dl Moving the Needle on DEI By hbr.org Published On :: Tue, 03 Aug 2021 09:00:56 -0500 Shelly McNamara, head of equality and inclusion at Procter & Gamble, knows just how valuable it is to work at an inclusive company. Back in 2012, as a VP at P&G, she came out publicly as LGBTQ, and she's since worked tirelessly to ensure that the organization is not only diverse but also a place where all employees feel like they can be their authentic selves. After more than a year of pandemic and political and racial tensions in the U.S. and other parts of the world, these issues have become even more critical for businesses to address, and McNamara points to specific DEI strategies that have proven effective in a variety of corporate environments. McNamara is the author of the book "No Blanks, No Pauses: A Path to Loving Self and Others." Full Article
dl The Pros and Cons of Our “Middleman Economy” By hbr.org Published On :: Tue, 07 Jun 2022 09:00:40 -0500 Kathryn Judge, a finance professor at Columbia Law School, is troubled by the rise of intermediary platforms between products and services and the customers who eventually purchase them. Thanks to technology and globalization, she shows how the importance of “middlemen” in the value chain has increased, along with the length of global supply chains. Judge details the downsides and risks of this trend. And she explains how customers and workers alike can lead to intermediaries offering more transparency and social value. Judge wrote the book "Direct: The Rise of the Middleman Economy and the Power of Going to the Source.” Full Article
dl In Defense of Middle Management By hbr.org Published On :: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 08:00:55 -0500 Middle managers are meant to serve as a go-between for leadership teams and individual contributors. But in large organizations, with many layers of hierarchy, some of these roles feel like bureaucratic bloat, which, in tighter economic times, makes them a target for elimination. Emily Field, a partner at McKinsey & Company, thinks in many cases that's a mistake. She argues that most middle managers are critical to corporate performance and productivity, executive team insight, and employee well-being. The key is making sure their roles adapt to the times. Field is the coauthor, along with Bryan Hancock and Bill Schaninger, of the HBR article "Don’t Eliminate Your Middle Managers," as well as the book Power to the Middle: Why Managers Hold the Keys to the Future of Work. Full Article
dl Making Peace with Your Midlife, Mid-career Self By hbr.org Published On :: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 08:00:21 -0500 Research shows that happiness bottoms out for people in their mid to late 40s. We might struggle with mid-career slumps, caring for both children and aging parents, and existential questions about whether everything has turned out as we'd planned. But Chip Conley says we can approach this phase of our personal and profesional lives with a different perspective. He's a former hospitality industry CEO and founder of the Modern Elder Academy, and he explains how to reframe our thinking about middle age, find new energy, and become more fulfilled and successful people at work and home. Conley wrote the book Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age. Full Article
dl Press Release: E-cigarette ads reach nearly 7 in 10 middle and high-school students By www.cdc.gov Published On :: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 14:00:00 EST This release describes how e-cigarette affect middle and high school students Full Article
dl MMWR: Vital signs: Exposure to Electronic Cigarette Advertisements among Middle and High School Students—United States, 2014 By www.cdc.gov Published On :: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 15:00:00 EST The latest vital signs report detailing the affects of exposure to electronic cigarette advertisements on middle and high school students in the United States during 2014. Full Article
dl MMWR: Tobacco Use Among Middle and High School Students—United States, 2011-2015 By www.cdc.gov Published On :: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 15:00:00 EST Report on the latest statistical data regarding middle and high school students and tobacco use. Full Article
dl Infographic: Tobacco Use Among Middle and High School Students—United States, 2011-2015 By www.cdc.gov Published On :: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 15:00:00 EST Infographic showing data regarding middle and high school students and tobacco use. Full Article
dl MMWR: Characteristics of Electronic Cigarette Use Among Middle and High School Students—United States, 2015 By www.cdc.gov Published On :: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 15:00:00 EST Characteristics of e-cigarette use among middle and high school students in the United States during 2015. Full Article
