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By: Stephanie Auslander, Destinations International
National Travel and Tourism week is the first return to the event in two years as the tourism and hospitality sector move into recovery. As a result of the pandemic, the tourism industry has faced unprecedented challenges including record job loss, difficulty rehiring, and consumer anxiety over traveling once again. However, National Travel & Tourism week presents a unique opportunity to reset goals around this year’s theme: the future of travel. Celebrating a future that is more innovative, sustainable, equitable, and provides a more seamless experience for the consumer. Accelerating trends that have developed because of the pandemic include touchless pay options, new interactions with consumers, and strategies aimed at the ultimate benefactor of tourism: the community’s residents. The future of travel is driven by all stakeholders within the industry with the intention of providing a more seamless travel experience that benefits everyone.
The US Travel Association has provided toolkits for destinations to help celebrate this important milestone. The toolkits include talking points about the reemergence of travel, social media graphics, branding, logos, and ways to engage the intended audience. The social media platform Twitter is participating in the event by encouraging its users to light up social media red to celebrate the industry event. Destination organizations participating in the event can download the graphics and repost to their own Twitter pages. Included in the toolkit are recommendations for celebrating the week by engaging with stakeholders in-person, displaying what the future of travel means to each community, and showing gratitude toward employees and colleagues.
The social media campaign for this weeklong event focuses on key industry priorities; Innovation, facilitating recovery, turning twitter red, increasing global competitiveness, rebuilding America’s workforce, planning for a more inclusive future, and facilitating more in-person events. Rebuilding the workforce remains one of the most pressing challenges out of the pandemic will take aggressive policy actions to combat the challenge. National tourism and travel week encourages destination organizations to contact stakeholders and share stories on how travel recovery creates jobs in the community, demonstrates the benefits of pursuing a travel career, and focusing how a diversified workforce benefits the industry.
Several organizations are participating in the weeklong tourism event, including members of Destinations International. Destinations recognize the need to build a travel industry that is tailored to the community, resilient to incoming challenges, and innovative into the future. Adapting to new technologies including biometrics, improved baggage and ticketing services and other advancements paves the way for a travel experience that is more seamless, secure, and in-person. Health and safety protocols at business centers, meeting spaces, convention centers, and events make it easier for business travel to return sooner than initially forecasted.
Discover Lehigh Valley
Discover Lehigh Valley is fully embracing the concept of this year’s theme Future of Travel by coming together to support one another and celebrate their local industry’s strength, selflessness, and resiliency. The organization is celebrating with sample media posts, blogs, and highlighting key statistics regarding the impact that tourism has had on their local community. Statistics include the impact tourism has on the local economy with average households saving an estimated $1398 in taxes more per year. Media postings highlight tourism professionals across the country coming together to celebrate what makes the industry special and ways to build resilience into the future. One of the key priorities referenced by Lehigh Valley in developing the future of travel; Rebuilding America’s workforce. It is estimated that the leisure and hospitality sector represented 73% of all current job losses in February 2022. They plan to highlight on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram that while the future may remain uncertain, the future of travel is unbroken and contributes to the local economy in a way that is unmatched. Tourism in the Lehigh Valley contributes to the local economy by the creation of 26,500 jobs, advocating for the spirit of travel, and uniting residents in a way that makes them feel truly at home.
Rochester, New York is starting the weeklong event by hosting a light meet and greet with industry officials on May 2. On May 3rd, attendees will hear a presentation from industry veteran Sally Berry on how local businesses can increase partnership with the organization. Other activations throughout the week include hosting member happy hours, creating support for local businesses, encouraging attendance on the first day of the Rochester Lilac Festival, and helping residents dress for success while looking for employment. The program known as “Fill the Suitcase” has partnered with Dress for Success Rochester to provide those in need with professional attire needed to secure employment and includes professional development programs designed to equip women with success. The mission is aimed to assist women with professional attire, networking connections, and confidence building needed to succeed both professionally and personally.
Visit Rogers Arkansas is celebrating National Travel and Tourism week by displaying the collective strength of the tourism industry. The organization’s outlook is that despite the challenges of the past two years due to the pandemic the future is brighter than ever as the industry recovers. During the weeklong event they are utilizing the toolkit provided for the week to recognize the contributions that the tourism industry has made on their local economy and aiming to build a more dynamic, sustainable, inclusive, and innovative future. In addition to their key priorities, the organization plans to celebrate by lighting up their social media postings on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Emphasis into the future means building a more resilient future, supporting jobs, generating tax revenue, and prioritizing the community are at the forefront of the future of travel.


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|No plans for other platforms, says BungiePublished by wes213 on Saturday, December 08, 2007
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No current plans for XBLA titles either
Halo 3 developer Bungie, who recently became independent of Microsoft, said that is has no plans to work on any platforms other than the Xbox 360 at this time.
In a live text interview with our sister site, Eurogamer.net, Bungie's Jonty Barnes indicated that Microsoft has been good to them and hopes the relationship continues to be their strongest one.
"We're really focused on continuing our collaboration in making the best games we can, and that right now is on 360," he said.
He also indicated that Bungie currently has no plans for Xbox Live Arcade titles, although admitting they'll "never say never."
Responding to criticism of the cost of Halo 3 downloadable content which was recently released, Bungie's Frank O'Connor noted that the pricing decision was not made by them.
"It is an expensive business with most of the Bungie team being involved at one stage or another, so I'm not surprised Microsoft is trying to recoup its costs," he said. "The maps will be free in just a few months, so the patient can simply wait it out."
O'Connor noted that there are at least two Easter Eggs on 'Stand Off,' and also said that Forge can "certainly contain toys unavailable before.
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As mass consumerism took hold in the United States over the past several decades, Americans became increasingly expectant that the goods available to them would be cheaper than previously imaginable. One of the costs of this phenomenon has been off-shored to factories primarily in China, where factory labor conditions are well known to be grueling. But another, less known fact, is that many goods are actually made by modern-day Chinese slaves in the country’s forced labor camps. Amelia Pang, an investigative journalist and the author of “Made in China,” joins Robert Scheer on this week’s “Scheer Intelligence” to talk about the human story at the heart of her book, which begins in 2012 with an SOS note found by an Oregonian in a package of KMart Halloween decorations. The journalist follows the thread of the note to its author, Sun Yi, and chronicles the story of how the young engineer went from starting a life with his beloved wife to becoming a political prisoner working in inhumane conditions that produce Americans’ junk.
Due to a rising awareness in the West about how Uyghurs in Xinjiang are being imprisoned in “re-education” camps, the U.S. Congress is now considering legislation that would ban American companies from purchasing goods made in the Chinese region under the assumption they were produced by forced labor. Pang tells Scheer that Nike, Coca-Cola, and Apple have lobbied against the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, arguing that they have proof that the goods they manufacture in China are not the product of forced labor. The investigative journalist, who spent time in China conducting interviews and reporting on labor camps, warns that much of this “proof” is likely based on shoddy audits that are incomplete and often don’t take into subcontracting and other covert ways forced labor comes into the manufacturing equation.
“Even if [a product is] from Taiwan, that doesn't necessarily mean much,” explains Pang. “When I was in China visiting the labor camps and following the trucks to see which exporters they were working with, quite a few of them had connections with Taiwanese-owned factories.”
Scheer urges listeners to read Pang’s book, which he explains isn’t just about cut-and-dry statistics and facts relating to labor practices in China but is really a gripping story about Sun Yi’s tragic life and that of others whose lives were forever changed by labor abuses fueled by Americans’ seemingly insatiable consumption. Listen to the full discussion between Pang and Scheer as they grapple with how American individuals and their government might be able to impact workers’ rights in China and elsewhere through shifts in consumption and trade deals.


