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BBB Presents a CyberSecurity Workshop and Invites ALL Businesses in Central Virginia

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PledgeCents and Piper Partner So Students Can Build Their First Computer

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Rare Ancient Funerary Plaque with Corrections Goes to Auction: First-Century Roman Memorial Tablet featured in Christie's Antiquities Sale

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Consumers sit down with Bart from London Bath Centre

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Mesothelioma Victims Center Is Urging a Person with Mesothelioma to Call for Direct Access to Attorney Erik Karst of KVO to Begin the Compensation Process-Don't Let Fear of the Coronavirus Stop You

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Jenn Harris-Vincent Celebrated for Dedication to the Field of Recruitment

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Tesla San Antonio Service Center Location for Sale at $4.75 million

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Mesothelioma Victims Center Has Endorsed Attorney Erik Karst of Karst von Oiste to Ensure an Auto or Truck Mechanic with Mesothelioma Receives a Top Compensation Result-Don't Accept Less

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Brij Greens Now Named as Chhatarpur Central

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Monkey Flower Villas Celebrates Its 15th Year with New Renovations and Exciting Customer Incentives

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Central Florida Lifestyle to Redirect ALL Online Traffic to a Community-Wide Resource Page for All to Utilize During Coronavirus Pandemic

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KABO Asks Whether the Kennedale Town Center Vision is Dead

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Hudson Valley Farm Bicentennial Celebration Offers Family Friendly, Festive Fall Activities

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West Central Food Service Donates Trucks of Supplies to the Southern California Wildfire Relief Effort

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West Central Food Service Enters New Year with the Deployment of Extensive Corporate Expansion Initiatives

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Recently Released Willmar Opportunity Zone Prospectus Promotes Local Investment Potential

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The Missouri DWI & Criminal Law Center in Belton, MO Announces Launch of Their New Website

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KitRUM Opens Office in Mexico City, World's Fastest-Growing Tech Hub. Software Development Company Brings Experience to Burgeoning Talent Center

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Frozen in Time - Trotting through Old Towns in Central Japan

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Huntington-Hill Breast Center Opening in Arcadia Summer 2020

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CentiMark Featured in 2019 Roofing Contractor State of the Industry Report

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Synergi Partners Offers Easier Access to Government Tax Incentives with Acquisition of MyJobCredit.com

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Colorado Rural Health Center Highlights the Dire Financial Impact of COVID-19 on Rural Hospitals and Clinics

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Eco-conscious Tourism Company, Better Photo Walks Ltd, was Recently Honored with Inclusion into TripAdvisor's Hall of Fame for their Venice Original Photo Tour

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Art San Diego 2019 Soars in Convention Center Debut: Increased Attendance and New Local Art Programs Highlight Exciting Weekend

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How a Recent Float in Qatar became a Target in a Much Wider Regional Dispute

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MS. DIAGNOSED, a Documentary Recently Featured on the John Oliver Show, Will Have its World Premiere at the CineQuest Film Festival on March 7th, 2020

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World Championship Boxing Saturday Night Superfights 2020 at Center Stage in Atlanta Georgia

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Roof Coating Supply Opens New Roofing Distribution Center in Richardson, TX

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CentiMark Takes Precautions for COVID-19

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Only 55% of Voters with Disabilities VOTED in 2016 - The National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) Launches - "Our Time, Our Vote" Initiative for Voters with Learning Disabilities

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Composer Donates "Wash Your Hands" 20-Second Jingle to Center for Disease Control (CDC)

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Search Company Algolia Hacked via Recent Salt Vulnerabilities

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Research Roundup: Spawl Crawl And Rethinking Peak Hour Commutes, The New Sharing Economy & Smart Mobility For The 21st Century

The organization CEOs For Cities released a widely-cited report last month titled Measuring Urban Transportation Performance: A Critique Of Mobility Measures And Synthesis (71p. PDF). Their research finds that the secret to reducing the amount of time Americans spend in peak hour traffic has more to do with how we build our cities than how we build our roads.

