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☆ In ‘This Train,’ photographer Justine Kurland and her son spend six years on the road
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Justine KurlandCasper previously appeared in a handful of images in "Highway Kind," Kurland's book published in 2016. “There’s certain kinds of ideas of normalcy (in) family life that, when you divert… it makes things significantly more complicated,” Kurland said. Casper became fascinated by trains, Kurland said, and he would often lead her to them. Justine KurlandLiving off irregular paychecks, Kurland and Casper would sometimes have to “hunker down” at campsites until a deposit came through. As “This Train” details, as much as the book is about their relationship, there’s other darker narratives implicit in Kurland’s images.

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☆ Critical House Election in New York Is Altered by a New Dynamic: Snow
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Nicholas Fandos | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Republicans and Democrats were locked in a desperate race Tuesday afternoon to turn out voters after an ill-timed Election Day snowstorm snarled the close of a tightly contested special House election to replace George Santos in New York. The Congressional Leadership Fund, the House Republicans’ main super PAC, even hired private snow plows to help clear the party’s best precinct areas faster, according to its spokeswoman. The group, which had already spent $5 million on the race, did not share the cost of the last-minute service. Turnout plummeted during the heaviest snow Tuesday morning, an alarming sign for Republicans who had counted on an Election Day surge to offset Democrats’ apparent advantage in early and absentee voting. But by evening, Republicans suggested that they were recovering in the few hours left before polls close at 9 p.m.

Persons: George Santos, canvassers Organizations: Queens and, Congressional Leadership Fund, Republicans ’, PAC, Republicans Locations: New York, schlep, Queens and Long

☆ Why millennials are giving up city life to start homesteading
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Zoe Rosenberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

But behind the videos is something deeper: a skepticism of the companies and systems we rely on to sustain us. Millennials and Gen Z, in particular, have taken a shine to homesteading: Nearly half of the Homesteaders of America poll respondents were 39 or younger. Those generations are increasingly ditching city life not just for suburbs but for exurbs and rural areas, Business Insider reported earlier this month. It might be easier, people may reason, to just control what they can from start to finish. "For us, homesteading is being in a position where we can survive independently without outside resources if necessary," Chuck Anderson said.

Persons: —, homesteading, Homesteading, Millennials, Christina Heinritz, Heinritz, Christina Heinritz's, Christina Figone, Chuck Anderson, Brooke, Brooke Anderson, Tara Newby —, Sawyer —, Tara Organizations: Service, Business, Companies, Andersons Locations: America, California, distrusting, Utah, Wisconsin, Raleigh , North Carolina, Virginia, Portugal

☆ ‘Happy Days’ Got Us Unstuck in Time
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( James Poniewozik | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Mention “Happy Days” to TV viewers of a certain age (raises hand) and the first thing they remember might be not an episode or a scene or a catchphrase but a lunchbox. To remember “Happy Days” is to remember your youth, which was also the function of “Happy Days” when it premiered in 1974. Now “Happy Days” is 50 years old. Last year, that series’s sequel, “That ’90s Show,” created a ’90s version of the ’70s version of the ’50s. “Happy Days” was nostalgic because the teenagers weren’t smoking weed.

Persons: Henry Winkler, greaser, Arthur Fonzarelli, Spike Jonze, Buddy Holly, ” Organizations: Smithsonian Locations: Wisconsin

☆ How to get back into an exercise routine: 6 tricks from a former fitness coach
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Louisa Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

I'm a former fitness coach with a home in Mexico and a home in California. When I travel, I often get out of my exercise routine. AdvertisementAs a former fitness coach, I often have to remember to use the very strategies I once recommended to my clients. A common challenge they — and I — faced was how to get back into an exercise routine after a life interruption. I make sure my routine is funTo make exercise as easy as possible, I focus on what I enjoy doing most.

Persons: I'm, —, I've Organizations: Service Locations: Mexico, California, Mexican, Guanajuato, Eureka, Humboldt Bay

☆ From Gym to Work to Date Night? The Stylish Woman’s Guide to Packing a Weekday Survival Bag
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-23 | by ( Sophia Herring | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

THE BIG BAG THEORY IN PRACTICE From an elegantly oversize tote to packing cubes, cosmetics and a miniature hairbrush, must-have items will get you through busy workdays. Photo: iStock/Getty Images (marble)AS A LOT of women bid WFH farewell and re-embrace the office, the barely functional mini purses that suited our condensed Covid lives don’t suffice. Working out no longer means posing on a yoga mat in the living room, and “going to drinks” demands more strategy than sipping post-Zoom cocktails on a couch. Now we run to spin class, spend hours in cubicles, socialize face-to-face and schlep a tote stuffed with essentials for all of the above.

