Aero Badminton Club is an all-ability, inclusive family-orientated club dedicated to making the sport available to children of all abilities and providing a pathway to enable interested children to learn and progress their skills.
We have a fully qualified team of coaches, that provides coaching for beginners through to more advanced skill levels.
Aero BC are offering places at our Foundation courses, aimed at beginners.
These courses are at Chippenham Sports Club (Air Dome) from 7.00 to 8.00 pm. Each course of five sessions will be run in two blocks. The first block will start on Thursday 18th January and run for 5 consecutive Thursdays. The second block will start on Thursday 22nd February and run for 5 consecutive Thursdays.
The cost per block is £20.00 (five sessions of one hour) in advance. Places are limited.
To book a place please email: committee.members@aerobc.co.uk.
As a requirement to join the course, membership of Aero Badminton Club is required. This is £18 per year, which gives the member insurance and additional Badminton England benefits. This allows the member to play in tournaments and within the club.
If you would like your child to attend the Foundation course as their first steps along the road to badminton excellence, please email: committee.members@aerobc.co.uk for more information or to book a place.


MILPITAS — Two men were arrested on suspicion of attempted homicide related to a stabbing at a Milpitas fast food restaurant.
Police said a 51-year-old man was stabbed in the stomach and seriously injured at a Jack in the Box restaurant at 1740 South Main Street at about 3:30 a.m. on Aug. 30. Through witnesses and evidence at the restaurant, detectives identified 19-year-old Osbaldo Alejandro Cobos and 20-year-old Jose Ignacio Gonzalez as suspects and obtained two warrants for attempted homicide, according to Milpitas police.
Gonzalez was arrested at around 9:30 p.m. Aug. 31 outside his San Jose home and later booked into Santa Clara County jail, authorities said. Cobos was arrested on Sept. 4 at about 8:50 p.m., and booked into county jail.
Milpitas police are asking anyone with information on the stabbing to call 408-586-2400 or the Crime Tip Hotline at 408-586-2500. Tipsters can remain anonymous, police said.


REDLINE® outlets / POUs The point of use is the second stage of a central gas supply system. Together with the gas panel it guarantees a very stable outlet pressure and handles any pressure changes that may be caused in the system.
When used together with a semi-automatic gas manifold it handles the pressure changes that are due to the changes from secondary to primary side. The HiQ® REDLINE system is a modular system which allows maximum freedom. Each point of use can be individually equipped or stripped by the functions "shut-off", "pressure regulation" and "flow regulation". In this way, the point of use at the work place can be updated at any point to fit the present needs.
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P'yŏngsŏng sau Pyongsong (coreeană: 평성시) este un oraș din Coreea de Nord. Are 284.386 locuitori.

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Orașul este împărțit în 20 de cartiere (dong) și 14 sate (ri).

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Dormels, Rainer. North Korea's Cities: Industrial facilities, internal structures and typification. Jimoondang, 2014. ISBN 978-89-6297-167-5

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Latest stats show that more and more people in this country struggle to put food on the table. 1 in 8 British adults say they are anxious about not being able to afford food. All across this country, there are children going to school hungry and parents skipping meals so that their kids can eat an evening meal.
Through the work of CUF's Together Network we are working to change this but we need your support. In the coming weeks churches, schools, families, and this year, for the first time, Girls' Brigade (GB) groups throughout England and Wales: will be running Big Pancake Parties to raise funds to help fight food poverty.
Great British Bake Off finalist from 2018, Kim-Joy, has added her support to the Big Pancake Party to help tackle hunger in Britain.
"I've joined the Big Pancake Party because I don't want to just take for granted that I have food every day - I want to help other people who don't have that.
With nearly a million adults using a food bank every year in Britain and 5% of British adults saying that they regularly miss a meal as they were unable to afford food, this is a timely initiative.
This Pancake Season you can help the Together Network (part of the Church Urban Fund) work towards helping end hunger by supporting initiatives around the country such as 'holiday-hunger' schemes (providing free lunches for children during the summer holidays when the lack of free school meals means children often go hungry), 'Community Fridges' (places where surplus food is made available to those who need it), low cost community food outlets at churches and the running of food banks.
Keith (name changed) used to be homeless but is now living in a damp, mouldy flat with unsafe electrics. He spends most of his days walking around to keep warm and prevent him having to put more money on his electric prepayment meter, that he can't afford. In order to survive he has at least one meal a week at the local church drop-in arranged through the Together Network and yet he still occasionally has to pawn his phone to buy food.
Together we can make a bigger difference to the lives of people across the country who are struggling to feed themselves.


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Cherry Hill Seed Library reopens for the season
Residents can borrow up to 10 vegetable or five flower seeds
By EMILY LIU
Cherry Hill's seed library, open through September, has more than 600 types of seeds available to patrons, who can borrow up to 10 unique herb or vegetable seeds or five unique flower seeds. (EMILY LIU/The Sun)
As spring approaches, so does the time for planting seeds.
The Seed Library at the Cherry Hill Public Library reopened for its sixth year on Feb. 22, and from now until September, patrons can request up to 10 unique herb or vegetable seeds or five unique flower seeds.
The library offers 600 types of seeds donated from 12 companies; they include popular herbs like basil, produce and more than 70 types of tomatoes and flowers. The seeds come in a small packet that includes planting instructions and can be obtained in person or online.
Jeff Quattrone, founder of the Library Seed Bank, helped the Cherry Hill branch launch its own program. The bank began in 2014 to help people experience and learn more about seeds and growing their own food. It provides both a large variety and small quantities of seeds that can help with inexpensive gardening and less waste than if people purchase individual packets on their own.
"People are moving more towards securing their own food in a lot of ways," Quattrone explained. "When you can go into the library and get a couple packages of seeds for free, it's more user-friendly to explore the opportunity to start growing."
For those interested in planting seeds or starting their own garden, the township recreation department offers the Plant-a-Patch program from April through October so residents can rent, maintain and harvest individual garden plots at $30 a season.
The plots are 25 by 25 feet and the program includes water hookups and compost. Gardens must have a 3-foot walkway to the right of each plot and be kept clear of weeds. Insecticide is prohibited in the garden area.
Plant-a-Patch is now accepting new gardeners for its wait list, which will expand after returning gardeners have finalized the details for their plots.
"Seeds and gardening are a process like anything else," Quattrone said. "You're going to have some successes and some failures with it, and my hope is that people realize this, and if they do have some success with it, it encourages them to keep going on.
"Starting things from seeds is not for everybody," he added, "but I think with a project or a program like this, it gives people the opportunity to satisfy their curiosity."
For more information, visit the township library website at chplnj.org.
