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☆ Airbnb's idea to hold gladiator battles in Rome's Colosseum isn't going down well with some local lawmakers
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-19 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementAirbnb is planning to host gladiator fights in Rome's Colosseum. Some local lawmakers, meanwhile, aren't happy about Airbnb's event idea. Airbnb is attempting to kick off gladiator fights in Rome's historic Colosseum after 2,000 years, but local lawmakers in the Italian city are not impressed. The event is happening because of a $1.5 million tie-up between Airbnb and the Colosseum Archaeological Park, per CNN. However, some local lawmakers are not pleased.

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☆ Kennedy Ryan on rereleasing ‘Reel’ and turning romance books into ‘Trojan horses’
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-18 | by ( Ayanna Miller | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +10 min

‘Reel’ is a love letter to the Harlem Renaissance — and Black creativesRyan remembers the exact moment she was inspired to write most of her books. “These Black women with these big afros, just unapologetically gorgeous, because that’s something that defies what culture tells us about ourselves. “I wanted women who are living with chronic illness, specifically lupus, to feel beautiful, to feel loved, to feel like they weren’t too much,” she says. She describes her books as “Trojan horses” to “smuggle in discourse” and start difficult conversations readers may not usually have. Just a few months after the rerelease of “Reel,” Ryan will publish the third and final book in her “Skyland” series, “Can’t Get Enough,” out May 2025.

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☆ I quit my finance job to pursue my dream of writing comics. I used a pitch deck to convince my parents it was a good idea.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-16 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

After college, he got a job at a Big 4 consulting firm, but his childhood dream was to make manga. He found success on platforms like Webtoon and ultimately quit his finance job to write full time. WEBTOONI published my first novel when I was 17I started working on writing my first novel when I was 14. I convinced my parents that my webcomic career was sustainableI finally quit my finance job in May 2021. They see everything I'm doing and my passion.

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☆ I've sailed on Royal Caribbean, Carnival, and Norwegian ships. Here's which was my favorite — and how to choose the right cruise for you.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-15 | by ( Brittany Chang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

AdvertisementI've been on Norwegian, Carnival, and Royal Caribbean's newer cruise ships. Brittany Chang/Business InsiderWhen a few rounds of foosball and ping-pong have worked up your appetite, you'll have 16 dining venues to choose from. AdvertisementNorwegian Cruise LineNorwegian Cruise Line has 18 cruise ships. Norwegian Cruise LineIt's the only cruise line on the list with a semi-inclusive "More at Sea" — formerly known as "Free at Sea" — promotion. The company operates 28 cruise ships, several of which are the biggest in the world.

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☆ I stayed in a 540-square-foot luxury tent at the edge of Africa's Serengeti National Park. The lodge was stunning, but the safari perks were the real highlight.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-14 | by ( Monica Humphries | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

At the edge of Serengeti National Park sits TAASA, a luxury safari lodge. The lodge sits near three ecosystems: the Serengeti National Park, the Maasai Mara National Reserve, and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. A pair of zebras and a lion in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. In Serengeti National Park, night game drives aren't permitted. I whispered the words to myself on game drives and woke up to the lyrics in my mind some mornings.

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☆ My family of 5 lives in a small apartment. It helps us be minimalist and keep a connection with our neighbors.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-11 | by ( Naomi Kaye Honova | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

My American family of five, two adults and three kids, lives in an apartment in Germany. AdvertisementOur family of five, two adults and three children, lives in an apartment in Germany. Apartment life is the norm where we live — most of our friends who have kids also live in apartments. However, since, by default, apartment life makes you more minimalist in terms of anything from furniture to toys, this certainly was helpful in regards to having far fewer boxes to pack. Apartment life is something that I feel contributes to our sense of community.

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☆ I renovated my backyard for my son's wedding. The $40,000 investment paid off when we sold the house years later.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-06 | by ( Chris Mott | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I spent 11 months fixing up our house so my son could get married in our backyard. The author decided to host his son's wedding in his backyard to save costs. Over the next 11 months, the four of us worked tirelessly to create the perfect wedding venue. The author redid his whole backyard for his son's wedding. AdvertisementThe author's backyard before and during his son's wedding.

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☆ A Controversial Vacation Homes Tax Is Dividing Lake Tahoe
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-05 | by ( Amanda Yen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

My grandparents' vacation cabin in Lake Tahoe is the stuff of legend. My grandparents' little house in South Lake Tahoe, which they bought for $113,000 in 1984, quickly became a haven for my family. Framers of the Tahoe tax measure took inspiration from Berkeley, California, which adopted a vacancy tax this year. Since the city of South Lake Tahoe was incorporated in 1965, it's been populated by a healthy mix of year-round and seasonal residents. As of October 2024, the median sales price for homes in South Lake Tahoe was $750,000, according to Realtor.com.

