPA compliant so no customer personal information is disclosed,” explains Gu.
Despite the initial over-optimistic projections of unmanned store expansion in China, new social-distancing behaviours adopted from COVID has given unmanned stores a second-chance in the state.
With the recent injection of investment, the technology start-up is on track to building another 330 stores in 2021, with more than a dozen set to open at the beginning of the year.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Investment management firm Starboard Value LP has acquired an approximately 5.6 percent stake in MeadWestvaco, saying it believes the packaging company is "deeply undervalued."
In a letter sent to MeadWestvaco Corp. Chairman and CEO John A. Luke Jr. on Monday, Starboard said that it feels MeadWestvaco has "excessive corporate overhead" and that its value is also being hurt by a "conglomerate structure."
Starboard is making several recommendations to MeadWestvaco that include: continuing with cost-cutting efforts, exploring the sale or spinoff of its non-core businesses such as the specialty chemicals business and looking at options to get more value out of its real estate assets. The activist shareholder also suggested that MeadWestvaco repurchase about $500 million of its stock in order to create more shareholder value.
In January MeadWestvaco announced that it was launching a program to lower costs by up to $125 million annually by the end of 2015. The program included plans for workforce reductions and other initiatives to generate increased earnings and cash flow.
Shares of MeadWestvaco, based in Richmond, Virginia, added $1.52, or 3.8 percent, to $42.10 in morning trading.


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Haribo has announced plans to construct its North American facility in southeast Wisconsin. The German candy maker intends to put up the production plant on a more than 130-acre piece of land according to an announcement released on Monday.
The announcement comes barely weeks after Foxconn Technology Group was denied billions worthy of tax credit for failing to meet its pledges made in its original contract.
Gilbane Building Company based in Milwaukee has been selected as the general contractor for the company’s facility that will be located in Pleasant Prairie. Haribo is the fastest-growing confectionery company in the U.S.
In a statement, Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. Secretary Melissa Hughes said Haribo has been making big steps despite the challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. “What’s really exciting is Haribo is moving forward despite the pandemic,” Hughes said. She noted that this is a source of optimism for the economy to rebound back from the pandemic.
Haribo signed an enterprise zone agreement with the state in which the company will be entitled to $22.5 million worthy of tax credits. The company intends to spend $293.6 million in capital investments towards the project and is expected to create 385 jobs. Currently, the company has the fourth-largest tax credit issued by WEDC.
Hughes further indicated that that WEDV currently runs 28 enterprise zones in the state and is specialized in various businesses. On his side, Haribo of America’s chief financial officer Wes Saber said the company will inject an additional 4,200 indirect jobs into the economy upon completion. He added that they intend to invest more than $300 million in the state-of-the-art facility which will be the largest investment in the company’s 100-year history.
Haribo Group managing partner Hans Guido Riegel said the facility in Kenosha County will offer long-term support to the local community.


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Tickets on BOGOF until Nov 15th, and BOGOHP until Dec 3rd
10% earlybird discount available for stalls booked and paid in full by the end of October
Ideal for organisations with vegan products/campaigns to launch
Programme also available in print at the event at £1 each
Tour aims to fundraise for grassroots regional vegan outreach groups worldwide
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Voting for VegfestUK Awards 2015 has now ended
Big thanks to everyone who has participated in the voting for this year's awards.
Results will be announced at VegfestUK London, on Saturday October 10th 2015 at 5pm in the Main Auditorium.
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The legal field has the Mansfield Rule, which asks firms to consider at least 30% women, LGBTQ+, and minority lawyers for significant leadership roles. The NFL has the Rooney Rule, which requires league teams to interview ethnic-minority candidates for head coaching and senior football operation jobs. And the tech world has Project Include, a nonprofit accelerating diversity and inclusion issues in that sector.
Writer Kibwe Chase-Marshall, editor Jason Campbell, and creative director Henrietta Gallina believe fashion needs similar accountability. On Monday, the trio sent a letter to the Council of Fashion Designers of America signed by 250 Black fashion professionals including designers Victor Glemaud and Martine Rose, and stylists Patti Wilson and Jenke Ahmed Tailly.
