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Aqua Magazine
By this point, it’s no secret that the labor shortage is hurting the pool and spa industry and the greater world of trade work. There just simply aren’t enough people interested in filling these positions despite the fact that trade work provides stable, fulfilling work, career growth and financial reward.
Mike Rowe, host of "Dirty Jobs," thinks it's a PR problem — and he's stepping in to help. The mikeroweWORKS Foundation, established in 2008, is an organization dedicated to promoting the values of, and spreading appreciation for, trade jobs and the people who occupy those positions.
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Pool and Spa News
Pool/spa service and construction companies working in certain parts of California are shuffling to devise a plan for 2019, after finding out that a major electrical utility has excluded them from offering rebates on energy-efficient pumps.
Southern California Edison changed its rebate program this year, now saying that a pool/spa company must have at least one retail location to offer rebates.
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Aqua Magazine
Born and raised in the Sunshine State, Brett Holland grew up at the side of his late father, Mike Holland, learning not only how to build beautiful pool/spa environments, but equally important, why it is imperative to include the clients in the design process.
"Some of my fondest memories of my father were poolside," he recalls. "He showed me how important it is to look at the work from the client's point of view. I find most people hardly spend any time out back. The ultimate goal is to extend their living area into the backyard; by adding a watershape to the property, we create a place for serenity and memories."
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Aqua Magazine
If there's one thing that can band together a room full pool professionals, it's gross stories of ghastly filters. Everyone has one — if not several — and trading tales of wacky water quality, shocking skimmer baskets and foul filter systems is a quick way to make friends.
In honor of this unique tradition, we asked you to share with us the most horrifying filter disasters you've come across while on the job. We quickly received quite an assortment of entries, most of which had one thing in common: neglect over the course of months, if not years.
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Campus Rec
Like much of the labor market, the pool industry is faced with the mounting challenge of adapting to solve for the next generation of workforce development. Facility managers and aquatic directors alike report it has become increasingly difficult to attract and retain young people to the pool and spa industry.
A new breed of worker has evolved with unique expectations of the workplace. This younger worker is no longer as interested in having a job per se as in having a purpose and making an impact.
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CNBC
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said Wednesday the U.S. is working towards formally abandoning plans to hike tariffs on Chinese goods from 10 percent to 25 percent, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The report said those plans would be shelved as long as the two countries continue talking, marking the clearest signal that a trade deal between them could be on the horizon.
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The Wall Street Journal
Amazon.com Inc. is starting to let brand owners delete listings on its site for products they deem fake, marking a sharp shift in its struggle to fight counterfeiters that cedes some of its responsibility to other companies.
The online retail giant on Thursday launched a new anticounterfeiting program, called Project Zero, that it says would better protect brands from scammers by letting them designate listings for removal, rather than going through a cumbersome reporting process with Amazon.
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Forbes
Kirk Deis writes: Last night I was tumbling through YouTube for what only felt like a few minutes but must have been hours. It started with just wanting to learn how to play a guitar chord progression and ended with me watching Elon Musk talk about artificial intelligence. We’ve all been there. When you’re in that tunnel, there’s no escaping it. It got me thinking: How did I get here?
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By Emma Fitzpatrick
If you're already spending the time creating good content on your blog, you want to do everything you can to get more eyes on it. One of the best ways to do that is by creating blog posts that answer the questions you hear most from your customers and leads. Of course, you’ll want to sprinkle a bit of long-tail keyword research in there for good measure! It can be as simple as typing in the phrase you think you want to write about into an incognito browser and seeing what other search terms arise. From there, a few tweaks to how you format your content, write your title or determine your word count could be just what you need to increase the social shares for your blog posts.
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Waterco’s award winning MultiCyclone is a brilliant revolutionary filtration device that works on the basis of centrifugal water filtration. It captures 80% of the dirt load before it ever reaches the media filter and is designed with no moving parts and no filter media to clean or replace.
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Forbes
Among the many weighty matters discussed at the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting last month in Davos, Switzerland, was the increasing need for reskilling – that is, providing training and education for new and different careers – of the world’s workforce, as jobs are changed or eliminated by advances in technology. The challenges, and a structured path forward, were laid out in an insight report that the WEF prepared in collaboration with The Boston Consulting Group, "Towards a Reskilling Revolution: A Future of Jobs for All."
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Phys,org
Scientists from Heriot-Watt University have welded glass and metal together using an ultrafast laser system, in a breakthrough for the manufacturing industry.
Various optical materials such as quartz, borosilicate glass and even sapphire were all successfully welded to metals like aluminium, titanium and stainless steel using the Heriot-Watt laser system, which provides very short, picosecond pulses of infrared light in tracks along the materials to fuse them together.
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House Beautiful
Fact: Having a pool house will make your life will feel like one big vacation. Okay, well maybe we can't make that promise... But we can confidently say that a well-designed pool house will make summer entertaining and year-round hosting a lot more stylish and convenient. There's just something about the added privacy, access to natural light, and cannonball proximity. Plus, it's nice to have somewhere to quarantine the kids when they haven't dried off yet. So read on for twenty one pool house design ideas that'll get your space ready for summer (or simply provide you with a mental vacation).
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| 2018 Economic Impact Study Now Available to APSP Members for Free
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APSP
The overall economic impact of the pool and spa industry reaches far beyond the direct revenue collected from the sales of products or delivery of services. The impact also includes jobs created, the ripple effect of income earned and expended and the assessment and collection of taxes at varying points of all transactions. During 2017, the United States swimming pool and hot tub industry contributed more than $36.5 billion and 382,000 job equivalents to the economy of the U.S. according to the newly released The Economic Impact of the Swimming Pool and Hot Tub Industry in the United States. Commissioned by The Association of Pool & Spa Professionals, this extensive report will be a great resource for you as you plan your 2019 year and beyond. Members receive it for free as part of their membership. Get your copy today! Email APSP Member Services at memberservices@apsp.org.
To help you better understand what proposed legislation and regulations mean for you and your business, APSP reports on bills that affect the pool, spa and hot tub industry as they are filed. Members also receive email alerts on any proposed rules affecting the pool, spa or hot tub industry in their area. These seven states need your immediate attention. For more information, email Jennifer Hatfield at jhatfield@apsp.org.
APSP
The Association of Pool & Spa Professionals (APSP) announced on Thursday, February 28 the availability of its new online self-paced CRP Certified Pool & Spa Retail Professional 201 course.
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APSP
APSP's Vice President of Technical and Standards, Carvin DiGiovanni was recognized by the International Swimming Hall of Fame as a 2019 Paragon Award winner in the category of Recreational Swimming. The Award is presented for outstanding service and contributions towards advancing the aquatic discipline of Recreational Swimming. He was specifically recognized for his contributions towards developing the International Swimming Pool and Spa Code. This year’s awards will be presented at the on Friday, May 17, 2019 during the International Swimming Hall of Fame’s Honoree Induction weekend held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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APSP
APSP has partnered with TSYS Merchant Services to offer members discounted rates on merchant processing services. In addition to the benefits that they provide, they offer great tips to help you keep up-to-date on important issues that matter. Check out this article titled "Why Every Business Can Benefit from a Point of Sale." It shows you how affordable point-of-sale systems can transform a business of all sizes. For more information about your member benefits through TSYS Merchant Services, call 800.354.3988.
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