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RTÉ News
16 hours ago
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Christy Moore releases spoken word tribute track for President Michael D Higgins
Irish music legend Christy Moore has released a spoken word tribute to President Michael D Higgins. Music to Our Ears, written by poet Johnny Broderick and produced by Gavin Murphy, is a celebration of the life and legacy of Ireland's President in the last year of his tenure. Speaking of how the work came about, Moore said: "I was working in Gavin Murphy's Studio. Gavin shared music he was composing for a poem John Broderick had written in advance of President Michael D's departure from Áras and Úachtaráin. I read the poem and listened to the music. I offered to recite the words. Claddagh [Records] heard it and suggested we make it available to the public. "I think it is a beautiful tribute to our esteemed President and his Family. I think Johnny B's words express what many of us feel about Michael D. and our First Lady, Sabina." President Higgins was elected President of Ireland in 2011 and is currently serving his second term. Moore has released Music to Our Ears alongside a lyric video to accompany the powerful tribute. It opens with the lines: "There is an aura that surrounds you, with decency you are blessed. There is a warmth in your presence, for every welcome guest." It continues: "You are a voice for the voiceless, like thunder in the plain. An empathetic ear for the afflicted, selfless, humble, but never vain." Music to Our Ears concludes: "Statesmanlike and diplomatic, charismatic without fears. You are a national treasure treasured, you have been music to our ears." The track will feature on the extended edition of Moore's No.1 album A Terrible Beauty.
Scottish Sun
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Inside ex-Celtic and Scotland hero's property empire as Premier League ace spends £1.3millon buying six flats in one day
Couple's pads are near the River Clyde in Glasgow HOME WIN Inside ex-Celtic and Scotland hero's property empire as Premier League ace spends £1.3millon buying six flats in one day Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) SCOTLAND star and property entrepreneur Ryan Christie spent £1.3million on six homes in a single day. The former Celtic ace — who has a buy-to-let business — scored the plush pads in Glasgow with fiancée Georgie Bell. Sign up for the Celtic newsletter Sign up 2 Footie star Ryan Christie has bought flats near the River Clyde in Glasgow 2 Ryan - who plays for Bournemouth - is due to marry artist Georgie Bell Records reveal they snapped up flats worth £275,000, £220,000, two at £215,000, and also £175,000 and £160,000 flats on April 28. The couple's Twenty Two Investment Properties Ltd now has a portfolio of more than a dozen homes. Christie, 30, from Inverness, currently stars for English Premier League side Bournemouth, where he was the club's player of the season despite a recurring groin injury. A source said: 'Ryan's work rate is quite incredible. He was player of the season, has undergone surgery and it also looks like he is due to get married. 'But he still found time to splash a fortune on half-a-dozen homes.' Five of his new acquisitions are at the Glasgow Harbour development on the banks of the River Clyde. The other lies near the Ovo Hydro venue in the city's Finnieston. On Instagram this month, Georgie, 30, posted photos with the caption: 'The summer I get married.' We told last year how the couple bought a £900,000 flat in Edinburgh's 19th century Moray Estate. We also revealed they teed up a £580,000 penthouse in St Andrews. Ryan Christie gives emotional interview after Scotland qualified for Euro 2020 The pad is just yards from Tiger Woods' and Justin Timberlake's planned new sports bar. Almost half a million pounds has been teed up for the themed venue at the home of golf. Keep up to date with ALL the latest news and transfers at the Scottish Sun football page
Miami Herald
03-06-2025
- General
- Miami Herald
‘Large'-tongued creature found in water tank at India home. It's a new species
In a city of northeastern India, a 'large'-tongued creature with 'fluorescent green' sides perched inside a water tank, but its hiding spot wasn't quite hidden enough. Visiting scientists spotted the colorful animal — and discovered a new species. A team of researchers visited several sites in Meghalaya state between 2022 and 2024 as part of a project to 'document the amphibian diversity,' according to a study published May 30 in the peer-reviewed journal Records of the Zoological Survey of India. While in the city of Shillong, researchers found three 'cryptic'-looking frogs, the study said. Intrigued, they took a closer look at the frogs, analyzed their DNA and realized they'd discovered a new species: Amolops shillong, or the Shillong cascade frog. Shillong cascade frogs vary in size. Males are considered 'medium'-sized, reaching just over 2 inches long, while females are considered 'very large,' reaching over 3 inches long, the study said. Both have 'bluntly pointed' snouts, 'large' tongues, 'long' legs and 'weak' arms. Photos show the coloring of the new species. Although varying in intensity, the frogs generally have 'dark brown' bodies 'with mottled fluorescent green patterns' on their sides, researchers said. Two male Shillong cascade frogs were found at a 'homestead' and 'water tank located nearby' within 'a densely populated urban habitat,' the study said. 