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MKM opens 134th branch in Cheltenham, creating 17 new jobs

MKM opens 134th branch in Cheltenham, creating 17 new jobs

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Independent builders merchant MKM Building Supplies (MKM), is set to open its 134th branch in Cheltenham next Monday, 24th February. As MKM’s first branch constructed to BREEAM standards, the Cheltenham location sets a new benchmark for energy efficiency. It incorporates a range of sustainability-focused features including, PV panels on the roof, an air-source heating system complimented by a MVHR system, enhanced insulation, movement-controlled LED lighting systems throughout, electric vehicle (EV) chargers, electric forklift truck (EFLT) chargers, an electric van charger, water-saving systems and a generous cycle store. The site is supplied with REGO certified grid electricity and is targeting energy carbon neutrality in operation. The Cheltenham branch is MKM’s most energy efficient to date, representing a step forward in new branch design and aligning with its broader sustainability goals. Led by Branch Directors Jamie Cole and Dave McCombie, both seasoned professionals with nearly 20 years of experience each in the building merchant industry, MKM Cheltenham is poised to deliver a fresh and customer-focused approach. Jamie and Dave are passionate about putting people first—both customers and colleagues—and are eager …

How Andy Warhol Made Blow Jobs Boring

How Andy Warhol Made Blow Jobs Boring

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Every party should have Warhol films projected. That’s my conclusion after revisiting some of them for hours at the tiny but warm New York Museum of Sex show “Looking at Andy Looking.” Everyone should fall asleep to Sleep (1964). Every film frame can, if hung over a bed, lull you. The filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami once said that he preferred movies that make you sleep—that are “kind enough to allow you a nice nap”—especially against those loud, violence-stuffed movies that take you “hostage.” Well, Warhol’s films are just as kind. In response to the endless, frightening sixties business of assassination, imperial war, and the money drive, Warhol films offered up nice naps. Related Articles Now, if you’re having sex, it probably wouldn’t be so nice to nap. There’s a time and place for everything, including sleep. Sleeping during sex, though! During such an act of busy thinking and unthinking, lost and gained positions? Enter Warhol. He saw, cagily and presciently, the flattening of bodies onto screens. Andy turned the camera on a sleeping lover—John Giorno—let him …

Nissan Planning To Cut Up To 2,000 U.S. Jobs And Reduce Production By 25%

Nissan Planning To Cut Up To 2,000 U.S. Jobs And Reduce Production By 25%

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Nissan plans to cut 1,500–2,000 U.S. jobs and reduce production by 25% as part of a strategic review, according to GuruFocus. It aims to close a production line at its Smyrna, TN plant by April and another at its Canton, MS plant later in the year. The company is reviewing its EV production and investment strategy. Spokesperson Shiro Nagai stated the reports are unofficial, and Nissan declined further comment. However, it wouldn’t be an unreasonable move for the automaker which has struggled in recent years and is in the midst of considering a merger. Recall back in late December we wrote that the struggling automaker was considering a tie-up with Honda that would make it the world’s third largest automaker.  Facing competition from EV leaders like Tesla and China’s BYD, Japanese automakers are uniting to cut costs and accelerate their transition to electric vehicles. Honda’s president, Toshihiro Mibe, stated last month that the companies plan to form a joint holding company, maintaining their brands while Honda leads management. A merger agreement is targeted for June, …

Zuckerberg Announces Plans to Automate Facebook Coding Jobs With AI

Zuckerberg Announces Plans to Automate Facebook Coding Jobs With AI

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“An AI that can effectively be a sort of midlevel engineer.” Meta Narrative Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he intends to start automating coding jobs with AI — this year.  Zuckerberg announced these ambitions, which if realized would send shockwaves throughout Silicon Valley, on an episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, as spotted by Business Insider. “Probably in 2025, we at Meta, as well as the other companies that are basically working on this, are going to have an AI that can effectively be a sort of midlevel engineer that you have at your company that can write code,” Zuckerberg said in the interview. A midlevel engineer at Meta, per BI, earns a salary somewhere in the mid-six figures. For the People Though Zuckerberg doesn’t explicitly say he’ll replace his human grunts outright, putting two and two together as he explains how the AI technology will pan out — or looking at literally any company that has bragged about onboarding AI models — makes the implications for people’s jobs pretty clear. “In the beginning …

Social media ‘soft girls’ depend on men for money – but Sweden once used state ‘influencers’ to urge women to get jobs

Social media ‘soft girls’ depend on men for money – but Sweden once used state ‘influencers’ to urge women to get jobs

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The idea of becoming a “soft girl” – a woman who embrace values that are seen as soft, such as beauty and family life, at the expense of a career – is an emerging trend among some social media influencers. Soft girls often opt to be financially supported by a boyfriend or husband. In this way, the soft girl can be seen as similar to an aspiring housewife or “trad wife”, another popular role on social media. Even in Sweden, a country famous for its gender equality policies and repeatedly ranked as number one among countries in the Gender Equality Index, soft girls are reportedly on the rise. This has lead to a heated debate in the country over the past year. Soft girl was even recognised as a “new word” by a Swedish government authority, the Institute for Language and Folklore, in December 2024. The influence of this social media trend stands in stark contrast to the movement that stopped housewife from being a common role for women in Sweden by the 1980s, after …

Google Creates a Career Certificate That Prepares Students for Cybersecurity Jobs in 6 Months

Google Creates a Career Certificate That Prepares Students for Cybersecurity Jobs in 6 Months

