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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company is not making a phone despite several reports about it. Zuckerberg reported the news on a conference call with financial analysts and reporters earlier this week. He said it ?wouldn?t really make much sense for us to do.?
Zuckerberg said that Facebook does want to focus on increasing the ?the depth of the experience in addition to just growing users.? Facebook wants to make sure that they are integrating themselves into other phones rather than making their own device.
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Pakistan Bans Export of Onions and Bananas.
Pakistan Implements Temporary Export Ban on Onions and Bananas to Combat Rising Prices and Ensure Food Security (March 5, 2024)
In a move aimed at safeguarding domestic food security and curbing rising prices of essential commodities during the holy month of Ramadan, the Pakistani government has imposed a temporary ban on the export of onions and bananas.
This decision comes amidst concerns regarding potential shortages and price inflation of these staple food items.
Addressing the Urgency:
Chief Secretary Punjab, Zahid Akhtar Zaman, recognized the urgency of the situation and penned a letter to the government, advocating for a comprehensive restriction on the export of bananas and onions. This proactive approach highlights the government’s commitment to prioritizing the needs of its citizens and ensuring market stability during the forthcoming Ramadan period.
Implementation of the Export Ban:
The government has taken the following actions:
- Bananas: A complete ban on the export of bananas to Afghanistan and Iran has been implemented. This measure aims to prevent potential market shortages within Pakistan and stabilize domestic prices.
- Onions: Restrictions have been placed on onion producers, prohibiting them from selling their produce to Gulf countries. This strategic move seeks to ensure sufficient availability of onions in the domestic market and prevent price inflation.
Rationale Behind the Ban:
The decision to impose these export restrictions stems from several key factors:
- Rising Prices: Pakistan has recently witnessed a significant rise in the prices of essential food items, including onions and bananas. This trend is particularly concerning in the lead-up to Ramadan, a period marked by increased demand and potential for further price hikes.
- Government’s Responsibility: The government holds a responsibility to ensure food security for its citizens and mitigate the adverse effects of price fluctuations. By restricting exports, the government aims to ensure adequate domestic supply and prevent further price hikes.
- Data-Driven Approach: The government’s decision is supported by data from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS). Their recent report for the week ending February 29, 2024, highlighted a 5.25% increase in banana prices and a 2.87% rise in onion prices. This data underscores the necessity for measures to stabilize the market and safeguard the affordability of these essential goods for the Pakistani public.
Potential Impact and Future Developments:
The temporary export ban on onions and bananas is expected to have a twofold impact:
- Domestic Market: This measure is anticipated to stabilize prices and ensure sufficient availability of these commodities within the domestic market, particularly during the high-demand Ramadan period.
- Export Sector: The ban is likely to have a negative impact on the country’s export sector in the short term, as it limits the export of these specific products to certain destinations.
It is crucial to note that the ban is temporary and will be reviewed in the coming weeks. The government has emphasized its commitment to monitoring the situation closely and making adjustments as necessary to ensure food security and price stability for its citizens.
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The American Resort Development Association (ARDA) has released an infographic to help timeshare owners navigate the often thorny secondary market during the sale of a timeshare product. Due to an overcrowded, confusing, and unregulated timeshare resale marketplace, owners often fall victim to unscrupulous resellers and misinformation.
According to the timeshare industry, the need to educate consumers is the best offense while it works in lockstep with state lawmakers to rein in the bad players.
“We have worked closely with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and many states to educate consumers about how to avoid scams in the secondary market,” said Howard Nusbaum, president and CEO of ARDA. “We encourage anyone trying to sell their timeshare to take the time to understand their options and to use the resources available to them.”
The ARDA resale infographic is the latest effort by the industry to outline steps for consumers to avoid the “wild west” environment of the crowded resale marketplace. The full infographic is available here.
The incidents of reseller-related scams are growing as owners are reporting them to the appropriate authorities more frequently, and lawmakers are taking steps to put stronger protections in place. ARDA has released ten consumer advisories about specific bad practices and created a section on its advocacy-based website devoted to resale resource information.
Florida passed the Timeshare Resale Accountability Act to protect timeshare owners from timeshare resale fraud in Florida. “By strengthening Florida’s timeshare resale laws and focusing on marketing and advertising practices, we can protect timeshare owners from unscrupulous companies that may try to scam them during the resale process,” said Florida’s Attorney General Pam Bondi.


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The Changing Landscape of Printing and Technology
In his session on Thursday, October 24th at 3:00pm in Room C148, Johnny Shell, VP, Print Technology & Training, SGIA, will focus on the current landscape of major printing segments (commercial offset, packaging, etc.) and the technology adoption trends that are taking place, primarily the convergence to digital technology. “I’ll explain some of the reasons this is happening and what this means for the printing industry,” says Shell.
“The Changing Landscape of Printing and Technology will also look at the current digital printing platforms being used in each segment and look into the future and the next disruption that's already beginning to happen in specific segments,” notes Shell.
Digital printing is poised for serious growth. According to Smither Pira’s The Future of Digital Printing to 2024, in 2013 the digital print market was worth $120.9 billion in constant 2012 dollar values. This is the equivalent of 1.13 trillion A4 size prints manufactured by print-for-profit service providers and packaging converters. The total digital market will reach 225 percent of the 2013 value by 2024, according to a new market report by Smithers Pira.
The study underscores that electrophotography is currently the major contributor to the digital market, with a 16.6 million compound annual growth rate and expectations of reaching $32 billion U.S. dollars in revenue by 2027. That being said, inkjet is the technology which is being rapidly adopted, and is forecasted to overtake electrophotography sometime this year. By 2024, inkjet is projected to account for 56% of the value and 53% of the digital print volume.
This session will benefit any PSP involved in digital printing. Content in this session will inform attendees on the changing landscape of the printing industry and the rate of change occurring. “The lines are blurring even more as digital printing continues to displace traditional analog,” Shell acknowledges.


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Arqiva had announced plans for a £6bn IPO only two weeks ago, but opted to postpone until conditions improve.
Anecdotal evidence given to IBTimes UK in Zurich suggests the country's banks are actually looking to hire more employees in London.
From having an office with seven employees to annual revenues of $9.4bn, WWT's rise over the last 27 years has been meteoric.
Alongside two key announcements, the coffee chain also reported disappointing fourth quarter sales growth.
Telecoms giant posts 10% year-on-year drop in pre-tax on an adjusted basis in the three months to the end of September.
Airline lobby group sees travel rising 3% over the approaching American holiday season.
ATMs operator Link says demand for cash is falling drastically as it unveils plans to cut number of machines.
President Robert Mugabe is reportedly a major owner behind Zimbabwe Airlines, which is set to be handed lucrative long-haul licences to London and the Far East.
Pre-tax profit after adjustments was $814m (£612.5m) in the third quarter, a 78% improvement on the same period a year earlier.
The 235-mile pipeline system, which delivers almost 40% of the UK's North Sea oil and gas production, has been sold by BP in a $250m (£188m) deal.
Bailey will pursue new projects but admits decision to leave the retailer after 17 years was a "difficult one".
The lower house of Congress has passed a bill that would require municipal governments to regulate ride-sharing apps.
Irish airline cancelled 20,000 flights between September and March 2018, affecting 700,000 passengers.
Oil and gas giant posts underlying replacement cost profit of $1.87bn in the third quarter, compared to a profit of $933m in the same period of 2016.
Structural overcapacity and rising imports from countries not subject to EU anti-dumping tariffs, like South Korea, Turkey and India, remain constraining factors.


