Customer centricity will be key to deliver on customer demands for a faster and more convenient logistics experience.
DHL, the world's leading international express services provider, showcased the key trends that could impact the logistics industry in the next five to ten years, at an event held in Sandton, Johannesburg on Thursday 20 September.
Professionals from the technology, engineering, energy, life sciences and financial services sectors attended the event and were able to interact directly with some of the groundbreaking technologies coming out of the Deutsche Post DHL Innovation Centre showcased on the day.
Among them, new internet of things (IoT) sensors, enabling connected processes that ensure end-to-end visibility; the Effibot – a collaborative follow-me robot assisting employees in their picking tasks and sensor technology examples such as low-cost dimensioning sensor technology which can dimension any object within seconds, removing the need for time-consuming manual measuring processes using measuring tape or existing but expensive industrial dimensioning systems.
Attendees also had the opportunity to take a virtual reality tour of the DHL Innovation Centre in Germany.
Key findings of the fourth edition of the DHL Logistics Trend Radar 2018/19 were also revealed.
Hennie Heymans, CEO DHL Express Sub Saharan Africa, says that digitalisation is driving transformation in the logistics sector, making innovation more important than ever before.
Customer centricity will be key to deliver on customer demands for a faster and more convenient logistics experience, says Heymans. An ever-increasing amount of goods that can be purchased online – especially in the B2B market, is driving the need for B2B Omni-channel Logistics solutions. He adds that customer demand is also driving growth in direct-to-consumer shipments of time-and-temperature sensitive goods. "This Fresh Chain will require new innovations in packaging, storage and delivery of goods, such as groceries and pharmaceuticals. A key area for innovation in the last mile will be the integration of logistics services into smart home environments captured as the trend of Connected Life."
Sustainability will become a mandate to operate in the logistics industry, as governments, cities and solution providers commit to sweeping agreements to cut down on CO2 emissions and waste. "DHL for example, has committed to becoming emissions-free by 2050. Green Energy Logistics – the electrification of logistics fleets and facilities – provide huge potential for logistics to become more environmentally friendly. Smart Containerization in transportation will also be important in developing environmentally friendly formats for delivery in congested cities," he says.
People will continue to remain at the heart of logistics, even though the trend of robotics and automation as well as software automation, will redefine the structure of the logistics workforce in the future. "Highly repetitive, physically intensive tasks will be aided by technology, enabling people to do more meaningful tasks that require management, analysis and innovation. Digital work concepts will be required to attract and retain millennial talent in logistics as well as to support the existing, ageing logistics workforce," he says.
"We know from experience that the impact of some trends will not materialise. That's because some trends rely on culture and capabilities as much as they rely on breakthrough technologies and business acumen. This is why we need to actively engage on driving the development of these trends," said Heymans.
With spending on cognitive and artificial intelligence (AI) systems expected to reach $77.6 billion by 2022 (more than three times the $24 billion forecast for last year), South African companies would do well to consider its impact on their existing and future systems. Its potential in traditionally people-driven processes such as human resources (HR) is significant.
As it rapidly approaches maturity, the Internet of Things (IoT) is set to continue a transformational trajectory, introducing new efficiencies in multiple fields by allowing measurement and analysis on a scale that has never been possible before. From agriculture to logistics, from retail to hospitality, from traffic to health, from the home to the office, the applications for monitoring "things" are limited only by the imagination.
The argument around which marketing platform trumps the others, and whether traditional media is being killed by digital is not new, nor is there a simple answer. Traditional platforms –print, for example – have had to face the reality of digital disruption and adapt accordingly, while consumers have become both more elusive and demanding. Against a backdrop of a dismal economy, perhaps the question to ask is not which platform is better, but which platforms – among the many traditional, digital and experiential opportunities out there, best suit the brand, the objective and the budget.
Internet of Things (IoT) continues to make inroads into South African industries, and it is not difficult to see why. The fact is that with IoT, businesses will always know where everything is, they will be able to keep track of even more data, everything will be faster and remote work will be even more feasible. Another fact is that challenges associated with this technology, like security, connectivity and a sound business plan, are largely being addressed.


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Organics on Mars—Could Life Be Sustained on Red Planet?
Ryan WallaceDec 17, 2014 07:34 PM EST
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While there are many requisite features for a planet to be host to forms of life, even as simple as archaea species, the most important known feature is the existence of organic molecules from which they can be created. And though there are still many questions left unanswered about our red neighbor on the galactic block, Mars, researchers from NASA say that the Curiosity Rover Mission has successfully identified methane and other organics which may give their teams a better insight into the possible watery past of our solar system's famed "Red Planet".
Over nearly two years, NASA's Curiosity Rover has been on a mission seeking out life on every surface of Mars, from the soil to the atmosphere. And while the search has always turned up the disappointing fact that life is not currently sustained on Mars, Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) Laboratory, onboard of the small rover, has been able to sniff around in a different way than with the scientific eye. Utilizing gas chromatography, tunable laser spectrometry and an accurate mass spectrometer, the SAM Laboratory has found that while Mars' atmosphere may be thin, there may be additional organic molecules present in dense areas across the vast planet. According to data, four times the rover's laboratory sensed large spikes in the methane content of the atmosphere-more than ten times that of baseline data. Published this week in the journal Science, NASA researchers say that while the data is significant and may lead scientists to finding life on Mars, that results are at this time inconclusive and could be attributed to early water's interactions with the surface rocks.
"We will keep working on the puzzles these findings present" Curiosity project scientist at Cal Tech, John Grotzinger says. "Can we learn more about the active chemistry causing such fluctuations in the amount of methane in the atmosphere? Can we choose rock targets where identifiable organics have been preserved?"
For decades researchers have speculated that Mars may be heavily concentrated with organics, though without data many scientists mere speculated as to the condition and the nature of the organic molecules floating around. Now researchers believe that the samples discovered by Curiosity are a sign that organic materials persist on the planet-not just in the sky but in the ground as well. Last May, NASA researchers tasked the Curiosity rover with making its second drilling attempt, only to reveal that rocks on Mount Sharp contain particulates in ratios that may indicate the planet once contained vast amounts of liquid water.
"It's really interesting that our measurements from Curiosity of gases extracted from ancient rocks can tell us about loss of water from Mars" SAM principal investigator of NASA, Paul Mahaffy says. But the jury's still out on whether or not life was also lost when water disappeared from the surface of Mars.
More: mars, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, space, astronomy, methane, organics, NASA, Mars Curiosity Rover

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In project settings->issue categories we can select certain user to be assigned by default for every category. Choosing group instead of user is accepted here, but the group then doesn't get assigned when this category is selected.
We have enabled "Allow issue assignment to groups".
Added group "B Team" to a project with a role that has the permission 'Issues can be assigned to this role'.
In the 'Issue categories' tab, I've selected 'B Team' as assignee for a category (Recipes as for example).
I confirmed that we can assign a group to categories in Redmine 3.4 and the trunk.
I can also confirm it works in 3.4.5 now. Took a quick look over changelogs between 3.4.3 and 3.4.5, but couldn't identify any commits, that would change/fix the behavior. So I attribute this on some wrong configuration from my side.
Thanks to all who looked at it.


