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David Chavern, the president and CEO of the News Media Alliance, a trade association representing 2,000 North American newspapers, has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that I’m going to take a longer-than-usual excerpt from:
The rapid growth of digital connectivity has pushed demand for information to unprecedented heights. Never in history have so many people consumed so much news. This is a boon for democracy. Although reporting is often an irritant to those in power, high-quality news and analysis is essential to any political system that depends on giving citizens the facts so they can draw their own conclusions.
The problem is that today’s internet distribution systems distort the flow of economic value derived from good reporting. Google and Facebook dominate web traffic and online ad income. Together, they account for more than 70% of the $73 billion spent each year on digital advertising, and they eat up most of the growth. Nearly 80% of all online referral traffic comes from Google and Facebook. This is an immensely profitable business. The net income of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, was $19 billion last year. Facebook’s was $10 billion.
But the two digital giants don’t employ reporters: They don’t dig through public records to uncover corruption, send correspondents into war zones, or attend last night’s game to get the highlights. They expect an economically squeezed news industry to do that costly work for them.
The only way publishers can address this inexorable threat is by banding together. If they open a unified front to negotiate with Google and Facebook—pushing for stronger intellectual-property protections, better support for subscription models and a fair share of revenue and data—they could build a more sustainable future for the news business.
But antitrust laws make such coordination perilous. These laws, intended to prevent monopolies, are having the unintended effect of preserving and protecting Google and Facebook’s dominant position. The digital giants benefit from legal precedent against collective action that has a chilling effect on publishers. Yet each newspaper or magazine on its own has only limited negotiating power.
Chavern’s solution is twofold: one, that regulators should do a better job of enforcing antitrust laws against Google and Facebook, and two, that Congress should grant publishers a safe harbor to negotiate collectively with Google and Facebook.
That a safe harbor is necessary to negotiate collectively was made apparent in the Apple ebooks case; while reasonable people can disagree as to whether or not Apple was rightly found to be guilty, no one disputes that the publishers colluded to raise prices, a per se violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.1
Aggregation Theory Redux
That publishers feel the need to pursue the same strategy is driven by the reality of Aggregation Theory. To quickly recap, in a world of abundance, as long as the aggregator controls demand, suppliers have no choice but to commoditize themselves according to the strictures of the aggregator, which is another way of saying that suppliers have no choice but to engage in perfect competition. This is extremely ruinous for publishers in particular:
- In a perfect market, the price of an undifferentiated commodity will be its marginal cost
- The marginal cost is the cost to produce one more item (as opposed to the total cost, which includes the fixed costs necessary to create the item; those fixed costs, though, are already spent whether or not an additional item is created)2
- The marginal cost of a digital item is zero, which means in a perfect market the inevitable price of a digital item is zero
In short, aggregators are market makers, and the markets they make — thanks to the aforementioned lack of distribution costs and transactions costs — are pretty darn close to perfect, particularly in the case of purely digital goods. The problem is that publishers have huge fixed costs, even if you ignore old world infrastructure like printing presses and delivery trucks; specifically, publishers have to pay salaries, but those costs, by virtue of being fixed, not marginal, have zero impact on a publication’s pricing power in a perfect market.3
The end result is dire for newspapers in particular: in commodity markets the winning companies have superior cost structures, which means they can sustainably sell at the market-clearing price; newspapers, though, by virtue of being built for a world of print, will never have the cost structure or mentality to succeed in the long run.
Thus this solution: Chavern and the big publishers want permission from Congress to escape the perfect competition fostered by Aggregation Theory via collusion. The theory seems to be that, were the 2,000 newspapers party to this proposal able to present a unified front, they could force concessions from Google and Facebook that would make their businesses viable.
News Versus Advertising
There’s just one problem with this analysis — and that problem extends to Chavern’s proposal as a whole: it’s based on a myth. Specifically, newspapers have never succeeded by selling news, a point I made explicitly in The Local News Business Model:
By owning printing presses and delivery trucks (and thanks to the low marginal cost of printing extra pages), newspapers were the primary outlet for advertising that didn’t work on (or couldn’t afford) TV or radio — and there was a lot of it. Maximizing advertising, though, meant maximizing the potential audience, which meant offering all kinds of different types of content in volume: thus the mashup of wildly disparate content listed above, all focused on quantity over quality. And then, having achieved the most readership and the ability to expand to fit it all, the biggest newspaper could squeeze out its competitors.
Too many newspaper advocates utterly and completely fail to understand this; the truth is that newspapers made money in the past not by providing societal value, but by having quasi-monopolistic control of print advertising in their geographic area; the societal value was a bonus. Thus, when Chavern complains that “today’s internet distribution systems distort the flow of economic value derived from good reporting”, he is in fact conflating societal value with economic value; the latter does not exist and has never existed.
This failure to understand the past leads to a misdiagnosis of the present: Google and Facebook are not profitable because they took newspapers’ reporting, they are profitable because they took their advertising. Moreover, the utility of both platforms is so great that even if all newspaper content were magically removed — which has been tried in Europe — the only thing that would change is that said newspapers would lose even more revenue as they lost traffic.
This is why this solution is so misplaced: newspapers no longer have a monopoly on advertising, can never compete with the Internet when it comes to bundling content, and news remains both valuable to society and, for the same reasons, worthless economically (reaching lots of people is inversely correlated to extracting value, and facts — both real and fake ones — spread for free).
A Better Solution for Publishers
I just said that “good reporting” has never had economic value; this wasn’t quite right. Rather, the articles that result from “good reporting” don’t have economic value: once published on the Internet they have zero marginal cost in a world of perfect competition. This is why publishers have to shift their mindset about their product and their market.
Specifically, publishers should be selling “good reporting”, that is, the commitment to the regular production of content that the buyer would like to see. This is a slight distinction but a critical one: successful subscription products do not sell content but rather the production of the content, and that production, unlike the articles themselves, can be differentiated and sold as a scarce product. That, though, means knowing who the buyer is: it’s not advertisers, but rather readers.
Moreover, this approach addresses the Facebook and Google problem: the issue with Aggregation Theory from a supplier perspective is that the aggregator owns the consumer relationship; however, because Facebook and Google are advertising companies, they are not even competing in the subscription market. They, like advertisers, only care about content that has already been produced, not how it came to be.
In fact, this is the single most ridiculous part of this proposal: one of the issues Chavern wishes to collectively bargain with Facebook and Google about is “better support for subscription models”. In other words, Chavern wishes to bring in Facebook and Google as an aggregator in the one market — subscriptions — where newspapers actually have a viable business model.
It’s easy to envision how this could play out: Google and Facebook set up subscription offerings for publishers, eventually create the bundle of the future, and, by virtue of owning the consumer, skim off most of the profits, leaving publishers desperately pursuing page views to get their minuscule share of revenue. Sound familiar?
The fundamental issue is this: there is a business model that works for publishers, but it requires a dramatic shift in mindset and the long hard slog of building a business. That means understanding what customers want, building a product that appeals to them, reaching them, moving them down a sales funnel, and retaining them. What it does not mean is the suffocating sense of entitlement and delusion that underlies not just this proposal but the majority of commentary from newspapers themselves that expects someone — anyone! — to give journalists money simply because they are important.
That’s the thing: journalism is important. It is so important that the sooner publishers let go of a long-gone world where publications earned advertising simply by existing, and actually build publications that can not just survive but thrive on the Internet, the better off society will be. And, in that fight, this move by the News Media Alliance is actively hurting the cause.
Apple was ruled to have been a co-conspirator which meant they were per se guilty; the company argued their relationship with the publishers was a vertical one, which would have led to a rule of reason analysis that I suspect would have exonerated the company. I wrote more about the case here ↩
Technically all costs, at least in the long-run, are marginal costs; however, in the short-run, the determination of whether or not to produce one more item is based purely on the cost of that item alone; a useful overview of the difference is here ↩
Salaries are fixed costs in terms of producing one more article; they are much closer to variable costs, though, than something like a printing press ↩


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Despite bulging inboxes, bosses at Britain’s small businesses are making time to look after their staff, with employee welfare listed as the number one health and safety priority. And the signs are that bosses aren’t having to spend a fortune to keep employees safe with the majority (two thirds) spending less than £500 a year to keep their workforce safe, according to a study carried out by TalkTalk Business.
However, Britain’s conscientious bosses are the first to recognise that things aren’t perfect with three out of four small business owners recognising that employees who use the internet are subjected to potentially offensive material on a weekly basis.
TalkTalk Business carried out the study to mark the launch of WorkSafe, a new security and website filtering service, after recognising its SME customers needed a solution to the problem. WorkSafe is designed to empower small business bosses to help safeguard staff and is included at no extra cost with the TalkTalk Business’ broadband service.
Charles Bligh, managing director of TalkTalk Business, commented: “While we absolutely understand that security is just one of the many issues small business owners have to deal with on a daily basis, it’s significant that 65% of small business owners recognise that their computer network isn’t properly secure. This issue is at the root of many of these problems and leaves unprotected employees open to receiving online content that they may find offensive and, at the same time, it also allows employees to access unapproved sites when they are being paid to work.
“It’s a situation which has the potential to cause real headaches for small business owners.so we felt it was important that we provide a practical tool which empowers employers to tackle the situation quickly and easily.
“WorkSafe is intended to allow employers to do this by offering similar protection as our domestic equivalent – HomeSafe – which has been successfully safeguarding families across the country since last year. Just as we believe parents shouldn’t worry that their children will access inappropriate or offensive material at home, it’s important to us that employers can also play their part and protect their workforce as they browse the internet.”
Charles added: “We absolutely understand that small business owners are looking for value for money, particularly at the moment, which is why we are including WorkSafe to broadband customers at no extra cost. It’s a practical solution which both removes the need for time intensive policing of employee’s online activity and respects employee’s privacy.”

