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Home Depot misses revenue expectations for the first time since 2019 - CNBC
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Covid wave building in Europe could throw holiday travel into chaos - The Washington Post
Sign inThe summer of 2022 delivered on predictions it would be the season of “revenge travel,” with countries dropping coronavirus restrictions, passengers filling up long-haul flights and cruise ships, and demand soaring to levels not seen since 2019.
With the winter holidays approaching, that demand shows no signs of slowing down. The Transportation Security Administration screened nearly 2.5 million passengers on Sunday, the highest daily figure since February 2020.
Still, the coronavirus has remained persistent, scuttling long-awaited plans, straining the travel industry’s workforce and making many summer trips turn hellish. Now, health experts are warning another winter surge could be ahead, with cases already rising in Europe and researchers keeping an eye on new strains of the virus.
The uptick comes as many Americans headed abroad will have less protection against the dominant omicron variant because vaccination rates for the new bivalent booster are lagging. As of early October, only about 4 percent of eligible Americans had received the new shot.
Here’s what to know if you plan to take a big trip this holiday season.
Signs point to a surge in Europe, which could foretell another winter wave in the United States. Cases rose by 104 percent in Portugal and 42 percent in Switzerland over the past week, while the virus has also surged in Germany, France, Italy and Austria, according to The Washington Post’s coronavirus tracker.
The World Health Organization and European Center for Disease Prevention and Control warned Wednesday that the continent is probably entering a new covid wave, which will coincide with a resurgence in the flu. In the ECDC’s latest weekly report, it noted “widespread increases were being observed in all indicators,” including cases, hospitalizations and deaths across the continent.
Covid cases are also up in parts of Asia, including South Korea, Taiwan and Japan, which have dropped most of their travel restrictions in recent months. In Singapore, which has seen a 44 percent increase in the average number of daily reported cases over the past week, the Ministry of Health said Saturday that an omicron subvariant known as XBB jumped from a 22 percent share of local cases to 54 percent over the course of a week.
When cases rise in Europe, it’s often “just a matter of weeks or months” until a surge follows in the United States, said Sanjana Ravi, a visiting assistant scientist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
“We saw that with the delta variant. We saw that with the omicron variant,” Ravi said. “I think it’s safe to take precautions considering that we’re starting to see those numbers go up again in Europe now.”
A winter covid wave will probably further strain airports and airlines that were plagued by labor shortages over the summer.
Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport has announced that short staffing will force it to cap the number of passengers it can accommodate per day through at least March 2023. Dutch carrier KLM said it would have to reduce winter ticket sales at Schiphol by up to 22 percent because of the limits.
Last winter, U.S. airlines were forced to cancel thousands of flights around Christmas as the omicron variant sickened employees. The following week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention halved the isolation period for asymptomatic coronavirus infections to five days, fearing a breakdown in essential services.
Henry Harteveldt, a travel analyst at Atmosphere Research Group, said this year’s bookings for holiday travel both within Europe and between the United States and Europe appear strong. Still, he noted, airline executives are concerned about a number of factors that could dampen travel, including a covid surge and economic uncertainty.
“It’s as if right now, the travel industry is standing on a plank of wood that can support its weight … but which may splinter at any moment, possibly with little warning,” Harteveldt said in an email.
For young, healthy people who are fully vaccinated, including with the bivalent booster, most travel is safe, said Henry Wu, an associate professor of medicine at Emory University and director of the Emory TravelWell Center.
Elderly and immunocompromised individuals, however, might want to consider shifting their plans to avoid crowded areas and countries without high-quality medical care, even if they are vaccinated, Wu said. Ahead of winter, he recommended travelers look for locales with milder weather that allows them to eat outdoors.
“Early on in the covid pandemic, a lot of the outbreaks did occur in ski lodges,” Wu said. “We had a lot of people in indoor spaces which probably seem cozy at that moment, but also probably had less than adequate ventilation.”
Ravi recommended postponing all nonessential travel to Europe, especially for those at high risk. If you must travel, she said, test before departing home, wear an N95 mask for the duration of transit and consider bringing an air filter.
