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☆ Rent the Runway is giving customers extra clothes for no extra charge and it's actually boosting business
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Avery Hartmans | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Rent the Runway's decision to give customers more clothes for the same price has been a win-win. Plus, free clothes are a relatively affordable way to gain customers, CEO Jennifer Hyman told Bloomberg at the time. Plus, Rent the Runway isn't spending on buying or housing extra inventory to support the extra items, CFO Scarlett Brillet O'Sullivan said during the call. Going head-to-head with fast fashionA Rent the Runway customer carries one of the company's clothing bags in New York City. Hyman said Wednesday that the majority of RTR subscribers pay $144 for its mid-tier membership of two shipments of clothing per month.

[1/5] A Palestinian Christian man Ehab Ayyad offers dates and water to Muslims held up in traffic or getting late for home to break their fast during Ramadan, in Gaza City April 12, 2023. For those unlucky enough to miss breaking the fast altogether as they stand in solid traffic, Ehab Ayyad is a welcome sight. The Christian man from Gaza offers dates and water to Muslims held up in traffic or late home to break their fast, in keeping with the Prophet's tradition. Five years ago, Ayyad began by offering neighbours dates and water, the first thing Muslims normally eat when they end their fast at sunset, and decided to make the offer general. "On our holidays, our Muslim neighbours come to visit and congratulate us, and we do the same on their holidays," Ayyad said.

When we've been awake for a long time, our sleep drive kicks in and tells us we need to sleep. During REM sleep, the cortex – responsible for cognition and emotion-processing – is activated in some regions and deactivated in others. After cycling through non-REM and REM sleep around 4 to 5 times, the basal forebrain and other structures receive signals to start exiting sleep. WHEN SLEEP GOES WRONGIn the U.S. alone, 50 to 70 million people experience some type of chronic sleep disorder, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM). In the United States, a list of board-certified sleep medicine physicians and accredited sleep disorders centers is available from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

☆ Why fighting the urge to sleep may be bad for our health
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +17 min

What happens when we sleep Sleep itself has cycles, in which the brain and body move through phases, marked by varying brain activity. Moving into REM sleep A region in the upper brainstem kickstarts the move into REM sleep. Waking up After cycling through non-REM and REM sleep around 4 to 5 times, the basal forebrain and other structures receive signals to start exiting sleep. Then we transition back to lighter sleep, into REM sleep and back down again, and so on until we wake up. Tips for better sleep Good sleep habits can contribute to better sleep, studies have found.

☆ Asia markets rise in muted session as most markets closed for holiday
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Jihye Lee | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Aerial view of the capital city of Seoul in South Korea, seen at sunset. Stocks in Tokyo and Seoul traded higher on Friday in a muted session as most markets are closed for a holiday in the wider Asia-Pacific region. The Nikkei 225 in Japan rose 0.27% and the Topix gained 0.4%. In South Korea, the Kospi gained 1% and the Kosdaq rose 0.74%Australia, Hong Kong, mainland China, Singapore and India are closed.

☆ Aid shortage leaves refugees in Uganda reliant on kitchen gardens
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Justin Dralaze | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] People who fled fighting in South Sudan are seen walking at sunset on arrival at Bidi Bidi refugee’s resettlement camp near the border with South Sudan, in Yumbe district, northern Uganda December 7, 2016. REUTERS/James AkenaBIDI BIDI, Uganda, April 6 (Reuters) - Watering the neat lines of green salad leaves outside her thatched home, Susan Konga, a South Sudanese woman living in a refugee camp in northern Uganda, is preparing her kitchen garden for the next harvest. Global crises like the war in Ukraine, the earthquake in Turkey and the drought in East Africa, mean there's less food aid for people like Konga. After six years in Uganda, Konga, a single mother, must now rely entirely on the maize, cassava and salad leaves grown in her small vegetable patch. "Donors are having to make very difficult decisions because the needs are enormous globally," said Marcus Prior, country director at WFP Uganda.

