Interpersonal Edge: Sharing key facts decreases employees’ anxiety in times of change

 

By Dr. Daneen Skube
Tribune Content Agency
 
Q. My company is facing huge changes starting next year. Rumors are flying around the company, but we are trying to keep the facts about the changes quiet until 2017. The problem is that, along with the rumors, we have increasing anxiety flying around our office. How can we in upper management manage the anxiety without revealing all the data about what will happen next year?

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Choosing the RIGHT Financial Institution

  By Porsche Miles-Grant

 
At this point, as a responsible adult and a productive citizen of America, you should belong to some type of financial institution. Whether it is a bank or credit union, your finances should be located in a safe and secured place. 

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Jill on Money: Forget the election; focus on investment long haul

 

By Jill Schlesinger

Tribune Content Agency

Defying the polls and odds, Donald J. Trump won the presidential election. As the results became clear on the evening of November 8, financial markets around the world reacted swiftly: Stocks plunged (at one point during the overnight session, U.S. futures were down 5 percent, indicating a more than 800 point wipe out for the Dow Jones Industrial Average), the Mexican peso cratered by 13 percent, the U.S. dollar tumbled and safe havens like gold, U.S. Treasury bonds and the Japanese yen jumped.

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Organizing Your Finances: Before and After a Personal Loss

 

Presented by Sara Frank-Hepfer, CFP®, AAMS®
 
Life’s uncertainties can present us with personal hardships that affect us not only emotionally, but financially as well. 

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NATIONAL NEWS: Registration Officially Open for High School Poetry TeamsTo Enter Louder Than a Bomb Florida Poetry Festival

 

The Jason Taylor Foundation has officially opened on-line registration for its cutting edge youth poetry festival, Louder Than a Bomb Florida presented by Nova Southeastern University and UPS, it was announced today. Now in its third year, this highly anticipated event will take place from March 27 – April 8, 2017.

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PET WORLD: How dog food has evolved and pet crow

  By Marc Morrone

Tribune Content Agency
 
  Q: When I was a child it seems that we were able to feed our dogs any food my mother bought at the supermarket that week and they all lived long lives. Now both my dogs – a poodle mix and a yellow lab – have food allergies. Other friends of mine that have dogs seem to have many of these same issues and I wondered why things have changed so much with dogs in the last 40 years? Has dog food changed so much since then? – Pat Flynn, Las Vegas, NV

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MSU data breach exposed records

EAST LANSING, MI —   Michigan State University has confirmed that on November 13 an unauthorized party gained access to a university server containing certain sensitive data.
 

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Fewer students drinking and smoking regularly, MSU survey finds

 EAST LANSING, MI —     Fewer Michigan State University students are drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes on a regular basis, according to the State of Spartan Health survey, which is conducted every two years to assess the health of students on campus.

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Movie: Arrival

Forest Whitaker as Col. Weber

Studio:  21 Laps Entertainment (116 min.)  Plot:  An elite team are brought together to investigate a mysterious spacecraft which appears across the globe.

 

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