Wednesday, December 30, 2015
5 Digital-Marketing Tactics to Ditch in 2016
Planning to never update your desktop-only accessible website and continue to avoid Facebook for fear of negative comments in 2016? Really?
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
10 Valuable Lessons I Learned in 2015
Life is short, and there is more within you right now than you can ever begin to imagine.
Friday, December 25, 2015
Rockets end Spurs' 7-game streak with 88-84 win
HOUSTON (AP) — James Harden had 20 points and the Houston Rockets slowed down the soaring San Antonio Spurs with an 88-84 victory Friday night.
The improved Houston defense held the Spurs to a season low in points to snap their season-best seven-game winning streak.
Houston used an 8-2 run to take a 78-71 lead with about 5 minutes left. Tim Duncan made a hook shot after that, but Harden hit a 3-pointer. A layup by Duncan came next before Harden brought the crowd to its feet with an off-balance 3-pointer from the corner that made it 84-75.
The Spurs resorted to the Hack-A-Howard tactic soon after that, intentionally fouling Dwight Howard on two straight possessions. He missed all four free throws, and a basket by LaMarcus Aldridge got the Spurs to 86-81.
Kawhi Leonard made a 3-pointer after two free throws by Houston to allow San Antonio to cut the lead to four, but he missed a shot a few seconds later and Houston held on for the victory.
Leonard had 20 points to lead San Antonio. The Spurs struggled on long-range shooting, making just 5 of 19 3-pointers.
It was the first time the Rockets have hosted a game on Christmas since they moved to Houston. The last time the franchise hosted a Christmas game was in 1967 when the team was in San Diego.
The Rockets led by one after three and scored the first nine points of the fourth quarter, powered by five points from Jason Terry, to make it 70-60 with about 10 minutes remaining.
San Antonio got its first points of the quarter soon after that on a 3-pointer by David West to start a 9-0 run that cut it to 70-69. Leonard highlighted that run with a running two-handed dunk.
A layup by Aldridge pushed San Antonio's lead to seven points early in the third quarter before Houston used a 13-4 run to take a 51-49 lead with about seven minutes left in the quarter. Pat Beverley got that spurt going with a 3-pointer and Harden made the next six points in that span.
The Spurs had turnovers on four straight possessions near the end of Houston's run.
A jump shot by Boris Diaw got San Antonio to 59-58 with about 2 1/2 minutes left in the quarter. After that both teams struggled to score and missed their next seven shots combined.
It was Diaw who finally ended the drought when he made a layup with less than a minute remaining. Ty Lawson made Houston's first field goal in almost 4 minutes after that to leave the Rockets up 61-60 entering the fourth quarter.
San Antonio scored the last seven points of the second quarter to take a 43-38 lead at halftime.
TIP-INS
Spurs: Aldridge added 18 points and rebounds. ... Duncan had 12 points and 11 rebounds. ... Leonard made just 8 of 19 shots, and Aldridge was 9 of 17.
Rockets: Houston has won four in a row on Christmas, with the previous victory also coming over San Antonio in 2013. ... Howard had 11 points and 12 rebounds. ... Terry finished with 12 points.
UP NEXT
Spurs: Host Denver on Saturday.
Rockets: Visit New Orleans on Saturday.
Butler scores 23 points, Bulls beat Thunder 105-96
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Chicago Bulls were angry and on edge after three straight losses. They channeled those emotions into one of their best wins of the season.
Jimmy Butler scored 23 points, and Pau Gasol had 21 points and 13 rebounds in the Bulls' 105-96 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Friday.
In a game that featured several skirmishes, the Bulls outrebounded the NBA's No. 2 rebounding team 53-48.
"We've just got to go out there and attack," Chicago forward Taj Gibson, who got a double technical with Oklahoma City's Serge Ibaka, said. "It's no time to be friends with anybody right now. We've got enough friends in here. We're with each other 24-7. We can't go out there and look to be nice to everybody."
Derrick Rose added 19 points, and Gibson had 13 points and 10 rebounds.
Chicago held the Thunder to 38.5-percent shooting, Oklahoma City's third-worst showing of the season.
