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An essential guide to all the Targaryen kids on ‘House of the Dragon’
Leo Ashton and Ewan Mitchell as young and adult versions of Aemond Targaryen in "House of the Dragon." Ollie Upton/HBO
- The Targaryens have a confusing at best family tree in "House of the Dragon."
- Alicent and Rhaenyra's kids grew from toddlers to young adults within the first season.
- We put together a guide for all the children, with photos of all the actors who played them.
"House of the Dragon" is finally back — and so is its wildly expansive Targaryen brood .
By season two, Westeros is coalescing around two potential rules: Aegon II, King Viserys' eldest male descendant, and Rhaenyra, his eldest daughter and chosen heir. By the time Viserys dies, both Aegon II and Rhaenyra have children of their own. Furthermore, some of the Targaryen children are finally coming of age, making them players in the war themselves.
Still, they're a lot to keep track of. We've put together a guide to all of the children in the Targaryen family with pictures, so you can keep all of those silver-haired (and brown-haired, if your name starts with "J" and ends with "acaerys") kids straight.
Warning: Major spoilers for "House of the Dragon" season one, and the season two premiere.
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Rite Aid is closing even more stores in 2024. See if yours is on the list.
Rite Aid is planning to close more stores in 2024. Reuters/Noah Berger
- Rite Aid is planning to close more stores in 2024 as part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
- The drugstore chain has shuttered almost 550 locations since October, NBC reported.
- Rite Aid has been shrinking its store count for years, losing ground to rivals Walgreens and CVS.
More Rite Aid stores are closing as part of the retailer's voluntary bankruptcy.
The latest list includes 27 stores in Michigan and Ohio, according to filings from the retailer's bankruptcy case. That brings the number of stores put on the chopping block and named in filings this year to 100. Most of those came in February.
The company said last fall that it would shutter about 150 Rite Aid stores.
Since the drugstore chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October, Rite Aid has closed nearly 550 stores, NBC reported, including this latest round.
A Rite Aid spokesperson did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment on the latest list of proposed closures.
"Rite Aid regularly assesses its retail footprint to ensure we are operating efficiently while meeting the needs of our customers, communities, associates and overall business," a Rite Aid spokesperson told BI in February about the first round of closures this year. "In connection with the court-supervised process, we notified the Court of certain underperforming stores we are closing to further reduce rent expense and strengthen overall financial performance."
Rite Aid has been shrinking its base over the past decade. The chain had about 4,600 stores in 2013. It sold about 2,000 of those to rival Walgreens in 2017 after federal regulators blocked Rite Aid's proposed sale to Walgreens.
The company currently says that it has about 1,600 stores — a fraction of the networks that rivals CVS and Walgreens have built.
Here's the list of Rite Aid store closures for 2024:
California:
Lakewood: 5520 Woodruff Avenue
San Diego: 8694 Lake Murray Boulevard
Needles: 1020 East Broadway Street
North Hollywood: 11350 Victory Boulevard
Fontana: 9940 Sierra Avenue
Livermore: 968 Murrieta Boulevard
Hemet: 260 North Sanderson Avenue
Westminster: 6767 Westminster Boulevard
Studio City: 10989 Ventura Boulevard
La Crescenta: 2647 West Foothill Boulevard
Los Angeles: 3230 West Slauson Avenue, 11750 Wilmington Avenue
Tustin: 630 East 1st Street
Susanville: 1615 Main Street
Redlands: 700 East Redlands Boulevard, Suite A
Moreno Valley: 24991 Alessandro Boulevard
Simi Valley: 1159 East Los Angeles Avenue
Colton: 2025 East Washington Street
Fresno: 4224 East Shields Avenue
Rancho Cucamonga: 9650 Baseline Road
Fountain Valley: 17904 Magnolia Street
Temecula: 39782 Winchester Road
Connecticut:
Milford: 1360 Boston Post Road
Delaware:
Harrington: 17069 South Dupont Highway
Idaho:
Boise: 10600 Fairview Avenue