dl LinkedIn Headline Examples to Capture Attention Fast By smallbiztrends.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 10:20:04 +0000 If you are creating content as part of your LinkedIn profile, here are some LinkedIn headline examples to grab the attention of your readers. Full Article Technology Trends LinkedIn
dl What makes an MCMC sampler GPU-friendly? By statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu Published On :: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 16:20:03 +0000 (This post is by Charles) Art Owen (Stanford) read our paper on nesting Rhat to assess convergence in the many-short-chains regime of MCMC. He made a lot of great comments and asked some clarification questions. Notably: It wasn’t clear to me … Continue reading → Full Article Bayesian Statistics Stan Statistical Computing
dl Employer of Allegedly Injured Worker Gets Dismissal of Third-Party Claim By ww3.workcompcentral.com Published On :: Mon, 07 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0700 A New York appellate court ruled that a third-party suit against an allegedly injured worker’s employer should have been summarily dismissed. Case: Hernandez v. Opera Owners Inc., No. 32526/19, 09/24/2024, published. Facts:… Full Article
dl WCA Extends Deadline for Judicial Applications By ww3.workcompcentral.com Published On :: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0700 The New Mexico Workers’ Compensation Administration extended the deadline to apply for a soon-to-be vacant judicial seat until Aug. 5. The WCA in May announced that it would accept applications through… Full Article
dl No Benefits for Worker Allegedly Injured in Stairwell Mishap By ww3.workcompcentral.com Published On :: Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 -0700 The Missouri Court of Appeals upheld the denial of a worker’s claim for benefits for a knee injury allegedly caused by his misstep while descending a flight of stairs. Case: Fernandez… Full Article
dl Widow Misses Deadline to Challenge Denial of Claim by 1 Day By ww3.workcompcentral.com Published On :: Fri, 02 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0700 The Georgia Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a widow’s challenge to the denial of her claim for death benefits as time-barred. Case: Coffman v. Barnsley Consulting Group, No. A24A0740,… Full Article
dl Supreme Court Suspends Attorney Who Mishandled Comp Cases By ww3.workcompcentral.com Published On :: Tue, 08 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0700 The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday suspended the license of a Des Moines-area sole practitioner with a long history of discipline involving the mishandling of two workers’ compensation matters. The court… Full Article
dl Employer Loses Challenge to Deadlines for Contesting Black Lung Claims By ww3.workcompcentral.com Published On :: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0700 A federal appellate court rejected an employer’s challenge to the deadlines for submitting evidence to contest its liability for black lung benefits. Case: Hobet Mining Co. v. Workman, No. 23-1126, 08/02/2024,… Full Article
dl DLI Opens Registration for Mandatory QRC, Vendor Update By ww3.workcompcentral.com Published On :: Fri, 02 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0700 The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry opened registration for a mandatory rehabilitation provider update webinar being held Sept. 13. The webinar will cover topics including a department update, legislative and rule… Full Article
dl Court Rejects Constitutional Challenge to Deadline for Contesting MMI Date By ww3.workcompcentral.com Published On :: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0700 A Texas appellate court rejected a worker’s constitutional challenge to the 90-day deadline for contesting a previously assessed maximum medical improvement date. Case: Engel v. Texas Department of Insurance, No, 03-23-00077-CV, 07/17/2024,… Full Article
dl L&I Fines Wildlife Department for Worker Death By ww3.workcompcentral.com Published On :: Wed, 07 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0700 The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries fined the state wildlife department $200,400 for two incidents that killed one worker and hospitalized another. Mary Valentine, a 48-year-old Department of Fish… Full Article
dl Adjuster Claims Handling, Settlement, Arbitration and Mediation By ww3.workcompcentral.com Published On :: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 10:23:45 -0800 Presented in Partnership with Adelson, Testan, Brundo, Novell & Jimenez. Discussion will include: - Judicial Litigation Tips (Death Benefits, Penalties, Sanctions, Other Remedies) - Ethics - Claims Handling - Subrogation - Settlements - Arbitration -… Full Article
dl Handling Cases of Serious & Willful Misconduct of the Employer-Review and Practice Hints By ww3.workcompcentral.com Published On :: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 08:50:46 -0800 This program provides a guide to handling cases of serious and willful misconduct of employers. Examining various reviews and practice hints, Frank Christine III, Esq. will offer a review of… Full Article
