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Crossing paths with dogs, cats and other animals is part of campus life for students at Eckerd College, a liberal arts school in Florida that allows pets to live in dormitories.Sophie Nocera, an Eckerd senior, said she probably knows the names of pets better than her fellow students. “That’s the case for a lot of the students,” said Nocera, who lives on the campus in St. Petersburg with her Border collie, Zuko. “When I’m walking my dog, I often hear, ‘Oh my god, hi, Zuko!’ It’s like I’m not even there.”Some colleges and universities around the country welcome pets in…

5 ChatGPT prompts to launch your $10,000/month business in 30 days getty Generic prompts don’t make you money. They give you generic ideas that everyone else is using. To build a successful business in a short space of time, you need prompts that force you to think differently. Your current thoughts, words and actions have got you here. But to build the business of your wildest dreams, you need to operate at the next level up. ChatGPT can help. Copy, paste and edit the square brackets in ChatGPT, and keep the same chat window open so the context carries through.…

The new diamond on Taylor Swift’s wedding ring finger reflects her vintage-loving heart in a brilliant cut dating to 18th-century candlelight.A close-up of the sparkler Tuesday was among five photos that accompanied Swift’s engagement announcement with beau Travis Kelce on Instagram. The ring was designed by Kindred Lubeck, a representative for the pop star confirmed.The diamond is an old mine brilliant cut, said Tree Paine, Swift’s publicist. She provided no further details.Lubeck, who is based in New York and operates Artifex Fine Jewelry, is the daughter of Jay Lubeck, a well-known goldsmith in Neptune Beach, Florida. Swift showed off her…

5 proven LinkedIn post templates that book discovery calls on repeat getty Sharing regular content won’t cut it anymore. Images of your work setup without an inspiring message, generic rambles that don’t connect, and anything that doesn’t portray you in the best light wastes everyone’s time. Your audience scrolls past without stopping, and your calendar stays empty while people with half your experience book client after client. The best way to book discovery calls is by demonstrating your authority. So do that. Show authority in your posts and prove beyond reasonable doubt that you are the person who can help…

How top entrepreneurs work half your hours and earn twice as muchgetty You check your phone at 11pm. Maybe you squeeze in emails during breakfast or scroll LinkedIn while watching your kids. You work weekends because that’s when it’s quiet. And still, you feel behind. Your to-do list grows faster than you can tackle it. Your business needs you constantly. Every achievement feels empty because there’s always more to do. You’re not broken. You’re misaligned. The truth is, working harder stopped working long ago. The most successful entrepreneurs I know work fewer hours than you. They take real vacations. They…

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. consumers have gotten used to shopping the world without paying customs duties on the international packages they receive from big e-commerce companies like Shein and Temu, specialty shops and businesses that sell goods through online marketplaces like Amazon, Etsy and eBay. That era is about to end. On Friday, the United States plans to eliminate a tariff exemption that allowed imports worth $800 or less to enter the country tax-free. With the sundowning of the “de minimis” exemption, such shipments will incur charges that range from 10% to 50% of their declared value or, for…

LOMA GRANDE, Paraguay (AP) — When it came time to choose a wedding venue, Margarita Gayoso and her partner Christian Ojeda knew exactly where they wanted to go. Despite living in Spain, the couple traveled to their long-missed hometown in Paraguay for a ceremony officiated in their ancestors’ language.“Everyone was crying because everything feels so profound in Guaraní,” Gayoso said. “It’s as if the pronunciation pours out of your soul.”Guaraní is one of Paraguay’s two official languages alongside Spanish. But linguists warn that fluency among younger generations is slipping, so nationwide preservation efforts are underway.Many Paraguayans believe that Guaraní carries…

Want a little autumn in your August? You’re in luck.The seasonal Pumpkin Spice Latte has returned to Starbucks menus in the U.S. and Canada.The Pumpkin Spice Latte is Starbucks’ most popular seasonal beverage, with hundreds of millions sold since the espresso drink’s 2003 launch. It’s also produced a host of imitations. Dunkin’ introduced pumpkin-flavored drinks in 2007; it beat Starbucks to market this year when its fall menu debuted last week. McDonald’s introduced a pumpkin spice latte in 2013.Here’s a look at the Pumpkin Spice Latte by the numbers:— 100: Number of Starbucks stores that sold the Pumpkin Spice Latte…

PORTO RAFTI, Greece (AP) — Bus coupon in hand, Diamantoula Vassiliou headed for the sea, determined to make the most of her brief beach excursion.The Athens resident was among thousands who took a four-hour tour this month to Avlaki Beach, one hour north of Greece’s capital, many hauling plastic coolers and homemade lunches — the accoutrements of summer holidays in leaner times.“We come here because there’s no money,” said Vassiliou, for whom day trips have replaced weeklong vacations for four years. Greece’s tourism industry is booming and the crystalline waters along its vast, rugged coast have transformed the nation into…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A study of how three popular artificial intelligence chatbots respond to queries about suicide found that they generally avoid answering questions that pose the highest risk to the user, such as for specific how-to guidance. But they are inconsistent in their replies to less extreme prompts that could still harm people.The study in the medical journal Psychiatric Services, published Tuesday by the American Psychiatric Association, found a need for “further refinement” in OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude. It came on the same day that the parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine sued OpenAI and its…