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Stories for June 2000
Monday, June 26
The mid-June catastrophe for high-flying biotech firm MiniMed Inc. appears to be blowing over nearly as quickly as it started, with Chief Executive Alfred E. Mann saying the research report that caused the company's stock price to plummet was overblown an
Here are some practical strategies for dealing with a person we all come face-to-face with sooner or later: our banker.
Eight years ago, Rick Moat was struggling with his Santa Clarita auto body repair shop and in search of a hobby to keep busy, when one of his customers came in looking to sell $1,500 worth of garden fountain molds, mostly cracked and aging.
Many business owners and managers today express concerns with their company's banking relationship. These concerns are legitimate.
Faced with one of the biggest issues ever to confront the Northeast San Fernando Valley, three local chambers of commerce are merging in hopes of having a louder voice when it comes to the area's pending redevelopment.
A compromise proposal to build a new terminal at Burbank Airport may be stalled once again.
Frank Sinatra may have called L.A. "a lady," but I think the fabled crooner and longtime Southland resident had it all wrong. Los Angeles' essence is not that of some elegant female but her scheming opposite, a male on the make.
It hasn't been business as usual. Or maybe it's returned to business as usual, depending on how you look at it.
While mega-bank mergers are gobbling up banks all over the country, a small handful of "community banks" have been uniquely thriving in the San Fernando Valley, providing "old-school" service unique to community business.
In one of the first debates of L.A.'s 2001 mayoral race, candidates recently appeared before the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association and laid out their agendas. Recognizing the political importance of the San Fernando Valley, nearly all of them tried to p
It seems that almost every time you open your mailbox you find yet another invitation from yet another credit card company. Your eyes bug, your pulse races...you can't get to a phone fast enough to get that card activated.
THEATRES ---New Screens Create Dilemma for Theater Chainsyou renovate an eight-screen, slope-floor theater, at the end of the day, you've still got an eight-scr
Business is likely to be very good at the new AMC Theatre that just broke ground in Burbank.
Chapter 7: a "straight" liquidation bankruptcy involving an appointed trustee to sell all assets by auction or other means to pay creditors and trustee fees.
The company's retooled retail network was pumping up its sales volume, and the Westlake Village-based retailer of children's clothing, toys and accessories was expecting to raise $70 million in the initial public offering it planned for its e-commerce di
Vivendi's $34 billion takeover of Seagram Co. and its local Universal Studios Inc. operations sent the entertainment industry buzzing last week about the probable fate of Universal's current American management and other related topics.
The Los Angeles Department of Neighborhood Empowerment holds a public meeting to explain the process for creating neighborhood councils under the new city charter. Meeting runs from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at CBS Studios, 4024 Radford Ave., Studio City. Infor
The New Economy has had a major impact on the list of the San Fernando Valley's highest-paid public company executives.
NEW FACILITIES CLOSE TOO FAST TO SERVE WELFARE MOMS TRYING TO GET OFF DOLE
Dilip L. Nandwana was elected president of International Parking Design in Sherman Oaks. He will be responsible for all company operations. Nandwana was most recently managing partner and head of the firm's Oakland office.
How would you like to have the benefits of margin buying without the expense or risk of getting a margin call?
In today's "information-age" environment of internet purchasing, credit card fraud causes more financial headaches than ever before. Compiled below are twenty practical tips to avoiding credit card-related crimes being committed at your expense.
For some time now, local chambers of commerce have recognized the efficiencies of merging everything from saving on rent and salaries to the ability to attract members from a broader territory.
Banks use a variety of names for online banking services, such as PC banking, home banking, electronic banking or Internet banking. Regardless of the name, these systems offer certain advantages over traditional banking methods.
The work of most balloon artists revolves around inflated dogs, giraffes and other animals. But Drake Diamond has taken his art to another level, creating everything from balloon houses to a 40-foot airplane replica.
Larry kurzweil, head of l.a.'s biggest theme park and its citywalk mall, has been overseeing some big changes at the growing attractions
With so little office space available in the hot high-tech corridor along the Ventura (101) Freeway, landlords have no trouble finding tenants.
The state Department of Consumer Affairs recently held a poetry contest for elementary school kids to promote the smog check program and to encourage people to carpool or take public transportation to work.
In Iran, consumers are forbidden by law from owning satellite dishes. But that isn't stopping a North Hollywood businessman from shelling out millions of dollars on a for-profit satellite TV channel he's beaming into the Middle Eastern nation sort of a
Monday, June 12
entertainment earth has one of the few profitable Web retail sites out there, selling toys from 'star wars' and other hits
A coalition of local business and government officials, recognizing the vast economic potential of three new Metro Red Line stations opening on June 24, are aggressively moving to fully exploit that potential.
If the recent VentureNet 2000 investor conference in Laguna Niguel is any indication, it could be a long summer for local technology companies in search of funding.
Robinsons-May chairman robert m. soroka found himself THROWN UNWILLINGLY INTO POLITICS when the LAUSD threatened to seize his hEADQUARTERS
For much of the past quarter century, the San Fernando Valley has been treated and often thought of itself as the stepsister of Los Angeles, the butt of jokes and the place the rich and famous chose to avoid. Such resentments have been one of the key
When Ed Garnett interviews prospective employees for Amgen Inc., he has an ace in the hole.
Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. was trading at more than $100 a share in early March. Then the bottom dropped out from under tech stocks, and the Camarillo chipmaker saw the value of its shares decline 50 percent in a matter of days.
In case you hadn't noticed, yields on bank certificates of deposit are now at the highest they have been since 1995.
Lowe's HIW Inc. has purchased an 11-acre parcel in Valencia and plans to build a home improvement warehouse on the site as part of an expansion into the Southern California market.
L.A. Foods, which resells excess food from manufacturers, has over the past decade built its business from a one-man operation into one of the biggest companies of its kind in the nation, with annual revenues of $22 million.
Six years after the Northridge temblor, damage has again taken center stage this time in Sacramento, where state lawmakers are considering a bill to reopen the insurance claims process.
State Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush has come under intense scrutiny over the last month, as the state Legislature investigates allegations that he used taxpayer money from an insurance-industry quake fund for his own political purposes. With ta
The San Fernando Valley chapter of Executive Women International holds its monthly meeting at Cheers Catering Inc. The meeting starts at 6 p.m. and will be catered by Cheers, at 19431 Business Center Drive No. 1, Northridge. Information: (626) 564-4840.
Three months before Dr. Laura Schlessinger's Sept. 11 television debut, the decision to create a show around the tough-talking queen of talk radio is becoming a media firestorm.
The city Cultural Heritage Commission was unable to reach a conclusion on a bid to designate the Chase Knolls Apartments in Sherman Oaks as a historic cultural monument. The issue will now go before the L.A. City Council without a recommendation.
For most, a part-time college job means waiting tables or selling at a department store, but Jon Haim has successfully turned walking dogs into a profitable side business while he works his way through college. Five years ago, while working at Petco, Haim
Ever since buying a Studio City coffeehouse called Jennifer's last September, Mario and Shelly-Ann Martin have been trying to boost business through a series of comedy shows and spoken-word nights.
The theme park that gave the world Space Mountain, Star Tours and even Pirates of the Caribbean has a new thrill in store: a tractor.
The legislative outlook for California businesses at mid-session following the June 2 deadline for bills to pass their house of origin is looking much sunnier than the outlook of a year ago.
When the Democrats come to town in two months for their national convention, much of the public attention is going to be focused on Staples Center and a handful of public events in the downtown area.


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The retail industry wants a say in the plastic bag debate.
Richard Evans, executive director of the Australian Retailers Association, is concerned that business groups are being ignored as the Federal Government prepares to tackle the use of plastic bags.
“As the peak representative body for retail we should be consulted, as we are concerned about the level of misinformation being spread in the media about the environmental impacts of plastic bags,” Evans says.
The plastic bag issue has been under the spotlight after a leaked Federal Government report showed Australians last year used a billion more plastic bags, a rise of 40% on 2006.
South Australian Premier Mike Rann flagged legislation earlier this month that would ban retailers from giving away free plastic bags.
Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett applauded the Rann move and pledged to make non-reusable plastic bags a national issue – citing a gradual phase out of their use, although ruling out a levy.
ARA’s Evans believes that industry and consumers will ultimately foot the bill for any non-voluntary action on plastic bags.
“The Productivity Commission has already warned against the dangers of non-targeted solutions, such as bans, taxes and levies, with estimates of the economic cost approximately $1 billion. It has proposed much more targeted and effective solutions, leaving plastic bag use where it is the best option,” Evans says.
Speaking to ABC radio last week, Planet Ark co-founder John Dee urged decisive government action to counter the sky-rocketing use of plastic bags.
“The retailers have really dropped the ball in this voluntary phase out of plastic bags; they’re not doing anywhere near enough in stores to reduce plastic bag usage,” Dee says.
“The Federal Government and state governments should now be looking at either having a mandatory plastic bag charge, which we know works, or they should phase out these plastic bags altogether,” he adds.

