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☆ The climate crisis is coming for your hoppy beer
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Rachel Ramirez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

“One of the side motives of this study was to illustrate how climate change might be important for even those who think it doesn’t matter,” Trnka told CNN. Now, each of the basic ingredients of today’s beer — water, barley, yeast and hops – are threatened by global warming. Researchers used weather data and climate models to analyze how European hops have been and will be affected by climate change between 1970 and 2050, assuming precipitation decreases and temperature increases. Felix Kästle/picture alliance/Getty ImagesIn recent years, more consumers are preferring beer aromas and flavors that require higher-quality hops, according to the study. Since these hops are only grown in smaller regions, researchers say they’re put at even higher risk from climate change-fueled heat waves and droughts.

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☆ Argentina election fight brews over women's rights
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Reuters Editorial | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

PoliticsArgentina election fight brews over women's rightsPostedArgentina's presidential election race is putting abortion access and women's rights in the spotlight, sparking fierce debate in a country that has been a pioneer in expanding reproductive rights in Latin America. Olivia Chan reports.

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REUTERS/Cristina Sille Acquire Licensing RightsBUENOS AIRES, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Argentina's presidential election race is putting abortion access and women's rights in the spotlight, sparking fierce debate in a country that has been a pioneer in expanding reproductive rights in Latin America. The election frontrunner, economist Javier Milei, opposes abortion and wants to hold a referendum on whether the 2020 legalization of abortion before the 14th week of pregnancy should be repealed. He also wants to shut the ministry of women, gender and diversity, which he has called a type of "affirmative action" that is degrading towards women. She would leave abortion laws unchanged, though also close the women's ministry. Repealing the abortion law is not on their agenda, because "Argentina already had that debate," she told Reuters.

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Those shipments sometimes accounted for more than half of Chinese malting barley demand, depending on the year. "The return of Australian barley means everyone will be happier," said Miller Meng, brewmaster at Shanghai craft beer bar, The Brew. "Australian malt in the market return prices back on the right track," he said. But in the absence of Australian malting barley, many Chinese craft brewers turned to alternatives such as French or Canadian malt. That meant a perilous thinning of margins and the hope is that Australian imports will reverse this trend, craft brewers told Reuters.

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☆ Starbucks promises its new 'siren system' will cut the wait for your drink — but most stores are still waiting for the rollout
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Kylie Kirschner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Starbucks' wait times have increased with higher demand for complicated cold drinks. The company is rolling out its new "Siren System" to overhaul and streamline drink-making. Last year the company announced its new "Siren System," a set of procedures and equipment to overhaul and streamline the drink-making process. But the cold drinks on the menu also tend to be more complicated and take longer to make. Only 40% of stores are expected to have the Siren System in three years time, Bloomberg recently reported.

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☆ The billionaire son of H&M's founder owns a sprawling English country estate with over 100 cottages, a distillery, and a pub that sells his own beer
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Stefan Persson, the son of H&M's founder, owns a 19,000-acre country estate in southern England. In 1997, Persson splurged some of his fortunes on a 3,000-acre country estate in Wiltshire, southern England, which went on to become Ramsbury Estates. Ramsbury Estates has about 7,000 acres of farmland, with a focus on wheat and barley alongside a small herd of cattle. Geography Photos/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesLike many modern farms, Ramsbury Estates has diversified. Ramsbury Estates declined to comment on exactly what the "agency" portion of its business is comprised of.

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☆ ‘Io Capitano’: An African odyssey inspired by true events wins at Venice Film Festival
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Tom Page | Thomas Page | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

In “Io Capitano” (“Me Captain”) by director Matteo Garrone, there is no shame in retreating into imagination. “Io Capitano” premiered last week at the Venice Film Festival, where Garrone won the award for best director and Sarr was named best young actor, and was released in Italian cinemas on September 7. Moustapha Fall attends a red carpet for "Io Capitano" at the Venice International Film Festival. “I started crying during the film,” Kouassi said, speaking the day after the premiere. “I think it is important – it is sending a very great message to Europe.”“Io Capitano” premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 6.

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☆ Dozens of civilians among 64 killed in attacks in Mali
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Teele Rebane | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Two separate attacks by suspected al-Qaeda-linked militants in restive northeastern Mali Thursday killed 64 people including dozens of civilians, the country’s transitional government said. The attacks targeted a passenger boat on the Niger River near Timbuktu and an army base in Bamba, in the northern Gao region, killing 49 civilians and 15 soldiers, according to the interim government’s statement. The attacks were claimed by Support Group for Islam and Muslims (GSIM), a militant group associated with al Qaeda, the government said. The Sahara-Sahel region, of which Mali is a part, has seen an escalation of violence in recent years as an Islamic insurgency brews near the borders of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger. The United Nations in June said “endless” violence was being unleashed on civilians in northeastern Mali by the Islamic State (ISIS) militant group and its affiliates.