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"Thank you again for. . .performing at our First annual Women's History Month Luncheon. I continue to hear great feedback. Your performance gave the attendees a lot to think about."
From the January 2019 NWHA Inaugural Conference (photo by Leasa Graves).
The silencing of women's experience and the empowering of women's voices as they struggled for the vote are showcased in this entertaining and educational presentation featuring songs, images, stories and readings. We meet among others: Helga Estby who walked across America in 1896, Suffragists Emma Smith Devoe, May Arkwright Hutton, Alice Paul and Inez Milholland, Rosie, the Riveter, and more known and unknown women.
To learn about the women and men who shaped our history through images, stories and songs.
To have fun, learn, and sing along with music that highlights and celebrates women's history, particularly relating to Suffrage.
To acquire a list of resources that will deepen your understanding about the struggle for the vote.
To book this presentation in your area or get more information about the performance, please email October Rose Productions.
Also visit Linda's 2006 - 2010 blog page and read "Celebrating Women in Bellingham, Spokane, Olympia, Kennewick, and Seattle" for more information.
You can also visit the National Women's History Alliance website and search "Linda Allen", or get additional information about other presenters and products related to women's history while you're there.
1986: Marching for the ERA in Denver, before her concert at the National NOW Conference.
Dr. Linda Allen is a songwriter, performer and educator who has been a voice for women since the late 1960s through songs, concerts and workshops. She has done research and presentations for the Washington Women's Heritage Project, the Women's History Consortium, the Humanities Commission, the Washington Centennial Commission and multiple museums, schools, libraries and other venues. Her songs, workshops and multi-media presentations on women's work, history, spirituality and current challenges span twelve recordings of original songs and tours throughout Washington and beyond.
This recording was originally made in 2010 for the KSPS, Spokane, documentary, "Courage in Corsets: Winning the Vote in Washington State". There are eight traditional suffrage songs recorded by my daughter Kristin and me, accompanied by Phil Heaven. I recently discovered this recording, and am happy to share it! I've renamed it, "Failure is Impossible: Songs of the Suffragists." Below is a sample from the album.
Suffrage Centennial Art Work by Meneese Wall. Find a selection of these beautiful 5 x 7 cards in our store. And go to Meneese's site for additional cards, prints and more.
Lady Gaga: A Bad Romance - Women's Suffrage: A Lady Gaga, Alice Paul Music Video Mashup. Outstanding! Be sure and visit their website for lyrics, activities, and curriculum.
Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America, by Linda Lawrence Hunt. Linda Hunt's story inspired the song, "Helga Estby".
First Woman. Inspired by Hillary Rodham Clinton's historic campaign, the NWHP has published a special Commemorative Edition, First Woman, to pay tribute to women's long and distinguished record in government and public service. I first learned about this beautiful little book at the 2019 NWHA Inaugural Conference.
More than Petticoats: Remarkable Washington Women, by L.E. Bragg. 1999. An introduction to sixteen remarkable women.
Pots and Politics: An Historical Cookbook from the Suffragists to the Equal Rights Amendment, Washington State Women's Political Caucus-1976. See Linda's song "Bubble and Squeak", inspired by recipes in this book.
Remembering Inez: The Last Campaign of Inez Milholland, Suffrage Martyr. Selections from The Suffragist, 1916, Edited by Robert P.J.Cooney, Jr. Hear "If You Had Seen Inez" below.
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, by Elaine Weiss. An excellent non-fiction book that I couldn't put down! It covers the battle for ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in Tennessee....and what a battle it was! It's being turned into a 6-part series under the direction of Hillary Clinton and Steven Spielberg in 2020. Highly recommended!
The Year We Were Famous, by Carole Estby Dagg. Excellent for a younger reader, and everyone who is intrigued by the story of Helga and Clara. Written by Helga's great-granddaughter.
Winning the Vote: Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement. Robert P.J.Cooney, Jr. The definitive work on the women's suffrage movement, full of beautiful pictures, illustrations, and narrative. Truly the bible of women's suffrage literature.
Women's Suffrage in America, by Elizabeth Frost-Knappman and Kathryn Cullen-Dupont (1992). Good overview of the national movement.
Women's Votes, Women's Voices: The Campaign for Equal Rights in Washington by Shanna Stevenson. Published by the Washington State Historical Society in celebration of 100 years of the vote in Washington State.
Courage in Corsets: Winning the Vote in Washington State. This is the story of the women whose personal courage, political savvy and sheer tenacity won the vote for all women in Washington. It is the story of women of all races, creeds and economic status who banded together to improve the quality of life for themselves and their communities; to convince men of the benefits of women's voting rights; and to breathe new life into the national campaign. Their stories profoundly affect every woman in America to this day.
I was commissioned to record traditional Suffrage songs for this project, along with my daughter, Kristin Allen-Zito. A copy may be purchased by clicking here.
The Divine Order. (2017) Switzerland, 1971. In a small village, the women begin organizing for the vote.
Inex Milholland: Forward Into Light. This beautiful fifteen minute documentary is by Martha Wheelock, who included one of Linda's songs in the sound track. Go to Wild West Women, distributor of historical and current films about women's history, artists, creations.
Iron Jawed Angels, and Suffragette. Check out these commercial movies for an entertaining and informative journey back through suffrage history, in the US and England.
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (1999). A PBS documentary about these remarkable friends and activists. This link will take you to a three-minute trailer of the movie, which can be purchased on Amazon.
Here's to the Women! Twenty songs commemorating women's journey to justice, including native weavers and pioneer quilters, Suffragists and labor leaders, domestic workers and Rosie the Riveters.
HerStory - Earth Mama. Joyce Rouse is my friend who writes and sings powerful songs that sing like anthems in the heart. Here's her new CD, prepared for the Women's Suffrage Centennial.
Hurrah for Woman Suffrage, The Homespun Singers present 40 minutes of historical women's songs.
Recipe for Justice: A Musical Readers Theatre Celebrating Washington Woman Suffrage Centennial, script by Susan Butruille, original songs by Linda Allen. Although the musical was limited to one production, many of the songs are now on the CD, "Here's to the Women!". We will be adding additional songs from the musical to the web site in the future.
May's Vote, Emma Smith DeVoe and outrageous May Arkwright Hutton, who worked side by side – but seldom eye to eye – to win the vote for women in Washington State in 1910. I loved this play!! And my song, "Emma and May" (see below), was played at the beginning. Click here for contact information, or email Barbara Callander about this and other plays at: b.callander33@gmail.com, or call her: 240-893-3666.
2020 Women's Vote Centennial Initiative (WVCI). The 2020 Women's Vote Centennial Initiative (WVCI) serves "as a central organizing and information-sharing entity for programs, projects, and activities that commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, educate the public on the legal and social advances resulting from the amendment, and stimulate dialogue to address the ongoing fight for women's rights."
Centennial Celebration Facebook Page. Great information and resources as we celebrate 100 years of the vote!
How Women Won the Vote - Volume 1 and Volume 2. Wonderful overview of the suffrage movement as well as a chronicling of 2019 and 2020 events planned or in the planning stages. The nice thing about this resource is that it's in a downloadable format that allows for direct access to the links listed. Check out this resource!
Lyrics to a collection of traditional suffrage songs.
Music in the Women's Suffrage Movement. Wonderful article from the Library of Congress. You can also choose to have it "read" to you which is fun. Check this out!
National Women's History Alliance. Visit this site for more information about plays, other presenters and products related to women's history.
National Women's History Museum (NWHM). Telling the stories of women who transformed our nation. through a growing state-of-the-art online presence and a future physical museum to educate, inspire, empower, shape the future, and provide a complete view of American history.
Library of Congress. Check out the selected images from the where the image above was taken.
Vision 2020: National Women's Equality Initiative. Vision 2020 will lead Women 100, the national centennial commemoration of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, granting women the right to vote, which will take place in Philadelphia in 2020.
Washington Women's History Consortium. Best resource for 2010 Suffrage celebration in Washington State.
With Suffragist Lyrics to Patriotic Songs, Women's Chorus Brings History to Life in Paducah. As Americans celebrate Women's History Month, the Women's Suffragist Centennial Chorus is traveling across Kentucky to share the history of women's right to vote, ramping up to a larger celebration in 2020 for the centennial of the ratification of women's right to vote. Read more. . .
Can you find the women hidden in the banner at the top of this page? Just like throughout history, women have been hidden in plain sight. But they are emerging. Just as in this banner, all you need to do is look.
More resources will be posted in the months ahead and throughout the 100th anniversary year!


