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The Loop Pizza Grill has returned to Avondale, where it was located for nearly 30 years before being forced to move from St. Johns Village last year due to redevelopment of the shopping center and Commander Apartments.
The restaurant opened Dec. 18 at 4591 Lakeside Drive, Unit 101, in Sadler Point Marina, the new development where Pier 17 Marine was previously located.
Owner Terry Schneider said the restaurant will have the same menu as other locations, which includes a selection of burgers, salads, pizza and grilled sandwiches.
Schneider said the Avondale location seats about 100 inside and another 40 outside.
"It’s a relief and a joy that it’s reopened," she said. "We’ve had people calling us for the past year, so it’s exciting to be back in the neighborhood."
Schneider added all of the restaurant’s employees have returned for the opening.
The Loop Pizza Grill will be open daily from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

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By Maya Rader
On the day of the Stuyvesant Town Greenmarket, Lucas Samascott wakes up at “only 4 o’clock,” as he said. On other days, he wakes up at 3 a.m. Samascott works for Samascott Orchards, a farm started by his grandfather in Fulton County, New York.
Samascott Orchards sells many kinds of produce, but mainly apples, growing over 100 different varieties.
Samascott’s job on the farm is centered around selling at farmer’s markets. When he isn’t running a stand, he’s loading trucks and gathering food to bring to the markets. Samascott Orchards has stands at Union Square, Columbia University, Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, Inwood Hill and 82nd Street markets. The farm has also been at the Stuyvesant Town Greenmarket ever since it first opened.
Samascott Orchards is not certified organic, but according to Samascott, though the farm uses pesticides, organic isn’t always better. He noted that some of the big organic companies whose products are found in the supermarket use what are known as organic pesticides.
“Those organic sprays are sometimes worse for the soil than the sprays we’re using,” Samascott said. For example, organic companies are allowed by the FDA to use copper pesticide to kill fungus. “Large farms that are organic aren’t necessarily better for anybody,” he added.
Even so, Samascott Orchards has added a new organic apple orchard, which will be ready for harvest in a couple of years.
Samascott was destined to be a farmer ever since he was a child.
“I grew up giving samples of corn (starting) when I was old enough to talk,” he said. He added, “This job taught me everything I know… most of all it taught me what fresh means.”
Samascott said he can tell if something is fresh just by the look of it. He explained that for something to be fresh it must have been picked within the past week.
“Fresher is always better,” Samascott said.
Samascott’s favorite part of his job is going to markets and being around all of the food. He said he once made a sandwich at a market by going from stand to stand, adding bread, turkey, cheese and veggies.
“It’s one of the best sandwiches I’ve ever had,” he said.


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Open-top LaFerrari was confirmed for launch last month.
The Ferrari LaFerrari Spider has been in the rumour mill for quite long now and it seems like the Prancing Horse's flagship convertible exotic is not so far from debut. The LaFerrari seen in these images was spotted by Autogespot readers Rico and Mees, and could be the LaFerrari Spider, as it seems to be devoid of roof.
FCA and Ferrari CEO Sergio Marchione has confirmed the development in an interview last month. The third iteration of Maranello's first hybrid, following the FXX K, will be the last one based on the LaFerrari.
The Ferrari LaFerrari Spider is likely to be powered by the same HY-KERS hybrid powertrain from the coupe it'll be derived from. The HY-KERS system has a 6.3-litre naturally aspirated V12 petrol engine that produces 789 hp and 700 Nm of torque, married to a 161 hp electric motor which helps the system pump out a combined 949 hp and 900 Nm of torque.
Likewise, the drivetrain layout would be rear-wheel drive and the transmission on duty will be a 7-speed dual-clutch automatic unit. Being a convertible, the weight would marginally increase, and that combined with higher aero drag, would likely have a slight effect on the 0-100 km/h acceleration time of under 3 seconds claimed for coupe version.
Also See: Ferrari GTC4Lusso – Auto China 2016
The LaFerrari was limited to 499 units and its track-only variant, the FXX K, is an extremely rare sight with only 32 of those sold worldwide. The LaFerrari Spider's production number should be in three digits, but not anything above 500.
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(PRESS RELEASE) MADISON HEAIGHTS, MI, Unites States, 4-Aug-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — Henkel (ETR: HEN3), a German chemical and consumer goods company, has announced its next generation metal pretreatment process for automotive production has been recognized for sustainability contributions winning the second-place award in the sustainability category of the 2021 Altair Enlighten Awards, an award known to honor the greatest sustainability and lightweighting advancements in the automotive industry. Henkel’s Altair Enlighten Award recognizes the use of the PALLUMINA™ metal pretreatment process on the 2021 Toyota Tacoma and Tundra.
Metal pretreatment is an essential part of vehicle production, as it enables paint adhesion to the vehicle body, while preventing corrosion. Henkel’s next generation metal pretreatment process, also referred to by Henkel as the Bonderite® Thin Film Process and PALLUMINA, reduces the manufacturing steps of a conventional metal pretreatment process from seven to four. Key environmental advancements include the elimination of heavy metal phosphates, such as zinc phosphate, nickel phosphate and manganese phosphate, up to a 90 percent reduction in sludge generation, up to a 40 percent reduction in energy and up to a 50 percent reduction in water usage.
“Sustainability advancements are absolutely crucial to both Henkel and our customers,” said Mike Quail, Senior Corporate Vice President, Global Automotive OEMs, Henkel. “Ambitious targets to cut carbon footprint, reduce waste and use more renewable energy are in place throughout the automotive industry. Henkel’s next generation metal pretreatment process is just one example of how we’re helping our customers reach those goals.”
Henkel’s next generation metal pretreatment process is effective across all major metals and can process up to 100 percent aluminum, further enabling the use of this lightweight metal. Use of aluminum is expected to double from approximately 13 percent on passenger cars and trucks today to 26 percent by 2040, according to the Center for Automotive Research. Aluminum plays an essential role in improving fuel economy standards of internal combustion engine vehicles and off-setting added weight of Battery Electric Vehicles.
Additional information about the Altair Enlighten Awards is available here.
PALLUMINA™ is a trademark of Nihon Parkerizing. Henkel has a technical alliance with Nihon Parkerizing and is supplying Toyota with PALLUMINA as their OEM product.
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Here’s THG’s founder Haro Setian with some great news for those looking to sell their home this spring:
Hey guys, this is Haro. Quick market update for you. The Greenville market so far, year to date, is amazing. Right now we’ve got through March 27% more sales than last year at the same time.
Inventory’s actually down 5% from last year. Last year at this time we had 5,500 houses on the market; roughly in this year we have about 5,200 houses in the market right now.
However, demand is up—last year to date we had sold 1,776 houses, and year to date (again, this is through March): 2,252 houses.
So up 27%, down 5%—that’s creating some serious pressure. GREAT time to sell a house. We’ve got more listings than we’ve ever had coming on the market and on the market, and we just had a record month in March. So it’s a great time to get your house on the market. Give us a call—we’d love to help you.
One other thing is days on market is a little bit lower than last year at this time. Last year in March it took 99 days to sell a house that was on the market; this year in March, 89 days to sell a house that’s on the market.
And we’re seeing … the best thing that I can say as I’m looking at the data is the appreciation. Since 2010, median price is up almost 15%. So that doesn’t mean necessarily that your house is worth 15% more than 2010—it also could mean that we’re just selling more expensive houses. A lot of the distressed property is out of the inventory, so that’s made a difference. But house prices are going up.
I don’t know—I need to do some more research to see if it’s a true seller’s market, but it sure feels like one in some places.
So anyway, if you have any questions, give us a call. My number’s (864) 312-6424, or check us out at TheHaroGroup.com. Have a great day!


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Steam's biggest launch of 2020 continues to get bigger.
Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord has been a success story since the moment it launched on Monday in Early Access. The game quickly became Steam's biggest launch of 2020, beating the likes of Doom Eternal, and Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem
At launch, Bannerlord found a spot in Steam's top five list of most active games. Unlike most game launches, the days following release didn't bring a drop in activity, rather a big boost. By the most recent count, Bannerlord peaked at nearly 220,000 concurrent players on Steam, up significantly from launch.
That figure was achieved in the last 24 hours, and could climb yet again over the coming days. Even still, it's big enough for Bannerlord to claim the coveted best-of-the-rest spot, just below the immovable trifecta of Dota 2, CS:GO and PUBG.
The game also enjoys a 'very positive' review rating on Steam. All of this for a self-published, seemingly niche indie game.
We've been playing it, too, and Lauren has put together a couple of guides to help you make the crucial decision of picking a starting culture, and whether or not you should capture prisoners given the chance.


