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• Energy service companies struggle to stay alive amid low oil prices

  Chris Frevert Natural Resources

  ​Since 2014, over 60 percent of privately-held oilfield service company owners have reduced their rates for top customers by more than 20 percent. And over 65 percent have seen their gross revenues decline by more than 30 percent, according to respondents to the third survey we've conducted since the downturn began.

• Knowing where to look when driving fire apparatus

  Frank R. Myers Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

  ​Instructing many new firefighters on driving larger vehicles, I observed that one of the crucial items many of them needed to learn was the reference points around their vehicle. While performing different day-to-day driving and intricate maneuvers, drivers also needed to know when and where to use the truck's mirrors.

• Millennials are not always the problem

  Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  It is always the younger generation's fault. But if you think about it, that means at one point it was our fault — and we know that cannot be the case. Yet there is something about the challenges of working with employees who were raised on iPads and told they were great at everything. What is it and how do we deal with their entitlement?

• Emergency physician income increases, but issues remain

  Chelsea Adams Healthcare Administration

  The 2016 Medscape Physician Compensation Report indicates emergency physicians earned an average of $322,000 in 2015, slightly higher than 2014's earnings of $306,000. As part of the survey, nearly 20,000 physicians across 26 specialties were asked about earnings, job satisfaction and how much he or she works. In the survey, physicians provided their annual compensation for patient care.

• Is your department prepared for the next terrorist attack?

  Danielle Manley Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

  Police officers regularly participate in training, attend seminars and workshops, and learn through experiences throughout all stages of their careers. From dealing with agitated people suffering from mental illness to drunk driving crash-scene investigations, officers regularly experience situations that can have deadly consequences. Continuing education programs are created around these situations to prepare — and maintain — the skills necessary to prevent worst-case scenarios.

• 10 questions: Do you really know your members?

  Randall Craig Association Management

  ​You invest in events, send out emails, educate them, certify them and collect their dues. But how well do you really know your members, both potential and existing? Beyond the basic demographics, perhaps not as well as you might think. Test yourself: Do you capture the answers to these 10 questions?

• Designers beware: The terrible 10 selling sins

  Fred Berns Interior Design, Furnishings & Fixtures

  When it comes to selling, many interior designers have discovered the hard way that avoiding the wrong steps can be as important as taking the right ones. Those design professionals whose sales results and profits aren't what they could be, or should be, are usually guilty of some — or perhaps all — of the terrible 10 selling sins.

• A matter of ethics and the law in hospice care

  Ellen Jane Windham Healthcare Administration

  The recent news articles involving an FBI investigation in the Dallas area of a hospice company has the potential to set hospice care back years. According to the report, the owner "regularly directed nurses to give hospice patients overdoses of drugs such as morphine to speed up their deaths and maximize profits."

• Metals Thoughts: Dollar bets

  Brad Yates Natural Resources

  The broad dollar index has seen an impressive revaluation since early March, and it has helped spur a bid under many risk assets and anything dollar denominated, which very much includes metals.

• Wearables market on the rise, but hurdles remain

  Scott E. Rupp Science & Technology

  This wearables wave has to decide whether it's coming or going. No matter your position on whatever side of the fence, news continues to pour in that tells a tale of a robust market for the industry. Much data suggests much is going on in the space. For example, ​according to a new report, worldwide shipments of wearable devices are expected to reach whopping 110 million by the end of 2016 — a 38 percent growth over last year.

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