"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."
― Aristotle Onassis
Women account for half of individual shareholders
3 FEBRUARY 2015 NIKKEI ASIAN REVIEW
TOKYO -- Women account for nearly 50% of individual shareholders of major Japanese cosmetics companies. The investment is driven by special benefits including beauty workshops and cosmetic products.Pola Orbis Holdings held 12 workshops for women in 2014. Recently, the company has been holding beauty seminars together with wedding hall operator Novarese before investor briefings.
Of the company's individual shareholders, who account for 30% of outstanding shares, nearly 50% are women. The ratio has risen by more than 10% in the past four years.
Kose has also been organizing makeup workshops to accompany investor briefings. "Female customers who use our products are also attractive as loyal shareholders," said one company executive.
Noevir Holdings has increased the total amount of cosmetics provided to shareholders. The new policy allows those with 1,000 or more shares in the company as of the end of September to choose cosmetics worth 44,000 yen ($371) a year. Read More
Slain Hostage's 4-year-old tweet embraced on social media
2 FEBRUARY 2015 ASSOCIATED PRESS YURI KAGEYAMA
TOKYO (AP) -- Kenji Goto's words, now more than four years old, have taken on a new poignancy."Closing my eyes and holding still. It's the end if I get mad or scream. It's close to a prayer. Hate is not for humans. Judgment lies with God. That's what I learned from my Arabic brothers and sisters."
That tweet from Sept. 7, 2010, has been embraced by social media users as a fitting memorial to the 47-year-old freelance journalist. It had 20,000 retweets by Monday, and was being repeated by others by the minute.
[I]t was the message of tolerance that seemed to resonate with the thousands of Japanese Twitter users, expressing admiration for Goto's reporting about the suffering of children in Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.
Yuki Watabe, a 15-year-old high school student in Sapporo, northern Japan, said the tweet gave him heartache.
"He was such a wonderful person," Watabe said. "He had a strong sense of doing the right thing." Read More
Another viewership, social media record for Super Bowl
2 FEBRUARY 2015 ASSOCIATED PRESS DAVID BAUDER
NEW YORK (AP) -- An estimated 114.4 million people watched New England's thrilling win over Seattle, making it the fifth time in six years that a Super Bowl game has set a record for the most-watched event in U.S. television history.... "Right now the NFL and the Super Bowl are defying media gravity," Mark Lazarus, NBC Sports Group chairman, said Monday.
... [T]hat finish - a circus catch to put the Seahawks on the doorstep of a last-minute win and a game-saving interception by the Patriots' Malcolm Butler - kept viewers glued to the tube. An estimated 120.3 million people were watching during the last 10 minutes that the game was being shown...
... Katy Perry has bragging rights, too. The singer's halftime performance was seen by 118.5 million people, the biggest audience ever for the halftime entertainment dating back to 1991, according to Nielsen.
... Twitter estimated there were 28.4 million tweets posted between the kickoff and 30 minutes after the game's conclusion, surpassing last year's game to be the most tweeted-about Super Bowl ever. It was second only to the 35.6 million tweets sent about last year's World Cup semifinal between Brazil and Germany.
Butler's interception really set the Twitter engines revving, with an estimated 395,000 tweets per minute, with 379,000 tweets per minute coming when the game actually ended, according to Twitter.
The television record came despite other options to view it. NBC Sports offered a live stream of the game to desktop computers and tablets, and an average of 800,000 people per minute were following the game in this manner, according to Adobe Analytics. Last year's game streamed by Fox had an average audience of 528,000 viewers.
An additional 600,000 watched the game with Spanish-language announcers on the NBC Universo cable network, Lazarus said. Read More
How Obama would spend your money in 2016, agency by agency
3 FEBRUARY 2015 ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sure, $4 trillion sounds like a lot.But it goes fast when your budget stretches from aging highways to medical care to space travel and more.
Here's an agency-by-agency look at how President Barack Obama would spend Americans' money in the 2016 budget year beginning Oct. 1... Read More
Karim Rashid's sex shop interior "satisfies primal desire"
27 JANUARY 2015 DEZEEN DAN HOWARTH
Karim Rashid has overhauled the interior of an existing space, adding organic forms to create the Fun Factory's third store, which sells sex toys, lingerie and bondage gear.... "Far from all the usual clichés, the Fun Factory store in Munich satisfies primal desire with over 180-square-metres of open floor," said a statement from the brand.
The brightly lit ground floor displays lingerie, accessories and body care, as well as seductive literature.
Large windows on two sides are obscured with patterns of gold and silver dots, offering glimpses of provocatively dressed mannequins from outside.
... "Once marginal and taboo, sex and sex toys, like design, are now ubiquitous," said Rashid. "The underlying narratives of sex toys, like perfume bottles for example, are desire, form, seduction, beauty, and physicality."
... "Visiting the store should be empowering so the architecture is built with strong clean pure organic forms, representative of a strong, confident, and proud woman," said Rashid.
"The shapes are reminiscent of secondary erogenous zones like the curves of the neck, collarbone, behind the knee, hips, and lips. The display tables are reminiscent of my dildo design, Mr Pink, for Fun factory."
... "The fine line for me was to do something tasteful, not too literal, and a bit abstract, since the objects they sell are so animated," Rashid said.
"Design is a public subject. Design is now shaping every aspect of living so the final frontier is to shape a better sex life." Read More
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