• Earlier this month, MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe told Business Insider that charging theaters and studios more for marketing was a way to generate revenue that fit with industry norms.
• However, the company earned less revenue from marketing and promotions in the second quarter of the year compared to the first, according to the latest quarterly report from MoviePass' owner, Helios and Matheson Analytics.

As MoviePass scrambles to keep the lights on, it seems one of its new plans to earn more revenue hasn't worked out as advertised.

When the movie-ticket subscription service announced its most recent change — going from subscribers being allowed to see one movie per day to three movies per month— CEO Mitch Lowe told Business Insider that one of the plans going forward was to capitalize on the popularity of the service by arranging marketing deals with movie theaters and studios that would benefit MoviePass.

"We are just about to roll out to exhibitors that we'll continue to pay full price [for movie tickets], but we want to negotiate with them a fair marketing fee," Lowe said earlier this month.

Lowe admitted that the initial strategy of trying to get a discount on the millions of movie tickets it buys wasn't working. But he said he was confident that getting more for marketing titles on its app, the web, and social media made more sense.

"We think we now have a way to do this that fits in with how business is done," he said.

However, when MoviePass' owner Helios and Matheson Analytics (HMNY) released its quarterly report to the SEC on Tuesday, it showed that so far, marketing revenue has not been on the rise. In fact, it's been falling.

For the second quarter of 2018, Helios snagged revenue of $935,488 from marketing and promotional services. That's over $500,000 less than what it earned in the first quarter ($1,440,910).  

And it's not because fewer people are becoming members of the service. Subscription revenue spiked in the second quarter to $72.4 million (in the first quarter it was $47.1 million). But for MoviePass, that subscription growth only means more full-price tickets it has to pay for.

Despite MoviePass' claim that it's responsible for 6% of the box office this year, it looks from its financials that it hasn't been able to capitalize yet on turning that popularity into marketing dollars.

MoviePass was not immediately available for comment to Business Insider.

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The past two years have been huge for the royal family.

With an engagement and wedding, a pregnancy and birth, the family has grown and found news reasons to celebrate even as the usual packed schedule of events and foreign trips continues.

For people constantly in the public eye, the royals are unsurprisingly great at shaking the right hands, smiling at the right moments, and generally keeping it all together to make sure they get things done.

But every now and again, even watching from a distance, we get a bit more than that. Away from the setpiece events, these are photos of the royals laughing, gawping, eye-rolling, and generally acting like normal folk.

Here are the best from 2017 and of 2018 so far.

In January 2017 Prince William made a solo venture to Centre Point, a homelessness charity in London. Here he plays a game with a young woman being helped by the charity (he has to guess the name on the note — which says "David Beckham").

It's not all relaxed though — here's all three royals making a run for it at a sports event in east London in February.

Prince William had more fun and games trying to put up a tent blindfolded in Abergevenny, Wales, while launching a children's award scheme.

Tiger Woods is back.

After playing in just two tournaments in over two years and a tumultuous ten months that included his fourth back surgery in four years and an arrest after being found asleep in his car on the side of the road, Woods is finally back.

In fact, he looked so good at the PGA Championship, people have already started whispering about Jack Nicklaus' record again.

This isn't the first time Woods has needed to come back. His career was derailed by affairs and a subsequent divorce from his wife, and his return to golf dominance has been hampered by injuries.

But despite this, Woods is still worth an estimated $740 million and is one of the highest-paid athletes of all time. That means plenty of cash to spend on yachts, private jets, megamansions, and video games.

Take a look at how he spends it all, below.

Tony Manfred and Mary Hanbury contributed reporting to a previous version of this article.

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Tiger Woods has made more than $1.4 billion since turning pro in 1996.

Source: Golf Digest and Forbes

More than $113 million of that came from on-course winnings. He's No. 1 on the all-time money list, by far.

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Roger Federer recently passed Woods as the highest-paid athlete of all time from a non-team sport.

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• In an effort to curb the onslaught of electric scooters, Santa Monica, California, is moving to limit the number of companies that can operate dockless vehicles there.
• An internal memo reveals that a City Council committee endorsed Lyft and Uber for permits — handing a crushing defeat for dedicated scooter operators Bird and Lime.
• Santa Monica was the ground zero for electric scooters, because $2 billion startup Bird rolled out the first scooter-share program nationwide in the coastal city last fall.

In the south Californian city of Santa Monica, the electric scooters that cover the city's streets and sidewalks disappeared on Tuesday in protest of the city's move to block two venture-backed startups from operating.

The shutdown, called "A Day Without a Scooter," as well as a protest outside City Hall, was part of a joint campaign from scooter startups Bird and Lime condemning a decision from the Santa Monica City Council to limit the number of companies that can operate dockless vehicles there.

Bird and Lime are fearful they won't be picked for permits.

In an effort to curb the onslaught of scooters, the city of Santa Monica recently announced a "shared mobility" pilot program that will award four contracts — two scooter and two e-bike operators — with the goal of deploying vehicles in the coastal city this fall.

A special committee started accepting applications last month, then scored the companies across seven categories, including experience, operations, compliance, and parking and safety. While the contracts haven't been awarded yet, an internal memo from the city's planning director, released to the public, reveals which companies sit at the top of the heap.

