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☆ The Notre Dame football team captain shared his daily routine during fall camp. He takes a 45-minute nap and listens to Adele to recharge.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Nandini Maharaj | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewAs college football season kicks off, fans are getting an unprecedented look at the lives of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team in a new docuseries "Here Come the Irish," streaming on Peacock. He's excited for fans to see the highs and lows they go through as a team and what makes them more than just football players. Fall camp means long hours dedicated to footballBefore the season starts, players attend fall camp, which begins in August and lasts three to four weeks. There's time for a mid-day nap to rechargeAfter practice, the players have a 45 to 60-minute break. The day continues with more training until 8 p.m.During team meetings, they recap what happened earlier in the day.

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But if you don't have the best pumpkin carving tools, the end result probably won't be what you'd hoped for. We researched dozens of pumpkin carving tools to find ones that are durable, practical, and useful for specific carving needs. AdvertisementOur top picks for the best pumpkin carving kitsBest overall: Elmchee Halloween 13-Piece Professional Kit - See at AmazonBest budget: The Ultimate Pumpkin Carving Kit - See at AmazonBest for detail work: Augsen Wood Carving Knife Set - See at AmazonBest with molds: Fenvella Pumpkin Carving Kit - See at AmazonAdvertisementBest overallElmchee Halloween 13-Piece Professional Kit No matter what style of pumpkin carving you'd like to try, the Elmchee Halloween 13-Piece Professional Kit has the tools that you'll need. AdvertisementBest budgetFunWorld Ultimate Pumpkin Carving Kit With all the pumpkin carving basics included, the Ultimate Pumpkin Carving Kit's real appeal is its price Check price at Amazon What we like Check mark icon A check mark. AdvertisementBest with moldsFenvella Pumpkin Carving Kit The Fenvella Pumpkin Carving kit includes 21 stainless steel stencils for fool-proof designs.

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Business vs. personal bank account interest rates at brick-and-mortar banks*Regional differences are possible at Regions Bank. Rates are as of July 22, 2024.Business vs. personal bank account interest rates at online banksPersonal bank accounts at online banks generally pay more than their business banking options. Business vs. personal bank account interest rates at credit unionsCredit unions also tend to offer competitive rates on business and personal bank accounts. Comparing account fees and accessibilityOpening a business bank account involves more documentation than opening a traditional bank account. Business vs. personal banking FAQsWhy might business savings accounts offer different interest rates than personal accounts?

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☆ When Bay Area rent got too expensive, I bought a house in the mountains. Living here is a dream, but I'm uncertain about the future.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

I'm the cofounder and CEO of Santa Cruz Fungi. I live in Boulder Creek, California, and my business is headquartered in Santa Cruz. In May 2016, I bought a home for my husband, Paul Lazazzera, and me in Boulder Creek. We married the following year, and Paul started our business in 2021. I had to go over my budget and closed at $535,000 almost a year later on a 740-square-foot house set on half an acre in Boulder Creek.

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Business Insider's personal finance team compared Navy Federal Credit Union personal loans to the best personal loan companies and found it to a standard offering. Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU) is a credit union that serves the military community and their families. Navy Federal Personal Loan Credit RequirementsNavy Federal doesn't make its minimum credit score to be eligible for a personal loan public — though in general, a higher credit score will secure you a lower rate. Navy Federal Personal Loan AlternativesNavy Federal Personal Loans vs. PenFed Personal LoansWith a range of 8.99% to 18.00%, offers a minimum loan amount than what you can get with PenFed, which as a range of 8.99% to 17.99%. Navy Federal Personal Loan FAQsWhat credit score do I need for an NFCU personal loan?

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Santana’s 2024 Las Vegas residency begins on October 30 and continues for another seven performances through November 10. Date City StubHub prices Vivid Seats prices Time October 30, 2024 Las Vegas, Nevada $82 $85 7 p.m. October 31, 2024 Las Vegas, Nevada $72 $77 7 p.m. November 2, 2024 Las Vegas, Nevada $111 $113 7 p.m. November 3, 2024 Las Vegas, Nevada $110 $113 7 p.m. November 6, 2024 Las Vegas, Nevada $88 $94 7 p.m. November 7, 2024 Las Vegas, Nevada $104 $115 7 p.m. November 9, 2024 Las Vegas, Nevada $110 $116 7 p.m. November 10, 2024 Las Vegas, Nevada $110 $129 7 p.m. How to buy tickets for Santana 2024 concert tourYou can buy original tickets to see Santana’s 2024 concert tour through Live Nation. Ticket prices for Santana's Las Vegas concerts are reasonable compared to similar acts with residencies in the city. While Santana's House of Blues Las Vegas residency isn't offering any VIP tickets, there are VIP add-ons and extras available.

