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This week, a reader's roommate lost her job and can't pay her half of the rent. Honestly, I can probably cover this month, but it will be a squeeze, and I certainly can't cover her half the rent indefinitely. In other words, if your roommate doesn't have the money, she doesn't have it. From the sound of your letter, it seems that up until your roommate lost her job, she paid their share of the rent reliably. Whether you cover the full rent this month or not, you need to have that conversation with your roommate ASAP.

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☆ American Tausaga wins shock discus gold with astonishing personal best
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Mitch Phillips | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Summary Tausaga improves personal best by four metresVictory comes after finishing last in previous two worldsSecond successive World Championship heartbreak for AllmanBUDAPEST, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Laulauga Tausaga obliterated her personal best by over four metres to take a stunning world discus gold on Tuesday just as fellow American and hot favourite Valarie Allman had been seemingly cruising towards the title. She improved that to 68.79 in the third round and 69.23 in the fourth and seemed comfortably set for gold until her team mate's stunner. Hawaiian-born Tausaga had managed a personal best of 65.56 but that was barely noticed as it kept her in sixth place at the halfway point. After Tausaga's Bob Beamonesque throw, Allman had a final chance to reclaim the lead but could not manage it, leaving her compatriot to take a victory throw, which shed did with tears streaming down her face. Feng claimed bronze with a final round throw of 68.20.

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☆ I'm a college senior. Here's what I recommend all incoming freshmen get for their dorm rooms — and everything they can leave at home.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Arundhati Ghosh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I recommend incoming college freshmen buy steamers and dry-erase boards for their dorms. As a senior at the University of Texas at Austin, I know how stressful dorm shopping can be. The mattress topper is also not likely to transfer to your college apartment once you leave dorm life behind. You probably won't need a bed caddyPretty much anything you would put in a bed caddy just ends up on your desk or on the shelf or drawers you get assigned. A diffuser can annoy your new roommateHaving a diffuser probably won't be allowed in your dorm building, but it's also something that could disturb the peace with your roommate.

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☆ Professors want to 'ChatGPT-proof' assignments, and are returning to paper exams and requesting editing history to curb AI cheating
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Aaron Mok | Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

College professors are looking to "ChatGPT-proof" assignments to curb cheating. Some professors suggest returning to paper exams and asking students to show editing histories. Changes to assignments come as teachers debate the usage of generative AI in the classroom. Some professors suggest students show their work by including their editing history and drafts along with their completed assignments. The changes to school assignments come as teachers grapple with how to best integrate AI tools like ChatGPT into their classrooms.

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A person familiar with the matter said he was Rajaratnam, who was sentenced in 2011 to 11 years in prison and was released early in 2019. Starting in 2018, Tidwell began receiving undisclosed benefits from Rajaratnam and a close friend and business associate of Rajaratnam, according to charging papers and the person familiar with the matter. Later, after Rajaratnam was released from prison, Tidwell in 2020 received a $50,000 loan from the onetime inmate's friend to buy a house. Prosecutors said he lied on a bank loan application about the source of that money. Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston; Editing by David Bario and Chris ReeseOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Raj Rajaratnam, William Tidwell, Rajaratnam, Prosecutors, Goldman Sachs, Tidwell, Samidh Guha, Rajaratnam's, Brad Bailey, Nate Raymond, David Bario, Chris Reese Organizations: eBay, Galleon Group, Federal Medical Center Devens, Google, Thomson Locations: BOSTON, Massachusetts, Boston, Ayer , Massachusetts, York

☆ Pence says he's not worried about Trump inciting violence. CNN reminds him that some of his supporters wanted to hang him.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Former Vice President Mike Pence said he's not concerned about Trump's rhetoric inciting violence. CNN's Dana Bash responded by noting some Trump supporters called for Pence to be hanged. The former vice president said he was "infuriated" by the violence on January 6 but argued that the ransacking of the US Capitol was carried out by a small minority of Trump supporters. After CNN played the recording of Trump's remarks, Pence said he could "hear my former running mate's frustration in his voice." Around the same time, according to videos posted from inside the US Capitol, some Trump supporters began chanting, "Hang Mike Pence."

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Ramsey asked Travis why he hadn't gotten on a "tight, tight, tight, tight budget" to get his debts down. Ramsey said Travis should meet his basic obligations then throw everything else at his "stupid credit card debt until it's gone." "But you're not going out to eat, and you're not going on vacation," Ramsey said. Ramsey said Travis had to look at his finances like "every dollar has a mission:" necessities or his debt. "You will go, 'Where is all this freaking money going?'"

