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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Robbins | Daniel Robbins may refer to:
Daniel Robbins (art historian) (1932-1995), onetime director of the Fogg Museum
Daniel Robbins (computer programmer), founder of the Gentoo Linux project
Daniel Robbins (director), director of Pledge (2018 film) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davit%20Kajaia | Davit "Data" Kajaia (; born 10 January 1984 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian racing driver, best known for winning the Legends Euro Nations Cup in 2012 and 2013. He currently drives for the MIA Force team in the Georgian Circuit Championship.
Career
Data Kajaia started his career in the Georgian Speed Slalom series in 2004. The next season, he achieved third place at the wheel of BMW M3, and won the national title a year later.
In 2007 Kajaia entered the national circuit racing series and finished third in the championship, driving a Honda Civic 1600. On the same car he came third overall in the national rally series. In 2010 and 2011 he dominated in Georgian pair racing championship. After the reconstruction of the only Georgian race track Rustavi in 2011 Kajaia joined one of a newly established national teams, the MIA Force, sponsored by the national Ministry of Internal Affairs and won his first Legends race after a closely fought battle with more experienced rivals from Russia.
In 2012, Kajaia continued driving in the Georgian Legends championship and also contested Europe Nations Cup of the same category. He finished second in the homeland series and won the Europe cup. In 2013 he took the national title, still dominating in Europe, and was awarded by the minister of internal affairs Irakli Garibashvili.
In 2014, Kajaia continued in domestic championship and also won European Legends SuperCup.
In 2015 Kajaia entered the European Touring Car Cup series (ETCC) with the TC2T class BMW 320 Engstler team. During the first race of the opening round on Hungaroring Kajaia was on his way to a shock win against the dominant Seat Leon Cup class cars in his inferior BMW but a mistake on a last lap relegated him to second overall. Nevertheless, Kajaia won in his TC2T class convincingly in both races. During the second round on Slovakiaring Kajaia also won both races in TC2T class and came second overall in a second race, beating all but one Seat Leon Cup cars. Kajaia also scored the fastest lap of the race. Kajaia continued his successful campaign in France and Czech Republic on Paul Ricard and Brno circuits respectively by winning all races in TC2T and being in top 3 across the line against dominant Seat Single Make Trophy cars in all races. He led the second race against Seats in Brno but could not hold on to his lead due to power disadvantage of his TC2T class car on uphill sections of the track and had to settle for 3rd across the line (nevertheless he won in the TC2T class dully). Kajaia suggested after the race that he might have won outright had he not left his rain settings on after the early shower. His winning streak was only interrupted on Zolder, in Belgium where he took pole position on the wet track and led the whole race 1 before a mechanical failure denied him the obvious win 3 laps from the end. During the second race Kajaia went off the track and had to settle for second in TC2T. For the last round in Pergusa, Italy he also had to compet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSSC%20Labs | PSSC Labs is a California-based company that provides supercomputing solutions in the United States and internationally. Its products include "high-performance" servers, clusters, workstations, and RAID storage systems for scientific research, government and military, entertainment content creators, developers, and private clouds. The company has implemented clustering software from NASA Goddard's Beowulf project in its supercomputers designed for bioinformatics, medical imaging, computational chemistry and other scientific applications.
Timeline
PSSC Labs was founded in 1984 by Larry Lesser. In 1998, it manufactured the Aeneas Supercomputer for Dr. Herbert Hamber of the University of California, Irvine (the physics and astronomy department); it was based on Linux and had a maximum speed of 20.1 Gigaflops.
In 2001, the company developed CBeST, software packages, utilities and custom scripts used to ease the cluster administration process.
In 2003 the company released the third version of its cluster management software with support for 32-bit and 64-bit AMD and Intel processors, Linux kernel and other open source tools.
In 2005, PSSC Labs demonstrated its new water-cooling technology for high-performance computers at the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference in Seattle, Washington.
In 2007 the company focused on supercomputer development for life sciences researchers and announced its technological solution for full-genome data analysis, including assembly, read mapping, and analysis of large amounts of high-throughput DNA and RNA sequencing data.
In 2008 PSSC Labs designed the Powerserve Quattro I/A 4000 supercomputer for genome sequencing. In 2013 it released CloudOOP Server Platform for Big Data Analytics / Hadoop Server which offers up to 50TB of storage space in just 1RU.
The company Joined Cloudera Partner Program the following year and certified the CloudOOP 12000 in 2014 which is compatible with Cloudera Enterprise 5. In the same year MapR started using CloudOOP 12000 platform for record setting time series data base ingestion rate and the company Joined Hortonworks Partner Program.
In 2015 the company was CloudOOP 12000 certified which is Compatible with Hortonworks HDP 2.2.
References
External links
Computer companies of the United States
Software companies based in California
Development software companies
Companies established in 1984
Computer hardware companies
Cloud computing providers
Privately held companies based in California
Companies based in Lake Forest, California
1984 establishments in California
Networking hardware companies
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa%20Suleyman | Mustafa Suleyman (born August 1984) is a British artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur who is the co-founder and former head of applied AI at DeepMind, an artificial intelligence company acquired by Google and now owned by Alphabet. His current venture is Inflection AI.
Early life
Suleyman's father is a Syrian-born taxi driver and his mother is an English nurse.
He grew up off Caledonian Road in the London Borough of Islington, where he lived with his parents and his two younger brothers.
Suleyman went to Thornhill Primary School (a state school in Islington) followed by Queen Elizabeth's School, a boys' grammar school in Barnet. Around that time, he met his DeepMind co-founder, Demis Hassabis, through his best friend, Demis's younger brother. Suleyman said that he and Hassabis would discuss how they could impact the world.
Career
At 19, Suleyman dropped out of Mansfield College, Oxford to help start the Muslim Youth Helpline with his university friend Mohammed Mamdani, a telephone counselling service. The organization would later become one of the largest mental health support services for Muslims in the UK.
Suleyman subsequently worked as a policy officer on human rights for Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, before going on to start Reos Partners, a ‘systemic change’ consultancy that uses methods from conflict resolution to navigate social problems. As a negotiator and facilitator, Mustafa worked for a wide range of clients such as the United Nations, the Dutch government, and the World Wide Fund for Nature.
Suleyman co-founded DeepMind Technologies, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company and became its chief product officer. DeepMind was bought by Google in 2014 and he became head of applied AI at DeepMind.
Since June 2019, Suleyman has served on the board of The Economist Group, which publishes The Economist newspaper.
DeepMind
Suleyman is one of the three co-founders of the artificial intelligence / machine learning company DeepMind Technologies, and started out as its chief product officer. The company quickly established itself as one of the leaders in the AI sector and was backed by Founders Fund, Elon Musk and Scott Banister amongst others.
In 2014 DeepMind was acquired by Google for a reported £400 million — the company's largest acquisition in Europe at that time. Following the acquisition, Suleyman became head of applied AI at DeepMind, taking on responsibility for integrating the company's technology across a wide range of Google products.
In February 2016 Suleyman launched DeepMind Health at the Royal Society of Medicine. DeepMind Health builds clinician-led technology for the NHS and other partners to improve frontline healthcare services. Under Suleyman, DeepMind also developed research collaborations with healthcare organizations in the United Kingdom, including Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust,
In 2016, Suleyman led an effort to apply DeepMind's machine learning algorithms to h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeaky%20Dolphin | Squeaky Dolphin is a program developed by the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), a British intelligence and security organization, to collect and analyze data from social media networks. The program was first revealed to the general public on NBC on 27 January 2014 based on documents previously leaked by Edward Snowden.
Scope of surveillance
According to a document of the GCHQ dated August 2012, the program enables broad, real-time surveillance of the following items:
YouTube video views
The Like button on Facebook. Facebook has since then encrypted the data.
Blogspot/Blogger visits
Twitter, which has however encrypted its communications since this presentation was made
The program can be supplemented with commercially available analytic software to determine which videos are popular among residents of specific cities. The dashboard software chosen was made by Splunk.
The presentation, which was originally shown to an NSA audience and was made public by the NBC, contains a note saying the program was "Not interested in individuals just broad trends!". However, "according to other Snowden documents" obtained by NBC, in 2010, "GCHQ exploited unencrypted data from Twitter to identify specific users around the world and target them with propaganda."
See also
Five Eyes
MUSCULAR — program for capturing Google and Yahoo private cloud data
References
External links
Slides released by NBC
GCHQ operations
Mass surveillance
National Security Agency
Surveillance scandals
Social media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleobiology%20Database | The Paleobiology Database is an online resource for information on the distribution and classification of fossil animals, plants, and microorganisms.
History
The Paleobiology Database (PBDB) originated in the NCEAS-funded Phanerozoic Marine Paleofaunal Database initiative, which operated from August 1998 through August 2000. From 2000 to 2015, PBDB received funding from the National Science Foundation. PBDB also received support form the Australian Research Council. From 2000 to 2010 it was housed at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, a cross-disciplinary research center within the University of California, Santa Barbara. It is currently housed at University of Wisconsin-Madison and overseen by an international committee of major data contributors.
The Paleobiology Database works closely with the Neotoma Paleoecology Database, which has a similar intellectual history, but has focused on the Quaternary (with an emphasis on the late Pleistocene and Holocene) at timescales of decades to millennia. Together, Neotoma and the Paleobiology Database have helped launch the EarthLife Consortium, a non-profit umbrella organization to support the easy and free sharing of paleoecological and paleobiological data.
Researchers
Partial list of contributing researchers:
Martin Aberhan, Museum für Naturkunde
John Alroy, Macquarie University
Chris Beard, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Kay Behrensmeyer, Smithsonian Institution
David Bottjer, University of Southern California
Richard Butler, Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie
Matt Carrano, Smithsonian Institution
Fabrizio Cecca, Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University
Matthew Clapham, University of California, Santa Cruz
Bill DiMichele, Smithsonian Institution
Michael Foote, University of Chicago
Austin Hendy, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Steve Holland, University of Georgia
Wolfgang Kiessling, Museum für Naturkunde
Charles R. Marshall, University of California, Berkeley
Alistair McGowan, University of Glasgow
Arnie Miller, University of Cincinnati
Johannes Müller, Museum für Naturkunde
Mark Patzkowsky, Penn State
Hermann Pfefferkorn, University of Pennsylvania
Ashwini Srivastava, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany
Alan Turner, Liverpool John Moores University
Mark D. Uhen, George Mason University
Loïc Vilier, Université de Provence
Pete Wagner, Smithsonian Institution
Xiaoming Wang, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Robin Whatley, Smithsonian Institution
Scott Wing, Smithsonian Institution
Institutions
Partial list of contributing institutions:
All-Russian Geological Research Institute
Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie
Benedictine University
Binghamton University
Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Case Western Reserve University
Colby College
College of William and Mary
Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Field Museum of Natural History
George Mason University
Harvard University
Hu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea%20Jenna | Andrea Jenna is a Canadian television host, actress and spokesperson. She currently hosts the programming block Cant Miss Thursdays on Teletoon and Yahoo! Canada's food series The Perfect Bite.
Early life and education
Andrea is from Markham, Ontario, Canada. She studied Media, Information & Technoculture at Western University, and specialized in Broadcast Journalism at Fanshawe College.
Career
Teletoon
In 2011 Andrea was hired to co-host a one-day broadcast event on Teletoon for the launch of Cant Miss Thursdays new programming lineup. In the fall of 2012, she became the first-ever host of Teletoon's Cant Miss Thursdays block for kids every Thursday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. ET/PT.
The Grammys
Scouted over Twitter by the social media team for The Recording Academy, she was chosen to co-host the behind the scenes live webcast during The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!- Countdown to Music's Biggest Night on November 30, 2011. Coverage included reactions and interviews with nominees of the 54th Annual Grammy Awards. Some notable interviews included: LL Cool J, Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, Jason Aldean, and The Civil Wars
Sportsnet
In August 2012 Andrea joined the sports show Cricket Central covering the ICC World T20 on Sportsnet as host of The FanZone.
Yahoo Canada
In November 2012 Andrea became host of Yahoo Canada's original food series The Perfect Bite. In 2013, The Perfect Bite was nominated for a Digi Award for Best in Web Series Non-Fiction.
On August 15, 2013, Andrea hosted Yahoo! Canada's live stream of The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones Toronto Premiere.
Interviews on the red carpet included: Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Robert Sheehan, Kevin Zegers, Harald Zwart.
References
External links
University of Western Ontario alumni
Canadian VJs (media personalities)
Canadian television hosts
Canadian infotainers
Canadian women television hosts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma%20Trevayne | Emma Trevayne is a British (expatriate American) speculative fiction author.
Novels
Trevayne's debut novel Coda released in May 2013. A young adult cyberpunk novel, the narrative follows Anthem, an eighteen-year-old boy who lives in a world where music is a drug dispensed by the Corp. Anthem plays a two-faced role within the society. He's a conduit — feeding the power grid by hooking and being drained daily — and he's a rebel — playing music in a tucked away spot with home made instruments against the Corps' mandates.
The follow-up is set to release in May 2014, and takes up the narrative eight years after Coda, following Anthem's younger sister, Alpha.
In May 2014, Trevayne's middle grade Victorian fantasy novel Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times is due to release from Simon & Schuster Books for Young readers. The story centers around a ten-year-old boy named Jack Foster and his adventure through Londinium, "a quite different London."
Trevayne is a co-author of The Cabinet of Curiosities: 36 Tales Brief & Sinister, also due to release in May 2014. Billed as "a collection of eerie, mysterious, intriguing, and very short short stories," the book is a collaboration with fellow children's book authors Stefan Bachmann, Katherine Catmull, and Claire Legrand.
Representation
Trevayne is represented by Brooks Sherman of the Bent Agency.
Bibliography
Coda Series
Coda (2013) USA, Running Press Kids
Chorus (2014) USA Running Press Kids
The Nova Project
Gamescape: Overworld (2016) Greenwillow Books
Other
Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times (2014) Simon & Schuster
The Accidental Afterlife of Thomas Marsden (2015) Simon & Schuster
The House of Months and Years (2017) Simon & Schuster
Collaborations
With Stefan Bachmann, Katherine Catmull, Claire Legrand, and Alexander Jansson
The Cabinet of Curiosities: 36 Tales Brief and Sinister (2014) Greenwillow Books
References
External links
Official site
Living people
21st-century American novelists
American women novelists
American science fiction writers
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
Steampunk writers
21st-century American women writers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20surveillance%20in%20North%20Korea | Mass surveillance in North Korea is a routine practice employed throughout the country. North Korea "operates a vast network of informants who monitor and report to the authorities fellow citizens they suspect of criminal or subversive behavior." North Korea has been described as a "massive police state", and its people "under constant surveillance".
Overview
One author wrote:
Seemingly, every aspect of a person's existence in North Korea is monitored. This oversight of citizens has extended beyond wired microphones and wiretapping of fixed-line and mobile phones. Microphones are now even being used outdoors to pick up conversations.
There is a general sense that it is dangerous to engage in any serious conversation about sensitive topics when three or more people gather at one place, regardless of how friendly they may be.
Juan Reynaldo Sanchez, a defected Bodyguard for Fidel Castro who visited North Korea in 1986, wrote later how Fidel's Bodyguard Units were briefed by Cuban Intelligence who had worked in North Korea not to say anything sensitive since "The North Koreans put mics everywhere, listen to everything, and film everything". Unlike Cuba, which were usually limited to certain rooms for the purposes of investigations, the North Koreans reportedly bugged everywhere: hallways, elevators, rooms, bathrooms, etc. Curious about the veracity of this, while in a hotel elevator with another bodyguard, Sanchez disingenuously said out loud "You know what? I would love to read the works of Kim Il-Sung in Spanish. It's probably really interesting. But we can't get them in Cuba. It's a shame, don't you think?". Upon returning to their rooms later in the evening, all the members of the Cuban Delegation found spread out on their beds the complete collection of Kim Il-Sung's works in Spanish.
All computers are subject to random checks by authorities and must be registered with the government. Some computers may access the national intranet, called Kwangmyong, but true Internet access is restricted to the "super-elites". North Korean officials stationed abroad generally have their internet access monitored by staff.
Western companies have been criticized for selling surveillance technology to repressive regimes, including North Korea. In order to "tighten surveillance over the populations in the border regions", surveillance teams were switched from five people to three.
Organizations
The three major surveillance organizations in North Korea are the State Security Department, the Ministry of Public Security (MPS), and the Military Security Command (MSC).
The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea reports that North Korea operates a "massive, multilevel system of informants", rewarding informers with gifts. That informant network is run by the State Security Department (SSD), which controls at least 50,000 personnel, and the SSD maintains a network of prisons for individual suspected of "holding unacceptable views". The MPS monitors correspo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Data%20Description%20Language | The Open Data Description Language (OpenDDL) is a generic text-based language that is designed to store arbitrary data in a concise human-readable format. It can be used as a means for easily exchanging information among many programs or simply as a method for storing a program's data in an editable format.
The exact syntax of OpenDDL is described on the website openddl.org as well as in an appendix of the Open Game Engine Exchange Specification.
Structures
An OpenDDL file is composed of a sequence of structures that can be either user-defined types or built-in primitive data types. The declaration of a structure consists of an identifier followed by an optional name, an optional property list, and finally, the structure's contents enclosed in braces. Raw data is always contained within structures whose identifiers are one of the data types described in the next section. For example, one may define a Point structure that holds the floating-point coordinates of a three-dimensional point as follows.
Point
{
float {1.0, 2.0, 3.0}
}
Structures can have names that allow them to be referenced from other parts of the file. Names can be global (unique throughout the file) or local (unique within the enclosing structure). A global name consists of a dollar sign followed by an identifier, and a local name consists of a percent sign followed by a dollar sign. The Point structure above could be given the global name "position" as follows.
Point $position
{
float {1.0, 2.0, 3.0}
}
Another structure could then include a reference to this point by using the ref data type:
ref {$position}
Data types
OpenDDL defines the 15 primitive data types described in the following table. Each type has at a long name and a short name. Additionally, the floating-point types each have alternate long and short names.
Compatible Libraries
Official OpenDDL Library
References
External links
Official OpenDDL website
Data serialization formats
Open formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Game%20Engine%20Exchange | The Open Game Engine Exchange (OpenGEX) format is a text-based file format designed to facilitate the transfer of complex 3D scene data between applications such as modeling tools and game engines. The OpenGEX format is built upon the data structure concepts defined by the Open Data Description Language (OpenDDL), a generic language for the storage of arbitrary data in human-readable format. The OpenGEX file format is registered with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) as the model/vnd.opengex media type.
The OpenGEX format is defined by the Open Game Engine Exchange Specification, which is available on the official website opengex.org.
Export plugins that write the OpenGEX format are available for Autodesk Maya and 3D Studio Max.
Format
At the most basic level, an OpenGEX file consists of a node hierarchy, a set of objects, a set of materials, and some additional information about global units and axis orientation. The various node, object, and material structures contain all of the details such as geometric data and animation tracks within a hierarchy of additional types of structures defined by OpenGEX. The following types of data can appear in an OpenGEX file:
Hierarchical scene organization (node trees).
Node and object transforms (4×4 matrices, translations, rotations, and scales).
Geometry objects, light objects, and camera objects.
Meshes composed of vertex attribute arrays and index arrays for multiple levels of detail.
Skinned meshes (skeleton, bind-pose transforms, bone influence weighting data).
Multiple morph targets for meshes and animated morph weights.
Keyframe animation with linear, Bézier, and TCB animation curves.
Material colors and textures (diffuse, specular, normal, emission, opacity, transparency).
Example
A very simple example of a complete OpenGEX file describing a green cube is shown in the listing below. It begins with a group of Metric structures that define the units of measurement and the global up direction. Those are followed by a single GeometryNode structure that provides the name and transform for the cube. The geometric data for the cube is stored in the GeometryObject structure that is referenced by the geometry node. The geometry object structure contains a single mesh of triangle primitives that includes per-vertex positions, normals, and texture coordinates. Finally, the Material structure at the end of the file contains the green diffuse reflection color.
