CTS

Our employees are not only the best, but we encourage them to go beyond their best.  CTS employees speak at industry events, publish technical articles, volunteer in leadership roles for regional technology user groups, and secure certifications.

It may just seem like a piece of paper, but a certification represents a great deal more. Industry recognized certifications demonstrate an engineer’s level of commitment to technologies, to products, and, more importantly, to continuing education and growth. Above all else, certifications are a ready indicator of our company-wide commitment to excellence. When you hire CTS employees who hold current and meaningful certifications, you hire the best.

At CTS, we don’t train to train; we train to win. For us, training is an ongoing commitment that begins on day one and never stops. Whether it’s immersion in a multi-week deep dive on a technology, or mentoring with a senior business leader on soft skills, we tailor the training to the individual and his or her career path at CTS. Our employees begin with rock-solid foundations; from there, we invest in their futures.

CTS exists to help our clients solve business problems using technology and processes. We believe that IT should solve problems, not create them, so we use proven techniques to define your needs and create solutions in the most efficient manner possible.

We understand the necessity to remain flexible to the needs of your business. We use the right tools for the job and keep our focus on quality whether the solution is custom software, processes, business intelligence, or supplementing your IT staff. For more information about the services we offer, please contact one of our solutions specialists.

We understand the importance in partnerships. Support, knowledge, and resources gained through smart partnerships are invaluable business tools in our business and in yours. To ensure we offer the best for our clients, CTS engages in savvy partnerships that result in big successes.

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Therapy South

TherapySouth is a therapist-owned, outpatient physical therapy practice that specializes in personalized, hands on care. Our primary goal is to help you return to all your normal activities and prevent future injuries from occurring. We promise to listen to you, communicate with you, and provide you with the tools you need to get better, and stay better.

We are excited about working with you and look forward to the opportunity to provide you with the highest quality care. We have 25 convenient locations throughout the greater Birmingham area, north central Alabama and southeastern Alabama (Auburn), as well as a location in Athens, GA, to serve you close to home and work.

TherapySouth was founded in July 2006 by Steve Foster, PT. His vision was that TherapySouth would be a therapist-owned practice, specializing in "hands-on care, close to patient's home or work". Clinics placed in Central Alabama, Auburn and Athens, GA maintain an informal atmosphere that helps patients feel at home in their surroundings. Having 20 locations, allows patients to conveniently attend physical therapy two to three times per week to improve their daily functions. We know our patients names when they walk in the door of our clinics!

Clinical excellence is the foundation of our successful patient outcomes. Many of our therapists have advanced certification in orthopedic physical therapy, as well as other specialty areas including manual therapy, women's health, orthotics and hand therapy/occupational therapy.

Hundreds of physicians in Alabama and Georgia trust TherapySouth to care for their patients each day. We work with physicians, families, employers and insurance companies  to ensure the best care possible for every patient.

TherapySouth always appreciates great talent. We offer a generous benefits package and plenty of opportunities for advancement for the right candidates. Additionally, we offer a structured, one-year mentorship program for new graduate therapist through our partnership with Medbridge. If you are interested in working for TherapySouth, please download your employment application, complete it and bring it along with your resume to the nearest TherapySouth location.

Resources - Therapy South Website

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Daxko

Florida International University (FIU) was looking for a software partner that could handle their growing campus recreation needs. “We are doubling in size,” says Charles Judkins, Director, Wellness & Recreation for FIU. “There is going to be a huge push for memberships and I knew we needed a good software system that could handle that.” Judkins reached out to Daxko because he’d worked with SpectrumNG campus recreation management at other facilities and knew it would be a good fit for the needs of FIU campus recreation.

FIU is home to 5 campuses in South Florida and is among the ten largest public universities in the United States. With that many students plus faculty and staff members, FIU needed a software management system for their campus recreation centers that would serve existing members and allow FIU to expand their membership offerings. In addition, FIU campus recreation is in the midst of a renovation that will create a much larger facility with the ability to serve more members.

