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☆ They moved into floating homes and houseboats — and discovered a world of adventure and hidden expenses
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Amanda Goh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Read previewMoving into their 360-square-foot floating home a year ago was a dream come true for Sarah Spiro and Brandon Jones. In 2023, there were 70 floating home sales reported on the Regional Multiple Listing Service, or RMLS, which covers the Portland area and a significant part of northwest Oregon, Portland Floating Homes real-estate broker John McPherson told BI. Lily and Dylan Rose moved onto their houseboat on Lake Union in Seattle in June 2019. AdvertisementHome insurance for a floating house tends to be about double what it is for a regular house on land, McPherson said. Additionally, the float — the part of the floating house that's equivalent to a foundation — deteriorates over time, McPherson said.

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☆ Opinion | On the Wild Intoxications of Spring
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Margaret Renkl | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I spied the first spring beauty of the year on Feb. 20, the same week a Northern flicker started drumming on our metal chimney, the week of budburst for our red maple sapling and our young red mulberries. The bluebirds often start house-hunting much earlier than they intend to nest, but the first flicker concert at dawn and the first spring beauty opening in the afternoon sun — they’re for real. Soon the crows will be stalking through the wild parts of the yard after a rain, collecting long, damp stalks of grass to line their nests with. This year spring beauties came a little late compared to last year (Feb. 16), but still very early compared to the year before that (March 20). Spring is here!

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☆ ‘Mary Poppins’ Gets New Age Rating in Britain for Racist Language
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Derrick Bryson Taylor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Mary Poppins” includes two uses of an offensive racial slur to describe an Indigenous group in South Africa. It is first heard when Admiral Boom asks Michael, a child, if he is going on an adventure to defeat said group. Admiral Boom repeats the slur during a chimney sweeps dance sequence when he shouts that he is being attacked. The film was originally rated “U,” for Universal, upon its release in 1964, and again in 2013 for a theatrical release, the B.B.F.C. When it was resubmitted in February for another theatrical release, it was reclassified as PG.

Persons: “ Mary Poppins, “ Mary Poppins ”, Admiral Boom, Michael Organizations: British, of, Universal Locations: Britain, South Africa

☆ ‘Mary Poppins’ gets a new age rating over discriminatory language
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Harmeet Kaur | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A British film industry group has raised the age rating for the beloved children’s classic “Mary Poppins” over discriminatory language. “Mary Poppins (1964) includes two uses of the discriminatory term ‘hottentots,’” a BBFC spokesperson said in a statement to CNN. Even as “Mary Poppins” remains a treasured part of the cultural canon, the film has been criticized for trafficking in blackface. It’s partly in this context that the discriminatory language referenced by BBFC appears in the film. In recent years, the movie industry has grappled with how to handle racist or offensive content in classic films.

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☆ Eggo unveils breakfast-themed rental home for National Pancake Day: Here's how to book your free stay
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The popular frozen waffle brand Eggo has unveiled the Eggo House of Pancakes, a home that has received a makeover both inside and out to make it appear like a stack of flapjacks. The Gatlinburg, Tenn. home will be available to prospective guests beginning Feb. 28 — also known as National Pancake Day. The kitchen at the Eggo House of Pancakes comes stocked with an assortment of the brand's products. Guests at the House of Pancakes will arrive to a fully-stocked fridge full of Eggo pancakes. The company said that it chose to make the home pancake-themed instead of waffle-themed because Gatlinburg is the "pancake capital of the South."

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☆ ‘Jelly’s Last Jam’ Review: A Musical Paradise, Even in Purgatory
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Jesse Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

That painful history can be alchemized into thrilling entertainment is both the central idea and the takeaway experience of “Jelly’s Last Jam,” the jaw-dropping Encores! It might not be immediately apparent from its strange framework that the musical could produce such an effect. The book, by George C. Wolfe, who also directed the 1992 Broadway original, introduces us to Morton (Nicholas Christopher) at the moment of his death. That’s when he is greeted, in a kind of nightclub limbo, by Chimney Man — so called because this forbidding psychopomp, played by the fascinatingly strict Billy Porter, sweeps souls to their destination. Accompanied by a trio of louche, bespangled “Hunnies,” he first puts Morton through a recap of his life, with an emphasis on his lies, betrayals and musicological self-aggrandizement.

