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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk%20Extended%20Color%20BASIC | Disk Extended Color Basic is an update to the Color BASIC interpreter for the Radio Shack/Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer series and is the default BASIC interpreter, and therefore the de facto operating system, for the Color Computer 3. The Color Computer Basic implementations are somewhat different for the versions of Basic which come with the other family of TRS-80 machines, namely Basic Levels I, II, and III. Assemblers and Pascal and C compilers are available for the different machines in the series. Modified subsets of Color Basic may be found on many of the Radio Shack PC series of pocket computers (PC-1 to PC-4 by Sharp, PC-5, PC-6 to PC-8 by Casio) of the era.
Color Basic was updated again for the Color Computer 3 and some sources refer to this fourth as Enhanced Color Basic. This version containing routines for disk management is known as Disk Extended Color BASIC. Updates to the language include routines for disk management, therefore the name. A fifth programming language for this series of computers is the Basic interpreter which runs on the Radio Shack/Tandy MC-10, a small computer marketed beginning in 1984.
Emulators of the Color Computers running this programme interpreter and the others are available for modern computers, some of which require a "snapshot" file of the physical machine.
References
Discontinued Microsoft BASICs
TRS-80 Color Computer
Microsoft programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QRZ.com | QRZ.com is an amateur radio website listing almost every callsign in the world. Founded by Fred L. Lloyd in 1992, a considerable amount of effort was devoted to connecting with the FCC database to create a CD-ROM with all call signs issued in the United States. A copy of the CD-ROM is carried on board the International Space Station and one was also aboard the Russian Mir space station. QRZ.com is one of the most recognized websites for amateur radio enthusiasts. Information is pulled directly from the FCC database and from on-line databases of other nations, when available. Registered users can edit their data for accuracy and currency and many list additional information about their station, antennas and other life interests.
Etymology
QRZ, the name of the website, is the "Q" code for "Who is calling me?" and corresponds to the site's purpose of assisting amateur radio operators with the lookup of ham radio call signs from every country in the world.
Features
The website features a personal web page where registered amateur radio operators can post pictures of their ham radio shack, tell facts about themselves, and post their email and postal addresses for other radio amateurs to send their QSL cards and list any equipment they would like to sell. The website also features online discussion forums.
References
External links
Amateur radio
Online databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNEEMO%20Initial%20Training%20Network | KNEEMO is a training network for knee osteoarthritis research, funded by the European Commission’s Framework 7 Programme (FP7). KNEEEMO includes 15 research projects for early career researchers who are employed at eight different host institutions across Europe.
A combination of existing best practices from the members of KNEEMO consortium is included in the training programme of the project. The aim of this programme is to enhance the skills of the researchers in both discipline and generic topics.
The project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no. 607510.
KNEEMO Network
Full Partners
Glasgow Caledonian University
Aalborg University
Paracelsus Private Medical University of Salzburg
Peacocks medical group
University of Münster
University of Southern Denmark
VU University Medical Center Amsterdam
Xsens
Associated Partners
AnyBody Technology
Chondrometrics
European Society for Movement Analysis in Adults and Children (ESMAC)
Institute of Knowledge Transfer (IKT)
Reade, center for rehabilitation and rheumatology
University of Melbourne
University of Twente
Training Events
Notes
Organizations established in 2014
Arthritis organizations
Knee
2014 establishments in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Open%20Data%20Day | International Open Data Day is an annual event that promotes awareness and use of open data.
The event takes place globally, usually in February or March. Typical activities include talks, seminars, demonstrations, hackathons, training or the announcement of open data releases or other milestones in open data. In some countries it occurs along with Code Across coding events.
History
International Open Data Day was first proposed by David Eaves in 2010. The idea followed discussions with Edward Ocampo-Gooding, Mary Beth Baker, Daniel Beauchamp, Pedro Markun, and Daniela Silva.
Today, the event coordination is done through its google mailing list. The date for the event is chosen by the group members taking into consideration different cultural events.
From 2015, Open Knowledge Foundation - in cooperation with other NGOs from the open data world - has offered mini-grants to support the facilitation of events around the globe.
Dates
December 4, 2010
December 3, 2011
February 23, 2013
February 22, 2014
February 21, 2015
March 5, 2016
March 4, 2017
March 3, 2018
March 2, 2019
March 7, 2020
March 6, 2021
March 5, 2022
March 4 - March 10, 2023
Notable Announcements
In 2016, Megan Smith, United States CTO, endorsed Open Data Day with a special video. “ We need you the most. If it weren’t for you, this whole thing wouldn’t be happening. We need ideas, cheerleaders, and friends to spread the word.”
“This day is a chance for people around the world to support and encourage the adoption of open data policies by local, regional and central governments,” said New Zealand Land Information Minister Louise Upston in 2016.
See also
Open Access Week
References
External links
https://opendataday.org/ - a dedicated site for Open Data Day, supported by Open Knowledge Foundation
Twitter hashtag #opendataday
Open data
Recurring events established in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab%20Liberal%20Federation | The Arab Liberal Federation (ALF; ) is a network of liberal political parties, organizations and activists from Arab countries. It was formed in 2008 in Cairo under the name of Network of Arab Liberals (NAL). Wael Nawara of the Egyptian El-Ghad Party was elected as a first president. The network was renamed The Arab Alliance for Freedom and Democracy in 2011, reacting to the negative connotations that the term 'liberal' has in some Arab countries. In March 2016, the Alliance was renamed to its current name using the term 'Liberal' as ideological identification.
The network is affiliated to Liberal International federation, and receives support from the European ALDE Party and the German Friedrich Naumann Foundation and the VVD of Netherlands.
Leadership
In March 2016, ALF met in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, to elect new leaders.
Dr. Mahmoud Alaily of FEP (Egypt) was elected as president, and Mohamed Ouzzine of MP (Morocco) was elected as secretary general.
Former leaders:
2008–2012: Dr. Wael Nuwwara – El-Ghad Party – Egypt
2012–2016: Saed Karajeh – Free Thought Forum – Jordan
2016– : Dr. Mahmoud Alaily – Free Egyptians Party – Egypt
Members
Political parties
(See Liberalism in Egypt)
Free Egyptians Party
Congress Party
Free Egypt Party
National Liberal Party
Future Movement
Popular Movement
Constitutional Union
CAHDİ Party
Liberal Democratic Party
Afek Tounes
Other organisations and individuals
Free Thought Forum
Mohamed Arslan, former MP
Freedom Forum
References
External links
Arab Liberal Federation website
Arab political parties
International liberal organizations
Liberalism in the Arab world
Organizations established in 2008
Political party alliances in Africa
Political party alliances in Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jure%20Leskovec | Jure Leskovec is a Slovenian computer scientist, entrepreneur and associate professor of Computer Science at Stanford University focusing on networks. He was the chief scientist at Pinterest.
Early life and education
In 2004, Leskovec received a Diploma in Computer Science from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, researching semantic networks-based creation of abstracts, using machine learning; in 2008 he received a PhD in Computational and Statistical Learning from the Carnegie Mellon University.
After finishing his PhD, Leskovec worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University for a year. During this time, he was advised by Jon Kleinberg.
Research and career
After his postdoctoral stint at Cornell University, Leskovec joined the faculty of Stanford University as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science in 2009. He was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2016.
His general research area is applied machine learning and data science for large interconnected systems. His work focuses on modeling complex, richly-labeled relational structures, graphs, and networks for systems at all scales, from interactions of proteins in a cell to interactions between humans in a society. His research finds applications in a variety of settings including commonsense reasoning, recommender systems, computational social science, and computational biology with an emphasis on drug discovery.
Leskovec co-founded a startup called Kosei in 2014 that was acquired by Pinterest in 2015.
Awards and honors
Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship, 2011.
Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, 2012.
Lagrange Prize, 2015.
SIGKDD Innovation Award, 2023.
Select publications
References
Living people
Slovenian computer scientists
Slovenian academics
Sloan Research Fellows
Stanford University faculty
University of Ljubljana alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Network scientists
Pinterest people
Carnegie Mellon University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top%20Secret%20Rosies%3A%20The%20Female%20%22Computers%22%20of%20WWII | Top Secret Rosies: The Female "Computers" of WWII is a 2010 documentary film directed by LeAnn Erickson. The film is focused on recognizing the contributions of American women serving as human computers during WWII, six of whom went on to program one of the earliest computers, the ENIAC. Their work helped the United States improve the accuracy of weaponry as most conducted ballistics analysis. The film officially premiered on November 1 on PBS.
History
At the time, in the 1940s, when these women were doing this work, it was considered classified; moreover, contemporaries considered programming a clerical task. Because of this, and because of their invisibility during the media coverage of ENIAC, the work of these women was largely unrecognized. Herman Goldstine selected the programmers from women who had been calculating ballistics tables with desk calculators and a differential analyzer prior to and during the development of ENIAC. Under Herman and Adele Goldstine's direction, the programmers studied ENIAC's blueprints and physical structure to determine how to manipulate its switches and cables, rather than learning a programming language, which had not yet been invented. According to Jamie Gumbrecht in an article by CNN: They handed out its punch cards as souvenirs. They'd taught the massive machine do math that would've taken hours by hand. [...] But their work during the war was little known, unacknowledged or left out of official histories of the war and the development of computers.The film focuses on the contributions of several women, namely the Blumberg twins, Doris Polsky (née Blumberg) and Shirley Melvin (née Blumberg); Marlyn Meltzer (née Wescoff); and Jean Bartik (a.k.a. Billie Jean Jennings). Kathleen Antonelli (née McNulty) is another ENIAC computer programmer recognized in the film. It has been taught widely in schools and universities and is credited for recognizing the little-known contributions of classified women technology workers during World War II and making that history available to public audiences. In the publication for American Association of University Women (AAUW), Erickson stated that the film is held in over 500 libraries worldwide.
In 2015 the film was adapted for the iPad in an interactive book app, The Computer Wore Heels. The app allows users to follow key figures from the film, and it highlights social issues, the day-to-day experience or working long shifts, and the wartime context.
Reception
The film has received largely positive reviews, and primarily among educational or library organizations.
In their review of the film, the Mathematical Association of America wrote:This story would be of enormous value in courses in women’s studies, the history of computing and technology, the history of World War II, and the history of mathematics. [...] Fortunately, the video was made in the nick of time as two of the women interviewed have died since it was made.Professor emeritus of mathematics at Marymount U |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Happy%20Love%20Story | Juan Happy Love Story is a 2016 Philippine television drama comedy romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by L.A. Madridejos, it stars Dennis Trillo and Heart Evangelista. It premiered on May 16, 2016 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Because of You. The series concluded on September 2, 2016 with a total of 80 episodes. It was replaced by Someone to Watch Over Me in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
The story revolves around Juan dela Costa and Happy. The two meet each other when Juan rescue Happy from a thief. Their romance leads to a wedding. Their relationship with their families is opposed and the couple can't have child on their own, so they decided to adopt one instead.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Dennis Trillo as Juan dela Costa, Jr.
Heart Evangelista as Happy Villanueva-Dela Costa
Supporting cast
Gloria Romero as Imelda "Mameng" Valencia-dela Costa
Nick Lizaso as Carlos "Caloy" dela Costa
Lotlot de Leon as Marissa "Isay" Canlas-Villanueva
Gardo Versoza as Rodrigo "Boyong" Villanueva
Erika Padilla as Joy Villanueva-Agustin
Dominic Roco as Henry Agustin
Vincent Magbanua as Lucky Villanueva
Joross Gamboa as Robert "Bob" Agoncillo
Kim Domingo as Agatha Samaniego
Rob Moya as Kyle Ignacio
Leanne Bautista as Katrina Cassandra "Katkat" Dela Costa-Arboleda
Recurring cast
Koreen Medina as Lorraine Ignacio
Arianne Bautista as Sahlee Perez
Ashley Cabrera as Lenlen Villanueva Agustin
Vince Gamad as Glenn
Papa Dudut as Narrator / Taxi Driver / Various
Judie dela Cruz as Michelle
Kiel Rodriguez as Clinton
Matet de Leon as Didit Dimalinlang
Carla Humphries as Sabrina Moran
Keanna Reeves as Evelyn Samaniego
Guest cast
Mickey Ferriols as Jarina dela Costa
Carl Acosta as young Juan
Pauline Mendoza as teen Happy
Sheree Bautista as Lucy
Pen Medina as Danny
Jinri Park as Lyla
Arielle Arida as Maganda
Stephanie Sol as Dorcas
June Macasaet as Malakas
Debbie Garcia as Pia
Teresita Gonzales as Mrs. Cumbiado
Rolando Inocencio as Kapitan
Kim Last as Alex
Mariam Al-Alawi as Ava
Carl Cervantes as Rasul
Faith da Silva as Adarna
Carla Abellana as older Katkat
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Juan Happy Love Story earned a 17.1% rating. While the final episode scored a 17.3% rating.
References
External links
2016 Philippine television series debuts
2016 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romantic comedy television series
Television shows set in Quezon City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InsideOUT%20Writers | InsideOUT Writers (IOW) is a Los Angeles-based non-profit organization that conducts weekly writing classes inside Los Angeles County juvenile halls and jails. IOW also serves as a support network for formerly incarcerated young people. Since 1996, more than 11,000 youth have participated in over 15,000 classes.
During each class, students are given multiple writing prompts and are then asked to share their work and both receive and provide feedback from the writing circle. IOW also convenes annual writing retreats at juvenile detention facilities and publishes In Depth, a literary journal of students and alumni writings. The classes are taught by writers, poets, screenwriters, journalists, educators and other volunteers. Notable teachers have included Scott Budnick, Bruce Lisker and Mark Salzman. The organization is funded both by the county and private donors.
History
InsideOUT Writers was founded in 1996 by Sister Janet Harris, PBVM, who was serving as the Catholic chaplain at Central Juvenile Hall. While speaking to the young inmates about what they were going through, she found them frustrated, hopeless, afraid, and wondered: "What outlets could she provide for them to process those feelings?" Sister Janet decided to start a writing experience at Central Juvenile Hall. She recruited then-Los Angeles Times writer Duane Noriyuki to come and teach a writing class. In 1996, Noriyuki wrote a piece for the Los Angeles Times about Harris's ministry entitled Sister of Mercy.
Shortly after the beginning of the program, Mario Rocha, who was on trial for murder, met Sister Harris when he was selected for the writing program. Harris was struck by his demeanor and was impressed with his writing skills. Ultimately, she became convinced of his innocence, even though he was convicted of murder, and she began her own investigation. After Harris found new witnesses and persuaded the law firm of Latham Watkins to take on the case for free, Rocha was exonerated.
Several notable figures have participated in IOW. In 2003, Scott Budnick began volunteering as an InsideOUT teacher at the Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar, California. As of 2014, Budnick still volunteers at the Nidorf Juvenile Hall. After this experience and others, Budnick began to tell administrators and politicians about the problems he was seeing in the juvenile justice and criminal justice systems, and founded the Anti-Recidivism Coalition. Bruce Lisker, who was wrongfully convicted of murdering his mother, has taught with IOW. Mark Salzman taught for IOW at Central, and wrote a book about his experience. Christina McDowell, author of After Perfect, teaches with IOW.
In 2011, IOW teamed with the Los Angeles Opera to perform stories written by incarcerated youths at Central.
Alumni program
In 2010, InsideOUT formalized an Alumni Program. When students get out of detention, InsideOUT provides case management, life skills training, continued creative writing classes, and mentoring, to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20songs%20of%202016%20%28Mexico%29 | This is a list of the number-one songs of 2016 in Mexico. The airplay chart rankings are published by Monitor Latino, based on airplay across radio stations in Mexico using the Radio Tracking Data, LLC in real time. Charts are ranked from Monday to Sunday.
The streaming charts are published weekly by AMPROFON (Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas).
Chart history (airplay)
In 2016, nineteen songs reached number one on the General chart, the biggest amount since the chart started in 2007. Of these, fourteen songs were entirely or mostly in Spanish, and the remaining five were entirely in English (also the biggest amount since the chart was founded). Thirteen acts achieved their first number-one song in Mexico: Coldplay, Maluma, Twenty One Pilots, Joey Montana, Wisin, Justin Timberlake, Daddy Yankee, DJ Snake, Justin Bieber, Pharrell Williams, Bia, Sky and Los Plebes del Rancho.
"Safari" by J Balvin was the longest-running number-one of the year, staying at the top position for seven weeks. The best-performing song of the year was Joey Montana's "Picky".
Besides the General chart, Monitor Latino also publishes "Pop", "Popular" (Regional Mexican) and "Anglo" charts.
General
Pop
Popular
Anglo
Chart history (streaming)
See also
List of number-one albums of 2016 (Mexico)
List of Top 100 songs for 2016 in Mexico
References
2016
Number-one songs
Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalupe%20Arizpe%20de%20la%20Vega | Guadalupe Arizpe De La Vega is a Mexican humanitarian who founded the Federación Mexicana de Asociaciones y Empresas Privadas (FEMAP), which supports a network of clinics, hospitals, and nursing schools in the North of Mexico, based in Ciudad Juárez. She is a proponent of women's right to access birth control and health care. De La Vega and her late husband, border billionaire, Federico De La Vega, are greatly revered for their impact on the region through their philanthropic efforts focused on propelling education, healthcare, and sports.
Biography
De la Vega had been volunteering for the Red Cross since she was eight. In the 1960s, she raised money for the Mexican Red Cross. De la Vega began working with women on family planning after reading about a poor mother of nine who, when pregnant again, "tried to kill her fetus by stabbing herself in the stomach." De la Vega visited her in prison and was shocked to find out that this woman did not know anything about family planning or birth control. She helped her obtain legal counsel and she began educating other women in Mexico. In 1973, she began working with women in Juárez, and helped them gain access to family planning and a maternity clinic. De la Vega became a member of the El Paso Planned Parenthood Board.
De la Vega founded Federación Mexicana de Asociaciones y Empresas Privadas (FEMAP or Federation of Private Family Planning Associations) and worked as the director of the network of health clinics in Mexico. These clinics increased the number of Mexican women using birth control from 50,000 women in 1982 to 360,000 women using birth control methods in 1987.
De la Vega was named a CNN Hero in 2010. When Juárez became the "murder capital of the world" during the Mexican Drug Wars, De la Vega continued visiting her hospital in the city several times a week. She and her family had recently moved to El Paso because her family was threatened. Vega was awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award in 2013 from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
References
External links
Guadalupe Arizpe De La Vega (video)
People from Juárez Municipality, Chihuahua
Activists from El Paso, Texas
Mexican humanitarians
Mexican women's rights activists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%20Jackson%20%28filmmaker%29 | Lisa Jackson is a Canadian Screen Award and Genie Award-winning Canadian and Anishinaabe filmmaker. Her films have been broadcast on APTN and Knowledge Network, as well as CBC's ZeD, Canadian Reflections and Newsworld and have screened at festivals including HotDocs, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Melbourne, Worldwide Short Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival.
Her recent VR piece Biidaban: First Light premiered at Tribeca, won a Canadian Screen Award, and was nominated for a Webby Award. Her multimedia work Transmissions, an immersive film installation presented by the Electric Company Theatre premiered in Vancouver in September 2019. Her recent IMAX short film Lichen premiered in April 2019, as part of Outer Worlds, a commissioned project featuring the work of five artists including Michael Snow.
Early life and education
Jackson is an Ojibway member of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation. Jackson holds a BFA in Film Production from Simon Fraser University and an MFA in Film Production from York University.
Career
In 2004, Jackson wrote, directed, and produced Suckerfish, a short experimental documentary about her relationship with her mother. The film, a mixture of photographs and animation, was screened at more than fifty festivals and was broadcast nationally in Canada, on CBC.
From 1999 to 2006, Jackson was a director and producer on the media team at Open Learning Agency, as a scriptwriter and carrying out field production for their online educational media. Her work aired on Knowledge Network, BC's educational broadcaster. From 2007 to 2013, she has worked as a story mentor with "Our World" Initiative and would travel to remote Aboriginal communities in BC and the Yukon to teach digital storytelling workshops. In these workshops, Jackson taught small groups of youth how to make films in Indigenous languages, using contemporary digital technology.
In 2009 and 2014, Jackson worked with Embargo Collective, an ongoing international group of seven Indigenous artists who collaborate and challenge one another to create new films. Savage was the result of the first Embargo Collective in 2009 and was included in the 2013 exhibition Witnesses: Art and Canada's Indian Residential Schools, at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. Intemperance premiered on October 26, 2014 at the closing night of imagineNATIVE.
Since 2014, she has been working as the Director Mentor at National Screen Institute’s Aboriginal Documentary Program. Jackson has recently worked with special projects featuring the production of short films by First Nations filmmakers, including the National Film Board’s Vistas series, screened as part of the public presentations of the Canadian Olympics in Vancouver, and Knowledge Network’s Our First Voices television series on Indigenous languages in British Columbia.
Ms Jackson was the producer of The Citizen Minutes, eight short films commissioned by Hot Docs in 2021.
Filmography
2004: Suckerfish – Director/Wr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven%20Year%20Switch | Seven Year Switch is an Australian reality-television series based on the 2015–2018 American series of the same name. The series aired on the Seven Network, starting on 15 March 2016. The show features four married couples whose relationships are in turmoil. The married people are matched with a person from one of the other couples and are to live together for 14 days, during which time there are no rules. At the end of the 14 days each of the couples reunite and make the decision to either part ways or reaffirm their commitment.
The series was renewed in August 2016, with the second season debuting on 17 April 2017.
In 2019 the Seven Network announced a reboot of the series called The Super Switch.
Season 1 (2016)
Couples
Brad & Tallena
This Brisbane couple Brad and Tallena met on Tinder. They were supposed to get married in February but postponed it because of time, stress and money, and now the wedding’s back on but they need to make things right before the big day. After the show the couple married and then divorced.
Tim & Jackie
These Brisbane fitness trainers met at the gym. They hooked up at work one night over a few drinks and their relationship started from there, but it seems that’s where the intimacy in their relationship began and ended. Their lack of any kind of romance is the number one issue for Jackie, followed by the resentment that’s building from running their fitness business from their home. After the show Jackie got pregnant with their son and the couple remain together as of October 2018. They have since welcomed a baby girl as well.
Ryan & Cassie
Cassie has 2 daughters: 11-month-old Emmerson with Ryan and nine-year-old Ramani from a previous relationship, though her biggest child is Ryan himself. Cassie is sick of dealing with a man-child. Cassie wants to reignite the passion she once had with Ryan. Ryan and Cassie had another baby girl, Mena, on 14 June 2016. After the show the couple remained together until mid-2017, when they separated.
Jason & Michelle
This Gold Coast couple has been together for seven years and have a four-year-old son and an eight-month-old daughter together. While Michelle is focused on being a good mum, Jason spends all his time establishing his motorbike business during the day and doing web design at night to make extra cash for his family, but Michelle wants more affection from Jason. The couple announced they had split in the reunion episode.
Ratings
Season 2 (2017)
A second season was announced in August 2016, and premiered on 17 April 2017.
Couples
Ratings
Other versions
American version by Kinetic Content in 2015 for FYI, moved to Lifetime for Season 3
British version by 7 Wonder Productions in 2018 for Channel 4
The Super Switch
The Super Switch is a spin-off series which aired on the Seven Network in 2019. The series premiered on 11 June June 2019 on Channel 7 and 7plus.
