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Sorry, but your browser does not support the video tag. (BPT) - By Michael Lindsey Americans are increasingly going global. Or at least our taste buds are. From ginger and wasabi to seaweed and passion fruit, we’re indulging on flavors and ingredients previous generations hadn't even heard of. In fact, over three-fourths of Americans say they like trying flavors from different places and cultures, and more than two-thirds say they enjoy globally-inspired foods at least once a month. Those are just a couple of fascinating findings from the Frito-Lay U.S. Snack Index survey about global flavors and their influence on the snack industry. The results offer surprising insights into what consumers want for snacks. (Hint: It’s not the same old thing.) At Frito-Lay, we continually strive to develop and quickly bring to market snacks to keep up with consumer taste preferences, even while they're constantly changing. Consumers have always sought variety, but the types of snacks … [Read more...] about Expert Series: Frito-Lay Exec Michael Lindsey Explains the Globalization of Flavor in the Snack Industry

A fast-moving fire raged though dry brush and grass in the Oakland hills on Tuesday afternoon, forcing dozens of residents to flee as firefighters scrambled to protect homes while battling the fierce wall of flames, officials said. Aircraft dropped fire retardant and water on the blaze as crews on the ground attacked the burning vegetation in a former rock quarry turned residential neighborhood below Campus Drive and just south of Merritt College. The blaze, named the Edwards Fire after nearby Edwards Avenue, was first reported around 12:15 p.m. and took off in the rugged and exposed hillside surrounded by homes in the Caballo Hills neighborhood, officials said. A helicopter drops water on an hillside of dry brush and grass as it threatened homes and caused evacuations on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017 in Oakland, Calif. A helicopter drops water on an hillside of dry brush and grass as it threatened homes and caused evacuations on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017 in Oakland, Calif. … [Read more...] about Oakland hills grass fire threatened homes, led to evacuations

China’s media blitz against the world’s disgust at its use of concentration camps to eradicate ethnic minorities continued on Tuesday with a Global Times column complaining critics are too beholden to “morals” and that it is “unrealistic” to expect the Communist Party to respect human rights.The column in the government-run newspaper appeared on World Human Rights Day. The U.S. government believes China has imprisoned up to 3 million people – mostly Uyghur, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz Muslims – in over a thousand concentration camps built in Xinjiang province, which borders Afghanistan. There, from what reporters and human rights activists have pieced together from the few survivors who have escaped, detainees are subject to torture, rape, communist indoctrination, slavery, and live organ harvesting. The Chinese Communist Party claimed this week that all detainees had “graduated” from the concentration camps. China insists the … [Read more...] about State Media: ‘It Is Unrealistic’ for China to Respect Human Rights

Photo: Niko Tavernise Photo: Niko Tavernise Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 Photo: Niko Tavernise How ‘The Irishman’ Cinematographer Used Three Cameras to De-Age the Actors 1  /  1 Back to Gallery At first glance, Rodrigo Prieto’s job as cinematographer on Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” seems complicated. But if you dig deeper, you find out it’s even harder than you’d imagined. In the video, he offers a crash course in some of his solutions, including the “three-headed monster” of three attached cameras to shoot the scenes where the actors will be de-aged. He also addresses the different formats (i.e., film stock or digital) used to denote the passage of time in the 50-year saga. More … [Read more...] about How ‘The Irishman’ Cinematographer Used Three Cameras to De-Age the Actors

A warehouse containing construction materials and appliances went up in flames Monday in East Oakland, forcing about 20 employees to evacuate and leaving local contractors shocked by the loss of the decades-old business. Around 8:28 a.m., firefighters responded to reports of a debris fire on the 2000 block of Solano Way in East Oakland, but the fire soon jumped into an open window of American Emperor, a storehouse containing plumbing materials, HVAC equipment, lighting fixtures, sheet metal and other building supplies, authorities said. “Considering the heavy fireload inside the building and the amount of combustion, the fire grew incredibly fast,” Battalion Chief Melinda Drayton said. “It went from single-alarm to third alarm within 10 minutes.” First responders evacuated 20 employees from the buildingat 1900 E. 12th Street, which was destroyed by the blaze. By 9:30 a.m., dozens of neighbors, nearby business owners and contractors who patronized American … [Read more...] about 20 evacuated from massive warehouse fire in East Oakland