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Enhanced Security Measures at Indoor Amusement Parks: A Vital Step for Visitor Safety

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Scanning Documents: When to go In-House vs. Outsource to a Service Bureau

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Business Central Users Gain Efficiency with Advanced Inventory Count

The Advanced Inventory Count app integrates seamlessly with Dynamics 365 Business Central, empowering users to streamline inventory and cycle counting processes with multi-user collaboration, barcode integration, and robust reporting features.




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MILITARY SPOUSE ADVOCACY NETWORK LAUNCHES THE FIFTH COHORT OF THE MILITARY SPOUSE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

Applications open on May 10, 2024, and will remain open until June 7, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. EST.




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Atlantis Airdrop Master Debuts to Enable Web3 Developers to Reach Millions of Global Users with Massive Crypto Airdrops in Hours

Revolutionizing Token Distribution: Atlantis Airdrop Master Offers Unmatched Speed, Scale and Cost-Effectiveness for Web3 Developers




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FlipHTML5's Free AI Ebook Generator Has Elevated Users' Ebook Creation

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SAT Japan: Your Trusted Source for High-Quality Japanese Used Cars

Discover unparalleled deals on reliable, affordable Japanese used cars at SAT Japan. With a vast inventory and a commitment to transparency, SAT Japan is your go-to destination for high-quality pre-owned vehicles.




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"Rocky" Rochford announces Campaign for US House of Representatives

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Rotberg is part of the "Second Generation" a term used for the children of survivors of the Nazi Holocaust

Canadian Author and Publisher Howard Rotberg, in his fifth book, continues his work on ideologies, culture and values, to clarify the culture wars now plaguing the West.




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Things You Might Not Know About The Situation In The Middle East By Frances Fuller, Bestselling Author Of In Borrowed Houses

Best-selling author Frances Fuller lived and worked in the Middle East for 30 years. She offers an insider's view of the situation there and provides some surprising insights that traditional media does not cover.




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Are We Prejudiced Against The Middle East Asks Frances Fuller, Bestselling Author Of 'In Borrowed Houses'

Best-selling author Frances Fuller lived and worked in the Middle East for 30 years. She offers an insider's view of the situation there and provides some surprising insights that traditional media does not cover.




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Top 3 Overlooked Marketing Tactics Every Listing Agent Should Use

Traditional marketing methods like generic ads, open houses and run-of-the-mill online listings are effective but often not enough to set you apart in an ever-changing and competitive real estate landscape.  Let’s explore three modern marketing strategies that can help you secure more listings in today’s real estate market. Live-hosted virtual tours Research shows that 97%…

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How Industry Experts See Trump’s Return to the White House Impacting Housing

As Trump’s victory over Democratic candidate Vice President Kamala Harris became apparent on Wednesday, bond markets reacted sharply. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield jumped to 4.479%, its highest level since July, according to news reports. Mortgage rates responded in kind, with the average 30-year fixed rate rising to 7.13% on Wednesday, up nine basis points…

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Real Estate Leaders Remain Focused on Growth and Innovation

From left, Kuba Jewgieniew, Cory Vasquez and John Featherston. Photo by AJ Canaria In a panel discussion at RISMedia’s CEO & Leadership Exchange this past September, key industry executives came together to tackle the pressing topic of creating and maintaining strong company cultures in real estate. With the focus on culture, collaboration and leadership, Kuba…

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6 Shocking Ways Your House is Making You Sick

Changing seasons are hard on the body, especially when your immune system is not at its best. But, did you know that your house is making you sick? The dust mites, mold, cockroaches and pollens could be the foremost reasons for your headaches, congestion, sinus and even mental health.The interesting part is that these culprits continue staying in your house making you sick long after the allergy season is over. The situation can worsen to trigger allergic asthma.




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Lower Income Households Warming Up to Solar Power

Lower Income Households Warming Up to Solar Power hsauer Tue, 11/22/2022 - 14:18

Lower Income Households Warming Up to Solar Power

Despite its growing popularity, solar power remains a luxury that, typically, only more affluent households can afford, due mostly to the high costs of installation.