Metric (key = "distance") {float {0.01}}
Metric (key = "up") {string {"z"}}
GeometryNode $node1
{
Name {string {"Cube"}}
ObjectRef {ref {$geometry1}}
MaterialRef {ref {$material1}}
Transform
{
float[12]
{
{1.0, 0.0, 0.0,
0.0, 1.0, 0.0,
0.0, 0.0, 1.0,
50.0, 50.0, 0.0}
}
}
}
GeometryObject $geometry1 // Cube
{
Mesh (primitive = "triangles")
{
VertexArray (attrib = "position")
{
float[3] |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesh%20and%20Bone%20%28miniseries%29 | Flesh and Bone is an American drama television miniseries created by Moira Walley-Beckett. It premiered on November 8, 2015, on the American cable television network Starz. Ethan Stiefel was a consultant and choreographer on the series.
Plot
The founder and temperamental artistic director of the American Ballet Company, Paul Grayson (Ben Daniels), is determined to make it rank among the world's best artistic institutions. As the company's aging prima ballerina, Kiira (Irina Dvorovenko) struggles with an injury, Grayson believes that the company's saving grace is Claire Robbins (Sarah Hay), a beautiful and talented ballet dancer with a troubled past, whose inner torment drives her in compelling, unforeseeable ways. The series explores the dysfunction and glamour of the ballet world.
Cast
Main
Sarah Hay as Claire Robbins, a beautiful and talented ballet dancer with a troubled past.
Ben Daniels as Paul Grayson, an artistic director of the American Ballet Company.
Emily Tyra as Mia Bialy, Claire's reluctant roommate who has an eating disorder.
Irina Dvorovenko as Kiira, an aging prima ballerina struggling with an injury.
Damon Herriman as Romeo, a homeless man who lives under Claire's building.
Josh Helman as Bryan Robbins, Claire's brother and a former Marine.
Raychel Diane Weiner as Daphne Kensington, an ambitious New Yorker from a privileged background.
Marina Benedict as Toni Cannava, The American Ballet Company's transcendent new choreographer.
Tina Benko as Jessica, the manager of the American Ballet Company.
Sascha Radetsky as Ross, a womanizing principal dancer.
Karell Williams as Trey, a struggling ballet dancer.
Supporting
Tovah Feldshuh as Ivana, a ballet instructor.
John Allee as Pasha, the ballet company's piano player.
Vanessa Aspillaga as Monica, the assistant company manager of the American Ballet Company.
Carling Talcott as Ashley.
Nadezhda Vostrikov as Patrice, a jealous ballet dancer in the company.
Episodes
Starz released the first episode online on November 2, 2015, and the remaining episodes were made available on November 8, 2015, through Starz's On Demand channel in addition to the channel's weekly sequential airing of episodes.
Reception
Flesh and Bone received mixed to positive reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gives a "Fresh" score of 60%, which is an average rating of 5.9 out of 10, sampled from 35 reviews. The consensus reads: "Its nuanced female relationships makes Flesh and Bone a realistic portrayal of a professional ballet company, though it suffers from a lack of levity." On another review aggregator, Metacritic, the miniseries holds a score of 52 out of 100, calculated from 19 critics, signifying "mixed or average reviews". For the 2016 Writers Guild of America Awards, the series was nominated for Long Form Original. For the 73rd Golden Globe Awards, the series was nominated for Best Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television and Sarah Hay for Best Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Pictu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intruders%20%28TV%20series%29 | Intruders is a drama television series based on Michael Marshall Smith's novel The Intruders (2007). An eight-episode season premiered in August 2014 on the American cable television network BBC America and was a joint production between BBC America and British channel BBC Two. Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Stamm share directing duties. On February 27, 2015, it was announced that Intruders was cancelled after one season.
Plot
Jack Whelan is a former Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) detective who is asked to investigate strange occurrences related to a string of attempted suicides. Despite his efforts, he is stumped. He concentrates his search on a secret society, Qui Reverti (Latin for 'who return'), whose members chase immortality by seeking refuge in the bodies of others after their own deaths. Agents of the society, called "Shepherds", find the hosts of the returning souls and show them "triggers"––items important to the returning Qui Reverti members in their past lives––that "awaken" the returning soul. Once awakened, the intruding soul engages in a battle of wills with the host's soul, with the losing soul sent to the afterlife. In Whelan's case, this process destroys his marriage when his wife's body is taken by an intruder.
A serial killer named Marcus Fox comes back to life in the body of a little girl. Both souls fight for control, causing their memories to become confused. The struggle is exacerbated when the little girl becomes aware of the Qui Reverti guidebook for returning souls and begins using the information without truly understanding it.
Main cast
John Simm as Jack Whelan: A former LAPD detective who becomes involved with the Qui Reverti conspiracy. When his wife's soul is lost to an intruder, he destroys many triggers to stop other intruders. Despite this, he is recruited as a Shepherd and instructed to kill anyone who might reveal the organization's existence.
Mira Sorvino as Amy Whelan/Rose Gilcrest: Jack's wife whose soul is supplanted by that of Rose Gilcrest. It is unknown if Amy's soul is completely gone, given that Rose protects Jack.
Tory Kittles as Gary Fischer: Jack's friend who was exposed to a machine which allows him to recognize the soul in a body. He sees the soul of friend, displaced by an intruder, in his infant daughter, and becomes increasingly unstable. He commits suicide by jumping off the roof of the Qui Reverti headquarters with information about the organization.
James Frain as Richard Shepherd: An assassin who takes a bribe to shepherd Marcus Fox instead of killing him. Guilt-ridden over his actions, he attempts to kill Madison, and covers his tracks throughout the season.
Millie Bobby Brown as Madison O'Donnell: A 9-year-old girl who serves as the vessel for Marcus Fox. However, Madison constantly fights to regain her body. When she suffers a bullet wound, Marcus tries to expel her but is himself forced out. She later suffers the consequences of Marcus's actions in her body.
Alex Diakun |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable%20Mekong%20Research%20Network | The Sustainable Mekong Research Network (SUMERNET) is a network of organizations committed to the sustainable development of the Greater Mekong Region. Launched in 2005, SUMERNET supports policy-relevant research and outreach activities to inform and engage policy-makers, planners and stakeholders. Within this context, it pursues an evolving agenda in response to questions and policy issues that arise in the region. Current research themes are climate-compatible development, regional economic integration, and ecosystem services and local development. The network works on a range of issues including natural ecosystems governance, floods and natural disasters, climate change and adaptation, and transboundary resource flows.
Origins and Foundations
SUMERNET was launched in 2005, financed by the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida). Since then, SUMERNET's work has also attracted support from the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and from partner institutes across the region. Membership has grown from the 14 organizations, to more than 50 affiliated organizations now.
SUMERNET was conceived at a time of accelerated development in the region. Major roads and other infrastructure projects were being planned and built; bilateral and multilateral economic and trade agreements were being made, and there was a vigorous debate going on about the future of the Mekong Region. Many development agencies expressed concerns and called for an integrated approach that would incorporate a greater diversity of views and perspectives into regional planning and policy.
SUMERNET was established to help meet that need by supporting and promoting the use of scientific evidence in policy-making, with the overarching goal of contributing to sustainable development in the Mekong Region. In the seven years since its inception, SUMERNET has sponsored a wealth of policy-relevant research and worked to create an "enabling environment" for researchers and decision-makers to engage with one another.
The SUMERNET Secretariat, at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) Asia Centre in Bangkok, actively supports the network's activities, drawing on both regional and global intellectual resources.
Mission
SUMERNET's mission is to "inform and influence sustainable development in the Mekong Region by supporting credible, collaborative research; stimulating independent discussions on key regional issues, and engaging with decision-makers and stakeholders to foster more effective and sustainable policies and programmes."
A key aspect of SUMERNET's work is to bridge science and policy; SUMERNET does this by choosing research questions that are directly relevant to current policy debates, engaging decision-makers in all aspects of our activities, and building capacity for sustainable development through workshops and other activities. SUMERNET also emphasizes collaboration, networking and knowledge-sharing, connecting partners in different countries through |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parted%20Magic | Parted Magic is a commercial Linux distribution based on Slackware that comes with disk partitioning and data recovery tools. It is sold as a Linux-based bootable disk. The distribution's nomenclature is derived from the names of the GNU Parted and PartitionMagic software packages.
Features
The program is directly bootable from a CD, USB flash drive, or through a network using PXE on PC hardware, and does not require installation, or the presence of an installed operating system.
Although originally designed for mechanical hard disk drives, Parted Magic is suitable for use also with solid state drives and can perform an ATA Secure Erase (a method that is built into the hard drive controller to return the drive into its factory state).
Parted Magic supports reading and writing to a variety of modern file systems, including ext3, ext4, FAT, exFAT, and NTFS, and as such is able to access disk drives formatted for use under Microsoft Windows and Linux systems.
The software distribution includes networking support, and comes with the Firefox web browser.
System requirements
As of version 11.11.11, Parted Magic supports x86-64 processors natively (32-bit x86 processors were previously supported), and requires a computer with at least a 64-bit Intel-compatible processor and 2GB of RAM. Secure boot is also supported. x86 versions from 2013_09_26 do not require the Physical Address Extension (PAE) computer processor feature.
All versions starting from 2020_08_23 no longer support 32-bit x86 systems.
Availability
Up to version 2013.08.01 the distribution was freely available for download from the official website and the project page on SourceForge. The distribution moved to a pay-for-download business model, despite the packaged software being free and open source.
See also
SystemRescue – completely libre and free-to-download Live CD/USB system rescue disc
gparted – partition editor included with Parted Magic
Disk partitioning
List of disk partitioning software
References
External links
Parted Magic at the Internet Archive
Proprietary operating systems
X86-64 Linux distributions
Operating system distributions bootable from read-only media
Data erasure software
Data recovery software
Linux distributions without systemd
Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid%20of%20Khui | The pyramid of Khui is an ancient Egyptian funerary structure datable to the early First Intermediate Period (2181 BC – 2055 BC) and located in the royal necropolis of Dara, near Manfalut in Middle Egypt and close to the entrance of the Dakhla Oasis. It is generally attributed to Khui, a kinglet belonging either to the 8th Dynasty or a provincial nomarch proclaiming himself king in a time when central authority had broken down, c. 2150 BC.
The pyramid complex of Khui included a mortuary temple and a mud brick enclosure wall which, like the main pyramid, are now completely ruined.
Excavations
History of research
The ruined pyramid was first mentioned in a 1912 article of the Annales du service des antiquités de l'Égypte by the Egyptian Egyptologist Ahmed Kamal. Later, between 1946 and 1948, the complex was explored by Raymond Weill. Due both to the ruined state of the structure and to the building's atypical architecture, Kamal believed it to be a huge mastaba while Weill thought it was a pyramid. Even today, in spite of the fact that the building is commonly considered to be a pyramid—and possibly a step pyramid—it is not possible to determine with certainty which type of tomb it was, and one cannot exclude that it was indeed a mastaba.
Attribution
No name of the owner was found on the pyramid site; however excavations of a tomb located immediately south of the pyramid yielded a stone block with a relief bearing the cartouche ḫwj , that is Khui, the nomen of an hitherto unknown pharaoh.
The block could come from the mortuary temple of the pyramid complex, traces of which may have been discovered North of the pyramid. However, the identification of Khui as the owner of the complex, although commonly accepted, is still unproven.
Main structure
The remains of the structure today looks similar to the first step of a step pyramid however, as pointed out above, it remains impossible to ascert that the structure was a pyramid. Furthermore, it is unclear whether the structure was completed or not.
The ground plan of the main structure is rectangular and measures x . The mudbrick walls of the pyramid are slanted inwards and are up to thick. This large shell, whose corners are rounded with a radius of curvature of , surrounds an empty inner space which was probably filled by sand and gravel.
Considering these values, if the building really was a step pyramid, it would have had a base larger than that of the famous Step Pyramid of Djoser, while in the case of a mastaba, it would have exceeded in size the already considerable Mastabet el-Fara'un of Shepseskaf.
Hypogeum
From the North face of the structure, an horizontal corridor, whose entrance is at ground level, goes straight into the center of the structure. The corridor then continues to a descending gallery, lined with limestone, topped by eleven arches and reinforced with pilasters. The gallery finally leads to the burial chamber, placed in the center of the building's base.
The rectangul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXXM%20%28data%20model%29 | The Weather Information Exchange Model (WXXM) is designed to enable the management and distribution of weather data in digital format (XML). WXXM version 2.0, set to be finalized in 2014, is based on Geography Markup Language (GML) and is one of the GML Application Schemas. It is being developed by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation (EUROCONTROL). WXXM is a member of a family of data models designed for use in aviation safety, notably Aeronautical Information Exchange Model (AIXM) and the Flight Information Exchange Model (FIXM).
Purpose
As of 2014, WXXM is an extension of IWXXM, which represents the operationally exchanged meteorological information defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). WXXM uses a similar design approach to IWXXM, but can represent additional types of weather information not covered in IWXXM.
Model
WXXM has two main components. The package as a whole is referred to as WXXM:
The WXXM Conceptual Model (WXCM)
The WXXM XML Schema (WXXS)
History
WXXM 1.0 was introduced in 2007, representing METAR, SPECI, TAF, SIGMET and other ICAO information as specified in International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Annex III.
WXXM 1.1 was released in 2010 with a number of additional products beyond ICAO Annex 3.
WXXM 2.0 was released in 2014 as a major update. WXXM 2.0 removed data products that are authoritatively represented by ICAO in IWXXM 1.0 (METAR, SPECI, TAF, SIGMET) and incorporated IWXXM 1.0 design approaches.
WXXM Conceptual Model
The WXXM Conceptual Model is a conceptual model of the meteorological domain. It describes the features and their properties (attributes and associations) within the domain. Therefore, it can be used as the logical basis for weather databases.
The model is designed using the Unified Modelling Language (UML).
WXXM XML Schema
The WXXM XML Schema is an exchange model for weather data. It is an implementation of the Conceptual Model as an XML schema. Therefore, it can be used to send weather information to others in the form of XML encoded data, enabling systems to exchange weather information.
See also
AIXM
IWXXM
TAF
METAR
SPECI
SIGMET
References
External links
WXXM home page
http://www.eurocontrol.int/services/weather-information-exchange-model-wxxm
Industry-specific XML-based standards
GIS file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20E.%20Collins | George E. Collins (January 10, 1928 in Stuart, Iowa – November 21, 2017 in Madison, Wisconsin) was an American mathematician and computer scientist. He is the inventor of garbage collection by reference counting
and of the method of quantifier elimination by cylindrical algebraic decomposition.
He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1955. He worked at IBM, the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1966–1986) Ohio State University, RISC-Linz, Delaware University, and North Carolina State University.
Selected publications
References
1928 births
2017 deaths
People from Stuart, Iowa
20th-century American mathematicians
American computer scientists
21st-century American mathematicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meishichina | Meishichina () is a Chinese social networking service about food which is headquartered in Beijing, China. It began primarily as a curated recipe site, but evolved into a social service with integration to qq, weibo and other services, where people actively share and work on recipes, including meeting up in person through Meishichina activities.
Overview
There are over 3.53 million pages of recipes and articles indexed by Google. Originally drawing most of its revenue from advertising, today more than half is derived from online contests.
Meishichina provides users with original stage show cooking, gourmet-focused community exchange, and a micro-blog based "life-sharing" platform. “The website is no longer just a platform for merely learning how to cook, but one where users can communicate about the fine points of gourmet culture,” founder Yu Hang said. Meishichina is recognized as having helped catapult several of its top bloggers into stardom.
References
Online companies of China
Cooking websites
Social cataloging applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane%20Litman | Diane Litman is an American professor of computer science at the University of Pittsburgh. She also jointly holds the positions of senior scientist with the Learning Research and Development Center and faculty with the Intelligent Systems department. Litman is noted for her work in the areas of artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, knowledge representation and reasoning, natural language processing, and user modeling.
Education
Litman did her undergraduate studies at the College of William and Mary and her master's and PhD degrees at the University of Rochester.
Career
Before joining the University of Pittsburgh, she was an assistant professor at Columbia University. She additionally held the position of a research scientist in the Artificial Intelligence Principles Research Department Laboratory at AT&T Labs.
Litman has held the position of Chair of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics two times, elected twice for the position, whose tenure lasts four years. She is also a distinguished member of the Executive Committee of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and a member of the editorial boards of Computational Linguistics and User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction. She has also held the position of Leverhulme Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Litman was the keynote speaker at the Speech and Language Technology in Education 2013 symposium, the 2006 SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, and at the 2008 Symposium of the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour. She also sits on the board of the several interest groups, including the International Speech Communication Association's Special Interest Group on Speech and Language Technology in Education. Litman has served as chair, organizer, and a senior member of numerous committees of peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Awards and recognition
She has also co-authored numerous award-winning papers and was awarded senior member status by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 2011, an award designed to honor those who have "achieved significant accomplishments within the field of artificial intelligence."
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
College of William & Mary alumni
University of Rochester alumni
University of Pittsburgh faculty
Natural language processing researchers
Computational linguistics researchers
American women computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paritosh%20Pandya | Paritosh K. Pandya is an Indian computer scientist based at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai, India. Since 2020, he is an adjunct professor at IIT Bombay.
Paritosh Pandya studied for a BE degree in Electronics at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (1980), MTech degree in Computer Science at IIT Kanpur (1982), and a PhD in Computer Science at Bombay University/TIFR (1988).
From 1988, Paritosh Pandya has held academic posts at TIFR. He was a researcher at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory in England during 1989–91, on leave from TIFR, undertaking research with Jonathan Bowen, Jifeng He, and Tony Hoare, amongst others, as part of the ESPRIT ProCoS project on "Provably Correct Systems". He then returned to TIFR, where he has spent most of his career. Pandya leads the Theoretical Computer Science Group there.
Pandya's main research interest is in the area of formal methods, including real-time systems. He has been especially involved with research concerning Duration Calculus, including the DCVALID model-checking tool. His most cited paper, "Finding Response Times in a Real-Time System", with over 1,500 citations on Google Scholar in 2021, was joint work with Mathai Joseph, published in The Computer Journal in 1986. This paper won a 2020 Test-of-Time Award, announced at the 27th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2021).
Paritosh Pandya has been a member of the Editorial Board for the Formal Aspects of Computing journal published by Springer.
References
External links
Paritosh Pandya on Mendeley
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda alumni
IIT Kanpur alumni
University of Mumbai alumni
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research alumni
Indian computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Formal methods people
Members of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Academic staff of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandya%20%28surname%29 | Pandya is an Indian surname and may be:
Paritosh Pandya, Indian computer scientist
Vidhi Pandya, Indian television actress
Pranav Pandya, politician
Hardik Pandya, Indian international cricketer
Haren Pandya, Indian politician
Krunal Pandya, Indian international cricketer
See also
Pandya
Pandya dynasty
Pandya Kingdom (Mahabharata)
Pandyan Civil War (1169–1177) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paritosh | Paritosh is an Indian first name and may be:
Paritosh Pandya, Indian computer scientist
Paritosh Sen, Indian artist
Paritosh Shukla, Practising Advocate, ll.b. gold medalist
Paritosh Singh, Bachelors in Technology
Meaning
One who is fully satisfied, desire nothing and happy in all circumstances
This name has several mentioning in TULSIDAS written RAMCHARIT MANAS. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magine | Magine TV was a cloud-based TV platform that allows broadcasters to deliver live and time-shifted content to users, as well as catch-up and on demand programming, across all devices, including tablets, phones, Smart TVs and computers. The service does not require any set top boxes, cards, or start-up or installation fees. Magine TV works with broadcasters and premium content providers to provide free to air and Pay TV to a variety of devices.