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As the Christmas draws near, tech companies are coming up with newer and more enticing deals. Microsoft has announced an early gift for Windows Phone users who can now get their hands on 20GB of free SkyDrive storage.
The deal is a great one for such users who are not only Windows Phone user but are already a part of Microsoft’s online ecosystem. But if you use other alternatives such as Dropbox or Google Drive on your Windows Phone handset, you may want to see if 20GB worth of free storage space is worth switching your cloud storage account.
As with most great deals, this one also comes with a number of limitations. For a start, it must be availed before January 31, 2014 after which Microsoft will no longer offer it. Moreover, once you avail the deal and add the free 20GB to your SkyDrive storage, you will have to actively fill it up.
After one year, if you still have any unused space out of that 20GB, it will disappear. We can easily surmise that a year from now, most of the Windows Phone users who do choose to avail the offer will have a major part of this free storage space unused. So the unused space will vanish and go back to Microsoft which stands to lose little from what appears like a perfectly sweet offer.


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As Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, some are left to wonder how the turkey—a large not particularly flavorful bird occupies so much attention as the symbol and centerpiece of Thanksgiving. Further, where are all these turkeys coming from if they only gain relevance seemingly one month per year? Quite counterintuitively, the turkey is not merely a cultural symbol for the U.S., but an economic one as well.
Benjamin Franklin once proposed to his daughter that the turkey be the official bird of the United States. Though symbolically the eagle edged out the competition, the turkey has had greater and far-reaching economic impacts, as the US is the world’s largest producer and exporter of the bird.
Crunching the numbers, in 2015, per capita consumption in the US hovered at around 16 pounds while total turkey production yielded about 7.04 billion pounds from 233 million turkeys raised. The US ranks third in turkey consumption, behind Israel and Hungary, but domestic consumption increases annually. The US Department of Agriculture predicts per capita consumption will increase by 6 percent at the end of 2016, which is significantly higher than the 2.4 percent, 1.6 percent, and 0.5 percent forecasted growth for beef, chicken, and pork, respectively.
However, the holiday season alone does not account for the rising demand for turkey in the US. Rather, products such as deli meat, turkey bacon, jerky, and increasingly, ground turkey, have accounted for a growing share of the overall turkey demand since the 1970s as health concerns regarding red meat consumption have led more people to source lean protein. The switch to turkey meat has been so significant that the Butterball company initiated a campaign calling those who have swapped to this protein turketarians, and this marketing tactic worked so effectively that the term has now been officially coined in Urban Dictionary.
Growing popularity notwithstanding, turkey has long been eaten in the US. The Europeans prior to their arrival had already been consuming turkey after the Spaniards brought it back from Mexico, where the wild turkey was first domesticated. Turkey represented a popular meat to share given its large size, and was eaten as a special occasion food before President Abraham Lincoln announced Thanksgiving as an official holiday in 1863. The codification of Thanksgiving thus solidified turkey as the key centerpiece on most everyone’s Thanksgiving table.
The transition of turkey from a holiday food mostly for the wealthy class to a near universal staple at any deli counter, and increasingly as an alternative to ground beef, arose largely because of the bottom line. As expected, turkey producers traditionally saw sales spike around Thanksgiving and Christmas, but had minimal sales the rest of the year. In 1910, consumption of turkey was around 0.8 pounds per year.
However, a push by the industry starting in the early twentieth century to encourage consumers to switch to turkey meat as a healthy alternative through recipe booklets, posters, advertisements, and other consumer education materials worked effectively to push turkey into the top five meats consumed in the US, especially as food and health started to become inextricably linked in American minds toward the latter half of the twentieth century.
The success of the turkey industry can also be attributed to the vertical integration of the market controlling the entire production process, including the marketing that has swayed consumer preferences. Moreover, the consolidation of the industry over the past few decades has also meant fewer operations in business, but enhanced productivity. In 1975, 180 hatcheries averaged 33,000 eggs per hatchery; in 2007, the number of hatcheries dropped to 55, but they each produced 704,000 eggs.
Turkey producers not only look to satiate domestic demand for the bird, but also have an export-oriented view. Mexico represents the number one trading partner in turkey meat, generally accounting for more than 50 percent of exports by volume. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has no doubt assisted this trade relationship by reducing import tariffs to near zero. However, producers have started to turn to other countries, and have especially concentrated their efforts on East Asia (and perhaps rightly so given the precariousness of NAFTA under the forthcoming presidential administration). Further helping the export industry, is the American predilection for white turkey breast meat, which allows producers to use the remaining dark meat for export.
The industry is not without its problems – chief among them avian flu, which affected sales in 2015 after producers culled some 50 million birds. Although the market has largely bounced back and turkey growers have restocked their farms, the susceptibility of turkeys to diseases will remain an issue for the industry moving forward. Furthermore, the turkey industry experienced a shock to its burgeoning ground turkey sector after its major processor, Jennie-O Turkey Store, recalled nearly 55,000 pounds of frozen, raw turkey burgers in 2015 because of salmonella contamination. Jennie-O Turkey Store has been the most vocal proponent of ground turkey, and it currently holds a 40 percent share of this category.
Despite these recent problems, the turkey market remains a fairly robust and productive sector because it retains a cultural status and symbol that simply cannot be replaced by another meat; after all, no other animal lends itself as well to finger tracing.


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Dragon Quest IX best-selling DQ ever
Ships over five million worldwide.
DS role-playing game Dragon Quest IX is the best-selling Dragon Quest game ever, Square Enix has announced.
The game had shipped more than 5.3 million units worldwide as of December last year, Andriasang reports.
It is the first game in the illustrious series to sell more than five million copies. The series as a whole has shipped more than 57 million units.
Last year producer Ryutaro Ichimura revealed the game was inspired by Bethesda's Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Blizzard's Diablo.
"We have no recognition that Dragon Quest IX is a part of the so-called JRPG genre, unless you mean all the RPGs created in Japan are JRPGs," he said.
Simon Parkin turned up a 9/10 in Eurogamer's Dragon Quest IX review, saying, "Dragon Quest IX cleanses the palate with its straightforwardness, allowing the workmanship to shine, and its clutch of nested fairytales to inspire."


text: Semiconductor industry leader Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC – $23.29) reported mixed results for the June quarter. On the plus side, share net came in at $0.39, which was on par with Street consensus. But revenues were roughly $12.8 billion, slightly below estimates. PC Client Group revenue was $8.1 billion, a 1.4% sequential improvement, though down 7.5% from last year. Also, Data Center group revenue comparisons were up about 6%, to $2.7 billion, from the March period, and were roughly flat year over year. Other Intel Architecture sales were $942 million, representing a 2% sequential improvement, though decreasing 5% from last year’s comparable period. However, the news is not all that good going forward. Management gave third-quarter revenue guidance of $13.5 billion, plus or minus a couple of percentage points, while analysts were hoping for something closer to $13.75 billion, as the guidance continues to reflect a bumpy domestic economic recovery along with sluggish demand trends in the personal computer market. However, I continue to believe that Intel has the size and strength to reap notable market share in the years ahead as it moves more into the mobile and tablet markets. Samsung Electronics confirmed that it was using an Intel chip in one of its Android tablets. Hence, Intel shares can remain as a core long-term holding for investors seeking technology exposure with a solid income stream. The shares yield 3.7% at current levels.


