US home building is surging, but job growth isn't The resurgent U.S. housing market has sent builders calling again for Richard Vap, who owns a drywall installation company. Vap would love to help - if he could hire enough qualified people. "There is a shortage of manpower," says Vap, owner of South Valley Drywall in Littleton, Colo. More
Tornado sirens giving way to new warning technology On April 10, 2011, tornadoes ripped across Wisconsin, tearing roofs off houses, toppling trees and snapping power lines. In many places, the high winds were greeted with silence as some Cold War-era warning sirens failed because of lost power and other issues — just when they were needed the most. More
Wall Street betting billions on single-family homes in distressed markets Big investors are pouring unprecedented amounts of money into real estate hard hit by the housing crash, bringing those moribund markets back to life but raising the prospect of another Wall Street-fueled bubble that won’t be sustainable. More
Eurozone Construction Output Falls 0.1% Eurozone construction production decreased marginally in September, data from Eurostat showed on Wednesday. Construction output ... 11/19/2024 - 9:50 pm | View Link
Industrial Vacancy Expected To Peak In Mid-2025 As Construction Drops 50% The vacancy rate in the U.S. industrial market rose to 6.6% in the third quarter of 2024, but it grew at the slowest pace since 2022, according to a report by Colliers. Although vacancy is expected to ... 11/14/2024 - 6:14 am | View Link
Construction injury rate drops to lowest in over a decade Construction recorded 2.3 nonfatal occupational injuries or illnesses per 100 full-time equivalent workers last year, per the BLS, a drop from 2.4 in 2022. Seven out of 19 measured industries had ... 11/14/2024 - 2:14 am | View Link
One year ago, I didn’t know how to bake bread. I just knew how to follow a recipe.
If everything went perfectly, I could turn out something plain but palatable. But should anything change—temperature, timing, flour, Mercury being in Scorpio—I’d turn out a partly poofy pancake. I presented my partly poofy pancakes to people, and they were polite, but those platters were not particularly palatable.
During a group vacation last year, a friend made fresh sourdough loaves every day, and we devoured it.
Welcome to Edition 7.21 of the Rocket Report! We're publishing the Rocket Report a little early this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. We don't expect any Thanksgiving rocket launches this year, but still, there's a lot to cover from the last six days. It seems like we've seen the last flight of the year by SpaceX's Starship rocket.
As Google updates its ads policy, it finally lifts the ban and allows social casino game app campaigns to run on its platform.
This is due to the company removing social casinos from its restricted ‘Gambling,’ sensitive interest category, so adverts for social casinos will now be able to appear on web pages.
The ads will be allowed to run from December 4, with advertisers able to gain the ability to personalize online social casino game app ads by the end of March 2025.
This announcement came through an update on Google Support, with the November 2024 change now visible within the ads policy.
“Specifically, the Gambling in personalized ads sensitive interest category will be updated to explicitly exclude social casino game App campaigns.