Tag Archives: great

Matt LaFleur was great hire for Packers

The highest winning percentage of any coach with at least 50 NFL games belongs to Guy Chamberlin, who won .784 percent of his games from 1922-27. John Madden is the modern-era leader at .759. Only four coaches ever are over 70 percent.  Matt LaFleur’s winning percentage sits at .800 through 45 games. After the Arizona Cardinals‘ loss on Monday night, LaFleur also leads the team that owns the No. 1 seed in the NFC with four games to go. He has been really good.  When we talk about the Green… Source link

Read More »

Dolphins putting together a great story

At the end of October, the Miami Dolphins were 1-7. They’d lost to the Jacksonville Jaguars and Atlanta Falcons. They were unquestionably bad. In early December, the Dolphins have a path to the playoffs. Seriously. The craziest NFL story that hasn’t gotten enough attention yet is happening in Miami. The Dolphins have won five in a row after a 20-9 win over the New York Giants on Sunday. Beating the Daniel Jones-less Giants isn’t a major feat, and Miami’s schedule during its winning… Source link

Read More »

The Great Resignation story is “not a choice that most American workers can have”

There is a story developing in the labor market, which has marked a significant shift in who is participating amid the ongoing pandemic.  Among the many stories are resignations, for various reasons, and the struggle to fill more labor-intensive jobs. It has resulted in an unprecedented demand for more highly-skilled, remote jobs, and those willing to work in lower-wage jobs are being paid significantly more than those who previously held the positions. ZipRecruiter chief economist Julia… Source link

Read More »

The Great Resignation is ripping through this sector

The Great Resignation is beginning to create even more havoc for thinly staffed restaurant chains trying to rally back from being hammered during the pandemic.  This week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that quits rates in the food service industry hit 6.8%, compared to an overall quits rate of 2.9%. Guggenheim analyst Gregory Francfort notes the quits rate for food service is well above the 5% peaks seen in quits in 2006 and 2019, and 4.1% average over the past 20 years.  Nearly… Source link

Read More »

Google’s latest virtual tour lets you walk the Great Wall of China – TechCrunch

Google’s Arts & Culture team is today launching a new online experience that lets users virtually walk the Great Wall of China. The “Walk the Great Wall of China” experience includes an exclusive 360-degree virtual tour of one of the wall’s best-preserved sections, including 370 images of the Great Wall in total and 35 stories that go into architectural details about the landmark. “As the largest man-made structure in the world, the Great Wall of China is… Source link

Read More »

Is this upstart retailer the next great investment in coffee?

Wall Street has come out with a highly caffeinated outlook for newly minted public company Dutch Bros.  Shares of the upstart coffee retailer exploded nearly 13% to $48 on Monday — making the stock a top trending ticker on Yahoo Finance before midday — after investment banks initiated mostly coverage on the company after its successful late September IPO.  Five analysts initiated coverage with ratings equivalent to Buys, despite shares being up more than 85% since the Dutch Bros’s Sept…. Source link

Read More »

fantastic cameras, great battery life

Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone 13 line hits the market Friday, and it’s bringing impressive changes to the smartphones’ cameras, batteries, and performance. The lineup includes the pint-size iPhone 13 mini, the iPhone 13, the iPhone 13 Pro, and the hand-stretching iPhone 13 Pro Max. As with the iPhone 12 lineup, pricing for the iPhone 13 family runs from $699 for the entry-level mini to $1,099 for the entry-level iPhone 13 Pro Max. But this time around you’ll get more storage out of the mini… Source link

Read More »

The great Rolex watch shortage

Let’s say you’re a well-to-do businessman or woman or otherwise successful professional. You’ve put in the time to hone your craft, made the right career moves, climbed the corporate ladder, and likely drive home in your German-built, luxury sports sedan. Yes, you’ve made it, and now you might be thinking to yourself, “It’s time I bought that status symbol that lets everyone else know I’ve made it whenever I walk into a room” — a Rolex. Well I’ve got some bad news for – you… Source link

Read More »

Google’s Tensor chip is only the first step toward truly great Pixel phones

Google’s Pixel 6 is shaping up to be the company’s most ambitious smartphone in years, largely due to the new, custom-designed Tensor processor, which aims to catapult Google to the forefront of the smartphone market with the power of Google’s years of machine learning experience. And Google needs it: despite the popularity of Pixels in tech circles, its phones just aren’t popular sellers in the US, barely moving the needle compared to juggernauts like Samsung and Apple or even

Read More »