April 11 is National Pet Day, although say that to my dog Earl and you ll likely get the side eye.
Earl is a standard poodle, and poodles can be, well, a tad uppity. Earl believes and rightfully so every day is Pet Day.
They re more than just furry mess-makers. The National Institutes of Health says pets can help lower cortisol, cholesterol and blood pressure levels.
They ve been especially important in the past year with so many of us working from home. They ve kept loneliness at bay and given us a reason to get up and get outside. In return, 18% of us spent more on our pets in 2020, according to a Harris Poll conducted last spring.
Ballast Point s New Clear Hazy IPA : Marketing So Stupid, It Sounds like Satire
By Jim Vorel | March 2, 2021 | 12:15pm
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It’s been a while at this point since the last time we checked in on the still mind-boggling story of Ballast Point, the San Diego, CA craft beer icon that first sold to Constellation Brands for a record $1 billion back in 2016, at the height of the craft beer boom. In retrospect, this remains by far the most massively overinflated of all overvalued brewery sales of this era, taking place at precisely the moment when the “fruited IPA” wave came to a crest, bringing Ballast Point and Grapefruit Sculpin IPA in particular to their highest point. That year, in 2016, they sold a company record of 431,000 barrels of beer and Constellation was no doubt projecting that the brand would become the next Boston Beer Co.
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Denise Russell, owner of Special FX Salon & Day Spa in San Jose, photographed in the waiting area of her salon on Jan. 15, 2020. Russell, who has been in business for more than 30 years, says she misses her clients and stylists. (Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters)
‘Too Little, Too Late’
Back CalMatters Jan 25, 2021 By Lauren Hepler Since the coronavirus swept into Silicon Valley last spring, Denise Russell’s race to save her San Jose salon has stretched into a marathon. It started with a $103,020 Paycheck Protection Program loan. Then came a federal small business Economic Injury Disaster Loan for $159,000. Now, she’s applying for a $15,000