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announced 8/2/2018 via Company Press Release
synopsis: Ebix, Inc., a supplier of software and e-commerce solutions to the insurance industry, will acquire Leisure Corp., an Indian Events related travel space (MICE) & Luxury Trains company that focuses on insurance and financial sector clients. Leisure Corp. offers solutions for Meetings, Conferences, Exhibitions, Incentives, and more.
buyer: Ebix, Inc. (EBIX:$570.76)
Ebix is a supplier of software and e-commerce solutions to the insurance industry. Ebix offers application software products for the insurance industry ranging from carrier systems and agency systems to custom software development for all entities involved in the insurance and financial industries. "
target: Leisure Corp.
Leisure Corp. is an Indian Events related travel space (MICE) & Luxury Trains company that focuses on insurance and financial sector clients. They offer solutions for Meetings, Conferences or Conventions; Exhibitions, Events or Entertainment; Rewards or Incentives; and luxury holiday experiences.
TransUnion LLC, acquired Drivers History
synopsis: TransUnion announced the acquisition of a majority interest in Drivers History, a leading provider of traffic violations and criminal court data. This transaction strengthens Drivers History's offering and market access by leveraging TransUnion's carrier relationships and connectivity.
buyer: TransUnion LLC (TRU:$2,696.90)
As a global leader in information and risk management, TransUnion creates advantages for millions of people around the world by gathering, analyzing and delivering information. TransUnion delivers high quality data and integrates advanced analytics and enhanced decision-making capabilities. "
target: Drivers History
Drivers History is the industry leader in acquiring, processing/aggregating and distributing traffic and criminal related court data for insurance risk management. Drivers History maintains a comprehensive database of drivers in a variety of states that commit moving violations and other offenses.
announced 11/15/2019 via Company Press Release
EbixCash, will acquire Trimax IT Infrastructure and services Ltd.
synopsis: Ebix, Inc. has entered into a LOI to acquire the assets of Trimax, a leading provider of IT Services including Connectivity, Data Centre, Cloud Services, IMS & System Integration. Trimax will become a part of EbixCash's Bus Exchange and Financial Technologies business in India.
buyer parent: Ebix, Inc.
buyer: EbixCash
An Ebix Group initiative, EbixCash is one of the leading Financial Exchanges in India. EbixCash has established an Enterprise Financial Exchange portfolio that encompasses leadership in digital payments solutions, money transfer services, travel, insurance and corporate & incentive solutions. "
target: Trimax IT Infrastructure and services Ltd.
Established in 1995, Trimax is a leading provider of IT Services including Connectivity, Data Centre, Cloud Services, IMS & System Integration. Trimax is also a leader in providing industry specific solution in Transportation, Mobility & Co-operative Banking.
announced 7/17/2019 via GlobeNewswire
Yatra Online Private Limited will be merged with Ebix, Inc.,
synopsis: Ebix, Inc. and Yatra Online, Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Ebix will acquire Yatra via merger. Yatra is India's leading Corporate Travel services provider with over 800 Corporate customers and one of India's leading online travel companies and operates the website Yatra.com.
target: Yatra Online Private Limited (YTRA:$135.69)
Yatra Online, Inc is the parent company of Yatra Online Pvt. Ltd. which is based in Gurugram, India and is India's leading Corporate Travel services provider with over 800 Corporate customers and one of India's leading online travel companies and operates the website Yatra.com.
closed 2/14/2019 via GlobeNewswire
Ebix, Inc., acquired Zillious
synopsis: Ebix, Inc. has announced that one of its subsidiaries in India has acquired an 80% controlling stake in India based Zillious Solutions. Zillious is an on-demand SaaS travel technology solution, with market leadership in the corporate travel segment in India.
target: Zillious
Zillious is an on-demand SaaS travel technology solution, with market leadership in the corporate travel segment in India. The Zillious Exchange processes over 8 Million travel bookings annually, which conducting Gross Merchandise value of approximately $1.4 billion per annum.
closed 12/6/2018 via GlobeNewswire
EbixCash, acquired AHA Taxis
synopsis: Ebix, Inc. announced that one of its India-based subsidiaries, EbixCash, has acquired a 70 percent stake in AHA Taxis, a platform for on-demand inter-city cabs in India. EbixCash is one of the leading Financial Exchanges in India.
target: AHA Taxis
AHA Taxis is a leading online outstation taxi company for booking outstation taxis across different cities in India. Started with the vision of making outstation taxi booking easier and affordable for the masses, AHA Taxis has been positively changing the dynamics of outstation taxi market in India.
announced 9/4/2018 via GlobeNewswire
Ebix, Inc., will acquire MilesSoftware
synopsis: Ebix, Inc., a leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce services, announced that one of its Indian subsidiaries has signed the agreement to acquire Miles Software, India's Leading wealth and asset management on-demand software provider to banks, asset managers and wealth management firms.
target: MilesSoftware
Miles is India's Leading wealth and asset management on-demand software provider to banks, asset managers and wealth management firms, besides having 300+ financial service customers across 18 different countries in Europe, Middle East and South-East Asia.
Ebix, Inc., acquired Indus
synopsis: Ebix, a leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance, financial and e-learning industries, announced that it has acquired India based Indus Software Technologies, a global provider of enterprise Lending software solutions to financial institutions, captive auto finance and telecom companies.
target parent: Black Dragon Capital, LLC
target: Indus
Indus offers a specialized suite of products and technology solutions for Banking & Finance, Telecom and Insurance Industries. The Company's innovative enterprise level loan origination, receivables management and debt management solutions are trusted by over 100 plus clients.
Ebix, Inc., will acquire Smartclass Educational Services Private Limited
synopsis: Ebix, an international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce services, will acquire a 60% stake in Smartclass Educational, an e-learning and education company in India. Smartclass offers a repository of digital media content for grades K-12. The repository offers animated video lessons, interactive maps, printable worksheets, and more.
target: Smartclass Educational Services Private Limited
Smartclass Educational is a leading e-learning and education company in India. Smartclass offers a repository of digital media content for grades K-12. The repository offers 2D and 3D animated video lessons, interactive maps, teacher presentations, printable worksheets, home assignments, and more.
Ebix, Inc., acquired Via.com
synopsis: Leading insurance exchange Ebix has announced its Singapore arm has completed the acquisition of Via.com. Via.com is an India-based online travel company. The company's integrated online platform offers Insurance, Prepaid Gift Cards & Retail Products, besides Domestic & International Air, Hotel & Holidays, Rail, Bus and Rental Car bookings.
target: Via.com
Via.com is an India-based online travel company. The company's integrated online platform offers mobile Phone Recharges, Money Transfer, Insurance, Prepaid Gift Cards & Retail Products, besides Domestic & International Air, Hotel & Holidays, Rail, Bus and Rental Car bookings.
closed 12/23/2016 via Market Wire
Ebix, Inc., acquired WDEV
synopsis: Ebix, Inc., a leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance, financial, e-governance and healthcare industries, announced that it has acquired Rio De Janeiro based WDev, with the goal of becoming the largest one-stop insurance software services provider in Brazil.
Ebix is a leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance industry. It provides solutions ranging from infrastructure exchanges and risk compliance solutions to custom software development for all entities involved in the insurance industry. "
target: WDEV
Rio De Janeiro based WDEV is a specialized software and services firm focused primarily on the insurance marketplace since 2012. The Company provides technology and operational consulting, Straight through processing services, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products to the insurance industry.
A.D.A.M., Inc., acquired Via Media Health
synopsis: Ebix, Inc., a leading supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance, financial and healthcare industries, announced that it has acquired Via Media Health, one of India's leading health content & communication companies. Via Media Health will be immediately integrated into its A.D.A.M. Health Information Exchange Division.
buyer: A.D.A.M., Inc. (ADAM:$0.00)
Founded in 1990, A.D.A.M., Animated Dissection of Anatomy for Medicine, has been a worldwide leading provider of consumer health information and benefits technology solutions to health care organizations, hospitals, benefits brokers, employers, consumers, and educational institutions. "
target: Via Media Health
Via Media Health is a 13 years old communication, consulting, and networking organization focused on innovative health communication solutions in India.
Ebix, Inc., acquired Oakstone Publishing
synopsis: Ebix, Inc., a leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance, financial and healthcare industries, announced that it has acquired Alabama-based Oakstone Publishing, LLC, a leading provider of continuing education, certification materials for physicians, dentists and allied healthcare professionals.
target parent: BV Investment Partners
target: Oakstone Publishing
Oakstone Publishing, LLC, an innovative learning company, excels at providing nonbiased, multimedia continuing education and certification materials for physicians, dentists and allied healthcare professionals.
Ebix, Inc., acquired VERTEX
synopsis: Ebix, Inc., a leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance, financial and healthcare industries, announced that it has acquired Connecticut based VERTEX, Incorporated. VERTEX services include Business and IT Consulting, Migrations, Conversions, Integrations and Business Process Automation.
target: VERTEX (VRTX:$7,887.02)
VERTEX has been providing innovative products and business and technical solutions to the financial and insurance services industry since 1991. VERTEX services include Business and IT Consulting, Migrations, Conversions, Integrations and Business Process Automation.
A.D.A.M., Inc., acquired HealthCare Magic Pvt. Ltd.
synopsis: Ebix, Inc. announced that it has acquired Healthcare Magic – a medical advisory service with an online network of approximately 15,000 General Physicians and Surgeons spread across 50 specialties including alternative medicine. Ebix will integrate the services from this acquisition into its A.D.A.M. Health Division.
A.D.A.M. is a leading provider of consumer health information and benefits technology solutions to healthcare organizations, benefits brokers, employers, consumers, and educational institutions. "
target parent: Accel Partners
target: HealthCare Magic Pvt. Ltd.
Healthcare Magic is a medical advisory service with an online network of approximately 15,000 General Physicians and Surgeons spread across 50 specialties including alternative medicine.
cancelled 6/20/2013 via GlobeNewswire
Goldman Sachs & Co., cancelled an acquisition of Ebix, Inc.
synopsis: Ebix, Inc., a leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance industry, announced that it and an affiliate of Goldman, Sachs & Co. have agreed to terminate their previously announced merger agreement.
buyer: Goldman Sachs & Co. (GS:$37,162.00)