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Engineering researchers at Michigan State University have developed the first stretchable integrated circuit that is made entirely using an inkjet printer, raising the possibility of inexpensive mass production of smart fabric.
Imagine: an ultrathin smart tablet that can be stretched from mini-size to extra large. Or a rubber band-like wrist monitor that measures one’s heartbeat. Or wallpaper that turns an entire wall into an electronic display.
These are some of the potential applications of the stretchable smart fabric developed in the lab of Chuan Wang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. And because the material can be produced on a standard printer, it has a major potential cost advantage over current technologies that are expensive to manufacture.
“We can conceivably make the costs of producing flexible electronics comparable to the costs of printing newspapers,” said Wang. “Our work could soon lead to printed displays that can easily be stretched to larger sizes, as well as wearable electronics and soft robotics applications.”
The smart fabric is made up of several materials fabricated from nanomaterials and organic compounds. These compounds are dissolved in solution to produce different electronic inks, which are run through the printer to make the devices.
From the ink, Wang and his team have successfully created the elastic material, the circuit and the organic light-emitting diode, or OLED. The next step is combining the circuit and OLED into a single pixel, which Wang estimates will take one to two years. There are generally millions of pixels just underneath the screen of a smart tablet or a large display.
Once the researchers successfully combine the circuit and OLED into a working pixel, the smart fabric can be potentially commercialized.
Conceivably, Wang said, the stretchable electronic fabric can be folded and put in one’s pocket without breaking. This is an advantage over current “flexible” electronics material technology that cannot be folded.
“We have created a new technology that is not yet available,” Wang said. “And we have taken it one big step beyond the flexible screens that are about to become commercially available.”
The groundbreaking discovery of the ink-fabricated stretchable circuitry was published recently in the journal ACS Nano. Wang’s co-researchers were Le Cai, Suoming Zhang and Jinshui Miao of MSU and Zhibin Yu of Florida State University.


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Pretoria - KwaZulu-Natal has come out tops as the most visited province in South Africa.
According to the Domestic Tourism Survey 2008, the province of preference for trips in general was KwaZulu-Natal, which generated 20.6 percent of all tourist arrivals.
The province also had the highest proportion of overnight trips (22.7 percent), according to the survey, released by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) on Monday.
Gauteng was the most visited province coming in at 24.4 percent, with regard to day trips.
According to the survey, the reasons for both domestic day and overnight trips were visits to friends and family/relatives in the six months prior to the survey.
The survey revealed an estimated 7.469 million trips were taken of which 2.252 million were day trips and 5.217 million were overnight trips.
With regard to modes of transport, the most frequently used forms of transport were taxis coming in at 8.860 million trips and cars at 7.532 million trips.
Taxis were used as the mode of transport to visit friends and family at 27.6 percent as well as to do shopping for personal use.
"Taxis were the mode of transport for more than half the trips when the provinces of destination were Eastern Cape (53.4 percent) and KwaZulu-Natal (51 percent)," said Stats SA.
Eating out at restaurants and cafes was a very popular activity for both day and overnight trips. According to the survey, an estimated 1.528 million people ate at restaurants and cafes on day trips, while 1.591 million people ate at restaurants while on overnight trips.
People aged 25-29 were also found to be most likely to travel while the two preferred destinations on overnight trips for leisure were the Western Cape with 47.9 percent and Mpumalanga at 21 percent.
Additionally most overnight trips lasted between one and three nights.
According to Stats SA in the Western Cape expenditure on day trips amounted to R187.674 million and for overnight trips to R1.397billion. In KwaZulu-Natal, expenditure on day trips was R731.303 million and for overnight trips R2.226 billion, which is approximately three times more than that for day trips.
When traveling outside the country, South Africans are more likely to travel on the African continent as opposed to further abroad.
"South Africans who travel to destinations outside the country's borders are more likely to go to other African countries rather than traveling further abroad," said Stats SA.
On the other hand, Mozambique was the preferred destination with an estimated 141 000 trips while the other most popular foreign destination was the United Kingdom.


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A new Canon EF lens is coming! According to the latest news from CR3, Canon will announce the new EF 70-200mm F4L IS II lens to replace the current EF 70-200mm F4L USM lens in April. It is now in testing.
Earlier rumors said, Canon EF 70-200mm F2.8L IS III is also coming this year. It is rumored to have a new design with a new IS system and optical upgrades and a little bit lighter weight.
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On Tuesday, YouTube faced a minor outage lasting about 20 minutes. During the outage, several people reported not being able to access the platform or experienced sluggish services.
Meanwhile, a popular website downtime tracking service, Downdetector said that it received more than 15K reports of issues with YouTube.
Downdetector collects status reports from various sources and also considers user-submitted errors on its platform to curate its data.
YouTube tweeted that if you had a sluggish experience while using the platform or were unable to access YouTube, the issue has been resolved, it lasted for 20 minutes.
According to popular Web Tool reviewing site ToolTester, in the last year alone, YouTube experienced about 65 outages.
The news of YouTube’s outage comes after a week following Amazon’s AWS outage that affected several major streaming platforms like Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, and Roku.
Besides these streaming platforms, trading app Robinhood, TV shows, mobile banking app chime also felt the heat of downtime as per a report by downdetector.com.
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A dubious affliction of shopped-out women.
“Three-quarters of women suffer from ‘changing room rage’ when they are shopping,” Sky News revealed:
Cramped, cluttered and exposed fitting rooms can make trying on clothes such a traumatic experience that it manifests itself in feelings of anger, disappointment and bouts of bad temper.
The condition – dubbed CRR – can sometimes lead to shoppers snapping at retail assistants, storming out of stores and even losing self-confidence, according to the study of more than 1,200 women for isme.com.
Portmanteau for a shopping experience that combines online and real-world aspects.
(Mash-up + Shop)
Writing for Cisco’s blog, The Platform, Alicia Swanson explained how retailers are adapting to the way technology has changed shopping habits:
To determine how retailers can embrace this “technology-shaped shoppers,” the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) surveyed 1,000 shoppers from the United States and United Kingdom. It found that consumers want a new way to shop. This new shopping experience is called “mashops.” It combines web-like experiences with the shopping experience in stores, creating a “Mash up” of the physical and virtual worlds.
On Shopsafe.co.uk, Simon Frederickson explained:
So-called “mashops” are expected to develop in the UK and elsewhere as retailers respond to changing trends which see users harnessing smartphones in order to surf for information and deals online, while they are out and about in brick and mortar outlets.
A new paradigm of enforced openness – associated both with the WikiLeaks disclosures and the ability to make instant online price comparisons.
Writing for Forbes, John Mariotti noted that Christmas shoppers are using technology to get the best deals:
Moreover smarter, sharper consumers are benefiting from a new phenomenon: “involuntary transparency.” This means that consumers can compare prices to see whose are best – at that instant. How? Through the marvel of the Internet and smart phones, backed up by on-line price checks at home.
“Involuntary transparency” is a new term I discovered when it was used to describe Wiki-leaks publishing of confidential documents. This term describes how the Internet/smart-phone age is wreaking havoc with retailer pricing, promotions, and profits.
Profiling Julian Assange for Forbes in November, Andy Greenberg wrote:
Admire Assange or revile him, he is the prophet of a coming age of involuntary transparency. Having exposed military misconduct on a grand scale, he is now gunning for corporate America. Does Assange have unpublished, damaging documents on pharmaceutical companies? Yes, he says. Finance? Yes, many more than the single bank scandal we’ve been discussing. Energy? Plenty, on everything from BP to an Albanian oil firm that he says attempted to sabotage its competitors’ wells. Like informational IEDs, these damaging revelations can be detonated at will.
Sales of slippers (and loungewear) as an indication of economic conditions.
“Have slippers become the new heels?” Karen Wheeler asked in The Daily Mail:
As sales of pyjamas soar, retailers are referring to “the slipper index.”
It’s the time of year when thoughts usually turn to buying a cocktail dress and heels as the party season hits full swing. But this year it seems our priorities are a little different. Rather than splurging on clothes for going out, many of us are spending money on luxurious pieces for staying in. Certainly that’s the message from shop floors and online retailers. …
Wheeler attributed the term “slipper index” to popular UK department store John Lewis, and explained:
The theory is that sales of slippers and pyjamas increase in a downturn. There’s also the cold snap – not only are we going out less, we’re also investing in cosy clothes in a bid to stay toasty. As we’re spending more time on our sofas, we’re willing to spend more on staying-in wear – and splashing out on pieces in luxe fabrics, such as cashmere and silk.
The market for mainstream products that sexualize young children.
A British retailer withdrew from sale padded bikinis made for girls as young as seven after it was suggested that they contributed to the sexualisation of children, the BBC reported:
The company apologised to customers for “causing offence” and said it would donate profits from the product to a children’s charity.
The BBC quoted the child protection consultant Shy Keenan, of The Phoenix Chief Advocates, as saying
“It never fails to amaze me just how many High Street household names are now prepared to exploit the disgusting ‘paedophile pound.’”
(Ever shy of understatement, The Sun declared, “Paedo bikini banned.”)
Innovation tailored to the demands and incomes of (poor) consumers in India.
[Ind(ia) + (Inn)ovation]
Reporting from New Delhi for The Financial Times, James Lamont commented on the efforts of designers to produce products which appeal to India’s vast (and often poor) domestic market:
So notable is the drive to find adaptable products for the Indian mass market that it has a name, “Indovation.” Entrepreneurs have spotted the opportunities in developing highvolume products suited to the habits and needs of India’s shoppers. Manmohan Singh, the prime minister, meanwhile, dreams of technology being the answer to bringing public services and better governance to the nation’s poor. …
Other areas where Indovations are springing up include solar power, mobile telephony, medical equipment and toilet technology. Indian engineers have also invented a battery-powered ultra-low cost fridge resistant to power cuts, an automatic teller cash machine for rural areas and even a flour mill powered by scooter.
In a country where the bulk of the population lives in the countryside and where an estimated 300m people live on a $1 a day, a common factor is a low spend and price sensitivity.
The title of C.K. Prahalad’s book “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid” has entered the lexicon of modern India as a business mantra. One of the book’s case studies examines Unilever’s successful pricing and packaging of fast-moving consumer goods in small units. Enter a small shop anywhere in India and hung on the wall will be tiny sachets of soap powder, dishwashing liquid and shampoo. Their price is a few rupees.
In a December 2009 article for Livemint, Radha Chadha also spotlighted the term Indovation:
Global companies are now bending over backwards to innovate for India – there’s even a new term for it, “Indovation” – and the key theme is to skin prices down till they fit into the Indian hip pocket, while creating a product, often from scratch, that fits Indian needs like a glove.
A technique of online pricing where the total cost is revealed only at the end of the purchasing process, after a series of (compulsory/hidden) charges have been added.
Some 4 million British bargain hunters took to the Internet on Christmas Day, according to The Times of London:
But the belief in big savings at the click of a button may be ill founded. A survey of online retailers for The Times has found that shoppers who buy online face paying up to 22 per cent more in hidden charges.
Although the advertised prices for electronic equipment, clothes and furniture sold online are often cheaper than their high-street counterparts, consumers are falling foul of an array of marketing techniques. These include “drip” pricing, whereby customers are given an initial price only for further costs to be surreptitiously added during the purchasing process.
In a recent report for The Independent, Martin Hickman noted that Ryanair, one of Europe’s largest budget airlines, had been criticized by the chief executive of Britain’s Office of Fair Trading over its pricing practices:
The no-frills carrier – along with other airlines and ticketing agencies – is being investigated by the OFT over online pricing and advertising. Of particular concern is “drip-pricing” where shoppers only discover the full cost of a service late in the booking process, which makes it difficult to shop around.
One of a number of trade-in schemes which mimic the “cash for clunkers” program.
The Times’s Julie Scelfo reported on a profusion of trade-in schemes (similar to the government’s cash for clunkers program) popping up across the States:
At Ruby & Quiri, a family-run home furnishings center in Johnstown, N.Y., customers receive a $25 gift card for every piece of used furniture they turn in, or $50 for upgrading an appliance to an Energy Star model. The clunker is picked up when the new item is delivered, and depending on its condition is either donated or broken down for recycling.
At Pacific Manufacturing in Phoenix, which sells custom upholstered goods to interior designers, a used piece of furniture earns clients 10 percent off the purchase of any new furniture item or mattress and, after the clunker is delivered to a local charity, a tax-deduction receipt.
Similar programs have sprung up in places like Portland, Ore., and Lexington, Ky., along with variations like Credit for Clunkers at 1-800-Mattress, Cash for Couches at Lillian August in Connecticut, and what some retailers are calling Cash for Teakettles, which Chantal Cookware Corp. will introduce next month.
A Korean phrase describing self-indulgent purchases.
Reporting for The JoongAng Daily, Lee Eun-joo wrote:
The growing number of consumers spending money on themselves has inspired the new phrase, “For Me Jok,” according to Shinsegae Department Store, yesterday. The word jok means “tribe” in Korean.
The phrase describes consumers who spend money on themselves and aren’t willing to cut back items they think will enhance their quality of life.
According to Eun-joo, the Shinsegae Department Store reported a 40 percent increase in sales of small luxury items (watches, purses, shoes, &c.) and has defined three types of For Me Jok purchase: “small luxury,” “sexy” and “green.”
(Splurging on affordable luxuries despite the economic downturn is not unique to South Korea. A recent report by The Independent revealed strong U.K. sales by the luxury handbag-maker Mulberry, and asserted: “Gone are the days of buying every season’s It-bag or paying £13,000 for Burberry’s Warrior bag. But that’s not to say consumers won’t splash out on a little treat every now and then.” In May, The L.A. Times trumpeted the recessionary resilience of the U.S. designer jeans market.)


