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My book on supply chain titled, "Enterprise Supply Chain Management: Integrating Best-in-class Processes" is available on Amazon. This book covers demand planning, supply planning, inventory optimization, warehousing, transportation, and collaboration. It provides an enterprise view of the supply chain processes and covers all functional details for these functions.
As a practitioner, I have left off the theory behind supply chain solutions, but have focused on pointing out what these processes can do for you, the inputs and outputs required by these processes, and their interaction with each other. It covers the following:
– A primer on supply chain and finance
– Demand and supply planning
– Supply chain network design
– Transportation and warehouse management
– Supply chain collaboration
– Reverse logistics management
– Supply chain technology
If you like a lucid, concise, and simple style of writing, you will enjoy this book. It also demystifies all industry jargon surrounding the above processes. If you are a supply chain manager in business or technology at a corporation, or a student thinking of a career in supply chain, this book is for you. You will like the direct approach and the industry relevant view unlike most other books on the market that are written as an academic treatise and are only limited in their practical use to industry managers.
© Vivek Sehgal, 2010, All Rights Reserved.
Supply Chain as Strategic Asset: The Key to Reaching Business Goals
336 pages
January 2011
Or click here to see the Table of Contents
You can also listen to my interview with Dustin Mattison of Logipi
Creating an effective supply chain is essential to compete. But the scope of supply chains is so vast that simply defining what is an effective supply chain is a tough task, let alone creating it. This book provides a valuable roadmap for defining and creating a supply chain strategy that will help you create an effective supply chain that supports your business strategy. It begins by providing an overview of the generic business strategies and proceeds to define supply chain strategies, reviewing the strengths and weaknesses along with the reasoning behind selection of a specific strategy over the others.
It investigates the relationship between some of the well-known business strategies and how they may affect the selection of the supply chain strategy. As technology is the de-facto enabler of business capabilities in current times, therefore, the book also provides a good overview of the prevalent practices in developing and pursuing effective technology strategy that will best support the business needs.
The objective of this book is to explore the relationship between the three strategies: business strategy that sets the goals, functional strategies (with specific focus on supply chain functions) that define the business capabilities to achieve the business goals, and the technology strategy that enables building the business capabilities effectively. I believe that senior executives who understand this synergistic relationship can transform their companies most effectively by prioritizing the capital investments that are fully aligned with the business goals of the firm and hence provide the best returns on the investments.
Here is how this book is organized.
Chapter 1
The first chapter provides an overview of the underlying precept of the book which is the belief that the business strategy of a firm must define and drive the competitive advantages sought by it. In turn, these competitive advantages sustain the development and growth of the business of the firm. The process of the creation of superior business capabilities from the corporate strategy consists of the strategy development, strategy planning, and strategy execution. This chapter provides an overview of the process describing these steps, introduces the concepts of functional and deployment strategies and their relationships with the business strategy. In doing so, it lays the foundation for the rest of the book and the flow of the discussion on the subject of strategic alignment among the business, functional, and the deployment strategies.
Chapters 2 and 3
In these two chapters, I review the basic concepts of business strategy. This is done by reviewing the existing literature and concepts on strategy development and management. I review the fundamental strategies as first suggested by Porter and how these strategies affect the supply chain management functions in an organization. In addition, I also review the resource-based view of strategy and the concept of competing on capabilities.
Real-life examples from the industry are used to explain how the basic concepts of strategy have evolved and what does that mean to the strategy development and implementation processes for the companies today. The scope and frequency of changes in the global environment makes the process of strategy development more complex and this rapid rate of changes also affects the process of strategy development by requiring that the frequency at which the business strategies are reviewed becomes shorter.
Since there is abundant literature available on corporate strategy formulation and development, I keep that part of discussion limited to a review of the main concepts on the subject, but spend more time on relating these concepts with the functional and deployment strategies as well as the impact of changing business environment on the conventional concepts of business strategy as summarized earlier.
Chapters 4, 5, and 6
These three chapters of the book focus on functional strategy, the definition, concepts, and its role in supporting and realizing the strategic objectives. Functional strategy has not been an explicit part of strategy development so far and provides an excellent opportunity for the corporations to distinguish themselves by aligning their operations with their strategies through the development of a functional strategy. Functional strategy development is the part of strategic planning where corporations must analyze their functional capabilities, understand the gaps that will cause strategic failure, understand the enhancements that will not only allow a short-term win, but also provide a competitive advantage that can be sustained in the medium to longer term; and finally, help them prioritize their investments into building the capabilities that are required for strategy realization.
Businesses need many different functions to operate effectively. Examples of such functions are human resources, marketing, product development, supply chain, merchandising, accounting, and so on. Any of these functional areas can become a strategic focus for the corporation, if the capabilities enabled by that function can help the company achieve the goals of its corporate strategy. However, I focus primarily on the supply chain functions. I review the fundamental strategies that can be pursued for designing supply chains, understand what these are and when to use them, and relate these supply chain strategies back to the business strategies to show how they can support the corporate strategies and help realize the goals set by these strategies. We will also review how these functional strategies not only depend on the business strategies, but also affect them in turn, setting up not a one-sided but an active two-sided relationship between the two.
Chapter 7: Technology Strategy
In this chapter, I review the role of technology in today's corporations with specific focus on its ability to create and maintain capabilities that are central to the competitive advantages sought by their strategies. We will see why technology management should be viewed as one of the primary competency of the business rather than a supporting activity that has been the conventional view in most corporations.
This chapter provides an overview of the enterprise architecture and its role in defining and implementing a technology strategy. I evaluate the current state of enterprise architecture in the corporations, its organizational limitations as well as the opportunities and potential evolution. Then, it identifies the factors that inhibit the enterprise architecture from successfully driving technological change that can lead the corporations from viewing the technology as a necessary evil to viewing it as an evolutionary enabler.