However, recent statistics show that the technology is not completely exclusive. A greater share of lower-income households and neighborhoods are having rooftop panels installed.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory released the latest edition of its annual report, Residential Solar-Adopter Income and Demographic Trends. This November 2022 edition, updated from its initial 2022 report released in February, is based on address-level data for 2.8 million residential households across the country that have installed solar on-site. The latest update includes data on systems installed through 2021.

The report reveals some unsurprising statistics. For example, the median income for solar adopters was $110,000. This is above the national average of $79,000, and confirms that households with solar are more likely to have above-average means.

However, a closer look at the results reveals that solar technology is not exclusively for the rich. Several statistics show that the average income is trending downward, indicating that solar is becoming more accessible to those in lower-income tiers.

For example, according to the report, the average household income of solar adopters in 2010 was $129,000. This represents a drop of almost $20,000 in 11 years.

Also, the median income figure reveals that while half of the nation’s households with solar have incomes above $110,000, an equal number have incomes below that level.

Looking at that lower half a little more closely, the report finds that roughly one-third of all households that installed solar in 2021 had incomes between $50,000 and $100,000. Another 15% of households had incomes below $50,000. The most well-represented income category was composed of those households with incomes between $75,000 and $100,000. They comprised roughly 18% of the total number of households that installed solar last year.

The report also finds that the share of the solar market in disadvantaged communities has been rising over time. According to Department of Energy figures, the percentage of residential solar installations in these communities has more than doubled from 5% in 2010 to 11% in 2021.

Lastly, the report finds that solar markets are also moving into less-affluent states. While roughly half of the nation’s solar adopters are in California, which is a relatively high-income state, the market for solar is growing in states like Texas and Florida, which are considered middle- and low-income states, respectively.

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Increased Use of Robots for Warehouse Automation and More

Increased Use of Robots for Warehouse Automation and More cbeaty Tue, 11/29/2022 - 09:06

Increased Use of Robots for Warehouse Automation and More

Research and development in the use of robotics in warehouse and industrial settings is gaining momentum, fueling impressive growth in the market sector.

“Warehouse Robotics Market,” a June 2022 report from Future Market Insights (FMI), reveals that the global warehouse robotics market is projected to reach a value of more than $9.5 billion by 2032. In 2022, the market was on pace to exceed $5 billion, rising at a notable 13% compound annual growth rate throughout the forecast period. Robotics leverage digital technologies and computerization with artificial intelligence (A.I.) and machine learning to automate a host of operations.

“The market is likely to be driven by the growing trend of industrialization and the implementation of Industry 4.0,” according to the report.

Robotics services

Warehouse robotics are used in a variety of automated systems to bring greater efficiencies to processes in fulfillment, inventory and distribution. Different types of robotics, according to 6 River Systems, include automated guided vehicles for material and supply transport; automated storage and retrieval systems for inventory management; cobots, or collaborative robotics used to assist human personnel in performing tasks in the warehouse; articulated robotic arms that move products within warehouses; and goods-to-person systems that transport items to stationary pick stations.

Warehouse robots are applicable to many markets, including food and beverage, automotive, pharmaceuticals, electronics, construction, defense and oil and gas. Companies are investing huge dollars in research and development activities in the warehouse robotics market, especially in developed countries, for product innovation, more advanced automation and pursuit of quality production and manufacturing.

According to FMI, Amazon installed almost 15,000 robots in its U.S. warehouses to cut operations costs by one-fifth and meet increasing consumer demand. It used technology developed by Kiva Systems, a robotics company it would later purchase and rename Amazon Robotics. In October 2021, Amazon announced the opening of a new first-of-its-kind robotics manufacturing facility in Westborough, Mass. Amazon also unveiled plans to purchase iRobot in August 2022.

Market drivers and restraints

Important market drivers for the warehouse robotics market, according to FMI, include increasing demand of automation for time savings and cost reductions, increasing number of stock-keeping units, increasing demand and awareness toward quality and safety production, advancement in technology and increased use in various applications and industries such as food and beverage and electronics.

Some of the barriers cited in the report as potentially hampering the growth of the warehouse robotics market are the initial high adoption cost related to training and deployment, lack of awareness and difficulty in interacting with robots for some end-users.

