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A skin care expert’s guide to packing for vacation
Elizabeth Donat RetailWhen you're going on vacation, it takes a bit of planning and strategy to pack your bags with everything you'll need for your trip. If you're flying to your relaxation destination, then you may be very limited in terms of which products (especially the liquid ones) that you can bring in your luggage. In terms of vacation and skin care, it's all about selecting products that will serve you and your skin best on your trip. Follow my expert advice and you and your spa clients will have glowing, radiant skin no matter how near or far they go!
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8 signs your church has ministry silos
Mark MacDonald Religious CommunityAs churches grow and pastors are hired to look after various ministries, the healthy-church focus becomes threatened by the inevitable: ministry silos. This is when ministry areas become myopic to the point they rarely look at the entire organization or even at another ministry outside of its narrow walls. It can affect us all. Ministry silos will eventually destroy the farm. Why? Because a ministry must understand the part it plays in the overall church mission, or it will slowly become its own entity.
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How to pick the best trade show booth location: Part 2
Wendy Parsley Travel, Hospitality & Event ManagementTrade shows can be an expensive endeavor for any marketing budget. Whether you are exhibiting at a small industry event or a massive convention, you may have a bit of sticker shock once you add up the cost of the exhibit space, booth structure and signage, marketing materials, and everything else associated with your participation. We’ve put together a list of tips that will help you de-mystify the exhibit floor plan and locate the best location for your exhibit space.
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Action needed to minimize ovarian cancer risk in LGBT community
Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied HealthcareAccording to the American Cancer Society, 22,240 women will receive a new diagnosis of ovarian cancer in 2018, killing about 14,070 women. While the risk of ovarian cancer is 1 in 75, the risk for women in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community may be even greater. Studies have found that lesbians and bisexual women get less routine healthcare than other women, including colon, breast, and cervical cancer screening tests. The reasons include low rates of health insurance, fear of discrimination, and negative experiences with healthcare providers, which delays routine care such as early detection tests.
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Understanding your design process, one step at a time
Susan Mulholland Interior Design, Furnishings & FixturesThere are novice interior designers — ones who are just starting out in the field — and then there are novice clients — ones who have never worked with a professional interior designer until now. As with novice interior designers, novice interior design clients don’t usually understand how the design process works. These types of clients are not just limited to residential design. Commercial design has its share of novice clients as well. So, what are you supposed to do with these newbies? Educate them.
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Porsche, Bernhard smash ‘Ring record, but will it stand the test…
Ross Lancaster Transportation Technology & AutomotiveGermany’s Stefan Bellof had a great chance to be the country's first Formula 1 World Champion had he not been killed in a vicious accident at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in 1985. However, despite his untimely passing at age 27, Bellof’s legacy was immortalized thanks to his record lap at the Nürburgring Nordschleife in a Porsche 956 in 1983, completed in 6 minutes, 11.13 seconds — a thought-to-be everlasting monument to speed at one of the world’s longest and most dangerous circuits. After all, the record couldn’t be possibly topped, because Formula 1 stopped racing at the Nordschleife after 1976 and sports car prototypes departed after the 1000-kilometer race that accompanied Bellof’s record lap in 1983.
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3 signs you might be an entrepreneur
Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementThanks to Silicon Valley, we all have an idea of what an entrepreneur looks like: supersmart geeks who write code. But that image of entrepreneurs is narrow, uninspiring and unrelatable for most of us. From scrappy go-getters to natural networkers, the entrepreneurs among us are as diverse as the businesses they have started. Suspend the belief that all entrepreneurs are in tech and check for these the signs you might be one yourself.
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Yosemite’s Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias reopens after massive…
Dave G. Houser Recreation & LeisureYosemite National Park’s most popular attraction finally reopened to the public June 14. The historic Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias — home to more than 500 mature giant sequoias — had been closed since 2015 to undertake a landmark project to protect the grove and re-establish the area’s natural serenity. The $40 million renovation began in July 2015 to replace the grove’s paved trails with natural surfaces and to relocate parking lots and visitor services to improve access to the famous 209-foot-tall Grizzly Giant and the California Tunnel Tree.
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Leading and leaving an inclusion legacy in 6 steps
Simma Lieberman Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementEveryone’s success in your organization is predicated on how you include employees in the mission of the organization, and how you instill the mindset that their work makes a difference. This is important, as you hire new people in your organization that may be different than the majority of your employees in some way; culture, race, age, gender, etc. Hiring a visibly diverse workforce is not enough.
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New report calls for reboot on immigration policy
Seth Sandronsky Civil & GovernmentA new report on immigration policy, a politically fraught issue of the day, calls for publicly funded universal legal representation for low-income immigrants held in detention in New Jersey. In this way, the Garden State would join the state of New York and other U.S. municipalities, such as Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago and Denver, paving a path forward that helps immigrants and strengthens economic and fiscal stability, according to Erika J. Nava, a policy analyst with New Jersey Policy Perspective.