Pizza is one of the staples of American culture, whether it is for an office meeting, birthday party, tailgate, or just a family dinner when cooking is out of the question. The 21st century consumer has evolved from the ‘I’ll eat anything’ category into the ‘well, as long as its gluten free’ variety. Our health should not be taken for granted, and society as a whole has embraced routines involving more exercise, regular doctor checkups, better diet, and smarter grocery shopping in every aspect of their daily lives. Plus, they pass this along to their families by ordering healthier options at restaurants during social gatherings and parties. Giggles N’ Hugs, Inc. (OTCQB: GIGL) owns and operates family-friendly restaurants that bring together high-end, organic food with active, cutting-edge play and entertainment for children.

The best way to develop your children’s taste buds for healthy food is to get them started early. Giggles N’ Hugs is the perfect environment to sneak in a vegetarian pizza or gluten free BLT while the kids are having a blast at a birthday party. Developing healthy eating habits is contagious and can be fun and competitive if more people are involved. Count calories using some cool iPhone app and reward the most disciplined child with a gluten free banana split. Greasy French fries and double bacon cheeseburgers are a dying trend now that everyone is more informed about the health ramifications of a fast food diet.

Giggles N’ Hugs has three convenient locations in the greater Los Angeles area to choose from and, assuming a few more high profile, health-conscious celebrities join the bandwagon, you could soon see more locations across the country and around the world.

Eating healthy, losing weight, and exercise all contribute to being more productive in other areas of your life. Choosing natural foods grocery stores instead of some popular, regional chain for shopping, as well as, picking Giggles N’ Hugs over a Chuck E. Cheese’s for your child’s birthday party, are all ways to better you and your family’s overall quality of life.

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Since Monday, June 29, 2015, a new physically-delivered zinc futures contract (ZNC) of 25 tonnes (metric tons) has been trading on the CME Globex. Its introduction has made it easier for both producers and industrial users to hedge price risk. However, like futures in general, the ZNC is serving another purpose that’s just as important: signaling market sentiment on zinc spot prices. In what is referred to as price discovery, futures prices are used for pricing cash market transactions. They’re everyone’s consensus on where prices on the underlying asset are going, and the consensus is that zinc is on its way up.

At the start of trading, at the time of writing, on Monday, January 25, 2016, the January contract was quoted at $1,511.50. (The ZNC contract expires on the third last business day of the contract month, which, for January, should be Friday, January 29, 2016, since the CME Globex trades on Sundays.) This climbs to $1,522.00 for March delivery; to $1,533.00 for June delivery; to $1,540.50 for September delivery and to $1,548.50 for delivery in December 2016.

What’s driving this optimism? There are a number of factors that might be responsible. One is the news coming out of China. The authorities in China published data recently reporting GDP growth of 6.9 percent in 2015. The response has generally been one of concern, but the growth in China’s economy needs to be put into perspective. World Bank data reports China’s 2014 GDP at $10.4 trillion. A 6.9 percent increase on that, for 2015, amounts to about $714 billion, larger than the size of the economy of Switzerland. In fact, the increase in China’s GDP in 2015 surpassed the size of most of the world’s economies, some 174 of the 193 countries for which the Bank collects data. A 6.9 percent increase is no cause for lament. It’s more than the 10.6 percent growth that was lauded just five years ago when the Chinese economy grew from $5.1 trillion to $6.0 trillion. China’s appetite for natural resources still remains voracious. According to mining giant MMG, citing data sourced from industry analysts Wood Mackenzie, China consumes 47 percent of global refined zinc.

In the longer term, according to data sourced from iHS and Wood Mackenzie in the MMG Market Outlook, the global automobile industry will be one of the main drivers of zinc use over the next 6 years, when some 20 million cars will be produced worldwide. Greater China will account for a little less than half, totaling about 9.5 million, South Asia will add another 5.4 million, Europe 2.8 million, North America 1.9 million, South America 1.4 million, and the Middle East 0.5 million. A decline of 1.5 million is forecast for Japan and South Korea.