The series format was slightly changed: six couples still swapped partners, however three of each s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV%20Network%20%28India%29 | ITV Network, (also Information TV Pvt Ltd), is a media group founded, owned and promoted by Kartikeya Sharma, the son of Venod Sharma, a politician. Presently, it owns 12 news channels, a Hindi daily, Aaj Samaj, daily newspaper, The Daily Guardian and a weekly newspaper, The Sunday Guardian. ITV Network has leading news channels in the country like NewsX, India News, India News Haryana, India News Rajasthan, India News MPCG and India News Punjab. ITV also runs the Pro Wrestling League, a yearly international wrestling event. India News Haryana Channel added on GSAT-17 Satellite at C-Band. Ajay Shukla is the editor-in-chief while Professor Madhav Nalapat is the Editorial Director of iTV Network.
Channels
iTV Network operates news channels under two brands, NewsX, India News and several digital channels.
Television Channels
Digital Channels
References
Mass media companies of India
Television stations in India
Television broadcasting companies of India
Television networks in India
Broadcasting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Diva | Cyber Diva is a female vocal released by Yamaha for Vocaloid 4. In March 2015 on Instagram, an entertainer named Jenny Shima claimed that she was the voice provider for CYBER DIVA. Mrs. Shima is an American singer, theater actress, and model.
Development
The earliest known information related to her dates back to the VY2 release in 2010, in an article a pair of English VY vocals were announced for future development. At the time the developers did not know if they would re-use past samples or go with a new vocal entirely. Cyber Diva was later confirmed to be the female from the pair or "VY3" during a livestream on Vocaloid related matters.
She was produced in light of research into common complaints towards past pre-V4 English Vocals. This included the frustrations that came with the mixed British and American phonetic system the Vocaloid engine used for its English vocals. It was also discovered that English vocals often did not produce the correct sound to match the phonetics in use, caused by accidents in the construction of the vocal either during the recording process or the vocal development process. Several candidates were tested as possible vocals for the new library. During this process it was noted there were many missing sounds or unusual sounds found they did not expect to be present. There were very clear and expressive sounds present in the constructed libraries. The "Aspiration Problem" that had plagued past English vocals were also addressed and fixed. As the problem was fixed, the issue of sounds not matching input symbols were also tweaked. They did not address the issue of expressive tones until they had recorded the right sounds for the right phonetic symbol.
In February 2013, the recording script was rewritten. The aspiration problem was fixed in the new script and the sounds were compacted to make it easier to control the phonetic data better. In March, two more singers were recorded using the new script. The new script was shorter than the past one and was more difficult for any singer to produce. However, the scripts new results sacrificed expression for clarity and mislabeling was gone. Further tweaks to the scripts were done as recordings went ahead.
Once the vocal was brought to a reasonable quality, the team working on her was given the choice between going with the current singers or finding a new one. CYBER DIVA was recorded in 6 pitch layers. She has 3 main pitches, with an additional 3 sets of vowel pitches, aka stationaries. They added 231 different triphones per pitch; more than any other English library released before.
The vocal was tested by two hired English teachers. They were hired was because over half the team were Japanese and sounds that sounded weird to the non-Japanese members did not sound off to them. Due to the mix of British and American sounds, CYBER DIVA did not always sound good when the sounds were mixed. She included the schwa sound; this is not included in all English vocals despite t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macne%20Nana | is a vocal developed for Mac computers for Reason and GarageBand. Her Garageband and Reason voicebanks were able to be ported over into UTAU, and later on, she was released for Vocaloid 3.
Development
In 2008, VOCALOID was only available on Windows, and there was no equivalent software for the Mac. This inspired Haruna Ikezawa to start working on something using her own voice: Macne Nana. Macne Nana was released as the first member of the . It followed the success story of Hatsune Miku, a voice produced for the Vocaloid software which was produced for Microsoft Windows only.
Macne Nana, along with a cheaper alternative compact version called "", released on March 28, 2009 for the software Reason and GarageBand. She possessed 104 sounds, while the Nana Petite version had less samples as it lacked the triple and bass ranges.
This led to a series of vocals similarly to Nana being added to the "Macne Family". Users were also able to take advantage of the Macne Nana and Macne Nana Petit's open license status to exploit her vocals into other software; this had led to UTAU conversions existing.
Additional Software
A later version of the software "Macne Nana 2S" was created, the character of "Macne Nana Petit" had become by this point Nana's younger sister "" and was released with a vocal called "Macne Petit 2S" on the same day. The 2S version had improved performance and was released with an already converted UTAU vocal. This version was recorded in the scales of D#4/G#4/C#5 and had 117 samples, more than the first Macne Nana release.
After the news of the Mac version of the engine "Vocaloid Neo" was released, a Vocaloid was considered .However, though the news was interesting, as a Magazine editor Haruna Ikezawa had no budget for a Vocaloid production. Later, after things were sorted to produce the Vocaloid 3 version, teasers were left hinting at Macne Nana being produced for Vocaloid 3. This was later confirmed on Macne Nana's Twitter account.
According to Mac Fan magazine, there was a conversation with Yamaha; no money was involved and the OK was given for the voice of Haruna Ikezawa to become a Vocaloid release. The vocal would be reviewed at 70% completion. If the vocal does not meet with expectations, it will be scrapped. It will only be put forward to commercial release if the vocal is satisfactory. In October 2013, it was confirmed she was going ahead and that she would have both a PC version and a Mac version, with Bplats doing the recording. It was also confirmed she would include an English as well as a Japanese vocal.
It was mentioned in an interview that a Chinese vocal was not completely out of question yet, as they made a test vocal for Nana in that language. However, it is not a complete version so they don't guarantee a release for it.
Competition
Those who pre-ordered the Vocaloid 3 version were entered into a competition to win one of 10 signed hand-drawn pictures by Haruna Ikezawa and Gomoku Akatsuki (あかつきごもく).
Character |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%20Doctor%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Doctor Doctor (also known outside of Australasia as The Heart Guy) is an Australian television drama created by Tony McNamara, Ian Collie and Alan Harris, which premiered on the Nine Network on 14 September 2016, lasting five seasons, concluding on 23 June 2021. The cast includes Rodger Corser, Nicole da Silva, Ryan Johnson, Tina Bursill, Hayley McElhinney and Steve Bisley, and follows the story of Hugh Knight, a rising heart surgeon who is gifted, charming and infallible. He is a hedonist who, due to his sheer talent, believes he can live outside the rules. His "work hard, play harder" philosophy eventually comes to 'bite' him. The series was originally produced by Essential Media & Entertainment and Easy Tiger Productions in association with Screen NSW. Andy Ryan and Jo Rooney served as executive producers.
Doctor Doctor has been positively received throughout its run and has also achieved success outside of Australia in countries such as New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom and Sweden. A ratings success for Nine Network, the series has occasionally been the highest-rated drama on Australian television, peaking at 854,000 during its first season. The series finale was watched by 516,000 viewers. It has been nominated for several awards, including 15 Logie Awards and three AACTA Awards.
Premise
After a spectacular fall from grace, high-flying heart surgeon Dr Hugh Knight receives a life-changing punishment from the Medical Tribunal—he is forced to work for a year as a country general practitioner (GP) in his former home town of Whyhope. Now the only way to salvage his brilliant career is to work as a lowly GP in an under-resourced, small-town hospital surrounded by estranged family, former friends, crazed colleagues, oddball patients, jealous brothers and a newlywed ex-girlfriend.
Production
Conception
The series entered pre-production in early 2016, with executive producers Andy Ryan and Jo Rooney of the Nine Network and Ian Collie, Claudia Karvan and Tony McNamara of Essential Media & Entertainment. The Nine Network confirmed that Doctor Doctor would commence production in April 2016 with filming taking place in Sydney and regional New South Wales. In a statement, Nine's Head of Drama, Jo Rooney and Andy Ryan, commented "We are delighted to join forces with Essential Media & Entertainment on the irreverent new family drama series". Inspiration for the series came from discussions that Tony McNamara had with lawyers who talked with him about the Impaired Registrants Program, a practice operated by the Medical Council of New South Wales, which seeks to ensure that medical practitioners are fit for practice and in doing so, the program manages doctors who suffer from a psychiatric illness, self-administration of drugs, alcohol abuse, and physical illness. The series was produced by Essential Media and Entertainment and its first season created 800 jobs and production expenditure of $11.6 million in Sydney and Mudgee, as well as $300 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lansweeper | Lansweeper is an IT asset management solution that gathers hardware and software information of computers and other devices on a computer network for management, compliance and audit purposes.
History
Lansweeper was founded in Belgium in 2004.
In October 2020, Lansweeper announced the acquisition of Fing.
In June 2021, Lansweeper received a €130 million investment from Insight Partners to accelerate further growth.
Description
The main purpose of Lansweeper derives from a discovery phase of sweeping round a local area network (LAN) and maintaining an inventory of the hardware assets and software deployed on those assets. Reports from the inventory enable complete hardware and software reports on the devices and can be used to identify problems. Lansweeper can collect information on all Windows, Linux and Mac devices and can also IP-addressable network appliances.
The software incorporates an integrated ticket-based Help Desk module that can be used to assist issues to be captured and tracked through to completion. There is also a software module that allows Lansweeper to orchestrate software updates on Windows computers.
The Lansweeper central inventory database must be located on either an SQL Compact or SQL Server database on a Microsoft Windows machine. In 2019 Lansweeper was discovered to be vulnerable to an SQL injection vulnerability. Lansweeper claims while a minimum default configuration can be supported by placing all its components on a single server the application has the capability to scale up to hundreds of thousands of devices. While Lansweeper can be set up agentless it may be recommended to use agents for more complex configurations.
Lansweeper has a freeware version of the product but it is limited in the number of devices available and functionality provided unless appropriate commercial licenses are purchased.
Criticisms
A PC World review in 2010 claimed the interface rendered less rapidly than Spiceworks.
Lansweeper itself does not directly provide a network intrusion system; however, Lansweeper claims it is able to partner with an addition tool to address that area.
Notes
References
External links
Network management
Utility software
IT infrastructure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filodrillia%20pergradata | Filodrillia pergradata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.
Description
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off Southern Australia.
References
Cotton, Bernard C. Australian Recent and Tertiary Turridae. Field Naturalists Section of the Royal Society of South Australia, Conchology Club, 1947.
pergradata
Gastropods of Australia
Gastropods described in 1947 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku%E1%B9%AD%E1%B9%ADaka | Kuṭṭaka is an algorithm for finding integer solutions of linear Diophantine equations. A linear Diophantine equation is an equation of the form ax + by = c where x and y are unknown quantities and a, b, and c are known quantities with integer values. The algorithm was originally invented by the Indian astronomer-mathematician Āryabhaṭa (476–550 CE) and is described very briefly in his Āryabhaṭīya. Āryabhaṭa did not give the algorithm the name Kuṭṭaka, and his description of the method was mostly obscure and incomprehensible. It was Bhāskara I (c. 600 – c. 680) who gave a detailed description of the algorithm with several examples from astronomy in his Āryabhatiyabhāṣya, who gave the algorithm the name Kuṭṭaka. In Sanskrit, the word Kuṭṭaka means pulverization (reducing to powder), and it indicates the nature of the algorithm. The algorithm in essence is a process where the coefficients in a given linear Diophantine equation are broken up into smaller numbers to get a linear Diophantine equation with smaller coefficients. In general, it is easy to find integer solutions of linear Diophantine equations with small coefficients. From a solution to the reduced equation, a solution to the original equation can be determined. Many Indian mathematicians after Aryabhaṭa have discussed the Kuṭṭaka method with variations and refinements. The Kuṭṭaka method was considered to be so important that the entire subject of algebra used to be called Kuṭṭaka-ganita or simply Kuṭṭaka. Sometimes the subject of solving linear Diophantine equations is also called Kuṭṭaka.
In literature, there are several other names for the Kuṭṭaka algorithm like Kuṭṭa, Kuṭṭakāra and Kuṭṭikāra. There is also a treatise devoted exclusively to a discussion of Kuṭṭaka. Such specialized treatises are very rare in the mathematical literature of ancient India. The treatise written in Sanskrit is titled Kuṭṭākāra Śirōmaṇi and is authored by one Devaraja.
The Kuṭṭaka algorithm has much similarity with and can be considered as a precursor of the modern day extended Euclidean algorithm. The latter algorithm is a procedure for finding integers x and y satisfying the condition ax + by = gcd(a, b).
Aryabhaṭa's formulation of the problem
The problem that can supposedly be solved by the Kuṭṭaka method was not formulated by Aryabhaṭa as a problem of solving the linear Diophantine equation. Aryabhaṭa considered the following problems all of which are equivalent to the problem of solving the linear Diophantine equation:
Find an integer which when divided by two given integers leaves two given remainders. This problem may be formulated in two different ways:
Let the integer to be found be N, the divisors be a and b, and the remainders be R1 and R2. Then the problem is to find N such that
N ≡ R1 (mod a) and N ≡ R2 (mod b).
Letting the integer to be found to be N, the divisors be a and b, and the remainders be R1 and R2, the problem is to find N such that there are integers x and y such that
N = ax |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena%20of%20Avalor | Elena of Avalor is an American computer-animated adventure television series that premiered on Disney Channel on July 22, 2016, and moved to Disney Junior on July 14, 2018. The series features Aimee Carrero as the voice of Elena, Disney's first Latina princess.
In July 2020, Disney announced that Elena of Avalor would end after three seasons. The series finale, "Coronation Day" aired on August 23, 2020.
Plot
Princess Elena Castillo Flores has been freed from the Amulet of Avalor by Princess Sofia and has saved her magical kingdom of Avalor from evil sorceress Shuriki. As she had been trapped in the amulet for 41 years while Shuriki ruled the kingdom, she must now learn to rule as its crown princess. Since she is only 16 years old, she must follow the guidance of a Grand Council, composed of her grandparents, older cousin Chancellor Esteban, and a new friend, Naomi Turner. Elena also looks to her little sister, Isabel, her friends, wizard Mateo, and Royal Guard lieutenant, Gabe, a spirit animal named Zuzo, and a trio of magical flying creatures called Jaquins for guidance and support.
In season 1, Elena adjusts to her new life as crown princess, while learning to master the power of her scepter. At the end of the season, Elena learns from Quita Moz of the Sunbird Oracles that she will soon be facing a darkness and will be tested on her bravery and leadership; if she fails, she will never become queen.
Elena spends season 2 preparing for her test while simultaneously facing Victor and Carla Delgado, who have teamed up with Shuriki, who has her powers restored. She also befriends the Sirenas of Nueva Vista, and enlists their help to defeat Shuriki.
In Season 3, Elena's cousin Esteban is revealed to have been in on Shuriki's original takeover of the kingdom more than 41 years earlier, and is banished from the kingdom. Meanwhile, Elena is granted new emotion-based powers after falling into a crystal well in Takaina. She spends the season preparing for her coronation as queen, learning to control her emotion magic, and facing down the Delgados' wicked matriarch, Ash.
Elena's adventures lead her to understand that her new role requires thoughtfulness, resilience, and compassion, the traits of all truly great leaders.
Episodes
Characters
Production
The series' creator and executive producer Craig Gerber said: "It was very important to us that, since we were doing a show with a kingdom inspired by Latin American culture, that we get that right. Even though it's a fairytale world, there are things that feel very authentic." Story editor Silvia Olivas stated: "We have cultural consultants help us every step of the way. They read everything from the premise all the way through the final draft." On the show's music, Latin music consultant Rene Camacho said: "The styles of music we're using overall — it's all Latin-based, it's very festive." Consultant Diane Rodriguez stated that the series "has this visual element that's so evocative, it takes the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borehole%20image%20logs | Borehole imaging logs are logging and data-processing methods used to produce two-dimensional, centimeter-scale images of a borehole wall and the rocks that make it up. These tools are limited to the open-hole environment. The applications where images are useful cover the full range of the exploration and production cycle from exploration through appraisal, development, and production to abandonment and sealing.
Specific applications are sedimentology, structural geology/tectonics, reservoir geomechanics and drilling, reservoir engineering.
The tools can be categorized in a number of ways: simple optical borehole imaging (OBI) systems, energy source (electrical, acoustic, or nuclear with gamma rays or neutron); conveyance (wireline or logging while drilling); and type of drilling mud (water-based mud or oil-based mud).
See also
List of acronyms in oil and gas exploration and production
References
Boreholes
Data processing
Well logging |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard%20Rahm | Erhard Rahm (born 1959) is a German computer scientist and professor at the University of Leipzig.
His research areas are database systems, data integration and Big Data.
Biography
Rahm studied computer science at Kaiserslautern University of Technology from 1979 to 1984 where he also earned his Ph.D. in 1988. From 1988 to 1989 he was a post-doc at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne. He was an assistant professor at Kaiserslautern University of Technology from 1989 to 1994 and received the Venia legendi in 1993. Since 1994 he is a full professor for databases at the University of Leipzig. He spent extended research visits at Microsoft Research in Redmond (WA) and the Australian National University.
Selected publications
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Selected awards
VLDB 10-Year Best Paper Award 2011 with Jayant Madhavan and Phil Bernstein,
ICDE Influential Paper Award 2013 with Sergey Melnik and Hector Garcia-Molina
References
External links
Homepage of Erhard Rahm at University of Leipzig
Publications in the Digital Bibliography & Library Project
Publications in Google Scholar
Entry for Erhard Rahm in Mathematics Genealogy Project
Living people
1959 births
German computer scientists
Computer science educators
Database researchers
Academic staff of Leipzig University
Technical University of Kaiserslautern alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBTI | RBTI may refer to:
Ralph Breaks the Internet, a 2018 American computer-animated comedy film
Rede Brasileira de Televisão Internacional, an international Brazilian television network. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentum%20Astronomiae | Fundamentum Astronomiae is a historic manuscript presented by Jost Bürgi to Emperor Rudolf II in 1592. It describes Bürgi's trigonometry based algorithms called Kunstweg which can be used to calculate sines at arbitrary precision.
General
Bürgi took special care to avoid his method becoming public in his time. However, Henry Briggs (mathematician) (1561-1630) was acquainted with the method, likely via a link to John Dee who knew Christoph Rothmann, a colleague of Bürgi at the court.
Method
Bürgi used these algorithms, including multiplication table in sexagesimal system, to compute a Canon Sinuum, a table of sines to 8 sexagesimal places in steps of 2 arc seconds. Such tables were extremely important for navigation at sea. Bürgi's method only uses additions and halving, his procedure is elementary and it converges from the standard method.
Johannes Kepler called the Canon Sinuum the most precise known table of sines. The iterative algorithms obtains good approximations of sines after few iterations, but cannot be used on large subdivisions, because it produces very large values. This was an early step towards difference calculus.
Ursus, his friend wrote in his 1588 Fundamentum astronomicum, "I do not have to explain to which level of comprehensibility this extremely deep and nebulous theory has been corrected and improved by the tireless study of my dear teacher, Justus Bürgi from Switzerland, by assiduous considerations and daily thought. [...] Therefore neither I nor my dear teacher, the inventor and innovator of this hidden science, will ever regret the trouble and the labor which we have spent."
Bürgi writes, "For many hundreds of years, up to now, our ancestors have been using this method because they were not able to invent a better one. However, this method is uncertain and dilapidated as well as cumbersome and laborious. Therefore we want to perform this in a different, better, more correct, easier and more cheerful way. And we want to point out now how all sines can be found without the troublesome inscription [of polygons], namely by dividing a right angle into as many parts as one desires."
See also
Almagest
Plimpton 322
References
External links
Bürgi's tables in his Fundamentum Astronomiæ (ca. 1586-1587)
History of mathematics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku%E1%B9%AD%E1%B9%AD%C4%81k%C4%81ra%20%C5%9Air%C5%8Dma%E1%B9%87i | Kuṭṭākāra Śirōmaṇi is a medieval Indian treatise in Sanskrit devoted exclusively to the study of Kuṭṭākāra, or Kuṭṭaka, an algorithm for solving linear Diophantine equations. It is authored by one Dēvarāja about whom little is known. From statements given by the author at the end of the book, one can infer that the name of Dēvarāja's father was Varadarājācārya, then famously known as Siddhāntavallabha. Since the book contains a few verses from Lilavati, it should have been composed during a period after Lilavati was composed, that is after 1150 CE.
Treatises such as Kuṭṭākāra Śirōmaṇi devoted exclusively to specialized topics are very rare in Indian mathematical literature.
The algorithm was first formulated by Aryabhata I and given in verses in the Ganitapada of his Aryabhatiya. Aryabhata's description of the algorithm was brief and hence obscure and incomprehensible. However, from the interpretations of the verses by later Indian mathematicians we now have a fairly clear understanding of the original formulation of the algorithm. Kuṭṭākāra Śirōmaṇi is one of the most comprehensive treatment of the algorithm. Devraja also wrote a self commentary, Maha Laksami Muktavali on Kuttakara Siromani to further explain the method.
The Kuṭṭākāra Śirōmaṇi is divided into three chapters, or Paricchedas. The first chapter of the book is on Sāgra Kuṭṭākāra, the second chapter deals with Niragra Kuṭṭākāra. This chapter also contains descriptions of Samśliṣṭa Kuṭṭākāra. The third and the last chapter is on Miśra-Śreṇi-Miśra-Kuṭṭākāra. The book also discusses the Vallikakuṭṭākāra and Sthitakuṭṭākāra. The methods are explained in detail with the help of illustrations and its important applications to Astronomy.
See also
Kuṭṭaka
References
Indian mathematics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-2016%20statewide%20opinion%20polling%20for%20the%202016%20United%20States%20presidential%20election | Statewide polls for the 2016 United States presidential election are as follows. The polls listed here, by state, are from 2013 to December 31, 2015, and provide early data on opinion polling between a possible Republican candidate against a possible Democratic candidate.
Note some states did not conduct polling before December 31, 2015.
Alaska
3 electoral votes (Republican in 2008) 59%–38%(Republican in 2012) 55%–41%
Arizona
11 electoral votes (Republican in 2008) 53%–45%(Republican in 2012) 53%–44%
Arkansas
6 electoral votes (Republican in 2008) 59%–39%(Republican in 2012) 61%–37%
California
55 electoral votes (Democratic in 2008) 61%–37%(Democratic in 2012) 60%–37%
Colorado
9 electoral votes (Democratic in 2008) 54%–45%(Democratic in 2012) 51%–46%
Connecticut
7 electoral votes (Democratic in 2008) 61%–38%(Democratic in 2012) 58%–41%
Florida
29 electoral votes (Democratic in 2008) 51%–48%(Democratic in 2012) 50%–49%
Georgia
16 electoral votes (Republican in 2008) 52%–47%(Republican in 2012) 53%–45%
Idaho
4 electoral votes (Republican in 2008) 61%–36%(Republican in 2012) 64%–32%
Illinois
20 electoral votes (Democratic in 2008) 62%–37%(Democratic in 2012) 58%–41%
Iowa
6 electoral votes (Democratic in 2008) 54%–44%(Democratic in 2012) 52%–46%
Three-way race
Kansas
6 electoral votes(Republican in 2008) 56%–42% (Republican in 2012) 60%–38%
Kentucky
8 electoral votes(Republican in 2008) 57%–41% (Republican in 2012) 60%–38%
Louisiana
8 electoral votes(Republican in 2008) 59%–40% (Republican in 2012) 58%–41%
Maine
4 electoral votes(Democratic in 2008) 58%–40% (Democratic in 2012) 56%–41%
Maryland
10 electoral votes(Democratic in 2008) 62%–36% (Democratic in 2012) 62%–36%
Massachusetts
11 electoral votes(Democratic in 2008) 62%–36% (Democratic in 2012) 61%–38%
Michigan
16 electoral votes(Democratic in 2008) 57%–41% (Democratic in 2012) 54%–45%
Minnesota
10 electoral votes(Democratic in 2008) 54%–44% (Democratic in 2012) 53%–45%
Three-way race
Mississippi
6 electoral votes(Republican in 2008) 56%–43% (Republican in 2012) 55%–44%
Missouri
10 electoral votes(Republican in 2008) 49.4%–49.2% (Republican in 2012) 53%–44%
Three-way race
Montana
3 electoral votes(Republican in 2008) 49%–47% (Republican in 2012) 55%–42%
Nevada
6 electoral votes(Democratic in 2008) 55%–43% (Democratic in 2012) 52%–46%
New Hampshire
4 electoral votes(Democratic in 2008) 54%–45% (Democratic in 2012) 52%–46%
Three-way race
New Jersey
14 electoral votes(Democratic in 2008) 57%–42% (Democratic in 2012) 58%–41%
New Mexico
5 electoral votes(Democratic in 2008) 57%–42% (Democratic in 2012) 53%–43%
New York
29 electoral votes(Democratic in 2008) 63%–36% (Democratic in 2012) 63%–35%
North Carolina
15 electoral votes(Democratic in 2008) 50%–49% (Republican in 2012) 50%–48%
Three-way race
Ohio
18 electoral votes(Democratic in 2008) 51%–47% (Democratic in 2012) 51%–48%
↑ Poll conducted for the Ohio Democr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray%20Shanahan | Murray Patrick Shanahan is a professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial College London, in the Department of Computing, and a senior scientist at DeepMind. He researches artificial intelligence, robotics, and cognitive science.
