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Holiday Gift Guide for Boilermakers

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By Kolby Hagmaier

The holiday season is here, and now is the time for gift giving. It’s always hard to find the perfect niche gift for your family members or friends who just LOVE Purdue, but now we have made it easy.

Here is our curated list of festive Purdue University gifts sure to spark joy in all those special Boilermakers in your life.

No. 1

Purdueopoly

Gather friends and family to play this fun Purdue take on Monopoly! This gift is perfect for the student, graduate or Purdue fan in your life. Why be bored during the holiday season when you can play this popular board game?

No. 2

Purdue Nike #1 Basketball Jersey

Do you have any Boilermakers who love Purdue basketball? If they enjoy attending the basketball games, why not give them this jersey they can sport in the stands? This gift is sure to bring a

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8 Holiday 2020 Staycation Ideas, According To Experts

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The holidays in 2020 will look and feel very different — not least because, well, traveling isn’t a great idea, public health-wise. Looking longingly at holiday posters for far-flung places and flicking through travel magazines miserably? With 2020’s holidays all about the ‘staycation’, it can be difficult to deal with your desire to be somewhere — anywhere — else.

“People get the urge to travel for many reasons,” therapist Heidi McBain L.M.H.C. tells Bustle. “They want to see family and friends living afar, to visit new places, to create new adventures and memories, or to go back to a special place year after year because that’s their family tradition.”

Itchy feet can affect some people more than others, Cynthia V. Catchings L.C.S.W-S, a therapist at Talkspace, tells Bustle. “Boredom and COVID exhaustion have set in,” she says. “The more we think about being stuck in our daily routine, the stronger

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Covid-19 Live Updates: C.D.C. Warns Against Holiday Travel

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  2. Hutchinson, Kan.

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  3. Chicago

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  4. Las Cruces, N.M.

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  5. Los Angeles

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  7. Houston

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The number of Covid-19 patients in American hospitals has surpassed 100,000 for the first time, nearly double the number from spring during the coronavirus’s deadly first wave, according to the Covid Tracking Project.

The Tracking Project on Wednesday put the number of patients at 100,226.

The relentless rise in hospitalizations follows a rapid climb in new cases, which now number more than one million every week. And deaths, a so-called lagging indicator that tends to spike after a rise in hospitalizations, have also been rising fast. They have now passed 270,000 in the U.S.

The numbers paint

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How to Maximize Travel Rewards on Holiday Spending This Year

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You may not be able to give your loved ones a hug this year but you can give them a gift (or five). And you may be wondering whether it’s possible to earn rewards on all that spending.

With travel at such a low ebb, it might seem like a tough time to earn travel rewards points. Yet holiday spending offers a good opportunity to earn these points under even normal circumstances, and the pandemic has created opportunities for earning even more.

Here we outline a few ways you can load up on travel points this season.


(Just don’t tell the recipients of your good cheer how many points you earned.)

Check for new spending categories

If your travel credit cards have been sitting idle so far in 2020, you might be surprised how much has changed. Card issuers scrambled to maintain their valuable travel customers throughout the year, offering

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How to Maximize Travel Rewards on Holiday Spending This Year | Travel

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Use shopping portals wisely

Shopping portals and cash-back sites let you earn extra rewards on top of those earned through your card, effectively double dipping your spending. Stacked together, these rewards can be highly valuable.

One interesting combination worth keeping in mind is the cash-back service Rakuten’s partnership with American Express, which lets you earn Membership Rewards points in place of cash. So instead of getting, say, 10% back on purchases made through the Rakuten portal, you would earn 10x Membership Rewards.

At another level of nerdiness, sites like Cashback Monitor compare cash-back and rewards returns at different retailers. So if you’re looking to buy from a particular store, you can see which service offers the best reward bang for your buck.

(Generally) don’t buy gifts with points

It might be tempting to cash in your existing travel rewards points to make purchases directly, and many rewards programs provide this

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Flexibility And Travel Insurance Are Key To Holiday Travel | Personal Finance

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  • The overwhelming majority (80%) plan to travel by road.
  • More than half (53%) plan to get away for a long weekend and two-thirds of travelers plan to stay within 250 miles or less from home.
  • Less than half (43%) of travelers say they plan to stay in a hotel or vacation rental.

