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On Wednesday 20th February, 2019, The Caribbean Industrial Research Institute (CARIRI) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) signed a General Technical Cooperation Agreement at CARIRI's Head Office in St. Augustine.
Cognizant of their key roles and responsibilities in the overall development of the region; this agreement seeks to provide a unique environment for collaborative efforts on agribusiness development, inclusive of value chain and cluster development; food safety; technology transfer; innovative capacity building; data analytics and productivity and competitiveness of the agricultural sector in Trinidad and Tobago and the wider Caribbean.
Both institutions have a long and mutually beneficial relationship working on many regional projects together and with the formalizing of this relationship, both parties expect to continue and strengthen this affiliation.
Signing the Agreement on behalf of CARIRI, Mr. Meghnath Gosein, Executive Manager – Corporate Services, stated that CARIRI was ready to work with IICA to fast track and promote the agribusiness sector, 'It is timely and a privilege, since the institutional working relationship has existed for over a decade throughout the Region and hence the Agreement will serve to strengthen this relationship and ensure that it continues for a long time for the benefit of the economy' he added. Echoing this sentiment, Mr. Gregg Rawlins, IICA's Representative in Trinidad and Tobago said that "formalizing this association will ensure that more structure is put in place as we move forward and the skills and competencies of both institutions will complement each other, as we work towards strengthening agri MSMEs, not just in Trinidad and Tobago, but in other countries of the Caribbean Region as well'.
CARIRI's mission is to be a national and regional focal point for technology and innovation, playing a leadership role in providing value added technological solutions to the manufacturing and service sectors, as well as public sector entities, designed to enhance efficiency, competitiveness and visibility, foster new business creation, improve the quality of life and promote sustainable economic development. These services will complement and enhance IICA's technical cooperation in the areas of Bioeconomy and Production Development, Territorial Development and Family Farming, International Trade and Regional Integration, Climate Change Natural Resources and Management of Production Risks, and Agricultural Health, Safety and Food Quality. With the signing of this Agreement, CARIRI and IICA are well positioned to share and learn from each other as well as to offer technical assistance for the well being of the region.
It is with this in mind that there are plans and discussions for collaborative ventures between both organizations which will ultimately benefit the agricultural sector in the region. Both institutions are looking forward to great, meaningful and practical work that will benefit the agriculture sector in general, and specifically the farmers and agro-processors.
Mr Meghnath Gosein (l) of CARIRI and Mr Gregg Rawlins of IICA signing the Agreement
Mr Gosein (l) and Mr Rawlins looking forward to future collaborations between CARIRI and IICA
On Friday 16th November 2018, the Caribbean Industrial Research Institute (CARIRI) hosted the PitchIT Caribbean's Alumni Network Launch at the Trinidad Hilton and Conference Centre, which represents an important next step in promoting a vibrant regional mobile Start Up community.
The hosting of this event in Trinidad and Tobago represented an opportunity to bring the stakeholders in the mobile app development community together, with the aim of building strong networks among entrepreneurs and business development entities, thus contributing to the promotion of the development and enhancement of the mobile app ecosystem.
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Planning and Development, Ms Joanne Deoraj delivered the feature remarks and stated "The Government welcomes and fully supports this PitchIT Caribbean initiative, recognizing that the key tenets of ICT, Innovation and Entrepreneurship encapsulated in the Project constitute developmental planks that are central to the achievement of economic transformation objectives of Sustainable Growth and Diversification".
Additionally, she went on to say that "Mobile technology, in particular, offers a potential platform for economic growth and high quality jobs in the mobile industry, while mobile software and apps also have the potential to catalyze other sectors such as healthcare or government. Apps are now being developed at virtually the speed of light. The potential therefore exists through Innovation in ICT to not only build competitiveness, but also create a virtual explosion of entrepreneurial activity in Trinidad and Tobago".
Ms Golda Lushington, Technologist at CARIRI and Project Lead for the local leg of PitchIT Caribbean stated "with the domestic economy only now beginning to emerge from the grip of recession and economic rightsizing leaving in its wake a contracting job market, CARIRI considers it opportune, and indeed an imperative, to intensify the focus on Innovation and Entrepreneurship on a national scale and across diverse sectors, inclusive of the mobile app development industry. CARIRI has long recognized that the achievement of a diversified, internationally competitive economy is contingent, on according primacy, in the developmental planning agenda to the promotion of Innovation and Entrepreneurship as key drivers of sustainability. Towards this end, the Institute has taken the lead by putting in place pertinent infrastructure and embarking on a number of initiatives to foster innovation facilitation, entrepreneurship development, new business creation and business expansion; all of which form core constituents of our Centre for Enterprise Development, located at Freeport. "
Ms Melissa Johnson, Project Lead at Lumin Consulting Incorporated in Jamaica joined us at the event and expressed her pleasure at the progress that was made by all the regional hubs stating her excitement that the Alumni network was now being formed as it would create new opportunities for these mobile app entrepreneurs.
The evening also saw another first for CARIRI as it launched its first 100% in-house built mobile app for its client, Sookhai's Diesel Service Ltd (SDS). The CARIRI Data Analytics team has been working with SDS over the last few months to create an integrated customised solution for the Management and clients of the company. This solution included dashboards which generate relevant information for the Management of SDS to make more timely and informed decisions. The next part of the solution includes an app called the SD STAR app for customers; who will now be able to track their vehicles at every point in the service system. This innovative app is the first of its kind in the country and we expect it to change the face of the service industry.
PitchIT Caribbean is designed to strengthen the Caribbean Mobile Innovation Ecosystem and foster the growth of sustainable and competitive mobile enterprises through activities that will target early stage Innovators, and guide them to market readiness. PitchIT Caribbean is administered by a University of the West Indies Consortium led by Lumin Consulting Incorporated in Jamaica, formerly UWI Consulting Incorporated. The project is funded by the Government of Canada and executed by the World Bank Group. It spans 14 Caribbean Community countries, in five of which mobile hubs, referred to as mHubs, have been established under a project partnership arrangement.
The mHub partners of PitchIT Caribbean are all focused on building mobile innovation communities in their respective countries by engaginga variety of local stakeholder groups. CARIRI is the mHub partner in Trinidad and Tobago and plans to further engage the mobile app community via various initiatives in the coming year.
Ms Joanne Deoraj, The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Planning and Development
Ms Melissa Johnson, Project Lead at Lumin Consulting Ltd, Jamaica
Mr Richie Sookhai of Sookhai's Diesel Service Ltd and Ms Lynette Akong of CARIRI's Data Analytics discussing the SD STAR App.


