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AFROFUTURISM (4)
By: Adrienne Crew
We are pleased to present a 10-part series exploring the aesthetics and visual rhetoric of Afrofuturism, by HILOBROW friend Adrienne Crew — who previously brought us an exploration of P-Funk's Afrofuturism.
SWEET CHARIOTS
Well, all right, Star Child!
Citizens of the universe, recording angels,
We have returned to claim the pyramids.
Partying on the mothership,
I am the mothership connection!
— from "Mothership Connection (Star Child)," the 1975 Parliament song which first introduced George Clinton's messianic-alien alter ego Star Child
Gimme the paw, gimme the ball, take the top shift (ball)
Call my girls and put 'em all on a spaceship (brr)
— from "APESHIT," a 2018 song by Beyoncé and Jay-Z
Afrocentric spaceships are a trip; Afrofuturists put so much inventiveness into the design of transportation! Known by various names — motherships, UFOs, space hoopties — these vessels of transportation, in music and movies, bring me joy.
As I've written before, George Clinton's 1975 sci-fi album Mothership Connection first introduced me to the concept of Afrocentric space travel. I learned about the P-Funk Afronaut mythology by studying Pedro Bell and Overton Lloyd's illustrations, which decorate albums and liner notes for recordings of music performed by Clinton and Bootsy Collin's collective of musicians under the names Parliament and Funkadelic.
I loved the pyramid-shaped Mothership and, as an adolescent, I would stare at it for hours while listening to the album's title track over and over again. Parliament's Mothership is so iconic that in 2014, George Clinton donated a copy of the stage prop to the Smithsonian. Since then, I've gained a broader awareness of all types of music and discovered that Clinton wasn't the only Afrofuturist entranced with space travel.
Influenced by John Coltrane's posthumous jazz album Intersteller Space (recorded 1967, released 1974), jazz musicians like Ornette Coleman, and Charles Earland, not to mention Chick Corea's jazz fusion group Return to Forever (1972–1977), experimented with ways to communicate the sound of space.
In 1971, the experimentalist jazz composer and bandleader Sun Ra gave lectures at UC Berkeley about the interdimensional aspects of his compositions — and eventually made a film about an alien who uses music to teleport people to distant planets. Called Space is the Place, the 1974 film intercuts shots of Sun Ra performing with his Arkestra with vignettes of Sun Ra exploring distant planets aboard a yellow spaceship that looks like two breasts. The Beatles may have had a yellow submarine, but Sun Ra preferred space mammaries.
At Black Ark Studios in Jamaica, meanwhile, reggae producer Lee "Scratch" Perry used overdubbing techniques to give a futuristic flair to songs like I-Roy's 1973 hit "Space Flight."
One thing that I love about the 1970s-era sci-fi music of these Afrofuturist musicians is its optimism. Clinton, Sun Ra, I-Roy and others — check out "UFOs," on the Motown group The Undisputed Truth's 1975 album Cosmic Truth — hailed extraterrestrials as potential liberators, arriving to scoop black people up in their UFOs and whisk them away to paradise.
It's no coincidence that both Sun Ra and Lee "Scratch" Perry used the term ark in their work. Perry's studio was an ark of sorts, and Sun Ra's Arkestra played music with teleportation properties; both artists explored the physics of sound in order to transport us.
Lee "Scratch" Perry at work in Black Ark Studios
The idea of a space ark strongly resonated, in the 1970s, for African Americans — and for many of us, still today. The chorus of Parliament's "Mothership Connection (Star Child)" quotes the sassy gospel song "Swing Down Sweet Chariot," which is itself a riff on "Swing Low Sweet Chariot," a hymn written in the 1860s by Wallis Willis, a Choctaw freedman.
Whether or not they specifically reference Negro spirituals and gospel standards, the songs mentioned here and others like them echo the desire for flight found in, say, Albert E. Brumley's 1932 song "I'll Fly Away."
When the shadows of this life have gone,
I'll fly away.
Like a bird from prison bars has flown,
Gil Scott-Heron represents the spirit of the '70s, for example, when he makes a guest appearance on Blackalicious's great 2002 song "First in Flight" (from the album Blazing Arrow): "Cause all we got is rhythm and timin'/We go beyond the edge of the sky." The limitlessness of flight has always suggested, to African Americans, liberation not only from actual oppression but from repression: worries, misery.
