A Cobb County personal training facility is recovering after a fire
KENNESAW, Ga - Many small businesses have been hit hard during the coronavirus pandemic. A personal training facility in Kennesaw fought hard to get back on track when they were knocked down again Monday morning.
"I came in, I tried to turn the light switch on, the light switch wouldn't work. I hear the alarm pinging, I start walking in and felt like I was walking on water," said Greg Pointdujour, owner of Hybrid Impact Fitness.
The sprinkler system came on after a small fire, flooding Pointdujour's personal training and sports performance center in Kennesaw.
"The whole ceiling fell into both bathrooms," said Pointdujour.
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He said the water was about 2 inches deep. It damaged walls, equipment and put his business out of commission for a while.
"We've literally been forced to close 3 times in the past 6 months," said Pointdujour.
The facility had to shut down for 2 months when COVID-19 first hit. It closed again for several days in July when the coronavirus numbers started to spike. Now, this has them shut down until all the repairs can be made and equipment replaced.
"For the past few months, business has been doing pretty well. Clients are starting to get the courage to come back inside. Everything is going well, then boom!" said Corey Bridges with C4 Performance who leases space at the facility.
They typically train students and pro athletes, as well as anyone in the community who wants to get in shape. But there will be no one training here for a while.
"I played sports you always deal with wtih adversity. You gotta sit back and analyze the situation. It's 2020 anything can happen right?" said Bridges.
They try to stay positive and realize they've made it through a pandemic, they can get through this.
"Just keeping our faith and knowing that we made it this long in business and in life so we just look at it as a minor setback and looking forward to the comeback," said Pointdujour.
The coronavirus pandemic has brought hard times for many farmers and has imperiled food security for many millions both in the cities and the countryside
By
ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer
September 1, 2020, 5:21 AM
• 3 min read
The coronavirus pandemic has brought hard times for many farmers and has imperiled food security for many millions both in the cities and the countryside.
United Nations experts are holding an online conference beginning Tuesday to brainstorm ways to help alleviate hunger and prevent the problems from worsening in the Asia-Pacific region — a challenge made doubly difficult by the loss of many millions of jobs due to the crisis.
The U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization forecasts that the number of undernourished people will increase by up to 132 million in this year, while the number of acutely malnourished children will rise by 6.7 billion worldwide due to the pandemic.
“We are facing two pandemics. COVID-19, which beyond its health toll is crushing livelihoods, and hunger, a scourge the international community pledged to eradicate by the end of this decade," Qu Dongyu, the FAO's director-general said in a commentary ahead of the virtual meeting.
Disruptions due to outbreaks of the illness and restrictions on businesses and travel to control them run the gamut, from crops going unharvested by migrant workers unable to reach their jobs to transport problems to farm families selling livestock and equipment to survive. the FAO said in a report prepared ahead of the meeting.
The combined impacts of COVID-19, natural disasters such as typhoons and drought, diseases and pests such as locusts have highlighted the need to build stronger capacity to “manage multiple risks to food systems," the report said.
The FAO is urging faster deployment of high-tech tools such as drones and smartphone apps to monitor crops, pests and other farming conditions as part of a transformation of food systems to make them more resilient and reduce risks, especially for the most vulnerable small farmers in poor countries.
That includes food insecure places like Yemen, where the U.N. says more than a quarter of a million children are suffering from severe malnutrition and will die without treatment, and parts of Africa where nearly 5 million people are threatened with starvation due to locust outbreaks.
But long lines at food banks even in wealthy countries like the United States attest to the struggle to keep families fed with tens of millions newly unemployed.
In countries like Thailand, where tourism helps to keep the economy afloat, closed borders and cancelled commercial flights have a ripple effect across many industries.
The FAO report released for the conference, sponsored by Bhutan, recommended providing loans to farmers to help them avoid selling their livestock and other assets to get by.
It noted that enterprising fishing villages in southern Thailand's Phuket have arranged barter deals with rice farmers in the northeast of the country. Some fisher folk in Indonesia unable to export their catches switched to netting more affordable fish that they can sell to local villages.
In many countries, farmers increasingly are using e-commerce and digital data to fine tune planting and other aspects of agriculture. Chinese e-commerce platforms are helping to match supply and demand for farm produce and other food.