On the supply side, mine closures are expected to reduce estimated mine production by about 8.5 percent. MMG has ceased operations at Century in Australia, which at its peak was yielding about 500,000 tonnes per annum. Another 500,000 tonnes is expected to be withdrawn from global supply if Glencore makes good on its threat to cut production at its facilities in Australia, Peru and Kazakhstan. Today, the newspaper Irish Independent reported (http://dtn.fm/D4OCi) that, last week, Vedanta Resources made its final shipment of zinc concentrate from Tipperary’s Lisheen Mine. Mining activity at the Lisheen Mine was concluded in November 2015, whilst milling ceased in December. The report went on to add that the Lisheen facility ‘typically produced 300,000 tonnes of zinc concentrate’ per annum.

Star Mountain (OTC: SMRS) is poised to exploit these changing market dynamics. In October 2015, the company acquired the Balmat zinc mine in New York state. The Balmat mining complex includes a permitted and equipped mine, a 5,000 ton per day floatation mill, an office complex and ancillary infrastructure to enable the operation of the mine. The acquisition of Balmat includes 2,699-acres of fee simple real estate and over 50,000 acres of mineral rights within St. Lawrence and neighboring Franklin counties in New York. It seems Star Mountain is following Abe Lincoln’s old adage: the best way to predict the future is to create it.

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Earlier today, Cherubim Interests, Inc. (OTC: CHIT) announced that it has executed a memorandum of understanding to acquire 100 percent of the membership interests of Golden Eagle Roofing LLC, a residential and commercial roofing contractor based in Plano, Texas. In the news release, Cherubim CEO Patrick Johnson described the acquisition as an “immediate game changer” for the company. Following completion of this acquisition, Cherubim will gain a direct channel through which to engage roofing, insurance restoration and many other types of general construction projects throughout Texas while continuing to bolster the marketability of its innovative hybrid business model.

“We’re very pleased to make this acquisition as it fell right into our laps,” Johnson stated in the release. “The company has very good fundamentals, performing history, and a monumental first start to the year due to the recent tornado that struck Rowlett, Texas.”

Golden Eagle Roofing was incorporated in 1994 and has maintained an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau for more than two decades. The contractor has extensive experience with all kinds of roofing projects, including working directly with insurance claims adjusters in order to ensure that weather-related roofing damage is properly addressed following storms. Most recently, on December 26, 2015, an EF-4 tornado ripped through the neighborhoods of Rowlett and Garland, Texas, damaging or destroying roughly 450 homes and commercial structures. Golden Eagle has played a key role in repairing this damage, allowing residents to return to their daily lives.

“Golden Eagle is doing important, vital work to help get the people of Rowlett back on their feet, and back in their homes,” continued Johnson.

For Cherubim, this acquisition is expected to greatly accelerate its move toward cash-flow production. Johnson estimated that acquiring Golden Eagle will put the company at least six months ahead of schedule from a cash-flow production perspective.

“Any time you can buy cash flow it is a win, and we are excited about the impact Golden Eagle Roofing will have on the Company in 2016 and beyond,” concluded Johnson.

In recent weeks, the company has turned much of its attention toward bolstering its leadership team ahead of what’s expected to be an impactful year for shareholders in 2016. Last month, Cherubim announced the appointment of Tom Crompton, an accomplished operational executive with multi-industry experience, to the positions of executive vice president and advisor to the board. Weeks later, the company added Riall Johnson as director of political affairs and Josh Kuhlmann as inside council.

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Legal marijuana is the fastest-growing industry in the U.S., and if the trend toward legalization spreads to all 50 states, marijuana could become larger than the organic food industry, according to a report obtained by The Huffington Post.

Researchers from The ArcView Group, a cannabis industry investment and research firm based in Oakland, California, found that the U.S. market for legal cannabis grew 74 percent in 2014 to $2.7 billion, up from $1.5 billion in 2013, and it is projected to be $37 billion after full legalization. The cannabis movement is spreading like wildfire across the U.S. and any businessperson with an eye for profit is taking notice. Freedom Leaf, Inc. (OTC: FRLF) publishes a print and online magazine highlighting every aspect of the flourishing business from education, fashion, and lifestyle to consultation services for prospective entrepreneurs.

