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☆ My coworker dated 3 other women in the office before we fell for each other. We've been married for nearly 25 years.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-18 | by ( Kara Williams | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

When I first met my new coworker, Quent — a tall guy in glasses — I thought he was cute. But I had a live-in boyfriend , and Quent was just a few months divorced from a woman he’d met in the office. I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised when Quent eventually started dating someone new in our office social circle. “Just as friends,” we planned a weekend ski trip to Breckenridge with a colleague and her husband. AdvertisementToday, do I care that I was the fourth — and final — in the line of girls he dated at work?

Persons: —, Quent, he’d, I’d, “, ”, me, we’d, we’re Organizations: Service, Business Locations: Denver, Australia, Breckenridge, Moab, Hawaii, Colorado

☆ The Year Chatbots Were Tamed
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Kevin Roose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A year ago, on Valentine’s Day, I said good night to my wife, went to my home office to answer some emails and accidentally had the strangest first date of my life. The date was a two-hour conversation with Sydney, the A.I. alter ego tucked inside Microsoft’s Bing search engine, which I had been assigned to test. I had planned to pepper the chatbot with questions about its capabilities, exploring the limits of its A.I. engine (which we now know was an early version of OpenAI’s GPT-4) and writing up my findings.

Persons: Bing, Kevin Organizations: Sydney Locations: Sydney

☆ Welcome to ‘Dalifornia,’ an Oasis for China’s Drifters and Dreamers
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( Gilles Sabrié | Vivian Wang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

To find the dance circle in the bed-and-breakfast’s courtyard, drive north from the bedsheet factory converted into a crafts market, toward the vegan canteen urging diners to “walk barefoot in the soil and bathe in the sunshine.” If you see the unmanned craft beer bar where customers pay on the honor system, you’ve gone too far. Welcome to the Chinese mountain city of Dali, also sometimes known as Dalifornia, an oasis for China’s disaffected, drifting or just plain curious. The city’s nickname is a homage to California, and the easy-living, tree-hugging, sun-soaked stereotypes it evokes. It is also a nod to the influx of tech employees who have flocked there since the rise of remote work during the pandemic, to code amid the picturesque surroundings, nestled between snow-capped, 10,000-foot peaks in southwest China, on the shores of glistening Erhai Lake.

Persons: you’ve Locations: Dali, California, China, glistening

☆ After a Boom, Craft Beer Considers a New Creed: Less Is More
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Joshua M. Bernstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

More than a decade ago, when Ryan Guererri was in his early 20s, he became obsessed with craft beer. As breweries rolled out a nonstop roster of new products, he bought hundreds of different beers, from bitter I.P.A.s to strong Belgian ales. “It was exciting trying everything,” said Mr. Guererri, who is now 35 and a human resources manager in Geneva, N.Y. These days, Mr. Guererri mainly stocks his fridge with just a small collection of tried-and-trusted brands. His move to simplicity reflects a broader shift in the beer world.

Persons: Ryan Guererri, ”, Guererri Locations: Geneva, United States

☆ Wu-Tang and Speakeasies? Visit these 3 hidden Orlando gems if you want to escape the cold, according to my dad, a local.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Lauren Edmonds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

"It's basically a speakeasy," Edmonds told Business Insider. The cozy speakeasy offers live music and good drinks for those who can guess the daily password. According to Yelp, the spot isn't known for its food, but customers can find delicious cocktails at various price points, including $12 daiquiris and $15 original Hanson's Shoe Repair cocktail. Fortunately, the venue shares its daily password on X, formerly known as Twitter. The bar offers daily themes like Wu-Tang Wednesdays and A Tribe Called Quest Thursdays.

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Indeed, studies show that drinking alcohol is less in vogue with younger millennials and Gen Z. Mounting concern around weight loss drugs GLP-1 drugs, which mimic the action of the glucagon-like peptide-1 hormone and stimulate insulin secretion after a meal, lower blood sugar and send feeling of fullness to the brain. What's more, GLP-1 drugs are an overwhelmingly American topic, with most Europeans unaware of them or unwilling to pay high prices. In total, GLP-1 users are only a very small slice of total alcohol consumers, said Spiros Malandrakis, lead alcohol industry researcher at Euromonitor International. The most vulnerable purveyors are those that are trailing the shift in consumption, notably domestic, non-premium beer brands.

