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☆ The 5 worst things about my job as a software engineer
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Jenna Gyimesi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

I listened to his advice and decided to become a computer science major in college and later become a software engineer. Sure, there are a lot of perks to being a software engineer such as six-figure salaries and free food, but some things are less than ideal. Here are the top 5 things I don't like about being a software engineer. If you are a software engineer, know that you bring value to the tech world and your company. It's extremely hard to even become a software engineer so think about how far you've come already.

☆ Miss America reflects on her reign, talks about how brother with special needs inspires her activism
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Brahmjot Kaur | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Emma Broyles, the 2022 Miss America, has actually spent a lot of her life on the sidelines — cheering on her older brother at sporting events. Brendan Broyles, 22, who has Down syndrome, is an athlete in the Special Olympics and a major source of inspiration for his sister's activism as Miss America. Emma Broyles is the first Korean American and first Miss Alaska to win the title. “It’s a tremendous privilege to be the first Korean American Miss America. There she worked with a partner group to help provide glasses for students in the community for Alaskan Native Heritage Month.

☆ Elon Musk's 2-year-old son ran around Twitter's office and played with toys while his dad talked to advisors about moderation, report says
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk's son X Æ a-Xii was present during Twitter meetings after the purchase went through, WaPo reported. Two-year-old X Æ a-Xii, Musk's first child with Grimes, ran round while he met with Yoel Roth, per WaPo. The Post reported that toys were scattered round the room and X Æ a-Xii ran around. X Æ a-Xii may have been at Twitter's HQ to attend the office Halloween party that day, where some staff brought their children. X Æ a-Xii, who he had with his musician and ex-partner Grimes, was Musk's seventh child.

☆ Fact Check-Morgan Freeman did not announce he was converting to Islam
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Claims that American actor Morgan Freeman has announced that he has converted to Islam are circulating online following his speech at the opening of the soccer World Cup in Qatar. Freeman was joined by 20-year-old YouTuber Ghanim Al Muftah, who was born with caudal regression syndrome, a rare condition impairing the development of the lower spine (here). Freeman does not announce that he is converting to Islam at any point. Fred Specktor, a representative for Freeman, told Reuters via email that “Morgan has not converted to Islam.”VERDICTFalse. American actor Morgan Freeman did not announce that he has converted to Islam in a speech at the opening of the World Cup in Qatar.

☆ Trump's day of reckoning is overdue. Garland's special counsel move adds to the delay.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Michael Conway | Michael Conway Was Counsel For The House Judiciary Committee In The Impeachment Inquiry Of President Richard Nixon In In That Role | He Assisted In Drafting The Committee'S Final Report To The House In Support Of The Three Articles Of Impeachment Adopted The Committee. Conway Is A Graduate Of Yale Law School | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

Attorney General Merrick Garland’s decision to appoint a special counsel to investigate former President Donald Trump is a miscalculation, with the main problem being timing. Despite assurances from Garland that a special counsel will not bog down the investigation, reality suggests otherwise. Not to mention that past practice demonstrates that the Justice Department has regularly shown that anyone can be held accountable — without resorting to a special counsel. No special counsel was used. I believe Trump’s day of reckoning is long overdue, and Garland’s overly cautious decision to appoint a special counsel may continue postponing that day.

☆ Twitter won't restore Alex Jones' account, Musk says
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Washington CNN Business —Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones won’t be returning to Twitter and will remain banned from the platform, according to its new owner, Elon Musk. Musk declared on Friday that Jones’ account will not be restored, in spite of some users’ requests, and spent the weekend defending the decision even as Twitter moved to restore other suspended accounts including that of former President Donald Trump. “No,” Musk tweeted flatly in response to one user’s call for Jones to be reinstated on Twitter. “Don’t blame Musk at the end of the day because he didn’t bring me back,” Jones urged his followers. On Nov. 9, Musk told advertisers during a Twitter Spaces event that it could be months before the council meets for the first time.

