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Professor Victor Bergman
Master Engineer
Master Scientist
Television Other TV Shows Space 1999
Role: Character (supporting cast)
Space 1999 was a 1975-1977 science-fiction TV show. It was thus just pre-Star Wars – an important landmark in terms of genre credibility. It was British, though it headlined US actors for the American market.
Said actors were from the then-hot Mission Impossible series, and the showrunners were the Andersons, who made most sci-fi shows in the UK that weren't Doctor Who (for instance, Thunderbirds). Despite that the series didn't fare well – but there still exists significant nostalgia about it.
Real Name: Professor Victor Bergman.
Group Affiliation: None (Although the residents of Moonbase Alpha have taken to calling themselves Alphans).
Base Of Operations: Moonbase Alpha, crater Plato, Luna.
Height: 5'9"(?) Weight: 150lbs(?). Age: Late 50's to early 60's.
Eyes: Blue Hair: Black with quite a bit of gray; Balding on top.
Professor Victor Bergman is a Nobel Prize winning scientific genius and easily the most intelligent individual on Alpha. In fact, he contributed more to the base's construction than any other single person.
In addition, he is the creator of both the Anti-Gravity Force Field employed by Alpha's Eagle spacecraft and the "Bergman Cell" which powers the Stun Gun Model 1 and 2.
He is the discoverer of the Pluto satellite, Charon and the heretofore unknown planet Ultra, a mysterious world lying just outside our Solar System. If a scientific solution can be found for Alpha's latest menace, it is Bergman who can devise it.
Though still vibrant, Bergman is no longer a young man. On the other hand, he can handle a Stun Gun adequately and will not hesitate to assist his fellow Alphans in a battle.
In fact, for a man of his years with his medical history, Bergman seems almost fearless in the face of danger. This is primarily due to his mechanical heart. Though restricting him in many ways it does convey one advantage : it makes Bergman physically immune to panic.
A wonderful Space: 1999 site (http://www.members.tripod.com/kevinmccorrytv/sp1999ep.html, now defunct) with an incredibly detailed timeline of the Moonbase Alpha universe.
It does a great job of reconciling some of the chronological inconsistencies between Season's one and two and even seeks to shoehorn in a Charlton Comic adventure or two. However I have chosen not to include information that I could not verify as coming from an "official" source.
For those interested, my "official" sources are, in order of importance:
The original episodes [when available…Columbia House only produced 10-2 episode videos before they lost the rights. That constitutes less than half the 48 episode original run].
The episode novelizations [which, unfortunately, omit two episodes completely and change some minor and some major details in several others].
The Alpha Moonbase Technical Notebook [published by Starlog in 1977].
Exploring Space: 1999 by John Kenneth Muir.
Little is known of Victor Bergman's personal history prior to the events of September 13, 1999. What follows is information that can be verified by official sources.
Bergman was born June 27, 1940 in London, England. A scientific genius from an early age, Bergman, while still in his 20's, won a Nobel Prize for his work in determining the presence of natural satellites through the close inspection of planetary movements.
This early triumph was balanced by a life-threatening illness that left him with a mechanical heart.
Professor Bergman and Commander Koenig are old friends although it is unclear when and how they first met. We do know for certain that Bergman, Koenig, and Dr. Helena Russell have worked together at least since 1996. This is when all 3 were involved in the Ultra Probe mission, an attempt to explore the mysterious planet Ultra discovered by Bergman in 1994.
From all indications, these three principal Alphans have known each other even longer.
In the early 1980's, Bergman was approached by the ILFC to contribute to the construction of the proposed Moonbase Alpha. Thrilled with the opportunity to partake in such a scientific adventure, he took a sabbatical from his teaching position at the International Space Academy and joined the project. He never returned to the classroom.
Instead, taking the unofficial title "Visiting Scientist", Bergman stayed on Alpha after its completion using the conditions that he could only find on Luna to conduct scientific experiments.
As a result, he was on Alpha on September 13, 1999, when a massive nuclear explosion sent the moon hurtling away from the Earth and into the vast reaches of space.
Some time between Alpha's encounter with the planets Arkadia and Psychon (timelines vary widely – unofficially 328 days after leaving Earth orbit) Bergman was killed when his space suit malfunctioned while supervising the installation of the moonbase's new laser defense ring.
Unofficial fate
(Official sources claim Professor Bergman died somewhere between the events depicted in The Testament of Arkadia (Season 1, Episode 24) and The Metamorph (Season 2, Episode 1). Fan speculation, however, presents a much happier fate for Alpha's resident genius.)
(While I feel a duty to the "official" sources, my fondness for the character forces me to mention this other version of why Bergman is missing in the show's second season.)
There are unsubstantiated reports that Bergman was not killed in this accident, however, and that his subsequent absence from the moonbase was a result of his own conscious decision to leave.
This theory holds that approximately 380 days after leaving Earth orbit, the professor left Alpha voluntarily to live among an alien race, the inhabitants of the small planet Krom II. There he sought to lead the aliens out of their dark age into one of reason and enlightenment
Professor Victor Bergman is a Caucasian man of average height. He is trim and outwardly healthy for his age. His Alphan duty uniform consists of Khaki shoes and slacks. The khaki tunics of Moonbase personnel have colored left sleeves and collars indicating the individual's assignment on Alpha.
As Bergman has no official rank or assignment on the base, his tunic has no colored sleeve / collar.
Like all Alphans, he wears an I.D. badge over his left breast and a thick, khaki belt which his Commlock clips onto and which can support a Stun Gun holster.
Professor Victor Bergman is the quintessential scientist : perceptive, ingenious, and curious almost to the point of being foolhardy. He is fascinated by the many strange beings, worlds, and phenomena that Alpha meets in its journey across the universe and looks at every new encounter as an opportunity to learn.
As a result of his mechanical heart, he is slow to react to nervous stimuli allowing him to calmly analyze each new threat to the moonbase. When posed with a scientific puzzle, he often thinks out loud, positing theories then dismissing or altering them based on the facts.
To the residents of Moonbase Alpha, Bergman is a grandfatherly figure, quick with a word of encouragement or a comforting pat on the arm. He is especially close to Commander Koenig who perhaps sees the elder scientist as a surrogate father.
By virtue of his early work on the moonbase project, he is considered something of a fixture on Alpha while his status as "visiting scientist", a position that affords no official rank, allows him to play the part of outsider-looking-in.
Finally but most importantly, Bergman is a philosopher and humanist, a trait he shares to a certain extent with Alpha's Commander Koenig. While unlikely to point to the traditional concept of a divine presence as the cause of Alpha's trek through space, he does acknowledge some "cosmic intelligence" is at work in the universe.
"I'm a scientist. I don't know anything about God. No, it's a cosmic intelligence that I've got in mind"
Obviously, for the events of September 13, 1999 to occur as depicted in Space: 1999, it is necessary to make wholesale changes in current DC continuity. A better tack, perhaps, is to use Moonbase Alpha and its inhabitants in an alternate reality story.
The player characters, on their way to the JLA Watchtower, experience a teleporter tube malfunction and find themselves on a very different moonbase.
If the PCs are low to mid powered heroes without the means to travel in space, a GM could have them materialize on Alpha just as Koenig and his staff are beginning to piece together what is occurring out in Nuclear Waste Disposal Areas One and Two.
Since Alpha is home to many of Earth's best and brightest, it might be interesting to station "Elseworlds" versions of established DC characters there for the PCs to interact with.