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Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergei Stanishev claimed victory in the parliamentary elections on May 12, urging quick talks with other parties to form a new government that would exclude the party of former prime minister Boiko Borissov, GERB.
Stanishev said that his party would seek dialogue with the other parliamentary-represented parties to find common ground and agree a joint programme that would seek to fix Bulgaria's economic woes. The goal was to "cleanse" the country of GERB's influence, he said, ruling out any coalition with Borissov's party.
"It would be an offence and humiliation for the dignity of all Bulgarian citizens if GERB was to be acknowledged as the political winner of this election," he said.
Stanishev blamed the caretaker government, led by Prime Minister Marin Raykov, for poor organisation of the snap election, saying that it opened the door for GERB to stay in government. However, the party would accept the results in order to prevent further instability, he said.
"We were witness to a scandalously poor organisation of election day, this led to chaos and an enormous number of electoral violations. Without precedent, the caretaker government, the reserve team of Boiko Borissov and GERB failed both the organisation of the vote and the vote counting," Stanishev said.
Stanishev, who was prime minister between 2005 and 2009, said during the campaign that he would not seek the job again. Instead, the party nominated former finance minister Plamen Oresharski as prime minister.
Concerning the economy, Stanishev emphasised the importance of increased state "activity", including "the immediate end to racketeering of the small and medium businesses", government support to increase youth employment and a programme to "re-industrialise Bulgaria".
He declined to give a time estimate for pursuing such measures, saying that the caretaker government did not offer enough data about the current situation of Bulgaria's economy.


Fil-Scottish commercial model Catriona Elisa Gray as expected led the short list of early favorites for the title Miss World Philippines 2016 when the 25 official candidates from across the country were announced on Monday at the Sampaguita Gardens in Quezon City.
Gray, born in Cairns, Queensland to a Scottish father and Bicolana mother and presently completing her Master's degree at the Berklee College of Music, is known as the face of Ponds beauty ads. The 22-year-old, 5-foot-10 aspiring singer and composer, is a woman of substance with a heart for the poor under her Paraiso Bright Beginnings Project.
CQ Global Quest directress Cory Quirino expressed pride of this year's batch of candidates who could give the country its second Miss World title in three years. Miss World Philippines 2015 Hillarie Parungao performed well last year finishing at the Top 10 and winning the Multimedia Award.
The rest of the candidates are Maria Paula Prose (Cagayan Province), Shenna Mae Zaldivar, (Dapitan City), Rossette Joyce Tayam (Zambales), Alyana Mikaela Cagandahan (Laguna), Arienne Louise Calingo (Pampanga), Casey Austria (Albay), Sarah Margarette Joson (Manila), Sandra Lemonon (Pasig City), Jan Helen Villanueva (Bulacan), Kristine Gaile Lopez (Bulacan), Shaina Lalaine Sazon (Aurora Province), Arah Salientes (San Fernando Pampanga), Madeleine Iya Gabrella Uy (Nueva Ecija), Charlene Fontanilla (Mandaluyong City), Roshiel Asingua (Cebu City), Irina Cortez (Makati City), Ivanna Kamil Pacis (Makati City), Vinie Camille Quiangco (Roxas City), Quenie Litz Lorenzo (Bulacan), Marah Muñoz (Parañaque City), Jane Pactoranan (Antipolo City), Ralph Lauren Asuncion (Batangas City, Yuri Yu Caunca (Las Piñas City) and Ivy Meerry Enriquez (Bataan).
Who will represent the country at the 66th Miss World pageant in Washington D.C., USA? Catch the exciting Miss World Philippines 2016 grand coronation night at the Manila Hotel to be telecast over GMA Channel on Sept. 25.


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From rice to shrimps and ginger - adapting to saltwater intrusion
HANOI, 28 December 2011 (IRIN) - Rising sea levels and saltwater intrusion in Vietnam's fertile Mekong Delta are forcing farmers and development agencies to rethink how livelihoods can be maintained, using methods such as genetic modification, new crop varieties and simple farming fixes.
With support from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in March 2011 launched a four-year project to introduce the flood-tolerant SUB1 gene and Saltol, a salt-tolerant gene, to Vietnamese rice varieties.
Transferring the genetic information - a process known as introgression - is expected to take three years. Because the genes are being introduced to rice currently grown in Vietnam, farmers will not need to learn new farming practices. Transferring the genetic information - a process known as introgression - is expected to take three years. Because the genes are being introduced to rice currently grown in Vietnam, farmers will not need to learn new farming practices.
"We are on track. It's three years, and in the fourth year, we'll try to disseminate this new variety," said Reiner Wassmann, a climate change specialist with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).
The Mekong Delta is the country's rice basket, and Vietnam is the world's second largest rice exporter. With soil and crops already being damaged by saltwater intrusion, farmers and development agencies are troubleshooting ways to cope. Some rice paddies in Thanh Hoa Province have been converted to shrimp ponds, according to Nguyen Viet Nghi, CARE's project manager of a community-based mangrove reforestation programme in Thanh Hoa.
"It was done by farmers themselves, and CARE is planning to support them combine mangroves and shrimp development in their ponds," said Nghi. More
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A Universal Library
MELBOURNE – Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. Then, in 2004, Google announced that it would begin digitally scanning all the books held by five major research libraries. Suddenly, the library of utopia seemed within reach.
Indeed, a digital universal library would be even better than any earlier thinker could have imagined, because every work would be available to everyone, everywhere, at all times. And the library could include not only books and articles, but also paintings, music, films, and every other form of creative expression that can be captured in digital form.
But Google's plan had a catch. Most of the works held by those research libraries are still in copyright. Google said that it would scan the entire book, irrespective of its copyright status, but that users searching for something in copyrighted books would be shown only a snippet. This, it argued, was "fair use" – and thus permitted under copyright laws in the same way that one may quote a sentence or two from a book for the purpose of a review or discussion.
Publishers and authors disagreed, and some sued Google for breach of copyright, eventually agreeing to settle their claim in exchange for a share of Google's revenue. Last month, in a Manhattan court, Judge Denny Chin rejected that proposed settlement, in part because it would have given Google a de factomonopoly over the digital versions of so-called "orphan" books – that is, books that are still in copyright, but no longer in print, and whose copyright ownership is difficult to determine. More
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Compassion Is Our New Currency
Notes on 2011's Preoccupied Hearts and Minds
Usually at year's end, we're supposed to look back at events just passed -- and forward, in prediction mode, to the year to come. But just look around you! This moment is so extraordinary that it has hardly registered. People in thousands of communities across the United States and elsewhere are living in public, experimenting with direct democracy, calling things by their true names, and obliging the media and politicians to do the same.
