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Talk about hands-on experience, for lucky Camden students they literally jump right into the water.
The Community and Urban Science Enrichment (CAUSE) program for the last 18 years has used aquatic science as the central theme of a holistic youth development program targeting Camden teens from eighth grade through high school. The program is under the auspices of the New Jersey Academy for Aquatic Sciences, a not for profit education, research and youth development organization with particular emphasis on underserved audiences located in Camden.
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Saint Barnabas Health Care System, New Jersey's largest integrated health care delivery system, recently received a three-year, $150,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation in support of the New Jersey Health Care Innovation Center (NJHCIC), which is focused on improving the quality, safety and cost-effectiveness of health care delivery in the Garden State.
The New Jersey Health Care Innovation Center, located on the New Jersey Institute of Technology campus in Newark, is a start-up operation that will include three centers of excellence. NJHCIC will provide advisory services, conduct sponsored research and develop new approaches to meet challenges facing the health care industry.
The Saint Barnabas System will use the Verizon Foundation grant to create the Design and Collaboration Center of Excellence, which will harness and support the specialized processes, expertise and environment necessary to facilitate innovation in health care delivery.
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As business customers continue to turn to Verizon for a wide range of communications and IT solutions to drive better outcomes, they are finding a strong environmental partner in the process.
Typically, an enterprise's monthly telecommunications bill can fill many boxes with paper, and consume significant amounts of energy as bills are transported from one location to another. By reducing paper and associated transportation, Verizon's customers are able to reduce their carbon footprints while streamlining business procedures. Moving to e-billing has helped Verizon customers eliminate more than 290 tons of paper yearly.
"As a leading global supplier of specialty chemicals and performance-enhancing products for an array of industries around the world, ISP is utilizing the e-billing solution to not only control costs, but also to reduce paper consumption and the amount of CO2 emitted during the traditional billing transportation process," said Eileen Bostonian, telecommunications billing analysis and coordinator at ISP. "By working with Verizon, we have leveraged their e-billing solution to help enhance the efficiency of our business operations while simultaneously reducing our carbon footprint."
For each of its customer's billing accounts that have been converted to paperless billing, Verizon has donated funds to the American Forest's Global Releaf program. Through this initiative, more than 100,000 trees have been planted since 2007, with 70,000 planted in 2010 alone.
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Best Defense is a Good Offense to Prevent Data Losses
With the Internet a central part of most people's lifestyles, the increased usage also brings with it the need for increased awareness of your computer's security. That's true for business customers and consumers alike.
Data loss through cyber attacks decreased sharply in 2010, but the total number of breaches was higher than ever, according to the "Verizon 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report." These findings continue to demonstrate that businesses and consumers must remain vigilant in implementing and maintaining security practices.
The number of compromised records involved in data breaches investigated by Verizon and the U.S. Secret Service dropped from 144 million in 2009 to only 4 million in 2010, representing the lowest volume of data loss since the report's launch in 2008. Yet this year's report covers approximately 760 data breaches, the largest caseload to date.
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