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In the industry of paper product manufacturing, Akar Limited has acquired more than 3 decades of experience. Initially, we were a small enterprises by the name of "Print-Akar" and we used to only source print. At present, we are one of the leading manufacturers and exporters of a wide range of Books and other Stationery items that are divided into four categories viz Printing, Promotion, Stationery, and Publication.

Some of our products are Note Books, Multicolor Printed Cubes, Exercise Books, Calenders, Drawing Books, Dairies, Memos, Address Books, Shopping Lists, Legal Pads, Paper Napkins, Floral Pads, Guest Book, and many others. In addition to these products, we possess over 20 years of experience in the segment of Promotional Products for the Pharmaceutical Industry. Till date, we have successfully developed and marketed over 1000 customized products. In addition, we have also printed numerous Medical Books that cover the entire Human Anatomy. Furthermore, all the news and information concerning the latest medical research & development are printed in journals for the medical fraternity.

Our first factory started in 1984 in Mumbai that had only the basic machines and equipments. Leveraging on the good performance of this factory, we developed a 25000 sq. ft factory in 1993, in Dadra & Nagar Haveli. Moving ahead, we created another manufacturing facility in the year 2002-2003, of 40000 sq. ft for the development of Stationery Items for school, home and office use. In the same year, we ventured into the international market by launching our products in Hong Kong, Germany and United Kingdom.

Our Company Facts

  • All the needed raw‐material like paper, board, art card, inks, plastic components, adhesives, binding & packaging materials and consumables are available easily.
  • We have entered into annual agreements with most of the paper & board mills for round the year supply at specially negotiated price.
  • Our factory is near National Highway No. 8 and Western Railways prominent station Vapi, therefore transportation of material to our factory is simple.
  • We have constructed more than 14,000 sq.ft. A‐Class godown facility to store raw materials and finished goods. These fire and flood proof godowns can protect the material from the humid climate also.
  • The company has a high tension supply line with a sanctioned load of 350 kva which is adequate to take care of its present and future requirements.
  • A separate transformer and stand‐by generator of 150 kva is also installed to ensure uninterrupted power supply.
  • We have taken special steps to stabilize the power supply to our electronic and computerized machines to minimize the damage caused by fluctuation in power supply from the main grid.

Our History

After its incorporation in 1976 and till the year 1986, Akar Limited operated similar to an outsourcing firm that was into getting jobs printed at different printing presses. The further journey of the company is as follows:

The company took its root as a corporate entity, when it was incorporated as Akar Print & Pack Pvt. Ltd. During the same year it set up its own production facilities.

The company was converted as a closely held limited company. To keep pace with the growth the need for professionalism of the management was felt, it was decided to invite professionals on the Board of Directors of the company.

The company shifted production base to Silvassa, Union Territory of Dadra & Nagar Haveli.

This was necessary to facilitate the expansion plans and to avail fiscal benefits offered by the Government of India.

A dormitory with canteen facility was set up in a separate premises measuring 8,000 sq.ft. area. to provide free lodging and boarding facility to all our 100+ workers, supervisors & managers.

It was the year of information technology and dotcom revolution was taking place. We too, decided to take a plunge in this revolution by creating an ultra‐modern creative studio. Since then, we are providing contents and creative graphics to our Pharmaceutical clients.

We established an ultra modern Corporate & Marketing office at its present premises at Laxmi Plaza, Laxmi Industrial Estate, New Link Road, Andheri (W), Mumbai.

Our Product Range

We are offering a wide range of products that are targeted towards catering to the diverse requirements of our customers. Our wide range of products of school and office stationery is as follows:

Note Books

Multicolor Printed Cubes

Exercise Books

Drawing Books

Subject Note for School Students

Cube Block

Address Books

Shopping Lists

Legal Pads

Paper Napkins

Floral Pads

Guest Book

Our Business Activities (Products & Services)

We are manufacturing and marketing products & services under the 4 categories viz Printing, Promotion, Stationery, and Publication. These are detailed below:

Calendars, Brochures, Catalogues, Visual Aids, Literature, medical Charts, Hardbound Books etc.

innovative tailor‐made customized products on special order for our corporate customers form various industries like FMCG, Telecom, Shipping, Travel, Distilleries, Pharmaceuticals, etc.

Back to School : We manufacture Note Books, Exercise Books, Long Books, Drawing Pads, Journal Papers, Subject Note for School and College Students.

Office : Product range includes Writing Note Pads, Spiral Pads, Double Wiro‐O‐Pads, Cube Block, Address Books, Legal Pads. Etc.

Gift : For household use, we manufacture eye catching paper products for day to day use. The range includes Floral Pads, Multicolour Printed Cubes, Calendars, Diaries, Memos, Reminders, Shopping List, Paper Napkins, Guest Books etc.

Medical Books covering complete Human Anatomy. Latest Medical Research and Developments are printed in the form of Books, Journals or Articles for medical fraternity. We use latest generation Scanners, Image Setters and Outputting and Proofing Devices.

Important Production Processes

For us, printing is not just a technical process… it is an art!

We have the ability to convert every printing job into a masterpiece by the use of paper as the canvas and ink as the medium. This assists us in adding value to the promotions of products of our clients. In our company, all activities from designing to printing are integrated in one umbrella. All the important production processes are tabulated below:

In our design unit, we create concepts which are ideal for every promotional requirement and product / brand identities. Here, we also work in newer areas of promotions such as multimedia modules & audiovisual presentations for catering to the varied needs of our customers and create better brand awareness.

Creo’s complete digital workflow i.e. High‐resolution Scanning, Page‐layout and assembly, ripping and output on drum imagesetter works seamlessly and gives ready‐to‐use positives in a short time.

Our printing unit at Silvassa‐Dadra, set amidst beautiful green surroundings, boasts of ultra‐modern, technically superior printing machines, imported from the very best companies.

We are equipped with latest technology in the field of UV coating and Wet and Dry Lamination for giving special effects to print and promotion jobs.

Our binding capability is a rare combination of human skills and technology. We have more than 150 specially trained contract workers who very skillfully work with latest machines imported from UK, Germany, USA and Italy.

Infrastructural Setup

We possess a robust infrastructural setup, which includes corporate office, creative studio, factory buildings, godowns and residential accommodation. Our corporate office is spread over 2300 sq. ft. area and is located at Laxmi Plaza, Laxmi Industrial Estate, New Link Road, Andheri (W), that is also the center of our marketing as well as financial activities. Our creative studio is located in same premises and is integrated with latest software programme and hardware. It is manged by a team of young minds that are supervised by a Creative Director. This studio provides innovative concepts for the promotions and campaigns that are launched by a number of pharmaceutical companies.

There are 2 factory buildings known as Unit I and Unit II in our infrastructural setup. Unit I is a 3 storied structure that covers over 27,000 sq.ft. floor area. It is a free‐hold property and is developed on the plot of 1700 sq. mtr., at Silvassa, Dadra (Union Territory). This factory is integrated with all the modern production facilities to carry out all the procedures starting from pre‐production plate making to printing, finishing, binding, etc. Unit II is also a storied building spread over 15,000 sq. ft floor area.

Our infrastructural setup also includes:

5 storage godowns with a total built up area of 14,000 sq. ft. located on a plot measuring 2000 sq. mtrs., adjacent to the factory building at Silvassa, to store raw material, consumables and finished goods.