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Apple is reportedly working on new revamped Airpods and Airpods Pro as Bloomberg reported, according to the details the first revamped Airpods is likely to hit the market as early as the first half of 2021.
Both AirPods and Airpods pro will be redesigned, and offer upgraded wireless chips. Bloomberg also notes that Apple’s long-rumored over-ear headphones are still in the works and that the Cupertino company has internally discussed plans to introduce a 3rd HomePod speaker which would be between the $299 HomePod and the newly-announced $99 HomePod mini in terms of pricing and features.
The report further said that Apple’s second-generation AirPods Pro could remove the stem that has been a hallmark of the AirPods’ design since their introduction in 2016. Apple will still introduce noise-cancellation, however, with a design that’s closer to Samsung’s Galaxy Buds Plus, or Google’s Pixel Buds. Fitting everything into a smaller housing has been a challenge for the company, and the design of the device could change.
The entry-level AirPods, meanwhile, will reportedly adopt elements of the AirPods Pro’s design, with a shorter stem and replaceable ear-tips. Better battery life is also said to be on the way. The third-generation earbuds, which follow the second-gen model from March 2019, could be announced as early as the first half of next year, Bloomberg notes.
Alongside the new true wireless earbuds, Bloomberg says Apple’s over-ear headphones are still in the development phase. The design has reportedly changed to reduce the side of the external touchpads, as well as the number of swappable parts it has (the replaceable ear pads may remain, but not the headband). The headphones were reportedly due to go into production a few weeks ago, but this had to be pushed back due to a problem with the headband being too tight.
Finally, the report said that Apple has internally discussed adding a third HomePod speaker to its product lineup. However, the development is thought to be in its early stages, and the speaker may not be released sooner. Almost a year on from the launch of the AirPods Pro, and a year and a half after the second-gen AirPods, it makes complete sense that Apple is planning upgraded versions of these devices. The new AirPods sound like they’re taking some of the design benefits of the Pros, whereas a more compact design for the AirPods Pro should make them work better in most situations.
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Wells Fargo Education Financial Services – a business group within Wells Fargo’s Consumer Lending Group – has named financial services veteran John Rasmussen head of Education Financial Services, effective February 11, 2013.
John Rasmussen, head of Wells Fargo Education Financial Services (Photo: Business Wire)
Wells Fargo Education Financial Services, the nation’s #2 provider of private student loans, serves more than 1.9 million student and family customers in all 50 states, helping customers make smart borrowing decisions to finance education.
Rasmussen, a 20-year veteran of the banking industry, has held leadership roles with several of the nation’s top financial service providers including the last eight years with Wells Fargo. Most recently, Rasmussen led the Centralized Retail business for Wells Fargo Home Lending, which included all home lending customers who chose to do business via the telephone, rather than in a store location. The Centralized Retail business, combined with Wells Fargo’s Distributed Retail business which includes bank stores, together served more than 1 million customers during 2012. In his new role, Rasmussen will report to Tom Wolfe, head of Wells Fargo Consumer Credit Solutions, which offers an array of consumer finance products including student loans, credit cards, auto loans, personal loans and lines of credit.
“We know that financing higher education is one of the biggest decisions many families make when managing their personal finances. It’s important to our customers, which makes it important to us,” says Tom Wolfe, head of Wells Fargo Consumer Credit Solutions. “I am confident that John’s strategic business perspective and high level of integrity, combined with his focus on customers and decades of financial service experience will be great assets to our team as we continue to focus on helping make the dream of a college education a reality for our customers.”
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Is TikTok a Good Buy? It Depends on What’s Included
TikTok goes to get acquired or die making an attempt.
The hit video app seems headed for a shotgun marriage ceremony after President Trump has determined to pressure its proprietor, the Chinese tech conglomerate ByteDance, to promote TikTok to an American acquirer or be barred from working within the nation. On Monday, the president — performing as a mixture of funding banker, regulator, and back-room mafioso — stated he would approve a bid by Microsoft for TikTok’s U.S. operations, supplied that each events meet his as-yet-unspecified calls for and hit a Sept. 15 deadline.
There are 1,000,000 questions nonetheless swirling round a potential TikTok-Microsoft deal.But essentially the most evident query mark is that no one I’ve talked to has found out precisely what “shopping for TikTok” will imply, or whether or not what many specialists think about TikTok’s golden goose — the advanced algorithms that make the app so addictive — could be included in a deal.
A Microsoft spokesman declined to remark. A TikTok spokeswoman, Ashley Nash-Hahn, declined to supply particulars about what elements of TikTok’s know-how had been and weren’t up on the market.
“While we don’t touch upon rumors or hypothesis, we’re assured within the long-term success of TikTok,” she stated in an emailed assertion.
Some company acquisitions are easy. In the only sort of deal — say, an enormous restaurant shopping for a smaller restaurant — the acquirer buys the whole lot on the opposite firm’s stability sheet: all its belongings and liabilities, together with its kitchen tools, its secret recipes, and any actual property it owns. Lawyers and bankers attempt to place a worth on these issues, and estimate the corporate’s future money flows. Then they hash out phrases, negotiate a worth and signal a deal.
A TikTok acquisition is much, way more sophisticated.
For starters, despite the fact that TikTok has gone to nice lengths to distance itself from its Chinese mum or dad firm, the app continues to be very tightly built-in with ByteDance’s Chinese operations. As The Information not too long ago reported, most of TikTok’s core options had been developed by ByteDance’s Chinese engineers utilizing a set of shared software program instruments — generally known as “zhongtai,” or “central platform” — that’s out there to all of ByteDance’s greater than two dozen apps. And a lot of the vital selections about TikTok’s operations and technique have been made by executives in China.
Separating TikTok from ByteDance would, by definition, require untangling many of those Chinese connections. That might current issues. Many of TikTok’s high American executives — together with Kevin Mayer, its chief government — are new to the corporate, and presumably nonetheless getting in control. And whereas TikTok does have engineers primarily based within the United States who might theoretically assist with the technical untangling, most of the engineers with the deepest information of TikTok’s techniques are presumably Chinese nationals in Beijing.
ByteDance, primarily based in Beijing, has greater than two dozen apps.Credit…Wu Hong/EPA, by way of Shutterstock
And what concerning the algorithm? By all accounts, TikTok’s core algorithm — which selects movies for the central feed customers see after they open the app, known as the “for you web page” or FYP — might be essentially the most worthwhile asset the corporate owns. Eugene Wei, a longtime tech government and blogger, likens TikTok’s FYP algorithm to the Sorting Hat from the Harry Potter sequence — a “speedy, hyper-efficient matchmaker” that analyzes customers’ habits and locations them into personalised niches, primarily based on their pursuits.
The FYP algorithm is TikTok’s secret sauce, and an enormous a part of what makes it so correct is ByteDance’s world attain. Every swipe, faucet and video seen by TikTok customers world wide — billions and billions of information factors a day — is fed into big databases, that are then used to coach synthetic intelligence to foretell which movies will preserve customers’ consideration.
Sometimes, that may imply exhibiting American customers movies made in India or China. (I as soon as fell into a pleasant rabbit gap of TikTok dances by multigenerational Chinese households.) Other occasions, it might imply utilizing information from one nation’s customers to tell one other nation’s suggestions. It might even imply utilizing information gleaned from a completely completely different ByteDance app — corresponding to Douyin, the Chinese equal of TikTok — to tell what TikTok customers are proven.
ByteDance considers itself, at first, an A.I. firm. And the character of constructing A.I. is that the extra information you will have, the higher your algorithms typically are. Would an American TikTok algorithm, skilled solely on American customers’ information, be much less addictive? It’s definitely potential.
But even when ByteDance was prepared to half with TikTok’s algorithms and the machine studying fashions they depend on — an enormous if — it’s not clear that an American acquirer would be capable of recreate TikTok’s magic immediately.
Karl Higley, a recommender techniques engineer who beforehand labored at Spotify, stated that with out entry to historic information — information about what TikTok’s customers swiped, tapped and lingered on weeks or months earlier — a brand new, Americanized TikTok may primarily want to begin from scratch.
“In order to personalize the app for current customers, they’re going to wish historic information for U.S. of us except they need to wipe the slate clear, which might be a horrible consumer expertise,” Mr. Higley stated.
American tech giants, after all, are not any slouches in the case of constructing addictive algorithms. And it’s potential that an American-owned TikTok might rebuild the app’s core know-how with out customers even noticing a distinction. But it’s not trivial work, and it might take months or years to do — months or years by which Facebook, Snapchat and different opponents could be nipping at TikTok’s heels. And if customers sensed that their algorithm was degrading within the meantime, or exhibiting them fewer fascinating movies than it as soon as did, they might be tempted to leap ship.
In addition to recreating TikTok’s algorithms, an American acquirer would additionally must work rapidly to protect TikTok’s different worthwhile asset: its creator tradition. As my colleague Taylor Lorenz has written, TikTok is residence to a big, vibrant neighborhood of inventive expertise, a few of whom make a full-time dwelling from the app. Those persons are interested in TikTok partly as a result of the platform offers them a option to attain a mass viewers. But they’re additionally interested in it as a result of TikTok has cultivated an aura of cool by means of promoting, placing partnerships with music festivals and different in style occasions, and internet hosting unique events for TikTok creators at business occasions like VidCon.
Already, Facebook is reportedly making an attempt to poach in style TikTok creators for Instagram Reels, its new TikTok clone, by dangling six-figure offers in entrance of them. And if TikTok is acquired by Microsoft — an organization not traditionally identified for its youth enchantment — creators might sense that it’s time to maneuver on.
TikTok might attempt to decrease the chance for an acquirer by placing multiyear unique offers with its hottest American creators, the way in which that platforms like YouTube and Twitch have accomplished. It might additionally speed up its plans to let in style customers earn cash from the platform. But and not using a agency grip on its A-list expertise, TikTok’s acquirer gained’t be assured that the platform isn’t dropping its edge.
Hank Green, a YouTube star and chief government of the training firm Complexly, who has greater than 600,000 followers on TikTok, stated that a TikTok acquisition might make creators extra skeptical of the corporate’s motives.
“One of the issues about TikTok is that they’ve been capable of make a lot of modifications actually quick, and persons are open and receptive to that,” Mr. Green stated. “If you see that change as coming from outdoors the ecosystem, that may really feel like a international change.”
Many of the folks I spoke to agreed that even with the potential pitfalls and unresolved questions, the chance to purchase TikTok is a once-in-a-decade deal for the appropriate acquirer. Popular, rising social networks are exceedingly uncommon, and TikTok has already made itself a fixture of American tradition in a approach that few different apps ever have.
“TikTok is compelling, not simply due to its massive and rising consumer base, but additionally due to its platform potential to develop into e-commerce and livestreaming,” stated Connie Chan, a companion on the enterprise capital agency Andreessen Horowitz. “Video is a unbelievable option to promote issues and brief movies are good for product discovery.”
Mr. Green, the YouTube star, agreed.
“If I had the chance to purchase TikTok, I’d purchase TikTok,” he stated. “There’s a lot worth on that platform proper now that’s fully untapped.”


