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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of the American action television series Arrow premiered on The CW on October 10, 2012, at 8:00 pm (ET) and concluded on May 15, 2013, with a total of 23 episodes, after the network ordered a full season on October 22, 2012. The series is based on the DC Comics character Green Arrow, a costumed crime-fighter created by Mort Weisinger and George Papp, and is set in the Arrowverse, sharing continuity with other Arrowverse television series. The showrunners for this season were Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg. Stephen Amell stars as Oliver Queen, with principal cast members Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance, Colin Donnell as Tommy Merlyn, David Ramsey as John Diggle, Willa Holland as Thea Queen, Susanna Thompson as Moira Queen, and Paul Blackthorne as Quentin Lance.
The series follows billionaire playboy Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), who claimed to have spent five years shipwrecked on Lian Yu, a mysterious island in the North China Sea, before returning home to Starling City (later renamed "Star City") to fight crime and corruption as a secret vigilante whose weapon of choice is a bow and arrow. In the first season, Oliver returns to Starling City and is reunited with his mother Moira (Susanna Thompson), his half-sister Thea (Willa Holland), and his friend Tommy Merlyn (Colin Donnell). Oliver rekindles his relationships, while spending his nights hunting down and sometimes killing criminals as a hooded vigilante, known as The Hood. He uncovers Malcolm Merlyn's (John Barrowman) conspiracy to destroy "The Glades", a poorer section of Starling City that has become overridden with crime. John Diggle (David Ramsey) and Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards) assist Oliver in his crusade. Oliver also reconnects with ex-girlfriend, Laurel Lance (Katie Cassidy), who is still angry over his role in her sister, Sara's, presumed death, while her father, Detective Quentin Lance (Paul Blackthorne), suspects Oliver being the vigilante. The season features flashbacks to Oliver's first year on the island, and how it changed him, while trying to stop a mercenary force targeting the Chinese economy. After being saved by The Hood, Roy Harper (Colton Haynes) attempts to find him so he will train him so he can help others.
Production on the pilot began in March 2012 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Filming for the rest of the season began on July 18, 2012, and ended on April 18, 2013. The season was generally well received by critics, and averaged 3.68million viewers each week. Amell's portrayal of Oliver Queen / Arrow drew comparison to Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games, while the season itself was found to be still looking for its own identity. The season would go on to win multiple awards, including twenty-one nominations in various categories. The season was released on DVD and Blu-ray on September 17, 2013. The series was renewed for a second season on February 11, 2013.
Episodes
Cast and characters
Main
Stephen Amel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution%20%28neural%20networks%29 | Dilution and dropout (also called DropConnect) are regularization techniques for reducing overfitting in artificial neural networks by preventing complex co-adaptations on training data. They are an efficient way of performing model averaging with neural networks. Dilution refers to thinning weights, while dropout refers to randomly "dropping out", or omitting, units (both hidden and visible) during the training process of a neural network. Both trigger the same type of regularization.
Types and uses
Dilution is usually split in weak dilution and strong dilution. Weak dilution describes the process in which the finite fraction of removed connections is small, and strong dilution refers to when this fraction is large. There is no clear distinction on where the limit between strong and weak dilution is, and often the distinction is dependent on the precedent of a specific use-case and has implications for how to solve for exact solutions.
Sometimes dilution is used for adding damping noise to the inputs. In that case, weak dilution refers to adding a small amount of damping noise, while strong dilution refers to adding a greater amount of damping noise. Both can be rewritten as variants of weight dilution.
These techniques are also sometimes referred to as random pruning of weights, but this is usually a non-recurring one-way operation. The network is pruned, and then kept if it is an improvement over the previous model. Dilution and dropout both refer to an iterative process. The pruning of weights typically does not imply that the network continues learning, while in dilution/dropout, the network continues to learn after the technique is applied.
Generalized linear network
Output from a layer of linear nodes, in an artificial neural net can be described as
– output from node
– real weight before dilution, also called the Hebb connection strength
– input from node
This can be written in vector notation as
– output vector
– weight matrix
– input vector
Equations (1) and (2) are used in the subsequent sections.
Weak dilution
During weak dilution, the finite fraction of removed connections (the weights) is small, giving rise to a tiny uncertainty. This edge-case can be solved exactly with mean field theory. In weak dilution the impact on the weights can be described as
– diluted weight
– real weight before dilution
– the probability of , the probability of keeping a weight
The interpretation of probability can also be changed from keeping a weight into pruning a weight.
In vector notation this can be written as
where the function imposes the previous dilution.
In weak dilution only a small and fixed fraction of the weights are diluted. When the number of terms in the sum goes to infinite (the weights for each node) it is still infinite (the fraction is fixed), thus mean field theory can be applied. In the notation from Hertz et al. this would be written as
the mean field temperature
– a scaling factor for t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayerbox | Prayerbox was a religious social networking website that allows users share prayer points and testimonies with their friends and people from around the world. It launched December 10, 2014.
It worked like Twitter but for religion. Users could create accounts and post prayer requests which were then seen by the people in their network and other users of the website. In place of a retweet or like button, users could say amen to prayers. When prayers were answered, a user had the ability to post a testimony which was then seen by people who interacted with the particular prayer. The website grown considerably at its early stage of launch and had over 100,000 active users. Churches were also allowed to create pages through which they could connect with their congregation.
Beyond sharing prayers and testimonies, Prayerbox also allowed users pay tithes, offerings or donations directly to their churches through a secure payment channel.
The idea was founded by Nigerian programmer Adebambo Oyekan Oyelaja and is funded by 440.ng a startup accelerator based in Lagos, Nigeria. It did get a mention on Forbes.
References
Links
Prayerbox - official site
http://www.forbes.com/sites/mfonobongnsehe/2015/05/10/here-is-a-nigerian-social-network-that-allows-you-share-prayers-with-friends-and-strangers/
http://www.cp-africa.com/2015/04/21/meet-oyelaja-oyekan-the-entrepreneur-behind-prayerbox-a-new-app-aiming-to-be-the-twitter-for-religion/
http://disrupt-africa.com/2014/12/nigerian-startup-prayerbox-twitter-religion/
https://web.archive.org/web/20150726205444/http://www.humanipo.com/news/47525/ourprayerbox-com-allows-christians-to-share-prayer-points-testimonies/
http://www.aleteia.org/it/tecnologia/articolo/cosa-essere-prayerbox-5824453036474368
http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/social-network/2015/05/13/news/twitter_religione-114254879/
http://techcabal.com/2015/03/24/adebambo-oyelaja-i-learnt-to-code-because-i-love-building-things/
http://pulse.ng/tech/religious-technology-prayerbox-co-founder-ceo-speaks-with-pulse-tv-id3695951.html
http://pulse.ng/tech/prayerbox-young-nigerian-techpreneur-interviewed-by-forbes-id3741626.html
http://www.geektime.com/2014/12/16/nigerias-prayerbox-co-is-a-social-network-that-caters-to-devout-christians/
http://ventureburn.com/2015/03/social-media-religion-startup-prayerbox-connects-nigerians-churches-online/
http://connectnigeria.com/articles/2015/01/20/meet-the-boss-oyelaja-oyekan-prayerbox/
http://innovation-village.com/nigerias-religious-startup-prayerbox-co-records-over-42000-users/
http://yngvns.com/web-design/gods-twitter-prayerbox-co-fuses-religion-and-social-media/
http://techmoran.com/prayerbox-co-wants-africas-twitter-god-fearing/#sthash.Vg1w9yw2.dpbs
http://techpoint.ng/inside-the-business-of-prayerbox-with-bambo-oyelaja/
http://africansmakingmoney.com/adebambo-oyelaja-prayerbox/
http://www.osservatoreromano.va/en/news/connecting-nigerias-faithful
Nigerian social networking websites
Religious websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiE%20Rajasthan | TiE Rajasthan is a Rajasthan chapter of the non-profit community The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE). Headquartered in Jaipur, TiE Rajasthan is aimed at fostering entrepreneurship through mentoring, networking, education, incubating, and funding new startups.
History
In 2001, few entrepreneurs of IT Industry were called upon by Naren Bakshi, where he provided the guests with an introduction about TiE, the nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship. They decided to formulate a group, and initiate activities aimed towards fulfilling the norms for an independent chapter of TiE. As a result, an ad-hoc working committee of 6 members was formed, titled as Rajasthan IT Entrepreneurs Group (RITEG) consisting of Ajay Data, Rajesh Moondra, Keshav Sharma, Hemant Gupta etc. All members committed Rs. 50000/- towards formation of the group. On 11 January 2002 TiE Rajasthan chapter was launched with a ceremony, attended by the then Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, along with various other businesspeople from Silicon Valley like Kanwal Rekhi, Kailash Joshi, Vipin Shah, Naren Bakshi and Raj Desai among others.
Presidents
Yogendra Durlabhji - 2002-2004
Ajay Data - 2004-2006
Rajesh Moondra- 2006-2008
Mahavir Sharma 2008-2010
Atul Kapoor - 2010-2012
Manuj Goel - 2012-2014
Rajneesh Bhandari - 2014-2016
Rajesh Moondra - 2016-2017
Siddharth Agrawal - 2017- 2018
Chirag Patel - 2019- 2020
Ravi Modani 2021 - 2023
Sheenu Jhawar 2023- current
Programs
"TiECON", TiE's premier annual event, is held by TiE Rajasthan at regular intervals. Besides this, several other events are also organized and sponsored by TiE Rajasthan. Some of the notable events were:
"Rajasthanan IT Destination" - An IT Seminar, jointly organised by NASSCOM and TiE Rajasthan on 17 August 2005 in Jaipur.
"TiEcon Rajasthan 2009" - Held on 17 December 2009 at B.M. Birla Auditorium and Convention Centre, Statue Circle, Jaipur, the event was attended by a number of TiE Global Charter Members.
"TiE Smashup 2014" - Held on 7 November 2014 in Jaipur, Smashup serves as a platform for startups to pitch their ideas, raise funds, and find new investors and partners.
"TiEcon Rajasthan 2015" - Held on 25 July 2015 at Hotel ITC Rajputana, Jaipur, the event was attended and addressed by several notable entrepreneurs as well as political leaders. The Chief Guest of the event, Smt. Vasundhara Raje, the Chief Minister of Rajasthan, made an announcement about new policy aimed at strengthening the facilities for setting up of startups in Rajasthan.
References
External links
Non-profit organisations based in India
Think tanks based in India
Entrepreneurship in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimble%20Streamer | Nimble Streamer is a software media server developed by Softvelum. The server is used for streaming of live and on-demand video and audio to desktop computers, mobile devices, internet-connected TV sets, IPTV set-top boxes and other network-connected devices. Its first stable version 1.0.0-1 was released on October, 21st, 2013, with a number of preliminary versions done before that. The release cycle is intensive and introduces a new version every week or less. Nimble Streamer was the finalist in Streaming Media European Readers' Choice Awards for 2016 as the Best Streaming Innovation and for 2021 as Hardware/software Server.
Usage
Nimble Streamer is delivered as an application for Linux and Windows,. Its basic scenarios include streaming from live sources, streaming from VOD files and cache-aware HTTP re-streaming.
For live streaming it takes RTMP, RTSP, MPEG-TS, SRT, UDT and Icecast as input and produces MPEG-DASH, HLS, RTMP, RTSP, MPEG-TS, SRT, UDT, SLDP and Icecast. VOD is available as MP4 transmuxing to HLS and MPEG-DASH for both H.265 and H.264. HEVC is also supported for various live streaming protocols output. MPEG-DASH output is supported in live and VOD modes.
Low Latency HLS is supported in Nimble Streamer starting from version 3.6.3-3.
The developer company is a member of SRT Alliance as a collaborator and contributor of open-source implementation of SRT protocol.
NDI is supported as both input and output.
RIST streaming protocol is supported for input and output.
The program also covers progressive download for multiple formats, with seeking capabilities for HTML5 and Flash playback. HTTP re-streaming covers HLS, MPEG-DASH, HDS and SmoothStreaming. It can be used as a source for peer-to-peer media streaming.
Live Transcoder for Nimble Streamer supports decoding, filtering and encoding for H.264, HEVC, MPEG2, MPEG4, VP8, VP9 video and AAC, MP3, MP2, Speex, PCM G.711 audio.
A premium add-on provides server-side ads insertion with pre-rolls and mid-rolls for HLS, RTMP, SLDP and Icecast live streams, as well as DRM protection with Widevine, PlayReady and FairPlay.
See also
Wowza Streaming Engine
Adobe Flash Media Server
References
External links
Streaming software
Media servers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rise%20of%20Exotic%20Computing | The Rise of Exotic Computing is a composition for sinfonietta and electronica by the American composer Mason Bates. The work was commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and was premiered by the orchestra April 5, 2013.
Composition
The Rise of Exotic Computing is composed in a single movement and has a duration of roughly 12 minutes. The music critic Mark Kanny wrote, "The piece was inspired by the idea of synthetic computing – computers generating their own ideas."
Instrumentation
The work is scored for electronica and a sinfonietta comprising flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, trumpet, percussion, harp, piano, two violins, viola, cello, and double bass.
Reception
Mark Kanny of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review lauded the piece, writing, "Bates runs with it by using short motifs, which jump from instrument to instrument. Some ideas bring minimalism to mind, but Bates' musical thinking is far more playful and engaging." John von Rhein of the Chicago Tribune wrote:
Conversely, Elizabeth Bloom of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was more critical of the work, calling it a "repetitive, thin piece" that "did not translate well in the concert hall." Lawrence A. Johnson of the Chicago Classical Review similarly admonished, "Overscored and overamped, I found Exotic Computing empty, noisy, and something of a scam."
References
Compositions by Mason Bates
2013 compositions
Compositions for chamber orchestra
Music commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIITJEE | FIITJEE is a coaching institute for JEE and other competitive exams founded by Dinesh Kumar Goel. It has a pan-India network of 67 branches in 43 cities, along with branches in Bahrain and Qatar. It offers courses for students of grades 6 to 12 aspiring to appear in Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), JEE advanced, NTSE, KVPY, JSTSE, INChO, INMO, INPhO and various other examinations.
History
DK Goel, a Mechanical Engineering Graduate from IIT Delhi founded FIITJEE in 1992. The institute offers aspiring engineering students a launchpad to create a career in Engineering.
Controversies
2009 AIEEE and IIT-JEE topper
The 2009 IIT-JEE topper Nitin Jain who trained for his exams at FIITJEE said that he had been coerced into writing a letter of recommendation which they (FIITJEE) had published in their advertisements. The institute opened a website where they published answers in the name of Jain. He and his father accused FIITJEE and another cram school, "Aakash" for "misusing" Jain's name "for commercial interest". Jain clarified that he had never attended the Aakash Institute. The Union Ministry for Human Resource Development referred the matter for an investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation. FIITJEE denied the allegations.
Jain later wrote in his book The Secret of My Success that he was "subtly pressurised" and "cajoled into writing the letter, and most of it was not true." FIITJEE moved the Delhi High Court claiming that parts of the book were "defamatory, offensive and fallacious" and sought a permanent injunction on the book's publication. The High Court dismissed the appeal, citing that the institute needed to prove that what the writer had published in his book was wrong. Jain and his father said that Nitin had received lesser amount under the institute's Talent Reward Exam than what the institute claimed and that too after several rounds of the institute's office.
Refund cases
FIITJEE has faced several cases in Consumer Courts for not returning the fees paid by students when they quit the institute. In one of such cases in April 2017, the Hyderabad district consumer court directed FIITJEE to return 75% of the fees paid upfront and pay compensation of ₹1 lakh to parents. A Nagpur district forum ruled out that the coaching classes taking advance fees was a discrepancy and directed FIITJEE to refund ₹75,000 to a student who had enrolled in a 4-year program but left it following the lack of discipline and a biology teacher for two years.
Paradise Papers
On 6 November 2017 the Paradise Papers revealed that 19,52,907 shares of FIITJEE valued at ₹36 crore were sold by QLearn company of Mauritius to Mumbai's Ambit Group in July 2015. QLearn is a subsidiary of Qatari firm Qinvest and the Ambit Group is one of the investors in it.
References
Organisations based in Delhi
Organizations established in 1992
Education companies of India
Cram schools in India
Education companies established in 1992
Indian companies established in 1992 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sober%20Grid | Sober Grid is a digital health company providing mental health addiction care around the world in over 170 countries.
The mobile user base is largest social mobile networking application for people with substance abuse issues on a mobile platform. The application works by connecting sober people and those looking to get sober based on their relative distance. Sober Grid creator Beau Mann had the idea to create Sober Grid while attending the Sundance Film Festival. He served as president and CEO.
With millions worldwide struggling with addiction, the creators saw that there was a need for developing a community. Sober Grid's goal is sharing a tool that makes peer support available at the touch of a button.
In June 2018 Sober Grid purchased Ascent, an evidence-based peer recovery coaching service in Ohio. Through this acquisition, Sober Grid is now able to provide HIPAA compliant 24/7 certified peer coaching support through their application.
The company received funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. The company is partnered with researchers from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School where it works on its Artificial Intelligence capabilities to predict relapses and hopefully later intervene. The company has appeared on Fox, CNBC, Entrepreneur, NY Metro, New York Times, The Boston Globe, Forbes, and many other media outlets.
Features
The design of Sober Grid has two main features: the newsfeed and the grid. The newsfeed contains a time-oriented list of posts from Sober Grid users. The grid displays users based on their proximity. On the newsfeed, users have the option to turn on the “burning desire” feature.
Competitors
Sober Grid is a leader in the digital health marketplace for mental health and Substance Use Disorder. Sober Grid competes with a rival digital health therapy, reSET-O, made for Opioid Use Disorder by Pear Therapeutics. Click Therapeutics and MAP Health Management are also competitors to Sober Grid.
An additional feature, added in September 2018 allows users to pay for certified peer coaching.
References
Geosocial networking
Substance abuse |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty%20Space%20%28album%29 | Empty Space is the eighth studio album by Lycia, released on 2003 by Silber Records.
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from the Empty Space liner notes.
Lycia
John Fair – drum programming
David Galas – bass guitar
Tara VanFlower – vocals, design
Mike VanPortfleet – vocals, guitar, drum machine, design
References
External links
Empty Space at Bandcamp
Empty Space at iTunes
2003 albums
Lycia (band) albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OxygenOS | OxygenOS () is an Android-based operating system (OS) developed by Chinese smartphone manufacturer OnePlus exclusively for their smartphones. OxygenOS was developed for their overseas market. There used to also be another version of the OS designed specifically for the Chinese market called HydrogenOS ().
In an interview published on 3 September 2016, XDA Developers revealed OnePlus was "actively merging both platforms (OxygenOS and HydrogenOS) into a single cohesive operating system based on Android".
Features
Version 1.0 was based on Android 5.0.1 and was available only for the OnePlus One via a flashable ZIP provided through the OnePlus website.
Notable features of version 2.0 and 2.1.1 include app permissions, Waves MaxxAudio, Microsoft SwiftKey keyboard, off-screen gestures, custom icons, dark mode, manual camera mode, and RAW support for 3rd party apps, like Camera FV-5 2.75.
On 31 December 2016, OnePlus released OxygenOS 4.0.0 based on Android Nougat and includes its features and several other modifications to the public via OTA download.
On 31 January 2018, OnePlus released OxygenOS 5.0.3 based on Android Oreo to the public via OTA download. In May 2018, OnePlus launched OnePlus 6 with OxygenOS based on Android Oreo 8.1.
On 29 October 2018, OnePlus launched OnePlus 6T with OxygenOS 9.0 based on Android Pie.
On 25 December 2018, OnePlus released OxygenOS 9.0.0 based on Android Pie for OnePlus 5/5T to the public via OTA download.
On 21 September 2019, OnePlus announced the release of OxygenOS version 10.0 based on Android 10 for OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro. This initial release was followed by Android 10 based builds for older devices later.
On 06 August 2022, OnePlus announced OxygenOS 13 which is based on Android 13. OxygenOS 13 is eligible for OnePlus 10 series to OnePlus 8 series smartphones and some Nord smartphones.
On 25 September 2023, OnePlus recently announced that it will globally launch the Android 14-based OxygenOS 14.
