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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Pugh | William Pugh may refer to:
William Pugh (computer scientist) (born 1960), American computer scientist
William Pugh (game designer)
William Pugh (geologist) (1892–1974)
William T. Pugh (1845–1928), American politician
Gwilym Puw (c. 1618–c. 1689), sometimes anglicised as William Pugh, Welsh author |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context%20Labs | Context Labs (CXL) is a company that provides blockchain enabled platform solutions such as secure distributed ledgers, network graph analytics, and data interoperability and visualization for publishing, financial, trading and supply chain industries. Headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands and Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company was founded in 2013.
History
Context Labs, BV was founded in 2013 by Daniel Harple, a technology entrepreneur and internet pioneer in web streaming and VoIP. With offices in Amsterdam, Netherlands and Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company was formed with the objective of extending research and development begun at MIT Sloan and the MIT Media Lab focusing on "innovation dynamics".
Partnering with architectural design firm Rogers Partners in 2014, the company applied innovation dynamics methods to collaborate on the design for the Connect Kendall Square project.
In March 2016, R. R. Donnelley & Sons announced it would partner with the company to integrate Context Labs blockchain enabled platform technology within RR Donnelley’s print-to-digital supply chain solutions.
In June 2016, Context Labs announced that as a co-founding member, the company would provide operational, strategic, and technical guidance for the Open Music Initiative, a digital rights framework for the music industry.
Products
InnovationScope
Chainplate Foundation
Snapshackle Interoperability
VUEGraph Analytics
See also
Business Intelligence Tools
References
Software companies of the Netherlands
Companies based in Amsterdam
Enterprise architecture
Software companies based in Massachusetts
Dutch companies established in 2013
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageNet | The ImageNet project is a large visual database designed for use in visual object recognition software research. More than 14 million images have been hand-annotated by the project to indicate what objects are pictured and in at least one million of the images, bounding boxes are also provided. ImageNet contains more than 20,000 categories, with a typical category, such as "balloon" or "strawberry", consisting of several hundred images. The database of annotations of third-party image URLs is freely available directly from ImageNet, though the actual images are not owned by ImageNet. Since 2010, the ImageNet project runs an annual software contest, the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC), where software programs compete to correctly classify and detect objects and scenes. The challenge uses a "trimmed" list of one thousand non-overlapping classes.
Significance for deep learning
On 30 September 2012, a convolutional neural network (CNN) called AlexNet achieved a top-5 error of 15.3% in the ImageNet 2012 Challenge, more than 10.8 percentage points lower than that of the runner up. This was made feasible due to the use of graphics processing units (GPUs) during training, an essential ingredient of the deep learning revolution. According to The Economist, "Suddenly people started to pay attention, not just within the AI community but across the technology industry as a whole."
In 2015, AlexNet was outperformed by Microsoft's very deep CNN with over 100 layers, which won the ImageNet 2015 contest.
History of the database
AI researcher Fei-Fei Li began working on the idea for ImageNet in 2006. At a time when most AI research focused on models and algorithms, Li wanted to expand and improve the data available to train AI algorithms. In 2007, Li met with Princeton professor Christiane Fellbaum, one of the creators of WordNet, to discuss the project. As a result of this meeting, Li went on to build ImageNet starting from the word database of WordNet and using many of its features.
As an assistant professor at Princeton, Li assembled a team of researchers to work on the ImageNet project. They used Amazon Mechanical Turk to help with the classification of images.
They presented their database for the first time as a poster at the 2009 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in Florida.