Titled the Kelly Initiative, the petition calls on the CFDA to conduct an industry census and make public its findings on the racial makeup of the employees of its member organizations. Companies that participate would then be tasked with conducting bias-mitigation training for hiring managers and pledge to create equity for Black talent. Similarly, the letter asks recruitment firms to sign the pledge and participate in a third-party audit.
Earlier this month, the CFDA released its own statement, which announced an employment program charged with placing Black talent in all sectors of the fashion business to help achieve a racially balanced industry. (Additionally, the CFDA and Vogue’s A Common Thread program just awarded Harlem’s Fashion Row’s Icon 360 fund a $1 million grant for Black and P.O.C. fashion companies impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.) But the Kelly Initiative cofounders feel that the CFDA’s statement didn’t go far enough, and requested a meeting on-or-by tomorrow, Juneteenth. At this time, the CFDA has not replied to either the meeting request or the letter.
Today, a CFDA representative explained in an email to Vogue, “The CFDA immediately began implementing programs outlined in the statement we issued on June 4. Donations have been made to the NAACP and Campaign Zero. The CFDA is continuing its relationship with Bethann Hardison and Harlem’s Fashion Row on diversity initiatives, and will also work with the Black in Fashion Council led by Teen Vogue editor in chief Lindsay Peoples Wagner and publicist Sandrine Charles. Several organizations have recently contacted us following our announcement, including the Kelly Initiative. We have tremendous respect for all of these groups but at this time have selected a few key groups to work with so that we can focus our energy and fundraising abilities.”


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The ongoing feud between Facebook and Apple keeps stretching and getting thicker, just like recently. When Facebook accepted laws by the European Union, Facebook criticizes Apple of abusing its power to “harm developers and consumers.”
These new laws are called the Digital Market Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA). The EU made them public on Tuesday. The laws were made to ensure the tech giants stay in check. Both Acts have their parts to play, to curb the tech giants. The DMA has introduced rules for platforms acting as gatekeepers in the digital space. The DSA exists to address harmful or illegal contents, by asking responsible platforms to take it down.
Apple might have no other choice but to obey the new rules. The EU Commission said it can fine any tech company, who breaks the new laws, up to 10% of their yearly turnover. This means Apple might end up losing around $26 billion.
Facebook Criticizes Apple, and here’s why
Facebook owns Instagram and WhatsApp—two big platforms well known for spreading fake news, extremist contents and hate speeches. They have never been so successful in eliminating such off their platforms. Still, they opened their arms to the new rules. “We hope the DMA will also set boundaries for Apple,” one Facebook spokesperson said in a statement. He went on, as Facebook criticizes Apple, saying: “Apple controls an entire ecosystem from device to app store and apps, and uses this power to harm developers and consumers, as well as large platforms like Facebook.”
Apple did not stay silent after this. They told CNBC, in a statement, that, “We believe that this is a simple matter of standing up for our users. Users should know when platforms collect their data and share it across other apps and websites—and they should have the choice to allow that or not. App Tracking Transparency in iOS 14 does not require Facebook to change its approach to tracking users and creating targeted advertising, it simply requires they give users a choice.”
Facebook did not take this Apple’s innovation very well, and it led to a feud. It might explain why Facebook criticizes Apple. Apple had installed a new privacy tool on their devices. Its primary function is to allow their users prevent advertisers from tracking them across different platforms like Facebook.
Facebook makes a lot money from selling ads, and so they had claimed this Apple’s new feature will hurt developers. But Apple had made a response saying: “When invasive tracking is your business model, you tend not to welcome transparency and customer choice.”


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November 7, 2016
Two new reports paint slightly different pictures of cargo theft, but there is no doubt the problem continues, especially in certain parts of the country and for specific types of freight.
May 26, 2016
With Memorial Day weekend coming up, FreightWatch International and CargoNet have issued bulletins offering recommendations on cargo security.
May 24, 2016
The upcoming harvest season for nuts is expected to get increased attention from cargo thieves in 2016, following big jumps in stealing the previous two years.
February 16, 2016
The number of recorded cargo thefts and the average value of the heists in the U.S. declined in 2015 from the year before, according to a new report.
