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Trump's longtime finance chief, Allen Weisselberg, acknowledged in testimony Tuesday that information in the financial statements wasn't always accurate. The disclaimers say, among other things, that the financial statements aren't audited and that others “might reach different conclusions” about Trump's financial position if they had more information. It’s the first time a bank official has testified in court about the impact Trump’s financial statements had on his ability to obtain loans. Haigh said he reviewed Trump’s financial statements before approving the loans and, at the time, had no reason to doubt their validity. “I assumed that the representations of the assets and liabilities were broadly accurate," Haigh said of Trump’s financial statements.

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☆ Opinion: In Gaza, Palestinians have nowhere to run
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Sheena Mckenzie | Opinion Omar Ghraieb | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

People carry bodies of Palestinians killed during an Israeli airstrike prior to their burial in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Wednesday, October 11. Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times/Redux Palestinians walk amid the rubble following Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on October 10. Samar Abu Elouf/The New York Times/Redux Children run for cover as bombs fall near the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on October 9. Ronen Zvulun/Reuters Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli airstrike on the Sousi mosque in Gaza City on October 9. Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images Relatives of Palestinians killed on Saturday, October 7, mourn at the morgue of a hospital in Gaza.

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☆ An American couple left their rent-free life in Mexico and moved to a $7,500 abandoned home in Japan: 'We feel overwhelmingly welcome'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Julian Ryall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Evan and Dani BretonEvan, now 40, worked as a massage therapist while Dani, now 39, was a self-employed photographer. Dani and Evan BentonThe couple drove over the border into Mexico on December 5, 2021. Guanajuato, MexicoHouse-sitting was a way to live rent-free in MexicoThe couple became house-sitters in Mexico so they could live rent-free and travel around the country. Japan was their final stop because of cheaper house pricesAfter 14 months in Mexico, the couple concluded that Japan "would be a better fit for us." The house cost $7,500 and the realtor's fees were an additional $1,500.

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☆ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis: A strong majority of this country want 'a restoration of sanity'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | 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 EmailFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis: A strong majority of this country want 'a restoration of sanity'Florida Governor Ron DeSantis joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the state of the 2024 race as he tries to gain momentum against former President Donald Trump, the GOP chaos in the House, whether he can translate the success in Florida to the national level, and more.

Persons: Ron DeSantis, Donald Trump Organizations: Florida Locations: Florida

☆ Opera Philadelphia Cuts Its Budget, but Not Its Ambition
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Joshua Barone | More About Joshua Barone | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

And opera needs works like “10 Days,” which treats the medium with affection and respect while also chafing at its tropes throughout history. For this is an opera that jerks between beauty and terror — seamlessly under the baton of Daniela Candillari, leading an ensemble of about a dozen instrumentalists. The patients (members of Opera Philadelphia Chorus, led by Elizabeth Braden) can sing the same hymn with serenity in one scene and chaotic dissonance in the next, with few indications of which is the truer rendition. The most tragic of the patients is Lizzie (the mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis, who sings with a lush and moving elegance that would make her ideal for mid-20th century American opera). Her repetitive ramblings come into logical focus with a long, crushing aria about the death of her daughter.

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☆ Fetterman: It's a 'strange world' when people care more about the dress code than Menendez's having cash in envelopes that 'would make the Goodfellas blush'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sen. John Fetterman marveled at people who seem more concern about a dress code than alleged corruption. Fetterman told Semafor that aspects of Sen. Bob Menendez's alleged corruption would "make the Goodfellas blush." Fetterman, a Pennsylvania Democrat, is thus far the only Senate Democrat to call on Menendez to resign. AdvertisementAdvertisementDemocratic Sen. John Fetterman on Monday marveled at how people will freak out over the sanctity of the Senate dress code but demur at calling out Sen. Bob Menendez's alleged corruption as laid out by federal prosecutors. Fetterman is thus far the only Democratic senator to call for Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, to resign in the wake of shocking corruption charges.

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☆ Opinion | What Thoreau Heard in the Song of the Crickets
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-23 | by ( Lewis Hyde | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

It all seems quite hurried, the way each season must fall forward into the next until the final freeze. “Walden” opens with him asking his neighbors whether their condition “cannot be improved” and follows up with considerable advice. Spring, summer, fall and winter — our seasons are spun into being by the earth circling the sun; the earth herself, however, is not seasonal. Taking that larger view allows Thoreau, in the second part of his fable, to reframe the cricket’s song as an “earth song,” a reminder not of life’s brevity but of eternal return. Of having no “trivial and hurried pursuits.” Of having “your engagements so few, your attention so free, your existence so mundane” that you can always hear their song.

