What's Your Craft Brewery Worth?
Whether consuming it or seeking to measure its value, the beverage known around the world as beer is enjoying a real renaissance here in the United States. The rising popularity of "craft beers" in particular has fueled industry growth, which in turn has heightened valuation multiples towards all-time highs during the past couple of years.
BizEquity has valued more businesses than any other valuation firm in the world with more than 25 million companies in its database. Using our 7-step, proprietary cloud-based algorithm, the BizEquity online valuation tool is used by wealth advisors, insurance agents, commercial bankers, business brokers and CPA's to provide their clients with credible business valuation results at literally a very small fraction of the traditional cost for valuation services. Our prospecting database includes millions of pre-valued companies operating in every US industry including breweries, liquor stores and brewpubs.
Introducing the BizEquity Private Company Valuation Index!
Featuring access to current company data for millions of private firms operating in the 53 largest "private firm intensive" industries (including thousands of breweries and brewpubs operating in all 50 US states), the BizEquity algorithm has been applied to all such companies as of early 2017 and then again in early 2018 with a number of interesting findings.
The venue for these calculations has been The BizEquity Private Company Valuation Index , created to help gauge the health and value of small businesses in America with a dynamic measure of the daily changes to their collective fair market value.
*Asset sale value reflects the sale of inventory, furniture, fixtures and equipment and all intangible assets such as tradename, customer base, covenant not to compete and goodwill. This value does NOT account for liquid financial assets or liabilities (see equity value definition below).
** Equity or stock sale value reflects the sale of ALL assets and ALL liabilities, both on and off the balance sheet. It is equal to the "asset sale value" plus liquid financial assets minus all liabilities.
***This is a measure of the firm's "discretionary earnings", which reflect the cash flow benefits accruing to a single owner working on a full-time basis and is calculated as pretax profit plus owner compensation plus depreciation/amortization plus interest expense. It is a gauge of the pretax, cash equivalent financial benefits available to a hypothetical buyer.
The highest valuations are occurring for those breweries operating in the state of California, followed by the states of Colorado, Washington and Texas. Not surprisingly, the West leads the nation in total brewery locations, possessing more than 25% of all US industry establishments. Most breweries are concentrated in California, which accounts for 14.0% of the country's establishments. California, Colorado and Washington are popular areas for beer drinking due to their concentration of live entertainment events, such as awards shows and music festivals, and its growing number of national and local brands such as Lagunitas and Sierra Nevada.
Brewery and Brewpub Multiples Rising Faster Than Yeast!
The popular press is filled with articles discussing the health benefits of moderate beer drinking and the business press is filled with stories of craft beer company growth as our love affair with hops, barley and more reaches another cyclical high. Americans are spending more than $600 per year on alcoholic beverages, creating one of the largest industries in existence today.
According to OrganicFacts.net, the health benefits of beer include its anticancer properties, a reduced risk of cardiovascular diseases, and an increased bone density. It helps in the prevention of dementia and coronary diseases, aids the digestive system, has anti-aging properties, as well as treats diabetes, gallstones, kidney stones, osteoporosis, and hypertension. It also acts as a stress buster and a diuretic.
If the health benefits alone are not enough to peak your interest in owing a brewery or a brewpub, perhaps the recent financial trends and high demand for beer and beer-related businesses may draw your attention! The last several years have been extremely good for investors and owners across the full gamut of alcoholic beverages, namely the brewery, distillery or winery businesses.
Higher revenues lead to higher profits which will be taxed at lower rates, helping to facilitate what has already been an active M&A marketplace. With revenues in the craft brewery segment expected to rise by around double the overall brewery rate of growth (approximately 9% per annum for craft breweries versus 4% for the overall beer marketplace), the value creation will also be greater.
BizEquity data suggests that the smaller private firms are generating roughly $13 billion of beer for American citizens and are associated with total cumulative value approaching $2 billion.
Reasons Why Selling a Brewery or Brewpub Now Makes Great Sense (and Cents)!
1) The brewery industry is in the"sweet spot"of its business cycle where there is both documentable growth in revenues and profits for many industry players AND continuing prospects for growth which are above average.
2) Credit to finance the buying and selling of breweries is more available today than it has been for many years and interest rates remain historically low.
3) Owning a brewery with brew pub is appealing to successful restaurant operators owing to the higher profit potential relative to a standalone full- service restaurant.
4) The"big beer companies"are trying to penetrate this fastest growing niche in the beer industry.
5) The Trump Effect has led to record levels of consumer and business optimism, and many optimistic people love to drink beer!
Reuters also has reported that "Merger & acquisition activity amongst top 50 craft breweries has accelerated considerably in the last two years and the list of prominent craft players that have sold all or parts of their companies is growing."
Fortune magazine reports that a surge of craft beer mergers and acquisitions has upended the annual Top 50 Craft Brewing list compiled by Brewers Association, with four brewers removed from the 2016 list because of recent deal making.
The craft brewers that were removed from the list due to M&A activity were Lagunitas Brewing (#6 in 2015; sold 50% stake to Heineken); Ballast Point (#11, sold to Constellation Brands) and Breckenridge Brewery (#47) and Four Peaks Brewing (#49)— both sold to Anheuser-Busch InBev (BUD, +0.40%). To be a craft brewer, less than 25% of the brewery can be owned or controlled by a big alcohol beverage rival. The brewery must also report production of 6 million barrels of beer or less.
Because sales growth for the craft beer industry has outpaced the overall $106 billion category, Big Beer companies have responded by inking deals to buy upstart brands with the hope that better distribution and some marketing hefty can make those upstarts more nationally successful. Big Beer is buying into the craft beer trend at a time when volume has ebbed for mainstream peers, in particular for American lagers like Bud Light and Miller Lite.
This spate of deal-making has led to upheaval in the craft world and even the nature of statistics which are reported for the craft segment. When big sellers like Lagunitas and Ballast Point are acquired, their volume no longer counts as "craft," putting pressure on the industry's heady growth in recent years.
