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Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Givaudan Launches Guardians of Memories Game on Roblox in the U.S.
FOLLOW YOUR NOSE: To raise awareness of perfume creation among Gens Z and Alpha, Givaudan is launching today its game, called Guardians of Memories, on Roblox in the U.S. The Swiss fragrance and flavors supplier's game is interactive and educational, allowing players to experiment with perfume ingredients and composition. The premise is that in a made-up land inhabitants lost their memory and fragrance is their only means to regain it. A mysterious fog circulating devours everything it touches and is a danger to the creatures living in this eye-catching world saturated in color. More from WWD Beauty, Wellbeing Brands, Led by Dove, Drive Unilever Growth in Q1 EXCLUSIVE: Oh My Cream Acquires Atelier Nubio Dermocosmetics: On Skin Care's Final Frontier Fragrance's invisibility makes it less selfie- and screen-friendly than other beauty product categories, so makers look for ways to build up knowledge of it online, especially among the younger set making up consumers of tomorrow. Givaudan launched Guardians of Memories in France on Jan. 29, and so far it has garnered 53,000 visitors, while 471 people have made it a favorite. Guardians of Memories' scented Odyssey introduces game-players to olfactive ingredients; cute, gentle, bobble-headed characters each with different characteristics; quests; fragrance recipes; formulations, and tutorials. 'In alignment with our 2025 global digital strategy, we are committed to pioneering innovative and disruptive solutions that will maintain Givaudan as the creative partner of choice in our industry,' said Anne Tayac, head of Givaudan business solutions, in a statement. 'The introduction of Guardians of Memories marks a significant step forward in shaping the future of our fragrance business, empowering the next generation to appreciate the art of perfumery. Additionally, we recognize that digital transformation is essential for deepening our understanding of consumers' needs, enabling Givaudan to consistently deliver exceptional products.' 'With Guardians of Memories, we aim to engage the younger generation in an innovative, playful and educational manner, using their own cultural codes to highlight the richness of olfactory craftsmanship,' continued Arnaud Guggenbuhl, head of global marketing insight and image fragrance. 'We place intellectual value and the artisanal skills that lie within the fragrance houses at the heart of the experience, transforming each perfume creation into more than just a product.' Guardians of Memories was also created with Givaudan's external partners Digitalli and Novelab. Roblox is the largest gaming platform worldwide, with 90 million daily players. Best of WWD Gigi Hadid Turns 30: Her Style Evolution Through the Years, PHOTOS Every Celebrity Skims Campaign: Donovan Mitchell, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Abby Champion and More [PHOTOS] Victoria Beckham's Style Through the Years: From Her Spice Girls Era to Today [PHOTOS]
Washington Post
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
In ‘Terrestrial History,' humans head for Mars
In 2012, I took my 6-year-old twins to a space-exploration exhibition at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. A gallery highlighted Mars: solar-panel technologies, rovers in dioramas, even a display on 'terraforming,' the intricate, lengthy process by which humanity would transform a cold, dusty, oxygen-starved sphere into an Earthlike Eden. A life-size astronaut knelt on a boulder, its torso and visor hollowed out; each boy scrambled inside the suit, posing as I snapped photos. Today they're college students. Time flies! I recalled that afternoon while reading Joe Mungo Reed's lyrical, heady 'Terrestrial History,' which skitters amid the coming century and four generations of a family to reveal a world in crisis and a desperate colonization of the Red Planet. (The novel's structure nods to a quote from an Albert Einstein letter: 'the difference between past, present, and future is only a 'stubbornly persistent illusion.'') In the summer of 2025, Hannah, a physicist, leaves her husband and young son in Edinburgh and travels to a remote island off the northern coast of Scotland, where she mulls the mechanisms of fusion reactors. Her sole company is her dog, Jasper, who joins her on sunset walks along the craggy beach near her cottage. One evening she sees a flash in the sky, an eight-foot-tall spacesuit emerging from the waves. An image of a freckled child's face glows within the visor. A visitor from 2110, he knows who she is, has come to tell her about her own future research so that they may stave off a climate apocalypse. Hannah's taken aback. 'I'm not the kind of person to tell a story like this,' she notes. 'I've always been irritated by mysticism, by blithe statements about inexplicable phenomena. At dinner parties, say, when people start to recount spooky, inexplicable events, I'm the one with their teeth gritted, calculating privately the way in which the experience being spoken of could be accounted for by suggestion, by mist, by a bird loose in the attic, by strong painkillers.' Yet in the blue dusk she's a true believer, escorting him to a stone shed where they'll work. Reed then plaits in other narratives, set decades later: Andrew, Hannah's widowed son and a rising progressive politician; Kenzie, his aloof daughter and math prodigy who finds love with Justine as they collaborate on a Mars project for a ruthless entrepreneur; and Roban, Kenzie and Justine's sickly boy, born and raised in a far-flung community and longing for an Earth he's never known. There's no place like Home, the Martian Colony's