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Inside the nineteenth millennium, the definition of personal computer described those who done statistical calculations. Yet physical tabulating equipment and also calculators begun to can be found in the particular overdue nineteenth millennium and also early on the twentieth millennium, and also inside 1946, technicians L. Presper Eckert (1919-95) and also David Mauchly (1907-80) created one of many initial modern day electronic digital personal computers, called the particular Electronic digital Mathematical Integrator and also Personal computer (ENIAC). ENIAC has been a significant move forward yet acquired several down sides : it absolutely was how big is a space, leaped slowly and gradually, and sometimes endured disappointments inside the power parts. Yet considering that the 1940s, personal computers have got advanced directly into quickly and also successful equipment in which load virtually every specialized niche in the present community.
The particular broadening function regarding personal computers provides commenced to be able to encroach about jobs that want significant considered : no less than to get a particular person. As an example, inside 1997, a pc referred to as Strong Glowing blue beaten Garry Kasparov, the particular reigning Planet Chess Winner during the time, in the chess match up. Chess-playing personal computer plans are already consistently conquering newbie chess participants considering that the 1970s, yet Strong Glowing blue conquer one of the better.
No-one is definite simply how much better : and perchance clever : personal computers can be inside the 21st millennium. Personal computer Research, a single level of the particular multivolume Frontiers regarding Research established, explores half a dozen well known subject areas inside personal computer research study in which deal with concerns regarding the ability regarding personal computers and also their particular software.
Despite the fact that a pc may well execute clever jobs, the particular efficiency of all equipment nowadays demonstrates the particular talent regarding personal computer technicians and also computer programmers. Probably none with the software stated earlier could have recently been achievable minus the endeavours regarding personal computer technicians which layout the particular equipment, and also personal computer computer programmers which compose the particular plans to offer the mandatory guidelines. Many personal computers nowadays execute some basic steps, and also has to be advised specifically which usually methods to execute and also inside just what buy. Strong Glowing blue, as an example, failed to consider being a particular person can, but rather leaped an application to look for the most effective shift, since dependant on difficult remedies. A quick personal computer for instance Strong Glowing blue can easily zero by means of these kinds of guidelines thus swiftly it is able to remarkable achievements regarding "intelligence. inches
However, many personal computer experts work about creating personal computers better : plus more just like human beings. The particular mental faculties contains intricate sensory sites in which method physical details, remove crucial characteristics, and also fix issues.
Quick calculations are necessary inside a number of these functions, and also quickly personal computers will get answers to difficult issues. Strong Blue's system, as an example, churned by means of countless guidelines each next to get the ideal chess shift. Yet specific forms of issues have got stayed intractable, despite having the particular speediest personal computers. A number of these issues, for instance invoice discounting integers or perhaps choosing the quickest ranges in a few avenues, have got crucial sensible software regarding executive and also research, along with regarding personal computer sites and also economics. Folks can easily system personal computers to handle these kinds of issues over a tiny level : invoice discounting a tiny amount for instance 20, or perhaps locating a course together with simply a few towns to see : yet issues concerning greater quantities demand too much effort.
A simple yet effective approach to fix these kinds of issues, when you are at any time identified, could have a huge influence, specifically on the net. Private and also secret details, for instance bank card quantities, receives approved coming from personal computer to be able to personal computer each day on the net. These records has to be safeguarded simply by creating the data unreadable to all or any with the exception of the particular designed beneficiary. The particular research regarding creating and also studying key emails is named cryptology, and lots of strategies nowadays could possibly be busted : and also their particular strategies uncovered.
Just about the most crucial individual feelings will be perspective. Photos supply a success regarding details which is challenging or perhaps difficult that will put directly into terms. Today, photos tend to be refined inside electronic digital kind : arrays regarding quantities in which personal computers can easily retailer and also method. Since personal computers grow to be more quickly and also better, folks have got started out making use of these kinds of equipment to execute capabilities just like individual perspective, for instance studying.
Looking for styles will be a fundamental piece of several personal computer appli- cations : as an example, trying to find indications to be able to split any key concept, or perhaps sifting from the top features of a graphic to discover a certain thing. Biologists have got not too long ago gathered a massive level of info concerning genetic makeup. Styles inside this type of details consist of important indications about how precisely creatures produce, just what qualities they've got, and also just how specific conditions come up and also development. Confused from the utter dimensions of the info, which can be roughly the same as 1000s of encyclopedia amounts, biologists have got looked to personal computer research regarding aid.
Personal computers have got produced living less difficult often, minimizing folks regarding uninteresting and also time-consuming jobs, yet personal computers have produced living harder, driving folks to maintain together with scientific improvements.
A fundamental piece of study inside personal computer research could be the personal computer alone. Inspite of the performance regarding present day equipment, the particular personal computer stays any frontier regarding research. The explanation for this kind of matches it absolutely was through the early on decades regarding computational engineering.
Inside 1790, marshals with the freshly produced authorities regarding the usa lay out about horse back to execute quite vision regarding checking the particular place's human population. Using an exact census has been crucial so that you can apportion how many congressional delegates per region, since given from the You. Azines. Metabolic rate. In line with the You. Azines. Census Institution, the particular census-takers personally gathered a listing of 3, 929, 214 folks within just per year. Officers got one more census each and every ten years, and also simply by 1880 the people acquired expanded to be able to 50, 155, 783. Yet census-takers acquired attained the particular splitting level : that got these practically the complete ten years in order to complete tabulating the particular 1880 census, as well as the region continuing to cultivate with a great unbelievable fee. Authorities officers terrifying the 1890 census wouldn't normally become accomplished just before that they had to begin with the particular 1900 census.
The perfect solution is to the difficulty has been automation. Inside a reaction to any opposition subsidized from the Institution with the Census, Herman Hollerith (1860-1929), a new manufacture, developed a computerized "census checking equipment. inches Census employees accumulated info : the particular dual of your Latina phrase, datum, that means details : and also encoded the data inside the opportunities regarding pockets punched inside charge cards. These kinds of charge cards have been the identical dimensions since money charges of that time period, and thus a collection of charge cards ideally match bins employed by the particular Treasury Section. Any time workers placed the particular charge cards in to the equipment, a great electromechanical method immediately tabulated the people statistics. Making use of Hollerith's equipment, the particular 1890 census regarding sixty two, 979, 766 folks has been mentioned inside of a couple of months, as well as the record dining tables have been accomplished couple of years afterwards.