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The pizza restaurant chain known as Papa Johns is current goring through some hardship. After the founder made remarks that were racially insensitive, the company received a blow to its overall reputation. Papa Johns founder John Schnatter’s actions resulted in him being dismissed as the chairman of the company. However, he has spent a lot of time looking to regain control of the business he built. While Schnatter is working towards getting back control of his company, current chief executive officer Steve Ritchie has expressed his regret and informed customers that Papa Johns is a company that respects and encourages people of all backgrounds to be involved in the company.
Chief executive officer Steve Ritchie has vowed to make changes that will hopefully restore the company’s reputation. Steve Ritchie has found out that sales of for the company have gone down by almost 10% since Schnatter made the racially insensitive comments. As a result, the company is projected to have sales decline next year as well according to Steve Ritchie. In an effort to help increase sales and get the company’s image restored, Steve Ritchie has spent time visiting franchisees and employees during the past several months. He has visited major cities such as Atlanta, Los Angeles, Dallas and Chicago. When he visited these cities, he has looked for feedback on how the company can get back on good terms with customers and the public.
After meeting with a number of franchisees throughout the United States, Steve Ritchie decided to adopt new programs. One of these programs is unconscious bias training which teaches members of the company to respect people from diverse backgrounds. Another thing Ritchie decided to do is adopt programs such as a minority franchise development program, a local foundation to help the community and also an initiative to address equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All of these programs will be established in 2019 to help address the current issues that the company is dealing with. With these programs, Papa Johns will be in very good position to make the company more acceptable to the public and regain its status as a reputable pizza restaurant chain.


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- Aug 17, 2014
Intel will manufacture chips for Taiwanese chip designer MediaTek, making the latter the first major silicon customer for Intel's revitalized contract chip manufacturing business.
The American x86 giant is expected to announce MediaTek as a marquee customer for Intel Foundry Services Monday, more than a year after the chipmaker rebooted the business to compete with Asian foundry giants TSMC and Samsung as part of CEO Pat Gelsinger's comeback plan.
MediaTek was the fourth largest fabless chip designer in 2021, larger than AMD, but smaller than Broadcom, Nvidia, and Qualcomm. Its revenue was $17.6 billion last year, a 61 percent annual increase, largely thanks to smartphone phone chip sales. As well as Android handsets, MediaTek also designs chips for cars, Chromebooks, tablets, networking products, plus IoT and smart home devices.
Designed in the East, manufactured in the WestIntel said the arrangement will give MediaTek a "more balanced, resilient supply chain" by giving the Taiwanese company "significant" manufacturing capacity in the United States and Europe.
MediaTek executive NS Tsai said the move, which will involve chips for smart edge products, is part of its "multi-sourcing strategy." This means the company will continue to use rival foundries such as TSMC for other products.
"With its commitment to major capacity expansions, [Intel Foundry Services] provides value to MediaTek as we seek to create a more diversified supply chain," said Tsai, head of the company's platform technology and manufacturing operations. "We look forward to building a long-term partnership to serve the fast-growing demand for our products from customers across the globe."
Intel lands chip manufacturing contract from MediaTek
This will be the x86 giant's first major foundry customer
Intel and MediaTek Form Foundry Partnership
MediaTek will use Intel Foundry Services to manufacture new chips for a range of smart edge devices.


