Covid-19 has forced businesses to change how they work and communicate. While this is true for most line-level employees, the wealthiest Americans are also changing their habits. While this involves how we work, it is also affecting where the wealthy choose to live. By working online for most, if not […]
Month: January 2024
Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit blends RC car racing and on-screen gaming with AR effects. It took over my house. Scott Stein/CNET I hate cleaning. But I’ve done a lot of moving things around and tidying up, just to get things just right for kart racing. Cones under tables, gates […]
MCLEAN, Va. – Hilton has announced the U.S. debut of “To New Memories,” its first global marketing campaign since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The insights-driven initiative reflects consumers’ desire to reconnect with the people and places they love. The campaign comes on the heels of a new survey […]
Sign up for our COVID-19 newsletter to stay up-to-date on the latest coronavirus news throughout New York City By Rachel Holliday Smith, THE CITY This article was originally published on Oct 13 at 8:54 p.m. EDT by THE CITY The first time Shams DaBaron realized not everyone on the Upper […]
Are you confused by your stage of life? Feel young and vibrant, and yet a day-spa worker recently called your skin “crêpey”? It’d be great finally to have confirmation that you’re no longer a vital part of society—but how? Throw yourself a middle-age-reveal party! Here’s a step-by-step guide: Decide on […]
Bike racks were installed at Altitude Training Center in South Lake Tahoe.Provided Bike racks were installed at the Incline Village Library.Provided Show CaptionsHide Captions The Lake Tahoe Bicycle Coalition has completed the third phase of its efforts to create secure bike parking within the basin. The coalition, with the help […]
As summer ended, on a home field tucked in the shadow of the Kenai Mountains where the Kachemak Bay spills into the Gulf of Alaska, the Mariners of Homer High School returned to football practice. Coach Justin Zank, eager to start his second season, rolled into workouts with a pair […]
In early April, organisers of a conference I was planning to attend in London emailed me to say the event had been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As I read their email, I realised that another event I was due to attend in July, this time in Belgium, would […]
Screenshot: ABC/The Bachelorette (Fair Use) Welcome to the absurd, covid-heavy season of The Bachelorette, briefly filmed at the scenic and socially distant La Quinta Resort in La Quinta, California, before some producer decided it was cool to allow everyone to make out again. Clare Crawley and her 30 prospective husbands […]
Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg When the coronavirus pandemic shut down bars and concert halls in March, a new phenomenon was born: the vacation-rental nightclub. Professional party promoters started scanning Airbnb, Vrbo and other short-term rental sites for mansions and luxury condos for hire. Tickets were going for $90 […]
They bent over individual white boards, grasping markers bearing their names (there is no more sharing) and taking dictation. “How do I spell get?” asked Ms. Moore. “Sometimes in the South we say, ‘g-i-tt,’” she hinted. “So, you have to be careful because it is ‘guh-Eh-tt.’ ” But the hybrid […]
Outnumbered by her husband and teenage sons, Lucy Dunn agrees to a marine adventure in the Azores and ends up a convert Being the only girl in a houseful of sporty boys has its upsides, namely that I get Saturday and Sunday mornings lounging in bed while they are off playing […]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and LONDON (PRWEB) October 13, 2020 New data from Bloomreach, the leader in commerce experience™, shows the surge in holiday online shopping has already started as customers start preparing early for the Holiday season amidst the uncertainty around the ongoing impact of COVID. Bloomreach’s Commerce Pulse Data […]
Sevy Guasch lost his job at a hotel near San Jose and had to go without unemployment benefits for more than six months because he was stuck in an outdated manual review process to prevent fraud. Sevy Guasch hide caption toggle caption Sevy Guasch Sevy Guasch lost his job at […]
An overwhelming majority of US and Canadian travelers (99 percent) are eager to travel again, with 70 percent stating that they plan to take a holiday in 2021, according to a Travel Leaders Group survey of nearly 3,000 frequent travelers. The survey was conducted in September in conjunction with the […]
Share prices of casino stocks have plummeted since the start of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Though stocks in many other impacted sectors have recovered from March lows, share prices in the gambling industry remain down by as much as 50% year to date. This puts them in value […]
Cortez Commercial crabbers out of the Cortez fishing village began putting out their traps last week in preparation for the start of the stone crab harvest on Thursday. The season runs through May 2. But seemingly, like everything else in the year 2020, there was a complication: Hurricane Delta was […]
Rocco Forte Hotels has responded to the continuing confusion surrounding testing for travellers from the UK by launching its own innovative ‘Fit to Travel’ partnership service. The group, which operates luxury properties in locations including Sicily, Rome, Florence and Puglia, has partnered with Blue Horizon, which will arrange for self-test kits […]
lake district Half-term holidays hang in the balance with the Prime Minister to consider a “circuit breaker” lockdown if his three-tier system fails to slow the spread of the virus. Pubs, restaurants and other businesses could be forced to close under such measures with a decision to be made towards […]
[email protected] The search for volunteers is again under way for the United Way of Lee, Hendry, Glades and Okeechobee Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. Volunteer tax preparers, interpreters and greeters are needed at all the VITA sites, which includes Lehigh Community Services, during the 2021 tax season. […]