Goldman Sachs is one of the oldest and largest investment banking firms. Goldman Sachs is also a global leader in private corporate equity and mezzanine investing. Goldman Sachs' Principal Investment Area has formed 12 investment vehicles aggregating $35 billion of capital to date. "
target: Ebix, Inc. (EBIX:$570.76)
Ebix, Inc. provides end-to-end solutions ranging from infrastructure exchanges, carrier systems, agency systems and BPO services to custom software development for all entities involved in the insurance industry.
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Ebix, Inc., will acquire Qatarlyst
synopsis: The Qatar Financial Centre Authority announced that it has reached an agreement to sell Qatarlyst, an electronic trading exchange for the global insurance and reinsurance industry, to Ebix Singapore Pte Limited. The QFCA believes that Qatarlyst's divestment to Ebix, Inc. is the best option to leverage Qatarlyst's capabilities.
Ebix, Inc. provides end-to-end solutions ranging from infrastructure exchanges, carrier systems, agency systems and BPO services to custom software development for all entities involved in the insurance industry. "
target parent: Qatar Financial Centre Authority
target: Qatarlyst
Qatarlyst is a trading service for the global insurance and reinsurance industry. It provides a complete set of screens, processes and workflow to support quotation, signing and endorsements for all types and classes of commercial insurance and facultative and treaty reinsurance business.
Ebix, Inc., acquired TriSystems Ltd.
synopsis: Ebix, Inc., a leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance industry, announced that it has acquired London based TriSystems Ltd., a leading online insurance trading hub that facilitates commercial insurance and reinsurance transactions between London intermediaries and insurance companies.
target: TriSystems Ltd.
TriSystems is the leading online Exchange messaging service for the London commercial and reinsurance industry. The TriSystems products and services enable efficient and cost-effective communication between Underwriters and Brokers.
Ebix, Inc., acquired Planetsoft
synopsis: Ebix, Inc., an international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance industry, announced that the acquisition of PlanetSoft, Inc. was completed. PlanetSoft has grown rapidly to be recognized as a major technology provider addressing mission critical processes in the Life and P&C segments of the insurance industry.
target: Planetsoft
PlanetSoft utilizes its process management framework, Planet Interact, to deliver customized straight-through-processing solutions for the new business origination, underwriting, and administration of insurance and financial services products.
Ebix, Inc., acquired Fintechnix
synopsis: Ebix, Inc., a leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance industry, announced that its Australian operation has acquired Fintechnix, a leading supplier of web based straight through processing solutions to the Australian Life Insurance and Wealth Management sectors.
target: Fintechnix
Founded in 1992, Sydney based Fintechnix is an Australian information technology company that has been delivering enterprise-wide innovation to the front and back office operations of financial services companies in Australia.
Ebix, Inc., will acquire Taimma Communications Inc.
synopsis: Ebix, Inc., a leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance industry, announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Montreal based Taimma Communications Inc., a leading provider of innovative E-Learning medical education solutions to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and healthcare industries.
target: Taimma Communications Inc.
Taimma Communications Inc., is a leading provider of innovative E-Learning medical education solutions to various constituents of the healthcare industry. It develops learning programs to meet the unique needs of the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries.
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co, acquired Direct To PolicyHolder
synopsis: Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired The Doyle Group, Inc. and its affiliates, collectively doing business as Direct To PolicyHolder (DTPH). DTPH is an e-commerce affinity platform focused on the efficient acquisition, conversion and retention of professional liability (E&O) insurance policyholders in the allied healthcare and wellness fields.
buyer: Arthur J. Gallagher & Co (AJG:$6,776.10)
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. is a global insurance brokerage, risk management and consulting services firm. It has operations in 35 countries and offers client service capabilities in more than 150 countries around the world through a network of correspondent brokers and consultants. "
target parent: The Doyle Group
target: Direct To PolicyHolder
Direct to PolicyHolder provides insurers a modular suite of customer acquisition, retention, and management solutions. By leveraging integrated direct response marketing protocols with advanced analytics, DTPH enables insurer partners to deliver significant operational efficiencies.
Certua Group Limited, acquired Surely Services Ltd
synopsis: Certua, a data-driven financial technology company in the UK, has acquired the Surely Group, a leading insurtech business in the UK that builds cloud-based software platforms for the insurance industry. Surely's platforms enable insurers and brokers to transact online with their customers.
buyer: Certua Group Limited
Certua is a data-driven financial technology company in the UK. Certua offers a digital life insurance platform for financial advisers. The platform allows financial advisers to provide their clients with easy, transparent, and price competitive modern protection solutions. "
target: Surely Services Ltd
Surely is a leading insurtech business in the UK that builds cloud-based software platforms for the insurance industry. Surely's platforms enable insurers and brokers to transact online with their customers. Their system allows users to obtain quotes and buy insurance products online.
Polygon International AB, will acquire Hiotlabs AB
synopsis: Polygon has signed an agreement to acquire Hiotlabs AB. Hiotlabs is a Swedish based company offering market leading technology solutions based on Internet of Things and Machine Learning. The solutions consist of sensors and software platform, with the purpose of detecting and preventing water damages in buildings.
buyer: Polygon International AB
Polygon is the European market leader in property damage restoration, serving a range of sectors including insurance, property management, government and industrial clients. "
target: Hiotlabs AB
Hiotlabs is a Swedish based company offering market leading technology solutions based on Internet of Things and Machine Learning. The solutions consist of sensors and software platform, with the purpose of detecting and preventing water damages in buildings.
TonkaBI Limited merged with MicroInsurance Company,
synopsis: STP Group merged with MicroEnsure and TonkaBI to provide micro insurance to internet platforms, millions of micro and small businesses, and to approximately four billion people on the planet. TonkaBI develops automation and AI software solutions for many different businesses including world leaders in insurance.
buyer: MicroInsurance Company
MicroInsurance Company provides an insurance platform that is capable of assuming various types of micro transactional insurance risk covering gig workers, IoT, the sharing economy, micro and small businesses and weather, all managed through technology and delivered at low cost. "
target: TonkaBI Limited
TonkaBI was established in 2015, coming with nearly two decades of prior software industry experience from the top tech companies around the world. TonkaBI develops automation and AI software solutions for many different businesses including world leaders in insurance.
announced 10/30/2019 via AP - Associated Press
Data Dynamics Inc, will acquire Infintus Innovations Private Limited
synopsis: Data Dynamics announces its intent to acquire Infintus Innovations Pvt. Ltd. Infintus is a data analytics company that automates and analyzes unstructured data using AI. Infintus is powering Global Insurance Industry through its platforms.
buyer: Data Dynamics Inc
Data Dynamics is a leader in intelligent file management solutions that empower enterprises to seamlessly analyze, move, manage and modernize critical data across hybrid, cloud and object-based storage infrastructures for true business transformation. "
target: Infintus Innovations Private Limited
Infintus is a data analytics company that automates and analyzes unstructured data using AI. Infintus is powering Global Insurance Industry through AI through two core platforms. AI Powered Digital Insurer helps Insurers increase their revenue through AI powered Customer Journey from Lead.
Mohawk Analytics, acquired Brightmaven B.V.
synopsis: Mohawk Analytics has acquired Dutch tech company Brightmaven, a FinTech platform that unburdens financial service providers and reduces the theft and fraud related claim damage, with its platform 'Sjerlok'.
buyer: Mohawk Analytics
Mohawk Analytics, founded in 2011 and based in Norway, built a software solution focused on validation, recovery of assets and the exposure of fraud. The company operates in more than 30 countries and works with clients including insurance companies, loss adjusters, private investigators, and more. "
target: Brightmaven B.V.
Brightmaven is a FinTech platform that unburdens financial service providers and reduces the theft and fraud related claim damage, with its platform 'Sjerlok'. Sjerlok is a Rich Data Platform combining big data, AI, and semantic technology into one solution.
announced 10/31/2018 via BNC Analysis
Charles Taylor InsureTech Limited, will acquire CoVi Analytics
synopsis: Charles Taylor InsureTech announced that it has agreed to acquire a majority stake in CoVi Analytics, a company that has developed an advanced analytics platform that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and non-traditional tools to re-think, simplify and automate risk and compliance management for insurers and brokers.
buyer parent: Charles Taylor plc
buyer: Charles Taylor InsureTech Limited
Charles Taylor is a leading provider of professional services to clients across the global insurance market. They operate through three distinct businesses: Management Services, Adjusting Services and Insurance Support Services. "
target: CoVi Analytics
CoVi has developed an advanced analytics platform that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and non-traditional tools to re-think, simplify and automate risk and compliance management for insurers and brokers.
Applied Systems Inc., will acquire Indio
synopsis: Applied Systems announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Indio Technologies, Inc. as a critical component of its investment in digitizing the end-to-end commercial lines submissions process. Indio provides a workflow management platform that delivers a suite of web-based solutions for insurance agencies.
buyer parent: Hellman & Friedman LLC
buyer: Applied Systems Inc.
Applied Systems is the leading provider of cloud-based software that powers the business of insurance. Recognized as a pioneer in insurance automation and data exchange between brokerages, insurers and their clients, it is the world's largest provider of agency and brokerage management systems. "
target: Indio
Indio Technologies, Inc. digitizes the end-to-end commercial lines submissions process across agencies, brokers, insurers and insureds. Indio is the leading solution for the insurance application and renewal process, enabling agencies to deliver a fully automated client risk data capture.
Bold Penguin, will acquire RiskGenius
synopsis: Bold Penguin, a rapidly growing commercial insurance technology provider, will acquire RiskGenius, a pioneer in insurance document intelligence software. RiskGenius applies machine learning to insurance policies, allowing users to understand terms of coverage across a library of policy documents.