Today, although the psychedelic, Space Age vibe has largely evaporated from black culture, the idea of the gleeful Afronaut still pops up in Afrofuturistic productions.
I loved the organic design of the Red Lectroid ships in 1984's The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (shown above), for example. Missy Elliot plays a rapping astronaut in her 1997 "Sock it to Me," video and sings to glowing UFOs in her 2003 "Pass That Dutch" video. And I enjoyed watching Janelle Monae pilot her spaceship in the the "Autofac" episode of the 2018 TV anthology series Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams on Amazon Prime.
Missy Elliott, "Pass That Dutch" video
But times have changed. The aliens who offer to trade massive rewards in exchange for America's black population don't seem altruistic in Derrick Bell's 1992 short story "The Space Traders." Bell, the first tenured African-American professor of law at Harvard Law School, is one of the originators of critical race theory; he wrote this story as a thought experiment.
Reginald and Warrington Hudlin adapted Bell's story for an episode in HBO's multi-ethnic horror series, Cosmic Slop — the series title is an homage to a 1973 Funkadelic album, and George Clinton himself hosted. Sharp-eyed viewers enjoyed the irony of seeing Robert Guillaume, who played the titular head of household affairs for a state governor in the show Benson, take on the role of a Republican professor forced to mediate between the African-American community and a government eager to make the trade. Having watched civil rights gains erode in the face of Reagan- and Bush-era conservatism, African Americans in Bell's story story are highly skeptical of the government's goodwill.
Michael and Janet Jackson's 1995 video for "Scream" — an angry rebuttal to the tabloid coverage of the child sexual abuse accusations made against Jackson in 1993 — continues to fascinate me. The artists perform under the surveillance of the cameras aboard a sleek spaceship. We can't tell if they are bored space travelers or test subjects. As the violence in the video intensifies, it's hard to ignore the song's lyrics about social injustice and inequity.
In 1995, people were shocked by the rage that Michael Jackson's dancing displayed. It's still a shock to revisit the song's lyrics in the wake of the 2019 HBO documentary Leaving Neverland.
With such delusions, don't it make you wanna scream?
You're bash abusin' victimize within the scheme
You try to cope with every lie they scrutinize
Somebody please have mercy 'cause I just can't take it!
My interpretation of this video, today: Michael Jackson was abducted by aliens, examined, and found wanting. Now they're sending him back to Earth — which is to say, Hell — where he belongs.
Jason Heller's 2018 book Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded was a crucial resource for this essay.
AFROFUTURISM: INTRODUCTION | HAIR POLITICS | BODY HORROR | TIME TRAVEL | SWEET CHARIOTS | ALIEN NATION | A WAY OUT OF NO WAY | ROBOT LIBERATION | ADAPTATION & HYBRIDISM | STARSEEDS | BLACK UTOPIA. ALSO SEE: P-FUNK AFROFUTURISM | SAMUEL R. DELANY | OCTAVIA E. BUTLER | W.E.B. DUBOIS'S "THE COMET".
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Afrofuturism
CARBONA YOUR ENTHUSIASM (4)
KLAATU YOU (16)
SERIOCOMIC (28)
AFROFUTURISM (INTRO)
FOSSILS (25)
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Q: git version control lambda functions In an attempt to give developers the ability to write their lambda function locally, then commit and push to git, we used SAM and SAM Local.
We have about 50 lambda functions and anticipate this number to grow into the hundreds if not thousands.
I'm wondering how to group the lambda functions repositories i.e should we group all the lambda functions that get triggered by api gateway in their own repo, then all the ones that get triggered by s3 separately etc ...
The challenge is some lambda functions have their own dependencies and it just looks weird to try and have multiple lambdas with different dependencies within same repo.
One lambda might have npm package dependencies, another might have python libraries dependencies, etc ... so do I git commit and git push those two lambda in their own separate repos or organize them in separate folders and push them to same repo? Or have separe repos per lambda function?
It doesn't seem feasible to commit each lambda to its own repo especially as the number of those functions grow overtime.
I'm new to aws tools and would appreciate someone's insights on this!
Maybe you've ran into this problem before?

