Recent Articles
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Passive Paul meets Aggressive Homeowner Harriet
Roger Daviston Facilities & GroundsPassive Paul wakes up and starts his usual day, always moving against himself but not seeing it that way. He constantly doesn't resist anything that homeowners tell him. He finds it extremely uncomfortable to confront others, and he would rather not say much and just let things go.
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4 Black Friday and Cyber Monday trends affecting holiday shopping
Emma Fitzpatrick RetailBlack Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday — no matter what you call it, the 2014 holiday shopping season is officially in swing. More brick and mortar stores were even opening their doors a day early on Thanksgiving, which certainly caught the eye of shoppers and critics alike.
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Prospecting isn’t an event, it’s a campaign
Marc Wayshak MarketingBill is responsible for sales at his company and considers himself a tenacious worker. Whenever he discovers a new prospect, he enters him or her into the system. From there, he will attempt to contact that person by phone, through email and even via office visit, if possible. However, after a number of failed attempts, Bill is likely to toss the person into the sea of dead prospects. Does this sound familiar at all to you?
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‘Dead’ hearts give life to transplant patients
Alan Kelsky Medical & Allied HealthcareA trio of breakthrough heart transplants made history in October as surgeons transplanted "dead" hearts into three patients. Two of the three patients are recovering nicely, the third had more recent heart transplant surgery and is recovering in the St. Anthony Intensive Care Unit.
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CMS extension could spell trouble for meaningful use program
Scott E. Rupp Healthcare AdministrationThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended the meaningful use attestation period by another month to Dec. 31 of this year. The deadline had been Nov. 30. The extension is for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals to attest to meaningful use for the Medicare EHR program reporting period 2014.
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Snowshoeing in a Porsche
Jason Gonzalez Transportation Technology & AutomotiveIt's that time of year again. The sky is gray. It's cold and crisp. It looks like snow, and it even smells like snow. It's going to snow. It’s the time of year when many of our Porsches go into hibernation.
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Inclusion Corner: The art of co-teaching
Savanna Flakes EducationCo-taught lessons should look substantively different and richer for students than what one teacher would do alone. In order for co-teaching to be successful, two things must occur: Educators should capitalize on their specific roles, and they must utilize various co-teaching models.
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Preventing nurse fatigue to keep our patients safe
Joan Spitrey Medical & Allied HealthcareWith the holiday season upon us, it is not unusual to feel the stress of this busy time of year. Our schedules become filled with fun times with family and friends, but our own health often gets neglected. However, as healthcare providers, we have a responsibility to our patients.
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Disruptive plastic products rapidly emerging in green building field
Don Rosato EngineeringGreen building technology redefines how we make and live in buildings. From a plastics material and processing perspective, we can both reduce a building's energy consumption and simultaneously provide for a building's energy production. These plastic material and process advances "disrupt" an existing market by displacing earlier technology. Let's delve into some emerging green building technologies that involve plastic material and processing aspects.
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Tips for traveling with pets during the holiday season
Judy Connors Travel, Hospitality & Event ManagementWe have all seen the adorable pictures. Energetic Fido is sleeping beneath the Christmas tree amid a flurry of beautiful unwrapped gifts he has just destroyed. Or sweet Tabby is wrapped in Christmas tree lights, still blinking, from her adventure up that same Christmas tree.