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TransferWise’s recent partnership with the account software FreeAgent utilises open banking to is utilising open banking to has started working with the accounting software provided by FreeAgent to facilitate data sharing between the two platforms. Business customers can now see their TransferWise transactions in their FreeAgent account without the manual processes previously required.
American Express will introduce open banking services in Europe using the Yapily API. The ‘Pay with Bank Transfer’ service will expedite transactions for merchants without compromising the customer experience since the user interface will still be provided by American Express, with Yapily running behind the scenes.
Ponto, an open banking aggregation platform connected to 150 banks across Europe, has partnered with Zapier to enable its business clients flexibility in the way they control their finances. They now have access to more than 2000 apps meaning they can personalise and centralisethe way in which their accounts are managed.
Funding Circle, the peer-to-peer business lending platform was reluctant to use open banking whilst there was still some apprehension around data authenticity and the client experience. Now that open banking has developed, Funding Circle is looking once again at how the technology might be integrated to speed up and automate credit assessments.
Bottomline, has launched Pay Direct, an open banking payment initiation service for businesses. Companies will be able to receive online payments faster, and reconcile transactions more easily without taking away from the customer experience.


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Amazon-Future Group Deal Spurs E-tail Competition
Kishore Biyani-led Future Group and global retail giant Amazon today entered into a partnership to keep other e-tail players at bay.
How Indian E-tailing Space Is Getting Bigger, Better
Category : Digital Enterprise
The growth in India’s online retail market is spreading like wildfire with domestic retailers and foreign players – all wanting a slice of the pie.
Amazon heats up e-commerce competition
Technology : Infrastructure
Amazon, which operates as jungle.com in India, is confident of giving local players a tough fight
Ratan Tata Joins The E-Tail Boom With Snapdeal Investment
Today every business tycoon is looking at the e-commerce pie for growth and Ratan Tata sure didn't want to miss the boat.
Ratan Tata To Invest In Snapdeal; Joins E-Commerce Boom
Technology : Networking & Communication
The deal would help Snapdeal take a step ahead in the already burgeoning e-commerce segment in India, which is currently dominated by Flipkart and Amazon.
With $1Bn In Basket, What's Next For Flipkart?
Flipkart now sets its sights on becoming a $100-billion entity by valuation in the next few years from the current $7 billion.
Why Is Amazon Confident Despite Its Losses?
Technology : Cloud Computing
Executive Jeff Bezos asserted that the AWS division could one day overtake its core retail division by revenue.
Amazon’s India Entry Spurring E-Commerce Consolidation
The $2.3 billion e-tailing market has witnessed a number of mergers or acquisitions between e-commerce firms.
Why Would Google Shopping Express Matter To Amazon
Technology : Enterprise IT Services
Google sets aside $500 million in Google Shopping Express — a same-day grocery delivery service.
No FDI In E-commerce; Modi Govt Backs Out!
Last month, the government met officials from companies including Amazon, Google, EBay and Wal-Mart on the investment guidelines on FDI.


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Who’s ready for “YouTube Podcasts”?
Bloomberg reports that YouTube is hiring an executive to “oversee its podcasting experience,” which currently does not really exist. YouTube is a popular place for podcast hosting, but the site doesn’t offer any podcast-specific features.
YouTube is the most popular video site on Earth, and if you’re a for-profit company obsessed with growth, it’s actually a bit of a problem that everyone already uses YouTube. The endless quest for more revenue and more watch minutes has led YouTube to expand into areas other than the typical YouTube video.
We’ve seen YouTube Red, which—in addition to the surviving ad-free playback feature for $9.99—originally tried to take on Netflix with premium original content from YouTube’s star creators. YouTube Movies lets users buy and rent Hollywood movies. YouTube Gaming is YouTube’s clone of Twitch, allowing people to watch livestreamed gaming sessions. YouTube Shorts is a clone of TikTok’s bite-size video service. YouTube TV is for cord-cutters and replicates the expensive bundled cable TV experience—but over the Internet. YouTube Music offers an ad-supported or paid streaming music service, just like Spotify, and cloud music storage, just like Google Music, which it replaced. The only other thing YouTube could do to expand its audience is to make regular YouTube available to more people, and for that, we have YouTube Kids for small children and YouTube Go, a lower-bandwidth version for the developing world. Behold, the YouTube empire.
YouTube has turned into Google’s all-encompassing media brand, so adding YouTube Podcasts is not a big stretch. The story of YouTube podcasts sounds a lot like the pitch for YouTube Gaming: “YouTube is already a popular place for this type of content, so let’s build a custom interface around it!”
For gaming, this shift included a few custom features, like lower-latency streaming, a better live chat, paid “super-chat” donations, and a (now dead) standalone gaming portal and app. The typical podcast player features not found on YouTube would be a podcast homepage, 15- to 30-second skip buttons, a non-video interface for audio-only podcasts, and some kind of playlist system.
YouTube certainly has some big competition to chase. Spotify is heavily invested in podcasts, with numerous company acquisitions and exclusive streaming agreements, like a $100 million Joe Rogan Experience deal. Apple has recommitted to the market with a new podcast subscription feature and is launching original content like The Problem With Jon Stewart podcast. Amazon also launched a podcast product in 2020.
Fourth time’s a charm?
YouTube Podcasts would be Google’s fourth podcasting app. First, there was Google Listen, a podcast app powered by the Google Reader RSS service. Then there was Google Play Music Podcasts inside of Google Music, and today there is Google Podcasts.
YouTube already killed one podcasting product, Google Play Music Podcasts, when Google Play Music was shut down in favor of YouTube Music. YouTube took over streaming music and uploaded music from Google Play, but it never replicated the podcast feature. Google’s only currently functioning podcast product, Google Podcasts, comes from the Google Search division. Being from Google Search means Google Podcasts doesn’t have a solid home in Google’s empire, and for a long time, the service was only available as an embedded result in a Google Search results page or from the Google Assistant, two things the Search division also owns. Today, there’s a standalone website and an app, but the service does not appear to be very popular or discoverable.
YouTube seems like a much more obvious home for podcasts than Google Search, especially since people already go there for podcasts. Google will likely fall back to its “two of everything” strategy for a while, but longer-term, Google Podcasts should probably think about reserving a nice plot of land in the Google Graveyard.


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For two years, self-taught baker Pamela Vuong built a loyal following with her pop-up The Flour Box, serving decadent brioche doughnuts that drew long lines. Now, after a stressful 2020 constructing a bakery during a pandemic, the first fixed location for the dessert shop opens for business this week in Hillman City. A successful Kickstarter campaign, which raised more than $90,000, helped Vuong reach the finish line.
The Flour Box’s initial offerings — which diners can preorder starting at 10 a.m. Monday — will be limited, at first. On the current menu are Vuong’s popular creme brulee doughnuts, everything bagel doughnuts filled with whipped chive cream cheese, cinnamon rolls, and two rotating doughnut flavors. Right now, the latter varieties are sweet corn (a favorite of Vuong’s sister) and kheer, a lightly fragrant cardamom rice pudding with pistachios (which a fan had suggested).
Vuong also plans to whip up some other pastries at the new shop, including fried-to-order beignets, pavlova, sweet and savory toasts, many inspired by her favorite childhood memories. The first cake on the menu will be a 10-layer milk and honey concoction.
On the beverage side, there will be lattes, americanos, drip coffee, and cold brew from acclaimed local roaster Anchorhead Coffee. In the near future, Vuong says she’ll add specialty drinks such as Anchorhead’s famed Shy Bear Fog (Iron Goddess of Mercy Oolong tea with oat milk and burnt honey).
Since Vuong is working on her own right now, The Flour Box won’t have walk-in or dine-in service to start. But the space — which formerly housed roast chicken favorite Big Chickie — has been revamped with the intention of being a hangout spot in the future. There are vintage arm chairs and couches sitting in a light-filled lounge, crystal chandeliers hanging from a freshly-stained wood-beamed ceiling, and a handmade coffee table. Vuong and her family did all the remodeling themselves.
Though a previous effort to land a permanent location fell through in 2018, this location seems like a good match for The Flour Box, since Vuong grew up in South Seattle and Big Chickie provided a smooth transition after it closed last year.
Curbside pickups will be Thursday through Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., with a few outside picnic tables available at the outset for those who can’t wait to get home before digging into their doughnuts. Diners can keep an eye on the official Instagram page for updates.


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Some customers of Menzgold Ghana Limited are already at designated centres to validate their documents for settlement of their locked-up funds. The gold-dealership company announced last Wednesday that it will begin validation of customers from Monday, October 28 to Thursday, November 28 in order to achieve a “desired outcome” of settling them all. The exercise has been scheduled to take place in four regions – Greater Accra, Central, Western and Ashanti regions.
At Adum, one of the two centres for the exercise, anxious customers were at the designated centre before 9:00am, when it is scheduled to start across all the four regions. The customers had lined up with their documents in mostly brown envelopes to validate them for expected payments. The validation will see a presentation of photocopies of gold-trading agreements, receipts as well as any valid national ID card by each customer.