On a smaller scale, FAO experts noted there were many potential home-grown solutions, literally like farming using sacks or hydroponics, growing crickets for food and processing camels' milk to make cheese.
The coronavirus pandemic has brought hard times for many farmers and has imperiled food security for many millions both in the cities and the countryside.
United Nations experts are holding an online conference beginning Tuesday to brainstorm ways to help alleviate hunger and prevent the problems from worsening in the Asia-Pacific region — a challenge made doubly difficult by the loss of many millions of jobs due to the crisis.
The U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization forecasts that the number of undernourished people will increase by up to 132 million in this year, while the number of acutely malnourished children will rise by 6.7 billion worldwide due to the pandemic.
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“We are facing two pandemics. COVID-19, which beyond its health toll is crushing livelihoods, and hunger, a scourge the international community pledged to eradicate by the end of this decade,” Qu Dongyu, the FAO’s director-general said in a commentary ahead of the virtual meeting.
Disruptions due to outbreaks of the illness and restrictions on businesses and travel to control them run the gamut, from crops going unharvested by migrant workers unable to reach their jobs to transport problems to farm families selling livestock and equipment to survive. the FAO said in a report prepared ahead of the meeting.
The combined impacts of COVID-19, natural disasters such as typhoons and drought, diseases and pests such as locusts have highlighted the need to build stronger capacity to “manage multiple risks to food systems,” the report said.
The FAO is urging faster deployment of high-tech tools such as drones and smartphone apps to monitor crops, pests and other farming conditions as part of a transformation of food systems to make them more resilient and reduce risks, especially for the most vulnerable small farmers in poor countries.
That includes food insecure places like Yemen, where the U.N. says more than a quarter of a million children are suffering from severe malnutrition and will die without treatment, and parts of Africa where nearly 5 million people are threatened with starvation due to locust outbreaks.
But long lines at food banks even in wealthy countries like the United States attest to the struggle to keep families fed with tens of millions newly unemployed.
In countries like Thailand, where tourism helps to keep the economy afloat, closed borders and cancelled commercial flights have a ripple effect across many industries.
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The FAO report released for the conference, sponsored by Bhutan, recommended providing loans to farmers to help them avoid selling their livestock and other assets to get by.
It noted that enterprising fishing villages in southern Thailand’s Phuket have arranged barter deals with rice farmers in the northeast of the country. Some fisher folk in Indonesia unable to export their catches switched to netting more affordable fish that they can sell to local villages.
In many countries, farmers increasingly are using e-commerce and digital data to fine tune planting and other aspects of agriculture. Chinese e-commerce platforms are helping to match supply and demand for farm produce and other food.
On a smaller scale, FAO experts noted there were many potential home-grown solutions, literally like farming using sacks or hydroponics, growing crickets for food and processing camels’ milk to make cheese.
People who contract COVID-19 can spend months in recovery and end up with long-term disabilities. It's especially hard for undocumented immigrants who are at high risk an don't have health insurance.
September 01, 2020 at 03:09AM
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/31/908031980/undocumented-people-with-no-health-insurance-struggle-especially-hard-from-covid
Undocumented People With No Health Insurance Struggle Especially Hard From COVID-19 - NPR
I won’t say that I knew John Thompson. I experienced him.
I covered his Georgetown men’s basketball program for two seasons and had numerous other encounters with him during almost 14 years of working at The Washington Post and nearly a lifetime of living in the Washington area.
Publicly, Thompson – whose family announced his death Monday at age 78 – was a really complicated person. There were all kinds of apparent contradictions in his life. He famously kept reporters as far from his program as possible, except when it suited his purposes. After leaving coaching, he became a Washington-area sports-talk radio host and an analyst, including on NCAA basketball tournament national radio broadcasts. He also maintained an unabiding interest in the personal lives of some of the journalists who covered him well after their professional paths diverged.
To many, he came across as gruff, unfeeling and largely self-interested. And, yes, he could be all of those things. He had no qualms about using his sheer physical size, his booming voice and his propensity for profanity to intimidate. But he also understood how to make an impact when none of those attributes would help him.
As Georgetown’s coach, he had strict rules against trying to directly contact his players or their parents. Practices were closed. Tape covered gaps in the doorways from the foyer of the athletics building to the gym. In-season interviews with players outside of post-game situations were by prior arrangement only, and conducted by telephone only.
