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The City of Eternal Spring creates economic growth supported by a modern, effective and flexible IT infrastructure
Darmstadt, Germany, 8/13/2014
Software AG (FRA: SOW) today acknowledged the multiple awards received by Medellin, Colombia's second largest city, in regenerating the municipality, and the role IT played in driving economic growth and social inclusion. Amongst other awards, Medellin was acknowledged as "Innovative City of the Year" by the Urban Land Institute and received the United Nations sustainable transport award. Medellin has introduced many infrastructure improvements as part of its vision of being a model city by 2030 including a flexible and citizen focused IT infrastructure. Aligned with the Colombian Government's online citizen services program, Medellin now offers its citizens an integrated "Requests, Complaints and Claims" service. The service provides personal, online or mobile citizen interfaces and has resulted in an increase in the number of requests processed from ten thousand to nearly ninety thousand per year.
"In the government sector the transition to a digital enterprise must be staged and gradually introduced, maintaining focus on not just the needs of the citizen but also on state employees and acknowledging the political dimension", said Gabriel Werner Brandt, Director of Planning for Information Technology at the Municipality of Medellin. "For this we needed a flexible IT infrastructure that can leverage the many investments we have made over the years. We needed an infrastructure that is easy and quick to implement and adapt, with a clear return on investment, for which the city is willing to pay. Software AG provided that"
In conjunction with the Wall Street Journal and Citi, the Urban Land Institute recognized Medellin as the world's most innovative urban center implementing innovative solutions to problems such as mobility and environmental sustainability The Urban Land Institute, an independent global nonprofit research and education organization, provides leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide.
Medellin has also been recognized by the United Nations for the multiple transport options now offered to citizens. Its new urban transport infrastructure has opened jobs and schools to the previously isolated communities living in outlaying mountainside areas with travel times for the majority of its citizens being cut from more than two hours to just a few minutes.
The principal of including all citizens in the city's economic revival through an innovative physical infrastructure is mirrored in its IT infrastructure through its digital citizen service platform. The platform gives all citizens a voice in city hall enabling them to make petitions, claims and complaints to the municipality either online, through mobile devices or face-to-face, and follow the progress of each request to its conclusion. The requests can concern any aspect of the citizen's legal rights, the behavior or service provided by state employees, including the police, or improvement needs to the city's infrastructure.
Medellin implemented Software AG's webMethods process automation and integration suite to link the new citizen service interfaces with automated and integrated processes. It also integrated existing IT systems and geographically validated information from the city's Georeference system. Completed in 2011, the new infrastructure has allowed for an almost tenfold increase in the number of processed requests with the possibility of easy further expansion.
Today, the Medellin City Hall has successfully integrated 46 different local government procedures on the single requests platform, all within 2 years, and is reviewing further new business cases to create new programs offering better services to its citizens.
Said Philippe La Fornara, Software AG Extended Board member responsible for Latam: "We are delighted to have supported Medellin in creating a better quality of life for the municipality. Medellin provides a great example of how the innovative use of software can make a huge difference in providing economic growth and equal opportunities and services for everyone. With over 7,500 requests per month being processed, the benefits of the new services have been rapidly recognized by the citizens of Medellin, the ultimate sign of the success of this project."
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text: Russian PNTR Legislation Sets stage for Reopening Market to U.S. Dairy December 14, 2012 08:45 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By News Release Email Annual Russian imports of milk powder, cheese, butterfat, whey protein and lactose averaged 434,000 tons, valued at $1.6 billion, from 2009-2011. Source: U.S. Dairy Export Council U.S. dairy suppliers have been shut out of the Russian market since September 2010. But President Obama's Dec. 14 signing of legislation granting permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) to Russia represents a major step toward reopening business with one of the world's largest dairy buyers. The president's action followed successful bipartisan votes by the House and Senate in the lame-duck session of Congress that began Nov. 13. The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) and the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) had actively supported PNTR for Russia and applauded the government's actions to put the bill into law. "Without PNTR, Russia couldn't be compelled to apply its World Trade Organization (WTO) commitments to the United States," said USDEC President Tom Suber. "PNTR means the United States can now utilize the full WTO toolbox to help resolve issues blocking U.S. dairy trade. It also means Russia has a reason to return to the bargaining table to find a compromise to their export certification and plant inspection demands that triggered the ban in the first place." "We are consistently shipping more than 13 percent of the milk solids produced annually in the United States to buyers beyond our borders," said Jerry Kozak, President and CEO of NMPF. "Given the strides made by the U.S. dairy sector in meeting the world's dairy needs, there is no reason—outside of nontariff barriers to trade—why we should not be a player in the Russian market." USDEC and NMPF have worked extensively with the U.S. government for years to resolve certification issues with Russian authorities and to help provide a firm basis for restoring access for U.S. dairy exporters, but talks broke down in the shadow of the PNTR issue. "Further actions are needed to reestablish dairy trade, but approval of PNTR is a vital piece of puzzle," said Suber. "With Russia now bound to WTO rules regarding trade with the United States, we have tools that will bring them back to the negotiating table and eventually reopen a potentially large export market for U.S. dairy products." Annual Russian imports of milk powder, cheese, butterfat, whey protein and lactose averaged 434,000 tons, valued at $1.6 billion, from 2009-2011. Through three quarters of 2012, the nation was on track to hit similar numbers by year-end. "With PNTR in place with Russia, it is now up to the administration to capitalize on the tools available through the WTO and focus on resolving the ongoing dairy certificate and related technical requirements that currently block U.S. dairy shipments," said Suber. Back to news


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The former chemist at the heart of the state drug lab scandal admitted that she altered test results, forged colleagues' initials, and did not perform proper tests on drugs "for about two to three years," according to a State Police report that lays out in detail what one prosecutor has called "one of the largest criminal snafus" in Massachusetts history.
