Recent Articles
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Design insights for more livable kitchens
Michael J. Berens Interior Design, Furnishings & FixturesKitchen renovations top the list of home remodeling projects, and for good reason. The kitchen is the hub of the household, the place where families and friends come together, the place where meals are transformed into wonderful memories of tempting aromas and tasty, comforting cuisine. Above all, though, the kitchen is a work space.
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Are you at the wrong end of the value chain?
Adrian Davis Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementIn the past, the secret to success was economies of scale. This is no longer true. We see large companies collapse. No one is safe. Every organization — no matter how large — began as an idea. Then, organizations go through five stages of maturity.
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Recess redress: The importance of play in education
Suzanne Mason EducationAsk any child what his or her favorite subject is in school, and most will say recess. Yet a 2010 Gallup poll conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that up to 40 percent of U.S. school districts have reduced or eliminated recess to focus more on academics. Despite these changes, recess still remains an important part of a child’s education. Here's how.
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Pros and cons of the wadcutter bullet
John McAdams Recreation & LeisureThis article discusses a relatively uncommon bullet type: the wadcutter. Though the wadcutter is not extremely rare, it is still a relatively specialized bullet type that is only utilized in a few different cartridges. Like most highly specialized bullets, the wadcutter is great at the job it was designed for: competitive shooting. However, it struggles in applications outside of its primary use.
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Just how serious is the tech world about diversity?
Ross Lancaster Science & TechnologyThis summer, Silicon Valley companies and the tech world at large have come under fire for their hiring practices with regard to both racial and gender diversity. The issue ignited in May when, under pressure from civil rights leaders like Jesse Jackson, Google released statistics stating that just 17 percent of its tech staff is female, 1 percent black and 2 percent Hispanic. Meanwhile, 60 percent are white and 34 percent Asian.
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How the Affordable Care Act is changing emergency medicine
Stephanie McKenzie Healthcare AdministrationThe Affordable Care Act is affecting all areas of medicine, and emergency room care is no exception. The way emergency medicine and particularly payments are handled is changing with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Here is what you need to know about the changes and how they may affect your practice.
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QZAB: The secret funding resource for superintendents
Art Stellar EducationThe Qualified Zone Academy Bonds (QZAB) program has been in existence for 15 years, yet most superintendents know little about it. Therefore, in some states these bond funds go unused year after year until they run out of time and essentially evaporate.
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Pitfalls in logistics partnerships
Ken Ackerman Distribution & WarehousingFour decades have passed since a logistics magazine published an article about how the relationship between the public warehouse operator and the customer should be one of partnership. In the next issue of the magazine, a letter to the editor contained an angry response for the author, a logistics service provider.
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An army of robots fighting corrosion
Alan Kelsky EngineeringRobots are not new in the never-ending battle against corrosion. Perhaps, the news blitz about C2D2 is because the corrosion-fighting robot design was from a camera bot used by the Disney Company. Here is a look at a few places other robots dare to go.
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Explosion on the highway teaches an emotional lesson
Matt Chase Distribution & WarehousingThis is an actual event that occurred in December 1995. There is no mention of the trucking company I was working for at the time, and I changed the name of the person in the story. All other information is as accurate as I could be, both in the narrative as well as the news stories or clippings. I have kept this story buried in my mind for years, with several attempts to write it down, only to scrap it later. It has almost been 20 years since the sad event, and here it is for the first time.