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Tamar Serna: Breaking the Corporate Mold
Tamar Serna breaks the mold of everything you think of when you imagine a corporate accountant. And maybe that’s a good thing. I grew up listening to the Cramps, Skinny Puppy, Butthole Surfers, and drinking beer outside “Rocky Horror Picture Show” on University Avenue in Palo Alto. I did drugs, was arrested and ended up …
Breaking the mold of the golf uniform
Tessa and Dan Sullivan, owners of SOLO Golf, had a particular vision when designing this up and coming golf brand. SOLO is designed in New England, made in America, with the mission to break the mold of the golf uniform. Dan started designing SOLO in 2017, following the birth of his son. With an itch …
Orbit Coffee is Breaking the Mold
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Nov. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Orbit Coffee, a subsidiary of Italian company, EthicSport, is gearing up for the release of their flagship product. Orbit has been innovating the energy drink industry by creating a delicious, nutrition-packed, long-lasting beverage that comes as a powdered mix-in. Orbit is gaining recognition with their small, portable …
By ‘breaking the mold,’ women pave the way
Our 32 profiles of Women Breaking the Mold in the plastics industry is a record this year for quantity, and the quality of the submissions was fantastic, too. We’ve been averaging about 20 profiles a year for the past six years, and this year we blew past that number. Jordan Vitick, our special projects editor, …
Little Richard, Dead at 87, Set the Mold by Breaking It
Born to a poor family in Macon, Georgia, in 1932, Richard Wayne Penniman was one of 12 children—“the best-looking one of all of them, and I’m not conceited at all,” he once said. He was musical from an early age, singing with gusto in church and banging on pots and pans at home. The gospel-rock …
Driving trucks, blasting rocks – Women break the mold at Burkina Faso gold mines
HOUNDE, Burkina Faso (Reuters) – Tene Konate takes pride in telling incredulous relatives about her job driving a 72-tonne dump truck around the vast open pit at the Hounde gold mine in western Burkina Faso. Tene Konate, 42, a truck driver, talks on a radio as she sits in her truck at the gold mine …
Kapow! Black artists break the comic book mold
Submitted photo Growing up in New York City, Micheline Hess rarely saw a black person depicted in a comic book. They were never there, she said, except occasionally in an uncomplimentary way. Now she creates her own. Speaking during a career education panel at Harlem’s Apollo Theater recently, Hess said her new Diary of the …
This round smartphone hopes to break the mold
The prototype Cyrcle phone. Sarah Tew/CNET This story is part of CES 2020, our complete coverage of the showroom floor and the hottest new tech gadgets around. In a sea of rectangular black smartphones, the Cyrcle concept phone at CES 2020 immediately stands out for its novel design. Though not in its final stages (the …
Duke guard Tre Jones wants national title, break one-and-done mold
DURHAM, N.C. – The decision to return to school became clear in the first moments Tre Jones truly had to himself after the end of his freshman season. On a flight back home to Minnesota, shortly after Michigan State ended Duke’s run at a national title, Jones was alone with his thoughts. He was headed …
Lemonade is breaking the mold for home and renters insurance / Boing Boing
Whether you own or rent your place, insurance on that home is a necessary hassle – but a new tech-driven company called Lemonade is starting to show that while it might indeed be a necessity, it doesn’t have to be a hassle. Here’s the way insurance typically works: You pay premiums and hope an accident …
