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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Regehr | John Regehr is a computer scientist specializing in compiler correctness and undefined behavior. , he is a professor at the University of Utah. He is best known for the integer overflow sanitizer which was merged into the Clang C compiler, the C compiler fuzzer Csmith, and his widely read blog Embedded in Academia. He spent the 2015-2016 academic year on sabbatical in Paris, France, working with TrustInSoft on Frama-C and related code analysis tools.
References
External links
John Regehr's home page
John Regehr on Mastodon
Living people
American computer scientists
University of Utah faculty
Science bloggers
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Virginia alumni
Kansas State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinkoism | Dinkoism (), the Dinkoist religion, or Dinkamatham is a parody religion and social movement that emerged and evolved on social networks organized by independent welfare groups in the Indian state of Kerala. Adherents describe Dinkoism as a genuine religion.
History
According to a report in India Today, Dinkoism was established in 2008 in Kerala by a group of rationalists with the intention of ridiculing "the absurdity of blind religious faith". The community planned to become politically active. A report in The New Indian Express said Dinkoism is gaining members through Facebook. The BBC described Dinkoism in 2016 as an atheist movement with significant growth on social media.
Description
The religion purports to worship Dinkan, a comic book character. Dinkoists celebrate the character—a superhero mouse that appeared in 1983 in defunct Malayalam-language children's magazine Balamangalam—as their God for the purpose of exposing superstitions and fallacies and practices of traditional religions.
Events and protests
The concept of Dinkoism has spread through the social media but the movement has organised protest events. On January 30, 2016, a group of Dinkoists, under the banner of Mooshikasena (Rat Army) held a mock protest in front of Dhe Puttu restaurant owned by popular actor Dileep alleging his upcoming film Professor Dinkan hurt their religious sentiments, mocking similar protests happening worldwide.
Earlier Dinkoism was in news when an expatriate Dinkoist living in California obtained a license plate with the inscription DINKAN for his car, out of his devotion for Dinkan. In 2016, J. Devika wrote an article about the concept of Dinkoism and the logic of the market.
Conferences
Dinkoists of Kozhikode organised a conference at the Sports Council Hall, Mananchira on March 20, 2016. They organised a variety of entertainments with a theme of tapioca. E. A. Jabbar, a prominent rationalist, endorsed Dinkoism.
In April 2016, 25,000 Dinkoists were expected to gather for a convention called a "Dinkamatha Maha Sammelanam" to "present their rights as a minority community". Dinkoists have received threatening messages as well as opposition from believers of other religions.
See also
Church of the SubGenius
Discordianism
Dudeism
Evolution as fact and theory
Existence of God
Fideism
Flying Spaghetti Monster
Intelligent falling
Invisible Pink Unicorn
Mighty Mouse
Out Campaign
Parody religion
Reductio ad absurdum
Religious satire
Theological noncognitivism
References
External links
Agnosticism
Atheism
Freethought
Humour
Criticism of religion
Nontheism
Internet memes introduced in the 2000s
Religious parodies and satires
Indian religions
New religious movements
Religion in Kerala |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%20Blum | Dorothy Toplitzky Blum (February 21, 1924 – October 1980) was an American computer scientist and cryptanalyst. She worked for the National Security Agency and its predecessors from 1944 until her death in 1980.
Early life
Dorothy Toplitzky was born in 1924 in New York City to Austro-Hungarian immigrant parents.
Career
After graduating from Brooklyn College in 1944, she joined the cryptologic unit of the U.S. Army. This unit focused on cryptanalysis, the study of analyzing information systems to gain access to hidden aspects of systems, in this case, the Axis powers' encrypted messages. After World War II, she worked for the United States Armed Forces Security Agency and later the National Security Agency (NSA).
During her time at the NSA in the 1950s, Blum was tasked with "keep[ing] abreast of the latest advances in the field of computing" and recommended computer technologies that could be adapted for cryptanalysis and communications intelligence. This included her use of the FORTRAN programing language beginning three years before its public release in 1957. She wrote computer software for the NSA and spearheaded the effort to teach NSA employees to write cryptanalytic programs.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Blum continued to work in the field of computer science, helping to design the NSA's computer systems and automate processes. In 1972, she became the chief of the NSA Computer Operations Organization (C7), the only woman at the time in the organization's management hierarchy. She was appointed chief of Plans and Project Development Organization (T4) in the Telecommunications and Computer Services Organization in 1977. She was also involved in the Women in NSA (WIN) group.
Legacy
Blum died from cancer in October 1980, aged 56. An internal award at the NSA - the Dorothy T Blum Award for excellence in employee personal and professional development - was named after her. In 2004, she was inducted into the NSA Hall of Honor. An official NSA biography states that, in her 36-year career, Blum "significantly changed the way NSA did cryptanalysis." She was also elected one of the top 100 "most outstanding women in the federal government."
Personal life
In 1950, she married NSA mathematician Joseph Blum, and they later had a son, David Blum.
References
1924 births
1980 deaths
Scientists from New York City
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
National Security Agency people
American people of Austrian descent
American people of Hungarian descent
Brooklyn College alumni
20th-century American scientists
20th-century American women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbus | Orbus may refer to:
Orbus (novel), 2009, by Neal Asher
Orbus, a French radio network
Orbus-21S, the Intelsat 603 satellite's 1990/1992 upper-stage rockets
Orbus, a bus operator in the Otago region, New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slib | Slib or SLIB may refer to:
Slib, a 2009 Czech novel, written by Jiří Kratochvil, also known by the English title The Promise
SLIB, a computer software, a library for the programming language Scheme, written by Aubrey Jaffer
Super League International Board, the defunct rugby league football governing body now replaced by the International Rugby League |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noopur%20Tiwari | Noopur Tiwari is an Indian journalist, feminist, founder of a non-profit, blockchain led tech platform against sexual violence, Smashboard. She has reported live for NDTV on a broad range of key political, economic and social stories from Europe since 2004. Tiwari writes for the Hindustan Times, Business Standard, The Caravan, TheWire.in, and Scroll.in. She is the co-curator of a feminist Twitter handle called Genderlogindia. Tiwari worked as a producer with NDTV from 1996 to 2003.
Noopur Tiwari launched the social network Smashboard in 2019, with the aim of uniting a global community of feminists (regardless of their gender) with mutual aid, solidarity and feminism intersectional as essential bases. The idea of the platform dates to 2016. The #MeToo movement subsequently gave an added impetus to the development of the project.
In 2021 Smashboard won the Netexplo Innovation Grand Prize (global innovation observatory) in partnership with UNESCO.
Career
As Europe correspondent and Resident Editor with NDTV, Tiwari reported major events and stories from all over the continent since 2004. She reported extensively on tax evasion and money laundering with exclusive interviews of major whistleblowers in the world of finance. She also contributed episodes on the Burqa Debate in Europe, Sikhs in France, Indian Soldiers in WW1 for NDTV's India Matters. Her breaking news report on the French aircraft carrier Clemenceau (2004) was followed by an extensive coverage of the story in Indian media and the aircraft carrier had to eventually return after India's Supreme court ruling. In her interviews with LTTE cadre (2006), Anton Balasingham expressed regret for Rajiv Gandhi's killing which was the closest the militant outfit came to admitting their responsibility for the murder. Tiwari has covered several major elections in Europe and Indo-French bilateral visits. Tiwari also reported on the COP21 Paris summit, the Greek referendum, Papal Conclaves, Indo-French civil nuclear deal, Italy-India diplomatic row over marines, India and Pakistan at the International court of justice, the Mittal Arcelor take over. She won the ENBA 2016 award, Best International coverage for the Paris terror attacks.
Television series
Noopur Tiwari launched, produced and directed the satire show Gustakhi Maaf, Great India Tamasha: for NDTV in 2004 developed with French marionette makers Alain Duverne and Laurent Huet. Tiwari was the co-scriptwriter of this adaptation of the BBC series Yes Prime Minister; co-production NDTV-BBC for STAR TV as "Ji Mantriji". Tiwari produced episodes on politicians and artists such as MF Husain, Former Indian PM VP Singh, politician Laloo Prasad Yadav for Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai: A show on the life of celebrities on Zee TV.
In her reports on culture and lifestyle Tiwari has interviewed actors such as Leonardo Di Caprio and Meryl Streep. She has also anchored & produced lifestyle shows for "NDTV Good Times" on Wine and Art :
Wine Country Citizen: a show |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb%20%28village%29 | Bomb is an Indian village in Dera Baba Nanak, Gurdaspur district, Punjab, India.
Census 2011 data
Villages in Gurdaspur district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CobolScript | CobolScript is a programming language created by Matthew Dean and Charles Schereda of Deskware in 1999. The language was intended to provide web-enabled COBOL, and was targeted at businesses using legacy software written in that language.
References
COBOL
Programming languages created in 1999 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talitha%20Kum | Talitha Kum (or the International Network of Consecrated Life Against Trafficking in Persons) is an organization of Catholic nuns established by the International Union of Superiors General (UISG) in 2009. The group works to end human-trafficking and is based in Rome. The name comes from the expression found in the Gospel of Mark and is Aramaic, meaning, "Maiden, I say to you, arise." The organization is considered a Catholic charity, and operates as a network with many different groups. The former coordinator of Talitha Kum is Sister Estrella Castalone, and Sister Gabriella Bottani is the current head of the organization. John Studzinski chairs the group.
History
The International Union of Superiors General (UISG) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) started developing a program between 2004 and 2008, which created regional networks against trafficking in nine countries around the world. The idea to create a group which became Talitha Kum started in 2007 when Catholic women leaders discovered that rates of human trafficking were increasing. Talitha Kum was formally created in 2009 and brought the network of individual groups together. In 2013, Talitha Kum had counter-trafficking missions in 75 countries and involved over 600 nuns. By 2015, there were about 1,100 women working in 80 countries.
Sister Gabriella Bottani became the new coordinator of Talitha Kum in January 2015.
Activity
Talitha Kum uses the Palermo Protocol of 2000 "for the protection, prevention and prosecution" of people being trafficked. Shelters, safe houses, counseling and legal assistance are available to victims through Talitha Kum. Members of Talitha Kum train local people to be aware of signs of human trafficking.
The sisters involved in Talitha Kum have been reported to disguise themselves as prostitutes in order to infiltrate brothels and rescue women. During the Brazilian World Cup in 2014, the group organized a campaign called "Play for Life, Report Trafficking," which was meant to raise awareness of human trafficking and how to report possible incidents.
Other services include training women in vocational skills and providing "assistance for micro-industries."
References
External links
Official site
Talitha Kum (video)
Christian organizations established in 2009
Catholic charities
International women's organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITW%20David%20Speer%20Academy | ITW David Speer Academy (colloquially, Speer Academy) is a public four-year charter high school in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. It is a part of the Noble Network of Charter Schools. It is named after David B. Speer, the former Chairman of Illinois Tool Works (ITW). The school opened in 2014.
External links
ITW David Speer School History and Campus Overview
Debate
2014 establishments in Illinois
Noble Network of Charter Schools
Educational institutions established in 2014
Public high schools in Chicago |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble%20Academy%20%28Chicago%29 | The Noble Academy is a public charter high school located in the Near North Side neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is a collaboration between the Noble Network of Charter Schools and Phillips Exeter Academy of New Hampshire. The Noble Academy is a Level 1+ school, based on Chicago Public School rankings.
Student Body
The Noble Academy has 442 students enrolled for the 2018–2019 school year and is one of the most diverse Chicago Public Schools in the city, attracting students from 47 different zip codes and over 100 elementary schools. 51.8% of the students identify as Hispanic, 41.9% of students identify as Black, 2.9% identify as Asian, 1.6% as White, and 1.8% identify as another race.
Student Programming
Athletics
The Noble Academy is a part of the Noble Athletic League and has 11 varsity sports. This includes cross country, soccer, football, cheer leading, volleyball, baseball, and softball.
References
External links
Noble Network of Charter Schools
Educational institutions established in 2006
Noble Network of Charter Schools
Public high schools in Chicago
2006 establishments in Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20Recovery%20Network | Food Recovery Network (FRN) is a student movement aimed to fight waste and feed people. It was established in 2010 by Evan Ponchick, Ben Simon, Mia Zavalij, and Cam Pascual, who were students at the University of Maryland, College Park. They noticed the amount of dining hall food being thrown away at the end of the night. They ended up diverting 30,000 meals to various agencies in the Washington, D.C. area by the end of the school year.
Background
In 1996, the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act was enacted to promote food donation in the United States. The law provides liability protection to food donors who have not acted with negligence or intentional misconduct. FRN is able to operate based on the Bill Emerson Act and has built a successful model for food recovery. Founder Cam Pascual reveals that FRN combines the following three problems to create a solution for food waste and hunger: 1) About 22 million pounds of edible food from college campuses are sent to landfills every year. 2) In the United States, one of every six Americans do not know when their next meal is coming. 3) Students in college are in need of service work.
Since FRN was founded, it has expended to 198 chapters in 44 states who have recovered over 1.6 million pounds of food.
References
External links
Food Recovery Network - official site
Food banks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Mexico%20Airplay%20number%20ones | Mexico Airplay is a weekly record chart published by Billboard magazine since 2011 for singles receiving airplay in Mexico. According to Billboards electronic database, the first chart was published on January 17, 2009. In 2011, "Give Me Everything" by Cuban-American rapper Pitbull featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack and Nayer, reached number one. The track also peaked at the top of the American Billboard Hot 100. The same year, American performers Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera also peaked at number one in Mexico and in the United States with "Moves like Jagger". In 2012, Mexican band Jesse & Joy peaked at number one on this chart and the Mexican Espanol Airplay with the song "¡Corre!" that also won the Latin Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year in 2012.
Two songs performed by Barbadian singer Rihanna reached number-one, "We Found Love" and "Where Have You Been", the former also was a number-one song in the Billboard Hot 100 and its music video won the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year, while the latter was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance. "Bailando" by Spanish singer-songwriter Enrique Iglesias reached number-one on the Mexico Airplay, Mexican Espanol Airplay, and the Billboard Latin Songs chart in the United States, where it spent 41 consecutive weeks at the top and won the Latin Grammy Award for Song of the Year. In 2015, "Lean On" by American electronic duo Major Lazer and DJ Snake featuring MØ peaked at number-one on the chart and was named by Spotify as the most streamed song of all time, with 526 million streams globally. By 2022, Colombian artist Maluma is the performer with the most number-one singles on the Mexico Airplay chart, with 16 chart toppers.
Number ones
Artist records
Most number-one singles
Most weeks at number-one
Notes
References
Billboard charts
Mexico Airplay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute%20kernel | In computing, a compute kernel is a routine compiled for high throughput accelerators (such as graphics processing units (GPUs), digital signal processors (DSPs) or field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs)), separate from but used by a main program (typically running on a central processing unit). They are sometimes called compute shaders, sharing execution units with vertex shaders and pixel shaders on GPUs, but are not limited to execution on one class of device, or graphics APIs.
Description
Compute kernels roughly correspond to inner loops when implementing algorithms in traditional languages (except there is no implied sequential operation), or to code passed to internal iterators.
They may be specified by a separate programming language such as "OpenCL C" (managed by the OpenCL API), as "compute shaders" written in a shading language (managed by a graphics API such as OpenGL), or embedded directly in application code written in a high level language, as in the case of C++AMP.
Vector processing
This programming paradigm maps well to vector processors: there is an assumption that each invocation of a kernel within a batch is independent, allowing for data parallel execution. However, atomic operations may sometimes be used for synchronization between elements (for interdependent work), in some scenarios. Individual invocations are given indices (in 1 or more dimensions) from which arbitrary addressing of buffer data may be performed (including scatter gather operations), so long as the non-overlapping assumption is respected.
Vulkan API
The Vulkan API provides the intermediate SPIR-V representation to describe both Graphical Shaders, and Compute Kernels, in a language independent and machine independent manner. The intention is to facilitate language evolution and provide a more natural ability to leverage GPU compute capabilities, in line with hardware developments such as Unified Memory Architecture and Heterogeneous System Architecture. This allows closer cooperation between a CPU and GPU.
See also
Kernel (image processing)
DirectCompute
CUDA
OpenMP
OpenCL
SPIR-V
SYCL
Metal (API)
GPGPU
Vector processor
Xeon Phi
Digital signal processor
Field-programmable gate array
AI accelerator
Vision processing unit
Manycore
Stream processing
Computer for operations with functions
References
GPGPU
Parallel computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magandang%20Buhay | Magandang Buhay () is a Philippine morning talk show that premiered on April 18, 2016, replacing Kris TV. Originally broadcast on ABS-CBN's main channel until the network's shutdown of terrestrial assets in 2020, it is currently broadcast first-run every weekday at 9:00 am (PST) on cable channel Kapamilya Channel and free-to-air channel A2Z, with next-day reruns at 7:00 am (PST) on free-to-air channel TV5 through blocktime arrangements.
Karla Estrada, Melai Cantiveros-Francisco and Jolina Magdangal-Escueta originally served as the main hosts until Estrada's departure in 2022 following her congressional bid; Estrada was replaced by Regine Velasquez-Alcasid since then. As of 2023, the program is currently the longest-running daily morning talk show on ABS-CBN and on Philippine television, surpassing the original run of Teysi ng Tahanan.
History
The title is inspired from a popular line of the same name from the drama series Dream Dad.
Magandang Buhay debuted on ABS-CBN every Monday to Friday at 07:30 (PST) on April 18, 2016, replacing Kris TV. on June 21, 2016, the show moved its time slot to 08:00 (PST) onwards.
On March 10, 2020, the show suspended it's live audience admission along with other in-studio programs of ABS-CBN following the declaration of a state of public health emergency in the country due to the COVID-19 outbreak that eventually evolved into a pandemic.
On March 26, 2020, Magandang Buhay was broadcast via Zoom due to the COVID-19 pandemic's enhanced community quarantine in Luzon. The show got suspended on May 5, 2020, after ABS-CBN ceased its free-to-air broadcast operations as ordered by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) and Solicitor General Jose Calida. on June 15, 2020, the show resumed its live studio broadcast during the launch of Kapamilya Channel. on October 19, 2020, the show's time slot moved to 10:30 (PST) following its simulcast on A2Z. A week later, October 26, the show's runtime reduced to 60 minutes, airing it at 11:00 (PST). on June 14, 2021, the show reverted its time slot to 09:00 (PST) onwards.
Karla Estrada temporarily left the show due to her commitment with Tingog Party List in the 2022 elections. Regine Velasquez and Judy Ann Santos each served as guest co-host during Estrada's absence. In a taped episode aired on July 22, 2022, Estrada returned for her final appearance on the show after 6 years. on August 8, 2022, Velasquez officially became a regular host in the talk show, along with a new version of the theme song as part of its 6th year anniversary activities.