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The European Commission wants to end the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars by 2035, as part of a broad plan to fight climate change unveiled on Wednesday.
According to one of the twelve ambitious climate bills unveiled in Brussels, emissions from motor vehicles must fall by 55% by 2030 and fall to zero by 2035.
“As a result, all new cars registered from 2035 will be zero emissions,” the statement announcing the plan said.
This would mean in practice that all cars and vans sold from that date on would be battery electric cars, which currently represent less than a tenth of new registrations in the EU.
But the move will be fiercely opposed by some members of the industry lobby as it winds its way through an intense negotiation and drafting process and scrutiny in the European Parliament.
And caution is in order among member states like France, Germany, Spain and Italy, which have large sectors making traditional combustion engine and hybrid vehicles and supporting thousands of jobs.
Politicians fear motorists will see fuel prices rise due to carbon taxes as they are pressured into selling their gas guzzlers and buying new electric cars.
The recent “yellow vests” protests in France have given European governments a chilling example of the kind of populist fury that environmental controls on cars can provoke.
But European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen insisted the transition was vital if Europe is to meet emissions reduction targets and the public rallies to it.
“About a dozen major automakers, both in Germany and elsewhere in Europe, have announced that they will switch their fleets to exclusively emission-free vehicles,” she noted.
“We see people wanting these developments, there has been a huge increase in the number of registrations for electric vehicles,” she said, arguing that the US market has tripled in the past year.
Motorized road transport is the most common means of transport for Europeans, but it accounts for 15% of the bloc’s greenhouse gas emissions and Brussels aims to be carbon neutral by 2050.
The economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic has hit the road vehicle market hard, but electric cars have been an exception, with growth accelerating.
Battery cars accounted for eight percent of new registrations in Western Europe in the first five months of this year, with 356,000 new vehicles, more than in 2019.
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The impending new regulations will increase this trend, as they will not only doom conventional gasoline and diesel engines, but effectively constrain hybrid and plug-in hybrid models.
These were once seen as a transitional technology, a key product for an industry that boasts of employing 14.6 million workers in Europe.
The automotive lobby is resigned to supporting the changeover to the euro, but would like help from Europe, particularly in terms of developing a network of charging stations for battery-powered cars.
The industry is divided on the best way forward, with some executives warning that a rushed transition will push prices up and favor Chinese competitors who have a lead in battery technology.
But European giant Volkswagen, which accounts for one in four sales on the continent, has followed American champion Tesla in supporting an all-electric future.
In 2015, the firm was at the heart of a scandal over rigged emissions tests on diesel engines, and is keen to restore its image with the public and regulators.
Volkswagen plans to stop selling internal combustion engine vehicles between 2033 and 2035.
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The shopping center that was opened in 2018 by Multi Corporation in the Polish port city is a prime example of strategic digitalization in retail real estate.
Probably almost everyone in Europe would like to see a return to normality, to where we have achieved herd immunity, infection numbers are controlled, and coronavirus-related restrictions are lifted. Whenever we reach that normality, it will still be a new kind of normal. The coronavirus pandemic will permanently change the way we work, live, and consume – and retailers will also have to find their way in the new world after the acute shock of 2020 and 2021.
According to a recent study commissioned by centre:mk, one of the UK’s top 10 shopping centres, almost a quarter of adults plan to buy a present for themselves as many feel that they simply deserve a treat this year; while 29 per cent are not expecting many gifts from others after an extraordinary year.
According to a recent study commissioned by centre:mk, one of the UK’s top 10 shopping centres, 49 per cent of adults now own more ‘relaxed’ clothes than ever before. The poll of 2000 adults revealed that Britain has become a nation of fashionable ‘loungers’ due to people now living a flexi-lifestyle.
A 2019 review and how Black Friday has become the most important annual shopping event. All that, and more, can be found in GfK’s study on key European retail indicators.
Deloitte’s latest “Global Powers of Retailing 2019” study has listed the 250 top-selling retail companies for the 22nd time.
GfK has carried out a comprehensive analysis of the European retail scene in 32 European countries. The study examines purchasing power, the retail share of the population's total expenditures, inflation, sales area productivity as well as changes in retail due to eCommerce, as well as a turnover prognoses for 2015. The study will appear in the forthcoming edition of ACROSS Magazine, which will be published in June.
As part of the group's digital innovation strategy, NEPI Rockcastle announces for the first time on the local Romanian market the development and implementation of its loyalty mobile application SPOT.
A number of shopping centers have opened their doors in Belgrade over the past few years. In June 2020, BEO, for which MPC Properties is responsible, opened its doors. Development, Technical Operations, and Innovations Director Jovana Cvetković looks back on a time of particular turbulence – not solely due to reasons relating to the pandemic.
Francisco Rocha Antunes will prioritise membership growth, support the expansion of the ULI Portugal NEXT group, and initiate a local Young Leaders programme.
How the placemaking industry emerges stronger from the pandemic. Our 10 strategies for future-proof vibrant places.
With 10 days to go, the MIPIM September Edition programme is complete and will feature a line-up of high-end property industry professionals. MIPIM September Edition will mark the return of face-to-face meetings and feature as the major international real estate and city event of the autumn season.
Ingka Centres, part of the Ingka Group (which also includes IKEA Retail and Ingka Investments) has opened ‘Livat Changsha’, a new 130,00 sqm GLA IKEA anchored mixed-use community lifestyle development in Changsha, the capital city of Hunan Province in south central China
Balfin Group organized the first edition of Balfin Retail Forum in Tirana. The forum brought together executives and managers from SPAR, FGA, OnSolutions, Jumbo and Neptun, from Albania, Kosovo and North Macedonia, to discuss consumer trends, digitalization and the future of retail. The event was moderated by Julia Goga-Cooke, trainer in entrepreneurship, innovation and interpersonal skills. Retail Vice President, Julian Mane, was also present.
With market entry in Italy, Immofinanz now operates more than 100 STOP SHOP retail parks in ten European countries. Ten Italian STOP SHOP locations with a total investment volume of roughly EUR 250 million are planned by 2024.
Successful premiere of the ACROSS Company Live Session in cooperation with Sonae Sierra.
“According to a study by Simon-Kucher & Partners, customers miss brick-and-mortar retail, with 90% of respondents indicating that they are looking forward to being able to visit local stores again once the lockdown has been lifted.”
Florian Wieser, CFO of MediaMarktSaturn Retail Group, to serve as Ceconomy Group CFO as of 1 May 2021.
BEO Shopping Center has won two prestigious International Property Awards in the “Best Retail Architecture” and “Best Retail Interior” categories. Center is located on the corner of Vojislava Ilica and Mis Irbijeve streets, covers an area of over 130,000 sqm and its offer comprises of more than 110 global and regional brands.
The new store located at Yonge and Gerrard Street will bring the IKEA experience closer to urban residents.


