SAN FRANCISCO, June 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Coverity, Inc., the development testing leader, announced today that NNG LLC, a pioneer of navigation software and the developer of iGO Navigation solutions, has successfully deployed Coverity Static Analysis as its development testing solution to deliver high quality software and accelerate time to market for software delivery to its supply chain.

Since its launch in 2004, NNG has delivered navigation solutions to more than 150 business customers including the world's leading original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). NNG's navigation software is at the heart of millions of products, from in-vehicle Infotainment (IVI) systems and smartphones to personal navigation devices. Because customer satisfaction, cost control and competitive advantage can all be impacted by the quality of software code, Coverity has become fundamental to NNG's quality initiative as part of its brand management with customers and supply chain partners. The company is constantly developing new functionality for its 28 products and equips its engineers with Coverity Static Analysis to enhance its quality assurance program and create higher software standards for the navigation industry.

"We embedded Coverity Static Analysis in our development process so every new line of code is tested before it is released into the market," explains Peter Balogh, interim CEO at NNG LLC. "Coverity development testing has brought greater consistency and control to our development activities, the results of which have been gains in productivity and software quality. By the end of 2012, NNG will use Coverity to validate legacy code for our entire product line as well as new projects."

The development team chose Coverity Static Analysis for its accuracy of results, its advanced extensibility to fit into the development workflow and its ability to track and manage defects between 28 projects and different code branches comprising over 1 million lines of code. In addition, Coverity also identified code patterns and established metrics for measuring NNG's development processes.

As a result of these improvements, NNG has been able to:

"NNG is driving quality in its navigation software products which directly translates to brand reputation of both its own brand and that of its supply chain partners," said Jennifer Johnson, VP of Marketing at Coverity. "Development testing not only helps ensure the quality of software, but also contributes to accelerated time to market and enhanced developer productivity, all of which contribute to competitive advantage."

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About Coverity Coverity, Inc., (www.coverity.com), the development testing leader, is the trusted standard for companies that need to protect their brands and bottom lines from software failures. More than 1,100 Coverity customers use Coverity's development testing suite of products to automatically test source code for software defects that could lead to product crashes, unexpected behavior, security breaches or catastrophic failure. Coverity is a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco. Coverity is funded by Foundation Capital and Benchmark Capital. Follow us on Twitter or check out our blog.

About NNG LLC NNG LLC is one of the leading navigation solution providers for the Automotive, Personal and Wireless navigation industries, and offers fully customizable, on-board, 3D navigation applications to device manufacturers, auto makers and OEM brands that are custom built according to each customer's needs. The core technology is based on the award-winning iGO My way software engine, already installed in millions of navigation devices throughout the world. The company's subsidiary develops its own digital maps. The first international product of NNG was launched in Germany at CeBIT 2006. Since then, NNG has formed partnerships with more than 150 hardware manufacturers worldwide, providing innovative and reliable navigation solutions for 115 countries and in 46 different languages. To find out more about NNG, please visit http://www.nng.com.

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Military service members and their families often face particular financial problems. Citi and CredAbility -- one of the leading nonprofit credit counseling and education agencies in the United States -- have teamed up with several veterans' service organizations to help solve the financial issues that can burden these individuals' lives.

In collaboration with the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors and the Military Spouse Corporate Career Network, the groups have launched CredAbility ReConnect -- a free, online financial education and counseling program.

Bleak statistics show the need for a program to better equip veterans with tools to combat financial hardships. In 2011, the unemployment rate for veterans who have served on active duty since September 2011 was 12.1%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This rate is significantly higher than the national unemployment rate of 8.9% that same year. Data from Debt.org and CredAbility show that more than 25% of military families who have credit card debt carry a balance of more than $10,000 and veterans ages 29 or younger have average monthly expenses that exceed their net income by $880.