buyer: Bold Penguin
Bold Penguin is an insurance company that connects businesses, agents, and carriers to the most appropriate commercial insurance quotes. Bold Penguin upgrades the user experience for businesses by creating an easy tool for agents and offering a streamlined process of underwriting for carriers. "
target: RiskGenius
RiskGenius is a pioneer in insurance document intelligence software. RiskGenius applies machine learning to insurance policies, allowing users to understand terms of coverage across a library of policy documents. This helps carriers and brokers efficiently assess, analyze, and compare policies.
Hypoport Group, acquired Maklersoftware.com GmbH
synopsis: Hypoport AG, a technology-based financial service provider, acquired Maklersoftware.com GmbH, the first independent provider of software and data center solutions for the insurance and financial market. They offer MetaSolution, which is a customer-oriented consulting software for the insurance and financial market.
buyer: Hypoport Group (DB:HYQ:$356.51)
The Hypoport Group is a technology-based financial service provider. Its business model is based on its three mutually supporting business units: Private Clients, Financial Service Providers, and Institutional Clients. All three units are engaged in the distribution of financial services. "
target: Maklersoftware.com GmbH
Maklersoftware.com GmbH was founded in 2001 as the first independent provider of software and data center solutions for the insurance and financial market. They offer MetaSolution, which is a customer-oriented consulting software for the insurance and financial market.
CFC Underwriting Ltd., acquired ThreatInformer Limited
synopsis: CFC, the specialist insurance provider, has acquired London-based insuretech, ThreatInformer. ThreatInformer's data enrichment technology helps insurance companies better understand their customers' exposures by compiling readily-available information about their risk profile from a variety of external sources.
buyer: CFC Underwriting Ltd.
CFC is a specialist insurance provider and a pioneer in emerging risk. With a track record of disrupting inefficient insurance markets, CFC uses proprietary technology to deliver high-quality products to market faster than the competition while making it easier for brokers to do business. "
target: ThreatInformer Limited
Leveraging a combination of big data and machine learning, ThreatInformer's data enrichment technology helps insurance companies better understand their customers' exposures by compiling readily-available information about their risk profile from a variety of external sources.
closed 11/25/2020 via Bloomberg
RIB Software SE, acquired Winjit
synopsis: RIB Software SE, an innovator in the building and construction industry, has increased its stake from 15% to 51% in Winjit, a leading Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Blockchain and Fintech solutions provider.
buyer: RIB Software SE (DB:RIB:$305.47)
Headquartered in Germany, RIB Software SE is an innovator in the building and construction industry. The company creates, develops and offers cutting-edge digital technologies for construction enterprises and projects across various industries worldwide. "
target: Winjit
Winjit, based in India, is a leading Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Blockchain and Fintech solutions provider, with a presence in all major locations in the world.
announced 9/14/2020 via BusinessWire
Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P., will acquire Insurance Technologies, LLC
synopsis: Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P., a premier private equity firm investing in growth companies, will acquire a majority stake in Insurance Technologies, LLC, a provider of sales and regulatory automation solutions for the insurance and financial services industries, from NexPhase Capital, LP.
buyer: Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P.
Thomas H. Lee Partners is a premier private equity firm investing in middle market growth companies, headquartered primarily in North America, exclusively in four sectors: Consumer, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Technology & Business Solutions. "
target parent: NexPhase Capital
target: Insurance Technologies, LLC
Insurance Technologies provides innovative sales and regulatory automation solutions to the insurance and financial services industry. The company's offering includes a suite of integrated sales solutions, from pre-sale functions to illustrations and e-application to post-sale services.
Servion Global Solutions Ltd., acquired Innoveo Solutions AG
synopsis: Everstone Group-backed Servion Global Solutions has acquired Zurich-based cloud software provider focused on insurance tech Innoveo (formerly Pactera Switzerland). Innoveo Skye is the flagship product of Innoveo and it has been implemented for major insurance companies.
buyer parent: Everstone Capital Management
buyer: Servion Global Solutions Ltd.
Servion enables business transformation for enterprises in the area of customer experience management (CEM). Over the past two decades, Servion has evolved from being a single channel (voice) interaction expert to being an industry pioneer in omnichannel customer experience. "
target parent: HNA Group Co., Ltd.
target: Innoveo Solutions AG
Founded in 2007, Innoveo is an omnichannel cloud software provider in the insurtech space. It has offices in Zurich, Hong Kong and Budapest. Innoveo Skye is the flagship product of the company. It is offered as a cloud service and has been implemented for major insurance companies.
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LexisNexis, purchased Sales Portal from Marsh, Berry & Company, Inc.
synopsis: LexisNexis® Risk Solutions announced the acquisition of the Sales Portal, from MarshBerry, the nation's preeminent insurance consulting and M&A advisory firm. The Sales Portal is a state-of-the-art sales management automation tool that will be offered by the LexisNexis Insurance Exchange.
buyer parent: Reed Elsevier
buyer: LexisNexis
LexisNexis® is a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions designed specifically for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting, and academic markets. "
seller: Marsh, Berry & Company, Inc.
MarshBerry's Sales Portal is a state-of-the-art sales management automation tool. The easy-to-use, Web-based technology allows agencies and brokers to track producer sales activity and manage service commitments relative to customer accounts.
iPipeline, Inc., acquired Aplifi Inc
synopsis: iPipeline®, the leader in on-demand marketing, selling and processing solutions for the nation's top insurance carriers, distributors and producers, announced the acquisition of Aplifi®, who has maintained a strong reputation for providing life and annuity solutions to the financial services industry.
buyer: iPipeline, Inc.
iPipeline's channel solutions for carriers, distributors, and producers automate activities for quoting, forms processing, illustrations development, requirements ordering, contracting, and content distribution, enabling the insurance industry to market, sell, and process faster. "
target parent: Bluff Point Associates
target: Aplifi Inc
Aplifi is a leading technology and service provider to the life and annuity industry. Aplifi provides a vast array of process automation and seamless integration to more than 50 of the country's largest and most well known insurance carriers along with over 1,000 distributors.
Francisco Partners Management LLC, acquired Connecture, Inc.
synopsis: Connecture, Inc., a provider of web-based information systems used to create health insurance marketplaces, announced the completion of the acquisition by affiliates of Francisco Partners, a leading technology-focused private equity firm.
buyer: Francisco Partners Management LLC
Francisco Partners is a leading global private equity firm, which specializes in investments in technology businesses. Since its launch over 17 years ago, Francisco Partners has raised over $10 billion in capital and invested in over 200 technology companies. "
target: Connecture, Inc. (OTCQX:CNXR:$77.99)
Connecture is a leading web-based consumer shopping, enrollment and retention platform for health insurance distribution. It offers a personalized health insurance shopping experience that recommends the best fit insurance plan based on an individual's preferences, health status, and more.
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Zywave, Inc, acquired Davidson Marketing Group, LLC
synopsis: Insurance software provider Zywave Inc. announced that it has completed an acquisition of the assets of Davidson Marketing Group. The company specializes in value-added technology to support insurance brokers and benefits companies.
buyer: Zywave, Inc
Zywave is a leading provider of SaaS enterprise automation solutions for the employee benefits and P&C insurance distribution industry. The company's solutions include technology-enabled content and communication, agency automation, and business intelligence and analytics. "
target: Davidson Marketing Group, LLC
Davidson Marketing Group specializes in value-added technology to support insurance brokers and benefits companies. It allows insurance consultants to increase retention rates with customized portals packed with resources on troubling topics such as Health Care Reform and Time & Attendance tracking.
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Ebix, Inc.
Ebix is a leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance industry. It provides solutions ranging from infrastructure exchanges and risk compliance solutions to custom software development for all entities involved in the insurance industry.
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Racial Discrimination Cases In Texas
The legislative history of the Fourteenth Amendment (1868) illustrates beyond doubt that the amendment was designed to insure that the 1866 Act's principles enjoyed constitutional validity. Following ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment (1870), Congress passed the Enforcement Act of 1870, essentially reenacting the 1866 statute and making clear its ambit extended to nationality groups. The legislative history of major 19th century civil rights enactments "embraces, at the least, membership in a group that is ethnically ... distinctive . . . . Rambersed, 649 N.Y.S.2d at 644. The lower court's opinion in Saint Francis College demonstrated the historical connection between the Fourteenth Amendment and 1981: Section 1981 was originally enacted as part of Section 1 of the Civil Rights act of 1866, authorized by Section 2 of the thirteenth amendment to the United States Constitution. Because of doubts over Congress' authority to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1866, it was subsequently reenacted following the adoption of the fourteenth amendment as Section 18 of the Civil Rights Act of 1870. . . . Accordingly, Section 1981 has some ties to the fourteenth as well as to the thirteenth amendments. Al-Khazraji v. Saint Francis College, 784 F.2d 505, 515 (3rd Cir. 1986), aff'd, 481 U.S. 604, 95 L. Ed. 2d 582, 107 S. Ct. 2022 (1987); see also Chew, 527 A.2d at 349 (what Supreme Court concluded with respect to intent of framers of Civil Rights Act of 1866 would apply with equal force to intent of framers of Equal Protection Clause, who were same people dealing with same problem during same congressional session). Accordingly, the notion of "race" ought to be as broadly understood for purposes of Batson and the Equal Protection Clause as it is has been interpreted by the Supreme Court in the context of other post-civil war legislation such as Section 1981. See Saint Francis College, 481 U.S. at 613; see also Salazar v. State, 795 S.W.2d 187, 193 (Tex. Crim. App. 1990)(referring to Hispanics as "race" for purposes of establishing cognizable racial group under Batson). We hold that "race," for purposes of Batson, encompasses notions of ancestral line and ethnicity. And discrimination based on such considerations is racial discrimination under Batson.

