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• The right way to use your professional intuition

  Lisa Mulcahy Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  You probably know the value of trusting your gut in your life — often, going with that instinct is the best course of action to take. Yet, when it comes to using your intuition professionally, things can seem a bit trickier. You don't want to make a hasty move without backing up your hunch with concrete facts and data; but at the same time, ignoring your intuitive feelings, which are often honed through years of experience, is unwise if your choice becomes too technical. Use the following science-based strategies to utilize your instinct most effectively.

• Is hotel luxury dead?

  Michael J. Berens Interior Design, Furnishings & Fixtures

  What’s in a name? A luxury hotel by any other name is still luxurious, right? No longer, it seems, in today’s hospitality industry. When hotel discount brokers offer "luxury" accommodations at $49 a night, as occurred during the recent Independence Day holiday, does the word "luxury" have any useful meaning? Those in the industry who want to appeal to the wealthy and sophisticated traveler are upping their game and moving beyond traditional standards of luxury.

• Free ADA webinar to spotlight oral health effects of tobacco

  Tammy Hinojos Oral & Dental Healthcare

  While the rate of smoking has certainly gone down since the mid-1960s, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that the current rate of adults who use combustible tobacco products is still nearly 18 percent. Additionally, almost 1 in 5 high school students use tobacco products and around 480,000 people die each year as a result of smoking. Dentists have a unique opportunity to educate their patients about the dangers of tobacco use as oral cancer screenings have become a normal part of most preventive dental care appointments in practices across the country.

• How intellectual property rights fit in the Chinese trade war puzzle

  Seth Sandronsky Civil & Government

  Do you think that U.S. firms doing business in China back the White House’s tariffs on trade to settle disputes? Consider this. "A survey by the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Shanghai found that most U.S. businesses operating in China oppose the use of tariffs in retaliation for the challenges they face, from an uneven playing field to poor protection of intellectual property rights," Reuters reports. AmCham represents 3,300 members from 900 companies in China.

• A balanced approach to technology in the classroom

  Sheilamary Koch Education

  The powerful influence of technology on our lives is not to be taken lightly — and it’s no surprise that educators have strong opinions on its place in our schools. Evidence that educational technologies displace curricular activities that better develop students’ ability to relate to each other, think critically and concentrate were key justifications for low-tech education expressed in the previous article. While some take an extreme stance against technology in schools, many seem to believe it has a place in the education of our children.

• Heads-up: Repeated headers may lead to balance issues for young soccer…

  Dr. Denise A. Valenti Sports & Fitness

  Changes in balance and gait can be an indication of incipient neurologic disease, such as Alzheimer’s disease or Parkinson’s disease. But there is evidence that there can be subtle changes in balance, and thus concern about neurologic injury, in young adults who engage in sports that involve blows to the head. A study authored by Dr. John Jeka of the University of Delaware found that soccer players who moved the ball more often by heading it were more likely to have problems with balance than those players who did not.

• TPWD now accepting drawn hunt applications for 2018-19 season

  John McAdams Recreation & Leisure

  The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is now accepting applications to its drawn hunts program for the 2018-2019 season. All told, TPWD is offering more than 9,000 permits in nearly 50 different hunting categories and more than 100 different geographic hunting areas within the Lone Star State this year. In addition to native big-game species, hunters may also apply for permits to hunt exotic species like feral hogs, axis deer, sambar deer, gemsbok, and scimitar-horned oryx.

• Recent IT employment reports deliver mixed messages

  Shawn Smajstrla Science & Technology

  What’s the status of information technology (IT) jobs in the U.S.? It’s improving. Or, it’s getting worse. It depends on who you ask and depends on exactly what you ask. A handful of recent reports paint varying pictures of IT employment across the country. A report from the TechServe Alliance reported the number of IT jobs crept up 0.04 percent in June, totaling more than 5.3 million. On the other hand, a CompTIA report cited a drop of 90,000 IT jobs in June. It’s one thing to look at what happened in June, but what, if anything, can we extrapolate about where employment in the sector is headed?

• Singapore’s Seletar Airport gets ready for passengers

  Matt Falcus Transportation Technology & Automotive

  Pressure will soon be relieved on Singapore’s Changi Airport, as plans to open a new passenger terminal at the smaller Seletar Airport in the north of the city-state are on track. The structure is due to open later this year. Seletar is 19 miles north of Changi. Built as a Royal Air Force station in 1928, it saw action during World War II and can claim to be Singapore’s first international airport. Today, the airport is a busy general aviation facility, with flight training establishments and a number of maintenance operators providing heavy engineering services from the single-runway site.

• How to get off the last-minute event-planning cycle

  Deborah Ike Religious Community

  The week before a big event or holiday typically involves stress, late nights, missed family dinners, and way too many meetings. If you’re practically living at the church the week before an event, you’re not alone. When I talk with church leaders about their event-planning efforts, I usually hear that they start planning X number of weeks out but wish they would have started much sooner. Why don’t they start sooner? They’re too busy working on the final details for another event or project to get started on planning something a few months away.

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