Residential accommodation

The company has adequate residential facilities for its supervisory staff in Dadra. To cater to the needs of comfortable stay of visiting clients and our directors, the company has also constructed residential apartment on the roof terrace of the existing factory building.

Human Resource

The backbone of our company is the team of qualified, and skilled professionals including engineers, managers, technicians, quality auditors, and many others. They work in coordination with each other to offer that something special to our customers, more than their expectations. All our personnel managed separate activities like planning, creation, production, marketing, finance and management. We consider it an achievement for ourselves that most of our personnel are associated with us for over 10 years.

Our Esteemed Clients

Our esteemed clients endorse our belief that innovativeness, creativity, and commitment to excellence are such things that keep us occupied and in demand. Following is the list of clients who are eminent in their field of work:

Abbott Labs

Alembic Pharmaceuticals

Alkem Labs

Aristo Pharmaceuticals

Bayer Healthcare

Biochem Pharmaceuticals

Blue Cross Pharmaceuticals

Cadilla Pharmaceutical

Deejay Distilleries

Dr. Reddy Labs

Elder Pharmaceuticals

Emcure Pharmaceuticals

Encore Pharmaceuticals

FDC Pharmaceuticals

Fulford Pharmaceuticals

Genx Pharmaceuticals

German Remedies

Glaxo Smithkline

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals

Hetero Healthcare

Himalaya Drugs

Indian Immune

Ipca Labs

J.B. Chemicals

Johnson & Johnson

Khandelwal Labs

Lupin Labs

Micro Labs

Nicholas Piramal India Limited

NKV Kontorsvaror

Novartis Pharmaceuticals

Novo Nordisk

Organon Pharmaceuticals

Panacea Pharmaceuticals

Plethico Pharmaceuticals

Pure Health Pharmaceuticals

Sandoz Pharmaceuticals

Sanofi – Aventis

Shreya Lifesciences

Solvay Pharmaceuticals

Sun Pharmaceuticals

T.J. Moris

Torrent Pharmaceuticals

Unichem Labs

Wallace Lifesciences

Zandu Pharmaceuticals

Zuventus Pharmaceuticals

Zyg Pharmaceuticals

Strategic Advantages

Akar Limited is one such company that has various strategic advantages over its competitors which gives it the much required extra edge to be successful in the market. One of the major advantages of our company are its fiscal and locational factors. We understand that for a company like us, it is importunate for us to ensure low levels of the operational cost, so that we can survive and grow substantially in this industry.

Our company is beneficiary of various cost advantages as our factory is located at Union Territory Of Dadra & Nagar Haveli. Some of the other strategic advantages of our company are as follows:

  • Total income tax exemption for the first five years under section 80‐IA of the Income Tax Act
  • Total sales tax exemption for the first 15 years on the products of company
  • No Octroi leviable on the raw material and consumables used by the company
  • Subsidized power supply @ Rs. 2.20 paise per unit as compared to Rs. 5.80 in other parts of the country
  • Cost-effective yet skilled manpower is available in and around near by areas of Vapi and Surat. Workers also commute from Mumbai and its surrounding areas
  • Highly integrated infrastructure like power, roads, water and telecommunication are provided by the local administration
  • Proximity to railway (Vapi Station ‐ Western Railway) and Western Express Highway
  • Peaceful industrial environment prevails in the territory because of special administrative powers to the local administration

Moreover, we have our corporate office in commercial and well‐developed area of Andheri (Mumbai). This makes it easy for our employees and customers to co‐ordinate their business presentations as well as meetings. In addition, there is a large gallery inside this office that provides our customers the access to an assortment of our product samples throughout the year.

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Yes, we all have to ultimately buy into the same vision – that’s the glue which holds any organization together, and drives it towards achieving its mission statement. But you don’t need a professional diversity speaker to tell you: The more sources of sound advice and broader the range of experience and talents we can turn to when a problem presents itself, the better off we are. That’s the kind of insight you can’t gain by simply surrounding yourself with people of similar interests, backgrounds and capabilities. But we digress: As you’ll see in the clip which follows, it’s a point best explained straight from the horse’s mouth – click play to learn why different truly is good for every individual and business.

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Two big thermometers (Espresso and Vapour) Clear indication of the boiler temperature for the prepartaion of an espresso or a frothy cappuccino Two independent boilers Homogeneous performance with no delay between brewing and frothing Espresso boiler Ensures a constant temperature for brewing a state of art espresso Vapour heater Delivers a strong jet of vapour at a constant temperature, for a rich and ceamy cappuccino Professional filter support Accomodates two stainless steel filter baskets Also intended to allow the preparation of ground grains and paper pods Large storage space allows you to warm up to 6 espresso cups Die-cast construction Sturdy and durable Rounded profile design Easy to clean Large working space Spacious working space allows for the simultaneous preperation of an espresso and a cappuccino Drip-free system Prevents drop formation thanks to solenoid valves Sliding water reservoir Easy to fill without having to move the machine ACCESSORIES 2 filter baskets Tamper Cleaning brush Coffee measure Detachable frothing arm Frothing pitcher Sliding and removable water reservoir with a 2 litre capacity

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Coffee Type Compatibility:Ground coffee / Pods
Product Type:Coffee machine

Coffee Makers Features

Coffee Makers Features:Cup warmer / Dishwasher safe removable parts / Drip stop system / Drip tray full indicator / On/off indicator light / Pod adaptable filter holder / Removable drip tray / Removable water tank / Two independent boilers / Two independent thermometers (Espresso and Steam)

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Case design:Freestanding
Colour of product:Black / Cream / Grey / Red
Housing material:Metal
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Detachable swing filter:Y / Yes
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Number of slices:2

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Bowl material:Glass / Stainless steel
Housing material:Metal

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Packaging Content

Bowls included:Extra, Mixing
Dough tool:Y
Vegetable cutter:Y

Americano making:Y / Yes
Anti-drip function: Yes
Built-in grinder:N / No
Caffe crema making:N
Capacity in cups:6
Cappuccino making:Y / Yes
Chocolate milk making:N
Coffee input type:Ground coffee
Coffee maker type:Semi-auto
Coffee making:Y / Yes
Cup warmer:Y / Yes
Espresso making:Y / Yes
Hot chocolate making:N / Yes
Hot milk making:N
Hot water system:Y / Yes
Latte macchiato making:N
Lungo making:N
Maximum operating pressure:15
Milk tank:No / Y
Milk tank capacity:0.225
Mocha making:N
Orzo making:N
Ristretto making:N
Tea making:Y / Yes
Types of drink:Americano, Cappuccino, Coffee, Espresso, Hot chocolate, Hot water, Tea / Cappuccino / Cappuccino, Espresso
Water tank capacity:2

AC input frequency:50 - 60 / 50/60
AC input voltage:220 - 240 / 220-240
Connected load:1300
Power:300 / 850

Technical Details

Blade material:Stainless steel
Bowl capacity:4.8
Built-in Display: No
Colour of product:Cream / Red / Silver / Yellow
Control type:Scrollbar
Cord storage: Yes
Dishwasher proof accessories:Y
Easy to clean: Yes
Meat mincer:Y
Number of speeds:10
Planetary rotation:Y
Recipe book: Yes
Removable Bowl: Yes
Removable crumb tray: Yes
Shredding sizes:Coarse, Fine, Medium
Type:Tabletop blender
Variable speed:Y

Weight & Dimensions

Depth:23.2 / 30.7 / 310 / 358
Height :31.8 / 353 / 37.5 / 390
Package depth:28 / 38.5
Package height:44.5 / 50
Package weight:15.9 / 7.7
Package width:25.7 / 38.5
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Meet Rula Ghani, Afghanistan’s Christian First Lady

Lebanese-born Maronite seeks to improve women's lives in her adopted country

Meet Rula Ghani, Afghanistan’s Christian First Lady

Afghanistan is almost 100 percent Muslim. According to the CIA World Factbook, the Middle Eastern nation has 32.5 million people, 99.7 percent of whom adhere to Islam.