The breadth of this movement is one thing, its depth another. It has rejected not just the particulars of our economic system, but the whole set of moral and emotional assumptions on which it's based. Take the pair shown in a photograph from Occupy Austin in Texas. The amiable-looking elderlywoman is holding a sign whose computer-printed words say, "Money has stolen our vote." The older man next to her with the baseball cap is holding a sign handwritten on cardboard that states, "We are our brothers' keeper."
The photo of the two of them offers just a peek into a single moment in the remarkable period we're living through and the astonishing movement that's drawn in… well, if not 99% of us, then a striking enough percentage: everyone from teen pop superstar Miley Cyrus with her Occupy-homage video to Alaska Yup'ik elder Esther Green ice-fishing and holding a sign that says "Yirqa Kuik" in big letters, with the translation -- "occupy the river" -- in little ones below.
The woman with the stolen-votes sign is referring to them. Her companion is talking about us, all of us, and our fundamental principles. His sign comes straight out of Genesis, a denial of what that competitive entrepreneur Cain said to God after foreclosing on his brother Abel's life. He was not, he claimed, his brother's keeper; we are not, he insisted, beholden to each other, but separate, isolated, each of us for ourselves.
Think of Cain as the first Social Darwinist and this Occupier in Austin as his opposite, claiming, no, our operating system should be love; we are all connected; we must take care of each other. And this movement, he's saying, is about what the Argentinian uprising that began a decade ago, on December 19, 2001, called politica afectiva, the politics of affection.
If it's a movement about love, it's also about the money they so unjustly took, and continue to take, from us -- and about the fact that, right now, money and love are at war with each other. After all, in the American heartland, people are beginning to be imprisoned for debt, while the Occupy movement is arguing for debt forgiveness, renegotiation, and debt jubilees. More
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Durban and everything that matters
A HUNDRED years from now, looking back, the only question that will appear important about the historical moment in which we now live is the question of whether or not we did anything to arrest climate change.
Everything else—the financial crisis, the life or death of the euro, authoritarianism or democracy in China and Russia, the Great Stagnation or the innovation renaissance, democratisation and/or political Islam in the Arab world, Newt or Mitt or another four years of Barack—all this will fade into insignificance beside the question of whether we managed to do anything about human industrial civilisation changing the climate of Planet Earth. It's extremely hard to focus on this, because environmentalism goes in and out of political fashion depending on the economy, war, and so forth. But from the perspective of our great-grandchildren, the only thing that's going to seem important is whether we burned all the fossil fuel on the planet and sent global temperatures up by at least 4 degrees Celsius in the next century, or whether we took collective action, shifted our energy sources, and held the global temperature rise to 2 degrees or less.
Actually, I take that back: there are two possibilities. The first is that global warming will seem to have been the overwhelmingly important question, a hundred years on. The other possibility is more depressing, but I'll get to that later.
So, the global climate change conference in Durban surprised most everyone and managed to pull out a deal at the last minute. I found this surprising because unlike other organised bodies that tend to swirl around in terrifyingly chaotic bickering before pulling out a deal at the last second, such as the United States Congress or the European Union, the global climate change conference doesn't have anything immediately at stake for any of the participants. No governments would have fallen if the negotiators in Durban had failed to reach an agreement (more's the pity). And yet they reached one. This seems to indicate that something in the politics of climate change may have shifted a bit. More
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Robert Fisk: Bankers are the dictators of the West
Robert Fisk I salute you, you are the only one with large enough cajones to tell the truth.
Writing from the very region that produces more clichés per square foot than any other "story" – the Middle East – I should perhaps pause before I say I have never read so much garbage, so much utter drivel, as I have about the world financial crisis.
But I will not hold my fire. It seems to me that the reporting of the collapse of capitalism has reached a new low which even the Middle East cannot surpass for sheer unadulterated obedience to the very institutions and Harvard "experts" who have helped to bring about the whole criminal disaster.
Let's kick off with the "Arab Spring" – in itself a grotesque verbal distortion of the great Arab/Muslim awakening which is shaking the Middle East – and the trashy parallels with the social protests in Western capitals. We've been deluged with reports of how the poor or the disadvantaged in the West have "taken a leaf" out of the "Arab spring" book, how demonstrators in America, Canada, Britain, Spain and Greece have been "inspired" by the huge demonstrations that brought down the regimes in Egypt, Tunisia and – up to a point – Libya. But this is nonsense.
The real comparison, needless to say, has been dodged by Western reporters, so keen to extol the anti-dictator rebellions of the Arabs, so anxious to ignore protests against "democratic" Western governments, so desperate to disparage these demonstrations, to suggest that they are merely picking up on the latest fad in the Arab world. The truth is somewhat different. What drove the Arabs in their tens of thousands and then their millions on to the streets of Middle East capitals was a demand for dignity and a refusal to accept that the local family-ruled dictators actually owned their countries. The Mubaraks and the Ben Alis and the Gaddafis and the kings and emirs of the Gulf (and Jordan) and the Assads all believed that they had property rights to their entire nations. Egypt belonged to Mubarak Inc, Tunisia to Ben Ali Inc (and the Traboulsi family), Libya to Gaddafi Inc. And so on. The Arab martyrs against dictatorship died to prove that their countries belonged to their own people.
And that is the true parallel in the West. The protest movements are indeed against Big Business – a perfectly justified cause – and against "governments". What they have really divined, however, albeit a bit late in the day, is that they have for decades bought into a fraudulent democracy: they dutifully vote for political parties – which then hand their democratic mandate and people's power to the banks and the derivative traders and the rating agencies, all three backed up by the slovenly and dishonest coterie of "experts" from America's top universities and "think tanks", who maintain the fiction that this is a crisis of globalisation rather than a massive financial con trick foisted on the voters. More
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Christine Lagarde: The Arab Spring, One Year On
Almost one year ago, countries in the Middle East region embarked upon a historical transformation. Today, the state of play remains uncertain, with the setbacks and intensity of disruptions larger than expected.
Here, I am thinking especially of the deplorable loss of life in places like Libya, Syria, and Yemen. And we are now moving into the most difficult, risky, and uncertain period of all.
As I mentioned in a speech today hosted by the Safadi Foundation at theWilson Center in Washington D.C., we are in the middle of a delicate transition between "rejecting the past" and "defining the future." It is a period when hard choices must be made, when post-revolutionary euphoria must give some way to practical concerns. It also does not help that this is happening at a time of great turmoil in the global economy. But I remain hopeful. The final destination is clear: the Arab Spring is still poised to unleash the potential of the Arab people.
It will be important to manage this difficult transition in an orderly way. More
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Is modern capitalism sustainable?
Cambridge, United Kingdom - I am often asked if the recent global financial crisis marks the beginning of the end of modern capitalism. It is a curious question, because it seems to presume that there is a viable replacement waiting in the wings. The truth of the matter is that, for now at least, the only serious alternatives to today's dominant Anglo-American paradigm are other forms of capitalism.
