Self-storage changes hands
Global self-storage company Public Storage has acquired a second facility formerly owned by The Lock Up.
Customers of the Waipio storage facility, at 94-1128 Ka Uka Blvd., received notification of the ownership change, as well as changes in payment options and services offered, along with contact information for customer service.
Public Storage previously bought The Lock Up’s Pearl City facility at 1200 Kuala St., as reflected on the Public Storage website. The Lock Up website now lists only its so-called Waikiki location, at 1901 Kapiolani Blvd.
Bacon shortage dismissed as ‘baloney’
ST. LOUIS » Bacon lovers can relax. They’ll find all they want on supermarket shelves in the coming months, though their pocketbooks may take a hit.
The economics of the current drought are likely to nose up prices for bacon and other pork products next year, by as much as 10 percent. But U.S. agricultural economists are dismissing reports of a global bacon shortage that lent sizzle to headlines and Twitter feeds last week. Simply put, the talk of scarcity is hogwash.
Fears about a scarcity of bacon swept across social and mainstream media in recent weeks after Britain’s National Pig Association said a bacon shortage was "unavoidable," citing a sharp decline in the continent’s pig herd and drought-inflated feed costs. The report caused much consternation over a product that used to be merely a breakfast staple but nowadays flavors everything from brownies to vodka.
The alarm was quickly dismissed by the American Farm Bureau Federation as "baloney."
Yahoo CEO adds motherhood to challenges
SAN FRANCISCO »Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer gave birth to a boy late Sunday, shining a spotlight on her ability to steer the struggling Internet company in a new direction while adjusting to the challenges of being a first-time mother.
The birth came a week ahead of the Oct. 7 due date that Mayer shared with the public in July. She announced her pregnancy on her social networking accounts just a few hours after Yahoo hired her as its third full-time CEO in less than a year.
The pregnancy news amplified the buzz about Mayer’s defection from Google Inc., where she spent 13 years as a key executive overseeing some of the services that helped to drag down Yahoo.
Yahoo’s decision to anoint a soon-to-be mom as its CEO was hailed as a breakthrough for women seeking to prove that men aren’t the only ones who can balance a high-powered executive lifestyle and early parenthood.
Red Lobster — for nonseafood lover in you
NEW YORK » Red Lobster isn’t just for the seafood lover in you. It’s also for that eater in every group who just wants a chicken dish.
The chain that brought seafood to the masses is hoping to broaden its appeal by revamping its menu on Oct. 15 to boost the number of dishes that cater to diners who don’t want seafood, including lighter options such as salads. Red Lobster also is increasing the number of dishes that cost less than $15 to attract customers who have cut back on spending.
The chain, owned by Darden Restaurants Inc., says a quarter of the items on its menu will be nonseafood dishes, up from 8 percent. And the number of lower-cost entrees will rise to about 60 percent from 40 percent.
Former Johnson & Johnson CEO Burke dies
TRENTON, N.J. » Former Johnson & Johnson CEO James E. Burke, who steered the health care giant through the Tylenol poisonings in the 1980s that resulted in the first tamper-resistant product packaging, has died.
The company said Burke died Friday at the age of 87 after a long, unspecified illness.
Burke, who ran the New Brunswick, N.J., company for 13 of his 37 years there, also had a big impact in his second career, as chairman of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America for 16 years.
He persuaded TV stations, newspapers and other media outlets to run free ads, produced for free by advertising agencies, warning of the dangers of illicit drugs. In one of the most memorable ads, an announcer intoned, "This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs," as an egg was cracked and then sizzled in a hot frying pan.
ON THE MOVE
Kuakini Geriatric Care has named Odessa Rivera as a patient care coordinator of the fourth-floor Intermediate Care Facility and Float Pool in the Hale Pulama Mau Building. She has more than 30 years of experience in health care, also serving as a nurse aide, licensed practical nurse, registered nurse and charge nurse.
Kuakini Health System has hired Alice Loo as manager of clinical risk management. She returns after her departure last December, having served as clinical nurse specialist in the Education Services Department since July 2008.
State Department employee Nicholas Papp has been posted at the East-West Center as a diplomat-in-residence. The posting will last until June with a research focus on the current democratic reform movement in Myanmar. His foreign diplomacy experience includes service at the U.S. embassies in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, Bangkok and the United Arab Emirates; the American Institute in Taiwan; and most recently as an energy officer in Baghdad.
