Recent Articles
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Are your new goals the right goals for you?
Michelle LaBrosse Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementFor many people, January is the time of year to pursue new goals. As the years go on, this yearly goal-setting becomes routine. Even though you have new goals you're passionate about pursuing each year, your faith in your ability to accomplish them or your awareness about why you're setting goals in the first place may diminish.
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A crunching sound marked our first big RV mistake
Steve and Diane Owens Recreation & LeisureKnowing a desperate man was running loose — a man who had escaped from prison and had killed another — kept me awake most of the night. When the sun rose, we were already up and about. Although it put a damper on our stay at Willow Bay in Pennsylvania, we were excited to continue our trip. So around the same curve, we came right back into the police roadblock.
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Porsche 911 GT3 R gets ready for Daytona debut
David Hurth Transportation Technology & AutomotivePorsche introduced the new Porsche 911 GT3 R last year. Now, we are quickly approaching the competition debut of the 911 GT3 R — Jan. 30 at the 24 Hours of Daytona — which will give us an idea of just how well the new car will stack up to the competition.
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Putting the ‘special’ in specially designed math instruction
Savanna Flakes EducationSome of our students with learning disabilities have trouble with abstract reasoning. As such, they may have difficulty verbalizing what they have learned or observed, difficulty making the connection with symbolic representations and/or understanding the math concept that is being explained or shown.
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New trends in the Canadian private fleet during 2015
Adam Hunt Recreation & LeisureThe Canadian private civil aircraft fleet continued to grow in 2015, but at an extremely slow rate — the lowest by far since the turn of the millennium and far worse than at any time during the recession of 2008-10. In 2008, the fleet grew at a peak rate of 3.2 percent, but by 2015 it was down to just 0.25 percent.
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5 tactics to improve social media marketing in 2016
Emma Fitzpatrick MarketingCheck out the social media trends for 2016, then tweak your New Year's social media resolutions if need be. If you still need a bit of guidance writing those SMART goals, read this. Now brace yourself for your most successful year of social media marketing yet.
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5 keys for employee coaches after a critical incident
Michael S. Haro, Ph.D. Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementCritical incidents offer an opportunity for supervisors to be a coach. Employees facing after-effects of an incident generally benefit from assistance, support and possible direction offered by a coach. A supervisor who knows current situations and his/her employees is in a good position to offer this assistance.
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Report: US will surpass China as top manufacturing country by 2020
Alan Kelsky ManufacturingOn Jan. 4, Reuters rang in the new year with a report stating the United States manufacturing and construction sectors can both look forward to "tepid growth." However, a report issued by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and the U.S. Council on Competitiveness — "2016 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index" — predicts the United States will regain its former position as the No. 1 manufacturing producer in the world, surpassing China by 2020.
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What can the US learn from the success of Mexico’s sugar tax?
Joan Spitrey Medical & Allied HealthcareIn 2013, the Mexican government voted to implement an excise tax on sugar-sweetened drinks and on several energy-dense foods. This represented an approximate 10 percent increase in price of all nondairy and nonalcoholic beverages with added sugar and an 8 percent increase on a list of nonessential highly energy-dense foods.
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Sales 201: A quick refresher for travel agents
Anne Rose Travel, Hospitality & Event ManagementYou probably have been in sales for a while and think you're pretty good at it. But even the best athletes, no matter how much they excel, still practice regularly. It's too easy to get complacent in your trade and settle for a status quo when it might be possible to raise the standard just a bit.