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Інфе́кція або заражування хворобою ( — проникнення в організм хвороботворних мікроорганізмів; інфікування, зараження / заражування — стан, коли в організм потрапляє чужорідний агент — патоген (бактерія, паразитичний грибок, найпростіший організм, гельмінти, вірус або пріон), який розмножується і може чинити хвороботворний ефект. Запозиченому з , що означає «фарбування, просочування, псування» видатний німецький лікар Крістоф Вільгельм Гуфелянд у 1831 році надав нове значення — «зараження хворобою». У 1894 році термін «інфекційні хвороби» запропонував засновник патологічної анатомії Рудольф Вірхов.

Термінологія
У Міжнародних медико-санітарних правилах 2005 р. визначають: «Інфекція» — поступлення і розвиток або розмноження інфекційного агента у організмі людей чи тварин, що може представляти ризик для здоров'я населення".

В широкому сенсі часто під терміном «інфекція» розуміють сукупність патологічних, адаптаційно-пристосувальних і репаративних реакцій організму, що виникають у результаті його конкурентної взаємодії з патогенними й за певних умов потенційно патогенними вірусами, бактеріями й грибами. Аналогічне явище стосовно найпростіших й гельмінтів називають інвазією. Але правильніше під назвою «інфекція» розуміти тільки факт зараження організму мікроорганізмами (вірусами, бактеріями, найпростішими).

Тоді як з точки зору патофізіології виділяють:
 «Інфекційний процес» — комплекс взаємних пристосувальних реакцій у відповідь на укорінення і розмноження патогенного мікроорганізму в макроорганізмі, спрямований на відновлення порушеного гомеостазу та біологічної рівноваги з навколишнім середовищем. Включає взаємодію збудника, макроорганізму і навколишнього середовища.
 «Інфекційна хвороба» — крайній ступінь виразності інфекційного процесу, коли виникає порушення гомеостазу в результаті переважання патологічних реакцій над компенсаторними.

Інфекційна хвороба може перебігати в маніфестній та субклінічній формі, коли клінічні прояви хвороби відсутні, але при обстеженні в організмі виявляються морфологічні зміни, біохімічні та імунологічні зрушення, які з часом можуть призвести до тяжких негативних наслідків. За перебігом хвороби виділяють типові та нетипові форми. Так, наприклад, у осіб, що піддавалися щеплень проти висипного тифу, це захворювання перебігає атипово — в легкій формі, з укороченим гарячковим періодом. Інфекційні хвороби характеризуються:
 певною етіологією (мікробний патоген або його токсини),
 заразливістю, нерідко — схильністю до широкого епідемічного поширення,
 циклічністю перебігу,
 формуванням імунітету.

Окрім того існують ще такі термінування:
 Локальна інфекція — місцеве пошкодження організму під дією патогенних факторів мікроорганізму. Локальний процес, як правило виникає на місці проникнення мікроба у тканини і зазвичай характеризується розвитком місцевої запальної реакції. Розвиток локальної інфекції свідчить про достатню імунну відповідь макроорганізма, що не дає можливості поширення патогена далі в організм. Хоча потрапляння певних факторів збудника, продуктів запалення (токсико-резорбтивна гарячка) може відбуватися. Такий розвиток інфекційної хвороби притаманний для фурункулів, абсцесів, тощо;
 Маніфестна інфекція — така, що має виразні клінічні прояви, нерідко загального характеру;
 Субклінічна інфекція — така, в перебігу якої клінічні прояви хвороби відсутні, але при обстеженні в організмі виявляють морфологічні зміни, біохімічні та імунологічні зрушення, які з часом можуть призвести до тяжких негативних наслідків;
 Латентна інфекція — стан при якому мікроорганізм, що на певному етапі живе і розмножується у тканинах організму, не породжує ніяких симптомів через формування цист як, зокрема, при латентному токсоплазмозі, деяких паразитозах, певних гельмінтозах, тощо;

Фактори агресії мікроорганізму
Властивості мікроорганізму, здатного спричинювати інфекційний процес, визначають його патогенністю та вірулентністю.
 Патогенність (від  — страждання та  — народження) — це здатність мікроорганізму спричиняти інфекційний процес та інфекційне захворювання. Патогенність є видовою ознакою, яка виникла та закріпилась у мікроорганізмів в процесі еволюції.

Ступінь патогенності одного і того ж мікроба при тривалому впливі на нього різних умов зовнішнього середовища може змінюватися. Цей ступінь або міру патогенності прийнято називати вірулентністю.
 Вірулентність ( — отруйний) — міра або ступінь патогенності. На відміну від патогенності вона не є видовою ознакою, а притаманна конкретному штаму того чи іншого збудника. Вірулентність може змінюватися в залежності багатьох факторів, що мають впалив на мікро- або макроорганізм.
Для виникнення та підтримки інфекційного процесу мікроорганізми повинні проникнути у сприятливий організм, де його зустрічають ряд захисних факторів, що здійснюють супротив руйнівній дії мікробу. Для подолання цих факторів патогенні мікроорганізми мають фактори патогенності.
До основних факторів патогенності належить:
 адгезивність () — здатність мікроорганізму закріплюватися на поверхні клітин;
 колонізація;
 інвазивність — здатність проникати та розповсюджуватися в макроорганізмі, реалізується через ферменти патогенності (гіалуронідаза, фібринолізин, нейрамінідаза, тощо);
 агресивність — здатність мікробів жити, розмножуватися, поширюватися в організмі та протидіяти захисним факторам організму;
 токсиноутворення;
 стійкість до дії захисних факторів макроорганізму.

Деякі мікроби виробляють отруйні речовини (токсини), що виділяються з мікробної клітини назовні. Поняттям токсигенності мікроба позначається його здатність до вироблення токсину тієї чи іншої сили. Циркуляцію мікробних токсинів в крові (наприклад, при дифтерії, правцеві, ботулізмі) називають токсемією; вона чинить ряд порушень в організмі.

Захисні фактори (бар'єри) організму людини від інфекцій

Шкіра і слизові оболонки — перешкоджають проникненню мікробів із зовнішнього середовища у тканини організму. Окрім функцій механічного захисту від інфекції, шкіра та слизисті оболонки мають ряд факторів додаткового захисту від мікробів. Так, потові та сальні залози шкіри виводять на поверхню шкіри жирні кислоти та лізоцим (фермент, що знищує компоненти мікробів), який сприяє швидкій смерті мікробів, осівших на поверхні шкіри. Слизисті оболонки захищені імуноглобуліном А (антитіло IgA), виконуючи специфічний захист від мікробів. Крім вищеописаних факторів захисту, у шкірі та слизових оболонках знаходяться численні клітини імунної системи, що знищують інфекції, які потрапляють всередину тканин.

 Лімфатичні вузли та селезінка виконують роль своєрідного фільтру у якому затримуються усі чужорідні структури циркулюючі в крові та лімфі, у тому числі і мікроорганізми. Дуже часто, проникнувши через шкірні бар'єри, інфекція затримується у лімфатичних вузлах і руйнується там.

 Гуморальні фактори захисту — представлені циркулюючим у крові комплектом (комплекс білків, руйнуючий мікроорганізми), а також специфічними антитілами, що розпізнають та руйнують інфекцію.

 Імунна система організму — це найбільш потужний і складний механізм захисту. Основними компонентами імунної системи людини є імунні клітини і гуморальні фактори, які вони секретують. Клітини імунної системи здатні розігнати той або інший вид мікробів і дати початок специфічній імунній відповіді, направленій на знищення цих мікробів. Руйнування мікроорганізмів здійснюється двома шляхами: в одному випадку мікроби поглинаються імунними клітинами та перетравлюються всередині них, в іншому випадку мікроорганізми зв'язуються і знешкоджуються специфічними антитілами, котрі також виробляють імунні клітини.

Класифікація інфекційних хвороб
Внаслідок великої кількості мікроорганізмів, що зумовлюють захворювання, різноманітність механізмів та шляхів передавання інфекції існують певні труднощі у класифікації інфекційних хвороб, яка б повністю задовольнила інфекціоністів, епідеміологів й мікробіологів.

Класифікація згідно із середовищем проживання збудника
На сьогодні всі інфекційні хвороби поділяють на три класи :

 Антропонози (від  — людина та  — хвороба) — група інфекційних та паразитарних захворювань, збудники яких здатні паразитувати у природних умовах лише в організмі людини, яка в природі є єдиним джерелом інфекції (кір, вітряна віспа, тощо).

