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• Policing one another: New Orleans sets a new standard

  Bambi Majumdar Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

  Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel recently announced the creation of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA), a new police-oversight agency to replace the much-criticized Independent Police Review Authority and set up solid and sure methods of enhancing the entire police accountability system.

• Cash rewards for error reporting: A bargain at any price?

  Tracy Szwec Science & Technology

  Apple recently made a huge announcement — no, not that one today ​about the new iPhone. The tech giant revealed last month that it is now working with "hackers" or tech gurus who find flaws in the iOS security system and come forward. Essentially, Apple will reward those hackers monetarily when they provide information about security flaws.

• Make use of your business-building advantage

  Lee Ellis Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

  ​As a veteran of the U.S. military, you have in your possession the necessary ingredients you need to start and build a successful business — and they have nothing to do with finances. The success of a business — or any endeavor for that matter — rises or falls on the quality of the leaders at the helm. In that respect, your military training has given you a leg up on your competition. The values of honor, respect, integrity and accountability run deep in our military traditions, and those same values, properly instilled, can propel business leaders — and their businesses — forward.

• National Park Service’s 100th birthday is also a celebration of travel

  Suzanne Mason Recreation & Leisure

  On the eve of the National Park Service's 100th birthday, President Barack Obama designated the Katahdin Woods & Waters National Monument in Maine as a national park. "The parks belong to all of us. This planet belongs to all of us," Obama said June 20. "We have to have the foresight and the faith in the future to do what it takes to protect our parks and to protect this planet for generations to come."

• Ending the torture of bullying: Resources, lesson plans and activities

  Debra Josephson Abrams Education

  February: African American History Month. March: Women's History Month. May: Asian Pacific Heritage Month. November: American Indian Heritage Month. According to the Law Library of Congress, these are among a number of months during which U.S. schools host activities to enlighten students about the significance of those being commemorated. American teachers are aware of these commemorative months and plan lessons accordingly.

• For fall, functional kitchens with visual appeal

  Michael J. Berens Interior Design, Furnishings & Fixtures

  As the remodeling industry enters the busy fall season, kitchen redesigns and upgrades continue to top the list of most-requested projects. Recent purchasers of existing homes in particular are choosing to remodel the kitchen to suit contemporary lifestyles and tastes. Their preference is for open spaces and clean lines, with an emphasis on functionality and easy maintenance. Instead of opting for gourmet kitchens with lots of gleaming gadgets, they are combining materials in interesting ways to create visual appeal.

• The connection between leadership and dysfunction

  William D. Pawlucy Association Management

  What does dysfunction look like? How do we fix it? What characteristics are necessary in a good volunteer leader and staff? All of these questions were explored on a rainy Sunday morning not too long ago when I had the rare opportunity to discuss this with a group of passionate and talented volunteer leaders and staff of a major nonprofit organization where the focus was leadership. Here are the questions we explored and here is what they had to say.

• Finding a blue ocean in the warehouse

  Ken Ackerman Distribution & Warehousing

  "Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant," a book by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne, attracted lots of attention when it was published in 2005. It details how successful companies avoid battling it out among rivals, and instead seek out "blue ocean" — untapped new market spaces ripe for growth.

• A look at the rapid expansion of online grocery services

  Bambi Majumdar Retail

  What was a disruptive concept for shopping once has now become the norm today — even for buying groceries. Amazon paved the way, and now Wal-Mart, Kroger, ShopRite, Meijer and Safeway, among others, have realized the only way to beat the retail behemoth is to jump aboard the e-grocery bandwagon.

• Study: Your smartphone may help prevent a stroke

  Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied Healthcare

  Across the globe, 33 million people have atrial fibrillation (AF), a disorder of heart rhythm. In the United States, an estimated 3-6 million people have AF, and with our aging population, this number is expected to increase — AF occurs in 2 percent of those under age 65, and in 9 percent of those older than 65.

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