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September is National Preparedness Month, a timely reminder to ensure your household is ready for emergencies.

Start by building an emergency kit with essentials like water, non-perishable food, flashlights, batteries, medications and important documents.

Make a family plan that includes meeting spots and emergency contacts. Stay informed by signing up for alerts and keeping a battery-powered weather radio on hand.

Practice evacuation routes and review your insurance policies for coverage. Don’t forget pets – include supplies for them too.

Preparedness brings peace of mind, whether facing natural disasters or power outages. Planning now can make a big difference later. Stay safe!

– Staff reports with AI assist*, The Today 100

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Not all coffee mugs are the same. Some are reminders of trips gone by, some are there to make us chuckle, some are meant to fill our aesthetic desires and some are meant to get the job done. With the back-to-school hustle and more chaotic mornings, we’ve been needing something to both bring us cheer and keep our cup o’ joe warm and toasty.

Enter the BrüMate Müv – the coffee mug of our (sleep-deprived) dreams. It looks beautiful, comes in a variety of millennial-approved colors and most importantly, keeps our coffee warm for hours. We’re toasting to you virtually – cheers!

– Staff report, The Today 100

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Change feels like a funhouse mirror lately.

The AJC, Atlanta’s journalistic backbone for 157 years, is ending its print edition on Dec. 31. Meanwhile, Zinwa Technologies is reviving the BlackBerry Classic as the Q25 – a $400 Android with a physical keyboard due to Gen Z’s digital detox demand. It’s like Willy Wonka’s “up is down, black is white.” Yes, I still use a BlackBerry, and yes, people laugh.

In a political and cultural landscape where nothing shocks, and contradictions stack like Jenga: endings birth nostalgia, chaos craves classics, and in this upside-down world, we’re reaching for keys we thought we’d lost.

– Tara Murphy, 360 Media, Inc., The Atlanta 100

The Genesis GV60 is the Stephen Nedoroscik of EVs. It may appear slightly nerdy on the outside, but it’s a powerhouse underdog that’s not to be underestimated.

Built as a posher version of the Hyundai Ioniq 5, the GV60 is a funky EV hatchback designed to lure customers away from the Model Y and Mach E. Refreshingly, it offers a true luxury interior – which is strangely uncommon for EVs. Just look at the GV60’s cabin compared to a Tesla’s. Not a bad place to spend 294 miles of range.

The cost for this underrated Korean pocket rocket? Just $35k used.

– Chris Butsch, Founder, YourCarNegotiator.org

As long as I can remember, I’ve had a Goldilocks complex about pillows. Every pillow is either too thick, too soft, too fluffy, too dense…you get the point. If I forget my favorite pillow, I usually forgo one altogether.

After searching for WAY too long, I came across the perfect pillow. It is a very thinly padded pillow cover that has three feather inserts to customize to your perfect thickness. It has give, but not bounce; soft, but not smothering; thin, but not flat.

I can now sleep easy knowing that I’m no longer one lost pillow away from insomnia.

– Staff report, The 100 Companies