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• 10 marvels of American architecture

  Dave G. Houser Recreation & Leisure

  ​For many of us, architecture is one of the most exciting aspects of travel. We enjoy seeing how cities convey space and how designers have played with styles and shapes to create the surroundings where we live and do our business.

• Man who lived 555 days with artificial heart finally receives transplant

  Chelsea Adams Medical & Allied Healthcare

  A man who lived 555 days using an artificial heart finally received a transplant of a human heart in May. The 25-year-old Michigan man had his real heart removed in November 2014. A total artificial heart powered by an external battery pack kept him alive and allowed him to stay home instead of in a hospital while a donor heart was sought.

• 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?

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