Dallas-based Neiman Marcus unveiled its annual Holiday Book without the usual fanfare last month, while the word Christmas has been left out of the catalog’s name, the iconic list of Fantasy Gifts has not. For 65 years, Neiman Marcus has been offering Fantasy Gifts that include exclusive experiences and one-of-a-kind luxury items. Besides all the luxury gifts, the 2024 Holiday Book includes seven one-of-a-kind Fantasy Gifts. With price points between $20,000 and $1.9 million, we’ve listed them here from most expensive to least: 18th-CENTURY ROYAL CALÈCHE – $1,900,000 @galeriekraemer 18th Century Royal Family Calèche The price tag is not for…
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The 7th OECD World Forum on Well-being focusses on Strengthening Well-being Approaches for a Changing World. OECD How’s Life? report delivers latest data on well-being. New OECD Digital Well-being Hub provides evidence on the complex relationship between digital technologies and individual well-being. PARIS, France – How’s Life? 2024 is the OECD’s flagship publication on the state of well-being for people, the planet, and future generations. The report was launched today at the 7th OECD World Forum on Well-being; Strengthening Well-being Approaches for a Changing World. It charts both current well-being outcomes and future resources, offering a comprehensive picture of people’s lives. This helps to identify…
Trailing 21-7 midway through the third quarter the Baltimore Ravens were in need of a spark. The defense helped give them one by forcing a turnover that set up the offense deep in Cincinnati Bengals territory. Then quarterback Lamar Jackson gave them another one with one of the most electrifying and incredible 10-yard scrambles you will ever see. After getting chased nearly 20 yards backward by the Bengals’ pass rush, Jackson managed to evade multiple rushers, tightrope-walked along the sideline, made more defenders miss and ended up getting all the way down to the 1-yard line.Have a look. Source link
Authorities in the United States are investigating reports of Black people across the country receiving text messages invoking slavery following Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election. The racist text messages have been reported by people in more than a dozen US states, including California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Michigan, North Carolina, Virginia and Alabama. The wording of the messages varies but follows the same basic script of telling the recipient they have been “selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation”, according to local news reports and social media posts. Some of the texts were labelled as coming from a…
The U.S. Department of Education’s work to cancel student debt for tens of millions of Americans will likely come to a screeching halt with the election of Donald Trump, who has called the efforts “vile” and “not even legal.” As a result, the 40 million Americans who were repeatedly promised a reduction to or complete elimination of their debt will have to prepare to restart or continue making their monthly payments. The U.S. Department of Education’s work to cancel student debt for tens of millions of Americans will likely come to a halt with the election of Donald Trump, who…
HANOI, Vietnam – As of the end of September, Vietnam has achieved the status of the 5th largest tea exporter in the world, exporting 108,000 tonnes and generating revenue of about US$189 million. This represents a significant increase of 31.9 percent in volume and 34.2 per cent in export value compared to the same period last year. This is reported by Vietnam News Agency, a partner of TV BRICS. In July, Vietnam was the eighth largest exporter of tea, earning a revenue of US$135 million from exporting 78,000 tonnes. These details were announced at a conference on promoting the production…
Alexander Ovechkin’s slow start to the 2023-24 season had many fans and pundits worried his chase for Hockey Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky’s all-time NHL goals record would end prematurely.The then-38-year old scored only eight goals in the Washington Capitals’ first 43 games. He eventually recovered to tally a healthy 31 by the end of the year.This year, no such worry is necessary. Ovechkin has eight goals in Washington’s first 12 games of the year, now a 51-goal pace. “Listen, it’s not a question of if he’s going to break the record, it’s a question of when is he going…
Roadside bomb kills four officers and wounds five others while two schoolchildren are killed in a mortar explosion.A roadside bomb exploded near a vehicle carrying security forces in northwestern Pakistan, killing four officers and wounding five others, officials said. The roadside bombing happened in South Waziristan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, local police officer Dilawar Khan said on Thursday. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) armed group, also known as Pakistan Taliban, has stepped up its assaults in the region since its ally, the Afghan Taliban, seized power in neighbouring Afghanistan in 2021.…
Democrat Laura Gillen was projected to win a tight race on Long Island, according to NBC News, one of the hotly contested New York congressional districts that could determine the balance of power in the House of Representatives. In a rematch from 2022, the Republican incumbent Anthony D’Esposito had been trying to hold onto a congressional district right outside New York City that President Joe Biden won by 15 percentage points in 2020. D’Esposito defeated Gillen in 2022 by about 10,000 votes. Nearly 48 hours after polls closed in the state, NBC News projected Gillen would win the swing district…
Manufacturing has been the engine of growth in Asia, but a transition to modern, tradable services could be new source of growth and productivity By Chikako Baba, Rahul Giri and Krishna Srinivasan The Asia-Pacific region prospered by becoming the source of more than half of global factory output, but another transformation to higher-productivity services has the potential to further support growth. Employment and production typically move from agriculture to manufacturing to services, as part of natural progression that comes with rising income. Today, many Asian countries – including China, Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand – are highly industrialized. If history is a…