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The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil
By Philip Zimbardo
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By now we are all too familiar with the ghastly images that came out of Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2004. But no one was more appalled than Philip Zimbardo, emeritus professor of psychology at Stanford University. They brought back to him chilling memories of the experiment he had conducted at Stanford thirty-three years earlier. To his horror, the behaviour of the guards seemed exactly to replicate what occurred in a basement of the university when he simulated conditions in a prison. Before long he was approached to act as an expert witness on behalf of one of the military policemen accused of abusing Iraqi prisoners. In The Lucifer Effect Zimbardo recounts the Stanford Prison Experiment and goes on to record his investigation of the real abuses that happened in Abu Ghraib. It is an absorbing work, packed with insight into human behaviour and streetwise observations that go back to his childhood in the South Bronx.

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Wagner, Andreas. Spinor condensates in optical superlattices. 2012, Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Science.
Wagner, Andreas and Bruder, Christoph and Demler, Eugene. (2011) Spin-1 atoms in optical superlattices : Single-atom tunneling and entanglement. Physical review A, General physics, Vol. 84 , 063636.


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Virtualization has changed the face of many industries, but none so much as networking for telecommunications and data centers. Data centers are quickly adopting two new techniques, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN), which offer software and cloud-based solutions in order to avoid costly and frequent hardware updates.
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How the US Establishment Lies Through Its Teeth, for War Against Russia
The same people, Republicans and Democrats, who lied through their teeth for an invasion of Iraq in 2003, are doing it again for an invasion of Russia, sometime soon, so as to 'defend' 'democracy'. The US has by now swallowed up virtually all lands surrounding Russia, at least in Europe, the latest being Ukraine, and is placing its missiles now on and near Russia's borders, which is to Russians like would be to Americans if Russia had swallowed up Canada and were placing its missiles there. But the lying holier-than-thou US Establishment accuses Russia of being 'aggressive' when Russia holds war-games on and near its borders in order to prepare for a US-NATO invasion, which actually looks increasingly likely to them every day — and not because of 'Russian propaganda', but because of the US Government's actions.
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Puppies love to run and they love to dart about the house. They love to splash in their water bowls and topple over the plants, and they love to run even more when you let them outside. At times, puppies seem to have boundless energy. And it is at those times when you may find yourself believing that you will never be able to take it out on the street because you fear you won't be able to control it in public. But you can, and with some time and patience, you will soon be enjoying a trot down the street and down to the park with your puppy at your side.
All you need to learn is how to train a puppy to walk on a leash. Puppies learn at their own pace. Your puppy may only take a few weeks, or it may take two months, but as long as you have patience and follow these guidelines, you can do it. Before long, your puppy will wear a collar, accept a leash, and prance alongside you wherever you go.
Start with a collar
The process of teaching a puppy to walk on a leash begins with letting it grow comfortable with wearing a collar. Puppies as young as six weeks can wear collars, so you can introduce your puppy to a collar as soon as you bring it home. Your local pet store will offer a variety of collar choices, but puppies of all breeds will typically accept flat collars with simple buckles. Unless your breeder or veterinarian recommends otherwise, there is no reason for you to choose anything else. Be sure to choose the right collar for your pup, and our article which has a comparison of the best dog collars will come in handy for you.
The first time you put the collar on your puppy, he should be preoccupied with eating or playing. The distraction will allow you to buckle the collar around his neck. Don't make it too tight, you should be able to slip two fingers between the collar and your pooch's neck. He may try to scratch or shake off the collar which is a natural reaction to a foreign object. Almost like the sensation you'd feel from first wearing a new watch. But as long as the collar fits properly, you can allow your puppy to resist.
The collar won't come off. Alternatively, you can distract him with a toy. But whatever method you choose, allow your pooch to gradually adjust to its new collar by wearing it for about an hour or two each day for a week.
The whole point is to allow your puppy to get used to wearing the collar to the point where it forgets that it is around its neck. Do not remove the collar while he is actively resisting it as removing the collar while your pet is squirming across the floor will teach him that fighting the collar is the way to get it to come off. If he learns that then both of you will have difficulties transitioning into the next phase.
Before the week is out, your pooch should be used to wearing the collar. The next step in leash training is to let Fido become used to having a leash attached to the collar. You can do this simply by attaching a short leash to the collar and then allow your puppy to wander around the house. He may be intimidated by the leash, at first, but it will soon learn that the leash is nothing to be afraid of.
Also, when he steps on the leash, you should pull it up short. This will help the dog to accept tugging on the collar. If your puppy bites or chews on the leash, you can consider soaking it in Grannick's Bitter Apple, hot sauce, lemon juice, or other taste deterrent. Puppies learn quickly not to bite things that don't taste good.
Choosing a collar
Generally, a simple, flat band and buckle collar will work best for young dogs but snap collars are good too. Head halters (which pull the head down much like a horse) are effective for aggressive dogs, but you should check with your breeder or veterinarian first. Avoid fabrics, because these crack and fray easily. Also, don't use a harness, metal choke collars, or the type with prongs unless under the supervision of professional trainers. You could harm your pet if not handled properly.
Choosing a leash
To encourage Fido to walk beside you, choose a leash between four and six feet. Width should be relative to the size of your dog's breed. The leash can be made of any strong, durable material you wish, as long as it has a handle that feels comfortable in your grip. Longer leashes, especially the retractable style, are more suited for letting your puppy exercise in the park while you sit and watch.
Crate training
If your puppy uses a crate, you should remove the collar before you let it in. Collars can sometimes catch on the frame of the crate or on the links of fences, dog pens, and kennel runs. The severity of this situation depends on your dog's size, so ask your veterinarian if it you should keep an eye on such dangers. For more information regarding crate training, see our tips and tricks on how to train your new pup using the crate training method.
Taking the first walk
Once your puppy gets used to wearing a leash, you can begin the walk training. He or she will most likely need plenty of encouragement, so before you start, ensure that you have treats handy. Also, your puppy will require plenty of patience, so be prepared to have yours tested with stops and starts and tangles around the furniture (your legs, too). Our puppy training schedule is a worthy read if you need to know how to easily train your pup to follow basic commands.
The first step is to make sure that your puppy is in the mood for learning. If he is hungry or bored, it will more likely be interested in learning to walk on a leash than it will be if it just ate or came in from running around the back yard. Next, clear the practice area (preferably your living room or other area Fido is familiar with) of potential distraction.
Don't forget that potential distractions also include other people so if other people are in the room, your puppy may attempt to engage them in play. Also, make sure that there will be plenty of space for your pooch to stay beside you. After all, having your puppy trot alongside you is your goal.
