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☆ Trump's 'multi-tasking' defense is falling apart in court
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-12 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

AdvertisementThis is one of the arguments Donald Trump's lawyers have advanced in his defense for his hush-money trial: Trump didn't do anything wrong. Cohen met with Allen Weisselberg, the now-former Trump Organization CFO, in January of 2017 to hash out how he'd get reimbursed by Trump and the Trump Organization, according to records shown at trial. Occasionally, he'd write "VOID" on one he didn't want to be paid, according to Trump Organization employee Deborah Tarassoff. If Trump had a question about a check, he'd talk with a Trump Organization employee about it, Westerhout testified. Advertisement"Am I correct that when he would sign checks, he was often multitasking?"

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The traditional gingerbread White House recreates the classic story by featuring a sugar cookie replica of the book along with Santa's sleigh flying above the grounds. The White House released a fact sheet and was allowing the news media to see all the trees, lights and ornaments before the first lady’s event. National Guard families, who were joining Biden as part of Joining Forces, her White House initiative to show appreciation for military families, will be among the first members of the public to see the decorations. The official White House Menorah is on display in the Cross Hall, which runs between the State Dining Room and the East Room. Seventy-two wreaths sporting red ribbons adorn the north and south exteriors of the White House.

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The sales event, which is much like summer's Amazon Prime Day, is going on now through October 11. You an stock up on Halloween candy with an excellent deal on SweeTarts assortment of flavors, including Lemonhead and Now and Later. For the latest and best Prime Day deals in all departments, visit our liveblog. The best Halloween costume dealsThe best Halloween decoration dealsThe best Halloween candy dealsHow to decorate for HalloweenWhile the hardcore Halloween decorators have had their homes decked out since Labor Day, there's still plenty of time to spookify your dwelling for trick-or-treaters. This is where Amazon's Prime Day deals are helpful.

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☆ The Genius Behind Hollywood’s Most Indelible Sets
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Noah Gallagher Shannon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Bringing this moment of cultural collision back to life would represent as sweeping a challenge as Fisk had ever faced. The sets would represent a kind of culmination of Fisk’s careerlong obsession with reclaiming the rough contours of American history. On set, Malick refers to Fisk as “my eyes.”Fisk has a background in the fine arts, but he considers himself more strictly speaking a “worker” — the conduit of someone else’s vision. (Noirs of the 1940s are crosshatched with shadows partly to conceal threadbare sets.) In early Hollywood, most were painters, hired to illustrate literal backdrops on massive rolls of canvas hung behind the actors.

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☆ Custom art, air purifiers and TikTok: College spending boom could booster retailers' sales this fall
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Melissa Repko | In Melissa-Repko | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Eros Hoagland | Getty ImagesOver the past few years, Alicia Browne has noticed a change in what college students haul out of cars on move-in days at the University of Alabama. A growing pie — and market share up for grabsAs college spending is poised to grow, retailers have another reason to vie for students' dollars. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesIt is difficult to estimate how much college market share Bed Bath had in total. Shipt, the Target-owned delivery service, and Walmart have both tried to attract more college students to their membership programs by offering a special discounted price. She said the company's growth has been fueled by college students who want uniquely decorated rooms that reflect their personalities.

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☆ How to Turn Eyesores Like Radiators Into ‘Sculptural Elements’? Steal This Inexpensive Pro Trick
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( David Eardley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

EVERYONE LOVES ROOMS with “character”—but reckoning with oddities like timeworn radiators and awkwardly placed pipes can challenge even pro decorators. One solution: Don’t downplay these aesthetic irregularities, say decor authorities. Instead play them up in bold, eye-drawing paint. This fun, if counterintuitive, strategy celebrates function and can add an unexpected layer of complexity to an otherwise so-so room. We asked Keasler and other interior experts what makes the gutsy approach work and how to do it right.

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☆ A dozen fake Easter eggs in dying kits from Walmart and Target are cheaper on average than a dozen real ones
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-01 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Egg prices are off of their January peak, but a dozen still costs more than $4, inflation numbers show. With Easter approaching, fake-egg dye kits from Walmart and Target may be cheaper than the real thing. The high cost of eggs led one of the largest dollar-store chains to decide not to carry them for now. (Actual egg prices vary substantially by geography. Easter decorators aren't the only ones adjusting their plans due to the still-high cost of eggs this spring.

☆ Dyeing Easter eggs? The fake ones are cheaper than the real thing at Target and Walmart as egg prices soar
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Egg prices are off of their January peak, but a dozen still costs more than $4, inflation numbers show. With Easter approaching, fake-egg dye kits from Walmart and Target may be cheaper than the real thing. The high cost of eggs led one of the largest dollar store chains to decide not to carry them for now. (Actual egg prices vary substantially by geography.) Easter decorators aren't the only ones adjusting their plans due to the still-high cost of eggs this spring.

