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As the final quarter of 2021 begins, mold builders should focus on year-end tax and cash flow planning. With so much uncertainty in today's environment--labor concerns, geopolitical changes and the [...]

While some mold builders have already filed their 2020 tax returns, some have not. The IRS extended the 2020 tax return filing season for individuals to May 17, 2021, but [...]

The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) offers resources for occupational data, but they do not provide information about the day-to-day aspects of specific jobs. To address this, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) created the Occupational Requirements Survey (ORS), which provides detailed information on physical demands, education, training, and more for various occupations. The ORS data can be accessed online and used alongside other labor market information to gain a better understanding of specific jobs. The article focuses on the ORS data for Registered Nurses (RNs) in Minnesota, highlighting their employment statistics, projected growth, educational requirements, and specific details about the cognitive and physical demands of the job. The ORS is a valuable tool for gaining a comprehensive understanding of different occupations. [Extracted from the article]

Byline: Tim O'Neill And in the not so distant future -- forecast by UBS in their recent Davos paper 'The Fourth Industrial Revolution' -- a world of 'extreme connectivity' where [...]

Byline: Tim O'Neill Enterprise architecture models are a question-answering device. When you're aiming for a quick time-to value, building a model that contains as much detail as needed to answer [...]

Byline: Tim O'Neill Does your to do list look something like this? What I've seen in many engagements with enterprises is that the key to all of these is a [...]

Byline: Tim O'Neill Looking at the Google Trends data below, it's clear that in 2015 digital transformation has hit a sweet spot. Managed by the newest CXO, the Chief Digital [...]

Byline: Tim O'Neill How many enterprise architects are there out there? Industry standards body The Open Group has certified almost 45,000 people in their architecture framework, TOGAF. Each month, 1000 [...]

Byline: Tim O'Neill When we look back from 2020 how will the world view enterprise architects? They're currently some of the most senior and well paid IT professionals, but will [...]

I VIVIDLY REMEMBER a moment in 1994, sitting in a job interview, trying to conjure an image of the periodic table for the abbreviations for tin (Sn) and lead (Pb). [...]

WOULD YOU BELIEVE QFN ground pad voids could be cut by over 50% with a zero-cost, super-simple stencil aperture modification? Not a mod to the ground pad apertures where the [...]

08/03/2021 Income and Poverty in the Twin Cities Metro Area / Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development https://mn.gov/deed/newscenter/publications/review/december-2020/twincities-income-poverty.jsp 4/5 Along with household income and cost of living, poverty status can be determined from the American Community Survey. 08/03/2021 Income and Poverty in the Twin Cities Metro Area / Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development https://mn.gov/deed/newscenter/publications/review/december-2020/twincities-income-poverty.jsp 1/5 Income and Poverty in the Twin Ci es Metro Area By Tim O'Neill mothy.oneill@state.mn.us (mailto: mothy.oneill@state.mn.us) December 2020 Recently released data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) allows us to analyze income and poverty through 2019. Household Income in the Metro Area According to 2015-2019 ACS five-year es mates, the Seven-County Metro Area had a median household income of $80,485. [Extracted from the article]

WE'VE BEEN DOING a lot of print testing in our lab. In our first set of published results, 'The Impact of Reduced Solder Alloy Powder Size on Solder Paste Print [...]

STENCIL PRINTING IS an efficient and effective way of applying millions of well-controlled solder paste deposits, but it is not without its limitations. Many packages, such as area array and [...]

VISCOSITY AND THIXOTROPY are not words heard in casual conversation, yet they are very common material characteristics we encounter in our everyday lives. Viscosity is defined as a fluid's resistance [...]