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Fastly Inc. has filed Friday for an initial public offering of class A shares. The "edge cloud" platform company, which allows developers to deliver digital experiences "at the edge of the internet," hasn't determined the number of shares it will sell. Fastly will have a dual class share structure, with class A shares entitled to one vote and class B shares entitled to 10 votes. The company has applied to have its class A shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange, under the ticker symbol "FSLY." Fastly recorded a net loss of $30.9 million on revenue of $144.6 million in 2018, after a loss of $32.5 million on revenue of $104.9 million in 2017. The lead underwriters of the IPO are BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and Credit Suisse. The company is looking to go public at a time that the Renaissance IPO ETF has rallied 29% year to date and the S&P 500 has gained 16%.
Pinterest Inc. shares are up 24% in their first day of trading after the company's initial public offering. The first trade was executed for $23.75 at 11:27 ET. Pinterest listed on the New York Stock Exchange and priced its IPO late Wednesday at $19 a share, above its expected range of $15 to $17 a share. The online image-sharing company saw its revenue jump to $755.9 million last year from $473 million a year prior. While it's posted a profit in its last two holiday quarters, it has yet to record a profit on an annual basis. Pinterest's IPO comes amid a 28% rise for the Renaissance IPO ETF so far this year and a 16% climb for the S&P 500 in that time.
Shares of Zoom Video Communications Inc. have jumped 75% in their first day of trading on Thursday. The first trade was executed for $65 at 11:23 ET. Zoom priced its initial public offering at $36 a share late on Wednesday, above an already-increased range of $33 to $35 a share. The videoconferencing company, which listed its shares on the Nasdaq, earned an adjusted profit of 3 cents a share in its latest fiscal year, on revenue of $330.5 million. Zoom's IPO comes as the Renaissance IPO ETF has gained 29% so far this year and as the S&P 500 has risen 16%.
Ridesharing companies Lyft and Uber have been igniting interest the past couple of weeks in the initial public offering space (IPO) with the former debuting earlier this month and the latter set to launch mid-May. Amid a week of more first-quarter corporate earnings reports, three other IPOs are set to debut and get their taste of the public limelight. 1. Digital scrapbooking site Pinterest is set to debut its initial public offering (IPO) at an initial price of $15 to $17 a share, according to its latest prospectus, which will peg the value of the company at roughly $11 billion. The Pinterest IPO follows the ridesharing company Lyft, which made its debut at $72 a share before falling in the following days after initial trading. 2.
Zoom Video Communications raised the expected range for the pricing of its initial public offering to $33 to $35 a share from $28 to $32 a share. The videoconferencing company reduced the number of shares it was offering to 9,911,434 shares from 10,877,446 shares, which would lower what it could raise to up to $346.9 million from $348.1 million, while selling shareholders increased the number of shares they were offering to 10,958,131 from 9,992,119. The total number of shares being sold remained the same at 20,869,565. If the IPO prices at the top of the range, the company is looking at a market capitalization of just over $9 billion. Zoom Video is looking to go public at a time the Renaissance IPO ETF has rallied 32.5% year to date while the S&P 500 has gained 15.9%.
D.A. Davidson analyst Tom Forte began coverage of Pinterest Inc. with a neutral rating and $16.50 price target. The company is expected to go public later this month. Pinterest "provides consumers an impressive visual-based discovery platform for merchandise and advertisers a large and growing global base of consumers with purchase intent," wrote Forte, which is a "powerful combination" that could drive revenue and profit growth over the long run, in his view. However, Forte argued that the midpoint of the company's expected price range of $15 to $17 a share "already reflects our favorable view of Pinterest including its growth prospects." As Pinterest prepares for an initial public offering, the Renaissance IPO ETF is up 34% on the year and the S&P 500 has gained 16%.
Investing in multiple IPOs at the same time can be a difficult task; however, investors can easily tap the IPO resurgence with the two domestic-focused ETFs.
Axcella Health Inc., a Cambridge, Mass.-based biotechnology company, has filed for an initial public offering. The company has applied to list its shares on the Nasdaq Global Market under the ticker symbol "AXLA," while using place-holder amount of $86.25 million for the value of the proposed IPO. The company focuses on developing "multifactorial interventions" to address dysregulated metabolism. Axcella recorded a net loss of $36.1 million in 2018, after a loss of $30.9 million in 2017. The joint book-running managers of the IPO are Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and SVB Leerink. The company is looking to go public at a time the Renaissance IPO ETF has rallied 32.6% year to date, the iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF has climbed 16.0% and the S&P 500 has advanced 15.2%.
PagerDuty Inc.'s stock shot higher out of the gate Thursday, as the first trade was at 35% above its initial-public-offering price. The San Francisco-based cloud computing company's IPO priced late Wednesday at $24, above the expected range that was recently raised to $21 to $23. The first trade on the NYSE was at $36.75 at 11:37 a.m. Eastern for 1.9 million shares. It has since extended gains to trade up 56% at $37.40. The company offered 8.5 million shares to raise $204 million, with the company valued at about $1.8 billion at the IPO price. The company has gone public at a time the Renaissance IPO ETF has run up 33% year to date and the S&P 500 has climbed 15%.
Lyft shares are taking a hit as investors turn to rival ride-hailing company Uber's prospective IPO filing. The development puts these ETFs in focus.
Shares of ridesharing company Lyft hit fresh lows on Wednesday, falling as much as 6 percent as skepticism regarding its valuation continues to put downward pressure on its stock price. After debuting with an opening price of $72, Lyft continues to struggle with analyst downgrades early on in its publicly-traded existence. Lyft was already in a tenuous position prior to its IPO debut--according to S&P Global Market Intelligence, Lyft posted a loss of $911 million in 2018, making it the most any U.S. startup has lost in the 12 months leading up to its IPO. Lyft did post a record $2.16 billion in revenue, but according to Ilya Strebulaev, a Stanford University business professor who studies late-stage startups, that doesn’t necessarily translate to success once going public.
Uber Technologies is looking to offer around $10 billion worth of stock in its initial public offering, with most of the shares being sold directly by the company, according to multiple media reports. The ride-hailing company is seeking a valuation of up to $100 billion after the IPO, the reports say, which would make it the biggest IPO this year. In comparison, rival Lyft Inc. , which went public on March 29, raised $2.2 billion in its IPO. With Lyft's stock closing Tuesday at $67.44, or 6.3% below its $72 IPO price, Lyft's market capitalization is about $19.3 billion. Uber is expected to make its registration public as early as Thursday. The company is looking to go public at a time that the Renaissance IPO ETF has rallied 32% year to date and the S&P 500 has climbed 15%.
Atlantic Equities analyst James Cordwell initiated coverage of Pinterest with an overweight rating and a $23 year-end price target on Tuesday. Pinterest is expected to go public soon. The online photo-sharing company set a price range of $15 to $17 a share on Monday, which would give the company a valuation of up to $11 billion, below the $12.3 billion it fetched in a 2017 private funding round. "We believe the company's unique and broadly appealing proposition, offering consumers the ability to view and collate visual recommendations, will enable ongoing robust user growth," Cordwell wrote. "Moreover, we expect significant monetization upside given the higher purchasing intent of the user base, yet lower current [average revenue per user] than other ad-supported platforms." He said that profitability on an adjusted basis seems "likely" this year while he expects GAAP profitability in 2021. Pinterest's expected IPO comes as the Renaissance IPO ETF has gained 32% on the year and as the S&P 500 has risen 15%.
Probably taking cues from the Lyft IPO debacle, Pinterest has toned down its IPO pricing. This might help the company maintain its IPO price once public, benefitting these ETFs.
Digital scrapbooking site Pinterest is set to debut its initial public offering (IPO) at an initial price of $15 to $17 a share, according to its latest prospectus, which will peg the value of the company at roughly $11 billion. The Pinterest IPO follows the ridesharing company Lyft, which made its debut at $72 a share before falling in the following days after initial trading. After recovering from its debut price of $72 a share, Lyft fell over 5 percent on Monday.
Renaissance Capital's early 2019 research portended good things for the IPO market. In January, the financial firm cited a “large backlog” of U.S. IPOs that grew during the federal shutdown. In February, it found more than 220 private companies looking to go public this year, including Uber, GE Health Care, WeWork and Airbnb.
Zoom Video Communications set terms of its initial public offering, with 20.9 million shares to be sold at an expected pricing of $28 to $32 a share. The San Jose, Calif.-based video-first communications platform provider is offering 10.9 million Class A shares in the IPO to raise $348.1 million, while selling stockholders are offering 10 million Class A shares. After the IPO, the company will have 24.7 million Class A shares outstanding, which will entitle holders to one vote, and $233.2 million Class B shares outstanding, which will have 10 votes and will be convertible to Class A shares. The company roughly broke even in the year ended Jan. 31, 2019 on revenue of $330.5 million, after recording a net loss of $8.2 million on revenue of $151.5 million a year ago. Zoom is looking to go public at a time the Renaissance IPO ETF has rallied 24% over the past three months and the S&P 500 has climbed 12%.
Palomar Holdings Inc. set term of its initial public offering, which is expected to price between $15 to $17 a share, to value the specialty insurance company at up to $384.6 million. The specialty insurance company is offering 5.625 million shares in the IPO to raise up to $95.6 million, or up to $110 million if the underwriters exercise all the options to buy additional shares. The lead underwriters of the IPO are Barclays, J.P. Morgan and Keefe, Bruyette & Woods. The company had net earnings of $18.2 million on revenue of $72.3 million in 2018, compared with net income of $4.9 million on revenue of $56.7 million a year ago. The company is looking to go public at a time that the Renaissance IPO ETF has rallied 33% year to date and the S&P 500 has gained 15%.
Scientific Games Corp. subsidiary SciPlay Corp. filed Friday to go public. The developer and publisher of digital games on mobile platforms has not yet determined the number of shares it will offer to the public or the expected pricing of the initial public offering, and has not provided the number of Class A or Class B shares that will be outstanding after the offering. The company has applied to have its Class A shares listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol "SCPL." The Class A shares will entitle holders to have one vote, while Class B shares will have 10 votes. Scientific Games will indirectly own all of the Class B shares. SciPlay had earnings of $39.0 million on revenue of $416.2 million in 2018, compared with earnings of $23.1 million on revenue of $361.4 million in 2017. BofA Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank Securities are the lead underwriters of the IPO. SciPlay is looking to go public at a time that the Renaissance IPO ETF has rallied 32% year to date while the S&P 500 has gained 15%.
Shares of Silk Road Medical Inc. soared in their public debut Thursday, enough to pace all gainers on the major U.S. exchanges. The first trade was at $33.15, or 66% above the $20 initial public offering price, at 11:36 a.m. Eastern. Since then, the stock has traded in a range of $32.73 to $37.30, and was recently 85% above its IPO price at $36.96. The medical device company sold 6 million shares in the IPO to raise $120 million, and could raise up to $138 million if the underwriters exercise all the options granted to buy additional shares. At the IPO price, the company was valued at $604.2 million. The IPO priced at the top of the expected range of $19 to $20, up from original expectations of $15 to $17, when the company said it has expected to offer 4.7 million shares for sale. The company went public at a time that the Renaissance IPO ETF has run up 32% year to date, while the S&P 500 has gained 15%.
After debuting last week with an opening price of $72, Lyft continues to struggle with a 3 percent drop on Tuesday with analyst downgrades putting pressure on the ridesharing company early on in its publicly-traded existence. Michael Ward, an analyst at Seaport Global Securities, issued Lyft a sell rating and a 12-month price target of just $42 a share--a drop of over 40 percent from its opening price. Ward cites the company's valuation as a cause for skepticism.
In only its second day of trading, the Lyft IPO fell 10 percent, falling below its initial $72 per share offering while the Renaissance IPO ETF (IPO) gained 1.20 percent--a prime example for choosing ETFs over individual stocks in a hit-or-miss IPO sector. IPO is up over 31 percent year-to-date. Its top holdings speak to the diversity of its portfolio, which includes Elanco Animal Health, VICI Properties, Spotify Technology, and Okta--all from various sectors.