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☆ Child-free spaces, dirty looks on planes and ‘breeders’: Why people seem so annoyed by kids in public
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Harmeet Kaur | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

CNN —In some corners of society, there appears to be a shift in the way people talk about kids. Every so often, a provocative social media post sets off predictably polarizing discourse about the presence of children in daily life. The implication (joking or otherwise) is that children are a nuisance and adults shouldn’t have to endure them if they don’t want to. The people behind them aren’t part of some organized movement nor are they actually lobbying for the exclusion of children from public spaces. Rather, Berg understands online disdain for kids partly as a performative response to rhetoric from political and religious conservatives.

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☆ Chinese American family meets descendants of the Black couple who rented to them when no one would
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-17 | by ( Lynda Lin Grigsby | Lynda Lin Grigsis A Freelance Journalist | Editor Who Writes About The Intersections Of Race | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

CORONADO, Calif. — Standing on their lawn, members of the Dong family waited to meet the great-grandkids of a Black couple who rented a home to them a generation ago, when laws favored white residents. In 1939, Gus and Emma Thompson, a Black entrepreneurial couple, agreed to rent and eventually sell the house they owned to the Dongs, a Chinese American family. Alan Nakkash for NBC NewsThe Dong family is donating the proceeds of the house sale to support the Black community. Alan Nakkash for NBC NewsThe Dong family wanted the Thompson family descendants to tour the storied home before selling. Nearby, Kemp leaned in to repeat words he first said at their meeting at the Coronado house.

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Alvarez reflected on how it took her a while to understand the traumas of a dictatorship through her parents. So, it helped me to understand them and their generation, which has been called ‘la generación perdida’ (the 'lost generation') because so many in that generation lost their lives." The documentary ends with her most recent novel, “The Cemetery of Untold Stories,” which Alvarez published this year at age 74. Alvarez said that after arriving in Queens, she felt that her family “had lost everything.” But in spite of feeling like an outsider, poetry helped her find a new home. She produced and directed “Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined.”Bosch explained that Alvarez’s writing shifted the lens from male-dominated stories to female-dominated stories.

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☆ ‘American Sports Story’ re-examines the rise and fall of NFL star Aaron Hernandez
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-17 | by ( Max Gao | Max Gao Is A Freelance Entertainment | Sports Journalist Based In Toronto. He Has Written For Nbc News | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +10 min

Based on the Boston Globe and Wondery podcast “Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc.” and adapted by Stuart Zicherman, “American Sports Story,” which premieres Tuesday on FX, chronicles Hernandez’s meteoric rise to NFL superstardom and his stunning fall from grace after his arrest and eventual conviction of first-degree murder in 2015. Aaron Hernandez was a monster, a killer — and that’s just the way people talked about him. Michael DeHoog / Getty Images fileIn the years since his death, Hernandez’s sexuality has been the subject of much speculation, with some of his loved ones claiming he had come out as gay. “A person struggling with his sexuality in the NFL when Aaron played in 2010, 2011, would not have been tolerated, not one bit,” Zicherman said. Josh Rivera as Aaron Hernandez in "American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez."

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☆ A millennial couple bought an old, abandoned farmhouse and moved to Italy. They said renovating it is a full-time job.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-16 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Sturtewagen still works remotely as a business coach, alongside renovating the property with Brokamp and documenting their progress for nearly 100,000 fans on YouTube. They told Business Insider they didn't consider buying a property in Italy until they began visiting the country regularly after Sturtewagen's mother moved there. Sturtewagen told BI part of the house was habitable, though decorated in an "old-fashioned" 1960s style. They spent seven weeks in Italy in the first half of 2023, and moved into the farmhouse in August 2023. Renovating is a full-time jobThe couple said renovating the farmhouse and making videos filming their renovation is a full-time job.