☆ It's the U.S., not Europe's banking system that's a concern, top economists say
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Elliot Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

A central theme at the Ambrosetti Forum in Italy on Thursday and Friday was the potential for further instability in financial markets, arising from problems in the banking sector — particularly against a backdrop of tightening financial conditions. The move of 2018 was part of a broad rollback of banking rules put in place in the aftermath of the crisis. Although lauding the progress made in Europe, Papaconstantinou emphasized that it is too early to tell whether there is broader weakness in the banking system. It is not an environment where we can sit back and say, 'okay, this was just two blips, and we can continue as usual'. "We learnt the lessons of the financial crisis, there's been deep restructuring in this decade, and they are in a stronger position than in the past, obviously."

☆ People on Chinese social media say Trump's indictment embarrassed the US and made China look so good, he should just join the Chinese Communist Party
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Weibo users called Trump "Comrade Nation Builder" — a hero who's helping China by hurting the US. "Would you like to join the Party, Comrade Nation Builder?" Screenshot/WeiboMeanwhile, a livestream of a faux news broadcasts announcing Trump's indictment plays heroic themes from Hollywood films, such as music from Star Wars and Indiana Jones. "Nation Builder — if it doesn't work out, then just come home," another posted with a crying emoji. Trump's indictment is linked to the Stormy Daniels hush-money payments case, which is thought to be central to the investigation into the former president.

☆ China tackles chip talent shortage with new courses, higher pay
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Josh Horwitz | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

China faces a shortage of an estimated 200,000 industry workers this year, according to a white paper jointly published by the China Center for Information Industry Development, a government think tank, and the China Semiconductor Industry Association (CSIA), a trade group. A 2022 survey from Chinese research firm ICWise found more than 60% of students studying chip engineering in China graduate with no internship experience in the field. In Taiwan, top chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) (2330.TW) has established research centres at four universities. Its largest chip foundry, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) (0981.HK), in 2021 announced a jointly-established School of Integrated Circuits at Shenzhen Technology University. "If I didn't switch to chip engineering, I would probably have to find a job in a traditional manufacturing industry like cars or machinery," he said.

☆ Lebanon's cabinet reverses decision to delay daylight savings time
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Mohamed AzakirBEIRUT, March 27 (Reuters) - Lebanon's caretaker premier said the cabinet had voted to move clocks one hour ahead on Wednesday night, reversing his decision to postpone the move to daylight savings time by a month that had sparked uproar across the country. Mikati angered many Lebanese when he decided last Thursday not to start daylight savings time over the last weekend of March but instead to roll clocks forward an hour on April 20. Moving clocks forward means Muslims would have to fast an additional hour as sunset would be at a later time on the clock. But the move was defied by Lebanon's top Christian authority as well as some schools, media outlets and businesses, which rolled their clocks forward on Saturday night. Mikati even faced objections from within cabinet, including the justice minister who said Lebanon had more important challenges to focus on.

☆ Lebanon wakes up in two simultaneous time zones as government can't agree on daylight saving change
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Natasha Turak | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

On Sunday, the Mediterranean country of roughly 6 million was scheduled to turn its clocks back an hour for daylight saving, as it does every year along with much of the wider region and Europe. Daylight saving would mean that sunset falls around 7 p.m. rather than 6 p.m., making practicing Muslims go an additional hour before they can break their fast and eat and drink again. For the first time ever, millions of people in one small country are suddenly going by two different time zones. Importantly, however, people's clocks did not change automatically; the government expects people to change their own clocks manually. Even Apple and Google can't seem to agree on what time it is in Lebanon — on iPhones and iPads, Apple has Lebanon's time zone as unchanged and not aligned with daylight saving.

☆ Lebanon wakes up in two simultaneous times zones as government can't agree on daylight savings change
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Natasha Turak | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

On Sunday, the Mediterranean country of roughly 6 million was scheduled to turn its clocks back an hour for daylight savings, as it does every year along with much of the wider region and Europe. Daylight savings would mean that sunset falls around 7 p.m. rather than 6 p.m., making practicing Muslims go an additional hour before they can break their fast and eat and drink again. For the first time ever, millions of people in one small country are suddenly going by two different time zones. Importantly, however, people's clocks did not change automatically; the government expects people to change their own clocks manually. Even Apple and Google can't seem to agree on what time it is in Lebanon — on iPhones and iPads, Apple has Lebanon's time zone as unchanged and not aligned with daylight savings.

