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Daily Mail
16 hours ago
- Daily Mail
Wyoming ranch where acclaimed writer penned the great American novel goes for sale at $29 million
Set against the stunning backdrop of Wyoming 's Bighorn Mountains, a storied ranch where Ernest Hemingway penned one of the cornerstones of American literature has been listed for $29 million. The historic Spear Ranch, which dates back to the 1800s, is celebrated for its tranquil seclusion, breathtaking vistas and deep ties to both literary and Western heritage. 'The Spear Ranch isn't just land; it's a direct link to the titans of the West, from the pioneering Spear family to literary giants like Hemingway,' Peter Widener, a partner at Hall and Hall, the firm behind the multimillion-dollar listing, told Mansion Global. 'It's where history was made and where new legacies will be forged. To find a property with this level of historical significance, combined with such impeccable modern amenities and natural beauty, is truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.' Spanning over 300 acres of pristine landscape, the estate includes a 7,500-square-foot New England–style main residence, multiple guest cabins and a collection of rustic outbuildings. The architecture blends classic Western charm with modern luxury, showcasing the ranch's illustrious past. Just a short distance away lies the Spear-O-Wigwam Ranch, a well-known guest retreat where Hemingway sought solitude to complete his work. In the summer of 1928, he escaped the distractions of city life and settled into a modest log cabin beside a rushing stream to focus on his writing. 'He went there for the Western experience - to write in peace and quiet,' Widener said. It was in that peaceful setting that Hemingway completed the first draft of A Farewell to Arms, his semi-autobiographical novel set during World War I. Serialized in Scribner's the following year, the book brought Hemingway international acclaim and helped solidify his legacy in American literary history. Today, the Spear Ranch reflects its rich history while offering a luxurious lifestyle. The centerpiece of the property is the eight-bedroom main residence, outfitted with natural oak flooring. A formal dining room with a gas fireplace sits just off the kitchen, which features granite countertops and top-of-the-line appliances, according to the listing. Many of the bedrooms include their own fireplaces, private baths, and spacious closets. A screened gazebo overlooks Little Goose Creek, an outstanding trout fishery which meanders through the property. 'That pond was the Spear family's swimming pool,' Widener noted. 'The current owners spent three or four years restoring the cabin. You don't sleep there - it's just an open room with a big deck over the water.' Next to the main house is a two-bedroom caretaker's residence, while two additional guest homes sit farther out. Each guest house features at least two bedrooms and includes a four-car garage. Other highlights include an equestrian barn, a large event barn and a 3,200-square-foot shop with a bathroom for storing ranch equipment. Beyond its Hemingway connection, the ranch offers a lifestyle steeped in natural beauty and tradition. Miles of trails throughout the ranch have been covered in wood chips and a small gauge target range provides a unique recreational amenity, according to Cowboy State Daily. Located just 1.5 miles from the town of Big Horn and 15 miles from the larger city of Sheridan, the ranch is close to other luxury properties and cultural landmarks like the Brinton Museum, known for its impressive Native American art collection. According to Widener, the property had previously been split into parcels and sold separately over the years, but the current owners made it their mission to reunite the original ranch. They began by acquiring the historic main house, which came with 56 acres, and gradually purchased adjacent parcels until they restored the full 300-acre estate - plus an additional 70-acre field. 'It's so rare. In our business, we love working with buyers who are putting ranches back together,' Widener said. 'It's really fun to be a part of making history come back to life, as opposed to splitting ranches up, which we try not to partake in.' For those seeking to own a truly one-of-a-kind piece of American literary and Western history, the Spear Ranch offers a rare blend of natural splendor, historical importance and country living. As the listing notes, it's 'a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own a piece of literary and Western heritage.'
UPI
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
Listen: Girl in Red reflects on mental health struggles in 'Hemingway'
May 30 (UPI) -- Norwegian singer Marie Ulven Ringheim, better known as Girl in Red, released new music Friday. The music artist, 26, dropped the song "Hemingway" and an accompanying music video. The video opens with Girl in Red in an empty restaurant, and continues as she walks through a dark residential neighborhood as she smokes a cigarette and sees a couple through a window. "You drink like Hemingway, but your writing's no good and your songs all sound the same," she sings. In a post on Instagram, Girl in Red shared how "Hemingway" reflects on her mental health struggles, including with addiction and depression. "Last year I ended up in a really bad place with addiction, ED and depression that almost killed me," she wrote. "On Friday, I'm releasing a song called 'Hemingway' and it tells a part of that story. Thank you for all the love you have been sending my way since I opened up about all of this. 'Hemingway' out on Friday! It's my favorite song so far."