Education
Shanahan was educated at Imperial College London and completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1987 supervised by William F. Clocksin.
Career and research
At Imperial College, in the Department of Computing, Shanahan was a postdoc from 1987 to 1991, an advanced research fellow until 1995. At Queen Mary & Westfield College, he was a senior research fellow from 1995 to 1998. Shanahan joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Imperial, and then (in 2005) the Department of Computing, where he was promoted from Reader to Professor in 2006. Shanahan was a scientific advisor for Alex Garland's 2014 film Ex Machina. Garland credited Shanahan with correcting an error in Garland's initial scripts regarding the Turing test. Shanahan is on the external advisory board for the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. In 2016 Shanahan and his colleagues published a proof-of-concept for "Deep Symbolic Reinforcement Learning", a specific hybrid AI architecture that combines symbolic AI with neural networks, and that exhibits a form of transfer learning. In 2017, citing "the potential (brain drain) on academia of the current tech hiring frenzy" as an issue of concern, Shanahan negotiated a joint position at Imperial College London and DeepMind. The Atlantic and Wired UK have characterized Shanahan as an influential researcher.
Books
In 2010, Shanahan published Embodiment and the inner life: Cognition and Consciousness in the Space of Possible Minds, a book that helped inspire the 2014 film Ex Machina. The book argues that cognition revolves around a process of "inner rehearsal" by an embodied entity working to predict the consequences of its physical actions.
In 2015, Shanahan published The Technological Singularity, which runs through various scenarios following the invention of an artificial intelligence that makes better versions of itself and rapidly outcompetes humans. The book aims to be an evenhanded primer on the issues surrounding superhuman intelligence. Shanahan takes the view that we do not know how superintelligences will behave: whether they will be friendly or hostile, predictable or inscrutable.
Shanahan also authored Solving the Frame Problem (MIT Press, 1997) and co-authored Search, Inference and Dependencies in Artificial Intelligence (Ellis Horwood, 1989).
Views
As of the 2020s, Shanahan characterizes AI as lacking the common sense of a human child. He endorses research into artificial general intelligence (AGI) to fix this problem, stating that AI systems deployed in areas such as medical diagnosis and automated vehicles should have such abilities to be safer and more effective. Shanahan states that there is no need to panic about an AI takeover because multiple conceptual |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oddup | Oddup is a data-driven research platform that provides analytical information on startups, their trends, and both current and expected future valuations. It is self-styled as The Startup Rating System and the company states its vision is to disrupt equity research in private companies.
History
Oddup was founded by James Giancotti and Jackie Lam and is headquartered in Hong Kong. Oddup has offices in the United States, India, Singapore and Australia. The team is composed of former venture capitalists, quantitative analysts, traders, investment bankers and research analysts from top global institutions.
The rating platform, which was officially launched in March 2015, provides rating scores and analyst recommendations on startups and investors across Asia. Close to 99% of all of Oddup's "Buy" ratings on startups have been known to successfully secure funding from investors within three months.
Since its web launch in March 2015, the Oddup rating platform has attracted more than 50,000 users with a growth of 20% MoM.
Oddup score and ratings
The Oddup score is based on an algorithm that pulls together data from a number of components often used in the investment due diligence process: quality, growth, location, investor, market, regulations, valuations and investment returns. Users are able to compare the chosen companies against industry peers and conduct due diligence on market, competitive landscape and other factors. The content is further enriched by fundamental research on potential exits conducted by Oddup's team of analysts.
Oddup is based on the combination of analyst view points and the computed algorithm – then producing the Oddup Score.
The startup rating scores are then offered as views: Buy, Hold, Sell – as is often done in sell-side equity research – with expectation metrics and future valuations.
Track record
Oddup analysts have in the past predicted WeLab to become the first unicorn (company with valuation of over US$1 billion) in Hong Kong, and this was proven when the Chinese P2P lending platform's US$160 million Series B funding announcement took place on January 21, 2016. Additionally, Oddup has set the record when Google acquired Pie – one of Oddup's Buy rated startups in Singapore – in February 2016.
On January 5, 2017, Malaysian-based mobile classifieds startup Duriana was acquired by Singapore's Carousell (company). Duriana was a Buy rated startup on Oddup in July 2016.
Lalamove (previously known as EasyVan) raised US$30 million Series B funding on January 10, 2017. The Hong Kong-based logistics startup was rated a Buy by Oddup in September 2016.
Funding
Oddup announced its successful US$1 million funding in seed round in 2015, and is backed by Click Ventures, Cerebrum Ventures, Kima Ventures, as well as a group of successful angel investors. Oddup raised an additional US $6 million funding in Series A in 2017 led by Times Internet, White Capital and Moneta Ventures, with participation from 500 Startups.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rr%20%28debugging%29 | In computing, rr is a debugging tool for Linux designed to record and replay program execution. During the replay phase, rr provides an enhanced gdb debugging experience that supports reverse execution.
rr was originally developed by Mozilla to debug Mozilla Firefox on commodity hardware and software. rr is now widely used outside Mozilla and capable of debugging software such as Google Chrome, QEMU, and LibreOffice. rr is free software.
Design
During the recording phase, rr records all inputs to a Linux process group from the kernel, as well as nondeterministic CPU effects (such as rdtsc). These inputs are logged to disk and become the "trace". Once the trace is recorded, it can be replayed as many times as desired and all state will be reproduced exactly. During replay rr will act as a gdbserver providing a gdb experience capable of reverse-execution. Because a bug can be replayed over and over again, rr enables new methods of debugging issues that are very difficult to solve with traditional debuggers.
rr's design is documented in the paper Lightweight User-Space Record And Replay, with more details in Engineering Record And Replay For Deployability.
See also
gdb
Record and replay debugging
References
External links
Debuggers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Alfonso | Kennedy Dela Cruz Alfonso (born February 20, 1990), known professionally as Ken Alfonso is a Filipino singer and television actor, who played the role of Gamil in GMA Network's requel of Encantadia.
Biography
Alfonso became famous for his role of Thomas in the teledrama Kailan Ba Tama ang Mali? the cast of Geoff Eigenmann, Max Collins, Empress Schuck, Dion Ignacio and Ervic Vijandre. He became notable and popular for his short but long-lived role in Encantadia's requel as the Lirean soldier — Sang'gre Mira's father whom netizens chants that he is the one wasted by Hara Pirena. He appeared with Janice Hung, Solenn Heussaff, Julianne Lee, Kate Valdez, Zoren Legaspi, and Glaiza de Castro among other cast.
Filmography
Television
Discography
"Umaasa" Released in 2014 Under GMA Records. ("Theme From Koreanovela, Secret Love")
References
External links
1990 births
Living people
Filipino male child actors
Filipino male models
Filipino male television actors
Filipino male film actors
GMA Network personalities
Male actors from Rizal
Actors from Antipolo
Singers from Rizal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris%20Norton | Doris Norton is an Italian pioneer of electronic and computer music. Norton was the first musical endorser for Apple computers. Her first album, Under Ground, had an Apple logo on the front. Later, Norton released two albums with IBM Computer Music, Automatic Feeling and The Double Side of Science. She was also involved with the Italian progressive rock band Jacula. She is married to fellow Jacula member Antonio Bartoccetti.
Discography
Under Ground (1980)
Parapsycho (1981)
Raptus (1981)
Nortoncomputerforpeace (1983)
Personal Computer (1984)
Artificial Intelligence (1985)
Automatic Feeling (1986)
The Double Side Of The Science (1990)
Technoshock One (1992)
Technoshock Two (1992)
Technoshock Three (1993)
Next Objective One (1993)
Next Objective Two (1994)
Next Objective Three (1995)
References
External links
Personal site
MusikResearch
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Italian electronic musicians
Women in electronic music
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECOCITIES%20%28software%29 | ECOCITIES is an energy optimization system for building portfolios combining and extending the benefits of Energy Management Software (EMS), Computer-aided Facility Management (CAFM) software and building portfolio management software. It integrates building administration and monitoring, energy accounting and building portfolio optimization. Thereby, it supports the definition of low carbon action plans in terms of environmental impact (e.g., carbon footprint, energy efficiency) and financial impact (e.g., investment costs, running, costs).
Software System
The system considers the following options for each building and the resulting (inter-) dependencies:
energy-efficient building configurations (e.g., the compatibility of building components and its contribution to the energy efficiency level),
energy used at the production and distribution of building components (i.e., gray energy),
environmental impact (e.g., emissions),
financial constraints, such as (governmental) funding and limited long-term loans,
legal constraints, e.g., building codes, national and international standards,
energy consumption for the operation of buildings, i.e., heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) as well as the electricity demand,
energy production, storage and load shifting between buildings in combination with renewable energy production (solar PV and thermal, Micro combined heat and power) and conversion.
energy flows between a building's on-site networks (Heating/Cooling and low voltage networks), the micro networks on neighborhood level and the city-wide energy networks (district heating and district cooling networks, mid-voltage distribution networks),
local typology (position of buildings, energy networks).
ECOCITIES calculates all energy- and cost-efficient development scenarios, visualizes them on the screen and allows decision makers to interactively explore the consequences of their actions (e.g., what are the citywide costs and the corresponding reductions of introducing a neighborhood-scale combined heat and power plant). ECOCITIES is an enabler for the realization of energy goals and provides synergies with existing endeavors of achieving national and European energy goals. On an operational level, ECOCITIES supports the following processes:
Administration and integrated optimization of the entire building portfolio.
Energy accounting and monitoring for all buildings.
Identification, evaluation and definition of energy efficiency strategies (low carbon action plans).
Continuous monitoring, review and optimization of energy efficiency strategies (low carbon action plans).
Ensure the alignment of individual initiatives with the overall energy strategy of the company/city, e.g., planning the cost- and energy efficient integration of new or refurbished single buildings, groups of buildings or entire neighborhoods into a new or existing energy efficiency strategy.
Continuous monitoring of the performance related to the con |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical%20disclosure%20control | Statistical disclosure control (SDC), also known as statistical disclosure limitation (SDL) or disclosure avoidance, is a technique used in data-driven research to ensure no person or organization is identifiable from the results of an analysis of survey or administrative data, or in the release of microdata. The purpose of SDC is to protect the confidentiality of the respondents and subjects of the research.
SDC usually refers to 'output SDC'; ensuring that, for example, a published table or graph does not disclose confidential information about respondents. SDC can also describes protection methods applied to the data: for example, removing names and addresses, limiting extreme values, or swapping problematic observations. This is sometimes referred to as 'input SDC', but is more commonly called anonymization, de-identification, or microdata protection.
Textbooks (eg ) typically cover input SDC and tabular data protection (but not other parts of output SDC). This is because these two problems are of direct interest to statistical agencies who supported the development of the field. For analytical environments, output rules developed for statistical agencies were generally used until data managers began arguing for specific output SDC for research.
Necessity
Many kinds of social, economic and health research use potentially sensitive data as a basis for their research, such as survey or Census data, tax records, health records, educational information, etc. Such information is usually given in confidence, and, in the case of administrative data, not always for the purpose of research.
Researchers are not usually interested in information about one single person or business; they are looking for trends among larger groups of people. However, the data they use is, in the first place, linked to individual people and businesses, and SDC ensures that these cannot be identified from published data, no matter how detailed or broad.
It is possible that at the end of data analysis, the researcher somehow singles out one person or business through their research. For example, a researcher may identify the exceptionally good or bad service in a geriatric department within a hospital in a remote area, where only one hospital provides such care. In that case, the data analysis 'discloses' the identity of the hospital, even if the dataset used for analysis was properly anonymised or de-identified.
Statistical disclosure control will identify this disclosure risk and ensure the results of the analysis are altered to protect confidentiality. It requires a balance between protecting confidentiality and ensuring the results of the data analysis are still useful for statistical research.
Output SDC
There are two main approaches to output SDC: principles-based and rules-based. In principles-based systems, disclosure control attempts to uphold a specific set of fundamental principles—for example, "no person should be identifiable in released microdata". Rul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss%20Me%20First%20%28TV%20series%29 | Kiss Me First is a British cyber-thriller drama series created by Bryan Elsley for Channel 4 and Netflix. It began airing on 2 April 2018 on Channel 4 and was made available on Netflix worldwide on 29 June 2018.
Premise
Leila is a lonely 17-year-old girl addicted to a fictional massively multiplayer online role-playing game called Azana. While playing it, Leila meets Tess, a cool and confident party girl who harbours a dark secret. In the real world, the two girls become friends, but after Tess disappears Leila is quickly drawn into unravelling the mystery behind her disappearance.
Cast
Main
Tallulah Haddon as Leila Evans / Shadowfax
Simona Brown as Tess / Mania
Matthew Beard as Adrian Palmer
Matthew Aubrey as Jonty
Recurring
George Jovanovic as Cyril Niemec / Calumny
Freddie Stewart as Kyle / Force
Misha Butler as Jack Innes / Jocasta
Haruka Abe as Tomiko Teshima / Tippi
Samuel Bottomley as Ben / Denier
Philip Arditti as Azul
Geraldine Somerville as Ruth Palmer
Production
In January 2016, it was reported that Netflix and E4 would co-produce a series based on the Lottie Moggach novel of the same title, consisting of six hour-long episodes, with Netflix holding the international broadcast rights and E4 the ones for the United Kingdom. The series is a mix of live-action performances and computer-generated scenes. Principal photography started in December 2016 in London locations including Hanwell and West Ealing and Croatia and was expected to end in the middle of 2017. In February 2018, it was announced it would now air on Channel 4 and the first image was released.
Krka National Park in Croatia is the location of the scenic green pools and cascading waterfalls filmed in real life scenes for last two episodes, and the basis of virtual world scenes in earlier episodes. The Shellness Road Car Park was used in a sequence in which one character uses an improvised explosive device to blow up his abusive carer. A further scene was filmed on Leysdown Promenade showing the arrival by one of the leads on a bus. Leysdown on Sea is a coastal town on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.
Filming locations also included West London Film Studios.
Episodes
References
External links
2018 British television series debuts
2018 British television series endings
2010s British drama television series
2010s British LGBT-related television series
2010s British mystery television series
2010s British teen television series
2010s teen drama television series
2010s British television miniseries
British teen drama television series
British thriller television series
Channel 4 television dramas
English-language Netflix original programming
Fiction about interracial romance
Massively multiplayer online role-playing games in fiction
Television shows about video games
Television series about teenagers
Television shows based on British novels
Television series by Kindle Entertainment
Television shows about virtual reality
British television series with live action and animat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81%20character%20set | The ZX81 character set is the character encoding used by the Sinclair Research ZX81 family of microcomputers including the Timex Sinclair 1000 and Timex Sinclair 1500. The encoding uses one byte per character for 256 code points. It has no relationship with previously established ones like ASCII or EBCDIC, but it is related though not identical to the character set of the predecessor ZX80.
Printable characters
The character set has 64 unique glyphs present at code points 0–63. With the most significant bit set the character is generated in inverse video; corresponding to code points 128–191. These 128 values are the only displayable ones allowed in the video memory (known as the display file). The remaining code points (64–127 and 192–255) are used as control characters such as 118 for newline or, uniquely to Sinclair BASIC, for keywords, while some are unused.
The small effective range of only 64 unique glyphs precludes support for Latin lower case letters, and many symbols used widely in computing such as the exclamation point and the at sign. The lack of an apostrophe led some software authors to use a comma instead.
There are 11 block graphics characters, counting code point 0 which also doubles as space. The first 8 of these together with their 8 inverse video versions (16 code points) provide every combination of the character cell divided into 2×2 black-and-white block pixels for low-resolution 64×48 pixel graphics. These 2×2 blocks are present in the Block Elements Unicode block. An additional 3 characters provide a cell divided into 1×2 black, white or dithered gray wide block pixels. These, in combination with their inverse video versions and some of the previous 2×2 blocks provides for a 32×48 resolution with 3 levels (white, dithered gray, black). The basic 11 characters plus their inverse video versions, makes for 22 block graphics characters in total. The dithered characters (of which there are 6) are also available in Unicode (mostly in the Symbols for Legacy Computing block), but only in Unicode versions 13.0 and newer, available from 2020 onwards.
Code point 11 is the double-quote (") symbol when used in the display file. The BASIC function CHR$ 192 prints as the same character but is shown as "" in BASIC source listings; it is used for including the literal " character in a string without conflict with the " string delimiter.
Changes from the ZX80
The character set in the ZX81 was derived from the ZX80 character set. They have mostly the same code points, e.g. for A-Z and 0-9, but the code points are different for the block graphics characters, the symbols ", -, +, *, /, =, >, <, and the BASIC keyword tokens (with many new added). There are also changes to the control characters. Code point 1 is no longer an unprintable string terminator. The ZX81 8K BASIC ROM was also available as an upgrade for the ZX80, replacing its integer-only 4K BASIC ROM.
The ZX81 system font uses an 8×8 pixel-per-character grid where most glyphs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit%20authentication | Implicit authentication (IA) is a technique that allows the smart device to recognize its owner by being acquainted with his/her behaviors. It is a technique that uses machine learning algorithms to learn user behavior through various sensors on the smart devices and achieve user identification. Most of the current authentication techniques, e.g., password, pattern lock, finger print and iris recognition, are explicit authentication which require user input. Comparing with explicit authentication, IA is transparent to users during the usage, and it significantly increases the usability by reducing time users spending on login, in which users find it more annoying than lack of cellular coverage.
Model
In Implicit authentication (IA), user behaviors (raw) data are captured by various sensors embedded in the smart device, and stored in the database preparing for further processing. After filtering out noise and selecting suitable features, the data will be sent to machine learning tool(s) which will train and return a fine-tuned model back to smart device. The smart device then uses the model as signature to identify the current user. Due to the battery and computation limitation of smart device, the training phase, in which most of the computations are carried out, is usually implemented in the remote server. Some lightweight algorithms, e.g., Kl divergence, are implemented in the local device as parts of real-time authentication units which control lock mechanism of the device.
The developing of IA model largely depends on the operating systems, which usually adopt Android and iOS, and there are two different approaches to establish IA model, which are device-centric and application-centric. Device-centric approaches, as the traditional way to establish IA model, leverage most of the information gathered by operating system from various sensors, and IA model is directly running above the operating system. Application-centric approaches however achieve IA through establishing individual framework in each app, which executes independently in the sandbox, and it preserves the intrinsic structure of operating system, while simplifies IA developing.
History
In 1977, Helen M. Wood indicated that there were two types of bio-metric authentication approaches - physiological and behavioral bio-metrics. The second approach related to user's gait, location information and keystroke patterns. The utilization of the bio-metrics for user authentication had been developed in the field such as: location-based access control, notably keystroke dynamics and typing pattern. In 2010, Shi et al. had migrated bio-metrics authentication approach to mobile device which contained many sensors, and significantly increased the accuracy of the authentication, and they called the new approach "implicit authentication". Due to the fast growth of smart technology, smart device became more and more sophisticated with computational power grew in each year, and it provided the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidirectional%20recurrent%20neural%20networks | Bidirectional recurrent neural networks (BRNN) connect two hidden layers of opposite directions to the same output. With this form of generative deep learning, the output layer can get information from past (backwards) and future (forward) states simultaneously. Invented in 1997 by Schuster and Paliwal, BRNNs were introduced to increase the amount of input information available to the network. For example, multilayer perceptron (MLPs) and time delay neural network (TDNNs) have limitations on the input data flexibility, as they require their input data to be fixed. Standard recurrent neural network (RNNs) also have restrictions as the future input information cannot be reached from the current state. On the contrary, BRNNs do not require their input data to be fixed. Moreover, their future input information is reachable from the current state.
BRNN are especially useful when the context of the input is needed. For example, in handwriting recognition, the performance can be enhanced by knowledge of the letters located before and after the current letter.
Architecture
The principle of BRNN is to split the neurons of a regular RNN into two directions, one for positive time direction (forward states), and another for negative time direction (backward states). Those two states' output are not connected to inputs of the opposite direction states. The general structure of RNN and BRNN can be depicted in the right diagram. By using two time directions, input information from the past and future of the current time frame can be used unlike standard RNN which requires the delays for including future information.
Training
BRNNs can be trained using similar algorithms to RNNs, because the two directional neurons do not have any interactions. However, when back-propagation through time is applied, additional processes are needed because updating input and output layers cannot be done at once. General procedures for training are as follows: For forward pass, forward states and backward states are passed first, then output neurons are passed. For backward pass, output neurons are passed first, then forward states and backward states are passed next. After forward and backward passes are done, the weights are updated.
Applications
Applications of BRNN include :
Speech Recognition (Combined with Long short-term memory)
Translation
Handwritten Recognition
Protein Structure Prediction
Part-of-speech tagging
Dependency Parsing
Entity Extraction
References
External links
Implementation of BRNN/LSTM in Python with Theano
Neural network architectures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our%20World%20in%20Data | Our World in Data (OWID) is a scientific online publication that focuses on large global problems such as poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality.
It is a project of the Global Change Data Lab, a registered charity in England and Wales, and was founded by Max Roser, a social historian and development economist. The research team is based at the University of Oxford. The organisation is chaired by Hetan Shah.
Content
Our World in Data uses interactive charts and maps to illustrate research findings, often taking a long-term view to show how global living conditions have changed over time.
History
Roser began his work on the project in 2011, adding a research team at the University of Oxford later on. In the first years, Roser developed the publication together with inequality researcher Sir Tony Atkinson. Hannah Ritchie joined in 2017 and became Head of Research. Edouard Mathieu joined in 2020 and became Head of Data. The organization began the COVID-19 pandemic with six staff members, and grew to 20 by late 2021.
In 2019, Our World in Data won the Lovie Award, a European web award, and was one of three nonprofit organizations in Y Combinator's Winter 2019 cohort.
Beginning in 2020, Our World in Data added an emphasis on publishing global data and research on the COVID-19 pandemic:
They created and maintained a worldwide database on vaccinations for COVID-19, which was used as the source for data published by the World Health Organization, researchers and other international organizations, journals, and numerous newspapers.
Similarly, the team built and maintained a global dataset on COVID-19 testing which was used by the United Nations, the White House, the World Health Organization, and epidemiologists and researchers, and also published data such as hospitalizations and computations of excess deaths.
