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Here’s Why the Jonas Brothers Invested in a Vegan Snack Company – VegOut Magazine
Posted: February 11, 2022 at 6:16 am
Raise your hand if youre obsessed with the Jonas Brothers! (Our hands are up high!) Theres so much to love about the talented, charming trioand now, you can add supports a vegan company to the list. Yep, thats right! Joe, Kevin, and Nick Jonas all back the new superfood brand Mindright. Heres why the Jonas Brothers invested in this vegan snack company.
Mindright was founded in early 2021 by entrepreneur Chris Bernie Bernard and former pro skateboarder Rob Dyrdek. The brand specializes in functional brain-boosting snacks and beverage mixes made with superfoods, adaptogens, and nootropics that help increase focus and energy. Just about a year since its launch, Mindright is now backed by the Jonas Brothers, Travis Barker, Lori and Chris Harder, and other well-known celebrities and entrepreneurs. So, what makes these products so buzzworthy?
Mindrights product line is entirely vegan, gluten-free, and non-GMO. Each product is enhanced with the brands +HAPPY BRAIN BLEND, a clinically researched mixture of natural brain-boosting antioxidants, nootropics, and adaptogens designed to encourage a happy and healthy mind.
The Good Mood Superfood Bars are Mindrights take on a classic protein or snack bar. This time, theyre loaded with powerful ingredients like ashwagandha, ginseng, cordyceps, MCT oil, prebiotic fiber, and sunflower lecithin. In the flavors of Blueberry Almond, Chocolate Sea Salt, Peanut Butter Cup, and Toasted Coconut, its no secret the JoBros love these bars! Oh, and did we mention theyre low in sugar?
In addition to satisfying snack bars, Mindright makes two brain-boosting drink mixes. First up is the Brain Boost Coffee Enhancer. Just stir this powder into your morning coffee to get a healthy dose of cordyceps, lions mane, L-theanine, cacao, and other ingredients that benefit your brain. For all our non-coffee drinkers, Mindright made a Brain Boosting Energy Mix that can be added to water to give you a similar effect. Please note: This mix still contains caffeine.
So, are you ready to channel your inner (insert favorite Jonas Brother here)? Go to GetMindright.com to try these products out for yourself.
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The Benefits of an Optimized TMS for Small to Mid-Sized Carriers – SupplyChainBrain
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Higher freight costs, due to the perfect storm of port congestion, truck driver shortage, capacity shortage, and COVID, are here to stay. Shippers are passing these increased costs onto the consumer. To avoid backlash from increased freight costs and a hit on margins, companies are looking at ways to improve efficiencies within their transportation operations to keep costs down. Shippers are reaching out to their carriers to help them reduce costs.
Companies live to make their customers happy. Passing on higher freight rates is something that executives don't necessarily want to do, nor is telling their customers that theres no capacity to carry their load and they can't meet their delivery requirements. But this is the reality of today's market.
Shippers look to carriers to reduce their freight costs and meet service delivery dates. Bigger carriers utilize technology to find the lowest freight rates and the right lanes. Yet small to mid-sized carriers make up 97% of the truckload market. These smaller carriers cant afford all the technologies that bigger carriers use, such as transportation management systems (TMS).
Nevertheless, new solutions are appearing in the market with all the functionality of an enterprise TMS, at a price that smaller carriers can afford. Using tools like this helps them optimize their transportation operations for greater efficiencies. Unlike older TMS software, which aims to ensure freight optimization while relying on older processes and sometimes outdated or delayed information, an optimized TMS is designed to lower transportation costs by as much a 30%-40%, improve logistics efficiencies and productivity, and provide real-time visibility that enables proactive actions and responses.
By automating processes that involve paperwork and manual tasks such as customer invoicing, driver settlement and document-management offloads, carriers can focus on growing their business. They can conduct their day-to-day tasks in less time, leaving them hours in the day to focus on profit-making opportunities.
An optimized TMS is designed and operated in the cloud to automate decision-making. By employing real-time data that supports proactive, real-time decisions, smart load selection, trip planning, driver selection and tour planning, optimized TMS users can:
All of these activities level the playing field for smaller carriers to better compete with the big players.
