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The company will continue to operate under the name of Agiliway with a lot more diversifying services and competencies in store for its clients.

Agility CMS Announces New Packages Aimed at Supporting a Content-First Approach

Agility CMS Ranks High in the Leaders Quadrant for Customer Satisfaction and Largest Market Presence.

fastr_conf is a one-day conference jam-packed with powerful learning sessions led by some of Toronto's best agile innovators and well-established web developers.

On October 15th, the company completed two product line upgrades providing improved capabilities for its customers. www.Connoverpackaging.com

Shorr credits the expansion to the strong partnership and collaboration between the company and its customers.

San Diego Architecture and Design Firm is the Only San Diego Company to Receive a 2019 National CotY Award

Synopsis, a party game that encourages creative writing, inside jokes and laughter has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $5000 to kick-off production. Casual gamers young and old have early access to the initial set of storylines.

Anti-choking device has saved 112 lives worldwide

Custom thermoformer T.O. Plastics will highlight its cleanroom and high-speed manufacturing capabilities at Feb. 6-8 show

New pressure former will provide added cleanroom benefits at T.O. Plastics' Otsego, MN, facility

Shorr Packaging supports the bi-partisan Pro-ESOP Bills H.R.2258 and S.177 – Promotion and Expansion of Private Employee Ownership Act.

The update from Shorr's 2017 Package Theft Report shows a 7% decrease in respondents who experienced package theft.

The sad death of a six-year-old on his way to school who was run over by a semi truck in East Harlem has raised emotions and highlighted the awareness of New Yorkers to the dangers associated with living in a huge city.

Patients Now Able to Determine If Symptoms Actually Represented a COVID-19 Infection

Skagit County Public Works to solicit vendor information to inform the design of an all-electric ferry to replace the M/V Guemes.

Frances Fuller has followed up her award winning book about Lebanon, In Borrowed Houses, with a new book that helps us face a challenge each and every one of us must someday face.

Award winning author Frances Fuller offers a unique perspective on aging based on her own experience. Sharing her personal difficulties, memories and values, she reveals also the decisions she has made about how to live the final stage of her life.

Multi-award winning author Frances Fuller offers a unique outlook on aging based on her own experience. Sharing her personal difficulties, memories and values, she reveals also the decisions she has made about how to live the final stage of her life.

When Magic Journeys, LLC decided to create a new digital presence to convey the scope and spirit of its gestational surrogacy services, it selected Big Chief Creative Media to tell the story.

"Why do we scream at each other?" The question Prince asked 35 years ago inspires Los Angeles artists in acoustic neo-soul arrangement that explores lyric's current relevancy to global relationships. Available starting August 16, 2019.

Creatures invading toilets, spreading dirt and diseases as well as causing serious hygienic threats to people's health used to be a widely underestimated topic.

The companies pull out of a contemplated merger plan due to complexities involved with the integration process.

New Bestselling Book Inspires Courage at the Perfect Time

Frances Fuller has followed up her award winning book about Lebanon, In Borrowed Houses, with a new book that helps us face a challenge each and every one of us must someday face.

Care U, senior contents development and distribution company that runs ICT-based program for seniors

SSD Global Solutions has introduced a 2-Day on-line LIVE Lean and Agile Project Management Program. Attend just to see how Lean and Agile can make any project better, faster or more cost effective or do some additional on-line work and get certified

Toolkit brings awareness to bone health strategies

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Shift Up Now is gaining traction and attention as more female racers–– professional and amateur alike–– lend their names to the cause and the organization.  

We build amazing AR educational books and apps in 16 languages. Our mission: Make learning magical

Couples can now incorporate cannabis into the wedding ceremony

New Brand Reflects the Company's Mission to Bring Speed, Flexibility, and Power Together for their Customers and Partners; Solidifying Market-Leader Position Going Forward.

Event will also outline practical, low cost water quality testing and treatment solutions that assist project managers and implementers in the field

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Williams' new video teaches kids how to use best practices in regards to avoiding the coronovirus. Williams employs her talent as a writer and poet to create an entertaining and engaging presentation.

