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Apple has won a patent related to detecting water damage in a gadget.
The patent, 8,210,032, describes a method by which customer service representatives can quickly determine if a product has been damaged by water. In order for the invention to work, Apple says that a detector would be placed inside an enclosed device and provide "at least one visual indication after being immersed in water." The detector, Apple says, is strategically placed within the enclosed device so users can determine water damage from the outside.
Apple filed for the patent in January 2010. However, the company has been including its Liquid Contact Indicator in products for years, dating back to the original iPhone. Upon being immersed in water, the indicator turns red, giving Apple employees conclusive evidence that it was wet.
For Apple, having that indicator readily accessible is extremely important. The company's iPhone warranty does not cover water damage. So, if customers come in with what they claim is a broken iPhone that was actually tossed into a lake,.
"Water exposure is among major reasons that may cause significant malfunction of devices, such as electronic devices, which include electronic, mechanical, or chemical components," Apple writes in its patent. "Therefore, verification of significant water exposure (or water immersion) is important to manufacturers of the devices. For example, for purposes such as warranty claim assessment, trouble-shooting for repairs, and product development, a manufacturer of electronic devices typically needs to verify whether a malfunctioning device has been immersed in water."
AppleInsider found today that Apple has also filed for a patent for a wireless iPhone headset that would communicate with the device via Bluetooth. Because Bluetooth-based headsets can often lose their charge quite quickly, Apple's patent also describes a method for accessing battery power by plugging it into the handset.


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Police arrested a Seneca Falls woman following a shoplifting incident at Walmart.
Rebecca Drover, 51, of Seneca Falls is accused of concealing merchandise inside a reusable shopping bag.
She was charged with one count of petit larceny.
The charge will be answered at a later date in town court.
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Some Clear Thinking About Stagflation
Notes From The Field By Simon Black August 29, 2022
Let’s not mince words: stagflation is here. Let’s also not overreact: the world is not coming to an end. And, like all things, there are both risks and rewards that will arise.
First, what do we know?
Historically high inflation is obvious. Plus many major economies around the world are already sputtering.
Germany’s economy stagnated with 0% growth last quarter. China’s economy practically ground to a halt. Economies in the UK and Hong Kong contracted slightly. And the US economy has already contracted for two consecutive quarters.
Now, in nearly every other country on the planet, when your economy shrinks for two consecutive quarters, they call that a recession.
But not in the Land of the Free.
In America, a recession is defined as whatever a special government committee within the National Bureau of Economic Research wants it to be.
I’m serious. The agency’s own website states that “the designation of a recession is the province of a committee of experts.”
Wonderful. More ‘experts’ who don’t have an iota of common sense among them. And this is why, at least in the United States, the government has thus far refused to call this a recession. In fact they insist we are NOT in a recession.
Definitions and “province” aside, however, a recession is more like what US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said of obscenity in a famous 1964 case: “I know it when I see it.”
And normal people know recession when they see it. Recession is when people and businesses feel less prosperous. We start cutting back and stressing more about money. We dream less about the future and worry more about the present.
But even if the economy isn’t in recession yet, it seems fairly clear that one is coming. There’s already a mountain of evidence from corporate earnings reports showing steep declines in both consumer spending and business investment.
Those wonderfully infallible “experts” have certainly done a bang-up job steering us into this slowdown.
The Federal Reserve in particular slashed interest rates to zero and held them there for most of the last 14 years. They conjured trillions of dollars out of thin air, they grew their own balance sheet by a factor of TEN… and then kept insisting that there would never be any consequences EVER from such an absurd course of action.
Then, when inflation finally did take hold, they denied it at first. Then they called it transitory. Then they finally promised they would ‘do something’ about inflation… eventually.
Later on they even admitted to being totally ignorant, saying “we now understand better how little we understand about inflation.” (It seems like the first nine words should apply to all government experts.)
Now, at last, the Fed gave us the courtesy of speaking plainly and bluntly on Friday morning when the Chairman gave a terse warning about the US economy.
He stated that “the US economy is clearly slowing down” and that fixing inflation would likely “require a sustained period of below-trend growth” and “softening of labor market conditions.”
In other words, that means the economy will be sluggish, and a lot of people will lose their jobs. Sounds like a recession to me, even if the bureaucrats don’t want to admit it.
The real conundrum, however, is that inducing this economic pain won’t necessarily fix the inflation problem.
Any high school economics student knows about the Law of Supply and Demand. And it very easily explains why the world has so much inflation.
Policymakers artificially created soaring demand during the COVID pandemic when they conjured trillions of dollars out of thin air and gave everybody free money.
All the unemployment benefits, being paid to stay home, the PPP ‘loans’, etc. flooded the economy with cash. People have been spending it. And that created a surge in demand for goods and services– everything from microchips to rentals on Airbnb.
Big increases in demand are fine, and don’t necessarily cause price increases… as long as the supply of goods and services is able to keep up.
But it didn’t. Supply collapsed– again, primarily because of governments’ COVID response. With everyone being forced to stay at home, there were obviously far fewer goods and services being produced.
And those effects have lingered. Businesses everywhere are struggling to find enough workers. And labor shortages in critical vocations like trade and transportation have caused major supply chain bottlenecks.
(Obviously none of these issues existed prior to the public health dictators’ takeover of the global economy.)
On top of the pandemic-related supply challenges, however, businesses and workers have also had to contend with an avalanche of new rules and regulations that make it more difficult to produce.
Many of these debilitating rules single out oil and gas producers, which contributes to an ongoing energy crisis. And higher energy prices also make it more difficult to produce goods and services. So it’s quite a vicious circle.
All of this is to say that the Federal Reserve can raise interest rates and cause a recession to cool off demand.
But a decrease in demand isn’t enough. Inflation can only be tamed if there is a substantial increase in the supply of goods and services. And the Fed can’t really influence that.
Yet unless this happens, i.e. workers and businesses are once again free to produce, all we’ll be left with is stagflation: a recession combined with stubborn inflation that won’t go back to normal.
Now let’s go back to the beginning: do not overreact. The world is not coming to an end. ‘Stagflation’ doesn’t mean 20% inflation and 20% unemployment.
In fact it’s much more likely that inflation falls to 5%, unemployment rises to 8%… and the Fed will consider that a job well done.
It’s also temporary.
The constraints on supply being caused by political stupidity and geopolitical tension are, to borrow from the Fed, “transitory”.
While I generally place little hope in politicians, historically speaking, opposition candidates tend to win elections during economic stagnation. And that pattern should lead to more responsible, pro-business governments.