November 5, 2015
The number of cargo thefts in the U.S posted a significant decline in the third quarter of the year but the average value of each crime moved up slightly, as big-value heists jumped, according to logistics-security services provider FreightWatch International.
August 11, 2015
A new report says when it comes to cargo thefts in the U.S., one category is seeing more interest by thieves – and it’s anything but high-tech.
August 3, 2015
Cargo thefts in the U.S. are on the decline, but the value of each heist is virtually unchanged compared to last year, according to a new second quarter report from the logistics security services provider FreightWatch International.
July 1, 2015
FreightWatch International is reminding transportation companies, shippers and manufacturers of the increased cargo theft risk for the upcoming Fourth of July Weekend.
May 12, 2015
While the number of incidents of cargo thefts in the U.S. declined in the first quarter of the year from the same time in 2014, the average value of each heist jumped 25%, according to the logistics security services provider FreightWatch International.
March 11, 2015
Two separate reports show the number cargo thefts in the U.S. fell last year compared to 2013, but the average value of the heists increased.
February 16, 2015
Over the past several weeks, the logistics security services provider FreightWatch International has received reports of over 40 pilferage events at truckstops and highway pull-offs in one state.
December 19, 2014
The holiday shipping season is historically one of the most dangerous times for cargo theft, according to the logistics security services provider FreightWatch International.
November 21, 2014
A new white paper from the logistics security services provider FreightWatch International reports last year truck cargo theft activity spiked in the final quarter of the year, with a total of 242 reported incidents.
November 20, 2014
Logistics security services provider FreightWatch International reports it has notice an unusually high rate of violations of best practices by carriers for in-transit cargo security this quarter.
November 4, 2014
Washington State saw a record-breaking number of cargo thefts in the third quarter of the year, along with a new tactics on the part of thieves that could signal a likelihood of further thefts.
October 29, 2014
“The average loss-value ceiling continues to rise and illustrates that organized cargo thieves continue to aggressively target high value freight,” FreightWatch said in its report.
September 25, 2014
The logistics security services provider says it recorded a total of 182 thefts in the U.S. during June through August, with 53 thefts in June, 69 in July, and 60 in August.
September 11, 2014
In this rolling quarter FreightWatch recorded a total of 179 thefts in the United States, with 66 thefts in May, 53 in June and 60 in July.
September 4, 2014
Illinois, and more specifically, the Chicago area, just won’t turn loose of its reputation for being one of the truck cargo theft crime capitals in the U.S., according to a new report.
September 2, 2014
Logistics security services provider FreightWatch International said in the second quarter of 2014, it recorded 185 truck cargo thefts in the U.S., down 4.9% from the same time a year earlier.
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Scion Unveils Drift Ready Sports Car, FR-S
Scion has developed a new sports car, the Scion FR-S. This super-charged drift-ready sports car is modeled after other successful sports car and is turning a lot of heads.
Parent company Toyota has positioned its new Scion FR-S sports car as the spiritual successor to the revered AE86 Corolla of the 1980s. The AE86 was a simple, unpretentious, and — relative to proper performance models — low power economy car. Despite its humble market placement, though, its front engine/rear wheel drive layout, low curb weight, precise steering, and wonderfully communicative chassis have made the AE86 a legend among drifting enthusiasts.
Drifting, a method of driving that employs controlled over steer to navigate corners, has exploded in popularity in recent years. Professional leagues, such as the rapidly expanding Formula D, have made drifting competitions the hottest thing to hit motorsport in decades.
This highly tuned version of the Scion FR-S was shown at the recent Detroit Auto Show. A Formula D ready performance beast, it is clearly intended to further cement the link between the new Scion and Toyota’s historic — and current — involvement in the world of drifting. First seen while undergoing testing at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca several weeks prior to the show, it will apparently be Scion team driver Ken Gushi’s car during the next season of Formula D.
This “super Scion” features a turbocharged version of the street car’s four cylinder boxer engine that puts out an astonishing 600 horsepower and over 500 lb-ft of torque. Thanks to a stripped interior and other weight saving efforts, the car is also approximately 300 pound lighter than stock, which makes those performance figures even more impressive.