Organizations: tote Locations: cubicles, schlep

☆ Cancer changed my macho views on accepting help
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Andy Segal | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

I assumed I could fight cancer on my ownI’m not wired to cry, and it’s not just because I’m a man. Drawing on my lineage as I faced cancer, I didn’t think I was one of those weaklings who would need help. Friends who had battled cancer offered advice, grocery shopping, respite care and rides to doctor appointments. There was no cancer in the 34 lymph nodes that were removed, which means there is little chance it spread. Even so, in case there are undetectable stray cancer cells, I will undergo five more chemotherapy sessions.

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☆ Roz Chast Knows You’ll Always Regret Leaving the City for the Suburbs
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-10 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

Now she has turned her gaze away from the streets and characters of her beloved New York City and toward her own sleeping mind. I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know. Artwork from Chast’s book “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?” From Roz Chast and BloomsburyYou’re talking about death? The cover art for Roz Chast’s “I Must Be Dreaming.” From Roz Chast and BloomsburyWill my own lingering sense that somehow moving to the suburbs represents a personal failing ever go away? Now I know I have picked up that horrible disease that you can get from mosquitoes.”I know you’re a bit of a hypochondriac.

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☆ Judge Pauline Newman, 96, allegedly had a clerk do errands like grocery shopping. It may be unethical, but it's not uncommon.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Jack Newsham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Judge Pauline Newman is 96 and says colleagues are trying to force her out over petty complaints. But she had an unnamed law clerk run errands and retaliated against an aide, an investigation found. In April, that clerk asked to be transferred to a judge after learning that "other law clerks were assisting Judge Newman in her defense of these proceedings," he said in an affidavit. "To sit at the feet, metaphorically, of Judge Newman, is an opportunity that any aspiring patent lawyer would welcome." The code of conduct for federal judges bars them from using chambers staff for certain extra-judicial activities (running errands isn't specifically listed).

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☆ Gen Zers want to be in the office. But their bosses are at home.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Alexandra York | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Gen Z is more interested in working from the office than any other generation. "At JPMorgan, you're probably never going to be the smartest person in the room," he told Insider. Gen Zers see the office as a place to growDespite having grown up online, Gen Zers dislike working from home more than other generations. Among Gen Z, 57% want in-person jobs, according an online survey of about 3,100 US job seekers conducted by Jobslist in the final months of 2022. Joshua Roizman, a Gen Z employee at a software-development company , said he understood why some in other generations might not want to schlep back to the office.

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☆ Tech IPO drought reaches 18 months despite Nasdaq's sharp rebound in first half of 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Ari Levy | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

Despite a bloated pipeline of companies waiting to go public and a rebound in tech stocks that pushed the Nasdaq up 30% in the first half of 2023, the IPO drought continues. Last Friday, Israeli beauty and tech company Oddity, which runs the Il Makiage and Spoiled Child brands, filed to go public on the Nasdaq. "You can make 15%-20% in the stock market but lose 15%-20%." "I think that’s done some harm to the traditional IPO market." With the public market still pretty closed, they're asking for alternatives."

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☆ Instead of dragging workers back to the office, CEOs can get more out of employees with innovations like AI and the 4-day workweek
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

More CEOs are stepping up their efforts to get workers back in the office, at least part time. CEOs might instead focus on AI and the four-day workweek to boost engagement. That's the thrust of why more CEOs are calling workers back to the office several days a week. So clocking badge swipes at the office seems likely to jeopardize the very thing that helped a record share of workers report being satisfied. Lyon said AI can help workers enjoy higher productivity and increased engagement, in part by weeding out some of the boring stuff.

Persons: —, It's, apoplectic —, Felicia Lyon, they'd, Lyon Organizations: Workers, Service, Amazon, Farmers Group, KPMG, Conference Board

☆ Ford's F-150 Lighting loses a quarter of its range when hauling at max capacity — highlighting one of the biggest drawbacks of electric trucks
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Graham Rapier | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The truck's range fell about 25% when loaded to its maximum cargo rating. AAA tested the F-150 Lightning's towing capacity and found a significant impact on the electric pickup's range when it was fully loaded. AAA said the truck's range fell from 278 miles to 210 miles, a 24.5% difference, when hauling sandbags weighing 1,400 pounds — which is close to the truck's maximum towing capacity. Importantly, Ford's "intelligent range" feature can update range predictions using onboard sensors and driver-supplied trailer details. "The truck towing 3,500 pounds can't even go 100 miles," he said of the test.

Persons: Greg Brannon, Tyler Hoover Organizations: AAA, EPA, AAA's Automotive Engineering, Ford

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