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advertisement advertisement advertisement Unlike a lot of startups bolstered by VC bucks and big expectations, Stitch Fix knows when to button up and get to work. advertisement advertisement When I met with CEO Katrina Lake early last year, I had the distinct impression that she didn’t really want to talk to me. We met in the San Francisco offices her company occupied at the time. They were larger than the apartment-slash-headquarters she’d operated from while finishing up at Harvard Business School, but the space felt crowded with its four full-time employees, handful of part-timers, and racks of on-trend women’s clothes and accessories waiting to be plucked, packed, and shipped in personalized, five-item “fixes” that customers could try on, keep, or return according to their whims. Lake agreed to speak for a story about subscription commerce companies but only on the condition that neither she nor Stitch Fix would be the … [Read more...] about Stitch Fix: Reluctant Pioneers Of The Slow Startup Movement

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — A Santa Maria man faces federal charges of fatally shooting a northern elephant seal on a beach near San Simeon. Jordan Gerbich, 30, was charged Tuesday in an information with one count of taking a marine mammal. READ MORE: Santa Maria Man Gets 3 Months In Prison For Shooting, Killing Elephant Seal In September of 2019, the corpse of a northern elephant seal was found on a beach near San Simeon, close to a popular viewing area along Highway 1. The animal had been shot in the head. READ MORE: Man Shot, Critically Wounded In Hollywood Hills After Fight At Night Club Gerbich was charged with fatally shooting the elephant seal on Sept. 28, 2019. The new federal charge follow an investigation by the NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The northern elephant seal is a protected species under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. The species live up and down North America’s Pacific coast and are often seen on … [Read more...] about Santa Maria Man Faces Federal Charge Of Shooting Northern Elephant Seal To Death

(CNN) Monday officially marks the final day of Atlantic hurricane season, and it has been one for the record books. 2020 has been undoubtedly a crazy year -- with the Covid-19 pandemic , murder hornets and some of the largest wildfires in recorded history. It seems understandable that hurricane season would also be memorable. This season was forecast to be a busy season. Two of the most well-known and respected entities that forecast their predictions for the upcoming hurricane season are Colorado State University (CSU) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). CSU's Tropical Meteorology Project team predicted an above-average Atlantic hurricane season on April 2. The team forecast 16 named storms, including eight hurricanes. "We were forecasting a well above-average season in April, June and July, and increased that forecast to an extremely active season in August," said Phil Klotzbach, a research scientist at the … [Read more...] about Hurricane season ends historic as predicted by experts back in April

'Mulayam has by design cornered the people's attention back to the party and Akhilesh.' IMAGE: Mulayam Singh Yadav's war with his son has ensured that it is the only thing that people talk of. Forget Modi, forget demonetisation. Shrewd, isn't it? Photograph: Pawan Kumar/Reuters A s father and son continue to battle it out in the Yadav versus Yadav war in Uttar Pradesh, Dr A K Verma , director, Centre for the Study of Society and Politics, Kanpur, decodes the Samajwadi Party crisis and its impact on the UP assembly polls outcome, in an interview to Rediff.com 's Syed Firdaus Ashraf . During our earlier conversation in September 2016, you had said 'Mulayam is an outdated ticket in the Samajwadi Party' . I would not buy this line of argument right now. I would rather subscribe to the original line that I took, that probably all this is to ensure that Akhilesh has full control over the party and the government. I see a very shrewdly schemed approach in all … [Read more...] about ‘Nobody can beat Mulayam without his own desire to be beaten’

A FLAW in WhatsApp's authentication system could let a hacker lock you out of the app. The hacker would need to go through a 36 hour process but the result is a victim's account being permanently deactivated. Cybersecurity researchers Luis Márquez Carpintero and Ernesto Canales Pereña revealed the alarming problem to Forbes . They explained how the attacker would first need to download WhatsApp and then try and login using your phone number and requesting authentication codes. After several attempts, WhatsApp blocks sending codes for 12 hours. However, the hacker can use this time to send “a lost/stolen phone request” to WhatsApp support to try and get your account deactivated. WhatsApp can lock you out of your account without verifying the email address the request is sent from is actually you. The hacker will need to repeat this 12-hour cycle two more times. After this 36 hours process, you and the person trying to take your account will both see a “Try … [Read more...] about Scary new WhatsApp bug lets ANYONE lock you out of the app

Representatives of Vietnam and the UK hand over notes confirming the date when the UKVFTA comes into force. Photo: VNA Emily Hamblin, UK consul general in Ho Chi Minh City and trade director for Vietnam, said that May 1 is the next milestone to celebrate in the United Kingdom and Vietnam’s timeline of implementing the free trade deal (UVFTA), when the agreement will legally enter into force. However, the benefits of it have already been in place for several months, being provisionally applied from January 1. Some 65 per cent of all tariffs have already been eliminated and this will increase to 99 per cent over the next six years. This equates to tariff savings of $134.65 million per year on Vietnamese exports to the UK by full implementation, and of $42.52 million per year on UK exports to Vietnam. Among them, there are huge cooperation opportunities in the field of healthcare. Hamblin said that in an age of growing challenges from non-communicable diseases, and emerging … [Read more...] about Healthcare focus for Brit investors through UVFTA