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☆ My daughter hates her name because it's traditionally used for boys. I hope one day she learns to love how different it is.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-14 | by ( Nicole Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

My daughter says she wishes she had a more feminine name, but I hope she learns to love it. In the 1940s, there was a television actor named Kyle MacDonnell. AdvertisementI hope one day my daughter loves her name as much as I doWhile a part of me understands why my daughter takes issue with her name, I hope one day she learns to appreciate how different it is. According to The Bump, Kyle was ranked 4,600 for girl names in 2023. "They are also feminine, and no one mistakes them for boys," my daughter has told me on more than one occasion."

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All four drugs are in a class of wildly popular weight loss drugs known as GLP-1s. In the United Kingdom, authorities last year seized hundreds of counterfeit Ozempic pens — insulin pens that had been relabeled as Ozempic. Counterfeit weight loss drugs have serious health risks, according to the pharmaceutical companies and federal officials. Counterfeiters are already trying to cash in on a weight loss drug that the company hasn't even put on the market yet: retatrutide. But it's also one of the epicenters of the lucrative counterfeit drug trade, according to U.S. authorities who track counterfeit drugs.

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☆ I'm a teacher and a mother of 4 who hates mornings. Doing these 3 things makes them bearable.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Nicole Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Now, a few decades later, I'm a mother of four, ages 19, 18, 13, and 11, and getting a head-start in the mornings has become necessary. While I may never love rising with the sun as my grandparents did, I have found a few things that help to make my mornings both successful and, more importantly, bearable. I've learned that preparation is everythingBenjamin Franklin said, "If you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail." I alternate between night and morning showers so that I can sleep a bit later on my no-shower mornings. Mornings have always been hard, but with a few simple steps, I have figured out how to make them bearable.

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☆ I'm a mom of 4 and have done back-to-school shopping for over a decade. These are the 3 things I've learned.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-20 | by ( Nicole Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewBack in the 80s and 90s, school shopping seemed straightforward and relatively inexpensive. As the parent of four children who's been back-to-school shopping for over a decade, I have realized the real key to surviving this time of year is being creative. With two in middle school and two in college, back-to-school shopping costs me almost as much as (if not more than) our family's most expensive holiday, Christmas. If nothing works out from last year's clothing, many secondhand stores will buy the kid's clothes that no longer fit. If they choose to spend more on school supplies, it will impact the amount they are allowed to spend on clothes.

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☆ My grandparents were strict and unaffectionate while I was growing up. Everything changed when I had kids.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Nicole Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementMy grandparents raised my brother and me"They were like drill sergeants," my aunt relayed to me on one of the evenings when I stayed over at her house. Part of that upbringing, as children of immigrants, meant children were second-class citizens, meant to be seen and not heard. For the first time, my grandparents got to be grandparents with my kids. My feelings of envy for the relationship my grandparents were creating with my kids disappeared and were replaced with gratitude. When I look back at pictures of them with my kids, I tell them how much my grandparents loved them.

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☆ My foster mother hated her first name. I found another way to honor her after she died.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Nicole Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Nicole Johnson gave her daughter the same middle name as her foster mother. While I loved the meaning, I heard the voice of my foster mother in the back of my mind. Over time, it had become more than a promise; Esther brought it up more than once, turning it into something of a threat. It was the perfect way to honor the woman who became my best friend and mother, no matter our mismatched DNA. My daughter reminds me of my foster mother — independent and fierce.

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☆ My grandparents raised me, and the generational divide wasn't always easy. But I had the coolest great aunts, and my kids love them, too.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Nicole Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Auntie Pauline lived in a ranch house with a pool in Long Island, New York. Auntie Joanne drove a Chevy Vega hatchback and was the first in the family to go to college. My Auntie Joanne took me to doctor's appointments, and Auntie Pauline had me over for Thanksgiving when I was in college in New York. After Auntie Joanne had her son, I became his unofficial nanny, accompanying them on vacations. When I had kids, my aunts loved them, tooWhen my children came along, my aunts loved them fiercely.