Rula Ghani is part of the 0.3 percent listed as “other.” She is the wife of Afghanistan’s president, Ashraf Ghani. And she is Christian.

Born in 1948 in Lebanon of a Maronite Christian family, Rula Saade studied in Paris and received a master’s degree in political studies from the American University in Beirut. There she met Ashraf Ghani, and the two married in 1975. The Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, and later Taliban rule, kept the couple from settling in his native country. Rula earned a master’s degree from the Columbia School of Journalism in New York, and Ashraf taught at Berkeley and Johns Hopkins and worked at the World Bank.

They moved to Kabul in 2002, when he became Finance Minister of Afghanistan, in the wake of the U.S.-led coalition’s victory over the Taliban. Rula, shocked by the living conditions of many children, went to work for Aschiana, a local organization that helps feed and educate street children, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Ghani succeeded Hamid Karzai as head of state in September 2014.

During the presidential campaign, Ghani’s opponents tried to make his wife’s Christianity and foreign-born status a campaign issue. “After the election, I wanted to end all these fantasies,” she said. “The only solution was to speak publicly. That’s why I accepted the television interviews on national television. Afghans have seen that I spoke Dari [an Afghan language]; I was veiled and dressed decently. I could demonstrate that I knew Afghanistan.”

For his part, Ghani took an unusual step during his inauguration, thanking her during his speech for her work both as a wife and mother and her work for Aschiana. The French newspaper Le Monde called the gesture a “very unusual recognition in a country where women are relegated to menial tasks.”

In 2015, Time magazine included Rula Ghani in its list of the 100 most influential people, noting that she “has a long history of activism” and has ”vowed to work to improve living standards for women in a country where they have historically struggled to be treated fairly.”

“Afghan women have lost the status of people that we respect. Before it was not like that,” she said in a December 2014 interview with Paris Match. But, she lamented, “I do not think I can change things deeply. I’m just a symbol, a reason for hope.”

But her support for women’s rights does not come as an attempt to undermine one of Afghanistan’s most important values, she said in the LA Times interview.

“I have noticed that with some people I speak to progress is [seen as] ‘becoming liberated from the family,’ and that’s not progress, that’s actually creating a lot of dislocation of the social fabric.”

When women take jobs, she said, “they’re not doing that to ‘liberate’ themselves, they’re doing that because they need to, to contribute to their family.”

Her religious background, she added, also is irrelevant. “God created and decided for me to be born in a Christian family. It’s not every day that a Lebanese marries an Afghan. I think God’s hand is also in there.”


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Customer Resources

Note: this is one of a series of posts about the creation of the King Design web site.

Having a centralized home for my commercial software has made it easier for me to make resources available to my customers. These resources generally serve two purposes:

  1. Customers can find information they need.
  2. I can send out links to the resources, saving me time in handling support e-mails.

I cover a wide range of issues in the documentation for my software, but there are other issues that fall just outside the documentation realm. Pre-sales questions, download and upgrade questions – if I put these into the documentation, it’s likely that the people looking for the answers wouldn’t find them. They are much better suited for a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list.

Since I’m using WordPress as the backend CMS, adding and updating the FAQs is quite painless. I’ve also got an RSS feed for the FAQs for anyone who might be interested. Having the FAQs searchable is quite important too.

One of the FAQs that I hope is quite useful is the Recommended Hosts List. If you’re using one of the hosts listed here, you can be confident that everything is set up properly for you. In addition, both Austin Web Development and TextDrive have developer programs that give a small amount to the developer of the software their customers are running on their servers. When you sign up, indicate that you are going to be running Tasks Pro™ or Tasks on your account and not only will everything be configured optimally to run the software, but I receive a small portion of the hosting profits. Very cool programs, and a smart way to get developers to drive business to them. :)

I’ve also created a Translation Kit to help anyone interested in translating Tasks Pro™ or Tasks to another language. The Translation Kit includes the English file for the current and previous versions of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks. It will compare your translated language files to the English files and indicate any missing straings. It also identifies strings that have changed in the English file since the last release so you can update them (if you are updating a language file). So far this has been quite successful with 7 languages already available for both the current releases of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks.

Just a reminder, I offer a free license to people who submit translations. Contact me for details.

This post is part of the project: Tasks Pro™. View the project timeline for more context on this post.


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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

The Sleeping Giant Stirs

The sleeping Giant of the American public stirs but conveniently forgets who originally dropped the debt bomb on them and, in the process, become members of the Republican hijacked Tea Party movement: Allen L Roland

It didn’t take long for Republicans to embrace the Tea Party idea as a way out of their disgrace and current doldrums.

Kurt Nimmo, of Prison Planet.com, describes the hijacking in detail ~ " The Tea Party movement is now almost completely unrecognizable from what it was a few short years ago. It came to prominence in 2008 when the Libertarian Party of Illinois planned to hold an April 15, 2009 anti-tax “Boston Tea Party” in Chicago. In February 2009, the idea grew after CNBC personality Rick Santelli, speaking from the floor of the Chicago stock exchange, criticized the Obama administration’s tax and economic policies and urged Americans become Tea Party activists.... It didn’t take long for establishment Republicans to steal the idea and claim it as their own... RNC Chairman Michael Steele, Sarah Palin, and Rep. Michele Bachmann from Minnesota have suggested the Tea Party should be rolled into the Republican Borg hive."

According to Fox News,Tea Party candidates for the 2010 mid-term elections " will be expected to support the Republican National Committee platform ."

So there you have it, The sleeping Giant of the American public stirs from its eight year hibernation, realizes its been robbed, conveniently forgets who the culprit was and channels its righteous anger with instead of against the party who was the thief.

The sleeping Giant sleepeth yet ~

Allen L Roland

Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net

Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and psychotherapist Allen L Roland is also available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private consultations ( allen@allenroland.com )

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Bandhu Media Fellows 2014

Bandhu Social Welfare Society

With active guidance and supports from relevant stakeholders, BSWS could arrange Media Fellowship 2014. This year 10 journalists have been selected from Television channels, Radio station, Online news portal and Newspapers in Bangladesh. The whole selection procedure was closely monitored and guided by the donor from the very beginning.

A good number of applications had been collected and among those all 10 applications have been finalized following the guidance along with guideline of the donor. Prior to this an advertisement for Bandhu Media Fellowship 2014 has been published in Bandhu website, national newspaper (Prothom Alo, Bangladesh Protidin), leading online news portal and Weekly Xfiles. Along with this the news of Bandhu Media Fellowship published in different newspapers and social media.

Here, we would like to take the opportunity to share the name of selected Bandhu Media Fellow 2014 for your kind information.

