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☆ The corporate landlords buying up America's houses are hiring high-profile PR execs and lobbying Washington regulators to convince opponents they're not the bad guys
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-28 | by ( James Rodriguez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Corporate owners of single-family homes face mounting criticism as their presence grows. Organizers from the Center for Public Democracy stood atop the stage at the Park Hyatt hotel in Washington, DC, where they interrupted a conference for owners of single-family rental homes. Institutional owners of single-family homes have typically preferred to operate quietly. In the decade-plus since the financial crisis, institutional investors have poured billions of dollars into acquiring and developing single-family homes for rent. It's for that reason that Howard is concerned about homeowners associations barring investors from buying homes in certain neighborhoods.

☆ The many faces of Scooter Braun
▼ + stars: | 2022-03-01 | by ( Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +44 min

The former Yeezy associate said that West had offered Braun large percentages of Yeezy several times, which Braun always declined.) Singer told Insider that Braun "did not even see the final cut until the day before it came out." In 2012, Braun told The New Yorker that Geffen's advice to him was "Get out of the music business." Singer told Insider that Braun had only seen Jayne "once in his life, at a political event they both attended. And I couldn't fix it and I'm a fixer, and because I couldn't fix things I started to spiral," Braun told Shetty.

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☆ EXCLUSIVE: The teacher who wrestled a gunman at Marjorie Taylor Greene's high school says Greene is 'an idiot' for wanting firearms in classrooms
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-14 | by ( Robin Bravender | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Marjorie Taylor Greene has promoted conspiracy theories about school shootings. She defends her stance by referring to a 1990 hostage situation at her own high school. "She called me last summer before she started to campaign and was talking about the hostage situation," Tallant said. Greene called "gun-free" schools a "failure" in a January 19 tweet. In her 2020 call with Tallant, Greene "was trying to say that we should have all had guns," Tallant told CNHI.

☆ (video) „Bad Guy”, în interpretarea artistei Billie Eilish, a atins pragul de un miliard de vizualizări pe YouTube
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-12 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +1 min

Piesa Bad Guy, a cântăreței americane Billie Eilish, care s-a aflat în fruntea clasamentelor muzicale detronând anul trecut Old Town Road, a rapperului Lil Nas X, în Billboard Hot 100, a depășit un miliard de vizualizări pe YouTube miercuri dimineață, transmite AGERPRESBad Guy a devenit astfel cea mai recentă intrare în clubul pieselor cu un miliard de vizualizări, atingând acest prag la doar un an și jumătate de la lansare. Bad Guy este prima melodie interpretată de cântăreața americană care se adaugă prestigioasei liste de videoclipuri, în timp ce o alta piesă de-a lui Billie Eilish, interpretată alături de Khalid, are aproape 900 de milioane de vizualizări. De asemenea, melodia Despacito, interpretată de Luis Fonsi şi Daddy Yankee, lansată în 2017, conduce fără drept de apel în topul pieselor cu cele mai multe vizualizări pe YouTube. Cu peste șapte miliarde de accesări, Despacito are un avans important în fruntea listei. Chiar și remixul audio al melodiei, fără videoclip, are peste 650 de milioane de accesări.

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☆ Un documentar despre viaţa lui Billie Eilish va fi lansat în februarie 2021
▼ + stars: | 2020-09-29 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Interpreta hiturilor precum „Bad Guy'' şi '„everything I wanted'' a anunţat că filmul documentar despre viaţa sa va fi difuzat pe Apple TV+ şi în cinematografe. Cântăreaţa în vârstă de 18 ani a recunoscut anterior că este „îngrozită şi speriată'' de difuzarea documentarului ei. Billie a oferit câteva informaţii despre viaţa sa privată când a spus că a existat o perioadă din adolescenţa sa când a plâns ''în fiecare zi''. Iar la 17, 18 ani nu am plâns mai deloc. Potrivit Billboard, „Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry'' este regizat de cineastul R.J. Cutler (''Belushi'', ''The September Issue'').

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☆ Stanford psychology expert: This is the No. 1 skill parents need to teach their kids—but most don't
▼ + stars: | 2019-09-10 | by ( Nir Eyal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Becoming indistractable is the most important skill for the 21st century — and it's one that many parents fail to teach their kids. Two episodes of a kid-appropriate program on Netflix is about 45 minutes, I explained. As far as I was concerned, 45 minutes was fine with me, as it left plenty of time for other activities. Becoming indistractable is the most important skill for the 21st century — and it's one that many parents fail to teach their kids. "How do you plan to make sure you don't watch for more than 45 minutes per day?"

☆ Aid workers in ISIS bull's-eye: 'If not us, then who?'
▼ + stars: | 2015-03-14 | by ( Katie Walmsley | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Story highlights Numerous aid workers remain in Syria despite dangers With a lack of government, more than 8 million refugees rely on aid agencies for food, shelter and medical care Many aid agencies have no means of armed defense against attackNew York CNN —Kayla Mueller, Peter Kassig, Alan Henning, David Haines – just a few of the aid workers who have been abducted and killed by ISIS in the past year. The exact number of aid workers currently being held is unknown; a level of secrecy tends to surround details of those currently captive. Abductions and killings of aid workers are, unfortunately, nothing new, but the numbers are. According to Aidworkersecurity.org, at least 155 aid workers were killed in 2013, a 121% increase on 70 recorded killings the year before. ISIS doesn’t just target aid workers.

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