Meanwhile, larger craft brewers like Sam Adams owner Boston Beer (SAM, -0.63%) are finding themselves squeezed out by Big Beer, local craft upstarts and brands like Ballast Point that are acquired by Big Beer but still retain some of their "craft" mystique for some beer lovers. All that is putting pressure on craft beer sales, up 8% in the first half of 2016 but decelerating from 2015's 13% growth. Full 2016 results will be released later this spring.
2) In the latest Brewery Operations and Benchmarking Survey, smaller brewpubs (fewer than 1,000 barrels) derived 26.8% of their sales from house beers, and larger brewpubs (more than 1,000 barrels) derived 46.3% of their sales from house beers. In 2010, those percentages were closer to 35% for both groups.
$800 per barrel depending on the business model and beer style.
These benefits don't come without risk. According to an article written by Bart Watson and titled "The Brewpub Advantage" in February of 2017 on behalf of the Brewer Association, brewpubs are betting heavily on their ability to sell their own beers, and not surprisingly, typically have a much lower percentage of their sales come from guest beers and other bar sales. Most people come to brewpubs looking to try the house beers, so if those beers don't meet the ever-increasing quality standards, there may be challenges. In addition, running a brewery inside a restaurant requires additional capital, expertise, staff, and more. So, brewpubs are a step beyond the average restaurant on the classic risk-reward scale, with more invested, but greater potential benefits.
According to industry experts, an important factor in planning and executing the purchase or sale of a craft brewery arises from the maze of alcohol beverage regulatory requirements imposed on the industry. These factors can substantially influence deal structuring and, in some cases, can put up an unsurmountable roadblock to a proposed transaction.
A host of factors influence the license transition process, and the licensing process itself may influence transaction structuring generally. For example, the license transition process for an ownership change by way of a stock/equity sale is much easier to accomplish in most jurisdictions than a change achieved through an asset sale. While only one consideration among many, alcohol licensing considerations standing alone generally favor stock sales over asset sales in the alcohol beverage market.
It is important to distinguish between breweries like Anheuser-Busch and their smaller craft beer brewer/brewpub cohort when it comes time to valuing a business in this industry.
The BizEquity valuation algorithm is properly sensitive to the so-called "Size Effect," which holds that higher earnings levels are associated with higher valuation multiples.
Whereas small, main street businesses will sell for "1 to 3 times discretionary earnings", middle-market firms will sell for 4 to 8 times EBITDA and publicly-traded firms are selling for around 25 times after-tax profits.
In addition to size differentials, the BizEquity algorithm and Index takes into account significant differences in multiples between a brewery and a brewpub and a bar, i.e.
Valuation multiples will vary by industry niche due to specific risk, growth and profitability traits.
The following data from IBIS World illustrates the smaller size but much more dramatic growth in the brewpub segment versus the major breweries segment.
attributed to a brewer according to the rules of alternating proprietorships. Flavored malt beverages are not considered beer for purposes of this definition.
equivalent economic interest) by an alcoholic beverage industry member who is not themselves a craft brewer.
Traditional: A brewer who has either an all malt flagship (the beer which represents the greatest volume among that brewer's brands) or has at least 50% of its volume in either all malt beers or in beers which use adjuncts to enhance rather than lighten flavor.
• Craft brewers are small brewers.
philanthropy, product donations, volunteerism, and sponsorship of events.
independence, free from a substantial interest by a non-craft brewer.
• The majority of Americans live within 10 miles of a craft brewer.
Craft breweries have been the engine driving the beer sector in recent years, with year-over-year domestic consumption of those specialty brews up 15.1% in 2015. At the same time, the number of craft breweries rose 19% last year, causing some industry concern about how long the aggressive growth pattern can continue.
However, there are at least two mitigating factors that can help ease concerns about future prospects in the craft beer niche. First, 52% of craft beer devotees in a recent Nielson survey said choosing a brew that was "locally made" was an important purchase consideration, which signals more potential value for well-run local and regional breweries. And, like distilled spirits, flavors and brew variants are the up-and- coming beer rage for younger consumers. For example, recent surveys show that women between 22-34 have the strongest preference for flavored beers, which helps underscore why 27% of new craft products introduced in 2015 contained some added taste elements.
IBIS World data documents the exceptional growth during the 2011 to 2015 timeframe followed by tapering downward rates of growth. Note that these are "real" rates of growth (adjusted for inflation), i.e. the actual nominal growth rates are around 3% higher, e.g. the 2016 growth rate would have been approximately 7% in nominal dollars.
The IBIS data confirms the high entry rate for new firms as the number of establishments has been growing faster than the volume of industry revenue during the past three years.
Breweries are similar to most other businesses in that they can be valued by way of various methodologies stemming from the "asset approach", the "income approach" or the "market approach". The firm's inventory and equipment during the initial phase of a brewery will likely represent the floor value of a brewery with intangible asset value created over time as brand awareness, sales, net assets and profits begin to accumulate. A company which continues to grow at a rapid pace will be optimally valued by way of a discounted cash flow analysis whereby future revenues, profits, investments into working capital and fixed assets and changing debt structures are estimated and "net cash flows" to the owner are discounted into present value based on some appropriate risk-appropriate "cost of capital". A more mature business with more tame growth will tend to be valued via one or more income approach methods such as "a multiple of discretionary earnings" and/or via one or more market approach methods such as the "comparable sales method".
Similar to assessing the quality of a beer, estimating the value of a brewery will depend upon the uniqueness of the brewery itself and its financial performance (historical and expected). The key considerations for properly estimating the value of a brewery include understanding the stage of development, assessing the potential of the future and identifying the key risks associated with the company, industry and economic climate. As in making a beer, it is essential to consider the key ingredients that make a brewery valuable, which takes time and effort.
As noted, smaller companies will tend to sell for lower multiples while larger firms will tend to sell for higher multiples of earnings measures including EBITDA and discretionary earnings. The BizEquity data presented earlier is based on the financial results from thousands of breweries instead of the much smaller sample size available from Pratt's Stats.
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from pycoin.serialize.bitcoin_streamer import parse_struct

