Author: Robert Richardson

Rolex’s rise to the top is largely due to product control (Pepsi GMT-Master II), innovation (Deep Sea Special) and DNA (Datejust).

Source: How Rolex Became the Most Recognized Luxury Watch Brand in the World – Robb Report

San Jose Interactive Guide-What’s in your city!

Stop typing and start using the power of the internet to search with over 9700 preset searches in the latest Interactive City Guide from the author, R.G.Richardson and search in over ten languages.

No more typing, just pick and click with over 9700 quick links for greater accuracy and ease. Stop using paper guides and start using our interactive city search guides and brochures that include Google and Yahoo that never out of date!

Use as white or yellow pages and use it even more often to keep up with what is going on and happening in your city! It also makes for a good gift or promotional item for somebody that has just moved to a new city.  Real Estate agents use it as a promotional tool and you use to check Real Estate listing, condos, or rental apartments available in the city.

With over 230 city guides and brochures for sale on Amazon, Kobo and Indigo and here at RG Richardson City Guides in epub and pdf format.

Don’t have an eReader, no problems as you can get on from Amazon and use then you are all set up with Kindle. You can also download a PDF file to your desktop and you are all set up that way too.

Interactive City Guide let you use the internet’s full power by eliminating errors with keywords. Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, Duckduckgo, Facebook, Twitter, Baidu, SlideShare, YouTube or Pinterest; click on the button and you are there; just pick and click the button, no typing. Fully mobile – it works on any device with an eBook reader and that has access to the Internet WiFi anywhere. Don’t think about typing, you are good to go with better results and fewer typos. Sit back in the coffee shop and search away on their WiFi! Our guides are organized into several targeted information Guides including hotels, restaurants, pubs, historical sites, transportation, attractions, real estate and events. Stay up to date with what is happening in your city!

Our interactive ebooks search the web and are organized into several targeted information Guides. Quick links including hotels, restaurants, transportation, maps, hostels, pubs, family attractions, historical sites and on it goes for a complete guide that tells you everything you need to know including how to pack!

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Canada is closing its borders to non-citizens because of the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday.

Source: Coronavirus response: Canada closes borders to non-citizens

Spain joined Italy in national lockdown, raising the total of Europeans in quarantine to more than 100 million, with several other countries preparing similar isolation measures to try to slow the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus from its northern Italian epicentre.On the weekend, as Italian COVID-19 cases continued to rise at alarming rates, a surge in Spanish COVID-19 infections and deaths forced the government to adopt an Italian-style quarantine that left almost all stores closed. Euronews reported that some near-death Italian patients who were still conscious used iPads to make video calls to family and friends, who are not allowed to visit them in the emergency wards.

Source: More than 100 million Europeans in lockdown as Spain announces emergency quarantine and Italian virus cases surge – The Globe and Mail

Conveniently, the excavation of vast amounts of limestone to build the nearby capital of Chişinău left a sprawling underground network of cool, dry caves, ideal for aging and storing wine. As more limestone was mined to build the city, more space was created underground to host an imperial collection of bottled wine. After Milestii Mici, another underground Moldovan winery, Cricova is the second-largest wine cellar on the planet.

Source: Wine Cellars of Cricova – Cricova, Moldova – Gastro Obscura

Amazon cracked down on coronavirus price gouging. Now, while the rest of the world searches, some sellers are holding stockpiles of sanitizer and masks.

Source: He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them – The New York Times

EVERY YEAR FOR DECADES, SCIENTISTS at the Hiroshima Prefectural Agriculture Gene Bank have planted a small patch of hattanso rice. Its stalks are spring-green and spindly, its grains stubby, with a white core of endosperm visible in light. Hiroshima’s rice fields are fecund with Hattanso’s descendants, which farmers sell to sake brewers in dozens of prefectures across Japan. Hattan no. 35, which crop scientists bred in 1962, has hard grains that can withstand the polishing required for high-quality sakes. Hattan-nishiki no. 1 and 2, bred in 1984 from a cross between Hattanso and Nishiki rices, has medium-sized grains yield light sakes with an earthy tang.

Source: The Sake Master Reviving a Long-Forgotten Local Rice – Gastro Obscura

Aggressive marketing of prescription opioids by pharmaceutical companies provided doctors with scant information about potential harmful effects.

Source: Opioid marketing to Canadian doctors hyped benefits, downplayed harms

Prepare for total chaos. This summer, the Supreme Court will decide whether to completely reshape how the American public elects the president of the United States, and the 2020 election—one of enormous consequence—will be the test run for the new rules.The general rules for electing the president have been established for centuries: The candidate who receives the most votes in each state wins that state’s electoral votes, and the candidate who wins the most electoral votes becomes president.

Source: The Problem of Faithless Electors – The Atlantic

U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed a travel ban on some European countries after the World Health Organization named the coronavirus a global pandemic.

Source: Trump bans travel from Europe: Here’s what you need to know