'Both specimens were collected over a year (apart) from the same location, indicating their adaptation to a (human-modified) habitat.' The female Shillong cascade frog was found near a stream 'resting on a rock,' researchers said. 'It exhibited remarkable jumping behaviour, showcasing exceptional agility. Its robust movements and quick reflexes made collecting it a challenging task. Even after capture, the frog remained highly active, persistently jumping inside the jar, and demonstrating strong stamina.' Researchers said they named the new species after the area where it was discovered and, so far, the only area where it has been found. Shillong is the capital city of Meghalaya state in northeastern India. Shillong cascade frogs are considered 'edible' and sometimes 'harvested from the wild for its meat,' which 'contributes to the increased threat to its population,' researchers said. The new species was identified by its size, snout shape, body proportions, coloring and other subtle physical features, the study said. DNA analysis found the new species had at least 2% genetic divergence from related species. The research team included Bhaskar Saikia, Bikramjit Sinha, A. Shabnam, Eugene Lyngkhoi, Damepaia S. M. Pdah and K. P. Dinesh.
Mint
20-05-2025
- Mint
Rahul Matthan: Don't let data privacy safeguards work against us
The first country to seriously address the issue of protecting digital personal data was the United States of America. In a report titled Records, Computers and the Rights of Citizens issued in 1973, it set out a list of data protection principles called the Fair Information Practice Principles (FIPPs). FIPPs required organizations to provide notice before collecting personal data and seek consent before processing it. Only as much personal data as was necessary to achieve the specified purpose could be collected, and it could only be used for the purpose specified. Organizations had to keep personal data accurate, complete and up to date, and give individuals the ability to access and amend it as required. If all this sounds familiar, it is because it is. These principles have been incorporated into all modern data protection laws—from Europe's General Data Protection Regulation to India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act. It is where concepts like notice and consent, purpose specification, use limitation, data minimization and retention restriction come from, and it is remarkable how 50 years after they were first conceptualized, they continue to be used to protect personal privacy. Or do they? Also Read: Use verifiable credentials to grant us agency over our digital data In the 1970s, our ability to process data was limited, constrained by computational power and storage capacity. As a result, very few organizations could afford to process personal information at a scale that would affect our privacy. Since companies had to be selective about what data they collected and used, it made sense to require them to constrain the uses to which they put the data and for how long they retained it. Today, these constraints are no longer relevant. All organizations, regardless of their size or sphere of activity, use data in all aspects of their operations. Global data creation grew from about two zettabytes in 2010 to over 160 zettabytes projected in 2024. As a result, concepts like notice and consent are becoming increasingly meaningless, as it is no longer feasible to provide notice of all the different types of data processed or the many uses to which it will be put. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have further complicated the issue. If we want to benefit from all that AI has to offer, we need to give these systems access to our personal data so that they can draw inferences from it. With the ability to analyse the cumulative record of all the data that our personal fitness trackers have recorded about us, for example, AI systems may be able to use that information to infer our likelihood of contracting a disease. Those who are currently unable to access credit because they lack the traditional indicators of creditworthiness may be able to provide other indicators of their ability to repay a loan if AI systems are allowed to analyse their personal information. Also Read: Biases aren't useless: Let's cut AI some slack on these If we use AI systems for these purposes today, we are likely to run afoul of one or more of the data protection principles. Take, for instance, purpose specification. Since most AI use cases may not even have been conceivable when the data in question would have been collected, it is unlikely that our consent would have been obtained for it to be used in that manner. Deploying AI for these use cases would most likely require seeking fresh consent from data principals. The other concern is around retention. Since data is only permitted to be retained for as long as necessary to serve the purpose for which it was collected, organizations that comply with the mandates of global data protection regulations have set up systems to delete personal data once