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LONDON -- Artimi Ltd., the Cambridge, England, based start-up developing chips for ultrawideband (UWB) applications, has closed a further private investor round. Investors include GEIF Ventures Fund.
Richard Dellabarca, commercial director of the company, would not say how much additional money has been raised. "It is substantial, in excess of $1 million, and will be sufficient to secure our development until the middle of next year. We have also started looking at the next stage of financing, which will include raising resources from venture capital groups and private equity investors."
The money raised now will be used to speed development of its low power UWB transceivers that have multiple interfaces and are capable of delivering data at up to 500-Mbit/s and at distances of up to 30 meters, with precision location capability. Artimi said its solution is based on a patent pending mesh wireless technology.
Dellabarca said silicon should be available by the end of the year, and that the company has already starting demonstrating the benefits of its technology to many consumer electronics companies.
"Our solution will be fully standards compliant, though we do advocate the single mode specification being pushed by companies such as XtremeSpectrum, Motorola and PulseLink. We believe that reflects better the advantages of the technology for consumer applications and has the benefit of quicker time to market."
Dellabarca was referring to the standards debate within the IEEE802.15.3.a working group that is due to decide next month at a meeting in Albuquerque between two competing proposals for the physical layer interface. The XtremeSpectrum/Motorola group, that also includes ParthusCeva and Oki, favors a scheme based on DS-CDMA, while the other group, which earlier this year formed the Multiband OFDM Alliance, advocates a multiband approach and is led by heavyweights such as Intel and Texas Instruments and includes UWB pioneers such as Staccato Communications.
Artimi also announced the appointment of Tom Cooper, an industry veteran, as vice president of sales and marketing. "The opportunities in the UWB chip market are tremendous and Artimi is well positioned to be a leader in this space," stated Cooper.
Cooper was most recently chief executive officer of New Visual Corp., a San Diego California-based fabless semiconductor developer. Prior to this, he was senior vice president of corporate development with GlobespanVirata, where his career spanned the start-up days at Virata, to its flotation on the NASDAQ in 1998 and subsequent merger with Globespan in 2001.
"Tom brings a wealth of sales and marketing experience in the telecommunications semiconductor industry to Artimi," stated Jack Lang, chief executive officer of Artimi, "and he also has the distribution contacts to open new customers' doors for us. Artimi is fortunate to continue to attract such world class talent as Tom to our team." Cooper is based in California where Artimi is setting up its sales and marketing office.


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Faulks channels Wodehouse
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A new novel starring the greatest comic characters of 20th-century English literature, bumbling Bertie Wooster and his unflappable, Spinoza-reading valet Jeeves?
How can this be, one asks oneself, scratching the bean with Bertie-like perplexity. Didn't P.G. Wodehouse, who brought Jeeves and Bertie to life, hand in his lunch pail on Valentine's Day in 1975?
Well, old tops, what we have in "Jeeves and the Wedding Bells" — something even the mentally negligible Bertie could puzzle out unaided by Jeeves' massive, fish-fed cerebrum — is imitation Wodehouse.
Very good imitation Wodehouse, from British novelist Sebastian Faulks, who helped himself to heaps of critical praise back in 2008 for writing a James Bond novel titled "Devil May Care."
Faulks knows he isn't Wodehouse and doesn't try to be. The voice sounds a lot like Wodehouse, but anyone who has read much Wodehouse will know it isn't the master. That's not a knock on Faulks: He's a novelist, not a copyist. And he humbly labels his book "an homage" to Wodehouse.
Best of all, it's a funny book, worth reading.
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Thursday, August 17, 1899, had been as ordinary as dishwater for Cassie Tucker and her family, who live near Blue Hill, Nebraska. Up until nightfall, that is, when the telegram arrives saying an orphaned cousin is traveling to their farm. The idea both thrills and frightens Cassie, who wonders if she'll ever be able to accept this stranger. Evan fits in right as rain at first, but his independent beliefs soon set him apart from Preacher Tucker's family. Cassie wonders if he'll stay for good and worries that he won't. As a carefree Indian summer propels the Tuckers toward a year's end, it seems nothing can come between them and the joyfully awaited twentieth century. They are wrong. Seasons of sorrow lie ahead. Mother Nature tests them with everything from drought to dust storms to a blinding blizzard. Cassie fears she could become an orphan, too, as the family becomes separated and she and Evan must fight for their lives.