Twenty-three states now have significant revenue from both medical and recreational marijuana and are putting it to good use. Legal marijuana in Colorado alone has generated more than $15 million in tax revenue that is specifically designated for public schools, according to the latest data from the state’s Department of Education.

A majority of doctors are supporting the medicinal benefits of the cannabis industry as well. In a worldwide poll of clinicians, 76 percent believed that the pros of marijuana outweigh the cons. Within the next five years, the legal cannabis industry is expected to make more money than the U.S. film industry, the organic foods industry, and more than triple the revenue of the NFL, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.

Freedom Leaf is the voice for the increasingly sizable minority and is relaying its message to the masses via its print and digital resources. Even many high profile politicians are supporting this movement – the Koch Brothers, Rick Perry, Kofi Annan, Jeb Bush, Barack Obama, and Nancy Pelosi all support marijuana law reform.

The future is definitely bright for the cannabis industry, and having a key mouthpiece – Freedom Leaf – is essential for the assimilation and distribution of information to the public. As the old saying goes, the pen is truly mightier than the sword.

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It all began when ContentChecked (OTCQB: CNCK) CEO Kris Finstad had trouble buying the correct food for both his daughter and her friend with food allergies. While so many people suffer from food allergies, something new had to be done to ensure that the right foods got into the grocery cart. As a result, Finstad created the ContentChecked app, which was first released in Norway in 2012, and then in the United States in 2014. This app allows people to scan barcodes on food items and beverages at the grocery store, which then gives them a status of whether or not the item contains any of their allergens in question. Behind the app is a team of nutritional experts analyzing nutritional labels and contacting food manufacturers to track the allergen cross contact status of grocery store products available in the U.S. So far, over 70% of all conventional food items are in the ContentChecked database, ready to be scanned by users. The number of products in the database is constantly growing, and products are constantly being updated for formula changes and allergy recalls.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, food allergies among children increased 50% between 1997 and 2011. Since over 15 million Americans suffer from food allergies, awareness of ingredients is vital when preventing reactions, which range from mild to severe. The most common allergens include milk, eggs, peanuts, soy, wheat, fish, shellfish and tree nuts.

In addition to the app itself, ContentChecked provides printable Allergy Cards in multiple languages for allergy sufferers to give to their servers at restaurants. Each card lists an allergen, and an explanation of the importance of keeping all kitchen items clean and clear from the allergen(s) of concern.

In addition to the ContentChecked app for food allergies and intolerances, the company has released two other dietary restriction apps: SugarChecked for those avoiding added sugars and sweeteners, and MigraineChecked for those avoiding migraine triggers in food. SugarChecked helps users trying to lose weight, get fit, or manage diabetes by alerting them of added sugars or dangerous artificial sweeteners in their food. MigraineChecked, showcases otherwise unknown ingredients that may trigger migraines and headaches. Not only do these apps alert and educate the user about unwanted ingredients in food items, but they also offer healthy alternatives.

ContentChecked will continue its mission of offering “fast, reliable, and efficient mobile apps” to ensure consumers make more informed decisions when buying food. As ContentChecked continues to diversify and grow, the company plans to expand to include more niche apps within the health and wellness sector, with a focus on weight loss and development/degenerative conditions.

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GTX Corp. (OTC: GTXO) is committed to pioneering, creating and delivering smart wearable technology. From the company’s award-winning GPS Smart Sole technology for individuals living with debilitating cognitive conditions to the GTX VL2000, its miniaturized, quad-band Take-Along Tracker for family members and high value packages, GTX Corp. is leveraging GPS tracking location-based services to empower the global community and keep individuals connected to who and what matters most.

Last month, the company, through wholly-owned subsidiary LOCiMOBILE, Inc., expanded on this commitment when it announced the launch of its new and improved Track My Workforce (TMWF) app and backend portal. TMWF is specially designed to suit the needs of small- and medium-sized businesses implementing Internet of Things and Big Data Analytics technologies. With this innovative portal and app, employers in a wide range of industries – including food delivery, pharmaceutical sales, construction workers, caregivers, government workers and more – can affordably and efficiently monitor and track their mobile workforce.

