A moment to remember! Ron Cephas Jones has a lot to celebrate, especially after making history with his daughter Jasmine Cephas Jones. On Saturday, Sept. 20 Ron’s role in This Is Us earned him his second Creative Arts Emmy Award for the category Guest Actor in a Drama Series. Three days prior, […]
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How a Career Pivot Can Help You Pursue Your Passion
Photo credit: Westend61 – Getty Images From Redbook There’s no question that the coronavirus had a lasting impact on life as we knew it. For most people, an unexpected layoff added stress to an already uncertain reality. In April, the news was bleak. The Labor Department reported that the coronavirus […]
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StackCommerce MSRP: $100 | Today: $40 | Savings: 60% Learning a new language is tough, but it’s made easier when presented in a familiar format. Beelinguapp lets you listen and learn so you can pick up a second (or third) language. Read along in your first language while you listen […]
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Money laundering is a dirty, even deadly business. Miami plays a huge role
Emily Spell heard the screams from outside her parents’ red brick home. She found her brother, Joseph Williams, 31, splayed on a mattress in the basement. His eyes, half open, were yellow. His lips were blue. “Joe, wake up! Joe, wake up!” his wife, Kristina, hollered, while pounding on his […]
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How to be financially ready for the next COVID-19 lockdown
The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 has hit 200,000. And, a chilling forecast from the University of Washington predicts the number could more than double or even triple by January as people spend more time indoors and tire of social distancing and other recommended measures. Other countries are imposing new […]
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Where are the robotic overlords when we need them most?
With human contact risky during the pandemic, an army of robots could be just what society needs. (Nicole Vas/Los Angeles Times) In 2016, I unpacked my luggage at a newly constructed New York hotel only to realize that I had forgotten my toothpaste. I called room service, and a chipper […]
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Lego Makes a Hundred Billion Bricks a Year. CEO Niels Christiansen on Why They’re Now More Important Than Ever
A portrait of LEGO CEO Niels Christiansen LEGO CEO Niels Christiansen Credit – LEGO (Miss this week’s The Leadership Brief? This interview below was delivered to the inbox of Leadership Brief subscribers on Sunday morning, Sept. 20; to receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business […]
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Lapses in communication, oversight led to publication of offensive insert
The Miami Herald’s parent company on Saturday said “significant lapses” in procedures and oversight led to the distribution of “deeply offensive and racist content” in LIBRE, an independently produced weekly newspaper that was inserted each Friday in el Nuevo Herald for about eight months. In a statement to the Herald, […]
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Working in disaster relief, I see the best and the worst of 2020
“I am a disaster relief worker.” Those are six words I never thought I would say. What did it take to move me from empathy to action? Apparently, it took 2020. With the COVID-19 pandemic and multiple large-scale disasters impacting our country, this challenging year inspired me to find a […]
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Two weeks in, Detroit parents question tough choices about school
DETROIT — A few days before the start of the eighth grade, Jonah Beasley considered the risks he’d face when he walked back into the classroom and summed them up in stark terms. He could get Covid-19 from a classmate or a teacher, he said, and “if I get it, […]
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Italy’s ‘Black Roosters’ fight back as virus hit wine sales
Two days before the coronavirus pandemic shut down Italy for two months, shattering wine exports and sales, the owner of one of its most historic vineyards headed back into the country a worried man. Six months later Francesco Ricasoli and his wine-making team are leading the charge by Italy’s “Black […]