Maryland:
Baltimore: 250 West Chase Street
Cambridge: 798 Sunburst Highway
Massachusetts:
New Bedford: 824 Purchase Street
Revere: 467 Broadway
Michigan:
Detroit: 4612 Woodward Avenue
Midland: 2006 N. Saginaw Road
Howell: 1002 East Grand River Avenue
Added in June:
Livonia: 37399 6 Mile Road
Burton: G4033 Fenton Road, 6026 Lapeer Road
Flint: 4519 Richfield Road
Ludington: 936 East Ludington Avenue
Wyandotte: 1998 Biddle Avenue
Spring Lake: 603 East Savidge Street
Bay City: 3880 Wilder Road
Marlette: 2985 Main Street
Grosse Pointe Farms: 107 Kercheval Avenue
Milford: 640 North Milford Road
Allen Park: 15411 Southfield Road
New Hampshire:
Milford: 586 Nashua Street, Unit 8-9
Franklin: 951 Central Street
New Jersey:
Clementon: 1360 Blackwood Clementon Road
Haddon Township: 249 Cuthbert Boulevard
Newark: 104 12th Avenue
Bayonne: 1097 Broadway
Newton: 237 Spring Street
Logan Township: 335 Village Center Drive
New York:
Brooklyn: 249 7th Avenue, 7812 Flatlands Avenue
Auburn: 153 Grant Avenue
Hartsdale: 196 East Hartsdale Avenue
Bronx: 901 East Gun Hill Road, 2426-34 Eastchester Road, 1179 East 233rd Street
Elmira: 119 West 2nd Street
Le Roy: 151 West Main Street
Poughkeepsie: 40 Vassar Road
Buffalo: 2474 Bailey Avenue
Mount Vernon: 47 East Prospect Avenue
Ohio:
Marion: 1081 Mount Vernon Avenue
Lorain: 2709 Broadway Avenue
Middlefield: 15596 West High Street
Brookpark: 15149 Snow Road
Maple Heights: 21800 Libby Road
Cleveland: 11702 Lorain Avenue
Warren: 2154 Elm Road NE, 1560 Parkman Road NW
Geneva: 633 South Broadway
Amherst: 100 South Leavitt Road
Bryan: 1221 West High Street
Added in June:
Ashtabula: 2148 Lake Avenue
Cleveland: 3402 Clark Avenue
Defiance: 1816 East Second Street
Youngstown: 3527 Canfield Road
Coshocton: 218 Chestnut Street
Springfield: 1805 South Limestone Street
Oregon: 3362 Navarre Avenue
Toledo: 2434 West Laskey Road
Alliance: 1895 West State Street
Massillon: 242 Lincoln Way West
Bowling Green: 722-740 South Main Street
Wheelersburg: 8130 Ohio River Road
St. Marys: 1502 Executive Drive
Tiffin: 530 West Market Street
Oregon:
Portland: 600 NW 10th Avenue
Gresham: 1555 N.E. Division Street
Pennsylvania:
Greencastle: 200 North Antrim Way
Allentown: 6822 Hamilton Boulevard
Doylestown: 472 N. Main Street
Phoenixville: 200 Kimberton Road
Altoona: 1600 9th Ave. Suite 35
Harrisburg: 501 South 29th St. Suite A
Sharon: 60 South Water Street
Virginia:
Hayes: 2460 George Washington Memorial
Suffolk: 1517 Holland Road
Washington:
Everett: 1825 Broadway
Walla Walla: 2028 East Isaacs Avenue
Belfair: 23940 NE State Route 3
Seattle: 1820 N 45th Street
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12 influencer athletes who are set to dominate the Paris Olympics and your FYP
Olympians Ilona Maher, Simone Biles, and Tom Daley. Mike Coppola/Staff/Getty Images; Elsa/Staff/Getty Images; Wang He/Stringer/Getty Images
- The 2024 Summer Olympics will begin in Paris on July 26.
- Elite athletes are sharing their daily lives and intense training routines on TikTok.
- US Olympic rugby player Ilona Maher has 1.1 million followers on the platform.
The 2024 Summer Olympics are just around the corner, and as elite athletes polish their routines and compete in final qualifiers, they're taking fans along for the ride on TikTok.
The platform is a popular choice for sharing training schedules, daily routines, skits with teammates, and brand partnerships.
Such partnerships can play a key role in funding their Olympic lifestyles, especially in niche sports like synchronized swimming or volleyball, which don't garner the same attention as other sports like soccer or basketball.
In fact, Business Insider reported in 2021 that a global study of 500 elite athletes found that nearly 60% of them did not consider themselves financially stable.
Since sponsorships are largely dependent on an athlete's popularity and performance, TikTok and other social media platforms like Instagram and YouTube have become important, albeit necessary, ways for athletes to gain a notable following and increase their chances to collaborate with major brands like L'Oréal, Amazon, Delta, and Brooks Running.
Ahead of final team announcements for the 2024 Olympics, here are 12 elite athletes who are prepared to dominate Paris and your For You Page this summer.
