• Business

    How to Start an Esthetician Business

    May 1, 2025 - By 

    Key Takeaways Understand Licensing Requirements: Familiarize yourself with the necessary certifications and licensing requirements in your state to operate legally and establish credibility in your esthetician business. Create a Comprehensive Business Plan: Outline your vision, services, target audience, and financial strategy to guide your entrepreneurial journey successfully. Define Your Niche: Identify specific services and unique offerings that differentiate your brand from competitors, catering to your target market’s needs. Plan Your Workspace and Equipment: Choose a strategic location for your business and invest in high-quality equipment and supplies essential for delivering excellent esthetic services. Leverage Digital Marketing: Establish a strong online…

  • Business

    NFL Fines Atlanta Falcons For Prank Call To Shedeur Sanders

    May 1, 2025 - By 

    by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton April 30, 2025 The NFL team was fined $250,000, and their defensive coordinator, Jeff Ulbrich, was fined $100,000 for the act performed by Jeff Ulbrich’s son, Jax The National Football League has fined the Atlanta Falcons and the team’s defensive coordinator after the coach’s son made a prank call to Cleveland Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders during the recent NFL Draft. The NFL team was fined $250,000, and their defensive coordinator, Jeff Ulbrich, was fined $100,000 for “failing to prevent the disclosure of confidential information distributed to the club in advance of the 2025 NFL Draft.” The…

  • Finance

    5 Ways To Deal With A Parent That Takes Out A Loan In Your Name Without Calling The Police

    May 1, 2025 - By 

    Image by Vitaly Taranov Having a parent take out a loan in your name without your consent can be a deeply distressing experience. The betrayal of trust, potential damage to your credit, and legal complications that can arise are understandably overwhelming. While you may feel tempted to take drastic actions, such as calling the police, there are other ways to address the situation and regain control of your financial well-being without escalating the matter unnecessarily. If you find yourself in this difficult situation, here are five ways to deal with a parent who has taken out a loan in your…

  • Health

    Level up Your Security Stack with Splunk on Cisco

    May 1, 2025 - By 

    Are you a Cisco Security customer seeking deeper, more centralized insights into your security posture? The Enhancing Cisco Security Solutions with Data Analytics (ECSS) Learning Path in Cisco U. is designed to help you do just that. This comprehensive Learning Path focuses on the powerful integration of Cisco Security products with Splunk, offering a streamlined approach to data analysis and a unified view of your security landscape. Too many dashboards, not enough insight Cisco products offer fantastic options for meeting all your security data needs, but without Splunk, you may need to use multiple dashboards or manually correlate data from…

  • Business

    ChatGPT Is Fixing Its ‘Annoying’ New Personality

    May 1, 2025 - By 

    ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is aware of the chatbot’s “annoying” new personality. On April 25, CEO Sam Altman posted on X that GPT-4o was updated to improve “intelligence and personality.” Related: AI Is Already Writing About 30% of Code at Microsoft and Google. Here’s What It Means for Software Engineers. That last bit hasn’t been very popular. After days of complaints on social media about the chatbot’s “toxic positivity,” Altman wrote on April 27 that the “last couple” of updates to GPT-4o have “made the personality too sycophant-y and annoying.” Now, the company is rolling back the updates and making “additional fixes…

  • Sports

    Shrinking US economy? Trump’s cabinet shrugs it off

    May 1, 2025 - By 

    US President Donald Trump, flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio (left) and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (right), speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 30, 2025. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) WASHINGTON, United States — Contraction? What contraction? As far as US President Donald Trump and his cabinet were concerned on Wednesday all was well with the economy — and with everything else too. News that the US economy unexpectedly shrank amid the chaos of Trump’s tariffs did not stop his top team from heaping praise on…

  • Health

    Ohio tattoo shop helps trauma and abuse survivors transform scars into art : NPR

    May 1, 2025 - By 

    A tattoo shop in Ohio helps trauma and abuse survivors reclaim their bodies by transforming scars into beautiful tattooed art STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Scars are part of life. Many people have them, and they can be a reminder of whatever you did to get the scar. So a tattoo shop in Amherst, Ohio, uses body art that works with those marks from the past. Ideastream Public Media’s J. Nungesser reports. And we should advise you there are references to self-harm and suicide here. (SOUNDBITE OF TATTOO MACHINE BUZZING) ANGELIQUE AGNEW: We’re looking at quite a bit of scar tissue to…

  • Sports

    1 WNBA rookie quit her job to tell them she’d be pursuing basketball, and more training camp stories

    May 1, 2025 - By 

    It’s a quick transition for WNBA rookies. One day, you’re playing in the NCAA tournament with your college team, and a week or two later, you’re drafted and officially a professional basketball player. A week after that, you’re in training camp for your rookie WNBA season. In just a month’s time, you’ve finished college, started your career, and your life has done a complete 180-degree turn. Due to that, it’s completely reasonable for a rookie to be taking it all in at training camp. They have been thrown into a completely new system with new coaches and new teammates, now…