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Looking back into what may seem the “forgotten past”, lab-grown diamonds are nothing new and have been posing a threat to the natural diamond industry for over a century.
Dealers in diamonds are frequently asked by their customers if the process of making artificial diamonds has yet met with such success as to depreciate the genuine ones in value.
Diamonds have been produced synthetically, but the stones made in that way have been so small and have cost so much to produce that there would be no economic advantage in making them large enough to market, even if a way to do it were found.
Dr. J.W. Hershey, McPherson College, Kan., is the 1935 claimant of the title of artificial diamond-maker. He apparently uses a method similar to that of [scientist Henri] Moissan and states the product to be the size of a pin-head.
For years, jewelers in their worst nightmares have dreamed that someone would make diamonds in the laboratory and rob them of the mainstay of their business.
Now at last it has happened. No intelligent person doubted for a moment that the General Electric company had really succeeded in producing the real thing when their announcement was made late in February.
The announcement put the diamond trade in a turmoil for several weeks after the initial publicity. General Electric handled the publicity in a way that was calculated to do a minimum amount of damage to the jewelry trade.
Man has made cuttable, gem-quality diamonds. The dramatic announcement was made May 28 in New York City by the General Electric Company. Reporters were shown diamond crystals—clear white, blue, and deep yellow, ranging from 60 points to 1.10 carats.
Dr. [Kurt] Nassau closed his talk [at the American Gem Society Conclave] with a question that has nagged many a thoughtful jeweler like a nightmare: Will it continue to be possible to distinguish synthetic gems from the natural?
The new General Electric synthetic diamonds are “beauties,” says a GE researcher who headed the project, but they are not likely to wind up in diamond dealers’ parcels; they cost more than naturals of comparable quality.
Synthetic diamond jewelry is as predictable as an increase in rough diamond prices. We can predict it will happen, we just don’t know when.
Typically, synthetic diamonds have been grown using high pressure/high temperature presses. However, synthetic diamonds grown by [chemical vapor deposition] techniques, which do not use high pressure, have up until now produced only microscopic polycrystalline industrial quality crystals.
The trade’s main concern is that man-made stones will find their way into the normal stream of commerce without disclosure.
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The world is currently going through an unprecedented series of events with the pandemic. For many, it’s a time to shelter in place and to be thankful for the things that they have. Things are changing for the time being, but the world will come through on the other side wiser and stronger than before.
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Although the world is in uncertain times, those who have the means may find that buying a property right now could be a very good option. This is because the rates today are lower than they have been in a long time. The rates are at record lows, so buying a property has the potential to net you a great deal.
The Federal Reserve is buying unlimited amounts of mortgage-backed securities and U.S. Treasury securities. This is helping to provide more protection than what was available during the 2008 recession. In light of what’s happening currently, this will be needed. The government is also acting faster today than it did in 2008, which means the benefits could be seen sooner. By creating a greater demand in mortgage bonds and with rates low, buying could be a smart choice for those who have already been considering buying.
If you have the money available to buy a property, it simply makes sense to take advantage of the changes that are happening with the rates. While it is certainly a scary time for the world, and you might be wondering whether you should make the purchase, it’s time to consider the low rates. If you were already going to buy a home, and you are in a financial situation where you will be able to make the purchase safely, consider getting in touch and moving forward.
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The investment bank says current share price reflects export parity pricing implementation,which should provide a floor to valuations.
“Oil marketing companies can have upside to retail price increases,commodity correction,a milder export-parity-pricing outcome and potential policy clarity,” it says in a report on Wednesday.
Credit Suisse also upgrades Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) to “neutral” from “underperform”
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To provide content, the online television station has dispatched camera crews to the Sunshine State to cover practices and send back player interviews by WEEI hosts.
Financial details of the deal were not provided.
The offering adds to Boston.tv's existing sports coverage, which includes the Celtics and regional high school sports updates. The company is also offering clips of last year's Whiney Awards, an annual event honoring callers to WEEI's afternoon talk show, The Big Show.
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That On thinks big was clear at the latest at the end of 2019 with the arrival of Roger Federer. According to outrageous media reports, rumors are now growing about a possible IPO of the Zurich-based company. It should be ready in autumn. The company does not comment on the plans - but apparently does not deny them either. No more.
Accordingly, On is aiming for a US IPO, people familiar with the matter apparently assume a valuation of 4 to 6 billion dollars. JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as well as Credit Suisse, among others, have been commissioned. The brand ambassador of the Swiss financial institute is - this closes the circle - On partner Roger Federer.
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On opens first store in NYC
An IPO in New York would be almost a home game for On. In December 2020, the Swiss celebrated the opening of their world's first flagship store there. "As a global metropolis, New York has an incomparable charisma," explained On-Co-Founder David Allemann. “We have seen over the past few years how rapidly our community in NYC has grown and the demand has steadily increased. Our On Experience Store is a platform to bring our community together. "
But he has already announced the expansion into global key cities. Definitely an expensive undertaking that would be much easier to implement with an IPO.
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“2020 was an exciting and turbulent year, no question about it,” Allemann told TW. The founders have always been silent about numbers. But the market importance of the Swiss is undisputed: The On Cloud is now the best-selling running shoe in Germany. This emerges from the latest figures from market researchers at the npd Group. In 2018, the top 5 list was still topped by the Nike Free, followed by the Adidas Ultraboost. This was relegated to 4th place in 2020, Nike is no longer represented in the ranking.
At the Sport 2000 trade association, which has a large number of running specialists in its ranks, On is the fastest growing running shoe supplier in recent years. The Swiss have worked their way up from 34th to 17th in the overall supplier ranking from 2018 to 2020. And as early as 2018, On should have reached the three-digit million mark in sales. On has been profitable since 2014, explained co-founder Caspar Coppetti in the same year.
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will widen their investigation into the planned Sainsbury-Asda merger to assess the growth in market share of both Aldi and Lidl.
Aldi grew its share from 6.8 per cent to 7.6 per cent, with sales rising 15.1 per cent, while Lidl’s share increased to 5.6 per cent from 5.2 per cent, on 10 per cent sales growth. Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Asda all lost a portion of market share as a result.
Stuart McIntosh, chairman of the CMA’s inquiry group, said: “Millions of people shop at Asda and Sainsbury’s every week, so it is essential we carry out a thorough investigation into their proposed merger.
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Helen of Troy Ltd. (HELE) Scheduled to Post Earnings on Thursday
Helen of Troy Ltd. (NASDAQ:HELE) will be posting its Q217 quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October 6th. Analysts expect Helen of Troy to post earnings of $1.12 per share and revenue of $370.29 million for the quarter. Helen of Troy has set its FY17 guidance at $5.85-$6.35 EPS.Individual interested in participating in the company’s earnings conference call can do so using this link.
Helen of Troy (NASDAQ:HELE) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, July 7th. The company reported $1.27 EPS for the quarter, topping the Zacks’ consensus estimate of $1.12 by $0.15. The business had revenue of $347.90 million for the quarter. Helen of Troy had a return on equity of 18.62% and a net margin of 6.45%. The business’s revenue was up .8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $1.06 earnings per share. On average, analysts expect Helen of Troy to post $6.16 EPS for the current fiscal year and $6.84 EPS for the next fiscal year.
Shares of Helen of Troy Ltd. (NASDAQ:HELE) opened at 86.59 on Wednesday. The company’s 50-day moving average price is $89.02 and its 200-day moving average price is $97.48. Helen of Troy Ltd. has a one year low of $82.28 and a one year high of $106.50. The company has a market capitalization of $2.41 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 24.70 and a beta of 1.00.
Institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Pacad Investment Ltd. bought a new position in shares of Helen of Troy during the second quarter worth approximately $113,000. Pacer Advisors Inc. bought a new position in shares of Helen of Troy during the second quarter worth approximately $195,000. Advantus Capital Management Inc bought a new position in shares of Helen of Troy during the second quarter worth approximately $346,000. Laurion Capital Management LP bought a new position in shares of Helen of Troy during the second quarter worth approximately $370,000. Finally, Summit Securities Group LLC bought a new position in shares of Helen of Troy during the second quarter worth approximately $420,000. 94.68% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
HELE has been the topic of several research analyst reports. Sidoti initiated coverage on Helen of Troy in a report on Thursday, August 25th. They set a “neutral” rating and a $102.00 price target on the stock. Jefferies Group reissued a “buy” rating and set a $114.00 price target on shares of Helen of Troy in a report on Wednesday, July 6th. Finally, Zacks Investment Research cut Helen of Troy from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Tuesday, September 6th.
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It was a bad weekend for icons of Canadian culture.
First, on Friday it was announced that the Hudson’s Bay Company is being sold to an American businessman. The history of Canada and the Hudson’s Bay Company are irrevocably intertwined, and the idea of this titan of Canadian culture and history being owned by American interests is deeply disturbing (with apologies to my dear American friends.)
So why does it matter that HBC has fallen to foreign ownership? First, because one of the first things I remember learning about in elementary school was the role of HBC in the formation of Canada – the fur trade, Rupert’s Lands, coureurs du bois, Native people, British and French power struggles and remote northern outposts. It all became more tangible and comprehensible when I could tie it somehow to the big Bay department store downtown, back in the 1970s when department stores and downtown were both places of significance.
And more importantly, because given the choice between The Bay or Sears, or between WalMart and the HBC-owned Zellers, I always tried to support the Canadian company. If HBC ownership falls to American interests, there isn’t a Canadian equivalent left to choose.
Second, there were rumblings in the media this weekend about the possibility that Tim Hortons would be setting up its most distantly remote franchise ever – in Kandahar, Afghanistan. There are more than 2,000 Canadian peacekeeping troops stationed there, and while American soldiers can have their Pizza Hut, Burger King or Subway fix, Canada’s most popular coffee shop is reluctant to make the same move.
Timmy’s head office says that while it would be logistically feasible to set up a coffee and doughnut vending trailer on the base, they are reluctant to do so, citing concerns about quality control. While Timmy’s has a reputation for being generous to our overseas troops, ensuring each deployed soldier gets a gift package at Christmas, this seems like a great way for the company to show their support of the peacekeepers.
I don’t know how I’d get through a morning in my quiet little world with out a Timmy’s coffee (extra large, three milks) to start my day. For those who risk their lives in the name of a more peaceful world, a double-double and a chocolate dip doesn’t seem like too much to ask.