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    def host(self):
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        return self.services == other.services and \
            self.ip_address == other.ip_address and self.port == other.port

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Moulin Rouge! è un musical del 2018 con libretto di John Logan, tratto dall'omonimo film di Baz Luhrmann del 2001. Come il film da cui è tratto, il musical Moulin Rouge! non si avvale di partitura originale, ma la colonna sonora è composta da successi pop di un gran numero di artisti diversi. La colonna sonora del film è stata quasi interamente riscritta per accomodare hit uscite negli oltre quindici anni dopo il debutto della pellicola nel 2001. Il musical ha debuttato a Boston nel 2018 e l'anno successivo Moulin Rouge! ha fatto il suo esordio a Broadway.

Trama

Atto I
Nella Parigi della Belle Epoque, il Moulin Rouge prospera sotto la direzione di Harold Zidler grazie anche alle ballerine Nini, Babydoll, Arabia e La Chocolat. Una sera il giovane americano Christian si reca al Moulin Rouge con i suoi amici bohémien Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec e Santiago per vedere la grande star del locale, la bellissima Satine ("Welcome to the Moulin Rouge"). Christian racconta al pubblico di essere arrivato a Montmarte nel 1899 e di aver incontrato Toulouse-Lautrec e l'argentino Santiago mentre i due cercavano di scrivere un'opera musicale. I due artisti erano rimasti colpiti dalle doti di paroliere di Christian e gli hanno chiesto di venire con loro al Moulin Rouge per trovare un produttore per il loro lavoro ("Truth, Beauty, Freedom, Love"). Il numero di Satine è un successo ("The Sparkling Diamond") e dopo la performance Zidler la prepara all'incontro con il ricchissimo Duca di Monroth, nella speranza che l'aristocratico investa nel Moulin Rouge e lo salvi dalla bancarotta. Tuttavia, qualcosa va storto e Satine incontra Christian e lo scambia per il Duca, mentre Toulouse-Lautrec e Santiago distraggono Zidler; la showgirl, sempre convinta che il giovane americano sia l'aristocratico, invita Christian nel suo camerino ("Shut Up and Raise Your Glass"). Arabia, Babydoll e La Chocolat sono preoccupate per le sorti del Moulin Rouge e le loro paure sono le stesse di Zidler, che ribadisce l'importanza del successo di Satine con il Duca; la giovane, che tiene nascosto a tutti di avere la tubercolosi, si ripromette di farsi forza per salvare gli amici dalla bancarotta ("Firework").

Christian arriva nel camerino di Satine e cerca di impressionarla con la sua musica, mentre la giovane cerca di sedurlo ("Your Song"). Il disguido viene alla luce e quando Satine capisce che Christian non è chi credeva che fosse i due vengono interrotti dall'arrivo del vero Duca. Per evitare di scatenare la gelosia del Duca, Satine e Christian gli raccontano che loro due stavano provando le battute per il loro prossimo spettacolo, Bohemian Rhapsody. Con l'aiuto di Zidler, Christian, Satine, Toulouse-Lautrec e Santiago raccontano al Duca una trama improvvisata per lo show - una classica storia d'amore in un cui un gangster cerca di sedurre l'ingenua, che è in realtà innamorata di un povero marinaio ("So Exciting!") - e l'aristocratico decide di produrre lo spettacolo. Zidler ricorda a Satine l'importanza del suo compito con il Duca e la star caccia Christian dal camerino. Il Duca ritorna e trascorre la serata con Satine ("Sympathy For The Duke"). Intanto a Montmarte, Toulouse-Lautrec racconta a Christian di essersi innamorato di Satine quando la giovane viveva per strada, ma di non essersi mai dichiarato a lei perché imbarazzato dalla propria deformità. Lo incoraggia però a seguire i suoi sentimenti, affermando che la cosa più importante che si possa imparare è amare ed essere amati ("Nature Boy"). Christian ritorna da Satine per convincerla di mettersi con lui e la donna, inizialmente esitante, alla fine accetta ("Elephant Love Medley").

Atto II
Sono passati due mesi e Bohemian Rhapsody è prossimo al debutto. Dietro le quinte, Christian e Satine continuano a vedersi in segreto, mentre Santiago si innamora di Nini ("Backstage Romance"). Durante le prove ci sono delle tensioni tra Toulouse-Lautrec e il Duca per il controllo artistico dello spettacolo, mentre Nini avverte Satine di fare attenzione con Christian, dato che l'aristocratico è un uomo follemente geloso che una volta ha sfregiato una donna che lo aveva tradito. Satine allora dice a Chrisatian che la loro relazione mette a rischio l'intero Moulin Rouge, ma il giovane artista la riconquista scrivendo una canzone sul loro amore ("Come What May"). Dopo aver reinventato l'immagine di Satine a suo piacimento negli Champs-Élysées ("Only Girl in A Material World"), il Duca continua a discutere con Toulouse-Lautrec sullo spettacolo, la cui trama diventa sempre più chiaramente un calco del triangolo amoroso formatosi tra il Duca, Christian e Satine. Dopo una sfuriata di Christian, il Duca minaccia di ritirare il proprio investimento e Zidler ricorda a Satine che solo lei può tenere a bada l'esigente produttore. La malattia della donna intanto peggiora rapidamente, ma Satine è decisa a lottare fino alla fine per salvare il locale e i suoi amici.