Persons: Thoreau, “, “ Walden ”, ” Thoreau, ”, Kouroo, Time Locations: Maine, England

☆ How Do We Feel About Global Warming? It’s Called Eco-Anxiety.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-16 | by ( Jason Horowitz | More About Jason Horowitz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Italy was in the grip of extreme heat waves, hellish wildfires and biblical downpours, and a nerve-wracked young Italian woman wept as she stood in a theater to tell the country’s environment minister about her fears of a climatically apocalyptic future. “I personally suffer from eco-anxiety,” Giorgia Vasaperna, 27, said, her eyes welling and her hands fidgeting, at a children’s film festival in July. “I have a responsibility toward all of you,” he said, visibly choked up. “I have a responsibility toward my grandchildren.”Europe is a continent on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Italians are frazzled as a summer of incinerating heat waves lingers and fear mounts over the return of hailstones the size of handballs.

Persons: “, Giorgia, welling, fidgeting, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, ” Locations: Italy, Europe, Greece

☆ Sanity Question and Plea Talks Shadow Coming Sept. 11 Hearings
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Carol Rosenberg | More About Carol Rosenberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Prosecutors have issued a new deadline — Sept. 18 — for four detainees at the American military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to show their willingness to plead guilty to plotting the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and receive a maximum punishment of life in prison. The fifth defendant in the case has been found incompetent to stand trial and is likely to be removed from the case. Without a challenge, the judge is expected to sever him from the case when hearings resume next week after a 22-month hiatus. They describe the deadline as driven by the scheduled Oct. 7 departure of the current overseer of the case, Jeffrey D. Wood. In March 2022, Mr. Wood authorized prosecutors to pursue guilty pleas that would spare the defendants a capital trial to resolve the long-running case.

Persons: Ramzi bin al, Prosecutors, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Jeffrey D, Wood Organizations: Mr Locations: Guantánamo Bay, Cuba

“All our hard work burned,” Rosales told The Associated Press in an interview conducted in Ilocano, her native language. “There is nothing left.”The disaster has prompted fears about what will become of Lahaina’s community and character as it rebuilds. As their descendants and successive generations of immigrants have settled, they have become deeply ingrained in the community’s culture. He has been counseling groups of Filipinos staying in hotels, even celebrating Mass in a hotel reception room. Since then, she has become a community advocate and is president of Binhi at Ani, “Seed and Harvest,” which operates Maui’s only Filipino community center.

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So you may have heard about girl dinner, hot girl walks, girl rotting. When we haven’t been hot girl walking, we have been girl rotting or laying in our beds and doing nothing for hours and hours on end. We’ve been having our hot girl dinners, as I mentioned. The trick of a hot girl walk and girl dinner and hot girl summer and even girl rotting in our beds is that these things happen outside the influence of the male gaze. You should go out on your hot girl walk, and you should certainly think about the things you’re grateful for and how hot you are.

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☆ How the ‘model minority’ myth led one Indian American family to unravel
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Harmeet Kaur | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

In a deeply vulnerable book that combines personal narrative, history and cultural reporting, Gupta examines how the weight of the “model minority” stereotype led her family to unravel. I didn’t know how to tell her that, so I felt like I had to write to her. Growing up Indian American, I didn’t know Asian American history. We didn’t learn that in schools, so I didn’t really understand where I fit into America’s racial hierarchy. I saw this story as if it were my identity, because I didn’t really see an alternative.

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From a survey data perspective, the countries’ moves up the Best Countries list come as they gained in some of the project’s 10 subrankings. In the Best Countries rankings, Neelam points to Australia performing well on an assessment of whether a country is perceived as corrupt. While she announced her resignation in January – before the Best Countries survey was fielded – Neelam says he “wouldn’t discount the Ardern factor” in New Zealand’s rankings rise. New Zealand does have other things going for it that mirror Australia in some ways. Murray, of Karamea, says the country – considered the most scenic among respondents to the Best Countries survey, with Australia at No.