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The famous proverb waste not want seems to not hold any weight at the Burberry corporate offices. The luxury brand destroys thousands of pieces a year without blinking.
According to a report by The New York Times Burberry burned almost 38 million worth of unsold products last year. Even worse it is estimated that they have dumped close to $120 million in the last five years.
The reason you ask? So, the pricey goods are not sold or seen being worn by the “wrong people.” Apparently, this practice is quite common in the upscale fashion community so the perceived worth of the label isn’t impacted. Maria Malone, fashion business lecturer explained it further to BBC. “They don’t want Burberry products to get into the hands of anyone who can sell them at a discount and devalue the brand.”
Naturally, the news is causing quite the uproar with shareholders and environmentalists alike prompting Burberry to address the wastefulness. John Peace, Chairman, said burning the stock is “not something we do lightly” and CFO Julie Brown stated “we take it extremely seriously.”
In the past Nike, H&M and watch brand Cartier have also been found guilty of trashing their unwanted inventory.
Via Hype Beast
Burberry Burns Millions Worth Of Unsold Clothes To Protect Brand Integrity was originally published on hiphopwired.com


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What caused Germany to become the most attractive country for cryptocurrency investments?
In Q1 2022, Coincub named Germany the most crypto-friendly nation in its guide to the top ten most crypto-friendly countries. The European country permits usage of cryptocurrencies by its long-term domestic savings sector, which is aided by its zero-tax policy on long-term capital gains from cryptocurrency and second only to the United States in terms of number of Bitcoin and Ethereum nodes.
Adoption of Blockchain
In 2019, Germany was the first to adopt a blockchain strategy to use the technology’s potential for digital transformation and help make it an attractive hub for blockchain, Web3, and metaverse development in financial services, climate science, business and government tech.
German Savings Banks joined the fray by developing fintech blockchain applications to enable consumers to buy and sell cryptocurrencies.
NFT, metaverse, Web3, govtech and crypto payment apps developed by companies such as Volkswagen, About You, SAP, BrainBot, and BigchainDB are widely used in e-commerce to purchase items.
Roundhill Investments, an ETF sponsor focused on breakthrough thematic funds, introduced the Roundhill Ball Metaverse UCITS ETF on the Deutsche Börse Xetra as Germany’s first metaverse exchange-traded fund to finance the development of these technologies.
Furthermore, the Fund Location Act of Germany allows pension funds, insurance companies, family offices, and corporate investment vehicles to invest up to 20% of their assets in digital assets.
Adoption of Crypto
Approximately 2.6% of Germans have invested in cryptocurrency as of the end of 2021. According to a recent study from KuCoin, 44 percent of Germans are interested in investing in cryptocurrencies.
Investors from Germany can get involved with crypto and blockchain via firms and platforms such as 1inch Exchange, Nuri, FinLab, Minespider, the NAGA Group, Tangany, Coindex, CryptoTax, Upvest, Fiona , Blocksize Capital etc. or they may purchase goods on Sugartrends using Dash.
Germany is one of the world’s top 10 countries for crypto mining, and it has Europe’s largest mining firm, Northern Data — which is largely fueled by environmentally friendly power. As a company, crypto mining is taxed.
With the help of fintech angel investor Christian Angermayer’s Apeiron Investment Group, Berlin-based Denario and Penta, as well as Cologne-based Nextmarket and Frankfurt-based Northern Data have all settled in Germany’s crypto capital of Berlin.
Paycer, a Hamburg-based fintech firm specializing in cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance, is working on a bridge protocol that will combine DeFi and cross-chain crypto services with traditional banking offerings.
While Forget Finance, a fintech startup based in Berlin, focuses on encouraging young people to save and invest in cryptocurrency using online coaching delivered by a combination of AI bots and real financial experts.
Central Bank Digital Currency
According to a study from the German Bundesbank, consumers’ use of cash in point-of-sale transactions has decreased from 74% in 2017 to 60% in 2020.
The EU-wide banking regulator, the Bundesbank, is currently working on distributed ledger technology asset settlements. Meanwhile, the European Central Bank has been researching and developing a CBDC known as the digital euro.
According to the ECB, recent studies conducted on behalf of the bank, based on interviews with EU citizens’ panels, have highlighted security and worldwide acceptance as key issues.
NFTs and the Metaverse
The metaverse is the next stage of Web3, with ramifications for how we communicate, socialize, work, enjoy video games, fund organizations, purchase and sell nonfungible tokens, and attend live events like concerts, sports games and conferences.
The ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe acquired a number of NFTs in 2017, considerably ahead of the craze that will start in 2021, and it is now displaying pieces from its own collection as well as private lenders on an outdoor cube-shaped screen called the “ZKM Cube.”
Regulation of Digital Assets
The German government is one of the few in Europe that has started to regulate cryptocurrencies ahead of the EU’s Markets in Crypto Assets, or MiCA, regulations.
According to Robin Matzke, a lawyer and blockchain expert who advised the German Bundestag, anyone who controls private keys on behalf of others and serves the German market must obtain a license from the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, regardless of whether they hold other similar licenses in other EU countries.
The EU’s new Transfer of Funds Regulation also has rules for “unhosted” wallets, or crypto wallets not operated by a custodian or centralized exchange. Lone Fønss Schrøder, CEO of the blockchain company Concordium, explained:
CEO of the blockchain company Concordium, Lone Fønss Schrøder, explained:
“The new draft regulations require significant changes in the way current cryptocurrency transfers are made. It may be a huge challenge for the decentralized crypto solutions that hold anonymity as a core value and are committed to peer-to-peer (P2P) and self-custody. Moreover, many projects could be held back by their community from changing their solutions.”


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GM to test fleet of self-driving Chevy Volts
Milford Township — General Motors Co. CEO Mary Barra said the company plans to be a “disruptor” in the changing auto industry, as it announced what’s believed to be an industry-first fleet of self-driving cars, as well as two U.S. car-sharing programs.
A fleet of autonomous 2017 Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrids will be made available for employees at its Warren Tech Center. Beginning late next year, they’ll be able to hop into one of the Volts and be shuttled around the campus.
Barra says the company wants to redefine the future of personal mobility, and doing so will transform the company.
“It really demonstrates a different mindset than what you might expect from the auto industry, really a Silicon Valley mindset,” she told investors and analysts Thursday at GM’s Global Business Conference. “We’re going to step things up. We’re going to experiment, we’re going to get customer input, we’re going to do it in a cost-effective way. If it works, we’re going to scale it.”
The automaker plans to use the test fleet of Volts to more quickly develop autonomous vehicles as it moves testing from professional drivers and test tracks into more real-world scenarios.
The move shows the carmaker is moving swiftly to compete with innovators such as Google Inc., which says it has logged more than 1.2 million miles of autonomous vehicle testing. Apple Inc. and Uber also reportedly are developing self-driving cars.
The Volts will interact in the real world with pedestrians, traffic and stop signs. Speeds will be limited to about 25 mph on the campus.
The test fleet will drive and park itself so a passenger could sit back and let the car find its way. But it will be equipped to allow a driver to take over at any time, GM spokesman Dan Flores said.
GM has not announced how many Volts will be in the fleet — or if all employees or just a pilot group will be able to use the cars. “We’re still in the process of working out all the details of the autonomous Volt fleet,” Flores said. “However, we’re not talking hundreds of vehicles here.”
The aim is to quicken deployment of autonomous vehicles, executives said.
“It is a tremendous opportunity for us to accelerate everything around autonomous and safety, and to do it very, very quickly,” said Mark Reuss, head of global product development, purchasing and supply chain.
Employees will be able to use the Volts to travel within the tech center campus, reserving them with a car-sharing app. Inside the Volt, they’ll be able to select a predetermined destination on the center stack.
Strategic partnerships will help launch the vehicles more quickly; the carmaker is in discussions with some potential partners, Reuss said. He said GM has “heightened” its partnership with Mobileye, which develops vision-based systems that help avoid collisions.
“We will be ready when the market demand calls for autonomous vehicles,” he said.
Just how soon that will come is questioned by industry experts, due to regulations, cost, insurance liability and other concerns. Some analysts expect to see fully autonomous cars by 2020; others say it will take at least 10 years.
Some of the advanced technology used for a fully autonomous car will be available in the near future. The carmaker confirmed its Super Cruise advanced driver-assist technology will be available on the 2017 Cadillac CT6. The technology will allow a driver to take hands off the steering wheel and foot off the pedals while driving on a highway.
Self-driving cars are seen in the long run as potentially disruptive to auto industry sales.
Barclays Capital Inc. analyst Brian A. Johnson, believes fully autonomous vehicles could cut vehicle ownership in half in the next quarter-century. That in turn could cut auto demand by 40 percent. Shared autonomous cars could displace nine regular cars, Johnson said in a note to investors earlier this year. He predicts that carmakers such as GM may have to slash production and get smaller.
As part of the changing transportation landscape, GM is exploring new modes of ownership. It has launched a car-sharing program in New York City; another citywide car-sharing program is coming to another U.S. city early next year, said Mike Ableson, vice president of strategy and global portfolio planning. GM did not identify the other city.
GM’s Let’s Drive NYC car-sharing program is available to residents of a 479-unit luxury apartment building; they receive three hours of vehicle use per month as part of their apartment rent. After that, they can rent for less than $10 an hour up to $75 a day. The fleet includes Chevrolet Trax and Equinox vehicles.
Earlier this year its Opel brand launched CarUnity, a free car-sharing smartphone app in Germany.
Car-sharing generally allows consumers to rent a car for a short period of time, perhaps just a half-hour. Ride-sharing matches people to available carpools or an Uber-like service that provides on-demand rides.
Ford Motor Co., Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV and other automakers are exploring ride-sharing efforts. The forecaster Frost & Sullivan predicts car-sharing globally will grow to 17 million customers in 2020 from 5.4 million last year.
Barra said GM wants to learn from its car-sharing programs what customer preferences are, how using the services may change driving behavior and what technology is most important.
The automaker even said it will launch an eBike concept next year as part of its strategy around alternative transportation.


text: Every season the celebrity attendance has been increasing for New York’s Fashion Week, from actresses like Kate Bosworth and Kirsten Dunst to swimming superstar Ryan Lochte. But it wasn’t till the second to last day of Fashion Week that the real star power arrived: Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. The pair surprised everyone at Wednesday evening’s Marchesa show, watching the runway intently from front row seats beside Tyra Banks. We were pretty psyched to see them there, namely because Kim was wearing an explosive feather confection while Yeezy was bravely rocking the double denim (were these two even dressing for the same event?) Then, within the hour, the pair did a costume change and showed up at the Louise Goldin show, with Kim sporting a cute varsity jacket. (Goldin, if you recall, is the British designer who helped Kanye launch his own womenswear line last year.) Kim seemed to enjoy herself, tweeting, “Marchesa show was beyond beautiful!!!!” Kanye was silent on Twitter but was no doubt singing Marchesa and Louise Goldin’s praises in ALL CAPS in his head.


