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According to experts, while it can be costly, new windows can provide significant benefits like lower outside noise and better energy efficiency for the entire home. Wood windows have a traditional look that can be styled with just about any color. “You just need to keep them clean.”The only minor difference between vinyl and wood windows regarding maintenance is sealing and painting. Alexander says that if you have wood windows, they should be sealed or painted if they are exposed to rain or snow. According to experts, a window’s insulating value is called its U-factor, and lower numbers have the best insulation for energy efficiency.

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☆ How author David Nicholls uses humor in his book ‘You are Here’
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-28 | by ( Saira Mueller | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

That’s not too surprising coming from Nicholls, whose 2009 novel “One Day” explored many of the same themes. It was the most enjoyable writing experience I’ve had for a long time. While hiking the coast-to-coast walk in England, author David Nicholls encountered some torrentially rainy days. I wanted the book to be partly about the comedy of miscommunication — the things we don’t say or the things we say and regret. You say you wanted the book to be in part about miscommunications and what ifs.

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☆ Dubai World Cup: How 82 racehorses traveled to one of the world’s biggest sporting events
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( Rebecca Cairns | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The Dubai World Cup boasts $30.5 million in prizes, spread across nine races (including its namesake event, with an enormous $12 million purse), and attracts many of the world’s most elite equestrians. “This is a huge operation,” says John Nicholls, quarantine manager at Dubai Racing Club. “They get plenty of water, plenty of hay, and attention.”Emirates Skycargo has been transporting champion horses from across the world to the Dubai World Cup and Carnival races since 2002. Horses travel in air-conditioned stalls in the cargo bay of a plane, which can fit up to 25 stalls, with up to three horses in each. Horses walk to Meydan Racecourse from their quarantine stable for morning track work ahead of the Dubai World Cup.

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☆ The ‘best-kept secret’ to fighting burnout at work, according to a psychotherapist
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

It's impossible to eliminate stress from work entirely — but you can reduce your risk of burnout with a simple routine adjustment, says Nicholette Leanza, a psychotherapist based in Beachwood, Ohio. One of the earliest signs of burnout, according to the World Health Organization, is energy depletion. You might find it increasingly difficult to concentrate on tasks at work, or feel less motivated to do your job. "Incorporating small self-care activities into your work routine really helps notch down the tension," says Leanza. Check out:How to be happier at work, says Ivy League-trained expert who's led workshops at Google, Microsoft3 sneaky signs you're burned out at work, according to a neuroscientist—and what to do about itWant to be smarter and more successful with your money, work & life?

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☆ Psychotherapist shares the No. 1 rule highly successful people follow to be happier at work: 'It's non-negotiable'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

According to Wharton psychologist Adam Grant, employees who understand their work has a meaningful, positive impact on others are not just happier than those who don't; they're more productive, too. Research shows that raises and promotions are more common among people who find their work meaningful. What's more, the studies found, these workers tend to be more resilient, motivated and harder working than their peers. In other words, your happiness at work is a key factor in your success. According to Leanza, the most successful people follow one rule to stave off burnout and be happier at work: They make every task at work matter, no matter how small or thankless.

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☆ How to Create the Perfect Nonalcoholic Home Bar
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Oliver Strand | Monica Khemsurov | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

It’s no secret that nonalcoholic cocktails are suddenly ubiquitous. Whereas until a few years ago, nondrinkers had to make do with cranberry-splashed club soda, now seemingly every noteworthy bar offers a phony Negroni or a margarita-inspired mocktail. Today, the best bitter aperitifs (the term for nonalcoholic alternatives to spirits like Campari and Aperol) have all the complexity and layered flavors of their boozy counterparts. — Oliver StrandVideo Credit Credit... For our 2023 Summer Entertaining Issue , T stops by dinner parties from Ibiza to Long Island — and shares recipes for the best warm-weather snacks and spritzes. - Host Gift Guide: What T’s editors and contributors are bringing to thank their hosts this summer, including surreal serving spoons and cozy quilts.