TV5 simulcast
In a trade event on November 23, 2022, it was announced that Magandang Buhay will be part of 2023 programming for TV5. It premiered on TV5 on February 6, 2023, at 9:00 a.m. replacing the now-defunct Chika, Besh!. The program served as a pre-programming to morning newscast Frontline sa Umaga (later replaced by Gud Morning Kapatid). This will be the latest ABS-CBN-produced program to be simulcast to TV5.
On June |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot%20%28software%29 | Boot is a build automation and dependency management tool written primarily in the Clojure programming language.
Boot was originally written by Micha Niskin and Alan Dipert as part of the Hoplon web framework. As of May 2015, Boot is developed and released independently of Hoplon. Boot is implemented as an executable entry point and a set of Clojure libraries that can be used to develop build processes programmatically. The spirit of Boot's design is captured by its tag line, "Builds are programs. Let's start treating them that way."
Build tasks supported natively by Boot include compiling Java, creating .jar files, and creating servlets. As a Clojure program, Boot can be extended on a per-project basis using the Clojure language. Boot's primary means of extension are tasks, or functions that take and return Filesets. A Fileset is a managed, immutable representation of the filesystem and classpath that can be synchronized to disk at any point during the build. Like Leiningen, Boot supports resolving and publishing Maven dependencies using the Aether library.
Boot also supports:
In-process classloader isolation with pods
Shebang scripts
Boot is featured in Appendix B of the book "Clojure for the Brave and True".
References
External links
Build automation
Software using the Eclipse license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FINS | FINS may refer to:
Factory Interface Network Service, a network protocol.
Fire Island National Seashore, a United States National Seashore that protects a section of Fire Island, an approximately long barrier island separated from Long Island by the Great South Bay. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Coombs | Mary Clare Coombs ( Blood, 4 February 1929 – 28 February 2022) was a British computer programmer and schoolteacher. Employed in 1952 as the first female programmer to work on the LEO computers, she is recognised as the first female commercial programmer. The National Museum of Computing documents her contribution.
Early life and education
Mary Clare Blood was born in Muswell Hill, London as the eldest daughter of Ruth (née Petri) and William Blood. She attended Putney High School and St Paul's Girls' School and earned a BA Honours degree in French, with History, from Queen Mary University of London. Her father believed in women's education and her sister worked in microbiology and bacteriology. Unlike her sister, and unlike others in computing, she did not have a background in mathematics or science. After graduating, she moved to Surrey when her father became a medical officer for the catering company, J. Lyons and Co. He was clear that women should have their own careers and interests.
Career at J. Lyons and Co.
After gaining her degree, Coombs spent a year teaching English in Lausanne, Switzerland. Returning home in 1952, she began work at J. Lyons and Co. as a temporary clerical worker, a job she reluctantly accepted while searching for a better alternative. Coombs' mathematical skills soon allowed her to transfer from the Ice Cream Sales department to the Statistical Office, where she heard that the division working on LEO computers had been looking to hire additional programmers.
The selection process, devised by Thomas Raymond Thompson, was conducted as a "computer appreciation course", which consisted of a gruelling week of daytime lectures and evening written assignments designed to test the candidates' aptitude for computer work. Of the 10 who took part in the original selection process, she was the only woman. Coombs' performance in the computer appreciation course was excellent, and as a result, she was one of just two candidates to be offered a job in the computer division, along with Frank Land. According to Coombs, she was one of a handful of women to take the computer appreciation course, and she was the only one to be offered a job as a result.
Once Coombs began officially working with LEO in 1952, she was taught how to program by John Grover, one of the first LEO programmers. Initially, she was the only woman on the team and worked alongside Leo Fantl, John Grover, and Derek Hemy, using LEO to automatically calculate payroll for employees at J. Lyons and Co. The team later did payroll work for the Ford Motor Company using LEO. Coombs also worked on programs for early LEO customers such as the Met Office, the British Army and the Inland Revenue. Coombs is recognised as the first woman to work on a commercial computer.
Coombs continued to work for J. Lyons and Co as the LEO II and LEO III were built. She spent most of her time as a supervisor, checking for logical and syntactical errors in the programs that other people wro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission%20on%20Enhancing%20National%20Cybersecurity | The President's Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity is a Presidential Commission formed on April 13, 2016, to develop a plan for protecting cyberspace, and America's economic reliance on it. The commission released its final report in December 2016. The report made recommendations regarding the intertwining roles of the military, government administration and the private sector in providing cyber security. Chairman Donilon said of the report that its coverage "is unusual in the breadth of issues" with which it deals.
Recommendations
The report made sixteen major recommendations with fifty-three specific action items broadly grouped under six areas:
Protecting the information and digital infrastructure
Investing in the secure growth of information and digital infrastructure
Consumer information access
Building the cybersecurity workforce
Building a secure governmental cybersecurity framework
Keeping interconnectivity open, fair, competitive, and secure
The Commission found that strong authentication systems were mandatory for adequate cybersecurity, not just for the government, but for all commercial systems, and private individuals. The commission also stressed remote identity proofing and security for the Internet of things (IoT). Finding that technicians who know cybersecurity and can protect systems are few and in short supply, the commission recommended nationally supported training programs to produce an adequate workforce, as well as increasing the level of expertise in the existing workforce. The Commission highlighted the importance of partnerships between government and the private sector as a powerful tool for encouraging the technology, policies and practices we need to secure and grow the digital economy. (page 2)
Some criticised the commission's work as lacking an understanding of cybersecurity and not being cognizant of "cyber reality" and the cost of some of the action items, but others found the report constructive and meaningful.
Commission members
The initial members of the Commission are:
Tom Donilon, former Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor (Chair)
Sam Palmisano, former CEO of IBM (Vice Chair)
General Keith Alexander, CEO of IronNet Cybersecurity, former Director of the National Security Agency and former Commander of U.S. Cyber Command
Annie Antón, Professor and Chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech.
Ajay Banga, President and CEO of MasterCard
Steven Chabinsky, General Counsel and Chief Risk Officer of CrowdStrike
Patrick Gallagher, Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh and former Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Peter Lee, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research
Herbert Lin, Senior Research Scholar for Cyber Policy and Security at the Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Heather Murren, former member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cake%20Wars | Cake Wars is an American reality competition series that was first broadcast on June 29, 2015, aired on Food Network. Jonathan Bennett hosted the competition, where four bakers face off to have their cakes featured in a special event, in addition to a $10,000 prize. Star pastry chefs Waylynn Lucas, Ron Ben-Israel and Richard Ruskell judge which cakes are worthy of headlining parties for pop culture media such as The Simpsons, The Sound of Music, DC Comics, and more. The first and fifth seasons of the show ran for eight episodes and later seasons of the show ran for thirteen episodes. There was also an annual Christmas-themed spin-off of the show called Cake Wars: Christmas, which made its debut the same year as Cake Wars.
It was announced on December 2, 2015, that Cake Wars was renewed for a second season. The new season featured themes that included Star Wars, Dr. Seuss, and Willy Wonka cakes.
Premise
The show is almost identical to Cupcake Wars, except that the contestants design their creations out of regular cakes instead of cupcakes and there are two rounds instead of three. The first round is called "Batter Up," and the contestants are required to choose a certain number of ingredients that go with the episode's theme. One contestant is eliminated after the first round, and in the second round (called "Cake Off"), each of the teams is given two more assistants to help them make their biggest creations and improve any mistakes they may have made in the first round. Before the winner is announced, one person of the three remaining contestants is eliminated, and the winner is chosen from the two remaining contestants.
Theme
The show invites cake bakers from all over the United States to compete. Each episode is centered on the theme or event; past themes include a birthday party for baby hippo from the Los Angeles Zoo, a party for the forty-fifth anniversary of the classic film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and a film festival, etc.
Judges
Just like in Cupcake Wars, almost every episode of Cake Wars has three judges (some have four judges), two of whom are permanent judges. The guest judge(s) is usually someone who has something to do with the event for the episode, or at least someone who fits in with the theme of the episode. All the judges have the opportunity to constructively critique the cake competitors after each round of battle. The three permanent judges are:
Ron Ben-Israel: Owner of Ron Ben-Israel Cakes in New York City and the former host of Sweet Genius (Seasons 1–3).
Waylynn Lucas: With voice actress-turned-baker, Nancy Truman, Waylynn Lucas is the co-founder/co-operator of "Fonuts," a healthier spin on the traditional coffee-and-donut shop. In the "Sound of Music" episode, Amy Berman filled in for Waylynn.
Episode guide
Season 1 (2015)
2015 Christmas special
Season 2 (2016)
Season 3 (2016)
2016 Christmas special
Season 4 (2016-2017)
Cake Wars Champs (2017)
Contestants
Season 1 (2015)
2015 Christmas special |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodash | Lodash is a JavaScript library which provides utility functions for common programming tasks using the functional programming paradigm.
History
See also Underscore § History.
Lodash is a fork of Underscore.js.
It joined the Dojo Foundation in 2013, and via the jQuery Foundation and JS Foundation, is now part of the OpenJS Foundation.
Summary
Lodash is a JavaScript library that helps programmers write more concise and maintainable JavaScript.
It can be broken down into several main areas:
Utilities: for simplifying common programming tasks such as determining type as well as simplifying math operations.
Function: simplifying binding, decorating, constraining, throttling, debouncing, currying, and changing the pointer.
String: conversion functions for performing basic string operations, such as trimming, converting to uppercase, camel case, etc.
Array: creating, splitting, combining, modifying, and compressing
Collection: iterating, sorting, filtering, splitting, and building
Object: accessing, extending, merging, defaults, and transforming
Seq: chaining, wrapping, filtering, and testing.
It has had multiple releases, so not all functions are available in all implementations. For example, _.chunk has only been available since version 3.0.0.
See also
Underscore.js
Prototype.js
References
External links
Documentation
JavaScript libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI%20takeover%20in%20popular%20culture | AI takeover—the idea that some kind of artificial intelligence may supplant humankind as the dominant intelligent species on the planet—is a common theme in science fiction. Famous cultural touchstones include Terminator and The Matrix.
Fictional scenarios typically involve a drawn-out conflict against malicious artificial intelligence (AI) or robots with anthropomorphic motives. In contrast, some scholars believe that a takeover by a future advanced AI, if it were to happen in real life, would succeed or fail rapidly, and would be a disinterested byproduct of the AI's pursuit of its own alien goals, rather than a product of malice specifically targeting humans.
Characterization
There are many positive portrayals of AI in fiction, such as Isaac Asimov's Bicentennial Man and Lt. Commander Data from Star Trek. There are also many negative portrayals. Many of these negative portrayals (and a few of the positive portrayals) involve an AI seizing control from its creators.
Reactions
Some AI researchers, such as Yoshua Bengio, have complained that films such as Terminator "paint a picture which is really not coherent with the current understanding of how AI systems are built today and in the foreseeable future". BBC reporter Sam Shead has stated that "unfortunately, there have been numerous instances of [news outlets] using stills from the Terminator films in stories about relatively incremental breakthroughs" and that the films generate "misplaced fears of uncontrollable, all-powerful AI". In contrast, other scholars, such as physicist Stephen Hawking, have held that future AI could indeed pose an existential risk, but that the Terminator films are nonetheless implausible in two distinct ways. The first implausibility is that, according to Hawking, "The real risk with AI isn't malice but competence. A super intelligent AI will be extremely good at accomplishing its goals, and if those goals aren't aligned with ours, we're in trouble. You're probably not an evil ant-hater who steps on ants out of malice, but if you're in charge of a hydroelectric green energy project and there's an anthill in the region to be flooded, too bad for the ants." The second implausibility is that such a technologically advanced AI would deploy a brute-force attack by humanoid robots to commit its omnicide; a more plausible and efficient method would be to use germ warfare or, if feasible, nanotechnology.
Philosopher Huw Price defends that "The kind of imagination that is used in science fiction and other forms of literature and film is likely to be extremely important" in understanding the breadth of possible future scenarios for humanity. Film journalist Mekado Murphy writes in The New York Times that such films can constructively "warn of the complications of relying too much on technology to solve problems".
Hollywood films such as Transcendence are usually constrained to have happy endings, however implausible the human victory seems. Philosopher Nick Bostrom st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VoxWeb | VoxWeb is a special purpose messaging and social networking application developed around speaking pictures or "voxies". In addition to mainstream online communication usage, users can augment their photos by adding a voice caption of up to 11 seconds in lieu of a text caption. A voice-augmented photo or a is depicted as an image underlined by an orange line which speaks upon tapping the picture.
History
The application was designed by IIT Kanpur graduate Yash Mishra and was rolled out on iOS and Android operating systems. VoxWeb's iOS and Android apps along with the backend for the communication platform were developed using $100,000 of money put in by company promoters. The first capital infusion took place in November 2015 when a group of individual investors invested $350,000 in the company.
Users and celebs have used speaking pictures to capture moments as voice augmented photographs are able to capture both atmosphere of the picture and the emotions of the photographer. The trend was amplified in January 2016 when Quantico star Priyanka Chopra used a to thank her fans after winning the People's Choice Awards. Subsequently, many other celebrities, including Amitabh Bachchan and Sunny Leone followed the suit and took to the platform to send speaking messages.
Product
Speaking pictures, or s, allows users to add an 11-second voice clip to pictures, and share it through various social platforms. In order to play the speaking picture, a user is required to download the VoxWeb app. It also has a social media portal called Life, where any user can access or upload speaking pictures. This app is available on both Android and iOS platforms for free. In June 2016, it introduced a feature called "P-mode" that allows users to listen to a message privately.
References
Photo software
Image-sharing websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Go%20UEC%20Cup | The Computer Go UEC Cup is an annual worldwide computer Go tournament held at the University of Electro-Communications (UEC) in Tokyo, Japan since 2007. The winners of the tournament would then play exhibition games against a professional Go player.
The tournament was typically structured as a preliminary Swiss-system invitational to determine challengers (with the previous year's UEC winners excluded), then a knockout tournament of sixteen players to determine the champion.
UEC Cup was terminated after its 10th edition in 2017 and was succeeded by AI Ryusei, a new computer Go tournament sponsored by Japanese Igo & Shogi Channel. In 2019, the University of Electro-Communications hosted the renewed 11th UEC Cup with new sponsors.
History
UEC Cup winners and runners-up
Exhibition games against professional Go players
References
External links
2017 UEC Cup
Computer Go
International Go competitions
Go competitions in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Mattmann | Chris Mattmann (born October 29, 1980) is an American data scientist currently working as the Principal Data Scientist and Chief Technology and Innovation Officer in the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. He is also the manager of JPL's Open Source Applications office. Mattmann was formerly Chief Architect in the Instrument and Data Systems section at the laboratory.
Mattmann graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2007 with a PhD in Computer Science studying with Dr. Nenad Medvidović and he went on to invent Apache Tika with Jérôme Charron. Apache Tika is a widely used software framework for content detection and analysis. Mattmann later wrote a book about the framework titled Tika in Action with Jukka Zitting, which is published by Manning Publications.
Chris Mattmann's work on Tika and other projects was heavily influenced by open source both at NASA and within the academic community. After creating Tika, and helping to create other projects including Apache Nutch an open source web crawler and the predecessor to the big data platform Apache Hadoop, in May 2013 Mattmann joined the Board of Directors at the Apache Software Foundation where he served until March 2018 and held roles including Treasurer, Vice Chairman, and Vice President of the Legal Affairs Committee.
During this time, Chris worked to apply open source principles to data management problems inspired by his work at NASA in Earth and Planetary science, and in engineering. Mattmann maintained an affiliation with USC as an Adjunct Associate Professor and in order to continue to do research on open source and data management, he created the Information Retrieval and Data Science Group (IRDS). IRDS includes diverse students in the areas of data science, information retrieval and informatics and the group exists within USC's Viterbi School of Engineering. The focus of the group is on cross disciplinary data and content analysis work applied to the science, business, engineering and information technology (IT) domains.
At NASA, Mattmann's work has been applied to a number of space missions including Orbiting Carbon Observatory 1/2, NPP Sounder PEATE, and the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Earth science missions. Mattmann was also one of the principal developers of the Object Oriented Data Technology platform, an open source data management system framework originally developed by NASA JPL and then donated to the Apache Software Foundation.
More recently, Chris has been focused on Dark Web and automated data processing technologies and has been leading research teams working with DARPA and NASA JPL on the Memex project. This project involves data discovery and dissemination from the Dark Web.
References
Living people
1980 births
NASA people
USC Viterbi School of Engineering alumni
American scientists
21st-century American engineers
American computer programmers
Jet Propulsio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Tika | Apache Tika is a content detection and analysis framework, written in Java, stewarded at the Apache Software Foundation. It detects and extracts metadata and text from over a thousand different file types, and as well as providing a
Java library, has server and command-line editions suitable for use from other programming languages.
History
The project originated as part of the Apache Nutch codebase, to provide content identification and extraction when crawling. In 2007, it was separated out, to make it more extensible and usable by content management systems, other Web crawlers, and information retrieval systems. The standalone Tika was founded by Jérôme Charron, Chris Mattmann and Jukka Zitting. In 2011 Chris Mattmann and Jukka Zitting released the Manning book "Tika in Action", and the project released version 1.0.
Features
Tika provides capabilities for identification of more than 1400 file types from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority taxonomy of MIME types. For most of the more common and popular formats, Tika then provides content extraction, metadata extraction and language identification capabilities.
It can also get text from images by using the OCR software Tesseract.
While Tika is written in Java, it is widely used from other languages. The RESTful server and CLI Tool permit non-Java programs to access the Tika functionality.
Notable uses
Tika is used by financial institutions including the Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO), Goldman Sachs, NASA and academic researchers and by major content management systems including Drupal, and Alfresco (software) to analyze large amounts of content, and to make it available in common formats using information retrieval techniques.
On April 4, 2016 Forbes published an article identifying Tika as one of the key technologies used by more than 400 journalists to analyze 11.5 million leaked documents that expose an international scandal involving world leaders storing money in offshore shell corporations. The leaked documents and the project to analyze them is referred to as the Panama Papers.
See also
Magic number
References
Tika
Java platform
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Java (programming language) libraries
Software using the Apache license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ucom | Ucom is a mobile network operator and internet service provider
History
Ucom was founded in 2009. The goal of the company was to provide customers with access to innovative technological solutions in its field. Ucom was the first telecommunications company in Armenia to introduce the "fiber-optics to the home" solution, which provides high-quality television (IPTV), high-speed Internet connection and digital telephone services. Ucom provides its Internet services through its own fiber-optic channel connecting Armenia with Georgia. This allows the company to provide transit internet to the Middle East.
In 2013, the company received a license to provide public mobile internet services, and in 2015 acquired a 100% stake in Orange Armenia, thus entering the Armenian mobile market. Following this, the company launched the 4G+ network in Armenia, which acted as a supplement to the company's combined services, providing customers with the complete "4 in 1" package of IPTV, fixed and mobile phone services, and internet service.
