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Turkish dissident groups, ranging from opposition parties and media outlets to non-governmental organizations, may face a sweeping crackdown if the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) wins a parliamentary majority strong enough to form a single-party government in the June 7 election, the leader of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has said.

“If [President Recep] Tayyip Erdoğan manages to get favorable results from the June 7 election, the government will launch a purging operation in all areas,” Demirtaş said in an interview with Today’s Zaman. “I am not saying this as a rumor or gossip. Currently, they have coordinated their forces accordingly.”

Demirtaş’s remarks came on the heels of a controversial decision by the state Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BDDK) to seize control of Bank Asya on Friday that stoked fears of political interference in the financial system. On Monday, Twitter whistleblower Fuat Avni claimed there were plans for a massive police operation targeting 200 people, including journalists, as well as the Zaman newspaper and Samanyolu television before the election.

“He [Erdoğan] has already confiscated the assets of a private bank; he may confiscate the media. Then, the Constitutional Court, the Radio and Television Supreme Council [RTÜK], the Supreme Election Board [YSK], the Council of State, the Court of Accounts, Parliament, etc., will follow,” Demirtaş said. “No one can supervise him. Imagine if he becomes president [in a presidential system]; there is nothing that can

Article source: http://www.todayszaman.com/national_demirtas-ak-party-preparing-crackdown-on-all-dissidents-if-it-wins-strong-majority_382304.html

Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates have all opined that we need to keep an eye on artificial intelligence. That such notable figures have expressed concern about rising AI is not necessarily striking. What deserves equal attention is how fervently bloggers and social media leaped on each pronouncement, like a validation that “if these guys said it, then I know what I saw in the movies must be true.”

It took an entire team of Marvel superheroes to rein in Ultron in the latest Avengers movie, so what are we mortals supposed to think? It really is a strange mixed message at the cineplex these days. First we are reminded to silence Siri in the theater, and when we reluctantly do this, we are treated to a cautionary tale about the dangers of AI, so we turn on our phones and tweet that everyone needs to see Ex Machina right now!

Outside movies, the greatest optic ever created for the man-vs.-machine rivalry was the Russian grandmaster Garry Kasparov wincing emotionally as the Deep Blue computer picked him apart in a chess match. Back in 1997 we thought this was a meeting of the minds, but recent evidence suggests it was really a war of nerves.

It turns out that a turning point for Deep Blue might have been an errant move that was the result of a bug in its processing. The computer effectively glitched and chose a random move. Kasparov

Article source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-klein/minding-the-machines_b_7487066.html

By Kishore Jayaraman,

For a long time, India has relied on the service sector for growth. To create jobs for its working-age population, which is 64% of the total, the country needs to focus on manufacturing-driven growth. Through the `Make in India’ initiative, the government aims to meet the targets envisaged in the national manufacturing policy, which is supposed to create 100 million manufacturing jobs and raise manufacturing’s contribution to the GDP from 16% today to 25% by 2022.

So, how does one achieve this? To boost manufacturing, the supply base of component and materials needs to be improved, demand accelerated and challenges, such as infrastructure, availability of skilled manpower and simplifying procedural and regulatory formalities, overcome.

Our organisation, with a legacy of over 80 years in India, supports the initiative because it will not only help Indian industry become globally competitive but will also allow various companies to further support the country’s modernisation needs.

India is among the world’s fastest growing economies. It is a key market.Rolls-Royce already has 1,000 local engi neers working in India through outsourced agreements and has manufacturing facilities exporting components. In view of the growth prospects in India, the company has plans to expand and employ more people by 2017.

The International Aerospace Manufacturing Pvt Ltd (IAMPL), formed in July 2010, is a joint venture between Rolls-Royce and HAL. Employing over 140 people, the Bangalore facility is in production and will produce 25,000 aerospace parts for the company in 2015 across a range

Article source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Nuts-and-bolts/articleshow/47494948.cms

MOUNT IDA, Ark. (AP) — Decades after being thrown from his desk by an explosion, former Army Air Force Sgt. William E. “Bill” Black still remembers that morning_Aug. 9, 1944.

“I felt the concussion and heard a terrible, crashing, banging noise,” Black wrote in his 295-page biography published in 1990. The near lifelong resident of Mount Ida was stationed in England during World War II when it happened.

Black, now 97, recounted what suddenly threw him from his radio operator’s desk aboard a B-17 Flying Fortress_a German anti-aircraft shell hitting the aircraft’s nose.

Black and many of his fellow flight crew members not only abandoned their 16th bombing mission, but also bailed out of the plane altogether, the Texarkana Gazette (http://bit.ly/1KBi6kD ) reported.

“Our intended target was Leipzig, Germany, but we never reached our destination,” Black said in his biography.

Black and others parachuted to the ground.

“I simply rolled off the catwalk and through the open, gaping bomb bay doors,” he said. “I had been told that a person wouldn’t have any real sense of falling_but don’t you believe it. When the trees and buildings below me seemed to suddenly increase in the speed with which they were coming to meet me, I realized I was within less than 5,000 feet of the ground. When the chute opened, my rate of descent was so suddenly and drastically reduced. Looking below, I could see that I was about to land in the outskirts of a fairly large town or city.”

Born in December 1917, Black grew

Article source: http://www.fairfieldcitizenonline.com/news/article/Arkansas-veteran-recounts-experience-in-World-War-6296553.php