However, some everyday people generate a lot of their own data, too, and there are technologies on the horizon that will almost certainly increase the output.
With those things in mind, it's worth investigating whether data centers will soon tailor their marketing efforts toward consumers, too.
Many technologies coming into the mainstream send or receive data in amounts not imaginable a short time ago. Rodney Brooks is the director of a tech lab at MIT, and he asserts that household robots are among the things that changed the technology landscape. He says there are currently 2.5 million household robots in U.S. homes, but they were not used for that purpose in 2002.
Brooks believes that storage capacity for data is the main obstacle preventing robots from becoming more accomplished and autonomous. As the machines show autonomy to a larger degree, that factor will help bring more of them into homes. It'll also help when robots can take in more information at a faster rate.
However, such increases in storage may happen sooner than people expect. Brooks gave the example of how the first iPods had an extremely limited capacity, but several years later, people could buy versions capable of storing a million books. Brooks suggests that if the data capacity of robots increased similarly to that of iPods, every robot could store the equivalent of a detailed world map on a solid state disc.
Most robots on the market have such limited capabilities that they don't yet generate extraordinary amounts of data. However, if the connection between data storage and robot capabilities comes to pass, it's not difficult to envision a time when households might lease space in data centers to accommodate the information sent and received by their robots, or other smart tech they own.
It's also possible people may investigate ways to exert more control over their personal information and think data centers could help them do that. A recent joint effort from MIT and Harvard University researchers resulted in a platform called Riverbed that lets users control how third parties use cloud-stored data.
Riverbed works as a proxy between a user-facing application and the cloud. Before data gets transmitted to the cloud, Riverbed tags it with a set of permissions set by the person interacting with the app. Within the data center, the information gets stored in clusters containing the same agreements.
If the cloud server's code doesn't abide by those stipulations, Riverbed terminates the service. That concept is still in the experimental stages, but it supports how consumers feel more concerned — or confused — by what happens to their data. A 2018 survey found 48 percent of consumers don't know where or how companies use their information.
There's also a startup called Helm that sells personal servers for people to keep in their homes. Those devices encrypt information internally instead of sending it to the cloud. Helm offers email, contacts and calendar services stored on a user's own domain, whether one purchased from the company or elsewhere.
Helm lets people avoid using cloud services, but what if cloud providers appealed to consumers, made security of paramount importance and gave guarantees to prove it? Perhaps they could let consumers have more say in data usage without using an in-home device.
If users could log into an interface and choose storage or usage specifications, maybe they could use something like Riverbend, but at the data center level.
Autonomous cars are in their early stages, but manufacturers have made exciting progress. As those advancements continue, it's possible that self-driving car owners may also need consumer data centers. According to one expert, a self-driving car could produce as much as one GB of data per second.
For now, the questions remain of who owns that data and whether car owners would have access to it. A Dartmouth University study dives into the "black box problem" leading to a lack of transparency in mapping data. Automotive companies typically claim the rights to the data, but there are examples of legislation pushing back. Moreover, if corporations own it, are they monetizing it in ways that don't meet customers' approval?
The Dartmouth paper's author suggests a future where autonomous cars have open-source frameworks that allow end users to access the information while the public benefits from the data those vehicles collect.
If a time comes where autonomous car data gets into the hands of the owners instead of the manufacturers, the sheer amount made could create another case for consumers to find data center providers.
It's too early to say for sure whether data centers will need to market to consumers soon. But the examples given here show why that's not a far-fetched concept.
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Bathyraja ishiharai — вид хрящевых рыб рода глубоководных скатов семейства Arhynchobatidae отряда скатообразных. Обитают в восточной части Индийского океана. Встречаются на глубине до 2350 м. Их крупные, уплощённые грудные плавники образуют округлый диск со треугольным рылом. Максимальная зарегистрированная длина 123 см. Откладывают яйца. Не представляют интереса для коммерческого промысла.

Таксономия
Впервые вид был научно описан в 2005 году. Вид назван в честь профессора Хадзиме Исихара, более 25 лет посвятившего изучению пластиножаберных, в частности глубоководных скатов. Вид известен всего по двум особям. Голотип представляет собой половозрелого самца длиной 123 см, пойманого у побережья Западной Австралии () на глубине 2320—2350 м. Паратип — неполовозрелый самец длиной 36 см, пойманный там же.

Ареал
Ареал этих скатов фрагментарен, они обитают у побережья Западной Австралии. Встречаются на глубине до 2350 м.

Описание
Широкие и плоские грудные плавники этих скатов образуют ромбический диск с широким треугольным рылом и закруглёнными краями. На вентральной стороне диска расположены 5 жаберных щелей, ноздри и рот. На хвосте имеются латеральные складки. У этих скатов 2 редуцированных спинных плавника и редуцированный хвостовой плавник. Максимальная зарегистрированная длина 123 см.

Биология
Эмбрионы питаются исключительно желтком. Эти скаты откладывают яйца, заключённые в продолговатую роговую капсулу.

Взаимодействие с человеком
Эти скаты не являются объектом целевого лова. Потенциально могут попадаться в качестве прилова в ходе промысла с помощью тралов и ярусов. В ареале ведётся промысел на глубине свыше 700 м. Данных для оценки охранного статуса вида Международным союзом охраны природы недостаточно.

Примечания

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Bathyraja
Рыбы Индийского океана
Животные, описанные в 2005 году

