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(Bloomberg) -- Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders are taking a victory lap after Amazon.com Inc. and other technology giants leased millions of square feet of office space in New York City -- without the billions of dollars in government support that Amazon tried to negotiate earlier this year.Amazon signed a lease on Friday for 335,000 square feet in the Hudson Yards neighborhood, enough space for more than 1,500 workers. The largest U.S. e-commerce company said it wasn't getting tax benefits or other incentives.A few weeks earlier, Facebook Inc. leased more than 1.5 million square feet in the city, and the social-networking giant is looking for 700,000 more square feet, according to the Wall Street Journal. Google is also in the midst of a major expansion in the city, adding thousands of employees in coming years.The moves suggest that New York's deep pool of talented workers is still attracting tech companies even after Amazon abandoned a much larger expansion in the area following fierce public criticism of almost $3 billion in tax breaks and subsidies promised to the company.https://t.co/AC64pG0nZI pic.twitter.com/xzCepkX4AV— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 6, 2019 Ocasio-Cortez, who represents parts of the Bronx and Queens, was a vocal critic of Amazon's doomed HQ2 deal, and she tweeted that the company's recent lease proved she was right.Sanders, who has slammed Amazon for warehouse working conditions and the company's low federal tax rate, weighed in this weekend, too.Their comments were pilloried by some on Twitter, who said that 1,500 Amazon jobs are a fraction of the company's earlier plan to bring about 25,000 workers to the area.Ocasio-Cortez responded by arguing that Amazon's larger jobs pledge was longer-term and would have cost the city more.To contact the reporter on this story: Alistair Barr in San Francisco at firstname.lastname@example.com contact the editors responsible for this story: Tom Giles at firstname.lastname@example.com, Virginia Van Natta, James LuddenFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
(Bloomberg) -- Less than a year after Amazon.com Inc. walked away from a planned headquarters in New York, the e-commerce giant has announced a significant expansion in midtown Manhattan.The company signed a lease for 335,000 square feet in the Hudson Yards neighborhood on the west side. The new office will accommodate more than 1,500 workers and is slated to open in 2021, according to an e-mailed statement."As we shared earlier this year, we plan to continue to hire and grow organically across our 18 Tech Hubs, including New York City," the Seattle-based company said.Amazon abandoned plans in February to build an additional headquarters in New York's Long Island City neighborhood following fierce public criticism of tax breaks promised to the company, and concerns about the impact on housing costs and transportation. The move sent shock waves through New York's real estate community, which worried that the city was becoming inhospitable to business.But recent months have shown that companies are still attracted to New York and its deep pool of talented workers. Facebook Inc. announced that it was leasing more than 1.5 million square feet at Hudson Yards last month. And Google is also in the midst of a major expansion in the city.Amazon said it is not receiving tax benefits or other incentives for its new office, which will be located in SL Green Realty Corp.'s building on 10th Avenue between 33rd and 34th Streets. The outpost will be roughly the same size as the company's other corporate offices in New York, where it currently has more than 3,500 employees in its tech hub.Dow Jones reported the lease earlier on Friday.To contact the reporter on this story: Noah Buhayar in Seattle at firstname.lastname@example.com contact the editors responsible for this story: Craig Giammona at email@example.com, Linus Chua, Stanley JamesFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
(Bloomberg) -- Peloton Interactive Inc. has been pilloried online and punished on the stock market following the release of a holiday ad for its stationary exercise bike that was deemed culturally insensitive. But the backlash could be a good thing for the company in the long run.The commercial, which features a woman documenting a year in her life with the Peloton bike her male partner gave her, struck some viewers as out of touch -- suggesting the already thin "Grace from Boston" was undergoing a strenuous workout in order to lose weight for the guy. The video, released about a month ago, went viral on social media, eliciting a scathing parody by comedian Eva Victor and prompting Peloton to close comments on the official YouTube video.As the internet buzz seemed to hit a peak earlier this week, Peloton's stock fell 9%. But some experts say the increased attention could end up boosting sales. The shares were up 3.7% on Friday in New York."They might benefit more because people are looking it up and learning more about it," Laura Ries, president of advertising consultancy firm Ries & Ries, said. It's still a short-term bump for a company that has historically been largely successful with marketing, with a total member base of 1.6 million people including more than 560,000 who have one of the proprietary bikes or treadmills plus a fitness subscription, according to Peloton's most recent quarterly report. The official Peloton ad on the company's YouTube channel has been seen by more than 3.6 million people.The controversy comes at a crucial time for the New York-based company, which is new to market scrutiny after listing shares in September, as it seeks to capitalize on the all-important holiday sales season and expand in new markets like the U.K. and Germany. The shares had gained 27% since its initial public offering before the wave of internet commentary dragged it down on Tuesday. The company is also facing increased competition in the booming at-home fitness market, especially among workout apps. Nike Inc., Aaptiv Inc. and apps like Kayla Itsines's Sweat with Kayla have all gained followings for exercise programs available on a user's phone.Peloton has been punished by Wall Street for its focus on growth over profitability. The company sells a stationary bike starting at about $2,000 and a treadmill that costs about $4,000, in addition to a basic "connected fitness" subscription plan at $39 a month for those pieces of hardware, and the separate digital apps that don't require equipment. Its loss narrowed in the three months ended Sept. 30 to $49.8 million.The stock surged almost 10% last Friday after the company was reportedly seeing strong demand on Black Friday. And earlier this month, Peloton lowered the price of its digital subscription app to $12.99 a month from $19.49 in conjunction with the launch of new apps for Amazon's Fire TV and the Apple Watch, a move that could entice new users. JMP Securities analysts raised their price target on the stock after the subscription reduction, saying it "broadens Peloton's reach, improves conversion, and reduces purchase friction." Ronald Josey, a JMP analyst, said there are "a lot of good things going on" at the company and that people will continue to buy the bike and other products despite the controversy.According to the most recent earnings report, Peloton expects its user base to grow to 680,000 or more by the end of its second quarter thanks to holiday sales and New Year's resolutions.Scott Galloway, a professor of marketing a the NYU Stern School of Business, said the commercial itself is tone deaf and borderline offensive. But "in this attention-driven economy, anything that gets attention is arguably a positive," he said in an interview. "It's bringing Peloton into the social discourse on very regular basis, which is what ads are supposed to do." If Peloton had to do it again, Galloway said, "I'd argue they probably would."(Updates shares in third paragraph. A previous version of the story corrected a company error in the subscription price.)To contact the reporter on this story: Julie Verhage in New York at email@example.com contact the editors responsible for this story: Mark Milian at email@example.com, Molly Schuetz, Anne VanderMeyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
BP goes all-in on AWS, which highlights the efficiency and reliability of Amazon's (AMZN) cloud services offerings.
Tech giants like Alphabet, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft and Apple are foraying into the healthcare industry to capitalize on its prospects.