Once you are prepared, take the end of the leash, and show it to the puppy. Connect the leash and then, holding it loosely, start walking around the house. Train Fido to walk on your left side; the American Kennel Club requires show dogs to walk at the handler's left, and most professional trainers teach the same. If you heard of using the clicker method to train your dog, an article which we have written about, you may also employ that by all means.
Many also employ the following tips to encourage puppies to walk beside their owners.
- If Fido follows, give it a treat and offer praise.
- If he resists, stop walking. Call him by his name and offer praise when he manages to come.
- If it sits and won't move, get down on one knee and offer a treat; praise Fido when it finally gets the idea and comes to you.
- If your puppy pulls on the leash, don't pull back. Instead, stop and wait for the leash to loosen, and then walk forward again.
The object is to encourage your puppy to walk beside you with a loose leash. Holding treats out beside you can help with this, but you should alternate between treats and praise so that you don't overfeed your puppy. Keep at this for about 15 to 20 minutes, twice a day. Once your puppy is able to walk beside you with a loose leash for the majority of that time, it is time to go outdoors.
Out to the street
Before you take your puppy out for its first walk, make sure to plan your route beforehand. Take into account any stops you will have to make, such as traffic lights, parking lots, and crosswalks.
Remember: the more interruptions in your walk the greater the chance for distractions. Your puppy will want to smell everything, pee on everything, or even cower from everything. There is no simple solution in dealing with these problems, but you can forestall many of them by walking with a fast pace. This will give your puppy less opportunities to sniff, pee, or cower. And besides, if you are moving fast, your puppy will be more interested in keeping up.
Begin by holding your leash at your hip. You should hold firmly at your hip the entire time you are walking. Hook a thumb in a belt loop or tuck your hand in a pocket if you must because your puppy may sense if you lower your hand and attempt to take advantage by darting out and pulling the leash tight. You should handle the outdoor walks the same way you handled them indoors. If your puppy follows with a loose leash, give constant praise. If it resists, stop walking and call for it to come. If it refuses to move, offer encouragement.
If it pulls on the leash, stop and wait. Waiting tells your puppy that no matter how much it pulls, you aren't going to move. He will eventually remember this process from the indoor sessions, and will comply. Just make sure that you are ready with the treats.
Don't give your puppy a treat until it has walked beside your for at least thirty seconds. As he continues walking alongside you, alternate between praise and treats every thirty seconds or so. The treats and praise will encourage your puppy to remain beside you, and before long, your puppy will grow accustomed to this position and your pace. As your puppy begins to show discipline, you should reduce the number of treats you hand out during each walk.
One of the things you will find that your puppy will do on its journey to master the art of walking on a leash is that it will often look back at you. Your puppy is looking for praise (or more likely, a treat), but it is also looking for signals of direction. He wants to know if it is going fast enough, or if you are going to make a turn. Take these opportunities to praise your puppy and relax. You've taught your puppy well.
Handling distracting situations
No matter where you walk with your young friend, it will eventually be confronted with a distracting situation. Cars rolling past, puddles in your path, darting squirrels, walkers, bikers, skaters, eager children, other dogs… It doesn't matter if you're walking along the subdivision streets, in the neighborhood park, or down a nature trail—a distraction will confront your puppy. Whatever the distraction may be, dogs of all ages will react to sudden and unexpected situations, and you must be prepared to handle them.
Your puppy may pull the leash taut to get at the distraction. Or it may bark, growl, or even cower away until the distraction goes way. None of these things are acceptable while training your puppy to walk. The easiest way to deal with these distractions is to command your puppy to sit at your feet as soon as you see a potential distraction approaching. If he doesn't obey, gather in the leash and hold it firmly by the collar until the distraction passes.
Meanwhile, talk to your puppy in a calm voice. If your puppy obeyed you, offer praise; if you had to pull your puppy away from the distraction, the tone of your voice will help it to calm down.
Handling the urge to "potty"
It is inevitable that your puppy will need to relieve itself on walks. If he attempts to pull away in order to relieve itself, control it in the same manner as you would any other attempt to pull away. Stop, call for him to come back, but instead of a treat, reward your puppy by allowing it to relieve itself where it wanted. Soon, you'll find that your puppy is stopping less often to relieve itself.
Maintaining self control
Many puppies get excited when they sense it is time for their walk. They may bark, jump, scratch at your legs, or even start to whine while you attempt to connect the leash. This excitement, if not curbed immediately, will continue outside. Teach your puppy that this is not acceptable behavior by standing still and waiting until it calms down.
Reach down to connect the leash, and if your puppy starts to misbehave again, repeat the process. It may take some time, but eventually, he'll learn.
Collar correction
Some puppies can be aggressive when learning to walk and they will pull on the leash every time you take a step, sometimes to the point where they jerk their owner's arm out in front of them when stopped. A common solution to this problem is to give the leash a slight jerk when your puppy gets near to the end of the leash, a method that some trainers refer to as "leash pop" or "collar correction."
Collar correction requires a delicate balance between timing and pressure. Walk with your arm slightly bent. As your puppy approaches the maximum length of the leash, give it a verbal warning. If it slows down, give it praise. If it continues forward and pulls the leash taut, reach out for slack and then give the leash a slight jerk. This should always be a slight jerk and never a yank or a pull, which could cause permanent damage.
The resistance from a jerk or two is an adequate signal to your puppy that it is doing something it shouldn't. Larger breeds may require a little more effort behind the jerk, simply because they are stronger and weigh more, yet the principle remains the same. Over time, your puppy will learn that it gets a jerk every time it tries to get out too far ahead of you, but receives treats and praise when it remains at your side.
Professional trainers can teach you how to walk your young friend, but, if you're confident in your relationship, you can do it on your own. You can read on more puppy training topic in our in-depth basic dog training guide. Start with allowing your puppy to get used to its collar, and then its leash. Next, with an abundance of patience (and perhaps a pocketful of treats), lead Fido through the steps that will take you both to the streets. The journey may be a little rough at times, and you may have to backtrack, but eventually, your puppy will walk beside you with a proud gait. And look back at you often with love.


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A frog house, and frog paintings, serious and whimsical
Image No. 1 shown here is the final version of a still life that was started in a class. Rochester Art Club show entry rules prohibit class paintings, so I did the scene again (Image No. 2) with the sea and clouds as background.
A young man in Jamaica who calls me regularly often tends to be sad and frustrated because he is brilliant, has Asperger's syndrome, and is very much underemployed. I sent him the photo of the second painting and he wrote back "I see serenity, that painting inspires comfort."