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Tightrope Media Systems Enhances Digital Signage Platform with Software Release
Tightrope Media Systems has announced a new software release for its tried-and-true Carousel digital signage platform, giving its customers new tools and enhancements that keep content fresh and enrich visual appeal. The Carousel 6.4 software release supports direct Twitter and Facebook integration, simplifying how operators access and subsequently incorporate social media feeds into signage layouts. This native connection, achieved via a simple login process, also better organizes social media integration so that content remains timely.
“Social media is so natural to people today that it’s easy for most to focus in and consume that information on signage platforms,” says Eric Henry, Signage Solutions Lead for Tightrope Media Systems. “Our customers are increasingly seeking ways to ensure that their social media content is current, dynamic and well-aligned with their screen content. It creates a natural connection between consumers and the businesses or organizations that rely on digital signage as a communications platform.”
The new Carousel software release also includes visual and operational enhancements to keep screens lively and appealing. A new text character limit on Carousel bulletins eliminate screen crowding and wordy passages to retain viewers and strengthen messages. Similarly, a new web preview feature offers a quick glance at clock bulletins to ensure content is synchronized and easy to digest. Operationally, a new copy option allows for quick transfer of new bulletins to fresh templates, allowing users to create and customize layouts rich with up-to-date information.
“The new software release benefits our customers across all digital signage verticals we serve, including hospitality, transportation, sports and houses of worship,” says Henry. “These enhancements also reflect what our customers are requesting today.”


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Prognolite has gained the Innovation Foundation of the Cantonal Bank of Schwyz as lead investor for its financing round. According to a press release, the Cantonal Bank of Zurich in addition to “several experience business angels” were also involved in this process. Overall, the Winterthur-based start-up successfully raised a total of 1.25 million Swiss francs. Following this financing round, the company has been reclassified as a joint-stock company (Aktiengesellschaft), having previously operated under the legal status of a limited liability company (GmbH).
The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tool developed by Prognolite allows companies to optimize personnel planning processes and counteract food waste. The characteristics of the various players within the gastronomic industry are hugely diverse, comments Simon Michel, co-founder and CEO of Prognolite. For this reason, the fresh injection of capital is to be used to “further develop the product and align it with the requirements of additional customer groups. Moreover, we are planning further growth within the German-speaking market over the coming months”.
In this context, Urs Bischof is likely to be a great help in Germany, for example. He will be joining the Board of Directors at Prognolite. For several years, Bischof has been responsible for managing the gastronomic activities of Karstadt and Galeria Kaufhof, while has was also a Board Member of DEHOGA, the German Hotel and Restaurants Association. Prognolite has also been able to add another industry expert in the form of André Hüsler, the former CEO of the Swiss restaurant wholesalers Saviva, to its Board of Directors.
“Prognolite offers a solution that helps restaurants to realize enormous potential in personnel planning and the costs associated with this – and at the same time tackle the problem of food waste”, comments Hülser in the press release. He adds: “Especially during these challenging times, it is more important than ever for restaurants to efficiently deploy their resources”.


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In today’s highly competitive business environment, the customer experiences a brand delivers are its single biggest differentiator, outpacing even product, price and quality. In fact, Gartner found that 89 per cent of businesses compete mostly based on customer experience. This begs the question – what kinds of experiences keep consumers coming back? Today’s customers are Read More…
Marketo collaborating with Google Cloud
Fri 25 August 2017 - 9:50 amCloud | Marketing | Tech
Global marketing software and solutions provider Marketo has entered into a multi-year collaboration with Google Cloud to scale Marketo’s infrastructure in the public cloud and create integrated solutions for marketers.
The companies will work to integrate Marketo’s Engagement Platform with Google’s G Suite and data analytics, as well as leverage Google’s machine learning capabilities, so that marketers can more easily listen, learn, and engage with buyers in real-time across all digital channels. As part of the agreement, Marketo’s marketing automation products will run end-to-end on Google Cloud Platform.
“Our alliance with Google will simplify and improve how enterprises engage with their customers,” said Marketo CEO Steve Lucas.
“Marketo customers use our Engagement Platform to deliver personalized experiences, fueling revenue growth and improving brand impact, while scaling to support the demands of today’s digital landscape. This collaboration with Google takes that capability to new heights, and I’m incredibly excited about what we’ll provide together for our customers.”
Tariq Shaukat, President, Google Cloud added: “This collaboration will allow for innovation leveraging Marketo’s Engagement Platform and Google Cloud’s commitment to performance, collaboration, and data science at scale.”
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Handsome and rugged leather camera straps made in Brooklyn.Read More
Inside the new Lowercase factory, where a small team is running the only NYC-made eyewear brand.Read More
Pensa and Horse Cycles held their big reveal party for their entry into the Oregon Manifest bike build competition and, well, the bike looks totally badass. Pensa invited me in last week for a pre-reveal viewing and I left really impressed.Read More
Both the maker movement and vocational training are in theory based on working with one’s hands, engineering and problem solving. Though there’s a stigma, and has been for a long time, associated with vocational training.Read More
The Knickerbocker Mfg. Co. half pipe isn’t getting a lot of use these days. That’s a good thing.Read More
Brooklyn Grange is the darling urban rooftop farm organization of NYC. It’s been covered extensively in all sorts of media outlets (National Geographic, Al Jazeera, New York Times) and for good reason. It’s a really interesting project and one that went from an experimental to successful business pretty quickly.Read More
Food manufacturing is one of the strongest growing manufacturing sectors in NYC. That’s something we heard in our interview with Made In NYC. So it makes sense that Industry City’s most recent plan for revitalizing the giant manufacturing space in South Brooklyn includes a big push for food manufacturing.Read More
If there’s one brand that epitomizes new manufacturing in Brooklyn, it’s Outlier. The Williamsburg-based company started out by trying to solve a critical problem: a lack of a functional bike commuting clothes. And now Outlier has grown into a web-savvy retailer that designs their own highly-technical fabrics for super functional clothes that make people’s lives better, mainly by making bike commuting more comfortable.
Launched in 2008, Outlier has now expanded beyond making shirts and pants to shorts, outerwear, blazers and more, but they’ve stayed true to their core belief that clothes have to perform on the bike, and off. And today they launched the Shank Jacket, a new take on the classic denim jacket.Read More
Made In NYC is one of a few organizations in New York working to promote manufacturing in the City and link designers with factories that can produce their goods. It’s run out of the Pratt Center for Community Development and recently launched a new project called Spec It Green which is designed to help builders source sustainable and environmentally friendly building materials. Given the amount of development we see around the city, it’s pretty huge.
I went over to Pratt to speak with Josh Eichen, Business Outreach Coordinator for Pratt Center for Community Development and Made in NYC, about the changes in the City’s manufacturing landscape and what Made In NYC is up to.Read More


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The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has arrested 15 drug peddlers in Ho, in the Volta Regional, for allegedly repackaging orthodox medicines and relabeling them as herbal products.
The Volta Regional Directorate of the FDA arrested them during its post market surveillance activity on Wednesday. The seized drugs included antibiotics and aphrodisiacs.
Following the arrest, the Regional Head of FDA, Mr Gorden Akurugu, said majority of the seized products contravened the Public Health ACT 851 of 2012.
He said the peddlers were using deceit and counterfeiting to sell the sub-standard products through the market for livelihood, a sine qua non for public health disaster.
He said FDA findings revealed that “LY MPH SHAMEI”, a supposed unregistered antibiotic is being repackaged from sachets or capsules strips into small containers and given local branding such as “Joseph Herbal Capsules” with claims to cure low sperm count, syphilis and menstrual.
He said the same capsules were repackaged and rebranded as “Special Gono- Gonorrhoea.
Mr Akurugu said the peddlers repackaged a suspected “Dazipam” as sleeping tablet declaring it as “Dompe Blue Power” literally, “bone” power to relief body pains with Dexamethasore tablets serion, a strictly prescription medication for bodybuilders being sold in open market for curing many illnesses.
He said the products were counterfeits and that their action constituted a criminal act.
The suspects have therefore been handed over to the Police for further investigation and prosecution.


