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28/06/2023

From Dreaming to Doing: Priya Daniel’s Journey as a Leader and Innovator in Architecture
Priya Daniel is an architect who defies the norms and expectations of her profession. As the founder and principal architect of Five Scale Design, a Singapore-based firm, she has a vision to create spaces that not only meet the needs and aspirations of her clients, but also inspire and delight them with their design and quality.

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28/06/2023

Kimberley Davidson: A Humble Leader Empowering Women in Business
The Wee Souk
It is no secret that there is still many gender-specific challenges women face in the workplace. From pay discrimination, gender bias, stereotyping, sexual harassment, a lack of representation, and a lack of available and protected rights to family leave to subtler issues around unpaid labor in the office, there are many obstacles’ women continue to face when they enter the workforce.

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28/06/2023

Wendy Broersen: Leading by Empowering Others
Wendy Broersen is the CEO and Founder of Superpeople Company, a firm that helps organizations attract, retain, and develop a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. She is a confident leader who, through her pragmatic leadership approach, has created an environment where employees can thrive and reach their full potential. In the modern business space of today,

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28/06/2023

ON THE COVER
Experience the Home of Your Dreams with Lauren Parrella
When Lauren Parrella started Realty Executives First Class in 2021, she did not imagine that within a year, she would be looking for a bigger office space. A broker by trade, as well as CEO and President of the organization, Lauren is on a mission to provide outstanding, five-star brokerage service to her clients while going above and beyond their expectations every single time.

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15/03/2023

ON THE COVER, TRAILBLAZER WOMEN LEADERS, 2023.
Leading together with Babita Spinelli
Babita Spinelli
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on public mental health. Among the many negative consequences are sickness and bereavement, increased uncertainty, decreased human connection, and lost opportunities for work and education. However, it has also led to significant discoveries. We are becoming more aware as a society that mental health is critical, and that people who are suffering frequently lack the resources they require.

While some CEOs have dabbled in psychotherapy for years, the added stress of running their organizations and workforces during the coronavirus pandemic sparked a surge in interest from C-suite executives seeking more mental health support, according to sources.
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15/03/2023

Chardae Rodgers-Gamble: Pioneer, Transformative & A Leader Par Excellence
Chardae Gamble
Led by the charismatic Dr. Chardae Rodgers-Gamble, CEO, CR Clinical is a Contract Research Organization that provides full clinical research services and clinical trial education to pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, medical device corporations, CROs, and individuals. Launched in 2015 and located at 500 West Office Center Drive, Suite 400, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania 19034, United States CR Clinical provides a uniquely fast and efficient way of conducting clinical trials. Their Digital 1st CRO approach provides onsite, hybrid, and decentralized trials with low risk-based pricing. The Digital 1st CRO approach helps their clients in reducing trial costs and delays.
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15/03/2023

Saima Shaheen: Supreme Skinfluencer
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Saima Shaheen, the founder & president of Suraya Beauty Lounge Inc. is committed to making women feel the best versions of themselves.

Saima is a passionate, skilled licensed Master Esthetician who specializes in providing result-oriented skincare treatments for women of any age. She enjoys helping her clients achieve their skincare goals and enhance their beauty by tailoring every treatment to their specific needs.
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15/03/2023

Jackie Roby: Inspiring Change

Wellness is defined primarily as being in good physical and mental health. Because mental health and physical health are so closely linked, problems in one area can impact the other. In today’s fast-paced and ever-disruptive world, our wellness often takes a back seat, and we don’t even realize it until it’s too late.

