Tamari was a fierce fighter for the Palestinian cause who was caught after the Israeli Lebanese invasion in 1982. He was subsequently held captive in Israeli prisons for almost two years. As he languished in prison he began to lose heart in his cause. He came to the realization that they would never be successful in dislodging the Jews from their state. He decided that the Palestinians' best option was to cut a deal with the Israelis and try to garner as much land as they could, and be done with the whole struggle. He shared his views with the thirty fellow terrorists who were inmates with him in the prison.
The Medrash explains that when G-d said, "Turn yourselves צפנה (northward)" it is a hidden reference to the Torah. Moshe conveyed to the nation that when G-d told them to turn northward He was alluding to the fact that the nation should turn towards the Torah.
Rabbi Mordechai Rogov zt'l explains that the verse and its Midrashic expounding contain a vital lesson regarding the history and future of the Jewish people. He explains that there have been many times throughout our history when we have sought to ingratiate ourselves with the nations of the world so we could fit in with them. We have symbolically 'circled Mount Seir' pondering how to become part of their way of life. We were confident that doing so would provide us with protection and stability.
To our chagrin and amazement however, all of our machinations were futile. The more we sought to connect ourselves with the society around us the more our neighbors seemed to resent us. Their envy and enmity made us loathe in their eyes and they sought to rid themselves of our presence like we were vermin.
It is to that generation that G-d calls out, as it were, "Enough of your circling this mountain!" If you really want the nations to be tolerant of you, or more so, to revere and respect you, there is only one effective manner, "Turn yourselves צפנה - to the Torah." That is where our only hopes for glory and grandeur lie. Either we are the lodestar of the world or the bane of society. It depends how much we respect ourselves.
Rashi notes that the glaring redundancy ('Say to the Kohanim… and say to them') contains a vital lesson that the elders have a responsibility to teach the youngsters. Moshe was to 'say', i.e. instruct the older Kohanim that they had a responsibility to teach their special laws to the younger generation.
This lesson does not only apply to Kohanim but to all Jews. It is from this verse that we learn that adults are responsible to educate and train their children in the proper modality of Torah observance. The whole concept of Chinuch - educating our children from a young age to observe Torah laws is derived from the 'redundancy' in the aforementioned verse.
The Kohanim comprise less than 10% of all Jews. Why is the elementary mandate of chinuch derived specifically from the laws of ritual purity pertaining to Kohanim? Why isn't it learned out from laws which are universally pertinent to all Jews, such as the holidays?
That is the attitude every Jew must convey to their children, and that is the fundamental basis of proper chinuch. We must convey to our children that the reason why we perform certain rituals and refrain from doing many things that are the norm in society is because we are special. We have an elevated status and lofty responsibilities and therefore we have to act accordingly. Observing the Torah may be difficult at times, but we must view it as a privilege, and we must impart that feeling to our children.
In the Kinnos of Tisha B'av we state "איכה תפארתי מראשותי השליכו – O how they have thrown the splendor from my head." With the destruction of the Bais Hamikdash, and throughout our prolonged exile, we have lost a great deal of our inherent grandeur and pride. In our time, perhaps we ourselves have cast off a great deal of our own pride. Too often Jews are embarrassed by their differences, as they seek to fit in with the rest of society.
There is no doubt that we have to learn how to live with the nations of the world courteously and respectfully. We live among them, maintain business relationships with them, and have dealings with them continuously. But we must not be apologetic for our differences. We must remember that we are different because we are special. Our pride lies in our Torah observance and if we seem peculiar at times we are proud to bear that banner aloft.
Trying to obscure our differences in order to be like everyone else is not the solution, but a further deepening of the exile. Anyone who reads the history of our people in Europe prior to World War II will realize how frighteningly true that is. Our pride has been cast aside in exile and our obligation is to reclaim it. We are a nation that stands alone, even while we live among the nations of the world, and we must be proud of who we are.
On Tisha B'av we lower ourselves to the floor and mourn all we have lost. Yet as we shed tears for all of our suffering we gather solace in the knowledge that we have been made to suffer because we are special. That is why, after reciting lamentations in a state of intense mourning for the night and morning of Tisha B'av, at midday we are able to rise from the floor. We don our talis and tefillin and recite the 'nachem' prayer, beseeching G-d to console the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. Through our recounting of all of our sorrow and grief we realize that the reason we are persecuted is because of our exalted status as the Chosen Nation. Through tragedy and tears, Tisha B'av reminds us that we are special. And that itself is the source of our consolation.
 Barnea is the author of a book titled, "Mine Enemy" about his friendly correspondence with Tamari.
 Devorim Rabbah (1:19) "ואין צפנה אלא תורה שנאמר 'יצפן לישרים תושיה'(משלי ב:ז)"


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I've talked about Transylvania Stud at Bearded Gentlemen a whole lot over the past year. I covered Red Queen as an indie release on the Splits & Sevens column, and it placed number 17 on the site-wide Top 100 albums of the year. And for good reason. The truth is, it's rare when a hard rock album hooks me right from my first listen these days. Most acts of the genre are dropping lackluster albums (cough Queens Of The Stone Age cough) or worse, putting out vanilla Dad-Rock like The Foo Fighters (more on that topic in each episode of the podcast).
In many ways, Transylvania Stud is saving hard rock.
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One of the standout tracks on Red Queen is "Burn". Recorded and mixed by George Pauley of The By Gods, "Burn" trades the Soundgarden-esque grooves for angst-ridden fury. However, the change of pace elevates the rest of the album by proving Transylvania Stud isn't exactly a one-trick pony. The showcasing of Godfrey's diversity and expectation of the unexpected also carries over in the music video directed by cinematographer extraordinaire Corey Allen.
Bearded Gentlemen Music is proud to present the world premiere of the music video "Burn" by Transylvania Stud.


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Джулі Енн Меркелл (уроджена Гарріс; , відома як Петсі Палмер, — англійський діджей і актриса, відома ролями Наташі в дитячому драматичному серіалі Grange Hill (1985—1987) та Б'янки Джексон у мильній опері BBC Мешканці Іст-Енду (1993—1999, 2008—2014, 2019), яка принесла їй The British Soap Awards у номінації «Найкраща жіноча роль».

Раннє життя
Палмер народлася 1972 року і виросла у Бетнал-Грін, Східний Лондон. Вона відвідувала початкову школу Globe, а потім середню школу для дівчат Haggerston .