dl PCRB Posts Reminder of Deadline to Request 2009 Assessment Refund By ww3.workcompcentral.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0800 The Pennsylvania Compensation Rating Bureau announced that eligible carriers can request refunds of 2009 work comp security fund assessments through Feb. 24. Gov. Josh Shapiro in July signed HB 2310, a… Full Article
dl OSHA Fines Contractor for Exposing Workers to Deadly Falls By ww3.workcompcentral.com Published On :: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0800 The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited a contractor in Crystal Lake, Illinois, for allegedly exposing workers to fall hazards. OSHA said it fined 595 Construction LLC $287,465 for one… Full Article
dl So You Have Accepted a COVID-19 Claim, Now What? Senate Bill 22 and its Impact on Your Claims Handling in Texas By ww3.workcompcentral.com Published On :: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 16:16:24 -0700 This course is designed to assist attorneys and insurance adjusters in their understanding of work related COVID-19 claims, claims coverage issues (compensability), the COVID-19 presumption created by Senate Bill (SB… Full Article
dl Worker Not Entitled to Relief From Decision She Allegedly Never Received By ww3.workcompcentral.com Published On :: Tue, 02 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0700 An Ohio appellate court ruled that a worker was not entitled to relief from a decision rendered after a hearing she did not attend because she had not received the… Full Article
dl Carrier Not Obligated to Pay Worker's Belatedly Submitted Bills By ww3.workcompcentral.com Published On :: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0700 The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that an insurance carrier had no obligation to pay a worker's medical bills that were submitted more than 45 days after the treatments were rendered. Case: Shepherd… Full Article
dl Court Orders DLI to Decide Reasonableness of Worker's Refusal to Attend Appointment By ww3.workcompcentral.com Published On :: Tue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 -0700 The Montana Workers’ Compensation Court ruled that the Department of Labor & Industry needed to make a finding as to the reasonableness of a worker’s refusal to attend a therapy… Full Article
dl DLI Rules Would Authorize Max Penalty for Misclassification By ww3.workcompcentral.com Published On :: Mon, 08 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0700 The Montana Department of Labor and Industry proposed rules that would add intentional misclassification to the list of violations that justify assessing the maximum penalty. The department will hold a hearing… Full Article
dl Missed Deadlines, Lack of Discovery Wreck Worker's Request for Hearing By ww3.workcompcentral.com Published On :: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0700 The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled that a worker’s request for hearing was properly dismissed, given her failure to adhere to deadlines and failure to participate in discovery and a… Full Article
dl Good heart health in middle age may preserve brain function among Black women as they age By newsroom.heart.org Published On :: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 07:00:00 GMT Research Highlights: Middle-aged Black women with better heart health were less likely to show a decline in mental function compared with middle-aged Black women with worse heart health. In this study, heart health was unrelated to cognitive decline... Full Article
dl One year following court-ordered deadline, FDA must rule on remaining premarket tobacco applications By newsroom.heart.org Published On :: Fri, 09 Sep 2022 13:25:00 GMT DALLAS, September 9, 2022 — Following is a statement from the American Heart Association, the world’s leading voluntary organization focused on heart and brain health: “One year after a court-ordered deadline to determine whether flavored e-cigarette ... Full Article
dl Heart disease more common in past redlined areas linked to limited access to healthy foods By newsroom.heart.org Published On :: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 12:30:00 GMT Research Highlights: Heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity were more common and linked to reduced access to healthy food among people who lived in neighborhoods previously subjected to structural racism-based policies that ... Full Article
dl Just snagged this ‘Fontastic’ Fonts Bundle at 90% off! By blog.spoongraphics.co.uk Published On :: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 11:26:57 +0000 Do you need some new fonts? Of course you do! I’ve just picked up this new fonts bundle at 90% off, reducing the $304 price to just $29 for all 17 typefaces. This is a great opportunity to upgrade your own font library with a range of new typefaces that you can call upon in […] The post Just snagged this ‘Fontastic’ Fonts Bundle at 90% off! appeared first on Spoon Graphics. Full Article News bundle design cuts fonts