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The Sunday Mail
For the last couple of years, Uganda has been choking from food prices that have been spiraling out of control. The price increases in the East African country have been attributed to the shortage of supplies.
The sudden rise in inflation has also been blamed on the increase in fuel prices and increased cost of electricity.
In 2015, South Africa faced the same predicament with food prices shooting up by 15 percent due to drought that ravaged the country’s key production regions and the value added tax that was placed on essential food items.
In West Africa, experts are warning of a food security threat in Africa’s most populous country – Nigeria – following last year’s 60 percent price spike on maize. That is the African narrative at a glance, a narrative that is perennially shoved down our throats; that of gloom, of a continent that has irreparable conditions that justify economy derailing unending price shocks.
Apparently, every African nation is supposed to fit into that mold, no matter how the fundamentals differ from Cape to Cairo. But Zimbabwe is a sovereign nation, a vocal one for that matter. Zimbabwe definitely does not have any circumstance that fosters unstable prices for basic commodities.
Zimbabwe does not have any shortage of supplies, be it raw materials or finished basic goods. Any doubting Thomas can check local shop shelves, they are well stocked with locally manufactured products. Never mind those who prefer spending their hard-earned money on expensive foreign made baked beans or chewing gum!
The cost of doing business has generally remained constant during the past year. Electricity remains pegged at 9,86 cents per kilowatt. Salaries and wages remain constant.
As for agricultural production, which is the economy’s backbone; last year witnessed a great boom following the birth of the Command Agriculture programme, which seeks to complement the Presidential Input Scheme in capacitating local farmers.
The programme coincided with sufficient rains during the 2016/17 farming season and the result was a bumper harvest to feed the nation.
And yet prices of basic commodities such as mealie meal, meat, washing powder, soap and salt have been shooting up relentlessly.
A kilogram of beef is now being sold for $7, up from about $4,50 in 2016. A two-litre cooling oil bottle is now going for around $3,60, up from last year’s $3.
The cost of living as measured by the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe’s low income urban earner monthly basket for a family of six increased from the December 2016 figure of $577,97 to $590,52 by end of January 2017, showing an increase of $12,55 in just one month.
Fast forward ten months and the situation has worsened.
When taking a closer look at the rudiments, there is absolutely no justification for these increases. If anything, prices should be going south, not north.
Clearly, the money changers roaming our streets are not the only rent seekers in town. Retailers are equally culpable and Government needs to put its foot down. This nonsense simply has to stop.
What is informing the decision to hike the price of cooking oil for example, when local producers of the commodity have reassured the public that their product is still available in abundance at the same price?
It is now a case of greedy retailers who are bent on profiteering from making inappropriate profit margins at the expense of the public.
While Government introduced Statutory instrument 64 of 2016 to the spur growth of local industries, it appears like the SI in now being abused to rip off consumers. The nation is supposed to be enjoying the benefits of the situation created by this oligopoly in production.
And it’s been over a month since people panicked into buying basic commodities in bulk following messages that warned of impending food shortages circulated on social media platforms. Things have since stabilized and by now, prices should have gone back to normal.
Looks like retailers are playing some game. Whose game for now we have no idea, but we will soon know.


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According to blog Eurogamer, Xbox Live's cloud saving is now live, making it possible to recover Gamertags across different consoles and access save data. It apparently doesn't yet work for all games, however. [Eurogamer]
The story and report is complete nonsense, many arcarde games had "cloud saving" since forever. Nearly every arcarde game where you are not presented with a memory unit choose dialog saves the little save data it has (unlocked level, etc) into your profile. That is synced when online and gets recovered when you recover your gamertag. It has been like this since launch.


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The LG Revolution may not be the revolutionary handset it claims to be, but it's still a solid Verizon 4G Android phone with the bonus of the Netflix app.
Form a four-man freedom fighter cell and reclaim America with customizable weapons, open-ended tactics, and a free year of downloadable content.
At CES, it shows off far-out modular TVs that rotate and change size. Samsung says futuristic designs are all about giving you greater choice and control.
Target pre-order card reveals publisher has earmarked May launch.
Commentary: New data finds more consumers choosing mobile connections for broadband. Policymakers hoping to close the digital divide must shift course accordingly.
The Baylis Revolution may be overkill for recreational camping, but it's a perfect boredom-buster for globe trekkers, outdoorsmen, and fans of green energy.
As shown: $209
Check manufacturer's site for availability
For Road Trip 2015, CNET gets a hands-on preview of a world-first VR entertainment facility before it opens its doors to the public on August 15.
The Internet is creeping into any and every thing, changing how we interact with the world -- and it with us.
Plasma TVs may be extinct, but OLED screens now fill that niche. Only one company makes them, so you'll need deep pockets to afford the best picture on the market.
Technically Incorrect: Claiming to be "new money," PayPal sneers at old money, including old men on bank notes.


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Sainsbury’s portion value: Will the present 4% deals drop hit SBRY?
UK general store chain Sainsbury’s (SBRY) detailed a 4% fall in basic deals for its most memorable quarter. Basic food item deals fell 2.4% over the quarter to June 25 and general product deals fell 11.2%.
Chief Simon Roberts remarked:
“The headway we are making on further developing worth, quality, advancement and administration is reflected in our better basic food item volume piece of the pie.
“The tension on family financial plans will just escalate over the rest of the year and I am extremely evident that making the best choice for our clients and associates will stay at the actual top of our plan.”
Sainsbury’s said it actually expected its basic pretax benefit for the year to be somewhere in the range of £630m and £690m.
The organization likewise said its CFO Kevin O’Byrne would resign in March 2023 and be suceeded by business and retail finance chief Blathnaid Bergin.
Grocery store share costs: one year and five years (in sections)
Tesco share cost +15.1% (+18.9%)
Sainsbury share cost – 23.7% (- 15.7%)
M&S Group share cost – 11% (- 57.4%)
Sainsbury shares, truth be told, are exchanging scarcely any higher than they were in mid 1989.
Russ Mold, speculation chief at AJ Bell, says financial backers are unconvinced the FTSE 100 merchant is getting its down right, particularly as 2016’s £1.4bn acquisition of Argos is presently not the clever move it checked the break.
Customers are battling as costs take off above pay development and the economy debilitates: food expansion is anticipated to hit 15% this mid year, staple body IDG cautions.
The cost pressure has proactively seen Tesco, polishing its sharp cost cred, get into a fairly open cost spat with provider Heinz over beans and ketchup.
Is Sainsbury’s out of new thoughts?
Sainsbury’s portion cost mirrors its fight not simply against German discounters and Tesco and Asda yet additionally the one-hour conveyance administrations, in addition to Amazon Fresh.
Shape contends that like-for-like figures are critical.
The pandemic and lockdowns have bowed the year-on-year correlations gravely flabby he expresses “yet in the year to March 2022 like-for-like deals were down 2.3% year-on-year, barring fuel, and the pace of decline was 5.6% in the final quarter alone”.
Benefits – mediocre?
Sainsbury’s CEO Simon Roberts thought fundamental pre-charge benefits for the year to March 2023 would land at between £630m-£690m.
“That would address a drop,” says Mold, “from the £730m enrolled last year when the firm assessed COVID-related volumes added £100m to benefits yet it would in any case address a development on the £586m created in the pre-pandemic year of 2019-20.”
Bid talk repressed
Sainsbury has dumped plans to sell its financial arm and offered talk – resuscitated for the umpteenth time after confidential value firm Clayton, Dubilier and Rice’s dive on Morrisons – has evaporated says the AJ Bell chief.
Sainsbury’s monetary administrations arm made £38m benefits in financial 2022 “and the bank delivered its very first profit to the gathering. Examiners will look for any remark here on the credit book and for any indications of any expansion in disabilities”.
Particularly as clients truly feel the cost for many everyday items consume.
Lower obligation, nectar buzz
Be that as it may, Sainsbury creates a greater number of deals online than it did pre-pandemic which gives it somewhat more computerized protection against any semblance of Lidl and Aldi, who keep on taking portion of the overall industry.
There’s likewise some client ‘tenacity’ connected to Sainsbury’s Nectar card (however different general stores have their own card plans).
Sainsbury’s net obligation is down, by around £1.4bn more than three years and a 6.3% profit, 24% up on 2021, is a benefits asset and confidential investor masterpiece.
However, the discounters will come in hard throughout the following 9 a year. Financial backers might be enticed to take a stab at a novel, new thing.
Sainsbury in the walkways
Staple did emphatically in the year to March 2022, with a 7.6% like-for-like expansion in deals.
General Merchandise saw a 4.6% drop; Argos was down 3% and Sainsbury’s own stores 12% lower.
Clothing began strongly yet “gravely lost energy as the year wore on, finished with down quarters in Q3 and Q4 and simply a 3.1% expansion for the year generally speaking,” says AJ Bell.