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President Trump unblocks Twitter critics and what he did next was downright hysterical
By Steadfast Herald | on June 7, 2018 |
If you know anything at all about President Trump, you know that he will fight hard and long to have the last word. He will do it to have the last tweet as well. A judge just ruled that he is not allowed to block another Twitter user who is abusive because the President is a public figure. The millions of other Twitter users have that privilege. The President's lawyers will appeal this ruling, as they should. In the meantime, the President will be having the last laugh. Did you know that there is a MUTE button on Twitter? Here is how that works.
As Written and Reported By Andrew Malcolm for Hot Air:
I have a little shadow, it goes in and out with me.
Because America has so few fights going on, here's another one to add to the mix:
Remember the Manhattan federal district judge who said President Trump's Twitter account couldn't block seven of his most annoying Twitter followers like everyone else in the world can?
Free speech rights of the annoying people. Trump's a public figure, forfeits privacy and ability to block out opponents based on their (anti-Trump) political views.
On Monday, obeying the federal judge, the president's account unblocked those seven people. "We're pleased that the White House unblocked our clients from the President's Twitter account," said Jameel Jaffer, one of the lawyers fighting this unnecessary case.
One of the annoying accounts, a sociology professor at the University of Maryland named Philip Cohen was positively ecstatic, tweeting: "We whined. We complained. We sued. We won our First Amendment lawsuit in federal court. And now @realDonaldTrump has unblocked me. Wow!"
But wait! There's more!
Shortly after the unblocking, the Trump Justice Department announced it was appealing that May 23 decision by…..
There's more! KEEP READING HERE:
Trump unblocks Twitter critics, appeals court order. But maybe they're Muted? ;-})
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Nnamdi Ezeigbo Biography and Net Worth 2020 Forbes
Name	 Nnamdi Ezeigbo
Career	 Businessman, Entrepreneur
Source of Wealth	 Entrepreneurship
Born August 4, 1966
State of Origin	 Abia State
Latest Update	 2020
Nnamdi Ezeigbo is the CEO of SLOT Systems Limited and cofounder of leading mobile phone brands Tecno and Infinix in Nigeria.
These phone brands are the two most purchased phone brands in Nigeria, and they're valued at billions of naira.
If you're interested in knowing more about Nnamdi Ezeigbo, his net worth, profile, and business journey, this article is meant for you.
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Nnamdi Ezeigbo was born on the 4th of August, 1966.
He is an indigene of Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria.
He was given birth to in Delta State, Nigeria.
Growing up, Nnamdi attended the Pamol Primary School, Sapele, where he obtained primary school education.
After rounding off with primary school, Nnamdi acquired secondary school education at the Ogini Grammar School, and Oghafere in his birth state – Delta State.
From 1979 to 1981, Nnamdi was been taught at the aforementioned secondary schools.
In 1988, Nnamdi Ezeigbo applied to study at the Yaba College of Technology.
He eventually got admitted into the school system to study Electrical Electronics Engineering.
He obtained a Higher National Diploma (HND) from the College of Technology and then proceeded to serving his country in 1996 at the Guiness Nigeria PLC.
After his NYSC year at Guiness Nigeria, he further went to study Computer and Electronics Engineering at the Lagos State University.
The study of the course lasted from 1996 (start of study at Lagos State University) to 2001 (end of the study at the University).
Fortunately, Nnamdi Ezeigbo graduated successfully with a 2.1 or second class upper degree.
Nnamdi didn't stop at studying Computer and Electronics Engineering at the Lagos State University, he did his Masters in Information Technology at Ladoke Akintola University from year 2008 to 2009.
The University which is located in Ogbomoso, handed him a Masters degree at the end of the programme.
Nnamdi also took up an Entrepreneurship programme at the prestigious Harvard University.
Nnamdi began searching for a job in Nigeria after his NYSC programme elapsed.
There wasn't any good job coming forth even as he had graduated with a good degree from the Lagos State University.
With no hope of getting a good job, white-collar or blue-collar, Nnamdi went with no hesitation to into computer repairing business.
After learning under his employer for a period of six months, he decided to leave his initial employer because they were different in values and personality.
Nnamdi's boss was into business basically to make money, he'd go as far as further confusing a customer just to collect every cash.
He neglected the other side of business just opposite making money – customer relationships.
The hunger for money by his boss was real bad, to the point that he once sold a cooling fan for N30,000 naira to a customer – an appliance that was sold for N3,000 naira at the time.
Nnamdi Ezeigbo couldn't continue with this kind of businessperson solely into the business for money and nothing else.
He decided to establish his own shop after six months of working and learning everything he could.
Capital is needed to kickstand any business, and Nnamdi was having no capital at that time.
He moved with a friend who owned a bookstore at Ikeja, squatting with him in his shop.
He began fixing computers as a standalone repairer and soon gained a large base of customers.
He didn't charge too much, and gave the right prices for problems detected.
The business grew slowly but heavily steadily as he built as healthy relationship with his customers, many of whom brought in more customers.
Nnamdi got approached one day by a customer who knew him during the time he worked at his boss' computer repair store.
The customer actually came to his own store which would best be described as a small store.
The old-time customer told him he would love him to repair computers in a better environment than where he repaired computers.
To assist Nnamdi, he gave him printers to sell and that's how things began to change.
After Nnamdi sold the printers, he used the money recovered to rent a new shop.
The new shop cost him N180,000 naira, but was later (after many years) sold for a staggering amount of N100 million naira.
Business grew with speed as he operated from the new store.
Customers needed him to do more than just repair computers as they often asked if mobile phones were sold from the shop too.
Slot shops were demanded to be established close to customer areas by customers themselves, and the growth was immeasurable.
Quickly, he began selling mobile phones to customers in addition to fixing broken or faulty computer systems.
The businessman was into business for real, and decided to undertake an MBA programme at the Lagos Business School.
Alongside, he got himself engaged in learning at entrepreneurial and business centred workshops.
Soon enough, Nnamdi set up a team and for 5 years, they had to route with the aim of building a very strong brand name in the country.
After the 5 year route, Nnamdi Ezeigbo and his team had successfully built the most reputable mobile phone retailer brand name in Nigeria – SLOT.
He became the #1 mobile phones retailer in Nigeria, and there was no competition meeting up to his game.
Nnamdi Ezeigbo as an intelligent businessman discovered that people often acquired more than one mobile phone in Nigeria due to poor telecommunications network services.
Realizing this, he approached Nokia, and offered them an idea to produce phones with two sim slots so that people would easily use two telecommunications network services instead of one in their phones.
Nokia ignored, they didn't want people to have two sims in a phone.
They rather wanted people to purchase more of their phones, and then use two sims in two different phones – utterly expensive.
He could do nothing about Nokia shutting their ears to his idea, so he went to China and met a guy who previously worked with a mobile phone company called Bird.
The company ran out of business due to lost in market share.
Nnamdi brought the guy over to Nigeria, registered his phone brand name, and designed the first Tecno mobile phone – Tecno T101.
The phone was good, but improvement had to be made as it was not totally accepted by the market, and the problem of having two sim card slots in a phone was left unsolved by Tecno T101.
After some time, he designed Tecno 201. It was accepted, at least much more than the maiden product.
Tecno 201 was given out to marketers on credit and was funded solely by Nnamdi Ezeigbo.
This caused a regressive growth in the early start business, but later on, the business got strong and balanced overtime.
He and his team had the problem of getting the adequate quantity needed for sales until the market began accepting the brand.
In 2007, the demand for Tecno phones increased.
Retailers who ordered the phones on credit were made to pay in advance, and their money was used in ordering more phones and making more sales.
Tecno was initially designed to suit the pockets of low income earners, but due to the need for Nnamdi and his team to up their game and improve the brand, they designed it to the point of it becoming acceptable by the middle-class.
Several factors contributed to the success of the mobile brand, including the economic meltdown in 2008 which plummeted the purchasing power of the masses.
People needed to use phones that did same thing, had similar features with Samsung and Nokia, but they needed it at a cheaper rate – Tecno showed up, filling this gap, and the 3G network feature it possessed just like Samsung and Nokia Android phones made it gold.
Tecno actually made a lot of people smile.
People could enjoy the features of a N30,000 naira worth Android device in a N15,000 Tecno mobile phone.
It was affordable, relevant and solid.
After the importance of Tecno was seen by the public, and there was a surge in the demand for its many models, Infinix was designed to fit the lower class, middle-class, and upper class in the society.
Infinix came out as a masterpiece, with even better features than many existing Tecno mobile phones.
The brand, Tecno, gave birth to Infinix – they're both powerful mobile brands in Nigeria birthed out of the imagination of Nnamdi Ezeigbo and his team.
Nnamdi regards Tecno as his baby, and then Infinix is the Technological device designed to suit the classes of people in the society.
Nnamdi Ezeigbo is a married businessman.
He's a gentle personality, and is currently onto his business as the boss of SLOT Systems Limited.
Nnamdi Ezeigbo has an estimated net worth of $100 million dollars.
Nnamdi Ezeigbo net worth keeps rising due to the increase in the demand of his creative and intellectual technological solutions – Tecno and Infinix mobile phones.
The naira equivalence of Nnamdi Ezeigbo's net worth is N35 billion.
Nnamdi Ezeigbo is a Nigerian entrepreneur.
He's from Delta State.
He's the cofounder of the leading mobile phone brands, Tecno and Infinix.
Nnamdi Ezeigbo is the founder and the CEO of SLOT Systems Limited.
He was born on the 4th of August, 1966.
Nnamdi Ezeigbo studied Electrical Electronics Engineering at the Yaba College of Technology.
He further studied Computer and Electronics Engineering at the Lagos State University.
The Nigerian entrepreneur obtained his Master degree in Information Technology at the Ladoke Akintola University.
He undertook MBA Programme at the Lagos Business School.
He also undertook an Entrepreneurship Programme at the Harvard University.
Here are some of the most asked questions about Nnamdi Ezeigbo…
He is from Abia State, precisely from Umuahia.
Yes. Tecno Mobile is co-owned by a Nigerian, Nnamdi Ezeigbo.
Nnamdi Ezeigbo's net worth is an estimated $100 million.
It pays to be creative – to leverage upon opportunities and invent something bigger than what the world knows.
You can't establish something of global quality by yourself. It now falls on your table to locate those with the skills you need, and then manage them.
Apparently, return of investments do pay, especially if you're smart and clever enough to predict the feasibility of the investments you make.
These are the 3 best highlights of Nnamdi Ezeigbo's career as a tech entrepreneur…
Tecno (Cofounder)
Infinix (Cofounder)
SLOT Systems Limited (CEO)
Nnamdi Ezeigbo is a Nigerian entrepreneur, and the CEO of SLOT Systems. He's the cofounder of Infinix Android, and Techno Android devices.
Currently, he's a married man, and has an estimated net worth of $100 million dollars.
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Sulaya teaches Arabic and English. Since CARE has supported the school the total number of students has risen from 300 to 450. Most of the new students enrolled are girls.
Girls' education in Somalia
CARE delivers girls' education programmes in some of the poorest countries in the world.
Opportunities for education in Somalia are generally limited. Years of civil war, drought and displacement have contributed to one of the lowest school enrolment rates in the world.
CARE takes a holistic approach to girls' education which goes beyond the classroom. We look at the wider reasons children can't get to school, learn in school and stay in school.
In Somalia CARE provides a tailored support to school-aged girls and their families, to help girls stay in school, transition from primary into secondary school, or enrol in non-formal classes if they have already been out of school for some time.
Support from the players of People's Postcode Lottery will pay for 40,000 marginalised girls in Somalia to have an education.
Shelter in emergencies
A house is often a family's largest asset. The loss of a house leaves people who are already living on the edge exposed to ill health, poor security, indignity and poverty.
When emergencies strike, CARE works to meet people's basic shelter needs: protection from the elements, security and a base for their livelihoods.
Rohima (above) is one of the 900,000 people living in a camp on the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar. The concentration of refugees is now among the densest in the world. CARE has been working in the refugee camps since the beginning of the crisis providing emergency shelter and clean water, sanitation and more.
CARE host a team of shelter experts, who are ready to be deployed at short notice to humanitarian emergencies, such as Cyclone Idai in Southern Africa, and the Rohingya refugee response in Bangladesh.
Support from the players of People's Postcode Lottery will enable CARE to provide emergency shelter expertise in five under-funded humanitarian emergencies, helping to safely house almost 100,000 people who have been affected by conflict or disaster.
CARE International UK has received £250,000 from the players of the People's Postcode Lottery.
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A reporter detained: On life inside ICE camps
By Emilio Gutiérrez Soto
Emilio Gutiérrez Soto on his release day in El Paso. Photo: Julian Aguilar of the Texas Tribune Emilio Gutiérrez Soto, a Mexican journalist based in the United States, has twice been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In late July, he was released from his second round of detention. For the first time, he has written a first-person account of the experience. Haga clic aquí para la versión en español.
My rebelliousness landed me in this situation: legal limbo in pursuit of political asylum. Last year, my son and I were ordered deported from the United States. It has been a difficult time, and it is no easier to write now in the first person—something I have never done before. Until now, it has only been my role to write other people's stories.
Today is different. I need to spell out some of my recent experiences, so that others will not go through these extremely degrading hardships in a foreign place where universal liberties are proclaimed and then inhumanely denied to those who would seek protection.
Ten years ago, in spite of the danger of working as a journalist in my home country, Mexico, and President Felipe Calderón's "War on Drugs," I never imagined that I would cross the border to the US, seeking the protection of the authorities, or that I would twice be imprisoned in holding camps, the second time with my son Oscar at my side.
But the decision to request asylum was quick. Crossing the armed forces of my country, the executing arm of the Mexican state under the control of Calderón, was not something to think twice about. I had received serious threats from the Mexican government. Because of my work, I lost access to my true heritage, lost a family, lost a beloved woman, lost a community, lost a Motherland, and was forced to venture out in search of charity.
When I crossed the border to El Norte from my small community in the northeast of Chihuahua, to save my life and that of my son, I requested political asylum.
I remember the moment of crossing.
"What are you bringing?" La Migra (the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer) asked when we crossed that morning through El Berrendo to the US.
"Fear," I responded right away.
"Of whom?"
"Of the military officials who want to kill me. I'm a journalist."
"And what do you want here?"
"Political asylum," I answered.
La Migra slid his sunglasses down the bridge of his nose to peer over them at me inquisitively. "But aren't soldiers there to look after you?"
"Not those ones!" I said. I turned white.
"Okay! Please step down to the office," La Migra said.
That's when the way of sorrows began, and would last more than ten years.
I was sent to a holding camp, and my son—just 15 years old—to a youth center. Jail! And with jail came separation from Oscar, who is my life, my very breath. Our separation was a disgrace. The limbo began, and it was without mercy.
I think I only was able to speak with my son on the telephone three times during that first two and a half months, until he was freed and went to live with some friends. That was a certain peaceful interlude. My son was free, and could go to school. Just for that, I didn't mind staying in prison awaiting a decision, though I had to endure everything that happened in the holding camp, where the human values of prisoners is what matters least.
After seven and a half months, I could see my son Oscar again, in person. The wounds of that legal separation have still not healed. We are still hurt intensely, and though we try to be strong and forget these scars, it has not been possible to move on.
Almost ten years later, the story repeated itself. But this time we were both locked in the same camp for more than seven months. That has wounded me even more.
December 7, 2017, we were waiting for an Appeals Court reconsider the deportation ordered by Robert Hought, an immigration judge in El Paso, Texas.
We were ordered deported. Without taking into account our appeal, our wrists and ankles were handcuffed and we were about to be forced to cross the border back to a confrontation with our hangmen, the Mexican military officials who are the executing arm of the Aztec Nation.
A phone call to ICE officers allowed us to return to the unit that had ordered our deportation. But it did not prevent us from ending up in jail, and this began our painful Viacrucis that I would not wish on any earthly inhabitant.
For several days, we slept on the ground and in pestilential rooms, where the degradation by officers of a private company began to corrode our hearts. Their despotic shouts were heard then, and for more than seven months.
As prisoners, we began to be destroyed by the immigration "system." What a costly mistake it was to have dared criticize the erratic policies and human rights violations of ICE. I was torn in half by seeing my son dressed in a prison uniform.
Going back for more than seven months to a holding camp, disguised as an ICE "center," was, this time, more degrading. Eating waste classified as yeast-based foods resulted in a severe physical crisis. In a short time I gained an enormous amount of weight, and there was no way to reduce it because there was nowhere to move around, not to mention to find food aside from scraps without any nutritional value.
In prison, "food" only resembled real food when there was some sort of inspection. That was when they offered charred chicken. Gomez, the sacrosanct guard, began to announce the charred chicken a week in advance as a delicacy, as divine manna for the palates of prisoners, us criminals, us immigration criminals. Few pieces of the cremated chicken could be rescued to be eaten.
Humiliation was served up to migrants at the moment of their most pressing need, since the call of nature must be answered in a display before guards and cellmates. Privacy is non-existent. You are constantly under the magnifying glass of guards and security cameras. How you yearn for a shower taken in privacy!
The guards are relatives, family members of one another. So complaints about the violations of elementary rights never get anywhere. What's more, we were warned, "Your complaints will never be heard, even if they are sent to Donald Trump. First they will be delivered to us, the lieutenants. The captains will never even hear about them. Don't waste your time. Your complaints will not be delivered." We are less than nothing in those places.
At one point, ICE decided to separate Oscar and me. They tried to send my son to another camp. The only thing that prevented it was my precarious health. In the absence of medication for my high blood pressure and high cholesterol, we were allowed to remain together.
Doctor Guaderrama, the head doctor of the camp, determined that separating us could be an aggravating factor for my already precarious health. He did not want to be responsible for a possible tragedy, and recommended that we should be together while he was medically finding the solution to counteract the high blood pressure and cholesterol. "I cannot authorize your transfer or that of your son, in case it triggers a tragedy," he told me. "You stay here with your son, while I find the solution to your problem." And we stayed together.
Doctor Guaderrama ordered a "diet" to treat me. But in that environment, a diet didn't exist. Balanced foods were only found in the dreams or nightmares of ICE officers. The solution was taking ever larger doses of medicine to treat my physical ills. That is when I realized that prisoners who did not come in sick became sick in prison.
Our trials began daily at five in the morning and ended at ten thirty at night. By then, I had consumed five or six pills of Tylenol, of 800 milligrams each. I tried to lessen my physical pain, and still found myself awake at dawn, unable to sleep. At dawn I await again the screams, the anguish of others, the stress, the abuse in these new ghettos.
I saw the pain in my brave son. I was witness to his worry, his worry upon seeing my disquiet. We have embraced each other's shared pain in solidarity.
What a debt I now have to my son! He was the victim of the journalistic work of his father, and now we are facing an uncertain future, without a homeland, without the proper conditions of a place to rest our heads in safety, our lives, our future, or his boyish dreams of living a tranquil life. That tranquility was stolen from us by a drunken president who has caused the greatest damage to our country since the Spanish Conquest, Felipe Calderón, and now his accomplice, Enrique Peña Nieto.
The criminalization of those of us seeking political asylum has just begun. I asked Oscar for forgiveness for landing him in jail. My son's response still reverberates in my ears: "We are together, we arrived together, and if we have to go back—we will go back together." It was the response that today encourages me to return to my work with greater effort, a renewed commitment, stronger, and with more love and dedication.
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Emilio Gutiérrez Soto is a Mexican journalist based in the United States and a recipient of a 2018-2019 Knight-Wallace Fellowship.