History
The business launched commercially in March 2013 in its native Sweden, and in Germany in April 2014, hosting some of the world’s best known brands and channels, including Disney, Discovery, CNN International, BBC, Eurosport, National Geographic, Nickelodeon and the Cartoon Network, as well as local networks.
A Beta version has been rolled out in Spain (July 2013) with broadcasters relevant to the territory, and a commercial launch set to follow. In July 2013, Magine closed a $19m Series A funding round with a group of undisclosed Swedish and international investors.
In October 2013, Magine TV announced an agreement with leading international TV manufacturers: LG Electronics, Panasonic, and TP Vision (for Philips TV). The Magine app will be available on all Smart TVs produced by these manufacturers in key European territories from early 2014. Also in October 2013, Magine was listed as one of Stockholm’s hottest start-ups in WIRED Magazine.
References
External links
MagineTV
Products introduced in 2013
2013 establishments in Sweden
Internet properties established in 2013
Cloud platforms
Internet television software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20planned%20LTE%20networks | This is a list of planned commercial Long-Term Evolution (LTE) networks around the world, grouped by their frequency bands.
Some operators utilize multiple bands and are therefore listed multiple times in respective sections.
General information
For technical details on LTE and a list of its designated operating frequencies, bands, and roaming possibilities, see LTE frequency bands.
Bands 33 to 53 are assigned to TD-LTE.
Africa
Americas
Caribbean
Central and South America (APT band plan)
North America, US Territories (FCC band plan)
Asia
Europe
French overseas departments and territories
Middle East
Oceania
See also
LTE
LTE frequency bands
List of LTE networks
List of 5G NR networks
List of UMTS networks
List of HSPA+ networks
List of CDMA2000 networks
References
Lists by country
LTE (telecommunication)
Telecommunications lists
Spectrum auctions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz%20Heller | Elizabeth "Liz" Heller is an American producer and entrepreneur. Described by USA Today as the "'godmother' of the women's cyber movement in Hollywood," Heller is noted for her early advocacy of the internet in the entertainment industry.
Early life and education
Heller was born in Los Angeles and raised in Beverly Hills, California, the daughter of Seymour Heller, a personal manager, and Billie Heller, a women's rights activist. She attended the University of California, Los Angeles.
Career
Heller began her career as an assistant at Epic Records. In 1983, she was hired by MCA Records; as an artist development executive, Heller commissioned more than 500 music videos for artists including Bobby Brown, Belinda Carlisle, and Tom Petty. She remained at MCA until 1990, when she was appointed president of Island Visual Arts. In 1994, Heller began working at Capitol Records, where she served as vice president of new media, and gained attention for developing early strategic alliances between the label and Microsoft, Macromedia, Liquid Audio and Apple, among other technology companies. Additionally, Heller acted as an executive producer on several of the label's soundtrack releases. She was named executive vice president of Capitol in 1996.
While at Capitol, Heller was reunited with music video director Scott Kalvert, who she had worked with at Island Visual Arts. Kalvert, who grew up in New York, had spent more than a decade unsuccessfully "making the studio rounds," trying to get Jim Carroll's autobiography, The Basketball Diaries, made into a film. Excited by the idea, Heller took the project to her former boss, Chris Blackwell, who agreed to invest in the film. Heller produced The Basketball Diaries, which starred Leonardo DiCaprio, released by Palm Pictures in 1995.
Heller founded Buzztone, a marketing company, in 2000. Focused on brand building, cause marketing, social media, and ecommerce strategies, Buzztone's clients have included Microsoft, Paramount Pictures, Electronic Arts, Product(RED), Sony Pictures, and Coca-Cola. She has been a strategic partnership and initiative adviser for TOMS since 2008.
From 2000 through 2002, Heller served as the managing director of Prime Ventures, an investment firm founded by Richard Rosenblatt. In 2010, she founded Vwalls, a social publishing platform, with her husband, John Bard Manulis.
Heller is on the board of directors for uWink and the advisory board for Boopsie. She is a frequent speaker at conferences, events, and seminars worldwide.
Heller is a mentor for X Media Lab, a digital media think tank, and hosts regular networking events for women in Los Angeles. She is a member of the Los Angeles Sustainable Business Council, and is active in the Liberty Hill Foundation. Heller and Manulis were presented with the Liberty Hill Founder's Award in 2010.
Personal
Heller lives with her husband John Bard Manulis in Los Angeles.
Honors and distinctions
Founders Award, Liberty Hill F |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croma | Croma may refer to:
Croma (programming language), a dialect of the Lisp programming language
Cromā, an Indian retailer of consumer electronics
Giulio Croma (died 1632), an Italian painter
Fiat Croma, a car
Italian for an eighth note in music
See also
Chroma (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20Research%20Limited | Programming Research Limited (PRQA) was a United Kingdom-based developer of code quality management software for embedded software, which included the static program analysis tools QA·C and QA·C++, now known as Helix QAC. It created the High Integrity C++ software coding standard. In May 2018, the company was acquired by Minneapolis, MNbased Perforce, and its products were renamed.
References
External links
Programming Research Limited website
Borough of Elmbridge
Companies based in Surrey
Privately held companies of the United Kingdom
Science and technology in Surrey
Software companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvinnn%21%21%21%20and%20the%20Chipmunks | ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks (also french stylized ALVINNN!!! et les Chipmunks) is a computer-animated musical comedy television series created by Janice Karman. Produced by Bagdasarian Productions and Technicolor Animation Productions with the participation of M6, it features Alvin and the Chipmunks and the Chipettes and marks their first television appearance together since 1990. First announced by Bagdasarian Productions in 2010, a promotional trailer for the series was posted on YouTube.
Animation and half of the show's storyboards are handled by Technicolor Productions in France, while Bagdasarian Productions in the U.S. is in charge of voice recording and music production. The series is primarily distributed by PGS Entertainment, a French brand management company. It premiered on M6 on March 30, 2015. In August 2015, Nickelodeon acquired the American broadcast rights to the series.
Plot
Simulating an anthology of a famous band, songwriter Dave Seville is raising platinum recording groups the Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon, and Theodore) and the Chipettes (Brittany, Jeanette and Eleanor). Dave's patience is tested everyday, but despite all of this, he loves the entire band like his own family. The series takes place in modern society and discusses modern topics such as Dave's technology issues. Others are parents embarrassing kids and parents needing dates.
Voice cast
Ross Bagdasarian Jr. as Alvin, Simon, and David Seville
Janice Karman as Theodore, Brittany, Jeanette, Kevin, Miss Bernese Smith, Miss Croner, Miss Beatrice Miller, and additional voices
Vanessa Bagdasarian as Eleanor, Lucy, Kate, Amber, Annie, and additional voices
Michael Bagdasarian as Mr. Meadows, Cheesy, Officer Dangus, and additional voices
Jean Ellie as Biggie Large
Brian Chambers as Derek Smalls and additional voices
Edwina Jones as Principal Meadows
Elizabeth Gomez as Julie
Production
The series, originally titled The Chipmunks and Chipettes, has 104 11-minute episodes and is produced in high-definition CGI animation, with the Chipmunks and the Chipettes' new looks resembling the iMunk looks. The show serves as an update of the 1980s series utilizing the same theme song, voice actors, Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. and Janice Karman, and format with each episode having a song.
The series producers are Ross Bagdasarian, Jr., Janice Karman, Sandrine Nguyen, and Boris Hertzog from the American production company Bagdasarian Productions and French company OuiDo! Productions. OuiDo! Productions (now Technicolor Animation Productions) handles the animation and storyboards, with Bagdasarian Productions in charge of voices and music. PGS Entertainment acquired the rights for media outside the United States and France in August 2013 and licensing and merchandising rights in May 2014. On February 24, 2014, Nickelodeon acquired all 104 episodes for all territories except Brazil. It originally also excluded North America, but this was later changed. The series was put on sale at the October |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20rail%20transport%20in%20Lesotho | The history of rail transport in Lesotho began in 1905, when the landlocked nation of Lesotho was connected with the railway network of South Africa. The two nations have remained connected by a single railway line ever since.
Beginnings
In 1902, the Central South African Railways began construction of the Bloemfontein–Bethlehem railway, which was intended to link the Orange River Colony (as it was then known) with the port of Durban. To make the line viable, it was desired that it should serve Maseru, the capital of Lesotho, but for the sake of economy it was decided to build the main line along a shorter route and connect Maseru by a branch line from Marseilles to Maseru, including a new bridge over the Caledon River ().
The new Maseru branch line was completed in October 1905 and opened on 18 December 1905. Within Lesotho, it was long, from the Caledon River / Mohokare border bridge to the station at Maseru. Initially, both passenger and freight rail services were operated.
Lesotho has few natural resources and relies heavily on large-scale export of labour to South Africa. The opening of the railway facilitated that traffic. Previously, most Lesotho men engaged in migrant labour had walked from Lesotho to South African mines.
According to one source, the new railway "... proved a great boon to the community." However, another source claims that the construction of the railway and the demobilization of the auxiliary corps in South Africa were perceived by Lesotho's Basotho people as an attempt to place Lesotho under the South African colonies.
More recent operations
In 1963, passenger service on the railway was suspended. Five years later, it was resumed. During the 1970s, there was a substantial increase in wages at the mines, and this led to a growth in border passenger traffic, as workers were able to afford to come home more frequently. However, by that time road travel had become the preferred method of cross-border transport. In 1985, passenger rail service was suspended for a second time, and there has been no regular passenger service since 1989.
Freight trains have continued to run on the railway, carrying mainly cement, maize, fuel and freight containers. As of 2011, there were two freight trains every day, making up about one third of Lesotho’s international trade in bulk goods. Rail freight infrastructure in Lesotho included a container handling facility and a bulk grain handling facility in the Maseru industrial sites. These facilities were owned by the government and leased to the South African rail company, Spoornet, which was the railway's operator.
See also
History of rail transport
History of Lesotho
Rail transport in Lesotho
Maseru branch line
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
Lesotho
Rail
Rail transport in Lesotho
de:Schienenverkehr in Lesotho#Geschichte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MANIC%20%28cognitive%20architecture%29 | MANIC, formerly known as PMML.1, is a cognitive architecture developed by the predictive modeling and machine learning laboratory at University of Arkansas. It differs from other cognitive architectures in that it tries to "minimize novelty". That is, it attempts to organize well-established techniques in computer science, rather than propose any new methods for achieving cognition. While most other cognitive architectures are inspired by some neurological observation, and are subsequently developed in a top-down manner to behave in some manner like a brain, MANIC is inspired only by common practices in computer science, and was developed in a bottom-up manner for the purpose of unifying various methods in machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Overview
At the highest level, MANIC describes a software agent that, supposedly, will exhibit cognitive intelligence. The agent's artificial brain comprises two major components: a learning system and a decision-making system.
Learning system
The learning system models the agent's environment as a dynamical system. It consists of an "observation function", which maps from the agent's current beliefs to predicted observations, and a "transition function", which maps from current beliefs to future beliefs in the next time-step. The observation function is implemented with a generative deep learning architecture. It is trained in an unsupervised manner from the observations that the agent makes. The intrinsic representations of those observations become the agents "beliefs". The transition function is trained in a supervised manner, to predict the next beliefs from the current ones. The entire learning system is based loosely on a 2011 paper by Michael S. Gashler that describes a method for training a deep neural network to model a simple dynamical system from visual observations.
Decision-making system
The decision-making system consists of a planning module and a contentment function. The planning module uses an evolutionary algorithm to evolve a satisficing plan. The contentment function maps from the agent's current beliefs, or anticipated beliefs, to an evaluation of the utility of being in that state. It is trained by reinforcement from a human teacher. In order to facilitate this reinforcement learning, MANIC provides a mechanism for the agent to generate "fantasy videos" that show anticipated observations if a candidate plan were to be executed. The idea is that a human teacher would evaluate these videos and rank them according to desirability or utility, and the agent could then use that feedback to refine its contentment function.
Sentience
MANIC proposes that the learning system gives the agent awareness of its environment by modeling it, and using that model to anticipate future beliefs. It further proposes that a similar mechanism can also implement sentience. That is, it claims that awareness can be implemented with an outward-looking model, and sentience can be implemented with an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base%20and%20bounds | In computing base and bounds refers to a simple form of virtual memory where access to computer memory is controlled by one or a small number of sets of processor registers called base and bounds registers.
In its simplest form each user process is assigned a single contiguous segment of main memory. The operating system loads the physical address of this segment into a base register and its size into a bound register. Virtual addresses seen by the program are added to the contents of the base register to generate the physical address. The address is checked against the contents of the bounds register to prevent a process from accessing memory beyond its assigned segment.
The operating system is not constrained by the hardware and can access all of physical memory.
This technique protects memory used by one process against access or modification by another. By itself it does not protect memory from erroneous access by the owning process. It also allows programs to be easily relocated in memory, since only the base and bounds registers have to be modified when the program is moved.
Some computer systems extended this mechanism to multiple segments, such as the i bank and d bank for instructions and data on the UNIVAC 1100 series computers or the separation of memory on the DEC PDP-10 system into a read/write "low" segment for the user process and a read-only "high" segment for sharable code.
Apple Computer's MultiFinder of 1987 is a more modern use of this technique. Programs shipped with a requested bounds figure stored in the resource fork and the operating system attempted to move the program to an area in memory with that amount free. The user could also adjust this figure using the Get Info dialog, typically to increase the amount of memory for programs with large needs, like Photoshop.
Segmented virtual memory is a further generalization of this mechanism to a large number of segments. Usually the segment table is kept in memory rather than registers.
See also
Memory management (operating systems)
Memory management unit
References
Memory management
Virtual memory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined%20perimeter | A software-defined perimeter (SDP), also called a "black cloud", is an approach to computer security which evolved from the work done at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) under the Global Information Grid (GIG) Black Core Network initiative around 2007. Software-defined perimeter (SDP) framework was developed by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) to control access to resources based on identity. Connectivity in a Software Defined Perimeter is based on a need-to-know model, in which device posture and identity are verified before access to application infrastructure is granted. Application infrastructure is effectively “black” (a DoD term meaning the infrastructure cannot be detected), without visible DNS information or IP addresses. The inventors of these systems claim that a Software Defined Perimeter mitigates the most common network-based attacks, including: server scanning, denial of service, SQL injection, operating system and application vulnerability exploits, man-in-the-middle, pass-the-hash, pass-the-ticket, and other attacks by unauthorized users.
Background
The premise of the traditional enterprise network architecture is to create an internal network separated from the outside world by a fixed perimeter that consists of a series of firewall functions that block external users from coming in, but allows internal users to get out. Traditional fixed perimeters help protect internal services from external threats via simple techniques for blocking visibility and accessibility from outside the perimeter to internal applications and infrastructure. But the weaknesses of this traditional fixed perimeter model are becoming ever more problematic because of the popularity of user-managed devices and phishing attacks, providing untrusted access inside the perimeter, and SaaS and IaaS extending the perimeter into the internet. Software defined perimeters address these issues by giving application owners the ability to deploy perimeters that retain the traditional model's value of invisibility and inaccessibility to outsiders, but can be deployed anywhere – on the internet, in the cloud, at a hosting center, on the private corporate network, or across some or all of these locations.
Authorization Techniques
There are several techniques for delivering a software-defined perimeter (SDP). This includes:
Single Packet Authorization: A single packet is sent by a client to an SDP gateway which listens for SPA packets. The contents of the packet will be decrypted for further inspection. If verified, the gateway adds a rule to the firewall so that a mutual TLS connection to the intended service can be established. Once this connection is established, the firewall rules are removed making the service invisible to the outside world.
First Packet Authentication: A single-use, cryptographically generated identity token is inserted on each side of a TCP/IP session for authentication. If allowed, the gateway applies a security policy—forwar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhi%20Talwalkar | Abhi Talwalkar was president and CEO of LSI Corporation, a company that designed chips and software for datacenters and other applications.
Early life and education
Talwalkar was born in Pune, India in 1964. Talwalkar received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University in 1985.
Career
Prior to 1993, Talwalkar held senior engineering and marketing management positions at Sequent Computer Systems (now part of IBM), Bipolar Integrated Technology and Lattice Semiconductor.
Talwalkar served in many upper management positions at Intel from 1993 to 2005. His career at Intel started as a Server Development Engineering and Program manager in 1993. He then served as vice president and general manager for the Intel Enterprise Platform and Service Division. In 1996, Talwalkar was promoted to co-manager and vice president of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group with Pat Gelsinger.
In May 2005, Talwalkar replaced Wilfred Corrigan as CEO of LSI Corporation. Under Talwalker's leadership, LSI became profitable again in his first four years. Talwalkar joined a company that was "in a strategic vacuum, participating in way too many markets and subscale in a lot of them." Talwalkar redirected the company to focus on the "data deluge," the massive growth in information flowing through datacenters and wireless networks. This included areas of IT, such as cloud computing, Big Data and social media and wireless networks. All of the product lines were completely rebuilt, with many of them being sold off to focus primarily on chips and other products that work with data storage and communications. The company emerged centered on the secular trends in data and traffic growth, with reported top line growth of nine percent in 2012.
Talwalkar was appointed to serve on the board of directors for Lam Research Corporation on 22 February 2011.
Talwalkar appeared on the cover of Dataquest Magazine in 2012, and was named one of the Most Influential Global Indians in Technology. That same year, Talwalkar was a featured speaker at the IDC Cloud Leadership Forum in June, as well as serving as a panelist at the December CEO2CEO Leadership Summit in New York.
In 2013, Talwalkar appeared on stage together with Box CEO Aaron Levie at the Accelerating Innovation Summit.
In December 2013, it was announced that Avago had acquired LSI Corporation for $6.6 billion in a cash transaction. LSI Corporation publicly stated that Talwalkar would leave the company after the close of the transaction.
References
External links
Bridging The Data Deluge Gap by Abhi Talwalkar
A Mentor Is Not a Coddler by Abhi Talwalkar
Turning 'data deluge' from a challenge into an opportunity for India by Abhi Talwalkar
1964 births
Living people
Oregon State University alumni
Intel people
Businesspeople from Pune |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%20tool | Design tools are objects, media, or computer programs, which can be used to design. They may influence the process of production, expression and perception of design ideas and therefore need to be applied skillfully.
Objects
New ideas can come by way of experimenting with tools and methods. Some designers explore ideas using pencil and paper. Others use many different mark-making tools and resources from computers to sculpture as a means of inspiring creativity. Traditionally, objects like pencil, compass, ruler, drawing triangle have been considered design tools and have been used to characterize design and designers. One reason for the success of traditional design tools such as pencil and paper is that these tools can be used without any special knowledge and their usage facilitates a continuous flow of thoughts.
Media
The appropriate development and presentation tools can substantially change how an audience perceives a project. The media used for design can be divided in two categories, visual and verbal. Conventionally, in areas like architecture, industrial design, or graphic design, visual media are considered more important than verbal media. In other areas like engineering, the use of verbal design media may be prevalent.
Visual
Visual design tools are, for example, gesture, sketch, drawing, scale model, perspective drawing, photograph, film, video. Eugene S. Ferguson's 1977 paper in Science, entitled "The mind's eye: Nonverbal thought in technology", is credited for clarifying the role of visual reasoning in the thinking process. In this article he reasoned that "Thinking with pictures is an essential strand in the intellectual history of technological development." He concludes his article with the following statement:
Much of the creative thought of the designers of our technological world is nonverbal, not easily reducible to words; its language is an object or a picture or a visual image in the mind. It is out of this kind of thinking that the clock, printing press, and snowmobile have arisen. Technologists, converting their nonverbal knowledge into objects directly (as when an artisan fashioned an American ax) or into drawings that have enabled others to build what was in their minds, have chosen the shape and many of the qualities of our man-made surroundings. This intellectual component of technology, which is non-literary and non-scientific, has been generally unnoticed because its origins lie in art and not in science.As the scientific component of knowledge in technology has increased markedly in the 19th and 20th centuries, the tendency has been to lose sight of the crucial part played by nonverbal knowledge in making the "big" decisions of form, arrangement, and texture, that determine the parameters within which a system will operate.
