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☆ A Pattern of Lavish Spending at a Leading L.G.B.T.Q. Nonprofit
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Emily Steel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A light rain fell at the Zurich airport one Sunday morning in January 2023 as Sarah Kate Ellis made her way from a seat in Delta’s most exclusive cabin to a waiting Mercedes. It was there to chauffeur her to the Swiss Alps, where she and her colleagues would stay at the Tivoli Lodge, a seven-bedroom chalet that cost nearly half a million dollars to rent for the week. Ms. Ellis, who was en route to the World Economic Forum in Davos, doesn’t run a Wall Street bank or a high-flying tech start-up. She is the chief executive of the nonprofit organization GLAAD, one of the country’s leading L.G.B.T.Q. The trip was part of a pattern of lavish spending at GLAAD, much of it by Ms. Ellis, that may have violated the organization’s own policies as well as Internal Revenue Service rules.

Persons: Sarah Kate Ellis, Mercedes, Ellis, doesn’t Organizations: Economic, GLAAD, The New York Times, Revenue Service Locations: Zurich, Delta’s, Swiss, Davos

☆ Britney Spears memoir ‘The Woman in Me’ headed to the big screen
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Elizabeth Wagmeister | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Britney Spears’ story is headed to the big screen. Universal has landed the rights to Spears’ bestselling memoir, “The Woman in Me,” which is being developed as a biopic of the pop star’s life, CNN has confirmed with the studio. Spears’ book was published nearly two years after she was released from her 13-year conservatorship in 2021. Britney Spears’ book “The Woman in Me” at a Barnes & Noble store in New York, 2023. The last major studio film for Spears was “Crossroads” in 2002 – a coming-of-age fan-favorite that starred Spears alongside Zoe Saldana and Taryn Manning.

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☆ Hedge funds are dusting off an old strategy to help reverse a fundraising slump, but it comes with a risk
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In today's big story, hedge funds are dusting off an old strategy that's a unique twist on passive investing . And with the fundraising environment for hedge funds looking bleak , they'll take any help they can get. AdvertisementBut with portable alpha, hedge funds are tying themselves to something they've pledged they are better than. What happens if the hedge fund's portion of the portable alpha strategy is what pulls returns down? With competition from venture capital and private equity, hedge funds can't afford to turn their nose up at anything.

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☆ Designer Aurora James offers a view into her LA cottage
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

“I think I always see potential in things,” she told Architectural Digest for the magazine’s September cover story. James is a visible figure in the fashion world. Reclaimed terracotta tiles make up James' outdoor kitchen. Less zen: the process of getting a 1,000-pound stone sink into her indoor kitchen. “Sometimes you have to just do what’s right for you right now.

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☆ Americans have 4 core beliefs about money—but only one helps you get richer
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Kamaron Mcnair | In Kamaronmcnair | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Understanding how money scripts influence your spending and saving behavior can be the key to unlocking financial wellness. Money scripts are beliefs or attitudes about money that subconsciously affect the way we make financial decisions. But it can be difficult to totally rid yourself of your personal money beliefs. Once you understand what your money scripts are and how they manifest, you can take steps to rescript if necessary. "When the context changes and our [money] beliefs don't change, that's when it becomes dysfunctional," Klontz says.

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☆ Why Ukraine May Not Use New F-16s in Frontline Attacks
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Officials later confirmed to the Associated Press that some F-16s were indeed in Ukraine. AdvertisementThis means Ukraine may not use its F-16s for the frontline offensives it would prefer, according to military experts and Ukraine's top general. Peter Layton, a fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute who served in Australia's air force, said Ukraine would have to be cautious. He said its small number of aircraft and few pilots would mean Ukraine has to prioritize avoiding losses, so it can fly the F-16s as long as possible. Ukraine also faces challenges when it comes to logistics around the F-16s.

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☆ Gen Z is transforming office email etiquette — but it could backfire
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Mikhaila Friel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Related storiesAthwal said that the change in etiquette extends beyond out-of-office emails. He said he noticed the change in Gen Z résumés, regular work emails, and Microsoft Teams messages. Daniel Harris, a director at the recruitment firm Robert Walters, told BI that he, too, noticed Gen Z employees signing off emails with fun and informal taglines. Paola Accettola, CEO of the consultancy True North HR, also said that fun out-of-office emails should usually be reserved for coworkers only. Still, it can present problems if a colleague or client misinterprets what is meant to be a funny out-of-office email or email sign-off," she said.

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☆ We live in Dubai. Here are the 7 common mistakes we see first-time visitors make.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Christian Sylt | Caroline Reid | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

No need to ball out to see the sights — Dubai has amazing free attractionsThe "Imagine" show at Festival City Mall is incredible. AdvertisementOn the outskirts of Dubai, see the world's biggest 360-degree projection show in Expo City for free. It's easy to get tired in the Dubai Mall if you don't book any free ride servicesThe Dubai Mall can take hours to explore. Caroline ReidThe Dubai Mall is one of the biggest in the world, with more than 1,200 stores spread over millions of square feet. It's so big that it even has a full-size ice rink, a Kidzania theme park, an amusement park, and one of the world's biggest aquariums.