The report explains how the cities studied have managed to achieve shorter travel times and actually reduce the peak hour travel times. Some metropolitan areas have land use patterns and transportation systems that enable their residents to take shorter trips and minimize the burden of peak hour travel.

This runs counter to the conclusions of the Texas Transportation Institute's Urban Mobility Report year after year. The CEO For Cities document explains that the UMR approach has completely overlooked the role that variations in travel distances play in driving urban transportation problems.

In the best performing cities -- those that have achieved the shortest peak hour travel distances -- such as Chicago, Portland and Sacramento, the typical traveler spends 40 fewer hours per year in peak hour travel than the average American. Because of smart land use planning and investment in alternative transportation, Portland has seen its average trip lengths decline by 20%.

In contrast, in the most sprawling metropolitan areas, such as Nashville, Indianapolis and Raleigh, the average resident spends as much as 240 hours per year in peak period travel because travel distances are so much greater. The report's 20-page Executive Summary is titled Driven Apart: How Sprawl Is Lengthening Our Commutes And Why Misleading Mobility Measures Are Making Things Worse.

In The New Sharing Economy, a study by Latitude in collaboration with Shareable Magazine, the authors look at new opportunities for sharing.

An interesting graph (click to enlarge) plots various endeavors on a market saturation and latent demand scale. The resulting plot points fall into four quandrants, labeled:

Low Interest and Low Prior Success (e.g. bike, outdoor sporting goods)

Done Well Already (e.g. work space, storage space, food co-op)

Opportunities Still Remain (e.g. physical media, digital media)

Best New Opportunities (automobile, time/responsibilities, money lending/borrowing)

This last category, Best New Opportunities, provides the launch point for discussion of car sharing. The report notes that there's still a large amount of unfulfilled demand for car-sharing. More than half of all participants surveyed either shared vehicles casually or weren't sharing currently but expressed interest in doing so. For people who share in an organized fashion, cars and bikes were popular for sharing amongst family and close friends but weren't commonly shared outside this immediate network, relative to other categories of goods.

This intriguing and visually appealing report goes on to point out the new sharing takeaways for non-sharing businesses, including "we-based brands," the value in social and alternative currencies, and the "contagiousness" of sharing.

Finally, Transportation For America recently released a White Paper titled Smart Mobility For A 21st Century America: Strategies For Maximizing Technology To Minimize Congestion, Reduce Emissions And Increase Efficiency (39p. PDF).

It proposes that improving transportation efficiency through operational innovation is critical as our population grows and ages, budgets tighten and consumer preferences shift.

As Congress prepares to review and reauthorize the nation’s transportation program, an array of innovations that were either overlooked or did not exist at the time of previous authorizations can be incentivized.

Just as the Internet, smart phones and social media changed they way we acquire news, listen to music or connect with friends and family, these same innovations have implications for how we move around. While high-tech gadgets can be a problem when they distract motorists from driving, they open up a whole new world for people using other modes.

But what if we could manage traffic to help drivers avoid congestion before they get stuck in it? What if you always knew when the next bus was going to arrive, the closest parking space or which train car had a seat available for you? The innovative technologies and strategies outlined in the White Paper include:

Making transportation systems more efficient (e.g. ramp meters, highway advisory radio)
Providing more travel options (e.g. online databases to match up vanpool riders, car-sharing services)
Providing travelers with better, more accurate, and more connected information (e.g. computerized vehicle tracking)
Making pricing and payments more convenient and efficient (e.g. EZ passes, electronic benefits)
Reducing trips and traffic (flex-time, consolidating services online)
The report goes on to discuss changes in demographics and make recommendations for federal transportation policy, as well as highlight several intriguing "smart mobility case studies."




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Recent Research: Urban Congestion Trends, High-Speed Rail Lessons & Travel Assistance Device Deployment


Is traffic congestion getting better or worse? The Federal Highway Administration collects various statistics each year to help us understand whether traffic is improving or increasing.