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Guns N' Roses' 'Chinese Democracy': Still a mystery, and now a controversy
There’s bitterness, as leader Axl Rose is the only original member left standing. There’s excess, as the album’s cost seems to escalate with each media story (somewhere in the millions). And there’s an enigmatic artist at the helm, one many critics and hard rock fans agree is a genius.
There’s only one thing missing: An artist to sell it. It’s been a 17-year wait since the world last had a Guns N’ Roses album with new material, and the biggest questions -- why now and why link with a major retailer? -- look to remain unanswered, at least for now. Rose, says a spokesperson, "hasn’t been available for interviews," and it doesn't sound like any are on the horizon.
“Chinese Democracy,” it seems, will hit retail shelves -- in this case, shelves belonging exclusively to Best Buy -- on Sunday, with a bit of mystery. That, perhaps, is expected -- anything less may even be a disappointment. But the decision to sell the album exclusively through one retailer in the U.S. is now adding a bit of controversy to the saga.
On Sept. 26, Billboard broke the news that the album would be released solely to Best Buy in the United States. It would be three full weeks before a press release made it all official -- one, by the way, that didn’t feature a comment from Rose.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, one high-placed manager noted, “It starts to feel a little bit like the movie that doesn’t let reviewers in to see before it comes out. You’d think they’d want to platform it, do some sort of live broadcast, let the music talk for itself -- instead of just the innuendo.”
But unlike a film not screened for critics, “Chinese Democracy” isn’t getting panned. Instead, it’s a work, most early reviews seem to say, that deserves to be celebrated (The Times' review will run in Sunday’s Calendar section, and is now available online), although some mixed reviews are starting to roll in now too. Rolling Stone was first, and set the early tone, giving the album four out of five stars, with the reviewer opening the piece by declaring that it is “a great, audacious, unhinged and uncompromising hard-rock record.”
And though he has a heavily biased stake in it, Best Buy's senior entertainment officer, Gary Arnold, is ready to throw down the gauntlet. “I will defy anyone to say this wasn’t worth the wait,” he says.
If he’s proved right, an already beleaguered music retail landscape may never be the same again.
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Arnold says he began negotiating for the exclusive rights to sell “Chinese Democracy” more than a year ago, before Guns N’ Roses linked with managers Irving Azoff and Andy Gould, and he then continued structuring the deal with the new management team. Azoff's Front Line Management arranged for the Eagles’ “Long Road Out of Eden” to be sold exclusively through Wal-Mart in 2007, an album that has since sold more than 3 million copies, reports Billboard. (Both Azoff, who was recently named chief executive of Ticketmaster, and Gould were unavailable for comment by deadline. A corporate spokesperson for Universal Music Group was contacted earlier this week, but also did not respond by deadline.)
Such retail moves are becoming increasingly common. AC/DC’s “Black Ice” shot to No. 1 after selling 784,000 copies in its first week in stores. The album was a Wal-Mart exclusive. It was AC/DC’s first studio album since 2000’s “Stiff Upper Lip,” which Billboard noted opened with 130,000 copies sold.
Michael Kurtz runs the Music Monitor Network, a coalition of independent record store chains, including such West Coast shops as Dimple Records and Rasputin Music. He has been outspoken against such practices, arguing that they are detrimental and unfair to smaller businesses -- the surviving stores that still stock more music than hi-def TVs, cellphones and laundry detergent.
“It’s an insane world where music stores are not allowed to buy music in the United States,” Kurtz says. “Every record store in the world gets to carry it, except for the United States. Same thing with AC/DC.”
Best Buy will be selling “Chinese Democracy” for $11.99, the price it has been taking pre-orders for on its website. While they offer limited space to music, major retailers such as Best Buy, Target and Wal-Mart have become dominant players in the business by discounting new releases, often for prices of less than $10. New releases from Beyoncé and David Cook , for instance, were both advertised by Best Buy last week for $9.99.
Kurtz is armed with a consumer-friendly argument, theorizing that exclusives are driving up the price of CDs. AC/DC’s “Black Ice,” by comparison, retailed for $11.88 on its week of release. “By eliminating competition, the price of the CDs are going up,” Kurtz says. “The biggest United States retailers are partnering with the biggest labels, driving the price up by not allowing competition.”
“I don’t think that’s true,” Arnold says. “We price each project based upon the number of factors, including the investments we’ve made into it, and what we believe the right and fair retail is. That’s also the price on Day 1. We can do anything we choose to do -- run various promotions and sales at various times.”
The practice likely won’t be ending anytime soon. In last week’s Billboard, retail columnist Ed Christman noted that if “Black Ice” had not been a Wal-Mart exclusive, it would have been projected to sell closer to 200,000 first-week copies.
What accounts for nearly a 600,000-copy difference? Christman's sources praise Wal-Mart’s extensive campaign, which devoted a section of its stores to “Black Ice” and AC/DC merch, including a branded Rock Band video game. Additionally, the company had makeshift stores set up in New York and at Hollywood & Highland here.
Christman points to the stores' high foot traffic, which is in the multi-millions. Thus, Wal-Mart was able to take advantage of customers who aren't also going to music stores. “Typically, they sell more records just based on that traffic," he says.
And a portion of those sales, albeit an unknown amount, likely went to other retailers, as exclusives turn the benefiting store into a distributor of sorts. At Amoeba Music in Hollywood, general manager Karen Pearson notes that she may have to march her staff over to Best Buy early Sunday to stock up on copies of “Chinese Democracy,” although she stresses that the store hasn’t decided how it will handle the release (the other option, for stores not wanting to buy from Best Buy, is to purchase the album as an import).
“Sure, a big part of me, and my indie brothers and sisters, would just as soon sit this one out,” Pearson says. “But that’s only hurting our customers.
"It’s just not cool," she adds of exclusives on this level. "It’s just not rock 'n' roll.”
Best Buy’s Arnold says the retailer will not police other stores from purchasing copies of “Chinese Democracy.” “There will be record stores who show up at Best Buy,” Arnold says, “but that happens every week. Record stores sometimes buy stuff from us and resell it, but the vast majority of the consumers who buy this album are going to be real fans of rock music. The majority of sales will not come through secondary sellers.”
Thus far, Best Buy has run a relatively restrained marketing campaign for “Chinese Democracy.” Just a few days before its release, there were no signs announcing the album inside the West Hollywood location (there was a sign outside the store). The album is now up for streaming on MySpace, but not playing into the hype was the design, says Arnold.
“It all starts this weekend,” Arnold says. “We’re trying to time everything for the grand release this Sunday. There wasn’t a giant buildup, in terms of over-promising. We wanted the music to stand on its own.”
It’s been a terrific season for rock music sales. Prior to AC/DC, Metallica’s “Death Magnetic” also debuted at No. 1, selling 490,000 copies in its initial weekend in stores (the album was released on a Friday, and Nielsen SoundScan ends its tracking period on Sunday evenings).
Worth noting is that both those bands were actively touring and supporting their new albums. Perhaps Sunday's launch day will see Rose break his silence, but what if it doesn't?
Granted, Rose is not running for president, and there's no reason he should talk to the press if he doesn't feel so inclined, but will that silence, and a lack of any announced tour, hurt the album’s long-term prospects? Or will the 14-year anticipation, and the positive reviews, carry "Chinese Democracy" for months to come?
The holiday foot traffic through Best Buy may be enough to make “Chinese Democracy” one of the biggest, if not the biggest, albums of the year. An electronics store first, Best Buy will surely benefit by turning "Chinese Democracy" into one of the great impulse buys of the 2008 holiday season.
But like everything surrounding “Chinese Democracy,” skeptics -- and mystery -- remain, even as the album is on the verge of release.
“A certain portion is going to sell, no matter what,” says one industry observer. “Will it live to its full potential, absent all the attendant marketing creators of supply and demand? No, I don’t think it will. With AC/DC, you feel like you’re buying a known commodity. With Guns N’ Roses, it’s not the band, it’s Axl. It’s an Axl Rose solo project, and you’ve got him participating in a very limited fashion.”
-- Todd Martens
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Update 1.06 will be the third patch that F1 2021 will have received since the game’s launch just a few weeks ago.
The last patch was added on 28th July for PC and Playstation platforms, although versions of the same update will be coming to Xbox consoles at a later date.
With circuits such as Imola, Portimao and Algarve yet to be added to the game, the question remains regarding whether this patch will have those tracks available for those that are eagerly awaiting to thrash their cars around.
While we fully expect bugs and issues to be addressed here, it is not yet known whether more content is on the way such as an all-new season pass, new liveries, suits, helmets etc.
Information is limited regarding 1.06 at this stage and we will keep you updated once the developers provide more information.
F1 2021 Update 1.06 Patch Notes
EA and Codemasters tend to release the latest patch instantly and we have had no indication from them at this stage that 1.06 has been added to F1 2021.
But fear not, as soon as we hear any information regarding 1.06, we will update this article. Keep your eyes peeled and revs up!
You can find all of the latest Esports and Gaming News right here at GIveMeSport.
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CAIRO, July 12 (Reuters) - Egypt’s top cigarette maker Eastern Co raised the prices of some of its popular cheap cigarettes on Wednesday because of increasing production costs, Chairman Mohammed Othman Haroun told Reuters.
The move comes a few days after Egypt hiked value-added tax, electricity and fuel prices, part of a reform programme aimed at reviving the economy under a three-year, $12 billion loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund.
Eastern, which supplies 70 percent of Egypt’s cigarette market, raised the price of three of its low-cost, Cleopatra brand cigarette products by between 4.2 and 17.6 percent.
The Egyptian pound has halved in value since Egypt floated its currency in November, making imports more expensive.
Haroun said raw materials that had been imported at a exchange rate of 9 Egyptian pounds to the dollar were at low levels. The price rise was needed because the company now had to import at a rate of 18 pounds per dollar, he said.
In October, Eastern said it was having problems buying raw materials because of Egypt’s dollar shortage. (Reporting by Ehab Farouk; Writing by Lisa Barrington; Editing by Dale Hudson)