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☆ A top turbulence scientist explains how he stays calm on bumpy flights
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Williams's research doesn't bode well for the world's armrest-clutchers. That means more clear-air turbulence — the kind that's not associated with storms or mountains, and can sneak up on pilots. Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)His research group found that, by 2020, severe clear-air turbulence in the North Atlantic had increased 55% over 1979 levels. AdvertisementOther adaptations might balance out the climate-driven turbulence surge, like better forecasting and new lidar technology that could use to lasers to show pilots upcoming clear-air turbulence. If airlines keep innovating, more turbulence in the atmosphere doesn't have to mean more turbulence on your flight.

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☆ 3 phrases the most successful employees never use at work, from CEOs and psychologists
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Sometimes, what separates successful people from everyone else isn't what they say — it's what they don't say. Other sayings, like "keep me in the loop" or "just checking in," can unintentionally come across as passive-aggressive, Slack executive Jaime DeLanghe told CNBC Make It in 2022. In particular, the best employees typically steer clear from these three phrases and sayings, according to CEOs, psychologists and linguistics experts:'It is what it is'There's one phrase bosses and colleagues don't want to hear when they're facing a problem at work: "It is what it is." Using it, however, can appear highly passive to other people and tarnish their trust in you, McWhorter said. That means there's one sentence that can frustrate such CEOs: This is how we've always done it.

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☆ Fed Chair Powell just said the labor market is getting vulnerable. Friday’s jobs report could prove why
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Alicia Wallace | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —The pandemic threw the US job market into chaos, but four years later, things finally seem to be back to normal. Most indicators support the idea that the labor market is no longer overheated and could easily maintain a new normal of steady, but slower growth. “This is a labor market that’s otherwise moderated,” Nick Bunker, director of North American economic research at Indeed, told CNN. Labor force participation/employment to population ratio: These metrics are key reasons why Bunker and others believe the labor market remains in good shape. The same goes for the prime-age labor force participation rate, which at 83.7% also is the highest in 23 years.

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☆ The real Trump is back. It could cost him the White House.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

National polls showed that Trump was in the best position of any Republican presidential hopeful in more than two decades. Related stories"He did crap the bed today," Republican political strategist Scott Jennings said of Trump on CNN last night. And if the old headline wasn't enough, Trump on Thursday morning posted an old photo of Harris showing her "Indian heritage." There's a reason in the closing days of the 2016 campaign, Trump had to tell himself out loud to "stay" on message. AdvertisementDespite his age, many have hoped that Trump would grow and change, only to learn rather quickly that he will not.

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☆ What happened when this US couple moved to Greece in their 70s
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Tamara Hardingham-Gill | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

But Patricia Mahan and Dan Matarazzo, from the US, have opted to do it twice in the past two decades. The retired pair, who’ve been married for 37 years, left the States for Mexico in 2006, before swapping Mexico for Greece last year. “When we first moved to our little stone house, all our neighbors brought over gifts of food and produce,” says Mahan. The couple say they’ve tried to put them own stamp on it while “honoring its traditional style,” adding skylights and repainting the walls. ‘Older culture’The couple often go on hikes together and spend afternoon at the beach either swimming or reading.

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☆ 'Gaining share': Here's what Wall Street expects from Amazon's 2nd-quarter earnings
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Matthew Fox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Wall Street expects the retail giant to report adjusted earnings per share of $1.47 in the quarter and revenue of $148.78 billion, according to data from Bloomberg. Here's what Wall Street expects from Amazon's upcoming second-quarter earnings report. While the US consumer is showing signs of softening, the bank expects Amazon's retail unit to be a beneficiary from the current economic environment. "AWS sales, in constant currency, may meet consensus' high-teens view," Bloomberg Intelligence said. AdvertisementThe analysts also said Amazon's advertising revenue could continue to grow at a "20%-plus pace as Amazon takes market share."

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☆ Amazon has discussed a 'DoctorAI' tool to automate routine healthcare tasks
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewAmazon's One Medical team has discussed building a new large language model called "DoctorAI" to automate routine healthcare tasks, according to an internal planning document obtained by Business Insider. In one section, the One Medical team discusses their most disruptive ideas, and this is where the new AI tool was proposed. Big foundation models are often used as a starting point to develop more focused, specialized AI models and tools. "We do not use our customers' protected health information to train our current health AI models, and to imply we do would be incorrect." It also hoped to handle 87,000 customer service contacts in 2024 through "additional self-service content and the AI healthcare assistant service," the document stated.

Persons: —, Andy Jassy, Rohit Prasad, Sunita Mishra Organizations: Service, Business, Amazon Pharmacy, Olympus, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Amazon Web Services

☆ José Torres Gil makes BMX history for Argentina during ‘best final ever’ at Paris Olympics
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Place de la Concorde, Paris CNN —Triumph and tragedy are everywhere you look at the Olympics, and the men’s BMX park final on Wednesday had a surfeit of both. Martin crashed on both of his runs, his title defense wilting in the Paris heat, while Jeanjean recovered superbly on his second run to take a hard-earned bronze medal. As for the triumph, take José Torres Gil, the Argentinian rider who won his country’s first individual gold medal in a cycling discipline with a stunning initial score of 94.82. Great Britain’s Keiran Reilly took silver after packing trick after trick into his second run, hauling himself above Jeanjean with the final act of the competition. “It’s not easy at all when you’ve been training day-in, day-out for a year and you fall on the first trick, the first run,” Jeanjean said.