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☆ Post Malone reflects on his weight loss and healthier lifestyle this year
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Post Malone has made an impressive physical transformation in recent months – and people have been taking notice. The musician has reportedly lost over 50 pounds, which he previously said is due to the healthier lifestyle he’s embraced – like quitting drinking soda – since welcoming his daughter last year. Malone opened up about his alcohol use – along with psychedelic mushrooms – last month in an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. And while he’s most well known for his popular songs such as “White Iverson,” “Rockstar” and “Circles,” the performer is also famous for his head-to-toe tattoos. The Grammy-nominated artist is currently spreading love while on tour in South America and Asia, and released his newest album “Austin” in July.

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About a half-hour before a mid-August Brooklyn Cyclones game, a family of three, a reporter and a middle-aged man dressed in a Jedi robe walked into an elevator at Maimonides Park. As the door closed and they began their ascent, the Jedi turned to the others and asked, “So, what planet are you all from?”“Um, Brooklyn,” responded the matriarch of the family. The Jedi proceeded to hum “Mad About Me,” by the Mos Eisley Cantina house band, Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes, as if to tell them he was from the planet Tatooine. Out beyond the right-field wall, in the area known as the Backyard, a few hundred others were pounding brews and playing cornhole, blissfully unaware that a baseball game — the event that their ticket said they had paid to see — was about to begin. The two main draws on this particular Saturday were Star Wars Night and the $50 all-you-can-drink deal.

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☆ Starbucks' $1.25 cold foam is the chain's most popular drinks add-on, and one of its most expensive. This is how it's made.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

It's made by frothing nonfat cold milk and is added to iced drinks like cold brews. While some drinks come with cold foam on top as standard, such as some of its flavored cold brews, customers can opt to add it to other cold drinks for $1.25. Currently there are six flavors of cold foam available – chocolate cream, cinnamon sweet cream, matcha cream, salted caramel cream, vanilla sweet cream, and white chocolate macadamia cream. Tim Hortons in the US, for example, sells set chilled drinks with cold foam and also has the option for customers to add it to some of its other cold drinks. Dunkin' started selling sweet cold foam in February 2021, and has since launched it in a number of time-limited flavors including brown sugar and salted caramel.

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☆ Regarding North Bath, Richard Russo Saved His Best for Last
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Hamilton Cain | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

SOMEBODY’S FOOL, by Richard RussoWelcome back to North Bath, scrappy sibling to the larger, wealthier Schuyler Springs, down the road in woodsy upstate New York. While Schuyler Springs is famous for wine bars, pricey restaurants and a racetrack, North Bath (or “Bath”) prides itself on a rustic vibe, greasy spoons and scrapyards and grand Victorian fixer-uppers. Set over three days in February 2010, the novel opens with a bleak snapshot: The recession has wreaked havoc on local businesses and families. Russo reprises the cast from “Nobody’s Fool” (1993) and “Everybody’s Fool” (2016), framing their foibles as social comedy in the mode of Charles Portis or Charles Dickens. (There’s an allusion to “Great Expectations.”) As with both authors, tumult brews beneath sunny surfaces.

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☆ Mortgage catastrophe brews in Britain as millions are pushed toward insolvency
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Sam Meredith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak conceded shortly after the BOE's rate hike that the government's mission to halve inflation to 5% by the end of the year had recently become more difficult. There is intensifying pressure on Britain's government to do more to help struggling households, with the country's shadow finance minister warning of a "mortgage catastrophe" as millions are pushed to the brink of insolvency. The Bank of England last week hiked interest rates by 50 basis points to 5%, a bigger increase than many had expected. The BOE's 13th consecutive rate rise takes the base rate to the highest level since 2008. "The rise in interest rates to 5% will push millions of households with mortgages towards the brink of insolvency," said Max Mosley, an economist at NIESR.

Persons: Rishi Sunak, NIESR, Max Mosley Organizations: Bank of England, National Institute of Economic, Social Research Locations: Wales, England

☆ The co-leader of an AI-driven quant fund shares 2 stocks his model is betting the most on right now — and a simple way individual investors can use AI technology to pick stocks
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( William Edwards | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

An easy way to harness the power of AI quant models is to look at top holdings of ETFs, he said. But it's a tall task for individual investors — let alone institutions — to develop AI models for stock picking, Oh said. Oh said that the Qraft's momentum fund's top two holdings right now are Amazon (AMZN) and Meta (META). While it was the model that picked Amazon and Meta, Oh said they're solid fundamental plays. As for Meta, Oh said it's well-positioned for the AI boom as is one of the leaders in the space.

