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• Are we in the middle of a street food renaissance?

  Bambi Majumdar Food & Beverage

  You can usually trust California to lead innovation and change. The Golden State legalized street food vending in September, a move that may soon be reflected elsewhere. Street food has been a fixture of the state’s landscape for decades. Cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco are known for their food trucks and eclectic street foods, popular with both locals and tourists. But it was not an easy road to popularity for these businesses.

• Replacing NAFTA: A better 3-country pact ahead?

  Seth Sandronsky Civil & Government

  Canada and the U.S. have renegotiated the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which took effect Jan. 1, 1994. President Trump, who called NAFTA "the worst trade deal ever," praised its successor, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). "Promise made, promise kept," the president said on Twitter, of his campaign pledge to renegotiate NAFTA to improve trade fairness for American businesses, consumers and workers. That stance resonated with voters, especially in Rust Belt states where blue-collar employment has plummeted.

• What difference does it make? — Mentoring

  Debra Josephson Abrams Education

  In an effort to do the right thing, organizational administrators often hastily create "mentoring" programs that are anything but. Mentoring is a commonly used term, especially in education, but too often it is incorrectly used because its origins and meanings are unknown or misunderstood. Without a solid understanding of the history and evolution of mentoring, programs that cast themselves as mentoring ones, but are not, create more problems than they intend to avert or solve.

• Wave of complex street drugs complicates diagnosis of overdose

  Lynn Hetzler Medical & Allied Healthcare

  Drug overdoses are increasingly common and more lethal in nearly every area of the country. New research provides a snapshot of regional illegal drug use. The report also highlights the complexity of detecting and treating severe drug-related events at emergency departments. Begun in 2016, the study focuses on identifying illicit drugs causing patient overdoses at two hospital EDs in Maryland. At the time of the study, the emergency departments were seeing a spike in accidental drug overdoses and related deaths.

• Transitioning from full-time to part-time RVing

  Connie Ulman Recreation & Leisure

  Transitioning from full-time to part-time mimics going from part-time to full-time in reverse. You have just as many questions, and the same feelings of fear and excitement take over. I’d like to address some of those fears with you and share in the excitement. Whether you are just thinking about coming off the road, in the middle of the transition or have already returned home, it’s a journey we can share together.

• Part 1 of 2: Language development is essential to educational success,…

  Shirley Veldhuis Education

  Let’s imagine a struggling school district where the new superintendent just received results from the state assessment, which revealed a large percentage of the elementary students were not proficient in reading. She is not alone. Reading proficiency is declining across the state. She thinks about an important book she had read by Dr. Sally Shaywitz, entitled "Overcoming Dyslexia." In one chapter, Dr. Shaywitz discussed the role of Dr. Paul Broca, who established that the root of reading is language and speech. The superintendent repeats this statement — the root of reading is language and speech.

• Travel2020: When tourism turns into the walking hordes

  Lark Gould Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

  Travel and tourism are things of inestimable value to most people. We dream of new places and save up diligently for these aspirational moments. But when does a walking tour turn into a nightmarish episode from "The Walking Dead"? As the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) met in Seoul recently for the 7th Global Summit on Urban Tourism, some 900 delegates from treasured cities around the world came together to hash out agreements on ways to manage what is now known as "overtourism" in the years to come.

• Skin care sins clients commit that have serious consequences

  Elizabeth Donat Retail

  It's not commonplace for clients to readily admit some of the horrible and unsafe things that they do to their skin. But when they do — or when you have a suspicion that they do — it's important to encourage clear and honest communication about it. After all, if we do not have a complete understanding of our spa and medical spa clients' habits and lifestyle choices, then we cannot recommend and perform safe treatments.

• Dream big: 4 ways AI, VR, and AR can enhance your marketing

  Emma Fitzpatrick Marketing

  A few years ago, having an Amazon Echo or Google Home was a novelty. In early 2017, only 7 percent of U.S. households had them, according to 2017 Gartner and Inside Radio research. By March 2018, that number skyrocketed, according to Voicebot.ai research, and 20 percent of U.S. adults had a smart speaker in their home. In just two years, Gartner predicts 75 percent of households will have one. That adoption and the embrace of smart speakers’ artificial intelligence (AI) will soon come to marketing and business as well.

• Beyond prototyping: Scaling up to additive manufacturing for production

  Charlie Wood Manufacturing

  Most are well-acquainted with additive manufacturing (AM) — as a rapid prototyping tool, at least. And while many companies believe and perpetuate the myth that AM is only a prototyping tool, innovators in a range of markets (e.g., aerospace, healthcare, consumer goods and more) are already using AM for production-grade manufacturing when design, performance and cost factors align. This article will help organizations considering switching to additive manufacturing for a part or product.

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