Hollerith produced an organization, the particular Tabulating Equipment Business, inside 1896. The business altered the identify inside 1924 to be able to Global Enterprise Equipment (IBM) Firm. IBM thrived, which is currently one of many earth's greatest organizations.
Computational equipment have thrived. The necessity regarding velocity and also performance : the identical wants with the 1890 census : encouraged the particular advancement regarding personal computers in to the everywhere equipment they may be nowadays. Personal computers come in properties, places of work, automobiles, and also spacecraft, and the ones bring easily transportable personal computers called laptop computers or perhaps notebooks if he or she vacation. The advancement regarding personal computers will be certainly not done. Just about the most lively frontiers regarding personal computer research could be the advancement regarding more quickly plus more successful personal computers, that might at some point convert the entire world since considerably since their particular predecessors would.


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The Special Subject Collection (Sondersammelgebiet, SSG) Linguistics acquires as comprehensively as possible publications on general linguistics and related areas.
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Approx. 1900 monographs and collective works. Journals on subscription: more than 600
We acquire from all over the world publications on general linguistics and related areas written in European languages.
We offer publications of our own in exchange for publications that are not available on the book market.
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In addition to conventional literature, we also collect difficult-to-acquire research papers and other publications of provisory or documentary character, such as preprints, work-in-progress-reports etc.
We catalogue and classify all publications acquired, we provide in-depth-classification not only of monographs but also of articles from journals and collective works.
The Special Subject Collection Linguistics acquires as comprehensively as possible publications in general linguistics and related areas. Publications are acquired regardless of the country of origin, the type of publication (i.e. monographs and periodicals, conference proceedings, Festschriften, and other collective works) and of their physical form (print, micro, or electronic), with the sole restriction that they are written in European languages. The collection covers:
applied linguistics · artificial intelligence (narrow selection) · bilingualism · child language · cognitive linguistics (selection) · colloquial language · computer linguistics (selection) · dialectology · history of language · idiomatics · language acquisition · language change · language norm · language pathology (selection) · language planning · language teaching (narrow selection) · lexicology · linguistic logic · mathematical linguistics · morphology · neurolinguistics · onomastics · philosophy of language · phonetics · phonology · pragmalinguistics · psycholinguistics · rhetoric · semantics · semiotics · sign language · sociolinguistics · syntax · textlinguistics · theory of grammar · theory of language · theory of translation
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All the library's holdings in linguistics are recorded in the library's general catalogues. All journals can be found in the online-catalogue OPAC and in the Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB = periodicals database online).
Lists of the library's recent acquisitions in linguistics are compiled monthly. Title entries are linked to the online-catalogue OPAC for direct orders.
The Special Subject Collection Linguistics compiles and edits
Bibliography of Linguistic Literature / Bibliographie Linguistischer Literatur (BLL)Bilingual bibliography of linguistics that also covers related areas. The bibliography lists monographs, dissertations, articles from periodicals, reviews (selection), Festschriften and other collective works, contributions to conferences, unpublished research papers, etc. Some 900 journals are screened. The BLL is always published in fall, lists the previous year's work plus supplementary material, ca. 10,000 titles p.a.
Bibliography of General Linguistics and of English, German and Romance Linguistics. Bibliographie zur Allgemeinen Linguistik und zur anglistischen, germanistischen und romanistischen Linguistik
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CHICAGO, Nov. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Electronics' Medical Systems Division is sponsoring the renowned Wills Eye Institute's "Meet the Experts" panel, November 10-11 at this year's American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Annual Meeting at Chicago's McCormick Place.
The two-day series of presentations, open to all AAO attendees, brings together 12 Wills Eye ophthalmologists, who will each deliver 15-minute talks on topics related to their specialty. The sessions will be held at the Wills Eye booth, #2635.
"Ophthalmology is changing rapidly, with so much that physicians need to be aware of, even beyond their own specialty," said Jack Scully, Director of Media Technology Services, Wills Eye Institute. "From the newest procedures to the latest developments in technology to patient relations, ophthalmologists need a diverse skill set and a broad level of knowledge about many topics. That's what this series is intended to provide, allowing attendees to walk away with valuable information they can put to use in their everyday practice."
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From Waking My Mother
Our Mother at the Nursing Home
She smiles and says No Teeth!
for the 13th time.
A daughter trims her hair
and paints her 10 fingernails.
A daughter hangs 2 fresh
dresses in the half-closet.
A granddaughter lines white
dominoes beside her untouched lunch.
I read the Get Well cards aloud
for the 13th time.
Four women fussing over a fifth-
the one who started the fire
we tend in this linoleum-cold room.
Like the women who entered the garden
bearing spices beneath their robes
chatting of children and chores to be done
when they found the tomb
empty, the one they were seeking, gone.
She, too, is moving on.
And here we stand,
jars of spices in our hands.
Watching Dirty Dancing with My Mother
in the sad sleep of the nursing home,
we are both surprised by beauty alone,
by Jennifer's new-found ecstasy,
the passion of young Patrick Swayze
as he glides her across the bare wood,
lifts her high towards the old god of girlhood
and sets her down, sure of her charm
each step beyond his circling arms.
Nothing can soothe her father's frown
seeing his daughter as someone now,
no more the child she cannot stay.
Patrick, too, has since passed away.
None of us the beauty we used to be,
my mother, those dancers, me.
This trope a backwards living.
Such signage eases grace.
Un-becoming what you've been.
The falling of the face
it took decades to grow into.
It takes knowing who you are
before you start forgetting
what you've come here for.
The letting go a talent.
The carelessness a skill.
You'll never miss your self.
The others will.
For Shadowment: Villanelle for the Solstice
Here, here in the crook of the year,
the crux and fix and flux of the year
light falls long across and dear.
Here in the ruck and dreck of the year
we glean and gather grace and gear.
here, here in the crook of the year.
Here is the neckbone of the year,
its knuckle sharp, its blade sheer,
where light falls long across and dear.
Hear the matins of the year,
the chant and praise of marrow fear,
here, here in the crook of the year.
Cheer the vespers of the year,
the prayers that rise from tongue to ear
as light falls long across and dear.
Clear your mind as night draws near.
Stead your heart and shed no tear.
Here, here in the crook of the year
where light falls long across and dear.
From Saint Sinatra & Other Poems
Saint Sinatra
"Saints are the most excellent of voices, the most brilliant of stars." –Cardinal Avery Dulles
Croon to me, Baby,
blue-eyes smiling,
So Easy to Love
Night and Day,
skinny legs draped
in gabardine as you sway
sweet and easy, singing.