Її виховувала мати Пет, разом із двома старшими братами, Альбертом і Гаррі. У неї також є зведені брати і сестри на ім'я Джорджія та Берті. Її мати вперше помітила її акторський талант і закликала піти в акторську школу Анни Шер в Лондоні. У школі над Палмер знущалися, і вона сказала, що акторська майстерність була намагання проявити себе. У віці шести років вона з'явилася в постановці Вест-Енду « Джозеф і дивовижний кольоровий плащ мрії» .

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Початок кар'єри
Після вступу до театральної школи Анни Шер, вона дізналася про успішну актрису з ім'ям Джулі Гарріс. Палмер прийняла своє теперішнє ім'я, використавши дівоче прізвище матері та змінивши своє ім'я на ім'я своєї матері Петсі. Палмер дебютувала на екрані в телевізійній програмі The Gentle Touch в 1984 році. Як і багато інших акторів EastEnders, Палмер з'являвся в дитячому драматичному шоу Grange Hill між 1985 і 1987 роками. Далі вона грала невеликі ролі в фільмах BBC Tricky Business (1989), Making News (1990), Clarissa (1991), Love Hurts (1992), Drop the Dead Donkey (1993) і The Bill (1993), а також з'явилася в рекламі Clearasil як підліток, який страждає від прищів .

EastEnders
У 1993 році її взяли на роль жорстокої Б'янки Джексон у мильній опері Мешканці Іст-Енду . Екранний шлюб Б'янки з Рікі Бутчером (Сід Оуен) у 1997 році привернув одну з найбільших аудиторій мильного фільму в історії — понад 22 мільйони. Вона грала цю роль протягом шести років, але покинула в 1999 році, щоб більше часу проводити з сім'єю і зосередитися на інших проєктах. Вона повторила цю роль у травні 2002 року у спеціальному фільмі під назвою EastEnders: Ricky and Bianca . Двосерійний годинний спеціальний випуск був знятий у Манчестері, де Бьянка та Рікі возз'єдналися вперше за два роки.

У 2005 році Палмер публічно розкритикувала EastEnders, назвавши сюжетні лінії смішними і неймовірними і заявивши, що вона "не повернеться до EastEnders ". Однак у жовтні 2007 року BBC оголосила, що Палмер повернеться до мильних опер як штатний персонаж; вона повернулася на екран у квітні 2008 року Палмер прокоментувала: «Я не можу дочекатися, щоб дослідити, що Бьянка робила зі своїм життям, і побачити, що вона збирається робити далі», а виконавчий продюсер EastEnders Дідерік Сантер додав: «Я радий вітати Петсі Палмер — засновниці EastEnders . Б'янка є одним із найпопулярніших персонажів у шоу» У 2014 році Палмер оголосила, що покидає серіал. Вона знову повторила цю роль восени 2019 року на короткий час. У лютому 2020 року було оголошено, що Палмер знову повторить свою роль Б'янки, а сцени будуть показані пізніше цього року. Однак пізніше цей проєкт було скасовано у зв'язку з карантинними обмеженнями через пандемію коронавірусу .

Інші проєкти
Палмер з'явилася в гостях на Різдво 1993 року в епізоді Top of the Pops, представивши ' No Limit ' від 2 Unlimited з ведучим Марком Франкліном.

Палмер працював над першою серією OK TV з Фіоною Філліпс у 1999 році. У першому епізоді серіалу її показали в салоні краси, де вона помила волосся шампунем, і взяла інтерв'ю у Ліндсі Коулсон, яка зіграла свою вигадану матір Керол Джексон у EastEnders . У 1999 році Палмер знялася в ролі самої себе в епізоді ситкому Кеті Берк « Дай мені, дай мені». це висвітлювало її роль Б'янки Джексон. Вона з'явилася в ролі Клер у детективному серіалі " МакКріді та дочка ", який виходив в ефір для пілотної та однієї серії між 2000 і 2001 роками. У 2004 році вона з'явилася в серіалі « Він знав, що він правий» для BBC, а в 2001 році її побачили в телевізійному міні-серіалі " Зроби або вмри ", який транслювався на Sky One .

На сцені вона знялася в мюзиклі для однієї жінки Tell Me On A Sunday, який гастролював по Великій Британії та йшов у лондонському Вест-Енді . Вона також зіграла головну роль у британському турі мюзиклу Steppin' Out, знялася в оригінальній серії Mum's the Word у Вест-Енді та зіграла у фільмі We Happy Few Імоджен Стаббс, який зіграв короткий показ у Театрі Гілгуд .

Палмер замінила Лоррейн Келлі з GMTV, презентуючи її розділ Lorraine Live протягом тижня в 1999 році, репортаж із Маямі про моду, спосіб життя, здоров'я та фітнес. Вона також була співведучою Великий сніданок на каналі 4 як запрошена ведуча протягом тижня. Палмер випустила низку хіт-фітнес-відео та DVD-дисків: Петсі Палмер — The Club Workout (2000), Patsy Palmer — The Urban Workout (2002) і Patsy Palmer's Ibiza Workout (2002). У 2006 році Палмер з'явилася на благодійному фітнес-DVD The Allstar Workout . До переліку фільмів Палмер входять короткометражки « Історія кохання» (1999) режисера Ніка Лава та " Інший зелений світ " (2005) режисера Пітера Чіпінга.

У 2005 році Палмер взяла участь у шоу BBC Strictly Come Dancing, щоб зібрати гроші для фонду Children in Need . Вона також знялася в епізодичній ролі в скетч-шоу Кетрін Тейт «Шоу Кетрін Тейт» . У лютому 2007 року вона була членом присяжних у програмі BBC "Вердикт ", де різні знаменитості приймали рішення щодо сучасної та суперечливої справи на основі доказів та прикладів із реального життя.

Автобіографія Палмер All of Me була випущена у Великій Британії 5 квітня 2007 року. У книзі вона описала своє сходження до слави, свою боротьбу із залежністю і те, як вона боролася, щоб подолати свої проблеми. У 2003 році, окрім акторської майстерності, Палмер та її подруга Шарлотта Катлер почали бізнес з маркетологом Кеном Веллсом, співпрацюючи з хімічною компанією з Кенту, щоб створити «Palmer Cutler», продаючи засоби для краси та автозасмаги.

У 2008 році благодійна організація Shelter з пошуку житла для бездомних випустила короткометражний фільм з Палмером у головній ролі. Палмер працює діджеєм з 2012 року, в тому числі в США з 2017 року У січні 2020 року Палмер з'явився в ролі Метелика на співочому конкурсі реаліті-шоу ITV The Masked Singer . У березні Палмер брала участь у третій серії The Great Stand Up to Cancer Bake Off . У грудні вона з'явилася в якості гостя на The One Show в епізоді, присвяченому покійній Барбарі Віндзор .