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YouTube confirmed it will offer fans an ad-free version of its service for a monthly fee, in an email to channel partners on Wednesday.
The subscription option will debut sometime later this year. A price for the service was not revealed.
Under the new monetization terms going into effect on June 15, YouTube will pay channel partners a 55% share of the total net revenues from subscription fees based on monthly views or watch time for “all or a subset” of the platform’s subscription offerings. Channels will continue to receive 55% of their individual net ad revenues for free streaming content.
The moves comes as YouTube faces rising competition from platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and, perhaps most significantly in the minds of creators, Vessel.
Vessel officially launched last month with a $2.99 subscription option that gives users ad-free video viewing, along with 72-hour exclusive access to new content from array of top MCNs and creators, including Machinima, DanceOn and Rhett & Link. In return for giving Vessel exclusive first window to their content, creators get a 70/30 split on ad revenue for the entirety of its life on the platform. Additionally, they get 60% of the subscription fees generated during the early access period, which runs every Tuesday to Thursday.
YouTube’s announcement of an ad-free subscription option “is a reaction to the times and all the forces around them,” says Peter Csathy, CEO of Manatt Digital Media Ventures, a firm offering business consulting and legal services for the new media space. “Creators are increasingly looking for off-YouTube alternatives and off-YouTube revenue streams. And YouTube wants to limit others from encroaching on its turf by giving consumers what others are offering, but what it hasn’t yet.”
In Wednesday’s email to channel partners, YouTube portrayed the pending subscription offering as an effort to satisfy viewers. “Your fans want choices,” the email said. “Not only do they want to watch what they want, whenever they want, anywhere, and on any device they choose, they want YouTube features built specifically with their needs in mind.”
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki first revealed the company was mulling the subscription option back in October. The next month, it unveiled YouTube Music Key Beta, a $10 per month service offering the ad-free viewing of music videos, as well the ability to watch them offline and play them in the background on one’s phone. But it also demonstrated its commitment to the ad-supported model with YouTube Kids, a free standalone app featuring age-appropriate videos and channels for children that launched in February.
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Koehnen’s Furniture Closing After 8 Decades
Koehnen’s Interiors, a fixture of Hilo Bayfront for more than eight decades, has announced it will close its doors before the end of the year.
The family-owned store, at one time considered the “Tiffany’s” of Hilo, has sold fine furniture and home décor since 1929. Its last day of business is Dec. 15.
Karyl Franks, the granddaughter of Koehnen’s founder Freiderich Wilheim “Fritz” Koehnen, said the family felt it was time.
Company founder Fritz Koehnen came to Hilo from Germany in 1909 to work for H. Hackfeld Company (which later went on to become Amfac, one of the so-called “Big-Five” corporations in Hawaii.)
In 1929 “Fritz” Koehnen and his wife, German-born Katherine Bocker, bought Hill Optical. They shut down the optical operation and started selling silverware, fine china, crystal and giftware as F. Koehnen Ltd.
Their daughter, Helie, who worked at the store from a young age, married and eventually her husband Carl Rohner joined the company after World War II. It was Carl who developed the furniture operation for the company in 1946.
In 1957 the company bought the Hackfield building at the corner of Kamehameha and Wainuenue avenues in downtown Hilo and the store has called the building home ever since.
In the late 1960s F. Koehnen Ltd. spun off its retail operation, which was renamed Koehnen’s Inc., leaving F. Koehnen Ltd. in charge of real estate holdings.
Over the years Koehnen’s expanded with locations in Kona and Waimea, which have since closed.
Today, Fritz and Katherine’s son Fred, now an octogenarian, is still president of F. Koehnen Ltd. and Helie is president of Koehnen’s Inc. Carl and Helie’s daughter, Karyl Franks, is vice president of Koehnen’s Inc. and oversees daily operations of the company.


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Topeka police were investigating a pair of recent aggravated burglaries in which hundreds of dollars in property was stolen.
A 52-year-old Topeka man reported an aggravated burglary between 1 and 8 p.m. Friday, March 23, at his residence in the 3100 block of S.E. Humboldt. Among items stolen were a black, 55-inch LG television listed at $1,200; a black, 32-inch Vizio television valued at $250; a black laptop computer listed at $450; and a black HP laptop listed at $400. The total loss was listed at $2,300.
A 33-year-old Topeka man reported he was the victim of an aggravated burglary and theft between 10:15 and 10:20 p.m. Saturday, March 24, at his home in the 500 block of N.E. Gordon. A wallet valued at $40 was among the items reported stolen, as was a piece of men's clothing valued at $20. Also stolen were various cards and a driver's license. The total loss was listed at $362.
An aggravated burglary occurs when someone breaks into a residence that is occupied at the time.
In other police reports:
Menard's, 6401 S.W. 17th, reported the theft of miscellaneous knives and a portable phone charger between 7 and 7:40 p.m. Friday, March 23. The knives were valued at $95 and the phone charger was listed at $20, for a total loss of $115.
Family Dollar, 1313 S.W. 21st, reported the theft of two bags of potato chips valued at $7 and a package of Little Debbie honey buns worth $2 between 8:08 and 8:26 p.m. Saturday, March 24. The total loss was $9.
A 57-year-old Eskridge man reported the theft of a 2011 white Chevrolet Silverado valued at $9,000 between 1 and 11:45 p.m. Saturday, March 24, at S.E. 21st and California Avenue.
A 20-year-old Topeka man reported the theft of a 2009 Pontiac G8 car between 11 p.m. Friday, March 23, and 12:02 a.m. Saturday, March 24, from the 3500 block of S.W. 29th. The car's value was listed at $12,500. A set of keys valued at $1 also was reported stolen.
Walgreens, 1001 S.W. Topeka Blvd., reported the theft of $100 in cash between 4:19 and 4:24 p.m. Saturday, March 24.
A 62-year-old Topeka man reported someone broke into his 2004 Ford Taurus and made off with a Macbook laptop valued at $1,300, a recreational football valued at $1 and a duffel bag valued at $1. The driver's side window also was damaged to the tune of $190. The total loss was listed at $1,492.
Family Video, 1401 S.W. Gage, reported the theft of six DVDs valued at $192 between 8:50 and 8:54 p.m. Friday, March 23.
Roach's Hardware, 1321 S.W. 21st, reported the theft of five bags of grass seed valued at $75 between 7:45 and 7:55 p.m. Friday, March 23.
A 54-year-old Topeka woman reported a burglary and theft of property between 4:13 and 4:19 p.m. Friday, March 23, from the 1500 block of S.W. 16th. Stolen items included a power washer valued at $100; a 20-foot ladder worth $500; and miscellaneous tools listed at $200. A fence also sustained $400 in damage. The total loss was listed at $1,175.


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Inflation ticked up for the first time in six months in June, reaching 0.6 per cent and driven by the rising price of games and clothing.
Official data from the Office for National Statistics, published today (July 15), showed the Consumer Prices Index had picked up from May’s four-year low of 0.5 per cent as lockdown began to ease.
Falling prices of food, alcohol, tobacco and restaurants and hotels stalled further growth over the month, the figures show, and the rate is still well below the Bank of England’s 2 per cent target.
Inflation has dropped from 1.8 per cent in January as the coronavirus crisis shut down shops, pubs, restaurants and hotels and stifled consumer spending.
Yesterday, official data showed the UK economy shrank by nearly a fifth during lockdown despite returning to growth in May.
Inflation is one of the main factors that the BoE's Monetary Policy Committee considers when setting the interest rate.
The BoE is unlikely to raise interest rates at times of low inflation as it aims to grow the economy and get consumers to spend more.
Jonathan Athow, deputy national statistician at the ONS, said: "The inflation rate has increased for the first time this year, but remains low by historical standards."
Laura Suter, personal finance analyst at AJ Bell, said June’s increase did not necessarily mean inflation would rise skywards over the rest of the year.
She said: “Everyone from the Bank of England to the Office for Budget Responsibility expects inflation to fall further this year, before rebounding slightly next year.”
Chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, Samuel Tombs, said the small rise in CPI was “nothing to worry about”, claiming the data would not stand in the way of the central bank “doing more to stimulate the economy” later this year.
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Export Exchange 2016 is co-sponsored by the USGC and RFA.
He joined other speakers during the conference’s second day of general sessions focused on demand trends and how grain producers and users can meet consumer expectations in a cost-effective manner using U.S. grain products.
Co-sponsored by the U.S. Grains Council (USGC) and the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA),
Export Exchange 2016 offers attendees an opportunity to meet and build relationships with domestic suppliers of corn, distiller's dried grains with solubles (DDGS), sorghum, barley and other commodities. More than 200 international buyers and end-users of coarse grains and co-products from more than 35 countries are in Detroit for the conference.
“When you ask consumers what they expect, the consumer is demanding and expecting increased transparency in what happens to their food,” Armstrong said. “In the animal protein industry, we’re expected to be more transparent about how we raise animals.”
Paul Hishmeh, data and technology director for Field to Market, spoke on work in the U.S. to quantify and communicate farm and food chain sustainability, which is of increasing interest to consumers around the world.
Attendees also heard from Florentino Lopez, executive director of the United Sorghum Checkoff Program (USCP), on U.S. sorghum availability and new uses and a panel providing international perspectives on DDGS utilization.
During the panel, Budi Tangendjaja, a consultant with USGC, described his work with a Vietnamese feed company that used formulation software but no DDGS database, showing the Export Exchange crowd the calculations he worked through with the customers. After helping the company include DDGS in its calculations, the feed mill realized cost savings, he noted.
Abdellah Ait Boulahsen, a USGC consultant in Morocco, also outlined scenarios he has used with companies in that market, showing how they can use U.S. DDGS as part of a lowest-cost feed formulation.
U.S. DDGS are sold “consistently” to more than 40 countries, said USGC Manager of Global Trade Alvaro Cordero, who also spoke on the panel, with growth to other regions happening consistently. There are many companies that “are leaving a lot of money on the table” by not taking advantage of U.S. DDGS, he noted, a common theme of conversations between buyers and sellers at the conference.