In his work claims Ferguson that visual reasoning is a widely used tool used in creating technological artefacts. There is ample evidence that visual methods, particularly drawing, play a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20Greek%20Caf%C3%A9 | The Rough Guide to Greek Café is a world music compilation album originally released in 2010. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the release covers a wide breadth of the music of Greece on Disc One, from traditional to modern. Disc Two highlights Dimitris Mistakidis. The album was compiled by Marc Dubin, a journalist specializing in Greece for the past three decades. Brad Haynes coordinated the project, Laurence Cedar mastered the work, and Phil Stanton was the producer.
Critical reception
The album received generally positive reviews upon release. Both Chris Nickon of AllMusic and Deanne Sole of PopMatters noted the use of the word "café". Nickson described the title as somewhat of a "misnomer" and the compilation instead as "an introduction to Greek music, and a very good one" showing that Greek music is "richly alive". Sole wrote that the compiler "favours forward movement", that "hardness is allowed", and that if it is indeed a "café" soundtrack, it is one "for mobs of 19th-century European aesthetes".
Track listing
Disc one
Disc two
All tracks on Disc Two are performed by Dimitris Mistakidis, a rebetika guitarist.
References
External links
2010 compilation albums
Greek Cafe
Compilation albums by Greek artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20Bhangra%20%282010%20album%29 | The Rough Guide to Bhangra is a world music compilation album originally released in 2010. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the release features bhangra, a form of Punjabi music. Disc One highlights artists from the 1980s to 2000s, and Disc Two features the British band Achanak. The album was compiled by DJ Ritu, a British-born musician, BBC Radio 3 host, and co-founder of Outcaste Records. Brad Haynes coordinated the project, Laurence Cedar mastered the work, and Phil Stanton was the producer. The release was preceded by a first edition a decade earlier.
The album features artists from India, Pakistan, England, and Scotland.
Critical reception
Writing for BBC Music, Vibhuti Patel was dismissive of the album and label in general, calling it "more than a little rough", and the brand responsible for "several entry-level collections of world music" (this being the 202nd release in the series). Patel thought the album should be an historical overview, and lamented the omissions of Gurdas Maan, Malkit Singh, and B21. He also felt Disc Two should have been replaced by another various artist compilation, and wrote that the overall release "falls short of being a definitive introduction" (this is in marked contrast with the first edition, which Ted Swedenburg of PopMatters named "the definitive introduction").
Track listing
Disc One
Disc Two
All tracks on Disc Two are performed by Achanak, a seven-piece British band founded in 1989.
References
External links
2010 compilation albums
Bhangra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rough%20Guide%20to%20Blues%20Revival | The Rough Guide to Blues Revival is a blues compilation album originally released in 2009. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the album contains two discs: an overview of the contemporary scene on Disc One, primarily featuring American artists, and a "bonus" Disc Two highlighting Malian Samba Touré (a reference to the commonalities between the American Blues and West African music). The compilation was produced by Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network. Curation was performed by Nigel Williamson, a music journalist and author of the book The Rough Guide to the Blues. The term "blues revival" refers to the resurgence of the genre after the success of Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Critical reception
Jim Allen of AllMusic took issue with the title (claiming the genre "never went away") but named it a "pretty accurate sonic snapshot of the contemporary blues scene". He called the Malian choice for Disc Two "an interesting left-field touch".
Track listing
Disc One
Disc Two
All tracks on Disc Two are performed by Samba Touré, a guitarist from the Tombouctou Region of Mali who, though not related by blood, was raised as a protégé of Ali Farka Touré.
References
External links
2009 compilation albums
Blues Revival |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Advertising | Oracle Advertising, formerly Datalogix, is a cloud-based consumer data collection, activation, and measurement platform for use by digital advertisers. Datalogix was a consumer data collection company based in Westminster, Colorado that provided offline consumer spending data to marketers. In December 2014, Oracle signed an agreement to acquire Datalogix. After the acquisition, Datalogix's name changed to Oracle Data Cloud, which later became Oracle Advertising. Oracle Advertising is part of the Oracle Advertising and Customer Experience (CX) application suite.
This collected data, which includes purchase data from stores, credit cards, and loyalty cards, helps marketing teams determine their ad campaigns' effectiveness and those that will potentially increase profits, with Datalogix clients including retail stores, grocers, travel agencies, PepsiCo, Ford, and the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group. After consumer spending behaviors are measured, the information is sold to advertising companies and publishers, such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, Snapchat, and Pinterest. Advertisers then use the information obtained to tailor online ads and reach new or existing customers. In turn, publishers use the data to determine the amount of profit advertisers earn and to convince them to purchase more ads that will feature on their websites. Advertisers and publishers have used Datalogix to help increase profits, as the use of digital media continues to expand.
In 2017, Oracle also acquired Moat, an ad measurement company, which also became part of Oracle Data Cloud, now Oracle Advertising. The Moat acquisition added measurement and analytics capabilities to allow advertisers to track and measure media, as well as the performance of interactions with online ads.
BlueKai, acquired by Oracle in 2014, is a cloud-based data collection platform that uses website cookies to collect online tracking data. The tracking data is then used by marketers to target users with ads specific to their interests, behavior patterns, or demographics. BlueKai is part of Oracle Marketing.
Privacy issues with consumer data collection
Some consumers and agencies are against companies that use Datalogix because it brings into question the issue of consent, as a vast majority of consumers do not want their information collected, measured, or sold. The FTC was involved in investigating a deal between Datalogix and Facebook, to see if it violated privacy issues. Datalogix obtains data from Facebook users by matching e-mail addresses from a Customer Relationship Management database (CRM), along with additional information people use to create personal Facebook accounts, in order to tailor specific audiences for advertisers. Datalogix tailors specific audiences by grouping consumers together according to their similar interests, behavior patterns, or demographics. The company reports that it keeps the information anonymous and gives consumers the option to opt out of data collecting and reporti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAutonomy | OpenAutonomy is a protocol facilitating decentralized social networking and other web services. The design of the system allows users to interoperate across different internet servers and domains with no central mediating authority. Further, each user can also possess application instances running on different internet servers and domains yet still interacting with each other across these boundaries.
The intent of the technology and its users is to build a distributed, federated, extensible web platform to compete with the current "walled garden" approach. The idea is to break the boundaries between services/servers and web/native and allowing everything to inter-operate with an emphasis on: extensibility, innovation, privacy, and freedom.
OpenAutonomy Applications/Use-Cases
OpenAutonomy currently has innate applications which lend themselves to several use-cases where users are in full control of their content with the use of trust groups: a social networking application, an event application which is used to announce events and add photos from those events which can then be shared, a personal cloud storage location with the option of file collaboration, a messaging system to message other users and the ability to add personal and general RSS feeds catering to a user's own interests from anywhere on the web for a user's own as well as potentially collaborative shared use.
As the OpenAutonomy user base is distributed across multiple internet domains, a federated login system is provided to allow these users to interact as first-class entities on any OpenAutonomy server.
Anyone can run an OpenAutonomy server or extend the capabilities of existing servers and applications by defining their own application protocols.
As of February 9th, 2020, the hyperlink to the website redirects to a DNS sales company.
See also
Comparison of software and protocols for distributed social networking
References
External links
Open Autonomy Inc. (runs the reference implementation)
OpenAutonomy PHP server and related tools on SF.net (includes reference implementation code)
Social networking services
Open formats
Internet technology companies of Canada
RSS
Web syndication formats
Cloud storage
Image-sharing websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20surveillance%20in%20China | Mass surveillance in the People's Republic of China (PRC) is the network of monitoring systems used by the Chinese central government to monitor Chinese citizens. It is primarily conducted through the government, although corporate surveillance in connection with the Chinese government has been reported to occur. China monitors its citizens through Internet surveillance, camera surveillance, and through other digital technologies. It has become increasingly widespread and grown in sophistication under General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Xi Jinping's administration.
Background
Mass surveillance has significantly expanded under the PRC Cybersecurity Law (2016) and with the help of local companies like Tencent, Dahua Technology, Hikvision, SenseTime, ByteDance, Megvii, Huawei and ZTE, among many others. As of 2019, it is estimated that 200 million monitoring CCTV cameras of the "Skynet" system have been put to use in mainland China, four times the number of surveillance cameras in the United States. By 2020, the number of surveillance cameras in mainland China is expected to reach 626 million. The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the implementation of mass surveillance as it has provided a plausible pretext to do so.
History
Origin
Mass surveillance in China emerged in the Maoist era after the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Mao invented this mechanism of control that encompassed the entire nation and its people in order to strengthen his power in the newly founded government. In the early years, when technology was relatively undeveloped in China, mass surveillance was accomplished through disseminating information by word of mouth. Chinese people kept a watchful eye on one another and reported inappropriate behaviors that infringed upon the dominant social ideals of the time. According to a publication from 1987, computer and Internet technology spread to China in the late 20th century as a result of the Chinese economic reform.
21st century
In 2005, the Chinese government created a mass surveillance system called Skynet. The government revealed Skynet's existence in 2013, by which time the network included over 20 million cameras. In addition to monitoring the general public, cameras were installed outside mosques in the Xinjiang region, temples in Tibet, and the homes of dissidents.
In 2017, the Chinese government encouraged the use of various mobile phone apps as part of a broader surveillance push. Local regulators launched mobile apps for national security purposes and to allow citizens to report violations.
As of 2018, the most notable surveillance mechanisms were mass camera surveillance on the streets, internet surveillance, and newly invented surveillance methods based on social credit and identity.
As of 2018, the Chinese central government had also adopted facial recognition technology, surveillance drones, robot police, and big data collection targeting online social media pla |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruko%20Obokata | is a former stem-cell biologist and research unit leader at Japan's Laboratory for Cellular Reprogramming, Riken Center for Developmental Biology. She claimed in 2014 to have developed a radical and remarkably easy way to generate stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) cells that could be grown into tissue for use anywhere in the body. In response to allegations of irregularities in Obokata's research publications involving STAP cells, Riken launched an investigation that discovered examples of scientific misconduct on the part of Obokata. Attempts to replicate Obokata's STAP cell results failed. The ensuing STAP cell scandal gained worldwide attention.
Early life, education and career
Obokata was born in Matsudo, Chiba, Japan, in 1983. She attended Toho Senior High School, which is attached to Toho University, and graduated from Waseda University with a B.S. degree in 2006, and an M.S. degree in applied chemistry in 2008. Obokata later joined the laboratory of Charles Vacanti at Harvard Medical School, where she was described as "a lab director’s dream" with "fanatical devotion". In 2011, Obokata completed her Ph.D. in Engineering at the Graduate School of Advanced Engineering and Science at Waseda University. Obokata became a guest researcher at the Riken Center for Developmental Biology in 2011, and in 2013 became head of the Lab for Cellular Reprogramming.
According to an Asahi Shimbun news report, Obokata offered to retract her doctoral dissertation following allegations that she plagiarized segments of her dissertation from publicly available documents from the U.S. National Institute of Health website. In October 2014, an investigative panel appointed by Waseda University gave Obokata one year to revise her dissertation or lose her degree. In 2015, Waseda University announced that it was revoking Obokata's doctoral degree.
STAP cell reports
At Riken, Obokata studied stem cells in collaboration with Vacanti, Teruhiko Wakayama, and Yoshiki Sasai, with two of her research papers accepted for publication in Nature in 2013. In a note to Vacanti, Sasai wrote that Obokata had discovered "a magic spell" that led to their experimental success, described later in The Guardian as "a surprisingly simple way of turning ordinary body cells…into something very much like embryonic stem cells" by soaking them in "a weak bath of citric acid." This procedure was reported to "wash away [the cells'] developmental past," transforming them into "cellular infants, able to multiply abundantly and grow into any type of cell in the body, a superpower known as pluripotency." Upon publication of the papers, Obokata "was hailed as a bright new star in the scientific firmament and a national hero."
STAP cell controversy
Within days of publication of the Nature articles, "disturbing allegations emerged [...] images looked doctored, and chunks of [...] text were lifted from other papers." Critics noted that images in the published articles were similar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Award%20for%20Best%20Television%20Sensation%20Male | The Hum Award for Best Television Sensation Male is one of the Hum Awards of Merit presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC). It is given to an actor who has delivered an outstanding debut performance while working within the television industry. At the 1st Hum Awards (for 2012), award was given to Shehryar Munawar Siddiqui for his role in Meray Dard Ko Jo Zuban Miley. The nominations are solely made by Hum membership.
Since its inception, the award has been given to four actors, as of 2016 year ceremony, Feroze Khan is the most recent winner of this award.
Category
As of 1st ceremony Hum honored a debut Male actor for giving his spectacular performance in drama release in 2012, This category officially termed as Best Television Sensation or unofficially known as Best Male Debut.
Winners and nominees
This category has no nominations since it is given to only one actor, who has delivered outstanding debut performance. However nominations can be made but it is not shown during nomination announcement and winner is only revealed during the ceremony. Following the hum's practice, Actors won for the dramas released by year of their Pakistan qualifying run, which is usually (but not always) the drama's year of release. Date and the award ceremony shows that the 2010 is the period from 2010 to 2020 (10 years-decade), while the year above winners and nominees shows that the dramas year in which they were telecast, and the figure in bracket shows the ceremony number, for example; an award ceremony is held for the dramas of its previous year.
2010s
See also
Hum Awards
Hum Awards pre-show
List of Hum Awards Ceremonies
References
External links
Official websites
Hum Awards official website
Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC)
Hum's Channel at YouTube (run by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel)
Hum Awards at Facebook (run by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel)]
Hum Awards
Hum Award winners
Hum TV
Hum Network Limited |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Award%20for%20Best%20Television%20Sensation%20Female | The Hum Award for Best Television Sensation Female is one of the Hum Awards of Merit presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC). It is given to an actress who has delivered an outstanding debut performance while working within the television industry. At the 1st Hum Awards (for 2012), award was given to Suhaee Abro for her role in Sanjha.The nominations are solely made by Hum membership.
Since its inception, the award has been given to three actresses, as of 2018 year ceremony, Hania Amir is the most recent winner of this award.
Category
As of 1st ceremony Hum honored a debut Male actor for giving his spectacular performance in drama release in 2012, This category officially termed as Best Television Sensation or unofficially known as Best Debut Female.
List of winners
This category has no nominations since it is given to only one actor, who has delivered outstanding debut performance. However nominations can be made but it is not shown during nomination announcement and winner is only revealed during the ceremony.
2010s
2013 Suhaee Abro – Sanjha
2014 Sanam Jung – Dil-e-Muztar
2015 Hareem Farooq – Mausam
2016 Iqra Aziz – Mol
2017 Kubra Khan – Sang-e-Mar Mar
2018 Hania Amir – Phir Wohi Mohabbat
2019 Alizeh Shah – Ishq Tamasha
See also
Hum Awards
Hum Awards pre-show
List of Hum Awards Ceremonies
References
External links
Official websites
Hum Awards official website
Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC)
Hum's Channel at YouTube (run by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel)
Hum Awards at Facebook (run by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel)]
Hum Awards
Hum Award winners
Hum TV
Hum Network Limited |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyclene%20circumdata | Lyclene circumdata is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1865. It is found on Borneo and Peninsular Malaysia. The habitat consists of lowland and lower montane forests, however female specimens may also be found in coastal localities and areas of disturbed forests.
Taxonomy
The species was formerly treated as a synonym of Asura strigipennis.
References
Moths described in 1865
Nudariina
Moths of Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facility%20location | Facility location is a name given to several different problems in computer science and in game theory:
Optimal facility location, the optimal placement of facilities as a function of transportation costs and other factors
Facility location (competitive game), in which competitors simultaneously select facility locations and prices, in order to maximize profit
Facility location (cooperative game), with the goal of sharing costs among clients |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Award%20for%20Best%20Onscreen%20Couple | Best On-screen Couple of the Year is one of the Hum Awards presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC) to best onscreen couple who has delivered an outstanding chemistry performance while working within the Television industry. Since its inception, however, the award has commonly been referred to as the hum for Best Onscreen Couple. This is one of the viewers choice and voted category in Hum Awards.
History
Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel presented this award to one of the acclaimed and famous onscreen couple of Hum Television. As of first ceremony Fawad Khan & Mahira Khan were honored at 1st Hum Awards ceremony 2012 for his performance in Humsafar.
Winners and nominees
In the list below, winners are listed first in the colored row, followed by the other nominees. In the list below, winners are listed first in the colored row, followed by the other nominees. Following the hum's practice, the dramas below are listed by year of their Pakistan qualifying run, which is usually (but not always) the drama's year of release.
As of the first ceremony, three Couples were nominated for the award. All were set open for public voting, highest vote couple was awarded the title by Hum.
For the first ceremony, the eligibility period spanned full calendar years. For example, the 1st Hum Awards presented on April 28, 2013, to acknowledged Best Couple of dramas that were released between January, 2012, and December, 2012, the period of eligibility is the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.
Date and the award ceremony shows that the 2010 is the period from 2010-2020 (10 years-decade), while the year above winners and nominees shows that the dramas year in which they were telecast, and the figure in bracket shows the ceremony number, for example; an award ceremony is held for the dramas of its previous year.
Winners
See also
Hum Awards
Hum Awards pre-show
List of Hum Awards Ceremonies
References
External links
Official websites
Hum Awards official website
Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC)
Hum's Channel at YouTube (run by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel)
Hum Awards at Facebook (run by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel)]
Hum Awards
Hum Award winners
Hum TV
Hum Network Limited |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yongjinglong | Yongjinglong is an extinct genus of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous of Lanzhou-Minhe Basin of Gansu Province, China. It contains a single species, Yongjinglong datangi.
Discovery
Yongjinglong was first described and named by Li-Guo Li, Da-Qing Li, Hai-Lu You and Peter Dodson in 2014 and the type species is Yongjinglong datangi. The generic name is derived from the name of the historical Yongjing County, near where the holotype of Yongjinglong and numerous dinosaur track fossils were collected, and from long, meaning "dragon" in Chinese. The specific name, datangi, honors the Tang dynasty and also Mr. Zhi-Lu Tang from the IVPP, for his contributions to the study of dinosaurs.
Yongjinglong is known solely from the holotype GSGM ZH(08)-04, a partial postcranial skeleton and three teeth, currently housed at the Gansu Geological Museum, Gansu Province. The postcranial remains include one fragmentary dorsal rib, the left scapulocoracoid, the right ulna and radius, as well as eight presacral vertebrae including one caudal cervical vertebra, four cranial dorsal vertebrae, and three articulated middle dorsal vertebrae. It represents a subadult individual. GSGM ZH(08)-04 was by Li Daqing and You Hailu discovered in 2008 beside the G75 Highway, less than a kilometer from the quarries of Daxiatitan and Huanghetitan liujiaxiaensis, near Zhongpu. It was collected from the upper Hekou Group, in the southeastern part of the Lanzhou-Minhe Basin, Gansu Province, dating to the Early Cretaceous.
Description
Yongjinglong was a medium-sized sauropod. The describers established some diagnostic traits. The premaxillary teeth are long and spoon-shaped. The neck vertebrae and anterior dorsal vertebrae possess large and deep pleurocoels, pneumatic depressions, that cover the entire sides of the centra. The ridges on the sides of the middle dorsal vertebrae form a pattern shaped like a "XI", with the "X" in front. The spine of at least one middle dorsal vertebra is low and not bifurcated and forms with the postzygapophyses a triangular bone plate, directed upwards. The shoulder blade is extremely long, with, in side view, exceptionally straight front and rear edges.
Phylogeny
Yongjinglong was placed in the Titanosauria by Li et al. (2014). Their cladistic analysis showed it was a member of the Somphospondyli and a sister species of Opisthocoelicaudia. However, a 2019 revision of Chinese "titanosaurs" resolved Yongjinglong deeply nested within Euhelopodidae, sister taxon to Huanghetitan and Ruyangosaurus, or a clade including Euhelopus, Erketu and Gobititan.