Using the perfect harmony of Human Design and mental wellness practices, Inspired Journey Consulting guides individuals, groups, and immersive wellness resorts to discover and empower their authentic voices.
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15/03/2023

Mothers, Leaders, and Entrepreneurs: Many Shades of
Malwina Rewkowska and Gosia Sobolewska
MiniOwls
Web designers, photographers, accountants, marketing managers, product designers, and childhood best friends Gosia Sobolewska and Malwina Rewkowska are the creative brains behind the family-run business MiniOwls. Established in 2014 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada MiniOwls is a family-run business that offers premium products designed by two experienced moms and tested by their five energetic and creative kids. MiniOwls is a creative solution that makes parenting and managing the house a walk in the park.
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15/03/2023

Erin O’Donnell: Ushering the Growth of the Lucrative Cannabis Industry
While the world has been dominated by disruptions such as the Covid-19 pandemic, one business sector has come of age. The Cannabis industry, which was once frowned upon, is now one of the fastest-growing industries in America. The global legal ma*****na market size was valued at USD 16.7 billion in 2022 and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25.4% from 2023 to 2030.

Although the growing demand for legal ma*****na continues across the globe, many are skeptical about being associated with this industry.
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15/03/2023

Celene Dupuis: Mistress of Tress

"You are doing exactly what you were meant to do," Celene’s father said to her while receiving a haircut from Celene. He was at that time, fighting a battle with brain cancer.

Earlier, in 2003 when Celene had told her family that she wanted to be a hairstylist they were supportive but hesitant. Her father, a business owner, said “I will support you, but I’m worried you won’t be able to pay your bills”.
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15/03/2023

Achieving Consistent Capital Growth with Susan Farquhar
Calla Property
When Susan Farquhar first got into the real estate industry, she wanted to create an ecosystem for her clients in which they could create a secure future. This came true in the form of Calla Property, a leading Australian real estate property investment company. Established in 2014 by Susan herself, Calla Property Insights is an award-winning research methodology that consistently identifies the right property, in the right place at the right time throughout the continent of Australia.
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15/03/2023

Dr. Amy Fulton: Supporting leaders in navigating complex challenges associated with equity, diversity, and inclusion in higher education
Hopefully you have encountered leaders who are passionate about learning new things, personal growth, social justice, and continuing to evolve their leadership style. If you haven’t, Dr. Amy Fulton is one of the leaders you may want to get to know. After completing her master’s in education at the University of Utah, she started working at the newly founded non-profit, online, and competency-based Western Governors University (WGU), quickly advancing to leadership within WGU. In the inaugural WGU Chief of Staff role, she observed the daily operations of the president and senior leadership, noting the importance of leadership to the overall culture and success of the university.
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15/03/2023

Carolyn Chrisman: Supporting Missouri Communities
Carolyn Chrisman, an economic development practitioner, has more than a decade of experience in economic development in rural areas focusing on workforce development, business development strategies, innovation, emerging areas, and more to grow the local economy. Having worked on projects of numerous sizes and industries in the past ten years, Carolyn has a host of impressive achievements under her belt.
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15/03/2023

Karen Boustany on using passion to inspire change.
Karen Boustany
Meet Karen Boustany, an avid businesswoman driven by passion who is transforming business strategies in Lebanon and the GCC. Her self-awareness and creativity have been her strengths and have helped her achieve many goals in her professional journey. She has always stayed intellectually curious and is ambitious toward creating new projects and assisting businesses to propagate.
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15/03/2023

Women Leaders 2023 Malwina Rewkowska and Gosia Sobolewska “We believe in very strong customer service. Every piece of feedback from our customers is taken seriously..” Read more… Jackie Roby …

13/09/2022

Meditation has the potential to aid in the treatment of children suffering from traumas, difficult diagnoses, or other stressors.
Children actively meditating experience lower activity in parts of the brain involved in rumination, mind-wandering and depression, our team found in the first brain-imaging study of young people under 18 years old. Over-activity in this collection of brain regions, known as the default mode network, is thought to be involved in the generation of negative self-directed thoughts – such as “I am such a failure” – that are prominent in mental disorders like depression.

