• Krispy Kreme is selling a dozen doughnuts for just $1 on Friday, July 27. 
• If you buy a dozen doughnuts, you can get a second dozen Original Glazed doughnuts for $1 as part of Krispy Kreme's 81st birthday celebration. 
• Krispy Kreme is also releasing a new flavor, called the Glazed Confetti doughnut, which will be served for just one week starting on Friday. 

Krispy Kreme is selling a dozen doughnuts for just a dollar this Friday. 

On Friday, July 27, Krispy Kreme is debuting a deal in which customers who buy a dozen doughnuts can purchase a second dozen Original Glazed doughnuts for just $1. The offer will only be in effect for one day, in celebration of Krispy Kreme's 81st birthday. 

In addition to the dollar doughnuts, Krispy Kreme is also releasing a new limited-time flavor to celebrate.

On Friday, the chain is launching the Glazed Confetti doughnut. The treat features a vanilla birthday cake-flavored doughnut, with Krispy Kreme's classic glaze and topped with sprinkles. 

The Glazed Confetti doughnut will only be available for a week — from Friday, July 27 to Thursday, August 2 — or as supplies last. 

"One of our favorite times during the year is when we get to celebrate our birthday with our fans,"  Mike Tattersfield, Krispy Kreme's CEO, said in a statement. "In addition to offering a delicious dollar deal on an extra dozen of our Original Glazed Doughnuts, we've 'birthday-ed' up our awesome Original Glazed Doughnut, creating a whole new experience."

Last week, Krispy Kreme made headlines with the announcement it would acquire a majority stake in cookie delivery brand Insomnia Cookies. Insomnia Cookies was founded in 2003 by Seth Berkowitz, and since grown into a chain with 135 US locations. 

JAB Holding acquired Krispy Kreme for roughly $1.35 billion in 2016. Since then, JAB has acquired brands including Panera, Au Bon Pain, and Pret A Manger.

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• Skytrax released its annual ranking for airlines with the best first-class experience.
• Top ranking airlines in 2018 include Singapore Airlines, Etihad Airways, and Air France.
  

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Flying first class is the ultimate indulgence when it comes to air travel. Just stepping on a plane and taking a peek through the curtains at those elite seats is an experience in both envy and admiration. But there is also something fun and exciting about fawning over first class. After all, it's pretty impressive the way airlines design that exclusive section, trying to one-up each other in customer satisfaction and luxury. 

Skytrax, the United Kingdom-based consumer aviation agency, recently released its annual "Best Airlines in the World" ranking for 2018. The survey, which began in 1999, is an annual customer relations satisfaction survey that is among the most professional and prestigious. It has gone from attracting the entries of 2.2 million airline customers in 2000, to receiving more than 20 million entries in 2018. 

It's no surprise that Skytrax, which prides itself on an exhaustive appraisal of the airline industry, would also evaluate which first-class cabin sits supreme in their 2018 rankings.

This year, 335 airlines were included in the survey and more than 20 million respondents were counted in the final results, which measured multiple parameters like service attentiveness, staff language skills, and meal service efficiency. 

For 2018, the World's Best First Class was also voted the World's Best Airline, as Singapore Airlines took home both awards. Singapore Airlines has distinguished itself recently by focusing on customer service and investing in a newer, more modern fleet of aircraft. It made headlines last month when it announced plans to re-launch the world's longest flight, a trip from Newark, New Jersey to Singapore later this year. 

Below are the top 10 first-class cabins ranked by customers in 2018.

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10. Thai Airways

Why They Made The List: Thai Airways "Royal First Class" cabin is designed with comfort in mind. Featured on AirBus A380s and newly renovated Boeing  747s, Royal First Class includes chilled champagne, 23-inch wide seats, flat screen TVs, 500 music CDs, and 180-degree lie-flat beds.  

9. Qantas Airways

Why They Made The List: As the flag carrier for Australia, Qantas Airlines is an elite operation.  A sheepskin mattress, armrest controls, and 17-inch screen await the lucky passenger, while an airline attendant is ready to serve signature dishes from a tasting menu designed by Neil Perry. Qantas' award-winning "Cellar in the Sky" wine selection is a nice indulgence as well. 

8. Cathay Pacific Airways

Why They Made The List: Cathay Pacific Airways, the flag carrier of Hong Kong, showcases a first class that is all about premium service. The leather seats offer comfortable manually controlled massages and the 500-thread-count duvet keeps one warm when the beds lie flat. Steaming jasmine rice can be served directly at your seat while enjoying entertainment on a 17-inch personal TV screen. 

• Feeling the heat this summer?
• Alton Lane tailors CEO and co-founder Colin Hunter has some advice for you.
• Always get your suits "half-lined," Hunter says, they'll keep you much cooler.
• Scroll down to see the difference between full-lined and half-lined blazers.
• If you can afford it, a navy linen blazer is a versatile addition to any wardrobe.

There's almost nothing worse than putting on a full suit when the sun is blazing and temperatures are soaring.

