Until daycare starts in September, my husband and I have been making things work with the help of our wonderful part-time nanny, who is too humble to be named. What she will happily name, however, are endless activities and little-known gems around the city to delight our 13-month-old son.  Whereas mom and dad would happily take our little guy to Carl Schurz Park and call it a day, our nanny is always at the ready with suggestions from the Chelsea Waterside Park (featuring a 64-foot wooden slide in the shape of a Pipefish, a fish species that calls the park…

Many employees at companies that just went public or will very soon, such as SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic, are sitting on valuable appreciated company stock or equity compensation (e.g. stock options, RSUs). For some, the liquidity from the initial public offering (IPO) will bring life-altering amounts of wealth.I’ve seen many…

Australia and Paraguay enter their final Group D match in an unusual strategic position. Both teams have three points, both lost to the United States, and both remain in contention for the knockout round. Since the United States has already defeated each of them, neither Australia nor Paraguay can finish…

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Burrows, who helped create volumes of laughter as director of more than a thousand episodes of such classic television comedies as “Cheers,” “Taxi,” “Friends” and “Will and Grace,” died Friday. He was 85.His family confirmed his death in a statement to People, saying he “passed…

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