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Ashton Kutcher Stars in New Mysterious Teaser for Cheetos's 2021 Super Bowl Commercial
Ashton Kutcher is channeling his inner sleuth.
At the start of the short teaser clip, Kutcher walks into a dark room for a private moment before he opens up a large manilla envelope and pulls out a series of photographs. "Oh my gosh," the That 70's Show alum says as he shuffles through black and white stills of what appears to be parking garage security footage.
Then, as he pulls out one final item included in the envelope — a flat and empty bag of Cheetos's new Crunch Pop Mix — Kutcher stares in shock before the clip cuts to black. "I knew it," the actor is heard saying before the final moments of the video play.
According to a press release, fans of the cheese puff snacks and the Two and a Half Men star will have to wait until Super Bowl Sunday on Feb. 7 to learn more about the mystery involved in the clip. The release also teases that Kutcher will involve other "celebrity star power" into the "dramatic — yet mischievous — story."
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Kutcher's new Cheetos teaser comes after the brand featured MC Hammer in their 2020 Super Bowl ad.
RELATED VIDEO: MC Hammer Cheetos Super Bowl Teaser
After an 11-year hiatus, Cheetos returned to the Super Bowl commercial scene with the '90s hip hop icon for a fun advertisement. In it, viewers were taken back to Oakland in 1989 when MC Hammer was in the process of songwriting.
In the clip, the musician is seen eating a bag of Cheetos in front of a piano, but when he goes to play he realizes he can't touch the keys because his hands are covered in "cheetle" (the official name for the orange dust left on your fingers). Thus, as the legend goes, "U Can't Touch This" was born.
"We saw the Super Bowl as the only fitting place to debut our biggest product launch in a decade with Cheetos Popcorn," Rachel Ferdinando, SVP and chief marketing officer at Frito-Lay North America said at the time. "And of course, joining our mischievous brand identity in a playful way with MC Hammer was a perfect fit."


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NEW YORK — Florida Food Products has agreed to acquire Javo Beverage Co., a company that uses proprietary technology and product development processes to create coffee, tea and botanical extracts for the food and beverage industry.
Formed in 2001, Javo operates a 65,000-square-foot production facility at its headquarters in Vista, Calif., and a 240,000-square-foot facility in Indianapolis. The company offers ingredients for beverages such as ready-to-drink beverages, coffee (including cold-brew coffee), tea, alcoholic drinks and non-alcoholic and functional beverages as well as other items like dairy and dairy alternatives, baked foods, desserts, savory items, ice cream, and novelties.
“Javo’s best-in-class products are supported by a talented team and unique manufacturing capabilities that will drive a series of innovative new product launches,” said Jim Holdrieth, chief executive officer of FFP, Eustis, Fla. “As part of the FFP family, we’re confident that Javo can offer our customers compelling new solutions that build on our deep portfolio of clean label ingredients.”
The companies anticipate the transaction will close in the third quarter. Terms were not disclosed.Ardian, a private investment company, in 2021 acquired a majority stake in FFP from MidOcean Partners and established a new partnership that has gone on to acquire Comax Flavors and T-Bev Inc. Over the past year FFP has doubled its revenue, now approaching $300 million.


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Melissa Waters joined Instagram as global vice president of marketing, responsible for leading brand and product marketing.
Waters had been chief marketing officer at health, wellness and fitness startup Hims & Hers.


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Medprint 2011 to stage a debate over innovation,
essential for the graphic arts industry
Vincenzo Boccia comments on his appointment as president of the exhibition taking place at Fiera di Roma from March 16th to 19th 2011
Medprint 2011, the exhibition dedicated to the printing, publishing and paper converting industry in the Mediterranean area will have a highly esteemed president.
Vincenzo Boccia, co-owner of Artigrafiche Boccia Spa – one of the most successful printing companies in southern Italy headquartered in Salerno – accepted Centrexpo Spa’s appointment to the presidency of the exhibition, set to attract the interest of the entire central and southern Italian graphic arts and printed communication market.
Mr. Boccia currently holds offices of primary importance within Confindustria as National Vice President and President of Small-Scale Industries, with responsibility over credit and financial matters for small and medium-size companies.
"Innovation is a strategic factor of crucial importance for our sector – remarks Mr. Boccia commenting on his appointment -: Medprint has a key role in staging and encouraging the comparison between new products marketed by machinery and technology manufacturers and the expectations of a large public of end-user. Choosing the right technology to invest in indeed makes the difference between growing and being left out of the market, especially in such a rapidly evolving sector as graphic arts – emphasizes Mr. Boccia -. At the same time, for companies developing and producing technology Medprint represents a vital opportunity to confront with the rising expectations and need for innovation of the market".
Medprint is now at its fifth edition and will be staged at the new Fiera di Roma for the second time.
From March 16th to 19th 2011 the exhibition will showcase the state of the art of the innovation for the printing sector, both offset and digital; in particular, the digital printing segment will have its own dedicated area called Digitvision@Medprint.
Medprint will be backed by events of great resonance, including the Creativity Day featuring workshops, conferences on case histories and experiences connected to communication and digital art and an international convention on copyright in digital communication promoted by CNA-Graphics, Communication and Advanced Tertiary.
For all updates on the organization, exhibitor list and side events please visit www.medprint.it.
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In honor of Women’s History Month, Buzzard’s Roost Whiskey and the Bourbon Women Foundation teamed up for a raffle to support women in the industry with education, leadership training and mentorship.
Buzzard’s Roost donated two bottles of its ultra-rare 15-Year-Old Bourbon for a special raffle that started March 8th, which is International Women’s Day. Two winners will be drawn on Instagram Live on Wednesday, March 16th. Raffle tickets are $50 each and can be purchased from the Bourbon Women Foundation website.
“We are very excited to donate these two priceless bottles to the Bourbon Women Foundation,” said Buzzard’s Roost co-founder and CEO Judy Hollis Jones in a prepared statement. “As an owner of a whiskey company, I am always eager to help other women succeed in this challenging business.”
There are only 12 bottles of Buzzard’s Roost 15-Year-Old Bourbon in existence, and they will be available exclusively through charity raffles and auctions. A bottle donated to the Kentucky Distiller’s Association auction to benefit tornado relief in Western Kentucky sold for $3,500 in December.
“We are so grateful to Buzzard’s Roost for these two exciting bottles,” said Bourbon Women Foundation Chair Regina Quick. “We expect these ‘unicorn’ bottles to drive a lot of interest, with each ticket sale helping our Foundation in its mission to support women in the spirits industry.”
Buzzard’s Roost Sipping Whiskey focuses on what the brand says is treating barrels in deliberate ways to achieve rare and exceptional flavors. Buzzard’s Roost is woman-owned and led, and is currently distributed throughout KY, MA, Ohio and NM with more states coming soon.
The Bourbon Women Foundation, a 501c non-profit, was launched in December of 2021 to help develop new women leaders in the spirits industry. Through leadership training, mentorship programs and professional development opportunities, the Bourbon Women Foundation is dedicated to supporting women from all walks of life in the spirits industry.
For more information, check out www.buzzardsroostwhiskey.com/home.


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It’s the moment that American fans of Derek Landy’s best-selling Skulduggery Pleasant series have been waiting for: the full series is finally going to be published in the United States, with the first three books – Skulduggery Pleasant, Playing With Fire and The Faceless Ones – set to become available in bookstores as early as May 2018.
Derek Landy himself announced the news in a series of tweets (starting with this one) on his personal Twitter page, stating that ‘in May, we’ll be re-releasing the first three in the States with brand new covers, and by the end of the year, all nine will be available’. After all, the first three Skulduggery Pleasant books had previously been released in the United States, but due to poor sales and a lack of fans at the time of their publication, the rest had not followed suit – until now.
Pictured below, the ‘brand new covers’ for the first three Skulduggery Pleasant books are simplistic, colourful, and drastically different to any of the series’ previous cover designs that have come before them. In his tweets, Landy explains that there are a ‘number of reasons’ for this drastic change in cover style, but that it is mainly down to the fact that ‘markets are different, and you’ve got to appeal to young readers and not scare away their parents who might think the book is unsuitable’.
As such, it can be expected that the rest of the books in the series will have equally stylised and minimalistic covers. Although the release dates of these later books are currently unknown, they are guaranteed to be this year according to Landy’s tweets, and the preorder pages for Skulduggery Pleasant, Playing With Fire and The Faceless Ones on the HarperCollins website all state their simultaneous release date: May 1st, 2018.
More information about the re-release of the first three Skulduggery Pleasant titles in the United States and details about how to preorder them can be found on HarperCollins’ official Skulduggery Pleasant sub-site. It is here that details about the rest of the series and their publication dates, their cover designs and their prices, will probably be posted, so be sure to check back there every-so-often to see if there have been any developments. It’s probably a good idea to follow Derek Landy on Twitter, too, as he posts regularly on there and hasn’t used his official blog for over a year now.
What do you think of the new American Skulduggery Pleasant book covers? Are you excited to finally see the rest of the series published in the United States? Let us know in the comments below, and be sure to follow us here at PixelTome over on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram in order to stay up-to-date with the latest Skulduggery Pleasant news.