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Gabriel India: Gabriel India, a leading shock-absorber manufacturer, continues to post a strong set of numbers. In Q2FY23, Gabriel’s net revenue grew 11.4% QoQ, led by a strong volume growth in the passenger car and CV segments, post the easing of chip-supply constraints. The company’s EBITDA margin expanded by 30 basis points on a YoY basis, led by softening commodity prices, improved product mix, and cost reductions. On the demand front, what is helping is the PV and the 2W segments. The shift in preference towards personal transport as people continue to remain wary of taking public vehicles is good news for the company. The changing consumer behaviour will continue to remain a key growth trigger for Gabriel as it generates more than 85% of its revenues from these segments. Like any other ancillary segment, EVs offer a significant opportunity to shock- absorber manufacturers like Gabriel. In fact, on the back of a strong product portfolio, the company has already garnered 50% market share for suspension products in the e-2W segment. Positive on Gabriel India given the strong 2QFY23 numbers and healthy order wins to boost top line.
Tata Consumer ltd: Tata Consumer management remains confident that 2HFY23 will be better than 1HFY23. Growth in Tea is expected to come back going forward while it continues to gain market share in Salt. Increased focus on innovation continues for the company as pipeline continues to get stronger. In tea segment, company is targeting high single-digit volume growth and it will be driven by distribution expansion. Tata Salt is seeing market share gains as strong growth is coming on the back of conversion from lower end products. Premium products are also doing well as consumers are becoming more and more health conscious. Company is broadly focused on the Food & Beverages category and aspires to look beyond F&B only over time. It sees lot of opportunities in the Health & Wellness space, particularly Protein & Protein Supplements. It is also looking at export opportunities because of the large Indian food market overseas. Positive on Tata Consumer as the price actions and structural cost savings in the International business along with normalization of margins in the India Salt business will help in supporting the margins.
*Indices log new record highs buoyed by RIL; Sensex rises 211 points*
Despite volatility in global markets, Indian benchmark indices scaled new highs on Monday aided by falling oil prices and gains in the Reliance Industries (RIL) stock. The benchmark Sensex rose for the fifth successive session and ended at 62,505, a gain of 211 points or 0.3 per cent. The Nifty too rose 0.3 per cent to end the session at 18,563, a gain of 50 points. Both indices hit fresh highs on Monday. The Nifty touched 18,614.25 intraday, beating its earlier record of 18,604.5 that it hit on October 19, 2021. Shares of RIL ended the session at a five-month high after they rose 3.5 per cent. It made a 277-point contribution to the Sensex’s gains. If not for RIL, the domestic indices would have ended in the red like most of their global peers, as protests in China hit sentiment and raised concerns over economic recovery.
*Budget 2023-24: Stay on fiscal glide path, economists advise FM Sitharaman*
The Union government could target a fiscal deficit of 5.8-6 per cent of nominal GDP for 2023-24, and it should continue its capital expenditure push and look to simplify the personal income tax regime, economists recommended Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and her team during their pre-Budget interaction on Monday. Starting last week, Sitharaman had eight pre-Budget consultations this time. More than 110 invitees representing seven stakeholder groups participated in these meetings, the finance ministry said in a statement. The stakeholder groups included representatives and experts from agriculture and agro-processing industry; industry, infrastructure & climate change; financial sector and capital markets; services and trade; social sector; trade unions and labour organisations; and economists. “Most economists have suggested that the fiscal deficit be kept between 5.8 per cent and 6 per cent in order to stay on the glide path towards a medium-term target of 4.5 per cent of GDP. The suggestions were that the Centre continue with its capex push, and look to simplify taxes,” said a person aware of the discussions with economists.
*PowerMin invites bids to supply 4.5 Gw electricity during coming summer*
Looking to maintain surplus power supply in all parts of the country in the coming year, especially during high-demand summer months, the union power ministry has called for bids to procure 4.5 gigawatt (Gw) from generating companies (gencos). The supply period would be five years and additional coal would be allocated to the gencos which qualify under the scheme. “PFC Consulting Limited (A wholly-owned subsidiary of PFC Ltd) has been designated as the nodal agency by the power ministry. Under the scheme, PFC Consulting has invited bids for the supply of 4,500 Mw. Power supply will commence in April 2023. The Ministry of Coal has been requested to allocate about 27 million tonnes of coal per annum,” said a statement by the ministry of power. The bidding is under the SHAKTI scheme launched by the Centre in 2017 to build coal linkages for optimal supply of power across the country. The current round is the first such under the section B(v) of SHAKTI Policy which states: “Power requirement of group of States can also be aggregated and procurement of such aggregated power can be made by an agency designated by Ministry of Power or authorised by such States on the basis of tariff-based bidding.”
Gold – Rs 52682/10gm, Silver – Rs 61816/kg, Brcrude – Rs 6158/barrel, Degumsyoil – Rs 1296/10kg, Copper – Rs 667/kg.
NBCC gets Rs 271 cr order in stalled projects of erstwhile Amrapali Group.
Welspun One Logistics Parks Fund 1 commits Rs 500 crore warehousing AIF.
HCLTech signs multi-year contract with Swiss MRO firm SR Technics.
SGX Nifty indicates negative start to Indian markets trading at 18670 levels down by 59 points or 0.32%. Dow Jones also ended in red down by 1.45% at close.
Sector in focus – IT, Banks, Metals & Pharma.


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NEW DELHI, March 14 (Reuters) - India's annual consumer price inflation rose to 3.65 percent in February, mainly driven by food prices, after touching its lowest level in at least five years in January, government data showed on Tuesday.
Economists polled by Reuters had expected last month's annual retail inflation to come in at 3.58 percent, compared with 3.17 percent in January.
Food inflation was 2.01 percent last month, higher than 0.53 percent in January. (Reporting by Manoj Kumar; Editing by Malini Menon)


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After a successful pre-launch trial in August 2012, new restaurant food delivery company FoodCouriers has now fully launched in Bristol.
With a brand new website having gone live on Monday, September 3rd, FoodCouriers aims to provide gourmet meals to Bristol’s hungry diners – and from restaurants that do not normally offer such a service.
Bristolians can already order food for delivery – either online or over the phone – from Old India, The Burger Joint, Kathmandu, Obento, Warren’s Gourmet Burger Company, Rupsha, The Lanes, Kohi Noor and Filini at the Radisson Blu, with Vietnamese restaurant PhoHaNoi also joining the panel in the next few weeks.
“We’re very excited to have finally launched the business”, says FoodCouriers founder Dotun Olowoporoku, “and we were pleased to be able to showcase some great food from the restaurants that we’re working with at our launch party at the Radisson Blu hotel.”
Providing great food to Bristol’s hungry residents is not the only thing on Dotun’s agenda. “We said we’d create jobs…and we have! Since we started, we’ve hired 16 delivery drivers and riders, 3 customer service advisors and an accounts manager – and we certainly see this number growing in the future.”
Unlike many other delivery companies, FoodCouriers pride themselves on their environmental ethics, aiming to complete as many deliveries as possible using sustainable modes of transport. “Most orders within a two mile radius of the restaurants will be delivered by either bike or electric bike”, says Dotun. “Thanks to a grant from the Local Sustainable Transport Fund through Bristol City Council, we are able to buy our first electric bikes to revolutionise the way in which we deliver to our customers.”
For more information and to order, visit www.foodcouriers.co.uk. Bristol Bites readers can enjoy a 5% discount on any order placed up to Friday, September 21st – simply use code bristolbites1309 at checkout.


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HTC has recently launched a new phone under desire series in its home country. Dubbed as Desire 728, the phablet costs US$ 266 in China and is available in White and Black variants. However, there have been no details regarding the handset’s price and availability in other countries.
HTC Desire 728 sports a 13.97cm (5.5-inch) IPS displaywith a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels. Powered by a 1.3GHz octa-core MT6753 processor coupled with 2GB RAM, the phone comes with 16GB of inbuilt storage with expandability up to 2TB via microSD card. Packed with a 2800mAh battery, the device comes with BoomSound front stereo speakers..
The phone runs on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop. It features a 13MP rear camera along with a 5MP front-facing camera with LED flash. With the connectivity of 4G, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and A-GPS, measures 157.9 x 77.8 x 7.87 mm, weighs 153 grams and comes in dual-SIM variant.