Yahoo
29-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Rachel Reeves's fiscal rules have become a bad joke
That famous Hemingway quote – 'How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly' – has been much in use of late. For the moment, high income, advanced economies such as the UK are still in the 'gradually' phase, but the tipping point is approaching fast. This should be obvious to almost everyone. Certainly it is now widely recognised in sovereign bond markets, where yields on longer dated maturities have risen to levels that factor in a real possibility of eventual default. That's a big change in what hitherto has been regarded as the ultimate 'risk free' asset. Investors are beginning to charge against the off chance they won't get their money back, or that some backdoor method of effective default might be pursued, such as inflation or currency devaluation. Yet it is as if our politicians haven't even noticed. Only a few weeks back at the London Defence Conference, Sir Keir Starmer said that the organising principle of his Government was defence and security. Good, you might have thought. Here's a Prime Minister who is finally beginning to get his priorities right. Sadly, it was just words. As it turns out, the more important principle continues to be entitlement and dependency. One way or another, Britain's beleaguered Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is going to have to find the money both to reverse her own actions in cancelling the winter fuel allowance and to end the two child benefit cap imposed by preceding Tory governments. Under pressure from backbenchers, she'll very probably also have to row back on at least some of the Government's reforms to disability benefits. Sir Keir appears in no mood to resist these pressures. With Reform UK snapping at his heels, he's rediscovered some of his ideological roots, so uncomfortably repressed while pursuing power with the faux-promise of fiscal responsibility. If Nigel Farage's Reform UK is now the main opposition to Labour, there's very little sign of economic realism from that quarter either, with the party now going full tilt at outdoing the Government on the winter fuel allowance and the two child cap. It's a catastrophic political misjudgement on Farage's part. By swinging left, he's shown himself to be no different from the vote-chasing political mainstream. The veil has fallen, and Farage is exposed as no more than an opportunistic paper tiger who prioritises unaffordable state dependency over sound economic judgment and what he believes to be right. Reform's emerging policy mix of fantasy economics and wishful thinking outbids even Labour in its determination to bankrupt the country. People aren't stupid, and my guess is that they'll see straight through Farage's cynically motivated make-believe. Reform's attempt to stand for both red in tooth and claw capitalism and high dependency state handouts is a contradiction in terms, and doomed to fail. In the meantime, the public finances are on course for how Elon Musk's SpaceX describes a rocket launch failure – 'a rapid unscheduled disassembly'. As is usually the case, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) pulled its punches in its annual Article IV assessment of the UK economy this week. It even offered the Chancellor a glimmer of hope by giving her cover, should she choose to use it, for yet another change in the fiscal rules. The point the IMF makes is actually a reasonably sound one. As they stand, the rules create significant pressure for frequent changes in fiscal policy. Intense market and media scrutiny surrounds the so-called 'headroom', or discretion in tax and spend policies, that the rules dictate. Small downward revisions by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) to the economic outlook tend to erode any available headroom, and therefore require repeated, often on the hoof, adjustment to fiscal policy so as to stay within the rules. This is obviously not healthy. But nor are the fiscal rules as a whole. These have become almost Kafkaesque in their application and seemingly arbitrary power to influence policy. Certainly they seem to be doing no good at all in their central purpose of putting the public finances back on a more sustainable footing. The first of Reeves's rules require the current Budget to be in balance or surplus from the third year of a rolling forecast period. Sounds good in theory, but the effect of a constantly receding horizon is that it allows debt relative to national income to keep rising even though the rule is technically met by committing to future action that in practice rarely happens. The Chancellor defends the rolling horizon by arguing that it avoids the need to make sharp policy adjustments in response to