Then there’s the matter of our burgeoning energy crisis, which is also holding back supply.
This, too, is temporary. In fact the world is on the cusp on a new energy Renaissance that has the potential to fuel growth and prosperity for decades to come.
This is a really important (and uplifting) trend to understand, and we’ll discuss it very soon.
Last, rising interest rates and stagflation will likely have an adverse impact on both housing and the stock market.
Interest rates are a major factor in these asset prices; and higher rates mean that housing and stock prices will fall.
During the stagflation of the 1970s, home prices were relatively flat after adjusting for inflation. And stocks lost about 50%. But that was the average performance for all assets.
With housing, specific locations did extremely well. Home prices in Houston and California, for example, boomed during the 1970s, vastly outpacing inflation.
There were also plenty of companies that did extremely well. John Deere stock more than doubled in price between 1972 and 1979 after adjusting for inflation, and it paid a solid dividend at the same time.
Commodities performed strongly during the 1970s. Agriculture and farmland did extremely well. Gold was the best performing asset of the decade.
And there were plenty of startups, including Apple and Microsoft, that got their start during the stagflation of the 1970s.
The bottom line here is that there’s no reason to panic, and plenty of reason to be fairly optimistic about the future (once you understand long-term energy trends).
But it’s more important than ever to be extremely rational… even surgical… in your thinking.
To your freedom, Simon Black, Founder, SovereignMan.com


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The Better Business Bureau is advising consumers to watch out for unscrupulous contractors who might be on the prowl for repair jobs in the wake of the recent flooding in South Carolina.
The BBB is warning consumers of “storm chasers” who tend to descend on areas that are recovering from disasters. Charlotte BBB President Tom Bartholomy said such contractors flit from storm to storm and either take money from consumers without performing a job, never complete the job or “do really bad work.”
Here are 10 tips from the BBB to avoid getting scammed by a contractor:
1. Check their track record, including their BBB rating and BBB complaint history, at bbb.org. The Charlotte BBB can also be reached at (704) 927-8611 or (877) 317-7236.
2. Make cost comparisons and get at least three bids in writing. Consumers should make sure they compare the bids based on the same warranty, specifications, labor and time.
3. Check to see if the company has the proper state contractor board licensing.
4. Verify that the company has liability insurance, which protects the consumer from any damage the contractor causes, such as to the consumer’s property.
5. Ask for references from the contractor’s last three jobs and check them out before signing contracts.
6. Do not allow work to start without first getting signed, written contracts that include start and completion dates, exact costs, warranty information and specific work. Read the fine print carefully.
7. Don’t pay a contractor more than 25 to 33 percent of the total job cost as a deposit, and don’t pay in cash. Final payment should not be due until work is completed.
8. Get warranty information in writing and read the fine print carefully.
9. Make sure all workers are bonded, which protects consumers against theft or additional damage.
10. Use BBB-accredited businesses, which can be found at bbb.org/charlotte/accredited-business-directory.


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Are you one of the few Canadians with a Chromecast in his or her possession? If you run CyanogenMOD (this post is more aspirational than anything else), get ready to be able to stream anything from your Android device to your TV.
Koushik Dutta, of Helium and ROM Manager fame, has integrated Chromecast functionality into the CyanogenMOD framework itself, allowing the operating system to detect when audio or video is being played by an app, and using that layer to transmit it wireless to a Chromecast television dongle.
If you aren’t familiar with Chromecast, you’d better get used to hearing its name. While the $35 product isn’t yet available in Canada, it should be bringing its stream-everything persona to our country soon. It acts as an intermediary between your Android or iOS device and a high-definition television, allowing users to stream content from YouTube, Netflix and Play Movies/Music to a home theatre.
Dutta has merely tacked on much-needed functionality to allow local files, such as music stored on your phone or tablet, or previously-incompatible content like Rdio, to play through the television.
Though this isn’t going to affect a lot of people at the moment, it’s great to see developers already adding a tremendous amount of functionality to a product that could change television viewing.


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The Trade War Is Finally Hitting Tech Stocks
As investors worried about bond yields and new tariffs, the most concerning tech news might have been troubling commentary from Cisco's CEO.
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These retail stocks can survive the trade war, analysts say
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Deere cuts profit outlook again as US-China trade war hits farmers
Tractor maker says agriculture sector facing 'high degree of uncertainty'
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"The US administration has abused the blacklist in the name of safeguarding US national security and foreign policy interests," Chinese state media said, citing…
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The cruelty is it comes during a year that should have been particularly lucrative for Canadian farmers.
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According to a report from Bloomberg Technology, Razer is planning to develop a mobile device aimed at hardcore gamers. Razer is a company which is well known among gamers for making computer hardware tailored for gaming. The company recently acquired a smartphone manufacturing company called Nextbit and intends to use it for the development of the mobile phone.
It seems like the company wants to use its knowledge of gaming to create a smartphone that is tailored for gamers as this is largely an untapped market. Most mobile gamers simply use the normal smartphones that everyone else uses which is not the case when it comes to laptops or desktop gaming.
Generally, gamers tend to have more powerful machines that can handle gaming at high resolutions and speeds. So it’s likely that a mobile device from Razer will feature more specifications than those on other smartphones as is the case with the laptops that they manufacture. The company that they acquired became popular for releasing the first cloud-based smartphone called the Nextbit: Robin.
The phone used cloud technology to intelligently store away applications that would have not been used in a long time and leave some extra space on the device. It would then retrieve a stored away app when it was being launched so it was kind of like reinstalling but without actually having to do it and you’d get to keep your data from using the app.
According to reports, it worked well but it had a big down side. Once your phone was disconnected, you’d have a less enjoyable experience as you would not be able to get those apps store away in the cloud. However, given how the world is moving to a time where devices are constantly connected, it seems that this device was just ahead of its time.
It’s interesting to see if Razer will utilize that cloud technology in some way to allow a person to play a desktop game on their mobile phone by using the processing power of a cloud computer. That’s something that would be cool or even if it just allowed a person to play PC games on their phone by using their laptop’s processing power then it’d still be cool.
Some things outside of hardware that Razer may come up with are games made by them for their phone. This could potentially get gamers to buy the phone as they’d get new adventures to embark on. Even though there are no details of what it might look like or be capable of, for gamers it’s a good thing that Razer is thinking about it. It could potentially be another thing to boost e-sports of mobile games.
I would like to hear if any gamers out there would consider buying a smartphone that is tailored for gaming usage or not? Do people play resource intensive mobile games that much locally?


