Here is a silver lining: Market-rate rents are so high that they probably will not climb much higher next year. “The good news is rents aren’t rising anymore,” Mr. Miller said. “The bad news is they are probably not going to fall.”
In 2016, we've seen a whole lot of new gadgets join the Internet of Things (unfortunately, we've also seen them harnessed by hackers to bring downhuge swaths of the internet). From appliances to clothing, companies really want to sell you the tech that'll make your life "smarter," but sometimes it just makes it slower and dumber. Let's look back on some of the most ridiculous and useless internet-connected gadgets that were produced in the past 12 months.
On the long voyage to World Cup triumph, Belgium and Uruguay are two icebergs that the favorites would rather avoid. Both nations, despite being underdogs in this year's tournament, have the ability and the nous to upset their bigger and brasher rivals. Yet it's remarkable, given their small size and history as geopolitical doormats, that they remain competitive at all.
Detectives have laid charges, but said they will not release the details of the offenses until Friday when both the 18-year-old and the youth are expected to appear in court.
《风流医生俏护士》首播时，鹰眼和诱捕者这两个角色原本同等重要，也正是在这样的条件下，韦恩·罗杰斯才同意扮演诱捕者约翰。然而，当艾伦·艾尔达开始对这个角色进行改动并对整个剧情走向产生更大影响时，鹰眼使诱捕者这一角色黯然失色。
上世纪70年代，考林斯出生在落后的、种族隔离时期的南非。她的童年经历让她更关注通过民间的努力改善贫困女性的生活。创办Wonderbag的灵感源自她观察祖母借助垫子做饭的经历。Wonderbag使用保暖技术在8至12个小时内烹饪食物，无需额外增加燃料。考林斯亲眼见证了非洲女性使用Wonderbag所带来的好处——它减少了她们收集柴火的时间。每卖出一个Wonderbag，这家公司就会向非洲的家庭捐赠一个这样的袋子。过去四年，Wonderbag已经走进600,000个非洲家庭。考林斯还通过亚马逊（Amazon）在美国推出了Wonderbag，并希望到2014年的时候能够通过其他零售商出售自己的产品。