Fortunately, there are some things you can do to maximize your suit-wearing comfort in the summer months.

Colin Hunter, CEO and cofounder of Alton Lane tailors, says there's one thing you should always look out for when searching for a suit that's weather appropriate all year round.

"If you are truly on a budget and you can only get one suit, get it made half-lined," Hunter says.

"A half-lined jacket will still have the normal structure of a traditional suit or blazer... but it will actually keep you so much more comfortable in the summer."

The difference between full and half-lined blazers is, unsurprisingly, in the lining.

A regular, full-lined blazer has an extra layer of fabric, which runs from the neck line all the way to the hemline to cover up all the rough stitching and details on the inside.

A half-lined blazer has all that rough stitching on show and, as a result, allows air to move much more freely between the fabric.

Half-lined blazer (L) versus full-lined blazer (R):

From the outside, no one will be able to tell the difference between a half-lined and a full-lined blazer, but the former will keep you much cooler.

That's not to say that half-lined suits aren't appropriate for winter, though, in the words of Hunter, "that's what overcoats are for."

Once your wardrobe is sufficiently stocked with at least one or two core suits that you can wear year-round, Hunter says guys should go straight for a navy linen suit.

"A navy linen suit gives you all the versatility of a navy suit and it's appropriate to wear in spring, summer and even early fall," he says.

"I love being able to throw on a linen blazer in the summer — perfectly acceptable to wear to work. It's also the perfect outfit to wear to a summer wedding or cocktail parties."

Though linen is a relatively expensive material because of the labour incurred in making it, it'll likely last you a while.

Despite having a lower thread count, linen is about 30% stronger than cotton, according to FashionBeans. It will also get better over time — while cotton fabrics will depreciate with each wash, linen gets softer and shinier as time goes on.

So, if you're feeling the heat this summer you have two options:

1. Make sure your blazer is half-lined, whatever the material.
2. If you can afford it, a linen blazer — preferably in navy — is a versatile addition to any wardrobe.

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We got an inside look at what it's like on the first day for new cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Over 1,200 cadet candidates arrived on campus on a sweltering July morning for "Reception Day." After an emotional farewell with their families, the new cadets took the first steps of a rigorous six-weeks-long basic training regimen. Following is a transcript of the video.

Narrator: On a scorching Monday in July, over 1,200 cadet candidates arrived at the US Military Academy for reception day. Also known as R-Day, it marks the beginning of their time at West Point.

Col. Deborah J. McDonald: All day long, the new cadets will do a transformation from their civilian status and at the end of the day, take their oath to serve our nation in the Army.

Graham Flanagan: Why did you decide to come to West Point?

Cadet Candidate: Both my brothers went here and it's a great school and I wanted to join the Army afterward so there's no better school to do that.

Cadet Candidate: All my uncles, they served in the Army and they're telling me that, all about this school and how great it is and all the leaders that came from it so I just wanted to follow in their footsteps.

{The Academy was established in 1802.}

McDonald: West Point is located about 50 miles north of New York City. It's in the Hudson Highlands. It's called West Point because it's located on the western point of the Hudson River where it bends. George Washington recognized this as a strategic point of interest because the British had to tack as they came through the Hudson River. It's the longest continuously garrisoned military installation in the United States.

Narrator: After a short orientation, the cadet candidates have 60 seconds to say goodbye to their families. For the next six weeks, contact with family members, if any, is extremely limited. Once they leave Eisenhower Hall, the cadet candidates are now called new cadets.

McDonald: In 2018 to be accepted at West Point, you must be a United States citizen in good physical condition, pass a medical exam to be able to be commissioned in the Army, and have a high academic achievement.

Narrator: Tuition at West Point is free, but the cadets commit to years of service after graduation.

McDonald: After their four years at West Point they've committed to five years active duty in the Army with three years in the reserve component.

Narrator: The new cadets are issued physical training, or PT uniforms, along with a bag that holds everything they're allowed to carry for the next six weeks. Their next stop, the barber shop. Only the male new cadets are required to cut their hair. The female new cadets get to keep their locks.

Gen. Mark A. Milley: Hi, how are you? Thinking about West Point?

Narrator: West Point started admitting women in 1976. Today more than 20% of the cadets are female.

McDonald: Over 24% of the class of 2022 are women. So we've seen a huge surge not only in the interest in women applicants, but also the retention of women cadets.

Narrator: The new cadets are assigned to companies where they learn the basics of taking orders and marching in formation.

McDonald: We have upperclassmen from the junior and senior classes that are here leading the new cadets. So, this is a leadership laboratory, not only for our new cadets but also for our upper class as they work on their leadership skills.

Narrator: Everything the new cadets learn on R-Day culminates in the Oath Ceremony. Family members gather for one last look at the class of 2022 before basic training begins.

McDonald: One of the most common traits that I see of West Point applicants is they want to be part of a team that's bigger than themselves.

Narrator: Those who complete the rigorous six weeks of basic training will be formally accepted into the corps of cadets.

