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Regulatory & Legal Alerts – Dec. 2017

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Peopletrail actively tracks the regulatory and legal environment that surrounds employment and criminal background screening. Washington. In Spokane County, Washington, job applicants will no longer be asked to disclose criminal convictions from the past 10 years. California. Morgan Securities $1.25 Drug Testing.

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What Are Zero Emission Day and National Drive Electric Week?

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Attend an online or in-person event. They’re better for the environment, even when accounting for their manufacturing carbon emissions and when using electricity from coal plants. You can easily get involved by attending , volunteering , or sponsoring an event. Watch an EV parade. Watch virtual test drives. They’re safer.

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Wandering Robots in the Wild

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But that ability to localize generally requires the robot to have powerful sensors and a map of its environment. We did need Kuri to return to its charger when it got low on battery, but this would be infrequent enough that a person could help with that if necessary. Robotic Wandering. While he was a Ph.D.

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World’s first indoor electric car drive-in cinema lands at Farnborough later this year

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Teaming up with leading Drive-In Cinema specialists, YouTube sensation Fully Charged will be hosting multiple screenings of Christopher Nolan’s latest film, the much anticipated spy thriller, TENET, starring John David Washington. ” Fully Charged intends to tour the Electric Drive-In more widely in the very near future.

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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

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Registration is open ; guests can attend in person or virtually. And cameras are present in almost every type of environment, including in our own homes.” Today Sasson’s original digital camera is on display at the Smithsonian Institution ’s National Museum of American History , in Washington, D.C. The IEEE Rochester (N.Y.)

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Failed Local Paper Put Out Of Its Misery - By Creative Greenius!

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They never worked very hard and they spent way too much time making personal phone calls and just goofing off. It is disturbing that the Washington Post would publish such information without first checking the facts. At least the Washington Post balances these lies by reporting on the biggest climate change news of our day.

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A Child’s IQ Can Be Affected by Mother’s Exposure to PAHs Pollution in Urban Air

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It included children who were born to non-smoking black and Dominican-American women age 18 to 35 who resided in Washington Heights, Harlem or the South Bronx in New York. The mothers wore personal air monitors during pregnancy to measure exposure to PAHs and they responded to questionnaires. This finding is of concern.

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