Нагороди та номінації
1996:

 Номінована «Найпопулярніша актриса» на Національній телевізійній премії

2000:

 Виграла номінацію «Найкраща жіноча роль» на премії TV Quick /TV Choice Awards
 Виграла номінацію «Найкраща жіночу роль» на Inside Soap Awards
 Виграла номінацію "Найкраща жіноча роль " на The British Soap Awards
 Номінація «Найкраще екранне партнерство разом із Сідом Оуеном на The British Soap Awards»

2008:

 Номінація «Найкращий сюжет» на Inside Soap Awards за фільм «Повернення Бьянки»

2009:

 Номінована на премію TRIC Awards у номінації «Улюблена мильна актриса».
 Номінований на «Кращий драматичний спектакль» на British Soap Awards.

2010:

 Номінація «Найкраще екранне партнерство» разом із Сідом Оуеном на British Soap Awards

Особисте життя
Палмер товаришує з Сідом Оуеном (Рікі Батчер) та Денніеллою Вестбрук (Сем Мітчелл).

Палмер була двічі одружена і має чотирьох дітей: Чарлі (нар 1992) (від стосунків Палмера з боксером Алфі Ротвеллом), Фентон (нар 2000), Емілія (нар 2001) та Берті (нар 2010). Протягом 10 років, починаючи з 2004 року, вона жила зі своїм чоловіком та дітьми у Вестерн-Террас, а потім у Кемптауні, Брайтон в Англії. Її брат Гаррі Гарріс одружений на Ліндсі Коулсон, актрисі, яка зіграла свою екранну матір Керол Джексон у «Іст- Ендерс» .

У квітні 2014 року Палмер та більшість членів її родини переїхали до Малібу, штат Каліфорнія, поблизу Лос-Анджелеса у США. З тих пір вона подружилася з такими людьми, як Камілла Греммер і Сінді Кроуфорд, коли поряд з ними оселилася.

Палмер розповіла, що вона була наркоманкою та страждала на алкоголізм, і що під час свого перебування на EastEnders у 1990-х роках вона часто з'являлася на знімальному майданчику або під кайф або з похмілля. Вона розповіла, що почала експериментувати з алкоголем і наркотиками з 10-річного віку, а залежність тривала 24 роки. У 2010 році вона заявила, що була вилікувалася від вживання наркотиків та алкоголю з вересня 2004 року і що «Ми не п'ємо в нашому домі».

У шкільні роки Палмер страждала від цькувань . Через це вона підтримала кампанію по боротьбі з булінгом у Департаменті освіти у 2000 році . Вона є активним покровителем благодійної організації боротьби з наслідками дитячого раку CLIC Sargent .

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Англійські телеакторки
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Brazil's debt is now in junk territory.
The country's debt was downgraded by Standard & Poor's Wednesday after markets closed.
S&P rated Brazil's debt BB+ with a negative outlook, which means another cut is possible. Junk status will make it harder and more expensive for Brazil to borrow money.
Brazil had avoided a junk rating for the past seven years as its economy boomed. But the country recently fell into recession, and there are major concerns about the future of the economy, the currency and most importantly, Brazil's leadership.
Brazil's state-run oil company, Petrobras, is in a massive corruption scandal tied to many members in President Dilma Rousseff's political party. The large money-laundering scandal spans across oil, business and political leaders in the country.
The scale and size of the corruption case has angered Brazilians so much they are now calling for Rousseff's impeachment.
Rousseff, who has an 8% approval rating, has meanwhile continued massive spending for public welfare programs that some experts consider unsustainable in a spiraling economy.
Brazil's currency, the real, has plunged in 2015, losing nearly 30% of its value against the dollar. In the short term, that's a major problem for economic growth and ordinary Brazilians trying to buy basic goods.
Brazil is partially a victim of China's economic slowdown. It significantly ramped up exports to China over past decade during a commodity boom. But China's slowdown has pushed down prices for goods like sugar.
The country could be hit with another headache next week should the U.S. Federal reserve decide to hike interest rates for the first time in almost a decade -- an event known to cause turmoil in countries like Brazil.