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☆ Find out why this garden has been named ‘the most beautiful in Japan’ for 20+ years
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Lilit Marcus | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Shimane, Japan CNN —In Japan, gardening isn’t just a hobby – it’s an art form with spiritual significance. The US-based Sukiya Living magazine (formerly Journal of Japanese Gardening) has awarded the Adachi Museum its highest honor – most beautiful traditional garden – for more than 20 years running. Despite accolades coming from outside of Japan, the museum and gardens remain relatively unknown compared to those in Kyoto and Tokyo. Many Western visitors to Japan are confused when they visit a Japanese garden, only to not see a single flower. “Before looking at Japanese paintings, you can look at these Japanese gardens and understand them in this sequence.

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☆ Meet the guy in charge of deciding how to spend $1.2 trillion from Biden’s infrastructure bill
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

You can see in the funding for the infrastructure bill that we’re working hard to do all of that. We want to build generational wealth and do it in a way that heals communities rather than separates them. Between the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Inflation Reduction Act and the CHIPS act, there’s been a $1.8 trillion dollar investment. You may recall that when this conversation started about three or four years ago, the number was $6 trillion. So $1.2 trillion is significant, but it’s just a downpayment on what the real needs are.

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☆ WeWork files for bankruptcy in federal court
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —WeWork, the beleaguered coworking startup, has filed for bankruptcy protections in federal court. “Now is the time for us to pull the future forward by aggressively addressing our legacy leases and dramatically improving our balance sheet,” said David Tolley, WeWork CEO, in a news release. WeWork eventually went public roughly two years later at a much-reduced valuation of some $9 billion. In May, WeWork announced a leadership shakeup with the departure of its chairman and CEO Sandeep Mathrani, a real estate executive who investors hoped would save the company. David Tolley, a WeWork board member, stepped up as interim chief executive and was officially named CEO in October.

Persons: New York CNN — WeWork, ”, David Tolley, WeWork, Adam Neumann, Neumann, Sandeep Mathrani Organizations: New, New York CNN Locations: New York

☆ I'm on track to sell $5 million in glassware this year, mainly on Amazon. Research, self-control, and careful planning got me there.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Madeline Stone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Dragon Glassware glasses. For a bit, I was also renting a warehouse space, but now I have my inventory delivered directly to an Amazon fulfillment center. Plus, I was already using Amazon Multichannel Fulfillment, so it made sense to turn on Buy With Prime as a channel. Dragon Glassware has generated more than $2.1 million in sales this year, and we project an additional $2 million to $3 million before the end of the year. Correction: October 11, 2023 — An earlier version of this story suggested Dragon Glassware was on track to make $5 million using Amazon only.

Persons: Matt Rollens, hadn't, I've, —, It's, we've, Barnes & Noble, that's Organizations: Amazon, Walmart, Prime, Multichannel, Barnes &, Mattel Locations: Sacramento , California, China, Maxx

☆ I'm on track to sell $5 million in glassware on Amazon this year. Research, self-control, and careful planning got me there.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Madeline Stone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I decided to call my brand Dragon Glassware. Dragon Glassware glasses. For a bit, I was also renting a warehouse space, but now I have my inventory delivered directly into an Amazon fulfillment center. I was an early tester of the new Supply Chain by Amazon product suite . Dragon Glassware has generated more than $2.1 million in sales so far this year, and we're projecting an additional $2-3 million before the end of the year.

Persons: Matt Rollens, hadn't, I've, —, It's, we've, Barnes & Noble, that's Organizations: Walmart, Prime, Barnes &, Mattel, LinkedIn Locations: Sacramento , California, China, Maxx

☆ An American couple left their rent-free life in Mexico and moved to a $7,500 abandoned home in Japan: 'We feel overwhelmingly welcome'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Julian Ryall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Evan and Dani BretonEvan, now 40, worked as a massage therapist while Dani, now 39, was a self-employed photographer. Dani and Evan BentonThe couple drove over the border into Mexico on December 5, 2021. Guanajuato, MexicoHouse-sitting was a way to live rent-free in MexicoThe couple became house-sitters in Mexico so they could live rent-free and travel around the country. Japan was their final stop because of cheaper house pricesAfter 14 months in Mexico, the couple concluded that Japan "would be a better fit for us." The house cost $7,500 and the realtor's fees were an additional $1,500.