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☆ Elizabeth Holmes will soon have to ditch her black turtleneck for khaki prison garb and will earn as little as 12 cents an hour working on the prison factory line
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Holmes will soon ditch her turtleneck and work in a factory line, earning 12 cents to a dollar. The disgraced Theranos CEO has been instructed to report to a Texas prison at the end of May. Holmes was convicted on four counts of fraud and conspiracy in January 2022. Elizabeth Holmes will soon be switching out her famous black turtleneck in favor of drab khaki prison wear when she reports to a prison in Texas at the end of the month. At the Texas prison, Holmes will be expected to dress in khaki pants and shirts and will have to dispense with any jewelry exceeding $100 in value, per an inmate admission and orientation handbook.

☆ U.S. Supreme Court allows death row inmate's lawsuit after failed execution
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Andrew Chung | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

A majority of the justices in November cleared the way for the execution of Smith, sentenced to death for his role in a 1988 murder-for-hire plot. The method in Alabama posed an "intolerable risk of torture, cruelty or substantial pain," Smith's lawsuit stated. A judge dismissed Smith's lawsuit, but on Nov. 17, the day of his scheduled execution, the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. The 11th Circuit also in a separate decision stayed his execution, but after the state appealed to the Supreme Court, the justices allowed it to proceed. Smith's case is not a challenge to the death penalty itself.

☆ Avalanche captain Landeskog to miss entire 2023-24 season
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

May 9 (Reuters) - Colorado Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog will have a cartilage transplant in his right knee this week and is expected to miss a second consecutive National Hockey League season (NHL), the team announced on Tuesday. The 30-year-old Swedish forward, who already sat out the entire 2022-23 regular season and playoffs after arthroscopic knee surgery last October, will undergo the latest procedure on Wednesday in Chicago. "It's a long time away from the game, but I'm confident in the player I am. I'm confident in the athlete that I am," Landeskog told reporters during a video call. Landeskog was selected by Colorado with the second overall pick of the 2011 NHL Draft and has recorded 571 points in 738 games.

☆ All quiet on the Red Bull home front -- for now
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Steve Keating | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

MIAMI, May 5 (Reuters) - Formula One teams often have to deal with in-house divisions but Sergio Perez insists all is quiet on the Red Bull home front with the drivers championship shaping up as an epic tussle between the cool Mexican and fiery team mate Max Verstappen. Red Bull have won every grand prix this season, with three of the four races producing one-two finishes. Since joining Red Bull in 2021 Perez has been the clear number two. He has played the part of consummate team mate dutifully following orders but there are signs this season things are different. "I do believe the team will give me as much support as they do with Max in that regard we have to appreciate that from Red Bull."

☆ Slovakian Martin banned for 14 months after failing dope test
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

April 27 (Reuters) - Slovakian tennis player Andrej Martin has been suspended for 14 months for failing a doping test, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) said on Thursday. The 33-year-old Martin, who reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of 93 in 2020, tested positive for an anabolic agent at the Bratislava Open in June. Martin's ban was reduced from the stipulated period of four years after he satisfied an independent tribunal that the offence was not intentional. "Martin's floorball team mate admitted that he added ostarine drops to his water bottle. The Independent Tribunal considered Martin's statement to be plausible."

☆ VC firms create $60 billion-plus climate tech alliance with backing from the UN
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A group of venture capital firms including Tiger Global and Union Square Ventures on Tuesday set up an alliance aimed at making private tech investing more climate-friendly. Called the Venture Climate Alliance (VCA), the coalition of more than 20 climate tech and generalist funds seeks to get the VC industry to increase its commitments to climate tech, a branch of technology devoted to finding solutions to the climate crisis. Generalist VC firms will need to make routine assessments of their carbon footprint, align their early-stage startup bets with net-zero goals. It is not the first initiative to bring climate's role in startup investing to the forefront. The alliance will fall under the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), a group formed during the COP26 climate conference.

☆ They found a hole in the ocean near Mexico, and you could fit all of Bank of America's skyscraper HQ into it — but don't do that because it's an ecological marvel
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Nicholas Carlson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

There's a 900-foot deep hole, now called The Taam ja' Blue Hole, off the Eastern coast of Mexico. The deepest is the Sansha Yongle Blue Hole near China. The Taam ja' Blue Hole is full of marine life. The deepest is the Sansha Yongle Blue Hole near China. The Taam ja' Blue Hole is 900 feet deep, a new study found.

☆ Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says inventing and 'riffing' on ideas is easier if staff are back in the office
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said inventing is "easier" when staff are working in the office. "The energy and riffing on one another's ideas happen more freely" than from home, he said. Staff must work three days a week in the office from May, but some buildings won't be ready then. An internal memo obtained by Insider's Eugene Kim this week indicated that some of Amazon's office space won't be ready until September. Amazon didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider, made outside normal working hours.