Lyft placed first, with the Uber-owned Jump coming in second, in the committee's scoring of scooter and e-bike operators. They effectively won the city's endorsement for contracts to operate, leaving their upstart competition in the dust. 

Bird invented the scooter-sharing market

The results were perceived as a major blow to Bird, which began its very existence in Santa Monica. 

Tech investors credit Bird with inventing the scooter-sharing market. When the company launched the first scooters in its hometown last fall, its competitors — namely LimeBike, Spin, and Ofo — were still focused on bike-sharing. They added scooters to their inventory in 2018, and LimeBike later rebranded as Lime.

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Lyft doesn't have scooters or e-bikes in any city, though it bought Motivate, the country's largest bike-sharing operator, in July. Similarly, Uber got into bike-sharing with its $100 million acquisition of Jump, which has e-bikes in major US cities, including Austin, Chicago, New York City, and San Francisco.

It's been less than a year since Bird launched, and already the startup was rumored to be seeking a $2 billion valuation in the last funding round. Bird raised $400 in four months from Sequoia Capital, Greycroft, Tusk Ventures, and Upfront Ventures.

Roelof Botha, a partner at Sequoia who sits on Bird's board, told Business Insider in June that being first to market places Bird one step ahead of the competition, including giants Uber and Lyft. 

"If you're the one who invented it, you've probably thought about the problem many layers deep," Botha said of Bird.

"That's the thing with people who copycat — they copy what the see today," he went on. "But they don't know what you've been thinking. They don't know the next move that you intend. How you've already mapped out the next several months or the next several quarters of product innovations and nuances."

Birds flock to City Hall in protest

Bird sent an email to its riders in Santa Monica on Tuesday night, saying that a "small city-appointed selection committee" is moving to ban Bird in September, Curbed Los Angeles reported.

It encouraged supporters to gather outside City Hall to voice their support for Bird. The flock responded to the call.

On Tuesday, a crowd of about 200 scooter startup employees, "chargers" (gig-economy workers who scrounge for scooters and charge their batteries to make a quick buck), and supporters swarmed City Hall in black and green Bird and Lime shirts.

A city spokesperson told the Los Angeles Times that nothing has been done to "stop or suspend operations of shared mobility vendors." Santa Monica will reach a decision in the coming weeks.

Bird did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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• Uber just hinted it could be in serious trouble if it doesn't conquer the market for electric bikes and scooters
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As the year flies by, the list of canceled TV shows piles up.

While there's been somewhat of a quiet period since May, some networks are still cutting shows throughout the summer, including USA, which recently canceled two series after three seasons: "Colony" and "Shooter." In June, Freeform canceled the supernatural teen drama, "Shadowhunters."

ABC also canceled the previously renewed "Roseanne" revival in late May, after Roseanne Barr posted a racist tweet about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett. However, ABC announced a spin-off called "The Conners" without Barr coming this fall.

Amazon kicked off the year with a slew of cancellations, announcing the end of three quirky comedies, including the Golden Globe nominee "I Love Dick" and the comedian Tig Notaro's semi-autobiographical show, "One Mississippi." It canceled Golden Globe nominee "Mozart in the Jungle" in April, after four seasons, and recently canceled "Transparent," which will end after the upcoming fifth season.

The long-running "The Jerry Springer Show" is ending after 27 seasons and 4,000 episodes. NBC's "Timeless," was also canceled for the second year in a row. NBC reversed its first decision to cancel the show last year after fan outcry. However, fans may have a movie to look forward to that gives the series a proper finale, though no official decision has been made.

We'll update this list as more are announced.

Here are all the shows that have been canceled this year, including those from networks and Netflix:

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Amazon

"Jean-Claude Van Johnson" — Amazon, one season

"I Love Dick" — Amazon, one season

• Former CIA Director John Brennan said Wednesday that President Donald Trump's decision to revoke his security clearance was "part of a broader effort ... to suppress freedom of speech & punish critics."
• In a statement announcing his decision, Trump cited Brennan's "erratic conduct and behavior" and "frenzied commentary" attacking the White House as reasons to revoke his clearance.
• Trump also said he was considering revoking the security clearances of other law-enforcement and intelligence officials, many of whom have been critical of him. 

Former CIA Director John Brennan hit back at President Donald Trump on Wednesday after the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, announced that Trump had decided to revoke Brennan's security clearance.

"This action is part of a broader effort by Mr. Trump to suppress freedom of speech & punish critics," Brennan tweeted. "It should gravely worry all Americans, including intelligence professionals, about the cost of speaking out. My principles are worth far more than clearances. I will not relent."

In a statement that Sanders read at the start of the White House press briefing on Wednesday, Trump cited Brennan's "erratic conduct and behavior" as the primary reason for revoking his clearance.

The president also said Brennan's past actions called into question "his objectivity and credibility."

Among other things, Trump pointed to Brennan's statement to Congress in 2014 denying that CIA officials had improperly accessed the computer files of congressional staffers.

"The CIA's Inspector General, however, contradicted Mr. Brennan directly, concluding unequivocally that agency officials had indeed" accessed those files, the statement said.

Trump also pointed to Brennan's more recent statement to Congress that the US intelligence community did not make use of the so-called Steele dossier in its January 2017 assessment of Russia's interference in the 2016 US election. That statement has been backed up by several senior former intelligence officials, as well as the former top lawyer for the director of national intelligence.