References
Early Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia
Fossil taxa described in 2014
Titanosaurs
Taxa named by Peter Dodson
Paleontology in Gansu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WINdows%20KwikStat | WINKS Statistical Data Analytics(SDA) & Graphs is a statistical analysis software package.
It was first marketed in 1988 by the company TexaSoft (founded in 1981), named KWIKSTAT. The name WINdows KwikStat was shortened to WINKS when the Windows version was deployed.
WINKS is sold in two editions: the Basic Edition includes data handling and statistical analysis that include basic statistical procedures and the Professional Edition include a number of more advanced procedures. A special Time Series version of WINKS is available in support of the book Applied Time Series Analysis from CRC Press.
Major statistical Procedures in WINKS
Descriptive statistics
Grubbs outlier test
t-tests: single, independent, and paired
Multiple regression, simple, stepwise, polynomial, all-possible
ANOVA, simple, multi-way with multiple comparisons, 95% CI
Analysis of covariance
Repeated measures ANOVA
Correlation: Pearson, Spearman & Partial
Mantel–Haenzel
Non-parametric tests
Kruskal–Wallis
Mann–Whitney
Friedman's test (repeated measures)
Multiple comparisons on most group comparison tests
Dunnett's test
Crosstabulation, chi-square, likelihood ratio
Goodness-of-fit
z-scores
Survival analysis
Bland–Altman plots
Inter-rater reliability
Kappa (weighted)
Fisher's exact test 2×2 tables
Cramér's V, phi
McNemar's, Cochran's Q
Logistic regression
Odds ratios
Sensitivity and specificity
ROC curves
Time series analysis
Statistical and QC charts and graphs
Forest plots
References
External links
Statistical software
Windows-only proprietary software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic%20Pastoral%20Congress | The Apostolic Pastoral Congress or Apostolic Pastoral Congress of Great Britain, is a network of Christian bishops, pastors and other clergy in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Apostolic Pastoral Congress forms part of the Convergence Movement, and its bishops claim apostolic succession. The Apostolic Pastoral Congress is a member of Churches Together in England. The organisation is also a member of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland and the Evangelical Alliance of Great Britain.
The President of the organisation is Bishop Moses Owusu-Sekyere. Bishop Moses was appointed to the role in October 2021, in succession to Archbishop Doyé Agama. Bishop Moses is a trustee of Churches Together in England. Archbishop Agama served as a trustee of Churches Together in England from March 2010-November 2018. He is a past co-president of Greater Manchester Churches Together, and he was the moderator of the Forum of Churches Together in England between 2012 and 2015. The Apostolic Pastoral Congress is listed in the UK Directory of Black & Multicultural Churches. However, the movement also includes several Asian churches and small numbers of white British churches as well.
On 4 November 2021, Churches Together in England announced that APC's Bishop Mike Royal is to be CTE's next general secretary, when the present post-holder retires in 2022.
History
The Apostolic Pastoral Congress was formed (initially under the name "Apostolic Pastoral Association") during the first decade of the 21st century. It started in northern England and now has country-wide membership. The Apostolic Pastoral Congress remains particularly active in Greater Manchester and the surrounding areas, and has its administrative office at Manchester. In 2013, Bishop Doye Agama, who was at that time the presiding prelate of the Apostolic Pastoral Congress, was elevated to the status of archbishop, at a ceremony held in Southwark Cathedral at London Bridge in central London, England.
Doctrine
The Apostolic Pastoral Congress is High Church Pentecostal in character, firmly evangelical in its soteriology, and sacramental in theology and practice; regarding its relation to Convergence, it is also broad church. Members of the congress use adapted forms of ancient church liturgy whenever sacraments are expressed, but at other times allow more open styles of Pentecostal worship. As such, it may be identified as being part of the Convergence Movement.
The congress also promotes knowledge of and respect for the ancient Christian Church of the first millennium in the British Isles, and for the ancient Christian Church worldwide.
Congress policy is to preach and practice baptism by full immersion in water, following confession of faith in Jesus Christ and a personal infilling of the Holy Spirit, evidenced by what it perceives the biblical gifts (see spiritual gift) and fruit of the Holy Spirit. The Apostolic Pastoral Congress is dedicated to promoting holy living which |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20sovereignty | In internet governance, network sovereignty, also called digital sovereignty or cyber sovereignty, is the effort of a governing entity, such as a state, to create boundaries on a network and then exert a form of control, often in the form of law enforcement over such boundaries.
Much like states invoke sole power over their physical territorial boundaries, state sovereignty, such governing bodies also invoke sole power within the network boundaries they set and claim network sovereignty. In the context of the Internet, the intention is to govern the web and control it within the borders of the state. Often, that is witnessed as states seeking to control all information flowing into and within their borders.
The concept stems from questions of how states can maintain law over an entity such like the Internet, whose infrastructure exists in real space, but its entity itself exists in the intangible cyberspace. According to Joel Reidenberg, "Networks have key attributes of sovereignty: participant/citizens via service provider membership agreements, 'constitutional' rights through contractual terms of service, and police powers through taxation (fees) and system operator sanctions." Indeed, many countries have pushed to ensure the protection of their citizens' privacy and of internal business longevity by data protection and information privacy legislation (see the EU's Data Protection Directive, the UK's Data Protection Act 1998).
Network sovereignty has implications for state security, Internet governance, and the users of the Internet's national and international networks.
Implications for state security
Networks are challenging places for states to extend their sovereign control. In her book Sociology in the Age of the Internet, communications professor Allison Cavanagh argues that state sovereignty has been drastically decreased by networks.
Other scholars such as Saskia Sassen and Joel R. Reidenberg agree. Sassen argues that the state's power is limited in cyberspace and that networks, particularly the numerous private tunnels for institutions such as banks. Sassen further postulates that these private tunnels create tensions within the state because the state itself is not one voice. Reidenberg refers to what he terms "Permeable National Borders," effectively echoing Sassen's arguments about the private tunnels, which pass through numerous networks. Reidenberg goes on to state that intellectual property can easily pass through such networks, which incentivizes businesses and content providers to encrypt their products. The various interests in a network are echoed within the state, by lobby groups.
Internet governance
Many governments are trying to exert some forms of control over the Internet. Some examples include the SOPA-PIPA debates in the United States, the Golden Shield Project in China, and new laws that grant greater power to the Roskomnadzor in Russia.
SOPA-PIPA
With the failed Stop Online Piracy Act, the United States would |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majin%20Bone | is a digital card game by Bandai. A manga series is serialized in the magazine Saikyo Jump by Shueisha and an anime television series debuted on April 1, 2014, on TX Network stations.
Characters
Earth Warriors
Shougo is an ordinary high school student who notices strange occurrences all over the Earth. Most of them are being attributed to weather phenomena. When visiting his friend Saho's house one afternoon he hears a mysterious sound. The sound ends up being the voice of Dragon Bone resonating with him. The two merge, and, while he is reluctant at first to accept the responsibility of fighting, Shougo determines he must fight in order to protect his everyday life.
Dragon Bone
The unspoken leader of Earth's Warrior. He carries the dimensional device and was the first one to become a bone adept. Luke is willing to sacrifice anyone or anything to keep the Dragon Bone safe. His father, Ian, is the head of the Research Institute in Los Angeles.
A former thief that was found in the slums and resonated with Jaguar Bone. Antonio became a performer and a master of all trades. He tries to befriend anyone and everyone but is willing to dive in front of any attack he thinks will hurt his friends.
The oldest of 16 kids. Tyrone fights to keep his 8 sisters and 7 brothers safe. He listens to the environment with the belief that listening to others can allow peace and prosperity more so than always battling.
A 13-year-old college student from America. Gilbert chose to become a bone adept so he could protect the Earth. He often refers to himself as being "The Ace." Gilbert is an expert boxer and is the first adept to gain an iron bone.
Victor's brother. He is a war orphan. After Director Higashio saved his life he was accepted by his bone. Currently he works with the Nepos Council because he feels Earth betrayed him when they tried to kill him.
Gregory's brother. He is a war orphan. After Director Higashio saved his life he was accepted by his bone. Currently he works with the Nepos Council because he feels Earth betrayed him when they tried to kill him.
Neposian Council
Stolz/Phoenix
Klude/Wyvern
Revolt/Cerberus
Socius/Uroboros
Barlish/Behemoth
Pellebrand/Leviathian
Raquelt/Basilisk
Carvaleo/Unicorn
Eques Warriors (referred to as Dark Bones)
Liebert/Panther: Liebert is the daughter of Stolz
Morse/Bear: One of Liebert's henchmen.
Gusstos/Grizzly: One of Liebert's henchmen.
Freyd/Bat: The silent one of the Dark Bones
Gladis/Swordfish
Vyse/Eagle
Drossas/Alligator
Apis/Bee
Semiria/Hawk
Ullurra/Owl
Ventoza/Kraken
Corvus/Crow
Serpence/Snake
Griffon
Horse
Scorpion
Spider
Beetle
Other characters
Shougo's childhood friend. In the first episode her house is destroyed when the warriors of Nepos Angelis sense that Dragon Bone is nearby. She moves in with Shougo's family and begins to notice the changes in his life, but she feels Shougo is leaving her behind because he won't share his secrets with her. She is a huge fan of UFOs and anything that relates to l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey%20encryption | Honey encryption is a type of data encryption that "produces a ciphertext, which, when decrypted with an incorrect key as guessed by the attacker, presents a plausible-looking yet incorrect plaintext password or encryption key."
Creators
Ari Juels and Thomas Ristenpart of the University of Wisconsin, the developers of the encryption system, presented a paper on honey encryption at the 2014 Eurocrypt cryptography conference.
Method of protection
A brute-force attack involves repeated decryption with random keys; this is equivalent to picking random plaintexts from the space of all possible plaintexts with a uniform distribution. This is effective because even though the attacker is equally likely to see any given plaintext, most plaintexts are extremely unlikely to be legitimate i.e. the distribution of legitimate plaintexts is non-uniform. Honey encryption defeats such attacks by first transforming the plaintext into a space such that the distribution of legitimate plaintexts is uniform. Thus an attacker guessing keys will see legitimate-looking plaintexts frequently and random-looking plaintexts infrequently. This makes it difficult to determine when the correct key has been guessed. In effect, honey encryption "[serves] up fake data in response to every incorrect guess of the password or encryption key."
The security of honey encryption relies on the fact that the probability of an attacker judging a plaintext to be legitimate can be calculated (by the encrypting party) at the time of encryption. This makes honey encryption difficult to apply in certain applications e.g. where the space of plaintexts is very large or the distribution of plaintexts is unknown. It also means that honey encryption can be vulnerable to brute-force attacks if this probability is miscalculated. For example, it is vulnerable to known-plaintext attacks: if the attacker has a crib that a plaintext must match to be legitimate, they will be able to brute-force even Honey Encrypted data if the encryption did not take the crib into account.
Example
An encrypted credit card number is susceptible to brute-force attacks because not every string of digits is equally likely. The number of digits can range from 13 to 19, though 16 is the most common. Additionally, it must have a valid IIN and the last digit must match the checksum. An attacker can also take into account the popularity of various services: an IIN from MasterCard is probably more likely than an IIN from Diners Club Carte Blanche.
Honey encryption can protect against these attacks by first mapping credit card numbers to a larger space where they match their likelihood of legitimacy. Numbers with invalid IINs and checksums are not mapped at all (i.e. have probability 0 of legitimacy). Numbers from large brands like MasterCard and Visa map to large regions of this space, while less popular brands map to smaller regions, etc. An attacker brute-forcing such an encryption scheme would only see legitimate-looking c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ny%C3%A9l%C3%A9ni | Nyéléni was a woman from Sirakoro in Mali, Africa. During the first International Food Sovereignty Forum, which took place in Sélingué, Mali in February 2007, it was decided to name the network for Food Sovereignty in her honour.
External links
International Nyéléni forum for Food Sovereignty homepage
References
Populated places in Sikasso Region |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadatabad%2C%20Mamasani | Saadatabad (, also Romanized as Sa‘ādatābād) is a village in Bakesh-e Do Rural District, in the Central District of Mamasani County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 269, in 56 families.
References
Populated places in Mamasani County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20Control%20Protocol | Port Control Protocol (PCP) is a computer networking protocol that allows hosts on IPv4 or IPv6 networks to control how the incoming IPv4 or IPv6 packets are translated and forwarded by an upstream router that performs network address translation (NAT) or packet filtering. By allowing hosts to create explicit port forwarding rules, handling of the network traffic can be easily configured to make hosts placed behind NATs or firewalls reachable from the rest of the Internet (so they can also act as network servers), which is a requirement for many applications.
Additionally, explicit port forwarding rules available through PCP allow hosts to reduce the amount of generated traffic by eliminating workarounds in form of outgoing NAT keepalive messages, which are required for maintaining connections to servers and for various NAT traversal techniques such as TCP hole punching. At the same time, less generated traffic reduces the power consumption, directly improving the battery runtime for mobile devices.
PCP was standardized in 2013 as a successor to the NAT Port Mapping Protocol (NAT-PMP), with which it shares similar protocol concepts and packet formats. PCP adds support for IPv6 and additional NAT scenarios.
In environments where a Universal Plug and Play Internet Gateway Device (UPnP IGD) is used in the local network, an interworking function between the UPnP IGD and PCP is required to be embedded in the IGD. The UPnP IGD-PCP Interworking Function is specified in RFC6970.
DHCP (IPv4 and IPv6) options to configure hosts with Port Control Protocol (PCP) server IP addresses are specified in RFC7291. The procedure to follow for selecting a server among a list of PCP servers is discussed in RFC7488.
In environments where NAT64 is deployed, PCP allows to learn the IPv6 prefix(es) used by a PCP-controlled NAT64 device to build IPv4-converted IPv6 addresses by the NAT64 (RFC7225).
Overview
Many applications and network equipment deployments require their network locations to be reachable from outside their local networks, following the originally envisioned model of IP end-to-end connectivity across the Internet, so they can operate as network servers and accept connections from remote clients. An example of such equipment is an IP camera, which includes a network server that provides remote surveillance over IP networks.
Usually, network equipment deployments place the devices behind routers or firewalls that perform NAT (to enable sharing of an IPv4 address, for example) or packet filtering (for improved network security and protection), ending up with breaking the end-to-end connectivity and rendering the equipment and applications inaccessible from the rest of the Internet.
The problem
Making the deployed equipment accessible, by extending its server role beyond the local network, requires either manual configuration of port forwarding at the network gateway (which is usually a CPE), or application-level workarounds that initiate connect |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Award%20for%20Best%20Original%20Soundtrack | The Hum Award for Best Original Soundtrack is one of the award presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC) to composers and performers, working in the Television industry. Since its inception, however, the award has commonly been referred to as the hum for "Best Original Soundtrack". Unlike others, awards particularly given to Performer of the song and composers. Nominations are made by Hum members who are songwriters and composers, and the winners are chosen by the Hum membership as a whole. From 4th Hum Awards onwards, the category was inducted in the Viewers Choice Awards, where winner are selected by public votings.
History
Hum award for best OST is the award that is girven to Composers and Singers of Dramas, soap operas & sitcoms Original Television Soundtracks. As of first ceremony, OST of drama Serial Mere Qatil Mere Dildar won this award which is sung and Compose by Sohail Haider and Sara Raza Khan. The award name is officially termed as:
2013 → 2015: Hum Award for Best Original Soundtrack.
2016 → present: Hum Award for Best Original Soundtrack Popular.
Eligibility and rules
Acclaimed OST's from highly rated serials are eligible for nominations, nominations decided by the Hum TV, composers and Musicians while winners are announces by Hum Membership as a whole. Usually OTS is overviewed and selected by composers with the scoring on a scale 0–10, song receiving 7.5 score is eligible for nominations, OST of TV drama serial must be acclaimed and must have it qualifying run for awards.
List of winners and nominees
Winners are listed first in boldface with the awarding year and ceremony number.
2010s
See also
Hum Awards
Hum Awards pre-show
List of Hum Awards Ceremonies
References
External links
Official websites
Hum Awards official website
Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC)
Hum's Channel at YouTube (run by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel)
Hum Awards at Facebook (run by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel)]
Hum Award winners
Hum TV
Hum Network Limited |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klayman%20v.%20Obama | Klayman v. Obama, 957 F.Supp.2d 1 (D.D.C., 2013), was a decision by the United States District Court for District of Columbia finding that the National Security Agency's (NSA) bulk phone metadata collection program was unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment. The ruling was later overturned on jurisdictional grounds, leaving the constitutional implications of NSA surveillance unaddressed.
Background
The lawsuit arose in the wake of disclosures by Edward Snowden in 2013, revealing a system of global surveillance by the NSA and its international partners. In one particular revelation, The Guardian reported that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, at the request of the NSA, had ordered Verizon to hand over several months' worth of personal communications records for many of its customers. The phone numbers of both parties on a call were handed over, as was the call's location, time, and duration.
Shortly after the disclosures, conservative activist Larry Klayman, along with several co-plaintiffs, filed suit and named the Obama Administration as the defendant. In a complaint known as Klayman I, Klayman sued on behalf of Verizon Wireless customers against the NSA, the Department of Justice, Verizon Communications, President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and NSA Director General Keith B. Alexander. This complaint alleged that the NSA communications surveillance constituted a search of each person's personal data, and thus required a warrant under the Fourth Amendment.
In the Klayman II complaint, Klayman sued the same government defendants as well as Facebook, Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, YouTube, AOL, PalTalk, Skype, Sprint, AT&T, and Apple under the allegation that those companies collaborated with the NSA to hand over data during the surveillance program. In addition to the constitutional argument, this complaint added an allegation of a violation of Section 2702 of the Stored Communications Act. Klayman and his co-plaintiffs also alleged that the government was behind inexplicable phone calls and text messages sent to and from their phone numbers.
District court ruling
The case was heard at the United States District Court for District of Columbia, combining the Klayman I and Klayman II complaints. On December 16, 2013, Judge Richard J. Leon ruled that bulk collection of American telephone metadata likely violates the Fourth Amendment. Leon wrote:
I cannot imagine a more "indiscriminate" and "arbitrary" invasion than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval [...] Surely, such a program infringes on "that degree of privacy" that the founders enshrined in the Fourth Amendment.
Leon, the first judge to examine an NSA program outside of the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) on behalf of a non-criminal defendant, described the technology used as "almost Orwellian" |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/321%20%28disambiguation%29 | 3 2 1, or 3, 2, 1 or 3-2-1 may refer to:
Outside of music and entertainment
The year 321 or year 321 BC
321 (number), the number 321
3-2-1, a popular computer data storage backup rule
321 Florentina, a main-belt asteroid
Entertainment
3-2-1, Yorkshire TV gameshow 1978–1988
3,2,1... Frankie Go Boom, 2012 film directed by Jordan Roberts
3-2-1 Contact, an American science educational television show that aired on PBS 1980–1988
3-2-1 Penguins!, a series of Christian computer-animated (direct-to-video until 2003) cartoons launched on November 14, 2000
Music
Albums
3.2.1., an album by the rock band Zilch, 1998
Three. Two. One., an album by Lennon Stella, 2020
3-2-1, a compilation album by Lior (singer), 2011
Songs
"3 2 1" (Shinee song), a 2013 song by Shinee
"3-2-1" (Brett Kissel song), a song by Brett Kissel from the 2013 album Started with a Song
"321", a song by Scorpions from the 2007 album Humanity: Hour I
"321", a song by Hedley from the 2005 album Hedley
"321", a 2008 single by Disciple from Southern Hospitality
"3, 2, 1", a song by 24kGoldn from the 2021 album El Dorado
See also
4, 3, 2, 1, various topics
5-4-3-2-1, a 1963 single by Manfred Mann
Countdown, a sequence of backward counting to indicate the time remaining before an event is scheduled to occur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Care.data | care.data was a programme announced by the then Health and Social Care Information Centre in spring 2013. It aimed to extract data from GP surgeries into a central database through the General Practice Extraction Service (GPES). Members of the English population who were registered with GP practices were informed that data on their health would be uploaded to HSCIC unless they exercised their rights to object by informing their GP.