Continental European capitalism, which combines generous health and social benefits with reasonable working hours, long vacation periods, early retirement and relatively equal income distributions, would seem to have everything to recommend it - except sustainability. China's Darwinian capitalism, with its fierce
competition among export firms, a weak social safety net, and widespread government intervention, is widely touted as the inevitable heir to Western capitalism, if only because of China's huge size and consistent outsize growth rate. Yet China's economic system is continually evolving.
Indeed, it is far from clear how far China's political, economic and financial structures will continue to transform themselves, and whether China will eventually morph into capitalism's new exemplar. In any case, China is still encumbered by the usual social, economic and financial vulnerabilities of a rapidly growing lower-income country.
Perhaps the real point is that, in the broad sweep of history, all current forms of capitalism are ultimately transitional. Modern-day capitalism has had an extraordinary run since the start of the Industrial Revolution two centuries ago, lifting billions of ordinary people out of abject poverty. Marxism and heavy-handed socialism have disastrous records by comparison. But, as industrialisation and technological progress spread to Asia (and now to Africa), someday the struggle for subsistence will no longer be a primary imperative, and contemporary capitalism's numerous flaws may loom larger.
First, even the leading capitalist economies have failed to price public goods such as clean air and water effectively. The failure of efforts to conclude a new global climate-change agreement is symptomatic of the paralysis. More
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Obama attacks Republican economic theory: 'It's never worked'
President Obama, in one of his most expansive speeches to date, declared on Tuesday that supply-side economics is a failure and called "gaping inequality" across the country a moral shortcoming that is distorting American democracy.
Obama's speech in Kansas was not just another attack on Congress, or a plea to pass his jobs bill. He did not roll out a new, snappy slogan – such as telling the audience that "we can't wait" to enact new laws.
Instead, Obama delivered a searing indictment of Republican economic theory, setting the stage for the coming presidential campaign. Summoning the image of a populist Theodore Roosevelt — in the same town (Osawatomie) where Roosevelt delivered a famous speech on economic fairness in 1910 — Obama deployed the language of right and wrong, fairness and unfairness, in a lengthy address that aides said he largely wrote himself.
The theory of "trickle down economics," which holds that greater wealth at the top generates jobs and income for the masses below, drew some of Obama's harshest criticism.
"It's a simple theory — one that speaks to our rugged individualism and healthy skepticism of too much government. It fits well on a bumper sticker. Here's the problem: It doesn't work," Obama said of supply-side economics, drawing extended applause. "It's never worked." More
Inuit hunter takes climate-change message to Durban conference
It took 30 hours of flying, but Inuit hunter Jordan Konek has arrived in the land of surfers and palm trees with a message for the world's politicians: Climate change is real, and it could devastate Canada's Arctic people.
At his home in Arviat on the western shores of Hudson Bay, the snow is arriving later and melting sooner. Hunters are falling through the ice or becoming trapped in slush. Polar bears are so desperate for food that they are raiding the town's garbage dumps. "The Inuit see this and the world should know this," Mr. Konek says. "It's happening right before our eyes. If we're going to be ignored, it's like putting a shotgun in our mouth and pulling the trigger."
Mr. Konek, 23, and his cousin, 21-year-old Curtis Konek, are hoping their message will get through to the negotiators from 190 countries who are struggling to reach agreement on how to combat global warming. But the Durban climate conference has failed to make much progress in its first week, and analysts are warning of a potential breakdown in its final week.
Unlike previous climate summits, few prominent leaders will attend the final days of negotiations, knowing there will be little glory to share. Only 12 heads of state, mostly from Africa and small Pacific islands, are scheduled to arrive in Durban this week. Most of the politicians here will be lower-ranking ministers, including Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent, who was due to arrive late Sunday night. More
Global rebellion: The coming chaos?
Santa Barbara, CA - As the crisis of global capitalism spirals out of control, the powers that be in the global system appear to be adrift and unable to proposal viable solutions. From the slaughter of dozens of young protesters by the army in Egypt to the brutal repression of the Occupy movement in the United States, and the water cannons brandished by the militarised police in Chile against students and workers, states and ruling classes are unable are to hold back the tide of worldwide popular rebellion and must resort to ever more generalised repression.
Simply put, the immense structural inequalities of the global political economy can no longer be contained through consensual mechanisms of social control. The ruling classes have lost legitimacy; we are witnessing a breakdown of ruling-class hegemony on a world scale.
To understand what is happening in this second decade of the new century we need to see the big picture in historic and structural context. Global elites had hoped and expected that the "Great Depression" that began with the mortgage crisis and the collapse of the global financial system in 2008 would be a cyclical downturn that could be resolved through state-sponsored bailouts and stimulus packages. But it has become clear that this is a structural crisis. Cyclical crises are on-going episodes in the capitalist system, occurring and about once a decade and usually last 18 months to two years. There were world recessions in the early 1980s, the early 1990s, and the early 21st century.
Structural crises are deeper; their resolution requires a fundamental restructuring of the system. Earlier world structural crises of the 1890s, the 1930s and the 1970s were resolved through a reorganisation of the system that produced new models of capitalism. "Resolved" does not mean that the problems faced by a majority of humanity under capitalism were resolved but that the reorganisation of the capitalist system in each case overcame the constraints to a resumption of capital accumulation on a world scale. The crisis of the 1890s was resolved in the cores of world capitalism through the export of capital and a new round of imperialist expansion. The Great Depression of the 1930s was resolved through the turn to variants of social democracy in both the North and the South - welfare, populist, or developmentalist capitalism that involved redistribution, the creation of public sectors, and state regulation of the market. More
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A rectangular ink cake, Qianlong period (1736-1795) dated 1739.
An upright rectangular partially used ink cake moulded with a scene of an opening in a wall with a balustrade above, a flight of steps to one side and a tall tree to the other. The reverse with a two character inscription to the upper register Yu mo 御墨 read as "Ink for imperial use", the middle register with four characters Gui chang ye rui歸昌叶瑞 read as "Cries of assembled phoenixes above auspicious leaves" and the lowest register bearing the seal Jixia linzuo 幾暇臨作 read as "Copied during leisure from responsibilities". The right hand edge has the five-character inscription, very worn in parts Qianlong sannian zhi乾隆三年製 read as "Manufactured in the third year of the Qianlong reign".
Qing dynasty, Qianlong period (1736-1795) dated 1739.
Other examples of ink cakes that bear similar inscriptions use the character造rather than the製 character found here.
The seal on the recto of the ink is a reference to the Emperor Kangxi's treatise on science, technology and culture, the Jixia gewu bian, 幾暇格物變 (Writings during leisure on the investigation of things).