The mike your attribute,
lucky close to those lips,
In other words, baby, kiss me.
I've Got a Crush on You, Sweetie Pie,
You, Sicilian Saint of Song,
the one girls pray to when we lie
awake, pictures of boys in our heads,
each of them holy-card pretty as you
only In the Blue of Evening.
You and the Night and the Music
much more than we can stand,
we fall to our knobby knees,
genuflect to your smooth
slide down the scale of desire,
a true tune we know and can't carry.
O Hoboken Hero of Eros,
Star-eyed Stranger in the Night,
Pray for us, Sinner. Sing us alive.
Take these Valentine hearts from our hands.
St. Eve in Exile
Here amid a field of light
You say my name.
And I am not she,
the girl You called Your own.
My mouth a cavern.
My chest an empty cave.
I am dry and dusty.
I am not wet or well.
Not the riverbed of love
You shaped me to be,
wide as a delta,
deep as any mine-
ful of diamonds,
not this common coal,
my birthstone, my rock
of heavy longing.
I am black with it
where You would have me white.
Ever a disappointment,
I grew breasts
where you shaped me straight and smooth,
spoke when you asked for a song,
agreed where you hoped
I would exceed,
climb out of the hole
You dug for me,
place where You planted
me in the dark
among creatures
who never knew my name.
You cut me in two.
I take half the blame.
What the Angel Said
for Fra Angelico on seeing his Annunciation, Chiesa San Marco, Florence
He spoke to you in blue, in the long call
of light from the top of a Tuscan hill.
Your hand answered, the quick sketch of a girl
taking shape before you knew she was you,
head uplifted, her angelful eyes
sure of what they see: being bodied true
as the stilled wings, the beatified sky.
What words might have passed have passed as air
sighed by the soul in the act of rapture.
Now there is only ocher and thin-skinned cream,
struck gold against the garden's sudden green,
forever as present as it once seemed,
her hands crossed soft against her hidden fear
and angel's breath still warm within your ear.
from MOVING HOUSE
Our favorite set, the operating room.
Our favorite plot, death by folly.
Poisoning by restaurant garnish.
Livers brined in bourbon and burst.
The killing argument.
The suicidal drive.
And Junior, the arsonist
who set him self on fire.
As if we defy natural causes,
predictable as gravity and night.
Claiming, instead, the flaming corpse,
the surgeon with his impotent scalpel.
The Atreus and Usher of Coal Town,
we lived and died by stories in that house.
Northern Nights
"What did I know, what did I know
of love's austere and lonely offices?"
Robert Hayden
None of us could sleep those coal-black nights.
The furnace coughed deep in the cellar
until our father rose in the iron cold
his footsteps sounding loud through the quiet
house, five of us huddled tight in two beds.
We'd hear the turn of the handle, the chunk
and swing of the metal door unhinged,
the steady thrust of the rusty shovel
graveling against the binful of coal.
We'd hear him hoping in the dark for fire.
Then the sluff of slippers across the kitchen,
the oven door opening and the match,
and soon my mother's voice echoing
up the steep stairs to our attic room
calling us to hot milk at midnight,
to slip on coats and scarves and hats and gloves,
to sit in the circle around the stove
bound together in blankets, two by three,
to watch each other's heavy heads drowse
in the orange glow of that blue flame.
While our father cursed the furnace man below,
the smell of sulfur rising through the house,
as our mother worried wordless on the stairs,
we moved closer, wove our circle tight
against the cold that claimed them in the dark.
Other Mothers
Other girls' mothers
sold Avon, Bee-line, Tupperware.
My mother took lovers.
Young ones. Dark ones. True ones.
The kind that came back,
parked their cars in the drive,
and slept in our house
night after night after night.
Other girls' mothers
wore aprons, baked bread.
My mother slipped on stockings,
stepped into heels, and went to work
late evenings while we'd lie
half-awake in our beds.
We'd hope for peanuts, chips, mints,
small signs she'd remembered us.
Other girls' mothers
didn't like my mother,
grew green-eyed in the grocery,
cold-shouldered us at Mass
where she'd stay in the pew,
marooned, at Communion,
her black mantilla
shadowing her black eyes.
Other girls' mothers
liked their daughters,
asked them questions,
listened for replies.
My mother would have thought
them amusing
had she thought
of other mothers at all.


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Headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Stryker, a FORTUNE 500 company, considers the University of Michigan one of its two core schools for recruiting
"At the University of Michigan, we are able to recruit for different divisions of our company because students come from all over the country with a wide variety of backgrounds," said Katie Grau, Stryker university recruiter. "From engineering and computer science to finance and marketing, we have the opportunity to connect with the best-of-the-best. We are grateful to the Business Engagement Center for helping us make these connections."
Roughly 10 percent of the 200 interns Stryker places each year are U-M students. "I first heard about Stryker's internship opportunities during the College of Engineering's Winter Career Fair," said Amin Eldemerdash, B.S. and M.S. '14.
"I applied for an internship and worked during the summer of 2014 at Stryker Spine as an advanced quality engineer. After graduating in December 2014 with degrees in biomedical engineering, I accepted a position as the new product development quality engineer at Stryker MAKO."
In addition to having access to U-M students through traditional recruiting methods, the company also sponsors the Stryker Scholars program and several Multidisciplinary Design Program (MDP) projects.
Each of the six Stryker Scholars receives a $2,500 scholarship and has the opportunity to meet with company executives, while MDP students work alongside Stryker mentors throughout their project. This involvement has raised Stryker's profile across campus.
"MDP has been an incredible way to meet talented students from the University of Michigan," said Grau. "These students are able to utilize their knowledge and skills and get hands-on experience with Stryker projects. What better way to recruit than to see their abilities firsthand?"
"I am very excited to remain at Stryker," continued Eldemerdash. "The company offers many opportunities for success, development and advancement, and I'm looking forward to my future here."
"The BEC has been a great campus partner for the Multidisciplinary Design Program in terms of leveraging its relationship with Stryker to secure student support through various initiatives across campus," Gail Hohner, MDP managing director.
To learn more about MDP, please visit mdp.engin.umich.edu.
Header photo: Amin Eldemerdash, B.S. and M.S. '14, advanced quality engineer at Stryker, tests features on the Stryker MAKO Robot used in orthopedic surgery.


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A local Australian scheme, eftpos is the country's most widely used electronic payments system, accounting for almost half of all domestic card transactions.
