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Editor's Note: In response to reader request, we have added two new features to the DCDM Newsletter, which will appear in alternating months. In odd-numbered months, we will publish the profile of a member of Doody's Library Board of Advisors (LBA), and in even-numbered months, we'll feature an account of a library's successful marketing launch of a new product or service.
The LBA has guided the development of our company's library services since our inception. With gratitude, this month we present the profile of Janna Lawrence of the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa.
As Deputy Director of the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa, I manage day-to-day operations, including collection management, at Hardin Library, which is part of the University of Iowa Libraries and serves the Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Public Health, other health-sciences related departments such as Physical Therapy, Communication Sciences and Disorders, and Health and Human Physiology. Hardin is also the professional library for the largest hospital in the state, the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC). As a state-funded library, we are also open to the general public.
My first position in a medical library was as a library assistant at the Briscoe Library at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. I had worked as a library assistant in several types of libraries, but was surprised when I was hired by the Briscoe Library, since I had no medical or even scientific background. Within a few months, I knew that I belonged in medical libraries and, with the support of my supervisor and coworkers, began commuting to library school at the University of Texas at Austin. After graduation, I was hired into a librarian position at the Briscoe Library. I moved to Hardin Library in 2007.
My library is the major health sciences research library in the state. In a perfectly-funded world, I would probably purchase all the books published in the human health sciences. However, even in the flushest of funding years, this would not be possible. Unfortunately, funding is become more and more of an issue as the state of Iowa shifts support away from higher education. We can no longer afford to purchase titles "just in case," we must purchase books we know our users need. Add to this the fact that most (but not all!) of our users prefer ebooks, and many of those are available only in large leased, and therefore nonpermanent, collections. Because this is an academic research library, I believe we need to keep those older editions for future research, but we cannot afford to both lease and purchase them. Finding the balance between lease and purchase, and hoping the future users will be able to borrow missing editions from other libraries, is a major issue.
Despite budgetary issues, it is still common to need to add titles for a new program, or one that is expanding or changing. I find Doody's very useful in this situation, since it can suggest core titles for a new program, as well as titles that will be useful to a more established program.


While taking photos, visitors at the park noticed the body in the lower falls and called 911, the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office said.
The body of a woman has been recovered from a pool of water at Wallace Falls State Park near Gold Bar, the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office said.
While taking photos, visitors at the park noticed the body in the lower falls and called 911 Tuesday afternoon, according to the office.
Also unknown is what brought the woman to the area, as well as her age and identity.
Before handing the investigation over to the Snohomish County Medical Examiner's Office, firefighters and sheriff's deputies surveyed the area from a helicopter, as well as on land and in water, the release says.
Medical examiners will formally identify her and determine her manner of death.
Wallace Falls State Park is on the west side of the Cascade mountains, roughly two miles northeast of Gold Bar on the Wallace River.


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Q: Bundle a angular 1.5.x application that was not built with npm So I have this Angular app that I built, without thinking that it would grow so big and so fast.
But now I have ~1.9MB being downloaded in 26 css files and 55 javascript files!!!
Of course the loading time is terrible, taking over 20 seconds to load!!!

Searching around, I found that I can bundle all the files into one .html file,
one .css file, and one .js file. Using one of the many options available, webpack, rollup, gulp, grunt, and maybe a few others I missed.
The problem is, that I didn't use npm in the first place to install all the dependencies, rather downloaded the min.js file of each library, and included them all in the index.html file.

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*Do I have any other choice other than essentially rebuilding my app with npm?

*Is there a simple guide that I can follow that will concat and minify all the  files so that I can see if it is really worth the hassle?

*And what is the simplest option of all the different bundling options available?