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A renowned Indian heart surgeon is currently building a 2,000-bed, internationally accredited "health city" in the Cayman Islands, a short flight from the U.S. Its services will include tertiary care procedures, such as open-heart surgery, angioplasty, knee or hip replacement, and neurosurgery for about 40% of U.S. prices. Patients will have the option of recuperating for a week or two in the Caymans before returning to the U.S.
At a time when health care costs in the United States threaten to bankrupt the federal government, U.S. hospitals would do well to take a leaf or two from the book of Indian doctors and hospitals that are treating problems of the eye, heart, and kidney all the way to maternity care, orthopedics, and cancer for less than 5% to 10% of U.S. costs by using practices commonly associated with mass production and lean production.
The nine Indian hospitals we studied are not cheap because their care is shoddy; in fact, most of them are accredited by the U.S.-based Joint Commission International or its Indian equivalent, theNational Accreditation Board for Hospitals. Where available, data show that their medical outcomes are as good as or better than the average U.S. hospital.
The ultra-low-cost position of Indian hospitals may not seem surprising — after all, wages in India are significantly lower than in the U.S. However, the health care available in Indian hospitals is cheaper even when you adjust for wages: For example, even if Indian heart hospitals paid their doctors and staff U.S.-level salaries, their costs of open-heart surgery would still be one-fifth of those in the U.S.
When it comes to innovations in health care delivery, these Indian hospitals have surpassed the efforts of other top institutions around the world, as we discussed in our recent HBR article. Today, the U.S. spends $8,000 per capita on health care; if it adopted the practices of the Indian hospitals, the same results might be achievable for a whole lot less, saving the country hundreds of billions of dollars.
A key to this is that, faced with the constraints of extreme poverty and a severe shortage of resources, these Indian hospitals have had to operate more nimbly and creatively to serve the vast number of poor people in need of medical care in the subcontinent. And because Indians on average bear 60% to 70% of health care costs out of pocket, they must deliver value. Consequently, value-based competition is not a pipe dream but a reality in India.
Three major practices have allowed these Indian hospitals to cut costs while still improving their quality of care.
In order to reach the masses of people in need of care, Indian hospitals create hubs in major metro areas and open smaller clinics in more rural areas which feed patients to the main hospital, similar to the way that regional air routes feed passengers into major airline hubs.
U.S. hospitals have been developing similar structures, but there are still too many hubs and not enough spokes. Moreover, when hospitals consolidate, the motive often is to increase market power vis-à-vis insurance companies, rather than to lower costs by creating a hub-and-spoke structure.
The Indian hospitals transfer responsibility for routine tasks to lower-skilled workers, leaving expert doctors to handle only the most complicated procedures. Again, necessity is the mother of invention; since India is dealing with a chronic shortage of highly skilled doctors, hospitals have had to maximize the duties they perform. By focusing only on the most technical part of an operation, doctors at these hospitals have become incredibly productive — for example, performing up to five or six surgeries per hour instead of the one to two surgeries common in the U.S.
This innovation has also reduced costs. After shifting tasks from doctors to nurse practitioners and nurses, several hospitals have even created a lower tier of paramedic workers with two years' training after high school to perform the most routine medical jobs. In one hospital, these workers comprise more than half of the workforce. Compare that to the U.S. system, where the first cost-cutting move is often to lay off support staff, shifting more mundane tasks such as billing and transcription onto doctors overqualified for those duties — precisely the wrong kind of task shifting.
There is a lot of waste in U.S. hospitals. You walk into a hospital in the U.S., and it looks like a five-star resort; half of the building has no relation to medical outcomes, and doctors are blissfully unaware of costs. By contrast, Indian hospitals are fanatical about wisely shepherding resources — for example, sterilizing and safely reusing many surgical products that are routinely discarded in the states after a single use. They have also developed local devices such as stents or intraocular lenses that cost one-tenth the price of imported devices.
These hospitals have also been innovative in compensating doctors. Instead of the fee-for-service model, which creates an incentive to perform unnecessary procedures and tests, doctors at some Indian hospitals are paid fixed salaries, regardless of how many tests they order. Other hospitals employ team-based compensation, which generates peer pressure to avoid unnecessary tests and procedures.
Innovation has flourished in the U.S. in the development of new pills, clinical procedures, devices, and medical equipment, but in the field of health care delivery, it appears to have been frozen in time. In too much of the U.S., system, health care is viewed as a craft and each patient as unique. But by applying principles of mass production and lean production to health care delivery, Indian doctors and hospitals may have discovered the best way to cut costs while still delivering high quality in health care.


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Neosensory Translates Sounds Into Vibrations to Aid Hearing-Impaired
Angela Shah
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David Eagleman, noted for his work at his eponymous lab at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and the face of a popular public television series on the brain, figured out something rather unexpected about himself this year: He likes being an entrepreneur.
"Maybe it's not surprising but somehow I'm surprised by it," he says. "What I'm realizing is it's really useful to do things on basic science but, in the end, the stuff that really makes a difference for people's lives is to do the hard work and take a product idea and commercialize it."
Eagleman says this year he's spent as much time in his lab as he has at the Texas Medical Center's startup accelerator, TMCx, where his healthIT company BrainCheck was part of the first class. BrainCheck makes tablet-based software that can analyze cognitive function following concussions.
And recently, his second company, Neosensory, raised $4.2 million to further develop and manufacture its Versatile Extra-Sensory Transducer, a vest worn by the severely hearing impaired which is designed to translate sounds into vibrations. Lead investor on the round was True Ventures in San Francisco, with Tao Capital Partners, Houston investor Tristan Renz, and Neosensory attorney Deborah Marshall filling out the slate. (Neosensory also raised more than $40,000 last year in a Kickstarter campaign.)
The vest, which Eagleman demonstrated in a TED talk last March in Vancouver, Canada, is composed of a network of tiny vibrating motors that turn sounds into sensations that then correspond to elements of a word. (Start at the 11:20 mark.) The device, which was developed by co-founder Scott Norvich's doctoral work in Eagleman's lab, is designed so that specific patterns of vibrations translate into a word that is "heard" by the user.
Neosensory has a pilot program underway with deaf individuals as it pursues a 510k clearance from the Food and Drug Administration. Eagleman says he expects the vest to be on the market for between $1,000 and $2,000 next year. "The only other alternative is a cochlear implant device, which can cost $40,000," he says.
Key to the device's success is making sure users understand what the vibrations are telling them. To that end, Eagleman says they are developing a curriculum of sorts that teaches users the sound-to-vibration language. "It's important that we get this part right so that this is a wonderful experience," Eagleman says.