☆ AOC criticizes Elon Musk for plans to remove Twitter's legacy blue checkmarks on April Fool's day
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized Twitter's plans to scrap legacy blue checkmarks. Elon Musk's company announced it was revoking legacy verified checkmarks from April 1. Twitter announced on Thursday it plans to soon sunset a legacy verified feature that gave users blue checkmarks next to their name. The company said users can sign up to its Twitter Blue subscription program that costs $8 a month to keep their checkmarks. Both accounts paid for Twitter's verification feature, which gave them the blue tick, making them look like Eli Lilly's official account.

☆ I started my Turo side hustle in 2021 with one car. Last year, I earned $76,620 in passive income from 7 cars.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

In 2021, she started a side hustle on the car-rental app hoping to earn passive income. Last year, she earned $76,620 in passive income from her fleet of seven cars. Much of her earnings are passive income because renting out her cars does not require significant ongoing time commitments. It is a really good way for me to live out my love for cars while also making additional income. It probably took me about 30 days after I started on Turo when I started to slowly acquire more cars.

☆ I moved to a small town in Washington state to work remotely. My mortgage is half as much as my rent was and I see myself living here forever.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

After he moved with his wife, Yelp went fully remote. My commute to the Yelp office downtown would take me around 45 minutes each way. We lived in the Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco in a 500-square-foot apartment with a roommate and our pretty large dog. Our rent in San Francisco was twice what our mortgage payments are now. But knowing that the company was fully remote has unlocked a lot of opportunities for our family.

☆ Russia's former president suggested firing a hypersonic missile at The Hague after Putin's ICC arrest warrant: 'Look carefully into the sky'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-20 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Dmitry Medvedev suggested striking The Hague with a hypersonic missile in a furious post on Monday. It came after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russia's Vladimir Putin. On Friday, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin relating to the "unlawful deportation" of children from occupied areas of Ukraine. Medvedev also claimed that the arrest warrant for Putin heralds the collapse of international law, calling it "a grim sunset of the whole system of international relations." While the US' own relationship with the ICC has been fraught, on Friday President Joe Biden said the arrest warrant for Putin was justified.

Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus, and Mars are set to align in an arc formation on the nights of March 25 through 30, alongside the moon. If you want to spot all five planets in one night, timing, dark skies, and a clear view of the horizon are key. You'll need to peer low on the horizon to spot Jupiter and Mercury. An easy way to identify the planets is to download an astronomy app like Sky Tonight or SkySafari, which will show you exactly where each planet is in the night sky. NASANow it's time to admire Venus — the brightest "star" in the sky, poised above Jupiter — and look for Uranus with your binoculars.

☆ Elon Musk predicts Trump will win a 'landslide victory' if he is arrested in New York
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-18 | by ( Taylor Ardrey | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk said that Trump would be "re-elected" if he's charged in a hush-money case. His comments follow Trump 'Truth' that he's getting arrested on Tuesday. Prosecutors have yet to speak with Trump's team about his potential arrest. "If this happens, Trump will be re-elected in a landslide victory," Musk tweeted Saturday. Just last year, Musk said that Trump should not be president again, adding that he should "hang up his hat & sail into the sunset."

☆ Japan's big firms offer largest pay rises in decades
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Tetsushi Kajimoto | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The Rengo umbrella labour group has called for a 5% pay increase. The JERC survey showed that excluding seniority-based pay, base compensation that boosts fixed labour costs accounts for just 1.08%. "We need to focus on base pay. Workers from Japan's largest group of trade unions last week struck early agreements for hefty wage hikes. Unions have historically tended to settle for relatively meagre pay hikes around 2% in recent years, as unions are inclined to cooperate with management in keeping job security rather than aggressively demanding pay rises.