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Bitcoin has fallen by 17% leaving it below 50,000!23 February 2021 ❤ 3
In the past year, the value of Bitcoin has risen drastically and has been the topic of many conversations, But last night it dropped by more than 17% leaving it below the low number of $50,000, It was said to have dropped by $52,878 in just 24 hours, that’s 7.4%.
This may be due to a tweet that went out by Tesla founder Elon Musk. He stated that gold is better than Bitcoin and that Bitcoin and Ether is too expensive price-wise. This was just after he had spent $1.5 billion buying Bitcoin and accepting it as a payment method
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在过去的一年中，比特币的价值急剧上升，并成为许多话题的话题， 但是昨晚它下跌了17％以上，使其跌破了50,000美元的低位， 据说仅仅下跌了52,878美元。24小时，占7.4％。 这可能是由于特斯拉创始人埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）发布了一条推文。 他表示，黄金比比特币更好，并且比特币和以太币价格太昂贵。 就在他花15亿美元购买比特币并接受其作为付款方式之后


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We’re currently witnessing the biggest iPhone leak since an Apple engineer forgot an iPhone 4 prototype in a bar. Two months before Steve Jobs took the stage to unveil the iPhone 4 in 2010, the world got to see the handset in the flesh. This time around, we don’t have an actual device to show you, but an Apple employee mistakenly released the HomePod software into the wild. And that firmware contains plenty of juicy iPhone 8 details.
Developers digging through it have already found a treasure trove of iPhone 8 information, confirming the phone’s design and the new “Face ID” biometrics unlock feature. The speaker’s software also revealed there’s no home button on the phone, and that there’s no Touch ID sensor in sight — or, at least, it’s not mentioned in the software.
A new finding reveals more details about the iPhone 8’s most important feature, seemingly confirming previous leaks on the matter.
The iPhone 8’s main selling point will be its edge-to-edge display that’ll give the user access to an even bigger screen in a device that’ll be about as big as the 4.7-inch iPhone. That also means the phone has to deliver a better image quality than the 4.7-inch model, and that means better resolution as well.
The same Steve Troughton-Smith, the developer who first started tweeting findings from the HomePod software, discovered references to the iPhone 8’s screen resolution inside the code.
There are little tidbits in the OS suggesting upcoming iPhone will have a 3x screen at 1125×2436. Hard to gauge what that will mean for devs pic.twitter.com/SK8QjOAfDt
— Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) July 31, 2017
“There are little tidbits in the OS suggesting upcoming iPhone will have a 3x screen at 1125 x 2436,” he said.
If those numbers sound familiar, that’s because we saw them in the past. Well-known Apple Insider Ming-Chi Kuo said in February the iPhone 8 will have a 5.8-inch OLED screen measuring 2800 x 1242 resolution, of which the display area will measure 5.15-inch or 2436 x 1125, as seen in the following image.
Then, in mid-June, MacRumors noticed in its website analytics programs references to iOS 11 devices sporting 2436 x 1125 screens, a resolution we’ve discovered in BGR’s own analytics.
Troughton-Smith’s discovery seems to confirm the iPhone 8’s resolution and aspect ratio. Conversely, at 2436 x 1125, the screen would still be of Retina quality, measuring 521 pixels per inch (PPI). Retina displays are, in Apple’s own terms, screens with resolutions exceeding the 326 ppl.


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Tuesday saw the release of a plan by the Chinese government to increase trade in the face of declining international demand for its exports.
The big picture: China’s economy expanded 4.5% in the first quarter of this year, faster than many analysts predicted, after its zero-COVID policies were abolished in December of last year.
However, as the U.S. and other advanced economies cut back on spending as a global recession approaches, some economists warn that China’s export sector may continue to suffer.
Details: As part of the new plan, China will expedite visa processing for overseas businesspeople, while increasing international flights and fully restoring in-person trade shows, the country’s State Council said in a statement.
At the same time, China will encourage more car exports by directly connecting car firms and shipment companies, as well as improving brand marketing, sale and customer service overseas.
China asked its embassies and consulates to broaden their support for small and medium-sized enterprises to reach overseas markets. The Chinese government hopes to stabilize exports to developed countries, and open up companies to markets in developing regions, including Southeast Asia, the statement added.
The country will also seek to expand imports of advanced technology equipment and streamline its import subsidies.


