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[SAnews.gov.za] South African companies that have been assisted to participate in the 7th China International Import Expo (CIIE) have expressed optimism for what is to come out of the gathering.

South Korean actor Song Jae-lim was found dead at his home in Seoul on Tuesday. He was 39. Police sources said that Song’s body was found in Seoul’s Seongdong Ward at around 12:30 p.m. by a friend who had plans to have lunch with the actor, according to Korean media reports. The cause of death […]

Host Bob Leins, CPA® welcomes Marc Levine, Esquire. 

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"DCSA plays a critical role in executing Trusted Workforce 2.0 objectives as the largest provider of personnel vetting services," Heather Green said.

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The goal of the new interim rule is to create an efficient, expedited appeals process, while addressing “potential flaws” in prior regulations, MSPB said.

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Shouldn't in-person appointments and when they're available become part of agencies' thinking about improving customer experience?

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Dementia is sad and hard on families. We don't know Joe Biden's condition, but if he is in decline there should be no delight in seeing the uncontrollable.

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The coarse language that's settled into the presidential election rhetoric is lamentable. But regular people don't have to normalize it in our own interactions.

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DoD's Transition Assistance Program aims to prepare service members for life outside the military. But for members whose final duty station is small or rural, the benefits of TAP are fairly limited.

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House appropriators want DoD to deliver new information on how it plans to deliver career technical education and recruit and retain personnel into STEM fields.

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Becca Stewart, an intelligence analyst and special teams manager at The Counterterrorism Group, joins host Derrick Dortch on this week's Fed Access to discuss the situation with Ukraine and Russia, the prominence of Islamist terrorism within Africa, and the rise of incel extremism.

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Pošta Slovenije, the provider of postal and logistics services in Slovenia, is set to improve its logistics and delivery operations through a strategic partnership with FarEye, the last-mile technology provider.

Stack Overflow has announced the results of its 2024 Developer Survey, the definitive report on the state of software development.

Stack Overflow has a long history of empowering technical innovation across its global public platform community as well as within private organizations ranging from startups to over 20,000 global enterprises leveraging Stack Overflow for Teams.

By Glen McCarty, Director of Velocity Consulting.

For those of us who still work in an office regularly, you cannot underestimate the absolute necessity of reliable IT infrastructure to make sure business operations aren’t interrupted.

o9 Solutions, the enterprise AI software platform provider for transforming planning and decision-making, and analyst firm Supply Chain Insights, has announced that LKQ Europe captured significant supply chain planning insights as a result of the company’s participation in a pilot programme designed to test outside-in planning concepts through Project Zebra.

The new partnership between supply chain software provider EPG and route planning solutions provider Greenplan has already reached a significant milestone, with the news that time-critical logistics specialist DANX is rolling out Greenplan in its Denmark operations.

Another success for Greenplan: the EPG (Ehrhardt Partner Group) route planning solution has been included in the 2023 Gartner Market Guide for Vehicle Routing and Scheduling after just two years on the market. This milestone places Greenplan at the forefront of global route planning and execution systems.

In fact, up until the last few years, this service has traditionally been enjoyed free of charge for the majority of online shoppers.  However, due to an increased desire to reduce the cost impact on a retailer’s revenue, many retailers are now charging  for returns. For example, since the pandemic began, several fast fashion retailers have taken up the practice.

DHS Secretary Mayorkas activated the federal employee volunteer force “due to the anticipated frequency and severity of extreme weather this season."

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Forter, the Trust Platform for digital commerce, has released findings from its 2024 Consumer Trust Premium Report, which explores the evolving relationship between consumer shopping habits and brand trust, based on 2,000 survey respondents in the US and UK.

By Philipp Pfister, Chief Customer Experience Officer at Transporeon (a Trimble company)

There’s no denying that the transport sector is a prominent cog across most global industries. As the saying goes, “There is no production without procurement logistics, and no trade without delivery traffic.”

