Ed Sheeran takes break from music 'to become a beer maker in lockdown'

'Brewing his own beer to supply the pub on the grounds of his sprawling £3.7million Suffolk estate amid the coronavirus lockdown' 

Ed Sheeran has put down his trusty guitar and picked up some hops to branch out into beer making. 

The 29-year-old chart topping star is said to be making his own brand of beer to supply to his pub,he built for himself on his £3.7 million estate in Suffolk while temporarily retired from music making.

According to reports, Ed has ordered a batch of make-your-own craft beer kits to start brewing up some ales to serve in his make-shift pub, The Lancaster Lock.

The Castle on the Hill singer built his pub in 2017 and named if after his wife, Cherry Lancaster Seaborn, who he tied-the-knot with in January 2018.

A source told The Sun: “Ed loves his beer — especially his real ales and craft beers.

FGM to stop sexual abuse

"FGM breaches all human rights and has no place in any 21st century society." -- Waris Dirie 

Waris Dirie is known to be one of the earliest to raise the issue of FGM publicly and globally. Born as one of 12 children into her nomadic family in 1965 in Somalia, she was subjected to circumcision in the form of infibulation when she was only 5. One of her sisters bled to death during the circumcision. At the age of thirteen, she fled through the desert in order to escape an arranged marriage to a 60-year-old man.

She was brought to London by her Somalian relatives where she worked as a maid and later as a cleaning lady at McDonald's. At the age of 18, her life changed abruptly, when she was discovered by a renowned photographer Terence Donovan, who photographed her in 1987 with other still unknown models. Her modelling career took off and she became one of the most famous models.

In an interview, Dirie told her interviewer Jenny Johnston of England's Mirror that, "I still remember the pain, my God, the pain. But I didn't move an inch. I wanted Mama to be proud of me." Proud, for her parents had told her there were bad things between her legs and they had to be removed. In a way, however, Dirie was lucky; estimates suggest that one in four girls die during the procedure, which is common in parts of Africa and is practised in 28 countries around the world. For two of Dirie's sisters and two of her cousins, the procedure was fatal, something that must have weighed on Dirie's mind as she lay recuperating for weeks, with her legs tied together.

After she began to tell interviewers what she had lived through, she gave up modelling and became a campaigner against the practice of female genital mutilation. Since then she has been involved in numerous campaigns and programs in raising awareness about FGM and complete eradication of this unethical practice.

In 1997 Dirie published the book Desert Flower (the English translation of her name 'Waris'): The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad, written with Cathleen Miller. Described as an autobiographical novel, the book traced the events of Dirie's childhood and her rise to international fame and activism. The movie "Desert Flower" based on her biography is a must-watch.

Six times Liverpool’s Sadio Mane : The nicest man in the world

SPORTS PERSON COMPASSION: SADIO MANE - A MODESTY HUMAN

The 24-year-old left his home city of Sedhiou at 15 and exclusively details his incredible route to becoming one of the Premier League’s best attackers 

-SADIO MANE

Sadio Mané (born 10 April 1992) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a winger for Liverpool FC in the English Premier League and the Senegal National Football Team. Known for his pace, strength, dribbles and goalscoring skills, Mané is developing into one of the best forwards in the world. In this article, we would be looking into the biography, facts, childhood, career, net worth and personal life of this amazing football player.

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On May 16th 2015, Mané scored a hat-trick in a 6-1 win against Aston Villa, it took 2 minutes 56 seconds to score all 3 goals and became the fastest hat-trick ever in the Premier League. 

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Mane still uses a cracked iPhone 7 despite earning £150,000 per week

Liverpool's Senegalese striker opened up about his roots and says he doesn't need luxuries to be happy and dedicates much of his wages to charity.

Mané explained. "I built schools, a stadium, we provide clothes, shoes, food for people who are in extreme poverty. In addition, I give 70 euros per month to all people in a very poor region of Senegal which contributes to their family economy. I do not need to display luxury cars, luxury homes, trips and even planes. I prefer that my people receive a little of what life has given me". Back home in Senegal, Mané has funded the construction of a school in Bambali, work on the new school began before the summer.