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Family dynamics get all squirrelly in Elizabeth McKenzie's novel
The unpredictable The Portable Veblen is part comedy, part philosophy, and part talking squirrel.
by Aimee Levitt March 3, 2016 August 18, 2021
It's difficult to describe Elizabeth McKenzie's new novel, The Portable Veblen, because it is so many different things all at once. It's the story of the courtship of Veblen Amundsen-Hovda and Paul Vreeland. It's an exploration of complicated family dynamics. It's a philosophical contemplation of life in northern California through the lens of the writings of the other Veblen, first name Thorstein, who coined the term "conspicuous consumption" and after whom Veblen Amundsen-Hovda is named. It's a biting satire of the military-industrial complex and the marketing of medical apparatus.
It is also funny and engaging and imbued with a very particular sensibility that might be described as "quirky" if that term had not become trivialized by its overuse; despite being full of jokes and turns of phrase that make a reader laugh out loud on the el during rush hour, The Portable Veblen is a serious and, at times, sad book. And there is a talking squirrel.
"I didn't really know at first if it would come together," says McKenzie, who, though a California resident, is also an editor at Chicago Quarterly Review. "It was a challenge. But these were things I'm interested in, so they must be connected somehow."
Well, the squirrel doesn't talk exactly. In earlier drafts, he was a detective, investigating crimes both squirrel and human. But, like all of us, he evolved. "The squirrel, in my mind, doesn't talk," McKenzie says. "He's a projection of Veblen's imagination, her idea of the real world and her voice of reason."
This is something Veblen's parents have failed to provide. Her mother, Melanie, is a narcissistic hypochondriac. Her father, Rudgear, is a war veteran who suffers from PTSD, among other ailments, and barely recognizes her. Paul's parents are hippies who concentrate most of their attention on their intellectually disabled older son. All together, they bring to mind the late essayist David Rakoff's crack that there should be a support group called Adult Children of Parents.
And yet, Veblen loves her parents. She loves Paul's parents, too. Like a squirrel, which, McKenzie notes, is a wild animal that has learned to adapt itself to human society, she constantly adjusts to accommodate their demands. (Or, as Veblen thinks to herself, "One could see she was bruised by all the dodging that comes from the furtive meeting of one's needs.") Oddly enough, McKenzie considers The Portable Veblen a tribute to her own mother, who died many years ago. "She's still a force in my life," she says, "and I hear her voice in my head. I like having her around. I'd talk to her about the book, and then I would know what to do next."
Until she finished writing, McKenzie wasn't sure how the novel would end. "I would write myself into corners," she says. "Anything could happen." That sense of surprise makes The Portable Veblen feel like an adventure in the best possible way. v
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Nightmare - any advice to solve this issue - and save me getting into some serious bother would be great-fully received!
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The Massachusetts Medicaid program spent $35 million on questionable claims for health care provided to low-income immigrants, according to a critical report released Wednesday by state Auditor Suzanne Bump.
The findings reflect "serious weaknesses" in the agency's claims processing system, Bump concluded, and illustrate the need for tighter controls.
The audit found that the state's Medicaid agency, known as MassHealth, routinely paid for nonemergency medical care for roughly 45,000 immigrants from July 2011 through December 2012. The review identified 270,167 questionable or unallowed claims for services such as speech therapy, fluoride treatment, and physical therapy.
Bump's office examined Medicaid's Limited Program and its payment of medical bills for this pool of immigrants, who are entitled to emergency medical services under the program's rules. The auditors said they believe that roughly 89 percent of the immigrants were in the United States illegally during the time of the audit.
The $35 million in question represents nearly half of the total spent by MassHealth during that period in the Limited Program, the auditor said. But it represents less than 1 percent of MassHealth's total spending during that span on health care services for about 1.4 million low- and moderate-income Massachusetts residents.
Since April 2013, MassHealth has adopted cost-saving measures within its claims system to better identify and deny some of the bills in question, the audit found, and these changes should save the state about $2.4 million a year.
But the Executive Office of Health and Human Services disputed much of the auditor's findings regarding its coverage of medical treatments for immigrants.
"We respectfully disagree with the state auditor's definition of emergency services, which would preclude coverage under this program for critical medical conditions including kidney failure, broken bones, ectopic pregnancy, appendicitis, aortic aneurysms, insulin for diabetics, and other life-threatening injuries and conditions," the agency said in a statement.
"MassHealth is required under both state and federal law to cover these emergency services for families and children who would otherwise be eligible for Medicaid but for their immigration status," the agency's statement said.
The agency also said that it relied on physicians to determine whether the services provided to patients in the Limited Program were for emergency conditions.
The auditor said the agency's attitude toward the findings proved troubling.
"Their disagreement with our audit finding reflects the potential for further misspending in the future," Bump said.
Patient advocates criticized the report, saying it inflated a problem that has largely been fixed.
Slemmer also noted that most of the insurance bills in question would have been paid anyway out of a different pool of money known as the Health Care Safety Net, which is an account largely funded through a surcharge on hospital and health insurers.
The auditor's report acknowledged that point, noting thatimmigrants who need medical care not covered under the Limited Program have access to free or low-cost clinics in the community.
Joshua Archambault, a senior fellow at the Pioneer Institute, a conservative Beacon Hill think tank, said the report's findings are a cause for concern.
"This is just another example of some of the mismanagement in the Medicaid program," Archambault said.
He highlighted a federal audit released in October that found the US government made nearly $106 million in excess Medicaid payments to Massachusetts, and recommended that the state be ordered to refund the money.
Medicaid is a joint federal and state program run by the states. The earlier report found that the Massachusetts Medicaid program had incorrectly calculated the amount it sought to be reimbursed by the federal government through claims submitted between October 2008 and December 2010.
"It's a sad state of affairs that we keep getting reports of mismanagement of taxpayers' money in millions of dollars, and that translates to less money for education, or public safety, or other public priorities," Archambault said.


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Campsite amenities offered include picnic tables, fire circles, and grills. It also includes basic amenities like restrooms with hot showers and laundry facilities. Visitors can also enjoy fairground activities such as well as nearby hiking, mountain climbing, golfing, shopping, whitewater rafting, biking, fishing, kayaking, and canoeing.