Bigger, Better and More Connected
FIU has plans to expand offerings with the help of SpectrumNG. “I wanted to expand our membership offerings and under our current system, we couldn’t do that,” explains Judkins. Part of the expanded offerings will include different membership levels as well as extra add-ons like locker rentals. FIU plans to implement camp programming in the summer and other initiatives will be made possible with their implementation of Daxko’s SpectrumNG.

Judkins is excited about the online services offered with SpectrumNG. “Giving our students and patrons the ability to have an online account and allowing members to scan in from their phones is a big win for us.”

The Data Story
Funding for campus recreation facilities and programs at FIU is decided by the Student Government Association so the ability to run reports through their campus recreation management software is crucial. “I need that data to help me make the case for funding for facilities and programs. With SpectrumNG the data is easily available and staff has access to what they need.”

Looking Toward the Future
“I like how the software has evolved, especially as far as needs for campus recreation,” says Judkins. Judkins also points to the software’s flexibility and scalability as pluses for his organization. “If there are elements we don’t need we don’t have to use them with our setup,” he explains.

The first phase of the software implementation will be at their Modesto A. Maidique Campus with plans to expand once the first phase is complete. “I can’t wait until the second campus has SpectrumNG. The ease of memberships with multiple campuses will allow us to be more connected and open the flow of information between our recreation centers,” says Judkins.

Resources - http://daxko.com/blog/category/industry/

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UAB School of Nursing

Welcome to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Nursing. Professional nursing continues to be a rewarding lifetime career with many opportunities for advancement. As the challenges and demands in health care intensify, the demand for an educated nursing workforce increases. Since 1950, the UAB School of Nursing has been building on a vision to sustain nursing leadership worldwide

The UAB School of Nursing is an outstanding choice for pursuing your education as the next step in developing yourself as a nursing leader:

• The University of Alabama at Birmingham is a city campus with rich academic, health, cultural, athletic and recreational resources;
• An innovative interdisciplinary research university and world-renowned academic health center, UAB is ranked fifth in the world for its collaborative science and clinical work in the areas of medicine, nursing, dentistry, health professions, optometry and public health;
• UAB is engaged with the community in discovering and applying the latest research and evidence to promote the highest quality and best clinical care for patients and their families;
• The UAB School of Nursing is ranked 13th in overall graduate programs, among the top 5 percent of nursing schools nationwide, by U.S. News and World Report;
• The UAB School of Nursing is home to a leading research center with funded studies in oncology, pediatrics, minority health, international nursing, HIV/AIDS care, occupational health, and aging and palliative care.

The UAB School of Nursing offers innovative bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs. Among these are the state’s only PhD in Nursing degree and a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree which offers BSN, MSN and Nurse Anesthesia Pathways, more than 15 specialty and subspecialty nurse practitioner tracks, dual degree options, advanced nursing executive majors in administration and informatics, and an Accelerated Master's in Nursing Pathway (AMNP) program for students who already have one degree. Some courses are taught completely in a distance-accessible format, where students can complete course requirements without traveling to the campus and some courses have online content combined with live, on-campus sessions.

The UAB School of Nursing offers students opportunities to learn and investigate with interprofessional faculty and student teams from nursing, medicine, dentistry, health professions, public health and optometry. Students and faculty have options for substantial  scholarships, fellowships and grant awards to support undergraduate and graduate study. 

Through the school’s Pan American World Health Organization (PAHO)/World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for International Nursing and the Spark-man Center for Global Health, students and faculty are exposed to interdisciplinary clinical and research opportunities on UAB's campus and across the globe. Students and faculty find their work is strengthened through partnerships with one of America’s best academic health-science centers, presenting exceptional clinical resources and experiences. UAB’s nursing legacy is found in the more than 15,000 alumni who live and work throughout the United States and the world. Our graduates serve as expert clinicians, executive nurse leaders, deans and directors of nursing programs, nurse scientists, faculty, advanced-practice registered nurses, university presidents, board members and other professional leaders.

