Same flight Air Canada ($714) vs. United ($299)

Ideal Bike

I got the below message on my Windows 10 machine and then I realized how my ideal bicycle should look like (I do not care much about the basket in the front though).

And Ikea made the Sladda bicycle, that I learned of only after they cancelled the production and recalled all the sold bikes.

Rest In Peace, Ikea Bike

I have not been able to find a similar bike yet.

I have been waiting all my life for DAZN

Finally Watch any sports competition has become reality and it is DAZN, a subscription video streaming service.

I can watch recorded sport events as if they were live as there is no final score displayed. I had a subscription to another sports video streaming service where it was the same that I could watch a recorded event. However, sports results were all over the place. I suggested they had a ‘no score’ area for the recorded events but they didn’t pay any attention to my suggestion so I’d thought perhaps they are right and I am wrong, after all they are the professionals, I am only a guy with ideas.
However, DAZN came along as I’d imagined and I felt vindicated :).

Of course it is not perfect as the recorded sport events cannot be downloaded to be watched offline, I suppose because of copyright reasons. Also, it is not possible to change the resolution in case you do not want to use too much data.

They still do not have the Premier League (the jewel in the crown) rights, however they have the Champions League, Europa League, Spain, Italy and France soccer matches.

I am amazed DAZN managed to pull this off. I would have expected companies like Netflix, Apple, Amazon, even Facebook to be the first to create a comprehensive sport events video streaming service.

This is Premier League

Teams have lost or won points in the last minute.

Or they did not qualify to the next round of the FA Cup.

Brokerage Account Statement

I had a big surprise when I checked my monthly brokerage account statement: one page was missing!
I called them and they said knew about the issue, it happened to everyone, they apologized, but they would not issue a corrected statement.
How come this happened? If they did not notice that one full page was missing how can you trust the accuracy of the statement?

Anyway, software bugs do happen, but they should have sent a notification about this issue so I would not have wasted time calling in (and I suppose I was not the only one) and also the employee's time.

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Nutrition Facts

I have always wondered how accurate the nutrition facts on food items are.

Vitamin C for 140g of blueberries - % Daily Value
Compliments Organic Wild Blueberries - 4%
Bergen Farms - 10%
Snowcrest - 6%

Compliments and Snowcrest responded to my inquiry on how they determine the nutrition facts (Bergen Farms didn't).

Compliments
For the Compliments Organic Wild Blueberries the Canadian Nutrient File information was used for the nutrition facts table.  The Canadian Nutrient File is a database of nutrition information published by Health Canada for common foods.  We often use this database for single ingredient, agricultural foods such as blueberries.  Lab analysis as you described would also be an acceptable method for determining nutrition fact information and we frequently use this method as well.

Snowcrest 
We can obtain the “Nutritional facts” for blueberries from two sources.

We can send a blueberries samples to the Lab and they issue a certificate with the nutritional facts. However, We found that even the same  sample was  sent to 2 different labs and we will get different results. Some of the vitamins are very heat sensitive and the Lab procedure require heat extraction to get the nutrition data. Some of the vitamins are destroyed during the extraction process. The test is based on one sample.

The most accurate way is to get the nutrients data from the USDA web site. USDA update their web site on a regular basis. The Nutrition facts data from the USDA web site is the average result  of many test samples. Canadian Food Inspection agency does not have similar nutrient data base web site but they recognize the USDA nutrition data web site as accurate.

 

 

Conclusion: What you see is not what you get!