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CNN —When Elisa Smithers was deployed to Iraq in 2005, there was a ban on women serving in ground combat operations. But she returned home to find she wasn’t offered the same support by the US Department of Veterans Affairs that male combat veterans were offered, Smithers said. Women account for roughly 17.5% of the Defense Department’s active-duty force, according to 2022 data from the agency. Hegseth has specifically criticized having women in roles where strength “is the differentiator,” he said on the podcast last week. She also worries any course reversal on women serving in combat will have a sweeping impact on women serving in other government jobs.

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☆ The Van Epps family left town for a youth baseball tournament Then tragedy struck
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Thomas Lake | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

The Van Epps family left behind two dogs, a stunned and grieving community, and an untold number of priceless memories. The Van Epps family in an undated photo from several years ago. The Van Epps family took a different route. James Ryan Van Epps pitched in a baseball tournament the morning of the plane crash. Courtesy Ansley Van EppsMeanwhile, she and others who loved the Van Epps family took care of other priorities.

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Five members of the same family who had been traveling for a baseball tournament were killed when their small plane crashed in upstate New York on Sunday afternoon, the authorities said. The plane, a single-engine Piper PA-46, crashed around 2 p.m. in a rural area in Delaware County, near Sidney, about 40 miles northeast of Binghamton, the Federal Aviation Administration said, killing all onboard. The plane wreckage was discovered Sunday night, the F.A.A. There were five people on the plane, state police said: Roger Beggs, 76; Laura VanEpps, 43; Ryan VanEpps, 42; James R. VanEpps, 12; and Harrison VanEpps, 10. The passengers were from Georgia and were in Cooperstown, N.Y., for a baseball tournament, state police said.

Persons: Roger Beggs, Laura VanEpps, Ryan VanEpps, James R, Harrison VanEpps Organizations: Federal Aviation Administration Locations: New York, Delaware County, Sidney, Binghamton, Georgia, Cooperstown, N.Y

☆ The Shows May Be Over. But John Mayer’s ‘Guitar Face’ Lives On.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Alex Beggs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

During the final show of Dead & Company’s so-called Final Tour on Sunday night, the crowd at Oracle Park in San Francisco swayed and bobbed like the current of a turning river. A man in cowboy regalia cupped his hands around his ears and two-stepped to the beat. Other fans, who were not as lucky, danced on the sidewalk outside of the park. Mr. Mayer has been a member of Dead & Company, an offshoot of the Grateful Dead, since it formed in 2015. Though he is not the band’s face, the faces he has made while performing — which can cover the full spectrum of human emotion, from despair to sweet relief to sublime pleasure — have for some been almost as unforgettable as the music itself.

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☆ What Does It Even Mean to Be Real?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Alex Beggs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Even the word “real” is used 87 times in the book. “This is real. I can feel it.” Kevin worships a farmer who delivers him a box of produce every week, because he has “a real wife, a real family, a real job” — and, it turns out, some very real problems, too. Its unbearableness.” Task, the “Billionaire Douchebag,” promises this will be “the most real reality TV we’ve ever seen.”But it’s our reality that Willis is playing with, and she has fun with it, especially our life on the internet, another unreal place we’ve come to accept as all too real. Ostensibly about decadence, but really about love.” As quickly as he opens the book, he closes it, and turns on “MarsNow.”

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☆ I made $2 million in revenue selling my study notes. Here's how I grew my business into merch, brand deals, and YouTube.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( Claire Turrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Beggs now works full time as an ER nurse at UCLA, posts on YouTube and TikTok, and runs her store. Here's how I expanded my business from selling notes to creating merchandise, working with brands, and filming YouTube content. As I created more notes, I started selling bundles on similar topics from $20 to $40 each. Expanding my offeringsOnce I'd completed all the study notes, I started to think about what else nurses might need. I also launched an Amazon storefront filled with nursing products, and I get a percentage of the sale if anyone uses my link.

☆ Fact Check-Photo of transgender wrestler in Texas is missing context
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

One example shows the photo with text reading, “They are NOT ‘courageous transgender athletes’. The girl Beggs is wrestling in the photo is Elyse Nelson from Lewisville High School, and a video of the match can be seen (here). “That image has been circulating for so long,” Beggs told Reuters Fact Check, adding that he is still friends with Nelson. However, Beggs also wrestled boys through USA Wrestling, which coordinates amateur wrestling programs in the nation. Mack Beggs is a transgender male who was not allowed to compete with males in high school due to a Texas rule on school sports.

☆ ChatGPT is coming for Wall Street next
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Insider's Paige Hagy and Bianca Chan asked industry experts how they see a tool like ChatGPT impacting all areas of Wall Street, from investment banking to financial planning to consumer banking. So if your boss pitches you on using ChatGPT to help "streamline your workflow" understand that you could be training your replacement. Click here to read more about the types of jobs ChatGPT might upend across Wall Street. Wall Street trading firm GTS Securities is looking to make investing in music royalties accessible to the general public, Bloomberg reports. Stephanee Beggs made seven figures selling her study materials on TikTok and Etsy, which means she cleared more business than half the bankers on Wall Street.

☆ I made nearly $2 million in 2 years selling my nursing-school study notes on Etsy and TikTok — here's how
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Jen Glantz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Stephanee Beggs, 28, started posting her study sheets on TikTok while in nursing school. She plans to keep her day job and loves that her influencer work ties back to her hospital job. It's also humbling and exciting seeing how many people have gravitated toward my TikTok videos and study sheets. My approach to TikTok is organized and strategicWhen I first started posting on TikTok, I didn't have much of a strategy or direction. Once my study sheets started selling on Etsy, I decided to come up with a game plan of how to continue to monetize my audience.

☆ China's re-opening to lift Asia equity capital market volumes from 3-year lows
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Scott Murdoch | Thomson Reuters | Scott Murdoch Has Been A Journalist For More Than Two Decades Working For Thomson Reuters | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

SYDNEY, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Asian equity capital markets activity, languishing at three-year lows now, is set to get a much needed boost in 2023 from China's expected re-opening to the rest of the world after a spate of COVID-19 lockdowns, dealmakers said. "As China's re-opening happens, market activity will come in stages," said Edward Byun, Goldman Sachs' co-head of equity capital markets in Asia ex-Japan, adding that secondary market trading and follow-on capital raisings would benefit first. IPOs in Asia Pacific, including Japan, fell by 43.3% this year in value terms, while total equity capital market deals plunged 52%, according to Refinitiv data. New share sales in Hong Kong plunged 74% to $7.4 billion this year from $28.17 billion in 2021, Refinitiv data showed. In India, IPOs were down nearly 60% to $7.13 billion from $17.05 billion, the Refinitiv data showed.

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