In our study, we compared a simple form of distraction – counting backward from 10 – with two relatively simple forms of meditation:
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The big idea Children actively meditating experience lower activity in parts of the brain involved in rumination, mind-wandering and depression, our team found in the first brain-imaging study of y…

13/09/2022

College students are increasingly identifying in ways other than’she’ and ‘he.’
When students today fill out their college applications, they are not just identifying as “she” or “he.” More than 3% of incoming college students use a different set of pronouns. That’s according to my analysis of the more than 1.2 million applications submitted for the 2022-23 school year through the Common App, an online application platform used by more than 900 colleges.

While 3% may not seem like a lot, it represents nearly 37,000 students.
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When students today fill out their college applications, they are not just identifying as “she” or “he.” More than 3% of incoming college students use a different set of pronouns. That’s according …

13/09/2022

Quiet quitting is a new name for an old industrial action method.
The average UK worker now carries out approximately 22 days’ worth of overtime a year. Meanwhile, inflation is at a 40-year high of 10.1%, and real pay is dropping 2.8% – the fastest decline since records began in 2001.

In response, the trend of “quiet quitting” is emerging. This attitude encourages employees to fulfil their job duties without subscribing to “work is life” culture to guide their career and stand out to their managers.
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The average UK worker now carries out approximately 22 days’ worth of overtime a year. Meanwhile, inflation is at a 40-year high of 10.1%, and real pay is dropping 2.8% – the fastest decline since …

13/09/2022

4 strategies for successfully hiring refugees
Over five million Ukrainians have fled their country, and more than 68,000 have made it to Canada. If they haven’t already, most will begin seeking employment in their new countries soon. In the face of this, it’s important that employers are ready to hire refugees in a way that benefits everyone.

Our research sheds light on the experiences of newly hired refugees and offers best practices for employers. Based on the experiences of refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran from 28 German companies, we discovered the best ways employers can integrate refugee employees into the workplace.
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Over five million Ukrainians have fled their country, and more than 68,000 have made it to Canada. If they haven’t already, most will begin seeking employment in their new countries soon. In the fa…

13/09/2022

Why are some people mosquito magnets while others are not?
It’s rare to attend an outdoor party in warm weather without hearing people complain about mosquitoes. They swat away, sit in campfire smoke, cover up with blankets and eventually just give up and go indoors. On the other end of the spectrum, there are plenty of people who don’t seem bothered by mosquitoes in the slightest.

As a medical entomologist who’s worked with mosquitoes for more than 40 years, I’m often asked why some people seem to be mosquito magnets while others are oblivious to these blood-feeding pests buzzing all around them.
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It’s rare to attend an outdoor party in warm weather without hearing people complain about mosquitoes. They swat away, sit in campfire smoke, cover up with blankets and eventually just give up and …

13/09/2022

Before sunscreens and parasols, human skin was more resistant to the sun.
Human beings have a conflicted relationship with the sun. People love sunshine, but then get hot. Sweat gets in your eyes. Then there are all the protective rituals: the sunscreen, the hats, the sunglasses. If you stay out too long or haven’t taken sufficient precautions, your skin lets us you know with an angry sunburn. First the heat, then the pain, then the remorse.

Were people always this obsessed with what the sun would do to their bodies? As a biological anthropologist who has studied primates’ adaptations to the environment, I can tell you the short answer is “no,” and they didn’t need to be.
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Human beings have a conflicted relationship with the sun. People love sunshine, but then get hot. Sweat gets in your eyes. Then there are all the protective rituals: the sunscreen, the hats, the su…

02/09/2022

A landmark trial has found that coronary artery stents have no benefit in the treatment of heart failure.
Every year, 60,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with heart failure, and many are treated with stents. In a large new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, my colleagues and I discovered that these procedures are unnecessary.

Heart failure is where the heart muscle becomes weakened, leading to symptoms of severe breathlessness that may cause premature death. The commonest cause is blocked blood vessels that reduce blood supply to the heart muscle. This is known as coronary artery disease.

A person with heart failure is treated with medication and sometimes with specialised pacemakers. Despite this treatment, many patients die prematurely or are admitted to hospital with worsening symptoms.