A slew of advanced data breaches is expected to increase the demand for cloud security offerings in the coming years. The prospects are prompting cloud service providers to up the ante in this space.
Alibaba (BABA)-backed AutoX applies for testing its self-driving vehicles, without in-car driver backup, thereby stirring competition in the autonomous-vehicle tech space.
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Social-media companies insist they're making progress in fighting the manipulation of their platforms. But two researchers, working on an extremely modest budget, have just shown that their defenses are routinely bypassed by an entire manipulation industry, largely based in Russia.In a report for NATO's Strategic Communications Center of Excellence, Sebastian Bay and Rolf Fredheim described an experiment they ran between May and August. In the first two months, during and just after the European Parliament election campaign, they hired 11 Russian and five European "manipulation service providers," who they found simply by searching the web. The companies then delivered 3,530 comments, 25,750 likes, 20,000 views and 5,100 followers on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube — all fake.Given how serious the social-media platforms claim to be about purging inauthentic activity, the experiment's success rate was stunning. Four weeks after they were posted, a vast majority of the fake engagements were still live; even reporting them to the platforms didn't get most removed.The study reveals a major weakness in the way the social-media giants report their anti-fraud efforts. Facebook has a lot to say about how much content it removes, for instance, but that's like the mayor of a town reporting that 50% of its roads are now pothole-free: You never know which 50%. The important metric is how much manipulative content gets through. Bay and Fredheim found that, once professionals get involved, most of their work sticks, to the extent that they often deliver more engagements than promised for the money. Defenses only work on the most basic level. The pros are always a step ahead.NATO, of course, is mostly interested in political manipulation, and the researchers found that some of the same accounts that helped carry out their study "had been used to buy engagement on 721 political pages and 52 government pages, including the official accounts of two presidents, the official page of a European political party, and a number of junior and local politicians in Europe and the United States."An important question is whether such efforts actually work. One recent paper tried to determine what effect the Russian troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency has had on U.S. political attitudes. The IRA, whose employees and owner were indicted in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into meddling in the 2016 election, used some of the same techniques as the NATO Stratcom researchers. But, the paper said, their fake accounts were effectively preaching to the converted. Even for users who directly interacted with the IRA accounts, the researchers found "no substantial effects" on their political opinions, engagement with politics or attitudes toward members of the opposing party.This doesn't mean social-network manipulation is ineffective for political purposes; much more research would be needed to draw any sweeping conclusions. What's clear now, though, is that the manipulation industry isn't primarily geared toward political uses. Bay and Fredheim found that "more than 90% of purchased engagements on social media are used for commercial purposes." Even though it's Russian-based, this industry isn't about evil Kremlin masterminds trying to turn technology against American democracy. Rather, it's about talented Russian engineers, stuck in the wrong country for launching grand commercial ventures like Facebook or YouTube, trying to make money by milking the existing platforms.What that usually amounts to is helping online "influencers" cheat advertisers. The abysmally low removal rates for fake video views in the Stratcom experiment show the platforms aren't fighting such abuses hard enough. They don't have to: They're still essentially black boxes from an advertising client's point of view. As a result, perhaps billions of dollars (estimates vary wildly) are lost to such fraud each year.Platforms have spent enough time trying, and failing, to prove that self-regulation can work for them. Governments should act to protect not so much voters as advertisers from the manipulation industry, penalizing social-media companies for their inability to prevent fraud and demanding more transparency. Now, as Bay and Fredheim wrote, "data is becoming scarcer and our opportunities to research this field is constantly shrinking. This effectively transfers the ability to understand what is happening on the platforms to social media companies. Independent and well-resourced oversight is needed."Policy makers need to realize that the platform-manipulation industry doesn't thrive because it's a Kremlin weapon. Political weaponization is only a side effect of a parasitic industry built on the flaws of the social-media business model. It's the model that needs to be regulated.To contact the author of this story: Leonid Bershidsky at email@example.com contact the editor responsible for this story: Timothy Lavin at email@example.com column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.Leonid Bershidsky is Bloomberg Opinion's Europe columnist. He was the founding editor of the Russian business daily Vedomosti and founded the opinion website Slon.ru.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinion©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
(Bloomberg) -- As protests jolt Hong Kong business, organizations from Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. to universities are adapting by going digital, switching to video-conferencing app Zoom to conduct online investor briefings and virtual lectures.Zoom Video Communications Inc. joins a number of internet services that have taken off since the unrest began over the summer, from mobile messenger Telegram to work-at-home apps. In a financial hub that thrives on face-to-face deal-making and power lunches, Zoom helps fill a void created by transport disruptions and concerns about personal safety.Hong Kong's business community leans on the app's features, which include slide-sharing and support for up to 1,000 call participants, to carry on cross-border communications and with mainland China, where WhatsApp, Telegram and Google alternatives are banned. There's a local version of Zoom that's compatible, which is why the app's downloads in Hong Kong soared 460% in November, after an escalation in protest violence first triggered a spike in September, according to researcher Sensor Tower.Read more: Zoom's Eric Yuan, the CEO Who Made Videoconferencing Bearable"As schools continue to be in lock-down mode, we've had to move our lectures online to minimize disruption," said Cheung Siu Wai, a professor at Hong Kong Baptist University, adding Skype has been another option.Now valued at $19 billion, Zoom's shares have almost doubled since listing on the Nasdaq this year. It's unclear how the spike in downloads may translate into revenue growth for Zoom, founded by Chinese emigrant Eric Yuan, who now resides in California.The company has various pricing tiers and recently added HSBC to a roster of paying clients that includes Uber Technologies Inc. and Zendesk Inc., underpinning 85% growth in revenue to $167 million in the October quarter. Representatives for the company, which is backed by investors including Salesforce.com Inc., Tiger Global and Qualcomm Inc., declined to comment on how the Hong Kong protests have affected its business."With the periodic traffic disruptions, our colleagues have no choice but to use video-conferencing apps," said Derek Chan, co-founder of Master Concept, a Hong Kong-based cloud service provider.To contact the reporters on this story: Carol Zhong in Hong Kong at firstname.lastname@example.com;Lulu Yilun Chen in Hong Kong at email@example.com contact the editors responsible for this story: Edwin Chan at email@example.com, Vlad SavovFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
(Bloomberg Markets) -- They flew in from across the U.S.—venture capitalists and entrepreneurs—to discuss a new way to sell stock to the public and keep more money for themselves. The venue, appropriately, was a landmark hotel nicknamed "The Bonanza Inn."Not invited: the bankers who've long dominated initial public offerings.For much of that September day at San Francisco's Palace Hotel, investors behind many of Silicon Valley's biggest unicorns took turns railing against Wall Street. Some fumed over the hefty fees bankers collect for ushering companies onto the stock market. Many criticized IPOs for being priced too low—shortchanging the company owners—so banks could deliver quick profits for big money managers.Such complaints have been around for decades, but now there might be a solution. In 2018 a technique called a direct listing proved that technology can glide a company onto a stock market as smoothly as an expensive fleet of Wall Street underwriters.Two of the dominant U.S. IPO underwriters, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley, are helping to develop the direct listing system in a bet that they can keep a place for themselves in the process. But the San Francisco gathering made it clear that much of Silicon Valley wants to limit the involvement of banks.What a 'Direct Listing' Is, and Why Banks Are Nervous: QuickTakeInstead, the Valley crowd is giving a bigger role to Citadel Securities, a Chicago-based firm with little stake in the existing IPO underwriting market, for its market-making technology.Bringing privately held, capital-hungry companies to the exchange for a public offering of stock is one of Wall Street's oldest