A: I would group them according to their purpose. For example,

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*REST API (HTTP endpoints)

*GraphQL API (HTTP endpoints)

*Auth API (HTTP endpoints)

*Admin API (HTTP endpoints not part of our user-facing product but is essential for managing our customers such as billing systems and company dashboards)

*Background workers (for processing background tasks like image resize, sending emails, aggregating data, etc.)

*Operations (not directly part of the product but is essential in daily operations such as Slack WebHooks, CI/CD triggers)

I'd also recommend tools such as serverless-framework to help manage each project.

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Democrats Want You to Move to Georgia to Vote in the Senate Runoffs
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Control of the next Senate will come down to the results of two runoff elections in Georgia on January 5, each of which features an incumbent Republican defending a seat.
According to the latest available vote count for the November 3 election, Senator David Perdue failed to reach the necessary 50 percent of the vote to avoid a runoff. The New York Times results put Perdue at 49.7 percent, leading his Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff, who came in at 48 percent — a difference of fewer than 100,000 votes.
The second race, a special election to fill the seat of retiring GOP senator Johnny Isakson, will head to a runoff after none of the candidates reached 50 percent. The race had no primary, so there were several competitors in each party. Republican senator Kelly Loeffler, appointed by Georgia governor Brian Kemp to fill Isakson's seat until the special election, will face Democrat Raphael Warnock on January 5. Last week, Warnock received almost 33 percent support, or about 1.6 million votes, and Loeffler received about 26 percent, close to 1.3 million votes.
As all eyes turn to Georgia to see whether Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the GOP will retain control of the Senate, prominent Democrats have begun urging left-wing voters to move to the state and vote for the Democratic candidates. Last week, former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang tweeted:
The best thing we could do for Joe is to get him a Democratic Senate. There should be coordination of resources. Everyone who campaigned for Joe should get ready to head to Georgia. I'll go. It's the only way to sideline Mitch and give Joe a unified government.
— Andrew Yang🧢🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) November 6, 2020
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"There isn't much time," Yang added. "The earliest date for absentee ballots to be mailed for the runoff is Nov. 18. The registration deadline is Dec. 7. The In-person early voting begins Dec. 14."
Yang was not alone in suggesting this strategy. "I hope everyone moves to Georgia in the next month or two, registers to vote, and votes for these two Democratic senators," New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman said in a CNN interview earlier this week.
Abortion-rights activist Tamara Stevens, with the progressive group Handmaids Coalition of Georgia, made a similar plea on Facebook: "Hey all you Northern Democrats! You are all invited to spend the Winter in Georgia!!! Come on down and we will cook for you too!!! Y'allywood…start ramping up productions and get all those West Coast Liberals here too!"
But because the January runoffs are a continuation of an ongoing election, experts suggest it would be voter fraud, and a felony, to move to Georgia with the intention of staying only to vote in the runoff elections. Here's more from the Wall Street Journal:
A spokesman for the Georgia Secretary of State's Office, which oversees voter registrations, declined to comment on how quickly someone could establish legal residency in Georgia, but cited state law that it is a felony to vote in Georgia elections if you are not a legal resident or if you are residing in the state briefly with the intention just to vote and then move away.
"These are sensitive issues, and election officials are going to pay attention to what is happening," said Enrijeta Shino, a University of North Florida political science professor who has researched voting issues in Georgia. "People should be very careful about doing that."
People moving to Georgia briefly can work on campaigns and canvass for candidates, but voting in the state without the intention of staying would be considered fraud, she warned.
Yang has already announced that he and his wife will be moving to Georgia to campaign for the Democrats. If he and his fellow progressives intend to cast their votes in the runoff, they'd be wise buy themselves a place to live and get comfortable for the long haul.
Alexandra DeSanctis is a staff writer for National Review and a visiting fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. @xan_desanctis