In 2021 the team began campaigning for the International Energy Agency to make the data it collects from national governments publicly available.
Funding and collaborations
Global Change Data Lab, the non-profit that publishes Our World in Data and the open-access data tools that make the online publication possible, is funded through a mix of grants, sponsors, and reader donations.
The first grant to support the research project was given by the Nuffield Foundation, a London-based foundation focused on social policy.
Other grantors supporting the project have included the Quadrature Climate Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and a grant from German philanthropist Susanne Klatten. In the past, Our World in Data has also received grants from the World Health Organization, the Department of Health and Social Care in the United Kingdom, and the Effective Altruism Meta Fund.
Reader donations are also a major source of funding. In 2020, more than 3,000 individuals supported the project, exceeding 4,000 donors by 2023. The list of donors includes Jamie Metzl and YouTuber Han |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament%20TV%20%28Malta%29 | Parliament TV is a terrestrial television network in Malta that broadcasts the proceedings of the Parliament of Malta. It was established in 2015 following the relocation of Parliament to the new parliament building in Valletta.
Prior to 2012, proceedings of Parliament were not broadcast in video form but audio coverage of parliamentary debates was carried on Radju Malta 2. Parliament began a pilot project in May 2012 to webcast debate and committee meetings live over the internet until Parliament relocated to its new building which was properly set up for live television broadcasting.
The channel is operated by the national broadcaster Public Broadcasting Services under an agreement with the Parliament of Malta.
References
External links
Legislature broadcasters
Television channels and stations established in 2015
Television stations in Malta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion%20adaptive%20resonance%20theory | Fusion adaptive resonance theory (fusion ART) is a generalization of self-organizing neural networks known as the original Adaptive Resonance Theory models for learning recognition categories (or cognitive codes) across multiple pattern channels. There is a separate stream of work on fusion ARTMAP, that extends fuzzy ARTMAP consisting of two fuzzy ART modules connected by an inter-ART map field to an extended architecture consisting of multiple ART modules.
Fusion ART unifies a number of neural model designs and supports a myriad of learning paradigms, notably unsupervised learning, supervised learning, reinforcement learning, multimodal learning, and sequence learning. In addition, various extensions have been developed for domain knowledge integration, memory representation, and modelling of high level cognition.
Overview
Fusion ART is a natural extension of the original adaptive resonance theory (ART) models developed by Stephen Grossberg and Gail A. Carpenter from a single pattern field to multiple pattern channels. Whereas the original ART models perform unsupervised learning of recognition nodes in response to incoming input patterns, fusion ART learns multi-channel mappings simultaneously across multi-modal pattern channels in an online and incremental manner.
The learning model
Fusion ART employs a multi-channel architecture (as shown below), comprising a category field connected to a fixed number of (K) pattern channels or input fields through bidirectional conditionable pathways. The model unifies a number of network designs, most notably Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART), Adaptive Resonance Associative Map (ARAM) and Fusion Architecture for Learning and COgNition (FALCON), developed over the past decades for a wide range of functions and applications.
Given a set of multimodal patterns, each presented at a pattern channel, the fusion ART pattern encoding cycle comprises five key stages, namely code activation, code competition, activity readout, template matching, and template learning, as described below.
Code activation: Given the input activity vectors , one for each input field , the choice function of each node j is computed based on the combined overall similarity between the input patterns and the corresponding weight vectors .
Code competition: A code competition process follows under which the node with the highest choice function value is identified. The winner is indexed at J where is the maximum among all nodes. This indicates a winner-take-all strategy.
Activity readout: During memory recall, the chosen node J performs a read out of its weight vectors to the input fields .
Template matching: Before the activity readout is stabilized and node J can be used for learning, a template matching process checks that the weight templates of node J are sufficiently close to their respective input patterns. Specifically, resonance occurs if for each channel k, the match function of the chosen node J meets its vigilan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo%20versus%20Lee%20Sedol | AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol, also known as the DeepMind Challenge Match, was a five-game Go match between top Go player Lee Sedol and AlphaGo, a computer Go program developed by DeepMind, played in Seoul, South Korea between 9 and 15 March 2016. AlphaGo won all but the fourth game; all games were won by resignation. The match has been compared with the historic chess match between Deep Blue and Garry Kasparov in 1997.
The winner of the match was slated to win $1 million. Since AlphaGo won, Google DeepMind stated that the prize will be donated to charities, including UNICEF, and Go organisations. Lee received $170,000 ($150,000 for participating in the five games and an additional $20,000 for winning one game).
After the match, The Korea Baduk Association awarded AlphaGo the highest Go grandmaster rank – an "honorary 9 dan". It was given in recognition of AlphaGo's "sincere efforts" to master Go. This match was chosen by Science as one of the runners-up for Breakthrough of the Year, on 22 December 2016.
Background
Difficult challenge in artificial intelligence
Go is a complex board game that requires intuition, creative and strategic thinking. It has long been considered a difficult challenge in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and is considerably more difficult to solve than chess. Many in the field of artificial intelligence consider Go to require more elements that mimic human thought than chess. Mathematician I. J. Good wrote in 1965:
Prior to 2015, the best Go programs only managed to reach amateur dan level. On the small 9×9 board, the computer fared better, and some programs managed to win a fraction of their 9×9 games against professional players. Prior to AlphaGo, some researchers had claimed that computers would never defeat top humans at Go. Elon Musk, an early investor of Deepmind, said in 2016 that experts in the field thought AI was 10 years away from achieving a victory against a top professional Go player.
The match AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol is comparable to the 1997 chess match when Garry Kasparov lost to IBM computer Deep Blue. Kasparov's loss to Deep Blue is considered the moment a computer became better than humans at chess.
AlphaGo is significantly different from previous AI efforts. Instead of using probability algorithms hard-coded by human programmers, AlphaGo uses neural networks to estimate its probability of winning. AlphaGo accesses and analyses the entire online library of Go; including all matches, players, analytics, and literature; as well as games played by AlphaGo against itself and other players. Once setup, AlphaGo is independent of the developer team and evaluates the best pathway to solving Go (i.e. winning the game). By using neural networks and Monte Carlo tree search, AlphaGo calculates colossal numbers of likely and unlikely probabilities many moves into the future .
Related research results are being applied to fields such as cognitive science, pattern recognition and machine learning.
Matc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TagSpaces | TagSpaces is an open-source data manager and file navigator. It helps organize files on local drives by adding tags to files. Users get the same user interface to manage their files on different platforms. TagSpaces is compatible with Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, iPhone, Firefox and Chrome. The application requires neither internet connection, nor user's registration to run both on desktop and portable devices.
Overview
TagSpaces is an open source application for file navigation and data management. It helps users organize files, photos and other documents on their local drives. File management and data associations occur by labeling files with tags. Tags may vary in color and may also differ in purpose. Users create, name, edit, sort, group, rename and delete their own tags by following their own logic in the file-tagging process.
TagSpaces is compatible with most of the currently widespread platforms. Users access their information on different devices through a single user interface. It has a responsive design which adapts to window size and proportions of the device in use.
TagSpaces does not require Internet connection and access to cloud services in order to run on PC and portable devices. Users can sync their files between devices by using cloud storage services like Google Drive or Dropbox.
TagSpaces requires no registration. It is remotely similar to other file tagging and note taking services (See "Similar products") on the basis of functionality, but it differs mainly because of its lack of database and its general offline / no-cloud / no vendor lock-in orientation.
File names and file formats
Tags are added to the names of the tagged files. For example, by tagging a file called “img-9936.jpg” with the tags “lion” and “zoo” it will be renamed to “img-9936 [lion zoo].jpg”.
TagSpaces allows users to create and edit text, markdown and rich text (html) files directly within the application.
Firefox and Chrome versions can save a currently open webpage into a local (mhtml) file containing text, pictures and formatting. This enables users to further view the webpage offline, to classify it with tags and to add it to their local file structure.
Supported file types for viewing and editing in TagSpaces are listed in the application's official Documentation Page, along with the corresponding platforms.
Reviews
Alexandre Borque reviews TagSpaces on Medium.com as "The Independent User’s No Cloud, Local File Navigator and Data Manager". He speculates it's an alternative to digital note organizers, such as Evernote and Onenote.
Technical writer Tatiana Kochedykova describes TagSpaces as a valuable instrument for educational purposes. She claims that “With TagSpaces, teachers can create and organize numerous notes, webpages, and e-books, tag, group, sort and prioritize files to quickly find the necessary one”.
Similar products
TagSpaces claims to have no alternative in the open source world, but it has some functional similarit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mugo%20Kibati | Mugo Kibati (born 1969) is a Kenyan business executive who is the CEO of Telkom Kenya, a company that provides a full range service of fixed and mobile communication services, both voice and data, provided to the corporate, government and SME sectors.
Kibati is also the Chairman of the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project (LTWP),a company with 40,000 acres (162km2) of land, 301 MW electricity production capacity, 365 turbines and a capital cost of Ksh 76 billion (€623 million). LTWP is the largest wind energy power plant in Africa.
Kibati has served on several corporate boards, including I&M Bank and the Apollo Group. He has also held top national industry leadership positions at the Federation of Kenya Employers, the Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) and the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA). He also served on the Board of Governors and chaired the Old Boys' Association of the Alliance High School for several years.
Early life and education
Raised in Nakuru and Mombasa, Kibati graduated from Moi University in 1991, with a Bachelor of Technology (Electrical Engineering) degree. He holds a Master of Science degree in Technology and Policy, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The Technology and Policy Program (TPP) at MIT "addresses societal challenges ... at the intersection of technology and policy, mobilizing science and engineering to inform intelligent, responsible strategies and policies to benefit communities from local to global."
Kibati's other credentials include a Master of Business Administration degree from George Washington University School of Business. He also holds a Certificate in European Union Economics from Oxford University, St. Peters College, in the United Kingdom.
Career
An engineer by training, Kibati worked at Lucent Technologies, in the United States as a Technical Marketing Manager. He also worked at the Bamburi Cement Company Limited (Lafarge Copee) from November 1991 to May 1997 following an early stint at the Kenya Petroleum Refineries in Mombasa, Kenya.
From 2004 Kibati served as CEO and Group managing director of the East African Cables for four years until June 2008. During this time, the company implemented a successful diversification and growth strategy, increasing annual revenues from KSh. 400 million to Ksh. 3.5 billion, profits from KSh. 15 million to Ksh. 600 million and market share value of the company from KSh. 600 million to KSh12 billion. The strategy included negotiated strategic partnership with a leading global cable manufacturer and acquisition of manufacturing facilities in Tanzania and South Africa. By the end of his tenure, the company has achieved 'blue chip' status as well as the fastest-growing share price on the Nairobi Stock Exchange (2005/6) while exceeding statutory transparency obligations.
In July 2009, Kibati was appointed Director General of Kenya Vision 2030. In that role, Kibati spearheaded the implementation of Kenya Vision 2030, the official national |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityConnect%20WIFI | CityConnect WIFI is a Municipal wireless network brand name run by Pinacl Solutions currently in operation in the cities of York, England and Aberdeen, Scotland. The concept is to turn the entire connected area into a Wireless Access Zone, with the ultimate goal of making the internet a universal service. To cover large parts of both cities, a wireless mesh network has been deployed relying the wireless WiFi signal of hundreds of routers mounted commonly to poles, lamp-posts and buildings. Pinacl works closely with City of York Council and Aberdeen City Council and as such, Pinacl acts as a wireless internet service provider.
Overview
CityConnect WIFI first launched in 2014 across York City Centre with phase one of the WiFi solution was rolled out across the city centre and park and ride terminals. Based on the success of this network we have expanded coverage across the University of York and there are plans to expand further across the city. This network now sees around 2000 users per day and this figure continues to rise. Following on from this deployment we have since launched Aberdeen CityConnect across 31 publicly accessible Council buildings in the Granite City. A similar solution has also been rolled out in the City of Newport, with FREE public now available in over 50 Council buildings with a separate concession based network that has recently been deployed across key parts of the City Centre including Upper Dock St, Corn St, Skinner St, Riverfront Theatre, train station, information station, Cambrian Road, Newport Market and the bus station.
York
Pinnacle, working in partnership with the City of York Council started trials of public WiFi beginning 2013, with strong publicity, the trial was a success and was later rolled out permanently under phase 1, this initially covered Coney Street; the main shopping street in York. WiFi range was later expanded into other streets, allowing for continual use with your connected device relaying signals to the nearest router, allowing for seamless connectivity whilst on the move. WiFI range has again since been expanded to cover the entire of York City Centre, the 6 Park and Ride sites, 14 council run libraries and 41 council owned buildings. WiFi within the city centre is split into 15 'Network Zones' relaying signals to the previous and next router in the sequence.
CityConnect WIFI Zones
Zone 1 – 1 Bridge St Wall mount Lamp
Zone 1 – 13 Bridge St Wall mount Lamp
Zone 1 – 39 Micklegate Wall mount Lamp
Zone 2 – Station Rise (West Offices)
Zone 2 – Cedar Court Lamppost
Zone 2 – 2 Rougier St Lamppost
Zone 2 – Tanners Moat Lamppost
Zone 3 – Stn Rise/Stn Ave CCTV Pole
Zone 3 – Royal York Hotel Lamppost
Zone 3 – York Stn Lamppost
Zone 4 – 1 Museum St Lamppost
Zone 4 – Museum St/Lendl Lamppost
Zone 4 – Duncombe Place lamppost
Zone 4 – Minster Yard (Left of Minster) lamppost
Zone 4 – Minster Yard (Right of Minster) lamppost
Zone 5 – 1 Davygate CCTV Pole
Zone 5 – 14 Blake St Wall mo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRCS | CRCS may refer to:
Cedar Rapids Community Schools
CR Classification, now ACM Computing Classification System
Certified Revenue Cycle Specialist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant-recursive%20sequence | In mathematics and theoretical computer science, a constant-recursive sequence is an infinite sequence of numbers in which each number in the sequence is equal to a fixed linear combination of one or more of its immediate predecessors. The concept is variously known as a linear recurrence sequence, linear-recursive sequence, linear-recurrent sequence, a C-finite sequence, or a solution to a linear recurrence with constant coefficients.
A prototypical example is the Fibonacci sequence , in which each number is the sum of the previous two. The power of two sequence is also constant-recursive because each number is the sum of twice the previous number. The square number sequence is also constant-recursive. However, not all sequences are constant-recursive; for example, the factorial sequence is not constant-recursive. All arithmetic progressions, all geometric progressions, and all polynomials are constant-recursive.
Formally, a sequence of numbers is constant-recursive if it satisfies a recurrence relation
where are constants. For example, the Fibonacci sequence satisfies the recurrence relation where is the th Fibonacci number.
Constant-recursive sequences are studied in combinatorics and the theory of finite differences. They also arise in algebraic number theory, due to the relation of the sequence to polynomial roots; in the analysis of algorithms, as the running time of simple recursive functions; and in the theory of formal languages, where they count strings up to a given length in a regular language. Constant-recursive sequences are closed under important mathematical operations such as term-wise addition, term-wise multiplication, and Cauchy product.
The Skolem–Mahler–Lech theorem states that the zeros of a constant-recursive sequence have a regularly repeating (eventually periodic) form. On the other hand, the Skolem problem, which asks for an algorithm to determine whether a linear recurrence has at least one zero, remains unsolved.
Definition
A constant-recursive sequence is any sequence of integers, rational numbers, algebraic numbers, real numbers, or complex numbers (written as as a shorthand) satisfying a formula of the form
for all where are constants.
(This equation is called a linear recurrence with constant coefficients of order d.)
The order of the constant-recursive sequence is the smallest such that the sequence satisfies a formula of the above form, or for the everywhere-zero sequence.
The d coefficients must be coefficients ranging over the same domain as the sequence (integers, rational numbers, algebraic numbers, real numbers, or complex numbers). For example for a rational constant-recursive sequence, and must be rational numbers.
The definition above allows eventually-periodic sequences such as and . Some authors require that , which excludes such sequences.
Examples
Fibonacci and Lucas sequences
The sequence 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ... of Fibonacci numbers is constant-recursive of order 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kota%20Kinabalu%20Line | The Kota Kinabalu Line () is a proposed light rapid transit (LRT) system network in Kota Kinabalu as one of the method to ease traffic congestion in the city. The proposal has been considered, and as reported in the government website, the project was in the ground breaking process under the Kota Kinabalu development plan. The current under construction project of the Aeropod rail station in Tanjung Aru also has made a provision for LRT in their plan.
In early 2017, an assemblyman from Inanam Roland Chia stressed the importance of having an LRT system to solve the present traffic congestion in Kota Kinabalu which is getting worse. Proposing to the government to look at examples from other developed countries cities such as in Australia and the United Kingdom which provide rail transport on the basis of need rather than population size. As a response, the state government is looking to study the proposal with the state capital mayor who claims the project must be effective and bring economic returns. Following the change of government in 2018, the new federal government through Deputy Works Minister Mohd Anuar Mohd Tahir has stated in early 2019 that LRT will still be on the state development plan. The priority will be given first to complete the road networks in Sabah. On 27 August 2019, the Kota Kinabalu City Hall (DBKK) has submitted a proposal to build LRT or mass rapid transit (MRT) to the federal government. The city authorities are currently waiting for budget on the project.
See also
Kuching Line
References
Proposed rail infrastructure in Malaysia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%20Nougat | Android Nougat (codenamed Android N during development) is the seventh major version and 14th original version of the Android operating system. First released as an alpha test version on March 9, 2016, it was officially released on August 22, 2016, with Nexus devices being the first to receive the update. The LG V20 was the first smartphone released with Nougat.
Nougat introduces notable changes to the operating system and its development platform, including the ability to display multiple apps on-screen at once in a split-screen view, support for inline replies to notifications, and an expanded Doze power-saving mode that restricts device functionality once the screen has been off for a period of time. Additionally, the platform switched to an OpenJDK-based Java environment and received support for the Vulkan graphics rendering API, and seamless system updates on supported devices.
Nougat received positive reviews. The new app notification format received particular praise; while the multitasking interface was seen as a positive change, reviewers experienced that several apps were incompatible with the feature. Critics had mixed experiences with the Doze power-saving mode, but faster app installs and tweaks to the user interface were also reviewed positively.
, 4.02% of devices ran Android Nougat, with 1.6% on 7.1.x and 2.42% on 7.0. Android Nougat went unsupported with no more security updates after October 2019.
History
The release was internally codenamed "New York Cheesecake". On March 9, 2016, ahead of the Google I/O developer conference, Google released the first alpha version of Android "N" as part of a new "Android Beta Program" intended for testing by developers and enthusiasts before official its release "this summer". The developer preview builds were compatible with only current Google Nexus devices; the 5X, 6P, 6, 9, Pixel C, and Nexus Player. The "Android Beta Program" that was introduced allowed testers to opt-in for over-the-air updates to new beta versions as they were released.
On April 13, 2016, Android N Beta Preview 2 was released. Google further discussed Android "N" during the I/O keynote on May 18, 2016, and unveiled its new virtual reality platform, Daydream. Beta Preview 3, the first preview release deemed suitable for wider public beta testing, was released at this time. Google also announced that it would hold a contest to determine the official release name of the operating system.
Beta Preview 4 was released on June 15, 2016. On June 30, 2016, Google announced that N's release name would be "Nougat"; it was also confirmed that Nougat would be version 7.0 of Android.
The final Beta Preview, 5, was released on July 18, 2016.
Android 7.0 was officially released on August 22, 2016, with the Nexus 6, 5X, 6P, 9, Nexus Player, Pixel C, and General Mobile 4G as the first devices to receive the update. Dave Burke, Android's Vice President of Engineering, stated in August 2016 that updates to Nougat would be released |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statsmodels | Statsmodels is a Python package that allows users to explore data, estimate statistical models, and perform statistical tests. An extensive list of descriptive statistics, statistical tests, plotting functions, and result statistics are available for different types of data and each estimator. It complements SciPy's stats module.
Statsmodels is part of the Python scientific stack that is oriented towards data analysis, data science and statistics. Statsmodels is built on top of the numerical libraries NumPy and SciPy, integrates with Pandas for data handling, and uses Patsy for an R-like formula interface. Graphical functions are based on the Matplotlib library. Statsmodels provides the statistical backend for other Python libraries. Statsmodels is free software released under the Modified BSD (3-clause) license.
References
Free statistical software
Python (programming language) scientific libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeRanger | KeRanger (also known as OSX.KeRanger.A) is a ransomware trojan horse targeting computers running macOS. Discovered on March 4, 2016, by Palo Alto Networks, it affected more than 7,000 Mac users.
KeRanger is remotely executed on the victim's computer from a compromised installer for Transmission, a popular BitTorrent client downloaded from the official website. It is hidden in the .dmg file under General.rtf. The .rtf is actually a Mach-O format executable file packed with UPX 3.91. When users click these infected apps, their bundle executable Transmission.app/Content/MacOS/Transmission will copy this General.rtf file to ~/Library/kernel_service and execute this "kernel_service" before any user interface appearing. It encrypts the files with RSA and RSA public key cryptography, with the key for decryption only stored on the attacker's servers. The malware then creates a file, called "readme_to_decrypt.txt", in every folder. When the instructions are opened, it gives the victim directions on how to decrypt the files, usually demanding a payment of one bitcoin. The ransomware is considered to be a variant of the Linux ransomware Linux.Encoder.1.
Discovery
On March 4, 2016, Palo Alto Networks added Ransomeware.KeRanger.OSX to their virus database. Two days after, they published a description and a breakdown of the code.
Propagation
According to Palo Alto Research Center, KeRanger was most commonly infected into Transmission from the official website being compromised, then the infected .dmg was uploaded to look like the "real" Transmission. After it was reported, the makers of Transmission issued a new download on the website and pushed out a software update.
The only way the malware infected the victim's computer was by using a valid developer signature issued by Apple, which allowed it to bypass Apple's built-in security.
Encryption process
The first time it executes, KeRanger will create three files ".kernel_pid", ".kernel_time" and ".kernel_complete" under ~/Library directory and write the current time to ".kernel_time". It will then sleep for three days. After that, it will collect information about the Mac, which includes the model name and the UUID. After it collects the information, it uploads it to one of its Command and Control servers. These servers’ domains are all sub-domains of onion[.]link or onion[.]nu, two domains that host servers only accessible over the Tor network. After it connects with the Command and Control servers, it returns the data with a "README_FOR_DECRYPT.txt" file. It then tells the user that their files have been encrypted, etc. and that they need to pay a sum of one bitcoin, which used to be roughly $400 in United States dollar.
KeRanger encrypts each file (e.g. Test.docx) by first creating an encrypted version that uses the .encrypted extension (i.e. Test.docx.encrypted.) To encrypt each file, KeRanger starts by generating a random number (RN) and encrypts the RN with the RSA key retrieved from the C2 se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DX%20cluster | A DX cluster is a network of computers, each running a software package dedicated to gathering, and disseminating, information on amateur radio DX (long-distance contact) activities.
The computers comprising the network are called nodes, the network itself being termed a cluster of nodes. The nodes may be connected either via radio links or through the internet. Internet nodes generally connect using the telnet protocol.
The system acts as an aggregator of information, accepting input from various sources, then making that data available to any user who is connected to the network.
History
The first DX cluster software, PacketCluster was realized by US radio amateur Dick Newell, AK1A in the late 1980s, and quickly became popular as a means of exchanging DX-related information. Before the internet became widely available, the nodes running the cluster software would connect via radio links at certain frequencies allocated within the amateur radio bands. Users of the system would then connect to a node using frequencies different from those used by the nodes.