While covering the team very early in my career, I got word that one of his players was planning to transfer. When I called the player's grandmother about it, Thompson, of course, found out. He ordered his players not to speak with me, even during the limited period of time after games in which reporters could interview players. This lasted several games, but he eventually lifted the gag order – and when the player did, indeed, transfer, I was surprised to get a call from a school spokesman notifying me of the transfer and putting me in contact with the player.
OPINION: From near and far, John Thompson Jr.'s impact extends well beyond basketball court
In what has become a time of sports figures becoming actively involved in social and racial justice issues, it is important to remember Thompson’s place in that. Not the part about Thompson becoming the first Black head coach to win an NCAA men’s basketball championship in 1984. It’s the parts that occurred in 1989.
In January, Thompson announced that he would walk off the court at the beginning of a game to protest NCAA Division I schools’recent vote to deny athletic scholarships or any other institutional financial aid to freshmen who failed to qualify for first-year athletic eligibility under the academic standards of what was then known as Proposition 48. It had been one thing for college athletes to be deemed ineligible to play as freshman, potentially because of their score on a standardized test that many viewed – and still view – as culturally and socio-economically biased. It was another to make this a financial burden.
Thompson not only walked off the court at tip-off for that game – a Big East contest against Boston College when the Hoyas were a top-5 ranked team with Alonzo Mourning and Dikembe Mutombo in their first seasons – he also skipped the next one against Providence entirely.
Thompson’s action brought immediate commitments from NCAA leadership regarding new legislation to delay implementation of the rule. And at a time when NCAA Division I rules changes largely were made on a one-school, one-vote basis, it also forced officials at individual schools to confront, and answer for, their reasons for voting for the change in the first place. In the days after Thompson launched his protest, officials at some schools that had voted for the measure conceded that they didn’t fully grasp the implications and would now be willing to change their votes.
Several months later, Thompson went on ABC’s “Nightline,” and said he had asked to meet with the then-alleged leader of a Washington-area drug operation who had been arrested weeks earlier. Why? Because this person, Rayful Edmond III, had been associating with Mourning and another Georgetown player who was from the Washington area and had known Edmond for years. Thompson’s disclosure drew attention to the depth of drug problems in cities, and to the more nuanced issue of high-profile athletes’ personal associations, how those relationships develop and how athletes manage them.
You never quite knew where or how Thompson would reveal himself next. In 1996, while he was still Georgetown’s coach, it surfaced that he had applied to purchase 10% of a company that owned the slot machine concession at Las Vegas’ McCarron International Airport. (For all the focus that surrounded Thompson on racial issues, he often joked that his view of the world wasn’t through the lens of Black or white, but rather of green.) It made so little sense in the context of a Jesuit institution’s morals and the NCAA’s stance against gambling that Post columnist Thomas Boswell – who knew Thompson going back to Thompson’s days as a high school coach in D.C. – opened his piece on the issue with a one-sentence paragraph: “Has John Thompson lost his mind?”
No matter what, however, you were inevitably drawn to Thompson. His radio show was a novelty for a while, but ultimately I didn’t care much, one way or the other, for most of what he had to say about the daily sports happenings in Washington. But that wasn’t why I listened. The draw was Thompson himself, and the prospect that he might weigh in on something that transcended Washington sports or sports in general. Getting exposed to that – that was the Thompson experience.
September 01, 2020 at 02:38AM
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2020/08/31/former-georgetown-john-thompson-hard-know-but-interesting/3447656001/
Former Georgetown coach John Thompson was hard to know but always interesting - USA TODAY
Stone Brewing and San Diego hard kombucha maker JuneShine are teaming up for the release of StoneShine, a 6% ABV hard kombucha that will be distributed in 25 states.
StoneShine mixes hops and stone fruits from Masumoto Family Farm with JuneShine’s hard kombucha formula, resulting in an “organic, gluten-free, probiotic, non-GMO” hard kombucha with antioxidants and vitamins, according to a press release.
Forrest Dein, who co-founded JuneShine in 2018 with Greg Serrao, told Brewbound that the collaboration made sense, as Stone is the company’s wholesaler partner in Southern California.