A successful deployment strategy consists of aligning the technology strategy with the business and functional strategies so that capital investments can be prioritized towards creation of coherent and sustainable solutions that create long-term competitive advantages for the corporation. This theme continues in the next chapter, where I cover how achieving such an alignment provides an agile, flexible, and cost-effective process for the creation and maintenance of competitive advantages in an ever-changing business environment.
Chapter 8: Keeping It All Together
In this concluding part of the book, I explore how the three strategies, business, functional, and technology, come together and enable the corporations to create and maintain competitive advantages that are sustainable in the long term. We will cover what types of organizational structures support such alignment and others that inhibit it. I also cover other organizational factors that affect successful strategy alignment and suggest how to manage them better to achieve the holy grail of functional capabilities that can keep a corporation at the edge of the value creation frontier.
© Vivek Sehgal, 2010, All Rights Reserved.


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Sad to hear today that the great Hans Rosling has died of cancer. In his passing we've lost a great public champion of rational thought about the future. I'd like to think that, in his last days, he took heart from thinking that the publicity around his death would bring his insights to a much wider public — and at precisely the moment in history where they might do the most good.
Why dystopia?
Excellent spoiler-free discussion of the overwhelming trend to popular culture dystopia that is one of the themes of the new movie Tomorrowland, over at the Blue Collar, Black Tie blog…
"Can you name a single movie made in the last 40 years that depicts a future that's better than the present? I can get as far as one of the possible futures in Back to the Future II, and then I come up empty. … Somewhere between the assassination of John F. Kennedy [1963] and the fall of the Berlin Wall [1989], the future [anticipated by our fictions] turned ugly. It stayed ugly for decades."
Possibly it has something to do with the eliding of 'the teenager' into political rebellion in the 60s and 70s, with dystopia offering a much freer rein to imagine one roaming free of one's parents strictures and their 'crumbly old' society. Plus, the threat of nuclear war offered a real and ever-present chance of civilisation's collapse.
Big news is bad news
"Breaking news: It's the best of times" points to the amplification effect that modern news gathering has on the level of bad news we read. With a whole world of news to choose from, editor preference will naturally gravitate out to the extreme margins of the vastly widened news spectrum.
"the international news is usually worse than national news, which is worse than regional news, which is worse than local news. In other words, international news is depressing for statistical reasons. The extremity of atrocities and tragedy is not a representative reflection of the state of the world."
This operates at both ends of the spectrum, from fluff to atrocity. Thus the Daily Telegraph's Wildlife RSS feed devolves into a wasteland of 'whacky funny animal videos', while the Guardian's environment pages exist in a permanent state of 'Apocalypse, Now!'.

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Can women lead the global fight against corruption?
14 Nov 2016 by Shqipe Neziri Vela and Blerim Vela
When it comes to addressing corruption globally, there's a lack of using gender-sensitive approaches.
In recent years, we at UNDP in Kosovo* have carried out assessments on the impact of corruption on women and men. Most of this research proved that corruption is not gender neutral. That is to say, women experience corruption differently than men, which can limit their access to public services.
At the same time, our studies have also shown women to be better at identifying corruption practices and more likely to find them unacceptable.
But are women actually any less corrupt than men?
It's true that since women are underrepresented in public service and have limited access to power networks and decision-making, they are less likely to be part of corrupt practices. But this also makes it difficult to assess if women would show more integrity in leadership and management if they had equal access to positions of power that men have traditionally held.
What we can claim with certainty is this:
There are powerful women fighting corruption around the world, setting the standards for transparent public service and equality of opportunity.
Recent studies have shown that empowered women who have an opportunity to participate in decision-making are powerful agents in the fight against corruption.
Who hasn't heard about Laura Kövesi, the chief prosecutor of Romania's National Anticorruption Directorate, spearheading the revolution in the fight against corruption in Romania? Within a year of her taking the mantle, a sitting prime minister and 1,250 public officials were indicted for corruption.
Who doesn't know about Thuli Madonsela, South Africa's public prosecutor, winner of the Transparency International Integrity Award, who investigated police chiefs, politicians and even the president himself?
In Kosovo, the very first woman mayor elected in 2014, Mimoza Kusari Lila, is well known for her commitment to implement the anti-corruption agenda as one of the highest priorities. For two years now, the municipality of Gjakova/Djakovica is the first to open up procurement data, has reformed the public administration through digitizing public services in recruitment and budget spending, and has been rated by CSOs as the most transparent municipality.
What these examples reveal is that we need anti-corruption initiatives to be gender-sensitive and targeted at both women and men.
Here is how we at UNDP are supporting governments to implement policies in order to ensure that women are equally involved in the fight against corruption:
- Ensure transparent recruitment procedures for public office and implement policies to increase the number of women in public life.
- Offer equal access to trainings and professional development opportunities for women and men and encourage women to pursue jobs and positions considered to be traditionally occupied only by men.
- Increase women's awareness of their rights and enhance their ability to undertake collective action to address corruption.
- Develop corruption reporting mechanisms that are easily accessible and safe.
Blog post Europe & the CIS Kosovo* Romania Goal 16 Peace, justice and strong institutions Goal 10 Reduced inequalities Goal 5 Gender equality Women's empowerment Governance and peacebuilding Accountability Anti-corruption Human rights Political participation Rule of law Transparency


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A study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology suggests that a good intake of vitamin E might help to prevent poor memory. Nuts are a great source of vitamin E along with leafy green vegetables, seeds, eggs, brown rice and wholegrains.