Dataset
ImageNet crowdsources its annotation process. Image-level annotations indicate the presence or absence of an object class in an image, such as "there are tigers in this image" or "there are no tigers in this image". Object-level annotations provide a bounding box around the (visible part of the) indicated object. ImageNet uses a variant of the broad WordNet schema to categorize objects, augmented with 120 categories of dog breeds to showcase fine-grained classification. One downside of WordNet use is the categories may be more "elevated" than would be optimal for ImageNet: "Most people are more interested in Lady Gaga |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinungaling%20Mong%20Puso | (International title: Cruel Lies / ) is a 2016 Philippine television drama thriller series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on a 1992 Philippine film of the same title. Directed by Ricky Davao, it stars Rhian Ramos, Rafael Rosell and Kiko Estrada. It premiered on July 18, 2016 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Hanggang Makita Kang Muli. The series concluded on October 28, 2016 with a total of 74 episodes. It was replaced by Hahamakin ang Lahat in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Clara and Roman will meet each other in a time when they are going through something. They will suddenly get along and marry each other. It is going to be a start of healing for Clara until she notices something different about Roman, who eventually turns out to be hard, skeptic and abusive. She will eventually meet a younger man, Jason who will give her the caring that she is looking for.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Rhian Ramos as Clara Pamintuan-Aguirre
Rafael Rosell as Roman Labangon Aguirre
Kiko Estrada as Jason Villafuerte Aguirre
Supporting cast
Jazz Ocampo as Hanna Arellano-Aguirre
Michael de Mesa as Moises Aguirre
Glydel Mercado as Raquel Labangon-Aguirre
Sherilyn Reyes-Tan as Liza Arellano
Cheska Diaz as Helen Villafuerte
JC Tiuseco as Jolo
Gab de Leon as Vin
Stephanie Sol as Camilla Ganzon
Gee Canlas as Jillian
Guest cast
Paolo Contis as Eric Salvacion
Ryza Cenon as Leda Robles-Aguirre
Tessbomb as Rowena "Wena"
Kevin Sagra as Borj
Marlann Flores as Josephine
Karla Pambide as Lorna
Francis Mata as Dante Ibañez
Faith da Silva
Nikki Co
Beatriz Imperial
Claire Vande as Kylie
Ollie Espino as Larry Arellano
Apollo Abraham
Paolo Gamboa as Greg Villegas
Mayen Estanero as Alma
Afi Africa as Tony
Wowie de Guzman as Mario Villafuerte
Manilyn Reynes as Angelica Pamintuan
Andrea del Rosario as Lourdes Robles
Snooky Serna as Clara's mother
Emilio Garcia as Clara's father
Maey Bautista as a prisoner
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 13.4% rating. While the final episode scored a 15.5% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2016 Philippine television series debuts
2016 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine television series based on films
Television shows set in Quezon City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VELCT | Velocity Energy-efficient and Link-aware Cluster-Tree (VELCT) is a cluster and tree-based topology management protocol for mobile wireless sensor networks (MWSNs).
See also
DCN
DCT
CIDT
References
Topology
Wireless networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIDT | CIDT may refer to:
Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, a concept in international law and the laws of many countries
Mobile wireless sensor network#Topology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop%20perforation | Loop perforation is an approximate computing technique that allows to regularly skip some iterations of a loop.
It relies on one parameter: the perforation rate. The perforation rate can be interpreted as the number of iteration to skip each time or the number of iterations to perform before skipping one.
Variants of loop perforation include those that skip iterations deterministically at regular intervals, those that skip iterations at the beginning or the end of the loop, and those that skip a random sample of iterations. The compiler may select the perforation variant at the compile-time, or include instrumentation that allows the runtime system to adaptively adjust the perforation strategy and perforation rate to satisfy the end-to-end accuracy goal.
Loop perforation techniques were first developed by MIT senior researchers Martin C. Rinard and Stelios Sidiroglou.
Code examples
The examples that follows provide the result of loop perforation applied on this C-like source code
for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
// do things
}
Skip n iterations each time
for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
// do things
i = i + skip_factor;
}
Skip one iteration after n
int count = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
if (count == skip_factor) {
count = 0;
} else {
// do things
count++;
}
}
See also
Approximate computing
Task skipping
Memoization
Software optimization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winners%20%26%20Losers%20%28season%205%29 | The fifth and final season of the television drama series Winners & Losers premiered on 5 July 2016 on the Seven Network in Australia. In season five, friendship and love will triumph as Jenny, Frances, Sophie and Riley support each other through happiness and heartache, delivering the show's most emotional season yet. Filming for the season began in March 2015 and concluded in July 2015.