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Bankdata is transforming its payments system in multiple phases. Four member banks are now sending Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) payments via the Microsoft technology-based platform, and since June 2008, Bankdata has been able to send SEPA payments via home banking applications, significantly increasing the number of payments being processed.
âWe invested in our back-office operations to respond to SEPA deadlines and the fast-changing payments landscape in Europe,â said SÃ¸ren Vesterager, department manager at Bankdata. âBy allowing us to simplify the back office, Microsoft BizTalk Server has provided our member banks with reduced transaction processing costs. When we started this SEPA project, we realized our existing system could not support Extensible Markup Language (XML) messages, which was critical for us to meet SCT requirements. We then evaluated our options and found that Microsoft technology could support XML, along with the core functionality of BizTalk Server, which handles our business processing needs and offers an adapter to SWIFTNet FileAct. By using Microsoft technology, we were able to build an agile, fast, stable, highly secure and cost-effective solution, and, because we have other solutions using BizTalk Server, it made sense for us to put them all on the same platform.â
âMany of our customers are looking to modernize their SWIFT infrastructure, simplify their back office and improve the interoperability of payments systems with legacy applications,â said Sheida Hadji-Ashrafi, worldwide industry manager, Payments at Microsoft. âTo do this, banks turn to Microsoft for our industry-leading business process management and advanced enterprise application integration technology and for our deep understanding of the issues that the payments industry faces. Microsoft is pleased to offer the platform of choice for Bankdata and will continue to provide innovative, enterprise solutions to help ensure that its payments system has the agility and scalability needed to compete in the ever-changing payments marketplace.â
In the future, Bankdata will consider extending its enterprise payments platform and leveraging its Microsoft technology investment to implement SEPA direct debit schemes.


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We are delighted to share two exciting pieces of news around Zopa as a business. As a pioneer of peer-to-peer lending it is our mission to deliver great value for everyone by making money simple and fair. These recognitions highlight Zopa as one of the UK’s most exciting and fastest growing companies.
Sunday Times Tech Track 100
We are very proud to announce that Zopa has been recognised and included in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 for the first time. The Tech Track 100 league table ranks Britain’s 100 private tech (TMT) companies with the fastest-growing sales over the latest three years.
Other well-known companies such as Swiftkey and SkyScanner were also included in the Top 100.
Private Business Awards
Zopa is also honoured to have been named VC Backed Business of the Year in the Private Business Awards 2014. Our Sales Director Jonathan and Chief Data Scientist Didier were on hand to collect the award. Other notable finalists included music identification app Shazam.


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HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. - Sears Holdings released a partial list Thursday of the Sears and Kmart stores it plans to close in the new year.
Among the 79 stores on the list is the Sears at the Coventry Mall in North Coventry Township, Chester County, near Pottstown.
Sears is one of three department stores to anchor the mall. The others are Kohl's and Exeter Township, Berks County-based Boscov's.
"We have an experienced and talented staff of leasing agents equipped to deal with this," Jeff Price, the Coventry Mall's property manager, told 69 News on Thursday. "Once we are officially notified, we handle the situation accordingly."
Several Sears customers said they were upset by the news.
"It's really sad to see the store closing. It's been around ever since I can remember, all my life really," said John Steven of Pottstown. "I guess it's just a sign of the times."
No Kmart stores in Pennsylvania made the closure list, and all Kmart and Sears stores in New Jersey were spared.
Sears has not yet announced closing dates for the affected stores. There was also no immediate word on how many jobs will be lost.
The company announced Tuesday that it planned to close 100 to 120 Sears and Kmart stores as the retailer continues to struggle with declining sales.
Same-store revenue fell 5.2 percent to date for the quarter at both Sears and Kmart, the company said.
Kmart's declining sales were blamed on diminished layaways and a drop in clothing and consumer electronics sales.
Sears cited lackluster consumer electronics and home appliance sales.
The company said the store closings will generate between $140 and $170 million in cash in inventory sales.
The retailer also anticipates additional proceeds from the sale or sublease of real estate holdings, but the announcement raised new doubts among analysts about whether the 125-year-old Sears will ultimately be able to survive.
The other Pennsylvania Sears set to close is located in Upper Darby, near Philadelphia.
But for many faithful shoppers at the Coventry Mall, they said it will be hard to say goodbye to their Sears.
"I'm pretty sure it's not only devastating to me. I'm pretty sure it's devastating to a lot of people because Sears is Sears," said Haylee Emery of Pottstown.
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Taipei, Nov. 22 (CNA) The first shipment of fruit and vegetables sent by Taiwan to Palau almost completely sold out just three hours after the produce went on sale at a local supermarket, according to a statement from the Embassy of the Republic of China (Taiwan) in Palau Thursday.
This was the first time in nearly 20 years that Taiwan’s fruit and vegetables have been sold in the Pacific island nation, the statement indicated.
On its Facebook page, the embassy said the freshness and quality of the fruit and vegetables quickly attracted customers.
The shipment, consisting of guava, persimmon, bamboo shoots, grapes and dragon fruit, arrived in the country on Nov. 20, passed through customs, and was delivered to local supermarket Surangel on the same day.
The items were almost completely sold out within three hours of being placed on shelves at Surangel, and within 24 hours of arriving in the country, the embassy said.
The importer Surangel and Sons Co., said the rush of customers was totally unprecedented, so much that the company plans to bring in another shipment from Taiwan soon.


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This May, Minnesota lawmakers passed a bill to legalize hemp edibles infused with delta-8 and other psychoactive forms of THC. But now that the law has taken effect, some Republicans are suddenly realizing exactly what they voted for.
The new law, which just took effect on July 1, legalizes and regulates the sale of hemp-infused foods and beverages. The new regulations officially reverse the state's previous ban on non-psychoactive CBD drinks, edibles, and other popular products. But the new rules also allow businesses to sell psychoactive cannabis edibles containing delta-8 or even delta-9 THC, as long as these cannabinoids are derived from legal hemp.
Psychoactive hemp products can only be sold to adults 21 and over, and each individual edible is limited to 5mg of THC per serving, or 50mg per package - half the amount allowed in adult-use states. Most unregulated delta-8 edibles currently being sold in the state include at least 10mg per serving, though, so they will need to reduce the potency of their products to comply with the new law. The new regulations apply to any form of THC, even delta-9, which is most commonly associated with illegal marijuana.
“THC derived from hemp is the same as THC derived from marijuana,” said Michael Bronstein, president of the American Trade Association for Cannabis and Hemp, to the Washington Post. “The Minnesota law completely inverts the concept of licensing, taxing and regulating marijuana by legalizing all types of intoxicating hemp-derived THC products, which are in some cases exactly the same as marijuana products, rivaling and perhaps surpassing the availability of these products in any adult use state.”