As one would expect, this tuned FR-S won’t be available at your local Scion dealer any time soon. It is a full-on track car and, consequently, is a long way from being street legal. Still, it should give tuners and potential FR-S buyers inspiration and an idea of what this new sports machine is capable of.
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It’s time to refocus your attention on the Australian sports cruiser market!! Thanks to STEYR Motors Australia, we now have a new sports cruiser to bring life back this marine market segment.
The FOCUS 33 is a sleek and stylish 10 meter cruiser with a 3.4 meter beam. Designed by world renowed architect Tony Castro and awarded boat of the year in 2015, the FOCUS Power 33 is perfectly suited to Australian Boating conditions.
The vessel features two private cabins, central steering position, main galley, upstairs saloon lounge, sunpads, side decks deep vee hull and high quality finish. With hand lamination bringing a high standard of finish, future owners can rest assured on the vessels longevity.
Powered by twin STEYR Motors SE266S36, 260 Hp engines with Mercuiser Bravo II drives, the new FOCUS 33 is to be released at the 2019 Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show. The vessel can also accomodate the smaller 230Hp or larger 280Hp STEYR Motors engines.
STEYR Motors Australia Managing Director, Rob McIntyre, states that ” The FOCUS 33 will offer a new WOW factor to the Australian marketplace”.
Come and experience your own STEYR Motors WOW factor by visiting the new FOCUS 33 at the Hurricane Boats stand or STEYR Motors Australia.


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Auto desk: That China produces cheap products is known to all. Whenever there come useful items, China tops in the list. And this is one of the most important reasons why the Chinese products excel across the globe.
In the recent years, the car lovers have inclined towards electric vehicles, thanks to the sharp increase in the petrol and diesel rates. In such a fuel-aversion environment, Wuling Hongguang has come up with great bonanza for the car-craze people of the world. This time, the company has an electric car in offer with all the latest features available at cheaper than Alto. It may sound surprising, but it is true.
Sales record broken in the very first year
The popularity of Hongguang’s mini electric car can be well understood from a single fact that just in the last year, i.e. in 2021, Hongguang sold a whopping 119,255 units of mini electric cars. This car thus got the title of the second best selling electric vehicle.
Cheapest electric car of the world
Wuling Hongguang, the premier Chinese car maker, is launching a new electric car. It is named as Nano EV. If the media reports are to be believed, this car is slated to become the cheapest electric car of the world.
Price may be Rs 2.30 lakh
Though it might sound too early, but if we lay credence to the reports of CarNewsChina, Nano EV may be available at a price as low as 2.30 lakh Indian Rupees. This price is even lower that the price of Maruti Suzuki Alto Car.
Parking this Car is not a Problem
It was in the year 2021, when the company Wuling Hongguang launched this car at an Auto Show held at Tianjin. This two-seater car has the turning radius of around 4 meters, length 2497 mm, width 1526 mm and height 1616 mm. Simply put, it will be smaller than the size of that of Tata Nano. It has a wheelbase of 1600 mm.
305Km will run on a single full charge
The Nano EV car can run with the maximum speed of 100 kmph. If you have fully charge car, you can travel 305 km. It is powered by an IP67-Certified 28 kWh lithium-ion battery.
As per the company sources, this electric car has the regular 220-volt socket which takes 13.5 hours to full charge.
In addition to these, it can also be charged in just 4.5 hours through a 6.6 kW AC Charger. The other features of this car include a reversing camera, tire pressure monitoring system, AC Keyless entry system, LED Headlights and a digital screen of 7 inch.


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New Delhi: Since of beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, over 5,000 pandemic-related phishing websites have surfaced, designed to steal users' credentials via fake payment offers and discounted Covid tests, among others.
Recently, phishing ads for fake QR codes and vaccination certificates for restaurants and public events have become popular.
According to cyber security firm Kaspersky, from March 2020 to July 2021, it has prevented over a million user attempts to visit such phishing websites.
Kaspersky researchers observed a slight decline in June, before cybercriminals intensified their efforts.
During this month, Kaspersky products detected and blocked 14 per cent more pandemic-related phishing websites than they did in May.