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Q: remove dead jobs from nomad status I was running a cron (periodic) job through nomad which ran every 30 sec, the job does nothing but just
echo "some string"
and hence ends immediately
when I do
nomad status
I get all the dead jobs also-- the jobs that have finished executing, which are useless to me. Is there some way to remove the dead jobs?
PS: one obvious solution is to grep out the dead jobs, any solution provided by nomad?

A: Dead/Completed jobs are cleaned up in accordance to the garbage collection interval.
You can force garbage collection using the System API endpoint which will run the global garbage collector. The CURL command would look like:
$ curl -X PUT http://localhost:4646/v1/system/gc

If you wish to lower the GC interval permanently for jobs, you can use the job_gc_threshold configuration parameter within the server config stanza.

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Right you lot – it's time to get off yer bums and do something about the following news. Glastonbury Festival has announced details for the 2014 Emerging Talent Competition, which gives unsigned artists from the UK & Ireland the chance to get a much sought after slot on one of the main stages at this year's festival. That's not bad is it? Previous entrants include Treetop Flyers, Ellen & the Escapades, The Subways and Stornoway.
Your music can fit into any genre and this time around all acts will be able to enter FOR ONE WEEK ONLY from Monday 20th – Monday 27th January 2014 via the official Glastonbury Festival website.
Entries will be judged by a panel of around 40 of the UK's top online music writers and in turn they will compile a longlist of 120 acts. That list will then get cut down to 8 artists by a separate panel of judges including Glastonbury organisers Michael and Emily Eavis, before a live final showcase in April decides the winning act. It does sounds like quite the entry process but why should that put you off from potentially playing at one of the biggest festivals in the world alongside hugely successful acts? Well… it shouldn't!
Plus if you read the quote below it will give you a little hint that even if you are a runner up you could get a slot.
For more information go to www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk and good luck!
Milky Tea Kid is now on Bloglovin' – you can get easy instant updates when we post to the blog!


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New Duke Ellington Mural Painted Near Site of Historic Recording
Arts | September 15th, 2021
By Alicia Underlee Nelson
alicia@hpr1.com
Downtown Fargo has a new mural that commemorates a music legend and a Grammy-winning concert. Artist Jeff Knight completed a painting of Duke Ellington on the alley side of the Rhombus Guys building at 606 Main Ave. this summer. The mural features the composer, pianist and band leader at his piano against an aqua background dotted with other musical instruments.
The painting is just steps from the site of the Crystal Ballroom, which stood at the corner of 6th St. and 1st Ave. S. The municipal auditorium's second-floor dance hall hosted prominent jazz and big band musicians and well-attended dances until 1957. The show Ellington and his Famous Orchestra played in the Crystal Ballroom on November 7, 1940 might just be a memory if two former college DJs, Richard Burris and Jack Towers, hadn't gotten permission to record it.
Towers later made a tape of the show for a friend. The bootleg circled Europe in the 1960s and 1970s before it was officially released in 1978. It won a Grammy Award in 1980.
"I was shocked that I had lived my whole life here and had not heard of that story," said Knight. He wanted to create a mural to commemorate that particular moment in Fargo music history.
The mural is the first in the Fargo Music Icons Mural series. It's funded in part by a grant from The Arts Partnership in Fargo.
"That's when I looped in friends Cody Schuler and Gia Rassier to help with establishing a springboard with which we could make these public murals accessible so more people could learn about their historical value," he explained. "Cody developed a website (fargomurals.com) and Gia is helping with the mural's inclusion on a variety of experiential walking tours."
Additional murals are planned in the coming months. Updates will be posted on the website as details are finalized.
"We're hoping to do some more murals in the future with a Fargo-Moorhead connection, including Bob Dylan, Peggy Lee, and Bobby Vee," Knight explained. "We're just looking for the right spaces and a bit of funding to cover those future murals."
19th Annual Fargo-Moorhead Studio Crawl
Balkowitsch Shows New Perspective on Current Work
Familiar Lands and New Traditions at the Rourke
April 21st 2022
Prom Night '97 at the Plains!


Lexia Reading is not only Research-Based - it's also Research-Proven!
Lexia's literacy programs provide explicit, systematic, personalised learning on critical reading and language skills, and deliver real-time performance data without stopping to administer a test. This research-proven, technology-based approach accelerates reading skills development, predicts students' year-end performance, and provides teachers data-driven action plans to help differentiate instruction for each student.
Lexia Reading Core5 is a comprehensive Year 1-6 literacy curriculum that allows students of all abilities to work at their own pace and skill levels.
Lexia PowerUp Literacy has been specially designed to provide age appropriate, engaging reading intervention for Years 7 and above (new to NZ schools in 2019).
With over 30 years of continuous program development and research, Lexia's level of efficacy research is unparalled in the industry.


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S Korea turns to tourism & tech as it seeks economic normalcy in 2022
The government of South Korea has reportedly announced its ambitions to achieve full economic normalcy beyond the coronavirus pandemic in 2022, and also take lead in the global competition to predominantly occupy future businesses.
On Monday, South Korea's Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Hong Nam-ki, emphasized these primary objectives during the government's announcement of economic policy objectives for the coming year at the Government Complex in Seoul.
In order to achieve maximum economic normality, the Ministry of Economy and Finance has come to a decision to implement policies to increase private spending, with a vision to promote the tourism industry, which has been dramatically affected by COVID-19.
According to the ministry, the government will offer a plethora of benefits to outbound tourists, which will undoubtedly be requested in conjunction with the future condition of the Covid-19 outbreak involving quarantine.
The intention is to eliminate the $5,000 (5.9 million won) upper limit on purchases at duty-free establishments across the country as a notable benefit. Previously, the price ceiling for outbound tourist (Koreans) was raised from $3,000, which had been authorized since 2006, to $5,000 in 2019.
Additionally, the non-landing flight tour products' operational time will be extended from 'till the end of 2021' through 'June 2022.'
In fact, the number of overseas flight routes will be aggressively increased or recovered, from the existing 70 routes to over 31 countries, approximately 330 weekly flights. Prior to the pandemic, 4,712 flights served 255 routes across 45 nations.
In collaboration with local governments, the development of national tour products will be boosted.
As per finance minister Nam-ki, the tour promotions would be extended, on the basis of consistently stabilizing consumer spending and aiding individuals affected by the pandemic, including micro-business owners.
Meanwhile, in February, the government would also classify 65 technologies in three categories, namely, semiconductors, batteries, and vaccines as 'national strategic technologies', the first of its kind in relation to government policy.
According to the Finance Ministry, the GDP will grow by 4% in 2021 and 3.1 percent in 2022. This is greater than growth forecasts from some independent research organizations, which predicted growth of under 4% this year as well as 2% next year.
Source credit: http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20211220000701&np=1&mp=1
Date: Dec 21, 2021 Rini Dalvi


