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Japanese Porn Industry Embraces Blu-Ray Disc (PC World via Yahoo! News) - The HD DVD high-definition movie format may have the lead in the U.S. porn industry, but Japanese adult film makers have turned decisively to Blu-ray Disc, breathing new life into its bid to replace DVDs as the disc of choice for home movies.

Japanese porn industry embraces Blu-ray Disc (Computerworld Singapore) - Updated: 31 Jul 2007 The HD DVD high-definition movie format may have the lead in the U.S. porn industry, but Japanese adult film makers have turned decisively to Blu-ray Disc, breathing new life into its bid to replace DVDs as the disc of choice for home movies.

Water Industry ETFs Should Continue to Perform (Seeking Alpha via Yahoo! Finance) - Smart Guy Stocks submits: I feel like Jack Nicholson in Chinatown: everywhere I turn, water issues arise. So, like a good grownup who grew up on Peter Lynch, my automated response is, Which companies are succeeding in the water industry?

Industry woes send NovaStar down after reverse split (The Kansas City Star) - Continuing mortgage industry woes drove down shares of NovaStar Financial Inc. more than 16 percent this morning, following a reverse stock split Friday.

Edwards pushes tax simplification plan; tax preparation industry ready for battle (The Hill) - Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has proposed a far-reaching tax program that would let the Internal Revenue Service enter the tax-preparation business, potentially setting up a clash with the tax-preparation industry.

'Business & Industry' edition shows we have potential in area (Mesabi Daily News) - Accompanying your Mesabi Daily News today is our annual “Business & Industry 2007.” In the edition we take a look at many different aspects of the Iron Range economy — from major businesses to smaller ones to retail to tourism to housing to health care and education.

Industry veteran Elizabeth Guider named Hollywood Reporter editor (The San Francisco Examiner) - LOS ANGELES ( Map , News ) - Trade paper "The Hollywood Reporter" has named industry veteran Elizabeth Guider as editor.

North American Foods blends top potato industry talent to deliver superior products (AG Weekly) - IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP BUSINESS WIRE)—Jul. 27, 2007—RD Offutt Company and United II Potato Growers of Idaho, Inc. have formed North American Foods, LLC. The new company, resulting from the contribution of certain assets of the companies unites the industry’s top talent from field to shelf.

Gigi Sohn: School Yard Bully Entertainment Industry Now Picking on Higher Education (HuffingtonPost) - Facts don't matter to an industry which ignores empirical evidence of the benefits of downloading and which refuses to reveal the data on which their "evidence" is based.

Rising feed prices hit pig industry (Meat News) - UNITD KINGDOM: New report looks at the rising costs of pig meat production. Rising feed prices are hitting the British pig industry hard. So far this year the increases account for a 16 per cent rise in costs of production - based on latest July figures.