A: Yes, you have another choice!
Gulp is your friend, is super easy to setup, and he will help you to bundle and compress all your js code to single or two files (i am splitting my bundled codecode to 2 files, one is all the lib files, including angular itself, and one file to my own code).
You can start with this simple article:
https://markgoodyear.com/2014/01/getting-started-with-gulp/

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Home Middle East NEWS ALERT: Thousands Of Christians Fleeing Syria Amid Torture Allegations
NEWS ALERT: Thousands Of Christians Fleeing Syria Amid Torture Allegations
By BosNewsLife Middle East Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Chief International Correspondent Stefan J. Bos
Christians in cross-fire in raging Syrian conflict.
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (BosNewsLife)– Thousands of Christians have fled their homes in Syria where news emerged Tuesday, July 3, that intelligence agencies run dozens of torture centers where detainees are beaten with batons and cables, burned with acid, sexually assaulted, and have fingernails torn out.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) group said it identified 27 abuse centers which have been used since President Bashar al-Assad's government began a crackdown in March 2011 on pro-democracy protesters trying to oust him.
HRW added that it conducted over 200 interviews with people who were tortured, including a 31-year-old man who was detained in the Idlib area in June and made to undress.
"Then they started squeezing my fingers with pliers. They put staples in my fingers, chest and ears. I was only allowed to take them out if I spoke. The staples in the ears were the most painful," the man was quoted as saying in the report.
"They used two wires hooked up to a car battery to give me electric shocks. They used electric stun-guns on my genitals twice. I thought I would never see my family again. They tortured me like this three times over three days," he added.
CHRISTIANS ALSO SUFFER
Christians have also suffered abuse, including from rebels who accuse them of supporting the regime or observing a 'Western religion' and some believers have been killed, according to church groups.
Among those recently killed was Atallah Ibrahim Bitar, who was shot dead while reportedly taking food to people forced into hiding by a week-long bombardment, Christian aid workers said.
And, at least 78 people were confirmed killed in violence across Syria on Monday, July 2, 44 of them civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Over 16,500 people have been killed in violence in Syria since the uprising erupted in March last year, according to rights groups and opposition estimates.
CHRISTIAN EXODUS UNDERWAY
The violence has sparked an exodus of Christians, including from city of Qusayr, about 4.8 kilometers (3 miles) southwest of Homs in a mountainous area overlooking Syria's border with Lebanon, said aid and advocacy group Barnabas Fund. Many reportedly flee to other parts of Syria or to neighboring countries.
Most of the 10,000 Christian residents have left the area, "after reportedly being given an ultimatum to leave, a threat which was also echoed by the mosques," the group told BosNewsLife in a statement.
"Two Christian leaders among those fleeing the city said that they heard the following message from the minarets: 'Christians must leave Qusayr within six days, ending June 8'."
Barnabas Fund, which is working in the region, described the city as "an extremely dangerous place for those who remain and it is clear that Christians no longer feel safe in their homes."
PROVIDING FOOD SUPPLIES
The group said it is providing food, medicine and other essentials "to the neediest Christian families affected by the unrest."
Earlier, Dutch aid group 'Kerk in Nood', or 'Church in Need', told BosNewsLife that in Homs itself 90 percent of Christians living there fled after "fanatics" forced them to leave their homes.
It said 50,000 people have fled Homs since February.
"They have fled to villages and in the mountains, sometimes as far as 50 kilometers from their homes. We have reports that Islamists 'cleansed' the Homs areas of Hamidiya and Bustan al-Diwan without giving [Christians] the opportunity to take anything with them," the group told BosNewsLife recently.
Christians have expressed concerns over who will takeover the country once President Bashar al-Assad leave office, amid fears of an Islamic takeover, concerns shared by Christian groups in other countries in the region facing political upheaval, including Egypt.
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2. TOPSHOP – THE VIRTUAL CATWALK.
Ever wanted to go to a Topshop Unique show at LFW. This year, you could, virtually. Topshop we're able to let there supporting fanbase experience the show of there dreams, from the very home of the flagship store in Oxford Circus, London. The large 'jazzy' goggles, with screens inside and headphones inside allowed the the viewer to experience the show from the front row seat, and not just the live stream of their computer.
Connecting the audience to the fashion show, gives them more of a personal connection to the brand, making additionally the TOPSHOP UNIQUE collection a number one browse to have a look at one release. Able to see the garments first, at the actual show influences the consumer, to not only view the show but become part of it later on.
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Despina Papadopoulos and Studio 5050 created the Day-For-Night Solar Dress, an ultra-mod solar-powered mini that looks a lot like chanteuse Francoise Hardy's 1960s. This dress is 100% custom made and it soaks Sun's energy to light up whole night to creat ultimate party dress. Interestingly, dress has over 448 circuit board tiles that can be fitted with solar cells, LEDs, or photocells to charge your phone or any device you want. This dress is definitely reserved for party and phone addicted ladies.
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German wonderkid Florian Wirtz urged to join Liverpool instead of Chelsea
Martin Odegaard returns to Arsenal training ahead of Liverpool clash
Premier League duo presented with Liverpool audition chance after transfer links
Only those within the relevant departments at Liverpool will know who is on their radar of potential transfer targets.
But two of them could well be in the spotlight when the Reds take on Wolves this weekend. One will be very well known among Kopites, the other is a relatively new name.
Adama Traore has seemingly been on Liverpool's watchlist for around two years now, but it's never got past anything more than mere gossip at this stage.
The Spain international has found himself in and out of the team under new manager Bruno Lage this term, but has recently been installed back in the starting eleven.
READ MORE: Alisson sparks Everton fume as Diogo Jota leaves Liverpool fans confused
READ MORE: Andy Robertson reveals training ground secret to Liverpool's major attacking change
Recent reports, however, have claimed that Wolves would be willing to sell Traore when the transfer window opens in January.
Unsurprisingly, Liverpool's name was mentioned.
What was interesting about the reports was that, apparently, Wolves have lowered their initial £50million asking price down to just £18m - a decrease of £32m.
Now let's talk about the newest Wolves player who was linked with Liverpool, and that is Hwang Hee-chan.
It was in early November when the South Korea international, on loan from RB Leipzig, was first linked with a move to Liverpool.
Manchester City were also credited with an interest, but it's Liverpool's name once again being linked with a Wolves player that caught the eye.
In terms of comparing Traore and Hwang, both a very different players despite being in the team to do a similar job.
Traore is an out-and-out winger who relies on his pace to run in behind the defence and cause havoc.
Hwang is more of a recognised striker who likes to drift out wide occasionally and move the defence around to create further problems for the opposition, while not being short of a yard or two of pace, himself.
Liverpool could come up against both players when they travel to Molineux to face Wolves on Saturday afternoon.
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The Reds have faced both players before in previous years, but not on the same team. Traore, of course, at Wolves, while Hwang has been on the receiving end of Liverpool defeats for Leipzig and Red Bull Salzburg in the past.
If Liverpool are indeed interested in either one of Hwang or Traore, then Saturday provides the perfect opportunity to audition for a move to Anfield.
Of course, given Liverpool's transfer process is so methodical, it's unlikely that they will make the decision to sign a player based on an one-off performance against them. The exception to this rule was arguably Takumi Minamino who impressed for Salzburg in the Champions League in 2019.
Once again, only the relevant people will know whether or not Hwang or Traore are actual transfer targets for Liverpool.
If one, or both, of them are, then Liverpool will be paying extra attention to the performance of the opposition in the Premier League this weekend.
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ABC's "Shark Tank" is about to get even more Texas representation. Blake Mycoskie, the founder of TOMS, and Kendra Scott, the founder and CEO of Kendra Scott, will be joining the show as guest sharks during its 12th season, which premieres on October 16, according to a press release.
Though he currently resides in Wyoming, Mycoskie was born and raised in the Lone Star State while Kendra Scott is Austin born and bred, with her company still operating out of Texas' capital city.
These two Texans will join entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks' owner Mark Cuban, who has been a shark on the show since 2011.
Season 12 of "Shark Tank" is set to premiere on October 16 at 8 p.m. on ABC and episodes can be viewed the day after on demand or on Hulu.