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Shri V. Naranamurthy, Ceased to be director w.e.f. July 8, 2021.
Shri Suresh Khatanhar
Shri A. P. Hota
Dr. Tejendra Mohan Bhasin
Shri Alok Chaturvedi
Shri Shailendra G. Nadkarni
Shri Surajit Roy
Shri Suresh Khatanhar is the Deputy Managing Director at IDBI Bank; he oversees the Retail Banking, Priority Sector Lending, Structured Retail Advances, Credit Card, Third Party Distribution, Treasury, Centralised Operations, CMS & GBG, Corporate Communication, Retail Recovery, Audit, Legal and Compliance. He possesses 36 years of commercial banking experience, of which, he has been with IDBI Bank for a span of 22 years, wherein he was responsible for varied aspects of commercial banking.
Shri Suresh Khatanhar holds a Masters of Commerce (M.Com) degree from the University of Mumbai, and is also a Certified Associate from the Institute of Cost & Works Accountant of India (AICWA), and Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers (CAIIB).
With a cumulative experience of 36 years, Shri Suresh Khatanhar's portfolio is diversified into commercial banking environments such as Retail Banking Business, Priority Sector Lending, Corporate Banking (Mid corporate and Large corporate), service oriented functions such as Trade Finance, Risk Management, Audit Management, Compliance, Credit Management & Monitoring and other facets of commercial banking.
Mr. Shailendra G. Nadkarni, aged 56 years, holds a Masters' Degree in Civil Engineering [Structural]. He joined IDBI Bank Ltd. in November 1993. During the course of his tenure with the Bank, he has dealt with assessment of large sized projects in Project Finance, restructuring of proposals of large companies, closely associated with mergers of IDBI Bank with Industrial Development Bank of India & United Western Bank with IDBI Bank. Played key role in implementing tech based initiatives in Cash Management Services and Government Business. Headed largest Retail Zone of the Bank. Also headed the Priority Sector Group with responsibility of ensuring meeting the Bank's regulatory PSL targets and deploying end-to-end digitised lending system. He currently heads Information Technology Dept., Digital Banking & Emerging Payment Department, MIS, Data Analytics. He is instrumental in planning and implementing number of major initiatives for the Bank covering private cloud, API Gateway, overhauling net-banking & Mobile app, Enterprise Data Warehouse, Enterprise Wide Fraud monitoring system, Automated Loan processing system
Shri A. P. Hota, ex-Managing Director & CEO of National Payments Corporation of India (from August 2010 to August 10, 2017) was a career central banker for 27 years. A significant part of his career has been in the area of design and implementation of Payment systems in India. He has played a key role in implementation of MICR technology in Cheque Clearing, Electronic Funds Transfer, Automated Clearing House and Cheque Truncation System in India. His research document titled "RTGS System in USA - Lessons for India" as a part of IIB Diamond Jubilee Overseas Fellowship in 1997, was the starting point of RTGS design and implementation in India. Mr. Hota had headed the Department of Payment and Settlement Systems in Reserve Bank from March 2005 to July 2008 during which the 'Payment and Settlement Systems Act' was legislated, NEFT was introduced and there was rapid expansion in the access and usage of electronic payment systems. He also played a key role in widening the use of electronic payments in India. In August 2010 he joined as the Managing Director & CEO of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) which has been set up by banks in India under the aegis of Indian Banks' Association and support and guidance of Reserve Bank of India to provide central infrastructure for various retail payment systems in the country, including card payments. Within a year of his joining NPCI, the next generation remittance service - Interbank Mobile Payment Service was launched where 24x7 real-time money transfer was enabled. Under his leadership, NPCI has launched India's own card scheme 'RuPay' in record three years' time which is accepted on all three channels, viz. ATM, PoS and eCommerce with an issuance figure of 118 Million cards. He was conferred the 'Aadhaar Excellence Award' for his contribution to Aadhaar Enabled Payment System by the former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on the 2nd Anniversary of UIDAI. He was also conferred the 'Skoch Financial Inclusion Award 2013' for Aadhaar Payment Bridge System (ABPS) and Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) at the hands of Shri Nandan Nilekani, Chairman UIDAI and also the Skoch Renaissance Award for 'RuPay' at the hands of Shri P. Chidambaram, Former Minister of Finance. On May 8, 2014, Mr. Hota received a commemorative memento from the hands of the former President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee on the occasion of dedication of 'RuPay' to the nation at Rashtrapati Bhavan. He was also a member in various Committees of the Government of India and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and has contributed to policy and decision-making processes in Payment Systems and Financial Inclusion in particular.
Dr. Bhasin is MBA (Finance) from FMS, Delhi and LL.B. from University of Delhi, CAIIB and M.Sc. Gold Medalist. Dr. Bhasin has pursued his Advanced Financial Enterprises Management Program at HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL, US. Dr. T. M. Bhasin has pursued research under the C. H. Bhabha Research Scholarship (1999-2000) of the Indian Banks' Association and his thesis was published as a book on 'E-Commerce in Indian Banking' by Authors Press, Delhi in 2002. University of Madras has conferred Ph.D Degree in Management on Shri Tejendra Mohan Bhasin based on his 4 years research and thesis on the subject: "Impact of Banking on Inclusive Growth". Shri Bhasin has rich experience in banking. Dr. Bhasin started his career as a probationary officer with Oriental Bank of Commerce in June 1978 where he worked till 6th November, 2007 as General Manager. He Served as Head of Technology in the year 1999 & 2000 and upgraded all Hardware & Software of Oriental Bank of Commerce to make them Y2K compliant. Dr. Bhasin as General Manager and Head of Information Technology Dept. in 2006 & 2007 implemented 100% Core Banking Solution in Oriental Bank of Commerce and integrated Technology platforms of OBC-GTB at the time of merger of two Banks. Shri Bhasin has also worked with United Bank of India from November, 2007 to March 2010 as Executive Director; where again he got 100% CBS implemented in an East based Bank. He was elevated as the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of the Indian Bank in April, 2010 where he served till 10th June, 2015. During his incumbency as CMD, Indian Bank emerged as one of the strongest and most profitable Banks in India, with lowest Non-Performing Assets and highest Capital Adequacy Ratio. On the strength of these achievements, Dr. Bhasin received many coveted National and State Level awards in the fields of Banking and Finance. During his incumbency as Chairman, Indian Banks' Association (IBA), Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) was successfully implemented and 28 crore new Saving Bank Accounts were opened. Also the Banking Industry level wage settlement for apx. 10 lac Bank Officials was concluded, signed and peacefully implemented in May 2015 under his Chairmanship. Dr. Bhasin has also served as the Chairman of Governing Board, Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS); President, Indian Institute of Banking and Finance (IIBF); Chairperson, SWIFT User Group India during 2014-15. Before Joining the Board of IDBI Intech, Shri Bhasin has served as Vigilance Commissioner of India in the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) from June 2015 to June 2019.
Shri Alok Chaturvedi is former Director General of Foreign Trade. He superannuated on 30.09.2019. Mr Chaturvedi is a career bureaucrat and belongs to the Indian Administrative Service. He joined IAS in 1986. He is a B. Tech in Electrical Engineering with specialisation in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and MBA in International Public Policy from the University of Birmingham, UK. He has held different assignments at senior levels in the Government of India and State Governments of Bihar and Tripura. He joined as DGFT in July 2017 and prior to that he was Additional Secretary in the Department of Commerce handling SEZ and Plantation Divisions since June 2016. During his tenure as DGFT, mid-term review of the Foreign Trade Policy was under taken in Dec 2017 and many exporter-friendly IT initiatives such as paperless scrips for export incentives, issue of paperless licenses and certificates of origins, etc. were undertaken. A project for comprehensive IT revamp of DGFT was initiated by him. He served as Joint Secretary (Infrastructure & Finance) in the Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India for 4 years from June 2012 handling policy issues related to Infrastructure and Finance Ministries. Earlier from 1998 till 2004, he was Director in the Ministry of Civil Aviation handling Airports, Airlines and Bilateral Civil Aviation Agreements when the privatisation of Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad airports was initiated. In the State Government of Bihar, Shri Chaturvedi was Secretary, Expenditure, Finance Department from January 2005 to May 2008. He had taken many budget initiative. Under the IT project of the Comprehensive Treasury Management Information System, all treasuries in the State were made online with a real time access of information of receipt and expenditure to all departments of the State Government. Prior to joining IAS, Mr Chaturvedi has also worked as a Software Engineer at Tata Burroughs Limited from 1982 to 1984.
A transformative thought Leader, focused in driving profitable business growth. As a Business Leader, has successfully driven and won large multi-million dollar transformational deals in Banking, Financial and Insurance Sectors respectively. He has a strong customer–orientation, successful track record of delivering transformative digital solutions - contributed significantly in making number of Indian Banks and Insurance companies, digitally ready and operational. He is completely convinced that digital is the force inspiring the future of the enterprises, how we live, work and the entire social eco –system: need to drive strategy and growth around digital. Throughout his two and half decades of Leadership in business and technology, he has been leading several disruptive transformative programs with great success, delivering significant values to his customers, organizations and to the industry. Leads with intent, passion and pride – contributed significantly in shaping the success He is a strong strategist and comes with a belief that a culture of innovation is critical to stay relevant in both business and society - recognized for exemplary performance in leadership skills and results orientation. An effective communicator with exceptional problem solving skills. Highly involved people person with proven abilities in leading and mentoring teams – empowering workforce to ensure people are always relevant and prepared for disruptive market opportunities. Have successful track record of building strong relevant teams in various organizations who have significantly improved client value creation in their IT transformation programs and in recent times built teams that have significantly improved client value creation in their Digital programs Most recently worked for Wipro Limited for approximately 13 years and built multiple million dollar business across verticals in India geography and most significant being in Banking Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) Vertical in India geography respectively. Holds Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electronics from Pune University.


