Trump vows to end daylight saving time & blasts it as ‘very costly to the US’ after years-long battle to ax clock changeJERUSALEM (AP) — A new round of Israeli airstrikes in Yemen on Thursday targeted the Houthi rebel-held capital and multiple ports, while the World Health Organization's director-general said the bombardment occurred nearby as he prepared to board a flight in Sanaa, with a crew member injured. “The air traffic control tower, the departure lounge — just a few meters from where we were — and the runway were damaged,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on the social media platform X. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.
Chicago's top 10 news stories of 2024The Earth's Corr: Traffic gridlock here to stay unless funding and mindsets shiftSAN JUAN, Texas — A plan, Joaquin Garcia told a crowd of immigrants last week, they must have a plan. “Who’s going to pick up the kids from school?” Garcia asked. "Payments on the house, car payments, house bills, the property title –– all of that has to be in your plan." For the estimated thousands of undocumented immigrants living in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, deportation is a risk they live with every day. That risk has exceptionally increased after Donald Trump won a second term in the White House after spending nearly two years campaigning on the promise of mass deportation. Garcia is the director of community organizing for La Union del Pueblo Entero, or LUPE, a group that has supported immigrants, farm workers and Hispanic Texans for decades. The meeting last week was part of a "Know Your Rights" campaign that the organization is leading and that echoes similar information sessions that immigrant rights groups across Texas are hosting ahead of Trump’s inauguration. "We know that President-elect Donald Trump doesn't take office until January 20," Garcia said. "Right now is the best time to prepare." Asking the crowd to think about those scenarios was not meant to cause fear or panic, Garcia said, but encourage them to create a plan for themselves and their loved ones if they’re ever detained. "Who is going to be in charge of carrying out your life, so to speak, when you're facing deportation and you're stuck in detention?" Garcia asked again. Texas is home to about 1.6 million undocumented persons — the second-highest number in the United States behind California –– and the state’s Republican leaders strongly signaled they would readily work with the Trump administration in its deportation efforts. It was a rainy Friday evening when the group held their first training session. Nonetheless, a crowd of about 50 people showed up to attend the meeting. Demonstrating what rights they had in certain situations, Garcia and LUPE staff member Marcela Alejandre performed skits depicting different scenarios that undocumented residents could find themselves in such as a traffic stop and being detained for possible deportation. As those scenarios played out, LUPE staff asked those in the audience to think about what they could do in those situations or how they could avoid them altogether. Questions lingered among the audience, many of which they raised during the meeting. People raised their hands to ask what information they are required to disclose if they're detained, what legal trouble a citizen could face if they lived with undocumented residents, and whether there were any benefits to self-deportation. The LUPE staff admittedly didn't have all the answers and urged them to consult with an attorney for guidance. They also reminded them they would have more training sessions with the intention of providing more detailed information. One undocumented woman in attendance said she's attended LUPE meetings for years and was well aware of her rights. However, she seemed skeptical that the knowledge would save her from deportation. "The problem is that there are officials that don't care if you're paying insurance or paying taxes, that you have property –– they don't care," she said in Spanish. "They grab you and they take you, even if you know your rights. It just depends on the official you get when they arrest you." For now, she said, it's a waiting game. "We really don't know what's going to happen because some people say one thing, other people say another," she said. This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune at https://www.texastribune.org/2024/12/13/texas-mass-deportation-plan-immigrants/. The Texas Tribune is a member-supported, nonpartisan newsroom informing and engaging Texans on state politics and policy. Learn more at texastribune.org.