Kevin Durant had 29 points, nine rebounds and seven assists for Oklahoma City, and Russell Westbrook added 26 points, eight assists and seven rebounds. The Thunder had won three straight and nine of 10.
"I think we did a really good job of making sure we closed out to 3-point shooters," Rose said. "We trusted the game plan. We know K.D. is a great 3-point shooter, (Anthony) Morrow, and Westbrook when his feet are set, and you just can't let them get hot. Everybody else on the team, we forced them to make shots and make plays."
Durant said he didn't like the way the Thunder played at times when they got behind.
"If you try to get it all back in one play, try to get a steal, try to come down and shoot a pull-up 3 — just doing stupid stuff that we did all night, it will be tough to win," Durant said.
Chicago led 51-37 with 4:58 left in the first half, but the Thunder cut it to 54-52 at halftime. Durant scored 19 points in the half, and Westbrook had 12 points and five assists.
Gasol and Butler each scored 11 points in the first half for the Bulls.
Chicago scored the first eight points of the second half to go up 62-52 and force the Thunder to call a timeout. The Bulls led 86-68 at the end of the third quarter.
The Bulls led by 18 at the end of the third quarter. Oklahoma City changed things up and played Morrow and Enes Kanter with Durant, Westbrook and Ibaka for most of the fourth quarter. A pair of 3-pointers by Morrow cut Chicago's lead to 97-89 with just under 5 minutes to play, but the Bulls hung on.
"We withstood their run, which I think everyone knew they were going to go on in the fourth quarter, and they (the Bulls) made big plays down the stretch," Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg said.
STAT LINES
The lineup that Oklahoma City started the fourth quarter with — Durant, Westbrook, Ibaka, Kanter and Morrow — outscored the Bulls 28-19. Morrow and Kanter don't start, in part, because of defensive shortcomings, but that group held the Bulls to 6-for-20 shooting.
KANTER'S SOCKS
Kanter wore Christmas socks with green stripes and red snowflakes. He is a Muslim, but he said he respects different cultures. "Well, I live in the U.S. now, and I'm just really cool with all of the holidays — Christmas, Thanksgiving," he said. "It's pretty cool."
QUOTABLE
Gibson, on defending Westbrook: "Russ is a hard opponent to go against, especially with the way he attacks," he said. "We just all wanted bodies in front of him. Put bodies in front of him and make sure somebody contested him at the rim, and compete."
TIP-INS
Bulls: Ran out to an 11-0 lead. ... C Joakim Noah sat out with a left shoulder sprain. ... Beat the Thunder 104-98 at United Center on Nov. 5. ... Butler hit a 35-foot 3-pointer at the end of the first quarter. ... Rose fouled out.
Thunder: Missed their first five shots. ... C Steven Adams picked up two fouls in the first 2 minutes. Kanter entered the game and had six points and seven rebounds in the first quarter. He finished with 14 points and 13 rebounds. ... Had just one assist in the first quarter. ... ... Morrow made three 3-pointers in the fourth quarter.
UP NEXT
Bulls: At Dallas on Saturday night.
Thunder: Host Denver on Sunday night.
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Bucks shoot 60 percent, drop 76ers to 1-30 with 113-100 win
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo made his first 11 shots to finish with 22 points, Khris Middleton added 21 on 8-of-9 shooting and the Milwaukee Bucks beat the hapless Philadelphia 76ers 113-100 on Wednesday night.
Philadelphia fell to an astonishing 1-30, including 0-18 on the road, and lost its 12th straight game. The 76ers were led by Jahlil Okafor's 17 points and eight rebounds.
Antetokounmpo, who missed the previous game with a left knee injury, was 11 of 13 from the floor to give Milwaukee back-to-back wins for only the second time in the last 23 games.
Michael Carter-Williams added 18 points and nine assists for the Bucks, who shot 60 percent (51 for 85) from the field.
It also was Milwaukee's first game without coach Jason Kidd, expected to miss four to six weeks while recovering from hip surgery Monday.