Brainpower supplements
Two supplements are currently thought to help improve brainpower. The first Eye Q, a blend of high grade marine fish oil and evening primrose oil, is thought to boost brainpower in children. A study by Durham County Council and Mansfield College, Oxford, concluded that 40 per cent of the children sampled improved both their reading skills and attention spans when taking the supplements.
The second is called Ethos Endymion, which contains L-Carnosine, a strong antioxidant which appears to have dramatic results for a number of conditions: cataracts, improving skin tone, speeding up wound healing, and protecting the brain from plaque formation that may lead to senility and Alzheimer's. L-Carnosine is found in chicken and lean red meat so this powder supplement could be especially useful for veggies.
Wholegrain food
Make sure you're eating a diet rich in a mix of wholegrain foods such as cereals, wheatbran, wheatgerm and wholewheat pasta. One study found that women who increased their folic acid, vitamin B12 and vitamin B6 intake showed an improvement in recalling information compared to women who were not taking a supplement.
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The essential omega-3 fatty acids - found in oily fish, as well as fish oil, walnut oil and flaxseeds (linseeds) - are high in DHA, fatty acid crucial to the health of our nervous system. Low DHA levels have been linked to a higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and memory loss. Fish also contains iodine, which is known to improve mental clarity.
Research from Tufts University in the United States and published in the Journal of Neuroscience suggests that blueberry extract can improve short term memory loss.
There is good evidence to suggest that lycopene, a powerful antioxidant found in tomatoes, could help protect against the kind of free radical damage to cells which occurs in the development of dementia, particularly Alzheimer's.
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One of the biggest news going around my country, Singapore, these days is that the property market is heading for a recovery. Here is my two cents' worth on bargain hunting property for investment in the Singapore property context.
Now that you are excited by the prospect of a property market upturn in the next year, you may be wondering, "Is now a good time?"
Whether you are buying a property for the first, second or third time, a property purchase is always likely to be one of the biggest financial decisions you will make. Buying a property at the wrong time is financially painful. It results in a long-term burden for you, worry over finding potential tenants, endless frustration and sleepless nights.
For an investor, buying the right type of property that meets your criteria is important. Success in the property market is mostly based on …


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Participation of the Foreign Minister at the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the Istanbul Process on Afghanistan
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A statement by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of
the Republic of Tajikistan Sirodjidin Aslov,
during the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the
Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process
31 October 2014, Beijing, China
Your Excellency, Mr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan,
Your Excellency, Mr. Li Keqiang, Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China,
Dear colleagues and participants of the meeting,
I would, first of all, like to convey my gratitude to the organizers of this conference and all other parties involved for the excellent preparation and creation of favorable conditions for our meeting.
Dear friends,
Afghanistan is currently undergoing a historical process which is leading to the formation of a national reconciliation government.
We hope that at this turning point in the history of the country, the people of Afghanistan will come together as one to perform the tasks needed to ensure the equality of all the peoples of Afghanistan, while respecting the rights and interests of different groups, as well as justice and harmony.
We share the policy of the new Afghan leadership towards the country's progress on the path of peace, stability, prosperity, and wider cooperation with regional neighbors.
We are committed to working with the new government, which will consolidate our strong partnership which has worked for the benefit of Afghanistan's sovereignty, stability, unity and prosperity.
We are confident that the brotherly people of Afghanistan, supported by the community of nations, will successfully cope with challenges. We maintain that given the current environment, the central coordinational role of the UN in the international effort for Afghanistan is particularly relevant.
In our view, the strengthening of long-term peace and stability in Afghanistan requires a real assistance in solving economic and social problems. This in turn supports efforts to restore effective state institutions and creates a sustainable base for long-term development. Furthermore, the greater involvement of a regional multilateral framework to address issues of strengthening security and stability and the implementation of major infrastructure projects and programs is necessary.
Dear friends,
Tajikistan actively cooperates with the border guards of Afghanistan, helping to prevent the crossing of national borders by terrorist groups and the transportation of narcotics.
Cooperation in these areas is carried out not only bilaterally, but also within the framework of the "quartet" - Russia, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is gratifying to note that the Kyrgyz Republic has engaged in this process, forming a "troika" of countries with the participation of Tajikistan and Afghanistan.
Currently, as a result of Tajikistan's proposal, and with the support of the OSCE, The Border Management Staff College, which trains border officials in Afghanistan, is operating in Tajikistan. It has so far trained a large number of Afghanistan's border guards.
Tajikistan participates in the human resources capacity development of Afghanistan's military and law enforcement agencies. Annually, through various short, medium and long term programs, which take place in the specialized educational institutions of Tajikistan and under relevant ministries and agencies, training courses are being conducted for soldiers and officers, as well as for law enforcement services in Afghanistan.
Tajikistan considers the solution of economic problems in our neighboring country as critical point, and has constantly expressed this position. In this context, it should be noted that on the issue of the social and economic reconstruction of Afghanistan, the Tajik side has developed and proposed 17 projects related to transport, communications, energy, investment, education, the strengthening of human resources, investment, border management and other areas.
The development of human resources in Afghanistan and the training of civilian specialists are initiatives also included as priorities within the framework of cooperation between Tajikistan and Afghanistan. Currently, more than 500 students are being trained in the universities of Tajikistan. The Government of Tajikistan has decided to provide a scholarships to approximately 1,000 citizens of Afghanistan up until 2025.
Regional cooperation is an important element in the strengthening of stability in Afghanistan and in the region, as a whole. The development of regional economic cooperation has also been raised on the list of key priorities by the Republic of Tajikistan. In this context, the Republic of Tajikistan welcomes the involvement of Afghanistan in the regional integration process. We believe that the Istanbul Process (Heart of Asia) is an important platform for establishing cooperation in the region.
Being at the crossroads of Eurasia, Afghanistan could gain access to some of the fastest growing markets in the world, as well as serve as a transit hub for the expansion of trade between Europe, Asia and the Middle East. In this regard, development and socio-economic growth are inconceivable without energy supply.
