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The impact of overturn of Roe v Wade on workplaces

The court ruled in Roe that, “A person may choose to have an abortion until a fetus becomes viable, based on the right to privacy contained in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.




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AIHA and dBase Media announce Healthier Workplaces, Healthier Communities Video Series on impact of OEHS Professionals

Scheduled to premiere in May 2023 during AIHce EXP, AIHA’s annual conference, the series aims to introduce the public to the key role the occupational and environmental health and safety (OEHS) profession plays in creating healthier workplaces and communities.




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Circana releases 2023 New Product Pacesetters

This year marked the 29th iteration of the New Product Pacesetters report from Circana. The 2023 New Product Pacesetters garnered a $6.1 billion in combined year-one sales across food, beverage and nonfood products, which was slightly less than the $7 billion achieved by 2022 Pacesetter sales.




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HRbrain.ai Unveils Critical DE& Insights in American Workplaces from Global Study

Survey finds employees who perceive their workplace policies as not inclusive are twice as likely to be actively looking for new employment opportunities elsewhere




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IP.com's Deep Patent Portfolio Analysis Platform Places InventionShare's AcceleRoute Patents Alongside Top Global Companies for Data Center Innovation

IP.com's InnovationQ Plus business intelligence platform provides comprehensive analysis and deep insights enabling critical decision making around patenting, publishing, and competitive intelligence.




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The Answer Company is Recognized on Great Place To Work's Best Workplaces™ in Canada List

Ranked #25 on Canada's top places to work




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Magic Fox Orthodontics Introduces Affordable Braces and Advanced Clear Aligner Therapy in Huntington Beach

Enhancing Smiles, Enriching Lives: Discover Magic Fox Orthodontics' Comprehensive and Cost-Effective Solutions for Every Smile in Huntington Beach




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24 Studies Showing the Benefits of Green Spaces

Spending time outside in local parks may be good for your health. A growing number of studies is showing that green spaces in urban environments offer numerous health benefits. We analyzed 24 studies and highlighted the key points.




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Severna Park Dentist Offers Short-Term Adult Braces

Dr. Amanda McPherson is happy to be offering six month smiles to her adult patients.




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Boulder Dentist Offers Clear Alternative to Braces

Dr. John Montoya is providing an invisible way for patients to straighten their teeth.




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Las Cruces Dentist Offers Clear Alternative to Braces

Dr. Harvey Reiter is happy to be providing a clear way for patients to align their teeth.




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Big Game Hunting, Remote Places, Thrilling Adventures and Spectacular Imagery

In Leonard Hansen's latest book, "North American Mountain Hunting", he chronicles the physical and mental challenges of high elevations, constantly changing weather patterns and rugged terrains.




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Atelier Studio, a company based in Orange County is proud to introduce their groundbreaking studio pod project, offering "Small Spaces for Big Living."

The team at Atelier Studio has been hard at work to create a functional and sustainable living space that can easily adapt to various needs, providing a seamless integration into homeowners' lives.




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Revenues from Smart Coatings and Smart Surfaces to Combat Bacteria and Viruses will Reach US $1.3 billion by 2025

n-tech projects that smart antibacterial and antiviral products will reach US$1.3 billion by 2025 driven by efforts to combat Covid-19 and provide safer workplace, health care and improved public health




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StoneAge Tools, Inc. is named in the Inc. Best Workplaces for 2023 List

Recognized as one of the Best Workplaces in 2023, StoneAge is a leader and innovator in the hydroblasting industry that recently became 100% employee owned.




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iuvo Ranks Among Highest-Scoring Businesses on Inc.'s Annual List of Best Workplaces for 2024

iuvo named among best workplaces




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ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION NAMES TEKSTREAM SOLUTIONS A WINNER OF THE METRO ATLANTA TOP WORKPLACES 2024 AWARD

Also Selected as Top Workplace in Technology Industry Category




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Introducing the CleanForce Rainbow Air Purifier: The Silent, Sleek, and Certified True Hepa Air Purifier For Large Spaces

Leveraging Cutting Edge Technology and Design, the CleanForce Rainbow Air Purifier Sets a New Industry Standard for Superior Purification Capacity at an Affordable Price




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Pennsylvania Embraces Magic Mushrooms for Holistic Mental Health

Microdosing magic mushrooms in Pennsylvania improves mood and cognition, while decreasing anxiety, depression and stress without any harmful side effects or dependency. Psilocybin guided therapy is affordable and best alternative treatment.