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Andrew Erickson and Gabe Collins have come up with a Top Ten major trends to watch for in China in the Year of the Snake (2013). These are issues that policy makers, businesspeople and the general public should follow closely to understand China's growth and evolution.
Amongst the predictions, China will face growing internal challenges, China's new leaders may adopt a more nationalistic foreign policy, particularly vis-à-vis regional disputes; China will be the world's single largest builder of warships; details of China's next aircraft carrier will emerge; and the Y-20 transport aircraft will take its first flight.
Andrew Erickson is a professor at the U.S. Naval War College and a research associate at Harvard's Fairbank Center. Co-founder of China SignPost (洞察中国) with Gabe Collins, founder of ChinaOilTrader.com and is a J.D. candidate at the University of Michigan Law School.
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Applause Cements its Market Leadership as Crowdtesting Community Surpasses 300,000 Members
Company advances its presence with global brands by boosting its community size, adding key enterprise-focused executives and expanding Silicon Valley operations
Boston, Massachusetts—April 27, 2017—Applause, the global leader in testing, feedback and research for digital experiences, today announced that the company's crowdtesting community has exceeded 300,000 members, further solidifying its lead as the largest professional QA and user experience testing community in the world. Applause also bolstered its executive team with seasoned technology leaders, Charlie Ungashick as CMO and Matt Engel as SVP of strategic development, and increased its West Coast presence by tripling the size of its Silicon Valley office.
With thousands of customers – including 5 of Silicon Valley's top 15 companies – Applause relocated and expanded its operations to support the significant demand from West Coast based enterprises and startups. The new office further advances Applause's position to support global brands. Growth across all regions continues as the company has hired 125 people in the past 12 months and expects to double its staff in California, the UK, France, and Israel in 2017.
Applause customers benefit from access to digital experience experts who are physically located in the markets they serve – using real devices, real networks, and real data to perform real transactions. The company's community of on-demand professionals, white glove managed services, and real-time issue tracking platform all provide a unique advantage to customers, giving them actionable insight and feedback that no one else can match.
"These milestones are significant for the company. Our community of 300,000 digital experience experts provides the human perspective global brands need to deliver digital properties that customers embrace," said Doron Reuveni, founder and chief executive officer of Applause. "You can't hire, outsource or automate the increasingly converged digital-physical experience that defines real customer interaction, but you can replicate it with the crowdsourced approach provided by Applause."
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- Charlie Ungashick, Chief Marketing Officer - With more than 20 years in the technology industry, Charlie was most recently chief marketing officer at Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC), a $1B global provider of technology platforms and solutions for engineering, business collaboration and the Internet of Things. Prior to joining PTC, Charlie was chief marketing officer at Globoforce, a SaaS company in the human capital management space.
- Matt Engel, Senior Vice President of Strategic Development - Matt brings more than 15 years of experience with high growth technology companies, spanning early stages through IPO/M&A. Prior to Applause, Matt was the CEO of venture-backed Attend, a SaaS marketing platform and Applause customer, and vice president of business development at Dyn, a cloud-based Internet performance management company.
"With 10 years in the industry, Applause still provides the only crowdsourced-approach that can deliver in-the-wild, enterprise-grade QA and usability results to customers," said Sharon Wienbar, venture partner, Scale Venture Partners. "Today's announcement is the perfect example of how they've kept their edge over the competition. Not only does Applause have the largest, fastest-growing community of digital experts in the world, it also has the enterprise-focused leadership and operational positioning to continue to meet the needs of its brand-named customers."
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Applause empowers leading brands to deliver flawless digital experiences for their customers on any device, in every location. The company's testing, feedback and research solutions enable businesses to delight customers, drive topline revenue and innovate faster.
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Corner stores are now the place to go for fresh, high-quality food, thanks to The Health Trust's new Good. To Go. campaign. Dozens of San Jose corner stores have begun undergoing renovations to bring produce and other fun, fast, fresh snacks to neighborhoods currently overrun with junk food. The initiative is demonstrating that quality foods, such as eggs, nuts, and juices, can also be fast foods, prepared in the form of quick grab-and-go meals to fit the busy lifestyles of San Jose residents.
Today The Health Trust, its partners, and elected officials celebrated the launch of Good. To Go. and showcased the first conversion of a San Jose corner store. Damian Trujillo, host of NBC's Comunidad Del Valle, emceed the event where San Jose City Councilmember Sam Liccardo, Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez, and others toured Emit Mini Mart to see how aisles of candy were transformed into aisles of fresh produce and fun, fast, fresh snacks.
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Many San Jose neighborhoods rely on local corner stores and mini marts for their food purchases – businesses where snack foods and sugary beverages are plentiful while fresh fruits and vegetables are scarce. The Health Trust Good. To Go. initiative is changing this by increasing the number of food outlets where high quality foods can be conveniently purchased at affordable prices.
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The Healthy Corner Store program is being launched this year by Hispanic Chamber of Commerce- Silicon Valley (HCCSV) to provide equipment, upgrades, training, marketing materials, and business development assistance to store owners who agree to carry healthy foods and other "grab-and-go" items. The stores serve as one stop shops for community resident's weekly grocery needs and are where local children visit for their mid-day snack of nuts or fresh grapes. Forty stores will be converted over two years with help from HCCSV's bilingual business advisors and managers, The Food Trust, Salter Mitchell, and The Health Trust. For more information and to find Good. To Go. corner stores on our locator map , visit https://healthtrust.org/our-work/eat-well.
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After a whole SIX MONTHS away from shooting weddings because of bringing a mini person into the world, I couldn't have been more excited to head back to the north, to Manchester, to my home city, to shoot my first wedding back from a spot of maternity leave. I am an immensely proud Mancunian so what better place to celebrate my 2017 wedding season kicking off than in the heart of Media City with the lovely Amy and Adam!? I had a spring in my step as my train pulled into Piccadilly and headed to Salford Quays with my camera-in-hand. It felt good to be back; to be back home and to be back doing what I do best … shooting the happiest of days when two people come together and say their "I Do's". I truly mean it when I say that Amy and Adam's day was OFF . THE . SCALE!! They are such an incredible couple and were so relaxed in letting me 'do my thing'! They planned their day at On the 7th which is right in the heart of the pretty impressive Media City. They couldn't have chosen a more perfect venue. I'm definitely a fan I have to say. With it's metallic ceilings, black and white tiled floor, industrial glass partitions and well stocked bar, On the 7th was the ultimate setting for this couple's amazing day. Amy and Adam had a free rein when it came to the 'do's and don'ts' too which is always a bonus. It meant they could plan the wedding they really wanted without having loads of restrictions put on them from the venue. So an amazing electric violinist joined us for the evening reception (details to follow) and the Club Room became the setting for what turned into a rather messy game of Beer Pong.