Of course, I was happy that the painting fulfilled its intention. Still, I wanted to finish the first version.
The background originally was all black. First I changed this into a stone wall with an arch, then turned that into a Venetian bridge with a canal and boats and the frogs in the dish floating downstream, then tried them in a tornado, and finally, about 11 p.m., I decided to place the face of the painting on my wet palate. The result wasn't too bad, so I turned it 180 degrees and did it again. With a few more blobs, by 11:30 p.m. it had evolved into Painting No. 1 that you see here and I was done!
There is no end of subjects for an artist to paint. Even limiting oneself to frogs, there are infinite possibilities. My NIA dance teacher and friend Jane Pagano took a photo of frog on her window (Image No. 3), and I decided to make one realistic (Image No. 4) and one free-association (Image No. 5) painting from her image. Both are 6 x 6 inches.
Somehow, I find it especially fun to paint from photos that friends have taken and given to me. A friend gave me a picture of a green pumpkin frog, and it seemed seasonal to combine that image with our new Pittsford canal-side Frog House for our opening on Oc 21.
If you missed it, A Frog House (www.facebook.com/A-Frog-House-244426619570950/?ref=br_rs) at 65 State Street in Pittsford Village (third house on the left after the bridge walking east on the Towpath from Schoen Place) is open every Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. through Dec. 23. You are invited to visit, where you can donate cash in exchange for my children's picture book, Froggy Family's First Frolic, froggy art work, and frogabilia. All donations go toward helping endangered and threatened frogs through education, including designing and publishing my second book, Froggy Family's Fine Feelings, and visits to school classrooms, scout troops, and other children's groups. Or, please help directly with a cash donation to GoFundMe Froggy Family Fabulous Foundation (www.gofundme.com/froggy-family039s-fabulous-foundation?member=935486), where we already have reached 70 percent of our current goal.
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If you've recently realized that your living space is a bit cramped, it might be time to consider an expansion. Home additions are a great way to maximize the land on your property. You're able to take space you're not currently using and transform it into a comfortable, cozy living area.
Some of the best candidates for home expansion are patios, because the footprint is often already defined. It's much easier to visualize how the addition will look with the patio already included in your floorplan. To get the most out of your patio expansion, there are several key things a contractor will evaluate in order to enclose the space and make it livable for you and your family all year round.
Firstly, you'll need a strong base to support the weight of a walled-in structure. Your contractor can inspect your foundation and the patio's existing support system to ensure it's all set to go. If it's not, they'll know exactly what to do to make your patio's floor safe and supportive.
When building any structure from the ground up, a professional will also make sure the proper insulation is installed within the new walls. One problem with poorly executed home additions is that they often don't get insulated. In the winter time, this could mean a frigid space you'll want to avoid setting foot into. An expert on construction will also know how to connect the former exterior space into your interior's HVAC system. This ensures the new space is properly ventilated and comfortable to spend time in.
Lastly, your patio will likely have one wall already in place: your home's external wall. This wall probably has an exterior door leading out to the patio, along with windows and siding. In order to integrate the space stylistically, you'll want to remove these outdoor features and replace them with indoor ones. The last thing you want is a window between two rooms.
Ultimately, a patio is a great place to start when considering home additions. It's a well-defined space with a great deal of potential.


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Alzheimer's cure behind the boom in brain science (Financial Review):
"Biogen is one of many members of big pharma seeking the blockbuster drug which will inevitably be worth multiple billions of dollars. Big pharma in the US spends about $US5 billion a year on Alzheimer's research and development.
Exponential growth in the disease over the past decade has not been accompanied by the development of approved drugs. In fact, [Read more…] about Can better cognitive testing platforms accelerate pharma's Alzheimer's research and development efforts?


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Students who wish to join the Junior Program of Business Administration are required to submit proof of their proficiency in English when applying for the program (B2 Common European Framework of Reference for Language - CEFR).
We accept DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, engl. German Academic Exchange Service)-language certificate or compatible f. ex. certifying TOEFL IBT 79, TOEFL PBT 550 or IELTS (International English Language Testing System) 6 at least level B2. Partner institutions are expected to select students who meet these requirements.
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text: The French actress defined New Wave cinema, gave the female orgasm its cinematic debut, and combined expressive beauty with electric intelligence.Jeanne Moreau, icon of French New Wave film, died this week, aged 89. Best known for her role in François Truffaut's Jules et Jim, the actress embodied a liberated new age of cinematic expression, as much as fresh levels of female complexity, sexuality, and intelligence on screen. Born in 1928, Moreau was a child of Montmartre. Her mother, Kathleen Buckley, was a member of the Tiller Girls dance troupe, and met her father, Anatole Moreau, while performing at the Folies Bergère. At first, Moreau set out to follow in her mother's dance steps, but changed her mind following a trip to the Comédie-Française theatre. "That was passion," she recalled, "I knew at once I wanted to be an actress. It was not a money or a fame thing but an escape from real life." Still from François Truffaut's Jules et Jim, featured in TASCHEN's François Truffaut. The Complete Films, and showing Moreau in her most iconic role, Catherine, a new kind of liberated woman on screen who follows her instinct, breaks the rules, swaps partners, jumps in the Seine, and cross-dresses as 'Thomas'. When Moreau told her parents of her new ambition, her father called her a whore. She went ahead anyway, enrolling at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique aged 18. It was an independent resolve against expectation that Moreau would maintain throughout her career. In 1958, she shattered cinematic propriety with her role as bored housewife Jeanne Tournier in Louis Malle's The Lovers. Some three decades before Harry Met Sally lent the cinematic climax whole new meaning, Moreau's sex scene with on screen lover Bernard gave the female orgasm its original film debut. Not only did the scene outrage contemporary audiences (a male judge in Ohio deemed the movie to be unlawfully obscene), it also put an end to her own affair with Malle. "Louis could no longer stand to see me as others then saw me, and as only he had seen me until then," she would later remark. "I knew that if I played the love scenes just as Louis wanted, he would love me as an actress but hate me as a woman. I could not play them without betraying him." Stills from Louis Malle's Elevator to the Scaffold (1958), featured in TASCHEN's 100 All Time Favorite Movies. The film, a noirish crime drama boasting an improvised Miles Davis soundtrack, brought Moreau and her distinctive features new levels of fame. It was in her collaborations with Malle, namely Elevator to the Scaffold (also 1958) that Moreau also eschewed the heavy screen make-up favored for film actresses of the time. With her downturned pout and