Recent Articles

• Customizing your RV for comfort

  Cindy Belt Recreation & Leisure

  You've just bought a new or used RV. Now you can relax and enjoy it. Well ... not yet. Maybe the more expensive RVs are perfect, but it seems that most RVs need to be customized for better comfort and ease of use. As full-timers, we have purchased both a used RV and a new RV over the years, and both needed to be customized.

• What would you do for the perfect Porsche?

  Noelle Talmon Transportation Technology & Automotive

  A New York auto body shop owner was recently indicted for stealing a 1978 Porsche 911 from a dead man. Patrick Torpey, 53, was repairing the vehicle when the customer died unexpectedly. After the deceased man's wife started looking for the car, the shop owner made a great effort to hide it and falsified paperwork by creating a new title for the 911. Torpey was indicted recently on a dozen felony counts, including third-degree grand larceny.

• Solving the problem of student motivation

  Howard Margolis Education

  To achieve excellence, most students must be highly motivated to achieve. Unfortunately, many students with learning problems, such as learning disabilities and cognitive impairment, appear unmotivated to learn what teachers are teaching. This can become the most difficult and vexing instructional problem that teachers, parents and support personnel face.

• Study: Discarded kidneys could save more lives than dialysis

  Chelsea Adams Medical & Allied Healthcare

  Roughly 1 in 5 kidneys are thrown out each year in the United States. Kidneys are discarded if they are thought not to meet federal guidelines due to scarring or other issues. Many times, these kidneys are donated from older individuals who may have health problems.

• Blockchain: As Bitcoin flounders, its technology is poised to disrupt

  Shawn Smajstrla Science & Technology

  Since its infancy almost a decade ago, bitcoin has been both viewed skeptically and heralded as the future of currency. Its path to the latter still seems murky. A report by Internet Retailer noted just three of the top 500 online merchants accept bitcoin — down from five a year ago.

• Regular walks help lower office workers’ blood lipids

  Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied Healthcare

  Working long hours in the office has been linked to a higher risk of cardiovascular disease. In a long-term study, researchers found that among more than 1,900 people who worked more than 46 hours per week, 43 percent had been diagnosed with angina, coronary artery disease, heart failure, heart attack, high blood pressure or stroke. Although this study did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship between long hours at work and increased heart disease risk, there is concern about how long hours of sitting affects heart health.

• Feedback: The fuel that drives optimal performance

  Hank Boyer Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  What keeps people going, contributing their best efforts whatever the task? Among the many possible answers, perhaps the most effective is feedback from the person's supervisor. Effective feedback lifts the spirits and encourages people to contribute their best efforts.

• How teaching becomes the test in New Hampshire

  Brian Stack Education

  Last week, Christian Science Monitor's Stacy Teicher Khadaroo wrote about how New Hampshire teachers have developed new ways to measure deeper learning. In her article, Khadaroo highlighted schools like Concord High School that have students simulating real-world experiences through enriching learning experiences. Known as performance tasks, these experiences become both the teaching and the testing at both the local and state level.

• Study connects opioids to heart problems in COPD patients

  Dr. Denise A. Valenti Medical & Allied Healthcare

  Much has been written about the opioid crisis across the United States. In fact, the FDA recently ​removed an opioid from the market because of its potential for abuse and addiction. ​Doctors have gotten a bad rap for being too quick to write opioid prescriptions, and now a new study gives healthcare providers yet another reason to exercise extreme caution and discretion when writing a new prescription for an opioid.

• Save teeth with anti-inflammatory foods

  Carolina Pickens Oral & Dental Healthcare

  Everyone knows that diet is one of the biggest factors of healthy living. Doctors recommend dietary guidelines to patients to help combat widespread problems including obesity, heart disease and diabetes. However, recent research shows the right foods can even contribute to a decline in overall tooth loss.

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