How Does It Work?

Tracking World’s Fleet Management System works with a Track + GPRS and GPS system that is based on satellite and Internet. In layman’s terms, the fleet management system operates with the Internet or GPS and allows you to keep a track on your vehicles via satellite. It gives you location of your vehicle as well as warnings in case of any anomaly in fuel or speed of vehicle.

In addition, you may directly communicate with the drivers to efficiently adjust routes, schedule additional pick-ups when carrying less-than-full loads, and be alerted to emergency situations.

With Track+, you get a complete system for mobile resource management that is as powerful as it is easy to use. Track+ allows you to go beyond simple vehicle tracking by providing the information you need to run your long haul trucking business more profitably.

 This system improves the efficiency, productivity of your business as it keeps the costs of transport fuel in your hands. It is like having a 24 hour security camera on your drivers and fleet, which will obvious increase productivity as the driver will know that you are keeping a vigilant eye on the fuel, and improve his behavior as well. 

Available via NBM Distribution Ltd and designed for excellent portability, the CT-30A is equally at home in a splicing van or in a bucket truck and is ideal for FTTx applications. The 16-position blade yields 48,000 single-fiber cleaves, or 4,000 12-fiber ribbon cleaves before requiring replacement, and the built-in scrap collector conveniently stores fiber shards until they can be safely discarded.

The CT-30A Cleaver is packaged with three scrap collection options that allow the user to
tailor it to their cleaving preferences. The CT30A is delivered with the SC-01 Side Cover
installed for users that prefer not to use an automated scrap collection system. For those that prefer an automated scrap collection system, the FC-02 Fiber Collector and two scrap box options are included.

The FDB-02 Scrap Box is a smaller bin for users seeking a compact profile.

The FDB-03 Scrap Box is a larger bin with sweeping brush and static resistant surfaces for those users seeking to maximize scrap capacity. All scrap options are easily configured by the user.

Features: 

• Small size, lightweight, and easy handling
• Applicable up to 12-fibre ribbon cleaving
• Fibre collector equipped as standard
• 2-action operation including fibre scrap collection
• Operation: Push back blade -> Set fibre -> Close body
• Blade speed and anvil speed are mechanically controlled
• Blade is common to CT-20 series cleavers
• 16 rotating positions, 3 height positions
• Blade life is same as CT-20 series cleavers, 48,000 cleaving

Download the Product Data Sheet:

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KOLKATA: Vodafone and Idea Cellular added more customers in April relegating Bharti Airtel, India’s leading mobile phone company by revenue and customers, to the third spot, according to the latest subscriber growth numbers by the Cellular Operators Association of India, the industry body representing GSM operators.

Vodafone’s Indian unit added over 1.4 million customers last month, more than double the 0.6 million that Airtel mustered. Idea also stole a march over the Sunil Mittal-promoted telco, adding over 1.3 million subscribers last month. Bulk of the GSM market expansion took place in category B & C circles. Bharti Airtel did not reply to ET’s specific query on why the company lost out to Vodafone India and Idea in terms of net customer addition last month.
Vodafone recently overtook Bharti to become India’s leading mobile phone company in rural India, having added 4.9 million rural customers in February and March, compared with 2.6 million added by Airtel in the same period. Executives at Vodafone India recently attributed its successful rural expansion strategy to a customised distribution model aimed at shoring up sales in rural pockets.

Like Vodafone, Idea too has maximised customer growth in rural and semi-urban zones across category B & C circles. Company executives in fact, claimed that two out of every three new customers come from rural India, which had induced the telco to push 3G data services in the agricultural heartlands villages. Idea, in fact, has over 22 million data users, a majority of whom reside in rural and semiurban pockets.

Though Bharti Airtel remains India’s biggest mobile operator, its market share has shrunk marginally from 28.5% in March 2013 to 28.4% in April.

Vodafone and Idea, on the contrary, have increased market share, buoyed by last month’s customer additions. Vodafone, Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular that account for nearly 67% of the telecom sector’s revenues, collectively added 3.3 million customers last month.

But latest COAI data reveals GSM operators across India added 3.5 million customers in April, which is a tad below the 5.4 million additions in March. COAI director general Rajan Mathews attributed the phenomenon to the fact that “bulk of the new GSM activations transpired in category B & C circles, which are typically harder to penetrate”.