Name of Organization
Mr. Keramot Ullah Biplob
Special Correspondent
ATN Bangla
Mr. Akhil Kumer Podder
Special Correspondent
Ekushey Television
Mr. Gazi Salauddin Mahmud
Special Correspondent
Ms. Atika Rahman
Staff Reporter
Ms. Shahnaj Sharmin
Chief Reporter
ABC Radio
Mr. Foysal Abdullah
Senior Sub Editor & Shift In-charge
Bangla Tribune
Mr. Shariful Islam Palash
Special Correspondent
Mr. Barek Kaysar
Staff Reporter
Daily Ittefaq
Mr. M. Mamun Hossen
Senior Reporter
Dainik Jai Jai Din
Mr. Delowar Jahan
Staff Reporter
Shokaler Khobor

The media fellows will publish/broadcast/webcast three reports on different aspects of sexual minority issues during the fellowship program.

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Easy Eccles Cakes

    Easy Eccles Cakes

    67 people made this

    About this recipe: A favourite from the North, these are best eaten straight from the oven. Using shop-bought pastry makes them easy.

    Serves: 8

    • 30g butter
    • 150g dried currants
    • 2 tablespoons chopped candied mixed fruit peel
    • 50g demerara sugar
    • 3/4 teaspoon mixed spice
    • 1/2 (500g) package frozen puff pastry, thawed
    • 1 egg white, beaten
    • 4 tablespoons caster sugar for decoration

    Prep:20min  ›  Cook:25min  ›  Ready in:45min

    1. Preheat oven to 220 C / Gas mark 7. Sprinkle a baking tray with water.
    2. In a small saucepan over medium heat, melt butter. Stir in currants, mixed peel, demerara sugar and mixed spice. Stir until sugar is dissolved and fruit is well coated. Remove from heat.
    3. On a lightly floured surface, roll out pastry to a 5mm thickness. Cut out eight 13cm circles, using a saucer as a guide. Divide the fruit mixture evenly between the circles. Moisten the edges of the pastry, pull the edges to the centre and pinch to seal. Invert filled cakes on the floured surface and roll out gently to make a wider, flatter circle, but do not break the pastry.
    4. Brush each cake with egg white and sprinkle generously with caster sugar. Make three parallel cuts across the top of each cake, then place them on the prepared baking tray.
    5. Bake in preheated oven 15 minutes, until golden.

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    So easy and just scruptious. Did a slight variation as cupboard devoid of currants. I used 175 grams of Dried Mixed Fruit which included the candied peel. I am going to make mini ones for the Jubilee! - 26 May 2012

    These were absolutely lovely - 29 Apr 2009

    'easy peasy', and used up left over Christmas cake ingredients. - 07 Nov 2011

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Cinder toffee

    Cinder toffee

    239 people made this

    About this recipe: Cinder toffee, or honeycomb toffee, is a traditional treat loved by children and grown ups alike.

    mrsnorris Bedfordshire, England, UK

    Serves: 15

    • 500g caster sugar
    • 225g golden syrup
    • 2 tsp vanilla
    • 90ml water
    • 1 tbsp bicarbonate of soda

    Prep:5min  ›  Cook:15min  ›  Extra time:40min  ›  Ready in:1hr

    1. Grease a 20x30cm tin, then line the bottom and sides with baking parchment, making sure the parchment sides are at least 5cm above the sides of the tin. Grease the parchment with a little more butter or oil.
    2. Add sugar, golden syrup, vanilla and water to a deep, heavy bottomed saucepan. Bring the mixture to the boil, but do not stir. Boil until it reaches the hard crack stage (the temperature on a sugar thermometer reads 149 - 154 degrees C), about 10 minutes. During boiling, if there are any sugar crystals on the sides of the pan, brush the sides of the pan with a clean pastry brush dipped in water.
    3. Remove from heat and working quickly, add the bicarb, whisking to incorporate. The mixture will bubble when adding the bicarb, so mind the hot toffee. Immediately pour into the prepared tin. Let cool and set completely before touching. Break into pieces and serve. Store at room temperature in an airtight container.

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    This recipe is downright dangerous!!!! Have just finished clearing up having attempted it with my daughter. One tablespoon of bicarbonate of soda is far too much. Please change to correct amount before somebody gets hurt making this!!!! - 05 Aug 2012

    i recently used one of your recipes with my step-daughter, and the photo says it all, mrs Norris please amend your recipe for cinder toffee to 2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda...not 2 tablespoons... lol but the photos have given everyone a good laugh :- ) - 09 Nov 2009

    extremely easy and fast to make. I covered them in chocolate too. it prevented them from being sticky. Fab recipe! - 09 Oct 2011

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Media Mogul Steve Rattner Goes to Washington, Where He Won’t Be Car Czar

Steve Rattner (pictured here), once one of the the most prominent bankers in the media business, is going to Washington after all. Except that the Quandrangle Group founder won’t be getting the “Car Czar” job he was originally supposed to take in the Obama administration, since that job never got created.

Instead, Rattner will be… something sort of like a Car Czar. But his official title will be “adviser.”

The New York Times explains the difference:

Mr. Rattner, 56, will advise Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and Lawrence H. Summers, the director of the National Economic Council, on reorganization efforts by General Motors and Chrysler, two carmakers that are receiving federal bailout money.

He was widely considered the front-runner to become the car czar, the Obama administration’s point person in mediating negotiations involving G.M. and Chrysler and parts suppliers, bondholders and unions. The car czar would have had a direct oversight role for the industry but the administration did away with that position last week, placing the auto bailout talks under Mr. Geithner and Mr. Summers. Mr. Rattner will still play a similar role but in an advisory capacity.”

Rattner is a former Times reporter who moved up quickly through the investment banking world and then formed Quadrangle in 2000. Which meant he rode the private equity/cheap debt roller coaster all the way up, and then back down. Big clients included Comcast (CMCSA), Sony (SNE) and Cablevision (CVC)–and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, who hired Quadrangle to manage his assets via a blind trust.

That relationship will continue, even though Rattner is unwinding his connections to Quadrangle–the company’s  Web site has already wiped him away. And Rattner will presumably continue to offer advice to his longtime pal, New York Times Co. (NYT) chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr.

In other Barack Obama/media exec news, the White House has formally announced some of its digital hires. Former Blue State Digital consultant Macon Phillips, who most recently ran Obama’s site, is his Director of New Media.

And, as I reported last month, former Google (GOOG) manager Katie Stanton will be Phillips’s Director of Citizen Participation.

More details from CNET here.

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Big Fish Launches Streaming Game Service, Partners With Roku

Big Fish Games officially announced its streaming game service this morning at Casual Connect, an annual games conference in Seattle.

While some of the details about the service had been announced earlier, it was not clear when it would launch or how much it would cost. Big Fish said today that the service, which will allow consumers to play games across a variety of devices — including phones, tablets, PCs, computers and TVs — will be called Big Fish Unlimited and that it went live this morning.

Subscriptions will cost $7.99 a month for unlimited access to more than 100 games. Or an ad-supported model will provide players access to 20 games for free. Big Fish also announced onstage that the service will go live on Roku, the streaming TV service, in the fourth quarter.

Big Fish’s VP and general manager of cloud gaming, Will O’Brien, demonstrated onstage how a player’s game progress can be saved in the cloud, allowing users to pause a game on the PC and then pick up exactly where they left off on a tablet.

