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☆ What to know about the twisted ending of Zoë Kravitz's new thriller 'Blink Twice,' starring Channing Tatum
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-23 | by ( Olivia Singh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Read previewWarning: Major spoilers ahead for "Blink Twice." "Blink Twice," a new psychological thriller cowritten and directed by Zoë Kravitz, is stuffed with twists and turns. Naomi Ackie as Frida and Adria Arjona as Sarah in "Blink Twice." Just as Stan is about to shoot Frida, Sarah hits him in the head with a massive rock and kills him. "Blink Twice" is in theaters now.

Persons: —, Zoë Kravitz, Kravitz's, Naomi Ackie, Frida, Slater King, Channing Tatum, Jess, Alia Shawkat, Slater, Sarah, Adria Arjona, MGM Studios Slater, she's, Stacey, Geena Davis, Arjona, Carlos Somonte, Kyle MacLachlan, Camilla, Liz Caribe, Heather, Trew Mullen, Tom, Haley Joel Osment, Heather clobbers Vic, Christian Slater, Cris Costa, Stan, Cody, Simon Rex, MGM Studios Frida, he's, Vic, Lucas, Levon Hawke, there's, It's, Shawkat, Ackie, Rich, who's, they're, Frida King, Tatum, Kravitz, Lenny Kravitz, Lisa Bonet Organizations: Service, King, Tech, Business, MGM Studios, Amazon MGM, King - Tech Locations: Beijing, Hollywood

☆ 'Orphan Black: Echoes' showrunner explains the spinoff's biggest difference from the original series — and whether Tatiana Maslany will show up
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Ayomikun Adekaiyero | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewWarning: Spoilers ahead for the first episode of "Orphan Black: Echoes." Nearly seven years after the series finale of "Orphan Black," the clone-centered sci-fi show is returning with a new spinoff, "Orphan Black: Echoes." Lucy's creator is Kira Manning (Keeley Hawes), the daughter of "Orphan Black" lead character Sarah Manning (Maslany). "Orphan Black: Echoes" showrunner Anna Fishko and "Orphan Black" co-creator John Fawcett. AdvertisementNew episodes of "Orphan Black: Echoes" air on Sundays on AMC and BBC America and stream on AMC+.

Persons: —, Anna Fishko, Lucy, Krysten Ritter, Tatiana Maslany, Fishko, Tatiana, Tatiana Maslany doesn't, JC Olivera, Kira Manning, Keeley Hawes, Sarah Manning, Kira, Aunt Cosima, Cosima Niehaus, Felix, Jordan Gavaris, Siobhan, Maria Doyle Kennedy, John Fawcett, Rick Kern, who'd, Ritter, Amanda Fix, Sophie Giraud, Kristen Organizations: Service, Business, Street Productions, BBC, Bell Media, BI, Getty, AMC Networks, Clone, AMC Locations: BBC America

☆ My wife's sister is a celebrity. Marrying into a famous family was surprisingly easy for me.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-09 | by ( Heath Savage | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewI met Sarah online 22 years ago. Joining Sarah's famous family was surprisingly easy for meSince we met, Sarah has been grounded in her identity, never relying on her sister's celebrity. AdvertisementAfter about two years of dating, I met Olivia. We hosted lunch at one of the cafés in our little village square, and suddenly, everyone was talking. When Olivia died in 2022, our council office organized a special tribute, showing "Grease" on an outdoor screen in the village square.

Persons: —, Sarah, Olivia Newton, Sarah's, Olivia, we've, Olivia Olivia, It's Organizations: Service, Business Locations: Spain, Sydney

☆ Black royals say Hollywood erased their existence. They're fighting to change the whitewashed narrative.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Mikhaila Friel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Black royals have existed around the world for millennia. Mainstream TV shows and movies that depict the true history of Black royal families are few and far between. And while movies about fictional Black royals exist — "The Princess and The Frog" (2009), "Black Panther" (2018), and the latest "The Little Mermaid" (2023) — Hollywood still isn't doing enough to educate viewers that Black royals exist in the real world, according to Nigeria's Princess Keisha Omilana. - Prince Asfa-Wossen AsserateMeanwhile, Asfa-Wossen said educators are too often preoccupied with using slave narratives to recount Black history. But in order to portray Black royals as equal to their white counterparts, there must be a shift in perspective, he said.