For instance, Chief of Reconnaissance and top Eagle jockey Alan Carter might have a rival in Hal Jordan or Larry Trainor, Bruce Wayne or Lex Luthor might be ILFC board members visiting the troubled base, and Maya of Psychon could be M'aya, the last Martian.
The story itself could revolve around the PCs growing certainty that something very bad and beyond their control is going to occur. Alternately, the players could arrive on Alpha post-breakaway. A sufficiently large PC group could tax Alpha's already scarce resources to the limit.
PCs who regularly risk death at the hands of murderous villains might not be so brave in the face of slow starvation. Or, for a more slam bang adventure, have the players arrive just as the insanely powerful Balor awakens. Brrrr.
Professor Bergman
Dex: 02 Str: 01 Bod: 02 Motivation: Thrill of Discovery
Int: 09 Wil: 05 Min: 04 Occupation: Professor of Technology ; International Space Academy
Inf: 04 Aur: 04 Spi: 03 Resources: 08 (See below)
Init: 13 HP: 50
Gadgetry: 11, Scientist: 12, Weaponry (Firearms): 03
Genius, Iron Nerves, Scholar (Astrophysics, Space Phenomenon), Security Clearance (Medium).
International Space Academy (High), ILFC – International Lunar Finance Commission (Low).
Age (Old), Forced Exile, MIA (Curiosity), MPR (Mechanical Heart).
Stun Gun Model 2 [BODY 04, Energy Blast: 08, Heat Vision: 08, Power Reserve: 04, R#: 02. Power Reserve can augment both Energy Blast and Heat Vision. Limitations:
Energy Blast and Heat Vision use the wielder's Weaponry (Firearms) Skill as AV.
Energy Blast has a maximum Range of 4 APs.
Heat Vision has a maximum Range of 1 AP.
when augmenting Energy Blast with Power Reserve the wielder automatically enters Killing Combat.
use of Heat Vision on a living target is always considered Killing Combat].
Note: The Stun Gun Model 2 is carried by security personnel and survey parties. Authorized personnel on Alpha carry Stun Gun Model 1's which sport all the same features as the Model 2 but cannot be set to a "Kill" setting (i.e., its Energy Blast cannot be augmented by Power Reserve). Heat Vision represents a laser cutting / welding torch. Both models are compact, staple-gun looking devices with 4 extremely short barrels down their front face.
The top barrel is for the Energy Blast while the 3 other barrels are different settings of the Heat Vision laser torch (2nd barrel: Range of Touch, 3rd barrel: Range of 0 APs and augmented by 2 APs of Power Reserve, 4th barrel: Range of 1 AP and augmented by the full 4 APs of Power Reserve).
Commlock [BODY 03, Detect (Radiation): 08, Radio Communications: 06, Thermal Vision: 05, R#: 03, Bonus: The Commlock's Radio Communications Power encompasses both video and audio ; the Commlock's Radio Communications Power can be used to access Moonbase Alpha Main Mission Computer (the Commlock then functions as a remote terminal of Computer ; Koenig's Commlock, like those possessed by all of Alpha's Command Staff, can switch to a Scrambled setting for official communiques and security transmissions].
Note: The Commlock is a stubby, scepter-like device a little over 7 inches high. In addition to its communication functions, it has a number of other features. It is also a passkey of sorts. Each Commlock is programmed for an individual owner, allowing that owner access to those areas of Alpha appropriate to his/her rank, position, and security clearance. The Commlocks possessed by the Command and Security Staffs grant their owner's unlimited access to all areas of Moonbase Alpha. Only Commander Koenig or Chief of Security Verdeschi have the authority to expand or limit a Commlock's passkey function. It is also a Geiger counter, a clock, and a calculator and can measure temperature and atmospheric pressure.
LIFE SCAN BRACELET [BODY 02, Detect (Life Signs): 02, Radio Communications: 06. Limitation: Detect (Life Signs) can only measure the life signs of the wearer].
Note: Each Alphan wears one of these watch-like devices which continually transmits information to the base's Medical Center regarding its owner's health (heart rate, respiration, brain activity, etc.).
When in use by survey teams, this vital information is transmitted to the team's Eagle Transporter and then relayed by the Eagle's much more powerful Interstellar Transmitter back to Alpha.
Thrill of Discovery
While Professor Victor Bergman recognizes that his great intelligence brings with it a certain responsibility to his fellow Alphans, his main motivation is a genuine love of scientific inquiry. This is represented in MEGS terms by the motivation Thrill of Discovery.
Essentially, such a character has the Thrill of Adventure motivation with the adventure in question being scientific endeavor.
Both heroic and villainous characters can possess the Thrill of Discovery motivation. Heroic characters will most likely have Responsibility of Power or Upholding the Good as secondary motivations while villainous characters might be further motivated as per the Mercenary or Power Lust motivations.
A misguided scientist who inadvertently creates a dangerous virus or rampaging monster in his pursuit of pure science might have the Thrill of Discovery motivation.
Resources on Alpha
One of the problems that Bergman and his Alphan companions confront on a daily basis is how to allocate the Moonbase's very limited resources.
While mining and excavation of the moon produces some of the materials that the Alphans require, making a Wealth Check or finding components to build a Gadget on Alpha is never as easy as simply making a dice roll.
As a father figure / mentor to Moonbase Alpha's Commander Koenig and the base's finest scientific mind, Professor Bergman and his resource needs are usually given high priority when allocations must be made.
But the well is far from inexhaustible and the GM should feel free to assess CS penalties to Wealth Checks or even simply disallow them if appropriate.
Professor Victor Bergman — Averaged PL 3.2
-1 0 0 0 0 8 3 1
Mechanical Heart ● 1 point ● Descriptor: Technological
– No Panic Response — Enhanced Advantage (Fearless)
Fearless.
Benefit (Security Clearance), Equipment 8.
Deception 1 (+2), Expertise: Science 12 (+20), Insight 6 (+9), Perception 8 (+11), Persuasion 1 (+2), Technology 11 (+19)
Stun Gun Model 2 Stun Blast: Ranged Damage 12, Diminished Range 1, AE (Laser: Ranged Damage 12, Diminished Range 3) ● 24 points
Commlock Feature (Security Pass), Radio Communications 2 (Subtle), Senses 4 (Detect Atmospheric Conditions, Detect Radiation, Infravision, Time Sense) ● 14 points
Lifescan Bracelet Senses (Radio Communication Link, Detect Life Signs) ● 2 points
Unarmed +1, Close, Damage -1
Stun Gun +3, Ranged, Damage 12
Dodge 1 Fortitude 0
Parry 1 Toughness 0
Curiosity Bergman is driven to investigate the unknown.
Thrill of Discovery Although basically loyal to the Alphans, his primary motivation is the pursuit of pure knowledge through science.
Mechanical Heart Bergman has a mechanical heart, making him subject to certain effects. His heart rate also does not increase rapidly in response to stress.
Powers Levels
Trade-off areas. Attack/Effect PL 8, Dodge/Toughness PL 1, Parry/Toughness PL 1, Fort/Will PL 2.
Points total 55. Abilities 24, Defences 2, Skills 20, Powers 1, Devices 0, Advantages 9. Equiv. PL 4.
By Vincent Paul Bartilucci.
Source of Character: Space: 1999 Television Program.