Data on patients who did not object would then be used in anonymised form by health care researchers, managers and planners including those outside the NHS such as academic institutions or commercial organisations. The use of identifiable data is governed by the common law on confidentiality, UK data protection legislation, the National Health Service Act 2006 and the Health and Social Care Act 2012. Identifiable data can only be released in compliance with those laws.
Software and services are being provided by Atos which has itself received criticism for some of its other UK government projects.
Since its launch, the care.data program was controversial. Initially criticism focused around the lack of patient awareness of the programme, and the lack of clarity around options for opting out of the data extraction. The leaflet sent to households in England was criticised for only describing the benefits of the scheme, and not including an opt-out form. The programme was stopped in May 2014 and in October 2014 six clinical commissioning groups in four areas of England were selected to take part in a "pathfinder" programme involving 265 GP surgeries with 1.7 million patients across West Hampshire, Blackburn and Darwen, Leeds and Somerset.
A review by the Cabinet Office Major Projects Authority said to have been conducted in October 2014 concluded that the program had “major issues with project definition, schedule, budget, quality and/or benefits delivery, which at this stage do not appear to be manageable or resolvable”.
Atos was criticised by the Public Accounts Committee in December 2015 and accused of taking advantage of the Department of Health and not showing "an appropriate duty of care to the taxpayer”. The company is one of 8 suppliers working on the project and is to be paid £11.4 million, an increase on the original £8 million.
In June 2015, it was announced that the programme of data extraction would start again in Blackburn in September. In September 2015, it was announced that the programme had again been paused due to confidentiality concerns remaining unresolved.
The programme was abandoned in July 2016.
In May 2021 NHS Digital announced a new programme to replace the General Practice Extraction Service, General Practice Data for Planning and Research which was compared to Care.data. After widespread protests the launch was put back from 1 July to 1 September 2021. NHS Digital was criticised for failing to communicate its intentions beyond updating its website, effectively disenfranchising a huge po |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatives%20Abroad | Conservatives Abroad is the British Conservative Party's global network of members and supporters living overseas.
Conservatives Abroad has members and groups around the world, including Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania. While some countries have just one Conservatives Abroad group, some countries are represented by a number of different groups based in different areas, particularly when a country is large and Conservative overseas Britons are spread out such as Australia, France, Spain, and the USA.
History
While some overseas Conservative groups had been active since the 1970s, Conservatives Abroad was not formally created until 1985. Its purpose is to keep Conservative supporters who are temporarily or permanently living abroad in touch with domestic politics in the United Kingdom, to campaign for the votes of the overseas British community, and increase the number of overseas registered voters in those communities. Sir James Spicer MP was appointed as its first Chairman.
Conservatives Abroad also serves its members' interests by raising issues and concerns facing Britons living overseas with politicians, and by lobbying to reform overseas voting laws. While the party leader is usually president of Conservatives Abroad, the individual local groups are represented and governed by a group representative.
Campaigns
Conservatives Abroad have led the 'Votes for Life' campaign to allow British citizens living around the world to maintain their right to vote in British General Elections and reverse restrictions brought in by the Labour Government in 2000. As a result, this became a commitment in successive Conservative Party manifestos but its progress was blocked by the Liberal Democrats during the 2010-2015 Coalition Government. Finally, after the 2019 General Election, the measure was able to pass Parliament as part of the Elections Act 2022, thus re-enfranchising an estimated 3.4 million potential voters.
Worldwide groups
Conservatives Abroad operate a global network of local groups. Originally it operated 35 active groups operating in 21 countries around the world, however, this figure has since grown.
Countries and territories
References
External links
Organisations associated with the Conservative Party (UK)
Supraorganizations
Organizations established in 1986 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospace%20Data%20Facility-East | Aerospace Data Facility-East (ADF-E), also known as Area 58 and formerly known as Defense Communications Electronics Evaluation and Testing Activity (DCEETA), is one of three satellite ground stations operated by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in the continental United States. Located within Fort Belvoir, Virginia, the facility is responsible for the command and control of reconnaissance satellites involved in the collection of intelligence information and for the dissemination of that intelligence to other U.S. government agencies.
Function
ADF East is co-located with elements of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the agency responsible for the operation of the U.S. space-based imagery constellation. Authors James Bamford and Jeffrey Richelson report that the site manages the KH-11 imagery spacecraft and the Lacrosse radar imaging spacecraft.
History
First use
The first documented use of material downloaded at ADF East was on January 21, 1977, when the acting director of Central Intelligence E. Henry Knoche delivered reconnaissance satellite photographs that had been downloaded at ADF East to U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
Y2K
On the morning of January 1, 2000, ADF East experienced a technical glitch caused by the Y2K bug, which resulted in the facility being temporarily unable to capture any more than 70 percent of its planned imagery satellite coverage. At a press conference on January 4, United States Deputy Secretary of Defense John Hamre stated, "The problem wasn't with the satellite system – they were under positive control at all times. The problem was on the ground in the processing station."
Declassification
On October 15, 2008, the NRO declassified its three Mission Ground Stations: ADF-East, ADF-Colorado, and ADF-Southwest. The term "Area 58" is still classified, however, with the exception of very general associations with the NRO, intelligence activities, imagery intelligence, or satellite reconnaissance.
List of commanders
Col B. Edwin Wilson, September 2006 – April 2008
Col Robert J. Bonner
Col Nicholas Martin
See also
Aerospace Data Facility-Colorado
Aerospace Data Facility-Southwest
Pine Gap
RAF Menwith Hill
Spy satellite
References
Further reading
Buildings and structures in Fairfax County, Virginia
National Reconnaissance Office
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Installations of the U.S. Department of Defense
1977 establishments in Virginia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia%20Ali%20%28broadcaster%29 | Nadia Ali (; born 15 November 1984) is an English television and radio presenter of Bangladeshi descent. She is best known for presenting the Sunday evening show on BBC Asian Network.
Background
Ali was born and brought up in Ilford in the East End of London. She is of Bangladeshi descent and she comes from a conservative Bengali Muslim family background.
Career
In 2005, at the age of 20, Ali joined Channel S and worked there for six years on a children's live television programme. She has hosted award ceremonies and talent shows across the UK and Europe, including Channel S Awards 2011, British Bangladeshi Who's Who 2010 Awards, NTV Mega Concert and Yash Raj Films Aaja Nachle Competition. Ali has also worked for B4U, ATN Bangla and NTV.
In 2011, she co-hosted the first international reality television show in Bangladesh called Forgotten Roots, following the journey of 10 young adults from across the world in the search for their Forgotten roots, which was broadcast on the country's main television channel. In May 2012, Ali co-hosted Boishakhi Mela in Victoria Park, London. Since December 2012, she has presented the live Bengali music, entertainment and news show on Sunday evenings for BBC Asian Network. In 2013, the show won an award at the BBC Radio and Music Awards.
In July 2014, Ali featured in the fourth episode of short film series Ramadan Roundup, which was nominated for a national award at the Limelight Film Awards 2015.
In March–May 2015, Ali featured in two episode of comedy web series ''Corner Shop Show' as Islah Abdur-Rahman's character's mother. In June 2015, she hosted the International Indian Film Academy Awards red carpet in Malaysia.
Ali also writes articles for an international magazine. She also works as a motivational speaker at local colleges and events. Alongside her media career, Ali was employed as a bank manager in 2008. Since then she graduated with in law and qualified as a barrister in 2012 and is currently a member of Lincoln's Inn. She is also a Director for the British Bangladesh Chamber of Women Entrepreneurs.
Personal life
Nadia got married in 2017 to Eazaz Ali. She visits Bangladesh every year with her family.
See also
British Bangladeshi
List of British Bangladeshis
References
External links
Nadia Ali (BBC Asian Network)
1984 births
Living people
British Muslims
English Muslims
British people of Bangladeshi descent
English people of Bangladeshi descent
English television presenters
English radio presenters
English barristers
British women lawyers
English web series actresses
21st-century English actresses
BBC Asian Network presenters
Television personalities from London
Actresses from London
Members of Lincoln's Inn
British women radio presenters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJ%2B | AJ+ (Al Jazeera plus) is a social media publisher owned by Al Jazeera Media Network which focuses on news and current affairs. AJ+ content exists in English, Arabic, French, and Spanish. It is available on its website, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, with written content on Medium.
Work on the channel started in December 2012, shortly after Al Jazeera established an office in San Francisco. The first YouTube channel went live on December 17, 2013. The channel then had a soft launch on June 13, 2014. A full launch followed on September 15, 2014.
History
Al Jazeera Media Network originally planned to launch an Internet-only TV channel in 2010 as part of its social media strategy but later became pre-occupied with the Arab Spring. Plans for an internet-only channel were re-launched upon the launch of Al Jazeera America when Al Jazeera Media Network had to geo-block most video from Al Jazeera English including the channel's live stream to satisfy concerns from cable and satellite providers in the United States. The move was met with dissatisfaction from both viewers and Al Jazeera English producers and hosts.
Also with the purchase of Current TV to use for Al Jazeera America, AJMN acquired Current's former headquarters in San Francisco which was perfect for the type of channel Al Jazeera wanted to build being in the new media mecca of the San Francisco Bay Area and the building being already fitted to accommodate an online operation due to the original format of Current as a user-generated channel with heavy Internet integration.
In January 2012, members of the network's social media team relocated some of its staff to San Francisco to focus on building AJ+. After months of research and numerous pilots, the AJMN executive management were convinced of the project and providing funding and resources to scale. AJ+ is the first incubated project out Al Jazeera's Innovation & Incubation Department.
In October 2013, it was announced that Al Jazeera Media Network would establish an Internet-only TV channel based entirely online called AJ+ based in San Francisco to launch sometime in 2014. Led by a strategy team consisting of Riyaad Minty, Moeed Ahmad, and Muhammad Cajee, after a year of preparation the channel placed several test videos on YouTube in late 2013 followed by a soft launch in June 2014 with a full launch complete with a mobile app later in 2014.
The channel was announced as launched on June 13, 2014, by Al Jazeera PR with several videos posted to YouTube and a new Facebook page which it refers to as the AJ+ Community along with a new-look website with an updated logo. The channel was soft-launched during a presentation by Al Jazeera on new media at the Global Editors Network summit in Barcelona. The channel soft launched beginning with the tweet "We can confirm that this is our first official tweet. Because that's what real journalism is about. We're @AJPlus. Hello World :)". The tweet was partly a pun of the first tweet sent o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYSW-TV | DYSW-TV Channel 39 is a commercial/relay television station owned by Masawa Broadcasting Corporation affiliated with the Sonshine Media Network International. Formerly an affiliate of UNTV. The transmitter is located at Brgy, 10 Purok Mantinlo, KM No. 1 Roxas Avenue Extension, Roxas City, Capiz.
References
Television channels and stations established in 2011
Television stations in Roxas, Capiz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%2080130 | The Intel 80130, referred to as an "Operating System Processor," was developed as a support chip for the 8086/8088 processors and the Intel iRMX86 operating system. Intel referred to the chip as "software in silicon".
Overview
It contained 16-KB of ROM containing the code for 35 of the iRMX 86 system calls, an interrupt controller similar to the 8259A, timing circuits, a baud generator circuit, and all the necessary circuitry for bus buffering and control.
It was not used in the IBM/PC, and as such, is a less prominent chip.
Architecture
The 80130 uses an object-oriented architecture, with objects representing tasks, jobs, mailboxes, regions, and segments. These objects are acted upon by primitives, which are invokable as PL/M-86 procedures.
Notes
Intel chipsets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Award%20for%20Best%20Solo%20Artist | The Hum Award for Best Solo Artist is one of the Hum Awards presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC) to best Music Artist who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the Music industry. Since its inception, however, the award has commonly been referred to as the hum for Best Solo Artist. Nominations are made by Hum members who are artists and composers, and the winners are chosen by the Hum membership as a whole..
History
Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel presented this award to one of the most promising Music Video artist of Pakistan Music Industry. As of first ceremony Shehzad Roy was honored at 1st Hum Awards ceremony 2012 for his video Apnay Ullo.
Winners and nominees
In the list below, winners are listed first in the colored row, followed by the other nominees. Following the hum's practice, the music videos below are listed by year of their Pakistan qualifying run, which is usually (but not always) the videos year of release.
As of the first ceremony, five singers were nominated for their music videos for this award.
For the first ceremony, the eligibility period spanned full calendar years. For example, the 1st Hum Awards presented on April 28, 2013, to acknowledged Best Solo Artist of music album that were released between January, 2012, and December, 2012, the period of eligibility is the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.
Date and the award ceremony shows that the 2010 is the period from 2010 to 2020 (10 years-decade), while the year above winners and nominees shows that the videos year in which they were telecast, and the figure in bracket shows the ceremony number, for example; an award ceremony is held for the dramas of its previous year.
2010s
See also
Hum Awards
Hum Awards pre-show
List of Hum Awards Ceremonies
References
External links
Official websites
Hum Awards official website
Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC)
Hum's Channel at YouTube (run by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel)
Hum Awards at Facebook (run by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel)]
Hum Awards
Hum Award winners
Hum TV
Hum Network Limited |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Award%20for%20Best%20Music%20Video | The Hum Award for Best Music Video is one of the Hum Awards presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC) to Music video director working within the Music industry. Since its inception, however, the award has commonly been referred to as the hum for Best Music Video. Nominations are made by Hum members who are artists and composers, and the winners are chosen by the Hum membership as a whole.
History
Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel presented this award to one of the most promising Music Video artist of Pakistan Music Industry. As of first ceremony Sayed Ali Raza was honored at 1st Hum Awards ceremony 2012 for his video Baliye.
Winners and nominees
In the list below, winners are listed first in the colored row, followed by the other nominees. Following the hum's practice, the music videos below are listed by year of their Pakistan qualifying run, which is usually (but not always) the videos year of release.
As of the first ceremony, four directors were nominated for their music videos for this award.
For the first ceremony, the eligibility period spanned full calendar years. For example, the 1st Hum Awards presented on April 28, 2013, to acknowledged Best Music Videos that were released between January, 2012, and December, 2012, the period of eligibility is the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.
Date and the award ceremony shows that the 2010 is the period from 2010 to 2020 (10 years-decade), while the year above winners and nominees shows that the videos year in which they were telecast, and the figure in bracket shows the ceremony number, for example; an award ceremony is held for the dramas of its previous year.
2010s
See also
Hum Awards
Hum Awards pre-show
List of Hum Awards Ceremonies
References
External links
Official websites
Hum Awards official website
Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC)
Hum's Channel at YouTube (run by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel)
Hum Awards at Facebook (run by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel)]
Hum Awards
Hum Award winners
Hum TV
Hum Network Limited |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20men%27s%20downhill%20races%20in%20the%20FIS%20Alpine%20Ski%20World%20Cup | This is a list of Men's Downhill races in FIS Alpine Ski World Cup from 1967 to 2017.
References
Official FIS World Cup Source Data Base
Men's downhill races |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastwatch%20Oz | Coastwatch Oz is an Australian factual television series screened on the Seven Network That Premiered on 30 January 2014.
About the show
The show follows the work of officers of Water police from the New South Wales Marine Area Command Police, Fisheries Officers from the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries who are committed to protecting seas and waterways.
The show depicts the police involved in Boat police chases, attending major Water accidents, confronting out-of-control drunk and People on drugs as well as issuing penalty notices to Boat drivers. Each episode follows the progress of a select few incidents involving various Water Police and Fisheries officers, from the first encounter by the officers through to the officers leaving the scene, with the exception that occasionally the officers will escort a driver back to a police station for the purpose of a breath or blood sample. Fines, court convictions and demerit points issued in relation to each incident are shown in a voiced-over addendum at the end.
As Of 9 January 2015 Greenstone TV Have No Plans to make a 2nd Season.
Greenstone TV Stated On 9 January 2015 That The Series will not be Sold on DVD to The Public.
Episodes
Season 1
References
2014 Australian television series debuts
Seven Network original programming
Australian non-fiction television series
Television series by Greenstone TV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesture%20Description%20Language | Gesture Description Language (GDL or GDL Technology) is a method of describing and automatic (computer) syntactic classification of gestures and movements created
by doctor Tomasz Hachaj (PhD) and professor Marek R. Ogiela(PhD, DSc).
GDL uses context-free formal grammar named GDLs (Gesture Description Language script). With GDLs it is possible to define rules that describe set of gestures. Those rules play similar role as rules in classic expert systems. With rules it is possible to define static body positions (so called key frames) and sequences of key frames that create together definitions of gestures or movements. The recognition is done by forward chaining inference engine.
The latest GDL implementations utilize Microsoft Kinect controller and enable real time classification. The license for GDL-based software allows using those programs for educational and scientific purposes for free.
References
Classification algorithms
Formal languages
Gesture recognition |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy%20and%20Civil%20Liberties%20Oversight%20Board%20report%20on%20mass%20surveillance | The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board report on mass surveillance was issued in January 2014 in light of the global surveillance disclosures of 2013, recommending the US end bulk data collection.
Background
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was first chartered under the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.
The role of the board is to provide advice and review of whether adequate supervision, guidelines, and oversight exist and to "continually review" regulations, policies, procedures, and information sharing practices to ensure privacy and civil liberties considerations are protected. To carry out these roles, the board does not have subpoena power, but is able to request subpoenas subject to the U.S. Attorney General's discretion "to protect sensitive law enforcement or counterterrorism information or ongoing operations." The U.S. Director of National Intelligence also has the power to override requests "to protect the national security interests of the United States"
A report by former members of the 9/11 Commission in December 2005 noted there was "little urgency" in creation of the board, whose first meeting was in 2006. It was initially composed of a chair, vice chair, and three other members. As these members served at the pleasure of the President, "Critics ... maintained that the board appeared to be a presidential appendage, devoid of the capability to exercise independent judgment and assessment or to provide impartial findings and recommendations", according to the Congressional Research Service.
Subsequently, member Lanny Davis resigned in protest over the board's lack of independence, citing "extensive redlining by Administration officials of the board's first report to Congress" that was accepted by the other members. The board was then reconstituted under the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (H.R. 1), beginning in January 2008, as an independent agency with appointments subject to Senate confirmation. Four members of the board were nominated by President Barack Obama in 2011, and confirmed by the Senate in August 2012. Board chairman David Medine was finally confirmed in May 2013 in the wake of the Snowden disclosures in a party-line vote with 53 Democrats supporting and 45 Republicans opposing.
Global surveillance disclosures
The Board's report follows a series of highly publicized leaks about the operations of the global surveillance program conducted by the National Security Agency in the United States working with a number of other countries (see Five Eyes). While the program's nominal focus was on foreign nationals, the disclosures also revealed the large-scale surveillance of communications by United States citizens. These leaks were largely the work of Edward Snowden, a Booz Allen Hamilton employee with access to a wide range of top secret documents. Publications of the documents by The Washington Post and The Guardian began in Ju |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%2056 | National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 56 is a Sustrans National Route that runs from Chester to Liverpool. The route utilises country lanes, a former railway trackbed, a coastal path and a seaside promenade.
Route
Chester to Hooton
The route begins north of Chester Zoo at a junction with National Cycle Route 5. The route travels through Backford, Dunkirk, Capenhurst and Ledsham to the outskirts of Hooton.
Hooton to Parkgate
The route follows the former railway trackbed of the Wirral Way, in Wirral Country Park, through Willaston, where it passes the former Hadlow Road railway station, and Neston to Parkgate.
