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• Wheel chock placement for pumper and aerial apparatus

  Frank R. Myers Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

  I remember when I first started going through the procedures for becoming a driver engineer in my former department, I do not recall being told about wheel chocks, or how to use them! Once assigned to a driver’s position, I don’t even recall having wheel chocks on my apparatus. That is probably because the geography of Miami is flat (boring). It was not until a few years later upon becoming the driver engineer instructor that I became educated on their use. Most, if not all, fire apparatus come from the factory with wheel chocks. In general, the wheel chocks should be 25 percent of the measured diameter of the tire.

• Study: Dialysis modality choice does not affect kidney transplant outcomes

  Lynn Hetzler Medical & Allied Healthcare

  Does the choice of dialysis modality prior to renal transplantation affect transplant outcomes for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD)? Results of a new study suggest it does not. Controversy regarding pre-transplant dialysis modality choice continues, with each side presenting data that supports either peritoneal dialysis (PD) or hemodialysis (HD) as the preferred modality, especially as it relates to kidney transplantation outcomes. Many people find PD more convenient, but many medical professionals worry that PD will affect the outcomes of kidney transplantation.

• Exploring upcoming hotel technologies

  Bambi Majumdar Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

  Spending for 2019 in the hotel sector is coming soon. Technology upgrades for sales, marketing, operations, and every area focused on ROI are priorities. The most significant digital shift for hotels has been to incorporate artificial intelligence and Internet of Things in their operations. Artificial intelligence, thanks to devices like Alexa, can now offer guests the same experience that they enjoy at home. Meanwhile, IoT devices with automated settings make rooms hands-free. They not only personalize guests’ in-room experiences but continue to improve operations.

• 4 steps to make your business intelligence teams more relevant

  Andrew Wells and Kathy Chiang Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  The world of analytics is changing. Self-service analytical tools like Tableau, Qlik, and Power BI are enabling business users to perform reporting and analytics on their own with little to no support from the IT organization. This trend has evolved due to several factors. Organizations are flooded with data and IT organizations are not able to keep up; easier to use business intelligence tools make it more efficient for business users to directly create their reports rather than go through IT for a project; and IT organizations’ analytical projects can take several months when a business needs this information in weeks.

• Ghosts, goblins and shotguns

  Joshua Fry Recreation & Leisure

  The best advice any new competition shooter can receive is to "be safe, and have fun." While being safe is something that will always be a part of a shooter’s mindset, sometimes along the way of chasing a higher classification, a match win or dwelling on a poor performance, the fun part can begin to slip through your grasp. Events like the 2018 Halloween Shotgun Match at the Phoenix Rod and Gun Club are a great opportunity to recapture that spirit of fun and camaraderie we have all grown to love about the shooting sports and remind us all of why we spend so much time, money and effort doing what we love.

• 6 ways to end music class

  Aileen Miracle Education

  Pondering the best way to end music class? In today's post, I'll write with my favorite ways to end music class before another class walks through the door! For example, a simple but fun way to say goodbye to your students is to sing goodbye to them. If your first-graders are working on sol-mi, you could sing "Goodbye first grade," on sol-mi-sol-mi, and they could sing back "Goodbye Mr./Mrs. ________." Then, you could sing "Have a good day," and they could echo that. You could even sing to individual students and have them sing solos back at you.

• Land assembly: Solving the land puzzle in American cities

  Lucy Wallwork Construction & Building Materials

  We see lots of seductive grand visions for how our cities might look, laid out on master plans that make anything seem possible. But the reality is that these plans generally do not start with a blank canvas. Indeed, the largest obstacle to the reshaping of our cities — whether that is for economic development, smart growth or housing delivery goals — is something much less sexy. The not-so-simple task of land assembly. Land assembly is the process of taking on a plot of land with high potential but highly fragmented ownership, and making it work as a whole.

• Want to get a room on Airbnb? Being ‘similar’ to the host may…

  Linchi Kwok Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

  Airbnb, along with other room-sharing websites, provides a cyber marketplace for innovative entrepreneurs to operate a lodging business without following the strict regulations that usually apply to hotels and hostels. For instance, while room-sharing websites provide pricing tools and guidelines to the hosts who are renting out extra space, it is still up to the hosts to decide what price they want to charge for the service provided and whether they want to adjust the price on a regular basis according to fluctuating demands from the travelers. In fact, the impacts of price positioning and dynamic pricing on a listing’s revenue performance or even on the neighborhood hotels’ revenue performance have been identified.

• Take the lead to sidestep herd mentality

  Bob Kowalski Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  When Merriam-Webster added 300 words to its Scrabble dictionary recently, the company that made its name in language played directly to the fans of the popular board game. A couple of the additions also pointed out a trend of follow-the-leader. Among the new words usable in the game were "sheeple" and "hivemind." Outside of Scrabble, though, those words can lead to a herd mentality among both leaders and teams. You might have experienced those terms in the workplace, if not verbally then visually.

• Facility managers struggle to see ROI of building management technology

  Scott E. Rupp Facilities & Grounds

  More than 100 energy and facilities executives were interviewed recently to gauge how their firms are using technology and the challenges they face in realizing value. The research showed some in-depth insights from multiple industry sectors, but the responses came primarily from large enterprises with more than $500 million in annual revenue. The focus was on the direction of their facilities management strategies, what technologies they are deploying to optimize energy and facilities processes, and the top barriers to realizing expected value from these deployments.

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