​Omaha, NE December 29, 2020 (TBIF NEWSWIRE) – The Basket Is Full, Inc. (TBIF), a Midwest Natural Food Processing Plant; today issued the following Opinion Piece article: By Randy Olsen, Vice President of Operations For TBIF in Omaha and Iowa Locations.  

In today's article, I am going to talk about TBIF Rwanda Akagera Bourbon Coffee. Akagera is the area of Rwanda where the coffee is grown. Bourbon refers to coffee beans that are known for noticeably light fruit overtones. They yield well-balanced coffees and are less common than other types of coffee beans. Bourbon plants generally carry fewer coffee cherries per plant than other different varieties. (an important point to remember: TBIF coffee trees are all shade-grown, 100% Arabica beans, and natural plants). Typically this coffee is not offered on the open market as it is consumed in their coffee shops and churches. 

Rwanda Akagera Bourbon coffee trees are grown at the highest elevations of between 4800 - 6230 feet above sea-level. This coffee screams Rwanda and should be reserved for those who embrace high highs and fruity complexity. Excellent as a drip coffee or iced coffee. Next time, I will share details regarding TBIF's Honduras Estrella Lenca coffees. 

Have a PURJAVA day and a blessed week. 

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The exact amount is difficult to determine since each individual's hydration needs are different. The amount of water you need is dependent on my factors, including your health, activity level, medications you take, your diet, and the altitude, weather, and humidity where you live. Drinking a glass of water in the morning when you first get up - to flush out the toxins your body has produced during the night - will give you a positive jump-start on the day. Drinking a glass of water with your meals or drinking water before you get thirty are other ways to prevent dehydration. 
I encourage my staff to carry a one-liter, non-BPA water bottle (without the toxic chemical bisphenol A in the plastic) to remind them to drink water consistently throughout the day. Drinking an adequate amount of water is not only important for brain performance, immune function, cardiovascular health, detoxification, and adrenal function; water can also help keep your stomach full and act as a natural appetite suppressant. Therefore, developing good hydration habits can also help you achieve and maintain healthy body weight. It is important to recognize that not all fluids you drink will hydrate you. Certain liquids can provide your body antioxidant, which we all need, and dehydrate us as well.

We can drinks antioxidant boosters that rob our bodies of water.

Alcohol (wine, beer, hard liquor) 
Caffeine (coffee, tea, soda, energy boosters mixers)
Phosphates (fizzy drinks)
High-sugar drinks (juices, sodas)

Note: people who consistently drink these will need to adapt to caffeine's effects and actually experience a reduced dehydrating effect. Do you need to avoid these hydration-robbers completely? NO, but you need hydration strategies to compensate for drinking them, so the antioxidant you are receiving can help your body assimilate. 

Fourteen to Sixteen gallons of water can be found in an adult human body. That’s how much water I’m walking around within my body mass. Imagine carrying 120 pounds of water –that’s three nearly full 5-gallon water jugs — around with you all day long, every day of the year. You can do this math for yourself. An average adult’s body is 60-70% water; it’s closer to 75% for children, but it can get as low as 45% if you’re overweight. Take your body weight and multiply it by the appropriate percentage of water, and you’ll see how many pounds of water you’re packing. If you want to convert those pounds of water into gallons, divide by 8.4. Add another 24 pounds of skin and what you’ve basically got is an ambulatory water balloon wrapped in flesh. 

If you can’t drink water by itself, squeezing a little lime juice into the glass can make the beverage tolerable. You’ll also enjoy the nutritious benefits of lime.

Key Limes, a type of citrus fruit, is an excellent source of antioxidants. Antioxidants protect your body by preventing or stopping damage caused by free radicals, or chemicals that harm cells. 
Limes are also a good source of:

potassium
vitamins A, B, C, and D
calcium
magnesium

Remember, Fresh-squeezed key lime juice in the water, "No Sugar." The stringent nature of key limes has been used throughout history as a natural support to the body's detoxification system. I recommend that you start to enjoy a freshly-squeezed key lime water today. 

​Lincoln, NE May 25, 2020 (TBIF NEWSWIRE) – The Basket Is Full, Inc. (TBIF) a Midwest Natural Food Manufacturer; today issued the following article to customers:

On this Memorial Day — the special day we honor those who have given their lives during military service to our country. 

Since 1900, more than 35 million men and women have served in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, Iraq, and unnamed military engagements.  I grow up as a military brat child whose Father, Great Father, and Great Great Father all service in the US Military.  Millions of Americans have given their lives in the cause of freedom - some in battle, some in captivity. 

Many of those who served so faithfully called America home. There are thousands of retired military personnel right here in our great state of Nebraska.  Many of The Basket Is Full, Inc.; staff has family members currently serve in the military.  We all have friends or family members whose lives of service included the ultimate sacrifice. Memorial Day is a day that we truly understand.

Memorial Day originated as a day when flowers and flags were placed on the graves of soldiers who had died in the Civil War. One of the reasons the date was chosen was because flowers would be in bloom and could be used to honor those who had died for their country. We commemorate this day within our own Declaration of Independence — "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

These are the things that we enjoy each day — in no small part because of the sacrifice of those whose lives and deaths became the measure of their commitment to America. They are the spring flowers of our nation's greatness, the proof that life will go on despite difficulty and tragedy.