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Bay-Area LifeLong Medical Care Replaces In-House Medical Scribes With Proven Scribe-X Medical Scribe Program

Customized Scribe-X platform benefits healthcare teams with consistent, high-quality medical scribe support.




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Hobby Shop Spaces Available at Mouser Self Storage

Alvarado storage facility offers affordable workspaces for hobbyists and entrepreneurs.




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Recently Completed Office-Warehouse Spaces at Alvarado, TX Business Park Ready for Lease

Unit 100 has 1200 square feet of space, a restroom, an office and 14' bay door for easy shipping and receiving.




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Brightening Spaces, Elevating Lives: The Home Lighter, Inc. Redefines Lighting Excellence in Pacific Grove and Beyond

"We view lighting as a means to brighten spaces and enhance lives," says Brieann Martinez, spokesperson for The Home Lighter, Inc.




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New Cookbook Resurfaces Ancient Assyrian Recipes Handed Down Through Generations

The newly translated cookbook by Matay de Mayee, "The Oldest Kitchen in the World," is both a vital preservation of ancient Assyrian culinary traditions and a tribute to the origins of Middle Eastern cuisine.




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Crimson Phoenix Soars Higher To Secure A Spot On The 2021 Fortune Best Small & Medium Workplaces List

Companies with 10 to 99 people were considered for the small list, and companies with 100-999 employees were considered for the medium list.




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Verbal Transactions Simulation Software, ACES, Adds Interactive Speech & Deep Analytics Capabilities to Articulate Storyline & other eLearning Platforms

ACES (accelerated cognitive engagement system) can embed any eLearning content to provide richer user experiences and capture real-time skill gap analysis.




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From Vision to Reality: Crafting Exceptional Living Spaces with Tovar Contracting

Tovar Contracting is dedicated to exceeding client expectations, ensuring each project, from planning to completion, is executed with the highest standards of quality and craftsmanship.




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LOVEPLUSPET is Empowering the Dogs Suffering from Arthritis Through Its Advanced Leg Braces

LOVEPLUSPET focuses on dog medical devices, especially various affordable and high-quality dog brace models like the dog back leg brace arthritis, dog wheelchairs, and harnesses.




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Maidaan Games to Imminently Launch $MDN Token - Your Key to Web3 Marketplaces

$MDN Token offers investment opportunities, the power to play and acquire NFTs while ensuring fairness and rewards.




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2024's Top-Ranking Corporate Event Spaces in Nashville

As we look ahead to 2024, The Bell Tower emerges as a premier Nashville corporate event space for business owners planning company retreats and seminars.




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Industrial Park Offers Spaces for Lease Close to Downtown Fort Worth

From 2,000 to 52,000 square feet, the Fort Worth commercial spaces for lease are ideal for distributors or other businesses that do a lot of shipping and receiving




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RDS Real Estate Has New Commercial Spaces for Lease Near Alvarado, Texas

Conveniently located near major thoroughfares, the recently expanded 917 Industrial Park near Alvarado offers flexible and affordable leases on warehouse office space.




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DownTown Mystic Faces Judgement Day

Radio Reacting to New Single.




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New Course Empowers Businesses to Create Welcoming Spaces for All

Sensory Friendly 101 training advances accessibility and DEI initiatives by equipping businesses and organizations with the knowledge to support their teams and customers with disabilities, sensory sensitivities, or who experience sensory overload.




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Spectacular Academy Ranks Among Highest-Scoring Business on Inc.'s Annual List of Best Workplaces for 2024

Spectacular Academy named among best workplaces has gone to great lengths to attract, develop, and maintain its employees while sustaining a good company culture.




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Timex Sri Lanka replaces SAP with WFX Cloud ERP for digital upgrade

Timex Garments adopts WFX ERP for specialised, cloud-based digital transformation, enhancing efficiency. Replacing SAP with WFX, Timex gains industry-specific solutions with WFX ERP for garment manufacturing. New WFX ERP ensures Timex Garments remains innovative and responsive to market changes. This shift will enable Timex to improve operational efficiency.




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Cotton yarn prices steady in south India; Mumbai faces trading slump

Cotton yarn prices in south India remained steady, with limited trading in Mumbai due to post-festival worker shortages and better but cautious activity in Tiruppur. Buyers are focusing on immediate needs, anticipating peak cotton arrivals, which may lower prices. In Gujarat, cotton prices rose due to increased demand from ginners and mills despite limited seed cotton arrivals.