Collected Space 1999 DVDs
Space 1999 novels and guidebooks
Superstar Commander Koenig


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Venmurasu Programming Team
Author: Visu
2022, Contests
2022 VPT Contest:
December 20, 2022 December 21, 2022 Visu
Credits: Shanmugavel V
PSG COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, COIMBATORE
ONLINE VENMURASU PROGRAMMING TEAM QUALIFIER CONTEST
The total duration of the qualifier contest will be 12 hrs. (8:00am – 8:00pm) on 31/12/2022.
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Basic knowledge on how to use Git.
A public GitHub repository to upload code and data.
Team of 3 students (maximum of 5)
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Introduction to Machine learning in Natural Language Computing
November 24, 2021 Visu
[Tech Talk delivered by Mahendrarajan Chandrasekaran at PSG Tech on Aug, 2021]
[Transcript of the talk]
Good morning. I would like to give you an introduction about machine learning in natural language processing. I will give you an overview about what machine learning is about and more specifically in terms of natural language computing. I also planned to talk a bit about the current state of Indian languages with respect to machine learning. Next we will talk about machine translation and then I'll be giving you a small demo using one of the open source machine learning libraries. We will then announce the programming contest for this year .
We're all aware that software is in the center of everything in the world and is becoming as ubiquitous as electricity. But not all the problems have been solved by computing. There are certain classes of problems that used to be traditionally very hard for computing to solve. There are still problems that software doesn't handle very well like image recognition and speech recognition. Then there is natural language processing, for example if you give a text can the system understand what that text is about and then autonomous driving, where in realtime the software does driving in the real world scenario and then there is a medical image processing which typically involves specialized people to look at CT scans and other medical images.
One of the common themes across these challenges is that it's not a simple number crunching but rather it involves some sort of a cognition to perform really well in these areas. It requires some sort of intelligence to make sense out of the data which is typically in the realm of human intelligence. Machine learning has made huge advances in these areas and currently there is a huge Improvement.
Here is the chart that shows improvement on the areas that I have mentioned like image classification, Machine translation and Medical image processing. I have highlighted the areas where you see a huge change, in fact it's a step change in terms of improvement. These are results for samples where it is compared against humans. For example, image classification – when you show a picture of an image of a dog, it's very simple for humans to identify but a hard challenge for computers. If you look at this chart, it does almost achieve 90 to 95 %. Medical imaging requires very special skill, for example like a doctor or radiologist, who has to look at the CT scans, x-ray images and then identify the cases like tumors etc., even in this it achieves 90 to 95 percent which is closer to human efficiency. It is as good as any specially trained humans.
In the case of autonomous driving, it used to be a dream but these days it has achieved about 30%. You might all be aware that chess has been a solved problem as computers beat humans in chess some twenty years before, but even then scientists claimed that the game Go cannot be solved any time soon. It is very hard for computers to beat humans in the game of Go because Go as a game has very complex game play. Because it takes years and years for an expert to get trained on Go but a program called AlphaGo by Google has beat a top notch Go player recently.
Another problem in a different domain is called protein folding, this is a well understood problem for about 50 years that couldn't be solved due to the complexity of the solution. This problem is very critical for new drug discovery. Recently it has been solved by one of the program called Alpha Fold.
Next in the field of natural language interpretation, there's a company called as OpenAI, that has created a data model called GPT-3 which is built from indexing text data from dictionaries, books, Wikipedia and processed them to create a 175 billion parameter model which takes a lot of computing power running for for weeks and weeks. Using this model, one can then generate a human-like text by providing a seed sentence, it can create a new sentence which at times would be hard to decipher whether it has been generated by the program or by a human.
So, what changed? Change happened on two fronts. From a hardware perspective, of course there is a continuous decrease in cost of computing power and also the rise of high powerful GPUs ( graphical processing units). If you look in the last few years, you could notice that the GPUs have grown tremendously even when compared against the CPUs, the price per performance has increased. Solid state drives which are more compact and better price per performance are becoming the norm. On the software front, there's a step change in the approach which is called a convoluted neural network. Earlier when you used to solve a problem you had to create a very smart algorithm, because the cost to save huge data is prohibitive and also data is harder to collect and annotate. But in recent years, it is very easy to store voluminous data efficiently, so your algorithm can be very simple, it is like, you capture the data and explain the problem and then basically ask the computer to use the data and figure out the solution. While there might be processes involved to clean out the data, the solution itself is simple. You can have a very simple algorithm to achieve your output as it is based on a simpler linear progression algorithm.
Let's now look at the current state in this chart on natural languages. I want to share the data on the state of Indic languages. If you look at this graph it shows the number of native speakers against the number of articles by language in Wikipedia. So a very simple measure to show the state of the languages. On the top, even though there are less number of speakers, the availability of Wikipedia articles is very high in English, French, German, western languages. In fact, for English I need to trim the bar because it's so off the charts, but if you look at the bottom portion you see what are called low resource languages. If you consider Hindi which is spoken by many more than Japanese, the no. of articles is less. For Tamil, even though the number of native speakers are almost the same as German or French, the availability of articles is completely disproportionate. What it means is if you speak a high resource language, you already have a huge text corpus that is made available for you. These are all annotated with various morphological analysis and available for you. You can then use that data and do your machine translation or run other enhanced processing on top of it. Similarly for text to speech conversion, you need to capture the speech from various native speakers which cater for different accents, regions etc., and then it needs to be annotated. ie., someone would have manually transcribed and built a speech model so that you can take any other new speech and do the automatic transcription. This is what is being used in Google Docs and in other areas. So now you can pretty much see the difference between high resource and low resource languages and the same goes for optical character recognition where you need data to convert printed text to electronic text.
Even though India has a very high and specific need to have resources to cater for multi-language we don't quite possess it. But there are some significant projects that have been focussing on natural language processing set up like some IIT's that have created some research groups that do it and there are some government institutes that do it. Recently I have stumbled upon some open source initiatives which cater for a missing corpus for Indic languages and also provide code to work with it. One of the best parts about open-source is, today even though you can translate text with Google Docs you cannot deploy on your phone you have to use what has been provided by the service. you cannot even improve upon that even though you might have means to do it because you don't have access to the model. This AI4Bharath is an initiative started by 2 IIT professors and led by a volunteer group of programmers. It currently supports 11 Indian languages along with it's pairs. They have built a machine learning model that translates from English to other Indian languages as well as from Indian languages to English. They have created this model that has been trained on all these Indian languages using 47 million pairs across all languages thus making the model which is previously available only from the commercial sources as open source.
Now I wanted to show a quick demo. In natural language processing one of the important processes is Machine translation that enables people to communicate in a globalized manner and it's important to understand other cultures. Traditionally, machine translation has been used in a very confined domain for example legal or medical transcription. Literary domain has always been one of the hardest to crack because the literary text has its own subtleties and nuances to capture. I'm trying to show you a snippet here and compare it against a text with a translated version. So you could see a source text and below that we see its manual translation. I'm going to compare this against the existing state-of-the-art and open source. I've used the same text shown here and used Google, Microsoft translation services and one of the open-source libraries I talked about.
When I did this exercise I was hoping that it has no chance to stand against the state-of-the-art systems because this has been done by multi-billion dollar companies. ButI was pleasantly surprised to see it perform as good as if not better than the state-of-the-art systems. The translation is not perfect but it is much better. For example it is syntactically correct. This is better than what was available even from the last couple of years ago. It also does a sensible translation which is grammatically correct without any major issues because English has its own separate structure and Tamil has separate structure.
Now, I'm going to go show you a quick demo using the AI4Bharat Library. I'm taking the BBC English version of the news item and then trying to compare against the same article in the Tamil version. So if you look at the output you could see that it pretty much matches with the English version.