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India to double renewable energy capacity in 5 yrs: PM
Clean energy ministerial meet expected to evolve financing mechanisms
By Ankur Paliwal
Published: Thursday 18 April 2013
India plans to double its renewable energy capacity in the next five years, said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in his inaugural address at the fourth Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) in Delhi on April 17. The two-day event is being held for the first time in India.
"It is proposed to double the renewable energy capacity in our country from 25,000 MW in 2012 to 55,000 MW by 2017. This would include exploiting non-conventional energy sources such as solar, wind power and energy from biomass," he said. India's wind potential in both onshore and offshore areas is also being re-assessed to draw a long-term plan for exploiting this source of energy.
Admitting that renewable energy is expensive Singh also stressed on the need for suitable financing solutions. For the moment, green energy is not viable on its own without subsidy or regulatory incentives, and market forces alone will not provide sufficient financing in this environment unless risks of policy change are appropriately addressed, Singh said. The high level negotiations in the meeting are expected to evolve some mechanisms to address this problem.
Singh also made it clear that the global negotiations on climate change mitigation and adaptation has been "painfully slow" as rich nations are shying away from taking responsibility. "The industrialised nations have high per capita incomes, which gives them the highest capacity to bear the burden. They are technically most advanced, and to that extent best placed to provide workable solutions not only for themselves but for the whole world. Unfortunately, progress in these negotiations is painfully slow. The goal of stabilising global temperatures at acceptable levels is nowhere in sight," he remarked.
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He also talked about setting up a national solar energy institute, which would be a global level R&D centre. This could draw upon international cooperation to enable the creation of more affordable and convenient solar power systems and promote innovations. It is expected that this institute will be functional by 2015.
But some environment non-profits found the prime minister's address disappointing. "His statements show no clear ambition and is a repeat of old promises on clean energy development," said Abhishek Pratap, senior campaigner with Greenpeace. "It is good to see that the government is targeting to double the nation's renewable energy capacity in the next five years. However, this vision lacks any clear policy pathway to achieve those targets," he added. There was no mention of integrating renewables like solar and biomass in the rural electrification programmes like Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY).
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Community Trunk or Treat held annually on 20th St. South in front of City Hall. This event features departments and community organizations with decorated "trunks" to provide a safe and fun environment for Halloween Trick or Treating.
The Cahaba Landing is a popular Irondale park located along the great Cahaba River. It has a 1.5 mile nature trail, canoe launch pad, great fishing spots and several picnic areas.
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The license says:
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However, read the license carefully. This might not apply to this specific font, though, I see no reason for it to not considering the font is free to download.
The free version only includes a weight of 500.