their purpose has been served. In the case of healthcare data, this is unfortunate because medical AI applications rely on access to health data records over as long a period of time as possible in order to establish trends for current parameters to be evaluated against baselines. If hospitals have to delete this data as soon as the immediate purpose is served, these opportunities will not be realized. Finally, there is the principle of data minimization, which requires us to only collect as much data as is strictly required to fulfil the specified purpose. Since AI systems perform better if they have more data on which they can be trained, the minimization obligation makes less data available for training and, as a result, limits the benefits that AI can bring. Also Read: India must forge its own AI path amid a foundational tug of war The approach taken by the US FIPPs to minimize the risk of privacy-harm limited the amount of personal data in the hands of the organizations that processed it. At the time, this was a reasonable approach as there was no additional benefit to be gained by allowing corporations to store our data. This is no longer the case. The more data that AI systems have, the better the outcomes they produce. As a result, any approach that simply limits the data these systems can use trades the benefits that could accrue from data analysis for the mitigation of privacy-related risks. I have, in previous columns, written about how new technological approaches—data anonymization and privacy-enhancing technologies—as well as institutional measures like data trusts can offer us a new approach. If we can deploy federated learnings and confidential compute systems, we should be able to use personal data without violating personal privacy. Our current approach to data protection is now more than half a century old. It is no longer fit for purpose. We need to learn to use personal data for our benefit without causing privacy harms. The author is a partner at Trilegal and the author of 'The Third Way: India's Revolutionary Approach to Data Governance'. His X handle is @matthan.
Indian Express
18-05-2025
- Indian Express
District Land Records Inspector send to four-day police remand in cheating case
Surat District Inspector of Land Records, Anant Patel, arrested by the Surat CID in connection with a case of alleged cheating, has been sent to police remand till Wednesday. Acting on a tip off, a team of Surat CID had left for Maharashtra's Pune and caught Patel who was evading arrest since January 2025. The team took one-day transit remand from Koregaon in Pune and reached Surat late Saturday. On Sunday afternoon, Patel was produced before Surat district court and a seven-day police remand was sought. The Surat court, however, granted remand till Wednesday. The case came to the fore following a police complaint lodged by Surat resident Azad Ramolia in January 2025. According to the FIR, Ramolia had lodged a complaint accusing Surat city survey office Deputy Director K D Gamit, Surat district Land Record Inspector Anant Patel, an unidentified computer operator, and proprietors of a ghost firm named Samruddhi Corporation of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy. Based on Ramolia's complaint, a probe was launched into the matter. A real estate developer by profession, Ramolia, in his complaint alleged that he had purchased two agricultural plots at Dumas and Gavier (refers to areas within the Surat Urban Development Authority region) near Surat International Airport from one Rasik Lallubhai, a resident of nearby Magdalla village in 2016. According to the FIR, Ramolia completed the payment during the time period between October 18, 2016 to July 15, 2017, following which he got the plots registered in his name., 'Later, through a local land broker he came to know that his land at Gavier and Dumas is on sale in the market. He checked the documents and found that some Samruddhi Corporation had sold the plots to private persons and illegally entered their names on registration documents,' Ramoliya further added in his complaint. The estimated value of the land is around Rs 2,000 crore, said sources. After probing the matter, Ramoliya found about involvement of Deputy Director K D Gamit, Land Record Inspector Anant Patel, the computer operator and proprietor of Ghost Samruddhi Corporation in the fraud, said police quoting the FIR. The accused were absconding since the complaint had been registered, said police. Surat CID Crime Branch Deputy Superintendent of Police A M Captain said, 'We have made the first arrest in the case — of Inspector of DLR (District Land Record) with Surat city survey office — while others are still absconding. The accused is under four days of police remand. There are four proprietors of Samrudhhi corporation and they are Naresh Shah, Manhar Kakadiya, Jayprakash Aswani and Loknath Gambhir — all residents of Surat.' He further said, 'The complainant had alleged that the accused proprietor of Samrudhhi Corporation were hands in gloves with Surat city superintendent officials and made fake property cards and entered names of 357 people to whom the plots were sold. We are also looking for the other accused involved in this case. Accused Anant Patel had been staying in Koregaon since last four days.'