All follower counts were accurate as of June 20, 2024.
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I dined at Disney World’s only Michelin-starred restaurant for $375. You’ll want to snag a reservation even if you don’t care about the theme parks.
Victoria & Albert's in Disney's Grand Floridian Resort was recently awarded a Michelin star. Casey Clark
- I spent $375, including the tip, to dine at Disney's only Michelin-starred restaurant.
- Victoria & Albert's in Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa offers an upscale prix fixe meal.
- Although it was expensive, I'd return for the quality service, delicious fare, and royal ambiance.
Disney World made history in April by earning the first and only Michelin star for a restaurant owned and operated by a US theme park.
The famed restaurant, Victoria & Albert's inside the Grand Floridian Resort, offers prix fixe tasting menus starting at $295 a person with optional drink add-ons.
I've been visiting Disney World for 20 years but never stepped foot inside the Grand Floridian restaurant until this month.
After hearing rave reviews from friends and influencers online, I wanted to try it myself to see what the hype was about.
Here's how it went.
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Up 78% in a year, is it too late to buy Lovisa shares?

The Lovisa Holdings Ltd (ASX: LOV) share price has skyrocketed, rising 77.63% over the past year and 194.95% over the last 5 years. That’s an impressive return to its shareholders, dwarfing the S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) which has risen 5.4% and 16.7% during those time periods.
The affordable jewellery retailer has been restlessly rolling out its stores globally, expanding its presence to 860 stores across more than 40 countries.
Can it continue this impressive growth in its business for its shareholders? Let’s see what experts are saying.
Strong 1H FY24 results
In February, the company announced its 1H FY24 financials, showcasing strong growth despite challenges in the broader retail market.
While its comparable store sales were down 4.4%, the rapid store expansion was more than enough to offset the impact, leading to an 18.2% growth in its revenue to $373 million.
Operating income grew 16.3% to $81.6 million, while its net profit after tax (NPAT) was up 12% to $53.5 million.
At the heart of its growth strategy are its rapid store roll-outs. During the 12 months to December 2023, the company added 74 new stores and entered into three new markets, including China and Vietnam.
Lovisa CEO Victor Herero commented:
The company has continued to deliver solid sales and profit growth and invested in the structures to support our steady global expansion. This positions us strongly to move forward with growth in both existing and new markets.
What experts say about Lovisa
Many sing praises of Lovisa’s expansion strategy. Tribeca fund manager Jun Bei Liu snatched some Lovisa shares using a brief drop in the share price in early June, citing its strong management team as my colleague Bernd highlighted.
Since then, the company announced the planned departure of its CEO, Victor Herero. Despite this, Bell Potter remained positive on Lovisa shares as it sees the incoming CEO John Cheston, who is the current CEO of Smiggle, as equally impressive.
Morgans is another positive broker on Lovisa. Analysts at Morgans believe the company is well-positioned for long-term growth in light of the retailer’s expansion into mainland China in FY24.
How cheap are Lovisa shares?
Looking ahead to the next three years, Lovisa shares are trading at a price-to-earnings ratio of 42x for FY24, 32x for FY25, and 26x for FY26, using earnings estimates by S&P Capital IQ.
These earnings estimates imply the market is expecting the company will grow its earnings-per-share by 33% in FY25 and another 21% in FY26.
The Lovisa share price closed trade on Thursday up 1.8% at $32.73. At this price, the company offers a dividend yield of 2.5%.
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Donald Sutherland’s huge ‘Animal House’ negotiation mistake cost him millions
Donald Sutherland in "Animal House." YouTube screencap
- Donald Sutherland was instrumental in getting "Animal House" made when he signed on.
- He did it as a favor to director John Landis but wanted more money instead of points.
- He went on to regret it as the film made $141 million worldwide against a $3 million budget.
"National Lampoon's Animal House" is one of the greatest comedies ever. Yet, when it was being made, not even one of its stars believed in the potential of a small comedy about toga parties.
That is why when it came down to Donald Sutherland taking a fee of either 2% of the film's gross profits or $35,000, he took the latter. He later recalled it as a mistake that cost him a lot of money.
Despite the movie's now classic status, studio execs didn't have much faith in "Animal House" at the time.
According to Matty Simmons' "Fat, Drunk, and Stupid: The Inside Story Behind the Making of Animal House," these were the words of Universal Studios boss Ned Tanen after he read the first outline for the movie: "Everybody is drunk, or high, or getting laid. I'd never make this movie."