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Want Sustainable Clothing? It's Time to Meet Regenerative Fiber
By Valerie Vande Panne
Do you know where your clothes came from?
No, not the store, the label or the brand. Or China, India or Vietnam.
I mean, do you know who made your clothing? Do you know what your clothes are made from? Or where the fiber in your clothing came from? The cotton, the polyester or the acrylic?
Chances are, you don't. And that's a problem. It's difficult for people to have respect for an item or the people who created it when they don't know where the item came from or how it was created in the first place.
For instance, did you know your athletic gear is probably made from plastic? And that 94 percent of U.S. drinking water has plastic lint from our clothing in it? You're literally washing the plastic from your yoga pants into our water systems. Polyester, acrylic, nylon, spandex—it's all plastic. Ninety-eight million tons of oil was used in the textile industry in 2015. By 2050, that number is expected to be 300 million.
When Bena Burda, founder of organic apparel company Maggie's Organics, learned about the harms of cotton, she was horrified. She was working in the organic food industry and thought, "This is ridiculous. How can we not know this?"
Enter regenerative fiber, a movement to return the entire system of clothing—from agriculture to product and back again—to within 250 miles of where you live. It is a solution to the large-scale, global exploitative textile system: It has components rooted in the local, community-based economy, with local farmers cultivating organic fibers—wool, cotton, alpaca, hemp—and developing the processing required to bring it from field to fabric, fabric to product.
You see, fashion—as you know it and as you're probably wearing it, right now—is exploitative and unsustainable, said Anna Canning, communications coordinator at Fair World Project, an organization that advocates for policy solutions like a living the wage.
"You have a lot of exploitation in factories around the globe," she said, pointing to low pay, long hours and forced labor, often of women. In addition, fashion contributes to climate change. She said the industry "is on track to consume a quarter of the global carbon supply by 2050." Fashion itself is also resource intensive and disposable.
Worse, our nation has seemingly lost the ability to produce its own ethical fiber. "There's only one non-GMO [cotton] gin in the country," said Rebecca Burgess, executive director of Fibershed, an organization focused on educating the public on the environmental, economic and social benefits of bringing the textile supply chain home. "We can't even wash our fibers in California." The U.S., she said, has "an inability to process fiber in an ethical way."
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In the last century, due to neo-liberal policy and the frictionless moving of capital, our entire nation's ability to foster local fiber systems and cultivate local textiles has been exported to the point where even the memory of how to make textiles has been extinguished, said Burgess.
When the U.S. lost the textile industry, it lost the memory of how to build these systems, and even the ability to innovate within them. "The textile industry is a relic from the late 19th and early 20th century, so when we go back to re-envision bringing it home, we're working on American equipment built in the 1920s."
Much of Burgess's work is around building sensitivity and awareness about what it will take to return local textile industries to the United States. "We need to repair cultural and political divides," she said. "If we can … bring these fiber systems back into the communities, and re-envision what that looks like," that can lead to an enormous shift for rural and urban communities alike, especially when the goal is developing these systems with family farms and worker-owned co-operatives.
Doing that holistically then fosters diversity from the farm to your yoga mat. "In an adept system," said Burgess, "you could combine inter-species yarn that would replace our reliance on fossil-carbon fiber."
Burgess sees inter-species fiber blends as a solution: combining plants and animal blends such as wool-hemp blends, or wool-alpaca-cotton, all in one yarn. Plastic athletic wear can be replaced with such yarns and fabrics, which can then reduce the amount of plastic that sheds into our oceans and fresh water. She points to "pre-Columbian, Roman-Greek recipe blending. There's a long history of it. We just forgot about it."
"We call it the soil to soil framework," she explained. It's a cycle: What's coming out of the soil and how you're treating the soil. Creating the structures to harvest, clean and move material off-farm and into cooperatively owned mills. Moving textiles to locally-owned cooperative manufacturers. Distributing to consumers. Consumers who are able to care for and mend the product. And then, at the end of its life, the clothing can be recycled or composted and returned to the soil—without further polluting or damaging the land.
There are few of these regional fiber systems in existence today in the U.S., but Burgess and similar groups are working to change that. "We have farms and brands and manufacturers that have pieces of it. It's a fledgling system. It needs a lot of support from the consumer."
People, she said, need to seek out local fibers and locally made clothing the way they have sought out and found local farmer's markets.
Many Americans today, however, can't afford to shop at farmer's markets, let alone locally made clothing. If they do shop at a farmer's market, they often take advantage of "SNAP match" programs some markets offer, where you get a dollar to spend for every food stamp dollar you use at the market. These same folks might want to engage in local, regional fiber—but at $95 for a scarf, that might not seem feasible.
"If you don't have a lot of income, you can learn how to mend," said Burgess. It then becomes all about slowing down the fast fashion machine. Currently, 87 percent of the clothing we consume ends up in a landfill or incinerated.
"It's kind of like divesting from oil. Divest from fashion," said Burgess. "You've gotta hit it from a number of levels at once," said Burgess.
For Burda, she turned her shock into a new career in organic apparel. "My real job is to take the people who wear my clothes and connect them with the people who make my clothes. What better way than to take physical product that women are invested in and connect the dots to every single set of hands?"
Canning approaches the issue from a fair trade perspective. "The reality is, these movements are all working for a just economy for all people. It is an investment to purchase something that takes into account the full cost of production." Especially American-made production.
"Americans have a long way to go on their behavior to understand what it takes to make a garment and what those things will cost," said Burgess.
And once that's understood, perhaps we can bring the textile and garment industries home.
Ways you can divest from fast fashion:
1. Stop wearing plastic.
2. Wear your clothes a lot more. If you see a hole or lose a button, fix it, or find someone in your community who can fix it. Barter or trade to get the job done.
3. Instead of buying new clothing, have a clothing swap. Host a clothing swap potluck.
4. If you're gonna buy new, look for organic cotton. If it's not certified organic, it's GMO.
5. Purchase items that are 100 percent wool, flax, linen or hemp/cotton blends.
6. Start paying attention. Read the tag. What does it say?
7. Know who made your clothing. Know who sewed it.
8. Learn to make your own clothing. There are so many people who remember how to do this, and we would be wise to learn from them while they're still with us.
Reposted with permission from our media associate AlterNet.
Material Revolutions: Shirts Made from Shellfish, Biodegradable Rum Bottles and Reusable Fast Food Containers
In the age of consumption, sustainability innovations can help shift cultural habits and protect dwindling natural resources. Improvements in source materials, product durability and end-of-life disposal procedures can create consumer products that are better for the Earth throughout their lifecycles. Three recent advancements hope to make a difference.
1. Allbirds Shirts Made From Shellfish
Sustainable sneaker start-up Allbirds is known for its thoughtfulness for consumers and the environment. The four-year-old shoe company has become hugely popular by creating comfortable shoes made from responsibly sourced materials like tencel and wool, reported Fast Company.