"In most pandemic-related fraud, cybercriminals aim to obtain user data. Phishing is often used for this: a user follows a link from an ad or email and gets to a page where they are asked to enter personal information and bank card details," said Alexey Marchenko, Head of Content Filtering Methods Development at Kaspersky.
"Once they have this information, attackers can use it to steal money from a target's accounts," Marchenko added.
The increase in the number of phishing attacks related to Covid tests and vaccinations show how cybercriminals are always looking out for opportunities to plan their attacks and are in sync with the current trends that may help them gain greater attention of their potential victims.
"In order to stay away from such potential attacks, it is imperative for internet users to have a reliable security solution in their device, as well as to stay aware, and be careful of malicious links, documents, etc at all times," said Dipesh Kaura, General Manager, Kaspersky (South Asia).
ATC, which recently took a $411.6 million (about Rs 3,374 crore) impairment charge due to cash-strapped Vi’s partial payments, has further warned that it would be forced to take more similar charges amidst the India telco’s financial woes.
"Right now is the investment phase. Monetization will come from our side...To me, right now, we have to create a base and right now we are only focused on the rollout of the 5G network. And do keep in mind that there's already offload happening from the 4G network to 5G, which will also improve the 4G quality," said Mittal.


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CLINTON TOWNSHIP — The Mall at Partridge Creek has added several new retailers and expansions just in time for the holiday shopping season.
Fashionable favorite Forever 21 will kick things off this week with a grand-opening event in its new 14,000-square-foot location. Other additions include Art-Is-In-Market, GNC Live Well, L’Occitane en Provence, Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics and See’s Candies and the relocation of Eddie Bauer. GNC Live Well opened in September and the rest of the new store line-up is expected to be open by the holidays.
“We are thrilled to bring four new retailers to The Mall at Partridge Creek,” says Seok Chung, marketing and sponsorship director for the mall. “We know shoppers will be excited about the huge expansion of Forever 21, not to mention the re-opening of Eddie Bauer near the main entrance behind Brio. GNC Live Well, L’Occitane en Provence and Lush Cosmetics are three national retailers that will be tremendous additions to our shopping center,” says Chung. “Art-Is-In Market will be a great place for our shoppers to find one-of-a-kind art pieces created by local Michigan artists, and the return of holiday favorite, See’s Candies, is always highly anticipated,” Chung adds.
Forever 21, a specialty retailer of women’s and men’s clothing and accessories, will complete its expansion with a grand opening event at 10 a.m. Saturday. The first 300 people in line will receive a free Forever 21 gift card, and two lucky shoppers will win one of the store’s hottest outfits, valued up to $150. Forever 21’s expansion will provide Partridge Creek patrons with a larger selection of merchandise in its new 14,000-square-foot retail space, including the retailer’s cosmetics, lingerie and shoe line, Love & Beauty in addition to its staple Forever 21 apparel and accessories. Eddie Bauer, is also undergoing a change this fall. Customers will be treated to a brand-new location within the shopping center.
The Mall at Partridge Creek welcomes LUSH Fresh Handmade Cosmetics, which offers scented selections of ethical skin care, hair care, bath and body treats, as well as, offbeat gift ideas loaded with natural ingredients. Opening this November, The Mall at Partridge Creek L’OCCITANE boutique features an open, sunny environment and a luxurious skincare consultation area.
The original made-in-Michigan art gallery, Art-Is-In-Market, will showcase paintings, sculpture, photography, wood carvings, mixed media, turned wood, hand-made jewelry and more at its new 10,000-square foot space at Tthe mall. Shop for beautiful, home décor items and sentimental gifts made by Michigan artisans without having to travel to several locations. Founded by local artist Debbie La Pratt in 2005, the Art-Is-In-Market inside The Mall at Partridge Creek is the company’s third and largest location.


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Nintendo has four projects that many gamers look forward to the second installment of Zelda Breath of the Wild, a new open-world Mario, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 2, and a new Mario Kart.
For now, only audiovisual material of the first-mentioned has been shared but little by little details about Mario Kart 9 are leaking, which would be in a state of “active development”.