Privacy
OnePlus released a statement about data collection and analytics, claiming that the data is only used for system improvement and optimization, are not shared with third parties, and can be disabled by users in the system settings. OnePlus also says that they are revising the data analysis mechanism, and will no longer collect certain data.
Devices running on OxygenOS
OxygenOS 14
It will come on the OnePlus 9, OnePlus 9 Pro, OnePlus 9R, OnePlus 9RT, OnePlus 10 Pro, OnePlus 10R, OnePlus 10T, OnePlus 11, OnePlus Nord 2, OnePlus Nord 2T, OnePlus Nord CE, OnePlus Nord CE 2, OnePlus Nord CE 2 Lite in the future updates as mention in OnePlus official website ()
History
In July 2021, OnePlus merged OxygenOS with Oppo’s ColorOS. Both companies’ software will remain separate and continue to serve their individual regions (OxygenOS for OnePlus phones globally, ColorOS on OnePlus and Oppo devices in China) but share a common codebase, which OnePlus says should standardize its software experience |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion%20Bloggers | Fashion Bloggers is an Australian reality documentary television series that premiered on 15 October 2014 on the Style Network. The series is the first local commission for the Australian Style Network. The reality show chronicles both the professional and personal lives of independent lifestyle and fashion bloggers.
The program was renewed for a second season in March 2015, moving to sister channel E! where it premiered on 4 June 2015.
Cast
Episodes
Season 1 (2014)
Season 2 (2015)
Broadcast
Outside of Australia, the series has been screened on variations of E! in South-East Asia, the UK, France and South Africa.
Episodes are also uploaded to the program's official YouTube channel.
References
External links
2014 Australian television series debuts
English-language television shows
E! original programming
Style Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert%20Fireball%20Network | The Desert Fireball Network (DFN) is a network of cameras in Australia. It is designed to track meteoroids entering the atmosphere, and aid in recovering meteorites. It currently operates 50 autonomous cameras, spread across Western and South Australia, including Nullarbor plain, WA wheatbelt, and South Australian desert, covering an area of 2.5 million km2. The locations of the stations were chosen to facilitate meteorite searching. Starting in 2018, cameras deployed across the world began the first global fireball observatory in association with partner research teams.
The DFN observatories capture approximately 30-second exposures of the sky from dusk until dawn every night, and the DFN team is automatically alerted if a fireball or meteor is detected. Based on the long-exposure images, trajectories and orbits are plotted in a semi-automated manner, and a fall-line is generated to indicate the whereabouts and mass of any resultant meteorites on the ground.
DFN mission
The DFN is advancing the knowledge base of the current understanding of planetary system formation and evolution. By connecting a specific meteorite with a fireball trajectory and orbit leading up to impact on Earth, scientists can obtain a better understanding of where meteorite samples came from in the Solar System. Once a likely region of origin in the main asteroid belt is identified, candidate parent bodies can be explored.
When the meteorite is found and collected, a myriad of analyses can take place that shows what conditions were like on the parent body and what has happened to the rock over its lifetime. This means a detailed compositional map of the Solar System can be built, which shows how asteroid and near-Earth objects vary in composition and can better inform Solar System evolution models and planetary science research.
The ultimate aim for this project is to find a cometary meteorite. Comets are some of the most pristine materials in the Solar System, and contain a unique record of early Solar System processes. There is growing evidence to suggest that cometary fireballs are delivering meteorites to Earth, and so the setup of this project is ideal to observe the fall and collect any cometary samples, which space agencies around the world have spent a huge sum of money to obtain through space missions.
History
A number of teams have put together fireball observatories based on the same principles, e.g. the Prairie Network (US) and the Canadian Meteorite Observation and Recovery Network, which were led primarily by observational astronomers, and yet collectively have only determined orbits for four meteorites.
The interest in this approach heightened in 2008 when a telescopic astronomical sky survey detected a meteoroid on an Earth-bound trajectory, and successfully pinpointed its location on the Earth's surface. A connection between the candidate asteroid type and the meteorite was made based on the object's composition and orbit, but such observatories only |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Innsbruck | The Innsbruck tram network is currently organised over six routes (numbered 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and STB) and has a total length of .
Electrification of the service dates back to 1905, which was rather late by comparison to cities of similar size elsewhere in Austria.
The Stubai Valley Railway (or Stubaitalbahn), which shares the one-meter gauge of the city's tram system, currently is also served by trams and shares some of the city centre tramlines: it uses the same tracks as tram routes 1 and 3 between its former terminus station (known until 1983 as the Stubaitalbahnhof) and Innsbruck's main railway station.
The Innsbruck tram network is operated by the Innsbrucker Verkehrsbetriebe und Stubaitalbahn company.
History
1905–08
The first tramline opened for public service on 15 July 1905. It was in effect an extension of the service provided by the existing L.B.I.H.i.T which had been operating a one-meter gauge steam railway service between the south-western edge of Innsbruck and Hall in Tirol, ten kilometers to the east, since 1891. The new tramline was long, connecting the Südbahnhof (south station) with the Staatsbahnhof (main station - today known as the west station). A branch line led from the Staatsbahnhof, over an iron bridge across the Arlberg railway line, to the Bergiselbahnhof on the edge of the city. Initially the tram service operated only between 07:00 and 20:00. The trams were powered by DC electricity from 500 Volt overhead wires.
Even before the first line opened, work was already under way on an extension. The long Saggen line opened on 18 November 1905. This section branched off the city tramline at Museum Street, followed the Südbahn viaduct in the direction of the mainline railway, continuing on to Adolf Pichler Street (today Conrad Street). Once the Saggen line had opened, it was operated by a shuttle service, which met up with the city tramline at Museum Street.
Ten two-axle electric tramcars were purchased from the Graz railcar company to operate the new network, and these came into service with the fleet numbers 36–42 for the tramcars serving the city line and 43–45 for the three tramcars operating the Saggen branch shuttle service. Passenger numbers increased rapidly and several small unpowered carriages were taken from the (still at this stage steam powered) L.B.I.H.i.T railway, to be used in combination with the new tramcars for the city tram services. The L.B.I.H.i.T service between Innsbruck and Hall in Tirol (Solbad Hall) could not easily spare these cars, and in 1906 the company acquired four new unpowered-trailer tramcars. Additionally, two open-ended summer cars were transferred from another local one-meter mountain railway and adapted for use with the trams. These were already kitted-out with electric lighting and electric heating.
The opening in 1906 of the Hungerburg funicular provided a reason for a further extension of the tram network and also the occasion for arguments involving the city council over t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20600 | The Nokia 600 was an announced but unreleased touchscreen-based smartphone developed by Nokia. It was announced in August 2011 as one of three launch devices for the Symbian Belle operating system. The Nokia 600 was designed as a music-centric phone and would have been equipped with a 106-phon loudspeaker, which Nokia claimed was the loudest it had ever installed in a product.
It would have been available in Black, White, Pink or Lime. However, the phone was cancelled by Nokia in November 2011.
Features
The device would have featured a 3.2" nHD (640x360 px) display and 5 megapixel camera with flash, 720p video recording and 2x digital zoom. It would have offered 2GB of memory, expandable to 32GB via microSD card, and a 1GHz processor.
It would also have featured HSPA (3.5G) network connectivity alongside Bluetooth 3.0, GPS, and NFC.
Music and radio
The device was designed primarily for music. The included loudspeaker, according to Nokia, would have made the 600 the 'loudest' phone it had ever produced. The 600 was also to have included FM radio functionality with a built-in antenna, meaning that a set of wired headphones would not have been required for the FM radio to function.
Software
The Nokia 600 would have been one of three launch devices for the 'Belle' update of Nokia's Symbian operating system, which would prove to be the final update for the platform before Nokia switched to Microsoft's Windows Phone software.
References
External links
Mobiles.sulekha.com
Froarena.com
Mobile phones introduced in 2011
600
Symbian devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagefright%20%28bug%29 | Stagefright is the name given to a group of software bugs that affect versions from 2.2 "Froyo" up until 5.1.1 "Lollipop" of the Android operating system exposing an estimated 950 million devices (95% of all Android devices) at the time. The name is taken from the affected library, which among other things, is used to unpack MMS messages. Exploitation of the bug allows an attacker to perform arbitrary operations on the victim's device through remote code execution and privilege escalation. Security researchers demonstrate the bugs with a proof of concept that sends specially crafted MMS messages to the victim device and in most cases requires no end-user actions upon message reception to succeed—the user doesn't have to do anything to 'accept' exploits using the bug; it happens in the background. A phone number is the only information needed to carry out the attack.
The underlying attack vector exploits certain integer overflow vulnerabilities in the Android core component called , which is a complex software library implemented primarily in C++ as part of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and used as a backend engine for playing various multimedia formats such as MP4 files.
The discovered bugs have been provided with multiple Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) identifiers, (the latter one has been assigned separately from the others), which are collectively referred to as the Stagefright bug.
In order to exploit the vulnerability one doesn't specifically need an MMS message (which was just an example of using the vulnr for RCE), but any other processing of the specifically crafted media by the vulnerable component is enough, that can be done via the most of applications having to deal with media files but not using own-bundled (which increases size of an app and imposes additional unjustified costs on its developer) pure software (which is slow and not energy efficient) media codecs for that, such as media players/galleries, web browsers (can cause drive-by compromise) and file managers showing thumbnails (can be used for achieving persistence).
History
The Stagefright bug was discovered by Joshua Drake from the Zimperium security firm, and was publicly announced for the first time on July 27, 2015. Prior to the announcement, Drake reported the bug to Google in April 2015, which incorporated a related bugfix into its internal source code repositories two days after the report. In July 2015, Evgeny Legerov, a Moscow-based security researcher, announced that he had found at least two similar heap overflow zero-day vulnerabilities in the Stagefright library, claiming at the same time that the library has been already exploited for a while. Legerov also confirmed that the vulnerabilities he discovered become unexploitable by applying the patches Drake submitted to Google.
The public full disclosure of the Stagefright bug, presented by Drake, took place on August 5, 2015 at the Black Hat USA computer security conference, and o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MulticoreWare | MulticoreWare Inc is a software development company, offering products and services related to HEVC video compression, machine learning (specifically, convolutional neural networks), compilers for heterogeneous computing, and software performance optimization services. MulticoreWare's customers include AMD, Microsoft, Google, Qualcomm and Telestream. The company was founded in 2009 and has offices in the United States, China and India.
MulticoreWare was placed at 110 on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies in America for 2014. St. Louis, Missouri–based technology start-up accelerator ITEN listed the company in its list of top ten tech startups in the St. Louis area for three consecutive years (2012–2014). It was ranked the 22nd fastest growing private company in Silicon Valley by Silicon Valley Business Journal in October 2014. In July 2014, MulticoreWare was named to EE Times Silicon 60, a list of hot startups to watch. MulticoreWare Inc. was a Tie50 Awards Finalist at TiEcon2014.
In May 2020, MulticoreWare entered the AMD embedded platform ecosystem with its AI technologies that address workloads for machine learning, neural networks, image and video processing applications to serve market segments such as: medical diagnostics, sports analytics, security and surveillance, robotics, and augmented reality.
Products
x265
MulticoreWare leads the development of the x265 HEVC encoder. x265 is based on the x264 H.264/MPEG-4 AVC encoder with a similar command-line syntax and feature set. x265 is offered under either the GNU General Public License (GPL) 2 license or a commercial license. In February 2014, Telestream's Vantage Transcode Multiscreen became the first commercial product to introduce x265 encoding technology. In October 2015, the Video Group at Moscow State University identified x265 as having the highest overall efficiency in its first comparison of HEVC encoders.
LipSync
LipSync is a tool that automatically detects audio-video synchronization errors in video. By using machine learning and deep learning technologies, errors can be detected without digital fingerprinting or watermarking in the source video. It requires an Nvidia GPU, an AMD64 capable CPU, 16 GB of RAM and a Windows or Linux operating system.
UHDcode
MulticoreWare offers the UHDcode HEVC video decoder API, available on x86, ARM, Xbox 360 and PS3. It is OpenCL accelerated and supports HEVC Main/ Main10 profiles.
x265 HEVC Upgrade
In March 2015 MulticoreWare launched x265 HEVC Upgrade, which includes the x265 Encoder application and the UHDcode DirectShow filter, allowing HEVC video playback on 64-bit Windows Media Player.
Multicore Cross Platform Architecture
Multicore Cross Platform Architecture (MxPA) is a heterogeneous computing stack based on the LLVM framework, capable of supporting OpenCL, RenderScript, CUDA and C++ AMP.
HCC C++
HCC is an open source parallel C++ compiler for HSA and OpenCL 1.2. HCC provides compiler frontends for C++AMP, C+ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MadgeTech | MadgeTech, Inc. is a data logger company located in Warner, New Hampshire, United States. MadgeTech designs, engineers, manufactures and sells data loggers. It was founded in October 1996.
History
Norman Carlson founded the company in 1996.
In 2014 the company had 54 employees and designed and produced the products in New Hampshire.
Products
The company designs, builds and tests sensors that monitor and measure everything from humidity, the carbon dioxide level and temperature to speed and pressure. For example, it built humidity monitors for the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City to protect priceless works of art against damage from their environment. It makes data loggers so geothermal engineers in the Philippines know how much steam their systems generate. Furthermore, the company makes sensors to monitor the storage temperature of meat, and its newest product measures carbon dioxide to ensure proper ventilation. The products are used all over the world. The MadgeTech Data Logger Software provides device management and a wealth of reporting tools. MadgeTech secure data logger software is also available to serve more strictly regulated industries that need to comply with 21 CFR Part11 requirements and IQ/OQ/PQ guidelines.
The production process is entirely located at their headquarters in Warner, New Hampshire.
MadgeTech data loggers have been used by NASA.
References
External links
Cote, Mike. "Fiorina thinks entrepreneurs could use a little help", The Union Leader, Manchester, 2 May 2015. Retrieved on 28 July 2015.
MadgeTech Named June "Innovation Rocks" Award Winner
External links
Official website
Warner, New Hampshire
Companies based in Merrimack County, New Hampshire
Instrument-making corporations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Neff | James Neff is an American nonfiction author and investigative journalist. He is deputy managing editor for the Philadelphia Media Network. His most recent work, Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy versus Jimmy Hoffa, was published by Little, Brown and Company in July 2015.
Early life and education
Neff is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and has a master's degree in American Civilization from the University of Texas at Austin.
Career
Neff was a reporter at the Austin American-Statesman and at the Cleveland Plain Dealer in his hometown. He was a local columnist at the Plain Dealer from 1981 to 1986. Some of his columns were collected into City Beat: Stories from the Heart of Cleveland.
His 1989 biography of Teamsters president Jackie Presser, Mobbed Up: Jackie Presser's High-Wire Life in the Teamsters, the Mafia, and the FBI, was adapted into the HBO movie Teamster Boss.
In 1995, Neff's third book, Unfinished Murder: The Capture of a Serial Rapist was published. This account of the investigation, capture, and conviction of serial rapist Ronnie Shelton, known in Cleveland as the West Side Rapist, was praised for its insight into the damage inflicted upon the victims of this violent man.
Neff was the Willard M. Kiplinger Chair in Public Affairs Reporting in Ohio State University School of Journalism and Communication from 1994 to 1999. In this position, he supervised the Kiplinger Mid-Career Program in Public Affairs Reporting, an interdisciplinary year-long program awarding master's degrees to journalists who break from their careers for an intensive study of public affairs reporting.
Neff spent several years re-investigating the Dr. Sam Sheppard murder case for his next book, The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case. He located police reports and grand jury transcripts from the 1950s that were previously unavailable. He concluded that Dr. Sam Sheppard did not kill his wife Marilyn in July 1954.
When, in 2000, Sam Reese Sheppard, son of the late Dr. Sheppard, sued the state of Ohio claiming his father was wrongfully imprisoned for Marilyn Sheppard's murder, county prosecutors in Cleveland, Ohio, subpoenaed all of Neff's research for his book in an attempt to shore up its case that Sheppard was guilty. The subpoena was successfully defeated with the help of First Amendment lawyer David Marburger.
Neff was interviewed on the cable program, "A Crime to Remember: The Wrong Man," a retrospective look at the Marilyn Sheppard murder which aired in December, 2015, on the Investigations Discovery Channel.
Neff has been a board member and past president of Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. (IRE) from 1991 through 2002. Through IRE, he has published several "tip sheets" for investigative reporters on finding information in a hurry, backgrounding, and finding and using archival documents.
In 2001, Neff became the investigations editor at the Seattle Times. In March, 2016, Neff was named assistant managing edit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TX5 | TX5 may refer to:
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX5 - a digital camera
TX5 (taxi) - a taxicab (hackney carriage) manufactured by The London Taxi Company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Gambier%20railway%20line | The Mount Gambier railway line was a railway line on the South Australian Railways network. Opened in stages from 1881, it was built to narrow gauge and joined Mount Gambier railway station, which was at that time the eastern terminus of a line to Beachport. It connected at Naracoorte to another isolated narrow gauge line joining Naracoorte to Kingston SE, and to the broad gauge Adelaide-Wolseley line at Wolseley, at around the same time that was extended to Serviceton to become the South Australian part of the interstate Melbourne–Adelaide railway. Since its closure in 1995 following the standardisation of the interstate main line, there have been varying calls for standardisation of the railway between Wolseley and Heywood.
History
Kingston to Naracoorte
An isolated line was authorised by the South-Eastern Railway Act in 1871 and completed in 1876 from the port at Kingston SE inland via Lucindale to Naracoorte as narrow gauge. For the first six months after the line was completed, no locomotives were available, so wagons on the line were towed by horses. It was converted to broad gauge with a new terminus one kilometre east of Kingston, on the edge of the port township in 1957. It closed on 28 November 1987.
Rivoli Bay to Mount Gambier
Another narrow gauge railway was built from the port on Rivoli Bay at what is now Beachport inland via Millicent to Mount Gambier in 1878. The line and jetty at Beachport provided the ability for farms in the district to export wool and grain. When the line was converted to broad gauge in 1957, it was cut back and no longer served Beachport, but only Mount Gambier to Millicent until it closed in April 1995.
Part of the line was used by the Limestone Coast Railway tourist service, until it ceased on 1 July 2006.
Mount Gambier to Wolseley
The railway connecting Mount Gambier to Naracoorte was initially approved by the Parliament of South Australia in 1867 to be built to gauge. However it was not built at this time, and that act was repealed by a later authorisation in 1884 to build it on the same alignment to gauge.
On 21 September 1881, the first section of the line opened from Naracoorte to Tatiara. It was extended north to Wolseley on 18 April 1883 and south from Naracoorte to Mount Gambier on 14 June 1887.
The Mount Gambier line was gauge converted to broad gauge in 1953 being a dual gauge line then with the narrow gauge being completely removed by 1959 .
Australian National passenger services ceased on 31 December 1990.
When the Melbourne–Adelaide railway was converted to standard gauge, the Mount Gambier to Wolseley line was not converted and was closed on 12 April 1995.
In 2001, expressions of interest were sought for a private operator to reopen the line with the state government offering financial assistance to gauge convert, but nothing came of it. If done so it would be the first in Australia to have all 3 gauges.
Part of the line was used by the Limestone Coast Railway tourist service |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artmotion | Artmotion Ltd. is a Swiss based data housing provider. It operates two data centers near the Swiss Alps that are designed for security-seeking businesses, favored by the country's political neutrality and ironclad privacy laws.
History
Artmotion was founded in 2000 by Mateo Meier, who is also the current CEO of the company. In 2003, Artmotion acquired Cyberhost, a Swiss Cloud hosting services provider. In 2004, it became an Ltd. company.
Since 2011, the Swiss datacenter provider Everyware Ltd. holds 25 percent of Artmotion's shares. Artmotion increased its capital in 2015.
Artmotion acquired 58% shares in Citadelo and became a shareholder and board member in 2020. However Artmotion and Citadelo continued to operate as separate companies. Artmotion also owns a stake in Citadelo Switzerland.
NSA PRISM Scandal
After the 2013 PRISM leak, several cloud computing companies faced criticism for their lack of security, especially those based in US. Artmotion, among other Swiss-based cloud computing providers gained the most out of this scandal. Mostly due to the country's stringent data privacy laws, their customer base increased and the company had their revenue up 45 percent in a month following the scandal.