“Industry statistics show that there are nearly 30 million SMBs in the U.S., and perhaps close to 200 million worldwide, which makes for a very sizeable market,” Patrick Bertagna, chief executive officer of GTX Corp., stated in a recent news release. “Real time knowledge has become the norm as more employers want to know where their human assets are during working hours. Track My Workforce [is] a simple, affordable and easy to deploy tracking product and service.”

To date, LOCiMOBILE’s suite of consumer apps has been downloaded by over two million users across 162 countries. Through the release of the new TMWF app, GTX Corp. aims to expand this success into other markets and sectors that have large potential to both increase the company’s market share in the GPS tracking and monitoring industry and augment its subscription-based recurring revenue model.

With an established foothold in the growing wearable tech space and an intensified focus on subscription-based revenue, GTX Corp. is well-positioned to realize strong financial growth in the months to come. Last year, Equities.com, an advanced financial data portal, released a comprehensive report (http://dtn.fm/3hYyF) on GTXO’s prospects for achieving sustainable growth. In this article, the author identified GTX Corp. as the “best pure play investment in the wearable tech sector.” Between the company’s extensive IP portfolio and accomplished management team, GTXO appears to be primed to capitalize on its position as a leader in the real-time personal location-based services market, making it an intriguing investment opportunity for prospective shareholders.

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In a recent article on Bustle, a pop culture site with more than 8 million unique monthly visitors, Content Checked Holdings, Inc.’s (OTCQB: CNCK) innovative app, SugarChecked, was mentioned as an effective tool for individuals attempting to cut back on sugar without sacrificing on taste. In the article, Tory Tedrow, RD, Certified Nutrition Support Clinician for SugarChecked, gave tips on decreasing sugar content in recipes without having a noticeable impact on the flavor of the final dish.

To view the full article, titled “7 Tips to Cut Back on Sugar,” visit http://www.bustle.com/articles/136602-7-tips-to-cut-back-on-sugar-because-it-can-be-hard-to-give-up.

The Bustle article marks the second time this week that Content Checked has gained exposure for its suite of innovative mobile apps by contributing dietary tips to websites with expansive, global audiences. On Monday, the company’s head of nutrition, Victoria Brodsky, offered some insight into the healthiest ways to enjoy a popular cinematic snack.

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Giggles N’ Hugs, Inc. (OTCQB: GIGL) has created quite a buzz on the LA celebrity circuit. Sandra Bullock has been seen at one of their restaurants, and so have Heidi Klum, Jessica Alba, Halle Berry, Jennifer Garner, Ben Affleck, Dennis Quaid, Mark Whalberg, Adam Sandler, and the graduate, Dustin Hoffman. They’re there for the good food and great atmosphere for their kids. They’re there for the ambiance, too. All that, and more, can be found at any one of Giggles N’ Hugs’ three locations, but healthy foods and an exuberant atmosphere are not all the company has to offer. Giggles N’ Hugs is serving up margins fat enough to tickle any appetite.

In the company’s latest Quarterly Report 10-Q filing, figures for the nine months to September 27, 2015, reveal some tantalizing details. Net sales for that 9-month period were $2,650,290, but the company’s cost of sales for food and beverage amounted to just $631,603, or about 24 percent of revenues. Those results indicate a very healthy gross profit margin of 76 percent. For fine-dining restaurants, the average is 60 percent, according to CEO and president of National Food Service Advisors, Kevin Moll, as reported on Chron, the website of The Houston Chronicle. It seems the Giggles N’ Hugs team has found the right recipe for success.