Recently, Allbirds launched its debut apparel line with garments for men and women made with eco-friendly materials that have a low carbon footprint, the report said.

Introduced along with the line is a new t-shirt material called "TrinoXO," which is made from wool and discarded snow crab shells from Canada's seafood industry, reported CNBC and CNN. The shells are the "number two discarded resource on earth," Allbirds claims, reported Men's Health.

"Discarded material is the holy grail when it comes to sustainable fibers," Jad Finck, Allbirds head of innovation and sustainability, told Fast Company. "It's far better for the environment than getting raw materials from scratch."

The shells have antimicrobial properties that keep clothes fresh even after hours of wear, without the need to add "extractive" materials like zinc or silver, Men's Health reported. This allows for longer periods of wear between washes, reducing clothes' environmental footprint.

"We knew we wanted to be a real brand, and had this vision that we'd be an innovation company first, and a product company second," co-founder Joey Zwillinger told Vogue. "And our products would solve problems for people in a natural way, and show the world that you don't have to compromise on the planet for amazing products."

2. Bacardi Biodegradable Rum Bottles
By 2023, Bacardi rum will be sold in 100% biodegradable bottles, Business Wire reported.

The alcohol giant is collaborating with Danimer Scientific, a leading developer of biodegradable products, to create the new bottles using the natural oils of plant seeds such as palm, canola and soy, the report said.

According to Yahoo Finance UK, the new bottle will biodegrade in a wide range of environments, including compost, soil, freshwater and seawater. After 18 months, the bottle will disappear completely without leaving microplastics.

"Nodax PHA is one of the most promising eco-friendly materials in the world today because it delivers the biodegradability that consumers demand without losing the quality feel they receive from traditional plastic," said Danimer Scientific chief marketing & sustainability officer Scott Tuten, reported Thrillist. "The material provides the best of both worlds, and we look forward to working with Bacardí and incorporating PHA into their iconic packaging."

Bacardi is also creating a sustainably sourced paper bottle, Yahoo reported.

The manufacturing of both new bottle types will save energy over petroleum-based plastic ones. Bacardi plans to share the technology with competitors to help in the global fight against plastic pollution, and aims to be 100% plastic-free by 2030, reported Thrillist.

3. Burger King Reusable Fast Food Containers
Fast food giant Burger King plans to launch reusable Whopper boxes and soda cups by next year. Partnering with TerraCycle's zero-waste packaging division Loop, Burger King will nudge customers to return the specialized packaging for hygienic washing and reuse, similar to how milk bottles used to be returned, reported MarketWatch.

"During COVID, we have seen the environmental impact of increased takeaway ordering, which makes this initiative by Burger King all the more important," said Tom Szaky, TerraCycle and Loop CEO, according to MarketWatch.

Customers who don't feel comfortable can opt-out of the service, ABC News reported. Those who are willing to try will be charged a small deposit upon purchase, and when the packaging is returned, they will receive a refund, reported CNN.

Burger King and TerraCycle are aiming for a container that can be used at least 100 times, reported Fast Company.

"The benefit is, you're able to serve your guests without having to create that single-use item in the first place," Matt Banton, global head of innovation and sustainability at Burger King, told Fast Company. "This product is durable enough to go through the system multiple times, so it's ultimately reducing our environmental impact, and minimizing the amount of single-use packaging that we have to produce as well."

Burger King has also committed to sourcing 100% of its customer packaging from renewable, recycled or certified outlets, and recycling all customer packaging at its restaurants in the United States and Canada by 2025, reported CNN.