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Pinmicro is all geared up for the IndiaFirst Tech Startup Bangalore Chapter, an innovative tech event that will be unveiled at the Manpho Convention Center, Bangalore, on June 8th, 2022. Organized by the All India Council for Robotics & Automation,
One of Japan’s largest tech events, CEATEC, will kick off its annual event in October 2022. The hybrid event will focus on uniting professionals from different industries and regions to facilitate the adoption of the best measures for realizing ‘Society 5.0’.
One of the leading providers of location intelligence solutions, Pinmicro India Pvt. Ltd is on its way to broadening its business spectrum to the Philippines’ tech space. The company will be focusing on featuring


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Eating at least two handfuls of nuts a day may improve male fertility
A research review has found that eating at least two handfuls of nuts a day may improve sperm quality – and, therefore, fertility – in young, healthy males. This simple strategy had positive effects without requiring any other changes to diet.
Infertility can have a huge impact on couples, causing emotional stress, depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. With infertility on the rise, more and more research is focused on identifying modifiable lifestyle factors that affect fertility, such as diet.
Led by researchers at Monash University, a new, first-of-its-kind meta-analysis and review of human studies has found that eating nuts may improve sperm quality and, therefore, fertility in men.
“In the studies we reviewed, men were only required to consume 60-75 grams of nuts each day in order to achieve significant improvements in sperm quality,” said Nicole Kellow, one of the study’s corresponding authors. “This is only approximately two handfuls of nuts per day.”
The researchers included four studies involving 875 participants (646 men, 229 women) in their review. Two of the studies were observational; the other two, both randomized controlled trials (RCTs), were included in the meta-analysis.
The two RCTs collectively involved 223 healthy men in a similar age range – 18 to 35 – who reported eating a typical Western-style diet. One trial had participants eat 75 g of whole, shelled English walnuts a day for 12 weeks; the other provided 60 g (two handfuls) of a mixture of 30 g of walnuts, 15 g of almonds and 15 g of hazelnuts to their experimental group for 14 weeks. In both studies, the control group consumed a regular diet without nuts. The studies found that consuming at least two handfuls of nuts daily as part of a Western diet improved markers of sperm quality such as vitality, motility and morphology, but did not improve sperm concentration.
“The statistical analysis in both studies was adjusted for other factors such as physical activity,” said Barbara Cardoso, lead author of the study. “The findings show that this simple strategy has positive effects regardless of other lifestyles.”
The researchers say that apart from adding nuts, no other change was made to the participants’ diet.
“The trial participants ate a Western-style diet, which was not necessarily healthy,” Cardoso said. “This means that adding nuts to their regular diet had a positive effect without the need for further dietary changes.”
The non-randomized studies, involving participants with varied fertility status (e.g., low and normal sperm counts), reported no association between nut consumption and sperm quality.
The researchers suggest that the high concentration of omega-3 polyunsaturated fats, dietary fibers, vitamins, minerals and polyphenols found in nuts could improve reproductive health. While specific nuts were consumed in the studies reviewed by the researchers, they say that other types of nuts would likely also provide benefits.
“Many people think that nuts are fattening, but research shows that people who eat 1-2 handfuls each day are actually more likely to be leaner than those who don’t eat nuts,” Kellow said. “Also, nuts contain monounsaturated fats, antioxidants and dietary fiber, essential nutrients which are vital for good health.”
However, not all nuts are created equal, the researchers warn.
“We’re speaking of either raw or roasted nuts,” said Cardoso. “I’d avoid salted or sweetened nuts as sugar and can be associated with different health issues such as hypertension and insulin resistance.”
The researchers could find only two intervention studies examining the effect of nut consumption on male fertility and none relating to female fertility.
“The implications of these findings are of great value to people trying to conceive, but we also need to assess the effects of nuts on female fertility,” Cardoso said. “We would advocate for more male and female studies to strengthen the results.”
The study was published in the journal Advances in Nutrition.
Source: Monash University


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The National Games Association of India has chosen to host Caesars in Las Vegas to host the India Trade Fair. The event, which is set to kick off next week on Monday, is India’s first trade game after an 18-month hiatus due to the first global outbreak.
An exhibition of Indian games arrives in Las Vegas
National Games Association of India (NIGA) has announced that it will host the first post-epidemic host Indian Games Exhibition and Convention Next Week. This event is to be held under a new brand Caesars Association Conference Center in Las Vegas.
Unfortunately, this was the event He paused for more than 18 months Due to the global COVID-19 epidemic. In April last year, NIGA planned its conference in San Diego, but unfortunately, due to the epidemic, the event was canceled. Now, the forum Thirty-fifth Exhibition and Exhibition Roll next Monday, July 19 And is scheduled to run for five days.
“This will once again be a great opportunity to meet industry leaders, gain access to advanced trends.”
National Games Association of India
As mentioned, the Caesars Forum, Caesars Entertainment’s newest 550,000-square-foot conference center, is hosting the forum event. The conference center has a conference area of 300,000 square feet, Which is located next to luxury hotels such as LINQ Hotel + Experience, Flamingo Las Vegas, as well as Harrah’s Las Vegas.
Lots of hot topics discussed at the opening event
The NIGA event will be included Numerous industry hot topics, Such as marketing, politics and politics. In addition, a game conference is also offered Industry-leading educational topics about company development, hospitality, As well as adjustment and adaptation. There will also be Talk about sports betting, Which may be the hottest topic of the game conference. Last but not least, conference attendees will see a demonstration of new networking opportunities, products and services.
Earlier this month, Ernie Stevens Jr.The president of the association visited the Assembly of Caesars. Excited to find out This association is happy to host India’s first major event Stevens added that NIGA “It is open for trade and we want to welcome the endurance and resilience of our industry, to welcome everyone to join us.“
Participants in the Indian Games to meet NCAIED, RES
In addition to the exhibition, Monday evening at Drai Night Club Welcome to the Las Vegas Cromwell Hotel and Casino National Center for the Development of American Companies in India (NCAIED) will be held. At that reception, attendees at Booking Economic Summit (RES) will meet participants in Indian Gaming 2021.
On that issue, Stevens said that NIGA is excited to work with NCAIED, which represents RES. He acknowledged that Both organizations have had successful long-term partnerships. In addition, Stevens said that both to “Increasing India’s economic development.“
In addition to Stevens, Victor Rocha, The chairman of the conference, also expressed his excitement in a recent interview with CDC Gaming Reports. Rocha proved to be one of the most Topics in this conference are the recovery from COVID-19 And its impact on employment, hospitality and play. In addition, he outlined the plan Sports betting is another hot topic Which will be discussed along with the importance of knowing the market and the actors.


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Greeneville Man Charged in Connection with Auto Burglary in Johnson City
A Greeneville man has been taken into custody and charged by the Johnson City Police Department in connection with an auto burglary that happened last October in the parking lot of McDonald’s on W Walnut St.
27-year-old Tyler Ray Knight allegedly stole a debit card from the victim’s vehicle. It reportedly was used that same night at the Wal Mart on W Market St.
Knight was originally arrested by the Greene County Sheriff’s Officer on unrelated charges. He has been transferred to the Washington County Detention Center, where he is being held on a $22,000 bond.
Knight has been charged with auto burglary, identity theft, theft under $1,000, and credit card fraud under $1,000.


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Wawa might be known as an East Coast staple, but it’s trying to make its presence felt over much of the eastern half of the U.S. thanks to a planned expansion that so far includes seven new states.
The Pennsylvania-based chain is bringing its famed hoagies, newly added pizza and Canada goose mascot Wally westward as part of a broader plan to reach 1,800 stores by 2030. It currently has over 1,000 locations.
That’s an ambitious growth strategy, but plenty of communities are eager to get a Wawa of their own.
“There’s lots of excitement when they expand,” said Jeff Lenard, vice president of strategic industry initiatives for NACS, in an interview on the topic earlier this year. “They’re not just opening new stores — they’re opening new concepts.”
Right now, Wawa stores can be found in six states — Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Florida — as well as the District of Columbia. Below, C-Store Dive breaks down what the company’s new-state expansion looks like so far.
Wawa adding seven states to its footprint
Across a number of announcements in 2022, Wawa shared plans to expand to seven more states — Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina.
These plans leave two notable holes in its coverage area: West Virginia and South Carolina.
Sweet Home Alabama
As development plans in these new areas commenced, Wawa began a series of roadshows in targeted expansion regions to engage with community members, share information about the construction roadmaps and sample its food offerings.
The first state to get one of these roadshows was Alabama, along with the Florida Panhandle, on Feb. 3. While Wawa already has stores in Florida, with more opening through the end of 2023, this announcement was the first time the retailer committed to building in the Panhandle.
Wawa's growth in Alabama
In Alabama, Wawa’s forthcoming stores are concentrated along the Gulf Coast. Over the next decade, the company expects to build at least 40 stores in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, according to a press release.
Wawa’s first groundbreaking in Alabama is expected to happen Nov. 2 at the intersection of Cottage Hill Road and Sollie Road in West Mobile, according to local news reports.
In 2022, Wawa shared plans to open up to 20 stores in neighboring Georgia in the coming years. Its first store — reportedly coming in Waycross, about four hours south of Atlanta — is scheduled to open next year.
Wawa first released news about its plans to open in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky in December of 2022. In September, it held a three-day tour of the three states to share details about where it has specific stores in the works. Its announcements did not include specific store locations, instead listing the counties that would be welcoming new c-stores over the next few years.
Wawa heads to Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky
While the store locations are scattered, they include some major metropolitan markets in the three-state region, including Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Dayton and Louisville.
Just south of these three states, Wawa has also announced plans for up to 40 stores in Tennessee, with at least four locations at various stages of the approval process.
Ambitious growth plans in North Carolina
Last week, Wawa outlined its expansion plans for the Tar Heel State, noting it plans to build 80 stores in what it called a “first phase” of growth over the next decade.
That makes North Carolina the highest-growth target so far among Wawa’s new state expansion plans. There, the retailer will go up against national competition as well as regional players like Royal Farms.
Wawa’s first stores in the Tar Heel State
Next year, Wawa plans to open eight locations across six towns in the eastern half of North Carolina. In 2025, Wawa aims to open 15 stores followed by 10 in 2026. So far, the retailer has 30 locations in various stages of development.
Wawa broke ground on its first North Carolina store back in May, in the town of Kill Devil Hills.


