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The new frontiers of war is civil society, which can be manipulated to hurt a nations interests, National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval said at the passing out parade of the 73rd batch of IPS probationers at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (SVP NPA) in Hyderabad on 12 November.

Doval was the chief guest at the Dikshant Parade, which is the culmination of the 46-week long phase-1 basic course training. He said:

The new frontiers of war, what you call the fourth-generation warfare, is the civil society.. [conventional] wars have ceased to become an effective instrument for achieving political or military objectives. They are too expensive or unaffordable and, at the same time, there is uncertainty about their outcome. But civil society can be subverted, suborned, divided, manipulated to hurt the interests of a nation."

The fourth generation warfare is characterised by the blurring of lines between war and politics, combatants and civilians. The enemy power uses tactics of education or propaganda, building social movements, etc.

Short of a defeat, fourth generation warfare tries simply to disorganise and delegitimise the state, force it to expend resources on maintaining internal law and order, etc. It combines the elements of psychological manipulation, disinformation, cyberwarfare, using proxies like terror groups, etc.

An example of fourth generation warfare is visible in China's long-term policy of strategic containment of India. It is not only assisting Pakistan to develop and deploy nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles; backing political parties and individuals in Indias neighbouring South Asian countries to undermine their relations with India, but also supporting anti-national groups in India, giving them funds, arms, etc.

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NSA To IPS Probationers

The NSA, who graduated from the National Police Academy 52 years ago, gave his wisdom to the young probationers. Stating that people are the most important, Doval told the future IPS officers, "You are there to see they stand fully protected.

He asked the young probationers to develop a national perspective. You are for India and India is for you. Every other identity gets subsumed to this Indian identity, he was quoted as saying by IE.

The service of people is the greatest service, not only from the point of view of nation-building but also from the point of national security, he told the new batch of officers, and asked them to not only think of reforms to avoid repeating mistakes of the past but also be transformative to look at future challenges and find solutions in advance.

He also told the IPS probationers that success of democracy depends on the enforcement of laws:

Quintessence of democracy does not lie in the ballot box. It lies in the laws which are made by the people who are elected through these ballot boxes. You are the ones who are the enforcers of the law Laws are only as good as they are executed and implemented and the service that people can get out of it.. people cannot feel safe and secure where law enforcers are weak, corrupt, and partisan."

No nation can be built where the rule of law has failed, he added.

He reminded them that their responsibility includes not only the safety and security of 130 crore human beings but also the 32 lakh square kilometres of land area across the country.

He asked them to be trained and prepared for border management as well as challenges of highly specialised investigations in agencies like the NIA or CBI. He said that some of the officers will work for intelligence units within or outside the country, and they will have the responsibility to see that governments can make informed decisions and that these decisions are enforced in the countrys best interests.

He said that the officers today need to excel in the challenges of technology as a frontier. Without your success, the nation cannot succeed. If internal security fails, no country can be great. If the people are not safe and secure, they cannot rise to their potential, and probably, the country can never grow, he said.

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Drivers no longer have to worry about passing a narrow street or facing a car ahead at a dead end even when they are inexperienced. Hyundai Mobis says it has developed the worlds first urban Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) called the Mobis Parking System (MPS).

The Mobis Parking System integrates Narrow Space Assistance (NSA), Reverse Assistance (RA), and Remote Smart Parking Assistance (RSPA). Researchers are testing related technologies at the Hyundai Mobis Seosan Proving Ground.

With the Mobis Parking System, the car is able to drive itself through a narrow street by avoiding obstructions, drive through the revolving gate of an underground parking lot, or drive backwards at a dead end where two cars are facing each other. All this at the press of a button.

Hyundai Mobis says it developed this technology using its own software logic and mass-produced ultrasonic sensors. This technology is based on the fact that, while RADAR and LiDAR sensors are useful for recognising objects located far away or in high-speed driving, ultrasonic sensors are rather more suitable for narrow streets or underground parking lots. The ultrasonic sensors recognize objects over a short distance, while the software logic and the control system perform self-driving.Core technologies usedOne of the core technologies of this system is Narrow Space Assistance (NSA). The car needs only 16 inches of extra space on both sides to drive through a narrow street by itself.