Persons: “, Jelly Roll Morton, ferociously, George C, Wolfe, Morton, Nicholas Christopher, That’s, Billy Porter, ” Organizations: City Center

The quake would be tied as the fourth-strongest in Oklahoma history if seismologists maintain the rating, according to Oklahoma Geological Survey data. WHAT'S CAUSING THE OKLAHOMA QUAKES? “It's very difficult when there's an earthquake to know exactly what caused it.”WHAT HAS OKLAHOMA DONE TO STOP THEM? “Some people had chimney damage near the epicenter,” Greff said. The strongest recorded earthquake in Oklahoma was a 5.8-magnitude quake near the town of Pawnee in 2016.

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☆ My family has traveled to 20 states and 20 countries. My young kids have been everywhere from Colombia, to Turks and Caicos, to Florida.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-09 | by ( Taryn White | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

My parents introduced me to traveling with road trips, and I've done the same with my kids. AdvertisementAs a child, I eagerly awaited the annual road trips across the US with my parents and two siblings. On our trips, we've learned everything from the art of lei-making in Maui to the Black history of Cartagena. In 2018, Taryn White and her family went to Medellin, Colombia, and stopped to enjoy some colorful street art. Taryn White and her family have been all over the world together, from Aspen to Turks and Caicos.

Persons: I've, —, we've, they're, Taryn White, it's, We've, Hvar's Organizations: Service, Virginia, Virginia Aquarium Locations: Myrtle Beach, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Maui, Cartagena, Portugal, Bahamas, Medellin, Colombia, Aspen, Bend, Shenandoah, Virginia Beach, Bradenton , Florida, Caicos, Grace Bay, Douro, Algarve, Turks, Czech Republic, Hungary, Croatia, Prague, Budapest, Hvar

☆ No shortage of Christmas trees this year, but don’t expect any red-tag deals
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Parija Bhatnagar | Parija Kavilanz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

As far as trees go, farms are promising there will be an adequate supply of trees this year. It typically takes eight to 10 years to grow a Christmas tree, depending on the variety and location, according to the National Christmas Tree Association, a trade group representing growers. “I haven’t heard of any community in America where people haven’t been able to get a Christmas tree and I don’t expect that will be the case this year,” said Tim O’Connor, executive director of the National Christmas Tree Association. The Real Christmas Tree Board, an industry trade group, in September surveyed 49 wholesale growers of Christmas trees who collectively account for two-thirds of the nation’s tree supply about their outlook for the holiday season. “The starting wholesale price is gonna be much more controlled this year than what we had to experience last year.

Persons: Fraser, haven’t, ”, Tim O’Connor, O’Conner, it’s, Marsha Gray, ” Gray, “, ” Lauren Segedin, “ We’re Organizations: New, New York CNN, Association, Tree Association, Board Locations: New York, America, Glenville , North Carolina, Fraser Fir

☆ This $3.5 million apartment sits atop a former Wonder Bread Factory turned luxury condos—take a look inside
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-25 | by ( Celia Fernandez | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The former Wonder Bread Factory in Hoboken, New Jersey was transformed into a luxury residential building. Now in its place stands The Wonder Lofts, a luxury residential building with 83 loft-style condominiums. The Wonder Lofts building was a bakery for more than 50 years in the 1900s. Wonder LoftsThe Wonder Lofts includes two- to five-bedroom apartments with about 1,200 square feet to 2,700 square feet of living space. Wonder Lofts

