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☆ 10 things you should never do in a nail salon, according to salon owners and nail techs
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Gia Yetikyel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Business Insider spoke with four nail-industry experts, including salon owners and nail technicians, about the biggest mistakes clients make. Don't pick off your previous manicurePicking at your nail polish, especially gel, can strip the keratin from your nails. It's worth it to pay the extra $10 for your nail technician to properly remove old polish. Advertisement"With nails, and especially nail art, you really need those little minutes," she told BI. Related stories"What people don't realize is that a highly sought-after nail technician is booked back-to-back all day," Charloff told BI.

Persons: —, Ainsley Moore, Alba, Donna Charloff, tardiness, Charloff, Tony Tjan, MiniLuxe, Eryn Kingsley, Kingsley, it's, Shutterstock Kingsley, Tjan Organizations: Service, Business Locations: doesn't, Alba

☆ Opinion | ‘Black Pill’ and the Dark Anarchy of Our Political Moment
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-17 | by ( Jessica Grose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I found out during a live comedy show that the former president had been shot at. The second comic confirmed what the first one said, and joked that if this had happened in another era, they probably would have canceled the show. But at this point we’re all so primed for political chaos and inured to news of fresh violence that the audience — including me — barely reacted. From the right, that it was the result of a deep-state plot. As Becca Rothfeld put it in a review of “Black Pill” for The Washington Post, “The flotsam of the internet is childish, ridiculous and, consequently, easy to underestimate.

Persons: Donald Trump, —, Corey Comperatore, David Dutch, James Copenhaver, Elle Reeve, ”, Becca Rothfeld, ” Reeve, Trump, Elliott Kline Organizations: Poison Society, The Washington Post Locations: Charlottesville, Va

☆ You may now own a piece of Trump Media – and not even know it
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-02 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —If you’ve got money in the market, you might own a little piece of Trump Media — without even knowing it. Trump Media (DJT), the owner of conservative social media platform Truth Social, announced its addition to the Russell family on Monday. As a result, countless retail investors will now own a piece of Trump Media. These include the $14 billion iShares Russell 3000 ETF (IWV) and the $2.5 billion Vanguard Russell 3000 ETF (VTHR). LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, a vocal critic of former President Donald Trump, believes Trump Media is really worth just $40 million.

Persons: you’ve, Russell, Donald Trump, doesn’t, Vanguard Russell, ”, Sam Stovall, Stovall, ” Stovall, Reid Hoffman, ” Hoffman, Aniket Ullal Organizations: New, New York CNN, Trump Media, Trump Media & Technology, Vanguard, CFRA Research, Microsoft, Nvidia, Apple, Trump, “, FTSE Russell’s, P, LinkedIn, CNN, & & Locations: New York

☆ Here are 5 sectors of the market that are working and the stocks that stand out in each
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-28 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell met with the press after the March Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, which was pretty fraught. Data centers If there is the whiff of a data center or anything in one, the stock goes higher. It's why Meta stock is a buy a tad lower as stocks tend to revisit those kinds of declines. I worry about Club stock Stanley Black & Decker for this reason, but the dividend will keep it propped up for now. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio.

Persons: what's, Jerome Powell, Powell, Powell isn't, Voltaire, Vertiv, Eaton, Meta, It's, jetsam, Darius Adamczyk, Vimal, Stanley Black, Decker, Azek, Morgan Stanley, Wells, Charlie Scharf, Wells Fargo, Chipotle, that's, Johnson, Jensen Huang, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Scott Mlyn Organizations: Federal, Market, Broadcom, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Travel American Express, Raytheon, GE Aerospace, Royal, AAR, Honeywell, Southwest Airlines, Housing, Stanley, JPMorgan, Procter, Gamble, Colgate, Merck, Bristol, Myers, PepsiCo, Energy, Coterra Energy, Diamondback, drillers, CNBC Locations: California, Royal Caribbean, Delta, Devon

☆ A controversial ‘Titanic’ prop sells for more than $700,000 at movie memorabilia auction
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Taylor Nicioli | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

And it’s now been sold at auction for more than $700,000. “Often mistakenly referred to as a door, the ornate structure was in reality part of the door frame just above the first-class lounge entrance,” Heritage Auctions wrote in the auction notes. Heritage Auctions described the prop as “king of the auction,” in a wry nod to the movie's script. There was no additional testing of these theories on the prop itself prior to its sale, as the auction house chooses to “handle all items with great care when in transit and in storage,” Heritage Auctions told CNN. “What you’re seeing is this massive interest in the films of the 1980s and 1990s,” said Joe Maddalena, executive vice president of Heritage Auctions, in a statement.

