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Sad Santas Confront Empty Malls: ‘Do I Have Something In My Beard?’ (#GotBitcoin?)
[caption id="attachment_5995" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Rick Moody, The Santa At Auburn Mall In Maine, Says When Children Aren’t Around, ‘You Wave To The Customer-Service People.’ [/caption] Vacant storefronts don’t herald jolly holidays for professional Kriss Kringles; ‘I have a book for when it’s really, really slow’. Sad Santas Confront Empty Malls:…
Trump Policies Cause Chinese Stocks To Out-perform Those of US. (#GotBitcoin?)
#GotBitcoin? Shares in China have outperformed their U.S. counterparts since Beijing and Washington agreed to hold fire in their trade battle, reversing a pattern that has held for most of this year. Trump Policies Cause Chinese Stocks To Out-perform Those of US. What’s Happening Calm has returned to China’s stock…
Food, The Gut’s Microbiome And The FDA’s Regulatory Framework
There Is Rapid Growth In The Number Of Products That Claim To Affect The Gut Microbiota And Benefit Health. New understanding of how our gut microbial communities (microbiota) transform dietary ingredients into metabolic products that affect human biology is altering our definitions of the nutritional value of foods (1, 2). Food,…
I Downloaded My DNA This Week (#GotBitcoin?)
I Downloaded My DNA This Week One of the features that all these DNA companies like 23andme, Ancestry, etc. provide is the ability to download the raw data from a genetic scan. I took a test a couple years ago as part of a sales pitch for the company I…
Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten a Crisis (#GotBitcoin?)
Evian’s Water Bottling Plant In Évian-Les-Bains Facing a consumer backlash and stricter regulation, companies are trying to do what’s eluded them for years: make a better bottle. Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled A Drinks Boom, Now Threaten A Crisis Bottled water, which recently dethroned soda as America’s most popular beverage, is…
Seaborne Exports Plummet At Southern California Ports (#GotBitcoin?)
Seaborne Exports Plummet At Southern California Ports Retaliatory tariffs from China likely cut into demand after exporters pulled forward outbound shipments in earlier months. Seaborne Exports Plummet at Southern California Ports Seaborne exports at the biggest U.S. trans-Pacific trade gateway plunged last month, in an apparent sign of the impact…
Facebook Bug Potentially Exposed Unshared Photos of Up 6.8 Million Users (#GotBitcoin?)
The Social-Network Company Says Apps May Have Had Improper Access To Photos Facebook Inc. said pictures belonging to up to 6.8 million users may have been exposed by a software glitch that granted app developers access to the photos, the latest in a series of privacy lapses at the social-media…
Chinese Hackers Breach U.S. Navy Contractors (#GotBitcoin?)
Navy aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan conducting an exercise in the South China Sea in August Review of cyber vulnerability is ordered after intruders gain access to information about military technology. Chinese Hackers Breach U.S. Navy Contractors Chinese hackers are breaching Navy contractors to steal everything from ship-maintenance data to missile…
Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA (#GotBitcoin?)
Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA Unintended consequences have included enlarged rabbit tongues and extra pig vertebrae, as bioethicists warn of hubris. Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA The purported birth last month of the world’s first gene-edited human babies, claimed by a Chinese scientist, spurred a…
New Ways To Profit From Renting Out Single-Family Homes (#GotBitcoin?)
New Ways To Profit From Renting Out Single-Family Homes Two-and-a-half years into the U.S. housing recovery, the real-estate industry is rolling out new ways for individuals to invest in the property market. New Ways To Profit From Renting Out Single-Family Homes Brokers, property managers and others are helping buyers purchase…
At Gathering of Spy Chiefs, U.S., Allies Agreed To Contain Huawei (#GotBitcoin?)
CyberSecurity Newsflash!: (Youtube) Spy chiefs from the West’s most powerful intelligence alliance agreed in a July meeting in Canada they needed to contain Huawei Technologies Co., according to people familiar with the matter, punctuating years of worry about the Chinese maker of telecommunications equipment. Concerns are shared by top intelligence…
Many U.S. Financial Officers Think a Recession Will Hit Next Year (#GotBitcoin?)
#GotBitcoin? Almost half of U.S. chief financial officers believe a recession will strike the U.S. economy by the end of 2019, with the tight labor market and growing trade tensions driving economic jitters among corporate America. Many U.S. Financial Officers Think a Recession Will Hit Next Year Additionally, more than 80%…