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Baby sign language is a new and interactive way for parents to communicate with their babies before they can talk. Most babies don't speak until well into their second or even third year and this can lead to frustration and tantrums. However, a baby who expects to be understood using sign language is calmer in any situation. Imagine your baby could tell you he wanted his teddy, or more milk, or that he saw a plane! It is a lot of fun for both babies and their parents.
Baby sign language is very simple. Using ISL, Irish Sign Language, parents and their babies learn the signs for the people, objects and emotions they describe every day.
Baby sign language is most suitable for infants between 3 and 23 months old. They start to understand meaning at around 3 months old, and begin to meaningfully communicate from 6 months. Between 6 and 10 months the fine motor coordination needed for gestures and signs also develops. Babies start pointing, raising their hands when they want to be picked up and waving hello and goodbye. Teaching a baby to sign is simply extending their existing gestural vocabulary.
There are many advantages to using sign language with your baby: Firstly it reduces the incidence of tantrums arising from frustration. Signing also encourages your baby to talk – you speak as you sign – and research shows that babies who sign tend to talk earlier than their non-signing counterparts. It also creates a strong parent/child bond. When you spend time signing with your baby, you spend quality time speaking with them, making eye contact and, often, singing and saying rhymes. These fun activities are crucial to a baby's early development and help their vocabulary, self-expression and confidence by providing them with a responsive and nurturing environment. Research has shown that babies who learn to sign have a greater vocabulary at school-going age and a higher IQ at the age of eight.
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The Uffizi Is Sending Its Art From Florence to Shanghai to Help Boost Tourism in China—for a Tidy Fee of $6 Million in Return
Visitors to Shanghai's Bund One Art Museum will be treated to an international exhibition courtesy of the Uffizi Galleries this fall. "Self-Portraits: Masterpieces from the Uffizi," which opens on September 9 and runs through January 8, 2023, includes around 50 works by artists ranging from Raphael and Rembrandt to Yayoi Kusama and Cai Guoqiang.
The show is the first to kick off a series of 10 exhibitions that the Florence-based museum will loan to China over the next five years. Among the other exhibitions planned are a show dedicated to Botticelli opening in March 2023, with works by the Florentine master as well as his teacher Fra Filippo Lippi, Cosimo Rosselli, and Lorenzo di Credi, and a spotlight on 18th-century works. The partnership with the Bund Museum is generating some $6 million for the Uffizi, the reports.
The effort is part of the Italy-China Year of Culture and Tourism initiative, jointly announced by the Italian Cultural Institute and the Consulate General of Italy in Shanghai. Tourism has been hit hard by the pandemic in China, where as recently as March 2022 institutions in Shanghai including the Long Museum, West Bund Museum, Yuz Museum, and Power Station of Art temporarily closed as another wave of cases swept the country.
Yayoi Kusama's (2010). Courtesy of the Bund One Art Museum.
Museum officials hope that the slate of exhibitions—some including works never before seen in China—will help to stoke interest in cultural tourism. "Chinese tourism must return, and it will do without doubt," a Uffizi spokesperson told "The Chinese love the Renaissance, and they love Florence."
Diego Velazquez, (1640s). Collection of the Museu de Belles Arts de València.
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Even without the charge, the quarter was tough for the athletic retailer. Comparable-store sales dropped 6 percent, keeping alive a two-year streak of quarters with declining same-store sales.
"Our fourth-quarter sales reflected the challenging environment for retail in general," Finish Line CEO Alan Cohen said in a statement.
He said the company's financial position still is strong, and he expects a cash balance of more than $50 million to remain after the company completes its Genesco settlement agreement.
Finish Line bid $1.5 billion in June 2007 for the parent company of mall chains Hat World, Lids and Journeys. But the deal turned sour after credit markets seized up, and sales for both companies declined.
To opt out of the deal, Finish Line agreed to pay Genesco $39 million in cash, along with more than 6.5 million shares of the company. Swiss giant UBS, which offered financing for the deal, agreed to pay the balance of a $175 million settlement, which came a day before a trial was scheduled to begin in New York.
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First of all, Bachman and Anderson/Faulring imply that I had strong negative biases -- I suppose they mean naturalistic (atheistic) and anti-polygamy biases -- which led me to look for a negative subject and which then warped my research, interpretation and writing of my book from the beginning. (See p. 70 -- Anderson/Faulring imply that I wrote In Sacred Loneliness to support a premise concerning the failure of polygamy -- also 118, 137.) So I will give a quick review of how In Sacred Loneliness came to be.
My biggest influence at Brigham Young University was Hugh Nibley. Nibley led me to studying classics, comparative myth, and history of religions at UCLA. My focus was antiquity, though I had read Mormon history out of interest throughout my life. I think Nibley has major flaws as a scholar (we all have flaws as scholars), but I still admire his emphasis on reading a text carefully, in the original language, examining the cultural background of a text for clues, and was very much influenced by that. I also admire his political liberalism in a very conservative environment, his environmentalism, his anti-corporate viewpoint.
At UCLA, in addition to studying myth and religion, I majored in basic classics, taking classes in Greco-Roman history occasionally, and I also took New Testament history classes. These were taught by Scott Bartchy, who influenced me a good deal. He taught the sociology of the New Testament, and I came to see how Jesus's social inclusiveness (including women, the racial "underclass" Samaritans, and Gentiles in his fellowship) was a central part of his mission and a central theme of the New Testament.
During this time, Sunstone editor Elbert Peck always would call me up and ask me to speak at Sunstone, and I was always happy to do so. As Jesus in his time spoke freely to educated and unlearned, sinner and Pharisee, fisherman and tax collector, I felt it was not right to ignore this group. As a result, I came to know and understand somewhat the liberal side of Mormonism. I think Elbert invited me because I was one of the few Nibley-related people who was willing to participate. But I came to thoroughly enjoy Sunstone and look forward to it as a true spiritual experience -- people who typecast it as an anti-Mormon rally of some sort know nothing about it.
I continued to enjoy reading Mormon history, from Sam Taylor to Richard Bushman to Leonard Arrington to Mike Quinn. I read the standard books on polygamy -- Foster's excellent Religion and Sexuality, and Danel Bachman's Purdue thesis, also excellent. I didn't do any active research on the subject of polygamy, and it was not a significant issue for me.
As I explain in my introduction to In Sacred Loneliness, a friend, Janet Ellingson, who had a fellowship at the Huntington Library in Pasadena, out of the blue suggested that I apply for one. I could work on the trail diaries of Eliza R. Snow, she said. I felt I had no chance of receiving such a fellowship, but almost as a whim, I filled out the application. To my surprise, I got the grant, though I still am not sure why a classicist got a fellowship in Mormon history.
So my research began. As I explained in the introduction, my book received its genesis as I tried to identify the women Eliza Snow mentioned in her diary. I did not turn to Eliza because I had negative feelings about polygamy, or even because I was interested in polygamy. She was simply a prominent Mormon woman whose diaries happened to be at the Huntington. Her diary led me to an interest in her friends and sister-wives.
So, like Bachman's Purdue master's thesis, my book started as a critique of Brodie. One of the early articles I published relating to my Mormon polygamy was a critique of Brodie's treatment of Joseph Smith's polygamy in her biography of Smith. Newell Bringhurst enlisted me to write this paper for a seminar on Brodie, and when I gave the paper orally at the University of Utah, I was told that some of Brodie's descendants were upset by its frank criticisms of Brodie. This somewhat anti-Brodie tendency is an example of a conservative element in my book.
In my view, the position that non-Mormon evidence should not be used at all, however, is extreme and non-critical. Non-Mormon evidence can be very valuable as supporting evidence in conjunction with sympathetic evidence. However, if you are going to be balanced and even- handed, sympathetic and unsympathetic evidence should be subjected to exactly the same careful analysis and scepticism. In a contested issue, do we have heightened rhetoric? Are there signs of extremist bias? Is the witness reliable on specifics?
So I came to my research subject as a critic of Brodie. I mentioned this in my book; my article in Bringhurst's anthology has been available for years. (In fact, I sent Faulring and Anderson a copy when I shared a preliminary reading of In Sacred Loneliness with them a year or so before it was published). So I was very surprised to have them placing me in Brodie's naturalistic, secular camp.
As I began my core research, rejecting Brodie's list of wives as often sensational in tone and unreliable in its sources, I began piecing together a list I felt was reliable. To do this I had to put together at least rudimentary biographies of the women, as it is impossible to identify women without birth and death dates and a reliable marriage history. And these small biographies gradually became longer and longer.
After I had amassed a substantial amount of evidence, a number of patterns struck me. But one of the major patterns was the harsh reality of "practical polygamy" for women. This presents a striking contrast to the high religious emphasis placed on polygamy in nineteenth century Mormonism. I believe I can even document when the phrase "sacred loneliness" (which reflects this theme) first struck me -- when I gave the paper on Presendia Huntington Smith Kimball at Sunstone Symposium in Summer, 1994. This was long after I began researching and writing the book.
The "sacred loneliness" contrast is definitely there in the life histories and writings of many of the women I wrote about, though the phrase is my own. I did not create the contrast and inject it into their writings. I would agree that thirty-three women is a small control group for the whole of Mormon polygamy. In addition, it would be difficult to "prove" that polygamy was a positive or negative experience for the totality of Mormon women. (And, as I state below, there were some polygamous families that were more harmonious than others.) However, readers and historians may judge whether the same patterns are found in the lives of other polygamous wives.
I should also note that I did not seek out "controversial" documents. My sweep for evidence sometimes included them, but they were not my main interest. Bachman's rhetoric portraying me as "taking the bait of" or "joining hands with" anti-Mormons like John C. Bennett, Eber D. Howe, William Hall, and Joseph Jackson, as if they were my main sources or inspirations, is completely incorrect. When I had established a fairly stable list of Joseph's wives, I read everything they had written, everything their families had written about them, everything their close friends had written about them, everything journalists wrote about them. Aside from my main researches at Church Archives, BYU, University of Utah, and the Huntington, I spent hundreds of hours in the Church Genealogical libraries, both in Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. In addition, I read anything I could find written by women in the early eras of Church history. I read many printed primary and secondary sources. I xeroxed and plowed through the many fat volumes of the Wilford Woodruff diaries. When I discovered a primary document reflecting one of the thirty-three women's children's birth dates, I felt it was a major accomplishment. I would have liked to read twice as much as I did, but I did the best I could under the circumstances. Writers such as Bennett, Howe, Hall and Jackson were a very small part of my research, and did not influence me at all, to the best of my knowledge. In fact, I have no fondness for them, though felt that I had to read them. The writings of the women I wrote about, however, had a profound influence on me.