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Recently I've noticed that a lot of mysterious .tar.gz and executable files have spawned inside my Shared folder, and by a lot I mean 466 total.
My question is, aside from the 6 recognized folders, is it safe to delete those things? As they take up quite a lot of space, and recently, I found a malicious file named SystemExtr residing inside one of the folders, and deleted it, but somehow it returned.
Note: this doesn't answer your question directly but is advice and some further steps to troubleshoot.
If your computer has been reported as being affected my malware, you are likely better off long-term to back up your personal data (i.e user directory etc), note the apps you have installed, and start over with a nuke & repave. A few hours spent doing this is better than rescuing a system with unquantified levels of malware -- it could be just 'SystemExtr' or it could be a whole heap of other things -- and the nature of some malware means it can't be 100% removed.
And for ongoing homework: learn a bit about hard drive space management and reduce reliance on the whizzy apps (especially the free ones) that do all this for you. Some are reputable, some are junk. Using a disk viewer like Grand Perspective will give you better visibility into what's going on inside your hard drive, and give you more control overall.
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Outpatient centers reflect growing health care trend
By Paul Schott
Published 12:00 am EST, Sunday, February 26, 2017
At left, Lisette Torres, Stamford Medical Group administrator, left, speaks with Dr. Rod Acosta, president and chief executive officer of Stamford Medical Group in a patient examination room in the Walk In Center at the Stamford Health Medical Group, Stamford Hospital's outpatient center in Stamford, Conn., Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017. The facility located at 292 Long Ridge Road houses doctors focusing on primary care, cardiology, endocrinology, neurology, obstetrics, gynecology and orthopedics, as well as diagnostic imaging labs and a walk-in center. less
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STAMFORD — Hundreds of patients every day visit a campus on Long Ridge Road for primary and specialty care and a range of tests. And they receive all those services several miles from the nearest hospital.
The adjacent outpatient centers that have opened in the past two years at the Long Ridge Health and Science center reflect an ongoing migration of medical services from hospitals to smaller facilities closer to homes and workplaces. And the investment in the outpatient model continues to accelerate, as patients and medical professionals have embraced the evolution.
"This is patient driven," said Dr. Mary Cooper, senior vice president of clinical services at the Connecticut Hospital Association. "All of us want the availability of high-quality care that's convenient. None of us want to spend time away from families, jobs and other commitments by being an inpatient in the hospital."
Access and convenience
Patient demand has validated the Stamford Health and Yale New Haven Healthy systems' decisions to open their respective outpatient hubs at 292 Long Ridge Road and 260 Long Ridge Road.
Stamford Hospital's outpatient center, which opened in September 2015, recorded about 45,000 patient visits last year. Yale New Haven's Long Ridge Medical Center, which launched last August, has received about 11,000 patient visits so far.
"The convenience is the best thing," Stamford resident Cherubina Iantorno, said after a visit last week to her primary care doctor at the Stamford Health center. "The office is new and nice and clean. I have everything in this office. And even if you don't feel well, it's not a long drive."
Stamford resident John Kimball gave a similar endorsement of the Yale New Haven Health complex, where he undergoes physical therapy sessions to improve his balance and strength.
"I started here because of the convenience and closeness to my home," Kimball said. "I live in North Stamford, and it's only 4 miles away. I've had a very good experience."
The Long Ridge centers not only cut commute times, but also save them time by consolidating a spectrum of services in the same buildings. Inside, the two structures look and operate like mini hospitals with the same top-end equipment and spacious and bright layouts that patients would find in Stamford Hospital's and Greenwich Hospital's main buildings.
Covering 46,000 square feet, Stamford Health's building houses offices for primary care and specialist doctors in the Stamford Health Medical Group network, lab and radiology services and a walk-in center.
Ninety-two employees staff 292 Long Ridge.
"Our philosophy has been to create centers like this where integrate primary care with specialty care and where we have labs and x-rays," said Dr. Rod Acosta, president and CEO of the Stamford Health Medical Group. "What that allows patients to do is have 'one-stop shopping.'"
Yards away from 292 Long Ridge, Yale New Haven Health occupies 57,000 square feet on the second floor at 260 Long Ridge. It houses a Greenwich Hospital outpatient hub that provides rehabilitation, infusion and diagnostic testing services; Yale Medicine's Center for Musculoskeletal Care, and a Northeast Medical Group primary care center.
The opening of the Long Ridge center expanded Yale New Haven Health's employee roster by 65.
"We have a lot of patients that come to the hospital from Stamford for services," said Marc Kosak, Greenwich Hospital's senior vice president of administration. "The trend in care is to bring services to the patient. There's a not a great reason why everybody has to go to Greenwich. We should have them come to where their community is and provide the services in their community."
The Long Ridge centers comprise two of the properties in extensive outpatient networks operated in southwestern Connecticut by Stamford Health and Yale New Haven Health. Among other recent additions, Stamford Health's 97,000-square-foot Integrated Pavilion and Yale New Haven Health's Women's Cardiovascular Center on Valley Drive in Greenwich both opened last year.
"There's a lot of competition now with different groups," Acosta said. "I think it's collegial. We're aware they're there, but we've always been in competition with Greenwich Hospital."
Both Stamford Hospital and Greenwich Hospital continue to increase their outpatient footprints. Yale New Haven Health plans to enlarge the Long Ridge Medical Center by 8,500 square feet within the next year, its second expansion since opening the complex. The operations within the additional space have not yet been determined.
"The market is responding to the expansion," Kosak said. "It's going to continue to grow."
Stamford Health is enlarging its Greenwich outpatient center on Holly Hill Lane from 14,000 square feet to 30,000 square feet. That project is scheduled to be completed in July.
But the hospitals on Perryridge Road in Greenwich and Hospital Plaza in Stamford remain integral to their respective organizations. Stamford Hospital's 650,000-square-foot building that opened last September cost some $450 million.
"I don't think we're ever going to do away with inpatient care," said the Connecticut Hospital Association's Cooper. "I don't think we'll see heart surgery being done in outpatient centers. We always want to have the ability to have a range of services and infrastructure to take care of really sick patients."
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Allegheny Land Trust Protects 155 Acres in Elizabeth Township
Local non-profit land conservation organization Allegheny Land Trust (ALT) announced on July 7, 2020 that they completed the acquisition of 155 acres of undeveloped land in Elizabeth Township for permanent protection as a conservation area.
The conservation of this large tract of woodlands in the rolling hills above the Youghiogheny River located roughly between Broadlawn Drive (to the North), Greenock-Buena Vista Road (to the East), Rock Run (to the South) and residential neighborhoods (to the West) will help to preserve the rural character of the area while creating a place for healthy exercise, outdoor recreation and environmental education for local residents.
According to ALT, the new conservation area will also help to prevent flooding and landslides by continuing to capture an estimated 128 million gallons of rainwater per year and preserve significant wildlife habitat.
"We're proud to conserve such a large and significant green space in Elizabeth Township, and are excited about what its protection will contribute to the health, well-being and enjoyment of current residents and future generations," said Tom Dougherty, ALT's Vice President of External Affairs.
"This new conservation area is in easy walking distance for many nearby residents and is less than a half mile from an Elizabeth Forward School District elementary school, a middle school and the township municipal building," Dougherty said. "We've already had conversations with the school district about how we can work together on environmental education activities on the site."
ALT's acquisition of the land was made possible by a grant from the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, a donation from the Pennsylvania State Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation and contributions from local community members.
"We are very pleased to have been able to contribute to this important local conservation project," said Ralph Croushore, president of the local Peters Creek Trail branch of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation. "We are dedicated to the conservation of the wild turkey and the preservation of our hunting heritage so the best thing we can do is the protection of quality habitat."
The new conservation area will be owned and stewarded by ALT with volunteer support from interested community members and civic organizations, and will be open to the public from dawn to dusk year-round.