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In 2023, Google launched sev­er­al online cer­tifi­cate pro­grams designed to help stu­dents land an entry-lev­el job, with­out nec­es­sar­i­ly hav­ing a col­lege degree. This includes a cer­tifi­cate pro­gram focused on Cyber­se­cu­ri­ty, a field that stands poised to grow as com­pa­nies become more dig­i­tal and face mount­ing cyber­at­tacks. Offered on Cours­er­a’s edu­ca­tion­al plat­form, the new Google Cyber­se­cu­ri­ty Pro­fes­sion­al Cer­tifi­cate fea­tures eight online cours­es, which will col­lec­tive­ly help stu­dents learn how to: Under­stand the impor­tance of cyber­se­cu­ri­ty prac­tices and their impact for orga­ni­za­tions. Iden­ti­fy com­mon risks, threats, and vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties, as well as tech­niques to mit­i­gate them. Pro­tect net­works, devices, peo­ple, and data from unau­tho­rized access and cyber­at­tacks using Secu­ri­ty Infor­ma­tion and Event Man­age­ment (SIEM) tools. Gain hands-on expe­ri­ence with Python, Lin­ux, and SQL. The Cyber­se­cu­ri­ty Pro­fes­sion­al Cer­tifi­cate also now includes six new videos that explain how to use AI in cyber­se­cu­ri­ty. The videos cov­er every­thing from using arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence to help iden­ti­fy bugs and sys­tem vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties, to refin­ing code and pri­or­i­tiz­ing alerts with AI. Stu­dents can take indi­vid­ual cours­es in these pro­fes­sion­al cer­tifi­cate pro­grams for free. (Above, you …

Immigration plan on ballot could worsen worker shortage

Immigration plan on ballot could worsen worker shortage

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PHOENIX — Immigration is a top election issue across the country, but few places feel it more than Arizona, the only swing state along the southern border and home to one of the races that could make or break control of the Senate. Arizona businesses say a shortage of workers is threatening to hold up projects in industries such as construction, hospitality and agriculture — and that without changes to the federal immigration system, the economy could face a devastating hit. About 16.2% of Arizona’s workforce is made up of immigrants, according to a 2022 study by the American Immigration Council. Meanwhile, the state is also facing a job shortage, 197,000 as of June, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Monica Villalobos, the president and CEO of the Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, said the lack of labor is leading to larger economic impacts, such as on housing prices. “We have several members that are in the construction industry that aren’t able to find workers to complete projects,” she said. “And when they can’t …

Diversity gap in academy trust top jobs fails to narrow

Diversity gap in academy trust top jobs fails to narrow

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Trusts have been told to set “diversity targets” as efforts to close the gap in leadership among the country’s biggest academy trusts falter. The latest Schools Week diversity audit of trusts with 15 or more schools has revealed women now occupy 35 per cent of the top jobs. The findings are an improvement on last year – when progress stalled for the first time since 2018 – boosting numbers to slightly above 2021. But the number of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) leaders remains static. Meanwhile, among the 50 largest trusts, 25 per cent have a female chief executive, and only one leader is non-white. ‘Hard to defend’ Sam Henson, of the National Governance Association (NGA), said the “stark” findings showed “a lack of genuine progress in achieving diversity in leadership, which is frankly hard to defend”. Our audit of the 171 trusts with 15 or more schools found 59 (34.5 per cent) were run by women, 8.1 percentage points up on six years ago, but only slightly above 2021 numbers. Of the trusts …

How Satisfied Are American Teachers With Their Jobs?

How Satisfied Are American Teachers With Their Jobs?

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According to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in the fall of 2023, compensation is the aspect of their job that most U.S. teachers are least satisfied with. As Statista’s Florian Zandt details below, 29 percent were not too and 22 percent not at all satisfied with their pay, while all other aspects ranked significantly higher in terms of current satisfaction. Chief among them were social aspects of their work: Relationships with their peers, school administrators and the parents of their students gave the surveyed teachers the least cause for complaint. You will find more infographics at Statista The survey pool contained teachers from K-12 public schools, meaning educators working in primary and secondary education. Adult and tertiary education like college programs didn’t factor into the results. In terms of the share of respondents being extremely or very satisfied, most polled aspects ranked between 35 and 46 percent. The outlier was the relationship with fellow teachers, which 7 in 10 survey participants rated as extremely and very satisfactory. More than half of all respondents also said that …

ADP Employment Report Shows Strong Rebound In Jobs

ADP Employment Report Shows Strong Rebound In Jobs

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In the first major labor market indication since The Fed slashed rates by 50bps (because the economy is doing so well?), ADP’s Employment report showed a much bigger than expected increase in jobs (+143k vs +125k exp vs +103k prior)… Source: Bloomberg That was above all but one of the economists’ estimates… Source: Bloomberg Job creation showed a widespread rebound after a five-month slowdown. Only one sector, information, lost jobs. Manufacturing added jobs for the first time since April. Wage growth continues to slow…Year-over-year pay gains for job-stayers fell slightly in September to 4.7 percent. For job-changers the decline was greater, falling from 7.3 percent in August to 6.6 percent. “Stronger hiring didn’t require stronger pay growth last month,” said Nela Richardson, chief economist, ADP. “Typically, workers who change jobs see faster pay growth. But their premium over job-stayers shrank to 1.9 percent, matching a low we last saw in January.” So how will The Fed explain their next rate cut if jobs are re-accelerating? Loading… Source link