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San Antonio Smuggling Case, a Fatal Journey
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When the door of the truck trailer closed, it was dark inside—no food, no water.
The trailer sat motionless somewhere in or near the scorching South Texas city of Laredo on Saturday morning. The heat inside was already intense. The next few hours, as they were described on Monday by the authorities for the first time, would turn into one of the nation's deadliest human trafficking episodes. One group of undocumented immigrants was packed into the trailer, then another and another. Some of them guessed there were up to 200 people at one point.
Before departing, one of the smugglers opened the back door and told the migrants that they were about to leave and that the truck had a cooling system.
Some of those onboard had crossed the Rio Grande by raft earlier and had paid thousands of dollars to the smugglers. Most seemed to do pretty well as the trip first got underway but then some had trouble breathing and began passing out.
Eventually migrants pounded on the trailer walls, trying to get the driver to stop, but to no avail.
The driver later told federal investigators what the immigrants may have soon discovered: that the trailer's cooling system did not work and its four vent holes were probably clogged. But the immigrants found a small vent hole that was open, and took turns breathing through it to get some air. The driver finally put the brakes on, and the immigrants were so weak that they fell over.
The driver pulled into a Walmart parking lot in the early hours of Sunday and again opened the door. It was a horrific sight of bodies upon bodies. Ten of the migrants died on the trip or later at hospitals, and nearly 30 others were taken to area hospitals.
The descriptions of the immigrants' journey, as told to federal investigators, were revealed in a criminal complaint as the driver of the truck was arraigned in federal court on Monday in San Antonio. The driver, James M. Bradley Jr., 60, of Clearwater, Fla., was charged under a federal law against knowingly transporting people who are in the country illegally — a law that provides for an unlimited prison term or capital punishment, if the crime results in a death.
Although President Trump has made it clear that he will not tolerate illegal immigration, this tragic incident demonstrates the dangers people are willing to face to get into the United States. It is a public glimpse into the shady world of drug cartel, rafts, 'stash house" and empty promises.
Texan lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, a Republican, immediately used social media to stress to the public that his state's controversial law banning sanctuary cities is meant to discourage this sort of smuggling. "Sanctuary cities also enable human smugglers and cartels. Today, these people paid a terrible price and demonstrate why we need a secure border and legal immigration reform."
Texas State Representative Eddie Rodriguez, a Democrat, argued that Patrick's comments had gone "too far." He said when "10 people from any background perish under such horrific circumstances, it is an occasion deserving of solemnity and respect, not self-indulgent cheerleading."
Much was still unanswered on Monday, including exactly how many people had been in the truck, and how they managed to get to San Antonio undetected, since it was likely that the driver passed through a Border Patrol traffic checkpoint at some point after leaving Laredo.
Survivors were interviewed and gave details of their experience. One said he was from Aguascalientes, Mexico, and had crossed the Rio Grande with a group. He had paid the smugglers $5,500 and would still owe them more when he arrived in San Antonio. The smugglers may have ties with a Mexican criminal group known as the Zetas cartel.
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Arthur Leonard Schawlow (født 5. maj 1921, død 28. april 1999) var en amerikansk fysiker, der for sit arbejde med udviklingen af laseren modtog Nobelprisen i fysik i 1981.

Schawlow voksede op i Canada og fik sin uddannelse på University of Toronto, hvor han tog en ph.d. Derefter flyttede han til Columbia University i New York, hvor han arbejdede sammen med Charles Townes. I 1951 flyttede han og Townes videre til Bell Labs, hvor de skabte det teoretiske grundlag for laseren. Efter ti år på Bell blev han udnævnt til professor på Harvard University, hvor han forblev til sin pensionering i 1996.

Arthur Schawlow arbejdede hovedsageligt inden for optik, og efter at laseren blev skabt, arbejdede han sammen med Nicolaas Bloembergen om brugen af denne til spektrografi, for hvilket de blev tildelt Nobelprisen i 1981 sammen med Kai Siegbahn. Ved siden af dette område foretog han også eksperimenter med superledere og inden for kernemagnetisk resonans.

I 1991 blev der indstiftet en pris til hans ære, Arthur L. Schawlow-prisen for laservidenskab, der tildeles forskere, der har opnået fine resultater inden for grundforskning ved hjælp af laser.