Thank you all for joining.
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Talk by Viswanathan Mahalingam to PSG Tech students in July 2020. Talk intended to Information Technology/Computer Science engineering college grads @ India
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/138282uMWaILZx7ydF3jLZjs58TjstXXAOjKYTcmWHOI/edit#slide=id.p
My father is a mechanical engineer and works in a sugar factory as General Manager in Karnataka. For a long time (pre- IT boom), marine engineering jobs were one of the highest paid jobs in India. My father actually wanted to become a marine engineer, but my farmer grandfather overruled him stating that seafaring as a risky job. So, my father made my elder brother a marine engineer. Oh, why else will you have kids, if not for your dreams! My brother is a marine engineer, who works for Bernhard Schulte Ship management company. BSM is one of the largest ship management company in the world. Ship owners lease their ships to BSM. Brother works in contract mode, where he sails for 6-8 months a year, transporting iron ore and other natural resources from all parts of the world (Australia, Brazil, etc) to China.
Sugar, shipping, oil, banking industries are what I call 'old world Industries'. How much ever my father or brother worked hard in their lifetime, they will be only paid salaries and bonuses, but not stocks or equities. Forget about buying your own ship or building a sugar factory. Also, these industries are heavily regulated by government and entry barrier to start a business is very high. You need license, land, lots of money, etc. I simply call businesses / companies where the owners / founders are willing to share their wealth in terms of equity to their employees, as 'New world industries'.
I suggest to read Paul Graham's essay on startups, mainly to highlight that every year thousands of cafes and barber shops are opened across the world, but not all entrepreneurship can considered startups. Once I was tricked by a frenemy to meet an IIT educated 'entrepreneur' in sweltering Chennai heat, who turned out to be a multi-marketing amway agent.
Also, I want to put a disclaimer that in contrast to popular opinion, you will be financially better off (most of the time) to work in a well established company (FAANG, Salesforce, Paypal, etc) than to work in a startup. You will have a relatively stable, less stressful job. The common reasons on working in a startup are faster learning and career growth, even if your startup is not successful, your resume and future career prospects will be better. But the most important reason I think to work in a startup is it gives you space to try out your ideas. A friend of mine working in Google, Mountain View complained that his bosses are not listening to his ideas. He exactly knew why Google+ is failing compared to Facebook and how they can make Google+ win. I was telling him, well, Google became Google without your ideas in first place and they hired you not for 'your ideas', but to execute 'their ideas'. If you really want to try your ideas, then quit Google, go find your own company or join a early stage startup, where you add value. He moved to Bangalore from Mountain View few years later and indeed quit Google to start https://crio.do with another friend, who worked in FlipKart.
Working and starting a startup, brings back the concept of 'Ecosystem'. Vasco Dagama, first European to find a sea route to India, didn't wake up one day from sleep and sail to India straight away. It took multiple generations of Kings and Sea Farers, it is an ONE HUNDRED YEAR dream project to collectively find the sea route to India. Starting from Prince the Henry the Navigator time, Sailor Alvaro Fernandes reached Siearra Leone in 1446, Diago Cam reached Congo in 1482, Bartolomeu Dias circled the cape of good hope – 1488 and finally Vasco da Gama – reached India in 1498 and future seafarers sailed further east finding routes to South East Asia and Far East(Spice islands then). The successes and failures of each sailor, helped the next one to take a step forward. The present era venture capitalists are similar to those Kings and the entrepreneurs are akin to the sea-farers, with the architects, product managers, et.all to the sailing crew. FlipKart's successful exit has created the startup ecosystem in Bangalore. Coimbatore has a good manufacturing and entrepreneurial base. Let's hope that Coimbatore gets its own FlipKart sometime in the future.
Talk by Viswanathan Mahalingam to PSG Tech students in July 2020. The talk's intended audience was students @ PSG Tech, India. But the content more or less applies to a wider audience.
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Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-vb2kc9ZaRfVnuli-HZWGUAaN-JFovudahXMbI2HN00/edit?usp=sharing
I studied in 5 different schools, as my father got transfers every 3-4 years. I did my 10th std at Ramakrishna Vidyaalaya Matriculation HSS (RVM), Villupuram and did my 12th std from MSP Solai Nadar MHSS, Dindigul. RVM is an english medium matriculation school, while MSP is primarily a tamil medium government aided school under private management with few english medium sections. During my 12th std (2001), we had entrance exams for engineering and medical courses in Tamil Nadu. 300 was the total cutoff marks with TNPCEE exams accounting for 100 and 12th board exams accounting for 200 marks. The school fees at RVM is 5X more than MSP and the student quality is more or less same in both the schools and I used to get around 5th or 6th rank in both of them. Dindigul is twice as populous and wealthier than Villupuram. As most of them in Tamil Nadu know that PSG Tech is one of the top Engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu, let me ask a question: How many students joined PSG Tech from each of these schools in 2001?
0 out of 200 students from RVM joined PSG Tech.
8 out of 300 students, from MSP including me, joined PSG Tech.
The numbers get even more skewed towards MSP, when you consider all the top engineering colleges & medical colleges in Tamil Nadu. What explains this puzzle ? A more expensive school with similar student quality could not send any student to colleges like PSG Tech. The numbers cuts across caste and class. The answer lies in the single word called 'Ecosystem'.
The teachers in MSP school knew how to crack TNPCEE. They had the last 10 year question papers of TNPCEE. As soon as our 11th grade exams were over, MSP teachers conducted private tuitions, where they started to coach students for TNPCEE. RVM students prepared for TNPCEE only after their 12th grade public exams. So, MSP students had a head start of 1 year over RVM students' 1 month prep time. MSP teachers also had a feedback loop of how well their coaching is working, as year after year, more MSP students went to good colleges [1]. While MSP sent students to top engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu, no one went to IITs, as there was no exposure or coaching on how to crack IIT JEEs.
A relative asked my "Why do we need to study abroad ? What do we not have in India?". Many of my PSG batch mates are well settled in their life without doing any higher studies (in India & Abroad). Also, compared to 15 years ago, now a lot of well paying product companies and startups jobs are available in Indian cities – Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, etc. So, you do not need to do higher studies for better job prospects, go abroad or earn wealth. Then why should one study abroad ? The only reason I would say is the "ecosystem" the top universities provide for research opportunities and starting your startups.
Let us quickly look at the operational expense (Staff salaries, maintenance of hostel, library, cost of conducting Conference, workshops) etc for the year 2018-19:
PSG Tech: ~$11M [One of the top engineering college in Tamil Nadu.]
IIT Madras: ~$110 M [Ranked 1 in all of India]
Georgia Institute of Technology: ~$1.6B
I am just listing these numbers to highlight the difference in scale in terms of money and not on student quality. One of the primary reason for scale of Gatech is the research funding the institute and its faculty receive from the US Government agencies like NSF, etc. In India, research funding is primarily given to CSIR, HAL, DRDO, BARC and other central government research institutions. Few drops trickle down to Indian universities and colleges, which evaporate like morning mist. Another point is in top US universities, a professor will get a permanent job ('tenure') only if they attract certain amount of funds to the institutes. Professor's salary are highly competitive as well – if not the FAANG salary levels, they are on-par with the industry. Well funded professors help top notch talented students to start their own companies. Prof.Steve Dickerson of Gatech gave the initial seed funding to Gatech grad students Aarjav Trivedi & Arun Elangovan, which helped them to found Ridecell, where I currently work for the past eight years. Another company is Pindrop, founded by Vijay Balasubramaniam, PhD graduate student at Gatech (who was my mentor at Gatech) and Prof.Mustaque Ahamad, who funded my graduate studies at Gatech. One can hope that the 'Center of Eminence' initiatives, potential "defense corridor" projects change the equation in India and send the research funds towards the colleges.
