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Back in college when you were backpacking across Europe, you jammed in as many activities to do as you could; every second counts when you’re traveling on the hard-earned money you made tutoring and waiting tables.
But sometimes people -- rather than crossing off all the items on to-do lists -- wish they could just live like the locals, soaking in the mundane everyday stuff that only people living there know to look for: That bakery around the corner, that bistro down the block, that little bookstore in the alley that you can only find after you’ve called the little town home for a while.
“It is a chance to look at a life differently by living a ‘slow’ life at a travel destination, rather than to ceaselessly move around looking for landmarks or famous eateries,” Lee Yeon-hee, who runs “Lazy Mama,” a holiday rental home for long-term travelers to Jeju Island, wrote on her company’s homepage.
According to Lee, most of her guests are those who wish to relax and enjoy leisurely island life.
Living a month at a travel destination has become a fad in Korea, where many people are swamped by hectic lifestyles. Data from the Korea Tourism Organization showed that Korean workers on average use only around half of their annual paid leave, with the rest of the precious vacation time going up in smoke.
In the past, the idea of traveling for Koreans meant taking full advantage of the short time off work by visiting as many travel spots as possible. This coined the term “gitbal gwangwang,” or flag traveling, in which a tour guide carries a flag to direct a large group of travelers through as many places as possible in the shortest amount of time.
Over time, however, people have opted for spending more time in one place. According to Kayak, an online search engine for travel information including hotels, plane tickets and rental cars, the number of people looking for round-trip plane tickets over a period of 25 to 35 days from January to March increased by 270 percent compared to the same period the year before. The figure jumped eightfold in January when travel-themed TV programs like “Hyori’s Homestay” enjoyed popularity.
Data showed that the top-desired destination for long-term stay was Los Angeles, followed by Paris, New York, Bangkok and Frankfurt.
It does not necessarily have to be a famous foreign city either. For the last two weeks, the KTO has received applicants for its “Living for a Week” event, in which participants can experience living in small villages across the country with unique stories.
Benefits of long-term traveling include befriending locals and enjoying the everyday life of famous cities or towns, such as jogging in Paris or surfing in Hawaii.
There are some who even opt for the life of a nomad across the world. Kim Eun-deok and Baek Jong-min, co-authors of “One City, One Month,” traveled over five years across the world, living one month in each city. The couple’s year consists half of living in their home in Korea, and the other in foreign lands. They say they spend 10,000 won ($8.80) a day to save up for travel costs.
The key to long-term traveling is not to hit all the popular spots, but to have quality time.
“We have to be anxious when not diligent, and must feel guilty when we’re not a hardworking mom. ‘You can just kick back and relax for a month’ is a message I hope that resonates,” wrote Lee Yeon-hee.
A late night vote set the stage to gut Obamacare.
An Obamacare sign is seen on the UniVista Insurance company office on December 15, 2015, in Miami, Florida.
At about 1:30 a.m. ET today (January 12), the U.S. Senate began taking apart the Affordable Care Act (ACA, often referred to as “Obamacare”). Via a 51-48 vote, senators approved a budget resolution that will make it possible to repeal large portions of the healthcare program that is responsible for adding an estimated 20 million+ Americans to health insurance rolls since the first provisions rolled out in 2010. As a budget vote, it only required a simple majority for passage and effectively shut out all possibility of a Democrat-led filibuster. The resolution is set to go to the House this week, with a vote expected by tomorrow (January 13).
NPR reports that if the budget reconciliation measure passes in the House and is signed by Donald Trump after he takes office on January 20, it won’t repeal the entire law. But as ObamacareFacts.com reports, it would kill many provisions that are directly impacted by government spending and taxation, including the mandate that everyone be insured, the expansion of Medicaid and the subsidies that help make coverage more affordable.
Democrats used the late night session as an opportunity to force their colleagues to vote their support (or lack thereof) for many of the individual elements of the ACA. They will use those recorded responses as a map to the plan Republicans might propose to replace it. The body voted that it would not support a provision that keeps young people on their parent’s insurance until age 26, and made it clear that it will not support one that protects coverage for people with pre-existing conditions.
Per an October WalletHub report, in 2015, the Black uninsured rate was 10.97 percent. It was 19.51 for Latinxs and 6.29 percent for White Americans. Overall, the uninsured rate has dropped 6.02 percent nationwide since 2010, but that trend is expected to be reversed if the ACA is repealed.