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We have also focused on using our favorite strategy to save on travel — using travel rewards credit card points to get some of it for free. While we mostly rely on airline miles to save money on travel, we also use flexible rewards points and hotel points for some aspects of our plans. My husband's birthday trip to MemphisI was able to book my husband a surprise weekend getaway for his 45th birthday this year using credit card rewards. Still, using rewards to take the sting out of what would otherwise be an expensive trip feels like a win when it makes sense. My whole travel plan also underscores something I have believed about the world of travel rewards for a long time.

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☆ A neuroscientist is more efficient than ever after making 3 simple changes that take advantage of when her brain works best
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-16 | by ( Kim Schewitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewMithu Storoni, a neuroscientist and expert on mental stress, made three "radical" changes to the way she works after writing her latest book on optimizing workflow. Data suggests the brain is better at performing certain tasks at certain times of the day, Storoni said. AdvertisementSchedule tasks around brain rhythmAs much as possible, Storoni now schedules her working day around the type of tasks she needs to do. But provided you have at least some agency over when you do which tasks, this idea could be applied to a typical working day, she said. AdvertisementWhen she's doing focused or creative work, Storoni puts her phone face down on silent, pauses her email notifications, and doesn't read anything.

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☆ 'Living death' was my dad's nickname for office work. Now I'm in my 40s — and I can see why.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-16 | by ( Ariel Sophia Bardi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. I'd spent carefree years bouncing around Kyrgyzstan and Lebanon, Sri Lanka and Mexico, India and Armenia. Advertisement"Living death," that's how my philosopher-slash-guitarist father had nicknamed office work. Author's view from hotel overlooking the Bay of Algiers Ariel Sophia BardiA freelance job helped me feel free againI needed to start living again. I make no comparison between their incredible courage and my own infinitely milder risks, which soon included drifting back to freelance work.

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☆ Sirens sound as Yemeni missile lands in central Israel
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-15 | by ( Freddie Clayton | Freddie Clayton Is A Freelance Journalist Based In London. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Nine people were injured as they ran to shelters, after air raid sirens sounded in central Israel Sunday morning. A ballistic missile launched from Yemen crossed into Israel, landing in an open field outside Tel Aviv, the Israel Defense Forces said. The sirens were the first in months, and included Israel's Ben Gurion international airport in Tel Aviv, where local media showed footage of people racing to shelters. Responders put out a fire in the area of Lod, near Tel Aviv, in central Israel. The IDF originally said that a "surface-to-surface missile was identified crossing into central Israel from the East and fell in an open area."

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☆ My dad sacrificed everything to retire early — only to die before he could enjoy it. I'll never recommend early retirement to anyone.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-15 | by ( Rebekah Sanderlin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

But his plan had always been to retire early. At 50, he could retire early, and have plenty of time to do whatever he wanted. AdvertisementThe author wearing the diamond studs her father bought for her, which she almost never takes out. That old designer diaper bag now serves as my laptop bag, a reminder of everything I learned from my dad. I plan to slow down as I age, but I don't plan on ever retiring.

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☆ Three Americans are accused of trying to overthrow Congo's president. They're now sentenced to death.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( Freddie Clayton | Freddie Clayton Is A Freelance Journalist Based In London. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Five years ago, while playing for the Copper Hills High School football team, Thompson met Marcel Malanga, the son of Christian Malanga. He proclaimed himself president of the United Congolese Party and railed against what he saw as vast government corruption in the DRC. On May 19, he assembled a ragtag band of a few dozen paramilitaries, leading them in an extraordinarily ambitious yet ultimately amateurish attempt to unseat Congolese president Felix Tshisekedi. Among them were Thompson, Malanga's son Marcel, and 36-year-old Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun, a convicted drug trafficker from Maryland. Videos taken in Kinshasa after the aborted coup showed Thompson being hit with the butt of a rifle by security forces.

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☆ My husband and I are child-free. Sometimes, I worry we'll regret it.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( Alix Campbell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Though my husband didn't want kids, he also never pushed me either way, which I'm grateful for. It mostly consists of other childless couples (or couples with grown-up children), surfers, business owners and freelancers, and expats from countries like Germany, Poland, France, Venezuela, and Spain. Related storiesI started questioning things after a couple we know had a babyRecently, though, our perfectly crafted child-free lifestyle has been turned upside down. Will we regret our decision to live on our own terms without the chaos and beauty of raising a child? I'm picturing my husband and me — all shriveled up and gray — sitting at an empty dinner table, just the two of us.

