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Yahoo
12-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Nebraska butcher shop adds 3 new meat vending machines
HOWELLS, Neb. (KCAU) — When you visit a vending machine, you would typically expect chips, candy or beverages to be on sale. But there are some machines at one Nebraska butcher shop that offer something a little different. Faltin Meat Market in Howells, Nebraska has installed new meat vending machines inside what's known as the 'Meat Room.' 73rd Abu Bekr Shrine Circus underway at the Tyson Events Center 'I have two of the machines that are refrigerated, so they're holding temperature well below 40 degrees,' Faltin Meat Market owner Ryan Baumert said. 'And then I have a vending machine behind me that is frozen. And so it's holding, you know, negative numbers.' The 24/7 Meat Room was recently opened to the public, with three vending machines offering products such as fresh meats and cheeses. Baumert said he was thinking for quite some time about a variety of ways to offer the store's products to customers after store hours. 'The idea came actually from an article in the Midwest Messenger back in I think 2018, where it talked about a processor in Wisconsin doing a similar idea,' he said. After buying the machines from a company in Des Moines, Baumert and his wife got to work. However, they were quickly met with some challenges. 'We've had to do some tweaking as we were building the machines,' Baumert said. 'Once they got on site, we had to figure out which products could go on what level of the machine so they fell properly and which coils would dispense them. So my wife and I spent a couple of months just prepping the machines to make it work for our products.' Baumert says business has been booming and has surprisingly helped the local bars. 'We have a bar just down the street,' Baumert said. 'The bar owner and I were talking, he was excited and said after my grill closes, maybe my folks will come down to you, get something and then they can bring it back and keep drinking their drinks. And he talked to me a couple of weeks ago and said that is the case and it's been working out pretty well.' Baumert said he hopes the machines will bring more people into town. How to get your pool ready for the summer 'Stop here and then maybe take a look around our town and see what we have for other businesses, if there's something that might fit their needs and look around the town and see if it's someplace that maybe they want to move to, maybe they want to settle here and try and help the community,' he said. Baumert says he has plans to possibly add more machines in the future. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Boston Globe
10-03-2025
- Business
- Boston Globe
Boston's new status neighborhood? The sky.
Advertisement But in the sky — the city's new status neighborhood — the fight is not over meeting the basic needs of life, but over lifestyle. It's a war of amenities. On beast mode. Get Love Letters: The Newsletter A weekly dispatch with all the best relationship content and commentary – plus exclusive content for fans of Love Letters, Dinner With Cupid, weddings, therapy talk, and more. Enter Email Sign Up Club VIP is a pet day care and wellness spa in The Millennium Residences at Winthrop Center. Brett Phelps for The Boston Globe In a world where two-bedroom condos routinely go for $2 million plus, monthly homeowners associations costs can run you $2,000 or more, and penthouses sell for tens of millions of dollars, buildings are no longer just buildings. In the words of There are resident-only restaurants run by fancy chefs. Golf simulators that come with a wet bar. Children's playrooms that are so perfectly staged no children should be allowed. Decks landscaped to evoke the Mediterranean, screening rooms for private movie nights, IV drips, 'Succession'-worthy work spaces, fitness centers with locker rooms more lavish than many homes. Places just for stretching. Service so gracious it spoils you for interactions with members of your own family. The golf simulation room is part of The Collective business club in The Millennium Residences at Winthrop Center. Brett Phelps for The Boston Globe At The Four Seasons One Dalton, not only is the driveway covered, the sidewalks are heated. EchelonSeaport has three pools, one with a waterfall and cabanas; and a basketball court that converts into a pickleball court. At Raffles Boston Residences, there are butlers and perhaps something even better — a framing for your life that sounds like it was written by Advertisement 'Home,' The basketball court and gym at Echelon Seaport. Brett Phelps for The Boston Globe But perhaps most important — and competitive of all — are amenities for the dogs. At During a recent tour of the dog spa, Baumert said the building also offers canine acupuncture ($65) and Reiki. As he spoke, Lila, a long-haired Dachshund, looked on, perhaps eager to have her chakras read (for $50), or maybe saddened that she doesn't live at The Raffles hotel in the Back Bay at 40 Trinity Place, Boston. David L. Ryan/Globe Staff There, in addition to glorious outdoor spaces for humans — including a pool and an open-air ninth-floor 'front porch' with rocking chairs — there's outside space for dogs, too. To run, and also to relieve themselves. 'Some buildings make them go indoors,' said Simona LaPosta, a real estate agent with Advisors Living, who was showing a reporter around. She allowed herself a quick wince, perhaps at the thought of the odor or maybe to drive home a selling point. Many of the city's luxury towers have been built in areas that lack the charm of Back Bay or Beacon Hill, but who cares! There's no need to ever leave (except to fly to your other homes). Club VIP is a pet day care and wellness spa in The Millennium Residences at Winthrop Center. Brett Phelps for The Boston Globe As David Bates, a real estate agent with William Raveis, wrote in his Advertisement Indeed, the city's newest luxury tower, the But no matter. 