bags beneath her eyes, she was not considered a photogenic beauty by contemporary standards, but she was glad to have her face express, rather than cower beneath cosmetics. In one of Elevator to the Scaffold's most famous scenes, she is shot close up for over two minutes, roaming Paris by night to a Miles Davis score, every sigh, every shift to the contours of her mouth, aching with unspoken feeling. Jeanne Moreau photographed by Peter Lindbergh in 2004, aged 76. In TASCHEN's Peter Lindergh: A Different View On Fashion Photography, Lindbergh names Moreau as an all time favorite model. Moreau insisted upon the emergence of a human being, beyond "beauty, sex, and titillation." In various roles, from Truffaut's The Bride Wore Black to Orson Welles' The Immortal Story, she appeared looking tired, anxious, and beleaguered. When Peter Lindbergh took her portrait in 2004, aged 76, he told her he would only use it without retouching. "What," she countered, "would you want to retouch?" In TASCHEN's Peter Lindergh: A Different View On Fashion Photography, Lindbergh names Moreau as an all-time favorite model. Still from Jules et Jim, featured in François Truffaut. The Complete Films. Truffaut moved the camera freely around Moreau's character of Catherine, lending her a permanent sense of physical and social freedom. For Truffaut and his iconoclast companions of the French New Wave, Moreau was the perfect embodiment of freedom and a new cinematic standard. In 1962, Jules et Jim hit the screens, and Moreau would cast aside yet further shackles as her most iconic character, Catherine. Seen almost exclusively through the eyes of the title characters, Jules and Jim, Catherine is impulsive, moody, and irresistible to the male protagonists, an intoxicating mix of effervescence and erraticism. Over the course of the film, she cross-dresses, cheats, jumps into the Seine, swaps partners, sets herself on fire, points guns, and ultimately kills both herself and Jim. With Truffaut's camera moving freely about her, she appears unfettered by any given standard, radiating a permanent aura of lightness, space, and sudden - often explosive - possibilities.Complex and sexy, Moreau was also smart as hell. Her intelligence came without pretension, but with finesse and expansive curiosity. In the words of a New Yorker tribute "She was a queen of intellect—but an intellect that was no cloistered bookishness but an idea and an ideal of culture that enriched experience, envisioned progress, looked ardently at the times." As well as Truffaut and Welles, she befriended and collaborated with a number of illustrious writers and directors, among them Jean Cocteau, Marguerite Duras, Luis Buñuel and Henry Miller, and excelled with complex, analytical scripts, including Antonioni's La Notte, in which she stars as Lidia, the electrically intelligent and sensitive wife of an egomaniacal novelist, played by Marcello Mastraionni. Set against oppressive Milanese architecture, the movie is an exquisitely moody contemplation of identity, marriage, fame, and thinking itself. A celebrated stage actress as well as vocalist, Moreau also worked behind the camera, as a writer, producer, and director of three films. Her career was bedecked with accolades, including BAFTA Awards in 1963, 1967, and 1996; the stage Molière Award in 1988; the Best Actress César in 1988 and 1992; César Lifetime Achievement Awards in 1995 and 2008; and an honorary Oscar in 1998. She was an officer of the French Legion of Honor and in 2000 was the first woman admitted into the country's Académie des Beaux-Arts. At the prospect of death, Moreau saw only more interest in life: "Death is an absolute mystery," she remarked. "We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful." Teilen share twitter


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It will be the first time an abortion case has come before the court since President George W Bush appointed a new conservative judge to the bench.
The case concerns a law passed in 2003 that banned a form of late abortion.
The law was never enacted because an appeals court said it made no exception to protect a pregnant mother's health.
The Bush administration had appealed to the Supreme Court to consider urgently whether the law - which outlaws so-called partial birth abortions - should be upheld.
Mr Bush has called the procedure an "abhorrent practice".
Generally carried out in the second or third trimester, it involves the foetus being forced into the birth canal, before the brain is removed, the skull crushed and the remains removed from the woman's body.
Doctors who use the method say it is the safest available when the mother's health is threatened by conditions such as heart disease, high blood pressure or cancer.
A number of states have already introduced their own bans on the partial-birth procedure, but the federal legislation would outlaw it across the US.
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The new make-up of the court could affect abortion rulings.
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They don't call it the terrible twos because parenting a toddler is just so darn fun. Instead, a 2 year old is boisterous, curious, headstrong and volatile, leaving you totally exhausted and completely bewildered all at once.
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My tryst with Nokia: Customer, Competitor, Employee
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I read the news about the Nokia acquisition by Microsoft with a sense of disbelief, like many others. It was not totally unexpected, given the path Nokia has been over the last few years, but what was startling was that it actually happened.
Like millions of Indians, my love affair with mobiles began with a Nokia. The first mobile I owned way back in 2003 was the Nokia 2100 - affectionately nicknamed 'tubelight' for the way the keypad lit up.
Most people I knew also had other Nokia phones, ranging from the 2300 (venn diagram) to the N-gage, one of the first gaming mobile phones.
Nokia as competitor
I joined Motorola in the product marketing arm in 2007, and realized what a formidable competitor Nokia was.
Nokia's advertising was legendary. No one will forget the sheer ruggedness of the Nokia 1100, ably demonstrated in ads by showing the phone dangling below a truck bumper with a tagline 'Made for India'. What a powerful marketing message it was!
Nokia was also a leader when it came to envisaging converged devices. Many Indians will fondly remember the N73, a device that let you listen to music, take photos and videos, and browse content.
Motorola's industrial design was still an advantage then – the Razr, Razr 2, E7, etc. were sleek and a contrast to the bulky Nokia devices. But with the Nokia 5310 Express music phone, Nokia showed that it could compete even in this field.
Nokia – the distribution genius
Today, not many remember the sway Nokia held over the retail market in India. For most Indians, mobile phones meant Nokia. Nokia's strategy seemed flawless – it had targeted advertising to appeal to Indian consumers; had a range of devices for consumers to choose from; a broad distribution reach to ensure that when people walked into the store, they found their Nokia; even inventory policies to ensure that they could sell more devices.
Across consumer industries in India, distribution strategy plays a key role to get your product in the hands of consumers.
Say Nokia or Motorola had to launch a new phone in India. They would assemble the device in their factories, load software and Indian customization settings like language packs, wallpapers, ringtones, GPRS settings, etc. After quality testing and packaging, they would then ship the phones to a national or regional distributor.
The distributor is a key partner in the process. He would pick up stock at a distributor price, usually on credit, and arrange for stock to be warehoused. His team, along with the company sales team would then work on selling stock to regional distributors who handle smaller territories, or large retail chains. The regional distributors would in turn sell stock to small and big retailers from where consumers could pick up their devices.