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Six professors elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
By Jim Logan
Wednesday, January 26, 2022 - 08:00
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Top, from left: Leon Balents, John E. Bowers, Matthew Fisher. Bottom: Michael Gurven, Mary Hegarty, Joel Rothman.
Six UC Santa Barbara researchers have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for 2021. Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers for their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.
The new fellows are: Leon Balents, the Pat and Joe Yzurdiaga Chair in Theoretical Physics in the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics; John E. Bowers, the Fred Kavli Distinguished Professor of Materials, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Technology Management; Matthew Fisher, a professor in the Department of Physics; Michael Gurven, a professor in the Department of Anthropology; Mary Hegarty, a distinguished professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences; and Joel Rothman, a distinguished professor and Wilcox Family Chair in Biotechnology in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology.
"On behalf of the Division of Mathematical, Life and Physical Sciences, I congratulate Professors Hegarty, Rothman, Balents, Bowers and Fisher on this prestigious honor," said Pierre Wiltzius, the Susan and Bruce Worster Dean of Science and a professor of Physics. "All of them have earned accolades through their hard work and original research, and now they are part of this distinguished group of scientists and innovators. These awards recognize highly valued contributions to their respective fields, and I could not be prouder that they are members of our UC Santa Barbara faculty."
Said Charlie Hale, the SAGE Sara Miller McCune Dean of Social Sciences, "I extend my fulsome congratulations to Professor Gurven on this singular achievement. "His research into how ecological and biocultural factors affect behavior, health and psychology in diverse populations draws on multiple theories, methods and bodies of disciplinary knowledge, yielding a truly integrative approach."
"The College of Engineering is proud to congratulate Professor John Bowers on this distinct honor from his peers," said Tresa Pollock, the interim dean of engineering and Alcoa Distinguished Professor of Materials. "This recognition is a testament to his pioneering research in photonics and optoelectronics that has and will continue to benefit society. His innovative work in integrated silicon photonics is leading the way to the future of telecommunications and electronics."
Here's a brief look at the new AAAS fellows:
Leon Balents, a professor of physics and permanent member of KITP, studies how many quantum particles interact with one another to collectively produce "emergent" phenomena.
"It's an honor to have been selected as a AAAS Fellow," he said, "and I'm grateful to my UCSB colleagues for their support in getting me to this point."
John E. Bowers is one of the leading researchers in the areas of silicon photonics, optoelectronics, energy efficiency and the development of novel low-power optoelectronic devices for the next generation of optical networks. His research interests include silicon photonics and integrated circuits, fiber optic networks, thermoelectrics, high efficiency solar cells, and optical switching.
"AAAS is the premier scientific society and I am very grateful for receiving this recognition," he said. "I appreciate the hard work and many contributions of the students and postdocs in my group, and collaboration with so many faculty at UCSB."
Matthew Fisher has, for the past several years, served as scientific director of the new Quantum Brain Project, which explores an intriguing question: "Might we ourselves," he has asked, "be quantum computers, rather than just clever robots who are designing and building quantum computers?"
"While it is a personal honor to be selected as a fellow of the AAAS, I would like to acknowledge all of the extremely talented graduate students and postdocs I have collaborated with here at UCSB," he said. "The physics atmosphere at UCSB is wonderful and conducive to creative and collaborative research."
Michael Gurven's research links the evolved life history of humans with high levels of intragroup cooperation. He has conducted fieldwork for two decades with South American indigenous populations, and his work takes an evolutionary perspective on behavior, health, physiology and psychology. Since 2002, Gurven has co-directed the Tsimane' Health and Life History Project to better understand how aspects of environment and lifestyle affect health and lifespan in subsistence-level societies.
"I'm deeply honored to be recognized by the top scientific organization whose mission is to both advance science and serve society," he said.
Mary Hegarty's research focuses on spatial thinking in complex activities such as comprehension, reasoning, problem solving and navigation. She studies the role of internal and external spatial visualizations in reasoning about such diverse topics as mechanical systems, weather patterns and molecular structure. Much of her work is concerned with the use of mental simulation/visualization in conjunction with analytic strategies in scientific problem solving.
"I am just thrilled and honored to be selected as a fellow," she said. "The American Association for the Advancement of Science serves an increasingly important function, given current trends including misunderstanding and mistrust of science, and I am looking forward to participating more in the association in the future."
Joel Rothman's research focuses on the molecular genetic processes that control embryo development and adapting those mechanisms to reveal how cells and organs can be provoked to adopt new identities, of importance to birth defects and regenerative medicine. His lab also investigates the switches that dictate the life, proliferation and death of cells and how cells maintain resilience to extreme stress, processes that underlie animal behavior, longevity and tumorigenesis.
"It is a great honor to be selected as a fellow of one of the world's most prominent scientific organizations," he said, "but most importantly this recognition highlights the tremendous accomplishments of the many highly talented and motivated postdocs, students and staff members who have advanced the research discoveries that we have celebrated over many years in my lab."
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Q: FutureBuilder freeze when decoding json I have this large json string that I would like to decode. My problem is FutureBuilder freeze while decoding the json string and the snapshot.connectionState == ConnectionState.waiting was not triggered while decoding. I'm expecting to show circular loading bar while it still parsing the json string. Below is the same script.
Future<LocationList> _location;