☆ I've made $305,000 in revenue in the last year as a money coach. Now the business pretty much runs itself — here's how I set it up by focusing on one new product.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( Chloé Daniels | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Chloé Daniels is a money coach who sells a course that makes her thousands a month. The gross revenue I made from my first year as a full-time business owner was $305,000, with about $45,000 of expenses. By recognizing I had to scale, bringing in an expert, and focusing on one funnel and one product. When I started shopping for a business coach, I was nervous because there are so many problematic business coaches who teach people how to run a business despite never having run a business before. So many content creators create a course or digital product and push it out to their audience without a funnel.

☆ Trump encourages GOP to 'fight' special counsel decision as Republicans attack DOJ
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Rebecca-Shabad-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Rebecca Shabad | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

In an interview with Fox News, Trump said he has been "going through this for six years," referring to various investigations into his actions, including both impeachments and special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe. A Trump campaign spokesman added that, "This is a totally expected political stunt by a feckless, politicized, weaponized Biden Department of Justice." Trump noted that the announcement of a special counsel comes just days after he announced a 2024 White House bid, which Garland said was a factor in his decision to seek an independent prosecutor. Asa Hutchinson, who has sometimes rebuked Trump, said in a statement that Garland's decision was "not good news for our country." Garland named John L. Smith, known as Jack Smith, a prosecutor at The Hague and a former federal prosecutor, to begin serving as special counsel “immediately."

And Black women are often in their late 30s or early 40s when they start, older on average than white women. Black women are also twice as likely as white women to have fertility challenges, according to a 2008 study in Fertility and Sterility. He suggested that insurance coverage, awareness of the “biological clock” and partners’ attitudes toward fertility treatment may all play a role. Regina Townsend via Broken Brown Egg‘The myth assigned to us’National data identifying racial disparities in fertility care only recently became available when Seifer published his 2007 study. Doctors’ lack of knowledge about racial disparities in fertility treatment doesn’t surprise Townsend.

☆ Here's our November rapid-fire update on the stocks in Cramer's Charitable Trust portfolio
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

We think the stock has been hurt by a recent update to the company's reserve quantity. While we're big fans of the company's recent corporate governance cleanup , and we expect some near-term selling pressure associated with those efforts. (See here for a full list of the stocks in Jim Cramer's Charitable Trust.) As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio.

☆ Billionaires like Elon Musk want to save civilization by having tons of genetically superior kids. Inside the movement to take 'control of human evolution.'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Julia Black | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +40 min

"We are the Underground Railroad of 'Gattaca' babies and people who want to do genetic stuff with their kids," Malcolm told me. Ellison, meanwhile, who has two children in their 30s, has reportedly resumed having kids — with his 31-year-old girlfriend. "The person of this subculture really sees the pathway to immortality as being through having children," Simone said. The person of this subculture really sees the pathway to immortality as being through having children. Before she met Malcolm, Simone was convinced she wanted to live her life single and child-free.

☆ 'Jeopardy!' champ Amy Schneider testifies against Ohio transgender care ban
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Jo Yurcaba | Jo Yurcaba Is A Reporter For Nbc Out. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

champion Amy Schneider testified before an Ohio House of Representatives committee meeting Wednesday against a bill that would restrict gender-affirming medical care for minors. After receiving gender-affirming care, "for the first time in my life, that alarm went silent, and I knew peace and quiet for the first time." Rep. Latyna Humphrey, a Democrat, asked Schneider if she has ever regretted receiving gender-affirming care or experienced suicidal thoughts after her transition. “We’ve made quite a few concessions, and that’s to bring this to a middle ground,” Click said of the substitute bill. Four states — Arizona, Alabama, Arkansas and Tennessee — passed laws restricting gender-affirming care for minors.