small changes in the forecast. Yet as Lord King, the former governor to the Bank of England, pointed out in a recent speech in the House of Lords, Reeves did exactly that in her Spring Statement; she promised to cut spending to meet a change in the OBR's point forecast for 2029-30. The extraordinary expenditures of the pandemic are now supposedly behind us, and we have still to see any significant increase in defence spending, yet year after year, debt continues to rise as a proportion of national income. The rules are essentially useless in doing what they are supposed to – putting debt on a downward trajectory. Even as a way of bolstering the Government's credibility in financial markets, they are increasingly impotent. Everyone can see straight through them. The Chancellor insists that her rules are 'iron clad' and non-negotiable. A little while back, she also told the CBI annual conference – after announcing a £40bn tax-raising budget – that she would not be coming back with more tax rises or borrowing. On neither count did anyone believe her back then, and they believe her even less today, with the gamble on growth coming to the rescue self-evidently failing. The current fiscal rules are the 10th such iteration since Gordon Brown introduced his original 'golden rule' back in 1997, and pretty much each set of rules has made it slightly easier for the government to borrow to spend than the previous one. The only way of stopping this treadmill of rising indebtedness is to have a simple overarching rule that growth in spending must always be lower than growth in the economy, subject to the exception of large external shocks. Alternatively, a fixed target date of say five years for debt to be lower than it is today, as recommended by the House of Lords economic affairs committee, might serve equally well. All else is just a game of charades that increasingly fails to convince anyone. We are going bust gradually at the moment, but with steeply rising debt servicing costs, we are perilously close to the point of no return. Meanwhile, the politicians keep on promising more and more. If it wasn't so reckless, it would be laughable. No household or company would get away with managing its finances like this. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Tom's Guide
27-05-2025
- Tom's Guide
The ‘3-word rule' that makes ChatGPT give expert-level responses
ChatGPT can do a lot. It can be used to write essays, summarize meetings and even act as your therapist in a pinch. But if you're still struggling to get personalized responses that go beyond the bland or overly basic, the problem might not be the AI. It could be your prompt. That's where the '3-word rule' comes in — a super-simple prompt tweak that can take your chatbot from surface-level answers to something that feels custom, thoughtful and expert-level. No, the three little words are not 'I love you' — but it doesn't hurt to be polite. The concept is simple: Add a short, three-word directive to your prompt that tells ChatGPT how to respond. These three words can instantly shape the tone, voice and depth of the output. You're not rewriting your whole question. You're just giving the AI a lens through which to answer. Here are a few examples that work surprisingly well: 'Like a lawyer' — for structured, detailed and logical responses Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. 'Be a teacher' — for simplified, clear and educational explanations 'Act like Hemingway' — for punchy, minimalist writing with impact It's kind of like casting the AI in a role, and then you're directing the performance with the specifics in your prompts. ChatGPT has been trained on a massive variety of writing styles and professional voices. When you give it a short cue — something like'like a professor" — it taps into that persona and shifts its tone accordingly. That one tweak can turn a vague summary into something polished, insightful and audience-appropriate. The 3-word rule is especially helpful when: It's a lightweight form of prompt engineering that makes a big difference; no jargon or prompt-hacking required. Need a few starter ideas? These formats work across writing, research, translation and even creative tasks: You can swap in almost any role or voice that fits your needs: CEO, therapist, designer, coach, teenager or just about anyone else. The more specific, the better. Each tweak helps ChatGPT interpret your request through a more useful lens, and the difference in quality is often immediate. The 3-word rule isn't magic, but it's close. It's one of the easiest ways to upgrade your prompts and get smarter, more human-like responses from AI. Whether you're writing emails, building lesson plans or brainstorming your next novel, three extra words could make all the difference.