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CBN.com Terry Meeuwsen [reporting]: Kathie Lee Gifford became a household name during her 15-year run on morning television with Regis Philbin. Her personal life was often thrust onto the public stage as well, sometimes painfully. Last year Kathie Lee returned to morning TV on The Today Show, and recently, she released a new book, Just When I Thought I'd Dropped My Last Egg. She invited us to her home recently where we found her zest for life stronger than ever.
Meeuwsen: Well, let's start talking about the book. It's so much fun to read. I found myself laughing out loud, then looking around to see what people thought. What do you want people to come away with?
Gifford: If they haven't cried and laughed through the whole thing, then I haven't done my job. because that is really what life is. The title of the book is basically a commentary on our culture. It's a cruel culture for women anyway, historically. It's especially cruel for women of a certain age. What our culture says is, when you've dropped your last egg and you can't have babies anymore -- which is your purpose on this earth -- then thank you very much, but you who are ovulating, please step to the front. We're supposed to hoist our heiny onto the gurney and go into the sunset. I'm not ready for that!
Meeuwsen: In some ways, you have much more to share at this point.
Gifford: Yes, much more. That's so true and especially if you're a woman of faith. At least that gives you the power to say, I'm not going to let the world define me. I may be 55 years old, 56 or 82, but I'm here by the grace of God. If I still have a pulse, I still have a purpose. The Lord will take me when my purpose is no longer on this planet.
Meeuwsen: Talk a little bit about your mom and dad, both so unique, both so significant in your life.
Gifford: They both came from very dysfunctional, alcoholic homes. My mother was actually an orphan. Just tragedy, a lot of tragedy. Yet when they got married, my mom was only 19 years old. My dad was 25. They said, "We're going to make family everything, because we never had it ourselves."
Meeuwsen: You've been through some very difficult things in your life. You became a believer at a very young age. Has your faith always stayed strong? Did you ever have times where you doubted, questioned, walked away or got lukewarm?
Gifford: I went through a period after my first marriage ended, where I lost my moral compass for awhile. It was never God who left me. It was me who moved away. I never, ever stopped loving God, but during that sweat shop stuff, I felt like God stopped loving me.
Meeuwsen [reporting]: In 1996, Kathie Lee was accused of knowingly exploiting children in sweat shops overseas, where her clothing line was produced.
Meeuwsen: What did you do then?
Gifford: I just held on tighter to the hand I was already holding. Thank God I knew it wasn't true. The man who accused me of the sweat shop stuff apologized to me publicly. But not one newspaper carried the apology. Not one magazine carried it. Not one television show, because that didn't sell.
Meeuwsen: You share a conversation with Cardinal O'Connor that I think was very powerful where he talked to you about the value of suffering, and how God does use that. He gave you a great word on wisdom.
Gifford: He smiled at me and just said my name so tenderly. I fell apart. He looked at me, and he said, "Kathie, remember that our Lord did not change this world so much through His miracles as through His suffering." I got my eyes on Jesus. He said, "If you are willing to suffer this injustice for His sake, imagine how God can use you to change the suffering of people who really are in sweat shops around the world." I've never felt so ashamed of myself in my life.
Meeuwsen: Talk about forgiveness, because in every situation, whether it's something you've personally gone through in your family or it's something that you've gone through in the public arena like that, you have to let go of it. But you have to do more than that. You really have to forgive. How have you done that?
Gifford: Every time there's been a dilemma in my life all I have to do is look in the Scripture and say, "What did Jesus say about this?" He was very clear about forgiveness. The crazy thing that happens is the minute you pray for someone else, it lifts. You can't hate them. It chemically doesn't work. It's like oil and water. Love can't live where hate does, and vice versa. It's like an enema for your soul.
Meeuwsen: There's a word picture!
GIfford: It's a tonic. It saved me. It saved our marriage, and it's nothing that's not available to absolutely everybody that's going through a tough time.
Meeuwsen [reporting]: Even before leaving Regis and Kathie Lee, she was passionate about musical theater. She's now written lyrics for hundreds of songs and was producing one for The Today Show while we were there.
Meeuwsen: I know that you have done so many things that you've wanted to. At this point, what haven't you done that you'd still like to do?
Gifford: I've been off Broadway with my first musical, Under the Bridge, and I am very much trying to get that made into a film. I've been writing a musical about one of the controversial, celebrated female faith healers/evangelists of the 1920s and 30s named Aimee Semple McPherson. Of everybody I've ever met in my life, interviewed or read about, nobody ever lived a life like Aimee.
Meeuwsen: Did it ever occur to you that you would go back to a daily program in the city?
Gifford: Never. Never in a million years. I didn't want to. I spent 15 years with Regis. I was at Good Morning America for three years before that. I felt like I had done the best television I could do. I said, "The only way it'll work is if you let me bring the passion I have for theater and bring it to television."
Meeuwsen: If you had to just overall summarize the impact that your faith has had on this multitude of things that you've done, what would you say?
Gifford: Without forgiveness, without faith in my life, I'd be in rehab. Frank would be dead (I'd be in jail for killing him), or my kids would be a wreck because we would have gotten a divorce. I can't even imagine the scenario. If I hadn't had a place to take all of the pain, all of the hurt... That's always at the foot of the cross.
Meeuwsen: For your children, what do you hope for them?
Gifford: I've taught them the best thing you can ever do is teach your children that God loves them even more than you do. They would look back, I hope, after a very gnarly life, and see the lives that they have impacted for the kingdom along the road. And I pray to God they never write a book about me, because it will be a bestseller!

