Earls Restaurants has announced it is removing the word "albino" from its popular in-house brand of beer. The move is in response to a human rights complaint -- launched by a group of people who have albinism. One of the complainants, IK Ero of Vancouver, argued the name is demeaning and humiliating, especially when customers say they would like to … [Read more...]
Organizing Content for Forms of Information Products
November 18, 2012 by
Join us as Linda Christensen goes over various frameworks, templates, and other techniques that will empower you to easily create an information product - whether it's a blogpost, video, report, webinar, sales letter, or home study program. This will help you get over that "blank page writer's block" of not knowing where to begin and what all to … [Read more...]
Bob Mansfield: ‘all eligible Apple products are back on EPEAT’
July 24, 2012 by
Here's something you don't want happening when you're trying to wrap up a career, plan a jaunt to Moorea and generally goof off while waiting for the final checks to clear: large numbers of people demanding that you change something. That's probably what one Bob Mansfield is dealing with, just weeks before he'll turn in his Apple employee badge and … [Read more...]
Toshiba Storage Products’ THNSNF SSDs tap into 19nm process technology
June 5, 2012 by
32 nanometer process technology feels so... 2009. These days, Toshiba Storage Products is pushing something quite a bit smaller, as the outfit's new THNSNF solid state drives are said to be the world's first to take advantage of 19nm process NAND flash memory. 2012 just so happens to mark the 25th anniversary of Tosh's meddling in NAND, and the new … [Read more...]
Western Forest Products’ Q4 profits fall
February 22, 2012 by
VANCOUVER - Western Forest Products Inc. said Wednesday its fourth-quarter profits were lower than the same period a year ago, but sales were higher.The Vancouver-based woodland operator and lumber producer (TSX:WEF) said net income during the last three months of 2011 was $ 5.3 million, a drop from $ 20.1 million a year earlier.The profits … [Read more...]
Taiga Building Products Q2 profit hits $3.3M
November 4, 2011 by
BURNABY, B.C. - Taiga Building Products Ltd. (TSX:TBL) has credited an increase in gross margin for a big improvement in its fiscal 2011 second quarter earnings.The Burnaby-based wholesale distributor of building products said it earned a profit of $ 3.3 million or 10 cents per share in the three months ended Sept. 30. That was up from $ 1.9 … [Read more...]