Trump has promised again to release the last JFK files. But experts say don’t expect big revelationsCHICAGO — With a wave of her bangled brown fingertips to the melody of flutes and chimes, artist, theologian and academic Tricia Hersey enchanted a crowd into a dreamlike state of rest at Semicolon Books on North Michigan Avenue. “The systems can’t have you,” Hersey said into the microphone, reading mantras while leading the crowd in a group daydreaming exercise on a recent Tuesday night. The South Side native tackles many of society’s ills — racism, patriarchy, aggressive capitalism and ableism — through an undervalued yet impactful action: rest. Hersey, the founder of a movement called the Nap Ministry, dubs herself the Nap Bishop and spreads her message to over half a million followers on her Instagram account, @thenapministry . Her first book, “Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto,” became a New York Times bestseller in 2022, but Hersey has been talking about rest online and through her art for nearly a decade. Hersey, who has degrees in public health and divinity, originated the “rest as resistance” and “rest as reparations” frameworks after experimenting with rest as an exhausted graduate student in seminary. Once she started napping, she felt happier and her grades improved. But she also felt more connected to her ancestors; her work was informed by the cultural trauma of slavery that she was studying as an archivist. Hersey described the transformation as “life-changing.” The Nap Ministry began as performance art in 2017, with a small installation where 40 people joined Hersey in a collective nap. Since then, her message has morphed into multiple mediums and forms. Hersey, who now lives in Atlanta, has hosted over 100 collective naps, given lectures and facilitated meditations across the country. She’s even led a rest ritual in the bedroom of Jane Addams , and encourages her followers to dial in at her “Rest Hotline.” At Semicolon, some of those followers and newcomers came out to see Hersey in discussion with journalist Natalie Moore on Hersey’s latest book, “We Will Rest! The Art of Escape,” released this month, and to learn what it means to take a moment to rest in community. Moore recalled a time when she was trying to get ahead of chores on a weeknight. “I was like, ‘If I do this, then I’ll have less to do tomorrow.’ But then I was really tired,” Moore said. “I thought, ‘What would my Nap Bishop say? She would say go lay down.’ Tricia is in my head a lot.” At the event, Al Kelly, 33, of Rogers Park, said some of those seated in the crowd of mostly Black women woke up in tears — possibly because, for the first time, someone permitted them to rest. “It was so emotional and allowed me to think creatively about things that I want to work on and achieve,” Kelly said. Shortly after the program, Juliette Viassy, 33, a program manager who lives in the South Loop and is new to Hersey’s work, said this was her first time meditating after never being able to do it on her own. Therapist Lyndsei Howze, 33, of Printers Row, who was also seated at the book talk, said she recommends Hersey’s work “to everybody who will listen” — from her clients to her own friends. “A lot of mental health conditions come from lack of rest,” she said. “They come from exhaustion.” Before discovering Hersey’s work this spring, Howze said she and her friends sporadically napped together in one friend’s apartment after an exhausting workweek. “It felt so good just to rest in community,” she said. On Hersey’s book tour, she is leading exercises like this across the country. “I think we need to collectively do this,” Hersey explained. “We need to learn again how to daydream because we’ve been told not to do it. I don’t think most people even have a daydreaming practice.” Daydreaming, Hersey said, allows people to imagine a new world. Hersey tells her followers that yes, you can rest, even when your agenda is packed, even between caregiving, commuting, jobs, bills, emails and other daily demands. And you don’t have to do it alone. There is a community of escape artists, she said of the people who opt out of grind and hustle culture, waiting to embrace you. The book is part pocket prayer book, part instruction manual, with art and handmade typography by San Francisco-based artist George McCalman inspired by 19th-century abolitionist pamphlets, urging readers to reclaim their divine right to rest. Hersey directs her readers like an operative with instructions for a classified mission. “Let grind culture know you are not playing around,” she wrote in her book. “This is not a game or time to shrink. Your thriving depends on the art of escape.” The reluctance to rest can be rooted in capitalist culture presenting rest as a reward for productivity instead of a physical and mental necessity. Hersey deconstructs this idea of grind culture, which she says is rooted in the combined effects of white supremacy, patriarchy and capitalism that “look at the body as not human.” American culture encourages grind culture, Hersey said, but slowing down and building a ritual of rest can offset its toxicity. The author eschews the ballooning billion-dollar self-care industry that encourages people to “save enough money and time off from work to fly away to an expensive retreat,” she wrote. Instead, she says rest can happen anywhere you have a place to be comfortable: in nature, on a yoga mat, in the car between shifts, on a cozy couch after work. Resting isn’t just napping either. She praises long showers, sipping warm tea, playing music, praying or numerous other relaxing activities that slow down the body. “We’re in a crisis mode of deep sleep deprivation, deep lack of self-worth, (and) mental health,” said Hersey. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data from 2022 , in Illinois about 37% of adults aren’t getting the rest they need at night. If ignored, the effects of sleep deprivation can have bigger implications later, Hersey said. In October, she lectured at a sleep conference at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota, where her humanities work was featured alongside research from the world’s top neuroscientists. Jennifer Mundt, a Northwestern clinician and professor of sleep medicine, psychiatry and behavioral sciences, praises Hersey for bringing the issue of sleep and rest to the public. In a Tribune op-ed last year, Mundt argued that our culture focuses too heavily on sleep as something that must be earned rather than a vital aspect of health and that linking sleep to productivity is harmful and stigmatizing. “Linking sleep and productivity is harmful because it overshadows the bevy of other reasons to prioritize sleep as an essential component of health,” Mundt wrote. “It also stigmatizes groups that are affected by sleep disparities and certain chronic sleep disorders.” In a 30-year longitudinal study released in the spring by the New York University School of Social Work, people who worked long hours and late shifts reported the lowest sleep quality and lowest physical and mental functions, and the highest likelihood of reporting poor health and depression at age 50. The study also showed that Black men and women with limited education “were more likely than others to shoulder the harmful links between nonstandard work schedules and sleep and health, worsening their probability of maintaining and nurturing their health as they approach middle adulthood.” The CDC links sleeping fewer than seven hours a day to an increased risk of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and more. Although the Nap Ministry movement is new for her followers, Hersey’s written about her family’s practice of prioritizing rest, which informs her work. Her dad was a community organizer, a yardmaster for the Union Pacific Railroad Co. and an assistant pastor. Before long hours of work, he would dedicate hours each day to self-care. Hersey also grew up observing her grandma meditate for 30 minutes daily. Through rest, Hersey said she honors her ancestors who were enslaved and confronts generational trauma. When “Rest Is Resistance” was released in 2022, Americans were navigating a pandemic and conversations on glaring racial disparities. “We Will Rest!” comes on the heels of a historic presidential election where Black women fundraised for Vice President Kamala Harris and registered voters in a dizzying three-month campaign. Following Harris’ defeat, many of those women are finding self-care and preservation even more important. “There are a lot of Black women announcing how exhausted they are,” Moore said. “This could be their entry point to get to know (Hersey’s) work, which is bigger than whatever political wind is blowing right now.” Hersey said Chicagoans can meet kindred spirits in her environment of rest. Haji Healing Salon, a wellness center, and the social justice-focused Free Street Theater are sites where Hersey honed her craft and found community. In the fall, the theater put on “Rest/Reposo,” a performance featuring a community naptime outdoors in McKinley Park and in its Back of the Yards space. Haji is also an apothecary and hosts community healing activities, sound meditations and yoga classes. “It is in Bronzeville; it’s a beautiful space owned by my friend Aya,” Hersey said, explaining how her community has helped her build the Nap Ministry. “When I first started the Nap Ministry, before I was even understanding what it was, she was like, come do your work here.” “We Will Rest!” is a collection of poems, drawings and short passages. In contrast to her first book, Hersey said she leaned more into her artistic background; the art process alone took 18 months to complete. After a tough year for many, she considers it medicine for a “sick and exhausted” world. “It’s its own sacred document,” Hersey said. “It’s something that, if you have it in your library and you have it with you, you may feel more human.” lazu@chicagotribune.com
The Sooners , best known this century for a passing prowess that has produced four Heisman Trophy-winning quarterbacks, took it back to the 20th century against then-No. 7 Alabama. Oklahoma ran 50 times for 257 yards while only throwing 12 times in a 24-3 win over the Crimson Tide that took coach Brent Venables off the hot seat. The Sooners more resembled Barry Switzer’s squads that dominated the old Big 8 with the wishbone offense in the 1970s and ’80s than the more recent Air Raid teams. Venables said the change was a matter of necessity for a unit that has been besieged by injuries at receiver and offensive line. “I think this staff has done a really good job with trying to figure that out, get better every week, put together a great gameplan but also figure out, ‘OK, what does this group of guys, what does this team — what do we need to do?'” Venables said. To make it work, Oklahoma needed to trust that such a change would work in the modern Southeastern Conference. They had to implement it with an interim play-caller in Joe Jon Finley, who stepped in after the Sooners fired Seth Littrell last month. Oklahoma (6-5, 2-5 SEC) pulled it off, and LSU coach Brian Kelly has taken notice ahead of their game on Saturday. “This is now much more about controlling the football, running the football, playing with physicality," Kelly said. "They've got perimeter skill, but I think it's centered around much more of a run-centric, quarterback run and take care of the football." The Sooners started to see success on the ground against Maine. They ran 52 times for 381 yards in a 59-14 win that got the wheels turning. Jovantae Barnes ran for career highs of 203 yards and three touchdowns that day. Venables said the timing of the opportunity to play that non-conference game against Maine in early November and figure some things out was perfect. “Everybody has some degree of vulnerability and maybe some self-doubt,” he said. “And just developing some confidence and putting something on tape other than practice, like, ‘Man, look, see what you’re capable of?’ And executing against, again, a well-coached team — certainly, we played off of that in all the right ways like you would expect us to. And so there’s a real place for that.” After a bye week, the Sooners tried the same approach against Missouri. It wasn't as successful — they ran 36 times for 122 yards — but they hung tough before losing 30-23 . The Sooners went all in against Alabama. Jackson Arnold — the same guy who threw 45 times in the Alamo Bowl last year, ran 25 times for 131 yards and threw just 11 passes. The Sooners found something in running back Xavier Robinson. With Barnes out with an injury, Robinson carried 18 times for career highs of 107 yards and two touchdowns. Suddenly, a team that had been forcing the pass and getting sacked at an alarming rate was moving the line of scrimmage and controlling the tempo. Oklahoma had the ball for more than 34 minutes against the Crimson Tide, lending support to a talented defense that had been spending way too much time on the field. The new approach could be helpful on Saturday — LSU (7-4, 4-3) ranks 14th out of 16 conference teams against the run. Venables said the Sooners still need to throw the ball well to win, but he's glad to know his squad can run with force when necessary. “I think that’s the art of having a system that’s adjustable, flexible, adaptable, week in and week out, but also has an identity — toughness, physicality," he said. "You’ve got to be able to run the ball at every level of football, but you do have to throw it. You can’t just do one thing. But we need to be efficient.” Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-footballOklahoma's throwback offensive approach against Alabama gets LSU's attention
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NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma appears to have borrowed from the past to cure its recent offensive ills. The , best known this century for a passing prowess that has produced four Heisman Trophy-winning quarterbacks, took it back to the 20th century against Alabama. Oklahoma ran 50 times for 257 yards while only throwing 12 times that took coach Brent Venables off the hot seat. The Sooners more resembled Barry Switzer’s squads that dominated the old Big 8 with the wishbone offense in the 1970s and ’80s than the more recent Air Raid teams. Venables said the change was a matter of necessity for a unit that has been besieged by injuries at receiver and offensive line. “I think this staff has done a really good job with trying to figure that out, get better every week, put together a great gameplan but also figure out, ‘OK, what does this group of guys, what does this team — what do we need to do?’” Venables said. To make it work, Oklahoma needed to trust that such a change would work in the modern Southeastern Conference. They had to implement it with an interim play-caller in Joe Jon Finley, who stepped in after the Sooners fired Seth Littrell last month. Oklahoma (6-5, 2-5 SEC) pulled it off, and LSU coach Brian Kelly has taken notice ahead of their game on Saturday. “This is now much more about controlling the football, running the football, playing with physicality,” Kelly said. “They’ve got perimeter skill, but I think it’s centered around much more of a run-centric, quarterback run and take care of the football.” The Sooners started to see success on the ground against Maine. They ran 52 times for 381 yards that got the wheels turning. Jovantae Barnes ran for career highs of 203 yards and three touchdowns that day. Venables said the timing of the opportunity to play that non-conference game against Maine in early November and figure some things out was perfect. “Everybody has some degree of vulnerability and maybe some self-doubt,” he said. “And just developing some confidence and putting something on tape other than practice, like, ‘Man, look, see what you’re capable of?’ And executing against, again, a well-coached team — certainly, we played off of that in all the right ways like you would expect us to. And so there’s a real place for that.” After a bye week, the Sooners tried the same approach against Missouri. It wasn’t as successful — they ran 36 times for 122 yards — but they hung tough . The Sooners went all in against Alabama. Jackson Arnold — the same guy who threw 45 times in the Alamo Bowl last year, ran 25 times for 131 yards and threw just 11 passes. The Sooners found something in running back Xavier Robinson. With Barnes out with an injury, Robinson carried 18 times for career highs of 107 yards and two touchdowns. Suddenly, a team that had been forcing the pass and getting sacked at an alarming rate was moving the line of scrimmage and controlling the tempo. Oklahoma had the ball for more than 34 minutes against the Crimson Tide, lending support to a talented defense that had been spending way too much time on the field. The new approach could be helpful on Saturday — (7-4, 4-3) ranks 14th out of 16 conference teams against the run. Venables said the Sooners still need to throw the ball well to win, but he’s glad to know his squad can run with force when necessary. “I think that’s the art of having a system that’s adjustable, flexible, adaptable, week in and week out, but also has an identity — toughness, physicality,” he said. “You’ve got to be able to run the ball at every level of football, but you do have to throw it. You can’t just do one thing. But we need to be efficient.” ___ Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up . AP college football: andNORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma appears to have borrowed from the past to cure its recent offensive ills. The Sooners , best known this century for a passing prowess that has produced four Heisman Trophy-winning quarterbacks, took it