term for the mother planet. The migrant cohort, known as Homers, mourn the everyday pleasures lost, 'the games, the sayings, the funny voices.' Their children, the First Gens, painfully adapt to low gravity and atypical diets and movement, with 'surgeries to help our joints bond properly,' Roban says, and 'bone supplements and courses of hormone therapies to promote growth.' The Colony shuttles among modules and 'transitways.' They mine the ruddy cliffs outside. Reed leans into world-building, conjuring 22nd-century life on the fourth rock from the sun. In 2057, Andrew and his daughter struggle to salve their volatile relationship, seeking refuge on the island as Hannah attends to her notebooks and calculations. Reed writes a quicksilver line: 'When we reach the open sea the water is dark, rougher. The wake of the ferry is wide and flat, like a thumbprint dragged across butter.' As the impact of climate change spreads, as wars immolate nations, both Andrew and Kenzie feel compelled to act. He challenges an incumbent for First Minister, canvassing the country, including its renowned St. Andrews resort: 'This is the first golf course, after all: the template from which others are made, so that now simulacra of this link land outside this small Scottish city are peppered over the whole globe, in deserts, on mountainsides, in swampland and tundra. A strange, nostalgic, colonial impulse . . . the making, the mastery of the land, is part of the point.' Kenzie opts for a job at Tevat, run by Axel Faulk, a renegade mogul and expatriate American. Faulk makes her an offer she can't refuse. 'The difference between my and Dad's responses lies in our perspectives,' she opines. 'He, a moralist at heart, is only appalled. I am an admirer of systems. I can't help but be thrilled by their cold foresight.' As Reed suggests, the future is now. For a slender book, 'Terrestrial History' delivers an enthralling plot; complex, realized characters; and a wealth of fine-cut sentences. Reed's great theme is Time, how our species is a microscopic blip in the biosphere's 3.5 billion years. Can the arrow of chronology shoot off in various directions simultaneously? There are shout-outs to Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Sir Isaac Newton. The novel plays with the motif of an hourglass — how Roban and other First Gens are grains trickling through the pinch — and also Hannah's wristwatch, now an heirloom (and an allusion to Quentin Compson's broken watch in 'The Sound and the Fury'). The book closes with a wrenching crescendo, positing that time itself splinters, ambiguous, our fates 'just a symptom. The result of a larger failure.' Writers as diverse as Chang-rae Lee, Jennifer Egan and Ali Smith have circled around a pair of perplexing questions: What does the near-future wish to tell us? And can we save ourselves? 'Terrestrial History' is Joe Mungo Reed's piercing, poetic answer. This summer we are all Hannah, poised on a beach, glimpsing a flash in the sky and staring, astonished, as a figure in a spacesuit staggers from the sea. Hamilton Cain is a book critic and the author of 'This Boy's Faith: Notes from a Southern Baptist Upbringing.' He lives in Brooklyn. By Joe Mungo Reed W.W. Norton. 256 pp. $29.99
Boston Globe
21-03-2025
- Boston Globe
Prosecutors drop charges against Uber driver accused of rape, citing negative forensic test results
Jiokeng, of Brighton, was ordered held without bail at his Feb. 24 arraignment in South Boston Municipal Court, where Jiokjeng's attorney, William Gens, said his client's detainment 'undoubtedly did a lot of damage to him.' He said Jiokeng worked at a bank and drove for Uber for extra income prior to his arrest. Advertisement 'If the court was going to give any credence to the Commonwealth's allegations, which were self-evidently shaky, other measures short of actually detaining him would have sufficed, such as a bracelet monitor and travel restrictions and an agreement not to even be an Uber driver,' Gens said by phone Friday. 'That way, he could have kept his day job and paid his mortgage and been with his family,' he said. 'Instead, [the judge] slammed him with the most harsh sanction possible.' In February, Gens questioned the woman's allegations in a brief motion, writing that the 'accuser has provided three different accounts of the alleged incident where the race of the assailant has [changed] from the first two accounts of a white male to that of a [Black] male.' A police report filed in court said the woman told investigators her Uber driver picked her up around 11:48 p.m. on Feb. 22 outside Loco Taqueria and Oyster Bar in South Boston. Advertisement She initially told police said that when the Uber was nearing her residence, the driver stopped as two white men got out of a second vehicle and dragged her into theirs, where she was raped, the report said. The woman told police in a subsequent interview at an area hospital where she sought treatment that the driver climbed into the back seat and pinned her down and that a second person 'came out of nowhere' and also assaulted her, the report said. She described the Uber driver as 'white with dark features' and the second attacker as a man with a 'pale' complexion, the report said. The woman's roommate told police she had been tracking her whereabouts with an app and noticed the Uber was stopped outside their address, according to the report. The roommate said she went outside and saw 'movement' in the back seat, so she knocked on the window and 'made eye contact' with a Black man. The report said the roommate ran back inside and was about to call 911 when the woman entered and told her what happened. Because of the inconsistencies, police conducted another interview with the woman to clarify her prior statements, the report said. She told police she had 'consumed a lot of alcohol on the prior date and has started to question some of the details she has provided,' the report said. The woman told police 'she believes now it was' two Black men involved and that she knew one was her driver, the report said. Jiokeng, who is Black, was identified as her Uber driver through a trip receipt. Advertisement He was arrested the next morning outside his residence in Brighton. Nick Stoico can be reached at