 Зоонози (від  — тварина та  — хвороба) — група інфекційних та паразитарних захворювань, збудники яких звичайно паразитують в організмі деяких тварин, коли тварини є природним резервуаром, причому джерелом інфекції/інвазії для людини є також тварина (туляремія, ящур, тощо).

 Сапронози (від  — гнилий та  — хвороба) — група інфекційних захворювань, для збудників яких основним природним резервуаром є абіотичні (неживі) об'єкти навколишнього середовища (легіонельоз, правець, тощо).

Етіологічна класифікація
У всіх класах кожну групу поділяють на інфекційні хвороби, які чинять:
 віруси;
 різноманітні бактеріями (до царства бактерій нині відносять хламідій, рикетсій, мікоплазм, актиноміцетів тощо);
 грибки;
 найпростіші;
 гельмінти (інвазії);
 членистоногі (інфестації);
 пріони.

Дуже часто у світовій практиці наводять класифікацію інфекційних хвороб саме за етіологічним чинником, що відображає відсутність світового консенсусу щодо класифікації інфекційних захворювань. Таке положення не може вдовольнити клініцистів через те, що різні за проявами хвороби потрапляють у групи лише за етіологічним фактором, що спричиняє плутанину.

Інші класифікації
Існують й класифікації, які засновані на органному принципі (інфекційні хвороби шкіри, очей, легень, тощо) або синдромальному (інфекційні захворювання, що перебігають з жовтяницею, чи діарейним синдромом). Але достатня кількість збудників інфекційних хвороб може спричиняти комплексні, генералізовані ураження (наприклад, черевний тиф) тому їх важко віднести до тих чи інших «органних» класифікацій.

Класифікація, яка ґрунтується на клінічних і епідеміологічних чинниках

Тому в 1947 р. видатний радянський та український епідеміолог Лев Васильович Громашевський запропонував класифікацію інфекційних хвороб, яка ґрунтується на клініко-епідеміологічних засадах: місці первинної локалізації в організмі та механізмі, шляхах передачі інфекції від джерела до здорового організму.

Згідно цій класифікації виділяють:
 кишкові інфекції (фекально-оральний механізм передачі інфекції, місце первинної локалізації — травна система);
 інфекції дихальних шляхів (повітряно-крапельний механізм, місце первинної локалізації — респіраторний тракт);
 кров'яні інфекції (трансмісивний механізм, місце первинної локалізації — система кровообігу та кров'яні елементи);
 інфекції зовнішніх покривів (контактний механізм, місце первинної локалізації — шкіра та підшкірна основа);

У подальшому стали виділяти також:
 хвороби з множинними механізмами передачі (і, відповідно, до конкретного механізму передачі) — чума, туляремія, сибірка тощо;
 захворювання з вертикальним механізмом (від матері до дитини, в тому числі, й трансплацентарно) — Torch-інфекції;
 гемоконтактні інфекції (гемоконтактний механізм, внаслідок штучного парентерального втручання) — вірусні гепатити В, С, D тощо.

Ця класифікація теж має певні недоліки, але є такою, що дозволяє виділити групи різних за етіологією хвороб, але маючих спільні патогенетичні риси.

Механізми передачі інфекції та шляхи, що їх реалізують
Виділяють такі механізми передачі:
 фекально-оральний;
 повітряно-крапельний;
 трансмісивний;
 контактний;
 вертикальний;
 гемоконтактний;

Вони реалізуються за допомогою різних факторів — шляхів передачі.

Фекально-оральний механізм
Реалізується:
 харчовим шляхом (коли збудник передається через заражені харчові продукти);
 водним;
 контактно-побутовим (коли збудник передається безпосередньо при контакті (рукостискання тощо) або через предмети, що оточують хворого (дверні ручки, посуд, рушники тощо й потрапляє у стравохід з подальшим просуванням по травній системі аж до місця первинної локалізації);

Повітряно-крапельний механізм
Реалізується:
 однойменним шляхом (коли збудник передається через крапельки респіраторного слизу чи слини, що потрапляють у повітря при розмові, чханні, кашлі);
 повітряно-пиловим шляхом (коли до сприйнятливої людини збудник потрапляє внаслідок підняття у повітря пилу, що вже містить збудника або його спори);
 контактно-побутовим шляхом (коли збудник через контаміновані руки, посуд тощо потрапляє у ротоглотку, а далі вдихається до респіраторного тракту);

Трансмісивний механізм
Реалізується:
 шляхом укусів кровосисних комах (комарів, блощиць, вошей, кліщів тощо);

Контактний механізм
Реалізується:
 рановим шляхом (коли є клінічна виразна рана — сказ, правець, содоку, стрептобацильоз, хвороба котячих подряпин тощо);
 шляхом через мікропошкодження шкіри, рідко слизових оболонок (коли клінічно виразних ран немає, але збудники здатні потрапляти безпосередньо з зовнішнього середовища, з предметів побуту, технічних або будівельних поверхонь через мікропошкодження шкіри, наприклад, при геморагічній гарячці з нирковим синдромом)
 аліментарним шляхом (коли збудник, що знаходиться на поверхні харчових продуктів, через мікропошкодження слизової ротової порожнини, ясен потрапляє до внутрішнього середовища макроорганізма. Таке може відбуватися при лептоспірозі, бруцельозі тощо);
 водним шляхом (коли збудник, що знаходиться у воді, через мікропошкодження шкіри, слизової ротової порожнини, ясен потрапляє до внутрішнього середовища макроорганізма. Таке може відбуватися при лептоспірозі, стрептобацильозі);
 статевим шляхом.

Вертикальний механізм
Реалізується від матері до дитини:
 внутрішньоутробним шляхом (трансплацентарний) — група TORCH —інфекцій;
 шляхом передачі у період пологів;
 шляхом передачі у післяпологовому періоді при грудному годуванні дитини;

Гемоконтактний механізм
Є артифіціальним. Реалізується:
 шляхом передачі через медичні засоби (ін'єкції, будь-які операції, будь-які інструментальні діагностичні маніпуляції, переливання кровопрепаратів тощо);
 шляхом передачі через немедичні засоби (ін'єкції наркотичних речовин немедичного призначення, татуювання, пірсинг тощо).

Див. також
 Інвазія
 Інфекційні захворювання
 Внутрішньолікарняна інфекція
 Опортуністична інфекція

Примітки

Джерела
 Інфекційні хвороби (підручник) (за ред. О. А. Голубовської). — Київ: ВСВ «Медицина» (2 видання, доповнене і перероблене). — 2018. — 688 С. + 12 с. кольор. вкл. (О. А. Голубовська, М. А. Андрейчин, А. В. Шкурба та ін.) ISBN 978-617-505-675-2 / С. 9-12
 Возіанова Ж. І.  Інфекційні і паразитарні хвороби: В 3 т. — К.:"Здоров'я", 2008. — Т. 1; 2-е вид., перероб. і доп. — 884 с. ISBN 978-966-463-012-9

Посилання
 Infection
 Infections
 Definition of Infection
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Інфекційні захворювання
Медична термінологія