dl Summer paddling, swimming and photography on Horsetooth Reservoir By photokayaker.fit2paddle.com Published On :: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 22:51:02 +0000 Stand up paddling During August 2023 I visited Horsetooth Reservoir several times with Starboard Waterline SUP, the same board I paddled in the Missouri River 340 race. It was rather a relaxed paddling with a lot of photography since I […] Full Article SUP trip reports navigational lights open water swimming paddling swimming
dl Handling Spelling Mistakes with Postgres Full Text Search By www.viget.com Published On :: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 12:37:00 -0400 Background # Postgres Full Text Search (FTS) is a great way to implement site search on a website running Postgres already, without requiring additional infrastructure. On a recent engagement with a client, we were deciding between Postgres FTS and ElasticSearch. Ultimately we chose FTS because we could spin it up without having to add extra infrastructure, as we would with ElasticSearch. Since the project was written in Ruby on Rails, we were able to use the excellent PgSearch gem to implement FTS in ActiveRecord. Multisearch # As we wanted a general site search, we needed to utilize multisearch. Multisearch combines multiple ActiveRecord models into one search 'document' table that you can search against. For example, if a user searches for some search term, and the search is configured for multisearch, then every single model that we mark as multisearchable will be searched for that term at the same time. See here for more detail. Search Features # PgSearch allows for different search features, tsearch, trigram, and dmetaphone. The default is tsearch, which uses the built-in Postgres Full Text Search. This was great for our use case, since it also comes with highlighting, a feature that was required. The highlighting is from a field returned by Postgres FTS, where it returns the text around the search term for context and bolds the search terms. Spelling Mistakes # Unfortunately, tsearch does not handle misspelled words. However, as I mentioned before, PgSearch allows for other search features! And trigram is a feature that can be installed via a Postgres extension (pg_trgm) that does just that. Trigram # The idea behind trigram search is to split pieces of text into sets of three-letter segments, and compare the sets to one another If two trigram sets are similar enough, we assume there was a spelling mistake, and return the document with the correctly-spelled term. As a quick example (ignoring whitespace): Consider the word Viget. Viget would make trigrams: [vig, ige, get] Now, consider our evil twin agency, Qiget. They would make trigrams [qig, ige, get] The two trigram sets match very closely, with only one of the trigrams not being the same. Thus, if we were to compare these with pg_trgm, we could reasonably tell that anyone typing 'Qiget' must have been actually looking for 'Viget', and just misspelled it. Working Trigram into our existing solution # PgSearch allows us to use multiple search features at once, so we can use tsearch and trigram side by side. Note that we cannot just replace tsearch with trigram due to needing some features in tsearch that are exclusive to it. Here is what an example configuration might look like. PgSearch.multisearch_options = { using: { tsearch: { prefix: true, highlight: { MaxFragments: 1 } }, trigram: { only: [:content] } } } Trigram (and timelines) causing issues # While it was easy to slot Trigram into our multisearch, it caused a pretty serious performance hit. We were seeing 50x-75x slower searches with both features combined than with just tsearch. We needed to find a way to balance performance with handling misspellings At the point that handling misspellings became prioritized, the entire search feature was almost fully QA'd and about ready to go out. There wasn't much time left in the budget to find a good solution for the issue. This thread from the PgSearch repo sums it up pretty well – there were multiple other users that were/are having similar issues as we were. The top-rated comment in this thread is someone mentioning that the solution was to just use ElasticSearch ('top-rated' is doing a lot of heavy lifting. It did have the most likes...at two). We needed to find some sort of middle ground solution that we could act on quickly. Postgres Documentation saves the day # In the docs for the Trigram Postgres extension, the writers give an idea for using Trigram in conjunction with Full Text Search. The general idea is to create a separate words table that has a Trigram index on it. Something like this worked for us. Note that we added an additional step with a temporary table. This was to allow us to filter out words that