 

Upon being asked about his humble choices, he had famously quoted:

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Why would I want ten Ferraris, 20 diamond watches or two planes? What will these objects do for me and the world? I built schools, a stadium, we provide clothes, shoes, food for people who are in extreme poverty. I did not have an education and many other things, but today with what I earn thanks to football, I can help my people.

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Tab Group Feature in Google Chrome

Google adding tab grouping feature to Chrome

Search engine giant Google is adding a new tab grouping feature to Chrome, the company announced on Wednesday. If you want to try the feature now, Google says it's available in the latest Chrome Beta and will be rolling out more broadly to the desktop versions of Chrome next week, The Verge reported. The user can make a group by right-clicking on one tab and assigning it a custom name and colour. Then, they'll see the colour of the group under all of the tabs included in the group. The netizen can also drag tabs from group to group if they want to change how it is organised.

Before using Chrome‘s new tab grouping feature, you will need to update the browsers. To do that, Go to Help > About Chrome by clicking on the three-dot menu on the top right. Alternatively, you can type “chrome://settings/help” in the address bar. The browser will automatically update and prompt you to restart.

After you’ve updated the browser, here’s how you can use Chrome‘s group tab feature: 

• Open Google Chrome on your desktop. Right-click on a tab.
• If you want to create a new group, click on Add to New Group.
• You’ll see a new colored dot next to the tab.
• To rename the group, or to change the color, you can tap on that colored dot. Chrome’s grouped tab feature — a new group.
• If you want to add it to an existing group, go to Add to an Existing Group and select a group. 
• Chrome’s grouped tab feature — an existing group.

Note: Even after updating your Chrome browser, if you don’t see tab grouping option, type “chrome://flags/#tab-groups” in the address bar and enable the feature.

India's biggest milk product producer : Hatsun

In summer we often go for icecream parlour.And we as SouthIndian go there and ask Icecream from our home-grown brand which is Arun Ice cream.Though there are many indigenous brands like Amul,Kwality and so on. we often go in search of our home-grown brand which is flagship brand of Hatsun Agro Product Limited(HAP).

R.G. Chandramohan the founder of Hatsun Agro Products popularly known as Arun.He begun his career in 1970 as 21-year-old from Virudhunagar. He then invested by selling his family land and invested it in ice cream business.He started his journey with Rs.13,000 and now the turn over is around 3,600 crores.That was really big investment those days. Initially, there were around 3 employees and it was operated in rented 250 sq.ft.area.At that time Ice candies were prepared and sold that with pushcarts.

That was a risky investment in at that time as the southern market was dominated by brands such as Dasaprakash, Kwality, Rita, and Joy. There were around 3,500-4,000 small-scale ice cream businesses similar to Arun. What made this brand stand out even as others faded away?

Targeting new sections

Chandramohan identified markets that prominent brands had ignored as too small or not worth investing in. He started supplying ice cream to college students (who wouldn’t be averse to trying new brands); and he kept the product quality high and the supply steady.The response was good. Similarly, he identified another market, ship chandlers, studied their packaging and delivery requirements and captured that market as well. Reportedly, by 1974, almost 95 per cent of the college canteen and ship-chandler markets used only Arun Ice Creams.

Another  marketing strategy employed by Chandramohan was introducing the brand in rural areas. Positioning his brand as ‘Fresh ice cream from Madras’, he captured the imagination of the rural public.By then, Arun breached the Chennai became popular only in the late 1980s.

The founder was soon supplying ice creams packed in dry ice containers to educational institutions (canteens and hostels) at the district level. Wherever possible, he used Indian Railways to transport his products. Chandramohan was not yet ready to enter Madras and concentrated on Tier 2 and Tier 3 towns like Pondicherry , Madurai, Sivakasi, Kumbakonam and neary by districts.

Marketing marvel

Around this time, Chandramohan felt the need to supplement his native shrewdness with new skills and studied marketing and personnel management.

Apart from supplying ice cream to social events like marriages, , Chandramohan also announced through hoardings that ice cream could be booked with Arun agents and picked up on specific, fixed dates. The response to this was tremendous.