My personal advice to any one who want to study abroad is to work for few years in India, figure out what you want to do, stay in touch with your classmates, even those who you 'think' are not your friends, because you can learn from the success and failures of everyone in your network. Some of my not-so-close friends in college, helped me shortlist my university applications, review statement of purpose, gave good guidance with respect to choosing the best university, helped in placement preps later and eventually became my best friends. From my side, all I have to do is to let go off my ego, acknowledge their smartness and ask for help.
Thanks to Jacque Camie, Chief of Staff, Ridecell and Arun Gomathinayagam, Engineering Manager, NYTimes (and classmate at PSG Tech) on reviewing the content and listening through a dry run.
For further reading on thoughts of improving Indian Universities, I recommend – 'Institutions of Sand' chapter in 'Imagining India' by Nandan Nilekani. One of his ideas was to allow foreign universities to open up in India. Around 2010, Indian government relaxed regulations to allow foreign universities to setup shop in India. Georgia Tech had a plan to open a remote campus in Hyderabad, but postponed the idea when they learnt that they cannot transfer the money earned out of India back to US. I am not sure of the present state and I still think the top tech universities of the world (MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, Gatech) should be allowed to setup remote campuses in India, the benefits far outweigh the monetary loss. Opening up of Indian economy in 1990's did not wipe out Indian Industry as feared by titans of the industry then, but made them resilient and compete with the global corporations, improving the quality of product far better.
As a counterpoint to the above arguments, the future of learning could turn out to be completely outside formal educational systems and become online / skill based learnings – ex: https://www.zohoschools.com/ or https://lambdaschool.com/ or https://byjus.com/us/ (of-course Zohoschools differ from others as the motives are different). 'Universities are dead' has been a favorite argument and the pandemic is fundamentally changing many of our assumptions and accelerating new ideas.
I am currently working with quite a few smart folks, who are college dropouts and its been an humbling experience for me to learn from them that college degrees do not matter and changed my value systems forever – I hired 6+ college dropouts for my teams in SF & Pune and some of them turned out to be the best and in-turn are leading teams now in SF and Pune. (I will cover in separate topic).
While, I welcome the new online learning institutes/newer systems with whole heart, many questions remain as how will the new systems scale, how do we find teachers in scale, provide best pedigree to the top students so they invent new things, incentivize faculty to start their own companies while teaching in parallel – provide market based pay, provide enough opportunities to everyone so we as a society are inclusive. My father studied in Tamil medium in school, scored 98 out of 100 in Math from his SSLC (11th grade) but he barely knew english, struggled in college (academically & financially) and literally scrapped through the college degree with minimum marks. Many in my extended family benefited from the reservation (affirmative actions) programs of Tamil Nadu government, but me and my brother are well off and didn't need affirmative actions. I do understand the fear of "commercializing" education, importance of affirmative actions, competitive space for everyone to thrive. My point here is, if the new online education systems scale, then many of the existing problems will resurface in a different way — much like centuries old plague, Spanish flu and other epidemics re-surfacing after a hundred years in the new scientifically advanced world. So, I do think its important that we improve the existing formal education sector (universities / colleges) and the old & the new are not mutually exclusive. There are other important benefits like how students learn from one another much faster when they are under one roof, re-use the vast infrastructure we already have, etc.. More personal stories and my other thoughts in a later post.
November 23, 2021 November 24, 2021 Visu
You can find more details on the background here.
The contest was conducted on July-August 2020.
Image credit: Shanmugavel V
The contest was announced as part of a webinar. 75 students attended the talk. 6 teams signed up for the contest.
Arun Bharath Gomathinayagam – Engineering Manager, The NewYork Times, New York
Rajendran Thirupugalsamy – Senior Software Engineer, Google, Seattle
Sridharan Venkataramanan – Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft, Seattle
Judges are very impressed with the submissions and we decided to increase the total prize money from ₹10K to ₹21K.
Thank you Sridharan Venkataramanan for sponsoring the contest.
Judging Criteria:
Solving the original challenge (finding 10 longest words) → 25%
Design, Coding style → 35%
Going above and beyond (additional features, hosting in heroku, etc) → 30%
Documentation, Demos → 10%
First Prize: Two Teams – ₹7000 each
Naveenraj @naveeen684
Github link for modularised python code: https://github.com/naveeen684/Venmurasu-Final
Github link for Django app: https://github.com/naveeen684/Venmurasu_django
Deployed app: https://venmurasu.herokuapp.com/
Aishwarya B @Aishwaryabalasundaram
Narmatha.R
ThamilVani.S
Code: https://github.com/Aishwaryabalasundaram/venmurasu_contest
Demo Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BPVbWUeDfv3HXA01LBf3-VNx6g3MBD5l/view?usp=sharing
Second Prize: ₹4000
Gokul Kumar B @gokul-bhoomi
Keerthana S
Kevin Paul @kevinpaul00
Code: https://github.com/kevinpaul00/venmurasu-webscrape
Hosted app: https://venmurasu-webscrape.herokuapp.com/
Webapp code: https://github.com/gokul-bhoomi/venmurasu-webapp
Third Prize: Three teams – ₹1000 each
Aaron Joshua @arhonJoshuaa
code: https://github.com/AarhonJoshuaa/Challenge.git
Harish KS @harish-k-s
code: https://github.com/harish-k-s/Venmurasu-Solved-HARISH-KS-IT-Dept-19I316-PSG-Tech
Nithin C
Mohamed Murshith
Hariharan K @HariharanK16
code: https://github.com/HariharanK16/Venmurasu
Congratulations to all the winners!!
November 23, 2021 December 20, 2022 Visu
2021 Venmurasu Programming Contest was the first contest conducted at PSG Tech, after we formally created the endowment fund. This year the contest was open to all circuit branch students (CSE, ECE, EEE, IT) and we hope that in upcoming years the contest will be open to all students of PSG Tech.
You can find the details about the contest here
Goal of the contest is to help the students understand NLP lifecycle. We provided the English and Tamil versions of ten chapters from Indian Epic Mahabharatham. The English version is from Kisari Mohan Ganguly's Mahabharatham (1883-1896). The Tamil version is from S.Arutselva Perarasan's Mahabharatham (2013-2020), whose translation is actually based on Ganguly's work.
The contest is to cleanup the content, align them sentence-by-sentence, then using AI4Bharat's IndicNLP models attempt to translate the Tamil version into English, then compare the original English version with the machine-translated version.
Thanks to PSG Tech faculty Dr.S.Sarathambekai and Dr.T.Vairam for creating the poster.
The contest was announced as part of a webinar – Introduction to Natural Language Processing delivered by Mahendrarajan Chandrasekaran. You can find the slides here
200+ students registered for the tech talk, 175+ turned up for the talk. 9 teams signed up to participate and 6 teams submitted their code.
Judges for the contest 2021:
Mahendrarajan Chandrasekaran, VP Engineering, Data Cloud, Canada
Gokul NC, Machine Learning Engineer, One Fourth Labs, India
Prem Selvaraj, Machine Learning Engineer, One Fourth Labs, India
Thank you Arun Ranganathan, Engineering Manager, Paypal, San Jose for sponsoring the contest.
