In the 2nd part of my review of IHG One Rewards, I look at the pros and cons of the scheme, and in particular the best 'sweet ...

Maren Heary appears in Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) by Sierra Falconer, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Marcus Patterson.

Chuck Jolley of Food Safety News recently wrote to me and several others asking: With so many high-profile recalls in 2024, have the federal, state, and local institutions responsible for ...

The moment has come to question the wisdom of continuing to battle a wounded but still formidable behemoth: Western corporate media. For decades, it has held an almost unassailable grip on the ...

What it means to be good — or not — is the infected wound at the center of Aria Aber’s debut novel, “Good Girl.” The narrator is a forlorn young woman named Nila Haddadi, and the story ...

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One puzzle was that my cottage and shed seemed to appear on an 1871 drawing of Vallejo, not where they are now, but just down the hill from where the Good Templar’s Home for Orphans used to be. Could ...

West Ham United faced a 2-1 defeat by the hands of Aston Villa in the 3rd round of the FA Cup. They are now gone three games without registering a win. However, they would like to change that when ...

Rcpp also provides Rcpp modules, a framework that allows exposing C++ functions and classes to the R level. The Rcpp-modules vignette details the current set of features of Rcpp-modules. Rcpp includes ...

This afternoon, I was surfing the Porsche Taycan Group on Facebook—my online substitute for a coffee shop meet-up—when I stumbled upon a gem of a post from Steve Coyer. Coyer, a self ...