The bill passed the Republican-dominated state senate in May, but some lawmakers apparently didn't notice this important detail. State Sen. Jim Abeler (R) recently told the press that he thought the bill only applied to delta-8 THC, not delta-9. Other state senators have declined to say whether they actually understood the implications of the bill when they approved it. Some of the Republicans who voted for the bill are already drawing up plans to impose new restrictions on THC products.
Local activists don't believe that they will actually be able to reverse these positive policy changes, though. “The cat is out of the bag — and it’s not going back in,” said Minnesota NORML lobbyist Kurtis Hanna to Marijuana Moment.
Hanna believes the GOP will not be able to “pull back the liberties that have just been granted to Minnesotans,” even if they take control of the state house this year. Gov. Tim Walz is also a staunch supporter of full adult-use legalization, so he would likely veto any attempt to reverse the law, if re-elected.
Many US states have banned all products containing federally-legal delta-8 and other hemp-derived THC isomers, citing concerns that they are completely unregulated and easily available to minors. Minnesota and Louisiana have accepted the fact that legalization is a more effective solution to the problem than prohibition, and both of these states have chosen to legalize and regulate hemp THC edibles instead.
“Our goal was to close a legal loophole around the sale of products, ban the products from being manufactured to target youth, and create a model that would allow for limited amounts of THC in a legal way,” said the bill's author, state Rep. Heather Edelson (D), to The Washington Post. “It was clear from our work on this legislation that adult Minnesotans were already purchasing and consuming these products; our goal was to add more consumer protections.”


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The Long Island job market picked up its pace in August and posted its strongest increase in nine months, data released by the state Labor Department Thursday show.
Year over year, the local economy had 20,000 more jobs, or a 1.6 percent increase, compared with a year earlier, the fastest growth since November. The private sector added 22,600 jobs, but a 2,600 job decline in the government sector cut overall employment growth.
Around the state, on a percentage basis, the Island's job growth was second only to New York City's 2.6 percent. Syracuse registered the worst, with a 1.2 percent decline.
All told, the Island had 1.30 million jobs in August, compared with 1.28 million in August 2013.
The department uses year-over-year comparisons because the local data aren't adjusted to reflect seasonal swings in employment.
Trade, transportation and utilities, including retail, led employment gains with an increase of 11,600 jobs. Retail accounted for the largest chunk of that growth, with 5,700 more jobs.
Strong back-to-school hiring boosted August retail growth, said Shital Patel, a labor market analyst in the department's Hicksville office. August had 1,500 more retail jobs than July, when the typical month-to-month gain is 300, Patel said.
John A. Rizzo, chief economist of the Long Island Association, said he believes those August numbers bode well for holiday hiring.
"It means an early ramp-up to the holiday season," he said.
Despite the job market's progress, some local economists still worry that lower-wage sectors like retail continue to dominate job growth, which they believe contributes to wage stagnation.
"We'll take any jobs we can get," said economist Gregory DeFreitas, who heads Hofstra University's labor studies program. "But in terms of making a real dent in pay stagnation we need not just low-level jobs but more of the better-paying jobs."
Still, plenty of job seekers are finding jobs to match their skills.
Merrick resident Jason Scheer started job hunting after his former employer, staffing agency Adecco, announced in March that it was moving its Long Island headquarters to Florida
"I realized that Adecco wasn't committed to growing its business on Long Island, and I wanted to be with a company that was as invested in its future here as I was," said Scheer, 30, who was creative services manager at Adecco, which was in Melville.
For a couple of months, he said, he "passively" job hunted by posting his resumé on job boards and applying to postings sent through alerts.
"I was looking for a good opportunity," he said.
In early June he checked LinkedIn and applied through that social media site for the marketing manager job listed by Alcott HR, a human-resource services company in Farmingdale. The journalism major started there on July 25.


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A group of 15 Royal College of Art jewellery students are set to host a live exhibition in London, walking five miles wearing their jewellery in containers, carried on their bodies.
The exhibition, titled Moving On: 8,207,654mm, will take place on January 25. The students will walk 8,207,654mm, the equivalent of 5.1 miles, showing their jewellery designs in accessible containers carried or worn on their bodies to encourage live interaction with passers-by in the street, on the undergound and buses.
The 15 RCA students will allow the public to handle their work in a bid to challenge the traditional notion that jewellery is kept in glass cabinets, or is too precious to touch. The jewellery itself will include oscillating objects and rings made of string.
The students will begin their route at 11am at Royal College of Art in Kensington stopping at city landmarks along the way, including the British Museum and Tate Modern.
They will make a stop at Gallery SO on Brick Lane where passers-by will be invited in to try on their jewellery. The walk will finish at the Design Museum where the students will talk about their experience as part of the Museum’s Unexpected Pleasures jewellery exhibition.
The students will be giving away free tickets for the evening event to members of the public along the way.
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The Windows Phone will cease to exist this weekend. Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore revealed the announcement which felt like a formality than a surprise at this moment.
Pile of problems
Per Ars Technica, developers will no longer create new developments for the operating system after this weekend. It will focus more on maintenance moving forward. Last year, new features for Windows Insider program and Windows Mobile were launched. However, ultimately, low sales did the Windows Mobile in. Belfiore explained that they tried to solve the issue with incentivizing app developers but user volume was just too low.
One of the problems was that the makers of Windows Phone and Windows Mobile seemed a step behind in the smartphone trends. When interface prioritizing the finger-first navigation was becoming the thing, Microsoft still chose to make the improvements in its old Windows Mobile, which opted for a stylus-oriented approach.
In addition to that, Microsoft charges third-party companies for licensing fees. While Apple sort of does this, too, when it does not give iOS license to third parties, the emergence of Android, with its free charge to hardware developers, was too much for Microsoft to overcome. Why would companies choose to develop parts for Windows for a fee when they can do the same with Android phones for free?
Collaboration vs competition
Satya Nadella believes the key is collaboration instead of competition. According to the Verge, the Windows Phone were not always lagging behind the competition. In fact, in 2010, some of its features made fans of the iPhone switch to Windows Phone. Some features which were deemed ahead of its time back then were a calendar showing your next commitments and a messaging app which shows a part of the received texts.
In 2011, Samsung Omnia 7, Dell Venue Pro and HTC 7 Surround were launched. The following year, Windows Phone 8X and 8S and Nokia released the Lumia 800 which ushered in a new ear for the Windows Phone. In 2013, phones with a 41-megapixel camera made their debuts: the Lumia 1020. It had good battery life, camera qualities, and good design but a lack of developed apps such as Instagram and Youtube were just major setbacks.
