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New API standard will drive efficiencies in process implementation, reaping significant cost savings
Amsterdam, May 17, 2016 – Infonova, a subsidiary of BearingPoint, has been a co-sponsor and contributor to TM Forum's API Project since inception. It is now delighted to announce that it will be progressively transforming the REST APIs within its R6 product to conform with TM Forum's newly announced API standards. Infonova R6 leverages open and standardized APIs not only for integration, but also as the architectural backbone for its on-boarding, orchestration and monetization processes in service provider and cross-industry ecosystems.
The first APIs compliant with TM Forum's design guidelines and API specifications will be launched on R6 in July 2016. From Infonova R6 version 8 onwards, this will be followed by a progressive rollout of new APIs with the aim of securing full continuous compliance with the TM Forum APIs in future versions of the platform in 2017. This will provide additional sets of RESTful APIs for typical integration and partnering scenarios.
Infonova wants to be amongst the first vendors to offer the full benefits of the standard APIs to our clients and tenants on service providers' R6-enabled DEM platforms. Support for consistent API guidelines across the whole industry is key to accelerate the rollout of new businesses and new plays at established carriers.
Andreas Gabriel, SVP Product Management at Infonova
Our work with the many CSPs and vendors in TM Forum has allowed different views and experience to shape the API design and guidelines. Adoption of the new TM Forum API standards will become a key enabler for the platform economy, allowing businesses – large and small – to accelerate collaboration, share in value creation and create ever richer B2B2X offerings for "everything as a service".
Andreas Polz, Infonova CTO and Co-chair of the TM Forum API project
By simplifying and accelerating the on-boarding process, using out-of-the-box TM Forum's industry standard APIs, this could have a transformational impact on the way services are taken to market. It reduces the entry cost of creating powerful new ecosystems whilst encouraging more sophisticated bundled services to be created. It will be a key driver of innovation and market growth in just about every sector impacted by the platform economy.
Angus Ward, BearingPoint's Partner responsible for Digital Ecosystem Management (DEM)
About Infonova
Infonova, founded in 1989, specializes in providing technology and business-oriented software, solutions and services to telecommunications, media, utility and convergent industries. Encapsulating decades of knowledge, Infonova's latest BSS, R6 underpins Digital Ecosystem Management Platforms with multi-tenant Concept-to-Cash BSS capabilities at its core. Its unique business architecture supports multiple tenants enabled on a single platform with individual access to the full range of R6 functionality. R6 supports organizations by providing effective business solutions needed for the creation, delivery and monetization of innovative digital services and multi-party ecosystem management. Infonova´s R6 has been implemented for fixed line incumbents, global tier 1 & tier 2 providers, multi-national ICT providers, cable TV, mobile 'MVNO' bureau, utilities and content players supporting both industry-specific and cross-industry digital economy business models. Infonova is a subsidiary of BearingPoint.
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BearingPoint consultants understand that the world of business changes constantly and that the resulting complexities demand intelligent and adaptive solutions. Our clients, whether in commercial or financial industries or in government, experience real results when they work with us. The new way for these organisations to grow is to create digital platforms that manage and monetize vibrant ecosystems of consumers, producers and innovators. We call this Digital Ecosystem Management (DEM). We combine industry, operational and technology skills with relevant proprietary assets, including our award winning Infonova R6 software, to create all-in-one DEM tailored solution and services for each client's individual challenge. This adaptive approach is at the heart of our culture and has led to long-standing relationships with many of the world's leading companies and organizations. Our global consulting network of 9,700 people serves clients in more than 70 countries and engages with them for measurable results and long-lasting success.
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Obama campaign, DNC end year in debt
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee ended 2012 with large debts.
Campaign finance reports filed Thursday show Obama's campaign ended the year with $5.8 million in debt while his party's political arm, the DNC, owed $21.4 million. The two groups ended the year with a combined $7.5 million in the bank.
The Republican National Committee, meanwhile, ended the year debt-free and started 2013 with $4.7 million in its coffers.
Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has not yet filed its report with the Federal Election Commission. A report filed in December showed it had $12.9 million in cash through Nov. 26 and $1.2 million in debt.


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The CW is one step closer to bringing together the Justice League!
The network is developing Flash, a spin-off of Arrow which will feature speedy superhero Barry Allen. The character will be introduced in a backdoor pilot on Arrow during Season 2 before potentially spinning off into his own series.