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The London-based firm’s ‘Small but Mighty’ campaign, which launched last week, emphasises that size does not determine strength. Perfect Colours will invite companies in the sector to test-drive the L310 for two weeks to experience the machine first-hand.
“Getting a company to do a live demonstration is an idea that I’ve had for a long time. The reason I wanted to do it is because while the L310 is selling well, to sell more of this product it really needs to appeal to the small business guys,” said sales director Jon Telling.
“So I wanted to find a mechanism to try and appeal to them because they’re mostly Roland and Mimaki type companies that haven’t been great buyers of latex. So I thought that if I could find a great small business that would be willing to do the trial and publicise that, people could see that these machines can work for small businesses as well.”
The campaign compares the Latex L310 with animals that exhibit strong abilities. Telling said that the L310's throughput makes it industrious like the ant, its output is durable and versatile like the rhinoceros beetle and it can enable smaller businesses to win sizeable jobs, like the eagle.
Hertfordshire-based vehicle wrapping specialist Bigger Stickers is the first firm to take part in the trial and director James Deacon will document his experience with the Latex L310 on his blog, Walking On The Wild Side.
“Bigger Stickers started its trial last week and James has given us loads of feedback already on jobs that he’s run – how it works and how the RIP and the software was to use,” said Telling.
The 1.2m HP Latex L310, which costs £10,000 and is supplied with the SAI FlexiPrint RIP, has a maximum output speed of 48sqm/hr, or 1,200dpi in two-pass billboard mode. It uses HP’s 831 latex ink and runs off two standard three-pin plugs, going from power-up to production readiness in two minutes.
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The cost of imported goods looks set to rise after State House reached a deal with industrialists to increase import levies and reduce duty on raw material shipped in to support local manufacturing.
President Uhuru Kenyatta has approved a long-standing proposal by manufacturers to exempt raw materials and machinery from the Import Declaration Fee (IDF) and Railway Development Levy (RDL) which are currently at 2.5 per cent and 1.5 per cent of imported goods respectively.
Treasury secretary Henry Rotich is expected to report the new rates to State House tomorrow (Friday) to be included in the Finance Bill — which contains proposals for new taxes to fund government operations for the year starting July. “CS Treasury to undertake analysis and review of IDL and RDL on finished goods so their removal on industrial inputs and machinery is revenue neutral,” the president’s meeting with the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (Kepsa) resolved. “NT (National Treasury) to report on the new rates on finished imports to be included in the Finance Bill and report by Friday, 18, May.”
The Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) has proposed that the IDF on finished goods be increased to 3.5 per cent from the present 2.5 per cent, while RDL, introduced in 2013 to support heavy investment in the railway network, be doubled to three per cent.
The move sets the stage for commodity price increases including fuel, food, cars and second-hand clothes, with the potential effect of eroding the purchasing power of households.
Increased levies will hit consumers because Kenya is a net importer and relies on foreign supplies, majority of which are bought as ready-made products. Kenya’s imports stood at Sh1.725 trillion last year compared to exports of Sh530 billion.
The two levies — Import Declaration Fee (IDF) and Railway Development Levy (RDL) — generated taxes of about Sh69 billion last year based on imports of Sh1.725 trillion. “The government needs to address competitiveness urgently because when you look at Kenya in terms of global benchmarks, cost levels are at least 10 per cent higher,” KAM vice chair Sachen Gudka said in an interview.
“We need to address that cost imbalance because foreign investments will only flow into countries that have the lowest cost of production.”
The discussion on removal of IDF and RDL on raw materials was earlier disclosed by Industrialisation secretary Adan Mohamed in February.
Kenya is a signatory to the World Trade Organisation’s Trade Facilitation Agreement of 2013, commonly known as Bali Agreement, binding her to reduce barriers which may hinder growth in global trade.


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Qualitel Receives Service Excellence Award for Highest Overall Customer Satisfaction
Qualitel is pleased to announce it has been awarded Circuits Assembly’s 2019 Service Excellence Award for highest overall customer service among electronics contract manufacturers with $20 to $100 million in annual sales. Circuits Assembly is one of the industry’s leading magazines for surface mount and electronics assembly technology. The award was announced on January 29, 2019, during a ceremony at the IPC APEX EXPO in San Diego.
The award is especially meaningful because it is based strictly on customer satisfaction surveys. As stated by editor-in-chief Mike Buetow: “This is the only recognition program in the industry where participants are judged solely by their own customers.”
This award from Circuits Assembly magazine demonstrates Qualitel’s commitment to service and quality that is reflected through the satisfaction of our clients.


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Without a senior leader focused on building Yahoo as a destination for premium content -- and original video in particular -- the firm risks that side of its business continuing to slide.
After stints at CNN, NBC, CBS and ABC, maybe Katie Couric is going to Yahoo because there is simply nowhere else to go. While reports Friday suggesting Couric is exiting her ABC News deal a year…
Now that she's been booked for a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer should look to it as an opportunity to present a different side to her than what…
Continuing their march of worldwide promotional domination, “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” star Jennifer Lawrence and director Francis Lawrence joined Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer on November 6 for a…
With the launch of its fall comedy programming lineup Monday, Yahoo also released a mobile video app and announced a deal with Viacom's Comedy Central to license clips from “The Daily Show with Jon…
The next CEO of Microsoft will have one tough question to answer: What is Microsoft these days?
Sony Pictures Entertainment has tapped crisis PR pro Charles Sipkins as its new senior communications executive. Sipkins, who most recently served as a managing director for Sard Verbinnen, will fill…
In its most aggressive bet yet in original online video, Yahoo will launch eight shortform comedy series Sept. 9.
Ross Levinsohn, CEO of Guggenheim Digital Media, said he was disappointed his company didn't end up getting its hands on Hulu -- but that he wasn't surprised the triumvirate of media congloms that…
Yahoo is repurchasing 40 million shares stock from Third Point, the hedge fund run by Daniel Loeb, who will resign from the Internet company's board along with two other directors July 31 with the…
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"Touring and performing takes a lot out of me," Gaga said in a press conference. "But it takes even more out of my fake hair. I created Gaga Goo-Goo for real people who love to wear wigs as much as I do."
After undergoing more than a year of development, Gaga Goo-Goo is set to launch next month. But you won't be able to buy it at just any old store. In a feat of marketing synergy, Lady Gaga plans to team up with her "Telephone" duet partner for retail sales. "It just makes sense, since she's opening her own lifestyle boutique," Gaga explained. "Soon, you'll be able to purchase my wig gel at Bed, Bath & Beyoncé." For now, fans can preorder online at an introductory price of $16.95. Think you'll check it out?


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The South Korean government is considering imposing tougher regulations, including a unified listing standard, on all cryptocurrency exchanges in the country following the collapse of
A crypto investor has been arrested after knocking on Do Kwon’s door following the collapse of cryptocurrency terra (LUNA) and stablecoin terrausd (UST). He lost
Three members of Terraform Labs’ legal team have left the company, according to their Linkedin profiles that show their departure from the firm this month.
Just recently, the product comparison platform finder․com polled 36 fintech specialists about the cryptocurrency terra (LUNA) before terrausd (UST) lost its parity with the U.S.
On Friday, the value locked in decentralized finance (defi) protocols dropped to a low of $110.35 billion after there was more than $200 billion total
Digital currency markets have continued to slide downward in value as the crypto economy has dropped by 14% during the past 24 hours. Amid the
As crypto markets continue to slide in value, concerns about the algorithmic stablecoin terrausd (UST) losing its $1 parity have swelled in recent times. Two
Following the governance vote that aimed to implement a semi-dynamic earn rate for the Anchor Protocol, the decentralized finance (defi) platform’s earn rate adjusted downward
The stablecoin economy has grown during the last month as the market capitalization is now only $10 billion away from reaching the $200 billion mark.
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Total sales and operating profit growth of India's top 10 listed consumer companies such as HUL, ITC, Dabur, Titan and Asian Paints have declined considerably in the past year and the trend could well continue for the next couple of quarters at least as the slowdown and high inflation force consumers to cut back on spending.
It is not just sales growth, but also operating profit which has been on continuous decline over the past six quarters. Sales growth for the December 2013 quarter for India's top 10 companies was 8.6% compared with 17.7% a year ago, while operating profit grew at 11.8% compared with 18.4% last year.
According to Nielsen, a global firm which provides data and information services, the consumer industry is growing at mid-single digit. "The overall slowdown has started to trickle down to the consumer segment. Some of the categories are witnessing negative growth. Soaps and home insecticides industries have declined in the last quarter," said Vivek Gambhir, managing director of Godrej Consumer Products.
"Clearly, there is a very significant slowdown in market growth both in volume and value. Market growth in the next few quarters will continue to remain slow. That's a sense we have and it is possible that it may be there for another couple of quarters," said R Sridhar, chief financial officer, HUL.
So, is the strong out-performance of consumer companies over the last few years ebbing? Given the weak quarter-on-quarter performance of these companies and keeping in mind the fact that it is an election year, the prospects of a rebound appear weak.
"From 2005, the FMCG sector out-performance has been very strong, primarily due to strong rural growth, which was built on strong government initiatives and spending. But going ahead, such a rate of growth in spending will be tough to maintain whichever government comes," says Ritwik Rai, consumer analyst, Kotak Securities.
Buttressing this is the fact that the latest financials of these companies have been very disappointing with earnings growth far lower than expectations.
Stock indices data for the two years when national polls were last held in 2004 and 2009 shows that the consumer index has under-performed the broader markets in both election years. In election year 2004, the BSE FMCG Index under-performed the Sensex by 18% and in 2009, the index under-performed the Sensex by 36%.
Despite the weak performance of consumer companies, institutional holding in such companies has remained high almost same a compared to previous year increasing the redemptio n risk.
This has kept the valuation multiples of these companies high, at close to 35-40, bucking the underlying growth slowdown. "It is unlikely that these valuations will expand further. There is already a slowdown in earnings growth and we are witnessing a shift in opinion," says Dhirendra Tiwari, head of research, Antique Stock Broking.


