It may be a while before Internet telephony with VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) reaches critical mass, but there's already tremendous movement in that direction. A lot of organizations are not only attracted to VoIP's promise of cost savings, but its ability to move data, images, and voice traffic over the same connection. Think of it: a single Internet phone call can take information sharing to a whole new level.
That's why many IT administrators and developers are actively looking to set up VoIP-based private telephone switching systems within the enterprise. The efficiency that network users can reach with it is almost mind-boggling. And cheap, if the system is built with open source software like Asterisk. There are commercial VoIP options out there, but many are expensive systems running old, complicated code on obsolete hardware. Asterisk runs on Linux and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment. And you can program it to your liking. 
Asterisk's flexibility comes at a price, however: it's not a simple system to learn, and the documentation is lacking. Asterisk: The Future of Telephony solves that problem by offering a complete roadmap for installing, configuring, and integrating Asterisk with existing phone systems. Our guide walks you through a basic dial plan step by step, and gives you enough working knowledge to set up a simple but complete system.
What you end up with is largely up to you. Asterisk embraces the concept of standards-compliance, but also gives you freedom to choose how to implement your system. Asterisk: The Future of Telephony outlines all the options, and shows you how to set up voicemail services, call conferencing, interactive voice response, call waiting, caller ID, and more. You'll also learn how Asterisk merges voice and data traffic seamlessly across disparate networks. And you won't need additional hardware. For interconnection with digital and analog telephone equipment, Asterisk supports a number of hardware devices. 
Ready for the future of telephony? We'll help you hook it up.

Asterisk: The Future of Telephony

Computers & Technology

Smith, Jared

Madsen, Leif

Van Meggelen, Jim

Web Development & Design

O'Reilly Media

This bestselling book is now the standard guide to building phone systems with Asterisk, the open source IP PBX that has traditional telephony providers running scared! Revised for the 1.4 release of the software, the new edition of Asterisk: The Future of Telephony reveals how you can save money on equipment and support, and finally be in control of your telephone system. If you've worked with telephony in the past, you're familiar with the problem: expensive and inflexible systems that are tuned to the vendor's needs, not yours. Asterisk isn't just a candle in the darkness, it's a whole fireworks show. Because Asterisk is so powerful, configuring it can seem tricky and difficult. This book steps you through the process of installing, configuring, and integrating Asterisk with your existing phone system. You'll learn how to write dialplans, set up applications including speech synthesis and voice recognition, how to script Asterisk, and much more -- everything you need to design a simple but complete system with little or no Asterisk experience, and no more than rudimentary telecommunications knowledge. The book includes:
<ul>
<li>A new chapter on managing/administering your Asterisk system</li>
<li>A new chapter on using Asterisk with databases </li>
<li>Coverage of features in Asterisk 1.4</li>
<li>A new appendix on dialplan functions</li>
<li>A simplified installation chapter</li>
<li>New simplified SIP configuration, including examples for several popular SIP clients (soft phones and IP telephones)</li>
<li>Revised chapters and appendicies reviewed and updated for the latest in features, applications, trends and best-practices</li>
</ul>Asterisk is revolutionizing the telecom industry, due in large part to the way it gets along with other network applications. While other PBXs are fighting their inevitable absorption into the network, Asterisk embraces it. If you need to take control of your telephony systems, move to Asterisk and see what the future of telecommunications looks like.