There is also Reverse Assistance (RA) which records the cars travel route on a real-time basis and creates the reverse route by itself at the press of a button. The steering wheel and vehicle speed are controlled automatically.Aside from the Mobis Parking System, various other technologies for safety and convenience have been integrated into the system, thereby further enhancing the competitiveness of the driver assistance solution.

The Remote Smart Parking Assistance (RSPA) system is capable of parking a car at a right angle or in parallel by finding an empty space when the driver is out of the car and presses the remote. 3D Surround View Monitor (SVM) provides a better parking experience by showing the area 360 degrees around the car three-dimensionally. Rear-autonomous Emergency Braking (R-AEB) is also noticeable.Hyundai Mobis says it will pre-emptively suggest global automakers to apply related technologies. The application scope will be expanded to purpose-built vehicles (PBV) as well as large SUVs whose popularity is now growing rapidly.ALSO READHyundai Mobis develops foldable steering system

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The National Society of Accountants has sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service commissioner Charles Rettig and leaders of Congresss main tax committees asking the IRS to speed up the refunds for 2019 and 2020 tax returns and communicate better.

The group cited a recent op-ed by Rettig in the Washington Post in which he pleaded for more funding from Congress. But the NSA also asked for the IRS to do more with the funds its been receiving.

NSA strongly agrees with the commissioner that there is, indeed, a crisis occurring involving the IRS, taxpayers and practitioners, much of which can be attributed to insufficient funding, wrote NSA president Marchelle Foshee and managing director of public policy Jessica Jeane in a letter Monday. Therefore, we strongly encourage Congress to fund the IRS more adequately and consistently. The steady increase of responsibility that Congress continues to legislatively place upon the IRS year-after-year greatly exceeds the declining and often stagnant appropriations for the agency. That said, however, the IRS must also do its part to rectify the situation. To that end, it is equally vital for the IRS to recognize its own shortcomings in communication during this ongoing crisis. Taxpayers and practitioners need the IRS to be more transparent and forthright about the status of its operations. Reporting out that the agency is caught up on mail, for example, does not equate to such correspondence being processed and resolved. And while providing general backlog estimates may help paint a picture of the problem, it shines little to no light on taxpayers specific concerns.

The NSA pointed out that the IRS is continuing to lag in its processing and issuing of refunds for 2019 and 2020 returns and it called for more transparency and improved communication from the IRS to alleviate the growing frustrations and fears among tax and accounting professionals about the 2022 tax filing season.

Often, taxpayers and practitioners either cannot reach the IRS or receive confusing and inaccurate information, they wrote. Frustrations within the tax and accounting professional community are at an all-time high, and fears among practitioners about how the upcoming 2022 tax filing season will unfold, when many 2019 and 2020 tax returns remain unresolved, are based firmly in reality.

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Until the IRS can more efficiently communicate with taxpayers, the NSA is asking the IRS to stop all automatic collection notices and actions of liens and levies (at least for certain categories that have low compliance risk) until the agency has completed its backlog of opened yet unprocessed mail; as well as provide taxpayers with targeted, automatic relief from the underpayment of estimated tax penalties and late payment penalties for the 2020 tax year. They also want the IRS to use its IRS.gov website to more frequently and specifically provide updates on the status of operations for taxpayers and practitioners. These updates would include current processing times for various categories of returns and replies to correspondence and notices, said Foshee and Jeane.

The American Institute of CPAs also has been asking the IRS to improve its processing and responsiveness. During an online meeting Monday of the AICPA Tax Division, AICPA officials made the case directly to several IRS officials, including Holly Paz, deputy commissioner of the Large Business and International division, and Fred Schindler, director of collection policy at the IRSs Small Business/Self-Employed division, and National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins.

One sore point has been the automated collection notices. We know that as folks are living through the pandemic that there are a lot of financial difficulties there, said Schindler. One of the things that weve been doing is to be very conscious of other relief programs that have been going on in government. You see some guidance out there asking our employees, particularly our field employees, to be very conscious of that and make sure that they are being very thoughtful and deliberate about their collection activity.

