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The inflation in food articles basket was 5.68 per cent during March, mainly due to the vegetable rate of inflation increasing at 28.13 per cent, up from 6.82 per cent in February.
Inflation in the fuel and power category also increased to 5.41 per cent from 2.23 per cent in February.
On Friday (April 12), the government said retail inflation across the country accelerated to 2.86 per cent in March from 2.57 per cent in February due to slightly higher food prices.
However, it remained within the 4 per cent comfort zone of Reserve Bank of India.
Michael Carleton, chief information officer at the General Services Administration, will become CIO at the Department of Health and Human Services, where he began his federal career. He starts July 23.
HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today announced Carleton as his choice for CIO and deputy assistant secretary for information technology at the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Resources and Technology.
Carleton replaces Charles Havekost, who resigned earlier this month to take a position at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria.
Carleton will oversee the department’s IT resources, program systems and infrastructure. He will also promote performance gains using enterprise architecture, capital planning and investment. Among other issues, HHS is consolidating data centers, modernizing Medicare claims processing, standardizing Medicare financial ...
“His career successes demonstrate his understanding of not only the importance of technology in delivering information to our citizens, but also the need to identify new and innovative ways to add value,” Leavitt said in a statement.
Carlton was GSA CIO for seven years. In that role he worked to improve the agency’s customer facing Web presence, IT infrastructure operations, computer security, and capital planning and investment control. Before working at GSA, Carleton was HHS’ deputy director of the Office of Information Resources Management and C...
Carleton holds a Master of Science in Information Resources Management from Syracuse University and a Master of Public Administration from Northeastern University.
Are You Classy Enough To Like Grey Poupon On Facebook?
Every other Facebook page puts up no barriers to admission. Users can simply click like, and they're part of the fan base. Not Grey Poupon. The upscale condiment puts people through an application process to see if they've got the class to be a part of its Facebook page. If you cut the mustard, you're able to claim Fac...
Every other Facebook page puts up no barriers to admission. Users can simply click like, and they’re part of the fan base. Not Grey Poupon. The upscale condiment puts people through an application process to see if they’ve got the class to be a part of its Facebook page. If you cut the mustard, you’re able to claim Fac...
Using a Facebook application, Grey Poupon examines your profile to see if you’re fit for the club, taking into consideration number of friends, how many pages you’ve liked, education, and photos and locations where you’ve been tagged. As a slideshow of your Facebook life flashes on a projector screen, high-society type...
The Times points out that this is Grey Poupon’s way of marketing to the coveted 18- to 34-year-old demographic, many of whom were not yet born when the company’s iconic commercial first hit television screens in 1981.
Readers: Were you sophisticated enough to like Grey Poupon’s Facebook page?
India was known as the best team to produce world class spinners, until the legendary Kapil Dev proved many a detractors wrong. Following the footsteps of Kapil Dev was none other than arguably India's best fast bowler ever -- Javagal Srinath. He took charge of India's pace attack and served the nation for over a decad...
With a high-arm action, muscular shoulders and bowling from wide of the crease, on his given day, Srinath was lethal and had the ability to send any opposition batting line-up back into the pavilion, just like the South Africans learnt when he took 6 for 21 in Ahmedabad in 1996-97 – a spell that will be remembered as o...
Even after having been on the international arena for well over a decade, Srinath was always learning – he kept adding variations to to his game, slowly mastering the art of bowling leg-cutters and slower deliveries. A master with the cricketing ball, Srinath went on to become one of the most celebrated seamers the nat...
After his playing days, Srinath’s knowledge has been ably utilised by the MRF Pace Foundation. He has also donned the hat of ICC Match Referee, and has also been spending time doing commentary on television.
Two food science and biology academics are launching a new Web site, Academics Review, to examine claims against GM foods by Jeffrey Smith.
Founders Bruce Chassy, Ph.D, professor of food microbiology and nutritional sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Dr. David Tribe, Ph. D., senior lecturer in food science, food safety, biotechnology and microbiology at the University of Melbourne, Australia, authored a point-by-point scientifi...
Chassy and Tribe point out anyone searching the Internet for information to help them decide on the safety of GM foods would likely find a lot by Jeffrey Smith, who, like many people pushing advice online, isn’t an expert on the issue.