Joey Parsi founded Giggles N’ Hugs in 2007. His vision was for an establishment that would cater to the needs of parents as well as their kids. It would be a Chuck E. Cheese for the next generation. Giggles N’ Hugs restaurants offer a variety of healthy foods. Parents can relax and eat while their kids have an adventure in the play areas with giant climbers, dragons, castles, pirate ships, slides, swings and lots of other toys. At Giggles N’ Hugs, there are also nightly shows and concerts which are complemented with activities such as face painting, disco dance parties, karaoke, games, arts and crafts, and much more. Plus, since it knows how to take care of kids, Giggles N’ Hugs will keep yours safe for up to three hours while you shop or go for a meal.

At present, the Giggles N’ Hugs magic can be found at three locations. There’s a Giggles N’ Hugs at Westfield Mall in Century City on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles. There’s another at Westfield Topanga Shopping Center in Woodland Hills, Canoga Park, and a third in the Glendale Galleria. The company also plans to license the Giggles N’ Hugs brand. Look out for the name on clothes, toys, a frozen food line, and vitamin water for kids.

Harold Geneen, the legendary manager who built ITT into a billion dollar business, liked to compare his management style to cooking, saying, “You have to check the fire, watch the pot, add the right amount of seasoning and dip a finger in to taste the stew.” It’s a job for an expert chef. At Giggles N’ Hugs, there’s no shortage of expert chefs, whether they’re cooking or managing.

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The degree of visual enhancement in film and TV during recent years has been astounding. With Digital Cinema Initiatives 4K standard in theatres and 4K UHD at home, as well as a resurgence of 3D stereoscopic films in theatres using technologies like RealD 3D (NYSE: RLD), Dolby 3D (NYSE: DLB) and IMAX 3D (NYSE: IMAX), films look better than ever on the big, and small(er) screen. Similar innovations in the world of audio, led by top players such as Dolby, DTS (NASDAQ: DTSI) and Sony (NYSE: SNE), have allowed for an unprecedented level of acoustical richness and fidelity, resulting in viewer immersion horizons unimaginable to previous generations.

However, even as consumers start to get their hands on technologies like Oculus VR’s Oculus Rift head-mounted display, or the comparable virtual reality device developed in collaboration with Samsung (OTC: SSNLF), the Gear VR, there is one dimension of sense perception that has yet to see similar advancements: touch-feel. This is where pioneering haptic-tactile (of or relating to the sense of touch) technology developer Guitammer (OTCQB: GTMM) really shines, with a rapidly emerging brand presence driven by its portfolio of patented and patent pending broadcast technologies like the award-winning line of ButtKicker low frequency audio transducers. Haptic-tactile events experienced by viewers may have a visual and auditory portion to them, but Guitammer takes it that extra step and really puts viewers in the game, or lets them experience movies in a whole new way by letting them “feel” the impact of a hockey player getting checked into the boards, or the force of an explosion narrowly escaped by their favorite heroes.

Guitammer’s dynamic haptic event transmission technology is now coming to more theatres across the U.S. than ever before, on the back of a sweeping new deal with AMC Theatres (NYSE: AMC) which will expand the company’s installed footprint of ButtKicker-enabled theatres via 34 new deployments, more than doubling GTMM’s existing install base with AMC. President of GTMM, Mark Luden, was keen to point out how mounting order growth among theatres is driven by audience/proprietor receptivity to this innovative technology, which allows viewers to actually experience haptic events physically. As this new feature picks up steam, with more and more theatregoers actively seeking out this enticing and hitherto unexperienced dimension of film, the potential upside for GTMM as the leading hardware provider is quite significant.

This is especially true when one considers that, globally, total filmed entertainment revenue is estimated by PwC as being on-track to experience a CAGR of 4.1 percent through 2019, hitting upwards of $104 billion, led by hot markets like China (14.5 percent CAGR) and Latin America (Brazil 6.4 percent, Argentina 11.5 percent). In 2014 alone, the MPAA reported a $36.4 billion global box office take, with China experiencing a 34 percent jump over 2013’s figures, even as the number of cinema screens worldwide grew by 6 percent. With blockbusters like Star Wars:
The Force Awakens currently sitting on around $1.88 billion in worldwide gross, more than half of which came from the international market, the sky is indeed the limit for GTMM’s technology.

