Photo: Watches and Wonders Switzerland is a weird place to see watches. To be clear, this is not a value judgment about buying watches in the historical home of watchmaking, nor the appeal of fine watches to Swiss people for whom watchmaking is an inextricable part of everyday life. Instead, the disquietude is about why
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The finalists for the 2023 Kirkus Prize are out. The Kirkus Prize, in its 10th year, is one of the richest literary awards in the world and grants a prize of $50,000 every year to authors for works of fiction, nonfiction, and young readers’ literature. This year’s finalists were books published between November 1, 2022
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An environmental charity will receive a £135,000 funding boost under a river ‘pollution penalty’ imposed on two house-building companies. The sanction has been announced by the Environment Agency (EA) following an investigation into repeated pollution of Pitty Beck, near Bradford. Keepmoat Homes Ltd, a company that specialises in building residential housing and owns the site
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In this article BF.B Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey Getty Images Jack Daniel’s maker Brown-Forman on Wednesday fell short of Wall Street expectations for its first quarter of fiscal 2024, plagued by lagging whiskey sales, supply challenges and a significant inventory rebuild. Net sales for whiskey products decreased by 1%, led
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Working while traveling has exploded with the popularity of remote and hybrid work. If you want to take a “workcation,” Barcelona may just be the ideal destination. That’s according to IWG, a flexible workplace company, which compared 26 cities around the world, grading them on a scale of 1 to 10 for the following categories: 
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Zanotta “Joy” shelf or room partition? You decide. Image: Zanotta. Form and function are the two most important aspects when designing furniture. So for designers to combine duality in function for a single furniture piece, the creativity gets amped up. Here are a few highly functional furniture pieces destined to make your space or corners
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Aug. 28th, 2023 Beau Monde Traveler is a travel publication and multimedia created for affluent travelers to learn, explore, and plan their next lavish vacation experience.  We have put together their 10 Best Travel Destination & Hotel Videos to give readers insight into these remarkable experiences and destinations. For discerning travelers looking for unique and unusual
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A £10m fund for charities that deliver suicide prevention services has been made available by the government. The latest round of funding from the Suicide Prevention Grant Fund is now open for applications from charities that work in England. The scheme first ran from 2021 to 2022 and led to the investment of £5.4m in
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oatawa | Getty As the U.S. Department of the Treasury and IRS roll out proposed regulations for crypto tax reporting, experts say it’s critical for investors to accurately report and track activity. Stemming from the 2021 federal infrastructure bill, the agencies on Friday unveiled the long-awaited tax reporting proposal for cryptocurrency, non-fungible tokens and other
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One of the best parts of fall is Fashion Week, when the show calendar is booked, and the zip to each and every party is part of the fun. In the dash to pack it all in, style-savvy insiders know that comfort and aesthetics are equally important. Enter Birkenstocks—a perennial go-to for those on the
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Photo: Marina T/ Unsplashed Data analytics has become a dirty phrase in the European Union (EU) this year. Coming off the back of France’s record high fines on tech giants Google (US$120 million) and Amazon (US$42 million) for obscuring cookie tracking consent options for their users, the EU is clamping down hard on data collection
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Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View
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An Islamic charity has said it “rejects violent extremism and hate crime” after its government funding was paused over accusations of homophobia and misogyny. The Green Lane Mosque and Community Centre (GLMCC) in Birmingham was awarded a grant of £2.2m from the Youth Investment Fund at the beginning of August. But on Friday, the Department
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