Below is a selection of my publications.
Poderi G.; Bettega M.; Capaccioli A.; D'Andrea V. (2018). Disentangling participation through time and interaction spaces–the case of IT design for energy demand management. In CoDesign – International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts. Vol 14 (1) , pp 45-59.
Capaccioli A.; Poderi G.; Bettega M.; D'Andrea V. (2017). Exploring participatory energy budgeting as a policy instrument to foster energy justice. In Energy Policy, Vol. 107, pp. 621-630, August 2017.
Huang, Y.; Hasselqvist H.; Poderi G.; Šćepanović S.; Kis F.; Bogdan C.; Warnier M.; and Brazier F. (2017). "YouPower: An Open Source Platform for Community-Oriented Smart Grid User Engagement." In 2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC), 1–6. Calabria, Italy: IEEE.
Capaccioli A.; Poderi G.; Bettega M.; D'Andrea V. (2016). "Participatory Infrastructuring of Community Energy". In Proceedings of the 14th Participatory Design Conference, Vol. 2. Aarhus, Denmark (15th-19th Aug 2016). ACM.
Macchia T.; Poderi G.; and D'Andrea V. (2015). Infrastructuring Knowledge in Cultural Infrastructure: Informal Example of Participatory Design for Museum Exhibition. In International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development, 7(1), pp.16-32, January-March 2015.
Poderi, G. (2014). The Design Knowledge Multiple: Deconstructing Balance in an Open Source Video Game Infrastructure. In A. Mongili and G. Pellegrino (eds.) Information Infrastructure(s): boundaries, contexts, ecologies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Poderi, G. and Hakken, D.J. (2014). Modding a free and open source software video game: "Play testing is hard work". In Transformative Works and Cultures, Vol. 15.
Poderi G. (2012). "Simple Conversational Practices in the Case of Free and Open Source Software Infrastructure". In Proceedings of the 12th Participatory Design Conference, Vol. 2. Roskilde, Denmark (12th-16th Aug 2012). ACM.


