Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Apr 7, 2014 (II)

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Katarina Gustafsson, Who Ya Gonna Call? Lego Dials Fans.
www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... its-way-to-new-toys

My comment:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Crowdsourcing helps the toymaker strengthen ties to customers
(b) Read only the first two paragraphs and view the graphic.
(c) "With the help of the Internet and social media, crowdsourcing lets companies from McDonald’s to Samsung Electronics tap customers’ knowledge and experience to create new products. Lego has run its program since 2008 with Cuusoo System, a Japanese crowdsourcing company. * * * The Lego Cuusoo site—roughly “my Lego wish” in Japanese—helps the company develop ideas its 180 designers might not come up with on their own.
(i) Cuusoo System
cuusoo.com

, whose page includes
lego.cuusoo.com

(d) The "cuusoo" is derived from
(i) kūsō  空想 【くうそう】 (n,v): "daydream; fantasy; fancy; vision  <彼は空想の世界に生きている。He lives in a world of fantasy>"
(ii) 空想的社会改良家 【くうそうてきしゃかいかいりょうか】 (n): "utopian"

(e) Masashi TOGAMI  砥上 将志
(i) togami 砥上 【とがみ】(surname)
(ii) to 砥 【と】(n): "millstone, grindstone, whetstone"

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Joan Alvado, The School of Shepherds, Catalonia; Grazing in the grass. (under the heading “Farming”)
www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... s-for-shepherd-jobs

Note: In print but not online, the main photo has four panels near the bottom of the photo:

“18 ………………………………31 ………………………………488k ……………………………...E500
Number of students …..Average age of ……….The number of sheep …..Tuition for five-month
in the 2013 class; ……..students enrolled in ...in Catalonia, out of ……..shepherding course in
four were women ……..the school ………………….Spain’s 16.6 million ……..Val d’Aran

(b) Val d’Aran
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_d%27Aran
(sometimes referred to as the Aran Valley in English; in the Pyrenees mountains; Aragon [Basque Country is further west, but not western neighbor, of Aragon] to the west; section 1 Name and local language)

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Dorothy Gambrell, How the NSA Sees the World.
www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... interactive-graphic

My comment:
(a) Online there is this suggestion at the bottom of the illustration: “Works best in Google Chrome and Apple Safari Browsers.” I tried Safari but it does not work well. Google Chrome works.
(b) Mouse over at least ONE code name--”ANGRYNEIGHBOR[:] Read computer screens from outside a room”

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Michael S Marois, In California, Salmon Hitch a Ride to the Sea.
www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... n-migrate-via-truck
(“The dearth of rain has left long stretches of the Sacramento River too shallow to sustain the millions of young Chinook salmon that usually make the annual 200- to 300-mile swim to the Pacific Ocean. * * * In two years they will be mature enough for harvest”)

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: The state trucks drought-trapped smolts to the Pacific to mature

(b)
(i) salmon (n; plural salmon also salmons)
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salmon
(ii) smolt (n):
“a young salmon or sea trout about two years old that is at the stage of development when it assumes the silvery color of the adult and is ready to migrate to the sea”
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smolt
(iii) salmon
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon
(section 3 Life cycle)
(iv) San Pablo Bay
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Pablo_Bay
(receives the waters of the Sacramento River)

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A Shakeout Looms for China’s Homebuilders.
www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... ans-they-cant-repay

My comment:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: As housing cools,”Cement Shen” was unable to repay loans
(b) Read only the first paragraph: “Amid a cluster of half-built brick townhouses surrounded by peach groves on the outskirts of Fenghua city 浙江省宁波市 奉化市, workers could be seen taking down metal scaffolding and hauling away steel plates last month. They had heard that Zhejiang Xingrun Real Estate 浙江兴润置业投资有限公司, the company building the housing development called Peach Blossom Palace 桃花府邸, was insolvent.”

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Kurt  Soller, J.Crew Grads Strike Out on Their Own.
www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... urned-entrepreneurs

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: The purveyor of preppy chic has become a fashion incubator
(b) Read only the first two paragraphs.
(c) Age 31 and CEO of her company Baggu
baggu.com
(片仮名: バッグ; the “g” between “ba” and “gu” signals a fleeting stop--it is “g” only because the next syllable starts with consonant “g”)
, Emily Sugihara’s father is half Japanese, and her mother is white.

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Claire Suddath, Making Rape Expensive; Frustrated by the way universities handled their allegations, students are outmaneuvering their administrators.
www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... ndle-sexual-assault

Note:
(a) This is one of the three feature stories in this issue.
(b) Read only the first nine paragraphs.