The digital transformation and Industry 4.0 continue to revolutionize the way companies manufacture, improve and distribute products. Manufacturers are integrating new technologies, including internet of things, cloud computing, analytics, A.I. and machine learning into their production facilities and throughout their operations. That value proposition now includes robotics, for specific tasks and lessening the overall cost burden on the end-user.

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Great Leaders Use Tough Love to Improve Performance

Frances Frei, professor at Harvard Business School, says that trust, empathy - and even a bit of tough love - are all essential ingredients to strong leadership in today's world. Successful managers focus on the effect they have on others, not themselves. They also define a strategy and create a culture that drives employee behavior in their absence. Frei is the coauthor, along with Anne Morriss, of the book "Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You" as well as the HBR article “Begin with Trust.”




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How to Use All Your Vacation — And Really Unplug

When was the last time you really took a sustained break from work? No emails. No calls. No taking care of that one little thing. For most of us — particularly in the United States -- it's been too long. As we head into the end-of-year holidays, we asked University of Texas psychology professor Art Markman and Cornell University associate professor Kaitlin Wooley to explain why it's so important to take real vacations (or even staycations) and how individuals, bosses, and organizations can do a better job of making them happen.




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A Gamer's Desktop Platform Designed for Swappable User Interfaces

To me, the gaming market is a lot like the EDC market: It's fascinating to see what developmental lengths people will go to, to push the UX of some object with highly specific functions. A case in point is this Elitech Protean Space Quick Control Swap Gaming System.

The idea behind it, is that gamers have multiple task-dependent UI's on their desks: A keyboard for typing, a joystick and throttle for playing flight simulators, a steering wheel and a shifter for driving games. For gaming accuracy these need to be mounted, and juggling the mounts is apparently a hassle. So what this design does is, provide a modular platform on which to securely attach different controllers.

The heart of the system is this keyboard base, with two wings.

The keyboard base slides rearwards, revealing aluminum channels.

The wing pieces can be slid towards each other along these channels, adjusted to your preferred width.

The "X" in the top of the wings is stainless steel. This allows you to attach magnetic controllers.

Furthermore, there are clamping attachments that allow you to attach a steering wheel and shifter.

Thus the gamer can quickly achieve the set-up that they want:

This isn't yet in production; the developer is planning a crowdfunding campaign.





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Tomorrow: Tune In to Formlabs 3D Printing User Conference

The Formlabs User Summit, the company's annual 3D printing user conference, starts tomorrow at 9am ET. The company's SLS and SLA printers will be on-show, along with industry folks discussing the impact of 3D printing across a variety of industries.

The event will feature a keynote presentation with Formlabs CEO Maxim Lobovsky and aerospace engineer and renowned YouTube influencer Tom Stanton. Other key speakers will include:
- Nihat Isitman, Senior Materials Engineer at Apple
- Matthais Shulz, Technologist for AM Polymer Series Manufacturing at Brose
- Patrick Marr, Senior Director of Prototype Development at Hasbro

The free event will be livestreamed on YouTube. You can register to watch it here.




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MMWR: Tobacco Use Among Middle and High School Students—United States, 2011-2015

Report on the latest statistical data regarding middle and high school students and tobacco use.




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Infographic: Tobacco Use Among Middle and High School Students—United States, 2011-2015

Infographic showing data regarding middle and high school students and tobacco use.

 

 




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Fact Sheet: Youth and Tobacco Use

Updated facts and data on youth and tobacco use.




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MMWR: Electronic Cigarette Use Among Working Adults—United States, 2014

Report on the latest statistical data regarding adults and e-cigarette use.




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MMWR: Tobacco Product Use Among Adults—United States, 2013–2014

The latest statistical data regarding adult tobacco use in the U.S. during 2013-2014.




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MMWR: State-Specific Prevalence of Current Cigarette Smoking and Smokeless Tobacco Use Among Adults Aged ≥18 years – United States, 2014

Data regarding the use of smoking and tobacco use among adults in 2014.




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MMWR: Characteristics of Electronic Cigarette Use Among Middle and High School Students—United States, 2015

Characteristics of e-cigarette use among middle and high school students in the United States during 2015.





