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• K9s For Warriors: Because together we stand

  Scott Smith Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

  K9s For Warriors is a BBB-accredited charity organization located in Ponte Vedra, Florida, that has been pairing rescue dogs with traumatized soldiers since 2011. The dogs are trained to be service dogs, specifically performing tasks to quiet the symptoms of war trauma disabilities in soldiers. "The skillsets our dogs learn help these warriors with anxiety, isolation, depression, and nightmares," says Shari Duval, the founder of K9s For Warriors. "So, the warriors can function again in public." Specifically, the dogs are trained to deal with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), or military sexual trauma (MST), as a result of military service on or after 9/11.

• Visiting the Grand Canyon during winter

  Dave G. Houser Recreation & Leisure

  Grand Canyon National Park celebrates its centennial season this year, and the nation's second most popular national park is expected to draw a record number of visitors — a figure that could top 6.5 million. So, if you'd like to join the 100th birthday celebration for the majestic canyon's national park, we'd strongly suggest you beat the crowds with a winter visit. While the canyon's North Rim closes to the public during the winter, the South Rim remains open, and the park's scenic drives, viewpoints, trails, lodgings and RV campgrounds are delightfully uncongested.

• He struggles with reading. How can ‘EARSS’ help him?

  Howard Margolis Education

  Like all children, struggling readers learn best when they attend classes in which they feel physically safe and emotionally confident. But given their all-too-common histories of failure, peer taunting, and humiliation, they often view school as threatening. As stated in my previous article, Professor Patrick McCabe's principles can help struggling readers feel safe and emotionally confident in their classes. But principles are not magic. More may be needed, and the EARSS acronym, which shares substantial DNA with McCabe's principles, can point the way. For many struggling readers, EARSS can multiply the effectiveness of McCabe's tools: stack the deck for success, offer well-deserved praise, and offer persuasive comments.

• Advertising lessons from this year’s Super Bowl commercials

  Emma Fitzpatrick Marketing

  The Super Bowl isn’t just the game between the year’s best football teams. It's also a battle between the most prominent companies (and their ad agencies) as they vie to see who can who deliver the best commercial. In fact, the majority of millennials who tune in actually prefer to see the advertisements over the game itself. Yet, despite all the fanfare that went into creating these epic commercials, the response this year was lackluster. Much like the game itself, there wasn't really a standout commercial that everyone was talking about the next day. As always, though, there are lessons to be learned from the biggest advertising day of the year.

• Pollyanna was right: Why you should always be grateful

  Anne Rose Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  People who have only vaguely heard about Pollyanna often wrongly describe her as a naïve goody-two-shoes who was blindly optimistic, regardless of reality. Actually, her personality was to simply focus on the good in a situation and to be grateful no matter what your circumstances. There's nothing wrong with being grateful for your life. Gratitude is not reserved exclusively for the fourth Thursday in November; it should be a perpetual state of mind.

• Is economic inequality rising?

  Patrick Gleeson Civil & Government

  Economic inequality is a popular media topic but it’s hard to get objective information about it. Is it increasing or not — and if it is, is that good or bad? In our politically polarized environment, many business writers and economists bring their own perspectives to these topics, with results that depend less on data than on political/social orientation.

• What your association must know about board decorum

  Robert C. Harris Association Management

  When directors join a board, they expect to receive and read the governing documents. The bylaws, policies and articles of incorporation outline board authority and limitations. But what about board decorum? Decorum is the behavior of directors considered to be correct, polite, and respectable. There are director expectations not written in the governing documents. They are described in a page titled "board decorum," "ground rules" or "cultural expectations."

• CVS Health to give $100 million to take on the social determinants of health

  Scott E. Rupp Medical & Allied Healthcare

  Social determinants of health are conditions in the environments in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks. According to the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, conditions in these various environments and settings have been referred to as "place." In addition to the more material attributes of "place," the patterns of social engagement and sense of security and well-being are also affected by where people live. Following on this impact, and CVS Health's $69 billion acquisition of Aetna, the company announced that it will give $100 million over the next five years to improve community health.

• How do business groups view the Green New Deal?

  Seth Sandronsky Civil & Government

  The Green New Deal (GND), a resolution in both houses of Congress, arrived on Feb. 7, thanks to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.). The GND "would create millions of good, high-wage jobs in the United States, provide unprecedented levels of prosperity and economic security for Americans, and counteract systemic injustices — all while addressing the existential challenge of climate change," Sen. Markey said in a prepared statement. What about the ways business groups view the costs and benefits of the bill?

• Deforestation in Brazil comes with health consequences

  Michelle R. Matisons Waste Management & Environmental

  Since the election of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro last October, much has been made about the globally relevant deforestation of the Amazon. Newly initiated climate change students are likely to be introduced to the Amazon rainforest because it sequesters carbon dioxide, produces oxygen, and is home to some of the richest biodiversity in the world. For many environmentalists following the catastrophic effects of global deforestation, battles over Amazonian land-use have never been more prominent. You can also add a public health crisis to the list of problems caused by Brazil’s environmental deregulation.

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