and proudest functions. Bankers advise startups on how much they can raise and when to go to market. Once conditions are ripe, the companies embark on a roadshow to drum up investor interest and price the new stock. On the big day, a syndicate of banks—sometimes numbering in the dozens—buys up blocks of stock to parcel out to money manager clients. The typical 7% fee on the money raised in a U.S. IPO has withstood competition for the deals, though some of the most high-profile debuts get discounts. Last year, global IPO fees surpassed $7 billion, with the top three banks each bringing in more than $500 million, according to data compiled by Freeman & Co.Companies have tried alternatives. In 2004, Google Inc. (now Alphabet Inc.) famously opted for a so-called Dutch auction, in which investors submit bids and the final price is the highest at which the entire offering can be sold. Low demand forced the company to cut the offering in half and sell at the bottom of the price range it had sought. But the stock popped on the first day, and then the shares kept climbing. There's been debate ever since over whether Google could have gotten more money with a traditional IPO.A direct listing moves a company's stock onto the public market, allowing venture capitalists and employees to cash out, without raising new capital. It does away with the order-building phase, relying on software to match private shares and public demand on the fly. The risk is that supply and demand fall out of whack, leading to violent price swings or even a trading halt, potentially inflicting major damage. Bankers try to keep that from happening by gauging investor interest.In 2018, Stockholm-based music-streaming company Spotify Technology SA became the first high-profile startup to go public through the technique. Its stock swooned as much as 11% from the opening price of $165.90 and remains below that level today. The company paid about $35 million to Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Allen & Co. By contrast, if Spotify had raised $2.4 billion in a traditional IPO—selling about 10% of the company—it would have paid $75 million even at a discounted 3% fee. For its part of the process, Citadel Securities was paid by the stock exchange.Slack Technologies Inc. followed in 2019. On an overcast morning in June, as a jazz band played in front of the New York Stock Exchange's massive columns, startups across the country watched to see if the technology would succeed in matching a supply of closely held shares with a flood of investor bids in real time. Everything hummed.The opening stock price valued Slack at more than double its latest private funding round valuation. (It has since fallen, on a depressed outlook for company revenue.) Trading volume at the open was the third-highest for any debut in the U.S., the New York Stock Exchange said. Slack, which paid advisers $22 million, probably reduced its costs by about a third compared with a typical IPO, according to bankers involved in the deal, who said they immediately started talking to other companies interested in direct listings.When venture capitalist John O'Farrell lingered on the trading floor, it wasn't to see the bankers. Instead, he waited next to a booth occupied by Citadel Securities, the market-maker majority owned by billionaire hedge fund investor Ken Griffin, to introduce himself to a pair of low-key executives steeped in the deal's wiring. It was their computers that had handled the deluge—and $1 billion of their firm's own money facilitated 1 out of every 5 trades. Citadel Securities wouldn't say if it earned profits on those trades.O'Farrell was clearly impressed. His firm, Andreessen Horowitz, an early investor in Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc., among others, wields immense clout in deciding how Silicon Valley stock offerings are carried out. If an era of direct listings is commencing, the starting point may be that afternoon he spent with Joseph Mecane, Citadel Securities' head of execution services, and Peter Giacchi, head of floor trading, on the floor of the NYSE."Everything we design in the first couple of days is about smooth performance," Mecane would say later at a Citadel Securities office near the stock exchange. "We feel like we have our brand and reputation on the line with this business."Mecane, the former head of electronic equities trading at Barclays Plc, jumped to Citadel Securities in 2017 and has been busy building a team to ensure smooth trading in the more than 1,400 listed entities for which the firm serves as designated market maker. Citadel Securities aims to expand that client set by helping more companies go public. In that sense, the listing business is just an entry point for potential future revenue. Citadel Securities says its goal is to work with banks on listings and not to compete with them.Mecane's counterpart on the trading floor is Giacchi, who's been making markets for more than 20 years, watching machines replace the functions of hundreds of people. Direct listings put the emphasis on traders and their role in price discovery, a development Giacchi welcomes."It's given the floor a renewed sense of value," he says. Now, helped by technology, there is "the ability to process information quickly and reinvent yourself on the floor."Just a few months after O'Farrell's trip to the trading floor, his firm would help lead the charge in San Francisco to tell the other attendees about the promise of direct listings.In June, famed venture capitalist Bill Gurley at Benchmark Capital encouraged his more than 400,000 Twitter followers to call Citadel Securities and Morgan Stanley and pursue their own direct listings. "Other banks want to position direct listings as 'exceptional' or 'rare,' " Gurley wrote.Five more companies may pursue direct listings in 2020, according to Morgan Stanley.Still, it may yet take years for IPOs to give way entirely to direct listings, says M.G. Siegler, a partner at Google Ventures, another major backer of startups. But "I'm not writing it off that it could be the majority of listings moving forward."Basak covers Wall Street for Bloomberg News, television, and radio in New York.To contact the author of this story: Sonali Basak in New York at firstname.lastname@example.com contact the editor responsible for this story: Christine Harper at email@example.com, David ScheerFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
(Bloomberg) -- SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son unveiled a $184 million initiative Friday to accelerate artificial intelligence research in Japan, enlisting Alibaba's Jack Ma to expound on his goal of commercializing the technology.Son's company announced a partnership with the University of Tokyo that includes spending 20 billion yen ($184 million) over 10 years by mobile arm SoftBank Corp. to establish the Beyond AI Institute. He roped in the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. co-founder for an on-campus chat, during which the two billionaires discussed their vision for the future of technology.The institute will support 150 researchers from various disciplines and focus on transitioning AI research from the academic to the commercial using joint ventures between universities and companies. Health-care, city and social infrastructure and manufacturing will be the primary areas of focus, SoftBank Corp. said in a statement. That dovetails with its own goals: in November, SoftBank and Korea's Naver Corp. said they plan to merge Yahoo Japan and Line Corp. into an internet giant under SoftBank's control, to combine resources on AI and challenge leaders from Google to Tencent Holdings Ltd.Read more: SoftBank to Create Japan Internet Giant to Battle Global RivalsSon has long advocated AI as the most revolutionary new field of technological development. The Beyond AI Institute marks an investment in accelerating that research on his home turf, where he has previously bemoaned the relative under-performance of Japan's startup scene. At the same time, he'll be eager to put behind him a tough 2019 thanks to the calamitous implosion at WeWork and the shrinking values of Uber Technologies Inc. and Slack Technologies Inc.Offering a reminder of his most fruitful investment, Son hosted a talk with Ma, whose online retail empire has been the crown jewel in SoftBank's investment portfolio. The two exchanged compliments and advocated passion, optimism and world-changing visions as essential to successful entrepreneurship."In the past 20 years, we've been friends, partners and like soulmates in changing people's lives," said Son. Ma, in turn, said: "He probably has the biggest guts in the world when doing investment."In a rare expression of contrition, Son recently said "there was a problem with my own judgment" after the WeWork debacle. He has imposed greater financial discipline on startups since then. On Friday, he said his enthusiasm for grand projects was undimmed. "My passion and dream is more than 100 times bigger than what I am right now. I am still only at the first step to my 100 steps."To contact the reporters on this story: Vlad Savov in Tokyo at email@example.com;Takahiko Hyuga in Tokyo at email@example.com contact the editors responsible for this story: Edwin Chan at email@example.com, Vlad Savov, Peter ElstromFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
The Communications Workers of America union filed a federal labour charge against Alphabet Inc's Google on Thursday, accusing the company of unlawfully firing four employees to deter workers from engaging in union activities. The complaint, seen by Reuters, will trigger a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) investigation into whether Google violated the four individuals' right to collectively raise concerns about working conditions. Google fired the four named employees "to discourage and chill employees from engaging in protected concerted and union activities," the filing states.
