“Dancing With the Stars” hit a new milestone on Nov. 12, and revealed who was heading to the semifinals for Season 33. The 500th episode opened with pros — including returning favorite Sharna Burgess — for the opening number, “Crazy in Love,” the same opening number from the 2005 series premiere. Many past competitors returned […]

John Krasinski has been crowned People’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2024. The news was announced Tuesday night on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.” “Just immediate blackout, actually. Zero thoughts,” Krasinski told People about his reaction when he learned he would be this year’s honoree. “Other than maybe I’m being punked. That’s not how I […]

What is the human capital strategy for NASA? How did NASA respond to the pandemic and keep its workforce performing? Join host Michael Keegan as he explores these questions and more with Jane Datta, Chief Human Capital Officer, at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on next week's The Business of Government Hour.

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What is the IT strategy for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)? How is CBP working to modernize its IT infrastructure? How is it using technology and innovation to change the way it does business? Join host Michael Keegan as he explores these questions and more with Sonny Bhagowalia, Assistant Commissioner & Chief Information Officer, U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

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Real-time data capture, printing, mobility and voice-directed solutions specialist Dakota, alongside partners Truckfile, the UK provider of web-based fleet and workshop management, drivers check and compliance systems, have been selected as finalists in the ‘Fleet Innovation of the Year’ Category at the Supply Chain Excellence Awards 2023.

Gigi Schumm welcomes Kathleen McInnis, an international security specialist at the Congressional Research Service — where she works to help Congress address national security and defense strategy issues.

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Specialist recruitment firm, Robert Half, has warned employers that stereotypes could hinder access to, and the development of, critical Gen AI talent in the immediate future.

Antalis’ EcoCube is a physical cube designed to help businesses kick-start their journey to EcoExcellence, with 6 zones linking to an online toolkit containing information to support all sustainable packaging needs and challenges.

John Galt Solutions has launched Galt Connect, a hub connecting Atlas Planning Platform customers with technology partners and solution extensions to enhance their supply chain planning strategies and elevate operations. 

Gundeep Ahluwalia, the Labor Department’s chief information officer, helped modernize the agency’s IT infrastructure through the adoption of cloud services.

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Compact AutoStore system in a congested urban setting ensures the customer-centric focus required. Dematic has recently completed the final steps in installing and commissioning a compact automation solution featuring an AutoStore system for Spanish 3PL Grupo Servicio Móvil.

Priority Software Ltd.,a global provider of business management solutions, has announced that GL Brands, Inc., a multi-national consumer packaged goods company serving the global hemp and CBD markets, has implemented Priority Cannabis ERP, a comprehensive seed-to-sale ERP software solution, to effectively manage the entire plant lifecycle.

Domino Printing Sciences (Domino) has launched the new U510 – a state-of-the-art UV laser coder for permanent codes on white and coloured plastics, including high- and low-density polyethylene (HDPE and LDPE) pharmaceutical bottles. 

Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the pharmaceutical contract manufacturing industry declined in 2023 compared to 2021-22. High inflation and interest rates along with an uncertain business environment disincentivized investment.

Manufacturers in the rail, marine, defence and household good sectors can now benefit from more than 25 years of automotive and aerospace quality excellence as G&P is undergoing a proactive diversification drive across adjacent sectors.

Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division, which supplies smart manufacturing technologies to giants from Volkswagen to Boeing, has unveiled HxGN Robotic Automation, pioneering robotic programming and control software that enables non-specialist quality professionals to program industrial robots to perform fully automated quality inspection.

By Joe Barnes, Regional Product Manager, Zebra Technologies.

Is your business as optimised as it could be? Are your operations as streamlined and as sustainable as possible? It’s a serious question. One that’s well worth dedicating some thought to...

A Federal Drive interview didn't quite get locality pay right. Sharp-eyed readers wrote in to let me know about it! Here's some of the straight dope.

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A former California pollution regulator is being nominated to run the nation’s highway safety agency

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Embracing a distinction between OSINT and Pro-SINT ensures intelligence collections by those paid for the work are professional, ethical and legally defensible.

The post Open-source intelligence professionalism: Distinguishing ‘OSINT’ from ‘Pro-SINT’ first appeared on Federal News Network.

Virtually every city or town, no matter the size, has existing local programs where veterans can make a difference.

The post Tea with the Taliban to coffee at Waffle House: The importance of veterans in defending American democracy first appeared on Federal News Network.

Together, we can make sure that as veterans transition to civilian life, it opens doors to new opportunities and ways to thrive. 

The post Servicemember comes full-circle: Serving our nation as an Army sergeant, VA training specialist on the Digital GI Bill first appeared on Federal News Network.

Eugene Scalia has a decades-long record of challenging Labor Department and other federal regulations, as well as a famous last name

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First space, now immortality: Jeff Bezos reportedly invests in eternal life start-up Altos Labs

Europe's space sector seeks to boost commercialisation

Celona reacts to the growing maturity of its channel by moving from a single-tier organization to a more diverse three tiered one, while complementing the channel announcement with new Aerloc security improvements for industrial IoT.