Arun is supposed to be the first ice cream brand in India to introduce the concept of an exclusive ice cream parlour. It was a Wonderful discovery. Financial constraints made it impossible for Chandramohan to supply deep freezer units to retail shops that were willing to stock his brand. In 1981, one enterprising person who had noticed the public response to the ‘fixed-day’ campaign suggested that he would open an outlet dedicated to the brand and invest in his own freezer unit in return for long-term distribution arrangements. And thus, the concept of a ‘parlour’ where people could come in, sit down, and just eat ice creams was born.

This franchise model soon expanded, first within Tamil Nadu and then to other southern states. Loyalty among the franchisees was so high that some are said to have named their children ‘Arun’. In 1985, Arun topped the ‘Ice cream sales by volume’ list in Tamil Nadu. By 1999, it is said to have opened about 700 outlets in TN, Karnataka, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.

By the 1990s, turnover had crossed ₹3 crore. The 1990s also saw Hindustan Unilever taking over several regional ice cream brands; Arun Ice Creams refused to buckle under pressure and held its ground. As the market expanded, in 1995, Chandramohan introduced refrigerated vehicles to transport ice cream to its outlets, both within and outside Tamil Nadu. A new depot came up near Madurai for storage and quick delivery.

Expanding the business

But before this, in 1986, Chandramohan had ventured into the dairy business. For ice cream manufacture, the regular supply of quality milk is an essential prerequisite. By directly procuring milk from dairy farmers, Chandramohan created a home-grown supply segment for his ice cream business. The company was named Hatsun Foods Pvt. Ltd. (It later became Hatsun Milk Food Ltd. and in 1998, Hatsun Agro Product Ltd.) The ownership of the brand name ‘Arun’ was transferred to this company.

In the early 2000s, as Chandramohan’s focus shifted to the dairy business, ice cream sales fell. It was only in 2007 that a revival was seen. That year, Hatsun introduced a new parlour format called ‘Arun Ice Cream Unlimited’ offering scoops of ice cream. These parlours were also used to sell its other products and became premium Ibaco parlours when the high-end brand was introduced in 2012.

Hatsun stores now play a dual role: they are distribution points early in the morning and retail stores for the rest of the day, showcasing all the products from Arun in clear-top refrigerators. Franchisees have reported a 50 per cent jump in sales of Arun Ice Creams due to this change.

Today, Hatsun is the largest private sector dairy company in India, with a network of about 10,500 Hatsun ‘Milk Banks’ across 12,000 villages: more than three lakh farmers supply milk to these units. Its 14 plants are spread across four states in South India. It procures about 18-20 lakh litres of milk per day. 

Of this, 60,000 litres go for ice cream production and the remaining for milk, milk products, ghee, curd, and other such products.

Ice cream sales reportedly account for only about 10 per cent of the ₹4,200 crore company; but mention the name ‘Arun’ to anyone and the association with ice creams is immediate — such is its brand recall!

Keeping up with the times

Chandramohan invested in the best technology to keep his ice cream brand ahead of the rest. Apart from cone and chocolate manufacturing equipment, Arun has a well-equipped packaging and production line, and a cold storage facility that can hold up to 10 days’ ice cream inventory. Expert ice cream technologists and management personnel were appointed to keep the quality consistent and innovation levels high.

Arun Ice Creams became famous for the variety of flavours it offers, which included flavours based on traditional Indian sweets, and the new flavours introduced every season. Its ‘Cassatta slice’ ice cream is still a firm favourite among regulars. Bars, cups, ‘ibars’, ‘ibar minis’, icons, specialities, tubs, kids’ bar like Yummy Bear, Spiral, Trio, Jolly Train. Because of control over milk procurement, Arun has been able to consistently maintain its ‘creamier’ USP in ice creams, with 12 per cent fat content (minimum fat content in ice creams is 10 per cent).

With over over 2,300 parlours across Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, Arun recently entered Maharashtra and Orissa. It is also present in foreign markets such as Seychelles (where it holds 70 per cent of the market ) and Brunei (where it is among the top 5 brands). Clearly, the sun, as in its brand name, keeps shining on Arun.