Neosensory has also hired what Eagleman calls a fashion engineer to refine the vest, making it as user-friendly as possible and "optimizing" the electronics, Eagleman says, referring to the exact placement of the motors and the intensity of the vibrations they produce. The vests, which are meant to be used as commonly as hearing aids, run off of lithium-ion batteries, which hold a charge all day and can be recharged like conventional electronics, he added.
Ever the scientist, Eagleman says, he and Norvich aim to publish their work in academic journals, in addition to building Neosensory as a company. "I'm seeing companies as being a really important part of what is going on in terms of being able to disseminate the science," he says, "and make the rubber hit the road."
Angela Shah is the editor of Xconomy Texas. She can be reached at ashah@xconomy.com or (214) 793-5763. Follow @angelashah
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Mark A. Crowder; Apostolos T. Voutsas; Steven R. T. Droes; M. Moriguchi; Y. Mitani
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Large-area microelectronic applications require high-performance thin-film transistors for driver circuits. This is especially true in the case of "system-on-panel" applications where high levels of circuit integration are required to drive displays and sensors that are built onto the panel. While there are many methods that might be employed to crystallize Si films on lost-cost, high-temperature-intolerant substrates, very few offer the high performance characteristics that the applications demand. In this paper, we show that directionally solidified Si films can be readily used to fabricate high performance electronic devices for circuit applications. By only crystallizing those regions of the Si films that are used in the actual fabrication of TFTs, we show that many of the issues concerning low throughput rates can be avoided. Results from a CMOS ring oscillator showcasing the speed capability of such active layers are also presented.
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A report by Cyber Security Ventures predicts that by the year 2021, cybercrime damage across the world is expected to hit the $6 trillion mark. That's twice as much as cybercrime cost businesses worldwide in 2015. This is not surprising given that too many organizations are today vulnerable to attacks due to the use of unapproved apps, overreliance on poor password protections, unmanaged devices, and a host of other security issues. As we embrace digital transformation, we should also increase control over our IT infrastructures and more importantly learn to identify, understand, manage, and minimize cybersecurity risks.
What is a Cybersecurity Risk?
YA risk can broadly be defined as the potential to suffer loss or harm. It is a human or non-human threat that exploits an existing vulnerability in an organization's IT infrastructure resulting in unwanted or unexpected outcomes such as loss of resources, loss of access to data, modification of data, or disclosure of information to unauthorized people with malicious intent. All these outcomes have negative impacts on the company or organization such as loss of customers, loss of revenue, and high recovery costs. There are also regulatory penalties and fines imposed on the organization after suffering a cybersecurity attack.
Risk management in IT is the process of identifying, assessing, understanding, and mitigating security threats and their impact on the organization's information system and operations. A risk assessment can be done on any application, process, or function in the organization. However, conducting a risk assessment on every aspect of your organization is realistically impossible which is why you need to first develop an operational framework matching the size and scope of your organization.
The operational framework identifies internal and external components of the organization that play a key role in operations including systems responsible for processing, transmitting, and storing sensitive data such as customer credit card data and the organization's financial information. Once these critical components have been identified, you can then formulate a risk assessment schedule.
Risk assessment will also involve a process of identifying potential threats and taking the necessary precautionary measures before the threats become a reality. Every organization has its unique types of risks based on the area of operation, size, and type of data the organization processes, stores, or transmits.
Unauthorized access to sensitive data. This could either be an accidental or malicious access to data from a hacking attack.
Unencrypted devices. If an organization permits the use of unencrypted devices such as USB sticks and CD-ROMs, it becomes susceptible to malware and phishing attacks. Poor paper retention and destruction practices also increase the risk potential.
Transmission of non-public data over unsecured channels or sending information to the wrong recipients accidentally increases the risk potential too.
Misuse of company information by staff. This could be due to unintentional disclosure of information when staff fall victim to social engineering schemes by hackers.
Threats are rated according to the potential impact they can have on the organization. They can be rated as high if the impact they have is substantial, medium if the damage can be recovered on time or is inconvenient and low if the impact is minimal or even non-existent.
The company's manufacturing systems and much more.
Besides securing the organization's internal and external systems, you'll also need to ensure that your organization complies with laws and regulatory requirements associated with information security standards. Compliance with cyber safety regulatory requirements will depend on the industry you are in and the structure of your business. There are strict regulatory standards for businesses that process, transmit, and store credit card information from their customers. A good example is the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI/DSS) which helps to protect cardholder's data. Your organization must comply with PCI/DSS policies if it accepts, processes, and stores credit card information from customers.
There are countless ways you can manage and minimize cybersecurity risks depending on the size and scope of your organization.
Cybersecurity awareness campaigns. Introduce awareness campaigns to the organization at all levels from the management to frontline staff, third-party companies you regularly deal with, partners, and customers. Tran all these people on basic safety practices such as how to identify and avoid phishing messages and spam.
Implement a cybersecurity reporting system. When you have an efficient cybersecurity reporting process in place, employees can communicate to the relevant IT security department faster when a threat is identified and have the issue resolved before it can cause further damage.
Collaborate with peers in your industry. Share information with other players in your industry to stay updated with cybersecurity threats affecting your industry and how to prevent them.
Stay updated on emerging data protection processes and tools to ensure that your business is secure at all times.
More importantly, your organization should run penetration tests by independent information security services such as Venkon mainly for two reasons. The first one is to identify potential risks in your infrastructure that your IT team may be unaware of and secondly to get compliance certification from cybersecurity regulatory bodies. Venkon helps companies and organizations solve their data security challenges by simulating real-life cyber-attacks on your IT infrastructure. These penetration tests help to identify and mitigate potential threats to your company's information security.
Jaime Manteiga is a dynamic Information Security Professional and Researcher who assists organizations across the world by improving their information security posture and cybersecurity challenges.
Prevention of information security breaches has become an integral part of business operations in every industry. It is therefore important for every business to have an efficient incident response plan to minimize the damage that may arise in the unfortunate event of a data breach.
As hackers continue to use more sophisticated penetration methods and technologies, security of your enterprise IT system is one thing you cannot afford to ignore, regardless of the size of your organization or the industry you specialize in.


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CEL-SCI Announces Update on Phase 3 Cancer Trial Results
Data lock is complete, final statistical analysis being conducted
VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CEL-SCI Corporation (NYSE American: CVM) announced today that the Phase 3 study is in the final stage of review which involves statistical analysis of all study data. Data lock has already been completed.