back to the 20th century against then-No. 7 Alabama. Oklahoma ran 50 times for 257 yards while only throwing 12 times in a 24-3 win over the Crimson Tide that took coach Brent Venables off the hot seat. The Sooners more resembled Barry Switzer’s squads that dominated the old Big 8 with the wishbone offense in the 1970s and ’80s than the more recent Air Raid teams. Venables said the change was a matter of necessity for a unit that has been besieged by injuries at receiver and offensive line. “I think this staff has done a really good job with trying to figure that out, get better every week, put together a great gameplan but also figure out, ‘OK, what does this group of guys, what does this team — what do we need to do?'” Venables said. To make it work, Oklahoma needed to trust that such a change would work in the modern Southeastern Conference. They had to implement it with an interim play-caller in Joe Jon Finley, who stepped in after the Sooners fired Seth Littrell last month. Oklahoma (6-5, 2-5 SEC) pulled it off, and LSU coach Brian Kelly has taken notice ahead of their game on Saturday. “This is now much more about controlling the football, running the football, playing with physicality," Kelly said. "They've got perimeter skill, but I think it's centered around much more of a run-centric, quarterback run and take care of the football." The Sooners started to see success on the ground against Maine. They ran 52 times for 381 yards in a 59-14 win that got the wheels turning. Jovantae Barnes ran for career highs of 203 yards and three touchdowns that day. Venables said the timing of the opportunity to play that non-conference game against Maine in early November and figure some things out was perfect. “Everybody has some degree of vulnerability and maybe some self-doubt,” he said. “And just developing some confidence and putting something on tape other than practice, like, ‘Man, look, see what you’re capable of?’ And executing against, again, a well-coached team — certainly, we played off of that in all the right ways like you would expect us to. And so there’s a real place for that.” After a bye week, the Sooners tried the same approach against Missouri. It wasn't as successful — they ran 36 times for 122 yards — but they hung tough before losing 30-23 . The Sooners went all in against Alabama. Jackson Arnold — the same guy who threw 45 times in the Alamo Bowl last year, ran 25 times for 131 yards and threw just 11 passes. The Sooners found something in running back Xavier Robinson. With Barnes out with an injury, Robinson carried 18 times for career highs of 107 yards and two touchdowns. Suddenly, a team that had been forcing the pass and getting sacked at an alarming rate was moving the line of scrimmage and controlling the tempo. Oklahoma had the ball for more than 34 minutes against the Crimson Tide, lending support to a talented defense that had been spending way too much time on the field. The new approach could be helpful on Saturday — LSU (7-4, 4-3) ranks 14th out of 16 conference teams against the run. Venables said the Sooners still need to throw the ball well to win, but he's glad to know his squad can run with force when necessary. “I think that’s the art of having a system that’s adjustable, flexible, adaptable, week in and week out, but also has an identity — toughness, physicality," he said. "You’ve got to be able to run the ball at every level of football, but you do have to throw it. You can’t just do one thing. But we need to be efficient.” Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-football
SBS.com Office Solutions Ltd., a trusted name in Information Technology (IT) solutions, has opened its new experience centre in Battaramulla. This state-of-the-art showroom allows customers and technology enthusiasts to explore the latest innovations in security and communication, featuring Hikvision cameras and Grand Stream intercom systems. The new experience centre re-affirms SBS’s commitment to delivering tailored solutions for every customer’s needs. As an authorised solutions partner of Hikvision, a globally recognised leader in CCTV and security solutions, SBS guarantees that all installations and services are performed under Hikvision’s expert supervision. The experience centre is designed to provide comprehensive assistance to both dealers seeking advanced products and customers looking for cutting-edge IT solutions, Visitors are welcome to stop by or schedule an appointment for personalised service. The centre is open to anyone interested in exploring and learning about new IT solutions, including cutting-edge technologies from Hikvision, all free of charge. This initiative aligns with the company’s vision to empower individuals and businesses with advanced technology, contributing to the growth and innovation of the IT industry in Sri Lanka. SBS has been a pioneer in Sri Lanka’s IT industry since 2009, with over 16 years of experience. Under the leadership of founder Samantha Gunasekara, a certified engineer with a remarkable track record, the company has grown from a modest team of five to a skilled workforce of 50. Today, SBS supports over 2,000 satisfied clients across sectors like banking, healthcare, hospitality, and more. With operations extending to the Maldives, SBS continues to deliver innovative and reliable IT solutions. Through years of dedication, SBS has established itself as a dependable partner for businesses aiming to upgrade their IT systems. The company offers a wide array of services, including PABX systems, security surveillance, software solutions, fingerprint machines, web application development, website design, mobile app development, and accessories. By blending professionalism, expertise, and a customer-first approach, SBS ensures that their customers receive cutting-edge solutions tailored to their unique requirements. Visit the SBS experience centre to discover how technology can transform your life.
