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Target to launch organic "Simply Balanced" brand


NEW YORK -- Target Corp. is planning a new organic and natural store brand as it works to rev up its grocery business.
The big-box retailer said the new brand, called Simply Balanced, will start with drinks and snacks like corn chips on Sunday. The line is an outgrowth of similar products within its existing Archer Farms store brand, which is positioned as a premium alternative to national name brands.
Amanda Irish, senior director of Target's store brands, said the new line is in response to the growing popularity of organic foods. Although they still account for less than 10 percent of overall grocery sales, she said organic foods are growing at twice the rate of conventional groceries.
As such, the Minneapolis-based company also plans to announce next week that it will boost its organic food selection by 25 percent by 2017.

Ignore the comments. How can anything organic be a bad thing? :shrug:
 
Marijuana Vending Machines, Stoner Fantasy, May Become Industry Norm


Marijuana, already legal in two states and on the verge of legitimacy in others, may become a product that can easily be purchased via vending machine.
A Phoenix-based company behind the pot machines, Endexx Corp., envisions a transaction unfolding like this: A woman in Colorado, where recreational pot is legal, uses an app on her iPhone to purchase an ounce of weed, then goes to pick it up at her favorite retail outlet. There, she encounters the vending machine and uses its touch screen to complete her order, adding a book of rolling papers and a cigarette lighter.
“The way we see it, when you walk into a shop, you don’t need the expert or aficionado to help with selection,” Todd Davis, chief executive officer of Endexx, told The Huffington Post. “The people who are using this in the recreational space -- they know what they want, and they don’t want to hear the whole spiel every time.”

I can envision, sometime in the future, the average office worker standing at the company vending machine trying to decide between a Snickers bar and a pot brownie for their mid-afternoon snack. :p
 
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/261945.php
Human Genes May Not Be Patented, US Supreme Court Ruled Today


The US Supreme Court ruled today that naturally-occurring human genes may not be patented, but a gene that is manipulated to create something that does not exist in nature may be patented, because it is an invention.

Good to read good news :)
 
BREAKING: Same-sex marriage has no effect on so-called traditional marriage rates
The researchers examined the thirteen states and the District of Columbia where same-sex marriage or same-sex civil union laws were implemented before 2009. By statistically analyzing the marriage rates from 1988 to 2009, they found the legalization of same-sex marriages or civil unions had no effect on the rates of opposite-sex marriages.
 
A Seattle women is trying to live only on sunshine for 6 months

Navenna Shine of Seattle is planning to livestream her own death.
Well, technically she's planning to livestream an experiment in which she attempts to survive for up to six months on nothing but the natural light of the sun, but it's essentially the same thing.
Shine, founder of Living on Light, is a follower of the Jasmuheen branch of Breatharianism.
Jasmuheen (born Ellen Greve) is a thoroughly debunked fraud, and her pseudoscientific claims are directly responsible for the deaths of several people.
Why does Shine believe her "experiment" will end differently? Because she really believes.
The only problem with this is that we do not believe it. We hear about it but, how can we possibly believe somebody who says that they don’t eat? Even family and friends don’t believe them sometimes. The solution is very simple. We have to put it to the test. This is what I intend to do through “Living On Light”. Put it to the test.​
And so, for the next four to six months, Shine plans to live in a "controlled environment," with eight cameras pointed at her at all times to ensure that she isn't cheating.
She hopes to be able to livestream the footage, but claims that technical difficulties are currently preventing that from happening.
"In the meantime," she says, "each moment is being recorded and the files are being archived for future verification."...

The comments on her Facebook page are crazy. People urging her on and calling her an inspiration, and some claiming to be doing it along with her.
https://www.facebook.com/naveena.shine
 
Yeah, it's a little suspicious when her live feed won't work, but she'll show the videos sometime in the future. So far, she claims she's gone 41 days with no food and is full of energy. The sad thing is, some people will believe her and try it themselves. Haven't some people already died from trying it after the Loving Hut's supreme master Ching claimed she lives on air?
 
Yeah, it's a little suspicious when her live feed won't work, but she'll show the videos sometime in the future. So far, she claims she's gone 41 days with no food and is full of energy. The sad thing is, some people will believe her and try it themselves. Haven't some people already died from trying it after the Loving Hut's supreme master Ching claimed she lives on air?

I know some people have died by following some whackjob "breatharian's" lead, but I didn't know it was Ching. :|
 
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