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Overall, "Believer" is about someone who finds meaning in the pain in his life. We don't know for sure that this is autobiographical to anyone in the band, but there's such emotion in the vocalization that it's hard to not believe that this song has deep personal meaning. The song is the declaration of a person who has experienced great pain in his life but who has learned important things about himself through those experiences.


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If you haven't prayed at the alter of the crockpot, we're here to make you a convert. The summer has its grill, and the winter has its crockpot, the perfect cooking device for this time of year. The weather is cold, football is on, you're posted up on the couch and it requires very little work to yield outstanding results. Plus, it's extremely affordable since you can buy inexpensive cuts of meat and have versatile leftovers for several days. There truly is no kitchen tool that gives you a better results with such little effort.
Here are ten outstanding, easy-to-execute recipes that are so good that you might just forget the grill next summer and keep the crockpot plugged in year round.
1. Meats with a bit of fat (pork shoulder, chicken thighs, beef chuck) work best in the pot because they cook for such a long period of time and they remain extremely juicy and tender.
2. Always use the "low" setting if your crockpot has multiple temperatures.
3. You always want some liquid in the pot but you don't need to completely cover the meat.
4. You'll probably need more salt than you think so make sure to keep tasting and don't be shy.
5. Since the pot is covered and sealed, the liquid and sauces won't reduce and boil away. So, if you want a delicious and flavorful sauce, reserve the cooking liquid and reduce on the stove by ⅓ to ½, about 15-20 minutes. Just make sure to adjust seasoning AFTER you reduce because the flavors and salt will become concentrated as you reduce the sauce.
Ham is a great meat to mix with a little something sweet, and pineapple is the perfect sweet compliment to some honey-baked ham. Add to that some ginger, maple syrup, and cloves and you've got yourself a recipe for...what's the opposite of disaster? I don't think it's technically "deliciousness," but let's just go with that.
Most men know how to grill up a burger in no time, but for an alternative take on the classic man-made meat sandwich, try to crockpot a burger. Somewhere between a Philly cheese steak and a sloppy joe, it might just be the juiciest burger you'll ever taste.
Crockpots were made for cooking delicious meat low and slow to keep all the juices and flavors in. Is there anything better than making the perfect juicy and flavorful shredded beef? The best part about this recipe is the results are infinitely versatile, sandwiches, tacos, salads, or on its own smothered in its own juices, it all works.
Speaking of tacos, shredded beef ain't the only way to go for some south of the border food action. You can always create some pulled pork amazingness in your crockpot with this recipe. For some alternative flavors, try adding Chinese or Korean seasonings like soy, garlic, ginger, and siracha for a whole new vibe.
Do you want pizza tonight? Or do you want chicken? I dunno...how about some pizza chicken? Yes, please. Bring the pizza flavor to your chicken casserole!
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If I have to say anything but "Crockpot French Toast Casserole," then you don't deserve to taste this beautiful buffet of breakfasty taste sensations.