“Much of the ‘evidence’ Smith cites for his theories about GM foods has never been peer-reviewed or examined by the international community of scientists for verification,” said Chassy.
Chassy and Tribe applied the same scientific method they teach their students to Smith’s claims, posting the blistering results of their review of Genetic Roulette in clear, understandable language. The site can be accessed for free by anyone seeking to base their decisions on the best information available.
Researchers, teachers, and other credentialed professionals in a range of scientific fields are welcome to apply to join Academics Review as participating members, and are invited to visit the Web site for more information. “Over time, additional content will be added to the site to help people access sound science abo...
I’ve been putting this one off for a while, but it’s time you youngsters learned about this lovely little device. It’s the latest in Nokia’s E series of smartphones, and as you will learn by clicking above and/or below, it’s a bit of a conundrum. By the way, that part of the video review is supposed to be boring.
So with limited space, you’d think there would be compromises. If there are, I didn’t notice them — at least after a little use. If I’m honest, the keyboard could be a little larger, but it didn’t affect my typing once I figured out the layout. Trouble is, there isn’t a staggered layout like a regular QWERTY: Z is dire...
The screen is very sharp and fairly bright, and does that thing where you can see it in the sunlight, but it looks kind of weird. I’m not winning any prizes for eloquence there, but you know what I mean. It works. The graphics were occasionally not up to the screen’s capabilities; the 3.5G indicator especially was a bi...
Basically, all the hardware and industrial design aspects of this phone are outstanding.
Is it bad news if the phone is too good for its OS? It is if that’s the only OS you can use on it. Let’s be real here: Symbian is the old guard. It’s been retrofitted and retrofitted and retrofitted, and now the capabilities of phones are just beyond what can be made convenient in S60. Support is there, certainly, for ...
I’m getting off track and criticizing S60 here, but this phone deserves more! Switching modes is supposed to counterbalance the fact that you can’t fit everything you want to do on one home screen. But that’s basically admitting that this is too much phone for this OS.
One more thing: messaging. Setting up e-mail was a breeze in the built-in e-mail app, but oh my god is it slow. Even in 3.5G zones it would take ages — ages! — just to open messaging, go to my inbox, and open a single short message. Configuring it to take advantage of different wi-fi spots was annoying; you don’t want ...
Other things worked great: GPS worked like a charm most of the time, although I’d recommend Google Maps over the built-in maps program (which is passable). The browser is old school but actually was pretty quick. Browsing was easy, relatively fast, and downloads are blazing when you have good coverage. Installing apps ...
I think I can pretty easily recommend this phone to anyone who uses Symbian. It’s certainly the loveliest phone out there running S60 and a worthwhile upgrade from the earlier entries in the E-series. Trouble is, it’s difficult to find. I think AT&T might be picking it up, but it’s still going to be expensive as hell. ...
A lot of people are going to look at the Intelligence and Security Committee report and conclude that it was a fairly generous assessment of the role of the security services.
After all here were two murderers, two terrorists, who had firmly been on the radar. The subject of seven separate investigations - one of them had been under surveillance.
And there was evidence, it's just that it wasn't flagged up or found by the security services. That online exchange between Michael Adebowale and a foreign Jihadist over the internet.
But that whole point really shifts the onus of this argument. Increasingly we will hear from the Government about the role that the internet companies should be playing.
I think the authors of this report were fairly sympathetic about the situation at the security services. They marked the fact that they are overstretched and have an increasing workload and they hinted that they found some reluctance when dealing with American internet giants.
Of course though, it is not up to the likes of Facebook or Google or YouTube to protect our national security, that is for the security services. However the Government is now going to look at further legislation to compel internet companies to hand over more data that they have.
The tech industry came out swinging against Trump's latest push to restrict immigration, denouncing a White House-backed Senate bill that would cut legal immigration — i.e. green cards — in half and move to a merit-based system.
How it works: The bill, known as the RAISE Act, doesn't actually touch temporary employer-sponsored (H-1B) visas that the tech industry cares about most. Instead it would cut back on family visas and and cap permanent residency for refugees in favor of skilled workers that meet certain criteria. Senators Tom Cotton and...
Tech vs Trump, again: Favoring skilled workers while leaving H-1B visas alone might seem like a decent deal for the tech industry. But instead, tech sees it as exacerbating the skills shortage while injecting more bureaucratic dysfunction.