The service represents a big switch from the company’s current model, which requires users to download large files to their PC or mobile devices for a fee.

During the keynote, CEO Paul Thelen said while there’s a lot of attention on social games, the market for paid games in such casual genres as hidden objects and strategy games is really strong. According to AppAnnie, he said Big Fish Games is the fifth largest publisher on the iPad, one notch above Zynga, and that it aspires to be No. 1, a spot currently held by Electronic Arts.

“Premium casual games is a good business to be in,” he said. “Let me pause and let that sink in for awhile.”

The launch occurs today on PC and mobile devices, including Android devices. The one big notable exception is the lack of iPad capability.

In November, Apple suddenly removed Big Fish’s subscription service from the App Store after it had been live for a couple of weeks.

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Nokia and Microsoft Announce New Lumia Smartphones

We’re at the Nokia event at the Center548 event space in Manhattan, where we’re expecting to see some new smartphones running Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system.

The release constitutes a big test for Stephen Elop, the new Nokia CEO brought in from Microsoft two years ago to rehabilitate the Nokia brand. For years, Nokia had dominated the global wireless handset market, only to be knocked off its perch by Apple with its popular iPhone; Google and its numerous hardware partners running Android, which include Samsung and HTC; and now, as the new owner of Motorola Mobility, Google itself.

Several details about the new phones have already leaked. If the sources of the leaks are to be believed, then we can expect that in this new batch of Lumia phones, improved camera technology will be a key feature, as will wireless charging.

So far, the Lumia brand has had a dubious history, and it’s hard to know if that will hinder the new phones. In July, Nokia slashed prices on the first one to use the name — the Lumia 900 — only three months after its debut on the market. A lackluster review didn’t help. And the price cut certainly didn’t help Nokia’s profit margins, which — after accounting for the cost of parts used to build it, and a $100 credit issued to some customers after a software glitch — certainly didn’t add up to a solid debut for the Lumia brand. The market share for Nokia’s primary rival, Samsung, has only widened since then, despite relatively solid sales in the U.S.

Time will tell if this new round of phones can get consumers interested in Nokia once again.

6:49 am: Good morning from New York. We’re live from the event venue, and waiting for the proceedings to begin.

On a large screen behind the podium is a huge hashtag: #SwitchtoLumia. Looks to me like that is going to figure prominently in some upcoming Nokia ads.

Lights are dimming, which I take as a cue that we’re about to begin. There are two very large mock-ups of new phones on the stage. They have the tiled interface of the Windows Phone OS. Some prominent logos among those tiles: Evernote, eBay, Weather Channel and Skype.

Also CNN and USA Today. And an Internet Explorer icon.

7:01 am: And we’re under way, right on time. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop is onstage. “It was just 18 months ago that Nokia outlined a new strategy to deliver great mobile products.”

The industry shifted from a battle of devices to a war of ecosystems.

First, we joined the Windows Phone ecosystem. We shared a vision with Microsoft. And we moved quickly to help Microsoft bring even more innovation to the ecosystem. The Lumia 800 perfectly complemented the uniqueness of the platform.

People started to take more notice of Windows Phone, and the ecosystem has been growing. The Lumia 610 has allowed us to expand presence in India, China and Europe.

We also introduced Lumia 900, and brought AT&T into the Windows Phone ecosystem as well. We also captured the attention of developers. From 7,000 applications to 100,000 applications. Nokia has focused a lot of energy in bringing more local developers into the ecosystem.

We’ve brought some big names to the ecosystem.

But Nokia’s new strategy involves more than that. It involves the Mobile Phones business. We’ve launched 10 new Asha dual-SIM-card devices. We’ve introduced a proxy browser, saving India customers a lot of money on data plans.

7:05 am: Elop: All the innovation in Asha is making them look like low-cost smartphones.

We stabilized our Mobile Phones business last quarter.

Now we deliberately speak very little about the third aspect of our strategy, future disruptions. We’re doing work in areas like materials and power management and radio technology. Across all of our strategy, we said Nokia would differentiate. Our designs are truly breaking through and exciting people. Nokia photography and optics are exciting people. Another innovation lies with our location and commerce business. Two hundred countries are now navigable. We are unmatched in the industry. Our business in this area started out as maps and navigation, and we’ve turned it into a platform by combining it with our services business.

We hope to share, in the days and weeks ahead, how other companies are placing bets on the location business.

We had to change the way Nokia operates. We’ve simplified our operations, and tried to be a more nimble company.

7:09 am: Here comes Jo Harlow, head of the Lumia team. She has just introduced a new video, debuting what I suspect will be the new phones.

Loud noise and what looks like the Holodeck from “Star Trek,” and boom, a new phone.

(FYI, the livestream isn’t working for lots of folks, so you are best off just staying here, notes colleague Ina Fried, who is (trying) to watch things remotely.)

A very complicated video animation of the phone torn apart and then reassembled, with a lot of attention to what looked like the innards of the camera.

(Ina sent along this alternate video link from Ustream, if you really want to watch things live —

Aaaand the music just died. Jo Harlow: Today, we are introducing the Nokia Lumia 920. “This is the most innovative smartphone in the world. And here’s why: The Nokia PureView camera for taking the best pictures of any smartphone. The best mapping on any smartphone. The most immersive viewing experience on any smartphone. And wireless charging to squeeze more out of your day, and the most personal smartphone experience. This is Lumia, and it’s time to switch.

Harlow: Citing IDC research saying that images taken by phones in 2012 will surpass the numbers taken by dedicated digital cameras.

Harlow: For most of us who use a smartphone, we use the camera to replace a point-and-shoot camera. When we use the phone, two things are usually true: We can’t control the lighting. Second, we don’t usually have time to fiddle with settings to capture a moment. The beauty of having a camera in a phone is capturing moments when they happen. We’re all familiar with the dark and blurry images that result. The reason blurriness occurs is that the shutter has to stay open longer. Those few extra tenths of a second causes the blur, because your hand moves.

Harlow: The Lumia 920 captures 10 times the light of any competitor’s camera. There’s an image-stabilization system that reacts to those movements and balances the lens, leaving open the shutter, letting in more light, and, thus, better pictures.

7:16 am: Harlow: The same “floating lens” technology applies to video, as well.

(As we said days ago, the Lumia 920 is getting the PureView branding, thanks to these capabilities, but it’s not the same megazoom PureView abilities found on the 41-megapixel 808 cameraphone.)

Harlow: Since the Lumia 920 has the best smartphone camera, we wanted to help people find places to use it. Nokia Maps, Nokia Drive and something else — Nokia Places — are often cited as reasons people turn to Lumia.

We are bringing together Nokia’s location-based services to bring together a suite of experiences.

Harlow: These are true offline maps that really work.

You can launch Nokia Drive for free turn-by-turn navigation right out of the box. Also, there’s a daily-commute feature that estimates daily traffic. Nokia Drive will tell you what time you need to leave. Nokia Transport provides details on departure times and route, and walking directions to get you between stops. Also, indoor maps that get you exactly where you need to go inside a train station or bus terminal.

7:19 am: Harlow: Nokia City Lens provides a way to explore the world around you. (Seems like Google Goggles?) Point the camera at a city block to find restaurants and other points of interest.

It’s a new way to discover hidden gems, even in the city you know and love.

