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• How ready is your capture?

  Lisa Pafe Civil & Government

  Assessing the quality of a capture effort is a difficult task. Any assessment is simply a snapshot in time; your capture could get better… or it could get worse. A capture readiness assessment should look at the snapshot, but also look at trends. Using our 12 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), you can analyze where your capture effort is today, identify areas for improvement, and then chart whether your capture trends upward in readiness for the win.

• Palm Beach Atlantic’s Tracy Peyton named 2019 Ron Balicki Scholarship…

  Brayden Conover Sports & Fitness

  Tracy Peyton, a senior at Palm Beach Atlantic University, is the recipient of the 2019 Ron Balicki Scholarship, awarded by the Ron Balicki Scholarship Foundation. This scholarship was established to celebrate the legacy of Balicki, the Hall of Fame college and amateur golf writer from Golfweek. Balicki wrote about the college and amateur game for more than 30 years, delivering stories not only about the players who would become the PGA Tour’s stars of tomorrow but stories about amateurs of all talent levels who simply loved to compete.

• Ironing out the wrinkles in activity-based workplaces

  Michael J. Berens Interior Design, Furnishings & Fixtures

  Snowballing complaints about the deficiencies and annoyances of open-plan office spaces have pushed employers and designers to experiment with alternative workplace solutions. One model gaining in popularity is the activity-based workplace, which provides a greater variety of spaces to accommodate different types of tasks and work styles. While this approach has received favorable acceptance from employees, recent studies show additional factors need to be considered in order for these spaces to live up to their promised performance.

• When it’s better not to focus on profit

  Lisa Mulcahy Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Making as much money for your company as possible is a no-brainer — that's why you're in business, right? That's true, but there are some situations in which it can actually benefit your company's long-term bottom line not to strategize for immediate maximum profits. Your reputation, relationships, and long-term planning can be used to an even greater advantage if you know when to pull back and how to refocus your aim. Use these tips to reboot for the short term and become even more successful in the long term.

• New study: Opioids not the best choice for alleviating chronic noncancer…

  Lynn Hetzler Medical & Allied Healthcare

  Opioids are invaluable for treating chronic cancer pain, post-surgical pain and severe acute pain, but the results of a new study suggest that opioids may not be as good at reducing chronic noncancer pain. The dangers of opioid overprescribing are increasingly evident, as is the need to gain greater understanding of when opioids are likely to be effective. In short, research found that opioids provided small improvements in pain, sleep quality and physical functioning compared to a placebo, but the differences between the two pain relievers did not meet minimally important difference standards.

• The real reason to wait to draw your Social Security

  Patrick Gleeson Civil & Government

  Go to the web with the question: "When should I begin drawing my Social Security benefits?" If you were uncertain of the answer before you began reading, you may be more confused afterward. You’ll learn that in 2019 you can begin drawing "reduced" SS benefits at age 62, but that you can receive your "full benefit" at 65 — which is true or not true, depending on what you mean by "full" — and that your benefit amount keeps increasing every year you wait to begin drawing benefits until you’re 70, which is true.

• New spotlight cast on Florida’s felon voting rights amendment

  Michelle R. Matisons Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

  In last year's elections, the Florida GOP's choice for governor, Ron DeSantis, narrowly defeated Democratic contender Andrew Gillum, disappointing those seeking widespread progressive change in a state with notorious effects from climate change, police brutality, and election fraud politics. Despite the triumph in the governor’s race for conservatives, Amendment 4, a felon voting rights law, was passed by two-thirds of voters. Its passage means over 1.4 million people can now register to vote in a move that substantially delinks citizenship from criminal records. This is part of the larger national prison reform effort to correct mass incarceration’s multigenerational damages.

• Why the drop in the monarch butterfly population is important for humans

  Scott E. Rupp Waste Management & Environmental

  The Western monarch butterfly population in California declined 86 percent in 2018 compared to the previous year, according to the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, a nonprofit group that conducts an annual survey of the species in the Western United States. Even more stark for the species is that it has dropped a shocking 97 percent since the 1980s, the agency reports. The decline is "potentially catastrophic" told biologist Emma Pelton, who oversees the Xerces Society survey, to The New York Times.

• Why and how to change school districts

  Catherine Iste Education

  While it was once commonplace to start in one classroom and stay there for 30 years, it is not any more. Whether it is a change in the cap allowing veteran teachers more credit for their experience, more charter schools within districts or the increasing competitiveness between and among struggling and successful school districts, teachers of all tenures are more mobile than ever. Here are a few tips on why and how it may be a good time to change districts.

• New ways to help your physicians deal with pharma marketing

  Lisa Mulcahy Medical & Allied Healthcare

  In healthcare, you know that drug companies are going to target your organization's doctors no matter what. But are you as fully engaged as you should be in terms of helping your doctors avoid troubling incentives? Use the following research-driven advice to guide your doctors in their dealings with pharma marketers — it's crucial for upholding their integrity as well as the overall integrity of your organization.

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