Toulouse-Lautrec e Santiago incoraggiano Christian a dimenticarsi di Satine e andare avanti e il giovane si ubriaca con l'assenzio fino al punto di avere un'allucinazione di Satine come la "Fatina verde" ("Chandelier"). Christian è geloso e disgustato dal fatto che Satine trascorra tempo con il Duca, ma Zidler lo avverte che l'amore per le prostitute finisce sempre male ("El Tango de Roxanne"). Intanto il Duca minaccia Satine con la morte di Christian e quando il giovane irrompe a palazzo per salvarla la showgirl, consapevole del pericolo che l'amato corre, gli dice che non lo ama e lo scaccia. Christian decide che senza l'amore di Satine la vita non sia degna di essere vissuta e decide di suicidarsi in scena la notte della prima. Toulouse-Lautrec e Satine, ormai prossima alla morte, riescono alla fine a tenere testa al Duca, che lascia il Moulin Rouge pochi minuti prima del debutto di Bohemian Rhapsody ("Crazy Rolling"). Nel corso della rappresentazione, Christian prova a suicidarsi, ma viene interrotto da Satine che canta la loro canzone d'amore, facendogli capire di averlo sempre amato. Dopo un ultimo duetto, Satine collassa nelle braccia dell'amato e spira dopo avergli chiesto di raccontare la loro storia ("Your Song (Reprise)").

È passato un anno e grazie al trionfo di  Bohemian Rhapsody Zidler è riuscito a mantenere il controllo del Moulin Rouge. Christian, ancora con il cuore infranto, annuncia che la sua storia d'amore con Satine vivrà per sempre ("Come What May (Reprise)").

Storia degli allestimenti
Un potenziale adattamento teatrale del film di Luhrmann fu discusso originariamente nella stagione 2002/2003, con il debutto previsto a Las Vegas, ma il progetto non si consolidò mai, anche se nel 2006 il regista contattò Nicole Kidman ed Ewan McGregor per chiedere se fossero interessati a tornare a ricoprire i loro ruoli a teatro. Solo nel 2016 fu annunciato che il musical sarebbe stato prodotto dalla Global Creatures con la regia di Alex Timbers e l'anno successivo un workshop dello spettacolo fu allestito tra il 30 ottobre e il 15 dicembre, con Aaron Tveit e Karen Olivo nei panni dei due protagonisti. Gran parte del cast del workshop avrebbe poi ricoperto i rispettivi ruoli anche a Boston e Broadway, con l'eccezione di Joel Perez (Santiago) ed Eric Anderson (Zidler).

Moulin Rouge! debuttò all'Emerson Colonial Theatre di Boston il 10 luglio 2018, in un allestimento diretto da Alex Timbers, coreografato da Sonya Tayeh, scenografato da Derek McLane e con i costumi di Catherine Zuber. Il cast era composto da Aaron Tveit (Christian), Katen Olivo (Satine), Danny Burstein (Harold Zidler), Tam Mutu (André Dacor Benicieux, le Duc de Monroth), Sahr Ngaujah (Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec), Ricky Rojas (Santiago), Robyn Hurder (Nini Legs-in-the-Air), Jacqueline B. Arnold (La Chocolat), Holly James (Arabia), Jeigh Madjus (Baby Doll). Lo spettacolo musicale rimase in cartellone all'Emerson Colonial Theatre fino al 19 agosto.

Il cast di Boston tornò ad interpretare i rispettivi ruoli in occasione del debutto del musical a Broadway, dove Moulin Rouge! ebbe la sua prima il 25 luglio 2019 dopo un mese di anteprime iniziate a partire dal 28 giugno. Dopo 24 anteprime e 262 repliche in cartellone, il 12 marzo 2020 le rappresentazioni del musical sono stare interrotte all'Al Hirschfeld Theatre di Broadway in seguito alla chiusura di tutti i teatri per la Pandemia di COVID-19 del 2019-2021. Quattro membri del cast erano inoltre risultati positivi al COVID, tra cui i protagonisti Aaron Tveit e Danny Burnstein. I produttori hanno però annunciato l'intenzione di proseguire con le rappresentazioni dopo la riapertura dei teatri nel 2021.

La prima produzione londinese ha debuttato al Piccadilly Theatre del West End il 12 novembre del 2021 con la regie, le coreografie, le scenografie e i costumi di Alex Timbers. Il cast originale di Londra era composto da Liisi LaFontaine (Satine), Jamie Bogyo (Christian), Simon Bailey (Duca), Clive Carter (Zidler) e Jason Pennycooke (Toulouse-Lautrec).

Oltre alla produzione di Broadway, i produttori del musical hanno annunciato un tour statunitense dello show e messe in scena a Londra e Melbourne a partire dal 2021.

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 Nomination Miglior performance per Karen Olivo
 Premio Grammy (2020)
 Nomination Miglior album di un musical teatrale per Danny Burstein, Tam Mutu, Sahr Ngaujah, Karen Olivo & Aaron Tveit (artisti principali); Justin Levine, Baz Luhrmann, Matt Stine & Alex Timbers (produttori)
 Outer Critics Circle Award (2020)
 Miglior musical di Broadway
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 Miglior attrice in un musical per Karen Olivo
 Miglior attore non protagonista in un musical per Danny Burstein
 Migliori scenografie per Derek McLane
 Migliori costumi per Catherine Zuber
 Miglior disegno luci per Justin Townsend
 Miglior sound design per Peter Hylenski
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 Migliori coreografie per Sonya Tayeh
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Migliori costumi per Catherine Zuber
Nomination Miglior nuovo musical
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Nomination Migliori coreografie per Sonya Tayeh
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Musical di Broadway
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And so we begin our journey over ground long familiar to our guide, but ever new. But where are we going? Do not be fooled by the myth of the ivory tower; in this small world of ours we are not immune to disappointment and pain. Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain. During your years at the University of Lynchburg you may encounter indifference from a professor or a fellow student so cruel that it may break your heart. We are only human, but friends forgive—and forget. You may know the weariness during our long journey which numbs your spirit, a despair that can try your mind—but you may also be surprised by joy—the joy of learning for itself alone. Like the weary traveler who struggles through an impassable terrain, you may suddenly be greeted by a vista of some part of this country of ours that makes the difficulties bearable. Together we are seeking truth wherever it may lead, because only then can we really be free. What is truth? What is freedom? Each of you will, I trust, define those terms for yourselves; we are only the guides, you are the wayfarers.
The pages are yellow now, but the sentiments are still fresh. Who knows what I shall find in the coming weeks.