Task Completion – Code runs without errors – 10%
Quality – Sentences aligned correctly(If 1-n sentences are not mapped it's fine) – 20%
Machine translation – 30%
BLEU Score – 20%
Code Quality – Code with comments and readme – 20%
Bonus sections
Based on the evaluation criteria the results are below:
First prize: ₹ 6000
TG Ashwin Kumar @tgashwinkumar
Jeyam Palaniappan D @jeyam03
Samyuktha M S @samyuktha-12
Sashti Amar R A @John-Tenning
Suvan Sathyendira B @suvanbalu
code: https://github.com/John-Tenning/VPC-Contest
Second prize: 3 teams – ₹ 4000 each
Tharunkumar Dhanasekaran @TharunPSG
Kavin Aravindhan R
Manuvikash S @IcyEnigma
Sharan S S @Sharan-121
code: https://github.com/IcyEnigma/VenmurasuKMST
Web Application: https://streamlitvpfinal.herokuapp.com/
Ashwin R @ashwin-rema
Bala Bharat Raaj G S
Sairam Vaidya M @sairam2661
Gokula Krishnan S @GokulaKrishnanS2002
Siva Bharathwaaj S S
code: https://github.com/sairam2661/Venmurasu-Project-1
Akil R M @Akil-Rajendran
Gokulnath P K
Prithik Kumar R
Sanjay Krishnan R
Shevannth R
code: https://github.com/Akil-Rajendran/VPT-Contest
Third prize: 2 teams – ₹ 1000 each
Aathithya S
Ajay P
Deepak Pandian A
John Alphonse Raja V @johncoder-30
code: https://github.com/johncoder-30/vpc-nlp-translation
Akash SP @AkashSCIENTIST
Dinesh C
Harishankar S
Srinivasan K
code: https://github.com/AkashSCIENTIST/venmurasu-competition-solution
Congratulations to all the winners!!!


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Let's start by reviewing the period between April 2006 to January 2010. This is when several levels of long-term importance were established. Given the high at around $9 and the low at around $1.50, the fibonacci levels now influencing the share price are established. Additionally, an up-trend was established, as indicated by the trend line from the dips in October 2008 and September 2009; this up-trend has remained in tact and serves as long-term support.
Here is a long-term chart for October 2006 to August 2011 showing the long-term up-trend with trend support at $5 and various reactions around key fibinacci support levels at 61.2% and 78.6%.
Here is the long-term chart for September 2008 to August 2011 showing the long-term up-trend with long-term trend support at $5.
Medium-term chart for October 2010 to August 2011, indicating a short-term range trade between long-term fibonacci levels 60.8% and 78.6% descending wedge with trend support at $5.
Short-term chart for March 2011 to August 2011, indicating a descending wedge formation nearing completion.
It looks like we have a short-term down-trend-line breakout on the 1-year chart in TRX.
The following is a question asked to Martin Armstrong, author of the Pi Cycle Economic Confidence Model and former chairman of Princeton Economics International. Martin Armstrong is a bona-fide economic genius with a number of amazing predictions having come true to date. His words are definitely worth considering in your own planning.
Will a Downgrade of USA FROM AAA Really Mean Anything?
talking heads will cry the sky is falling. They downgraded Japan in 2002 and nothing took place. Not even their rates increased. The same is likely in the USA and quite frankly, if S&P really thinks they have that much power, they should stop drinking their own bath water.
Downgrades come AFTER the market has already shown its course of action. It is not like the rating agencies actually pontificate and then the markets wake up and say: Oh my God! Ratings follow the market activity and have no power otherwise. The credit rating they gave the CDOs did not convince people to buy them. Once the junk was rated AAA, they were good collateral for the REPO market. That was the key. They rated the junk AAA and that made it good collateral and that was the ONLY reason the stuff sold. Without that rating, the NY boys couldn't sell anything.
When it comes to sovereign debt of the USA, we are talking about the US$ is the RESERVE currency. About two-thirds of central bank reserves globally is in dollars and the way those dollars are held is in government treasuries. Does anyone really think that if S&P downgrades the USA that its debt will not be sold?
When you deal in REAL money, there is a problem. How do you store it? You can't just put a billion on deposit at a bank. They will sell it every night and don't have to tell you. If the REPO market blows up and you go to the bank and say I want my billion, they lost it, and so you turn to FDIC to collect your $100,000. Right! The ONLY way to park serious money is in treasuries. If you have hundreds of billions, now you have the added problem of MARKET SIZE. You can't just go to any country. Their debt structure cannot provide the ability to park serious money. This is the difference from taking personal economics and applying it to the whole world. It doesn't work! Don't worry. Be happy! Until we revise the world monetary system and the dollar is no longer the RESERVE currency, sorry boys, but you are spinning scenarios that scare people, sound good as talking points, but are just gibberish in the real world of serious money. Rates will rise because capital will shift out of bonds into assets not because of the S&P.


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Published:Thursday | June 29, 2017 | 12:00 AMOrantes Moore [1]
Leanne Richards-Williams grew up as a Christian and was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church in Mason Hall, St Mary, for seven years before deciding to disassociate herself from the parish's fastest-growing religious organisation.
Today, she expresses her spirituality without being attached to any particular denomination and firmly believes that one of the biggest threats facing the people of Jamaica comes from the concepts and ideas emanating from organised religion.
Speaking earlier this week, Richards-Williams told Family and Religion: "I describe myself as someone who seeks knowledge and tries to understand the root of everything that is established - church, school, government, and finance. I read and research a lot and then use that information to base my decisions and govern how I interact with people on a daily basis. I'd be considered agnostic, but there is no real label.
"After about three years as a member of the SDA Church, I started questioning things because I understood the doctrine fully and willingly submitted to it in terms of expressing my spiritual life but noticed the church was comfortable doing the same things over and over.
"I started observing and questioning things like: Why are there so many physical churches left undone? Why is it that these people have been here longer than I, but have a spirit of animosity against each other? Cliques exist everywhere in the world, but why do they need to exist inside an organisation that is supposed to be the crËme de la crËme of all Christian churches?
"Recently, I keep hearing people say to me 'You're not a Christian, so do you still pray?' People feel lost without being identified by a particular group because of the mindset that is taught in the mainstream. There's a polarity: you're either with us or against us. You have to belong somewhere to be really sane or set. But it is possible to believe in Christ and not believe in any denomination, just as it's possible to be a part of a denomination and not follow Christ."
True spiriuality
To experience true spirituality, Richards-Williams believes that people must follow their hearts and initial instincts. She explained: "If an individual has a question, they must follow it until they find an answer they are comfortable with that settles in their soul. You have to go and do that personal work; nobody can do it for you. You have to start researching and reading because people perish for lack of knowledge.
"Just because I'm not a Christian doesn't mean I don't value the statements that are said in the Bible. But no man can use that as a means to tell me what to do and where to go, and that should be the same for anyone within the Church because God Himself doesn't tell you what to do. He lays things before you and gives you options. So don't be afraid."
Source URL: https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20170701/case-against-organised-religion
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October 20, 2016 By Mirva Villa Leave a Comment
Clinton wins head-to-head battle against Trump in final debate
The third and final presidential debate took place at last night at 2am UK time, with Hillary Clinton claiming over half of the public's support against Trump.
Clinton claimed a 52% victory over Trump in last night's debate in Vegas. Image: Gage Skidmore
The previous two debates have been characterised by interruptions and shouting-matches, with Republican nominee Donald Trump especially quick to attack his opponent, but this time he managed to dodge Hillary Clinton's provocations – except the occasional interruption of "wrong".
