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• ADA partners with National Institutes of Health for opioids webinar

  Tammy Hinojos Oral & Dental Healthcare

  Prescription opioid abuse remains a dangerous and growing problem in America. Every day, more than 115 Americans die after overdosing on opioids, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The ADA is hosting an opioids webinar on Wednesday, April 3, featuring the National Institutes of Health. Called "NIH Response to the Opioid Crisis from a Research Perspective," the webinar will take place from 3-4 p.m. EST.

• Who makes the first offer?

  Dale Willerton and Jeff Grandfield Retail

  When it comes to commercial leasing, who makes the first offer on a property for lease? The answer might surprise you! We strongly urge commercial tenants to leave that first offer to the agent or the landlord. The reason is simple. Once you have made that first offer, you will have shared your interest in a commercial property. By showing your cards (as you will) to the agent, you will have committed yourself to this commercial leasing deal. Once the agent’s first offer has been made, you have a number of options.

• Curbing mission creep and micromanagement

  Robert C. Harris Association Management

  Mission creep and micromanagement are disorders of a board. The symptoms and cures are different. Both create disruption in an organization. Mission creep is not a disparaging characterization of a member of the board. It is the process where a gradual shift in purpose occurs, with or without awareness. Micromanagement is a style where a manager or board members monitor employees too closely. It has a negative impact on staff when employees feel they are not trusted and are being evaluated by the board.

• Eating healthy for National Nutrition Month

  Connie Ulman Food & Beverage

  Obviously, every single person is aware of nutrition because food is a staple for survival. However, it can be hard to know what is healthy and what isn't. March is National Nutrition Month, a tradition started by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics with National Nutrition Week in 1973. However, it wasn’t until 1980 that interest peaked, and it went from one week a year to one month a year. Eating healthy is hard and eating poorly is easy. It starts innocently enough — a co-worker brings donuts to work, you work through lunch, so you grab something from the vending machine. It's all downhill from there.

• Pistol-mounted lights — a solution in search of a problem?

  Eric Lamberson Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

  A Denver police officer faced a 10-day suspension for accidentally firing his weapon nearly striking a suspect. Officer Asher Rose accidentally pulled the trigger of his pistol while trying to turn on his pistol-mounted light. Officer Rose was attempting to use his light to illuminate a suspect hiding under a truck when he fired a bullet that hit a rear tire inches away from the suspect’s head. We just started our sixth year of low-light classes and we have had several police officers attend our classes and practice sessions — some are issued pistols with mounted lights. These officers did very well; however, I generally don’t believe that issuing pistol mounted flashlights to police officers is a good policy.

• Housing America part 4: The ambiguous role of design

  Lucy Wallwork Construction & Building Materials

  One architect I heard speak at an event last year described those working in her profession as "agents of expensiveness." It can certainly seem that way. One sector that doesn't come to mind when we think of architectural flair is that of public housing. There certainly has not been much cash to flash about recently. But it has not always been that way, and some are making steps to raise our expectations of the design of affordable and public housing. Can design really save the day?

• Are your doctors asking patients the right questions?

  Lisa Mulcahy Healthcare Administration

  In healthcare, you know how crucially important good doctor-patient communication is. So are the doctors in your organization shedding enough light on the key information needed to make an accurate diagnosis every time? It's vital for doctors to utilize the best verbal and nonverbal forms of communication in order to determine what each patient needs. The good news: research has focused on how doctors can perfect their Q&A skills so they get the patient the accurate info they need. Suggest that your organization's physicians put this advice into practice.

• Betsy DeVos’ controversial scholarship proposal

  Patrick Gleeson Education

  On Feb. 28, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced a new school choice proposal. According to a senior Department of Education official, the $5 billion proposal — which first has to skate past a determinedly opposed Democratic majority in the House of Representatives — would allow each state "to take advantage of scholarship money that would be made available for them for programs they design." This sounds — and may even be — relatively harmless at worst and, at best, could be one of Secretary DeVos’ better ideas. Before getting into the proposal itself, it may be useful to step back and consider what’s going on with school choice from a broader perspective.

• Does DIY harm interior designers?

  Michael J. Berens Interior Design, Furnishings & Fixtures

  There's plenty of good news in the 2019 Houzz State of the Industry report. Among all the statistics provided in the report, though, one data point in particular caught my eye. When asked about their business challenges in 2018, 21 percent of interior designers — far more than any other group of professionals — cited "Increased popularity of DIY." In fact, it tied for No. 4 among a list of 14 possible business challenges. That made me wonder, are interior designers disproportionately disadvantaged by DIY consumers?

• Drone usage becomes more prevalent in police work

  Bambi Majumdar Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

  In 2018, technology futurist Gray Scott predicted that, within in the next five years, drones are going to be very common everywhere in the U.S. Police surveillance via drones will be the norm, despite detractors who call it an intrusion of privacy. Gartner has predicted that drone sales will generate $11.2 billion in revenue by 2020. Before we explore why drones are the future, it is important to understand how drones can affect and aid police work.

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