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Maine Goaltending Stalwart Brittany Ott Enters 2013 CWHL DraftJune 25, 2013
As the first goaltender from NCAA Division I to declare into the 2013 CWHL Draft, Maine Black Bears goaltender Brittany Ott is looking to extend her playing career. A workhorse goaltender, Ott is able to consume minutes, while keeping her team competitive.
In high school, she was a multi-sport star in tennis and softball (also serving as team captain in her junior and senior seasons). She would also compete for the Little Caesar's Under-19 hockey team in her home state of Michigan.
During her career at Maine, she logged a career mark of 5959:13 minutes played along with a respectable 2.74 goals against average. Although her lifetime mark consists of 32 wins, compared to 53 losses and 13 ties, Ott always provided her team with the opportunity to win. Despite three losing seasons in her career, Ott consistently garnered impressive numbers.
As a rookie, she had a 2.60 GAA along with a .918 save percentage, while earning Hockey East All-Rookie Team honors. Her sophomore season saw her turning away 920 shots (averaging more than 30 saves a game) while posting a 2.49 GAA. The only winning season of her career came in 2011-12 with a 13-10-3 mark, complemented by a 2.34 GAA. She was also recognized as Hockey East Goaltender of the Month in January 2012.
Despite a disappointing senior season with the Black Bears, Ott (who went 5-16-3) remained a positive influence on a struggling squad. Her 797 saves was emblematic of Ott's remarkable work ethic. Of note, the last win of her Black Bears career would come on February 9, 2013 against the Vermont Catamounts.
Having rewritten some Black Bears goaltending records (first in games played with 107 and the record-holder for most saves in one game), Ott brings great poise and presence. Her skills between the pipes would make her a suitable fit on any CWHL roster, whether as a starter or a very suitable backup.
As intelligent as she is talented, Ott's academic performance at Maine truly embodies the term student-athlete. She was the 2013 female recipient of the 2013 M Club Dean Smith Award. Criteria for the award involve more than just outstanding athletic and academic accomplishments, but community service as well. In addition, she was a three-time Maine All-Academic, which was recognized with a gold medal from the program in her senior season.
The last game of her career with the Black Bears (a Hockey East quarterfinal on March 1, 2013) was one to remember. Competing against the nationally ranked Boston College Eagles, Ott recorded an astounding 72 saves in an overtime loss.
Although the Black Bears could not hold on to their 1-0 lead, Ott made 35 saves in the third period. Ironically, the previous record holder for most saves in one game was also Ott (she had recorded 69 saves against Mercyhurst on October 9, 2010). She was recognized as the Hockey East Defensive Player of the Week for such a superlative effort against BC.
Of all the squads in the CWHL, the one squad that would complement her best would be the Boston Blades. With Blades goaltender (and 2013 Clarkson Cup champion) Genevieve Lacasse centralized with the Canadian National Team, Brittany Ott might be an ideal choice for filling her shoes. While Lacasse is certainly a tough act to follow, Ott is an articulate individual who brings great maturity and a capability for withstanding high-pressure situations.


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David Gardner: Speaking of where you came from, Jim Donald, can you give us a little bit about your background, your business background, prior to Starbucks
Jim Donald: David, I have been in the supermarket business since the time I was 16 until the time I was 48. That has been it. There has been nothing other than the supermarket business for about 33 years.
David Gardner: And your most recent position prior to joining Starbucks?
Jim Donald: I was the chairman and CEO of a supermarket chain in the northeast called Pathmark
David Gardner: Congratulations. Can you, for a sec, Jim, compare and contrast Pathmark and what you learned there with Starbucks?
Jim Donald: That is a great question. I think that if you compare and you contrast, there is obviously difference in the contrasting piece being that in a supermarket, you might have 33-to-35,000 items to work with and around. But the comparison is all about people, David. At the end of the day, whether you are leading a group of people to run a supermarket chain or the best coffee company, you are as successful as they are.
David Gardner: ... Those of us who are inveterate Starbucks customers notice some testing and learning going on in some of your stores from time to time. Jim, I want to ask you about a couple of testings that I have seen recently. One of them is a test with hot food, an experiment with hot food in some of your locations.
Jim Donald: We have currently a test in the Seattle area with 80 stores testing hot breakfast sandwiches and hot lunch sandwiches. What we are finding, and we are not ready to roll this out just yet, is that there is a definite connection with the consumer when she comes in or he comes in the morning to pick up their coffee, that we are able to complement that with a quality breakfast sandwich or lunch sandwich.
David Gardner: And can you give a typical example and perhaps describe your favorite since you are in that neck of the woods?
Jim Donald: Well, my favorite is the egg and bacon muffin that is heated up. Not necessarily the best thing to be eating in the morning, but I can't seem to stop.
David Gardner: This is interesting. When I hear you mention that, of course I think of the egg and bacon McMuffin, and a lot of us who are business observers are aware that McDonald's
Jim Donald: Well, we have read that McDonald's is going into a premium cup of coffee, to serve a premium cup of coffee, and we are in that business. We are in the premium bean segment, and we think that the more the consumer gets educated on premium coffee, the more (that) bodes well for all of us that are serving that type of coffee. We watch it closely, but at the end of the day, we think that it helps educate the customer on what really a great cup of coffee is all about.
David Gardner: Whenever you are talking to The Motley Fool, you know you are talking to investors, so I have to ask the investor question here, which is from the standpoint of profits and the profitability of an extra cup of coffee versus let's say an egg and bacon muffin: Do egg and bacon muffins show the same ... profitability, worse or better, than a good premium cup of Starbucks coffee?
Jim Donald: No, the sandwiches and the lunch in general have a lower profit margin, but they are also not something that is handcrafted, and so you kind of pick up on both ends of that, but it is a lower margin item.
David Gardner: Another experiment going on in Starbucks stores, and many more of us have seen this across the nation, is allowing your customers to burn their own CDs in some stores. Jim, could you describe whether that has been a success and how you measure success?
Jim Donald: We have an initial rollout of 45 stores with CD burning. So far, it has been pretty good. I have got to tell you, we are pleased with the results. We are finding that we have become a destination for music based upon our connection with Hear Music since the late '90s, and when we are able to enhance the consumers' trip into Starbucks, such as burning a CD of their choice, we are finding that they keep coming back.