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Central England Co-op helps homeless in Derby
Dozens of winter survival kits given out
Central England Co-op is donating dozens of winter survival kits to help homeless people in Derby keep warm. The retailer has linked up with charity Street Safe to help those in need during the festive season by handing out packs made up of hats, scarves and gloves.
Central England Co-op is donating dozens of winter survival kits to help homeless people in Derby keep warm.
The retailer has linked up with charity Street Safe to help those in need during the festive season by handing out packs made up of hats, scarves and gloves.
The accessories have been bought from Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children, which will also be supported through the donation.
Newlife CEO, Sheila Brown, OBE, said: "We're extremely proud of our ongoing relationship with Central England Co-op and commend them once again for their community spirit. Not only are they providing vital warmth and comfort to those who need it over the festive period they're also helping to change the lives of disabled children."
Rayma Hughes, from Street Safe, in Derby, said: "These essential items are a lifeline to the homeless on the streets now the weather is changing as they desperately need to keep as warm as possible.
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"Donations like this from amazing people like Central England Co-op are a massive help in assisting with this. We are all extremely grateful and cannot thank them enough."
In total, the retailer is donating 200 packs to good causes across its trading estate, so they can be given to people who find themselves without shelter over Christmas.
The Society has been campaigning to encourage its customers and members to donate to local food banks in the run up to Christmas and to actively do good deeds for those in need at this time of year. The packs of hats, gloves and scarves will also be given out in Leicester, Birmingham, Burton and Swadlincote through charities who regularly work with those in need including YMCA, Harvey Girls, Bank House, The Geoff Horsfield Foundation and Action Homeless.
Hannah Gallimore, Corporate Responsibility Manager at Central England Co-op, said: "These items will make a massive difference to people in need during the winter months and our role in facilitating the relationship between Newlife and other charities benefits all those involved."

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it might be worth making these particular crumpets as brunch, as from start to finish they'll take nearly four hours (they don't call it a labour of love for nothing!), but trust us, they are more than worth it in the end. And besides, three hours of those are to let the batter rest. Time to pop back to bed, perhaps?
– Place the milk into a pan over a low heat. Add the orange zest and sugar. Grate in the chocolate. Simmer, stirring continuously over a low heat for 2-3 minutes until the chocolate has melted. Do not allow it to boil. – Place the flour in a bowl and crumble the fresh yeast into it. Stir in the warmed milk mixture and beat well by hand or in a mixer for 1-2 minutes until it combines. Clean the mixture off the sides of the bowl, then cover the bowl (an opened out freezer bag secured with an elastic band is perfect!) and leave to rest for 2 hours. – Place the orange juice in a jug and top up to 125ml with water. Pour into a separate pan, add the vinegar and salt and stir over a low heat for 1-2 minutes until it's warm. Add the liquid to the dough mixture and fold in to make a thick batter. Leave to rest again for 45 minutes to 1 hour. – Place a griddle or flat frying pan on the hob and heat. Cut the potato in half and skewer it with a fork. Dip the cut side into the vegetable oil and use to grease the griddle or pan. Place 10cm crumpet rings in the pan and pour the batter into each so that it is level with the top of each ring. Cook for 4-5 minutes on the hob or until the bubbles start to set on the top. Flip the crumpets over for a few seconds and bake the other side. Remove from the heat and take the crumpets out of the rings. – Serve warm and smothered in butter.