'Life Above the Clouds' is how the location is positioned on the website. 'Beginning at an elevation of more than 450 feet' the residences 'comprise a collection of extraordinary private homes and amenities in the sky.' The kitchen, dining, and living area at the Millennium Residences at Winthrop Center. David L. Ryan/Globe Staff If we were in New York City, nicknaming convention would practically demand we call this new neighborhood 'BoSky.' Just a generation ago, Boston was a town where even doormen weren't that common. But in the summer of 2000, the game changed, according to a 2023 then -astonishing claim: that life there would bring a 'Total Fulfillment of Needs.' Since then, more than 50 sizable developments featuring multimillion-dollar condos — both new construction and renovations — have opened in Boston. And by now, woe to the building that doesn't offer at least a dog-washing station, indoors though it may be. The game room in The Millennium Residences at Winthrop Center. Brett Phelps for The Boston Globe In late February, Bates, the real estate agent, did a keyword search for amenities in the 763 condos on the Boston market. The goal was to see what's become a must-have — even in nonluxury buildings. 'Concierge, ' he said, reading out a keyword. 'There are 224, even some in East Boston. One hundred and forty-one [listings] have a pool . Decks , that's 268. Valet , there are 95. Forty-nine have some kind of sports simulator. ' Advertisement A few years ago, with amenity madness blooming, the term 'fully amenitized' entered the lexicon (with coinage claimed by power broker Maggie Gold Seelig) and now it's even arrived in Beacon Hill. The library lounge at Echelon Seaport. Brett Phelps for The Boston Globe ' Alas, even in BoSky, sometimes there must be a nod to reality. As the website for Ritz-Carlton Residences over South Station tries to boast, the location provides '. . . immediate vehicular access to I-90, I-93 and the Ted Williams Tunnel.' There's one nightmare no amount of amenitization can buy you out of: Boston drivers. Choose a lane, buddy! The lounge in The Millennium Residences at Winthrop Center. Brett Phelps for The Boston Globe Beth Teitell can be reached at
Yahoo
15-02-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Rapid warfare tech helps U.S. Army build on lessons learned in Ukraine's war with Russia
HOHENFELS, Germany — As the morning fog lifted over rolling, wooded hills in Bavaria, southeast Germany, a drone swept down to the grassy clearing and two U.S. infantrymen ran out of a nearby forest to change two long, black batteries. Under the cover of trees nearby, another soldier was on a laptop monitoring the activity of that drone and several others, tracking an enemy vehicle several miles away. Developed and tested using information from the real-life battlefield in Ukraine, the drone was one of several pieces of technology including light vehicles and updated communication devices that were being tested for the first time by the U.S. Army in Europe. 'These drones are definitely smarter than they've ever been,' 1st Lt. Jake Baumert told NBC News earlier this month as his new unmanned systems platoon experimented with the new equipment to figure out how best to use it in traditional infantry fighting. 'They have missions and they are semiautonomous, not fully autonomous, but you plan it, and you can direct it if you want to,' added the 28-year-old from Dallas. Deploying multiple drones including short-range quadcopters similar to those available in stores to the public, his platoon observed the opposing force's tactical vehicles. They also sent up larger unmanned aerial vehicles that flew semiautonomously. As well as being able to start and land them with a click of a button on their laptop, operators could also hand control of the drones to other units hidden in dense forest several miles away, while the information they gathered could be shared instantly with colleagues or commanders. 'I think the biggest advantage is the technology that's in the drone and its ability to give you data,' Baumert said. Elsewhere, soldiers tested vehicles that seat more soldiers than traditional Humvees. Smaller and often more agile in steep terrain, they are easier to camouflage and are equipped with hybrid engines, making them quieter and less likely to be spotted by drones with thermal cameras. Lessons learned during Ukraine's three-year war with Russia and Israel's fight with Hamas in Gaza had 'really identified that we've got to get faster at staying competitive,' Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Weimer said in an interview late last month. Experience garnered during Iran's missile and drone attacks on Israel, as well as those by its Houthi proxy army in Yemen was also being taken into account, he added. 'The character of war is changing at a speed we've never seen before,' he said. 'We've got to get faster at staying competitive with the technology that's changing.' Information from the battlefield was coming via several avenues in Ukraine, he said. 'Traditionally, we wouldn't give such new technology to soldiers this early. Traditionally, we would grab a few soldiers, and we would allow them to use the gear, experiment with it, get some feedback from them, then go back, do some more research and development,' added Weimer. 'What we're doing here, because so much of this is commercial off the shelf, is we're expediting our ability to learn.' The lessons U.S. and NATO troops are learning from Ukraine and implementing in their training are game changers, according to Ed Arnold, a European security expert at the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based think tank. 