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☆ Empty gas stations, full hotels, and gridlocked highways: A Tampa resident shares what she saw on her 'terrifying' evacuation from Hurricane Milton.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-09 | by ( Allie Kelly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Hurricane Milton threatens Florida's Central Gulf Coast with Category 4 winds and storm surge. An employee tapes up a gas pump ahead of Hurricane Milton. The Milton evacuation comes just days after after she and her boyfriend had to buy supplies and rent a hotel room to avoid Hurricane Helene. AdvertisementMakayla Pelletier, 23, evacuated Tampa as Hurricane Milton barrelled toward her city. As Hurricane Milton draws closer, residents of disaster-prone areas are evaluating how weather events could impact their livelihoods.

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☆ ‘Eno’ Review: Creativity, 52 Billion Billion Ways
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( Alissa Wilkinson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The key to “Eno” comes near the beginning of the film — at least, the beginning of the first version I saw. The musician Brian Eno, the documentary’s subject, notes that the fun of the kind of art he makes is that it’s a two-way street. Most movies are made up of juxtapositions of scenes, carefully selected and designed by the editor. But “Eno,” directed by Gary Hustwit, turns that convention on its head. He agreed to participate in “Eno” only if it, too, could be an example of what he and others have long called generative art.

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☆ The Vanishing Islands That Failed to Vanish
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Raymond Zhong | Jason Gulley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +26 min

The Vanishing Islands That Failed to Vanish Low-lying tropical island nations were expected to be early victims of rising seas. They found that over the past few decades, the islands’ edges had wobbled this way and that, eroding here, building there. No, to understand what really beguiles them about these islands, you need to take a dive into the surrounding sea. Coral reefs Indian Ocean Islands HUVADHOO ATOLL 5 miles Dhigulaabadhoo Coral reefs Indian Ocean Islands HUVADHOO ATOLL 5 miles Dhigulaabadhoo Islands HUVADHOO ATOLL Islands HUVADHOO ATOLL HUVADHOO ATOLL HUVADHOO ATOLL HUVADHOO ATOLL HUVADHOO ATOLL HUVADHOO ATOLL HUVADHOO ATOLL HUVADHOO ATOLL Kandahalagalaa Dhigulaabadhoo HUVADHOO ATOLL Kandahalagalaa Dhigulaabadhoo A map of the Huvadhoo Atoll, a gourd-shaped ring of 241 islands in the southern Maldives. Huvadhoo Atoll is a gourd-shaped ring of 241 islands in the southern Maldives.

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☆ A 27-year-old who built a side hustle 3D printing products to sell on Etsy did $10,000 in sales in one week. He explains the steps he took before coming up with bestselling product ideas.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Kathleen Elkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

That's when he listed what would become his next best-selling product: a gas can ornament with a compartment for stashing cash. He built seller credibility by listing inexpensive products to drive sales and reviewsWhen the first product Ziegler listed — the battery cases — didn't sell, he shifted his strategy. Ziegler's first product that hit: a travel soap box. Instead of abandoning the idea, Ziegler thought about ways he could make his product stand out. Now that he has a handful of bestselling items, though, "I'm doing a lot more Etsy fulfillment and a lot less design."

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☆ I took my first self-driving car ride with my teenage son and it felt comfortably dull
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Matt Rosoff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

My son Marlon has been obsessed with self-driving cars this year, as we've seen more and more Waymos and competing GM Cruise vehicles tootling around San Francisco without safety drivers. Last month, Waymo and Cruise won approval to operate driverless cars in San Francisco at any time of day. So with self-driving cars a common feature of our local landscape, we were excited to give one a try. The car pulled up with my initials, MR, on the display below the rotating lidar sensor on the roof. I was a skeptic about the promise of self-driving cars.

Persons: Waymo, Marlon, Cruise Organizations: Cruise, NBC Bay Area Locations: San Francisco

☆ A Year of Upheaval on Abortion’s Front Lines
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Kate Kelly | Marisa Schwartz Taylor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +14 min

Erica’s pilots that day were volunteers with Elevated Access, a nonprofit set up last year to help people obtain abortions, often across state lines. In North Carolina, an anti-abortion, church-backed pregnancy center called Mountain Area Pregnancy Services confronted a harassment incident. Before Dobbs, the group’s abortion services operated on a budget of $20,000 per month. But the dearth of pharmacies willing to offer abortion medication meant that Honeybee soon became the main provider of the online-ordered, home-delivered pills. Abortion medication — which now accounts for more than half of abortions in the United States — produces roughly 40 percent of Honeybee’s revenue.