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by Jed Babbin
Either I'm losing it, or the law of averages has finally caught up with California Senator Barbara Boxer. Mizz Boxer has made a congressional career out of opposing anything good for our military, often sponsoring the most noxious "reforms" to impose feminism or stylish business practices on the Pentagon. When I found myself agreeing with her twice in ten days, I went back to figure out where I'd gone wrong.
I think I'm okay on the first issue. I have long supported arming commercial pilots, and now Sen. Boxer — not exactly a Second Amendment stalwart — has come out in favor of it. Congress may finally be coming to the conclusion that it would be better for a pilot to shoot a hijacker than to have an F-16 shoot down the airliner. Last week, Mrs. Boxer demanded the resignation of Army Secretary Thomas White. White and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Shinseki have been the most stubborn opponents of Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's plan to modernize our armed services. Rumors of one or the other being fired surface about twice a month. When I first heard Boxer call for him to go, I thought he and Boxer had conspired to save his job. Anyone Boxer wanted to fire obviously had to be saved.
Mrs. Boxer demands that White resign because he was a senior Enron executive at the time Enron was involved in energy trading deals that California governor Gray Davis blames for California's energy crisis. This is pretty rich coming from a lady who, while a member of the House of Representatives, kited about 140 checks worth over $41,000. Please, Babs, no more lectures on business ethics.
Nevertheless, Mizz Boxer is right that White should go. Not because of Enron, but because the Army is fighting tooth and nail against Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's transformation of the military. Because the Army's resistance now threatens to affect the war against Iraq, it is time for White and Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki to go before their intransigence leaves our forces stranded on the banks of the Euphrates River.
Months ago, the White House leaked the so-called Downing Plan, named for now-former presidential adviser Gen. Wayne Downing. It called for a quick and exceptionally violent campaign that used pretty much all the special forces we have, plus air power, Marine and Army ground troops, and capitalized on Iraqi expatriates to seize the oil fields intact while we took out Saddam's few real loyalists. This approach, which is very much the right one, makes it a war of liberation, not conquest. It minimizes both the number of American troops on the ground and damage to Iraq's people and economy.
Then came the leaks of Gen. Tommy Franks's plan that calls for massive, heavy ground forces to invade Iraq from Kuwait. In early July, the New York Times published the contents of a classified "concept of operations" paper that showed a combination of the Downing and Franks plans. The story surrounding it said that some of the Joint Chiefs were opposing the whole idea of taking Saddam out. Just this past weekend, there were more reports of senior generals opposing the war and advocating a "containment" strategy that plainly ignores the reality of the situation. My sources tell me that much of this heavy opposition is coming from the Army.
There are two fatal flaws in the Franks war plan. First, you can't gather an army of 250,000 men, together with all their tanks, helicopters and other tools of war, without someone noticing. This gives Saddam time to launch missiles at Israel. The war timetable then is his, not ours. Second, Saddam may be a terrorist and despot, but he ain't stupid. And he can read a map. To get Gen. Franks's quarter of a million men and tanks from Kuwait to Baghdad, you have to cross the Euphrates River, which is bridged at about six points. Saddam's forces have already rigged those bridges to be destroyed at a moment's notice, and if they are destroyed before the tanks get there, Gen. Franks and his army will be stalled on the west bank of the river indefinitely. The whole war could be stalled for weeks or months until someone figures out how to get those tanks across. The last time we tried to build a big bridge like that, in Bosnia, it took six weeks to build one bridge.
Mr. Rumsfeld knows all this. He also knows that the Franks plan depends on having three to six months to form, train and deploy the army divisions that would make up most of the force. The dirty little secret is that the Army can't do it faster, because it's not organized into combat groups that can be deployed rapidly. Gen. Shinseki and Mr. White preside over a force that is designed to sit in garrison, not move and fight.
The president has apparently decided to delay the Iraq campaign until after the November elections, to avoid being accused of "wagging the dog." That may be a good decision for no other reason than it gives Mr. Rumsfeld time to straighten out the White/Shinseki mess. This is the biggest problem facing Mr. Rumsfeld right now, and he seems strangely unwilling to deal with it. I'll bet a bottle of scotch that the president doesn't even know the seriousness of the problem. Mr. Rumsfeld needs to tell his boss about it, and then go fix it.
If the Army isn't ready when Dubya says go, Mr. Rumsfeld will have failed the president. Messrs. Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz are two of the best we've ever had in Fort Fumble. But if they don't fix the Army problem now, while there's time, Dubya will have to fire both of them. That occasion should never arise. White and Shinseki should be given thirty days to change their act, and fired promptly if they don't. When they are fired, the White replacement should be a political who has Rumsfeld's confidence, and is committed to convert the army to modern warfare. Shinseki's replacement should be chosen from among the one-star and two-star generals. Someone who is a real warfighter, and is probably regarded as a heretic. A guy who doesn't want this Army to sit in garrison, and who wants it to fight. Find that guy and put him in charge, or when the Boss says "go," be ready to clean out your desk.