“They were by far our top choice just because of what they’ve built here and to pay homage to that side of it and to really tie craft hard kombucha to craft beer,” he said. “I felt like we could get our product in front of a lot of people that maybe aren’t early adopters of hard kombucha.”
With a consumer base that skews around 65% female, Dein said the collaboration is an opportunity to get the brand in front of more male drinkers.
StoneShine is expected to be on store shelves Tuesday, September 1, with a retail price of $5.99 per 16 oz. single-serve can. JuneShine is also selling 6- and 12-packs on its website to consumers in some West Coast states.
“All of our distributors across the country actually brought it in,” he said.
Dein said he expects the 300 barrels of StoneShine, which was produced at JuneShine’s Scripps Ranch production facility, to sell through by mid-October.
The collaboration with Stone is just another boundary pushing collaboration between JuneShine and other craft producers. Earlier this year, the company partnered with MatchaBar on a coconut ginger matcha hard kombucha. Dein said he wants to continue the trend of collaborating with unexpected partners.
“Maybe once a year, we partner with a big craft brewery, and we do some sort of hoppy hard booch that has a different spin on it,” he said. “I love working with different people, and I like that the Stone team brought out a totally different side of our JuneShine brand.”
“We love that JuneShine challenges convention in the same way Stone has,” Stone chief commercial officer Dan Lamb added in a press release. “This collaboration demonstrates how similar hard kombucha and craft beer can be, and offers a really unique flavor profile that can’t be found in craft beer collaborations alone. Stone Distributing Co. proudly distributes JuneShine kombucha because we respect their honest approach and we’re thrilled that they chose Stone to cross genres with them.”
The two companies will donate 5% of the sales from StoneShine to the U.S. Bartenders Guild National Charity Foundation in an effort to support service industry professionals who have lost their jobs during the pandemic.
As for JuneShine’s 2020, the company is on pace to triple its sales, after selling more than 100,000 cases in 2019. About 90% of those sales last year were in California, and now the company expects about 75% of those sales to come from its home state.
“Overall, we’re doing surprisingly well through COVID,” he said. “In April, we had no idea what was gonna happen, and it was a little bit of a scramble. And then wholesale started taking off, our DTC business has been great for driving trial and awareness.”
Dein views DTC sales as a “trial driver,” as they make up less than 10% of JuneShine’s business.
“What I’m most excited about is tying that online customer to the future value of retail,” he said. “Initially, it looks like people purchase once or twice online and then they start purchasing in store, very similar to our other customers, which is great.”
“We used to acquire customers through in store tasting demos and events and music festivals, beer festivals, kind of the more traditional routes,” he added. “And now we’re able to do it through Facebook and Instagram ads and directly attribute it, which is nice.”
In California, JuneShine still has a lot of runway to grow, with just 8% category weighted distribution (CWD) in IRI tracked channels. Nevertheless, Dein said JuneShine is now the No. 1 selling hard kombucha brand family and boasts the top two selling hard kombucha SKUs — Blood Orange Mint and Midnight Painkiller — nationwide.
“We feel like it’s been like this two-and-a-half year project to get here, and now we’re finally, like, planting our flag as the category leader,” he said. “ We think the category is going to be won in the chain sets spring 2021.”
In order to win that battle, JuneShine has built out its national accounts team, which is led by Chris Gheen. In recent months, the company hired four senior national accounts managers with extensive beverage alcohol backgrounds. They include:
Chris Zambukos, who joined JuneShine in August after serving as on-premise national account manager for Pabst Brewing Company. His resume includes stints at Rogue, MillerCoors, Red Bull, Widmer Brothers and E&J Gallo;
Michael Prather, who joined JuneShine in July and whose experience includes more than three years managing the Delicato Family Wines portfolio for Kroger and six years as a senior key account manager at Anheuser-Busch InBev focused on Kroger;
Jeff Cossin, who joined JuneShine in August and last served as director of key accounts on the East Coast for Crook & Marker. He previously worked at FIFCO USA and Reyes;
And Elizabeth Isenbart, who joined the company in April after working for nine years at Firestone Walker, where she last served as director of national accounts for the central division.
JuneShine’s “core focus” moving forward is to get Blood Orange Mint and Midnight Painkiller in national chain sets for the spring, Dein said.