Cadet candidate: It's gonna be a long six weeks, I can tell you that. I'll get through just take it day by day but I know it's gonna be long, it's gonna be hard, but I'm prepared for it.

Cadet candidate: I feel like it's gonna suck but in the end it's all worth it.

Cadet candidate: All of us know what to expect really, we just go in there you know, get yelled at a little bit, get on the bus, get yelled at some more.

Cadet candidate: I think it's gonna be fun you know, everybody always talks about it's gonna be a miserable time but I think if you embrace the suck, it's gonna be, it's gonna be okay, you're gonna get through it.

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• Dating apps probably won't help you find a serious relationship, said Miami-based matchmaker Claudia Duran.
• Duran said dating apps make you think there are infinite fish in the sea (there aren't) and give you an irresistible ego boost when you find out someone likes you.
• Other relationship experts say dating apps are helpful precisely because they show you how many options are out there.

Talk to two people — even two relationship experts — about the function of dating apps and you can easily get two very different opinions.

Claudia Duran is in the sometimes-helpful-but-mostly-making-things-worse camp: She uses the term "swipe vulture culture" to describe people's behavior on these services.

Duran is a Miami-based matchmaker at dating service Elite Connections, where she charges $15,000 for a six-month membership. When I spoke with her by phone in July, she said "this digital saturation" has led more and more clients to her door, looking for something more effective and less frustrating.

The main problem with dating apps is the "illusion of overabundance of fish in the sea," Duran said, "when really there isn't an overabundance. To find someone special is so very rare."

Another, related issue Duran has observed is that "it's very easy to fall into the trap of swiping and likes. It's that instant gratification."

Duran went on: "People start to become reliant on that sort of high and instant 'Wow! They like me!'" It doesn't take long, she said, before "it really becomes an ego-feeding thing, rather than going out there, sitting with someone, and really just starting to get honest and vulnerable."

Duran's perspective differs somewhat from that of another relationship expert I've interviewed, Eli Finkel, who is a psychologist at Northwestern University, a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, and the author of "The All-Or-Nothing Marriage."

When I spoke with Finkel last September, he said the best thing about online dating is that it widens your pool of prospective mates — i.e. shows you that there are plenty of fish in the sea. Apps like Tinder, he has said, are the best way to go, precisely because you get tons of options.

Meanwhile, Jess Carbino, Bumble's in-house sociologist (she used to work at Tinder) previously told me that you shouldn't be spending hours every day swiping through profiles without actually communicating with anyone.

Instead, Carbino recommend spending 30 minutes a day and then using the rest of your time to actually go on dates with people you've matched with.

Duran isn't against dating apps per se — but she doesn't think they're conducive to finding a long-term relationship. "It's fine to use the services if you're having fun and looking for adventure," she said. For "extending your network, hookups — this kind of thing is a very good tool."

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• Wegmans store employees know all about the popular regional grocery chain.
• The company operates stores in six states, and employs 48,000 people.
• Here are some insider facts, tips, and hacks that Wegmans employees have shared online and with Business Insider.

Wegmans stores have acquired a bit of a cult-like following.

It's easy to see why. The company, which is headquartered in Rochester, New York, has been labeled the "best grocery chain" in the US. America's favorite grocery chain is also frequently lauded as a top employer.

But you can't find a Wegmans just anywhere. The chain's 97 stores are spread out between New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, and Massachusetts. According to the company's website, the brand employs 48,000 people.

Business Insider spoke with a few current and former Wegmans employees to get a sense of how the company operates. We also found a number of insights from employees on the web.

Here are a few things all Wegmans employees know, but customers may not:

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Check out the chain's digital coupons...

Don't leave money on the table when you shop.

"Take an extra two minutes out of your day to sign up for or check the digital coupons the store offers," an employee from New Jersey told Business Insider. "They're always on commonly-used products."

... and look out for items with yellow tags

"Yes, your Wegmans card does help you get discounts, though, at times, it seems like it's hit or miss," a person who said they were a Wegmans employee wrote in a 2014 AMA. "Just look for the items with the yellow tags. They're the ones on sale."

Wegmans employees appreciate it when you weigh your produce...

Want to make a good impression at Wegmans?

One Wegmans cashier had some tips for impressing employees in a 2014 Reddit AMA. They said that employees always appreciate it when customers take the time to weigh their produce.

"It's a huge help and a time saver," the cashier wrote.

You could say I'm a connoisseur of California burgers.

I've reviewed burger chains from In-N-Out to Super Duper Burgers, as well as the meatless Impossible Burger at locations around the San Francisco Bay Area.

There's one burger joint I've been anxiously waiting to try for years, and it's finally opening in San Francisco. Creator, formerly known as Momentum Machines, serves a $6 burger that is prepped, cooked, and assembled with no human help.

A 14-foot-long robot in the center of the restaurant uses an array of sensors and computers to make approximately 130 burgers an hour. Efficient. But tasty?

I set out into San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood to try Creator for myself.

