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For a very long time, a significant segment of the short-term rental (STR) industry lacked the tools necessary to specialize and scale. The majority of the STR market is made up of individual hosts and self-managers. Yet these important players are being pushed aside, denied access to the cutting-edge technology they need to compete on an equal footing with the larger players. Why? Because traditional software connections require everything to go through a property management system (PMS), creating an unjustified barrier between hosts and the tools they need. The promise of a PMS has always been to streamline operations and…

Image source, Penguin Random HouseImage caption, James Patterson is one of the world’s best-selling authors.Article informationJurassic Park author Michael Crichton died of cancer more than 15 years ago. Now his unfinished “passion project” about a humanity-threatening volcanic eruption has been completed by fellow literary great James Patterson, and is already attracting keen interest in Hollywood.Eruption takes readers on a thrilling journey around Hawaii’s largest island, where, unknown to its inhabitants, dangerous military secrets dating back decades are hidden.An official screen auction has yet to take place, but Shelley Crichton, who discovered her late husband’s unfinished manuscript more than 10 years…

Election Results 2024 Live: State Assembly Elections Results will be announced along with Lok Sabha Elections Results.Looking at the trends, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) has crossed the halfway mark in the Andhra Pradesh state assembly elections, setting the stage for it to regain power, with the ruling Yanukovych Congress Party lagging behind with just 24 seats.In Odisha, the BJP is nearing the halfway mark while Naveen Patnaik’s ruling BJD is lagging behind.Counting of votes for the state assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha began at 8 am. The Odisha Assembly elections are aimed at electing 147 members to…

Down icon An icon in the shape of a downward angle. Six-year-old Guy Rhodes has been making headlines for his antics as he trots around Congress behind his father, Tennessee Rep. John Rhodes. House TV via The Associated Press Rep. John Rhodes of Tennessee delivered an impassioned defense of Donald Trump on Monday.But all eyes were on her six-year-old son Guy, whose behind-the-scenes antics stole the show.Guy had just graduated from kindergarten, and Rose said Guy had asked her to smile for his little brother. Politics can be exhausting: The 2024 election is set to be a battle between the…

Rubio’s Coastal Grill, a popular restaurant chain known for its fish tacos, has announced that it will close 48 locations in California, citing “rising costs of doing business.””The closures are due to the rising costs of doing business in California,” a Rubio’s spokesperson said in a statement. “While painful, these store closures are a necessary step in our long-term strategic plan to position Rubio’s for success for many years to come.”Of Rubio’s 48 stores, about one-third of its total stores in California, Nevada and Arizona, 24 are in the Los Angeles area, 13 in San Diego, where the company is…

Rubio’s Coastal Grill, a popular restaurant chain known for its fish tacos, has announced that it will close 48 locations in California, citing “rising costs of doing business.””The closures are due to the rising costs of doing business in California,” a Rubio’s spokesperson said in a statement. “While painful, these store closures are a necessary step in our long-term strategic plan to position Rubio’s for success for many years to come.” Of Rubio’s 48 stores, about one-third of its total stores in California, Nevada and Arizona, 24 are in the Los Angeles area, 13 in San Diego, where the company…

Photo by Jim TateMichael Barker stands next to his 2015 Shelby, one of the high-performance cars he purchased from Ford Driving School in Charlotte, North Carolina. MARSHALL — Around 10 a.m. Saturday, Michael Barker led a convoy of high-performance sports cars into the area reserved for them at the Shades of the Past car show. Barker in his 2015 Shelby was followed by a succession of white Mustangs as the cars arrived in the already crowded show area. He carefully parked his car at an angle, a sight that drew an inquisitive crowd of spectators to…

UP Election Results: Counting is underway for all 80 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh.2024 Lok Sabha Elections Results Update: According to the latest trends posted on the Election Commission’s website, with counting underway for all 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP-led NDA is currently leading in 39 seats and the Indian Union in 40. The Azad Samaj Party (Kanshiram) is also leading in one seat.In the key Lok Sabha seats of Uttar Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav were leading from Varanasi, Lucknow, Rae…

Cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence can be a double-edged sword. Mr Alvin Tan, assistant director of SG Enable’s Independent Living and Carer Support division, shared this advice while speaking to young people at the Huawei Tech4City Dialogue 2024 on 21 May. The conversation on “Empowering through Technology”, held at Enabling Village, Singapore’s first inclusive community space for disability inclusion, featured speakers from SG Enable, Singapore Management University (SMU) and Singapore International Foundation (SIF). “As with all technology, [AI] “It can be seen as a double-edged sword. It can be used for good or for bad,” Mr Tan said. “We’re…

Eight months into Israel’s Gaza war, a series of disagreements, divisions and ultimatums has brought Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s emergency war cabinet to the brink of collapse, his own coalition government to follow suit and raising the possibility of new elections.Externally, the embattled prime minister is under increasing pressure from his own people to bring home the remaining Israeli hostages and from the Biden administration to reach a ceasefire agreement with Hamas. Within the unity government formed less than a week after the deadly Oct. 7 militant attack, he is dealing with the insurgency from allies and opponents alike.Hardline conservatives…