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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keren%20Elazari | Keren Elazari (; born ), also known as k3r3n3, is an Israeli cybersecurity analyst, writer, and speaker. She is a senior researcher at the Tel Aviv University Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center.
Early life and education
Elazari was born in and grew up in Tel Aviv, Israel. Her father is Ami Elazari, the CEO of an electric company and a former member of the Israel Defense Forces intelligence group, Unit 8200. Her mother works for an airline. Internet became available in Tel Aviv when Elazari was eleven or twelve years old, and she says she learned English and learned about hacking in online chat rooms. In 1995, when she was 14, she saw the film Hackers. She said the story, which portrayed a young group of hackers as heroes, served as inspiration for her to become a white-hat hacker.
Elazari was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces, where she asked to be placed in a role relating to information security. She ultimately served in the army for a total of ten years, both in the standing army and later in the reserve, and was a cybersecurity officer in the intelligence arm. She attended Tel Aviv University, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in history and philosophy of science and ideas and her Master of Arts in security studies. She also has the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification, which she earned in 2007.
In 2004, she organized with Neora Shem-Shaul Y2hack4, the second Israeli hackers conference.
Career
Elazari is a senior researcher at the Tel Aviv University's Cyber Research Center. She was also a teaching fellow at Singularity University in California from 2012 until at least 2018. Her areas of research include cyberwarfare and politics. Outside of academia, Elazari was a white-hat hacker, and continues to work as a security consultant. In the past she has worked with various companies and organisations, including as a security specialist and industry analyst with Gigaom Research, and as an adviser to the cryptocurrency technology company Epiphyte.
Elazari runs BSides Tel Aviv, a hacking and cybersecurity research conference in Tel Aviv. She also runs a professional meetup for women in cybersecurity.
Elazari has given several talks about the positive impact of hackers, and has spoken and written about the dynamic between hackers, the government, and private companies. In 2014, Elazari gave a popular TED talk titled "Hackers: The Internet's Immune System". She spoke about hackers, the ethics of hacking, and the importance of engaging with hackers to improve cybersecurity. She was the first Israeli woman to give a TED Talk. She spoke at DEF CON 22 in 2014, delivering a talk titled "Empowering Hackers to Create a Positive Impact", and has spoken at other conferences including the Atlantic Security Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2015. Elazari has written articles in publications including Scientific American and Wired.
Publications
References
Further reading
External links
1980s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidsticks | Kidsticks is the sixth studio album by English singer-songwriter Beth Orton. The album was produced by Orton alongside Andrew Hung from the band Fuck Buttons, who provided drum and synth programming. The album includes contributions from Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear, George Lewis Jr from Twin Shadow, and composer Dustin O’Halloran. Kidsticks was released on 27 May 2016, following extensive airplay of the singles "Moon" and "1973" on BBC 6Music and elsewhere.
Release and promotion
Orton was criticised over her music video for the song "1973" in which she is shown spray painting a federally protected Joshua tree and other desert plant life. After an outcry from the local community, which included a petition on Change.org, the music video was removed online. Orton publicly apologised and the Mojave Desert Trust responded positively to her outreach, stating, "We appreciate that Beth Orton regrets her prior actions, and that she intends to educate others about the natural beauty of the Mojave Desert, and the responsibility we collectively share for protecting this unique environment from vandalism and harm."
Critical reception
The Guardian wrote that "Kidsticks is a real reinvention: not so much a return to her electronic roots as a bold exploration of fresh territory." Philip Sherburne, writing for Pitchfork, suggested that "a picture emerges of Orton that's anxious, playful, and even supremely relatable. There are love songs here, and falling-out-of-love songs, and sometimes it takes a while to tell which is which." Writing for The New York Times, Ben Ratliff noted that, Orton and collaborator Andrew Hung "created a sound for the record that seems to be made in the image of her voice's middle range. Which is to say, a bit weary, a bit monochromatic."
Track listing
Charts
References
2016 albums
Beth Orton albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog32 | Arity/Prolog32 is an extended version of Prolog, a logic programming language associated with artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. It was originally developed at the Arity Corporation by Peter Gabel, Paul Weiss and Jim Greene.
Arity/Prolog32 allows a developer to create and execute Prolog programs for Windows, which are also operable on Linux using WINE. The software includes a compiler and interpreter written in Prolog, C, Assembler. The interpreter provides debugging support, and can be invoked from compiled code for applications that require dynamically modifiable code. It can either produce stand-alone programs, dynamic-link libraries, or applications where the code becomes subjugated within another system (one written, for example, in C). The software has been applied in various ways across a range of industries. For example, in the clothing industry, it was used to address differentials in quantity related to size, while in education, it provided a semi-automatic tool for teaching aids. A grammatical analyzer was implemented with SWI-Prolog, and after it was tested and analyzed with the Airty/Prolog32 interpreter and in the study of protein folding simulation.
References
Logic programming languages
Prolog programming language family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USBKill | USBKill is anti-forensic software distributed via GitHub, written in Python for the BSD, Linux, and OS X operating systems. It is designed to serve as a kill switch if the computer on which it is installed should fall under the control of individuals or entities against the desires of the owner. It is free software, available under the GNU General Public License.
The program's developer, who goes by the online name Hephaest0s, created it in response to the circumstances of the arrest of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, during which U.S. federal agents were able to get access to incriminating evidence on his laptop without needing his cooperation by copying data from its flash drive after distracting him. It maintains a whitelist of devices allowed to connect to the computer's USB ports; if a device not on that whitelist connects, it can take actions ranging from merely returning to the lock screen to encrypting the hard drive, or wiping all data on the computer. However, it can also be used as part of a computer security regimen to prevent the surreptitious installation of malware or spyware or the clandestine duplication of files, according to its creator.
Background
When law enforcement agencies began making computer crime arrests in the 1990s, they would often ask judges for no knock search warrants, to deny their targets time to delete incriminating evidence from computers or storage media. In more extreme circumstances where it was likely that the targets could get advance notice of arriving police, judges would grant "power-off" warrants, allowing utilities to turn off the electricity to the location of the raid shortly beforehand, further forestalling any efforts to destroy evidence before it could be seized. These methods were effective against criminals who produced and distributed pirated software and movies, which was the primary large-scale computer crime of the era.
By the 2010s, the circumstances of computer crime had changed along with legitimate computer use. Criminals were more likely to use the Internet to facilitate their crimes, so they needed to remain online most of the time. To do so, and still keep their activities discreet, they used computer security features like lock screens and password protection.
For those reasons, law enforcement now attempts to apprehend suspected cybercriminals with their computers on and in use, all accounts both on the computer and online open and logged in, and thus easily searchable. If they fail to seize the computer in that condition, there are some methods available to bypass password protection, but these may take more time than police have available. It might be legally impossible to compel the suspect to relinquish their password; in the United States, where many computer-crime investigations take place, courts have distinguished between forcing a suspect to use material means of protecting data such as a thumbprint, retinal scan, or key, as opposed to a password or passcode, which |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salling%20%28disambiguation%29 | Salling is a peninsula in Denmark. Salling may also refer to
Salling Clicker, a suite of computer programs to enable the remote control of a computer from a mobile phone
Salling (department store) in Denmark
Salling (surname) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomocup | Gomocup is a worldwide tournament of artificial intelligences (AI) playing Gomoku and Renju. The tournament has been played since 2000 and takes place every year. As of 2016, it is the most famous and largest Gomoku AI tournament in the world, with around 40 participants from about 10 countries.
Rules
Gomocup has been played in the freestyle Gomoku rule with the board size of 20 since it was started in 2000. In 2009, the standard Gomoku rule was added into Gomocup as a tournament, in which the board size is 15 and more than five in a row is not considered to be a win. In 2016, the Renju rule was also added into Gomocup, with a board size of 15 and forbidden moves for black. In particular, since there are a large number of participants in the freestyle Gomoku tournament, the freestyle Gomoku tournament is divided into several leagues, and the fast game tournament is introduced.
To get rid of the fact that there is a winning strategy for the player who plays first in Gomoku, balanced openings have been prepared by Gomoku experts since 2006. Games would be started from these balanced openings, and neither side would have a big advantage from the very beginning.
AI vs. Human Tournament
There were two AI vs. Human tournaments held in the Czech Republic in 2006 and 2011.
In 2006, the top 3 programs in Gomocup had a tournament with 3 of the top 10 players in Piškvorky online. There were 2 games between each pair of AI and human players. The result was one win, one draw and one loss for AIs, and the total score was 3:3.
In 2011, the tournament was between the top 4 programs in Gomocup and 4 players at the top of the Czech Gomoku rating list. Similar to the 1st tournament, there were 2 games between each pair of AI. This time there were 3 draws and 1 win for AIs, and the total score was 5:3.
Elo Rating
The Elo rating system for Gomocup was built in 2016 and calculated with all the historical tournament results ever since. The rating is calculated with the open-source tool BayesElo, with a few parameters modified to get adapted to the Gomoku game. There is a rating list for each game rule. The Elo ratings are updated every year after the Gomocup tournament finishes.
Results
The results for the Gomocup tournaments since 2000 is in the following.
References
Abstract strategy games
Traditional board games
Japanese games
Game artificial intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor%20Processing%20Unit | Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is an AI accelerator application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) developed by Google for neural network machine learning, using Google's own TensorFlow software. Google began using TPUs internally in 2015, and in 2018 made them available for third party use, both as part of its cloud infrastructure and by offering a smaller version of the chip for sale.
Comparison to CPUs and GPUs
Compared to a graphics processing unit, TPUs are designed for a high volume of low precision computation (e.g. as little as 8-bit precision) with more input/output operations per joule, without hardware for rasterisation/texture mapping. The TPU ASICs are mounted in a heatsink assembly, which can fit in a hard drive slot within a data center rack, according to Norman Jouppi.
Different types of processors are suited for different types of machine learning models. TPUs are well suited for CNNs, while GPUs have benefits for some fully-connected neural networks, and CPUs can have advantages for RNNs.
History
The tensor processing unit was announced in May 2016 at Google I/O, when the company said that the TPU had already been used inside their data centers for over a year. The chip has been specifically designed for Google's TensorFlow framework, a symbolic math library which is used for machine learning applications such as neural networks. However, as of 2017 Google still used CPUs and GPUs for other types of machine learning. Other AI accelerator designs are appearing from other vendors also and are aimed at embedded and robotics markets.
Google's TPUs are proprietary. Some models are commercially available, and on February 12, 2018, The New York Times reported that Google "would allow other companies to buy access to those chips through its cloud-computing service." Google has said that they were used in the AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol series of man-machine Go games, as well as in the AlphaZero system, which produced Chess, Shogi and Go playing programs from the game rules alone and went on to beat the leading programs in those games. Google has also used TPUs for Google Street View text processing and was able to find all the text in the Street View database in less than five days. In Google Photos, an individual TPU can process over 100 million photos a day. It is also used in RankBrain which Google uses to provide search results.
Google provides third parties access to TPUs through its Cloud TPU service as part of the Google Cloud Platform and through its notebook-based services Kaggle and Colaboratory.
Products
First generation TPU
The first-generation TPU is an 8-bit matrix multiplication engine, driven with CISC instructions by the host processor across a PCIe 3.0 bus. It is manufactured on a 28 nm process with a die size ≤ 331 mm2. The clock speed is 700 MHz and it has a thermal design power of 28–40 W. It has 28 MiB of on chip memory, and 4 MiB of 32-bit accumulators taking the results of a 256×256 systolic array of 8-bit mu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renfe%20Class%20592 | Renfe Class 592 is a class of diesel multiple unit trains built by Macosa and Ateinsa for some Renfe Cercanías commuter railway networks in Spain, as well as various regional services in Spain and Portugal. The first units entered service in 1981. The class 592 was created with passenger comfort and build quality in mind, and to meet the goals of reliability, frequency and punctuality.
Services
Cities and routes
Class 592 units operate in the following cities:
Murcia/Alicante
Valencia
Other services
Class 592 units also operate in various regional rail services around Spain and parts of Portugal
Accidents and incidents
On 9 September 2016, a class 592.0 unit was derailed at O Porriño. Four people were killed and 49 injured, seven seriously.
Gallery
See also
Renfe
Cercanías
References
External links
Technical details
Renfe multiple units
Cercanías |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor%20Bubble | Professor Bubble was a live-action British pre-school series that aired on GMTV as part of its weekend children's programming block. It ran in 1996 and lasted for a series of 65 twenty-minute episodes. The series was later re-run on Tiny Living in 2000.
About the series
Professor Bubble was a live-action series that focused on a professor of the same name who was trying to create a book called The A–Z of Everything. The Professor has launched his house into the clouds, where it landed on Cloud 9. He observes the world and gathers information through the "bubblescope", a telescope that was created at the bottom of Cloud 9. The Professor is aided by his three helpers, Beamer, Mouse, and Quill, whose antics on Cloud 9 provide links to live-action educational segments. The series also contains scenes from the outside world with songs and stories from a character called Chromety, who appears and vanishes by holding her nose.
Episodes (not in chronological order)
The episodes below are uploaded to YouTube by VideotapeFTW
Treasure (1996)
Astronauts (1996)
Water (1996)
Bed (1996)
Body Language (1996)
See also
Puppetry
Children's television series
References
1996 British television series debuts
1997 British television series endings
1990s British children's television series
British preschool education television series
British television shows featuring puppetry
Breakfast television in the United Kingdom
ITV children's television shows
Television series by Mattel Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrocBITE | CrocBITE is an online database of crocodile attacks reported on humans. The non-profit online research tool helps to scientifically analyze crocodile behavior via complex models. Users are encouraged to feed information in a crowdsourcing manner. The uploaded information needs to be verifiable. The database provides key insights into crocodile attack patterns and draws inferences to save human lives.
About
The online database was established in by Dr Adam Britton, a researcher at Charles Darwin University, his student Brandon Sideleau and Erin Britton. It is a compilation of government records, individual reports, registered contributors and historical data. Brandon was instrumental in designing the database and work on the IT infrastructure. The program received funds from Economic and Social Research Council, United Kingdom to the tune of and unspecified resourced plus amount from Big Gecko Crocodilian Research, Crocodillian.com and Charles Darwin University.
The research already has yielded pertinent observations that provide inside into crocodile attacks. It was observed that most attacks on humans occur from bites of Saltwater crocodile as against the popular understanding of Nile crocodiles taking the top spot. This is not, however, believed to be the actual case, as most attacks by the Nile crocodile are believed to go unreported or only reported on a local level. The broad category of Nile crocodile attacks were segmented into West African crocodile and Crocodylus niloticus (the Nile Crocodile) species to get a clear understanding of their respective attack zones.
The objective is that the information will used by communities and conservation managers to help inform and educate people about how to keep safe. The information is vital for Australia and Africa where such attacks are more likely than in other parts of the world. This is the only database of its kind with such comprehensive collection of information made available online.
The database is no longer online and its founder Adam Britton is in custody having pleaded guilty to charges of bestiality in September 25 2023 .
See also
Crocodile attack
Battle of Ramree Island
References
External links
Official Website
Research projects
Crocodilian attacks
Animal attacks in Australia
Databases
Non-profit technology
Crocodilians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coach%20Steven | "Coach Steven" is the twentieth episode of the first season of American animated television series Steven Universe, which premiered on August 21, 2014 on Cartoon Network. It was written and storyboarded by Raven M. Molisee and Paul Villeco.
The episode features the debut of Sugilite (voiced by guest star Nicki Minaj), the fusion of Garnet and Amethyst. After witnessing the power of Sugilite, Steven becomes obsessed with becoming stronger, to the distress of Pearl, who believes he mistakes brute force for "real" strength.
Plot
The Crystal Gems arrive at the ancient Gem Communication Hub to destroy the malfunctioning antenna. Garnet (Estelle) asks Amethyst (Michaela Dietz) to fuse with her to destroy it. Pearl (Deedee Magno Hall) objects, cautious of the instability of Garnet and Amethyst's combined form, but Garnet dismisses her misgivings and fuses with Amethyst, producing Sugilite (Nicki Minaj). Reveling in her immense size and strength, Sugilite begins recklessly smashing the pillars of the antenna with her giant, wrecking-ball–like flail. When Steven (Zach Callison) is hit by debris, Pearl takes him home, leaving Sugilite to finish the demolition alone. Moments after they teleport out, falling debris destroys the warp pad.
Later, Steven shows off his injury to his friends Lars (Matthew Moy) and Sadie (Kate Micucci). When they mock how much Steven is making of a tiny cut, he proposes that they all need to become stronger, and enlists his father Greg (Tom Scharpling) to build a makeshift gym on the beach. Steven explains to Pearl what he's doing: he wants to be stronger so he can be more useful, like Sugilite. When Pearl tells him, "There are different ways of being strong," Steven retorts, "I want to be strong in the real way."
As Lars, Sadie, and Greg begin their workout, Pearl sings the song "Strong in the Real Way", lamenting Steven's admiration of Sugilite's brute strength and hoping she herself can be a more positive role model for him. Steven sings a second verse, coaching the others in their workout before beginning his own.
The next morning, Steven is too sore to move. Sugilite comes stomping up the beach, outraged that Pearl and Steven left her behind and unwilling to separate. She begins attacking Pearl and smashing Greg's gym. As Pearl despairs that she isn't strong enough to protect Steven, he grabs his megaphone and coaches her back into self-confidence. Heartened, Pearl allows Sugilite to chase her to the top of the hill, and then throws her spear at the cliff beneath Sugilite's foot so she loses her footing. Sugilite falls to the beach below, and her flail lands on her head, separating her. As Garnet and Amethyst reel on the sand, Pearl embraces them; and Garnet apologizes for not listening to Pearl's advice earlier.
Music
The episode features the song "Strong in the Real Way", performed by Deedee Magno Hall (as Pearl) and Zach Callison (as Steven), composed by series creator Rebecca Sugar. Guitars were performed by Stemage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alone%20Together%20%28Steven%20Universe%29 | "Alone Together" is the 37th episode of the first season of the American animated television series Steven Universe. It first aired on January 15, 2015, on Cartoon Network. The episode was written and storyboarded by Hilary Florido, Katie Mitroff, and series creator Rebecca Sugar.
In the episode, Steven, frustrated that he cannot fuse like the other Crystal Gems, unexpectedly fuses with his best friend Connie, marking the first appearance of their fusion Stevonnie.
Plot
As the episode begins, the Crystal Gems are trying to teach Steven (Zach Callison) to dance, hoping he will develop the power of fusion—the ability of Gems to merge their minds and bodies to form more powerful individuals. Steven has difficulty mastering the dance steps, and Pearl (Deedee Magno Hall) is unsure whether fusion is even possible for him, though Amethyst (Michaela Dietz) and Garnet (Estelle) have more confidence.
Later, Steven discusses his difficulties with Connie (Grace Rolek). She tells him she admires him for even trying, saying she's usually too nervous to dance in front of other people. Steven invites her to dance with him on the beach. As they dance, Steven's gem begins to glow, and he and Connie inadvertently fuse into a single individual—a tall, androgynous, beautiful teenager (voiced by AJ Michalka).
