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☆ My kids wanted to donate toys to other kids after a hurricane hit our town. I'm so proud of them.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-24 | by ( Katrina Donham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementWe live in Asheville, and after Hurricane Helene, my kids wanted to donate toys. After watching the episode "Making Room for a Baby," I desperately wanted to "clean up my life," both metaphorically and physically. The labor of tossing out items that no longer "sparked joy" unironically did just that: sparked joy and gave me a renewed sense of hope for the future. To help our daughters better understand the scope of the damage, we drove through the decimated areas of town. AdvertisementI explained the basic idea: We would go through each individual item one by one and ask ourselves if it sparked joy.

Persons: Hurricane Helene, Marie Kondo, cranny, unironically, let's, Let's Organizations: Netflix Locations: Asheville, Sunnyside , Queens, Hurricane, Asheville , North Carolina

☆ Dollar steady at August high on U.S. rates view, election
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The U.S. dollar clung to a two-and-half-month high on Tuesday on expectations the Federal Reserve will take a measured approach to interest rate cuts, while a close battle in the upcoming U.S. election kept investors on edge. The U.S. dollar clung to a two-and-half-month high on Tuesday on expectations the Federal Reserve will take a measured approach to interest rate cuts, while a close battle in the upcoming U.S. election kept investors on edge. Four Federal Reserve policymakers expressed support on Monday for further rate cuts, but appeared to differ on how fast or far they believe any cuts should go. With the U.S. election just two weeks away, the rising odds of former President Donald Trump winning the Nov. 5 election are boosting the dollar, since his proposed tariff and tax policies are seen as likely to keep U.S. interest rates high. The yen on Tuesday was at 150.57 per dollar, hovering close to the two-and-half-month low of 150.88.

Persons: Goldman Sachs, Donald Trump, Harris, Komeito Organizations: U.S, Reserve, Fed ., Federal, Traders, Fed, Trump, PineBridge Investments, Liberal Democratic Party Locations: U.S, Treasuries

☆ Parents who raise kids who are mentally stronger than most do these 6 things
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Scott Mautz | In Scottmautz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

And I've applied my findings both to help adults and to help parents assist their kids. It starts by nurturing their mental strength in these six ways. Help your child build this habit when they're analyzing any problem, and you help them become mentally stronger. Help them focus on process versus outcomeWhen kids focus too much on the outcome of their efforts, it can lead to perfectionism. But becoming overzealous about results can eat away at kids' mental strength because so many factors besides effort can influence the outcome.

Persons: I've, Marshall, you've, Sakichi Toyoda, Foster, didn't Organizations: Toyota

☆ After 75 days of political upheaval, a changed race prepares for another debate
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-10 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Alex-Seitz-Wald-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Alex Seitz-Wald | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Tuesday’s debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump is the culmination of 75 days of utter and unprecedented campaign chaos — and the beginning of a 55-day race to Election Day through equally uncharted waters. The best-polling third-party candidate in a generation, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., saw his numbers collapse, and he is out of the race and supporting Trump. The sides even flipped on the debate rules, with the Harris campaign (unsuccessfully) pushing for open microphones during the whole debate after Biden’s team favored turning candidates’ mics off when it is not their turn. Harris’ campaign put a policy page on her website only on Monday. For making it through the past 75 days of chaos, America now gets 55 days of unpredictability with little precedent in modern history.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, —, ”, Jared Leopold, Joe Biden, Sen, JD Vance, Tim Walz, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Harris, ’, Craig Snyder, Snyder, Haley, Nikki Haley, Matt Gorman, “ Kamala, Trump, Caitlin Legacki, Legacki, Biden, Walz, Harris ’, Richard Czuba Organizations: Trump, Minnesota Gov, Republican, Democratic, Democrats ’, Biden, Detroit, Michigan Locations: R, Ohio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Covid, Gaza, Lansing, America

☆ Anne Hathaway's plan was to stop drinking until her kids were grown up. Now, she says she's over 5 years sober.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Amanda Goh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

In 2019, Hathaway said she wanted to quit alcohol "for 18 years" until her son is grown up. Forty feels like a gift," Hathaway told The New York Times. "I quit drinking back in October," Hathaway told DeGeneres. Advertisement"My last hangover lasted for five days," Hathaway told Modern Luxury. In a Vanity Fair interview from March, Hathaway also spoke about how her mental health has improved since she quit alcohol.