Microsoft's six-year-old Beijing lab has already paid dividends in speech recognition, wireless multimedia and graphics.
Half a world away from the calm beauty of Seattle and Puget Sound, there's a lab where software dreams come true. At Microsoft Research Asia, the drive to succeed is as intense as the traffic that roars by the front door in unbridled, chaotic fury. If Microsoft's other facilities around the globe seem idyllic, this one, in Beijing, China, is pure street. Nearby high-rises compete with smokestacks for skyline supremacy. Run-down buildings sit next to bustling consumer electronics markets and the Beijing Satellite Manufacturing Factory, where China conducts its spaceflight research. Microsoft's mantra: work hard to get in the door; work harder to survive; then work even harder because the real work-that of an information technology world leader-is just beginning.
If you find it hard to root for Microsoft, you've never met Harry Shum. The Beijing lab's managing director is hearty, engaging, and surprisingly young-in his 30s. "This is a new kind of manufacturing in China," he says, waiting outside his office with a smile. "Not just shoes, socks, baby strollers. Now, we manufacture MIT students, papers, and software." Shum's longtime colleague Hongjiang Zhang is walking by but stops to concur: "It's another level of Made in China,'" he says. Zhang, who's a little older than Shum and more reserved, heads the lab's Advanced Technology Center, a division launched late last year to accelerate new technologies into Microsoft's product pipeline.
Together, Shum and Zhang lead an organization that looks like a typical corporate lab but feels like a startup. For all its cubicles and computers, the lab brims with enthusiasm; its energy comes from, of all things, students. Come in at any hour and you'll find scores of them-the lab supports about 200 interns at any time, most from local universities-tooling away on projects jointly supervised by Microsoft managers. Add the buzz of Mandarin conversations, the window views of Beijing's sprawl, and the ever present hint of cigarette smoke, and you are constantly reminded: you're not in corporate USA anymore.
Although they run the lab, Shum and Zhang are at heart still researchers. Roaming up and down vast aisles of workstations, they show off their latest demos like proud parents. Shum stops at the desk of a young woman he calls "the number-one student" in computer science at Tsinghua University, one of China's top engineering schools. On her screen are still photos of a waterfall, rain on a lake, and blades of grass.
With a click of the mouse, the scenes come alive. Water tumbles and splashes over the falls, raindrops plunk on the surface, and grass undulates in the breeze. The computer is generating the animation on the spot: software has scoured videos for statistical clues about how water and grass move and applied the lessons to the static images.
Indeed, with 150 full-time researchers and more than $80 million from its parent company since opening in 1998, Microsoft Research Asia has become a powerhouse of infotech R&D. Far faster than even Microsoft's top brass expected, the Beijing research outpost is influencing the company's global business. More than 70 technologies it developed are already used in Microsoft products, including software for Windows operating systems and graphics packages for Xbox video games. More of the lab's latest software is slated for the next version of Windows (code-named Longhorn), due out in 2006.
Harry Shum is hungry. His entire lab is hungry. Over a catered lunch of noodles and fish in his Beijing office, Shum explains what drives his staff. "We started from nothing. The whole lab grew from this room. So I don't rearrange anything," he jokes, as if feng shui would matter to the world's largest software company. But just ten years ago, the area around the lab was farmland. Today, Microsoft Research Asia occupies one and a half large floors in a six-story office building with a futuristic glass-front lobby. The lab has come to symbolize a city in the midst of a high-tech revolution.
Shum himself is a vibrant mix of East and West. His English is accented but very clear. Born and raised near Shanghai, he did his graduate work at Carnegie Mellon University (he says he's "still a die-hard Pittsburgh Steelers fan") and joined Microsoft Research in Redmond in 1996. There, he became one of the company's rising stars, creating realistic 3-D graphics and virtual environments using principles borrowed from computer vision.
Two years later came the opportunity: Microsoft was starting a lab in China. The goal was to tap into the country's immense talent pool of students and scientists, including many who had emigrated to other countries but could be enticed back to their native land. And being in position to explore a marketplace of a billion people in a rapidly industrializing economy couldn't hurt, either. To lead the charge, Microsoft brought in Kai-Fu Lee, a well-known speech and multimedia expert from Apple Computer and Silicon Graphics. Shum remembers the day well. "Kai-Fu came into my office and said, I'm moving to Beijing, and I'm not leaving without you,'" he says.
Baining Guo wants less talk and more action. Guo, a former Intel researcher and now Microsoft Research Asia's graphics research manager, doesn't sit for interviews. He doesn't do chit-chat. Whether the end product is a video game, a screen saver, or a personalized cartoon rendered from a photograph, he says, graphics is a bottom-line business: either it looks good or it doesn't. His group consists of 12 staff researchers and, currently, 18 students; to examine their latest results, he walks down the hall to the open area where they all work.
A pressing problem in graphics-one of the lab's standout areas-is getting computers to animate photorealistic human faces. In today's video games, "characters' expressions look fake," says Guo. "Their faces don't move believably or naturally." It's a tough problem, for instance, to get the wrinkles around the eyes and forehead to look right using conventional techniques that simply morph and stretch the features of an image.
Guo's team demonstrates a cutting-edge solution. First they take about ten still pictures of a man's face, each capturing a different expression: eyebrows raised, nose scrunched, laughing, grimacing, and so on. Then, by dividing the face into 14 regions and more than 100 "feature points"-eyelids, tips of eyebrows, corners of lips-their software blends different combinations of the photos to create more natural simulations of new expressions. The software also modulates the image from one expression to another over a few seconds. The result: the man's face goes from looking surprised to looking disgusted in a realistic way, wrinkles and all.
Unlike the techniques used in computer-animated movies such as Toy Story, the Beijing researchers' approach requires no manual drawing of frames. That means it could be used in a video game to generate realistic-looking faces on the fly. With some additional configuration, it could also map expressions from a user's face to a virtual character's to create a personalized avatar for a role-playing game. What's more, photos of celebrities could be animated, or reanimated. "We could make Albert Einstein say, I love Windows,'" Guo deadpans. His team, though, is chasing a loftier goal that could ultimately transform moviemaking: software that generates photorealistic virtual actors in real time.
But in fact, a better Xbox is ultimately part of the lab's mission. Reminders that this is a business, not a researcher's playground, are never far away. In an adjoining hallway, a large corner room has its windows plastered over with opaque sheets of paper. The sign on the locked door reads, "Xbox: Confidential." Guo isn't allowed to talk about what's going on inside. "Some of our best people work in there," is all he'll say.
Eric Chang is a sultan of speech. He talks fast, asks lots of questions, and seems to know what you're going to say before you say it. It's a bit unnerving at first, but given his graduate training in speech recognition at MIT, it makes sense. And since computer keyboards have trouble accommodating Asian languages-thousands of characters, in contrast to a few dozen letters-part of the motivation for Chang's speech group in Beijing is to develop better interfaces for Asian users. Speech-based systems are part of Microsoft's plan to enable legions of Chinese, for starters, to access information and communicate more effectively.
Chang walks into the office of a young researcher, Min Chu, and asks her to fire up the text-to-speech demo. Chu types in a sentence-in Chinese but sprinkled with English words, as is common in technical passages and discussions. After a few seconds, the computer generates a natural-sounding female voice, which sounds perfectly bilingual as it repeats the typed sentence over speakers on the desktop.
The trick is to get the inflections, timing, and transitions from word to word to sound just right-and not like a robotic monotone. Unlike other speech synthesizers, Chang and Chu's software breaks text into different-size chunks-phonemes, syllables, or whole words-and uses a database of more than 10,000 spoken sentences to select and piece together the right sounds. This bilingual synthesizer is "really head and shoulders above anything I've heard," says MIT's Zue, an expert on spoken-language systems.
It's an example of how the lab's cultural perspective has been instrumental in solving problems. The first goal of the project was to create a Mandarin speech synthesizer for the Chinese market. "In 2001, we had our first Bill G.' review," says Chang. "He said, That's good, but I don't understand Chinese.'" That reaction from Microsoft's chairman motivated Chang's group to apply the same mathematical models to English. Because pitch matters so much in Mandarin-a subtle change of tone is all that distinguishes the word for "mother" from the word for "horse"-the system was better able to capture the inflections of English and other languages as well. Expect to see this voice synthesis software on the market in the next few years, says Chang, who recently became assistant managing director of the lab's Advanced Technology Center.
The Beijing lab is also helping Microsoft understand the Asian marketplace in more immediate consumer areas, such as multimedia communications over mobile devices. Already, there are more than 240 million cell-phone users in China alone. They tend to update their services more often than U.S. users and are more interested in gadgets generally, says Shipeng Li, head of the lab's Internet media group and another former Sarnoff researcher. "Here it's like fashion," he says.
The stylishly casual Li wears jeans and comes across as more laid-back than other researchers. His group is all about smooth-smooth video, that is. In the next room, one of Li's 20 students has set up a demo of one of the world's first videoconferencing systems that runs on a handheld computer. The student picks up the handheld-which houses a video camera, microphone, wireless link, and data communication software-and speaks into it. His face shows up on the screen of a nearby desktop computer, which is similarly equipped. The video is encoded at 10 frames per second, enough to look fairly smooth, with an audio delay of about half a second as the researchers talk back and forth. Although the quality is lower than that of normal video, says Li, it's still far higher than that of existing handheld technologies.
The key advance: software running on each user's computer monitors data channel conditions, takes into account what kinds of devices are being used, and efficiently compresses the video stream so that fewer bits need to be sent. Some 50,000 users have downloaded the latest prototype version of the software from Microsoft's website. If transmission delays can be reduced, Li says, handheld videophones should take off in the Asian market within three years.
But there are nearer-term applications, too. Take Web downloads of multimedia files. Researchers in Li's group are developing ways to code video so it can be sent to your desktop without the pauses, skips, and hang-ups that are all too common with today's Internet links. Li's system does this by adapting to the conditions of the data connection.
Li employs a simple analogy to explain Microsoft's advance. Imagine media content as "freight to be transported," he says. Instead of today's strategy of sending it in one big truck, which can get stuck in a traffic jam, Li's team sends it in pieces in smaller vehicles, giving higher priority to those bits identified ahead of time as being especially important. Even if some pieces get stuck or lost, on average the most important ones-those that describe the basic picture structure and how it's changing-get through.
The end result is smoother, more reliable video downloads. Using the technology, Li plays a video of singer Christina Aguilera; right next to it, he plays the same video on Microsoft's current media player. The new version is less jerky and doesn't skip. Indeed, says Li, the next release of Microsoft's media player will incorporate this smooth scheme, courtesy of the Beijing lab.
The Advanced Technology Center-marked by a sign in bold letters-is expanding rapidly, with a staff that grew from 20 this winter to 70 by springtime. It represents the next step for the lab, one in which Beijing's research results will be more directly transferred to products. The goal: to speed up the process of feeding new technologies back to the mother ship.
But now, Zhang says, it's time to start making the company's future, by developing new products that will be used by a wider swath of society. Instead of sending research managers across the Pacific to meet with product people-a process that Zhang says "will not scale up"-the Advanced Technology Center's staff will do initial product development in Beijing. Their proximity to the research teams will make it easier to determine which technologies are ready for products. At the same time, they will visit Redmond regularly, staying close enough to product teams that they can advise researchers about real-world issues. That's a way for "research to create value for the company," says Henry Chesbrough, an expert on technology strategy and management at the University of California, Berkeley.
Indeed, Microsoft's legacy in China may ultimately depend on whether the company Bill built is able to augment opportunities for Chinese citizens in general. Strengthening the educational system, providing technical training for young people, fostering local software companies, and promoting economic growth are a good start-and smart business-for what might one day be called the Gates dynasty.
At the end of another long workday, Harry Shum gets into a company car that will take him home to a subdivision on the outskirts of Beijing. The lab's managing director checks his e-mail on a wireless handheld and then uses it to call home. He's meeting his family for dinner; this will be the first night in a month that he hasn't worked late. Beijing is peaceful at night, quiet. But things are changing fast. "This highway wasn't even here five years ago," Shum says. As he looks down this new road, he is already thinking about tomorrow, fighting the traffic in his mind, figuring out how to take his lab to the next level.