Persons: CNN —, Kate Winslet’s, Rose DeWitt Bukater, Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jack Dawson, Rose, Jack, I’ll, Indiana Jones, Doom, flotsam, ”, James Cameron, Jamie Hyneman, Adam Savage, Cameron, Winslet, DiCaprio, Joe Maddalena Organizations: CNN, Hollywood, Heritage Auctions, Heritage Locations: Orlando , Florida

☆ Where’s the Next Generation of Great Coaches?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-15 | by ( Rory Smith | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Greek triumph came a few weeks after Porto, led by a charismatic young coach with hair more pepper than salt, lifted the Champions League trophy. That was after Werder Bremen finished the season as champion of Germany and Valencia secured its second Spanish title in three years. The compilation clip could, at a push, be used as a sort of generational Rorschach test. Werder Bremen should be able to win the Bundesliga. You might not want to watch Greece win the Euros again, but it was nice that it happened.

Persons: craven, Kate Middleton, —, pang Organizations: Greece, European, Champions League, Werder Bremen, Valencia, Caldas, Copa Libertadores, Bundesliga, Porto Locations: Porto, Germany, Colombian, Europe

☆ Havana waves and high winds hurl jellyfish and seaweed into the streets
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Story Reuters | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —An unusually strong cold front slammed Cuba’s north coast on Tuesday, with white-capped waves flooding streets with seawater, causing scattered power outages and littering the capital Havana with blowing trash and downed branches. People navigate through a flooded street on a raft in Havana, on February 6, 2024. Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty ImagesAt dawn, the water flowed through some city streets like coastal rivers, moving jellyfish, seaweed and flotsam several blocks landward. “The climate has changed.”Havana, a coastal city built centuries ago on the Gulf of Mexico, is particularly vulnerable to rising sea levels and strengthening storms brought on by human-caused climate change, scientists and city planners have said. Rising sea levels threaten some coastal cities like Havana and could completely wipe from the map low-lying states in parts of the South Pacific Ocean.

Persons: Yamil Lage, ”, Jaqueline Dalardes Organizations: CNN, Getty, UN Locations: Havana, Florida, Cuba, AFP, of Mexico

☆ 4 stock ideas I brought back from the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference and everything else I learned about the industry
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

We will go over them – but first, let me talk about what I learned at last week's JPMorgan Health Care Conference that I attended in San Francisco, and what it means to your portfolio. We know health care has a lot of angles too it. The previous CEO Roz Brewer was from Starbucks and struggled with the role that Walgreens plays in health care. You have to be following the transformation of Bristol-Myers, which is opening its wallet to buy a host of drug companies, including anti-psychotic firm Karuna. Health care is the way to go.

Persons: Regeneron, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Dave Ricks, Lilly, donanemab, Lilly's, Zepbound, it's, Abbott, It's, Roche, Merck, Myers, ABT, Robert Ford, Tim Wentworth, He's, Roz Brewer, Wentworth, he'll, Brewer wasn't, Bob Bradway, Amgen, Vas Narasimhan, Sandoz, Karuna, Medtronic, Hugo, Morgan Stanley, Wells, Covid, Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Las Vegas Brendan Smialowski Organizations: Abbott Labs, Covid, Novartis, Amgen, Walgreens Boots Alliance, JPMorgan Health Care Conference, Humana, Drug Administration, Novo Nordisk, Dickinson Co, Bristol, Myers Squibb, Pfizer, Department, WBA, Walgreens, Starbucks, -, pharma, Merck, Keytruda, Horizon Therapeutics, Federal Trade Commission, Myers, BD, CVS Health, JPMorgan, Cramer's Charitable, CNBC, Consumer, AFP, Getty Locations: San Francisco, GLP, North Carolina, Europe, Cencora, Amgen, West, Bristol, Target, Las Vegas

☆ US Army engineers are dredging the dwindling Mississippi River 24/7 and battling seawater creeping upstream toward New Orleans' drinking water
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-30 | by ( Maiya Focht | Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

This threatens both the country's international supply chain and national drinking water access. AdvertisementAdvertisementA long stretch of drought in the Midwest has caused the Mississippi River to drop to abnormally low levels. Kevin Dietsch/Staff/Getty ImagesProblem two: Louisiana's drinking water is at stakeAn estimated 18 million people get their drinking water from the Mississippi. For example, it's contaminated the drinking water of roughly 23,515 residents in Plaquemines Parish where residents are advised to only drink bottled water. These aren't permanent solutions, but they buy local communities precious time to prepare to find alternate drinking water sources, Roe added.

Persons: Mother Nature, —, Colin Wellenkamp, Lou Dell'Orco, Louis District, Dell'Orco, they're, John Bel Edwards, Joe Biden, Kevin Dietsch, Biden, Edwards, Matthew Roe, it's, Sills, Roe, she's Organizations: Service, America, Getty, Towns Initiative, Associated Press, Shipping, AP, St . Louis District US Army Corps of Engineers, USACE, US Army Corps of Engineers, Louis, Louisiana's, Louisiana Gov, New Locations: Mississippi, Midwest, Louisiana, Cities, St.Louis, St, Louis, Gulf of Mexico, Plaquemines Parish, New Orleans

Like most lobstermen, the Maine House Republican leader scrambled to complete his work ahead of the remnants of Hurricane Lee. Rep. Billy Bob Faulkingham was rushing home from sea when a giant wave rose up, seemingly from nowhere, and towered over his boat. Suffering a black eye, facial fracture and stitched lip, Faulkingham counted Polk and himself lucky to be alive Monday. In the meantime, the Coast Guard, responding to the beacon, alerted Faulkingham's wife at 12:20 p.m. and the search was on. He hauled them onto his lobster boat and rush to shore, where an ambulance took them to the hospital.