According to the CEO Mateo Meier, except in a few European countries like Luxembourg and Switzerland, personal privacy is difficult to service in this modern world. Switzerland is not a member of European Union, hence it is exempt from pan-European agreements to share data with member states, as well as the United States.
References
Information technology companies of Switzerland
Data centers
Cloud computing providers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Tutashkhia | Data Tutashkhia () is a novel written by Chabua Amirejibi in 1975. It was translated to English by Antonina W. Bouis in 1985. This is one of the most popular readable novels in Georgia and former Soviet countries.
About novel
The novel is a story of a Georgian outlaw of the Imperial Russian period, a very popular theme in Georgian literature, and combines thrilling escapades with Dostoevskian dealings with the fate of an individual and national soul. The story is narrated by a Russian gendarme, Count Szeged, who frequently passes the story-telling on to other characters. The novel follows the life of outlaw Data Tutashkhia, who spends years eluding capture by the Tsarist police. They are led by Data's cousin, his detached and imperturbable double, Mushni Zarandia. The book, and the feature film based on it, turned Data Tutaskhia into an iconic hero, widely popular in Georgia.
Plot and structure
The novel is divided into four parts chronicling its hero's, Data Tutashkhia's, moral evolution, always narrated from the perspective of a multitude of characters from Tutashkhia's past. He is a man who from birth, can not stand injustice and wrongdoing. At the very beginning of the novel, we learn that he was convicted of an accidental killing that even the victim absolved him of! This then began his life as a fugitive, constantly running from police desperate to catch him. Throughout the novel, He goes from place to place, sees evil and struggles with how to overcome it. In the first part of the novel, Tutashkhia attempts to help those wronged with little result, as either the individual wronged (strangely enough) continues to allow him/herself to be wronged (as in the case of the loser at cards continuing to allow himself to be cheated by card sharks); or the injured and insulted, once rescued by Data, start, themselves, to injure and insult (as was the case with the married pair whom Tutashkhia assisted to purchase a cow). An excellent, memorable tale in this section of the novel was that of the hospital patients, whom he likened to the cannibal rats bred by one of the residents.
In the second part of the novel Data Tutashkhia, saddened by his previous experiences, decides not to intervene at all in societal issues unless absolutely certain that his actions would bring good. His new stance had the result of people forgetting all of his past good deeds, and turning on him for his 'indifference'.
In the third part of the novel, Tutashkhia, who has by this point lost his way, attempts to mingle in society in order to determine for himself a meaning and way forward in life. He joins the company of a lawyer and a mysterious woman and their little group engages in various philosophical debates over drinks (which it seems was/is a national pastime in Georgia!). This portion of the story was both interesting, in terms of the philosophical debates, and suspenseful The segment's climax, the dinner at the lawyer's home (with its 'mystery' guest), was p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Tibet%20Broadcasting | China Tibet Broadcasting (;CTB) is a broadcast network headquartered in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Its radio programmes were founded in 1959. Its English language audio broadcast is called Holy Tibet, broadcasts at 07:00 and 16:00 UTC every day.
The official website is "Voice of Tibet" (; ). It comprises the CTB with and Tibet Television (; XZTV).
Broadcast time
Standard Chinese: 4:00 (Wednesday 5:00)–2:00 (next day)
Standard Tibatan: 4:50 (Wednesday 5:00)–2:00 (next day)
Kham Tibetan language: 6:00–0:00 (next day)
City life: 6:50–2:00 (next day)
Educational: 7:30–13:30 and 18:00–22:00
See also
Voice of Tibet (Norway)
External links
(in Mandarin)
Directory of FM radio stations in the region Xizang
Television networks in China
Mass media in Lhasa
Tibetan-language radio stations
Television in minority languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid%20Hermentin | Ingrid Hermentin (born 26 September 1951 in Löwenstein, West Germany) is an artist and pioneer of serial computer graphics.
Life
From 1969 to 1979, Hermentin was trained in the medical field and worked at various hospitals in the Stuttgart area. In 1980, she spent several months in Canada and the US. Since 1981, Hermentin has lived and worked in Marburg. In 1983, she launched her career as an artist with several study trips to Italy. Her focus has been on computer graphics since 1990. She has since had numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad.
Concept
Linking people, computers, and art, Hermentin regards her works as "aesthetical reflections of a world organized through media. Our media experiences have become epistemological and pragmatic motivators and originators for our consciousness. Our existence, or our perception of it during an instant of experienced "reality", signifies itself as a synthetic image and is then expressed in a distanced fashion”. [translated from ] To show the ambivalent nature of the technical present and to give a form to the phenomena of signifiers, which are converted into information and stored, requires, according to Hermentin, the using of a distancing instrument: the computer. “The extension of thought through electronic distance must be read as a spontaneous and reflected creation. The significant aspect here is the representation of altered forms and the endlessness that becomes imaginable through a series. ... The desire for the imaginable but not for measurable space produces the sign. The resistance of the material is not broken by strength and destruction, but rather through calculation”. [translated from ]
“The overlapping of intellectual patterns of thoughts in art, philosophy and science, in resonance and connection with the memory, knowledge and experience, make appear various forms of phenomena”. [translated from ]
Technical development
While Hermentin with her "digital collages" in the inkjet print format up to Din-A3 laid the basis for her printed graphics (1991-1994), she also developed a serial inkjet printing method for producing large image formats based on Din-A3 prints (1993-1994). Simultaneously, she used the upcoming large format digital printing for serial works in the Din-A1 format (since 1992) or Din-A0 format (since 1994) and developed a glazing technique for her "synthetic images" in order to produce more brilliant colors, using a large format inkjet printer with non-fading colors since 1998.
References
German digital artists
Women digital artists
German contemporary artists
1951 births
Living people
21st-century German women artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncated%20Newton%20method | The truncated Newton method, originated in a paper by Ron Dembo and Trond Steihaug, also known as Hessian-free optimization, are a family of optimization algorithms designed for optimizing non-linear functions with large numbers of independent variables. A truncated Newton method consists of repeated application of an iterative optimization algorithm to approximately solve Newton's equations, to determine an update to the function's parameters. The inner solver is truncated, i.e., run for only a limited number of iterations. It follows that, for truncated Newton methods to work, the inner solver needs to produce a good approximation in a finite number of iterations; conjugate gradient has been suggested and evaluated as a candidate inner loop. Another prerequisite is good preconditioning for the inner algorithm.
References
Further reading
Optimization algorithms and methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3n%20%C3%96rn%20Lo%C3%B0mfj%C3%B6r%C3%B0 | Jón Örn Loðmfjörð (born December 25, 1983, Selfoss) is an Icelandic experimental poet. He is noted for computer-generated poetry, and particularly his 2010 mash-up of the Icelandic government report into the collapse of Iceland's banks in 2008, Gengismunur ('Arbitrage').
Works
(with Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl) Brandarablandarar: https://web.archive.org/web/20110419131623/http://www.norddahl.org/brandarablandarar/
(with Arngrímur Vídalín, under the pseudonym Celidonius) Síðasta ljóðabók Sjóns ([Reykjavík]: Nýhil, 2008); (ób.); 9979989629
(with Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir, under the pseudonym Dr. Usli) Usli: kennslubók, Smábókaflokkur Nýhils, 4 (Reykjavík: Nýhil, 2009); (ób.); 9979989688
Gengismunur: ljóð úr skýrslu rannsóknarnefndar alþingis (Reykjavík: Nýhil, 2010); http://lommi.is/gengismunur/
Translations into English
'Five Poems', 3:AM Magazine (December 19, 2010), http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/five-poems-jon-orn-lo%C3%B0mfor%C3%B0/
References
External links
Author's website
Jón Örn Loðmfjörð
Jón Örn Loðmfjörð
Living people
20th-century Icelandic people
1983 births
21st-century Icelandic poets
21st-century male writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Szalay | Alex Szalay is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of physics and astronomy and computer science at the Johns Hopkins University School of Arts and Sciences and Whiting School of Engineering. Szalay is an international leader in astronomy, cosmology, the science of big data, and data‐intensive computing. In 2023, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Biography
Alexander Sándor Szalay, Jr. was born in Hungary. His father is Sándor Szalay, who is considered “the father of nuclear physics in Hungary” for his discovery of a natural enrichment mechanism of uranium and neutrinos. Szalay graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 1969 from Kossuth University, now University of Debrecen, in Hungary. He then received a Master of Science in Theoretical Physics 1972 and a Ph.D in Astrophysics in 1975 from the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. During this period, from 1974 to 1982, Szalay also played guitar in the Hungarian rock band Panta Rhei (band). After graduation Szalay spent postdoctoral periods at the University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago, and Fermilab, before accepting an assistant professorship at Eötvös Loránd University in 1982. After rising to the rank of full professor at Eötvös, he joined Johns Hopkins University in 1989. Subsequently, he was named the Alumni Centennial Chair in 1998 and earned a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer Science in 2001. In 2008, he became Doctor Honoris Causa of the Eötvös Loránd University.
In March 2015, Szalay was named a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University for his accomplishments as an interdisciplinary researcher and excellence in teaching. The Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship program was established in 2013 by a gift from Michael Bloomberg. Szalay holds joint appointments in the Johns Hopkins University Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’s Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Whiting School of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science. Through the Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship, Szalay also will be teaching a new undergraduate class in data science, using a synthesis of statistics, computer science, and basic sciences that he thinks “will become the fundamental language used by the next generation of scientists.”
Since 2009, Szalay has been the founding director of the Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES) at Johns Hopkins, an interdisciplinary institute fostering “education and research in applying data-intensive technologies to problems of national interest in physical and biological sciences and engineering.” At the time of its founding, IDIES was the “first interdisciplinary big data center of its type […] and has since inspired similar efforts at other universities.” IDIES is supported by the National Science Foundation, NASA, Intel, Microsoft, Nokia, Nvidia, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the W. M. Keck Foundation.
Awards and distinctions
I |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creepy%20treehouse | Creepy treehouse is a social media term, or internet slang, referring to websites or social networking platforms that professors use for educational purposes, but students regard as an invasion of privacy. The term, first described in 2008 by Utah Valley University instructional-design services director Jared Stein, describes "technological innovations by faculty members that make students’ skin crawl." The term also refers to online accounts and websites that users tend to avoid, especially young people who avoid visiting the pages of educators and other adults. Author Martin Weller defines creepy treehouse as a digital space where authority figures are viewed as invading younger people's privacy.
University of Regina professor Alec Couros suggests that instead of "forcing" student participation with their own digital platforms, professors should use methods like online forums.
References
Internet culture
Internet forum terminology
Social media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno%20Degazio | Bruno Degazio (born March 31, 1958) is a composer, researcher and film sound designer based in Ontario, Canada, where he is also a professor at Sheridan College. Degazio is an expert on computer music.
Education
Degazio received bachelor's and master's degrees in music from the University of Toronto, where he studied music composition with Gustav Ciamaga, as well as Schenkerian analysis, and sound synthesis. He helped establish a contemporary music ensemble, and finished his studies there in 1981.
Career
Degazio is notable for, among other things, implementing computer music algorithms that were devised by the music theorist Joseph Schillinger, and for designing systems to reverse engineer music production from theories about music theory. He has also studied musical aspects of fractal geometry, for automated composition of music. Degazio was one of the first people in the world to apply fractal techniques to algorithmic composition with some degree of depth.
Degazio is proficient with wind controllers, also known as wind synthesizers. His arrangements for this instrument include works by Johann Sebastian Bach and others. Degazio's work on films led to a Genie award nomination for the film Bye Bye Blues, plus prizes from the Baltimore Film Festival and the Toronto Advertising Awards. He also has developed sound tracks for two 3-D IMAX films at the 1990 World's Fair in Osaka, Japan.
Arrangements of the Goldberg Variations
Degazio has arranged a number of pieces from the Goldberg Variations for other instruments. Following are several examples, performed on electronic wind instrument:
Writings
"Musical aspects of fractal geometry", Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, (San Francisco 1986)
"The MIDIFORTH computer music system", Proceedings of Printemps Electroacoustique (Montreal 1987)
"The development of context sensitivity in the MIDIFORTH computer music system", Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, (Cologne 1988)
"Fractal geometry and the Schillinger system", GUIDE Diffusion! (Montreal 1988)
"Fractal music: aesthetic and practice", Proceedings of the Steirischer Herbst Festival Chaos and Order (Graz 1989)
Degazio also writes a bi-monthly column, "MIDI buzz", on MIDI applications for computers in Reset Magazine (Ottawa 1987–)
Further Bach transcriptions
Aside from the Goldberg Variations, Degazio has often transcribed other music of J. S. Bach. These employ an electronic wind instrument and/or Yamaha VL1 synthesizer.
References
Canadian composers
Canadian male composers
1958 births
Fractal artists
Living people
Academic staff of Sheridan College
University of Toronto alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFINET | UFINET is a multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Madrid, Spain. It operates a Tier 2 network.
History
UFINET is a neutral, carrier of carrier's telecom company, created by Unión Fenosa (formerly known as Unión Fenosa Redes de Telecomunicación) in 1998. In 2009, it merged with the company Desarrollo de Cable, which belonged to the company Gas Natural, and this gave rise to Gas Natural Fenosa Telecomunicaciones (GNF Telecom). In 2014, CINVEN, an investment fund of private capital acquired the GNFT. The acquisition was carried out for a total of 510 million Euros. Since then, the company has traded as UFINET. In June 2018, ENEL acquired 21% of the company, while Cinven kept the remaining 79% Under the agreement, Enel X International has the right to exercise a call option to acquire the Sixth Cinven Fund’s stake between December 31st, 2020 and December 31st, 2021.
Business areas
UFINET provides telecommunication services through more than 70,000km of fiber optic network. Among the services provided are Fiber optic, data transmission, Internet service provider, co-location center, Ethernet (E-Line, E-Access, E-LAN, E-Tree), PDH/SDH7/SONET, Dark Fiber, Internet (DIA, SOHO), VSAT (Satellite services), FTTH (Fiber to the Home), Towering, Layer 3 services, Direct cloud connectivity and other services (CPE Lease, Remote Hands, etc.). UFINET is a MEF Carrier Ethernet 3.0 (CE 3.0) certified for E-LINE, E-LAN, E-TREE and E-ACCESS capacity services.
Countries covered
UFINET currently has a presence in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panamá, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Chile. It also uses the facilities of data center providers such as CoreSite, providing network access points (NAP) in the Americas, New York, Los Angeles and Dominican Republic.
References
External links
Ufinet
Unión Fenosa
Servicios Satelitales de Ufinet
Cinven
Enel
Multinational companies headquartered in Spain
Telecommunications companies of South America
Companies based in Madrid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme%20learning%20machine | Extreme learning machines are feedforward neural networks for classification, regression, clustering, sparse approximation, compression and feature learning with a single layer or multiple layers of hidden nodes, where the parameters of hidden nodes (not just the weights connecting inputs to hidden nodes) need to be tuned. These hidden nodes can be randomly assigned and never updated (i.e. they are random projection but with nonlinear transforms), or can be inherited from their ancestors without being changed. In most cases, the output weights of hidden nodes are usually learned in a single step, which essentially amounts to learning a linear model.
The name "extreme learning machine" (ELM) was given to such models by Guang-Bin Huang. The idea goes back to Frank Rosenblatt, who not only published a single layer Perceptron in 1958, but also introduced a multi layer perceptron with 3 layers: an input layer, a hidden layer with randomized weights that did not learn, and a learning output layer.
According to some researchers, these models are able to produce good generalization performance and learn thousands of times faster than networks trained using backpropagation. In literature, it also shows that these models can outperform support vector machines in both classification and regression applications.
History
From 2001-2010, ELM research mainly focused on the unified learning framework for "generalized" single-hidden layer feedforward neural networks (SLFNs), including but not limited to sigmoid networks, RBF networks, threshold networks, trigonometric networks, fuzzy inference systems, Fourier series, Laplacian transform, wavelet networks, etc. One significant achievement made in those years is to successfully prove the universal approximation and classification capabilities of ELM in theory.
From 2010 to 2015, ELM research extended to the unified learning framework for kernel learning, SVM and a few typical feature learning methods such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF). It is shown that SVM actually provides suboptimal solutions compared to ELM, and ELM can provide the whitebox kernel mapping, which is implemented by ELM random feature mapping, instead of the blackbox kernel used in SVM. PCA and NMF can be considered as special cases where linear hidden nodes are used in ELM.
From 2015 to 2017, an increased focus has been placed on hierarchical implementations of ELM. Additionally since 2011, significant biological studies have been made that support certain ELM theories.
From 2017 onwards, to overcome low-convergence problem during training LU decomposition, Hessenberg decomposition and QR decomposition based approaches with regularization have begun to attract attention
In a 2017 announcement from Google Scholar: "Classic Papers: Articles That Have Stood The Test of Time", two ELM papers have been listed in the "Top 10 in Artificial Intelligence for 2006," taking positions 2 and 7.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HackHands | HackHands (stylized as hack.hands()) is an online technology mentoring platform for computer programmers and coders, serviced by a global network of subject-matter experts.
History
HackHands is an independent spin-off of 6PS Group, a Brazilian web development company, that launched in 2013 at the New York WeWork Labs space. It was founded by two Brazilian technology entrepreneurs, Geraldo Ramos, José Wilker and Assis Antunes, with American Forest Good. On November 10, 2014, Ed Roman joined HackHands as CEO. The company relocated its headquarters to San Francisco in 2014.
Acquisition
On July 9, 2015, Pluralsight, an online education company, announced it had acquired HackHands in order to expand its capabilities beyond video tutorials and assessments by adding live assistance for technology learners. In 2015, Hackhands moved its office to Pluralsight's headquarters in Farmington, Utah.
Community involvement
HackHands founded HackPledge, an initiative to encourage industry experts to mentor and teach novice developers. The company also launched the HackSummit, the largest virtual conference and programming conference at that time, which had more than 64,000 registrants.
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External links
American educational websites
Educational technology companies of the United States
Virtual learning environments
Privately held companies based in Utah
American companies established in 2013
2013 establishments in Utah |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20the%20busiest%20airports%20in%20California | List of the busiest airports in California
In Calendar year 2016 (preliminary FAA data) by 'passenger boardings, not total passengers, except for Tijuana. While large airports dominant traffic and small airports struggle to retain carriers or completely lose scheduled passenger service, there are but a few growing medium-sized airports. While only 13 airports had 350,000 boardings or more, the major metropolitan areas dominate the rankings; road traffic instead takes an outsized role in connecting to other regions of the state and winner-take-all dominating airports in traffic clogged areas like LAX crowd out smaller airports from commercial aviation, leaving little option but driving.
Airport list
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism%20in%20Paraguay | Tourism in Paraguay employs only 9,500 people, according to data from 2010.
Paraguay was the least visited country of South America after Guyana and Suriname, with only 610,000 international tourists for the period 2013–2014.
Foreign tourism
The count of foreign tourists in 2011 decreased by 12% from the previous year. The number of visitors entered was 520,926, while in 2010 it was of 465,264. In 2015, the number of foreign tourists exceeded 1.2 million.
Arrivals by country
Most visitors arriving to Paraguay on a short-term basis in 2015 were from the following nations:
Tourist assets
Natural areas
There are numerous places that feature adventure tourism in Paraguay. Several of them have extreme sports like zip-lining and rappelling. Activities include walks, hiking in sulky, cavalcades, and guided tours. One can also perform educational scientific research in various reserves, such as observing the characteristic fauna and flora of rural areas. Paraguay's protected areas are found throughout the territory.
Rural tourism provides insight into the native culture of the peoples of Amazonian origin and highlights their maternal relationship to the land.
Typical Food
Typical meals like sopa paraguaya, asado al asador, homemade oven cooked chicken, sweets, and marmalade are an attraction for tourists. In rural areas, tourists can see crops of sugarcane, maize, cassava, snuff, coffee, peanut, rice, sorghum, tung, and spurge, as well as other fruits of the Paraguayan land, such as the avocado, handle, papaya, and pineapple.
Sport fishing
Paraguay's most important water sources are the Paraná River, the Tebicuary River, and Paraguay River. It also has several lakes, estuaries, and small streams. Among the most prized species of fish are the Surubí, which is an important component of indigenous cuisine. Another important fish is the Dorado, which is famous for its acrobatic jumps.