Why do we have the system continuing to spit out notices and move forward if, for example, something there is favorable to taxpayers, said Collins. Not every collection notice is there a request for the taxpayers to do something, but when there is you can reach out to a revenue officer or the 800 number or something else. We should be able to put a suspension for a lot longer than six, eight, nine weeks, whether it be six months or until some action takes place. Its been discussed, but they havent agreed to that yet, needless to say. Its the same thing on the IRS side. Its what I call the one and done. Theyll send you a notice and if you dont respond, theyre done with you. With the phones and the issues that have come out with taxpayers, we need to give people a little more flexibility before we take that next step. We need to give people, especially the IRS, time to process whatever the request is, before they move forward on collections.

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PARTNER CONTENT: 2021 is a big year in which 5G is running on the fast track. In accordance with recent GSMA and GSA reports, 464 operators in 139 countries and territories are investing in 5G networks in the form of tests, trials, pilots, planned and actual deployments, and 5G connections will be 2 billion in 2025, around 4 times compared with that of this year. Meanwhile, 89 operators are investing 5G SA network and over 400 types of UE are commercial ready for 5G SA. We can see that the tide is quite high.

However, when it comes to 5G deployment to maximize 5G value and its industrial potential, there are some real pain points for operators: choice on NSA or SA architecture, and the terminal compatibility is also a question; most of sites do not have enough tower space for 5G equipment installation; need to achieve fast nationwide 5G coverage in short time; how to reduce 5G power consumption to save OPEX; and differentiated and fragmented requirements of different industries.

In response to these problems faced by operators and industries, ZTE focuses on three aspects that involve fast 5G network deployment, green mobile network, and profit opportunities in B2B & B2C markets.

Full portfolio products & innovative solutions to enable fast 5G deployment and user experience enhancement

Full portfolio products of ZTE can support SA or NSA or SA/NSA dual-mode architecture with great flexibility, meeting operators requirements for their 5G deployment.

To tackle the site problem, ZTE UniSite+ solution for radio site modernization, can provide good coverage and high capacity with greatly reduced tower space occupation and operational cost, by all-in-one outdoor BBU and high-performance dual-band and triple-band Ultra Broadband Radio products. It is estimated that the number of radio units can be reduced by up to 60% and the power consumption by about 30%, saving 1,200 Euro electricity cost per year for an average site.

ZTE has developed a series of innovative solutions further enhancing network performance and maximizing network value, including SuperDSS in fast 5G roll-out and spectrum efficiency improvement, SSB 1+X in 3D coverage enhancement, FAST uplink enhancement technology, Radio Composer in both user experience and network efficiency improvement and etc.

Up to now, ZTEs 5G footprints have been on more than 40 countries around the world, building 5G flagship networks in countries like Spain, Austria, and Italy.

Energy saving & low power consumption to build green mobile network

Currently, carbon neutrality has become a global consensus. ZTE actively implements the carbon neutralization strategy, promotes energy saving and emission reduction in enterprise production and operation, helps operators in building end-to-end green low carbon networks.

In order to build a green mobile network, ZTE is dedicated to introducing green power, building green sites, and green data centers, to reduce carbon emission. As site energy consumption accounts for a large proportion of energy consumption of the whole network. ZTE keeps innovate in hardware like next-generation chipsets, smaller but more powerful radio units with higher power efficiency. The UniSite+ solution deployed in Spain helps operators to reduce the radio units by 60% and saves power consumption by 30% compared with traditional solutions. And software features such as channels/carriers/symbols shutdown and deep sleep, for example in India, make the total power saving up to 20% during power saving time, over 5% power saving daily for the operator. This case is on the condition that energy saving functions are only activated from 00:00 AM to 06:00 AM.

In addition, PowerPilot, the industry-first service awareness based energy saving solution proposed by ZTE, employs AI as the core technology and takes the initiative to identify different energy saving scenarios, and accordingly matches energy saving policies while accurately predicting network load trend. Thereby, it establishes a coordinated energy saving and network performance model to explore the network energy saving potential. It has been applied in over 30 networks and 800,000 sites globally. In Malaysia, the PowerPilot solution was successfully launched, saving 7 million kWh of power annually.

Win-win cooperation to embrace the profitability of 5G

From the latest Omdia report, the RAN revenue of 2G/3G/4G is declined sharply. In the meanwhile, 5G part is increased greatly. Especially, in B2B market, 5G opens new opportunities for all Industries and the whole society, to drive 12 trillion USD economic activities in 2035.