When the internet became widely available, the system was expanded to make use of telnet connections to internet nodes, in addition to the already established packet radio nodes. Users of internet nodes connect to a particular node using telnet client software.
DX cluster software
A number of DX cluster software packages are available, among which are:
PacketCluster - the original, and still widely used, radio packet cluster software
DX Spider - the most widely used of the internet-based cluster software packages
CC Cluster
Clusse - older cluster software
References
Amateur radio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannu%20Toivonen%20%28professor%29 | Hannu Tauno Tapani Toivonen (born 1967 in Helsinki) is a Finnish computer scientist and professor at the University of Helsinki.
Research and teaching
Hannu Toivonen's research area is artificial intelligence and data science, especially data mining and computational creativity, along with their applications. He was chair of the programme committee for The International Conference on Computational Creativity in 2015 and for the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) in 2014.
Publications
Toivonen has published over 200 scientific articles, which have been referenced over 26,000 times in total. The most referenced articles primarily discuss the methods and theory of data mining; other referenced articles include material on context-aware mobile applications, probabilistic logic programming, paleoecology, and gene mapping. Toivonen holds 10 patents.
Career
Toivonen completed his PhD on data mining in 1996. He has carried out research for Nokia in 1990–1993 and 1999–2003, and at the University of Helsinki 1993–1999 and 2002 onwards.
Toivonen has been a professor of computer science at the University of Helsinki since 2002. In 2005–2006, he visited the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany. Toivonen was head of the Department of Computer Science in 2007–2009 and vice-dean for academic affairs of the Faculty of Science in 2018-2021.
Honours
Knight, First Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland.
Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
Member of the Finnish Academy of Technical Sciences.
Honorary member of the computer science student association TKO-äly ry.
References
External links
Hannu Toivonen’s homepage
The website of Hannu Toivonen’s research group Discovery
Hannu Toivonen’s publications in Google Scholar
Hannu Toivonen in the research portal of the University of Helsinki
Academic staff of the University of Helsinki
Finnish computer scientists
1967 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reheapification | Reheapification is a term promoted by some C++ textbooks to describe the process of fixing a binary search tree heap data structure, after a node is either removed or added. Other authors refer to the process of bubble up or bubble down.
References
C++ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finding%20Stuff%20Out | Finding Stuff Out is a Canadian children's television series, which premiered on TVOntario's TVOKids programming block in 2012. Hosted by Harrison Houde for the first three seasons and Zoey Siewert from season 4 onwards, the program educates viewers on science topics. The series was created by Edward Kay and Jonathan Finkelstein.
It has since been syndicated to other children's programming channels, including Knowledge Network, Pop, Nat Geo Kids, and Ion Television/Qubo.
The series is a three-time Canadian Screen Award nominee for Children's or Youth Non-Fiction Program, at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards in 2013, the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014 and the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016. It won the award in 2016. In 2013, the show was also a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Cross-Platform Children's Project for Digital Media for its online components.
Format
The show’s host, Harrison Houde would often get questions from random kids that he doesn’t know what the answers are, so he attempts to figure out what the answer is ( hence the show’s name ). Harrison’s show is filmed in the attic of his house, as shown in the opening sequence.
Houde left the show at the end of Season 3, due to him being on another Canadian show on a different network. After his departure, Zoey Siewert took over his hosting duties from Season 4 to onward, while the show still kept the same format like so.
Recurring Segments
Street Smarts
Harrison or Zoey goes to places and talks to kids about the answers to the episode/topic’s question.
The Short Answer Is…
A question from the topic of the episode would be asked and Harrison ( 1-3 ) or Zoey ( 4-Present ) would give out a short answer for the question.
You’re Gonna Make My Head Explode!
Zoey/Harrison would often get confused with the topic and makes their heads confused too ( hence the name of the segment ) and would often get a expert in the studio to talk about the topic.
My Great Challenge
Harrison or Zoey would often think of a idea for a challenge focusing on the episode’s topic and would have kids in the studio taking place for Harrison or Zoey’s challenges.
The Flat Earth Corner
Harrison and Zoey would dress up like people from the century and they talk about stuff focusing on the topic of the episode.
The Big Answer Is…
At the end of each episode, Harrison/Zoey would often play the drums while explaining the big answer to someone’s question they got at the start of the show.
DO Try This at Home
Harrison/Zoey would think of something about the topic or question that random kids ask, so they can do that people can do at home.
Minor Segments
The Sydney Report
Harrison’s neighbor and best friend, Sydney Kuhnne would often go to minor places for one of the random kid questions. Only used for Season 1.
References
External links
2012 Canadian television series debuts
2010s Canadian children's television series
TVO original programming
Canadian children's education television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20%28TV%20series%29 | Memory () is a South Korean television series starring Lee Sung-min, Kim Ji-soo and Park Jin-hee. It replaced Signal and aired on cable network tvN on Fridays and Saturdays at 20:30 (KST) from March 18, 2016 to May 7, 2016 for 16 episodes.
Lee Jun- ho (Member of 2PM)
Lee Seung- min (actor)
Jang Gwang (actor)
Plot
The drama depicts a man's vigorous efforts to protect the precious value of the life and family love, as his memory starts fading away.
Cast
Main cast
Lee Sung-min as Park Tae-suk
Kim Ji-soo as Seo Young-joo
Park Jin-hee as Na Eun-sun
Supporting cast
Ban Hyo-jung as Kim Soon-hee
Jang Gwang as Park Chul-min
Park Joon-geum as Jang Mi-rim
Nam Da-reum as Park Jung-woo
Kang Ji-woo as Park Yeon-woo
Lee Jun-ho as Jung Jin
Yoon So-hee as Bong Sun-hwa
Jeon No-min as Lee Chan-moo
Moon Sook as Hwang Tae-sun
Song Sam-dong as Kim Je-hoon
Song Seon-mi as Han Jung-won
Lee Ki-woo as Shin Young-jin
Heo Jung-do as Kang Yoo-bin
Park Min-jung as Policewoman Choi
Yeo Hoe-hyun as Lee Seung-ho
Choi Deok-moon as Joo Jae-min
Kim Min-sang as Joo Sang-pil
Yoon Kyung-ho as Kim Chang-soo
Lee Jung-gil as Shin Hwa-sik
Park Joo-hyung as Cha Won-suk
Seo In-sung as Park Dong-woo
Jung Young-gi as Kwon Myung-soo
Ham Sung-min as Kwon Myung-soo (young)
Song Ji-in as Yoon Sun-hee
Jeon Jin-gi as Chairman Lee
Choi Min-young as Kim Myung-soo
Son Sung-chan as Kim Myung-soo's father
Kim So-yeon as Kim Soo-ji
Han Seo-jin as Kwon Mi-joo
Lee Hee-jin as Do In-kyung
Shin Jae-ha as Kang Hyun-wook
Kan Mi-youn as Shin Young-jin's ex-lover
Yoon Ji-on as Assistant director
Song Ji-ho as Chun Min-gyoo
Kang Shin-il as Kim Sun-ho (guest)
Original soundtrack
Ratings
In this table, represent the lowest ratings and represent the highest ratings.
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Memory at Daum
2016 South Korean television series debuts
TVN (South Korean TV channel) television dramas
Fiction about memory
2016 South Korean television series endings
South Korean melodrama television series
South Korean television series remade in other languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Dish%20Show | The Dish Show is a Canadian television panel show, which aired on The Comedy Network in 1997 and 1998. Hosted by Maureen Holloway and Brigitte Gall, the series featured a rotating panel of female comedians.
The series garnered a Gemini Award nomination for Best Comedy Program or Series at the 13th Gemini Awards in 1998.
References
1997 Canadian television series debuts
1998 Canadian television series endings
1990s Canadian comedy television series
CTV Comedy Channel original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keven%20Undergaro | Keven Undergaro (born November 18, 1967) is the creator of online broadcast network AfterBuzz TV as well as being a writer and producer for film and television.
Early life
Undergaro was born into a working-class family in Medford, Massachusetts. His interests as a youth included video games, comic books, movies, and television. He was a fan of the Adam West series Batman and converted the family El Camino into his own personal Batmobile. He also made in-costume appearances as Batman and scaled a 50-foot roof in college as a stunt.
Undergaro is a graduate of Saint Anselm College, where he majored in history. He worked as a carnival worker on the east coast in the summer to afford trips to Los Angeles, where he worked as a television writer in the winter. He eventually became head writer of MTV's Singled Out.
After working for MTV, Undergaro decided to make an independent film, which left him bankrupt and homeless. Through that film, he met 17-year-old Maria Menounos.
Career
Undergaro created and produced AfterBuzz TV, an online broadcast network that specialized in after-show podcasts. He has also created Black Hollywood Live, The Popcorn Talk Network, and Book Circle Online.
Undergaro co-created and works as executive producer, along with Julianne Hough and Maria Menounos, on the ABC series #DanceBattle America.
As for film, Undergaro wrote and directed indie comedy Adventures of Serial Buddies, and served as producer on the acclaimed Netflix hit This Isn't Funny. He also produced the documentaries The Elders and Losing Lebron.
Undergaro works as executive producer for SiriusXM's Conversations with Maria.
Since 2016, he has hosted and executive produced The Tomorrow Show with Keven Undergaro.
Personal life
Undergaro has been in a relationship with Maria Menounos since April 1998. He proposed to her on March 9, 2016, on The Howard Stern Show. They were married on December 31, 2017, in Times Square; the ceremony was officiated by Steve Harvey and broadcast live during his New Year's Eve special on FOX.
References
9. https://us.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/2017070440344/maria-menounos-reveals-brain-tumour-diagnosis/
American podcasters
American talk radio hosts
American film directors
American film producers
American television producers
American male screenwriters
Living people
Filmmakers from Massachusetts
Saint Anselm College alumni
1967 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan%20Washburn | Evan Washburn (born August 15, 1984) is an American reporter for CBS Sports. He joined CBS in 2014, and is a part of the network's coverage of the NFL and NCAA basketball, along with contributing to CBS Sports Network. He is also the sideline reporter for the local TV broadcasts of the Baltimore Ravens pre-season games.
Personal life
Washburn married Kate Washburn in 2014 and they had their first child, a boy, Hudson, in 2016.
References
Year of birth uncertain
1984 births
Living people
American sports journalists
American television sports announcers
College basketball announcers in the United States
Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens men's lacrosse players
Lacrosse announcers
College football announcers
National Football League announcers
Sportspeople from Annapolis, Maryland
University of Delaware alumni
Major League Lacrosse announcers
21st-century American journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie%20Erdahl | Jamie Marie Erdahl-Buckman (born December 3, 1988) is an American reporter for NFL Network and CBS Sports. She currently serves as one of the hosts of Good Morning Football on NFL Network. She was formerly the lead sideline reporter for the SEC on CBS, teaming up with Brad Nessler and Gary Danielson. Erdahl also covers the NCAA basketball regular season, the NBA and March Madness for CBS/Turner. She joined the company in 2014 and contributes to CBS Sports Network as a studio host.
Erdahl worked at New England Sports Network prior to joining CBS. In 2013, she filled in on the sidelines for Jenny Dell during the Boston Red Sox season. In 2014, NESN named Erdahl the Boston Bruins rink side reporter. She also worked in studio hosting NESN's 30-minute live news shows.
Career
Erdahl was a basketball and softball player at St. Olaf College. She transferred to American University in 2009 to pursue a degree in broadcasting and communications. Before graduating in December 2011, Erdahl hosted several shows for the school, including 'Eye on the Eagle', a 30-minute magazine show featuring the men's basketball team that aired on Comcast SportsNet Washington. In 2022, she joined NFL Network's Good Morning Football (GMFB) as co-host.
References
External links
Living people
Alliance of American Football announcers
American sports journalists
American University School of Communication alumni
Boston Bruins announcers
Boston Red Sox announcers
College basketball announcers in the United States
College football announcers
Major League Baseball broadcasters
National Football League announcers
National Hockey League broadcasters
NFL Network people
St. Olaf College alumni
Women's college basketball announcers in the United States
1988 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3%20Bahadur%3A%20The%20Revenge%20of%20Baba%20Balaam | 3 Bahadur: The Revenge of Baba Balaam is a Pakistani 3D computer-animated family film directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. It is the second installment in the franchise 3 Bahadur.
Cast
Zuhab Khan as Saadi
Fahim Khan as Baba Balaam
Shahzaib Khan as Kamil
Arisha Razi as Amna
Behroze Sabzwari as Deenu
Ahmed Ali Butt as Gola
Ali Gul Pir as Teeli/Lolly
Fahad Mustafa as Imran
Mustafa Changazi as Tony
Sarwat Gilani as Saadi's mother
Zeba Shehnaz as Parrot
Bassam Shazli as Pateeli/Chatpa
Hammad Siddiq as Ghutka/ Shikra
Joel Frenzer as Gabru
Production
Marketing
The sequel of 3 Bahadur was announced in a press release in November 2015. The details revealed that Fahad Mustafa, Ahmed Ali Butt, Salman Shahid and Sarwat Gilani will also lend their voices in the sequel titled 3 Bahadur: The Revenge of Baba Balaam. In March 2016, ARY Films unveiled the first look poster through a tweet.
Release
The teaser for the film was released on YouTube on 3 August 2016. Later the official Trailer for the film was released online on 27 October 2016. The film was released on 15 December 2016.
Reception
Box office
The movie opened better on Thursday with day one collecting in its opening week. Film grew 25% relative to previous week collecting taking two weeks total to .
Sequel
The third film, 3 Bahadur: Rise of the Warriors is scheduled to be released in December 2018, which has the voice by Mehwish Hayat, Fahad Mustafa, Sarwat Gillani, Nimra Bucha and Behroze Sabzwari.
See also
List of Pakistani films of 2016
List of Pakistani animated films
References
External links
2016 films
2016 3D films
2016 computer-animated films
2010s adventure films
2010s children's adventure films
Films directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Pakistani adventure films
Pakistani animated films
Pakistani children's films
Pakistani 3D films
3D animated films
Pakistani sequel films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antanas%20Baskas | Antanas Baskas (born 22 February 1936 in Marijampolė, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian computer scientist, politician and former member of the Seimas.
Biography
Baskas was born to a working-class family in Marijampolė, Lithuania on 22 February 1936.
Baskas graduated from the Kaunas Polytechnic Institute in 1960. He worked at the Vilnius Construction Bureau for Computational Machines, first as technician, later - as an engineer and a manager. In 1966 Baskas became an engineer and, later, research fellow at the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. Between 1977 and 1992 he worked at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics. He successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in 1973. Baskas has published around 40 research papers and authored hundreds of articles in Lithuanian press in the areas of technology and politics.
In 1990 Baskas joined the Liberal Union of Lithuania and remained a member until 1992. In the elections in 1992, Baskas was elected as the member of the Sixth Seimas on the electoral list of Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania. He was a member of Social Democratic Party of Lithuania between 1994 and 1996. He ran unsuccessfully for a Seimas seat in 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008.
After leaving the Seimas in 1996, he continued his work at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of Vilnius University.
References
1936 births
Living people
Members of the Seimas
Liberal Union of Lithuania politicians
Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania politicians
Social Democratic Party of Lithuania politicians
Kaunas University of Technology alumni
People from Marijampolė |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow-sensitive%20typing | In programming language theory, flow-sensitive typing (also called flow typing or occurrence typing) is a type system where the type of an expression depends on its position in the control flow.
In statically typed languages, a type of an expression is determined by the types of the sub-expressions that compose it. However, in flow-sensitive typing, an expression's type may be updated to a more specific type if it follows an operation that validates its type. Validating operations can include type predicates, imperative updates, and control flow.
Examples
Ceylon
See the following example in Ceylon which illustrates the concept:
// Object? means the variable "name" is of type Object or else null
void hello(Object? name) {
if (is String name) {
// "name" now has type String in this block
print("Hello, ``name``!");
// and it is possible to call String methods on the variable
print(" String.size is ``name.size``");
}
else if (exists name) {
// "name" now has type Object in this block
print("Hello, object ``name``!");
}
else {
print("Hello, world!");
}
}
hello(null);
hello(1);
hello("John Doe");
and which outputs:
Hello, world!
Hello, object 1!
Hello, John Doe!
String.size is 8
Kotlin
See this example in Kotlin:
fun hello(obj: Any) {
// A type cast fails if `obj` is not a String
obj as String
// Since the type cast did not fail, `obj` must be a String!
val l = obj.length
println("'$obj' is a string of length $l")
}
hello("Mooooo")
Benefits
This technique coupled with type inference reduces the need for writing type annotations for all variables or to do type casting, like is seen with dynamic languages that use duck typing. It reduces verbosity and makes for terser code, easier to read and modify.
It can also help language implementers provide implementations that execute dynamic languages faster by predicting the type of objects statically.
Finally, it increases type safety and can prevent problems due to null pointers, labeled by C.A.R. Hoare—the null reference inventor—as "the billion dollar mistake"
Implementations
Typed Scheme, a type system for Scheme, was the first type system with this feature. Its successor, Typed Racket (a dialect of Racket), still makes extensive use of occurrence typing. Shortly after Typed Scheme, David J. Pearce independently reinvented flow-typing in Whiley.
Typed JavaScript observed that in "scripting" languages, flow-typing depends on more than conditional predicates; it also depends on state and control flow. This style has since been adopted in languages like Ceylon, TypeScript and Facebook Flow.
There are also a few languages that don't have union types but do have nullable types, that have a limited form of this feature that only applies to nullable types, such as C#, Kotlin, and Lobster.
Alternatives
Pattern matching reaches the same goals as flow-sensitive typing, n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari%20ST%20character%20set | The Atari ST character set is the character set of the Atari ST personal computer family including the Atari STE, TT and Falcon. It is based on code page 437, the original character set of the IBM PC, and like that set includes ASCII codes 32–126, extended codes for accented letters (diacritics), and other symbols. It differs from code page 437 in using other dingbats at code points 0–31, in exchanging the box-drawing characters 176–223 for the Hebrew alphabet and other symbols, and exchanging code points 158, 236 and 254–255 with the symbols for sharp S, line integral, cubed and macron.
The Atari ST family of computers contained this font stored in ROM in three sizes; as an 8×16 pixels-per-character font used in the high-resolution graphics modes, as an 8×8 pixels-per-character font used in the low- and medium-resolution graphics modes, and as a 6×6 pixels-per-character font used for icon labels in any graphics mode.
All 256 codes were assigned a graphical character in ROM, including the codes from 0 to 31 that in ASCII were reserved for non-graphical control characters.
Digital Research's Intel-based original GEM for IBM compatible PCs utilized the similar GEM character set. It has swapped ¢ and ø and has also swapped ¥ and Ø (meaning GEM is more similar to code page 865 by placement of Ø and ø). It also has the currency sign (¤) at codepoint 158, “ at codepoint 169, ” at codepoint 170, ‹ at codepoint 171, › at codepoint 172, section sign (§) at codepoint 184, double dagger (‡) at codepoint 185, „ at codepoint 192, horizontal ellipsis (…) codepoint 193, per mille sign (‰) at codepoint 194, bullet (•) at codepoint 195, en dash (–) at codepoint 196, em dash (—) at codepoint 197, degree sign (°) at code point 198, the S with caron (uppercase and lowercase) and various uppercase Latin accented letters (in codepoint order, they are Á, Â, È, Ê, Ë, Ì, Í, Î, Ï, Ò, Ó, Ô, Š, š, Ù, Ú, Û, and Ÿ) at codepoints 199-216, sharp s (ß) at codepoint 217, various spaces at codepoints 218-223, bullet operator (∙) at codepoint 249, black square (■) at codepoint 254 (as in code page 437), empty set (∅) at code point 255, GEM-specific characters at codepoints 5, 6, and 7, various black triangles (in codepoint order, they are ▴, ▾, ▸, ◂, ►, ◄) at codepoints 12-17 (codepoints 16 and 17 match code page 437), ⧓ at codepoint 18, ▂ at codepoint 19, ¶ (which is not filled in the system font) at codepoint 20, § (duplicate) at codepoint 21, ↕ at codepoint 22, ↨ at code point 23, and codepoints 24-31 match code page 437.
Character set
The following table shows the Atari ST character set. Each character is shown with a potential Unicode equivalent if available. Differences from code page 437 are shown boxed.
Although the ROM provides a graphic for all 256 different possible 8-bit codes, some APIs will not print some of these code points, in particular the range 0–31 and the code at 127. Instead they will interpret them as control characters.
Alt codes
Using the Alt Numpad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh%20Bank%20robbery | The Bangladesh Bank robbery, also known colloquially as the Bangladesh Bank cyber heist, was a theft that took place in February 2016. Thirty-five fraudulent instructions were issued by security hackers via the SWIFT network to illegally transfer close to US$1 billion from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York account belonging to Bangladesh Bank, the central bank of Bangladesh. Five of the thirty-five fraudulent instructions were successful in transferring US$101 million, with US$81 million traced to the Philippines and US$20 million to Sri Lanka. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York blocked the remaining thirty transactions, amounting to US$850 million, due to suspicions raised by a misspelled instruction. As of 2018, only around US$18 million of the US$81 million transferred to the Philippines has been recovered, and all the money transferred to Sri Lanka has since been recovered. Most of the money transferred to the Philippines went to four personal accounts, held by single individuals, and not to companies or corporations.
Background
Like many other national banks, Bangladesh Bank, the central bank of Bangladesh, maintains an account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to deposit, maintain, and transfer foreign currency reserve of Bangladesh. The foreign currency reserve of Bangladesh, a growing economy, often reaches multiple billions of US dollars. As of September 2020, Bangladesh has a foreign currency reserve of US$39 billion. The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) network is used to communicate with the bank holding the foreign exchange account in order to withdraw, transfer, or deposit the currency.
The 2016 cyber-attack on the Bangladesh Bank was not the first attack of its kind. In 2013, the Sonali Bank of Bangladesh was also successfully targeted by hackers who were able to remove US$250,000.
In both cases, the perpetrators were suspected to have been aided by insiders within the targeted banks, who assisted in taking advantage of weaknesses in the banks' access to the SWIFT global payment network.
Events
Capitalizing on weaknesses in the security of the Bangladesh central bank, including the possible involvement of some of its employees, perpetrators attempted to steal US$951 million from the Bangladesh Bank's account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The theft happened sometime between 4–5 February 2016, when Bangladesh Bank's offices were closed for the weekend.
The perpetrators managed to compromise Bangladesh Bank's computer network, observe how transfers are done, and gain access to the bank's credentials for payment transfers. They used these credentials to authorise about three dozen requests to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. These requests were made to transfer funds to accounts in the Philippines and Sri Lanka.
Thirty transactions worth US$851 million were flagged by the banking system for staff review, but five requests were granted; US$20 million to Sri Lank |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikatsu%20Stars%21 | is an arcade collectible card game in Bandai's Data Carddass line of machines, which was launched in May 2016. It is the successor to the Aikatsu! series of arcade games. The game revolves around using collectible cards featuring various clothes to help aspiring idols pass auditions. An anime television adaptation by BN Pictures began airing on TV Tokyo from April 7, 2016, to March 29, 2018. It was succeeded by Aikatsu Friends! on April 5, 2018.
Plot
The series features a new protagonist named Yume Nijino. Yume aims to become a top idol, and she, and her childhood friend Koharu, enroll in Yotsuboshi Gakuen (Four Star Academy). She also receives attention from a male idol named Subaru, who is a popular male idol from M4 and who has possibilities of having a crush on Yume due to his way of speaking and body language when she is around him. He also cares a lot for her. She also meets Rola Sakuraba, Ako Saotome and Mahiru Kasumi who become here great friends. The academy has a special group called S4, who are the top four idols in the school. There are four classes Flower Song Class, Bird Theatre Class, Wind Dance Class, and Moon Beauty Class. Yume and the other first-year students aim to become a part of the S4.