One of the richest cities in the production of fish is Villa Florida, whose beaches oversee the Tebicuary River. In this city, the popular sport is fishing, and the cuisine feature several dishes made with fish, such as Pira Caldo.
References
Paraguay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20Block | A Media Block or Integrated Media Block is a component in a digital cinema projection system. Its purpose is to convert the Digital Cinema Package (DCP) content into data that ultimately produces picture and sound in a theater in compliance with DCI anti-piracy encryption requirements.
Terminology
DCI specification allows for two different security system architectures.
In the first the Media Block is outside of the projector. This design is simply referred to as a "Media Block" and is typically a device attached directly to the motherboard of a Digital Cinema server. The media block is usually connected to the projector by dual-link SDI cables. Such media block is limited to processing 2K output, downscaling 4K DCPs if necessary.
The second architecture describes an "Integrated Media Block" (IMB). This refers to a device attached and integrated directly into the projector, which receives image data from the server, usually via a cat6 Ethernet connection. They can process 2K and 4K output.
Some hardware implementations integrate the entire server on a single board and are able to work both as a MB as well as an IMB.
Security Features
Upon ingestion into a DCP server, KDMs are stored on flash memory in the media block or IMB. A KDM is written to enable the playback of a specific DCP during a specific time windows and on a specific media block or IMB, identified by its serial number during the authoring process. Media blocks and IMBs also contain a secure clock that is set in the factory cannot be altered by the end user, which the DCP servers to which they are attached use to determine showtimes. The secure clock prevents theaters from showing encrypted movies outside the times authorized by the KDM (e.g. after it has expired) by simply changing the date and time in the server's BIOS. Media blocks and IMBs also typically include anti-tamper devices, designed to self-destruct the unit if unauthorized modification of its hardware, software or secure clock is attempted.
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Film and video technology
Film and video terminology
Digital media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahoona | Ahoona is a free online social network that is focused on crowd-sourcing six elements of decision quality to help people make better decisions in their daily lives. The project started through a National Science Foundation initiative known as I-Corps. It has resulted in numerous media publications, TEDx talks, TV coverage, and distribution lists of professional decision making societies.
This web-based decision making project first crowd-sources the inputs to a decision and then makes a decision recommendation. The crowd-sourced elements include the bigger picture, the alternatives, the preferences, the uncertainties, the information and the pros and cons. A decision recommendation is made after the elements of decision quality are crowd-sourced using decision tree analysis, pros cons analysis or weight and rate analysis.
Motivation
While the field of decision analysis has advanced significantly in the last few decades, it has not penetrated the daily lives of the general public for use with their decisions. Contributing factors to this include :
Decision education is mainly conducted through coursework at the university level.
Decision support software has been created for a trained analyst, who knows about decision modeling, and not a general user.
Conducting a decision analysis requires identifying the elements of a decision such as the important alternatives, objectives, uncertainties, and the frame (or bigger picture of the decision). It has been proven that this is a cognitively difficult task when a person is facing a decision.
The main purpose of the Ahoona project is to simplify the decision making process for individuals by crowdsourcing the elements of the decision and building a step-by-step decision analysis using the crowd-sourced elements.
History
The Ahoona project started in 2011 with an initiative from the National Science Foundation to operationalize research conducted at universities. The projected was found by Ali Abbas, then a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign together with graduate students and friends from Facebook.
Operation
Ahoona requires users to register with their real names. Once logged in a user may post a decision he is facing to the world or to a select group of friends or to himself. Instead of receiving arbitrary recommendations, responders to the decision post, are provided with categories (buckets) for which they provide responses. These categories comprise six elements of decision quality:
the bigger picture,
the alternatives,
the preferences,
the uncertainties,
the information and
the pros and cons.
Once the inputs are received a decision tree analysis tool uses the inputs; builds a step-by-step decision tree and makes a decision recommendation.
References
External links
Official site
Decision analysis
Crowdsourcing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bride%20He%20Bought%20Online | The Bride He Bought Online is a 2015 American television thriller film, written and directed by , and starring Anne Winters, Alexandra Paul, and Jamie Luner. It was broadcast on the Lifetime network in the United States on July 18, 2015.
Plot
What starts out as a harmless online prank takes a dark turn for 17-year-old Avery Lindstrom (Anne Winters) when her best friends, Mandy Kim (Lauren Gaw) and Kaley Mack (Annalisa Cochrane), create a fake profile for an international dating website and begin to communicate with a lonely, socially inept computer programmer named John Bennett (Travis Hammer). Having lived a life of isolation and bullying, John becomes consumed by his desire for revenge after learning he was catfished by the girls. Doing some digging online, John finds that the photo of his nonexistent "girlfriend" was actually that of a deceased Filipina model, then uncovers the identities of the three girls who played him like a fool on their blog with their cruel prank. While both Avery and Mandy feel bad for what they did to him and show some remorse, Kaley doesn't, being the "mean girl" of their school.
John decides to get back at the girls by hiring a good-looking guy about their age name Nick (Randy Blekitas). Nick is a male prostitute, and John tells him he is playing a trick on his niece, and wants him to get the three girls to fall for him and then stand them up. John finds their hangout, the Skatelab skate park, and sends Nick there to flirt with them. The plan works well, as both Kaley and Mandy express interest and give him their phone numbers.
Nick tells the girls he had just moved from Pittsburgh, and they invite him to a party that Avery is throwing. Though he fails to show, Nick then sends a text message inviting Kaley and Mandy to Skatelab (which was actually sent by John), and when they arrive, it seems as though no one is there. John kidnaps Mandy outside the hangout first, which Kaley initially thinks is a practical joke being pulled by Mandy or Avery. Kaley returns to the party and plays a practical joke on Avery's crush Trevor, pouring water on the crotch of his pants, then posts video of the prank on their blog. At this point, Avery has had enough of Kaley and ends their friendship.
Upon returning home, Kaley turns on the TV, but John uses his computer hacking skills to scare her by turning off the security system in Kaley's home. Having succeeded in panicking her, he then enters the house and kidnaps Kaley at gunpoint, taking her to the warehouse where he is holding Mandy hostage. The next day, Avery is being interviewed by an agent, as the parents of Kaley and Mandy are looking for their daughters. Avery tells the agent about Nick, and the cops mark him as a suspect. Nick spoke to the cop, straightened everything out and told him about John and he was unaware what he was doing.
Later that day, Avery is also kidnapped by John, and having now captured all three girls, he takes them to sell to a man he found online. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel%20Binx | Rachel Binx is an American data visualizer, developer, and designer. She is the co-founder of Meshu and Gifpop, two companies that create physical objects, such as maps and animated GIFs, from social data.
Binx has also worked at Stamen Design and NASA.
Early life and education
Binx is originally from New Mexico. In 2006, she moved to California to attend Santa Clara University, where she received a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.A. in Art History. After graduation, she freelanced in data visualization and web design.
Stamen Design
In 2011, Binx joined Stamen Design, a design and technology studio in San Francisco, California. At Stamen, Binx worked on projects for clients such as MTV, Facebook, and Oprah.
Business career
Binx has co-founded Meshu, Gifpop and monochōme, small companies that explore creating one-off physical objects from the data that customers find meaningful.
Meshu was co-founded with Sha Hwang, another Stamen alumni. Meshu is a service where people can upload geographic data from services, such as Foursquare, to be made into jewelry and accessories. The resulting 3D printed object is created from data points uploaded by the user.
Gifpop is a service for making physical GIFs. The service prints lenticular-printed cards from uploaded gif files. It was launched via a Kickstarter project that raised over $35,000 from more than 1,000 backers.
In 2014 Binx founded monochōme, a clothing company that allows customers to use map tiles from OpenStreetMap to create a custom print on various articles.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
In 2015, Binx joined the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Here, she builds data visualization tools for rovers, satellites, and other space technology. Binx works as part of the human computer interaction research group building data visualization tools for mission evaluations.
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External links
Living people
NASA
People from New Mexico
21st-century American businesspeople
21st-century American businesswomen
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Santa Clara University alumni
Jet Propulsion Laboratory faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Dslendingab%C3%B3k%20%28genealogical%20database%29 | (, literally 'book of Icelanders') is a database created by the biotechnology company deCODE genetics and Friðrik Skúlason, attempting to record the genealogy of all Icelanders who have ever lived, where sources are available. takes its name from the first history of Iceland, by Ari the Wise.
History
Genealogy has been a pastime of Icelanders for centuries, with its roots in medieval political agenda. Texts from early ages of Icelandic history, containing genealogical information, have survived into the modern age and scholars and enthusiasts have maintained the genealogy knowledge through the ages. In early 1988, Friðrik Skúlason marketed a software program for registering family information and started to compile a database of Icelandic genealogy with the aim to register all available Icelandic genealogy information. In 1997, deCODE genetics and Mr. Skúlason entered into an agreement to speed up the compilation of the database and to enable deCODE to utilize the database in the company’s medical genetics research. In January 2003, Íslendingabók was made publicly available on the web to all Icelanders, free of charge. The launch of the website received great attention and within a month, a third of the population had applied for access to the database. In celebration of the website’s 10th anniversary, founders of Íslendingabók, in collaboration with University of Iceland, launched an app-creation competition amongst university students. The winning team, named Sad Engineers Studio, received a prize of one million IKR. Their solution was implemented for Android smartphones and received an unexpected, international media attention.
Content and accuracy
As of February 2020, the database contains information on 904,000 individuals, an estimated half of the total population of Iceland since the settlement of the island in the 9th century. Coverage amongst Icelanders born in the 20th and 21st centuries is 100% and the database is estimated to contain 95% of individuals born since 1700. Each individual’s record contains information on parents, siblings, mates and children along with birthdates, death dates and places of birth and death. Connections toward parents have been 95.5% filled for those born in the 20th century. A study on mitochondria mutation, using Íslendingabók suggested the maternal lineages of the database to be 99.3% accurate and in a study on distribution of descendants, rate of false paternities is claimed to be 1.49% per generation, including laboratory handling errors.
Usage
Access to the Íslendingabók website is limited to individuals with Icelandic national identity number, kennitala. Each user can view information on his or her extended family, which by definition are all ancestors of the user along with descendants of the user’s great-grandparents. Additionally, every user can view information on all individuals born prior to the year 1700. Users have the ability to trace their relation to any individual the database contain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape%20Perfecto | Escape perfecto was an Argentine entertainment TV program.
Awards
Nominations
2015 Martín Fierro Awards: Best entertainment program.
References
Telefe original programming
Argentine variety television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%20Yue | Li Yue () is a Chinese businessman, the CEO of China Mobile, the largest mobile network operator in China.
He has a bachelor's degree in telephone exchange from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, an MBA from Tianjin University and a doctorate in business administration from Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
In September 2019, Li Yue retired as China Mobile CEO at the age of 60.
References
Living people
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications alumni
Tianjin University alumni
Alumni of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Chinese chief executives
21st-century Chinese businesspeople
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Series%20of%20Fighting%2024%3A%20Fitch%20vs.%20Okami | World Series of Fighting 24: Fitch vs. Okami was a mixed martial arts event held in Mashantucket, Connecticut, United States. This event aired live on NBCSN in the U.S and on Fight Network in Canada.
Background
The main event was a welterweight fight between UFC veterans Jon Fitch and Yushin Okami.
The co-main event was a fight for the WSOF Heavyweight Championship between champion Blagoy Ivanov making his first defense of his title against challenger Derrick Mehmen.
Results
See also
World Series of Fighting
List of WSOF champions
List of WSOF events
References
World Series of Fighting events
2015 in mixed martial arts
2015 in sports in Connecticut |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara%20Munzner | Tamara Macushla Munzner (born 1969) is an American-Canadian scientist. She is an expert in information visualization who works as a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia (UBC).
Early life
Tamara Macushla Munzner was born in 1969 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is the daughter of abstract painter Aribert Munzner. She graduated from South High School in 1986. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Stanford University in 1991. She returned to Stanford for her graduate studies, completing her Ph.D. in 2000 under the supervision of Pat Hanrahan. Her thesis, Interactive Visualization of Large Graphs and Networks, involved using hyperbolic geometry to visualize large graphs.
Career
Munzner worked as an intern at ETA Systems in the 1980s while still in college. Munzner then worked at The Geometry Center at the University of Minnesota from 1991 to 1995. There, she helped produce two mathematical visualization videos, one about turning spheres inside-out and another about the different topological structures that a three-dimensional universe could have.
She interned at Microsoft Research and Silicon Graphics. After receiving her Ph.D., she became a research scientist at the Compaq Systems Research Center in 2000, before joining the University of British Columbia faculty as an assistant professor of computer science in the summer of 2002.
Munzner is the author of the book Visualization Analysis and Design (CRC Press, 2014). She was program co-chair of the InfoVis conference in 2003 and 2004, and of EuroVis in 2009 and 2010. She has served as the chair of the steering committee of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) InfoVis and the executive committee of IEEE Visualization.
Selected publications
Munzner, T (2014). Visualization Analysis and Design CRC Press.
Munzner, T (2009). A Nested Model for Visualization Design and Validation IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics 15(6):921-928.
Munzner, T (2012), with Sedlmair, M. Design Study Methodology: Reflections from the Trenches and the Stacks IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics 18(12):2421-2440.
Recognition
In 2015, Munzner received the IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award "in recognition of her foundational research that has produced a scientific basis for principles and design choices for visualization". In 2019, Munzner was awarded a 10-Year Test of Time award from IEEE InfoVis. Her nested model of visualization design and validation, published in 2009, guided designers from a problem in an application domain to abstractions for the problem and data, to the design of visual encoding and interaction techniques, to efficient instantiation through algorithms. She was elected as an IEEE Fellow, in the 2023 class of fellows, "for contributions to principles, processes, and design for visualization".
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External links
1969 births
Living people
People from Minneapolis
American comput |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Besan%C3%A7on | The Besançon Tram network dated back to a horse tram service inaugurated in 1887. The first two electric tram lines began operating in 1897, joined later by (probably four) more. However, the system, which used only single tracks for its two lines, was badly damaged during World War II from which its finances also emerged in a parlous condition. In 1952, the operation having run out of funding possibilities, the Besançon trams were withdrawn: a city bus service was inaugurated in December 1952.
Following a widely endorsed decision by the city authorities taken in 2005, a new publicly financed two route tram network opened, formally at the end of August 2014, serving the now much enlarged Besançon conglomeration. Although officially organised into two routes, for most of their length the two routes operate on the same track. Another line is scheduled to enter service in 2025.
History
Background
Besançon had been linked to Dole by rail since 7 April 1856, and since 1 June 1858 also to Belfort following completion of the line along this part of the Doubs valley. The railway station of Besançon-Viotte was located on the north side of the city, however, some distance from the historic city centre. It became a railway junction with the opening on 22 July 1872 of a line to the Swiss frontier at Le Locle. This led to the opening in 1884 of a second station, at Besançon-Mouillère. This monumental structure was located in the eastern part of the city, close to the river.
By the 1880s the population of the city had reached 50,000, and the first public transport service was inaugurated on 3 December 1887. It was commissioned by a man called Charvolin and it connected the station of Besançon-Viotte with the quarter of Tarragnoz, at one edge of the topographically challenging city centre. The route was served by omnibuses and traction was provided by horses. The omnibuses, known as "Rippert coaches" ("Cars Rippert"), featured open platforms at each end. The route was extended to the "Fountain of Flora" ("Fontaine de Flore") in 1893. Surviving archives include complaints about the trams being overcrowded, suggesting that in commercial terms this mode of transport enjoyed some success.
First electric tram era
In 1894 Alexandre Grammont, an entrepreneurial industrialist, and Edmond Faye, an entrepreneurial banker, applied for a concession to create an electric tram network. A lengthy period of deliberation and negotiation followed. The installation of tramlines would require holes to be made in Besançon's formidable and, in many parts, ancient city fortifications. However, on 26 February 1896 an agreement was signed for the construction of six single-track tram lines, using a , and incorporating sufficient passing places. The city's topography called for some sharp turns, several with a radius of only , and a number of dauntingly steep slopes. The operating company was to be called the "Besançon Electric Tramway Company" ("Société des Tramways électriques d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Needle | David Lewis Needle (December 17, 1947 – February 20, 2016) was an American computer engineer. He was a key engineer and co-chief architect in the creation of the Amiga 1000 computer with Jay Miner, Dave Morse, and R. J. Mical. He was one of the main designers and developers of the custom chips of the Amiga computer. Later he co-invented the Atari Lynx and the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer with Morse and Mical.
A 1995 article in Next Generation commented: "It's true that of the machines that Mical and Needle have created, only the Amiga has been a true global mass market hit ... But it's only fair to put forward the argument that this is down to the marketing of the machines rather than the quality of the product."
Dave Needle died on February 20, 2016.
References
American engineers
1947 births
2016 deaths
Computer hardware engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netzpolitik.org | netzpolitik.org is a German language news website on digital rights and digital culture. Among other topics, it covers mass surveillance, open source software, data protection and privacy and net neutrality. The blog was founded in 2002 by Markus Beckedahl, who still leads the project today, supported by more than 30 other contributors.
Treason investigation 2015
In Spring 2015, netzpolitik.org leaked internal government documents which detailed the proposed surveillance expansion of social networks by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, an intelligence agency, by producing two articles, first in February 2015 and then in April 2015.
On July 31, 2015, netzpolitik.org announced:Up until that point, they were known to have been witnesses in the case, but this letter confirmed that they would be investigated as "joint principals".
The last time such charges were brought against a journalist in Germany was in 1962 amid much uproar, when the editor-in-chief of Der Spiegel was accused of treason for publishing secret documents about the German defense forces, and spent 103 days in prison (see Spiegel affair).
In the aftermath of the treason investigation, Federal Minister of Justice Heiko Maas forced Public Prosecutor General Harald Range into retirement for breach of public trust on 4 August 2015.
Political views
The bloggers describe themselves as a platform for digital freedoms, specifically fighting against mass surveillance. netzpolitik.org is extensively reporting on the ongoing intelligence scandals, consequently live-covering the German parliamentary investigation committee on NSA surveillance. Besides this live-blogging, there is a broad evaluation and commenting on the insights won in the committee. The bloggers have vigorously criticized surveillance laws and practices for many years.
References
External links
netzpolitik.org
"Suspicion of Treason": Federal Attorney General Announces Investigation Against Us In Addition To Our Sources, 2015-7-30
Press review: Treason Investigation 2015
BBC: German spy leaks website being investigated, 2015-7-30
eff.org: German Investigation of Netzpolitik For Coverage of Leaked Surveillance Documents Confirmed, 2015-7-30
arstechnica.com: After publishing secret spy docs, German news site investigated for treason, 2015-7-30
The Register: German spooks want to charge journalists with TREASON for publishing spy plans, 2015-7-31
boingboing.net: German prosecutors give spies a walk, but investigate journalists for "treason", 2015-7-31
techdirt: Yes, German Authorities Are Pushing Treason Charges Against Netzpolitik For Publishing Surveillance Plans, 2015-7-31
The Intercept: German Journalists Investigated for Treason after Publishing Surveillance Leaks, 2015-7-31
Deutsche Welle: German press, politicians criticize 'absurd' Netzpolitik inquiry, 2015-7-31
New York Times: Germany Suspends Treason Probe Against News Website, 2015-7-31
German political websites
Mass surve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Seed%20Savers%27%20Network | The Seed Savers' Network (SSN) is an Australian not-for-profit organisation, based in Byron Bay, New South Wales.
Since 1986, SSN has organised gardeners and farmers to collect, multiply and redistribute garden seeds in Australia and also within peasant organisations worldwide.
SSN operates on the premise that seeds are best kept in their socio-cultural context. It promotes conservation and development of agricultural biodiversity in situ, that is, on-site with growers, rather than in seed banks.
The organisation educates the public on the importance of locally saved seeds, their heritage and associated cultural diversity. It has produced three books and two documentaries.
History
SSN was founded in 1986 by Michel and Jude Fanton. Jude is the daughter of Sally and Graham F Smith, the latter a long-time peace activist in Adelaide - see Peace Foundation in his name. Michel is the son of Claudine and Henri Fanton, the latter a member of the Resistance in France in WWII, and a survivor of Dachau. They feel they continue the resistance work of their parents with this organisation.