The UAB School of Nursing is committed to your success. Here you will have the opportunity to excel in professional and advanced nursing in UAB’s academic health center using the latest learning systems, as well as team and clinical simulation training.

Join our inspiring, collegial faculty and our talented alumni leaders who are vested in helping you become a compassionate nursing leader who contributes to improving the health and quality of care for individuals, families and populations.


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Redemptive Cycles

At Redemptive Cycles, our mission is to redeem the streets. We believe getting people on bikes makes Birmingham a more connected, comfortable, and livable city. Bicycles are affordable transportation, which not only fight congestion, parking shortages, and pollution in the city center, but also boost individual health and fitness!

Through our non-profit bike shop we sell new and refurbished bicycles at an affordable price, provide professional-quality repairs and maintenance services below market rates, and use a sliding scale for those in need. Through our “Earn-A-Bike” program, those in need can work at the shop, learn how to repair and maintain a bicycle, and leave with a bike of their own. 

Since opening in July of 2013, Redemptive Cycles has operated as a nonprofit organization, and received its 501c3 status in September 2014. So how does a nonprofit bike shop work? In our case, it looks and operates mostly like a normal bike shop: new and used bikes are for sale along with parts and accessories, and we offer full service repairs. What makes us different is the variety of nonprofit services we offer to Birmingham-area cyclists: the Earn-a-Bike program, sliding scale repairs, free monthly mechanics classes, and a free public workstation, not to mention many volunteer opportunities and a community of cyclists eager to help one another.

Our nonprofit sustains itself in a variety of ways. First and foremost is through the bike shop itself. Shop revenue not only allows us to give bikes and repairs away, it also helps keep our doors open, but used bike sales and discounted repairs are not enough, and we look to our community for support when shop revenue falls short of the bottom line.

From our community we get support in a few key ways. First of all Redemptive Cycles relies heavily on volunteer labor. Without the resources to pay a full staff we look to our awesome and dedicated staff of volunteers to provide much of the labor necessary to keep the bike shop running at full steam. Volunteers are integral to Redemptive Cycles’ continued success.

We also rely on our community to provide the majority of our used bike and part offerings. Bike donations are our bread and butter. They provide us with both a well-stocked, affordably priced, used bike selection, and a supply of bikes to utilize through the Earn-a-Bike program. Without frequent bike donations Redemptive Cycles would struggle to maintain a good used bike selection.

Finally, we look to our community for support through monetary donations. When revenue from the bike shop falls short, Redemptive Cycles asks the community to help make up the difference. Our annual fundraiser and individual donations enable us to continue offering bicycle related services to the Birmingham area, and in the future, with the help of grants, we hope to further expand our outreach.

In 2015 Redemptive Cycles expects to bring in $150,000 in revenue, and we need to raise at least $50,000 through fundraisers, private donations, and grants in order to sustain our charitable services.  Combining the bike shop and nonprofit is the most efficient way to help those in need of bicycle related services. Revenue from the bike shop goes directly towards sustaining our charitable services, and because things like rent and utilities are shared, the nonprofit costs only a fraction of what it would otherwise take to operate.

Resources:http://www.redemptivecycles.com/home/

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my calibre 50 videography

The reason why I choose calibre 50 is because  I admire a lot their music and when they make a new song I feel anxious for listen that song. Their song always make me feel good, and I also admire them because they make a good team. they also teach me that everything can be when you have goals in life, because they come from a poor place and with their effort they went ahead and now they are famous. In some song they talk about their life, from everything they happened to get where they are now.

The name of the grouping '' Caliber 50 '' - is given by the idea of ​​wanting to be recognized, have a strong and strong name. That it shows the dreams and the way to the sure success that they want to reach, denominating itself like "The bullet that not the best armor stops" only God and the public itself. 