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Lack of inner steel rear bumper ‘can write-off a car in a 10km/h nose-tail impact’
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A MAJOR vehicle insurer is planning to name and shame car-makers that sell cars in Australia with no steel rear bumper behind the plastic rear panel.
Fleet managers have been warned to make sure the cars they buy have a steel rear bumper to keep down claims – and premiums.
The lack of a steel rear inner bumper can lead to a vehicle being written off in what otherwise would be a minor bungle at around 10km/h, warned IAG Group head of research Robert McDonald.
Speaking at the annual conference of the Australasian Fleet Managers Association (AFMA), Mr McDonald said some of the most vulnerable cars are Japanese while some Korean cars have good ratings when involved in a low-speed crash with impacts at each end.
He said tests by IAG showed that it cost $13,440 to repair a $16,000 Toyota Yaris with no rear steel bumper and $13,754 to repair a Honda Jazz involved in a front and rear collision at low speed.
In the same test, a Holden Barina made in Korea cost just $2574 to repair because it was fitted with a rear steel bumper.
Mr McDonald said the comparative repair costs were available on the IAG Research Centre website, but that this information would be expanded.
He said IAG would draw up a list of vehicles that did not have inner rear steel bumpers and would publish the model names in a bid to shame the car-makers into fitting the bumpers.
He said the absence of a rear steel bumper did not affect the cars’ safety ratings, just the repair costs.
“And it’s not just Honda and Toyota.” He said. “Our Suzuki Swift is different from the Suzuki Swift they sell in the UK and we have other cars missing bumper bars.
“We are seeing more and more of it as people try to reduce costs and build cars for some of the cheaper markets, and we are being lumped in with those.”
Mr McDonald said the insurance industry generally, not just IAG, was trying to encourage car-makers to fit more effective bumper bars so the car’s structure is not involved in relatively minor collisions.
IAG had made representations to Mazda a while back, asking the company to fit steel rear bumpers to the just-replaced Mazda2.
IAG raised the possibility of having to charge a higher premium to insure a Mazda2, which would make the car more expensive for owners.
“When we discussed with Mazda about putting the steel bumper back into the previous Mazda2, we talked about the possibility of putting a 10 per cent loading on to the premium for a Mazda2 without a steel bumper.”
He said the change to not having a steel bumper happened when Mazda switched Mazda2 production for Australian from Japan to Thailand.
Mr McDonald said a rear steel bumper was generally mounted to a crash box that crushed like a concertina in a collision.
“They tend to take all the damage up to around 15km/h. That’s what they are usually designed for.
“Our point is, at low speed, the steel bumpers can do all the work.”
IAG was also encouraging fleet owners to fit other safety systems too, like autonomous emergency braking systems (AEB), as collision prevention was better than repair.
“If we have got AEB we can reduce a lot of the other collisions as well. It’s all about keeping insurance affordable.
“It’s not a safety rating thing, but the fact is if someone runs up the rear of another car they are more likely to have a car totally lost if there is no rear steel bumper.
“Although they will be compensated for that, it’s a major hassle, there’s delays, the car has to go in for quoting. And there is the potential that the driver will switch brands when they buy their new car.”
Part of the high cost of repairing cars these days was the extensive use of exotic steel in body structures.
“There is much more high-strength steel in vehicle structures now so the opportunities to do structural repairs are less.
“And the less we can involve the structure, the safer the repair will be. We don’t have to be concerned about the structure if the structure has not been damaged.
“Let structure do its work at high speed, not damage it unnecessarily at low speed.”
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NEW YORK – The New York-based philanthropist Meera Gandhi, CEO of the Giving Back Foundation, hosted a reception at her townhouse on January 17, 2019, in honor of celebrity Indian designers Sandeep Khosla and Abu Jani, who teamed up with socialite-turned entrepreneur Mirai Doshi and Amrapali Jewels, to launch a new line called ‘Mirai’.
The gregarious and jovial Khosla attended the meet, while his partner, Abu Jani, was away in London, and couldn’t make it for the event.
Doshi, who looked resplendent in a hi-neck white gown, was the cynosure of all eyes, as she graced the evening with her family in tow, including her father, Mickey Doshi, and mother, Amishi Doshi.
Her father is an investment banker based in Mumbai. Also in attendance was Mirai Doshi’s husband, Harsh Jhaveri. Doshi and Jhaveri got married last year, and are now settled in New York.
It’s likely that the idea to bring the celebrity designer Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla’s haute wear to discernible Indian American fashionistas took shape when Mirai Doshi attended the wedding of Shloka Mehta and Akash Ambai, in Mumbai, last year. Mehta, a friend of Doshi, wore outfits designed by Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla.
A trunk show and exhibition of ‘Mirai’ was also held the following day, at the Pierre Hotel, in New York.
The reception saw more than 150 guests in attendance, including Marla Maples Trump, at the beautiful Upper East Side townhouse of Gandhi, which was once the residence of Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
A dazzling array of artwork and photographs on walls of the townhouse include several from Lady Roosevelt’s visit to India, and her meeting with prominent Indian personalities like Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
The guests at the reception got to hobnob with plenty of celebrities, as acclaimed Indian American chef Floyd Cardoz prepared the appetizers for the evening, with his new business partner, Paul Neuman, the founder of Neuman’s Kitchen, a popular events and catering company in New York City and Pennsylvania.
The Mirai launch and the new catering partnership between Cardoz and Neuman were announced almost simultaneously earlier in the week, so it was a grand celebration of sorts under one roof in New York.
“They (Khosla and Jani) are the designers of the world,” said Gandhi, speaking and praising the famed duo, at the meet. She also profusely thanked and appreciated Cardoz coming over to cater to her guests for the evening.
The move to team up with Mirai Doshi seems to be a new line of thinking by the design duo, to popularize their wear globally in niche markets.
Last year, in September, Khosla hosted a private trunk show in Singapore for a select group of guests, organized by The Silk Root by Shikha Nanda, which has held exclusive fashion and lifestyle shows for numerous other Indian labels there, including Kishandass Jewelers, reported the Singapore Tattler.
The creations of Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla are retailed at high end retail stores and outlets like Harrods in London and Harvey Nichols; and Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman in New York. They have the distinction of dressing up some of the most prominent Bollywood stars, including Priyanka Chopra, apart from global celebrities like Madonna and Judi Dench.
Cardoz’s new avatar with Neuman’s Kitchen is likely to see him cook live at some high profile events in the Tri-state area and beyond.
Kabir Gandhi, the youngest of the three Gandhi children, who attends Harvard University, was home on winter break and was the charming co-host of the evening.
The evening featured a motley of cocktails to go with some delicious and palate stirring fare served up by the duo of Cardoz and Neuman, but none was better than one termed ‘Abu-Sandeep NY Special’, which was touted by Meera Gandhi herself as one to be savored.
The exotic drink, a concoction of Martell VS Cognac, mango purée, honey syrup, Cointreau, freshly squeezed lemon juice, and candied fennel, was a smash hit, and through the evening jugs of it disappeared as rapidly as an hourglass.


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Digital transition and economic gloom slows revenue growth
Mon, Feb 11th 2013 9:10 PM
Source: The media briefing
B2B publishing and consumer publishing are seen as different worlds with different rules – getting companies or businesses to buy things are rather separate challenges.
Yet all publishers are grappling with technological and behavioral changes and economic fluctuation that affect their businesses. It's not the challenges that create the style of response, but the different roles they play - one to inform the other to entertain.
The recent interim results from magazine publisher Future Media and Daily Mail and General Trust-owned financial information firm Euromoney highlight this contrast.
Future (quarter ending December 31 2012) Release
-- Revenues: Is slightly down the new up? Revenues were down three percent year on year but a lot of that was due to continued print declines in the US. Taking the UK on its own, revenues were down just 1 percent.
-- Digital: Non-print income increased 24 percent year-on-year, and now accounts for 23 percent of revenues, up from 18 percent in the same period a year ago.
-- Ads: Digital advertising accounts for 54 percent of all ad revenue, up from 45 percent a year earlier.
--Digital circulation: Over the last year, circulation revenues from digital editions are increasing at a 16 percent per quarter run-rate.
The rhetoric at Future for the last couple of years has been all
about "transition" to digital. That's not as prominent in Mark Wood's admittedly brief statement on this set of interim results - which talks about the digital growth and the success of digital editions - but it is clear in the results themselves.
That transition is a gradual process, and one which doesn't leave a whole lot of wiggle room around the edges. It's a simple question of replacing declining print revenues with digital revenues from very similar products in a new medium.
Euromoney (quarter ending January 30) Release
-- Revenues: At £95.4 million, revenues were up one percent. That broadly flat figure masks a lot of variation in revenues at different parts of the business...
-- Subscriptions: The bulk of Euromoney's revenues
come from subscriptions, which were down 3 percent in the quarter to £49 million compared to £50.5 million in the same period a year ago.
-- Advertising: Advertising was proportionally the worst hit part of the business - down 10 percent year-on-year to £11.2 million.
-- Sponsorship and events: Sponsorship was up 8
percent to £10.8 million and delegate revenue was up 1 percent to £20.4 million. According to Euromoney that growth was down to the launch of new events.
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BEIJING, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- China will levy a consumption tax on electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) from Nov. 1, 2022, the country's Ministry of Finance announced Tuesday.
The tax rate for the production and import of e-cigarettes is set at 36 percent, while that for wholesale business is 11 percent, the ministry said in a statement jointly released with the General Administration of Customs and State Taxation Administration.
The move aims to improve the consumption tax system and give better play to its role of encouraging healthy consumption, according to the statement.
To strengthen supervision over e-cigarettes, China issued a regulation for the industry earlier this year, which imposed license management for e-cigarette production, wholesale and retail entities, and banned setting up e-cigarette sales outlets near schools. ■