Trump also claimed in his statement that Brennan had "leveraged his status" and access to sensitive information to "make a series of unfounded and outrageous allegations — wild outbursts on the internet and television — about this Administration."

"Mr. Brennan's lying and recent conduct, characterized by increasingly frenzied commentary, is wholly inconsistent with access to the Nation's most closely held secrets and facilitates the very aim of our adversaries, which is to sow division and chaos," the statement said.

Shortly after Sanders made the announcement, CNN reported that the White House had not consulted Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, on the decision.

The president also said he was considering revoking the clearance of several other former intelligence and law-enforcement officials — many of whom have been critical of him — in the coming weeks.

Those people include:

• James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence.
• James Comey, the former FBI director.
• Michael Hayden, the former director of the National Security Agency.
• Sally Yates, the former acting attorney general.
• Susan Rice, the former national security adviser.
• Andrew McCabe, the former FBI deputy director.
• Peter Strzok, a former FBI agent.
• Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer.
• Bruce Ohr, a Justice Department official.

'This is an Official Enemies List'

Former intelligence officials often maintain security clearance in case they need to be consulted on various matters pertaining to national security.

"If he chooses to do it for political reasons, I think that's a terrible precedent, and it's a very sad commentary, and it's an abuse of the system," Clapper said last month when it first emerged that Trump was weighing revoking the clearances of former officials.

Hayden seemed to be less unsettled by the revelation, tweeting that he doesn't go back for classified briefings and that such a move wouldn't "have any effect on what I say or write."

Meanwhile, Benjamin Wittes of Lawfare said Comey told him he doesn't even have a security clearance to revoke and that he was "read out" when he left the government, which he said is normal practice.

And a spokeswoman for McCabe, Melissa Schwartz, tweeted last month: "Andrew McCabe's security clearance was deactivated when he was terminated, according to what we were told was FBI policy. You would think the White House would check with the FBI before trying to throw shiny objects to the press corps."

After Sanders announced Trump's decision on Wednesday, Michael Bromwich, McCabe's lawyer who was formerly a Justice Department inspector general, tweeted that the move "has zero to do with national security."

"This is an Official Enemies List," Bromwich added. "The offense: exercising 1st Amendment rights."

Other former members of the intelligence community, though not named by the Trump administration on Monday, were also evidently infuriated by this announcement.

John McLaughlin, a former deputy director of the CIA, tweeted that the White House's threat was "nonsense" and "something Putin would do."

"Clearances are taken away for security violations, usually after an investigation," McLaughlin said. "These people do not talk classified publicly. It would be political punishment infringing on first amendment rights."

Here's a graphic breakdown of how the system works:

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• Nurx, a Silicon Valley prescription drug delivery startup that once solely dispensed birth control, is launching a new service that allows patients who want HIV-prevention drug Truvada to do the required testing at home.
• It's a big move for the company, which recently raised $36 million and added Chelsea Clinton to its board of advisers.
• It's also a big deal for people seeking HIV-prevention drugs, who currently battle stigma and potentially wait months to get the medication.

In a move that could hint at bigger plans for prescription drug delivery, Silicon Valley startup Nurx on Wednesday launched the first at-home test of its kind for HIV-prevention drug Truvada.

Getting the daily pill, which is estimated to reduce infection among high-risk people by more than 90%, is no easy task. It can take several months for someone who wants PrEP to actually receive the drug. Nurx's new service is designed to shrink that waiting period to just a few days.

After starting as a birth control-only delivery service in 2015, the California-based startup added a second medication, Truvada (also known as PrEP), to its list of available medications last year.

Last month, Nurx raised $36 million with help from top Silicon Valley venture capital firms. It also added Chelsea Clinton to its board of advisers.

There are a handful of startups offering quick on-demand delivery of prescription medications. But this is the first time one of these companies has tackled at-home lab testing — the hardest part of getting access to PrEP.

“This is a game-changing step towards preventing the spread of HIV,” Hans Gangeskar, co-founder and CEO of Nurx, told Business Insider. “It takes away a key barrier to treatment, and so we really hope to reach the folks that great places like community clinics are still missing."

Currently, access to PrEP is limited. Beyond simply requiring access to a health care provider, getting a prescription also requires patients visit a clinic, ask about PrEP (which can be a scary conversation for many), and hope the provider can prescribe the drug. Oftentimes, patients are referred to infectious disease specialists who require several visits and extensive testing.

“There's a big drop off in potential PrEP users at the stage when they need to physically show up for lab testing,” Jessica Horwitz, Nurx’s head of clinical development, said. “Getting in the door in the first place is often the hardest part. We're missing whole swaths of people who need access."

How to get PrEP with Nurx

To get PrEP, patients first visit the Nurx website and fill out an assessment with a healthcare provider in the startup's network to figure out if the drug is a good idea.

Over 1.2 million people in the US have HIV, and men who have sex with men are at the highest risk. Heterosexual men and women who have unprotected sex or use injectable drugs are also at risk.

Then, patients get a testing kit from Nurx in the mail. In a process that's somewhat similar to at-home genetics testing services like Ancestry or 23andMe, patients collect personal samples and mail them back to Nurx’s certified lab partner for processing. Instead of simply taking a spit sample, the Nurx kit requires patients to also send along small samples of blood and urine. This is done to make sure patients aren't HIV positive and to ensure their kidneys are functioning properly, both of which are requirements for the drug.