They show the Gems their fused form—dubbed “Stevonnie” by Amethyst. Pearl is perturbed by the unprecedented fusion of a Gem with a human, but Garnet is thrilled, and advises Stevonnie to “go have fun!”
Stevonnie revels in the capabilities of their fused body, running and diving on the beach. When they stop for a snack at The Big Donut, the employees Lars and Sadie (Matthew Moy and Kate Micucci) are flustered and amazed by their beauty. Steven and Connie, through Stevonnie's voice, briefly check in with each other to ensure that they are comfortable remaining fused. Steven's friend Sour Cream (Brian Posehn) meets Stevonnie, and invites them to a rave he's DJing later that night.
At the rave, Stevonnie's graceful and athletic moves on the dance floor draw everyone's attention and admiration. Stevonnie, feeling anxious at being the center of attention and the only person dancing, begins to experience a panic attack, visualizing their anxiety as a disco ball closing in around them. They are interrupted by Kevin (Andrew Kishino), an arrogant teenager who wants them to dance with him. Stevonnie flees the dance floor, feeling isolated.
Kevin follows them, invading Stevonnie's personal space and refusing to take no for an answer. Eventually, disgusted, they agree to dance with him. Stevonnie's violent and angry dance moves confuse and disconcert Kevin, and soon Stevonnie falls apart and . Kevin panics and leaves. Steven and Connie laugh with nervous relief, and Sour Cream showers them with glowsticks as they run about on the dance floor.
Production
Episodes of Steven Universe are written and storyboarded by a single team. "Alone Together" was written by Hilary F |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myra%20%28genus%29 | Myra is a genus of crabs in the family Leucosiidae.
SpeciesCrab Database
Myra affinis
Myra australis
Myra biconica
Myra brevimana
Myra celeris
Myra currax
Myra curtimana
Myra digitata
Myra elegans
Myra eudactylus
Myra fugax
Myra grandis
Myra hainanica
Myra intermedia
Myra mammilaris
Myra pernix
Myra subgranulata
Myra tumidospina
References
Crabs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Originals%20characters | The Originals is an American fantasy-drama television series picked up by The CW television network for their fall 2013 schedule, after a backdoor pilot for the series aired as an episode of The CW series The Vampire Diaries in April 2013. It is a spin-off of The Vampire Diaries, sharing similar themes and depictions of reality as its predecessor. The show revolves around three Mikaelson siblings, Klaus (Joseph Morgan), Elijah (Daniel Gillies), and Rebekah (Claire Holt), collectively known as "original vampires", or simply the "originals". The Originals is set in the city of New Orleans. It was created by Julie Plec.
Main characters
The following is a list of series regulars who have appeared in one or more of the series' five seasons. The characters are listed in the order they were first credited in the series.
Key
= Main cast
= Recurring cast
= Guest/Special Guest cast
Klaus Mikaelson
Played by Joseph Morgan
TVD recurring season: 2
TVD starring seasons: 3–4
TO starring seasons: 1–5
TVD special guest starring seasons: 5, 7
LG special guest starring season: 4
Also played by Aiden Flowers (young Niklaus) into seasons 1–2, 4
Niklaus Mikaelson (based on Klaus from "The Vampire Diaries" novels), more commonly known as Klaus, is an Original vampire, later known to be the Original Hybrid (half werewolf-half vampire).
In The Vampire Diaries
Klaus Mikaelson is a fictional character in the series. Klaus, his father (whom was later revealed to be his step-father), half-brothers, and half-sister became the very first vampires after their mother, a witch, cast a spell on them in order to protect them from werewolves. His mother was characterized as adulterous, and Klaus' biological father was a werewolf, which made Klaus the only original vampire-werewolf hybrid in existence. However, his werewolf powers were bound to the moonstone by a band of witches, which includes his mother. To release his werewolf powers a ritual, in which a werewolf, a vampire, and a Petrova doppelgänger have to be sacrificed, has to take place. The first Petrova doppelgänger Klaus found was Katerina Petrova, but she escaped Klaus with the moonstone and hung herself in order to become a vampire so that she would be useless for the ritual. Klaus then wanted revenge on Katerina, causing her to spend centuries running from him.
Hundreds of years later, Klaus finds Katerina and Elena Gilbert, the next Petrova doppelgänger, through Isobel Flemming. He kidnaps Katerina and made her torture herself. After collecting the moonstone, a werewolf, Jules, the Petrova dopplegänger, Elena, and turning Jenna Sommers into a vampire, he begins the ritual, and his werewolf side is released. He later blackmailed Stefan into helping him create more non-original werewolf-vampire hybrids, which he needed because he felt lonely, and this turned Stefan into a killer again. It was later revealed that he brought Stefan with him because they were once friends. After he found out that he ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress%20%281984%20video%20game%29 | Fortress is an isometric scrolling shooter written by Mat Newman, developed by Amcon and released by Pace Software on cassette tape for the BBC Micro home computer in 1984. It is based on the 1982 Sega arcade game Zaxxon. The isometric perspective gameplay was relatively unique for the BBC.
Gameplay
Fortress is an isometric scrolling shooter in which the player manoeuvres a starfighter along an alley-like terrain. The player craft burns fuel rapidly (even more when flying at altitude) and fuel tanks need to be destroyed to replenish the on-board fuel tank. If the craft runs out of fuel, it crashes. The player must avoid enemy gun turrets, rocket pits and fighters, and deal with additional problems of navigating over and through walls with force fields. The player has three lives.
Completing the three stages leads to the enemy headquarters which needs to be destroyed. The game then starts over from the beginning.
References
1984 video games
BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games
BBC Micro and Acorn Electron-only games
Video game clones
Video games with isometric graphics
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLT | HLT may refer to:
Computing
HLT (x86 instruction)
Human language technology
Places
Hamilton Airport (Victoria), Australia
Harrah's Lake Tahoe, a casino hotel in Stateline, Nevada, United States
Harveys Lake Tahoe, another casino hotel in Stateline
Other uses
Hilton Worldwide, a hospitality business
Nga La language, spoken in Burma (ISO 639-3: hlt)
Hurricane Liaison Team of the United States National Hurricane Center
See also
Halt (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20TV%20Japan | This is a list of current and former television programs broadcast by TV Japan in North America.
The network broadcasts a variety of Japanese programs, ranging from anime to drama.
Current programming
News
NHK News 7
News Check 11
News in Depth
News Watch 9
National capsule forecasts in Japanese from AccuWeather
Weekend Japanology
Drama
99.9
A Fading Summer
Aibō: Tokyo Detective Duo (Partners)
Contrail: Crime and Love
Good Partner
It's not that I can't marry. I don't marry
Jūhan Shuttai!
Kamen Rider Ghost
The Last Restaurant
The Most Difficult Romance
Nezumi-Kozo Running Around Edo 2
Sanadamaru
Toto Nee-chan: Fatherly Sister
Totto Television
Whispers from a Crime Scene
Music
AKB48 Show!
Banana Zero Music
The Covers
J-Melo
Music Station
Okaasan to Issho
NHK Nodo Jiman
Shounen Club (Pop Music Club)
School of Songs!
Song Concert
Songs of Japanese Spirit
Anime
Anpanman
Case Closed
Chibi Maruko-chan
One Piece
Tsukumogami Kashimasu
Waka Okami wa Shōgakusei!
Ninja Hattori-kun Returns
Kids
Kamen Rider Drive
Chatty Jay's Sundry Shop
Design Ah!
Fun with English
Fun with Japanese
Home Cooking DJ
Kid’s Discovery
Wan Wan Wonderland
Former programming
Anime
Aikatsu!
Aikatsu Stars!
Aikatsu Friends!
Aikatsu on Parade!
Anne of Green Gables (anime)
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day
Chihayafuru
DokiDoki! PreCure
Doraemon (2012-2014)
Dragon Ball
Dragon Ball GT
Dragon Ball Super
Dragon Ball Z
Fresh Pretty Cure!
Futari wa Pretty Cure
Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart
Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star
Go! Princess PreCure
HappinessCharge PreCure!
HeartCatch PreCure!
Hug! Pretty Cure
Kuroko's Basketball
Kirakira Pretty Cure a la Mode
Kiratto Pri Chan
Idol Time PriPara
March Comes in Like a Lion
Naruto
Naruto Shippuden
Pokémon
PriPara
Rin-ne
The Rose of Versailles
Sailor Moon
Sushi and Beyond
Smile PreCure!
Star Twinkle PreCure
Suite PreCure
Waccha PriMagi!
We All Love Sorajiro!
Witchy PreCure!
Yes! PreCure 5
Yes! PreCure 5 GoGo!
Yowamushi Pedal
Cartoons
Dexter's Laboratory
Ed, Edd n Eddy
Courage the Cowardly Dog
The Fairly OddParents
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
The Loud House
The Powerpuff Girls
SpongeBob SquarePants
Tom and Jerry
Winx Club
Numberblocks
Alphablocks
Bluey
Kids
Kamen Rider Fourze
Kamen Rider Wizard
References
NHK
Lists of television series by network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS%20malware | macOS malware includes viruses, trojan horses, worms and other types of malware that affect macOS, Apple's current operating system for Macintosh computers. macOS (previously Mac OS X and OS X) is said to rarely suffer malware or virus attacks, and has been considered less vulnerable than Windows. There is a frequent release of system software updates to resolve vulnerabilities. Utilities are also available to find and remove malware.
History
Early examples of macOS malware include MP3Concept (discovered 2004, a benign proof of concept for a trojan horse), Leap (discovered in 2006, also known as Oompa-Loompa) and RSPlug (discovered in 2007).
An application called MacSweeper (2009) misled users about malware threats in order to take their credit card details.
The trojan MacDefender (2011) used a similar tactic, combined with displaying popups.
In 2012, a worm known as Flashback appeared. Initially, it infected computers through fake Adobe Flash Player install prompts, but it later exploited a vulnerability in Java to install itself without user intervention. The malware forced Oracle and Apple to release bug fixes for Java to remove the vulnerability.
Bit9 and Carbon Black reported at the end of 2015 that Mac malware had been more prolific that year than ever before, including:
Lamadai – Java vulnerability
Appetite – Trojan horse targeting government organizations
Coin Thief – Stole bitcoin login credentials through cracked Angry Birds applications
A trojan known as Keydnap first appeared in 2016, which placed a backdoor on victims' computers.
Adware is also a problem on the Mac, with software like Genieo, which was released in 2009, inserting ads into webpages and changing users' homepage and search engine.
Malware has also been spread on Macs through Microsoft Word macros.
Ransomware
In March 2016 Apple shut down the first ransomware attack targeted against Mac users, encrypting the users' confidential information. It was known as KeRanger. After completing the encryption process, KeRanger demanded that victims pay one bitcoin (about at the time, about as of December 25, 2022) for the user to recover their credentials.
Mitigation
Gatekeeper is a built-in security feature of macOS meant to reduce malware execution by verifiying downloaded applications before they are launched for the first time.
MacOS 12.3 introduced XProtect Remediator, a tool which regularly scans the system for known malware.
References
Malware by platform |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper%20%28film%29 | Piper is a 2016 computer-animated short film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. Written and directed by Alan Barillaro, it was theatrically released alongside Pixar's Finding Dory on June 17, 2016. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 89th Academy Awards, becoming the first Pixar animated short to win the award since For the Birds in 2001.
The short film involves a hungry baby sandpiper learning to overcome her fear of water. The inspiration came from less than a mile away from Pixar Studios in Emeryville, California, where Barillaro, a veteran Pixar animator, would run alongside the shore and notice birds by the thousands fleeing from the water but returning between waves to eat.
Plot
A flock of sandpipers is hunting for food at a seashore by searching for bivalves exposed by receding waves and running away when the wave returns. A baby (named Piper) is taken to the shoreline by her mother so she can learn how to find her own food. However, she fails to pull away in time and is soaked wet by the incoming surf. The incident leaves Piper terrified of the water and she refuses to leave the nest. Soon, she is compelled to return to the shoreline by her hunger and notices a hermit crab digging in the sand. While she is watching the crab, a large wave comes in and submerges her. However, this time the crab tells Piper to open her eyes, allowing her to see large bivalves exposed by the wave. Excited, Piper overcomes her fear of water and learns how to catch the large bivalves when they are exposed underwater, catching enough to feed her entire flock.
Production
Alan Barillaro used new, cutting edge technology to create Piper over three years. In order to give the sandpipers and other birds visible in the background a realistic look, Barillaro and the short animation team visited beaches in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as the Monterey Bay Aquarium to study their appearance and behavior. The sandpipers' feathers in particular were rendered in minute detail.
Release
Piper was theatrically released on June 17, 2016, before Finding Dory. It was also included on the Blu-ray and DVD releases of the latter.
Reception
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Piper has approval rating based on reviews.
Eric Kohn of IndieWire gave the short film a grade of "A-", calling it a "gripping survival story in cute, charming clothing". He praised the animation for being "incredibly lifelike" and said that Pixar had taken the medium of the short film into "uncharted new territory" with its realistic animation. Kohn also felt that while the short's plot was simple, its narrative style was similar to that of Studio Ghibli films. Writing for Insider, Kirsten Acuna also praised the animation, calling the depiction of sand and water "incredibly real".
Peter Debruge of Variety wrote that Piper was "simple as a haiku and yet stunning" and called it the "uncontestable best" of that year's nominees for the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right%20Side%20Broadcasting%20Network | Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN), also known as Right Side Broadcasting, is an American conservative media company founded by Joe Seales in 2015. They are best known for their live stream coverage of Donald Trump's rallies, town halls, and public events on their YouTube channel.
As of June 2023, RSBN's channel has over 1.57 million subscribers and has received 235 million total views.
History
In July 2015, Joe Seales began live streaming rallies for then candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election. After his videos began to accumulate over a million views, Seales tapped into the demand for unedited Trump footage. Thus, Seales created Right Side Broadcasting to "show the full context" of Trump's speeches.
Since RSBN began gaining in popularity the company has accumulated hundreds of millions of views on its YouTube channel.
Platforms
RSBN is best known for its YouTube channel.
2016–2019 coverage
During the summer of 2016, the company started several shows with Wayne Dupree and pastor Mark Burns. During the third presidential debate in 2016, Donald Trump live streamed RSBN's coverage of the debates on his Facebook page. In October 2016, the company received $40,000 (~$ in ) in donations.
On October 24, in collaboration with the RSBN, Trump launched a nightly newscast on his Facebook page. Several commentators wondered whether the company may collaborate with Trump to form "Trump TV". Seales, in response, told Business Insider that the speculation was "unfounded." Trump told WLW that he was not interested in setting up the company after the election.
According to Seales, Trump "watched the network a lot" on his private jet during his 2016 presidential campaign and that Trump appreciated the company for showing his crowds. Seales has also stated that he was in regular communication with Dan Scavino, Trump's director of social media.
In 2016, RSBN was the official live streaming platform for the Trump campaign's Facebook page, where their footage reached almost 300 million views. Their YouTube channel grossed almost 120 million views.
On December 7, 2016, Right Side Broadcasting Network was given access to the White House Press Room during Donald Trump's presidency. After Trump's press conference on January 11, 2017, Drudge Report featured the network's feed on their front page.
On January 19, 2017, the network live-streamed the DeploraBall.
2020 presidential election coverage
Right Side Broadcasting Network continued covering all of the campaign rallies for President Donald Trump from the beginning of 2020. The first 2020 campaign rally took place in Toledo, Ohio on January 9, 2020. RSBN covered campaign rallies for Trump until he took a hiatus from campaigning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. RSBN began covering campaign rallies once more after President Trump began campaigning again with his June 2020 rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. RSBN also covered Trump's speech and fireworks celebration at Mount Rushmore on July 3, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ringer%20%28website%29 | The Ringer is a sports and pop culture website and podcast network, founded by sportswriter Bill Simmons in 2016 and owned by Spotify since 2020.
History
The Ringer was launched in March 2016 by Bill Simmons, who brought along several editors who had previously worked with him on Grantland, an ESPN-owned blog he operated from 2011 to 2015. At launch, the Ringer had a staff of 43 and focused primarily on sports and pop culture as content areas, with a few writers also working on technology and politics. HBO, the network on which Simmons hosted his weekly television program Any Given Wednesday one season in 2016, was an initial investor in the website.
The website was previously published on the Medium platform. In May 2017, The Ringer entered into an advertising and technology partnership with Vox Media (owner of SB Nation), under which Vox would handle advertising sales, and give the site access to its in-house publishing platform.
Former Grantland writers who have since written for or worked for The Ringer include Mark Titus, Shea Serrano, Ben Lindbergh, Robert Mays, Sean Fennessey, Chris Ryan, Mallory Rubin, Juliet Litman, Craig Gaines, Bryan Curtis, David Shoemaker, Ryan O'Hanlon, Danny Chau, Jason Concepcion, Riley McAtee, Joe Fuentes, and Tate Frazier.
In May 2018, The Ringer published a story by Ben Detrick about Bryan Colangelo, then the GM of the Philadelphia 76ers, and his apparent use of various Twitter accounts to criticize players and defend himself. This led to Colangelo's resignation on June 7, 2018.
In August 2019, The Ringers editorial staff voted to unionize with the Writers Guild of America, East. The union was voluntarily recognized by the Ringer's management four days later.
On February 5, 2020, subscription music streaming service Spotify announced it was acquiring The Ringer for an estimated $195 million and an additional $50 million in performance-driven incentives. Spotify chief content officer Dawn Ostroff stated that Simmons was "one of the brightest minds in the game and he has successfully innovated as a writer and content creator across mediums and platforms."
Content
Like the content on the website, the Ringers podcast network covers both sports and pop culture. The flagship podcast, The Bill Simmons Podcast, is an interview show hosted by Simmons, featuring other Ringer writers and podcast hosts as well as athletes, filmmakers, comedians, and pop culture figures. Popular podcast hosts include former Daily Show correspondent Larry Wilmore (host of Black on the Air) and James Beard Award-winning chef David Chang (The Dave Chang Show).
Former podcasts include Keepin' it 1600, a politics podcast featuring former Obama speechwriters Jon Favreau, Dan Pfeiffer, and others. After leaving the Ringer, the hosts of Keepin' it 1600 created a new podcast called Pod Save America as part of their own new media company, Crooked Media.
In 2017, The Ringer began the video podcast series Talk the Thrones, an aftershow for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoolSPICE | CoolSPICE is a computer-aided design tool for electronic circuit development. It is a version of the SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis) simulation tool that focuses on design and simulation for circuit operation at cryogenic temperatures, circuits operating with Wide-bandgap semiconductors, and simulation of thermal effects on circuit performance.
Introduction/Overview
The circuit simulation tool was developed from SPICE3f5, a version of Ngspice, by CoolCAD Electronics, LLC. It can model standard electronic applications, including radio frequency and audio circuits, but was created with a focus on modeling and designing circuits functioning at extreme temperatures ranging from 4K to 300K. The software is used for modeling both cryogenic-temperature CMOS circuits and high-power, high-temperature Silicon carbide (SiC)-power Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET) devices. It's also used to simulate the temperature changes of various electrical components that result from power dissipation during circuit operation. A freeware version of CoolSPICE is available for download on the web.
Development and Capabilities
Cryogenic Electronics Simulation
CoolSPICE simulates electronic circuits operating at cryogenic temperatures ranging as low as 4K which is the temperature of liquid Helium (He). The compact models used to carry out these circuit simulations were created for numerous CMOS processes; models were built on BSIM 4 and experimentally verified. BSIM 4 is a predictive MOSFET SPICE model for circuit simulation and CMOS development created by the BSIM Research Group in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. CoolSPICE also has device models for cryogenic temperature operation simulation of NMOS and PMOS from different technologies. The tool reads the net-list files of other similar circuit simulation tools such as Cadence.
Silicon carbide Power MOSFET Device Simulation
CoolSPICE has models for simulating Wide-bandgap semiconductor devices, which include power MOSFETs, SiC BJTs, and GaAs power FETs. The SPICE simulation models for SiC-power MOSFET devices for the software were developed using sub-circuits built around the standard BSIM MOSFET. Power devices have specific behaviors unique to themselves and certain BSIM equations have been modified in order to account for that factor. The drain-to-gate and drain-to-source capacitance terms were modified for the purpose of accounting for the different structures of power MOSFET devices. Due to these various modifications, the new BSIM equations required the introduction of new parameters to the already existing MOSFET parameter sets. The resulting new models with both common BSIM parameters as well as the newly introduced parameters necessitated by the modifications are the models used by CoolSPICE for simulations.
Thermal Modeling
CoolSPICE is used for performing thermal analysis of circ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backoff | Backoff is a kind of malware that targets point of sale (POS) systems. It is used to steal credit card data from point of sale machines at retail stores. Cybercriminals use Backoff to gather data from credit cards. It is installed via remote desktop type applications where POS systems are configured. It belongs to the POS malware family as it is known to scrape the memory of POS devices.
Operation
Backoff malware injects the malicious stub into the explorer.exe file to gain access to the POS machines and it scrapes the victim's machine memory from running the processes. It searches this memory for leftover credit card data after a payment card has been swiped. Cybercriminals have mutated different variants of Backoff while some of the variants are equipped with keylogging functionality. Some of the Backoff variants have C2 component which helps the malware to upload the victim's personal data, download the malware onto the victim POS machine and to uninstall the malware.
Incidents
Backoff Malware was aggressive and about 16.2% been infected in the third quarter of 2014. The survey by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) states that thousands of businesses have been infected by Backoff POS Malware.
Network security company Damballa records a 57 percent infection increase from Backoff malware during August 2014. Big companies like Home Depot, Target and Dairy Queen suffered from Backoff infection and many more smaller companies may be infected.
See also
Cyber electronic warfare
Cyber security standards
Cyber warfare
List of cyber attack threat trends
Proactive Cyber Defence
References
2014 in computing
Computer viruses
Cyberwarfare
Banking technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notobryon%20bijecurum | Notobryon bijecurum is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Scyllaeidae.
References
Pola M., Camacho-Garcia Y.E. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) Molecular data illuminate cryptic nudibranch species: the evolution of the Scyllaeidae (Nudibranchia: Dendronotina) with a revision of Notobryon. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 165: 311–336
Scyllaeidae
Gastropods described in 1937 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-flow%20integrity | Control-flow integrity (CFI) is a general term for computer security techniques that prevent a wide variety of malware attacks from redirecting the flow of execution (the control flow) of a program.
Background
A computer program commonly changes its control flow to make decisions and use different parts of the code. Such transfers may be direct, in that the target address is written in the code itself, or indirect, in that the target address itself is a variable in memory or a CPU register. In a typical function call, the program performs a direct call, but returns to the caller function using the stack – an indirect backward-edge transfer. When a function pointer is called, such as from a virtual table, we say there is an indirect forward-edge transfer.
Attackers seek to inject code into a program to make use of its privileges or to extract data from its memory space. Before executable code was commonly made read-only, an attacker could arbitrarily change the code as it is run, targeting direct transfers or even do with no transfers at all. After W^X became widespread, an attacker wants to instead redirect execution to a separate, unprotected area containing the code to be run, making use of indirect transfers: one could overwrite the virtual table for a forward-edge attack or change the call stack for a backward-edge attack (return-oriented programming). CFI is designed to protect indirect transfers from going to unintended locations.
Techniques
Associated techniques include code-pointer separation (CPS), code-pointer integrity (CPI), stack canaries, shadow stacks, and vtable pointer verification.
Implementations
Related implementations are available in Clang (LLVM in general), Microsoft's Control Flow Guard and Return Flow Guard, Google's Indirect Function-Call Checks and Reuse Attack Protector (RAP).
LLVM/Clang
LLVM/Clang provides a "CFI" option that works in the forward edge by checking for errors in virtual tables and type casts. It depends on link-time optimization (LTO) to know what functions are supposed to be called in normal cases. There is a separate "shadow call stack" scheme that defends on the backward edge by checking for call stack modifications, available only for aarch64.
Google has shipped Android with the Linux kernel compiled by Clang with link-time optimization (LTO) and CFI since 2018. SCS is available for Linux kernel as an option, including on Android.
Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology
Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) detects compromises to control flow integrity with a shadow stack (SS) and indirect branch tracking (IBT).
The shadow stack stores a copy of the return address of each CALL in a specially-protected shadow stack. On a RET, the processor checks if the return address stored in the normal stack and shadow stack are equal. If the addresses are not equal, the processor generates an INT #21 (Control Flow Protection Fault).
Indirect branch tracking detects indirect JMP or CALL inst |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cator%20Lane%20tram%20stop | Cator Lane is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) network, in the district of Broxtowe and suburb of Chilwell. It is situated on reserved track close to a crossing over Cator Lane, and has side platforms flanking the track. Trams run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day.
Cator Lane stop opened on 25 August 2015, along with the rest of NET's phase two.
References
External links
Nottingham Express Transit stops
Transport in the Borough of Broxtowe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS%2010 | iOS 10 is the tenth major release of the iOS mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc., being the successor to iOS 9. It was announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 13, 2016, and was released on September 13, that year. It was succeeded by iOS 11 on September 19, 2017.
iOS 10 incorporates changes to 3D Touch and the lock screen. There are new features to some apps: Messages has additional emojis and third-party apps can extend functionality in iMessage, Maps has a redesigned interface and additional third-party functions, the Home app manages "HomeKit"-enabled accessories, Photos has algorithmic search and categorization of media known as "Memories," and Siri is compatible with third-party app-specific requests, such as starting workouts apps, sending IMs, using Lyft or Uber or to use payment functions. iOS 10 is the final version to support 32-bit devices and apps. In iOS 10.3, Apple introduced its new file system, APFS.
Reviews of iOS 10 were positive. Reviewers highlighted the significant updates to iMessage, Siri, Photos, 3D Touch, and the lock screen as welcome changes. The third-party extension support to iMessage meant it was "becoming a platform," although the user interface was criticized for being difficult to understand. Third-party integration in Siri was "great," although the voice assistant was criticized for not having become smarter than before. Reviewers were impressed with the image recognition technology in Photos, although noting it was still a "work in progress" with a higher error rate than the competition. 3D Touch "finally feels useful" and "works in almost every part of the OS." The lock screen was "far more customizable than before," and reviewers enjoyed that notification bubbles could be expanded to see more information without needing to unlock the phone.
A month after release, iOS 10 was installed on 54% of iOS devices, a "slightly slower migration" than for the release of iOS 9, speculated as being caused by an early release issue that may have "put some users off downloading the update." User adoption of iOS 10 steadily increased in the following months, eventually totaling 89% of active devices in September 2017.
iOS 10 is the final version of iOS that supports the iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, and the fourth-generation iPad, as its successor, iOS 11, drops support for those models.
Overview
iOS 10 was introduced at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference keynote address on June 13, 2016. The first beta release was made available to registered developers following the keynote. Apple released the first public beta release on July 7, 2016.
iOS 10 was officially released on September 13, 2016. The initial release was problematic, with reports of people having their devices in recovery mode after updating.
System features
The Control Center was redesigned and split into three pages: one for general settings, such as quick toggles for airplane mode and orientation lock, one for audio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob%20%26%20Chyna | Rob & Chyna is an American reality television series starring Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna. The seven-part one-hour series premiered on September 11, 2016, on the E! cable network.
Production
The reality series was greenlit on June 1, 2016. Rob & Chyna follows the relationship of Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna as they prepare to welcome their first child. Six hour-long episodes were ordered, excluding a television special featuring the birth of Kardashian and Chyna's newborn. The show premiered on September 11, 2016. Jeff Olde, an executive vice president of the network, explained the reasons of giving Kardashian and Chyna their own series:
The series airs on E!, an American cable network which features mostly entertainment-related programming, and reality television series, including Keeping Up with the Kardashians, another series that both Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna have been part of. The show is produced by Bunim/Murray Productions and Ryan Seacrest Productions, which also produce Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Fate
On December 14, 2016, E! renewed the series for a second season consisting of eight episodes that was expected to premiere in 2017. In July 2017, E! confirmed the series was put on hold, and not on their current schedule.
Episodes
Reception
Dave Schilling, writing for The Guardian, panned the show by describing it as "painfully dull" and "astoundingly depressing". Bethonie Butler of The Washington Post noted its similarities to other shows featuring the Kardashian family, and said: "Aside from a comic book-esque visual effect that was used to transition scenes [...], Rob & Chyna is very much like the show that made the Kardashian family a household name".
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2016 American television series debuts
2016 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Television series by Bunim/Murray Productions
Television series by Ryan Seacrest Productions
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
Reality television spin-offs
E! original programming
Television shows related to the Kardashian–Jenner family
American television spin-offs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Biographical%20Database | The China Biographical Database (CBDB) is a relational database on Chinese historical figures from the 7th to 19th centuries. The database provides biographical information (name, date of birth and death, ancestral place, degrees and offices held, kinship and social associations, etc.) of approximately 360,000 individuals up until April 2015.
History
CBDB was originally started by the late Chinese historian Robert M. Hartwell. Hartwell first conceived of using a relational database to study the social and family networks of Song dynasty officials. Aware of the lack of large dataset research in social and economic history of medieval China, he took the first step to collect large sets of data himself and generate meaningful answers to historical changes through data analysis. One important legacy of Professor is program of massive data which he structured around
people,
places,
a bureaucratic system,
kinship structures and
contemporary modes of social association.
Before his death Professor Hartwell bequeathed the program, which by then consisted of more than 25,000 individuals, a bibliographic database of over 4500 titles, and multiple geo-reference tools to the Harvard Yenching Institute.
Later, Michael A. Fuller, Professor of Chinese Literature at UC Irvine, started to redesign the application. Professor Peter K. Bol at Harvard also has disseminated extensive digital information for quantitative analysis. As a joint project of Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, Institute of History and Philology of Academia Sinica (中研院歷史語言研究所), and Center for Research on Ancient Chinese History at Peking University (北京大學中國古代史研究中心), the database has been greatly expanded in temporal and coverage scope.
Sources
CBDB uses wide range of biographical sources to collect information about individuals. The main types of writings covered include biographical index, biography sections of official histories, funerary essays, epitaphs, local gazetteers, preface, writings, letters, and colophons in personal writing collections, and other governmental compiled records.
CBDB is a long-term open-ended project. It has incorporated sources from biographical indexes 傳記資料索引 for Song 宋 (completed), Yuan 元 (completed), and Ming 明, birth-death dates for Qing 清 figures and listing of Song local officials. CBDB is also cooperating with other databases such as Ming Qing Women's Writings (MQWW), Ming Qing Name Authority, and Pers-DB Knowledge Base of Tang Persons (Kyoto) to enrich its entries.
Limitations
CBDB aims at extracting large amount of data from extant sources through data mining techniques. As a result, social and kinship associations, such as might be known from an individual's literary collection, and funerary biographies are not exhaustive. Because of the nature of the sources, career data (e.g. ranks and positions a person held), will be biased toward higher offices. Since the database does not require in-depth research into each individuals, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bramcote%20Lane%20tram%20stop | Bramcote Lane is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) network, in the district of Broxtowe and suburb of Chilwell. It is situated on reserved track close to a crossing over Bramcote Lane, and has side platforms flanking the track. Trams run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day.
Bramcote Lane stop opened on 25 August 2015, along with the rest of NET's phase two.
References
External links
Nottingham Express Transit stops
Transport in the Borough of Broxtowe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaar%20Sahibzaade%3A%20Rise%20of%20Banda%20Singh%20Bahadur | Chaar Sahibzaade 2: Rise of Banda Singh Bahadur () is 2016 Indian Punjabi-language 3D computer-animated film, directed and produced by Harry Baweja. It is a sequel to the 2014 film Chaar Sahibzaade. The film was released on 11 November 2016.
Plot
The film is based on the struggle between Khalsa and Mughals. After the Battle of Muktsar, Guru Gobind Singh settled at Nanded. There he met Madho Das later Banda Singh Bahadur. Guru Gobind Singh baptised him and sent him along with Baj Singh, Binod Singh, Ram Singh, Daya Singh, Kahan Singh and 20 other Sikhs to Khanda, India to fight mughal tyranny in Punjab and also gave him Hukamnama for Sikhs to join his army on the way.
Banda Bahadur Singh camped at Bharatpur and freed the people of a village from local bandits. Then he fought Battle of Sonipat, Battle of Ambala and Kaithal and conquered them. In the Battle of Samana Banda Singh gained marvellous victory. At Samana Banda made land reforms and abolished the zamindari system and granted property rights to tillers of the land.
Then he fought battles at Malerkotla, Ghuram, Kesar, Shahabad, Ambala, Mustafabad, Nahan, Kapuri and conquered them. He fought the Battle of Rahon (1710) and captured Rahon. Thereafter Banda fought the Battle of Sadhaura and killed faujdar Osman Khan of Sadhaura.
In the Battle of Chappar Chiri Sikhs defeated Mughal army, Sikh General Fateh Singh beheaded Wazir Khan. Sikhs also killed Diwan Suchananda and Banda establish first Khalsa Raj in Punjab.
Marketing
On 13 October 2016, Eros Now Punjabi launched the official trailer of the film in Punjabi and Hindi language.
A virtual reality game has been installed to the theatres for younger audiences.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack of the movie is composed by Harry Baweja, Jaidev Kumar, Rabbi Shergill and Nirmal Singh. The song "Hun Kis Theen" is based on the poetry of Bulleh Shah.
Critical reception
The film received mixed reviews from critics. Rohit Vats of Hindustan Times gave the film 2.5 star out of 5. He praised the voice over and certain portions of the film but criticised the running time and the animation. Jasmine Singh of The Tribune who gave 4.5 stars out of 5 to the first film gave just 2 stars to the film saying "Chaar Sahibzaade- Rise of Banda Singh Bahadur sets high standard in animation, but in terms of story and screenplay the film could not blow the victory trumpet.". Nihit Bhave of The Times of India gave the film 3 stars praising the story but criticised the animation as he felt that " It is like watching Baahubali through a Chota Bheem filter.". The Indian Express gave the movie 2.5 stars out of 5 stating "Overall, this epic story will appeal only to Sikhs and those who have a keen interest in history."
Box office
In its first weekend, the film grossed 38.5 million from overseas.
The film collected 89.9 million from overseas at the end of 7 weeks.
Awards
See also
Punjabi cinema
List of indian animated feature films
References
External links
Films set |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%C3%BAs%20%28Metrovalencia%29 | Jesús is a station in the Metrovalencia network in the La Raiosa area of Valencia. It is served by line 1, line 2 and line 7.
The station was opened on 8 October 1988, when Metrovalencia was created. On 3 July 2006, a serious crash, which killed 43 people, occurred between the station and Plaça d'Espanya station. On 12 December 2010, the station was renamed Joaquín Sorolla, after the painter and to reflect its proximity to the high speed train station Joaquín Sorolla which opened a week after the name change. The name change was opposed by opposition political parties and residents groups, who considered it an attempt to forget the tragedy. Groups representing victims of the crash also criticised the name change, pointing out that the Joaquín Sorolla name would be more appropriate for the 2 metro stations, Bailén and Xàtiva, which were closer to the high-speed station. They requested that the name be altered to Jesús-Joaquín Sorolla. In February 2012, Valencia city council unanimously adopted their suggestion, changing the name to Joaquín Sorolla-Jesús. On 30 June 2016, the station reverted to its original name to mark the tenth anniversary of the metro accident.
References
Metrovalencia stations
Railway stations in Spain opened in 1988 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskdale%20Drive%20tram%20stop | Eskdale Drive is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) network, in the district of Broxtowe and suburb of Chilwell. It is situated on reserved track adjacent to Eskdale Drive, and has side platforms flanking the track. Trams run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day.
Eskdale Drive stop opened on 25 August 2015, along with the rest of NET's phase two.
References
External links
Nottingham Express Transit stops
Transport in the Borough of Broxtowe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inham%20Road%20tram%20stop | Inham Road is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) network, in the district of Broxtowe and suburb of Chilwell. It is on reserved track close to a crossing over Inham Road, and has side platforms flanking the track. Trams run at frequencies that vary between four and eight trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day.
Inham Road stop opened on 25 August 2015, along with the rest of NET's phase two.
References
External links
Nottingham Express Transit stops
Transport in the Borough of Broxtowe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Sinyangwe | Samuel Sinyangwe (born May 12, 1990) is an American policy analyst and racial justice activist. Sinyangwe is a member of the Movement for Black Lives, the founder of Mapping Police Violence, a database of police killings in the United States and the Police Scorecard, a website with data on police use of force and accountability metrics on US police and sheriff's departments. Sinyangwe is also a co-founder of We the Protestors, a group of digital tools that include Campaign Zero, a policy platform to end police violence and a co-host of the Pod Save the People podcast, where he discusses the week's news with a panel of other activists.
Early life
Sinyangwe was born May 12, 1990, to a Tanzanian father and a European Jewish mother who met while studying at Cornell University. He grew up in the College Park neighborhood of Orlando, Florida and attended Winter Park High School in the International Baccalaureate program. He has discussed the influence of his upbringing in Florida, where he was a black child often surrounded by white peers, on his eventual career trajectory; he was shaken and moved to action after the 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, where Sinyangwe had regularly attended soccer practice: "I was that kid. I could have been Trayvon. That’s why it hit me so personally and that’s why I realized that needed to be something that took the priority in terms of my focus."
Sinyangwe graduated from Stanford University, where he studied how race intersects with American politics, economics, and class.
Career
Sinyangwe started his career at PolicyLink with the Promise Neighborhoods Institute. As protests emerged in the wake of the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, he connected with Ferguson activists online. With DeRay Mckesson, Brittney Packnett and Johnetta Elzie, he began working to develop policy solutions to address police violence in America. Sinyangwe particularly noticed the absence of official government statistics on police violence and began compiling them from other sources like Fatal Encounters and KilledbythePolice.net, in order to challenge claims about police shootings being rare events or only resulting from resisting arrest.
With other activists, Sinyangwe founded We the Protestors, an organization aimed at developing a set of digital tools to support Black Lives Matter activism. Sinyangwe built projects including a database of police killings, Mapping Police Violence, and a platform of policy solutions to end police violence called Campaign Zero. Sinyangwe also serves as a data scientist for OurStates.org, a project focused on state legislatures and with Mckesson and Brittney Packnett founded the Resistance Manual, an open-source project aimed at connecting anti-racist activists with activists focused on intersecting issues. He has also been responsible for a number of CPRA requests for RIPA-formatted police stops data through the non-profit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliotheca%20Polyglotta | The Bibliotheca Polyglotta is a Norwegian database for Multilingualism project, lingua franca and science per global history at the University of Oslo. The aim of the project is according to pages is "producing a web corpus of Buddhist texts for using in multilingual lexicography. More generally, will the texts used for the study Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan."
References
Om databasen på UiOs nettsider
Bibliotheca Polyglotta
University of Oslo
Lexical databases
Corpus linguistics
Buddhist studies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wootware | Wootware.co.za is an online retailer of computer hardware and software geared towards enthusiast computing. It is based in Somerset West in the Western Cape, South Africa.
The company currently offers delivery only within South African borders via door-to-door courier services such as Dawn Wing (a division of DPD Laser), FastWay and FedEx.
History
Wootware was founded in 2007 by Rory David Magee and operated from a residential address in Somerset West. Expansion required that the business relocate to the Somerset West Business Park in 2013, which currently serves as the headquarters of operation.
Name
The term Woot originated as a hacker-term for root (or administrative) access to a computer. However, the term coincides with the gamer term w00t which is a portmanteau of the words 'Wow, loot!'
Distribution & Brand Offering
Among others, brand offering includes tier-one OEMs / vendors such as ASUS, EVGA, Gigabyte, MSI, Intel and AMD CPU ranges as well as NVIDIA and AMD Radeon video cards.
See also
E-commerce
Online shopping
References
External links
Wootware.co.za
Facebook Account
Google+ Account
Twitter Account
Instagram Account
Online retailers of South Africa
Retail companies established in 2007
Companies based in Cape Town |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cole%20Cubelic | Cole Cubelic is a former college football player for the Auburn Tigers and current sports analyst. Cubelic is the chief reporter for SEC Network's football coverage.
Cubelic played center for the Tigers from 1996-2001. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in Communications and Media Studies. He joined ESPN in 2011 working as an analyst covering SEC football. In addition to the SEC, he also covered Sun Belt Conference football games. Beginning in 2009, Cubelic hosted the radio show "The Cube Show," which aired on WUMP in Huntsville, Alabama.
In March 2018, Cubelic began hosting "Three Man Front" on WJOX-FM in Birmingham alongside Aaron Suttles and Landrum Roberts. On July 12, 2021, Cubelic began co-hosting a new morning drive show on WJOX-FM called, "McElroy and Cubelic in the Morning". The show paired him with ESPN on-air talent and former Alabama Crimson Tide quarterback Greg McElroy as the co-host. "McElroy and Cubelic in the Morning" currently airs on both WJOX-FM and WUMP from 7 am to 10 am CST.
References
Auburn Tigers football players
College football announcers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visuals%20%28project%29 | Visuals — Ukrainian nonprofit media project for the creation and dissemination infographic on actual for Ukraine issues. It functions as pages in the social networks Twitter and Facebook. In November 2015, Visuals gave permission to publish all their material licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA-4.0.
Name
At first the project was known as «Infographics (UA)». On November 4, 2015, the name changed to «Visuals».
History
The project came in January 2015 at the height of Russia's military aggression against Ukraine. The main topics covered at the project site - the situation in the Eastern Ukraine, annexation of Crimea, the state of implementation of reforms in Ukraine, Ukrainian politics and economics, Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War, international policy, resonant events in Ukraine and abroad.
In October 2015 the project started cooperation with the international volunteer group Inform Napalm. The product of this collaboration was the infographics containing personal data of crews of Russian aviation, which bombards the Syrian city.
See also
Inform Napalm
References
External links
Visuals on Facebook
Russian–Ukrainian cyberwarfare |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone%20Star%20Law | Lone Star Law is an American reality television series that debuted on June 2, 2016, on Animal Planet.
Set in Texas and similar to its network sister show North Woods Law, the show follows numerous game wardens of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department from various regions of the Lone Star State.
The Intro, " A Texas Game Warden's Job", is spoken by Warden Randolph McGee.
Cast
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2016)
Season 2 (2017)
Season 3 (2018)
Season 4 (2018-19)
Season 5 (2019)
Season 6 (2019)
Season 7 (2020)
Season 8 (2020)
References
2010s American reality television series
2016 American television series debuts
2021 American television series endings
American television spin-offs
English-language television shows
Animal Planet original programming
Television shows set in Texas
Law enforcement in Texas
2020s American reality television series
Reality television spin-offs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base%20L%C3%A9onore | Base Léonore, or the Léonore database, is a French database that lists the records of the members of the National Order of the Legion of Honor. The database lists the records of those inducted into the Legion of Honor since its 1802 inception and who died before 1977.
, the database contained 390,000 records.
References
External links
Archives in France
History websites of France
Online databases
Recipients of the Legion of Honour |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic%20%28disambiguation%29 | Graphics are two-dimensional images.
Graphic(s) or The Graphic may also refer to:
Computing
Computer graphics, generating images using computers
Video game graphics, displaying video game content
Publications
The Graphic (later The Daily Graphic and The National Graphic), London, UK (1869–1932)
The Daily Graphic (New York, 1873–89)
Daily Graphic (Ghana) (since 1950)
New York Graphic (1924–32)
The Newberg Graphic, Newberg, Oregon, United States (since 1888)
Sunday Graphic, London, UK (1927–60)
Places
Graphic, Arkansas, unincorporated community in Crawford County, Arkansas, United States
Other uses
GRAPHICS
Graphic (TV series), Canadian news program
Graphics (album) by Joe McPhee
Treva Spontaine and The Graphic, an American indie band
See also
Grafik (magazine), British art magazine
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Corporation
Graph (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Promise | Family Promise (formerly National Interfaith Hospitality Network) is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the United States, founded by Karen Olson in 1988. Family Promise primarily serves families with children who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, with the mission of "help[ing] homeless and low-income families achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response."
Family Promise organizes congregations, social service agencies and community members into volunteer coalitions called Affiliates that provide emergency shelter and wraparound services to homeless and at-risk families. The model of the core program emphasizes sustainability and relies on resources that are already available to the locales served. Though each Affiliate coordinates its own programming for transitional housing, case management, family mentoring, financial literacy classes and childcare, all receive staff training and program assistance from the national office.
The national office of the organization is located in Summit, New Jersey, from where national staff develop new Affiliates and provide technical assistance to existing ones. Presently, Family Promise draws on the efforts of more than 180,000 active volunteers from both secular community organizations and a 6,000 congregation-strong interfaith coalition operating across more than 200 affiliates, in 42 U.S. states.
History
In 1982, philanthropist Karen Olson was on her way to a New York City business meeting for her work as a marketing executive for Warner-Lambert (now Pfizer), where Olson developed promotional campaigns for consumer products. On impulse, Olson stopped outside Grand Central Terminal to buy a sandwich for a homeless woman she had noticed previously. As Olson handed the woman the sandwich and started to walk away, the woman held onto her hand to initiate conversation. Olson realized that the homeless woman wanted more than just a sandwich, that she wanted human interaction. She learned the woman, whose name was Millie, was once married and had two children. Through the conversation, Olson learned how homelessness can cause profound feelings of diminished self-worth and disconnection from society. The encounter motivated Olson and her sons to begin handing out bagged lunches to homeless people in the city.
Olson soon learned that homelessness also impacted many persons in her own home community of Union County, New Jersey, and she was surprised by the large proportion of children in the homeless population. She decided to leave her marketing career and instead focus on helping families in need. Olson organized a conference of 200 people from the local religious and service communities, and brought their attention to the high incidence of homelessness among families in the county. Through subsequent meetings, the new group concluded that traditional shelters could not adequately address the challenges homeless families faced, but that the community itself did have the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-independent%20acquisition | In mass spectrometry, data-independent acquisition (DIA) is a method of molecular structure determination in which all ions within a selected m/z range are fragmented and analyzed in a second stage of tandem mass spectrometry. Tandem mass spectra are acquired either by fragmenting all ions that enter the mass spectrometer at a given time (called broadband DIA) or by sequentially isolating and fragmenting ranges of m/z. DIA is an alternative to data-dependent acquisition (DDA) where a fixed number of precursor ions are selected and analyzed by tandem mass spectrometry.
Broadband
One of the first DIA approaches was a nozzle-skimmer dissociation method called shotgun collision-induced dissociation (CID). Fragmentation can be in the ion source of the mass spectrometer by increasing the nozzle-skimmer voltage in electrospray ionization.
MSE is a broadband DIA technique that uses alternating low-energy CID and high-energy CID. The low-energy CID is used to acquire precursor ion mass spectra whereas the high-energy CID is used to obtain product ion information by tandem mass spectrometry.
Data analysis
Data analysis is generally challenging for DIA methods as the resulting fragment ion spectra are highly multiplexed. In DIA spectra therefore the direct relation between a precursor ion and its fragment ions is lost since the fragment ions in DIA spectra may potentially result from multiple precursor ions (any precursor ion present in the m/z range from which the DIA spectrum was derived).
One approach to DIA data analysis attempts to use database-based search engines used in data-dependent acquisition to search the produced multiplexed spectra. This approach can be improved by assigning individual fragment ion to precursor ions observed in precursor ion scans, using the elution profile of the fragment ions and the precursor ions, and then searching the resulting "pseudo-spectra".
A second approach to DIA data analysis is based on a targeted analysis, also known as SWATH-MS (Sequential Windowed Acquisition of All Theoretical Fragment Ion Mass Spectra). This approach uses targeted extraction of fragment ion traces directly for identification and quantification without an explicit attempt to de-multiplex the DIA fragment ion spectra.
See also
Fragmentation (mass spectrometry)
Ion-mobility spectrometry–mass spectrometry
Targeted mass spectrometry
References
Further reading
Tandem mass spectrometry
Proteomics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Lumi%C3%A8re | Radio Lumière is an Evangelical Christian radio network in Haiti. The headquarters is located in Port-au-Prince.
History
Radio Lumière was founded in December 1958 by Evangelical Baptist Mission of South Haiti in Les Cayes. It was officially launched in February 1959.
See also
Media of Haiti
References
External links
Official Website
Radio stations in Haiti
Radio stations established in 1958 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Tele%20%28Peruvian%20TV%20network%29 | La Tele is a minor television network operated by Grupo ATV, in turn owned by Albavisión, airing exclusively imported programming, similar in profile to other secondary channels of the network, like Repretel 4, Nicaragua's Canal 9 and Guatemala's TeleOnce and Trecevisión. Its programming is focused on cartoons, youth and police series, comedies and reality shows.
History
Alliance SAC won eight licenses in six provinces to spread the signal of Uranio 15, however, these licenses are currently used to rebroadcast the programming of Andina de Radiodifusión (ATV), channel 9 in Lima. With these licenses, Vera Abad managed to ATV's transmission network, using permits issued on behalf of Uranio 15.
Uranio 15 (established in 1994) was a channel that had some programs led by Oscar Gayoso, Pedro Sanchez, Chris, Roxana among other presenters. Its iconic program was "The Ranking" and of course a large selection of music videos of all genres, 24 hours a day. Uranio 15 was one of the biggest UHF channels of its time, then in 2007 it started broadcasting music videos without identification.
When Mexican businessman Remigio Ángel González took over the control of Grupo ATV through Albavisión Communications Group LLC, Uranio 15 disappeared, replaced by La Tele. At launch, the channel focused on a female demographic, with soap operas being transmitted on weekdays and films (some already transmitted by ATV and some premieres) on weekends.
In January 2013, the channel relaunched with premieres of international series in the evening hours and some short programs aimed at women.
In April 2015, Global TV was replaced by Red TV and the entire childish and youth programming moved to the channel. In November that year, the channel's logo color switched to yellow.
In April 2017, the channel added more soap operas to its programming and continued the cartoon block in the morning, as well as the inclusion of more American films, series, comedies and reality shows. Disney's youth series and comedies were shared with its sister channel NexTV.
Since January 2018, the channel has increased the hours of the childish and youth block to 10 hours. The rest of the programming consists of American police series and some reality shows. In February that year, La Tele changed its aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9. Since June, it began broadcasting infomercials from the natural food companies Fitosana and Nutrsa Life in its programming. On July 4, it changed its graphic package with the launch of a new logo and look. In September, Disney's youth series and comedies returned to the channel after the name change from NexTV to América Next (today Global).
Logos
Television networks in Peru
Spanish-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-operative%20Central%20Exchange | Co-operative Central Exchange (CCE, Finnish: Keskusosuuskunta), founded in 1917 and known from the spring of 1931 as Central Co-operative Wholesale, was the coordinating entity of a network of consumers' co-operatives located primarily in the states of the American Upper Midwest. Based in the Great Lakes port city of Superior, Wisconsin, located adjacent to the Finnish enclave of Duluth, Minnesota, the Co-operative Central Exchange produced an array of its own branded products under the "Red Star" and "Co-operators' Best" brand names and did annual volume well in excess of $1 million from 1928 on.
The Co-operative Central Exchange was closely associated with the radical Finnish-American workers' movement associated with the Finnish Socialist Federation of the Socialist Party of America and later with the Finnish Federation of the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA). A split took place in 1931, with hardline adherents of Communist Party control departing the organization to form a rival cooperative group which lasted until 1939.
With its size and strength diminishing in the era of the supermarket, the Central Wholesale organization was terminated through merger to Midland Cooperatives in 1963, which in turn became part of the Land O'Lakes cooperative in 1982.
History
Early years
The Co-operative Central Exchange (CCE) was a cooperative federation established at a meeting of representatives of 19 Finnish-American consumers' co-operatives held in Superior, Wisconsin, on July 30, 1917. The idea for a central coordinating agency to unit the existing network of cooperative stores in the Upper Midwest of the United States had been brewing for several years, based upon a desire to buy commonly sold goods more cheaply if purchased in bulk. Also driving the cooperatives to action was discriminatory credit practices practiced by the largest regional grocery and hard goods wholesaler, who restricted the extension of credit to the cooperatives at the behest of the privately owned retailers who were competing with them. The magazine Pelto ja Koti (Farm and Home) was instrumental in coordinating the launch of the central cooperative initiative.
With a paltry $15.50 in working capital and access to free office space in Superior from a sympathetic local newspaper, the stores began pooling their wholesale orders under the CCE name. Establishment of the entity as a formal federation of cooperative stores soon followed, although the organization started small, with only a total of 15 cooperatives agreeing to join the enterprise by the end of 1917. The combination of orders won the participants in the group quantity discounts in the prices of their necessary supplies and generated a profit for participants in 1917 of $268 on a capital investment of just $480.
Shares were sold in the cooperative wholesale to member stores, raising just short of $16,500 by the end of the CCE's 10th year of existence. Additional funds were raised through the reinvestment of wholesale pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist%20Health%20South%20Florida | Baptist Health South Florida is a faith-based not-for-profit healthcare organization and clinical care network in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties. Baptist Health has 11 hospitals and in excess of 100 physician practices and outpatient facilities.
History
The company was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida. It began as a single hospital on North Kendall Drive in suburban Miami, and is now the second largest employer in the State of Florida with about 23,000 employees. In 2015, the company had $2.4 billion in revenues, $3 billion in financial reserves, and provided $302 million in Community Benefit and charity care. Since 1995, Brian Keeley has been CEO of the company. In 2016 the company created the Baptist Health Care On Demand, which connects patients to physicians through live video on-demand at all hours for non-emergency care.
In 2015, Baptist Health began constructing the $485 million Miami Cancer Institute, which has an affiliation with the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. It is also the parent of companies like AmSurg Baptist Network Alliance, a subsidiary that purchased a majority stake in Northpoint Surgery Center during 2016. During 2015, Baptist Health South Florida saw 75,440 patient admissions, 346,093 emergency department visits, and 289,907 urgent care visits.
Baptist Health South Florida operates community wellness and health programs, free community outreach programs, annual health symposiums, and the Baptist Scholars program, which provides tuition support for individuals looking to train as RNs and work within its system. It also runs employee programs that focus on health maintenance.
In 2019 and 2020, People magazine named Baptist Heath one of the “50 Companies That Care”. The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) has also conferred a silver-level Beacon Award for Excellence on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Baptist Hospital, part of Baptist Health South Florida.
In 2023, Baptist Health South Florida had 11 hospitals in its network, including Baptist Hospital of Miami, Boca Raton Regional Hospital, Baptist Health Hospital Doral, Bethesda Hospital East, Bethesda Hospital West, Doctors Hospital, Homestead Hospital, South Miami Hospital, West Kendall Baptist Hospital, Mariners Hospital, and Fishermen's Hospital. They are located in Miami-Dade, Monroe, and Palm Beach counties.
Controversies
Violations and settlements
The Department of Justice (DOJ), on behalf of the Office of Inspector General (OIG), agreed to accept $7,775,000 as a settlement amount after Baptist admitted to violations of the federal physician self-referral law (the "Stark Law").
In December 2016, another one of its affiliates, South Miami Hospital, paid $12 million to settle Medicare fraud charges
2021 fundraising
In 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the fundraising foundation for Baptist Health South Florida sent emails to 3,000 wealthy donors to inform them those who made six-figure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation%20measures%20%28information%20retrieval%29 | Evaluation measures for an information retrieval (IR) system assess how well an index, search engine or database returns results from a collection of resources that satisfy a user's query. They are therefore fundamental to the success of information systems and digital platforms. The success of an IR system may be judged by a range of criteria including relevance, speed, user satisfaction, usability, efficiency and reliability. However, the most important factor in determining a system's effectiveness for users is the overall relevance of results retrieved in response to a query. Evaluation measures may be categorised in various ways including offline or online, user-based or system-based and include methods such as observed user behaviour, test collections, precision and recall, and scores from prepared benchmark test sets.
Evaluation for an information retrieval system should also include a validation of the measures used, i.e. an assessment of how well they measure what they are intended to measure and how well the system fits its intended use case. Measures are generally used in two settings: online experimentation, which assesses users' interactions with the search system, and offline evaluation, which measures the effectiveness of an information retrieval system on a static offline collection.
Background
Indexing and classification methods to assist with information retrieval have a long history dating back to the earliest libraries and collections however systematic evaluation of their effectiveness began in earnest in the 1950s with the rapid expansion in research production across military, government and education and the introduction of computerised catalogues. At this time there were a number of different indexing, classification and cataloguing systems in operation which were expensive to produce and it was unclear which was the most effective.
Cyril Cleverdon, Librarian of the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield, England, began a series of experiments of print indexing and retrieval methods in what is known as the Cranfield paradigm, or Cranfield tests, which set the standard for IR evaluation measures for many years. Cleverdon developed a test called ‘known-item searching’ - to check whether an IR system returned the documents that were known to be relevant or correct for a given search. Cleverdon’s experiments established a number of key aspects required for IR evaluation: a test collection, a set of queries and a set of pre-determined relevant items which combined would determine precision and recall.
Cleverdon's approach formed a blueprint for the successful Text Retrieval Conference series that began in 1992.
Applications
Evaluation of IR systems is central to the success of any search engine including internet search, website search, databases and library catalogues. Evaluations measures are used in studies of information behaviour, usability testing, business costs and efficiency assessments. Measuring the effectiveness |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20Cocker | George Malcolm Cocker (1941 – 3 June 2016) better known as Mac Cocker was an English-born Australian radio announcer, who worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio network for 33 years, with stints on Radio Australia, Triple J, Radio National and 105.7 ABC Darwin. He was also known for being the father of Jarvis Cocker, the lead singer of the English rock band Pulp.
Early life
Born in Sheffield, England, Cocker worked as a DJ, musician and actor. He married art student Christine Connolly and they had a son, Jarvis (born 1963) as well as a daughter. In 1970, Cocker walked out on the family, who woke up one morning to find a note that he had left them. He moved to Sydney, Australia.
Radio career
In 1974, Cocker was recruited by the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) to work for Radio Australia on special projects in Melbourne. In March 1975, he was one of the early staff of 2JJ or Double J, a new radio station established by the ABC. Cocker remained at 2JJ, which later became 2JJJ and then Triple J, until 1985 when he left to spend five years travelling around the world.
In 1984, he made two minor appearances in television series, one in the cricket miniseries Bodyline, and one playing himself as a 2JJ DJ in the drama series Sweet and Sour about a band trying to make it in the Sydney music scene. For many years, Cocker fostered the rumour that he was related to the singer Joe Cocker, who had the same surname and was also from Sheffield, although they were not actually related. Friend and 2JJ colleague Mark Colvin would later recall that Mac produced a radio documentary as he travelled with Joe Cocker's touring entourage entitled "I'm a Cocker, Too".
In 1990, Cocker returned to Australia, and moved to Darwin in the Northern Territory. He resumed his career with ABC Radio, joining 105.7 ABC Darwin where he worked each of the regular shifts at some time, as well as presenting the specialist programs The Night Train, The Globetrotter and Louvred Lounge, as well as a weekly Vinyl Museum program for Radio National in the early 1990s. He retired from the ABC in 2007 after a 33-year career.
Personal life and death
In 1998, Jarvis Cocker and his sister Saskia flew to Australia to meet and reconcile with their estranged father. In 2006, Jarvis maintained that he had forgiven him although they did not stay in contact, saying "I don't feel any bitterness towards him at all. I feel sorry for him."
Cocker died in Darwin on 3 June 2016 after a long illness.
References
External links
Year of birth unknown
2016 deaths
ABC radio (Australia) journalists and presenters
Triple J announcers
English emigrants to Australia
Musicians from Sheffield
1941 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametric%20search | In the design and analysis of algorithms for combinatorial optimization, parametric search is a technique invented by for transforming a decision algorithm (does this optimization problem have a solution with quality better than some given threshold?) into an optimization algorithm (find the best solution). It is frequently used for solving optimization problems in computational geometry.
Technique
The basic idea of parametric search is to simulate a test algorithm that takes as input a numerical parameter , as if it were being run with the (unknown) optimal solution value as its input. This test algorithm is assumed to behave discontinuously when , and to operate on its parameter only by simple comparisons of with other computed values, or by testing the sign of low-degree polynomial functions of . To simulate the algorithm, each of these comparisons or tests needs to be simulated, even though the of the simulated algorithm is unknown.
To simulate each comparison, the parametric search applies a second algorithm, a decision algorithm, that takes as input another numerical parameter , and that determines whether is above, below, or equal to the optimal solution value .
Since the decision algorithm itself necessarily behaves discontinuously at , the same algorithm can also be used as the test algorithm. However, many applications use other test algorithms (often, comparison sorting algorithms). Advanced versions of the parametric search technique use a parallel algorithm as the test algorithm, and group the comparisons that must be simulated into batches, in order to significantly reduce the number of instantiations of the decision algorithm.
Sequential test algorithm
In the most basic form of the parametric search technique, both the test algorithm and the decision algorithms are sequential (non-parallel) algorithms, possibly the same algorithm as each other. The technique simulates the test algorithm step by step, as it would run when given the (unknown) optimal solution value as its parameter . Whenever the simulation reaches a step in which the test algorithm compares its parameter to some other number , it cannot perform this step by doing a numerical comparison, as it does not know what is. Instead, it calls the decision algorithm with parameter , and uses the result of the decision algorithm to determine the output of the comparison. In this way, the time for the simulation ends up equalling the product of the times for the test and decision algorithms. Because the test algorithm is assumed to behave discontinuously at the optimal solution value, it cannot be simulated accurately unless one of the parameter values passed to the decision algorithm is actually equal to the optimal solution value. When this happens, the decision algorithm can detect the equality and save the optimal solution value for later output.
If the test algorithm needs to know the sign of a polynomial in , this can again be simulated by passing the roots |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%20Wilson%20%28scientist%29 | Terry Jean Wilson (born 1954) is an international leader in the study of present-day tectonics in Antarctica. She has led large, international efforts, such as Polar Earth Observing Network (POLENET), to investigate the interactions between the Earth's crust and the cryosphere in Antarctica.
Early life and education
Wilson received her BS from the University of Michigan and Ph.D. from Lamont Doherty Geological Observatory and Columbia University in 1983.
Career and impact
Wilson is based at Ohio State University, where she investigates the Earth's structural architecture, the interaction between ice sheets in Antarctica and the solid Earth, and neotectonic rifting. Her research integrates satellite remote sensing, Global Positioning Systems, both airborne and marine geophysical data and microstructural and structural mapping of faults in sedimentary and outcrop rock cores.
Awards and honors
Wilson has held several high-profile leadership positions in Antarctic Science:
Vice President of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).
USA's delegate to SCAR, serving as VP.
Chief Officer of SCARs Scientific research programme, ‘Solid Earth Response and influence on Cryosphere Evolution’ (SERCE).
Leader of the geoscience component of the first Antarctic Science Horizon Scan.
Principal Investigator of POLENET, a major Antarctic programme devoted to observing the polar regions and investigating ice sheet behaviour in a changing world.
Selected works
Wilson, T.J., 1999. Cenozoic structural segmentation of the Transantarctic Mountains rift flank in southern Victoria Land. Global and Planetary Change,23(1), pp. 105–127.
Wilson, T.J., Grunow, A.M. and Hanson, R.E., 1997. Gondwana assembly: the view from southern Africa and East Gondwana. Journal of Geodynamics,23(3), pp. 263–286.
Fielding, C.R., Whittaker, J., Henrys, S.A., Wilson, T.J. and Naish, T.R., 2008. Seismic facies and stratigraphy of the Cenozoic succession in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica: Implications for tectonic, climatic and glacial history. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 260(1), pp. 8–29.
Lough, A.C., Wiens, D.A., Barcheck, C.G., Anandakrishnan, S., Aster, R.C., Blankenship, D.D., Huerta, A.D., Nyblade, A., Young, D.A. and Wilson, T.J., 2013. Seismic detection of an active subglacial magmatic complex in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Nature Geoscience, 6(12), pp. 1031–1035.
Kennicutt, M.C., Chown, S.L., Cassano, J.J., Liggett, D., Massom, R., Peck, L.S., Rintoul, S.R., Storey, J.W.V., Vaughan, D.G., Wilson, T.J. and Sutherland, W.J., 2014. Six priorities for Antarctic science. Nature,512(7512), pp. 23–25.
References
External links
Terry Wilson's webpage
American geologists
1954 births
Living people
University of Michigan alumni
Columbia University alumni
American Antarctic scientists
Ohio State University faculty
Women Antarctic scientists
American women geologists
American women academics
21st-century American women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris%20Pritychenko | Boris Pritychenko () is a Russian–American nuclear physicist. He compiles experimental data, works on nuclear databases, and serves as editor-in-chief of the journal Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables.
Life
Pritychenko spent his early years in the Soviet Union. He was born in a small village of Zabrama, Bryansk Oblast in Russia, just 1 km from the border with Ukraine. In 1979, he graduated from high school in Novohrodivka in Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine. Then he studied at the School of Physics and Technology at the University of Kharkiv (now Ukraine), from which he graduated in 1985, earning a diploma in experimental nuclear physics. After graduation, he worked as a research scientist at the Institute for Nuclear Research in Moscow from 1985 till 1991. He also worked at Baksan Neutrino Observatory.
In 1991, Pritychenko moved to the United States, and, from 1991 to 1994, he worked as a visiting scientist at the Center for Particle Astrophysics at the University of California, Berkeley. Afterwards, he studied physics at Michigan State University, earning another MSc degree in December 1996 and a PhD in April 2000. Simultaneously, from 1994 to 2000, he worked as a research assistant at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory.
From 2000 through 2003, Pritychenko worked as solutions engineer at Plumtree Software, Inc. in San Francisco.
Since 2003, he has been working as scientist at the National Nuclear Data Center of Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York. He works on the EXFOR, ENDF/B-VII libraries, compiles and evaluates experimental data, develops nuclear energy and astrophysics applications, manages the web services of the National Nuclear Data Center. In 2010, Pritychenko received his third MSc degree, in technological systems management, from Stony Brook University.
Pritychenko has authored over 50 articles on nuclear physics, nuclear astrophysics, and nuclear data. He works as editor-in-chief of the journal Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables published by Elsevier.
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Boris Pritychenko on Google Scholar
Boris Pritchenko page on Brookhaven National Laboratory website
National University of Kharkiv alumni
Michigan State University alumni
Stony Brook University alumni
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Ukrainian nuclear physicists
Soviet nuclear physicists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic%20Data%20and%20Nuclear%20Data%20Tables | Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering nuclear physics. It is published by Elsevier and was established in 1969. The journal was established with the aid of Katharine Way, who later served as its editor until 1973. As of 2016, Boris Pritychenko is the journal's editor-in-chief.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
Chemical Abstracts Service
Current Contents/Physics, Chemical, & Earth Sciences
Energy Research Abstracts
Science Citation Index
Scopus
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.623.
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Nuclear physics journals
English-language journals
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Academic journals established in 1969 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N.%20Seshagiri | Narasimaiah Seshagiri (10 May 1940 – 26 May 2013) was an Indian computer scientist, writer and a former director-general of the National Informatics Centre, an apex organization of the Government of India, handling its e-governance applications. He was a member of the Y2K Action Force of the Government, formed to combat the 9999 computer bug. He is credited with many publications which included The bomb! : fallout of India's nuclear explosion and Information systems for economies in transition. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 2005, for his contributions to science and technology.
See also
National Informatics Centre
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Indian technology writers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Flower | Super Flower Computer Inc. () is a Taiwanese company founded in 1991 that manufactures power supplies, enclosures, and related components for personal computers and servers.
They are best known for their computer power supplies, which are sold under other brand names as well as their own, and which have gained a reputation for high quality in the marketplace.
ATX power supplies
During the 2010s, Super Flower's reputation for high quality 80 plus rated computer power supplies has been commented upon by a wide range of analyst and hardware review websites. Numerous Gold, Platinum and Titanium rated products based on their Leadex platform (also used as the OEM platform for EVGA's Supernova power supplies) have gained 10/10, or close to 10/10, in reviews, and accolades for consistent and outstanding performance and build quality.
In reviewing Super Flower's 1600W T2 Titanium rated in 2015, PSU review website JonnyGuru.com and TechPowerup both state that Titanium power supplies had such high specifications that only small number were listed at 80 Plus (18 in the first review and "very few" in the second), and of those, Super Flower accounted for a third of the Titanium models listed and was the only manufacturer to have a range rather than a single model at Titanium specification. In reviewing Super Flower's 2000W Platinum 8pack edition power supply, hexus.net commented it was the first consumer power supply of that size to be produced.
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Electronics companies established in 1991
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Electronics companies of Taiwan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland%20Cheung | Leland Cheung is a former City Councillor in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As a City Councillor he advocated for open data, Net Zero Zoning, composting and recycling programs. Cheung was a vocal critic of Harvard and MIT laying off workers and cutting hours of others. As city Councillor he was an early supporter of the Harvard divestment from fossil fuel movement. Additionally, he showed his support for the Responsible Investment at Harvard when they campaigned to end Harvard's management of Argentina Timber Plantations.
His top priorities included shifting the increased burden of property taxes to contractors and developers, completing the green line extension, and implementing universal pre-K. He also supports lifting the charter school cap and overhauling education reform by increasing the overall budget, as Massachusetts ranks 47th in spending on education as a percentage of the total budget. He also proposes anticipating the policy issues of the future, addressing driverless cars' impact on transportation, the "gig" economy's impact on income inequality, and AirBnb's impact on the housing market.
Education and career
Cheung was first elected to the Cambridge City Council in 2009 while pursuing a Masters in Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and an MBA at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to returning to graduate school, Cheung earned a BS in Physics, BA in Economics and MS in Aerospace Engineering from Stanford University. Following graduation, Cheung worked as a Senior Associate at Masthead Partners, a Cambridge-based venture capital firm focusing on digital media, mobile, and internet infrastructure.
From 2000–2005, Cheung served as Chief Information Officer at Space Adventures in Arlington, VA, the only company to have successfully launched private explorers to space.
Cheung ran an unsuccessful campaign as the Republican candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates in 2005.
Cheung lost a campaign in the Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 2014. He had been endorsed by The Boston Globe.
On September 8, 2016, Cheung lost the Democratic primary for the Massachusetts State Senate in the Second Middlesex district.
Cheung announced he was not running for reelection in a statement released August 1, 2017.
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American politicians of Chinese descent
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Stanford University alumni
Cambridge, Massachusetts City Council members
Harvard Kennedy School alumni
MIT Sloan School of Management alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20computer%20graphics | This is a glossary of terms relating to computer graphics.
For more general computer hardware terms, see glossary of computer hardware terms.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen%20space%20directional%20occlusion | Screen space directional occlusion (SSDO) is a computer graphics technique enhancing screen space ambient occlusion (SSAO) by taking direction into account to sample the ambient light (both the light coming directly at an object, as well as the light reflected off of the object directly behind it), to better approximate global illumination.
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Computer graphics
3D computer graphics
Global illumination algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News18%20Tamil%20Nadu | News18 Tamil Nadu is an Indian Tamil language 24 hour news channel based in Chennai.
which is owned and operated by Mukesh Ambani owned Network 18.
See also
Network 18
CNN-News18
References
External links
News18 India's Official website
2016 establishments in Tamil Nadu
Television channels and stations established in 2016
Tamil-language television channels
Television stations in Chennai
24-hour television news channels in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst%20Mittelstaedt | Horst Mittelstaedt (28 April 1923 – 18 February 2016) was a German biologist and cybernetician. Together with Erich von Holst he demonstrated the "Reafference Principle" in 1950 (Das Reafferenzprinzip) concerning how an organism is able to separate reafferent (self-generated) sensory stimuli from exafferent (externally generated) sensory stimuli. This concept largely dealt with interactive processes between the central nervous system and its periphery.
Until 1999 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology at Seewiesen, Bavaria. His scientific focus was cybernetic analysis of behaviour.
Mittelstaedt died in Munich on 18 February 2016, at the age of 92.
Selected publications
Physiologie des Gleichgewichtssinnes bei fliegenden Libellen, in: Zeitschrift für vergleichende Physiologie. Band 32, Stürtz, Würzburg 1950, S. 422-463, , (Dissertation Universität Heidelberg, Naturwissenschaftlich-mathematische Fakultät, 27. Juli 1949, 84 pages, .
with E. v. Holst: Das Reafferenzprinzip. In: Naturwissenschaften. Band 37, Nr. 20, 1950, S. 464–476, doi:10.1007/BF00622503
Einführung in die Kybernetik des Verhaltens am Beispiel der Orientierung im Raum. In: W. Hoppe, W. Lohmann, H. Markl, H. Ziegler (eds.): Biophysik. 2nd edition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1982, .
The Information Processing Structure of the Subjective Vertical. A Cybernetic Bridge between its Psychophysics and its Neurobiology. In: H. Marko, G. Hauske, A. Struppler (eds.): Processing Structures for Perception and Action: Final Report of the Sonderforschungsbereich „Kybernetik“ 1969–1983. VCH, Weinheim, New York, Cambridge, Basel 1988, , pp. 217–263.
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Open Library author's profile
Neurotree entry
1923 births
2016 deaths
German physiologists
Cyberneticists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20Amazon%20Web%20Services | This is a timeline of Amazon Web Services, which offers a suite of cloud computing services that make up an on-demand computing platform.
AWS Prelude
Full timeline
Partnerships
Amazon Web Services outages
See also
List of Amazon products and services
History of Amazon
References
Amazon Web Services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay%2C%20Bahay%21 | () is a Philippine television situational comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Bibeth Orteza, it stars Vic Sotto, Ai-Ai de las Alas, Oyo Boy Sotto, Jose Manalo, Wally Bayola and Kristine Hermosa. It premiered on June 19, 2016, on the network's Sunday Grande sa Gabi line up replacing Vampire ang Daddy Ko. The series concluded on August 27, 2017, with a total of 61 episodes. It was replaced by All-Star Videoke in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Main cast
Vic Sotto as Edilberto "Vio" Vargas
Ai-Ai de las Alas as Lavinia "Lav" Rodrigo-Vargas
Kristine Hermosa as Batch / Mrs. Y
Oyo Boy Sotto as Yoyo / Mr. Y
Jose Manalo as Mael
Wally Bayola as Sikat Rodrigo
Recurring cast
Marlann Flores as Bolina
Jelson Bay as Clooney / Remy
Ruby Rodriguez as Nenuca / Nidora
Pilita Corrales as Amelia
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 17% rating. While the final episode scored an 8.8% rating in Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes.
Accolades
References
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2016 Philippine television series debuts
2017 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television sitcoms
Television series by M-Zet Productions
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Lloyd%20%28chemist%29 | Professor David Lloyd is a Dublin-born and educated university executive and academic.
His academic background was that of a chemist, specialising in computer aided drug design.
He currently serves as Vice Chancellor and President of the University of South Australia; a role for which his annual salary is $1,200,000.
He is the Chair of the Committee for Adelaide and Deputy Chair of Universities Australia and a past member of South Australia's Economic Development Board.
Career
After graduating from Dublin City University with a PhD in Medicinal Organic Chemistry, Lloyd worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Trinity College Dublin and later in the pharmaceutical industry for De Novo Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge.
He returned to academia in 2004 to Trinity College Dublin where he was a appointed as the Hitachi Lecturer in Advanced Computing. A specialist in computer-aided drug design, he led the commercialisation and patenting of research developed in his laboratory, Trinity's Molecular Design Group.
In 2007, he was appointed Dean and Vice President of Research, before becoming Bursar and Director of Strategic Innovation at Trinity College Dublin .
Lloyd was appointed as the inaugural Chair of the Irish Research Council.
He moved to Adelaide to take up the position of Vice Chancellor and President of the University of South Australia in 2013 at 38 years old, becoming Australia's youngest Vice Chancellor.
He was appointed to the Economic Development Board of South Australia in 2014 and was also appointed Chair of the Australian Technology Network, a group of technology-focused Australian universities.
In 2019, Lloyd was appointed Chair of the Committee for Adelaide.
In 2015, his contract at the University of South Australia was extended to 2022, it was later extended to 2027.
Lloyd has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Applied Chemistry and a PhD in Medicinal Organic Chemistry from Dublin City University. He additionally holds an MA (j.o.) from Trinity College Dublin, an honorary Professorship from Tianjin University and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Chartered Chemist.
A personal friend of the late Sir Terry Pratchett, he holds an Honorary Doctorate from the author's fictional Unseen University and has written about Pratchett's life and work in articles published by The Conversation.
In 2019, Lloyd was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE).
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Irish scientists
Vice Chancellors of the University of South Australia
1974 births
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radford%20Road%20tram%20stop | Radford Road is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit network, serving the suburb of Hyson Green, City of Nottingham in Nottinghamshire, England.
History
The stop opened on 9 March 2004, as part of the first phase of the network, between Hucknall or Phoenix Park and Station Street. It is located on a one-way section of the tramway, and is served only by southbound trams. The nearest northbound stop is Beaconsfield Street. It has one side platform flanking the single track, which is shared with other road traffic
On 25 August 2015, the network was extended south, with branches to Clifton South and Toton Lane.
Services
As of January 2022, services operate at a combined 3–8 minute frequency between David Lane and Nottingham Station. Heading south, trams continue to Clifton South and Toton Lane up to every 7–15 minutes. Heading north (from nearby Beaconsfield Street), trams continue to Hucknall and Phoenix Park up to every 7–15 minutes.
Rolling stock used: Alstom Citadis and Bombardier Incentro
References
External links
Timetable and stop information for Radford Road
Nottingham Express Transit stops |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPLab | AMPLAB was a University of California, Berkeley lab focused on big data analytics located in Soda Hall. The name stands for the Algorithms, Machines and People Lab. It has been publishing papers since 2008 and was officially launched in 2011. The AMPLab was co-directed by Professor Michael J. Franklin, Michael I. Jordan, and Ion Stoica.
While AMPLab has worked on a wide variety of big data projects (known as BDAS, the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack), many know it as the lab that invented Apache Mesos, and Apache Spark, and Alluxio.
Berkeley launched RISELab as the successor to AMPLab in 2017.
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Computer science institutes in the United States
University of California, Berkeley
Research institutes in the San Francisco Bay Area |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management%20and%20Economic%20Simulation%20Exercise | Management and Economic Simulation Exercise (MESE), also known as JA Titan, is a computer simulation program developed by Junior Achievement. The program is designed to help students develop skills such as decision-making and teamwork.
During the simulation, students act as corporate managers of their own companies that produce an imaginary product called Eco-Pen. The students use data such as simulated financial reports and market research to make decisions on product development, pricing, and production. At the end of the simulation, the most successful team is the one that has the highest profit and market share.
The program is used for the annual seven-month-long Hewlett-Packard Global Business Challenge, run globally over the Internet. During the competition, Junior Achievement students and alumni between the ages of 14 and 22 make team decisions and are scored based on profit and market share.
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MESE rules
Educational software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%20European%20Research%20Universities%20Network | The Young European Research Universities Network (YERUN) is a non-profit association that brings together young research-oriented universities in Europe. YERUN represents 22 universities from 15 European countries. The network aims at strategic collaboration among young European universities to shape future education policies. Furthermore, the initiative seeks to increase mobility for students, researchers and administrative staff among its member institutions.
History
YERUN was launched in Dublin on April 30, 2015.
Organization
The network is run by the assembly of rectors, vice-chancellors or respective presidents of its member universities. The assembly elects an executive board that includes a president and a secretary. The current president is Snježana Prijić-Samaržija (University of Rijeka).
YERUN member institutions
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Official website
College and university associations and consortia in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Route%20%28Nova%20Scotia%29 | The Blue Route is a cycling network under development in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. In 2017, the total length of the cycling network was . When completed it will comprise approximately of on- and off-road bicycle routes. The first section opened in 2015, linking Pictou to Bible Hill, and the whole network is expected to be completed by 2025.
References
External links
Blue Route website
Long-distance cycling routes
Bike paths in Nova Scotia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray%20CT%20scan | X-ray CT scan can refer to the following Wikipedia articles:
CT scan - makes use of computer-processed combinations of many X-ray images taken from different angles to produce cross-sectional (tomographic) images (virtual "slices") of specific areas of a scanned object, allowing the user to see inside the object without cutting.
Industrial computed tomography - any computer-aided tomographic process, usually x-ray computed tomography, that (like its medical imaging counterparts) uses irradiation (usually with x-rays) to produce three-dimensional representations of the scanned object both externally and internally
Medical imaging - the technique and process of creating visual representations of the interior of a body for clinical analysis and medical intervention, as well as visual representation of the function of some organs or tissues
X-ray computed tomography - makes use of computer-processed combinations of many X-ray images taken from different angles to produce cross-sectional (tomographic) images (virtual "slices") of specific areas of a scanned object, allowing the user to see inside the object without cutting. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calle%20Siete | Calle Siete () is a 2016 Philippine television drama comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Monti Parungao, it stars Ryzza Mae Dizon, Eula Valdez and Christian Vasquez. It premiered on June 13, 2016, on the network's afternoon line up replacing Princess in the Palace. The series concluded on October 21, 2016, with a total of 94 episodes. It was replaced by Trops in its timeslot.
Premise
Sheila and Mark, a couple living in Dubai and working as a physical therapist and a spa attendant. The two decided to return to the Philippines because of their enough savings to build their dream house and dream business, a spa cum coffee shop. Sheila came home first because her contract expired while Mark, on the other hand, has a remaining month. Another reason was he is still training his job successor. Sheila surprised her Lola Nitz which she is celebrating her birthday in Mabuhay Compound where she grew up with the Mabuhay clan. However, she also found out that the bank would nearly confiscate her hometown so she spoke of her grandmother to pay it first.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Ryzza Mae Dizon as Barbie Delloso
Eula Valdez as Shiela Mabuhay-Sebastian
Christian Vasquez as Mark Sebastian
Supporting cast
Kenneth Medrano as Jonas Delloso
Patricia Tumulak as Patricia "Patring" Castro
Gloria Sevilla as Elenita "Nitz" Mabuhay
Rubi Rubi as Margarita "Margie" Silang
Lucky Mercado as John Delloso
Takako "Taki" Saito as Suzanne "Sushie" Silang
Lovely Abella as Bonifacia "Bonnie" Suarez
Leonora Cano as Mema
Sinon Loresca as Manuel "Welwel" Geronimo
Kervin Rivas as Kervin
Bryan Benedict as Caleb
Ian Angeles as Ian
Recurring cast
Adrienne Vergara as Bianca
Hailey Lim as Cristy
Charles Jacob Briz as Ken
Jester Hernandez as Toby
Guest cast
Miguel Luna as Miguel
Petite as Snowkie
Maureen Larrazabal as Maria Magdalena
Regine Tolentino as Phoebe
Sandy Talag as Crystal
Kylie Padilla as Sophie
Archie Alemania as Timo
Mosang as Mom Aw
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Calle Siete earned an 11.4% rating. While the final episode scored a 14.3% rating.
References
External links
2016 Philippine television series debuts
2016 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television series by TAPE Inc.
Television shows set in Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal%20of%20Medical%20Data%20Models | The portal for medical data models is a German and European medical research infrastructure. It is an open-access metadata-repository initiated for scientific purposes that can generate, analyse, release and reuse medical forms.
Background
Each day large amounts of data are gathered by electronic health records. Because health care information systems are not compatible among themselves in general, structured data cannot easily be exchanged in between different institutions. Only a small part of all medical forms are openly available. Through this shortness of transparency, data-models adjustment processes in health care are being vastly interfered. Know-how of current or terminated studies and clinical documentation cannot be reused.
Goals and target audience
Primary goals for medical data models are releasing reliable medical forms and data models, establishing transparent and interoperable standards for medical research and raising efficiency in the design of case report files. Besides improving the quality of documentation forms by reusing reliable forms and data-models (Secondary Use, Best Practise), the comparability of research outcomes shall be enhanced.
The portal is mainly established for medical professionals, for example:
Medical doctors
Medical Information Scientist
Data manager
Medical information specialist
Features
Currently, the portal contains more than 20.000 forms with more than 350.000 active data elements, making it Europe’s largest open-access portal for medical forms (March 2019). Available forms are: clinical research forms (Case Report Forms, Register-Items), routine documentation (e. g. EHR-forms) and quality assurance (e.g. data from the AQUA-Institute). Coded via UMLS-Metathesaurus, much content is available for semantic analyses. The content of the forms are provided in the standard data type for medical research (CDISC ODM) and, besides the original format, available in various data types, for example REDCap, MACRO, CDA, CSV, ADL as well as in Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) Questionnaire Format. As concluded by the FDA, the CDISC ODM-XML-Format for documentation in pharmaceutical research will be mandatory within the next two years, the portal already meets state of the art demands.
Sustainability
In collaboration with the university and regional library in Münster, all gathered files are archived and allocated to every German library, securing a sustainable use of this meta-data-repository. The medical-data-portal is known as German (RIsources) and European research infrastructure (MERIL) and is developed by the Institute of Medical Informatics, University of Münster, Germany.
Funding
The project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG, grant no. DU 352/11-1)
References
External links
Official Portal webpage
Medical research in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble%20%28programming%20language%29 | Bubble is a visual programming language, a no-code development platform and an application platform as a service, developed by Bubble Group, that enables non-technical people to build web applications without needing to type code. Instead, users draw the interface by dragging and dropping elements onto a page and defining workflows to control the logic. Bubble's vision is to make hand-coding for web applications largely obsolete.
Overview
Bubble's visual development platform is used to create websites and web applications with more advanced functionality than what is possible with template-oriented website builders such as Wix and Squarespace. It is used by non-technical startup founders, in schools for education purposes, and by other organizations for commercial purposes.
Bubble allows users to build web applications including social media sites like Twitter, marketplaces like Airbnb and Uber, services like Instacart, and more through tutorials. Bubble offers its own API integrations, templates and plugins. Users of the platform have also created new third-party templates, plugins and service built within the Bubble eco-system.
History
Bubble was founded by Emmanuel Straschnov and Josh Haas in 2012 in New York. Bubble has been bootstrapped for seven years. In 2019, Bubble raised $6M from SignalFire, Neo, Nas, Eric Ries and the founders of Warby Parker, Allbirds, Okta, Harry's. In 2021, Bubble raised $100M. Bubble was named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies of 2021. Web traffic to Bubble's websites have increased at a compounded growth rate of greater than 50% from 2017 to 2021.
Major Events
2023 Pricing Model Controversy
In April 2023, Bubble.io announced a controversial change to its pricing model, introducing a new metric called "workload units." This change followed an earlier attempt in March 2022 to shift the pricing model based on database entries, which had also been met with considerable backlash from the user community.
The goal of the new pricing model was to address sustainability issues due to most users running on lower pricing tiers regardless of their usage or size. Bubble.io aimed to align its revenue more closely with the scaling of users' applications on their platform, rather than relying on capacity3.
However, the changes sparked significant controversy within the Bubble.io community. The announcement thread on the company's forum quickly garnered over 2000 replies, with many users expressing dissatisfaction and threatening to leave the platform. Critics argued that the new pricing model could lead to disproportionate costs and felt that their needs and concerns were not adequately considered before the implementation of the change.
Bubble.io responded to the criticism by reaching out to affected users individually to provide optimization support and held a live webinar to provide further guidance on the changes. The company also committed to improve bulk data operations, an area of concern highlighte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types%20of%20beacons | Beacons are small devices that enable relatively accurate location within a narrow range. Beacons periodically transmit small amounts of data within a range of approximately 70 meters, and are often used for indoor location technology. Compared to devices based on Global Positioning System (GPS), beacons provide more accurate location information and can be used for indoor location. Various types of beacons exist, which can be classified based on their type of Beacon protocol, power source and location technology.
Types of Beacon protocols
iBeacon (Apple)
In December 2013, Apple announced iBeacon: the first beacon protocol in the market. iBeacon works with Apple's iOS and Google's Android. The beacon using the iBeacon protocol transmits a so-called UUID. The UUID is a string of 24 numbers, which communicate with an installed Mobile App.
Advantages:
Widely supported;
Simple and easy to implement;
Reliable performance on iOS.
Eddystone (Google)
Google announced Eddystone in July 2015, after it was renamed from its former name UriBeacon. Beacons with support from Eddystone are able to transmit three different frame-types, which work with both iOS and Android. A single beacon can transmit one, two or all three frametypes. The three frametypes are:
URL: a URL (i.e. a website link) is transmitted to the device, eliminating the need for an installed Mobile App.
UID (similar to Apple's UUID): a 16 digit string of characters, which can identify the individual beacon. This UID can activate an installed Mobile App.
TLM: sensor and administrative data from the beacon itself is communicated through telemetry. Currently, examples include the beacon's battery level and its temperature.
Advantages:
Can also send out URL, which removes the necessity of installed App, and Telemetry information;
Open format and flexibility;
Integration with Google Products.
AltBeacon (Radius Networks)
Radius Networks announced AltBeacon in July 2014. This open source beacon protocol was designed to overcome the issue of protocols favouring one vendor over the other.
Advantages:
Open source;
Compatibility with other mobile operating platforms;
More flexibility with a customisable source code.
SemBeacon (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
The Web & Information Systems engineering lab (WISE) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) announced SemBeacon in September 2023. It is an open source beacon protocol and ontology based on AltBeacon and Eddystone-URL to create
interoperable applications that do not require a local database.
Advantages:
Backwards compatible with AltBeacon applications;
Does not require a local database to retrieve contextual information;
Scalable with additional ontologies;
GeoBeacon (Tecno-World)
Tecno-World (Pitius Tec S.L., Manufacture-ID 0x015C) announced GeoBeacon in July 2017. This open source beacon protocol was designed for usage in GeoCaching applications due to the very compact type of data storage.
Advantages:
Open source;
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability%20Network | The Sustainability Network (, REDE) is an environmentalist Brazilian political party founded in 2013 by Marina Silva, a Brazilian politician from Acre. The party formed a strategic alliance with the Brazilian Socialist Party for the 2014 Brazilian general election, until its registration as an independent political party was approved in 2015. The Sustainability Network has 19,090 members as of January 2017.
For the Brazilian general election of 2018 REDE formed with the Green Party the coalition United to transform Brazil, in support of Marina Silva. In the 2022 Brazilian general election REDE formed a coalition with other leftist parties for the pre-candidacy of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with the coalition Let's go together for Brazil.
Electoral history
Presidential elections
Legislative elections
References
2013 establishments in Brazil
Political parties established in 2013
Social democratic parties in Brazil
Anti-corruption parties
Centre-left parties in South America
Environmental organisations based in Brazil
Environmentalism in Brazil
Centrist parties in Brazil
Sustainability in Brazil
Sustainability organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hat%20Films | Hat Films is an English comedy and gaming YouTube channel comprising Ross Hornby, Alex Smith and Chris Trott. Since 2014, they have been part of The Yogscast network.
Whilst much of their early success came from the creation of several official Minecraft trailers, their gaming and vlog content makes up the majority of their channel, including games such as Grand Theft Auto, Minecraft and Rust. They are also film-makers and musicians, with their videos often including impromptu a cappella singing. They are also known for their music releases, such as their 2015 charity album Population: You, which peaked at #5 on the Billboard Comedy Albums chart.
They are the creators of the YouTube comedy series Stunt Lads, and were featured in the book Yogscast: The Diggy Diggy Book.
Stunt Lads
Stunt Lads is a machinima series created in Grand Theft Auto V. While covering the work of Hat Films, Vice reported in April 2016 that Stunt Lads was created by Hat Films "entirely in the Rockstar Editor," a digital media editing software. The report further mentioned that the idea of Stunt Lads "came from a collective interest in light-hearted, slapstick fare and an inability to perform stunts to the same standard as some of the online scene's dedicated crews." Playground.ru, the Russian gaming information site, featured a review of Hat Films and their work on Stunt Lads in July 2015.
Minecraft trailers
Hat Films have worked with Mojang and Microsoft Studios, among others, on the official Minecraft update trailers for console and PC editions of the game. They have also worked on the official opening videos for Minecon. Hat Films first came into contact with Mojang in the early stages of their career, while the group was asking for permission to record Let's Play content of the game.
Music
Hat Films are also known for their music releases. They have independently released music alongside videos, and later released music through the Yogscast. Their independent releases include instrumentals they produced for Minecraft trailers, music from their Filfy' Animals series, and other releases.
More recently, they participate in the annual Yogscast Jingle Jam charity livestream event, where they produce and release a charity album. Their debut, Population: You, reached #5 on the Billboard Comedy Albums chart in 2015. Follow-ups to this album include Destination Drumpf in 2016, Neon Musk in 2017, and Secret Santa in 2018. In addition to this, a single from Destination Drumpf was released in 2017; a studio remaster of "Shipping and Receiving".
Hat Films have also released three albums containing their fans' remixes of songs from the charity albums; Population: US (2015), Destination Drumpf – The Remixes (2016), Neon Musk – Remix Collection (2017) and Secret Santa – The Remixes (2018)
As a band Hat Films have performed under the name Pleasureville, or more recently Mr Sam & The Dednutz, along with their editor Craig Frost, Yogscast audio engineer Sam Gibbs and artist Rhianno |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Chu | James Chu is a Taiwanese-American businessman who founded ViewSonic, one of the largest brands in computer monitors.
Chu was born October 23, 1957, in the town of Pingtung in southern Taiwan. His father was enlisted in the Nationalist Air Force, and his mother was a housewife. He is the fifth of six children.
Chu studied at the Department of Sociology at Tunghai University but dropped out before graduation.
Chu moved to California in 1986 to become the president of U.S. operations at a Taiwanese keyboard manufacturer.
ViewSonic
In 1987, Chu launched Keypoint Technology Corporation, a distribution company specializing in computer peripherals. Chu introduced the ViewSonic brand of computer monitors in 1990 and renamed the company ViewSonic in 1993.
ViewSonic would go on to become one of the largest brands in monitors and in 1999 had 6.9% of the market share in the U.S., ranking 5th nationwide behind competitors Dell, Compaq, Gateway and Hewlett-Packard.
References
Living people
American people of Chinese descent
American people of Taiwanese descent
American technology company founders
1957 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iftach%20Ian%20Amit | Iftach Ian Amit (Hebrew: יפתח איאן עמית) is an Israeli Hacker/computer security researcher and practitioner. He is one of the co-founders of the Tel Aviv DEF CON Group DC9723, the Penetration Testing Execution Standard, and presented at hacker conventions such as DEF CON, Black Hat, BlueHat, RSA Conference. He has been named SC Magazine's top experts and featured at Narratively's cover piece on Attack of the Superhackers and is frequently quoted and interviewed
Career
Amit started his professional career in 1998 at the Israeli information security consultancy Comsec as a Unix and Internet Application consultant. In 2001 he moved to the US to work as a software architect at Praxell (later to be acquired by Datavantage, and then Micros).
On 2004 Amit left the US to co-found Israeli startup BeeFence and served as its Chief Technology Officer. Then in 2006 he took position as the director of security research at the security vendor Finjan, and a similar position in 2008 with Aladdin Knowledge Systems.
He then set out to serve as the vice president of consulting with Security-Art, and in 2012 took a position as director of services with the security consulting firm IOActive.
Starting in 2014 he served as vice president of the social media cyber security startup ZeroFOX, after which in 2016 he became a manager with Amazon.com information security. Since 2018 he is serving as the Chief Security Officer of Cimpress.
He serves as a general director of the board of BSides Las Vegas, a Senior Advisory Board member of Axon Cyber, and an Advisory Board member of ZeroFOX.
Research
During his career, Amit focused his research on varying topics ranging from uncovering the business elements of cybercrime, through connecting state sponsored activities with criminal ones. He has contributed to one of the first research papers conducted on the Stuxnet worm, and was featured on the cover of the inaugural Pentest Magazine about the Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES).
He also co-authored research with Aviv Raff on Windows Vista's inherently insecure Widgets, which were later removed from the operating system.
In 2011, Amit and Itzik Kotler presented at DEF CON, demonstrating how a bot master could communicate with botnets and with "zombie machines" using VoIP conference calls. Their open-source software, Moshi Moshi, illustrated how they could send instructions to and receive data from botnets and infiltrated networks using any phone line (including payphones). This research was also based on his original research into advanced data exfiltration, in which he uncovered a method for side-channel data exfiltration through various channels - including phone lines and fax machines, and released an open source tool for it
Presentations
Keynote. BSidesTLV 2017
Keynote. BSidesCleveland 2016
Keynote. HackMiami 2016
Actionable Threat Intelligence. InfoSecWorld Orlando 2016
The Newest Elements of Risk Metrics. RSA Conference 2016
Actionable Threat Intell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha%C3%AFti%20Observateur | Haïti Observateur is a US-based weekly newspaper founded in 1971 that focuses on news concerning Haiti. It is published in Brooklyn, New York, and has large distribution networks in other locations in the United States, as well in Canada and France. It was the first weekly newspaper for Haitian emigrants. Its main edition is in French, but it also publishes in English and Haitian Creole.
See also
List of newspapers in New York
List of newspapers in Haiti
References
External links
https://haiti-observateur.ca
1971 establishments in New York City
French-language newspapers published in the United States
Haitian-American culture in New York City
Haitian Creole-language mass media
Newspapers published in Brooklyn
Newspapers established in 1971 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball%20%28Australian%20game%20show%29 | Cannonball is an Australian reality television game show that premiered on the Seven Network on 27 September 2017. It is hosted by Tim Ross and Ben Mingay, along with Rachael Finch and features contestants competing with celebrities. The water-based game show involves 15 couples competing on a lake attempting to jump the highest, slide the furthest and fly the highest.
The format for the show is a franchise that originated in the Netherlands by Talpa. The four-episode series is produced by ITV Studios Australia and filmed at the Sydney International Regatta Centre in Penrith, New South Wales, in Sydney's western suburbs.
Format
The competition involves a total of 36 teams of two competing in high level water games for a chance to win two new Suzuki Vitaras and over $35,000 in cash. The top two team in each episode will go to the finals with the best team of the day getting a prize of $5,000
Several celebrity participants competed including former My Kitchen Rules contestants Ash Pollard, Luciano Ippoliti, Alex Ebert and Gareth Cochran. Two celebrities appear on each episode doing the same challenges, and what ever team there score get the close to that team get $500.
Ratings
The premiere episode was met with disappointing ratings. As a result, the second episode of the series was rescheduled to late Friday night. It is unknown if the final two episodes made it to air.
See also
Wipeout
It's a Knockout
Celebrity Splash!
References
External links
Official Website
Seven Network original programming
2010s Australian game shows
2017 Australian television series debuts
2017 Australian television series endings
2010s Australian reality television series
Australian television series based on British television series
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Sydney
Television series by ITV Studios
Cannonball (game show) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phasor%20%28radio%20broadcasting%29 | A phasor is a network of capacitors and variable inductors used to adjust the relative amplitude and phase of the current being distributed to each tower in a directional array. A typical phasor has separate controls to adjust the phase of the current going to each tower, adjustable power divider controls, and a common point impedance matching network to adjust the system input impedance to 50 ohms with no reactance without disturbing the phase or amplitude of the tower currents.
References
Radio electronics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magne%20J%C3%B8rgensen | Magne Jørgensen (born 10 October 1964) is a Norwegian scientist and software engineer in the field of scientific computing. Jørgensen is chief research scientist at Simula Research Laboratory and is involved in the Research Group for Programming and Software Engineering as professor at the Department for Informatics at the University of Oslo.
Career
Jørgensen received his Master of Science in economy and computer science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1988. In 1994 he received his Ph.D. degree in software engineering from the University of Oslo, Norway, based on a thesis on “Empirical studies of software maintenance”. Jørgensen worked as a senior scientist at Telenor Research and Development from 1989 until 1998, when he moved shortly to Storebrand. In 1999 he became associate professor in software engineering at the Department for Informatics at the University of Oslo, and in 2002 he was appointed full professorship. He has been at Simula Research Laboratory as a chief research scientist and member of the software engineering research group since 2001.
Research
Jørgensen's fields of research include management of software projects, software development methods, judgment and decision-making in software development, and empirical methods for software engineering. The primary focus of Jørgensen's research is estimation of ICT projects.
Together with Tore Dybå and Barbara Kitchenham, he has launched a method for systematic review of empiric experiences in the development of ICT projects, called Evidence-based software engineering. In 2014 Jørgensen, together with Dybå and Kitchenham, received the ACM Sigsoft award for the most influential paper in the last ten years for the initial paper on evidence-based software engineering.
Research impact and authorship
Jørgensen was ranked as the “top scholar”, i.e. the most productive researcher, in system and software engineering for the periods 2001–2005, 2002–2006, 2003-2007 and 2004–2008. The rankings, published in Journal of Systems and Software, is based on number of publications published in the top system and software engineering journal and includes about 4000 researchers.
Since 2004, Jørgensen has been writing a monthly column in the Norwegian magazine Computerworld, transferring research results to software professionals.
Jørgensen is a member of the editorial board of Journal of Systems and Software and Evidence-based Information Systems. Previously he was on the editorial board of Software Quality Journal.
Jørgensen was assessed by Computerworld Norway to be one of the fifty most influential professionals within ICT in Norway in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
Together with Scienta, Jørgensen compiled a report on successes and failures in public ICT projects. Since 2016 Jørgensen has been Member of the Norwegian Digitization Council.
Selected works
Kitchenham, Barbara A., Tore Dybå, and Magne Jørgensen. "Evidence-based software engineering." Proceedings of the 26th international con |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas%20Women%20Attorneys%20Association | The Kansas Women Attorneys Association (KWAA) is a voluntary, statewide bar organization devoted to advancing women in the legal profession through networking, service, and continued education. The organization was formally founded in 1994, and currently has over 300 members.
History
In 1989, the Topeka Women Attorneys Association hosted the first Kansas state meeting for female attorneys, led by Marla Luckert. From 1989 to 1994, the Wichita Women Attorneys Association and Topeka Women Attorneys Association (now Women Attorneys Association of Topeka) shared responsibility for this annual meeting.
In 1993, conference attendees determined a need for a permanent, statewide organization for female attorneys. The Jennie Mitchell Kellogg Circle, named for Jennie Mitchell Kellogg, was formed the following year around the purposes of:
Providing information to women seeking increased bar involvement, judicial positions, and professional development; and
Providing a structure around which the annual conference could be organized.
The organization later changed its name to the Kansas Women Attorneys Association. Today, KWAA continues to host the annual Lindsborg Conference, as well as encourage monthly meetings among its regional districts and their local women attorney groups.
Membership
Membership to KWAA is open to all attorneys, judges, and law students, regardless of gender. This membership allows individuals to access a discounted price to the Lindsborg conference, receive legal updates and answers to questions through the listserv, and network with fellow attorneys. The 365 members are formally organized into 12 location-based districts but also have the option to join practice area groups. Governance for the organization is run through five committees (Awards Committee, District Representatives, KWAA Council, Lindsborg Conference Committee, and Past Presidents Council) and 26 subcommittees. The membership year runs from August 1 to July 31 each year.
Lindsborg annual conference
The annual KWAA conference has been held in Lindsborg, Kansas since 1989. Today, the conference spans three days in July and is held at Bethany College. Conference attendees have the opportunity to participate in continuing legal education courses, as well as a number of networking and social activities.
Jennie Mitchell Kellogg Achievement Award
The Jennie Mitchell Kellogg Achievement Award was first presented in 1999, and has been a yearly staple since. This award seeks to recognize a member who:
Achieves professional excellence in her practice area;
Influences other women to pursue a career in law;
Opens doors that have been historically closed; and
Advances opportunities for women in her field.
This award has been presented to notable women like Christel Marquardt, Marla Luckert, and Sally Pokorny.
Historic preservation efforts
The Kansas Women Attorneys Association works diligently to preserve and archive historical information pertaining to the female p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrowdStrike | CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is an American cybersecurity technology company based in Austin, Texas. It provides cloud workload and endpoint security, threat intelligence, and cyberattack response services. The company has been involved in investigations of several high-profile cyberattacks, including the 2014 Sony Pictures hack, the 2015–16 cyber attacks on the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and the 2016 email leak involving the DNC.
History
CrowdStrike was co-founded by George Kurtz (CEO), Dmitri Alperovitch (former CTO), and Gregg Marston (CFO, retired) in 2011. In 2012, Shawn Henry, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) official, was hired to lead the subsidiary CrowdStrike Services, Inc., which focused on proactive and incident response services. In June 2013, the company launched its first product, CrowdStrike Falcon, which provided endpoint protection, threat intelligence and attribution.
In May 2014, CrowdStrike's reports assisted the United States Department of Justice in charging five Chinese military hackers for economic cyber espionage against United States corporations. CrowdStrike also uncovered the activities of Energetic Bear, a group connected to the Russian Federation that conducted intelligence operations against global targets, primarily in the energy sector.
After the Sony Pictures hack, CrowdStrike uncovered evidence implicating the government of North Korea and demonstrated how the attack was carried out. In 2014, CrowdStrike played a major role in identifying members of Putter Panda, the state-sponsored Chinese group of hackers also known as PLA Unit 61486.
In May 2015, the company released information about VENOM, a critical flaw in an open-source hypervisor called Quick Emulator (QEMU), that allowed attackers to access sensitive personal information. In October 2015, CrowdStrike announced that it had identified Chinese hackers attacking technology and pharmaceutical companies around the time that US President Barack Obama and China's Paramount leader Xi Jinping publicly agreed not to conduct economic espionage against each other. The alleged hacking would have been in violation of that agreement.
CrowdStrike released research in 2017 showing that 66 percent of the attacks the company responded to that year were fileless or malware-free. The company also compiled data on the average time needed to detect an attack and the percentage of attacks detected by organizations.
In February 2018, CrowdStrike reported that, in November and December 2017, it had observed a credential harvesting operation in the international sporting sector, with possible links to the cyberattack on the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. That same month, CrowdStrike released research showing that 39 percent of all attacks observed by the company were malware-free intrusions. The company also named which industries attackers most frequently targeted. That March, the company released a version of Falcon for mo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Computer-Aided%20Design | The Center for Computer-Aided Design (CCAD) is a research center in the College of Engineering at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. Faculty, staff, and students conduct basic and applied research in modeling and simulation in CCAD's six research units: the National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS); the Operator Performance Laboratory (OPL); the Virtual Soldier Research Program (VSR); the Musculoskeletal Imaging, Modeling, and Experimentation group (MIMX); the Reliability and Sensory Prognostic Systems group (RSPS); and the BioMechanics of Soft Tissues group (BioMOST).
CCAD was founded in 1981 by Professor Edward J. Haug and is currently under the direction of Professor Karim Abdel-Malek. Notable developments at CCAD have included the Iowa Driving Simulator, the National Advanced Driving Simulator, and the virtual human Santos™.
References
Organizations based in Iowa
Scientific organizations established in 1981
Computer science organizations
1981 establishments in Iowa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20PS/55 | The or PS/55 is a personal computer series released from IBM Japan in 1987.
The PS/55 is the successor to IBM 5550 (Multistation 5550), but its architecture is based upon IBM PS/2. The first line-up of the series consisted of rebranded 5550 models except the Model 5570-S which was based on the PS/2 Model 80 (IBM 8580). Unlike the PS/2, most PS/2-based models have a 32-bit (80386 or 80486) CPU and Micro Channel (MCA) bus for the high-end business computing market. IBM Japan was hesitating to sell personal computers for consumers because the IBM JX failed. The AT bus model was released for home users in 1991.
Features
Display Adapter
The MCA video card called Display Adapter has a Japanese font containing nearly 7,000 glyphs stored in its ROM, which enables PS/2-based computers to display Japanese text without loading the font into memory. Similar to the IBM 5550, the display resolution in character mode is 1040×725 pixels (12×24 and 24×24 pixel Mincho font, 80×25 text) in 8 colors. The graphics mode is 1024×768 pixels in 16 colors. This is the same resolution as 8514/A and XGA/A, but not compatible.
The first Display Adapter was installed in the model 5570-S, also known as the first Micro Channel machine of PS/55. It had a compatibility problem with PS/2 applications. Since the model 5550-S released in 1988, the Display Adapter II that improved the PS/2 compatibility was introduced. In the boot sequence, the Display Adapter enables VGA on the motherboard, and it passes the video signal from the motherboard to adapter's VGA connector. When using Japanese DOS, VGA is disabled, and the Display Adapter switches its video selector from VGA to own video chip. In addition, it added the 256 color mode (1024×768 pixels in 256 colors chosen from 262,144 colors). The adapter has 1 MB of video RAM, and 256 KB of RAM for user-defined characters.
Most PS/2-based models have compatibility with the Display Adapter II. VGA and the following display modes are supported:
1040×725 pixels with 80×25 characters in 8 colors or monochrome
1024×768 pixels graphics in 16 colors or monochrome
1024×768 pixels graphics in 256 of 262,144 colors
Later, XGA and VGA-only models were released. These later machines cannot run the special Japanese DOS, instead requiring the use of DOS/V with software-rendered kanji.
JIS layout keyboard
The following keyboards have the PS/2 port. These keyboards have new scancode sets (81h, 82h, 8Ah) to support additional keys for Japanese input method.
5576-001 - Same layout as 5550 type 1 (5556-001) keyboard.
5576-002 - Japanese layout based on 101 Enhanced keyboard, but uses Alps Electric Co. mechanical key switches.
5576-003 - Space-saving version of 5576-002
5576-A01 - OADG reference keyboard.
Models
Tower
5570-S, T, V (Early tower model. 5570-S, the first model of PS/55, doesn't support English versions of PC DOS and OS/2)
5580-Y, W (Late tower model)
Business Desktop (Predecessor to IBM PC 300/700 series)
5560-W, N （H |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kdb%2B | kdb+ is a column-based relational time series database (TSDB) with in-memory (IMDB) abilities, developed and marketed by KX. The database is commonly used in high-frequency trading (HFT) to store, analyze, process, and retrieve large data sets at high speed. kdb+ has the ability to handle billions of records and analyzes data within a database. The database is available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions for several operating systems. Financial institutions use kdb+ to analyze time series data such as stock or commodity exchange data. The database has also been used for other time-sensitive data applications including commodity markets such as energy trading, telecommunications, sensor data, log data, machine and computer network usage monitoring along with real time analytics in Formula One racing.
Overview
kdb+ is a high-performance column-store database that was designed to process and store large amounts of data. Commonly accessed data is pushed into random-access memory (RAM), which is faster to access than data in disk storage. Created with financial institutions in mind, the database was developed as a central repository to store time series data that supports real-time analysis of billions of records. kdb+ has the ability to analyze data over time and responds to queries similar to Structured Query Language (SQL).
Columnar databases return answers to some queries in a more efficient way than row-based database management systems. kdb+ dictionaries, tables and nanosecond time stamps are native data types and are used to store time series data.
At the core of kdb+ is the built-in programming language, q, a concise, expressive query array language, and dialect of the language APL. Q can manipulate streaming, real-time, and historical data. kdb+ uses q to aggregate and analyze data, perform statistical functions, and join data sets and supports SQL queries The vector language q was built for speed and expressiveness and eliminates most need for looping structures. kdb+ includes interfaces in C, C++, Java, C#, and Python.
History
In 1998, KX released kdb, a database built on the language K written by Arthur Whitney. In 2003, kdb+ was released as a 64-bit version of kdb. In 2004, the kdb+ tick market database framework was released along with kdb+ taq, a loader for the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) taq data. kdb+ was created by Arthur Whitney, building on his prior work with array languages.
In April 2007, KX announced that it was releasing a version of kdb+ for Mac OS X. At that time, kdb+ was also available on the operating systems Linux, Windows, and Solaris.
In September 2012, version 3.0 was released. It was optimized for Intel's upgraded processors with support for WebSockets, Globally unique identifiers (GUID)s, and Universally unique identifiers (UUID). Intel's Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) and Streaming SIMD Extensions 4 (SSE4) 4.2 on the Sandy Bridge processors of the time allowed for enhanced support of the kdb+ system. In June |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AoS%20and%20SoA | In computing, an array of structures (AoS), structure of arrays (SoA) or array of structures of arrays (AoSoA) are contrasting ways to arrange a sequence of records in memory, with regard to interleaving, and are of interest in SIMD and SIMT programming.
Structure of arrays
Structure of arrays (SoA) is a layout separating elements of a record (or 'struct' in the C programming language) into one parallel array per field. The motivation is easier manipulation with packed SIMD instructions in most instruction set architectures, since a single SIMD register can load homogeneous data, possibly transferred by a wide internal datapath (e.g. 128-bit). If only a specific part of the record is needed, only those parts need to be iterated over, allowing more data to fit onto a single cache line. The downside is requiring more cache ways when traversing data, and inefficient indexed addressing.
For example, to store N points in 3D space using a structure of arrays:
struct pointlist3D {
float x[N];
float y[N];
float z[N];
};
struct pointlist3D points;
float get_point_x(int i) { return points.x[i]; }
Array of structures
Array of structures (AoS) is the opposite (and more conventional) layout, in which data for different fields is interleaved.
This is often more intuitive, and supported directly by most programming languages.
For example, to store N points in 3D space using an array of structures:
struct point3D {
float x;
float y;
float z;
};
struct point3D points[N];
float get_point_x(int i) { return points[i].x; }
Array of structures of arrays
Array of structures of arrays (AoSoA) or tiled array of structs is a hybrid approach between the previous layouts, in which data for different fields is interleaved using tiles or blocks with size equal to the SIMD vector size. This is often less intuitive, but can achieve the memory throughput of the SoA approach, while being more friendly to the cache locality and load port architectures of modern processors. In particular, memory requests in modern processors have to be fulfilled in fixed width (e.g., size of a cacheline). The tiled storage of AoSoA aligns the memory access pattern to the requests' fixed width, leading to fewer access operations to complete a memory request and thus increasing the efficiency.
For example, to store N points in 3D space using an array of structures of arrays with a SIMD register width of 8 floats (or 8×32 = 256 bits):
struct point3Dx8 {
float x[8];
float y[8];
float z[8];
};
struct point3Dx8 points[(N+7)/8];
float get_point_x(int i) { return points[i/8].x[i%8]; }
A different width may be needed depending on the actual SIMD register width. The interior arrays may be replaced with SIMD types such as for languages with such support.
Alternatives
It is possible to split some subset of a structure (rather than each individual field) into a parallel array and this can actually improve locality of reference if different pieces of fields are |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4D%20vector | In computer science, a 4D vector is a 4-component vector data type. Uses include homogeneous coordinates for 3-dimensional space in computer graphics, and red green blue alpha (RGBA) values for bitmap images with a color and alpha channel (as such they are widely used in computer graphics). They may also represent quaternions (useful for rotations) although the algebra they define is different.
Computer hardware support
Some microprocessors have hardware support for 4D vectors with instructions dealing with 4 lane single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) instructions, usually with a 128-bit data path and 32-bit floating point fields.
Specific instructions (e.g., 4 element dot product) may facilitate the use of one 128-bit register to represent a 4D vector. For example, in chronological order: Hitachi SH4, PowerPC VMX128 extension, and Intel x86 SSE4.
Some 4-element vector engines (e.g., the PS2 vector units) went further with the ability to broadcast components as multiply sources, and cross product support. Earlier generations of graphics processing unit (GPU) shader pipelines used very long instruction word (VLIW) instruction sets tailored for similar operations.
Software support
SIMD use for 4D vectors can be conveniently wrapped in a vector maths library (commonly implemented in C or C++)
commonly used in video game development, along with 4×4 matrix support. These are distinct from more general linear algebra libraries in other domains focussing on matrices of arbitrary size. Such libraries sometimes support 3D vectors padded to 4D or loading 3D data into 4D registers, with arithmetic mapped efficiently to SIMD operations by per platform intrinsic function implementations. There is choice between AOS and SOA approaches given the availability of 4 element registers, versus SIMD instructions that are usually tailored toward homogenous data.
Shading languages for graphics processing unit (GPU) programming usually have a 4D datatypes (along with 2D, 3D) with x-y-z-w accessors including permutes or swizzle access, e.g., allowing easy swapping of RGBA or ARGB formats, accessing two 2D vectors packed into one 4D vector, etc. Modern GPUs have since moved to scalar single instruction, multiple threads (SIMT) pipelines (for more efficiency in general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU)) but still support this programming model.
See also
Euclidean space
Four-dimensional space
Quaternion
Dimension
RGBA color space
Tesseract
4×4 matrix
References
Mathematical structures
Vectors (mathematics and physics)
Computer hardware
Data types |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20rinGo | The Nokia rinGo (named after "Ring and Go") is an entry-level analogue consumer mobile phone from Nokia, originally released for the analogue NMT-900 network in Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Netherlands. Two revisions were released afterwards.
History
The first rinGo (code NHX-2N) phone was launched for NMT in November 1995. It had a very simple design and came in either grey or green with a small monochromatic LCD screen. The Nokia rinGo was designed to be easy to use straight out of the box and was cheap to buy, due to special mobile carrier tariffs. An ETACS version of the rinGo with minor design changes was launched in 1997 in the United Kingdom and Austria. It was the UK's first pay as you go Nokia handset through Vodafone's pay as you talk package. It was also sold in Thailand under the name Wave900.
In press releases it was also called a 'concept', a way of easily buying and using a mobile phone without operator registration. Nokia unusually created a unique "rinGo" brand and logo for it.
In September 1997 a new rinGo model (NHX-4N) was introduced for ETACS with a big oval shaped button for accepting and rejecting calls, and was thinner and available in a variety of colours. Later in October 1998 a third (NHX-7) model was released for ETACS in Italy and Spain (the latter via operator Moviline). It featured the "Navi-key" like on the GSM Nokia 3110 and Nokia 5110 and had its top antenna positioned in the middle.
The phones have the capacity to store about 60 contacts. Calculator, Watch and Calendar were pre installed on the handset.
Nokia marketed original rinGo targeting women and children. However it gained a negative reputation and in Sweden earned the nickname "bimbo phone", leading to low sales. Interest and popularity of the rinGo quickly faded and it has been largely forgotten since.
See also
List of Nokia products
References
External links
Nokia Museum
Ringo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes%20%28computer%29 | Holmes is a cognitive computing system developed by the Indian technology corporation Wipro and announced in 2016. Its name is a reference to IBM's Watson, and is a backronym for "Heuristics and Ontology-based Learning Machines and Experiential Systems".
Its uses include development of digital virtual agents, predictive systems, cognitive process automation, visual computing applications, knowledge virtualization, robotics and drones. The HOLMES platform Vision was created by Ramprasad K.R. (Rampi), he was the chief technologist for AI at Wipro.
References
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Natural language processing software
One-of-a-kind computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus%20Ex%20Go | Deus Ex Go was a 2016 turn-based puzzle video game in the Deus Ex series by Square Enix. The player uses a touchscreen to move Adam Jensen, a protagonist from the cyberpunk-themed series, as a puzzle piece through a board game while avoiding obstacles and manipulating the environment. In-keeping with the main series, Jensen can hack environmental features such as turrets and platforms to bypass and eliminate enemies. The game follows the format of Hitman Go (2014) and Lara Croft Go (2015), in which Square Enix Montréal distilled major motifs from the games' respective series to fit turn-based, touchscreen, puzzle gameplay. New to the Go series, Deus Ex Go introduced an in-game story and puzzle creation mode. Deus Ex Go was released in August 2016, for Android and iOS platforms to generally favorable reviews. The game was later ported to Microsoft platforms. Critics wrote that the game successfully captured the cybernetic dystopia of the Deus Ex series and the brain teasing puzzles of the Go mobile game series. But compared to the other entries in the Go series, reviewers considered Deus Ex Go to be less creative, with a lackluster story, less visually interesting aesthetic, and shorter length.
Embracer Group, following their acquisition of Square Enix Montréal, announced that Deus Ex Go would be removed from app stores with its servers shut down on January 4, 2023.
Gameplay
The player touches the screen to move Adam Jensen, a protagonist from the stealth combat, cyber-dystopian Deus Ex series, between nodes on a hexagonal grid towards an exit. If moved to a specific node, the character will stealthily take down guards, hack computers, and activate his human augmentations, such as invisibility. Enemies who spot Jensen will move towards and, if they reach his node, eliminate him. Alternatively, Jensen can eliminate enemies if approached from behind or their side. In the game's story, which is set before the events of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Jensen's sole mission is to save an important person, but is continually set back by puzzles—54 in total.
The puzzles grow in complexity by adding complications to several simple mechanics. Mechanical enemies and obstacles, such as gun turrets and raisable platforms, are hackable via computer terminals on nearby nodes. The player drags their finger on the touchscreen to connect the terminal's node and the hackable device. The character can store a power-up to move for two turns without detection while in an enemy's line of sight, activate terminals remotely, or use projectile attacks against guards on distant nodes. The main game runs about three hours in length, and the player can purchase puzzle solutions through microtransactions. An additional puzzle design node—also new to the Go series—lets players make single-screen puzzles to share with others. Square Enix highlights five new puzzles in a weekly rotation. As part of a tie-in with Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, players complete the main story and weekly |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winsanity | Winsanity is an American television game show broadcast by Game Show Network (GSN). The series, hosted by Donald Faison, premiered June 9, 2016.
Gameplay
First format
The game starts with a contestant being chosen from the audience. Every person is given a glowing wristband called a winwatch, so they can participate in the game. To start the show, Faison hits the "Winsanity" button on the stage to lock in on a random contestant by turning their winwatch green. Once that contestant is chosen, they join Faison on the stage and win prizes for themselves and the audience.
The objective of the game is to place ten numerical facts in order with the highest number on top and the lowest number on the bottom. Each round builds upon the previously placed facts, making the last round the hardest.
At the start of each round, announcer Kira Soltanovich starts the selector to choose additional audience members. The contestant hits the Winsanity button, which randomly chooses a select number of members of the audience. Soltanovich announces a prize that can be won by both the contestant and the audience. Faison then announces how many members of the audience were selected. Soltanovich announces the topic for the round. From there, Faison announces what the facts are and the contestant decides where on the list they need to go.
If a contestant can go through all four rounds and place all the items correctly, in addition to winning the $10,000 cash prize, both the contestant and the audience member chosen for that round also win their own brand new car.
If the contestant places a fact in the wrong spot, someone else from the audience takes their place and finishes off the list. Also, if the original contestant placed a fact incorrectly in a later round than the first round, then all of the prizes are taken away except for the prize in the first round. If the contestant playing in the fourth round is a contestant who won prizes in a previous round, they're given the option to walk away with all of the prizes that they already won or continue playing.
Second format
The audience was split into two color-coded sections, the purple section and the gold section. One contestant from the purple section was randomly selected to go head to head against a contestant who was randomly selected from the gold section.
Round 1
In the first round, a starter fact is placed on the board with its number revealed with four more facts that are given. The contestants take turns placing each fact. Correct answers are worth $100 on the first turn and $200 on the second turn. Incorrect answers earn no money.
Round 2
In the second round, four more facts are given in addition to the five facts from the first round. Correct answers are worth $300 on the first turn and $400 on the second turn.
Round 3
In the third round, a new list is given with two starter facts and their numbers revealed with four more facts that are given one at a time. When the contestant is given a fact, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67th%20Cyberspace%20Wing | The 67th Cyberspace Wing is a United States Air Force wing stationed at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. It was activated in October 1993 as a military intelligence unit and is assigned to the Sixteenth Air Force.
The wing was first activated at March Field as the 67th Reconnaissance Wing as part of the wing base organization system. However, only its 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Group ever became operational and it relied on another wing for support. It was inactivated in the 1949 Truman reductions in the Department of Defense budget.
In February 1951, the wing was reactivated in Japan as the 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, replacing the 543d Tactical Support Group as the headquarters for tactical reconnaissance units during the Korean War. It moved to Korea and served in combat until the armistice was signed in July 1953. Following the war, it returned to Japan and by 1957 was the only reconnaissance unit assigned to Far East Air Forces. The wing was inactivated in 1960 and its remaining squadrons were assigned to other units.
In 1966, the wing was reactivated at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho and trained for reconnaissance missions. It became Tactical Air Command's replacement training unit for the McDonnell RF-4C Phantom II. From 1968 to 1970, it acquired a fighter unit and also trained fighter aircrews on the F-4. In July 1971, Mountain Home became a fighter base and the wing moved without personnel or equipment to Bergstrom Air Force Base, Texas, where it absorbed the assets of the 75th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, which was inactivated. It continued its reconnaissance mission at Bergstrom until inactivating on 30 September 1993. The wing reactivated the following day at Kelly Air Force Base as the 67th Intelligence Wing under Air Intelligence Agency and continued the electronic intelligence mission. It has been redesignated multiple times since then, including a change to 67th Information Operations Wing and being assigned to Eighth Air Force. It was later redesignated as the 67th Network Warfare Wing. When the Twenty-Fourth Air Force was activated in 2009, it was reassigned from Eighth Air Force to Twenty-Fourth Air Force. It is currently assigned to Sixteenth Air Force and is currently designated as the 67th Cyberspace Wing.
Mission
The 67th Cyberspace Wing operates, manages, and defends global Air Force networks. The wing trains and readies airmen to execute computer network exploitation and attack. It also executes full-spectrum Air Force network operations, training, tactics, and management. It provides network operations and network warfare capabilities to Air Force, joint task force, and Unified Combatant Commands. Additionally, it performs electronic systems security assessments for the Air Force.
The wing comprises four groups and a support squadron.
The 67th Cyberspace Operations Group provides forces to conduct Air Force computer network operations for United States Strategic Command, United States Cyber Co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPKN-LD | KPKN-LD (channel 33) is a low-power television station, licensed to Tyler, Texas, United States, serving East Texas as an affiliate of the Buzzr and Ion Television networks. Owned by DTV America Corporation of Sunrise, Florida, it is an in-market sister station to KDKJ-LD (channel 27), and shares spectrum on RF35 with KCEB (channel 54).
History
The Federal Communications Commission granted the construction permit for the station, as K33KN-D, on February 25, 2010. The station's call letters were changed to the current KPKN-LD on March 29, 2016. The station signed on in April 2016 as an affiliate of FremantleMedia’s Buzzr network. Buzzr was previously on KDKJ-LD4 until that point. Katz Broadcasting’s male-oriented Grit replaced Buzzr on KDKJ-LD4 upon KPKN’s sign on.
On March 10, 2023, following the announcement of Scripps to combine the True Real and Defy TV networks in to one, KPKN-LD DT2 switched to Ion Television, becoming the area's second affiliate, alongside KETK-TV DT3.
Subchannels
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DTV America
Buzzr affiliates
Ion Television affiliates
Court TV affiliates
Scripps News affiliates
Cozi TV affiliates
PKN-LD
Television channels and stations established in 2016
2016 establishments in Texas
Innovate Corp. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20computer%20software%20terms | This glossary of computer software terms lists the general terms related to computer software, and related fields, as commonly used in Wikipedia articles.
Glossary
See also
Glossary of video game terms
Outline of computer programming
Outline of software
Software
References
software
Wikipedia glossaries using description lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samandar%20%28TV%20series%29 | Samandar is an Indian television series that was broadcast on the Doordarshan network from 1995 to 1996. The 25-episode series depicted members of the Indian Navy. It was produced by Wing Commander Anup Singh Bedi VSM (Ret.), supported by jatt musician/singer Col (Dr) Sultan Singh Malik from the Indian Army.
The cast included Bollywood and Indian television personalities such as Vineeta Malik, Samir Soni, Girish Malik, Aman Verma and others, with special appearances by real Indian Navy officers. The visuals included manoeuvres from and pictures of Indian Naval fleet.
Cast
Vineeta Malik
Samir Soni
Girish Malik
Aman Verma
Music
The title song of the show "Samandar ki hasin lehron ke kaamil hukmaraan hain hum...", by composer/singer Col S S Malik. Malik sang the title number composed as martial music with a motivating beat. The title song took the TRP of Samandar to most popular list in 1995–96.
References
4. “Bahut dinon ke baad” by Sultan Malik « Guftagu @ amolak.in"
5. MAXY-The Arjun astride the arrow. "« Guftagu @ amolak.in"
External links
Samandar title song on YouTube
DD National original programming
Indian Armed Forces in fiction
1995 Indian television series debuts
1996 Indian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20Actionman | The Nokia Actionman is a mobile phone from Nokia which has been discontinued. It was launched in January 1984 and used the NMT 450 network. It has a monochromic LCD display. The phone is meant to be kept in cars. It only supports calling features. Multimedia and messaging are not supported by the Actionman. It has 100 channels which can be changed via the numeric keypad.
External links
Nokia Actionman (Nokia museum)
Actionman |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20Actionman%20II | The Nokia Actionman II is a revised edition of Nokia Actionman. It was launched in May 1984, 6 months after the launch of Actionman. It used the NMT 450 network. It has a monochromic LCD display. This car phone only supports calling features. Multimedia and Messaging are not supported by the Actionman. It has 100 channels which can be changed via the advanced numeric keypad of the mobile. The phone has a signal indicator to indicate the signal and frequency.
External links
Nokia Actionman II (Nokia museum)
Actionman II |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su%20patriotu%20sardu%20a%20sos%20feudatarios | Su patriotu sardu a sos feudatarios ("The Sardinian Patriot to the Lords"), widely known also by its incipit as Procurade 'e moderare ("Endeavor to moderate"), is a protest and antifeudal folk song in the culture of Sardinia.
The anthem was written in Sardinian language by the lawyer Francesco Ignazio Mannu (Frantziscu Ignàtziu Mannu) on the occasion of Sardinian revolution, a series of mass revolts (1793–1796) against the Savoyard feudal system, that culminated with the execution or expulsion from the island of the officials of the ruling House of Savoy on 28 April 1794 (officially commemorated today as Sa die de sa Sardigna, "Sardinian people's day"). Because of its temporal coincidence with the French revolution, the song was also nicknamed by J. W. Tyndale and other scholars like Auguste Boullier as "the Sardinian Marseillaise".<ref>Boullier, L’île de Sardaigne, cit., pp. 94–95</ref>
Long regarded as a national anthem in Sardinian culture, Su patriotu sardu a sos feudatarios was officially declared as the island's anthem in 2018."Procurade 'e moderare" inno ufficiale della Sardegna: ecco il testo con la traduzione, YouTG.net“Procurade ‘e Moderare” è l'inno ufficiale della Sardegna, Consiglio Regionale della Sardegna
Text
The anthem is a poetry written in octave with a metrical pattern of a bb cc dd e, and its content resounds with typical Enlightenment themes. The entire text consists of 47 stanzas for a total of 376 verses, and describes the miserable state of Sardinia at the end of the XVIII° century, kept as an overseas dependency of the House of Savoy with an archaic feudal system that would only advantage the feudatories and leave a Sard only with "a rope to hang himself" (stanza 34, verse 272).
The incipit is, in fact, addressed to the Lords' arrogance, regarded as the people being most at fault for the island's decadence: Procurad'e moderare, Barones, sa tirannia… ("Endeavor to moderate, Oh barons! your tyranny...").
The disastrous socio-economic situation plaguing the island is described in detail. The oppressors from the Mainland are also harshly criticized: according to the poet, they did not care about Sardinia, and the only thing that would concern them was to surround themselves with richness and loot through the cheap exploitation of the island's resources, in a manner analogous to what Spain had done on the Indies ("Sardinia to the Piedmonteise Was as a golden land, What Spain found in the Indies They discovered here": stanza 32, verse 249–251).
The chant closes with a vigorous incitement to revolt, sealed with a terse Sardinian saying: Cando si tenet su bentu est prezisu bentulare ("When the wind is in your harbour, Is the proper time to winnow": stanza 47, verse 375–376).
Here, following the original text in Sardinian.
Editions, translations and literary critique
The anthem was illegally published in Sassari in 1796 and not in the nearby island of Corsica, as it was believed until recently. After all, Sassari was al |
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