The 100-page State Police report, obtained by the Globe Wednesday morning, makes it clear that Annie Dookhan's colleagues were deeply suspicious of her shoddy work habits and extremely high output for years. But supervisors took little action for more than a year, even when confronted with evidence that she had lied on her resume and removed drug evidence without authorization.
When police finally questioned her in August, Dookhan said she alone was to blame for the rampant breaches of protocol that have jeopardized the reliability of drug evidence used in 34,000 cases during her nine-year career at the lab. Dookhan said she did not even tell her husband the details of her misconduct.
"I messed up bad. It's my fault," said Dookhan, according to a summary of the Aug. 28 interview at her Franklin home. "I don't want the lab to get in trouble."
The police report, compiled by state troopers working for Attorney General Martha Coakley, for the first time offers Dookhan's perspective on a crisis that has prompted closure of the state Department of Public Health drug lab, the resignation of the public health commissioner, and the disciplining or firing of several lab supervisors.
Perhaps farthest-reaching, the drug lab scandal has raised profound doubts about thousands of drug cases, including those of 1,141 inmates of state prisons and county jails who were convicted based on evidence analyzed by Dookhan. Already, judges have freed, reduced bail for, or suspended the sentences of at least 20 drug defendants in the scandal.
So far, no one is facing criminal charges for work at the lab, but Coakley is conducting a wide-ranging criminal investigation. Dookhan, like most of her colleagues, has remained silent, declining to talk to reporters.
The State Police report offers glimpses of why Dookhan, a 34-year-old mother of a young son, would have behaved so recklessly, mainly in the words of co-workers who described her as driven to do more. She would work overtime without extra pay, and she tested several times more drug samples per month than the average chemist.
At the same time, Dookhan apparently padded her resume to make herself look more impressive, falsely claiming to have a master's degree in chemistry, to have graduated magna cum laude from Latin Academy in Boston, and to have taken additional courses with Spectros. The company said there is no record that she ever took courses there.
"Annie Dookhan was always trying to please people" including prosecutors, police, and bosses, said Hevis Lleshi, who trained to be a chemist under Dookhan in 2011. Lleshi said she tried to work at Dookhan's pace, but her supervisors told her to "slow down," adding that "you can't work like her; it is against protocol."
Dookhan herself seems at times nonplussed by all the attention, telling her husband during the meeting with State Police that she does not need a lawyer and telling State Police that she doesn't understand why reporters are asking so many questions.
At the end of the police interrogation in which she confessed to at least seven different major breaches of lab protocol, including deliberately claiming that negative drug tests were positive, the troopers said she could be seen walking the family dog.
At other times, Dookhan seems distressed, telling officers that she and her husband are having marital problems and starting to cry as she confessed that she had assessed numerous drug samples for two or three years without actually doing the required tests. She insisted she "would never falsify [results] because it's someone's life on the line," though she later admitted that she had done just that.
After the Aug. 28 interview, State Police were so concerned about Dookhan's state of mind that Detective Lieutenant Robert Irwin asked Dookhan on the phone if she ever thought "bad thoughts."
"She said that the harm she was causing people would go through her mind every now and then," Irwin wrote in his report. "I then asked her if she had thought of harming herself. She said no."
By the time police talked to Dookhan in late August, problems at the drug lab in Jamaica Plain had been festering for more than a year. Dookhan had been barred from doing lab analysis in June 2011 after she was caught removing 90 drug samples from the evidence room without authorization. But, even after a confrontation with three lab supervisors, including Charles Salemi, over the mishandled evidence, Dookhan stayed on the payroll and appeared as an expert witness in drug trials.