New Display Bin Prominently Features Custom Packaging to Increase Sales in Store

The hero product of plant powered skincare line Skin 2 Skin has won yet another award by Truth in Aging. Skin 2 Skin's 24/7 Rejuvenation, a Complete Anti-Aging Solution, had been voted as the 'Community Favorite' and Best Anti-Aging Product.

Plant Powered Skincare line Skin 2 Skin launches new exfoliating cleanser with a soft and refreshing application, accelerating youthful skin renewal one wash at a time.

Industry Experts at Truth In Aging award Skin 2 Skin's hero product Anti-Sagging Renewal Serum 2 of the Best Product Awards for 2018 as a highly effective formula as Best Serum for Firming Sagging Skin and Community Favorite Best Anti-Aging Product.

When it comes to combating the appearance of aging skin there is nothing more successful than peptides. In the world of anti-aging, trifluoroacetyl tripeptide 2, Progeline is one of the most potent defenders against the visible signs of aging skin.

The Masters Agility Championship Category, has been a relatively new, but highly anticipated contest event starter for Westminster fans over the past seven years and this year's winner is Bad Dog Agility trained P!nk!

Birdsong offers eight thousand unique, engaging content experiences, including video chat, music, classic tv shows, videos, travel, and fun brain fitness exercises and memory games.

Facility increases square footage 190% and adds a new demo room

The Transportation Equity Network (TEN) has released More Transit = More Jobs: The Impact Of Increasing Funding For Public Transit (31p. PDF). TEN is a coalition of more than 350 grassroots organizations in 41 states that has worked since 1997 to build a more just, prosperous, and connected America.

This study asks two key questions:

What would be the effect on jobs in each metropolitan area of shifting 50% of the money spent on highways to public transit?

How many jobs would be created in each metro area if we increased funding on public transit at the rate indicated by the Transportation For America proposal for the next transportation authorization act?

The report highlights several statistics in answering those questions based on data from Transportation Improvement Programs (TIPS) in 20 U.S. metropolitan areas. For example, 1,123,674 new transit jobs would be created over a 5-year period for a net gain of 180,150 jobs without a single dollar of new spending.

However, if federal spending on transit increased as proposed by TEN and Transportation For America, an estimated 1.3 million jobs over the life of the law would be created, as well as almost 800,000 more jobs than under present federal transporation law (SAFETEA-LU).

The Federal Highway Administration published the 2009 Urban Congestion Trends (8p. PDF) document last week. This brief report utilizes a dashboard format to convey year-over-year changes in key traffic measures: daily hours of congestion, time penalty for eqach trip, worst-trip time penalty. Some key observations include:

• Overall, congestion had declined in almost all monitored regions between 2008 and 2009
• Less wasted time and fewer hours of the day were devoted to stop-and-go traffic in 16 of the 23 monitored regions
• At least one of the three measures improved in 20 of the 23 monitored regions
• Congestion is lowest during the summer vacation season

The report goes on to explain how operational improvements can mitigate congestion and promote smooth, safe and consistent traffic flow.

Examples provided from around the country include high-occupancy/toll lanes, freeway ramp metering, improved information coordination, work-zone management, and traffic signal system improvement programs.

In Managing Increasing Ridership Demand (32p. PDF), The FTA's Transit Cooperative Research Program presents an overview of a study mission investigating how several transit operators and agencies in Latin America accomodate sudden and significant growth in the number of riders and increasing demand for service.

Case studies from Guayaquil (Ecuador), Santiago (Chile), Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Porto Alegre (Brazil) were selected because they have faced and successfully dealt with challenges similar to recent ridership grown in the United States.

Each city's responses offer unique insight into managing increasing transit ridership and providing various perspectives on serving the mobility needs of their communities.

Two International Transit Studies Program study missions such as this are conducted each year. They have three objectives: To afford team members the opportunity to expand their network of domestic and international public transportation peers, to provide a forum for discussion of global initiatives and lessons learned in public transportation, and to facilitate idea sharing and the possible import of strategies for application to transportation communities in the United States.

