Right now you can save up to $500 on select items with your Costco Gold Star or Executive membership. Aug. 11, 2022 Costco is an American wholesale store similar to Sam’s Club or BJ’s Wholesale Club. To shop at any Costco store, you need to sign up for an annual membership, which comes in two tiers: the Gold Star membership and the Executive membership. The Gold Star level costs $60 annually and gets you access to every Costco store nationwide, while the Executive level costs $120 per year and not only gets you into every Costco, but also gets you 2 percent cash...
37 Home and Kitchen Items Everyone Should Own
by the TBO Team May 22, 2022 When it comes to my house and my kitchen, I’m always changing it up. I love to mix and match my style, and bring in new pieces that fit my mood. But, there arealways a few items that tend to stay the same. My favorite pair of salad tongs, or the perfect mixing bowls I use for baking are among a few of those staple items. We’ve written about hundred (and hundreds…) of products over the years, and we’ve found that many Amazon shoppers have these staple items, too! From handy knives to wooden spoons with...
37 Beauty Products That Are Just Plain Fun To Use
by the TBO Team June 13, 2022 I’m a big beauty lover, so I’m always on the lookout for the best products. While there are a lot of beautiful products, super-effective products, or just products with a cult following out there, I’m here to talk about the stuff that is just fun. Fun can mean a lot of things. It can range from fun to look at, fun to put on, or fun to take off. It can be everything from quirky packaging to interesting formulas to stuff that is just plain satisfying to use. However you want to interpret “fun,” the thing you’re...
Why it’s taking so long to encrypt Facebook Messenger
Aug 12, 2022, 9:30am EDT After a high-profile incident in which subpoenaed Facebook messages led to felony charges for a 17-year-old girl and her mother in a Nebraska abortion case, Meta said Thursday that it would expand testing of end-to-end encryption in Messenger ahead of a planned global rollout. This week, the company will automatically begin to add end-to-end encryption in Messenger chats for more people. In the coming weeks, it will also increase the number of people who can begin using end-to-end encryption on direct messages in Instagram. Meanwhile, the company has begun to test a feature called “secure storage” that...
Risk of catastrophic ‘megaflood’ has doubled for California ACCORDING TO THE Los Angeles Times
Aug. 12, 2022 11 AM PT Even today, as California struggles with severe drought, global warming has doubled the likelihood that weather conditions will unleash a deluge as devastating as the Great Flood of 1862, according to a UCLA study released Friday. In that inundation 160 years ago, 30 consecutive days of rain triggered monster flooding that roared across much of the state and changed the course of the Los Angeles River, relocating its mouth from Venice to Long Beach. If a similar storm were to happen today, the study says, up to 10 million people would be displaced, major interstate...
Millie Bobby Brown’s Year of Healing
At just 18, Millie Bobby Brown has already learned the power — and the perils — of fame. The Stranger Things and Enola Holmes star wants to use her massive platform to raise up young women and girls. There’s a small plaque outside Wentworth Club that details the posh suburban London establishment’s dress code: No blue jeans. No T-shirts. No cutoffs. It says nothing about pajamas, though, which is exactly what Millie Bobby Brown is wearing when she arrives. The 18-year-old actor, in her pj’s and a well-worn pink cardigan, comes bounding through the club’s imposing entrance with her boyfriend, Jake Bongiovi....
The Rhine is shrinking, endangering Europe’s top economy
Dortmund/London (CNN Business) — Germany’s Rhine river is getting too dry, snarling supply chains and creating more problems for its struggling economy. Water in the river has dropped to “exceptionally low” levels in some areas, disrupting shipping on the country’s most important inland waterway, German officials told CNN on Friday. A lack of rainfall in recent months means that cargo ships are now carrying lighter loads, transport costs are soaring, and economic and power supply risks are worsening. Last month, Germany’s Federal Institute of Hydrology warned that water flows at the Kaub gauge, located to the west of Frankfurt, were already at just 45%...
Sri Lanka’s ex-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa arrives in Thailand
Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa arrives in Bangkok from Singapore, where he was staying since mid-July. Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who last month fled anti-government protests in his country, has arrived in Thailand on a flight from Singapore, where he had been staying since mid-July. The former leader landed on a private jet at Bangkok’s Don Mueang International Airport around 8pm local time (13:00 GMT), a senior Thai official said. He left the airport’s VIP section around 40 minutes later with his wife and got into a black sedan, local media reported. Officials in Thailand on Wednesday said...