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The ghoulishly named ogre-faced spider can "hear" with its legs and use that ability to catch insects flying behind it, the study published in Current Biology Thursday concluded.
"Spiders are sensitive to airborne sound," Cornell professor emeritus Dr. Charles Walcott, who was not involved with the study, told the Cornell Chronicle. "That's the big message really."
The net-casting, ogre-faced spider (Deinopis spinosa) has a unique hunting strategy, as study coauthor Cornell University postdoctoral researcher Jay Stafstrom explained in a video.
They hunt only at night using a special kind of web: an A-shaped frame made from non-sticky silk that supports a fuzzy rectangle that they hold with their front forelegs and use to trap prey.
They do this in two ways. In a maneuver called a "forward strike," they pounce down on prey moving beneath them on the ground. This is enabled by their large eyes — the biggest of any spider. These eyes give them 2,000 times the night vision that we have, Science explained.
But the spiders can also perform a move called the "backward strike," Stafstrom explained, in which they reach their legs behind them and catch insects flying through the air.
"So here comes a flying bug and somehow the spider gets information on the sound direction and its distance. The spiders time the 200-millisecond leap if the fly is within its capture zone – much like an over-the-shoulder catch. The spider gets its prey. They're accurate," coauthor Ronald Hoy, the D & D Joslovitz Merksamer Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior in the College of Arts and Sciences, told the Cornell Chronicle.
What the researchers wanted to understand was how the spiders could tell what was moving behind them when they have no ears.
It isn't a question of peripheral vision. In a 2016 study, the same team blindfolded the spiders and sent them out to hunt, Science explained. This prevented the spiders from making their forward strikes, but they were still able to catch prey using the backwards strike. The researchers thought the spiders were "hearing" their prey with the sensors on the tips of their legs. All spiders have these sensors, but scientists had previously thought they were only able to detect vibrations through surfaces, not sounds in the air.
To test how well the ogre-faced spiders could actually hear, the researchers conducted a two-part experiment.
First, they inserted electrodes into removed spider legs and into the brains of intact spiders. They put the spiders and the legs into a vibration-proof booth and played sounds from two meters (approximately 6.5 feet) away. The spiders and the legs responded to sounds from 100 hertz to 10,000 hertz.
Next, they played the five sounds that had triggered the biggest response to 25 spiders in the wild and 51 spiders in the lab. More than half the spiders did the "backward strike" move when they heard sounds that have a lower frequency similar to insect wing beats. When the higher frequency sounds were played, the spiders did not move. This suggests the higher frequencies may mimic the sounds of predators like birds.
University of Cincinnati spider behavioral ecologist George Uetz told Science that the results were a "surprise" that indicated science has much to learn about spiders as a whole. Because all spiders have these receptors on their legs, it is possible that all spiders can hear. This theory was first put forward by Walcott 60 years ago, but was dismissed at the time, according to the Cornell Chronicle. But studies of other spiders have turned up further evidence since. A 2016 study found that a kind of jumping spider can pick up sonic vibrations in the air.
"We don't know diddly about spiders," Uetz told Science. "They are much more complex than people ever thought they were."
Learning more provides scientists with an opportunity to study their sensory abilities in order to improve technology like bio-sensors, directional microphones and visual processing algorithms, Stafstrom told CNN.
"The point is any understudied, underappreciated group has fascinating lives, even a yucky spider, and we can learn something from it," he told CNN.
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In 'Road Map for a More Sustainable Future,' NY Regulator Tells Banks to Consider Climate Risks in Planning
By Brett Wilkins
Regulators in New York state announced Thursday that banks and other financial services companies are expected to plan and prepare for risks posed by the climate crisis.
A NASA spacecraft has successfully collected a sample from the Bennu asteroid more than 200 million miles away from Earth. The samples were safely stored and will be preserved for scientists to study after the spacecraft drops them over the Utah desert in 2023, according to the Associated Press (AP).


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SHANGHAI- SWIFT, the global system for financial messaging and cross-border payments, has set up a joint venture with the Chinese central bank's digital currency research institute and clearing centre, a move some see as a sign that China wants to explore global use of its planned digital yuan.
Other shareholders of the Beijing-based venture include China's Cross-border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) and the Payment & Clearing Association of China, both supervised by the People's Bank of China (PBOC), according to public information.
The new entity, called Finance Gateway Information Services Co, was established in Beijing on Jan. 16, and its business scope includes information system integration, data processing and technological consultancy, according to the website of the National Enterprise Credit Information Public System.
"SWIFT and four payments market participants and infrastructure providers are setting up a joint venture to comply with Chinese regulatory requirements," SWIFT said in a statement to Reuters on Thursday.
The joint venture "will be able to obtain necessary licences for local network management activities ... and its services will be limited in scope and entirely focused on maintaining compliance with applicable regulations in China," it added.
SWIFT set up a wholly foreign-owned unit in Beijing in 2019.
China is a front-runner in the global race to launch central bank digital currencies, having launched domestic trials in several major cities including Shenzhen, Chengdu and Hangzhou.
Its digital currency will help increase oversight of money flows, while also raising the efficiency of cross-border payments and facilitate yuan internationalization, HSBC said in a recent report.
Greater use of the CIPS instead of the Belgium-based SWIFT system would reduce exposure of China's global payments data to the United States, BOC International (BOCI) said in a report last July.
However, SWIFT said it provides connectivity and messaging services that links market infrastructures and financial institutions to the global financial community.
"Since 2016, SWIFT and CIPS have been working together to offer SWIFT as the secure, efficient and reliable channel to connect CIPS with SWIFT’s global user community," SWIFT added.
(Reporting by Samuel Shen, Andrew Galbraith and Winni Zhou; Editing by Kim Coghill) ((email@example.com; +86 21 20830018; Reuters Messaging: firstname.lastname@example.org))


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Th who are not rich enough to afford luxury brands but will accept lower-priced alternatives.
At the highest levels, the fashion industry is relatively insulated from economic changes. For example, recessionary fears in the United States have done nothing to harm haute couture, which is actually seeing an increase in customers in a time when so many other companies are fighting decreasing sales. The luxury market is doing well compared to mainstream, affordable luxury and discount brands, where its customers have less financial security and thus are not spending as much money on clothes and accessories as they used to.
Fashion was once seen as almost exclusively a "women's domain." However, in the past few years men as a whole have begun to pay more attention to their appearance and the fashion industry has responded by focusing more on catering to male clientele. For example, J. Crew Group (JCG) and Hermès both opened men’s-only stores in New York City. Although women still do make the majority of clothing purchases, companies are beginning to take advantage of the male demographic and appeal to them in order to increase sales. :)
The affordable luxury market, especially in the United States, is facing a problem due to the poor state of the U.S. economy. The middle-class "aspirational" shoppers who are integral to that segment's success are not indulging as much as they used to. In addition, there has been an increase in "extremely high net-worth" individuals in the United States and abroad. In the U.S. alone the number of "ultra high net worth households" increased fivefold from 1996 to 2006, to 1.14 million. These people are able to afford whatever luxury brand they want and the brands that are able to follow the money. These trends lead to decreased sales of affordable luxury and increased sales of genuine luxury products.
Now, more than ever, the nouveau riche in China and Russia are developing a big appetite for high fashion. In China for example, the economy grew more than 10% annually during the last five years, and by the end of 2006 the country had 345,000 U.S. dollar millionaires, 33% of whom were women. Chinese citizens are becoming increasingly fixated on luxury goods--they are viewed as a status symbol. China, Russia and the Middle East present large, wealthy markets for luxury goods companies.