Once those steps are complete, patients get PrEP delivered straight to their door — all without ever stepping foot in a physical clinic.

The 'GrubHub for prescriptions' model is gaining steam

The no-visit-required model for prescription drug delivery is a big trend across the US right now.

In June, Amazon inaugurated its latest push into the healthcare industry by buying online pharmacy PillPack.

Just days earlier, pharmacy giant CVS Health announced a plan to deliver prescriptions from nearly 10,000 of its retail stores to customer homes by contracting with the US Postal Service. And a handful of startups like Nimble and Capsule currently provide similar services with independent pharmacies using courier delivery services.

Although Nurx currently dispenses only birth control and PrEP, Horwitz told Business Insider there are plans to expand to other medications.

"PrEP was the next logical step for us because it can be done seamlessly through telemedicine, but our balance in terms of growth is finding clinical areas where there's need and where access is an issue," Horwitz said.

The new at-home testing kits for PrEP will be available in 19 states and Washington, DC as of Thursday; Nurx's birth control delivery service is currently available in 20 states and is covered by most forms of health insurance — meaning that for most of its customers, the service is free.

The Nurx team is currently looking at adding sexual health screenings, something it plans to do by the end of the year. Horowitz said next year will be dedicated to thinking more about avenues for growth in primary care.

"We're always thinking about new avenues where we can disrupt things," she said.

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Denmark has overtaken Sweden as the best country in the world to live in for women, according to a 2018 ranking from US News & World Report.

Ahead of International Women's Day in March, the media organisation surveyed more than 9,000 women as part of its wider Best Countries ranking in order to determine which of 80 countries around the globe are the best for women to live in.

The full 2018 Best Countries List surveyed 21,000 business leaders, informed elites, and general citizens to discover how 80 countries are perceived on a global scale for a range of criteria, from economic influence to citizenship and quality of life.

The Best Countries for women were given a score out 10 on these five attributes: Human rights, gender quality, income equality, progress, and safety.

Scroll down to see the 21 best countries in the world to live in if you're a woman, ranked in ascending order.

21. Poland. This right-leaning country is slightly lacking across all scores, with just 0.8 for income equality and 2.5 for progression, but its average scores of 5.3 for gender equality and 5.3 for human rights gave it a spot on this list.

20. Portugal. This Western European nation has struggled financially, and income equality remains low (1.3). However, it's relatively safe (7.3), with an above average score on human rights (6.2).

19. Italy. The home of art, wine, and good food had mediocre scores for gender equality (5.8), progression (4.20), and human rights (6.2), but female unemployment is still a huge concern.

• Business Insider asked regular women for their best career advice.
• Women across different industries and levels contributed.
• Responses ranged from the practical (don't work for free) to the psychological (you deserve your job).

Everyone wants advice from the most successful businesswomen out there: Sheryl Sandberg. Indra Nooyi. Meg Whitman.

But anyone would be smart to take advice from a little closer to home, too: your boss, your coworkers, your professional connections. No matter the level, industry, or location, we can all learn something from each other.

Business Insider surveyed women across various industries about their advice for others. Responses ranged from advice on knowing your worth to effectively communicating your vision to a team. For example:

• Remember that getting your job wasn't a fluke. You deserve to be there.
• Keep a list of your accomplishments and skills so you can refer back.
• If you're dreading a job or project, you aren't being paid enough.
• Don't give up your life for a job.

Below, read 17 different women's best career advice, lightly edited for clarity:

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Find your advocates, and take a seat at the table

"Find your advocates.

"As women, we often have to work twice as hard for our performance to be recognized. Participating in teams, committees, even if it doesn't pertain to your role, will help build a network of advocates of varying levels across the organization.

"Always expect your name will come up when you're not in the room — the more advocates you have, the more people will root for you when opportunities arise.

"And always take a seat at the table. You deserve to be there."

— Jen, 30, New York City
Director of Sales working in Adtech/Media

Don't work for free

"For new entrepreneurs, do not work for free or undervalue yourself! You are more than capable and qualified.

"Too many times starting out I said 'yes' to a low-ball offer or free work for the mere possibility of leads, only to end up spending far too much time on a project that yielded too little compensation.

"I heard a thought one time: 'If you wake up in the morning dreading working on a project, you asked for too little money,' and that couldn't be more true. If you feel valued, the work never feels like a drag.

"As a new entrepreneur (or even more experienced!), lack of confidence is common after the initial excitement wears off. It's easier to feel confident as an employee because you receive regular feedback on your quality of workmanship. Don't let fear of failure drive you to accept less than you're worth."

— Stacey, 28, Austin, Texas
Business Owner: Nutrition Communications & Media

Recognize who is on your team

"When someone is on your team, they are on your team for life.

"I am a big networker, and recently someone I really admire told me he was 'on my team.' I took this to mean I did not need to try as hard to impress him — he was already impressed!

"Inevitably in professional relationships and in networking you'll transition from wanting to impress someone to being their friend, or at least someone they respect and like. Recognize when that transition happens and breathe a sigh of relief! I keep a list of people who are 'on my team' and look to them for support and advice, as well as professional advancement."

— Alex, 30, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Associate Attorney

• Age distributions vary widely across different parts of the US.
• Using data from the Census Bureau, we found the US counties with the highest and lowest median ages.