Japanese insider Dr. Serkan Toto wrote some details of future Nintendo projects for Gamesindustry.biz.
“I am aware that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is still selling very well on Nintendo Switch, but Mario Kart 9 is in active development,” he detailed regarding the racing title.
For now, the official launch date is not known but he says that the project “could be brought forward” for this year. In turn, he added that a “new twist” is being prepared for the franchise.
What will be the “twist” of Mario Kart?
After these statements, the community began to share some theories about what would be new in the series of racing titles. Some think this is an open-world bet, while others think there could be a car damage system like F1.
The twist is that it borrows a load of mechanics from F1 Race Stars – including the damage system. Enjoy hitting those pit lanes every time one comes up.
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As for the twist, we can only speculate on what Nintendo is planning. Dual-passenger cars (Double Dash), gliding (Mario Kart 7), and anti-gravity (Mario Kart 8) have all been included in previous games (Mario Kart 8). If we hear anything more about the game, it will most likely be around E3—if that occurs this year at all.
Mario Kart 9 appears to be a foregone conclusion, with a major Mario Kart game coming on every Nintendo home platform since 1992.
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Code-sharing site GitHub has announced that Atom, its highly customizable code editor, has left beta and its full source code is now available to world+dog under the MIT open source license.
"There's no one thing in Atom that's brand new," Sobo said. "The real sell of Atom is the synthesis of a lot of different things that no one editor does well."
Previously, many of the configurable packages that provided Atom's functionality were open source, but the editor core itself was not. With Tuesday's release, the Atom Core, Package Manager, and Shell are all available under the same license as the other packages.
"As Emacs and Vim have demonstrated over the past three decades, if you want to build a thriving, long-lasting community around a text editor, it has to be open source," Atom's development team explained in a blog post.
Sobo told The Reg that the MIT License was chosen for this release because it is "maximally permissive" and doesn't rule out even commercial use of the Atom code.
"We wanted to send the message to everybody that this is all about the community, and we want to maximize the participation," Sobo said.
Although Atom is now out of beta, it is still considered a pre-1.0 release, Sobo said. There are a variety of project goals on which GitHub would like development help and input from the community, including improving the editor's performance and stabilizing its APIs.
The developers are also working toward launching the editor on other platforms. Although Atom is built using cross-platform technologies, it began life running inside a Cocoa WebView component, so the early versions have all been OS X–only. Sobo said that with the editor now running in Atom Shell, rather than WebView, he hopes to launch Linux and Windows versions within a few months.
Atom is available as a free download for OS X 10.8 and later, along with the source code for it and over 800 different add-on packages, from the project's homepage. ®


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Google utilized its monopoly powerfulness to rig the online advertizing marketplace and squash competition, including by colluding with Facebook — and 1 worker compared the crippled to a mega-bank similar Goldman Sachs owning the New York Stock Exchange, according to a recently unredacted tribunal filing.
The hunt elephantine controls apical brokerages connected some the buy-side and sell-side successful the online advertizing marketplace and takes a 22 percent to 42 percent chopped of US advertisement spending that passes done its systems, according to a new mentation of a lawsuit the a radical of states led by Texas filed against the company.
That’s 2 to 4 times the chopped taken by different integer advertisement exchanges instrumentality and serves arsenic grounds of the company’s monopoly position, according to the suit.
One Google worker said the company’s presumption was akin to “if Goldman oregon Citibank owned the NYSE,” according to the suit.
Google did not instantly reply to a petition for comment. The institution had fought to support galore details of the suit redacted, arguing that releasing the accusation would unfairly wounded its business.
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- Korea’s July exports decrease 11% to $46.1 billion 2019-08-01
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced on August 1 that Korea’s exports in July decreased 11.0 percent year-on-year to USD 46.1 billion. Imports also declined 2.7 percent to $43.7 billion, and the trade balance stood at a surplus of $2.4 billion, remaining positive for 90 straight months.
The decrease in exports was due to a mix of different factors: i) worsening external conditions such as the ongoing U.S.-China trade dispute and Japan’s export restrictions, ii) a slowdown in the semiconductor sector and falling chip prices, and iii) the petrochemical and petroleum product industries that are under pressure due to the stagnant recovery of oil prices. Meanwhile, it appears that Japan’s export restrictions had a limited impact on July exports.