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A diet high in fructose has been linked to weight gain for a long time, but now neuroscientists believe processed fructose could impact the ability to heal after head trauma, putting nutrition and brain injury in the spotlight.
Fructose is a link in the metabolism of glucose; yet there is no real need for dietary fructose. When ingested by itself, fructose is not absorbed very well and is mostly cleared by the liver. When the liver gets overloaded it starts turning the fructose into fat.
Although it seems to be common knowledge that a diet high in sugar is not a good idea, statistics show that high fructose corn syrup intake in the United States is an overwhelming 55 pounds per person each year.
In the United States, a sweetener called HFCS is added to processed foods, including breads, cereals, soups, lunchmeats and condiments. It’s actually made up of sucrose and fructose – the majority being fructose. In its natural form (fruit) paired up with fiber, it has a much slower absorption rate. This means there are lower risks of insulin spike and diabetes. It is very different from processed fructose found in corn syrup.
Over the years, studies have suggested there are many negative effects of fructose. Obesity, type-2 diabetes, heart disease and some forms of cancer have been linked to fructose.
High fructose diet slows recovery from traumatic brain injury
Over five million Americans live with traumatic brain injury. Sadly, for an estimated 52,000 people, head trauma leads to death each year. For this reason, a great amount of time is spent on studying brain health. Researchers at UCLA discovered that rats fed fructose-infused water and exposed to a pulse of fluid to the head that reproduced brain injury showed an inability to escape a maze that ordinarily they had no problems navigating. The team also noticed that the fructose altered several biological processes in the animals’ brains after the trauma. For example, neurons were unable to communicate with each other, record memories and produce enough energy to fuel basic functions.
This latest research suggests that fructose disrupts the pathways between the brain cells when we learn or experience something new. For people who are trying to recover from traumatic brain injury and are struggling to relearn, this makes it even more difficult.
High fructose diet also affects learning and memory
Ice cream, cookies, jellies and jams are examples of high fructose food items. It might surprise you to know that some yogurts, crackers and salad dressings also have a lot of fructose in them. In the UCLA study the high fructose diet side effects were obvious to the research team. The brain cells in the rats just had too much trouble signaling each other and thus made it hard for them to think clearly enough to recall the route out of the maze. Again, this was the same maze the rats found their way out of several weeks earlier without any problems.
The high fructose diet showed the rats developed insulin resistance. Insulin can penetrate the blood-brain barrier. Researchers suspect the hormone may signal neurons to trigger reactions that can disrupt learning and therefore cause memory loss. They concluded that eating too much fructose could block the insulin’s ability to store sugar for energy. Energy is required for processing thoughts and emotions. The whole idea that a high-fructose diet hurts the brain, as well as the body, is a relatively new revelation.
High fructose corn syrup side effects
From a chemical standpoint fructose is similar to table sugar. We know that too much sugar of any kind is not healthy. Too many extra calories can lead to a host of health problems, such as weight gain, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and heart disease.
While disrupting insulin is one factor, as mentioned above, there is also research to suggest that high fructose has an impact on triglyceride levels and LDL (bad) cholesterol levels. Since fructose goes straight to the liver to metabolize, it is more likely to be converted into fatty acid and add to the triglyceride load, as well as cholesterol level. High cholesterol is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke.
Reading labels when you go to the market and cooking with less sugar can help keep you healthier. The American Heart Association guidelines suggest no more than 100 calories of added sugar per day for most women, while men should limit their daily intake to no more than 150 calories. This works out to about six teaspoons of sugar for women and nine for men.
Reducing sugars in your diet
A lot has been written and said about sugars and diet. Countless studies have suggested that reducing sugars in our diet and improving our overall nutrition will significantly lower the obesity problem around the world. For instance, one study in Toronto, Canada suggested that drinking high-fructose beverages on their own not only led to weight gain, but led to men consuming more food, as well as higher levels of uric acid. When uric acid builds up it can cause gout, kidney stones or kidney failure. At the same time, there are some scientist who believe that too many calories from all food, not just sugars like fructose, are to blame for a lot of our health problems, including obesity related illnesses.
The United States Department of Agriculture estimates that close to 40 percent of the added sugars Americans consume come from soda and sports drinks. If you are a regular drinker of sweetened beverages, try to slowly scale back and if you can, get to the point where you have eliminated them completely from your diet.
Sugar comes in different forms; fructose or syrup, sugar, sucrose, dextrose, and maltose are just a few examples. When you pick something up off the shelf at the market and you read more than three different forms of sugar on the label, consider putting in back on the shelf and looking for a substitute.
When it comes to desserts, opting for homemade is best. That way you can control the sugar content. Keep in mind, you don’t have to use the same amount of sugar or syrup the recipe calls for. Often using half or three-quarters of what is called for does not hurt the taste or consistency of what you are baking.
Almost eleven percent of the average American’s caloric intake comes from fructose. It’s hard to believe when you consider that high fructose syrup has a fairly young history. It was first introduced to consumers in the early 1970’s, but did not take long to penetrate the American diet.
While some people just happen to have a sweet tooth and love sugary drinks, cookies, cakes, candy and fructose-filled processed foods, the risks associated with such a diet could end up being a bitter pill to swallow.


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Australia’s world-class business events offering will be on show in record numbers at the Business Events Australia booth at IMEX this year, with 33 suppliers representing an array of destinations, airlines, convention centers, accommodation, team building experiences and destination management companies, all exhibiting at the booth.
Coinciding with the highest representation by Australian industry at the event to date, the country is experiencing record levels of infrastructure and development including new venues, convention center expansions, major hotel developments and city precincts.
“Australia is at IMEX America in force this year to share first-hand our exceptional event delivery capabilities, knowledge sectors and business events products and experiences,” says Penny Lion, executive general manager events, Tourism Australia. “The current unprecedented level of infrastructure development underway in Australia means we have the business event venues, accommodation, technology and service providers that can make any event a success, from a small incentive group to one numbering in the thousands.”
The country has recently welcomed many new luxury hotels including The Sofitel Sydney Darling Harbour, located next to ICC Sydney. Brisbane’s South Bank precinct has seen the opening of The Emporium Hotel, within walking distance to the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Center. Further north, Cairns will welcome three new properties from The Crystalbrook Collection—the first of which will open in November.
Large scale developments are also increasing the Australian offering. The AUD 200 million redevelopment of Brisbane’s Howard Smith Wharves will see the introduction of event spaces to host up to 1,200 guests while in Sydney the harbourside Barangaroo development offers more than 40 newly built restaurants, bars and event spaces for up to 5,000 guests.
In Melbourne the newly expanded Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Center has added 188,000 square feet of exhibition and adaptable event spaces—making a grand total of more than 430,000 square feet of pillar-less exhibition space.
For more info, visit businessevents.australia.com


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The Beijing Olympic Games 2008 are going to start in less than 2 days time and this biggest spots event is going to subject online video streaming technologies to a rigours testing.
Live steaming of videos starting from the opening ceremony to closing ceremony are going to be available live to Internet users of US, UK, Australia, China & Canada and in other 77 countries users can watch highlights.
Live broadcast of 2008 China Olympics websites accessible for UK, US, Australia, China and Canada Internet users
- USA – http://www.nbcolympics.com/ (NBC)
- United Kingdom – http://bbc.co.uk/olympics (BBC)
- Australia – http://au.sports.yahoo.com/olympics/video/ ( Yahoo 7) and http://www.abc.net.au/olympics/ (ABC)
- Canada – http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/ (CBC)
- China – http://www.cctvolympics.com ( CC TV)
In other 77 countries including India, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Nigeria, etc viewers can watch highlights YouTube. Couple of days ago Google started a new YouTube channel Beijing Olympics 2008 to broadcast highlights of the Olympic games in the countries where online broadcasters haven’t bought exclusive rights.
YouTube Channel to view highlights – Beijing Olympics 2008
China is going to unleash the Olympics with a grand spectacular opening ceremony on 8th August. So don’t miss to see it live.
Local Time of Beijing Opening Ceremony in few countries
Washington D.C., USA 08:00am Friday (EDT)
Ottawa, Canada 08:00am Friday (EDT)
United Kingdom 01:00pm Friday (BST)
China 08:00pm Friday (CST)
India 05:30pm Friday (IST)
Canberra, Australia 10:00pm Friday (EST)
Time in Japan 09:00pm Friday (JST)
Republic of Korea 09:00pm Friday (KST)
France 02:00pm Friday (CEST)
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Great, just great. The CBC, in it’s infinite wisdom, isn’t streaming the finals for the women’s -67kg and men’s -80kg Taekwondo competition. The one where we have two competitors (one of who is a favourite for gold) in the quarter-finals. Thanks, CBC!
All of the live broadcasts are disabled for our territory, ie. USA! BBC, Australia, Yahoo, etc … No joke.
I feel like I’m in a communist state. F*** NBC and those corporate media pigs. Just turn the TV off!
I dont think that there are any legal online streams for Spain viewers. You can watch highlights on YouTube Official Olympics Channel
Is there any streaming for the olympics in Spain?
Yahoo provides only 100 hours of footage from Beijing, including the special live stream each day at a dedicated time and featuring some of the most popular Olympic sports.
For complete schedule of live broadcast on Yahoo 7 please check this Yahoo News Article
You mentioned that Yahoo7 broadcast live streaming. But apparently, I dont seem to be able to find any live broadcasting on the website. Perhaps, you could direct me to it?
I would like to watch live on internet the olympic games, my IP adress is from Finnland. Could youplease recomment a good site?
thanks a lot.
i want see 2008 olympic starting cermony in china
The links provided in the article points to live online streams.
Is there online broadcast avilable to view online ???
OMG thank you so much for this. I highly appreciate.