The Communications Workers of America union filed a federal labor charge against Alphabet Inc's Google on Thursday, accusing the company of unlawfully firing four employees to deter workers from engaging in union activities. The complaint, seen by Reuters, will trigger a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) investigation into whether Google violated the four individuals' right to collectively raise concerns about working conditions. Google fired the four named employees "to discourage and chill employees from engaging in protected concerted and union activities," the filing states.
(Bloomberg) -- More than 100,000 trips have been taken in robotaxis operated by Waymo, the self-driving car unit of Alphabet Inc. Now the service is expanding to iPhone users.On the first anniversary of its pilot program in Chandler, Arizona, Waymo said it will begin offering an iOS app for its robot ride-hailing service for iPhones. It also revealed new details of the pioneering robotaxi service, which has been slow to offer fully autonomous service without human "safety drivers" behind the wheel to take over in an emergency.Waymo, which began a decade ago as Google's self-driving car project, said its service has 1,500 monthly users and has tripled the number of weekly rides since January. Since late summer, Waymo has ramped up a "rider only" option without human safety drivers to a test group of a few hundred commuters. While those people weren't always charged initially, they are now paying rates that are competitive with Uber and Lyft ride-hailing services, according to a Waymo spokeswoman.Most Waymo rides occur in the late afternoon and evening, with commuters using the service for everything from getting to work to having a "date night," Dan Chu, the company's chief product officer, wrote in a blog post.The service is expanding and will add more riders who will join a wait list by using the new iOS app. The service has been available on Android phones since the spring.Still, John Krafcik, Waymo's chief executive officer, told reporters in October he is unsure when commercial robotaxis will take off. General Motors Co. has delayed the rollout of its service and Ford Motor Co.'s CEO has said the industry overestimated the arrival of self-driving cars."It's an extremely challenging thing to do," Krafcik told reporters at a dinner in Detroit. "I do share your sense of uncertainty, even in my role. I don't know precisely when everything is going to be ready, but I know I am supremely confident that it will be."(Updates with comment from company spokeswoman in third paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Keith Naughton in Southfield, Michigan at email@example.com contact the editors responsible for this story: Craig Trudell at firstname.lastname@example.com, Alistair BarrFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
Peloton (PTON) was down over 9% at one point in Tuesday's trading after it faced scrutiny over its new holiday commercial.
Hailing one of Waymo's self-driving minivans is about to get a little easier. One year after launching its Waymo One self-driving car service in the Phoenix area, the company is launching an app on iOS, the latest signal that the company is inching toward large-scale commercial service. Now, Phoenix residents can download the Waymo app to their iPhone and sign up to ride in one of the company's self-driving vehicles directly from their device.
(Bloomberg) -- The co-founder of DeepMind, the high-profile artificial intelligence lab, is set to move to the U.S. to take up a role at parent company Google.Mustafa Suleyman, who ran DeepMind's "applied" division, was placed on leave in August after controversy over some of the projects he led. In a blog post Thursday, DeepMind said Suleyman is leaving for an unspecified role at Google.The post, written by fellow co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Demis Hassabis, added that the company wanted to ensure it was the "best place in the world for fundamental breakthroughs in AI, and that we conduct this work thoughtfully and responsibly."Suleyman was a key public face for DeepMind, speaking to officials and at events about the promise of artificial intelligence and the ethical guardrails needed to limit malicious use of the technology.DeepMind was heavily criticized for its work in the U.K. health sector. DeepMind Health's first product was a mobile app called Streams that was originally designed to help doctors identify patients at risk of developing acute kidney injury. In July 2017, the U.K.'s data privacy watchdog said DeepMind's partner in the project, London's Royal Free Hospital, illegally gave DeepMind access to 1.6 million patient records. Suleyman apologized in a statement at the time.In a tweet in August, Suleyman said he was looking forward to returning to DeepMind.Founded in 2010, DeepMind was bought by Google for 400 million pounds (currently $486 million) in 2014, an ambitious bet on the potential of AI that set off an expensive race in Silicon Valley for specialists in the field."Over the past year, we've also been formalizing a leadership team with the seasoned experience and skills for our second decade," Hassabis said in the post.To contact the reporter on this story: Giles Turner in London at email@example.com contact the editors responsible for this story: Tom Giles at email@example.com, Molly SchuetzFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
MongoDB's (MDB) third-quarter fiscal 2020 results are expected to reflect the growing adoption of its cloud-based platform, Atlas.
Amazon (AMZN), Google and others are leaving no stone unturned to rapidly penetrate the smart speaker market in India, which is booming due to rising adoption of virtual assistants in the country.