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Championship Manager 2010 is the latest edition of the classic football management franchise, and will be the first football game available for the 2009/10 season. In development for over 2 years, the 2010 edition offers players a host of unique features never seen before in football management games. These include a bespoke 3D match engine with over 500 individual player animations created specifically for Championship Manager, a Set-piece creator giving users the chance to create their own unique free kicks and corners, Scouting Networks allowing users to set-up local networks in countries around the world and scout for local players and Practice matches helping users build and mould their perfect team or trial new players.
Championship Manager also includes an industry first in CM Season Live allowing players to download the real-world 09/10 football season data and take on real world managerial decisions and challenges in the leading leagues across Europe.
Eidos is offering a downloadable PC version of its new football management game to fans on a ‘pay what you want’ model ahead of the usual fee of £29.99 when the game is available in store. This will be the first time an initiative like this has ever been tried in the videogames market.
At a time when the cost of transfers in football have reached record levels, with players fetching hundreds of millions of pounds between them, this ‘pay what you want’ promotion means that all grass-root football fans will need to do is pay a £2.50 transaction fee plus any additional amount of their choice, starting from just a 1p. This will run until midnight on September 10th.
Championship Manager 2010 will be available across Europe in French, Italian, Spanish, Turkish and Polish on Friday September 11th 2009.
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Farmers Market returns Saturday
The Dublin Farmer’s Market, sponsored by Keep Dublin Beautiful, will return to the Wright Historic Park (108 S. Park Street) on Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon.
The June 8 Farmer’s Market and will include a special “Junkin’ with Two” event, with items like vintage antiques and arts and crafts joining the usual assortment of handmade goods.
For more information, call (940) 393-1215.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012, 09:54 am PT (12:54 pm ET)
Apple's iOS 6 Camera app turns Panoramas on their head
In this shot at San Francisco's Justin Herman Plaza, the Embarcadero Hyatt Regency and other buildings of Market Street appear to float above the Ferry Building's clock tower.
Panorama capture in Camera app largely forces you to follow a plumb line using the built-in gyroscope. If you ignore this, you can capture some really odd, twisted angles, but you'll also get black stair stepping you'll have to edit out later, as in this crooked panorama experiment at capturing the Bay Bridge.
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Thumbs up for plan to tackle retail fraud
Chiswick Shops keen to adopt fingerprinting scheme
Chiswick retailers are giving their ‘thumbs up’ to a successful scheme being introduced to tackle cheque and credit card fraud in the central shopping area.
About 30 businesses – 100 per cent of retailers approached so far - have embraced Operation Thumbs Up , a scheme which requires shoppers to leave their thumbprint on the back of cheques or credit card receipts.
The initiative has already saved thousands of pounds for retailers in Hounslow, where it has been operating since the beginning of the year. Between February and April alone, figures show a saving of more than £500,000, and a 50 per cent decrease in credit card fraud.
All retailers along Chiswick High Road and Turnham Green Terrace will be approached by local police officers to join the operation which is being funded by Hounslow Council and the police through the Hounslow Community Safety Partnership.
Hounslow Council’s executive member for community safety, Cllr Amrit Mann, said the 100 per cent take-up rate recorded so far was extremely pleasing.
“The strong take-up rate shows that Chiswick retailers are united in their commitment to stamp out retail fraud,” Cllr Mann said.
“The Thumbprint scheme has been an incredible success and proof of what can be achieved when businesses, the Council and police work together. Providing a thumbprint takes very little time, and we are hoping that Chiswick shoppers help us to make it harder for others to commit credit card fraud.”
Using a special inkpad which does not stain hands or clothes, the customer’s thumbprint is placed on the back of the cheque or the receipt copy retained by the store. If the customer refuses to provide the thumbprint, or another form of identification, then telephone checks can apply.
Inspector Ged Boyer of Chiswick Police station said the positive response from retailers was overwhelming and he is ultimately looking for a participation rate of 60%.
He said, “Cheque and credit card fraud is not a victimless crime. Cases of fraud often have a history, and may have created victims of robbery, burglary, car crime or identity theft. Retail fraud is not a huge problem in Chiswick, but we want to drive down what there is. There are premises that may be vulnerable to cheque and credit card fraud.”
If a person is reluctant to give their print telephone checks can be made. If a transaction proves to be void, then police can use the thumbprint on record to help them identify the person who made the purchase.
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Oregon’s business development department is holding a bevy of events during the next five days to mark World Trade Week.
Events in Portland, Eugene, Medford and Bend will run through Friday. Business Oregon, the state’s economic development arm, will host presentations on how businesses can export goods to the European Union, China, Japan and Korea.
Overseas business experts will weigh in during the events, called “The International Road Show,” all week.
The value of goods exported from Oregon ranges between $18 billion and $22 billion, according to state and city sources. China is the largest trade partner, collecting at least $3.2 billion worth of electronics and other goods and services from Oregon last year.
- Various individual companies from Europe and China will be available to meet with area businesses in the afternoon. The meetings take place starting today at One World Trade Center, 121 S.W. Salmon St., Suite 205. The meetings will be offered throughout the week.
- On Tuesday, the WebVisions event begins at the Oregon Convention Center, 777 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. The event runs through Friday. Also, the Northwest China Council China Business Network Luncheon and Presentation takes place between noon and 1:30 p.m. at the University of Oregon’s Turnbull Center, at 70 N.W. Couch St.
- Tuesday evening, the International Business Awards and Scholarship Dinner takes place between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., at the Portland Art Museum, 1219 S.W. Park Ave.
- In Bend and Medford, more one-on-one company meetings are scheduled, at EDCO, 109 N.W. Greenwood Ave., in Bend, and SOREDI, at 673 Market St. in Medford.
- “Exporting Clackamas County” takes place on Thursday between 7:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. at the Abernethy Center, 606 15th St., in Oregon City.
- On Friday, the Oregon Economic Development Association’s spring conference runs between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. at McMenamins Kennedy School, 5736 N.E. 33rd Ave. in Portland.
Andy Giegerich is editor for Sustainable Business Oregon.
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While a cash flow of $10.2 Billion isn't small change, a mere .2 of that is what Intel missed their predictions by for Q4 2005, much to the chagrin of investors. Dual Core took off in the second half of 2005, but overall Intel experienced low CPU sales during the last bit of the year, which is what Intel is pointing at as the cause of the miss. Of course, that's not really bad news for Intel.
"2005 was our third consecutive year of double-digit revenue and earnings growth, leading to the best operating results in the company's history," said Intel CEO Paul Otellini. "Although we fell below our expectations for the fourth quarter, we enter 2006 with exciting new products like the Intel Core Duo and Viiv."
Intel made a lot of promises at IDF last year and made a lot of people drool at the CES, so it's likely that they will push even harder this year. I won't be surprised to see Intel make big gains in their targets with Viiv and dual-core laptops, but hopefully AMD will continue to keep them on their toes.