Persons: —, Queen Elizabeth, Sierra Leone's, Sarah Culberson, Nigeria's Princess Keisha, Prince Kunle Omilana, Prince Asfa, Asserate, Princess Ariana, Prince Joel, Keisha Omilana, Halle Bailey, Ariel, Disney Keisha, Prince Adekunle, Omilana, Keisha, Kunle, Ipetu, Orjinmo, Prince Kunle, haven't, George Osodi, Fernando Catala, Princess Keisha, David White, Sarah, Sarah Culberson Sarah, Ethiopia's Prince Asfa, Manfred Roth, who's, Haile Selassie, Young, Charlotte, Liam Daniel, Wossen, Ethiopia's Prince Joel, Joel, Ethiopia Antwon Maxwell, Kassa, Ian Sansom, it's, Queen of Sheba, King Soloman's, Sheba, Menelik, Axum, don't, Tell Organizations: Service, Hollywood, BI, Immigration, Board of Canada, Paramount, Getty, Netflix, SAG, Ethiopian, King, Guardian Locations: Hollywood, Windsor, American, Nigeria, Yoruba Kingdom, British, Morocco, Lesotho, Swaziland, Europe, Africa, Mende, Bumpe, Sierra Leone, West Virginia, Ethiopia, India, Germany, Los Angeles, America

☆ Special Education, Inc.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-21 | by ( Meghan Morris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +34 min

AdvertisementNate Smallwood for BITo some, private equity's business model appears antithetical to special education. (The average public school district in Pennsylvania, where New Story operates the most schools, spends about $23,000 per child across all types of public education. "Private equity has no place in education — especially special education," Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio told BI. For instance, two Pennsylvania education directors left in spring 2023, according to records obtained by BI — one after just months in the role. AdvertisementNickie Coomer, a Colorado College education professor who has written about the privatization of special education, told BI that this data gap is a major regulatory hole, one that private-equity companies are happy to exploit.

Persons: Emily, Sarah, Nate Smallwood, Sarah didn't, —, Mergermarket, Shanon Taylor, Taylor, Sen, Sherrod Brown, Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, Casey, Paul Volosov, Volosov, Jim Grinnen, Rachel Wisniewski, Christina Spielbauer, Spielbauer, Nathaniel Garnick, Garnick, sully, Craig Richards, He's, Richards, they're, " Richards, Judith McKinney, Grinnen, Donnell McLean, McLean, Natalie Stoup, Blackstone, haven't, Biden, of Education spokespeople, Nickie, …, that's, didn't, Hill, Amy Hall Kostoff, Kostoff, Green, she'd Organizations: Business, State College ,, New, BI, Audax Group, Kentucky, Pennsylvania State Employees, Schools, Audax, Rock Academy, University of Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania Department of Education, Rock, Reading School District, River Rock Academy, Virginia's Department of Education, Green Tree, Pay, Tree, Autism, Forbes, NBC News, Federal Trade Commission, of Education, Colorado College, Tree School, Pennsylvania's Department of Education, Pennsylvania, In State College Locations: State College , Pennsylvania, Boston, Pennsylvania, Reno, —, Ohio, New Story's, Rock, Virginia, , Ohio, New Jersey , Pennsylvania, New Story's New Cumberland , Pennsylvania, CARD's Virginia, Philadelphia, Rochelle Park , New Jersey

☆ Teacher Shortages in America Are Holding Gen Z Students Like Me Back
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( Vaishnavi Kumbala | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

AdvertisementWhile teachers, students, and parents have all tried their best to make it work, many students still end up with huge learning gaps. Teacher shortages tend to be framed as a workplace problem: We just need to incentivize and support teachers better. AdvertisementWhen teacher shortages compound, some students just stop showing up. Even before COVID, students struggled to remember concepts they learned in a previous course — but the teacher shortages have exacerbated the problem. If America doesn't address its teacher shortages today, it will be left with a worse, less educated tomorrow.