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So-called “mobile-first” publishers get a majority of their traffic from non-desktop devices, but they’re finding that ad revenues aren’t following suit.
Despite the fact that services such as Twitter, Pandora, and The Weather Channel now say around half of their usage comes from mobile, few extract anything close to half of their revenues from the channel. For example, during its earnings call yesterday Pandora reported that 70 percent of all listening now happens on mobile or “non-traditional” devices. Despite that fact, only around half of its advertising revenues comes from mobile, suggesting it’s essentially being propped up by other channels, such as online.
According to data from Facebook, around a third of its traffic now comes from mobile devices, while Twitter reports that it accounts for over half of published tweets. Those companies have to done little to nothing to monetize their mobile audiences to date, even though they continue to grow.
One company that’s proud to tout its mobile focus is the Weather Channel. According to ComScore, the firm’s desktop site racked up 1.1 billion page views in October, while 1.3 billion pages were viewed using phones or tablets. It’s unclear whether its ad sales mix has kept pace, although that’s highly unlikely by all indications. The Weather Channel was unavailable for comment.
Despite the hype around mobile, the fact remains that it’s just harder to extract revenues there. Marketers and advertisers have yet to dedicate substantial budgets to the medium, and consumers are now used to receiving mobile content for free. Mobile ad rates aren’t exactly the highest either. That leaves publishers in the position of having to follow their audiences but without much assurance that doing so will benefit their businesses. As a result Pandora, for one, is reluctant to place all of its eggs in that basket.
“We’re focused on ensuring a great, personalized radio experience for any person, anytime, anywhere — regardless of device — so each way people can stream Pandora has our attention,” a spokesperson said.
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The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority plans to model new city facilities and precincts using 3D printing.
Using Stratasys 3D printers, Airbus used additive manufacturing techniques to hit its targets for its latest extra wide body aircraft.
Italy's artisans could be the ones to profit most from embracing 3D printing in their manufacturing processes.
Microsoft has offered a closer look at its HoloLens virtual reality headset and locked in a deal with Autodesk to bring 3D printing and modelling to Windows 10.
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Volkswagen has trademarked a number of model names with European authorities, it has been revealed overnight. All four names were trademarked with the 'e' prefix, pointing to yet another expansion of the German car company's electric future.
The website of the European Union Intellectual Property Office has shown the trademark applications from Volkswagen: e-Beetle, e-Karmann, e-Kübel, and e-Golf Classic.
Volkswagen has previously indicated it plans to build an electric version of the modern Kombi – as a van and a people mover – as the company looks to its past to map out its future.
CarAdvice reported in 2017 and again in 2018 on an electric VW Beetle. Herbert Diess, now VW chairman, told British car magazine Autocar in late 2017: "If we wanted to do a Beetle, electrically it would be much better than [the last Beetle] model, much closer to history, because it could be rear-wheel drive".
A render created by KDesign AG in 2018 (shown at the top of this story) provides a glimpse of what the upcoming e-Beetle could look like.
The VW e-Karmann also appears to be resurrecting the moniker of the VW Karmann Ghia, a two-door sports car based on the original Beetle's platform and produced from 1955 to 1974.
Karmann refers to the German coachbuilder responsible for producing the body of the car, while Ghia refers to the car's designer – Italian company Carrozzeria Ghia. It's likely the trademarked e-Karmann name omits Ghia as the company is still in operation, with the Karmann business closing its doors in 2010.
The e-Kübel name is reference to the Type 181, better known as the VW Thing.
Volkswagen may also be planning another retro model. The e-Golf Classic could refer to a new retro model paying homage to the first generation of VW Golf models, with the render above coming from a Russian car news website Kolesa suggesting a retro electric Golf model in 2019.
All four models could be based on Volkswagen's MEB electric 'skateboard' platform. The 'skateboard' concept allows car manufacturers to fit a number of different bodies on top of a common vehicle 'platform', saving substantial costs.
As reported by CarAdvice in June, Volkswagen has also licenced the MEB architecture to Ford.
A number of models are reportedly using the MEB platform, including the upcoming VW ID.4, which is expected to arrive in Australian showrooms in 2022.


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PJM Peak Prices Soar
September 13, 2021
According to ICE data published by EIA, PJM WH peak prices in September are the highest in five years. The month is young, but the average of wholesale weighted average peak prices per MWh have topped 2018 to be the highest in this timestep. August was even higher, coming in at $55.60/MWh. September spot prices are up more than 70% Y-O-Y.


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Kevin David Lehmann, the 18-year-old German is the youngest billionaire in the Forbes under-30 billionaires in the world, displacing Kylie Jenner. Kevin’s wealth is attributed to his father’s drugstore chain’s stakes. Owning more than 50 percent of these shares, his wealth is now more than $3.3 billion.
The drugstore company now has almost 41,000 employees working in its 2,000 stores all over Germany. Kevin is now a child billionaire even without taking an active part in the drug store chain and rarely makes a public appearance. He doesn’t have a social media handle either.
Forbes said, “Guenther Lehmann, the 18-year-old billionaire’s father, transferred a stake in German drugstore chain ‘drogerie markt’ to his son when he was 14, but it remained under trusteeship until his 18th birthday, which was in September 2020,” in its statement. One of the handfuls of billionaire teenagers, Kevin acquired his trusteeship in 2020 after he turned 18.
Releasing the world’s billionaire list for 2021, Forbes said that Kevin officially inherited his father’s shares from Drogerie Markt. The company now serves over 3,700 locations since getting its start by Goetz Werner in 1973, read a statement from Forbes.
Alexandria and Katharina Anderson, the Norwegian sisters making it to the Forbes list in 2016 while they were just 19 are from Norway and one of the few teenage businesspeople on the planet. Albert von Thurn und Taxis, Germany’s twelfth prince in line inherited his royal family’s wealth marking his place in the Forbes list. He is now dropped from Forbes’ list owing to his financial crisis.
It is not yet clear as to how much wealth did Kevin actually inherit from his father, though the approximate figures suggest more than $3.3 billion.
The second on the list is a 24-year-old Chinese national Wang Zelong with more than $1.3 billion in wealth. She is a stakeholder at CNNC Hua Yuan Titanium Dioxide Company, a pigment production company trading on the Shenzhen stock exchange. This company manufactures a white titanium pigment used in plastics, coating, ink, and different other materials.
The Norwegian sisters follow Wang, taking the third and fourth positions in the Forbes list with a wealth of $1.4 billion each, after inheriting the shares from the multi-billion-dollar firm in Norway, the Ferd company. The sisters also possess partial ownerships in finance, real estate, and industry-oriented companies.
Forbes named only four self-made billionaires under 20, With Austin Russell (Luminar Technologies), Stanley Tang and Andy Fang (DoorDash), and Sam Bankman (Alameda Research and FTX).