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Jennifer Anistons remodeled home to be featured in Architectural Digest
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Actress Jennifer Aniston will show off her newly renovated home in this month''s issue of Architectural Digest, People reports.
The Friends alum recently completed a two-and-a-half year remodel of her Beverly Hills mansion with the help of interior designer Stephen Shadley, who has also worked on the homes of Diane Keaton and Woody Allen.
According to the magazine, Aniston revamped her master suite to be more conducive to a single lifestyle. The room, which once included his-and-her bathrooms, now features a spa room with a soaking tub. The actress also installed wool and silk shag carpeting and a platform bed with a built-in television.
Aniston also redesigned her home''s dining room to welcome more guests, as she added a walnut table that seats 24 people and a Thai gong that will summon her visitors to dinner.
The house''s palette was inspired by Brazilian cumaru, which can include tan, brown and reddish hues, according to EastTeak.com .
Aniston told People that the home''s interior is designed to have a "glamorous, old-fashioned Hollywood quality."
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Food safety recall of packaged salads
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) - Mesa County Public Health has announced a food safety recall of Dole-branded and private label packaged salads.
According to MCPH, “The Food and Drug Administration recently released information about a recall on certain Dole-branded and private label packaged salads from two of its processing plants. The recall involves a possible health risk from Listeria monocytogenes contained in the iceberg lettuce of these products, which may have been distributed in Mesa County.”
RECALLED PRODUCTS DESCRIPTION:
- Products subject to the recall from one processing plant are identified by a product lot code beginning with the letter “W” and a “Best if Used By” date between Dec. 22, 2021 and Jan. 9, 2022.
- Products subject to the recall from the other processing plant are identified by a product lot code beginning with the letter “B” and a “Best if Used By” date between Dec. 23, 2021 and Jan. 8, 2022.
- The product lot codes are located in the upper-right-hand corner of the package
The health department says individuals who have these products should not consume them, but instead discard the product. If the individual has consumed the product they should seek medical care immediately.
For more information about the recall, please visit health.mesacounty.us.
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PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Avis Budget Group officials last week announced the company plans to double the revenue of Carey by 2013 International and increase the amount of cars in its fleet for which it assumes responsibility for resale.
"We fully expect to be able to double the revenue of Carey over the next five years, and that's primarily based on increasing the penetration of corporate accounts," said Avis Budget chairman and CEO Ronald Nelson during the company's annual earnings call. "It presents some interesting packaging opportunities on the retail side of the business. Many of our largest corporate accounts have inquired about the ability to integrate car rental and limousine service. We see enormous value in our cross-selling with Carey and expect our investment to pay off handsomely."
Avis Budget acquired a 45% interest in Carey last October, with an option to increase it to 80 percent within one year. Carey reported $332 million in 2006 system-wide revenue in BTN's 2007 Business Travel Survey.
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There is a page on Facebook with the name Home Gardening which has begun a revolution in the agriculture sector, howbeit subtle.
With its pace and nature, however, this is certainly on its way to set an agenda that will most likely positively transform the agriculture sector and affect the nation’s food security.
With over 43,000 members on the page and receiving hundreds of requests to join daily, the page is steadily but surely reversing the psyche of thousands of Ghanaians and many across the world and encouraging them on the need to grow what they want to eat and eat what they grow.
From apples to strawberries, from lettuce to lemons, from avocados to cucumbers, basil to avocados, cassava to garden eggs, mushrooms, pomegranates, star-fruits to even fish farming, the group members are exploring various farming techniques and varieties of crops and animals firstly for consumptions and possibly for sale.
Food a necessity
Food is a basic necessity for humans and essential for our physical and psycho-social wellbeing.
What farmers earn from farming is also essentially a critical source of their incomes and makes them stable economically.
Indeed, for an agrarian economy such as ours, farming remains one critical source of foreign exchange for the nation.
In recent times and with the outbreak of the COVID 19, the need for individuals to have to feed themselves without relying on food from elsewhere becomes obvious and the need to adopt the tenets of “Operation feed yourself” made more sense.
One person, who, through it all, decided to take it a notch seriously, is the lecturer with the Department of Crop Science at the University of Cape Coast, Dr Kwekucher Ackah, is certain to significantly impact food production and security with his page.
On the page, members learn the right ways to cultivate crops, how to get remedies for pests and when to harvest. There are several questions on gardening and the experts there give answers to them to help one another.
Members show how their crops are faring in pictures and receive technical advice while others share seeds, compost, and ideas with others. They also celebrate their harvests with the page members with some sharing some of the harvests with interested group members.
When the Daily Graphic caught up with Dr Ackah at the university, he explained that he considered setting up the page in July 2020 to help many during the pandemic to grow their food to support their families.
Agricam home gardening videos
He said fired up by a commitment to teach people the right way to farm, he decided to shoot videos and upload on a YouTube page, Agricam Home Gardening.
“These videos essentially taught people how to start gardening the right way, using natural organic methods for safe crops,” Dr Ackah explained, saying, the remarkable response received on those videos motivated him to start the Facebook page.
He explained that with the increasing use of chemicals on farms, home gardening was very critical if Ghanaians had to eat healthy food.
One interesting concept promoted on the page is how to use small spaces and containers to promote home gardening, especially in urban communities where land space is virtually unavailable.
The members are taught to utilise spaces and containers. Currently, the members are using old car tyres, plastic buckets old rice sacks, among others, for nothing is too small to be used.
“We also want to make use of the many old plastics to plant for gardening while making the environment safer,” he stated.
Dr Ackah said to make gardening attractive to many of the university students, his first-year students had begun a project gardening in containers in the halls of residence.
Dr Ackah said he, together with members, was working on planting fruit trees to mark the International Fruit Day and in support of the United Nations announcement of 2021 as the International year of Fruits and Vegetables.
Planting for Food and Jobs
Touching on the government’s Planting for Food and Jobs policy, Dr Ackah said while the policy was commendable, it was important that efforts were expedited to sell the policy in more attractive ways to every Ghanaian and not just a few interested in farming.
He said the policy should target reaching all Ghanaians with the need to grow their food. “Not much would change when few still get engaged in farming. It should be made attractive to all to make the needed impact,” he stated.
Again, he said Agricultural studies should be given attention at all levels and not be hidden somewhere in the curricula.
A Level 100 Agricultural Business student, Ms Angelina Amoah, said she was happy to learn new ways of gardening considering the fact that land space was increasingly becoming scarce.
Mr Martin Awiah, also a Level 100 Agriculture Business student said there was a new lease of excitement as they learnt to undertake gardening in a fast advancing world.
With Ghana importing more than US$2.4 billion in food imports annually, socio-eco-political actors have severally called on Ghanaians to grow the foods we eat and eat what we grow.
Maybe it is time to join the page, get to understand a few gardening tips, and contribute to reduce the import debt. You may get to eat healthy foods while reducing stress and may possibly end up saving some cash or better still earn some to supplement your income.


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STILLWATER, Minn. — A Supervalu subsidiary is getting into the holiday spirit with a new campaign that gives back to the communities it serves.
Through its Giving Thanks holiday program, Cub Foods will sell $1, $5 and $10 “Giving Thanks” coupons. With the funds raised, the supermarket chain will donate gift cards to local food banks or agencies in time to provide a Thanksgiving or holiday meal to families.
“This year has been a difficult one for many families within the communities where we serve,” said Cub Foods president Keith Wyche. “We hope our customers will find our Giving Thanks holiday program to be an easy and convenient way for them to truly impact families, especially as difficult economic conditions have led to unprecedented demands on food banks.”


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The estate of Bijan Pakzad, the Iranian fashion mogul who died last year, is putting his Beverly Hills home on the market for $12 million.
The Tuscan-style house spans 12,000 square feet. Built in 1993, the home features six bedrooms, 12 bathrooms, seven fireplaces, and a large-scale garage with parking for nearly two dozen cars. There’s also a guesthouse, pool and spa on the property, which is just under 1 acre.
Known as “Bijan,” the fashion designer was best known for his eponymous Beverly Hills boutique and for dressing an A-list of clientele, including President Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Oscar de la Renta, Tom Ford and Jay Leno.


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Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki and Suzuki had previously announced the intention of working together to standardize battery technology to create a one size fits all scenario for future electric motorcycles. The four companies have now cemented that commitment by creating a new company “Gechaco” to provide the actual “battery as service” infrastructure for motorcycle battery swapping. The fifth member of the group is ENEOS – a Japanese energy company with traditional service stations across Japan.
The first battery available for swapping will be the Honda Mobile Power Pack which will be available at battery exchange locations at ENEOS service stations, railway stations and others starting in the fall of 2022. The aim is to address both range and charging anxieties among electric motorcycle adopters and to promote the recycling of said batteries at the end of their product cycle.
Why the Honda battery first? It is the breakdown of equity of the new company. ENEOS owns 51% equity, Honda owns 34% while Yamaha, Kawasaki and Suzuki are all contributing 5%. All the company’s have some development underway for electric transportation with Yamaha already cooperating on other projects. Honda has been keeping their plans somewhat under wraps so it will be interesting to see if their big slice of the pie signifies an upcoming influx of electric mobility products from the company.
Interesting the ENEOS will use the batteries for other purposes once use in electric vehicles is no longer an option. The batteries in electric cars, motorcycles and scooter are capable of holding a substantial charge after they are long longer efficient in vehicles and can be used for stationary energy storage and use before being sent to the recycle station.
Gechaco seems to be following the motorcycle battery swapping gameplan created successful by Gogoro in Taiwan for electric scooters and is, as we have said, the most promising system for electric motorcycle or scooter adoption.


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The UK’s major supermarkets have posted the fastest growth so far this year boosted by shoppers hunting for Easter eggs.
According to Kantar Worldpanel supermarket sector sales grew 1.1% for the 12 weeks ending March 27, which included early Easter celebrations, compared with the same period last year.
The Co-operative did particularly well with sales up 3.9%, its fastest growth since it bought Somerfield back in 2011, and increasing its market share by 0.1% to 6.1%. Sales of fresh foods and own label products did well.
Sainsbury’s lead the so-called Big Four with a sales hike of 1.2%. Tesco’s decline lessened with sales now down by -0.2% year-on-year but its market share fell by 0.3% to 28.1%. Morrisons sales dropped by 2.4%, again an improvement on last month, with its market share dropping by 0.4% to 10.5%.
Lidl retained its place as the fastest growing supermarket with sales racing 17.7% higher to capture 4.4% of the market. Aldi grew sales by 14.4% to hit a new record-high market share of 6%.
Fraser McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar, said: “An early Easter gave the market a sales boost of £152million compared to last year. Britain’s love of all things sweet was in evidence with 63% of households buying at least one chocolate egg during March, spending an average of £12 over the month. Over half the population bought hot cross buns.”
He said shoppers were also continuing to benefit from falling shop prices with like-for-like prices 1.5% lower than this time last year.
McKevitt added: “While saving money on the basics, consumers are not averse to treating themselves. Premium own label sales grew by 6.6% in the past 12 weeks, well ahead of the overall grocery market. Aldi and Lidl are leading the way, growing their premium lines more than twice as quickly as the rest of their ranges.”