Persons: STAFF04201, I've, bode, Sarah, Richard Ingersoll, Ingersoll Organizations: Kansas State University, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Progress, Organization, Economic Cooperation, Development, US, America, Harvard University Center for Education Policy Research, Stanford University, Brookings Institution, National Center for Education Statistics, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, Vogue, The New York Times, The New Orleans Times Locations: New Orleans, —, Spanish, Rome, Orleans, Louisiana

☆ I got run over by a train – twice
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Sarah de Lagarde had to have an arm and a leg amputated after two London Underground trains hit her. Her daughter now takes public transport and de Lagarde says she's "sick to my stomach" every time. The train departed and crushed my right arm. AdvertisementAdvertisementA second train came into the station and crushed my right leg below the knee. Beyond that, how can I give money to Transport for London when they have taken no responsibility and offered no financial compensation?

Persons: Sarah de Lagarde, She'd, Lagarde, —, Sarah de Lagarde's, Tori Ferenc, It's, it's, Nick Dent, Sarah De Lagarde, Sarah Hope, Dent, Elizabeth Organizations: London, Service, Transport, TfL, High Barnet Locations: Madeira, London, High

☆ I lost 2 limbs in an accident on the London Underground a year ago. I still feel sick to my stomach when my 12-year-old daughter takes the Tube.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Sarah de Lagarde had to have an arm and a leg amputated after two London Underground trains hit her. Her daughter now takes public transport and de Lagarde says she's "sick to my stomach" every time. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Beyond that, how can I give money to Transport for London when they have taken no responsibility and offered no financial compensation?

☆ Artists are losing the battle against AI. Glaze, a tool that's found a way to trick algorithms, is giving them a fighting chance.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

AI would soon be better than human artists, Beverly was told. In October, Beverly checked a website, HaveIBeenTrained.com, that reveals if an artwork or photo was used to teach AI models. That image can still be fed to AI learning models, but the data gleaned from it would be inaccurate, Zhao told Insider. His team conceptualized the program when they were contacted by artists worried that AI models were specifically targeting their personal work. That could theoretically lead to a pseudo-arms race, where AI companies and the Glaze team continually try to one-up each other.

Persons: they've, She'd, Gigs, Beverly, I'd, Glaze, Ben Zhao, Zhao, Jackson, Autumn Beverly, Beverly Glaze, Celso Flores, Flickr, It's, Van Gogh, Sarah Andersen, Andersen, she's, you've, that's, Haibing Lu, Lu, Martin Senftleben, Senftleben, Harry Potter, J.K, Rowling doesn't, I'm, Midjourney Organizations: University of Chicago, Autumn Beverly, of Liberty, The University of Chicago, Santa Clara University, Tech, University of Amsterdam, Artists Locations: Ohio, —

☆ Harvard grad makes $230K per year with mother and daughter ice cream shop
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | 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 EmailHarvard grad makes $230K per year with mother and daughter ice cream shopAnnie Park, Sarah's Handmade Ice Cream co-founder, joins 'Last Call' for Make it Mondays to discuss how she turned a mother-daughter ice cream venture into a bustling small business.

Persons: Park Organizations: Harvard

☆ In an internal memo, Marc Benioff shakes up Salesforce's top ranks, and drops a subtle hint about the company's succession plan
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Nicholas Carlson | Julie Bort | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Miguel Milano becomes Salesforce's Chief Revenue Officer, moving from the same role at software company Celonis. Ariel Kelman, is the new Chief Marketing Officer of Salesforce. Benioff responded to the pressure by laying off thousands of employees and making other changes to increase the company's efficiency. Miguel Milano, our new Chief Revenue Officer: I'm excited to welcome back Miguel Milano to Salesforce as our Chief Revenue Officer. Ariel Kelman, our new Chief Marketing Officer:It's also incredible to welcome back Ariel Kelman as our new CMO!!!

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Raoul Sreenivasan, who joined Amazon in 2016 and currently oversees planning, performance and cargo for Amazon Global Air, will take over most of Rhoads' Amazon Air responsibilities, Felton said. As part of an effort to handle and deliver more of its own packages, Amazon launched an air cargo business. Rhoads joined Amazon Air in its early days and has overseen much of the unit's growth, including the opening of a $1.5 billion air hub in Kentucky. Air cargo rates have plunged from record highs hit during late 2021, when port snarls and a dearth of international flights pinched capacity and drove up prices. Correction: Sarah Rhoads joined Amazon in 2011.