Banyana Banyana failed to clear the final hurdle, falling to Equatorial Guinea in the final of the Confederation of African Football (Caf) African Women's Championship in Malabo on Sunday.
It took the hosts until two minutes before halftime to break the goalless deadlock, but they dominated the second half, netting a further three times, to run out convincing 4-0 winners.
The Sasol-sponsored South African women travelled to the Malabo New Stadium in high spirits after defeating Africa's top ranked side Nigeria 1-0 in Bata on the mainland on Wednesday, but came unstuck against a determined home side.
Equatorial Guinea went into the lead in Sunday's showdown when loria Chinasa took advantage of some poor defensive work to head home from a corner kick in the 43rd minute.
Playing in front of 20 000 passionate home fans, the home team doubled its lead in the 66th minute when second half substitute Tiga Costa scored with her first touch of the ball.
Four minutes later, they were 3-0 up when midfielder and captain Genoveva Anonman made the South Africans pay for some sloppy defending.
In the 72nd minute, Chinasa scored her second goal of the title-deciding match. After a fine run on the left, she netted from a tight angle past the outstretched Banyana Banyana goalkeeper Thoko Mndaweni.
In a disappointing showing for South Africa, only captain and midfielder Amanda Dlamini looked the part on the biggest football stage in African women's football, with a solid display in her efforts to launch attacks on the Equatorial Guinea goal area.
While disappointed with the result, the outcome marks the end of a hectic and ultimately successful year for Banyana Banyana, which saw them in camp early in January in preparation for the London Olympics held in July.
The South African team will now wait patiently to see the result of their efforts at the African Women's Championship in the latest Fifa world rankings. They travelled to Malabo ranked 56th in the world (up from 61st in July) and fourth in Africa (behind Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea and All-Africa Games champions Cameroon).
In the playoff for third and fourth places, Cameroon outplayed Nigeria 1-0.


