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2May

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CELEBRITIES, TOP FOUR

Regina King Has A Habit Of Keeping Her Eye On The Prize

Regina King A Los Angeles, California, native and an utter sensual delight, has a habit of keeping her eye on the prize. This driven star has refused to look back since achieving her first onscreen success as Brenda Jenkins on the 1985 television series 227. After giving emotionally wrenching and erotically charged performances as Sahlika in Boyz N the Hood (1991) and Iesha in Poetic Justice (1993), Regina became a face and figure of note in big-budget extravaganzas ranging from A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996) to Mighty Joe Young (1998) and Daddy Day Care (2003). Love and Action in Chicago (1999) gives us some idea of how not to maneuver Regina into bed. Playing couch polo with a shirtless man, King allowed her blouse to be unbuttoned, but the dude, perhaps overeager at the sigh...

Disruptive To In-Person Communication – But Screens Are Keeping Us Connected

3Apr

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TECHNOLOGY

Disruptive To In-Person Communication – But Screens Are Keeping Us Connected

Digital technology has been a lifeline during the COVID-19 health crisis. Yet, its impact on human relationships remains complex. It allows for work and connection in many domains, but does so in ways that are often intrusive, exhausting and potentially corrosive to face-to-face relationships. The debate about technology’s effect on overall mental health rages on. Some researchers claim smartphones have destroyed a generation, while others argue screen time doesn’t predict mental health at all. After years of research on the topic, I have come to the conclusion that screen time can disrupt a fundamental aspect of our human experience – paying attention to one another’s eyes. Smartphones, even more than older technologies like television, have been aggressively designed to control and ca...

14Mar

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FOR BUSINESS, THE LATEST NEWS

Stop Keeping Your Business A Secret

Demonstrate your value and get on the radar of potential clients. Your business shouldn't be a secret. It's time to STOP hiding! If you don't let people know your exist, who will? Getting yourself out there and being seen and heard by your target audience is how you reveal your industry expertise and build your credibility as a career expert while building your brand. Putting yourself out there also gives you the opportunity to really connect with your ideal clients, giving them a chance to get to know, like, and trust (KLT) you. People feel more comfortable doing business with people they know and companies they feel they can trust. Building that KLT factor with them, you're putting yourself in a better position of them reaching out to you when they're ready to work with a career co...

Sex, Drugs And TikTok: Keeping Young People Safe Needs A Mature Response

4Apr

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CULTURE, Journalism

Sex, Drugs And TikTok: Keeping Young People Safe Needs A Mature Response

Isabelle Volpe, UNSW and Clare Southerton, UNSW You may have read recently that TikTok allegedly “serves up” sex and drug videos to minors. Media reports have described the video-sharing platform, which is designed predominantly for young people, as an “addiction machine” that promotes harmful content. In an investigation, reporters at the Wall Street Journal created 31 bot accounts on TikTok, each programmed to interact only with particular themes of content. Many of the bots were registered as being aged 13-15, including one programmed with an interest in “drugs and drug use”, which was ultimately shown 569 videos related to drugs. The investigation sought to better understand how the app’s algorithm selects videos for users. The workings of these kinds of algorithms are an industry s...

When Boards Are Deciding What To Pay Nonprofit CEOs Keeping Them Out Of The Room Yields Good Results

25Apr

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BUSINESS

When Boards Are Deciding What To Pay Nonprofit CEOs Keeping Them Out Of The Room Yields Good Results

Ilona Babenko, Arizona State University The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Keeping nonprofit chief executive officers out of meetings when members of their boards discuss or vote on compensation can lead to these CEOs making less money and working harder. This is a key finding from a study of nonprofit pay I recently completed with two fellow finance scholars, Benjamin Bennett and Rik Sen. We reached this conclusion after reviewing data for more than 14,700 nonprofits across the country from paperwork most nonprofits must file with the Internal Revenue Service every year, known as Form 990, and the associated Schedule J, which includes compensation. We zeroed in on 1,698 nonprofits located in New York to see if their CEO pay changed after ne...