☆ A day in the life of a 20-year-old Gen Z venture capitalist in London's bustling startup scene
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

But he said older VCs he's interacted with mostly tend to disagree and stick to emails when interacting with founders. Nathwani strayed into venture capital after finishing his A-Levels, as it looked like a good way to marry his interests in social impact and investing. He spoke with a few investors and a founder as part of his job as a summer associate at Social Impact Capital. He spent most of the morning working on an impact report for Social Impact Capital. 2:30 p.m.Nathwani used some time after lunch to do more work for Social Impact Capital and wade through his 30,000 unread emails.

☆ See the one-page document Amazon employees are using to manage 'freak-outs' over layoffs
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Katherine Long | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

On internal message boards, Amazon employees are swapping tips for handling stress over reports that the company is planning to lay off 10,000 corporate employees. Layoffs began Tuesday and Amazon employees who have been laid off will have 60 days to find a new job internally, Insider reported. In Slack groups Tuesday, some Amazon employees said they were having trouble staying focused and productive because they were too worried they might lose their jobs. The last section of Investigation asks employees to answer The Five Whys, a deceptively simple technique developed at Toyota. The final step, Resolution, asks employees to respond to eight questions.

In October 2021, Da’Vion Miller was found unconscious in the bathroom of his home in Detroit a week after receiving his first dose of Pfizer's Covid vaccine. Courtesy Da’Vion MillerMiller is one of a very small group of people in the United States who have experienced myocarditis following vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNTech or the Moderna Covid vaccines based on mRNA technology. Video: CDC says waiting longer between Covid vaccine doses could reduce myocarditis risk. Cooper joined an expert advisory panel formed by Moderna to monitor its Covid vaccine safety. The Pfizer study will include people who were previously hospitalized with vaccine-associated myocarditis, and it will also follow those who were more recently diagnosed.

☆ Walmart was ordered to pay $420,000 after firing a worker with Down syndrome. It tried to get a fresh trial, but just had that request denied.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A judge ordered Walmart to pay the worker $420,000 and rehire her, citing disability discrimination. Walmart requested a new trial, but that request has now been denied. In March, Walmart was also ordered to pay Spaeth a further $119,660, including back pay, and to rehire her. "Wal-Mart failed to accommodate Ms. Spaeth, unlawfully disciplined her, terminated her employment, and failed to rehire her," the EEOC wrote. William C. Griesbach, district judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, denied Walmart's request for a new trial and to remit damages on Monday.

☆ I was scared to lose my 6-figure tech job after long COVID put me in excruciating pain. Instead, I built a schedule and salary around my illness.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Fiona Lowenstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

But other than that, I felt OK, and even those symptoms started to improve in June of 2020. It took me about three months to figure out that it was long COVID. In December 2020, I was improving, so I went back to work part-time, receiving a percentage of my full-time salary. I'm now on long-term disability through my company, which makes up a percentage of the rest of my salary I don't receive for my part-time work. I joined a patient-led long COVID support group that was really helpful.

☆ U.S. FDA panel votes against Veru's COVID-19 pill
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The panel voted 8-5 against the oral drug sabizabulin's usage. The unfavorable vote decreases the chances of authorization for Veru, which is already lagging in the race to develop a COVID-19 treatment. If authorized, the pill would provide an additional treatment option as the disease moves from a pandemic to an endemic stage. While data has shown the drug can also produce antiviral and anti-inflammatory responses, the FDA staff reviewers have said its mechanism of action in COVID-19 was uncertain. The FDA is not obligated to follow the recommendations of the panel, but usually does.

☆ How a 31-year-old entrepreneur grew her restaurant business to more than $6 million in annual net sales last year
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Alexandra York | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Gina Luari launched her first brunch restaurant in 2016 after growing up in the industry. She's scaled to four more locations and booked more than $6 million in annual net sales last year. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyThe restaurant business is in Gina Luari's blood. Luari transitioned from restaurant employee to entrepreneur in 2016 when she opened her brunch spot, The Place 2 Be. Despite her family history in the restaurant business, Luari initially forged a different career path after college: She worked as the executive director of the Central Connecticut Chamber of Commerce, where she helped small, local businesses scale.