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☆ Tilray Brands revenue jumps, losses narrow as it pivots away from cannabis
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Stefan Sykes | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Cannabis producer Tilray Brands on Wednesday reported a jump in revenue as it diversifies its portfolio and moves deeper into the beer industry. The company reported $177 million in net revenue, up 15% year-over-year, for its fiscal first-quarter. Its cannabis division brought in $70 million in net revenue, reflecting a 20% spike year-over-year. It also narrowed its net loss to $55.9 million during the quarter, compared with a loss of $65.8 million a year earlier. The company said it grew cannabis revenue in Canada by 16.5%, and strengthened its leading market share position in the country to 13.4%.

Organizations: Tilray Brands Locations: Canada, U.S

The cannabis company Tilray expanded its position in the craft brew industry, completing the acquisition of eight beer brands from Anheuser-Busch that it had announced over the summer. Included in the deal are well known labels like Shock Top, Breckenridge Brewery, Blue Point Brewing Company, 10 Barrel Brewing Company, Redhook Brewery, Widmer Brothers Brewing, Square Mile Cider Company, and HiBall Energy. The New York City company also owns SweetWater Brewing Company, Montauk Brewing Company, Alpine Beer Company, and Green Flash Brewing Company. Tilray said that the transaction, which was announced in August, will triple its beer sales volume from four million cases to 12 million. A deluge of criticism and hate erupted soon after Mulvaney cracked open a Bud Light in an Instagram video.

Persons: Tilray, Tilray Brands, Irwin Simon, Busch, Bud Light, influencer Dylan Mulvaney, Mulvaney, Bud Light’s, Bump Williams Organizations: Anheuser, Busch, Breckenridge Brewery, Point Brewing Company, Brewing Company, Redhook, Widmer Brothers Brewing, Cider Company, HiBall Energy, Tilray, New, SweetWater Brewing Company, Montauk Brewing Company, Alpine Beer Company, Green Flash Brewing Company, Modelo, Nielsen, Bump Williams Consulting Locations: New York City

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.

Persons: Miller Meng, brewmaster, Trueman, Yang Zhenglong, Matthew Jimenez, Duvel, Casey, Dominique Patton, Peter Hobson, Edwina Gibbs Organizations: Canberra, EqualOcean International, Reuters, Casey Hall, Thomson Locations: SHANGHAI, BEIJING, China, Shanghai, Tianjin, Mongolia, Ukraine, Australian, Australia, Europe, Saudi Arabia, Beijing, Canberra

☆ Craft beer, marriages and air travel: The collateral damage of a government shutdown
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Alex Seitz-Wald | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +14 min

Staff, meanwhile, have been forced to put their real jobs on hold to prepare for the looming shutdown. National parksThe National Park Service plans to close its parks and furlough park rangers if the government shuts down on Sunday. During the 2018-2019 shutdown, the parks themselves remained accessible, but without most services. Some presidential libraries would remain open as long as they have sufficient funds, but others would close and research services would be reduced. A shutdown would result in a "data blackout" of critical economic statistics that influence markets and businesses around the globe.

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☆ Hip-hop stars and financial luminaries: Ritholtz Wealth Management redesigns the investment conference
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Bob Pisani | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Surf City USA —for a financial conference. A financial conference on a beach? Reinventing the financial conferenceWelcome to FutureProof, billed as "the largest gathering of top-tier wealth management professionals, CEOs, CTOs, COOs, and fast-growing financial advisors." It's the brainchild of Barry Ritholtz, co-founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and CEO Josh Brown. "Coming out of the pandemic, it was obvious to us that the traditional financial conference was past its sell-by date," Ritholtz told me.