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Bryan College's Intro to Business class donated the proceeds from their annual $30 challenge to the Women's Care Center this week.
Asst. Professor Benton Jones said, "This project is a great opportunity for students to learn the value of someone else's dollar.
This year, one team made over $70 profit, with a total class profit of $210.


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Q&A: App Dev Trends Live Preview with Java Maven Kito Mann
The debut of AppDev Trends 2016, our first-ever industry conference, is less than a month away! We're part of the very popular Live! 360 conference, scheduled for Dec. 5-9 at Loews Royal Pacific Resort at Universal Orlando. This is a multi-conference event that includes Visual Studio Live!, SQL Server Live!, Office/SharePoint Live!, Modern Apps Live!, TechMentor -- and us.
We've been planning this thing for nearly a year, and we've put together an awesome schedule of sessions and keynotes. As I mentioned in a previous post, we're bringing something to this event that's been largely missing in years past: serious Java. Reza Rahman, one of the chief drivers behind the Java EE Guardians, is giving our keynote, and a number of well-known Java experts will be leading sessions.
I had the pleasure of hosting a webcast last month, in which one of our presenters, Kito D. Mann, gave attendees a taste of the three sessions he will be leading at the Orlando event.
Kito is principal consultant at Virtua Inc., where he specializes in enterprise application architecture, training, development, and mentoring with JavaServer Faces, HTML5, portlets, Liferay, and Java EE technologies. He's also the editor-in-chief of JSFCentral.com, co-host of the Enterprise Java Newscast, and author of JavaServer Faces in Action. And he's served in expert groups of the Java Community Process and is one of the founding members of the Java EE Guardians.
Like I said: serious Java.
Kito is a popular and frequent speaker and session leader. His talks and presentations have been on the agendas of ... well ... a bunch of other conferences we need not mention here. The important thing is, he'll be leading three sessions at AppDev Trends 2016:
PrimeFaces 6: Modern UI widgets for Java EE, which covers the core PrimeFaces components and the key new features in PrimeFaces 6.
Full Stack Java with JSweet, Angular 2, PrimeNG and JAX-RS, which explores how to build an application using modern front-end technologies using Java for both the front-end and back-end.
Who's Taking out the Garbage, which takes a deeper look at how Garbage Collection works in the JVM.
I talked with Kito at the end of the webcast about a couple of his sessions.
PrimeFaces, the open-source UI component library for JavaServer Faces (JSF), has become a de facto standard for JSF component libraries. Version 5 was a major update, and version 6 had 345 new features components and enhancements. Is this tech on track, and what would you like to see in the next update?
It's definitely on the right track. What amazes me is that something so mature and with so many features that there's still more to add. If you look at 6.06, which just came out, it has things like a brand new text editor, and some enhancement to the exporter, which is a popular feature used for exporting PDF and CSV files. One of the things I've worked with the PrimeTek team on a lot over the last few years is accessibility. There's probably still a bit of work left to do there, but really not that much. And I'd also like to see a little more functionality around the exporter.
I loved the slide of the guy from Columbia you used to underscore the global popularity of PrimeFaces. How do you account for that popularity?
Among other things, it came out right around the same time as JSF 2 -- which was a huge upgrade -- and so it didn't have any of the baggage associated with older versions of JSF. It came right out of the gate with support for all the new JSF 2 features. Also, a lot of it has to do with Cagatay Civici (the founder of PrimeFaces), who is an awesome guy, and just really fast. He's all about constantly developing and putting stuff out there.
I though what you said about Angular being the 800-pound gorilla of Web development, especially given the big rewrite that is Angular 2, was very interesting. How would you characterize the impact of this rewrite?
I'm amazed at the number of people already working with it, especially since it just came out, and it kept breaking some compatibility between release candidates, which I'm not used to seeing. You had people asking, do I rewrite in Angular 2 or do I move to another framework. Hopefully now it's pretty stable in terms of the API. And a lot of people are going to stick with it, because it has a lot of backing and it's a really powerful framework.
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Home Breaking News Prabhakaran's deputy was a RAW agent: Book
Prabhakaran's deputy was a RAW agent: Book
LTTE leader Gopalaswamy Mahendrarajah alias Mahattaya, who was once a deputy to the banned terrorist outfit's chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, was a RAW agent recruited as early as in 1989, a book compiled by Indian Journalist Neena Gopal said.
The Times of India said she had interviewed former Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi moments before he was assassinated in 1991 and that she says that Mahattaya, was a Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) mole.
"The man was cultivated and positioned by RAW as their mole inside Prabhakaran's hitherto impenetrable ranks as early as 1989," she says in her book `The Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi' (Penguin).
"He would become their deep asset, the one who would subvert the insurgent movement from the inside and had been tasked with eliminating Prabhakaran and taking over the LTTE," the book says.
RAW's links with Mahattaya, who the LTTE later executed on charges of being an Indian intelligence agent, was not known to the Indian Military Intelligence or the Intelligence Bureau, it says.
The LTTE reportedly suspected that it was Mahattaya, who tipped off the Indians about a Tamil Tiger ship in January 1993, leading to the death of former Jaffna LTTE commander Kittu, a childhood friend of Prabhakaran.
According to the book, Mahattaya was reportedly seized by the LTTE and taken to a camp where he was "tortured over a period of several weeks and months until he could barely speak, sit or stand. "He was finally executed in December 1994, 19 months (later).
Some 257 of his men were executed and their bodies dumped, LTTE style, in a pit and set on fire."
Despite the RAW's covert penetration of the LTTE, the Indian military, civilian intelligence and its diplomats worked at cross-purposes when the Indian military was deployed in Sri Lanka's northeast in 1987-90, the book says.
The Sri Lankan military finally crushed the LTTE in May 2009, leaving thousands dead in the final months of a brutal conflict that began some 30 years ago. The book also suggests that RAW which like other Indian institutions felt betrayed after Prabhakaran ordered Rajiv Gandhi's killing -may have had a hand in the LTTE chief's elimination.
"RAW sources say that until the very last minute, Prabhakaran was tricked into believing that surrendering (by him and his men in 2009) was a viable option, and that he would be handed over to a neutral international group and not the Sri Lankan government as Colombo wanted." The RAW's ability to cultivate assets in the LTTE was one reason for its overconfidence vis-a-vis the Tigers.
Accordingly, the agency failed to factor that the LTTE leader would avenge the fighting against the Indian military in Sri Lanka by targeting Rajiv Gandhi one day.
Neena Gopal quotes a senior RAW officer as saying: "If we had read the signals right, if we understood what was going on in Prabhakaran's mind, who knows, we could have prevented this. It was our fault, we made a huge error of judgement. We misread Prabhakaran. We never believed he would turn against us in this manner. We should have seen it coming. We failed Rajiv Gandhi, we failed to save his life."
The author had been interviewing Gandhi until he reached the election rally ground at Sriperumpudur near Chennai on the night of May 21, 1991. A little later, Gandhi was killed by a LTTE woman suicide bomber. She says that Gandhi "had an almost prescient premonition of his own death."
Gandhi then told the author: "Have you noticed how every time any South Asian leader of any import rises to a position of power or is about to achieve something for himself or his country, he is cut down, attacked, killed..."
Cobra Wednesday, 17 August 2016 08:00 AM
This is all movie stuff!
melda Tuesday, 16 August 2016 01:50 PM
oops...more work for OMP.. via DM Android App
Roger Tuesday, 16 August 2016 01:58 PM
This is true and correct but there was much more which the RAW and SLA intelligence cant talk about via DM Android App
DAily Boru Tuesday, 16 August 2016 02:40 PM
What about Tiran Alles, Emil Kanthan?
Bravo Tuesday, 16 August 2016 06:13 PM
Though a rebel, as a brilliant Sri Lankan, Prabha was always two steps ahead of the Indian Intelligence. Not only Rajiv, he also defeated the IPKF.
Gamage Tuesday, 16 August 2016 06:38 PM
Unfortunately Msththaya couldn't achieve his target. Otherwise, everything would have been sold without any casualties to public, Army, and tamil tigers.