Parkgate to Leasowe
The route travels inland from Parkgate to Thornton Hough where it then travels along the centre of Wirral, northwards through Brimstage, Storeton, Landican, Woodchurch, Upton, Beechwood, Bidston and the outskirts of Leasowe where it meets the Irish Sea at the Gunsite.
Leasowe to Seacombe
The route follows the pathway along the North Wirral Coastal Park eastwards, from Leasowe, before entering New Brighton. The route then turns south along Egremont promenade before reaching Seacombe.
Liverpool
After travelling across the River Mersey, the route splits into two, around the centre of Liverpool, before joining with National Cycle Route 62 at Childwall.
See also
National Cycle Network
Sustrans
References
External links
Sustrans NCN Route 56
Transport in Cheshire
Transport in Merseyside |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1100%20Architect | 1100 Architect is an architecture firm based in New York City and Frankfurt founded by principals David Piscuskas and Juergen Riehm. It provides architectural design, programming, space analysis, interior design, and master planning services to both public and private clients, and its work includes educational and arts institutions, libraries, offices, residences, retail environments, and civic facilities.
The company was founded in 1983 in SoHo, Manhattan as a design studio of three architecture school graduates. Its design philosophy focuses on sustainability, stating that, "[1100 Architect] views good design and environmental sustainability as interconnected elements of a thoughtful, responsible project." As of 2015, the firm has 44 employees.
Projects
The company's designs include institutional, residential, and commercial buildings. Award-winning projects include the design for the Children's Library Discovery Center in New York City, Calvert Vaux Park Facility in New York City, and a residential house in Palm Beach, Florida.
Other projects include
In Manhattan, New York City:
Riverside Health Center
The New York University Department of Linguistics Building
New York Public Library (Battery Park City Branch)
Irish Hunger Memorial
Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School (2002)
Elsewhere in New York:
Hudson River House, Putnam County
Brooklyn Brownstone, Brooklyn
Repertoire, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York Design Store
Elsewhere:
Office for Brand New School, Los Angeles, California
HM/FM House, Truro, Massachusetts
House on Bergstrasse, Seeheim-Jugenheim, Germany
Recognition
1100 received the 2014 ALA/IIDA Library Design Awards for Best of Competition Winner and Best Public Library 30,000 Sq. Ft & Smaller and the 2013 NYLA-PLA Award for the Queens Central Library Children's Library Discovery Center in Queens, New York.
In 2013, the company's design for a house in Palm Beach, Florida received the Elizabeth L. and John H. Schuler Award which annually recognizes design "in keeping with the traditional character of Palm Beach architecture."
Other awards
2015 - SARA Silver Award of Honor, Queens Central Library, Children's Library Discovery Center, Queens, NY
2015 - NYC PDC Award for Excellence in Design, NYC Parks Department, Calvert Vaux Park Facility, Brooklyn, NY
2014 - ALA/IIDA Library Interior Design Awards for Best of Competition Winner, Queens Central Library, Children's Library Discovery Center, Queens, NY
2014 - ALA/IIDA Library Interior Design Awards for Best Public Library 30,000 Sq. Ft & Smaller, Queens Central Library, Children's Library Discovery Center, Queens, NY
2014 - Residential Architect Design Award - Architectural Interiors, Manhattan Triplex, Manhattan, NY
2013 - Interior Design, Best of Year Honoree, Brand New School Office, Los Angeles, CA
2012 - Contract, Public Space Interiors Award, The New York Public Library, Battery Park City Branch, NY
2012 - AIA New York Design A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo%20Nuestro%20Award%20for%20Tropical%20Song%20of%20the%20Year | The Lo Nuestro Award for Tropical Song of the Year (or Lo Nuestro Award for Tropical/Salsa Song of the Year) is an honor presented annually by American network Univision. The Lo Nuestro Awards were first awarded in 1989 and has been given annually since to recognize the most talented performers of Latin music. The nominees and winners were originally selected by a voting poll conducted among program directors of Spanish-language radio stations in the United States and also based on chart performance on Billboard Latin music charts, with the results being tabulated and certified by the accounting firm Deloitte. As of 2004, the winners are selected through an online survey. The trophy awarded is shaped in the form of a treble clef.
The award was first presented to "Ven, Devórame Otra Vez" by Puerto-Rican artist Lalo Rodríguez. American singer Marc Anthony is the most awarded performer with four awards and is also the most nominated performer with sixteen nominations. In 2001, "A Puro Dolor" by Puerto-Rican band Son by Four won Lo Nuestro Awards for both Tropical Song of the Year and Pop Song of the Year. "El Costo de la Vida" by Dominican artist Juan Luis Guerra, "Abriendo Puertas" by Cuban-American singer Gloria Estefan, "Y Hubo Alguien" and "Ahora Quién" by American performer Marc Anthony, "Suavemente" by Puerto-Rican songwriter Elvis Crespo, "Cómo Olvidar" by Puerto-Rican artist Olga Tañón, "Por Un Segundo" by Aventura, and "A Puro Dolor", earned the award and also reached number-one at the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart. American performer Víctor Manuelle and Puerto-Rican American singers Jerry Rivera and Gilberto Santa Rosa are the most nominated performers without a win, with five unsuccessful nominations each.
Winners and nominees
Listed below are the winners of the award for each year, as well as the other nominees for the majority of the years awarded.
Multiple wins/nominations
See also
Latin Grammy Award for Best Tropical Song
References
Tropical Song
Tropical music
Song awards
Awards established in 1989 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20DHCP%20server%20software | The following comparison of DHCP and DHCPv6 server compares general and technical information for a number of DHCP server software programs.
General
Operating system requirement
In this overview of operating system support for the discussed DHCP server, the following terms indicate the level of support:
No indicates that it does not exist or was never released.
Yes indicates that it has been officially released in a fully functional, stable version.
This compilation is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common platforms today.
Feature matrix
See also
Comparison of DNS server software
References
General
dhcpy6d
FreeRADIUS
Kea DHCP
DHCP server software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20Bloc%20%28art%20centre%29 | Eastern Bloc is an artist-run centre based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, dedicated to digital art. The centre was founded by Eliane Ellbogen and Sandor Poloskei in 2007. Its programming includes meeting with artists (Salon : Data), new media art laboratories, residencies, and the annual Sight and Sound festival.
Sight and Sound Festival
Sight and Sound is an international festival presenting digital art performances and installations as well as conferences on this subject. In line with the centre mandate, it gives an important place to emerging artists.
In 2015, the festival theme was HyperLocal. It included the work of Daniel Jolliffe.
In 2014, the festival was centred around the theme of black market and clandestineness, presenting artists such Nicolas Maigret, Steve Bates, Erin Sexton and Melissa F. Clarke.
In 2012, the festival was concerned with symmetrical systems.
Residencies
Eastern Bloc hosts artist residencies (for local and international artists). The program promulgates critical engagement, with a focus on DIY and open source culture as well as the political discourse surrounding contemporary digital culture.
Past artists in residence include:
2015-2016:
Yolanda Duarte
Lucas Paris
2014-2015:
Sofian Audry, Samuel St-Aubin, Stephen Kelly
Santiago Leal
Audrey Samson
2013-2014:
Sahar Kubba
Erin Gee
Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik
Jan Reimer and Max Stein
2012-2013:
Collectif Termostat
Fiona Annis
Tyson Parks
Kelly Jaclynn Andres
See also
Canadian artist-run centres
New Media art festivals
References
External links
Official Website of Eastern Bloc
Artist-run centres
Art in Montreal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastel%20%28programming%20language%29 | Pastel is an extended version of the Pascal programming language, created in c. 1982 for Amber, an operating system for the S-1 supercomputer project at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. The Pastel compiler was the inspiration for Richard Stallman's GNU C compiler.
Pastel was conceived by Jeffrey M. Broughton, then Project Engineer in charge of compilers and operating system software for the S-1 project, because of dissatisfaction with the PL/1 language in which Amber was being implemented. The language was named Pastel ("an off-color Pascal").
Compared with Pascal compilers of that period, Pastel's features included:
Improved type definition
Parametric types
Explicit packing and allocation control
Additional parameter passing modes
Additional control constructs
Set iteration
Loop-exit form
Return statement
Module definition
Exception handling
General enhancements
Conditional boolean operations
Constant expressions
Variable initialization
References
1982 software
Pascal (programming language) compilers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency%20report | A transparency report is a statement issued semesterly or annually by a company or government, which discloses a variety of statistics related to requests for user data, records, or content. Transparency reports generally disclose how frequently and under what authority governments have requested or demanded data or records over a certain period of time. This form of corporate transparency allows the public to discern how much user information governments have requested through search warrants, court orders, emergency requests, subpoenas, etc. Additionally, companies report data related to requests for user information regarding national security matters, including national security letters and FISA Requests. In 2010, Google was the first company to release a transparency report, with Twitter following in 2012. Additional companies began releasing transparency reports in light of the Edward Snowden leaks in 2013, and the number of companies issuing them has increased rapidly ever since. Additionally, the United States Intelligence Community began releasing their Annual Statistical Transparency Report in 2013, in an attempt to raise public opinion following the leaks. Today, transparency reports are issued by a variety of technology and communications companies, including Google, Microsoft, Verizon, AT&T, Twitter, Apple, Dropbox, Facebook, Yahoo, Uber, Amazon, T-Mobile, Discord, Reddit, and CloudFlare. As of July 2021, 88 companies have provided transparency reports. Due to the optional nature of transparency reporting, some companies' transparency reports include information related to the government's involvement in copyright takedowns, while others do not. Critics claim that these descrepencies in various companies' reports results in confusion rather than clarification regarding government requesting and censorship practices, and many agree that systematic transparency reporting practices should be implemented across every company that receives requests for user information or takedown notices. Additionally, companies are required by the government to report the number of national security requests they received in bands of 500 or 1000 (0-499) (0-999). Several companies and advocacy groups have lobbied the U.S. government to change this policy and allow the exact number of national security requests to be released, and Twitter is raising this issue in the ongoing legal battle,Twitter v. Garland.
Purpose
Transparency reports are primarily provided to shed light on surveillance practices of government law enforcement in order to enable stakeholders to understand the operations of the company, to help identify areas where companies and organizations can improve policies and practices, and to serve as a tool for advocacy and public change. Access Now claims that transparency reports are "one of the strongest ways for technology companies to disclose threats to user privacy and free expression," and are tools vital to safeguard against abuses of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20international%20songs%20of%202013%20%28South%20Korea%29 | The international Gaon Digital Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing international songs in South Korea. The data is collected by the Korea Music Content Association. Below is a list of songs that topped the weekly, monthly, and yearly charts, as according to the Gaon 국외 (Foreign) Digital Chart. The Digital Chart ranks songs according to their performance on the Gaon Streaming, Download, BGM, and Mobile charts.
Weekly charts
Monthly charts
Year-end chart
References
International 2013
Korea International
2013 in South Korean music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20international%20songs%20of%202014%20%28South%20Korea%29 | The international Gaon Digital Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing international songs in South Korea. The data is collected by the Korea Music Content Association. Below is a list of songs that topped the weekly and monthly charts, as according to the Gaon 국외 (Foreign) Digital Chart. The Digital Chart ranks songs according to their performance on the Gaon Download, Streaming, and BGM charts.
Weekly chart
Monthly chart
Year-end chart
References
Korea international
International 2014
2014 in South Korean music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razzia%20%28artist%29 | Gérard Courbouleix–Dénériaz, also known as Razzia, is a French graphic artist born in Montparnasse in 1950.
Razzia is one of the last poster artists to remain in an era dominated by computer-generated images. He began his career in what can be called the golden age of poster art. Razzia is unique in that he still uses the same old style to make his posters. He continues to make posters from an original painting, as opposed to computer graphics.
His work evokes Art Deco. He is best known for his work for Louis Vuitton. A retrospective of his work was published in 2007.
References
Living people
1950 births
French artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20Spirits%3A%20Shounen%20Toppa%20Bashin | is a 2008 Japanese anime series based on the Battle Spirits Trading Card Game. It was produced by Sunrise and Nagoya Broadcasting Network and aired on TV Asahi from September 7, 2008 to September 6, 2009. It replaced Dinosaur King in the Nichi Asa Kids Time 7:00 timeslot and was succeeded by Battle Spirits: Shounen Gekiha Dan. It has been licensed in China, Thailand, and the Philippines.
Plot
The story follows the day-to-day adventures of an optimistic and energetic young boy nicknamed Bashin. Along with his card battler friends, he aims to be the very best at Battle Spirits. However, to accomplish that, they must defeat throughout the world, obtain X-rare cards to build the greatest deck, and take down King Uchuuchouten.
Characters
Pyroxene Card Battlers
Chosen card battlers that each possess a stone (alternatively translated as "cornerstone"). The stones have the power to release , an alternate dimension where spirits truly exist, and allow their respective pets to speak. In the final tournament, they refer to themselves as
X-rares： The DragonEmperor Siegfried, The TwinRowdy Diranos, The Gigantic Thor, The GiantHero Titus, The SacredEmperor Siegfrieden
The protagonist. Bashin is a 12-year-old who is very passionate about Battle Spirits, though this singularity of mind often makes him oblivious to the people around him. He is at times rude, but often has good intentions. He lives with his mother Hayami and pet mouse Aibou, and his father left home when he was young. Initially he attends Toaru Elementary School but in episode 29 he advances to Toaru Middle School where he joins the Battle Spirits Club with Striker, Meganeko, Smile, and Seven. His catchphrase is Bashin uses an exclusively red deck in the beginning, adding more colors as the series continues. He possesses the oval-shaped red pyroxene stone, which was given to him by his father.
X-rares: The ImpregnableFortress Odin, The Gigantic Thor, The DarkDragonEmperor Siegfried, The SacredEmperor Siegfrieden
Bashin's rival. J is the "Noble Youth of the Battle Spirits World," winning championship after championship and has a large number of fans. He is also very rich, as his father is head of an electronics firm, and is chauffeured everywhere. He lives with his parents, sister Kyouka, and pet cat Okyou, but his father is often busy. He has a cold personality, though warms up with the influence of Kyouka and Bashin. He attends Tonari Private Middle School starting in episode 29, but later withdraws to enter the Thousand Spirits Group as No. 11, . In episode 42 he resigns from the Group and becomes an official member of Team Shomentoppa. J uses a primarily white deck, and possesses the oval-shaped white pyroxene stone.
X-rares: The SevenShogun Desperado, The SevenShogun Destlord, The GreatArmoredLord Deathtaurus
A mysterious card battler, Suiren's true identity is that of the popular idol My Sunshine. While My Sunshine has a very bright and cheery personality, Suiren is so |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsinki%20Metropolitan%20Area%20Libraries | Helsinki Metropolitan Area Libraries (Helmet) is a library network in Finland. It consists of the city libraries of Helsinki, Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa.
Network and operation
All libraries in Helmet have common operating rules, procedures, and services. The same library card can be used at any library in the network. Patrons can request material from any library in the network. They can also return and renew materials at any library in the network.
The Helmet network consists of 66 locations and six bookmobiles. The regional book storage facility is located at the Helsinki City Library in Pasila, Helsinki. The storage facility's collection includes more than 200,000 books and over 900 magazine annual volumes. Music related materials are stored at the Tikkurila Library in Tikkurila, Vantaa.
History
The libraries of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area have been working together since 1976. At the time, they purchased their first common computer-based circulation system. In the 1980s, customers were given regionally common library cards.
In 2002, the third joint library data management system was taken into use, with the most recent version being implemented in 2013. Experiences from using the system and its capabilities inspired closer cooperation within the library network. This led to the creation of a common collection, which is now in constant use by the whole population of the Capital Region.
According to a study conducted by Taloustutkimus, Helmet was Finland's second most valued online brand in 2012, bested only by Google.
References
External links
Helmet website
1976 establishments in Finland
Public libraries
Libraries in Finland
Organisations based in Helsinki
Culture in Helsinki
Espoo
Vantaa
Kauniainen
Libraries established in 1976 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Cyber%20Games%202013 | The 2013 World Cyber Games (also known as WCG 2013) took place from 28 November to 1 December 2013 in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China. It was the third time the World Cyber Games was held in China. The event hosted 500 players from 40 countries
Official games
PC games
Crossfire (SmileGate)
FIFA 14 (Electronic Arts)
League of Legends (Riot Games)
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Blizzard)
Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition Ver. 2012 (Capcom)
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne (Blizzard)
World of Tanks (Wargaming)
Promotion games
Assault Fire (Tencent)
QQ Speed (Tencent Holdings)
Results
Official
Promotion
References
2013 in Chinese sport
2013 in esports
League of Legends competitions
StarCraft competitions
Warcraft competitions
World Cyber Games events
Esports competitions in China
Kunshan
Sport in Suzhou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Award%20for%20Best%20Model%20Female | The Hum Award for Best Model Female is one of the Hum Awards presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC) to Female model who has achieved outstanding recognition within the fashion industry. Since its inception, however, the award has commonly been referred to as the hum for Best Model Female. Nominations are made by Hum members who are models and fashion models, and winners are decided by audience votes, as of first ceremony this was one of seven categories which were set open for public.
History
Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel presented this award to one of the most promising Female Model of fashion Industry of Pakistan. As of first ceremony Ayyan Ali was honored at 1st Hum Awards ceremony 2012 for her spectacular fashion achievements by audience.
Winners and nominees
In the list below, winners are listed first in the colored row, followed by the other nominees. As of the first ceremony, six Female models were nominated for their achievements for this award.
Date and the award ceremony shows that the 2010 is the period from 2010-2020 (10 years-decade), while the year above winners and nominees shows their fashion achievements year, and the figure in bracket shows the ceremony number, for example; an award ceremony is held for their achievements of its previous year.
2010s
See also
List of media awards honoring women
Hum Awards
Hum Awards pre-show
List of Hum Awards Ceremonies
References
External links
Official websites
Hum Awards official website
Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC)
Hum's Channel at YouTube (run by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel)
Hum Awards at Facebook (run by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel)]
Hum Awards
Hum Award winners
Hum TV
Hum Network Limited
Mass media awards honoring women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Award%20for%20Best%20Model%20Male | The Hum Award for Best Model Male is one of the Hum Awards presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC) to Male model who has achieved outstanding recognition within the fashion industry. Since its inception, however, the award has commonly been referred to as the hum for Best Model Male. Nominations are made by Hum members who are models and fashion models, and winners are decided by audience votes, as of first ceremony this was one of seven categories which were set open for public.
History
Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel presented this award to one of the most promising Male Model of fashion Industry of Pakistan. As of first ceremony Abbas Jafri was honored at 1st Hum Awards ceremony 2012 for his spectacular fashion achievements by audience.
Winners and nominees
In the list below, winners are listed first in the colored row, followed by the other nominees. As of the first ceremony, five models were nominated for their achievements for this award.
Date and the award ceremony shows that the 2010 is the period from 2010-2020 (10 years-decade), while the year above winners and nominees shows their fashion achievements year, and the figure in bracket shows the ceremony number, for example; an award ceremony is held for their achievements of its previous year.
2010s
See also
Hum Awards
Hum Awards pre-show
List of Hum Awards Ceremonies
References
External links
Official websites
Hum Awards official website
Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC)
Hum's Channel at YouTube (run by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel)
Hum Awards at Facebook (run by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel)]
Hum Awards
Hum Award winners
Hum TV
Hum Network Limited |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/900%20mm%20gauge%20railways | narrow-gauge railways are generally found in Europe. This gauge is mostly used for light urban rail networks, industrial and agricultural railways.
Railways
In Sweden, there was an extensive network of railways with track, some of them remain. This close enough to that they are more or less compatible, and some sales of rolling stock between the gauges have taken place.
See also
List of track gauges |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsay%20Health%20Care | Ramsay Health Care Limited is an Australian multinational healthcare provider and hospital network, founded by Paul Ramsay in Sydney, Australia, in 1964. The company operates in Australia, Europe, the UK, and Asia, specialising in surgery, rehabilitation and psychiatric care.
