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For months now, I have been spammed almost daily by a David DeSantis. Each time it is from a different email address, so blocking David DeSantis is useless because he – or its – spammer network, most likely a bot – sends me the next spam email from a different address tomorrow or next week.
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The growing number and variety of electric vehicles, from sedans and SUVs to sports cars and seven-figure supercars, is prompting a similar variety of ways to recharge them, even power your home. Let’s be honest. Range anxiety – the fear of running out of power – continues to be an issue with buyers considering an
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Ovolo Hotels, which operates hotels, restaurants and bars across Australia and Hong Kong, is going completely vegetarian in 2020. It’s not permanent – just for one year, except for the hotel restaurants already permanently vegan or vegetarian. The company is calling it an “initiative”, but that is corporate-speak for a trial run. If guests love
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Hawaiian Airlines is now offering passengers COVID-19 tests to take at home, before traveling, to avoid the 14-day quarantine now in effect for travelers visiting or returning to the Hawaiian Islands from the US mainland. Passengers can order the $150 mail-in saliva test online through Vault Health to take at home before travel. The test
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The National Park Service is celebrating National Public Lands Day on Sept. 26 with FREE admission to all national parks and events including a virtual concert featuring popular parks including Joshua Tree National Park and Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. Following the 10am concert, the sites will host virtual environmental education and conservation events about topics such
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Celebrate the musical culture of New Orleans with the first-ever Virtual Shorty Fest, featuring the legendary musician Trombone Shorty and his Orleans Avenue band. It’s their first show since the Covid-19 Pandemic began impacting communities across the USA. The Virtual Shorty Fest also includes musicians Galactic, Anders Osborne, Tank and the Bangas, The Soul Rebels,
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The National Park Service (NPS) celebrates its 104th anniversary on August 25, 2020 with FREE admission to all accessible NPS sites. It will also observe the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment on August 26 with a variety of engaging virtual events related to the suffrage movement. “As we commemorate these two significant milestones, we
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Travel Technology: The world’s first certified aircraft powered by electricity has flown into the history books in Switzerland. The two-seater Pipistrel Velis Electro is used mainly for basic pilot training. It completed its maiden flight over a village near Fribourg, in western Switzerland. The cruising speed reportedly is 90 knots (166 km/h) and maximum autonomy
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Hyundai once again is splitting off a model line into a separate brand. A few years ago Hyundai turned flagship Genesis models into a separate luxury brand, now IONIQ models are becoming a dedicated electric vehicle brand. It’s a response to the growing popularity of EVs, and their role in what is being described as
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Jolta is poised to give a jolt to the electric vehicle industry as the first dealership for all things EV, including cars and motorcycles, scooters and bikes, on-premises charging stations and installation services for home or office. It’s an entirely new concept in mobility, opening Fall 2020 in Miami, the first of a planned national
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