Persons: Anne Hathaway, Hathaway, —, Ellen DeGeneres, DeGeneres, I'm, Jonathan, Jack, Adam Shulman Organizations: New York Times, Service, Research

☆ Opinion | Donald Trump, Blasphemous Bible Thumper
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On this holy weekend, one man is taking the Resurrection personally. Donald Trump is presenting himself as the Man on the Cross, tortured for our sins. Yet, more and more, Trump is wallowing in his Messiah complex. Two-Corinthians Trump wouldn’t know the difference between Old and New Testaments. So he may not realize that, rather than a sacrificial lamb, he is the Golden Calf, the false god worshiped by Israelites when Moses went up to Mount Sinai to get the Ten Commandments.

Persons: Donald Trump, “, ”, Lucifer, ” Trump, Moses Organizations: Trump Locations: New, Sinai

☆ My dad died by suicide when I was 18. At 40, the trauma led me to a career in coaching.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Lynda Williams | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Building a career in travel and hospitalityOn return from my travels, I moved to London and pursued my then-dream career in hospitality. Coaching others on their journeysIn 2013, I decided to set up my own PR agency as a foreigner in Singapore. So I got my coaching qualifications, saw a renowned Buddhist Meditation Teacher to learn mindfulness and meditation, and learned other tools to complement my coaching method. If you or someone you know is experiencing depression or has had thoughts of harming themself or taking their own life, get help. Help is also available through the Crisis Text Line — just text "HOME" to 741741.

Persons: —, Lydna Williams, Lynda Williams, Maybourne, I'd, wasn't Organizations: Service, Business, UNESCO Heritage, Group, Aman Resorts, International Association for Suicide Prevention Locations: Asia, Australia, South America, Sydney, London, Washington, Brazil, Singapore

☆ I'm a psychologist who dated many toxic people until I finally realized I was the problem. Here's what I did about it.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-17 | by ( Scott Lyons | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Even though I'm a psychologist, I kept find myself in toxic relationships. I realized I was the problem; I was attracted to toxic traits because of my childhood. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . I realized why I was stuck in the same love story on repeat — an an-all-too-familiar reenactment of many childhood relational wounds. I identified the "toxic trait" or pattern that I was magnetizing or unconsciously attracted to and made it a turn-off.

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☆ Evergrande, the massive Chinese real estate developer with $300 billion in debt, is ordered to liquidate by a Hong Kong court
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Clare Jim | Xie Yu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Hong Kong court on Monday ordered the liquidation of real-estate developer China Evergrande Group. Evergrande is the world's most indebted developer with more than $300 billion of total liabilities. AdvertisementA Hong Kong court on Monday ordered the liquidation of China Evergrande Group, a move likely to send ripples through China's crumbling financial markets as policymakers scramble to contain the deepening crisis. Evergrande had been working on a $23 billion debt revamp plan with the ad hoc bondholder group for almost two years. Before Monday, at least three Chinese developers have been ordered by a Hong Kong court to liquidate since the current debt crisis unfolded in mid-2021.

Persons: —, Evergrande, Hui Ka Yan, Linda Chan Organizations: Monday, China Evergrande, Service, Hong, China Evergrande Group, Hong Kong High, Evergrande Locations: Hong Kong, Beijing, China

☆ Ivy League professor and former astronaut shares 3 pieces of NASA wisdom for handling mistakes and conflict
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Ece Yildirim | In Ecedyildirim | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

In the face of struggle, Massimino's colleagues shared with him key pieces of NASA wisdom, rules and sayings. Whether up in orbit or down on Earth, Massimino uses these three key pieces of NASA wisdom to make sure that his problem-solving process runs smoothly. Give yourself 30 seconds to feel badIt is normal to feel guilty when you make a mistake at work. When he makes a particularly frustrating mistake, Massimino tells CNBC Make It he employs the 30-second rule, a piece of NASA wisdom that he attributes to pilot Rick "CJ" Sturckow. But when the 30 seconds are up, he stops wallowing and concentrates on what's ahead.