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Termination support for push notification is valid from February 20, 2018. In other words, users of Windows Phone 7.5 and Windows Phone 8 devices can no longer receive notifications directly.
Not only that, the Live Tile feature that characterizes Windows Phone is also officially switched off. Just information, Live Tile is a typical Windows Phone display that displays information from apps on the device and is updated regularly.
"Windows Phone 7.5 and Windows Phone 8.0 have reached the end of their support period, so the service for this version of Windows will be stopped periodically," Windows wrote in a statement.
Then, the feature 'Find My Phone' also no longer works in the two operating systems. However, the latest version of Windows Phone, such as Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10 Mobile is still fully supported.
Therefore, devices running both systems can still receive notifications including information from Live Tiles.
Microsoft itself in the last year has indeed announced the termination of support for its mobile operating system. Starting from the official Windows Phone 8.1 will stop supported in July 2017.
Then in October 2017, Microsoft also mentioned no longer will bring updates for Windows 10 Mobile.
Through a series of tweets in his personal account, Microsoft's VP Operating System Group, Joe Belfiore, admitted the operating system was no longer a focus.
According Belfiore, this operating system has entered the stage of servicing mode. That is, Microsoft will only release security updates and patches for bugs, without any new features being embedded.


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These three things make your business an easy target for a cyber attack
LOS ANGELES — As more companies adopt cloud services, it might be time to seriously consider how to protect your business’s data.
A new study from cyber security company Thales shows cloud services are one of the top ways a company could be vulnerable to a cyber attack. Thales' 2019 Access Management Index surveyed 1,050 executives in 11 countries with responsibility for — or influence over — IT and data security.
“The rapid increase of cloud applications and services within organizations has brought many benefits, but these findings clearly show that without the ability to properly secure cloud-based services organizations are exposing themselves to unnecessary security threats,” the report says.
In 2018, there were 2 million cyber attacks with a 12% increase in business-targeted ransomware, leading to $45 billion in losses, according to the Online Trust Alliance’s Cyber Incident & Breach Trends Report. Due to the high number of cyber attacks, 94% of the companies surveyed changed their security policies within the last year, says the Thales study.
Cloud applications land just behind unprotected infrastructure — such as company communication and finances — and access through web portals as the main vulnerability points of cyber attacks. However, the cloud could become a bigger security risk in years to come.
François Lasnier, vice president of authentication and access management at Thales, says with the increased adoption of the cloud by businesses, “what used to be a small problem is now becoming a growing problem”.
Unlike traditional servers and other business infrastructures, cloud applications are often offered by third parties, meaning the company using the cloud cannot put its own protections around their data.
“Companies are now relying on assets and resources that are completely outside their own perimeter,” said Lasnier. “They cannot put a fence around it anymore because they do not own these assets.”
Most data is left unprotected by human error, not necessarily a cyber attack, says the OTA, and even then 95% of attacks are preventable if proper measures are taken.
Still, cloud servers are popular among employees wanting to work from anywhere using any device, and Thales says the answer is simple: access management.
Access management gives a company control over who has access to which content from specific devices. Lasnier says the key to having effective access management is to have a “flexible and adaptable” policy, meaning setting different parameters when it comes to different situations.
For example, an employee using a company computer on a company network can sign on to the cloud application using just a username and password; but if they use a personal computer or are outside the company’s network, they have to use more or different credentials in order to confirm their identity.
According to Thales’s report, the most popular and recommended access management tools are two-factor authentication, bio-metric authentication and smart single sign-on. Two-factor authentication is the most popular tool, used by 58% of the businesses surveyed, and require both official credentials in addition to confirmation of identity — such as a texted code — before logging on to the company’s site. Bio-metric authentication uses identifying factors such as fingerprints to access company information and is used by 47% of companies surveyed.
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Smart single sign-on is a rising trend is access management and has increased 46% among the businesses surveyed by Thales in the last two years. Smart single sign-on allows users to just use one identification, such as a username and password, to access all cloud applications. Thales says it has become a popular tool because it eliminates “password fatigue, frustration, password resets and downtime while ensuring that access remains secure at all times.”
Access management tools are often available with cloud services and apps and don’t require a “project” from the company to develop and use, says Lasnier. His advice is to start small by protecting one application, then expand to more applications once you get comfortable.
Businesses are being targeted by cyber attackers using a variety of methods varying from obvious ransomware attacks that shut out the company from its own data unless they’re willing to pay to get it back to the more stealthy cryptojacking — or installing programs to mine cryptocurrency secretly using the computing power of another’s computer. The mining software is downloaded unknowingly the user through phishing emails or advertisements, slowing down the computer’s processing and making it die faster. Although cryptojacking doesn’t aim to take money directly from its victim, it costs them indirectly to replace their device once it's no longer functioning properly due to the hidden mining.
One effective method of cyber attacks on companies is business email compromise, which is a form of spoofing used to steal money from companies. Hackers pretend to be either someone within the company asking to transfer money to a vendor for what is assumed to be a legitimate business, but instead, the money is sent to the hacker and the money is lost. This practice has doubled in the last year, resulting in $1.3 billion in losses, according to OTA's report.
Jeff Wilbur, technical director at OTA, says even though the report shows different trends of cyber attacks, the majority of the attacks can be blocked using the same procedures.
“Even though the attack types and what the criminals are doing does shift over time, the basic rules on how to prevent it doesn't change,” said Wilbur.
Here is what Wilbur suggests:
- Use unique, strong passwords: Wilbur suggests using a different password for every service, so if one account is hacked, the same password can’t be used to hack into more services. He also suggests using multi-factor authentication.
- Keep software updated: Wilbur says a lot of businesses and governments are vulnerable to cyber attacks because their software is outdated, but can easily protect themselves by updating it with protective patches. The city of Baltimore fell victim to such an attack earlier this year, and it is estimated to cost them over $18 million to recover.
- Back up data: Putting company data in a place that is not connected to its main storage can help your business recover from a cyber attack. Since most ransomware wants to make you pay for your data, you will not be held hostage and can resume business if your data is backed up to a secondary location.
- Be careful with email: Even if you think you know the person, verify that it’s really coming from their email address and don’t click on links or open attachments unless you’re sure. Wilbur estimates 90% of attacks start from emails.
- Regularly scan your devices and network for infections: Wilbur says vigilance is necessary to ensure you are safe and criminals aren’t making their way around your network undetected.
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"It actually feels like a piece of fine jewelry - it's that well-designed," said Bajarin, calling the phone more elegant than the series of predecessors Apple has released each year since 2007. That was when Apple first turned sci-fi fantasy - a powerful computer in everybody's pocket - into something a lot closer to fact.
Howe said the new iPhone "has a lot of dazzle to it," and described its beveled edge as "sort of like something you'd see on a Tiffany design."
And at the other pole? Competitors, critics, and others who disdain Apple aficionados as "fanboys." The truth is, I'm a big fan of Apple products - I love my Macbook Pro, iPhone, iPad, and iPod. But one skeptical voice that grabbed my ear on iPhone 5 Launch Day was that of satirist Andy Borowitz, who joked that a single new feature of the phone - Apple counts more than 200, including a redesign of its frustratingly mediocre earbuds into "EarPods" - "gives shape and purpose to previously empty and meaningless lives."
OK, a little perspective is warranted, folks - though I don't mean to suggest that Bajarin, Howe, or anyone else wowed by Apple's latest invention lacks it. This is a new iPhone, not world peace.
Why care at all? Because the iPhone, and every smartphone that has followed it, has truly changed the way people live, work, and play - at least for those of us fortunate enough to afford one. It may sound like a slogan, but that's why the parodies bite.
Howe predicts that when preorders start Friday and the new iPhones arrive in stores a week later, the iPhone 5 launch will double Apple's astounding success last fall, when it sold more than four million iPhone 4S's in three days. Here are six upgrades delivered by the phone and iOS 6, the new operating system that will also work on some older models, that help explain why:
Longer, thinner, lighter. There's no "perfect size" for a smartphone or anything else, but Howe is convinced Apple hit a sweet spot with its new dimensions, which include a 4-inch-diagonal screen, half an inch bigger than previous models. Apple did so while keeping the phone's width constant, adding about three-eighths of an inch to its length, and making the phone about one-fifth thinner and lighter.
The result is a noticeably larger screen, ideal for HD video's proportions, on a phone that still fits comfortably into the same size hands as before.
More power. Built-in features such as an improved Siri "intelligent assistant" - not to mention those half-million available apps - all need computing power to run. Apple says the new phone's A6 chip is "up to twice as fast" as its predecessor.
The new Maps. What can that speed do? Howe says it was immediately obvious when he tested Apple's new Maps tool, which includes turn-by-turn directions, real-time traffic adjustments, and even a "Flyover" feature that allows you to move from navigation to exploration "as you zoom, pan, and rotate around a city and its landmarks."
"It's a whole different thing than the previous maps app, because it's just so fast," Howe said. "It feels very responsive and very natural."
Speedier data. The iPhone 5 will work on the fastest cellular data networks available - the LTE networks being rolled out by all the major carriers - as well as on a faster, 5-gigaherz WiFi band. Apple says LTE should deliver data at speeds of up to 100 megabits per second. That kind of performance may be wishful, but it's a major upgrade from previous iPhones' limit of 14.4 megabits per second.
Forrester Research's Charles Golvin said the faster WiFi standard will make a large difference too, when iPhone users are in reach. "Very few, if any, mobile phones support the higher-frequency mode," he said.
FaceTime-over-cellular. Apple's refined video-calling app, previously limited to callers using WiFi, will now work over wireless networks, though some AT&T Mobility customers won't be happy with the upgrade. That carrier says the feature, said to consume about 3 megabytes of data per minute, won't work for legacy customers who remain on unlimited-data plans. To get it, they'll have to switch to a metered-usage plan - or to a competing carrier, such as Sprint, that means what it says when it offers "unlimited data."
A better camera. There are too many improvements to mention on the latest Apple iSight camera, including its 8-megapixel image capture. But Bajarin said Apple's computing skills are the real key.
"Apple enhances the software so much that the image is superior to any other smartphone camera out there," he said. On one image of a bee buzzing over a flower, "you could actually see the veins in the bee's wings."
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After all the turbulence caused by the oversupply of oil in the market, gold extends its gains hitting the new three-month high in the North America trade. This is despite the released data showing the fall of the U.S. durable goods orders and despite the economy’s underlying health concerns.
Reports shows on Thursday, January 28, that “the U.S. Commerce Department said durable goods orders, including transportation items, tumbled 5.1% last month, compared to forecasts for a decline of 0.6%. Core durable goods orders, excluding volatile transportation items, fell 1.2%, disappointing expectations for a drop of 0.1%”. Reports, at the same time, are showing that “the orders for core capital goods, a key barometer of private-sector business investment, plunged 4.3%, far worse than expectations for a decline of 0.2%, while shipment of core capital goods, a category used to calculate quarterly economic growth, dipped 0.2%”.
Despite these data, gold continued to rise on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange during their February delivery. Data revealed a $1,125.70 high a troy ounce which is the most since November 3. Prices of precious metals, especially gold, are used as an alternative currency in times wherein uncertainties occur in the global economic market and, in which, leads closer to financial risks. Today, prices of precious metals are up to 5% in the midst of the chaos in the global equity markets.
It is forecasted that 25% of a rate increase in the Fed’s March meeting will likely to occur as traders are expecting one more rate hike this year. Most likely, it will happen around July. Gold, as one of the precious metals, will not be affected by this gradual increase in the interest rates as one of the alternative currencies.
Along with gold, silver futures for March delivery is also reported high at 6.4 cents, or 44%, to trade at $14.39 a troy ounce during morning hours in New York, according to investing.com’s Thursday’s issue. Prices jumped to $14.58 which is listed highest since December 7 of last year.