Lin H. Chen, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and director of the Travel Medicine Center at Mount Auburn Hospital, recommended travelers consider travel medical insurance in case they have to cancel their trip at the last minute or get sick abroad.
Over the past year, most of the world has relaxed its covid restrictions for travelers, including vaccination, testing and mask mandates. Europe’s top destinations, such as Italy, France, the United Kingdom and Germany, are fully open for tourism.
Mark Fischer, a regional medical director at International SOS, a health and security risk management firm, said he does not expect those restrictions to return, even with a winter surge.
“However, I think there’s a key focus on the overall health-care burden of the winter respiratory season,” with governments monitoring how covid and the flu together affect hospital systems, Fischer said.
Wu said countries dropping their restrictions does not mean measures such as vaccination and wearing a high-quality mask are not “extremely useful” to individual travelers.
“I would advise even travelers who are not concerned with severe illness, covid or influenza can still make you miserable on your trip or your vacation,” he said.
Chen recommended immunocompromised travelers consider Evusheld, a preventive antibody treatment, before their trip to “supercharge their protection.”
After coronavirus precautions kept the flu largely at bay the past two years, Wu said it is “quite possible” seasonal flu makes a major return this winter. He recommended all travelers get their annual flu shots before departing.
“I’ve always told travelers that probably the vaccine that’s most likely to save your life, pre-covid, is the flu shot because the flu is just so common, historically, among travelers,” Wu said.
Ravi said it’s easy to get your flu shot and bivalent booster at the same time at your local pharmacy.
“Just because we’re in the middle of a pandemic at the moment, it doesn’t mean that other respiratory viruses aren’t still a threat,” Ravi said.
The most important thing travelers can do is build flexibility into their itinerary so they can avoid travel if they do test positive, Wu said.
“When you plan your trip, if potentially getting sick and having to stay somewhere an extra four or five or more days is a big problem, then probably that trip is either not the best trip to take, or it means the travelers really should take those precautions to prevent getting sick while traveling,” he said.
Chen, the former president of the International Society of Travel Medicine, recommended travelers use ISTM’s online clinic directory to find reliable medical care if they get sick abroad. You should also speak to your doctor before traveling, especially if you think you might need antiviral treatment due to a preexisting condition, she said.
The CDC provides recommendations for international travel, which urge travelers to be fully up to date on vaccinations, including boosters; wear masks on public transportation; and test before departure and after arrival.
The CDC recently ended its country-specific covid-19 travel designations but still issues travel health notices for countries where travelers would be at extreme risk for contracting the coronavirus. The State Department also issues country-specific travel advisories, which factor in covid-19 risk and other threats.
Travelers can also check databases such as Sherpa and Kayak for the latest information on coronavirus restrictions in foreign countries.
The latest: The CDC has loosened many of its recommendations for battling the coronavirus, a strategic shift that puts more of the onus on individuals to limit viral spread. A new study on long covid suggests many people don’t fully recover even months after infection.
Variants: BA.5 is the most recent omicron subvariant, and it’s quickly become the dominant strain in the U.S. Here’s what to know about it, and why vaccines may only offer limited protection.
Vaccines: The CDC recommends that everyone age 12 and older get an updated coronavirus booster shot designed to target both the original virus and the omicron variant. You’re eligible if it has been at least two months since your initial vaccine or your last booster. The FDA has cleared updated coronavirus booster shots for children as young as 5. An initial vaccine series for children under 5 became available this summer. Here’s how vaccine efficacy could be affected by your prior infections and booster history.
Guidance: CDC guidelines have been confusing — if you get covid, here’s how to tell when you’re no longer contagious. We’ve also created a guide to help you decide when to keep wearing face coverings.
Where do things stand? See the latest coronavirus numbers in the U.S. and across the world. The omicron variant is behind much of the recent spread.
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What was new at the New York Tabletop Show? Plenty - HFN
Vietri's handformed and handpainted Sicilian Heads symbolize women's empowerment.Opening day of the New York Tabletop Show had the look and feel of recent shows—a nod to the Tabletop Association, the group that now runs the event—and a sign that business post-COVID is still strong.