Moderator Chris Wallace's firm approach to the debate's topics received a lot of praise. He navigated the debate through the hotly anticipated topics of immigration, gun control and fitness to be president.
"No cheers, boos or other interruptions so we and you can focus on what the candidates have to say" -Moderator Chris Wallace, Fox News
The first heated exchange was over gun rights. Clinton clarified her stance on supporting the Second Amendment while calling for stricter gun laws.
Trump on the other hand opposes all limits on assault weapons, and argued that while Chicago has "the toughest gun laws in the United States, probably you could say by far, they have more gun violence than any other city".
"We have 33,000 people a year who die from guns. I think we need comprehensive background checks, need to close the online loophole, close the gun show loophole." – Hillary Clinton
Abortion rights was another topic that defined the candidates. Trump implied he wants to use his supreme justice appointments to overturn the federal protection for women seeking abortion by appointing "pro-life justices". He was especially against late-term abortions.
Hillary Clinton defended the right of women to make their own decisions in accordance to their health.
Immigration has been a hot topic throughout in both campaigns. Trump's plans to build a wall between the US and Mexico has received a lot of attention, with last night being no different.
Clinton has remained quiet about any specific plans to curb the illegal immigration.
Trump argued that the US needs stronger borders to stop the drugs coming through the southern border, and said, if he became president, his first act would be to tackle drug lords in the country.
"We have no country if we have no border." – Donald Trump
Clinton raised her concerns that such plans would "rip families apart" and said that rounding up the 11 million undocumented people living in the US to send them away on trains and buses would require massive resources. She also poked at Trump, claiming that he exploited undocumented workers on his building constructions.
Candidates were then seen to lose their cool as talk turned to the US-Russia relationship, particularly President Vladimir Putin. Trump said getting along with Russia would be great for the US, as the two major powers could go after ISIS together.
Clinton called Trump 'Putin's puppet' – a claim repeatedly denied by Trump. The US-Russia relationship was a big talking point, as several American security officials have claimed that Russia was behind the recent hacks.
Wallace moved on with questions on economy. Clinton's plans rely on government spending and supporting the middle class and small businesses. She wants to focus on clean energy, and raise minimum wage.
"I think when the middle class thrives, America thrives." – Hillary Clinton
Trump wanted NATO partners to start paying more to the US, and to re-negotiate trade deals to increase free trade. He also wants massive tax cuts to encourage people to earn more and businesses to grow, while Clinton's plan would mean a raise in taxes.
"We're bringing our jobs back." – Donald Trump
One of the expected topics was the candidates' stance on women. Trump has been under fire lately because of the lewd comments he made on a video in 2005.
Many women have since come forward saying Trump has acted inappropriately towards them. He denied the statements to be true claiming that he "doesn't even know those women".
Trump has also said that Bill Clinton's previous behaviour, defended by Hillary, was equally bad to his.
The Republican claimed that the accusations had been "largely debunked" and said that the Clinton campaign was behind them or the women were after fame.
As the conversation drifted away from the original topic, Clinton never talked about the Trump's accusations towards the Clinton couple. However, she was very vocal to oppose Trump's behaviour.
"Donald thinks belittling women makes him bigger. He goes after their dignity, their self-worth, and I don't think there is a woman anywhere who doesn't know what that feels like. So we now know what Donald thinks and what he says and how he acts toward women. That's who Donald is." -Hillary Clinton
Clinton came as a close winner after the third and final presidential debate in the CNN poll.
Hillary Clinton won the third presidential debate, according to a CNN/ORC poll of viewers https://t.co/Vcvg8WKWs1 #DebateNight pic.twitter.com/eLSzEeD5NY
— CNN (@CNN) 20 October 2016
Towards the end, the debate got more and more intense, with both sides exchanging blows on topics such as the Clinton foundation, Trump's taxes and the US involvement in foreign conflicts. Who do you think won the debate?
Who do you think one the third and final debate? #debatenight
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As well as providing you with the latest news from the campaign trail in the last few weeks before election day, we will be staying up through the night of November 8 to publish results.
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Rene Rancourt Salary
Rene Rancourt became famous for his rendition of the national anthems played at home games for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League. In April 2018, he decided to retire, singing his last national anthem after 42 years of performing at home games.
Rancourt's career as a singer began with an opera audition on local radio. He began to sing the national anthem for the Boston Red Sox, performing in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series.After each anthem performance, Rancourt offers a signature fist pump. He often performs before local car races and charity events around New England. He'll also bring his trademark voice to nursing homes to perform.
There are no reports available to how much Rene Rancourt earns for singing the national anthem before Bruins games. "I've never had a contract," Rancourt is reported as saying once. "I've always just shown up and I've become associated with the Bruins.
He worked with Curtis Knight Entertainment and Murray Hill Talent Events for his appearances.
Early History of Rene Rancourt
Rancourt graduated from high school in 1959. He was already singing the national anthem before local games them. He auditioned at Boston University, earned a partial scholarship, and continued singing.
He won a singing contest in 1969, which allowed him to join the GI traveling show instead of serving in Vietnam. For several years, his voice could be heard on the radio through recordings of the show.
Rancourt's big break came when John Kiley, long-time organist at Fenway Park, heard his booming voice over the radio. That gave him the opportunity to sing during the World Series, which eventually led to him singing at the old Boston Garden.
"I've been thinking about retirement since the age of 68," Rancourt told local media, when announcing his retirement. "I'm 78 now, so maybe I'm a little behind on things."
Rancourt is a native of Lewiston, Maine.
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Amanda asks: It seems like every online job site offers some kind of résumé-writing service to subscribers (for a fee, of course). What are your thoughts about going with one of those sites vs. using a smaller, direct writing/design service? Recruiters – have you seen any difference in quality? Job-seekers – do you have a preference?
Firstly, its your CV/Resume – who ever writes it, its yours.
Secondly, depends on which job you are applying for and what your route is to that job. If the job is direct, then you need a CV/Resume prepared for that job; if its via an agency or head hunter, then they will write/rewrite it for you, under the explaination they can improve your chances because they know what the client is looking for.
Thirdly, depends on how long you have been in your last position. If you have been there a long time, then a review with an independent professional will get your CV/Resume in the right shape quicker (you may not recognise your own skills; you probably won't know what's required in the marketplace), than you could on your own.
Finally – depends on how well you can write!


NGO Freedom House decides what countries should be seized would who the finances?
The "Non-governmental" organization is funded by the U.S. Government and seeks to weaken Governments that oppose its policy guidelines.
The meeting between the authorities of the CNE and political party Alianza País and think-sum delegates held at Instituto Geográfico Militar Monday.
He Minister of foreign of Kazakhstan, Kairat Abdrajmanov, reported that still wait by the other delegations that not have confirmed their presence in Astana.
"I think that we should vote all the articles this Monday," said President Santos, for whom "the JEP is the backbone" of the agreement with the FARC-EP.
Authorities conducted a preventative evacuation of impoverished populations where there were no injuries or fatalities.


WASHINGTON, DC — In this week's address, President Obama solemnly reflected on the meaning of Memorial Day and recognized the sacrifices made by the American warriors who never made it back home. Though the President stressed that citizens should thank active-duty troops and veterans every day of the year, he emphasized that Memorial Day is reserved for remembering the unselfish men and women who gave their lives in defense of the nation. In addition to reflecting on the unpayable debt owed to fallen servicemembers, Americans should also make an effort to offer support to the families of their countrymen who gave everything. Whether it's hiring a veteran, reaching out to a grieving family member, or simply pausing for a moment of silent thanks, the President wants the country to join him in an act of remembrance during the Memorial weekend.