In the end, Microsoft lost people’s trust in its Windows Phone. Things started to fall apart when users of Windows 7.5 could not update their devices on Windows 8, leaving many of them feeling betrayed. In the following years, the lack of flagship phone released sent a message that Microsoft might not care about its Windows Phone line or even doubted its own capabilities to take on Android and iOs head on.
However, all is not lost for fans who want to get the feel of having a Windows Phone using their Android handsets. All they have to do is to download the beta version of the Microsoft Launcher. They will be given the option of syncing all their apps to Microsoft or just choosing some areas of the interface. Once the download and customizations are done, they can now download mobile apps such as Outlook, Skype, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Xbox. Moreover, Cortana can be deployed instead of Google Now, Google Assistant or Samsung Bixby. The Fall Creators Update also enables users of Android phones to connect to Windows 10.
Will Microsoft ever make its comeback in the future? Only time will tell but eventually, consumer demand will have a huge factor in it which presently it lacks.
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05/18/2015, 04:05 pm
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Following a recent trip to California, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne said he met with Apple's Tim Cook to discuss the tech giant's "intervention in the car," suggesting Cupertino is continuing work on new automotive technologies.
04/30/2015, 06:04 pm
Ford CEO Mark Fields on Thursday offered a few more details about plans to integrate Apple's CarPlay into future vehicles, saying that while support is coming, Ford's SYNC infotainment system will be the star of the show.
04/18/2015, 07:04 pm
In a quiet update to Apple's dedicated CarPlay webpage, legendary German automaker Porsche was added to a rolling list of companies promising support for the iOS-based infotainment system.
04/16/2015, 07:04 pm
In an update to its iOS 8 Feature Availability webpage on Thursday, Apple announced the rollout of CarPlay services to five new countries, including Russia and Sweden.
04/14/2015, 09:04 am
Apple's newly released iOS 8.4 beta relocates audiobooks out of the Music app into iBooks, and it adds a separate launcher for them in CarPlay, AppleInsider has discovered.
04/08/2015, 05:04 pm
As part of its iOS 8.3 rollout on Wednesday, Apple flipped the switch on various Siri features in nine new countries, while adding CarPlay capabilities in select locales.
03/31/2015, 06:03 pm
When CarPlay debuted in 2014, Internet radio service Pandora, seemingly a perfect fit for an iOS-based automotive system, was conspicuously absent from Apple's list of launch partners. That may soon change, according to one Pandora executive.
03/13/2015, 07:03 pm
Apple now lists every major carmaker as a "committed partner" for CarPlay, including every company that produces more than a million cars per year--with the notable exception of China's state owned, "big four" vehicle producers (and those manufacturers largely sell models in joint ventures with Apple's CarPlay partners).
03/09/2015, 01:03 pm
Apple on Monday announced its iOS-based infotainment system CarPlay will be incorporated into 40 new car models made by major automotive manufacturers in 2015, expanding the nascent platform's footprint.
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Moussaka, souvlaki and loukoumades might be known all over the world, but Greek restaurants have barely received the international attention they deserve
The elegant sea-front 7 Thalasses in Rethymnon is in 3rd place on the list of the top restaurants in the world "ideal for photos and selfies", according to Trip Advisor’s 2022 list.
Gastronomic heavy hitters aside, Santorini came in a very respectable 19th on the list.
Also 3rd, on the list of top romantic restaurants, is Mylos A La Carte Restaurant in Rhodes, whilst Lotus Eaters Restaurant in Elounda was ranked 10th and Phos Restaurant in Platis Gialos in Mykonos came in at 14th on that same list.
In the global list of ‘hidden treasures, for restaurants in lesser-known locations and spots that locals love, is the enduring Archontiko in Agios Nikolaos, Crete at number 13.
Drum roll, please…..And the 10 best Greek luxury restaurants, according to Tripadvisor’s reviewers, are:
1.Mylos A La Carte Restaurant, Kolymbia, Rhodes.
2. 7 Thalasses, Rethymno.
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3. Carne, Rhodes Town, Rhodes.
4. Nea Diagonios, Kalamaria, Thessaloniki.
5. Terrassa Restaurant, Elounda, Crete.
6. La Tavola Calda, Corfu Town, Corfu.
7. Aleria, Metaxourgio, Athens.
8. Eleas Gi, Kifissia, Athens.
9. L’aragosta, Kalafatis, Mykonos.
10. RR – Rodostamo Restaurant, Limni, Corfu.
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In the wake of the competition watchdog CCI imposing a Rs 6,300-crore penalty on cement companies for price cartelisation, the Builders’ Association of India (BAI) has called for an independent regulator for the industry on the lines of the insurance regulator IRDA.
The regulator should have quasi-judicial authority, BAI trustee, Mr D. L. Desai, told presspersons here last evening.
He said the Competition Commission of India’s penalty of Rs 6,300 crore on 11 cement companies last month for violating the provisions of the Competition Act, 2002, was a landmark judgement.
Mr Desai suggested that the CCI follow the trend set by its sister bodies, including the tribunals of income-tax, sales tax and the Excise Department, and direct cement companies to deposit 50 per cent of the fine before accepting their petition.
BAI would oppose tooth and nail any petition from cement companies seeking a stay on recovery of the penalty, he said.
The development in this case, Mr Desai said, would be path-breaking in fighting cartelisation in vital commodity sectors.
According to him the fine was meagre compared to profits earned by the industry, which has an installed capacity of 320 million tonnes as against the current demand of 250 mt. CCI’s penalty on them was only 0.5 times their profits in 2009-10 and 2010-11, he said.
He said even the Parliamentary Standing Committee, headed by Mr Shantha Kumar, had concluded that price escalation in the cement sector was profit-driven and had recommended setting up a regulator.
“All free markets need a regulator not only to regulate the sector but to expedite grievances of stakeholders,” he said.


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Lower-revenue people have a substantial consciousness of healthy meal plans but are unable to manage superior high-quality and healthy meals, new investigate shows.
The College of York research, in partnership with N8Agrifood, confirmed that members attempted to take in as a lot fruit and veggies as they could within just financial constraints, keeping away from processed food items anywhere probable. But there was widespread acknowledgement that processed foods was typically a lot more accessible than healthy possibilities since of its reduced charge.
The scientists said that whilst the diets of minimal-earnings households have been matter to much scrutiny and debate, there is presently confined evidence in the British isles on the diet plan high quality and foods techniques of homes reporting meals insecurity and foods financial institution use.