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☆ A Swedish millennial bought one of Japan's famously cheap abandoned houses. Here's how he turned the 100-year-old property into a luxury Airbnb.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Julian Ryall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Anton Wormann, a 30-year-old Swedish model, moved to Tokyo in 2019 after visiting for work. Advertisement Advertisement Watch: Inside a $12,000-a-night Airbnb in HollywoodMoving to Japan was the 'best decision'Wormann, a Swedish model, working on renovations in his Japanese house. After settling in the hip Shibuya and Sangenjaya districts of west Tokyo, Wormann told Insider he began buying cheap, neglected properties in the area and flipping them to rent for extra income. Wormann told Insider he was passing by the house and saw the owners at the site. The Sangenjaya house was completed in March, and Wormann told Insider he had his first Airbnb guests within a month.

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☆ Man Accused in 9/11 Plot Is Not Fit to Face Trial, Board Says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Carol Rosenberg | More About Carol Rosenberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The finding is the latest setback to prosecution efforts to bring the long-running capital cases at Guantánamo Bay to trial. Last week, a military judge threw out the confession of a man accused of plotting the U.S.S. The question of Mr. bin al-Shibh’s sanity, and capacity to help his lawyers defend him, has shadowed the Sept. 11 conspiracy case since his first court appearance in 2008. He has disrupted pretrial hearings over the years with outbursts, and in court and in filings complained that the C.I.A. The five men are accused of conspiring in the plane hijackings in 2001 that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York City, at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania.

Persons: Ramzi bin al, bin, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Organizations: Pentagon Locations: Cole, New York City, Pennsylvania

☆ 16 Adults on the Virtues and Pleasures of Being Bad - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +14 min

They’re almost enough to make you forget the pleasures of being a little bit bad. We asked 16 writers — most of them respectable adults — about the irresponsible, immoral, indulgent things they do. Years later, we bumped into each other in public, resulting in a humiliating exposition that left everyone questioning my sanity. Can’t stop won’t stop ShopliftingWhenever I’m at the airport, I like to do a little shopping at the Free Store. Yes yes yes.

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☆ How a Harvard grad school dropout launched a startup during the Great Recession—and sold it for $375 million in just 7 years
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

In 2007, while working as a Morgan Stanley analyst, von Tobel started working on a 75-page business plan. A year later, she entered Harvard Business School, assuming she'd need training and connections to launch a successful startup. She credits her detailed business plan, and her conviction that she could tap into an underserved market of people who urgently needed help. Fast forward, I went to Harvard and Harvard Business School, and I remember being taken aback that there was zero education about the wallet and our finances. I was in this extremely cozy, safe cocoon with a clear life plan.

Persons: von Tobel, Morgan Stanley, Von Tobel, Von, hadn't, would've Organizations: CNBC, Harvard Business School, Northwestern Mutual, Harvard, Alexa Locations: New York, America

☆ Trump's campaign sent DeSantis donors a list of all of his struggles thus far
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Former President Donald Trump's campaign has found a new way to troll Ron DeSantis. Top Trump advisors wrote to DeSantis' donors with a list of his struggles. Ron DeSantis' donors, urging them to press the GOP presidential hopeful on his campaign's struggles thus far. "The numbers suggest, for the first time, that solvency could be a threat to DeSantis' campaign," the memo read, quoting an NBC report about how DeSantis' campaign is strapped for cash. In response, DeSantis' campaign pointed to a statement touting its $20 million haul in six weeks.

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With the second half of the year now underway, investors may want to take another look at their fixed income portfolio. High yields have been a boon to income investors, as the Federal Reserve increased interest rates over the past year. "For more of our clients, we're looking to have the fixed income of the portfolio provide lower correlation and income," he said. Greg Wilensky, head of U.S. fixed income at Janus Henderson Investors, generally prefers securitized assets such as asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities. "You can't think of high yield bonds in the same thought as Treasurys," said Cox of eToro.

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Ron DeSantis of Florida has started cutting campaign staff just months into his presidential bid, as he has struggled to gain traction in the Republican primary and lost ground in some public polls to former President Donald J. Trump. The exact number of people let go by the DeSantis team was unclear, but one campaign aide said it was fewer than 10. An aide, Andrew Romeo, described the campaign’s circumstances in an upbeat tone. “Americans are rallying behind Ron DeSantis and his plan to reverse Joe Biden’s failures and restore sanity to our nation, and his momentum will only continue as voters see more of him in person, especially in Iowa,” he said in a statement. “Defeating Joe Biden and the $72 million behind him will require a nimble and candidate-driven campaign, and we are building a movement to go the distance.”