Persons: Mike Massimino, Nat Geo, Gary Gershoff, George Clooney, Massimino's, Massimino, Rick, CJ, Sturckow, Robert, Hoot, Gibson, You've, you've Organizations: NEW, Nat, NASA, CNBC Locations: New York City, Columbia

☆ Fight Club Erupts on Capitol Hill
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Robert Jimison | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

speaker elbowed one of the Republicans who had voted to oust him. A Republican senator rose to challenge an organized labor leader to a brawl during a hearing. Across the Capitol, the chairman of a different panel compared a member of his committee to a cartoon character. It began early Tuesday morning, when former Speaker Kevin McCarthy had a run-in with Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee, one of the eight Republicans who had voted to oust him from the speakership last month, in the basement of the Capitol. Mr. Burchett said he had been speaking with journalists in a hallway following a party confab when Mr. McCarthy elbowed him in the back, then kept walking.

Persons: Kevin McCarthy, Tim Burchett, Burchett, McCarthy elbowed Organizations: Republicans, Republican, Capitol Locations: Tennessee

☆ The Extreme 19th: is this the most terrifying shot in sport?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Golf is nothing like an extreme sport – but it absolutely is in one corner of South Africa. Courtesy Legend Hospitality GroupInto the lion’s denThe seed for The Extreme 19th was planted in November 2000, when Cilliers’ wife Mart surprised him with a family picnic at the summit of Hanglip Mountain for his 41st birthday. Courtesy Legend Hospitality GroupStaff donned crash helmets as balls rained down from above in an attempt to plot the best landing zone. Two icons of British sport have played The Extreme 19th: seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton and five-time Olympic rowing gold medalist Steve Redgrave, as well as South African Springbok rugby heroes Frik Du Preez, Naas Botha and Morne Steyn. Courtesy Legend Hospitality GroupCilliers occupies neither.

Persons: Africa’s, they’ve, ”, Peet Cilliers, “, Cilliers, Mart, –, Gary Player, teed, ” Cilliers, “ We’ve, Franklyn Stephenson, Sergio Garcia, Bernhard Langer, Justin Rose, Padraig Harrington, Lewis Hamilton, Steve Redgrave, Frik Du Preez, Morne, Morgan Freeman, Nelson Mandela, Matt Damon, Clint Eastwood, ” Freeman scrawled, you’ve, you’re Organizations: CNN, Safari Conservancy, Legend, Rand, Lions, Staff, Golfers, West Indies, –, African Springbok, Naas Botha, Globe, Cilliers Locations: South Africa, Limpopo, Zimbabwe, “, China, Europe, Naas, Morne Steyn, Lake Entabeni, Johannesburg, it’s

BEAVER ISLAND, Mich. (AP) — A pilot's error during landing caused a 2021 plane crash that killed four people on a Michigan island, federal investigators concluded. The National Transportation Safety Board, which investigated the Nov. 13, 2021 crash on Beaver Island, said in a report released Thursday that the pilot lost control during landing and crashed 300 feet (91 meters) from the airport's runway. While approaching the airport, the plane was observed flying slowly and “‘wallowing’ as if nobody was flying,” the report said. The pilot and three others were killed in the crash; a young girl survived. The pilot was flying for Island Airways, which takes travelers between Beaver Island in northern Lake Michigan and Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula.

Organizations: National Transportation Safety Board, NTSB, Island Airways Locations: BEAVER, Mich, Michigan, Beaver, Lake Michigan, Lower

☆ As Instacart goes public, it's no victory lap for founder Apoorva Mehta
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Mehta was replaced as CEO of Instacart in July 2021 following a messy dispute with some of the company's largest investors. Instacart Founder Apoorva Mehta in his 2003 yearbook photo from Westdale Secondary School. The app started gaining momentum and Mehta put out ads on Craigslist for shoppers to do the grocery runs for him. Whole Foods reportedly broke the news to Mehta and a fellow Instacart executive on an early morning call. In a sworn affidavit, Mehta denies that he misappropriated any trade secrets and says he's since cut ties with Singh.

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☆ China's trade slump narrows as stabilisation signs emerge
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Joe Cash | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

“The trade data is marginally better, but I don’t think we should be reading too much into that: trade is still contracting,” said Frederic Neumann, chief Asia economist at HSBC. “There is a bit of a sign here of stabilisation, but I think there’s still a long way to go,” he added. “Looking ahead, whether China’s trade growth has already hit the bottom will hinge on several factors, the most important of which is obviously domestic demand.”Governments around the world are nervous about China’s economic slowdown with many exporting nations highly dependent on the country’s market for growth. However, trade with Japan dropped sharply, with outbound shipments from China to its neighbour down 20% in August year-on-year, while imports worsened by 17%. China posted a trade surplus of $68.36 billion in August, compared with a forecast $73.80 billion and a July figure of $80.6 billion.