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Sculpey is a brand of polymer clay that comes in a variety of textures and colors. Polymer clay is one choice for making a mask because it remains malleable until it is baked. Sculpey is made from polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, solvents and colored pigments. When you bake a Sculpey creation, the PVC molecules melt together, creating a long-lasting project. Use Sculpey to make a mask that is both durable and attractive.
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Choose who or what you want to represent with your mask.
Draw your ideas on a piece of paper with a pencil. Use colored pencils to shade different areas of your mask.
Choose one color of Sculpey for the base of your mask.
Knead your Sculpey until it is soft and easy to work with.
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Carefully transfer your finished Sculpey mask to a piece of aluminum foil.
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EXCLUSIVE: Adam Levine is no accidental TV producer. After a single-camera karaoke comedy project he executive produces sparked a bidding war in July before landing at NBC with penalty, the rocker-turned-reality star has set up a second project with NBC as a producer — this time on the drama side. Titled Awesome Splendor, the project is set in the world of rock 'n' roll and is from Parenthood executive producer/director Lawrence Trilling. Trilling will write and direct the project and executive produce it with Levine and Levine's manager Jordan Feldstein for Universal Television. Trilling come up with the idea for the show and began looking for a partner with strong rock credentials. Since Maroon 5 frontman Levine is repped by the same agency (CAA) and attorney (Karl Austen), the matchmaking was easy and the two hit it off. Levine has become quite the NBC man now, with a starring gig on the network's singing reality series The Voice and now two projects for the network targeted for next fall, both with music themes. The karaoke comedy, from 20th TV and Chernin Entertainment, is being written by Gene Hong, with Jake Kasdan directing and executive producing and Levine and Feldstein executive producing.
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Considering what a turn for the worst Maroon 5 has made, it's nice to see so many positive things happening for Adam Levine. I don't care how many albums they might end up selling, it's been all downhill musically since Maroon 5's mostly terrific debut.
I TOTALLY disagree! I absolutely LOVE Maroon 5 and they have MANY songs that have charted/are still charting. I saw them in Concert this past August (w/Train & Gavin DeGraw). The show was AWESOME…sold out, of course! Everyone in the audience was singing along. When M5 left the stage, the audience was unbelievably loud, chanting for them to come back out! After a few mins, they came back out & did a few more songs. BEST concert I've ever been too!
Derby was talking about quality. Music charts don't mean music quality. And I totally agree with him (her?).
And yes, I know they rock out on stage and they are simply awesome, but Adam himself said the band is changing their style to make more songs like "Moves Like Jagger" and, if you're a real fan, you know MLJ isn't Maroon 5 AT ALL, it's just pop music made to top the charts. So, if they're making music just to sell out, well, they're not really caring for quality anymore
Btw, glad for Adam, he's really nice.
I have always been an M5 fan since day one and to hear a progression in their style and music has only made me like them more. I enjoy all of their albums and do not think that they sell out. They make quality music that lots of people actually like and that's why they sell and make hits. It's rock with disco which is popish in a way cuz it makes me move. I LOVE it! MLJ is awesome too..I wish though he sang it by himself but whatever, it's still makes me move. I'm just so happy for Adam and all of his on going success and I can't wait to see what he will do in the future. They HAVE to continue to make music though and NeveR stop..as M5.
Sorry for being so ignorant, but what does 'penalty' mean in this reference?
This means that if for some reason NBC decides to not pick up the Levine/Kasdan/Hong show, they will have to pay out a large sum of money as a penalty. The hotter the show/bidding war, the higher the penalty.
Rock n' roll from a writer on Parenthood…
Now that sounds f'n edgy.
Adam is getting every offer in the world right now. I don't get it. what cred does he have in the narrative world? At least he's being selective and surrounding himself with good teams. Trilling's Parenthood is great, Kasdan's New Girl's a smash, and the show Hong writes on, Allen Gregory, looks like it's gonna be hilarious. No, I don't work for 20th.
go back to the music adam
What's "rock 'n roll" about Adam Levine?