In the second season "Hoshi no Tsubasa" (Star Wings), Venus Ark, a new rival school to the protagonist Yume Nijino's Yotsuboshi Gakuen that uses a ship as its schoolhouse, will appear. And new idols from the school, the "perfect idol" Elza Forte and Kirara Hanazono join the story that will feature the highest class dress type "Star Premium Rare Coord".
Media
Game
Data Carddass Aikatsu Stars is a Data Carddass game for Season 1. In season 2, a new Data Carddass game named "Data Carddass Aikatsu Stars Wings Of Stars" appeared. Two 3DS games have been released. The first 3DS game, named "Aikatsu Stars First Appeal", was released on July 20, 2016. The second 3DS game, titled "Aikatsu Stars My Special Appeal", was released on November 24, 2016.
Anime
An anime television series produced by BN Pictures began airing on TV Tokyo from April 7, 2016, succeeding the original Aikatsu! anime series in its initial timeslot. The opening themes are by Sena and Rie from AIKATSU☆STARS, "1, 2, Sing for You!", , "STARDOM!" by Sena, Rie, Miki and Kana from AIKATSU☆STARS and "MUSIC OF DREAM!" by Sena, Rie, Miki and Kana from AIKATSU☆STARS, while the ending themes are "Episode Solo" by Ruka, Nanase, Kana, and Miho from AIKATSU☆STARS, "So Beautiful Story" by Ruka and Sena from AIKATSU☆STARS, "Bon Bon Voyage!" by Risa and Miho from AIKATSU☆STARS and "Pirouette Of The Forest Light" by Ruka and Sena from AIKATSU☆STARS.
Music
Many of the songs were composed and arranged by Monaca, and performed by members of the Japanese idol group AIKATSU☆STARS who provide the singing voices for the characters. Some of the insert songs are the theme songs but sung by different members from the opening or closing. The songs have been compiled into several albums.
Anime opening |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimScale | SimScale is a computer-aided engineering (CAE) software product based on cloud computing. SimScale was developed by SimScale GmbH and allows computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis and thermal simulations. The backend of the platform uses open source codes:
FEA: Code_Aster and CalculiX
CFD: OpenFOAM
The cloud-based platform of SimScale allows users to run more simulations, and in turn iterate more design changes, compared to traditional local computer-based systems.
History
SimScale was launched in 2013.
Features
The thermal module allows uncoupled thermo-mechanical, conjugate heat transfer and convective heat transfer simulations.
Industrial applications
Japan-based Tokyowheel — a company that engineers technical carbon fiber racing wheels for competitive cyclists — used SimScale's CFD software component to determine the most aerodynamic wheel profile. QRC Technologies performed thermal simulations on SimScale to test multiple variations of their RF tester.
Marketing
On 2 December 2015, a community plan was announced making the platform accessible free of charge, based on a new investment round led by Union Square Ventures. It includes a one-time allotment of 3000 computation hours and 500 GB of storage for any registered user. Simulations and projects created by a user registered under the plan are accessible to all other users within the public project library.
SimScale has also organized several free webinars:
3D Printer Workshop
F1 Aerodynamics Workshop
Simulation in Biomedical Engineering Workshop
References
Cloud platforms
Computer-aided engineering software for Linux
Finite element software
Simulation software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top%20One%20Project | Top One Project (abbreviated as T.O.P.) was a Filipino boy band based in the Philippines, originally composed of the grand winners of GMA Network's reality show To the Top — Adrian Pascual, Joshua Jacobe, Louie Pedroso, Mico Cruz, and Miko Manguba. The group signed under GMA's Artist Center and its label GMA Records after winning the competition in 2015. The group released their debut album digitally on April 28, 2016 with their carrier single, "Pag-gising".
History
2015: To the Top
In 2015, GMA Network created To the Top, the Philippines' first multi-platform boy band competition. The competition invited talented male singers from different school organizations nationwide to form the newest boy band sensation. Eighteen contestants went through rigorous training in singing and dancing under The CompanY's Moy Ortiz, Sweet Plantado and OJ Mariano; Sonic State Audio writers and producers Chino David, Brian Lotho, Tony V and Jon Ong; Madelle and Prince Paltu-ob, and Jesse "Reflex" Gotangco of Philippine All Stars; and the Maestro Ryan Cayabyab.
In the series' finale, Adrian Pascual, Joshua Jacobe, Louie Pedroso, Mico Cruz, and Miko Manguba were named the grand winners and formed Top One Project. Prior to joining the contest, Manguba, Pedroso and Cruz, are veteran performers in their school glee clubs. Magbanua serves as the leader of the group.
2016: Debut album and concert
Top One Project's debut album, T.O.P., was released digitally on April 28, 2016, available on Spotify and iTunes. Under GMA Records, T.O.P. had the chance to re-record five of the most popular songs from To the Top and an original song for the album. It features six tracks: "Bakit Ganon", "Somebody", "Kaya Ko, Kaya Mo", "Alaala", their original composition, "San Na", and carrier single, "Paggising". Most of these songs are written by known musicians in the OPM industry such as Chino David from Silent Sanctuary and Brian Lotho who are both under Sonic State Audio. "San Na" was an experimental track as the group challenges their skills in writing and music production. Louie Pedroso and Mico Cruz wrote most of the lyrics while Miko Manguba, Joshua Jacobe, and Adrian Pascual focused on the overall sound and arrangement of the song. Physical copies of the album were released on May 14, 2016 and reached the third spot on the Astro Charts for the top-selling OPM albums for the month of May. Top One Project performed for almost 40,000 people on June 12, 2016 at the Philippine Arena to promote their debut album.
Top One Project had their first major concert, titled T.O.P. in Concet, on October 28, 2016 at the Music Museum.
In 2018, Miko Manguba transferred to GMA Records' rival record label, Star Music, officially announcing the end of the group.
After months on inactivity, the band held their last concert in March.
Members
Mico Cruz
Mico C. was born Michaelangelo Ramos Cruz on
Joshua Jacobe
Joshua was born Mark Joshua Marcelo Jacobe on
Adrian Pascual
Adrian was born |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Chandler%20%28The%20Last%20Ship%29 | Thomas William Chandler is a fictional character and the protagonist of the cable network TNT post-apocalyptic drama TV series The Last Ship. He is portrayed by Eric Dane.
Background
The son of United States Army veteran Jed Chandler (Bill Smitrovich), Tom Chandler was born on December 9 and raised in Virginia along with a brother and a sister. As a young man, Tom joined the United States Navy to spite his father, an army officer.
At an unknown point in time, he married a woman named Darien (Tracy Middendorf). They have a daughter, Ashley (Grace Kaufman), and a son, Sam (Aidan Sussman), and reside in Norfolk, Virginia, where his ship is homeported.
He speaks and reads fluent Russian, and has a book written by Admiral Konstantin Nikolajewitsch Ruskov (Ravil Isyanov) in his personal collection.
Arc
Chandler's naval career began in the 1990s upon his graduation from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
As a lieutenant, junior grade, Chandler served on after completing a tour of duty in Iraq. The Pinckney'''s captain promoted him to full lieutenant; years later, Chandler gave his Lieutenant's bars to Lieutenant Alisha Granderson during her promotion ceremony.
By June 2013, Chandler held the rank of Commander in the United States Navy and was the Captain of the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Nathan James (DDG-151). That year, he and his crew took on paleomicrobiologists Dr. Rachel Scott (Rhona Mitra) and Dr. Quincy Tophet (Sam Spruell) as the Nathan James conducted operations at the Arctic. However, their mission, unknown to even them, was just a cover for Drs. Scott and Tophet, who were actually collecting samples of a deadly virus that has infected 80 percent of the human population while they have been at sea.
The first season revolves around finding and creating a cure for the virus (called the Red Flu by those on land) while staying ahead of the RFS Vyerni, a Russian Navy Kirov-class battlecruiser commanded by Admiral Konstantin Ruskov, who were looking for the cure for themselves so they could become the new "owners" of the world. During a rescue operation undertaken near Jamaica, CDR Chandler and Tex Nolan (John Pyper-Ferguson), the private security/military contractor who joined the Nathan James at Guantanamo Bay detention camp, were lost at sea and then taken captive by Admiral Ruskov. The two of them were rescued by the Nathan James, and upon their escape, detonated a set of explosives left by the boarding party that ultimately sunk the Vyerni with all hands (save for Niels Sørensen (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), a Norwegian scientist held prisoner by Ruskov).
With the Russians defeated and a cure synthesized, the Nathan James makes port in Baltimore, Maryland, where they meet up with Amy Granderson (Alfre Woodard), the Vice Chair of the President's Defense Policy Board and mother of one of Chandler's officers, who claims to be the leader of what's left of the United States government. As Chandler f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WION | WION (World is One News) is an Indian English language news channel headquartered in Noida. It is owned by the Essel Group and is part of the Zee Media network of channels.
History
Zee Media hired Rohit Gandhi as the founder and first editor-in-chief to build the channel in August 2015. Its website was launched in many countries as a free-to-air satellite service on 15 June 2016. The television channel began airing on 15 August 2016. Sudhir Chaudhary served as its editor-in-chief after Gandhi until he left in 2021. Before switching to CNN-News18, Palki Sharma Upadhyay served for 4 years and resigned in September 2022. Past team includes Naveen Kapoor and Kartikeya Sharma.
Team
The current team includes Sidhant Sibal of DD News, who joined the media corporation on 1 April 2018. Madhu Soman joined as Chief business officer in 2022. Rohit Banerjee looks after the branded content. While Molly Gambhir and Neha Khanna replace Palki Sharma's position to become leading anchors of the channel, other Associated journalists include Digvijay Singh Deo, Shivan Chanana, Rabin Sharma, Ieshan Wani, Priyanka Sharma and Alyson le Grange.
The channel's Pakistan bureau chief, Taha Siddiqui, was forced into exile after a failed kidnapping attempt in Islamabad. He was replaced by Anas Mallick.
Controversies
Appointment of M. J. Akbar
In 2021, the appointment of M. J. Akbar, an Indian journalist and politician who has been accused of sexual assault by women, to WION as an "editorial consultant" was met with controversy, with more than 150 journalists signing a statement demanding that Akbar be removed by WION and Zee News.
2022 YouTube block
On 22 March 2022, WION was blocked from YouTube for "violating Youtube's community guidelines". YouTube had taken objection to a video posted on 10 March broadcasting a speech by Sergey Lavrov, head of Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, denying the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. YouTube unblocked the channel on 26 March after a social media campaign by WION.
Lawsuit against former anchor Palki Sharma
After former anchor Palki Sharma Upadhyay announced her retirement from WION and the creation of new talk show in CNN-News18, WION filed a lawsuit against Upadhyay, by saying that "confidential and proprietary Zee information" are taken by Upadhyay, and demanded that Upadhyay should continue to work for WION until December 2022 and pay for damages worth Rs. 2 crore. However, the Delhi High court refused WION's appeal, and the next hearing of the case would be delayed until March 2023.
References
External links
24-hour television news channels in India
Television stations in Delhi
Essel Group
Television channels and stations established in 2016
English-language television stations in the United Kingdom
24-hour television news channels in the United Kingdom
Television channels in the United Kingdom
Multilingual news services
English-language television stations in India
2016 establishments in Delhi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Bake%20with%20Anna%20Olson%20episodes | This is the episode list of the cooking show Bake with Anna Olson which airs on Food Network Canada in Canada.
Series overview
Season 1 (2012)
Season 2 (2015)
References
Bake |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Walters | Kenneth Walters (1934 – 28 March 2022) was a British mathematician and rheologist. He was a Distinguished Research Professor at the Institute Of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science of the Aberystwyth University.
Education
Walters earned his PhD from the University of Swansea in 1959 under the supervision of James G. Oldroyd. His thesis was entitled Some Elastico-Viscous Liquids with Continuous and Discrete Relaxation Spectra.
Work
Walters made contributions to rheology and the development of rheological science in the United Kingdom, and has conducted extensive studies of the behaviour of non-Newtonian fluids, particularly elastic liquids. He made advances in two major areas: the measurement of rheological properties, and the numerical solution of complex flows. In the first area, he extended the theory of viscometric flows, carried out a searching analysis of sources of error in the principal instruments in current use, and was involved in industrial applications arising in the manufacture of lubricants, detergents and paints. His book, Rheometry, is a standard work of reference and the book Numerical Simulation of Non-Newtonian Flow, of which he is joint author, is an influential text in this field of research.
Awards and honours
Prof. Walters was recognized extensively for his contributions to the rheological community by being awarded the Gold Medal from the British Society of Rheology in 1984 and the Weissenberg Award from the European Society of Rheology in 2002. Walters was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1991. In 1995 he was made a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Engineering. He was an active member of the rheological community for many years. He served as President of the British Society of Rheology from 1974 to 1976, President of the European Society of Rheology from 1996 to 2000, and the Chairman of the International Committee on Rheology from 2000 to 2004.
Personal life
In 1961, Kenneth began dating Mary Eccles, an Aberystwyth student who had been Student ‘Rag Queen’ before they met. They were both committed Christians and married in 1963. Their mutual faith led them into lay leadership at St Michael's Anglican church in Aberystwyth. They had three children and seven grandchildren.
Death
Walters' death was announced on 30 March 2022.
References
1934 births
2022 deaths
British mathematicians
Alumni of Swansea University
Academics of Aberystwyth University
Fellows of the Royal Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%20Duval | Erik Duval (11 September 1965 – 12 March 2016) was a Belgian computer scientist. Duval chaired the informatics section of the computer science department of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, where he also chaired the research unit on human-computer interaction. His research tried to augment the human intellect.
Life and career
Duval served on the executive committee of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR), as a fellow of the AACE, as a member of ACM, and the IEEE computer society, on the Editorial Review Board and the Executive Advisory Board of the International Journal on E-Learning, as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (TLT), on the board of editors of the Journal of Universal Computer Science, and as a member of the informatics section of the Academia Europaea.
Duval co-founded and contributed to Aristo Music Technology (2000) and Atmire (2006).
In the last stages of his research career, Duval and his team were focused on:
Capturing user actions for analysis of the user experience (with sensors like brainwave, ECG, eyetracking, … but also software sensors that track what people do)
Personal information visualisation, where we try to help users with awareness, reflection, sensemaking, and behaviour change.
Typical application areas for this research included
technology enhanced learning and learning analytics,
science2.0 and digital humanities,
personal health,
data journalism.
Selected academic works
Duval published over 100 papers. A selection of the highly cited ones:
2002, Metadata Principles and Practicalities
2002, IEEE Standard for learning object metadata
2002, Reusable learning objects: a survey of LOM-based repositories
2001, The Ariadne knowledge pool system
2003, A LOM Research Agenda
2007, Social Software for Lifelong learning
2005, Automating metadata generation: the simple indexing interface
2007, Tracking actual usage: the attention metadata approach
2011, Attention please!: learning analytics for visualization and recommendation
Death
In March 2014, Duval was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. After chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant, a PET scan mid-January 2015 did not show any more traces of the disease. In the summer of 2015, a new diagnose revealed T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma. Duval died on March 12, 2016.
Legacy
To honor the memory of Erik Duval, the Society for Learning Analytics Research created Erik Duval Student Scholarships to provide support for students attending Learning Analytics Summer Institute.
The main auditorium in the Computer Science building of the KU Leuven was named after him, a few months after his death.
References
External links
1965 births
2016 deaths
Academic staff of KU Leuven
Belgian computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLT-Golden%20TV%20International | KLT-Golden TV International () is a Chinese general entertainment channel of the Golden TV Group in Taiwan. It mainly broadcasts Astro programming.
Programmes
Original programming
Golden Rooster CNY 2017
The Travelers
The Travelers II
i-CABLE Hong Kong
12 Nights in Guam
12 Nights in Provence
12 Nights in Sicily
12 Nights in Tohoku
12 Nights in Umbria
12 Nights in Vienna
60/80 Seven Up
All in Good Taste - Chet Lam X Twins Kitchen
All in Good Taste - Dining Young
All in Good Taste - Dining Young: Let's Party
All in Good Taste - Fabulous Cooking Ladies
All in Good Taste - Yim Ho Pharmacology
Anywhere Travel DIY
Arab: A Thousand and One Nights
Autumn Leaves in Hokkaido
Benny Li - Story of Taste
Beijing Fantasia
Bicycle Diaries
Big Money
Big Chefs Small Restaurant
Big Chefs Small Restaurant 2015
The Book of Life
Bravo My Trip Cruise
CEN Chat Room
CEN Summer Party
Career of Seven Ladies
CoCo's Pregnant Diary
Cooking Idol
Cook Odyssey with Master Ko
Christmas in Tokyo
Clan of Hong Kong
Club Addicts
Dao Tai Yu Cooking Show (I am a Cook/I Cook Therefore I Am)
Delicious Nexus
Design King
Dogs Savior
Diamond Man of Sheila
Disappearance of Taste
Discover Macau
Eat A Way
Encore Thailand
Entertainment H.O.T. 2015
Emergency Vets
Emergency Vets 3
Europe Tetralogy: Barcelona (Red)
Emergency Vets 2016
Family Detox
Fall in Love in San Francisco
Feng Shui Lecture of Master So
Feng Shui Lecture of Master So (Season 2)
Feng Shui Lecture of Master So (Season 3)
Files of Scotland's Castle
Fiona X Fiona
The Food Court
Fortune College
Fortune Decoding
Fortune Tips
Fortune Tips of Property
Fortune Tips: Year of the Monkey
Fortune Tips: Mid-Year of the Monkey 2016
Germany Travel DIY
Go Home (House Discuss)
Golden Dinner with Paco
H.K. Casa
H.K. Casa 2016
Happy Earth
Happy Earth 2013
Happy Earth: Europe
Happy Legend of Wai Ying Hung
Holidaysss
Home Boss, Maria
Home Living
Hong Kong Asian-Pop Music Festival
Hong Kong Asian-Pop Music Festival 2017
I Do (I Need Marriage)
i-CABLE TV Special: Eruptions of Icelandic Volcano
I am Hong Kong Guy
India: A Thousand and One Nights
Iceland: A Thousand and One Nights
Japan Travel DIY
Japan Hotels Ichiban
Justice League
Let's Dance! in Korea and Japan
Let's Go Fun
Let's Go Fun 2013
Life on Horizon - Different People, Same World
Lost in Beijing
Love Fiji
Love in Vain
Love in Vain II
Love in Vain III
Love Match Turnaround (Fortune Reason of Luck)
Loving Pets
Loving Pets: Monster College
Maria's Kitchen 6: Delicacy Legend
Maria's Kitchen 7: Happy Family
Maria's Kitchen 8: Chinese Secret Recipes
Maria's Kitchen: Star Series 1
Maria's Kitchen: Star Series 2
Maria's Kitchen: Strong Politicians
Master Chef: Tasting Macau with Maria
Master Chef vs Pretty Anchor
Master Chef: Fruitful Tastes of Life
Master Chef - Home Town Taste (Benny Li)
Master Chef - History of Food (Martin Yan)
Master Chef - Martin Yan
Master Ko's Food Legends (Food L |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucy%E2%80%93Bonneuil%20station | Sucy–Bonneuil is a railway station on RER train network in Sucy-en-Brie, Val-de-Marne, France.
History
Sucy–Bonneuil station used to be served by the Bastille railway line (Paris Bastille – Marles-en-Brie), which has been running from 1872 to 1969. It is now served by RER line A.
Transport
Train
The station is served by a train every 10 minutes at off-peak time in both directions, and by around 1 train every 15 minutes at late evening and early morning.
Bus connections
The station is served by several buses:
RATP Bus network lines: (to Maisons-Alfort), (between Villiers-sur-Marne and Créteil) and (to Thiais) ;
Noctilien network night bus line: (between Paris (Gare de Lyon) and Boissy-Saint-Léger) ;
Situs Bus network lines: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10 and 103.
Traffic
2 121 295 people entered the station in 2014.
Gallery
References
Railway stations in France opened in 1969
Railway stations in Val-de-Marne
Réseau Express Régional stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20for%20Interdisciplinary%20Information%20Sciences | The Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS, ) is a research institute at Tsinghua University in Beijing, which conducts interdisciplinary research in computer science and quantum physics.
History and structure
The institute was founded in 2010 by Turing award winner Andrew Yao as a new overarching unit subsuming the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS), which had been founded in 2005. In addition to the ITCS, the IIIS also encompasses several other units, including Tsinghua's Center for Quantum Information (CQI) as well as joint centers with MIT and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Aarhus University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Waterloo.
Apart from the IIIS, other computer science-related units at Tsinghua University include the Department of Computer Science and Technology and the School of Software.
Education
In addition to research, the institute is also involved in education at Tsinghua University. In 2005, the Special Pilot CS Class program (often called Yao Class) was started, aimed at providing a computer science education similar to that at MIT and Stanford University. Several alumni of this program have been listed in the renowned Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Others have become faculty members at institutions such as Princeton University. The institute also has graduate students.
External links
Official website
Center for Quantum Information
References
Tsinghua University
Research institutes in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneCoin | OneCoin is a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme conducted by offshore companies OneCoin Ltd, based in Bulgaria and registered in Dubai, and OneLife Network Ltd (registered in Belize), both founded by Ruja Ignatova in concert with Sebastian Greenwood. OneCoin is considered a Ponzi scheme due to its organisational structure of paying early investors using money obtained from newer ones. It was also a pyramid scheme due to the recruiting of investors without providing any actual product. The company secretly conducted database entry scam simulating transactions not registered by an actual blockchain, and with no mining behind the apparent cryptocurrency release and circulation. Many of those characters central to OneCoin had been previously involved in similar and different other schemes and business malpractices separate from each other. OneCoin was described by The Times as "one of the biggest scams in history".
US prosecutors have alleged the scheme brought in approximately $4 billion worldwide. In China, law enforcement recovered 1.7 billion yuan (US$267.5 million) while prosecuting 98 people. Ignatova disappeared in 2017 near the time a secret US warrant was filed for her arrest and her brother, Konstantin Ignatov, took her position. Most of the leaders have now disappeared or been arrested, though Ignatova has escaped arrest. Greenwood was arrested in 2018, as was Konstantin Ignatov in March 2019. In November 2019, Ignatov pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering and fraud. The total maximum sentence for the charges is 90 years in prison. In 2022 Greenwood pleaded guilty, and in 2023 was sentenced to 20 years for wire fraud and money laundering.
Concept
OneCoin was launched in late 2014. It was not a decentralized cryptocurrency but rather a centralized pyramid scheme hosted on OneCoin Ltd's servers which was marketed as a cryptocurrency. The scheme was set up by Ruja Ignatova with Sebastian Greenwood acting as the lead distributor in the pyramid.
According to OneCoin, its main business was selling educational material for cryptocurrency trading: investors could buy "educational packages" costing anywhere from 100 euros to 118,000 euros, or—according to one industry blog—225,500 euros. According to a suit filed by former investors, much of the content in those packages was plagiarized from various free sources, including Wikipedia. Investors also received "tokens" that could be assigned to mine OneCoins. Mining was said to be taking place at two sites in Bulgaria and one in Hong Kong.
In typical OneCoin recruiting meetings, recruiters would focus on cryptocurrency investment, and the "educational material" was barely mentioned.