The Seed Savers' Network is registered as the Seed Savers Foundation Ltd, a charitable organisation.
Commencing in the year 2000 and completed in 2008, SSN decentralised its seed collection, multiplication and distribution of seeds to over 100 affiliated Local Seed Networks (LSNs) around Australia. Gardeners exchange excess seeds and garden produce at LSN events.
Rationale for The Seed Savers' Network
The rationale for the network is that plant genetic resources are essential to sustainable agriculture and food security. Globally, there has been a decline in agricultural biodiversity with the FAO reporting in 2010 that 75 per cent had been lost in the previous century.
Agencies of the United Nations have prioritised the conservation of traditional varieties of useful plants by gardeners and farmers.
Plant genetic diversity continues to play a central role in shaping agriculture growth in the face of climate change. By farmers and gardeners conserving seeds, each seed generation is able to adapt to changes in climate.
Home gardens are micro-environments that contain levels of species and varietal diversity higher than those found in nearby agro-ecosystems.
Home gardens are thus important as reservoirs of agricultural biodiversity. Of equal importance are the gardeners / peasants who have the skills and knowledge of its utilisation.
Seeds with proprietary rights – plant variety rights – are not suitable for home seed saving as it is illegal to propagate from patented seed.
Activities in Australia
Since its establishment in 1986, The Seed Savers' Network has collected and conserved local varieties within a network of gardeners who save and swap locally adapted seeds.
From 1986 to 2008 it had a seed bank that received seed samples from around Australia.
Over the space of eight years, culminating in 2008, that seed flow has been decentralised out to sub-groups, Local See |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele-de-France%20tramway%20Line%208 | Île-de-France tramway Line 8 (usually called simply T8, also known as Tram'y in project phase) is part of the modern tram network of the Île-de-France region of France. Line T8 connects Saint-Denis – Porte de Paris Paris Métro station in Saint-Denis and two branches terminating at Villetaneuse-Université station and Épinay-Orgemont, in the Northern suburbs of Paris. The line has a length of and 17 stations. It opened to the public on 16 December 2014.
Line T8 is operated by the Régie autonome des transports parisiens (RATP) under the authority of Île-de-France Mobilités.
Route
Notes and references
Tram lines in Île-de-France
Ile-de-France tramway Line 8
Standard gauge railways in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele-de-France%20tramway%20Line%209 | Île-de-France tramway Line 9 (usually called simply T9 and formerly known as Tramway Porte de Choisy - Orly Ville or TPO) is a tram line which is a part of the modern tram network of the Île-de-France region of France. Line T9 connects Porte de Choisy Paris Métro station and the centre of Orly (Place Gaston Viens) serving suburbs in the south-east of Paris. Line T9 does not serve Orly Airport, which is currently served by line T7. The line has a length of and 19 stations. The line opened to the public on 10 April 2021.
Project objectives
The main goal of the project was to desaturate existing transit lines, and in particular RATP bus route 183 (Porte de Choisy - Aéroport d'Orly Terminal Sud) which became the second busiest bus route in the Île-de-France region after route TVM, and to propose a public transport offer with more capacity, better performance, more regularity and more comfort, thanks to the adoption of a tramway. Additional project objectives were to accompany the evolution and development of a fast-changing suburban environment, the encouragement of sustainable mobility, better links between existing transit infrastructures and the refiguration of roads and public spaces (introduction of bike lines along the tram alignment, more accessible walking paths, etc.).
Tram line T9 offers connections to line T3a and Paris Métro Line 7 at Porte de Choisy Paris Métro station, with RER C at Choisy-le-Roi station and at Les Saules station as well as with various bus routes including routes TVM and 393 at Choisy-le-Roi. In the future the line will be connected with Paris Métro line 15, part of the Grand Paris Express, at Vitry Centre.
Operation
Contract
The line is the Île-de-France tram network's first line which is not directly awarded for management to either RATP or SNCF. The line's operations and maintenance contract is subject to competitive tendering by Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM). In May 2018, IDFM issued a concession notice for operations and maintenance of line T9 including seven bus lines of the local "Bord de l'Eau" bus network for a period of 66 months (i.e. for only 5½ years), calling for potential candidates to submit a request for qualification.
IDFM allowed four candidates to bid: RATP Dev, Keolis, Transdev and outsider Moventia of Spain. On 14 June 2019 IDFM announced Keolis as the preferred bidder for T9 and the "Bord de l'Eau" bus network. The choice of Keolis was confirmed by IDFM on 2 July 2019.
Notes and references
Line 9
Standard gauge railways in France
Railway lines opened in 2021
2021 establishments in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele-de-France%20tramway%20Line%2010 | Île-de-France tramway Line 10 (usually called simply T10 and formerly known as Tramway Antony - Clamart or TAC) is a tram line which is a part of the modern tram network of the Île-de-France region of France. Line T10 connects Paris RER station and Clamart, serving suburbs in the south-west of Paris. The line has a length of approximately and 13 stations, opening on 24 June 2023. A final section further north in Clamart to be decided at a later date.
The entire line is accessible, with all stations equipped with ramps for people with reduced mobility and strollers. The stations are also well-equipped, with information panels showing waiting times, automatic ticket dispensers and video surveillance systems.
The 13 Alstom Citadis X05 trams are 100% electric, with each car having 74 seats and capable of carrying up to 314 people. The cars will be equipped with air conditioning and USB charging stations.
In 2021, Île-de-France Mobilités awarded RATP Group an eight year contract to operate the line.
Route
Notes and references
Line 10 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-column%20store | A wide-column store (or extensible record store) is a column-oriented DBMS and therefore a special type of NoSQL database. It uses tables, rows, and columns, but unlike a relational database, the names and format of the columns can vary from row to row in the same table. A wide-column store can be interpreted as a two-dimensional key–value store.
Google's Bigtable is one of the prototypical examples of a wide-column store.
Wide-column stores versus columnar databases
Wide-column stores such as Bigtable and Apache Cassandra are not column stores in the original sense of the term, since their two-level structures do not use a columnar data layout. In genuine column stores, a columnar data layout is adopted such that each column is stored separately on disk. Wide-column stores do often support the notion of column families that are stored separately. However, each such column family typically contains multiple columns that are used together, similar to traditional relational database tables. Within a given column family, all data is stored in a row-by-row fashion, such that the columns for a given row are stored together, rather than each column being stored separately.
Wide-column stores that support column families are also known as column family databases.
Notable examples
Notable wide-column stores include:
Apache Accumulo
Apache Cassandra
Apache HBase
Bigtable
DataStax Enterprise (uses Apache Cassandra)
DataStax Astra DB (uses Apache Cassandra)
Hypertable
Azure Tables
Scylla (database)
References
NoSQL
Databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Cloud%20Times | St. Cloud Times is an American, English language daily newspaper headquartered in St. Cloud, Minnesota. The Times is owned by mass media holding company Gannett and is part of the USA Today network of newspapers. The print version of the paper is printed by ECM Publishers in Princeton, Minnesota.
History
The St. Cloud Times and Journal Press was created in 1929 through the merger of several local newspapers, including the St. Cloud Union, The Visitor, St. Cloud Democrat, St. Cloud Journal-Press, and German Language Der Nordstern. The paper was renamed to the St. Cloud Daily Times in 1941, becoming a six-day a week afternoon paper owned by Fred Schilplin. The newspaper was purchased by Speidel Newspapers in 1975, which in turn was purchased by Gannett, the largest newspaper holding company in the United States, in 1977. The Times added a Sunday edition in 1988.
The St. Cloud Journal-Press had previously been known as the "St. Cloud Journal"
St. Cloud was also home to the Minnesota Union newspaper, founded by Sylvanus Lowry, a slave owner from Kentucky, Democratic political boss, and the city's first council president (the office of mayor did not exist) to compete with Radical Republican Jane Swisshelm's Saint Cloud Visiter and to provide a pro-slavery viewpoint. Lowry lived in St. Cloud in 1854 until his death in 1865. Swisshelm left St. Cloud when the Civil War broke out in 1861.
In a May 2010 report by Minnesota Public Radio, St. Cloud State University professor Christopher Lehman claimed that "Lowry founded a pro-slavery newspaper, The Union, which later became the St. Cloud Times." The Minnesota State Historical Society does not reference any holdings for the Lowry paper. The St. Cloud Times history of multiple changes of ownership does not include the Lowry "The Union" paper among the five local publications that merged over time. "With a population of just over two thousand in 1870, St. Cloud, Minnesota, was a bustling thoroughfare, but not large enough to support the multiple newspapers published in the city."
Legacy of national and state awards
"In its prime, the paper had 40 to 50 people in its newsroom covering three counties and beyond, regularly winning state and even national journalism awards."
In the 32 years between 1985-2017, the St. Cloud Times was named the Minnesota Newspaper Association's daily newspaper of the year 25 times. That honor - the Vance Trophy - is determined by news professionals from outside Minnesota, with new judges each year. The Vance Trophy was won in succession under top editors Don Casey, Susan Ihne, John Bodette and Lisa Schwarz.
In 2017, the Times won the national Sigma Delta Chi/Society of Professional Journalists award for Breaking News for its coverage of the confession of the murderer of Jacob Wetterling, a 12-year-old St. Joseph, Minn., boy who was abducted at gunpoint in 1989. Team: Kirsti Marohn, David Unze, Stephanie Dickrell, Jenny Berg, David Schwarz and Jason Wachter (photographers). L |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark0de | dark0de, also known as Darkode, is a cybercrime forum and black marketplace described by Europol as "the most prolific English-speaking cybercriminal forum to date". The site, which was launched in 2007, serves as a venue for the sale and trade of hacking services, botnets, malware, stolen personally identifiable information, credit card information, hacked server credentials, and other illicit goods and services.
History
In early 2013, it came under a large DDoS attack moving from bulletproof hosting provider Santrex to off-shore, the latter being a participant of the Stophaus campaign against Spamhaus. The site has had an ongoing feud with security researcher Brian Krebs.
In April 2014, various site users were attacked via the Heartbleed exploit, gaining access to private areas of the site.
Takedown
The forum was the target of Operation Shrouded Horizon, an international law enforcement effort led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation which culminated in the site's seizure and arrests of several of its members in July 2015. According to the FBI, the case is "believed to be the largest-ever coordinated law enforcement effort directed at an online cyber criminal forum". Upon announcing the 12 charges issued by the United States, Attorney David Hickton called the site "a cyber hornet's nest of criminal hackers", "the most sophisticated English-speaking forum for criminal computer hackers in the world" which "represented one of the gravest threats to the integrity of data on computers in the United States".
On Monday, September 21, 2015, Daniel Placek appeared on the podcast Radiolab discussing his role in starting Darkode and his eventual cooperation with the United States government in its efforts to take down the site.
Revivals
Only two weeks after the announcement of the raid, the site reappeared with increased security, employing blockchain-based authentication and operating on the Tor anonymity network. Researchers from MalwareTech suggested the relaunch was not genuine, and almost immediately after, it was hacked and its database leaked.
On December 13, a version of the site returned on the original domain name.
See also
Lizard Squad, a hacking group, said to have used dark0de
RaidForums, another highly prolific hacking forum
References
External links
Darkode archive project
News about Dark0de
The User’s Guide to Darkode: A Complete History and How to Use It
Internet forums
Cybercrime
Tor onion services
Darknet markets
Hacker groups
Domain name seizures by United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Shrouded%20Horizon | Operation Shrouded Horizon was an 18-month international law enforcement investigation culminating in the July 2015 seizure of Darkode, an online cybercrime forum and black market, and the arrest of several of its members. The case involved law enforcement agencies from 20 countries, led by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with the assistance of Europol, in what the FBI called "the largest-ever coordinated law enforcement effort directed at an online cyber criminal forum".
Law enforcement agents gained access to the invite-only website through undisclosed means and collected information over an extended period, leading to equipment seizures, searches, or arrests of 70 individuals globally, leading to indictments against 12 for crimes including computer fraud, conspiracy to commit computer fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to send malicious code, spamming, identity theft, racketeering, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, extortion, and conspiracy to commit access device fraud. Among those arrested were administrators for darknet market TheRealDeal, who were also active at Darkode.
Upon announcing the charges, United States Attorney David J. Hickton called the site "a cyber hornet's nest of criminal hackers" which "represented one of the gravest threats to the integrity of data on computers in the United States".
Though led by the FBI and assisted by Europol, reports credit agencies in 20 countries: Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Israel, Latvia, Macedonia, Nigeria, Romania, Serbia, Sweden, United Kingdom, and United States.
Only two weeks after the announcement of the raid, the site reappeared with increased security, employing Bitcoin-based blockchain authentication and operating on the Tor anonymity network.
References
2015 in law
Law enforcement operations
Cybercrime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushmeet%20Kohli | Pushmeet Kohli is a computer scientist at Google DeepMind where he heads the "Robust and Reliable AI" and "AI for Science" teams. Before joining DeepMind, he was partner scientist and director of research at Microsoft Research and a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge. Kohli's research investigates applications of machine learning and computer vision. He has also made contributions in game theory, discrete algorithms and psychometrics.
Education
Kohli was educated at National Institute of Technology, Warangal and Oxford Brookes University where his PhD awarded in 2007 was supervised by .
Career and research
Current and previous research projects include:
AlphaFold
Robust and Reliable AI
Neural Program Synthesis
Probabilistic Programming
3D-scene Reconstruction and Understanding
MAP Inference in Higher Order Graphical Models
Community based Crowdsourcing of Data for Training AI Models
Behavioral analysis and Personality prediction using on Online networks
Human Pose Estimation using the Kinect
Video Editing (Unwrap Mosaics)
Awards and honours
Kohli is the recipient of the British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition (BMVA) Sullivan Prize. His papers have received awards at UAI 2018, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2015, International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2014), International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2011 and European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2010.
References
Indian computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Microsoft employees
Scientists from Cambridge
Alumni of Oxford Brookes University
National Institutes of Technology alumni
Computer vision researchers
Machine learning researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane%20Tramways%20substations | A network of Brisbane tramways substations, supplied from the Brisbane Powerhouse, were developed by Brisbane City Council after they took over the Brisbane Tramways system from Brisbane Tramways Company (BTCo). The new powerhouse and substations were needed, as BTCo had not adequately invested enough into the electricity network to keep the system running efficiently. Brisbane City Council maintained this electricity network from 1927 until 1969, when the decision was made not to have Trams in Brisbane, and the network was shut down and decommissioned.
Original Brisbane Tramways Company network
Workshops and administration for the electric tram system were initially located in cramped quarters at Countess Street, at the western side of the Roma Street railway yards (now the site of the Roma Street Parkland), but in 1927 were relocated to Milton. Access to the workshops was from Boomerang Street in Milton, off Milton Road. Head Office was accessed from Coronation Drive (then known as River Road).
Power for the electric trams was originally drawn from a power station operated by the tramway company adjacent to its Countess Street depot and workshops. As the tramway company increased both the number of trams and the length of routes, the power supply rapidly became inadequate. Additional power generating units were installed at Light Street, Fortitude Valley depot and a further powerhouse was built on Logan Road Woolloongabba, adjacent to the Woolloongabba railway line. Inadequate power supply was to remain a problem while the tramways remained in private hands. With the takeover of the system in 1922 by the Brisbane Tramways Trust (and subsequently the City Council) considerable investment was made in many areas including power generation and distribution. A larger powerhouse was built in New Farm which commenced generation in 1928 and was sufficient for both the needs of the tram system and other consumers.
The original Countess street powerhouse was demolished and material from it was used to construct the new Tramways headquarters.
Brisbane Powerhouse
The original Brisbane Powerhouse, located at New Farm was designed by Tramways Department Architect Roy Rusden Ogg and commissioned by the newly formed Greater Brisbane City Council, went into service as the first council-operated power station built in Brisbane in June 1928.
Tramways substations
The substations were located at strategic points throughout the system. Prior to 1940, their design was the responsibility of BCC Tramways Department architect and construction engineer, Roy Rusden Ogg. In conjunction with the tramway's chief engineers Nelson and Arundell, he designed 10 Brisbane substations between 1926 and 1936 and the first two stages of the New Farm powerhouse.
Tramways substations (1927-1940) by Roy Ogg
Ogg designed 8 classic stand alone brick substations, seven of which survive today, all of which are heritage listed. In addition Ogg also designed the Ballow St Co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Science%2C%20Banaras%20Hindu%20University | Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University (ISc-BHU) is a constituent institute of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India which offers courses in Zoology, Botany, Biochemistry, Computer science, Geography, Mathematics, Physics , Geology , Geophysics , Chemistry, Statistics.
History
Faculty of Science was established in 1916 and in the month of December 2015 it was upgraded to Institute of Science.
Organization
Institute of Science's administrative head is a Director. The Director is responsible for all aspects of the Institute's operations, including budgets, administration, planning, support services, institute appointments, curricula and student affairs. The Director is appointed by an executive body and reports to the Vice-Chancellor of the university.
The Institute of Science keeps itself alive with regular academic activities like seminars, workshops, conferences. It is equipped with advanced and sophisticated laboratories. Faculty members have liaison with research institutions of repute in India and abroad. A large number of the teachers of the Institute have received distinctions and honors like Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship, FICCI Award, TIFR Fellowship etc. and several are fellows of the various academies.
There are six Centers and thirteen different Departments of which many are centres of advanced study and research in the Institute of Science that offer Undergraduate (UG), Postgraduate (PG) and Doctoral Degrees in all the field of modern science.
Courses
The institute offers Undergraduate (B.Sc), Post graduate (M.Sc) and Newly added BCA course, Ph.D courses in various courses under the departments and centres in the institute. Also, it offers M.Sc. (tech) in Geophysics and MCA as well.
Journal of Scientific Research of the Banaras Hindu University
The Journal of Scientific Research of the Banaras Hindu University is an open-access scientific journal. It is published since 1950 by the Institute of Science and is double-blind peer reviewed.
Research Centres
Centre for Brain Research
Centre for Genetic Disorders
Centre for Hydrogen Energy
Centre for Nanotechnology
DST Centre for Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences for computer science, Mathematics and statistics
Interdisciplinary Centre for Life Sciences (a.k.a. DBT-BHU Interdisciplinary School of Life Sciences)
Notable alumni
C. N. R. Rao
Jagdish Shukla
Jayant Narlikar
Kamalesh Chandra Chakrabarty
Lalji Singh
Satish K. Tripathi
Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar
T. V. Ramakrishnan
See also
Banaras Hindu University
List of educational institutions in Varanasi
References
External links
Banaras Hindu University
University departments in India
Universities and colleges in Varanasi
Universities and colleges in Uttar Pradesh
Universities and colleges established in 1916
1916 establishments in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick%20Bricks | Sick Bricks is an American animated short series that is an acquired series for Cartoon Network, it is based on the mobile video game of the same name owned by Spin Master which is inspired by Toys-to-life games.
Plot
The series follows Jack Justice, a local hero who gains the ability to copy everyone's powers in the strange world of Sick City, however a villain by the name of Overlord Omega arrives and despises the cities randomness to which he and his army of Omega Goons wanting to rid the city of its weirdness so he could take it over "normally". Now its up for Jack Justice and the rest of Sick City's inhabitants to save their beloved city and put a stop on Overlord Omega's plans.