"While it's not the end of the world for tech, there's really nothing in the bill for the industry to be enthusiastic about," a Republican adviser to the tech industry told us. "Even though it raises the bar in terms of skills, it doesn't do anything to help temporary visa workers get green cards — and that just perpet...
Tech has long had an alliance with groups supporting family immgration to avoid the zero-sum game tug-of-war between family-based and high-skilled immigrants. Supporting this bill would throw its allies under the bus.
A points-based system would let the government dictate skills parameters and hiring practices. Tech companies want to retain the flexibility they have today to recruit their own workers. Information Technology Industry Council CEO Dean Garfield said it "injects more bureaucratic dysfunction."
Without increasing green card availability, temporary H-1B workers will still have no path to citizenship, perpetuating the skills shortage and uncertainty for visa holders.
The best talent, including entrepreneurs who might be the CEOs of the next iconic company, may be lost to overseas competitors.
TechNet CEO Linda Moore said Congress should instead focus on curbing H-1B abuses and increase numbers of green cards and visas for high-skilled workers.
Microsoft announced last year that the next major update for Windows 10 is going to be called the Windows 10 Creators Update. It comes with a wide variety of new features for the operating system which is aimed at allowing users to be more productive with their PCs. After putting it through testing with members of the ...
Microsoft has confirmed the Windows 10 Creators Update release date in a post on its official blog today. The next major update for Windows 10 is going to be released on April 11th.
“The Creators Update is designed to spark and unleash creativity, bringing 3D and mixed reality to everyone and enabling every gamer to be a broadcaster. Beyond creativity, it brings new features to Microsoft Edge, additional security capabilities and privacy tools, and so much more,” it says.
As was the case with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update that was released in August last year, the latest update will see a phased release so it’s going to take a couple of months before it becomes available for everybody.
In case you didn’t know, the Windows 10 Creators Update is going to to be free for all those who are on Windows 10.
Brad Larson, an environmental health specialist for San Bernardino County, inspects a water sample from the pool at a Super 8 motel in Redlands on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016. Larson is one of several public health professionals who came out of retirement this year to fill vacancies in San Bernardino’s environmental health...
Brad Larson dreams about restaurants.
Inspecting restaurants has never been just a job for Larson. He loves food, the industry and the fast-paced atmosphere behind kitchen doors.
But now, being part of the environmental health family has much more meaning.
When he heard about the terrorist attack at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino in December, Larson, who retired from the San Diego County health department in 2012, felt something for his longtime profession.
Thirteen of the 14 people who were killed in the mass shooting inspected pools, school kitchens and restaurants for the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health’s Environmental Health Services Division. More than 20 other employees of the division were wounded.
“I was reading about it and then I saw environmental health and I go ‘wait a minute, those are inspectors,’ ” said Larson, one of 30 retired environmental health specialists who has been working for the county this year as part of a contract with the California Association of Environmental Health Administrators, a netw...
In the wake of the Dec. 2 attack, the division relied heavily on mutual aid from other health departments in Southern California to continue providing services as many of the victims and other county employees went on leave.
“What we realized pretty quickly was it would be unfair or unrealistic to expect these other counties to continue providing help,” said San Bernardino County Environmental Health Director Joshua Dugas.
In late February, Dugas reached out to the association which, in turn, reached out to its members, asking if anyone was willing to work for the county on a temporary basis.
The contract, which was recently extended through December 2017, has allowed the environmental health division to continue providing services and focus on training new staff, Dugas said.
Temporary employees were given 90-day contracts to help facilitate the food program, manage vector control and serve in other supervisory roles, according to Baldwin. Many of those employees renewed their contracts for another 90 days. Larson was recently hired as a permanent employee.
For Larson, the opportunity was a new lease on life.
After retiring, he tried consulting businesses in the food industry, but he said he got a little overwhelmed. Returning to the field with his notepad, flashlight and thermometers renewed him.
“It’s just a fresh environment and it’s a noble cause,” Larson said on a recent morning before a round of restaurant inspections in downtown Redlands.
He said as a new employee he doesn’t want to bring up the tragedy that brought him to San Bernardino County, but within minutes of walking into the kitchen at Pieology Pizzeria one of the victims came up.