Since the required number of events to allow statistical analysis of CEL-SCI's Phase 3 study in head and neck cancer was reached earlier this year, the Clinical Research Organizations (CROs) managing CEL-SCI's Phase 3 study, Ergomed and ICON, had been performing data base lock of the study results. Data base lock is a very important and time intensive process that needs to be completed to ensure any study's data are accurate and as complete as possible before the results of the study can be statistically evaluated and reliable conclusions drawn regarding the study's outcome(s). This process was particularly complicated for CEL-SCI's Phase 3 study because the study was conducted in over 20 countries on three continents, and many of these countries had, and still have, severe shutdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The statistical analysis of our Phase 3 study data is being performed according to a statistical analysis plan that was approved in advance of data lock. The analysis is being conducted by independent unbiased contractors. CEL-SCI is not involved in this process. Once the analysis has been completed, CEL-SCI will become privy to the study results. At that time, shareholders will be advised of the results through a public announcement. CEL-SCI also plans to publish the results in peer reviewed scientific journals.
"Our goal has been to create a cancer drug that is both non-toxic and works with the body's immune system to increase the 'intent to cure' success rate of the first-line cancer treatment. We believe that immunotherapy should be administered before, not after, surgery, radiation and chemotherapy have damaged the immune system. We further believe that success in head and neck cancer should lead to many new ways of helping cancer patients." said Geert Kersten, CEO of CEL-SCI Corporation. "We are grateful to our shareholders for believing in us and supporting us during the very long Phase 3 study."
About CEL-SCI Corporation
CEL-SCI believes that boosting a patient's immune system while it is still intact should provide the greatest possible impact on survival. Therefore, in the Phase 3 study CEL-SCI treated patients who are newly diagnosed with advanced primary squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck with the investigational product Multikine* first, BEFORE they received surgery, radiation and/or chemotherapy. This approach is unique. Most other cancer immunotherapies are administered only after conventional therapies have been tried and/or failed. Multikine (Leukocyte Interleukin, Injection), has received Orphan Drug designation from the FDA for neoadjuvant therapy in patients with squamous cell carcinoma (cancer) of the head and neck.
CEL-SCI believes that this Phase 3 study is the largest Phase 3 study in the world for the treatment of head and neck cancer. Per the study's protocol, newly diagnosed patients with advanced primary squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck were treated with the Multikine treatment regimen right after diagnosis and prior to receiving the Standard of Care (SOC), which involves surgery, radiation or concurrent radiochemotherapy. Multikine is designed to help the immune system "see" the tumor at a time when the immune system is still relatively intact and thereby thought to better be able to mount an attack on the tumor. The aim of treatment with Multikine is to boost the body's immune system prior to SOC to attack the cancer. The Phase 3 study is fully enrolled with 928 patients and the last patient was treated in September 2016. To prove an overall survival benefit, the study requires CEL-SCI to wait until 298 events have occurred among the two main comparator groups. This study milestone occurred in late April 2020. The study is currently in the statistical analysis phase.
The Company's LEAPS technology is being developed for rheumatoid arthritis and as a potential treatment for COVID-19 infection. The Company has operations in Vienna, Virginia, and near/in Baltimore, Maryland.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including statements with respect to Multikine and the Phase 3 clinical trial of Multikine in patients with advanced primary squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. When used in this press release, the words "intends," "believes," "anticipated," "plans" and "expects," and similar expressions, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, an inability to duplicate the clinical trials or nonclinical results demonstrated in clinical studies, timely development of any potential products that can be shown to be safe and effective, receiving necessary regulatory approvals, difficulties in manufacturing any of the Company's potential products, inability to raise the necessary capital and the risk factors set forth from time to time in CEL-SCI's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to its report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended September 30, 2019. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly release the result of any revision to these forward-looking statements which may be made to reflect the events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
* Multikine (Leukocyte Interleukin, Injection) is the trademark that CEL-SCI has registered for this investigational therapy, and this proprietary name is subject to FDA review in connection with the Company's future anticipated regulatory submission for approval. Multikine has not been licensed or approved for sale, barter or exchange by the FDA or any other regulatory agency. Similarly, its safety or efficacy has not been established for any use. Moreover, no definitive conclusions can be drawn from the early-phase, clinical-trials data involving the investigational therapy Multikine. Further research is required, and early-phase clinical trial results must be confirmed in the Phase 3 clinical trial of this investigational therapy that is in progress.
Gavin de Windt
CEL-SCI Corporation
CEL-SCI Announces Update on Phase 3 Cancer Trial Results.


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2017 has been a rollercoaster ride for the food industry, with Amazon coughing up a cool $13.7bn for Whole Foods, a flurry of M&A activity from Nestlé, Hershey, Campbell Soup and Kellogg, and an exodus from the industry's biggest trade association, reflecting what one commentator described as a 'breakdown in consensus.' But what does 2018 have in store?
Rather than focusing on micro-trends (Is ashwaganda the next kale? Will purple tea be a hit?), we've highlighted some broader trends to watch as we head into the New Year.
While some commentators have tried to frame this issue as a pitched battle between plant-based, animal-based, and cellular agriculture, investors have proved more agnostic, while the world's biggest meat companies have invested in both plant-based and cultured meat businesses, so perhaps the most likely scenario is that all of these approaches will likely co-exist in future (plant-based burger on Thursday, a grass-fed organic steak on Friday and a cell cultured chicken nugget on Saturday?).
As with any new technology, much will depend on who is able to drive the narrative (is this about animal welfare, food safety, sustainability, and health or Frankenfoods?) and the terminology ('clean meat' vs 'lab-grown meat'). Watch this space!
Growing interest in plant-based foods and cultured meat stems from the same desire to find an alternative to industrialized meat production, which critics claim is bad for the environment and cruel to animals, and we can expect more investment and innovation in plant-based meat and dairy alternatives in 2018.
However, as the founders of Sweet Earth Natural Foods (just acquired by Nestlé), Field Roast (just acquired by Maple Leaf Foods), and Purple Carrot point out, you don't have to eat meat analogs washed down with nut-milk every night to enjoy a plant-based diet, and there are plenty of opportunities to create fabulous plant-based dishes that don't try and imitate meat or dairy at all (chickpea curry or a nut roast, anyone?).
As to what to look out for in 2018, keep your eye on chickpeas and chickpea proteins, peanut milk (hitting stores in January) and the extent to which plant-based brands such as Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat can capture a meaningful slice of the meat market.
While the debate over labeling conventions for plant-based 'milk,' 'yogurt' and 'cheese' ratcheted up in 2017, the FDA has made it clear that it has no plans to wade into this particular minefield anytime soon, so it's unclear how this will play out in 2018.
While many judges have not been persuaded by the dairy lobby's arguments on this issue, it remains top of mind for the NMPF, so don't expect it to give up without a fight. That said, with more dairy companies investing in plant-based brands, the battle lines on this issue may become a little blurry.
However, it has yet to publish a draft rule, which raises questions over whether it will meet its July 2018 deadline.