"Thank You, For Being The True Heros of Our American Existence!"

Sincerely,

Jonathan Primo Fuego Galicia, CEO

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Omaha, NE April 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Basket Is Full, Inc. (TBIF) a Midwest leader in Natural Food Industry for the communities in the Midwest; today issued the following letter to shareholders:
 
To All Shareholders:
 
The emerging coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak represents a challenge to our partners and all of our stakeholders. This letter provides a look at our situation as it pertains to our state of affairs of operations. We fully support the efforts of our healthcare professionals, each of the customers, and us to manage this pandemic. Our clients are focused on managing the emergency within their respected businesses and, therefore, have limited in-person contact and elective activities. We encourage everyone to follow the relevant local and national public health protocols and recommendations as provided. 
 
We have taken great steps to safeguard our employees by following the federal government's guidelines of social distancing. We have curtailed our business travels while maintaining supply chain activity as needed. The health and wellbeing of our employees, customers, and stockholders are our top priority. We will follow the guidance of public health officials as the situation develops and stay in good spirits during these challenging times.
 
We expect this situation to delay direct sales activities, training, and service contacts, which will impact our sales in late Q2 and the coming quarters, lasting until the limits on activities for demo researchers are lifted. 
 
We are processing fewer sales that are currently in our pipeline; however, delivery will be limited until all conditions are deemed safe for our employees; demo researchers can return to their duties. We were blessed to have had the opportunity to strengthen our balance sheet during the last 12 months to ensure sufficient cash reserves for 2020 and are managing expenses carefully to maintain our runway into early 2021. We are confident that we are stable, and that we have taken all precautions to keep our employees and customers safe. We are committed to our long-term mission of providing healthy food choices to our local neighborhood grocery stores.
 
Operating Reporting Practices
 
For me, fair reporting means getting information to our "partners" simultaneously, or as close to that mark as possible. We, therefore, put our annual and quarterly financials number together following morning after the quarter closes. Once our accountant clears our quarterly number report, we share our operating results a week later; once we get the clearance. We do this so that our shareholders and interested investors have timely access to these essential releases and also have a reasonable amount of time to digest the information we supplied. One further thought while I'm on this subject: Our management team believes it is both deceptive and dangerous for me to predict our next twenty-four growth rates for the coming months. 
 
We should all resist, however, all too often, these predictions lead to trouble. It's okay for a CEO to have his own internal goals, and, in our view, it's even appropriate for a CEO to express some hopes about the future, if sensible caveats accompany these expectations. Yet coming out of Federal Regulated social distancing majority of corporations who will predict per-share earnings will grow over the long-term at, say, 15% annually is to court trouble. This is true because a tiny percentage of large businesses can only maintain a growth rate of that magnitude. Here's a test: Examine the record of, say, the 200 highest earning companies from 1960 - 2008 and tabulated how many have increased their per-share earnings by 15% annually after a deep stop in throughput operations. You will find that only a handful have. We would find that fewer than 10 of the 200 most profitable companies since 2000 will attain a 15% annual growth in earnings-per-share over the next 20 years. 
 
The problem arising from lofty predictions is not just that they spread unwarranted optimism. Even more disturbing is the fact that they destroy the CEO's behavior to manipulate the numbers in order of not being called a liar. Over the last couple of years, I have observed many instances in which public traded companies CEOs engaged in uneconomic operating maneuvers so that they could meet earnings targets they had announced. Worse still, after exhausting all that operating acrobatics, several companies started restated their earnings reports. Since we operate under cash accounting guidelines, we don't have to dance or twist the facts to our partners. Once a company moves earnings from one period to another, operating shortfalls maneuvers that must be even more "heroic." These can turn fudging into fraud. (More money has stolen from public stockholders with the point of officer’s pens, than at the noise of a gun in the last twelve months.)
 
Lesson from Reading Public Trading Quarterly Reports
 
Finally, be suspicious of public trading companies that trumpet earnings projections and growth expectations. Businesses seldom operate in a tranquil, no-surprise environment, and earnings don't advance smoothly (except, of course, in the offering books of investment bankers.) Randy and I do not know today what our business will earn next year. We do not know what TBIF will generate next quarter, and we are suspicious of all public traded CEOs who regularly claim they do know the future. We understand that the market has two opposing views playing out in the market each day, Bull and Bear Market. When CEOs consistently reach their declared targets month after month and promise to "make the numbers." At some point, managers will be tempted to make up the numbers, and Bears Market will reveal their dishonesty. We have capitalized on several CEO's failures to utilize this very constraint in Q1. Our management team will not be adopting this practice and will only focus on telling our "partners" how it is, despite how they might react to the numbers.  ​

We expect for you to accept nothing less from us. Continue to follow your Govenors mandates andkeep your distance and we will get through this season together. 

Sincerely,

Jonathan Primo Fuego Galicia,  CEO