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Computer Security No 56: Three Nigerian scammers sentenced to a total of 235 years in prison
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Three Nigerian scammers sentenced to a total of 235 years in prison
"Three Nigerian nationals, who were extradited from South Africa to the Southern District of Mississippi in July 2015, were sentenced to prison this week for their roles in a large-scale international fraud network."
Oladimeji Seun Ayelotan, 30, was sentenced to 95 years in prison. Rasaq Aderoju Raheem, 31, was sentenced to 115 years in prison. Femi Alexander Mewase, 45, was sentenced to 25 years in prison. After a three-week trial in early 2017, a federal jury found each defendant guilty of offenses involving mail fraud, wire fraud, identity theft, credit card fraud and theft of government property. Ayelotan and Raheem were also found guilty of conspiracies to commit bank fraud and money laundering.
A total of 21 defendants were charged in this case, 12 of whom have pleaded guilty to charges related to the conspiracy, and 11 of whom have been sentenced to date."
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Target and State Attorneys General Resolve Investigation with Largest Multi-State Breach Settlement to Date - Posted on May 24, 2017
Background: In December 2013, Target suffered a data breach that affected up to 110 million customers (compromised names, phone numbers, email and mailing addresses). In March 2015 Target reached a class-action settlement with affected customers for $10 million plus attorney fees; in May 2016, Target settled with affected banks for $39 million plus attorney fees; the latest settlement occured in May 2017, with all the States for $18.5 million.
"On May 23, 2017, various attorneys general of 47 states and the District of Columbia announced that they had reached an $18.5 million settlement with Target regarding the states’ investigation of the company’s 2013 data breach. This represents the largest multi-state data breach settlement achieved to date.
Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan led the investigation, which found that hackers used credentials stolen from a third-party vendor to access Target’s gateway server and install malware that enabled them to capture consumer data, including names, contact information and payment card information of over 40 million customers. In addition to the monetary settlement, Target will adopt measures to secure and protect consumer information.
For example, Target has 180 days to develop and implement a comprehensive information security program to be overseen by an executive reporting to its CEO and Board of Directors.
The settlement also requires Target to obtain a third-party assessment of the measures it adopts and submit the assessor's findings to the states.
Attorney General Madigan described the measures as setting "industry standards for companies that process payment cards and maintain secure information about their customers."
(source:huntonprivacyblog.com; image source: pinterest)
1. Judy - malware discovered by Check Point researchers affecting Android devices.
"The malware is an auto-clicking adware which was found on 41 apps developed by a Korean company. The malware uses infected devices to generate large amounts of fraudulent clicks on advertisements, generating revenues for the perpetrators behind it. The malicious apps reached an astonishing spread between 4.5 million and 18.5 million downloads. Some of the apps we discovered resided on Google Play for several years, but all were recently updated. It is unclear how long the malicious code existed inside the apps, hence the actual spread of the malware remains unknown."
The researchers found several apps containing the malware, which were developed by other developers on Google Play. The connection between the two campaigns remains unclear, and it is possible that one borrowed code from the other, knowingly or unknowingly.
It is believed the total spread of the malware may have reached between 8.5 and 36.5 million users. Similar to previous malware which infiltrated Google Play, such as FalseGuide and Skinner, Judy relies on the communication with its Command and Control server (C&C) for its operation. After Check Point notified Google about this threat, the apps were swiftly removed from the Play store.
We advise you to remove them from your devices asap!
2. Cloak & Dagger is a new class of potential attacks affecting Android devices. These attacks allow a malicious app to completely control the UI feedback loop and take over the device - without giving the user a chance to notice the malicious activity.
The possible attacks include: advanced clickjacking, unconstrained keystroke recording, stealthy phishing, the silent installation of a God-mode app (with all permissions enabled), and silent phone unlocking plus arbitrary actions (while keeping the screen off).
These attacks affect all recent versions of Android (including the latest version, Android 7.1.2), and they are yet to be fixed.
To read more: - http://cloak-and-dagger.org/
(sources: Check Point; University of Georgia; image source: Android Sage)
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Blockchain & CryptoCurrencies (Part 5)
We started a series about Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, We will discuss the Blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin in particular (only in the fortnightly Private Security newsletters - even numbers #48, 50, etc).
(source: themerkle.com February 2017; image source: bitcoin exchange stack)
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Tourist business union in favor of opening stores on Sunday
SETE, the union of Greek tourist businesses, is in favor of the propose operation of shops on Sundays, as well as a reduction of the VAT rate.
More specifically the union proposes the operation of all stores for seven Sundays, while all the smaller stores can work on as many Sundays as they want. The president of SETE Andreadis referred to the VAT increase as a “huge mistake”, which he expects will be reduced in July.
The Sunday operation issue has caused many strong reactions from businesses and traders. The government is to submit a bill providing the optional operation of small stores (with premises smaller than 250 square meters) on all Sundays.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. logistics and transportation leaders must set the stage for the country's transition from an import economy to an export economy by embracing new technologies that improve efficiencies and transparency within the industry. This was among the key messages from leading supply chain expert Ruben Mirensky as he spoke today to hundreds of industry executives at the Global Trade & Transportation Symposium in Jacksonville, Florida.
Mirensky, founder and president of Optipoint Custom Tracking (www.OptipointTracking.com) spoke as part of the symposium's Supply Chain and 3PL Analysis Panel. He said that American transportation companies are resistant to making the changes that are necessary for the transition to occur swiftly, "but at some point, as a country, we have to come to accept and adjust."
Fueling the current U.S. transition from an import-oriented, low-savings economy to a more export-oriented, higher-savings one is the Obama administration's "weak dollar policy," which encourages exports and discourages the consumption of imports. These changing dynamics promise to create a economic boon for agile and forward-looking transportation companies. "Those companies that will adapt will succeed," Mirensky said. "Those that don't will perish."
Indeed, existing 3PL companies must lead the way in creating efficiencies that facilitate the transition, he said. Among the examples of innovations cited were new cost-effective technologies that provide global GPS tracking of shipments and crucial transparency to customers during moves. The $507 billion-a-year global 3PL industry is becoming more specialized and market-specific each year. Increasing competition is forcing creative technology solutions that produce new efficiencies, he added.
Mirensky also discussed the need for manufacturers to build elasticity into their processes as U.S. 3PLs are increasingly called on to store and redistribute raw products. The integration of new tracking and monitoring software with legacy ERP and materials management systems will become crucial.
Optipoint Custom Tracking adds invaluable strength to clients' materials management systems by tailoring logistical tracking solutions to meet particular needs. The company's experts integrate the latest in Internet-based or stand-alone GPS software with existing ERP and other legacy systems to improve the deployment of mobile assets — whether they are on the road, on rail or in container shipments. For more information, see www.optipointtracking.com.
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Jakarta – Samsung Galaxy S4 comes with its smartphone technological innovation is likely to soon be your handheld.
Because, Samsung Electronics has started pre-orders or reservations for the Galaxy S4 in Indonesia.
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Sony has just announced a new game console, the PlayStation 4, the PlayStation event in the U.S. (2/21). What are the new features of the PS4? The following brief review.
Yes, PS4 will include a new controller called the DualShock 4. Controller [...]
Amazon, one of the sites online stores which previously launched the Kindle Fire, is currently preparing the set-top box itself.
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Sony showed off its latest ultrabook Windows 8 operating system, Vaio T13 “Touch Screen”, Indocomtech exhibition in 2012 at the Jakarta Convention Center (JCC).
With a 13.3-inch wide screen, users can enjoy a new experience with Windows 8 [...]
A Russian astronaut managed to record a new record as the oldest still active astronauts ‘walks’ in outer space.
Quoted by FoxNews, Monday (22/4), Pavel Vinogradov is recorded as the oldest astronaut at the age of 59 years.
Pavel has been [...]
Having nearly 3.8 million followers.
Won seven Tour de France titles are no longer part of the description of the cyclist Lance Armstrong’s Twitter account.
On Monday evening (10/22), a biography of Armstrong on Twitter are called seven Tour de [...]
Promoting tourism and economic development to the outside world with more easily.
Google began to introduce the features of Google Street View in Indonesia after Friday afternoon (11/23) symbolically release two special cars that will record the roads [...]
Moscow – Thousands of Russian citizens were mobilized to clean up the damage caused by the meteor hit near the Ural mountains failed to find the space rock fragments. Failing that later sparked a conversation about the conspiracy theories about [...]
BlackBerry, the big names who are drowning and trying to get up. Research In Motion (RIM) is ready with a new platform that can be trusted to restore the glory of the BlackBerry.
BlackBerry 10 to be slid January 30, 2013 could be the answer. Just how [...]
One of the advantages of this device is able to work without a hitch with Apple Time Machine
The company Western Digital announced a new version of an external hard drive My Book Studio.
USB 3.0 capability is now added to the family hard drive My Book [...]
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Smartpone manufacturer from South Korea, starting today officially launched the Galaxy Note II version dual Sim Card.
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Arctic, the Romanian subsidiary of Turkish group Arcelik, has temporarily closed its refrigerators factory in Găești in southern Romania, after dozens of its employees tested positive for coronavirus.
All employees of the factory in Gaesti will enter technical unemployment for the entire period while the production lines remain closed, the company announced.
The factory employs 4,000 and is the biggest refrigerators production unit in continental Europe. Arctic, the leader of the Romanian home appliances market, is one of the most important employers and exporters in the country.
The freezers production lines will resume production on June 2, and the refrigerators lines on May 25. In the meantime, the factory will undergo an intense disinfection program.
Among the employees of the factory in Găești, 66 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed, after the Arctic company decided to test several employees, following a first case registered on May 7th. All those infected are asymptomatic.
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Loebsack Demands Answers from Equifax on Data BreachWritten by Theresa Rose on September 14, 2017
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Dave Loebsack, along with his Democratic colleagues from the Energy and Commerce Committee, demanded answers from Equifax after the company announced a massive data breach has compromised the personal information of more than 143 million Americans. In a letter sent to the Richard Smith, the Chairman and CEO of Equifax, the members laid out a series of questions to gain additional information about who was affected, how Equifax plans to make impacted customers whole and what the company is doing to ensure additional breaches do not occur. The letter also asks why Equifax took more than a month to notify consumers of the unauthorized access to their personal information.
Information is available on the Iowa Attorney General’s website for Iowans whose data may have been compromised.
“We are writing with serious concerns about the immense scale of this data breach, and we have a number of questions about whether Equifax took appropriate steps to safeguard the personal information of consumers,” the Energy and Commerce Committee members wrote in their letter. “Your company profits from collecting highly sensitive personal information from American consumers- it should take seriously its responsibility to keep data safe and to inform consumers when its protections fail.”
The letter requests answers to detailed questions, including:
- Why did it take Equifax more than a month to announce this massive data breach?
- How did Equifax determine that offering credit monitoring services for one year – provided by Equifax itself – would be adequate to make consumers whole?
- How much money per year would an affected customer pay Equifax to extend the “complimentary” credit monitoring services beyond one year? How much money would Equifax make after one year on credit monitoring services that would be unnecessary but for Equifax’s failure to safeguard consumer data?
- What measures is Equifax implementing after the event to improve the protection of consumer information residing on its network?
- What measures is the company taking to investigate the sale of stock in the aftermath of the company’s discovery of the data breach, including whether these or other executives sought to delay the announcement of the data breach?
- What measures, other than offering credit monitoring services and identity theft protection, is Equifax taking to mitigate harm to consumers?