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SC rejects Sangma's plea against Pranab
Edited By Odishatv Bureau Published By Odishatv Bureau On Dec 5, 2012 - 10:11 PM
New Delhi: Former Lok Sabha Speaker P A Sangma's petition challenging the election of Pranab Mukherjee as President was today dismissed by the Supreme Court by a majority ruling holding that it has no substance and does not deserve full and regular hearing.
A five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir by the 3 to 2 majority order said it was convinced that Mukherjee was not holding any "office of profit" warranting his disqualification from contesting the Presidential election.
The CJI, who read out the order on his behalf and justices P Sathasivam and S S Nijjar, said Sangma's petition has to be declined at the preliminary stage as the submissions made on his behalf challenging Mukherjee's election as President are of "little or no substance".
However, in separate dissenting orders, justices J Chelameswar and Ranjan Gogoi, said they disagree with the decision and opinions expressed by the Chief Justice that Sangma's plea did not deserve full and regular hearing.
While Justice Chelameswar said he will shortly give reasons for his disagreement with conclusion arrived by the CJI, Justice Gogoi was of the view that Sangma's contentions cannot be dismissed at preliminary stage as the allegation of holding office of profit as the Chairman of Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) has been made against Mukherjee in which "all facts are in dispute".
However, Justice Gogoi also clarfied that so far as Mukherjee occupying the offices of Leader of the Lok Sabha and the Congress Party did not disclose "any triable issue for a full length hearing under the Rules of the Supreme Court".
Justice Chelameswar said, "I have had the advantage of reading the judgments of both My Lord the Chief Justice and my learned brother Justice Ranjan Gogoi. I regret my inability to agree with the conclusion recorded by the learned Chief Justice that the instant Election Petition does not deserve a regular hearing".