Some parts of America have older populations than others.

The US Census Bureau's American Community Survey asks millions of US households each year several questions about their economic, social, and demographic characteristics. One of the basic demographic questions on the survey asks the age of each person in the household.

Pooling together responses to that question over the five-year period between 2012 and 2016, the Census Bureau published estimates of the median age of the residents of each of the United States' 3,142 counties and county-equivalents.

Some areas, like much of Florida and the Upper midwest, have much higher median ages than the rest of the country. Meanwhile, states like Alaska and Utah tend to be younger than other areas.

Four of the top ten youngest counties are cities in Virginia, which are counted separately from their surrounding counties in that state.

And the oldest county in America is Sumter County, Florida, where the median age is 66.

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• Disney California Adventure Park West general manager Gary Maggetti has worked at the Disneyland Resort full-time for 23 years.
• Before he landed a full-time role, he did a stint as a Jungle Cruise skipper in college.
• Maggetti shared his typical daily routine — which features a morning pick-me-up of green tea and lots of walking — with Business Insider.

Gary Maggetti's Disneyland journey began long before he landed his first full-time role there in 1995.

Before the iconic resort became his workplace, he was just another kid at the park, swinging by all the best attractions with his twin brother Chris. Their family visited Disneyland every two years, starting when they were four.

Then, Maggetti was a Northern Arizona University hotel and restaurant administration major applying for the Disney College Program. He landed a summer gig as a skipper on the Jungle Cruise, one of his favorite rides.

Finally, in 1995, he landed his first full-time role at the park. By that point, Maggetti knew that Disneyland was where he wanted to stay.

In the 23 years since, Maggetti has held 13 different roles at the Walt Disney Company, including one that took him all the way to Japan. Today, he's a general manager representing the western part of Disney California Adventure Park. Disney California Adventure and Disneyland Park are the two theme parks that make up the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.

Maggetti said his story isn't "unique" at Disneyland.

"You go to a meeting and you look around the room and it's like: 'Oh my goodness, you were in my management training class in 1996,'" he told Business Insider. "This is not an unusual story because there are so many opportunities with Disney to have different experiences."

Maggetti recently shared his daily schedule with Business Insider. His routine sheds light on both the culture at Disneyland, and the behind-the-scenes inner-workings of the park.

Here's what a typical day at Disneyland looks like for Maggetti:

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Maggetti wakes up early and typically passes on coffee

Maggetti kicks off his day at 6 a.m. He's not big on breakfast, but he said that he'll sometimes eat a morning meal with his two teenage sons.

According to Maggetti, the boys take after his twin brother Chris — an executive chef at Disneyland.

"They're actually pretty good cooks, so sometimes they'll make me breakfast in the morning," he told Business Insider.

But two figures are typically absent from the breakfast table: Maggetti said he has a "long distance marriage" with his wife, who lives and works in Northern California with his stepson. The family reunites on the weekends, though.

After breakfast, Maggetti drives his sons to school and then embarks on the 35-minute commute to Disneyland. He usually arrives at work around 8 a.m.

To prepare for the workday, Maggetti skips coffee and instead opts for decaf green tea. He said he prefers the "calming effect" of the beverage.

He meets up with his team mates and enjoys watching the park open

First up, Maggetti heads to his team's morning huddle. Patrick Finnegan, the vice president of Disney California Adventure Park and the Downtown Disney District, leads the daily meeting. Everyone discusses the previous day and establishes a "game plan" for the coming day.

Maggetti said the team often makes a point of huddling out in the park, where they can watch early-bird guests trickle in around 9 a.m.

"It's incredibly enjoyable to be there when the first guests go through the turnstiles," Maggetti said. "There's this sense of adventure and hope and excitement. You can kind of see the guests making decisions early in the day. Like, 'Am I going to the new Incredicoaster?' or 'Am I going to head over to Radiator Springs Racer?' It's great to be a part of that."

Up next, Maggetti learns about any cool opportunities for his cast members

Once the park is opened, all of the general managers will connect with one of the resort's duty managers for a daily "roll call."

Maggetti said this is his chance to learn about cool opportunities for Disney California Adventure Park cast members, such as trying out new attractions before they open to guests.

"They'll let the leaders know, 'Hey make sure your cast members know we have this great experience before the guests arrive,'" Maggetti said. 

• Hong Kong's most expensive neighborhood is The Peak.
• You may have heard of it in Kevin Kwan's novel "Crazy Rich Asians," which was turned into a summer blockbuster.
• The Peak is a gorgeous, secluded neighborhood that overlooks Hong Kong and is home to bankers, expatriates, business magnates, celebrities, and millionaires and billionaires.
• Jack Ma, the Chinese billionaire who founded Alibaba, is said to have purchased a $191 million mansion in the neighborhood in 2015, but it has never been confirmed.

Every city has that neighborhood — an address that signifies wealth. New York City has Fifth Avenue, London has Kensington, and Miami has South Beach.

Hong Kong has The Peak — short for Victoria Peak — a neighborhood that has been synonymous with wealth, luxury, and exclusivity since the colonial era.

As the least affordable city in the world for eight years running, Hong Kong takes the cake when it comes to luxury real estate.

At various times over the past decade, Pollock's Path, Barker Road, and Severn Road — all streets on The Peak — have claimed the title of the world's most expensive street.