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Travel laws for those with a laptop, smartphone or battery powered mobile device are once again about to get stickier, even shipments of said devices may get more expensive due to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s proposal regarding the transportation of small, battery powered devices by air.
There’s something to be said about having a physical keyboard. The recent wave of touchscreen phones are fun and all, but if you’re firing off a lot of emails, it’s just easier when you have a real QWERTY keypad in front of you. Yes, the new Palm Treo 800w from Sprint is not the prettiest […]
Look closely at this jacket because you might not want to touch it. It’s the No-Contact Jacket, and it is a battery-powered jolt-producer designed to keep women feeling safe from attackers. That little switch the model is holding triggers an 80,000-volt jolt that resonates throughout the outside of the jacket. You don’t get juiced yourself […]


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Visy has signed a 10 year lease for a 34,777sqm site in Epping, Melbourne, relocating from CPIF’s Somerton Logistics Centre. The facility will be an integral part of its supply chain from March 2021.
ESR Australia Logistics Partnership (EALP) assets now exceed $1 billion after acquiring a portfolio of 11 Assets for $302.5 million from an ESR managed closed-end investment fund.
The $211 million commitment from the Federal Government to fund increased domestic fuel storage and support Australian oil refineries is a welcome step to improving fuel security. However, industry says genuine energy security requires action on how fuel is transported to Australia and around the coast.
In the first study of its kind, Australian researchers have found significant opportunity of drone delivery services. High priority freight and personal transport will benefit from this advancing technology with improved travel times from regions to the cities.
Rose Yip, Head of E-commerce Data Analytics at Australia Post tells Brittany Coles about her online shopping market insights and how the enterprise uses the power of data and analytics to strengthen the national supply chain.
Representatives from Australian road transport and logistics industries have joined forces to launch Healthy Heads in Trucks & Sheds Foundation. It’s the first single national industry-wide approach to tackling mental health and wellbeing.
Sendle, a top-rated courier service, has raised $19 million to help small businesses manage global eCommerce demand, expand the company’s shipping network and support its accelerated growth.
Global logistics provider, CEVA Logistics (CEVA) has expanded its presence in Queensland by moving into Frasers Property Industrial’s Berrinba Logistics Park.


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Tablo device snatches over-the-air HDTV signals for free
Ottawa startup Nuvyyo crowdfunding to produce DVR-like device that streams HDTV signals caught by antennas
An Ottawa startup is aiming to give television viewers who want to cut the cord that binds them to traditional content providers the ultimate device: a digital recorder that streams and records programming from dozens of local high-definition stations that are available over the air.
Nuvyyo brought its Tablo personal digital recorder to the Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas earlier this year, attracting a lot of attention at a time when consumers are looking for alternatives to cable.
Tablo is a small DVR-like device that plugs into an over-the-air HDTV antenna and transmits the signal to any device that is connected to the Tablo or the internet. This includes iPads and other tablets, smartphones, PCs and televisions that outfitted with Apple TV or Google Chromecast.
Content can be recorded on the Tablo and viewed later or streamed live. A software interface makes it easy to find the signal you want and stream it when you want it.
There is great content out there.It’s essentially free. Everybody can pull it in- Nuvyyo CEO Grant Hall
"It's not just about the TV these days," says Nuvyyo CEO Grant Hall. "It’s really about whatever device you have and wherever you are, enabling you to enjoy that live and recorded programming wherever you want to."
An Indiegogo campaign helped pay for the first major production run of the company’s devices, which will be shipped by the end of this month.
U.S. court rejects copyright argument
All the major Canadian networks and, if you are close to the U.S. border, American networks such as CBS, NBC and Fox, are available as HD signals over the air.
"There is great content out there," Hall told CBC News. "It’s essentially free. Everybody can pull it in."
Nuvyyo’s business plan includes eventually introducing subscription fees for the Tablo service.
Consumers have been getting more and more fed up with cable and satellite subscription services, both because of their restrictive packages and their bewildering fee structures.
For these disgruntled TV watchers, having a device that enables them to cut the cord without losing access to their favourite programs, including the local news, is an attractive option.
Nuvyyo’s method of harnessing over-the-air TV is being tested in U.S. courts.
Last year, U.S. web-based broadcaster Aereo won a major court case against the TV networks, which sought to block its access to their channels, saying it was infringing on copyright. A U.S. appeals court ruled it could continue to offer over-the-air HD TV signal to consumers.
Last month the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal of a case to test whether Aereo's streaming video is indeed legal.
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In April 2008, it was announced that NASA’s Ames Research Center and Machine-to-Machine Intelligence (M2Mi) Corp partnered to develop 5G communications technology.
Fast-forward a little over a decade, and carriers have begun rolling out 5G to select cities across the nation.
Verizon Is Leading The 5G Charge
Back in April, Verizon customers were able to access the carrier's 5G network in Chicago and Minneapolis from their smartphones. On July 31, the carrier announced it launched its 5G Ultra Wideband service in four additional cities, including Atlanta, Detroit, Indianapolis and parts of Washington, D.C., joining Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis, Providence and Saint Paul.
Consumers can now access Verizon’s 5G network by purchasing one of five 5G-enabled devices -- the Galaxy S10 5G, LG’s V50 ThinQ 5G, Motorola’s Z3 or Z4 with the 5G Moto Mod, and Inseego’s MiFi M1000. There is speculation that the three iPhones expected to launch in 2020 will also offer support for 5G.
5G is the next generation of mobile broadband that aims to enhance users’ current 4G LTE connection. By offering higher speeds and lower latency connections, 5G will not necessarily replace 4G, but it will complement LTE.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of each spectrum band that is used for all technologies being deployed on 4G and beyond.
The Types Of Spectrum Bands
Low-band spectrum is being used for current generations of mobile broadbands, but it is quickly being consumed. What low-band spectrum makes up for by offering good coverage area it lacks in data speeds.
Mid-band spectrum is also being used currently for 2G, 3G and 4G. This offers better area coverage and quality with less latency issues than low-band spectrum. The drawback is it cannot penetrate walls and buildings as well as low-band spectrum.
High-band spectrum is what could be used for 5G, as the global telecoms industry continues to lobby for access. The biggest draw of 5G is, of course, is the high-speed technology; however, this also serves as the biggest challenge. While high-band spectrum offers lower latency and higher peak speeds, the challenge is that it has low coverage area and penetration is poor.
How Businesses Can Prepare For 5G
If embarking on the journey to 5G is something you are interested in, it would be beneficial to sit down with your staff now and explain to them how this will affect them.
5G will enable employees to communicate more efficiently due to the increase in internet speed. Improved communication can help lead to higher levels of productivity among your employees. Other advantages include downloading larger files at a faster rate and better internet connection quality for day-to-day tasks or conference calls.
With all of the benefits that come with 5G, there are also some concerns that businesses need to be aware of. New devices and applications will be introduced to align with the emergence of 5G. This can cause security concerns among businesses that have a BYOD policy in place. When it comes to trusting devices on your company’s network, it is imperative to make sure you know who and what device you are giving access to. This may also encourage cybercriminals to ramp up their efforts to target businesses with ransomware and malware attacks.
Will This Affect The Pre-Owned Device Market?
Gartner predicts (via ZDNet) that a majority of smartphone sales will be 5G-enabled by 2023, representing 51% of total sales.
While smartphones are at the forefront of the 5G discussion, they are not the only devices that will be 5G-enabled. Qualcomm is looking to be the first company to introduce 5G-enabled PCs. This would appeal to enterprises with hundreds and thousands of employees, and especially businesses that allow their employees to work remotely.
As technological advances in phones and computers are slow to hit the market, consumers are keeping their devices longer rather than upgrading every year. However, carriers will want to ensure their customers upgrade to the latest 5G devices to benefit from the massive rollout.
We may end up seeing carriers run trade-in promotions to entice customers to make the upgrade. Once customers are convinced to make the switch, the pre-owned device market may see a surge in devices from all the trade-ins as well.
While we may to have to wait a little longer for a majority of 5G-enabled devices to be available, it will be interesting to see if this will incentivize customers to trade-in their current device to make the jump to 5G-enabled devices.