(Bloomberg) -- U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren is drafting a bill that would call on regulators to retroactively review about two decades of "mega mergers" and ban such deals going forward.Warren's staff recently circulated a proposal for sweeping anti-monopoly legislation, which would deliver on a presidential campaign promise to check the power of Big Tech and other industries. Although the Trump administration is currently exploring their own antitrust probes, the proposal is likely to face resistance from lawmakers.According to a draft of the bill reviewed by Bloomberg, the proposal would expand antitrust law beyond the so-called consumer welfare standard, an approach that has driven antitrust policy since the 1970s. Under the current framework, the federal government evaluates mergers primarily based on potential harm to consumers through higher prices or decreased quality. The new bill would direct the government to also consider the impact on entrepreneurs, innovation, privacy and workers.Warren's bill, tentatively titled the Anti-Monopoly and Competition Restoration Act, would also ban non-compete and no-poaching agreements for workers and protect the rights of gig economy workers, such as drivers for Uber Technologies Inc., to organize.A draft of Warren's bill was included in an email Monday from Spencer Waller, the director of the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies at Loyola University Chicago. Waller urged fellow academics to sign a petition supporting it. He said Warren was working on the bill with Representative David Cicilline, the most prominent voice on antitrust issues in the House. Waller declined to comment on the email.Representatives for Cicilline and Warren declined to comment. The existence of the bill and Warren's support of it were reported earlier this week by the technology publication the Information.In Washington, there is some support across the political spectrum for increased antitrust scrutiny of large technology companies. Warren positioned herself as a leader on the issue this year while campaigning on a plan to break up Big Tech. She has repeatedly called for unwinding Facebook Inc.'s acquisitions of WhatsApp and Instagram, along with Google's purchase of YouTube and advertising platform DoubleClick.Read more: Warren Accuses Michael Bloomberg of 'Buying the Election'It's not clear when a bill would be introduced or whether it would move forward in its current form. Cicilline has said he would not introduce antitrust legislation until he concludes an antitrust investigation for the House Judiciary Committee in early 2020.Amy Klobuchar, a Senator from Minnesota who's also vying for the Democratic nomination, has pushed legislation covering similar ground. Klobuchar plans to introduce additional antitrust legislation soon, according to a person familiar with the matter who wasn't authorized to discuss the plans and asked not to be identified.Any proposal would face significant hurdles to becoming law, and Warren's version could be particularly problematic because it promotes the idea that antitrust enforcement is equivalent to being against big business, said Barak Orbach, a law professor at the University of Arizona who received a draft of the bill. "The way I read it is that Elizabeth Warren is trying to make a political statement in the course of her campaign," Orbach said. "It's likely to have negative effects on antitrust enforcement, so I just don't see the upside other than for the campaign."The bill proposes a ban on mergers where one company has annual revenue of more $40 billion, or where both companies have sales exceeding $15 billion, except under certain exceptions, such as when a company is in immediate danger of insolvency. That would seemingly put a freeze on many acquisitions for Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc., Facebook, Microsoft Corp. and dozens of other companies. The bill would also place new limitations on smaller mergers.Chris Sagers, a law professor at Cleveland State University, said the proposal would serve as an effective check on corporate power. "I don't think you'll have new antitrust policy until Congress says the courts have incorrectly interpreted the statutes," he said. "Someone has to do what Elizabeth Warren is doing."(Michael Bloomberg is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. Bloomberg is the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News.)To contact the reporters on this story: Eric Newcomer in San Francisco at email@example.com;Joshua Brustein in New York at email@example.com contact the editor responsible for this story: Mark Milian at email@example.com more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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(Bloomberg) -- Google is facing a U.K. investigation into its $2.6 billion takeover of data company Looker Data Sciences Inc., opening up another front in the Alphabet Inc. unit's ongoing battle with lawmakers.The Competition and Markets Authority on Thursday said that it issued an initial enforcement order, which prevents companies from integrating their services while the regulator carries out a early-stage review of the acquisition. The CMA has asked for comments on the deal by Dec. 20 before it decides whether to begin a formal probe.Google announced in June that it planned to buy U.S.-based Looker for its cloud unit, which lags far behind Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. with just 4% of the cloud-computing infrastructure market as of 2018, according to the most-recent figures from analyst Gartner Inc. U.S. regulators cleared the deal in November.The U.K. review -- likely to focus on how Google plans to wield its power over data -- comes as Margrethe Vestager, the European Union's Competition Commissioner, leads the charge into looking into how companies collect and use information. In August, she called tech giants "robot vacuum cleaners" sucking up valuable data in a way that can undermine competition.Vestager is currently investigating "the data business model" used by Google and others to collect information on how people use the web. She said the EU has posed "many questions to Google and others to get their views" and help the EU understand how the industry works, with a focus on contractual terms.Google agreed to buy smartwatch maker Fitbit Inc. for $2.1 billion. The tie-up, announced in October, has come under scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers.Though Google isn't a leader in smartwatches or fitness trackers, regulators in the U.S. and elsewhere will likely have questions about what Google intends to do with the data Fitbit users have shared over the years, including intimate health and location information.\--With assistance from Jonathan Browning.To contact the reporter on this story: Giles Turner in London at firstname.lastname@example.com contact the editors responsible for this story: Giles Turner at email@example.com, Peter Chapman, Nate LanxonFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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Freemark Abbey – Old School Napa
Freemark Abbey's history began in 1886, when Josephine Tychson established the original winery along Route 29 in St. Helena, becoming one of the area's first woman winegrowers. Although its name might indicate otherwise, the winery was never a monastery, nor was it ever inhabited by monks. Instead, the current winery name originated in 1939, when its three owners – Charles Freeman, Markquand Foster and Abbey Ahem – combined their names to form Freemark Abbey.
In 1967, the winery was sold to a group of seven partners, which actually set the stage for a new era of winemaking creativity. In fact, the winery garnered the nickname the "University of Freemark" due to the sheer number of innovations and significant winemakers that emerged. During the 1960s, Freemark Abbey winemaker Brad Webb, (subsequently known for his time at Hanzell) pioneered a number of methods that have since become California winemaking standards. And, his use of non-malolactic fermentation for Chardonnay is still used at Freemark Abbey today. In the 1970s, Jerry Luper (of Château Montelena and Diamond Creek fame) worked his magic on the red wines, cementing Freemark Abbey's position as a quality Cabernet house.
When wine shop owner Steven Spurrier conducted his now legendary blind tasting in Paris, pitting the upstart wines of California against the established wines of France, Freemark Abbey was among the 12 American wineries chosen to participate. In an upset that shocked the wine world, California wines won every category of the tasting, elevating Napa Valley and California wines onto the world stage. Owned by Jackson Family Wines since 2006, the legacy continues with the same winemaker for nearly 30 years.
Join us as we talk with Ted Edwards, winemaker at Freemark Abbey since 1985. We'll get some history, and hear what it takes to continue to make the wines he likes to make at this venerable Napa landmark.
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Wordless (nearly) Wednesday - Near time of High School Graduation?
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I think I had the Mazda RX 4 until the late 70s. I got the Ford Fiesta around the time I got married. It's a 1980 or 1981 model based on comparison photos. My hair style is late Farrah Fawcett, so it's late college or early marriage.... Probably. I need to compare with Allison's hairstyle.ReplyDelete
I've got it. It's Allison's high school graduation. Allison has short straight hair and she's skinny. I think I was married and between high school and college.ReplyDelete
Ah! Think you got it, yes. Thanks! ;-)ReplyDelete


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Reporter-Herald Editorial
When our leaders list off points of emphasis on foreign policy, one is rarely, if ever, mentioned.