"Every member of the armed forces has sacrificed a great deal in service to their country -- and, in addition to the challenges of military service, many face tremendous financial pressures as well," said Suni Harford, Citi's Regional Head of Markets for North America in a statement. "These brave men and women receive extensive military training, but far too few of them receive any kind of formal financial education. CredAbility ReConnect was developed to help these deserving men and women build financial capability and achieve long-term economic security for themselves and their families."

The topics covered by CredAbility ReConnect are:

The financial impact of deployment -- Online courses that help families learn to manage money when a spouse is deployed. Easing the transition -- Online courses designed to help ease the financial transition for those who have recently left the military or experienced the death of a service member. Budget and credit counseling -- Easy-to-follow plans that help users better manage their money and prioritize spending. Debt management plans -- Repayment plans designed to be affordable and tailored to the individual's needs. Foreclosure prevention and home buying guidance -- For those who are behind on their mortgage payments or facing foreclosure, certified counselors provide assistance.

Individuals and families who are served by the collaborating organizations are able to access a free custom version of the online program. Members of the armed forces, veterans and their families not affiliated with these groups can access the program at http://www.CredAbility.org/recon.

This program designed for military families is new, but it is certainly not the first of its kind. Several leading credit card issuers have similar programs and benefits. For example:

Wells Fargo has the Worldwide Military Banking program, which includes benefits such as special mortgage financing plans and Small Business Administration Patriot Express loans that help members of the military community establish or expand their small businesses. Additionally, Wells Fargo offers a free online financial literacy program called Hands on Banking. Bank of America and Chase provide military families with benefits and extensive information about the transitions that can occur in those families' lives.

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Stanford is adding a social layer to its most popular class on Apple's platform.

If you are a nerd, or just an aspiring one, there are few things more fantastic on the Internet than iTunes U. One of the earlier online education initiatives, the feature -- a little corner of the broader iTunes content environment -- brings together video- and audio-recorded lectures from colleges and universities around the world. Want to learn philosophy from Oxford? Download the 41 lectures from the university's eight-week-long General Philosophy course. Curious about the history of ancient Greece? Turn Yale's lectures on that subject into podcasts that you listen to as you're doing your dishes. iTunes' education initiative is an occasionally overwhelming and often enlightening smorgasbord of digitized, customized learning.

And! The whole thing is free for users. Which means that you -- the nerd, whether current or aspiring -- can replicate the university lecture experience for pretty much any subject, for pretty much nothing save your time.

iTunes U has been great at replicating the sit-and-listen part of the college learning experience. It's been less great, however, about replicating the thing that has traditionally made the university such a great learning environment: class discussion, the lively back-and-forth that can come from the seminar setting. And it's been less great at that, of course, because it hasn't tried to be any good: iTunes U has been a clearinghouse for college lectures, and that, so far, has been more than enough.

Until today, that is. Now available on the iTunes platform is a Stanford class, "App Development for the iPhone and iPad," which allows, for the first time, interactive class discussions. The class -- to date, the most popular among Stanford's many iTunes U offerings -- will employ the course discussion infrastructure of Piazza, which Stanford has already been using as an online supplement to its in-person discussions. Students in the class -- which is still free to take -- will get to interact with each other, asking questions and working through problems.

"We're very excited to see how social intereaction and social learning will come into play," says Brent Izutsu, who oversees Stanford's course outreach efforts on platforms like iTunes U and YouTube. Stanford has been delivering content through iTunes U since 2005, and it's gleaned, over those seven years, some great data on education as it takes place online, divorced from the traditional classroom setting. What courses are people, left to their own devices, most interested in? What times of year are people most inclined to download some lectures?

The interactive elements of the new class will offer a new body of data, allowing Izutsu and other school administrators to understand not just what people choose to learn about, but how they choose to go about the learning. For one thing, "we're very interesting in seeing retention," Izutsu told me -- "seeing if people stay engaged longer because there's a cohort that they can ask questions of and interactive with." And because today's launch will repurpose Stanford's App Development lecture from Fall 2011, Izutsu and his colleagues will be able to measure -- to some degree -- the extent to which interactivity itself is a selling point for online classes. Will the course prove more appealing to people now that it's interactive? Now that you can take a class with friends -- well, "with" friends -- are you more likely to sign up for it?