  Future<LocationList> getLocation() async {
    final result = json.decode(LocationJson);
    LocationList locList = LocationList.fromJson(result);
    return locList;
  }

@override
  void initState() {
    _location = getLocation();
    super.initState();
  }

My FutureBuilder:
      body: FutureBuilder(
        future: _location,
        builder:
            (BuildContext context, AsyncSnapshot<locList> snapshot) {
          if (snapshot.connectionState == ConnectionState.waiting) {
             CircularProgressIndicator()
          ...................
          }

A: Sorry to answer my own question. I've fixed it using compute. Also _decodeLocation must be a global method or a static method, not a closure or an instance method as for this link
Here is the code:
  Map<String, dynamic> _decodeLocation(String jsonString) {
  return json.decode(jsonString);
  }

  Future<LocationList> getLocation() async {
    Map<String, dynamic> result = await compute(_decodeLocation, LocationJson);

    LocationList locList = LocationList.fromJson(result);
    return locList;
  }


South Pacific Sera is the only New Zealand company to produce animal blood products exclusively from donor animals. This means customers can be guaranteed all products processed in its facility are from donor animals with assured health status and enhanced traceability in order to produce a reliable and consistent product for the critical applications in which these products are used.
As well as donor bovine serum for cell culture, South Pacific Sera also produces defibrinated blood for microbiology, milk for therapeutics protein production, and a range of donor animal sera and custom antisera for diagnostic and therapeutic applications.
Donor Bovine Serum and Donor Calf Serum produced for use in cell culture for pharmaceutical production and animal virus testing. SeraPac products are available as raw or filtered serum.
HaemoPac is a range of whole blood products collected from donor sheep, horses and other farm animals for use in microbiology.
South Pacific Sera is a specialist in custom antibody production. In addition we have a small number of "off the shelf" polyclonal antiserum products available.
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Delve into Kirov in Azerbaijan!
Kirov in the region of Baki is located in Azerbaijan - some 4 mi (or 7 km) North-West of Baku, the country's capital.
Current time in Kirov is now 09:22 PM (Wednesday). The local timezone is named "Asia / Baku" with an UTC offset of 4 hours. Depending on your travel modalities, these larger destinations might be interesting for you: Tabriz, Sari, Neftcala, Makhachkala, Khasavyurt or Rasulzade. While being here, make sure to check out as well. We discovered some videos in the web. Scroll down to see the most favourite one or select the video collection in the navigation.
A brief summary of interesting events comming up in Kirov during the next days.
Located at 40.43, 49.85 (Lat. / Lng.), less than 2 mi away.
Located at 40.43, 49.85 (Lat. / Lng.), less than 3 mi away.
Located at 40.43, 49.85 (Lat. / Lng.), less than 4 mi away.