If you have a photography blog, then you have always wanted to have Next and Older post buttons just like the buttons in DamnLOL. We are just going to teach you how to make buttons like that.
It can be done with CSS, copy and pasting it is easy, but writing it took about 30 mins and lot of hardwork. This tutorial will only work for Blogger, if you try this in Wordpress then it's possible that it will not work but you can make it work by putting the right selectors at the right place.
I thought of writing this tutorial because the design at DamnLOL next and previous post navigation is great and can increase your page views and also visitors time on page.
We have done it by styling the classic Next and Older post button, but to make this CSS work well, you have to remove any customization you made to the Next or Previous links, the navigation links should be classic as given by Blogger. It works best with the blog's having no extra customization to next and previous links.
Let's play with the CSS.
To add this CSS, you don't have to add it by going to Add CSS in the Template Designer. If you want to paste it there, then remove the <style type='text/css'> from top and remove </style> from bottom, then it will be compatible with the Add CSS option in template designer.
Note : Just Copying and pasting the CSS will not work on your blog correctly, you have to make changes to it's position. You need to define where it should be in the right or left, to fit with your blog.
See line 18 and 31, you have to change it's values to fit with your site.
Want those designs on Post Pages only?
If you don't want this design on home page then you have to use the HTML version of CSS, which you are supposed to paste it above </head> in your template.
For it to only render on Post page you have to put Blogger Conditional, it will look like this.
To add it go to your Blogger Dashboard > Template > Edit HTML > Proceed > Use CTRL+F to find </head> and paste this Code above </head> and Save Template. That's it, now you have the DamnLOL like navigation links on your blog too !!
If are not able to position the buttons at the right place, then leave comment with your blog address and i will check it and give you the correct position CSS.
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Blue Grass, IA Arrest Records
Blue Grass, IA is among the safest cities in the USA with 1.74 per 1,000 residents crime rate compared to national 4.69 average. It is the 5th safest city in Iowa among the 116 cities.
Blue Grass, IA property crime has lower rate than the national average of 28.42, with 2.32 average property crimes recorded in 2016 of which 3 larceny theft related arrests that decreased by 87.50% compared to 2015.
Blue Grass Crime Rate
Total arrests in Blue Grass 2016 decreased by 76.67% compared to 2015 and has lower crime rate than national average of 33.12. Violent crimes decreased from 4 to 3 while non-violent crime decreased by 84.62% from 26 to 4.
5 Crimes In Blue Grass, IA in 2016 with the Most Arrests
Larceny-theft 3
Legacy rape 3
Burglary 1
Revised rape 0
Other Cities in Iowa with the Most Arrests
Among the 116 cities in state the most dangerous is Des Moines with 1,497 violent crimes that's 20.23% of total of 7,399. Council Bluffs has the highest number of records per 1,000 people that is above the state average of 33 and higher than national average of 33.
Council Bluffs 64.05
Keokuk 57.86
Davenport 55.77
Clinton 53.62
Centerville 50.16
Safest Cities in Iowa
Are you planning a move to Iowa? Here are the safest cities in Iowa with the lowest arrest rates. Your chance of being a victim of a violent crime in Blue Grass is 1 out of 252 up by 0.03% compared to previous year. The lowest rate of violent crime is in Cresco and the safest city to encounter a property crime is in Sioux Center.
Sioux Center 1.72
Grundy Center 2.58
Bloomfield 2.68
Eldridge 3.15
Blue Grass 4.06
Violent crime rate in Blue Grass decreased by 25% from 2015. In 2016 violent crime rate in Blue Grass was 62.92% lower than the national average. Your chances of being a victim of a violent crime is 0.174%.
Property crime rate in Blue Grass decreased by 84.62% from 2015. In 2016 property crime rate in Blue Grass was 91.84% lower than the national rate. Your chances of being a victim of property crime is 0.232%.
How Blue Grass stands up against other cities
Blue Grass vs. Prairie City
You'll be in more safety in Blue Grass compared to Prairie City that had 704.2% higher crime rate compared to Blue Grass according to the FBI.
Rape rates of 0.0000 per 1,000 people is lower than national of 0.0199 per 1,000 people and the same as average 0.0000 in Prairie City city.
Larceny rates of 1.7401 per 1,000 people is lower than national of 20.5437 per 1,000 people and lower than average 4.0816 in Prairie City.
Blue Grass vs. Walcott
You'll be in more safety in Blue Grass compared to Walcott that had 185.51% higher crime rate compared to Blue Grass according to the FBI.
Murder rates of 0.0000 per 1,000 people is lower than national of 0.0614 per 1,000 people and the same as average 0.0000 in Walcott city.
Motor Vehicle Theft rates of 0.0000 per 1,000 people is lower than national of 2.8637 per 1,000 people and the same as average 0.0000 in Walcott.
The overall crime rate in Blue Grass is 0.88% lower than the national average.
For every 1,000 residents, there are 1.11 daily crimes that occur in Blue Grass.
Blue Grass is safer than Prairie City.
In Blue Grass you have a 1 in 246 chance of becoming a victim of any crime.
Year over year crimes in Blue Grass have decreased by 76.67%.


"It's impossible to know anything about God." You would have to know a great deal about God in order to know that you couldn't know anything about God (I mean anything else about Him). At the least you would have to know either that He doesn't exist, that even if He exists He doesn't care whether you know about Him, or that even if He cares He is incompetent to tell us anything about Himself.
"I'm not saying there is no God. I'm just not religious." How curious that the Lord of the Universe might exist, yet not be important enough to think about.
"Of course there might be a God. I just don't know." You are either living as though He did, or living as though He didn't. If you don't know anything at all, then how did you choose?
The psalmist famously wrote, "The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.'" Did he call the man a fool for not knowing God is real? Or for knowing God is real, but pretending to himself that he didn't?
Few people lose belief in God, and then do wrong. The more often traveled path is to do wrong, excuse it, then look for reasons to disbelieve in God.


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As demand increases for building enclosures that have greater detail complexity and higher performance requirements, so too does the need for procedures to evaluate the impact of thermal bridging on the performance of the enclosures. This paper outlines a procedure for using available catalogue values for linear and point transmittance of various common enclosure details to conduct a sensitivity analysis to estimate the relative impact of different detail conditions on the overall effective u-value of an enclosure design. This procedure allows selection of details for 2D or 3D modelling based on overall impact, and allows designers to make informed decisions regarding additional efficiency measures. This procedure was initially developed for several high-rise luxury apartments in New York City, allowing for thermal bridging to be accounted for in the building energy model, and also allowing the owners to select additional efficiency measures based on the value and impact on the thermal enclosure of the whole building. The presentation reviews results and lessons learned from implementation of the procedure, and provide a basis for future practice on design projects.