This study explores lived activities of foodstuff insecurity, the idea of unique ‘choice’ and the underlying drivers of food plan high-quality between minimal profits households.”
Dr Maddy Electrical power, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
“The results recommend that academic interventions are probable to be considerably less effective in tackling food stuff insecurity and poor nutrition amid men and women living on a very low money, as the persons who took part in our examine had very good understanding about healthy diet programs, but really simply just could not manage to buy what was essential to manage a suggested healthy diet.”
Contributors described that accessibility to healthy and contemporary food was additional constrained by geographic access. The availability of fresh and healthy food items in neighborhood stores was perceived to be lousy, but the value of travelling to significant supermarkets, in which the good quality and diversity of meals may be superior, was regarded as prohibitively highly-priced.
Recognition of currently being priced out of wholesome and new meals simply because of minimal profits reinforced the stigma of residing with poverty and was a quite visible and every day illustration of socio-financial inequality particularly for moms and dads and caregivers, who have been eager to guarantee their small children had accessibility to a healthy diet.
Just one respondent reported, “It really is not wonderful to truly feel you can not buy meals that is healthy or greater for the reason that it can be much more costly.”
Other individuals acknowledged that processed foodstuff was often much more obtainable than ‘healthy’ possibilities since of its decreased expense with one particular person indicating: “Healthy meals is expensive and unhealthy foods is inexpensive.”
Scientists say insurance policies focusing on addressing structural drivers, like poverty and geographical accessibility to foods, are desired.
The exploration also recommended a marriage in between higher processed meals use and getting utilised a food items lender.
Scientists say that the pandemic and the linked financial fallout has precipitated a sharp improve in food items insecurity in the British isles. In July 2020, around 16 per cent of adults – equivalent to 7.8 million men and women – diminished food sizes or skipped meals due to insufficient earnings for foodstuff. This determine, which remained stable involving April and July 2020, is roughly double premiums of meals insecurity prior to Covid-19
The analyze took spot between 2018 and 2020 and concerned participatory exploration performed with families of primary university age young children.
Dr Katie Jayne Pybus and Professor Kate Pickett from the Department of Health Sciences and Professor Bob Doherty from The York Management School also contributed to the investigation. The paper referred to as, “The actuality is that on Universal Credit I are unable to present the proposed quantity of new fruit and vegetables for each day for my little ones”: Shifting the discussion from a behavioural to a systemic understanding of food items methods and purchases is published in Emerald Open Study as portion of the N8Agrifood Selection.
Electrical power, M., et al. (2021) “The truth is that on Common Credit I are unable to provide the recommended volume of new fruit and greens for every working day for my children”: Relocating from a behavioural to a systemic comprehending of foods methods [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. Emerald Open up Study. doi.org/10.35241/emeraldopenres.14062.1


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Aadhaar-based biometric authentication has helped the state government save Rs 580 crore this year by plugging leakage in the public distribution system, Food and Civil Supplies Minister B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan said on Wednesday.
The minister also announced that the biometric system in fairprice shops would be outsourced to ensure higher accountability.
It was in late 2016 that Aadhaar-enabled biometric machines were deployed at all 20,778 fairprice shops to authenticate below-poverty-line (BPL) card holders to release rations.
“Before biometrics came in, fairprice shops inflated figures and claimed that 95% card holders got ration supply. This year, thanks to biometrics, we have saved Rs 580 crore and this figure can go up in the coming months,” Khan told reporters after reviewing the performance of the department of food and civil supplies.
However, biometrics have become dysfunctional in many fairprice shops located in Mangaluru, Udupi, Karwar, Chikkamagaluru and Shivamogga districts. “Those running the fairprice shops were made responsible for the biometric devices. We pay them Rs 4,000 per quintal as commission for the biometric devices. But the shops deliberately create problems with the devices,” Khan claimed.
As a result, the government has decided to handover the responsibility of the biometric devices to state-run or private telecom companies. “We will start with a pilot project in Shivamogga, where biometric has been turned off in 59 fairprice shops. Companies like BSNL or Airtel will be roped in. This will make sure there’s more accountability.” Khan said.
At present, Karnataka has 1.31 crore BPL cards. The government has identified and deleted 4.50 lakh bogus BPL cards following Aadhaar linkage. “We have linked 99% of BPL cards with Aadhaar,” Khan said. There were 6.26 lakh new BPL card applications pending and they will be disposed of before December 10, he added.
As many as 31,000 beneficiaries have been disqualified from receiving free gas connection under the Chief Minister’s Anila Bhagya scheme. “They’ve already received gas connection under the Centre’s Ujjwala scheme,” Khan said.
Under the Anila Bhagya scheme, the government aims to provide free gas connections - a gas cylinder, a stove, a lighter and two refills - to BPL families at a cost of Rs 4,040 per family. “I’ve set a December 15 deadline for one lakh beneficiaries get the gas connection,” he added.


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He said he wasn’t interested in business back then, and — not surprisingly given the era — he said he “tended to gravitate away from the establishment and more toward literature and writing.”
So after graduation he figured he was either going to write or sell books. He opted for the latter, opening a book store in Kenmore Square in the mid-1970s. He eventually sold the store and in 1981 co-founded Videosmith. He sold Videosmith as well, in 1989, to a publicly traded company called Xtravision PLC, which owned 250 stores throughout the United Kingdome and Ireland.
Perisano stayed on as a director of Xtravision, working up to CEO of the parent company in 1990.
As CEO, he spent three years living in Ireland, while his wife, Dorice Dionne, commuted between Ireland and the United States to run The Big Party Corp., a party store company she had opened in West Roxbury 1992.
Perisano, who earned a master’s degree in government from Harvard University’s extension program in 1987, returned to the United States.
Perisano served as board chairman and president of The Big Party Corp. from 1992 to 1998 and continued serving as a director until 2000. He worked as a director of iParty since 1998 and as its CEO since 1999.
The couple, who have been married 33 years, merged the dot-com party company with its brick-and-mortar retail stores in 2000 under the iParty name.
Today Dionne is iParty’s senior vice president of merchandising and marketing. The company has 50 stores in New England and Florida.
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In June last year, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors passed an amendment to its health code, requiring ads for sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) to include a warning on “the harmful health effects of consuming such beverages.”
The American Beverage Association, which counts Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Dr Pepper Snapple among its members, had filed a lawsuit seeking to block the rule, arguing that it would violate the First Amendment.
But last week a US District Judge refused to block the law, saying “the City is taking legitimate action to protect public health and safety.”