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2017 is almost here and rumors about the iPhone 8 are starting to grow in number. In fact, at this point in time, there have already been a lot of things said about Apple's 2017 release. What's obvious as of now is that Apple might be going for a total overhaul for the iPhone 8 and stripping it off of its iconic features might be next year's thing.
iPhone 8 Rumors
As a roundup of iPhone 8 rumors, it was said that the device would sport an all-glass look, omitting the home button for good. This brings in the news that the fingerprint scanner of the iPhone 8 will be squeezed inside the device's display and its front cam will be covered in glass as well. Furthermore, there could be three models coming up and one of which will sport a curved edge-to-edge display. A faster A11 chip is also to be expected, Mac Rumors reported.
Apple's Apparent Changes For The iPhone
As of now, it's already obvious that Apple is slowly changing how the iPhone looks. First they removed the headphone jack, then through a quick update, they also removed the slide-to-open feature of the iPhones. And as per the iPhone 8 rumors, the company will also be saying goodbye to the iconic home button that Apple has always been known for. Soon enough, iPhone fans would feel that home buttons and the slide-to-unlock feature are already from a distant past.
Of course, these kinds of changes aren't exactly negative. In fact, they can be called "innovation" more than anything. However, it's just interesting to see Apple grow and embrace change without hesitations.
iPhone 8 Release Date
Apple hasn't announced anything about the iPhone 8 just yet. This means that fans can still expect the device to arrive sometime September next year, Tech Radar reported. There are gossips about an entirely different release date for the iPhone 8 for the sole reason that it is an anniversary iPhone(thus, special). Nevertheless, this is nothing but an unconfirmed rumor. So as of now, it's still safe to stick to a September expectation until Apple gives out a solid hint.


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Zain, the leading telecommunications company in Kuwait, announced the launch of the direct payment channel in Kuwait, offering customers an easy and unparalleled safe experience in online and in-store shopping.
With the latest launch of Zain’s direct payment channel, the company introduces a revolutionary application that is on par with international payment standards. Customers can perform any purchase transaction, online or in-store, by paying for their purchases via their mobile phone balance without the need of using their credit cards. A number of selected outlets already offer Zain customers the privilege of enjoying this dynamic and advanced channel and it is expected that many other outlets will be added to the list in the near future.
By introducing the direct payment channel, Zain is helping customers transact payments much faster and more easily given that the service does not require submission of any personal information or passwords.
Prepaid customers can make use of this channel by performing any purchase transaction using their current available credit, while post-paid customers can simply activate ‘Zain Pay’ by contacting a customer contact center representative on 107. ‘Zain Pay’ is a virtual solution that allows post-paid customers to acquire a rechargeable mobile balance. Customers can consequently use the balance to perform any payment transaction.
Commenting on the launch of the new payment channel, Nadia Al Saif, Zain Kuwait’s Value Added Services Director, said, “With the launch of this direct payment channel, we are giving customers a safe and simple way of performing any online or in-store transaction in the palm of their hands. Customers can simply pay for their purchases at various selected merchants directly through their phone with ease and peace of mind.” Al Saif continued, “Through the direct payment channel, customers who prefer not to use their bank cards can select Zain as the preferred payment channel as a safe alternative. Zain will soon expand the list of partnering merchants further, and the company will also be diversifying programs and services to the benefit of all customer segments, including daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly smartphone mobile subscriptions.”
Zain customers can immediately enjoy using the direct payment channel with the following selected outlets: Nokia Store, CashU, Coffee Republic, Second Cup, Coco Cabana, as well as several mobile TV streaming applications, online games, and NFC platforms.
Zain strives to offer customers the latest services and mobile solutions in the world, all with the aim of surpassing customers’ expectations. The company will continue leading the market by launching unprecedented services, products, and solutions in addition to value added services geared at maintaining its premier position in Kuwait.


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How to Save Money on Groceries. Bring This List to the Store
With the announcement that Tyson is raising meat prices 30 percent for beef and 38 percent for pork due to labor shortages, and the cost of other packaged foods is going up as well, shoppers are looking for ways to save money. Luckily there is an answer. A new study from Oxford University found that you can actually save 30 percent by eating a vegan diet, and other recent reports found that it's possible to save as much as $1,260 at the store per year by ditching meat and dairy and eating more a plant-based diet.
But how, exactly? What should you buy at the market? The myth persists that plant-based foods can be expensive — why do you think they call Whole Foods "whole paycheck," after all— but eating plant-based or vegan at least some of the time does not have to be pricy.
Yet another study in 2020 found that going meatless can save an average of $23 per week on groceries. Processed foods, like chips, cookies, and bread, can cost more than buying produce, like vegetables, fruit, legumes, as well as whole grains, nuts, and seeds, which are not only better for you and the planet but bring down the cost of your meals to under $10 per serving.
But where do you get your protein?
Plant-based sources of proteins include legumes – beans, peas, soybeans and lentils – and also tofu, seitan, and tempeh all have plenty of protein and can make up for not eating meat. Most Americans actually get more protein than they need in a day, which is .8 grams per kilogram (g/kg) of body weight. Some experts, however, recommend slightly higher amounts for plant-based diets, and people who are extremely active.
So you can aim for 9. to 1 gram of protein per kilogram of body weight, Fitness enthusiasts may also need more, closer to 1.2 to 1.4 grams per kilogram of body weight, which translates to 45 to 55 grams for a woman and 55 to 70 grams of protein per day for a man, but these numbers depend on an individual's activity level, size, age, and weight.
It's easy to get this amount of protein from a plant-based diet since just starting your day with a bowl of oatmeal is 5 grams. Add lentils and beans into your quinoa salad at lunch and you are well on your way. Meanwhile, a whole food diet is much healthier for you since unprocessed plant-based foods contain vitamins and minerals, that are powerful immune boosters, as well as fiber, calcium, and other vital nutrients – while being very low in fat.
Healthy plant-based foods also do not contain cholesterol — plants never do — so a diet rich in plant-based foods can help reduce cholesterol and even fight heart disease, including lowering your risk of stroke, cancer, hypertension, obesity, diabetes, and other deadly diseases. Plant-based diets literally save lives while saving you money.
Plant-based diets save money on healthcare
These and other healthy foods are inexpensive, especially when bought in bulk, in season, on sale, and at discount stores or farmer's markets in season. If you can grow any food or herbs, or otherwise get them for free, all the better!
One of the best sites for how to save money on each meal and serving is Broke Bank Vegan, founded by Mitch and Justine, two registered nurses who quit their jobs, sold all of their belongings, and moved to Mexico where they love to cook Mexican food with a vegan twist. Their recipes include nutritional information and how much each serving will cost you. The Beet offers hundreds of plant-based or vegan recipes that make it easy and delicious to eat vegan, save money and satisfy everyone at your table: 5 Affordable Protein-Packed Plant-Based Dinners to Cook Now.
“The key to eating vegan on a budget is simple”, according to Melissa from The Stingy Vegan, just “eat whole foods that are in season, cook at home when you can and take the time for a little bit of planning.”
If all Americans switched to vegetarianism, it would reduce health care costs by up to $223.6 billion each year according to a prior Oxford study from 2016. Worldwide, Lauren Cassani Davis writes that meat consumption costs “the global economy up to $1.6 trillion” annually and a switch to plant-based diets is estimated that it would save over 8 million lives each year. The Oxford experts detailed that widespread vegetarianism/veganism would also cut environmental costs by over half a trillion dollars annually, due to meat and dairy’s role in exacerbating climate change, air and water pollution, soil erosion, deforestation, and species extinction.
“Dietary shifts could produce savings of $700 billion to $1,000 billion [$1 trillion!] per year on healthcare, unpaid care, and lost working days, while the economic benefit of reduced greenhouse gas emissions could be as much as $570 billion”, and possibly more.
In 2018, the British saved more than £2.8 billion (the equivalent of $3.6 billion) in personal expenses simply by eating less meat. Savings would be even greater if the US, the EU, and other governments stopped subsidizing the meat, dairy, and egg industries.
Eating vegan or plant-based also results in big savings on doctor visits, medicine, surgeries, hospital stays, and lost work time and productivity since studies show that eating plant-based leads to lower incidence of various diseases and chronic conditions, including heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
Your Plant-Food Grocery List:
- Alfalfa sprouts
- Bean sprouts
- Bok choy
- Brussels sprouts
- Cabbage (Napa, Red, Savoy, etc.)
- Yellow squash
- Turnips (and turnip greens)
- Collard greens
- Corn (various)
- Onions (red, white, yellow, etc.)
- Eggplant (Asian, Italian, etc.)
- Frozen veggies (various)
- Garbanzo beans (also known as chic peas or ceci beans)
- Kale (curly, dinosaur/lacinato, etc.)
- Lettuce (various)
- Mustard greens
- Potatoes (Adirondack, Carola, Idaho, Katahdin, New, Purple Peruvian, Red Bliss, Russet, Yukon Gold, etc.)
- Squash (acorn, butternut, delicata, kabocha, spaghetti, turban, etc.)
- Snap peas
- String beans (either green beans or snap beans)
- Sweet potatoes
Legumes, Grains, Nuts and Seeds
- Beans (black, kidney, lima, navy, pinto, soy, etc.)
- Beets (and beet greens)
- Mixed Nuts (unsalted)
- Lentils (black, brown, green, orange, red, yellow, etc.)
- Rice (brown, red, white, wild, etc.)
- Bread (various)
- Chili peppers (many varieties)
- Non-dairy milk (soy, rice, almond and other nuts, oat, flax, hemp, pea, etc.)
- Pasta (various shapes and sizes)
- Peanut butter
- Spices (various)
- Tomato sauce
- Tortillas (corn, wheat, etc.)
- Blueberries (frozen or fresh)
- Lemons & Limes
Dan Brook, Ph.D. teaches sociology at San Jose State University, where he is the Faculty Advisor for the Spartan Veg Club and is a Board member of the San Francisco Veg Society.