July exports saw improvement compared to June exports, which had posted a year-on-year decrease of 13.7 percent. In terms of volume, exports last month gained 2.9 percent, and exports from January to July grew 0.8 percent compared to the same period last year.
By item, July shipments of semiconductors, petrochemicals, and petroleum products contracted, but those of automobiles, auto parts, and home appliances expanded.
Exports of semiconductors decreased 28.1 percent to $7.5 billion. DRAM and NAND prices continued to decline compared to last year despite recent temporary rebounds. Inventory adjustments at global companies also contributed to the contraction.
Those of petrochemicals moved down 12.4 percent to $3.8 billion due to falling oil prices and delayed purchases. In volume terms, however, exports increased after new local facilities went into operation.
The value of petroleum products shipped overseas totaled $3.5 billion, down 10.5 percent. This is on account of decreasing oil prices, fiercer competition, and the introduction of more refineries in Asia.
On the contrary, exports of automobiles advanced 21.6 percent to $3.8 billion thanks to increasing global demand for sport utility vehicles (SUVs) and eco-friendly vehicles.
Outbound shipments of auto parts moved up 1.9 percent to $2.1 billion, returning to growth after six months of contraction. The introduction of new models in the U.S., the EU, and Central and South America led to an expansion in parts exports.
Those of home appliances also climbed up 2.2 percent to $611 million on the back of robust sales of clothes dryers and air purifiers. More products were shipped to the U.S. and the Middle East. The increased domestic production also helped the growth.
Regionally, decreases were seen in exports to China and the U.S., but increases were experienced in shipments to the EU, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
Exports to China went down 16.3 percent to $11.5 billion largely due to lower demand for semiconductors, petrochemicals, general machinery, and displays.
Those to the U.S. inched down 0.7 percent to $6.1 billion, following decreased shipments of general machinery, wireless communications devices, semiconductors, and computers.
Shipments to the EU, on the other hand, edged up 0.3 percent to $4.6 billion as more automobiles, general machinery, and ships were delivered to Europe.
The value of Korean goods shipped to ASEAN totaled $8.2 billion, up 0.5 percent because of increased shipments of petroleum products, general machinery, wireless communications devices, and automobiles.
Exports to the CIS gained 14.5 percent to $1.2 billion on the back of improved sales of automobiles, general machinery, home appliances, and displays.


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Apple’s products come with a blot of higher price tags but the ongoing Amazon Prime Day might just be the best time to get that iPhone you’ve been eyeing for months now.
Here are the best deals on Apple’s products straight from the Amazon Prime Day.
Best Prime Day 2017 iPhone deals
Head over to Amazon India and buy the Apple iPhone 7 128GB at Rs 53,999 down from Rs 65,200. The deal has gone live and will be available for purchase till stocks last or the end of Prime Day. Under the deal, users can get their hands on iPhone in Black, Gold, Silver and Jet Black colour variants.
The Apple iPhone 7 with 32GB of storage is also up for grabs for Rs 42,999 down from Rs 56,200 making it the most discounted iPhone 7 variant at 23 percent.
But if you want to go even cheaper, you can get the iPhone 6S 32GB for Rs 34,999. It was originally priced at Rs 46,900 and is now available at a 25 percent discount. The iPhone 6S will be available in Gold and Silver colour variants during Amazon Prime Day.
The iPhone SE, one of the cheapest Apple products available has received an even bigger discount which makes the deal even sweeter. The iPhone SE 16GB variant in Space Grey, Gold and Rose Gold colours are now available for as low as Rs 19,999 while the Space Grey 32GB variant is up for Rs 22,499 only.
Now, for the cheapest iPhone available in India, the iPhone 5S in Space Grey and Silver colour variant is available for grabs at Rs 15,999 only.
Best Prime Day 2017 iPad deals
The Apple iPad 9.7-inch Wi-Fi variant is up for grabs at Rs 25,999 down from Rs 28,900. The 32GB variant of the iPad will only be valid till 4PM today. Now might be a really good time to get the tablet you’ve been waiting for. Grab it while stock lasts.