Once again: Call your Reps + Senators.
Crisis aftermath: Cure worse than the disease?
Five years after the financial crisis, Wall Street is doing great but Main Street continues to lag.
Bank balance sheets have been rebuilt, but the too-big-to-fail institutions have only gotten bigger.
Unemployment is lower than the 10 percent crisis peak, but a large portion of the gains have become due to an explosion in part-time jobs and a 35-year low in the labor force participation rate.
Corporate cash has surged, but so has corporate debt.
So are we really any better off?
The economy has come a long way from the brink, but clearly much needs to be done.
As usual, the NetNet TV gang was split over where we stand.
Reckon you’re smarter than a high school kid? Rising Australian star of comedy, Kate Wilkins, of Blakehurst, took to the streets of Sydney to find out how many Aussies could prove that they could match the intelligence of the average student. A national grand finalist in the 2017 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Class Clowns Competition, Ms Wilkins received the 2018 Jordan McLellan Memorial Trophy for Best New Improviser. She coaches primary and high school students in improvisation, and also performs as a part of the University of Sydney Ensemble. A recent survey of more than 1000 Australians showed that 81 per cent did not know Pythagoras theorem. People surveyed aged 55 and older were the strongest performing age group when it came to answering typical questions a high school would study. They were followed by the 18-34 age group. The survey and video were created ahead of the release of the film Night School on Blu Ray, DVD and digital. Ms Wilkins collaborated with Universal Sony Home Entertainment on the project.
Street chat: Young Aussie comedian Kate Wilkins.
Reckon you’re smarter than a high school kid?
Rising Australian star of comedy, Kate Wilkins, of Blakehurst, took to the streets of Sydney to find out how many Aussies could prove that they could match the intelligence of the average student.
A national grand finalist in the 2017 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Class Clowns Competition, Ms Wilkins received the 2018 Jordan McLellan Memorial Trophy for Best New Improviser.
She coaches primary and high school students in improvisation, and also performs as a part of the University of Sydney Ensemble.
A recent survey of more than 1000 Australians showed that 81 per cent did not know Pythagoras theorem.
People surveyed aged 55 and older were the strongest performing age group when it came to answering typical questions a high school would study. They were followed by the 18-34 age group.
The survey and video were created ahead of the release of the film Night School on Blu Ray, DVD and digital. Ms Wilkins collaborated with Universal Sony Home Entertainment on the project.
Discuss "Video \| Rising Blakehurst comedian puts the public to the test"
The Youth Strike 4 Climate movement will involve hundreds of thousands of young people today (Mar 15).
Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg, who inspired the international Youth Strike 4 Climate movement, has been nominated for a Nobel peace prize just a day before her movement makes its boldest move yet.
Thunberg began a solo protest in Sweden last August by refusing to attend school, calling for more to be done to combat climate change. Strikes are expected in 1,659 towns and cities in 105 countries on Friday (Mar 15), involving hundreds of thousands of young people.
The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded in December. There are 301 candidates for the 2019 prize: 223 individuals and 78 organisations. If Thunberg were to win, she would be the youngest recipient since Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai, who was 17 when she received the prize in 2014.
Ms Thunberg tweeted she was "honoured and very grateful” to receive the nomination.
The Swedish teenager describes herself on Twitter as "a 16-year-old climate activist with Asperger [syndrome]". She first staged a school strike for the climate in front of the Swedish parliament in August last year. Since then, she has been missing lessons most Fridays to stage her regular protests.
She continued to gain international attention after speaking at the UN Climate Talks in Poland last December and at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January.
A group of MPs have been talking about gaming and whether they need to do more to help people who are addicted.
They heard from James Good, a former gaming addict, who told them how he once spent 32 hours gaming "without eating, sleeping or leaving his room".
Mr Good, who now works with the Game Quitters support organisation, said it led to him dropping out of university and had affected every aspect of his life.
He shared his experience of gaming and talked about how excessive gaming can harm young peoples' studies and socialising.
Should there be a limit on gaming time?
Do some games lead to children gambling?
Vlogger Jack Edwards said there was an "endless universe of possibilities" in gaming, and social media means that "there's always someone to talk to, there's always someone awake".
Do you think MPs and the government need to do more to help people who might be addicted to gaming? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
If you are at all worried about gaming or any of the issues that you've read in this article, there are lots of places that you can go for support. You can speak to an adult that you trust like a relative or a teacher. BBC's Own It have an article on keeping gaming fun and who you can speak to if you're worried you might need help with an addiction.