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January 19, 2019
Qunicy, MA – Stop & Shop has announced a recall by Perdue Foods, LLC of approximately 68,244 pounds of ready to eat chicken nugget products. The action comes after three people filed complaints of finding wood in the food according to the United States Department of Agriculture.
The nuggets were produced on October 25, 2018: 22 oz plastic bag packages of frozen ...
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World Gym to open in former Future Shop building
The former Future Shop building at the Niagara Square mall in Niagara Falls will reopen as World Gym. Construction is about to begin inside and the gym is expected to open by the end of March 2016. (MIKE DIBATTISTA/Niagara Falls Review/Postmedia Network)
Electronics are out and fitness equipment is going in.
The former Future Shop building at the Niagara Square mall will reopen as World Gym.
Construction is about to begin inside and the gym is expected to open by the end of March, said Joe Spino, a World Gym franchisee who also owns the St. Catharines location.
Flyers were recently put in Niagara Falls mailboxes indicating the Montrose Road gym will be more than 22,000-square-feet, include more than $1 million in state-of-the-art equipment, and be open 24 hours.
It will provide on-site child care, a women’s-only fitness centre, full locker rooms with showers, a basketball court and a smoothie bar.
It will offer exercise classes, personal training, saunas, tanning, free weight machines and more than 85 pieces of cardio equipment. There will be amenities such as boxing, massage beds and yoga.
Spino said he has driven past the Niagara Falls building several times during the last couple of years and has thought it would be a good place to open a World Gym if the opportunity came about.
“It’s a great location, right off the QEW,” he said. “It’s a newer building, it’s a great facility inside — really clean.”
Spino said the south end of Niagara Falls is an ideal location for a World Gym since the north end of the city is closer to their St. Catharines location, which has been open for about a year and a half.
He said in addition to having members from Niagara Falls, the new location will also attract people from nearby Fort Erie and Thorold.
The response to the St. Catharines location has been “phenomenal” and the response from people who have heard about the Niagara Falls location has been “overwhelming” and “above our expectations,” said Spino.
“The phones are ringing and the e-mails are coming in.”
World Gym has more than 200 locations in 18 countries. There are more than 30 in Canada.
“You go back four years ago, I was doing consulting with World Gym in Canada (and there were) two or three clubs. Now we’re up to 30 and there are seven or eight clubs under construction right now, ready to open first quarter,” said Spino.
The Montrose Road building used to house Future Shop, which closed in March after Best Buy Canada announced it was consolidating its Future Shop stores under the Best Buy brand.


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May 20, 2013
Accenture entered into an agreement with Acquity Group Ltd., where Accenture will acquire Acquity Group, a digital marketing and ecommerce company, according to a press release on Acquity Group’s website.
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Foot Locker, Inc. Signs Definitive Agreement To Acquire Runners Point Group (via PR Newswire)
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Target announced separate agreements March 14 to acquire CHEFS Catalog and assets of Cooking.com The company said in a press release that the acquisitions are aimed at expanding Target’s ecommerce presence in the cooking and kitchenware market.
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February 18, 2015
Here is a listing of some recently announced expansions, additions and closures in distribution and fulfillment centers:
Urban Outfitters said it plans to relocate its Trenton, SC ecommerce fulfillment center to Gap, PA. Construction of the new 1 million square foot …More...
February 10, 2015
Kate Spade & Company and Walton Brown, a subsidiary of Asian fashion retail and brand management group The Lane Crawford Joyce Group, have formed joint ventures focused on scaling and accelerating Kate Spade & Company’s growth in Greater China.
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February 8, 2015
It was as inevitable as the sun rising, but RadioShack finally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on February 5.
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February 5, 2015
It appears that the RadioShack brand will live on despite today’s Chapter 11 filing in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. But the iconic electronics retailer will have a much-smaller footprint.
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February 4, 2015
Staples, Inc. and Office Depot, Inc. today announced that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement under which Staples will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Office Depot in a deal worth $6.3 billion.
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Shrimp, particularly peeled shrimp, are likely to be produced in facilities which offer poor working condition.
Prawn, sold as shrimp in the United States, are a major industry in Thailand where feedstocks of trash fish and byproducts are purchased by fish farms operators such as CP Foods from a fishing industry which employs slave labor, in large part migrant labor from Myanmar. The shrimp, prawns in the UK, are then sold to major retailers such as Walmart, Tesco, Carrefour, Costco, Morrisons, the Co-operative and Iceland.
According to the Global Slavery Index there are about 500,000 slaves in Thailand. This is not unknown to the government, but the high labor costs of the prawn industry and its high profits inhibit enforcement.
- "Don’t eat that shrimp" article by Roberto A. Ferdman in The Washington Post December 15, 2015
- "Trafficked into slavery on Thai trawlers to catch food for prawns The Thai fishing industry is built on slavery, with men often beaten, tortured and sometimes killed - all to catch 'trash fish' to feed the cheap farmed prawns sold in the west" article by Kate Hodal and Chris Kelly in The Guardian Tuesday 10 June 2014