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☆ Tilray is buying beverage brands from Molson Coors, Anheuser-Busch as cannabis industry struggles
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Stefan Sykes | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Tilray Brands is expanding its footprint in alcoholic and cannabis beverages, buying up brands from Molson Coors and Anheuser-Busch as legal restrictions hamper the marijuana industry. The major cannabis company announced Friday it will acquire the remaining 57.5% equity ownership of cannabis-infused drinks maker Truss Beverage from Molson Coors Canada. Tilray announced earlier this month that it would acquire eight beer and beverage brands from Anheuser-Busch for $85 million. The company also specializes in beverage and wellness products, and has become the fifth largest craft beer company in the U.S. Blair MacNeil, the president of Tilray Canada, said the acquisition will "further diversify our product offerings while broadening our consumer reach."

Persons: Tilray, Blair MacNeil Organizations: Aphria Inc, Tilray, Molson Coors, Anheuser, Busch, Beverage, Molson Coors Canada, U.S Locations: Leamington , Ontario, Canada, U.S, Tilray, Tilray Canada

☆ A Canadian cannabis company may soon own your favorite craft beer brands
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Yeji Jesse Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Canadian cannabis company Tilray is one of the biggest craft beer sellers in the US. On Monday, Anheuser-Busch said it was selling 8 craft beer brands to Tilray. Bud Light parent company Anheuser-Busch said on Monday that it was selling off eight of its craft beer brands to a Canadian cannabis company that's been inching into the craft beer space for quite some time now. It would make Tilray the 5th-largest craft beer company in the US, up from its 9th place ranking today, according to analysts from Jefferies. TD Cowen analysts said that craft beer sales declined 6% in 2021 and 9% last year.

Persons: Busch, Bud Light, Bud, that's, Jefferies, TD Cowen, Rafael Marchante, influencer Dylan Mulvaney Organizations: Anheuser, Service, Bud Light, Brands, Breckenridge Brewery, Point Brewing Company, Brewing Company, Redhook, Widmer Brothers Brewing, Cider Company, HiBall Energy, Jefferies, Montauk Brewing Company, SweetWater Brewing Company, Breckenridge, Reuters, US, Busch, Wall, Tilray Locations: Wall, Silicon, Canada, New York, Breckenridge Distillery, Cantanhede, Portugal, Washington

☆ Aspen for Cheapskates
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Elaine Glusac | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Over an $8.50 pint of craft beer from Aspen Brewing Company, which is comparable to what I pay at home in Chicago, I realized that Aspen, Colo., is not expensive by big-city standards. The Economic Research Institute, which compiles financial data for public and private organizations, pegs the cost of living in Aspen at 51 percent higher than the average in the United States, a little less than a city like Seattle. As a professionally penny-pinching traveler, I try to avoid paying urban prices in the mountains. In the summer in Aspen, apart from my weakness for microbrews, I didn’t have to. Cycling, if you can avoid expensive rentals, is a bargain.

Persons: Parks Organizations: Aspen Brewing Company, Aspen, Economic Research Institute, Prada, Parks beckon Locations: Chicago, Colo, Aspen, United States, Seattle

☆ Anchor Brewing, America's oldest craft brewery, just shut down. Here's what's next
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —Anchor Brewing, which has been America’s oldest craft brewer with 127 years in business, closed its taprooms for good on Sunday. There’s hope that could happen: Roughly two dozen different investors as well as a group of Anchor’s employees have “expressed interest in buying all or parts of Anchor Brewing,” company spokesman Sam Singer told CNN. Anchor got its start in 1896 in San Francisco, becoming the nation’s first-ever craft brewery. Under Sapporo’s ownership, production of Anchor’s beer declined every year except in 2021, according to the Brewers Association. Brewbound, a beer industry website, previously reported that Sapporo’s recent purchase of craft brewer Stone Brewing sparked concerns among Anchor’s employees of how their brewery fit into plans.