What is the definition of medication reconciliation?
Verification: The first step is to obtain a medication history from the patient and other appropriate sources (e.g., caregivers, providers, and dispensing pharmacy) that includes medications the patient is currently taking and those the patient should be taking. The compiled medication list should then be reviewed with the patient or caregiver.
Clarification: The medications and doses listed should be assessed for appropriateness.
Reconciliation: The home medication list should then be compared against any new medications ordered during transition periods of a hospital stay or clinic appointment, most notably during admission and discharge.
Who can conduct medication reconciliation?
Pharmacists, certified pharmacy technicians, and pharmacy students are all good candidates with the appropriate knowledge and skills to provide the service.
What products should be included in questioning?
Prescription medications, over-the-counter (OTC) medications, vitamins, herbal supplements, and nutraceuticals.
What information about medications needs to be collected?
Medication name, strength, dosage form (extended release, orally disintegrating tablet, cream, aerosol, solution including injections, etc.), dose, route of administration (oral [PO], inhalation, topical, intramuscular [IM], subcutaneous [SQ], intravenous [IV], etc.), frequency and time of administration (once daily, twice daily in the morning and at bedtime, etc.), duration (for 10 days, indefinitely, etc.), time of last dose, and date of last prescription fill.
What are common findings as a result of medication reconciliation?
Why is completing medication reconciliation important?
Adverse drug events are discovered as well as duplicate therapy that puts the patient at risk for additional side effects and adverse events.
Percent of plan members whose doctor or clinical pharmacist has reviewed a list of everything they take (prescription and non-prescription drugs, vitamins, herbal remedies, other supplements) at least once a year.
Percent of plan members whose medication records were updated within 30 days after leaving the hospital. To update the record, a doctor (or other healthcare professional) looks at the new medications prescribed in the hospital and compares them with the other medications the patient takes. Updating the medication records can help to prevent errors that can occur when medications are changed.
What barriers do health plans need to address for medication reconciliation?
Health plans must have access to timely information about members' acute care admissions and discharges.
Clinical case managers must address those members most at risk for readmission or adverse drug events (diagnosis, number of medications, age, frailty, absence of caregiver, mental health diagnosis).
Clinical case managers must receive timely results of medication reconciliation to confer with other members of the interdisciplinary care team and resolve identified problems.
What is the difference between medication reconciliation and medication therapy management?
Medication therapy management (MTM) is a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)-required program with eligibility criteria based on drug spend, number of medications, and number of chronic conditions.
The Comprehensive Medication Review (CMR) required as a part of the MTM Program includes medication reconciliation, and a copy of the CMR must be provided to the member.
Medication reconciliation needs to be completed upon each and every acute care discharge. MTM Program components include targeted quarterly review as well as an annual CMR.
The Pharmacy and Clinical subject matter experts at Gorman Health Group can assist health plan sponsors to design, implement, train staff, and support medication reconciliation programs. Medication reconciliation can lead to better outcomes and raise Star Ratings measure values: a win-win. Contact me directly at ddevereaux@gormanhealthgroup.com.


