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GARNER, NC. — Butterball LLC released its Togetherness Report: Capitalizing on Consumer Appetite for Shared Meals, which examines the impact of consumer shopping behavior on preparing shared meals beyond the holidays.

Butterball defines a shared meal as a planned meal prepared and eaten at home with other people. This could include immediate family meals, casual meals with family or friends, and special occasion meals.

“For 70 years, Butterball has helped new and seasoned hosts prepare the perfect Thanksgiving centerpiece to foster togetherness through food; however, there are numerous opportunities and a strong desire for people to gather over shared meals throughout the year,” said Kyle Lock, Butterball’s vice president of retail and international marketing. “We examined the…

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UK’s CDDO seeks workforce strategy lead

The UK Cabinet Office is looking to hire a head of workforce strategy and transformation to work within its Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO). 

The CDDO leads the government’s digital and data function and exists to help state departments achieve digital transformation across their operations and services. 

The new head of workforce strategy and transformation will earn a base salary of between £64,700 (US$82,568) and £69,200 (US$88,324), and is expected to be stationed in Bristol or Manchester. The role represents what the government called “the primary interface between the…

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird filed a lawsuit this week seeking to require TikTok to change its age rating in the Apple App Store.

Bird is seeking a temporary injunction that would require TikTok, a video social media app, to change its age rating to “17+” in the App Store until the lawsuit is resolved. The state attorney general sued TikTok in January, claiming that the app and its owner were deceiving parents with the current “12+” age rating, as some videos posted on the platform feature explicit material, including sexual content, profanity, drugs and self-harm.

Bird argued in the lawsuit that TikTok not abiding by the age warning system violates the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act.

“It’s past time for TikTok to be honest with…

Wisconsin Rapids Rafters Baseball Team Seeks Host Families for the 2024 Season

Wisconsin Rapids, WI – The Wisconsin Rapids Rafters baseball team has begun their search for dedicated host families for both interns and players for the upcoming 2024 season. As the Rafters prepare for another exciting season of Northwoods League action, they are reaching out to the community to help provide a supportive environment for their talented individuals.

Host families play an integral role in the success of the Rafters organization by offering a nurturing environment for both players and interns who are pursuing their passions in baseball and furthering their sports career. By opening their homes to these young individuals, host families provide guidance, support, and a sense of…

The Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) Hosting and Compute Center (HaCC) is looking to industry for help to quickly prototype an on-premises centralized network control plane to help manage a large collection of hybrid and multi-cloud environments as the agency moves forward with contract awards for its $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) project.

Currently, HaCC has multiple x86 hosting environments completely isolated and independent of one another with different management planes and different processes. To streamline the management of these diverse cloud environments, “HaCC aims to develop a management plane that centralizes all current capabilities, with additional improvement capabilities and innovative processes, into a single centralized control…