Time Business News
22-05-2025
- Business
- Time Business News
The Algorithm Behind the Hire: What AI Is Doing to Entry-Level Recruitment
A few months ago, I was talking to a recent college grad, bright kid, decent GPA, internships under his belt. He'd applied to 87 jobs. Zero interviews. 'I'm not even sure anyone's reading my resume,' he said. He's right to wonder. Today, your resume doesn't land on someone's desk. It lands in a database, and before a human sees it, it gets filtered, scored, sorted, and sometimes discarded by software. By lines of code. By AI. We're in a new era of recruitment, especially for entry-level jobs, and we need to talk about it. Not with alarm, not with hype. But with honesty. Here's what I've learned. In the past, hiring started with a recruiter reading your resume and making a judgment. Now? It starts with a machine parsing it. AI doesn't 'read' in the human sense. It parses. It extracts. It scans for words and patterns, skills, degrees, past job titles. The algorithm does three things: Parses your resume (turns it into structured data) (turns it into structured data) Scores it against job requirements against job requirements Ranks it for the human recruiter You could be a great fit. You could also be invisible, if you used the word 'collaborated' when the system was trained to look for 'teamwork.' This shift makes resumes less about storytelling, more about searchability. Less Hemingway, more SEO. Takeaway: Tailor your resume for machines first. Use the job description like a blueprint. Then, and only then, make it sound like you. Companies love AI in hiring for good reason: it's efficient. Unilever reduced its time-to-hire by 75%. Vodafone automated 80% of its screening process. But there's a catch. AI learns from data. And data, like people, has biases. One study found that AI resume screeners favored white-associated names 85% of the time over Black or female-associated names, even when the resumes were identical. That's not a glitch. That's a mirror. Because AI reflects the world it's trained on, and our world isn't always fair. Takeaway: The promise of 'objective' AI is only real when the training data is scrubbed of bias. Companies must audit their systems like they audit their finances: rigorously and often. Imagine getting a job pitch from a chatbot. Not a cold template. A warm, tailored message that seems like it knows you. That's already happening. AI is now writing outreach emails, chatting with candidates, and even scheduling interviews. Tools like EachHire dig deep into extended networks to surface potential applicants. Others use GPT-style language models to engage at scale. In theory, this means more personalization. In practice, it's weird. Because 'Hello, I read your blog on data ethics and thought you'd be a great fit for our open analyst role' hits different when you realize no human ever reads your blog. Takeaway: If you're job hunting, don't assume a real person is on the other side of the screen. But treat every message as if one is, because that's what good AI tries to mimic. Here's something no one tells recent grads: AI is doing your job already. Not all of it. But enough to matter. Tasks once handed to interns, market research, report building, copy drafting, are now delegated to ChatGPT or similar tools. Which means fewer 'foot-in-the-door' roles exist in their old form. And that's not just a tech thing. It's a structural shift. So if you're wondering why your resume isn't getting traction, part of the answer is this: the bottom rung of the ladder is being automated away. Takeaway: Focus on skills AI can't fake, strategic thinking, creativity, and emotional intelligence. Don't try to beat AI. Learn how to work with it. Yes, AI is taking the grunt work. But in doing so, it's also clearing space. Instead of building Excel templates, you might be interpreting insights. Instead of drafting social copy, you might be refining AI outputs. The work itself is becoming more…human. But that only happens if employers rethink how they train junior talent. The old apprenticeship model, start small, build trust, is being compressed. And that can be disorienting. But it also means you could be presenting in your first team meeting at week two. Not year two. Takeaway: Step up early. Learn fast. Ask for feedback. You won't have the luxury of 'paying your dues' the old-fashioned way. AI can save companies time and money, but not if it alienates talent, creates legal risk, or kills the brand. So businesses face a different kind of challenge: how do we move faster without losing touch? Here's what responsible companies are doing: Informing candidates when AI is used Regularly auditing for bias Using AI to assist, not replace, human judgment When done right, AI enhances human decisions. When done wrong, it replaces them, and not for the better. Takeaway: If you're in HR or recruiting, use AI as a co-pilot, not a captain. One day soon, a hiring manager might strap on a VR headset, walk through a virtual job fair, and 'meet' candidates from three continents, all mediated by AI. Sounds surreal. Maybe even dystopian. But that doesn't mean it'll be soulless. Because the most effective hiring will still depend on something AI can't do: Feel. Feel whether a candidate's story resonates. Feel the conviction in their voice. Feel whether they belong, not based on data, but on instinct, on care, on humanity. Takeaway: The algorithm might get you in the room. But it's your story, your presence, that gets you hired. We're at a strange inflection point. AI is transforming entry-level hiring faster, smarter, and more scalable. But in doing so, it's also testing what we value: speed vs. fairness, volume vs. nuance, signals vs. substance. If you're a job seeker: optimize your resume, yes. But don't let the machine define you. Lead with who you are, not just what you've done. If you're a business, embrace the tools. But remember, the hire you make today isn't just a headcount. It's a human. And humans aren't just data points. We're stories. Tell a good one. TIME BUSINESS NEWS
