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Understanding the Wildfire Threat to Homes

Disaster Zone

It is fire season and you need this information.

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How Policies That Punish Pregnant Women Backfire

The Rand Blog

There is overwhelming evidence and consensus from the medical and public health communities that supportive approaches are what help pregnant women with substance use disorders. Unfortunately, the overturning of Roe v. Wade has opened the door for more policies that police and punish women rather than evidence-based solutions that we know can, do, and will save lives.

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Helping Achieve Sustainable IT in the Retail Industry

Pure Storage

Everywhere you look in the retail industry, the business landscape is changing. Omnichannel marketing is revolutionizing how retailers reach customers. Behind the scenes, analytics and artificial intelligence are busy crunching the vast new waves of data being generated. But it’s not all about the IT department. . Another topic shaking up retail is sustainability.

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Recession or Not? For Security Industry, the Real Question Is Still the Supply Chain

Security Industry Association

During this time of Schrodinger’s Recession – with the U.S. economy simultaneously in a recession and not in one – the resilience of the security industry during downturns is being tested. The economy contracted at an annualized rate of 0.9% during the second quarter, following 1.6% shrinkage from January to March, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Got a Labor Shortage? Make It Easier to Work

The Rand Blog

If the United States wants to avoid a long-term worker shortage, it should look to what policy can—but has failed to—fully address. We have a long history using carrots and sticks, but this is a problem we may not be able to cajole or punish our way out of. Finding workers can be as simple as giving more people a chance to work.

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Disaster Zone Podcast: School Shootings

Disaster Zone

The School Resource Officer's role and school shootings in general.

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Effective Citrix monitoring value-adds to Citrix Service Providers

Citrix

This is a guest blog post from Rachel Berry, Technical Product Specialist, eG Innovations. Why should CSPs care about Citrix monitoring? Citrix Service Providers (CSPs) provide customers with flexible infrastructure and managed services for their growing remote (or hybrid/remote) … The post Effective Citrix monitoring value-adds to Citrix Service Providers first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Amazon Prepares to Support Hurricane Relief Efforts

Disaster Zone

Amazon’s size and logistics capabilities can help communities.

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How to Make Your Products Easily Recyclable

Constellation

Your small business can design for recycling and contribute to a greener community. Learning how to make recycling easy for your customers is something that will pay dividends to your reputation and bottom line–in addition to improving the environment. The post How to Make Your Products Easily Recyclable appeared first on Constellation Residential and Small Business Blog.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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Who Belongs to a Union?

Disaster Zone

Which occupations have the most unionization?

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Dedicated Incident Channel Improvements for Slack on Webhooks V3 – Early Access by Jorge Villamariona

PagerDuty

Today, we are excited to open Early Access for our improved Dedicated Incident Slack Channel. These improvements include: Viewing all incident details, history, and updates. Performing all incident actions. Adding all responders to the channel. Posting or creating a dedicated zoom conference bridge. In order to take advantage of this feature you need to upgrade to Slack on WebHooks V3 and request Early Access from PagerDuty support.

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FEMA Regional Administrator to Lead Monkeypox Efforts

Disaster Zone

Robert Fenton will lead with a CDC deputy.

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What is Event Orchestration? 7 ways to start using this powerful new feature from PagerDuty to reduce noise and automate away manual toil today by Vivian Chan

PagerDuty

Does your team deal with too much noise? Does your heart sink a bit when you think about how much your rulesets have sprawled in order to manage your event processing needs? That’s why we released Event Orchestration earlier this year to help teams reduce the amount of manual work that goes into event management. Event Orchestration is the next evolution of our Event Rules feature set, which helps to route, enrich, and modify events on ingest to remove noise and automate processes.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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Job: Training and Exercise Coordinator, CISA

Disaster Zone

This one is in Seattle.

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For Complex Problems, Can You have Simple Solutions?

Business Continuity Today

When you think of Complex Problems, sometimes trying the simple solution works. However, sometimes simple is not the right answer. Let's see how we can balance the complex solution with the quick fix (that never works). Links Web: [link] LinkedIn: [link] Instagram: [link] Twitter: [link] Facebook: [link] Youtube: [link] When you think of Complex Problems, sometimes trying the simple solution works.

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Hurricane Season: Tips for Your Severe Weather Response Strategies

Castellan

We’re more than a month into the 2022 hurricane season and if forecasts are correct, those who live in hurricane-potential areas should prepare for an above-normal season. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center says this is the seventh consecutive year for an above-average hurricane season, which continues through Nov. 30.

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5 Heat Safety Tips for Workplace Compliance & Employee Health

Alert Media

The post 5 Heat Safety Tips for Workplace Compliance & Employee Health appeared first on AlertMedia.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha

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For Complex Problems, Can You have Simple Solutions?

Business Continuity Today

When you think of Complex Problems, sometimes trying the simple solution works. However, sometimes simple is not the right answer. Let's see how we can balance the complex solution with the quick fix (that never works). Links Web: [link] LinkedIn: [link] Instagram: [link] Twitter: [link] Facebook: [link] Youtube: [link] When you think of Complex Problems, sometimes trying the simple solution works.

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Security Industry Association Appoints Tom Cook and Rita Mounir to Key Group and Committee Leadership Roles

Security Industry Association

Cook assumes the role of chair of the SIA Executive Advisory Board – a panel of executive thought leaders from SIA member companies – and Mounir now serves as vice chair of SIA’s Member Engagement and Experience Committee. SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has named two SIA members to serve in key leadership roles on its committees and groups.

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Feature Stores and Why You Need Them

Advancing Analytics

The Machine Learning and DevOps are generally well established within the data industry, with most teams having some experience with one or both and the value added by their inclusion in workflows and implementations. MLOps, sometimes called Operational Machine Learning, on the other hand is still a relatively new. MLOps aims to resolve the challenges of getting machine learning models and processes into production for operational use.

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