Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2010 (22. évfolyam, 1-50. szám)
2010-08-13 / 32. szám
Bais Naftoli Annual Breakfast An unprecedented standing room only crowd recently celebrated the 18th (”Chai”) Annual Breakfast of Congregation Bais Naftoli. Rabbinic dignitaries as well as State, County, and City officials participated in the festivities. Pictured from left to right. Standing: Councilman Tom LaBonge, Honoree Rabbi Chaim Friedman, Councilman Paul Koretz, Honoree Dr. Gabriel Rubanenko, Councilwoman Wendy Greuel, Fire Commissioner Andrew Friedman, City Attorney Carmen Trutanich. Sitting: Sheriff Lee Baca, Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, District Attorney Steve Cooley. Not pictured: State Assembly Speaker John Perez, Supervisor Mike Antonovich, Fire Chief Millage Peaks. Theo Albrecht, Co-Owner of Trader Joe's, Dies at 88 BERLIN - Theo Albrecht, the secretive co-founder of Germany’s worldwide discount supermarket chain Aldi, a co-owner of Trader Joe’s in the United States and one of Europe’s richest men, has died at age 88. The retail machine that Albrecht built with his brother Karl has won over German consumers with their no-frills but super-cheap offer, making billionaires of the two and spawning imitation “hard-discount” stores across Europe. Albrecht was the driving force behind Aldi’s internationalization, expanding stores to France, Spain, Portugal, Poland and the United States, among other nations. The company said he died in his home city of Essen. Even that bare-bones statement marked unusual openness for a company known for its extreme secrecy. When Forbes featured the brothers in 1992 as two of the world’s richest men, the magazine had to uses silhouettes rather than photographs to illustrate the article since no pictures of them had been published in many years. The German Retail Federation said the country had lost one of its greatest entrepreneurs. “There are only a few people who have stamped their mark on an entire business sector of the economy. Theo Albrecht achieved just that,” the federation’s managing director, Stefan Genth, said in a statement. Albrecht and his elder brother Karl both served as German soldiers in World War II then returned home to Essen and took over a grocery store their parents owned. They flourished as the German economy, in shambles after the war, came back to life in what is often called the “economic miracle.” By 1950, they were already running 13 stores and five years later, they had expanded throughout Germany’s western industrial Ruhr basin. The first Aldi stores - an acronym standing for “Albrecht Discount” - opened in the early 1960s under the motto: “concentrating on the basics: a limited selection of goods for daily needs.” It was a formula that sold well: Aldi carries a limited selection of fastest-selling, nonperishable consumer items, a strategy that allowed them to increase order volume, cut handling costs and waste, and buy their goods cheap — savings passed on to the consumer. Aldi now has more than 4,000 outlets in Germany alone, where it is known for its no-frills shopping environment, streamlined processes and a limited range of discount products. Magyar Posta has a new board chairman Gergely Domonkos Horvath is to replace István Kalmar as chairman of the board of Magyar Posta, the Hungarian National Asset Management Company (MNV) told MTI. István Kalmar resigned as chairman of the board of directors of Magyar Posta Zrt. MNV’s board of directors passed a resolution on the same day, accepting the resignation and appointing MNV CEO Gergely Domonkos Horvath as chairman of the board of Magyar Posta. Mr Kalmar will assist the new chairman’s work as consultant. (MTI) LAX-BUD-LAX $575 -tol + Tax + Fee (2010. augusztus 30-tól) Információért hívják ZSUZSÁT TEL: (310) 652-5294 FAX: (310) 652-5287 1-888-532-0168 SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS! Augusztus 13,2010 Dangerous Supplements By Consumer Reports The, Aug 03, 2010 Americans love their dietary supplements. More than half of the adult population have taken them to stay healthy, lose weight, gain an edge in sports or in the bedroom, and avoid using prescription drugs. What consumers might not realize, though, is that supplement manufacturers routinely, and legally, sell their products without first having to demonstrate that they are safe and effective. The Food and Drug Administration has not made full use of even the meager authority granted it by the industry-friendly 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). As a result, the supplement marketplace is not as safe as it should be. Consumer Reports have identified a dozen supplement ingredients that consumers should avoid because of health risks, including cardiovascular, liver, and kidney problems. We found products with those ingredients readily available in stores and online. Because of inadequate quality control and inspection, supplements contaminated with heavy metals, pesticides, or prescription drugs have been sold to unsuspecting consumers. And FDA rules covering manufacturing quality don’t apply to the companies that supply herbs, vitamins, and other raw ingredients. China, which has repeatedly been caught exporting contaminated products, is a major supplier of raw supplement ingredients. The FDA has yet to inspect a single factory there. The lack of oversight leaves consumers like John Coolidge, 55, of Signal Mountain, Tenn., vulnerable. He started taking a supplement called Total Body Formula to improve his general health. But instead, he says, beginning in February 2008, he experienced one symptom after another: diarrhea, joint pain, hair loss, lung problems, and fingernails and toenails that fell off. “It just tore me up,” he said. Eventually, hundreds of other reports of adverse reactions to the product came to the attention of the FDA, which inspected the manufacturer’s facilities and tested the contents of the products. Most of the samples contained more than 200 times the labeled amount of selenium and up to 17 times the recommended intake of chromium, according to the FDA. The Dirty Dozen Working with an independent research group, Consumer Reports identified a group of ingredients (out of nearly 1,100 in the database) linked to serious adverse events by clinical research or case reports. To come up with our dozen finalists, we also considered factors such as whether the ingredients were effective for their purported uses and how readily available they were to consumers. We then shopped for them online and in stores near our Yonkers, N.Y., headquarters and easily found all of them for sale in June 2010. The dozen are aconite, bitter orange, chaparral, colloidal silver, coltsfoot, comfrey, country mallow, germanium, greater celandine, kava, lobelia, and yohimbe. The FDA has warned about at least eight of them, some as long ago as 1993. Why are they still for sale? Two national retailers we contacted about specific supplements said they carried them because the FDA has not banned them. The agency has “the authority to immediately remove them from the market, and we would follow the FDA recommendation,” said a spokeswoman for the Vitamin Shoppe chain. Janis Dowd, 56, of Bartlesville, Okla., says she started taking colloidal silver in 2000 after reading online that it would keep her Lyme disease from returning. She says her skin changed color so gradually that she didn’t notice, but others did. “They kept saying, ‘You look a little blue.’” Laser treatments have erased almost all the discoloration from Dowd’s face and neck, but not from the rest of her body. Under the DSHEA, it is difficult for the FDA to put together strong enough evidence to order products off the market. To date, it has banned only one ingredient, ephedrine alkaloids. That effort dragged on for a decade, during which ephedra weight-loss products were implicated in thousands of adverse events, including deaths. Instead of attempting any more outright bans, the agency issued warnings, detained imported products, and asked companies to recall products it considered unsafe. ANGYALFI RENT- A-CAR AUTÓBÉRLÉS MAGYARORSZÁGON A. Suzuki Swift manual 150 usd/hét B. Fiat Punto, Opel Corsa, Suzuki Ignis, Suzuki Swift (új) manual, air.c 190 usd/hét C. Citroen C3 manual, air.c 220 usd/hét D. Opel Astra 1.4 manual, air.c 250 usd/hét E. Opel Astra 1.6, Honda City, Chevy Aveo automatic, air.c 270 usd/hét Korlátlan km használattal, biztosítással és adóval. Repülőtéri átadással és átvétellel. 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