An interactive App Development course is a pilot, both for Stanford and for iTunes. But the hope, Isutzu says, is eventually to expand interactivity to other courses. So, listen to Oxford's philosophy lecture, then argue about the categorial imperative with fellow course-takers. Or discuss the plays of Aeschylus. Or try to outwit your friends in game theory.

This kind of social integration, says Pooja Sankar, Piazza's founder and CEO, is the next logical step of the digital education revolution. Services like iTunes U -- and TED-ED, and Udacity, and all the many, many other platforms that are slowly transforming how we think about learning -- have already gotten the content thing down. As of January 2012, iTunes U had seen 700 million downloads of its educational content, Sankar told me. The stuff of learning -- the lectures, the course materials, the instructional videos, the explanatory songs, the syllabi -- is already out there. The next challenge, she believes, will be figuring out how to make all that stuff social. "How do you take all that content that's out there -- that's being hosted by multiple parties -- and create engagement around it?"

"It's amazing how much learning can happen when you let students interact with one another -- and learn together, rather than learn in isolation," Sankar says. "It really makes all the difference."

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National Guitar Workshop Is Proud To Announce: National Guitar Workshop: Online

Beginning July 15th the National Guitar Workshop will offer ten popular courses online.

National Guitar Workshop is announcing its newest innovation in music education, NGW Online. This new online program will feature 10 courses with over 150 hours of class time.

This summer, for the first time, the National Guitar Workshop will be conducting online lessons. Enrollment for online courses begins in June, classes will be available for viewing July 15th through November 1st. Students will be able to take one or all ten classes offered this summer for the same low price. All classes are recorded at the Connecticut location and are posted the day they happen. Students can ask questions just like in a physical classroom. Questions asked during the on campus dates will be answered by the NGW faculty in the next days session.

Students will have access to ALL ten classes for enrollment fee of $149.

Courses being offered online this summer include: Brazilian Guitar Exploration The Big Class of Jazz Improvisation Blues You Can Use Jazz Summit Guitar Beatles Boot Camp Rockn Beyond Classic Rock Icons Unleash the Fury Beyond Acoustic Guitar Gods of the 70s

Since 1984 over 25,000 students have traveled to our campuses to take classes with our incredible faculty. Now we can make our program much more accessible and affordable by bringing it online. - David Smolover, founder.

To find out more about NGW Online call 800-234-6479.

For over 28 years, The National Guitar Workshop strives to create an educational and collaborative atmosphere for students and teachers alike. NGW has delivered the finest in music education to guitarists, bassists, keyboardists and drummers throughout the world, with an acclaimed faculty that includes some of the most soughtafter professional musicians in every style of music. NGW maintains campuses and programs in New Milford and Norwich, Connecticut; Austin, Texas; Los Angeles, California; and Bigfork, Montana. The 2012 roster of Guest Artists includes; Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, Jack DeJohnette, John Abercrombie, Tosin Abasi, Antonio Sanchez, Duke Robillard, John Patitucci, Larry Grenadier, Adrian Legg, Guthrie Govan, Romero Lubambo, and Doug Aldrich.

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FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., June 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, today announced a new program, ed2go for public libraries, that brings turnkey online training and education solutions to the public library market. ed2go, also part of Cengage Learning, provides online training courses for the adult education, career, and corporate training markets through partnerships with colleges, universities, community-based organizations and now through public libraries.

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"The mission of many public libraries is to inspire lifelong learning among patrons," said Gerry Sawchuk, publisher, public library solutions for Gale. "With ed2go courses designed specifically for this diverse audience, we are equipping public libraries with the tools to do just that."