Tajikistan, with its unique water and energy resources, expresses its readiness to provide Afghanistan with cheap, renewable, clean electricity. Between the two neighboring countries there are number of power lines. The region is preparing for implementation of the CASA-1000 project which will provide a supply of electricity from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to Pakistan, transiting through the territory of Afghanistan.
We have built five road bridges between Tajikistan and Afghanistan across the Panj River. It has contributed to delivering humanitarian assistance to remote regions of Afghanistan and contributed the annual increase in trade between Tajikistan and Afghanistan, as well as expanding transit capacity.
In addition, for the further development of economic activity and trade in the southern, and the eastern parts of Tajikistan near these bridges, two free economic zones were established. There are three promising points of border trade between Tajikistan and Afghanistan.
Dear Colleagues,
Today in Beijing, we, the representatives of all the states of the Heart of Asia, as well as international and regional organizations that are not indifferent to the fate of Afghanistan have been brought together. I can reiterate that Tajikistan along with other countries in the region is interested in peace, stability and the development of Afghanistan, which will also contribute to the development of all States of the Heart of Asia.
Thank you for your attention!


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Early diagnosis of lymph node metastasis: Importance of intranodal pressures.
Bottom Line: We found that intranodal pressure in the subiliac lymph node increased at the stage when metastasis was detected by in vivo bioluminescence, but when proper axillary lymph node volume (measured by high-frequency ultrasound imaging) had not increased significantly.Intravenously injected liposomes, encapsulating indocyanine green, were detected in solid tumors by in vivo bioluminescence, but not in the proper axillary lymph node.Basic blood vessel and lymphatic channel structures were maintained in the proper axillary lymph node, although sinus histiocytosis was detected.
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Mentions: Figure 5 shows representative images of the SiLN and PALN stained with H&E, anti‐LYVE‐1 antibody, or anti‐CD31 antibody, under control conditions (day 3), or after inoculation with KM‐Luc/GFP (day 6) or FM3A‐Luc (day 14) cells. The basic internal structures (medulla, paracortex, cortex, and lymphatic channels) were preserved in tumor‐containing SiLN and metastasized PALN.4 Discrete blood vessels were observed in all LNs (Fig. 5A), and lymphatic sinus histiocytosis in the PALN and SiLN (Fig. 5B). Next, we measured LN vessel density (the CD31‐positive area) using immunofluorescence techniques (Fig. 6A). Blood vessel density did not differ between the control and metastasis groups (Fig. 6B,C). It has been noted that as mice age, their lymph node structures change over a period of several weeks. After 12 weeks, follicles tend to atrophy due to the accumulation of abnormal lymphocytes. We observed that the degree of atrophy was similar for control and metastatic lymph nodes, except for the portion of the lymph node comprising metastatic tumor.
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Mexican For Brunch/
Chilaquiles ("chee-lah-KEE-lays") come in many variations and sexy to say once you got it down (haha). A traditional Mexican dish that is close to huevos rancheros. Typically fried or stale tortilla chips, meat, chile sauce, eggs, cheese then any additions toppings your heart desires. It's truly mexican comfort food that is in my way better in my option then those Tex-Mex loaded nachos you see as an appetizer every where. Part crunchy and part sort from soaking up the spicy flavorful sauce. Besides the point but anything topped with a fried egg I'll eat.


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Inspiration for my quilts comes from many sources. I subscribe to a couple of patchwork magazines, but make very few quilts from them, although they do inspire me with much food for thought. It is great to see what other people are doing.
Fabrics are sometimes the inspiration for a quilt, the whole of my quilt design might come from one piece and is dictated by how much of it I have. Mostly I buy fabric because I like the design and color, less often, fabrics are purchased with an idea for a quilt in mind, and very very occassionally would I purchase fabric with a complete design in mind.
I love the history of patchwork, and the lovely old quilts and have in my book collection many old titles. Probably why many of my quilts have an old look, and why I favour purchasing reproduction fabrics. Although I am trying to include more stripes in my piecing.


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vessels as well as to allow maritime authorities to track and monitor ship movements. Today's AIS allows ships to communicate with other ships and land based base stations through VHF signals. This means that it is not possible to communicate outside
the field of vision.
An AIS receiver in a satellite will extend the range considerably and make it easier to monitor ship traffic and fishing in the High North. The altitude of the satellite gives the AIS receiver a long range and the satellite can therefore make observations
over large sea areas. The signals are strong enough to be received by a satellite in low Earth orbit.
It is believed that the low traffic density in the High North requires one receiver and antennae only to handle the expected volume of AIS messages. AISSat-1 is being launched in order to test these presumptions. The Norwegian AIS receiver is placed
in a custom made Canadian satellite platform, built by the University of Toronto. The satellite's life span is estimated to three years. AISSat-1 will operate in a polar orbit at an altitude of 600 km. It will be launched by an Indian PSLV rocket from
ISRO's facilities in Sriharikota in early May.
The Norwegian Space Centre is project owner. The Norwegian Coastal Administration will receive the data and the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) is responsible for the technical implementation. Payload design is made by Kongsberg Seatex.
The total cost of the satellite is approximately NOK 30 million. After launch, FFI will start testing the polar orbiting satellite. FFI will control it for about a year before Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) takes over and the Norwegian Coastal Administration
starts to integrate the AIS data in the current land based AIS system. AISSat-1 has been met with interest internationally. ESA has asked FFI and Norwegian companies to take part in a study on a satellite based AIS solution for the whole of Europe, while
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CANTON, Ohio — The "Leave A Legacy Golf Invitational" culminated this past Saturday with a clinic held by SIAC golfers and legendary LPGA member Renee Powell, a celebrity and HBCU alumni golf outing and a trip to the Pro Football Hall of Fame for a ceremonial close of the weekend's event.