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Court junks charges against teacher who tweeted reward for Duterte killer
By NICOLE-ANNE C. LAGRIMAS, GMA News
Published June 25, 2020 10:09am
Updated June 25, 2020 10:42am
An Olongapo court has dismissed the criminal case against the public high school teacher who had tweeted an offer of a P50-million reward to anyone who could kill President Rodrigo Duterte.
In an order dated June 24, Judge Richard Paradeza of the Olongapo Regional Trial Court granted Ronnel Mas' motion to quash the charge for inciting to sedition in relation to cybercrime.
The judge said Mas was illegally arrested, thus stripping the court of jurisdiction over him.
Mas was arrested without a warrant in Zambales and detained in Manila for a week last May.
After he was charged in court, he posted bail of P72,000 and was released.
'Disturbing'
In its order, the court said it was "disturbing" that the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) arrested Mas "merely on the basis of the statements given by Julius Hallado, six days after the subject text was posted in the aforesaid Twitter account."
"No other evidence was gathered by the NBI operatives to pinpoint ownership of the said Twitter account except the statements of Julius Hallado," the court said.
In the Rules of Criminal Procedure, warrantless arrests are valid only when a person has committed, is actually committing, or is attempting to commit an offense in the presence of the arresting officer; when the officer has probable cause to believe based on his personal knowledge that the person has just committed an offense; and when the person is an escaped prisoner.
"Owing to the appreciable lapse of time between the arrest of the accused and the commission of the crime charged, it is safe to conclude that the arrest of the accused is unlawful," the court said.
Like the court, the prosecutor who had indicted Mas also found that his arrest was invalid. The difference was the prosecutor said the illegality of the arrest was "cured" by his admission that he had posted the tweet.
The court disagreed, saying "evidence gathered as a consequence of said unlawful arrest is inadmissible in evidence."
The court said "verbal admissions made without the assistance of counsel are inadmissible." It also said the prosecution did not include the alleged extrajudicial admission in the case record.
Finding Mas' tweet "despicable and provocative," the court said its author/s "should be made liable and punished to the fullest extent of the law."
The court also commended the NBI for its immediate investigation but said operatives "inadvertently committed some lapses along the way, detrimental to the constitutional rights of the accused."
"However, no matter how contemptible or reprehensible the post is, the person or persons subjected to be responsible to the posting of the subject provocative text should be afforded their constitutional rights," the court said. — RSJ, GMA News
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History: The British General Strike
The 80th anniversary of the 1926 British General Strike will be remembered and commented on by many groups, parties and individuals. Many will merely pay lip service while themselves continuing with their objectively anti-working class activities. How many dare draw the correct lessons?
On the one hand, the General Strike was characterised by ruthless determination on the part of the British imperialist bourgeoisie in pursuit of its interests. On the other hand, the working class displayed a fighting spirit and immense solidarity in pursuit of its interests, showing a flair for organisation. The outcome of this clash was determined not only by the relative strengths of the opposing sides in battle, but also by the treachery of the social democrats who controlled the Labour Party and were in leading positions in the trade unions. While claiming to be on the side of the working class, these members of the labour aristocracy were in fact in the camp of imperialism, wedded to the latter by their cut in imperialist superprofits.
In the context of this, the young Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), small though it was, showed that correct, courageous and determined leadership can be very effective.
In the years leading up to the general strike, Britain's monopoly position in the world, which had been under attack from developing rival powers since the 1860s, was dealt further severe blows after the first world war. Ramsay MacDonald and Arthur Henderson of the first Labour government had agreed the Dawes Plan with the USA to assist the recovery of a defeated Germany to stop it treading the path towards socialism. The subsequent Conservative government returned Britain to the Gold Standard. These and other measures exacerbated the effect of the growing competition that British imperialism was facing and, as always when capitalism feels the pinch, it was the working class that had to pay.
The British ruling class, however, found itself in a peculiar situation. A serious attack on the standard of living of British workers was required in order to keep British capitalism 'competitive', but the persistence of a revolutionary wave throughout Europe following four years of horrendous warfare and under the direct stimulus of the October Revolution militated against such an assault. The British working class had launched a wave of militant strike action immediately after the war, and the government's main concern was to strengthen counterrevolution. The government made a political decision to make a tactical withdrawal, allowing a few temporary concessions and postponing an all-out confrontation until such time as it had made extensive preparations.
It was during this time that British mine owners attempted to decrease the wages and increase the hours of the miners. There were both defeats and victories for the miners during their struggle against this onslaught. In 1919, the Lloyd George government made compromises with the railwaymen and the miners in the face of a triple alliance of miners, railwaymen and transport workers, the miners gaining higher wages and a seven-hour day. But the ruling class was biding its time while it prepared. In 1921, the leaders of the National Union of Railwaymen and Transport Workers reneged on the Triple Alliance, when, on 'Black Friday', 15 April, they left the miners struggling alone against the mine owners, to be forced back to work with wages cut and agreements in shreds.
In 1925, the mine owners tried to impose further wage cuts and longer hours. The miners resisted, and the transport and railway unions pledged to embargo the movement of coal throughout Britain. Not yet ready for a showdown, the Baldwin government retreated and agreed to continue subsidising the coal industry for the next nine months, ending on 1 May 1926. The government also set up the Samuel Commission to make a full inquiry into miners' conditions of work. Friday 31 July 1925, when these terms were agreed, became known as 'Red Friday'.
During all this time, the bourgeoisie was making preparations for a showdown with the working class, and in particular with the miners. The mining industry in Britain was now technically backward and needed 'rationalisation', but, more importantly, in the words of Stalin, "The miners have always been … the advanced detachment of the British proletariat. It was the strategy of British capital to curb this advanced detachment, to lower their wages and lengthen their working day, in order then, having settled accounts with this main detachment, to make the other detachments of the working class toe the line." (J V Stalin, Collected Works, Vol 8, p167)
These preparations by the ruling class and the events since the war indicated that preparation and solidarity was the order of the day for the working class too. But the TUC made no preparations and the Labour Party remained silent. It was left to the CPGB to articulate the danger and urge preparations. Under its influence and leadership, the Minority Movement (MM) – the communist front within the trade unions - prepared local organisation centred on Trades Councils. Small as it was, the CPGB exerted great influence, not least because its position corresponded with reality, and it thus posed a great danger to the bourgeoisie, who responded by jailing its 12 most prominent leaders. Apart from the CPGB, only the miners took practical steps to prepare for the struggle ahead.
On 10 March 1926, the Samuel Commission reported with recommendations for a reorganisation of the mining industry at a future date, an immediate cut in wages and a complete end to the government subsidy. Forced to pass resolutions promising support for the miners, the TUC, ready to capitulate, set about underhand negotiations with mine owners and the government. The TUC Industrial Committee begged Prime Minister Baldwin for small concessions that they could dress up and sell to workers as an 'honourable settlement', but the ruling class was now fully prepared and offered no concession at all. Under great pressure from the miners' leaders and other workers, the TUC called the strike.
In spite of the TUC's foot-dragging, the response from workers was magnificent. The leadership given by the Communist Party and the Minority Movement produced efficient local organisation and support grew. The CPGB emphasised the political nature of the strike, which was also openly acknowledged by the bourgeoisie. It was the social democrats who shied away from the political question. When the government declared the strike to be "a challenge to Parliament", the General Council of the TUC replied in a grovelling editorial in its paper, the British Worker, "No political issue has ever been mentioned or thought of in connection with the strike. It began over wages and conditions of working; it has never been concerned with anything else ... The General Strike is not a 'menace to Parliament'; no attack is being made on constitutional government. We beg Mr Baldwin to believe that."
More communists were imprisoned as the strike progressed. Saklatvala, the communist MP for Battersea, was sentenced to two months for his May Day speech in Hyde Park; Stoker, a leading member in Manchester was given the same treatment, and in West Yorkshire, Isobel Brown was given six months' hard labour for a speech in Normanton calling on soldiers not to go against their class. Upon release she compared the life of the new royal baby with the life of babies of locked-out miners, and received a further six months. Communists all over the country were harassed and the party headquarters was raided and ransacked by an army of special constables seizing material.
The TUC, anxious to prove to the ruling class that they weren't soft on communism, refused to accept substantial financial donations form the workers of the Soviet Union, despite the fact that these solidarity funds would have helped alleviate some of the worst hardships being faced by British strikers and their families.
After nine magnificent days, and while support for the strike was still going from strength to strength, the gutless lackeys of imperialism that led the TUC in cahoots with the Labour Party called it off. There was utter disbelief and anger among workers. The CPGB raised the slogan: 'Refuse to return to work!' and there were more people on strike the day after it was betrayed than there had been on any of the nine official strike days. Despite the workers' stomach for a fight, however, such action could not be maintained in the confusion caused by the TUC, and the miners were left to fight on alone until forced back to work by starvation and homelessness. The working class had suffered a severe defeat through the treachery of social democracy, and one for which it paid a heavy price.
One cannot help but draw parallels with that other great battle of the British working class in the 20th century, the great Miners' Strike of 1984/5. There too, the government attacked the miners as a prelude to attacking wages and conditions for all sections of the British working class; there too, the TUC and Labour leadership acted to undermine the strike rather than supporting it; there too, it was ultimately social democracy and not the direct strength of the bourgeoisie, despite all the coercive state forces at its disposal, that settled the issue in favour of the ruling class.
The British General Strike of 1926, like the Great Miners' Strike of 1984/5, is not simply an event to be commemorated as some kind of religious ritual. It is a living lesson to the British working class of what can be achieved through organisation and unity, and of what will never be achieved while the working-class movement remains dominated by social democracy and opportunism. Until we learn that lesson and act upon it, British workers will remain essentially impotent in their struggle for social emancipation and equality. The best homage we can pay to the brave strikers of 1926 is first to break forever the links between the organised working class and the imperialist Labour Party, and then to go on and build a truly anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, revolutionary movement capable of sweeping away forever the chains of capitalist exploitation, poverty, degradation, racism and war.
There has not been space here to do more than summarise the main points of the circumstances of the British General Strike of 1926. We recommend to readers the much more thorough treatment that this struggle is currently receiving in the pages of Lalkar www.lalkar.org).
> Report: May Day in London 2006
> British General Strike Part 1 - Lalkar May 2006