Persons: Aly, ”, Frederic Neumann, Zhou Hao, it’s, Nie Wen Organizations: REUTERS, HSBC, Guotai, “, Australian, Hwabao Trust Locations: BEIJING, Shanghai, China, Asia, Beijing, United States, Southeast Asia, Australia, Japan, Tokyo, Brazil

Early Tuesday, a Ukrainian missile slammed into a hotel in the coastal town of Berdyansk that had been taken over by the Russian military. ‘Colossal support’Russian military bloggers have suggested that both Tsokov and Popov were capable soldiers who inspired loyalty among their men. Tsokov, 51, appears to have been a rising star in the Russian military. Senior Russian general, Ivan Popov, raised questions about the mass deaths and injuries of Russian military personnel. The loss of more capable commanders is another sign that Russia’s “special military operation” is looking less special by the week.

Persons: CNN —, Oleg Tsokov, Tsokov, Ivan Popov, Popov, Valery Gerasimov, vilely, Sergei Shoigu, ”, Vladimir Putin, Rybar, “ Popov, General Popov, “, Wagner, Oleg Surovikin, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Surovikin, Prigozhin, Defense Andrei Kartapolov, Kartapolov, specter, OGPU –, Gerasimov, “ alarmism, Shoigu, George Hall, Russia Dara Massicot, Tweeting, Massicot, ” Rybar, upbraided, viscerally, Putin Organizations: CNN, Ukraine –, Southern Military District, Arms Army, Kremlin Press, Major, Institute for, Ukrainian, of Defense, Kremlin, Russia’s Aerospace Forces, State, Defense, Defense Ministry, Senior, Ministry of Defense, Surovik, George Hall of, RAND Corporation, Russian Ministry of Defense, Russian Armed Forces Locations: Ukraine, Ukrainian, Berdyansk, Russian, Svatove, frontlines, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Senior Russian, St, Russia, Vuhledar

☆ Bridget Jones Deserved Better. We All Did.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Elisabeth Egan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

You couldn’t pass a Borders or Barnes & Noble megastore without catching Bridget’s cool blue-green gaze. Seemingly overnight, Bridget was to digital correspondence what Chandler Bing was to comic timing: a fresh metronome for the last gasp of the 20th century. She was the toast of book clubs, the subject of editorials, a lightning rod for morning-show debate and fodder for late-night comedy. Some readers were charmed by Bridget Jones; others were disgusted. That if we don’t enjoy our jobs, we just stick around and, heck, sleep with the boss (who never calls us back).”

Persons: Bridget Jones’s, “, ”, it’s “, ’ it’s, Elizabeth Gleick, ” “ Bridget Jones ”, Noble, ” “, —, Bridget, Chandler Bing, Bridget Jones, “ Bridget, ” Alex Kuczynski Organizations: Publishers Weekly, British Vogue, New York Times, Barnes Locations: British, ‘

☆ Cisco Swank ‘Is Black Music. All of It.’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Marcus J. Moore | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“He’s sitting right in the center of a lot of points,” said the noted trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire in a telephone interview. He is Black music. (He returned to Crown Heights, Brooklyn, from the Berklee College of Music, where he studied piano performance and contemporary writing and production when the pandemic took hold.) “I try to smile through it,” Haye raps with an exhausted tone. While growing up in Flatbush, he was exposed to all of this music by his mother, Adriane, who directed the youth choir at Emmanuel, and his father, Frank, who was the director of music there.