Boston Globe
28-02-2025
- Boston Globe
Uber driver who allegedly raped South Boston passenger ordered to remain in custody
Jiokeng's lawyer, William Gens, didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday. Prosecutors said in court papers that they plan to introduce evidence including 'graphic videos and images from multiple sexual assaults,' records show. It wasn't clear from the filing where or when any other alleged assaults occurred. Jiokeng has not been charged with any other assaults. Advertisement He has been held without bail since Monday, w Albertson on Friday granted Gens's request to have his client remain shielded from public view during the hearing, records show. Gens wrote in a brief motion that the 'accuser has provided three different accounts of the alleged incident where the race of the assailant has [changed] from the first two accounts of a white male to that of a [Black] male.' A police report filed in court said the woman told investigators her Uber driver picked her up around 11:48 p.m. Saturday outside Loco Taqueria and Oyster Bar. She initially said that when the Uber was nearing her residence, the driver stopped as two white men got out of a second vehicle and dragged her into theirs, where she was raped and where the assailants 'gave her something and told her 'to clean up,'' the report said. The woman told police in a subsequent interview at an area hospital where she sought treatment that the driver climbed into the back seat and pinned her down, and that a second person 'came out of nowhere' and also assaulted her, the report said. She described the Uber driver as 'white with dark features' and the second attacker as a man with a 'pale' complexion, the report said. Advertisement The woman's roommate told police she had been tracking her whereabouts with an app and noticed the Uber was stopped outside their address, according to the report. The roommate said she went outside and saw 'movement' in the back seat, so she knocked on the window and 'made eye contact' with a Black man. The report said the roommate ran back inside and was about to call 911 when the woman entered and told her what happened. Because of the inconsistencies, police conducted a 'follow-up interview' with the woman in an effort to clarify her prior statements, the report said. She told police she had 'consumed a lot of alcohol on the prior date and has started to question some of the details she has provided,' the report said. The woman told police 'she believes now it was' two Black men involved and that she knew one was her driver, the report said. She also indicated that she knew 'she was raped because she 'felt it,' remembered the assault, and based on how her body felt after the incident,' the report said. Jiokeng, who is Black, was identified as her Uber driver through a trip receipt. He was arrested Sunday morning outside his Hobart Street residence in Brighton. He later waived his Miranda rights and agreed to speak with police, the report said. He told police the woman was 'highly intoxicated' in his vehicle and appeared to nod off at times, officials said. 'The suspect stated upon their arrival to the victim's destination he did enter the back seat of his vehicle where the victim was seated,' the report said. 'The suspect stated while inside the back seat with the victim he recalled a person knocking on the rear window of the vehicle. When asked, the suspect stated he 'didn't remember' whether he had any sexual contact with the victim.' Advertisement Material from prior Globe stories was used in this report. Travis Andersen can be reached at
Yahoo
09-02-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Blue Jackets Prospect Suspended 4 Game For High Hit
Columbus Blue Jackets prospect Luca Pinelli has been suspended for four games for a high hit to the head. #67s Luca Pinelli was ejected with 7 minutes left for this hit to the head of Quinn Beauchesne. Worse than the Sennecke hit which just got him 2 games. #67s next 2 games are both against the #Gens so I'd expect the #67s captain to be out for both of them — Generals Live (@GeneralsUpdates) February 3, 2025 The collision happened in the third period when Pinelli hit Quinn Beauchesne up high against the boards. Unfortunately, Beauchesne was knocked out from the hit and was left motionless on the ice. Pinelli appeared visibly angry after taking a few cross-checks to the back from Grant Spada, which may have contributed to his decision to take a run at the play was whistled down, Pinelli was assessed a five-minute major and a match penalty for a check to the head. The OHL's Department of Player Safety announced yesterday that Pinelli has been given a four-game suspension. #OHL Disciplinary Action:Ottawa's Luca Pinelli has been suspended for four games as a result of actions (Match, Check to the Head) on Feb. 2nd at Guelph. — Ontario Hockey League (@OHLHockey) February 6, 2025 He is eligible to return to the Ottawa 67's lineup on Thursday, Feb. 13, against the Peterborough Petes. What's Next: The Jackets play the New York Rangers at home on Saturday in what is the last game before the Four Nations Faceoff break. Stay updated with the most interesting Blue Jackets stories, analysis, breaking news, and more! Tap the star to add us to your favorites on Google News and never miss a story.