included non-alphabet characters. execute <<-SQL -- Need to make a temp table so we can remove non-alphabet characters like websites CREATE TEMP TABLE temp_words AS SELECT word FROM ts_stat('SELECT to_tsvector(''simple'', content) FROM pg_search_documents'); CREATE TABLE pg_search_words ( id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, word text ); INSERT INTO pg_search_words (word) SELECT word FROM temp_words WHERE word ~ '^[a-zA-Z]+$'; CREATE INDEX pg_words_idx ON pg_search_words USING GIN (word gin_trgm_ops); DROP TABLE temp_words; SQL This words table is therefore populated with every unique word that exists in your search content table. For us, this table was pretty large. result = ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pg_search_words").first['count'] puts result.first['count'] # => 1118644 Keeping the words table up-to-date # As mentioned in the docs, this table is separate from your search table. Therefore, it needs to be either periodically regenerated or at least have any new words added to search content also added to this table. One way to achieve this is with a trigger, which adds all new words (still filtering out non-alphabet characters) that are inserted into the documents table to the words table create_trigger("pg_search_documents_after_insert_update_row_tr", generated: true, compatibility: 1) .on("pg_search_documents") .after(:insert, :update) do <<-SQL_ACTIONS CREATE TEMP TABLE temp_words AS SELECT word FROM ts_stat('SELECT to_tsvector(''simple'', ' || quote_literal(NEW.content) || ')'); INSERT INTO pg_search_words (word) SELECT word FROM temp_words WHERE word ~ '^[a-zA-Z]+$'; DROP TABLE temp_words; SQL_ACTIONS end Note that this does not handle records being deleted from the table – that would need to be something separate. How we used the words table # Assuming for simplicity the user's search term is a single word, if the search returns no results, we compare the search term's trigram set to the trigram index on the words table, and return the closest match. Then, we'd show the closest match in a "Did you mean {correctly-spelled word}?" that hyperlinks to a search of the correctly-spelled word Given more time, I would have liked to explore options to speed up the combined FTS and Trigram search. I'm certain we could have improved on the performance issues, but I can't say for sure that we could have gotten the search time down to a reasonable amount. A future enhancement that would be pretty simple is to automatically search for that correctly-spelled word, removing the prompt to click the link. We could also change the text to something like "Showing results for {correctly-spelled word}". Ultimately, I think with the situation at hand, we made the right call implementing Trigram this way. The search is just as fast as before, and now in the case of misspellings, a user just has to follow the link to the correctly-spelled word and they will see the results they wanted very quickly. Full Article Code
dl What is a Headless CMS and When Should I Use One? By www.viget.com Published On :: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 10:00:00 -0400 When starting a new project, decision makers are faced with the dilemma of choosing a content management system (CMS). Sometimes, it’s not that simple and they must choose whether to go with a traditional CMS or a headless CMS. Both offer unique benefits and cater to different needs, making it crucial to understand when each makes sense for your project. Let’s take a look at some considerations that can help you make the right decision.What is a Traditional CMS?Traditional CMS’s – like Craft CMS, WordPress, and Drupal – offer a pre-packaged solution for content creation, management, and delivery. They include powerful interfaces with content editing capabilities and templating out of the box, enabling you to create sites with ease. A traditional CMS can be monolithic because the back-end and front-end are tightly coupled. Using a traditional CMS typically means you are using all of the tools included to achieve your goal.What is a Headless CMS?A Headless CMS is like a Traditional CMS in that it includes content creation and management tools. But it differs in the fact that the back-end content management system is decoupled from the front-end (presentation layer), allowing developers to use any technology stack they prefer for building the front-end of the site. The back-end acts as an API with its only purpose being to serve content from the database. There are CMS options like Contentful, Payload, and Strapi that are built to be headless. Popular traditional CMS’s like Craft CMS and WordPress also offer headless variants.The Restaurant AnalogyLet’s simplify things a bit more and look at the decision using an analogy; a restaurant. Traditional Restaurant (Traditional CMS)Imagine a restaurant where the kitchen and dining room are connected. The chefs cook the food, and the waitstaff serve it directly to the customers in the same building. This setup means