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Creator is the world's first robot-made burger joint.

On a weekday afternoon during the company's soft opening, the place was packed with tech bros and gals munching down.

Around the corner from the dining area is the inhuman star chef.

Millennium Tower in San Francisco is still sinking and leaning.

But there's finally a bit of good news for residents of the luxury building at 301 Mission Street, which has sunk 17 inches and tilted 14 inches since it was completed in 2008.

Engineers have proposed a fix for the tower's troubles. They want to drill hundreds of steel and concrete "micro piles" (a type of foundation shaped like a pillar) into bedrock, in order to stabilize the tower and prop it back upright, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

The retrofit could cost between $200 million and $500 million, which is more than it cost to build the $350 million skyscraper more than 10 years ago.

Though an inspection by the city in 2017 showed that Millennium Tower is safe to occupy, the situation has motivated some people to bail out. Residents say they're selling their homes short of what they paid for them, with about 100 condos falling $320,000 in value on average.

Here's what we know about Millennium Tower.

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Millennium Tower rises 58 stories above San Francisco's Financial District.

The city's fourth-tallest skyscraper contains over 400 multimillion-dollar condo units. It soars 645 feet, giving residents panoramic views of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Source: Emporis

Completed in 2008, Millennium Tower includes top-notch amenities, such as a pool, fitness center, wine cellar and tasting room, movie theater, and concierge service.

Source: Millennium Tower

Whittier, Alaska, is a small, remote town 60 miles south of Anchorage that is commonly referred to as the "town under one roof."

How small is Whittier? About 217 people live there, and it's accessible only by boat or a one-way, one-lane tunnel.

But the strangest thing about this town is that nearly all of its residents live in the same building, Begich Towers, a Cold War-era army barracks built in 1974. A police station, grocery store, clinic, church, convenience store, and school are all housed within the structure.

Begich Towers also has a bed and breakfast, and guests are welcome to come and observe how life goes on in the near one-structure town. Reddit userHyruleanHero1988 was curious to check out Whittier, so he visited the town during his last vacation. His girlfriend took plenty of photos and she shared them with us along with their observations of the peculiar town.

"This is what you see when you first approach Whittier," he writes. "The 2.5 mile tunnel that you have to pass through to enter the town is one lane only — they switch the direction of travel every 30 minutes. You have to wait at these lights until they let you go."

"This is the entrance to the tunnel."

"Traveling through the tunnel, it makes you feel a little claustrophobic. By the time you're nearing the end, this is definitely a welcome sight."

• Ivanka Trump's fashion brand announced on Tuesday that it would shut down.
• Reactions to the news have been divided, with many on the right celebrating the first daughter and those on the left using the closure as evidence that progressive boycotts can produce results.
• The brand has been polarizing in recent years as supporters of the president and his family buy the fashion line and people opposed to the Trump administration boycott it. 

Ivanka Trump's controversial fashion brand is shutting down, and reactions reveal a polarized America.

On Tuesday, the first daughter and executives at the Ivanka Trump brand announced that the company would close.

"After 17 months in Washington, I do not know when or if I will ever return to the business, but I do know that my focus for the foreseeable future will be the work I am doing here in Washington," Trump said in a statement. "So making this decision now is the only fair outcome for my team and partners."

Since Donald Trump's presidential campaign, Ivanka Trump's fashion line has inspired backlash and admiration across the US. And reactions to the news that the company is closing continue to show divisions in how people perceive Ivanka Trump and her brand.

For supporters of Ivanka Trump and her father's presidency, the decision to close the company is admirable.

Others blamed liberals for the closure.

Some people celebrated the closure of the company, citing criticism of its questionable labor practices and manufacturing products abroad.

Many on the left saw the company's closure as evidence that boycotts worked.

And some people simply didn't care.

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• Ivanka Trump's brand is immediately shutting down, but these stores will continue selling her products
• People are congratulating the leaders of a massive anti-Trump boycott for shutting down Ivanka Trump's fashion line
• An anti-Trump movement is calling for the boycott of these 23 retailers
• A Canadian department store is the latest retailer to stop selling Ivanka Trump products
• Americans have worse perceptions of Ivanka Trump and Trump Hotels than almost any other brand in the US
• TRUMP: Ivanka's life would be 'so much easier' if she weren't my daughter

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• Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi have finally sold their Santa Barbara mansion for $34 million — $11 million below the original asking price in March 2017.
• The buyer has been revealed as Netflix executive Ted Sarandos.
• The 16.88-acre estate, known as "The Villa," is modern yet classical.

Ellen DeGeneres is parting ways with one of her homes: a $34 million Santa Barbara area mansion.

According to the home's listing brokerage Sotheby's International Realty, DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi simply didn't have the time to use the mansion. The couple has bought and flipped several high-priced homes in Southern California, but this one is in Montecito, a neighboring town of Santa Barbara.

The couple originally listed the property in March 2017 for $45 million.