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WASHINGTON — U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and trade ministers from the 11 other countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade accord failed Tuesday to strike an anticipated final deal in the latest round of discussions, which will push the talks into next year.
The trade officials said, though, that they made progress on significant, outstanding issues as they wrapped up four days of talks in Singapore.
Froman, who briefed reporters on a call from Singapore, said the TPP ministers “really accomplished an enormous amount across various texts of the TPP agreement by working in a collaborative way to identify potential ‘landing zones’ on a great majority of the outstanding issues. I would describe the outcome of the meeting — great momentum. We’re now focused on building on that momentum.”
The U.S. is in talks with Vietnam, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru and Singapore on the TPP trade accord. All 12 ministers said in a joint statement on Tuesday that they will “continue to work with flexibility to finalize these text issues, as well as market access issues” and plan to meet again in January. Froman told reporters that all of the ministers “left feeling very positive about what was accomplished” in Singapore.
“They all recommitted themselves to the highest possible standards…and an ambitious and comprehensive agreement, and felt like the meeting contributed very significantly to that,” he said.
The failure on the part of the negotiators to draft even a framework trade deal underscored the complexities involved on sensitive issues, which include textiles and apparel. The U.S. has proposed a yarn-forward rule of origin that requires apparel be made of fabric and yarns supplied by the U.S. or other TPP partner countries to qualify for duty-free benefits when shipped back to the U.S. Importers oppose the rule, but American textile producers claim they need it to compete.
The U.S. has also proposed a short supply program that allows importers to use third-country fabric and yarns in apparel production if the U.S. determines they are not commercially available in the TPP member countries. Industry sources have said one of the sticking points in the negotiations is a deep division between some of the countries over the textile rule origin.
There is also concern on Capitol Hill over certain provisions that could be included once a final deal is struck. In addition, there appears to be some growing momentum in the House against granting President Obama trade promotion authority, a tool many experts argue he needs to help wrap up negotiations on the TPP pact.
Breaking: @cushnieetochs’ co-founders @carlycushnie and @ochsmichelle are parting ways. After a 10-year run, Ochs is leaving the brand. Get the full story on WWD.com – link in bio. #wwdnews #wwdfashion
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In September 2019, Hammersmith and Fulham Council made a landmark move for the UK by setting up a zero-emissions freight hub, Parcels Not Pollution. Using £50,000 from Transport for London, through Hammersmith BID, the hub and service was set up with e-cargobikes.com, an experienced last-mile delivery service that has already worked with the likes of the Co-op.
CI.N discusses the commercial and sustainability case with e-cargobikes.com’s Co-Founder and Managing Director James FitzGerald and Co-Founder and Deputy Managing Director Clare Elwes…
When was e-cargobikes.com launched, and do you operate predominantly in London?
We launched justebikes.co.uk – a retail e-Bike business – in 2004, before spotting a gap in the market and developing the concept which became e-cargobikes.com. We were awarded an Innovation award by the DfT in early 2017 and launched our delivery project at the NEC in Birmingham that spring.
We currently operate exclusively in London, working out of hubs in Islington and Notting Hill (also our HQ). We are currently in the planning stage of further roll out with e-cargobikes.com hubs across East and South London. Nationwide roll-out will follow this.
In your experience, are businesses generally receptive to switching to e-cargo bike deliveries for last-mile? Do they see the need for it?
We currently work with a number of retail businesses and have found them hugely receptive to our message. Businesses large and small are waking up to the urgent need for zero-emission last-mile delivery solutions, with city streets increasingly clogged up with dirty diesel vans out on delivery.
But the argument for e-cargobikes is not just environmental, it’s commercial too – businesses are coming to realise that fulfilling e-Commerce orders using van-based delivery platforms is not financially sustainable – e-cargobikes.com can deliver a better service for a fraction of the cost, with greater flexibility, and no congestion charges or parking fines. It’s a win-win situation and one which we have found businesses very keen to take up. Larger businesses really appreciate the ethos and CSR element of our
operation, smaller businesses see us as a means of competing with the big online retailers like Amazon – our Cargonauts can get their goods from store to customer faster and cheaper and sustainably.
Are you seeing increased uptake in recent years?
Absolutely! We have completed trials with among others, the Co-Op and Sainsbury’s in London, and are working hard to keep up with demand for our delivery services across the city.
How did it go, working with Co-op?
Our Co-op partnership has been a great success to date and is ongoing. Co-op selected us as the launch partner for its new online delivery service, launched from the King’s Road Store in Chelsea in March 2019. By August 2019, we had rolled out the service to other London stores. Prior to this we ran a big trial with Sainsbury’s with a fleet of e-cargo bikes delivering orders in south London dispatching up to 100 online orders per day. Following the trial, analysis of results showed a 99% customer satisfaction rate and 99.9% of deliveries completed on time.
This latest partnership with Hammersmith & Fulham Council looks to be significant. What are your hopes for the scheme?
We’re working in partnership with both Hammersmith & Fulham council and Hammersmith BID to reduce traffic, ease congestion and improve air quality in Hammersmith town centre through the new zero-emissions freight hub, Parcels not Pollution. This will reduce the number of freight vehicles on the roads in Hammersmith – particularly at peak times – with no difference in the service to the customer and no extra delivery cost. We’re delighted that Hammersmith & Fulham council is taking such a forward-thinking approach to tackling the issue of congestion and pollution from van-based deliveries. They are now undoubtedly leading the way amongst London councils in addressing local air pollution.
We’ve seen an incredibly positive response from local businesses with 70 businesses signed up in the first two weeks alone, from SMEs right up to global corporations. Our belief is that this ground-breaking project will develop to become a model solution attractive to boroughs and LAAs throughout the UK.
Would you like other councils to follow suit and establish freight hubs and schemes that suit e-cargo bikes? It’s good to see Transport for London dedicating cash to these schemes…
Following the success of the Parcels not Pollution partnership in Hammersmith, we have had a great deal of interest from other boroughs both in and outside London.
You could argue that e-cargobikes.com plays a role that connects the cycling industry with councils and businesses. From the perspective of that fairly unusual position, what would you say to the industry as it attempts to work more closely with businesses and increase its cargo bike businesses?
One of the complicated things about London is that every borough has a slightly different approach to cycling – with some boroughs much more pro-active than others.
Councils in some areas may meet resistance to the idea of building new cycling infrastructure, removing road space from other traffic in order to build cycle lanes which see high levels of traffic during peak hours, but may be underused at other times. We’re hopeful that showcasing the use of cycling infrastructure for zero emissions last-mile deliveries will help to strengthen the argument for boroughs to invest in new infrastructure and work with suppliers like us to develop the low carbon local economy.
Is there enough support for e-cargobikes and last mile deliveries?
We have found a great deal of support for cycle-based last mile deliveries amongst businesses and councils alike. We hope that other borough councils will be inspired by the initiative taken by Hammersmith & Fulham council to address the congestion and pollution caused by van-based personal and local business deliveries and be spurred on take similar action on their own turf. The Department for Transport has been incredibly supportive, and we feel that we are on the cusp of a sea change in attitudes across the capital and the country as a whole.
Any final thoughts on the e-cargobike potential?
We promote efficiency as well as sustainability – financial, environmental and societal sustainability are naturally occurring bi-products of efficiency and big business understands efficiency. A huge proportion of their work is focused on delivering the efficiencies that are so vital to their business remaining competitive. Their success in this is often measured in fractions of 1%. Our e-cargobikes require just 13 megajoules (MJ) of energy to delivery 1,000kg of groceries, a diesel van 3,400MJ, and an electric van 2,400MJ, that’s a huge increase in efficiency!
We openly reject the gig economy model – we are committed to creating a sustainable employment model, with all of our employees earning above the London living wage, with guaranteed Living Wage hours. We’re proud to be creating green jobs in an industry that has been traditionally built around the gig economy – our alternative model allows our riders to be confident that they are properly employed with all associated benefits, whilst ensuring that we can offer a strong and consistently high level of service to our partners and their customers.