We wanted to take a closer look at a document titled 2009 Urban Congestion Trends: How Operations Is Solving Congestion Problems (8p. PDF).

Of course, we need to understand what we're looking at. Congestion is defined as the amount of time when freeways operate below 50mph. The FHA statistics show that "whatever the day of the week, whatever the time of day, mobility has improved -- almost across the board." When looking at the three primary performance measures,, improvement can be seen in at least one of them in 20 of 23 monitored regions.

But...how much? And why?

First off, there is less traffic on the road. Whether people are using public transit, telecommuting, combining trips, spending more time with family, consciously lowering their fuel consumption or are simply out of work, we see fewer cars on the roads travelling shorter distances.

Additionally, the economic downtown of the past few years has also played a role in congestion reduction in the United States.

Finally, traffic operations are playing a role in congestion management. The document contains a number of success stories detailing how state and local agencies reduced the effects of congestion in their locales.

As America moves toward construction of new high-speed rail networks in regions throughout the country, we have much to learn from experiences abroad.

In A Track Record Of Success: High-Speed Rail Around The World And Its Promise For America (53p. PDF), the U.S. PIRG Educational Fund reports on the wealth of information about what the United States can expect from high-speed rail and how we can receive the greatest possible benefits from our investment.

They base their report on
the track record of high-speed rail lines that have operated for more than 45 years in Japan and for three decades in Europe -- with some exciting conclusions.

Indeed, the experience of high-speed rail lines abroad, as well as America’s limited experience with high-speed rail on the East Coast, suggests that the United States can expect great benefits from investing in a high-speed passenger rail system, particularly if it makes steady commitments to rail improvements and designs the system wisely.

High-speed rail systems in other nations have been able to dramatically reduce the volume of short-haul flights between nearby cities and significantly reduce inter-city car travel.

Some particularly interested examples include:

The number of air passengers between London and Paris has been cut in half since high-speed rail service was introduced.

High-Speed rail service between Madrid and Seville reduced the share of car travel between the two cities from 60% to 34%, and service between Madrid and Barcelona, once the world's busiest passenger air route, has been cut by one-third.
The ability to travel where and when one desires is a basic requirement for independent living that most people take for
granted.

To travel independently, a transit rider practices at least 23 skills including finding the route, arriving at the correct stop on time, and determining when to exit at destination.

The University of South Florida's National Center for Transit Research has published Travel Assistance Device Deployment To Transit Agencies (103p. PDF) which discusses the successful deployment of devices assisting those with cognitive challenges in these tasks.

Travel trainers who provide one-on-one instruction on public
transportation, report that recognizing a landmark near the desired bus stop, requesting a stop at the proper time, and exiting the bus at the destination stop are among the most challenging skills to master for individuals with cognitive disabilities.

Parents/guardians are often reluctant to encourage the use of fixed-route transit due to their own hesitations about a person's abilities and well being.

Prior studies by the research team developed the Travel Assistance Device (TAD)
mobile phone software application that addresses these challenges and supplements the trainer’s instruction.

TAD provides various informational prompts including the audio messages “Get ready” and “Pull the cord now!” and vibrates to alert the rider to pull the stop cord. These prompts are delivered to the rider in real-time as he or she rides the bus using the embedded global positioning system (GPS) technology in off-the-shelf cell phones.

TAD’s real-time location of the rider can be viewed by the travel trainer or family member through a Web page.

This document reviews how the TAD application has been successfully deployed in the Hillsborough (FL) Area Regional Transit (HART) bus system.




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Insights into the Conflict Regarding COVID-19 Guidelines between the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) and a New Interest Group of Fertility Centers, the Fertility Providers' Alliance

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Project management tools take center stage as distributed marketers crave ‘single source of truth’

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Soapbox: Customer-centricity in the new normal

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Is your trip to the Waste and Recycling Centre essential?