The neighborhood is home to a mix of bankers, expatriates, business magnates, celebrities, and, more recently, Chinese millionaires and billionaires looking for a place to invest or vacation away from pollution in cities on the mainland. 

It's the kind of neighborhood that consistently breaks records for the most expensive real estate in the world. In 2015, it was rumored that Jack Ma, the Chinese billionaire who founded Alibaba, purchased a $191 million mansion there, but it has never been confirmed.

Last month, an unidentified buyer broke the record for the most expensive real estate in Asia, purchasing a 9,217-square-foot villa on The Peak for about $180 million, making it about $19,400 per square foot.

I recently visited the ritzy neighborhood to see why it continues to house some of the most coveted addresses in the world. It did not disappoint.

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The Peak is the neighborhood surrounding Victoria Peak, the highest point on Hong Kong Island, with an elevation of 1,811 feet. I took a taxi to get to Victoria Peak Lookout, a major tourist destination.

Most tourists ride the Peak Tram up. The Peak Galleria, a mega mall (read: tourist trap) at the top of the tramway is complete with souvenirs and a Madame Tussauds.

The Peak has been the city's most exclusive neighborhood for more than 100 years. Until 1947, only the British and Europeans were allowed to live there — a policy that infuriated Hong Kong's Chinese citizens. Before the tramway, residents were carried up the mountain on sedan chairs carried by migrant laborers.

Source: Frommer's, CNN Travel

• Summer blockbuster "Crazy Rich Asians" is set in Singapore, which is known worldwide for its extravagance and wealth.
• Marina Bay Sands is a landmark in Singapore, featuring a hotel, casino, museum, shopping mall, and incredible views of the city and the bay.
• I stayed at Marina Bay Sands to see if it's really worth the expensive price tag, and frankly, I was disappointed.

Singapore is known worldwide for its extravagance and wealth, and it's the setting of "Crazy Rich Asians," the summer blockbuster everyone's talking about based on the bestselling novel by Kevin Kwan.

And at the heart of Singapore is the extravagant Marina Bay Sands resort and hotel.

At its opening in 2010, Marina Bay Sands was the world's most expensive stand-alone casino, featuring 500 tables, 1,600 slot machines, and priced at around $6.6 billion USD.

In June, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un toured some of Singapore's most luxurious tourist attractions — including Marina Bay Sands — and the local crowd greeted him like a rock star.

Marina Bay Sands is also home to a luxury 5-star hotel, shopping mall, convention center, museum, two theaters, multiple upscale restaurants, and two floating pavilions. To top it all off, a Skywalk connects its three buildings and features restaurants, an observation deck, and an infinity pool that looks out over Marina Bay.

I recently got the chance to stay at Marina Bay Sands and experience its best-known attractions. Here's a look inside:

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I got to the Marina Bay Sands (sans security escort) via Singapore's super efficient metro, which stops directly underneath the hotel.

The subway stop leads directly into Marina Bay Sands' giant shopping mall, home to a host of luxury designer brands.

Seen from the outside, here's the full view of the Marina Bay Sands complex from the water. The structure on the left is the ArtScience museum, designed to look like a lotus flower.

Source: Marina Bay Sands

• President Donald Trump's former campaign manager wants people to know that Trump is like most Americans.
• He told a story about Trump driving his Rolls Royce to illustrate his point.
• Lewandowski also said Trump knows how much things costs, including fast food.

President Donald Trump's former campaign manager insists that billionaire-turned-US President Donald Trump is a regular guy, with experiences just like most Americans — and claims he has the story to prove it.

Journalists quizzed Corey Lewandowski over Trump's understanding of Americans' daily routines during a Christian Science Monitor breakfast roundtable, and he insisted the president understood them well.

Lewandowski illustrated this by sharing a story of a pre-presidency Trump getting pulled over by the police for talking on the phone while driving his Rolls Royce.

"He loves to drive. I shouldn't tell the story; I'll get in trouble," Lewandowski said, according to The New York Times and The Washington Post.

He continued: "But I remember he was driving his Rolls-Royce from New York City one day up to the golf course in Bedminster. And guess what happened, right? When you're in New York and you're on your telephone, you're driving your Rolls-Royce up to New Jersey, you get stopped. Right? And so I remember, he's like: 'Corey, I'm going to let you go. I just got pulled over.'"

Trump's campaign team and supporters have positioned him as a man of the people, but skeptics point to his lavish lifestyle and wealth.

Trump himself has sometimes offered anecdotes that suggest he avoids many of the day-to-day activities undertaken by most Americans. In August, he appeared to not understand grocery shopping by stating that you need ID to go shopping while making his case for voter ID laws.

Retail transactions in the US rarely require ID anymore. Shoppers paying with a check or card may have to produce ID, but this is largely done at the retailer's discretion and is much less common than it was a generation ago.

Lewandowski defended Trump against such a characterization, and told The Times it was "absolutely not the case" that Trump "has no understanding of what things cost."

He told a story about buying fast food with Trump to illustrate his point.

"When we would go to a McDonald's or a fast-food place on the campaign trail, he would know what it would cost because he would take out the cash and he would pay for [it]," Lewandowski said.