David Gardner: What are a few more new twists that maybe we can expect to see at our local Starbucks in the next year or two?
Jim Donald: Well, we just launched Chantico, which is a cocoa-based and steamed milk beverage that some consumers are saying, "Hey, this is taking the place of my dessert." So we are seeing a lot of that business come in. We have a very robust pipeline of products that in terms of the research and development that will be launching over the next probably 18 months, but I can't give away any trade secrets.
David Gardner: (Laughs.) ... Part of the growth story has been and remains this possibility, Jim Donald, of international sales, and you have been expanding internationally, in particular; pick it up there. In particular, I want to ask you about your European stores thinking maybe of France and Germany. We have had a few Motley Fool readers seriously question whether Starbucks can really prosper in these cultures, at least in the way that we are used to seeing it prosper here.
Jim Donald: David, I tell you, we are very pleased with Europe right now. Just late November, we actually bought our partner out, Karstotquo, in Germany, that we now own all the stores in Germany. We are seeing a very strong brand acceptance throughout Europe. We just opened our 10th store in Paris and celebrated our first-year anniversary, and we are very pleased with the acceptance and how well that that brand has been recognized, both by visiting Americans as well as Parisians.
David Gardner: Without giving away any trade secrets or nonpublic information, Jim, what is your rough growth expectation for, let's say, Germany over the next five to 10 years? What is the growth there going to look like?
Jim Donald: Well, we don't comment necessarily on country-by-country. We have stated that our next three- to five-year goals are 20% top-line growth and 20-25% EPS growth.
David Gardner: Thank you very much. Jim, there are occasionally criticisms. Maybe you have noticed them from Americans who say this company is taking over the world in a bad way. I am sick of seeing them. Sometimes people will picket in let's say Boulder, Colorado. Sometimes you will get picketed here and there. Some people don't like Starbucks. What do you say to those people?
Jim Donald: Well, we...speak to the individuals when questioned, but what we try to share with everybody is our whole corporate social responsibility commitment and how we work with all the communities in every neighborhood that we are in and how we give back not only to our farmers in the countries of origins, but for the not-for-profits in the communities that we operate in. We actually think that we improve communities by going in and making our mark. That is actually a program, and helping not only employ people from that community but supporting some of the activities that go on.
Catch up on the entire interview:
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- Starbucks' Worldwide Growth
- Strength in Starbucks
- Smart Decisions, Expensive Mistakes
- The Future of Starbucks
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Despite U.S. and Asian calls for self-restraint and new impetus for the resolution of territorial disputes involving China, a high-profile Asian security summit ended over the weekend where it began, with no solution of the rifts in sight.
China dismissed a new U.S. proposal for a freeze on hostile actions that could heighten tensions in the disputed South China Sea, leaving Washington unable to overturn an impression that it can do little to back up allies at odds with Beijing over the contested waters and islands. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, remains divided and is similarly unable to pressure China to back down.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was overseeing multiple crises unraveling in Iraq, Gaza and Ukraine as he flew to Myanmar's capital of Naypyitaw to attend the annual ASEAN Regional Forum, Asia's premier security gathering of 27 Asian and Western countries, including China.
Under Kerry's proposal, China and the four ASEAN members that have long disputed strategic South China Sea territories — Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam — should voluntarily halt provocative actions, including occupying new islands or reclaiming land to enlarge naturally submerged reefs. Taiwan, which is not an ASEAN member, also contests the territories.
The Philippines, a U.S. treaty ally, backed Kerry's proposal and also urged the full enforcement of a 2002 accord that also called for an end to tension-producing actions as well as long-term arbitration that could eventually resolve the claims under the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea.
ASEAN, a key battleground for influence between the U.S. and China, generally has backed American calls for an easing of tensions, including the start of negotiations for a binding regional "code of conduct" to govern activities involving conflicting claims. But China has resisted, and progress on the code has been slow.
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ASEAN foreign ministers later issued a joint statement saying they would ask lower-level diplomats to intensify consultations with China on ways to enforce the 2002 agreement in its entirety, including two provisions that embody the U.S. and Philippine calls for self-restraint and a halt to hostile actions, and an early start of the negotiations on a legally binding code.
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China's withdrawal of the rig in mid-July removed an irritant but left a legacy of anger and strained relations with Vietnam and questions among China's other neighbors about its long-term strategy.
China's decision to withdraw the rig helped lower temperatures ahead of the ASEAN gathering, where China highlighted major economic plans, including a proposal to set up an Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to provide financial support for regional infrastructure projects.
Without an effective U.S. deterrence or a united ASEAN, China will continue to confront rival claimants, said Carl Thayer, an expert on South China Sea territorial issues and an emeritus professor at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
"The bottom line is that the United States has not yet articulated an effective strategy for itself to deter China and impose a cost on China's actions," Thayer said. "In sum, China will continue to build up, expand and consolidate its presence."
It wasn't clear who left the Myanmar meetings with an upper hand because of the lack of a clear consensus on the disputes.
Kerry brushed aside the Chinese resistance to his proposal, saying the U.S. was "very pleased" that ASEAN foreign ministers had included positive language about it in their statement.
"I think we made the point that we came to make," Kerry said.
Several U.S. officials said the ASEAN statement was a setback for China because Beijing would have preferred that the subject not be addressed at all.
However, political scientist Zhu Feng, a regional security expert at the School of International Studies at China's Peking University, said the Southeast Asian nations showed they had no appetite to collectively go against China.
"The reason why the ASEAN countries did not follow America's call is that they do not wish to drive China into a corner or to put it on trial," Feng said. "Those are not among the solutions to the problem. Nor do they reflect the complexity of the objective reality. The outcome of the ASEAN meetings is such that it tells the United States it is unnecessary to get involved in the South China Sea issue with such a high profile."
In a commentary Monday, China's state-run Xinhua News Agency warned against too much involvement by Washington.
"It is a painful reality that Uncle Sam has left too many places in chaos after it stepped in, as what people are witnessing now in Iraq, Syria and Libya. The South China Sea should not be the next one," Xinhua said.
Associated Press writers Ken Moritsugu in Tokyo and Ian Mader in Beijing contributed to this report.


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Important Information for Visitors – January 11-13, 2013
As we celebrate the grand opening of the US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center, there will be some changes to the Hours of Operation and Driving Directions all visitors should be aware of. We apologize for any inconvenience and ask if you have any questions to visit www.nationalwwmuseum.org or call 504-528-1944.