Characters
Each character is separated into different factions based on themes from pop culture:
The Crew
Jack Justice
Katie Kantmiss
Alex Awesome
Ninjas
Hiro Thunderbutt
Johnny Sweeps
Socky Rockfoot
Silent Shadow
Samurai Swordmaster
Frost Ninja
Space
Ace Orbit
Redzone Ranger
Tiberius Warpspeed
Xeno Mite
Space Stalker
Major Blazer
City
Smokey Burns
Katt Burglar
Gus Groucho
SWAT Cop
Officer Kuffowitz
Monsters
Rotten Walker
Hank Hacksaw
Vlad Von Vein
Harry Fangface
Stanley Screamer
Franken Studz
Captain Blockbeard
Mutants
Manely Chesthair
Sheldon Davinci
Bam Boozler
Sharky Chumbucket
Dino Biter
Testy Monkey
Bucky Blastoff
Neil Anderthal
Baron Von Bear
Rockin' Rhino
Super Heroes
Knight Rat
Uber Woman
Finley Fishsticker
Ray Lightbeam
Jack Wisecracker
Doc Devio
Sunny Bladewalker
Hollywood
MC Mogul
Punky Crewster
Tami Miami
Dean Idol
Glen Gothly
Robots
Protecto Servo
Scuttle Bot
Al Beeback
Perfectimus Supreme
Rusty Nuggets
Circuit Sentry
Spies
Dubio Sven
Tricky Tasha
Covert Cobra
Sneaky Steve
Undercover Barber
Nefarious Nemesis
Fantasy
King Barfer
Wizzy Bearball
Sir Axalot
Lavender Deathskirt
Scaly Scorcher
Double Rainbow
Demonic Dude
Sports
Pauly Pigskin
Becky Backhand
Donnie Dribbles
Sammy Strikeout
Chris Checker
Fighters
Macho Mike
Tightpants Trooper
Sally Smackdown
Cheese Grater
Alley Bomber
Sharkinator
Young Deevy
Rusted Stumbler
Cyber Chief
Robo Kuff
Stealth Shade
Omega Goons
Pyro Techie
Sludge Hammer
Spin Doctor
Magna Minion
Omega Blaster
Bizarros
DJ Chill
Twilight Assassin
Rogue Robot
Bluezone Battler
Military
Commander Toughneck
Banana Boomer
Scuba Spy
Haz Matt
Epic Monster
Arizona Clark
Deepsi Diver
Debbie Stormbelly
Big Boss
Lord Invisigor
Count Invocator
Episodes list
Sick Bricks has only had one season, which included twenty episodes.
Season 1
There were 20 episodes released in Season 1. All of them being on Cartoon Network's Website.
References
External links
2015 American television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Hye-eun | Kim Hye-eun (; born March 1, 1973) is a South Korean actress. Kim began working as an announcer for the MBC network in 1997, first at a local affiliate in Cheongju, then later as a weathercaster of the main news desk in Seoul. After eight years, she resigned from MBC in 2004. Kim pursued acting in earnest in 2007, and has since starred in films and television series, notably Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time (2012) and Secret Love Affair (2014).
Personal life
Kim is the cousin of writer Min-jin Lee, who wrote the book Pachinko.
Filmography
Television series
Web series
Film
Variety show
Awards and nominations
References
External links
1973 births
Living people
South Korean television actresses
South Korean film actresses
Seoul National University alumni
20th-century South Korean actresses
21st-century South Korean actresses
Gyeongju Kim clan
Actresses from Busan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HackBB | HackBB was a Tor hidden service Internet forum specializing in buying stolen credit cards, skimming ATMs, and hacking computers, servers and accounts. The site was often a destination for hacked and stolen data dumps. At some point the site was hosted by Tor hosting company Freedom Hosting.
The site was founded by 'OptimusCrime' in the earlier days of Tor. In June 2012, user 'Boneless' was promoted to an administrator role, who went on to handle site escrow. However, in March 2013 Boneless's account was used to destroy the site's database, and again in May by some accounts he secretly created. The site initially recovered from this, but shut down sometime afterwards due to the loss of faith in the site's administration and the raid on its host Freedom Hosting in August 2013.
References
Internet forums
Defunct Tor hidden services
Crime forums
Hacker groups
Carding (fraud) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescator | Rescator is the name of a Ukrainian hacker specialising in the sale of credit card details. According to Russian cyber-security consultancy Group-IB, "Rescator" (AKA Helkern and ikaikki) runs his own marketplace at rescator.cm and uploaded over 5 million card details onto the SWIPED carder marketplace.
Credit card details have been stolen from places like Minnesota and the United Kingdom, the website allows searches by zip code so that stolen card numbers can be cashed out more locally to their victim to avoid alerting banks. Unlike the now defunct Tor Carding Forums, the site is free to use, payments requiring direct Bitcoin payments to sellers without escrow features more common on darknet markets. Many of the stolen details from the Target, Home Depot and Sally Beauty data breaches ended up at the site.
In March 2014, the site was briefly defaced by a rival hacker.
References
Internet forums
Crime forums
Computer criminals
Ukrainian criminals
Dark web
Carding (fraud) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharat%20Samachar | Bharat Samachar, is an Indian Hindi-language news channel owned by Time Today Media Network Private Limited according to MIB. The channel is headquartered in Lucknow, the capital city of Uttar Pradesh, India. The channel was relaunched in 2017 as a local Hindi news channel focusing U.P. from Lucknow.
In addition to its operations in Uttar Pradesh, Bharat Samachar has expanded its coverage to the state of Uttarakhand.
History
Bharat Samachar was relaunched in 2017 by Brajesh Misra, a journalist and media professional.
Leadership
Brajesh Misra serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Bharat Samachar, and managing director of UP Television Network Private Limited. leading the overall management and strategic initiatives of the channel. Virendra Singh holds the position of CEO, overseeing the channel's editorial direction and content.
Programming
Bharat Samachar offers a wide range of programming that covers various aspects of news and current events. The channel features news bulletins, talk shows, debates, interviews, and documentaries. Some of the popular shows on Bharat Samachar include:
The Debate: Hosted by Brajesh Misra, The Debate brings together experts and analysts to discuss and debate pressing issues and current affairs. The show provides different perspectives on important topics and encourages informed discussions.
Power Center: Hosted by Virendra Singh, Power Center focuses on the power centers in politics, business, and society. The show examines the individuals and entities that hold significant influence and impact the course of events.
Cutting Chai: A light-hearted talk show that covers trending topics, entertainment news, and social media buzz. The show provides a mix of informative and entertaining content in a relaxed format.
Controversies
Sting operation by Cobrapost
Under Operation 136 : Part II released by Cobrapost on 25 May 2018, Marketing and Sales Head along with Editor-in-Chief and Owner of Bharat Samachar agree to promote firebrand Hindutva leaders and attack Bahujan Samaj Party, Samajwadi Party and Congress.
The media houses named in the undercover investigation include Times of India, India Today, Hindustan Times, Zee News, Network 18, Star India, Paytm, Bharat Samachar, ABP News, Dainik Jagaran, Radio One, Red FM, Lokmat, ABN Andhra Jyothy, TV5, Dinamalar, Big FM, K News, India Voice, The New Indian Express, MVTV and Open magazine. The portal disclosed how Bartaman Patrika and Daikik Sambad declined to distribute content with religious undercurrent.
Income Tax Department raid
The Income Tax Department raided premises of Bharat Samachar in July 2021. In a move that raised concerns over press freedom, the Income Tax Department conducted raids at multiple locations, including the premises of Bharat Samachar, as well as one of the largest Hindi media groups, Dainik Bhaskar. The raids, carried out under the pretext of alleged "tax evasion," were strongly condemned by the Indian Journalists Union.
Ashok Gehlot, th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Incredibles%20%28disambiguation%29 | The Incredibles is a 2004 American computer-animated superhero film.
The Incredibles may also refer to:
The Incredibles (franchise), a film franchise created by Pixar Animation Studios
The Incredibles (film score)
The Incredibles (video game)
Incredibles 2, the 2018 sequel to the first film
"The Incredibles", the team of Boeing employees that developed the initial Boeing 747
HTC Droid Incredible, an Android smart phone
HTC Incredible S, the follow-up smart phone to Droid Incredible, also known as Incredible 2
Droid Incredible 4G LTE, also known as Incredible 3
See also
The Invincibles (disambiguation)
The Invisibles (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Maps | Windows Maps is a web mapping client software from Microsoft. It is included with Windows 11 and Windows 10 operating systems and is also available for the Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One platforms.
Features
Its features include viewing classic style maps with roads and street names, getting directions, traffic conditions, GPS location, and viewing Streetside panoramas of roads. Users can synchronise favourites and directions with a Microsoft account. Maps of countries can be downloaded to the user's computer so that they can be used offline.
History
The original Maps app was based on existing Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft MapPoint and TerraServer that were already used in Bing Maps. It was first implemented on Windows Phone 7 as a Metro-style app using Bing Maps as its backend. In 2012 Maps came included with Windows 8 as one of the many Bing Apps. The app was updated with new features in Windows Phone 8.1 where the Maps app took on a Purple paper map-looking logo. Bing Maps at the time was powered by Nokia's data, which later became HERE Maps.
Windows Maps on Windows 10 Mobile then changed the layout of the Maps app, including the logo. Since coming out of preview, there has been three different layout changes, including the introduction of tabs, the ability for users to sketch using ink, a switch for choosing between a light and dark interface for the app shell, and a switch for choosing between a light and dark map.
After HERE Maps announced it was discontinuing its Windows 10 Mobile app in 2016, Windows Maps announced support for migrating up to 300 favorites from HERE Maps to Windows Maps.
In 2016, Windows Maps was released for Xbox One.
Since 2020, the base map data in Windows Maps and Bing Maps has been provided by TomTom, having replaced Here Technologies.
Coverage
Americas
Africa
Europe
Asia and Oceania
Middle East
See also
Bing Maps
Microsoft Streets & Trips
Microsoft MapPoint
References
Windows components
Universal Windows Platform apps
Microsoft Bing
Windows software
Xbox One software
Xbox Series X and Series S software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q.E.D.%20%28Jim%20Allchin%20album%29 | Q.E.D. is the second widely available studio album by American blues rock musician and computer scientist Jim Allchin. It was released on September 10, 2013 by Sandy Key Music. The title of the album is a reference to quod erat demonstrandum or Q.E.D which is sometimes used to denote the completion of a mathematical proof.
Reception
Q.E.D. received widespread positive comments and ratings by reviewers—including "Q.E.D. is a guitar player’s dream, but it also showcases Jim Allchin’s songwriting and vocal gifts as well. They’ll be talking about this one for a while in the guitar magazines.", "There are many gifted artists in the world but there are a very few who reach this level.", "In translation, “Q. E. D.” is Latin for “that which must be proved. As for Jim Allchin, he’s got absolutely nothin’ left to prove as a bluesman. And, in the world of contemporary blues, we’ll close with another well-turned phrase that explains Jim best–“Veni Vidi Vici”—he came, he saw, and he conquered!", "...a brilliant collection of music exposing the talent of Allchin", "He reminds me a bit of Robben Ford with his vocals and his amazing dexterity on the six-string. Microsoft's loss is the blues world's gain. This one is a keeper.", "I have listened to an album over the last few days that i think is one of the best blues albums of the year, Q.E.D. by Jim Allchin. ", "I remember the first time I heard Stevie Ray Vaughan. All I could think was, man, that's some guitar! The first time I heard Jim Allchin, ditto. Maybe he isn't Stevie Ray Vaughan, but he's Jim Allchin all over the freakin' place and I figure if you have a love for the rockin' side of R&B and rock 'n' roll, you'll feel the same. Allchin can play! I know you've heard it before, but he's a step beyond. I swear. You love jammin' guitar, you have got to hear this guy.”
Track listing
Personnel
Musicians
Jim Allchin – guitar, vocals, arrangements
Ben Smith – drums, percussion
Dan Dean – bass
Brooke Lizotte – keyboard
Guest musicians
Mycle Wastman - vocals on "Trust Me"
Keely Whitney – vocals on "Gettin Old"
Martin Ros, Mycle Wastman, Keely Whitney – background vocals
Owen Gurry - strings
New York Brass - horns
Production
Ben Smith – production assistance, engineering
Eric Oz – production assistance, engineering, mixing
Reed Ruddy, Andrew Ching, Andy Park, Gary Lodge, Eric janko – engineering
Jay Franco - mastering, Sterling Sound, New York
References
2013 albums
Jim Allchin albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UZSCINET | UZSCINET (Uzbekistan Scientific Network) is a national research laboratory in Uzbekistan.
References
External links
National research and education networks
Supercomputer sites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TTRENT | Trinidad and Tobago NREN (TTRENT) is a national research and education network in Trinidad and Tobago.
References
External links
Communications in Trinidad and Tobago
Educational organisations based in Trinidad and Tobago
National research and education networks
Supercomputer sites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese%20in%20the%20Trap%20%28TV%20series%29 | Cheese in the Trap () is a South Korean television series adapted from a webtoon starring Park Hae-jin, Kim Go-eun, Seo Kang-joon, and Lee Sung-kyung. It aired on the cable network tvN on Mondays and Tuesdays for 16 episodes from 4 January – 1 March 2016. The series is based on the webtoon of the same name, serialized on Naver Webtoon from 2010 to 2016, although it featured an original ending since the webtoon had not been completed at the time of filming.
Synopsis
The drama focuses on the life and relationships of a group of university students, particularly the difficult relationship between hard-working scholarship student Hong Seol (Kim Go-eun) and a deceptive senior, Yoo Jung (Park Hae-jin).
Jung is rich, popular, and he is heir to Taerang Group. Although he appears to be kind to everyone around him, he is quite manipulative with a penchant for destroying those who irritate him, often by using others. When Seol discovers this, her life starts becoming so miserable she decides to take time off school. When she returns through a scholarship that was intended for Jung, he is unexpectedly nice to her and he asks her on a date. Although she is unsure what kind of person he is, they begin an awkward relationship complicated by the distance between them as well as the aftermath of his various schemes. The situation is further complicated by the arrival of Baek In-ho and his sister In-ha, childhood friends of Jung who have since had a falling out.
Cast
Main
Park Hae-jin as Yoo Jung, Seol's senior. He is handsome, intelligent and successful, but secretly harbors a dark side to his personality. He is sometimes cold or manipulative, and has trouble forming relationships with others because of his uncertainty that they are not using him for his money. However, he is attracted to Seol.
Kim Go-eun as Hong Seol, a beautiful and hardworking college student who struggles to figure out Yoo Jung's true intentions, but sees an innocent side in him against the advice of his childhood friend Baek In-ho.
Seo Kang-joon as Baek In-ho, a handsome and talented pianist who is adopted into Jung's wealthy family by his father. He and his sister came from a difficult background, but he finds it easy to get along with Seol, later developing feelings for her. He and Jung were friends as children, although they later develop a bitter rivalry as he believes that Jung was responsible for instigating a fight that damaged his hand, ending his dreams of becoming a concert pianist.
Lee Sung-kyung as Baek In-ha, In-ho's beautiful, melodramatic and materialistic older sister. She was also adopted into Jung's family as a child, and is in love with Jung, although he does not reciprocate her feelings.
Supporting
Hong family
Kim Hee-chan as Hong Joon, Seol's younger brother who returns to Korea from the United States.
Ahn Gil-kang as Hong Jin-tak, Seol's father.
Yoon Bok-in as Kim Young-hee, Seol's mother.
Yeon-yi university
Park Min-ji as Jang Bo-ra, Seol's supportive be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWON | DWON (104.7 FM), broadcasting as 104.7 iFM, is a radio station owned and operated by the Radio Mindanao Network. The station's studio and transmitter are located at the 3rd floor, Marigold Bldg., M.H. del Pilar St., Brgy. Herrero, Dagupan. It operates 24 hours a day.
References
External links
iFM Dagupan FB Page
iFM Dagupan Website
Radio stations established in 1978
Radio stations in Dagupan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy%20Nixon | Paddy Nixon is a computer scientist and Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Canberra, in Australia. He took up office in April 2020.
From July 2015 to January 2021, he was Vice-Chancellor and President of Ulster University and on the board of Universities UK, chair of Universities Ireland and was on the Northern Ireland Council of the Confederation of British Industry. Prior to that he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Tasmania.
Background
Nixon is originally from Liverpool in the United Kingdom. He attended St. Anselm's College, obtained a B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science from University of Liverpool, a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from University of Sheffield and M.A. from Trinity College Dublin. He is an elected Fellow of the British Computer Society, the Royal Society of Arts, and the Royal Society of New South Wales.
Career
Research and teaching
He has held academic positions at Trinity College Dublin, University of Strathclyde, and University College Dublin. While at Trinity College he was Warden of Trinity Hall, Dublin.
Nixon's research specialism is large-scale distributed systems with a particular focus on software infrastructure including pervasive systems, sensor systems, middleware, web services, trust, and privacy. Nixon has published over 220 publications and he has edited 9 books.
Nixon was Science Foundation Ireland Research Professor in Distributed Systems at University College Dublin (2005-2010). He has extensive industry and commercial experience, collaborating with global high tech firms such as Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and Intel. He was an IBM faculty fellow at the IBM Dublin Institute for Advanced Study and from 2007 to 2010 he was Academic Director of Intel's Independent Living and Digital Health. He was also instrumental in the establishment UCD's Complex and Adaptive Systems Laboratory (CASL) focusing on the inter-disciplinary research at the intersection of mathematics, computation and scientific discovery.
Nixon has been a visiting academic / professor at California Institute of Technology, University of Warsaw, and Kaunas University of Technology.
Technology transfer
Having been involved in three start-up companies, Nixon has a particular interest in the commercialisation of university research and the interface between universities and industry. In 2006 he led the consortium that bid for, and subsequently established, National Digital Research Centre (NDRC); a national early stage investor in tech companies in Ireland.
Administration
Nixon was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Tasmania until 2015.
References
External links
http://www.ulster.ac.uk/staff/Vice-Chancellor.html
Academics from Liverpool
English computer scientists
Researchers in distributed computing
Vice-Chancellors of Ulster University
Alumni of the University of Sheffield
Academics of the University of Liverpool
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Alumni of the U |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies%20that%20Bind | Lies that Bind is a Kenyan television soap opera that premiered in November 2011 on the network KTN. It mainly features themes like polygamy, greed, lust, power and contemporary issues that affect families.
Plot
Lies that Bind is a Kenyan drama series that revolves around the wealthy Juma family. It majors mainly about how the love for money can destroy a family. When the head of the family, Mr. Juma, dies of a cardiac arrest, his three wives and their children, together with his conniving brother begin to fight over who gets to inherit the vast fortune left behind.
Cast
Main cast
Lucy Nyaga portrays Joyce, a good wife, the kind that will stand with a man through thick and thin, helping him build his empire. She is one that commands respect from people around her. She has a daughter named Esther.
Ruth Maingi as Salome, the third wife and Richard Juma's true love, and the third wife. She is calm, a good wife and mother. She is very soft and kind. Others like Edith treat her kindness as a weakness. She has two kids, Patricia and Allan.
Florence Nduta as Edith, the second wife and the centre of all the chaos. She is the second wife. She is extremely malicious, greedy and wants all the fortune to herself. She doesn't care who she steps on. All she wants is the rest of the family to give up on all the fortune so that she remains at the spotlight. She is also overprotective toward her son Joseph(Justin Mirichii), as she expects him to take over her late husband's empire.
Justin Mirichii as Joseph, he is a grown man, but still a mama's boy. He is lazy, undisciplined and a drunkard. He is the kind that waits for his mother to fight for what he believes belongs to him. His mother is the one that fights for him, and fight she does. When Joseph is not fighting the rest of the family with his mother, he drinks.
Tom Osongo as John Juma a manipulative and calculating brother of Richard Juma. He has always been envious of his late brother. He has a great ambition of becoming a Member of Parliament. As his character suggests, he plays the saviour yet he is the villain.
Irene Ayimba as Esther, she is the CEO of RJ Investments. She is generally independent. She is still a bachelorette despite being the eldest on the Jumas clan.
Maureen Koech as Patricia on the other hand is the bubbly young girl in the family who is on a journey of self-discovery. She is experimental, a typical school girl trying to find her way in a world marred by family drama.
Supporting cast
Lenana Kariba as Joseph Juma
Maqbul Mohammed as Ben Juma #1
Joseph Thuo as Allan
Alan Oyugi
Eclay Wangira as Tabitha
Charlie Karumi
Oyondi Lawrence
Dantez Mwenda
Maureen Obae
May Wairimu
Stella Mungai
Olympia Owira
Naomi Ng'ang'a as Mama Sweetie
Joseph Omari as Richard Juma
Brian Ogola as Ben Juma #2
Broadcast
Lies that Bind premiered in Kenya at KTN on November 24, 2011. It shared same timeslot with rival soap opera Mali.