Travel Will Remain an Integral Part of Our Lives

While 2020 was an unexpected and uncertain year, many Americans adapted by exploring small towns, local lakes and beaches, and by taking scenic drives, according to Expedia’s 2021 Travel Trends Report.

“What we learned by looking at travel behaviors in a year as unusual as 2020 is that travel will always be an integral part of our lives,” says Christie Hudson, a spokesperson for Expedia. She adds that travelers responded to uncertainty and restrictions by staying closer to home and placing a bigger emphasis on flexibility.

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Travel PR News | Celebrate this festive holiday season at Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel

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Celebrate this festive holiday season at Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel

Doha, Qatar, 2020-Dec-02 — /Travel PR News/ — From the family-friendly Gingerbread Making Academy to grownups embracing their youth on New Year’s Eve, embrace the festive season to be jolly with Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel throughout the festive period. Continuing a treasured neighbourhood tradition, we lovingly combine everything that the holidays bring — sparkling parties, tree lighting moments and yule tide good deeds — to dream up a memorable celebration in the heart of the City of Angels.

The Christmas Tree Charity Project

Anantara Siam’s celebration of the Christmas Tree will this year take on a new meaning through its support of the Thai Red Cross’ Friends in Need (of “PA”) Volunteers Foundation, under the patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Bajrakitiyabha Narendira Debyavati, the Princess Rajasarinisiribajra. The project showcases some of Thailand’s leading artists, fashion designers, interior designers and

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Losses widen at cruise holiday company

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Pre-tax losses widened by almost £10m at the parent company of a Worcestershire-based cruise holiday company during its latest financial year, new documents have revealed. The business also warned of the impact of Covid-19 on its balance sheet.

Newly filed accounts for BDC Topco 71, which is behind Cruise.co.uk, show losses of £14.4m for the 12 months to 30 November 2019, compared to losses of £4.6m in the prior year.

Its gross retail turnover went from £203.9m to £201.2m over the same period.

The accounts for the Redditch-based Cruise.co.uk shows a gross retail turnover of £127.5m, compared to £127.1m, while its pre-tax profits went from £3.2m to £2.3m.

The company said the macroeconomic uncertainty due to the UK’s decision to leave the EU resulted in “unfavourable trading conditions”.

On the on-going pandemic, the parent company said its exceptional operating loss is forecast to be up to £16.2m if there is

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Ion Television Sets Vivica A. Fox Holiday Movie Marathon, ‘Christmas Together’ Premiere Date

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Vivica A. Fox fans can get their fix during this holiday season with Ion Television’s newly announced movie marathon “A Very Vivica Christmas.” On Tuesday, the broadcaster said it will feature an all-day slate of the actress’ recent Ion holiday flicks on December 6, leading to the premiere of her latest holiday feature Christmas Together.

The lineup includes A Wedding for Christmas, A Husband for Christmas, A Christmas Cruise and Christmas Matchmakers. Fox not only appears in the holiday titles but also produced them alongside Hybrid.

The marathon will be capped by the premiere of Christmas Together, also starring and produced by Fox. Directed by David DeCoteau and written by Jay Cipriani, it follows a brokenhearted New York painter (Anna Marie Dobbins) and a West Coast widower ( Marc Herrmann) as they find their way together for the

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Opinion | Cancel your winter holiday travel plans now

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So there’s no reason to wait to issue a warning. Before Thanksgiving, covid-19 infections were already spreading explosively. One in five hospitals reported that they were facing a critical shortage of workers. The coronavirus surged after Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and Labor Day, and after an estimated 50 million people traveled for the holiday, the same will certainly be true of Thanksgiving. With most of the country engulfed in coronavirus infections, chances are high that many of those who participated in indoor get-togethers will contract covid-19 and return home to seed it in their communities.

Health-care systems are stretched to their limits, with beds becoming scarce and some hospitals beginning to ration care. Deaths nationally could reach more than 4,000 a day. We have no option but to take drastic steps to “flatten the curve” once again.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention waited until one week

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