Outlook:
The rise in freight costs is here to stay for the long term. Today, many small- and medium-sized trucking firms work in a competitive and increasingly complex freight environment. To keep costs down, carriers must do everything they can to automate processes, increase efficiencies and improve productivity for their shipper clients. Carriers must deploy a responsive, cloud-based optimized TMS to avoid some of the everyday supply chain disruptions that can frustrate customers and create havoc for their shipping partners.
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Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (DTMS) Devices Market to Witness Robust Expansion Throughout the Forecast Period 2022-2028 The Tech Talk – The…
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Global Kayak Racks Market 2021 Industry Insights and Major Players are Costway, Malone Auto Racks, TMS, RAD Sportz The Grundy Register – The Grundy…
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Police appeal for scrap metal thieves in Workington | News and Star – News & Star
Posted: at 6:15 am
POLICE are investigating a theft which occurred on Monday, February 7 at TMS Motor Services on Clay Flatts in Workington.
The incident took place around 8:15pm, which saw two males filling up a shopping trolley of scrap metal from the sites rear yard.
A spokesperson for Cumbria Constabulary said: Both males are described as white, middle aged and of a larger build, one of the males was wearing a green jacket and a grey or white hood, dark trousers and a facemask.
"The second male was wearing a light-coloured bobble hat, dark trousers, a dark coloured hooded top and a facemask.
We are appealing for anyone with information, CCTV or dashcam footage in the area to please get in touch, they said.
Anyone with information is encouraged to contact PC 2755 on 101, quoting incident number 37, February 8. Alternatively, you can call Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.
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Are chips in brains the next phase of advancement? – The Baylor Lariat
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By Kaity Kempf | LTVN Reporter/Anchor
Reality is starting to look more and more like an episode of Black Mirror every day. But is it something that we should be scared of? Not necessarily.
Recently, many companies are investing in neurotechnological research, with many of them developing implantable brain machine interfaces (BMIs). You probably know about Elon Musk billionaire, CEO of Tesla Motors, CEO of SpaceX, and thats just the beginning of his many achievements. More recently, he is the co-founder of Neuralink.
Even though the company is just now gaining popularity, it was launched back in 2016. Neuralinks initial goal was to create devices to treat serious life-threatening diseases in the short term. However, the company has evolved to much more than that, and it aims to eventually reach human enhancement or transhumanism. Since its start, the company has hired several famous neuroscientists to conduct research for Neuralink, and Musk expressed that 2022 will be the year the company starts its human trials.
So, what should one expect when thinking about undergoing the procedure to receive the implant? As I stated earlier, the chips goals are to enhance humans as a whole, whether that be physically or intellectually. In April 2021, Neuralink exhibited a monkey playing the game Pong with the Neuralink chip installed. Musk has also said that receiving the chip would not be a big surgical procedure but rather would be inserted through a vein or artery.
Unfortunately, the company, and many others similar to it, remains very secretive about its work, so it is hard to fully weigh out the pros and cons of receiving the implant. Still, it leaves us to wonder what each of us would do if presented with a choice to get the brain chip.
Under the right conditions, I would not mind getting the Neuralink chip installed. With that being said, the right conditions would be that the technology has undergone the right trials and been out for a few years and whether I am a healthy individual at that time may sway my opinion even more. If one day I have a life-threatening disease or illness, and the Neuralink chip is the only way to seek any sort of cure, I will be sure to take my chances. At this time, though, with the technology not even out yet and with my health in good standing, I more than likely wouldnt get it installed.
How about yourself? Are you excited about the new prospects of the metaverse, or would you rather play it safe in reality?
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Rent This Exquisite Island Property in the Heart of Casco Bay – wblm.com
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Casco Bay is the absolute gem of southern Maine. From Phippsburg to Cape Elizabeth, the bay is loaded with exquisite harbors, perfect sailing, endless views, and some of the best seafood you will ever find.
With all of that being said, the bay may be best known for its incredible islands. All 136 of them to be exact. While most are uninhabited, there are plenty that have communities, full property rentals, daily excursions, fine dining and more.