It wasn't until the production promised Tanen that they could make the film for $3 million that Universal signed on. However, the studio still wanted a star to sell the movie to audiences.
For Universal, "Saturday Night Live" stand-out John Belushi wasn't enough, so director John Landis went to his friend, Donald Sutherland (a huge star by 1978), and asked him for a favor. A hesitant Sutherland ultimately agreed to be in the film, but only after Landis told him that all his scenes could be done in a day.
The studio and the comedy now had its "star." Yet, there was still the important matter of just how much Sutherland would get paid for the one day on set.
Sutherland wanted more cash upfront rather than a stake in the profits
Simmons said the studio wanted a star but "wouldn't pay for a star." This led to a negotiation that Sutherland would regret for years.
"[Sutherland] first asked for $250,000 and, in Landis's words, 'The studio said, 'Get the f— outta here!'" Simmons wrote.
Universal then countered Sutherland's offer with a simple $20,000 for a day's work plus points (a percentage of the profits) on the film.
Sutherland once said he'd rather not know how much his "Animal House" blunder actually cost him. Arnold Jerocki/Getty Images
The problem was that Sutherland wanted nothing to do with points in the film. According to the book, Sutherland famously told Landis: "I can't take that offer. I just want the money. I don't want any points in the movie."
Universal eventually offered a fee of $35,000 with no points for a day plus one — in Hollywood speak, meaning technically two days of work because you can't hire an actor for just one day in case they go over time. Sutherland happily accepted that offer and went on to play the film's pot-smoking professor, Dave Jennings.
Then, on July 28, 1978, Sutherland and the rest of the world saw the finished product when "Animal House" hit theaters, and comedy would never be the same.
'Animal House' was an animal at the box office.
"Animal House" would become one of the most successful comedies ever, pulling in over $141 million at the box office on the $3 million production budget Universal was initially promised. Adjusted for inflation, that's about $674 million in today's dollars.
Even in 2024, it still ranks as the 62nd highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time in terms of domestic gross.
In a 2012 interview on the "Opie and Anthony" radio show, Sutherland said that the number of points he was offered was 2%.
When asked, "Do you know what would 2% roughly have translated into?" Sutherland smirked and responded, "I don't want to know."
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My husband and I used a ‘Cinderella’ rule to limit our kids’ screen time. We don’t regret it.
In the Estrada household, the internet disappeared at midnight. Dragon Claws/Getty Images
- Maria and Dexter Estrada locked their kids' devices at midnight with Google Family Link and Microsoft Family Safety.
- Emphasizing screen time moderation, the Estradas suspended this "Cinderella" rule on weekends.
- Both children excelled, winning $67,000 in science awards and pursuing tech and medical careers.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Maria Estrada, 51, who is a plant-science lecturer at Fresno State and the mother of two teenagers. It's been edited for length and clarity.
As a mom of two kids, I've struggled with screen time.
I didn't want my kids to be on the computer a lot. I've seen a lot of articles about kids being on computers, smartphones, and iPads.
Still, I believe in moderation. If you say no, it's giving them a signal that they cannot do it and that you are not respectful of their emotions, their needs, and their wants.
Setting a midnight cutoff helped limit the Estrada children's screen time. iStock / Getty Images Plus
My husband and I are immigrant parents, so we are a little bit strict. We cannot tolerate some bad behaviors. For example, you need to be respectful with older people.
But we allow them to be kids, including online. My son loves video games, and they both watch YouTube.
I didn't want to just say no to their online activities, and of course they used the internet on weeknights for their school assignments. But when they were in middle school and younger, we had a Cinderella thing: At midnight, all the wifi would disappear.
How we locked their devices at midnight
Left to right: Maria Estrada, her kids Pauline and John, and her husband Dexter, after the kids won first place in the plant science category at a science competition. Maria Estrada
My husband, Dexter, used two different apps to lock our kids' devices so they couldn't stay up late texting, watching videos, and playing games. He used Google Family Link for their phones and Microsoft Family Safety for their computers.
Both apps allowed him to lock the kids' devices, though they could still receive calls and texts from the contacts we chose, such as ourselves. He could lock them out on a timer, so he set the lockout to go into effect at midnight and lift in the morning.
We also asked them to finish their school assignments before playing video games or watching YouTube on weeknights.
They got a break on the weekend. The midnight cutoff was lifted on Friday nights and reinstated Sunday nights.