"Between 'The Ellen Show,' Ellen's new home collection and a new business that Portia is starting, they can't make it to Santa Barbara as often as they would like," a spokesperson at Sotheby's told Business Insider last spring.

The buyers have been revealed as Netflix exec Ted Sarandos and his wife Nicole Avant, former US Ambassador to the Bahamas, according to the real estate blog Yolanda's Little Black Book citing property records from June 2018.

The house, which is featured in DeGeneres' 2015 book "Home" and is known as "The Villa," was designed in the 1930s by architect Wallace Frost.

Frost originally built this two-story home for himself. After spending time in Italy, he wanted to recreate the classical style of a 17th-century Italian villa.

Since purchasing the property in 2012, DeGeneres and de Rossi have bought two adjacent properties to make this a 16.88-acre estate. According to Sotheby's listing agent Suzanne Perkins, they have completely modernized the house, adding a sunken tennis court, pool, and indoor-outdoor entertaining pavilion. 

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DeGeneres and de Rossi bought the estate for $26.5 million in 2012. It was designed by architect Wallace Frost in the 1930s, and its classical style is still intact.

According to the listing, Santa Barbara is sometimes referred to as "the American Riviera" because of its similarity to Europe's well-known region.

"The Villa similarly brings touches of the Old World to the New World," reads the press release announcing the original listing.

• GM said on Tuesday it will let certain car owners rent their vehicles out on the Maven network to earn money. 
• The program is still in beta, but is currently available in Chicago, Detroit, and Ann Arbor, Michigan. 
• GM owners and eligible lessees of GMC, Chevrolet, Buick, or Cadillac vehicles that are model year 2015 and newer can participate in the program in the cities mentioned. 

General Motors announced a plan on Tuesday for owners to share their cars and earn money for doing so.

GM said it will use Maven, its smartphone-based car rental service, to let GM owners and eligible lessees of a GMC, Chevrolet, Buick, or Cadillac vehicle that are model year 2015 or newer to earn money by renting their car to members of the Maven network. 

This new peer-to-peer offering service is now available in Chicago, Detroit, and Ann Arbor, Michigan. The plan is for GM and Maven to collect data during this limited release before expanding to other cities in the fall. 

"Your car is one of the most expensive things you own. Sitting idle, it is a wasted asset," said Julia Steyn, vice president, General Motors Urban Mobility and Maven in a published statement. "It’s time to put your car to work. Maven’s peer-to-peer offering is a smart way for owners to offset their vehicle investment."

The Maven technology currently works as an intuitive car-rental service, where members use a smartphone app to rent and unlock vehicles. Under the new policy, these GM "peer cars" will now be added into the pool of available rental vehicles for Maven's more than 150,000 members. GM owners who would like to list their cars for rental can do so through Maven's website. 

"Maven is a platform designed for sharing and we’ve proven demand exists," said Steyn in the same published statement. "In this beta, we are excited to offer GM owners the opportunity to capitalize on this demand and earn income by listing their vehicles."

GM hasn't finalized exactly how much a person will make off renting their car to others, but during beta testing the owner will get to keep the majority of the earnings, a GM spokesperson told Business Insider. 

"Currently, the owner will receive 60 percent of the earnings from each rental. Since this is a beta, we look forward to learning what works best in the service before we bring it scale," the spokesperson said. 

Customers and owners alike will be protected by strict guidelines implemented by GM. All renters will be vetted before entering into the program and all participating vehicles will be insured by GM up to $1,000,000 dollars. 

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Pop singer Demi Lovato was hospitalized in Los Angeles after "suffering what appears to be a heroin overdose," TMZ reported Tuesday, citing "law enforcement."

TMZ said Lovato was sent to the hospital around noon PT on Tuesday, and was "currently being treated." According to TMZ, Lovato was treated with Narcan, a drug used for opioid overdoses.

“LAPD and LAFD responded to a medical emergency at the 8000 block of Laurel View Dr. at 11:40 a.m.” the Los Angeles Police Department told People. A rep for the Los Angeles Fire Department also said to People that they had “transported a 25-year-old female patient to a local hospital.”

Representatives for Lovato were not immediately available for comment to Business Insider.

Lovato, 25, has publicly struggled with substance abuse during her career, and had previously done stints in rehab starting in 2010.

In a song titled "Sober," released earlier this summer, Lovato seemed to sing about relapsing after six years of sobriety.

“Momma I’m so sorry I’m not sober anymore / And Daddy please forgive me for the drinks spilled on the floor,” Lovato sings. “To the ones who never left me, we’ve been down this road before / I’m so sorry, I’m not sober anymore.”

“I’m sorry for the fans I lost, who watched me fall again / I wanna be a role model, but I’m only human,” she continues.

In a documentary called "Simply Complicated," released in October by YouTube, Lovato said she started using drugs at 17, and spoke about a time she nearly overdosed on a combination of cocaine and Xanax. 

“I started to choke a little bit and my heart started racing,” she said in the doc. “I remember thinking, 'Oh my god, I might be overdosing right now.'”