The only way to exchange OneCoins for other currencies was the OneCoin Exchange ("xcoinx"), an internal marketplace for members who had invested more than a set amount. OneCoins could be exchanged for euros, which were placed in a "virtual wallet", from which they could request a wire transfer. The marketplace |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogy%20Society%20of%20Norway | The Genealogy Society of Norway (, formerly DIS-Norge and DIS-Norge, Slekt og Data) was established on January 12, 1990 and is Norway's largest genealogical organization.
The organization's purpose is to create on-line and local meetings for anyone interested in genealogy and personal history, to spread knowledge about the topic, and to encourage genealogy in Norway. The society stimulates professional development, conservation, documentation, and dissemination of genealogical and personal stories, and it strives to develop digital platforms for the exchange of knowledge and methods. Knowledge of genealogical and personal stories and their preservation is an important part of protecting intangible cultural heritage. The society's acronym DIS stands for Data i slektsforskning 'data in genealogy'.
Tone Eli Moseid was elected the director of the society at its congress in 2014. The organization has over 10,000 members and is a member of the Norwegian Federation of Cultural Heritage Organisations (Norges kulturvernforbund), the Association of NGOs in Norway (Frivillighet Norge), and the Study Association for Culture and Tradition (Studieforbundet kultur og tradisjon).
History
The Swedish Genealogy Society (Föreningen DIS) was established on April 1, 1980 and was the inspiration for establishing the Genealogy Society of Norway on January 12, 1990. From early on, computing and data communication were important in the association's work. Now work with genealogy has generally taken over, and the data aspect is most important for developing tools.
Former directors
The director of the society is elected at its congress for a two-year term. Former directors include Wilhelm Færden (1990–1993), Sjur Madsen (1994–1995), Bjørn Nilsen (1996–1997), Jan Solberg (1998–1999), Jan Eri (2000–2003), Finn Karlsen (2004–2005), and Torill Johnsen (2006–2013).
Governing board
The society's governing board consists of the director, four board members, and three deputies. The general secretary takes part in board meetings. At the 2014 congress, the composition of the governing board was: Tone Eli Moseid (director), Morten Thorvaldsen (deputy director), Per-Ove Uthaug (business director), Heidi Sitara Fjeldvig (board member), Jonny Lyngstad (board member), Laila Normann Christiansen (board member), Trond Gangnes (board member), Tonebritt Alfsdottir Mathisen (deputy), Tore Stustad (deputy), Ketil Figenschou (deputy), and Anne Schiøtz (general secretary).
Internet
The society operates several internet services for genealogists: Slektsforum (Genealogy forum), Slektsforskerbasen (Genealogy research base), Gravminner i Norge (Gravestones in Norway), DIStreff (DIS connections), and DISchat (DIS chat).
The society's volunteers have carried out extensive work testing genealogy software. Currently, programs are being tested to ensure quality import and export of GEDCOM files.
Newsletter
The society publishes a newsletter for its members called Slekt og Data (Genealogy and Dat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Schr%C3%B6der | Peter Schröder is an American computer scientist and a professor of computer science at California Institute of Technology. Schröder is known for his contributions to discrete differential geometry and digital geometry processing. He is also a world expert in the area of wavelet based methods for computer graphics. In 2015, Schröder was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for "contributions to computer graphics and geometry processing.".
Biography
Schröder received an M.S. from MIT's Media Lab in 1990, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Princeton University in 1994 under the supervision of Pat Hanrahan. In 1995, he joined the faculty of Caltech. He did his undergraduate work at the Technical University of Berlin in computer science and pure mathematics.
Awards
Schröder is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, a Sloan Fellowship, a Packard Fellowship, and in 2015 was elected as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. He is also the recipient of the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award in 2003.
References
Living people
American computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subgraph%20%28operating%20system%29 | Subgraph OS was a Debian-based project designed to be resistant to surveillance and interference by sophisticated adversaries over the Internet. It has been mentioned by Edward Snowden as showing future potential.
Subgraph OS was designed to be locked down, with a reduced attack surface, to increase the difficulty to carry out certain classes of attack against it. This was accomplished through system hardening and a proactive, ongoing focus on security and attack resistance. Subgraph OS also placed emphasis on ensuring the integrity of installed software packages through deterministic compilation.
The last update of the project's blog was in September 2017, and all of its github repositories haven't seen any recent activity as of 2021.
Features
Some of Subgraph OS's notable features included:
Linux kernel hardened with the grsecurity and PaX patchset.
Linux namespaces and xpra for application containment.
Mandatory file system encryption during installation using LUKS.
Configurable firewall rules to automatically ensure that network connections for installed applications are made using the Tor anonymity network. Default settings ensure that each application's communication is transmitted via an independent circuit on the network.
GNOME Shell integration for the OZ virtualization client, which runs apps inside a secure Linux container, targeting ease-of-use by everyday users.
Security
The security of Subgraph OS (which uses sandbox containers) has been questioned in comparison to Qubes (which uses virtualization), another security focused operating system. An attacker can trick a Subgraph user to run a malicious unsandboxed script via the OS's default Nautilus file manager or in the terminal. It is also possible to run malicious code containing .desktop files (which are used to launch applications). Malware can also bypass Subgraph OS's application firewall. Also, by design, Subgraph does not isolate the network stack like Qubes OS.
See also
Tails (operating system)
Qubes OS
References
External links
Debian-based distributions
Operating system security
Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20Keyboard%20%28Mac%29 | The Magic Keyboard is a family of wireless computer keyboards manufactured by Foxconn under contract for Apple Inc. The keyboards are bundled with the iMac and Mac Pro, and also sold as standalone accessories. They replaced the Apple Wireless Keyboard product line. Each Magic Keyboard model combination has a compact or full-size key layout for a specific region, a function key or Touch ID sensor next to F12, and color scheme variant.
Apple also refers to the internal keyboards in MacBooks released after November 2019 as the Magic Keyboard, which uses an identical scissor-mechanism with slightly shallower keys.
Features
First generation
The original Magic Keyboard design was available in two models:
(A1644) Magic Keyboard, first available in October 2015
(A1843) Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad, first available in June 2017
This keyboard's design was similar to its predecessor, but had a lower profile. Apple re-engineered the scissor mechanism to increase key stability by 33 percent and reduce key travel. Typeface on the keys was also changed, from VAG Rounded to San Francisco (SF Compact).
It had a sealed non-replaceable rechargeable Lithium-ion battery which is charged via a Lightning port on the rear of the keyboard. The rechargeable battery lasted one month between charges. It used an ST Microelectronics STM32F103VB 72 MHz 32-bit RISC ARM Cortex-M3 processor and included the Broadcom BCM20733 Enhanced Data Rate Bluetooth 3.0 Single-Chip Solution.
It was compatible with Macs running OS X El Capitan and later, iPhones and iPads running iOS 9 or later, and TVs running Apple TV Software 7.0 or tvOS 10 or later.
Release
The Magic Keyboard (A1644) was released alongside the Magic Mouse 2 and the Magic Trackpad 2 in October 2015.
On June 5, 2017, Apple released the Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad (A1843) to replace the wired Apple Keyboard which was discontinued that day. It was longer, and had an extended key layout with a numeric keypad and a different arrow key arrangement. At the same time, the Magic Keyboard without the numeric keypad (A1644) received a minor visual update with new Control and Option key symbols.
A space gray Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad with black keys was bundled with the iMac Pro and later made available for standalone purchase.
A version in a silver finish with black keys was bundled with the 2019 Mac Pro, though never available as standalone purchase.
Second generation
An updated Magic Keyboard design introduced in 2021 includes aluminum casing on the bottom side, asymmetric corner keys, eject key assigned to Sleep, fn key assigned to Input Source, and F4-F6 function keys reassigned to Spotlight, Dictation/Siri, and Do Not Disturb. Using this new design, two additional model options also include Touch ID sensors in place of the eject key. This update also discontinued the space gray Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad. The updated keyboard models include:
A2449 Magic Keyboard with Touch ID: 79 ke |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BART%20superfamily | The Bile/Arsenite/Riboflavin Transporter (BART) superfamily is a superfamily of ubiquitous transport proteins. As of early 2016, the superfamily contains seven established families. Functional data for members of all of these families are available. The seven families are in the Transporter Classification Database with the following TC numbers, names and abbreviations include:
TC# 2.A.10 - The 2-Keto-3-Deoxygluconate Transporter (KdgT) Family
TC# 2.A.28 - The Bile Acid:Na+ Symporter (BASS) Family
TC# 2.A.59 - The Arsenical Resistance-3 (ACR3) Family
TC# 2.A.69 - The Auxin Efflux Carrier (AEC) Family
TC# 2.A.87 - The Prokaryotic Riboflavin Transporter (P-RFT) Family
TC# 9.B.33 - The Sensor Histidine Kinase (SHK) Family
TC# 9.B.34 - The Kinase/Phosphatase/Cyclic-GMP Synthase/Cyclic di-GMP Hydrolase (KPSH) Family
The first identified substrates for the transporters within the first 5 families are indicated by the names of the families, but all of these families transport a variety of other substrates. The majority of the protein members of the first four of these families exhibit a probable 10 transmembrane spanner (TMS) topology that arose from a tandemly duplicated 5 TMS unit. The N- and C-termini are believed to be in the cytoplasm of bacterial cells, and the same may be true of most other members as well. Members of the RFT family have a 5 TMS topology, and are homologous to each of the two repeat units in the 10 TMS proteins. The other two families [sensor histidine kinase (SHK) and kinase/phosphatase/synthetase/hydrolase (KPSH)] have a single 5 TMS unit preceded by an N-terminal TMS and followed by a hydrophilic sensor histidine kinase domain (the SHK family) or catalytic domains resembling sensor kinase, phosphatase, cyclic di-guanylate (GMP) synthetase and cyclic di-GMP hydrolase catalytic domains, as well as various non-catalytic domains (the KPSH family). Because functional data are not available for the transmembrane domains of members of the SHK and KPSH families, it is not known if these transporter-like domains retain transport activity or have evolved exclusive functions in molecular reception and signal transmission. They could serve merely to anchor the catalytic domains to the membrane. Please refer to TCDB for more details.
References
Solute carrier family
Protein superfamilies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S19%20%28ZVV%29 | The S19 is a regional railway line of the S-Bahn Zürich on the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV), Zürich transportation network.
Route
The core of the route operates from to , operating via Zürich Hauptbahnhof and the Weinberg tunnel. At peak periods, trains are extended hourly from Dietikon to Koblenz, and half-hourly from Effretikon to . The following stations are served:
Koblenz
Zürich Hauptbahnhof
Scheduling
Between Dietikon and Effretikon, trains run every 30 minutes throughout the day. During the morning and evening peaks, a number of trains operate to and from Koblenz and Pfäffikon ZH. The journey time of the routes core between Dietikon and Effretikon is just over 30 minute. A through journey between Koblenz and Pfäffikon ZH takes around 80 minutes, although only a handful of trains per day permit such a journey.
Rolling stock
services are operated by Re 450 class or two (head and tail) modified Re 420 (LION) locomotives pushing or pulling double-deck passenger carriages.
History
The route was introduced in the timetable revision of late 2015.
See also
Rail transport in Switzerland
Trams in Zürich
References
External links
ZVV official website: Routes & zones
Zürich S-Bahn lines
Canton of Zürich
Aargau
Transport in the canton of Zürich |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20TBS%20Television%20%28Japan%29 | The following is a list of television programs broadcast by TBS Television. Programs are listed in each section in chronological order.
Current programming
Anime
Ajin: Demi-Human (2016–)
Kids
The Angry Beavers (1997–)
RoboRoach (2002–)
Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto! (2002–)
Christopher Crocodile (1992–)
Dramas
Kazoku no Katachi (2016–)
Game shows
Honoo-no Taiiku-kai TV (2011–)
Other
All-Star Thanksgiving (1991–)
Count Down TV (1993–)
Future programming
Kamiwaza Wanda (2016–)
Kono Bijutsubu ni wa Mondai ga Aru! (2016–)
Girlish Number
IndyCar Series
Former programming
Anime
Otogi Manga Calendar (1962–1964)
8 Man (1963–1964)
Big X (1964–1965)
Obake no Q-tarō (1965–1967)
Kaibutsu-kun (1968–1969)
Kick no Oni (1970–1971)
Marvelous Melmo (1971–1972)
Dokonjō Gaeru (1972–1974)
Kōya no Shōnen Isamu (1973–1974)
Chargeman Ken! (1974)
First Human Giatrus (1974–1976)
Hoshi no Ko Chobin (1974)
Kum-Kum (1975–1976)
UFO Warrior Dai Apolon (1976–1977)
The Ultraman (1979–1980)
Wonder Beat Scramble (1986)
Lady Lady!! (1987–1988)
The Laughing Salesman (1989–1992)
Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibōken (1991–1992)
Tonde Burin (1994–1995)
Yamato Takeru (1994)
Mama Loves the Poyopoyo-Saurus (1995–1996)
B't X (1996)
You're Under Arrest (1996–1997)
Anime Ganbare Goemon (1997–1998)
B't X Neo (1997)
Yoiko (1998–1999)
Blue Gender (1999–2000)
Di Gi Charat (1999)
Iketeru Futari (1999)
Monster Rancher (1999–2001)
Pet Shop of Horrors (1999)
Power Stone (1999)
You're Under Arrest (1999)
Di Gi Charat - Christmas Special (2000)
Di Gi Charat - Summer Special 2000 (2000)
Miami Guns (2000)
Di Gi Charat - Natsuyasumi Special (2001)
Di Gi Charat - Ohamami Special (2001)
Di Gi Charat - Tsuyu Special (2001)
Go! Go! Itsutsugo Land (2001–2002)
Rave Master (2001–2002)
You're Under Arrest (2001)
Chobits (2002)
GetBackers (2002–2003)
Heat Guy J (2002–2003)
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (2002–2003)
Detective School Q (2003–2004)
Fullmetal Alchemist (2003–2004)
Melody of Oblivion (2004)
This Ugly Yet Beautiful World (2004)
Zipang (2004)
Ah! My Goddess (2005–2006)
Black Cat (2005–2006)
Blood+ (2005–2006)
009-1 (2006)
Ah! My Goddess: Flights of Fancy (2006)
Binchō-tan (2006)
Winter Garden (2006)
Kanon (2006–2007)
Living for the Day After Tomorrow (2006)
Rec (2006)
Darker than Black (2007)
Love Com (2007)
Oh! Edo Rocket (2007)
Ōkiku Furikabutte (2007)
Princess Resurrection (2007)
Romeo × Juliet (2007)
Venus Versus Virus (2007)
You're Under Arrest: Full Throttle (2007–2008)
Itazura na Kiss (2008)
To Love-Ru (2008)
Darker than Black: Gemini of the Meteor (2009)
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (2009–2010)
K-On! (2009)
Kämpfer (2009)
Pandora Hearts (2009)
Umi Monogatari (2009)
Amagami SS (2010)
And Yet the Town Moves (2010)
K-On!! (2010)
Maid Sama! (2010)
Ōkami Kakushi (2010)
Ōkiku Furikabutte ~Natsu no Taikai-hen~ (2010)
A Channel (2011)
Dororon Enma-kun Meeramera (2011)
Dream Eater Merry (2011)
Haganai (2011)
The Idolmaster (2011)
Infinite Stratos (2011)
Kämpfer für die Liebe (2011)
Mobile Suit Gundam AGE (2011–20 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9600%20port | The '9600 port' (also named data-jack or data-port) is an industry-specific name given to a special connector on the back of amateur radio HF, VHF, and UHF transceivers. It is used for connecting a packet radio modem or any other type of data-modem which uses audio tones to convey data.
This port is capable of transmitting and receiving data at speeds of at least 9600 bits per second, but usually faster. This is achieved by bypassing the highpass, lowpass, preemphasis, and deemphasis filters normally contained in the microphone and speaker circuits of an FM transmitter and receiver.
Amateur radio data ports which are not "9600 capable" are typically limited to a max speed of 1200 to 3000 bits per second.
Commonly this 9600-capable data port uses a 6-pin mini-DIN connector (shown to the right).
This is the same physical connector-type as PS/2 port mice and keyboards.
Modem Manufacturers
There are a number of manufacturers making modems intended for this 9600 port / data port.
Kantronics
Tigertronics
Argent Data
Byonics
Coastal ChipWorks
MFJ Enterprises
Symek
Timewave Technologies
Masters Communications
Radio Manufacturers
There are a number of manufacturers making radios which include a 9600 capable data port as a feature:
Alinco
Icom Incorporated
Yaesu
Kenwood
Software Modems
The 9600 port can also be connected to computer's soundcard for use with a number of different software-based data modems:
Direwolf
MixW
AGW Packet Engine
Soundmodem
UZ7HO Soundmodem
Digital Voice
The 9600 port can be used to connect a digital voice adapter, or dongle, which allows analog amateur radios to transmit and receive ICOM's D-Star digital voice protocol (AMBE2020).
Digital Voice Dongle
Star*DV / Star*Board
DVRPTR_V1 D-Star boards
PAPA GMSK Boards
DUTCH*Star
Users of this technology
This 9600 port is used to communicate with some amateur radio satellites using the packet radio
A 9600-baud capable amateur radio and modem are installed aboard the International Space Station as part of the ARISS project.
References
Digital amateur radio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOL%20with%20The%20N | LOL with The N is a series of four stand-up comedy specials that aired on Noggin's teen programming block, The N. The miniseries aired from May 30, 2003 to June 20, 2003. Stand-up comedian Mike Birbiglia was the host of all four segments. Each special features two aspiring teen comedians who get the chance to perform alongside professional stand-up comics. Behind-the-scenes footage, showing all of the comedians preparing their routines, is played after the acts.
The specials compared professional and first-time comics to illustrate how talents can grow over time. Kenny Miller, the vice president of Noggin, explained that "at the beginning of your career and after 10 years, you're at a different stage, and we wanted to represent all of that." The production team aimed to make the specials relatable to all teenage viewers, not just those pursuing a career in comedy. The director, Adam Idleson, commented that "there is sort of a psychic link between being a teenager and being a stand-up comic. It feels like you're out there on the stage alone against the world, and you're dealing with it with humor."
History
Production on the series began in January 2003, with filming taking place at the Gotham Comedy Club in New York City. The new performers were recruited from a training program in Manhattan called Kids 'N Comedy. Visitors were allowed to attend the taping sessions, which started on January5. The series premiered in May 2003 as part of a programming event called "Summer in The N." Each special was shown on a Friday at 7:00 PM.
Episodes
References
External links
Official site (archive)
2003 American television series debuts
2003 American television series endings
2000s American stand-up comedy television series
2000s American teen television series
English-language television shows
The N original programming
Television series about teenagers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giver%20%28TV%20series%29 | Giver is a Canadian children's television series, which premiered on TVOntario's TVOKids programming block in 2012. Hosted by Michael Lagimodiere, each episode enlists a team of local children to assist in creating, designing and building a new or renovated public park in an Ontario community in collaboration with professional designers and contractors.
To celebrate Canada's 150th birthday Giver 150 was slated to release on July 1, 2017. Giver 150 set to build the largest playground in the country, to be located in Ottawa at Mooney Bay. Over 400 volunteers ranging from kids to adults from all over the country helped build the playground. The 50,000 square foot playground is shaped like Canada and has different play space representing each of the country’s provinces and territories.
The series is a three-time Canadian Screen Award nominee for Children's or Youth Non-Fiction Program, at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards in 2013, the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015 and the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016. The show won a Daytime Emmy Award at the 45th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards for "Outstanding Education or Informational Series".
Episodes
Awards and nominations
References
External links
2010s Canadian reality television series
Canadian children's reality television series
Canadian children's education television series
TVO original programming
2010s Canadian children's television series
2012 Canadian television series debuts
2017 Canadian television series endings
Television series about children |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshio%20Shimamoto | Yoshio Shimamoto was a nuclear physicist who also did work in mathematics and computer science.
While at Brookhaven National Laboratory (1954-1987), he designed the logic for the MERLIN digital computer in 1958,
and served as chairman of the Applied Mathematics Department from 1964 to 1975.
Shimamoto researched in combinatorial mathematics, the economics of outer continental shelf oil and gas lease sales (on behalf of the U.S. Geological Survey), the architecture of supercomputers, and the linking of computers for parallel processing.
During the 1970s, he worked with Heinrich Heesch and Karl Durre on methods for a computer-aided proof of the four color theorem, using computer programs to apply Heesch's notion of "discharging" to eliminate 4-colorable cases.
A proof of the Four Color Theorem, which he presented in 1971, was later shown to be flawed, but it served as the basis for further work.
Born in Hawaii in 1924, Shimamoto served with the U.S. Army Signal Corps and Strategic Bombing Survey in Japan, during World War II. He died in New Jersey on August 27, 2009.
References
2009 deaths
American mathematicians
Nuclear physicists
Brookhaven National Laboratory staff |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samarendra%20Kumar%20Mitra | Samarendra Kumar Mitra (14 March 1916 – 26 September 1998) was an Indian scientist and mathematician. He designed, developed and constructed, in 1953-54, India's first computer (an electronic analog computer) at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta (presently Kolkata). He began his career as a research physicist at the Palit Laboratory of Physics, Rajabazar Science College (University of Calcutta). In 1950, he joined the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta, an Institute of National importance, where he worked in various capacities such as professor, research professor and director.
Mitra was the founder and first head of the Computing Machines and Electronics Division at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta.
In 1953-54, India's first indigenous electronic analogue computer for solving linear equations with 10 variables and related problems was designed and developed by Samarendra Kumar Mitra and was built under his direct personal supervision and guidance by Ashish Kumar Maity in the Computing Machines and Electronics Laboratory at the (ISI), Calcutta. This computer was used in computation of numerical solutions of simultaneous linear equations using a modified version of Gauss–Seidel iteration.
Subsequently, in 1963, the ISI, Calcutta began design and development of the first second-generation indigenous digital computer of India in joint collaboration with Jadavpur University (JU), Calcutta.
This collaboration was primarily led by Mitra, as he was the Head of the Computing Machines and Electronics Laboratory, ISI. He designed, developed, and constructed a general purpose High Speed Electronic Digital Computer, namely called the ISIJU computer (Indian Statistical Institute – Jadavpur University Computer). Under the leadership of Mitra, the first second-generation indigenous digital computer of India was produced, namely the transistor-driven machine ISIJU-1, which became operational in 1964.
The Computer and Communication Sciences Division of Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) was started under Samarendra Kumar Mitra and has produced many eminent scientists. The first annual convention of the Computer Society of India (CSI) was hosted by ISI in 1965. Mitra was a self-taught scholar with wide-ranging interests in varied fields such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, poultry science, Sanskrit language, philosophy, religion and literature.
Biography
Samarendra Kumar Mitra known as “the father of Indian computer revolution" was born on 14 March 1916, in Calcutta, the eldest of two children. He was the only son and had a younger sister. His father was Sir Rupendra Coomar Mitter and his mother was Lady Sudhahasinee Mitter. His father, Sir Rupendra Coomar Mitter, was an MSc in mathematics, gold medalist and also a gold medalist in Law from the University of Calcutta and was an advocate by profession who practiced in the Calcutta High Court from 1913 to 1934. In 1934, Sir Rupendra Coomar Mitter was appo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarawak%20Railway%20Line | The Sarawak Railway Line is a proposed project by the Malaysian government to establishing a railway network in the state of Sarawak. In 2008, it was reported the project will be ready in 2015 but still no signs of development by the government until present.
History
Together with its neighbour of Sabah, Sarawak once had a small railway line, about 10 miles (16 km) long serving the region of Kuching, providing cargo and passenger services. It was opened in August 1915 and was ordered closed in 1931 due to financial losses, amidst the Great Depression. In the following years it was used occasionally to haul stone from the quarry at the 10th mile of the line, and during World War II it was taken over by the Japanese.