Our son found a way around the internet block
John Benedict Estrada works on infrared images for one of his science fair projects. Maria Estrada
When my son was in high school, he found a way to bypass the midnight block and connect to the internet. He's so honest that he told us he'd found a way and the trick wouldn't work anymore.
Uh oh, my husband and I thought. But we weren't mad. Our son had an innovative way of thinking. My husband said that if he can do that, it means he did his homework and found an out-of-the-box solution to his problem. I'm a scientist and my husband is a doctor, so we appreciate that.
We just told him he had to use the internet responsibly.
Our kids have both excelled
I don't do anything to restrict my kids' screen time anymore.
John and Pauline Estrada drive their rover around for a science fair project. Maria Estrada
Pauline is 17 now. She's a competitive ballet dancer, and she wants to be a doctor and do medical research. She will put the phone down and say she's done. She knows how to police herself.
John is turning 20 this year, studying computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is not that good about the screens. I still have to remind him and ask him to stop browsing his phone. But sometimes when I see what he's doing, he's looking at the news.
Between the two of them, they've won more than $67,000 in awards for their science projects, which have used AI and robotics to address agriculture issues in plant science, like drought stress and pesticide-resistant super-weeds.
I wouldn't say that it totally worked, but the way they use the screens is responsible.
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I ordered chicken tenders from 8 fast-food chains and ranked them from worst to best
Chicken tenders from Popeyes, KFC, and Whataburger. Erin McDowell/Insider; lma_ss/Shutterstock; Ink Drop/Shutterstock; NYC Russ/Shutterstock
- I tried chicken tenders from Popeyes, Chick-fil-A, Whataburger, Raising Cane's, KFC, Bojangles, Zaxby's, and Cook Out.
- Popeyes' and KFC's chicken tenders were similar in their crispy texture and flavor.
- Raising Cane's impressed me with its crispy-yet-juicy tenders and delicious signature sauce.
I compared chicken tenders from eight different fast-food chains from across the country, and a lesser-known — but quickly expanding — chain took the top spot.
Chicken is a hugely popular item at many fast-food chains, and some chains have built their entire business off this one menu item.
Todd Graves, the richest person in Louisiana with a net worth of $9.1 billion, is the founder and CEO of the chicken-tender restaurant chain Raising Cane's. Graves opened his first restaurant in 1996, and Cane's is growing rapidly, with more than 750 restaurants in the US and internationally and $3.7 billion in annual sales, Forbes reported.
While Raising Cane's isn't the only chain that offers chicken tenders, it may very well be the best.
Here's how eight fast-food chicken tenders ranked, from worst to best, based on taste and value.
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Oakley mogul sells $210 million Malibu mansion to a mystery buyer
Jannard onstage at an Oakley sunglasses demonstration in 2004. Lee Celano/Getty Images
- Sunglasses mogul James Jannard broke a California record with the sale of his $210 Malibu home.
- It's the most expensive home ever sold in California.
- Last year, Jay-Z and Beyoncé had set a record after selling their $200 million Malibu compound.
Oakley sunglasses founder James Jannard just dethroned Jay-Z and Beyoncé — at least in the world of real estate.
Jannard sold his Malibu mansion for $210 million, first reported by the Los Angeles Times. It's the most expensive home real estate sale in California's history.
Jannard had bought the estate 12 years ago for $75 million. The new owner's name is shrouded behind an anonymous LLC, the Times reported.
The mansion includes eight bedrooms, 14-bathrooms, and a tennis court spread over 9.5 acres and was once shrunken down by previous owners who found the original main home "too grandiose," according to San Francisco outlet SFGate.
The makeover was handled by Michael S. Smith, who also re-designed the White House's Oval Office in 2010.
The Jannard sale soars past the $200 million price tag Jay-Z and Beyoncé shelled out last year for their 40,000-square-foot concrete compound in Malibu.
The music industry power couple's home includes a private beach on 8 oceanfront acres.
Before then, the California record holder was venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, cofounder of the firm Andreessen Horowitz, who purchased a $177 million Malibu home with a private cinema and spa from fashion designer Serge Azria.
No sprawling West Coast mansion, however, has topped the $238 million New York City penthouse purchased by billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin in 2019. The three-floor trophy property is situated on Billionaire's Row at the south edge of Central Park and remains the most expensive real estate transaction in US history.
A French chateau owned by the Rothschild family is currently making a bid to beat them all as the most expensive real estate sale in the world, with a current asking price of $452 million, according to Architectural Digest. The historic home spans 100 rooms, 17 bedroom suites, and a 50-horse stable on a property dating back to the 12th century.
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