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Dec 3 Ex-Clinton aid wanted to shame Israel with 'Pledge for Palestine'
Nader Ihmoud
News, Palestine in America, Politics
More emails from Hillary Clinton's time as Secretary of State have been released and one of them mentioned the possibility of shaming Israel.
Clinton's ex-aid Anne-Marie Slaughter suggested that Clinton work on a campaign, "Pledge for Palestine" to show the U.S.' commitment to a Palestinian state, which in turn "there would also be a certain shaming effect re Israelis, who would be building settlements in the face of a pledge for peace ."
Slaughter's idea was inspired by Warren Buffet's "The Giving Pledge" campaign, which was launched in 2010 in an "effort to invite the wealthiest individuals and families in America to commit to giving the majority of their wealth to the philanthropic causes and charitable organizations of their choice either during their lifetime or after their death."
Slaughter wanted Clinton to convince someone with Buffet's financial backing to make a similar pledge to Palestine "together with a very wealthy Muslim."
"With even 30 calls to the right people in the Clinton fundraising network it should be possible to generate a substantial enough amount quickly enough to capture the public imagination on the heels of the President's speech and, critically, to serve as an expression of global solidarity with the Palestinians and but also a meaningful promise of material improvements for Palestinians on the West Bank. That could significantly bolster Abbas in a way that could help him stay in the talks. This is what diplomacy beyond the state should mean," Slaughter continued in her email to the Secretary.
You can read the full email here.
Dec 3 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump to visit Israel
Dec 3 What is the US saying about Palestine, today? The Dawabsheh family


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Q: How does data store in MySql Database? I'm new to learn some database knowledge. I've learnt that I can implement an SQL file into some database to add, alter, delete or search records. But my question is how these tables and data store in the database? Is there any specific file in the hard disc storing every database or table? If so, how could I get the access?

A: The file structure depends on the engine you are using, for example, MyIsam will store 3 files tableName.MYI (for indices) and tableName.MYD (for data) in linux /var/lib/mysql. Innodb (with it's default setting has everything stored in a single file called ibdata1)
You can't read the files above like you read a text file. You need to use the DB engine with SQL commands in order to reach the data.