(For more on Nokia City Lens, here’s our January story on the technology.)

Nokia Maps get augmented reality to see directions of the route and points of interest along the way.

Harlow: This is just the start of a new way to discover the world.

7:21 am: We also set out to deliver the best viewing experience. Nokia PureMotion HD+. This is better than HD resolution and a fast refresh rate.

When you scroll through an email or a text document, the text stays incredibly sharp. But what about a sunny day? Nokia has screen technology that adjusts the color and brightness of the screen that reacts to sunlight. You can even see it in the desert, and certainly on the beach. So immersive that you never want to put it down.

Now Harlow is talking about power.

The first thing we did was install a 2,000-milliamp-hour battery. But because the experience is so immersive, hat tip to Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor, which is 30 percent more efficient than quad-core alternatives.

Harlow: What else could we do? Wireless charging. (The leaks were correct on this one, too. She’s showing the Fatboy recharging pillow.) Put it by a sofa, and every time you sit down, your phone sits with you. It’s one of many partners we’re working with to make wireless charging a reality. It’s the Qi (pronounced chee) wireless-charging standard, so consumers can charge their devices on any wireless charging device. Today we are announcing deals with Virgin Atlantic and Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to bring charging plates outside your door.

Virgin Atlantic fliers can charge in airport clubs. Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf customers can charge on tables there.

Harlow: It’s the start of a new era in smartphone power management. All of the innovation is based on a single-minded focus to get the absolute most out of your day.

Now, more on Windows Phone 8. Joe Belfiore of Microsoft is now onstage to demo Windows Phone 8.

He’s going to show some things related to camera and photography that haven’t been shown before.

Belfiore: We intend for Windows 8 to deliver the most personal experience possible.

I want to customize the experience that suits me. Fast access to one’s wife is important. He’s demonstrating live tiles.

7:30 am: Wife is now a thumb press away.

Oops. He’s missed a few call from a few important people, including Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

The top of the screen is now dedicated to the humans in my life. Now Belfiore is about to focus on apps.

The first thing is to grab a few apps that exist in Windows Phone 7. Windows Phone 8 supports them.

The live tiles from WP7 scale up to accommodate the larger tile sizes of WP8.

(Belfiore said that Microsoft is only showing some Windows Phone 8 features, with others to be announced at a later event. Interesting choice, given that you-know-who is announcing the next you-know-what on Sept. 12.)

Now he’s grabbing a CNN tile. CNN has built a Windows Phone 8 app. There’s a new “extra-large tile.”

Belfiore: The last thing I want to do is bring the Web into this story, as well. (Oh yeah! The Web!)

7:35 am: He’s demonstrating Pulse, the news aggregator and its new HTML5-ready site, running nicely within Internet Explorer.

Now he’s pinning the Business News section from Pulse to the customized start experience along with the tiles. People, apps and information that matters to me.

Here’s something new: Sharing the start experience with friends. Windows Phone 8 now supports screenshots (catching up with iPhone on this one.)

7:37 am: Now Belfiore is demonstrating photo albums. Wow, the screenshot he just took is there.

Belfiore uploaded the photos to SkyDrive.

Now he’s demonstrating other start-experience examples.

Belfiore is demonstrating some photography features. A “Lenses” button. There are a number of “Lens” applications that integrate deeply in the camera experience.

(This is a powerful concept — the idea that not everything needs to be a standalone app. This has been the promise of Windows Phone from the start, but not fully baked.)

Bing Vision recognizes objects. There’s a CNN iReport Lens application for CNN iReporters. He’s choosing one called FXSuite. The application runs and takes over the viewfinder of the camera. It was written, Belfiore said, by two Microsoft interns over the summer. Cool.

He’s taking a shot with a “negative” view, reversing light and dark. Weird effect. Seems kind of Instagrammy.

PhotoSynth Lens is a super-panorama app that captures 360 degrees.

Opened in PhotoSynth, you can pan around and see the 360-degree shot taken in a third-party application.

7:44 am: This allows third parties to add value for enhancements and image quality.

Full-resolution uploads are automatic to the SkyDrive.

Now Belfiore is on a notebook, and the photos are uploading from the phone. “We’re trying to build Lenses to work seamlessly.”

One more Lens example. (I guess the way to think of Lenses is really just like apps for photography.) This one is called Blink. It uses face recognition to get the best image of a face. It takes a lot of images of a face — like while someone is talking — and then the system picks the one that looks best.

What Blink is doing is storing all of the data associated with that picture. As a user, I can later on go back and reengage the Blink Lens.

Nokia also has its own Lens apps. Belfiore is wrapping up.

And here’s Nokia’s Kevin Shields to demonstrate some more hardware capabilities of the Lumia 920.

Shields: We brought innovation that makes your smartphone fit more naturally in your life. It all starts with innovation and design.

“Lumia 920 proudly sits apart from the crowd.”

He’s talking about the polycarbonate material that Nokia uses to bring colorful outer bodies to smartphones.

He’s comparing the colorful yellow Lumia 920 to monochromatic competitors from Samsung and HTC and others.

“You may have seen our competitor driving a nail with the display.” Ours is even stronger. This is a strong, durable phone. Twisting: No squeaks, no cracks. The shell is made with a material that’s nearly impossible to scratch, but which looks great.

7:52 am: Shields is now onto talking about the display.

This is the fastest LCD display ever shipped on a smartphone. WXGA, higher than 720p resolution.

Super-sensitive touch: He’s putting on gloves. “If you’re like me, you enjoy winter sports, or living in Helsinki!” You’re wearing gloves. If you live in Finland, you might lose a hand to frostbite. So you can interact with the screen while wearing gloves.

Another demo. The charging plate. The point of the demo is show that charging is effortless. No wires, no effort.

Now there’s the JBL speaker. Colorful, and has wireless charging integrated. Oh, yeah, he says, Lumia 920 has NFC (near field communication) integrated. It taps the speakers, and the music goes straight to the speakers. Oops, a little glitch. Okay, now it’s working.

So the music is playing, and the phone is charging.

Shields: And now, a quick public service announcement about Nokia Music. Nokia Music is coming to the U.S., and should be downloadable in the Windows Phone Marketplace any moment now.

There’s also wireless headphones. Just tap the headphones with the phone and they start playing. And there’s a charging nightstand.

Shields: There’s some exclusive new apps on the Lumia 920. He’s getting into the Lens applications that Belfiore talked about. The first, Shields says, is City Lens, which is tricky to demonstrate indoors.

Another demo glitch. The demo image isn’t coming up. Sorry, Kevin.

City Lens is displaying restaurants nearby, as he cranks around. Hard to see from five rows back, but you get the idea.

Shields: We worked with Rovio to create Angry Birds Roost. A way to discover the best of the Angry Birds universe, news and tips to finish tricky levels. Ringtones and wallpapers. Good if you’re obsessed with Angry Birds, which I was, uh, last year.

Still troubleshooting the dead demo display. Maybe it’s a sleepy onstage notebook. Kudos to Shields for holding it together, now that it’s working.

What do you do when you want to get a bunch of random people out of the way? You just erase them. System takes a bunch of images and combines the pictures, with the moving objects removed. Kinda cool.

8:02 am: Cinemagraph: Not just a still image, but adding the emotion of a moment. Basically a photo with some motion going on. Like a person waving, or blowing a kiss.

And also the flag blowing softly. Nice touch.