The ed2go for public libraries program, developed as a result of Cengage Learning's unique position within the library, classroom and adult learning markets, will offer patrons access to hundreds of instructor-led online courses covering everything from health and wellness to digital photography, computer programming, GED test preparation and much more. ed2go courses are developed by expert instructors, many currently working at universities around the country, and use Cengage Learning's proven pedagogy to ensure classes are engaging and informative. Each individual course is offered online for six weeks and features 12 lessons with online discussions, homework, quizzes and a final exam. Though these are not college equivalent courses, certificate programs are available for careers in the medical field, project management and computer networking.

ed2go for public libraries features a subscription model designed specifically for libraries librarians purchase access to a catalog of ed2go courses which are then offered free to patrons, who can select specific courses to enroll in. Libraries in turn get robust product administration and usage reporting capabilities enabling the easy tracking of successful patron outcomes.

The Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System recently piloted the ed2go program as part of its eCampus initiative to address lifelong learning in its community and deliver workforce development resources, programs and services. The results have been highly successful.

"Our goal was to find online resources that could serve a wide community base with varied learning needs. Through our strategic partnerships with organizations like Cengage Learning, we've been able to offer exciting and user-friendly digital tools, like ed2go, to our community," said Juree Hall, eCampus Project Coordinator, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System. "The positive feedback and growth in enrollments shows we're on the right track."

For more information on ed2go for public libraries or to request a trial, please visit http://www.gale.cengage.com/ed2go or contact Kristina Massari at kristina.massari@cengage.com. You can also learn more about this innovative program and Atlanta-Fulton's success at the Gale booth (#1400) on the exhibit floor of the American Library Association annual meeting in Anaheim, California June 22-25.

About Cengage Learning and GaleCengage Learning is a leading provider of innovative teaching, learning and research solutions for the academic, professional and library markets worldwide. Gale, part of Cengage Learning, serves the world's information and education needs through its vast and dynamic content pools, which are used by students and consumers in their libraries, schools and on the Internet. It is best known for the accuracy, breadth and convenience of its data, addressing all types of information needs from homework help to health questions to business profiles in a variety of formats. For more information, visit http://www.cengage.com or http://www.gale.cengage.com.

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PUBLISHED: 20:32 EST, 18 June 2012 | UPDATED: 20:32 EST, 18 June 2012

Sophie Barnes slipped a disc while doing pilates

Like thousands of women, Sophie Barnes decided to do Pilates to get back into shape after giving birth.

While driven by the desire to lose her post-baby belly, Sophie, 38, was also keen on it for medical reasons.

She was born with scoliosis, an abnormal curvature of the spine, and her doctor had warned that the extra weight of the baby could put added strain on her fragile back and muscles.

A maternity nurse told her that Pilates a series of stretching exercises to improve physical strength and flexibility was excellent for women post-birth.

The classes are particularly good for back problems because the exercises strengthen the muscles that support the spine.

Seven months after the birth I felt ready to start exercising, says Sophie, who lives in North-West London with her husband Martin, 42, a building company manager, and their three children Jonathan, seven, Helena, five, and Melody, three.

I told the instructor about my scoliosis and the pregnancy, and he nodded and told me to join aclass.

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Visual impairment does not stop Preeti Monga from motivating others

We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.Helen Keller

A trauma counsellor, corporate trainer, writer, aerobics trainer, public speaker and director of Silver Linings Human Resource Solution Private Limited all rolled into one, Preeti Mongas achievements are inspirational for any youngster. Interestingly, that she lost her vision early in life could not deter Ms. Monga from living up to her dreams.

With a staff size of eight girls, Silver Linings is a Delhi-based executive search and talent development consultancy. What makes us different from typical recruitment companies and sundry providers of standardised training modules is the fact that we go beyond a transactional relationship with our clients to be their Human Capital Custodian, Ms. Monga said. She recalls the motivational workshops she has conducted for workers in Maruti when they were going through a difficult labour phase. I have addressed workers at the mines as well. Being a positive person I enjoy motivational workshops. We have a master list of 140 active clients. Our business model is simple. We share 10 per cent of the profit with our employees.