Imagine this, an office worker broke his car while driving his way to his workplace. He’s got two options, one is, calls a car mechanic and wait for hours, else he has another option, he calls a transportation to bring him to the office before he gets late. It may be a choice on what to do but looking at the situation, it would be better to go with the two options. He has to call a car mechanic and while waiting, he calls a transportation to bring him to the office. Although this scenario is rare, but it is better to have oneself prepared.

Toll free numbers are being used by transportation industries because there are more advantages than its disadvantages. Also, these numbers are better than local phone numbers. It is accessible for the clients and in managing the business as well. Tourists and even locals need transportation for them to be brought to one location to another.

800 Numbers and Transportation Industries

Transportation business is dependent on the 800 numbers. This is a huge industry and it would be difficult to use a local phone number within the business. Entrepreneurs who have this kind of business need to invest more. However, an 800 number cuts the budget. Toll free numbers are cost effective. He doesn’t need to install a lot of wires and trunk lines. In addition, he’s able to work anytime and anywhere with toll free numbers.

Call routing is an essential feature in the transportation business. When a client calls in to ask for an available transport service, to make it easier for the business to handle each calls, his call will be forwarded. He can be routed to another line wherewith a service will be available at a nearer location on where he’s at. Else, when the need arise, the call can be directed right away to a particular driver so the client and him can communicate. The hassle of speaking with a receptionist will be avoided. Time will be cut in short.

The availability of the service when a toll free number is used. It allows the transportation business operate for 24/7. Trips and travels happen all day, therefore, just like any other businesses that serve the basic needs, it opens for 24/7. Clients can have access and ask for a transport service any time of the day. However, when the time doesn’t permit a certain location to open, entrepreneurs can partner with a call center and outsource the business. By then, clients can call anytime and have their calls answered and resolved.

Furthermore, the virtual phone system makes it easier to manage the business. When calls are disconnected, the virtual phone system ensures that the client is being served. Call tracking enables the business to capture the customer’s information. So, giving the clients a call back is easier. In any industry, customer satisfaction is always the goal.

Not only that the virtual phone system is being utilized in order to provide quality service, but it can be used within the business as well.

2. Your five year old can jump further
than you using their game controller
while playing any video game.

3. Your cell phone rings and after looking
around the room you finally realize that
it is YOUR phone ringing instead of
someone elses.
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Modern technology may be in our midst-
But obviously for some it is not at the
top of any priority list.

Some of my blogs about JindalCare have even been reposted on south Louisiana websites and across the Twitterverse, as a result I was contacted by someone who works at the Red River Addiction Center in Alexandria.

Another example of Jindalcare’s negative effects on the Bayou State –

Of course, this person shall remain anonymous, but this is a very real letter, a testimony from someone who works at RRAC:

Griffin, I thought you would be interested,

Red River Addiction Complex (RRAC) was owned and operated by the state until Jindal. Pathways Inc. bought RRAC in 2011.

Now, Pathways is a mental health company that is located in MO with the head office in Clinton.

At the time that RRAC was bought, it was the ONLY addiction treatment center that was in the black.

Two years down the road few of the original staff with RRAC are still at the facility due to the deep pay cut that Pathways enforced.

The facility which is located on Central State Hospital grounds is literally falling apart (I have vines in my windows and the power goes out once a week).

Pathways has shown a disrespect to the clients and the staff by not taking appropriate care in several different forms at RRAC.

Here is what gets me: The clients are the indigent and working poor which are over looked at so many levels.

RRAC has a long history of providing the best care for those who have the disease of addiction but how much longer can it last with having no one held responsible at the state level?

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A Mexican law to boost competition in telecommunications and media gained approval from a majority of state legislatures, surmounting its final hurdle for passage. “It’s a historic day for Mexico,” Jose Ignacio Peralta, deputy communications minister, said in a message posted on Twitter announcing the milestone. President Enrique Pena Nieto has already pledged support for the bill, which passed both houses of Congress last month.

The proposal seeks to increase investment and reduce prices in the phone and pay-television industries and to create more choice in broadcast TV. It would create tougher conditions for America Movil SAB, which has 70 percent of Mexico’s mobile-phone subscribers, and Grupo Televisa SAB, which gets 70 percent of the nation’s broadcast-television audience.