☆ Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says he's confident he can get costs under control in shareholder letter
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Annie Palmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +38 min

Further, as machine learning adoption has continued to accelerate, customers have yearned for lower-cost GPUs (the chips most commonly used for machine learning). While some areas of the economy have struggled over the past few years, Amazon Business has thrived. Some people have never heard of Amazon Business, but, our business customers love it. For years, Amazon customers had asked us when we'd offer them an online pharmacy as their frustrations mounted with current providers. More recently, a newer form of machine learning, called Generative AI, has burst onto the scene and promises to significantly accelerate machine learning adoption.

☆ Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says his letter to shareholders follows one of the toughest economic years in recent memory. Read it in full.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +38 min

☆ How this 26-year-old went from running bitcoin trading desks in Taco Bells to creating the largest crypto exchange in Africa
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( Mackenzie Sigalos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +28 min

Yellow Card CEO Chris Maurice just before meeting with the Securities and Exchange Commission in Accra, Ghana. Chris MauriceFrom there, Yellow Card users can send or receive digital cash in eligible markets. Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards Yellow Card CEO Chris Maurice in Accra, Ghana loading cash onto his Mobile Money account, MoMo. Yellow Card has facilitated $1.75 billion in transactions since launching in 2019 and has about 220 employees – mostly in Africa. A resident checks his phone outside a mobile money kiosk in the Kibera district of Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022.

☆ I'm a high school math and science teacher who uses ChatGPT, and it's made my job much easier
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Shannon Ahern, a high school math and science teacher, was afraid that ChatGPT would take her job. Here's how Ahern is using ChatGPT to make her job easier, as told to Insider's Aaron Mok. As a high school math and science teacher, I had a bit of an existential crisis over my job. Since then, I've asked ChatGPT to write lesson plans, generate exercise worksheets, and come up with quiz questions. Still, I understand why some teachers are hesitant about using ChatGPT.

I refused to pay the fee for years, but the resulting delinquency on credit report is lowering my credit score. However, Blink Fitness claimed I owed them $187 in gym membership fees; I insisted that I had canceled my membership. So I had a perfect friendship credit score, but my VantageScore credit score was another story. When I checked my credit report, my VantageScore credit score was 675. After paying my debt, the debt collectors said the delinquency should be erased from my credit report when the credit bureaus update their records.

☆ Amazon tells employees to be in the office at least three days a week
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( Annie Palmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

In response to the coronavirus outbreak, Amazon recommended all employees in its Seattle office to work from home, leaving much of downtown nearly void of people. Amazon is instructing corporate staffers to spend at least three days a week in the office, CEO Andy Jassy wrote in a memo on Friday. Other companies have recently called their employees back to the office either full time or several days a week as the Covid-19 pandemic has eased. Google and Apple have required some of their employees to return to the office since last year, while Disney in January began requiring hybrid employees to be in the office four days a week. Jassy said one of the benefits of being back in the office is that employees will have more opportunities to workshop ideas and innovate.

☆ In COVID China, a hospital bed can hinge on who you know, red packets
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Engen Tham | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

After hours of frantic calls, Steven was taken to a packed hospital and given oxygen and a bed in a children’s ward. If you know the head of the hospital, then there won’t be trouble getting a bed," a Shanghai doctor said. Although China has tried to crack down on doctor bribery, the regulatory focus has been on payments from pharmaceutical companies rather than patients. Doctors and experts said the use of red packets and "guanxi", or connections, to gain access persists. "Many of those rural patients, COVID patients, that had severe symptoms would choose not to proactively seek care; instead they just die at home," Huang said.

☆ George Santos' campaign spent more than $26,000 at an Italian restaurant in Queens. That's enough to buy 1,131 orders of the rigatoni bolognese.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Rebecca Cohen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

George Santos' campaign spent thousands at an Italian restaurant in Queens during his run for Congress. That's enough money to buy 1,131 orders of the restaurant's $23 rigatoni bolognese, or nearly 1,800 pizzas. The embattled first-time Republican congressman's campaign spent more than $26,000 in funds at an Italian joint in Queens, New York, updated financial disclosure documents from his campaign show. Santos' financial disclosures also revealed he owes the restaurant another $18,773.54 for a campaign election night event. Representatives for George Santos' campaign did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

☆ Building self-discipline by age 27 is crucial, says psychiatrist from the Netflix doc 'Stutz': 3 ways to do it
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-14 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Leading a fulfilling life requires discipline, Stutz said on a recent episode of "Armchair Expert," hosted by Dax Shepard and Monica Padman. Structural disciplineThe act of taking those reactive habits and integrating them into your "baseline" routine is what Stutz called structural discipline. Structural discipline relies more on conscious decision-making, while reactive discipline relies on subconscious behavior. In her book, "Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick," Wood frames it like this: You have to make the decision to ask your boss for a promotion. In other words, habits — good and bad — are formed through routines over time, which is why Stutz says you would be wise to adopt daily routines that promote good habits.

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