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☆ Your employer may be quiet quitting on you
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Aki Ito | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Some bemoaned it as quiet quitting; others celebrated it as a much-needed correction to the toxic demands of hustle culture. But employees, it turns out, aren't the only ones distancing themselves from the office: Employers are quiet quitting on the whole idea of traditional full-time employment. If workers are going to be remote, the thinking seems to go, why not get the cheapest remote workers available? That ruled out contractors, because contractors work remotely. And that could be a huge problem for everyone, given America's insistence on tying basic benefits to full-time employment.

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‘Living on top of each other’Mission Antarctica: Each year, the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust sends a crack team to run one of the world's most remote post offices. UK Antarctic Heritage Trust Shovel your way in: It was a tough start. UK Antarctic Heritage Trust Food reserves: Unsurprisingly, fresh food is in short supply, other than what comes their way via visiting cruise ships. UK Antarctic Heritage Trust Kitted out: Those sunglasses are crucial if you don't want to risk snow blindness. UK Antarctic Heritage Trust The post office at the end of the world Prev NextThe chosen candidates beat out odds of one in a thousand – but this is not a cozy posting.

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☆ Remote jobs are moving overseas and to smaller U.S. cities: ‘The same skills for 60% of the cost'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Remote jobs aren't disappearing — they're just moving out of expensive coastal metros like New York and San Francisco. Faced with labor shortages and rising wages, companies are hiring for more remote jobs overseas and in smaller U.S. cities. Where remote jobs are goingRemote hiring is expanding beyond its traditional strongholds, like India, creating new "Zoomtowns" overseas and in pockets of the U.S. Midwest. The number of North American companies with remote workers in Central America and the Caribbean, for example, has grown 300% between 2020 and 2023, according to new research from Lightcast. How to stand out in a more competitive remote job market

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☆ The Grand Canyon, a Cathedral to Time, Is Losing Its River
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Raymond Zhong | Elena Shao | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +19 min

And yet, the Grand Canyon remains yoked to the present in one key respect. The Colorado River, whose wild energy incised the canyon over millions of years, is in crisis. Down beneath the tourist lodges and shops selling keychains and incense, past windswept arroyos and brown valleys speckled with agave, juniper and sagebrush, the rocks of the Grand Canyon seem untethered from time. The Grand Canyon is a planetary spectacle like none other — one that also happens to host a river that 40 million people rely on for water and power. At Mile 0 of the Grand Canyon, the river is running at around 7,000 cubic feet per second, rising toward 9,000 — not the lowest flows on record, but far from the highest.

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☆ Some remote jobs will still be hot in 5 years, and others 'might not exist,' economists say—how to know the difference
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Remote jobs are vanishing. As of November 2022, remote jobs made up less than 14% of postings advertised on LinkedIn, down from a high of 20.6% in March 2022 — even though close to half of jobseekers prefer remote roles. The remote job market might be shrinking, but there is a silver lining for the millions of workers craving flexibility: Though some remote jobs will disappear, others will continue to be in demand for a long time. The remote jobs that 'might not exist' in five yearsCompanies are hiring fewer people for remote roles in the U.S. that can be outsourced to cheaper workers overseas or replaced with AI, says Bloom. Other remote jobs that "might not exist in five years" are in industries that prioritize office culture and see remote work as "less optimal, less productive," says Rachel Sederberg, a senior economist and research manager at the labor analytics firm Lightcast.

☆ 'Renfield': Nic Cage's Dracula had an unusual inspiration, says Nicholas Hoult
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Thomas Page | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Think Dracula and the cape, the fangs and bloodlust come to mind. Nic Cage thought Dracula and saw Anne Bancroft in “The Graduate.”That’s according to Nicholas Hoult, who plays the titular servant to Dracula in “Renfield,” a new take on Bram Stoker’s characters. “I don’t think it gets more iconic than Nic Cage playing Dracula,” Hoult told CNN. Dracula is a character that requires an actor to go big or go home – and with good reason. “Nic Cage describes this idea of love in exile, and Dracula being someone who’s in extreme pain, because he has to watch everyone that he loves die,” said Hoult.

