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Story by Kendall Jones, via Washington Beer Blog. Story by Kendall Jones, via Washington Beer Blog. Last September, Wander Brewing of Bellingham won a gold medal for it’s Wild Warehouse: Barrel Project Release Number 1, the very first beer released in the series. The brewery just announced the release of the another offering from the Barrel Project series. Here is the release info... The post Beer Release – Sauraha, Next Beer in the Barrel Project Series by Wander Brewing appeared first on Beer News.

U.S. stocks delivered a mixed finish Wednesday after an early rally faded away. Traders were encouraged to hear Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen say that the central bank will be cautious about raising interest rates. The Nasdaq composite index added 14.83 points, or 0.4 percent, to 4,283.59.

The founder of Oculus told a group of developers working on VR content Wednesday that the immersive medium's success should be measured by time— not necessarily money — spent on it. Oculus' technology surrounds wearers' eyes with 360-degree views of virtual worlds that are either created inside a computer or captured with several cameras. The first-ever Vision Summit was organized by game engine purveyor Unity, which unveiled a tool Wednesday that allows VR designers to create and manipulate virtual worlds while wearing headsets. Читать дальше...

DETROIT (AP) — Electric car maker Tesla Motors says its net loss more than doubled to $320 million in the fourth quarter, hurt by lower-than-planned production of its new Model X SUV. Tesla said revenue rose 27 percent to $1.2 billion for the quarter as worldwide deliveries of its Model S sedan increased to 17,478.

The family reported Titus missing and a search was launched that included volunteers, dogs and a helicopter equipped with infrared radar. At about 11 a.m., someone spotted Titus inside the van of a neighbor who lives about a mile from his grandfather's home and flagged down a searcher, who summoned the authorities, Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Clark Parrott told reporters.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq stock market: Disney's fourth-quarter television profit slumped as ESPN struggles with subscriber losses and higher costs for broadcast rights. The building materials company continued to climb after it gave an upbeat view of the construction industry in 2016.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Divers on Wednesday recovered the body of a pilot in the wreckage of a small plane that collided in midair with another aircraft and plunged into the ocean outside the Port of Los Angeles. A massive search was launched Friday after a plane piloted by a 72-year-old woman was seen on radar colliding with a craft carrying men ages 61 and 81 off San Pedro, just outside the harbor. The crash site was near the Angels Gate light, a lighthouse at the San Pedro Breakwater that is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Inslee announced Wednesday that Millar, who is currently the Deputy Secretary for the state Department of Transportation, would replace Lynn Peterson, who was ousted by the Senate when majority Republicans and a Democrat who caucuses with them took the rare move of rejecting her gubernatorial appointment. According to the governor's office, prior to joining the agency, Millar served as vice president of a national organization, providing technical assistance to state transportation agencies in several states.

Disney helped drag the Dow Jones industrial average lower after reporting that its cash-cow sports network ESPN had hit a soft patch. Traders were encouraged to hear Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen say that the central bank will be cautious about raising interest rates.

In case you don't follow the global fashion calendar, Fashion Week has just begun in New York, bringing with it a few nice clothes plus the usual over-the-top weirdness — bizarrely themed runway shows and front-row fashionistas teetering on stilt-like heels, swathed in feathers and smoothed out with dangerous doses of Botox. [...] back to the U.S., where our familiar heroes, male models Derek (Stiller) and Hansel (Owen Wilson), are living in seclusion on separate coasts — Derek alone, in the snowy... Читать дальше...

If you die in coastal waters and are not discovered and you are wearing a running shoe — especially one with with gas injected into the shoe soles — then one or both of your feet could end up as the newest case of the "Nike Phenomenon."

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate panel has voted to hold the classified advertising website Backpage.com in civil contempt for failing to comply with a congressional subpoena into how it screens ads for possible sex trafficking. The Senate Homeland and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday backed a resolution setting up a legal fight with the company.