One is left to ask why that is. Is it too close? Do leaders have the notion of out of sight, out of mind? Or is the domestic issue of immigration so divisive that the secondary discussion of relations with Mexico is caught in its wake?
Unfortunately, the estimated 60,000 deaths from drug cartel violence in the past decade are evidence of the problem facing both governments, because the United States is the market for those drugs. Those drugs are still flowing over and around our borders with Mexico, along with many people whose intentions are more noble — to support their families — even if their actions are just as illegal.
According to recent polls, the majority of Americans feel the border is not yet secure. However, in 2011 President Barack Obama asserted the United States has "strengthened border security beyond what many believed was possible."
With such grave issues facing the two neighboring countries, one might believe discussions about them would have had a place in the recent presidential elections, or at least in congressional races across the country.
Unfortunately, silence was the norm on U.S.-Mexican relations through most of the campaign. The topic was dropped from the presidential debate dedicated solely to foreign policy issues.
In President Obama's second term, this country must work with Mexico's leaders when possible to address the flow of drugs and weapons across the border; and while Congress debates the domestic issues surrounding legal and illegal immigration, work with Mexico must continue to ensure those who might be tempted to cross the frontier illegally have more opportunity if they stay put.
But until leaders acknowledge the issues that face the United States and Mexico, nothing will change.


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Seven bedrooms? Now, that's a cottage, and what could be better for that lovely family holiday? Pack the kids and toys, the grandparents and beach gear and head off to your own private cottage rental in beautiful, Victorian Cape May. You'll enjoy the unparalleled experience of living in the sundrenched past of America's exodus to the sea.
Imagine the days when families took to the shore from the city for summer holiday in a seaside beach house. Cape May continues today to attract couples, families and fans of Victorian architecture. In fact, street after street of brightly coloured homes and inns, stores and restaurants reflect the post "fire of 1878" profusion of ornate buildings, so much so that the whole town is a National Historic Landmark. Think fanciful gingerbread trim and bay windows, broad open-air porches and eat-in kitchens --where constant fresh breezes from the sea and bay make your visit to Cape May a relaxing step back in time.
Cape May's bricked pedestrian Washington Street is a lovely departure from acres of blacktop and scores of chain stores. Wander along the "mall" and side streets among nautical boutiques, fudge kitchens and seaside apparel. Stop in at Della's 5 & 10 old-fashioned soda fountain for frosty milkshakes and cream sodas, sinful sundaes and old-fashioned banana splits. In a neighborly atmosphere, visitors enjoy antique hunting, galleries, theatres and restaurant choices to meet every taste and wallet. Hot Dog Tommy's on Jackson Street is a budget-saving must, a unique "walk up, walk away" hot dog joint. Be prepared to visit with some folks while you stand in line.
From Cape May Point and the quaint harbour to miles of wide, clean beaches, your family will relish every sun-drenched moment. Sport fishing is enormously popular, and 2-hour morning and evening cruises provide sightseeing along the Cape May Canal, harbour and oceanfront for a relaxing little voyage. Kids and parents alike enjoy Hidden Valley Ranch's horseback riding along scenic trails. Waterfront restaurants and grills offer scenic dining and delightful measures of fresh seafood.
Imagine all the room you need, a mix of quaint architecture and modern convenience. Whether you need a romantic cottage for two or a bevy of bedrooms for family, you'll enjoy the genuine value of holiday rentals. You choose when to dine in or out. You enjoy your private retreat at day's end. A family-friendly rental is simply the best way to gain all the space you need at a price you can afford.


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as i stated in a thread i posted a few hours ago, im programming a hangman project for the final in this introductory java class im taking. i have a background in C/C++, but java is new to me.
right now, it looks like this:
ugly, ugly. i'll worry about the layout once i get the game working properly.
the graphic and the word to be guessed are in one panel, and the keyboard is in another. the keyboard buttons get the following ActionListener code:
public class KeyboardButtonAction implements ActionListener { //private data members private char letter = 0; private JButton parentButton = null; private JFrame parentWindow = null; private Hangman hangman = null; //constructor public KeyboardButtonAction(JFrame parentWindow, JButton parentButton, char letter, Hangman hangman) { this.parentWindow = parentWindow; this.parentButton = parentButton; this.letter = Character.toLowerCase(letter); this.hangman = hangman; } //handle the button press ActionEvent public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { parentButton.setEnabled(false); hangman.guess(letter); parentWindow.repaint(); } }
when the keyboard buttons are given this ActionListener, they pass it the whole GameScreen JFrame that holds the keyboard panel and the graphics panel, which button called it, what letter that button corresponds with, and the hangman object (which handles most of the gameplay internally).
my question is just this: how am i misusing repaint()? i expected it to update the entire window (so the dashes below the graphic update with properly guessed letters, etc).
i'll happily post any more code that is needed to facilitate answering this question. =)
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Window tinting
Window tinting
I did the top of my Windshield yesterday. Came out fine. In CA, you're only allowed to tint the top 4". Used a 20% tint. Almost don't need the sun visors anymore.
I have tinted on all my previous cars. I have the pano roof and after 1500 miles I don't think I need to tint (seems to be a light tint sides and back anyway).
I tinted my windows this weekend. Living in south central Texas it gets 100+ regularly in the summer. Placed Winco IR tint. Wanted huper optic but the tinting specialist did not recommend it due to a high propensity of ghost images seen from the curved nature of the model S windows. Looks great so far. 30 on the front (Texas law) 20 surround. Comes with lifetime non-transferable warranty against color change, bubbling,.... Car is sitting now because I should not open the windows for 5 days afterwards and the model s windows slide up and down about 1 inch when the car door opens and closes.
4" is conservative. The CA reg used to be (still?) that the driver's view of side view mirrors cannot be impeded. TM mirrors are large to eliminate blind spots; consequently, for me at 5'10" that means driver side pocket of 6" high x 16" long and a passenger side pocket of 6" x 11.5" (call it 12"). Rather than a sharp corner, I prefer a 1/2" radius of curvature (quarter size). For symmetry, consider both at 6"x16". Better yet, use a tape measure to find the pockets your tallest driver needs (as I did for me).
4" front sun visor means about 8" on the slant, but I will only do 6" on the front slant.
If it is about IR heat rejection, then Photo Sync 65 is essentially the same as its darker flavors, per
www.prestige-films.com/docs/Photosync_DataSheet.pdf (page 3)
Did you get PhotoSync? What do you think so far?
We tinted our car within 2 days of ownership..18 % on back window to match pano roof..40% on rear back..50% on front...we are getting 70% iris in the ceramic tint on the pano for the heat resistance provides...tint protects the interior and looks sharp ...
With 70% on the pano we will still be able to see out during day/night


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We have engaged our Website Provider to assess the Website's accessibility and to provide PAMM with specific recommendations to facilitate website accessibility and conformance with WCAG 2.0 AA standards.
PAMM has adopted a website accessibility policy to support its commitment to the accessibility of its Website.