The Honorable Secretary Roderick R. Page was the keynote speaker which was then followed by a tour of the facility. A fitting end to a historic weekend!
Following the clinic celebrities including former NFL MVP Joey Browner, former Congressman JC Watts, and Congressman Ralph Regula teed it up and played with HBCU alumni at the Historic Clearview Golf Course.
The SIAC players including Jared Perkins (Kentucky State), Brad Freeman (Paine) and Galen Aldrich (Benedict) put their skills on display as they chipped in tips on how to shoot a variety of shots.
While the alumni and celebrities played the course, the SIAC student athletes met with recruiters and executives from John Deere, Goodyear and various other companies offering job and internship opportunities.
Following the clinic and golf outing, the Pro Football Hall of Fame opened their doors for a banquet to celebrate the historical accomplishments over the weekend.
Each participant from Benedict, Kentucky State, and Paine received medals. Freshman Robert "Calvin" Mason (right) of Benedict received the Medalist Award for shooting the lowest score of the tournament…a 147.
Benedict's Head Coach Daniel Gillis was named the Coach of the Tournament and was presented with an award along with the 1st place trophy for his team's victory in the inaugural event.
NFL Great Joey Browner presented the awards.
Secretary Roderick Paige was the keynote speaker and addressed the crowd with a message entitled "What does Leaving A Legacy really mean?" The honorable JC Watts, former congressman and CEO/Founder of JC Watts Companies, was the Emcee of the event.
The SIAC student athletes presented Dr. Powell and Renee Powell a shadowbox with an autographed picture of all the SIAC student athletes along with a signed golf ball by each of the coaches to commemorate the event.
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SoC FPGA Relies on Many Cores and 14 nm Tri-Gate Process
Altera's multicore FPGA uses Intel's tri-gate (FinFET) 14 nm 3D process technology to combine logic, four ARM A53 cores and OpenCL as a heterogeneous SoC replacement.
At the core of Altera's recent Stratix 10 announcement is…multiple cores. Four ARM Cortex-A53s to be exact, plus a bunch of DSP blocks, more logic than ever before done by the company, double the on-chip clock rate and software designed to create a multicore system instead of just a dense FPGA. In effect, it's a system-on-chip (SoC) that bests the company's recent Arria 10 SoC.
But also at the core of the 2014 next-gen FPGA family is Intel's tri-gate (FinFET) 14 nm 3D process technology, to which Altera has the exclusive FPGA rights for 12 years. It's Intel's tri-gate transistors that give Altera the edge—at least on paper—in the war of high density FPGAs. Details on Altera's Stratix 10 (the follow-on FPGA to the Stratix V) are still scarce, though the company's second pre-announcement added more details and we can guess at others.
The new multicore Stratix 10 FPGA SoC will tape out in 2014 and may possibly ship by late 2014. Let's take a look at some of the elements that make up the Stratix 10's performance goals.
Tri-Gate's Secret Sauce
Altera is relying heavily on four factors to achieve the aggressive specs for Stratix 10: a refined architecture, the ARM Cortex A53, software tools such as OpenCL and Intel's tri-gate 14 nm process.
Intel has consistently battled Moore's Law through new process innovations. Following two-dimensional high K (dielectric) metal process improvements at 45 nm in 2007, Intel unveiled 3D transistors in 2011 in 22 nm feature size. As oxide thickness and transistor dimensions approach mere Angstroms, the company essentially made transistors "smaller" by stacking them in layers and wrapping the silicon channel with three gates instead of two. This allows more transistors per square nanometer by using the Z axis, and they're smaller and more power efficient. The concept of a non-planar double-gate transistor with a fin wrapped around the channel is called a "finFET," although Intel calls theirs "tri-gate" (Figure 1).
|Figure 1: Intel's tri-gate transistors propagate Moore's Law, increase silicon density and reduce power.
In early 2013, Intel and Altera inked a deal that allowed Altera to become the only FPGA company with access to Intel's 14 nm tri-gate process. Altera's CEO John Daane said at the time that he believed Intel was two to four years ahead of the competition. (This is debatable as TSMC moves from 20 nm to 16 nm.) Intel is already producing 22 nm 4th generation Haswell processors on tri-gate and 14 nm Broadwell (5th generation Core) production is scheduled for 2014.
Despite a recent delay that necessitated design rule changes to Intel's 14 nm process, Altera as an Intel foundry customer will certainly follow shortly after Intel's own Broadwell production. According to Chris Balough, Altera's senior director of SoC product marketing, design software for the Stratix V will be available Q1 2014 and first silicon will tape out sometime in 2014.
"Unimaginable" Performance
In June and in November, Altera began predicting some pretty big numbers for Stratix 10…so much so that the nomenclature leaped from Stratix V (available now) to Stratix 10. The company is making what Balough called a "hyperbolic claim, something we never guessed was possible," he told me. There will be a 2x increase (from 28 nm) in logic fabric speed to over 1 GHz. Even though density increases, the SoC device will also achieve a 70 percent power savings with a target 4x. Other technology targets are shown in Table 1.
|Industry's First Gigahertz FPGAs and SoCs
Break the Bandwidth Barrier with Unimaginable High-Speed Interface Rates
Table 1: Stratix 10 performance targets. (Source: Altera.)
There is credibility in these claims, albeit based upon scaling factors. The new, in-production Arria 10 SoC is based upon TSMC's 20 nm process and is 15 percent faster than Arria V, consumes 40 percent less power and boasts a 50 percent processor system improvement. For Stratix 10, the magic again is Intel's 14 nm tri-gate process as described in the whitepaper "The Breakthrough Advantage for FPGAs with Tri-Gate Technology" (http://www.altera.com/literature/wp/wp-01201-fpga-tri-gate-technology.pdf).
