Recent Articles
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Interior designers can no longer ignore social networking
Lloyd Princeton Interior Design, Furnishings & FixturesI believe in the value of personal contact, and the interior design business is very relationship-driven. The fact is, most designers still get the majority of their new business from personal referrals. That's why when design activity was beginning to pick up last year and experts were urging designers to increase their time on social networking sites, I advised my clients to get back in touch with former clients and invite prospective clients to share a meal. It appeared to me that in the stampede to get on social media, instead of increasing their visibility, designers were getting lost in the crowd.
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Hate, hostility and ignorance in academe: What will you do?
Debra Josephson Abrams Education"Debra is a JAP." As I walk into my classroom, I see the words written neatly in bright orange on the whiteboard, and my colleague (someone I had counted as a friend) who has written them stands by the board, giggling, egging on my students to ask me what it means.
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Behind the wall: Should associations lock up their content?
Shawn Smajstrla Association ManagementThe pace and innovation of technological advancement has many industries trying desperately to see into the future while navigating an ever-changing present. Not insulated from that are associations and trade groups. In fact, like some organizations (e.g. Kodak, Blockbuster), the digital information age is bringing into question the very raison d’etat for associations.
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Delaware mandates that students study organ donation
Chelsea Adams Medical & Allied HealthcareDelaware has become the latest state to mandate that students study organ donation as part of health education classes. The move is intended to dispel myths surrounding organ donation and potentially decrease the number of Delaware residents on organ waiting lists, which include some 300 people waiting for livers and kidneys.
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Airbus aircraft production goes Mobile
Matt Falcus Transportation Technology & AutomotiveEuropean aircraft manufacturer Airbus has made history with the opening of its new facility in Mobile, Alabama, at the former Brookley Air Force Base. The company should see its first aircraft delivered early in 2016 and thousands of jobs created in the production chain.
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Getting organized in our new motor home
Steve and Diane Owens Recreation & LeisureAfter a harrowing start to the first trip in our new motor home, we spent the night at Indian Branch RV Park, near Folsom, New Jersey. I appreciated the fact the owner provided a "pull through" site rather than one requiring I back into it. I just didn't feel up to the task. It was a rather stressful day, not a day we expected.
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Survey paints positive view of telemedicine market
Scott E. Rupp Healthcare AdministrationHIMSS Analytics recently published a new report, "Essentials Brief: Telemedicine Study" — a survey of health IT executives that finds an increase in the adoption of telemedicine solutions and services, from 54.5 percent in 2014 to 57.7 percent in 2015. Small, but sizable. FierceHealthIT reports that the Web-based study included responses from nearly 270 executives, IT professionals, clinicians, department heads and ambulatory physicians.
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Metals Thoughts: Fed dove edition
Brad Yates Natural ResourcesThe much-anticipated Fed meeting last week was incredibly dovish. We expected a "hold" but a bit of hawkishness from the dot plots, press conference or future implications. Instead, the meeting showed little indication that this committee is in any hurry to get off the zero-rate lower bound and begin rate normalization.
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What’s to blame for the recent bubonic plague uptick?
Katina Hernandez Medical & Allied HealthcareA Michigan resident recently became the 14th person this year to contract the plague, the same disease that was responsible for the Black Death pandemic in Europe in the 1300s. Although the plague has never officially been eradicated, instances of infection usually remain low in the U.S., averaging around seven cases per year.
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Make yourself at home in the office
Kelly Sharp Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementAs an office employee, you're spending five days a week, eight hours a day — and sometimes longer — sitting at your desk. It's considered to be your second home, which can be a prison or a solace. But depending on how you insert your own personality into the environment, you can change the entire atmosphere of your workspace.