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• How to clean your over-and-under shotgun

  Irwin Greenstein Recreation & Leisure

  ​The best way to ensure the longevity and performance of your over-and-under shotgun is to keep it clean. That might sound like an onerous chore, but you can effectively clean an over-and-under in less than 20 minutes on your kitchen counter.

• In green industry social networking, blogging is best

  Fred Berns Facilities & Grounds

  Futz with Facebook and toy with Twitter all you want, but you're better off blogging. As a green industry professional, you don't have unlimited time to spend on social media marketing. The best use of that time, by far, is on blogging.

• Homeowners are getting ready for outdoor entertaining

  Bambi Majumdar Interior Design, Furnishings & Fixtures

  Spring is in the air, and summer is knocking on the door. As one season blends into another, Americans are motivated to give their outdoor spaces a good bit of spring cleaning and maybe a makeover. With plans being made for outdoor entertaining, stores like Lowe's and Home Depot are witnessing a healthy rise in sales. Along with intensive cleaning, tidying and decluttering to make the outdoor space an attractive one, there is also a surge in demand for garden furniture and other garden-design items. All in all, a busy season ahead for homeowners and outdoor retailers alike.

• Will Google’s newest algorithm change affect your business?

  Emma Fitzpatrick Marketing

  I know, I know. You've heard Google cry "Algorithm change!" before, and it seemed like nothing happened. But this time it's different. Unlike the last few updates, Google has said their newest algorithm change is going to be one of the biggest to date. Starting April 21, Google is going to penalize any websites that aren't optimized for mobile devices.

• Millennials, Gen Xers leading change in healthcare over seniors, boomers

  Scott E. Rupp Medical & Allied Healthcare

  Millennials and Gen Xers are a population segment harboring and bringing about advances in healthcare technology. They are also altering the delivery of healthcare and insurance, according to new research offered up by PNC Healthcare.

• Dealing with underachieving employees

  Billy Arcement Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  ​In today's competitive work environment, leaders are charged with maximizing employee productivity, minimizing costs and improving profits — not always an easy task keeping all three going well. Among the monitoring responsibilities, people performance is high on the list. So, how should a leader approach an employee who is clearly underachieving and impacting productivity, costs and profits?

• How can coaches assure parents that football is safe for teens?

  Amanda Kowalski Sports & Fitness

  In March, San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland announced his retirement after one year in the NFL, citing concerns about concussions and head trauma. President Barack Obama and NFL Hall of Fame inductee Brett Favre have even admitted that if they had sons, they probably wouldn't want them to play football. So if a 247-pound linebacker, a legendary NFL quarterback and the president of the United States are worried about safety, how do you convince the parent of a 16-year-old that it's safe for their child to put on the pads?

• Determining individualized instruction for students with special needs

  April Smith Education

  We all know that students are different and learning is not one-size-fits-all. Some students need more academic assistance and support than others because of documented physical or cognitive disabilities. To accommodate the variety of special needs present in today's classrooms, schools have created a variety of tiered placements and intervention strategies based on the severity of needed assistance. Two instructional models dominate special education services to be given in the general education classroom: inclusion and pull-out.

• Veterinarians vs. the Internet

  Lisa Smith-Putnam Pet Care

  ​It happens every time I get sick. Somewhere between a sore throat and dry eyes, I will dig out my laptop and start checking my symptoms online with one of the hundreds of sites that will diagnose every little pain, cramp and extra pimple. The list of possible conditions varies from rather mundane to insanely catastrophic, depending on the website and the amount of symptoms I input.

• Meet the 2016 Porsche Boxster Spyder — the Boxster we’ve always…

  David Hurth Transportation Technology & Automotive

  ​Unless you've been living under a rock, then you have probably seen at least some coverage of the new Porsche Boxster Spyder. It is a car that stood out as one of the most popular automobiles to debut at this year's New York International Auto Show. This new Spyder is the Boxster that we've all been waiting for since the model first debuted in the 1990s.

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