The Great South West Partnership has released its anticipated report on the region’s high value manufacturing sector, positioning the area as a key player in the UK's renewed Industrial Strategy.

By Charlie Macdonald, CTO at BPS Global Australia.

Three months ago, cybersecurity platform provider CrowdStrike released an update that caused 8.5 million Microsoft Windows PCs and servers to crash. The glitch had a ripple effect across industries and global supply chains – almost three-quarters of the world’s computers use a Microsoft’s Windows operating system.

PTV Logistics has just launched the ‘next generation’ of one of their flagship logistics planning software, PTV Map&Guide.

The Defense Department had to jump through a lot of legal hoops to designate Wi-Fi as a mission critical service.

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Nowadays mental health in the workplace is one of the most talked about topics, with stress, anxiety and tiredness being the centre of the debate. In fact, whether you work for a company or as a freelancer, it’s very likely that there will be moments in your work life that will be overwhelming and tiring to the point of reaching a point of so called ‘burnout’.

Three quarters of manufacturing workers in the UK (73%) are unconcerned about their jobs being automated in the future, according to a study undertaken by YouGov and commissioned by global technology company SafetyCulture.

Simply Lunch, a producer of ‘food-to-go’, is using Podfather logistics software to support its sustainable business strategy. The family run business produces around 25 million products a year and makes more than 175,000 deliveries to organisations ranging from independent coffee shops to multi-national catering companies.

Descartes Systems Group has announced that Solar Coca-Cola, the second largest manufacturer and distributor of Coca-Cola in Brazil, is using Descartes’ route execution and fleet performance management solution.....

The U.S. Interior Department's plan to withdraw hundreds of square miles in New Mexico from oil and gas production for the next 20 years is expected to result in only a few dozen wells not being drilled on federal land surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park. Land managers on Thursday released an environmental assessment of the plan first outlined by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland in 2021 in response to the concerns of Native American tribes in New Mexico and Arizona. Environmentalists say the agency needs to take a broader look at the cumulative effects of development if they want to preserve cultural sites and limit pollution from ongoing development beyond the proposed withdrawal zone.

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg is sitting for a second day of grilling on Capitol Hill, this time at the Senate Banking Committee,

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“We're going to be in great shape for the election. I'm pretty confident about everything that were doing,” DeJoy said.

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Granicus’ Angy Peterson says effective data management allows agencies to make evidence-based decisions on customer outreach and engagement.

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EEOC’s new data sheds light on how preemptive measures can effectively remedy complaints before they garner the power to inflict serious reputational crises.

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The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board has been trying to reach out directly to TSP participants at risk of missing the full 5% government match.

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SBA offers Economic Injury Disaster Loans to businesses and people affected by disasters. It said earlier this month it expects to soon run out of funding.

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President Donald Trump is lashing out at congressional Republicans after the House easily voted to override his veto of a defense policy bill

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Granting access to, sharing and securing data in the cloud continues to challenge agencies across government. During this exclusive webinar, moderator Jason Miller will discuss cloud strategy, security and applications with agency and industry leaders.

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In this episode of Market Chat we discuss Task Orders with 3 field experts. What are they? How do you market to them? How do you win them? Why are they so important?

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Lisa Sanders, the director of science and technology for SOCOM, said Congress gave them authority to test out new approaches to SBIR agreements.

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The Pentagon has completed its review of Defense Secretary’s Lloyd Austin’s failure last month to quickly notify the president and other senior leaders about his hospitalization for complications from prostate cancer surgery.

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The development Tuesday is the latest over the decades to undo past discrimination against LGBTQ service members.

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It was 20 years ago on April 30 that Ellen DeGeneres made history as the first prime-time lead on network TV to come out of the closet

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The last A3 was a big hit for Audi. Will the new one be the same? I spent a weekend in one to find out.

Russian module knocks International Space Station out of position

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian

Russian actress and director en route to ISS for first movie shot in space