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Commentary: Artificial intelligence and automation would actually benefit Singapore
Machine learning and other digital innovations can help Singapore businesses and workers increase productivity and maintain their competitive edge, says NUS Professor Kenneth Huang.
The Singapore city skyline as seen from Jubilee Bridge
SINGAPORE: Now that the General Election is over, it is time for Singapore to refocus on the big challenge of creating jobs to tide citizens over a pandemic and double down on digitalisation for the long term.
Much has been said about the concerns people have about livelihoods, with suggestions to safeguard and improve the prospects of jobs for Singaporeans.
Yet disruption is not new to Singapore. History has witnessed how Singapore has upskilled its workforce through computerisation and automation in the 1980s.
Singapore businesses and workers are no strangers to the need to adapt to new technological changes.
Now, Digital Ambassador Corps have been deployed to help small businesses and senior citizens learn and apply technology.
With every change comes hesitance, even resistance. In the push for a Smart Nation, this resistance may come from a fear of the unknown. Reports of artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital technologies cannibalising jobs do not help either.
However, Singapore is in a unique situation. With a small and ageing workforce, Singapore has to tap on AI and automation to preserve its competitive advantage over other economies.
A COUNTRY INCREASINGLY POWERED BY MORE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Digital technologies and AI (including machine learning, computer vision and natural language processing) can boost efficiencies, performance and productivity in various ways.
It is these advanced technologies that help e-commerce retailers like Lazada sell more by analysing massive amount of data, learning customer preferences and providing targeted products to be displayed online for the customers.
In engineering and aviation, AI has been used to increase the performance of gas turbine engines, such as finding an optimal way to increase thrust and decrease fuel consumptions.
In the long term, the savings on fuel could be passed to the passengers. Such performance improvements cannot usually be attained using traditional models.
SilkAir, Singapore Airlines and Scoot planes sit on the tarmac at Changi Airport in Singapore.
In logistics in Singapore and around the world, AI has also been utilised to predict traffic patterns and route conditions. For companies like Grab, the use of AI has enabled drivers to complete as many jobs as possible in the shortest amount of time.
Grab also uses natural language processing methods to address customer feedback and enable users to find the services they need with greater ease.
AI is also extensively used in the development of autonomous vehicles like the National University of Singapore (NUS) autonomous shuttle at its Kent Ridge campus.
In healthcare, AI has been employed to optimise hospital management and processes like managing a large number of patient beds in the case of Tan Tock Seng Hospital. Predictive analytics can help optimise hospital bed assignment decisions by predicting when patients will be discharged to make more beds available.
AI will be an integral part of Singapore's healthcare system to help doctors make better decisions and design early intervention programmes and improved care pathways for patients using predictive modelling.
One application of machine learning is "precision medicine" where AI can help predict what treatment protocols are most feasible and with higher success rate on a patient based on various patient characteristics and the treatment context.
Another example is robotic surgery (like the da Vinci Surgical System used in Gleneagles Hospital Singapore) which can help surgeons improve their ability to perform precise and minimally invasive incisions and surgeries. Important decisions are still made by human surgeons.
In educational applications and tools, AI has helped the development of skills and testing systems and allows the adjustment of learning based on differentiating students' needs in Institutes of Higher Learning in Singapore.
Students can thus enjoy more customised testing and learning tailored to the specific needs and ability level of each student.
JOBS ARE CHANGING
In areas where AI and digital technologies improve businesses significantly, the nature of jobs has changed.
(Photo: Unsplash/Stefan Stefancik)
Certain jobs like routine clerical work may be reduced while the employment rates for professionals and those in the service sectors have increased. Understanding what tasks AI is suited or not suited for will be a business priority for firms. Singapore's learning, retraining and upskilling efforts must take full advantage of the AI era.
Prior research has shown AI is suited to perform tasks that provide clear feedback with definable goals and metrics. AI is also efficient at recognising associations based on empirical and statistical data.
AI can help improve traffic volume and flow in metropolitan areas like Singapore, New York or London using pre-defined performance and congestion measures at the system level by analysing large amounts of traffic data.
On the other hand, AI is not so good at unstructured tasks and reasoning, especially based on background information that is previously unknown to the computer.
This is why AI (or machine learning) can be used to spot irregular heartbeat from scans and detect diseases from medical imaging, but it cannot explain as well as doctors how and why one is diagnosed with a certain disease.
In other words, the interpretation of the causes and severity of these diseases and their linkages to other diseases are much more difficult for AI to ascertain. AI also does not perform well when the tasks to be learned change quickly.
Humans do much better at interpreting data and drawing inferences even when the tasks evolve over time.
YOUR JOB MAY REMAIN BUT SOME TASKS COULD BE OUTSOURCED TO AI
In light of the above understanding, how we should we adjust, retrain or upskill the valuable human resource we have in Singapore to prepare for the new paradigm involving AI and digital technologies?
We understand that most jobs have many interrelated tasks. People say the jobs AI could likely replace include telemarketing, receptionists, computer support specialists (think chatbots used by banks like OCBC) and market research analysts.
(Photo: Unsplash/Kate Sade)
However, it doesn't mean these jobs will disappear entirely. AI is weak on relatively unstructured, creative tasks and those involving emotional intelligence.
The focus of the training or upskilling of such roles should be on these areas. Upskilling courses can cover developing strategies in branding, designing and marketing.
Use AI to gather your data, but use humans to develop business and innovation strategies and design marketing campaigns based on understanding those data.
People and leadership skills will continue to be important, yet another area that AI currently does not fill the void. The expertise in asking interesting questions and looking for new and innovative solutions, which is required in researchers or entrepreneurs, will also be deemed more valuable.
The age of AI and digital technologies is already here. It is clear they can and probably should be applied to different industries and have the potential to significantly improve productivity.
In the process, they will transform our work and lives. While some jobs may be replaced, many other job and career opportunities will be created.
Singapore has the infrastructure, talents and resources to take advantage of the benefits brought about by the AI revolution.
With national emphasis on innovation and Industry 4.0, as well as additional resources and upskilling opportunities, this could yet be another pivotal point for Singapore to create and deliver value in a competitive global arena.