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NEW DELHI: The defence ministry has slammed the telecom department yet again over the latter’s failure to meet timelines in building an alternate communication network for the armed forces.

In an April 15 communication to the telecom department, a copy of which was reviewed by ET, the ministry of defence (MoD) has pointed out that it had vacated 40 MHz airwaves in 2009, while adding that the telecom department had failed to keep its part of the bargain and build an alternate communication network within 36 months.

The MoD said the tender for the optic fibre project, that is to be build by BSNL and MTNL, has been cancelled for the third time in a row. It has also complained the communication ministry’s move to take up the issue regarding state-owned ITI supplying 30% of the network gear, when it had already been decided that public sector telecom equipment manufacturer would not be involved in this project.

“You may well appreciate that post release of 40 MHz of spectrum by the MoD, critical defence communications have been affected. The project was approved by the Cabinet Committee on infrastructure in December 2009 with a mandate to rollout the defence network in 36 months. However, 40 months down the line, there is no progress,” its communication to the telecom ministry added.

This marks the third time that the defence ministry has lodged an official complaint accusing the telecoms ministry of failing to keep their part of the bargain as per the MoU between both ministries.

As per the MoU between both ministries, the armed forces were to vacate 25 MHz of airwaves for 3G and 20 units of airwaves of 2G. This was to happen in a phased manner and was linked to the completion of the alternate network for the defence forces.

Besides, the DoT was also slated to set up an exclusive defence band and defence interest zone for the armed forces to keep its part of the bargain. While the armed forces have already freed up 15 MHz of 3G spectrum, which was sold during the 2010 auctions, and also vacated 15 MHz 2G spectrum, which has also been allocated to mobile phone companies, the remaining airwaves — 10 MHz spectrum in 3G (for two operators) and 5MHz in 2G —are slated to be released only after the alternative optic fibre network is completed.

Last year, the DoT had told the finance ministry that it could not build an alternate communication network for the defence due to lack of funds. Telecom minister Kapil Sibal had pointed out that the Planning Commission had allotted a mere Rs 800 crore for all projects by the DoT in the next fiscal against the ministry’s demand for Rs 6,767 crore.

Insurance risk
Do you know that if one of your employees gets into an accident while driving your company’s vehicle, for personal commitment, then your insurance company may not insure you against potential lawsuit by the injured parties.

Unauthorized usage
When drivers drive back company vehicles after working hours, company has no control over the vehicle usage against commonly moonlighting issues, unauthorized usage by family members, illegal rental to third party etc. Company exposes themselves to huge potential risk without protection.

Coolasia Fleet Manager offers companies the ability to track their company fleets in real-time, 24 hours a day, potentially eliminating unauthorized vehicle use. Every day, week or month, fleet owners receive vehicle trip reports on their email inbox, displaying vehicle track history, date/time, location of each stop and start address. Fleet owners are able to set up alerts when vehicle

Speeding consumes more fuel

Aggressive driving habits wastes more fuel. Knowing your drivers’ driving habit and educate them helps lower fuel consumption and reduce risk.

Idling consumes more fuel

Every hour a diesel lorry idles, it burns more fuel than travelling on the road. Coolasia Fleet Manager offers comprehensive reports to companies about idling duration, location, date/time and by which vehicle/ driver. Companies can take necessary action against unnecessary idling with the evidence.

Optimized Routing

Coolasia offers companies history of vehicle routes for post analysis. This is helpful for future planning of routes and minimize wasteful trips which means less fuel and maintenance.

Unauthorized Usage

Coolasia Fleet Manager provides companies the ability to determine which vehicles are used for business-related and which are used for personal-related cause. Customized alerts and reports can be used to meet most unique business requirements.

