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Bus stop at Newark Transit Hub temporarily closed on 5/11

Due to construction at the Newark Transit Hub, the bus stop on Farmer Lane at Delaware Ave., #3678, will be temporarily closed on Monday, May 11 from 7 AM to 5 PM.

 

Please board at the bus stop located at the Newark Transit Hub on Pomeroy Lane at Main St., #3679. A notice will be posted at affected bus stop directing riders to the alternate boarding location.

 

Thanks for riding! For your traveling convenience download the free DART Transit app.




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1319 Arbitration of Disputes Between Carriers and Primary Care and Chronic Care Management Providers

DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE: Office of the Commissioner




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1572 Teacher of Students Who Are Gifted or Talented

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: Professional Standards Board




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801 Regulations of the Delaware Council on Police Training

DEPARTMENT OF SAFETY AND HOMELAND SECURITY: Delaware Council on Police Training




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4463 Licensing and Registration of Operators of Public Water Supply Systems

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES: Division of Public Health




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Covid-19 impact: Even the best of banks, Corporate India to plumb new depths

21 downgrades a day since January compared with 15 between January and mid-March.




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Funding for e-commerce could slow to a trickle

Indian internet consumer businesses raised $2.1 billion from investors in the January-March period, about 14% less year-on-year, data from market research firm Tracxn showed.




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Power demand: Forecasts wide off the mark, PLFs seen falling further

During FY12-17, a cumulative generation capacity of 99,209 MW was added against a target of 88,537 MW, outpacing the growth in demand and resulting in a declining trend of PLFs.




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Direct Benefit Transfer of Rs 36,659 crore since beginning of lockdown

DBT ensures that the cash benefit is directly credited into the account of the beneficiary, eliminating the risk of leakage as well as improving efficiency.




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COVID-19 lockdown: Maharashtra sugarcane cutters to return to own villages

The order also directs the village sarpanchs (heads) to permit these workers to enter their villages, and to make an official note recording their entry.




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Resuming operations post-COVID-19 lockdown: Auto, phone, durable firms continue to remain shut

Delay in local clearances, incomplete supply chain and closure of front-end sales, key reason for firms in a wait and watch mode




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Low-cost funds: Odisha, Maharashtra eye loans from rich PSUs instead of market

Like Maharashtra and Telangana, Odisha has also been forced to cut expenditure and defer some others, including salary payments to manage the finances at the current juncture.




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Logistic constraints: Few takers among retail biggies for direct purchase from farmers

Except Madhya Pradesh, no other state has so far acted upon the Centre’s advisory, leaving farmers, the intended beneficiaries of the move, high and dry.




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Vodafone Idea pays Rs 1,367 crore towards licence fee, spectrum usage charge

While for the latter the companies, including Vodafone Idea, have sought the facility to pay in installments spread over some 20 years which is currently before the SC, there's been no such demand for current payments.




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Facebook, Jio will collaborate as well as compete

Since the deal between the two firms is not exclusive, tomorrow Facebook is free to forge any kind of alliance with the likes of Amazon or Flipkart on the retail side.




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Why Reliance Jio won’t be able to offer discounted services to its users – Explained

Other telcos may face the heat in the long term by the nature of partnership which over time may see their high-end subscribers moving on to Jio's network just by the brand pull of WhatsApp.




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WhatsApp’s 400 million subscribers in India give JioMart crucial edge

The partnership between Reliance Retail Whatsapp - inked on Wednesda -and could mean more competition for the likes of BigBasket and Grofers and others like Amazon and Flipkart looking to get a share of the food and groceries pie.




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Relief Package 2.0: Wait gets longer as govt puts together a larger response

India is among the last set of nations to face the Covid-19 outbreak, but the longer it takes to shape its economic response, the costlier its interventions will be, according to industry executives.




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Modi Cabinet approves new Ordinance: 7-year jail for attack on health workers

In view of the mounting attacks amid the Coronavirus outbreak, the IMA had been demanding that the government formulate a law to protect health workers.




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Tracking Covid: City-wise mortality worrying

Part of the explanation can be higher co-morbidity in certain cities and also a shortage of critical equipment like ventilators.




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Govt’s wish: IndiGo rolls back April pay cut for most staff

One reason for it could be that IndiGo, with its free cash of over Rs 9,400 crore as on December 31, is in a better position than most peers to tide over the crisis.




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Unilever withdraws 2020 guidance: Hindustan Unilever may get hit too

Unilever had expected demand to pick up across its markets in H2 of 2020 with a growth of 3%. The company had lowered its guidance for 2020 in December 2019 and now its long-term guidance band for the current year too stands suspended.




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L&T loses Rs 12k crore revenue in Coronavirus lockdown

Urging the top management to rise up to the challenge, Subrahmanyan said that once the lockdown is lifted, everyone’s efforts need to double up to try and bridge the revenue gap.




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Coronavirus outbreak: Total lockdown in Chennai, 4 other Tamil Nadu cities from Sunday

The stricter lockdown measures in select cities are in the wake of increasing number of Covid-19 cases in the state, especially in the urban areas.