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Love Turkey Hill ice cream? Then you’ll want to visit the brand new Turkey Hill Experience, a 26,000 square foot interactive museum in Columbia, Pa.
The museum gives visitors a peek at the 80-year-old Lancaster County ice cream maker and includes history about the Lancaster County.
Visitors can also create packaging for their ice cream, take an Personali-Tea test, milk a mechanical cow, walk through a giant tub of ice cream, sit in a milk truck, record their own Turkey Hill advertisement and chill out in a simulated ice cream freezer. The museum’s walls are covered in nostalgic memorabilia and history about the dairy.
The museum also houses a first floor creamery where visitors can order sandwiches, soups, salads and some ice cream flavors such as chocolate or lemon gelato and whoopie pie ice cream not found anywhere else.
An in-house retail store sells Turkey Hill T-shirts, hats, baby bibs, games, sundae cups and sunglasses. Turkey Hill expects to entertain more than a quarter million visitors annually.
“We think a lot of people don’t know our story who would enjoy hearing it,” said Quintin Frey, Turkey Hill president. “We think as we tell our story, people will become even more in love with our products.”
His grandfather delivered the first Turkey Hill product, quarts of milk, to customers in Columbia in the 1930s. So it’s only fitting the museum took over a Columbia landmark, the former Ashley & Bailey silk mill that sat vacant for more than 25 years.
“We thought this was authentic to our story. The people of Columbia have been our longest customers,” he said.
The idea for the museum started about 25 years ago when a supplier, who is an ice cream historian, suggested the dairy open a museum dedicated to ice cream. Over the years Turkey Hill looked at various locations.
But the idea finally materialized two years ago when a developer in Columbia approached the dairy about using the silk mill. Refurbishing a vacant building fit in with the company’s commitment to preserve Lancaster County’s farmland and open spaces, Frey said.
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FREDERICTON, GNB, Feb. 15, 2018 /Weed Wire/ – The Cannabis NB store designs were unveiled today.
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Canadian cannabis legalization is rolling out this summer and the country’s provinces are under a tight deadline to be up and running, but it looks like the legal Nova Scotia cannabis market may be ahead of the game as far as distribution goes.
HALIFAX, N.S., Jan. 30, 2018 /Weed Wire/ — Cannabis will be sold at nine Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation (NSLC) stores across Nova Scotia. Attorney General and Minister of Justice Mark Furey announced the locations today, Jan. 30.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 15, 2016 /Weed Wire/ — The Natalie M. LaPrade Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission (“MMCC”) today announced the names of the 15 Growers and 15 Processors who have been awarded Stage One license pre-approvals. The Commission’s actions mark a giant step forward for the medical cannabis program in Maryland.


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In January, 2019 Russiaís export of wheat and meslin amounted to $519.9 mln and increased by 19.1% compared to the same period of 2018. According to the Federal Custom Service of Russia, the export volume reached 2.4 mln tons of grain, it is 2.4% less than the figure in January, 2018....Modified: 21.03.2019
The ministries of agriculture of Iran, Russia and Kazakhstan have concluded a trilateral memorandum of understanding on the issue of wheat trade. This resulted from negotiations on a temporary agreement leading to the formation of a free trade zone between the Eurasian Economic Union and Iran, Zol.ru reported. Trade Minister of the Eurasian Economic Commission Veronika Nikishina ...Modified: 14.02.2019
In 2017 and 2018 Syria imported about 2.2 mln tn of wheat. Nearly 90% of wheat supplies were provided by Russia, the rest 10% were exported by Romania and Bulgaria. In 2018 alone Syria imported 1.5 mln tn of wheat from Russia. At this moment Syrian government is planning to have imported from Russia ...Modified: 11.02.2019
For the first 9 months of 2018 Russiaís export to Zimbabwe amounted to $6.9 mln. The largest supplies of goods were made in October ($5.37 mln), when Russia exported to Zimbabwe wheat and power generating units. In October of 2018 the wheat and meslin export value stood at $5.3 mln, while export of electric generating sets with compression-ignition internal combustion piston engines (diesel or semi-diesel engines) of an output ...Modified: 01.02.2019
In 2017 Russiaís turnover of wheat for planting amounted to $8.6 mln. It should be noted that Russiaís wheat export was twice as large at its import. Russia imported wheat for planting in the value of $2.37 mln, while its export stood at $6.23 mln. The major part of wheat in Russia’s ...Modified: 13.07.2018
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2008 News Archive - Holidays - Couples hoax honeymoons for upgrades
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Holidaymakers looking for a luxury getaway for less, are prepared to hoax a honeymoon in the hope of gaining free upgrades, according to research conducted by travelsupermarket.com.
One in six couples have pretended to be newlyweds on holiday, according to the poll. The survey of 2,000 adults found the worst offenders to be younger couples (aged between 18 and 24) and southerners.
The manager of travelsupermarket.com, Alexis Garrick, advises honeymooners to get a good holiday deal first and then to enjoy any freebies that may come their way.
He warns that tour operators are now aware of the con and are asking for marriage certificates, but suggests: "It's always worth trying a bit of old-fashioned charm on your holiday to see what you can get."
For prospective travellers too busy to organise their musical medleys before they embark on a summer holiday, eMusic is offering time-strapped voyagers pre-made downloadable play lists.
Claiming to be the largest retailer of independent music in the world, eMusic customers can choose from around two million tracks.


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Honoring the finest works of translated fiction from around the world, the International Booker Prize has announced its 2023 shortlist.
In late Fall, writers and literary magazines begin to post work that is eligible for awards. Here's a guide to that tradition.
Explore the world of poetry and find your new favorite poet with this list of 24 of the best award-winning poetry books, including OBIT.
Environmental Kids Literature is enjoying the spotlight with more great Book Awards dedicated to this growing sub-genre.
The 2021 National Book Awards finalists feature a wide range of new voices and familiar names.
The National Book Foundation has announced the longlists for the 2021 National Book Awards on September 15–17.
Whether you're looking for new books, these romance novel awards can be a great place to find your next best read.
Honoring the finest works of translated fiction, the Booker International Prize has announced its 2021 winner, At Night All Blood Is Black.
Winners of the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards include Kacen Callender, Jenn Shapland, and more in the ceremony celebrating 2020's LGBTQ books.
Meet the winners of the 2021 Whiting Awards! Now in its 36th year, the prize recognizes early-career achievements of emerging writers.


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The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) has cautioned the public about holiday season scams that have already troubled consumers this year.
The regulator has outlined three particular scams:
- involving travel, where scammers trick their victims into believing they’ve won a travel prize or scored a really good deal on a travel package;
- online shopping, where scammers will set up believable looking online stores to trick people into goods that don’t really exist; and
- parcel delivery, where scammers will send fake ‘missed delivery’ notices to potential victims.
The commission also reminds consumers about the importance of maintaining security of personal information. For more information see here.
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Mazola, one of the pioneers of healthy and quality food products across the Middle East, has announced plans to expand into growing non-retail segment by catering to industrial food supply chains amidst surging trends in the regional food sector and rising consumption in the wake of promising macro-dynamic developments.
Recent studies have shown that consumer spending in GCC food retail sector is expected to be worth almost $106 billion by 2017. Saudi Arabia will continue to lead the region’s food sector, accounting for 59% of the total consumption up until 2017. Saudi Arabia currently consumes 872kg of food per capita, Qatar 852kg, Kuwait 634kg and Bahrain 453kg per capita while by 2017, the per capita food consumption for the entire region is forecasted to reach 983kg.
Amidst these surging trends, Mazola showcased its plans and innovative products at Saudi HORECA, the biggest annual hospitality exhibition of its kind, held at Riyadh International Convention and Exhibition Center in the Saudi capital. Over 260 local, national & international companies and 150 chefs from different countries participated in the exhibition.
At the exhibition, Mazola showcased its expertise in the FMCG sector across the GCC and highlighted its plans to expand its trusted product portfolio in non-retail channels.
Esam AlDabba, Horeca National Sales Manager at Basateen Foods – Saudi Arabia, – which manufactures and distributes the Mazola products across the Middle East and North Africa, said: “With the regional food sector witnessing phenomenal growth trends, Mazola aims to promote its HoReCa range of products, which includes edible oils, ghee, mayonnaise and specially B2B items in non-retail segment. The company’s participation in Saudi HORECA was a great opportunity to explore new business opportunities in the domain and offered us invaluable networks to expand our presence.”
According to statistics, UAE’s reliance on food imports amounts to more than 80% of its food needs with expectations of a compound annual growth rate of 8% on food and beverages spending in the UAE up till 2018, which reinforces the strong growth trends.
Mazola, which has time and again won the ‘Product of the Year – Gulf’ recognition across the GCC, is confident that the move into non-retail channels will reinforce its leadership in the future.
Mazola, The World’s Favorite Corn Oil since 1911 have taken their heritage of Quality, Trust, Health, and Value to other appealing food products including top quality Sunflower Oil, Frying Oil, Olive Oil, Mayonnaise, Ghee, and Margarine. Mazola products for Middle East & North African markets are manufactured at the award winning Basateen Foods Saudi Arabia factory in Yanbu Al Sinaiyah, Saudi Arabia to the highest international standards using only the best quality ingredients.