ABU DABI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos--(BUSINESS WIRE)--nov. 26, 2024-- La cumbre Open-Source AI Summit Abu Dhabi, organizada por el Instituto de Innovación Tecnológica (Technology Innovative Institute, TII), un centro mundial de investigación científica aplicada, fue inaugurada con conversaciones fundamentales que determinarán la agenda mundial de la IA. Este evento se celebra hoy y mañana en el hotel St. Regis Saadiyat Island y ya cuenta con más de 300 asistentes, en el marco del creciente interés internacional por las tensiones entre la IA de código abierto y la de código cerrado. Este comunicado de prensa trata sobre multimedia. Ver la noticia completa aquí: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241126479443/es/ Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute Inaugurates Open-Source AI Summit with Critical Discussions on the Future of AI (Photo: AETOSWire) "Hay dos opciones fundamentales en lo que respecta a la IA", subrayó S.E. Faisal Al Bannai, Secretario General del Consejo de Investigación de Tecnología Avanzada y Asesor del Presidente de los EAU. "La primera es aprovechar un modelo de IA de código cerrado que pertenezca a una empresa. Ellos la controlan, incluidos los datos que se le entreguen. La innovación empieza y acaba con ellos". Y agregó: "La otra posibilidad es aprovechar un modelo de código abierto que crezca dentro de la comunidad. Innovamos juntos y cualquiera, en cualquier lugar, puede acceder y construir sobre éste. Si la IA va a formar parte del tejido de nuestra sociedad, algo inevitable, los países, las empresas y las personas deben decidir quién la controla. Abrir los modelos de IA de Falcon fue la contribución del TII al mundo". Por su parte, la Dra. Najwa Aaraj, Consejera Delegada de TII, quien inauguró la cumbre, señaló: "La Cumbre de Abu Dhabi sobre la IA de código abierto es un momento decisivo para el discurso mundial sobre la IA. Falcon, al igual que otros modelos de código abierto, reúne a los científicos, desarrolladores e innovadores para acelerar los avances tecnológicos como catalizador del cambio global. Estamos ansiosos por ver el impacto que seguirá teniendo, sobre todo a medida que continuemos nuestra colaboración con la Falcon Foundation". El programa de la cumbre continuó con los debates de varios oradores de renombre, como el Dr. Belgacem Haba, Vicepresidente de Adeia Corporation en EE.UU., quien señaló los desafíos que la IA ha planteado para la industria de fabricación de semiconductores. Al respecto, el profesor Philip Torr, catedrático y asesor científico jefe de la Universidad de Oxford (Reino Unido), disertó sobre quién debería ser el propietario de la IA y abordó los posibles inconvenientes y la regulación; señaló que, a largo plazo, los beneficios de la IA de código abierto superan los riesgos. El Dr. Hakim Hacid, Investigador Jefe del Centro de Investigación de IA del TII, aseguró: "Consideramos que la IA de código abierto es el camino a seguir, pero no es nada sencillo: debemos abordar varios desafíos y cuestiones en materia de control, política, potencia de cálculo y hardware. Por eso hemos reunido a tantos expertos mundiales en esta cumbre y seguiremos haciéndolo en los próximos años en colaboración con la Falcon Foundation. Estas conversaciones son cruciales". Entre los oradores subsiguientes se encuentran la Dra. Natalia Vassilieva, Vicepresidenta y Directora de Tecnología de Cerebras Systems en EE.UU., la Dra. June Paik, Fundadora y Directora General de FuriosaAI en EE.UU., el Dr. Armand Joulin, Director de Investigación de Google DeepMind en Francia, y el Dr. Michal Valko, Ingeniero Principal de Llama en Meta Paris en Francia. Tratarán temas relacionados con los grados de apertura de la IA, la informática sostenible de la IA, la creación de LLM más compactos, el aprovechamiento de los modelos de cimentación para algoritmos fiables y muchos otros más. El Dr. Jingwei Zuo, de TII, presentará el Falcon Mamba, el primer modelo de lenguaje de espacio de estado, construido con una arquitectura totalmente nueva y lanzado a principios de este año. La cumbre culminará con un panel dirigido por TII, en el que tratarán su visión sobre la IA de código abierto. La serie Falcon AI LLM de TII ha sido reconocida a nivel mundial. Esta serie comenzó con el lanzamiento de Falcon 40B, el primer LLM de código abierto de los EAU, en mayo de 2023. Desde entonces, los modelos siguientes de Falcon se han clasificado sistemáticamente entre los mejores modelos de IA de código abierto del mundo, tal como se puede constatar en la tabla de clasificación independiente del sector, Hugging Face. Habría un nuevo modelo de Falcon a finales de 2024. *Fuente: AETOSWire El texto original en el idioma fuente de este comunicado es la versión oficial autorizada. Las traducciones solo se suministran como adaptación y deben cotejarse con el texto en el idioma fuente, que es la única versión del texto que tendrá un efecto legal. Vea la versión original en businesswire.com : https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241126479443/es/ CONTACT: Victoria Meven victoria.meven@edelman.com KEYWORD: UNITED STATES FRANCE UNITED KINGDOM UNITED ARAB EMIRATES NORTH AMERICA EUROPE MIDDLE EAST INDUSTRY KEYWORD: SCIENCE SOFTWARE OTHER SCIENCE RESEARCH HARDWARE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGY OTHER TECHNOLOGY SOURCE: Technology Innovation Institute Copyright Business Wire 