This process worked closely with the company sales policies – pricing at various tiers in the chain, sales incentives, and marketing – collateral/training across chain, selling in key value proposition, planning ATL (above-the-line) media campaigns in line with when devices would be available at stores, and BTL (below-the-line) marketing elements like brochures, dummy devices, etc.
Stock had to move through the channel smoothly for sales to tick. A number of things could affect this.
Say a company wanted to launch a new phone in India. There would be an internal portfolio team who planned global volume shipments and pricing. The local sales team would place their estimates at the start of the planning cycle. Closer to the actual launch, they would start selling-into the channel. This process usually meant talking about upcoming devices to the sales channel (and often gathering feedback on earlier devices and market conditions). Depending on the phone pricing and volumes, the sales team would get the distributors to 'commit' to certain volumes of devices they would pick up on the promise of support on marketing and incentives. Distributors would then sell into their channel by adding an agreed margin. This margin would cover their costs of storage and actual distribution, their own salaries and incentives, and the 'risk' they carried.
The 'risk' was twofold.
Mobile phones are notorious for the pace at which new models were launched, making earlier models obsolete, and the phenomenon of 'price drops'.
Leaving aside Apple's iPhone, think of every other phone you wanted to buy. At launch, the phone would be priced very close to the printed MRP, a strategy called market skimming to get early adopted to pick devices at a higher price points. Subsequently, as volumes grow, prices start declining, or consumers are offered freebies with the devices to grow the market for a device.
In an ideal situation, the mobile phone company would guess the correct price at which initial volumes were to be sold and plan for gradual price drops. However, many factors made this difficult.
One that we're seeing now is the exchange rate. Most global companies have a minimum global selling price in dollars to ensure that phones roughly cost the same across markets (important to prevent arbitrage and gray market shipments). But due to currency fluctuations, fresh batches of stock could cost more than the previous lots.The second was aggressive pricing by competitors. If a competitor launched a new phone with similar specs but at a lower price, it upset the cycle. End consumer sales would dip as they shifted to a lower priced handset (say, consumers buying Micromax Canvas instead of a Samsung Galaxy Grand). Since the distributors and retailers already held significant inventory of the company phone on their books, slower sales meant longer cycles and more money locked in. Companies often responded with price cuts. But then, who bears the cost for the inventory already held in the channel? This is where the inventory price protection window came in.
Mobile companies would decide on a window when they would bear the cost of the price drops on channel inventory. Post this, the distributor or retailer would have the bear the cost. As a distributor, you negotiated as long a window as possible, as that would give you time to exhaust stocks you held and not lose money. Companies would push back to keep this as short as possible so as to not absorb this cost on their books, promising more marketing support and offers in return.
Back in 2007-08, Nokia had perfected this art. Most of the leading players like Motorola, Samsung, LG, etc. had a 2-3 week inventory price protection window.
Nokia gave 1 week.
As a retailer, given how the market operated, I would try to exhaust my Nokia stocks fastest to not bear inventory losses due to price drops. Retailers have a huge influence on the purchase decision, as they are the ones who talk to consumers and can guide them (think of the time some retail agent said: "sir, yeh piece bik nahi raha hai, aap yeh doosra mobile try kijiye" or "sir, this piece is not selling well, why don't you look at this other mobile").
Retailers would live with this short limit because it was easier to convince consumers to buy Nokia. This meant Nokia had one stock turn in a week, and the money could be invested in buying fresh stock from Nokia.
End result: Nokia sold more mobiles due to this distribution strategy.
(Disclaimer – this is a largely simplified version that I have used for illustration purposes, based on my market experience with Motorola devices in 2007-08. Today's scenarios could be different)
The digital pioneer
When Nokia announced the Ovi store, it seemed like this was the company to get us into the future. They offered a platform to sell music, games, customization skins and apps. On paper it was the perfect strategy. Analyzed as a competitor, they were in a hurry to establish their dominance in the new world – they bought Navteq, a navigation giant, and smaller companies that worked on digital advertising, customization, etc.
Motorola India tried launching a short-lived music offering called Motomusic to compete with this, but had to shut it down within a few months of launching it. Nokia was just too big to take on.
In 2009, I moved on from Motorola, just as the market was witnessing tectonic shifts. Android was growing rapidly, and Apple was beginning to expand beyond its initial tie-up with AT&T. The world was changing.
Nokia as employee
I joined Nokia in 2010 as a product manager, tasked with defining and managing location based services for the S40 platform, later rebranded as the Asha platform. Compared to the market stint I did earlier, this time, I worked on R&D and ideation.
I didn't realize back then that this would also be amongst the most tumultuous periods in Nokia history.
The public struggles of Nokia are well documented – the steep loss of market share in emerging markets, the quarter-on-quarter losses, the litany of layoffs, the partnership with Microsoft, and now, the sale.
Emotionally, it was a cocktail of hope, faith and fear. Hope that we could regain prime position; faith in Nokia's heritage of bouncing back against all odds; fear that the market was moving too fast for a large company like Nokia to react.
Looking back, there are many wistful if-only moments that I have about Nokia, but this is the not the place or time to talk about them.
Nokia is one of the most loved brands on the planet (which is I was surprised at the decision to not use the brand for smartphones post the buyout. Hey Microsoft, do you know how much people love and trust the brand even today in the emerging markets that the entire smartphone industry wants to break into?)
As an employee, it was also a great place to work. Nokia was a true global giant, and it was quite common to have people from multiple nationalities in the same team. The culture was respectful towards employees and mature: it trusted you to do the right thing. If you said a project would take a certain amount of time, your word would be respected. Of course, this also meant you could slack through your project, but meant your manager would try and coax you to be more efficient, rather than berate you.
If you wanted to learn, Nokia offered a fantastic vantage point to do so. Nokia had a rich history of ethnographic, consumer and usability research, sometimes a little too much, but this provided a great way of understanding how and why consumers behaved the way they did across different markets.
What I liked best in my time with Nokia was that there were so many experts in different fields, and most were willing to share their knowledge. I picked up a lot of my knowledge of mobile apps, UX design, consumer research and roadmap planning by interacting and learning from others.
I quit Nokia in Jan 2013 as part of a strategic realignment, but still followed its fortunes closely.
I hope Microsoft realizes value of the jewel they picked up, learn from it, and treat it with respect. If so, the Nokia spirit can change their fortunes.
Note: all views in this article are personal.