Another focus is on JuneShine 100, a 100 calorie, 4.2% ABV hard kombucha in two flavors — Pineapple Orange and Hibiscus Lime. The brand, which already cracked the company’s top five sellers, launched over the summer in California and New York. However, the company plans to take a slow approach with the new brand and won’t look to add new markets until 2021, Dein said.
“We really want to get Blood Orange Mint and Midnight Painkiller national distribution in all the major chains before we bring anything else,” he said. “We’re trying to take a calculated approach and build a brand block on the shelf.”
September 01, 2020 at 01:40AM
https://www.brewbound.com/news/junesshine-collaborates-with-stone-brewing-on-hard-kombucha-fills-out-national-accounts-team
JuneShine Collaborates with Stone Brewing on Hard Kombucha, Fills out National Accounts Team - Brewbound.com
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The coronavirus is hitting fraternities and sororities in Kansas particularly hard, with 10% testing positive at the University of Kansas and outbreaks linked to four sororities at Kansas State University.
The University of Kansas said Friday in a news release that it has conducted 21,719 tests and 474 have been positive, for a positive rate of 2.18%. But among sororities and fraternities, there have been 270 positives among 2,698 members tested.
The university began testing every student, faculty and staff member for COVID-19 as they returned to campus this month.
At Kansas State, health officials announced six cases at Alpha Delta Pi, six at Alpha Xi Delta, five at Chi Omega and five at Kappa Delta, The Kansas City Star reports. The cases have resulted in quarantines.
“The leaders of local fraternities and sororities are cooperating with health department staff, but we have concerns that the safety messages are not reaching all of the members,” local health officer Julie Gibbs said. “It is imperative that anyone who has had close contact with a positive patient, or who is sick, remains in quarantine or isolation and takes personal responsibility for their actions.”
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ONE: Marcus Morris was ejected in the 11th minute of Sunday’s 113-97 win over the Mavericks in the Clippers’ Game 6 series closer, but Morris wasn’t exactly apologetic for what he described as just playing hard. The Clippers advanced to the Western Conference semifinals, where they await the winner of Tuesday’s Game 7 between Denver and Utah.
What Marcus Morris Sr. said: “Today I thought it was a hard foul. I don’t want people to mistake playing hard with hurting somebody. Tim Hardaway had an extremely hard foul on Paul George the other day. I’m physical, that’s just what it is. I’m a grown man and people can say what they want to say. It’s not like I didn’t touch any of the ball. Unfortunately I hit him over the shoulders. I know that the rule and that it’s a flagrant-two (foul). I’ve said a lot of times, he (Doncic) is a young player and he is going to be the face of the league. I’ve taken all that into account. But if it had been anyone else. it wouldn’t have been taken out of context.”
Luka Doncic not pleased with the hard foul that resulted in Marcus Morris Sr.’s ejection: “Two games in a row he did something like that…” pic.twitter.com/LkZF1FMqPl
Last year Gerardo Reyes got off to a really bad start, but from June 16 to the end of the year he had a 3.52 ERA and opponents hit .175 against him. He struck out 25 and walked 4 in his last 15.1 IP.
THREE: The Dodgers have the best record in baseball, and showed why again with a homer-filled 7-2 win over Texas. The Dodgers have still not lost a series to anyone, and they had a record-setting home-run month. Playing in Texas also gave a chance for the Dodgers to get a feel for the stadium, which might be the site for the World Series.
Mookie Betts said:“I did not know that,” Mookie Betts said when the Dodgers’ 9-0-3 record in series this season was pointed out to him. “It just shows that each and every day we’re ready to play. Obviously you’re not going to win them all but we can at least be in them all and come away with some wins when we don’t feel good.”
FOUR: How close was the Lakers’ Lebron James to leaving the bubble and taking his teammates with him? Lakers reporter Kyle Goon takes you through a crazy week that that ultimately ended with the Lakers closing out their series with Portland on Saturday, and now will have a few days off before the Western Conference semifnals agaist either OKC or Houston. Also, listen to Goon on today’s Podcast with the Kamenetzky Brothers about living in the bubble from a reporters’ perspective.
Podcast! Great conversation w/ @kylegoon, from inside the NBA Bubble. Honest insight into what life is like for players and media. The stresses it causes mentally, and how all of it impacted the events of last week.