Gold Coast residents are being asked to refrain from visiting the City’s Waste and Recycling Centres (WRC’s) unless it’s absolutely essential.

Mayor Tom Tate said social distancing and extra safety measures had been put in place at all WRC’s in response to the Covid-19 crisis, but a number of issues had emerged.

“There are now increasingly long wait times due to only every second parking bay being available and sadly, we’re seeing an increase in aggression against staff,” he said.

“So we’re asking the community to save their trip to the WRC until this crisis is over.

“The Federal Government has asked all of us to stay home, restrict our travel and only go out when it’s absolutely necessary.

“If you’re at home doing a house or garden clean up - that’s great, but please, hold off on going to a WRC.

“For the safety of you, your family and those around you please follow community advice, respect social distancing measures in place and stay home where possible.”

Visit www.cityofgoldcoast.com.au/waste for alternative waste management options.

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New conditions for Waste & Recycling Centres due to Covid19

New restrictions will be enforced at all City of Gold Coast Waste and Recycling Centres (WRCs) from this Saturday (11 April).

Mayor Tom Tate said the measures had been imposed as a result of major issues caused by the Covid19 crisis, in particular excessive customers and aggression towards WRC staff.

“Despite repeated requests by the Mayor, Premier and Prime Minister imploring residents to stay at home and only go out for essential services, our WRCs have been overwhelmed with customers.

“This is placing the health and safety of City staff and customers at elevated risk of Covid19,” he said.

“We will be introducing a number of measures in an effort to keep our staff and residents safe - and if these measures are not adhered to, we may have no choice but to close some of the centres.”

The following measures will come into effect from opening time on Saturday 11 April.

  1. Visitors to the Molendinar and Reedy Creek WRCs will be limited to commercial and small business customers between the hours of 7am - 9am daily. This is to minimise the impact of increased residential use on small businesses.  Any customer who enters the facilities during these times will pay associated fees and State Government Waste Disposal Levy charges.

       2.To minimise delays, residential green waste will only be accepted at WRCs with “green waste drop and go” which includes Coomera, Molendinar, Merrimac and Reedy Creek.

  1. To minimise congestion, vehicles will be limited to “odd and even” dates matching the first number of their vehicle registration number

          On Saturday 11 April (an odd number), vehicles with an odd first number on their registration will be permitted entry.  On Sunday 12 April (an even number), vehicles with an even first number on their registration will be permitted entry.            All vehicles with personalised plates will be treated as odd numbers.

  1. No e-waste is being accepted at any WRCs at this time.

Residential customers are strongly advised to restrict their visits to WRCs for essential waste services only. This includes:

  • Disposing of hazardous waste that may be no longer safe to store at home including: car tyres, car batteries, paint, pool chemicals, bleach, gas bottles and herbicides.
  • Disposal of waste that could create a health concern e.g. putrescible household waste.

        Eligible residents are encouraged to make use of the City’s free on demand bulky kerbside collection service and/or consider taking up our green waste bin service to avoid delays at a WRC.

        For more information visit www.cityofgoldcoast.com.au/waste

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Dot & Key Water Drench Hydrating Hyaluronic Acid Serum Concentrate

As usual, my dilemma for finding the perfect moisturizer has not yet solved. So, after using the hyaluronic acid serum (Marine Hyaluronics) from The Ordinary, this is my second hyaluronic acid serum and I was and was completely unsure of what to expect. The best part is I am writing the review almost a month […]

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How Some Companies Beat the Competition… For Centuries

Howard Yu, Lego Professor of Management and Innovation at IMD Business School in Switzerland, discusses how the industrial cluster in the Swiss city of Basel is a unique example of enduring competitive advantage. He explains how early dye makers were able to continually jump to new capabilities and thrive for generations. He says the story of those companies offers a counter-narrative to the pessimistic view that unless your company is Google or Apple, you can’t stay ahead of the competition for long. Yu is the author of “LEAP: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied.”




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