NETFLIX : Back to normal streaming quality

Netflix starts to bring streaming quality back to normal

American media-services provider Netflix is now going back to normal streaming quality. According to Mashable, in March the streaming platform started reducing streaming quality in some markets, including Europe, India and Australia, with an idea to reduce Netflix's impact on internet speeds. As per FlatpanelsHD (via Android Central), users across Europe are once again getting 4K HDR video quality at up to 15 Mb/s of data transfer. This includes Denmark, Norway and Germany, though the outlet reports that restrictions still apply in some cases. However, over the last week, Denmark and Norway have seen broadband speeds improve, according to Speedtest, while Germany's speeds declined. Netflix confirmed to FlatpanelsHD that it's bringing video quality back up, saying it's "working with ISPs to help increase capacity." Netflix said, "In the last month alone we have added four times the normal capacity. As conditions improve we will lift these limitations." This move by Netflix comes as many European countries slowly ease the restrictions imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Germany, for example, allowed shops and schools to reopen last week, while Denmark reopened its retail sector.

have you know about 'GOOGLE GLASS'

Google Glass is a wearable, voice- and motion-controlled android device that resembles a pair of eyeglasses and displays information directly in the user's field of vision.

Google Glass offers an reality experience by using visual, audio and location-based inputs to provide relevant information. For example, upon entering an airport, a user could automatically receive flight status information.

When the first version was launched in 2013, consumers immediately voiced their concern of the glasses being an invasion of privacy. Google Glass represented inescapable recording in everyday life. At first, Google attempted to rebrand the glasses as a tool for professionals such as surgeons or factory workers. However, concern remained and Google ceased all work on the Glass project in 2015.

In 2017 work resumed with Glass Enterprise Edition. This relaunch of the project focused all efforts on making a product that would benefit workplaces like factories and warehouses. In 2019, a new version of Google Glass was released -- the Glass Enterprise Edition 2.

How Google Glasses work

The Google Glass operating system  is based on a version of Android. The OS can run application virtualization tools called GLASSWEAR that are optimized for the device. Glassware allows the device to deliver an app to the user, instead of a full desktop. The glasses have built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity and a camera for taking photographs and videos. 

The smart eyewear uses motion and voice recognition to process commands from the wearer. A touchpad is also available on the glasses' rim. To provide the requested information, the device relies on sending small packages of information straight to the wearer through a micro-projector, using a private channel of communication that can only be accessed by the user.

Google Glass then uses a field sequential color (FSC) liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) system to display images on the lens, allowing wearers to view the image in true colour. FSC refers to a color television system that transmits the primary color information in continuous images and then relies on the human's vision and perception to collect the information into a color picture. LCOS is a form of video display technology.

Features of Google Glass

The key feature of Google Glass is the tiny semi-transparent screen located on the upper right hand side of the glasses. This display occupies only about 5 percent of the wearer's natural field of vision and is responsible for transmitting information to the user.

In order to view the screen, wearers must look up, placing the screen out of the direct line of vision. This feature is particularly important because bad placement of the display could lead to serious safety issues.

Other features of Google Glass include:

• The ability to take photos and videos and then share exactly what the user is seeing through Google hangouts.
• The option to use the Google search engine through the glasses, using Wi-Fi or a smartphone's data connection.
• The ability to have translations streamed straight to the wearer through the screen.
• Reminders to complete certain chores or tasks with an added visual aspect that will prompt a notification to appear on the user's screen every time they look at a particular object.
• The ability to sync the glasses to calendars stored on phones or computers in order to receive reminders of events and meetings.
• Support of both voice and video calls. In the video calls, wearers can show the other person exactly what they're looking at instead of talking face-to-face.
• The ability to answer emails and text messages using voice dictation.
• Collaboration with Google Maps to provide step-by-step directions with a map displayed on the screen.
• The ability to respond to facial and head movements, such as allowing the user to tilt their head to scroll through a page or operate the device with eye movements.

Though this was cool !!! It became a failure model.Due to cost and less clarity of details