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☆ Apple has a new batch of AI features arriving in time for the holidays
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-04 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Apple is expected to expand Apple Intelligence with an iOS 18.2 update on December 2. Apple said it plans to build out Apple Intelligence over the next several months, with drops in December and April. Related Video How AI will change the iPhone and other Apple productsWith visual intelligence, Apple said iPhone 16 owners can use their new Camera Control button to get information on objects or places — or translate languages with AI. While its rivals have been quick to announce and launch their AI offerings, Apple is taking a slower approach. Apple Intelligence was announced at the Worldwide Developer Conference in June.

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☆ Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers tell their own story in ‘No Other Land’
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-03 | by ( Leah Asmelash | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Residents countered, saying the IDF had blown up Palestinian homes in Masafer Yatta decades earlier, in 1966). Speaking from Adra’s family home in Masafer Yatta, they spoke with CNN about life under occupation, and what, if anything, their documentary might change. And it’s unfortunate that people are now talking about the need for political change only after, in a way, human beings are paying with their blood. What I saw, like the missions happening, the attacks are happening here in Masafer Yatta. And this is what’s really happening here in Masafer Yatta.

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But that hasn’t stopped abortion rights supporters from pushing for votes up and down the ballot. Across the South, supporters of abortion rights are using the issue to motivate voters. Although Texas does not have a statewide referendum on abortion, Rep. Colin Allred's Senate campaign has galvanized abortion rights supporters. It’s easier for Democrats to campaign on the issue, she said, because their party is more united in favor of abortion rights than Republicans are in opposition. That switch proved pivotal in passing the state’s abortion ban.

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☆ Bird flu was detected in a pig, and it could be a tipping point threatening more human transmission
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-31 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A pig has tested positive for H5N1 bird flu in a backyard farm in Oregon. The H5N1 bird flu was detected in a pig in Oregon, the first instance of a swine infection in the US, officials announced on Wednesday. Pigs get both bird flu viruses and human flu viruses, making them a genetic mixing bowl where H5N1 could gain genetic mutations that help it spread between humans. AdvertisementWhy pig infection could be a tipping pointPigs play host to both bird flu viruses and human flu viruses. Inside a pig, the H5N1 bird flu virus could pick up genetic mutations that help it adapt to better infect human bodies.

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☆ Hoda Kotb says that after adopting her daughters, she questioned whether she deserved them
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-29 | by ( Erin Liam | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Hoda Kotb, 60, said she used to think that she didn't deserve her kids. AdvertisementKotb, whose treatment for breast cancer in 2007 had left her infertile, has been open about her experience as an older mother. A representative for Kotb did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours. Related storiesHaving kids later in lifeMore women are becoming parents later in life. "I've nurtured myself, as well as my partner, and during that time, acquired certain instincts and traits that will undoubtedly make me a better mother today than I would've been at 33."

Persons: Hoda Kotb, Haley, —, Suzy Welch, Kotb, I'm, Bethenny Frankel, Heather Grossman, Blake Turck, I've Organizations: Service, NYU Stern School of Business, Business Insider, CDC, BI Locations: Hope, Austin , Texas

☆ Apple Intelligence is finally here for some as part of the iOS 18.1 software update
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-28 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Apple rolled out long-awaited AI features to some iPhone and other users with its iOS 18.1 update. The new software is officially available on iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1, months after the tech giant first announced Apple Intelligence at the Worldwide Developers Conference. These are the Apple Intelligence features out nowApple Intelligence was revealed at Apple WWDC 2024. AdvertisementWith iOS 18.1, Apple said Siri can field typed requests, answer "thousands of questions" about Apple products, and understand context better. AppleTo ensure they get the features, iPhone owners must join a waitlist to request activation of Apple Intelligence.

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☆ Apple releases new preview of its AI, including ChatGPT integration
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-23 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Apple on Wednesday released a beta version of a slew of Apple Intelligence features, including its long-awaited ChatGPT integration. The preview included with iOS 18.2 contains:New abilities to describe how the user wants Apple Intelligence to rewrite a chunk of text. At the company’s developer conference, Apple showed how the ChatGPT integration will work. Apple execs have also suggested that other AI models, such as those from Google, may also integrate with Apple Intelligence in the future. Some Apple Intelligence features are already in testing by the public, and will be released next week as part of iOS 18.1.

Persons: Apple, Siri, OpenAI’s chatbot, ChatGPT, Sam Altman, OpenAI, Apple execs Organizations: Apple, Apple Intelligence, ChatGPT, Visual Intelligence, Microsoft, Google, iOS

☆ I raised my kids in Denmark. When we returned to the US, they were far more independent than their American peers.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-23 | by ( Jane Ridley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The family was shocked and disappointed by the coddling of kids when they returned to the US. She was featured in "The Danish Secret to Happy Kids," a new book that champions Nordic parenting. It was a complete 180 from our experience in Denmark, where the kids understood to be careful. The children set the table and helped themselves from a big dish in the middle. But we're grateful we had the chance to raise our children in Denmark — at least for a while.