Shields: We’ll be shipping these technologies to current Lumia devices.

(By the way, here’s our just-posted interview with Nokia CEO Stephen Elop.)

We’re having some technical difficulties here, but basically, Kevin is still going on about Nokia’s improved photo-taking capabilities, even in the dark or from far away.

We’ve got backup, though. Ina Fried — in Los Angeles for the Amazon event — is taking over for a bit, thanks to the now-working livestream.

Shields now showing a second Windows Phone 8 device, the Lumia 820, with a 4.3-inch screen.

Lumia 820 also packs the same apps and sunlight-sensitive screen. The back shell pops off, allowing access to the battery and microSD card, as well as the ability to change the back case color.

“It’s the cover that you don’t have to cover,” Shields said.

Also, the 820 has an optional wireless-charging-capable cover.

8:13 am: Okay, what about price and availability. We’re more than an hour in.

CEO Stephen Elop retakes the stage.

Elop quickly recaps the company’s Windows Phone journey over the last 18 months.

Brings out Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

8:14 am: Ballmer: “This is a very important milestone,” Ballmer said.

Windows Phone is unlike any phone on the market, Ballmer said. It keeps you closest to the things that matter most. “You can really see it in the Lumia 820 and in the Lumia 920.”

Ballmer: Make no mistake: This is a year for Windows. On PC, tablet and phone.

Ballmer: With Windows 8, the software is all out there. People can go out and use it now. With Windows Phone 8, we’re first seeing the hardware.

Ballmer: The new Lumias fill out that promise in a big way. And soon we’ll see the rest of the Windows 8 software.

Ballmer: We share live tiles in both phone and PC and tablet operating system. We bring the power of Bing, both as search and as a service. We integrate your Microsoft account as a single place to log in for photos and Skype and SkyDrive.

You see the integration of Xbox.

Perhaps as importantly as anything else we bring the developer platform and the store, to give developers across the family of devices the ability to build applications that they can monetize.

Ballmer: We should see close to 400 million new devices running Windows. Lumia and Surface. Those devices represent the single largest opportunity for software developers, in the biggest community. The next app developer to hit it really really big will do so on Windows.

Ballmer says he likes his new Lumia 920. He wants to shoot night-game video of his sons playing football with it.

Elop is speaking again. “We started this journey with ambition.”

We started by bringing Carl Zeiss optics to the phone. We started with navigation, but today we’re creating the best way to navigate through your life. We started by joining the Windows Phone ecoystem. We started with the ambition that Nokia could build something beautifully different. This is Lumia, the world’s most innovative smartphone. Thank you very much. And we’re done.

Elop says phone will come in Q4. Oh yeah, no information yet about price or carriers. We forgot all about that!

A question about China. China, Elop says, is a very important market.

Obviously we’ve jumped into a Q&A session. A question about Arabic support. Windows 8 supports it. No news specifically today.

Will Canada get Music and City View? Elop: Navigation, yes. Not sure about music yet.

8:25 am: Someone asks Elop how he feels about Samsung stealing Windows 8 thunder. “Anyone can go on stage and show a device. We’re proud to show Windows Phone 8 fully working. We have the first working Windows Phone 8 product.”

Elop artfully dodges a question about tablet plans.

And another question about undisclosed products. “We’re on a journey to do more and more innovative work with Windows Phone. There’s a lot more excitement still to come around our Lumia strategy.”

Will Windows 7 apps work on Windows 8? “I won’t say the word ‘all,’ but the objective is full forward compatibility.”

One more question. Your market share has gone miniscule versus Apple and Android. Where do you see it, going forward? Elop: “With each step we take with Microsoft, we intend to grow the share higher and higher. There’s a whole bunch of stuff that is right now looking awfully the same. We stand apart.”

And I think that was the last question.

Elop is wrapping up. And now we’re done, really. Elop: “It’s time to switch to Lumia.”

And we’re out. Thanks for coming along on the ride.

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Priceline to Acquire Kayak for $1.8 Billion

Priceline will acquire Kayak.com, the travel search company, for $1.8 billion, the company announced Thursday.

The deal will be a combination of $500 million in cash and $1.3 billion in equity and options, close to a 30 percent premium on Thursday’s listed share price.

“Kayak has built a strong brand in online travel research and their track record of profitable growth is demonstrative of their popularity,” Priceline CEO Jeffery Boyd said in a statement.

The acquisition comes only a matter of months after Kayak first listed itself on the Nasdaq exchange.

Kayak was slated to post its third-quarter earnings today, only the second time ever for the newly public company. Last August, Kayak beat analyst expectations for earnings, posting revenue of $76.9 million — a 36 percent increase over the same period a year earlier — and net income totaling $7.3 million, or 19 cents a share, which is nearly double what it reported in the second quarter of 2011.

Kayak.com will remain a separate property, owned by Priceline but managed by Kayak’s existing team.

Shares of Priceline were trading down 11 points after hours, about a 2 percent drop to $616.32 per share. Shares of Kayak surged by 30 percent after hours, hitting an all-time high of $40.55 per share.

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Priceline.com Agrees to Acquire KAYAK Software Corporation

NORWALK, Conn., Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Priceline.com Incorporated (NASDAQ: PCLN) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement for the Priceline Group to acquire KAYAK in a stock and cash transaction. Under the terms of the agreement, the transaction values KAYAK at $1.8 billion ($1.65 billion net of cash acquired) or $40 per share of KAYAK (subject to the collar described below), with the Group paying approximately $500 million of the consideration in cash and $1.3 billion in equity and assumed stock options.

The Boards of Directors of the Priceline Group and KAYAK have unanimously approved the transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, including a vote of KAYAK’s shareholders and regulatory approvals, and is expected to close by late 1st quarter 2013. KAYAK’s current management team will continue to manage KAYAK’s operations independently as part of the Priceline Group of companies. The Group expects that the impact of the KAYAK acquisition on Non-GAAP EPS in 2013 will be de minimis.

KAYAK is a leading travel research site that allows people to easily compare hundreds of travel sites at once when searching for flights, hotels, and rental cars, and gives travelers choices on where to book. The company processes over 100 million user queries each month through its global websites and best in class mobile applications. “KAYAK has built a strong brand in online travel research and their track record of profitable growth is demonstrative of their popularity with consumers and value to advertisers,” said Priceline Group President and Chief Executive Officer Jeffery H. Boyd. “KAYAK also has world class technology and a tradition of innovation in building great user interfaces across multiple platforms and devices. We believe we can be helpful with KAYAK’s plans to build a global online travel brand.”
“Paul English and I started KAYAK eight years ago to create the best place to plan and book travel,” said Steve Hafner, KAYAK Chief Executive Officer and Cofounder. “We’re excited to join the world’s premier online travel company. The Priceline Group’s global reach and expertise will accelerate our growth and help us further develop as a company.”

Transaction Summary

KAYAK shareholders will have the right to elect to receive cash or stock with a value of $40 per KAYAK share, (subject to (i) the collar mechanism described below and (ii) pro ration such that the overall consideration in the deal to KAYAK shareholders will consist of one-third cash and two-thirds stock). The stock portion of the consideration will be subject to a 10% collar pursuant to which the value of the Priceline.com stock delivered to those receiving stock will be $40 per KAYAK share so long as the aggregate volume-weighted average Priceline.com trading price for the 30-day period ending 2 days prior to Closing (as set forth more fully in the Merger Agreement) is between $571.31 and $698.27 per Priceline.com share. If such average price is above $698.27 or below $571.31, those receiving Priceline.com stock will receive a fixed exchange ratio as set forth in the Merger Agreement. The final number of Priceline.com shares to be issued on a fully diluted basis will range between approximately 1.9 million and 2.3 million shares and options at closing.