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Fortnite characters have always managed to come up with new and intriguing looks. And with season five in action, they have launched two new NPCs in the game. The players are wondering about what they are and also looking forward to collect them. These two new NPCs are designated as 43 and 44. in the game. In this season there are a notable number of NPs appearing in the map when the season began. And after that even more were added. Finding these NPCs is an exciting part of the game for many players. And they have been curious aboutWhere Are The New NPCs in Fortnite ?
Where Are The New NPCs in Fortnite ?
These NPCs are not yet released in the game. And due to this obviously, trying to find them on the maps is going to be useless. Currently the two slots are only allotted to the NPCs to secure their designations in the game. There is no confirmed date when they will be out in the field, but are expecting this soon. We are hoping for these two new character to be equally unique as the other NPCs. Also there is a chance that the NPCs will have Valentines inspired looks since the day is fast approaching.
Rumours suggest that the NPC 44 has a look inspired from Lovely skin that was released for the nintendo switch. The male version of the lovely skin is the Cuddle king. And it surely fits well with the valentine’s theme. Currently there are no clues about what these NPCs are going to look like or how and where the players will be able to find them. But we expect them to be released as soon as possible.
For more such updates stay tuned with Gamestanza.
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IG: Stolen state laptops offered for sale on Facebook
ALBANY - Criminal masterminds, they were not.
A state worker was arrested Monday and charged with stealing 51 new laptop computers from state storage facilities, which started a chain of sales that brought them to a Queensbury, Warren County, computer store, where they were sold at retail.
Here's where the alleged criminal incompetence came into play: The HP and Dell laptops, which were brand new and matched the specifications of the missing state-owned computers, were advertised for sale on a pair of public Facebook pages, including an "online garage sale" page with more than 14,000 members, according to state Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott's office.
Bryan Baker, 46, a Saratoga County resident who works in the state Office of Information Technology Services, was charged with grand larceny and official misconduct. William Shouse, 47; Larry Bishop, 39; and Terra Wedman, 36, were all charged with criminal possession of stolen property; The three Queensbury residents are all accused of purchasing and selling the stolen laptops.
“For the better part of a year this criminal ring used a State employee’s position and access to systemically steal valuable laptop computers from taxpayers and brazenly advertise them on Facebook for sale at a Warren County computer store,” Leahy Scott said in a statement.
All four defendants were arraigned Monday and are presumed innocent as court proceedings continue.


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BitTorrent has released a new app to share byte-heavy content like long videos and batches of photos between various mobile devices without ever having to make a detour at the cloud. Just like all things BitTorrent, this app is all about preserving your privacy. Content will go directly between mobile devices, bypassing the cloud entirely to keep anything shared beyond the reach of prying eyes (or a police warrant). The interface is incredibly simple. Choose to send files from your mobile device and Shoot creates a convenient QR code, granting recipients access with a quick scan.
Shoot aims to make it easier for users to share memories no matter what device they are using. Admit it, there are more hurdles to sharing large files when one person is using Android and the other is on iOS. Prior to Shoot, people could use BitTorrent’s P2P file sharing app, Sync, to set up folders and sync files. Its layout is similar to Dropbox or Google Drive. While Sync gets the job done, Shoot appears to be much more user-friendly and instantaneous.
The moniker cleverly lends itself to being used as a verb. “Let me Shoot it to you,” is snappier than, “Let me set up a Google Drive folder.” BitTorrent says the app was developed for spontaneity. That, combined with its simplicity might generate a niche market in party-goers too drunk to fumble with anything more complicated.
The service will run users a one-time fee of $1.99. BitTorrent is letting people try Shoot before they buy it. You can send three batches of photos or videos before buying Shoot. Receivers never have to pay for the service; they simply need the app installed on their mobile device.


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At a time when Lalu Prasad Yadav is facing criticism from his political opponents for stoking a controversy saying Hindus too eat beef, the senior RJD leader Raghuvansh Prasad Singh created another furor claiming, that ‘rishis’ and ‘maharishis’ used to consume beef .
Raghuvansh Prasad Singh on Saturday said that in Vedas it is mentioned that ‘rishis’ and ‘maharishis’ used to consume beef.
“I don’t understand the point of making it so much of a big deal. Vedik scriptures are evident of Hindu saints and sadhus eating beef in ancient times,” he said.
The veteran RJD leader went on to say that the consumption of beef reduced with the rise of Buddhism and it was the latter that advocated against cow slaughter.
Prasad, however, claimed that beef does not mean ‘gomans’ (cow meat) and those who eat meat do not differentiate between ‘gomans’ and goat meat.
“Those who eat meat are not sabhya (civilised) people. Poor people eat beef to beat their hunger… Those who go outside (the country) eat beef. Even Hindus eat beef. There is no difference between beef and goat meat,” he told reporters.
Meanwhile, condemning Singh’s remarks, BJP leader Giriraj Singh said that the ‘whole clan of RJD has gone mad.’ “I am very much hurt by hearing this statement of Raghuvansh Prasad.
“I think Lalu and his party leaders are making these kinds of statements just for the sake of votes. I think the whole clan of RJD has gone mad,” he added.


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Lithia Motors, Inc. (LAD) Bonds Trading 0.7% Higher
An issue of Lithia Motors, Inc. (NYSE:LAD) debt rose 0.7% as a percentage of its face value during trading on Friday. The high-yield debt issue has a 5.25% coupon and will mature on August 1, 2025. The debt is now trading at $103.06 and was trading at $102.50 one week ago. Price changes in a company’s debt in credit markets often predict parallel changes in its share price.
LAD has been the subject of a number of recent analyst reports. Jefferies Group LLC restated a “buy” rating and issued a $115.00 price objective on shares of Lithia Motors in a research note on Wednesday, June 28th. BidaskClub raised Lithia Motors from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Wednesday, July 5th. Seaport Global Securities initiated coverage on Lithia Motors in a research report on Wednesday, June 14th. They set a “neutral” rating on the stock. Morgan Stanley dropped their price target on Lithia Motors from $115.00 to $106.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, June 9th. Finally, Zacks Investment Research raised Lithia Motors from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating and set a $121.00 price objective on the stock in a report on Wednesday, August 23rd. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have issued a hold rating, four have given a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. Lithia Motors currently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $112.00.
Lithia Motors, Inc. (NYSE:LAD) traded up 0.98% on Friday, hitting $110.47. The stock had a trading volume of 200,649 shares. Lithia Motors, Inc. has a 1-year low of $75.85 and a 1-year high of $110.79. The firm has a market capitalization of $2.76 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 13.32 and a beta of 1.73. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $103.31 and its 200 day moving average is $94.56.
Lithia Motors (NYSE:LAD) last posted its earnings results on Friday, July 28th. The company reported $2.28 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.23 by $0.05. Lithia Motors had a return on equity of 21.66% and a net margin of 2.26%. The company had revenue of $2.47 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.45 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $1.96 earnings per share. Lithia Motors’s revenue was up 15.6% on a year-over-year basis. On average, equities research analysts predict that Lithia Motors, Inc. will post $8.62 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, August 25th. Stockholders of record on Friday, August 11th were issued a dividend of $0.27 per share. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, August 9th. This represents a $1.08 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.98%. Lithia Motors’s dividend payout ratio is presently 13.01%.
In other Lithia Motors news, CEO Bryan B. Deboer sold 316 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Monday, June 12th. The stock was sold at an average price of $97.19, for a total transaction of $30,712.04. Following the sale, the chief executive officer now directly owns 113,867 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $11,066,733.73. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. Also, CEO Bryan B. Deboer sold 11,514 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, June 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $96.76, for a total value of $1,114,094.64. Following the sale, the chief executive officer now directly owns 102,353 shares in the company, valued at $9,903,676.28. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last quarter, insiders have sold 236,700 shares of company stock valued at $23,887,068. Company insiders own 7.85% of the company’s stock.
Several large investors have recently bought and sold shares of LAD. BlackRock Inc. grew its position in shares of Lithia Motors by 152,203.5% during the 1st quarter. BlackRock Inc. now owns 2,901,382 shares of the company’s stock valued at $248,504,000 after acquiring an additional 2,899,477 shares during the period. Victory Capital Management Inc. grew its position in shares of Lithia Motors by 139.5% during the 2nd quarter. Victory Capital Management Inc. now owns 955,783 shares of the company’s stock valued at $90,063,000 after acquiring an additional 556,684 shares during the period. Harbour Capital Advisors LLC grew its position in shares of Lithia Motors by 6,308.0% during the 2nd quarter. Harbour Capital Advisors LLC now owns 383,516 shares of the company’s stock valued at $4,070,000 after acquiring an additional 377,531 shares during the period. Aberdeen Asset Management PLC UK acquired a new stake in shares of Lithia Motors during the 2nd quarter valued at about $32,031,000. Finally, Koch Industries Inc. acquired a new stake in shares of Lithia Motors during the 2nd quarter valued at about $201,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 98.47% of the company’s stock.
About Lithia Motors
Lithia Motors, Inc is an operator of automotive franchises and a retailer of new and used vehicles and related services. As of February 28, 2017, it offered 30 brands of new vehicles and all brands of used vehicles in 154 stores in the United States and online at Lithia.com, DCHauto.com and CarboneCars.com.
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Mobile phones using Google's Android operating system have outsold Apple's iPhone in the US for the first time, according to new research, as the battle between two of the biggest American technology firms to dominate the mobile web steps up a gear.
The iPhone revolutionised the mobile phone industry when it appeared three years ago, but fearful of being squeezed out of the mobile internet market, Google quickly hit back with its own software platform called Android.
Despite a shaky start when the first device, the G1, went on sale more than a year after the iPhone launched, Google's platform has gone from strength to strength with a slew of new handsets, some of which have been received favourably compared with the latest version of Apple's flagship device.
Mobile phones using Android now make up the second most popular category of smartphone in the US, according to market research by the NPD Group. The market for phones that can send emails, access the web and download applications is still dominated by the BlackBerry, made by Canada's Research In Motion and a brand which last year celebrated its 10th birthday, but Android is closing the gap. BlackBerry devices accounted for 36% of the smartphone market in the first quarter of the year, according to NPD, while Android devices had a 28% share and the iPhone 21%.
But Google is unlikely to have the upper hand for long. Apple is expected to unveil its new 4G iPhone at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco next month, and it will be upgrading its mobile phone software so that existing iPhones can run more than one "app" at a time – one of Android's current selling points.
The NPD survey follows news from the retail watcher GfK last month, which showed that almost one in five smartphones now sold in the UK uses Android. GfK, whose pronouncements about the retail industry are pored over by City analysts, said Android handsets accounted for 12.3% of all phones sold to customers signing up for a long-term mobile phone contract in the week ending to 18 April – compared with just 3% of the market in the last week of March.
The reason for the rise in Android's market share on both sides of the Atlantic is the increased number of devices that use the software. In the UK, for instance the HTC Desire – which is ranged by four of the five UK networks – has been selling well since its recent launch, while Sony Ericsson has been heavily marketing the Xperia X10. In the US, meanwhile, Motorola scored a big hit with the Droid, which was backed by a massive advertising campaign from its network partner Verizon Wireless. But its UK version, called the Milestone, has so far failed to find a major network partner, while its previous Android device – the Dext – is only sold by Orange.
The survey will cheer Google as sales of its first own-branded Android device – the Nexus One, made by HTC – have disappointed analysts in the US since it was launched at the start of the year. In March Goldman Sachs slashed its estimate for Nexus One sales this year from 3.5m units to just 1m worldwide. Vodafone started selling the device in the UK last month and ran out of stock within days despite the network already stocking the HTC Desire, which has been widely seen as a better phone.
NPD said the market in the US has been buoyed by promotions, especially from Verizon Wireless, in which Vodafone is a minority shareholder, as it looked to compete with AT&T, which has the iPhone under an exclusive deal.
In the three months to end March, AT&T grabbed 32% of the smartphone market, according to NPD's Mobile Phone Track, followed by Verizon Wireless with 30%, T-Mobile with 17% and Sprint with 15%. The news is disappointing for T-Mobile as it was the original launch partner for Google in the US for the first Android device, the G1, which arrived in September 2008.News of Android's success came as O2, Orange and Vodafone announced pricing plans for Apple's latest gadget, the iPad, which can access the web using wi-fi or 3G mobile phone networks and will be available in the UK later this month.