2024. PUB: 11/26/2024 06:17 PM/DISC: 11/26/2024 06:17 PM http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241126479443/esNew Delhi: New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) is planning to extensively improve its school infrastructure, starting with the transformation of Navyug School, Pandara Road into a model institution. Initially, there was a plan to carry out a detailed revamp of Navyug School at Vinay Marg and Sarojini Nagar separately. However, it was realised that repair works were pending in 13 other schools under the building maintenance department-II, and both proposals were merged. NDMC is now working on a revised proposal to enhance the infrastructure at 15 schools. The proposal for administrative approval and expenditure sanction of Rs 9.5 crore for the comprehensive improvement of the schools will be placed soon in a council meeting. "A proposal was presented in the last council meeting on Thursday. However, considering that the project for undertaking civil work was first proposed in 2021, the department was asked to specify reasons for the delay while tabling the budget again," said an NDMC official. The schools include Aadarsh Atal Bal Vidhyalaya at Mandir Marg, Moti Marg, Netaji Nagar, B Avenue, DG Block and Babu Market; Navyug School Northwest Moti Bagh; Aanchal School; Kautilya Marg School; and Kitchner Road School. The proposed works include flooring, painting, kota stone work, waterproofing treatment, and repairing walls and roofs. In July 2021, Navyug School, Sarojini Nagar was first inspected by the former NDMC chairman along with its secretary and the director (education), and the department was asked to carry out various civil works. "Accordingly, tenders were invited in June 2022, but the project could not be materialised as the validity of the tender expired. Later, a revised estimate of Rs 3.8 crore was prepared in Dec 2022, and a separate plan for 13 more schools was prepared. Later on, all projects were compiled, and 15 schools were proposed to be revamped for Rs 9.5 crore," the proposal stated. The process has also started to convert all primary classes from I to V into smart ones. "It includes learning through technological tools and the integration of technology and education, and involves the use of visual and audio modes," said an official. The project is in the tendering phase for setting up 346 smart classrooms across all 43 NDMC and Navyug schools, with the work expected to start in the fiscal year 2024-25. NDMC has also approved the procurement of over 6,000 tablets for the students of classes X to XII, said the official. Stay updated with the latest news on Times of India . Don't miss daily games like Crossword , Sudoku , and Mini Crossword .I devoted time in the past explaining the context of inadequate national security architecture to the herder-farmer situation in Nigeria. I added that this was the main reason diverse criminal acts happened in different parts of the country, and most of them weren’t closures. In the event, crimes were interpreted based on local feelings sometimes influenced by the historical, ethnic and religious circumstances of those concerned. In the North, especially almost similar acts of criminality were given different tags. It is banditry, kidnapping, and cattle rustling in the far north, but we hear of attack by “suspected Fulani herdsmen” and “ethnic cleansing” in the North-Central. My interest in explaining this in past years was based on my concern that these incidents had become a basis for stoking embers of hate, not just against whoever was engaged in criminal acts but an entire ethnic group. For a clearer understanding, I explained in the past that acts of criminality happened in both Muslim and Christian-dominated areas in the North. Destruction of crops and killings happen on farmlands owned by both non-Fulani and town Fulani. It’s regular in Jigawa and in Gombe States, where a Fulani Muslim man has just informed me, that it’s currently happening on their farmlands. In parts of Nasarawa State, herds ate up farmers’ crops in the current harvest season. In Birnin Gwari LGA, as well as in Giwa LGA, which is in Zauzau Emirate, Kaduna State, killings have been perpetrated by elements called bandits for years. I stated that those acts of criminality should have been stopped if the nation’s security architecture was what it should be. Meanwhile, in some parts of the north, every attack is attributed to “suspected Fulani herdsmen” in news reports even though further investigations that I carry out show that sometimes these are just two communities in minority ethnic group areas attacking each other. The template of “suspected Fulani herdsmen” has bred misinformation. This seems powered by a determination to spread hate against an ethnic group, as well as the confessed vow of some to permanently keep Nigeria on the US list of nations, where religious beliefs are threatened. Such persons and the misinformation they provide constitute much of the sources that some entities in the UK and US cite in the reports submitted to their governments about Nigeria. It’s this phenomenon I proceed to interrogate here, while I also ask a question, as I conclude this piece that I started last Friday. What do those who say there are no herder-farmer challenges, those spreading misinformation, seek to gain from demonising all Fulani? Why are criminal few not separated from non-herding