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• 8 great winter adventures to try before the snow melts

  Dave G. Houser Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

  For those of us born and raised in the northern latitudes, snowstorms always brought long, happy days spent making angels, sledding and tossing snowballs. Sure, we're grownups now, but we can still get outside and play.

• The perfect Porsche driving day

  Noelle Talmon Transportation Technology & Automotive

  As I write this, it's an uncharacteristically balmy 60 degrees during the last weekend of November on the Connecticut shoreline. It's partly sunny, and the roads are dry — the perfect Porsche driving day. Days like these are to be savored like Thanksgiving leftovers.

• Confidence and trust: Necessary ingredients in effective leadership

  Betty Boyd Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Confidence can be an elusive factor for leaders — having either too much or too little confidence is not good. The true test of leadership is finding the right balance. Along with confidence comes the trust factor. Trust and confidence go hand in hand in the leadership mix.

• What remodeling projects increase home value the most?

  Thomas Jepsen Interior Design, Furnishings & Fixtures

  When remodeling a house, how much does a project increase the value of the home? This is a question most homeowners want answered before they start a remodeling project. Of course, homeowners won't just upgrade their homes for the increased value but also for the added comfort gained from the upgrades.

• Rural telehealth gets another boost from the USDA

  Scott E. Rupp Healthcare Administration

  The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is expanding its Rural Development Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program — a surprising place for health IT innovation. The program, which began in 2009, will pump another $23.4 million in additional funding for 75 new projects in 31 states, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said in the announcement.

• Avoid headaches in 2016 as employees embrace new mobile devices

  Paul Starkman Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  The bring-your-own-device trend continues to gain traction in the workplace as employees increasingly want to use personally owned electronic devices for work. The BYOD trend has also led to increased employer concerns about technology, device damage and the impact of new wearable technology brought to the workplace. In order to address all of the concerns and keep pace with new advancement in technologies, software and devices, companies need to be proactive and have an up-to-date, robust technology policy.

• How much protein should pet food contain?

  Jennifer Adolphe, Ph.D. Pet Care

  Visit any Internet message board about pet nutrition and you will more than likely find a heated debate about protein — pros, cons, good sources, bad sources and more opinions than you ever wanted to know. Proteins are the building blocks of your pet's body and consist of chains of amino acids joined together. They can range in size from only a few amino acids to large, complex molecules in which the amino acid chains are intricately folded. Why are proteins such a hot topic for pet nutrition?

• A friend’s first deer

  John McAdams Recreation & Leisure

  ​Movement caught my eye from across the clearing. I whispered to David, "Go ahead and get ready." As he quietly readied his rifle, a group of five does exited the woods and made a beeline for the feeder, with its bounty of corn on the ground beneath it. They moved with little caution and seemed unconcerned with anything other than eating. We could hear crunching through the cool, crisp morning air as the does rapidly consumed the corn. Satisfied that they were completely focused on eating, I again whispered, "Take the shot when one gets clear."

• Reimagining the schools of tomorrow

  Brian Stack Education

  Earlier this fall, movie enthusiasts rejoiced at the arrival of Oct. 21, 2015, the actual date that a young Marty McFly traveled back in time to fictitious Hill Valley, California, to save his children in the hit 1989 movie "Back to the Future II." Director Robert Zemeckis introduced us to a world in 2015 that looked very different from the one we knew. Sadly, however, Marty McFly would find almost no differences in Hill Valley High School from 1989 to 2015. Why have we made so much progress as a society, yet our schools continue to operate in much the same way as they have for decades?

• The absence of positive thoughts during depression

  Dorothy L. Tengler Mental Healthcare

  People with depression or healthy people with a depressed mood can be affected by depressive thoughts. However, according to a recent study, depressive thoughts are maintained for longer periods of time for people with a depressed mood, and this extended duration may reduce the amount of information that these individuals can hold in their memory. Although it has been known that negative thoughts tend to last longer for those with depression, this study is unique in showing that these thoughts, triggered from stimuli in the environment, can persist to the point that they hinder a depressed person's ability to keep their train of thought.

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