Few global auto shows can compete with the quality of new car debuts during Monterey Car Week in Carmel, California. The annual multi-day festival of all things automotive has replaced the traditional auto show as among the places to be for car brands and enthusiasts alike.
This theme for a Lake County corn maze has been revealed. Great Scott Farms will salute space exploration in its cut-out field during its fall festival that starts Sept. 30.
Great Scott Farms — previously known as Scott’s Maze Adventures at Long & Scott Farms — cuts an elaborate higher-than-your-head puzzle across 6.5 acres for the event. The overhead design of the maze includes stars, Saturn and a satellite. Maze challengers find clues scattered in the stalks to find their way out, and there are helpers prepared to assist the hopelessly lost.
Other fall activities at the Mount Dora farm, which turned 60 years old this year, include a pumpkin patch, hay rides, castle playground, jumping pillow, super slide, farm tours and a half-acre mini corn maze. Food will be for sale, and a produce market also operates on-site.
The festivities are held Saturdays and Sundays through Nov. 26 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. There are night maze admission, good for 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on select evenings. Among the theme nights are Noche Latina (Oct. 14), Country Night (Oct. 21), Halloween (with family-friendly costumes permitted, on Oct. 28) and Glow Night (Nov. 4).
Home insurance can shield you from high out-of-pocket expenses should a disaster strike your property. While coverage isn’t mandated by law, your mortgage lender most likely requires you to have a policy. And the sooner you’re able to lock down coverage, the sooner you will be financially protected in the event of a covered claim — which could potentially save you thousands.
Bankrate’s insurance editorial team, which includes licensed insurance agents, can help you understand how long homeowners insurance coverage takes to purchase and factors you may want to consider in your planning process.
The length of time it takes to get a homeowners insurance quote depends on a number of factors, including how you choose to obtain coverage. There are three main ways that you can get a homeowners insurance quote:
— Online: Time required: 5-15 minutes. Assuming you have all the information about the home, you should be able to get a home insurance quote online relatively quickly. However, not all companies offer online quoting and you’ll be on your own when choosing coverage options, so you might still want to talk to an insurance agent to get your policy started.
TALLAHASSEE — Regulators have ordered the state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. to trim its proposed rate increases from the 12% it sought.
Florida Insurance Commissioner Michael Yaworsky signed an order Friday that took issue with parts of a Citizens rate proposal that included increasing rates by 12% for homeowners with the most common type of policies.
The order, posted on the state Office of Insurance Regulation website, directed Citizens to “calculate new, reduced, overall average statewide rate increases for the rate filings” covered by the order.
The revisions could lead to a range of increases up to 12% for policies on primary residences — or, possibly for some policyholders, no increases, according to the order. Under a law that passed last year, rates could increase up to 50% for homes that are not primary residences.
“We are reviewing the final order and will submit a revised set of recommendations, as requested, based upon OIR’s findings and directives,” Michael Peltier, a Citizens spokesman, said in an email Monday.
By Kelsey Sheehy | NerdWallet
The four-day workweek is the latest buzzy workplace trend, with experiments and surveys touting improved employee morale, retention and productivity.
In one study of 41 businesses across the U.S. and Canada — the majority with 25 or fewer employees — 40% of employees surveyed said they were less stressed after trying out a shorter workweek. In addition, 60% of employees reported a better work-life balance and 32% said they were less likely to quit, according to a July 2023 report by 4 Day Week Global, a nonprofit that promotes shorter workweeks.
ThredUp has seen this play out in-house over the past two years. The online clothing reseller shifted to a four-day week for corporate employees in 2021. Voluntary turnover among that group dropped 55% compared with 2019, and hiring got a boost. Most new hires cited the company’s shorter week as a deciding factor in employment, Natalie Breece, chief people and diversity officer at ThredUp, said by email.
Can a shorter workweek do the same for your business? The short answer: It depends.