Dr Kenneth G Huang is an Associate Professor with the Department of Strategy & Policy at National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School and the Department of Industrial Systems Engineering & Management at NUS. The opinions expressed are those of the writer and do not represent the views and opinions of NUS.
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What temp do you print the abs at ?
I got in a new roll of WYZ PLA today and went through doing a small test print tweaking as I go, Temp, Layer heights and speed and this thing just slips and grinds. The prints come out under extruded and very wavy.
Trying their supports recommended settings turns what should be an hour print into 5+ hours basically slowing the machine down to a crawl which is just unacceptable.
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Dennis Byron of Stone Mountain, Ga., has been looking for his north country Fresh Air family. He treasures this photo of him with his host, Ronald Toothaker, and his nephew, Steven, from around 1959. Contributed photo
Renee Baucom Salmieri
Dennis Byron
A child in the Fresh Air program prepares to leave the bus station in Watertown in this photo from 1962, the same year Renee Baucom Salmieri visited her host family in Canton. Watertown Daily Times
Children in the Fresh Air program wait anxiously at the Watertown bus station before heading to their summer homes in this 1959 photo. Watertown Daily Times
Children in the 1962 Fresh Air program are greeted by a woman shortly after their arrival in Watertown. Watertown Daily Times
Children arrive in 1959 in Watertown for their Fresh Air program experiences. Since 1877, more than 1.8 million children from New York City have participated in the program. Watertown Daily Times
A girl gets help as she exits the bus in the summer of 1959 as a participant in the Fresh Air program. At around this time, Dennis Byron participated in the program as a Fresh Air kid, and he has since been wanting to find his host family to thank them for his experiences in the north country. Watertown Daily Times
Tired but happy was the appearance expressed by this group of Fresh Air Fund children, a portion of the 231 who arrived in Watertown in July 1941 to spend two weeks in homes throughout Jefferson County. The group waits to enter the New York Central railroad station after getting off the "Fresh Air Special." Watertown Daily Times
Former Fresh Air kids heartsick over lost NNY connections
By BOB GORMAN
Special to the Times
I was recently in Brooklyn on business when I met Renee Baucom Salmieri, 65, of Harlem. She asked me where I was from and so I gave my standard answer for downstaters who likely think Albany is the boondocks: "Up near Syracuse." But for some reason I added, "It's a little place called Watertown."
Her eyes widened. "You're from Watertown?"
"Yeah," I replied. "You actually know where Watertown is?"
"Yes! I was a Fresh Air kid! Watertown changed my life!"
For the uninitiated, the purpose of the Fresh Air Fund, as noted in its 1888 articles of incorporation, is "to give children living in the City of New York the benefit and enjoyment of fresh air in the country." More than 130 years later, the organization has sent more than 1 million inner-city children on trains and buses to stay for several weeks in the summer with host families in "friendly cities" across 10 states. Thousands of those host families were in northern New York.
"73 Tired by Happy Fresh Air Children Arrive for Summer" reported the Watertown Daily Times on July 19, 1962. That group included Ms. Salmieri, then 8, who came back the next several years and was eventually joined by her younger siblings, Lester and Barbara.
"Our family never went on vacations so packing for our trip was so exciting," said Ms. Salmieri. "My mother would iron all of our clothes and pack our things into our own pillowcase and we'd sling it over our back."
Her first summer visit was with a family in Watertown. But the next several years she and her siblings stayed with the Fletcher family in Canton. They had daughters named Wendy and Melody. Ms. Salmieri remembers a "Mr. Oliver," the swim coach at a nearby lake, who held a hockey stick while he barked out instructions. She remembers joining Melody to sneak into a neighbor's raspberry farm and grabbing fistfuls of raspberries.
"My memories of Canton are of playing, laughing and dancing. We also slept in tents in the backyard sometimes. I remember all of us singing at the top of our lungs 'What's New Pussycat' and 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone.' When I hear those songs today, I am instantly zapped back to those happy memories."
Ms. Salmieri said her Fresh Air experience gave her the courage to apply to a high school that emphasized art. She eventually produced graphics for HBO. In retirement she now works as a "background" actor in movies and also helps take care of her grandchild for her working daughter and son-in-law.
"I don't believe I would be who I am today had it not been for my experience with the Fresh Air Fund," she said. "My eyes were opened to a larger world. The Fletchers had no money, but what they did have was a lot of love, creativity and fresh air."
Today, Ms. Salmieri wishes she knew how the story of the Fletcher family played out. She would love to see sisters Wendy and Melody again, but time, distance, etc., are a roadblock.
"I tried to find them on Facebook but have had no luck," she said.
She is not alone.
Dennis Byron, of Stone Mountain, Ga., has been looking for his north country Fresh Air family as well. He has a picture from circa 1959 standing with his host, Ronald Toothaker, and his nephew, Steven.
"I want to thank them for their hospitality and their positive impact on me in my development years."
That impact led the then Bronx resident to an undergraduate degree from Ithaca College and a master's from Cornell University. After working in fundraising and development for Cornell, he became a vice president of Emory University in Atlanta. He now owns his own consulting firm and is working on his dissertation for a doctorate from Cornell.
Other north country Fresh Air kids have been able to find their host families, including Mr. Byron's older brother. In 2012, Vernon Byron traveled to Belleville to meet with the descendants of Julia Grandjean, who Vernon Byron only knew as "Ma Grandjean."
Vernon Byron went on to earn degrees at Northeastern State College in Oklahoma and New York University to prepare or his career in teaching and educational administration. He told the Watertown Daily Times in a 2012 award-winning article that his time at the Grandjean residence "was a defining moment for me" because Ma Grandjean treated him as if he were her own son.
Stephen Hargrove has visited his extended host family, the Docteurs of Cape Vincent, the last four years, along with his wife, Lorretta Lynch, the U.S. Attorney General for President Barack Obama.
RECORDS DESTROYED
Staffers at The Fresh Air Fund office in New York City say a fire years ago destroyed many of its records and so it has no way of helping Fresh Air Kids, most of whom are black, from the 1960s and 1970s find their host families, most of whom are white. That leaves Ms. Salmieri and Mr. Byron to occasionally Google names and search Facebook, looking for a hint.
So far, they have come up empty, although Mr. Byron's hope was renewed when he recently discovered that the odd-sounding name "Toothaker" is not so odd at all; there is a state forest and creek in St. Lawrence County by that name. And the name Toothaker was also common at one time around the nearby town of Pitcairn.
It's unlikely that Ms. Salmieri and Mr. Bryon are the only Fresh Air kids in the autumn of their years still wondering how they can reconnect with the summer hosts who helped shape their future.
But for now, it's also unlikely that America will ever appreciate that, in 1963 when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said he dreamed of a day when "little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers," this very dream was being played out every summer in Jefferson, St. Lawrence and Lewis counties and hundreds of other friendly Fresh Air communities throughout the Northeast.