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If our client has used styling products and has back-combed her hair, we must wash it. The myth that hair needs to be unwashed for the color to work better no longer stands. Before coloring, we can use products that protect the hair, and help with the better absorption of the color. Depending on our client's needs, we choose the appropriate treatment. Closely monitor the time that the you leave the hair color in. The standard time is 35 minutes. After coloring you must use a vial for locking the color in or a repair vial or a color fixing shampoo.


Pile foundation is used when the soil immediately below the foundation cannot safely support the loads and load has to the transferred deep into the underlying soil. It is required when soil bearing capacity of the soil is not sufficient for the structure. The main function of the pile is to transmit loads to the lower level of the ground by the combination of friction pile and end bearing pile at the pile point or base.
The Pile foundation consists of two major components: Pile cap and single pile or group of piles. Pile cap supports the single column or group of columns. Piles transfer the loads from the structures to the hard strata in soils having a low bearing capacity or in the structure in the water like dams and bridges.
There are two basic kinds of pile, those that displaces the ground and those that replace the ground in which they are placed.
Precast RCC pile or pre-stressed driven pile.
In India concrete pile is the most commonly used material for pile foundation.
Thus piles offer a very good solution, where the soil is poor or in the area nearer the seashore.


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Kenny Omega Will Miss AAA TrippleMania Regia Due To 'Multiple' Surgeries
Earlier this week it was reported that former AEW champion Kenny Omega was set to be medically evaluated after Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer reported that Kenny Omega wrestled Saturday's match against Page with a hurt shoulder and had been dealing with a number of issues.
it has now been reported that Kenny Omega reportedly won't be appearing at AAA TripleMania Regia. According to Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer, Kenny Omega won't compete at AAA TripleMania Regia as he is set to undergo multiple surgeries.
Meltzer reports that Omega will undergo surgery for his "shoulder, knee and abdominal issues, and likely for a septum issue." Omega reportedly worked most of this year with a torn labrum in his shoulder and has worked for months with an abdominal hernia and knee issues.
The report notes that Omega is expected to return sometime in February, but that Tony Khan told him to take as much time as he needs. AAA Lucha Libre was reportedly informed on November 17 that Omega would be getting surgery and wouldn't be able to compete at AAA TripleMania Regia on December 4. He was expected to defend his AAA Mega Championship against El Hijo del Vikingo. AAA reportedly has a backup plan.
Omega announced on Wednesday's Dynamite that he would be taking time away from AEW to "fix" things. In a video where Kenny underwent a chiropractic adjustment by Dr. Beau Hightower, he revealed that he has had to train himself to wrestle in a spinning ring due to bouts of vertigo he's faced since 2018. He also confirmed a shoulder injury, saying he was having difficulty doing a straight side arm raise.
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Central Wisconsin Hemp Expo presented by Hemp For Fitness.
Marjan, the founder of HempforFitness.com created this company really as a calling meant to get natural and perfectly legal hemp products into the hands of more and more people who can improve their lives with it. To support the growing industrial hemp revolution shaping up in the states today and help transform our society through the many wonders of this incredible plant.
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We are honored to be part of the movement that is recognizing hemp as an excellent nutritional source as well as the medicinal properties of this essential plant.
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As the Central Wisconsin Hemp Expo presented by Hemp For Fitness will only be our second event, we can only talk about trends based on the first event we managed and what appears to be the best gauge of future attendance. At our first event we had a social media reach of approximately 13,000 impressions. Through a variety of information gathered by our organization, news media estimates, vendors and such we are comfortable stating 1500 people attended the event on March of 2018. Based on the trend of approximately 10% attendance of total social media reach we are projecting 1000-1500 people for the Central Wisconsin Hemp Expo presented by Hemp For Fitness, The reach on the day of event in March of 2018 was phenomenal with 4 main stream television stations multiple main stream radio stations and multiple internet podcasts and other media broadcasts brought the day of event number of impressions to over 500,000.
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Childrens Cosmos – One planet. One family.
Are we creating a world for our children? Or are we just pretending...? In 2015 and 2016, the Pegasus family interviewed the little and young ones of Europe and Russia to find out about their fears, their dreams and what they would do, were they president of the whole world. Compare their answers with what we, the adults, currently create and understand that change is necessary..!
Are we creating a world for our children? Or are we just pretending…?
In 2015 and 2016, the Pegasus family interviewed the little and young ones of Europe and Russia to find out about their fears, their dreams and what they would do, were they president of the whole world.
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Danley Romero
A native of Lafayette currently residing in the Lake Charles area, Danley Romero specializes in portrait photography. Romero considers it an honor to contribute to his state's flagship magazine, Louisiana Life, and takes a particular sense of pride in his association with its sister publication Acadiana Profile. Most gratifying are the experiences that collaborating with the two magazines afford: meeting and photographing many of Louisiana's most talented, accomplished and interesting citizens — the people who help to make our state the wonder it is.
Cheré Dastugue Coen
Cheré Dastugue Coen is a food and travel writer, photographer and author and owner of the whimsical blog, "Weird, Wacky & Wild South." Her fiction includes two series of Louisiana romances and the "Viola Valentine" paranormal mystery series under the pen name of Cherie Claire. Coen remains passionate about her home state of Louisiana, believing that gumbo, crawfish étouffée and chicory coffee makes all things right with the world.
Jeffrey Roedel
Jeffrey Roedel is a producer, director and journalist focused on Southern makers, artists and creative thought. A graduate of LSU and the University of Southern California's Production Workshop, he's the former editor of 225 in Baton Rouge. In 2020, he released a collection of mantras for creativity called "Life Is Gonna Try to Put a Lot of Polo Shirts on You." His album of pandemic poetry and music called "Distance" was released in 2021.
John R. Kemp
John R. Kemp writes about art for Louisiana Life, Acadiana Profile and New Orleans Magazine. He also has written and co-authored numerous books, including his most recent "Expressions of Place: The Contemporary Louisiana Landscape"; "New Orleans: The First Three Hundred Years"; and "A Unique Slant of Light: The Bicentennial History of Art in Louisiana." For many years, Kemp covered the New Orleans art scene for the WYES New Orleans public television show, "Steppin' Out."
Liz Clearman
Liz Clearman is originally from Houston. She lives with her 13-year-old daughter and two cats and is a lawyer by degree, but hasn't practiced in over 16 years. Instead, Clearman chooses to use her JD in the higher education realm. She spends her time these days social distancing, working at home, doing virtual boot camp in her living room, taking long walks with her daughter, and watching whatever new show pops up on Netflix.