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• The Japanese city of Iga has clarified that it is, in fact, not hiring ninjas.
• News of the ninja shortage was first reported by an NPR podcast and was picked up by world media, includingBusiness Insider.
• Iga has made clear, however, that it is not hiring ninjas after being inundated with applications from around the world.
• The flurry of interest could at least provide a tourism boost for the city, which is suffering from depopulation.

A small Japanese city has been inundated with applications after reports it was suffering from a ninja shortage.

Business Insider was the first to cover the story online after it aired in NPR's "Planet Money" podcast last week.

In the podcast, one of the hosts (Sally Herships) visited Iga city in Japan, which claims to be the birthplace of the feudal ninja.

Herships spoke to the city's mayor, Sakae Okamoto, who said that the city was "working very hard to promote ninja tourism and get the most economic outcome."

Herships said the city was struggling to keep up with plans to expand its ninja tourism, which includes a second ninja museum, because of a labour shortage.

The labour shortage, Herships said, did not just comprise of construction workers and architects but also ninja performers themselves. "There's a ninja shortage," she said.

Herships went on to say that Ninjas could earn anything from $23,000 to about $85,000 — the latter of which figures was widely quoted by the media.

However, the city has now clarified that it is not hiring ninja performers.

"That's wrong, all wrong," said Motoyoshi Shimai, an official of Iga's tourism strategy division, per Reuters. "There was no discussion about that, and we didn't mention money."

The city received a barrage of inquiries into potential ninja job openings — 115 in total from 23 different countries.

"Most were questions about whether we were really hiring, but there were a few that begged us to employ them and tried to promote themselves," Shimai added. "Some had real confidence in their bodies and strength."

In a press conference, Mayor Okamoto commented on the interview he'd given to NPR.

"I explained that the city has been making efforts to promote tourism with ninja as a key element. But I never mentioned that ninja were in short supply and their annual income. I didn’t expect news about ninja would spread throughout the world in such a manner," he said.

In a statement, Iga warned against fake news but added that people should still visit to check out all the ninja attractions. It could provide a much-needed economic boost to the city, which is suffering from depopulation. Shimai said: "We were made to viscerally feel how high interest is in ninjas all around the world."

Business Insider reached out to the Iga tourist board for comment.

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As Netflix's library of original content continues to expand, it's worthwhile to take stock of all that the service currently offers.

With popular shows like "Stranger Things" and "American Vandal," Netflix has hit the mark with both critics and audiences. 

But the service has also had its share of critical flops, including the Marvel series "Iron Fist" and the Kathy Bates-led sitcom "Disjointed."

To figure out which Netflix original series are worth your time, we turned to the reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes to rank the shows by their composite critical reception.

We excluded any show that did not have enough reviews to receive a designation of "Fresh" or "Rotten." We also did not include children's shows, talk shows, docuseries, or shows that were continued from other networks, and we used audience scores to break any ties. 

Here are 73 of Netflix's notable original shows, ranked from worst to best, according to critics:

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73. "Marvel's Iron Fist" — 18%

Critic score: 18%

Audience score: 75%

Netflix description: "Danny Rand resurfaces 15 years after being presumed dead. Now, with the power of the Iron Fist, he seeks to reclaim his past and fulfill his destiny."

72. "Between" — 22%

Critic score: 22%

Audience score: 66%

Netflix description: "After a mysterious disease kills every resident over 22 years old, survivors of a town must fend for themselves when the government quarantines them."

71. "Friends From College" — 22%

Critic score: 22%

Audience score: 74%

Netflix description: "Twenty years after graduation, a tight-knit group of college friends reconnects and discovers that love hasn't gotten easier with age."

• Ivanka Trump's fashion company announced on Tuesday that it would be shutting down.
• "After 17 months in Washington, I do not know when or if I will ever return to the business, but I do know that my focus for the foreseeable future will be the work I am doing here in Washington," she said in a statement. 
• Here is a look back at her fashion business career.

Ivanka Trump's fashion label is closing up shop. 

On Tuesday, the first daughter and White House adviser informed fans that she would be closing down her business of seven years to focus on her work in Washington. 

"After 17 months in Washington, I do not know when or if I will ever return to the business, but I do know that my focus for the foreseeable future will be the work I am doing here in Washington," she said in a statement. "So making this decision now is the only fair outcome for my team and partners."

Abigail Klem, who took over as president of the company when Trump stepped down from day-to-day operations in 2017, said in a statement that she and others at the company are "incredibly proud of the brand we have built and the content and product we've developed."

"We've seen strong sales since the brand's inception, which continued through this year with the successful launch of our rapidly growing e-commerce business," Klem said.

The brand was thrust into the limelight when Trump's father, Donald Trump, was elected president in November 2016. Initially, this played in its favor: according to The Wall Street Journal, online sales surged at the company in 2016 and early 2017.

Since then, it has come under increased pressure as anti-Trump supporters call for consumers to boycott the brand and any of the stores that stock it. 