Persons: Angelo Gordon, Robert Fourniadis, Fourniadis, it's, Daniel P, Winschuh, You've Organizations: Prism Capital Partners, Parkwood, CNBC Locations: Hoboken , New Jersey, New Jersey, New York City, Palisades, Manhattan, cabanas, Hoboken

☆ Saving Praise Houses Before Their African Lineage Is Forgotten
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Patricia Leigh Brown | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Kay Colleton will never forget the time she first laid eyes on Moving Star Hall, a tiny white clapboard building with a leaning chimney, a crooked roof and a storied history. The hall is a rare surviving example of a praise house — humble one-room structures used as places of worship by enslaved people on coastal plantations throughout the Carolinas and Georgia. They have been providing spiritual sustenance for generations of African Americans ever since. “There were no keys, so we just came right in,” Pastor Kay recalled of that day in 1989. Alive and hopping, Moving Star Hall is an outlier among the handfuls of praise houses still standing in varying states of repair, most tucked away on rural roads through dark tunnels of oaks laden with Spanish moss.

Persons: Kay Colleton, ” Pastor Kay, I’ll, ‘ You’ve, ’ ” Pastor Kay, — Organizations: Star Locations: Carolinas, Georgia, barrenness, Johns, Africa

☆ $550,000 Homes in Massachusetts, Illinois and Virginia
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Angela Serratore | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Sheffield, Mass. It is about 20 minutes from Great Barrington, a popular shopping and dining destination, and 40 minutes from Lenox, home to the Mount, Edith Wharton’s country estate, and the Tanglewood Music Center. Size: 1,506 square feetPrice per square foot: $365Indoors: The house sits back from the road, at the end of a long driveway. The front door opens into a bright living room with multiple windows and a fireplace with a stone chimney flanked by built-in cabinetry and shelves. This space is open to a dining area in front of a large window with a view of mature trees.

Persons: Edith Wharton’s Organizations: Tanglewood Music Center ., New Locations: Sheffield, York, Connecticut, Great Barrington, Lenox, Tanglewood Music Center . Albany, N.Y, Hartford, Conn, New York City, Boston, cabinetry

☆ Scientists discovered a field of deep-sea hot springs after following a trail of crabs like breadcrumbs on the ocean floor
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Scientists on an expedition near the Galápagos Islands followed a trail of crabs on the ocean floor. The crabs led them to a field of hydrothermal vents, or deep-sea hot springs. AdvertisementClusters of white crabs on the ocean floor helped lead scientists to a new discovery off the Galápagos Islands: a field of hydrothermal vents, or deep-sea hot springs, full of life. Schmidt Ocean InstituteA vent chimney discovered within a previously unknown hydrothermal vent field near the Galápagos Islands. A large cluster of riftia tube worms proved the researchers were unquestionably in a new hydrothermal vent field.

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But the major railroads hauled slightly fewer containers than a year ago and 11% fewer containers than four years earlier. The strong growth in manufacturing activity between the middle of 2020 and middle of 2022 was a rebound following the disruption caused by the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic and associated lockdowns. Since then spending has rotated back towards services and there has been little if any expansion in the manufacturing sector. Chartbook: U.S. manufacturing activityLack of growth is evident in industrial energy consumption. Three-quarters of all distillate fuel oils such as diesel are consumed in freight and manufacturing, according to data from the Energy Information Administration.

Persons: Andrew Kelly, Jobs, John Kemp, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: REUTERS, Federal Reserve, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Energy Information Administration, Thomson, Reuters Locations: IceStone, New York City , New York, U.S, Europe, China, doldrums

(AP) — Police in Norfolk, Nebraska, have identified a man whose body was found inside an apartment building chimney, but they're still not sure about the circumstances that led to his death. The victim was 29-year-old Zachariah Andrews of Norfolk, the Norfolk Daily News reported Wednesday. Michael Bauer said Andrews was identified by scars, marks, tattoos and an identification card found with his body. Police received a call on Sept. 16 from a tenant of the apartment building who said he heard a man yelling for help. Political Cartoons View All 1218 ImagesPolice have said they believe the death was an accident, but an investigation is ongoing.