People with heart failure also sometimes have a procedure to insert a stent – a small metal tube that is used to unblock a coronary artery. Stents are placed into the heart arteries by a cardiologist through tubes inserted either into the wrist or the groin and guided by X-rays. Trials have shown that stents are a very effective treatment for people with heart attacks and angina, but their effects in patients with heart failure have remained uncertain.

Some cardiologists had noticed improvements in patients’ symptoms and heart function after stenting, but researchers could not tell if these improvements were directly linked to the stents, or would have happened anyway with medications. Without proper research, treatment guidelines for the use of stents in patients with heart failure varied, with the NHS recommending against stenting and European guidelines recommending it in certain patients.

In this latest study, the REVIVED-BCIS2 trial, led by Professor Divaka Perera, we tested whether treatment with stents helped patients to live longer or to stay out of hospital. The trial was a collaboration of 40 NHS Hospitals in the UK and ran from 2013 to 2020.

Patients could be included in the trial if they had severely weakened heart muscle and extensive blockages of the coronary arteries. They also had specialised heart scans performed, so that stenting could be targeted to the areas of heart muscle that were most likely to recover.
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Every year, 60,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with heart failure, and many are treated with stents. In a large new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, my colleagues and I di…

02/09/2022

Shakespeare’s contribution to the English language: five myths
Shakespeare’s language is widely considered to represent the pinnacle of English. But that status is underpinned by multiple myths – ideas about language that have departed from reality (or what is even plausible). Those myths send us down rabbit holes and make us lose sight of what is truly impressive about Shakespeare – what he did with his words.

The Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language project at Lancaster University, deploying large-scale computer analyses, has been transforming what we know about Shakespeare’s language. Here, incorporating some of its findings, we revisit five things that you probably thought you knew about Shakespeare but are actually untrue.

1. Shakespeare coined a vast number of words
Well, he did, but not as many as people think – even reputable sources assume more than 1,000. The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust puts it at 1,700, but carefully add that this number concerns words whose earliest appearance is in Shakespeare’s works.

The word “hobnail” first appears in a text attributed to Shakespeare, but it’s difficult to imagine it arose from a creative poetic act. More likely, it was around in the spoken language of the time and Shakespeare’s use is the earliest recording of it. Estimates of just how many words Shakespeare supposedly coined do not usually distinguish between what was creatively coined by him and what was first recorded in a written document attributed to him.

Even if you don’t make that distinction and include all words that appear first in a work attributed to Shakespeare, whether coined or recorded, numbers are grossly inflated. Working with the literature and linguistics academics Jonathan Hope and Sam Hollands, we’ve been using computers to search millions of words in texts pre-dating Shakespeare. With this method, we have found that only around 500 words do seem to first appear in Shakespeare.

Of course, 500 is still huge and most writers neither coin a new word nor produce a first recording.
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Shakespeare’s language is widely considered to represent the pinnacle of English. But that status is underpinned by multiple myths – ideas about language that have departed from reality (or what is…

02/09/2022

The low-risk alcohol consumption guidelines in Canada have been reduced to six drinks per week. Here’s why.
New Canadian guidelines for reducing risks to health from alcohol use were released for public comment this week. Key messages include:

drinking less alcohol is better for health;
health risks escalate quickly above six standard drinks per week, especially for women;
do not exceed two drinks per day to minimize risks;
alcohol is a carcinogen;
alcohol containers should carry prominent health warnings.
You may be asking, who took it upon themselves to give this advice to the public and upon what basis? I am a scientist at the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research and was a member of the panel that generated this advice. I have also advised or been a panelist on four previous guideline committees over the past 30 years including for Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada.

I try to explain here some of the underlying science and how it has evolved, principally why drinking guidelines internationally have lowered definitions of “low-risk” alcohol use.

Why have the guidelines changed?
The new guideline development was led by the Ottawa-based Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) with funding from Health Canada. The previous 2011 guidelines were far more generous: low-risk drinking was defined as up to 10 standard drinks per week for women and 15 for men.