Keeping Their Communities Informed, Connected And Engaged – 143,518 US Public Library Workers Jobs May Be At Risk

4Apr

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Journalism

Keeping Their Communities Informed, Connected And Engaged – 143,518 US Public Library Workers Jobs May Be At Risk

America’s public library workers have adjusted and expanded their services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. CC BY-ND In addition to initiating curbside pickup options, they’re doing many things to support their local communities, such as extending free Wi-Fi outside library walls, becoming vaccination sites, hosting drive-through food pantries in library parking lots and establishing virtual programs for all ages, including everything from story times to Zoom sessions on grieving and funerals. In 2018, there were 143,518 library workers in the United States, according to data collected by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. While newer data isn’t available, the number is probably lower now, and recent history suggests more library jobs may be on the chopping block in th...

Essential To Keeping Capitalism From Crashing – Wall Street Isn’t Just A Casino Where Traders Can Bet On GameStop And Other Stocks

4Feb

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BUSINESS, IN OTHER NEWS

Essential To Keeping Capitalism From Crashing – Wall Street Isn’t Just A Casino Where Traders Can Bet On GameStop And Other Stocks

Shares of GameStop and other companies or assets that shot up in value in recent weeks are now dropping like stones. While I feel sorry for the many investors who will likely lose a lot of money, the stocks’ return to Earth is actually a good thing – if you want to avoid financial meltdown to the long list of crises the U.S. is facing. The reason has to do with what financial markets are – and what they are not – as well as what happens when prices of stocks and other securities become untethered from the fundamental value of the assets they’re meant to represent. As a finance professor who does research on how markets respond to new information, I believe it is important to maintain a close link between security prices and fundamentals. When that stops happening, a market collapse may b...

Systems For Managing E-Waste Aren’t Keeping Up – Consumer Electronics Have Changed A Lot In 20 Years

3Apr

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TECHNOLOGY

Systems For Managing E-Waste Aren’t Keeping Up – Consumer Electronics Have Changed A Lot In 20 Years

It’s hard to imagine navigating modern life without a mobile phone in hand. Computers, tablets and smartphones have transformed how we communicate, work, learn, share news and entertain ourselves. They became even more essential when the COVID-19 pandemic moved classes, meetings and social connections online. But few people realize that our reliance on electronics comes with steep environmental costs, from mining minerals to disposing of used devices. Consumers can’t resist faster products with more storage and better cameras, but constant upgrades have created a growing global waste challenge. In 2019 alone, people discarded 53 million metric tons of electronic waste. In our work as sustainability researchers, we study how consumer behavior and technological innovations influence the pr...

Likely Key To Ending Pandemic Will Be Hard, Keeping Coronavirus Vaccines At Subzero Temperatures During Distribution

4Apr

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

Likely Key To Ending Pandemic Will Be Hard, Keeping Coronavirus Vaccines At Subzero Temperatures During Distribution

Just like a fresh piece of fish, vaccines are highly perishable products and must be kept at very cold, specific temperatures. The majority of COVID-19 vaccines under development – like the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines – are new RNA-based vaccines. If they get too warm or too cold they spoil. And, just like fish, a spoiled vaccine must be thrown away. So how do companies and public health agencies get vaccines to the people who need them? The answer is something called the vaccine cold chain – a supply chain that can keep vaccines in tightly controlled temperatures from the moment they are made to the moment that they are administered to a person. Ultimately, hundreds of millions of people in the U.S. and billions globally are going to need a coronavirus vaccine – and potentially two dos...

Keeping coronavirus vaccines at subzero temperatures during distribution will be hard, but likely key to ending pandemic

4Apr

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

Keeping coronavirus vaccines at subzero temperatures during distribution will be hard, but likely key to ending pandemic

Just like a fresh piece of fish, vaccines are highly perishable products and must be kept at very cold, specific temperatures. The majority of COVID-19 vaccines under development – like the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines – are new RNA-based vaccines. If they get too warm or too cold they spoil. And, just like fish, a spoiled vaccine must be thrown away. So how do companies and public health agencies get vaccines to the people who need them? The answer is something called the vaccine cold chain – a supply chain that can keep vaccines in tightly controlled temperatures from the moment they are made to the moment that they are administered to a person. Ultimately, hundreds of millions of people in the U.S. and billions globally are going to need a coronavirus vaccine – and potentially two dos...