Persons: there’s, There’s, Sam Singer, Singer, Jeff Chiu, they’ve, Anchor, ” Singer, Anchor’s, Justin Sullivan, Fritz Maytag Organizations: New, New York CNN, Brewing, CNN, Anchor Brewing, Sapporo, Warehouse Union, ” Employees, Getty, North, Anchor, Maytag Corporation, Steam, Brewers Association . Brewbound, Stone, Craft, Craft Business Locations: New York, San Francisco, Sapporo USA, Sapporo, United States, North America, California

☆ The Dave Matthews Band, Reconsidered
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Melissa Kirsch | More About Melissa Kirsch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Dave Matthews Band is on tour, as they have been every summer, except 2020, for the past 30-odd years. Like the Grateful Dead and Phish, so-called jam bands with which it’s often lumped together, Dave Matthews has a deliriously passionate fan base that follows the band from city to city, reuniting with fellow disciples at preshow tailgates, showing off devotional tattoos, trading live recordings. In the early ’90s, when I arrived for my first year at the University of Virginia, Dave Matthews was a local celebrity. It would be years before the stereotype of Dave Matthews fans as “pot-smoking, tie-dye-touting former frat bros fawning over craft beers in parking lots between cornhole games,” as Perri Ormont Blumberg puts it, would become a widely understood social designation. We spent the next four years not going to Dave Matthews Band shows together.

Persons: Dave Matthews, preshow, ”, Perri Ormont Blumberg, ” Ben Sisario Organizations: University of Virginia, The Times Locations: Virginia

☆ Would You Drink Wastewater? What if It Was Beer?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Claire Fahy | More About Claire Fahy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Epic OneWater Brew looks like your classic hipster craft beer. The beer, a Kölsch, has a crisp golden hue and a signature fruity taste. But there is one big difference: It is made with recycled wastewater. Increasingly, they are turning to beer as a way of getting people beyond the “ick factor” that has been a hurdle to its broader acceptance. If people are reluctant to drink recycled wastewater, the thinking goes, perhaps they could be enticed if it were served in the form of a frosty cold one.

Persons: OneWater Locations: San Francisco, United States

☆ Gay Water, a new canned cocktail, wants to be the anti-Bud Light
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —In a sea of canned cocktails, Gay Water wants to stand out. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled under pressure as bigotry grows against the LGBTQ+ community, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hoddeson wants his new boozy brand to be the antithesis of that. The canned cocktail is named after a colloquialism given to the popular mixed drink (vodka and soda) ordered at bars by the gay community. He thought of creating Gay Water about a year ago while on a vacation with his friend that had got a job within the beverage industry. Big onlineHoddeson built up a strong social media following on TikTok and Instagram during Covid-19 and is using some of the money from that (as well as from friends and family) to help fund Gay Water.

Persons: Bud, Gay, Spencer Hoddeson, Bud Light, ”, influencer Dylan Mulvaney, they’re, It’s, Hoddeson, “, it’s, ” Bryan Roth, seltzer, ” Roth, Gay Beer, Hoddeon Organizations: New, New York CNN, CNN, Anheuser, Busch, Nickelodeon, Feel Goods Company Locations: New York, Covid, United States

☆ Makers of San Francisco's famed Anchor Steam beer are going out of business
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( David K. Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Person's hand holding bottle of California Lager from Anchor Brewing Company, maker of Anchor Steam Beer, Lafayette, California, July 12, 2023. A spokesperson for the Brewers Association, which represents more than 5,400 brewers, distributors and craft beer retailers, said the trade group doesn't normally, by policy, comment on the opening or closing of any beer company. But the impending closure of Anchor Brewing — an iconic San Francisco staple as famous as sourdough bread, Ghirardelli Chocolate or Rice-A-Roni — prompted it to offer a heartfelt eulogy. "Anchor's contributions to craft brewing and American beer history cannot be overstated," chief economist Bart Watson said in a statement. Anchor Brewing was purchased in 2017 by Sapporo U.S.A. A representative for the company couldn't immediately be reached for comment Wednesday.

Persons: Smith, Sam Singer, Singer, Roni —, Bart Watson, Watson, couldn't Organizations: California Lager, Anchor Brewing Company, Steam, Brewing, NBC News, Brewers Association, Sapporo U.S.A Locations: California, Lafayette , California, San Francisco, Potrero Hill

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