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
How 'Undercover Boss' Taught Me to Hire the Right People and Continue to Nurture Them
Here's why I sacrificed my long-term moustache and full head of hair to explore the inner-workings of my business, Buffalo Wings & Rings.
Questions mount over failure to prevent China mudslide
BEIJING (AP) — A migrant worker was pulled out alive Wednesday after he was buried for more than 60 hours in a massive landslide that swept through part of a major manufacturing city in southern China.
Rao Liangzhong of the Shenzhen Emergency Response Office said that the man, Tian Zeming, was rescued around dawn on Wednesday. He said Tian was from Chongqing in southwestern China.
"The survivor had a very feeble voice and pulse when he was found alive buried under debris, and now he's undergoing further checks," Dr. Wang Yiguo told a news conference in Shenzhen, according to a transcript posted by the district government that covers the area.
State broadcaster CCTV reported that Tian later underwent surgery for a broken hand and on his foot, which had been wedged against a door panel. It said he had been trying to get out of his room when the building collapsed, and the door panel created a space for him to survive.
When they found him, Tian told rescuers his name and that there was another person buried near him, according to the transcript. Another neurosurgeon, Dai Limeng, told the news conference that he had gone into the rubble and confirmed that the second person had not survived.
More than 70 people are still missing from the landslide that happened Sunday when a mountain of construction waste material and mud collapsed and flowed into an industrial park in Shenzhen.
The Ministry of Land and Resources has said a steep man-made mountain of dirt, cement chunks and other construction waste had been piled up against a 100-meter (330-foot) -high hill over the past two years.
Heavy rains saturated the soil, making it heavy and unstable, and ultimately causing it to collapse with massive force in and around an industrial park.
State media reported that the New Guangming District government identified problems with the mountain of soil months earlier.
The Legal Evening News said a district government report in January found that the dump had received 1 million cubic meters of waste and warned of a "catastrophe."
Under pressure from the media, officials allowed about 30 journalists, mostly from foreign outlets, to approach an edge of the disaster area. Flanked by police, reporters could observe military posts with computers and disease control stations set up for the rescue workers.
Shenzhen is a major manufacturing center, making everything from cellphones to cars, and it attracts workers from all parts of China.
Vegas newspaper editor stepping down after sale to Adelson
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal capped more than a week of turmoil sparked by the sale of Nevada's largest newspaper to the family of casino magnate and Republican party kingmaker Sheldon Adelson with an announcement on Tuesday that he's stepping down.
Mike Hengel stunned the newsroom with word that he had accepted a voluntary buyout, according to several staff members who took to Twitter after the announcement. Hengel didn't immediately respond to messages seeking comment.
A "message from the new owners about the future of the Las Vegas Review-Journal," due for publication on the front page on Wednesday, also announces Hengel's departure, along with "other R-J employees."
Photographer Kevin Cannon and reporter Bethany Barnes each confirmed their postings to The Associated Press, along with longtime columnist Jane Ann Morrison. She posted a message saying Hengel "leaves the RJ with his integrity intact."
"I think my resignation probably comes as a relief to the new owners," Hengel said, according to an audio recording obtained by the AP.
The owners' statement was released to AP by Mark Fabiani, a hired communications specialist, in response to messages to Las Vegas Sands spokesman Ron Reese. Adelson is chief executive and chairman of publicly-traded Las Vegas Sands Corp.
It comes two days after an unsigned front-page editorial on Sunday declared in headlines, "Every newspaper has conflicts, and we'll be open about ours," and an inside editorial about how Adelson might change the editorial page headlined, "He's the boss."
Review-Journal Publisher Jason Taylor also didn't immediately respond Tuesday to messages.
Adelson's family ended days of speculation when it revealed last week that it was part of the recently incorporated News + Media Capital Group LLC, which bought the Review-Journal and some affiliated publications on Dec. 10 for $140 million.
It said Gatehouse Media LLC, a subsidiary of the former owner New Media Investment Group, would continue to run the publication.
New Media Investment bought the newspaper in February from longtime former owner Stephens Media LLC for $102.5 million.
Hengel came to the Review-Journal in December 2010 after serving as editor and publisher of a Stephens publication, the Pine Bluff Commercial, in Arkansas.