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[AUS] An Ice Addict Dressed Up as a Cop and 'Raided' Another Drug User's Hous
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Most issues that have Meth at the core are usually ugly ...
A Melbourne Ice Addict Dressed Up as a Cop and 'Raided' Another Drug User's House
He beat two men so badly with a hammer that legitimate police officers later thought they were dead.
This article originally appeared on VICE Australia.
When drug addict Daniel Thomas donned a police uniform and stormed an associate's home in Melbourne's eastern suburbs in 2016, those inside thought he was the real deal.
"This is a police raid," he screamed as he entered the Lilydale apartment. "Get on the floor face down. Where are your drugs?" Then, thinking the two men were holding something back, Daniel beat one of them with a hammer until they passed out. "We've killed your mate," he yelled as the man regained consciousness. "Now tell us where the drugs are."
This incident on July 25, 2016 has now gained Daniel Thomas an 11-and-a-half year prison sentence, after he pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary and a series of other charges, Fairfax reports.
Over the course of the trial, the court heard a series of bizarre and gruelling details from the night, including one moment in which Daniel pulled down the pants of a victim, spread his cheeks, and checked for drugs. Later, after the men had handed over their stash of ice and weed, their attacker beat them with a hammer so badly that when real police officers arrived they thought the two victims were dead. It was only once officers started taking photos of the blood-stained walls and floors that one of the victims moved and police realised they were still alive.
Police later tracked down and confronted Daniel, who pulled a knife and lunged at an officer as they approached him. "You come near me you fucking dog cunt and I'll stab you in the fucking head and kill you," he screamed. Officers shot him with a Taser and doused him with capsicum spray.
At the time of his arrest, Daniel Thomas had been injecting several grams of ice each day as well as using GHB, cannabis, and heroin, according to The Age. He also has an acquired brain injury, possibly from being hit over the head with a cricket bat during a road-rage incident 10 years earlier.
"Even though I regard your prospects as being fairly bleak, I do not regard them as hopeless," said Justice Paul Coghlan, stating that he did not accept Thomas' claim he attacked the two men because one "had supposedly done something to a girlfriend of yours".
"The use of police uniforms, the demand for drugs and money repeated on a number of occasions simply put a lie to that explanation," Justice Coghlan said.
Daniel's victims are both expected to suffer lifelong complications from their injuries, and he must now serve nine years in prison before being eligible for parole. He has not taken drugs during his 1126 days of pre-sentence detention.
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Robbed and nearly beat 2 guys to death with a hammer. Lunged at a cop with a knife. Sentence: 11 1/2 years. Jesus, in the states the cop would probably just kill you when you lunged. If he didn't I'm sure you'd get at least 20 years if not life.
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Indigenous aircraft carrier Vikrant
Indigenous aircraft carrier Vikrant sets sail for next set of sea trials
10 Jan, 2022, 3:58 am
New Delhi, January 10, 2022
Vikrant, the Indian Navy's indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC), is heading for the next set of sea trials.
This comes after two high-profile visits, by President Ram Nath Kovind and Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu, within a span of less than two weeks to Vikrant.
Both dignitaries, having reviewed the progress, had conveyed their satisfaction and expressed their best wishes to all the stakeholders involved in project.
While the maiden sea trials in August last year were to establish propulsion, navigational suite and basic operations, the second sea trial later in October-November witnessed the ship being put through its paces in terms of various machinery trials and flight trials. The ship in fact was out for 10 days proving its sustenance in the very second sortie.
Various seamanship evolutions were also successfully cleared during the second sortie, a press release from the Ministry of Defence said.
"Having gained adequate confidence in the ship's abilities, the IAC now sails to undertake complex manoeuvres to establish specific readings of how the ship performs in various conditions. In addition, various sensor suites of the ship would also be tested," the release said.
"The IAC has been a success story on numerous counts. Be it the case of Atmanirbharta wherein 76% of the equipment is indigenously sourced or the close engagement between the design teams of the Indian Navy and Cochin Shipyard Limited – a high-point in the largest and most complex warship ever to be built in the country.
"That the ship has been able to carry out basic flying operations from its very first sortie itself is a landmark in Indian warship construction history. Despite surging COVID cases in the country and the resultant challenges, the combined teams from multiple organisations associated with the project, are upbeat and committed to meet the timeliness," the release said.
On successful completion of a series of progressive sea trials, the ship is scheduled to be commissioned as INS Vikrant later this year.
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A growing body of research shows that human milk carries long-term benefits for premature infants and can be lifesaving, but it's often hard for mothers of premature infants to produce enough.
The rate was even higher — between 65 and 75 percent — for Level 3 and 4 NICUs that serve the smallest and most fragile premature babies.
But for many reasons, it's not practical or possible for many mothers to provide milk, particularly for premature infants.
The NICU at Children's started to use donated human milk in 2014.
Nutritionists said that within a few weeks, they plan to switch him to formula.
At Children's, infants weighing more than 3.3 pounds are still given formula to supplement their mother's milk.
Some questions remain about the costs and benefits of human milk and cow's-milk-based formulas.
One question researchers are studying is what impact cow's-milk-based fortifiers have on the health outcomes of premature infants.
NICUs typically add a fortifier to all the breast milk, whether it is from the mother or from a milk bank, to provide more protein and calories.
Baby born premature now thriving thanks to NICU at Methodist Hospital.
A Kerrville mother who struggled through two miscarriages gave birth to a baby the size of her hand with serious complications back in February.
Six months later, Charlotte Star is alive thanks to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Methodist Hospital.
On March 15, at only 22 weeks, she arrived.
He says that back then, doctors would have advised parents not to resuscitate a baby as premature as Charlotte because of the high mortality rate.
"At that time, it was almost 100 percent mortality," Dr. Alexander noted.
Methodist Children's Hospital now has the technology and the team to save more premature babies.
Now, Charlotte Star has more than hope.
In the meantime, the hospital is hoping that the story will help with their ongoing outreach to let families in rural areas know about their NICU.
she recalled of the scary moment.
It didn't take long for his cries to turn into a gurgling sound, a sign that he was struggling to breathe on his own." "I was just so relieved that he had made it here safely that I seen past all the distracting monitors and machines attached to his tiny frame and seen this little 1.7 kg bundle of perfection," the Australian mom of two wrote.
The hardest part about this entire experience didn't come until days later, when it was time for Alex to go home. "A little warm body quickly filled those empty arms whenever I arrived home.
My daughter was missing her mummy and the guilt followed me everywhere, when I was at the hospital I was missing Lennon, when I was at home I was missing Van.
She photographed the ups and the downs of these past months, and the photos will touch all parents.