Altera has provided no details yet on architecture other than the notional marketing chart shown in Figure 2. Fundamentally, Stratix 10 processing will take place in FPGA gates, four ARM Cortex-A53 processors and a series of DSP blocks. Software tools meld it all together into a powerful one-chip system
|Figure 2: Altera's Stratix 10 SoC FPGA relies on four elements to achieve what the company calls "unimaginable" performance. Intel's 14 nm tri-gate process is the root of the performance discontinuity from current 28 nm FPGAs. (Source: Altera.)
DSP Blocks and ARM Cores
Current-generation Stratix V devices contain two columns of DSP blocks surrounded by constellations of logic array blocks. Each DSP block (Figure 3) can be configured for up to eight 9 x 9 bit multipliers, four 18 x 18 bit multipliers and one 36 x 36 bit multiplier. These DSP blocks run at 333 MHz and provide data throughput performance of 2.67 giga-MACs per block. The largest Stratix V device (EP1S80) has 22 DSP blocks.
|Figure 3: Stratix V (current generation) DSP block.
With the forecasted 1 GHz fabric on Stratix 10 over Stratix V's 333 MHz, one might expect a 3x performance increase with no logic changes. However, Altera's Balough told me they're expecting a 6x throughput increase for Stratix 10 to "greater than 10 TFLOPs." It's entirely likely the number of DSP blocks will double, RAM block sizes will increase and there will be some fine tuning within the blocks and routing fabric. However, it's also possible the 6x claim is taking into account other FPGA resources for data movement and manipulation such as the ARM processors.
An FPGA's DSP sub-systems are a major reason FPGAs are chosen for high-performance algorithms like video CODECs or data-plane processing. On the Stratix 10, there are also the four ARM Cortex-A53 processors. Altera press materials cite an 8x throughput improvement over 28 nm FPGAs, and Altera says that ARM claims it's the highest power efficiency of any 64-bit processor. That's probably not hard to argue considering ARM's leadership in mobile and low-power devices…and Intel's struggle to catch up.
The four Cortex-A53 cores shown in Figure 4 are members of ARM's Cortex-A50 series announced in 2012 and are based on the ARMv8 64-bit architecture. The A53 chosen for Stratix 10 is the "little brother" to the A57, ARM's single-threaded, deep pipeline monster targeting servers. Both devices are designed for gigahertz performance in heterogeneous SoCs. For example, Stratix 10's A53s will target applications that offload x86 host processors, while AMD's HieroFalcon server accelerator 64-bit SoC (2H 2014) uses the Cortex-A57 to complement AMD's on-chip x86.
|Figure 4: Stratix 10 contains four Cortex-A53 cores, ARM's most impressive multi-threaded 64-bit core.
Stratix 10's A53s are software compatible with previous generation 32-bit ARM Cortex-A9s in Altera Cyclone, Arria and Stratix devices. This allows design sockets to upgrade to the latest FPGAs while migrating forward operating systems, unmodified software and IP cores (Figure 5). The A53 can access up to 256 TB of memory with ECC for on-core L1/L2 caches; both features pinpoint data center and high-end heterogeneous computing applications. To fully capitalize on Stratix 10's logic, DSP and A53 resource elements, the company is planning a suite of heterogeneous-focused tools.
|Figure 5: Stratix 10's quad Cortex-A53 cores can run in 32-bit mode for upgradeability from previous generation devices.
Sweet Tool Suites
Altera's Chris Balough asserts that "all of Stratix 10's processing elements are compelling enough by themselves," but the "unimaginable performance" comes into play when they work together as a system. Altera is counting on OpenCL and the SoC Embedded Design Suite (EDS) to capitalize on the FPGA's heterogeneous elements.
|Intel® QuickAssist Technology Capitalizes on FPGA Resources
Altera was the first FPGA company on record to support Intel's QuickAssist technology, a set of instructions and APIs that seek to offload host CPU instructions to a co-processor like an FPGA. XtremeData was the board vendor who demoed it at the 2008 Intel Developers Forum with a Xeon and Mathworks' Simulink graphical block diagramming software.
Altera's Stratix 10, with faster transceivers, DSP blocks and 1 GHz fabric, is likely to be a favorite co-processor for Intel host CPUs like the latest 4th Generation Core devices (code named Haswell) or Intel's next-generation 14 nm tri-gate Broadwell CPUs. According to Intel, QuickAssist (http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/io/quickassist-technology/quickassist-technology-developer.html) is ideal for computational workloads including cryptography, data compression and pattern matching—all applications that are algorithmically "heavy" and can take advantage of an FPGA's parallelism via mixed resources.
In the case of Altera's Stratix 10 next-gen devices, CPU offload via QuickAssist could also utilize high-level language OpenCL to construct heterogeneous "hardware macros" which balance workloads between the FPGA fabric, DSP blocks and the decision-making capability of the ARM Cortex-A53. All of these resources, of course, work as an accelerator sub-system to Intel's Xeon, Core and now the newest Rangeley Atom CPUs—all of which contain Intel QuickAssist Technology.
The company has endorsed C-based design entry using OpenCL for several years via the SDK for OpenCL product. First demoed by Altera at SuperComputing 2012, the OpenCL design flow allows designers to work in C and easily mix logic and on-chip resources into heterogeneous multicore architectures. The high-level design flow alleviates the typical RTL coding required for most FPGA tasks. It also mimics the way embedded developers mix and match processing resources at the board or system level.