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☆ Poet and Nobel Laureate Louise Gluck dies at 80
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Louise Glück, the former US Poet Laureate and 2020 Nobel Prize awardee whose deceptively simple poems revealed visceral truths about love, loss and survival, has died at 80. “Louise Glück’s poetry gives voice to our untrusting but unstillable need for knowledge and connection in an often unreliable world. She was often praised as an accessible writer, whose work “makes individual existence universal,” per the Nobel Prize committee that honored her. Though it wasn’t published in itself, lines she wrote in her teens have appeared, “reconstituted slightly,” in her later works, Glück’s Nobel biography also noted. Glück’s poems speak directly to her readers as active participants.

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☆ How a single hard-charging CEO helped the US dollar take over the world
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Henry Farrell | Abraham Newman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Wriston's financial innovations helped create the modern Eurodollar market — a vast offshore realm of financial transactions in US dollars happening outside of US borders. As he explained in 1979, the "current banking network, with its Euromarkets and its automated payments system" seemed dull and technical, but it had immense political consequences. Wriston helped rebuild this clanking machine into an engine of transformation, welding disjointed national markets into a true world economy. It began to develop a new kind of sanction, which used its control of "dollar clearing" to force international banks to implement US policy outside its borders. Instead of the stateless, government-less world that Wriston envisioned, the internationalization of the US dollar became the precedent for a massive transformation of America's financial power.

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☆ In the British Countryside, a Home That Was Once an Ice Cream Factory
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Ellie Pithers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The house in Devon similarly balances crisp forms, simple materials and the occasional more luxurious touch. Their interest piqued, Pinch and Bannon went to see the place, only to be told an offer had already been accepted. But several days later they received a phone call: the farmer felt hopeful the couple would respect his vision and invited them to make a competing offer. One side would incorporate the old barn — thought to date to around 1600 and the erstwhile home of the ice cream factory — and would accommodate two bedrooms. But we like the patina and big knots, which give it such character.”

Persons: Pinch, David Kohn, Bannon, Ada, Floris, ‘, ’ ”, Kohn, ” Locations: Devon, British, South London

☆ $1.1 Million Homes in Kentucky, Texas and Pennsylvania
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Angela Serratore | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It is across the street from Big Spring Park and about five minutes from a public elementary school. The Woodford Reserve Distillery and Wild Turkey Distillery, popular stops on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, are less than 15 minutes away by car. Driving to Lexington, Ky., takes half an hour; Louisville, Ky., is about an hour away. Size: 3,961 square feetPrice per square foot: $278Indoors: A wrought-iron fence separates the front of the property from the sidewalk. The front door opens into a foyer with hardwood floors and a staircase with original woodwork.

Persons: Anne Organizations: Historical Society, Big, Woodford Reserve Distillery, Distillery Locations: Versailles, Ky, Woodford, Kentucky, Lexington, Louisville, Cincinnati, Nashville

☆ Mariana Trench and Challenger Deep: 6 facts about the oceanic chasm
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Jackie Wattles | Amaya Mcdonald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

‘Titanic’ director James Cameron is one of the few people who have visitedFew human expeditions have ventured to the Challenger Deep. Explorer and Texas investor Victor Vescovo said he saw a plastic bag and candy wrappers at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. A trip to the Challenger Deep can put a vessel under pressure that is “equivalent to 50 jumbo jets,” Feldman noted. In 2005, tiny single-celled organisms called foraminifera, a type of plankton, were discovered in the Challenger Deep,” according to NOAA. Given high interest in the Mariana Trench, however, researchers have made several efforts to give increasingly detailed pictures of its features.