Persons: “ He’s, ”, Ambrose Akinmusire, It’s, ” Haye, “, ’, Haye, bro, I’m, — Beethoven, Bach, Kirk Franklin, Richard Smallwood, Adriane, Emmanuel, Frank Organizations: Berklee College of Music Locations: bro, ” “, Heights , Brooklyn, Haye, Flatbush

☆ Why E. Jean Carroll Will Always Tell You She Is ‘Fine, Fabulous’
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Ginia Bellafante | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Taking the witness stand, she recalled that Ms. Carroll had phoned her immediately after the alleged incident with Mr. Trump “breathless, hyperventilating, emotional,” but that the subject did not come up between them again for another quarter century. Carroll is a very up person; she is not a victim,” Ms. Birnbach said. In the mid-1990s, decades after the sexual revolution, nearing the declining days of the AIDS crisis and the heyday of elite media, New York seemed to belong to women like E. Jean Carroll. A pair of big media personalities — Ms. Carroll was a well-known advice columnist by then — meeting so unexpectedly to do something vaguely conspiratorial. At the outset, the story seemed so paradigmatically “New York,” Ms. Carroll explained in her testimony.

☆ E. Jean Carroll's friend testified she urged the writer to go to the police minutes after alleged Trump rape
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Ashley Collman | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Day five of the E. Jean Carroll trial started with testimony from the writer's friend Lisa Birnbach. Birnbach said Carroll called her minutes after her alleged rape by Donald Trump in the mid-1990s. Carroll was "hyperventilating" and appeared to be "still processing" while recalling the alleged rape, Birnbach said. "No, no, no, I'm not going to the police," Birnbach recalled Carroll saying. E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump.

REUTERS/Jane RosenbergMay 2 (Reuters) - A friend of E. Jean Carroll on Tuesday backed up the writer’s account of being raped by Donald Trump, testifying during a civil trial that she received a phone call about the alleged attack minutes after it occurred. Birnbach, author of many books including "The Official Preppy Handbook,” said Carroll told her Trump slammed her into the wall, pulled down her tights and “penetrated her with his penis.”“I whispered, E. Jean, he raped you. Carroll told jurors last week that Trump put his fingers into her vagina, which she called "extremely painful," and then inserted his penis. Birnbach testified that Carroll refused to go to the police after the alleged rape and asked her to never tell anyone about the incident. Reporting by Jack Queen in New York; Editing by Noeleen Walder and Howard GollerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Do You Even Decarbonize, Bro?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Nell Gallogly | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Decarb bros believe it’s all going to be OK. And the bros, a loose affiliation of mostly young researchers, climate tech workers, policymakers and people following along online, believe in making fun of themselves, at least a little. See: “Decarb bros,” a term they have embraced regardless of gender identity or weight-lifting ability. “We are against doomerism,” said Billy Casagrande, who works at Scale Microgrids, a climate tech start-up. The consensus among young people seems to be “that we are screwed as it relates to climate,” the self-described decarb bro, who is 25, continued.

☆ Morning Bid: Heading for a soft landing?
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Things are not as bad as some had feared, with the region's prospects boosted by China's reopening, an unexpectedly mild winter and resilient activity data. These hopes have lifted the pan-European STOXX 600 index (.STOXX), which is up 6.4% for the month and is set for its best January performance since 2015. Investors' focus is on next week's set of central bank meetings as the U.S. Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Bank of England decide on their rate-hike paths. Share price performance, earnings and sales for TeslaKey developments that could influence markets on Thursday:Economic events: Sweden's consumer confidence data for January, U.S. GDP data. Earnings: LVMH, Nokia, STMicroelectronics, Diageo and Volvo in Europe; Blackstone, Mastercard, Southwest Airlines, Intel, and Visa among others in United States.

The setting for the second season of “White Lotus,” which premieres on HBO on Sunday, has shifted from a lavish five-star hotel nestled on a pristine beach in Hawaii to a luxury resort in the foothills of Sicily. What hasn’t changed is that the staff members working at the hotels are more relatable than the guests. Reboots of “Gossip Girl” and “The Kardashians” met similar fates as they failed to reach the heights of their originals. As most of us belong to the 99%, shows that scrutinize the top percentile are that much more delectable. “White Lotus” is one of the shows that manages to navigate both successfully, showcasing trust-fund babies who self-implode without the viewer feeling sorry for them.

☆ Old men helped cause the Soviet Union's collapse. Historians say it's a warning sign for the United States.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( John Haltiwanger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

The Soviet Union became a gerontocracy in its final years, contributing to its collapse. And Reagan was right: Soviet leaders had consistently died on the job. "It doesn't matter whether it's the Soviet Union or the United States — there's always a clash" between older and younger generations, Grunewald said. They were afraid to let it go," said Zubok, the author of "Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union." And that did become a central factor in the demise of the Soviet Union."

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