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Why Is Maximilian Dood Popular on YouTube and Who Is His Wife?
By Banks Onuoha
Media Personalities
The video game industry is fast becoming one of the biggest economic sectors in the world as many people are finding lucrative careers and popularity in it. With a huge number of people now looking at video gaming as a viable career choice, wit and skill are some of the traits that differentiate one player from another. Gamer and video gaming content producer Maximilian Dood stands out among the many players who possess these attributes.
Through hard work and perseverance, Dood has been able to make a name for himself in an industry that is made up of people that are way younger than he is. He has done so by not just playing games but also creating the biggest fighting game YouTube channel called Maximilian Dood where he puts out the Online Warrior, Boss Rage, and Assist Me! video series.
Dood's channel has cultivated a following of over a million subscribers and his videos have more than forty million views. In addition to this, on Twitch where he also streams himself playing video games like Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Mortal Kombat, and Super Smash Bros under the moniker Miles923, he has more than 700 thousand followers.
How Maximilian Dood Became Famous
Born Maximilian Christiansen on the 23rd of September 1983, the internet personality has been an avid game player since childhood. At the age of ten, he switched to playing fighter games such as Street Fighter II. Following the release of Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter and Tekken 3 in the late 1990s, Dood started playing competitively. He took part in several professional gaming tournaments for first-person shooter games like Call of Duty, before launching a gaming career on YouTube in May 2007.
Maximilian Dood started uploading tournament gameplay videos of Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike and Street Fighter 4 on his channel. Along the line, he began providing commentaries on the Call of Duty franchise. In 2011, the growing YouTube star became known for the Online Warrior video series where he provides commentary and analysis for character specialties, styles of play, and gameplay techniques.
In the same year, he launched the Assist Me! video series where he provides tutorials on gameplay videos along with sketch comedy. Two years later, he took his gaming career to another level by creating a montage series called Boss Rage where he plays alongside other gamers as they contest and conquer notorious bosses in difficult fighting games such as Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3 (Galactus), Killer Instinct (Eyedol), Street Fighter Alpha 3 (M. Bison), Ultra Street Fighter IV (Oni), and Super Smash Bros. 3DS (Master Core) among many others.
Max with the creators of SF2, Tekken, Dissidia, and DBZF at the #evo2017 (image source)
His Other Achievements in Gaming
Having become a popular name in the gaming industry as a result of his special knack in creating extraordinary video game content, Maximilian Dood began serving as a video game content producer for YouTube Let's Play Channel, Yo!VideoGames and twitch.tv. He additionally started creating another video game series titled Git Gud in July 2016, where he provides general fighting game tutorials.
Following his exploits over the years in fighting games, Dood was honored with the Cannon Award during the EVO 2015 Championship Series. From 2016 to 2017, he was made the host of Killer Instinct World Cup, and equally a commentator on the Yatagarasu: Attack on Cataclysm fighting game.
Max's incredible skills and game content quality has also received praise from high profile personalities in the gaming industry such as Capcom, a Japanese gameplay video developer and Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon.
What Do We Know About His Wife?
He took me out somewhere fancy!! One of my favorite places!! pic.twitter.com/bIWRFi8TGc
— PB&JaeJaeCookingShow (@PBandJaeJae) August 17, 2019
The famous YouTuber is married to a woman named Jessica whom he had dated for a few years before exchanging marital vows. Jessica first came into the spotlight as Maximilian Dood's spouse in June 2017 when her reaction was captured in the Ori and Wills of the Wisps video game trailer. The pair have however been together for a very long time as Max disclosed in a video uploaded to the internet in February 2013 that he got acquainted with his girlfriend turned wife while working at the electronics boutique.
Jessica, who like her husband is also a video game lover, became engrossed with the video game characters she saw at his workplace. This drew them close to each other although they didn't kick off a love affair at the time due to Dood's busy life schedule. He was combining his full-time work with college studies.
Following years of great friendship, the pair eventually began dating before becoming man and wife. As a result of their common interest in video games, Jessica has always been supportive of her husband's career and also plays video games with him. The pair are currently happily married and have never been shy to profess their love for each other on social media.
Asked my wife for some soup. She made me this. I love my wife. pic.twitter.com/syPQeym3ZB
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Browse through the vast applications of IVR.
Service provider and in-house developers can reduce interactive voice response (IVR) application development time, bringing their IVR solutions to market faster with Pronexus VBVoice™. Building on fifth-generation technology, VBVoice enables the creation of feature-rich inbound and outbound IVR solutions.
Interactive voice response (IVR) solutions featuring automated notifications help companies to easily deliver simultaneous real-time notifications to large groups of people located anywhere around the world. This can be done by voice, email, text or fax.
An outbound emergency notification IVR can be utilized during urgent situations to deliver phone alert messages to users. The end user has the option of acknowledging the call and providing a status update. Simultaneously, dispatch operators can be notified of the event and alerted to the location. Communities can utilize this application to alert the general public about disasters or events occurring in their neighborhood, as well as relay any information on evacuation or escape measures. Additionally, if the resident requires special assistance, the call can be routed by the IVR to an emergency line.
In a related nonemergency service, IVRs can be used in systems that contact the elderly or homebound residents. This application automatically calls members who subscribe to this service every day to ensure their well being. The resident acknowledges the call by simply answering the phone or by pressing a phone key. If the call is unanswered or unacknowledged, a family member or community service group can be automatically alerted by the phone system.
An auto attendant interactive voice response (IVR) application directs telephone calls to the appropriate extension based on selections made by the caller. The IVR replaces or helps human operators by greeting the caller with a welcome message and routing the call to the right destination. IVR auto attendants can also be integrated with a number of call management functions such as an automatic call distributor (ACD).
An auto attendant IVR application developed with Pronexus VBVoice™ saves money in overhead costs and simplifies incoming phone call procedures. Call centers in particular can instantly become more productive by letting the phone system gather caller information, verify caller identity and determine the best service representative to handle the request.
Automated directory assistance interactive voice response (IVR) applications can be programmed with the name and extension number of every person in an organization. Typically, a caller is asked to spell the user's name using the numbers on the telephone keyboard or with automatic speech recognition (ASR) the caller can say the name of the person they are trying to reach to be connected. To ensure that the caller is connected to the right person, a built-in spelling feature can be added to the IVR. Automating these calls is potentially a major opportunity for cost savings or more productive deployment of staff.
The implementation of an effective automatic speech recognition (ASR) interactive voice response (IVR) solution can reduce the number of agents, supervisors, trainers and quality assurance specialists that are needed within the call center and provide your callers with a self-service solution. If a customer is provided the option of gathering the information s/he needs without accessing an agent, more agents are free to handle calls that can't be resolved with self service.
Phone banking is a service provided by a financial institution, allowing its customers to perform transactions over the telephone using an interactive voice response (IVR) application. Most telephone banking systems use an automated phone answering system with phone keypad response or voice recognition capability. With the obvious exception of cash withdrawals and deposits, IVR solutions offer virtually all the features of an automated teller machine.
Pronexus VBVoice™ makes it easy to develop an effective phone banking system that integrates into your call flow. VBVoice is a simple and cost-effective way to provide your customers with 24/7 access to banking and account information, which can promote customer growth and significantly improve your competitiveness.
A fax server interactive voice response (IVR) is a computer-based fax machine. It allows a company to securely and efficiently deliver business information from virtually any application, whether it be via fax, email, print or internet. By integrating and automating the flow of fax, paper and electronic documents, businesses can experience significant cost reductions.