Right now, significant questions remain, such as precisely what does 'bio-engineered' mean, and will highly refined foods derived from GM crops such as high fructose corn syrup or soybean oil ("that contain undetectable levels of bioengineered genetic material such that they are indistinguishable from their non-engineered counterparts") require GMO labels?
When it comes to non-GMO claims, meanwhile, it will be interesting to observe how far along the supply chain consumers reasonably expect manufacturers to go, particularly in the dairy sector, where a row has been brewing over moves by some big brands to seek milk from cows that haven't been fed GM feed.
Think 'clean label' just means ditching 'artificial' ingredients and avoiding anything attracting negative press (warranted or otherwise)? Think again. In 2017, brands started questioning whether 'natural' flavors, preservatives and sweeteners are really 'clean,' whether Non-GMO claims should only apply to what's in the final product, and whether pesticide residues – even at trace levels – belong in 'natural' or 'clean label' foods.
And there's every chance that this will become an even bigger issue in 2018, predicts Hartman Group, which says that for some more 'progressive' consumers, the conversation around clean food now encompasses GMOs, pesticide residues, antibiotics, sustainability, animal welfare, farming methods and food technologies.
According to a large consumer survey by Kerry, meanwhile, a small number of ingredient-conscious consumers – defined by Kerry as primary shoppers who "paid attention to the product label and considered ingredients while grocery shopping" – now regard some 'natural' ingredients (stevia, natural flavors, natural colors) as undesirable.
Consumers across all demographics, meanwhile, are looking for less processed foods "that intuitively retain the integrity of the original ingredients," products that are "made simply and grown naturally without unnecessary chemicals, processing or cooking stages," says Hartman Group.
In 2018, we predict a continued shift to a more holistic, 'wellness' focused approach based around high quality, nutrient dense, fresh, less processed foods, premium products, and pleasure ('diet' is a dirty word in food marketing now), coupled with a shift from a narrow focus on fat, sugar and calories, to a broader focus on organics, sustainability, and the absence of 'artificial ingredients' or GMOs (which many dietitians argue are not about nutrition at all).
When it comes to fat, however, expect continued debate over precisely which fats are actually good for you, particularly trending fats such as butter and coconut oil, which are high in saturated fat, traditionally seen as a nutritional bogeyman. We can also expect to see more 'ketogenic' products (high fat, low protein, low/zero carbs) and whole milk dairy products, as food marketers and consumers increasingly focus on sugar, but give fat – which is higher in calories - a pass.
From a regulatory perspective, meanwhile, comments in the FDA's docket on 'healthy' nutrient content claims reveal significant disagreement between key stakeholders over how to define 'healthy' on food labels, with added sugar and saturated fat proving the biggest bones of contention, and heated debate over whether fruit juice deserves a 'healthy' label.
The American Heart Association, meanwhile, has made it clear that appealing though claims such as minimally processed, natural, non-GMO, or free of artificial ingredients might be to consumers, such factors should not be included in the legal criteria for 'healthy' claims on pack.
In the nutritional stakes, sugar will likely remain public enemy #1 in 2018, and formulators will continue to find ways to reduce or replace it, although close attention will be paid to the perceived naturalness of alternatives.
The plaintiff's bar, meanwhile, has made it clear that sugar is on the food litigation radar. A recent lawsuit - filed by the same team of attorneys that has sued Kellogg, Post, and General Mills over sugar levels in their breakfast cereals – accuses Mondelez of targeting belVita products towards consumers interested in health and nutrition when they are in fact high in sugar – excessive amounts of which, they claim, are linked to everything from heart disease and type 2 diabetes, to cancers, cognitive decline and liver disease.
Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Dr Pepper Snapple Group have also been targeted in putative class action lawsuits arguing that consumers might reasonably believe that zero-calorie sodas labeled as 'diet' "will assist in weight loss or management," when in fact the opposite may be true.
While this argument is a stretch, according to some attorneys, the term 'diet' is becoming more problematic, while cases like this also create bad PR for high intensity sweeteners, which are also being impacted by some soda tax regulations (some of which don't distinguish between beverages sweetened with sugar, and say, stevia).
While protein remains as popular as ever if new product launches are anything to go by, not everyone is convinced this is a trend (as opposed to a fad – given that most Americans are not short of protein), and it will be interesting to see if the craze continues to gain traction, or cools off in 2018.
One trend we expect to see flourish in 2018 is fermented foods and beverages, from kombucha, yogurt, kefir and sauerkraut, to tempeh, some pickles, kimchi and miso.
By the end of the 1950s, for example, the impact of the modern self-service supermarket was "still minimal," says Hartman Group CEO Laurie Demeritt. A couple of decades later, and it had completely transformed the food retail landscape.
One thing we do know is that there is an increasing disconnect between the mainline retail ecosystem of thousands of large stores designed for extended 45-60-minute pantry stock-up trips, and the way many Americans are now shopping and meal planning (on the cuff), she says.
Bernstein is predicting equally big changes: "Future generations may wonder why we took an iron trolley through cold aisles, dropped heavy boxes of soap powder into them, lifted them on conveyor belts, and then lifted them into the trunk of our car, every week!
While the 'big food has lost its way' narrative has perhaps been overplayed (most big CPG brands are actively re-engineering their portfolios to tap into new growth areas, after all), some of the nation's biggest brands have struggled to connect with the next generation of consumers, and the recent exodus from the GMA has prompted a lot of soul searching.
It's also unlikely we'll see another multi-billion-dollar brand such as Coke or Pepsi anytime soon as brands are increasingly "proliferating into specific niches," says Andrew Henkel from SPINS, while product lifecycles are also getting shorter, with much of the growth in the category driven by new brands.
PepsiCo's Seth Kaufman, in turn, says multinationals now recognize they need structures in place to manage a larger number of smaller brands, although he also points out that brands in categories that might once have been thought of as niche (eg. KeVita's sparkling probiotic beverages and kombuchas) are proving surprisingly scalable.
CLEAN LABEL AND FOOD MARKETING: Some industry stakeholders reckon it is high time marketers are challenged over claims that safe, legal and exhaustively tested food ingredients are 'bad stuff'; while others argue that big food companies are sending out mixed messages to consumers by defending some 'artificial' ingredients but making marketing capital out of excluding others.
The issue – which reared its head in early 2016 with a Chobani ad campaign directly attacking rivals Dannon and Yoplait over their ingredient choices – was replayed in 2017 with Arla's controversial 'Live Unprocessed' campaign, in which rbSt was depicted as a scary monster.
"Arla's  campaign also falsely states that rbST is an ingredient that is placed in other companies' cheese [when it is in fact a legally approved growth hormone supplement fed to cows produced and sold by Elanco under the brand name Posilac]."


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