One of those islands has a little bit of everything...or maybe a lot of everything. It's also has an amazing property available to rent.
Located off the coast of Falmouth, lies the 22-acre Clapboard Island. This little vessel of land features six beaches, walking paths, a deep-water dock, helicopter landing area and the most perfect beach house imaginable.
The 13 bedroom, 9 bathroom luxury home was built over 100 years ago by a railroad magnet, and has been restored in an amazing way. The home is loaded with coastal dcor and ocean themes. It also features a state-of-art kitchen and pantry and panoramic views of the island and bay.
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Waveland mayor looking to open medical marijuana facility in the city – WXXV News 25
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Now that the medical marijuana bill has passed in the state of Mississippi, Waveland Mayor Mike Smith wants his city to be the first to open a medical marijuana facility.
On February 2nd, Governor Tate Reeves signed a bill legalizing medical marijuana, making Mississippi the 37th state to enact the policy change in the country.
While some people are not fond of this legalization, others like Waveland Mayor Mike Smith are in support of it. I was excited to see the medical marijuana bill pass in Mississippi mainly because of the help it can provide to people for seizures and for especially cancer patients.
Mayor Smith is a stage-four cancer survivor and says he knows how prescribed medicines can affect the body. I went through a rough patch the four months I was in chemo. I couldnt eat. I lost weight.
Many of the medicines would leave Mayor Smith unable to eat and feeling very nauseous. I think that this medical marijuana would actually help the nausea, from what I understand, and make it easier for the cancer patients.
Mayor Smith says if Hancock County is going to have a marijuana dispensary, he wants his city to be the first city to open one. To get it open quicker, get it to the public quicker, so that these people can enjoy the benefits of medical marijuana.
Not only will this be a health benefit for the people of Waveland, but also a great source of revenue for the city. From what I understand, the revenue made off of medical marijuana is going to just benefit the city. Citywide, you know there is a lot of services that we can provide with the money.
Mayor Smith says he has not brought the idea of the dispensary to the board of alderman, but he plans to at the next meeting.
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Opinion | The Pandemic Culls the Big Tech Herd – The New York Times
Posted: at 6:12 am
So, our theory is that if we want to arrive at a different type of technology, we have to start with the structure and the incentives. To us, that means being selective with funding, working slowly on research, working with an interdisciplinary team of researchers around the world who also bring the expertise of their lived experiences, and having a research process and incentive structure that doesnt drive us to publish every few months.
What is your greatest fear over how AI is being developed and what is a positive development you foresee? Related: Who are key players now in the space and how do you assess their efforts?
The biggest issue with AI is that it is being developed by a very homogeneous, privileged group of people, and being driven by either of those two goals I mentioned earlier: warfare or Big Tech.
On the warfare side, there are some truly terrifying developments. For instance, borders surveilled by drones. Warfare and tech companies are intersecting with companies like Palantir which works with ICE. And people like Peter Thiel, an Open AI funder, and Sam Altman, the current OpenAI C.E.O., are investing in companies like Brinc whose earlier demos literally had a drone that talks to a man named Jose, that then automatically tases him. While its easier to imagine how things like this are scary, my former colleague El Mahdi wrote that social media companies have more blood on their hands than any rogue drone. The recent Tek Fog investigation from The Wire shows just how much disinformation, harassment and hate speech can be disseminated, and its impacts. Our paper on large language models discusses how it can be used for this purpose this is cyberwarfare.
The positive developments I see are grassroots movements that are the antithesis to this. For instance, organizations like Masakhane NLP, EthioNLP and Ghana NLP working on natural language processing tools for African languages. Te Hiku Media working on language technology for the Maori language and rejecting an offer to be bought by an American company. And independent institutions like AI Now, Data & Society and the Algorithmic Justice League, as well as movements like Data for Black Lives, Radical AI, Black in AI, Queer in AI, Indigenous in AI, LatinX in AI. These are organizations resisting the move toward centralization and homogeneity in AI.
You told me recently you never spoke directly to Alphabet C.E.O. Sundar Pichai about what happened? What would you want to say to him now?