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FOR RSS August 09, 2017
Sarah Taylor
Report: Hillary Clinton email investigation reopened — Clinton purportedly offered plea deal
Image source: TheBlaze
A Tuesday report published on conservative website, Newsmax, has many people questioning the validity of claims made against Hillary Clinton and reports that the email server investigation has been reopened.
The article, titled, "Hillary's Plea Bargain," was penned by Ed Klein, former New York Times Magazine editor-in-chief, and claimed that not only had the Clinton email investigation been reopened, but that Clinton was offered a plea bargain if she will admit that she "committed a prosecutable crime."
Klein claimed that the report came from one of Clinton's attorneys.
From Newsmax:
The Justice Department has reopened the investigation of Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified material on her private email system while she was secretary of state, and is considering offering her a plea bargain if she will agree to plead guilty to charges of breaking the law, according to a Clinton attorney.
The discussion of a plea bargain took place late last month and was offered by a high-ranking Justice Department official to the Clinton lawyer.
During the exploratory talks with the prosecutor, the Clinton attorney was told that despite former FBI Director James Comey's decision last July not to prosecute Hillary, the Justice Department has reexamined the email case and believes there are ample grounds for prosecuting Hillary on a number of counts.
Under the Justice Department's plea offer, Hillary would be required to sign a document admitting that she committed a prosecutable crime. In return, the DOJ would agree not to bring charges against Hillary in connection with the email probe.
Also as part of the agreement, the Justice Department would not proceed with an investigation of Hillary's pay to play deals with foreign governments and businessmen who contributed to the Clinton Foundation or who paid Bill Clinton exorbitant speaking fees.
The Clinton attorney cautioned that normally a plea is offered by a prosecutor only upon arraignment, and Hillary has not yet been charged with any crime.
Klein on Tuesday also noted that he didn't think Clinton would take the plea bargain.
Speaking with "America Talks Live's" Miranda Khan, Klein said, "Sometimes she has trouble admitting that she's Hillary Clinton, you're absolutely right. This is a woman who never, ever admits that she did anything wrong."
"We've all seen how she has blamed everybody but herself for her loss in 2016 at the presidential election. So you're right, I totally agree with you that the chances of her accepting such an offer are practically zero," he said.
Despite doubling down on his remarks about the Clinton investigation, there seemed to be a discrepancy in communication, because after the article was published, he told Khan that the Department of Justice was "considering" reopening it, not that they had reopened it.
"They are seriously thinking of reopening this investigation and therefore if she doesn't take the plea agreement, which I agree with you, she almost certainly won't, I think they will then proceed with this investigation and this is going to drag on for a long time and in a way balance the investigation that's going on with President Donald Trump and his campaign advisers regarding so-called collusion with the Russians."


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كشف الظنون عن أسامي الكتب والفنون
Kashf al-zunun ʿan asami al-kutub wa-al-funun
Haji Khalfah /Kâtip Çelebi d. 1658
Kâtip Çelebi.[كشف الظنون عن أسامي الكتب والفنون] Kashf al-ẓunūn ʿan ʾāsamī al-kutub wa-al-funūn] Kitab kashf al-zunun ʿan asami al-kutub wa-al-funun li-Mustafa ibn ʿAbd Allah al-shahir bi-Ḥājī Khalifah wa-bi-Kātib Jalabī; ʿuniyah bi-tashihuhu wa-ṭabʿuhu ʿala nuskhat al-mūʾallif mujarradan ʿan al-ziyādat wa-al-lawaḥiq min baʿdihi wa-taʿlīq ḥawashihī thumma bi-tartīb al-dhuyūl ʿalayhī wa-tabʿiha Muhammad Sharaf al-Din Yaltaqaya wa-al-muʿallim Rifʿat Bilkah al-Kilisi. [Istanbul : s.n.], 1941-1943
The Arabic edition is part of a series of four related books:
Kashf al-ẓunūn (source:waqfeya.com)
Iḍḥa al-maknūn
Hadyat al-ʿArifīn
Isma al-kutub
Links to the 7 Volumes translation by Flügel has given a Latin translation with the text published by Oriental Translation Fund, London, 1835.
archive.org link to: Volume 1
Entry on Hajji Khalifa from the New International Encyclopedia. 1905
Mustafa ibn Abdallah Katib chelebi (c.1600-58). A celebrated Turkish historian and bibliographer. He was born at Constantinople about the end of the sixteenth century, and died there in September, 1658. From 1622 till 1633 he was employed in the Turkish army, and had an excellent opportunity of acquiring information regarding matters of history, geography, etc. He made the pilgrimage to Mecca, whence his name Hajji (q.v.). In 1635 he was at Constantinople studying and collecting material for his encyclopædia. In 1648 he was appointed second assessor in the army bureau of provisions. From this position he got his second name, Khalfah (assessor). His works are written in Turkish and Arabic. They include, besides smaller works: (1) the celebrated Asāmī al-kutūb wo-al-funūn (Names of Books and Sciences), written in Arabic, and of which Flügel has given a Latin translation with the text, under the title Lexicon Bibliographicum et Encyclopædicum a Mustapha-ben-Abdallah (Leipzig, 1835-58). In this work is given a definition of each science; the titles, contents, language, dates of composition, and translation of more than 25,000 works are specified; also the names of the authors and dates of their death. It is the most complete catalogue in existence of works written in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish; (2) Ta'rikh kebir (Great History), a history of the world from the creation of Adam to 1655, containing notices of 150 dynasties, principally Asiatic; (3) a history of the Ottoman Empire from 1595 to 1655; (4) a history of the maritime wars of the Turks, which has been translated into English (London, 1831).


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Home Books White Crane: A Tibetan Tale of Love and War
White Crane: A Tibetan Tale of Love and War
By Vishnu Makhijani
New Delhi– He was the first Tibetan to be admitted a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons but could re-visit his beloved "mystic" homeland only in 2007, four years before he died aged 79, to find it had "withered away not so much from Communist Chinese genocide as from geno-dilution" — or inward mass migration.
This is the pain that oozes through every page of Tsewang Yishey Pemba's posthumously published "White Crane, Lend Me Your Wings" (Niyogi Books/Rs 495-$15/868 pp) — a tale of love and war that is also a poignant cry for Tibetan freedom.
"Mystic Tibet has withered away, not so much from Communist Chinese genocide as from geno-dilution by mass migrations of ethnic Han Chinese from the heart of the New China, the Great Motherland. This is obvious everywhere in the streets, offices, restaurants shops and mansions of Lhasa.
"At Lhasa airport, some distance from the city, announcements of Arrivals and Departures are made in Chinese, Tibetan and English. On Arrival, there are no Customs and Immigration formalities, for passports have already been inspected and stamped in Beijing or Chengdu or Xining or Xian (flying south of the legendary Yenan). There are frequent direct flights from Chengdu to Lhasa, flying over Lithang and Nyarong. Is it wildly, childishly, stupidly imaginative to conjecture that occasionally — weather permitting — such aircraft might encounter white cranes still flying from Lhasa towards Lithang (one of the locales in which the book is set)?" the author wonders.
The title, in fact, is a line from a poem by the Sixth Dalai Lama in which he consoles his followers banished from the Nyarong Valley by the Manchus in 1720.
Thus, it is little wonder that Pemba's son Riga remembers his father "enter into a deep trance" while boarding the train back from Lhasa to Beijing, renowned Tibetologist and poet Shelly Bhoil writes in the introduction.
"Dr Pemba became unusually quiet for months together after his return from Tibet. Thereafter, he dedicated himself to writing 'White Crane, Lend Me Your Wings'… Pemba died of liver cancer on November 26, 2011, (three-and-a-half years after returning from Tibet). The publication of this novel, which he wrote relentlessly despite being in physical pain, was his last wish," Bhoil says.
The novel is set in the first half of the 20th century and Pemba skilfully weaves a dazzling tapestry of individual lives and sweeping events, creating an epic vision of a country and people during a time of tremendous upheaval.
The book begins with a never-before-told story of a failed Christian mission in Tibet and takes the reader into the heartland of Eastern Tibet by capturing the zeitgeist of the fierce warrior tribe of Khampas ruled by chieftains.
The coming-of-age narrative is a riveting tale of vengeance, warfare and love unfolded through the story of two young boys and their families and friends.
The author's ability to separate emotions and view both sides of a national catastrophe objectively is applaudable. Ultimately, the novel delves into themes such as tradition versus modernity, individual choice and freedom, the nature of governance, the role of religion in people's lives, the inevitability of change, and the importance of human values such as loyalty and compassion.
Born at Gyantse in Tibet in 1932, Pemba was enrolled by his father, a Tibetan cadre officer in the British Trade agency, at age eight in the Victoria Boys School at Kurseong near Darjeeling.
He was the first Tibetan to become a doctor and surgeon in Western medical science from the University of London in 1955. He was awarded the prestigious Hallet Prize by the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, in 1966.
He also founded the first hospital in Bhutan in 1956 and was a member of the Bhutanese delegation to the WHO in Geneva in 1989.
In between, there was much pain he had to endure — his parents had perished in the devastating Yarlung Tsangpo floods at Gyantse and Tibet was no longer a de facto independent country.
It would, thus, be only natural for Pemba to pen a masterpiece such as this. (IANS)
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THIS WEEK I'M LISTENING TO...TANITH In Another Time (Metal Blade)
Tanith take their name from Niké Arrighi's character in the 1968 film 'The Devil Rides Out', a Hammer horror which scared me to death back when I was way too young to watch it. And although there's nothing particularly scary going on here, the link to Satan via guitarist (and, here, vocalist as well) Russ Tippins provides a neat link. Tippins has never had a problem writing beyond the confines of his day job in Satan as his albums with his self-titled rhythm and blues band have ably proved, but with 'In Another Time' he and his Tanith bandmates Cindy Maynard (bass and vocals), Charles Newton (guitars) and Keith Robinson (drums) have turned in an eclectic set of exciting retro Seventies rock.
Opener and debut single 'Citadel (Galantia Pt.1)' – a second single 'Under the Stars' is scheduled – pretty much sets the scene for much of the album. There are obvious NWOBHM licks, and when the solo cuts in it's very reminiscent of Blue Öyster Cult. In fact, if you want a very rough point of reference, Long Island's finest wouldn't be a bad place to start. The songs are well thought out, rarely forceful but always sublime, and work on many levels, aided by some cleverly constructed lyrics and interesting progressions. The icing on the cake is the vocal interplay between Maynard and Tippins, their voices working dynamically together as they trade verses or lines, adding further depth to an already thought-provoking and immensely evocative collection of songs.
The album's title can be interpreted in a number of ways, just like its multi-faceted songs, but it's 'Cassini's Deadly Plunge' which takes top honours for me, the guitars and voices pushing the boundaries while Maynard and Robinson keep things on the straight and narrow. 'Under the Stars' boasts a bounding riff and mid-section time change and could easily been issued as a self-pressed single in 1979, while the epic 'Dionysius' is as grandiose as they come. An outrageously good debut, 'In Another Time' is forty-four minutes of pure magic.
© John Tucker May 2019