Take a look at the story behind the brand below:

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Trump made her first foray into the fashion business with the launch of her fine jewelry company. She opened her first boutique on Manhattan's Upper East Side in 2007.

The pricey collection consisted of rings, necklaces, and bangles that cost up to $25,000.

At the end of 2010, she launched her new collection of shoes, which included 150 styles from "office-friendly pumps and special-occasion looks to sandals and sneakers," Footwear News reported at the time.

Source: Footwear News 

The shoes were sold at department stores such as Macy's and Lord & Taylor.

Shoes and handbags paved the way for her apparel collection, which launched in 2011 just after her first child, Arabella Rose, was born.

"I wanted to build a strong and sustainable collection that is not overly trend-conscious," Trump told InStyle.com in 2011. "I wanted timeless glamour."

• Did you recently receive an email with one of your old passwords in the subject line and a request for bitcoin?
• It's a new kind of scam.
• The attacker probably took your password from a publicly available database of old leaked passwords and email addresses.
• Here's how to keep yourself safe. 

There's a new scam going around that would terrify most people if it ever landed in their inbox.

The emails are slightly different depending on who's being attacked, but they all have a few similar features:

• The subject line includes a password that you probably have used at some point.
• The sender says they have used that password to hack your computer, install malware, and record video of you through your webcam.
• They say they will reveal your adult-website habits and send video of you to your contacts unless you send them bitcoin, usually $1,200 or $1,600 worth.

Here's one example of these scam emails, sent in the past month:

Ian Kar, a New York-based product manager who was sent the scammy email, said that after he received this threat, he spent an entire day changing all his passwords and buying 1Password, a password manager.

He said he was pretty sure his password was included in one of the big leaks in the past few years — databases have been stolen from LinkedIn, Yahoo, and eBay, for example. You can check whether your password is in one of these leaked databases over at the website Have I Been Pwned.

Basically, the attackers don't actually have video of you or access to your contacts, and they haven't been able to install malicious code on your computer. In reality, they're taking a password from a database that's available online, sending it to you, and hoping you're scared enough to believe their story and send them bitcoin.

Some scammers have even made over $50,000 from the blackmail scheme, based on an analysis of bitcoin wallets, Bleeping Computer reported.

As Brian Krebs, a leading security journalist, writes, this scam is probably automated, meaning you haven't been specifically targeted:

"It is likely that this improved sextortion attempt is at least semi-automated: My guess is that the perpetrator has created some kind of script that draws directly from the usernames and passwords from a given data breach at a popular Web site that happened more than a decade ago, and that every victim who had their password compromised as part of that breach is getting this same email at the address used to sign up at that hacked Web site."

For now, the scammers seem to be using really old passwords — maybe one you haven't used in years. But as the scam develops, there's a good chance it may include credentials from a fresh breach, according to Krebs.

Other good ideas to keep yourself safe: use long and strong passwords, get a password manager to ensure each account has a unique password, and turn on two-factor authentication on your important accounts. The FBI also recommends you turn off or cover any web cameras when you're not using them to prevent sex-based extortion schemes, even if this kind of scam ends up being a hollow threat.

And no matter what you do, don't send bitcoin to the scammers.

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With the summer TV season well underway, a few highly anticipated new shows are premiering next month, with Netflix dominating the field.

To find out which shows audiences are anticipating the most, the TV tracking app TV Time analyzed data from its 12 million global users to see which upcoming TV shows viewers had followed the most frequently on its app.

The list includes series like the John Krasinski-led Amazon adaptation of "Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan," and several new Netflix originals, including the controversial comedy "Insatiable."

Here are the 5 new TV shows that viewers are anticipating the most in August, according to TV Time:

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5. "Ghoul" — Premieres August 24 on Netflix

Summary: "A newly minted military interrogator arrives at a covert detention center to discover that some of the terrorists held there are not of this world."

4. "Insatiable" — Premieres August 10 on Netflix

Summary: "A bullied teenager turns to beauty pageants as a way to exact her revenge, with the help of a disgraced coach who soon realizes he's in over his head."

3. "Disenchantment" — Premieres August 17 on Netflix

Summary: "This animated series from Matt Groening follows the misadventures of a hard-drinking princess, her feisty elf companion and her personal demon."

• President Donald Trump used Twitter on Wednesday morning to criticize his former attorney Michael Cohen for taping their conversations after Cohen's attorney publicly released a tape on Tuesday night.
• Cohen's attorney released the audio of what's said to be a secretly recorded 2016 conversation between Cohen and Trump, during which the two men appeared to discuss payments to a former Playboy model who says she had a sexual relationship with Trump years earlier. 

President Donald Trump used Twitter on Wednesday morning to criticize his former attorney Michael Cohen for taping their conversations after Cohen's attorney publicly released a tape on Tuesday night.

"What kind of a lawyer would tape a client?" Trump tweeted. "So sad! Is this a first, never heard of it before? Why was the tape so abruptly terminated (cut) while I was presumably saying positive things? I hear there are other clients and many reporters that are taped — can this be so? Too bad!"