Polish MCI Management, our sponsor, announces that its fund MCI.TechVentures has completed a partial-exit from Czech OTA Invia and projects financial results for the remainder of the year for Polish IT distributor ABC Data. We first noted the success of ABC Data so far this year when we reported on the H1 2013 financial results for MCI, but now the Polish investor has provided more information about the success of the IT distributor.
The past 10 months have already been eventful for Invia, with the company backing Russian counterpart Travelata with an undisclosed amount in December 2012 and with the company again backing Travelata with $5 million (3,75 million Euro) this past July. In both instances, the moves came jointly with MCI Management. Now, we learn that the Czech OTA has obtained long-term financing from Vienna-based Accession Mezzanine Capital III, a fund dedicated to investment in the CEE region. The fund, which holds $75 million (56,3 million Euro) to invest, will finance further expansion by Invia into central and eastern Europe. MCI.TechVentures, through the sale of part of its shares and dividend payments, received 6,65 million Euro in the deal. MCI.TechVentures invested in Invia and has thus far backed the Czech company with 9,3 million Euro. Invia is present in 3 markets and represents one of the largest companies in the MCI portfolio, comprising 11% of the total assets of MCI Group. In 2012, the company reported an EBITDA of 3 million Euro.
As for ABC Data, the big news reported by MCI is that they reached a 30,7% increase in revenue over the past year and a 36,4% increase in EBITDA from 2012. According to a release from MCI, they initially forecast a 13% increase in revenue to 99,3 million Euro and a 20% increase in EBITDA to 16,8 million Euro. However, they greatly underestimated the growth of the company, as revenue for H1 2013 increased by 46%, EBITDA grew by 50%, and net profit (excluding one-off events) rose by 73%. According to the valuation from June 30th, the share package owned by MCI is valued at 58 million Euro and comprises almost 30% of MCI's total assets.


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Brand and The Media Lab, 20 years after
Ah, here's the quote: Stewart Brand's The Media Lab, page 68. Media Lab's director, Nicholas Negroponte, has just described a half-gigabit channel as "effectively infinite" and asks what one would do with that much bandwidth:
The Media Lab's best and brightest stuttered. One volunteered you could have a combination of television immediacy and newspaper depth and detail available at any time through such a medium. Fine, that would occupy a teensy fraction of the bandwidth. What else? Uh, every house acquires its own broadcast capability. Uh, you could broadcast solids by having them fabricated at the receiving end. Uh, everything would be instantly available as super fax -- a daily National Geographic-quality New York Times with today's news rather than yesterday's, manufactured at the breakfast table.
That was written 20 years ago. It's tempting to take potshots at past speculation about what was then the future, but let's not. Predicting the future is hard. Myself, I'm hard put to predict the present.
On the other hand, some interesting questions do arise:
First question: What happened to the bandwidth? The Media Lab folks were stuttering 20 years ago because representatives of Bell (I mean Lucent ... I mean AT&T .... I mean Alcatel ... I mean ...) had just told them that they could run 500Mb fiber optic to everyone's home. That's around 60 megabytes/second, both ways.
There is no official definition of broadband, but current reports (such as this one from the OECD) use 256Kb as a working definition. By that measure Denmark and the Netherlands are leading the way (with Switzerland, Korea and Norway rounding out the top five). In Denmark, there is just over one broadband subscription per three inhabitants. If you factor in households with more than one inhabitant, this probably means that almost everyone who wants a broadband connection has one.
However, most of those subscribers have DSL (it doesn't say what flavor). If you're actually looking for fiber, Korea has about 9 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, Japan about 8, Sweden about 5, Denmark about 3 and the Slovak Republic about 1. So much for fiber to every home. Most of us, it appears, are slogging along with DSL and cable. Your mileage may vary depending on a number of factors, but even the theoretical maximum listed here is nowhere close to 500Mb/s for either.
How did this (not) happen? That's an interesting story having more to do with economics than technology ...
Next question: Suppose we eventually all get a half-gigabit hookup. What could we possibly do with that? The answer seems very clear in hindsight: Blow it all on extra pixels. Late-'80s TV is one thing. HD-TV is quite another. Blu-Ray and HD-DVD play back at about 40Mb/s, easily handled by our infinite pipe, but they're not the ultimate.
Even HD-TV has visible artifacts if you look closely enough. Personally, I don't much care, but the true videophile is going to want more. How much more? Recall that IMAX is multiple gigabytes per second uncompressed, and (at a guess) around a gigabyte compressed, still over twice infinite capacity.
I doubt, though, that higher definition is why most people will want a bigger pipe. I suspect most of us who want a bigger pipe just don't like to wait. Sure, I could watch HDTV over a mere 50Mb/s connection, but who wants to wait for a program to download in real time? We want it now (because we're going to watch it later -- go figure). Now even the infinite pipe doesn't look so infinite. It's still going to take 10 minutes to download a feature film in high definition. Of course, if I can watch a movie while I'm downloading 10 more, that might take some of the sting out of it.
If you buy the "no-waiting" theory then we don't want or need infinite sustained bandwidth, but we would really like infinite peak bandwidth. Give me a gigabit pipe, and I promise I'll hardly ever use it. Or maybe I will. Usage has a way of catching up with capacity, and it seems risky, at the least, to predict otherwise.
Finally, what about the speculation in the original quote? The broadcasting solids idea has an obvious weak point: you'd need a pretty special printer to go with that (modern machine tools can reproduce solids described digitally, by any of several processes, but they're not available for home use).
As to the others: We actually do have something like the "television immediacy and newspaper depth," at least by one plausible definition, in the blogosphere and in conventional news sources. The high-def New York Times is certainly feasible. You could even print it out if you really wanted to. It's another question, and an interesting one, why no one seems to be putting out that sort of content to the mass market.
By David Hull at January 31, 2008
Labels: broadband, Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte, Stewart Brand
earl said...
A couple of things flop to mind. Obviously the amount of bandwidth the human brain can get any real good out of is finite, and has probably already been exceeded. This is not a problem for the human brain, which, rather than trying to drink from the firehose simply lets most of it go down the drain. Thus oversupply fails to slake our dissatisfaction.
And our capacity for dissatisfaction (arguably the source of all progress) may not no limits. It may really be that nothing is ever quite tall, fast, clear enough. Watching a baseball game on an 80's model 21" (diagonal) crt set you can see the seams on the ball on the slomo replay as it falls into the first baseman's glove. Much better than what you would see if you were at the game, but not nearly, nearly good enough.
I suppose you could always use up the capacity by insisting on speed: A full length movie realisable as an animated solid indistinguishable from real actors in your living room (they would even refuse autographs), downloadable in a nanosecond. That's pretty close to a lot, isn't it?
David Hull said...
Note to self: 3D printers
Blobs, metadata and web content
IMAX 3D vs. broadband
Virtually 1929
Anonymity in a horror flick
Shared space in traffic planning
More on speech recognition
Hacking the ENIAC
What's a community, anyway?
Megacommunities
Paying for quality
Busking for dollars
Another rule of thumb
What is the bandwidth of one voice talking?
Some day you will be able to talk to your computer...
AJAX and samsara
Sorting out AJAX
My vote for most annoying new web site feature of ...
Economic copy protection