Best Prime Day 2017 MacBook deals
Owning Apple’s MacBook is a dream for some. Thanks to the Prime Day on Amazon, the price of Apple MacBook Air 13-inch is now slashed to Rs 61,999 down from Rs 80,900. The MacBook Air rocks in a Core i5 processor coupled with 8GB of RAM and a 128GB of storage capacity. The MacBook runs on MacOS Sierra. The deal is up only till 3:35PM on Prime Day.


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The UK economy has now turned the corner and consumers are returning to their old shopping habits as their confidence improves, Tesco chief Sir Terry Leahy said today. "We are past the low point. Things are getting better. People feel their financial circumstances are under control."
Recovery in Britain would be "slow and steady" as a result of the higher taxes and spending cuts coming next year, but he expected the far east to bounce back quickly. His view contrasts sharply with that of HSBC bank boss Mike Geoghegan who this week warned that the current global recovery would not last and that a double- dip recession was looming.
Leahy added that UK shoppers were once again treating themselves to premium priced foods and that the grocer's non-food ranges – such as electricals, fashion and homewares – were back in growth after a period of decline.
The Tesco boss was speaking as he announced first half profits up 1% at £1.4bn. Underlying profits, which exclude higher finance costs linked to acquisitions, were up 8.6% at £1.6bn. "We have been through an extraordinary period and are in pretty good shape", he said.
The results, which cover the six months to the end of August, were slightly ahead of City expectations and the shares closed up 0.6% at 392p. Less than a year ago they were changing hands at 285p.
Tesco has had a challenging year in Britain – which still accounts for two-thirds of group sales – with rivals Asda, Morrisons and Sainsbury's all reporting better growth. Tesco's market share has been eroded to 30.9% from a peak of 31.8% two years ago. But the market leader said it was closing the gap again, helped by the relaunch of its Clubcard, with double points, which is costing £5m a week.
Like-for-like UK sales were ahead 3.7% over the first half, though that hides a decline from 4.3% in the first quarter to 3.1% in the second quarter, which the supermarket said was due to the end of rising food prices. Leahy forecast food prices rise of 0-2% in the coming months.
Renewed confidence among shoppers, he said, was showing through in higher sales of ready meals, Finest-branded premium foods and organics. Shoppers were also returning to one-stop shopping rather than shopping around for the best deals. Leahy dismissed the view of Andy Bond, the chief executive of Asda, that the recession had prompted "a new era of austerity". "We will go back to the way we were", said the Tesco boss. After every financial shock or recession, he said, there were always predictions of step-changes in consumption "but it always comes back".
Tesco is now planning its full-service bank, which is likely to start offering current accounts and mortgages next year. The bank is being built on the existing financial services business, which already has 6 million customers, though mostly for insurance policies. The retailer said it had no plans to buy the government-owned Northern Rock.
Overseas sales were a mixed bag, with Asia up 27% to £4.4bn and Europe up only 1% to £4.8bn. Leahy said Korea, where Tesco acquired the Homever hypermarkets last year, was a top performer, along with Thailand. In China 20 new hypermarkets will open this year and 20 vast shopping malls are also planned.
Europe, hit harder by the downturn, has been much more difficult, especially Ireland, Turkey and Slovakia.
In the US, the group's Fresh & Easy store chain, which opened its doors two years ago, with the ambition of creating a new business the same size as Tesco in the UK – lost £85m on sales of £168m. The infrastructure built in California is designed to support a far greater number of stores, but the opening programme has been slowed as a result of the severe economic downturn on the US west coast. Leahy said he remained fully committed to Fresh & Easy and the chain, with 125 stores, is opening one new outlet a week. "We must be the only business still expanding in that part of the world."
John Kershaw, retail analyst at BofA-Merrill Lynch, described the results as: "solid, but not inspiring".
Freddie George, at Seymour Pierce, rates the shares a buy: "We maintain Tesco Group has a great potential to exploit the opportunities in banking and multi-channel and should see higher returns from its overseas activities, which accounted for 23% of sales in 2008/9 but this could grow to 30% in two years time."