On one hand, in B2C market, ZTE helps operators to increase the ARPU by precise planning and deploying 5G sites in most valuable regions, by continuous improved network performance, by efficient and intelligent operational strategy deployment for both user experience enhancement and energy saving target. Some figures shows what the operators in China have achieved. 5G now accounts for almost 20 percentage points more traffic than just twelve months ago and average monthly user data usage increases by more than twenty percent. The downtrend of ARPU has been reversed.

Meanwhile, in B2B market, ZTE has developed more than 500 cooperative partners in 15 industries including manufacturing, transportation, energy, ports, and medical care. They have jointly explored over 100 innovative 5G application scenarios and successfully carried out more than 60 demonstration projects worldwide.

Mr. Chao Xiong, GM of RAN Product Overseas Market

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Correction: The original version of this article miscredited two photos. In fact, the photos were courtesy of Peggy McInerny.

This post was updated Nov. 22 at 1:18 p.m.

Student organizations gathered for an annual showcase of cultures across the globe as part of the programming for International Education Week on Wednesday.

Bruins Around the World a collaboration between UCLA Residential Life, the Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars and the Study Abroad Office was held in Covel Commons. IEW, presented by the International Institute to promote international education and exchange, ran from Monday to Friday this year.

Peggy McInerny, director of communications for the UCLA International Institute and an organizer of the event, expressed her appreciation for the IEWs support of education and said she was happy to take photos at the in-person event.

We try to appeal to people from all over campus because theres so many different parts of international education, McInerny said. The most important thing is to really show the wealth of both resources and experiences there are here.

Enthusiasm was high among performers and the audience as they were able to attend Bruins Around the World in person for the first time in two years. After a fully virtual year, the community was eager to safely return to the event, McInerny added.

Before the program began, people entered the Covel Grand Horizon Ballroom to visit various informational booths, including those by the Study Abroad Office and Residential Life. Attendees had the opportunity to enjoy food from a variety of cultures set up on an outdoor balcony, featuring churros, Mediterranean falafel, Somali sambusas and Chinese egg rolls.

Speakers Naomi Moskowitz, a fourth-year Arabic and cognitive science student who studied abroad for a quarter at Technion Israel Institute of Technology, and George Li, a first-year pre-economics student from China, recounted their experiences abroad and encouraged others to seek opportunities to study internationally. Giveaways and presentations went on between cultural dance performances.

Jade Mazurkiewicz and Karly Kimes, fourth-year students and emcees of the event, introduced the series of speakers and student performance groups.

The Association of Chinese Americans was the first group to take the stage with a lion dance troupe. This dance is a traditional Chinese celebration usually performed around Chinese New Year as well as special occasions such as weddings and birthdays, according to Brian Le, a member of the troupe and former UCLA student. The multiple-person lion costumes represent figures intended to ward off bad luck, he said.

Le joined the team during his freshman year in 2016 to expand his horizons and stay active while staying in touch with his Chinese culture, he added.

School can occupy so much of your time. Its super important to have something outside of academic life, Le said.

Kyodo Taiko, a student-run Japanese drum ensemble, performed next. Their two songs featured dancing and drumming that Mazurkiewicz said was her favorite performance of the night.

You could feel it in your bones, Mazurkiewicz said.

Other performances included two dance showcases from the Chinese Cultural Dance Club and the Nigerian Students Association. The NSAs dance group drew a large audience that screamed and cheered along. Chinazam Nnorom, president of the NSA and a third-year communications student, said the organization largely represents West Africans and that their performance was a mix of West African and South African styles. She loved the opportunity to perform with her club, she added.

Thats something thats awesome about dancing, is the audience, that they really give you the energy, Nnorom said.

Paulina Fisher, a fourth-year civil engineering student, said she enjoyed the performances and sambusas.

Seeing the performers lined up from different countries, different parts of the world, it reminds me of how diverse it is currently, she said.

Student organizations sought to foster community within their own identity groups while sharing their cultures with the greater community at UCLA. Nnorom said she was excited to receive the email inviting NSA to perform.

(The organizers) reached out to us and we were so grateful, we were waiting for the email, Nnorom said. They said, We know you guys usually perform, are you guys still together? We said Yep, we are! I was like, Oh, thank God.

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