Caliber 50 is an innovative group that fuses instruments representative of the state of Sinaloa, such as the tuba and twelfth guitar, with typical Northern music such as Accordion and drums. Caliber 50 It was created on January 3, 2010 by its leader and vocalist Rodolfo Eden Muñoz Cantu, born in Los Mochis, Sinaloa on September 25, 1990. This group consists of: Edén Muñoz - Accordion, First voice 
Armando Ramos - Guitar, Second Voice Martin López - Tuba and Augusto Guido - Drums. Always keeping the same members. 

The first album released by Caliber 50 was "Renew or Die" in mid-2010 with well-known themes, highlighting "Renew or Die", "El Infiernito", "Callejero y Mujeriego", "Culiacan vs Mazatlán" Duet with Gerardo Ortiz) among others. 

The second Caliber 50 album was titled "De Sinaloa for the World" released on March 22, 2011. Promoting as the first single "El Tierno Se Fue", this production is also composed of themes such as: "I'm fooling you with another" , "Alterado y Cochino", "Celosa", "Lifestyle", "From Sinaloa to the World", among others. 

At the end of that year, Caliber 50 released the single "Mujer de Todos, Mujer de Nadie" to promote their third album called "El Buen Caso" which went on sale on February 28, 2012. In this new Project, the group opted for 'reflective' letters. Changing the songs of violence by themes of conscience, such as "The Good Example" or "El Niño Sicario" bringing together more successes such as "Crazy Bohemio", "Activated Aguaje", "Batallative People" (The latter to duet with Banda Carnaval ) And a cover of José José entitled "Tears". 

It was so much the success of the conjunto sinaloense that at the end of that same year they released a compilation of successes with 20 of its better subjects. 

On December 17th, "Aqui Estoy" was digitally released, with which they would submit their fourth album entitled "La Reward" on February 12, 2013. It became the second best selling album of iTunes in its opening week. In this production, Caliber 50 continued with issues of conscience, such as "The Reward," "The Old Man," "Between Life and Death." They no longer speak of murders, drugs or weapons, but of values ​​such as respect, tolerance, equity, and appreciation for the things that life gives us. It is also complemented by themes such as "When I had you in 20", "When the Sun Goes Away", "Life After You" and "Not That You Were So Good", the latter being his most recent single.

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17. Calibre 50 - Siempre Te Voy A Querer
18. Calibre 50 - Amor Del Bueno
19. Calibre 50 - Contigo
20. Calibre 50 - El Tierno Se Fue
21. Calibre 50 - Tus Latidos
22.  Calibre 50 - Ni Que Estuvieras Tan Buena
23. Calibre 50 - Qué Tiene De Malo ft. El Komander
24. CALIBRE 50 - Javier De Los Llanos | in Studio
25. Calibre 50 - Préstamela a Mí (Official Video)
26. Calibre 50 - Ahora Va La Mia [ Oficial ] ᴴᴰ Historias de la Calle
27. Celosa- calibre 50

11 Advantages of using a blog for teaching

.What I learned about Blogging I learned that blogging help us to work in order and be creative. Blogging helps us to learn about people or things that we need to know. A blog helps us to publish something that we would like other people know. A blog helps us to be a good students and to communicate with others.

Advantage #1:
Using a blog makes education focused on students

Advantage #2:
Using a blog helps students, parents, friends and others learn anytime and anywhere

Advantage #3: 
Using a blog encourages learners to work/learn continuously

Advantage #4:
Blogging helps people reflect and think critically

                                                                                    Advantage #5:
Blogging helps people improve communication skills

Advantage #6: 
Blogging helps people develop creative thinking

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Blogging helps people learn to work with people

Advantage #8: 
Blogging makes learning less formal

Advantage #9; 
Blogging opens up learning

Advantage #10:
Blogging encourages students to experiment with different media

Advantage #11:
Blogging makes learning/working/living come together

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