With approximately 100 million fax machines worldwide, faxes are still an ideal way to disperse information. Fax on demand allows a caller to retrieve information via fax simply be using their phones. Users can either use touchtone to choose the document or automatic speech recognition (ASR) to "say" which document they would like. This service is ideal for companies who need to have information constantly available to their customers or employees in places other than their website. For example, wholesale electricity prices, mortgage rates and account balance information can be dynamically updated just prior to transmission and easily sent to the end user.
With an automated gift card interactive voice response (IVR) application, customers can activate their card, check their balance or add money to their card through the telephone. Not only is this self-service solution easy for customers and cost effective for call centers, but the gift card IVR can help prevent card fraud by sending out cards as inactive and requiring the customer to call in to securely active their card. Customers can call from their home phone or even from their cell phone while shopping in the mall.
Gift card activation IVR applications developed with Pronexus VBVoice™ are fully customizable and allow your customers to conveniently manage their own gift cards, resulting in improved customer service and higher sales.
An inbound interactive voice response (IVR) application allows callers to complete virtually any job that can be performed by a live agent – all at a small fraction of the cost to the company. When a user calls a company with an inbound IVR system they can be presented with a fully customizable menu system via voice or user input-driven commands. From there the caller is directed to the appropriate information or agent. This application is essential to organizations large and small that are looking for new ways to cut costs and provide better customer service.
Increased customer satisfaction: Customers are able to serve themselves, while agents have more time to cover complex issues, therefore, provide better customer service.
Having an inbound IVR integrated into your call flow can not only set your company apart from the competition, but can help reduce overhead costs during difficult economic times. Pronexus VBVoice™ enables the rapid development of an inbound IVR customized specifically for your needs.
Market research and polling interactive voice response (IVR) applications are a simple and cost-effective way to conduct surveys and to better understand your audience, your members and your constituents.
Not only can IVR polls and surveys provide fast, efficient results, but they can provide important data to help focus your targets for future follow up either by phone, letter, or even in person.
IVR polls can be used for a broad range of applications including customer satisfaction surveys, employee studies, etc. Respondents can either dial in to complete the survey, or a dialer can make outbound calls to the respondents. No person or agent is required to talk with the contacted party, who in turn simply listens to the recorded survey and presses their dial pad to record their responses.
With Pronexus VBVoice™ you can easily develop a market research IVR application to improve your response rate and organize your data into one database.
In the past, outbound customer interactions were handled by way of direct mail, or internal staff. Today, many businesses are leveraging outbound interactive voice response (IVR) applications to notify their customers of events, sales or issues. Outbound messages can be tailored and personalized to each individual, generating a high customer satisfaction and improved customer loyalty. Outbound IVRs are efficient because they can quickly and inexpensively contact large groups of people.
From marketing surveys to notifications, outbound IVR provides an effective and affordable way to maximize your outbound campaigns. Pronexus VBVoice™ makes it easy to develop an outbound IVR application that will help your company proactively communicate with your customers.
Patient notification interactive voice response (IVR) systems enable the delivery of time-critical information via outbound calls to any desk or wireless phone. This solution can be used to inform and remind patients of appointments, schedule openings and medication requirements. Additionally, an option can be provided to contact someone from your medical staff by pressing a touch phone response in which case the dialer will transfer the call.
Healthcare organizations, hospitals, doctor's offices and dental practices can improve productivity and customer service by implementing patient notifications into their phone system. The Pronexus VBVoice™ IVR toolkit makes it easy to develop an IVR solution specifically for the healthcare industry's requirements.
A predictive dialer interactive voice response (IVR) is a computerized outbound call processing system designed to maintain a high level of utilization and cost efficiency in the call center. The IVR's dialer automatically calls a list of telephone numbers, screens the unnecessary calls, such as answering machines and busy signals, and then connects a waiting representative with the customer.
A predictive dialer developed with Pronexus VBVoice™ makes it easy to filter out unproductive calls and spares the agent from having to wait for the phone to be answered. Because of this, agents can better focus on phone conversation with customers and improve customer service along with your company's bottom line.
When you want to personalize an interactive voice response (IVR) dialogue with customers, it's almost impossible to record every possible message combination. Greeting customers by their name? Informing customers of why their plane has been delayed? Letting customers know the name of the person who signed for the parcel they sent? Process online transactions, bill payments, account balances, inventory, flight information, etc.
Text to speech (TTS) is a software component that integrates with the IVR solution. TTS allows you to create a real-time link between text-based content in your database and a customer awaiting an immediate reply. TTS can read any text outloud without knowing the vocabulary, the names, the numbers or codes contained in the text. This technology is mature; it has been validated by market deployments and is already largely used in telephony services provided by carriers and enterprises alike.
TTS IVR applications have grown past the robotic sounding voice from the 90s. It's now so close to the human voice that it's difficult to distinguish the difference.
Building powerful TTS IVR applications with Pronexus VBVoice™ will increase caller and operational efficiency and satisfaction.
A virtual private branch exchange (PBX) is a computerized device that works as a switchboard, connecting a business with the outside world. It needs no physical presence on either end of the phone call to connect the two parties. Virtual PBX uses voice over internet protocols (VoIP) to route calls over the internet, meaning no expensive hardware is required.
In the call center industry, a virtual PBX application developed with Pronexus VBVoice™ IVR software allows your employees to work from home, giving you a competitive edge over traditional call centers. It can broaden your workforce by allowing you to hire qualified individuals who are unable to work from the office, such as the elderly or single parents, as well as improve communication lines between remote offices.
Voice over internet protocol (VoIP) is the transmission of voice over theinternet in real time by digitizing the voice into packets that are transferred independently over the network. Also known as internet telephony, VoIP is a suitable substitute for the public switched telephone network (PSTN), which works by setting up a dedicated channel (or circuit) between two points for the duration of the call.
VoIP Interactive Voice Response (IVR) solutions can not only bring significant cost savings to a business, but can facilitate a virtual contact center in which information can be easily transferred to any agent, anywhere, as long as they have access to the internet. VoIP is compatible with standard IT technologies like web services, allowing businesses to use distributed agents and virtual contact centers with confidence and to improve customer service through more useful applications and a consistent experience.
Pronexus VBVoice™ IVR software allows you to develop VoIP IVR that will save money, improve customer service and reduce infrastructure complexity.
Interactive voice response (IVR) solutions with voice verification functionality are on the rise for businesses that are looking for added security and convenience. By identifying unique features of a person's vocal characteristics and speaking patters, voice verification IVR applications compare a voice sample with a digital voice model to verify the identity of the person speaking. Biometric technology reduces each spoken word to segments composed of several dominant frequencies called formants. Each segment has several tones that can be captured in a digital format. The tones collectively identify the speaker's unique voice print. Voice prints are stored in databases in a manner similar to the storing of fingerprints or other biometric data.
Voice verification IVR applications, such as employee PIN or password reset services, are producing positive results for those businesses who have already implemented them into their call flow. Voice recognition systems have a high user acceptance rate because they are perceived as less intrusive and are one of the easiest biometric systems to use. Pronexus VBVoice™ IVR software allows you to develop a highly scalable, cost effective, voice authentication IVR solution that will add security and convenience.