Production
On 3 December 2014, it was announced that Seven had renewed Winners & Losers for a fifth season, set to air in 2016.
Julie McGauran, the head of Drama at Seven stated, "At its heart, Winners & Losers is about the unbreakable bond of friendship and that's why it resonates with so many Australians. It's an evolving story about young women trying to make their way in life, connected by shared experiences and supporting each other along the way. We're delighted the journey continues."
A fifth season was confirmed on 3 December 2014. A four-month production commenced in Melbourne in March 2015. Production for the season began on 2 March 2015 and concluded on 21 July 2015. Filming for the season began on 16 March 2015, with the first block directed by Fiona Banks.
Cast
Main cast
Melissa Bergland as Jenny Reynolds
Virginia Gay as Frances James
Melanie Vallejo as Sophie Wong
Demi Harman as Riley Hart
Sarah Grace as Bridget Fitzpatrick
Nathin Butler as Luke MacKenzie (12 episodes)
Nick Russell as Gabe Reynolds
James Saunders as Pete Reeves
Scott Smart as Alex MacKenzie (12 episodes)
Paul Moore as Wes Fitzpatrick (6 episodes)
Recurring cast
Rachael Maza as Veronica Sewell (5 episodes)
Nicholas Bell as Keith Maxwell (4 episodes)
Nick Carrafa as Cliff Boyes (4 episodes)
Jeremy Stanford as Derek Watters (3 episodes)
Katrina Milosevic as Eliza Dempsey (3 episodes)
Frank Sweet as Cain Godfrey (3 episodes)
Francis Greenslade as Brian Gross (1 episode)
Denise Scott as Trish Gross (1 episode)
Jack Pearson as Patrick Gross (1 episode)
Michala Banas as Tiffany Turner (1 episode)
Guest cast
Daisy and Lucy Bennett as George James (11 episodes)
Chloe and Madeleine Taylor as Aalivyah Fitzpatrick (5 episodes)
Joshua Hine as Dan Fawkner (2 episodes)
Ian Bliss as Colin Gammell (2 episodes)
Bob Morley as Ethan Quinn (2 episodes)
Todd McKenney as Bryce Thomson (1 episode)
Carolyn Bock as Louise Wong (1 episode)
Glenda Linscott as Lily Patterson (1 episode)
Casting
The cast for the fifth season was confirmed in July 2015, when the series was being filmed. Former Home and Away actress, Demi Harman will join the series as Riley Hart. James Saunders will reprise his role of Pete Reeves. Wentworth actress, Katrina Milosevic will join the series as Eliza Dempsey. Katherine Hicks, Tom Wren, Sibylla Budd, and Laura Gordon will not return as Sam Mackenzie, Doug Graham, Carla Hughes and Izzy Hughes.
Episodes
Ratings
Figures are OzTAM Data for the 5 City Metro areas.
Overnight - Live broadcast and recordings viewed the same night.
Consolidated - Liv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task%20skipping | Task skipping is an approximate computing technique that allows to skip code blocks according to a specific boolean condition to be checked at run-time.
This technique is usually applied on the most computational-intensive section of the code.
It relies on the fact that a tuple of values sequentially computed are going to be useful only if the whole tuple meet certain conditions. Knowing that a value of the tuple invalides or probably will invalidate the whole tuple, it is possible to avoid the computation of the rest of the tuple.
Code example
The example that follows provides the result of task skipping applied on this C-like source code
for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
value_1 = compute_1(i);
value_2 = compute_2(i);
}
Skipping a task
for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
value_1 = compute_1(i);
if (value_1 >= fixed_threshold) {
value_2 = compute_2(i);
}
}
See also
Loop perforation
Memoization
Software optimization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20McKeon | Tim McKeon is an American writer, director and producer. He is the co-creator and head writer for the American-Canadian series Odd Squad. He has also worked as a writer on Cartoon Network's Adventure Time, Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, as well as Disney Channel's Gravity Falls, Fish Hooks and Wander Over Yonder. McKeon is currently the creator and showrunner of the Apple TV+ series Helpsters.