Meggelen, Jim Van

Computer Science

Keeping the Outlaw Alive

The Erie Street Press

Martin Mitchell, reviewer,  in Home Planet News, Issue 61 (Vol.16, No.2) THE GRAVES GROW BIGGER BETWEEN GENERATIONS By Jared Smith Higganum Hill Books, P.O. Box 666, Higganum, CT 06441, 2008, 68 pp., $12.95. Before I heard him read a couple of months ago at the Cornelia Street Café in New York City, I was somehow unfamiliar with the work of Jared Smith, although his poems have appeared in these pages.  Anyhow, I was, as they say, bowled over, and I could hardly wait to buy a copy of his new book − this one − after the reading and to dig into it and spend time with it.  What a pleasure it was to do so.  I was not disappointed, although it has helped me in reading this remarkable collection to imagine Smith’s strong, insistent, ironic voice.  That’s “strong” in the sense of ambitious and bold.  At the reading I was reminded of Whitman − Smith’s poems have a kind of all-embracing expansiveness that is (albeit lost sight of in recent decades) essentially American − though someone (specifically Diana Hume George, quoted on the back of the book) has already noted that; instead I’d cite, for comparison, Philip Levine were I not occasionally mistrustful of that poet’s believability as a mouthpiece for the masses.  Smith sympathizes with workingmen’s plight without pandering; that’s the only reason why he (otherwise inexcusably) looks back to the world of an exclusively male workforce.      The title poem well illustrates this extraordinary quality (as does that amazing title!), but its thoughts are complex and its considerable length sustains its accumulating power, making it resistant to quotation.  Much the same goes for the poem that directly precedes it, “Evening, Yes, but a Man Is Still a Man” (the initial caps on all title words throughout the volume are needlessly distracting), possibly, concise as well as powerful, the best poem in the book.  Four lines at the end of its second stanza (of three) have more content and suggestion than a whole slew of almost anyone else’s poems: Call him a tradesman, and he will trade every iron worker for one closed out steel mill and a teenage soldier. Tell him he is a product of the Rust Belt and the infrastructure of every city will come uncoupled. How mightily true that is (even if I can’t fully identify “him”) in the equal universe the author constructs to shed light on our own!  Smith never takes on more than he can chew: his huge appetite is matched by his articulate mastication.  This is so even when he “narrows” his sights − as in “Life at the Margins,” wherein “the flaming sumac / lifts its light torch, turning scar red // wounds that will not heal, this sifter of // pollutants that know the why of human waste … . I have come to love this mark of our imprudence // as I love the cat tails that also mark our transgressions.”  Critical comment here: wow!!!  How deeply the author plumbs into nature and humanity to show us much about both.  Likewise in the next poem, with its modest title, “Of Little Things That Carry Weight”:   It takes an ant to care for the community[.]                             … It behooves one to fear [the ant] because the weight of the very small when combined is greater than all the men who ever lived in all the lands numbered in our books. The farts termites give off in shuffling about their tasks each day give off more methane than mankind’s industry.  I’m glad myself to think of little things that carry weight. Not because they justify our own irresponsible treatment of the planet but because we can find in them a necessary perspective.      Several small poems, too, pack quite a punch.  I will leave the six-line “What I Take to My Grave” for you to discover and will quote instead the whole of “Coping with Technology”: I alternate wallpapers on my computer screen, letting my eyes follow the thought, going from the constellation Andromeda in a sea of black to the wattled orange face of a newly discovered bird in Indonesia, a

The Graves Grow Bigger Between Generations

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Higganum Hill Books

Sensation and Perception

Is the human eye like a camera? What makes your ears 'pop' on a plane? Why did women in the Middle Ages put belladonna into their eyes? This fully updated 2nd edition of Sensation and Perception is an accessible introduction to the field of perception. It covers in detail the perceptual processes related to vision and hearing, taste and smell, touch and pain, as well as the vestibular and proprioceptive systems. From seeing in colour to pathologies of perception, and from recognising faces to research methods, this textbook is essential reading for any student of perception. New material includes: ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 'Applications' features connect key content to real-life contexts ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Thinking Critically feature pushes students beyond the basics ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; End-of-chapter essay questions ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An entirely new chapter on Action & Perception John Harris&nbsp;is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Reading Jared Smith&nbsp;is Senior Research Fellow at the&nbsp;Population Health Research Institute of St George's, University of London

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Harris, John.

Psychology & Counseling

Sage Publications Ltd.