OpenCL code is also portable and lets designers load-level or performance-tune applications to take advantage of the massively parallel nature of FPGAs and the Cortex-A53 CPUs. In October of this year, Altera announced the SDK for OpenCL is conformant to the OpenCL 1.0 standard and is listed on the Khronos Group list of conformant products. This means that Altera can "provide a validated cross-platform programming environment" designed to accelerate algorithms at significantly lower power versus other cross compiler alternatives.
Practically speaking, OpenCL allows Stratix 10 designers to port or create hardware accelerators to take advantage of the FPGA's parallelism. This has always been possible when coding in RTL but not necessarily practical and usually not easily portable. The OpenCL SDK is complemented by EDS which provides FPGA-adaptive debug. Altera's Chris Balough describes EDS as "a native multicore debug environment with intrinsic FPGA debug capabilities built in." EDS supports real-time, in-system, whole-chip debug and visualization, including the ARM Cortex-A53 cores. That's because EDS includes Altera's existing DS-5 Altera Edition software, ARM's own development tool that's been tailored for Altera FPGA devices.
Both the OpenCL SDK and EDS software suites exist today for production devices, and will soon be released supporting the Stratix 10 so lead customers and early adopters can start their designs.
Conclusions: Altera's Design Targets
We've written quite a bit about Altera's burgeoning roadmap over the past twelve months. During an interview in July 2012 with Brad Howe, Altera's senior VP of R&D, he talked about the need for FPGAs to evolve past their growing complexity and focus instead on "silicon convergence" (http://eecatalog.com/fpga/2012/07/17/fpgas-the-best-of-both-worlds-until-theyre-not/ ). He was of course referring not only to heterogeneous FPGA SoCs, but also on reducing design complexity with OpenCL.
Stratix 10, with its "unimaginable performance" made possible by Intel's 14 nm tri-gate process, epitomizes the future of big density FPGAs. "It was an explicit choice to make [Stratix 10] a heterogeneous computing platform," said Altera's Chris Balough.
We're anxious to see the company release details on the architecture, cite power estimates based upon notional reference designs and detail more of the specs. As we went to press, Altera revealed some data on Stratix 10's transceivers (4x bandwidth and 28 Gbps backplane switching), and indicated that the device is 3D-capable for packaging with ASSPs and memories.
Also, it will be interesting to see if Altera targets Big Data applications with Stratix 10 as I had predicted in June 2013 ("Does Altera have 'Big Data' Communications on the Brain?" http://eecatalog.com/caciufo/2013/06/05/a-slew-of-recent-altera-high-performance-announcements-over-the-last-three-months-can-only-mean-one-thing-the-company-is-targeting-big-data-in-a-big-way/#comment-20464 ). The company's string of acquisitions and posturing sure points that way.
We'll have to wait until 2014 for concrete information on the Stratix 10 heterogeneous SoC FPGA and its heavy lift capabilities. Until then, all this "unimaginable" information remains a technology announcement. But a compelling one, indeed.
Chris A. Ciufo is editor-in-chief for embedded content at Extension Media, which includes the EECatalog print and digital publications and website, Embedded Intel® Solutions, and other related blogs and embedded channels. He has 29 years of embedded technology experience, and has degrees in electrical engineering, and in materials science, emphasizing solid state physics. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The European SMART award - support for electronics and photonics SMEs in Horizon2020 , meeting on afternoon Thursday 5 June at the Holiday Inn in Basingstoke will give a full briefing of this and other new more accessible SME support available from Europe. One of the key programs is very similar to the UK SMART award, can be applied for by a single company for innovative new product development from feasibility phase to full product demonstration development.
Single company submission possible
And yes that really is prototype funding of over £1 million with only a 30% company match required.
The meeting details and agenda are here, or can be downloaded here
Registration is free and open now here. Places are limited so please register early.
In collaboration with Enterprise Europe Network who will be key partners in delivery of this new instrument, the new KTN and TSB EU National Contact Points.


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Date: 11/22/2006
Writer: Jane Moorman
SOCORRO - New Mexico State University's Cooperative Extension Service, in cooperation with the Western Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (WSARE) program, will present a training workshop focusing on water use efficiency for crop production on Tuesday, Dec. 12, in the Macey Conference Center of the New Mexico Tech campus in Socorro.
Farmers and agricultural professionals in New Mexico face the common goal of maximizing one of the most valuable resources - water.
"Sustainable agriculture in the Southwest presents unique challenges due to water quality and availability. This workshop is designed to teach practical and successful sustainable irrigation practices," said Stephanie Walker, Extension vegetable specialist and workshop chair.
Registration for the workshop will begin at 8 a.m. with the program beginning at 8:45 a.m. in the Galena Room.
John White, Extension program director in Dona Ana County, is workshop co-chair. Sessions will be moderated by Tom Dean, Extension program director in Socorro County, and Allison Chipman, Extension agricultural agent in Valencia County.
The day-long event will feature speakers from throughout New Mexico and Texas and address multiple approaches to improving water use efficiency in cropping systems.
Robert Flynn, Extension agronomist for NMSU's Agricultural Science Center at Artesia will begin the workshop by addressing water chemistry as it affects soil productivity. Rudy Garcia, state agronomist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resource Conservation Service in Albuquerque, will discuss irrigation efficiency utilizing soil moisture sensors.
Bernd Maier, Extension viticulture specialist, will conduct two talks teaching drip irrigation concepts and application as well as equipment and material selection for drip irrigation.
Sangu Angadi, crop physiologist at NMSU's Agricultural Science Center at Clovis, will speak on his research of multiple approaches to improve water use efficiency of cropping systems. Ron Walser, urban small farm and fruit specialist at NMSU's Agricultural Science Center at Los Lunas, will discuss the benefits of cover cropping and efficient irrigation systems. Organic fertilization using drip will be discussed by Joran Viers, Extension horticulture agent in Bernalillo County.