The term Fleet Management is referred to as a company’s “Transportation Fleet”. Either an in-house fleet-management department or an outsourced fleet-management supplier manages this. It includes mercantile motor vehicles such as cars, ships, vans and trucks, as well as rail cars and incorporates a variety of function. For example: vehicle financing and maintenance, vehicle telematics driver management, fuel management and health and safety management. It is a utility, which allows such companies who depend on haulage in trade and commerce to eliminate or curtail the risks coupled with vehicle investment, recuperating efficiency, productivity and dipping their overall shipping and staff expenditure. Thus, providing 100% acquiescence with government legislation (and many more. In Singapore, fleet management vehicle tracking system is generally GPS based, the most widely used tracking technology.  It helps the fleet manger in his day-to-day work. That could be either the assignment of the work or maintenance of the record and data intact, or the scrutinizing the fragmentary activity.

Most of the cab facilities and taxi services in metro cities in Singapore  rely on tracking skills. They get information of a call through this technology, which is sent by their fleet manger, and then they reach to the place of the call using the tracking technology. These technologies also give information about the swiftness of the vehicle distance travelled; halts made how long were the halts made and several others that can come handy for both the passenger and the manager. The bill at the end is also generated on the estimation made with the assistance of this technology. This management includes safekeeping of the vehicle while closed or not in process and the capability to safely immobilize a vehicle while in manoeuvre. This allows the fleet manager to convalesce stolen or rogue vehicles while plummeting the chance of misplaced or stolen cargo.

Therefore, Fleet Management can prove to be a career opportunity. The greatest mechanism for altering in fleet management in the next 10 years will be “technology.” It is getting gradually more high-priced to function a fleet. There are diminishing opportunities to reduce charge and augment fleet effectiveness using conventional fleet management techniques. A mounting number of firms are investigating (or are more approachable) to technology-based fleet solutions.

The media industry quick to respond to Glass, being first adopters they already have an app see New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/googleglass

The real key to where we are going are insights into life as Corning predicted back in 2011 with their video a day made of Glass, look out for the fashion component.

Here in 2013 with Glass by Google we can soon enjoy what a model sees as they walk down the catwalk.

Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg shared spotlight at New York Fashion Week  with an unlikely collaborator Google. Diane Von Furstenberg sent Google’s new augmented-reality specs down the catwalk at Lincoln Center along with her Spring/Summer 2013 collection.

Google founder Sergey Brin was invited join Diane von Furstenberg and her creative director, Yvan Mispelaere, on the runway for her with each of them a pair of the futuristic frames.

The future really is in our hands, especially with the new smart phone with an amazing the flexible glass called Willow by Corning  demonstrated by Samsung at CES.

This opens the way for the fashion industry to sky drive many new digital and lifestyle driven experiences for their devoted customers and brand fans.

Please enjoy the video from the Telegraph

The legal, privacy, media, marketing and medical issue will still be debated about all these new technologies and their best use.

Yet continuous seamless connection is common trend that will be found in multiple devices throughout our lives.

Cant wait can you?

See the new device by Samsung recently covered by the Telegraph

We wait for the roll out of these smartphones and other products using flexible glass world-wide

http://www.google.com/glass/start/how-it-feels/

A great example of first adopters are the Media Industry and have already responded with the New York Times having a google glass app.

http://www.nytimes.com/googleglass

Its not just Google that have had Glass connecting us to the future, but Dal Corning makers of Intelligent Glass that can provide seamless connection in all areas of lives.

There are lots of interesting articles from the first group of google glass users and lots of debate about implications of wide adoption.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/13/google-glass-winky-mike-digiovanni

At the height of Project SHAMROCK, 150,000 messages a month were printed and analyzed by NSA personnel. In May 1975 however, Congressional critics began to investigate and expose the program. As a result, NSA director Lew Allen terminated it, on his own authority rather than that of other intelligence agencies.

The testimony of both the representatives from the cable companies and of director Allen at the hearings prompted Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Sen. Frank Church to conclude that Project SHAMROCK was “probably the largest government interception program affecting Americans ever undertaken.”^{[citation needed]}

One result of these investigations was the 1978 creation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) which limited the powers of the NSA and put in place a process of warrants and judicial review. Another internal safeguard, was U.S. Signals Intelligence Directive 18, an internal NSA and intelligence community set of procedures, originally issued in 1980^[4] and updated in 1993.^[5]

USSID 18 was the general guideline for handling signal intelligence SIGINT inadvertently collected on US citizens, without a warrant, prior to the George W. Bush Administration. Interpretations of FISA and the principles of USSID 18, by the Bush administration assume the Executive Branch has unitary authority for warrantless surveillance, which is under Congressional investigation as an apparent violation of the intent of FISA.