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A 'Saturday Night Live' comedian said Elon Musk made her cry. She said she named him because he was 'rude' about the postelection show.

The "SNL" comedian Chloe Fineman said Musk made her cry when he hosted the show in 2021. On Sunday, he said "SNL" had been "slowly dying for years."




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Decoding the data deluge; use ECM to navigate the unstructured content labyrinth

Obtaining contextual knowledge about how users create and interact with unstructured data is an essential business practice to plan for data storms effectively. Enterprises need to understand that it's not enough to know these user activities but also must take remediation action when necessary.




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Semantic Web Company and Ontotext merge to rebrand as knowledge graph and AI powerhouse Graphwise

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Powerhouse utilizes Arcitecta?s Advanced Data Management Platform as its new digital asset management solution?

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ResMed uses BillingPlatform to automate subscription billing

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Ponderosa Steakhouse - 10% OFF Lunch or Dinner Entree

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The Lake House: A 2020 Update

If there’s a satisfying update to be had this year, it’s most likely because my mom has been making a lot of progress updating the Lake House, almost entirely without my help. I did build the deck stairs, and one time wedged myself through this tiny hole to fix a broken hose spigot…   1.) Yes, […]



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933 Hawk Birdhouse and the Mickey Mouse Camera

Presenting jam-packed newsreel, a new book, French influencer law, semantic segmentation in real-time, dpreview’s archive, a new film by Fuji, the Mickey-Mouse-Leica and DALL-E coming to a browser near you. Special guest Allan Attridge of Two Hosers fame (he now also builds furniture on YouTube) and Chris talk about life, creating youtube videos and growing … Continue reading "933 Hawk Birdhouse and the Mickey Mouse Camera"

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Calibration is sometimes sufficient for trusting predictions. What does this tell us when human experts use model predictions?

This is Jessica. I got through a long string of deadlines and invited talks and now I’m back to thinking about calibration and decision-making. In a previous post I was wondering about the relationship between calibration and Bayesian use of … Continue reading




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Joni Eareckson Tada honored by the Museum of the Bible

Christian author, speaker, and disability advocate Joni Eareckson Tada was honored with the Pillar Award for History by the Museum of the Bible...




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Suggested reading: Hallnäs, L., & Redström, J. (2002). From use to presence: On the expressions and aesthetics of everyday computational things.

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Divi Plugin Highlight: Divi Carousel Module 2.0

Carousels are a great way to interactivity to your website. With the Divi Carousel Module 2.0 plugin, you can create carousels for just about any type of content. Showcase client testimonials, images, logos, team members, and more with this intuitive tool. Read on to learn about its features, how to use it, and what it […]

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Court: Dispute Over Alleged Sexual Abuse Shouldn't Have Gone to WCB

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Court Overturns Denial of Hotel Housekeeper's Claim for Knee Injury

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Supreme Court Upholds Award for Housekeeper's Respiratory Injury

The Nebraska Supreme Court upheld an award of benefits to a housekeeper for a respiratory injury brought on by wearing a used face mask during the COVID-19 pandemic. Case: Prinz v.




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Court Clarifies When Spouse Doesn't Qualify as Beneficiary of Fatally Injured Worker

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Bill Would Limit Employment Protections for Medical Cannabis Users

Pennsylvania employers would be allowed to make adverse employment decisions against employees and job applicants who legally use medical cannabis, under recently introduced legislation. Senate Bill 1290, introduced Wednesday by Sen. Patrick…




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Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Address Surviving Spouse Benefits

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House Passes Direct Deposit Bill, Senate Passes PTSD Bill

The Pennsylvania General Assembly passed a bill that would make direct deposit the default method for paying workers' compensation benefits, and the Senate signed off on a measure that would make…




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Trial Court Did Not Abuse Discretion in Considering New Evidence, Remanding Case

A trial court did not abuse its discretion when it reviewed new medical reports finding that a man was unable to return to work and in ordering San Francisco’s retirement system to…




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Report: Man Accused of Selling Insurance Without License

The owner of a Georgia tax preparation business was charged with 23 counts of insurance fraud and two counts of deceptive practices for allegedly selling workers’ compensation insurance without being…