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How to Build Workplaces That Protect Employee Health

John Macomber, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and a veteran of the real estate industry, was studying ways to make workplaces safer for employees long before the Covid-19 crisis hit. Now that issues like air and water quality are top of mind, he is encouraging organizations to think more holistically about the buildings in which they operate, balancing cost efficiency and even eco-friendliness with investments in improvements that boost health. Studies show this will not only stop workers from getting sick; it will also enhance productivity, which ultimately helps the bottom line. Macomber is the author of the book “Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity”.




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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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Contractor Faces $819,417 in Penalties for Fall Hazards

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed $819,417 in penalties for a New Jersey contractor that it says has a history of exposing workers to potentially deadly fall hazards. OSHA…




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Employer Faces Civil Liability for Fatal Shooting

The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled that an employer can face civil liability for the death of an employee who was shot at work by a colleague. Solo Cup Operating Corp.




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// Indonesia 2008 ~ Faces and Views III

iso: 320 aperture: f/4.0 exposure: 0.0025 s (1/400) focal: 60.0mm
The Intense Look of a Boy, Lembeh Paradise Resort, Sulawesi Utara, Indonesia.


iso: 100 aperture: f/11.0 exposure: 0.050 s (1/20) focal: 60.0mm
Bunaken Sunset, Sulawesi Utara, Indonesia.


iso: 400 aperture: f/5.6 exposure: 0.0063 s (1/160) focal: 70.0mm
Boat in Sunset, Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia.


iso: 320 aperture: f/4.0 exposure: 0.025 s (1/40) focal: 42.0mm
An old friend, kampung Bila, Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia.


iso: 100 aperture: f/2.8 exposure: 0.250 s (1/4) focal: 12.0mm
Bantimurung, Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia.


iso: 100 aperture: f/8.0 exposure: 0.067 s (1/15) focal: 12.0mm
Children of Kampung Jakarta, Indonesia



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// Indonesia 2008 :: Faces and Views IV


iso: 100 aperture: f/8.0 exposure: 0.067 s (1/15) focal: 12.0mm
View at the Bromo plateau, Jawa, Indonesia.


iso: 400 aperture: f/4.0 exposure: 0.0100 s (1/100) focal: 52.0mm
Singer Boy, Lembeh Resort, Sulawesi Utara, Indonesia.


iso: 100 aperture: f/4.0 exposure: 0.0005 s (1/2000) focal: 60.0mm
Boat, Bunaken Island, Sulawesi Utara, Indonesia.


iso: 400 aperture: f/4.0 exposure: 0.0040 s (1/250) focal: 7.0mm
Sunset near Makassar, Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia.


iso: 320 aperture: f/4.0 exposure: 0.0040 s (1/250) focal: 46.0mm
Grilled Fish, Bila, Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia.


iso: 100 aperture: f/4.0 exposure: 0.200 s (1/5) focal: 20.0mm
A Bugis Boy, Bantimurung Waterfall, Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia.


iso: 100 aperture: f/8.0 exposure: 0.050 s (1/20) focal: 49.0mm
A Boy with his Cannon, Jakarta, Jawa, Indonesia.


© Copyright 2008 Rick Wezenaar Photography ~ photo@mitranet.nl




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// Indonesia 2008 :: Faces and Views V


iso: 100 aperture: f/4.0 exposure: 0.0012 s (1/800) focal: 7.0mm
Kawah Ijen Plateau, Indonesia, August 2008


iso: 100 aperture: f/8.0 exposure: 0.020 s (1/50) focal: 12.0mm
Bromo Vulcano, Indonesia, August 2008


iso: 100 aperture: f/4.0 exposure: 0.0004 s (1/2500) focal: 60.0mm
Lembeh, Indonesia, August 2008


iso: 100 aperture: f/4.0 exposure: 60.000 s focal: 7.0mm
Bunaken, Indonesia, August 2008


iso: 400 aperture: f/4.0 exposure: 0.0012 s (1/800) focal: 7.0mm
Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia, August 2008


iso: 320 aperture: f/4.0 exposure: 0.050 s (1/20) focal: 12.0mm
Bila, Indonesia, August 2008


iso: 200 aperture: f/5.0 exposure: 0.100 s (1/10) focal: 12.0mm
Bantimurung, Indonesia, August 2008


iso: 100 aperture: f/7.1 exposure: 0.0050 s (1/200) focal: 29.0mm
Jakarta, Indonesia, August 2008


© Copyright 2008 Rick Wezenaar Photography ~ photo@mitranet.nl.