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☆ Welcome to a new era of work: The portfolio career
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

But around a year and a half ago, she decided to pursue what she calls a "portfolio career." Anna Mackenzie has a portfolio career and likes the variety of gigs she can do with this type of work. Mackenzie SweetnamJanel Abrahami, who also has a portfolio career, doesn't see workers going back to how work was before the pandemic. Some people may take on a freelance job or work more than one job to kick off their portfolio career. AdvertisementThe pros and cons of a portfolio careerMackenzie and Abrahami both think a portfolio career isn't for everyone.

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☆ Hollywood's secret weapon is an independent animation studio called Titmouse
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Amazon Prime Video's "The Legend of Vox Machina" is one of the many shows using animation from independent studio Titmouse Animation. Amazon StudiosThere's a powerhouse in the entertainment industry that remains unknown to many casual cartoon viewers — it's called Titmouse Animation. Titmouse worked on Disney's "Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures," a series of animated shorts set in the Star Wars universe. "When we were looking at animation studios, Chris [Prynoski] made it really clear that Titmouse wanted to get into prime-time-style adult animation and that their No. Netflix's "Big Mouth" was produced through Titmouse's animation studio.

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☆ USS White River: How the US Navy transformed a landing vessel into a legendary rocket artillery ship
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( Benjamin Brimelow | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Rather than building an entirely new vessel, it was decided to modify medium-sized landing ships (classified as LSMs for 'Landing Ship Medium'). Officially renamed USS White River in 1955, the ship was decommissioned again in 1956. A day after that, White River fired on a nearby VC anti-aircraft site, destroying it and killing or wounding 11 guerillas. Winstead/National ArchivesFuture shore bombardment and LSMsDespite its value and firepower, by 1970, White River was showing its age. Now known as the Medium Landing Ship program, the Navy hopes to acquire 18 to 35 of the vessels.

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Many said he failed to acknowledge the real reason many grandparents don't help with childcare more: They can't afford to. Many American families are stuck between a retirement crisis and a childcare crisis, with young parents unable to help their own parents — and vice versa. The childcare crisis meets the retirement crisisSandra, 51, has been dealing with both childcare and eldercare challenges over the past year. "And that would help parents who want to stay home and care for kids; it would also help grandparents who want to help care for kids while their parents are working." AdvertisementRachidi also said that revisiting the usefulness of regulations around informal care — settings like friend and family care — should be on the table, too.

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☆ I paid for my engagement ring, and my husband picked out my wedding dress. We've always gone against gender norms.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( Wendi Gordon | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

From the beginning, nothing about my relationship with my husband, Steve, was "normal." My husband didn't propose to me, and I didn't propose to him; there was just a mutual assumption that we would get married and spend the rest of our lives together. Our wedding was uniqueWe first went to a local jewelry store to buy my engagement ring and our wedding bands. We didn't worship together and rarely met the members of each other's churches. We're ignoring social norms like we always have because it always worked for us.

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☆ Activist investor Engine Capital pushes for new board at Upwork after taking 4% stake
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Rohan Goswami | In Rohangoswamicnbc | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Close-up of sign at entrance to Silicon Valley headquarters of outsourcing and freelancing company Upwork, Mountain View, California, May 3, 2019. Activist investor Engine Capital has a roughly 4% stake in freelance marketplace Upwork and is pushing for a shakeup to the company's board. Upwork shares rose more than 3% on the news in pre-market trading Friday. Engine singled out several Upwork directors, including Chairman Thomas Layton and Greg Gretsch, for their lengthy tenures. Meanwhile, none of Upwork's directors have any apparent experience in staffing industry, the activist said.

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☆ I'm 43 and my honeymoon was the only time I traveled without my parents. Now that I'm divorced, I'm trying solo travel.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Jane Ridley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The one time she didn't join me was the honeymoon I spent with my former husband in 2008. I never went on vacation with girlfriendsBefore and after my marriage, I spent every break with the people who raised me. Around his mid-50s, he decided he didn't like traveling much and generally preferred to stay at home. But Mom went ahead and enjoyed herself, thinking it was funny. Meanwhile, I'm turning 44 in November and have decided to celebrate with a trip to Bali.

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