The Adelsons said they postponed making public their involvement to avoid distracting from the Dec. 15 Republican presidential debate held at The Venetian, Adelson's flagship casino-hotel on the Las Vegas Strip.
The statement released Tuesday cites the two sales within a year and pledges "new investments necessary for the Review-Journal to succeed," including "services such as enhanced fact checking" and a reader advocate or ombudsman role.
"We pledge to publish a newspaper that is fair, unbiased and accurate," the statement says. "We decided to buy the Review-Journal to help create a better newspaper — a forward thinking newspaper that is worthy of our Las Vegas community."
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Associated Press writers Sally Ho and Kimberly Pierceall contributed to this report.
Trump demands apology from Clinton on debate quip
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday dismissed reports that he used vulgarity in describing Democrat Hillary Clinton's primary loss to now-President Barack Obama in 2008.
Trump said Monday night, "She was favored to win and she got schlonged, she lost," using a slang word for male genitalia.
The GOP front-runner argued with that definition on Twitter Tuesday. "'Schlonged' is not vulgar," he wrote. "When I said Hillary got 'schlonged' that meant beaten badly."
He said the "dishonest" mainstream media was giving the word "false meaning."
Trump, who has ramped up his criticism of Clinton in recent weeks, also mocked Clinton on Monday for returning late to Saturday's debate following a commercial break because she'd been using the bathroom.
"What happened to her? I'm watching the debate, and she disappeared. Where did she go?!" Trump said at the rally at the DeltaPlex Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
"I know where she went. It's disgusting, I don't want to talk about it," he added. "No, it's too disgusting. Don't say it, it's disgusting."
This isn't the first time Trump has used what could be interpreted as gendered language to criticize Clinton. He has repeatedly described her as lacking the strength and stamina to be president and invoked the image of her putting on a pantsuit before heading to work.
In an interview Tuesday with The Des Moines Register, Clinton said: "Nothing really surprises me anymore. I don't know that he has any boundaries at all. His bigotry, his bluster, his bullying have become his campaign. And he has to keep sort of upping the stakes and going even further."
The latest rift between Clinton and Trump began during Saturday evening's debate. Clinton claimed the Islamic State group had used videos of Trump's comments about Muslims to recruit militants.
"They are going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists," she said.
There was no evidence to back the claim, and Trump quickly called Clinton a liar and demanded an apology.
"She's a liar!" he repeated at the rally, labeling Clinton "not a president."
Some of Trump's critics have leveled similar criticism at him. Many Republican leaders fear Trump's incendiary rhetoric would make him unelectable in a general election against Clinton, who is widely favored over two rivals for the Democratic nomination.
Trump continues to the lead the Republican field going into the new year — a development that has stunned the political world and deeply divided the Republican party.
Clinton appeared Tuesday in Keota, Iowa, a small rural town where three high school students launched an energetic campaign to get Clinton to visit their school. Clinton entered the high school gymnasium — packed with about 700 people — alongside the students to huge cheers.
During her remarks, Clinton stressed the differences between Republicans and Democrats in the field. She decried Trump's rhetoric on Muslims, saying it was "not only dangerous, it's shameful." She said that kind of talk plays in to the hands of violent jihadists.
"It's a very serious matter when you hear some of the things he and unfortunately some of the others have been saying," Clinton said.
Clinton did not reference Trump's latest comments on her 2008 presidential bid, but she made a veiled reference to his campaign when a student asked her about combatting bullying.
Advocating for more "love and kindness" Clinton added: "That's why it's important to stand up to bullies wherever we are and why we shouldn't let anybody bully his way into the presidency. Because that is not who we are as Americans."
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who has made Trump his main target in recent days, also weighed in Tuesday while campaigning in New Hampshire, saying that Trump's behavior is not only offending people and turning voters off to him, but it is also hurting the Republican Party.
"There has to be a level of decorum to win. It's not a sign of strength to insult people with profanity," Bush told reporters after speaking to voters at a community college in New Hampshire's north country. "Trump is not going to be president because he says these things. It turns people off. For crying out loud, we're two days before Christmas."
