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☆ I made $127,000 selling PowerPoint templates after my TikTok went viral. Here's how I turned views into sales in 6 months.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Kiera Fields | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Jakob Welle-Smogeli, a 21-year-old college junior whose PowerPoint videos went viral on TikTok. I started making TikToks about PowerPoint presentations from my bed. Six months later, I had 3.8 million TikTok followers on my faceless profile and have made over $150,000 from my brand. I started making cool PowerPoints from bed and recorded them for TikTok and Reels. Seeing my PowerPoint templates generate real income was amazingIt was mid-September 2022 when I officially launched my templates.

☆ Where the Band Kids Are
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Ashley Markle | Jazmine Hughes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Contrary to what the movies will tell you, the marching band at Ravenna High School is pretty well respected. “Everybody knows everybody. Ravenna, Ohio, is not the sort of place anybody wants to make movies about, Emmanuel Miller, 17, a senior tuba and sousaphone player, said. (Ashley, who graduated in 2013, was in Ravenna’s band, too; she played the flute.) One thing that hasn’t changed: the escape that the band room can offer.

☆ A couple who are financially independent from their real estate portfolio explain how they bought their first house for less than $2,000 and scaled up to 5 properties that bring in $30,000 a month in
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Kathleen Elkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Jervais, who started with worse credit than Natia, bumped his score up from 524 to the low- to mid-600s, he said. Plus, Natia started working in marketing in 2005 and went from an hourly wage plus tips to earning a salary. The way rental arbitrage works is, you sign a long-term lease and then rent out that property on short-term rental platforms like Airbnb and VRBO. Courtesy of Natia and Jervais SeegarsThey ended up raising about $500,000 from private lenders, they said, which financed their next three properties. They purchased them all within 45 days of each other in late 2021 and immediately listed them on the short-term rental market.

The vast majority are either unvaccinated or have received just one of the two recommended doses of measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, according to City of Columbus Public Health. The outbreak, the largest in the U.S. since 2019, is happening as resistance to school vaccination requirements is spreading across the country. The percentage of parents who said they were against vaccination requirements for school was even higher. "As I think about the challenges that we have to public health vaccine, misinformation is among the biggest threats," she said. "Here in Ohio, we have some pretty active anti-vaccine groups," said Tara Smith, a professor of epidemiology at the Kent State University College of Public Health.

Economic worries have made this holiday season particularly stressful for some. The holiday season can bring out the absolute worst in some kids. Some parents welcome that break from structure, and that’s OK. “Parents get to decide what works and what doesn’t work with their family,” Dr. Naumburg said. “Gratitude and savoring are the opposite.”Dr. Kurtz recommended starting a simple gratitude practice early in the holiday season. As the holidays unfold, make an effort to savor the season, Dr. Kurtz said.

☆ I'm an archivist at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. I've given tours to Bill Belichick and shown Tom Brady his own draft card.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-27 | by ( Vince Guerrieri | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Jon Kendle wanted to work in sports so got a summer internship at the NFL Hall of Fame in 2005. Kendle is now the vice president of museum and archives for the Hall and met Tom Brady on the job. I was born and raised in Canton, Ohio, the home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. I was able to run down to the archives and find Tom Brady's draft card and show it to him. The draft card is just a piece of paper with a name written on it, but it means so much more.

Or they feature commercial characters from media juggernauts, imbued with predetermined personalities and storylines that encourage children to copy, not create. Yet bestselling toys — as distinct from best — are too often those that are most advertised to kids; digitally enhanced or linked to popular media characters; or both. Companies that profit hugely from licensed characters have a vested interest in preventing children’s creative play — and stifling their creativity. Toys that promote creativity are less likely to be huge moneymakers because they can be used repeatedly in lots of different ways. These toys seem to be made with a kind of planned obsolescence, so new ones will soon be needed.

☆ Fact Check-CDC can advise childhood vaccine schedules, but vaccine mandates for school attendance are decided at state level
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

As of October 20, the CDC also provides an interim COVID-19 vaccination schedule (here), but has not yet added COVID-19 vaccination to its table of recommended childhood vaccines (here). Massachusetts, New Jersey, Vermont and Ohio do not mandate influenza or HPV vaccines, which are on the CDC’s immunization schedule (here), (here), (here), (here). During the advisory meeting, health officials emphasized that they were not voting on adding COVID-19 shots to the CDC vaccination schedule (here). Most states do not follow the entire CDC’s childhood and adolescent immunization schedule. For example, only five states or territories mandate the HPV vaccine, which is included in the CDC’s childhood immunization schedule, for school attendance.

As an outbreak of Ebola spreads in Uganda, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention remain confident that the virus can be contained. The people most at risk, therefore, are household contacts and health care workers treating Ebola patients. In 2019, a vaccine was approved for the Ebola virus that caused the 2014 outbreak. The current Ebola outbreak, however, is caused by a different species of the virus, and no vaccines or direct treatments are available. The Ebola virus causes hemorrhagic fever, leading to problems with how the body clots blood.

☆ The female venture capitalist creating billions in a new world of work beyond the office
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Rebecca Fannin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

Worklife Ventures holds weekly meetings for its portfolio company founders to seek advice from successful Silicon Valley operators. You have to have an eye out for people and for new tools," Kimmel said. Worklife Ventures is betting on good returns from its 50 investments in startups, and with nine of them as unicorns, the stakes are high. With venture funds typically having a 10-year life cycle before investment returns are tallied, Worklife Ventures still has a ways to go. Join us October 25 - 26, 2022 for the CNBC Work Summit — Dislocation, Negotiation, and Determination: The World of Work Right Now.

☆ Ex-NBA star J.R. Smith regrets his old spending habits: 'I could have fed my whole community 10 times over'
▼ + stars: | 2022-03-04 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

For years, two-time NBA champion J.R. Smith spent money with abandon. Smith grew up in Lakewood, New Jersey, a small, blue-collar community about an hour from both Philadelphia and New York City. But, as he pointed out in the interview, "small" amounts of money for high-earners could easily be life-changing amounts of money for others. "We're so trained, so embedded to have that Eurocentric mindset, to worry about myself, worry about me, worry about mine," he said. "When you make over $100 million in your career, is [giving $5 or $10 million] going to change your lifestyle?"

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