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text: This article explains how to configure Internet access for your server if you are using a proxy server. If you are not using a proxy you do not need to follow this guide. Before we start you need to have access to the machine.config on the CMS Server(s) requiring access. You will also need the proxy server rules as proxy servers can be configured to allow non-authenticated access to servers on a specified IP range or server names. You will more than likely need to ask your server administrators to change these rules for you to allow access to Contensis servers. Why Contensis needs internet access Contensis requires access to the internet for a number of reasons. Firstly, we need to be able to verify your software license and any modules you may have purchased; we periodically ping back to our central licensing servers. Secondly, as we integrate with Google Analytics we need to retrieve the content collected and stored on Google's servers to display on your Contensis dashboard. Furthermore, we need access to the internet for Quality Assurance reasons. The QA service sends page data back to our servers for validation. We also need internet access for the broken link checker, as this part of QA runs on your server and needs to verify any and all broken links you may be linking out to from your web pages. As well as your CMS server your publishing server also needs internet access for a few reasons. The RSS Reader needs internet access as it will need to connect to every address that has subscribed to the RSS feed. Also if you're making use of the weather control, this will connect to the weather service on our servers to grab its data. Configure internet access To make sure that all your internet traffic is being routed through your proxy server you need to change settings in machine.config and the default web.config files on the CMS Server which can be found in C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Config. We need to modify both machine.config and web.config because the Contensis services, run outside of a web context. Use the code below to update the machine.config file. Be sure to enter in your proxy server address and port. This code instructs the .NET to use the default proxy settings for the server in any WebRequests requests it makes. You will also need to do the same for web.config although if the settings already exist they will need to be overridden. Configure default system proxy on the CMS server The final step is to set the default proxy on the CMS server. Log in to your CMS Server. Open Control Panel. Select Internet Options. Select the Connections Tab. Place a tick in the Use a proxy server for your LAN option and enter its name or IP address and port information. Now click Save and restart IIS server. When you re-run the Contensis System Diagnostic Scan from within the management console you should see a success against the Internet Connection test.


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Lake Las Vegas in Henderson, Nevada, refers to a 320-acre (130 ha) artificial lake and the 3,592-acre (1,454 ha) developed area around the lake. The area is sometimes referred to as the Lake Las Vegas Resort. Lake Las Vegas is being developed by 5 companies including Lake at Las Vegas Joint Venture LLC, which filed for bankruptcy in 2008. The area includes three resorts including the Monte Lago Village Resort, the Westin Lake Las Vegas Resort, and the Hilton Lake Las Vegas. The dam that creates the lake is "an earthen structure 18 stories high, 4,800 ft (1,500 m) in length and 716 ft (218 m) wide at its base. It contains roughly the same amount of dirt as Hoover Dam does concrete," and was completed in 1991. The Las Vegas Wash passes under the lake and dam in pipes that require maintenance every 10 years.
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Fairfield eye doctor seeks GOP nod to challenge Himes
Another candidate his announced he will seek the Republican nomination to challenge Congressman Jim Himes in a district that includes most of Shelton.
Dr. Joseph Bentivegna, an ophthalmologist from Fairfield, said his campaign will focus on what he calls "the massacre of the middle class."
According to a campaign press release, Bentivegna thinks "major financial interests, high taxes and government regulation are destroying the American Dream — especially in Fairfield County, where there is little job growth or influx of young families."
Shelton's Dan Debicella also running
The leading GOP candidate for the Fourth District is considered to be Dan Debicella of Shelton, a former state senator who lost to Himes in 2010. Also running is Carl Higbie of Greenwich, a retired Navy SEAL, and state Rep. John Shaban of Redding.
Himes, a Democrat from Greenwich, was first elected in 2008 when he defeated the longtime Republican incumbent, Christopher Shays.
Most of Shelton is in the Fourth Congressional District, represented by Himes, while a part of it is in the Third District, represented by Democrat Rosa DeLauro.
Has volunteered in Haiti
Bentivegna grew up in western Pennsylvania and attended St. Francis College and Hershey Medical School.
After interning at Brown University, he worked for a year as a volunteer physician in Haiti for the Missionaries of Charity, the order of Mother Teresa. His book on that experience, "The Neglected and Abused: A Physician's Year in Haiti," is used as a college text, according to the campaign release.
Bentivegna has established an eye surgery clinic in Haiti.
His other books include "When to Refuse Treatment" and a novel, "The Lords of Greenwich." He has also worked as a syndicated columnist, writing numerous articles on healthcare, tort reform, Haiti and Wall Street reform.
The eye surgeon has been married to his wife Louise for 26 years and they have two grown daughters, Michelle and Elaine.
Wants to repeal Obamacare
Bentivegna said Obamacare should be repealed and replaced with a plan extending Medicare to all Americans for medical bills that exceed $50,000 a year.
Families and individuals could then purchase specific insurance plans that fit their needs to help cover the first $50,000 in medical expenses, he said.
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Undeleted Photos from Camera
Accidently deleted or erased photo that you took by digital camera is a terrible experience for us. However, this is common case happened around us with high frequency. When we travelling outside, or participate a party, we could take lots of pictures for memory. What if you delete all the photos by mistake, don't panic, under normal circumstances, the pictures that are "deleted" by camera are not fully wiped from the card, and the space occupied by those image files is just marked as available. At this time, don't do any operation on this digital camera, so that we can protect the "deleted or erased" pictures are overwritten by new files. When it happened, you'd better removing the card from the camera and not using it again until yourecover deleted photosby using data recovery software.
Recover Photos from Olympus Wizard
There is common question going: "I am trying to restore lost pictures from an Olympus digital camera that uses an xd card. There was a problem when I went to load the pictures, and the camera screen said to format it. After checking the card for the pics (they weren't there) we formatted. I have used several programs to try to get the pictures, using a card reader. Are they lost forever? One site I went on said if you used an Olympus with an xd card you can't recover the pics. These are very important pics, and I need them back. Thanks for any help!"
Photo recovery is inexact science. From my words above, you would know that the photos are not lost permanently; they can be restored by recovery program. However, as newbie of technology, how to pick up easy-to-use software is another question. There are lots of similar programs saying to get the lost data back successfully. You'd better download the trial version first to see if it the best choice for you to use. For me, I select simple interface, and few buttons on the program, such as uFlysoft Photo Recovery, with two buttons allowing me to complete the recover task perfectly. See the steps below.
1. Download and launch photo recovery program.
2. Connect Olympus digital camera to your computer. Click the camera partition on the program to scan the deleted photos completely.
3. When finishing scanning task, you will see almost all the pictures that you deleted displayed on the program. Here, "Preview" button can make you preview the pictures clearly and conveniently. When you decide to recover these files, just hitting "Recovery" button to complete the task.