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Cecilia Cheung Loses “Hundreds Of Thousands” In Revenue After Shutting Her Boutique Indefinitely Due To COVID-19 Outbreak
Hongkong star Cecilia Cheung’s fashion boutique, SeeCeciStreet, has become the latest business casualty of COVID-19.
According to reports, the 39-year-old’s shop will be closed indefinitely, or at least until the epidemic dies down.
The news comes shortly after it was revealed that her ex-husband, Nicholas Tse, had closed all brick and mortar shops of his cookie business, Chef Nic’s Cookies. One of Nic’s outlets is said to be located some 100m from Ceci’s shop.
When reporters visited Ceci's boutique, they were surprised to see that there were still people working inside. When they reached out to Ceci’s manager, Emily, she confirmed that the store located in central Hongkong had been closed since Chinese New Year, and that the staff had only returned to do some cleaning up.
Unlike many of the businesses affected by the outbreak, Emily clarified that none of their staff were forced to take unpaid leave.
"When the epidemic first started, Ceci told her employees not to go back to work because safety is the most important thing,” Emily said, adding that Ceci had instructed them to go in at staggered timings in order to minimise contact with other people if they had to go to the store.
It was also reported that Ceci has been losing “hundreds of thousands of dollars” since her shop’s closure a month ago but they are in no hurry to resume business.
“There are no plans, it depends on the situation,” Emily said.
In the meantime, Cecilia and her three sons — Lucas, 12, Quintus, 10, and Marcus, 2 — have been spending most of their time at home.
However, the boys have been feeling restless so Cecilia decided to take Quintus out for a quick shopping trip, which she documented on her IG stories.
"I haven't been out on the streets for a long time. Now that I’m out for the first time, we’re going to the toy store to buy toys. My son is so happy!” said Cecilia, who was wearing a mask. “We snapped up the toys in 10 minutes and left!"
“I am so happy!” Quintus laughed as he picked out several boxes of toys, including a ride on toy car that's presumably for Marcus.
At the end of Ceci’s IG posts, she was seen disinfecting the soles of her son’s shoes before heading home.


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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said marijuana will become fully legalized in Canada on October 17, 2018.
Trudeau spoke to journalists on Wednesday, after the Senate permitted Canada to become the first country in the G7 to fully legalise cannabis.
“Obviously the current approach – the current prohibition of marijuana – has not worked to protect our kids, to keep the money out of the pockets of organised crime and that’s why we’re bringing in a new legalised framework around marijuana”, Guardan quoted him as saying.
His government introduced legislation last year in a bid to make Canada the second country in the world to legalise cannabis, after Uruguay. Medical marijuana is already legal in Canada.
PM Trudeau expected that the end of 95 years of prohibition would immediately begin to curtail the estimated C$6bn ($4.5bn) in profits pouring into the black market.
“And over the following months, and indeed years, we will almost completely replace the organised crime market on that,” he said.
“One of the things that we heard very clearly from the provinces is that they need a certain amount of time to get their bricks-and-mortar stores and their online sales ready.
“Producers need time to be able to actually prepare for a regimented and successful implementation of the regime … This is something that we want to get right.”
On pardons for the hundreds of thousands of Canadians with prior marijuana convictions, Trudeau said it would be “illogical” to consider the issue before the new law comes into effect.
“We’ve said that we will look at next steps once the coming-into-force happens but between now and then the current regime stays.”


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NEW YORK (AP) — A private collection of more than 650 rare American coins is set to be auctioned in a series of seven sales that could bring $200 million.
The D. Brent Pogue Collection will be sold by Sotheby’s and Stack’s Bowers Galleries beginning May 19.
It’s considered the most valuable coin collection in private hands.
Sotheby’s says the other six auctions will run through May 2017.
Most of the coins date from 1792 to the 1830s.
The May 19 sale includes an 1804 silver dollar considered to be the most famous coin in America. It could fetch $8 million to $10 million.
An 1822 Half Eagle $5 gold piece is also estimated to fetch $8 million to $10 million. It is one of three known to exist. The others are at the Smithsonian.


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In accordance with the Government’s coronavirus (COVID-19) announcement on Friday that all pubs, restaurants, theatres, leisure centres should close, Phyllis Court Club have temporarily closed the Clubhouse and Fitness Centre until further notice.
Club Chairman, Stan Ainsley said, “These are unprecedented times for all but it’s an opportunity for the community of our Club to come together for each other. Many Members have kindly stepped forward to offer help to other more vulnerable Members and some Interest Group initiatives have started to create social events using technology.”
The Club will continue to offer meals, wine, food and provisions for collection or delivery. The hotel bedrooms have been closed.
From today (Monday 23 March) members can order take-away meals, freshly prepared meals to cook or freeze, wine, essential food provisions (eggs, milk, vegetables, bread) if you live within the RG9 postcode.
The tennis courts and croquet lawns along with rowing, kayaking and boating provision are now closed too.


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Square Enix Releases FY2003/2004 Figures
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Square Enix has released its financial results for the fiscal year which ended on March 31st. The company boasted a net profit of 10.99 billion yen ($97.21 million US) on sales of 63.22 billion yen ($559.22 million US). Worldwide software sales reached 13.62 million copies, behind several highly successful titles. Dragon Quest V: Tenguu no Hanayome has sold more than 1.6 million copies in Japan since its late March release, while Final Fantasy X-2 managed to achieve more than two million copies of combined sales in the two major overseas markets North America and Europe. Adding up American and European sales, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance also reached plantium status outside Japan.
For the current fiscal year 2004/2005, Square Enix projects sales of 76 billion yen ($672.27 million US) and a net profit of 11.5 billion yen ($101.72 million US). Software sales are estimated to decline to 12.10 million copies, with 8.06 million copies being projected to be sold in the Japanese market. At the same time, Square Enix declined to give any details regarding the release schedule of the newest installments of its flagship series, Final Fantasy XII and Dragon Quest VIII. Whether both titles will be released during the current fiscal year continues to be uncertain. As previously stated by president Youichi Wada, Square Enix aims to continue its expansion into the mobile contents market worldwide, thereby mirroring its success in the Japanese mobile contents market.
What was also revealed today, was that Enix founder and Square Enix's No.1 shareholder Yasuhiro Fukushima will resign from his position as chairman at next month's shareholders meeting. He will continue to serve as a consultant to the company. No successor has been named so far.


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M-Commerce made easy
With the rise of mobile penetration, brands are trying to tap into M-commerce, but finding a seamless user experience has been difficult to achieve.
A start-up named Clover may have found a solution. They’ve created a one-click mobile application payment system which only requires entering your phone number and a PIN to authenticate the user and purchase.
Why it matters
Perhaps this solution is not the panacea for m-commerce, but it seems to take the right direction by easing its use and simplifying security. How could this innovation be used by brands to open new streams of trading?
Lebanon’s First National Bank have recently introduced the world’s first loan specifically aimed at financing cosmetic surgery. Customers can borrow anything between $1,000-$5,000 providing applicants are in employment and under 64 years of age.
From 10.06.09 until 10.09.09 Absolute Bank will cancel all penalty fees owed by their customers if they agree to pay 10% of their debt off at a time.


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Norwich boot drive draws $2,500 for toy fund
Laurel Hill firefighters collected $2,500 for the Tommy Toy Fund during a boot drive Saturday outside the station.
Drivers up and down Route 12 stopped to drop some spare change or a few dollars into firefighters’ boots to raise money for Christmas gifts for needy children.
“It’s a holiday. It’s what the season’s all about,” said Ryann Gilot, of Norwich, who pulled up to put some cash in a boot held by Fire Department President Andy Daigle.
Daigle and new firefighter Cody White were two of several firefighters out with the boots, dressed in holiday garb.
Jerry Strange, the assistant chief of the department, said the firefighters enjoy the break and get into the spirit.
“It’s all about giving money to the Tommy Toy Fund. We have to do something to give back to the community, and this is just one of those things,” he said.
Since the economy tanked in 2008, donations have been a bit slower than they had been in the first few years, but they’re steady, Strange said. The department runs several boot drives a year to pay for new equipment, but this one tends to be the most successful, Strange said.
“With the economy, people aren’t so willing to stop, so it’s declined a bit, but it’s definitely enough to make an impact,” Strange said.
Strange looked up as two men opened the driver and passenger side doors of their car and emptied their pockets into waiting firefighters’ boots before continuing south on Route 12.
“We take what we can get,” Strange said. “Every little bit helps.”