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• Nursing is my talent

  Joan Spitrey Healthcare Administration

  During the talent portion of last weekend's Miss America pageant, Miss Colorado, Kelley Johnson, gave an emotional monologue describing her experience as a nurse. It was a beautiful delivery detailing her emotional experience with an Alzheimer's patient. She described what many nurses have the opportunity to experience everyday — to touch a life in need.

• China’s cozy ties with Venezuela complicates US oil picture

  Lucy Wallwork Natural Resources

  Earlier this month, a beaming Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro announced on his weekly television show "En contacto con Maduro" that he had secured a $5 billion loan from the Chinese government. This adds to the estimated $56 billion the country has loaned to Venezuela since 2007 — funds that are designed to reverse the decline in output from Venezuelan oil fields.

• 3 iPhone developments Canadians should consider

  Katherine Radin Science & Technology

  With millions of iPhones preordered worldwide, Apple's launch of the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus has techies, retailers and consumers buzzing with speculation. Articles investigating the end user's experience have flooded the Web with speculation. How will 3-D Touch change our lives? Why didn't they address battery lifespan? How will iOS 9 differentiate itself from iOS 8?

• Your relationship with work: Time to start dating

  Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Whether it is the turn in the economy or the incessant demands of the millennials, the tide has turned in the workplace. More people have more options when it comes to what they do, for whom and for how much. As choices increase, and the upper hand returns to the workers, what can employees do to determine if they are in the right place, doing what they should for the right amount of money?

• CDC grants $20 million to combat opioid overdoses

  Chelsea Adams Pharmaceutical

  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has granted $20 million to 16 states in an effort combat the growing number of deaths due to prescription drug overdoses. The Prescription Drug Overdose: Prevention for States program is part of the Department of Health and Human Services' Opioid Initiative and builds upon the CDC's Prevention Boost and Core Violence and Injury Prevention programs, which went into effect in 2014.

• Pressure mounts on UK cooling industry

  Andrew Gaved Manufacturing

  I have written before about the sort of pressures the revised F-Gas regulations are putting on the European cooling industry, as F-Gas requirements start to change the way the industry works. Prime among the pressures is the cost and availability of the higher-GWP refrigerants that the program of proposed refrigerant bans and phasedowns aims to ultimately remove from use. These are pressures that will ultimately be faced by the U.S. as it undergoes its own cap and phase-down program.

• How the world’s top companies keep their employees engaged

  Eloise Allen Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Employee engagement is one of the most important aspects of managing a company. It encourages employees to contribute as much as possible and discourages them from leaving, preventing a talent drain and saving money hiring replacements. The challenge, however, is to find the formula and develop the corporate culture of values that engages them in the first place.

• What can we do to help keep officers safe?

  Bambi Majumdar Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

  As crime has steadily reached a zenith of chaos and ruthlessness, law enforcement officers across the U.S. are now wary of any stranger approaching them, no matter how innocent or innocuous the situation looks. As the Los Angeles Times recently reported, "it's a different world" out there lately for upholders of the law.

• The rise of access management in education

  Dean Wiech Education

  The often-undiscussed importance that administrative technology has on school districts might be tantamount to suggesting that the only use for technology in a school district is in its classroom. There are far-reaching solutions that provide overwhelming benefits to the classroom, even if these technologies are not used to deliver homework to mobile devices or tally the marks of a classroom's population.

• Market smart: Make a big splash for little cash

  Fred Berns Marketing

  If you're spending big money on marketing, you're probably wasting it. Some of the best marketing that business professionals can do costs the least. Some of the most powerful promotion costs nothing at all. You can take the "price" out of your promotion and make a maximum impact for a minimal investment.

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