Arrow: Kevin Alejandro, Michael Jai White join cast for Season 2
"We plan to introduce a recurring character and an origin story of Dr. Barry Allen, who you now know is the Flash," CW President Mark Pedowitz told reporters at the Television Critics Association fall TV previews on Tuesday. "We're planning an origin story, we'll see how it goes and hopefully it goes well. We do want to expand on the DC universe. We've got rich characters that we can use and we thought this was a very organic way to get there."
Arrow executive producers Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg will executive-produce the project alongside DC Entertainment's Geoff Johns. David Nutter, who helmed the Arrow pilot, has signed on to direct the backdoor pilot. Marc Guggenheim, also an executive producer on Arrow, will not be involved with Flash.
Similar to how Barry Allen ushered in the Silver Age of the DC superheroes, he'll also usher some new concepts into the Arrow world, including superpowers, which have so far been excluded from the series as the producers strived to keep everything grounded in reality. "When we first meet Barry Allen, he's just a forensic scientist working for Central City Police Department," Kreisberg told reporters. "He's just an ordinary man when we meet him. As we always do on Arrow, we're trying to keep it grounded and realistic as possible. That is the way the audience will be introduced to Barry and get to know him before life gets a little bit faster."
Exclusive: Arrow boss sets the record straight on Black Canary casting
Given that Arrow has kept its characters grounded in reality, it comes as a surprise that a character who possesses super-speed and superhuman reflexes would be introduced. "Our characters will react to the extraordinary changes to their world in hopefully a realistic way," Kreisberg said. "These 'powers' won't be treated as commonplace on the show. They will be extraordinary events, and our world and the characters in them will react accordingly."
"Despite the fact that he's got superpowers, I think there's something very relatable about Barry of all the big seven of the Justice League," he continued. "He got his powers by accident. He isn't a god, he wasn't seeking this out. It came to him. His reactions to that feel very human and grounded."
In comparison to Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), Barry is not a dark and tortured soul. "It'll be fun to see these two characters together because they both have distinctly different world views, while both caring very deeply about right and wrong," Kreisberg said.
"Barry's someone who's a cop, he follows the law and follows the rules, he's the last thing in the world you would ever think about as being a vigilante," Johns said, and Kreisberg noted that Barry will have an impact on Oliver's life as he embarks on his new mission to become a hero rather than just a vigilante.
Arrow: 13 DC Comics characters we want to see and who should play them!
Barry will first appear in Episodes 8 and 9 of the second season before the potential backdoor pilot airs as Episode 20, all of which will be written by Berlanti, Johns and Kresiberg. The first two episodes will bring Barry to Starling City, while the latter will be a bigger introduction into the world of Flash.
With Flash, the network has now assembled two of the main seven members of the Justice League, including Green Arrow from the flagship series. Last year, the network developed a Wonder Woman origin series, which would've been called Amazon, but the project is currently on hold. The CW was also the home to Clark Kent's Superman, though Smallville and Arrow do not hail from the same universe since the Green Arrow was played by Justin Hartley on the former series.
Flash would be the third spin-off for the network. The Vampire Diaries is launching the new series The Originals this season, while a backdoor pilot is being developed to spin off the long-running Supernatural.
Arrow returns Wednesday, Oct. 9 at 8/7c on The CW. Who do you think should play the Flash?
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Updated at 4:45 p.m. ET: Officials in Oklahoma said four people were found shot dead at a Tulsa apartment on Monday.
Police responded to the scene in the south part of Tulsa at around 12:30 p.m. local time, where four women were found dead inside the Fairmont Terrace apartments, NBC station KJRH reported.
"The victims were shot multiple times," Tulsa Police Officer Jillian Roberson confirmed in a statement to NBC News.
Authorities also found an unharmed 4-year-old child in the apartment, Roberson said. The child was taken into protective custody.
"It's not everyday you see something like this in the city of Tulsa," Tulsa Police Officer Leland Ashley told the Tulsa World. "It's very tough right now."
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The police's early investigation indicates an individual went inside the apartment and found the four dead females and the unharmed child inside, Roberson said. Officials suspect someone spoke with an occupant of the apartment an hour before the bodies were found, KJRH reported.
The victims have not been identified.
The crime remains under investigation, while police look for witnesses.