☆ Japan's big firms set to offer biggest pay rises in decades
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Tetsushi Kajimoto | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Given that consumer inflation, at 4.1%, outpace wage hikes, pay rises of 3% or more need to continue in the coming years to sustain price stability at 2%, said Hisashi Yamada, senior economist at Japan Research Institute. "Average wage hikes that are consistent with the central bank's 2% price target are 3% which can be met this year albeit temporarily," Yamada said. Kishida's government will likely hold a joint three-party meeting with labour and management for the first time in eight years on Wednesday to ensure structural wage hikes. Workers from Japan's largest group of trade unions last week struck early agreements for hefty wage hikes. 1 automaker, and Honda, have also secured their biggest pay rises in decades.

☆ Indonesia's Bali wants to tighten visa requirements for Russian tourists
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/3] Tourists enjoy the sunset at Canggu beach amidst the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Bali, Indonesia, December 2, 2021. REUTERS/Johannes P. ChristoJAKARTA, March 13 (Reuters) - Authorities in Indonesia's popular holiday island of Bali have asked the central immigration agency to cancel a visa-on-arrival policy for Russian and Ukrainian nationals after tourists were found working illegally. Russian nationals are among the biggest groups of foreign arrivals in Indonesia, according to official tourism data. At least four Russian citizens were deported this month for visa violations and immigration authorities have repeatedly warned foreigners in Bali against working on tourist visas. About 8,800 Ukrainian visitors arrived between September 2022 and January 2023.

☆ Biden’s Budget Shows the Rising Cost of Leaving Medicare and Social Security Untouched
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( Greg Ip | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

President Biden’s proposed budget assumes no cuts in benefits for the oldest Americans—and as a result their costs would continue to escalate. When President Biden accused some Republicans during his State of the Union address last month of wanting to sunset the country’s two big elderly entitlement programs, GOP legislators booed. Mr. Biden responded: “Social Security and Medicare is off the books now, right? We’ve got unanimity.”The price of that unanimity becomes starkly clear in Mr. Biden’s budget, released Thursday. As promised, it doesn’t cut either program’s benefits.

☆ A look inside a $22.5 million Miami condo with insane luxury amenities
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Ray Parisi | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

Turnberry Ocean Club ResidencesInside the Sky Club's fitness center where the treadmills come with impressive views. Turnberry Ocean Club ResidencesOutdoor sunset lounge Turnberry Ocean Club ResidencesAlso up on 32nd floor is a so-called dog retreat where lucky pooches can take in the ocean views and relieve themselves. Turnberry Ocean Club Residences / Leo DiazThe kitchen includes three islands and comes equipped with custom Italian-made cabinetry and high-end German appliances. A rendering of one of the Turnberry Ocean Club Residences' beach front cabanas. Turnberry Ocean Club Residences

☆ Inside a $22.5 million condo with over 70,000 sq ft of over-the-top amenities
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Ray Parisi | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

This $22.5 million condo in Miami spans 6,200 sq ft with four bedrooms, five and a half baths, but perhaps more impressive than what comes inside those four walls is the mind-blowing list of over-the-top amenities that comes with it. The luxury condo is situated on the 48th floor of the Turnberry Ocean Club Residences in Sunny Isles Beach where the list of amenities span over 70,000 sq ft from sunrise and sunset swimming pools to a $1.2 million beachfront cabana. CNBC's Ray Parisi and real estate broker Senada Adzem of Douglas Elliman take you inside for an exclusive tour.

☆ President Biden’s proposed 2024 budget calls for top 39.6% tax rate
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Kate Dore | Cfp | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The plan calls for a top marginal income tax rate of 39.6%, up from 37%, which was reduced as part of former President Donald Trump's signature tax legislation. Biden's plan aims to reform the tax code to "reward work, not wealth," White House Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young told reporters on a call. The plan includes a 25% minimum tax on Americans with wealth exceeding $100 million, and would "ensure that no billionaire pays a lower tax rate than a teacher or firefighter," Young said. watch nowBiden's 2023 federal budget plan proposed a 20% levy on households with the same level of wealth, applying to "total income," including regular earnings and so-called unrealized gains. Without additional changes by Congress, several provisions from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will sunset in 2026, bumping the top income tax rate back to 39.6%.

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