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Canelo Has the Throne & Is Now Three Fights From Middleweight Immortality
By: Ste Rowen
Picture the scene, Las Vegas, December 14th; the Mexican national anthem rings out as Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez, WBA, WBC, IBF & Ring Magazine champion prepares to walk out and into the ring with WBO champion, Demetrius Andrade in Canelo's third fight of the year.
It's a pipe dream of course. Canelo hasn't fought more than twice in a year since 2011 but 2019 feels like an opportunity, one that he's not had since he came up against Floyd Mayweather, for the current WBA 'Super', WBC & Ring middleweight champion to be remembered as an all-time great.
Canelo is already all but confirmed for Boxing's Hall of Fame, and that's no small achievement, but to be remembered as one of the greatest middleweights in boxing history is an impossible task for 99% of professional 160lbers.
Ask someone in the know who the greatest middleweight of all time is and they'll most likely say Marvin Hagler, Carlos Monzon or perhaps Sugar Ray Robinson. It's pretty much a given that no modern boxer will be able to eclipse any of those three men, or even other 160lb greats down the years such as James Toney or Bernard Hopkins, but, as in Canelo's case, they can stand alongside them. But it's going to take multiple fights against the cream of the crop at this weight, to be recognised as such.
The flame haired boxer has, thus far, taken on all comers from welter to middle in 54 bouts; losing just once, to Floyd, along the way. The Tapatio most recently earned a close decision over Gennady Golovkin and saw 2018 out with an easy stoppage of Rocky Fielding, up at super-middle, but the real glory lies in the glamour division. The plan for Alvarez in 2019, assuming he continues to win, should be Danny Jacobs this Cinco de Mayo weekend, the rubber match vs. Golovkin in September and then, assuming Andrade continues to win, a December matchup with the WBO champion to become the undisputed king of the middleweights; a feat not achieved since Jermaine Taylor decisioned Bernard Hopkins in 2005.
There should be no promotional or programming disputes as all four of the boxers mentioned are signed with DAZN and with Canelo continuing to be the biggest draw in the sport – a crown he's only really competing against heavyweight champ, Anthony Joshua for – every fight is a big money event for the Mexican.
The incentive for rivals of the unified champion is clearly there, so it's surely now all down to how ambitious Alvarez wants to be at 160. When money isn't an issue, for Canelo, it should now be all about his lasting legacy.
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Turbulence is the world's new normal. No longer should we continue contemplating, "What does it all mean?" but instead start seriously preparing for and expecting the unexpected. What we need, according to Harvard Business School historian Nancy F. Koehn, is more wisdom to help "take advantage of the promise, mitigate the peril… and navigate into the possibility of the next century." Our success, she says, depends on effective leaders – those who can find their stronger, better selves in the midst of great crisis. And then, help others do the same.
Drawing wisdom from the storied experiences of legendary figureheads – Abraham Lincoln and explorer Ernest Shackleton, whose expedition famously never reached Antarctica, among them – Koehn provides provocative parallels between key leadership qualities of yesterday and today. Which battles to fight; how to mobilize in the face of challenge; learning from and surviving failure, and how to change course midstream are scenarios equally relevant in modern management as they were during the Civil War or early 1900s.
Passionate and energetic with a keen ability to make the past profoundly relatable, she is also drawing diverse audiences impelled to leverage her expertise: from Harvard MBA students and global brands like Starbucks, Estée Lauder and Oakley Inc., to her poignant presentation at Aspen Ideas Festival, which Arianna Huffington dubbed the "talk of the festival." Koehn, who was recently featured in a Wall Street Journal article about business' notable shift from celebrity speakers to "gurus with actual experience," says executives take comfort in knowing Lincoln sometimes doubted himself and they see in Shackleton a mentor for high-stakes crisis management.
Watch Koehn's widely applauded Aspen Ideas Festival session. She is also a frequent commentator on NPR and contributor to The New York Times.