Preeti started the consultancy with her brother Sandeep Singh. We got Silver Lining Trust registered in 2006, and then thought about starting Silver Lining Solutions. We started Silver Linings in the dining hall of our house in 2010 and now our bedroom, too, is annexed into the office area. We will have a bigger office soon she said. My brother left his job for this venture. Convincing him was my first victory, she smiled. While Mr. Singh looks after the operations of Silver Linings, Ms. Monga handles the business development part.

Ms. Monga was only six years old when doctors diagnosed her deteriorating vision as a condition due to optic atrophy. It was difficult for me since my childhood. And by the time I was able to accept my disability, my school had already thrown me out. It affected me greatly, she said.

In a place like India, where even the birth of a girl child is not welcomed, being born with an extreme physical disability is almost unacceptable to the society, Ms. Monga said. But I have been fortunate enough to have supportive parents. They stood by my side in every adversity. They have made me what I am today.

She decided to leave her studies after completing Class X. I found it meaningless! At that point of time, I failed to understand that I would need certificates and degrees to survive in this difficult world Soon after ending my first marriage, I realized that I needed to be economically independent. That brought me in touch with Veena Merchant of U.S.A. Shapes. I received proper aerobics training and started my own training class. I had a class of 40 people, she said.

Simultaneously, she got involved in computer and English teaching, sales and marketing management, freelance journalism, public speaking and most of all trauma counselling; all this without completing her formal education. I always believed that one can learn from every day experiences. For me, life was the biggest teacher and troubles, lessons of the book, she added.

Today I am a proud mother of two independent children and a very happy grandmother too. I dream of building Silver Linings into a global entity. I want to tell the world that if a blind person can do it in spite of ever increasing adversities, everybody can. I want to be the light that can eliminate darkness from the lives of people, she asserted.

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ST. LOUIS When children enter one of 10 city schools even when classes are not in session, community education supporters want them and even their parents and neighbors to find a hub of activities, support and resources for more than just academic needs.

For decades, a long-standing program in the St. Louis Public Schools has provided that, offering programs ranging from academic tutoring to dental exams to aerobics classes. But money for the effort, called Community Education Full Service Schools, has dwindled from about $1.2 million to $500,000.

It's unclear exactly how the cuts will play out in the next few weeks, but without funding for full-time staff at all of the centers, five could close, officials say. The district recently notified four full-time staffers that their jobs had been cut.

Typically, the centers remain open during the summer, but as of last week, just those at Vashon High, Walbridge elementary, Clay elementary and Yeatman-Liddell middle schools were to continue offering services during June and July.

More than a dozen people told the district's Special Administrative Board this month that they fear that without additional funding, beneficial programs and services through the community education centers will be dismantled.

"It just provides so many things to so many people," said Rachel Delcau, who is on the council at the Bevo-Long Community Education center.

At the meeting, a teenage girl said she repeatedly got in trouble at school for fighting and being disruptive, but that changed when she started attending the after-school program at Bevo-Long. Now, she attends Carnahan High School but continues to return to Bevo-Long to volunteer.

Sherry Parris, 41, said she was depressed and had given up hope of getting her GED until her pastor told her about classes at the community education center at Clay elementary.

"In other classes, I got frustrated and left. Now, I see that I can learn," said Parris, who passed the test and is now taking community college classes to become a dental hygienist. "There was a love and a passion for students there."

St. Louis Public Schools has matched the city's funds for the program, which began in 1968.

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19-06-2012 08:35 YUVRAJ SINGH IS ON ROAD TO RECOVERY AFTER HIS CANCER TREATMENT IN USA.YUVRAJ HAS STARTED WORKING OUT FOR ALMOST HALF AN HOUR DAILY AND ALSO IS READY TO PLAY HIS FIRST MATCH AFTER CHEMOTHERAPY.

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17-06-2012 20:54 Heidi Kristoffer strikes a pose and shows us how to do yoga anywhere.. even at the department store! Upload a video response! Can't wait to see you doing yoga anywhere!

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