Recent Articles
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Hotels are betting big on restaurants
Bambi Majumdar Travel, Hospitality & Event ManagementJoie de Vivre, a boutique hotel chain, was recently in the news for launching its showcase restaurant Petit Lion at The Troubadour in New Orleans. They focused on combining the French bistro with a distinct Southern charm that will offer guests a unique experience. Having a restaurant on the premises is nothing new, but what makes Petit Lion stand out is their core function for the brand.
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Why ‘asbestos-free’ insulation may contain asbestos
Don Moses Facilities & GroundsIn June of 1996, the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) lobbied the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to put a date in their new asbestos regulation — 29 CFR 1926.1101, the Occupational Exposure To Asbestos (Construction Industry Standard) — to say all materials installed after 1980 were, in essence, not asbestos-containing materials.
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Turning spinach into human heart tissue
Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied HealthcareLike Popeye, we have all grown up knowing the health benefits of eating leafy green spinach. Belonging to the chenopodiaceae family (also known as goosefoot), spinach is part of a family of nutritional powerhouses. As for its benefits, dark green spinach leaves contain high levels of chlorophyll and health-promoting carotenoids (beta carotene, lutein and zeaxanthin), which are touted to have anti-inflammatory and anti-cancerous properties — especially important for healthy eye-sight, helping to prevent macular degeneration and cataracts.
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Gottlieb vows to uphold FDA’s ‘gold standard’
Dr. Abimbola Farinde PharmaceuticalEver since President Donald Trump was inaugurated in January, he has pledged to cut burdensome regulations on businesses and industry. When it comes to the pharmaceutical industry, Trump vowed at his first joint address of Congress to "slash the restraints" on drug development by streamlining the drug approval process of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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Grocery stores changing tactics to beat the competition
Bambi Majumdar Food & BeverageThree decades ago, bigger grocery and supermarket brands were swallowing up their smaller counterparts and squashing competition in the age-old way of business tactics. But grocery stores are no longer competing with just each other; now they must deal with their online counterparts as well.
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Searching for the greatest gift
Debra Josephson Abrams EducationBehaving as UFC contestants, millions of Americans savagely attack and brutalize each other on Black Friday as they make their best efforts to snatch, grab and seize the gifts they demand for themselves and those on their Christmas lists. Along with the daily overdose of violence that envelops us — whether in our home, our neighborhood, our city, our country, or in homes, neighborhoods, cities and countries far away — at the "holidays," we see extra shots of the worst of what we arrogantly call "humanity," by way of 24/7 news and online video sharing sites.
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Airlines to perform a terminal dance at LAX
Matt Falcus Transportation Technology & AutomotiveLos Angeles Airport (LAX) is hoping its resident airlines can pull off a major logistical effort without causing chaos for passengers over one weekend in May when a planned switch takes place. In all, 28 separate airlines will relocate from their current terminals at LAX to a new set of gates as the airport continues its modernization process.
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Pace of interior design employment slows
Michael J. Berens Interior Design, Furnishings & FixturesFollowing an unprecedented spike in new hires in 2015, the pace of interior design employment returned to a more normal annual growth rate in 2016, at just under 4 percent. Although well below the nearly 12 percent jump from the year before, the addition of 2,110 new jobs ranks as the second-best year for designers since the onset of the last recession, when employers cut positions drastically. The rate of growth was similar to that of U.S. employment overall, which fell to 4.7 percent in December.
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Why is branding important for churches?
Carol Brown Religious CommunityYou've probably heard a lot about the importance of church branding, and maybe you've also seen the pushback on it. If you're one of those people who don't think it's important — or if you don't really know what it is — I hope you'll keep reading.
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When is training time for nonexempt employees compensable?
D. Albert Brannen Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementEmployers train employees in countless ways to perform better and for various legal compliance reasons. Such training can be in a one-time session in-house, a series of commercial courses or more formal classes at the local college. Before you schedule your next training session, you should consider that the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) may require you to pay nonexempt employees for time (including possibly overtime) spent in the training session.