Louis Tordella, the longest-serving deputy director of the NSA, acknowledged overseeing the project to intercept telegrams as recently as the 1970s. It relied on the major telegraph companies including Western Union secretly turning over copies of all messages sent to or from the United States. “All of the big international carriers were involved, but none of ‘em ever got a nickel for what they did,” Tordella said before his death in 1996, according to a history written by L. Britt Snider, a Senate aide who became the CIA’s inspector general.

The telegraph interception operation was called Project Shamrock. It involved a courier making daily trips from the NSA’s headquarters in Fort Meade, Md., to New York to retrieve digital copies of the telegrams on magnetic tape.

President Richard Nixon, plagued by anti-Vietnam protests and worried about foreign influence, ordered that Project Shamrock’s electronic ear be turned inward to eavesdrop on American citizens. In 1969, Nixon met with the heads of the NSA, CIA and FBI and authorized an intercept program. Nixon later withdrew the formal authorization, but informally, police and intelligence agencies kept adding names to the watch list. At its peak, 600 American citizens appeared on the list, including singer Joan Baez, pediatrician Benjamin Spock, actress Jane Fonda and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

This apparently has continued. In his 2006 book titled “State of War,” New York Times reporter James Risen wrote: “The NSA has extremely close relationships with both the telecommunications and computer industries, according to several government officials. Only a very few top executives in each corporation are aware of such relationships.”

In a recent Wired article, author James Bamford described how the NSA is currently building the nation’s biggest spy center, a $2 billion facility in the Utah desert. Bamford quoted William Binney, a former NSA official, as saying the NSA’s backdoor into the U.S. telecommunications network goes far beyond AT&T’s facility on Second Street in San Francisco. “I think there’s 10 to 20 of them,” Binney said. “That’s not just San Francisco; they have them in the middle of the country and also on the East Coast.”

Must see video- http://www.onetruemedia.com/shared?p=118440be48c880abab0bc7d&skin_id=1602&utm_source=otm&utm_medium=text_url

See also

• FBI Index
• Project MINARET

Related articles:

1. ^ “Intelligence Activities And The Rights Of Americans: National Security Agency Surveillance Affecting Americans”. Icdc.com. Retrieved 2012-12-30. 
2. ^ NSA.gov^{[dead link]}
3. ^ Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (April 23, 1976), Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans: Nationa Security Agency Surveillance Affecting Americans 
4. ^ National Security Agency (20 October 1980), U.S. Signal Intelligence Directive 18: Legal Compliance and Minimization Procedures 
5. ^ National Security Agency (27 July 1993), U.S. Signal Intelligence Directive 18: Legal Compliance and Minimization Procedures (Revised) 

External links

• Recollections from the Church Committee’s Investigation of NSA: Unlucky SHAMROCK, CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence
• Unlucky SHAMROCK: The View From the Other Side, James G. Hudec, August 2000
• ECHELON: America’s Secret Global Surveillance Network
• The NSA’s Global Spying Network | by Patrick S. Poole
• The National Security Agency: The Secret Unveiled
• Development of Surveillance Technology & Risk of Abuse of Economic Information | PDF
• Schneier on Security: Project Shamrock
• House report on Project Minaret and Project Shamrock

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Emily P. Robinson Community Center meeting about the future of EA Conway Hospital in Monroe.

I attended a public meeting concerning the fate of EA Conway Hospital last night. My own self interest led me to the Emily P Robinson recreation center in southern Monroe. You see, EA Conway is my doctor’s office, and the doctor’s office for thousands of people just like me across northeast Louisiana, we’re the working poor.

We’re the people who have jobs but can’t afford health insurance. We’re the people who serve you at the drive-thru, who fill your tea glasses and clear the table at the restaurant you’ll eat at this weekend, we’re the people who bag your groceries, the guy who mows your yard every third Saturday, the gal who cleans your kitchen and does the laundry on Thursdays.

Me, I help you with telecommunications services by phone. Phone work, or telemarketing if you will, is one of the precious few employment bright spots in northeast Louisiana, several firms, from telecommunications to medical bill collection have set up call centers in the past decade alone.