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Catherine Lucey and Thomas Beaumont contributed to this report.
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This Detroit entrepreneur saw her sales soar, even without a shark's investment. Take that, 'Mr. Wonderful.'
Toledo beats No. 24 Temple in Boca Raton Bowl 32-17
BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Phillip Ely hit Cody Thompson with an 80-yard touchdown pass early in the fourth quarter Tuesday night, and Toledo won Jason Candle's first game as head coach, beating No. 24 Temple 32-17 in a soggy Boca Raton Bowl.
Candle was promoted from offensive coordinator three weeks ago when Matt Campbell took over at Iowa State.
The Rockets (10-2) positioned themselves to crack the final Top 25 for the first time since 2001, the last season they won 10 games. Temple (10-4) lost for the fourth time in seven games after starting 7-0.
Frequent driving rain hampered both offenses, but Ely went 20 for 28 for 285 yards and two scores with no turnovers.
Linebacker Ja'Wuan Woodley's jarring tackle sent the ball squirting backward 15 yards through the end zone for an early safety, and the hits kept coming from the Rockets' defense. Temple came into the game averaging 31 points but didn't reach the end zone until less than three minutes remained.
Jahad Thomas, who came into the game with 1,257 yards rushing for Temple, hurt his knee late in the first half and didn't return. He was held to 5 yards on eight carries, and his fumble led to the safety.
Toledo entered the game ranked third in the nation in red zone defense, and three times the Rockets held Temple to short field goals.
Ely and Woodley were chosen the game's most valuable players.
The Rockets were nursing a 12-9 lead in the final period when they started at their 20 following a 71-yard punt. Thompson slipped behind the secondary, caught Ely's pass in stride at his 40 and veered untouched to the end zone.
After the Rockets recovered an onside kick following Temple's touchdown, Kareem Hunt scored on a 41-yard run to seal the victory.
Toledo's Corey Jones broke five tackles to turn a short reception into a 26-yard score in the first half.
The Rockets totaled 435 yards. They moved 36 yards in the final 1:10 of the first half and kicked a 38-yard field goal on the last play for a 12-3 lead.
How Jack Dorsey Says He Balances Leading Twitter and Square
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Sunday, December 20, 2015
Miss Philippines crowned Miss Universe after live TV mixup
Las Vegas (AFP) - Miss Philippines was named Miss Universe in a drama-filled turn worthy of a telenovela.
The pageant's host, comedian Steve Harvey, misread his cue card which he initially said had Miss Colombia, Ariadna Gutierrez, as the winner.
She was briefly, very fleetingly, crowned in Las Vegas and started the customary smiling and waving.
But not for long.
As she blew kisses, Harvey awkwardly said "I have to apologize. The first runner up is Colombia."
"Miss Universe 2015 is Philippines," he added, with the Colombian contestant left like a deer in headlights and the actual winner, Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach, looking stunned.
And all on live television with millions watching from Manila to Manchester.
"It was my fault," Harvey stammered as a perplexed audience held its breath.
"Please don't hold it against the ladies," added the talk show host.
The contest, held in Las Vegas this year, is wildly popular in Latin America and much of Asia.
Why the Founder of KIND Doesn't Use the Word 'Employee'
Daniel Lubetzky says he wants every person at his company to feel like an owner.
Bar children from gridiron says groundbreaking researcher
Los Angeles (AFP) - More than a decade after playing a leading role in uncovering the health risks to players in the National Football League, Bennet Omalu hopes his research will lead to a ban on children playing high-impact sports.
The Nigerian-born neuropathologist authored arguably the most influential paper in the history of sports medicine in the United States in 2005, when he linked the death of former Pittsburgh Steelers star Mike Webster to a lifetime of taking heavy hits in the NFL.
Omalu's research into the condition known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) was initially dismissed by sceptical voices within the NFL's Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee before the league finally acknowledged a connection between concussions and CTE.
The case ultimately led to an estimated $1 billion settlement between the NFL and some 5,000 retirees from the sport, with players suffering from health issues linked to repeated head trauma receiving up to $5 million.