If his wicked ink isn't enough to give him rock cred… he can definitely do some well above average guitar shredding.
Anonymous ~ I'm guessing, from your question, that you've never seen M5 in concert, or heard Adam JAM on the guitar. You may be thinking of some of M5's more 'neo-soul' or 'ballad' stuff, but let me tell you, Adam can rock out!
Will Adam be auditioning any young unknown singers/actors for roles in his new show?
PS: Good job, Adam! I am happy that things are going your way!
All the people talking crap about maroon 5 you are sooo misguided. Poor u
Rock Credentials?? I think that is hilarious. People have forgotten what Rock n Roll really is.
No wonder NBC is in the crapper.
He's talented and soooooo hot…
Honestly, I love maroon 5 and Adam Levine <3 so i am so excited to hear this news!
I see M5 every chance I can…Adam may be moving in a lot of directions right now but the other guys are branching out too. It will be a sad day of they split…they still have a lot to give as a band!!!!
He's kind of a tool
I agree.
I think Maroon 5 is terrific and no, they are not the old time rock and roll, but are a combination of pop/rock. But Adam is so very creative, was such a great coach on "The Voice" and I would hate to see Maroon 5 not be Maroon 5 anymore, but everyone in that band is very talented and can make it on their own. Never knew who Maroon 5 was until last year's show "The Voice" because I don't listen to pop stations which is where their music is played in my area, but I follow their tweets, read who they are as real people and I wish everyone the best of luck no matter what their future holds….. and if Adam can do anything…he can make a show work! I'm certain of that.
Does it really matter, what? who? when? where? Obviously the guy's got talent, if he didn't he wouldn't be where he is today. You go Adam!
Maroon 5's music quality has not gone away, they're just adjusting to keep up with the fast paced changing of music taste. I for one think they're doing brilliantly and I wish them the best of luck. They have a long time fan in me!
People who criticize Adam say that because they envy him, they wish they were in his place. He has an awesome voice, his music is great, he is handsome and also hard-worker guy.
I love Maroon 5 very much
Adam and m5 can certainly rock out. Just go to one of their concerts. Live they show their class. Perhaps needs to stick to what he does best though
Hes friends/roommates with the writer for the show (that will have a lot of music, by other articals I read) and The Voice is music based… Hes defiantly still focusing on music:)


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Magnus magnetic stand has a hold on your iPad 2
Sometimes the most simple accessories can be the most effective. When I received a tiny box from Ten One Design claiming to hold a stand that would support an iPad 2 in an upright position, I scoffed. But it turns out that the Magnus magnetic stand (US$49.95) really does work. The Magnus is a tiny sculpted piece of aluminum with a very powerful magnetic strip at the bottom. When you place an iPad 2 onto it in the designated landscape orientation (with the home button on the right side), the Magnus and iPad click together. Held in the magnetic clutch of the Magnus, the iPad is nicely balanced and stays securely perched. This is one of the smallest iPad stands I've reviewed so far and I've reviewed a lot of 'em.
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Finance Minister Jaswant Singh completed 200 days in office some time last week.
Two hundred days in the tenure of a finance minister is not always an occasion for celebration.
Reversing a trend witnessed in the eighties, finance ministers in the last few governments during the nineties have proved to be a fairly durable commodity.
Madhu Dandavate lasted the full term of the V P Singh government in 1989-90.
Yashwant Sinha had a short tenure in 1991, but that was not his fault. The Chandra Shekhar government itself fell with the Congress withdrawing support to it.
Manmohan Singh served the entire term of the Narasimha Rao government as its finance minister.
And P Chidambaram continued to be the finance minister even though the United Front government changed its prime minister.
Yashwant Sinha, too, had a fairly long stint as the finance minister under Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
So, when Jaswant Singh completes 200 days in North Block, why should anyone bother? Mr Singh, by all available indication, should complete the remaining year and a half of the Vajpayee government's term as its finance minister.
