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Alcatraz East Puts 9/11 in the Spotlight with Forensics Expert Guest Speaker, Offering Local Appreciation Days
Alcatraz East Crime Museum, located in Pigeon Forge, will host an expert speaker to commemorate 9/11 PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (August 8, 2023) –Alcatraz East Crime Museum will commemorate the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks with an expert guest speaker. Arthur Bohanan, a forensics expert, will be giving a special presentation on September 10, 2023. The event is included with general admission tickets. Alcatraz East will also be hosting Local Appreciation Days from September 22, 2023, through October 1, 2023, allowing locals to visit for a discounted admission rate. “It is always an honor to host Arthur as a guest speaker,” says Ally Pennington, artifacts and programs manager at Alcatraz East Crime Museum. “Hearing…
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Do’s and Don’ts of Every Good Leader
Guest Article for The Mommies Reviews Do’s and Don’ts of Every Good Leader by William F. Merck II July 28, 2023 Do’s and Don’ts of Every Good Leader If you ask employees in virtually any organization what makes a good leader, there will be a common list of attributes. If you ask what the characteristics of a bad leader are, a common list of leadership mistakes will be revealed in their answers. Most leadership mistakes are simply the opposite of the “Do’s” of a good leader. Here are the most frequent slip-ups leaders make. Flip these and, yes, you’ll have the secrets of a good leader. Common Mistakes Leaders Make…
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Parenting in the Digital Age: Tips to Uphold Kids’ Mental Health By Merilee Kern, MBA
There has been much critical discourse about the escalating children’s mental health crisis relative to how benchmarks like stress, anxiety and loneliness are driving depression and other serious psychological conditions amongst youth populations like never before. Of course, children are not the only ones suffering, as parents and caregivers struggle to prevent, address and treat concerns in order to uphold kids’ emotional well-being. In this process, the adults themselves are suffering in kind—often exacerbating their own mental and emotional struggles amid the copious complexities of modern life. This, of course, has a litany of macro-economic implications. As one case in point, a Morgan Stanley Alliance for Children’s Mental Health research…
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