In 2017, during the Customer Advisory Board meeting that took place in San Francisco at the initiative of Calix, Ucom and Calix announced the introduction of NG-PON2 (New Generation Passive Optical Network) technology in Armenia, which would enable Ucom to upgrade the bandwidth speed from 1 gigabit/sec in its fixed network to 10 gigabits/sec through this state-of-the-art infrastructure. With the construction of the NG-PON2 network, it was possible to provide higher quality services, speed, security and new services.
In April 2017, Ucom and FORA-BANK Joint-Stock Commercial Bank (part of Tashir Group) signed a partnership agreement for projects including the full range of telecommunications services, covering the entire territory of Armenia as well as its most remote regions. The implementation of the investment program defined by the agreement allowed expanding 4Play offers and 4G+ network in the country. Future plans include expansion of operations, especially in Russia, which would allow Ucom to become a leading pan-Armenian telecommunications operator.
Ucom has also been active in the field of corporate social responsibility, implementing a number of programs aimed at the development of children, particularly in the sphere of education. With the support of the company, computer engineering laboratories were opened in some Armenian schools, promoting the development of the ICT sector. The company also supports vulnerable groups in society by continuing to implement the "Let's Keep Children in Families" SMS charity project, which provides families with resources that allow parents to create a stable source of income and release their children from the care of state institutions. The company also implements the "Bringing Sight to Armenian Eyes" program, within the framework of which quality ophthalmological services are provided to the regional residents of Armenia free of charge.
Labour strike
On April 9, 2020, a publication |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AB%20Bank%20Zambia | AB Bank Zambia is a commercial bank in Zambia, licensed by the Bank of Zambia and by the national banking regulator. It is a member of AccessHolding, a banking group which operates a network of commercial banks and microfinance institutions in developing and transition countries with a target group focus on micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.
Main Location
The headquarters of AccessBank Zambia are located on Chainda Place, in Lusaka, the capital and largest city in the country. The coordinates of the bank's headquarters are: 15°25'23.0"S, 28°17'01.0"E (Latitude:-15.423053; Longitude:28.283612).
Overview
The bank began operations on 18 October 2011, following the issuance of a commercial banking license by the Bank of Zambia. The bank's shareholders are five international development institutions. The target clientele of the bank are Zambian micro, small and medium-sized businesses, who have been left out of the formal economy by the traditional commercial banks. The bank also targets low income earners in the country. The bank maintains a facility for small-scale farmers.
Shareholding
The shareholding in the stock of the bank, is as illustrated in the table below:
Note: Incofin is an international development fund that invests in microfinance institutions that serve under-served populations, especially those serving agricultural communities.
Branches
As of April 2016, the bank maintains branches at the following locations:
Cairo Road Branch - Chainda Place, Off Cairo Road, Lusaka Main Branch
Chilenje Branch - Chilenje Shopping Mall, Muraba Road, Chilenje, Lusaka
Matero Branch - B & J Building, Commonwealth Road, Matero, Lusaka
Kalingalinga Branch - Alick Nkhata Road, Kalingalinga
Chelston Branch - Chelston Bazzar Complex, Chelston
Garden Branch - Garden Township, Lusaka.
Kitwe Branch - Kitwe
See also
AccessHolding
List of banks in Zambia
References
ZamCash Review – Get Loan in 5mins
Banks of Zambia
Companies based in Lusaka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20Instagram | Below is a timeline of the social networking service Instagram.
Timeline
See also
Timeline of Pinterest
Timeline of Snapchat
Timeline of Twitter
Timeline of Facebook
Timeline of social media
References
Instagram
Instagram
Instagram |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20LinkedIn | This is a timeline of online work-focused networking service LinkedIn.
Big picture
Full timeline
See also
Timeline of social media
References
LinkedIn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insane%20Pools%3A%20Off%20the%20Deep%20End | Insane Pools: Off the Deep End is a home improvement show airing on Animal Planet and DIY Network that follows pool designer Lucas Congdon and his team from Lucas Lagoons. Congdon and his team renovate existing pools and build new ones on residential properties, primarily with the use of hand-selected stones from Tennessee
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2015)
Season 2 (2016)
Season 3 (2018)
References
External links
Insane Pools at Animal Planet
Lucas Lagoons
Animal Planet original programming
2015 American television series debuts
DIY Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle%20Metadata%20Registry | The Aristotle Metadata Registry is commercial Metadata Registry software based on the ISO/IEC 11179 standard for Metadata Registries. It is influenced by the AIHW METeOR Metadata Registry and the Canadian Institute of Health Information Indicator Bank. Aristotle-MDR is designed to describe data holdings databases and associated structural metadata. The Aristotle Metadata Registry was publicly launched at the 2015 IASSIST Conference in Toronto. In 2016, the founders of the Aristotle Metadata Registry were hired by Data61 (a division of CSIRO) to continue development of the platform.
Commercial support
Commercial support for the Aristotle Metadata Registry is provided by Aristotle Cloud Services Australia (ACSA), a Canberra-based Australian limited liability company. ACSA was founded by the core members of the Data61 Aristotle Metadata team in November 2017 to provide commercial support to government clients and provides a number security and enterprise features within the Aristotle Cloud product line. Aristotle Cloud Services Australia is a member of both the Data Documentation Initiative and member of the Canberra start-up hub Entry29. Aristotle Cloud Services Australia was one of the major sponsors of the 2019 IASSIST conference.
In 2021, Aristotle Cloud Services Australia was a national finalist in the 59th Australian Export & Investment Awards.
Current implementations
DSS Metadata Registry - A metadata registry for the Department of Social Services (Australia) capturing data about longitudinal social security information.
DSS Metadata Registry - A metadata registry for the Services Australia (Australia) capturing metadata about programs and schemes of department.
FACSIAR Metadata Registry - A metadata registry for the New South Wales Department of Family and Community Services capturing information about child welfare, homelessness and out-of-home care outcomes.
GRDC - A metadata registry for the Grain Research and Development Cooperation capturing information about the Australia's grains industry.
Health Service Executive - A metadata registry for the Health Service Executive capturing information about health system in Ireland.
Department of Education, Skills and Employment - A metadata registry for the Department of Education, Skills and Employment capturing information about education, skills and employment.
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations - A metadata registry for the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations capturing information about employment policies and workplace programs.
Beamtree - A metadata registry for the Beamtree capturing information about indicators related to health data.
Workplace Gender Equality Indicator Registry - A metadata registry for the Workplace Gender Equality Agency recording Gender Equality indicators for Australian employers.
Evolve SBR - Australian Government Standard Business Reporting Data Dictionary
Metadata Online registry for Cloud Applications - A metadata regi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMG%20Matric.%20Higher%20Sec.%20School%2C%20Othakkalmandapam | PMG Matric. Higher Secondary. School is a school in Othakalmandapm, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
Laboratories
Physics lab
Chemistry lab
Biology lab
Computer lab
Library
Robotics lab
Facilities
Smart Class with Interactive Board
Foundation Course to NEET, IIT - JEE, AIEEE
Olympiad Exams
National Cyber Olympiad (NCO)
National Science Olympiad (NSO)
International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO)
International English Olympiad (IEO)
References
External links
Official site
Primary schools in Tamil Nadu
High schools and secondary schools in Tamil Nadu
Schools in Coimbatore
Educational institutions established in 1987
1987 establishments in Tamil Nadu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20the%20Way%20to%20the%20Ocean | All the Way to the Ocean is a 2016 computer-animated short film based on the children's book of the same name by Joel Harper. The screenplay was written by Joel Harper, Pete Michels, and Doug Rowell. The film was directed by Doug Rowell and produced by Joel Harper. The film is narrated by American actress Marcia Cross and features the song With My Own Two Hands by Ben Harper (brother of) Joel Harper. This is an alternate version of the original song featuring Jack Johnson and is also featured on the Curious George film soundtrack Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for the Film Curious George. The lyrics focus on how changes in the world can come about when a single person decides to take action. The song's popularity in Europe was such that Ben Harper was awarded French Rolling Stone Magazine's "Artist of the Year" (Artiste De L'Année) in 2003. The film also features music by Joel Harper and Burning Spear with their collaboration on the song The Time is Now. The film stars voice-overs by actress and activist Amy Smart and Australian musician Xavier Rudd.
Plot
A story about two best friends, Isaac and James (voiced by Katie Leigh), and their discovery of the cause and effect relationship between our cities' storm drains and the world's oceans, lakes and rivers. In the story James throws a wrapper and plastic bottle in the gutter and doesn't believe that it will go all the way to the ocean. His friend Isaac warns James about the consequences of his littering. There begins the adventures of James and Isaac as they learn about the harmful effects of storm drain pollution, and in turn, spread the word to their friends and the rest of their school. Helping the kids along this journey are a concerned Crane (voiced by Xavier Rudd) from the coast line, a surprisingly insightful Surfer Dude and James' Mom (voiced by Amy Smart).
Awards
2022 Sylvia Earle OCEAN CONSERVATION AWARD - Inspiring the Future (My Hero in Partnership with One World One Ocean) https://myhero.com/winner-of-the-inspiring-the-future-2022-sylvia-earle-ocean-conservation-award-all-the-way-to-the-ocean
2017 Official Selection - Wild & Scenic Film Festival.
References
External links
2016 films
2016 computer-animated films
2010s American animated films
American animated short films
2010s buddy films
2016 short films
2010s children's animated films
2010s English-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Shenzhen | Shenzhen has an extensive transport network, including various forms of land, water and air transport.
Rail transport
National railway
Started with an intermediate station on the Kowloon–Canton Railway (Now Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway) in 1910, Shenzhen is served by China's national railway network, China Railway, where train services between Shenzhen and cities across the whole China run. The stations are currently handling high-speed trains to Guangzhou, Wuhan, Beijing, Hangzhou, Nanchang and intermediate stations on the Beijing-Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong HSR, Xiamen-Shenzhen Railway, and Ganzhou-Shenzhen section of Beijing-Hong Kong HSR routes.
There are 8 railway stations for passenger service in Shenzhen including:
Shenzhen railway station
Shenzhen railway station, located in Luohu District, connected to the Luohu Port to Hong Kong, is the most important train station in the city. Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway, which uses near high speed CRH trains for frequent passenger service, begins at this station. There are also a few long-distance trains departing from this station. Passengers can transfer to Shenzhen Metro Line 1 here.
Shenzhen North railway station
Shenzhen North railway station, located in Longhua District, is the main terminal for high-speed rail train service in Shenzhen. Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link and Xiamen-Shenzhen Railway both serve this station, offering frequent high-speed train service to other parts of China.
Passengers can transfer to Shenzhen Metro Line 4, Line 5 or Line 6 here.
Shenzhen East railway station
Shenzhen East railway station, formerly Buji Railway Station, located in Buji subdistrict of Longgang District, on Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway, is one of the major terminal for long-distance trains departing from Shenzhen.
Passengers can transfer to Shenzhen Metro Line 3 Line 5 or Line 14 here.
Shenzhen West railway station
Shenzhen West railway station, located in Nantou, Nanshan District, is one of the auxiliary train stations, with a few departures for long-haul trains.
Futian railway station
Futian railway station, located directly in the city centre, Futian District, is an en route station of Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link.
Passengers can transfer to Shenzhen Metro Line 2, Line 3 or Line 11 here.
Shenzhen Pingshan railway station
Shenzhen Pingshan railway station is an en route station of Xiamen-Shenzhen Railway, serving Pingshan District. Passengers can transfer to Shenzhen Metro Line 16 here.
Guangmingcheng railway station
Guangmingcheng railway station is an en route station of Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link, serving Guangming District.
Pinghu railway station
Pinghu railway station is an en route station of Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway in Pinghu Subdistrict, Longgang District, which is served by CRH trains between Shenzhen and Guangzhou. Passengers can transfer to Shenzhen Metro Line 10 here.
Shenzhen also holds the actual administration of the und |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mix%2090.1FM | Mix 90.1 FM is a radio station broadcasting in Guyana owned and operated by Trinidadian Company Guardian Media Limited as part of The TBC Radio Network.
Related
Radio in Guyana
Radio in Guyana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20in%20Guyana | The radio programming in Guyana caters to a diverse ethnic demographic.
History
Radio began in 1920s British Guiana with rudimentary wired service using telephone lines to transmit BBC broadcasts. Shortwave was used until 1931, then made a comeback in 1935 when there was a demand for cricket commentary. From this came two stations, VP3BG and VPSMR which were run separately until 1938 when they were merged into station ZFY under the British Guiana United Broadcasting Co Ltd. In 1949, ZFY secured a medium wave transmitter. In 1950 the first foreign capital entered the radio market when ZFY was purchased by Overseas Rediffusion Ltd. ZFY was renamed Radio Demerara in 1951, and in 1955 moved into the first professional studio on high street. and in 1957 a new transmitting and receiving station was erected at Sparendaam on the East Coast Demerara. A second station was established in 1958, the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).
In 1968, the government took over BGBS, and it became the Guyana Broadcasting Service (GBS). Soon after, Guyana gained independence from Britain, and the policy shifted toward one of nationalization. In 1979, assets in Radio Demerara were sold by Broadcasting Relay (Overseas) Limited to the government.
GBS rebranded in 1980, by then with Channel 1, on the frequencies of former Radio Demerara at 760 kHz and Channel 2, formerly GBS at 560 kHz. Channel One became Radio Roraima and Channel 2 was renamed Voice of Guyana. FM service 98.1 went on the air in 1998. In 2004, GBC and the Guyana Television Broadcasting Company Limited (GTV) merged to form a new company, National Communication Network Incorporated (NCN). The airwaves were then government-dominated, owning and operates two radio stations broadcasting on multiple frequencies capable of reaching the entire country; government limits on licensing of new private radio stations constrained competition as of 2007. Licenses and competition: In 2009 the Court of Appeal ruled that the government had an unlawful monopoly on the airwaves and was not adequately considering radio license applications. In 2011 the government approved applications for ten new radio stations, although the process was controversial and lacked transparency.
The first privately owned radio station obtained license in 2012, and it was closely aligned with the government. Vieira Communications Limited (VCT) charged the National Frequency Management Unit with procrastinating on radio license applications since their own application languished since 1993. In 2013, NTN was the second such privately owned radio station to obtain a license.
Legislation
Press freedom: The government controls most radio stations, which limits the dissemination of diverse views and open public discussion. The NGO Reporters Without Borders criticized press freedom in the country in 2012, due largely to its radio broadcasting monopolies.
The 2011 Broadcasting Act granted wide and sweeping powers to GNBA for the issuing, su |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tod%20Sirod%20Reef | Tod Sirod Reef, formerly known as Collier 1 Reef is an artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Collier County, Florida. It is part of a network of artificial reefs off the coast of the county.
History
Construction of the reef was done by a public-private partnership in 2015.
In total 36 artificial reefs off the Collier County coastline has been created in six new reef areas.
Structure
The reef is composed of pyramid-shaped limestone reef modules and old concrete benches.
Marine life
Since their installation, the reef structure has been colonized by many forms of marine life including giant anemones and symbiotic cleaner shrimp, wing-oysters, tunicates, soft coral, algae, variegated and rock-boring urchins, and sea cucumbers. Fish observed at the reef include mangrove and lane snappers, sheepshead, spadefish, jack-knifefish, butterfly fish, grouper, angelfish, wrasse, and grunts.
References
Artificial reefs
Reefs of Florida
Environment of Florida
2015 establishments in Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark%20Tank%20%28Australian%20season%202%29 | The second season of Shark Tank aired on Network Ten on 8 May 2016 and concluded 7 July 2016. The series was confirmed on 9 June 2015.
Summary
The show features a panel of potential investors, named "Sharks", who listen to entrepreneurs pitch ideas for a business or product they wish to develop. These self-made multi-millionaires judge the business concepts and products pitched and then decide whether to invest their own money to help market and mentor each contestant.
Investments by Shark
Episodes
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6
Episode 7
Episode 8
Episode 9
Episode 10
Episode 11
Episode 12
Episode 13
Ratings
References
2016 Australian television seasons
Shark Tank |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janie%20Tsao | Janie Tsao (born 1953), née Wu Chien (), is a Taiwanese-born American entrepreneur and hardware engineer. She and her husband Victor co-founded Linksys, a consumer home networking pioneer, and sold the company to Cisco Systems for $500 million in 2003.
Early life and career
Born Wu Chien (or Wu Jian), Tsao received her bachelor's degree in English literature at Tamkang University in Taiwan. There, she met her future husband and business partner, Victor Tsao. They later married in the United States.
In 1975, Tsao moved to the United States and accepted a position at Sears Roebuck in information technology, where she worked for more than eight years. Later, she worked at TRW and Carter Hawley Hale as a systems manager. In 1977, Tsao and her husband moved to Chicago, where they attended graduate school. They later settled in California.
Linksys
In 1988, the Tsaos had an idea for a product that would allow multiple computers to share a printer. Janie, then 35 years old, quit her job to start Linksys and the couple financed the company with their savings. They founded the company in their garage. The company's first product was a success and by 1991, it was generating enough profit to allow Victor to also quit his job and work on the company full-time.
Janie Tsao took charge of the company's sales, and was responsible for persuading the major retailers Fry's Electronics and Best Buy to sell Linksys products in 1995 and 1996, respectively. These were crucial breaks for Linksys, quadrupling its revenue to $21.5 million in 1996, and tripling it again to $65.6 million two years later. She developed Linksys' retail channel and oversaw the development of the company's distribution, e-commerce and international channel market strategies and programs. She also developed Linksys's broadband strategy, partnering with cable and telecom companies to "provide high-speed Internet sharing access via wired or wireless solutions to PC users across the country."
In 2003, the Tsaos sold the company to Cisco Systems in a deal valued at $500 million. They continued to work for Cisco as senior vice presidents until 2007, when they retired from corporate life and shifted their focus to Miven Venture Partners, an investment firm they had founded in 2005.
In 2000, Tsao was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Orange County Business Association. In 2002, she was awarded a BridgeGate 20 award. In 2004, Tsao and her husband were jointly named Entrepreneur of the Year by Inc. magazine. She is the 2005 winner of the ABIE Award for Technical Leadership from the Anita Borg Institute.
Family
Tsao and her husband have two sons, Michael and Steven. Through the Tsao Family Foundation, they work with the Center for Asian American Media to produce documentaries "promoting understanding and communication."
References
Living people
American women business executives
American business executives
Taiwanese emigrants to the United States
Tamkang University alumni
Taiwanese women c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20cloud%20computing | Social cloud computing, also peer-to-peer social cloud computing, is an area of computer science that generalizes cloud computing to include the sharing, bartering and renting of computing resources across peers whose owners and operators are verified through a social network or reputation system. It expands cloud computing past the confines of formal commercial data centers operated by cloud providers to include anyone interested in participating within the cloud services sharing economy. This in turn leads to more options, greater economies of scale, while bearing additional advantages for hosting data and computing services closer to the edge where they may be needed most.
