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• Watch out: These construction documents are not standardized

  Nate Budde Construction & Building Materials

  Construction industry participants are routinely required to navigate complicated legal documents as part of the project and payment process. Legally significant documents are exchanged every day, and often without significant review. The nature of construction payment requires documents that can have a significant impact on a party's legal rights to be exchanged all of the time. While some construction documents have moved toward standardization, others inhabit the Wild West of legal contracts — where almost anything goes.

• Selecting the right professional to help you, the tenant

  Dale Willerton and Jeff Grandfield Retail

  The difference between success and failure in a business can easily come down to your location and lease terms. But if you’re not an experienced and savvy negotiator, you may not stand a chance against the landlord or his real estate agent. Bringing in someone who will either go to bat for you or even take the whole negotiating process off of your shoulders can save you money in the long run. There are options available, and it is vital that you understand them.

• How to shoot trap with only 3 shots

  Irwin Greenstein Recreation & Leisure

  If you're interested in shooting clays with a shotgun, the game of trap is a great introduction. The targets are somewhat predictable, the squading allows individual participants to focus on the target with little distraction, and trap guns can be less expensive than shotguns used for other clays sports.

• ELL writing skills: The exercises

  Douglas Magrath Education

  Writing is essential for communication. Note the following from the ACTFL Standards: "Communication is at the heart of second-language study, whether the communication takes place face-to-face, in writing, or across centuries through the reading of literature."

• 3 critical church website errors

  Mark MacDonald Religious Community

  When the world started building websites, people were amazed. I remember my first conference in the mid 1990s that talked about their power. Most of us got caught up in the technical programming complexities and how the tool was actually created. I left wondering if anyone would want the hard work of creating them.

• Study: Digital health solutions may save US health system $100 billion

  Scott E. Rupp Healthcare Administration

  Accenture, in a new report, estimates that FDA-approved digital health solutions — an Internet-connected device or software created for detection or treatment of a medical indication — may have saved up to $6 billion in cost savings last year, primarily driven by medication adherence, behavior modifications and fewer emergency room visits.

• 4 keys to transparent leadership

  Betty Boyd Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Leadership is not a one-way street. Leader should not hide out in their offices and expect an organization to run itself. Leadership is about constant difficulties, growing pains, helping others and being results-driven. Through all of this, it's important that a leader maintains transparency.

• Who’s buying luxury home goods?

  Michael J. Berens Interior Design, Furnishings & Fixtures

  Once synonymous with wealth, opulence and exclusivity, luxury has become more accessible. Consequently, it now means different things to different groups of consumers. Today, luxury is linked with other values besides just the accumulation of riches and power. Appealing to the luxury home goods shopper requires a deeper understanding of how they view themselves and what motivates them to buy.

• Defining a culture of philanthropy

  Craig Shelley Association Management

  As I've worked to build this culture either within or in partnership to various organizations, I've come to believe there are seven common elements of a philanthropic culture. By focusing efforts on these items, we can build this culture in organizations where it currently doesn't exist. By holding ourselves accountable to these qualitative metrics we can track our progress.

• Study: Organ-rejection drugs may help prevent Alzheimer’s disease

  Chelsea Adams Medical & Allied Healthcare

  The calcineurin inhibitors that organ transplant patients take to prevent rejection may also work to prevent Alzheimer's disease. A new study at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) examined the rate of Alzheimer's disease among 2,600 organ transplant patients. Results were compared with a 2014 national dataset from the Alzheimer's Association.

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