“Nick (Thalasinos) was our standard health inspector for my Rancho location, so he was the one to do my last health inspection over there and give us a hundred before,” said Christal Chavez, general manager of Pieology.
Larson beamed. He had heard about Thalasinos before.
Growing up, Larson loved food and wanted to be a chef but he ended up getting his bachelor’s degree in environmental health because of some advice from a UCLA Extension counselor who said this way he’d get to spend time in thousands of kitchens.
“I took the advice and finished my degree,” he said.
As other contractors wrap up their time in the county, Larson and the new inspectors will have to learn how to fill the shoes of Thalasinos and the others.
“Nick, what a personality everybody said. He was really tough, but they loved him — can’t be a better inspector than that,” Larson said.
He ended up giving Chavez a 100 on her inspection that morning. It was one of two or three perfect scores he’s given out since April.
She said she owes her high food safety standards, in part, to Thalasinos and the other inspectors she’s worked with over the years.
Being just down the road from Mass Ave, this house has everything that you could need with so much being minutes away. If you're looking for the amenities that allow you to have a spacious living room, an open kitchen area with a quaint dining area and a MB on the main floor. You're able to transition upstairs to enjoy...
Mac Guff, one of France's largest digital visual effects design studios, will install Exanet's ExaStore Clustered NAS 2008 for 3-D animation, video effects and post-production use.
Mac Guff provides services based in both animation and photorealism to the advertising, television and music video industries. ExaStore will work behind the scenes to ensure that Mac Guff can push the limits of system performance.
The ExaStore clustered NAS systems for media and entertainment, including production, post production, VOD and streaming media anticipates growth, streamlines existing systems and enhances collaboration.
ExaStore's scalability facilitates growth and ensures that organizations can instantly meet future demands on their storage infrastructure within budget restraints. The ExaStore virtualization technology, including its load-balancing and single-file system, maximizes existing systems to their full potential and mi...
The InfiniBand-based SAN/NAS clustered solution offers transfer rates of 20Gb/s to meet the needs of rich media data centers.
The Rx524 system is tailored for high-end video broadcast and enterprise video streaming applications.
The new 3-D support includes native support for 3-D video clips captured with the most popular 3-D cameras.
Chyron and Cluster Pie have developed Pie Fx to provide an edit interface for post image processing and effects synthesis within Lyric’s workspace.
mCosm and Helio will use mCosm's mCast software to create, manage and distribute various digital media, ranging from signage and video to 3-D effects and animation.
Families asking themselves if college is a “great equalizer” or a financial burden, may be reassured by a new report released by the University of California which shows that among the UC’s low-income alumni, 77 percent were making more than their parents within the first five years of graduating.
The review released last week combed through the IRS tax records of low-income students enrolled between 1999 and 2005 and found that 36 percent of the lowest income students moved from the bottom 20 percent to the top 20 percent of the income distribution as adults.
“You come out in a completely different financial bracket than your parents,” said Christopher Perez, who graduated from UCLA last year in mechanical engineering and is now pursuing a doctorate in the same field at Stanford.
Throughout his childhood in South Los Angeles, Perez was used to watching his father, a construction worker, and mother, a house cleaner, work tirelessly to earn enough to raise him and his brother.
Enrolling at UCLA, however, was a game changer. Judging by just the summer internships Perez secured with General Electric, defense contractors and Sandia National Labs, where he is spending this summer, he could tell that his financial future would be profoundly different from the financial circumstances of his upbrin...
“Data in this report clearly show that a UC degree helps level the playing field and promotes mobility, particularly among low-income students,” said a spokesperson for the UC Office of the President.
For years, UCs have been celebrated for enrolling high numbers of low-income students. “The UC enrolls a higher percentage of Pell Grant recipients than any other top research university,” the report states. In the past year, 38 percent of enrolled undergraduates UC-wide were Pell recipients, with Merced having the lar...
Kevin Bradley Paule received a Pell grant to study at Berkeley. As a rising senior, soon to graduate in media studies, he’s looking forward to the financial security that his degree will bring.
After he graduates, Paule hopes to follow in the footsteps of friends that have pursued careers in the tech and advertising industries.
“Just seeing my friends who have graduated in the past years, they may not be super rich, but they’re definitely much more financially stable than they were when living with their parents,” he said.

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