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• 5 ways to deal with a bad boss

  Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  What do you do when the person responsible for directing the activities of the majority of your waking hours is an idiot? Or a jerk? Or not the person you would follow if you had any type of choice?

• Ransomware: Healthcare’s latest cyberthreat

  Christina Thielst Healthcare Administration

  Ransomware attacks are a form of digital extortion and a way for hackers to easily monetize health information by holding it hostage. The 2016 Ponemon Institute Study of Privacy and Security of Healthcare Data reveals that criminal attacks are the leading cause of data breach among healthcare organizations, and 45 percent of healthcare organizations and their business associates are worried about ransomware.

• The icons behind the icons

  Pablo Deferrari Transportation Technology & Automotive

  Action figures … that’s it. KISS had theirs, so did the A-Team; even a professor at the University of the Ozarks had a few of his academic colleagues turned into chiseled plastic replicas. Porsche should have their version with a gang of four guys ripe for immortalization. Isn’t time to finally put a name to the face staring at you from the garage?

• Critical factors in helping struggling learners to remember

  Howard Margolis Education

  If you teach special education or have a child in need of remedial or special help, you may soon start asking “Why does he keep forgetting? What’s wrong with him?” Maybe he forgets because he doesn’t attend to or understand the important information, concepts or processes. And maybe, in full or part, he’s a struggling learner with memory problems. But physically, directly, legally and morally, you can’t get into his brain to rearrange his memory cells and synapses as he’s a real child, not an android in a bizarre science-fiction movie. So, you’re helpless. Right? Wrong. You’re not.

• Plastics manufacturing automation trends rapidly expanding

  Don Rosato Engineering

  The business dynamics of plastics manufacturing automation technologies are rapidly advancing. Trends in labor and energy are having a fundamental impact on plastics processors businesses. To effectively compete internationally and defend/expand established markets, high-wage processors must automate production to increase the productivity and economic efficiency of their operations and keep wages in a competitive range.

• iPharmacist: Will robots take over the profession?

  Jason Poquette Pharmaceutical

  The year is 2116 and Mr. Smith approaches the counter of his local ABC Pharmacy. There are no lines as he casually moves into one of the open booths and seats himself into a comfortable and private dispensing chamber. Air conditioned, with pleasant music playing in the background the cyber-pharmacy screen lights up as he is greeted by the video-pharmacist welcoming him to ABC. After tapping the screen to answer a few questions and inserting his driver’s license and credit card into the device, an on-screen pharmacist begins to address him personally.

• A flipped approach: Bringing the school to the parent

  Brian Stack Education

  One of the most critical dilemmas that school leaders face is how to get more parents involved at their school. One North Carolina middle school may have found a unique solution that could serve as a model for other school communities – bring the school to the parent. According to this Winston-Salem Journal article, Philo-Hill Middle School Parent Involvement Coordinator Javier Correa-Vega recognized that a lack of transportation was one of the biggest reasons parents didn’t engage with his school.

• #HeatStrokeKills: Do you know the facts?

  Dr. Denise A. Valenti Transportation Technology & Automotive

  It is that time of year. Temperatures soar, and so do the deaths of children related to heat stroke. The National Highway Traffic Safety Association wants to get the message out: “Heat Stroke Kills.” The NHTSA reports that a child dies of heat stroke every 10 days in the United States from being left in a car. If you discover a child left in a hot car, do you know what to do?

• Facebook’s organic reach declined 42 percent. How do you fix it?

  Emma Fitzpatrick Marketing

  If you feel like your Facebook posts haven’t been reaching as many eyes as they used to, well, you’re right. A new study confirmed what many businesses suspected. After analyzing over 3,000 Facebook pages, researchers found the organic reach of posts dropped 42 percent. As such, brands are having an increasingly difficult time connecting with their customers on Facebook. Many are starting to depend on promoted posts or social ads to amplify their message.

• Overnight Corvette collection

  Michael Brown Transportation Technology & Automotive

  Even casual historians of the American West in the late 19th century may know that the tiny town of Nocona, Texas, was the last jumping-off point of the Chisholm Trail before it crossed the Red River into Indian Territory. In 1907, that territory became Oklahoma.Cattle drives helped give Nocona its identity. But now, many of the “drives” in Nocona are in Corvettes and classic muscle cars. How that came to be is a tale that could only have its origins in Texas, where everything seems to be bigger.

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