that everything is closely integrated, and the kitchen (back-end) is tightly coupled to the dining experience (front-end). Picture a scenario where the restaurant decides to change from table service to buffet style. The food now needs to be prepared in advance and delivered to the front of house in a different way, potentially even requiring new equipment. The restaurant needs to be reconfigured to not only accommodate the buffet but also to interface with the kitchen differently. Because the restaurant and kitchen are coupled, both sides would require work in order to accommodate a shift in strategy. Ghost Kitchen (Headless CMS)Now, think of a ghost (or cloud) kitchen where food is prepared centrally but can be delivered to various locations or dining experiences. The kitchen (back-end) focuses solely on cooking (content creation and management) and doesn't worry about where the food is served. Instead, the meals (content) can be delivered to different endpoints like food trucks, home deliveries, or partner restaurants (or in our case websites, mobile apps, etc.). This separation allows more flexibility in how and where the content is delivered without changing the core cooking process. If a new experience requires new equipment or processes, the kitchen can be expanded without affecting the front-end experience.When to Use a Headless CMSOmni-Channel Content Delivery If you consistently need to deliver content across multiple platforms (websites, mobile apps, IoT devices), a headless CMS is ideal because it can serve the same content through APIs to any front-end. The front-end can be swapped out without any need for development to the back-end.Scalability and FlexibilityIf you want the ability to keep your content management system up-to-date independently of the presentation layer, a headless CMS can allow for more agile and scalable development. This could be especially useful if you anticipate needing to redesign or update parts of the front-end frequently without affecting the back-end content.Front-end Framework PreferencesMaybe your team has developers who are very proficient in a particular JavaScript framework, like Next.js, SvelteKit, or Astro. The time needed to learn a new templating language could push you past your deadline. Maybe you have some cool interactive interface in mind? A headless CMS can provide the raw content for your developers to build highly custom, tailor-made front-ends in whatever language or framework they please.SecurityGoing headless can offer security advantages due to its decoupled nature. By communicating via API to the front-end, data access can be controlled more granularly. Because the back-end is only responsible for content management and delivery, fewer plugins are typically used which means a smaller chance of vulnerabilities due to third-party software.Hosting & InfrastructureA cloud-based headless CMS offers additional advantages over a self-hosted headless CMS. It can simplify maintenance and operating costs since the cloud provider is responsible for updates and security of the platform. Cloud-based solutions like Strapi Cloud often come with integrated security features, automatic backups, and disaster recovery options.Which will you choose?While the flexibility and security a headless CMS offers may be great benefits, it may not be necessary for every project and could even introduce complexity. It’s important to consider the long-term purpose of the project and who will be responsible for maintaining it as well as authoring content. If your primary focus is on managing and delivering content in a structured manner with rapid development, a traditional CMS can be an excellent choice. But if you feel any of the examples I’ve laid out above align with your project’s requirements then a headless CMS may be right for you! Whatever route you take, remember that both Craft CMS and WordPress can be used in traditional or headless applications and are a fine choice either way! Now you know the differences between a traditional and headless CMS, and an informed decision can be made. If you have more questions or a project you think could benefit from a traditional or headless CMS, we’d love to help! Full Article Code Front-end Engineering Back-end Engineering Content Management
dl Bundle Up And Save On Smashing Books And Workshops By smashingmagazine.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 15:00:00 GMT It’s the end of the year, and as we look at our inventory, we thought, “Let’s help everyone in our community get ready for the year ahead!” Get friendly pricing on bundles of books and workshops to dive deep into the subjects you care about most. Let’s bundle up and save! Full Article
dl Humanity ‘Sleepwalking Towards the Edge of a Cliff’: 60% of Earth’s Wildlife Wiped Out Since 1970 By www.ecology.com Published On :: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 20:36:31 +0000 By Julia Conley Common Dreams “Nature is not a ‘nice to have’—it is our life-support system.” Scientists from around the world issued a stark warning to humanity Tuesday in a semi-annual report on the Earth’s declining biodiversity, which shows that … Continue reading → Full Article Biodiversity ET News biodiversity extinction mass extinction wildlife