A standard drink is a mystery to many people, not least because unlike in some other countries (e.g. Australia and New Zealand) alcohol containers here do not state how many standard drinks they contain. In Canada, a standard drink is defined as 13.45 grams of ethanol, which corresponds to typical serve sizes of average strength beer, wine and spirits:

341 millilitres of beer or cider (5 per cent alcohol),
142 millilitres of wine (12 per cent alcohol) or
43 millilitres of spirits (40 per cent alcohol.
What has changed in the past 11 years? Why is an expert committee now recommending much lower guidelines? I was also a member of the panel for the 2011 guidelines, which were based upon the simple idea that low-risk drinking was a level that didn’t increase health risks above that of an abstainer.
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New Canadian guidelines for reducing risks to health from alcohol use were released for public comment this week. Key messages include: drinking less alcohol is better for health; health risks esca…

02/09/2022

Actionable Tips To Set Up A Green Business From Scratch
Sustainability is an emerging trend in the corporate world, and it is here to stay. Established enterprises are embracing it, and startups are willing to go the extra mile from the outset. In fact, you are in a better place to go green as a startup entrepreneur. Putting sustainability on your checklist makes sense, even if it requires a little extra investment. It can give you a competitive advantage as a provider and employer because everyone wants to collaborate with organizations that do their bit for the environment. Fortunately, setting up a green business from scratch is easier than you imagine. Here are some valuable insights from entrepreneurs who have been there and done it.

Begin with green business ideas
Since you are in the initial stages, you have the opportunity to begin with a green business idea. Starting from scratch is easier than refurbishing products and processes for an existing business. Think of bringing sustainability into your offering through investment in energy-efficient machinery, eco-friendly packaging, and paperless processes. Choose eco-conscious suppliers and partners for long-term collaborations. Implementing these ideas may entail some extra burden, but it is worthwhile.

Choose an eco-friendly location
Choosing the apt location for your startup premises is another way to go green from scratch. Whether you buy or rent, ensure that the land developer has been thorough with Environmental Permitting and due diligence. Setting up at a location over wetlands or a reserved area is the last thing you should do as you may face regulatory problems down the line. Partner with a reputable land developer and double-check the project specifications to be extra sure about environmental compliance.
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Sustainability is an emerging trend in the corporate world, and it is here to stay. Established enterprises are embracing it, and startups are willing to go the extra mile from the outset. In fact,…

02/09/2022

7 Simple Ways To Provide Great IT Support To Remote Workers
For businesses in Tampa and other parts of the United States, providing their remote teams with reliable IT support can be challenging. This is because remote workers typically have different needs from their office-based counterparts. In this blog, we take a look at some of the ways in which your company can back your remote teams with great tech support.

Provide 24/7 IT support
IT problems can happen at any time, so it’s essential that someone is ready to accept inquiries and provide troubleshooting steps when someone in your team needs it. This is especially critical if you have remote workers with open or shifting work schedules.

Take full advantage of the cloud
Maximizing the cloud can resolve or alleviate some problems remote workers are at risk of facing. Take data loss, for instance. Cyberattacks or sudden hardware malfunctions can result in remote workers losing access to business data. If you implement cloud-based backups, your employees will always have copies of their files.

Issue work devices
Providing your employees with work devices, such as laptops and smartphones, can be pricey indeed, but the benefits are worth looking into. For one, you know the devices and their characteristics, including their make and model. That said, your IT support team can provide troubleshooting recommendations that are specific to those traits.

What’s more, you can have greater control over the security of company-issued devices. For example, you can register mobile devices to mobile device management (MDM) solutions. MDM lets you remotely manage and monitor the status of all the devices in your workforce. You can also enforce security policies, such as password protection and screen lock, remotely.

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For businesses in Tampa and other parts of the United States, providing their remote teams with reliable IT support can be challenging. This is because remote workers typically have different needs…