Persons: Ron DeSantis, Donald J, Trump, DeSantis, Andrew Romeo, Joe, ”, “, Joe Biden Organizations: Republican, Politico Locations: Florida, Iowa

☆ What happens when ChatGPT tries to create crochet patterns
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( Aj Willingham | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

ChatGPT, a publicly available language-learning AI, was not designed to create things like crochet or knitting patterns. Before we begin …A few notes on my methodology:For every crochet pattern I generated, I used the prompt “Create a crochet pattern for (blank).”I followed the crochet pattern exactly. At first glance, ChatGPT’s crochet patterns look and read exactly like a crochet pattern. In a traditional crochet pattern, instructions for assembly would note specific places and methods to attach pieces, along with photos or notes on particularly tricky steps. Theoretically, it would be possible to create AI that generated amazing crochet patterns, but that would require very specific training and programming.

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☆ Harvard psychologist: 9 toxic phrases people use when they’re trying to gaslight you—and how to respond
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Dr. Cortney Warren | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

If someone says any of these nine toxic phrases to you, be careful — they may be gaslighting you:1. "I don't feel comfortable doing this. How to respond: "I appreciate that you love me, but I'm not okay with the way you're talking to me." A gaslighter may try to accuse you of harmful actions even if there's clear evidence that they're engaging in similar behaviors. How to respond: "I'm sure that I contribute to our relationship struggles in some ways, but so do you.

Persons: I've, you'd, I'm, gaslighters Organizations: Harvard

☆ David Gilmour, Who Brought Fiji’s Water to the Masses, Dies at 91
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The cause was cardiac arrest, said David Roth, a friend and business partner. By the time he bought Wakaya from two business partners in 1987, Mr. Gilmour had built several businesses over 30 years. At the time, he was mourning the death of his only child, Erin Gilmour, who had been murdered in her apartment in Toronto in 1983. He called the island “the last bastion of sanity in the world,” his wife, Jillian (Sweeney) Gilmour, said in a phone interview. There’s an area called Chieftain’s Leap, with soaring cliffs, where peregrine falcons make their nests.”

Persons: David Gilmour, David Roth, Gilmour, Erin Gilmour, Jillian, Sweeney, “ Locations: Canadian, Fiji, Manhattan, South, Toronto

☆ I use Google's Bard as my intern. Here are 5 prompts I use to get the most help from my chatbot.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Anna Codrea-Rado | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

She breaks down five prompts she uses in her work and explains why she prefers Bard to ChatGPT. Tidy this upI've found that when I ask Bard to "improve this," the bot strips away any of the quirks that make it human. I give it links to my published work and ask, "What's the common thread in these stories?" One of the few things I miss about offices is turning to someone next to me to ask for writing help. When I need a confidence boost, I'll ask Bard, "Does this make sense?"

Persons: Google's Bard, Bard, ChatGPT, —, I've, chatbots, I'm, — it's, It's, It'll, you've, it's Organizations: Service, DR

☆ When Andrew Koji Isn’t Fighting Onscreen, He’s Memorizing a Poem
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Kathryn Shattuck | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I journal for my own sanity and use a similar practice of the “Morning Pages” from “The Artist’s Way.” I write ideas, thoughts, images, things I want to develop. For every character I play, I create a notebook with back stories, inner monologues, abstract ideas, and add to it over time. 3Poetry From MemoryIf I’m not on a job, I like to keep my brain sharp by memorizing a speech, a poem or a passage that I connect with. 6Nonfiction“Man’s Search for Meaning,” Bruce Lee’s “Striking Thoughts,” “Hardcore Zen,” “The Road Less Traveled.” “Easy Riders, Raging Bulls” is what I’m reading now. 7Traveling in JapanKyoto is one of my favorite places — exploring temples, disconnecting from technology, going off the beaten path.

Persons: ”, Rudyard, “, Tom Radcliffe, ” Bruce Lee’s Organizations: ’, Riders, Raging Bulls Locations: Japan Kyoto

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