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Raina becomes 1st Indian batsman to score 8,000 T20 runs
Latest News February 26, 2019 by	admin
Out-of-favour India batsman Suresh Raina on Monday completed a milestone after featuring in Uttar Pradesh's 77-run win over Puducherry in the ongoing Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2019. He became the first Indian cricketer to score 8,000 runs in the shortest format of the game.
The Chennai Super Kings (CSK) star is the sixth batsman overall to achieve the milestone. Raina has a total of 8001 runs from 300 matches, 178 runs more than India captain Virat Kohli, who has 7833 from 251 matches.
West Indies superstar Chris Gayle is on top of the table with 12,298 runs in 269 matches while former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum is second with 9922 runs from 370 matches. Kieron Pollard (8838), Shoaib Malik (8603), and David Warner (8111) are the other players in the top five run-scorers list in T20 cricket.
The 32-year-old also became the second Indian player to play 300 T20 games. Wicketkeeper-batsman MS Dhoni tops the list with 301 matches while India's vice-captain Rohit Sharma is third with 299 matches. Earlier in the tournament, he joined Rohit Sharma in becoming the second Indian cricketer to hit 300 T20 sixes.
Raina last played for the Men in Blue in July last year in an ODI against England. He will return for CSK in the 12th edition of Indian Premier League, starting March 23 in Chennai. They will face Virat Kohli's Royal Challengers Bangalore in the season-opener.
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