I have a great employer, been there almost two years in fact, my employer, a small company with less than 100 employees, offers health insurance, and I hear its pretty good, I just can’t afford it. The family coverage is just too high for me.

My wife and I have made lots of sacrifices in the 4 years since our own Great Recession began, we live in a small house for the cheap rent, we don’t have cable TV (haven’t for over two years now), she drives a 96 minivan, I have a twenty year old pickup truck (fuel pump went out last week, so I’m actually minivan’ing it myself till we can afford to get it fixed) we rarely eat out, we don’t ‘go out’.

Now don’t cry for me please. I, and my family enjoy a very comfortable, if somewhat lower middle class, existence. In fact, thanks to my wife’s grandparents, we even got to go on a Carnival Cruise recently. We saw Jamaica, only for six hours but believe me, that was enough – the working poor of Jamaica mon’, they gave me a new appreciation for my wonderful American life.

But we still can’t afford health insurance. Since the meeting started at 6 and I don’t get off work till 6 I arrived a little late but made it in time for the Q&A session. 80% of the questions concerned employment and judging from the crowd’s various reactions, I imagine that’s the percentage of attendees, employees of EA Conway I mean, who were there.

Steve Skrivanos, chairman of Biomedical Research Foundation of Northwest Louisiana, John Dailey from LSU Shreveport and Dr. Les Johnson, Conway’s chief of staff were there to answer questions. I saw Monroe Mayor Jamie Mayo and city councilman Eddie Clark there. To my knowledge there were no other elected officials present.

Not hide nor hair was seen of the six (6) state senators and nine (9) state representatives elected by the citizens of Ouachita, Morehouse, Richland, Lincoln and Caldwell parishes at last night’s meeting. I can only assume our public servants were busy with the people’s business elsewhere, perhaps a fundraiser of something. Wait, I’m lying – almost forgot, representative Marcus Hunter (D) Monroe, did at least send questions to be asked by the moderators.

Speaking of the ‘moderators’, despite the fact that this was a public meeting, two people spoke for the public. This is a common practice at large public meetings due to time constraints. Time be damned, it also sucks. It’s a public meeting, held at a taxpayer funded facility, we (the public) attended this public meeting in reference to another publicly funded facility, EA Conway Hospital.

I came there to ask a question, instead I had to submit a handwritten question that was paraphrased all to hell by one of the two people serving as the public’s mouthpiece (more on my question and the answer in just a second).

One of them was just rude. Like every smart-alec teacher I ever had kinda rude. She’d roll the last letter of very sentence for 2 seconds, voice dripping disdain and contempt. The other lady wasn’t disrespectful at all, but why on earth a person with a eastern European accent was talking for a northeast Louisiana audience I’ll never know.

At the end of the meeting a third lady stepped forward. She was a genteel southern lady wearing her Sunday finest including a lovely hat, she was also evidently a fan of mid-80′s Eddie Murphy style comedy. “Did y’all hear $20 million dollars?”, she asked with a knowing chuckle at the crowd, “Cause I heard $20 million dollars”, she looked over her glasses at the speakers. Then she quoted R. Kelly. Then she introduced a priest who thankfully prayed us up outta there.

Ya know, 95% of the time, when poor people get screwed it’s the fault of the system. Sometimes though, its on us.

Anyway, most of the talk last night concerned employees and that is understandable, EA Conway keeps food on the table at 1,000 dining room tables across northeast Louisiana. 

But I wasn’t there to talk about employee issues, I understand how important it is to the people worried about their jobs, but my concerns were more about me, and people like me, the working poor of northeast Louisiana.

He wouldn’t let me interview him with my camera phone but John Dailey did give me a few minutes after the meeting. I asked him, ‘How could a for-profit company provide care for the working poor, for people like me?’

‘Biomedical Research Foundation of Northwest Louisiana isn’t a for-profit company’ he informed me. According to their 2011 financial reports they have almost $65 million in assets. But that aside, BRF was started by a hedge fund. I’m not sure, but I think people get into those to make money.

Mr Dailey also informed they’d be working with patients to ‘rigorously maximize benefits’ through a variety of means, including checking employer eligibility.

Bingo. The answer I knew was coming. Your employer offers health insurance? Then, next toothache, next gout attack, next whatever isn’t immediately life-threatening, that’s on you. Can’t afford it? Tough. You may not be able to pay your rent to treat your diabetes, but that’s just the way the cookie crumbles in Governor Bobby Jindal’s world.

Because of the Affordable Care Act, so-called Obamacare, Louisiana is losing a lot of Medicaid dollars, that’s the reason Governor Jindal gave us when he announced his plan to dump Louisiana’s charity hospital system last year. It’s the excuse he’s used for years to gut, to strangle the system with deep budget cuts. It’s even more insulting when you factor in Jindal’s refusal to implement the Affordable Care Act for Louisiana’s working poor. Jindalcare I call it.

But even more galling, the charity hospital in Monroe Louisiana made a profit. Yes, you read that right. According to Steve Skrivanos, EA Conway made money. Until Governor Jindal decided our charity hospital system was, ‘in crisis’.

EA Conway’s chief of staff, Dr. Les Johnson assured the crowd the hospital would stay open even if the Biomedical Research Foundation deal fell through, the Dr. said he’d been assured by administration officials that even when state funding ends this fall on September 30, Bobby J won’t lock the doors.

Isn’t that generous of our governor? He invents a crisis to dismantle a charity hospital system that serves some of the poorest Americans, Louisianians he swore to represent, families, generations who’ve depended on EA Conway for decades, but hey, no worries – even if he can’t dump our hospital by his self-imposed deadline, he won’t shut it down.

Who says conservatives can’t be compassionate…

Emily P. Robinson Community Center 5/13/13

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The new service is available to both TeliaSonera group and external operators, and carries TSIC’s roaming and signaling portfolio and VoIPX.   It will be supplemented with LTE signaling services and a comprehensive suite of additional IPX services in late 2013.

TeliaSonera International Carrier’s optical network is 100G-enabled throughout North America and Europe, and includes key markets in Eastern Europe.  TSIC’s IPX now reaches more markets across three continents and offers all operators a new direct, high performance option to guarantee their end-user experience.  This helps meet the growing end-customer demand to be able to do anything, at anytime, from anywhere on mobile devices, aptly named “anywhereization.”

IPX is crucial to meeting the growing demands of mobile customers.  The TSIC launch is an important step in meeting these demands, and shows TeliaSonera International Carrier’s commitment to quality and progress.

TeliaSonera International Carrier owns and operates one of the world’s most extensive fiber backbones and can monitor and manage IPX traffic from end-to-end.  This guarantees quality of service from the optical layer up.  It also provides the bandwidth needed for an elastic network that can scale to meet traffic peaks and exploding bandwidth demands.

The TeliaSonera International Carrier mission is to provide exceptional network infrastructure and services.  TSIC is confident they have a platform that can carry services that haven’t been invented yet.  It is part of their commitment to being the carrier of the future.

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I will admit – I am a wowser about smoking. International Alert - check the Australian meaning – it does not mean I am a dog. My father was a smoker in my youth, and I am supersensitive to cigarette smoke, from 10 metres in the open air, on clothes, on hands after a shake, any such contact I find overwhelming.

I have found public smoking much more prolific in Italy and France than my own country, where it is now more and more socially unacceptable to smoke in public. There are rules in these countries also but they are often flouted. While smoking is not allowed in indoor eating places, smokers completely dominate the outdoor areas. In Italy and France I want to sit outside, enjoy the ambience and not have my meal ruined. even worse are the railway stations and footpaths. while smoking in carriages is forbidden but not on the platforms. Theoretically the stations are non fumaire but this is often flauted, particularly by the rail employees! The best image I could have gathered for this post were the several times I saw men hurrying from the train at a stop with three unlit cigarettes in their mouths, trying to light one on the run.

ONE ECONOMIC ZONE – ONE CURRENCY – ONE NET – HOW MANY PROVIDERS ????

Geographically, Europe is similar in area to Australia and now have entered in strong economic and political unions. In Italy I purchased new Pay as You Go SIMMs for our phone and iPad. The instant we crossed into France they were blocked. To stay in touch I will have to purchase another set in France and a further lot in England. What a complete ripoff!