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// Copyright (c) 2013 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

#include "bravo/bindings/v8_graphics_3d.h"

#include "bravo/bindings/util.h"
#include "bravo/bindings/v8_completion_callback.h"
#include "bravo/bindings/v8_opengl_es2.h"
#include "bravo/plugin/instance.h"
#include "bravo/plugin/ppb.h"
#include "ppapi/c/pp_bool.h"
#include "ppapi/c/pp_errors.h"
#include "v8/include/v8.h"

namespace bravo {

namespace {

#define V8_BIND_MAX_VALUE(name, attr)                                         \
  void name(const v8::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value>& info) {                \
    int32_t value;                                                            \
    int32_t ret = ppb.graphics_3d->GetAttribMaxValue(                         \
      GetPPResource(info), attr, &value);                                     \
                                                                              \
    if (ret != PP_TRUE) {                                                     \
      if (ret == PP_ERROR_BADRESOURCE)                                        \
        Log("Called for an invalid resource.");                               \
      if (ret == PP_ERROR_BADARGUMENT)                                        \
        Log("Invalid attribute or value is 0!");                              \
      if (ret == PP_ERROR_FAILED)                                             \
        Log("Generic failure. Probably unimplemented!");                      \
                                                                              \
      info.GetReturnValue().Set(v8::Uint32::New(0));                          \
      return;                                                                 \
    }                                                                         \
    info.GetReturnValue().Set(v8::Uint32::New(value));                        \
  }

V8_BIND_MAX_VALUE(MaxAlphaSizeCallback,     PP_GRAPHICS3DATTRIB_ALPHA_SIZE)
V8_BIND_MAX_VALUE(MaxBlueSizeCallback,      PP_GRAPHICS3DATTRIB_BLUE_SIZE)
V8_BIND_MAX_VALUE(MaxGreenSizeCallback,     PP_GRAPHICS3DATTRIB_GREEN_SIZE)
V8_BIND_MAX_VALUE(MaxRedSizeCallback,       PP_GRAPHICS3DATTRIB_RED_SIZE)
V8_BIND_MAX_VALUE(MaxDepthSizeCallback,     PP_GRAPHICS3DATTRIB_DEPTH_SIZE)
V8_BIND_MAX_VALUE(MaxStencilSizeCallback,   PP_GRAPHICS3DATTRIB_STENCIL_SIZE)
V8_BIND_MAX_VALUE(MaxSampleCallback,        PP_GRAPHICS3DATTRIB_SAMPLES)
V8_BIND_MAX_VALUE(MaxSampleBuffersCallback, PP_GRAPHICS3DATTRIB_SAMPLE_BUFFERS)
V8_BIND_MAX_VALUE(MaxWidthCallback,         PP_GRAPHICS3DATTRIB_WIDTH)
V8_BIND_MAX_VALUE(MaxHeightCallback,        PP_GRAPHICS3DATTRIB_HEIGHT)

void ResizeBuffers(const v8::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value>& info) {
  if (info.Length() != 1)
    return;
  if (!info[0]->IsObject())
    return;
  v8::Handle<v8::Object> args = v8::Handle<v8::Object>::Cast(info[0]);
  // FIXME: check that args has "width" and "height" before using them
  ppb.graphics_3d->ResizeBuffers(
    GetPPResource(info),
    args->Get(v8::String::NewSymbol("width"))->Int32Value(),
    args->Get(v8::String::NewSymbol("height"))->Int32Value());
}

void SwapBuffers(const v8::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value>& info) {
  if (info.Length() != 1)
    return;
  if (!info[0]->IsFunction())
    return;
  v8::Handle<v8::Function> callback = v8::Handle<v8::Function>::Cast(info[0]);
  ppb.graphics_3d->SwapBuffers(
    GetPPResource(info),
    V8CompletionCallback::Create(info.GetIsolate(), callback));
}

void CtorCallback(const v8::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value>& info) {
   if (!info.IsConstructCall())
    return;

  if (info.Length() == 0)
    return;

  if (!info[0]->IsObject())
    return;

  v8::Handle<v8::Object> options = v8::Handle<v8::Object>::Cast(info[0]);

  int32_t attribs[] = {
    PP_GRAPHICS3DATTRIB_WIDTH,
        options->Get(v8::String::NewSymbol("width"))->Int32Value(),
    PP_GRAPHICS3DATTRIB_HEIGHT,
        options->Get(v8::String::NewSymbol("height"))->Int32Value(),
    PP_GRAPHICS3DATTRIB_NONE
  };

  PP_Resource instance = GetPPResource(v8::Context::GetCurrent());

  PP_Resource graphics_context = ppb.graphics_3d->Create(
      instance, 0, attribs);
  SetPPResource(info.Holder(), graphics_context);
  ppb.core->ReleaseResource(graphics_context);
  ppb.instance->BindGraphics(instance, graphics_context);
  info.GetReturnValue().Set(info.Holder());
}

}

v8::Handle<v8::FunctionTemplate> CreateGraphics3DBindings() {
  v8::HandleScope handle_scope(v8::Isolate::GetCurrent());

  v8::Handle<v8::FunctionTemplate> templ = v8::FunctionTemplate::New();
  templ->Inherit(CreateWebGLBindings());
  templ->SetCallHandler(CtorCallback);

  v8::Handle<v8::ObjectTemplate> instTempl = templ->InstanceTemplate();
  instTempl->SetInternalFieldCount(kNumberOfInternalFields);
  v8::Handle<v8::ObjectTemplate> proto = templ->PrototypeTemplate();
  proto->Set(v8::String::NewSymbol("resizeBuffers"),
             v8::FunctionTemplate::New(ResizeBuffers));
  proto->Set(v8::String::NewSymbol("swapBuffers"),
             v8::FunctionTemplate::New(SwapBuffers));

  // FIXME(slightlyoff): sooo...it seems these are a lie: crbug.com/224973
  /*
  proto->SetAccessorProperty(v8::String::NewSymbol("maxAlphaSize"),
                             v8::FunctionTemplate::New(MaxAlphaSizeCallback));
  proto->SetAccessorProperty(v8::String::NewSymbol("maxBlueSize"),
                             v8::FunctionTemplate::New(MaxBlueSizeCallback));
  proto->SetAccessorProperty(v8::String::NewSymbol("maxGreenSize"),
                             v8::FunctionTemplate::New(MaxGreenSizeCallback));
  proto->SetAccessorProperty(v8::String::NewSymbol("maxRedSize"),
                             v8::FunctionTemplate::New(MaxRedSizeCallback));
  proto->SetAccessorProperty(v8::String::NewSymbol("maxDepthSize"),
                             v8::FunctionTemplate::New(MaxDepthSizeCallback));
  proto->SetAccessorProperty(v8::String::NewSymbol("maxStencilSize"),
                             v8::FunctionTemplate::New(MaxStencilSizeCallback));
  proto->SetAccessorProperty(v8::String::NewSymbol("maxSample"),
                             v8::FunctionTemplate::New(MaxSampleCallback));
  proto->SetAccessorProperty(v8::String::NewSymbol("maxSampleBuffers"),
                             v8::FunctionTemplate::New(MaxSampleBuffersCallback));
  proto->SetAccessorProperty(v8::String::NewSymbol("maxWidth"),
                             v8::FunctionTemplate::New(MaxWidthCallback));
  proto->SetAccessorProperty(v8::String::NewSymbol("maxHeight"),
                             v8::FunctionTemplate::New(MaxHeightCallback));
  */