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Four years ahead of the launch of its first fuel-cell vehicle, Toyota Motor Corp. is shaving manufacturing costs as it attempts to reduce the cost of the vehicle.
Toyota has reduced the amount of expensive platinum content needed for the advanced powertrain technology and developed a less-expensive method of insulating the car's hydrogen tanks, Justin Ward, program manager for Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc., said last week.
Ward, speaking at the 2011 Management Briefing Seminars in Traverse City, said the current cost of producing one of the development-stage, fuel-cell vehicles is 10 million yen, or about $129,000 — one-tenth of what it was six years ago. But he said Toyota intends to cut the current cost in half before 2015, and then reduce it again in time for the U.S. retail launch.
At current yen-dollar exchange rates, that would result in a fuel-cell vehicle costing less than $64,000 at launch.
Toyota has not said what brand or segment the product will enter, only that it will be a sedan.
“We're finding ways to reduce the cost through manufacturing improvements, and we expect to make a lot of gains,” Ward said.
For decades, fuel-cell vehicles have been a distant dream for the industry.
For the past 20 years, the advent of fuel-cell vehicles has been much talked about by automaker executives, but typically as a powertrain option that was perpetually 15 years away.
Ward said Toyota will deliver the technology to dealers starting in 2015. He said Toyota estimates the fuel-cell market will balloon to 50,000 units between 2015 and 2017.
“We're way ahead of our development schedule on that car,” he said.
One of the production hang-ups until now has been the manufacturing process of wrapping the vehicle's hydrogen tank with a textile material for insulation. He said Toyota found only a small number of world suppliers who could do the work, and found they took far longer to perform the wrapping than a mass-production auto assembly line would permit.
“We looked at what they were doing and decided there was no way it would ever be possible to manufacture a fuel-cell vehicle under those circumstances,” Ward said. “We do have quite a bit of expertise in handling textiles. So we decided to bring the tank process in-house and do it ourselves.
“We were about to speed up process time sixfold,” he said. “Those are the kinds of improvements we're looking for at this stage.”


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The Lazertouch projector weighs 5 ounces but makes a huge image
Lazertouch creates a virtual touchscreen and interactive whiteboard.
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The mobile device maker looks to revolutionize the industry with this new tech
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Pizza by the slice originated in 17th century Naples, Italy, where working-class Neapolitans required inexpensive food that could be consumed quickly to eat as they walked.
It quickly skyrocketed in popularity when Neapolitan immigrants took the cuisine to the United States, where it became a common commodity – now, almost every pizzeria that wants to be lucrative sells pizza by the slice.
Madeinitaly, made in Denmark
Following on from two restaurants in Denmark, Baest and Mother, making a list of the top 50 pizza pies in the world, another Copenhagen eatery has just been included on a global list for producing one of the best pizza slices.
International travel site Big 7 Travel ranked Madeinitaly at number 14 on a line-up of 50 pizzerias.
The list was based on votes from Big 7 readers on social media, the travel site’s editorial team and online reviews.
A slice of pizza – hold the dairy
The pizzeria, which opened its doors in Nyhavn in 2018, established itself as Denmark’s first Italian vegan restaurant, making its pizzas with cashew and soya cheeses and plant-based ‘meat’.
“The beauty here is that you won’t even for one second notice you are missing the meat,” the review of the restaurant reads.
Madeinitaly’s avant-garde menu extends beyond its critically acclaimed pizza slice by offering homemade vegan pastas and cakes.
And the winner is …?
To absolutely no-one’s surprise, the top place to indulge in a slice of pizza is the L’industrie pizzeria in New York City, which often boasts a line around the block for its fare.
While New York pizzerias made four appearances in the top 50, Italy ended up with six, leaving the powerful duopoly over the world’s best pizzas undisturbed.


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Wednesday Gaming – Marvel Snap Update, Free Fire x Justin Bieber, and MORE!
Catch up on the latest news, rumours and announcements from the world of video games, tech and entertainment:
– Second Dinner, the studio behind collectible card battler game, “Marvel Snap”, has announced that it will be scrapping its negatively-received Nexus Events, which saw players shelling out huge amounts of money on gold to spend on rewards, albeit at low drop-rates. Players who spent gold during these Events will be refunded.
– After receiving feedback from players who participated in a closed beta of the US football video game, “Madden NFL 23” (scheduled for release on 19 August), EA Games have released a “Day-Zero” patch.
– This patch addresses numerous issues such as fixing frequent franchise draft crashes, tweaking graphics-related glitches, fine-tuning scouting tiers, and improving on-field plays and strategies, among others.
– “Jetpack Joyride 2”, the sequel to Halfbrick’s side-scrolling shooter, “Jetpack Joyride”, is coming to Apple Arcade on 19 August. Per reports, it will feature “HD graphics, new animations, new mechanics, and new playstyles.”
– Battle royale game, “Free Fire”, is celebrating its fifth anniversary by releasing new content on 27 August: players will be able to gain daily awards, access a new map called Nexterra, redeem costume bundles via the Magic Cube, and interact with an avatar of singer Justin Bieber as he performs a concert in-game.
Check in again next week for the latest video game news – ‘til then, keep up the button-mashing!
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EDITOR, The Tribune.
BLACK Friday is one of the biggest shopping days in the United States, along with Cyber Monday and Super Saturday. In 2019, 84.2 million people shopped in stores on Black Friday and 37.8 million shopped on Thanksgiving Day. Retailers earned a combined $729.1 billion in 2019, up 4.1 percent or over $28 billion more than in the previous year, when shoppers dumped $700.7 billion in retail stores across the United States.
The four leading retailers are Wal-Mart, Costco, Target and Amazon. For Bahamians who typically go on the mad dash for those Black Friday deals, you can add BJ’s Wholesale Club and Sam’s Club to that list of popular retailers. Wal-Mart has already released its deals online to wet the appetite of American and Bahamian consumers. The popular PlayStation 5 Console is going for $499. Wal-Mart also has deals on its Samsung 4K TVs and the XB1 box Series X Consoles. I would estimate that thousands of Bahamians would make the annual trip to the US around Thanksgiving in order to catch those sweetheart deals. This year, however, there’s one slight problem: COVID-19 is wreaking havoc in Florida, where the overwhelming majority of Bahamians go to shop. Florida currently has 889,864 confirmed COVID-19 infections, with 17,559 casualties.
On Sunday, Florida recorded 10,100 new infections, which marked its highest daily total. On Monday, 4,600 new infections were registered. Yet despite the ongoing pandemic, Republican Governor Ron DeSantis is adamant in not imposing lockdown measures to restrict the spread of the virus. Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis is once again urging Bahamians not to travel abroad “unless absolutely necessary.” However, judging by the defiance of the hardheaded Biminites who were reveling over the past weekend and by Bahamians in general when the borders were first opened in July, I am bracing for another COVID-19 surge, especially with the Winter season being upon us. And when this happens, I hope the Bahamian people won’t repeat history by scapegoating the competent authority for their reckless irresponsibility in jeopardising the economy and health of The Bahamas by their decision to travel to Florida for Black Friday.
Freeport, Grand Bahama.
November 17, 2020.