Ramsay Australia
Ramsay Australia is the largest private provider of hospitals in Australia with more than 100 health facilities in operation.
Hospitals and facilities run by Ramsay
New South Wales
Albury Wodonga Private Hospital, West Albury
Armidale Private Hospital, Armidale
Ballina Day Surgery, Ballina
Baringa Private Hospital, Coffs Harbour
Berkeley Vale Private Hospital, Berkeley Vale
Castlecrag Private Hospital, Castlecrag
Coolenberg Day Surgery, Port Macquarie
Dudley Private Hospital, Orange
Figtree Private Hospital, Figtree
Hunters Hill Private Hospital, Hunters Hill
Kareena Private Hospital, Caringbah
Kingsway Day Surgery, Miranda
Lake Macquarie Private Hospital, Gateshead
Lawrence Hargrave Private Hospital, Thirroul
Mt Wilga Private Hospital, Hornsby (see Mount Wilga House)
North Shore Private Hospital, St Leonards
Northside Group
St Leonards Clinic, St Leonards
Cremorne Clinic, Cremorne
Macarthur Clinic, Campbelltown
Wentworthville Clinic, Wentworthville
Nowra Private Hospital, Nowra
Port Macquarie Private Hospital, Port Macquarie
Southern Highlands Private Hospital, Bowral
St George Private Hospital, Kogarah
Strathfield Private Hospital, Strathfield
Tamara Private Hospital, Tamworth
The Border Cancer Hospital, Albury
Warners Bay Private Hospital, Warners Bay
Western Sydney Oncology, Westmead
Westmead Private Hospital, Westmead
Wollongong Private Hospital, Wollongong
Queensland
Caboolture Private Hospital, Caboolture
Cairns Day Surgery, Cairns
Cairns Private Hospital, Cairns
Caloundra Private Hospital, Caloundra
Greenslopes Private Hospital, Greenslopes
Hillcrest Rockhampton Private Hospital, Rockhampton
John Flynn Private Hospital, Tugun
Nambour Selangor Private Hospital, Nambour
New Farm Clinic, New Farm
Noosa Hospital, Noosaville
North West Private Hospital, Everton Park
Pindara Day Surgery, Benowa
Pindara Private Hospital, Benowa
Short Street Day Surgery, Southport
Southport Private Hospital, Southport
St Andrew's Ipswich Private Hospital, Ipswich
Sunshine Coast University Private Hospital, Birtinya
The Cairns Clinic, Cairns
South Australia
Adelaide Clinic, Gilberton
Kahlyn Day Centre, Magill
Victoria
Albert Road Clinic, Melbourne
Beleura Private Hospital, Mornington
Donvale Rehabilitation Hospital, Donvale
Frances Perry House, Parkville
Glenferrie Private Hospital, Hawthorn
Linacre Private Hospital, Hampton
Masada Private Hospital, St Kilda East
Mitcham Private Hospital, Mitcham
Murray Valley Private Hospital, Wodonga
Peninsula Private Hospital, Frankston
Shepparton Private Hospital, Shepparton
The Avenue Hospital, Windsor
Warringal Private Hospital, Heidelberg
Waverley Private Hospita |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Award%20for%20Best%20Designer%20Womenswear | The Hum Award for Best Designer Womenswear is one of the Hum Awards presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC) to Luxury Prêt Fashion designers of Womenswear who has achieved outstanding recognition within the fashion industry. Since its inception, however, the award has commonly been referred to as the hum for Best Designer Womenswear . Nominations are made by Hum members who are designers, while winners are selected by hum membership as a whole.
History
Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel presented this award to one of the most promising Designer of Womenswear of fashion Industry of Pakistan. As of first ceremony [Nomi Ansari] was honored at 1st Hum Awards ceremony 2012 for his spectacular fashion achievements of outlet & symbol DNA-Diffusion By Nomi Ansari.
Winners and nominees
In the list below, winners are listed first in the colored row, followed by the other nominees. As of the first ceremony, six Designer Womenswear were nominated for their achievements for this award.
Date and the award ceremony shows that the 2010 is the period from 2010-2020 (10 years-decade), while the year above winners and nominees shows their fashion achievements year, and the figure in bracket shows the ceremony number, for example; an award ceremony is held for their achievements of its previous year.
2010s
See also
Hum Awards
Hum Awards pre-show
List of Hum Awards Ceremonies
References
External links
Official websites
Hum Awards official website
Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC)
Hum's Channel at YouTube (run by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel)
Hum Awards at Facebook (run by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel)]
Hum Awards
Hum Award winners
Hum TV
Hum Network Limited |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Award%20for%20Best%20Designer%20Menswear | The Hum Award for Best Designer Menswear is one of the Hum Awards presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC) to Luxury Prêt Fashion designers of Menswear who has achieved outstanding recognition within the fashion industry. Since its inception, however, the award has commonly been referred to as the hum for Best Designer Menswear. Nominations are made by Hum members who are designers, while winners are selected by hum membership as a whole.
History
Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel presented this award to one of the most promising Designer of Men's Wear of fashion Industry of Pakistan. As of first ceremony Deepak Perwani was honored at 1st Hum Awards ceremony 2012 for his spectacular fashion achievements of outlet & symbol DP.
Winners and nominees
In the list below, winners are listed first in the colored row, followed by the other nominees. As of the first ceremony, six Designer Men's Wear were nominated for their achievements for this award.
Date and the award ceremony shows that the 2010 is the period from 2010-2020 (10 years-decade), while the year above winners and nominees shows their fashion achievements year, and the figure in bracket shows the ceremony number, for example; an award ceremony is held for the achievements of its previous year.
2010s
See also
Hum Awards
Hum Awards pre-show
List of Hum Awards Ceremonies
References
External links
Official websites
Hum Awards official website
Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC)
Hum's Channel at YouTube (run by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel)
Hum Awards at Facebook (run by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel)]
Hum Awards
Hum Award winners
Hum TV
Hum Network Limited |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH4 | Asian Highway 4 (AH4) is a route of the Asian Highway Network which runs from Novosibirsk, Russia (on AH6)
via Ürümqi, China (on AH5) to Karachi, Pakistan (on AH7).
Associated routes
Russia
: Novosibirsk (at AH6) - Biysk – Tashanta – border with Mongolia (972 km).
Mongolia
: Ulaanbaishint - Ölgii (97 km)
: Ölgii - Khovd () (178 km)
: Khovd - Mankhan (76 km)
: Mankhan - Bulgan - Yarantai (352 km)
China
: Takeshkan to Fuyun, China (319 km)
S11: Fuyun – Wucaiwan
: Wucaiwan - Ürümqi
: Ürümqi-Toksun
: Toksun-Kashgar
: Kashgar - Tashkurgan - border to Pakistan (1948 km)
The border is at altitude, the Khunjerab Pass
Pakistan
Khunjerab Pass — Sust — Hasan Abdal
Hasan Abdal — Islamabad
Islamabad — Lahore
Lahore — Multan — Sukkur — Karachi
See also
Asian Highway 6
Asian Highway 30
Karakoram Highway
List of Asian Highways
References
External links
Treaty on Asian Highways with routes
Asian Highway Network
Roads in Siberia
Roads in Pakistan
Roads in Mongolia
Roads in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotlin%20%28programming%20language%29 | Kotlin () is a cross-platform, statically typed, general-purpose high-level programming language with type inference. Kotlin is designed to interoperate fully with Java, and the JVM version of Kotlin's standard library depends on the Java Class Library,
but type inference allows its syntax to be more concise. Kotlin mainly targets the JVM, but also compiles to JavaScript (e.g., for frontend web applications using React) or native code via LLVM (e.g., for native iOS apps sharing business logic with Android apps). Language development costs are borne by JetBrains, while the Kotlin Foundation protects the Kotlin trademark.
On 7 May 2019, Google announced that the Kotlin programming language was now its preferred language for Android app developers. Since the release of Android Studio 3.0 in October 2017, Kotlin has been included as an alternative to the standard Java compiler. The Android Kotlin compiler produces Java 8 bytecode by default (which runs in any later JVM), but lets the programmer choose to target Java 9 up to 20, for optimization, or allows for more features; has bidirectional record class interoperability support for JVM, introduced in Java 16, considered stable as of Kotlin 1.5.
Kotlin has support for the web with Kotlin/JS, either through a classic interpreter-based backend which has been declared stable since version 1.3, or an intermediate representation-based backend which has been declared stable since version 1.8. Kotlin/Native (for e.g. Apple silicon support) is considered beta since version 1.3.
History
In July 2011, JetBrains unveiled Project Kotlin, a new language for the JVM, which had been under development for a year. JetBrains lead Dmitry Jemerov said that most languages did not have the features they were looking for, with the exception of Scala. However, he cited the slow compilation time of Scala as a deficiency. One of the stated goals of Kotlin is to compile as quickly as Java. In February 2012, JetBrains open sourced the project under the Apache 2 license.
The name comes from Kotlin Island, near St. Petersburg. Andrey Breslav mentioned that the team decided to name it after an island, just like Java was named after the Indonesian island of Java (though Java the programming language's name is said to have been inspired by "java" the American slang term for coffee, which itself derives from the island name).
JetBrains hoped that the new language would drive IntelliJ IDEA sales.
The first commit to the Kotlin Git repository was on November 8, 2010.
Kotlin 1.0 was released on February 15, 2016. This is considered to be the first officially stable release and JetBrains has committed to long-term backwards compatibility starting with this version.
At Google I/O 2017, Google announced first-class support for Kotlin on Android.
Kotlin 1.2 was released on November 28, 2017. Sharing code between JVM and JavaScript platforms feature was newly added to this release (multiplatform programming is by now a beta featur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20machine%20translation | This is a timeline of machine translation. For a more detailed qualitative account, see the history of machine translation page.
Timeline
See also
Timeline of machine learning
References
Machine translation
Machine translation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence%20analysis%20in%20social%20sciences | In social sciences, sequence analysis (SA) is concerned with the analysis of sets of categorical sequences that typically describe longitudinal data. Analyzed sequences are encoded representations of, for example, individual life trajectories such as family formation, school to work transitions, working careers, but they may also describe daily or weekly time use or represent the evolution of observed or self-reported health, of political behaviors, or the development stages of organizations. Such sequences are chronologically ordered unlike words or DNA sequences for example.
SA is a longitudinal analysis approach that is holistic in the sense that it considers each sequence as a whole. SA is essentially exploratory. Broadly, SA provides a comprehensible overall picture of sets of sequences with the objective of characterizing the structure of the set of sequences, finding the salient characteristics of groups, identifying typical paths, comparing groups, and more generally studying how the sequences are related to covariates such as sex, birth cohort, or social origin.
Introduced in the social sciences in the 80s by Andrew Abbott, SA has gained much popularity after the release of dedicated software such as the SQ and SADI addons for Stata and the TraMineR R package with its companions TraMineRextras and WeightedCluster.
Despite some connections, the aims and methods of SA in social sciences strongly differ from those of sequence analysis in bioinformatics.
History
Sequence analysis methods were first imported into the social sciences from the information and biological sciences (see Sequence alignment) by the University of Chicago sociologist Andrew Abbott in the 1980s, and they have since developed in ways that are unique to the social sciences. Scholars in psychology, economics, anthropology, demography, communication, political science, organizational studies, and especially sociology have been using sequence methods ever since.
In sociology, sequence techniques are most commonly employed in studies of patterns of life-course development, cycles, and life histories. There has been a great deal of work on the sequential development of careers, and there is increasing interest in how career trajectories intertwine with life-course sequences. Many scholars have used sequence techniques to model how work and family activities are linked in household divisions of labor and the problem of schedule synchronization within families. The study of interaction patterns is increasingly centered on sequential concepts, such as turn-taking, the predominance of reciprocal utterances, and the strategic solicitation of preferred types of responses (see Conversation Analysis). Social network analysts (see Social network analysis) have begun to turn to sequence methods and concepts to understand how social contacts and activities are enacted in real time, and to model and depict how whole networks evolve. Social network epidemiologists have begun to exam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth%20%28film%29 | Plymouth is a 1991 science fiction television film that was shown on ABC Network in the same year, as a pilot for a planned series. It was created by Lee David Zlotoff and funded by the American Broadcasting Corporation, Walt Disney and Rai uno radiotelevisione, with Lockheed acting as technical advisors.
Plot synopsis
Plymouth, a small timber and mining town in Oregon, was contaminated by radiation from a nearby factory run by multinational corporation UNIDAC. All the residents left in a hurried evacuation in the middle of the night. UNIDAC offered financial compensation, but what the town really wanted was to be a community again. UNIDAC also had a mining operation on the Moon extracting helium-3, but it was financially failing. The townspeople offer to take over the operation and become the first permanent settlement on the Moon on a trial basis.
Five years later, a shuttle carrying the final group of emigres approaches the Moon. Town doctor Addy Mathewson, already on the Moon, is apprehensive as she finds her birth control failed and she is in the early stages of a pregnancy. She is a widowed single mother raising eldest son Jed, leaving for his first day on a mining crew the next day, daughter Hannah, adopted daughter April and youngest son Eugene.
UNIDAC technical advisor Gil Eaton and an enthusiastically rowdy crew of miners hold a celebration as he is scheduled to finish his stay and return to Earth before joining a mission to build a space station between Earth and Mars. One of Addy’s assistants accidentally finds her sonogram and word of Addy’s pregnancy soon spreads. Gil confronts Addy, who felt Gil wants to move on rather than stay as a father. Gil finds himself ostracized by the townspeople.
The town’s residents assemble to watch and welcome the arrival of the final Plymouth residents who accepted UNIDAC’s relocation offer. Among the arrivals are Eugene’s best friend, Simon, and Addy’s uncle, Wendell, who is also the mayor of Plymouth.
Young technician Nathan Litchfield shows Hannah a “hot rod” lunar vehicle he handbuilt, with a high-speed electric drive and a rocket assist salvaged from a lander.
The town council holds a meeting to discuss the uncertainties of Addy’s pregnancy. The fetus may not survive the microgravity or reentry on the trip back to Earth and they don't want to endanger its or Addy's life. But if the child is born on the Moon, its body will never be strong enough to return to Earth, even if UNIDAC’s mining fails. The town would lose its option to return to Earth as it would be unethical to abandon the child on the Moon.
Earth controllers inform Plymouth that a very strong solar flare is en route. The residents leave the colony on the surface and head to shelters in deep lunar caverns. Eugene had been showing Simon around in shallower caverns and the boys find themselves trapped when the doors automatically seal because of the alert. Eugene reasons out that they can be shielded from the radiation by large ta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20First | BBC First is an entertainment subscription television channel featuring comedy, crime, drama and film programming, originating from UK and mostly from the BBC. The channel is wholly owned and operated by BBC Studios. The channel began rolling out internationally in 2014, launching first in Australia. It is supported by extended localised advertising breaks.
History
In October 2013, the BBC announced that in 2014 they would roll out three new brands – BBC Earth, BBC First, and BBC Brit, with BBC First to be dedicated to comedy and drama programming.
International roll-out
Asia
Hong Kong
On 1 November 2016, BBC First launched as a Subscription Video-On-Demand (SVOD) service in Hong Kong. The channel replaced BBC On Demand and BBC Entertainment on Now TV. On 14 November 2016, the service was launched on myTV Super OTT platform until 31 January 2023.
Indonesia
In April 2021, BBC First launched as a Subscription Video-On-Demand (SVOD) service in Indonesia through Catchplay, which also serves as the platform's partner in Taiwan.
Malaysia
BBC First was launched as a Subscription Video-On-Demand (SVOD) service on HyppTV Channel 812 on 1 October 2016, 10 months after BBC Entertainment was dropped from the provider. The channel's content is also available in the "VOD" tab in the HyppTV Everywhere app for iOS and Android.
In mid-October 2021, BBC First launched as a SVOD service on Astro, along with BBC Brit.
Singapore
BBC First launched a Subscription Video-On-Demand (SVOD) service on StarHub TV Channel 522 on 4 April 2016. On 1 December 2021, BBC First launched a Video-On-Demand (VOD) service on Singtel TV.
Taiwan
In 2008, BBC Studios signed a cooperation agreement with Taiwanese OTT service myVideo to offer its drama content.
Australia
On 17 April 2013, it was announced that the BBC had forged a new exclusive deal with Australian subscription television provider Foxtel which would see a new channel launched that would feature comedy and drama content, with programming screening as close to their original UK transmission as possible. It was later announced the new channel would be named BBC First, a new global brand that would roll out in 2014, with Australia being the first location to launch the new channel, on 3 August 2014.
Canada
In March 2021, Canadian broadcaster Blue Ant Media, which already operated the Canadian version of BBC Earth, announced that its HIFI channel would be rebranded as a Canadian version of BBC First on March 16, expanding the company's partnership with BBC Studios. Unlike the other versions, the Canadian channel is not directly owned by BBC Studios, due to Canada's regulations around foreign ownership of Canadian media, but is operated by Blue Ant under a brand licensing agreement.
Previously, the market had been served by the similarly formatted BBC Canada, which was closed by then-owner Corus Entertainment at the end of 2020; many of the BBC programs carried by the prior channel will carry over to BBC First.
Eu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20Sports%20%26%20Entertainment | Fox Sports & Entertainment (formerly Fox BS238) was a Japanese general entertainment and sports television channel operated by BS-Fox, a subsidiary of Fox Networks Group Japan, which was owned by Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International. Launched on 1 October 2011, it adopted last name on 1 February 2014.
The channel was mainly available on the DTH "broadcast satellite" (BS) television platform, but it has been made into other multichannel television platforms since.
FSE broadcast home games of Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks NPB baseball team (and previously those of Chiba Lotte Marines and Orix Buffaloes until the end of 2014 season), the English Premier League, FA Cup, German Bundesliga, Dutch Eredivisie and the Argentine Primera División football leagues, UFC and FIS Alpine Ski World Cup.
Fox Sports Japan Inc., a joint venture between TV Bank (a subsidiary of SoftBank) and what was FIC Japan back then, previously supplied televised coverage of sporting events to the channel, but in December 2014, it was announced that the joint venture would be winded up, and that FIC Japan would subsequently oversee the production of sporting event coverages.
The channel also broadcast entertainment and lifestyle programming.
Due to the reorganization affected by acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney, the channel closed on 31 March 2020.
References
External links
Television stations in Japan
Defunct television channels
Japanese-language television stations
Japan
Sports television in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 2011
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Honorary%20Lifetime%20Achievement%20Award | The Hum Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award is given by the board of directors of the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC) to the starlets of Pakistani television, film and media personalities in order to recognize and acknowledge their lifetime work and achievements within the media industry. Hum TV oversaw this award with the inception of its first ceremony, granting the award by Hum directors to work of exceptional achievement. All the categorized and organized special awards are awarded annually during the Hum Awards ceremony.
Recipients
Following is the listing of the recipients of Hum Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award:
2010s
Note: The † symbol indicates a posthumous award.
References
External links
Official websites
Hum Awards official website
Other resources
Hum Award winners
Hum Awards
Lifetime achievement awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20Honorary%20Television%20Award | The Hum Honorary Television Award, organized in 2013 for the 1st Hum Awards, was given by the board of directors of the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel to the stars of Pakistani television to recognize their lifetime of work and achievements in the television industry. Hum TV overviewed this award with the inception of its first ceremony, this is one of the special awards given by the channel directors for exceptional achievements. All the categorized and organized special awards are given annually during the ceremony.
Honorary Television Award incepted with the origin of first awards. At the first ceremony, ten legendary Pakistan television stars were awarded. The honorary award is presented at the annual Hum Awards ceremony.
Recipients
The following is the listing of the recipients of Hum Honorary Television Award:
Note: The † symbol indicates a posthumous awarded.
References
External links
Official websites
Hum Awards official website
Other resources
Hum Award winners
Hum Awards |
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