Day: June 13, 2022

To Check Into A Great Hotel For A Vacation In Italy, Look At Puglia.
Travel

To Check Into A Great Hotel For A Vacation In Italy, Look At Puglia.

Puglia was long overlooked as a tourist destination, known only for its heel-shaped peninsula and small role in the history of Italian unification. In recent years, however, it has become an increasingly popular vacation spot for Italophiles who seek to explore the country beyond its popular coastal regions of Tuscany and Amalfi.   It’s not difficult to see why. The relatively flat landscape features some of the most gorgeous towns in Italy – from the bleached walls of Ostuni to the quaint domed roofs of Alberobello’s traditional trulli – most of which are packed with knotty medieval streets, gleaming white Baroque churches and bustling markets. Around its lengthy coastlines you’ll find some of Italy’s most pristine beaches, from soft white sand to rocky plunge pools with crysta...
Charl Schwartzel won the inaugural LIV Golf individual competition and $4 million prize.
Business

Charl Schwartzel won the inaugural LIV Golf individual competition and $4 million prize.

South African Charl Schwartzel won the inaugural individual stroke-play competition of the inaugural Saudi Arabian-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series, which took place on Saturday. Schwartzel won $4 million for the three-round, 54-hole event at the Centurion Golf Club outside London. He shot 7-under, finishing one stroke clear of Hennie du Plessis. Schwartzel's four-man team, Stinger GC, also won the team competition by 14 shots over Crushers GC and will split the $3 million prize. The 2011 Masters champion combined payday for winning both individual and team contests is $4.75 million. Phil Mickelson finished in 34th place on 10 over in the 48 player field. Dustin Johnson placed eighth, and ended up on 1 under after this tournament. Fronted by former world No. 1 Greg Norman, the LIV Go...
William Shatner Wept With Grief After Going To Outer Space.
Science

William Shatner Wept With Grief After Going To Outer Space.

90-year-old actor, presenter, poet, author, and, more recently, the oldest person ever to travel to space William Shatner shows no signs of slowing down. This fall, he intends to distribute a book, called "Strongly Go," which is charged as a kind of philosophical reflection on his life, vocation, and the "interconnectivity of all things," as per distributer Simon and Schuster. He's likewise the substance of another coding rivalry that will offer the victor an opportunity to travel in excess of 18 miles high in a shuttle esque case tied to an inflatable. (Indeed, truly.) CNN Business found the "Star Trek" legend this week in a far reaching interview. Here is a fast recap.   How he responded to going to space   Shatner was Amazon pioneer Jeff Bezos' welcomed visitor o...
Paramedic From Utah Bought A One-Way Ticket To Russia When Russia Invaded Ukraine.
Politics

Paramedic From Utah Bought A One-Way Ticket To Russia When Russia Invaded Ukraine.

Local police drive us to a remote section of a Utah valley where they say a unit of foreign fighters is stationed. The region resembles the one in some parts of Ukraine that were recently struck by shelling. The structures are leveled and bomb craters are visible all over the place. The distant rumble of outgoing artillery can be heard as we walk under the cover of trees. A small snake slithers by and quickly disappears. We walk up a small ramp and into a courtyard where soldiers are hurriedly packing up a vehicle in which they plan to head for the front lines. American accents are heard back and forth on their radio comms. Surprised and baffled to see a group of journalists, they wave us away. Clearly, they have other pressing matters. But after some calls with their commander, we're t...
French Parliamentary Elections Were Eclipsed By Low Turnout.
News

French Parliamentary Elections Were Eclipsed By Low Turnout.

On the evening of Macron's re-election, his party's centrist alliance, Ensemble, has an increased risk of losing its majority in parliament of just weeks. Polling suggested German Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right alliance Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) with the leftist coalition New Ecological and Social People's Union (NUPES) neck and neck. According to results announced Sunday evening, Ensemble has won 25.37 percent (5.1 million votes), while the pan-left NUPES led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon have gained 24.31 percent (4.9 million votes). A second round of voting is scheduled for June 19. If after that Ensemble falls short of the 289 threshold for an absolute majority—which major pollsters are projecting as a possibility—Macron will become the first ...
Keep Kim Kardashian Clad In Skintight Latex.
Fashion

Keep Kim Kardashian Clad In Skintight Latex.

It's a bold decision to dedicate your entire company to a single product, but for Laura Petrielli-Pulice, it overcompensated tenfold. The founder of Vex Latex has delivered the likes of Kim Kardashian, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, and Bret Easton Ellis with custom latex products. It's been north of twenty years since she made her most memorable pieces while learning at FIT in New York, enlivened by Thierry Mugler's plans. "I absolutely never set out to be a business visionary or maintained my own business, the objective was simply to accomplish something I love," she tells Vogue. "I knew that [latex] could be removed from the fixation world and executed into the design business." Vex has made brilliant science fiction isolates and noisy plastic dresses for Kim - see the bra and tights she wor...
Hunter Wears That Uber Third Rare Tom Ford-Era Gucci Top.
Entertainment

Hunter Wears That Uber Third Rare Tom Ford-Era Gucci Top.

Earlier this week, Halsey stepped out in a pair of slinky trousers with an overlay of mesh shorts; up top, she wore a Tom Ford-era Gucci tank top. But this wasn’t just any run-of-the-mill commercial tank top from Ford’s reign at the Italian house. No, this was an extremely limited edition piece—a rayon-viscose clingy black tank top (also in white) that comes with two flossy leather straps affixed with a modernist silver G buckle. On the runway, the piece was styled with a matching skirt that also included the embedded leather straps. The original price tag shows that this piece retailed for $980 as part of the spring/summer 1998 collection at Gucci. Halsey’s stylist Lyn Alyson took to Instagram to credit Tab Vintage for helping her source it—and for anyone who wants to buy their own versio...
Tesla Shares Are About To Get Much Cheaper.
Business

Tesla Shares Are About To Get Much Cheaper.

The price of Tesla shares is about to decrease by three times. The company recently announced that it approved a 3-for-1 stock split. The shelved split would need to get reviewed and cleared by shareholders in the company's annual meeting in August. Tesla (TSLA) shut Friday at somewhat more than $696 per share. In the event that the split were to happen today, its shares would be valued at $232 an offer.   You can definitely relax, Tesla investors (which is essentially everybody with a retirement account, nowadays) - - your stakes will in any case merit something very similar. You'll hold multiple times more offers no matter what.   Organizations split their stocks for various reasons: Splits can put their stock inside the scope of more modest, individual financ...