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☆ A relative I'd lost touch with found me online and sent me a gift — the only photos I've ever seen of me and my mom
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Nicole Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Nicole Johnson had never seen the photos her cousin sent her before. Courtesy Nicole JohnsonWe reconnected, and I was reminded of my childhoodWhen we finally caught up, Rosemary told me she had married, which was why I hadn't recognized her last name. The photos Nicole Johnson's cousin sent her are the only photos she has of herself with her mother. Courtesy Nicole JohnsonThe pictures came a week or so after we had talked. AdvertisementNicole Johnson says getting the old family photos felt like receiving a gift.

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☆ My brother took my grandparents' last name because they raised us. Here's why I didn't do the same.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Nicole Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

My brother and I were raised by our grandparents, who had a different last name than we did. When he decided he wanted to change his last name to theirs, I didn't understand at first. My grandparents raised me and my brother, Jamie. AdvertisementI didn't understand when my brother took my grandparents' last nameThe name belonged to the step-grandfather raising us alongside our biological maternal grandmother, and was of Irish origin. Nicole Johnson didn't understand at first why her brother Jamie would want to have the same last name as his grandparents.

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☆ ‘All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt’ Review: A Mississippi Life
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Zachary Barnes | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Sheila Atim Photo: Jaclyn Martinez/A24‘You’re made of dirt, you know that?” So says one character to another in “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt,” though it isn’t meant as an insult. It carries instead a message of cosmic humility, an awareness of certain inevitable cycles of life, death and renewal. “All Dirt Roads” is difficult to firmly grasp, sometimes frustratingly so, but its textures linger. The movie depicts the life of Mack, a black woman in rural Mississippi, through flashes of memory, feeling and atmosphere. Played as an adult by Charleen McClure , Mack eventually comes to know such challenges as lost love, pregnancy and grief.

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Nature provides much of the soundtrack to “ All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt,” a poised and occasionally transcendent debut from writer-director Raven Jackson. This might be a lot of talk about sound design to start, but it’s also a bit of a primer on what to expect from “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt,” which counts “Moonlight” filmmaker Barry Jenkins among its producers. “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt” is a collection of moments in the life of Mack (Charleen McClure as an adult, Kaylee Nicole Johnson as a child), sometimes skipping back and forth in time. And with “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt,” Jackson has firmly established herself as a filmmaker to watch. “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt,” an A24 release in theaters Friday, is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association for “thematic content and brief sensuality.” Running time: 97 minutes.

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But to reach its ultimate destination - supermarket shelves - cultivated meat faces big obstacles, five executives told Reuters. California-based cultivated meat company GOOD Meat already has an application pending with the FDA, which has not been previously reported. Regulatory approval is just the first hurdle for making cultivated meat accessible to a broad swath of consumers, executives at UPSIDE, Mosa Meat, Believer Meats, and GOOD Meat told Reuters. But it will take hundreds of millions of dollars for GOOD Meat, for example, to build bioreactors of the size needed to make its meat at scale, Tetrick said. But cultivated meat companies have the advantage that they can claim their product is real meat, Tetrick said.

☆ 15 venture capitalists that early-stage sports tech, health, and wellness founders should know if they're looking to raise capital
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Matthew Kish | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

Other recent investments include Bumble, Goop, Spring Health, Chief, Found, Daily Harvest, and Blueland. Recent investments include the sneaker-trading platform Tradeblock, which touts itself as an alternative to StockX and Goat. Recent investments include AnyDistance, Balanced, and Juna. Her recent investments include Calibrate, DUOS, Dutch, and Buffalo Market, a food distributor focused on plant-based and organic foods. Recent investments include pickleball products company Revolin, live-sports artificial-reality company Quintar, recovery products company Alleviate, and community cycling app Preem.

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