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The pace of recovery slowed in the US in the first three months of the year as government spending fell and a build-up in inventories eased.
The commerce department said Friday that gross domestic product (GDP), the broadest measure of all the goods and services produced in an economy, grew at an inflation-adjusted annual rate of 2.2% in the first quarter of 2012.
Economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires had forecast first-quarter GDP would increase at a 2.6% rate. In the final three months of 2011, the economy grew at a 3.0% rate.
Consumers fuelled the rise, the commerce department said. Personal consumption expenditures rose 2.9% during the quarter – the best gain since the fourth quarter of 2010.
Most of the rise came from pent up-demand for cars. Motor vehicle output added 1.12% to the first-quarter change in real GDP.
The slowing expansion “primarily reflected a deceleration in private inventory investment and a downturn in non-residential fixed investment,” a category that includes spending on building and industrial equipment.
David Semmens, senior US economist at Standard Chartered said: “It’s not a fantastic report. Vehicles accounted for half the growth – that’s not sustainable. Consumers are continuing to spend money that they don’t have.”
He said the figure was in lune with expectations but that it was clear the US still faced significant challenges.
This week the Federal Reserve predicted growth of 2.4% to 2.9% for the year, up from 2.2% to 2.7%.
The US economy has been slowly recovering since the second half of 2009 and has continued even as Europe has slipped back into recession.
Fed chairman Ben Bernanke called the slow pace of recovery “frustrating” this week. “Here we are almost three years from the beginning of the expansion, and the unemployment rate is still over 8% … It’s been a very long slog. And that, I think, would be the single most concerning thing,” he said.


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Plastic waste has become a significant source of pollution in India, the world's second-most populous country. Rapid economic growth has fuelled demand for goods that come with single-use plastic products, such as straws and disposable cutlery. But India, which uses about 14 million tons of plastic annually, lacks an organized system for managing plastic waste, leading to widespread littering. Streets across towns are littered with used plastic goods that eventually choke drains, rivers and oceans and also kill animals. The government has decided to set up control rooms to check any illegal use, sale, and distribution of single-use plastic products.
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A number of startups have promised to bring a drive-and-fly vehicle to market in recent years, but so far none have succeeded in getting it through. NFT Inc. is confident that it will succeed where its competitors failed. Pre-orders for ASKA, the company’s first electric flying car, will open on Thursday.
The SUV-sized ASKA (which means “flying bird” in Japanese) can be better described as an airplane that drives than a car that flies. Even when the six rotors are collapsed, the vehicle unmistakably looks like a flying vehicle, with helicopter-like bubble front windows and a distinct tail familiar to anyone who has flown on an airplane.
ASKA is not expected to be delivered before 2026. This is when the company estimates that safety and traffic control regulations have evolved to the point where consumers can encourage the use of new aircraft. A person from the company confirmed that NFT has already received pre-orders for the vehicle, priced at $ 789,000 that includes pilot training.
It is an ambitious goal to be the first company to bring a consumer flying car to market. NFT declined to disclose its supporters, but said that pre-orders – which require a $ 5,000 deposit – are fully refundable.
The company’s co-founders, Guy Kaplinsky and Maki Kaplinsky, told Biomedarticles that aircraft – including the ASKA boss – will fundamentally change urban and suburban life.
“It will change the dynamics of cities,” said Guy Kaplinsky. “Urban air mobility will redefine the suburbs and rural areas,” added Maki Kaplinsky. “It will turn wealth into remote areas [. . .] and I’m sure it will be of great interest to the surrounding suburbs. “
It’s easy to imagine how this might be the case: Freed from the shackles of city life and associated traffic patterns, given ASKA’s 250-mile range, the ultra-rich could relocate to areas outside the suburbs and cities only travel to those areas when they needed or wanted.
What sets ASKA apart from its competitors, according to the co-founders, is that customers don’t have to go to an airport to use the vehicle. Likewise, regulators would not have to worry about a large influx of urban air mobility users at airports. Instead, they developed ASKA for door-to-door transport. The driver only needs enough space so that the vehicle can unfold its wings and rotor blades. While ASKA can take off on a runway like a conventional airplane, it can also be lifted vertically like a helicopter. Guy Kaplinsky explained that the conventional takeoff is less energy intensive and that customers can choose this form of takeoff in a rural area with lots of space and land vertically in the city.
Each rotor will be equipped with an independent battery pack. However, the company has also decided to install two range extenders for redundancy that allow power to be supplied via gasoline. The two middle rotors of the aircraft can also act as wings and help planing in an emergency.
“Most of our users will be new pilots and safety is number one for us,” said Guy Kaplinsky. “The problem right now is that [battery] Cell. There isn’t a chemical cell designer in the world who would tell you that his cell wouldn’t fail in the air, and we can’t take that risk. “However, ASKA could go fully electric at some point in the future, depending on developments in battery technology,” Kaplinsky said.
The ASKA will be small enough to be stored in a traditional garage or driveway and can be charged using existing charging stations that are already in place for electric vehicles. ASKA will also work with some EV companies and be equipped with third-party semi-autonomous technology. “Since we are targeting consumers that include non-professional pilots, we believe that semi-autonomous technology will help them feel comfortable with some level of control rather than sitting in a fully autonomous ‘robot’,” said the company spokesman to Biomedarticles. Even if the regulations allow full autonomy at a later date, “we believe that many customers would still appreciate semi-autonomous / some control,” added the spokesman.
NFT aims to reinterpret the shopping experience with the opening of the ASKA showroom on Thursday in Los Altos, California. There, customers can talk to experts in aerodynamics and flight control. If a person is one of the first 1,500 pre-orders, they receive a share in the company and are inducted into the company’s founders’ club. Members can meet with company executives every three to six months.


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Porsche has delivered 301,915 automobiles to customers worldwide by 2021. This implies that for the first time in the company’s history, the 300,000 milestones was surpassed (previous year: 272,162 deliveries). The Macan (88,362) and Cayenne (88,362) were the most popular models (83,071).
The Taycan’s delivery stats more than quadrupled, with 41,296 customers receiving the first all-electric Porsche. This even surpassed the renowned 911 sports vehicle, which established a new record with 38,464 units.
According to Porsche AG’s Chairman of the Executive Board, Oliver Blume, “The Taycan is 100 percent a Porsche and inspires all kinds of people – existing and new customers, experts, and the trade media. We are stepping up our electric offensive with another model: By the middle of the decade, we want to offer our mid-engine 718 sports car exclusively in an all-electric form.”
Last year, over 40% of all new Porsche cars sold in Europe were at least partially electric — plug-in hybrids or completely electric versions. Furthermore, Porsche stated that it intends to be carbon-neutral on its balance sheet by 2030.
Porsche plans to expand deliveries across all global sales areas in 2021. China was once again the most important individual market. In comparison to 2020, about 96,000 deliveries were made, representing an increase of 8%. Porsche expanded fast in North America, with deliveries increasing by an astonishing 22 percent to more than 70,000 vehicles in the United States. In Europe, Porsche raised its new car deliveries by 9% to about 29,000 vehicles, which was a very significant trend.
“In 2025, half of all new Porsche sales are expected to come from the sale of electric vehicles – i.e. all-electric or plug-in hybrid,” announced Oliver Blume.
“In 2030, the share of all new vehicles with an all-electric drive should be more than 80 percent.”
To meet these high targets, Porsche is investing in luxury charging stations in collaboration with partners – as well as in its own charging infrastructure. Extensive investments are being made in essential technologies like battery systems and module manufacture. High-performance battery cells are being researched and manufactured by the newly formed Cellforce Group, and are scheduled to be ready for series production by 2024.
In 2021, sales were €33.1 billion, up €4.4 billion from the previous year, marking a 15% increase (prior year’s sales: €28.7 billion). “Our positive business result is based on courageous, innovative, and forward-looking decisions,” Blume stated.
The supply lines for Porsche facilities have been disrupted as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which means that in some situations, on-time production is no longer feasible.


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UK bank NatWest has launched a digital platform that lets small and medium sized businesses quickly apply for and obtain unsecured loans of up to £150,000.
The platform, dubbed Esme Loans, has been developed by the bank at is innovation unit with fintech firm Ezbob as a direct response to the emergence of specialist direct and P2P lending platforms, says NatWest.
The technology promises to give SMEs - whether NatWest customers or not - a fast decision on funding, with successful applicants getting their money in as little as an hour.
Alison Rose, CEO, commercial and private banking, NatWest, says: "Esme will offer SMEs a quick decision and almost instant funding, allowing those customers to go on and do what they do best - run a business.
"Through Capital Connections, our panel of five P2P and alternative lenders, we’ve already broadened choices for customers but we wanted to go one step further and create our own alternative lending platform."