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This Virtual Wall concept replaces stoplights with a much larger, more expensive way to notify drivers that if they don't stop, their wheel wells will become clogged with pedestrians. It essentially creates a big wall of lasers across the road with images of pedestrians, making the red light pretty much impossible to miss. Of course, such a thing would hinder visibility into the intersection while stopped, will be a huge energy waste and will cost a retarded amount of taxpayer money to install, but hey, it looks so neat! Lasers! The future is now! [Yanko Design]
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YouTube changed the way advertisement could be watched in 2010 when it introduced a new form of skippable video advertisements, TrueView. As of today, TrueView's ad-skipping feature is available for users of YouTube's mobile site.
Surprisingly ,video viewers will sit through and watch ads from beginning to end, whether it's an overt attempt by an advertiser to create a viral video, or the latest movie trailer. They're more likely to skip through the ad if it has absolutely nothing to do with the viewer's interests, however, or if it's an ad that has been watched once before. In either ad viewing scenarios, the advertisers are only charged if the ads are watched for at the least thirty seconds, or to completion for an ad that is shorter than thirty seconds. Users are given the option to skip the ad after five seconds of the ad playing.
"Giving viewers choice over ads they watch has led to a better, more engaged viewing experience, benefiting the entire YouTube community of users, advertisers, and content creators," Phil Farhi, group product manager of YouTube, said in a statement.
YouTube's mobile platform is critical to its strategy, as more consumers carry multiple devices on the go. According to YouTube, more than 20 percent of global YouTube views come from mobile devices. And based on their latest figures, YouTube is available on more than 350 million devices. In the latest Nielsen figures measuring the top online video destinations, YouTube topped the charts with over 136 million unique viewers and over 16.5 billion total streams in May 2012 alone.
"We've only just begun testing TrueView on mobile, but early indications are that people engage with these ads in the same way as they do on desktop," Farhi said. "This is just the start — we'll continue to innovate to bring the best of video to the best of mobile"
In a move that may affect YouTube's mobile views, Apple recently decided to not renew its licensing contract for the native YouTube app, which will be excluded from its forthcoming iOS 6 mobile operating system. Instead, users will be required to download YouTube from the iTunes store, or simply browse YouTube through its mobile site. While this will undoubtedly affect the number of views garnered from mobile devices, it will also allow YouTube to monetize videos on its new iOS app, which was not possible on the native iOS app.
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David McVicar's enormous production of Berlioz's most ambitious work, Les Troyens, has been released on DVD and Blu-ray and is now available to buy in the Royal Opera House Shop.
Korngold's Die tote Stadt, performed by Finnish National Opera, has also been released on DVD. Directed by Royal Opera House Director of Opera Kasper Holten, the production stars Klaus Florian Vogt as Paul and Camilla Nylund as Marietta.
Based on Virgil's Aeneid, Les Troyens follows Trojan warrior Énée (Aeneas) from the destruction of his home city Troy to Carthage, where he falls in love with its Queen, Didon (Dido).
Epic in every sense of the word, the production brought together one of the largest casts and biggest sets ever seen on the Covent Garden stage. Find out more about the construction and transportation of two Ancient Greek cities.
Barbara Senator as Ascanius, Robert Lloyd as Priam, Sophia Mcgregor as Andromache, Sebastian Wright as Astanax, Pamela Helen Stephen as Hecuba and Anna Caterina Antonacci as Cassandra in Les Troyens © Bill Cooper/ROH 2012
Eva-Maria Westbroek as Dido, Bryan Hymel as Aeneas and Barbara Senator as Ascanius in Les Troyens © Bill Cooper/ROH 2012
Barbara Senator as Ascanius, Ashley Holland as Panthus, Bryan Hymel as Aeneas and Fabio Capitanucci as Coroebus in Les Troyens © Bill Cooper/ROH 2012
Conducted by Royal Opera House Director of Music, the production stars acclaimed Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek as Dido and American tenor Bryan Hymel as Aenas, who won an Outstanding Achievement in Opera Olivier Award following his performance in Les Troyens, Rusalka and Robert le diable. Watch an interview with Bryan Hymel about taking on the role of Aeneas.
The production also features an acclaimed performance by Anna Caterina Antonacci as Cassandra. Read audience reactions to the opening night.
The DVD includes introductions by Antonio Pappano and set designer Es Devlin, as well as footage from a Royal Opera House Insight Event featuring some of the cast.


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Beware of Traps!
Stay protected against fraud
How to effectively protect yourself against them.
Only YOU can protect yourself against fraudsters who try to use online job sites to cheat innocent job seekers. Please read the following instructions carefully. The best protection against fraud is to always remain vigilant and suspicious. Do not ever trust unsolicited Emails. Protect yourself against the most common tricks in the book.
- Trick 1 The "Finance Agents wanted for Money Laundering" Trap
- Category: Highly dangerous resulting in heavy damages
The trick works in this way: You may receive Emails claiming to be "official Emails" (unsolicited messages) with a request to log-in under some pretext at a particular link for Online Banking. Actually, by doing so, you log-in at the false website of a fictitious bank belonging to the fraudsters and NOT the genuine web page of your own bank as claimed. The private data (relating to log-in, password, bank account number, credit card number) you enter are collected by the fraudsters who then use the information to steal high sums of money from your own bank account.
If the money (from your bank account) was remitted to another bank account, this could easily be tracked down and the perpetrators could be arrested. Therefore, the fraudsters use highly advanced stealing methods. To cite an example, they recruit jobless persons and freelancers via spam mails. By releasing offers for jobs on online job sites. They usually list them as "Finance Agents" or "Finance Brokers" or "Finance Facilitators" on a commission basis. The "Finance Agents" are told that they are employees of a reputed company in the finance service industry. These new recruits are then assigned the task of re-remitting inward payments (namely, the stolen money of victims of phishing) to their fraudulent bosses (mostly living in distant cities in foreign countries). Usually, this is done against high agent commissions or brokerages (that are pretty often 10% or more) and in a manner that is extremely difficult for banks, police officials, and criminal prosecutors to trace at a later date. Instead of getting the promised commissions or brokerages, the "Finance Agent" is at the end as much a loser as the victim of phishing since they lose their own money and cannot retain the money belonging to the victims. Further, the public prosecutor will start investigating the innocent job seeker on computer fraud, abetment in money laundering, and violation of banking laws.
To protect yourselves against trick number 1: : 1. Always delete phishing Emails without reading them; and 2. Never deal with offers that assure you payments for remittances or re-remittances of money.
- Trick 2 The "One Time Payment" Trap
- Category: Dangerous; may result in heavy damages
How the Trick Works:You get an offer for a fantastic job but you have to make a "one time - payment" in advance for expenses like agency commission, database data entry fee, for getting printed information materials, pamphlets, or for special software (that you supposedly need for a home-based job). It could also be for a training seminar or for membership contribution, as "security deposit", "nominal fee," etc. As soon as you pay the money, you will not be able to reach the contact person.