If it were years ago, I would schedule so many meetings with him, I would try to reason with him, I would write documents explaining the issues, send him articles, send him citations, have other people meet with him so that he understands their experiences and can empathize. Thats what I did with my leaders such as Jeff Dean, who reports to Sundar Pichai, over and over and over again. And look where I am now? Ive learned that its a better use of my time to try to figure out how to galvanize those without power rather than appeal to the good will of those in power. So, what I would say to Sundar Pichai now is that you will not escape regulation and you will not stop the tech worker movement.
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1 Metaverse Stock That Just Crushed Its Big Tech Rival – The Motley Fool
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Last week was jam-packed with earnings results from the most popular big tech companies, leading to wild price action swings that kept investors guessing. Social media giant Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:FB) sank by 26% the day after reporting, whereas e-commerce powerhouse Amazon caught a 13% gain.
But it was Snap (NYSE:SNAP) that stole the show, at least from a volatility perspective. Its stock fell by 23% in the trading day before reporting its full-year 2021 results, only to rocket higher by 58% once they were revealed to the market. Although the move clearly caught some investors off guard, it was well-deserved given the company's stellar operating performance for the year.
An investment thesis shouldn't be formed from one earnings report, but Snap is trending in the right direction, and it has an innovative take on the metaverse that could generate significant growth in its business. It's even catching the attention of Wall Street. Here's why.
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Changes to privacy rules at Apple and Alphabet, which owns the Android mobile operating system, stirred up major concerns in social media circles during 2021. The tech behemoths handed new powers to their users, allowing them to opt out of being tracked through their devices. While this is great news for privacy advocates, social media platforms like SnapChat and Facebook rely on tracking to gather data on their users to sell highly targeted advertising to businesses.
Facebook parent Meta Platforms cited significant struggles with these changes, saying they could cost the company up to $10 billion during 2022. But Snap appears to be navigating the situation far better, telling the market it has recovered quicker than anticipated. It showed in the company's results, with Snap generating 64% revenue growth in 2021, plus revealing its first-ever quarter of positive net income in Q4.
It comes on the back of record-high 319 million daily active users in Q4, a year-over-year increase of 54 million, or 20%. Average revenue per user also rose to $4.06, helping to boost Snap's gross margin by 7 percentage points to 66%. These metrics are a recipe for a very profitable company in the future, if they continue to trend in this direction.
When social media companies were rising to prominence in the 2010s, few people expected they'd one day morph into hybrid software and hardware makers. Typically, they've built platforms to be delivered to consumers on third-party devices like Apple's iPhone -- hence Apple and Alphabet holding so much influence as discussed above. But that's all changing thanks to the metaverse.
The digital world is widely anticipated as the next generation of our online experience, and companies like Snap have been forced to build new hardware technologies to support their visions of what it could look like. While most developers of the metaverse, like Meta Platforms, are creating an immersive virtual world, Snap has taken a different approach. It sees an opportunity in intertwining digital experiences with the real, physical world, and it has created its Spectacles augmented reality (AR) glasses to facilitate it.
Snap says that by tying our physical and digital existences together, it can foster real human connections that are essential to the wellbeing of users. That's a fresh, if not drastic, approach to safety that has been absent from most social media platforms in recent years, as studies continue to show their mounting negative effects. Snap could win the metaverse race on this angle alone, which would be a lucrative result considering the opportunity might be valued at $800 billion by 2024, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.
After the market digested Snap's 2021 results, its stock was rewarded with multiple upgrades on Wall Street.
Bank of America's securities division gave Snap stock a buy rating with a $55 price target, implying a potential upside of 41% from here. And Wall Street analyst firm Jefferies Financial Group lifted its price target to $60, so it thinks the stock could move 54% higher.
But Credit Suisse has set the highest mark, seeing potential for $93 in Snap's future, or a 139% return from its current price of $38.91 as of this writing.
These positive ratings are in stark contrast to Snap's key competitor, Meta Platforms, which received a flurry of downgrades from top investment banks after reporting its results. Since Meta is 10 times larger than Snap by market valuation, Snap's win (at least this time) is a testament to its innovation, especially with far fewer resources.
For investors seeking exposure to the metaverse, Snap might be one of the top picks in the sector right now.
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