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☆ Americans aren't spending like they used to, and it's forcing a reckoning for companies from Starbucks to Whirlpool
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Alex Bitter | Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewShoppers are slowing down spending on everything from burgers to dishwashers, and that's bad news for a growing number of companies. While inflation has since cooled, Americans are still stuck with higher prices for many of the things they buy. Shoppers are slowing down food spending — even at grocery storesThe spending slowdown has hit restaurant chains, which have launched new deals to get customers in the door. Over the past two years, income growth has helped consumer spending beat expectations, Jefferies analyst Corey Tarlowe said in a note on Monday. One bright spot in consumer spending: Cruises, which are seeing record demand.

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☆ I send my kids to stay with family over the summer. I deserve time away from them, and they have fun.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Jane Ridley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. One of the highlights of my summer so far was a short getaway to the Texas hill country with my partner, Tyran. I'm their mom, but I don't have to be part of every memory and every piece of their lives. So, for the last two summers, Saiah has spent seven or eight weeks with his dad in New York City. Related storiesIt's the same with Sevyn; She spent her time away from us with Ty's mom in Orlando.

Persons: —, Tanya Mitra, Saiah, Ty, it's, I'd, Mitra, It's Organizations: Service, Business, Fashion Locations: Texas, New York City, Sevyn, Florida, Georgia, Italy, Paris, Toronto, Brooklyn, Houston, Orlando, Savannah, I'm, American

☆ What to watch at the Olympics today: U.S. men’s gymnasts back in action, while Katie Ledecky goes for gold
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Lauren Merola | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

The U.S. men’s gymnastics team took America for a ride Monday, capturing their first team medal in 16 years with a thrilling finish on the pommel horse. AdvertisementElsewhere, Canada women’s soccer will try to overcome the six-point deduction levied by FIFA for flying a drone over New Zealand’s training sessions. Tatum, a three-time first-team All-NBA star and second-leading scorer on the Tokyo Olympic team that won gold, was the odd player out with Kevin Durant’s return from a calf strain. ET, 2:44 p.m. in Paris (men)TV: USA Network and PeacockWhat to watch: The women’s and men’s cycling BMX freestyle finals take place at La Concorde Urban Park. But they face stiff competition from Tokyo gold medalist Logan Martin (Australia) and Great Britain’s Kieran Reilly, who led in qualifying.

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☆ Cats vs. Dogs? Cats Are Better. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Pamela Paul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

It’s not easy not being a dog person. I once moderated a conversation for The Times between Susan Orlean and Julie Klam, both authors of books about dogs. “Everybody who reads my book is a dog person,” Klam, whom I also profiled for her memoir, “You Had Me at Woof,” said at one point. The very bad date in the story “Cat Person” has, of course, two cats. By contrast, I could see the appeal of dogs if they didn’t need to be trained, didn’t bark, didn’t need to be walked, didn’t shed, didn’t smell, didn’t require washing or grooming.

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☆ A 26-year-old software engineer who splits his time between NYC and SF explains how he makes it work financially — and his 4 takeaways from bicoastal living
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Christine Ji | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

He splits his time between San Francisco and New York City, with a few other pit stops in between. AdvertisementThe bicoastal playbookIn late 2021, Kaushik's San Francisco apartment lease was coming up for renewal. During this time, he received an average of $3,350 a month from renting out his apartment in San Francisco. The same thing is true for San Francisco — Kaushik leaves the West Coast during the summer months where there's a lot of activity going on. But being bicoastal also gives him the option to stay in touch with friends who've moved out of San Francisco.

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☆ I work on the world's largest residential yacht that's like the Four Seasons on steroids. Some guests have lived on it for over 20 years.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Claire Turrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

There are 165 apartments on the ship, and we have an average of 200 residents on board. I was previously the general manager for the Intercontinental in Vienna, and before that, I worked for the Four Seasons. The World superyacht in Madagascar The WorldAs it's not a cruise ship, we don't have a captain's table or welcome drinks. We have had politicians and TV stars on board in the past, but we don't divulge any of the ship's residents. The pool deck for The World residents The WorldI'm a great believer that service should be felt but not seen.

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☆ With a NATO war and Ukraine's knack for shooting down planes in mind, Russia is holding back its airpower and most advanced jets
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Read previewRussia has kept much of its airpower and some of its most advanced aircraft out of the war in Ukraine. But Baum and other air warfare experts have warned Russia's air force should not be underestimated and cautioned that NATO should be ready. AdvertisementRussia's air force is weaker than NATO's airpower, but Russia's war in Ukraine shows it can still cause a lot of damage. Russia's air force has suffered high attrition rates from Ukraine's ground-based air defenses when operating in the country. Related storiesHe said that Russia "has a lot of trouble replacing lost advanced aircraft," only making a few a year.

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