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Why we will no longer be a welcoming church

We’ve decided to quit being a welcoming church. No kidding. We’re giving it up. Like so many congregations, we’ve sunk an amazing amount of time and energy into becoming a welcoming church. We changed worship styles, trained greeters and ushers, wore name tags, brewed coffee, went to workshops on hospitality and put our friendliest people …

Why I Don’t Drink Budweiser…and Why I’m Not Alone

Budweiser has always been far more about marketing than beer. The founder of Anheuser Busch, Adolphus Busch, refused to drink his own brew, calling it “that slop” (he was German, of cou…

Why Is State Farm Making So Many Changes?

If you’re looking for clues about what State Farm is doing, don’t just look to the big black building overlooking Veterans Parkway. Look at Rhode Island.

Why FSU might finally be headed back to national relevance

Thanks to seven key transfer portal additions and a pair of five-star commitments, the Seminoles’ long-term future looks better than it has in years.

Government lawyers don’t understand the Internet. That’s a problem.

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10 Things the United States Should Copy From Other Countries

The United States has a lot to recommend it, but there's always room for improvement. Let's look abroad for better ways of doing things and and start improving.

When Do Information Services Projects Belong on the IT Side?

Tim Barlow discusses where the border should be drawn between the work of the information services (IS) and information technology (IT) teams. His experience is that "mission creep" on IT-related projects can be a problem in the IS team. He outlines a series of recommendations for ensuring tasks don't fall beyond the technical ability or strategic scope of the IS team and how to identify what should be carried out by IT colleagues.

World Health Organization Guidelines for Indoor Air Quality

World Health Organization Guidelines for Indoor Air Quality

World Health Organization removes transgender from list of mental disorders

Trans advocates have campaigned for years to change the perception that gender dysphoria is a mental illness and the World Health Organization has listened

World Health Organization Finds Cannabis To Be A 'Relatively Safe Drug'

The World Health Organization Expert Committee on Drug Dependence has come out with a rather positive outlook on cannabi...

Health Benefits of Sunbathing FAR Outweigh Risks, World Health Organization Says

Sunbathing dramatically reduces the risk of several types of cancers, autoimmune diseases, bone diseases, type 1 diabetes, depression, and, in proper doses, can even reduce the risk of melanoma, a meta-analysis of sun-related-disease studies finds A growing number of scientists are concerned that public campaigns to protect people from the sun …

PR Measurement Professional Joins Universal Information Services

Jean Saucier has joined Universal Information Services to assist with business development to the Public Relations industry. News Monitoring and PR Measurement

World Health Organization Urges Adult Rating for Movies That Show Smoking

The World Health Organization says movies that contain smoking scenes or tobacco imagery should receive an adult rating, in an effort to prevent young people from starting to smoke.

The World Health Organization Fetal Growth Charts: A Multinational Longitudinal Study of...

Using data from a multinational longitudinal study, Mariana Widmer and colleagues report The World Health Organization fetal growth charts.

More Than 90% of World’s Children Breathe Polluted Air, World Health Organization Reports

Around 93% of the world's children under 15 years of age breathe air that is so polluted it puts their health and development at serious risk, accounting for 1.8 billion children, according to a report published by the World Health Organization (WHO) ahead of its first global conference on air pollution and health in Geneva.

Less juice, more milk and water: Health organizations provide new beverage guidelines for young...

Four leading health organizations issued new, stricter recommendations for what children under five should be drinking in order to

Has the World Health Organization measured up?

In a new history, professor emeritus Theodore Brown looks at how the WHO has met its mission of ensuring “highest possible level of health” by all peoples.

The World Health Organization knows ‘burnout’ is a problem—but is it a disease?

You may have already heard about burn-out being included as a medical condition for the first time, which isn’t actually true at all, but there are other, real changes that ICD-11 makes that you might want to know about. Here are just a few.

Lauv's New Single Benefits Mental Health Organizations

"Mental illness is something that is often times not apparent to the outside world."