dl Drought-Friendly Eating By www.ecology.com Published On :: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 19:10:28 +0000 By Janelle Shiozaki, CUESA Education Intern, with Julie Cummins, CUESA Staff Courtesy of CUESA When farms face water shortages, our food is at stake. The current California drought—one of the most severe on record—is everybody’s concern, and farmers and eaters … Continue reading → Full Article Tipping Toward Sustainability California drought Food Food Security save water Saving Water Water Conservation
dl Join a Conversation With Author and Professor Benjamin Bradlow About His New Book By events.tufts.edu Published On :: 14 Nov 2024 21:00:00 GMT Nov 14, 2024, 4pm EST Join a conversation with author and Professor Benjamin Bradlow about his new book Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg. Why are some cities more successful than others in reducing inequalities in the built environment?This event is co-sponsored by the Tufts Departments of Sociology and Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning. Building: Olin Center Campus Location: Medford/Somerville campus City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Olin Center, Room 106 Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar/Talk Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Details: Tufts Departments of Sociology and Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning Event Contact Name: Amy Pendleton Event Contact Email: amy.pendleton@tufts.edu Full Article 2024/11/14 (Thu)
dl Fly-poster for IWMW 2007 in SecondLife By www.ukoln.ac.uk Published On :: 2007-05-14 A fly-poster for Institutional Web Management Workshop 2007 has been put up on the wall at the Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2007 and blogged about in Andy Powell's SecondLife blog. [2007-05-14] Full Article
dl Sticky Situations: Handling Sensitive Employment Challenges in a Pandemic By www.littler.com Published On :: Mon, 07 Dec 2020 15:41:10 +0000 Full Article
dl Employers Rapidly Implement Japan’s Guidelines on Business & Human Rights By www.littler.com Published On :: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 18:49:17 +0000 Japan is one of the first non-Western countries to adopt a legal framework on business and human rights, which will likely influence other countries in the APAC region, as well as the overall Western focus of BHR developments. Full Article
dl Solving HR's Midlife Crisis: Using Human Skills to Lead Change By www.littler.com Published On :: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:16:23 +0000 Aaron Crews is quoted regarding technology’s role in HR. HR Dive View Article Full Article
dl (Allegedly) Criminal Employees: How to Handle the Related HR Issues in the UK By www.littler.com Published On :: Tue, 03 Sep 2024 14:37:18 +0000 How should an employer respond when an employee is accused, charged, or convicted of a crime? Fortunately, this is not a day-to-day issue that HR teams tend to deal with, but when it does arise, it can raise complex employment law issues and employers may have a PR crisis on their hands. Full Article
dl Littler Labor Day Report Highlights Hiring, Policy Hurdles By www.littler.com Published On :: Tue, 06 Sep 2022 20:20:45 +0000 Michael Lotito talks about the fifth-annual Labor Day Report from Littler’s Workplace Policy Institute, which examined the state of the labor market and several impending worker-friendly changes to state and federal workplace policy. Law360 Employment Authority View (Subscription required.) Full Article
dl Abortion Outlook Rapidly Changing in States By www.littler.com Published On :: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 19:48:43 +0000 Anne Sanchez LaWer advises employers to evaluate the extent to which state laws restricting abortion may impact their healthcare plans, privacy practices, leave accommodations, company culture and other employment policies. SHRM Online View (Subscription required.) Full Article
dl In Advance of July 1 Compliance Deadlines, Chicago Agency Posts Updated Guidance and Notices for the City’s Minimum Wages, Paid Leave, Fair Workweek Thresholds, and Required Notices By www.littler.com Published On :: Fri, 07 Jun 2024 22:06:40 +0000 The Chicago Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection (BACP) Office of Labor Standards (COLS) recently posted updates to its website regarding minimum wage obligations, paid leave and paid sick and safe leave, new fair work week thresholds, and updated required labor notices. The compliance deadline for these obligations is July 1, 2024. Full Article
dl Improving Employee Relations in a Rapidly Changing Workplace By www.littler.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Mar 2024 20:35:14 +0000 Full Article