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The function of the Community of Lebanon Association (CLA) is to organize events in Downtown Lebanon and attract people to its businesses. Needless to say, COVID-19 has hit the organization hard.
Due to the pandemic, the CLA has had to cancel parades and carriage rides for this year’s holiday season. The annual and beloved Christmas Tree lighting is going virtual.
The majority of CLA events draw over 250 people, which is the state’s maximum occupancy limit for public gatherings and events. That’s the reason for the cancellation of this year’s Car Show — another blow to CLA’s events calendar.
For the Car Show to have occurred, streets would have had to be gated and the gates attended by staff who would have counted toward the 250 attendee limit. According to John Bower, the CLA president, that was impossible to do.
And while revenue has been stymied by the pandemic, expenses have continued to rack up. The CLA was left out of any CARES funding opportunities due to its 501(c)(6) status, leaving the organization without relief.
In spite of the pandemic and the problems it has caused the CLA, all of the organization’s committees are still working on projects such as direct mail membership blasts and a full directory of members.
The Image and Beautification Committee, which is charged with hanging baskets of flowers on Cumberland Street and monthly cleanups, is still active. And the CLA has secured funding for wreaths which will be hung on the Victorian light posts downtown during the holiday season.
CLA hanging baskets of flowers at Ninth & Cumberland Streets. (Will Trostel)Expect to see wreaths on these Downtown Lebanon light posts this winter. (Will Trostel)
The CLA is also in talks to do something virtually for its annual Gala this year. Bower said awards will still be presented for Businessperson of the Year and the Lester Leffler Memorial Volunteer Service award.
Looking to the future, the CLA is already working on next year’s events. The first event of 2021 would be cherry pie at the Lebanon Farmer’s Market for President’s Day.
“The CLA has been around for sixty years,” Bower said. “This is the first time a pandemic has restricted our activities. No one was prepared for the pandemic. The CLA was prepared to continue the way we always do.”
Bower concluded by reminding Lebanon residents of the often uncredited or miscredited work CLA does in the city.
“People think the City puts on the parade, but the CLA actually does it,” he said. “The parade is the CLA’s biggest event.”
More views of Downtown Lebanon
All photos by Will Trostel.
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CHICAGO– Mamitas Tequila & Soda, a hard seltzer made with 100% real tequila, brings a refreshing twist to canned cocktails. It debuts with four classic tequila and soda flavors; Lime, Paloma, Pineapple and Mango and is hitting shelves in adventure ready four packs at select retail and alcohol delivery partners nationwide.
As the tequila, hard seltzer and ready-to-drink categories continue to grow, Mamitas comes at the perfect time. Instead of just joining the movement, Mamitas decided it was time for consumers to put down their sugar-brewed seltzers and crack open real tequila. This is the first ready-to-drink tequila seltzer with four unique flavors. Each gluten-free, 12 oz. can has only 95 calories while still upholding 5% ABV. With every sip, Mamitas keeps a light and refreshing taste while staying authentic to iconic tequila cocktails that have inspired bartenders for decades. But this time, leave the shaker at home.
“At Phusion we’re always looking to craft innovative products that people are calling for and we’ve had our eye on the exploding tequila category for some time.” said Jaisen Freeman, Co-founder at Phusion Projects LLC. “With tequila now trending as a better for you spirit, we carefully crafted Mamitas to elevate the hard seltzer category. Mamitas complements an active lifestyle and doesn’t sacrifice taste. Creating Mamitas was a no brainer for us”
MAMITAS HARD SELTZER SPECS:
Real Tequila
95 Calories
5% alcohol by volume
4 packs of 4 classic tequila flavors – Lime, Paloma, Pineapple and Mango
12 oz. cans
“Mamitas is the perfect addition to the Phusion portfolio. Following our recent and successful launch of Basic Hard Seltzer, we’re continuing to build a cooler full of hard seltzers that anyone would be proud to supply their gatherings with,” added Jeff Wright, Co-founded at Phusion Projects. “The unique packaging, vibrant colors and classic tequila and soda flavors make Mamitas a standout in the category. We can’t wait to see people enjoying it this summer and beyond.”
For more information on Mamitas and purchase locations please visit www.DrinkMamitas.com and follow along at @DrinkMamitas.
