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By Kevin Herring
 Do you feel energized at the end of the workday? Or does your work experience drain you so much you're just happy to make it through the day? If you're like most people, you're probably somewhere between just doing OK and slogging through. It's frustrating. And, like most employees, you would probably be labeled as "disengaged." Why is that? A key reason is likely communication breakdowns between leaders and the workforce. They make work harder than it should be.
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Fox News
Ohio State University’s Buckeye Alert system warned students of a campus attacker within minutes of the car and knife attack unfolding Monday morning. Nine people were injured in the attack and the suspect was killed by a campus police officer.
Monica Moll, the school's public safety director, told reporters the attack took place in front of Watts Hall, the location of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, around 9:52 a.m. ET.
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The Sacramento Bee
In the next few years, an alert advising of a slight chance of earthquake might fly across your social media accounts in the same week an Amber Alert-like blast hits your cellphone, warning of an imminent temblor.
The first one might lead you to avoid bridges for a few days; the second should prompt you to duck and cover.
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Government Executive
Former Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao was announced as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Transportation. The New York Times Maggie Haberman tweeted that as of Monday night, Chao was seen as a “dark horse” candidate in a mix that included Lou Barletta, John Mica, Greg Hughes, and others — yet she has received applause for being a more “normal” choice than many of Trump’s other cabinet choices, which so far include Betsy DeVos, avowed enemy of public education, as Education Secretary, and Ben Carson, a former neurosurgeon with zero experience working in housing, leading HUD.
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Government Security News
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been informed by Texas health officials that Zika virus infection has been diagnosed in a resident of Brownsville, Texas, without any other known risk factors, suggesting possible local transmission of Zika virus infection.
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Nextgov
The high-tech economy is widely dispersed across all 435 U.S. congressional districts, not simply limited to a few regional innovation hubs, according to a new Information Technology and Innovation Foundation report.
About 30,000 people on average per congressional district are employed by the sector, according to the “High-Tech Nation” report, and 75 percent of districts have 1,000 or more patent filers.
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The Washington Post
A calamitous and deadly wildfire engulfed two tourist towns near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, along with much of the surrounding timberlands, destroying more than 150 homes and businesses, displacing thousands of residents and visitors and shutting down one of the nation’s most popular natural attractions.
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By Michelle LaBrosse
 When you’re knee-deep in the logistical details of managing a project team, it can be easy to lose sight of the big picture: your organization’s vision. We use established and proven strategies at Cheetah Learning to help us achieve our vision in each course we offer. For example, the vision for our new program is pretty simple: With the right training and systems, most people can efficiently and cost-effectively grow their own food year-round.
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Governing
Here's a troubling statistic: According to the latest Gallup report on state and local government workers' engagement, a median of only 29 percent of them are engaged at work. What's worse, 17 percent of public workers are "actively disengaged." Those employees are "busy acting out their unhappiness," in Gallup's words, undermining the accomplishments of their engaged co-workers.
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Governing
Despite being a first-world country, the United States has a worse infant mortality rate than some second- and third-world countries. In fact, it has one of the highest rates of babies dying before their first birthday of any developed nation.
In Detroit, a baby is less likely to live to see its first birthday than if it was born in Lebanon, Bosnia or Mexico.
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Government Technology
Durham County, North Carolina, 1 of only 6 local governments recognized this year with Public Technology Institute’s Tech Savvy award, continues to embrace new technology — like its new next-generation data center, announced Nov. 29.
What makes this new data center special is its use of Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure fabric for network management — a move that will position Durham to capitalize on its still largely unused 40GB dark fiber ring downtown and ultimately lay the foundation for smart city services.
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Route Fifty
All hogs in Massachusetts will be able to stretch their legs and turn around in their crates and all hens will be able to spread their wings under a law passed this month by voters in the state.
Laws like this one, which strictly regulate how farm animals are confined, are becoming more common across the U.S., as large-scale farming replaces family farms and consumers learn more about what happens behind barn doors.
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