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Scott Vleeschouwer moved from Arizona to China to work at an international school.
  • Scott and Marissa Vleeschouwer relocated from Arizona to China to work at an international school.
  • The couple found China offered a lower cost of living and diverse travel opportunities.
  • Despite cultural differences and language barriers, the Vleeschouwers enjoy their life in China.

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Apple iPad Air

In 2008, at the Macworld conference in San Francisco, Steve Jobs pulled the original MacBook Air out of a manila envelope, thus ushering the era of ultra-light, "Air" Apple devices.

And although some MacBook Air variants did put on weight in the following years – there's now a larger, 15-inch variant – the company's Air lineup more or less stayed very light and nimble.

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The Musi app has millions of users — and it works essentially by streaming music from YouTube.
  • Musi is a music-streaming app that has millions of users, especially among teens.
  • It works by streaming music from YouTube, and unlike Spotify, it doesn't make deals with record labels. 
  • But this arrangement is, uhhhh, potentially quite curious.

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Robust Chinese gold buying has sent prices of the precious metal to record highs.
  • China's economy is struggling, leading to a surge in gold purchases as a safe-haven asset.
  • Central banks are on a gold-buying spree, contributing to record-high spot gold prices.
  • Other central banks are also snapping up gold to diversify their assets on the back of a strong greenback.

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Stray Kids became the first full K-pop group to ever attend the Met Gala on Monday, with all eight members present at the annual fundraising fashion event. Unfortunately, the momentous occasion was marred by "disrespectful" and "racist" comments made by photographers covering the red carpet, infuriating K-pop fans all around the world.

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Seasoned finance employees might drop thousands of dollars on one pair of pants while junior employees buy in bulk to save.
  • Summer is approaching, and that means ditching bulky outerwear for new work styles.
  • Business Insider spoke to style experts about what's hot and what's not for the upcoming season.
  • Here's what finance workers should be wearing to work this summer.

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Employees at SpaceX
  • Vincent Peters worked in military compliance when he was poached to work at SpaceX. 
  • He said the work culture was ruthlessly efficient and you could see Musk on the office floor. 
  • However, if you need your hand held, the former employee said to avoid Musk's companies.

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TL;DR: Watch Real Madrid vs. Bayern Munich for free on ServusTV. Access this free streaming platform from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.


The first leg of the semi-final matchup between Real Madrid and Bayern Munich delivered quality in abundance, but nothing was really decided. Both teams tested each other out, but everything will come down to the result in Madrid. It's going to be a real



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Jeff Bezos at the 2024 Met Gala in New York City. I accidentally screwed him out of $130 this week.
  • I wanted to subscribe to The Washington Post, owned by Jeff Bezos, for $12 every 4 weeks.
  • Instead, the Post let me pay $2 instead.
  • I'll take it! But the Post's discount underscores how difficult the subscription business can be.

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Anton Govor.
  • Anton Govor left his corporate finance career to become an Airbnb host on Lake Garda in Italy.
  • His business, GardaDoma, has hosted over 3,000 guests and generates more than $250,000 in revenue.
  • Despite earning less than in his previous role, Govor says he's finally fulfilled by his work.

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
  • Noah Kagan joined Facebook as a product manager in 2005. He says he was fired nine months later.
  • But Kagan says the brief stint taught him a lot about Mark Zuckerberg's management style. 
  • Zuckerberg, Kagan says, only wanted to work with "A players" and believed in hiring and firing fast.

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Elon Musk.
Elon Musk.
  • In 2020, Elon Musk announced that he would no longer own a home.
  • As recently as April 2022, he claimed to be couch surfing.
  • But documents from his custody dispute show that he's owned a relatively modest home in Austin for years.

Elon Musk has been posing as essentially homeless since 2020, when he publicly pledged that he would henceforth "own no house