The line was finally closed in 1947; the tracks were sold for scrap in Singapore in 1959. During operation, the passenger coaches were acquired from Burma while the goods wagons were bought second-hand from FMSR. To date, Sarawak, as Malaysia's largest state by area, has no rail transport. In the modern days, the Malaysian government is planning to revive the Sarawak railway system back beside upgrading the rail network in Sabah.
Expansion proposal and connection of Borneo railway systems
Once if the project is complete, there is also a proposal to connecting the rail networks of Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysia with the provinces of Kalimantan in Indonesia that will be called as "Trans-Borneo Railway", as Indonesia were currently developing the railway network on their side.
See also
Kuching LRT
References
Proposed rail infrastructure in Malaysia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana%20Jue | Diana Jue-Rajasingh (born Diana Jue) is an American female activist who is promoting life-improving technologies in South India. She has established the Essmart network in association with Jackie Stenson, whom she met while at MIT, to disseminate technology innovations which are largely unknown in the rural areas of India and China. Through this network of community initiatives she and her friend created distribution channels. In 2015, Forbes named Jue-Rajasingh as "one of Forbes' 30 under 30." In 2016, Jue-Rajasingh entered the Strategy doctoral program at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.
Biography
Jue-Rajasingh initial years were spent in Los Angeles. She did her under graduation and graduation studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a master's degree in Urban Studies and Planning with specific thesis research work in rural South India. This was done before she worked for Essmart.
After her college studies she toured South Asia and China. This made her realise that most people of rural areas with low income did not use any innovative technologies in their daily life. She and her friend Jackie Stenson who had made a similar tour of Sub-Saharan Africa same to the same conclusion that social-impact technology should be made available to the rural poor. This prompted them to establish, in 2012, the "Essmart Global, ‘a world distribution company for a catalogue of life-improving goods"
Initially shop-owners in South India were skeptical about the products Jue-Rajasingh and her partner wanted to market through their outlets. They convinced them by arguing that no Chinese manufacturer had approached them to sell their product. Essmart now operates from Bangalore and in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka village shops sell Essmart's products in India, which were unknown to the rural people. Some of the products marketed by Essmart art are solar lantern, water filters, rechargeable batteries, cooking stove to minimize smoke, and use of fuel.
Her articles have been featured on blogs of USAID's Frontiers in Development, MIT Entrepreneurship Review, and Stanford Social Innovation Review.
Awards
Jue-Rajasingh is recipient of many awards notable of which are the Fulbright-Nehru Research Fellowship and several awards by MIT to promote her research and Essmart. In 2014 she was awarded the Cartier Women's Initiative for the Asia-Pacific region.
References
Bibliography
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Ross School of Business alumni
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBS%20TV | JOOY-DTV, virtual channel 4 (UHF digital channel 16), branded as (formerly until 23 July 2011), is the Kansai region key station of the Japan News Network, owned by Mainichi Broadcasting System, Inc.
Overview
MBS is a core station of the Japan News Network (JNN), with TBS TV as its key station. MBS is a member of the "Five Company Federation" (comprising it, TBS, HBC, CBC and RKB) and is also a major shareholder of TBS Holdings. It distributes G-Guide EPG data, and used to distribute analog G-Guide program data to Tokushima Prefecture, where the only commercial TV station is affiliated to NNN/NNS.
During the 16 years and one month from the start of TV broadcasting until the network affair was resolved, it was a key station of NET (now TV Asahi) and was subsequently affiliated to the All-Nippon News Network (ANN) upon its opening. At the same time, Tokyo Channel 12 (currently TV Tokyo) was also connected to the station.
With the complete transition to digital terrestrial broadcasting on July 24, 2011 , the notation of newspapers and TV information magazines on the same date changed from "Mainichi TV" (or "Mainichi") , which has been used since the start of television broadcasting), to "MBS TV" (or "MBS"). In the terrestrial digital TV G-Guide , it is written as "MBS Mainichi Broadcasting". Until July 23, 2011 , the general name was Mainichi Broadcasting Television , and when it was simply called MBS, in the analog era, it was written as Mainichi TV in the radio and television columns of newspapers.
On April 1, 2017, the trade name was changed to "MBS Media Holdings", and both TV and radio broadcasting businesses were taken over by "(New) Mainichi Broadcasting". After that, on April 1, 2021, "MBS Radio Co., Ltd.", which was newly established as a wholly-owned subsidiary of MBS Media Holdings, took over the radio broadcasting license and business that Mainichi Broadcasting had held, and moved exclusively to television (JOOR-DTV changed to JOOY-DTV).
Among the broadcasting stations in Osaka, the company, Asahi Broadcasting Television, and Kansai Television are three companies that opened earlier than their respective key stations in Tokyo (TBS Television, TV Asahi, Fuji Television). This is because these three companies and the three key stations had nothing to do with each other at the time of their establishment. However, despite being the oldest station in Japan to start radio broadcasting, it was the fourth station in Osaka to start TV broadcasting. It was almost the same time as Asahi (Nippon Educational Television (NET TV) at that time), but it was one month behind. On the other hand, Yomiuri TV and TV Osaka were established with the intention of their respective key stations, so they opened later than the key stations.
It has a strong connection with RKB Mainichi Broadcasting, co-produced and co-sold radio programs, and on television, even during the pre-1975 affair era, Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting (KBC) sold in-house programs that were |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBS%20Radio%20%28Japan%29 | is an AM radio station based in Osaka, Japan. It is wholly owned by Mainichi Broadcasting System, Inc.
It is a member station of Japan Radio Network (JRN) and National Radio Network (NRN).
History
See Mainichi Broadcasting System#History of MBS.
Availability
JOOR
Frequency: 1210 kHz → 1180 kHz → 1179 kHz; 90.6 MHz FM
Power
Osaka: 50 kW
Kyoto: 300 W
Broadcasting hours: from 4:30 on Mondays until 26:30 on Sundays (with daily starting at 4:00 from Tuesday until Sunday)
Time signal: 1046.502 Hz (C6, on the hour every hour)
See also
MBS TV
References
History of MBS Radio
External links
Kansai region
Radio in Japan
Radio stations established in 1951
1951 establishments in Japan
Mainichi Broadcasting System |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apps.gov | Apps.gov was a cloud storefront run by the U.S. General Services Administration to assist federal agencies in purchasing cloud computing services from the marketplace. The website was initially launched in 2009 under the direction of former Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, but was first closed down in 2012 in order to "streamline" procurement and amid reports of low usage. The service was relaunched at the 2016 SXSW festival by a team of Presidential Innovation Fellows following President Obama's keynote address on using technology to improve government. The site has not been available since early 2019, though no official shutdown was ever announced.
History
Apps.gov was initially launched in September 2009 by the Obama administration as part of a larger effort to change the way the federal government used and procured technology. It was pushed by the first U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, who also worked on releasing Data.gov to make government data available to the public and the Federal IT Dashboard to judge the worthiness of technology programs. The idea behind Apps.gov was to encourage and make it easier for federal agencies to adopt cloud software that could increase cost-effectiveness and IT infrastructure sustainability.
In fiscal year 2011, the GSA reported that the platform offered more than 3,000 cloud-based products and services and that the site received roughly 3,800 visits per month. The report also stated that agencies had purchased over $5 million in products from the platform.
Despite this, the program faced criticism for not serving a clear purpose, since there were already websites available for purchasing less expensive cloud products and larger deals required additional layers of approval that could not be handled in a simple web app. Certain acquisition regulations meant that buying a product through Apps.gov was not possible. According to those who relaunched the program in 2016, the old website had a number of problems, such as an inconsistent process of approving and accrediting products, an overlapping mission with other acquisition programs and a closed platform. The platform was closed on December 1, 2012, with a statement from the GSA saying it was part of "an effort to provide streamlined customer service."
Apps.gov was relaunched at the 2016 South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, following a keynote address by President Obama about the importance of technology in good government. The reboot was carried out by the Presidential Innovation Fellows, a program that seeks to bring technologists and entrepreneurs into the government. According to those working on the project, the new site will be significantly better than the previous version. It will increase transparency in the acquisitions process, will be fully open-source, will be built with agile development allowing faster improvements and will take advantage of the proliferation of Software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers.
Refe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDM%20%28Internet%20service%20provider%29 | IncoNet-Data Management S.A.L. (IDM) is a Lebanese Internet Service Provider (ISP) and is one of the first ISPs to acquire a license in Lebanon. The company was born in 2001, following the merging of two of the country’s leading internet providers: Data Management and Inconet, amid the local and worldwide recession. IDM is also a sister company of Cyberia.
History
Established in 1995.
Services
ADSL
3G
Dial-up Regular and 56k
Broadband Corporate (Leased Line and Microwave)
I-Fly: WiMAX Technology
IDM MOBI
IDM Wireless Box
Wi-Fi HotSpots
Web Development and Programming
Security Solutions for Corporate and End-users
Corporate SMS
E-marketing
See also
Cyberia
Alfa Telecom
Touch
References
Internet service providers of Lebanon
Telecommunications companies established in 1995
1995 establishments in Lebanon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NhaB%20family | The NhaB family (TC# 2.A.34) belongs to the ion transporter (IT) superfamily. A representative list of proteins belonging to the NhaB family can be found in the Transporter Classification Database.
NhaB homologues are usually about 500 aminoacyl residues (aas) in length and possess about 12 transmembrane alpha-helical spanners (TMSs), although some members differ in their number of TMSs. NhaB homologues also exhibit a region with limited sequence similarity to a 46 kDa membrane protein of unknown function from Mycobacterium leprae (spP46838) which is also homologous to a member of arsenate resistance pumps of bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes (TC# 3.A.4). Only gram-negative bacterial proteins have been functionally characterized.
The E. coli NhaB is 58% identical to the orthologous Vibrio alginolyticus Na+/H+ antiporter. Although the latter protein is predicted to exhibit 10 TMSs, construction of NhaB-phoA fusions led to evidence for a 9 TMS model with the N-terminus in the cytoplasm and the C-terminus in the periplasm. A centrally located aspartyl residue in the 3rd TMS is conserved in all members of the family and important for activity.
The generalized transport reaction catalyzed by NhaB of E. coli is:2 Na+ (in) + 3 H+ (out) ⇌ 2 Na+ (out) + 3 H+ (in).
See also
Sodium–hydrogen antiporter
Antiporter
Transporter Classification Database
References
Protein families
Membrane proteins
Transmembrane proteins
Transmembrane transporters
Transport proteins
Integral membrane proteins |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NhaC%20family | The NhaC family (TC# 2.A.35) belongs to the Ion Transporter (IT) Superfamily. A representative list of proteins belonging to the NhaC family can be found in the Transporter Classification Database.
Two members of the NhaC family have been functionally characterized. One is believed to be a Na+:H+ antiporter; the other is a malate·H+:lactate·Na+ antiporter. Several paralogues are found in Vibrio cholerae, and two paralogues are found encoded in the completely sequenced genomes of bothHaemophilus influenzae and Bacillus subtilis. E. coli lacks such a homologue. Pyrococcus species also have at least one homologue each. Thus, members of the NhaC family are found in both Gram-negative bacteria and Gram-positive bacteria as well as archaea. NhaC of B. firmus is 462 amino acyl residues long and possesses 12 putative transmembrane α-helical segments. MleN of B. subtilis (468 aas; TC# 2.A.35.1.2) also exhibits 12 putative TMSs.
The transport reaction catalyzed by NhaC is probably:Na+ (in) + nH+ (out) ⇌ Na+ (out) + nH+ (in). (n > 1)That catalyzed by MleN is probably:Malate (out) + H+ (out) + Lactate (in) + Na+ (in) ⇌ Malate (in) + H+ (in) + Lactate (out) + Na+ (out)
See also
Sodium-Proton antiporter
Antiporter
Transporter Classification Database
Further reading
Ivey, D. M.; Guffanti, A. A.; Bossewitch, J. S.; Padan, E.; Krulwich, T. A. (1991-12-05). "Molecular cloning and sequencing of a gene from alkaliphilic Bacillus firmus OF4 that functionally complements an Escherichia coli strain carrying a deletion in the nhaA Na+/H+ antiporter gene". The Journal of Biological Chemistry 266 (34): 23483–23489. ISSN 0021-9258. PMID 1660475.
Liew, Chong Wai; Illias, Rosli Md; Mahadi, Nor Muhammad; Najimudin, Nazalan (2007-11-01)."Expression of the Na+/H+ antiporter gene (g1-nhaC) of alkaliphilic Bacillus sp. G1 in Escherichia coli". FEMS Microbiology Letters 276 (1): 114–122. doi:10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00925.x. ISSN 0378-1097. PMID 17937670.
Panina, Ekaterina M.; Vitreschak, Alexey G.; Mironov, Andrey A.; Gelfand, Mikhail S. (2003-05-28)."Regulation of biosynthesis and transport of aromatic amino acids in low-GC Gram-positive bacteria". FEMS Microbiology Letters 222 (2): 211–220. ISSN 0378-1097.PMID 12770710.
Ravcheev, Dmitry A.; Best, Aaron A.; Tintle, Nathan; Dejongh, Matthew; Osterman, Andrei L.; Novichkov, Pavel S.; Rodionov, Dmitry A. (2011-07-01)."Inference of the transcriptional regulatory network in Staphylococcus aureus by integration of experimental and genomics-based evidence". Journal of Bacteriology 193(13): 3228–3240. doi:10.1128/JB.00350-11. ISSN 1098-5530. PMC 3133287. PMID 21531804.
Rodionov, Dmitry A.; Hebbeln, Peter; Eudes, Aymerick; ter Beek, Josy; Rodionova, Irina A.; Erkens, Guus B.; Slotboom, Dirk J.; Gelfand, Mikhail S.; Osterman, Andrei L. (2009-01-01). "A novel class of modular transporters for vitamins in prokaryotes". Journal of Bacteriology 191 (1): 42–51. doi:10.1128/JB.01208-08.ISSN 1098-5530. PMC 2612444. PMID 18931129.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NhaD%20family | The NhaD family (TC# 2.A.62) belongs to the Ion Transporter (IT) Superfamily. A representative list of proteins belonging to the NhaD family can be found in the Transporter Classification Database.
The NhaD Na+/H+ antiporter has been characterized from two Vibrio species: V. parahaemolyticus and V. cholerae and in the haloalkaliphile, Alkalimonas amylolytica. These proteins and their homologues are 400-500 aas long and exhibit 10-13 TMSs. They catalyze Na+/H+ and Li+/H+ antiport. They exhibit activity at basic pH (8-10) with no activity at pH 7.5. The Amylolytica antiporter has low Na+ affinity and has optimal activity at 600 mM Na+. Homologues are found in Pseudomonadota of all groups, Flavobacteriia, and Chlamydia. Distant homologues of the IT superfamily are ubiquitous.
The generalized reaction catalyzed by NhaD is:nH+ (in) + mNa+ (out) ⇌ nH+ (out) + mNa+ (in).
See also
Sodium-Proton antiporter
Antiporter
Transporter Classification Database
Further reading
Barrero-Gil, Javier; Rodríguez-Navarro, Alonso; Benito, Begoña (2007-01-01). "Cloning of the PpNHAD1 transporter of Physcomitrella patens, a chloroplast transporter highly conserved in photosynthetic eukaryotic organisms". Journal of Experimental Botany 58(11): 2839–2849. doi:10.1093/jxb/erm094. ISSN 0022-0957. PMID 17617660.
Kurz, Matthias; Brünig, Anika N. S.; Galinski, Erwin A. (2006-01-01). "NhaD type sodium/proton-antiporter of Halomonas elongata: a salt stress response mechanism in marine habitats?". Saline Systems 2: 10.doi:10.1186/1746-1448-2-10. ISSN 1746-1448.PMC 1552076. PMID 16872527.
Liu, Jun; Xue, Yanfen; Wang, Quanhui; Wei, Yi; Swartz, Talia H.; Hicks, David B.; Ito, Masahiro; Ma, Yanhe; Krulwich, Terry A. (2005-11-01). "The activity profile of the NhaD-type Na+(Li+)/H+ antiporter from the soda Lake Haloalkaliphile Alkalimonas amylolytica is adaptive for the extreme environment". Journal of Bacteriology 187 (22): 7589–7595.doi:10.1128/JB.187.22.7589-7595.2005. ISSN 0021-9193.
Melo, Ana M. P.; Felix, Nuno A. M.; Carita, João N.; Saraiva, Lígia M.; Teixeira, Miguel (2006-09-29)."The Na+/H+ antiporter of the thermohalophilic bacterium Rhodothermus marinus". Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 348 (3): 1011–1017.doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.07.134. ISSN 0006-291X.PMID 16904646.
Zhong, Nai-Qin; Han, Li-Bo; Wu, Xiao-Min; Wang, Li-Li; Wang, Fang; Ma, Yan-He; Xia, Gui-Xian (2012-06-01). "Ectopic expression of a bacterium NhaD-type Na+/H+ antiporter leads to increased tolerance to combined salt/alkali stresses". Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 54 (6): 412–421. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7909.2012.01129.x. ISSN 1744-7909. PMID 22583823.
References
Protein families
Membrane proteins
Transmembrane proteins
Transmembrane transporters
Transport proteins
Integral membrane proteins |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20RK%20Zamet%20players | Below is a list of notable and famous handballers who have played for RK Zamet. Due to incomplete data some positions aren't written.
Hall of Fame
This section is for players who started their career in Zamet and won at least a bronze medal with the national team. Based on the list from RK Zamet. The hall of fame was unveiled to the public September 30, 2015.
The hall of fame is located in the hall of Centar Zamet.
Players listed
Alvaro Načinović
Valter Matošević
Mirza Džomba
Nikola Blažičko
Renato Sulić
Mateo Hrvatin
Notable players
To appear in this section a player must have satisfied all of the following three criteria:
(1) player has have played at least 4 years (players listed with fewer where they made great contribution during seasons in which they played);
(2) player has to have had an impact in season if not met criteria (1) (domestic and European);
(3) player has played at least one international match for their national team while under contract with Zamet.;
Stanko Jerger (1957-1963)
Andrija Barin (1957-1964)
Albert Lenac (1957-1962)
Vilim Blažić (1957-1962)
Ivan Munitić (1959-1963, 1964-1966)
Mladenko Mišković (1963-1972)
Simeon Kosanović (1964-1969)
Željko Kosanović (1965-1969)
Ratomir Jajaš (1970-1975)
Marijan Seđak (1968-1971, 1973-1979)
Darko Srdoč (1972-1979)
Ivica Rimanić (1972-1974, 1977-1980)
Željko Tomac (1973-1983)
Željko Milanović (1974-1984)
Željko Gašperov (1974-1982)
Valter Marković (1975-1988)
Darko Drobina (1976-1981)
Williams Černeka (1976-1985)
Jurica Lakić (1976-1981)
Predrag Sikimić (1977-1985)
Damir Čavlović (1977-1980, 1981-1985)
Roberto Sošić (1979-1981)
Valter Periša (1979-1988)
Boris Komucki (1979-1981, 1983-1985)
Darko Dunato (1979-1989, 1991-1992)
Boris Dragičević (1980-1990, 1992-1993)
Ante Vuletić (1980-1988)
Dragan Straga (1980-1981, 1982-1988)
Drago Žiljak (1981-1991)
Marin Mišković (1982-1992, 1995-1998)
Alvaro Načinović (1983-1991, 1992-1993, 1998-1999)
Vlado Vukoje (1983-1984)
Dean Ožbolt (1985-2000)
Darko Franović (1985-1993, 1997-1999)
Tonči Peribonio (1986-1991)
Valter Matošević (1987-1993, 1996-1999, 2009–2010)
Mladen Prskalo (1987-1992, 1996-2000, 2005–2006)
Valner Franković (1987-1993)
Igor Pejić (1988-1997, 2003)
Damir Bogdanović (1988-1997, 1998-1999 2002-2006)
Marin Miculinić (1988-1999, 2002)
Igor Dokmanović (1990-1996, 2007-2008)
Siniša Eraković (1990-1997)
Sanjin Lučičanin (1992-1997)
Danijel Riđić (1992-2000)
Mirza Džomba (1993-1997)
Nikola Blažičko (1994-1999, 2002-2004)
Milan Uzelac (1995-1996, 1997-2001, 2002–2017)
Robert Savković (1995-1999, 2002-2003, 2006–2007, 2009-2010)
Tino Černjul (1995-1998, 2002-2005)
Igor Saršon (1995-2005, 2012)
Renato Sulić (1995-1999, 2000-2001)
Bojan Pezelj (1995-2002)
Mario Jozak (1995-2001)
Irfan Smajlagić (1996-1997)
Ivan Vukas (1997-2001)
Silvio Ivandija (1997-1999)
Vladimir Šujster (1998-1999)
Borna Franić (1999-2002)
Edin Bašić (1999-2001)
Ivan Stevanović (1999-2007, 20 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20page%20949%20%28IBM%29 | IBM code page 949 (IBM-949) is a character encoding which has been used by IBM to represent Korean language text on computers. It is a variable-width encoding which represents the characters from the Wansung code defined by the South Korean standard KS X 1001 in a format compatible with EUC-KR, but adds IBM extensions for additional hanja, additional precomposed Hangul syllables, and user-defined characters.
Giving values in hexadecimal, bytes 0x00 through 0x7F are used for single byte KS X 1003 (ISO 646:KR) characters, a similar set to ASCII but with a won sign rather than a backslash. Bytes 0x80 through 0x84 are used for IBM single byte extension characters. Lead bytes 0x8F through 0xA0 are used for IBM double byte extension characters. Lead bytes 0xA1 through 0xFE are used for Wansung code (KS X 1001 characters in EUC-KR form, double byte), but with some unused space opened up for user-defined use.
Although both are sometimes named "cp949", IBM-949 is different from Windows code page 949 (IBM-1363), which is Microsoft's Unified Hangul Code, a different extension of EUC-KR. It should also not be confused with IBM's implementation of plain EUC-KR (IBM-970). Code page 949 in OS/2 is the IBM code page; however, a third-party patch exists to change this.
Terminology and encoding labelling
Both IBM-949 and Unified Hangul Code (Windows-949) are known as "code page 949" (or "cp949") although they share only the EUC-KR subset in common. Neither has a standardised IANA-registered label to identify it. Although UHC is included in the WHATWG Encoding Standard, with labels including "windows-949", IBM-949 is not. IBM-949 therefore is not permitted in HTML5.
Although the meaning of the label "ibm-949" (and conversely "windows-949" and "ms949") is unambiguous where these labels are supported, the interpretation of the encoding labels "949" and "cp949" consequently varies between implementations. For example, International Components for Unicode uses "cp949", "949", "ibm-949" and "x-IBM949" to refer to IBM-949, and additionally the labels "cp949c", "ibm-949c" and "x-IBM949C" to refer to an variant which uses unmodified ASCII mappings for 0x20–7E (resulting in duplicate mappings for the backslash), while (of the labels incorporating the code page number 949) only "ms949" and "windows-949" are assigned to UHC. This is in contrast to Python, which recognises both "cp949" and "949" (in addition to the more explicit "ms949" and "uhc", but not "windows-949") as labels for UHC, and does not include an IBM-949 codec. The code page 949 used by Korean language versions of OS/2 is the IBM code page; to add support for the entire Unicode set of Korean syllables, a third-party patch exists to replace it with the Microsoft code page.
IBM-949 is a variable width encoding defined as the combination of two fixed-width code pages, the single-byte Code page 1088 and the double-byte Code page 951.
History
A version of Code page 951 (a DBCS-PC, i.e. double-byte non-EUC no |
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