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Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa still faces concussion concerns

IT WAS GETTING late the night of Sept. 12, and Dr. Julian Bailes had settled in to watch a little football. The renowned neurosurgeon and concussions expert tuned in just as Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa sustained yet another head injury. There was Tagovailoa, lying on the ground with his arms outstretched and his fingers curled into the fencing response, an involuntary position that occurs after a brain injury. To Bailes, it looked almost like a replay from a previous Thursday night game, Sept. 29, 2022, with Tagovailoa on his back, his fingers splayed in front of his face in another automatic response to a concussion.




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Personal User Interfaces: A.I. Augmented Reality And The Future Of Personalized Advertising

Technology today loves making stuff just for you, and it's changing the game in how we get our digital kicks. In an era where personalization is paramount, ...




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Chooch’s Branding Embraces Authenticity Through Playful Imperfection

Chooch’s Branding Embraces Authenticity Through Playful Imperfection

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Discover how amStudio’s branding and visual identity of Chooch captures authentic, handmade aesthetics for fashion accessories.

Chooch, formerly known as Flat Fifteen, has redefined its brand to better reflect its founder Francesca Kappo’s evolving vision. With the guidance of amStudio, this rebrand has transformed the brand’s identity from a broad handmade focus to one that is solely centered around fashion accessories. Chooch stands out with its playful name, unique backstory, and brand elements that weave together storytelling, imperfection, and tactile aesthetics.

The Meaning Behind “Chooch”

The rebranding from Flat Fifteen to Chooch came as Francesca Kappo shifted her focus. The name “Chooch” is personal, rooted in a nickname given to Francesca by her uncle. He also played a foundational role in the brand’s beginnings, supplying her first batch of deadstock fabrics from his 1990s fashion label. These fabrics continue to be a vital part of Chooch’s accessory designs today, emphasizing the brand’s commitment to sustainability and storytelling.

The name itself is more than just a rebranding—it’s a celebration of heritage and identity. Short, memorable, and fun to say, “Chooch” captures the playful spirit of the brand. As Alam Mohammed, founder of amStudio, notes, the name’s flexibility in pronunciation makes it a warm, approachable identity that consumers can connect with personally. This idea carried over to the logo design, where the doubled O’s have a playful, imperfect alignment, mirroring the brand’s handmade ethos.

Playful Imperfection: The Brand Identity

Alam Mohammed and his team at amStudio developed a brand identity for Chooch that prioritizes authenticity. Hand-painted illustrations are central to this, appearing across the brand’s packaging, website, and social media. This choice keeps the look grounded, tactile, and relatable, evoking the feel of handmade fashion. By maintaining this aesthetic, the brand sets itself apart in a market often dominated by hyper-polished digital imagery.

The branding extends beyond static visuals. Chooch’s social media and marketing leverage stop-motion animations, adding a dynamic yet still homemade feel. This use of motion emphasizes the brand’s accessible nature, where every element ties back to the concept of imperfection being perfectly beautiful. The stop-motion clips give life to the fashion accessories, highlighting the fun and creativity behind each product.

Chooch’s narrative goes deeper than playful design. By continuing to use deadstock fabrics, Francesca Kappo honors her roots and commits to a more sustainable future. The tactile branding elements mirror this philosophy, creating a seamless experience from the physical product to the digital space. The history of the materials and the personal touch behind the brand make each accessory more than just a fashion statement—they become a story in themselves.

The rebranding also came with strategic moves to elevate Chooch’s market presence. The bags are now featured at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s shop as part of the first-ever Naomi Campbell exhibition. This collaboration has not only introduced the brand to a wider audience but also solidified its standing as a contemporary, fashion-forward label. The exhibition has boosted Chooch’s brand awareness and increased its social media following, translating to more sales and a growing fan base.

The Chooch rebrand exemplifies a growing trend: the embrace of imperfection in design. By favoring hand-drawn illustrations, irregular alignments, and a conversational tone, amStudio has given the brand an inviting, human feel. This approach rejects the overly polished and instead celebrates the beauty of the handmade. It’s a move that resonates well in today’s world, where consumers value authenticity and transparency.

Chooch’s rebranding is a masterclass in how thoughtful design can reflect a brand’s core values. From its name rooted in personal history to its playful logo and tactile illustrations, Chooch stays true to its story. Alam Mohammed and the amStudio team have created a brand identity that isn’t just about looking good—it’s about feeling real, celebrating imperfections, and staying connected to tradition. As Chooch grows, its story continues to inspire, reminding us that the imperfect is often the most perfect of all.

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How To Manage Dangerous Actions In User Interfaces

One of the main laws that applies to almost everything in our lives, including building digital products, is Murphy’s Law: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” Our goal is to prevent things from going wrong and, if they do, mitigate the consequences. In this article, Victor Ponamarev explores different strategies for preventing users from making mistakes.