Towns said the lawmakers could have until early spring, otherwise, to develop and fine tune any proposals that emerge from Nichols' death. Share this -Link copiedMemphis police’s vaunted Scorpion unit is deactivated after Tyre Nichols' death Memphis police’s vaunted Scorpion unit has been permanently deactivated. Share this -Link copiedNFL calls for change after 'senseless death' of Tyre Nichols A day after the release of video showing the police beating of Tyre Nichols, the NFL on Saturday condemned the violence. Demonstrations continued Saturday in Atlanta, Boston and Charlotte following the release of video footage showing five former Memphis police officers beating Tyre Nichols, who died on Jan. 10. Attorney Blake Ballin’s comments follow the release of video footage showing the officers punching and kicking Tyre Nichols during a Jan. 7 traffic stop.

☆ The timeline of Tyre Nichols' death, from being stopped by Memphis cops to officers being charged with his murder
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Tyre Nichols died after he was beaten by Memphis police officers, his family's attorneys say. The Memphis Police Department has not released many details about the case, but Police Chief Cerelyn Davis condemned the incident as "heinous, reckless, and inhumane." January 10: Nichols diesThe Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced that Nichols had "succumbed to his injuries." January 20: Memphis Police says five officers firedMemphis police officers Demetrius Haley, Tadarrius Dean, Justin Smith, Emmitt Martin, and Desmond Mills Jr. are facing murder charges. Wells added that the footage showed Nichols repeatedly calling out for his mother, according to The Washington Post.

☆ Foundation empties coffers to fund Black paper in Baltimore
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

She and Brandon Soderberg, a former Baltimore City paper editor, had tried to launch a new paper, the Baltimore Beat, but the publishing company that supported it pulled the plug. Decades ago, the Holofceners left Baltimore for the suburbs, like thousands of other white families, leaving the city with a depleted tax base. The large grant is an attempt to counter the idea that “any giving is good giving,” Holofcener says. “There’s a real opportunity for us to engage.”The problem was that none of the cousins actually had any say over how the family foundation doled out money. Instead, the pause gave the paper and the family time to thoroughly nail down their plans.

☆ 23% of Americans think real estate is the best way to build wealth, but only 12% bought in 2022
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Ryan Ermey | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

When it comes to building wealth, Americans say one thing and do another. Why real estate is more popular than stocks in theory, but not in practiceSo what's keeping Americans from investing the way they want? "In real estate, it takes money to make money," says Nicholas Bunio, a certified financial planner in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. It's no wonder, then, that wealthier respondents in Make It's survey were more likely to have invested in real estate. Just 6% of respondents earning $50,000 or less said they bought real estate this year, compared with 12% earning between $50,000 and $99,000 and 21% earning $100,000 and up.

☆ It's no great surprise that the European Parliament has a corruption problem
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Luke Mcgee | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Belgian police said late last week that they had carried out raids and arrested four people in connection with an ongoing corruption probe into alleged payments and gifts from Qatar to members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and their staff. Kaili did not appear at a scheduled hearing on Wednesday, and was remanded in custody until she appears before a court on December 22, Belgium’s federal prosecutor’s office said Wednesday. Federal prosecutors confirmed a “large-scale investigation” was conducted into the alleged criminal activity, corruption, and money laundering activities within the European Parliament on Wednesday. Kaili, who has spoken in defense of Qatar in the European Parliament, traveled to Qatar shortly before the start of the soccer World Cup. While this scandal has rocked Brussels, the allegations have come as no great surprise to those who know the European institutions, especially the Parliament.

☆ ‘The Independent’ Review: John Cena and Journalistic Integrity
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

’Tis the season for election-conspiracy thrillers and campaign-finance mysteries, though the time might never be ripe enough for the likes of “The Independent,” an undercooked serving of political skulduggery that nevertheless provides a showcase for the magnetic Jodie Turner-Smith . “Your writing—it’s got punch,” says Nicholas Booker ( Brian Cox ), weathered dean of Washington political columnists. “It’s raw—but there’s something there.” He might have been reviewing “The Independent.” Instead, he’s appraising the work of Elisha “Eli” James (Ms. Turner-Smith), fledgling investigative journalist. Booker likes the cut of her jib, as he and his fellow ink-stained wretches might have said while standing around the AP teletype machine during the Nixon administration. (“The Independent” isn’t really a story about newspapers—which is fine, because its portrayal of the newspaper world is a caricature.)

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