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For a person not accustomed to Bitcoin, the first question that comes to mind is, “What is Bitcoin?” And another common concern that is often asked relates to the Bitcoin cost. It began a under 10 cents per Bitcoin upon its intro in very early 2009. It has risen gradually considering that and also has hovered around $4000 per Bitcoin lately. So pertaining to Bitcoin value or the Bitcoin price this is a most impressive recognition of value as well as has actually created lots of, numerous millionaires over the last eight years.
The Bitcoin market is worldwide and the citizens of China as well as Japan have been particularly energetic in its acquisition along with other Eastern nations. However, just recently in Bitcoin news the Chinese government has actually attempted to suppress its activity because country. That action drove the value of Bitcoin down momentarily yet it soon rose back and is currently near to its previous worth.
The Bitcoin background chart is extremely fascinating. Its designer was an confidential group of dazzling mathematicians ( utilizing the pseudonym Satoski Nakamoto) that created it in 2008 to be “virtual gold” as well as launched the very first Bitcoin software application in early 2009 throughout the height of the UNITED STATES recession. They recognized that to have long-term worth, it like gold needed to have a limited supply. So in producing it they topped the supply at 21 million Bitcoin.
Bitcoin mining describes the process whereby new Bitcoin is created. With traditional money, government chooses when and also where to publish and also disperse it. With Bitcoin, “miners” use unique software program to resolve intricate mathematical troubles and are issued a particular number of Bitcoin in return.
A inquiry that after that develops is, is Bitcoin mining worth it. The solution is NO for the ordinary person. It takes extremely innovative knowledge and also a effective computer system as well as this combination of elements makes it unattainable for the masses. This applies even more to bitcoin mining 2017 than in previous years.
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A growing number of companies are starting to see the value of approving cryptocurrencies as a legitimate payment choice. Some significant business that do are DISH network, Microsoft, Expedia, Shopify shops, Newegg, Payza, 2Pay4You, as well as others.Two significant holdouts right now are Walmart and Amazon.com.
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One has to know just how to get Bitcoins, exactly how to purchase Bitcoin or how to get Bitcoin with bank card to get begun. Coinbase is a very popular site to do this. Their cost is 3.75% and also the acquiring limit is $10,000 daily. This would probably be the easiest method to buy bitcoins.
Others want to acquire Bitcoin with debit card. Coinbase additionally supplies this service and has clear detailed directions on exactly how to wage either your debit or bank card.
There are those that wish to buy Bitcoin promptly. This can be done at Paxful, Inc. and also can be done via W. Union or any kind of credit/debit card.
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There are several types of electronic pocketbooks to select from. A web pocketbook allows you to send, get and also store Bitcoin though your internet internet browser. An additional type is a desktop computer purse and also right here the pocketbook software is kept straight on your computer system. There are likewise mobile wallets which are created for usage by a smart phone.
A inquiry that sometimes shows up is that of Bitcoin stock or just how to purchase Bitcoin supply. Without a doubt one of the most common means to continue in this area is to buy Bitcoin straight as well as not its supply.
There is one entity called Bitcoin Investment trust which is an investment fund that is designed to track the marketplace flow of Bitcoin. Some experts nevertheless are calling this a dangerous way to become involved in this market.
The Bitcoin exchange rate USD is a closely watched standard both each day and long term over the last 8 years since its intro to the globe’s economic industry. A prominent business to receive one of the most existing price in Bitcoin valuation is XE. They show Bitcoin to USD assessment and additionally the full Bitcoin rate chart, the Bitcoin value chart as well as the Bitcoin to USD graph. If you ask, “How much is one Bitcoin?” you will constantly understand from their continuously upgraded graphes.
Similar inquiries that turn up in this field associate with the bitcoin rate history, the bitcoin price chart live, the bitcoin to dollar exchange rate, the bitcoin dollar chart and the bitcoin 5 year chart. The formerly stated internet site, xe, is additionally a good resource for answers to these inquiries.
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Almost half of UK businesses (46%) increased investment into automation post-lockdown, according to a new report.
However the nation lags behind the United States (75%), France (68%) and Germany (67%).
The research, conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of emerging technology consultancy Emergence Partners, surveyed 500 IT decision makers across the US, UK, France and Germany.
It represents a clear signal from businesses globally that investment in automation is a huge priority, with two thirds (66%) of respondents increasing investment in the technology either significantly or slightly.
While investment undoubtedly remains strong in the markets surveyed, IT decision makers highlighted several key issues hampering further adoption.
A lack of in-house technology knowledge & skills (39%) was the chief concern. However, also present was a feeling that businesses lack a strategic approach to technology buying (30%).
Other issues focused on difficulty navigating a ‘complex and commoditised automation ecosystem’ (29%) and lack of senior level buy-in, with almost one in four (24%) indicating they’re yet to get the seal of approval from those in charge.
Further limiting factors came from the vendor landscape, with outdated vendor licensing models (21%) and a lack of consultancy/support from vendors (20%) cited as key concerns.
David Poole, CEO of Emergence Partners, said: “Technology adoption is truly a non-negotiable feature of the modern workplace, and as these results demonstrate it’s also a top priority for business. However, what is clear is businesses feel somewhat lost when looking to invest, whether that’s due to a lack of appropriate knowledge within their team or a sense of confusion when trying to navigate the vendor landscape.
“Our whole business model is focused on helping companies address these issues. Whether by diagnosing potential opportunities on the horizon, developing a strategic roadmap for long-term success, or running tech immersion and executive education sessions, Emergence exists to help businesses navigate the new, disruptive world in which we find ourselves.”COVID-19


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Your phone isn't secretly listening, but you oughta check those privacy settings
There's a perennial online debate about whether Facebook and Google are listening to our conversations on behalf of advertisers.
Many social media users around the world claim they've seen pop-ads on their timelines after having off-line discussions about specific products or services.
Tech expert Toby Shapshak says this is a long-standing hoax.
According to Shapshak, it's highly improbable that Facebook or Google secretly tap into a device's microphone to serve hyper-targeted adverts.
However, the tech giants do 'listen' to your behaviour in other ways.
Voice assistants like Apple's Siri and Amazon Alexa can be activated by certain keywords, Shapshak explains.
He says most pop-up ads on Facebook are targeted based on your online search history.
This is why Shapshak uses an internet search engine called DuckDuckGo, instead of Google, because he says it has greater privacy filters.
There's no doubt that Facebook and Google, and just about every other website, is snooping, listening to us and watching our behaviour. That's how they make their money.Toby Shapshak, Editor-in-chief - Stuff magazine
If you look at Facebook permissions, especially on Android, they have access to enormous amounts of your personal information.Toby Shapshak, Editor-in-chief - Stuff magazine
Whether they are listening to your microphone on your phone is highly improbable. It's a long-standing hoax.Toby Shapshak, Editor-in-chief - Stuff magazine
The chances are that you probably Googled it or mentioned it messaging.Toby Shapshak, Editor-in-chief - Stuff magazine
He warns that social media users should be more worried about the privacy settings on the platforms they use as the world moves towards the surveillance economy.
Shapshak says users should not switch on their voice assistant when the phone is not in use.
Furthermore, he stresses the importance of changing your Facebook permissions to tighten privacy settings.
People don't have to worry about their phones being listened to, they do have to worry about how much of our personal information we are just giving away for free to [online] companies.Toby Shapshak, Editor-in-chief - Stuff magazine
At the same time, digital researcher Jean Le Roux warns that apps installed onto your phone are more likely to be accessing your microphone and listening in on your conversations than Google or Facebook.
Le Roux urges users to read the terms and conditions when downloading third-party apps, especially ones that are free.
When you make use of these services, you are opening up yourself for being targeted by advertising.Jean Le Roux, Research Associate - Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Laboratory
If you're conscious about your privacy, it's a good idea to review your apps (and permission) every now and then.Jean Le Roux, Research Associate - Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Laboratory
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Zoe Saldana has been tapped to become the new celebrity face of L’Oreal Paris.
In a statement, she says:
“As a L’Oréal Paris spokesperson, being able to say, ‘We’re worth it,’ means so much to me,” she said. “I want to share that value with women so they can embrace it and execute life with confidence. I am thrilled to join this beauty journey with such an inspirational brand.”
This is definitely a great look for Zoe.
“Zoe astonishes with her audacious style and feline beauty,” says Cyril Chapuy, L’Oréal Paris’ brand global president. “Attached to her values, unafraid to speak her mind, and confident in her own skin, she embodies infallible force and asserted femininity.”
Be on the lookout for Zoe in upcoming L’Oreal print and television ads. E! will also be broadcasting an exclusive preview of her L’Oreal debut on E! News tonight 7pm and 11:30pm.