Persons: Mark Makela Sarah Rhoads, John Felton, Amazon's, Rhoads, Felton, Raoul Sreenivasan, Sreenivasan, Andy Jassy, Becky Gansert, Heather MacDougall, Pam Greer, Sarah Rhoads Organizations: Lehigh Valley International, Amazon, CNBC, Amazon Global Air, Amazon Global, DHL, TNT Express, FedEx, U.S . Navy, UPS, Amazon Air, Atlas, Boeing, Hawaiian Airlines, Airbus, Air, U.S, Bloomberg ., Amazon Logistics Locations: Allentown , Pennsylvania, U.S, Kentucky

Her mother Sarah — a former deli shop owner — was bored with retirement and had decided to open an ice cream shop in Bethesda, Maryland. "To be honest, at first I was like, 'ice cream shop?'" Running the ice cream shopDespite Sarah's Handmade Ice Cream successful grand opening, it took over six months for the business to become "a well-oiled machine," Park says. Instead, Park and her mother donate ice cream to local nonprofits and community organizations, which has attracted loyal customers in the Bethesda area. Within a few months of opening the first store, Park realized the business didn't have to be limited to just "a mom-and-daughter shop."

☆ A small detail on Sunday's 'The Last of Us' reveals that Joel likely avoided becoming infected on episode 1 because of his food choices
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-30 | by ( Kirsten Acuna | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Joel says the cordyceps outbreak likely started by mutating and tainting foods with flour or sugar. Joel, Sarah, and Tommy likely weren't infected on episode one because they avoided eating pancakes, biscuits, and cake. It turns out Joel may have narrowly avoided being infected simply because of his food choices on the series' pilot. If you revisit episode one, it turns out Joel and Sarah may have dodged getting infected with the cordyceps fungus a few times. HBOIn Naughty Dog's hit video game of the same name, we never directly learn how the cordyceps infection spread so quickly across the planet.

☆ Real estate investing 'created this life of freedom': Michigan couple brings in $11,000 a month for only 2 hours of work
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Those real estate ventures aren't their only income streams. But the real estate business is particularly important to them, both financially and symbolically, they say. Of their multiple income streams, the real estate investments give them the most bang for their buck. High costs, high rewardsAfter realizing they had a knack for flipping housing, the couple started venturing into real estate during the winters, when Michigan weddings were sparse. Jamie and Sarah spend an additional 40% of those earnings on services like trash collection, ground maintenance and pest control.

☆ He was my high school journalism teacher. Then I investigated his relationships with teenage girls.
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-16 | by ( Matt Drange | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +40 min

It was a hot July day and the classroom at Rosemead High School should have been empty. (Christopher Vu for Insider) Show less Rosemead High School sits just east of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley. Burgess as an upperclassman at Rosemead High School with the former teacher Hugh Zegers, center, and classmates. The author interviewing Rod Marinelli, a Rosemead High School alum who was then coaching the Detroit Lions, for the Rosemead student newspaper, the Panther's Tale. The author and a classmate, Amy Julia Harris, beside their journalism teacher Burgess at graduation night in June 2007.

Persons: Eric Burgess, Burgess, Brian Bristol, Christopher Vu, Alex Rai, Brian Day, —, Edward Zuniga, I'd, Dwain Crum, Harold Greenberg, Rai, Paul Arevalo, Arevalo, Diane Bladen, Rosemead, Bladen, Eric, weren't, Hugh Zegers, Rebecca Zisser, who'd, Miley Cyrus, Miley Cyrus Eric Burgess, Rod Marinelli, groomers, Daniel Pollack, Pollack, Matt Drange, Mia Nakao, Nakao, Lois Heilemann, Heilemann, Mia Nakao's, …, Larry Callaham, Catherine, fondling, She'd, they'd, Catherine grappled, Terri Amborn, Amborn, Sarah, she'd, Burgess's, didn't, Burgess texted Sarah, couldn't, Burgess wouldn't, I'm, Uber, Felipe Ibarra, I've, he'd, Sarah doesn't, She's, Amy Julia Harris, Harris Organizations: Rosemead, Bristol, Rosemead High, Facebook, School, Detroit Lions, High School, Rosemead High School, High, Cal State LA, Tower Records, Monte Union High School District, Starbucks Locations: Bristol, Burgess, Rosemead, Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles, San Gabriel Valley, California, McDonald's, Detroit, chameleons, Bladen, mdrange

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