"In hindsight, Salemi stated he realizes that was the wrong decision," Irwin stated in his report. "They should have notified Quincy [police] and the Norfolk DA's office right away. Salemi feels that Annie Dookhan had a mental breakdown."
Salemi is facing disciplinary action while one of the other two supervisors at a June 21, 2011 meeting where they confronted Dookhan — and decided to let her stay — was fired.
Dookhan attempted repeatedly to deny the allegations in her interview with police, but then confessed each time the police presented her with evidence. She initially denied forging the initials of colleague Nicole Medina on reports that show the testing equipment was working. But when she saw an example of the forgery, she admitted: "I screwed up. It's my fault. I was not paying attention. . . . I wanted to get the work done."
Several of Dookhan's co-workers had been raising concerns about Dookhan for months or even years to their supervisors and others, but little happened. One co-worker contacted a union lawyer, but a union official told him his fears were hearsay that could kill a young woman's career.
Still, chemist Michael Lawler told police that the warning signs were obvious: Dookhan's production numbers were "inconsistent with the amount of samples she could test properly."
He said the average chemist could analyze 50 to 150 samples a month, but Dookhan was doing more than 500, telling police he was "staggered" when he saw a report a year and a half ago that listed her monthly output.
He said he started watching the number of slides Dookhan discarded and there were too few for the numbers of tests she claimed to be performing, suggesting she was recording bogus test results.
In December 2010, Lawler alerted Salemi and Dookhan's immediate supervisor, Elizabeth O'Brien, to his concerns. But he said Salemi allayed Lawler's fears by saying Dookhan was taking work home and skipping lunch and breaks.
"Everybody had discomfort with Annie Dookhan's monthly numbers," Lawler told police. "People were worried on a personal level that their supervisor didn't value them because they were not producing numbers as high as Dookhan." Lawler also was concerned that "the lab was being compromised."
One supervisor, Peter Piro, told police that he became concerned about Dookhan's extraordinary testing output as early as 2007. Piro said he initially thought Dookhan was "a hard worker and diligent," but he eventually saw some "red flags" such as the fact that Dookhan did not seem to use a microscope, which is necessary to confirm that a substance is cocaine.
On one occasion in spring 2011, Piro said he confronted Dookhan for forging a colleague's initials on a document and again informed Salemi, who said he told Julie Nassif, the lab's former director of analytic chemistry. Nassif has since been fired.
Co-workers were also concerned about Dookhan's close relationship with prosecutors, some of whom called her on her cellphone.
Piro said she would sometimes do favors for certain prosecutors and police, such as pulling samples out of order for them. Most of the samples she improperly removed from the evidence room in June 2011 were drug cases in Quincy, suggesting she may have been doing a favor.
Despite the problems, Piro said the Department of Public Health did not begin an internal investigation of Dookhan until December 2011, six months after she was caught improperly removing samples from the evidence room. "The chemists were all wondering why Annie Dookhan was able to stay in the lab," Piro told investigators.
Nonetheless, O'Brien, Dookhan's direct supervisor, defended Dookhan, telling police that she was "a good worker and friendly.'' She was "focused, efficient, reliable, and technologically strong, the kind of person, if you owned your own business, you would want to hire her." The two women worked side by side from 2004 to 2008, O'Brien told police.
Dookhan tearfully told Irwin in an Aug. 30 cellphone call that she never meant to hurt anyone.
"I told her I knew that and that she'd made a mistake, but that didn't make her a bad person," Irwin wrote in his report.Kay Lazar of the Globe staff contributed to this report. Brian Ballou can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Andrea Estes can be reached at email@example.com.


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Bernice Bartel, 96, of Hillsboro died March 23 at Parkside Homes in Hillsboro. She was born Aug. 26, 1916, north of Hillsboro to Benjamin A. and Mary (Dirks) Unruh. She was a homemaker.
She married Walter J. Bartel on Sept. 9, 1938, at Johannestal Mennonite Church, rural Hillsboro.
She is survived by a son, James Bartel of rural Hillsboro; two grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband and a daughter, Jeanette Leuszler.
A celebration of life was scheduled for 11 a.m. today at Trinity Mennonite Church. Burial was at 10 a.m. at Johannestal Cemetery, rural Hillsboro. Visitation was Tuesday.
A memorial fund has been established for Trinity Mennonite Church.