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All technologies considered: NPR
There is a myth that only white nerds play and make video games. At this week’s video game extravaganza in Los Angeles called the Electronic Entertainment Expo, Microsoft did little to change that image.
At the company’s E3 press conference, there was an invisible announcer, but there was only one woman who was on stage and spoke. Bonnie Ross, who heads up the Microsoft studio that produces her hit game Halo, spoke for less than two minutes.
“When you think of the Halo universe, you think of it as a real place inhabited by real characters,” Ross said during his brief appearance on stage.
Leigh Alexander, who writes about gaming culture and business for the Gamasutra website, is an avid gamer but says Microsoft has turned her off her Xbox console.
“That branding never really appealed to me, and when I watched Microsoft’s press conference, I felt the same way,” says Alexander. “I didn’t experience any diversity.”
It’s a complaint that has haunted the gaming industry since its inception.
“I think that’s a fair comment,” said Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft vice president for devices and studios. “We are very aware of whether we have women who are on stage for us, telling the story, playing certain games? I think we had a few yesterday, telling our story, but we could do more; we want to do more.”
But what was on stage mirrored what was in the games.
One game among this year’s titles has sparked an internet storm. Assassin’s Creed Unity – the latest iteration of the franchise – is set on the eve of the French Revolution. The game, developed by Ubisoft, will be available on Microsoft’s Xbox One as well as Sony’s PlayStation 4. Players can play as up to four characters, but none of them are female.
In an interview with gaming site Polygon, Unity creative director Alex Amancio said having a female assassin was “a lot of extra production work”. Twitter lit up and criticism piled up under the hashtag #womenaretoohardtoanimate. Game reviewer Alexander thinks Amancio’s comments are telling.
“What their response reveals is that they didn’t,” she says. “That from the beginning it was not a problem.”
Alexander was also among many – including game designers – who wondered why animating a female character was so difficult.
“I think they have to assume they’re going to have to animate all these flowing dresses, flowing hair, shaking tits and things like that,” she says. “[It’s] a really interesting insight into how technicians in the video game industry view women’s bodies.”
But Alexander says it’s also curious because Ubisoft put female protagonists in previous versions of the game; a statement from Ubisoft indicates that it is committed to diversity and will continue to seek to showcase strong female characters.
To the company’s credit, actress, comedian, and gamer Aisha Tyler has hosted its E3 press conference for the past three years. Tyler says that initially she received a lot of flak from a segment of the gaming community who refused to believe she was actually gaming.
“Coming and telling me that something that I’ve lived with and loved since I was little is illegitimate, that I’m lying about it,” Tyler says, “I’m literally saying to somebody’s face, ‘F – – k you’ – and I made it to this floor.”
Tyler says she loves games like Halo and Gears of War. But, she says, there’s a large segment of gamers who fit the white-lonely-nerdy guy stereotype.
“This is a band that was left out and now they’re turning around and they’re leaving out, and the irony and the hypocrisy of that is extraordinary,” Tyler said. “So I’m calling a lot of people about it. So nobody’s letting you into your club and now you’ve got one and you don’t want to let anyone else in and you know you’re just full of them right now. moment .”
Tyler says that over time the criticism of him has diminished. Although the first gamers may have been white men, today nearly half are women, and according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, African Americans between the ages of 8 and 18 are spending more time playing video games. than young whites. Sadly, 85% of the people making the games are white and male.
“So look at me, an African-American man running the American branch of a Japanese company,” says Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America. He says Nintendo cares about diversity, but it has a higher priority.
“We look at it as a way for people to have fun and the way the characters are or the way we approach the business is really from that perspective,” he says.
Nintendo’s new lineup notably features the princess from its hit game Zelda as a warrior. And with its first Wii console — which focused on fitness games — Nintendo expanded its market among women. In 2013, the global games industry surpassed $90 billion in revenue. The fastest growth was in mobile and online games, which are more diverse. Alexander, the reviewer, says that now that console games are being played online, major game companies should expand their roster of characters.
“Competitive online games were very present at E3, and no one really wants to buy them and play them only with 17-year-old boys,” Alexander said.
And certainly the controversy around Assassin’s Creed Unity has shown that on the Internet, players are ready to fight not only to win but also to be heard.


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Chinese server maker Inspur has been added to the US Department of Commerce’s ‘Entity List,’ essentially blacklisting US businesses from working with it.
One of the oldest Chinese tech brands, Inspur has deep ties with western tech companies, including hyperscale cloud providers.
The company operates joint ventures with IBM and Cisco within China to supply local businesses, and runs its own cloud platform in the country. It supplies hyperscale data center companies around the world, with Microsoft investing $20 million into the company back in 2005.
In March last year, Inspur announced that it was partnering with JD Cloud to sell liquid-cooled servers, and last month revealed that it was a key supplier for Chinese search giant Baidu. Other major Chinese customers include Alibaba, Tencent, and China Mobile.
Nvidia has called the company “fantastic” and “critical to bringing the latest AI technologies to all of our customers,” while Intel is a major supplier.
But now all those relationships will have to be put on hold – US companies can apply for exemptions to the blacklist, but this can be difficult to impossible depending on the severity of the ban.
Back in 2020, the US Department of Defense said that Inspur was linked to the Chinese military, causing Intel to briefly pause chip sales. However, the DoD list did not include any sanctions, so sales were resumed.
The next year, President Biden banned US individuals and businesses from investing in Inspur.
Shares in Inspur Electronic Information Industry Co. fell 10 percent following the new sanctions.
Inspur declined to comment but said that it was evaluating the sanctions.
In total, 28 companies were added to the Entity List. Of note was Loongson, the company behind the promising LoongArch microarchitecture, used by the Chinese military as well as enterprises, and viewed as an eventual competitor to Western instruction set architectures.
Also recently blacklisted were six entities involved in high-altitude balloons, after the US shot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon earlier this year.


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The desktop computer as we know it could be in danger! Our hobby is doomed! - Let's face it. We're all going to be reading these words a trillion times during the next 12 months. So we decided to head this one off at the pass. Is the onset of ARM a real threat to desktop computing, or is it more of an evolutionary force?
Over the past several years, the demand for desktop computers in the home has been steadily shrinking, displaced by notebooks and all-in-one systems. In fact, 69 percent of PCs sold last quarter were notebooks, compared to the falling 22 percent that were desktops. This has been the trend ever since notebook sales caught up to desktop sales back in 2008. (Hey, it could be worse.) These days, all-in-one systems and notebooks are capable of offering near-desktop performance (so long as you don't mind giving up the ability to play modern games and upgrade in an affordable, modular fashion).
Something a bit more worrisome is the recent explosion of ultra-mobile products, specifically smartphones and tablets. In just a few years, smartphones and tablets have made stupendous jumps in performance. Formerly pokey computing devices have become pocketable powerhouses capable of many of the same basic functions as an ordinary desktop. The kingpin behind all of this development? ARM, a versatile processor microarchitecture that emphasizes power efficiency, yet is surprisingly high in performance.