This week, we highlight three new titles from the ASPA Series in Public Administration and Public Policy.

Market disruptions, climate change, and health pandemics lead the growing list of challenges faced by today’s leaders. These issues, along with countless others that do not make the daily news, require novel thinking and collaborative action to find workable solutions. However, many administrators stumble into collaboration without a strategic orientation.

Using a practitioner-oriented style, Strategic Collaboration In Public And Non-Profit Administration: A Practice-Based Approach To Solving Shared Problems provides guidance on how to collaborate more effectively, with less frustration and better results.

Linking collaboration theory to effective practice, this book offers essential advice that fosters shared understanding, creative answers, and transformation results through strategic collaborative action. With an emphasis on application, it uses scenarios, real-world cases, tables, figures, tools, and checklists to highlight key points.

The appendix includes supplemental resources such as collaboration operating guidelines, a meeting checklist, and a collaboration literature review to help public and nonprofit managers successfully convene, administer, and lead collaboration. The book presents a framework for engaging in collaboration in a way that stretches current thinking and advances public service practice.

A guidebook through the minefield of government contracting and procurement, Government Contracting: Promises and Perils describes the dangerous practices commonly applied in the development and management of government contracts and provides advice for avoiding the sort of errors that might compromise their ability to protect the public interest.

It includes strategies for increasing profits for government contractors, rather than incurring burdensome costs, through compliance with government mandated subcontracting and financial management systems.

Drawing from his in-depth investigation of government agencies across the country, the author examines present-day scenarios that regularly lead public servants and government committees to manage contracts with tools that are less than optimal and to select contractors that may not be the best qualified. He then delineates practical processes, contracting documents, and contract management tools to mitigate detrimental outcomes and alternative approaches to supplant the imperfect methodologies.

The author includes a CD-ROM with the book that provides a number of practical tools that you can apply as well as examples of contracts and templates that are the best he discovered during his research. The book also outlines an approach for performing advance contract planning, conducting contract negotiations, and administering contracts useful when planning for the management of the contracting process throughout the contracting cycle, negotiating a contract that protects the interest of all contracting parties, and ensuring successful contractor performance.

Filling a gap in project management literature, Managing Public Sector Projects: A Strategic Framework for Success in an Era of Downsized Government supplies managers and administrators—at all levels of government—with expert guidance on all aspects of public sector project management.

From properly allocating risks in drafting contracts to dealing with downsized staffs and privatized services, this book clearly explains the technical concepts and the political issues involved.

In line with the principles of Total Quality Management (TQM) and the PMBOK^® (Project Management Body of Knowledge), David S. Kassel establishes a framework those in the public sector can follow to ensure the success of their public projects and programs. He supplies more than 30 real-life examples to illustrate the concepts behind the framework—including reconstruction projects in Iraq, the Big Dig project in Boston, local sewer system and library construction projects, and software technology.

This authoritative resource provides strategic recommendations for effective planning, execution, and maintenance of public projects. It also:

• Highlights the differences between managing projects in the public sector versus the private sector
• Explains how to scrutinize costs, performance claims, and the backgrounds of prospective contractors
• Presents key safeguards that should be included in all contracts with contractors, consultants, suppliers, and other service providers
• Details the basics of project cost estimation, design and scheduling, and how to hold contractors responsible for meeting established project standards

In an age of downsized government and in the face of a general distrust of public service, this book is a dependable guide for avoiding management practices that are common to projects that fail and for adopting the practices common to projects that succeed in terms of cost, schedule, and quality.

Each and every day, social media tools change the way that organizations
interact with their users.

A recent report from the Center For Urban Transportation Research at University of South Florida titled Routes To New Networks: A Guide To Social Media For The Public Transportation Industry (66p. PDF) explains how these new platforms offer not only more personal one-on-one interaction than traditional media, but also represent the essence of niche marketing.