The story of Omalu's research is the subject of a Hollywood blockbuster "Concussion" starring Will Smith, due for release in North America this week.
Omalu believes the movie will help raise awareness of the health risks associated with high impact sport, and hopes parents with children who play football will think again.
- Deadly arena -
"Families and parents need to know that when you play this game the way it is being played today that there is a significant risk that you will damage your brain, and that it will manifest sometimes years, decades, up to 40 years later," Omalu told AFP in an interview.
In terms of volume of fatalities, high school American football is the deadliest arena in US sport, with 11 deaths reported so far in 2015, including several involving blunt force trauma to the head.
Omalu says the health and safety questions surrounding American football are a major public health issue of "epidemic" proportions and says he hopes to see an evolution in attitudes towards the sport similar to the shift in attitudes regarding substances like tobacco and alcohol.
"Modern society is evolving," he says. "As we evolve we give up less intelligent ways we did things in the past and embrace more intelligent ways because we are more intelligent.
"Knowing what we know now -- just like we did with smoking, alcohol, even sex -- it is our moral duty as a society to protect the most vulnerable, our children. If we identify a risk, a harmful effect, it would be foolhardy would it not to continue intentionally exposing our children to that harmful effect?
"I wouldn't let my son play football. So how could I tell another man's son to play football?"
- Unaware of risks -
Omalu revealed he had discussed the risks of playing gridiron with "Concussion" star Smith, whose son played the sport in school.
"Will (Smith) said he was unaware there was a risk of injury. He believes many parents are unaware just as he was," Omalu said.
While Omalu's trenchant views have run into predictable opposition from advocates and fans of America's most-watched pastime, he insists he is neither anti-football nor anti-sport.
"If you're an adult and you make a decision to drink alcohol or to play a sport and expose your head to blows, I would be one of the first people to stand by your side and defend your right, your freedom to play if you want to play," he said.
"But not if you're a child who has not reached the age of consent and does not understand the implications of what it is they are doing."
Omalu meanwhile is sceptical that NFL statistics which point to a reduction in the number of concussions -- down 35 percent in the three years leading to 2015 -- necessarily means that the sport has become safer.
Omalu argues that brain damage can occur through the cumulative effect of repeated blows to the head without concussion necessarily being recorded.
"The NFL or anybody trotting out a number of documented concussions as an indicator that they are doing a good job is a misappropriation of the science," he argues.
"The number of concussions is of no significance if the number of blows to the head remains constant. Repeated blows to the head over several years could number thousands. The damage is irreversible."
COOK: 'Apple pays every tax dollar we owe' (AAPL)
Apple CEO Tim Cook is not happy about people calling him a "tax avoider," and thinks the current US tax code on foreign income is broken.
It's especially important to Apple, as Cook is "certain" a foreign country will overtake the US as its largest market.
It's not just that the number of people in markets like China is larger, but more critically, the number of people growing into the middle-class. For a consumer company, that's the key to growth, Cook said during an interview with "60 Minutes".
But with that growth comes international profits, and Apple has been accused of hoarding billions of dollars overseas in order to allegedly dodge higher corporate tax rates.
Cook got uncharacteristically rattled by questions about whether his company should be paying more money in America.
"We pay more taxes in this country than anyone," Cook said, while acknowledging that that should be the case since Apple is the most profitable company in the US.
Cook said he'd love to bring back some of the cash to the U.S., but it wouldn't make sense under the current tax code. "It would cost me 40% [taxes] to bring it home. And I don’t think that’s a reasonable thing to do," he said.
Cook continued, "This is a tax code, Charlie, that was made for the industrial age, not the digital age. It’s backwards. It’s awful for America. It should have been fixed many years ago. It’s past time to get it done."
When Rose followed up with the Senate's assertion that Apple's running a scheme "to pay little or no corporate taxes on $74 billion in revenues held overseas," Cook simply said it's "total political crap."
"There is no truth behind it. Apple pays every tax dollar we owe," he said.
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Saturday, December 19, 2015
How This Travel Company Scored Big by Playing It Safe
Meet one of the companies on the E360 index that fits in the 'controllers' category.
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