Editor's note: Mr. Gorman is the former managing editor of the Watertown Daily Times. Contact him at bob.d.gorman@gmail.com.
Mallow53 Jan 5, 2020 8:23am
My grandparents had Fresh-air kids may times and I knew a lot of Lewis and Jefferson county families who had them. My grandparent are long gone, they were both born around 1900.
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Wednesday Night Laundry Runners Celebrate 50th Anniversary
Members believe their midweek group training session to be one of the longest-running in the country.
By Alison Wade
Wednesday Night Laundry Runners
Over the past 50 years, distance running has undergone dramatic changes. The sport has experienced two running booms, and it has gone from an activity viewed with curiosity to one that is enjoyed by the masses. One thing that hasn't changed? On Wednesday evenings in Pacific Grove, California, a group of runners will gather outside the Mission Linen Supply, formerly known as Mission Laundry, to head out for a challenging run.
They call themselves the Wednesday Night Laundry Runners, a nod to their meeting spot, and this weekend, they will celebrate 50 years of Wednesday night runs with a club picnic. To the best of their knowledge, the Wednesday night run has taken place every Wednesday night since 1965.
None of the group's founders still run with the group, and in fact, though current members have their guesses, it's not entirely clear to them who started the club. According to the club's weekly newsletter, which has the slogan, "All of the news of the fit in print," the club was formed "after several runners ran as fast as they could through the Del Monte Forest for an hour and then consumed large quantities of pizza and beverages."
The tradition of consuming "beverages" has endured. For this weekend's 50th anniversary picnic, a local brewer is brewing a special "Wednesday Night Laundry Suds" beer for the group, and each attendee will get a commemorative mug.
Glynn Wood, 81, who has been running with the group since 1980, says that the crowd of runners taking part in the run has grown over the years, and their demographics have changed. Many who ran with the group in its early days were members of the military who were training nearby and had to meet a fitness requirement.
"All of those people were interested in being physically fit, so an awful lot of them were distance runners," Wood told Runner's World Newswire. "This was a club that had a core of local people, and all of these transients [who] have come through over the years."
Show up on a Wednesday night and chances are you'll find someone who can run your speed, as the group's paces tend to range from about 5:30 pace to 13:00 pace. The runs have included everyone from Olympians—Blake Russell, Maria Trujillo, and Nelly Wright have run with the group—to beginners.
Anyone can take part in the run. While there's an official WNLR club with roughly 400 members, one need not be official to run with the group. The standard route is about seven miles, a mixture of roads and trails, but some run shorter or longer. Club President Mike Dove says that in a normal week, about 40 people will show up for the run. It's not uncommon for tourists to take part in the runs when they're in town. The group holds organized runs on other days of the week as well, in different locations, but none of those runs has lasted for 50 years.
The group hasn't always been the WNLR. They began as the Monterey Peninsula Athletic Club, but Lance Wright, the group's unofficial historian, estimates that around 1980, they made the switch to the current WNLR name in recognition of their Wednesday night meeting spot.
The club has a Hall of Fame but has only inducted seven or eight people over the past 50 years. This weekend's picnic will include some yet-to-be-announced inductions. The group also emphasizes giving back to the local community. For the past 15 years, the WNLR have awarded college scholarships to Monterey County high school runners, rougly $12,000 each year.
Wright, 66, who began running with the group in 1975, credits the group's current president, Mike Dove, for ushering the club into the modern running era.
"Mike is just a tremendous organizer and the club exploded," Wright said. "It really changed, with Mike, into a big, important organization. It was just this little group of hard core, pure runners when I was there, and Mike opened it up to a larger membership."
Though Wright no longer runs with the WNLR, he has fond memories of his time with the group. He recalls being fit and feeling like he was on the top of the world.
"It was just an indescribable feeling, that's where you're sort of floating on top of your moving legs, with the endorphins, and to be doing that with a group of people. It was sort of like the opening of Chariots of Fire," Wright said.
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Greggs launches first ever 'healthier shop'
Forget the sausage rolls and steak bakes, Greggs is now putting a focus on foods with less fat, sugar and salt!
The new healthier Greggs at New Cross Hospital. Photo: Birmingham Mail.
Greggs has launched its first ever 'healthier shop' at New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton, with a focus on salads and soups rather than the usual sausage rolls and steak bakes. There's even a colourful display of fresh fruit on offer at the entrance to tempt customers in.
In a move away from its traditional image of stodgy fare such as pastries and cakes, the bakery chain has switched its focus to lower-calorie foods and has cut down on products that are high in fat, sugar and salt.
Designed to meet NHS England's targets on food sold in hospitals, it's Greggs' first ever outlet to offer a range centred on its Balanced Choice products with less than 400 calories, and the shop layout has been designed to reduce the number of high fat, sugar and salt products on display at the checkout.
The Balanced Choice range – launched in 2014 – includes "a wide selection of freshly prepared sandwiches, wraps, salads, yoghurts, delicious hot soups, porridge pots and freshly baked savouries."
Greggs says it has spoken openly about how the national obesity issue is a shared responsibility and is committed to helping people manage their fat, salt and sugar intake. It has taken steps to improve the nutritional value of Greggs products and encourage customers to make healthier choices.
As well as the Balanced Choice products, it has created its own range of low-calorie carbonated drinks and flavoured waters, reduced the salt in its classic snacks and introduced gluten-free options.
Greggs says it will continue to extend its Balanced Choice range and gluten-free meals this year and 'reformulate' its sweet treats in line with the Public Health England's year one sugar reduction target of five per cent.
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Roger Whiteside, CEO of Greggs, said: "We have been busy developing a healthier shop format at New Cross Hospital to meet NHS England targets on healthy checkouts, food advertising and price promotions in hospitals and are proud to have to achieved joint second place in a league table compiled by health campaigners, which ranks high-street brands in order of how well they meet these guidelines.
"With ambitions to grow to over 2,000 shops nationwide and ownership of our supply chain we are in a unique position to have real impact in encouraging people to make healthier food on the go choices with convenient access at outstanding value."
David Loughton, CEO of the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust which runs the hospital said: "It is important that patients, visitors and staff have a variety of choice when it comes to the food that they wish to eat and in a hospital setting it is important that there are a number of healthy options on offer.
"I am pleased that the offer now available at Greggs is so wide and that there are so many healthy options open to their customers."
Source: Birmingham Mail.
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