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COVID-19 lockdown: Most export units yet to restart, lack of SOPs in states a hurdle

Even some of the food processing companies have reported that they are not getting the raw material as village panchayats were not allowing anyone to enter to procure such raw materials.




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Stocks for just a week: Only 3 lakh RNA extraction kits left

The Group of Ministers (GoM), headed by health minister Harsh Vardhan, met to review the preparations and deliberate on the way ahead.




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COVID-19 Lockdown: Govt revises own orders, stakeholders left clueless

In fact, the BJP-JDU government in Bihar has protested against students being allowed to move out of Rajasthan and wrote to the Centre recently calling it an “utter violation of guidelines issued by the MHA”.




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From e-tailers to kirana shops, local brands are the new flavour

A visit to any neighbourhood kirana shop will reveal piles of snacks, bakery goods, groceries, soaps and sanitisers that have been made in the immediate vicinity.




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Bureaucratic rejig: Tarun Bajaj to be new economic affairs secretary

The appointment of Bajaj comes at a time when the economy has been facing an unprecedented crisis due to the Covid-19 outbreak, and is expected to grow at just 1.9% in FY21, according to an IMF estimate, or even lower.




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COVID Combat: Now, states seek forest funds

A finance ministry official said some other state governments have also shown interest in borrowing from their respective state CAMPA funds, but refused to name them.




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Kerala Model: Weekend mobile, TV shops thrive but supply a constraint

The concern is genuine as new hotspots are emerging in districts like Idukki and Kottayam that were earlier in the green zone and considered safe.




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Govt working on Aarogya Setu App for feature phones

Further, the app will also have added features like the e-pass for movement during the restrictions imposed by the government to fight the pandemic.




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India’s only UV lamp makers flooded with orders amid Coronavirus outbreak

Hospitals were not keen earlier and considered using UV lamps in the HVAC systems only because there was a 10-15% savings in the electricity bill and not because it improved air quality and killed microbes, Kulkarni said.




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Third-day rally: Markets maintain forward march

Interestingly, foreign portfolio investors (FPI), who were big sellers in March pulling out more than $8 billion, and have offloaded shares for most of April, turned buyers picking up some $50 million worth of stocks.




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Lockdown relaxation: Let inter-state trucks move freely without passes, MHA tells states

“This is essential for maintaining the supply chain of goods and services across the country during the lockdown period,” Union home secretary Ajay Bhalla reiterated in a letter to state chief secretaries.




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RIL’s Q4 net profits down 37.2%; misses estimates to carve out O2C business

The company has also created an interesting new business vertical from this quarter - financial services - based on internal reorganisation of its business segments.




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India to roll out scheme to woo MNCs to relocate from China

Many independent agencies have forecast that Indian economy may grow at less than 1% in FY21 from around 5% (advance estimate) in FY20.




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Power package: Rs 90,000-crore credit line to fund discoms afresh, but with strict riders

States need to undertake to clear departmental dues, fast-track subsidy release to receive first tranche of Rs 45-k cr; show evidence of action to get the balance




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Lockdown relaxation: Special trains ferry stranded migrants, students

To ensure safety, passengers would be screened by the sending states and only those found asymptomatic would be allowed to travel. Sending state governments will have to bring these persons in batches that can be accommodated in the train to the designated railway station in sanitised buses following social distancing norms and other precautions.




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West Bengal’s numbers get more and more curious

On Thursday, the expert committee set up by the state said 105 persons infected by the virus had died, but just 33 of these died due to the virus.




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Lockdown effect: No rules of social distancing apply here

Social media use surges; average time spent on platforms like Facebook and Instagram up by over 60%.




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Highest mortality, low testing: Central team’s note to Bengal as it leaves state

While praising the state on some counts, including increasing daily testing from 400 to 2,410 per day between April 20 and May 2, it also flagged the non-cooperation of the state bureaucracy.




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Read RSS feeds with SAS using XML or JSON

This blog post could be subtitled "To Catch a Thief" or maybe "Go ahead. Steal this blog. I dare you."* That's because I've used this technique several times to catch and report other web sites who lift the blog content from blogs.sas.com and present it as their own. Syndicating blog [...]

The post Read RSS feeds with SAS using XML or JSON appeared first on The SAS Dummy.








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How to share your SAS knowledge with your professional network

SAS Global Forum 2020 is not the conference experience we thought it would be. Thousands of us had planned to gather in person to share our enthusiasm and knowledge about SAS and power of data and analytics. We were going to combine our skills and knowledge to inspire one another [...]

The post How to share your SAS knowledge with your professional network appeared first on The SAS Dummy.





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Extending Excel with Python and SAS Viya

Whether you like it or not, Microsoft Excel is still a big hit in the data analysis world. From small to big customers, we still see fit for daily routines such as filtering, generating plots, calculating items on ad-hoc analysis or even running statistical models. Whenever I talk to customers, [...]

Extending Excel with Python and SAS Viya was published on SAS Users.