On a corner in downtown El Paso, a sleek steel structure stands out on an avenue of warehouse complexes. The newly refurbished 50-year-old building rises above the dramatic red mountain skyline and a busy highway intersection that leads to Juarez, Mexico. advertisement advertisement It’s home to the Hotel Indigo, a new boutique inn whose industrial chic decor captures the region’s past and future: Cement floors and walls contrast with Southwestern-flavored cacti, adobe vases, and tapestries. The hotel opened last year as part of a larger experiment. If you plant a cool place in a deserted downtown, will the area bloom? The answer appears to be yes. The Indigo has helped usher in a new era for the strip, which was once a vibrant commercial hub. In the last two years, the neighborhood has become flush with art galleries, restaurants, cocktail bars, and a new baseball stadium. Three other hotels … [Read more...] about The Hunt For The Next Portland: Hoteliers Bet Big On Small City America
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If you care about your privacy, try these special versions of Firefox
Forget the eyes: Web browsing is the true window into your soul. It shows what you like to read, watch, and buy–and what new jobs, or relationships, you might be considering. Marketers know this and pack websites with tracking cookies (small text files) that allow them to follow your web wanderings. Internet service providers (ISPs) may even intercept your web traffic to observe the sites you visit and files you download. advertisement advertisement The nonprofit Mozilla Foundation provides some of the best online privacy technologies in its Firefox web browser. It’s releasing its latest version, 64, on December 11. But before new tools make it into the so-called “Release” versions of desktop and mobile apps, they get trials with work-in-progress versions for computers, phones, and tablets. The in-development editions for PC and Mac–called Firefox Beta and Firefox Nightly–may still have bugs. You can install both Beta and the fully baked … [Read more...] about If you care about your privacy, try these special versions of Firefox
Robert Mercer is selling his stake in Breitbart … to his daughters
Robert Mercer, the elusive billionaire who helped propel Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, is reportedly having a slight change of heart. The wealthy hedge fund CEO sent a letter to his staff at Renaissance Technologies today saying that he will be stepping down in the coming months. What’s more interesting is that he wanted to set the record straight about some of his political moves. Mercer wrote that his political opinions “do not always align with [Steve] Bannon.” He added that, though he supported Milo Yiannopoulos in the past, his recent actions and statements have led Mercer to sever all ties with the provocateur. “Of the many mischaracterizations made of me by the press,” he wrote, “the most repugnant to me have been the intimations that I am a white supremacist or a member of some other noxious group.” Along those lines, writes Mercer, “For personal reasons, I have also decided to sell my stake in Breitbart News … [Read more...] about Robert Mercer is selling his stake in Breitbart … to his daughters
Sam Smith and other gender-nonconforming people helped make ‘they’ Merriam-Webster’s 2019 word of the year
Dictionary powerhouse Merriam-Webster has revealed its word of the year and it is . . . “they.” Yeah, it’s a pretty boring, humdrum word, right? But surprisingly “they” lookups on merriam-webster.com increased a staggering 313% in 2019 over the following year. Though the word “they” has been around for over 600 years, in recent years it’s been put to new use, says Merriam-Webster: More recently, though, they has also been used to refer to one person whose gender identity is nonbinary, a sense that is increasingly common in published, edited text, as well as social media and in daily personal interactions between English speakers. There’s no doubt that its use is established in the English language, which is why it was added to the Merriam-Webster.com dictionary this past September. Nonbinary they was also prominent in the news in 2019. Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (WA) revealed in April during a House Judiciary Committee hearing … [Read more...] about Sam Smith and other gender-nonconforming people helped make ‘they’ Merriam-Webster’s 2019 word of the year
Early on D-Street | Nifty can slide towards 50-day SMA at 11,740 if index slips below 11,888
Indian market witnessed a volatile trading session on Monday but bulls managed to pull the benchmark indices higher towards the close of the session.The final tally on D-Street: the Sensex rose 42 points to 40,487, while the Nifty closed 16 points higher at 11,937.Close The benchmark indices swung both ways before closing flat. Sectorally, action was seen in energy, oil & gas, auto, and metal stocks, while profit-taking was evident in IT, realty, and capital goods space. related news Nifty's earnings for FY21 likely to be in excess of 20%: UTI MF On the Ball podcast | EPL Gameweek 16 Highlights: United dent City's title hope, Everton shock Chelsea, Liverpool remain undefeated 'This sugar stock could see a double-digit swing in next 3-4 weeks' The broader market closed mixed – the BSE Midcap index was up 0.11 percent and the BSE Smallcap index was down 0.44 percent.India VIX, which is a volatility index based on the Nifty Index Option prices that measure market … [Read more...] about Early on D-Street | Nifty can slide towards 50-day SMA at 11,740 if index slips below 11,888