In this guest blog, Avaya vice president of product management Jay Patel takes a look at one systems integration specialist's role in the digital transformation of a major Canadian university.

Alitalia to lay off more than 2,000 remaining employees as liquidation nears

CVC Capital reported to be seeking Italian pharma firm sale

Hundreds gather in Paris to support anti-whaling activist facing extradition to Japan

"Starships are meant to fly. It sure as hell flew today. So let’s get ready for the next one.”

We obtained 900 complaints the FCC received about T-Mobile's infamous price hike.

Instead of celebrating a closing, some US home buyers lost everything.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station recently captured mind-blowing images of the Northern Lights

The research also reveals entirely new forms of communication that blur the distinction between good and bad uses of AI

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Coalition Senate floor alert in opposition to California SB-1081

The California Senate will vote this week on a bill to automatically register register draft-age applicants for driver’s licenses and state IDs with the Selective Service System for a possible future military draft.

The floor vote in the state Senate on SB-1081 is expected this week and could come at any time.

[Update: The Senate voted 23-2 in favor of SB-1081, with 15 Senators not voting. The Senate approved minor amendments to the bill by its author, which make the bill somewhat worse. The bill now goes to the state Assembly Committee on Transportation, where it is scheduled for a hearing on Monday, 1 July 2024. See this letter to the Assembly Transportation Committee in opposition to the current version of SB-1081.]

SB-1081 was held in the 'suspense' file by the Senate Appropriations Committee, but was called up and sent to the floor for a vote by the full state Senate despite both Democratic and Republican opposing votes in committee, with only minor amendments that fail to assuage any of the opponents of the bill.

As amended, SB-1081 is still opposed by a diverse coalition including the ACLU, the California Immigrant Policy Center, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, and the Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild.

A proposal to automatically register applicants for California driver's licenses with the Selective Service System for a possible military draft was pulled by its author, Sen. Bob Archuleta (D-Pico Rivera), just before a scheduled hearing today in the state Assembly Transportation Committee. This was the last scheduled meeting of that committee before the deadline for consideration of bills in this year's legislative session, so the bill is effectively dead for the year.

Like similar laws in other states, California SB-1081 faced opposition from a coalition of peace, civil liberties, and immigrant rights organizations, on both policy and fiscal grounds. Pulling the bill before the hearing today was a face-saving way for Sen. Archuleta to avoid a vote by the committee not to advance his bill to the Assembly floor. This was at least the seventh time that similar proposals in California have been rejected, but the Selective Service System and its California state directors keep finding new sponsors to reintroduce them in the state legislature.

Meanwhile, however, an ill-considered proposal to try to automate draft registration introduced at the instigation of the Selective Service System by Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) remains under consideration as part of the House version of this year's National Defense [sic] Authorization Act (NDAA), along with a proposal to expand draft registration to include young women as well as young men in the Senate version of the NDAA.

There's a chance that both of these proposals for changes to Selective Service registration could be removed during back-room negotiations in the House-Senate conference committee on the NDAA later this year, after the elections. But we've seen this movie before. These bad ideas will be back again next year, regardless of which party wins which federal elections.

Preparation for a military draft, and reliance on the perceived availability of a fallback draft as the basis for planning of endless, unlimited, unpopular wars, won't stop until Congress repeals the Military Selective Service Act and ends draft registration entirely, either through a standalone bill like the Selective Service Repeal Act or through a provision in this or a future year's NDAA.

[First published on Antiwar.com]

Fantasies underlying push for conscription are delusional and dangerous.

Doubling down on their recent war-game exercises and report on the (un)readiness of the U.S. to activate a military draft, Taren Sylvester and Katherine Kuzminski of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) have a new article in War on the Rocks, “Preparing for the Possibility of a Draft Without Panic,” laying out why they think the U.S. needs to prepare for a draft in order to be able to win an all-out war with China over Taiwan.

CNAS and War on the Rocks like to describe themselves as “realists”. But their arguments for stepped-up planning and preparation for a draft are strikingly unrealistic, in at least four respects:

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I have a website The site has a button that is programmed in HTML which has a design of the button, image, and link.I am interested in an application that will pull the images from AliExpress with the option of selecting an image, and automatically insert the image and the link into the code on the website

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Provides background research and marketing performance analysis, to support the marketing of bio-science events and organizations.

The Online researcher and data analyst (ORDA) conducts Internet research and queries databases to collect information and to compile comprehensive background reports on different aspects of bioscience events and organizations. In addition, the ORDA analyses results of past marketing campaigns, compares data lists and creates performance reports and forecasts through extensive use of Excel & Excel charts.

Requisites:

• Ability to collect & organize information into a coherent structure, and communicate it clearly in writing, in English.
• Ability to scan written material and websites quickly, and extract the important information.
• High level of English (Academic)
• Technology friendly – a lot of data manipulation in Excel
• Quick, independent learner and thinker
• Inquisitive mind
• Service oriented – customizing to answer changing needs of the client
• Team player. Works in cooperation with team members and team leader.

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