San Francisco’s warnings are set to take effect from July 25, and will apply to ads on city billboards, buses, shelters, and stadiums.
The warning will have to take up 20% of the ad space saying: "WARNING: Drinking beverages with added sugar(s) contributes to obesity, diabetes and tooth decay. This is a message from the City and County of San Francisco."
A SSB is defined as having one or more added caloric sweeteners and contains more than 25 calories per 12 ounces.
The American Beverage Association said, “We are disappointed in the Court's ruling on our motion for a preliminary injunction as we believe that the City of San Francisco’s mandate violates the constitutional rights of a select group by unfairly discriminating against one particular category of products, based on one ingredient found in many other products.
"We are reviewing the decision and look forward to making our case on the merits of this ordinance in court.”
However, the Center for Science in the Public Interest said it was a “major step forward in public health efforts to combat diabetes, obesity, tooth decay and other soda-related diseases.”
“We hope that public health and legislative bodies everywhere take note of this ruling and take swift action to protect their citizens’ health.”
Calls for similar measures in the UK
UK campaign group Action on Sugar is now calling for mandatory warnings on soda adverts in the UK, as part of the government’s Childhood Obesity Strategy (due in July).
“If we are going to tackle the UK’s escalating obesity epidemic which will cripple the NHS if it is not addressed immediately, consumers need to be fully aware of the huge quantities of sugar in soft drinks which contribute to the onset of obesity and type 2 diabetes,” said Jennifer Rosborough, campaign manager, Action on Sugar.


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A U.S. watchdog group has criticised Amazon.com and contract manufacturer Foxconn over what it described as harsh working conditions at a plant in China that makes the retail giant's Echo Dot smart speaker and Kindle e-reader.
The 94-page report by New York-based China Labor Watch cited excessive hours, low wages, inadequate training and an over-reliance on "dispatch" or temporary workers in violation of Chinese law at the Hengyang Foxconn plant in Hunan province.
Taiwan-based Foxconn, known formally as Hon Hai Precision Industry, is the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer and employs more than a million people.
Foxconn, which also makes Apple iPhones, came under fire in 2010 for a spate of suicides at plants in China - Foxconn pledged to improve working conditions.
China Labor Watch said its nine-month investigation found that about 40 per cent of workers at the plant were dispatch workers, far exceeding the 10 per cent limit under Chinese law.
Dispatch workers were paid at the same rate for regular and overtime hours, rather than time and a half as required, said China Labor Watch program officer Elaine Lu.
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Dispatch workers earned 14.5 yuan (US$2.26) per hour, the report said. Workers also put in more than 100 overtime hours per month during peak season, far more than the 36 hours allowed by law, and some worked for 14 consecutive days.
Amazon said it audited the factory in March and found overtime and use of dispatch workers were "issues of concern."
"We immediately requested a corrective action plan from Foxconn," Amazon said in a statement. It said it is monitoring Foxconn's response and "compliance with our Supplier Code of Conduct. We are committed to ensuring that these issues are resolved."
Foxconn said in an emailed statement that it "works hard to comply with all relevant laws and regulations" where it operates and conducts regular audits.
"If infractions are identified, we work to immediately rectify them," it said.
(Reporting by Alwyn Scott in New York and Reuters Beijing bureau; Editing by Chris Reese and Sandra Maler)
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This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2010, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
As Aaron Garrity tells it, a decade ago
the multilevel marketing industry in Utah was
like a tired old man that not even mega-doses of its various nutritional supplements could revitalize.
Then in 2002 came the call from Malaysia -- Joe Morton on the line about a fruit he had been served at a restaurant. Its name was mangosteen, and because of it the nutritional supplements industry in this state has never been quite the same.
XanGo, the company Garrity, Morton and others created, has enjoyed phenomenal success, peddling juice and other products based on mangosteen. Garrity's branding vision has enabled the company to sell a bottle of fruit juice less than a quart in size for $25. Millions have been sold.
The success has brought Garrity and other founders great riches, and him a singular amount of acclaim. It also has given rise to detractors.
During the heady times of 2005 and 2006, Garrity received almost $6.5 million in profits in one year. Along the way, some allege that the mostly 30-something founders also engaged in an orgy of consumption at their company's expense. Lawsuits filed by XanGo investors maintain they received $6,000 per month vehicle allowances and spent lavishly on themselves and their families for luxuries ranging from chartered plane rides to shopping in New York's finest stores to buying grand pianos to vacationing in Hawaii.
Attorneys representing the company dismiss the allegations as a veiled attempt at extortion, even as Garrity and Lehi-based XanGo march on.
Honors and recognition » At 41, Garrity has become chairman of the XanGo board after years as its CEO. For his role in founding and building the company, he has been recognized by numerous organizations:
» Ernst & Young's entrepreneur of the year for Utah and a finalist for a national honor.
» Named one of the top seven most influential people in multilevel marketing by DirectSellingLive.com, which follows the industry.
» Included in a study of the characteristics of highly innovative corporate managers published in Harvard Business Review that included Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com and Michael Dell of Dell Computers.
Jeff Dyer, one of the study's authors and chairman of organizational leadership and strategy at Brigham Young University, said Garrity's particular strengths are in branding and marketing.
"I also think he's really someone who likes to challenge the status quo and make [things] better," said Dyer, who is turning the study into a book.
DirectSellingLive CEO Keeper Catran-Whitney speaks to the company's appeal. "What XanGo has done, primarily because of Aaron, is they believe in being everywhere at once, We're seeing a lot of people flocking to what XanGo is all about."
Several themes are big with Garrity when he talks about XanGo. One is building the company as a brand, not just a producer of products. Another is running a company in which leadership is rewarded at every level. He also talks is about seizing opportunity.
It is the latter that takes Garrity back to his childhood in the Los Angeles area, which was marked by his parents' divorce when he was only 1. His mother raised three kids on her own before remarrying when Garrity was 13. As a single mother, at times she worked three jobs.
"I never knew we were poor growing up," Garrity said in a recent interview. "So when I saw opportunity I went after it because I never knew any better."
Garrity delivered newspapers before landing a job at 16 at Nordstrom, the department store known for its customer service. That gave him his first lesson in what it means for a business to create an image through marketing. He also worked for Giorgio of Beverly Hills, Liz Claiborne and Jessica McClintock, companies where "brand is everything."
After high school, Garrity went on a Mormon mission to France and entered Brigham Young University in 1986, earning degrees in 1993 in marketing and French. He stayed in school to earn an MBA and a law degree.
