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In the meantime, Amazon has leased a fleet of planes, purchased thousands of truck trailers and enlisted entrepreneurs to build out delivery networks across major metro areas. Postal Service, which delivers the last miles of the package’s journey along with the mail. UPS and FedEx pick up the remainder.

A team from the University of Konstanz in Germany paired the Kinect with a vibrating belt for tactile feedback, a laptop backpack for a brain and a Bluetooth earpiece for verbal instructions to create a tool that can help the blind navigate on their own. It even reads QR codes, which allows the setup to provide even more information to the wearer. Of all the hacks so far, this is the one that seems most ready for mass production.

Yet here we are: Super Bowl LV with the Kansas City Chiefs facing off against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Raymond James Stadium in Florida; 25,000 fans in attendance, including 7,500 specially invited (and previously vaccinated) health care workers, sitting alongside 30,000 cut outs. The fans will all get PPE kits that include KN95 masks when they get to the stadium. And yes, even the vaccinated fans will be required to wear one..

If damage occurs, the rental company deducts the estimated cost from the deposit held. There is usually a standard charge per scratch or ding. To be reimbursed you must obtain an estimate of the cost of repair from the supplier often difficult to extract and lodge a claim with the insurer in the usual way.

But really, don’t stress yourself out. Just enjoy playing, or if not playing, whatever makes you happy/content. This game (most, really) continuously reinforce instant gratification, but only marginally as one progresses Ive found it to be a difficult balance between enjoyment, challenge, and reward.

One hopes that Garrard Conley coming out years later in such a boldly public way, from the deepest fundamentalist precincts of Dixie, marks the last phase of the most successful social and political movement of the past century. It was Jim Johnson, in my last conversation with him, who made that assessment. Johnson, once the state most virulent segregationist but an astute observer, marveled that the strategy of outing conservative political leaders who were gay and then of encouraging young people to come out to their parents and friends rather than living in the shadows had transformed public opinion in only a few years..

Smartwool makes some of the most durable, warm, fits just right socks that will last for years (seriously editors from the Midwest and upstate New York endorsed these claims) and make you forever swear off those plastic packages of socks from Target. ($25)A 100% cashmere sweater for less than $200? Everlane made it happen With a demi turtleneck (not too low, not too high) and a flattering loose enough cut, it not hard to understand how this sweater has nearly 1,000 raving 5 star reviews. Everlane makes great sweaters for men, too.