law-abiding Fulani people as it’s done to other ethnic groups in Nigeria? These are relevant questions because Yoruba people say, “When we cry, we still see.” It’s noteworthy that no news outlet in Nigeria reports “Yoruba armed robbers” or “Igbo fake drug makers”. But there were reports of “Fulani killer herdsmen”, which made one Fulani man sue some media houses for N100m for discrimination. Nonetheless, as some Nigerians dedicate themselves to pushing a narrative abroad that there are no herder-farmer “clashes” (published by the UK-based CSW), other reports by credible international organisations support the view of the government of Nigeria that there’s such a problem. For instance, as far back as May 11, 2004, a report by Amnesty International stated that the previous three months saw “at least 350 people killed in clashes and reprisal attacks between Christian Tarok farmers and Muslim Fulani cattle herders in different locations in Plateau State.” The international NGO had also stated: “As the Nigerian government deploys security forces to restore order in Yelwa, Shendam Local Government Area in Plateau State, following a recent outbreak of violence between Fulani cattle herders and Tarok farmers, Amnesty International is urging the Nigerian authorities to ensure adequate protection from further attacks and to carry out thorough, independent and impartial investigations into the killings... In the recent spate of violence, the attackers, mainly Christian Taroks, were armed with assault rifles, machetes and bows and arrows. Most of the victims were Muslims, including an unconfirmed number of women and children...” On December 17, 2018, Amnesty released a report cataloguing violent clashes between members of farming communities and members of herding communities in the northern parts of Nigeria “over access to resources: water, land and pasture”. Amnesty further states that clashes in Nigeria between farmers and semi-nomadic herders have killed “more than 3,600 people since 2016, more than 2,000 people killed in 2018 alone”. This is in the same country where some Nigerians go to CSW and other platforms to claim there have never been herder-farmer challenges, thereby contradicting past Nigerian leaders as well as President Bola Tinubu whose accurate views on herder-farmer matters I referenced last Friday. So, this makes me ask the question again: What’s the goal of those who spread falsehood and hate? Related News A fresh look at NBS data on kidnapping in Nigeria Kidnappers’ trillion-naira paradise Police summon C’River farmers, herdsmen over clashes What have these people achieved, since the Nigerian president holds a view different from theirs on the challenge? Or is this solely about getting an ethnic group hated? This is concerning as it breeds divisiveness that has lasting consequences for everyone. It threatens the peace of Nigeria, and much as it’s within the rights of anyone to seek to defend their people so it’s also within the rights of the rest of us to defend the unity and peace of this nation. Those who go around making people in the south of Nigeria hate an ethnic group in the north, I ask: What do they hope to achieve? Is it just to pursue a narrative that herder-farmer didn’t happen, get all religionist sympathisers worked up in the process, and thereby plant hatred in the born and unborn? Those who make the Surrey-based CSW in the UK, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, and several other religion-based news outlets write reports that demonise every Fulani person. What have they achieved? They want foreign governments to put pressure on Nigeria’s political leadership. The same leadership that they’ve publicly dismissed and called liars because of the falsehood of no “herder-farmer clashes” that they spread. Their view is the opposite of the President’s perspective (referenced last Friday) on the herder-farmer challenge, yet they think they could achieve anything that way. Their narrative can lead to more instability in Nigeria, but they expect the president to listen to them. Is that how things work? These people need to take a second look at their approach because credible foreign NGOs, such as Amnesty International, don’t even agree with their skewed narratives. International organisations involved with migration, refugees and internally displaced persons don’t agree with them considering the meetings such entities regularly organise in Nigeria to offer useful advice on the herder-farmer problems. Also, embassies of Western nations in Nigeria don’t agree with them as they report to their governments facts as credible NGOs, such as Amnesty report. On top of these, the US recently removed the name of Nigeria from among nations where religious beliefs are threatened. Moreover, as I stated on this page in the past and as Moritz and Mbacke (referenced last Friday) also wrote in their academic essay, there can’t be peace and lasting security if falsehood and hate were what those involved spread about one another. But who goes about pushing the hate narrative rather than admit the inadequate security context and work for solutions accordingly? Where do they mostly push it and among whom? Religionists pushed it. They did this in places of worship and among religionists. So, religionists end up hating fellow humans that their religions enjoin them to love. This should stop.
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