Westerville, Ohio-based Guitammer anticipates similarly robust growth moving forward in terms of adoption rates and estimates that some 2.5 million Americans will experience a ButtKicker enabled viewing after the company’s install base is bolstered by the new AMC additions. This end-user buzz feed system will in turn accelerate interest in Guitammer’s consumer grade solutions, driving sales of the company’s haptic-enabled broadcast services and hardware aimed at the home theatre market. The company’s technology is more musically accurate and considerably more powerful, as well as longer lasting, than competing voice coil shakers or other tactile devices, employing a magnetically suspended precision-guided piston that transfers vibration directly to whatever the unit’s housing is attached to.

Guitammer’s “4D Sports powered by ButtKicker” is a concept whose time has come and it is not hard to imagine this technology quickly proliferating out to the sports bar market. Because ButtKicker transducers accurately reproduce the feeling range of audio in a vastly more direct way than sound waves travelling through the air, and because when using headphones or speakers at a reduced volume the sound is completely isolated to the listener, the full range of possible implementations for this technology is immense. PwC estimates that global sports revenues were in the neighborhood of $145 billion last year (including factors like gate receipts), driven by rebounding TV advertising and an ongoing migration toward pay TV, as well as a return to the sponsorship space by financial services and automotive companies. It is no leap of faith to imagine ButtKicker devices in sporting arenas to help deliver a more realistic, front row seat experience to attendees at sporting events, even up in the cheap seats.

Delivering this level of powerful, concert-level audio directly to the listener, via a method that is driven by exacting capture and reproduction of remote haptic events, and in a fashion in which the user feels the event in perfect sync with (in the case of film) the audio and video – is something which has to be felt to be believed. To accurately comprehend the potential market for this technology, investors must experience it firsthand. Luckily, Guitammer has put together and maintains a Google Maps-based listing of venues where users can experience it for themselves. A listing which also illustrates how this incredible technology will soon be present on over 22,000 seats, in 11 countries, and in front of more than 100 screens worldwide.

Take a closer look by visiting http://www.guitammer.com/index, or head over to the company’s Facebook and Twitter feeds.

Moxian, Inc. (OTCQB: MOXC) earlier this week announced that its subsidiary, Moxian Technologies (Beijing) Co. Ltd., has entered into a partnership agreement with Xinhua New Media Culture Communication Co. Ltd. The arrangement enables Moxian to serve as the exclusive seller of advertising space for the Xinhua New Media App, Xinhua’s gaming platform. The five-year agreement states that Moxian will assist Xinhua with bolstering user retention by offering Mo-Coins and Mo-Points in exchange for interacting with advertisements within the app. Once the credits are acquired, users can log into the Moxian platform to redeem their rewards.

Tan Meng Dong James, Moxian’s CEO, stated, “This strategic cooperation agreement with Xinhua New Media Culture Communication Co. Ltd., a Xinhua Media affiliate, lays a solid foundation for Moxian’s future promotions and developments, while also gradually yet effectively driving the Moxian App into the Internet mainstream.”

The partnership fosters Moxian’s ability to have access to an impressive base of active members. Tan Meng Dong James’s recent statement notes that the app’s membership numbers are in the range of over 110 million registered users, including 10 million daily active users. As the exclusive reseller of advertising space for the app, Moxian is now poised to increase its visibility and market influence while simultaneously expanding its current base of customers.

The MOXC agreement with Xinhua initiates a key move toward maximizing on the market potential presented by its new Beijing subsidiary. This new revenue source puts Moxian in a strong position to take advantage of its expanded presence in the market. Meng Dong James added in his statement, “We look forward to the headway and potential this mutually advantageous deal provides both companies.”

Moxian, Inc. operates a social network online-to-offline platform that integrates social media and business for small- and medium-sized enterprises, primarily in China. MOXC products and services focus on creating interaction between users and merchant clients by allowing merchant clients to study consumer behavior. The company formerly operated under the name Moxian China, Inc. before changing its name to Moxian, Inc. in July 2015. Moxian, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Shenzhen, China.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.Moxian.com

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