Cohen's attorney Lanny Davis released the audio of what's said to be a September 2016 conversation between Cohen and Trump. The two men can be heard discussing numerous issues on the recording, but eventually they appear to focus on how to pay Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model who says she had a sexual relationship with Trump years earlier.

In August 2016, McDougal agreed to give to her story to the National Enquirer for $150,000. The publication — whose parent company, American Media Inc., is led by David Pecker, a friend of Cohen's and Trump's — never ran it.

The existence of the audio recording was first revealed by The New York Times last week, but the audio was heard publicly for the first time on CNN on Tuesday night. The Times reported that the FBI, acting on a warrant, obtained the tape in its raids of Cohen's properties in April; he is the focus of a criminal investigation in New York.

After the existence of the tape was revealed, Trump also used Twitter to respond.

"Inconceivable that the government would break into a lawyer's office (early in the morning) — almost unheard of," Trump tweeted on Saturday. "Even more inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client — totally unheard of & perhaps illegal. The good news is that your favorite President did nothing wrong!"

The Washington Post on Tuesday published a transcript that it said was provided by Trump's legal team and edited to reflect CNN's audio. At one point, according to The Post's transcript, Trump says: "So, what do we got to pay for this? One-fifty?"

"Funding ... Yes. Um, and it's all the stuff," Cohen responds, according to the transcript.

Before that, Cohen appears to lay out how they should finance a payment, saying he would need to set up a company "for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend, David." Cohen is known to have set up a company called Essential Consultants LLC to facilitate a payment to Stormy Daniels, an adult-film actress who also says she had an affair with Trump.

Trump then appears to interject. He can be heard saying "pay with cash," to which Cohen says, "No, I got it," before Trump says, "Check."

The recording ends abruptly at that point.

Bryan Logan contributed to this post.

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• MoviePass' owner, Helios and Matheson Analytics, was trading at about $14 on Wednesday morning after a reverse stock split.
• If it trades at $1 or above for 10 straight trading days, with a market cap of at least $50 million, the stock will no longer be at risk of being delisted from the Nasdaq.
• But according to Erik Gordon, a clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, HMNY's getting the stock above $1 was the easy part — what will be hard is finding new money. 

At the end of trading on Tuesday, MoviePass' owner, Helios and Matheson Analytics, did a reverse stock split that rocketed its stock price from $0.09 to about $14 on Wednesday morning.

Because of its low share price, HMNY had been at risk of getting delisted from the Nasdaq by mid-December if the stock continued to trade below $1. That's why HMNY got approval from its shareholders on Monday to do a 1-for-250 reverse stock split — meaning they got one share for every 250 they held — to try to stave off that fate.

If shares of HMNY stay at $1 or above for 10 straight trading days, at a market cap above $50 million, the stock will no longer be at risk of being delisted, according to Nasdaq. If it goes back down below $1, however, it will still be at risk, and it will have become clear that the company's gambit didn't pay off.

"I'm not worried," Helios and Matheson CEO Ted Farnsworth recently told Business Insider when asked about the company's finances. "We're taking a company from literally doing $10 million a year to the end of this year we'll be on a run rate of probably $500 [million] to $600 million."

However, though HMNY is currently trading above $1, the reality is that it's still a risk in the eyes of most on Wall Street, according to Erik Gordon, a clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business.

Before the reverse stock split, HMNY stock was down 99% from its high in October 2017 of more than $38.

"You do the reverse split and get over $1, but I don't think that will attract people," Gordon told Business Insider. "I mean, theoretically there could be somebody stupid enough to go, 'Wow, it went from $0.09 to [$14].'"

Gordon said the easy part for HMNY was getting the stock above $1 — what will be harder is attracting money.

"Their real challenge is how they are going to attract substantial amounts of cash to finance their business model and stay in business," Gordon said. "And that means new cash."

And it's going to be hard.

Gordon said that because of its financial troubles, HMNY would not be attractive to smart tech money or suddenly appear on Edward Jones' pick list. And at least at the start of trading on Wednesday, it looked as if most of the market didn't have much confidence in HMNY. Based on Tuesday's prices, one share worth $0.09 would be worth $22.50 after the reverse split, but the stock opened soft off the bell.

However, Farnsworth is staying optimistic.

"Wall Street understands how we operate," he said. "They love the story. They think we're the next unicorn company."

Along with the reverse stock split, HMNY shareholders on Monday also approved an increase of the company's common stock to 5 billion from 500 million.

"We could have made a conscious decision to slow down. We talked about it for months — 'If we raise the [subscription] price, we'll slow down the growth' — but what Wall Street really wants is to see that growth," Farnsworth said of the growing number of MoviePass subscribers, which he hopes will hit 5 million by the end of the year. "As long as you show that growth story with Wall Street, they will always be behind you."

But Gordon isn't so sure about that.

"At some point, parts of your story have to start looking true," he said. "For some investors, that's the scariest thing you can hear, 'They love the story.'"

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