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how many carbs are you allowed in a day
There is not an absolute amount of carbs allowed in a day. Depending on calorie needs, which are different for each of us, the amount is a percentage that ranges from 40%-65% of total calorie needs. What is more important is the type of carbohydrate that is chosen. Your best choices are the carbohydrates that come from fruits, vegetables, beans, and unprocessed whole grains (such as brown rice, barley, 100% whole wheat or whole grain breads, regular oatmeal, or unsweetened granola). The carbohydrate that is in milk is also considered as part of the total carbohydrate intake. Carbohydrates from highly processed foods (such as sweetened or instant cooked cereals) and from added sugars (table sugar, sucrose, corn syrup, honey, etc. in baked goods, sodas, etc.) should be kept to a minimum.


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So, I suppose this is a kind of Islamophoba but still funny :)
It's a combination of misinformation and racism. A large part of the "conservative" movement in America is secretly motivated by distaste for the idea that their tax dollars are being given to black people. That is why they still complain about "Welfare" even now 14 years after reform. The rest comes from the extreme right wing ideology that motivate Fox News and similar media outlets. That ideology is an unholy alliance of libertarianism and extreme Calvinism. Combine racism with those other two and you have an emotional shovel guaranteed to scoop up a huge portion of the American populace. Once the ball started rolling and it became clear that right wing view would ensure the profitability of any media company, the snowball just got bigger and bigger.
So, it comes down to three things that have always defined America: It's original sin of slavery, its philosophy of individualism, and its history of attracting religious fanatics.
Take some comfort in knowing that most Americans DON'T say he's the Antichrist. Just the obnoxiously noisy ones. Or else the people who go way overboard with the hyperbole.
You know who else used hyperbole and false comparisons? HITLER, that's who!!
You know who else used hyperbole and false comparisons? HITLER, that's who!!
Best sentence ever!
I thought Oprah or Saddam or Bin Laden was/were/are the antichrist? I have been so badly misinformed about the identity of a fictional character!
The evidence that it is Obama based on this website is compelling though, i just hope they can figure it all out before the worlds ends of May 2011!
Thanks for posting this, got my morning off to such a laugh.
Hi Jarrod,
The comments on that link was funny to read if you wanna laugh.
countdown to Armageddon.
Evidently there is the official countdown to Armageddon. It's our understanding that this is not based on any biblical text to our knowledge but rather a Myan calender.
The termination date appears to be set for December 21, 2012.
Is there any Bilbical text that supports this date? Please voice your thoughts.
Nostradamus predicted the Bailout.
Nostradamus predicted the bailout…. no kidding.
———— here's the quatrain ——-
Century IX Quatrain 62
To the great one of Ceramon-agora,
The crusaders will all be attached by rank,
The long-lasting Opium and Mandrake,
The Raugon will be released on the third of October.
thanks for comment
I am an American, and I think Americans are clueless. Americans want there to be an Antichrist, that's all there is to it. They want this world to end, and soon, so that they can be 'gwine up to heaven' and spend all those Jesus Bucks that they have been piling up during this lifetime.
Of course, there isn't much time left. Check this out:http://ebiblefellowship.com/may21/


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State Fire Marshal encourages citizens to protect against wildfire
by Bend Weekly News Sources
In support of Wildfire Awareness Week, May 3-9, Oregon State Fire Marshal Randy Simpson encourages home and building owners to protect themselves and their property from the risk of wildfires through safe debris removal, fire prevention, and structural risk reduction.
"Make sure you do all you can to make your home and property a survivable space from wildfire," advises Simpson. "Oregon has experienced significant damage from past wildfires caused by escaped debris burns and that's why we recommend to safely remove debris by composting or taking your yard debris to a collection or recycling center."
In addition to safe debris removal, state fire marshal officials recommend residents in or near wildland areas take steps to decrease the structural ignitability of their home including:
• Maintaining a survivable space of at least 100 feet for a home on level ground and 200 feet for a home on sloped terrain.
• Remove all dead plants, trees, branches, and other debris.
• Plant native, fire-resistant plants within 30 feet of your home.
• Remove branches extending over the roof or within 6 feet of the home.
• Screen all vent openings with 1/8 inch or smaller non-corrosive metal mesh.
• Clean out gutters and box in eaves.
• Enclose areas under raised decks to prevent embers from blowing underneath.
• Use fire resistant roofing such as tile, composition shingles or metal.
For more information on safe debris removal and reducing your wildfire risk, visit the Office of State Fire Marshal web site or the Keep Oregon Green web site.
For information on the 2009 Oregon fire season and weather outlook, visit the Oregon Department of Forestry web site.


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text: Imlay's delightful epistolary adventure of 1793, set on the American frontier, was one of the first American novels. The trials of an emigrant family in the Ohio River Valley of Kentucky contrast the decadence of Europe with the utopian promise of the American West. Its sensational love plots also dramatize the novel's surprising feminist allegiances.