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Birding and RVing in the East

Cindy Belt Recreation & Leisure

Birding and RVing are an incredible match of activities. RVing allows you to stay in parks during the right times of the year to see birds in their summer or winter habitats or along the way as the birds are migrating. Plus, camping at a park gives you the ability to step outside your RV early in the morning to watch birds during peak observation times. With binoculars and a guide or app for bird identification, anyone can enjoy the hobby.

Retiring? 5 ways to maximize your benefits

Lisa Mulcahy Recreation & Leisure

Ready to ride off into the sunset with your pension or 401(k)? Make sure you keep it plentiful — and growing. Here are some key, under-the radar tips for ways about-to-be retirees can best maximize their money and expand their finances in a solid way. Put this advice into motion before you leave your job — and look forward to some truly golden years!

Find something more important than your passion

Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk Management

It turns out that trying to find our passion may be a futile search. For those of us who believe a passion is something we have and just need to discover, we may be setting ourselves up to fail. Researchers at Stanford and Yale found that those of us who believe passions can be found also tend to believe that once we find our passion, it will provide us with limitless motivation. Unfortunately, this means we may bounce from one thing to another, because as soon as the activity becomes difficult or unmotivating, we tend to believe it is because it is not our passion.

Travel2020: Flight delays now measured in thousands — of years

Lark Gould Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

That innocuous two-hour aircraft maintenance interruption may seem like a minor inconvenience, but if added together with all the other interruptions per passenger at an airport in a given year, the delays can add up to thousands of years. A new study by FinanceBuzz examined the top 25 airports in the U.S. where passengers are most delayed. Not surprisingly, Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD), hometown hub of United Airlines and where the legacy carrier runs more flights than any competitor, the topped the list.

Yoga isn’t for everyone — here’s why

Victoria Fann Sports & Fitness

Yoga is more popular than ever. According to a 2017 National Health Interview Survey from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, the percentage of adults doing yoga in the U.S. jumped from 9.5% in 2012 to 14.3% in 2017. The Yoga Alliance reports that Americans spend $16 billion on yoga classes, clothing, equipment and accessories each year. As with any type of fitness program, injuries are possible. In fact, some people should avoid yoga altogether, or at the very least, be careful about which postures they do.

Video: How to manage .45 recoil with only 2 fingers

Mike Ox Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

Sometimes, the firearms training industry gets in a rut…and people get very emotional about techniques that they read about or see on videos without ever testing them. One of the sacred cows of gun training is that you should squeeze the life out of your pistol, get as much meat on metal as possible, and push in from the sides to manage recoil effectively. I heard, believed, and taught that for years.

A look at NEC’s enterprise solutions for hospitality businesses

Linchi Kwok Science & Technology

I recently met with the hospitality team of NEC Global Enterprise Solutions at NEC Corporation's headquarters in Tokyo. The team gave me a brief introduction of what services NEC provides and a tour of the NEC Future Creation Hub, an interactive showroom for the company’s latest tech products. The trip to NEC's headquarters was, in fact, a follow-up visit after I met with the company’s hospitality team at HITEC 2019 in Minneapolis in June. After getting a sneak peek of what NEC offers, I wonder whether tech firms or hospitality companies are the force that drives the transformation of the industry.

Economics key in new Endangered Species Act rules

Michelle R. Matisons Waste Management & Environmental

In the grand scheme of federal vs. state-level environmental battles, we have nearly seen it all lately. With the Department of Interior steering the helm of the most controversial environmental issues of the day, we witness a shifty and complex federal culture when it comes to environmental rules. It’s on-again and off-again, with federal departments mainly deregulating and the federal judiciary emerging with some surprising decisions. The Trump administration appears to want to lift any restriction blocking land development; some federal judges have protected precarious rules or have challenged executive actions.

Hiring patterns are changing in the travel industry

Bambi Majumdar Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

The U.S. Travel Association's recent report, "Made in America: Travel's Contribution to Workforce Development," gives us a lot of hope for the industry, which ranks No. 1 for hiring. The report shares interesting aspects of the industry, like how it is poised to fill the skills gap. However, despite the rosy picture the USTA report painted, many travel businesses are finding it hard to fill open positions, let alone get qualified candidates. What is causing the dearth of talent? For an industry that has successfully come out of the recession better off and is poised for growth, this is a problem.

Touring America’s musical instrument makers

Dave G. Houser Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

America’s musical instrument industry is humming right along. It netted $6.2 billion in revenues in 2018, with a profit of $341 million, according to IBISWorld, a Los Angeles-based marketing research firm. A number of instrument makers across the country, including several of the world’s leading guitar and piano manufacturers, invite interested music aficionados to tour their factories and workshops. Here are eight such manufacturers.

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