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As an adendum to yesterday's post about Toddler Girl's first foray to the movies, she looooved it! Mind you if it had been anything other than Toy Story 3 I'd bet a pantry full of chocolate she wouldn't have lasted 2 minutes. But according to hubby she was mesmerised.

And lucky for the rest of the cinema she commentated the entire way through. If they didn't know which character was Woody, she let them know. If they didn't realise, a new character had arrived on the scene, she let them know. She even let them know when things got a bit hairy. Apparently there was one moment when she turned to my hubby, patted him on the arm and said, "It's alright Daddy," just in case he didn't realise it would all work out in the end.

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eRecording Partners Network (ePN) announced two county offices in Craighead County, Ark., have started accepting electronic recordings.

The offices are located in Jonesboro and Lake City.

“Craighead County is very excited to begin Electronic Recording for our local submitters as well as our out of state submitters,” said Ann Hudson, Circuit Clerk for Craighead County. “The need for personnel to visit the courthouse or mail documents to us will be done away with and your recorded document can be returned almost immediately.”

Craighead County faced a unique situation for e-recording in that property has to be filed in one of the two courthouses depending on the location of the property. Each courthouse records and tracks documents separately. ePN worked with Craighead County to allow for e-recording in both offices.

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Specifically, living on a tourist visa here does not disqualify anyone from taking advantage of the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion.

For U.S. citizens living overseas, the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (Form 2555) allows you to exclude up to $91,500 ($183,000 married) of foreign earned income from taxation. To qualify for the exclusion, you must either (a) be outside the United States for 330 days during a 12-month period, -OR- (b) establish a bona fide residence in a foreign country. Neither the physical presence test nor the foreign residence test require legal foreign residency. The physical presence test can qualify tourists with U.S. residences, or no residence what-so-ever, so long as they stay out of the U.S. for all but a few weeks per year.

The income must be earned income, but it is foreign source so long as it is earned while you are physically present outside the United States. So even income paid by a U.S. company qualifies as foreign earned income if you telecommute from outside the United States.

The second piece of expensive misinformation is that foreign expats must still pay Social Security taxes. FICA payroll taxes (social security/medicare/etc) are owed only by self-employed individuals and individuals working for U.S. companies. Individuals working for foreign companies do not owe any FICA payroll taxes. An expat would be smart to create a foreign company and avoid self-employment status (but beware of controlled foreign corporation tax rules).

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The 2012 Major League Soccer season is done and dusted. In the first of a two-part series, Jon Arnold takes a look at the men who didn't come close to earning their high salaries.
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Good value. It’s a term used in various contexts in the world of soccer, but at its very base it refers to getting more than what you paid for something or someone. By nature, there are also plenty of bad values. Unfortunately for Benny Feilhaber, his trade got us thinking about poor MLS values. With the offseason bringing the Feilhaber trade and a flurry of other transactions, we decided to take a look at the best and worst values of the 2012 MLS season.

Salary numbers come from the MLS players union, which releases both a base salary number and a number that includes that base plus any guaranteed bonuses annualized over the duration of that player’s contract. We’ve used the latter.

Today, we run down the 10 worst values of the 2012 Major League Soccer season. But before we get to the good stuff, the Dishonorable Mention list:

Bobby Convey ($215,000); Marvell Wynne ($326,667); Laurent Courtois ($120,000), Toronto FC’s center backs (Darren O’Dea at $436,250, Richard Eckersley at $390,000); and Dilly Duka ($243,000)

10. Edson Buddle—LA Galaxy, $225,000
Buddle’s return to the league in the offseason was heralded as a move that would help the team make another MLS Cup run. Well, they made the run, but Buddle didn’t have too much to do with it, scoring three times in 19 appearances.

9. Brian Ching—Houston Dynamo, $236,000
Ching’s age has left him as an option strictly off the bench. He was able to get an important goal or two for the Dynamo, but that’s a lot of cash for the occasional tally even with his veteran leadership taken into account.

8. Branko Boskovic—DC United, $242,340
Boskovic signed a new deal in the summer just after he showed a few weeks of promise. Unfortunately for DC United, he faded down the stretch and the club ended up relying on younger—and cheaper—players to pick up the slack.

7. Freddy Adu—Philadelphia Union, $519,000
You were all expecting it, and here’s Freddy Adu. His 2012 wasn’t as bad as many detractors will make it out to be, but it also wasn’t worth $519,000 by any means.

6. Benny Feilhaber—New England Revolution, $446,000
Will Feilhaber’s change of scenery do him good? That remains to be seen. What’s known is that it didn’t work out in New England. The Revolution’s highest paid player didn’t contribute anything to the team in a lackluster return to MLS.

5. Kris Boyd—Portland Timbers, $1.5 million
If you’re the eighth-highest paid player in the league, and you’re a forward, you probably want to be among the top 25 goal scorers. It all started so well for the Timbers DP, scoring in his debut, but he struggled to find the back of the net consistently and fell victim to injury as the season closed.

4. Chad Barrett—LA Galaxy, $253,334
Barrett occasionally got into matches late and even had a goal and four assists. Yet, he was so extraneous that he ended up going on a bizarre loan during the season and transferring out of town. You’ll have to read our upcoming best/worst values of the Tippeligaen feature to find out what happened from there.

3. Juan Pablo Angel—Chivas USA, $600,000
Angel’s form dropped off astronomically from 2011 when he was a positive contributor to both of the league’s Los Angeles teams. He battled a concussion at the start of the year, ankle and leg issues at the end, and in between saw only spot duty as Chivas USA sputtered along. (That said, if he can help tutor Juan Agudelo he's worth every penny.)

2. Conor Casey—Colorado, $400,000
It’s easy to see why Casey wasn’t snatched up in the first round of the reentry draft. The forward had a 2012 marred by injury, but he still managed to be named to Oscar Pareja’s Starting XI 13 times. Yet Casey only had two goals and three assists in those appearances. The 31-year-old might have some gas left in the tank, but he’ll have to take a bit less in the bank for 2013.

1. Rafa Marquez—NYRB, $4.6 million
The third-highest player in the league was hardly on the field between calf and hamstring problems, international duty, and suspensions. When he was he was often a liability. He did throw in the occasional game that recalled the glory days that earned him such a lucrative contract, but far more frequent were the head-scratching moments.

Did we miss somebody? Who would make your list? Please let us know in the (new and improved) comments section below.

TOMORROW: The 10 Best Values in MLS.

Jon Arnold (@ArnoldcommaJon) is a freelance writer based in Phoenix and the co-host of MLS in 30 on NASN.TV.

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The report cites a “leaked transcript” from the meetings composed by the Palestinian delegation. The U.S. Department of State denies the existence of such a document. Chief Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erekat described the transcripts as “fabrications” when he commented on the alleged leak Wednesday.

The document further claims Kerry and Rice advised the Palestinians not to make any provocative moves in the UN after President-elect Donald Trump takes office, calling him “dangerous.”

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