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and they put him under guard, that the mind of the Lord might be shown them.
And they put him in ward, that it might be declared unto them at the mouth of Jehovah.
They put him in custody until the will and command of the Lord might be made clear to them.
AMPC
And they put him in custody until the will of the Lord might be declared to them.
And they put him in ward, that the mind of the Lord might be shewed them.
They put him in custody until the Lord's decision could be made clear to them.
He was put under guard until they could determine the Lord's verdict.
They put him under guard until Adonai would tell them what to do.
who had him guarded while everyone waited for the Lord to tell them what to do.
And they confined him, that they might decide at the mouth of Jehovah.
And they put him into prison, till they might know what the Lord would command.
The people held him as a prisoner and waited for the Lord's command to be made clear to them.
EHV
They put him in custody to wait for a decision from the mouth of the Lord.
And they put him in custody, till the will of the Lord should be clear to them.
ESVUK
The people ·held him as a prisoner [put him in custody] while they waited for the Lord's ·command [decision; will] to be made clear to them.
And they put him in ward, till he told them the mind of the Lord.
They kept him in custody until the Lord told them what to do.
put him under guard, and waited for the Lord to tell them what to do with him.
HCSB
The people held him as a prisoner. They waited for the Lord's command to be made clear to them.
They placed him in custody until a decision would be made to them according to the word of the Lord.
JUB
And they put him in ward that the mind of the LORD might be showed them.
AKJV
Then they put him in custody so that the matter might be made clear to them in accordance with the mouth of Yahweh.
He was put in jail until the Lord would indicate what to do with him.
One day the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites. A fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite. The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name of God and cursed. They brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan. They put him in custody waiting for God's will to be revealed to them.
And they put him in custody, so that the words of the Lord might be shown to them.
They kept him in custody until Yahweh told them what to do.
and he was kept in custody till a decision from the Lord should settle the case for them.
Then they put him in custody, waiting for Moses to give them a clear decision in accordance with the command of the Lord.
NASB1995
They put him in custody so that the command of the Lord might be made clear to them.
They put him under guard until the will of the Lord might be revealed to them.
The people held him as a prisoner while they waited for the Lord's command to be made clear to them.
So they placed him in custody until they were able to make a clear legal decision for themselves based on words from the mouth of the Lord.
The people kept her son under guard until they could find out what the Lord wanted them to do.
They put him in custody until the will of the Lord should be made clear to them.
NIVUK
Then they put him in custody, that the mind of the Lord might be shown to them.
And they kept him shut up until the will of the Lord might be made known to them.
They kept the man in custody until the Lord's will in the matter should become clear to them.
and they put him in custody, until the decision of the Lord should be made clear to them.
NRSVA
NRSVACE
NRSVCE
OJB
And they put him in custody, that the mind of Hashem might be showed them.
And they put him in custody, till the will of the Lord should be declared to them.
RSVCE
They put him in custody, until the will of Adonai could be declared to them.
They kept him in custody until the Eternal One's decision became clear to them.
They put him in custody until Yahweh's will should be declared to them.
WYC
and they sent him into prison, till they knew what the Lord commanded.
and he causeth him to rest in charge -- to explain to them by the mouth of Jehovah.
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Allen Takes Gold in a Stunning Sprint Finish
by ITU Admin on 25 Aug, 2004 12:00
Amid the stunning beauty of Athens, Triathlon exploded onto the Olympic stage for the 2nd time in the sports history and the result was equally spectacular with a virtual unknown grabbing the gold in a spectacular sprint finish.
The race started as generally predicted, with Loretta Harrop (AUS), Sheila Taormina (USA), and Barbara Lindquist (USA) leading the swim from early on.
As has been the case in many ITU World Cup races, Taormina and Harrop quickly consolidated their lead on the bike, leaving Barb Lindquist on her own early in lap one. Lindquist was not alone for long, however, as she was soon joined by teamate Susan Williams (USA) who had a great swim and was working her incredible bike skills to perfection to make up time on the leaders. Over 30 seconds behind a large chase group formed, including the reigning Olympic champion, Brigitte McMahon (SUI), Germanys top threat, Anja Dittmer, Julie Dibens from Great Britain, Kathleen Smet (BEL) and a host of other top competitors.
Through most of the race, Harrop and Taormina continued to work well in the lead while Williams and Lindquist fought hard to stick with the pace and further back, Smet made a break from the main chase pack in pursuit of the leaders. By the final lap, Harrop managed a break from Taormina who then dropped back to join her teamates and Kathleen Smet continued to ride solo 45 seconds ahead of the main chase pack.
By the second transition, it was Loretta Harrop who took off on the run with a 20 seconds lead, ahead of the three Americans Taormina, Lindquist and Williams. A further 57 seconds back Smet came off the bike and was off on the run in 4th position. By the time the main chase pack entered the second transition they were 2 and a minutes in arreas of the leaders and faced a challenging 3 lap 10km run ahead. Leading the chase out of transition was Kate Allen from Austria, with Michelle Dillon (GBR), Anja Dittmer and Ana Burgos of Spain, followed by a stream of others. Out on the course, Harrop continued to look comfortable despite the 30 degree heat and maintained her lead right through to the final lap. Behind her the American women were trading off positions with Taormina and Williams moving ahead of Lindquist and then Taormina eventually falling off the pace. Meanwhile Smet was making a move back in fourth and running well but the story of the run came from the chase pack where Allen and Nadia Cortassa (ITA) were running their way through the field.
By the closing stages of the run it looked like the gold medal would certainly go to Australia and Loretta Harrop but Kate Allen had other plans as she blasted her way through Smet and the faltering American team in the final few kilometres. As Harrop made the final turn into the finish chute, Allen was on her shoulder and looking unstoppable as she blew past the heat exhausted Aussie to grab the gold by 7 seconds over Harrop. Coming across in the Bronze medal position was an ecstatic Susan Williams from the United States.
After the race, an awestruck Allen put her race and finish into words, "This was the best feeling of my career. I concentrated on one race in my whole career and this was it. I tapered for three weeks.I had no idea where I was [after the bike]. I thought there were maybe five girls in front of me. I was running for a place. It's sensational I have the gold."
Silver medallist Harrop, who lead the race from the start all the way to the closing few metres was satisfied with her result on the day despite not getting the gold, "I was very fast in all of the three sports and that's why the others are disappointed, but I am not. I am very happy. The Australian also made an emotional dedication after receiving her medal, I dedicate this medal to my whole family, and especially to my brother." Harrop lost her brother, also a triathlete, in a training accident in the spring of 2002.
Bronze medallist Susan Williams, whose speciality is the bike, was pleased with her performance over the difficult bike portion of the race, "When I was on the bike course hill, it definitely was a challenging hill, but at the top, I found it easy because I had practised getting over the top. It paid off, I felt really strong and good on the bike."
It was another spectacular day for the young sport of triathlon and the president of the International Federation was also pleased with the days outcome, In the past you could predict who would win the race but today the hills separated the athletes and there was no way to know who would win making it a very exciting race. We were very pleased to have such an exciting result with many IOC members in attendance and all were very pleased with what they saw. The athletes are happy, the IOC is happy and so we are happy and we couldnt have done it without the incredible team who worked tirelessly to organise this great event.
The mens Olympic triathlon is set to take off tomorrow, Thursday, 26 August at 10am (Athens time) with the reigning Olympic champion, Simon Whitfield (CAN) ready to defend his title here in Greece.
Article tags kate allen olympics loretta harrop susan williams athens
Related Event: 2004 Athens Olympic Games
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Results: Elite Women
1. Kate Allen AUT 02:04:43
2. Loretta Harrop AUS 02:04:50
3. Susan Williams USA 02:05:08
4. Kathleen Smet BEL 02:05:35
5. Nadia Cortassa ITA 02:05:45
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