Yet, it would be interesting to assess the retired major's performance in a ministry, where he was most reluctant to come.
A man who as the foreign minister was supremely comfortable with the media, completely turned away from anyone remotely connected with a newspaper or a television channel.
Yashwant Sinha was sorely missed. There were no bytes for the electronic media on how the rupee was firming up, the interest rate was falling or how India's credit rating could take a knock or two.
A finance minister, he felt, should be heard very rarely. Indeed, he lived up to those words.
Jaswant Singh has made his own mark in North Block in his own inimitable style. First, he focused on the external environment in North Block.
A major renovation exercise was undertaken. The corridors were spruced up. The rooms in North Block began to look more respectable. Officers began to pay attention to dressing themselves smartly.
Then came his famous one-line observations of what plans to achieve as the finance minister. The first one took everybody by surprise.
"The poor man must get his food and the housewife have some money in her purse," said the finance minister.
This was a clean break with the past. Since the introduction of economic reforms, no finance minister talked about feeding the poor!
Jaswant Singh's second observation was an improvement. Making no secret of his dislike for widely used economic jargons like the gross domestic product and fiscal deficit, he mooted the idea of creating a gross contentment index of people.
His objective was very clear. Here was a finance minister who wanted to measure his success by the increase in the level of contentment in people.
The implicit argument was that if the economy was doing well, the people should also benefit and, therefore, their level of contentment should increase.
There was yet another famous intervention Jaswant Singh made within weeks of taking charge of North Block.
Arguing with trained economists and bureaucrats over the need for reducing subsidies, he wondered about the pace of progress made by governments in Europe and America in reducing subsidies for agriculture and textiles.
Since there was no satisfactory response, the finance minister came out with his own formulation: If the developed world was yet to slash subsidies for agriculture, the debate over subsidies was not yet over.
And when industry clamoured for tax reforms, Mr Singh asked his advisor, Vijay L Kelkar, to head task forces and submit reports on how to further restructure the direct and indirect taxes.
Dr Kelkar's reports created a political storm, as they hurt the vested interests of various sections of society. The finance minister did not utter a word.
He allowed his advisor to fight a lonely battle to defend the reports. He even got his party to look at these reports.
For those who were looking for resolution of long-pending problems, there was a lot of action. The Unit Trust of IndiaĀcrisis that blew in the face of Yashwant Sinha was resolved. You may not agree with it entirely. But a future course of action has been clearly outlined.
The huge outstanding debt of the steel sector has been restructured allowing the ailing steel companies some breathing space. The agenda for beefing up norms of corporate governance has been outlined.
The states' mounting debt burden is also set to be reduced with a controversial debt-swap arrangement being put in place.
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Trish Richmond, 42, from Motherwell, Scotland, is now completely blind and blames her sight loss on being overweight.
Now 17 stone, her weight peaked at 20 stone. She has glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy and also had cataracts.
High blood pressure, caused by being overweight, aggravated her glaucoma.
Trish, who is married and has three daughters, said she started to experience problems with her sight in 1986.
"An eye test picked up the fact that I had glaucoma early enough to treat it."
She gave birth to her daughter and had around six or seven years of healthy sight.
"I had had diabetes since I was 12. It was at about this point that I started to notice subtle changes in my condition."
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Trish realised her diabetes was affecting her eyes, through diabetic retinopathy.
She added: "The glaucoma was getting worse. And I wasn't taking care of myself properly.
"It was more important to feed the kids than to look after myself.
"I ate pies and sausage rolls - both high in fat. And I wasn't doing the right exercise.
"I had lots of treatment. But in 1999, doctors told me I was losing my sight completely and there was nothing more they could do."
For two years, Trish sank into depression about not being able to see her family grow up.
"Losing my sight was really traumatic. My daughter was about seven then. It was the thought that I wouldn't see her grow up, or see my other daughters or my husband again.
"My youngest is 19 now, but in my mind I still see a wee girl looking back at me."
But she is now studying at an RNIB unit designed to help people back to work.
She said: "I really want people to know how being overweight can lead to blindness.
"My message is simple: don't lose your sight through ignorance, watch your weight and have regular eye tests."