Research
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing and networking to enable decentralized cloud computing has been an area of research for sometime. Social cloud computing intersects peer-to-peer cloud computing with social computing to verify peer and peer owner reputation thus providing security and quality of service assurances to users. On demand computing environments may be constructed and altered statically or dynamically across peers on the Internet based on their available resources and verified reputation to provide such assurances.
Applications
Social cloud computing has been highlighted as a potential benefit to large-scale computing, video gaming, and media streaming. The tenets of social cloud computing has been most famously employed in the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC), making the service the largest computing grid in the world. Another service that uses social cloud computing is Subutai. Subutai allows peer-to-peer sharing of computing resources globally or within a select permissioned network.
Challenges
Many challenges arise when moving from a traditional cloud infrastructure, to a social cloud environment.
Availability of computational resources
In the case of traditional cloud computing, availability on demand is essential for many cloud customers. Social Cloud Computing doesn't provide this availability guarantee because in a P2P environment, peers are mobile devices which may enter or leave the P2P network at any time, or PCs which have a primary purpose that can override the P2P computation at any time. The only relatively successful use cases as of recent years are those which do not require real time results, only computation power for a small subset or module of a larger algorithm or data set.
Trust and security
Unlike large scale data centers and company brand image, people may be less likely to trust peers vs. a large company like Google or Amazon. Running some sort of computation with sensitive information would then need to be encrypted properly and the overhead of that encryption may reduce the usefulness of the P2P offloading. When resources are distributed in small pieces to many peers for computations, inherent trust must be placed in the client, regardless of the encryption that may be promised to the client.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Strain%20%28mathematician%29 | John Andrew Strain is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. His areas of interest are Applied Mathematics, Algorithms, Numerical Analysis, and Materials Science. John Strain received his PhD in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988 working with his advisor Alexandre Joel Chorin. His dissertation paper was on the numerical study of dendritic solidification. Notable publications include Piecewise-polynomial discretization and Krylov-accelerated multigrid for elliptic interface problems, Locally corrected semi-Lagrangian methods for Stokes flow with moving elastic interfaces, Locally-corrected spectral methods and overdetermined elliptic systems, Fractional step methods for index-1 differential-algebraic equations, and Growth of the zeta function for a quadratic map and the dimension of the Julia set.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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21st-century American mathematicians
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University of California, Berkeley alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatz%20Theodor%20Griebl | Dr. Ignatz Theodor Griebl (1899–?) was a prominent German-American physician who is known as a recruiter for the German spy network in New York City in the era of the Nazi rise to power and buildup to World War II.
Early life
Ignatz T. Griebl was born in 1899 in Bavaria, a southeastern state in Germany. He served in the German army as a First Lieutenant Artillery Officer during World War I but was injured during a battle at the Italian front. He later studied medicine at the University of Munich and immigrated to the United States of America in 1925.
He first started a practice in Maine but subsequently moved to Yorkville, New York City due to the large community of German-Americans in that area of Manhattan. His medical practice focused on obstetrics.
Espionage
Dr. Ignatz Griebl became head of the German spy network in New York in the late 1930s, responsible for recruiting spies for its operations. In 1938, about 13 years after Griebl's emigration to the United States, FBI Special Agent Leon G. Turrou ran an investigation that targeted Nazi German spies actively working within the country. Part of his method of investigation was the use of polygraph tests on potential German espionage candidates. Dr. Ignatz T. Griebl was one of seven subjects who were selected for the mandatory polygraph tests. According to notes, he was the most interesting subject of the test. After it was administered (on May 5, 1938), Dr. Griebl "made us relax all vigilance, all watchfulness over him." However, FBI agents noted that Dr. Griebl appeared worried and perhaps thought he had given himself away. Five days later, the FBI learned that Dr. Griebl had fled to Germany aboard the S.S. Bremen.
Representatives of the New York U.S. Attorney Office interviewed Dr. Griebl at the American Consulate in Berlin, Germany on September 17, 1938. Griebl agreed to the meeting in hopes of obtaining the release of his wife, who was then under bail in New York in connection with the espionage trial of individuals indicted as part of the spy ring. At the time, Griebl was reported to be employed as a physician in Vienna.
On August 19, 1945, Allied authorities arrested Dr. Griebl in Salzburg, Austria. He was recognized while applying for a travel permit from the Allied Military Government.
Griebl remained a fugitive until March 14, 1950, when a nolle prosequi order (dropping the case against the defendant) was approved on the recommendation of U.S. Attorney Irving H. Saypol. Griebl had been under indictment for espionage since June 20, 1938.
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1899 births
German obstetricians
German Army personnel of World War I
American collaborators with Nazi Germany
People from Yorkville, Manhattan
Year of death missing
Physicians from New York City
Emigrants from the Weimar Republic to the United States
Fugitives wanted by the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mosques%20in%20Tunisia | This is a list of mosques in Tunisia. According to the data by the Ministry of Religious Affairs in December 2015, there are 5,470 mosques in Tunisia as a whole, among which 4,299 are Jami Masjids which conduct Friday Prayer and 1,171 are smaller mosques. The city of Sfax has highest number of mosques, with 418 Jama Masjids and 88 smaller mosques. The city of Djerba contains 380 mosques, among which 20 are underground mosques.
See also
Islam in Tunisia
List of mosques in Tunis
References
Tunisia
Mosques |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHMIG-FM | XHMIG-FM is a radio station on 105.9 FM in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. XHMIG carries the news/talk programming of Imagen Radio.
History
XHMIG received its concession on July 27, 1994. It was known as Fantasía 106 and owned by Emilio Nassar Rodríguez, who also owned XHEN-FM in Torreón and XHOZ-FM and XHOE-FM in Querétaro. The four-station group was known as Multimundo. In 1999, the station changed its name to Stereo 106; it then remained in the pop format by adopting the Exa FM pop franchise from MVS Radio in 2003.
In 2007, most of Multimundo, except for XHOE, was sold to Imagen. The station broadcast Imagen's news/talk programming during the day and pop and rock music from RMX at night. The latter was abandoned in 2011.
References
Radio stations in Guanajuato
Radio stations established in 1994
Grupo Imagen
1994 establishments in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeCombat | CodeCombat is an educational video game for learning software programming concepts and languages. This game is recommended for students ages 9–16. Students learn to type coding languages like JavaScript, Python, HTML and CoffeeScript, as well as learning the fundamentals of computer science. CodeCombat has 11 units - three game development units, two web development units, and six computer science units. The first unit, Computer Science 1, is free to all students and teachers. In 2019, CodeCombat was recognized by the College Board as an endorsed provider of curriculum and professional development for AP Computer Science Principles (AP CSP).
CodeCombat works directly with schools and districts, as well as offering self-paced learners a monthly paid subscription that gives access to additional game content. In order to advance through the game's levels, players must prove their knowledge by writing code. It includes both single-player and multi-player components, and is ideally suited for 4th-12th graders. The game was positively reviewed by PC Magazine, won the 2017 SIIA CODiE award for Best Creativity Tool for Students, and has been named a top pick for learning by Common Sense Education.
In January 2014, CodeCombat made their software open-source, and released a level editor so that users could create their own game content. In August 2019, CodeCombat released its newest game, Ozaria.
Company
CodeCombat was founded in February 2013 by George Saines, Scott Erickson, Matt Lott, and Nick Winter, who had previously developed the language-learning application Skritter. The company is based in San Francisco, California and makes two programming games, Ozaria and CodeCombat, for schools and learners. In 2014, the company received $2 million in seed stage funding from firms such as Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, and Allen & Company. In 2019, the company received $6M in Series A funding, led by Hone Capital. It announced a partnership with the Chinese internet company, NetEase, on April 18, 2018. The company currently employs 29 people.
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External links
Programming games
Computer programming
Video games developed in the United States
Educational technology
Browser games
2013 video games
Visual programming languages
American educational websites
Video game development software
Companies based in San Francisco
2013 establishments in California
American companies established in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road%20Network%20of%20the%20MERCOSUR | The road network of the MERCOSUR (), is a network of roads and highways in South America, that constitute a transnational system and links Mercosur main cities and access points.
Starting in Brazil, the network links the city of Río de Janeiro with the cities of Sao Paulo and Curitiba. From there a coastal highway connects with the city of Florianópolis, the harbour of São Francisco do Sul and Porto Alegre and an occidental highway goes from Curitiba up to Porto Alegre. From Porto Alegre, the network arrives to Rio Grande, and finally to the border with Uruguay in Río Branco.
In Uruguay the network link reaches the cities of Montevideo and Colonia del Sacramento. It is planned that the road network crosses the Rio de La Plata and links with Buenos Aires through a bridge to be constructed that would go from Colonia in Uruguay to Buenos Aires, landing in the area next to the city of Punta Lara. From there the network connects the city of Buenos Aires through the Buenos Aires–La Plata highway. In Argentina the network has a branch that goes to the city of San Luis, traversing the city of Río Cuarto and finalizing in Mendoza. In Mendoza, the road crosses the Andes through the Cristo Redentor tunnel, reaching the cities of Santiago de Chile and Valparaíso in Chile. It is planned to construct a new tunnel through the Andes, starting in the zone of Horcones, as this area has a lower altitude than the one serving the Cristo Redentor tunnel, the way will be able to be operative all the year around.
References
External links
The Eje Vial Del Cono Sur Highway Project in Uruguay. A. Barreix, G. P. Jenkins, M. Marchesini
Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo. Intal. Informe Mercosur Año 2 No 3. Julio / Diciembre 1997 .
Mercosur
International road networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshana%20Wodak | Shoshana Wodak is a computational biologist and an organizational leader in the field of protein-protein docking.
Wodak was one of the first people to dock proteins together using a computer program.
Wodak obtained her PhD at Columbia University. She was elected an ISCB Fellow by the International Society for Computational Biology in 2016 and is one of the ISCB founders. She helped organize the Critical Assessment of Prediction of Interactions, for which she has served on the Management Group since the founding in 2002.
References
21st-century biologists
21st-century Belgian scientists
21st-century women scientists
Belgian women biologists
Belgian bioinformaticians
Fellows of the International Society for Computational Biology
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
Columbia University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20Bishop | Howard Bishop is an actor from Hawaii. He has appeared in films, and on TV on the Fox, CBS and NBC networks.
Education in drama
Bishop received an undergraduate degree in theatre arts from the University of Minnesota Duluth in 1973 and a Master of Fine Arts from Southern Methodist University in 1977. He has been a member of the Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists SAG-AFTRA since 1978.
Acting career
Films
His film credits include playing Agent Meyers in You May Not Kiss the Bride (2011), and appearances in the 2014 film of Under the Blood-Red Sun, Parts Of The Same Circle (2012)-playing a homicide detective; Go for Broke (2018); The Killing of John Lennon (2006) - playing Mark David Chapman's father; The Olsen Twins Navy Adventure (1997), and The Bermuda Triangle (film) (1977).
Television
For the Fox, CBS and NBC networks, he has appeared in the following programs: North Shore (TV series), Raven (U.S. TV series), Island Son, Beasts Are In The Streets and in a 1990 episode (Exactly Like You) of the TV series Jake and the Fatman.
Other
Howard Bishop has also appeared in theatre in Honolulu, taking part in stage productions of The Full Monty and Hairspray. He has been engaged for numerous educational, training, industrial, commercial and voice-over roles, including a commercial for McDonald's in which he plays a car salesman - a role he also has in real life; since 1995 Bishop has also been employed selling Mercedes Benz cars in Honolulu.
References
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
Living people
Southern Methodist University alumni
University of Minnesota Duluth alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neasa%20Hardiman | Neasa Hardiman is an Irish director of both fiction and nonfiction, predominantly known for her television work.
Hardiman began her career producing a number of shows for the RTÉ network in Ireland and has since worked on both British and American productions. Her television credits include the children's drama series Tracy Beaker Returns (2010–2012), the crime dramas Scott & Bailey (2014) and Happy Valley (2016), the American period drama Z: The Beginning of Everything and the Marvel superhero series Inhumans (both 2017).
Biography
Education and early career
Hardiman holds a number of degrees including a Double First (First Class Honours and First Place) Bachelor of Design from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. A fluent German speaker, Hardiman earned a master's degree in visual communications from the Universität der Künste (University of the Arts) in Berlin. Subsequently, Hardiman completed a master's degree in Aesthetics and Politics from the NCAD Dublin and a PhD in Film Studies from Trinity College Dublin.
She was hired as a graphic designer at RTÉ in the early 1990s. In 1995, Hardiman designed the broadcaster's current logo. After winning a contest held inside RTÉ, she was trained to become a producer-director. In 1998 Hardiman became the youngest ever director of the Irish soap opera Fair City, which airs on the RTÉ network in Ireland. Hardiman's early work with RTÉ also included producing and directing more than twenty documentaries and a number of entertainment shows including the Irish broadcast of the Eurovision Song Contest. In 2004, Hardiman was one of the directors of Imagining Ulysses, a documentary film that aimed to explores the themes of James Joyce's seminal novel, whilst remaining accessible to a contemporary audience. Imagining Ulysses was nominated for Best Documentary at the 2nd Irish Film and Television Awards in 2004, won the award for Best Documentary at the Chicago International Film Festival and the award for Best Arts Documentary at the Celtic Film and Television Festival.
2010–present
Hardiman worked as a lead director on the BBC's children's drama series Tracy Beaker Returns which was transmitted between 2010 and 2012. The Tracy Beaker Returns production team won the British Academy Children's Awards for Best Drama in 2010 and earned further nominations in both 2011 and 2012. Hardiman was approached to direct the series by producer Gina Cronk — who like Hardiman, had never worked on the production of a children's drama series. In 2010, discussing how the Tracy Beaker Returns team approached "a narrative specifically for children" Hardiman noted that the production team wanted to take on "serious subjects [and] make a kind of "Play for Today" for children, leavened with some humour". Subsequently, Hardiman directed four episodes of the BBC1 hospital drama Holby City which aired between 2012 and 2013, and two episodes of its loosely connected sister show, Casualty which aired in 2013. She felt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Lucha%20Underground%20episodes | Lucha Underground premiered on El Rey Network on October 29, 2014. It focuses on professional wrestling matches, with commentary from the former WWE commentator Matt Striker and the former World Championship Wrestling wrestler Vampiro. Video packages highlighting wrestlers or storylines, air throughout each broadcast as well as several interactions between either the wrestlers themselves or with storyline promoter Dario Cueto, who is portrayed as a heel.
At the end of season 4, 127 episodes of Lucha Underground have aired.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2014–15)
Season 2 (2016)
Season 3 (2016–17)
Season 4 (2018)
References
External links
Lucha Underground
Professional wrestling-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciCrunch | SciCrunch is a collaboratively edited knowledge base about scientific resources. It is a community portal for researchers and a content management system for data and databases. It is intended to provide a common source of data to the research community and the data about Research Resource Identifiers (RRIDs), which can be used in scientific publications. After starting as a pilot of two journals in 2014, by 2022 over 1,000 journals have been using them and over half a million RRIDs have been quoted in the scientific literature. In some respect, it is for science and scholarly publishing, similar to what Wikidata is for Wikimedia Foundation projects. Hosted by the University of California, San Diego, SciCrunch was also designed to help communities of researchers create their own portals to provide access to resources, databases and tools of relevance to their research areas
Research Resource Identifiers
Research Resource Identifiers (RRID) are globally unique and persistent.
They were introduced and are promoted by the Resource Identification Initiative.
Resources in this context are research resources like reagents, tools or materials.
An example for such a resource would be a cell line used in an experiment or software tool used in a computational analysis.
The Resource Identification Portal (https://scicrunch.org/resources) was created in support of this initiative and is a central service where these identifiers can be searched and created. These identifiers should be fully searchable by data mining unlike supplementary files, and can be updated to new versions as basic methodology changes over time.
Format for RRID citations
The recommendation for citing research resources is shown below for key biological resources:
Antibody: Millipore Cat# MAB377 (Lot) RRID:AB_2298772
Model organism: NXR Cat# 1049, RRID:NXR_1049
Cell line: Coriell Cat# GM03745, RRID:CVCL_1H60
Plasmids: pMD2.G plasmid, RRID:Addgene_12259
BioSamples: female without diabetes, HPAP, Cat# HPAP-066, RRID:SAMN19842595
Tools: CellProfiler Image Analysis Software, (version or date) RRID:SCR_007358
The Resource Identification Portal lists existing RRIDs and instructions for creating a new one if an RRID matching the resource does not already exist.
Features of RRIDs
Description:
Each RRID contains an ID, a type, a URL, and a name. There are hundreds of other attributes but most are specific to the type, for example antibody type RRIDs include an attribute called clonality, denoting whether the reagent is monoclonal or polyclonal, while cell lines have an attribute of "parental cell line" denoting the origin of the cell line being described.
RRID Citations:
RRIDs denote those research resources that have been used in the conduct of a study. They are not intended to be casual citations. RRIDs that have been used in scientific papers have been mined from the literature using both automated tools and semi-automated tools thanks to a partnership with Hypothes.is. The d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawlz | NAWLZ is a 24-episode cyberpunk adventure webcomic created by interactive designer and illustrator Stu Campbell, also known as Sutu. The comic is designed for interactive storytelling, combining interactivity, animation, music and text. The comic first launched in late 2008 and was followed by an iPad format in 2011. The comic story follows Harley Chambers as he navigates through the city of Nawlz, a futuristic city full of overlaying virtual realities, mind-altering drugs and a myriad of techno cultures.
Format
The format of NAWLZ is experimental. Traditional comic panels have been replaced by multifaceted animated frames which work on a panoramic, interactive digital canvas.
Digital Comics. On popular platforms such as ComiXology user Interface functionality allows readers to zoom in on panels or select Guided View option to read the comic pages panel by panel. NAWLZ has a horizontal digital scroll instead.
The format has also won the comic an FWA award and a WEBBY award.
Story
The metropolis of NAWLZ is a sprawling, yet claustrophobic city and the comic’s namesake. It depicts a world in the future with its focus on youth culture..
Technology is incredibly advanced causing reality to be augmented with digital overlays and multi-sensory interactive experiences.
The reader follows Harley Chambers, a cyber graffiti artist ‘casting’ his ‘sleeper real’ to cover the city. A ‘real’ is a personal channel for broadcasting imagination in the form of digital interactive art, animation and sound design. Harley’s real is based on a recurring dream from his childhood. His dream inspired artwork covers most of Nawlz City.
Harley encounters a Real disturbingly like his own and causes him to question who is behind it. He sets out to discover who is hijacking and altering his vision. He moves through the story getting harassed by increasingly disturbing and bizarre Reals. Readers move with him into a world where Harley feels the need to push the limits of mind control with hallucinogenic drugs, surgical upgrades and experimental software, but how long before the boundary between his imagination and his reality is dissolved forever?
Series
The NAWLZ universe, story, illustration and colouring are by Sutu, with main console programming by Wayne Harris. Sound designers and musicians include Jordan King, Lhasa Mencur, Joel Edmondson, Matt Tierney and Fredrik Stolpe.
Season 1 - Distortion Reigns Supreme
Issue 01 – "On the Clip Trail"
Issue 02 – "Sleeper Background"
Issue 03 – "28 Clips in the trip"
Issue 04 – "Hail the Jon"
Issue 05 – "Nawlz Recap, Clip #28″
Issue 06 – "Master Chameleon"
Issue 07 – "In Search of the Lotus Seed"
Issue 08 – "The Life Real"
Issue 09 – "Skyman's Hand"
Issue 10 – "Elixir"
Issue 11 – "Gracelands"
Issue 12 – "Walking Limo"
Issue 13 – "Seeds"
Issue 14 – "Distortion Reigns Supreme
Season 2 - Real Werld Information Breakdown
Issue 1 – "Real Werld Information Breakdown"
Issue 2 – "Rapid Form Social Blitzkrieg"
Issue |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorituup%20Kangerlua | Anorituup Kangerlua, also known as Anoritoq or Anortek Fjord, is a fjord in King Frederick VI Coast, southern Greenland.
Geography
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This fjord marks the border between the Sermersooq municipality to the north and the Kujalleq municipality to the south in the eastern coast of Greenland.
Anorituup Kangerlua extends in a roughly E/W direction for about 50 km between Napasorsuaq Fjord to the north and Avaqqat Kangerluat Fjord to the south. Kangikitsua is a tributary fjord branching on the southern shore within the fjord. To the east Anorituup Kangerlua opens into the North Atlantic Ocean. The Qulleq group of coastal islands lies to the northeast of the northern end of its mouth.
The Akia Peninsula is at the southern end of its mouth and the Anorituup Qeqertag islet cluster at its northern end. Off the southern side of the entrance is Isortoq Bay, with Nuuk Point at its eastern end. There are a number of large glaciers at his head.
Mountains
A high ultra-prominent peak rises steeply from the shore on the northern side of the fjord at ; Pyramiden is a high rocky pyramidal peak rising a little further north above the glacier entering the confluence at the head of the fjord from the east at .
See also
List of fjords of Greenland
References
External links
Den grønlandske Lods - Sejladsanvisninger Østgrønland
New insights on the north-eastern part of the Ketilidian orogen in South-East Greenland
Fjords of Greenland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RWBY%20Chibi | RWBY Chibi is an American anime-influenced 3D computer-animated comedy web series produced by Rooster Teeth Animation for Rooster Teeth. It is a spin-off of RWBY, where each episode consists of several scenes where aspects of RWBY's characters are usually exaggerated for comic effect. The series was first announced as part of Rooster Teeth's 13th Anniversary celebration on April 1, 2016 and premiered May 7. In January 2017, Rooster Teeth confirmed the second season's premiere on May 13, 2017, on Rooster Teeth and May 20, 2017 on YouTube. A third season premiered on January 27, 2018, on Rooster Teeth and February 3, 2018 on YouTube. Following the conclusion of the third season, the series would go on an indefinite hiatus.
The animated anthology series Neon Konbini, which premiered on May 27, 2021 on Rooster Teeth, would continue RWBY Chibi by airing ten individual segments of the series across its eight episodes before concluding on July 15, 2021. In March 2023, these segments were re-released on YouTube as the "fourth season" of RWBY Chibi.
Voice cast
Lindsay Jones as Ruby Rose
Kara Eberle as Weiss Schnee
Arryn Zech as Blake Belladonna
Barbara Dunkelman as Yang Xiao Long
Miles Luna as Jaune Arc
Jen Brown as Pyrrha Nikos
Samantha Ireland as Nora Valkyrie
Neath Oum as Lie Ren
Michael Jones as Sun Wukong
Kerry Shawcross as Neptune Vasilias
Development
RWBY Chibi was announced by Gray Haddock in April 2016. RWBY Chibi can be described as a comedy series consisting of two to five segments per episode. Each episode has a run time of about three to seven minutes. The series uses both the RWBY characters and world, but is animated in a different art style. RWBY Chibi is not considered to be canon, with characters repeatedly breaking the fourth wall. The first season premiered on May 7, 2016, and consisted of 24 episodes, which were aired weekly at the usual RWBY release time on Saturdays. It concluded on October 15, 2016, just one week before the release of the RWBY Volume 4 premiere. A second season of RWBY Chibi premiered on Rooster Teeth's web site on May 13, 2017. The third season premiered on January 27, 2018.
Episodes
Season 1 (2016)
Season 2 (2017)
Season 3 (2018)
Neon Konbini (2021)
References
External links
RWBY
2016 web series debuts
2010s American adult animated television series
American adult animated comedy television series
American adult animated web series
American adult animated television spin-offs
Anime-influenced Western animated television series
Animated television series about monsters
Schools in fiction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20Leadership%20University | African Leadership University (ALU) is a network of tertiary institutions operating in Mauritius and Rwanda, offering bachelor's degree programs.
ALU's inaugural campus, known as the African Leadership College, was established in September 2015 in Mauritius. Subsequently, in September 2017, ALU launched its second campus in Kigali, Rwanda.
History
In 2008, Fred Swaniker, an African leadership development expert and Stanford Business School-educated social entrepreneur, founded ALU's sister organization, the African Leadership Academy, a secondary institution. In 2015, Swaniker expanded his efforts further by establishing an institution of higher learning, the African Leadership University, dedicated to teaching leadership skills. In 2015, ALU opened its doors to more than 180 students from across Africa on its main campus in Mauritius. In 2019, ALU made it to Fast Company's list of the world's 50 most innovative companies.
Campuses
ALC
ALC's main campus is located in Pamplemousses, the northern region of Mauritius. ALC Mauritius is a residential campus. The campus opened in October 2015 with 173 students in the inaugural class of 2015. In 2018, the number of students was over 300. ALC offers undergraduate degree programs through its founding academic partner, Glasgow Caledonian University. ALC offers four different degrees.
ALU Rwanda
ALU Rwanda is located in Kigali, Rwanda. The institution holds accreditation from the Higher Education Council of Rwanda. The undergraduate campus opened in September 2017 with 270 students, while the African Leadership School of Business started its blended Master of Business Administration program in September 2016. ALU Rwanda expanded to Kigali's new Innovation City, where a permanent campus was completed in 2020. ALU Rwanda is a non-residential campus.
External links
African Leadership University website
References
Pan-Africanist organizations
Universities and colleges established in 2015
2015 establishments in Rwanda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham%20Catalogue%20of%20Belgian%20Newspapers | The Abraham Catalogue of Belgian Newspapers is an online database of historical Belgian newspapers that are preserved in libraries and other heritage institutions across Flanders and Brussels.
Contents
Abraham catalogues the location and ownership of Belgian national, regional, and local newspapers kept in more than one hundred libraries and heritage institutions. So far, over 11,000 newspaper titles published after 1800 are inventoried in the catalogue.
The database shows the most important specifications of each newspaper, such as title, date, and place of publication. Keywords indicate the type of newspaper (with a focus on e.g. trade, sports, or advertising) or the social community at which the newspaper was aimed (e.g. catholic, liberal, or socialist community). Seeing that newspapers were often attached to a certain city or region, the database allows searching on geographical terms.
Users are able to see detailed information on the exact editions and locations of each newspaper, including the format (paper, microform, or digital format) in which it is preserved in each of the institutions. Links are added for newspapers that are consultable online. It is not possible to search on content of any newspaper article.
Name
The database was named after Abraham Verhoeven (Antwerp, 1575–1652), who is considered to be the first publisher of newspapers in the Southern Netherlands. His Nieuwe Tijdinghen (New Tidings) was a substantial contribution to the early beginnings of a daily form of newspaper.
The Abraham database: development and continuation
Abraham was developed as a project in 2007 by the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library in cooperation with a large number of heritage institutions. The catalogue was created to increase access to historical newspapers, a goldmine of cultural-historical information. The catalogue is also used as a helpful tool for digitising projects. In this way, Abraham plays an important role in the preservation of these vulnerable documents. Frequent consultation of the newspapers poses considerable risks, especially for those published from 1830 to 1950, which were often printed on fragile and low-quality paper. The only way to preserve their contents for posterity is to copy them to microform or digital format.
At the end of 2008, the project was taken over by the then newly founded Flanders Heritage Library. Together with various partners from the heritage field, the Flanders Heritage Library is further actively updating and enriching the database with new records.
See also
Cultural heritage
Library catalog
Library science
Archive
Digital library
History of newspaper publishing
Newspaper digitization
Online public access catalog
References
External links
Online database
Background information (only available in Dutch)
Libraries in Belgium
Library cataloging and classification
Documents
Newspapers published in Belgium
Archives in Belgium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BacDive | BacDive (the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase) is a bacterial metadatabase that provides strain-linked information about bacterial and archaeal biodiversity.
Introduction
BacDive is a resource for different kind of metadata like taxonomy, morphology, physiology, environment and molecular-biology.
The majority of data is manually annotated and curated. With the release in December 2022 BacDive offers information for 93,254 strains, including 19,313 type strains.
The database is hosted by the Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH and is part of de.NBI the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure, as well as Elixir the European Network for Bioinformatics. In December 2022 BacDive was selected by the Global Biodata Coalition as a Global Core Biodata Resource (GCBR). GCBRs are considered critical data resources for the global research endeavour in life sciences and biomedicine.
Content and Features
Database
The December release of the database encompassed over 1000 different data fields, divided into the categories "Name and taxonomic classification", "Morphology", "Culture and growth conditions,"Physiology and metabolism", "Isolation, sampling and environmental information." "Safety information", "Sequence information" and "Strain availability". The database comprised 1,922,166 entries, linked to the according strain and reference.
The data are retrieved from internal descriptions of culture collections, expert-compiled compendia and primary scientific literature like species descriptions.
Data access
Data can be accessed either via a GUI or via the RESTful web service. Using the GUI the user can choose between a simple search for searching strains by name, Culture collection number, NCBI Tax ID or INSDC sequence accession number, or the user can use the advanced search, which enables the search in 130 data fields and gives the opportunity of complex queries by combining several fields. Data can be downloaded in PDF format (for single strains) or in CSV format for larger data sets (for multiple strains).
Via the RESTful web service portal BacDive content can be accessed automatically (a free registration is needed).To support the use of the API, software clients in Python and R are available.
Other databases
For data that are outside the focus of BacDive, links to other databases are provided that deliver strain-associated data:
SILVA
BRENDA
List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature
Straininfo.net
EBI
NCBI
MicrobeAtlas
References
External links
Simple search at BacDive
Advanced search at BacDive
Web services at BacDive
Metadata
Online databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Hall%20%28journalist%29 | Benjamin Hall (born 23 July 1982) is a British journalist who serves as a State Department correspondent for Fox News Channel and is based in Washington, D.C. He joined the network in July 2015.
Early life
Hall grew up in London, as a dual citizen, holding both US and UK passports. He studied at Ampleforth College, City of London School, and Duke University, and received a BA from Richmond University, London.
He received a post graduate diploma in television journalism from the University of the Arts, London.
Career
Hall began his career as a journalist focusing on the Middle East. Since 2007, he has written from the front lines for The New York Times, The Times of London, The Sunday Times, The Independent, The BBC, and other outlets, often as one of the first journalists on the ground.
Hall has traveled to Syria and Iraq, repeatedly filing dispatches for BBC Radio and Agence France Presse, as well as the aforementioned publications — often from behind enemy lines and embedded with rebel and regime troops.
Hall smuggled himself into Misrata, Libya during the height of the siege, and reported for Esquire Magazine, Channel 4 News, and others regarding Muammar Qaddafi's indiscriminate shelling of the local population. In 2014, he embedded with UN troops during the siege of the Mogadishu parliament, writing for The Times. He has reported from Egypt, Haiti, and Iran. He was a jury member of the London Kurdish film festival.
Hall authored the book Inside ISIS: The Brutal Rise of a Terrorist Army, which was published by Hachette Book Group in 2015.
On 14 March 2022, he was injured while on assignment reporting the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine in Ukraine outside of Kyiv. The vehicle Hall was traveling in was attacked; Hall was wounded in the legs while Fox war zone photo journalist and Irish citizen Pierre Zakrzewski, aged 55, was killed in the incident in Horenka, Kyiv Oblast. Ukrainian journalist Oleksandra "Sasha" Kuvshinova, aged 24, was also killed in the attack.
Three weeks after the attack, Hall reported on Twitter that he had lost half of one leg, his foot on the other leg, suffered loss of function in one eye, damage to his hearing and injuries to a hand. He also paid tribute to his deceased colleagues.
Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott and President Jay Wallace visited Hall on July 14, 2022, at the Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas, where he has been recovering since the attack. Wallace wrote, "He looks incredible given everything he has endured, and he is truly an inspiration," in a note to Fox News staff.
On September 14, 2022, Benjamin Hall made a surprise appearance at the Fox News Quarterly Address exactly six months since the attack occurred. In part he said "I remember thinking that day then when I was lying there that there was one thing I needed to do, and that was to get home, try somehow to get home and see my family. And what's happened from then to now with so much support, so much goodwill, so much help from every |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble-Relay%20Teaching%20Residency | The Noble-Relay Teaching Residency is a two-year teaching program offered through the Relay Graduate School of Education in which residents are placed in a campus within the Noble Network of Charter Schools. Second year residents transition into a full-time paid teaching position and have the opportunity to earn a Masters of Arts in Teaching. Eligible graduate students can receive teaching state licensure from Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE).
External links
Noble Network of Charter Schools
http://www.relay.edu/about/approach
Educational institutions established in 2006
2006 establishments in Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Ball%20%28cognitive%20scientist%29 | John Samuel Ball (born 1963) is an American cognitive scientist, an expert in machine intelligence, computer architecture and the inventor of Patom Theory.
Biography
Born in Iowa USA whilst his Australian father Samuel Ball was working on his PhD in Educational Psychology, Ball returned with the family to Australia in 1978 to finish his secondary schooling on the north shore of Sydney. Ball received a Bachelor of Science in 1984 from the University of Sydney, a Masters of Cognitive Science from University of NSW in 1989 and a Master of Business Administration from MGSM (Macquarie Graduate School of Management) in 1997.
From a young age, Ball was fascinated by computers having been exposed to early mainframes at Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton in the 1970s.
He was challenged by a lecturer as an undergraduate to pursue machine intelligence when she announced that computers would never be able to perform human like functions such as language or visual recognition.
Work
His career begun at IBM Australia as a mainframe engineer, leading to country support specialist responsible for supporting and training hardware engineers across Australia and New Zealand on mainframe and I/O devices. His expertise was in the IBM 370 I/O architecture, learning from global designer of channel architecture, Kenneth Trowell. Following IBM in 1996 he worked in other large Australian corporations managing and defining the commercials of complex IT contracts between stakeholders.
Always interested in how machines could better emulate human brain functions, he postulated Patom theory the word representing a combination of pattern matching and atom. This reflected his belief that the brain simply stores, matches and uses hierarchical, bidirectional linkset patterns (sequences and sets) as sufficient to explain human capabilities. This he claimed was the approach of the human brain to language and vision and was first publicly aired in 2000, on Robyn Williams’ Okham's Razor.
Over the years, exchanges with Artificial Intelligence experts such as Marvin Minsky led him to work on a prototype to demonstrate and prove his theory.
Ball left corporate life to focus full-time on proving a natural language understanding (NLU) system with samples across diverse languages including Mandarin, Korean, German, Japanese, Spanish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese. Since 2007, Ball has filed two patents.
In 2011 Ball came across a book of Emma L. Pavey's whilst visiting a Barnes & Noble store in Princeton, New Jersey. This included a reference to a linguistic theory developed by Professor Robert Van Valin, Jr. and Professor William A. Foley, called Role & Reference Grammar (RRG). Ball determined the explanation of a meaning based linguistic framework described in Pavey's book, to be the missing link for implementation of his theory. He contacted Van Valin and began integrating RRG into his prototype. Unlike dominant linguistic theories such as Universal Grammar, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Sky%20News%20Australia | This is a list of programs currently or formerly broadcast on Sky News Australia. Note that this list does not include programming on sister and defunct channels such as Your Money, Sky News Business Channel, Sky News Weather or Sky News Extra.
Current original programming
Current acquired programming
Former programming
Notes
Debuted as a short run series for the 2013 election ending 31 August 2013, and relaunched on 30 April 2016 ahead of the 2016 election before ending again.
References
Sky News Australia
Lists of television series by network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News%20Deeply | News Deeply is an online journalism and technology company, based in New York City, specializing in single-issue news websites and building online databases of stakeholders. Its flagship site, Syria Deeply, was founded by Lara Setrakian and Azeo Fables in 2012 to cover the Syrian Civil War. On May 15, 2018, News Deeply merged Syria Deeply into the broader Peacebuilding Deeply. Since 2012, the company built and operated seven other sites with similar single-issue formats: Malnutrition Deeply, Oceans Deeply, Refugees Deeply, Water Deeply, Women's Advancement Deeply, Arctic Deeply and Ebola Deeply.
News Deeply has ceased publishing content on any of its sites. Ebola Deeply officially stopped publishing soon after Guinea was declared free of ebola in December, 2015. In 2018, three other News Deeply sites stopped publishing: Oceans Deeply, Malnutrition Deeply and Peacebuilding Deeply. Since then, all of News Deeply's sites have "paused regular publication". The last article posted to any News Deeply site was to Refugees Deeply on April 1, 2019.
History
News Deeply started with Syria Deeply, a project stemming from the shortcomings founder Lara Setrakian perceived in news coverage of the Syrian Civil War. She had been reporting on the region for major news outlets ABC News and Bloomberg News but wanted a centralized platform that engaged in journalism only on that subject, and one which emphasized design and user experience.
When Syria Deeply launched, the only contributors who were paid were those based in Syria whose safety was under threat.
News Deeply is a benefit corporation based in New York City, although its reporters, editors, and other staff are located around the world. Its funding comes from multiple sources: grant funding from foundations, live event sales, content syndication, sponsorships like that of the World Policy Institute, and it has received $2.5 million in venture capital.
Setrakian has expressed her intention to continue pursuing new "Deeply" projects, and told Fast Company some potential topics include Pakistan, Congo, Myanmar, and human trafficking, all of which are important but underrepresented or poorly covered by mainstream news outlets. However, in September, 2018 Fast Company reported that News Deeply was closing multiple sites, including Oceans Deeply, Malnutrition Deeply, and Peacebuilding Deeply. Since then, News Deeply site has "paused publication" on all of its news sites.
Syria Deeply
Syria Deeply was the first News Deeply site. Journalist Lara Setrakian had been covering the Syrian conflict for major news organizations and set out to create the site as a more consistent and centralized source of news on the subject. Setrakian had grown frustrated with the way a news consumer had to try to bring together small pieces of information from multiple sources, and had the idea for a more focused resource.
The site took form following a meeting with crowdsourcing and citizen journalism company Ushahidi, where s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noddy%2C%20Toyland%20Detective | Noddy, Toyland Detective (French: Oui-Oui, Enquêtes au Pays des Jouets) is a computer-animated series featuring the character Noddy created by Enid Blyton. The series was produced by DreamWorks Animation Television and Gaumont Animation. Commissioned by France Télévisions, it premiered on March 26, 2016, on the platform Zouzous, and aired on France 5, on April 2, 2016.
Characters
Main
Noddy (voiced by Louis Ashbourne Serkis in Series 1 and Santiago Winder in Series 2 in the British English version, Valin Shinyei and Antonio Mattera in the American English version, and Brigitte Lecordier in the French version) is an investigator in Toyland. Whenever Noddy finds a mystery difficult to solve, and says “This investigation is really hard”, Bumpy, Big Ears, or Revs usually encourages him, and he always goes back to what Big Ears/ Mr. Squeaks always says, “A good investigator looks and looks again”, “thinks and thinks again”, or “investigates and investigates again”. Whenever he knows that he’s solved the case, the bell on his blue hat rings, and he says “Ring a Ding”. He also uses his pad to help him solve cases to compare what he has taken photos of and asks, “who wears…”?, or “who has…?”
Bumpy the Dog is Noddy's dog and trusty sidekick. He licks Noddy’s face, whenever he says,this investigation’s really hard, and afterwards thanks Bumpy and then quotes Big Ears.
Big Ears (voiced by Jonathan Kydd) is Noddy's neighbour and mentor. He is a squeaky toy brownie. He is known as Mr. Squeaks in the North American dub. Prior to Noddy starting his investigation, Big Ears always asks him, “How are you going to solve this one Noddy”?, of “what are you going to do today Noddy?” Whenever Noddy solves a case, he says to him, “Well done Noddy, you’ve solved the investigation, how did you do it? Noddy then does a trick by twirling his pad on his finger, and says, “Thanks”, and explains how he did it.
Revs is Noddy's red and yellow car which is alive and communicates by using the horn. He can also transform into a helicopter.
Supporting
Pat-Pat (voiced by Martha Howe-Douglas) is one of Noddy's closest friends. She's a creative, kind and friendly Panda plush toy who wears a pink dress. She has three smaller panda friends called the Pockets. The Pockets are extremely high-energy and excitable. When running they transform into black and white tennis balls.
Deltoid (voiced by Bob Golding) is a male, futuristic toy superhero with a white sleeveless shirt, and tall, blonde hair. He is the strongest toy in all of Toyland, and aspires to be brave and noble, but is sometimes afraid and naive. He may have a crush on Smartysaurus. He usually makes statements like; “I, deltoid…” or “ha ha ha ha”, when showing off his athletic skills.
Smartysaurus (voiced by Jess Robinson) is a female, blue toy dinosaur who wears a white lab coat and clear goggles. She is a super smart scientist. She often adds "-saurus" or "-asarus" to the ends of words like when she describes hers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%202016 | This is a list of Italian films first released in 2016 (see 2016 in film).
External links
Italian films of 2016 at the Internet Movie Database
2016
Films
Italian |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Michael%27s%20Church%2C%20Penrhoslligwy | St Michael's Church is the parish church of Penrhoslligwy, a village near Moelfre in the north-east of the island of Anglesey, in Gwynedd, Wales. With datable components from around 1400, the building is listed at Grade II* and was restored in 1865. (Penrhoslligwy is also sometimes written Penrhos Lligwy or Penrhos-Lligwy; the spelling Penrhoslligwy is used by the Church in Wales.)
References
External list
15th-century church buildings in Wales
Grade II* listed churches in Anglesey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roads%20in%20North%20Korea | Roads in North Korea are classified into seven levels: motorways, and roads from level 1 to 6. Roads are the secondary means of transport in North Korea, after rail transport. The road network is underdeveloped. Roads are generally in poor condition, are little used and only a small part of the network is paved.
History
General overview
The development of the road network in North Korea began after the Korean War (1950-1953).
The road network is divided into three main routes: east coast, west coast and east-west link. The low financial resources and the mountainous terrain have placed severe constraints on the development of the road system. Roads are generally underdeveloped, due to restrictions on travel, fuel problems and the near-absence of private cars.
Road construction
The roads were restored in the 1950s after being damaged during the Korean War, then the 1960s saw the creation of paved roads around the centre of Pyongyang. In the 1970s many expressways were built, followed by the 1980s when a network for Tourist Transport emerged, the 1990s continued this policy and added roads for the country's Special Economic Zones.
The leader Kim Il-sung announced that: "The purpose of the roads was to solve the problem of traffic in remote mountain areas and to enable agricultural equipment to reach cultivated land. But roads must not be built on cultivated land. It is totally unacceptable to turn farmland into a road"..
Students have been involved in road construction projects since the 1960s. Kim Il-sung took part in the widening of a road between the centre of Pyongyang and a district to the north-east of the capital, a distance of around 16 kilometres. This experience was then presented by Kim Il-sung as a model for student participation in construction projects.
For the construction of the Pyongyang-Nampo motorway, North Korea mobilised the population on a massive scale, calling on students, office workers and labourers to take part. Much of the work was carried out by hand.
Maintenance and management
In 1978, a specialised road agency was set up.
Members of the Workers' Party, workers and the army build and maintain the roads.
Class 5 and 6 roads are maintained by cooperative farms and state-run farms. In addition, the entire population is mobilised two weeks a year, during "road lovers' week", and takes part in road maintenance.
Classification system
In 1949, a regulation on the management of roads established the creation of 5 categories for roads: expressways and other roads with levels from 1 to 4.
On 10 February 1964, the 4-level system was reformed into 6 levels, to improve the organisation of road management and maintenance.. Since 1964, roads in North Korea have been divided into seven categories: motorways and six levels of general roads..
Road characteristics
North Korea's road network has been shaped by the strong geographical constraints and topographical features of its territory.
Generally speaking, main roads |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Clunes%3A%20Islands%20of%20Australia | Martin Clunes: Islands of Australia (also known as Islands of Oz) is a three part Australian documentary television series produced by Prospero Productions for the Seven Network. The series is hosted by Martin Clunes and will follow Clunes exploring various islands off the Australian mainland.
Background
The program received funding from Screen Australia in December 2013. The series is produced by Prospero Productions and Buffalo Pictures, and produced by Julia Redwood, Ed Punchard, Bill Jones and Philippa Braithwaite. The series is an adaptation of Islands of Britain, also starring Clunes and produced by Buffalo Pictures.
Filming began in 2016.
Broadcast
The series debuted on the Seven Network on 7 October 2016.
DVD
In the UK the DVD of the series was released in March 2017
Episodes
References
2016 Australian television series debuts
Seven Network original programming
English-language television shows
2010s Australian documentary television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aslak%20Tveito | Aslak Tveito (born 17 February 1961) is a Norwegian scientist in the field of numerical analysis and scientific computing. Tveito is the Managing Director of the Simula Research Laboratory, a Norwegian research center owned by the Norwegian Government, and is Professor of Scientific Computing at the University of Oslo.
Education and career
Tveito obtained an MSc degree in Numerical Analysis from the University of Oslo, Department of Informatics in 1985. He obtained PhD from the same department in 1988, focusing on numerical solution of partial differential equations.
In 1991 Tveito joined the Applied Mathematics department at SINTEF as a research scientist and from 1993 to 1997 held the position of Chief Scientist. He was appointed Professor of Numerical Analysis at the University of Oslo, Department of Informatics in 1994.
In 1997 Tveito co-founded Numerical Objects, a company that commercialized the Diffpack software, and served on its board until 2001.
Tveito joined the Simula Research Laboratory upon its establishment in 2001 and has been its Managing Director since 2002. The scientific computing activities at Simula have been awarded the top grade, Excellent, in all international evaluations in their lifetime (2001-2015) During this time he has retained his Professorship at the University of Oslo, and also served as Chairman of the Board of Simula Innovation (2006-2008), Kalkulo (2006-2008), Simula School of Research and Innovation (2007-2010), Simula UiB (2016-2017), Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering (2018-2019) and the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (2021-).
Tveito is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.
Research
Tveito's research has included the numerical solution of linear systems arising from the discretization of partial differential equations; the numerical and mathematical analysis of hyperbolic conservation laws; mathematical models of two-phase flow; upscaling; nonlinear water waves; the numerical solution of the Black-Scholes equations; parallel computing for partial differential equations; and numerical software tools. In his early career he focused on numerical analysis, before shifting to research on software and computing tools, parallel computing, and the application of computational models in science.
Since 2005 he has worked almost exclusively on mathematical and computational issues related to understanding the electrophysiology of the heart. He is involved in the Centre for Integrative Neuroplasticity (CINPLA) at the University of Oslo.
Authorship
Tveito has co-authored three research monographs [1, 2, 3] and two textbooks in scientific computing [4, 5]. He has co-edited seven books, and has published more than 100 papers in international journals, collections, and proceedings. A complete publication list can be found at Google Scholar.
Tveito is on the editorial board of Encyclopedia of Applied and Computational Mathematics.
Selected bibliography
Sundnes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission%20on%20Elections%20data%20breach | On March 27, 2016, hackers under the banner "Anonymous Philippines" hacked into the website of the Philippine Commission on Elections (COMELEC) and defaced it. The hackers left a message calling for tighter security measures on the vote counting machines (VCM) to be used during the 2016 Philippine general election on May 9. Within the day a separate group of hackers, LulzSec Pilipinas posted an online link to what it claims to be the entire database of COMELEC and updated the post to include three mirror link to the index of the database's downloadable files. The leaked files by LulzSec Pilipinas amounts to 340 gigabytes.
The website returned to normal at 03:15 (PST) on 28 March 2016. spokesperson, James Jimenez, stated on his Twitter account that, as they continue to scour the site, all databases would remain temporarily off.
The incident was considered the biggest private data leak in the Philippine history and leaving millions of registered voters at risk.
55 million registered voters are at risk due to the data breach according to security firm, Trend Micro potentially surpassing the Office of Personnel Management data breach which affected 20 million people.
A searchable website, called wehaveyourdata, was set up containing sensitive data on Filipino registered voters was set up as early as April 21. The website was taken down with the assistance of the U.S. Department of Justice since the domain of the website was bought from a US-based web hosting company. The website itself was found to be hosted in Russia.
Extent of the breach
Trend Micro conducted its own investigation on the extent of the data breach. It found that 1.3 million records of Overseas Filipino voters, which included passport numbers and expiry dates were included in the data dumps by the hackers. The security firm found the breach as "alarming" since it said that the data are easily accessible to the public were in plain text. It also added that 15.8 million record of fingerprints along with a list of people who have run for office since the 2010 elections were found by the firm's investigation.
The firm also found files concerning candidates running in the election with the filename "VOTESOBTAINED" which the firm infers to reflect the number of votes received by the particular candidates. It said that the figures of the "VOTESOBTAINED" files were set to NULL at the time Trend Micro conducted its investigation.
The Commission on Elections chairman, Andres Bautista said that he was told that no confidential information was leaked, saying the breach would not affect the election body's preparation for the 2016 elections. The commission also emphasized that the database on its website is accessible to the public and no sensitive information is hosted on the website. It said that the results website that the election body is planning will be hosted in a different website with a different and better set of security measures. It further added that the database might be f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Tsao | Victor Tsao (born 1951), or Ts'ao Ying-wei (), is a Taiwanese-born American entrepreneur and hardware engineer. Tsao and his wife Janie co-founded Linksys, a consumer home networking pioneer, and sold the company to Cisco Systems for $500 million in 2003.
Early life and career
Born Ts'ao Ying-wei, Tsao received his bachelor's degree in computer science at Tamkang University in Tamsui, Taiwan. At the university, he met his future wife and business partner, Wu Jian (later known as Janie Tsao), an English literature major.
Janie Tsao moved to the United States in 1975, and a year later, Victor went to Chicago to attend graduate school at Illinois Institute of Technology, where he obtained his master's degree in computer science in 1980. The couple married and moved to California after graduate school. He worked in various computer-related jobs at Montgomery Ward, Kraft Foods, TRW and Taco Bell, and earned an MBA degree from Pepperdine University.
Linksys
In 1988, the Tsaos had an idea for a product that would allow multiple computers to share a printer. They started DEW International, later renamed Linksys, and financed the company with their own savings. It was founded in the garage of the Tsaos' Irvine, California home. Janie quit her job to run the company full-time. It was a gamble for the couple, who had two toddler sons aged 2 and 4 at the time. The company's product was a moderate success and by 1991, it was generating enough profit to allow Victor to also quit his job at Taco Bell and work on the company full-time.
During the company's early days, Tsao often worked 100 hours a week, involving himself with all aspects of the business. His wife took charge of sales, and was responsible for persuading the major retailers Fry's Electronics and Best Buy to sell Linksys products in 1995 and 1996, respectively. These were crucial breaks for Linksys, quadrupling its revenue to $21.5 million in 1996, and tripling it again to $65.6 million two years later.
In 1999, Tsao developed a $199 broadband router designed for home and small office networks, the first consumer router that cost less than $300. It proved to be Linksys' turning point. Sales increased to $206.5 million in 2000, and tech analyst Steve Baker called Linksys the inventor of consumer home networking. By 2004 the company owned 49% of the networking market, with sales estimated at $538 million.
The success of Linksys attracted the attention of the networking giant Cisco Systems, which contacted the Tsaos in 2002. In March 2003, Victor and Janie Tsao agreed to sell the company to Cisco in a deal valued at $500 million. The following year, the couple was jointly named Entrepreneur of the Year by Inc. Magazine. They continued to work for Cisco as senior vice presidents until 2007, when they retired from corporate life and shifted their focus to Miven Venture Partners, an investment firm they had founded in 2005.
Family
Tsao and his wife have two sons, Michael and Steven. Through the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avtova%C4%9Fzal%20%28Baku%20Metro%29 | Avtovağzal is a Baku Metro station. It was opened on 19 April 2016, connecting the Baku International Bus Terminal to the Baku Metro network.
See also
List of Baku metro stations
References
Baku Metro stations
Railway stations opened in 2016
2016 establishments in Azerbaijan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%20Murrell | Dr. Terry A. Murrell is the third president of Western Iowa Tech Community College in Sioux City, Iowa.
Education
Murrell earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Nebraska at Kearney in 1990, an MPA in Labor Management from the University of Louisville in 1995, and a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2005.
Career
During Murrell's tenure, the college has undergone renovations of existing facilities, seen upgrades to the student learning environments in the Kiser Building and community meeting area in the Corporate College. In 2014, another housing complex, Prairie Place, was added to the Sioux City Campus and a permanent WITCC Le Mars Center was opened.
Personal life
Murrell lives in Sioux City with his wife Amy.
References
University of Nebraska at Kearney alumni
University of Louisville alumni
University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni
Heads of universities and colleges in the United States
1968 births
Living people
People from Geneva, Nebraska |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSharp | X#, pronounced X sharp and often written XSharp, is an xBase-compatible programming language for the Microsoft .NET platform. X# has been built on top of Roslyn, the open source architecture behind the current Microsoft C# and Visual Basic .NET compilers.
The X# compiler is intended to support multiple dialects in the xBase programming language family. It supports Core, Visual Objects, Vulcan.NET, xBase++, Harbour, Foxpro and more. The project is intended as an opensource community effort, but is at the moment still partly closed source.
History
In 2015, the majority of the developers of the Vulcan.NET team started the XSharp compiler development due to conflicts with their previous employer GrafXSoft about future developments.
As a proof of concept and viability, the Vulcan IDE was recompiled and rebuilt in XSharp into XIDE.
On July 3, 2017, the first general release (version 1.0.1, Anjou) was published.
Version 2.5.1.0 was released on July 6, 2020.
The X# development team consists of former members of the Visual Objects and Vulcan.NET development teams.
Supported dialects
At the moment the following dialects are supported:
XSharp Core language: This language lacks a native dialect runtime, which means that there are no USUAL, ARRAY and other xBase familiar datatypes. Only the native available datatypes of .NET are available.
Vulcan.NET: The official runtime of Vulcan.NET can be used or the by XSharp provided alternative runtime.
Visual Objects (VO)
xHarbour
FoxPro/Visual FoxPro
In the future, the team intends to also support the following dialects:
XBase++
Technology
The XSharp compiler is based upon the Roslyn compiler and can make full use of the available .NET framework classes.
It integrates with all known editions of Visual Studio 2019, 2017 and 2015.
See also
Clipper (programming language)
Harbour (programming language)
Visual FoxPro
External links
XSharp Home web site
XSharp extension for Visual Studio (Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace
Open Source X Sharp repo source code on GitHub
.NET programming languages
XBase programming language family
Query languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africanews | Africanews is a pan-African multilingual news network located in Lyon, France previously
headquartered in Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo. The news channel began broadcasting online, and via TV and satellite on 20 April 2016. The newsroom has 30 journalists and around 55 technical staffers.
Broadcast
Like its sister channel Euronews, Africanews runs news and weather summaries every half-hour.
Languages
Currently, the programs are broadcast in both English and French - most on-screen graphics and captions are bilingual. In 2016, the channel planned to expand and accommodate most of the continents' population and roll out Swahili, Arabic, Dutch/Afrikaans, Spanish and Portuguese content soon.
Distribution
The channel currently is broadcast in 33 sub-Saharan countries and is accessible to 7.3 million homes via satellite and digital terrestrial television networks. Africanews is available in the UK, along with a number of other international news channels, via online video subscription service NewsPlayer+ and alongside Euronews on Freeview channel 271 via the Channelbox free streaming service.
Programmes
Good Morning Africa: Weekday news bulletin from 6am to 11am ;
Daily News: Weekday news bulletin from 11am to 6pm ;
Prime Edition: Weekday news bulletin from 6pm to 11pm ;
The Nightshift: Weekday news bulletin from 11pm to 6am ;
International Weekend: Weekend news bulletin ;
This is Culture!: Daily looks at culture and entertainment ;
Sci_Tech: Latest science and technology news ;
No|Comment: Pictures with no commentaries ;
Météo Africa / Météo World: Your daily weather forecasts ;
The Morning Call: Get all the top stories happened overnight or early mornings, broadcast weekday mornings from 6 to 11 (only one first hour is live, others are pre-recorded) ;
Business Africa: Weekly 8-minute roundup on business news and markets in Africa and worldwide, live Thursday nights at 8:15 (with repeats till 11:15 then Friday lunchtime and weekend) ;
Football Planet: Weekly 10-minute roundup on football news in Africa and Europe, live Monday nights at 8:15 (with repeats till 11:15 then Tuesday lunchtime) ;
Focus: In-depth world reports ;
The Global Conversation: Interview with an Africanews' journalist and an international decision-maker ;
International Edition: Weekly 10-minute analysis of the week's stories that make the headlines, powered by Euronews ;
Markets: Currencies, African markets and commodities ;
Timeout Africa: African events roundup.
See also
Euronews
References
2016 establishments in Africa
Television channels and stations established in 2016
International broadcasters
Multilingual news services
English-language television stations
French-language television stations
24-hour television news channels
Pan-African media companies
Companies of the Republic of the Congo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroPython | MicroPython is a software implementation of a programming language largely compatible with Python 3, written in C, that is optimized to run on a microcontroller.
MicroPython consists of a Python compiler to bytecode and a runtime interpreter of that bytecode. The user is presented with an interactive prompt (the REPL) to execute supported commands immediately. Included are a selection of core Python libraries; MicroPython includes modules which give the programmer access to low-level hardware.
MicroPython does have an inline assembler, and that code will run at full speed, but it's non-portable across different microcontrollers (as any assembly is).
The source code for the project is available on GitHub under the MIT License.
History
MicroPython was originally created by the Australian programmer and theoretical physicist Damien George, after a successful Kickstarter backed campaign in 2013. While the original Kickstarter campaign released MicroPython with an STM32F4-powered development board "pyboard", MicroPython supports a number of ARM based architectures. The ports supported in the mainline are ARM Cortex-M (many STM32 boards, RP2040 boards, TI CC3200/WiPy, Teensy boards, Nordic nRF series, SAMD21 and SAMD51), ESP8266, ESP32, 16-bit PIC, Unix, Windows, Zephyr, and JavaScript. Also, there are many forks for a variety of systems and hardware platforms not supported in the mainline.
In 2016, a version of MicroPython for the BBC Micro Bit was created as part of the Python Software Foundation's contribution to the Micro Bit partnership with the BBC.
In July 2017, MicroPython was forked to create CircuitPython, a version of MicroPython with emphasis on education and ease of use. MicroPython and CircuitPython support somewhat different sets of hardware (e.g. CircuitPython supports Atmel SAM D21 and D51 boards, but dropped support for ESP8266). As of version 4.0, CircuitPython is based on MicroPython version 1.9.4.
In 2017, Microsemi made a MicroPython port for RISC-V (RV32 and RV64) architecture.
In April 2019, a version of MicroPython for the Lego Mindstorms EV3 was created.
In January 2021, a MicroPython port for the RP2040 (ARM Cortex-M0+, on Raspberry Pi Pico and others) was created.
Features
Ability to run Python
MicroPython has the ability to run Python, allowing users to create simple and easy-to-understand programs. MicroPython supports many standard Python libraries, supporting more than 80% of the features of Python's most used libraries. MicroPython was designed specifically to support the typical performance gap between microcontrollers and Python. Python code is able to directly access and interact with hardware, with increased hardware possibilities that are not available using a normal Python application that is run on an operating system.
Code portability
MicroPython's utilisation of hardware abstraction layer (HAL) technology allows developed code to be portable among different microcontrollers within the same fa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego%20Star%20Wars%3A%20The%20Resistance%20Rises | Lego Star Wars: The Resistance Rises is a five-episode Lego Star Wars short form computer-animated series that debuted on Disney XD on February 15, 2016. A comedic prequel to the 2015 film Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it focuses on the exploits of Star Wars characters from that film, as well as legacy characters.
Characters
The first episode, "Poe to the Rescue", features characters Poe Dameron, C-3PO, Kylo Ren, Captain Phasma, Admiral Ackbar and BB-8. Later episodes include Han Solo, Chewbacca, Maz Kanata, Lando Calrissian, Rey, Unkar Plutt, and Finn.
Episodes
Cast
References
External links
2010s American animated television miniseries
2010s American comic science fiction television series
2016 American television series debuts
2016 American television series endings
American children's animated action television series
American children's animated space adventure television series
American children's animated comic science fiction television series
American computer-animated television series
Disney XD original programming
English-language television shows
Interquel television series
Resistance Rises
Star Wars animated television series
Star Wars: The Resistance Rises
Star Wars: The Resistance Rises
Animated television shows based on films
Television series by Lucasfilm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop-in%20replacement | Drop-in replacement is a term used in computer science and other fields. It refers to the ability
to replace one hardware or software component with another one without any other code or configuration
changes being required and resulting in no negative impacts. Usually, the replacement has some benefits including one or more of the following:
increased security
increased speed
increased feature set
increased compatibility (e.g. with other components or standards support)
increased support (e.g. the old component may no longer be supported, maintained, or manufactured)
See also
Pin compatibility
Plug compatible
Clone (computing)
Backward compatibility
Kludge
Software architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHMEC-FM | XHMEC-FM is a radio station in Amecameca on 91.7 FM, owned by the government of the State of Mexico. It is part of the Radio Mexiquense state radio network.
References
Radio stations established in 2002
Radio stations in the State of Mexico
Public radio in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossein%20Saki | Hossein Saki () is an Iranian football defender who plays for Sanat Naft in the Persian Gulf Pro League.
References
External links
Hossein Saki PersianLeague.com
Hossein Saki at FmDataba
Hossein Saki on instagram
Hossein Saki at soccerpunter.com
Hossein Saki https://www.teammelli.com/
1997 births
Living people
Iranian men's footballers
Foolad F.C. players
Esteghlal Ahvaz F.C. players
Sanat Naft Abadan F.C. players
Footballers from Khuzestan province
Men's association football defenders
Iran men's under-20 international footballers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism%20in%20Punjab%2C%20India | The state of Punjab is renowned for its cuisine, culture and history. Punjab has a vast public transportation and communication network.
Punjab receives many religious tourists, as the state is home to some of the holiest places in Sikhism, including the Harmandir Sahib and three of the five Panj Takht.
Gobindgarh Fort
Gobindgarh Fort of Maharaja Ranjit Singh at Amritsar is developed as a museum and theme park, as a repository of History of Punjab. It has showcase of Zamzama cannon and Koh-i-Noor diamond replica alongside programs of Whispering Walls Laser show, 7D show and night cultural shows.
Khatkar Kalan
Khatkar Kalan is a village between Banga and Nawanshar towns in Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar district in the Indian state of Punjab. This is the ancestral place of S.Bhagat Singh, the a well known freedom fighter of India. The district is named after his name, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar.
Neighboring villages sharing a boundary with Katkar Kalan are Thandian, Dosanjh Khurd, Manguwal, Karnana, Kahma, Bhootan, Bhukhari and the town of Banga.
Durgiana Temple
The Durgiana Temple, Durga Tirath and Sitla Mandir, is a main Hindu temple of Punjab (India) situated in the city of Amritsar. Though a Hindu temple, its architecture is similar to the Golden Temple of Sikh religion. It is named after name of the Goddess Durga, the chief Goddess deified and worshipped here.
Harike wetland
Harike bird sanctuary also known as Hari-ke-Pattan is wetland where lakhs of birds arrive from Siberia, Russia, Kazakhstan and other low temperature regions start arriving at the from mid-October up to December and stay here till March.
Jallianwala Bagh
Jallianwala Bagh is a garden suited In City Amritsar of Punjab. This monument signifies the nation. It was established in 1951. Jallianwala bagh is well known due to the massacre happened in this monument. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre occur on April 13, 1919, in which thousands of Indians died as General Dyer ordered their army to fire on the innocent Indians.
See also
Tourism in Amritsar
List of fairs and festivals in Punjab, India
References
External links
Punjab Tourism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longbing%20Cao | Longbing Cao (; born in 1969) is an AI and data science researcher at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His broad research interest involves artificial intelligence, data science, behavior informatics, and their enterprise applications.
Biography
Cao received one PhD in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems from Chinese Academy of Science and another PhD in Computing Science at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). He had a bachelor’s degree in electrical automation, and a master's degree in data communication. Cao took a Chief Technology Officer role managing business intelligence system design and implementation in China before he started his academic life in Australia in 2005.
He established and directed the first Australian research centre dedicated to big data analytics: Advanced Analytics Institute at UTS in 2011, where he built the analytics degrees: Master of Analytics and PhD Thesis: Analytics in 2011 at UTS.
He is the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (JDSA), publishing since 2016, and the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Intelligent Systems, the oldest AI publication in IEEE. He founded the IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA) and established and chairs:
IEEE Task Force on Data Science and Advanced Analytics
IEEE Task Force on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-cultural Computing
ACM SIGKDD Australian and New Zealand Chapter (ANZKDD)
Cao published several books and over 300 papers since 2005. Cao's research focuses include data science(data analytics, data mining, machine learning, information system), artificial intelligence and intelligent systems. His specialized areas include behavior informatics and behavior computing, domain-driven data mining and actionable knowledge discovery, agent mining, non-IID learning, and AI in finance and FinTech. He led a series of enterprise analytics/data science projects for major government and business in domains including social security, taxation, immigration, capital markets, insurance, banking, telecommunication, health, transport, services, and education.
Cao won the Eureka Prize for Excellence in Data Science in 2019 awarded by the Australian Museum.
References
Australian computer scientists
1969 births
Academic staff of the University of Technology Sydney
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe%20F.%20Italiano | Giuseppe Francesco (Pino) Italiano (born 16 March 1961) is an Italian computer scientist. He is a professor of computer science at LUISS University in Rome. He is known for his work in graph algorithms, data structures and algorithm engineering.
Education and career
He received his laurea summa cum laude in electrical engineering from Sapienza University of Rome in 1986, and a PhD in computer science from Columbia University in 1991.
He was research staff member (1991-1996) at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and a full professor of computer science at the University of Salerno (1994-1995), at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice (1995-1998), and at the University of Rome Tor Vergata (1998-2018), where he was department chair from 2004 to 2012. Since 2018 he is professor of computer science at LUISS University.
From 2008 to 2014, Italiano was editor-in-chief of the ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics.
Awards and honors
In 2016 Italiano was named an EATCS Fellow for his "fundamental contributions to the design and analysis of algorithms for solving theoretical and applied problems in graphs and massive data sets, and for his role in establishing the field of algorithm engineering".
Selected publications
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References
External links
1961 births
Living people
Italian computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Sapienza University of Rome alumni
Columbia University alumni
Academic staff of the University of Salerno
Academic staff of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Academic staff of the University of Rome Tor Vergata
Academic staff of the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent%20mining | Agent mining is an interdisciplinary area that synergizes multiagent systems with data mining and machine learning.
The interaction and integration between multiagent systems and data mining have a long history. The very early work on agent mining focused on agent-based knowledge discovery, agent-based distributed data mining, and agent-based distributed machine learning, and using data mining to enhance agent intelligence.
The International Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction has been held for more than 10 times, co-located with the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Several proceedings are available from Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
References
Distributed artificial intelligence
Data mining |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHAVR-FM | XHAVR-FM is a radio station on 89.1 FM in Alvarado, Veracruz, Mexico. It carries the news/talk programming of Radio Fórmula.
History
XEAVR-AM 1540 received its first concession on June 27, 1983. It was owned by Tomás Tejeda Lagos and broadcast as a 5 kW daytimer. In the 1990s, XEAVR was sold to Comunicación Radial del Golfo, S.A. de C.V. It also began broadcasting on 720 kHz with 10 kW day and 250 watts night.
XEAVR was transferred to the current concessionaire in 2007 and approved to migrate to FM in 2012.
References
1983 establishments in Mexico
News and talk radio stations in Mexico
Radio stations in Veracruz
Radio stations established in 1983
Radio Fórmula |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Cloud | The My Cloud product line comprises personal network-attached storage (NAS) devices and multi-purpose servers, designed and marketed by Western Digital Corporation (WD). My Cloud devices are available in storage capacities of 2 terabytes, 3 terabytes, 4 terabytes, and 8 terabytes, with a higher-end model offering up to 16 terabytes.
Hardware
My Cloud employs a Mindspeed Comcerto 2000 dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 Communication processor running at 650 MHz. The gigabit Ethernet port is powered by a Broadcom BCM54612E Gigabit Ethernet transceiver. Additional hardware components include 256 megabytes of Samsung K4B2G1646E DDR3 random access memory and 512 kilobytes of Winbound 25X40CL flash memory. The internal storage drive utilized is a WD Red 2 terabyte hard drive. Cooling for the My Cloud system relies on fanless air convection..
My Cloud OS and Dashboard
The My Cloud OS, a proprietary operating system My Cloud OS (operating system), is pre-installed on all My Cloud devices and facilitates management of the NASs. It boasts a user-friendly graphical interface and offers customization options. Moreover, some users have identified that the operating system is based on Linux, sporting user-friendly graphical user interface and SSH accessibility.
This operating system is proprietary, however, others have found the operating system to be Linux, with a graphical user interface, but also accessible. which comes pre-installed on all My Cloud devices.
Compatibility and Applications
My Cloud apps
My Cloud is designed to be compatible with various platforms, including personal computers, Apple Macs, Android devices, and iOS devices. Western Digital Western Digital provides applications that enable seamless interaction with My Cloud devices.
Incidents
On March 26, 2023, Western Digital encountered a cyberattack that led to unauthorized access to company systems and data theft. As a precautionary measure, the company temporarily suspended some services, including My Cloud, on April 2. The suspension lasted for ten days, during which users were unable to remotely access files stored on their WD NAS devices. After the security assessment was completed, My Cloud functionality was restored.
References
Network-attached storage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain%20driven%20data%20mining | Domain driven data mining is a data mining methodology for discovering actionable knowledge and deliver actionable insights from complex data and behaviors in a complex environment. It studies the corresponding foundations, frameworks, algorithms, models, architectures, and evaluation systems for actionable knowledge discovery.
Data-driven pattern mining and knowledge discovery in databases face such challenges that the discovered outputs are often not actionable. In the era of big data, how to effectively discover actionable insights from complex data and environment is critical. A significant paradigm shift is the evolution from data-driven pattern mining to domain-driven actionable knowledge discovery. Domain driven data mining is to enable the discovery and delivery of actionable knowledge and actionable insights.
Domain driven data mining has attracted significant attention from both academic and industry.
There was a workshop series on domain driven data mining during 2007-2014 with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining and a special issue published by the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
There are also various new research problems and challenges in the last decade, where the incorporation of domain knowledge into data mining processes and models, such as deep neural networks, graph embedding, text mining, and reinforcement learning, is critically important.
Actionable knowledge
Actionable knowledge refers to the knowledge that can inform decision-making actions and be converted to decision-making actions. The actionability of data mining and machine learning findings, also called knowledge actionability, refers to the satisfaction of both technical (statistical) and business-oriented evaluation metrics or measures in terms of objective and/or subjective perspectives.
The research and innovation on actionable knowledge discovery can be deemed a paradigm shift from knowledge discovery from data to actionable knowledge discovery and delivery by mining complex data for complex knowledge in either a multi-feature, multi-source, or multi-method scenario.
Actionable insight
Actionable insight enables accurate and in-depth understanding of things or objects and their characteristics, events, stories, occurrences, patterns, exceptions, and evolution and dynamics hidden in the data world and corresponding decision-making actions on top of the insights. Actionable knowledge may disclose actionable insights.
References
Data mining |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Premium | Star Premium (formerly known as Fox+ and Fox Premium) was a multiplex suite of premium Latin American subscription television channels owned by The Walt Disney Company Latin America. The network competed with HBO Latin America and its programming consisted mostly of non-dubbed movies and series with Spanish and Portuguese subtitles.
The network ceased broadcasting on February 1, 2022, in Spanish-speaking Latin America and on March 31, 2022, in Brazil with content being available on Star+ streaming service launched by Disney in the region.
History
The network was launched in Latin America, excluding Brazil, on June 1, 1997, by LAPTV, a joint-venture between Universal Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Fox Entertainment Group and Paramount Pictures. In 2013 LAPTV was integrated into Fox International Channels Latin America and the channel package was renamed the following year as Fox+ and later as Fox Premium. The suite was renamed Star Premium on February 22, 2021, as Disney de-emphasized use of the Fox brand.
In 2012, the channels were rebranded and aligned under Moviecity brand name.
MovieCity (founded in 1997), became MovieCity Premieres
CityMix (1997), became MovieCity Hollywood
CityStars (2004), became MovieCity Classics
CityVibe (2007), became MovieCity Action
CityFamily (2009), became MovieCity Family
CityMundo (2011), became MovieCity Mundo
The first five channels also were launched in high definition in 2012, along with video on demand and Internet streaming being added, though they lost Universal Pictures films after HBO gained the rights to their films. Fox Latin America purchased the CineCanal and MovieCity networks in 2009. LAPTV itself was integrated into FLA itself in 2013.
In 2014, Fox International Channels Latin America announced the re-branding of the MovieCity multiplex as Fox+, along with the streaming service Fox Play+. Another network, Fox Comedy, was also established.
The network was launched in Brazil in February 2016 with 2 channels, along with rebrand of MovieCity as Fox 1 and MovieCity Action as Fox Action. The network became simply Fox Premium on March 11, 2017, with Fox 1 again rebranded to Fox Premium Series.
On November 27, 2020, Disney announced that they would rebrand the Fox branded channels in Latin America to Star on February 22, 2021, as it pushed the Star branding from regional Asian use to worldwide outside of North America. Though the rebranding of these networks would be short-lived, it saved Disney brand licensing fees to Fox Corporation for the continued use of the Fox trademark on active television networks.
With the changes made by Disney of the closure of 100 networks worldwide, including Latin America, in addition to the launch of Star+ in the region that took place on August 31, 2021, the channels were discontinued on January 31, 2022, as well as Fox Sports in South America and several other networks at the end of March in the region.
Channels
Spanish-speaking Latin America & Caribbean
Braz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday%20Times%20Rich%20List%202016 | The Sunday Times Rich List 2016 is the 28th annual survey of the wealthiest people resident in the United Kingdom, published by The Sunday Times on 24 April 2016. Long-term compiler Philip Beresford was joined by Robert Watts for the 2016 list.
An estimated wealth of £103 million is required for entry in the 2016 list. Newly added to the list for the first time, and ranked in the top 100, are John Grayken, Christo Wiese, Sunil Vaswani & Family, and Martin Moller.
Top 20 fortunes
See also
Forbes list of billionaires
References
External links
Sunday Times Rich List
Sunday Times Rich List
2016 in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Zimmerman%20%28disambiguation%29 | Thomas Zimmerman (1838–1914) was a writer and translator.