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☆ The Taliban Government Runs on WhatsApp. There’s Just One Problem.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Christina Goldbaum | Safiullah Padshah | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Late one night two months ago, a team of Taliban security officers assembled on the outskirts of Afghanistan’s capital to prepare for a raid on an Islamic State hide-out. He grabbed his colleagues’ phones and called their superiors, who insisted they had sent him the location pin of the target to his WhatsApp. There was just one problem: WhatsApp had blocked his account to comply with American sanctions. “The only way we communicate is WhatsApp — and I didn’t have access,” said Mr. Inqayad, 25, whom The New York Times has followed since the Taliban seized power in August 2021. Those interruptions also underscore the far-reaching consequences of international sanctions on a government that has become among the most isolated in the world.

Persons: Habib Rahman Inqayad, WhatsApp, —, ”, Inqayad Organizations: New York Times Locations: Afghanistan’s, State

☆ I drove the $20,000 Ford Maverick and found the bare-bones truck proves that less can be more
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Tim Levin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The bare-bones Maverick XL hybrid lacks creature comforts like cruise control and power mirrors. The first time I hopped into the new Ford Maverick pickup, I did what any driver would do in an unfamiliar vehicle. The base Maverick XL, which Ford loaned me for a weekend in December, costs $20,000 before fees, which makes it the cheapest model in Ford's lineup. Ford Maverick XLT ($22,360) : adds cruise control, a nicer interior, power mirrors, an in-bed storage cubby, and other features. During my time with the Maverick XL, I debated whether the stripped-down truck would be worth the sacrifices I'd have to make.

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☆ Jim Cramer: An economic wave is about to hit that will be fantastic for investors
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

Ultimately, I have gotten to know my way around the CPI and it's a sloppy way to figure out pricing. Don't be frightened of the wave of deflation or misinterpret it as anything but fantastic for investors. 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. If Jim has talked about a stock on CNBC TV, he waits 72 hours after issuing the trade alert before executing the trade.

☆ A smoothie receipt tipped me off to my boyfriend's cheating. It taught me an important lesson on relationships.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( Lauren Crosmedlicott | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

She correctly suspected her boyfriend had cheated when she found a smoothie receipt in his car. Soon after we started going out, I had this gut feeling that something was off. After about three months of dating, we were going to see a friend of ours, and my boyfriend was driving. I noticed some papers in one of the little storage sections under the radio, and when I started going through them, there was a receipt from Tropical Smoothie. I tweeted about finding the smoothie receipt and had hundreds of responses from women who had similar experiences.

☆ Wirecard bosses' fraud trial begins after scandal that rocked Germany
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Jörn Poltz | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

The trial is taking place in Munich's largest and newest courtroom, a bomb-proof underground hall built in the Stadelheim prison complex. Braun, an Austrian born in Vienna, has denied embezzling money from Wirecard and accused others of running a shadow operation without his knowledge. [1/8] Wirecard's former CEO Markus Braun looks on at a courtroom as his trial begins, after the German payments company collapsed in the wake of a fraud scandal in 2020, in Munich, Germany, December 8, 2022. The fraud let Wirecard managers siphon money out of the company with no proper checks and balances. "All three defendants worked together to make Wirecard appear as an extremely successful FinTech company," said Anne Leiding, a spokesperson for the prosecutors.

☆ Wirecard ex-boss on trial for fraud in scandal that rocked Germany
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Jörn Poltz | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

The trial is taking place in Munich's largest and newest courtroom, a bomb-proof underground hall built in the Stadelheim prison complex. Braun has denied embezzling money from Wirecard and accused others of running a shadow operation without his knowledge. [1/7] Wirecard's former CEO Markus Braun looks on at a courtroom as his trial begins, after the German payments company collapsed in the wake of a fraud scandal in 2020, in Munich, Germany, December 8, 2022. The fraud let Wirecard managers siphon money out of the company with no proper checks and balances. Scholz also criticised Wirecard's auditor, EY, for failing to detect the fraud.

☆ ‘Finale’ Review: Sondheim, Finishing the Hat
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( Jeremy Mccarter | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

In the summer of 2021, I began to write an email to Stephen Sondheim. It was a neither-fish-nor-fowl sort of message: not exactly a question, more an observation, also a note of praise. In other words, precisely the kind of comment that makes the audience-participation portion of onstage conversations so dreadful. (I’d gotten to know Sondheim when he participated in a couple such conversations I’d programmed at the Public Theater. I wish I’d been less anxious about the prospect of wasting his time, of subjecting him to anything that felt like an imposition.

☆ Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, and Donald Trump, Jr. have all been deposed by NY's attorney general's office — now what?
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-10 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Donald Trump was deposed Wednesday by the NY attorney general's office — after promising to plead the Fifth. So what's next for the Trumps, the Trump Organization and James' three-year investigation? The lawsuit will seek steep financial penalties for an alleged decadelong pattern of playing fast and loose with the assessed values of Trump Organization properties. The Trump Organization probe is the third time the former president has been in the AG's crosshairs. Why did the AG insist on a deposition in this current, Trump Organization case?

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