Sales have come down from their lofty 2021 peak, according to some vendors—while others maintained that their business remains on par or even ahead of last year—but all noted continued consumer interest in the tabletop category and said they were optimistic about the months ahead.
Gibson’s earth-toned dinnerware offers a sense of serenity and comfort.
David Zrike, whose eponymous company specializes in licensed products from brands such as Disney and Peter Rabbit, believes his company’s success is driven by consumer nostalgia for products that are like “comfort food,” while Vietri President Holli Draughn credited fast shipments, a strong in-stock position and excellent consumer service for her company’s success.
New floor configurations at 41 Madison Avenue reflected a change in the building’s status as a permanent showroom—as previously reported, several vendors relocated to smaller spaces on consolidated floors, but the building also welcomed a few newcomers, including Stone Lain, a three-year-old Canadian company making its Tabletop Show debut, and Jars, the longstanding French ceramic maker that now has its own U.S. division and its own showroom. Lenox, meanwhile, welcomed Cambridge Silversmiths, which it acquired in July, into the fold. The company had flatware from its Lenox, Oneida, Hampton Forge and Cambridge brands front and center in its showroom, an indication of its evolution from being primarily a dinnerware resource.
There was plenty of new product to go around. A few highlights:
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ABQ Zine Fest showcases ama-zine artists - New Mexico Daily Lobo - UNM Daily Lobo
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This past Saturday, Oct. 1 marked the 11th annual ABQ Zine Fest, hosted at the Sanitary Tortilla Factory in downtown Albuquerque. Founded by Mayra Errin Jones, a Master of Fine Arts candidate in dramatic writing at the University of New Mexico, and co-produced by Liza Bley, the event served as a chance for local artists to showcase their handmade crafts amongst a crowd of artistic community members and newcomers alike.
The word “zine” comes from a shortening of “magazine,” and can constitute a multitude of different interdisciplinary conceptions. Typically, zines are small booklets of original work created and copied by an artist for distribution.
“Zines are self-published works,” Errin Jones said. “So, zines can be anything from a per-zine — a personal zine — could be a travel log, could be anything. And then a zine fest is a gathering of people who write zines and they can be traded, sold, shared.”
Errin Jones was inspired to start ABQ Zine Fest after attending a number of different zine fests across the country. Given her experience producing her own work as a theater artist, Errin Jones already had a sense of what she wanted to do for ABQ Zine Fest, with Albquerque providing a perfect location.
“Albuquerque has a strong past in self-published works and anarchist culture and things like that. So ABQ Zine Fest aims to continue that DIY spirit in a literary sense … Albuquerque is a great place to experiment and try new things. And Albuquerque did not have a zine fest before and had zinesters who were writing all over town and things like that. But there wasn't a central place to experience zine culture, the kind of things that happen at zine fest,” Errin Jones said.
Amaris Ketcham, an associate professor at the UNM Honors College, came to Zine Fest to show off her students’ work from the graphic memoir class that she co-teaches alongside associate professor Megan Jacobs. Ketcham said that, while none of the students in the class previously knew about ABQ Zine Fest due to it being canceled in 2020 and moved to an alternative format in 2021, their attendance this year has proved beneficial.
“Zine Fest last year was a really different manifestation where people sent in zines and then there was a little book shop, pop-up of them. And then obviously the year before it didn't happen at all. So, I think (the students have) been introduced to a community of like-minded people that they could be a part of outside university,” Ketcham said.
Andrew Jogi, a student in the graphic memoir class, appreciated being able to present their artistic creations to people in a forum where they could really interact with them.
“It's really cool. I didn't really think that I — my drawings — (could) kind of be presented like that. For me, just seeing people be interested in them, it's been super cool,” Jogi said.
Errin Jones emphasized the point of the fest is focused more on community as opposed to monetary gain for her or anyone else involved with the fest.
“The opportunity to get to know people a little bit better is our goal, I suppose. But I don't wanna say that it's any goal. There's no capitalist goal … This isn't a vertical growth kind of thing like a lot of things are. A lot of events are expected to get bigger every year, and I don't know if that's the point. I think the point is longevity and to be able to produce it, to continue to produce it,” Errin Jones said.