Beside airing in Kenya, it premiered in Africa at the Africa Magic Enterta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toru%20Takahashi | Toru Takahashi may refer to:
, Japanese baseball player
, Japanese computer network researcher and businessman
Toru Takahashi (manager), CEO of Japan Post Holdings
, Japanese racing driver
See also
See 高橋徹 on Japanese Wikipedia for a further list
Takahashi (disambiguation)
Toru (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phandroid | Phandroid is the first website dedicated to reporting on the Android operating system for phones. The website produces a variety of content, including news, reviews, editorials, videos, and a podcast. Phandroid has evolved to cover news from Google in general, as well as Android TV, Android Wear, Google Glass, Chromecast, and Android Auto. Phandroid also operates AndroidForums.com, a forum for Android users.
History
Phandroid was launched in November 2007, 11 months before the HTC Dream was released. On November 6, 2007, Wired.com published an article titled "Android Already Has Phandroids." Due to the Wired article and growing interest in Android, the site saw massive growth overnight. Phandroid broke numerous Android-related exclusive stories over the years, including an early look at Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Despite its place as the oldest operating Android site, it has declined in recent years and is no longer actively maintained.
Phandroid has appeared on Engadget, The Verge, TechCrunch, and more.
In 2018, the owner of Phandroid.com announced the site was for sale and would cease operating as a traditional Android news blog. By March, the site lost all of its editors and stopped publishing news until it was sold at the end of the year. In the beginning of 2019, Phandroid restarted its tech news coverage with Nicholas Gray as the new Editor in Chief.
References
External links
Phandroid
Phandroid Twitter
Phandroid Linkedin
Technology websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LogSumExp | The LogSumExp (LSE) (also called RealSoftMax or multivariable softplus) function is a smooth maximum – a smooth approximation to the maximum function, mainly used by machine learning algorithms. It is defined as the logarithm of the sum of the exponentials of the arguments:
Properties
The LogSumExp function domain is , the real coordinate space, and its codomain is , the real line.
It is an approximation to the maximum with the following bounds
The first inequality is strict unless . The second inequality is strict unless all arguments are equal.
(Proof: Let . Then . Applying the logarithm to the inequality gives the result.)
In addition, we can scale the function to make the bounds tighter. Consider the function . Then
(Proof: Replace each with for some in the inequalities above, to give
and, since
finally, dividing by gives the result.)
Also, if we multiply by a negative number instead, we of course find a comparison to the function:
The LogSumExp function is convex, and is strictly increasing everywhere in its domain (but not strictly convex everywhere).
Writing the partial derivatives are:
which means the gradient of LogSumExp is the softmax function.
The convex conjugate of LogSumExp is the negative entropy.
log-sum-exp trick for log-domain calculations
The LSE function is often encountered when the usual arithmetic computations are performed on a logarithmic scale, as in log probability.
Similar to multiplication operations in linear-scale becoming simple additions in log-scale, an addition operation in
linear-scale becomes the LSE in log-scale:
A common purpose of using log-domain computations is to increase accuracy and avoid underflow and overflow problems
when very small or very large numbers are represented directly (i.e. in a linear domain) using limited-precision
floating point numbers.
Unfortunately, the use of LSE directly in this case can again cause overflow/underflow problems. Therefore, the
following equivalent must be used instead (especially when the accuracy of the above 'max' approximation is not sufficient).
Therefore, many math libraries such as IT++ provide a default routine of LSE and use this formula internally.
where
A strictly convex log-sum-exp type function
LSE is convex but not strictly convex.
We can define a strictly convex log-sum-exp type function by adding an extra argument set to zero:
This function is a proper Bregman generator (strictly convex and differentiable).
It is encountered in machine learning, for example, as the cumulant of the multinomial/binomial family.
In tropical analysis, this is the sum in the log semiring.
See also
Logarithmic mean
Log semiring
Smooth maximum
Softmax function
References
Logarithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonny%20%28chess%29 | Jonny is a computer chess program written by the German mathematician and programmer Johannes Zwanzger.
Jonny won the 2015 World Computer Chess Championship. It ran on a "btrzx3" linux cluster of the University of Bayreuth using 2,400 AMD x86-64 2.8 GHz cores in total.
Results
Champion at the World Computer Speed Chess Championship in 2010, 2011, 2016 and 2019
Runner-up at the World Computer Chess Championship in 2013 and Champion in 2015
Two times runner up at the Livingston Chess960 Computer World Championship
References
Chess engines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef%20in%20Your%20Ear | Chef in Your Ear is a Canadian cooking competition television series, that premiered on Food Network Canada on August 31, 2015.
Hosted by Greg Komorowski, each episode of the series features a competition between two professional chefs who must "compete without cooking", by providing remote direction to an absolutely clueless cook. Using only a video monitor to watch the amateur's actions and a microphone to communicate direction into an earpiece, the chefs must guide the amateurs through the process of preparing a restaurant-quality meal in one hour.
The competing professional chefs are Jordan Andino, Devin Connell, Craig Harding, Rob Rossi and Cory Vitiello.
The series was purchased by Food Network Canada in December 2014, and production formally began in April 2015.
References
2015 Canadian television series debuts
2016 Canadian television series endings
2010s Canadian reality television series
Television shows filmed in Toronto
Food Network (Canadian TV channel) original programming
Cooking competitions in Canada
2010s Canadian cooking television series
Reality cooking competition television series
Television series by Corus Entertainment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHZUM-FM | XHZUM-FM is a radio station in Zumpango on 88.5 FM, owned by the government of the State of Mexico. It is part of the Radio Mexiquense state radio network.
XHZUM was added in 2002 as part of an expansion of Radio Mexiquense with four new FM stations.
References
Radio stations established in 2002
Radio stations in the State of Mexico
Public radio in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHVAL-FM | XHVAL-FM is a radio station in Valle de Bravo on 104.5 MHz, owned by the government of the State of Mexico. It is part of the Radio Mexiquense state radio network.
XHVAL was added in 2008 as part of an expansion of Radio Mexiquense with four new FM stations.
References
Radio stations established in 2008
Radio stations in the State of Mexico
Public radio in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEGEM-AM | XEGEM-AM is a radio station in Metepec, State of Mexico, Mexico on 1600 AM, owned by the government of the State of Mexico. It is part of the Radio Mexiquense state radio network and is its flagship on AM, broadcasting to the state capital of Toluca.
XEGEM signed on May 18, 1983 along with XETUL-AM 1080 in Tultitlán, XETEJ-AM 1250 in Tejupilco and XEATL-AM 1520 in Atlacomulco (now XHATL-FM 105.5).
In 1984, television station XHGEM-TV took to air, and in 2002, XHGEM-FM 91.7 came to air. XEGEM and XHGEM FM have separate program schedules.
References
1983 establishments in Mexico
Public radio in Mexico
Radio stations established in 1983
Radio stations in the State of Mexico
Spanish-language radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XETEJ-AM | XETEJ-AM is a radio station in Tejupilco on 1250 kHz, owned by the government of the State of Mexico. It is part of the Radio Mexiquense state radio network.
XETEJ signed on May 18, 1983 along with XEGEM-AM 1600 serving Toluca, XETUL-AM 1080 in Tultitlán and XEATL-AM 1520 in Atlacomulco (now XHATL-FM 105.5).
References
Radio stations established in 1983
Radio stations in the State of Mexico
Public radio in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHATL-FM | XHATL-FM is a radio station in Atlacomulco on 105.5 MHz, owned by the government of the State of Mexico. It is part of the Radio Mexiquense state radio network.
Originally XEATL-AM 1520, the station signed on May 18, 1983 along with XEGEM-AM 1600 serving Toluca, XETUL-AM 1080 in Tultitlán and XETEJ-AM 1250 in Tejupilco. The station received permission to move to FM in 2012.
References
Radio stations established in 1983
Radio stations in the State of Mexico
Public radio in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHGEM-FM | XHGEM-FM is a radio station in Metepec on 91.7 MHz, owned by the government of the State of Mexico. It is part of the Radio Mexiquense state radio network and is its flagship on FM, broadcasting to the state capital of Toluca. It signed on air in 2002, joining AM station XEGEM-AM 1600. 1600 AM and 91.7 FM have separate program schedules.
References
Radio stations established in 2002
Radio stations in the State of Mexico
Public radio in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday%20PinaSaya | Sunday PinaSaya () is a Philippine television variety show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Ai-Ai delas Alas, Marian Rivera, Wally Bayola and Jose Manalo, it premiered on August 9, 2015 on the network's Sunday Grande sa Hapon line up replacing Sunday All Stars. The show concluded on December 29, 2019 with a total of 226 episodes. It was replaced by All-Out Sundays in its timeslot.
Cast
Lead cast
Ai-Ai delas Alas
Marian Rivera
Jose Manalo
Wally Bayola
Supporting cast
Alden Richards
Barbie Forteza
Julie Anne San Jose
Valeen Montenegro
Jerald Napoles
Joey Paras
Gladys Guevarra
Boobsie Wonderland
Atak
Gabbi Garcia
Andre Paras
Ruru Madrid
Mike "Pekto" Nacua
Kim Last
Lovely Abella
Ryzza Mae Dizon
Kyline Alcantara
Bianca Umali
Taki Saito
Miguel Tanfelix
Jak Roberto
Will Ashley
Bruce Roeland
Sofia Pablo
Kelvin Miranda
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Sunday PinaSaya earned a 22.7% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2015 Philippine television series debuts
2019 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine variety television shows
Television series by APT Entertainment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%204.0 | Service 4.0 is a collective term for technologies and concepts of service and support function organizations, based on new disruptive technological concepts (big data, mobility), the Internet of Things and the Internet of Services. It is a similar concept to industry 4.0, applied to value chain. The proponents of Service 4.0 claim that it is a major opportunity for service companies to make a leap forward in terms of efficiency and effectiveness, and an opportunity for service users to discover and benefit from new features, impossible to be delivered before this disruption.
Even when there is not much literature about Service 4.0, entities in Germany, Australia, Singapore, and Mexico are working on developing the concept, with different perspectives: Germany is focusing on technical and post-sale service, to support manufacturing operations, a point of view aligned with their traditional high quality culture, and excellence-in-manufacturing tradition. Australian authors are focusing on government, arguing that official services must not be government-oriented, but service-oriented. Singapore sees Service 4.0 as the evolution of services, offering what they call seamless service, in the use and delivery of cloud based high technology services.
Definition of service
In economics, a service is an intangible commodity, an economic activity where the buyer does not generally, except by exclusive contract, obtain exclusive ownership of the thing purchased.
According to the North American Standard Industry Classification System and the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities there are two major sectors in the economy: the goods-producing sector and the service-producing sector. The goods-producing sector includes agriculture, forestry, and fishing; mining; construction; and manufacturing. The service-producing sector includes the divisions of (1) transportation, communications, and utilities; (2) wholesale trade; (3) retail trade; (4) finance, insurance, and real estate; (5) public administration; and (6) services. This sixth group—the services division—includes a number of industries.
Lalo Duron, PhD, Mexican author, stated the foundations in his book Alive & Well! , where he proposed the COS Model, a pragmatic management model to earn and keep customers' loyalty, using three strategies: Impeccable offer, integrated marketing communications, and a customer centricity. Talking about impeccable service, he said "an impeccable offer is the most important element to have a satisfied, loyal customer. When a company designs the service to achieve or exceed what its customers expect, customer retention is the highest probability result".
Mexican Service 4.0 thinkers like Rodrigo Fernández and Yami Almaguer see it as a customer experience enabler: as an organization promises to fulfill or exceed customers' expectations, the service blueprint is a simple tool to accomplish it.
The service blueprint
In 2008, Bitner, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kloss%27s%20squirrel | Kloss's squirrel or Kloss squirrel (Callosciurus albescens) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to northern Sumatra in Indonesia. Population data is insufficient to assess its conservation status according to the IUCN. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of C. notatus.
References
Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. pp. 754–818 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
Callosciurus
Rodents of Indonesia
Mammals described in 1901 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%20Dog | Rock Dog ( literally Rock and Roll Tibetan Mastiff) is a 2016 computer-animated comedy film directed by Ash Brannon (in his solo directorial debut), from a script by Brannon and Kurt Voelker. Produced by Mandoo Pictures and Huayi Brothers, the film is loosely based on the Chinese graphic novel Tibetan Rock Dog by Zheng Jun. It features the voices of Luke Wilson, J. K. Simmons, Eddie Izzard, Lewis Black, Kenan Thompson, Mae Whitman, Jorge Garcia, Matt Dillon, and Sam Elliott. The film focuses on a young Tibetan Mastiff who leaves his mountain home village to become a rock musician in the big city after a radio falls from the sky.
It was released on July 8, 2016, in China by Huayi Brothers and on February 24, 2017, in the United States by Summit Premiere. The film received mixed reviews from critics and underperformed at the box office, grossing $24 million worldwide against a production budget of $60 million.
A sequel titled Rock Dog 2: Rock Around the Park was released on June 15, 2021 on DVD and Blu-ray. Another sequel, titled Rock Dog 3: Battle the Beat, was released on January 24, 2023 on home media as well.
Plot
Teenage Tibetan Mastiff Bodi is expected to be the next guard of the village of Snow Mountain; succeeding his father Khampa, who years ago drove out a pack of gangster grey wolves, led by the villainous Linnux. Khampa has some local sheep disguised as Mastiffs to give the illusion the village has multiple guards to keep the wolves at bay, but Bodi has trouble perfecting his father's signature move the Iron Paw, which projects a powerful blast that can only happen if Bodi "finds the fire." Khampa has forbidden music in the village as it distracted Bodi from his duties when he was younger.
One day after a disastrous training session, Bodi indirectly causes a nearby flying plane to drop a package. Among the items, Bodi becomes interested in a radio and listens to rock music, becoming entranced with British rock legend Angus Scattergood. Bodi steals a traditional dramyin from a den of locked up instruments, adds additional strings to make it a conventional Western guitar, and neglects his duties in favor of becoming a musician, putting him at odds with his father. After Khampa and some of the guard sheep accidentally cause Bodi to unleash a false alarm on the village while dressed as wolves (in an attempt to scare him straight), village elder Fleetwood Yak convinces Khampa to let Bodi follow his dream. Bodi is given a bus ticket to a nearby city, but Khampa makes him promise to give up music if his trip doesn't work out. At the bus station, Bodi is discovered by two of Linnux's henchman, Riff and Skozz, and he orders them to kidnap Bodi, reasoning it is his chance to take over Snow Mountain.
Bodi arrives at the city, and heads to Rock and Roll Park as it is where Scattergood began his career. He attempts to join a band consisting of the down-to-earth fox Darma and absent-minded goat drummer Germur. However, Bodi is humiliated after |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headgum | Headgum is an American podcasting network founded in 2015 by Marty Michael, Amir Blumenfeld, and Jake Hurwitz. The latter twoknown collectively as comedy duo Jake and Amirbuilt upon the success of their podcast If I Were You to launch the network, with the show serving as its flagship program. Before founding Headgum, Michael sold advertising space and branded content for CollegeHumor. Headgum has studios in Los Angeles and New York and, , hosts 57 shows, 34 of which are ongoing. Headgum also features an active YouTube channel and presents Headgum Live!, a series of live shows featuring podcast hosts from the network.
Programming
Current
A Funny Feeling
Comedians and supernatural enthusiasts Betsy Sodaro and Marcy Jarreau discuss paranormal experiences with their comedian friends and celebrity guests. Past guests include Aubrey Plaza and Sasheer Zamata. The show debuted on September 29, 2017.
All Fantasy Everything
Host Ian Karmelwith frequent co-hosts Sean Jordan and David Gborieconducts a fantasy draft for pop culture topics with guests. People who have appeared on the podcast include Ron Funches and Kumail Nanjiani, who together drafted video games; Jon Cryer, who drafted candy; and Katie Nolan, who drafted MTV shows. The show premiered on September 15, 2016, and has aired 125 episodes as of March 28, 2019.
John-Michael Bond of The Daily Dot praised All Fantasy Everything as one of the top comedy podcasts of 2018, describing it as "a refreshing change of pace".
Buckets With Amir Blumenfeld
Amir Blumenfeld and guests discuss basketball. Buckets premiered on August 22, 2018, and has featured appearances from Ben Schwartz; Jerry Ferrara; and Hayes Davenport.
Corked
Corked is a scripted "true" crime comedy set in Napa Valley about a brash winemaker with a secret past, his missing girlfriend, and a jilted roughneck from Louisiana who pulls an investigative journalist into a mystery that quickly consumes his life and career. The show was written, directed, and edited by Giancarlo Fiorentini and Jonathan Grimm, and stars Anthony Gioe, Whitmer Thomas, Jon Gabrus, Betsy Sodaro, Natalie Palamides, Dan Klein, Mary Holland, Josh Ruben, Lou Wilson, and Ally Beardsley. Corked debuted as Headgum's first scripted podcast on August 16, 2022. The miniseries concluded its 4 episode run on September 6, 2022.
Lauren Passell of Lifehacker named Corked one of the funniest fiction podcasts, stating that the show "mixes silliness with a traditional true crime format, making it a pleasing surprise for anyone who is familiar with public radio investigations".
Doughboys
Doughboys features Mike Mitchell and Nick Wiger reviewing chain restaurants. The show has featured appearances from Sarah Silverman, for the review of McDonald's breakfast; Ike Barinholtz, for the review of Top Round Roast Beef; Haley Joel Osment, for the review of Quizno's; and Gillian Jacobs, who joined the Doughboys for their fourth review of Taco Bell. Premiering on May 21, 2015, as part of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelle | Zelle () is a United States–based digital payments network run by a private financial services company owned by the banks Bank of America, Truist, Capital One, JPMorgan Chase, PNC Bank, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo. The Zelle service enables individuals to electronically transfer money from their bank account to another registered user's bank account (within the United States) using a mobile device or the website of a participating banking institution.
The Zelle instant payment service was launched in June 2017, as the successor to the clearXchange payment service. Zelle has expanded, and as of 2022 eighty percent of the US population could connect to Zelle through their banking app, with support by over 1600 financial institutions. It has been criticized for being a platform that has facilitated online financial fraud in the United States. In 2022 at a Senate Banking Committee hearing it was censured for not giving refunds to people who were tricked by criminals using Zelle.
History
In April 2011, the clearXchange service was launched. It was originally owned and operated by Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo. The service offered person-to-person (P2P), business-to-consumer (B2C), and government-to-consumer (G2C) payments.
For person-to-person payments, clearXchange enabled users to send money to other registered users having accounts at participating banks in the United States. Users accessed the network within the websites and apps of member financial institutions, and through clearXchange's website. The network connected with existing bank accounts, so consumers would not need to fund a separate account to use the service. This feature and the lack of fees for using the service were highlighted as advantages for competition with other person-to-person payment services such as PayPal, Popmoney, and Square. The system associated each user bank account with an email address and mobile phone number, so only the recipient's email address or mobile number was needed to send money directly from a bank account to the bank account of another person who had signed up for the service.
The number of financial institutions affiliated with clearXchange grew to include other banks and credit unions. Capital One and US Bank were added as additional owner-members.
In June 2015, clearXchange announced the availability of a real-time payment system. Some transactions could take as much as five days or longer to be completed.
In January 2016, clearXchange was sold to Early Warning Services, LLC, owned by Bank of America, Truist, Capital One, JPMorgan Chase, PNC Bank, US Bank, and Wells Fargo.
In September 2017, Early Warning Services released the Zelle payment system and mobile app and announced that all clearXchange "person-to-person" payment service accounts would be deactivated in December 2017. After that, clearXchange stopped supporting person-to-person payments but continued to provide payments from companies and government entities to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Valley%20of%20Water | The Valley of Water is a 1962 Australian television drama that was made by Nine Network in Adelaide. It was the first one-hour television drama to be shot in South Australia.
The ABC later made Weather at Pinetop (1964) in Adelaide.
Plot
A family live on a farm which is threatened by flood from a new dam.
Cast
Hedley Cullen
Barrie McEwin
Myra Noblet
Jack Taggart
Patrick Taggart
Production
It was based on an original play by Jean Allen, a housewife who lived in the town of Wolseley. At the Adelaide Festival of the Arts in March 1962, the play came second in a Television Play Competition sponsored by Channel Nine. There had been 45 entries and they judges included Harry Death, executive producer of the TV series Jonah; local author Max Harris; Rex Heading, who would produce and direct the winner for Channel Nine; and Nine's general manager, Bill Davies. First prize went to Wall to Wall by Anne Kinloch, which was never produced; Heading later wrote that Wall to Wall "was a very different type of play which would have tested the technical facilities and ingenuity of the station." So Nine decided to produce Valley of Water.