Persons: Hurricane Lee, Rep, Billy Bob Faulkingham, Alex Polk, ” Faulkingham, Faulkingham, Polk, It’s, ”, Faulkingham's, Mikie Faulkingham, Lee, Diolanda Caballero, “, — it’s, ” Caballero Organizations: Maine House Republican, Atmospheric Administration, . Coast Guard, lobstermen, Coast Guard, Associated Press, National Weather Service Locations: Hurricane, Winter, Desert Island, Acadia, Gulf of Maine

When the earth seized his house and shook it late Friday night, Mohamed Abarada ran outside with his 9-month-old daughter in his arms. Mr. Abarada started digging with his bare hands. He dug by day with the help of neighbors and relatives, and by night with the flashlight on his phone. But on Monday, his daughter Chaima had yet to be found. With Mr. Abarada’s shoulder injured, his fellow searchers urged him to rest while they kept sifting through what had been his house — broken bricks mingled with broken wood, bamboo roofing, couch cushions, a satellite dish and teakettles, all the flotsam of family life.

Persons: Mohamed Abarada, Abarada, Chaima, Abarada’s, — Locations: Douar Tnirt

☆ ‘Elemental’ Review: Sparks Fly
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Amy Nicholson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“Elemental” is the latest Pixar premise to feel like someone laced the cafeteria’s kombucha keg with ayahuasca. This story is simpler (elemental, even). Yet, the four classical elements are one of civilization’s great unifiers, a cosmological theory shared by the Hindu Vedas, the Buddhist Mahabhuta, the Kongo cosmogram, the Indigenous medicine wheel and the zodiac. We’ve long interpreted life through water, earth, air and fire. Now, the trick is to see the life in them, once we squint past the visually overwhelming chaos of Element City, a smelting pot of puns and allusions.

Persons: Coco ”, It’s, Empedocles, Ember Lumen, Leah Lewis, Wade Ripple Organizations: Pixar Locations: Element City, Manhattan, Kongo

☆ To Truly Understand the Past, Pick Up an Old Magazine
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Brian Dillon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

And not a single mention yet of AIDS; in a Wrangler ad, a model’s speech bubble announces, oblivious: “I’m Positive.” In these magazine pages, it both is and is not the 1984 of my memory. “Priceless flotsam they seemed to us then,” Elizabeth Hardwick once wrote, recalling her youthful fascination with old jazz records. I’ve long felt the same way about magazines, old and new. Old magazines are cheap time machines, archaeologies of collective desire. Find a print issue, specialist or popular, preferably more than 20 years old (though 10 may do the trick), and read it from cover to cover.

Persons: Kate Bush, won’t, ” It’s, Roland, ” Elizabeth Hardwick, Joan Didion, ”, Hardwick, Alberto Giacometti, Gordon Parks, William Klein Organizations: Vogue Locations: London, New York, Dublin, ., Mexico City

☆ An Auction of Prosthetics, Mermaids and Creepy Dolls to Benefit Sea Turtles
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Remy Tumin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

When Jace Tunnell spotted what appeared to be a leg on the Gulf of Mexico shoreline in Texas, he thought that his greatest fear — a body washing up on the beach — was coming true. It’s happening,’” said Mr. Tunnell, who is director of the Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve in Port Aransas, Texas. The leg, after all, was wearing pants. But when Mr. Tunnell went to lift it up, the leg turned out to be a prosthetic, one of the many items of flotsam and jetsam that come ashore along the Texas coastline each year. The prosthetic leg will be up for auction on Saturday, along with other curious pieces salvaged from among the more than 500 tons of marine debris that, according to the reserve, wash up on the beaches of Texas every year.

☆ Deadly Shipwreck Shakes Italy’s Anti-Immigration Government
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Margherita Stancati | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

STECCATO DI CUTRO, Italy—At 4 a.m., as seawater poured into Summer Love, a rickety wooden boat packed with migrants, Assad al-Mulki grabbed his little brother, ran upstairs to the deck and jumped. In the rough, cold sea, Mr. Mulki, a 22-year-old Syrian asylum seeker, held his 6-year-old brother Sultan with one arm and a piece of flotsam with the other. The coast of Calabria was just a few hundred feet away.

☆ The Ayahuasca Diaries
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-26 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +37 min

But please understand: I didn't drink ayahuasca so I could write an article about it. I wrote an article about it so I could drink ayahuasca. I was desperate to drink ayahuasca — I had been for several months, in fact — and the formality of an assignment would help me out at home. Instead, a friend of a friend linked me up with an ayahuasca sangha, a Buddhist word for a spiritual community. I thought of my old friend, Scott, who, many years before, had declined an opportunity to drink ayahuasca.

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