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From the inception of Outerknown, Kelly Slater has communicated a clear commitment to sustainable business practices, and while we’ve gotten a few details around the logistics involved, today the brand released a video revealing more insight around their partnership with Econyl, which claims to turn waste from products like fishing nets into “first grade nylon” through a six-step regeneration process.
“What if there was a better way to make clothing?” asks Slater. “What if there was a way to use fewer resources in manufacturing? I had this question, ‘What are we wearing? Where is it coming from? And who are the people making it? What’s the process that goes into it?”
And he’s finding out firsthand.
When the product line was first unveiled for public consumption, the brand received significant backlash from surfers offended by the high price point. After all, a $500 coat and a $300 sweater sit far beyond the reach of most of Kelly Slater’s core surfing fan base. A friend of mine likened the situation to Cal Ripken announcing his brand new line of expensive ascots. A swing and a miss for blue collar Cal Ripken fans. But I’ve long suspected (and hoped) that Kelly has a clear vision for how we would like to see an American apparel company operate, and he’s not willing to cut corners in order to make that dream a reality.
Don’t want to compromise on labor practices, materials, sustainability? That costs money.
It puts any incarnation of his clothing range at a price point few lower or middle class consumers are comfortable with supporting. So it goes. Slater’s vision isn’t one mired in disposable cotton tee-shirts. That market’s covered. As consumers, we benefit from market pressures that drive prices to the rock bottom while exploiting anything and everything in the way. And if Kelly wants to change how American companies operate (which seems to honestly be his intention), he’s got to start somewhere. And that starting point looks like a $300 sweater made sustainably from recycled fish nets. Maybe that price will drop one day. He’s signaled an intention to make that happen.
“For us, we’re not looking at it like, ‘Okay, people like this color this month. And they like that shape we put on this print or whatever,'” said Slater. “We wanted to make nice, respectable clothing that lasts. This brand is an extension of me and my thought process…and a whole bunch of other people putting their two cents and putting our heart into something we believe in and making it work.”


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December 9, 2021 at 1:38 pm #84707
looks like good new for those of us waiting for a CT5:
Cadillac has announced that it will retrofit vehicles that were built without the heated and ventilated seat as well as heated steering wheel features sometime in 2022. As Cadillac Society reported earlier, the comfort features became temporarily unavailable due to the ongoing global microchip shortage wreaking havoc in the automotive industry.
As a result, Cadillac was forced to temporarily restrict availability of heated and ventilated seats plus heated steering wheels as supply constraints prevented the inclusion of the features in some 2022 model year vehicles. The deletion of heated steering wheels affected the CT4 and CT5 luxury sedans as well as the XT4, XT5 and XT6 luxury crossovers, while heated and ventilated seats were withheld from only the XT4, XT5 and XT6. Owners will be credited with $50 per vehicle to compensate for the inconvenience.December 10, 2021 at 11:49 am #84842e_s_jonesParticipant
Cadillac web site finally has the 2022 CT5 Build and Price tool available.December 10, 2021 at 12:08 pm #84843
Finally. Mine is scheduled to be produced next week but I won’t believe it until I get the confirmationDecember 13, 2021 at 10:33 am #84965e_s_jonesParticipant
I’ve noticed that if you order Premium carpeted floor mats ($225 option) this will delete the standard floormats, so you don’t get TWO sets of mats.
The premium mats are the same price if you buy them directly from the dealer, so I’m going to do that, so I get both mat sets.December 13, 2021 at 10:39 am #84970
Just ordered and received a set of clear all weather mats which I have bought for previous cars before. They are called Hexamat and our custom fit and really do a great job. They hold up well and a very easy to clean and have the cutouts for the clips that are in the floor of the car to hold them in place. Front and rear set is about $115December 13, 2021 at 4:24 pm #85030
Just asked for an update on my CT5 currently at 3400 status 🙌🏻 Production week being this week hopefullyDecember 13, 2021 at 5:26 pm #85043
That’s great to hear the same for me as well. Don’t know if we will get to see them by the end of the year but we can always hope for a Christmas miracle.December 13, 2021 at 7:14 pm #85044ecaravanosParticipant
Dealer told me CT5 being built this week and to check next Monday for a VIN. Should also know a possible delivery date and if heated seats and heated steering will be available or installed later.December 13, 2021 at 7:21 pm #85045
👍👍. From what I have read it looks like the heated seats are not affected on the CT5 so it may just be the steering wheel that we have to be concerned about. Also saw that Cadillac will be able to retrofit the steering wheels if we don’t get ours so we may be in good shape after all.December 13, 2021 at 7:43 pm #85046
My dealer said the longest part is waiting on transportation for the vehicle to get here.December 13, 2021 at 7:48 pm #85047
It’s all out of our hands at this point. Once the car is physically built and we’re over the biggest hurdle.December 20, 2021 at 5:16 pm #85213
Just found out that my vehicle was not built last week as anticipated and now it’s back to status 3300. One person said production week of January 10th but have not been able to confirm and no one knows whyDecember 20, 2021 at 5:39 pm #85214ecaravanosParticipant
According to my dealer, my CT5 is at 3400 = Broadcast (Order is sent to various build & supplier areas to bring order together).December 20, 2021 at 6:26 pm #85215
That’s where I was at last week now I’m back to 3300 as of today but that could change. We’ll have to keep checking daily. I don’t trust any of them until it is builtDecember 20, 2021 at 8:20 pm #85216
How are you getting your updates?
I just contacted Cadillac live chat and they just said same thing as last week.
I have located your order and can see that your vehicle is at the Event Description 3400-Broadcast. You have a Target Production Week of 12/13/2021 – congratulations! I recommend reaching out 1 to 2 weeks after your target production week for your next update.
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Infographic: The top eight social media trends for 2016by
2015 was a wild year for social media.
Consider some of these statistics: Facebook reached new milestones, including generating 1.49 billlion monthly active uers; YouTube now has over 1 billion active users; While Instragram hit the 300 million user mark; Live video streaming is gathering pace with the arrival of Perescope and Meerkat.
With these figures and trends, it is safe to say that social media is no mere fad, and can be a viable and effective tool for marketing products and services and creating brand awareness. It is still continuously evolving and is expected to reach even greater heights in 2016.
So what should business owners and digital marketers expect from the world of social media this year? Stay ahead of the social media marketing game by familiarising yourself with the following trends and new features that will be hitting it big in 2016 and beyond. (Infographic by CJG Digital Marketing)
Neil Davey is the managing editor of MyCustomer. An experienced business journalist and editor, Neil has worked on a variety of newspapers, magazines and websites over the past 20 years, including Internet Works, CXO magazine and Business Management. He joined MyCustomer in 2007.


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Today Apple has decided to introduce new products, the main novelty being the new Apple Watch Series 6. The new generation of Apple smartwatch is more colorful and even more focused on monitoring the health of its users.
Keeping the aesthetic lines of the previous two generations, the Apple Watch Series 6 remains an elegant gadget for your wrist. Although there is no news on the outside, the inside brings news that should be mentioned.
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Apple Watch Series 6 key news
- Oximeter sensor for measuring blood oxygen saturation
- New S6 chip
- Altimeter always on
- New watchfaces
- New flexible bracelets
Apple Watch Series 6 can monitor blood oxygen saturation
This is the main novelty of the new Apple Watch Series 6. The addition of the new SpO2 sensor to monitor the oxygen saturation in your blood will be another powerful ally to detect health problems in advance.
For this, the Apple Watch Series 6 uses a new infrared that illuminates your skin to detect the color of your blood. Using a specific algorithm, the smartwatch will be able to measure the oxygen level in your blood in just 15 seconds.
With the Covid-19 pandemic showing no signs of slowing down, Apple wanted to prepare its new gadget for this reality. Indeed, the Apple Watch Series 6 wants to be another tool to detect any infections by the new coronavirus.
Apple Watch Series 6 arrives with a new chip even more powerful
Based on the A13 Bionic used in the iPhone 11, the new S6 chip promises to make the Apple Watch Series 6 even more powerful. Apple promises a 20% increase in the speed of its new smartwatch.
According to Apple, this will be the most important update on your smartwatch since the Series 4. This means that if you still have that model on your wrist, it may be the perfect time for an update.
The Apple Watch Series 6 accompanies its aesthetic news with new watchfaces. The two main novelties in this field are a watchface designed for photographers and the possibility of using Memojis on your smart watch.
We also have to mention the launch of a new bracelet called Solo Loop. This will be a flexible bracelet that will make it easier to put or remove your Apple Watch from your wrist without much effort.
Family Setup: multiple Apple Watch connected to an iPhone
This is a very important novelty to put an Apple Watch on more wrists. Above all, it allows parents to offer their children a watch, even if they don’t have an iPhone.
In effect, it will be possible to connect several Apple Watch to just one iPhone. In this way, it will be possible to define which messages they can receive and who they can call via Apple Watch, activate the non-disturbing mode during classes or set location alerts.
Pricing and availability
The new Apple Watch Series 6 hits stores on September 18 for $ 399 for the 40mm version. We do not yet have information on its price in UK, but we will update the article as soon as that information was known.
Before you go, discover the new Apple Watch SE, the new cheap and competent smartwatch from the Cupertino giant.
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