Hi, everybody. Right now, there are American troops serving in harm's way and standing sentry around the world. There are veterans who've served honorably in times of war and peace, and often came home bearing the invisible and visible wounds of war. They may not speak the loudest about their patriotism – they let their actions do that. And the right time to think of these men and women, and thank them for their service and sacrifice, is every day of the year.
Memorial Day, which we'll observe Monday, is different. It's the day we remember those who never made it home; those who never had the chance to take off the uniform and be honored as a veteran. It's the day we stop to reflect with gratitude on the sacrifice of generations who made us more prosperous and free, and to think of the loved ones they left behind.
Remembering them – searing their stories and their contributions into our collective memory – that's an awesome responsibility. It's one that all of us share as citizens.
As Commander-in-Chief, I have no more solemn obligation than leading our men and women in uniform. Making sure they have what they need to succeed. Making sure we only send them into harm's way when it's absolutely necessary. And if they make the ultimate sacrifice – if they give their very lives – we have to do more than honor their memory.
We have to be there for their families. Over the years, Michelle and I have spent quiet moments with the families of the fallen – husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, sons and daughters. They've shared their pain – but also their pride in the sacrifices their loved ones made under our proud flag.
It's up to the rest of us to live our lives in a way that's worthy of these sacrifices.
The idea to set aside a Memorial Day each year didn't come from our government – it came from ordinary citizens who acknowledged that while we can't build monuments to every heroic act of every warrior we lost in battle, we can keep their memories alive by taking one day out of the year to decorate the places where they're buried.
That's something that so many of our fellow Americans are doing this weekend. Remembering. Remembering the soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen who died in our defense. Remembering those who remain missing. Remembering that they were our fellow citizens and churchgoers, classmates and children, and more often than not, the best of us.
So this Memorial weekend, I hope you'll join me in acts of remembrance. Lay a flower or plant a flag at a fallen hero's final resting place. Reach out to a Gold Star Family in your community, and listen to the story they have to tell. Send a care package to our troops overseas, volunteer to make a wounded warrior's day a little easier, or hire a veteran who is ready and willing to serve at home just as they did abroad.
Or just pause, take a moment, and offer a silent word of prayer or a public word of thanks.
The debt we owe our fallen heroes is one we can never truly repay. But our responsibility to remember is something we can live up to every day of the year.
Thanks. May God watch over our fallen heroes and their families, and may God continue to bless the United States of America.


Well, guess what, folks from Marvel Studio are now more than serious about that Black Panther project.
At least, that's what we had a chance to read from the latest reports that go like this – the studio has finally hired a documentary writer Mark Bailey to pen the adaptation.
Surprised with this news? Who cares, as long as T'Challa is back!
Let us remind you that Wesley Snipes was attached to an adaptation back in 2006, but the movie never happened.
Then, director John Singleton was brought in to helm Black Panther in 2007 with Chiwetel Ejiofor for the role.
G.I. Joe: the Rise of Cobra's Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje has discussed negotiating for the role in both 2009 and 2010, with no luck.
Now, we have Bailey on board, man with quite impressive background in documentaries (although an unusual choice for this adaptation), such as the 2003 HBO documentary Pandemic: Facing AIDS and A Boy's Life.
"T'Challa is heir to the centuries-old ruling dynasty of the African kingdom Wakanda, and ritual leader of its Panther Clan. His mother died in childbirth, earning him the enduring hatred of his adopted elder brother, Hunter, who also resented T'Challa for supplanting him in the royal household.
Hunter would become the White Wolf, leader of the Hatut Zeraze (Dogs of War), the Wakandan secret police. Their father T'Chaka remarried, but his second wife, Ramonda, seemingly ran away with another man when T'Challa was eight. When T'Challa was a teenager, T'Chaka was murdered by Klaw, a Dutchman seeking to plunder the rare Vibranium metal unique to Wakanda, but T'Challa used Klaw's own weapon to maim him and drive him off.
T'Challa studied in Europe and America, then underwent ritual trials in Wakanda – including defeating his uncle S'yan, the existing Black Panther – to win the heart-shaped herb, enhancing his abilities and linking him spiritually to the Panther God Bast.


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Manor To Race Ginetta LMP1 In 2018 WEC
LMP2 programme targeted for 2017
11 January 2017, 5:02 PM
Manor's WEC sportscar racing team plans to add an LMP1 Privateer effort to its 2018 racing programme with Ginetta's new-for-2018 car, DSC can exclusively reveal.
"This is the ideal programme to take our sportscar racing programme forward," said Manor's team president Graeme Lowdon (below) to DSC earlier today. "We are looking for a project that plays to our team's strength, our ability to contribute to the development of a race car and to use that to develop talent on and off the track, and to challenge for results.
"LMP1 offers more flexibility to have development input into the package and we certainly would see ourselves as partners rather than simple customers in a programme like this.
"It's the ideal next step on the ladder to our current LMP2 programme, it gives us an opportunity to offer our customers a directly relevant and challenging step up the ladder whist keeping them within the Manor family. Everything we have seen of the programmes so far is encouraging. The right people, the right package and, from what we have seen thus far, a very competitive commercial package.
"If this programme goes where it should I really do believe it could help to unlock this marketplace. We'd love to be a part of the vanguard of that, to further establish ourselves in this area of the sport.
The new Ginetta LMP1 is being designed by a team headed up by Ginetta's technical director Ewan Baldry, it already has concept drawings in place and is set to feature power from a new direct injection version of the Mechachrome turbo V6.
Its Mechachrome engine, in non-direct injection GP2-spec, delivers over 750 bhp but with a DI version, and the potential for a change in regulations to allow more fuel for the Privateer LMP1s the finished product deliver could well be close to 800 bhp, some 200 bhp more than the new-for-2017 LMP2-spec Gibson V8.
The project is also set to include CFD and windtunnel work headed up by Adrian Reynard and his Indianapolis based concern, design consultancy by Paolo Catone, designer of the Peugeot 908 LMP1, the Couurage C60 LMP 900 and latterly the BR01 LMP2 coupe. A third key member of the team with very significant and relevant experience meanwhile, cannot currently be identified for contractual reasons.
For the 2017 season Manor is targeting a return to the FIA WEC with Oreca 07 Gibsons in the LMP2 class, the team is currently working to finalise its driver lineup.
Current Ginetta LMP3 customers ARC Bratislava and PRT Racing have already confirmed their interest in fielding the new Ginetta LMP1 for the 2018 FIA WEC with the Garforth, Yorkshire-based company which is committing to an initial production run of 10 LMP1 chassis.
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Cross the biggest star on the Red Sox off the list of players who'll be attending the White House ceremony honoring their World Series championship.
American League MVP Mookie Betts told the Boston Globe that he'll be staying behind when the Red Sox visit the White House in May.
"I won't be going there," Betts told the paper. "I decided not to."
Betts specified no reason for declining to attend, but he wouldn't be the first high-profile athlete to skip since Donald Trump was inaugurated. No NBA team has taken part in the ceremony since, and Tom Brady was among the roughly 25 Patriots who skipped in 2017.
Betts spoke on Saturday night at the New York Baseball Writers' Dinner, where he officially received his MVP award.


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