Over more than three centuries, the Duke of Westminster’s family holdings have survived some of the most severe stress tests imaginable: multiple wars, a score of wrenching recessions and a couple of dozen market collapses. Yet as countless far smaller and less wealthy dynasties can attest, no conflict, depression or ... Read More »
Gary and Paul O’Donovan won the silver medal in Rio in the men’s lightweight doubles sculls on Friday from Rio, marking the first rowing medal in Irish history. Afterwards, the brothers from West Cork gave a terrific interview with an Irish television station, RTE Sport. It begins with Paul asking, “What’s the craic?” ... Read More »
British actor Kenny Baker, who played R2-D2 in Star Wars, has died at the age of 83, according to The Guardian. Baker, who stood 3 feet 8 inches tall, portrayed the spunky droid in the original Star Wars films as well as the prequels. Abigail Shield, Baker’s niece, told The ... Read More »
On the edge of a bucolic field in Princeton, N.J., an eco-friendly office building recently opened its doors. Plants festoon the roof, a living wall is planned for the lobby, and rainwater storage tanks supply the building’s needs. In the parking lot there are wind turbines, solar panels and electric ... Read More »
Last week, President Obama released two playlists of music he’ll be rocking out to in his last summer in office. The lists encompassed a wide variety of music, from rap to jazz to Manu Chao, though one track conspicuously absent was Eminem’s “Lose Yourself,” which Obama used to hype himself ... Read More »
I did everything I could to help speed it up, like cleaning up my files, reinstalling the operating system, and even replacing the slow traditional hard drive with a super speedy SSD drive. It helped a little, but the Core i3 processor was the main bottleneck in its performance. (I ... Read More »
SARAJEVO (Reuters) – U.S. actor and producer Robert De Niro said on Saturday that U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump should not run for president because he was “totally nuts”. Trump, a billionaire businessman seeking his first public office, has courted controversy with a string of inflammatory statements about his ... Read More »
Pollinator decline is not solely a governmental or individual problem but one which urgently requires a multi-organizational solution. Corporations have both a social and economic responsibility to assist in developing this solution. First, from a social perspective, corporations not only have a direct impact on pollinator decline through use of insecticides (agricultural companies), but ... Read More »
An experiment was conducted in 2015 at the University of St. Gallen to gather evidence on the benefits of using visualisation in communicating business strategies. In this experiment, 76 managers were acquainted with the presentation of the strategy to be incorporated for BMW’s financial services. Three types of visual presentations ... Read More »
ZURICH (Reuters) – A man armed with a knife and flammable fluid injured six people in an attack on a Swiss train on Saturday, St Gallen cantonal police said. A police statement said the assailant was a 27-year-old Swiss citizen and that he was also injured in the incident and ... Read More »
Last November, Amazon opened the doors of Amazon Books – its first physical, real-life bookstore – right on its home turf of Seattle. While I was in town this week, I made sure to stop by Amazon Books to check it out. I love books, and I…well. I don’t necessarily ... Read More »
The Big Four global audit firms go to court all the time but are rarely put on trial. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the U.S. member of the global professional-services giant, is currently facing not one, not two, but three significant trials for allegedly negligent audits. An unfavorable verdict in the trial currently ... Read More »