Air pollution: Should cars be banned outside schools?
If you are dedicated and disciplined, you can read the market internals to day- and swing-trade, making consistent profits trading futures and exchange-traded funds (ETF).
Most of us remember when we first learned and experimented with technical analysis and chart patterns. Likely, you were blown away by discovering what you may have imagined to be the Holy Grail of trading strategies. However, after the first six months of real trading, your trading account was the same size and your trades were winning around 50% of the time.
The culprit usually is that many of the breakouts you buy into quickly reverse, and you watch as price action goes against the original position. That’s when the obvious reveals itself: Reading chart patterns and volume is not enough to give you a significant trading edge.
We hear professional traders articulate that to consistently pull money out of the market, you need to trade against the masses and avoid herd mentality. This sounds quite simple, but just how do traders go about doing it?
Market internals are the answer. The concept is relatively simple. In theory, if everyone is buying a commodity or stock, then it is only a matter of time before everyone runs out of trading capital and the buying will evaporate. When the last buyers buy, it leaves only the sellers in control of the broad market.
A simple, clean pattern that large numbers of traders see unfolding means only one thing: Everyone is taking a position before the breakout in anticipation of the coming move. With the general public moving into this chart pattern, it would make sense that the underlying investment vehicle would move higher and lead to a breakout with the last traders (breakout traders) jumping on the train.
Just as these last traders enter the position, the smart money (large traders) would start selling into the buying surge, getting top dollar. Once the breakout fails, everyone who was long hopes for another rally, which inevitably never comes. As time drags on, this leads to traders getting impatient, exiting their positions and causing price to erode and create more fear in the market. As this process comes full circle, significant numbers of traders get out of their losing positions, causing a waterfall sell-off with an unlucky few holding the proverbial bag.
The key is to look at the market backwards from the straightforward analysis. Focus on buying into heavy volume sell-offs and selling into heavy volume breakouts. This is a tough transition for most breakout traders to make, and it is best to paper trade until you are comfortable with buying into fear and selling into greed. It feels completely wrong at the beginning, but the profits speak for themselves.
Four main tools are required to trade against the herd. This will be described for the S&P 500 E-mini futures contract, although it also works with other markets.
The futures market structure makes it easy to capitalize on both rising and falling markets. Additionally, there is no requirement to have a $25,000 minimum in your trading account to meet the pattern-day-trading rule, which is required to day trade stocks or ETFs.
The internal market indicators to focus on are the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) down/up volume ratio, the put/call ratio and the NYSE advance/decline line. While these may seem elementary at first glance, when you combine their information you end up with a simple, highly effective trading strategy.
Over the last two years, the S&P 500 has provided a 1.25% profit, on average, each time one of these extreme sentiment readings occurred (see "Extreme reactions," below). These trades were in late August and averaged a 1.75% return, and each trade lasted only 24 hours. Another benefit is that money is not at risk for long periods of time.
Now, let’s look more deeply at how to find these low-risk trades using market internals.
This is the most easy to follow and understand of the three indicators. This tool is most effective when there are 1,000 or more individual stocks trading up on the day. In that scenario, the market is nearing an overbought condition, meaning too many stocks have moved up too quickly, and traders should start to take profits or exit their positions (see "Market advancement," below). It’s also helpful to look at the intraday and daily chart for topping patterns or resistance levels. Then, wait patiently for the other two indicators to confirm this sentiment before going short the market.
You can get a close-up of many parts of the world that have seen dramatic changes due to the world's rising temperatures.
With world leaders gathering to talk climate change at the COP21 Conference in Paris this week, Google thought it was time for an object lesson.
The Google Maps blog highlighted several locations around the globe where you can see the impacts of climate change thanks to the Street View capabilities in Maps. These particular settings were made possible through the Street View Trekker, a backpack that’s loaded up with a 360-degree camera.
The highlights include a Polar bear on the edge of Hudson Bay, which must deal with a lack of ice. Scientists are also using the Street View Trekker to monitor the health of blue oak trees, which are threatened due to drought and rising temperatures.
Street View captured Polar Bears at the edge of Hudson Bay.
Head to Google Maps to check such other spots around the world that need more attention, or grab the Street View app for Android and iOS.