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Top Ten DVD Releases for 3-8-16
This Week's DVD Releases
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Top Ten DVD List for March 8, 2016
The Peanuts Movie
Grease: Live!
Chet Zar: I Like to Paint Monsters
Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, the Road Is All
Lego Star Wars: Droid Tales
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Season One
Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots with Limited Edition 7" Peppa Pig Plush
You're Killing Me
Species III and Species: The Awakening [Double Feature]
The Benefactor
Species II
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In addition to a BA in Black Studies from Cornell, he has an MA in English from Brown, an MBA from The Wharton School, and a JD from Boston University. Kam lives in Princeton, NJ with his wife and son.
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I can foresee more and more DeepLearning talent would pop out since the DeepLearning knowledge enables us to drill down to the topic we are interested in and connecting us to the entry of this industry. I would recommend this course to everyone who is interested in Deep Learning and not only for beginner but for those who has knowledge in this field as well. Need help? Call us today!
Andrew Ng is famous for his Stanford machine learning course provided on Coursera.
This course provides an excellent introduction to deep learning methods for computer vision applications for those practitioners that are already familiar with the basics of deep learning. It does not focus on too much math and does not include any code. Instead, it is designed to develop intuitions for the main techniques used in the field.
In this post, you will discover a breakdown and review of the convolutional neural networks course taught by Andrew Ng on deep learning for computer vision.
The course is actually a sub-course in a broader course on deep learning provided by deeplearning.ai.
The course is not free, and requires subscription and enrollment on Coursera, although all of the videos are available for free on YouTube.
The course provides an excellent introduction to deep learning for computer vision for developers familiar with the basics of deep learning.
Andrew Ng is a machine learning researcher famous for making his Stanford machine learning course publicly available and later tailored to general practitioners and made available on Coursera.
He is also the Cofounder of Coursera and formerly Director of Google Brain and Chief Scientist at Baidu.
In 2017, he launched a new website called deeplearning.ai that provides deep learning training for general practitioners (e.g. developers) with courses available via his Coursera platform (that requires a subscription).
The courses are in video tutorial format and are presented by Andrew with the same hands-on style as his famous Machine Learning course.
The course is designed for developers who are beginners in the field of deep learning.
This course is designed to teach developers how convolutional neural networks work and how to use them for standard computer vision tasks.
— About this Course, Coursera.
Each week is divided into 10-to-12 topics, each covered in a short video lasting a few minutes to no more than about 15 minutes.
Most topics are presented in a practical manner with very little math. What little math that is included is focused on topics such as calculating loss functions or calculating the number of parameters (weights) in the model.
In addition to the lack of math, the course also does not present code, and instead focuses on helping the viewer develop an intuition for the techniques discussed.
Week 1. The first week is dedicated to introducing the main type of neural network used for computer vision problems: the convolutional neural network or CNN. Topics focus on how convolutional layers work, filters, padding, strides, as well as the related pooling layer.
Week 2. The second week focuses on important milestones in developing effective CNN models, such as LeNet for digit recognition and a suite of models developed for ImageNet, such as AlexNet, ResNet, and Inception. As each milestone is discussed, the innovation of the model design is described in a way that explains why the model is effective and how the technique can be used more generally. The week ends with data preparation, including data augmentation and transfer learning.
Week 3. The third week focuses on object detection, introducing the simpler problems of image classification, image localization, and landmark detection. These are the 'killer-apps' of deep learning for computer vision and the important sub-techniques of the YOLO method are introduced step-by-step and built up into a complete working system.
Week 4. Finally, the last week ends with face detection and recognition, building up the techniques required for such a system, including one shot learning, siamese networks, and a suitable loss function. The week is divided into two parts and the second part focuses on neural style transfer, a technique that although is purely aesthetic, is a lot of fun.
The complete breakdown of the course topics is provided below.
Kindly, the videos for this course have also been made available via YouTube.
Convolutional Neural Networks (Course 4 of the Deep Learning Specialization), YouTube PlayList.
The videos have a naming convention of C4WnLnn, where Wn refers to the week number (1-4) and Lnn refers to the lecture number (e.g. 01 to 12). Take note of the order of the videos in Week 3; you may need to jump around in the playlist manually.
Note that Week 1 includes a video interview with Yann LeCun, the inventor of Convolutional Neural Networks. This is part of a video series titled "Heroes of Deep Learning Interviews" that is also available on YouTube.
Heroes of Deep Learning Interviews, YouTube PlayList.
You can easily watch all of the videos in a few hours.
I watched all of the videos via YouTube (on double speed) and took extensive notes.
It's a great course and I think it does an excellent job of developing intuitions for the topics covered, including CNNs, milestone models, object detection, face recognition, and style transfer.
The introduction to convolutional layers and related topics of padding, stride, etc, is perhaps one of the cleanest presentations I have seen. I also found Week 2 and Week 3 on milestone CNN models and object detection very clear. Week 4 was fine, starting well, but got very messy as we dove into neural style transfer.
If you are already familiar with the basics of CNNs, as many deep learning practitioners are, then I would recommend focusing on Week 3 and Week 4. Week 3 is especially great, diving into the elements of the killer-app of object detection and the challenging YOLO method to address it.
YOLO is an important topic to cover, but it might have been simplified if the focus was on a simpler (easier to implement method) such as Fast or Faster R-CNN.
I found myself watching almost every minute of the course, skipping only over some of the messy mathematical descriptions. In fact, diving into explanations of loss functions was perhaps the least interesting and perhaps not-required parts of the course.
I have never found video an effective medium for teaching math. It needs to be taken slowly, with clear (LaTeX) equations, explanation, and working code.
If you are new to deep learning for computer vision but are familiar with the basics of deep learning, then I recommend the course, specifically watching the videos. You can easily complete them in one or two sittings.
Convolutional Neural Networks, Deep Learning Specialization, Coursera.
In this post, you discovered a breakdown and review of the convolutional neural networks course taught by Andrew Ng on deep learning for computer vision.