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Well Connected
(From Summer 2014 Duke Nursing magazine)
By Angela Spivey
How does a nursing professor with a PhD in family and child development start a collaboration with a neuroscientist? For Leigh Ann Simmons, PhD, MFT, it all began in yoga class. Simmons, an associate professor of nursing, had just received review comments on her application for a federal research grant. She wanted to investigate whether levels of a particular amino acid (branched chain amino acids, or BCAAs) are elevated in women who experience postpartum depression. BCAAs are abundant in high-protein diets, and they have been associated with obesity, insulin resistance, and depression. So Simmons thought, maybe BCAAs could be used as a biomarker to identify women at risk for postpartum depression. Then health care professionals could intervene before depression develops, perhaps with a special diet.
The grant-application reviewers loved Simmons' idea. But they wanted to see some preliminary data in pregnant animals before they'd consider funding her proposed human study. Previous studies had linked these amino acids to depressive behavior in rats, but only in males.
The thought of conducting an animal study herself was new to Simmons. She had never even worked with mice before.
With all this on her mind, Simmons went to yoga class as usual. Her friend and colleague, Staci Bilbo, PhD, an assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience, happened to be in class too. Afterward, Simmons asked her if she had ever manipulated diet in her mouse studies. It turns out she had. That conversation led to a collaboration.
While the connection came via yoga class, the funding to conduct the research is courtesy of Bass Connections, a university-wide initiative that aims to engage faculty and students in teams working to tackle complex issues, and to expose students to inquiry across disciplines. Bass Connections was launched in 2013 with a $50 million gift from Anne and Robert Bass. Just as Simmons' project crosses the lines between nursing and neuroscience, other Duke University School of Nursing researchers are leading Bass Connections projects that span the globe, from Asia to Africa, as well as Duke's campus, from computer science to economics.
MASK ON MOM
It's fitting that Simmons connected with Bilbo during yoga class; Simmons has long focused on helping women live healthy lives and is an integrative health coach and yoga teacher herself. While Bilbo is primarily interested in how diet and other events during pregnancy affect the health and behavior of offspring, Simmons is interested in the mothers. "You know when you're on a plane, and the pilot will say, 'If we have to drop the oxygen masks, make sure you put on your mask before you take care of your child?' My research has always been about mask-on-mom," Simmons says. "When we help mom, then we're de facto helping the kids."
The team is examining levels of BCAAs and incidence of depression in females who have just given birth—both mice and humans. Though BCAAs are important for building muscle, they are found at higher levels in the average Western diet (what Simmons calls "the McDonald's diet"). In addition, BCAAs are naturally produced at higher levels during pregnancy, as the mom's body builds a baby. "If you're eating a diet that actually enhances branched chain amino acids, and then you're pregnant, and that is also increasing their production, maybe some women reach a threshold that pushes them over the edge, contributing to postpartum depression," Simmons says.
Students working on the project are gaining experience in both animal research and human behavioral research. For instance, one PhD nursing student is administering a questionnaire that the human moms take right after giving birth, regarding their diets and their behavior. An ABSN student is measuring maternal care and other behavior of mice that are fed diets with different levels of fat and branched-chain amino acids. The students are also getting experience in metabolomics, which uses advanced technology such as mass spectrometers to analyze the presence of metabolites in blood and other tissues, as a way of understanding how diet and other factors affect the body. The students will be able to compare metabolomics results, including signatures left behind by BCAAs, in blood samples from both mice and women, and find out how they correlate with behavior.
Simmons herself is spending time learning to conduct animal research in Bilbo's lab, such as behavioral tests and laboratory assays. "I want to be able to talk with authority about all aspects of the research. I can't do that unless I've done it myself," Simmons says. "I also like it because in that aspect, the students are teaching me."
PREPARING FOR THE GLOBAL DEMENTIA PANDEMIC
Baomu. Loosely defined, the word means caregiver. While the term is unfamiliar in the United States, it's commonplace to many families in China caring for an aging family member with dementia. The word denotes the informal system in which largely untrained rural people in need of work travel to more affluent, urban areas of the country to live with and care for people with dementia, much like an au pair might live full time with a family to care for a child.
Dementia has been called the next global pandemic; it's estimated that worldwide the number of people with dementia will triple by 2050, according to Alzheimer's Disease International. Bei Wu, PhD, professor and director of international research at Duke University School of Nursing, is documenting how people across the globe care for their family members with the disease. Wu has long conducted research on aging in China, where her 101-year-old grandmother still resides. One of her latest projects, funded by Bass Connections to begin in July 2014, will document how caregiving for people with dementia gets accomplished in China and Sri Lanka, and it will reveal opportunities and needs for training programs.
In the United States, families affected by dementia are likely to get help from a trained home health aide or a certified nursing assistant. But just because the United States has a more formal system of caregiver training doesn't mean that the West has the issue all figured out, Wu says. "Our goal is to find out how we can facilitate collaboration between the two developing regions, as well as share our experiences and learn from theirs," she says.
Collaborator Kirsten Corazzini, PhD, an associate professor of nursing, points out that both the baomu system and the Western system have their drawbacks. "There are big issues around what happens when a caregiver is residing with the family 24-7, including human resource issues such as developing skills, and ensuring caregiver and care recipient quality of life," Corazzini says. On the other hand, studies have pointed out that the United States suffers from the opposite problem—lack of consistency in an ever-changing cast of caregivers. No one country has the complete answer, and that's why it's important to conduct qualitative interviews before forming any hypotheses, Wu says.
Improving care for people with dementia is a challenge that must be tackled systematically and globally, says Eleanor McConnell, PhD, MSN, GCNS, BC, an associate professor of nursing. "Moving forward, if we are a global society, it's really not acceptable for affluent countries to import people to solve their workforce problems," she says. "We need to think about, how do we collectively develop a work force? And, how do we pay for this?"
To that end, the project involves faculty and students from not only nursing, but also computer science and economics.
IMPROVING ANESTHESIA CARE IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD
If you're an experienced health care professional in a developing country where your skills are desperately needed, do you take time away from serving patients to get the validation of a college degree? Or do you stay on the job and watch people with less experience move ahead of you in the ranks?
Nurse anesthetists in Ghana, Africa, won't have to make that choice if Brett Morgan, DNP, CRNA, assistant professor of nursing, has his way. As part of his long-term interest in improving anesthesia care in developing countries, Morgan is adapting a traditional curriculum for nurse anesthetists into a distance learning program. "The goal is that these nurse anesthetists can stay working in their communities while reaching the objectives that are necessary to get their baccalaureate degree," Morgan says.
In the United States, there is about one anesthesia provider for every 4,000 people. In some developing countries, the ratio is as low as one in a million. "Surgeons are giving their own anesthesia, or finding laypeople to do it, or else there simply is no access to surgical care because there is no one to administer anesthesia," Morgan says.
Nurse anesthetists in Ghana have traditionally been trained in a hospital-based diploma program and are considered of a lower rank than general nurses. To increase the number of providers and the quality of care, Morgan had previously helped establish a baccalaureate degree program for nurse anesthetists at Ghana's University for Development Studies. Now he's adding this executive-education-style distance program. "The current system in Ghana isn't perpetuating the profession of nurse anesthetist very well," Morgan says. "We hope this distance-learning program will be another part of the solution."
Morgan is collaborating with faculty in the Duke Global Health Institute and the Department of Computer Science. The first step is designing a tablet-based platform to be used to teach the bulk of the courses. Later, Duke faculty, students in the nursing master's program, and medical residents and fellows in the anesthesia residency program will travel to Ghana to implement the tablet platform, train faculty and students there, and conduct a survey of health care systems and communities.
Leigh Ann Simmons
Kirsten Corazzini
Brett Morgan


The Matterhorn Swiss Restaurant: A San Francisco, CA Restaurant.
The Matterhorn is San Francisco's best authentic Swiss dining experience, with a wood-wrapped ambiance that'll make you feel like you've stumbled into an Alpine lodge. Dinner at the Matterhorn is (of course!) centered around fondue. There are 10 types of cheese fondue, like the original with Ementhaler and Gruyere cheese cooked with white wine, garlic and spices, as well two beef fondue options, where you dip thinly sliced beef into piping hot vegetable or red wine-based broth and let them cook.