Hours of Operation
All exhibit galleries will be available with modified hours. The Soda Shop will maintain its standard business hours of 7:00 am to 5:30 pm.
Friday, January 11th
The Louisiana Memorial Pavilion and exhibit galleries will be open the normal hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.
The American Sector Restaurant will close at 2:00 pm.
The last screening for Beyond All Boundaries will be 3:00 pm. The 1:00 pm screening is sold out at this time.
There will be no performance in the Stage Door Canteen.
Saturday, January 12th
The Louisiana Memorial Pavilion and exhibit galleries will be open from 12:30 pm to 5:00 pm.
Beyond All Boundaries screenings will be at 1:00 pm, 2:00 pm and 3:00 pm only.
The American Sector Restaurant will be closed for lunch and dinner.
There will be no performance in the Stage Door Canteen.
Sunday, January 13th
All Museum venues, including the American Sector restaurant, return to standard hours of operation.
The US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center will be open to the public. Final Mission: The USS Tang Experience is sold out on this day.
There will be no performance in the Stage Door Canteen.
Street Closures
Friday, January 11th
From 4:00 pm to 11:00 pm Andrew Higgins will be closed between Camp and Magazine Streets. Magazine Street will be closed between St. Joseph and Calliope.
Saturday, January 12th
Andrew Higgins between Camp and Magazine from 6:00 am to 2:00 pm. From 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm, Andrew Higgins from Camp to Magazine Street will close again and Magazine Street from St. Joseph to Calliope will also be closed at these times.
Due to heavy visitation, parking around the Museum may be limited on these dates.
Find out more about the US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center.
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Another FIR registered against Kapil Sharma
Now, another FIR has been registered by the Versova police against popular stand-up comedian Kapil Sharma for allegedly violating the Environment Act.
He had apparently dumped debris near mangroves behind his bungalow, in suburban Versova, and this has not gone down too well with the police.
Sharma has also undertaken illegal construction near it. Mumbai suburban District Collector Deependra Singh Kushwah had directed officials to conduct a survey to find if Sharma violated the Act by dumping debris near the mangroves.
After the survey, the Andheri talathi filed a police complaint. "We have recorded a case under Environment Act against Sharma."
Sharma recently took to Twitter and subjected Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a veiled criticism, saying: "despite paying Rs 15 crore in income tax for the last five years, i was asked to pay Rs 5 lakh as bribe to a BMC official to set up my office."
In the next tweet, Kapil Sharma jeered at Modi by asking him sarcastically if these were the 'achhe din'.
Adding to the row, RTI activist Asad Patel filed a complaint against the actor-comedian stating that the office construction destroyed mangroves.
Meanwhile, a furious Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) demanded an apology from Sharma for making allegations on its party workers of taking a bribe from him and threatened that if he does not do so, they will not allow the shooting of his shows anymore.


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(WTVM) - There's a noticeable change at the gun range as more women have turned away from pepper spray and are now packing heat.
Statistics show the number of female gun owners is on the rise.
In the most recent Gallup poll, the percentage of ladies reporting gun ownership was at a new high, registering at 43 percent in 2011.
Michelle Harvard, owner of Greens Guns and Range, says women just want to feel safer and provide security for their families.
"One lady had came in to purchase a handgun because she had somebody kick down her door in the middle of the night, she lives right next to the police station and it still took them 30 minutes to respond," said Harvard.
But owning a gun is just the first step---learning how to use the deadly weapon, takes practice.
Also, if you are a mother or father with a weapon, be sure to keep it somewhere safe in your home and away from children.
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CrossFit South Okanagan is a 3400sq foot training facility located in beautiful Summerland, BC (10 minutes outside of Penticton, BC). It is the original and premier CrossFit Training Facility in the South Okanagan.Whether you are looking to lose weight, gain lean muscle mass or just get better in your sport, you will find the coaching you need at CrossFit South Okanagan.
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"Constantly varied, high intensity, functional movements executed at high intensity" (crossfit.com)
Huh? Basically we program new workouts every day around the 5 basic human movements of push, pull, squat, hinge and loaded carry. We expect you to perform them to your capacity at high intensity, this allows you to get the most out of your workout. A CrossFit program is designed for universal scalability, making it the perfect application for any committed individual regardless of experience. The same workouts are used for elderly individuals with heart disease and Olympic decathletes one month out from competition . We scale load and intensity; we don't change programs. The needs of Olympic athletes and our grandparents differ by degree not kind. All of our wide and varied community have found their best fitness from the same regimen. Watch these short videos for a great representation of what constantly varied functional movements mean to us.
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Spina Bifida Occulta
There is no protrusion of the meninges but the vertebrae are bifid. There are three components of the spina bifida occulta.
a) Vertebral-there is defective fusion of the vertebral arches
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The widely used practice of injecting meat and poultry with "marinades" or solutions to plump up flavor content and texture may now be more visible to consumers through a proposed new rule suggested by the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
Currently, raw meats and poultry do not have to be labeled to note the addition of these widely used flavor solutions, which may boost the sodium content of the meat unbeknownst to the consumer.
In a statement from the USDA, the proposed rule would "require that the common or usual name of these products include an accurate description of the raw meat or poultry component, the percentage of added solution, and the individual or multi-ingredient components in the added solution. The print for such labels would be presented in a font, size, and color that are easily visible to consumers."
Raw meat and poultry can contain a variety of injected solutions including water, teriyaki sauce, salt and a number of other ingredients. A chicken breast that contains any injections can currently be labeled simply as "chicken breast" even though up to 40 percent of the packaged meat could be a flavor solution. Under the proposed rule, the label for the injected chicken would read: "Chicken breast – 40% added solution of water and teriyaki sauce."
Under Secretary for Food Safety Dr. Elisabeth Hagen said, "Consumers should be able to make an informed choice in the store, which is why we need to provide clear, informative labels that will help consumers make the best decisions about feeding their families."
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When doing a get or scan, are the read order of columns within a particular family always going to be the same? For example, if I have two columns within a family, ColumnNameA and ColumnNameB, will ColumnNameA always come first in read order? If so, is this byte ordered on the column name qualifier the same as row ids? I'm working on a scenario where I often want to read a small subset of values from a particular row. While it seems like this might be a good use for a separate column family, I was thinking that HBASE-3149<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3149>might cause me problems because this information is magnitudes smaller than the rest of the family. I was thinking that if I made sure these values were first in disk order, I could pull this data without making HBase iterate over 1000's of other columns. Possible? Thoughts? Thanks, Jacques
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Just spent another late night in the lab on North Campus working on mates. We're getting close. I've been spending most of my time optimizing sql queries and tuning the dbms so that most of the web service calls take at most 1/9th of a second to complete (and it seems to scale). It's a location-based social networking system, so the functionality is very join-heavy. Heap tables for message queues and hash-based equi-joins have done us well.