It is undeniable that social media is all the buzz. For some, utilizing new media tools may come as second nature. For others, however, entering the world of social media means taking a giant leap into the world of online communications.

One thing is certain – social media platforms are allowing a new opportunity for transportation providers to directly communicate with their target audiences. Communication is moving in this direction – with or without your organization.

The report analyzes the usefulness of and applications for social networks, written blogs, audio/video blogs, microblogs (e.g. Twitter), photo sharing, video sharing, user-generated content and mobile web content.

The report states that key points to consider when determining which tool(s) to use are:

1) Who is my target audience and what tools are they using?
2) What type of information do I want to communicate?

Content must always resonate with your audience. What can you provide that would be of value?

Earlier this year, the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) published Funding The Public Transportation Needs Of An Aging Population (57p. PDF).

It explains how rapid growth in the number of older people in the United States during the coming decades will lead to greatly increased needs for expanded and enhanced public transportation services. This report:

a) identifies the range of actions that will be needed to expand mobility options for older people, including accessible public transportation services;
b) quantifies the demand for these public transportation services; and
c) estimates the funding that will be needed to provide them.

Needed actions have been identified by means of a review of the extensive literature on this
subject. The actions needed to expand mobility options for older people include:

• Enhancements to fixed-route public transportation operations and planning such as additional bus operator training, incorporating travel needs of older people in route planning and stop placement, and coordination with other agencies and transportation providers
• Enhancements to public transportation vehicles such as low-floor buses, kneeling buses, improved interior circulation, additional stanchions and grab bars, ergonomic seating designed for older riders, and accessibility features either required or encouraged by ADA like lifts and ramps, larger letters on head signs, and stop announcements
• Actions to help older people take advantage of existing services, like presenting information in ways that are easy to read and as clear as possible, information and assistance programs to connect older people with appropriate services, and outreach and training programs
• Expansion of supplementary services including flexible route and community transportation services, ADA complementary paratransit, non-ADA demand-responsive services, taxi subsidy programs, and volunteer driver programs
• Application of universal design strategies at transit facilities, bus stops, and on streets and sidewalks in the immediate vicinity of transit facilities and stops

These are the actions of greatest concern to public transportation agencies, but they are not the
only actions needed.

Other important actions include assuring supportive services to caregivers
who provide transportation, encouraging further development of unsubsidized private
transportation services, increasing the availability of accessible taxicabs, coordinating with non-emergency medical transportation provided under Medicaid and Medicare, and supporting
modifications to automobiles and roadways to increase the safety of older drivers.

Finally, we wanted to take a closer look at U.S. Parking Policies: An Overview Of Management Strategies put out by the Institute For Transportation And Development Policy in New York.

This report highlights best practices in parking management in the United States.

In the last decade, some municipalities have reconsidered poorly conceived parking policies to address a host of negative impacts resulting from private automobile use such as traffic congestion and climate change. Unchecked, these policies have proven to be a major barrier to establishing a balanced urban transportation network.

Many aspects of current parking management in the United States do not work reliably or efficiently for anyone: Motorists find themselves circling for long periods in search of a place to park; retail employees take choice parking locations away from potential customers; developers are compelled to provide more parking than the market requires; and traffic managers encounter difficulty handling traffic generated by new parking as there is often no link between parking price, supply and the amount of available road space.

Finally, the old parking paradigm doesn’t work for the environment, as hidden subsidies encourage over reliance on private car use — a major, growing contributor to global warming and air pollution.

This report identifies core sustainable parking principles and illustrates how smarter parking management can benefit consumers and businesses in time and money savings, while also leading to more livable, attractive communities.

A growing consensus of researchers contend that new algorithms are needed to transform narrow AI to AGI. Brain Simulator II is free software for new algorithm development targeted at AGI that you can experiment with and participate in its development.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's deputy chief medical officer said on Saturday he was confident the coronavirus "R" number, a measure of the rate of contagion, was below 1 across the United Kingdom. "I am confident that our R is less than 1 overall," Jonathan Van-Tam said at the government's daily news briefing

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