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Автострада A2, також відома як Середземноморська магістраль () або Салерно–Реджо-Калабрія, — це італійська автомагістраль протяжністю 432 км на півдні Італії. Автомагістраль, що пролягає між містами Фішано в провінції Салерно та Вілла-Сан-Джованні в провінції Реджо-Калабрія, є частиною європейських доріг E45 і E841.

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A2 було створено в 2017 році шляхом злиття ділянки Фішіано – Салерно відгалуження RA 2 (частина європейського маршруту E841 ) з ділянкою Салерно – Вілла-Сан-Джованні автомагістралі A3 (частина E45).

Маршрут
Автомагістраль починається в Фішіано, в Кампанії, де є перехрестя між автострадою RA2 і A30.

Основні міста
А2 пролягає через багато міст, у тому числі через Козенцу, Баттіпалью та Салерно. У Салерно він проходить повз кладовище Локулі Святого Андреа.

Див. також

 Автострада Італії

Посилання

 ANAS SpA (in Italian)
 Autostrada del Mediterraneo (офіційний сайт) (in Italian)

Дороги Італії
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While taking a photograph we click only whats in front of us, but London-based photographer Edward Hill had different ideas.
He created circular photomontages of a place, that contains everything visible to a person, a total 360 degree view of a place. These are called Photospheres, which gives a new perspective on photography.
Its like you are in the center and your head moves 360 degrees, capturing everything which is around you, like a panoramic view. Hill has produced some really eye-catching and intriguing images.
Photospheres are made of around 100 individual images shot from the same spot and digitally stitched to form a striking image.
Hill took ten years to assemble some of his compilations, because he had to paint and draw it all together until digital photography came to his rescue.


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Clemson Head Coach Dabo Swinney, speaking at the Atlantic Coast Conference NCAA college football media day, said he would be rooting for his team's conference rival, Florida State, over his alma mater, the Alabama Crimson Tide. Bama won a nation championship in 1992 when Swinney was a senior playing wide receiver.
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Андрес Амбюль (; 14 вересня 1983, Давос, Швейцарія) — швейцарський хокеїст, нападник, який виступає за «Давос» в Національній лізі А з 2013 року.

Кар'єра
Андрес Амбюль почав свою кар'єру в 2000 році в складі молодіжної команди ХК «Давос». У тому ж сезоні він дебютував в основному складі ХК «Давос». Рік по тому, він закинув першу свою шайбу в НЛА 11 вересня 2001 року в матчі проти ЦСК Лайонс.

У наступні роки Андрес перетворився на нападника захисного плану. У 2002, 2005, 2007 та 2009 роках у складі ХК «Давос» становився чемпіоном Швейцарії, а також разом з командою вигравав Кубок Шпенглера. На Кубку Шпенглера 2007 року Амбюхл закинув вирішальну шайбу (ХК «Давос» переміг у фіналі збірну Канади 3:2).

Ще у грудні 2007 року Андрес продовжив контракт з ХК «Давос» на два роки. В травні 2009 року після дев'яти сезонів в Швейцарській НЛА, Амбюль укладає контракт з Нью-Йорк Рейнджерс. Сезон він провів у фарм-клубі «Рейнджерс» «Гартфорд Вулвс Пек» в Американській хокейній лізі — 64 матчі, 14 очок (8 + 6).

16 квітня 2010 Андрес повертається до Швейцарії і підписує трирічний контракт з клубом НЛА ЦСК Лайонс. У 2012 році стає чемпіоном Швейцарії у складі «Лайонс».

28 грудня 2012 Андрес Амбюль повертається у своє рідне місто Давос та клуб.

Кар'єра (збірна)
Свій перший матч за збірну Швейцарії Андрес зіграв на чемпіонаті світу U-18 в 2001 році. У наступні два роки він грав за молодіжну збірну Швейцарії на чемпіонатах світу у 2002 та 2003 роках. З 2004 року він регулярно виступає в складі національної збірної. З того часу він постійно виступає на чемпіонатах світу (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 і 2012) в складі збірної. Амбюхл брав участь в кваліфікаційному Олімпійському турнірі у 2005 році, а також на Зимових Олімпійських іграх 2006 року в Турині та 2010 року в Ванкувері.

На чемпіонаті світу в 2013 році в Стокгольмі та Гельсінкі, він у складі національної збірної завоював срібну медаль.

Нагороди та досягнення
 2001 Срібний медаліст чемпіонату світу U-18.
 2002 чемпіон Швейцарії у складі ХК «Давос».
 2004 Переможець Кубка Шпенглера 2004 у складі ХК «Давос».
 2005 Чемпіон Швейцарії у складі ХК «Давос».
 2006 Переможець Кубка Шпенглера 2006 у складі ХК «Давос».
 2007 Чемпіон Швейцарії у складі ХК «Давос».
 2008 В команді усіх зірок Кубка Шпенглера 2008 у складі ХК «Давос».
 2009 Чемпіон Швейцарії у складі ХК «Давос».
 2012 Чемпіон Швейцарії у складі ЦСК Лайонс.
 2013 Срібний медаліст чемпіонату світу.
 2015 Чемпіон Швейцарії у складі ХК «Давос».

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Посилання
 Андрес Амбюхл на hockeydb.com
 Андрес Амбюхл на eurohockey.net
 Андрес Амбюхл на hockeyfans.ch

Уродженці Давоса
Хокеїсти «Давоса»
Хокеїсти «Цюриха»
Хокеїсти АХЛ
Хокеїсти на зимових Олімпійських іграх 2018
Хокеїсти на зимових Олімпійських іграх 2006
Хокеїсти на зимових Олімпійських іграх 2010


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ASIC or Application-specific integrated circuit is a kind of integrated circuit. It is built for a particular use instead of for general-purpose use. Digital circuits are a common form of ASIC, but analog ASICs were manufactured beginning in the latter half of the 1990s.
ASIC has advantages compared to Programmable Logic Device or Standard Logic IC.
ASIC has a miniaturized embodiment size.
ASIC needs less electric power to operate.
There are also disadvantages of ASIC.
the cost per a unit can be high when producing a small number of units because of the cost in producing a Photomask.
they can be hard to design and it is expensive and wastes time if they need to be redesigned.
the time of a manufacturing process can be long.
Design of ASIC is gate array design, cell base design, embedded array design, standard cell design, and structured ASIC design.
Gate array design has elementary gate circuit at first base, (we) manufacture the products with putting ordered proper wire-layers. Manufacturing is quick because a finished product needs only production of wire-layers and it is cheap because of mass production of its foundation. However, because (we) form a circuit with formation of standard gate, it has worse contact rate and efficiency.
Cell base design uses wire-layer between block that was designed and arranged and logical circuit. and product is manufactured . Performance is better than gate array, but time of making cell base is longer than time of making gate array, and cost of making cell base is more expensive than cost of making gate array.
Embedded array design Use finished functional block were located. It was rest of theory for wired to use part of gate array. It was called that gate array and basis of cell were compromising.
Standard cell design is a general term for gate array, cell base, embedded array. if standard cell is cell base IC, direction is different each company.
Structured ASIC design uses customization of standard subsystems to speed design and production. Designers of ASIC use a hardware description language (HDL) such as Verilog or VHDL to describe the functionality of the design.
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