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NEW YORK (Mar. 22)
Jewish members of the U.S. Armed Forces at American military installations around the world will celebrate the merry holiday of Purim which starts at sundown tomorrow with the reading of the Megillah, the Book of Esther in the Bible. Jewish chaplains will conduct services and the National Jewish Welfare Board has shipped food packages and gift boxes to the military posts.
In a Purim message, Morris W. Berinstein, general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, urged American Jewry to increase their gifts to the UJA in view of the increased emigration of Jews from East European countries to Israel where huge funds are needed to provide them with housing and work. A similar message was also issued by Abraham Feinberg, president of the Israel Bond Organization which helps to strengthen Israel's economy through the sale of Israel bonds in this country.
The word Purim means lots and refers to the manner in which an ancient Persian bigot, Haman by name, decided on what day to carry out his plan to get rid of the Jewish people. Haman's wrath was kindled by the refusal of Mordecai the Jew to bow down to him or his effigy. Sensing that the Jewish faith was hostile to dictatorship Haman planned to eliminate the Jews. How his plot was thwarted through an act of patriotism on the part of Mordecai and by the courageous intercession of Esther, Mordecai's cousin, who became Queen of Persia, is the story told in the Book of Esther.
The joyousness of the holiday observance, which expresses itself through song and prayers of thanksgiving, derives from the relief felt each year over the triumph over tyranny. Gift giving and giving to the poor also mark the day. Services in all synagogues will use the ancient festival to stress the continuing need to combat bigotry and despotism today. In schools and homes Purim is a time of rejoicing and feasts. The festival ends Tuesday at sundown.


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Often when we speak to businesses about Panopto's live webcasting software, the first question we hear is, "How is this different from GoToMeeting or WebEx?"
On the surface, there are a number of similarities between webcasting software and web conferencing software. Both involve the transmission of video to multiple parties. Both allow for some level of interactivity between the person speaking and other attendees.
However, these technologies have a number of important functional differences in their scalability and in the user experience. For example, web conferencing software is more conducive to smaller meetings where there's a need for conversation among many or all participants. Webcasting software is optimized for presentations where an individual or small group presents content to a larger audience.
In this interview, Eric Burns, Panopto's co-founder and chief product officer, discusses the fundamental distinction between web conferencing software and live webcasting – latency. Latency is the time it takes for data to get from one point to another. With video, latency determines the delay from the time the presenter shows something to the time the audience sees it.
With web conferencing software, target latency is less than a second, making it conducive to live interactive conversations. There's a tradeoff, however, when it comes to video latency. In general, solutions with lower latency have lower scalability limits. That's why most web conferencing software has an upper limit of 500-1000 attendees. Webcasting software, by contrast, has higher latency, but allows for audiences in the thousands or tens of thousands. So the two technologies are complementary and best suited for different purposes.
As part of our conversation, Eric also discusses the technological breakthroughs that are enabling anyone to stream live webcasts from their laptops, and the impact this will have on webcast software adoption in the next few years.
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Plymouth State College hosted the MATHCOUNTS state finals on Saturday, March 8, a national math competition for seventh- and eighth-graders. Eighteen New Hampshire schools and approximately100 students were represented. The event was sponsored by, Laconia Savings Bank, New Hampshire Teachers of Mathematics, NH Society of Professional Engineers and Tirey and Associates.
The four finalists were: Shujun (Kevin) Feng of Durham from Oyster River Middle School; Patrick Smyth of Exeter from Cooperative Middle School; Taige (Tiger) Zhou of Hanover from Richmond Middle School; and Richard Walsh of Bedford from McKelvie Middle School. These four finalists will represent New Hampshire at the national competition in Chicago, Ill. May 8-11. Additionally, each received a $2,000 scholarship to Plymouth State College.
Should these students apply to Plymouth State College after high school and be eligible, they are guaranteed the $2,000 Achievement Scholarship in Mathematics, which will then be credited toward their tuition costs. This scholarship is renewable each year, making $8,000 available to each student over a four-year-period.
For more information about MATHCOUNTS at Plymouth State College, contact Lee F. Carroll the statewide coordinator via email email@example.com.