☆ How Did My Dogs Become My Decorators?
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Michelle Slatalla | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

DOGGIE DÉCOR The accessories that come with housing a dog—here, the author’s papillons, Pidgeon and Larry—can derail even the most fastidious homeowner’s interior design. AT A DINNER recently, my friends were ticking off their home-décor-related New Year’s resolutions. After all, I’ve spent years repainting, reupholstering, rearranging and refinancing my house to make it comfortable. This is one of our many, many sick bedtime routines, but I love him so much. So I crawled out from under the covers to help him make his evening bone selection.

☆ The Extreme Holiday Decorators Spending Thousands to Deck ‘Every Nook and Cranny’ of Their Homes
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( E.B. Solomont | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Jennifer Houghton clung to the banister in her Dallas mansion. Suspended about 10 feet off the ground, she braced her foot against the wall, extended her arm and placed an oversize pink-and-white ornament atop a spinning Christmas tree festooned with candied pink poinsettias. “Freaking amazing,” she said, satisfied with the finished product. In the kitchen, a candy-cane conveyor belt was perched on the counter. The front yard had been transformed into a Christmas tree farm with more than 30 trees, ranging in height from 18 inches to 9 feet.

☆ I decorate other people's homes for Christmas. I'll put absolutely anything on a tree and charge my clients at least $1,800 for the privilege.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Stephanie Stacey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

She charges a minimum of £1,500 ($1,800) to decorate high-end homes for the festive season. I'm a professional Christmas consultant — which means I get paid to decorate other people's homes and businesses for the festive season. We generally start getting a load of new calls to decorate high-end homes in September. That's just for a standard scheme with a single tree, decorations, garlands, and light displays. My kids and I put up our Christmas tree around November 1.

☆ Falling house prices will help the Fed tame inflation – but they also increase the risk of a prolonged economic downturn
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-26 | by ( George Glover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

But a housing market slowdown also increases the risk of a recession. The aggressive monetary tightening lifted the average 30-year US mortgage rate from 5.60% to 6.84% over the last three months, according to Bankrate. "A decline in home buying is one of the byproducts of tighter monetary policy," Macquarie's head of economics David Doyle told Insider. What has the Fed said about the housing market? Should borrowing costs remain too high for too long, those industries risk facing a decline in business at a time when monetary tightening is already squeezing their cash flows.

☆ How to Avoid the 5 Worst Kids’ Room Decorating Mistakes
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Nina Molina | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

CHILDREN’S ROOMS confront decorators with competing demands. You must acknowledge the child’s interest in, say, hideous insects, without overdoing it on themed décor; you must hunt down furnishings that suit small people but will endure as they mature; and you must secure your wee client’s aesthetic buy-in without turning the space into a cartoonish nightmare that sets elders’ teeth on edge. Here, design pros share common mistakes and strategies for striking a just-right balance between playful and polished. Theme FeverOverindulging your fledgling ballerina’s or baseball fan’s enthusiasms can get cloying. “Do not make every element theme related,” said Lindsey Jamison, a lead interior designer at Rumor Designs in Steamboat Springs, Colo. “I’m here to tell you that you don’t need to paint the room team colors.”

Aubrey and Dave Appel went viral this week for their "Stranger Things"-inspired decor, which depicts a scene from the Netflix hit series in which character Max Mayfield levitates. Just like the show, the Max figure int the Appel's Chicago home also floats — and no one on social media can figure out how. The couple appreciates how practical effects in horror films can look incredibly real, which is what inspired some of their practical Halloween props. Aubrey and Dave Appel created a floating replica of Max from “Stranger Things,” which has gone viral on social media. Remind me when the reveal video is up please," one person commented on the Appel's TikTok video.

☆ A judge might force Elon Musk to buy Twitter
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Alex Kantrowitz | Big Technology | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

The trial between Twitter and Elon Musk will begin on October 17 at the Delaware Chancery Court. The Delaware judge hearing Twitter's case vs. Elon Musk listened incredulously as Musk's lawyers asked her to postpone the trial. The DecoPac deal, like many acquisitions, had a clause called "specific performance," which allows the courts to force the deal to close. It didn't take long for McCormick's life at the Chancery Court to get interestingElon Musk agreed to buy Twitter in April 2022. And Twitter then sued Musk for specific performance in Delaware Chancery Court later that month.

☆ I charge up to $80,000 to decorate celebrity homes for Christmas. We've had requests for carousels and live penguins — and if you can imagine it, we can do it.
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-24 | by ( Zoe Rosenberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Ged Comerford is the operational director of The Christmas Decorators, a UK-based company. I came on board at The Christmas Decorators in 2009 and now I'm one of the owners of the company. Customers flooded The Christmas Decorators' head office between September and December with 10,400 inquiries. Everything we do isn't just time-sensitive — it's time critical"When it comes to decorating, we've had requests for carousels in peoples' gardens and live penguins," Comerford said. When it comes to decorating, we've had requests for carousels in peoples' gardens and live penguins.

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