Persons: Becca Itkowitz, —, I, It's, Max, we'd, Evan, I'd Organizations: Service, Nordic, Business, Denmark — Locations: Denmark, Illinois

☆ Judge, Ohtani and a dream World Series matchup: Could this be MLB’s Magic and Bird?
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-23 | by ( Jayson Stark | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +20 min

It isn’t just that the two likely MVPs are playing in this World Series, which begins Friday at Dodger Stadium. It isn’t just that two of the most formidable you-need-to-buy-their-jersey dollar/yen machines of modern times are playing in this World Series. But everything he has done has led him to this moment, to this week, to this World Series. It’s to play in a World Series as a Yankee and do whatever he can to leave people — his people — with a World Series memory for a lifetime. Will it be enough to fulfill Dave Roberts’ prediction that there will be more eyeballs on this World Series around the world than ever before?

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☆ Chick-fil-A is releasing its own entertainment app, with family-friendly shows and podcasts
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-21 | by ( Amelia Lucas | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

A sign hangs outside of a Chick-fil-A restaurant on May 06, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. Chick-fil-A plans to launch a new app on Nov. 18, with a slate of original animated shows, scripted podcasts, games, recipes and e-books aimed at families. And for the last five years, it's released animated shorts on YouTube during the holiday season as part of its "Stories of Evergreen Hills" series. Why Chick-fil-A is betting on contentPeople walk past a Chick-fil-A restaurant on 8th Avenue on December 30, 2023, in New York City. Restaurants as media brandsA Chick-fil-A meal is displayed at a Chick-fil-A restaurant on June 01, 2023 in Novato, California.

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☆ My family moved from California to Germany. I expected we'd travel throughout Europe with the kids, but I realized no one was enjoying it.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-20 | by ( Kate Chrisman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

I moved from California to Germany while pregnant with my second child. My kids are now 8, 5, and 3 years old, and traveling with them wasn't enjoyable. I had to adjust my expectations and plan trips that everyone could enjoy. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Because I lowered my expectations of what we could do and let my kids just be kids, it was the most fun we've had together on a holiday.

Persons: —, Grimm, we've, I'm, we'll, I've, Mona Lisa Organizations: Service, Eiffel, Bach Locations: California, Germany, London's, Greece, Kassel, Leipzig, Europe, Paris, Barcelona

☆ I dated a man 20 years older than me. He helped me jump-start my career and open up emotionally.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-20 | by ( Diane Mendoza | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

On a late afternoon near the end of August, a man with curly gray hair came in to shop. AdvertisementFrom there, he helped jump-start my professional career and my romantic life. When I landed that freelance gig, Curly Gray Hair and I were both stressed. But Curly Gray Hair felt like a good thing in my life — especially because we became more romantic. AdvertisementI appreciated Curly Gray Hair's maturity and what he saw in me.

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☆ Parents of resilient kids always do these 7 things, says psychology professor and child development expert
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-18 | by ( Tovah P. Klein | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

There are other ways to help children become independent, resourceful, caring people who can handle life's ups and downs and thrive. Ask yourself: "Can my child handle this challenge?" Instead, help your child accept hard feelings by reiterating that all feelings are normal and they're loved no matter what. When you're harsh with your child, they learn to use the same tactics to get what they want or need. Tovah P. Klein, PhD, is a psychology professor at Barnard College and the director of Barnard's Center for Toddler Development.

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☆ I became the breadwinner when my family moved to France. I feel like I've done my husband the biggest favor ever.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-18 | by ( Elle Hardy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Karen Kissane left her job, started a coaching business, and moved her family to France. Had this not happened, my family wouldn't be in France now. I feel like I've done my husband the biggest favor everOur roles swapped when we moved to France. It's great we could make this swap, effectively taking turns, as I did this before when he was a partner in a business working long hours. AdvertisementMoving to France helped my coaching business take offI didn't need a special business visa for France because we moved before Brexit.

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☆ As a single mom, finances can be tight. Taking my son to Legoland was a good way to teach him about money.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-12 | by ( Deborah Goldstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

As a single mom, finances can be tight, and I needed to figure out how to make it happen. At the start of every day during our trip, we talked about our budget and how to spend money. However, as a single mom, finances can be tight, and I knew it would take some strategic planning and scrimping to make the trip happen. He wanted a $150 Lego set at Legoland, so he knew he had limited funds to spend elsewhere. What he'll remember is seeing the panda at the San Diego Zoo and driving the cars at Legoland.

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☆ Airfares to this glamorous beach destination just got cheaper
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-12 | by ( Maureen O'Hare | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —In travel news this week: fat bears, hungry raccoons, an R-rated flight movie mishap and the best-value air travel destinations for Americans in the year ahead. Top of the list is the Mediterranean resort city of Nice, a much-loved playground for visitors to the French Riviera. Fares to the city fell by 27% in the first half of 2024, compared with the same period the year before. Fares to its capital, Rabat, have dropped by 24%, meaning you’ll have more to spend when you get there. Rounding out the top five is a US domestic destination: Fargo, North Dakota (-24%).

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