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Holiday Parties – “AKA” The Office Party
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Holiday Parties – “AKA” The Office Party

Everybody has been to the office party where Sally has a little too much to drink and ends up sitting on the boss's lap while his wife watches in horror. And nobody wants to repeat that event. In fact, many professionals will avoid attending office parties because of the opportunity for such embarrassing events to happen. But the office party doesn't have to become a horrifying and embarrassing experience for anyone. Here are a few fun options that don't include over imbibing in the spirits of the season: 1 - Present a Dance and Cover Band Challenge Hire two bands, schedule them to play two sets, and have the attendees decide which band is the best. You'll want to do this event early in the season with plenty of dance time, food and tables for conversational discussions among the differ...
Why Emoji Can Be Even More Powerful Than Words — Is It A Sign of our times
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Why Emoji Can Be Even More Powerful Than Words — Is It A Sign of our times

Signs of our times: why emoji can be even more powerful than words. Each year, Oxford Dictionaries – one of the world’s leading arbiters on the English language – selects a word that has risen to prominence over the past 12 months as its “Word of the Year”. The word is carefully chosen, based on a close analysis of how often it is used and what it reveals about the times we live in. Past examples include such classics as “vape”, “selfie” and “omnishambles”. But the 2015 word of the year is not a word at all. It’s an emoji – the “face with tears of joy” emoji, to be precise. Formerly regarded with disdain as the textual equivalent of an adolescent grunt, it appears that emoji has now gone mainstream. Even if it’s not a fully-fledged language, then it is – at the very least – something that ...
The Top 10 Most Haunted Houses In The World
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The Top 10 Most Haunted Houses In The World

Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp (Oswiecim, Poland) - Haunted houses aren't just homes, per se. The top 10 most haunted houses in the world include any building that houses people, and this is one of the grimmest places in the world. The Auschwitx Concentration camp is has one of the most blood-stained histories in the world, with over 2 million deaths in a five-year period (1940-45). The torture and genocide that took place here is some of the most horrific in human history. Raynham Hall (Norfolk, England) - Home to England's most famous ghost, the brown lady. According to folk legend, a picture of the brown lady was captured in the mid-1930's, and that picture remains one of the most authentic ghost pictures ever taken. The Whaley House (San Diego, California) - The most ...
When Chasing Meaningful Work — What People Get Wrong
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When Chasing Meaningful Work — What People Get Wrong

Looking for your ‘calling’? What people get wrong when chasing meaningful work. As a professor, I’m fortunate to teach a course called World Religions for Healthcare Professionals that prepares students for the spiritual and ethical issues they may encounter in their careers. But the class often boils down to life’s big questions: What makes life worth living, and how should we live? How do you find your “calling”? In particular, one thought-provoking paradox captures students’ attention. They live in a society where the idea of a professional “calling” is frequently talked about as a quest for personal fulfillment and achievement or satisfaction with one’s work. The problem is that the more you aim for success, “the more you are going to miss it,” as psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor V...
Witchcraft Practitioners’ Connection To The Natural World Is Changing, As The Craft Becomes A Multibillion-Dollar Business
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Witchcraft Practitioners’ Connection To The Natural World Is Changing, As The Craft Becomes A Multibillion-Dollar Business

As witchcraft becomes a multibillion-dollar business, practitioners’ connection to the natural world is changing. Witches, Wiccans and other contemporary Pagans see divinity in trees, streams, plants and animals. Most Pagans view the Earth as the Goddess, with a body that humans must care for, and from which they gain emotional, spiritual and physical sustenance. Paganism is an umbrella term that includes religions that view their practices as returning to those of pre-Christian societies, in which they believe the Goddess was worshipped along with the gods and the land was seen as sacred. Wicca focuses specifically on the practice of the British Isles. Witchcraft has also become a multibillion-dollar business. As a sociologist who has been researching this religion for more than 30 year...
For Many Doctors, Aromatherapy Still Doesn’t Pass The Smell Test — But Millions Of Americans Believe It Works
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For Many Doctors, Aromatherapy Still Doesn’t Pass The Smell Test — But Millions Of Americans Believe It Works

Millions of Americans believe aromatherapy works – but for many doctors, it still doesn’t pass the smell test. The history of using essential oils and their aromas to improve health and well-being dates back thousands of years. Like today, patients would inhale or topically apply these oils, which were typically extracted from plants – from leaves to flowers to roots to bark. But not until the 1930s was this form of therapy considered to have true potential in mainstream health care. That was when Rene Maurice Gattefossé, a French chemist who coined the word aromatherapy, wrote extensively about the properties of essential oils. Today, depending on whom you talk to, aromatherapy comprises anything from pleasant odors associated with personal hygiene and cleaning products to a serious t...
Travelers Can Stay Connected, Wherever They Travel With This August Promotion
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Travelers Can Stay Connected, Wherever They Travel With This August Promotion

Airalo is the world’s first eSIM store that solves the pain of high roaming bills by giving travelers access to eSIMs (digital SIM cards). More than one million people are already using Airalo’s eSIMs. With eSIMs from Airalo, travelers can download and install a digital data pack for over 200 countries/regions and get connected anywhere in the world as soon as they land. Benefits for customers With Airalo’s eSIMs, travelers can access the Internet from virtually any country on the planet and don’t have to pay excessive roaming charges. Travelers don’t need to waste their time looking for a local plastic SIM card. The eSIM can be activated either immediately after installation or upon arrival at the traveler’s destination. A wide range of eSIMs are available for different countries and ...
Women Bosses – Powerful, Successful, Ambitious Women
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Women Bosses – Powerful, Successful, Ambitious Women

For more than 30 years I've coached and mentored women who are top-caliber Fortune 500 executives and high-level entrepreneurs. Meanwhile during that whole time I was either a Fortune 100 senior executive or the founding CEO of my own successful consulting firm. Many things have changed for women in the workplace over the years, but as the saying goes "the more things change, the more they stay the same." What I'm referring to here is the sad fact that, even in this advanced era of the 21st century, negative stereotypes about women in executive positions stubbornly persist. The one that most often comes to mind is that if you are a woman and you are powerful within the business community then it must mean that you are also self-centered and egocentric. So let me set the record strai...
The Center Of The Miami Housewife Universe
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The Center Of The Miami Housewife Universe

The Real Housewives Of Miami. This entry in the "Real Housewives" franchise sticks to the tried-and-true formula that has made other incarnations a staple on the Bravo schedule. The women featured on the series are at the center of the Miami housewife universe, though not all are actually wives at the time of the show's filming. Among the women are Adriana De Moura, known as the Brazilian bombshell of Miami's art scene, and Texas native Lea Black, a committed philanthropist who is married to one of America's top criminal defense attorneys.
Cheap Family Dinner And Movie Night
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Cheap Family Dinner And Movie Night

Cheap Family Dinner and Movie Night - 3 Steps to Creating a Fun and Low-Cost Family Activity. Taking your family out for dinner and a movie is getting more and more expensive. Even with some theatres extending matinee prices and restaurants offering a vast array of "2-for-1" or "kids eat free" deals, a family dinner and movie night for four can quickly run over $100. You can dramatically cut the costs by focusing on three steps to creating a fun and low-cost home version of this popular family activity. The Movie Video Store - Renting a few new releases isn't exactly cheap, but getting two or three movies to watch for $16 versus seeing one movie at the theatre for about $40 is a pretty good deal. Mom, dad, and the kids get to put their two-cents in on which movie to get and soon you ...