Persons: CNN —, Trench, James Cameron, Jacques Piccard, Don Walsh, Gene Feldman, Saeed Khan, ”, Victor Vescovo, Vescovo, Mariana Trench, Mariana, ” Feldman, That’s Organizations: CNN, NASA, Getty, Mariana Trench, Atlantic Productions, Discovery Channel, National Oceanic, Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, Marianas Trench Locations: Everest, Trieste, Sydney, AFP, Texas, Chamorro, Mariana

☆ Analysis: As the nation celebrates Juneteenth, it's time to get rid of these three myths about slavery
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( John Blake | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

It marks the moment in June of 1865 when Union troops arrived in Texas to inform enslaved African Americans that they were free by executive decree. Though it commemorates a moment when enslaved African Americans were freed, the US is still held captive by several myths about slavery and people like Cummins. 1: African Americans were ‘freed’ after the Civil War endedThere is a popular conception that the formerly enslaved were freed after the Civil War ended. It is what historians call a “Slave Bible.” It is a copy of a Bible that was used by British missionaries to convert enslaved African Americans. Kin Cheung/APThe historical record shows that enslaved African Americans revitalized Christianity in other ways, historians say.

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☆ Doug Burgum, Wealthy North Dakota Governor, Enters Presidential Race
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Nick Corasaniti | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

His campaign’s confidence that he can rise from a relative unknown to legitimate candidate derives from his own political career in North Dakota. “There’s a value to being underestimated all the time,” Mr. Burgum told The Fargo Forum. Mr. Burgum grew up in Arthur, N.D., a town of barely 300 where his family owned the only grain elevator. While attending North Dakota State University as an undergraduate, Mr. Burgum began a chimney sweeping service in Fargo out of a friend’s pickup truck. His newfound business attracted the attention of local newspapers, who ran photos of a soot-laden Mr. Burgum clad in a tuxedo hopping from roof to roof, picking up roughly $40 per chimney.

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☆ Amazon's 100 drone deliveries puts Prime Air far behind Alphabet's Wing and Walmart partner Zipline
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Katie Tarasov | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +14 min

Wing CEO Adam Woodworth shows the Alphabet company's delivery drone to CNBC's Katie Tarasov on April 25, 2023, in Hollister, California. Walmart said it made more than 6,000 drone deliveries across seven states in 2022 with DroneUp, Zipline and a third partner, Flytrex. Amazon's VP of Prime Air David Carbon showcased the current MK27-2 drone in Westborough, Massachusetts, on Nov. 10, 2022. Prime Air drones, along with most other delivery drones, operate with a number of federal exemptions that greatly restrict where and how they can fly. Prime Air drones are not expected to exceed 58 decibels, according to an FAA assessment, about the noise level of an outdoor air conditioning unit.

[1/2] A smoke column rises from wildfire WCU001 near Wildwood, Alberta, Canada May 5, 2023. Alberta Wildfire/Handout via REUTERS/File PhotoTORONTO, May 16 (Reuters) - Tinder-dry weather and shifting winds in Alberta on Tuesday elevated the risk of spreading wildfires in the Canadian oil-producing province where thousands have already been forced from their homes. Some 90 wildfires are active in Alberta, with 23 out of control, according to the provincial government. Judy Levesque, 50, stood outside in the central Alberta town of Drayton Valley on the night of May 4 as ash rained down. The change in wind direction can pose a problem for firefighters as the path of the fires changes suddenly, said Christie Tucker, spokesperson for the Alberta Wildfire agency.

☆ Wetzel's Pretzels is launching a new store concept aimed at Gen Z and millennials – take a look inside
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Wetzel's Pretzels is launching a new store concept that will sell innovative takes on the typical pretzel. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyCalifornia pretzel chain Wetzel's Pretzels is launching a new store concept specifically targeting Gen Z and millennials. With Twisted, Wetzel's Pretzels will be steering clear of shopping malls. Wetzel's Pretzels CMO Kim Freer told Insider that the company would instead target college towns and power centers, which are outdoor shopping centers with multiple big-box tenants. Wetzel's PretzelsFreer said that Wetzel's Pretzels planned to open around 40 new stores between now and the end of 2023, with at least three being Twisted stores.

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