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• Hope from tragedy: Opioid epidemic leads to more organ donations

  Dr. Denise A. Valenti Medical & Allied Healthcare

  There are more than 119,000 men, women and children on lists waiting for organ transplants, and every day at least 22 of these will die due to lack of organs. Only 3 out every 1,000 deaths have organs suitable for donation, but one death can save up to eight lives.

• A celebration of Porsches in Apalachicola

  Irwin Greenstein Transportation Technology & Automotive

  ​The North Florida Region of the Porsche Club of America participated in the Main Street Autos & Oysters Classic Car Show held Oct. 29 in Apalachicola, Florida. More than 100 hot rods, trucks, motorcycles, sports cars, muscle cars and restored classics were showcased in the historic downtown's Riverfront Park. The North Florida Region secured an entire block on E Street devoted to Porsches in a spectacular 22-car display under brilliant sun charged with river light.

• 3 simple steps to reduce stress this holiday season

  Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  It's here. The most wonderful, weight-gaining, money-spending, schedule-packed time of the year is upon us. Here are three simple ways to manage the overwhelm and keep a positive perspective this year.

• Metals Thoughts: Good night and good luck

  Brad Yates Natural Resources

  ​There is little I can add in the way of insight into the political outcome for today's general election, but we can look at the way the chips are stacked for some insight into the potential market reactions. Hillary Clinton's odds for victory look to be anywhere between 70 and 84 percent, depending on which poll aggregator model you use. Most Wall Street polls I have seen skew toward the higher end of that, though there is some innate selection bias.

• The key to motivating struggling learners

  Howard Margolis Education

  Should teachers recommend the promotion of struggling learners to the next grade if they've worked hard but achieved little? The answer is yes, but ... But provide learners with whatever supports they need. Needed supports may well include preteaching, mentoring, cooperative learning, peer teaching, active co-teaching and 1-1 tutoring. For all such learners, it will require individual and group activities, homework and materials at their proper instructional and independent levels. Frequently, this alone will prevent struggles and accelerate progress.

• America’s most endangered national parks

  Dave G. Houser Recreation & Leisure

  ​Celebrations marking the National Park Service's centennial year are winding down. If predictions hold true, the nation's 410 national parks, monuments and other sites will receive well more than the record 307 million visitors recorded in 2015.

• Who put paper in my marijuana?

  Jeff Ell Manufacturing

  That's right folks, specialty paper is showing up in medical marijuana. Not literally, of course. But specialty papers like parchment, glassine and PTFE are all being used in the medical marijuana market. I don't think a soul out there reading this post has not seen or heard of the marijuana marketplace taking off. The adult usage in regards to market sales in 2014 was $373.8 million and then in 2015 in grew by 232 percent to $1.24 billion. This is the fastest growing market area to date, according to Leafly.com.

• The meaning of ‘great’ proves elusive in economic terms

  Paul Zukowski Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Usually there's nothing like a presidential election to sharpen the discussion of job creation and economic growth. Then comes this year's race. All we got was a lot of unfocused debate on whether America needs to be reinspired to greatness or is already great. And does anybody know how to measure terms like "great"? Isn't it just an empty superlative word like good, better and best? Of course it is, because in whose opinion is something great?

• Disruptive technology that is changing the travel scene

  Bambi Majumdar Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

  Startups and apps are everywhere, especially in the travel industry. Many have great ideas, but few are making the waves they expected. Skift recently took a look at some of the latest travel startups and predicted that five of them have the potential to be truly disruptive in this crowded field.

• Understanding how to teach students with mental health disorders

  Brian Stack Education

  ​In quiet New Hampshire, among the beautiful autumn mountain backdrop and the New England seacoast towns, a silent killer known as opioids is making its way from family to family and from community to community. The issue is sending shockwaves throughout the state and leaving family and friends to question themselves on why they couldn't (or didn't) act sooner to save the lives of their beloved who are succumbing to addiction at an alarming rate.

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