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Call them “Desperate Husbands” — men who wait until the last minute to go Christmas shopping. Men who wear procrastination as a badge of honor.
Girlie men shop online or visit the mall in November, wrap their presents and stash them in the closet.
Real men put off shopping until Dec. 24.
Because men don’t shop. They buy. They are goal-oriented. And what they end up buying is jewelry.
Diamond jewelry, to be exact. Square-shaped or pear-shaped, from Harry Winston to Wal-Mart, from Tiffany’s to Target, the most dangerous place to be on Christmas Eve is between a desperate husband and a jewelry counter.
“We have men rolling up at 3:30 on Christmas Eve,” said Katie Mulcahy, manager of the Old Town Alexandria jewelry store Mystique. “They know exactly what they want. We love that. They’re easier to sell if they’re desperate.”Men, she explained, do not have a Plan B. Most likely, in the most dire cases, say five minutes before the store’s closing, they will buy up rather than down. “A lot of times you can guilt them into spending more,” she said. Because at that point, the only alternative is a Chia Pet from the 7-Eleven.
Mystique rakes in at least one-third of its annual sales in the four days before Christmas, Ms. Mulcahy said. “I’m sure it’s the same all across the country,” she said. “Men put off Christmas shopping until the last minute. It’s like homework for them.”
At the Tiny Jewel Box on Connecticut Avenue in Washington, where earrings, bracelets and necklaces range from $500 to $50,000, a group of regular male Christmas procrastinators compete to see which one can make the final purchase on Christmas Eve.
“The desperate come in on December 24, and they’ll fight each other,” said saleswoman Maggie Hayns, staring down at the sparkling bounty in the store’s display case. “It’s crazy.”
“Men always shop late,” said Terry Chandler, head of the Diamond Council of America. “It’s the nature of the beast.”
Diamond sales are up — U.S. diamond jewelry sales rose 8.2 percent in 2004 to $31.5 billion.
Mr. Chandler, who operated 12 retail stores for the past 20 years, said he has a theory about why men wait until the final buzzer.
“If men are buying something that is not practical, they put it off for as long as they can. And jewelry is not practical.”
Holiday shopping is a pressure-filled experience for the desperate husbands.
“Some men resent it,” said Jim Rosenheim, chief executive officer of the Tiny Jewel Box. “They have a resistance to demand. Others just want to get off the hook. And we’re lazy.”
Some wives shop early in the month for the “bling” they want, then tell the jeweler to hold the item until their husbands come in. Others, like former “Wonder Woman” actress Lynda Carter, expect their husbands to read their minds.
So there was Washington lawyer Robert Altman on Friday afternoon, standing in front of a jewelry case at the Tiny Jewel Box, eyeing a pair of diamond drop earrings for his actress wife.
“She did not pick out something,” he said.
So it’s a surprise? Mr. Altman hesitated. “It’s not entirely a surprise. It would be a surprise if I don’t pick out something.”
He wore a leather jacket and chatted with Mr. Rosenheim, who said Mr. Altman was an old friend and a regular customer.
“Men’s egos are much more fragile than womens,’ ” said Mr. Rosenheim, who is working his 47th year at the Connecticut Avenue jewelry shop. “Men don’t want to make a mistake.”
His favorite Christmas memory involves several alpha-male deadline junkies who wound up at the store late on Christmas Eve one year. They were all lawyers in the communications industry, and as it turns out, were adversaries in a large lawsuit involving a technology company. Most importantly, they had all been to a Christmas party and were full of imported cheer.
The lawyers recognized one another and began looking over the jewelry. There was a sense of camaraderie — a feeling that they had more in common than they realized, haggling over depositions and filings.
“They ended up huddling together,” Mr. Rosenheim said, “and in fact solved their case in the middle of the store.”


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After all of the backlash Facebook has received in the past couple of years, it appears that Facebook is finally giving users more control. Last week, Facebook announced a series of tools to help both users and advertisers customize and control what they see and what they do not see on their news feeds.
User will be able to increase or reduce the amount of content they see from friends and family, as well as the groups, pages, and topics they are connected to. Existing controls like 'Favorites,' 'Snooze,' 'Unfollow,' and 'Reconnect' will also be easier to access. Facebook said it will begin testing the changes in the coming weeks with a small percentage of people in countries around the world.
What does this mean for advertisers?
For advertisers, Facebook announced a “topic exclusion” control allowing them to select a specific topic to help define how Facebook will show an ad on its platform. Topics include “News and Politics,” “Social Issues,” and “Crime and Tragedy.” By selecting one or more of these topics, advertisers’ ads will not be delivered to people engaging with those topics in their news feed.
Early testing shows advertisers who excluded “News and Politics” avoided adjacency to the topic 94% of the time. Those who excluded “Crime and Tragedy” avoided adjacency to the topic 99% of the time. That same percentage also applied to those who excluded “Social Issues.”
This comes as a response to advertisers’ concerns that their ads are appearing alongside incompatible content. Facebook wants to provide advertisers control over the content their ads appear next to. These news feed control changes will launch in 2022, as updates are set to begin in the first quarter.
Carolina Macedo, the author, is Project Coordinator of Marketing Keys.


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Of the presidential candidates, John McCain’s policies on free trade would be most beneficial to the U.S. economy, finds “Race to the Bottom? The Presidential Candidates’ Position on Trade,” a trade briefing paper released by the Cato Institute today.
Based on campaign rhetoric and trade voting records, “voters could expect a President McCain who promotes freer trade and cuts in market‐distorting subsides, and a president Clinton or a President Obama who views free trade between voluntary actors as something to be restrained,” writes author Sallie James, policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Trade Policy Studies.
A faltering economy has made trade policy a salient topic during the 2008 presidential elections. Clinton and Obama have especially exploited the Federal Reserve Bank’s news that the economy is slowing, linking it to what they see as faulty policies of the Bush administration, and implying that more government management of trade flows will reverse this trend.
The Democratic candidate’s positions are alarming because “so long as presidential aspirants claim to be able to ‘fix’ the economy, potential exists for misguided policy to follow populist rhetoric.” Further, free trade is a vital component for maximizing economic growth. “America’s ongoing commitment to expanding trade—a commitment shared by previous Republican and Democratic administrations—has resulted in lower prices and greater product variety for consumers, job growth for exporters, and higher levels of productivity and innovation that increase prosperity in America and abroad,” writes James.
“Far from just a rhetorical device, proposals to increase restrictions on trade—or even to suspend further liberalization—are economically worrying. After all, tariffs do not create wealth; they are merely a device for protecting special interests by restricting consumers’ choices,” James concludes.
This report can be found at: http://www.freetrade.org/pubs/briefs/tbp-027es.html


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I finally gathered the guts to listen to the new Michael Jackson album XSCAPE and was pretty impressed with the production quality on it. The album is in stores now and expected to sell 120-140k in the first week. Today, Sony has released the video for the first single ‘Love Never Felt So Good’ featuring Justin Timberlake and produced by Timbaland.
The video features footage from some of MJ’s most iconic videos as the the backdrop as JT and his fans celebrate the legacy by imitating his dance moves. I feel this could have been made better. Watch it below.