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Spears Travel recently moved from its former location in the Eton Square shopping center in Tulsa to the Echelon Shopping Center at 81st Street and Memorial Drive in Tulsa. Owner Greg Spears cuts the ribbon at the new store recently. Also attending the event were members of the Tulsa Metro Chamber and Spears Travel associates.
The Tulsa (Court Appointed Special Advocates) Board of Directors has hired Maura Wilson as the new Executive Director replacing Pam Dose, who retired Aug. 24. Wilson was a Program Director for in Springdale, Ark., and most recently worked as a safety specialist for , Inc.
Natural grocery stores are “sprouting” up all over the Tulsa area, including Bixby.
Next year, Sprouts Farmers Market will open its third Oklahoma location at 101st and Memorial Drive.
The Forge, a small business incubator created by Tulsa’s Young Professionals (ros), opened its new and permanent location in the Wright Building downtown on Sept. 27.
Local businessman Brad Johnson, founder and owner of Lawn America, can now add “Thru-hiker,” “Compassionater” and “Author” to his resume. “Thru-hiker” is a name given to hikers who have trekked the entire Appalachian Trail, the 2,184 mile trail that extends between Springer Mountain, Ga. and Mount Katahdin, Maine.
For the sixth consecutive year, entrepreneurs, business leaders and educators will be hosting events during Tulsa Global Entrepreneurship Week (), Nov. 9-16, for entrepreneurs, small business owners or anyone interested in entrepreneurialism.
Arvest Bank recently announced that, for the first time, Arvest Mortgage Company has originated more than $2 billion in new mortgage loans. When the $1 billion mark was achieved in June of this year, it was the earliest month the milestone was reached in ten consecutive years. The fact that Arvest Mortgage has reached the $2 billion mark indicates growing strength in the housing market, a robust environment for refinancing and an improving purchase-money market.
St. John Medical Center announces the appointment of Pam Kiser, MS, RN, as chief nursing executive and vice president of nursing. Kiser, a 25-year healthcare veteran, will oversee St. John Medical Center’s overall nursing service, as well as its daily operations. She will also provide management oversight for St. John Medical Center’s surgical and dialysis programs.
In July, Bailey Medical Center learned it had been named one of the 100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare by Modern HealthCare magazine. Last week, at a reception held by the magazine, Bailey learned it had been ranked #65 out of the 100 top places to work.
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“Bringing a second store to Owasso was driven by the community,” says Vice President of Operations Brian Aga. “The original Owasso store is the busiest store in the company, out of 152 stores.”
Average retail gasoline prices in Tulsa have fallen 8.2 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.45/g yesterday. This compares with the national average that has increased 0.6 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.80/g, according to gasoline price website TulsaGasPrices.com.
The Kaiser Family Foundation has gifted Tulsans an incredible new downtown park, “Guthrie Green,” named after Oklahoma’s own Woody Guthrie.
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Alexa von Tobel, who has been the head of LearnVest, is now the chief digital officer for Northwestern Mutual.
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After falling by almost a fifth since Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came to power just over a year ago, the yen is in a sweet spot for the economy.
Companies have roared back with bumper profits as the currency's slide to five-year lows made exports more competitive and while import prices, notably for fuel, have climbed, importers are benefiting too.
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But should the yen keep falling, the drawbacks of higher import prices and possible anger from Washington and other trading powers could start to outweigh the benefits of a weaker currency. Those benefits start shifting to drawbacks if the yen slips to 120-130 per dollar from its current Goldilocks' range of 100-110.
The yen may weaken further as the U.S. Federal Reserve slowly tightens its dollar-liquidity spigot while expectations grow that the Bank of Japan will increase its own flood of money into the economy to offset a sales-tax increase in just over two months, say Japanese executives, policymakers and investors.


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Kickstarting the week, Haxlr8r – a hardware-hacker accelerator programme that takes ten startups to Shenzhen for three months – held its demo day at the Autodesk Gallery in downtown San Francisco on Monday afternoon. Ten startups pitched their ideas, fresh from the factory floor in China, to a group of early stage investors. Read more
Ouya, the open-source games console, has become the first Kickstarter tech project to graduate to a more traditional funding scheme – venture capital.
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Intel has unveiled the capabilities of a power-frugal Atom processor it says will make it more competitive in not just smartphones and tablets, but also in microservers and other market segments, including in-car entertainment.
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Video viewers in the U.S. saw 26.8 billion video ads in November, 2013, a significant rise from the month before, according to the latest comScore Video Metrix data.
comScore's latest data reveals that 189.2 million Americans watched 47.1 billion online content videos in November this year. That's up from 182 million viewers and 40 billion videos during the same period last year.
However, the big rise comes from ad views which reached 10.5 billion in November 2012 but, during the same month this year, that figure more than doubled to 26.8 billion. Frequency rose to 154.6 ads per viewer from 141.2 ads the previous month.
In November 2013, Google sites, driven by video viewing via YouTube, ranked as the top online video content property with 163.5 million unique viewers. AOL ranked second with 73 million viewers, followed by Facebook with 66.2 million, NDN with 51 million, and Yahoo sites with 45.8 million.
In terms of ads viewed during November 2013, Americans viewed nearly 26.8 billion video ads, with AOL maintaining the top ranking with 4 billion ad impressions. Google sites came in second with 3.6 billion ads, followed by LiveRail.com (3.1 billion), BrightRoll Platform (2.7 billion) and SpotXchange Video Ad Marketplace (2.4 billion).
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Tesla has been making waves in the automotive industry, not just for its cutting-edge electric cars but also for its legal battles. The company is known to have a ‘hardcore litigation’ team that takes on some of the most challenging cases in and out of court. Recently, Tesla announced that they have hired a new top lawyer to lead this fearsome group – adding even more firepower to their already impressive line-up. In this blog post, we’ll take a closer look at what the new addition brings to the table and how it could affect Tesla’s future legal battles. Plus, we’ll provide updates on the Cybertruck along with fresh production images – something every Tesla fan will want to see!
What the new lawyer brings to the team
The new top lawyer hired by Tesla to lead its hardcore litigation team is one of the most experienced in the field. He brings over 20 years of legal expertise, having worked for some of the biggest names in corporate law. His experience spans across various industries and includes high-stakes cases involving intellectual property, patent disputes, and commercial litigation.
One thing that sets this lawyer apart from others is his ability to think outside the box. He’s known for his innovative approach to legal challenges and has a track record of winning seemingly unwinnable cases. This could be a major asset to Tesla as they continue to push boundaries with their electric cars and cutting-edge technology.
Another notable aspect of this new hire is his reputation as a tough negotiator. He’s not afraid to take on big players or stand up against powerful adversaries – something that will undoubtedly come in handy when dealing with Tesla’s many legal battles.
It seems like Tesla has made an excellent choice in hiring this lawyer to lead their hardcore litigation team. With his extensive experience, innovative thinking, and toughness at the negotiating table, he’s sure to be an invaluable asset as they tackle whatever legal challenges come their way next.


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Target Data Breach Latest Sign It’s High Time for EMV (Dec. 19, 2013)
A breach of data that may have exposed the financial information of 40 million shoppers at Target stores highlights the urgency of bolstering payment card security measures and adopting EMV chip technology, according to industry observers. The retail giant confirmed today that it was the target of a security breach that exposed the payment card data of consumers who shopped at store locations between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15. Among the data exposed were customer names, card account numbers, expiration dates and three-digit CVV security codes. “Target alerted authorities and financial institutions immediately after we discovered and confirmed the unauthorized access, and we are putting our full resources behind the efforts,” the company said. While prepaid cards were not specifically mentioned, open-loop prepaid card data is likely to also have been exposed, according to payments industry experts.
The Target incident is the latest in a series of large-scale payment card-related security breaches over the past year, including a $45 million global ATM heist and the possible exposure of data from nearly half a million Chase prepaid card holders when the bank’s systems were hacked last summer. The latest news from Target highlights the importance of increased security measures for payment products, says Randy Vanderhoof, director of the EMV Migration Forum, an industry group focused on supporting the migration to EMV chip-and-PIN payment cards. “This breach shows that despite best efforts by major retailers to protect cardholder data generated from magnetic stripe card transactions, criminals will find a way to get this data,” he noted. “The U.S. market needs to adopt secure EMV chip cards as most of the world has already done.” Vanderhoof said criminals often install “skimming” devices and/or software that enable them to capture payment information on a card, along with PINs, and subsequently create and use a cloned card. EMV chip cards are more secure, said Vanderhoof, and replace static CVV codes with dynamic CVVs, which help stop card counterfeiting.
Widespread EMV adoption is expected to occur over the next several years, spurred by liability shifts to be imposed by all major U.S. payment networks, which will leave on the hook for fraud whichever party—merchant or card issuer—that has lesser security measures in place.