  // TODO(slightlyoff):
  //   int32_t (*GetAttribs)(PP_Resource context, int32_t attrib_list[]);
  //   int32_t (*SetAttribs)(PP_Resource context, const int32_t attrib_list[]);
  //   int32_t (*GetError)(PP_Resource context);

  return handle_scope.Close(templ);
}

}

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Aspartame: by far the most dangerous substance added to most foods today.
With 900k views, this article by a New York times bestselling author and Osteopathic Doctor is the leading hit on google when you search for aspartame. This is the substance behind the "diet soda causes cancer" meme you've heard around lately. I recently wrote a research article about it for a final, which I'll summarize:
Aspartame is the chemical name of the popular artificial sweeteners, NutraSweet and Equal. It has been in use as a sweetener since FDA approval in 1981, and generated controversy over consumer safety before and since. My initial hypothesis was that aspartame did pose some health risk in extreme doses in animal studies, but that these risks may not translate to the dosages approved for human use, especially considering that one would have to consume 21 cans of soda to exceed the FDA recommended limit. But I was well off the mark.
It turns out there is no established relationship between aspartame and health disorders in scientific literature, and those that support a link have been found suspect for legitimate concerns over methodology by the larger scientific community. It may turn out to be that elevated exposure to aspartame carries risk for certain diseases, but the rigors of repeated modern safety tests seem to have thoroughly evaluated that risk and found it inconsequential for normal consumption amounts (unless you are of the few Americans with genetic phenylketonuria, an inability to break down a common amino acid).
Dr. Mercola is responsible for perpetuating, and profiting from, decades of aspartame scaremongering. He runs an anti-establishment alternative health website Mercola.com where he sells published titles such as Sweet Deception and Take Control Of Your Health as well as a wide variety of supplements and alternative products from his online store. Are you surprised that he's been a guest on the Dr. Oz show?
The first step in a critical analysis of a presented fact is to identify the source of the information and check the accuracy and context of information presented. Many, many symptoms and dangers of aspartame are asserted on his site with the authority of a medical professional. However, the only references listed on any particular page are for specific quotations, and not for any of the scientific facts presented. An example of such a reference is a hyperlink, prompted by "according to researchers and physicians studying the adverse effects of aspartame", which points to a second article on his own website titled "Hidden Dangers". This article again puts forth many similar statements of scientific fact that are antagonistic of aspartame, and this time includes numbered parenthetical citations throughout, but without providing the corresponding list of numbered references that usually accompany the article.
In a hunt for the source document, I performed a google search of key facts and phrasing and hit on a particular sentence that was copied verbatim on a number of alternative medicine websites. Several of these included the identical parenthetical citation as well, indicating that they were all plagiarizing from the exact same source.
I then refined my search and found a Google Books digital copy of the source article, found in a scam ebook of printed and rescanned internet articles that included the missing references. The original article was put out on the website ImmuneBasics.com (now defunct) by Pathway International in 2000 but which still exists as a company today and manufactures alternative supplements and products. They had licensed the article for distribution, and the original author was the same Dr. Joseph M. Mercola.
As should be expected at this point, the references from the original article were not scholarly or complete, and as an example listed "Studies by MIT neuroscientist Richard Wurtman" instead of including a proper reference to the study. Additionally, most of his sources were already more than a decade out of date. Let me be perfectly clear: He is reposting articles today that he wrote in 2000, based of information cherrypicked from 1985.
His website lists 61 studies that indicate the danger of Aspartame. Of them, only 12 were published since 2000, and many on this list are specifically addressed by other agencies such as the American Cancer Society as having been called into question over methodology. An additional 8 resources include non-scholarly sources and websites, including several of a Dr. H. J. Roberts. Both men have been advocating against artificial sweeteners, have been published prolifically on the subject, often cite each other's work, and frequently cite themselves. One example from the list is a separate journal-styled paper which reflects strong personal opinions of Dr. Roberts, and in which every single source in the reference is an article he himself had written. This echo-chamber of bad information and circular references allows them to promote sciencey sounding articles in a deliberate attempt to appear legitimate and trustworthy.
TLDR: Alternative websites are selling you both the illness (an unfounded aspartame myth) and the cure (their book).
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'Our headquarters is on Zoom.' A CEO explains how to build a business without borders
At biotech company BeiGene, no single geographic location is "in charge," and science drives decision-making.
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By John Oyler 5 minute Read
The global nature of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent economic fallout has exposed the corporate world's vulnerabilities—from supply chain weaknesses to shortcomings in companies' ability to sustain remote work.
As the CEO of a global biotech company, I observed firsthand how traditional corporate structures slowed the healthcare industry's ability to meet the needs of the diverse and global population.
The traditional hub-and-spoke model of most global companies, which revolves around a physical headquarters, evolved out of necessity—good, timely decisions require clear real time communication. Teamwork requires trust. Certainly, in the past, this was best achieved in person.
Yet this structure (as all do) had limitations. It often resulted in a corporate monoculture making decisions that perpetuate a limited world view. This created tensions with regional affiliates and it also often limited understanding of unique cultural or local needs. It required senior executives to relocate to the headquarters for a period of time or perpetuity.
This was most apparent in the public health sphere, where our global pandemic response was tested as we struggled to coordinate across geographies using remote technology to get timely information and access to vaccines.
When Dr. Xiaodong Wang and I founded BeiGene in 2010, we shared a vision to embrace the world broadly in our efforts to develop innovative medicines and to try to bring these innovations more broadly to the world. We believed that there was a better structure and made four core decisions to try to avoid the problems of the hub-and-spoke model.
We believe BeiGene's experience and cultural model offers an interesting counterpoint to 100 years of management science—but one that reflects the advancement of workplace technology and the global nature of disease and science. While we continue to learn and evolve, our structure enabled our business to continue to move quickly during the pandemic. At a time when many of life sciences companies were adapting to a virtual workplace, we continued to make progress expanding our manufacturing footprint in the US and conducting clinical trial programs across 40 countries in 5 continents to ensure our medicines could reach patients far and wide across continents. We hope leaders from across industries can find inspiration from our efforts to create a business without borders.
Create a level playing field where no country-based team is in charge.
Leaders at any level can be in any location and are, in fact, spread around the world from Beijing, Shanghai, and the San Francisco Bay Area to Cambridge and Basel, among other places. Our leaders were dispersed long before the pandemic, so we were able to continue making decisions rapidly, while other organizations were adapting. We have worked hard to shape a culture defined by mutual understanding of and respect for each other's strengths and differences. This extends across all 23 offices we have today on five continents.
To make this work, we leverage workplace collaboration technology. In fact, for years prior to the pandemic, we were known as the company saying that its headquarters was on Zoom—to which most outsiders responded, "what is Zoom?". We also travel to be together—in non-pandemic times, at least—but we make a conscious effort to rotate this around geographies.
Building understanding and trust across borders
Respect for all cultures and perspectives is important. We make the effort to listen to, understand and benefit from a diverse set of perspectives and ideas. This understanding has been essential to building trust with local clinical trial investigators and bringing new sites into the global ecosystem with participants representing a range of ethnic, gender, economic and environmental characteristics. This approach takes more effort but pays great dividends in the long run.
We ask that discussions around conflicts remain around specific issues, not generalizations, people, functions, or geographies.
For example, the clinical development program that led to the United States FDA approval of BeiGene's BTK inhibitor, Brukinsa, was originated in Australia and New Zealand, and relied also on data from 27 countries including substantial enrollment in China, Poland, Spain and Italy. The design of the program was shaped materially by ideas from clinicians in Australia, UK, Germany, China and France. Today, Brukinsa is approved in several indications and in markets including Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Israel, Singapore, the UAE and the U.S and has shown efficacy and safety advantages over other treatments.
Make decisions based on facts, data, science and logic–not hierarchy, region, function, or person
In our experience, recruiting and supporting the best people, regardless of where they live, significantly drives innovation, as well as job satisfaction and performance. We have zero tolerance for stereotypes. As in our scientific pursuits, facts and logic form the foundation of our team-building strategy, which empowers colleagues to collaborate across geographies.
Hire based on talent, not location
I believe a truly exceptional person within the right culture with the latest collaboration tools will far outperform a geographically adjacent average talent.
A recent example of this teamwork across geographies is our clinical operations organization, which embraced the challenge of an accelerated timeline for interim analysis of a global trial comparing Brukinsa to another drug in this class. With new processes to maximize use of time across time zones, colleagues handed off work across continents, enabling continuous analysis of a tremendous amount of data and achieving completion weeks ahead of schedule.
These commitments that we made to a decentralized headquarters, collaboration tools, and a global culture have allowed BeiGene to grow in 10 years to more than 8,200 employees and to initiate more than 100 clinical trials in over 40 geographies – including some regions that have long been outsiders in an outdated drug development system.
We recognize that implementing a model like this is challenging. It is not for everyone. It will not be the best structure in many situations. But what drives BeiGene forward is our shared mission to fight the terrible villain of cancer who recognizes no borders. Since cancer doesn't recognize borders – neither should we.
We believe that today, a decentralized model is possible, and preferable to a central command and control center model for understanding, and effectively addressing, the healthcare needs of a diverse global population.
John V. Oyler is cofounder, chairman and CEO of BeiGene, a global biotechnology company.
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