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Spring is eager to emerge.
Most of the time the best subjects appear out of nowhere.
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Rumbling down (Otter) Creek Road I slowly passed this nice view of Clarendon off in the distance.
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CHENG WANG. Senior VP Engineering: Architecture, Software, Silicon. Originally from Shanghai, PRC. BSEECS, UC Berkeley. Cheng has led the architecture, silicon implementation and software development for eFPGA over two generations from 180nm-16nm and now neural inferencing. Two years as VLSI designer at Zoran. MSEE, EE PhD UCLA: designed 5 FPGA chips from 90nm to 40nm. 2013 Distinguished PhD Dissertation Award. 2014 ISSCC Lewis Winner Award for Outstanding Paper. Multiple patents at UCLA and Flex Logix.
Flex Logix's NMAX platform excels at getting high hardware utilization at batch=1, which is critical for edge applications. Most of the new information is in the 2nd half of the slide deck.
NMAX delivers from 1 to 100+TOPS, as you need, at 10x lower cost and 3-5x lower power than existing solutions because we get 50-80% MAC utilization on tough models, meaning we need less silicon area, and we achieve it with 10x less DRAM bandwidth, meaning less DRAM cost and system power.
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Jason Knight
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Miro Salem
Miro Salem is the founder 3TEN8, an Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning platform that helps engineers to predict and diagnose degradations and outages on wireless networks. Miro started his career in telecommunications on the engineering side for some of the largest mobile network providers, including Sprint, AT&T, and Verizon. During his time as an RF Engineer at Erriccson, Miro discovered the vastly inefficient and outdated processes for network operations, which led to the founding of 3TEN8. Miro graduated from the University at Texas Dallas with a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering.
Sumeet Kumar
Petro Bigioi
Petronel Bigioi is CTO, Product Licensing of Xperi Corporation. In this role, he leads an experienced engineering team developing image processing and sound solutions to address various problems in the digital still camera, mobile phone, home, automotive and other related markets. XPERI's imaging and sound technology can be found in more than 5 billion devices worldwide.
Petronel has more than 250 granted and published U.S. and international patents to date. Petronel is an IEEE fellow with over 20 years of experience in the digital still camera and mobile phone industries, working in both signal processing and connectivity. A co-founder of several successful companies (including FotoNation), he is also a pioneer of digital camera connectivity, a co-author and actively involved in the picture transfer protocol (PTP) and PTP-over-IP networks communication standards.
Married, father of four, Petronel enjoys photography, playing ping pong and is a music aficionado in his spare time.
Petronel got his B.Sc. in electronics engineering (1997) from Transilvania University, Brasov. Petronel also holds a couple of master degrees in ASIC design (Transilvania University, Brasov, 1998) and Networks and Communications (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2000). Petronel obtained his Ph.D. in electronics from Transilvania University (2005), his work being recognized by Romanian academy of science with a "Gheorghe Cartianu" award.
Ramya Ravichander
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He leads teams in Product Marketing, Product Management, Product & Corporate Strategy, M&A, Engineering and Supply chain functions.
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NMAX MAC utilization is over 50% even at batch size = 1. For most inferencing engines utilization drops dramatically from batch 10 to batch 1 because they stall loading weights. High MAC utilization means less silicon area needed for the same throughput.
NMAX uses proprietary Flex Logix interconnect technology to utilize local, distributed SRAM very efficiently generating very high local bandwidth and dropping DRAM bandwidth requires to that of 1 or 2 LPDDR4 DRAMs, even for YOLOv3 at 30 frames/second. This lowers power and lowers cost.
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3 Healthy Afterschool Snacks Your Kids Will Love
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Kids seem to have boundless energy - and with that comes limitless appetites! That's why it's important that they refuel and recharge after a long day at school with a healthy, filling snack to hold them over until dinnertime. And with all the activities kids are involved in these days, from sports practices to band rehearsal, they need the right food to keep them going.
Making tasty and nutritious afterschool treats your kids will crave is easy with the Oster® Precise Blend™ 300 Blender PLUS Food Chopper. Instead of processed foods, you can make healthy snacks for your kids in no time.
Here are three recipes for healthy afterschool snacks your kids will love:
1. Creamy Peanut Butter Smoothie
This smoothie tastes like an indulgent dessert, but it's actually a protein-rich snack that delivers the nutrients growing kids need. Chia seeds deliver important omega-3 fatty acids, while smooth peanut butter, fresh fruit and healthy almond milk combine for an afterschool snack your kids will be craving all day long! Best of all, you can prepare it in just minutes with the Oster® Precise Blend™ 300 Blender PLUS Food Chopper. It's a filling snack that can be enjoyed before baseball practice or right before the kids sit down to do their homework.
- 1/4 cup peanut butter
- 2 cups almond milk
- 1 teaspoon raw cacao powder
- 2 bananas
- 1 teaspoon chia seeds
Add all ingredients to your Oster® Precise Blend™ 300 Blender PLUS Food Chopper and select the Fruit Smoothie setting to blend.
2. Red Pepper Hummus
Hummus is a great afterschool snack because it is light and healthy while still satisfying hunger, and is much better for you than creamy chip dips that contain a high level of fat. This recipe incorporates roasted red peppers to jazz up basic hummus and add extra nutrients. It's easy to make a large batch of hummus in your Oster® Precise Blend™ 300 Blender PLUS Food Chopper to last all week. Just blend the ingredients, store in the fridge and serve with pita chips for a go-to afterschool snack that's much better than store-bought varieties.
- 16 ounces chickpeas, drained
- 8 ounces roasted red peppers, drained
- 4 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 4 tablespoons tahini
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
Combine all ingredients using the Food Chopper attachment of your Oster® Precise Blend™ 300 Blender PLUS Food Chopper. Serve immediately with pita chips or transfer to an airtight container and refrigerate.
3. Sweet Coconut Granola Bars
These granola bars taste like candy bars, but in fact they are full of fiber and other important nutrients, making them a great choice for an afterschool snack for your kids. Packaged granola bars are often made with artificial ingredients and lots of sugar, so instead make your own using your Oster® Precise Blend™ 300 Blender PLUS Food Chopper.
- 2 cups rolled oats
- 3 tablespoons chia seeds
- 1 cup no-sugar-added shredded coconut
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 2 teaspoons coconut oil
- 1/4 cup dark chocolate chips
- 3/4 cup dried cranberries
Combine all ingredients using the Food Chopper attachment of your Oster® Precise Blend™ 300 Blender PLUS Food Chopper. Form into 2-inch bars, then bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.