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Rayman 3 Hoodlum Havoc
Genre: Platformer
Publisher: Ubisoft
Globox, a friend of Rayman, has placed the world into a deadly possibility. By eating Andre, the Lord of the Dark Lums, Globox has enraged the Hoodlums, who plan to take back their master no matter what the cost to the world around them. It's up to Rayman to save the day and find a cure to rid the Dark Lord from Globox.
Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc is a 3D third-person platform game. Rayman, the main hero, jumps and punches his way through numerous colorful levels, with Globox (and Andre inside him) tagging along and occasionally commenting on the goings-on. Rayman's main weapon is his fist; he can use it to shoot projectiles at the attacking Hoodlums and other foes, and the projectiles are more powerful when the fist is charged by holding down the "shoot" button.
The game is divided into several worlds, each divided into a couple of levels; the game is saved automatically after each level. In between the worlds, the player has to complete a mini-game where he has to surf along light-beams in a psychedelic environment.
Rayman can also come across power-ups which temporarily give him a special power: the green power-up allows him to shoot tornadoes, the blue power-up gives him the ability to use a grappling hook, the yellow power-up allows him to fly for a short while, the orange power-up allows him to shoot precisely guided missiles and the red power-up grants him a very powerful fist that can bash doors. These power-ups are always necessary to defeat an enemy or a boss, or to get to the next part of the level.
Rayman can find and free the Teensies locked in cages throughout the level; the freed Teensies will express their gratitude by opening up the next part of the map or by summoning some bonuses to collect. Each six Teensies freed increases Rayman's health bar.
There are numerous bonuses hidden throughout the levels; completing the levels with lots of score will unlock humorous animations and mini-games.
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Q: Is there any way to make sql LIKE statement work like that? I'm new here. I'm using SQL Server 2008. And I have a question about the LIKE statement.
For example: I have a statement like:
WHERE CONTRACTORNAME LIKE N'%aeu od%'

