Editor's note: Just in time for pre-Interbike reading, BRAIN's longtime legal analyst, Steve Hansen, takes a look at the implications of recent employer liability cases involving hosting parties where alcohol was served or was present. ...
Tags: Transportation
Brad Keselowski, NASCAR superstar and driver of the No. 2 Miller Lite Ford Fusion, has partnered with cutting-edge action sports apparel line, Panic Switch Army, to debut a signature, limited-edition t-shirt. The Brad Keselowski Elite ...
Tags: Tee, Panic Switch
Locally owned menswear brand Beckett & Robb announced a new storefront that brings their European-made custom clothing to Provo, Utah. The new retail outlet, the third storefront for Beckett & Robb, is located in the Shops at Riverwoods on ...
Tags: Menswear, Beckett&Robb
EPA using guns, body armor to enforce Clean Water Act? The greatest pollination show on Earth is a mix of staggering stats and figures. Sure, numbers tend to bore and overwhelm — but not when it comes to honey bees and the almond ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The US installed 832MW of solar photovoltaic (PV) in the second quarter of 2013, representing 15% growth over the first quarter of the year. It was solar's second best quarter ever, according to a new report released by GTM Research and the ...
Tags: Solar PV, Electrical
Internet giant Google is migrating from Oracle's MySQL databases to MariaDB, the fork from MySQL established by its co-founder, Monty Widenius. The news was broken by Jeremy Cole, a senior systems engineer at Google at the Extremely Large ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Researchers from the US Department of Agriculture’s Western Regional Research Center in California have developed a new technology to provide consumers with refrigerated, packaged apple slices that last two to three weeks without ...
Tags: Apple Slices, Food
Furniture Brands Canada has declared bankruptcy and all of its salaried employees have been let go. The move was made after its U.S. parent company sought Chapter 11 court protection from its creditors earlier this week. Furniture Brands ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Custom Food Products, a wholly owned subsidiary of CTI Foods, is set to expand its facility in Owingsville, Kentucky, with an investment of $44m, a move which will create 200 new jobs. Custom Foods manufactures processed beef, pork, ...
Tags: Custom Food Products, Food
California lawmakers gave final passage Thursday to a bill to create a mattress recycling program, sending the measure to the governor's desk for review. The California State Senate voted 31-8 to approve SB254, authored by Sens. Loni ...
Tags: Light Industry, Daily Use
UC researcher's comments sound serious alarm Parasitic wasp enlisted in fight against ACP Irrigation water blocked by red tape Tests on Asian citrus psyllids (ACP) taken live from infested trees in a neighborhood in Dinuba, Calif. came ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Sport Chalet, Inc. is reporting a 2.8 percent sales decrease in its first quarter, which ended June 30, compared to the same period last year. Sales came in at $81.5 million, down from $83.8 million last year. The company's net loss for the ...
Tags: Transportation, bike, Sporting Goods, Recreation
While mid-power LED chips account for only a small proportion of LED lighting currently, the proportion will grow fast over the next few years to reach about 50%, Philips Lumileds Lighting CEO Pirre-Yves Lesaicherre said during a Digitimes ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Lights, Lighting
Limoneira, a US-based agribusiness firm, has acquired a privately owned company Associated Citrus Packers (ACP) of Arizona in a deal valued at around $18.6m. ACP owns about 1,300 acres of property in Yuma, Arizona, comprising ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, fruit
Concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar system maker Soitec of Bernin, France has announced its newest concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) module featuring a record power-generating efficiency of 31.8%. The new module, which is already in ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics