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☆ This 31-year-old spent $2,300 on an acre of Arizona land—less than a decade later, it's worth $15,000
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Louis Herron, 31, spent $2,333 on an acre in Arizona in 2013. Now, the land hosts his two tiny homes and is worth up to $15,000When Louis Herron spent $2,333 on an acre of land in 2013, he knew was getting a good deal. But he never predicted the property in Flagstaff, Arizona, a 30-minute drive from the Grand Canyon, would become over six times more valuable in less than a decade. Now the acre, which currently hosts two tiny homes, is worth up to $15,000, according to an appraiser estimate reviewed by CNBC Make It. "I was 21 or 22 years old at the time, and I had no idea I could even buy property," Herron, 31, tells CNBC Make It.

☆ VICI CEO says the company's 2023 outlook for the Las Vegas Strip is 'lights out'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailVICI CEO says the company's 2023 outlook for the Las Vegas Strip is 'lights out'Cramer on Tuesday spoke with VICI Properties CEO Ed Pitoniak and Canyon Ranch Principal Owner John Goff.

☆ 4 remote workers who've secretly worked from abroad without their employers knowing describe how they keep up the charade
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( Hannah Towey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Insider spoke with four remote workers who traveled abroad without their employers' knowledge. This is so terrible," the marketing specialist replied. He's one of four remote workers interviewed by Insider who have secretly worked abroad without their employers' permission. The marketing specialist said these two best practices helped him maintain the ruse — during which, he says, he earned a pay bump and a promotion. "My general philosophy is it shouldn't matter where I'm working," he told Insider on a video call from Spain.

☆ In the college sports pay era, female athletes are emerging as big winners
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Kaitlin Balasaygun | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

At a time of increased scrutiny about the pay gap between male and female athletes, the Nike deals show that female collegiate and amateur athletes are emerging as winners in the early days of the NIL era. "I think most people knew that women athletes in particular were going to see great opportunities," Rishe said. "That's why it's exciting to see, but not surprising to see a lot of female college athletes solidify various and sometimes lucrative NIL deals." Women's social media presence influences dealsClark ranks as the tenth most profitable college women's basketball player and Jones comes in twelfth, according to On3's "College Women's Basketball NIL Rankings." Female athletes already are doing their part in spreading the message about the future of women in sports and as public figures.

Gas leak at Nord Stream 2 as seen from the Danish F-16 interceptor on Bornholm, Denmark September 27, 2022. But since both Nord Stream pipelines contained mostly methane, "the potential for a massive and highly damaging emission event is very worrisome", McCabe said. Scientists say sharp cuts in methane emissions over the next few years will be a vital lever in curbing climate change. Releasing that amount in entirety to the atmosphere would result in around 200,000 tonnes of methane emissions, said chemical engineer Paul Balcombe at London's Queen Mary University. ENVIRONMENTAL RISKWhile oil spills can immediately affect and ultimately kill wildlife, authorities say the gas pipeline gas leaks pose a limited threat to the surrounding plant and animal life.

☆ Family sues Little League after son suffers head injury in bunk bed fall
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Utah boy who suffered a serious head injury after falling from a bunk bed during last month’s Little League World Series in Pennsylvania has returned home from the hospital and his family is suing the league and the company that made the bed. Easton Oliverson, 12, of Saint George, Utah, suffered a skull fracture and bleeding on the brain in the Aug. 15 fall at a players dormitory in Williamsport. The negligence lawsuit, filed by Jace and Nancy Oliverson on Friday in Philadelphia, said there was no railing on the top bunk. Kevin Fountain, a spokesperson for Little League International, said the league would not comment on the pending suit. Easton, a pitcher and outfielder with the Snow Canyon team from Santa Clara in southwestern Utah, fell in his sleep, Fulginiti said.

Now it bustles with vessels loading up with coal, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine drives a worldwide race for the polluting fuel. The resurgent coal demand, driven by governments trying to wean themselves off Russian energy while keeping a lid on power prices, clashes with climate plans to shift away from the most polluting fossil fuel. Global seaborne thermal coal imports reached 97.8 million tonnes in July, the highest level on record and up more than 9% year-on-year, an analysis from ship broker Braemar shows. The bloc's ban on Russian coal imports has further increased pressure on electricity generators to find alternative sources of the fuel. Russia usually provides about 70% of the EU's thermal coal, according to the Brussels-based think-tank Bruegel, while it typically supplies 40% of the bloc's natural gas.

☆ The world is staring down a brutal winter of soaring energy prices, rolling blackouts, and freezing homes. But there's a clear solution to the crisis — if we aren't too scared to use it.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Kartik Menon | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Confronted with energy shortfalls into the colder months and years of potential energy uncertainty, one solution has gained traction around the globe: nuclear energy. Many nations, including the United Kingdom, Netherlands, France, and Japan, have begun or reconsidered massive sovereign investment into nuclear power. Reliable, low-cost, and carbon-free, nuclear energy allows these nations to arrest the economic decline from higher energy prices and make progress toward net-zero goals. Compared to other sources of energy, nuclear power is relatively safe — the number of deaths per terawatt hour produced is comparable to wind and solar energy. These are encouraging steps toward getting the West off of Russian energy and helping consumers weather the tough times ahead.

☆ This 31-year-old spent $15,000 setting up an Airbnb yurt near the Grand Canyon—now it earns him $28,000 per year
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

In August 2020, tour guide Louis Herron spent about $15,000 setting up a yurt on his property outside the Grand Canyon. In 2011, Louis Herron dropped out of Ball State University, packed a backpack and moved west. After a couple of months, he nabbed a similar role at Glacier National Park before settling in Flagstaff, Arizona, right outside the Grand Canyon. There, Herron spent $2,400 for an acre of land that would eventually host two tiny homes, his Grand Canyon touring business and his side hustle: a 16-foot yurt listed on Airbnb. Louis Herron

☆ MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos' ex-wife, gives 2 Beverly Hills mansions worth $55 million to a housing charity
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-10 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

MacKenzie Scott, the former wife of Jeff Bezos, gave two Beverly Hills mansions to a housing charity. She donated the properties, worth $55 million, to the California Community Foundation. The properties are located on N. Alpine Drive near Coldwater Canyon Park in Beverly Hills. The California Community Foundation said the donation by the 52-year-old billionaire and philanthropist would allow it to create more affordable housing in Los Angeles. Bezos and Scott's Spanish-style home in Beverly Hills.

☆ Why celebrities are so interested in the unglamorous world of private equity
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-07 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Now she’s entering the secretive, not-so-pretty world of private equity, aka the land of “vulture capitalists.”Here’s the deal: Kim K is partnering with Jay Sammons, a former executive with Carlyle Group, to launch SKKY Partners, a private equity firm that plans to invest in areas such as consumer products, hospitality, luxury, digital commerce and media. “If I was a celebrity, I would jump in and start a private equity fund,” Hooke says. First up, the iPhone 14 (yes, 14! The iPhone 14 will start at $799, the same starting price as last year’s iPhone 13. The larger iPhone 14 Plus model will start at $899.

☆ Why this professor is using $50,000 of his retirement savings to realize his childhood dream and fly into space
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-21 | by ( Urooba Jamal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

He finally will realize his dream in 2024 via World View, which offers more affordable space flights. "It's a cliche for people to say it's a childhood dream, but it is a childhood dream," Cokinos told Insider. This is a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of dollars that other space tourism operators charge. For Cokinos, World View's flight cost will easily be absorbed from his decades' worth of retirement savings. World View's capsule is designed to optimize views and includes personal viewing screens for each passenger.

☆ The climate crisis has world leaders rethinking nuclear power
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-18 | by ( Catherine Boudreau | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Climate change and Russia's invasion of Ukraine has world leaders looking again at nuclear power. Gavin Newsom's plan to keep a nuclear power plant open points to a trend. Nuclear power doesn't emit greenhouse gases and provides 10% of global electricity. Gavin Newsom wants to extend the life of a nuclear plant that was slated to close by 2025. The race to combat the climate crisis and shore up energy supplies after Russia's invasion of Ukraine is pushing policymakers to reconsider nuclear power.

☆ A 29-year-old videographer gets paid to travel the world with the wealthy elite, documenting their wild adventures so they don't have to. Here's what it's like.
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-26 | by ( Mark Ellwood | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Ian Agrimis is the founder of photography and video company Capture Unlimited. He has to remain unnoticed and does activities like cliff jumping before clients do to get the shot. He was there for two years, he told Insider, before he and his entire team were laid off. He keeps a tight team on-site, he said, often pairing up with a photographer while he focuses on video. When someone does occasionally ask for a still or a shorter video, he added, it will only be posted on a private Instagram account.

☆ 1,000 year-old Native American carvings of mysterious giant humanoids discovered on the ceiling of an Alabama cave
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-08 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A study found large humanoid figures carved on the ceiling of an Alabama cave more than 1000 years ago. Hi-tech technology was needed to see them in the low ceiling cave. It was still a grueling, month-long task to capture more than 16,000 pictures that very slightly overlap to map out the entire cave ceiling. Anthropomorph in regalia (6.8 ft tall) from 19th Unnamed Cave, Alabama. SimekThe style of the drawings in the Alabama cave is reminiscent of figures seen in the midwest and the western US.

☆ Un sequoia uriaș din California continuă să fumege, după incendiul de vegetaţie din 2020
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-06 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Un sequoia din statul american California continuă să ardă lent şi în prezent, după incendiul de vegetație din vara anului 2020, a anunţat Parcul Naţional Redwood. „Oameni de ştiinţă şi pompieri de la Serviciul Parcurilor Naţionale studiau recent efectele 'Castle Fire' din 2020 asupra parcului naţional cu sequoia când au observat un sequoia uriaş care încă ardea şi fumega”, a transmis parcul într-un comunicat. Potrivit experţilor citați de Agerpres, acestea sunt consecinţele incendiului forestier care a fost declanşat de fulgere la data de 19 august 2020 şi s-a răspândit în toată regiunea. În total, până în decembrie 2020, se estimează că peste 700 de kilometri pătraţi de pădure au fost mistuite în acest incendiu. În urma secetei cronice exacerbate de schimbările climatice, vestul Statelor Unite a suferit în 2020 incendii de o magnitudine excepţională, cu 33 de morţi şi peste 17.000 de kilometri pătraţi mistuiţi de flăcări doar în California.

Persons: Leif Mathiesen Locations: american California, Kings, Statelor Unite, California

☆ Cum a dus o întâlnire dintre un bărbat și o femeie prin intermediul unei aplicații mobile la o crimă, un incendiu uriaș și la alte două decese
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-01 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

Acum, anchetatorii suspectează că această întâlnire a dus la o crimă, o incendiere care să acopere fapta, dar care a mai luat două vieți, potrivit ABC News, citează digi24.ro. Mașina ei a fost găsită abandonată în Vacaville pe 18 august, iar trupul ei carbonizat a fost descoperit în zona Stebbins-Cold Canyon, aflată în apropiere. Incendiul a dus la pagube majore, pentru că a contribuit la amplificarea unor incendii de vegetație izbucnite anul trecut în California, care au afectat arii extinse. La momentul respectiv, a fost considerat al patrulea cel mai mare incendiu din istoria Californiei. Miercuri, Serriteno a fost pus sub acuzare pentru incendiere și alte crime.

Persons: Priscilla Castro, Victor Serriteno, Castro, Douglas, Leon, James, Bone, șeriful, Krishna Abrams, Serriteno Organizations: ABC News Locations: Vallejo, California, Solano, Napa, Lake, Yolo, Californiei, Miercuri

☆ Cameron Diaz s-a mutat în casă nouă. Cum arată locuința de aproape 15 milioane de dolari în care își va crește fetița
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-12 | by ( ) www.ziarulnational.md time to read: 1 min

Cameron Diaz și Benji Madden s-au mutat în casă nouă. Cei doi au plătit 14,7 milioane de dolari pe o locuință în Los Angeles, unde își vor crește fetița. Diaz și Benji au devenit părinți la începutul anului. Are șapte dormitoare, zece băi și o piscină uriașă înconjurată de copaci și dealuri. Proprietatea dispune și de o grădina foarte mare și o sală de cinema.

Persons: Cameron Diaz, Madden, Diaz, Benedict Canyon, Cameron, Gene Simmons, John Mayer, Kate Upton, Justin Verlander Locations: Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Hollywood

☆ Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction
▼ + stars: | 1992-04-19 | by ( Richard B. Woodward | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Finished off with one of his twinkly-eyed laughs, this mealtime anecdote has a more jocular tone than McCarthy's venomous fiction, but the same elements are there. Each of his five previous novels has been marked by intense natural observation, a kind of morbid realism. A cult figure with a reputation as a writer's writer, especially in the South and in England, McCarthy has sometimes been compared with Joyce and Faulkner. Says the historian and novelist Shelby Foote: "McCarthy is the one writer younger than myself who has excited me. I told the MacArthur people that he would be honoring them as much as they were honoring him."

Persons: McCarthy, wildness, blurbed, Joyce, Faulkner, Saul Bellow, Shelby Foote, Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, Hemingway Organizations: MacArthur Locations: hovels, East Tennessee, American, England, Texas, Mexico

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