☆ Judge rejects Walmart's request for new trial after firing of employee with Down syndrome
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Melissa Repko | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Marlo Spaeth (left) was fired from Walmart in July 2015, after working there for nearly 16 years. A federal judge has rejected Walmart's request for a new trial after a jury found the retailer discriminated against a longtime employee with Down syndrome by refusing to adjust her schedule and firing her. In a court filing on Monday, the judge stood by the July 2021 ruling. Spaeth's firing permanently shook up their lives and took away her sister's sense of purpose, Stevenson said. Among its arguments, Walmart said the federal agency did not prove the retailer knew Spaeth's scheduling challenges were related to her Down syndrome.

☆ FDA staff flags uncertainties on Veru's COVID drug; EUA hopes lift shares
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Bhanvi Satija | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Nov 7 (Reuters) - Staff reviewers at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday identified several uncertainties around Veru Inc's (VERU.O) data for its experimental COVID-19 drug but did not raise any new concerns, sending its shares surging 52%. A panel of the health regulator's outside experts is scheduled to discuss authorization of the drug later this week, including whether additional data is required. Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Brandon Folkes said the FDA is "leading the advisory committee towards granting an EUA" provided Veru commits to an adequate post-EUA study. Veru has applied for an EUA for the drug, sabizabulin, as a treatment for hospitalized moderate-to-severe COVID-19 patients at high risk of developing an acute respiratory distress syndrome. If authorized, sabizabulin, which Veru was originally testing as a treatment for prostate cancer, would become its second drug on the market.

☆ Democrats Develop Elon Musk Derangement Syndrome
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Allysia Finley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Liberals have tried to draw similarities between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, perhaps to justify their acquired distaste for the Tesla and new Twitter CEO. But the main thing the two provocateurs have in common is that they both drive the left into hysterical fits. As President Biden last week warned in a dark speech that American democracy is “under attack” by Mr. Trump and “MAGA Republicans,” Democrats and their media allies hyperventilated that Mr. Musk would take a wrecking ball to Twitter. “The world’s richest man has apparently decided to set his $44 billion investment on fire,” wrote one Washington Post columnist.

☆ FDA staff flags several uncertainties with Veru's COVID-19 drug
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Nov 7 (Reuters) - U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff said on Monday Veru Inc's (VERU.O) experimental drug for COVID-19 met the main goal of reducing the death rate in a late-stage trial, but flagged a number of uncertainties with the data. Staff reviewers said the data did not help in clearly identifying a relevant patient population and remained unclear about the mortality rate in the placebo group. Veru has applied for emergency use authorization for its drug, sabizabulin, as a treatment for hospitalized moderate-to-severe COVID patients at high risk of developing an acute respiratory distress syndrome. A panel of FDA's outside experts is scheduled to discuss approval of the drug later this week. Reporting by Bhanvi Satija and Raghav Mahobe in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini GanguliOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ World's tallest woman takes her first plane flight after airline removes 6 economy seats to make it possible
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The world's tallest woman was able to take her first flight after an airline removed six seats for her. Rumeysa Gelgi, who stands at 7 feet, 0.7 inches tall, was named the world's tallest woman by Guinness World Records last year. Even as a child, she was too large to fit in plane seats, according to the outlet. Gelgi went to California to spend time advancing her career in software development and working with Guinness World Records, per the MailOnline. Gelgi won her first Guinness World Record in 2014, when she was recognized as the world's tallest living teenager before officially becoming the world's tallest woman in 2021.

☆ 'The Crown' season 5 review: Imelda Staunton takes over as queen as the Netflix series returns
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Review Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The result is an uneven campaign that reinforces a sense the Emmy-winning series risks extending its reign too long. When Charles privately tells his mother in regard to Diana, “I’ve done as you asked, mummy. “The Crown” has been great, as the Emmy haul for its fourth season attests, and it’s still pretty good. Yet given the highs that the younger versions of these characters delivered, to borrow from the Queen, watching the current season feels more like a preference than a requirement. “The Crown” begins its fifth season November 9 on Netflix.

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