How to Protect Yourself against Trick Number 2: Ignore such demands and never ever make payments out of your own pocket. Remember, reputable employers never demand any advance payment from job seekers.
- Trick 3 The "Expensive Telephone Number" Trap
- Category: Dangerous; may result in heavy damages
How the Trick Works: You get an offer for a highly interesting job and you have to call a provided telephone number to get additional details. By dialing either premium rate numbers or a foreign telephone area code, you could be charged heavily for a pre-recorded message without getting the additional details or the interesting job you were promised.
How to Protect Yourself against Trick Number 3: Ignore such demands. Remember, reputable employers never make such weird demands from job seekers.
- Trick 4 The "Pyramid Schemes" Trap
- Category: Often unreliable
How the Trick Works: You are told that if you recruit people who, in turn, recruit other people who also recruit additional people (and the chain goes on and on) in the selling of a certain fancy products or services, you would earn fantastic sum of money. The matter rarely turns out as promised in practice. You then realize you have been taken for a ride as your initial money is gone.
You should be highly suspicious if the products or the services is not really of good quality and/or reasonable even though you are promised high income exclusively on commission basis or if you have to make any payments in advance. Often such marketing systems want you to sell items or gadgets (solely on commission basis) to your friends at high costs. Making money that way is difficult and rarely works.
- Other indicators of a dubious employment offer
- Vague or incomplete information on the nature of the job and the function ("no insurance," "amazing success concept," etc.)
- Vague information on the employer (no company name, no indication of industry)
- Boastful, unrealistic promises: "high earnings for less work," "double your income," etc.
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Twenty years after first seeing the Coen Brothers' debut feature, "Blood Simple," Chinese director Yimou Zhang couldn't get the film out of his head. So he decided to remake it as "A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop," set a couple of centuries back in a small desert town in China. Were it not for some overly slapstick-y humor, it would totally work.
Wang is the cruel and abusive owner of a noodle shop who learns that his wife has bought a gun from a Persian arms dealer. When he finds out that his wife is sleeping with Li, one of his employees, he decides to get the drop on them both. He hires Zhang, the best cop in all the land, to kill them. In the meantime, two other shop employees, Zhao and Chen, are conspiring to liberate from Wang's safe the back wages they are owed.
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There's plenty of room for humor in a good noir, "Blood Simple" itself being an excellent example, but packing the corners of a thriller with an episode of "The Three Stooges" just isn't going to work.
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Setting aside his curious acting choices, director Zhang Yimou has shot a beautiful film, with rich desert landscapes, rolling cloud banks, and beautiful blues, grays and oranges. And there are a couple of sequences that one would gladly watch on a loop, like an early scene when Li, Zhao and Chen prepare a cauldron of noodles for the local police -- it's both stunning and mouthwatering.
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WHEN DID THE PGA CHAMPIONSHIP become known as "Glory's Last Shot"? Did someone in Palm Beach Gardens come up with that, or maybe an ad agency?
It's a serious question. I've been watching all four majors for many years and I can't recall when I started hearing the PGA slogan. Now I hear it all the time. Too much, really.
I took to Google to investigate, a cursory research effort, I'll admit. I didn't come up with much. Within the first two pages of search results there are references to "Glory's Last Shot" dating back to at least 2006. That's as far as I looked.
A 2008 Associated Press story titled "Disrespected PGA Remains 'Glory's Last Shot'" touches on the issue.
"Ever since scrapping match play as its format 50 years ago, the PGA Championship has suffered an identity crisis," reads the opening sentence.
Ah, yes. If you were picking majors the way you choose teams on a school playground, the PGA would be standing self-consciously against the chain-link fence while the Masters, U.S. Open and The Open Championship were fought over. Those three don't have nicknames or mottos. They don't need them.
The Masters is associated with Augusta National and Bobby Jones. The U.S. Open is often thought of as the game's toughest challenge. The Open Championship is the world's oldest major and the only one played on a links course.
"And what does that make the PGA Championship?" asked the AP story.
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Any major is a career-defining or career-enhancing victory, including the PGA Championship, which went from match play to stroke play in 1958. Dow Finsterwald won that year, his only major. Bob Rosburg won the next year, his only major. Jay Hebert and Jerry Barber won the following two PGAs, their only majors.
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Every week -- often with your help -- FOOD52's Senior Editor Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that are nothing short of genius.
Today: Cabbage gets frisky.
Poor cabbage.
Oh, we'll remember it when coleslaw is on the menu, or as a buddy for corned beef. But when we're trying to think up a vegetable side, there are others that get us all riled up -- "let's get that twirly broccoli!" or "ooh, shaved asparagus!" we say.
It's never "ooh, cabbage." It hasn't even had one of those crucifer underdog revivals yet, like brussels sprouts or cauliflower.
But maybe it's about to. Anyone who's made fiveandspice's Suspiciously Delicious Cabbage -- or any of the other 6 recipes in last week's envelope-pushing "Sexy Cabbage" roundup -- knows there's a whole lot of potential locked up in those milky white leaves.
So when food writer China Millman, my star genius source, told me, "This recipe has turned cabbage into one of my favorite vegetables," I knew something good was coming.
Maybe the mistake we're making is that we cook to death or don't cook at all. By skating somewhere down the middle, Madhur Jaffrey's stir-frying method crams in an incredible amount of flavor in very little time. And yet it still manages to bring out the shy cabbage's own personality, not painting it over like creamy slaws or braised piles, drunk with cinnamon and wine.
Here are the keys to a cabbage makeover: Get some oil hot in a wide sturdy skillet, and toast your whole seeds -- fennel, cumin, and sesame -- in it. When they pop, stir in your onion curls till they're sweet, soft, and singed here and there.
Pile on as much sliced cabbage as your pan can handle, and as much salt and cayenne as you like. Keep it hot and the cabbage moving -- it will quickly shrink into an attractive heap.
Then one more last-second hit of flavor: garam masala and -- especially, crucially -- lemon.
If you can't find garam masala, you can make your own with Jaffrey's recipe, or approximate it with pinches of ground cardamom, black pepper, cumin, cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon.
For anyone who loves Indian food, but hasn't tried cooking it at home, this is a cozy place to start (before moving on to the rest of Jaffrey's cookbooks). Serve the nubby, glossy strands with chicken or fish or lamb -- ones that are spicy, or ones that need some perking up. Or just over rice. Maybe with a crispy fried egg.
Ooh. Cabbage.
Madhur Jaffrey's Stir-Fried Cabbage with Fennel Seeds
Recipe adapted very slightly from Madhur Jaffrey's Quick & Easy Indian Cooking (Chronicle Books, 2007)
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1 1/2 pounds green cabbage (half a large head)1/4 cup vegetable oil1/4 teaspoon cumin seeds1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds1 teaspoon sesame seeds1 medium-large onion1 teaspoon salt1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice1/2 teaspoon garam masala
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