About the Author\nJohn Harris is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Reading, where he has taught about perception for over twenty years. Previously, he worked at the National Physical Laboratory, and later at the University of Bristol, in the Departments of Anatomy and Psychology. He has published more than 70 articles and book chapters on aspects of visual perception and its abnormalities. He has been associated for many years with the international journal Perception, first as an Associate Editor and later as a member of the Editorial Board.\nDr Jared Smith is a research fellow in mental health at St George′s. 
His major areas of interest are health science, behavioural medicine, and neuropsychology. Specifically, Dr Smith investigates cognitive, learning, and behavioural processes in people with clinical and/or neurological disorders, and the extent to which these processes impact on daily function and are affected by treatments including psychological-based interventions. More generally, he is interested in research involving clinical and neurological rehabilitation, especially in regard to providing evidence-based healthcare for these populations in the form of effective treatments and rehabilitation methods. 
Dr Smith’s current projects involve investigating: predictors of successful outcome of pain management interventions for people with chronic pain - including the influence of neurocognitive function; the benefits of pain management approaches for people with sickle cell disease; the psychosocial burden of surgically-induced nerve injury; the detection of non-credible complaints in clinical populations; and the feasibility of a navigation approach to care coordination for people with severe mental illness.\nIs the human eye like a camera? What makes your ears ‘pop’ on a plane? Why did women in the Middle Ages put belladonna into their eyes? 
This fully updated 2nd edition of Sensation and Perception is an accessible introduction to the field of perception. It covers in detail the perceptual processes related to vision and hearing, taste and smell, touch and pain, as well as the vestibular and proprioceptive systems. From seeing in colour to pathologies of perception, and from recognising faces to research methods, this textbook is essential reading for any student of perception. 
New material includes: 
· ‘Applications’ features connect key content to real-life contexts 
· Thinking Critically feature pushes students beyond the basics 
· End-of-chapter essay questions 
· An entirely new chapter on Action & Perception\nJohn Harris is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Reading 
Jared Smith is Senior Research Fellow at the Population Health Research Institute of St George’s, University of London

TO THE DARK ANGELS is a compassionate, transcendent journey through the mysteries, myths, and struggles of our time. It is dark at times, yet richly luminous, woven from the fiery brightness of love and a gentle humor, as Jared Smith employs the depth of a half-century of poetic craft and hard-earned experience in exploring the profound value of human dignity placed against the cosmic dance we share with all life, the earth, and the unknowable itself. This is a deeply resonant song of maturity, which ultimately fills the reader with a sense of peace and joy that will last a lifetime.

To the Dark Angels

NYQ Books

Powerful forces at work in this poetry, a collection of mature reflection and intense epiphany, wherein we learn that we exist within a cauldron that we cannot name, amid forces beyond the ken of seismologists and those who would map the cosmos. Are our hearts no more or less than what pulls upon them? Is experience a phenomenon we are ill equipped to measure, except through poetry? Who attempts to answer such questions as these, except a poet of Jared Smith's measure? This magnificent volume of poetry-as-witness lifts up and dignifies the life we hold in common, illuminating that which is largely hidden within both the personal impulses and impersonal systems that drive and constrain us. The propulsive, elevating, and varied poems build upon each other toward an epic revelation of how our pride and dependence on technological growth blinds us with its short term gains. The resulting vision is one of dark and churning machinery within which everything is connected, the world becoming a vast fabric woven of passions and failures, of lights and shadows, exploration and exploitation leading to war and pandemic. There is individual freedom and survival to be found, but it is in finding the light within each individual's hard-won experience and compassion and understanding of the spheres we are a part of. Poetry.

A Sphere Encased in Fires and Life

RICH ATTITUDE: WHAT I WISH I LEARNED ABOUT MONEY GROWING UP

Business & Money

Personal Finance

A&K Publishing, LLC

Jared Smith believes that poetry should be part of the fabric of every-day life. No one is better at integrating the art of the word into our existence. Doctor, lawyer, stevedore, indian chief, artist -- here are poems that speak to all.

Grassroots

Wind Publications

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Books by Smith, Jared

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Asterisk: The Future of Telephony

Asterisk: The Future of Telephony

Keeping the Outlaw Alive

The Graves Grow Bigger Between Generations

Sensation and Perception

Sensation and Perception

To the Dark Angels

A Sphere Encased in Fires and Life

RICH ATTITUDE: WHAT I WISH I LEARNED ABOUT MONEY GROWING UP

Grassroots