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• Applebee's parent company, Dine Brands, and its second-largest franchisee, RMH Holdings, are battling in court, with Dine Brands attempting to take control of dozens of the franchisee's restaurants.
• RMH controls more than 140 Applebee's locations and filed for bankruptcy in May, blaming Dine Brands' "ill-advised and value-destroying" decisions for struggling sales and millions of wasted dollars.
• The franchisee filed for bankruptcy at 3:30 a.m. on May 8, hours after Dine Brands' CEO issued an ultimatum: send $12 million in unpaid royalties by the end of the day, or lose your restaurants.
• Dine Brands claims that RMH owes the company more than $23 million in unpaid and lost future royalties and other fees. 

There's a battle raging within Applebee's.

On one side is the chain's parent company, Dine Brands. On the other is Applebee's second-largest franchisee, RMH Holdings, which filed for bankruptcy earlier this year — at 3:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 8, to be exact.

The bankruptcy filing came hours after a fateful phone call on Monday afternoon between Dine Brands CEO Steve Joyce and RMH representatives.

In the phone call, which is said to have lasted less than five minutes, Joyce said that if the franchisee didn't wire Dine Brands $12 million by the end of the day, dozens of the franchisee's stores would be shut down, according to three people with knowledge of RMH's thinking on the matter.

RMH said it was a shocking ultimatum, with one source with direct knowledge of the conversation calling it the equivalent of "having a nuclear bomb dropped on your head." This person asked to remain anonymous to be able to speak frankly about the situation. ...

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• Aretha Franklin, known as the "Queen of Soul," died at her home in Detroit on Thursday at the age of 76, her publicist told the Associated Press.
• Her cause of death was advanced pancreatic cancer, according to a statement from Franklin's family.
• Reports earlier this week indicated the singer was "gravely ill" and put on hospice care in her home in Michigan.

Aretha Franklin died at her home in Detroit on Thursday at the age of 76, her publicist told the Associated Press.

Her cause of death was advanced pancreatic cancer, the AP said, citing a statement from Franklin's family.

Reports earlier this week cited friends and family members as saying Franklin, known as the "Queen of Soul," was "gravely ill" and put on hospice care in her home in Michigan.

"In one of the darkest moments of our lives, we are not able to find the appropriate words to express the pain in our heart," Franklin's family said in a statement released by her publicist, Gwendolyn Quinn. "We have lost the matriarch and rock of our family. The love she had for her children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and cousins knew no bounds."

Rumors of Franklin's declining health followed her for several years, and she denied reports in 2011 that said she had cancer. She canceled a series of tour dates in 2017 and 2018 for health reasons, and in April her doctor ordered her to "stay off the road and rest completely."

Franklin released her first album, "Songs of Faith," in 1956, and her decades-spanning career earned 10 top-10 singles, including "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," "Think," "I Say a Little Prayer," "Chain of Fools," and her iconic 1967 cover of Otis Redding's "Respect," which became an anthem for the Civil Rights Movement.

Her voice was a singular force that earned her the designation of the greatest singer of all time in a 2008 Rolling Stone list.

"You know a force from heaven. You know something that God made. And Aretha is a gift from God," the Rolling Stone feature said. "When it comes to expressing yourself through song, there is no one who can touch her. She is the reason why women want to sing."

Franklin was one of the best-selling artists in history, with one industry estimate indicating she sold over 75 million records worldwide in her career.

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• Mike Pence was just dubbed "the greatest vice president" since John Adams by Ohio congressman Steve Chabot.
• In reality, Adams hated his time as vice president.
• He was given very little to do other than preside over the Senate.
• The role of the vice president now holds significantly more power and prestige.

Mike Pence is "the greatest vice president of the United States, well, since John Adams," according to Rep. Steve Chabot of Ohio.

Chabot probably meant that as a compliment. After all, he made the comparison while speaking at Pence's event in Cincinnati on Wednesday, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.

Plus, Chabot is clearly a fan of the first-ever US vice president. He's one of the co-sponsors of a bill that would set up an Adams Memorial Commission — a crucial step in establishing a national memorial dedicated to the founding father.

Adams is certainly one of the preeminent founders of the United States. The prickly New Englander helped draft the Declaration of Independence, and was one of its biggest advocates in the Continental Congress.

During the Revolutionary War, Adams went on to serve in a key diplomatic role in France, and ultimately participated in peace talks with Britain. As the second president of the United States, he participated in the fledgling country's first-ever peaceful transfer of federal power.

But if you look closely at Adams' track record as the first US vice president, you'll find that Chabot's comment rings more as an unintentional insult.

Adams detested being vice president, which he compared to languishing in 'prison'

In Adams's day, the vice presidency was still technically the second highest office in the US. But on a practical, day-to-day level, the role was more decorative than functional.

Adams would chafe against the constraints of his office during his tenure under President George Washington from 1789 to 1797.

The main task that fell to Adams was serving as president of the US Senate. But Adams, the consummate debater and lecturer, didn't get much respect from the legislators.

According to "The US Senate: Fundamentals of American Government," some of the snarkier senators began referring to him as "His Rotundity" — a mockery of his suggestion that the president of the Senate be addressed as "His Majesty."

In theory, Adams could have had the ear of Washington, with whom he shared a good — but not especially close — relationship. But, according to PBS, Adams "was by no means a close adviser to President Washington" and ultimately had very little to do with shaping US policy.