Filiberto Cortez, manager of the Bureau of Reclamation in El Paso, Texas, will review the status of water in New Mexico and Texas.
With water being the foundation of agricultural sustainability, Jim Freeburn, the WSARE professional development program's regional training coordinator, based at the University of Wyoming, will focus on educational and funding opportunities available for growers and agricultural professionals through agencies such as WSARE. More information can be found at http://wsare.usu.edu.
Registration is $25, $10 for students, which will include lunch and workshop materials. Advance registration is encouraged. To register, contact Mary Curtis at (505) 646-1715 or by e-mail at email@example.com. For more information about the workshop, accommodations, or if an individual with a disability needs an auxiliary aid or service to participate, call workshop coordinator Jeanine Castillo at (505) 649-0501 or e-mail her at email@example.com. The workshop information is also available at http://cahe.nmsu.edu/calendar.
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So I'm back (with a new account I reset my main 5-6 years ago) and oh my how things have changed
From the week I've been back I've noticed charms and furniture heavily rule the game over allies now, wars are dead, and clan loyalty is at an all time low.
The kawmunity is still exactly the same I have had 2-3 people help me ease into the new mechs of the game and I can't thank them enough, however the amount of people see me as " new " and try to scam me out of the charms these few accounts have given to help me is insane, shame on you.
I'm after high tier eb rotation clans (lotl, goth)
My bfe allows me to win every hit, so can someone wall me, thx


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Two Kirk Challenge Report
A healthy crowd of athletes completed the Two Kirk Challenge today (19th May). Over 40 people of all ages worked their way through the mist by foot or bike and finished in sunny Stow – a distance of roughly 10 miles. Graham Miller was first home in a time of 1 hour and 4 minutes, ...read more
Into Africa
For several years, Stow & Heriot Church have been linked with a partner church in Malawi, in a small village called Luwatala. Luwatala is in a rural area quite close to Lake Malawi (or Lake Nyasa). Last year, members of the church took the opportunity provided by Presbytery's sending of a container, and sent out ...read more
Church Stewardship
The Parish Church had a very busy month in September as this was the month set aside for celebration of stewardship. The church in Stow hosted a community concert which showcased the stunning musical talent in the village. There was an exhibition of the history and heritage of the two churches and a beautifully illustrated ...read more


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IE Usage Share Fell in 2008
According to researchers at Net Applications, use of Microsoft's Web browser, Internet Explorer, fell from 74 percent to 68 percent of the market by the end 2008. The main beneficiary of that decline was Mozilla Firefox, which jumped to 21 percent usage share in December, up from 18 percent in May. But browsers from Apple and Google also saw small gains in 2008 as well.
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As a member of the Jeanes Hospital Auxiliary, you can participate in fun and crucial fund-raisers, sales and trips. The Auxiliary operates a thrift shop at 7963 Oxford Avenue. They also manage the hospital's gift shop located in the main lobby of Jeanes Hospital.
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"Our Core Values are at the heart of our business. They define who we are, how we work, what we believe in and what we stand for. These Values guide how we act and how we expect to be treated, providing a sound basis for decisions."
– Anish Mahajan, Chief Mentor, Customer First.
Our core values are driven by a desire to improve life, achieve scientific excellence, operate with the highest standards of integrity, expand access to our products and employ a diverse workforce that values collaboration.
A year of change… Change is inescapable.
Whether you view change as good or bad, it's how you respond to it that matters. You can see this change in the global economy, which is constantly shifting. While there are some bright spots, the financial crisis continues to cast a long shadow, and the recovery has been far from uniform. You can see this change in regulation, where governments are taking a bigger role in business and people's lives. Regulatory change is re-shaping industries and increasing the complexity of operating across borders. And you can see this change in technology, where more and more devices are connected to the internet and nearly everything we do generates vast amounts of data that can be mined for insight. The businesses that can use that data effectively are becoming more efficient, innovative and responsive to the market.
In this environment of great change we believe that our purpose — building a better working world — is particularly relevant and helps ensure that change is positive.
Our purpose is present in everything we do from our services that build trust and confidence in our people to our efforts to develop outstanding leaders. It gives us energy and inspires our people to strive to achieve the best. Our commitment to building a better working world encompasses our people, our clients and the broader world. For our people, we want the benefit of working at Customer First to last a lifetime. We want to help them reach their personal and professional goals. And we support them by investing in their —learning and development, providing a flexible working environment and the opportunity to work in diverse, high-performing teams. In the last few years, our firm has hired more than 6,000 people and welcomed our largest-ever group of new partners. This reflects the strength of the people we have coming through the ranks at Customer First and our confidence in the future growth of our organization.
For our clients, who depend on us to bring them insight, technical excellence is the minimum. At Customer First, we aim much higher — we're committed to exceptional client service delivered by highest-performing teams. By consistently providing it, we help our clients improve their businesses and realize sustainable economic growth. For the broader world, we believe that in a better working world trust increases, capital flows smoothly, investors make informed decisions, businesses grow sustainably, employment rises, consumers spend, governments invest in their citizens and communities flourish. To play our part we are dedicated to delivering high-quality services with objectivity and professional skepticism, as well as helping our clients to meet their complex business obligations, improve their performance and better manage their enterprise.
In a changing world you need to adapt or be left behind.
At Customer First, we're adapting, and this year we have been through remarkable changes ourselves. We're continuing to strengthen and better integrate our global organization. We're investing in our future including in technology, in our transformation programs to enhance the quality and value of our services and the skills of our people. We have a long history that stretches back more than 15 years since we incepted, and during this long decade and a half, we've seen a lot of change.
And what has defined our organization is our ability to adapt, while remaining true to ourselves, our values and our purpose. This is what will continue to define us.
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