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Q: How can I clean up my local branches if they are deleted from GIT repo How can I delete all my local branches if they are deleted from GIT repo. Is there any command for that ? . I dont want to it one by one by the command git branch -D/-d branch-name .

A: Remove information on branches that were deleted on origin
When branches get deleted on origin, your local repository won't take notice of that.
You'll still have your locally cached versions of those branches (which is actually good) but git branch -a will still list them as remote branches.
You can clean up that information locally like this:
git remote prune origin

Your local copies of deleted branches are not removed by this.
The same effect is achieved by using
git fetch --prune

You could also set that as a default.

A: To delete (or "prune") local branches that are not in the repo
git remote prune origin

prune
Deletes all stale tracking branches under <name>. These stale branches have already been removed from the remote repository referenced by <name>, but are still locally available in "remotes/<name>".
With --dry-run option, report what branches will be pruned, but do no actually prune them.

A: It sounds like you are asking for a way to delete your own branch named train if there was an origin/train at one point and there is no longer an origin/train now.
This is (a) somewhat dangerous and (b) difficult to do (because there is nothing built in to remember that "there was an origin/train"), but if you redefine the problem a bit, it's much less difficult.  It remains dangerous.  It means you are telling your software to automatically destroy information whether or not that loses information you did not want destroyed.  For instance, you may have put a lot of work in the last day or two into your train and then someone deletes the upstream origin/train not realizing that you are working on it.  Now you tell your Git to delete your train without ever giving you a chance to restore origin/train, and you lose the work you just did.
(You can get your work back, through the HEAD reflog, but it's not a very good plan—which is why I call this "somewhat dangerous".)
To see ways to delete branches that have lost their upstreams (e.g., after running git remote prune origin or git fetch --prune origin), see Remove local branches no longer on remote.

A: Just for reference if someone looking in this page later
Quiet good amount of details on the same
DevConnect Page
Command which we can use for fully merged local branches is
git branch --merged | egrep -v "(^\*|master|dev)" | xargs git branch -d


You know when Microsoft is releasing stuff under the Apache 2.0 license and attempting to build communities there's a shift in the industry happening. Good for them!
Ok, on to the point of this post now. My reading list went empty recently and I needed to fill it with some interesting books. In particular, I was looking for books related to open source and community building. The good news is that I found a couple of interesting books, the bad news is that I wish there were more books on these topics. I've been devouring the Art of Community book by Jono Bacon (Ubuntu's Community Manager).
It's a fascinating book which outlines some of the aspects of community building and share's many of Jono's experiences in developing the Ubuntu community. A lot of the things he discusses can be mapped to what is going on within the Eclipse community. Jono's coverage of the importance of meritocracy and governance pleases me.
Anyone else have a chance to read the book yet?
Another book that I'm looking to devour is the Groundswell by a couple of Forrester Research's analysts.
I'm always a fan of case studies around social technology and how it can impact your business. My favorite recent example is the United Breaks Guitars debacle… how much heartache did that cost United? I'll let people know what I think of Groundswell when I finish it.
Anyone else reading anything good around open source of community building lately? Any recommendations?