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But he hated the chore he drew on Memorial Day of last year, working inside the silo at Pine Grove Farm. The corn was damp and crusted. It tended to hang up on the sides of the old six-story cement bin and had to be busted up with a steel rod before it would cascade to the bottom to be shoveled out.

That morning, just after 9, the phone rang in the Osier home. “Tommy’s in the silo,” his sister relayed to their mother, Linda, unsure of what it meant.

Ms. Osier grew up on a hog farm and knew right away. “He’s dead,” she said, slumping to the floor. “Tommy’s dead.”

Even as the rate of serious injury and fatalities on American farms has fallen, the number of workers dying by entrapment in grain bins and silos has remained stubbornly steady. The annual number of such accidents rose throughout the past decade, reaching a peak of at least 26 deaths in 2010, before dropping somewhat since.

Source: New York Times

by Gail Chiasson

But when we interviewed MacDonnell from her office in Denver, Colorado, on Friday, the timing was precipitous: Unbeknownst to us when we made the appointment was the fact that Harris would be announcing a new client project this week , no doubt ahead of #NRF which kicks off today in New York.

So it was that MacDonell was able to make us aware of Harris DOOH solutions to drive content in 1,000 auto dealerships by year’s end. The Automotive Broadcast Network has selected Harris as its vendor of choice for a dynamic, scalable DOOH solution to augment its popular Dealer TV broadcast at auto dealerships across North America.

The solution will deliver superior technology, network operations management, and turnkey field services, including dealership installations and support. Harris was awarded the contract due to its full-service approach for ABN.

The complete Harris DOOH solution will allow ABN to control the entire customer experience at each dealership. But this announcement (see separate article) is only one of the many topics discussed by MacDonell, who has been her position for about two-and-a-half years after an earlier career with Corel in Ottawa....

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Philip E. Nelson speaks Friday (July 9) during a Purdue Board of Trustees meeting after board members approved a facility name change to create the Philip E. Nelson Hall of Food Science. Nelson ended a 50-year career at Purdue with his retirement in May. He was the food science department's first chairman when it was created in 1983 and served in that position for 20 years. (Purdue University photo/Mark Simons)

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"Renaming this building in honor of Dr. Nelson is a fitting tribute to an innovative researcher and teacher who was instrumental in creating one of the most distinguished food science programs in the country," said university President France A. Córdova. "His name on the building will serve as a lasting symbol of the prestige he has brought to this university in food science education and research." But it was his work in food science...

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