'Using drones to spot targets is one of the most important things we have learned from Ukraine. As an example, using artillery strikes. There's nowhere to hide on the battlefield,' he said in an interview earlier this month. He added that the maritime capabilities were 'probably more significant than the land capabilities,' because Ukraine's military had been able to use marine drones to destroy Russian ships and infrastructure. This had allowed Ukraine to keep vital shipping lanes open so it could continue exporting critical products like grain. The U.S. military had also learned a lot from the way Ukraine has defended parts of the Black Sea, he said. Back on the training ground in Hohenfels, Col. Josh Glonek, the commander of the 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, said incorporating the new technology had dramatically reduced the time it took to make a firing decision after spotting an enemy. This had gone from double digits to under two minutes, said the 43-year-old from Gordon, Wisconsin. 'The lessons that are coming out of Ukraine are ones that we are very rapidly adapting to and incorporating into our own training,' he said. 'So it's provided, I would say, a sense of urgency, not only for us, but for our NATO allies as well, to very rapidly modernize.' Carlo Angerer reported from Hohenfels and Meagan Fitzgerald from article was originally published on
NBC News
15-02-2025
- Automotive
- NBC News
Rapid warfare tech helps U.S. Army build on lessons learned in Ukraine's war with Russia
HOHENFELS, Germany — As the morning fog lifted over rolling, wooded hills in Bavaria, southeast Germany, a drone swept down to the grassy clearing and two U.S. infantrymen ran out of a nearby forest to change two long, black batteries. Under the cover of trees nearby, another soldier was on a laptop monitoring the activity of that drone and several others, tracking an enemy vehicle several miles away. Developed and tested using information from the real - life battlefield in Ukraine, the drone was one of several pieces of technology including light vehicles and updated communication devices that were being tested for the first time by the U.S. Army in Europe. 'These drones are definitely smarter than they've ever been,' 1st Lt. Jake Baumert told NBC News earlier this month as his new unmanned systems platoon experimented with the new equipment to figure out how best to use it in traditional infantry fighting. 'They have missions and they are semiautonomous, not fully autonomous, but you plan it, and you can direct it if you want to,' added the 28-year-old from Dallas. Deploying multiple drones including short-range quadcopters similar to those available in stores to the public, his platoon observed the opposing force's tactical vehicles. They also sent up larger unmanned aerial vehicles that flew semiautonomously. As well as being able to start and land them with a click of a button on their laptop, operators could also hand control of the drones to other units hidden in dense forest several miles away, while the information they gathered could be shared instantly with colleagues or commanders. 'I think the biggest advantage is the technology that's in the drone and its ability to give you data,' Baumert said. Elsewhere, soldiers tested vehicles that seat more soldiers than traditional Humvees. Smaller and often more agile in steep terrain, they are easier to camouflage and are equipped with hybrid engines, making them quieter and less likely to be spotted by drones with thermal cameras. Lessons learned during Ukraine's three-year war with Russia and Israel's fight with Hamas in Gaza had 'really identified that we've got to get faster at staying competitive,' Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Weimer said in an interview late last month. Experience garnered during Iran's missile and drone attacks on Israel, as well as those by its Houthi proxy army in Yemen was also being taken into account, he added. 'The character of war is changing at a speed we've never seen before,' he said. 'We've got to get faster at staying competitive with the technology that's changing.' Information from the battlefield was coming via several avenues in Ukraine, he said. 'Traditionally, we wouldn't give such new technology to soldiers this early. Traditionally, we would grab a few soldiers, and we would allow them to use the gear, experiment with it, get some feedback from them, then go back, do some more research and development,' added Weimer. 'What we're doing here, because so much of this is commercial off the shelf, is we're expediting our ability to learn.' The lessons U.S. and NATO troops are learning from Ukraine and implementing in their training are game changers, according to Ed Arnold, a European security expert at the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based think tank. 'Using drones to spot targets is one of the most important things we have learned from Ukraine. As an example, using artillery strikes. There's nowhere to hide on the battlefield,' he said in an interview earlier this month. He added that the maritime capabilities were 'probably more significant than the land capabilities,' because Ukraine's military had been able to use marine drones to destroy Russian ships and infrastructure. This had allowed Ukraine to keep vital shipping lanes open so it could continue exporting critical products like grain. The U.S. military had also learned a lot from the way Ukraine has defended parts of the Black Sea, he said. Back on the training ground in Hohenfels, Col. Josh Glonek, the commander of the 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, said incorporating the new technology had dramatically reduced the time it took to make a firing decision after spotting an enemy. This had gone from double digits to under two minutes, said the 43-year-old from Gordon, Wisconsin. 'The lessons that are coming out of Ukraine are ones that we are very rapidly adapting to and incorporating into our own training,' he said. 'So it's provided, I would say, a sense of urgency, not only for us, but for our NATO allies as well, to very rapidly modernize.'