He didn't even attend Cabinet meetings, according to Mount Vernon, Washington's estate.

Adams made no secret of his frustration. He complained that being vice president "renders me so completely insignificant." He likened the role to languishing in a "Prison" and called it the very "Scene of Dullness," according to John Ferling's "Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800."

At the end of the day, Adams was a backup president. A warm body who could slip into the role of chief executive if the unthinkable happened and Washington died in office.

Adams summed up the ego-bruising paradox of his job as such: "I am Vice President. In this I am nothing, but I may be everything."

Meanwhile, there are a number of other more robust vice presidents that Chabot might have referenced in order to flatter Pence.

According to "The American Vice Presidency: From Irrelevance to Power" author Jules Witcover, modern day vice presidents help to "shape and implement domestic and foreign policies in the administrations in which they've served" in a way that their earliest predecessors did not.

Either way, while Adams may be a well-known founding father of the United States, that doesn't mean that all of the phases of his career deserve equal commendation. And to equate the Pence vice presidency with the Adams vice presidency is to equate the sitting vice president with a stifled, widely derided figure.

And surely, that wasn't Chabot's intent.

Adams himself summed up his frustrating stint as vice president with this thought: "My Country has in its Wisdom contrived for me, the most insignificant Office that ever the Invention of Man contrived or his Imagination conceived: and as I can do neither good nor Evil, I must be born away by Others and meet the common Fate of my country."

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Aretha Franklin died at her home in Detroit on Thursday at the age of 76, her publicist told the Associated Press.

The "Queen of Soul" was one of the best-selling female artists in history with 75 million records sold worldwide in her career.

These are 13 of her most inspirational quotes throughout her expansive career and life.

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On love:

On respect:

On songwriting:

• Millennials loved Ralph Lauren, Abercrombie, Hollister, and other preppy garb. They also spent a lot of time on Facebook. 
• Gen Zs tend to wear fast fashion and athleisure. They've dumped Facebook for Snapchat and Instagram.
• Read on to see the 17 brands millennials loved as teens that haven't captured today's youth.  

When hitting the mall, millennials leaned towards preppy brands like Abercrombie and Ralph Lauren.

But today's teens are all about streetwear, athleisure, and fast fashion — Nike, Adidas, and Forever 21 dominate the Gen Z shopping cart. 

Using insights from asset management firm Piper Jaffray's semi-annual Taking Stock With Teens survey and Bobby Calise, VP of brand tracking at the youth insights firm Ypulse, Business Insider curated a list of 17 companies that millennials adored as teens — but that today's kids tend to avoid. 

Here are the 17 brands, which include footwear, apparel, technology, and beverages:  

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Ralph Lauren

The trend among Gen Z: Gen Z teens are moving to streetwear styles. Teen boys picked Ralph Lauren as their top 10 favorite clothing brand from from 2000 to 2017 — but it fell off the ranking this year. 

Crocs

The trend among Gen Z: Among the 160-plus brands that youth-insights firm Ypulse monitors, Crocs do especially poorly for brand influence among Gen Z consumers, Calise told Business Insider. The garden shoe peaked in 2007 across all age groups. 

Facebook

The trend among Gen Z: Snapchat and Instagram are becoming the preferred social networks for teens. Only 8% of teens said Facebook is their favorite social media platform in 2018, while 45% chose Snapchat and 26% picked Instagram. 

• President Donald Trump blasted the media Thursday in response to hundreds of concurrent editorials decrying his press attacks.
• "THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA IS THE OPPOSITION PARTY," he tweeted.
• More than 350 publications participated in the effort to denounce Trump's attacks against the press.

President Donald Trump sent out a Thursday-morning tweetstorm attacking the news media in response to the hundreds of editorials published earlier in the day decrying his attacks on the press.

"THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA IS THE OPPOSITION PARTY," he tweeted. "It is very bad for our Great Country....BUT WE ARE WINNING!"

Hundreds of US newspapers banded together in a coordinated effort to push back against the president's near-constant bashing of media outlets and journalists he has branded as "fake news" or the "enemy of the people."

The effort, which featured newspapers publishing editorials arguing that the attacks were unjustified and that reporters were not the enemy of the people, was led by The Boston Globe. As of Thursday morning, more than 350 publications participated in the initiative. You can see a full list of the newsrooms here.

"The Boston Globe, which was sold to the the Failing New York Times for 1.3 BILLION DOLLARS (plus 800 million dollars in losses & investment), or 2.1 BILLION DOLLARS, was then sold by the Times for 1 DOLLAR," Trump tweeted. "Now the Globe is in COLLUSION with other papers on free press. PROVE IT!"

Reporters were quick to fact-check Trump's second tweet, noting that his numbers were incorrect.

"The NYT bought the Boston Globe for $1.1 billion, not $1.3 billion or $2.1 billion," tweeted Daniel Dale, a Washington correspondent for The Toronto Star. "It sold the Globe for $70 million, not one dollar."

Hadas Gold, a CNN reporter, echoed Dale, saying the Globe was sold for $70 million.

In Trump's third tweet, he said there "is nothing that I would want more for our Country than true FREEDOM OF THE PRESS." He continued: "The fact is that the Press is FREE to write and say anything it wants, but much of what it says is FAKE NEWS, pushing a political agenda or just plain trying to hurt people. HONESTY WINS!"

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