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Fed chief admits threat of full US recession
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke tonight admitted for the first time that a full-blown recession in the US was possible.
Admission: Fed Chief Ben Bernanke
While he did not go as far as saying such an outcome was a definite, his testimony to Congress was his most pessimistic so far.
Bernanke cited rising unemployment, falling numbers of new homes being built and a slump in consumer spending for the gloomy prognosis.
'It now appears likely that real GDP will not grow much, if at all, over the first half of 2008 and could even contract slightly,' he said.
However, he added that the US economy should pick up thanks to the aggressive series of interest-rate cuts he and his Fed colleagues have imposed in recent months.
He was speaking just a fortnight after the Fed intervened to prop up the collapsed Bear Stearns bank.
Justifying that action, which critics have said put American tax dollars at risk, Bernanke said: 'The sudden failure of Bear Stearns was likely to have caused market chaos that would have been very difficult to contain.'
He added that other actions taken by the Fed, which have included massive injections of cash into the financial system, had helped stabilise the markets, although 'considerable stress' remained.
Bernanke's comments were watched intently in the City and on Wall Street for an indication about the next direction for US interest rates.
Although noting his optimism about 2009 economic growth, many economists seized upon his later comments that he expected inflation pressures to moderate. Such an outcome would give him more room to cut interest rates towards 1% from their current 2.25% level.
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A move away from ‘grain fundamentalism’ to higher quality milk, meat and egg calories to fight malnutrition
Derek Headey, a senior research fellow at the CGIAR’s International Food Policy Research Institute, yesterday published an opinion piece in The Telegraph on the importance of using milk, meat and eggs to fight malnutrition and stunting in the developing world. But, Headey warns, these ‘animal-sourced foods’, particularly fresh milk and eggs, are prohibitively expensive for poor households.
When poorly nourished children in developing countries fall behind in their physical growth and become stunted relative to their healthier peers, they tend to fall behind in a lot of other things too: their health, cognitive development, schooling, and eventually, their productivity and income as adults.
The high social and economic costs mean that there are high returns to preventing stunting, provided these actions happen early.
‘In poor countries most growth faltering takes place from six months of age until a child’s second birthday. . . .
‘When children are fed well and protected from infections their bodies and minds develop quickly in infancy; but when these conditions aren’t met, they fall behind and may never catch up to their healthier peers, physically, socially or economically.
But getting sufficient nutrients into a baby’s growing body is not easy for poor households.
‘. . . In poor countries, the standard household diet that infants are introduced to from six months of age onwards is often nutrient-sparse: mashed-up rice, roots or tubers, or perhaps a watery porridge made of local grains. The solution is getting parents to feed their children more nutrient-dense foods.
‘Animal-sourced foods—or ASFs—fit that bill, being rich in high-quality protein, essential fatty acids, multiple micronutrients as well as more mysterious growth-promoters, like the insulin-like growth factor 1 found in cow’s milk.
‘Recent studies from the Advancing Research on Nutrition and Agriculture (ARENA) project suggest that there are significant benefits to giving children more animal-sourced foods . . . .
‘The bad news, however, is that animal sourced foods aren’t a low hanging fruit. Specifically, the AJAE study looked at why only around half of African and South Asian children are fed any ASF on a daily basis.
Findings reveal that the calories obtained from nutrient-rich ASFs like eggs and dairy are much, much, much more expensive than calories from basic staples.
Egg calories in sub-Saharan Africa, for example, are roughly 10 times as expensive as cereal-based calories, while fresh milk is 15 times as expensive.
‘Meat and fish are generally cheaper than eggs and fresh milk because the former is tradeable over long distances—but still five or six times as expensive as cereal-based calories.
‘Understandably, then, poor households that prioritise getting enough calories to stave off hunger often find it prohibitively expensive to diversify away from starchy cereals to buy the nutrient-dense animal sourced foods that their children desperately need to achieve full physical and cognitive potential.’
The solution, then, seems clear: invest more in the productivity of the livestock and fisheries sectors wherever feasible, and use imports when local production isn’t viable.
In most countries, however, this means moving away from grain fundamentalism; that is, from agricultural policies heavily biased towards cereals at the expense of more nutrient-rich foods.
There are plenty of calories in the world; what poor people need now is higher quality calories at more affordable prices.
Derek Headey is a senior research fellow in the Poverty, Health and Nutrition division at the International Food Policy Research Institute, based in Washington, D.C.
Read the whole opinion piece by Derek Headey: Animal-sourced foods vital to combating malnutrition and stunting in the developing world, The Telegraph, 14 Nov 2018.
See also this related recent IFPRI news
Milk consumption reduces childhood stunting in Bangladesh, says IFPRI study, Financial Express (Bangladesh), 27 Aug 2018.
From IFPRI News: ‘Bangladesh’s Financial Express published a news feature detailing the low levels of per capita milk consumption in the country due to severe land constraints and a historical unavailability of milk. Evidence from IFPRI researcher Derek Headey’s study concluded that milk consumption during the first 1,000 days of an infant’s life reduces stunting by as much as 10.4 percent. Childhood nutriton is associated with 3.1 million childhood deaths, as well as cognitive and physical impairments–a major constraint to economic development. Headey’s research was also credited in The Daily Sun, New Age Bangladesh, and The Independent.’
About IFPRI’s ARENA project
Advancing Research on Nutrition and Agriculture (ARENA) is 3-year, multi-country project in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and implemented from 2014 through 2017. The objective of ARENA is to close important knowledge gaps on the links between nutrition and agriculture, with a particular focus on conducting policy-relevant research at scale and crowding in more research on this issue by creating data sets and analytical tools that can benefit the broader research community. Research under this project includes studies on the impacts of rice productivity growth on child nutrition in Bangladesh, on the impacts of climate shocks on nutrition in Nepal and Ethiopia, on health and undernutrition risks associated with livestock ownership in Ethiopia, and on a multi-country study of the drivers of dietary change, among other areas.


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Itron announces strategic alliance with Panasonic Itron (ITRI) has formed a strategic alliance with Panasonic (PC) to develop a smart meter platform tailored to the Japanese market. The companies will utilize their combined global experience and local presence to offer a smart metering solution that will meet Japanís electric utilitiesí needs and requirements today and into the future. As part of the agreement, Itron will design, develop and deliver an Itron smart meter with its 3G cellular communications to Panasonic. With this collaboration, Panasonic will expand its communications product line to the smart meter business.
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The Jakarta Post
Signs that the festival serves pork meals can be found throughout the venue at Sri Ratu shopping mall's parking area on Jl. Pemuda. (JP/Suherdjoko)
To celebrate Chinese New Year, locally known as Imlek, a variety of pork dishes are being offered at a one-week culinary festival in Semarang, Central Java, until Sunday.
Signs that the festival serves pork meals can be found throughout the venue at Sri Ratu shopping mall's parking area on Jl. Pemuda.
The festival's committee head, Firdaus Adinegoro, told The Jakarta Post that up to 2,000 visitors had visited the place since its opening day on Monday. "[Popularity of the festival] is the same as last year. The event was named Pork Festival, but this year we changed it to Festival Kuliner Imlek [Imlek Culinary Festival] but the menus are the same," he added.
A visitor reads a menu at one food stall.(JP/Suherdjoko)
Many ethnic Chinese families can be found dining at the rows of tables inside a huge tent. "I ordered babi geprek [flattened fried pork] and babi panggang kriuk [roasted pork with a crispy garnish]," said one of the visitors, Haryanto.
The price of the dishes start at Rp 25,000 (US$1.87).
Firdaus said that many visitors came from outside the city. "They are holidaymakers who want to celebrate Imlek in Semarang." (kes)
Many ethnic Chinese families can be found dining at the rows of tables inside a huge tent.(JP/Suherdjoko)
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Tune in for Episode 15 of Tech Fetish, the IGN Gear podcast. In this week's release, host Gerry Block is joined once again by Chris Carle. This week, we launch with some hot news discussion, including our thoughts on digital distribution now that the major Hollywood studios are going to launch movies on iTunes day and date with the DVD releases. We also share our thoughts on reports that Blu-ray hardware sales have tanked since HD-DVD's death, and the fact that the PlayStation 3 has surpassed the Xbox 360 in terms of units sold in Europe.
Later in the podcast we revisit the newest rumors of a Blu-ray equipped Xbox 360 arriving in time for the holiday buying season, and what appears to be solid evidence that the long awaited 3G iPhone is going to launch in early June. We also discuss the scary fact that US Customs now reserves the right to browse the contents of any laptops people bring into the country, and reminisce about the fate of the 'Dell Dude' stoner.
Wrapping up the discussion, we debate whether Dell's Art House Special Edition Laptops are cool, and give big props to the various Democrat Senators and presidential hopeful Obama for being outspoken in warning national ISPs to avoid taking any actions that work against the Net Neutrality ideal. Listen in and enjoy!