The production was filmed at NWS 9, Tynte Street, North Adelaide. Rehearsals began on 12 February. The production was recorded in a full day session on 10 March 1962. The cast consisted of local actors including father and son team Jack and Patrick Taggart. Dean Semler was the floor manager.
Reception
The production was broadcast in Sydney on 2 November 1962 at 10.30pm. The Sydney Morning Herald TV critic wrote "the most striking thing about its writing and production was how little they seemed to belong to visual medium" pointing out the production "missed the chance of letting viewers see and appreciate the open-air attractions of the" farm for themselves. The critic felt the script was obviously written for the stage "to judge from the abnormally high number of obvious curtain lines retained in the dialogue. For three parts of its length the play seemed a composite of the Blue Hills type of radio serial and a "human" documentary, with that accomplished actor Hedley Cullen having to submit twice to the indignity of having his most anguished silences interrupted by the recorded mooing of a cow. The play might easily have ended at the close of "Act Three" (so labelled), but the playwright decided at that point to focus her attention on Patrick Taggart's obstinate grandfather and encourage the play to become a study in obsession. The effect was melodramatic, but also a refreshing indication that the author had grown tired of the tidy banality of her semi-documentary beginning. It seemed to promise that she might be on the way to turning herself into a dramatist."
See also
Joanna Of Arc (1961)
Trial Or Trust (1963)
Born On This Tide (1963)
The Weather At Pine Top (1964)
The First 400 Years (1964)
Dark Corridor (1965)
King Lear (1967)
References
External links
The Valley of Water at IMDb
Australian anthology tele |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Style%20Network%20%28Australian%20TV%20channel%29 | Style Network (known on air as Style) was an Australian pay television channel that owned by Universal Networks International. It was a domestic version of the American Style Network (which it outlasted by six years after that network was converted to the short-lived men's interest Esquire Network), and much like its American counterpart it featured fashion, design, and programming for women.
It was available through the Foxtel and FetchTV platforms. In 2014, it became available on Australian streaming service Foxtel Play.
History
Style was launched on the Foxtel and Austar platforms on 15 November 2009. The channel shut down on 17 December 2019 without notice, after Foxtel changed around their lineup and NBCUniversal decided to consolidate domestic programming operations onto fewer networks, also ending the operations of 13th Street and Syfy at the end of 2019.
Programming
Original local programming
Fashion Bloggers (season 1 only, season 2 aired on sister channel E!)
Acquired programming from American Style Network
Big Rich Texas
Celebrity Closet Confidential
Clean House
Fashion Hunters
Girl Meets Gown
Jerseylicious
Little Women: LA
Pregnant and Dating
Ruby
Styled to Rock
The Amandas
The Jennie Garth Project
Acquired programming from other networks
Bringing Sexy Back
Double Divas
How'd You Get So Rich?
The Good Buy Girls
See also
Esquire Network, formerly the American version of the Style Network
References
Defunct television channels in Australia
English-language television stations in Australia
Television channels and stations established in 2009
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2019
Fashion-related television channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical%20video | A vertical video is a video created either by a camera or computer that is intended for viewing in portrait mode, producing an image that is taller than it is wide. It thus sits in opposition to the multiple horizontal formats normalised by cinema and television, which trace their lineage from the proscenium theatre, Western landscape painting traditions, and human visual field.
Vertical video has historically been shunned by professional video creators because it does not fit the aspect ratio of established moving image forms, such as film and television, as well as newer web-based video players such as YouTube, meaning that black spaces appeared on either side of the image. However, the popularity of mobile video apps such as Snapchat and especially TikTok, which use the more mobile-friendly portrait format, have led to an increase in the production of vertical videos by advertising companies.
History
Historical uses
Vertical filmmaking has aesthetic roots reaching back at least to the tall painted frescoes and stained-glass windows of Christian churches. The world’s first moving images of a cat (Falling Cat, Étienne-Jules Marey, 1894) were shot vertically. When the first motion picture screenings were held in 1895 however, the format was standardised horizontally (though at 4:3 aspect ratio, the images were closer to a square format than to widescreen). Noting that the new cinematic art had taken on the old strictures of the theatre, on 17 September 1930 Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Eisenstein addressed the Technicians Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood, calling for a cinema screen of variable aspect ratio (a "dynamic square"), one which would be able to cope with whatever compositional format the filmmaker chose, including a vertical framing. He lost the argument to a screen format standardised at a new Academy ratio (1.375:1) and vertical filmmaking has largely remained confined to experimental artists of the Expanded Cinema movement, which flourished during the 1960s and 70s. It also made appearances in various World's Fair films such as In the Labyrinth in Montréal in 1967.
If artists working with cinematic film were constrained by physical limitations from tipping the apparatus, the video medium made rotating the camera and/or projector somewhat easier. Artist Bill Viola frequently employs tall-screen video. In 1984, musician and artist Brian Eno created Thursday Afternoon, a series of "video paintings" presented in vertical format.
The 2005 music video for Imogen Heap's song "Hide and Seek" was shot by Joel Peissig in portraiture, one of the first music videos in this format. He felt that the vertical frame "complimented her face and her solitude"; as he used 35 mm film to shoot the music video, he also noticed that putting the camera on its side produced better-looking light streaks.
Indian composer and record producer A. R. Rahman's 2007 international single Pray for Me Brother, tha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%20Talks | Canada Talks is a Canadian talk radio station, which airs on the satellite radio service Sirius XM Canada. The channel broadcasts talk programming, both original content and simulcasting of other broadcast services, relating to all aspects of Canadian life including business, politics, entertainment, lifestyle, health and sports.
The channel's daily morning program is National Post Radio, a collaboration with the National Post newspaper hosted by columnist Matt Gurney. Business programming on the channel is provided through simulcasts of Business News Network's programs Business Day, The Business News and Market Call.
Personalities currently heard on the channel with original programming include Arlene Bynon, Shaun Proulx, Christine Bentley, Kate Wheeler, Sharon Caddy, Amber MacArthur, Eric Alper and Evan Solomon.
The channel also broadcasts all Canadian Football League games, including the annual Grey Cup.
References
External links
Canada Talks
XM Satellite Radio channels
Satellite radio stations in Canada
News and talk radio stations in Canada
Sirius XM Radio channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charming%20%28film%29 | Charming is a 2018 American computer-animated musical comedy film written and directed by Ross Venokur. Produced by Vanguard Animation, 3QU Media, Cinesite and WV Enterprises, the film features the voices of Demi Lovato, Wilmer Valderrama, Sia, Ashley Tisdale, G.E.M. and Avril Lavigne. Lovato is responsible for the executive production of the soundtrack, with Sia, Fall Out Boy frontman Patrick Stump, and Steve Aoki contributing songs. The film had its world premiere in Spain on 20 April 2018, and was met with generally negative reviews. Streaming service Netflix acquired the distribution rights to the film in the United States, and it was released on the platform on 8 January 2021.
Plot
Prince Phillipe Charming was cursed by his father's former partner Nemeny Neverwish, who was jealous that Charming's father would not marry her. Charming instantly bewitches every woman in the land until his 21st birthday, when all the love will disappear. Charming can only break the spell if he finds his true love. Near his 21st birthday, Charming proposes to three bachelorettes: Cinderella, an impatient princess he met at a ball; Snow White, a distrustful princess he saved from a near death experience with an apple; and Sleeping Beauty, a narcoleptic princess he awoke from a hundred-year sleep with a kiss. None are aware that they are all engaged to the same man. Tired of his flippancy, Charming's father forces him to go on a quest known as the Gauntlet, which could help Charming discover his true love.
Having robbed a royal carriage full of treasure, crafty thief Lenore Quinonez briefly meets Charming, who instantly yet unknowingly falls for her when she refuses his advances. To avoid the royal guards, she hides in a bakery whilst Charming's fiancées walk in. Posing as a baker and stealing all their possessions, she discovers who their groom is and reveals they are all engaged to Charming, which causes a scandal. After being arrested, Lenore is bribed by the princesses' guardians to escort Charming to a place called Fire Mountain, where he will choose one of the three princesses to marry. She agrees in exchange for their riches. To avoid further legal trouble, and knowing Charming's reputation, she poses as a man named Lenny.
Lenore quickly becomes annoyed with Charming, who seems dim and lacking useful skills. The two bond after Lenore reveals her past: she was raised at sea and taught to distrust everyone. Unknown to Charming, Lenore is cursed by Nemeny to never be able to love. A tribe of giant women known as the Matilija attack them, but Charming charms their chief. She plans to marry him and postpones Lenore's death. While the tribe is busy with Charming, Lenore is taken in by the Half-Oracle, who informs her that Charming might be her true love. After obtaining the chief's "hairpin", an invincible sword, Charming frees Lenore. After escaping, Lenore and Charming enter a stone cave enchanted by Nemeny, where Lenore accidentally awakens a stone monster |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swathanthra%20Malayalam%20Computing | Swathanthra Malayalam Computing (SMC) is a free software community and non profit charitable society working on Malayalam and other Indic languages. It is the biggest language computing developer community in India. This group has been involved in the Malayalam translation of GNOME, KDE, and Mozilla projects like Firefox. They developed Indic Keyboard which is a multi-language keyboard for Android. They have created several Malayalam fonts. The community also actively contributes towards Malayalam Wikipedia.
They supported Swatantra 2014 and were a part of Google Summer of Code in the years 2007, 2013, and 2014. Along with ICFOSS and The Frequently Used Entries for Localization (FUEL) Project, SMC was involved in creating a standard set of Malayalam words that developers can use while creating interfaces for mobile apps. Since August 2016, SMC community is an ICANN At-Large Structure.
References
External links
Official website
SMC fonts
Information technology organisations based in India
Free Software Foundation
Software industry in India
Indic computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCSA | HCSA may refer to:
Hate Crime Statistics Act, A United States congress Act to provide for the acquisition and publication of data about crimes that manifest prejudice based on certain group characteristics
HC Sierre-Anniviers, a Swiss ice hockey team
Health Care Spending Account, a Canadian employee health benefit plan
Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, A professional body in the UK specifically designed for senior hospital doctors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20Robert%20Wieser | C. Robert Wieser (January 19, 1919 – March 1, 2011) qualified from MIT as an electrical engineer and later became a developer of electrical and computing technology. He was especially and particularly noted for having contributed to the development of the Cape Cod Air Defense system (Cape Cod Air Force Station) and SAGE system.
Wieser directed the first successful testing of the technology necessary for the creation of an airborne interception system (using radar and computers), which from this embryonic state, would later develop into the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment system (SAGE). The SAGE system led to the development of technology known as packet switching, which contributed directly, from being a composite element of technology, to the creation of the ARPANET and ultimately the Internet.
Short biography
Wieser was born Charles Robert Wieser in New Rochelle, New York on January 19, 1919.
The following information shows a biographical history of C. Robert Wieser made using three sources:
1940 - graduated from MIT with a Bachelor in Science in Electrical Engineering and a Masters of Science in the subject Electrical Engineering.
from 1940 to 1942 - worked for the Boston Edison Company.
worked for MIT Servornechanisms Laboratory, developing the application of the Whirlwind I to air traffic control and subsequently to air defence usage (circa 1949).
1951 - joined the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he was leader of a group developing the Cape Cod Air Defense Direction Center, and involved in the preparation of the operational and mathematical specifications for the SAGE air defence system. Later he was appointed as head, assistant director, and finally as deputy director of the Systems Division.
1968 - was employed at the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
1971 - appointed as director of the Advanced Weapons Programs within the Douglas Astronautics Company.
1982 - vice president and general manager of the Western Division of Physical Dynamics, Inc., RES Operations
1985 - Director of Engineering at Science Applications International Corporation (Newport Beach, California).
Wieser died on March 1, 2011, aged 92.
See also
Jay Forrester
J. C. R. Licklider
References
External links
Paul N. Edwards - The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America MIT Press 1997 (reprint, revised) Inside technology, 440 pages,
Electronics engineers
Radar pioneers
1919 births
2011 deaths
MIT Lincoln Laboratory people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake%20Inc. | Snowflake Inc. is a cloud computing–based data cloud company based in Bozeman, Montana. It was founded in July 2012 and was publicly launched in October 2014 after two years in stealth mode.
The firm offers a cloud-based data storage and analytics service, generally termed "data-as-a-service". It allows corporate users to store and analyze data using cloud-based hardware and software. Snowflake services main features are separation of storage and compute, on-the-fly scalable compute, data sharing, data cloning, and third-party tools support in order to scale with its enterprise customers. It has run on Amazon S3 since 2014, on Microsoft Azure since 2018 and on the Google Cloud Platform since 2019. The company was ranked first on the Forbes Cloud 100 in 2019. The company's initial public offering raised $3.4 billion in September 2020, one of the largest software IPOs in history.
History
Snowflake Inc. was founded in July 2012 in San Mateo, California by three data warehousing experts: Benoît Dageville, Thierry Cruanes and Marcin Żukowski. Dageville and Cruanes previously worked as data architects at Oracle Corporation; Żukowski was a co-founder of the Dutch start-up Vectorwise. The company's first CEO was Mike Speiser, a venture capitalist at Sutter Hill Ventures.
In June 2014, the company appointed former Microsoft executive Bob Muglia as CEO. In October 2014, it raised $26 million and came out of stealth mode, being used by 80 organizations. In June 2015, the company raised an additional $45 million and launched its first product, its cloud data warehouse, to the public. It raised another $100 million in April 2017. In January 2018, the company announced a $263 million financing round at a $1.5 billion valuation, making it a unicorn. In October 2018, it raised another $450 million in a round led by Sequoia Capital, raising its valuation to $3.5 billion.
In May 2019, Frank Slootman, the retired former CEO of ServiceNow, joined Snowflake as its CEO and Michael Scarpelli, the former CFO of ServiceNow joined the company as CFO. In June 2019, the company launched Snowflake Data Exchange. In September 2019, it was ranked first on LinkedIn's 2019 U.S. list of Top Startups.
On February 7, 2020, the company raised another $479 million. At that time, it had 3,400 active customers. On September 16, 2020, Snowflake became a public company via an initial public offering (IPO) raising $3.4 billion, one of the largest software IPOs and the largest to double on its first day of trading.
On May 26, 2021, the company announced that it would become headquarterless, with a principal executive office located in Bozeman, Montana.
On March 2, 2022, the company acquired Streamlit for $800 million. Then on October 17, 2022, the company announced an investment in advanced TV advertising firm OpenAP.
Snowflake announced it would acquire privacy-focused search startup Neeva in May 2023.
On October 23, 2023, Snowflake acquired a start-up named Ponder to expand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFIP%20WG%2013.6%20-%20Human%20Work%20Interaction%20Design | The Working Group 6 on Human Work Interaction Design (HWID) is part of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and specifically of its technical committee 13 on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). It focuses on the integration of work analysis and interaction design methods for pervasive and smart workplaces. The group was founded by Annelise Mark-Pejtersen, Torkil Clemmensen and Rikke Orngreen in 2005. HWID has its roots and inspiration from the 70's Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) methods. Today, HWID is a lightweight version of CWA, addressing the concept of Work in HCI. The mission of the group is to empower users by designing smarter workplaces, in many different work domains. In 2015, the group counted more than 60 members.
Aims
The aims of the HWID working group are:
To encourage empirical studies and conceptualisations of the interaction among humans, their variegated social contexts and the technology they use both within and across these contexts.
Promote the use of knowledge, concepts, methods and techniques that enables user studies to procure a better apprehension of the complex interplay between individual, social and organisational contexts and thereby a better understanding of how and why people work in the ways they do.
Promote a better understanding of the relationship between work-domain based empirical studies and iterative design of prototypes and new technologies.
Establish a network of researchers, practitioners and domain/subject matter experts working within this field.
Scope
The group provides the basis for an improved cross-disciplinary co-operation and mutual inspiration among researchers, but also leads to a number of new research initiatives and developments, as well as to an increased awareness of HWID in existing HCI educations. Complexity is a key notion in the working group, it is not a priori defined or limited to any particular domains. A main target of the work group is the analysis of and the design for the variety of complex work and life contexts found in different business. It studies how technology is changing human life and work contexts in numerous, multi-faceted ways:
Interfaces between collaborating individuals; advanced communication networks
Small and large-scale distributed systems
Multimedia and embedded technologies
Mobile technologies and advanced "intelligent" robots
Communication, collaboration, and problem solving
Large information spaces, variability, discretion, learning, and information seeking
Methods, theories, tools, techniques and prototype design on an experimental basis
Officers
Chair: Barbara Rita Barricelli - Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy
Vice Chair: Torkil Clemmensen - Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Vice Chair: José Abdelnour-Nocera - University of West London, United Kingdom
Vice Chair: Arminda Guerra Lopes - Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Portugal
Vice Chair: Pedro Campos - University of Madeira, Portugal
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyan%20Engineering | Cyan Engineering was an American computer engineering company located in Grass Valley, California. It was founded by Steve Mayer and Larry Emmons. The company was purchased in 1973 by Atari, Inc. and developed the Atari Video Computer System console, which was released in 1977 and renamed the Atari 2600 in November 1982. It also carried out some robotics research and development work on behalf of Atari, including the Kermit mobile robot, originally intended as a stand-alone product intended to bring a beer. The company also programmed the original "portrait style" animatronics for Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre pizza chain in 1977.
Further reading
References
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct robotics companies of the United States
1978 in robotics
Atari |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Irvine | Margaret Irvine (20 January 1948 – 24 June 2023) was a British crossword compiler. She created hundreds of cryptic crosswords between 2006 and 2023 mostly for The Guardian under the pseudonym Nutmeg. She also set puzzles in The Times, The Church Times and, as Mace, in the New Statesman. , Irvine was The Guardian's 7th most prolific current cryptic crossword setter and the 24th most prolific all-time setter.
Early life
Irvine was born on 20 January 1948 in Crosby, Merseyside; she was the only child of Malcolm Irvine, a tax collector, and his wife Kitty. When she was 11, they moved to Bispham, near Blackpool and two years later they moved again to Fetcham, Surrey. As a child, Irvine and her family would do the cryptic crossword from that day's paper each evening. She learned Latin for two years at school which she later credited as being helpful for creating puzzles because it was useful to understand the meaning and construction of words.
Education and career
Irvine studied maths and economics at the University of York before going to work at the Home Office. She later worked in the computer science department of the University of Manchester, staying there until her early retirement in 2005 and living in Chorlton. In retirement, Irvine volunteered at a primary school, where she undertook literacy work, and at a toddlers' group.
Crossword compiling
Irvine set puzzles for The Guardian, The Times, the New Statesman, The Church Times, the i newspaper's Inquisitor, The Sunday Telegraph's Enigmatic Variations, The Listener, and The Magpie Crossword Magazine. Her first crossword published in The Guardian was a 2006 'Quiptic' puzzle; her first cryptic crossword for the Guardian was No. 26,058, published in September 2013. Irvine set over 180 cryptic crosswords for The Guardian over the course of her career.
In 2014, Irvine featured on Woman's Hour alongside John Halpern to talk about gender disparity in crossword setting.
In 2016, she joined compilers Arachne and Puck to create a crossword to mark UN World Toilet Day under the joint pseudonym 'Bogus'. The three also set puzzles for World Smile Day in October 2017 and World Naked Gardening Day in May 2021.
In a 2017 interview, Irvine said she aimed to do seven or eight clues per day and to finish a complete crossword in four days before coming back to "tweak and polish it" later. She noted that The Times was "less permissive" with its crosswords than The Guardian which she said "allows more variation and individuality". Irvine used the Collins English Dictionary, the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, the Chambers Dictionary and its Crossword edition, and the Bradford's Crossword Solver's Dictionary.
She was invited to compile crosswords for the New Statesman in 2018 and created 29 for the magazine under the pseudonym Mace; her last puzzle was No. 592, published on 15 July 2022.
Pseudonyms
Irvine's most well-known pseudonym was 'Nutmeg' - from Meg, a diminutive of Margaret, and because "she was hap |
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