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Freight companies are dialing back expectations that demand will recover strongly in the second half of the year amid growing economic uncertainty and signs retailers are growing more guarded about placing big orders in 2023.“There was more optimism a few months ago than there is now,” said Paul Svindland, chief executive of Bensenville, Ill.-based logistics provider STG Logistics Inc. Logistics executives say the volumes of goods moving through supply chains have tailed off more than…

Sam Wills, a New Zealand-origin prop comedian is visiting India for the first time. Wills, who goes by the name Tape Face, “can’t wait” to be in the country, as he shares, “I’ve been looking forward to coming to India for some time, and to finally get the opportunity it’s fantastic. This is my first-ever trip to this vibrant country. I’m looking forward to interacting with my Indian fans, trying the food that I’ve heard so much about, and performing a show for them that I’m very proud of as part of my ongoing world…

Meta’s stock price had fallen by -19.66%! Meta’s dropping stocks challenges metaverse vision? Meta’s dropping stocks challenges metaverse vision? At the time this post was being written, Meta’s stock price had fallen by -19.66% in after-hours trading following the market closed last night, which happened to closely follow the report’s publication. A firm spokeswoman claimed that officials had somewhat anticipated the falling Meta’s stock price and that it might continue into the following year. In February 2022, Meta…

By Lindsey Bahr | Associated Press Olivia Colman plays the manager of a movie theater in Sam Mendes’ new film ” Empire of Light.” It’s a cinema palace in a small town on England’s south coast that is showing its age. The once grand establishment used to play films on multiple screens on multiple floors. The top floor even had a large ballroom area, a piano, a stately bar and booth-style seating next to large windows looking out onto the sea. Going to the movies here, you imagine, must have been an occasion worth dressing…

Easing supply-chain pressures mean American consumers can look forward to their first normal holiday season in three years, industry executives and analysts say. They project full store shelves—and even deals—as retailers work through gluts in product categories from toys to furniture.“The script has been flipped,” said Steve Pasierb, president of manufacturing group The Toy Association. “From a supply-chain standpoint, it’s the opposite of last year.”…

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Friday, Oct. 28. I’m Frank Shyong, a columnist writing about race, immigrant communities and diaspora. Sometimes around Chinatown I run into a woman in her late 80s named Pauline Chau. She’s always lugging one of those grocery carts that roll like a suitcase, wears a ton of jewelry, and everyone in the neighborhood knows her. Some people call her the unofficial mayor of Chinatown because she knows everyone’s name. And also because she has this weird…

By Lindsay Bahr | Associated Press If one were to rank the most difficult adolescent age, 11 may not be the first but it is certainly up there. It is just a horribly, hilariously awkward moment of still being very much a kid but with an agonizingly heightened awareness of all those teenage things that are just out of reach. And it is just a moment after all, but when you’re in it, when you are just 11, the days are long, the weeks move slowly and years feels like a lifetime. In ” Aftersun,” writer-director Charlotte Wells…

The Sudden hike in Ripple price turned out a short-lived hype as XRP is down now A lack of SEC v Ripple case updates and external market forces led to a shift in sentiment towards the case. Optimism towards an early conclusion had fueled an XRP return to $0.55 before pulling back. Hopes of Court activity in response to the Motions for Summary Judgment filings stopped, as the Court schedule remained unchanged at the start of the week. Investors were also disappointed when the SEC and Ripple did not announce any plans to…

The die-down in hype was expected, but that is because the Ethereum Merge is still about a month away. Ethereum is set to switch from the Proof-of-Work mechanism to a Proof-of-Stake mechanism on September 6. ETH will no longer need a huge amount of computing power for cryptocurrency minting and verification of transactions of crypto investors. It will reduce energy consumption by around 99% in the crypto market which is suitable for decentralization. The launch date of the Ethereum merge has also increased the price of…

A Data Analysis of the Public’s Adherence to Travel Restrictions During the First Year of the SARS-COV2 Pandemic.Photo by null xtract: https://www.pexels.com/photo/person-looking-out-the-window-3047470/The first year of the SARS-COV2 pandemic, from March 2020 to the end of February 2021, was characterised by on-again/off-again periods of lockdowns and travel restrictions across most of the world, as countries tried to curb the transmission of SARS-COV2 and to manage the disease burden on their overloaded healthcare…