Why this matters: Google’s Street View Trekker allows for Google Maps to stretch into places where vehicles can’t go. Along with feeding the curiosity of those who like the idea of exploring the globe, Street View can be especially helpful in education where students can get a much closer look at the world. Along with all the new field trips you can take in Google Cardboard, there’s plenty to keep your eyes busy.
People Who Say Police Were Called For #LivingWhileBlack Ask Congress To Act Since two men were arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks, there have been over a dozen more incidents of people calling 911 on people of color who were seemingly just living their everyday lives.
The now infamous incident at a Starbucks in Philadelphia is far from isolated. Experts say it echoes a tragic past that excluded black people from public spaces.
It happens while shopping for prom, waiting for a friend at a Starbucks, leaving an Airbnb or visiting a college — minorities, most often black people, are deemed suspicious by a white person, who calls the police.
Starbucks: "I have two gentlemen at my cafe..."
But the now infamous Starbucks incident is far from isolated and experts say it echoes a tragic past that excluded black people from public spaces.
Since that incident there have been over a dozen more, detailed below, of people calling 911 on people of color who were seemingly just living their everyday lives. Of course, not every call to 911 involving different races is about race, but this list of incidents points to an unsettling pattern. Those affected by it call it "living while black," and it spurred a hashtag that went viral.
Now, some of the people who had 911 called on them for doing innocuous things like moving or napping are calling on Congress to hold a hearing so they can share their stories and find solutions. In an open letter they say "a racially-biased 911 call is a costly one, from the financial and time resources pulled from 911 operators to the protocol police officers must then follow. By assuming an excessive response, which risks arrest, incarceration, and death, generations of black lives pay the ultimate cost."
The letter says the hearing should focus on holding false accusers accountable and examining "protocol practices."
A petition in support of the hearing has received over 300 signatures.
"Some white people become motivated to put black people in their place. Or tell them that they don't belong in these white spaces as it were," says Elijah Anderson, a professor of sociology at Yale, where a white student called the police on a black student napping in a dorm.
There is no hard data on how often these calls happen. But it's not new. Thanks to social media, people are just more aware. A 2016 Pew Poll found that roughly half of black people surveyed said someone acted suspicious of them because of their race in that past year.
"People are reacting to a feeling or a sense or this idea that they're the general manager of the universe that they can direct racial traffic with the help of law enforcement, where and what are the appropriate things that people of color, African-Americans in particular can do," says Katheryn Russell-Brown, a professor of law and director of the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations at University of Florida Law School.
On May 3, Mekhi Lee was shopping with two of his friends who were preparing for prom at a Nordstrom Rack. They bought a few items and left. But Lee said he forgot his hat in the store. They went back inside and Lee says a customer called the boys punks. They asked to speak to a manager and the employees told the boys they'd called the police on them.
The boys left the store. Outside the police arrived. Over dispatch, Lee says the police said that three black young males had stolen several items. In the car they had receipts and their purchased items.
"I was scared the whole time," Lee said. "The police pulled us over like we did something bad but we didn't do anything, all we did was shop. I was scared because I didn't know how far the situation could go."
He was afraid — he'd seen situations where unarmed black men were mistreated by police or unarmed black men were shot.
"I was nervous the whole time," Lee said.
Nordstrom Rack has since apologized. Lee said it might not change the behavior right away but the company recognized that they were targeted for shopping while black.
Donisha Prendergast, a filmmaker and Bob Marley's granddaughter, and Komi Olaf, a visual artist, were checking out of an Airbnb on April 30 in Rialto, Calif. with two other friends. They'd been in town for a festival put on by Prendergast's family.
"A neighbor called the police reporting that she saw three black people stealing stuff and the police responded by sending seven police vehicles and a helicopter and we were surrounded in the middle of the community by all of this activity," Prendergast said. She posted a video of part of the incident on Instagram.
Airbnb: "I'm observing a young black man..."
Police say it wasn't about race — a senior citizen saw strange people in her neighbor's house and called the police. They also say that no helicopter was used. But Prendergast and Olaf see no other explanation. The police didn't address their one white friend. On the 911 call, when the caller sees a white woman with them she tells the dispatcher, the dispatcher asks if it's the owner of the house. The caller says no and later says "I don't know. Maybe everything's O.K."
Prendergast says she and her friends are considering taking legal action.
"I asked the police officer if the woman would have called if we were three white ladies leaving the house. That was when I realized because their reaction to that question made me know that it was definitely a racially motivated call," Komi Olaf, the visual artist, said. The police dismissed the question.

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