This story is still developing. Check back for updates.
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Today celebrates the life and achievements of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., (January 15, 1929—April 4, 1968). This national holiday honors the civil rights leader and his non-violent movement to end racial segregation and his quest to right injustices in the United States.
After graduating from high school at the age of fifteen, King studied at Morehouse College where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class and was awarded his B.A. degreen in 1948 and his B.D. in 1951. He received his doctorate in 1955 from Boston University. It was in Boston where he met and married Coretta Scott and the couple went on to have four children–two sons and two daughters.
He served as co-pastor, alongside his father, at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga., from 1960 until his death in 1968. His grandfather had been pastor there as well from 1914 until 1931, when his father stepped into the position.
By 1954, King was a member of the executive committee of the NAACP and, in 1955, accepted the leadership of a bus boycott that was the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of its kind. It lasted 382 days until, in December 1956, the U.S. supreme Court declared segregation on buses illegal. Although it was a great victory, it came with many sacrifices. King was arrested, threatened, subjected to personal abuse and his home was bombed, but he emerged an even stronger leader.
His list of accomplishments are great including becoming not only a symbolic leader of the civil rights movement, but a world figure, as well. In addition to traveling over six million miles to spread his message of peace, he led many marches and wrote numerous books and speeches, one of which was his famous "I Have a Dream" address which he delivered to more than 250,000 marchers in Washington, D.C.
At the age of 35, he was the youngest man ever to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Sadly, on April 4, 1968, this great man was assassinated as he stood on the balcony of a hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee.


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Yes, it's been nearly a year since I posted here on the blog. No, nothing earth-shattering happened to make me cease posting. Life just got in the way of being online. And I chose life.
I'm sure you understand.
But a lot can happen in a year. Like a pregnancy. And a baby! (If you follow me on Instagram, this is obviously old news, but happy news none the less.)
2013 was a milestone year for our little family, and not because of house projects. We did get a few things done around home before baby arrived. My favorite task was, of course, the nursery.
The room was once our guest bedroom. I shared photos of its transformation here and here if you're interested in what it looked like before it belonged to my child.
When we found out I was pregnant, I already knew the direction I wanted to go for the nursery. Simple, white, Scandinavian. Not really much of a surprise, considering what the rest of our house looks like. The room is pretty small, so keeping the palate light helps it feel open and less cramped. I wanted it to be gender neutral and have the color limited to the accessories and toys. The rug--made of Flor tiles--was the jumping off point.
I also wanted to incorporate some antique furniture pieces, like the dresser in the photo above. It belonged to my namesake, Great Great Grandma Kirsti.
The antique hutch is also a family heirloom that I wanted to use in the space.
The wall color is Rhinestone by Sherwin Williams. We have it in our living room as well. The book shelves are simple Ikea picture rails. Their proximity to the rocking chair makes reading stories at night convenient and fun.
I'm so in love with my rocking chair. It was a gift from Mike after the baby was born. A push present, if you will. I love how well my 6'4" frame fits in it without feeling like I'm too big for it. It's the Nursery Works Sleepytime Rocking Chair. A splurge, but worth every penny in my book.
Remember this lamp? An oldie but a goodie.
Ignore the unstyled shelves in the hutch. I haven't even put real photos in the gifted frames yet. What can I say? I've been too busy kissing chubby cheeks and tiny toes.
Have you heard of the Baby Lit book series? My sister introduced them to me and now I'm obsessed. All sorts of literary classics have been made into baby board books as a part of the series. They're so great.
We put up a little gallery with photos of us parents as babies as well as photos of baby Nola. She looks the most like her dad, though we've determined she has my chin. Atta' girl. I'm planning to add a couple more frames, though I don't want it to extend over the crib for safety reasons. The canvas baskets are from Target. They're perfect for corralling toys and are easy to carry around the house for playtime.
I've found I prefer simple wooden toys over all of the plastic stuff that's available. They're adorable and timeless.
I love this mobile. I saw it years ago and saved it in an Amazon wish list until it was time to start getting things for the nursery. It's the Flensted Symphony in 3 Movements. Love.
Little baby Nola seems to like it as well. Which is really what it's all about, right?
Feel free to ask about other products in the comments. I'm thinking I may do a post with my favorite baby gear. Interested? Let me know and I'll put something together.