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☆ The Grass Is Actually Greener Thanks to M.L.B.’s New Rules
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( David Waldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Now it’s another commodity for sale, another revenue stream.”But groundskeepers are learning how to accommodate multiple events, and innovations in field maintenance help to counter the stresses. In San Francisco, Elliott is at the forefront of baseball’s agricultural tech boom. The data can be combined with information on individual athletes to enhance performance and health. Elliott also brews his own microbial slurries, which are injected into the irrigation system and then sprayed on the grass. “The players are the best athletes in the world,” Sherry said, “and we are all the best groundskeepers in the world.”

Persons: ” Burns, Elliott, Clegg, ”, ” Elliott, ” Sherry Organizations: Raw, English Locations: San Francisco, British

Overall U.S. beer sales grew 1.8% in the 12 weeks ended May 20, according to data from research firms NielsenIQ and TD Cowen. Sam Adams maker Boston Beer, the largest craft beer maker, saw its market share slip last year. Bud Light and Coors Light, popular premium light beers, average about $7.40 for a 12-ounce six-pack, while Boston Beer's Sam Adams costs between $10 to $12. "The American consumer likes light beer," Molson Coors CEO Gavin Hattersley said at a conference in early June. "I think dynamics within the subsegment might change, but the overall consumption of light beer is not going to change materially."

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[1/5] Customers stand next to a counter at a Starbucks' outlet at a market in New Delhi, India, May 30, 2023. Starbucks plans to open more stores in smaller towns, said an industry source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Soon after Starbucks' May launch of $3.33 milkshakes, designed to attract children, Third Wave launched its own range, a fifth cheaper at $2.71. He saw Starbucks' cheaper, small-sized drinks as a response to competition in "an incredibly price-sensitive market". "Going deeper into smaller cities, beyond the metros, is the only way to grow," said Ankur Bisen, head of retail at India's Technopak Advisors.

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☆ Netflix and Athletic Brewing launch 'The Witcher'-themed non-alcoholic beer
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( Ashley R. Williams | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Athletic Brewing Company’s collaboration with Netflix will feature limited edition, co-branded nonalcoholic beers, the brewing company announced in a news release. Athletic Brewing Company's collaboration with Netflix features three limited-edition, co-branded non-alcoholic beers. Athletic Brewing CompanyThe booze-free beer might appeal to the one-third of Americans who reported trying to consume less alcohol, according to a recent survey. Nonalcoholic beer sales were up by 33% this year, the survey found. Athletic Brewing, launched in 2018, ferments its brews to be less than 0.5% alcohol by volume – the legal limit for US-brewed nonalcoholic beer, the company said in the release.

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☆ Here's how the price of your beer has changed over time
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Stefan Sykes | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Beer isn't as much of a bargain as it used to be. Beer companies, faced with rising operating costs in areas like packaging and transportation, have raised prices and seen bigger profits, with consumers footing the bill. The price of beer bought at retail locations such as grocery stores rose 5.9% for the 12 months through April 2023 compared with the prior year, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Since 2000, retail beer consumed at home has increased more than 72%. The cost of beer has climbed even more for people drinking outside the home, jumping 102% during that time.

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☆ Why sake made with rice polished to less than 1% is so expensive
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Clancy Morgan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

The most expensive kind, made with polished grains of rice, is called junmai daiginjo. And the more the rice is polished, the more expensive the sake. Niizawa Brewery, in Japan's Miyagi Prefecture, brews sake with rice polished to less than 1% of its original size. The most expensive bottles of this sake cost almost $10,000. We followed a master sake brewer to find out how sake is made and why some bottles can be so expensive.

Locations: Japan, Japan's Miyagi Prefecture

☆ In the Market: Amid the calm, the Fed brews the next storm
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Paritosh Bansal | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Earlier this month, Chairman Jay Powell said the Fed's monetary policy and financial stability tools were "working well together," allowing it to support banks and pursue price stability. But several people in the market believe not only is the regional banking sector still under stress, multiple other risks to financial stability also remain. Tighter monetary policy could well cause them to blow up or worsen the impact of other shocks, such as debt ceiling negotiations. "The Fed has no desire to conduct monetary policy through financial crises," said Wendy Edelberg, director of The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution. In its most recent financial stability report earlier this month, the Fed listed several areas of concern, including life insurance and some types of bond and loan funds.

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