Entrance to the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum in the National Arboretum in November of 2021. The National Bonsai and Penjing Museum opened in 1976 with a gift of 53 priceless bonsai trees from Japan to commemorate the U.S. Bicentennial. Some bonsai were several hundred years old and one had even survived the bombing of … Read more
LOS ANGELES — Homebuilder stocks are having a banner year, outpacing the broader market on a wave of optimism that mortgage rates will fall and help juice home sales into 2025. The S&P Composite 1500 Homebuilding Index, which includes 16 stocks, including homebuilders Lennar, D.R. Horton, KB Home and PulteGroup, is up about 29% so … Read more
Suw Charman-Anderson Suw Charman-Anderson warns that the annual event she organises may have to end Groups supporting women in science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) fields are struggling to survive as corporations’ shrinking budgets, and cultural changes, see diversity strategies take a back seat. Ada Lovelace Day – a global annual celebration of women working … Read more
PA Media There will be no extra NHS funding without reform, Sir Keir Starmer says, as he promised to draw up a new 10-year plan for the health service. The pledge came after a damning report warned the NHS in England was in a “critical condition”. The prime minister said the new plan, expected to … Read more
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – High school football season is back. That means our football predictions are back, too. News4JAX sports editor Justin Barney will reveal his picks for the week each Thursday. All game times are Friday at 7 p.m. unless indicated. Last week: 34-5 (.872). Season: 125-26 (.828). Week 5 predictions Thursday, Sept. 19 Menendez … Read more
Johannesburg, South Africa CNN — The US ambassador to South Africa on Thursday accused the South African government of delivering arms and ammunition to a sanctioned Russian cargo vessel late last year, local media said. “Among the things we noted was the docking of the cargo ship in Simon’s Town naval base between the 6th … Read more
ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email Andrew Wilson, EA CEO, joins ‘Money Movers’ to discuss the investor reaction following the company’s investor day, what got the most attention from the company’s investor day, and much more. Source link
Writing a book requires reaching out to many people you might not otherwise have cause to contact. Interviews and image research require countless cold calls. This part of the project required me to mentally psych myself up. And at the end, it is what truly exhausted me (I guess the result of being a borderline … Read more
Robin Lane Fox, classical scholar, gardener, equestrian and journalist, has been near the front of the cavalry charge of garden writers in Great Britain for over 50 years. In a film, he even rode near the lead when Alexander the Great defeated Darius in Persia. No other living garden writer compares. I recently enjoyed … Read more
TOKYO — The six-year-old criminal case of Greg Kelly, an American ensnared in the scandal of Nissan’s former boss Carlos Ghosn, turned a page in a Japanese court Thursday, with his lawyer demanding “justice” with a verdict of total innocence. Kelly, a former Nissan executive vice president, was arrested in 2018, on charges related to … Read more