Multilevel marketing » He married, and during his BYU days Garrity's wife began working at Enrich International, one of the many multilevel marketing companies based in Utah that sell nutritional products such as herbs, vitamins, minerals and personal-care products to networks of independent distributors.
Some critics label such business strategies as pyramid schemes, which instead of focusing on retail sales rely on recruiting distributors to whom products are sold. Commissions from those sales filter up through the levels to the top. For the companies, multilevel marketing provides distinct advantages such as getting the word out about a product through distributors (rather than employing a sales force) and building a name without huge marketing expenses.
MLMs also can generate a spigot of cash.
Garrity got a marketing job at Enrich International, "and I absolutely fell in love with the industry." Gary Hollister later was named CEO and began his reign by asking employees to assess its operations.
When it was his turn, Garrity poured out his frustrations. Forty-five minutes later, Garrity asked Hollister what he thought. "He said, 'Well I think you're one of the most negative individuals I've ever met.' " Garrity thought his time was over, but Hollister saw something else. "I lectured him a little bit about 'Bring me a problem, bring me a solution,' " Hollister said in a recent interview. "It was evident this man had a grasp of the problems but he also had a way of solving them."
For his part, Garrity said "I decided that night I was going to be part of the solution and not the problem, and I've never looked back." Hollister mentored Garrity and later joined him as a XanGo founder.
On the lookout for opportunity » It also was at Enrich where Garrity met Joe and Gordon Morton. Originally from Canada, the brothers had grown up with herbal supplements. Their mother owned a botanicals store and their father managed Nature's Sunshine, one of the earliest of Utah's nutritional products companies.
Like Garrity, they were young and on the lookout for opportunities. But in Utah they saw only a moribund industry wedded to old ways of doing business.
"Gordon Morton said it was very apparent this industry needed an enema to get it moving again," said Garrity, who came to realize that no one in the multilevel marketing of nutritional products had a commitment to building a brand.
"Companies would spend on the contents of products and pay less attention to the brand because in their minds the distributors took care of that."
After seven or so years at Enrich, Garrity went to work for Morinda Holdings, which operates Tahitian Noni International, a seller of a juice based on the noni plant from French Polynesia.
Morinda would sue Garrity and the five other founders the year after they formed XanGo, claiming that the concept for a juice based on mangosteen was stolen from it. XanGo countersued, and the case was settled out of court in 2006 , its contents sealed.
Garrity's story is that the idea for mangosteen sprang from Joe Morton's Malaysian call in 2002 during which Morton said the fruit had been consumed for centuries for its medicinal qualities. There also reportedly were scientific studies demonstrating the health benefits of the fruit.
"So it was kind of there that it clicked,"said Garrity, then 34. "So now it was do or die," and that meant creating a brand.
From XanGo's beginnings in 2002, Garrity set about building an image -- the zippy name, the distinctively-shaped glass juice bottle, the promise of a 50 percent return on revenues to distributors and an emphasis on customer service. He also created a charitable arm in which the company's 1.5 million distributors in more than 30 countries could participate in worthy projects such as Operation Smile, which provides free surgeries to repair clef lip and other deformities for children around the world.
XanGo, which employs more than 400 people in Utah, took advantage of technology to create the industry's first TV channel online and blogs, while also relying on other forms of social media.
"XanGo was probably the first company to create a social media space for its distributors," said Catran-Whitney of DirectSellingLive.com. "All the others have pushed back against it."
Unwanted attention » As with many companies that enjoy outsized success, there was push back of another kind. While Garrity and his team were making millions, their actions drew attention that wasn't always desired.
Documents from court files that are part of several lawsuits against XanGo show that in 2005, Garrity received a
taxable distribution from company profits of $6.64 million. Extrapolating that amount using Garrity's 17.1 percent ownership share shows that the company had taxable income of $38.69 million for distribution to its owners.
For tax purposes in 2006, Garrity's share of XanGo's profits was $6.3 million, with the company showing taxable income of $36.7 million.
Company credit card statements that show that on just one monthly bill, dated Jan. 2, 2008, Garrity rang up $172,437. Lawsuits from minority investors allege Garrity and others made numerous personal purchases with company credit cards from New York stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Cartier, and spent $25,000 on home furnishings, while also buying Father's Day and Mother's Day presents.
The lawsuits also allege the founders gave each other expensive gifts, while also buying clothing for their wives.
"Our clients' perspective is the company was recklessly run," said Mary Anne Wood, attorney for Angels Investors LLC, which owns about 1 percent of the company and claims it was financially damaged by improper conduct. "There were no accounting controls over the use of personal credit cards."
The company denies the allegations, while also alleging that the investors are suing to try to force XanGo to "buy out Angel's interest at an exorbitant price just to avoid further harassment."
Further, the company claims in court documents that two members of the Angels group have ties to rival juice company MonaVie of South Jordan, one of the nutritional supplements companies that sprung up after XanGo.
"The founders have created an enormously successful business and have been responsible and fair with investors," said Salt Lake attorney Robert S. Clark, who represents XanGo in the lawsuits. "Investors have received their full share of distributions and made an enormous profit."
He said the lawsuits "show expenses without contexts" and that noncash bonuses and incentives are common in the industry.
"To the best of the company's knowledge, all personal expenses are properly accounted for taxes," he said. "XanGo has continued to upgrade its record-keeping in scale with its astounding global growth."
Lawsuits aside, the success and branding go on.
In a first-of-its kind marketing effort in U.S. professional sports in November 2006, the XanGo name was emblazoned across the jersey fronts of the Real Salt Lake soccer team.
Garrity said the deal associates the company with the most popular sport in the world. It was another first for XanGo, soon followed by other companies, including a California multilevel seller of nutritional supplements called Herbalife, which put is name on the jerseys of the Los Angeles Galaxy.
Last November, Real Salt Lake and the Galaxy met in Seattle for the championship of Major League Soccer -- XanGo versus Herbalife.
A broad vision of branding guides XanGo's success, but it also sells actual products, such as its mangosteen juice.
Since its founding, XanGo has branched out from selling juice to include vitamin capsules and skin and body care products.
Still, it's the juice that drives the company.
XanGo refuses to disclose what percentage of its juice is mangosteen, the nutrient-laden fruit from Southeast Asia.
Apple juice is the second ingredient listed on the XanGo bottle after "Whole Mangosteen Purée." Other juices are pear, grape, blueberry, raspberry, strawberry, cranberry and cherry, and pear purée also is an ingredient.
It appears that the ground up pulp and skin of the mangosteen, where the healthy nutrients reside, are no more than around 20 percent of the 25.35 ounce bottles. That would mean that most of the bottle that sells for $25 to independent distributors is made up of other juices.