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3 weeks ago | 
mixonline.com | Tom Kenny
You never really know how things will go when you wake up on the morning of a big show. You can hold tech run-throughs and host prep calls and go over a thousand details to make sure that everything is aligned, from parking and tickets to audio and video playback. You can have backup generators in place, provide a final guest list to security and start opening up concessions. You can pray for sunshine while stashing umbrellas in a nearby storage room.
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1 month ago | 
anz.com | Brian Martin |Adam Boyton |Tom Kenny |Bansi Madhavani
The risk of a recession in the United States has escalated in the wake of the Trump administration’s tariff announcements in early April. The speed and magnitude of the sell-off in stock markets and associated inversion of the US yield curve reflects intensified anxiety about rising prices, falling demand and supply-chain disruptions. Economic uncertainty has jumped, and that too can lead to reduced household consumption and lower business investment.
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1 month ago | 
anz.com.au | Kishti Sen |Tom Kenny |Sarah Stubbings
Tourism, which supported Fiji’s economy post COVID, has largely stabilised as a result of capacity constraints and uncertainties in home markets. "Fiji’s remarkable turnaround in economic performance from its deepest pandemic-induced recession is due to the nation’s ability to quickly welcome tourists in large numbers once it opened its international border.”Should Fiji be concerned? The short answer is: don’t worry. Private sector investment is emerging.
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1 month ago | 
anz.com | Tom Kenny |Brian Martin |Bansi Madhavani |Raymond Yeung
The economic landscape in the United States looks different today than it did at the end of 2024. The data suggest economic activity has stalled, in response to policy-driven uncertainty. Other factors, like the Californian wildfires and extremely cold winter weather, may also have also played a role. ANZ Research expects real US gross domestic product (GDP) to rise by 2 per cent on average in 2025.
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1 month ago | 
fijitimes.com.fj | Kishti Sen |Soni Kumari |Tom Kenny
Papua New Guinea had a record year for cocoa exports in 2024. It yielded PGK1,233m in export revenue, surpassing coffee receipts of PGK989m for the first time in PNG’s history. That higher ranking will, in our view, be short lived. While prices are expected to stay high, PNG cannot significantly increase supply quickly due to historically small crop sizes. Coffee, on the other hand, is expected to have another bumper year following a low volume season last year.
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2 months ago | 
mixonline.com | Tom Kenny
There’s a reason that backstage crews around the world wear black, or at least dark colors, and it has everything to do with not being seen. The stage hands, guitar techs, monitor engineers, P.A. riggers, LDs and lighting assistants, video operators, wireless wranglers, pyrotechnics specialists, cable runners, drum tuners, A2s, systems engineers, FOH mixers, even the guy with a camera crawling along the catwalk a few feet below the roof of the arena—once the lights go down, they disappear.
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2 months ago | 
fijitimes.com.fj | Kishti Sen |Catherine Birch |Tom Kenny
Aligning investment in transport (roads, ports and jetties, airports and bridges), utilities (electricity generation, water supply) and health infrastructure to growth in the economy and broader population is a challenge many governments, including Fiji face. The public sector drives most of the work, but the government with competing priorities and a set pool of resources available to them cannot fund all the necessary expenditures.
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2 months ago | 
mixonline.com | Tom Kenny
Los Angeles, CA (February 18, 2025)—Danny Elfman hasn’t really “toured” much since the breakup of Oingo Boingo 30 years ago, though he has put on some spectacular shows. Most of them have been one-offs, and for a large majority of them, he has been backed by an orchestra performing some variation of his film scores, sometimes live-to-screen. These can be complex shows to stage, sync and mix, and they typically take place outdoors.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
mixonline.com | Tom Kenny
The first photos and videos to come out of Los Angeles on January 7 were shocking enough, but over the ensuing hours, then days, they kept getting worse…and worse…and worse. By late afternoon, individual stories of terror, confusion and loss started to trickle out, adding a very human, ground-level weight to the visuals and bringing the horror home to those watching it unfold on TV or across their socials. Huge swaths of hillsides were on fire, roaring from the Palisades and heading toward Malibu.
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
mixonline.com | Tom Kenny
Santa Monica, CA (January 31, 2025)—It’s become something of a tradition these past few years to ease into the NAMM Show by stopping in at 1715 Berkeley, Santa Monica, for a kick-off party at Apogee headquarters. It’s on the way from Oakland to Anaheim, so it’s easy. And it’s hosted by company co-founder and CEO Betty Bennett and her husband, producer/engineer Bob Clearmountain, so it’s big-time fun.