I found out tonight that my friend Mike got hired at Apple. He'll be working as a developer on the Java Framework team. Congrats to him -- he certainly deserves it!
Last but not least, my friend and former classmate Jill just came back from the CHI Conference in Portland. She had an amazing time and I'm totally jealous. She sent me a few very cool links to info on projects that were on display:
The I/O Brush (You HAVE to watch one of the videos -- you won't regret it!)
Virtual Raft Project
Jetsam: An Urban Probe
The Bubble Cursor
And with that, I bid you goodnight!
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Williamsport favorite son, Academy Award winner for special effects, Tom Woodruff, Jr. has new new movie coming out. It's called Harbinger Down. The trailer looks scary. Reminds me of the "The Thing" except the location is on a a ship.
Tom and his partner Alec Gillis are graduates from the Stan Winston creature shop that gave the world such great monsters as Terminator, Predator and Alien. Now they operate their own creature shop, studioADI. They are trying to revive the art of practical creature effects. And bring more jobs back to Hollywood.
Computer Generated Images can give us fantastic impossible scenes but there is a quality of an actual lens capturing a real 3-dimensional object that is lost. I hope Tom and Alec are successful.
Lorena Beniquez of the Central Pennsylvania Film Office is hopeful that Tom will return home to show his film in Williamsport. We have our fingers crossed.


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As part of their ongoing drive to protect their clients and their clients' customers from telecoms fraud, SmartIPX has added TNZI's TollShield – a SaaS Toll Fraud Mitigation Platform – to its product suite offering.
Toll fraud is costing the global telecommunications industry billions every year and there's only a few ways to stop it. Standard industry practice has been to block geographic regions if toll fraud is suspected, whereas TollShield's patent pending technology intelligently monitors networks, detects suspicious traffic and enables rapid response to fraudulent calls.
Adding TollShield to its product suite means SmartIPX – a London Docklands-based company which manages critical communications traffic across Telco, Private and Public Interconnects for Digital Service Providers, MVNO & SaaS organisations – is able to provide additional layers of protection for its clients and their customers.
SmartIPX's shared services model is designed to leverage its investments with strategic partners. The addition of the TollShield fraud mitigation platform to the SmartIPX product suite is a progressive and exciting opportunity to deliver significant value added benefits for voice termination.
According to Paul Tindley, CEO of SmartIPX, TollShield real-time fraud protection is a major advance which will successfully:
deliver the most comprehensive fraud management service in terms of systems & support
add signalling, to existing rating, volume and count profile monitoring
assist with route, switch & alert escalation management
improve on SmartIPX's existing 24*7 NOC market leading response times
support the company's consistent sub 15-minute incident response times
"Wholesale transit is always about enabling routing rather than stopping people making calls! Fraud management as a service is about enabling central network teams to confidently rely upon their partners to exercise controls that their enterprise, corporate and SMB customers can rely upon," said Mr Tindley.
"VoIP fraud is a lose-lose scenario, it costs margin and damages customer relationships. With TollShield, SmartIPX is able to end the era of wholesale abdication and deliver a simple, effective and reliable wholesale SIP trunking and termination option," he added.
SmartIPX expects TollShield to be fully integrated into its existing customer accounts in Q2 2016 and to be a key service differentiator for all new managed services customers from July 2016.
Spotlight on TollShield
TollShield has an industry-leading SaaS design, enabling CSPs to quickly deploy, centrally manage and rapidly scale fraud protection. The TollShield platform can be deployed over multiple networks and will automatically detect real-time toll fraud across billions of calls.
The game-changing technology can identify and block toll fraud with surgical precision, isolating a breach in security down to the IP address of the customer whose phone system has been hacked.
There is a voice fraud infographic on the SmartIPX website which may be used to illustrate this story:
About SmartIPX
SmartIPX manages critical communications traffic across Telco, Private and Public Interconnects for Digital Service Providers, MVNO & SaaS organisations. Our shared services model aligns our people and expertise, with agile, best in class infrastructure solutions, to reduce our customers' capex and opex costs.
Since 2012, SmartIPX managed service customers (MVNO & Service Provider) have been benefiting from retail quality termination options in EU, US and Oceania regional PoPs managed by TNZI.
The investment by TNZI's parent company MNF Group in expanding their global voice network has already enabled SmartIPX to grow route volumes for Retail, Contact Centre, Broadcast and Conferencing customers aligned to our Cataleya Voice Platform as a Service.
SmartIPX score highly on route quality and management with customers, with operational responsiveness regularly commented upon. This is valued by SmartIPX customers who can see that they benefit from our proactive commercial, technical and service assurance partner engagement.
SmartIPX publishes a quarterly Hot Fraud Topics report which may be accessed on their web site.
Contact: Paul Tindley on 020 7001 6700 firstname.lastname@example.com
Media contact: Stewart Boutcher of 650hours on 07801 511 744 firstname.lastname@example.com
About TNZI
TNZI is a global voice business servicing international carriage service providers, regional telecommunications networks and multi-national enterprise.
TNZI operates a global voice business with more than 200 customer and vendor relationships worldwide. Our extensive direct and partnership connection agreements provide world-class routing options, with a range of international voice services that suit various markets and customer needs.
Formerly the international services division of Spark New Zealand, TNZI joined the MNF Group in 2015. The MNF Group operates multiple brands in the Australia-New Zealand market, providing voice communications and value-added services. The Group is publicly listed (ASX: MNF) and currently ranks among Asia's best companies 'under a billion' (Forbes 2014, 2015).
About TollShield
TollShield uses patent pending technology to intelligently monitor your network, detect suspicious traffic and enable rapid response to fraudulent calls. It gives you the time and information you need, just when you need it. So you can stop fraudulent activity within minutes.
By immediately reducing the hidden cost of toll fraud, TollShield creates savings that flow directly to your bottom line. So you can directly enhance the profitability of your network operations.
TollShield has an industry-leading SaaS design, enabling CSPs to quickly deploy, centrally manage and rapidly scale fraud protection. TollShield is an innovative and proven SaaS fraud mitigation platform, rigorously tested to meet the needs of international CSPs and their customers.
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