BuzzBallz: A Comprehensive Look at the Iconic Pre-Mixed Cocktail Brand

BuzzBallz is a popular American brand known for its unique and innovative approach to pre-mixed cocktails. With its distinctive round ball-shaped packaging and a variety of enticing flavors, BuzzBallz has carved a niche for itself in the competitive beverage market. This article delves into the brand’s history, product range, production process, market presence, and consumer reception.

The Origin of BuzzBallz

BuzzBallz was founded by Merrilee Kick in 2009, a former high school teacher who sought to create a convenient and fun alcoholic beverage. Inspired by her own experiences and the lack of quality pre-mixed cocktails in the market, she embarked on a journey to develop a product that combined convenience, quality, and a unique aesthetic. The result was BuzzBallz, a brand that quickly gained popularity due to its innovative packaging and flavorful offerings.

Unique Packaging

One of the most striking…

OGG Conversions: How to Easily Convert Audio Files with OnlineConvertFree

Do you have problems playing back OGG files with your desired device? Or are you sending a file, and the format is not supported. Don’t worry you’re not alone! In this guide, we are gonna take a good look into the realm of OGG conversions and demonstrate how to convert audio data with an OnlineConvertFree straight forward and short-grained OGG converter.

What is an OGG File?

Basically what you need to know is that, an OGG file is the Mireille Mathieu of audio formats. Using a plethora of multimedia, it is an open-source container format. If that all sounds a bit put together, then it is: OGG converter is used to store audio data type MP3 does but of course there’s the below, in many cases offering better quality at the same file size. However, not all devices or players recognize OGG files so this is where the conversion would be needed.

Why Convert OGG Files?

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Outdated Approaches Fuelling TB in Russia, Say NGOs

MOSCOW, Jul 14 2014 (IPS) – When Veronika Sintsova was diagnosed with tuberculosis in 2009, she spent six months in hospital before being discharged and allowed to continue treatment as an outpatient.

Today clear of the disease, the 35-year-old former drug user from Kaliningrad says the fact that she beat tuberculosis (TB) is not because of, but rather in spite of, the way many people with tuberculosis are treated in Russia.

“I think it would be fair to say that Russian authorities don’t take the problem of tuberculosis seriously,” she told IPS.

Tuberculosis is a major health threat in Russia, where it is the leading infectious disease killer.The country has the highest rates of multi-drug resistant (MDR) and extremely drug resistant (XDR) tuberculosis in Europe and the third highest in the world. And those rates are climbing.Tuberculosis exploded in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union as health care infrastructure crumbled, the country was th…

Revealed — A Roadmap to Defeat Tobacco Tax & Keep Indonesians Addicted

Dr. Ulysses Dorotheo is Executive Director of the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA)*

BANGKOK, Thailand, Apr 11 2019 (IPS) – The image of a smoking toddler from Indonesia horrified the world but did little to motivate local policy makers to enact measures to protect children and youth from the harms of tobacco use. Indonesia has one of the world’s highest smoking rates where two out of three men and about 40 percent of adolescent boys smoke.

Cigarette prices in Indonesia are among the cheapest in the region, where a pack of Marlboros is sold for as little as US$ 1.70, while local brands or loose sticks are dirt cheap ($ 0.05 per stick), easily affordable to the nation’s 65 million smokers.

Indonesia has a complex tobacco taxation structure of 12-tiers, dividing between machine-made white cigarettes, machine-made Kretek cigarettes, hand-rolled ci…

Reimagining a Post COVID World: Key Principles for the Future

Mandeep Tiwana is chief programmes officer at CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance. He’s based at CIVICUS’ New York office.

NEW YORK, Apr 21 2020 – In her , ‘A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,’ Mary Ann Glendon tells the beautiful story of how out of the ashes of the Second World War emerged the world’s pre-eminent rights framework. The recognises the inherent dignity of every human being and was born out of the shared horror felt by the international community with war crimes and genocide on an unprecedented scale. It acknowledged that fundamental change was needed to make the world fit for future generations.

Mandeep Tiwana

Today, the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting our lives and livelihoods in wholly unanticipated ways, testing the resilience of our social, economic and political structures. Fun…

Racial Discrimination Ages Black Americans Faster, According to a 25-Year-Long Study of Families

Black Lives Matter protest in London May 31. Credit: Tara Carey / Equality Now

Nov 20 2020 (IPS) – I’m part of a that has been following more than 800 Black American families for almost 25 years. We found that people who had reported experiencing high levels of racial discrimination when they were young teenagers than those who hadn’t. This elevated depression, in turn, showed up in their blood samples, which revealed accelerated aging on a cellular level.

Our research is not the first to show than other racial or ethnic groups. The experience of constant and accumulating stress due to racism throughout an individual’s lifetime can wear and tear down the body – literally “getting under the skin” to affect health.

Black Americans live sicker lives and die younger than other racial or ethnic groups. The experience of constant and ac…

The Ongoing Fight for Gender Parity in Lebanon

Zwein during one of the 2019 protests in Beirut. Credit: Victoria El-Khoury Zwein

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Mar 12 2021 (IPS) – The fight for equality around the globe has taken a few steps forward in some countries which provides a glimmer of hope for future generations for increased female participation and representation. However, that particular fight is taking new shapes and forms in multiple corners of the world, where women are still persecuted, silenced, threatened, killed, harassed, and stripped off their basic human rights on a daily basis. The question today is, when will the world become a safer place for women and girls?

While the degree of severity is uneven in countries, Lebanese women and girls struggle each day on multiple fronts. While many Civil Society organizations (CSOs) and United Nations agencies work on Sustainable Development Goal (S…