About Mamitas Tequila & Soda
Blending our love for originality, hard seltzer and tequila — Mamitas was born. Our desire is to bring on a fresh take to the seltzer category. Inspired by our favorite flavors of Lime, Paloma, Pineapple and Mango, our ready to drink cocktails are made with real tequila and sparkling water. At just 95 calories, 5% ABV, gluten-free and less than a gram of sugar, you can now bask in the prime of your life without regrets.Follow & Find Us: @DrinkMamitas and DrinkMamitas.com/locator
About Phusion Projects
Established in 2005 Phusion Projects is a global alcoholic beverage company with presence in over 40 countries, employing 250+ worldwide and housing a portfolio of brands including Mamitas Tequila & Soda, Four Loko, Basic Seltzer, Basic Vodka, Hard Frescos, Moksato Life, Earthquake and Not Your Father’s Bourbon.Phusion always has and will always be looking to find the next big thing for drinkers. While Four Loko will always be the core of who we are, we’ve also partnered with brands such as SWISH Beverages (White Girl Rosé) and Not Your Father’s Root Beer.
Days before becoming a Padre, Austin Nola tagged out his new teammate Eric Hosmer. (Getty)
The reshaping of the Mariners continues as Jerry Dipoto and San Diego Padres general manager A.J. Preller pulled off a stunning seven-player trade Sunday night.
With the Padres in win-now mode and the Mariners looking to continue to add young talent at or close to the major leagues, two of the top three-ranked farm systems were a good match.
The trade sends immediate help to San Diego in the forms of Austin Nola, Dan Altavilla and Austin Adams (who is on the injured list but recently resumed throwing off the mound) in exchange for now and not-too-later help for the Mariners. The prize, the not-too-later help, is outfielder Taylor Trammell, Baseball America’s 78th ranked prospect, giving the Mariners their seventh entry on Baseball America’s top 100 prospects list.
Those seven players are:
8. Julio Rodríguez
12. Jarred Kelenic
54. Emerson Hancock
56. Evan White
63. Logan Gilbert
78. Taylor Trammell
99. Noelvi Marte
Trammell gives the Mariners an outfielder who likely slots in between Kelenic and Rodríguez in big league readiness. With Kyle Lewis and Mitch Haniger also on the roster, the Mariners obviously can’t play them all, so what happens going forward remains to be seen. But top prospects are top prospects, and they have value. Part of building and sustaining a good farm system is having assets to trade for other needs, and after Sunday’s trade, there is more value in the the Mariners’ farm system.
Dipoto also adds a fireballer in Andres Muñoz, who last year last year averaged 101 mph on his fastball and touched 103 mph on the radar gun. While over the years Dipoto has brought in others who can hit triple digits, those relievers also had command issues. Muñoz is not a project, however. At just 21 years old, he has already seen time in the big leagues, posting a 3.91 ERA in 23 innings pitched with 30 strikeouts and 11 walks. Prior to his final two outings in 2019, Muñoz gave up only four runs in 20 appearances, and in early August the Padres moved him into the setup role in front ofc closer Kirby Yates. The downside, he is recovering from Tommy John Surgery that was performed in March.
The Mariners also picked up two players they saw last week in San Digeo: infielder Ty France and catcher Luis Torrens. We shall learn in the coming days if they will join the MLB team after intake testing.
The 2020 Mariners will miss Nola. Losing his bat leaves a hole in the order and what he brought behind the plate was remarkable considering he had never caught on an everyday basis at any level prior to this year. His manager and pitchers trusted him behind the plate and he played a big role in bringing along the younger arms in the Mariners’ rotation. He was an incredible find for Dipoto, an eight-year minor league veteran and free agent utility infielder who signed with the Mariners prior to the 2019 season because they agreed to let him catch. A tough loss for this year, but this year has always been about the future.
Four players aged 26 or younger with a combined 20 years service time remaining were acquired by the Mariners for Nola, Altavilla (who is out of minor league options) and Adams, who has electric stuff but has an injury history.
If Nola was the price for Trammell, the Mariners are picking up either a piece of the future or an asset for the farm system. With Altavilla and Adams, the Mariners trade question marks for promise in Muñoz, France and Torrens. At a minimum, it’s hard to see this deal hurting the Mariners. On the other side? We shall see.