And I want the output will contain the row where CONTRACTORNAME is "ấệư ôđ".
So, basically, I want input English characters and search for Unicode characters also.
Is there any ways to achieve this ? Thanks alot. !

A: You need to use the COLLATE modifier with an Accent Insensitive Collation
ie:
 WHERE CONTRACTORNAME COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AI LIKE N'%aeu od%'

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Insurtech Digital Risks reveals SME plans after rebranding as Superscript
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De Beers Group Moves 200 Elephants From South Africa To Mozambique
TOPICS:De Beers GroupGreat Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area.Venetia Limpopo Nature ReserveZinave National Park
De Beers Group has begun to transport 200 elephants across 1,500km from its Venetia Limpopo Nature Reserve (VLNR) in South Africa to Mozambique. The operation, one of the largest elephant translocations ever recorded in South Africa, is part of a major conservation initiative to protect the welfare of wildlife in South Africa and help restore Mozambique's elephant population.
This is one of the largest elephant translocations in South Africa
For the first phase of the project, approximately 60 elephants will be transported in July and August from the VLNR to Zinave National Park in central Mozambique. The remaining elephants will be moved to conservation areas that hold sufficient elephant carrying capacity within Mozambique from next year.
De Beers Group is partnering with Peace Parks Foundation, a leading not-for-profit organisation focused on the preservation of large functional cross-border ecosystems, to carry out the initiative. Through formal agreements with Mozambique's National Administration for Conservation Areas, Peace Parks Foundation co-manages Zinave National Park, which is an integral component of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area.
Peace Parks Foundation will assist De Beers Group with the translocation, ensuring the elephants' social groups aren't disturbed and that they flourish in their new habitat through ongoing monitoring of their wellbeing and enhanced protection efforts.
Bruce Cleaver, CEO, De Beers Group, said: "There is no greater symbol of Africa than the majestic elephant. For us to be able to help secure their future in Mozambique, while also ensuring other species at our Venetia Limpopo Nature Reserve can flourish, is something every employee of De Beers Group is proud of. This translocation is born of a deep sense of responsibility and is part of our wider commitment to continue to invest in new and innovative ways to protect the natural world."
Covering 32,000 hectares and established in the early 1990s, the VLNR can accommodate around 60 elephants without adverse impacts on the surrounding ecosystem. Currently, however, there are more than 270 elephants on the reserve, as a result of natural population growth, with their presence risking extensive damage to an ecosystem that must sustain a diverse wildlife population.
By contrast, wildlife populations in Zinave National Park, which was founded in the 1960s, have been critically depleted following Mozambique's 15-year civil war. The park offers significant carrying capacity for large numbers of elephants across its 408,000 hectares, and is currently home to only around 60 of them.
Werner Myburgh, CEO, Peace Parks Foundation, said: "Ecosystems require a range of fauna and flora to stay balanced. If you remove one species, such as elephant, it has a ripple effect on the whole system. The reintroduction of elephants to Mozambique will bring us one step closer to achieving our dream of restoring the landscape and establishing uninterrupted connectivity with seamless migration of wildlife across the parks within the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area."
As part of its investment in the elephant translocation initiative, De Beers Group is also providing Peace Parks Foundation with US$500,000 over five years towards anti-poaching support measures, which will include the hiring and training of new park rangers, and the opening of new access roads to increase patrol coverage.
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Q: split multiple columns in pandas dataframe by delimiter I have survey data which annoying has returned multiple choice questions in the following way. It's in an excel sheet  There is about 60 columns with responses from single to multiple that are split by /. This is what I have so far, is there any way to do this quicker without having to do this for each individual column
data = {'q1': ['one', 'two', 'three'],
   'q2' : ['one/two/three', 'a/b/c', 'd/e/f'],
   'q3' : ['a/b/c', 'd/e/f','g/h/i']}

df = pd.DataFrame(data)

df[['q2a', 'q2b', 'q2c']]= df['q2'].str.split('/', expand = True, n=0)
df[['q3a', 'q3b', 'q3c']]= df['q2'].str.split('/', expand = True, n=0)

clean_df = df.drop(df[['q2', 'q3']], axis=1)

A: We can use list comprehension with add_prefix, then we use pd.concat to concatenate everything to your final df:
splits = [df[col].str.split(pat='/', expand=True).add_prefix(col) for col in df.columns]
clean_df = pd.concat(splits, axis=1)

     q10  q20  q21    q22 q30 q31 q32
0    one  one  two  three   a   b   c
1    two    a    b      c   d   e   f
2  three    d    e      f   g   h   i

If you actually want your column names to be suffixed by a letter, you can do the following with string.ascii_lowercase:
from string import ascii_lowercase

dfs = []
for col in df.columns:
    d = df[col].str.split('/', expand=True)
    c = d.shape[1]
    d.columns = [col + l for l in ascii_lowercase[:c]]
    dfs.append(d)

clean_df = pd.concat(dfs, axis=1)

     q1a  q2a  q2b    q2c q3a q3b q3c
0    one  one  two  three   a   b   c
1    two    a    b      c   d   e   f
2  three    d    e      f   g   h   i

A: You can create a dict d that transforms numbers to letters. Then loop through the columns and dynamically change their names:
input:
import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame({'q1': ['one', 'two', 'three'],
   'q2' : ['one/two/three', 'a/b/c', 'd/e/f'],
   'q3' : ['a/b/c', 'd/e/f','g/h/i']})

code:
ltrs = list('abcdefghijklmonpqrstuvwxyz')
nmbrs = [i[0] for i in enumerate(ltrs)]
d = dict(zip(nmbrs, ltrs))

cols = df.columns[1:]
for col in cols:
    df1 = df[col].str.split('/', expand = True)
    df1.columns = df1.columns.map(d)
    df1 = df1.add_prefix(f'{col}')
    df = pd.concat([df,df1], axis=1)
df = df.drop(cols, axis=1)
df

output:
Out[1]:
      q1  q2a  q2b    q2c q3a q3b q3c
0    one  one  two  three   a   b   c
1    two    a    b      c   d   e   f
2  three    d    e      f   g   h   i