Events like ABQ Zine Fest help to create a more positive environment in a town who’s news cycle can often feel very negative, according to Ketcham. Ultimately, she said the event is just fun, with zines offering a unique way to experience art and community.
“So here we are. We're coming to downtown; it's fun, it's lively. Everyone is energized about making handmade products to sell and to swap and to share. There's like a trade ethos that's involved in it, and so I think that's really cool,” Ketcham said.
Of course, Errin Jones pointed out that any sort of event can’t be done alone: Sanitary Tortilla Factory, the nonprofit Three Sisters Kitchen and Zendo Coffee were just a few groups that Errin Jones said were important to bringing ABQ Zine Fest to life. She also noted the important role that zines can play in people’s lives and the importance of artistic creation.
“There are people who used to write zines when they were in their teens and then quit, but zines go on. And it's a great way to connect with your own thoughts, your own story … and to feel confident about your experience in life, Errin Jones said. “So I think zines serve that purpose. And there are people who've been writing zines continuously since they were young, and there are people who are just getting into zines now, and it doesn't matter. It's just great to have people writing and creating.”
John Scott is the editor-in-chief at the Daily Lobo. He can be contacted at editorinchief@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @JScott050901
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Goatocado to expand with new spot in Forest Hill - RichmondBizSense
September 29, 2022 1 Goatocado is opening a location on Westover Hills Boulevard. (Mike Platania photos)
For its second location in the city, restaurant Goatocado is heading south across the river where it’ll set up next to a new fishing shop.
The fast-casual eatery is planning to open an outpost in the strip center at 1205 Westover Hills Blvd., while keeping its existing West Main Street location in the Fan.
Its 3,800-square-foot Southside storefront will be next to Current Culture Fly, a fly fishing shop that opened earlier this year.
Goatocado owner Ian Newell said he’s taking over the remaining two suites in the center: one going to Goatocado and the other for a to-be-determined concept.
“Goatocado is still doing well. I think it’s a solid model, it’s a good offering for both locations – fast-casual, kind of health food,” Newell said, adding that the menu at the Southside location will be similar to that of the Fan location.
Newell said he’s planning to take his time in opening in Forest Hill, for a couple of reasons.
“The plan is for Goatocado to move in there at some point, but the restaurant industry’s still not great. So there’s not a rush on that,” he said.
Current Culture Fly opened earlier this year.
He’s also running a farm along Old Osborne Turnpike in Varina, where the greens for Goatocado’s bowls are grown and harvested.
“I just have so many projects going on right now,” he said, laughing.
Newell and Goatocado were recruited to the Southside by Ethan Lindbloom, a local investor with stakes in both the business and real estate of Current Culture and nearby bike shop/market Outpost Richmond. Lindbloom is also a vice president at wealth management firm Janney Montgomery Scott.
Last spring Lindbloom bought the building at 1205 Westover Hills Boulevard for $475,000 and struck a deal last fall to give Newell a stake in the real estate on the condition that he open Goatocado there.
Goatocado’s new neighbor, Current Culture, was founded by Reid Parker and Simón Valencia. The shop offers fly fishing rods, tackle, waders and other equipment, as well as guided fly fishing trips and free classes.
“We try to make it really easy for people to get into the sport and connected with the water,” Valencia said. “We have people come in who have never fly fished before. Those are probably my favorite conversations to have.”
Current Culture’s fishing trips go all over the state, casting into the likes of the James and Chickahominy rivers, Chesapeake Bay and streams at Shenandoah National Park in search of all varieties of fish dependent on the season. Its trips range from $100 to $950.
Valencia, a Colombia native, said he moved to Richmond from California about eight years ago and got “full-on fish-brain” and dove into the sport.
“I realized in Virginia we have such amazing biodiversity when it comes to fishing and I think it’s uncontested by any other state,” Valencia said. “The number of fish species and variety we can target (in a two hour’s drive), it’s hard to find another place on earth that’s like this. It’s a pretty magical place.”
Mike Platania joined BizSense in December 2016. He covers commercial real estate, restaurants and breweries. He graduated from Virginia Tech. Reach him at [email protected] or (804) 554-6872.
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