Thomas Zimmerman may also refer to:
Thomas G. Zimmerman, inventor of the data glove
Thomas F. Zimmerman (1912–1991), General Superintendent of the Assemblies of God
See also
Deadmau5 (Joel Thomas Zimmerman, born 1981), Canadian music producer, DJ, and musician |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arricano%20Real%20Estate%20plc | Arricano Real Estate plc is a public limited company operating in the field of commercial real estate, one of the big developers and shopping centre network operators in Ukraine. The company deals with full cycle of retail real estate development, from purchase of land property and construction to shopping mall operation.
Arricano Real Estate plc is a company having European investments, European standards and approaches to business management. The company is managed by the team of European and Ukrainian top-managers. The activity of Arricano Real Estate plc is controlled by the board of directors, which consists of three independent non-executive, one executive and two non-executive directors. The directors report to the shareholders regarding the issues of the group's performance, its achievements and long-term plans.
History
Arricano Real Estate plc was established on 31 January 2008, as a limited liability company Arricano Trading Limited. The current company name was adopted after its reorganization on 12 September 2012.
In 2005, a majority stakeholder of Arricano Real Estate plc – Retail Real Estate S.A. (Luxembourg) – started operating at Ukrainian commercial real estate market through its branch companies. Phase one of Kyiv shopping and entertainment complex Sky Mall in 2007. In order to provide for further development of the projects, financing from JSC UkrSibbank was obtained amounting to US$13 million.
The next remarkable event took place in 2008, when on 11 October, Sun Gallery shopping centre having gross leasable area (GLA) of was opened in Kryvyi Rih.
The same year, Arricano entered into credit facility agreement with European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in Ukraine under which conditions it was possible to obtain a maximal amount of financing of US$139,307,000.
Branch companies of Retail Real Estate S.A., are consolidated into a group of companies headed by Arricano as a holding company for the purpose of further construction of professional shopping malls and management of commercial real estate in Ukraine.
In 2009, the construction of Sun Gallery shopping centre in Simferopol was completed and phase one was opened, and in 2010, the opening of phase two of one of the biggest shopping centres in Kyiv, Sky Mall, with total area (GBA) amounting to , including the leasable area (GLA) of , took place.
Dragon-Ukrainian Properties & Development plc (DUPD) investment fund purchased 35% of shares of Arricano Trading Limited, investing the amount totalling to $30 million.
Launching of the fourth project implemented by Arricano took place in Zaporizhia in 2011 with the opening of City Mall shopping and entertainment complex having gross leasable area (GLA) of .
In 2012, RayON shopping centre, gross leasable area (GLA) of which is 24 350 sq. m., was set in operation in Kyiv. The same year, the construction of Prospekt shopping mall in Kyiv started.
In 2013, Arricano obtained 4 credit facilities from Ukrainian a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFZ%20%28file%20format%29 | SFZ is a plain text file format that stores instrument data for software synthesizers. The SFZ format was developed by René Ceballos (founder of rgc:audio software) and continues to be used by companies such as Cakewalk, Plogue and Garritan. SFZ is a royalty-free format and can be used by software developers for both free and commercial purposes. The SFZ Format is widely accepted as an open standard to define the behavior of a musical instrument from a bare set of sound recordings.
Similar file formats are the open Decent Sampler format.dspreset and the proprietary format of Native Instruments Kontakt .nki, .nkm.
A simple example of an SFZ file:
<group>
lovel=0
hivel=127
<region> trigger=attack pitch_keycenter=60 lokey=30 hikey=61 sample=SubDir/01C4.wav
<region> trigger=attack pitch_keycenter=62 lokey=62 hikey=63 sample=SubDir/02D4.wav
<region> trigger=attack pitch_keycenter=64 lokey=64 hikey=64 sample=SubDir/03E4.wav
<region> trigger=attack pitch_keycenter=65 lokey=65 hikey=66 sample=SubDir/04F4.wav
<region> trigger=attack pitch_keycenter=67 lokey=67 hikey=68 sample=SubDir/05G4.wav
<region> trigger=attack pitch_keycenter=69 lokey=69 hikey=70 sample=SubDir/06A4.wav
<region> trigger=attack pitch_keycenter=71 lokey=71 hikey=71 sample=SubDir/07B4.wav
<region> trigger=attack pitch_keycenter=72 lokey=72 hikey=73 sample=SubDir/08C5.wav
<region> trigger=attack pitch_keycenter=74 lokey=74 hikey=75 sample=SubDir/09D5.wav
<region> trigger=attack pitch_keycenter=76 lokey=76 hikey=108 sample=SubDir/10E5.wav
The SFZ format isn't maintained by a single company or group, and supported features can vary between individual synthesizers. The official page at the Cakewalk web-site is no longer available, however descriptions of the SFZ opcodes can be found on various websites.
Applications exist that provide a point-and-click GUI for creating SFZ files, as an alternative to editing the text directly.
References
External links
Sfzformat
Ariaengine
SFZ opcodes list at LinuxSampler.org
Computer file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware%20ESXi%20compatible%20hardware | Motherboards
IOMMU Supported hardware including VMWare info can be found here too
Lists of computer hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famously%20Single | Famously Single is an American reality television series that premiered on June 14, 2016, on the E! network. The series follows eight single celebrities who all move in together and try to solve their romantic problems.
Production
The show premiered on June 14, 2016.
The show was renewed for a second season that premiered on June 25, 2017.
Cast
Season 1
Brandi Glanville television personality, known for appearing on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Pauly D television personality and disc jockey, known for starring in MTV's reality show Jersey Shore.
Aubrey O'Day singer-songwriter and television personality.
Josh Murray television personality, winner of the tenth season of reality competition series The Bachelorette.
Jessica White model.
Willis McGahee former American football running back.
Somaya Reece Latin music artist, appeared on VH1's Love & Hip Hop: New York.
Calum Best television personality and model.
Dr. Darcy Sterling - Relationship Expert, Psychotherapist
Laurel House - Dating & Empowerment Coach and "Screwing The Rules" Author
Robert Mack - Positive Psychology Expert and "Love from the Inside Out" Author
Season 2
Tiffany Pollard reality television personality on Flavor of Love, I Love New York, New York Goes to Hollywood, New York Goes to Work, Celebrity Big Brother, Family Therapy with Dr. Jenn, Botched and The Next:15.
Dorothy Wang reality television personality known from Rich Kids of Beverly Hills.
Malika Haqq reality television personality known for appearing on Hollywood Divas, Dash Dolls, Keeping Up with the Kardashians and its spin-offs.
Karina Smirnoff professional dancer from Dancing with the Stars.
Ronnie Ortiz-Magro reality television star on Jersey Shore.
Chad Johnson reality television personality on The Bachelorette.
David McIntosh fitness model.
Calum Best British socialite.
Dr. Darcy Sterling - Relationship Expert, Psychotherapist
Robert Mack - Positive Psychology Expert and "Love from the Inside Out" Author
Episodes
Season 1 (2016)
Season 2 (2017)
Broadcast
The series debuted in the United States on June 14, 2016. Internationally, the series premiered in Australia on the local version of E! on June 16, 2016.
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2016 American television series debuts
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Los Angeles
E! original programming
2017 American television series endings
American dating and relationship reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20Network%20Star%20%28season%2012%29 | The twelfth season of the American reality television series Food Network Star premiered May 22, 2016 on Food Network. Food Network chefs Bobby Flay and Giada de Laurentiis returned to the series as judges.
This season featured thirteen contestants rather than twelve; the thirteenth contestant, Martita Jara (who originally appeared in the series' eighth season), was chosen via a three-week spin-off series called Comeback Kitchen, where seven former Food Network Star contestants competed for a chance to participate in season 12 of the main series. Comeback Kitchen was hosted by chef Tyler Florence and chef/actress Valerie Bertinelli; and it premiered on May 8, 2016, although it initially became available on demand in some markets in April 2016. This season also continued the inclusion of Star Salvation, a six-week webseries that featured the most recently eliminated contestant competing against the remaining previously eliminated contestants for a chance to re-enter the main Food Network Star competition.
Unlike previous seasons, executives Bob Tuschman and Susie Fogelson did not assist in the judging; nor did chief executive Brooke Johnson appear in the finale to introduce the winner (Tuschman left Food Network and Johnson retired prior to the start of the season).
Contestants
Winner
Tregaye Fraser – Atlanta, Georgia
Runners-up
Jernard Wells – Atlanta, Georgia
Damiano Carrara – Moorpark, California
Eliminated
Havird Usry – Augusta, Georgia
Aaron Crumbaugh – Spokane, Washington
Melissa Pfeister – Los Angeles, California
Martita Jara – San Diego, California
Monterey Salka – Nashville, Tennessee
Rob Burmeister – Staten Island, New York
Joy Thompson – Thomasville, North Carolina
Erin Campbell – Woodbury, Minnesota
Ana Quincoces – Coral Gables, Florida
Yaku Moton-Spruill – San Francisco, California
Contestant progress
: Because of the challenge outcome, the judges did not select a winning team. Instead, they identified the three best individual cooks.
: Yaku returned to the competition after winning Star Salvation.
: Melissa did not appear in the finale.
: Damiano was eliminated from the final three midway through the finale.
(WINNER) The contestant won the competition and thus became the next Food Network Star.
(RUNNER-UP) The contestant made it to the finale, but did not win.
(HIGH) The contestant was one of the selection committee's favorites for that week.
(IN) The contestant performed well enough to move on to the next week.
(LOW) The contestant was one of the selection committee's least favorites for that week, but was not eliminated.
(OUT) The contestant was the selection committee's least favorite for that week, and was eliminated.
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: Chris was eliminated after the mentor challenge.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus%20%28concurrent%20constraint%20programming%20language%29 | Janus is a computer programming language partially described by K. Kahn and Vijay A. Saraswat in the paper "Actors as a special case of concurrent constraint (logic) programming" in 1990. It is a concurrent constraint language without backtracking.
Janus models concurrency through the use of bag channels. Code that needs to send a message to a process does so by constraining a bag to be the union of another bag and the singleton bag of the message. The other bag is then available to be constrained for sending subsequent messages.
The process receives the message by matching the bag to a pattern that says it is the union of some singleton and some other bag. The logic of the bag channels produces a property shared by the actor model, namely that the order of arrival of the messages is not guaranteed. However, unlike actors in the actor model, processes in Janus can pass around their "mailboxes" so to speak, in the form of
bags, and can hold more than one. This ability to pass mailboxes around and hold more than one is inherited in computer programming language ToonTalk, which is influenced by Janus.
Janus, the programming language, is named after Janus, the two-faced Roman god, because every logical variable in Janus has as its two "faces", two aspects that can be passed as arguments. These are called the asker and the teller. These represent, respectively, the right to ask the value of the variable (or some characteristic of the value) and the right to tell the value (or to tell some constraint on what the value can be). The asker and teller aspects can be passed around as arguments independently of each other. Neither right implies the other right. The syntax of the language prevents copying a teller or exercising it more than once. Logical contradiction is statically prevented, according to Kahn and Saraswat.
References
VA Saraswat, KM Kahn, J Levy (1990). "Janus: A step towards distributed constraint programming." NACLP.
VA Saraswat, M Rinard, P Panangaden (1991). "The semantic foundations of concurrent constraint programming." POPL.
David Gudeman, Koenraad De Bosschere, Saumya K. Debray (1992). "jc: An Efficient and Portable Sequential Implementation of Janus". Proc. Joint International Conference and Symposium on Logic Programming.
Concurrent programming languages
Logic programming languages
Constraint programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus%20%28time-reversible%20computing%20programming%20language%29 | Janus is a time-reversible programming language written at Caltech in 1982. The operational semantics of the language were formally specified, together with a program inverter and an invertible self-interpreter, in 2007 by Tetsuo Yokoyama and Robert Glück. A Janus inverter and interpreter is made freely available by the TOPPS research group at DIKU. Another Janus interpreter was implemented in Prolog in 2009. The below summarises the language presented in the 2007 paper.
Janus is an imperative programming language with a global store (there is no stack or heap allocation). Janus is a reversible programming language, i.e. it supports deterministic forward and backward computation by local inversion.
Syntax
We specify the syntax of Janus using Backus–Naur form.
A Janus program is a sequence of one or more variable declarations, followed by a sequence of one or more procedure declarations:
<program> ::= <v-decl> <v-decls> <p-decl> <p-decls>
<v-decls> ::= <v-decl> <v-decls> | ""
<p-decls> ::= <p-decl> <p-decls> | ""
Note, Janus as specified in the 2007 paper, allows zero or more variables, but a program that starts with an empty store, produces an empty store. A program that does nothing is trivially invertible, and not interesting in practice.
A variable declaration defines either a variable or a one-dimensional array:
<v-decl> ::= <v> | <v> "[" <c> "]"
Note, variable declarations carry no type information. This is because all values (and all constants) in Janus are non-negative 32-bit integers, so all values are between 0 and 232 − 1 = 4294967295. Note however, that the Janus interpreter hosted by TOPPS uses regular two's complement 32-bit integers, so all values there are between −231 = −2147483648 and 231 − 1 = 2147483647. All variables are initialized to the value 0.
There are no theoretical bounds to the sizes of arrays, but the said interpreter demands a size of at least 1.
A procedure declaration consists of the keyword procedure, followed by a unique procedure identifier and a statement:
<p-decl> ::= "procedure" <id> <s>
The entry point of a Janus program is a procedure named main. If no such procedure exists, the last procedure in the program text is the entry point.
A statement is either an assignment, a swap, an if-then-else, a loop, a procedure call, a procedure uncall, a skip, or a sequence of statements:
<s> := <x> <mod-op> "=" <e> | <x> "[" <e> "]" <mod-op> "=" <e>
| <x> "<=>" <x>
| "if" <e> "then" <s> "else" <s> "fi" <e>
| "from" <e> "do" <s> "loop" <s> "until" <e>
| "call" <id> | "uncall" <id>
| "skip"
| <s> <s>
For assignments to be reversible, it is demanded that the variable on the left-hand side does not appear in the expressions on either side of the assignment. (Note, array cell assignment has an expression on both sides of the assignment.)
A swap (<x> "<=>" <x>) is trivially reversible.
For conditionals to be reversible, we provide both a test (the <e> after "if") and an assert |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroweb | Metroweb S.p.A. is a fiber-optic network operator based in Milan, Italy. In 2011 it was acquired by F2i Metropolis, a sub-holding company for F2i First Fund (via F2i Reti TLC) and Intesa Sanpaolo (via IMI Investimenti). The current owner of the company was Metroweb Italia, a sub-holding company for F2i First Fund and Italian Strategic Fund.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20X.%20Zhang | James X. Zhang is an American health economist and health services researcher at the University of Chicago known for his innovative approaches in exploring complex data to measure a range of factors influencing healthcare delivery and outcomes.
Zhang initially worked with Nicholas Christakis, and the products included a novel methodology for identifying married couples in the Medicare claims to study mortality, morbidity, and health care use among the married elderly, and a novel claims-based dataset exploiting substantial cross-set linkages to study end-of-life care.
Zhang's research addressed the significance of comorbidity in clinical setting, and was among the most frequently cited papers in the field. His contributions have also included some other influential studies in the field of Medicare Part D program, and generic drug use. His more recent contributions with David O. Meltzer includes a novel method identifying patient with cost-related medication non-adherence using a big-data approach. His most recent contribution aims to advance the understanding of gender's role in healthcare behaviors and outcomes and the role of age advancement in health-related behavioral changes.
Zhang has also contributed to the advancement of understanding regarding patterns of concentration in healthcare spending and in drug utilizations. He showed that the concentration of healthcare spending is present even in patient populations with the same high-cost condition, such as heart failure, and that varying comorbidities are one substantive contributor to such concentration. He has also shown that, regarding the relationship between market mechanisms and drug prices, the observed positive relationship between the decreasing utilization of brand-name drugs and their increased prices can be explained in part by increases in market concentration of the brand-name drugs, despite the competition from generic drugs.
In addition, Zhang has made contributions that advance the understanding of the role of health insurance with respect to quality of and access to care among older patients with diabetes (a high-cost, high-resource-utilization patient population). His research demonstrated that insurance plays a more variable and nuanced role than commonly thought. He showed that while those without insurance are the least likely to meet quality-of-care measures, provision of health insurance such as Medicaid alone is not necessarily sufficient for the delivery of high-quality care.
Beyond econometric and statistical approaches, Zhang has contributed to the health sciences by introducing and applying machine-learning techniques to prognostic modeling for patients with lung cancer. His research showed that, while the traditional statistical approach and machine-learning approach have similar performance in identifying the most important predictive variables, the order of variable importance is more robust in the machine-learning model than in traditional statistical mo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte%20Plateau | Brigitte Plateau is a French computer scientist. A former student of the École Normale Supérieure at Fontenay-aux-Roses majoring in Mathematics (option in Probability Theory), she is a Doctor of Information Studies. A University Professor at Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP) since 1988, since February 2012 she has been the General Administrator of the Grenoble INP cluster.
Plateau is president of the AFDESRI (Association of Women Leaders of Higher Education, Research and Innovation) since September 2014 and Allistene (Alliance of the Digital Sciences and Technologies) since November 2014.
Childhood
Born to a father who was an engineer and a mother who was a teacher, as a child of 7 or 8, Plateau enjoyed solving maths problems.
Career
At the age of 18, Plateau had wanted to become a medical doctor, but her father advised against it. After studying at the École Normale Supérieure and , Brigitte Plateau submitted in 1980 a postgraduate thesis (DEA) in computer science at the University of Paris XI and in 1984, a state computer thesis. She obtained a tenured research position(fr) at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), then taught as a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland in the United States. In 1988, she was appointed full professor by Grenoble Polytechnic Institute, assigned to Ensimag and to the laboratory of Computer Engineering. In 1999, she created the IT and distribution Laboratory (Grenoble INP-UJF-CNRS) that she headed until 2004. In January 2007 Plateau created the Grenoble Informatics Laboratory associated with the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA). As of 2014, Plateau was in charge of 500 computer scientists at the laboratory. Her research work is on the performance of computer systems, in particular distributed and parallel systems. She is studying queueing models, distributed algorithms and massively parallel computers (by simulation and observation). She is an expert in high speed calculations using massive parallelism.
In 2010, Brigitte Plateau became director of the Ensimag school in Grenoble-INP. In February 2012, she was elected director of the group Grenoble-INP, the first woman to have this position. She was re-elected for a term of 4 years in February 2016.
In November 2014, she became president of the AFDESRI whose goal is to fight against the glass ceiling that affects women in the academic field. She also directs the Allistene, making her the first woman president of a research alliance.
She has participated in the national scientific bodies CNRS, ANR, INRIA, and the Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR).
Awards and distinctions
2011: Knight of the Legion of Honour
2012: Grand Prize of the EADS Corporate Foundation (IT) of the French Academy of Sciences
2015: Officer of the National Order of Merit
Selected publications
Plateau, Brigitte. "On the stochastic structure of parallelism and synchronization models for distribu |
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