Screenwriting credits
Television
Note: Series head writer denoted in bold:
Sitting Ducks (2001)
Sunday Pants (2005)
The Life and Times of Juniper Lee (2005–2006)
Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends (2005–2009)
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (2006–2007)
Out of Jimmy’s Head (2007–2008)
Destination: Imagination (2008)
Adventure Time (2010-2013)
Fish Hooks (2010–2013)
Gravity Falls (2012)
Wander Over Yonder (2013-2014)
Wallykazam! (2014)
Odd Squad (2014–2022)
Molly of Denali (2019–2020)
DC Superhero Girls (2019)
Helpsters (2019–present)
Hilda (2020)
Sesame Street (2021-present)
Kid Cosmic (2021–2022)
Films
Re-Animated (2006)
Odd Squad: The Movie (2016)
Odd Squad: World Turned Odd (2018)
References
External links
Living people
American television producers
Primetime Emmy Award winners
Cartoon Network Studios people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qapital | Qapital is a personal finance mobile application (app) for the iOS and Android operating systems, developed by Qapital, LLC. The app is designed to motivate users to save money through a gamification of their spending behavior. It moves money from a user's checking account to a separate Qapital account, when certain rules are triggered. Its database is used by psychology professor Dan Ariely to study consumer behavior. Qapital was released in Sweden in 2013, then in the US in early 2015. The application was later withdrawn from the Swedish market in April 2015, in order to focus on the US market.
History
The idea for Qapital was conceived by ex-bankers in Sweden. The software was designed by twin brothers Daniel and Andreas Källbom of Studio Källbom and released in Sweden in December 2013. The original software was a personal finance dashboard, similar to Mint.com, to show its users how they spent their money.
Qapital introduced the app into the US market with a different design in 2014 and started focusing exclusively on the US market. The app was re-designed to focus on building savings rather than managing personal finances. The Swedish version shut down in April 2015. The app was initially restricted to the iOS platform, but an Android version was released at the end of 2015.
Shortly after its US launch, Qapital invited psychology professor Dan Ariely to join its team as its "chief behavioral economist". He uses the app's database to conduct research into behavioral economics and Qapital in turn uses Ariely's research in design and programming decisions. In 2017, Qapital added checking and debit card services to the app.
Concept and features
Qapital is a free personal finance app for iOS and Android devices, intended to encourage its users to save money. Qapital directs each of its users to set savings goals, then automatically transfers money from their checking account to an account for savings, when a rule established in the app is met. It uses the "if this then that" (IFTTT) rule-based web-service. For example, one rule could be that if a user purchases a cup of coffee, then the app will round up the charge to the nearest dollar and deposit the difference into savings. Users connect their bank accounts to Qapital, so it knows when purchases are made. When a rule is met, money for savings are transferred to a Qapital account operated in partnership with Lincoln Savings Bank.
As of 2015, Qapital can connect to more than 180 other apps, such as Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox and Instagram. For example, connecting to Jawbone allows the user to set a rule that if they take a certain number of steps during the day, a set amount of money is transferred to savings. The app also allows users to monitor activity among their other financial accounts, such as deposits and withdrawals.
Reception
In an October 2015 review, PC Magazine gave Qapital four out of five marks and an editor rating of "excellent." The review praised the app for having a "l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aomawa%20Shields | Aomawa L. Shields is an associate professor of physics and astronomy at UC Irvine. Her research is focused on exploring the climate and habitability of small exoplanets, using data from observatories including NASA's Kepler spacecraft. Shields was a 2015 TED Fellow, and is active in science communication and outreach. She develops interactive workshops to encourage self-esteem and teach about astronomy, combines her training in theater and her career in astronomy.
Early life and education
Shields describes watching the movie Space Camp at age 12 as sparking the question "Are We Alone?" Shields attended Phillips Exeter Academy, graduating in 1993. As a student there, she and others interested in physics often rose early in the morning to look at Jupiter's moons. From Exeter, Shields attended MIT, gaining a degree in Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. While she began a PhD in physics, she deferred and attended UCLA for an MFA in acting. She acted for a while, including a part in the 2005 film, Nine Lives.
However, she still felt the pull from space and science. As a day job, Shields worked at Caltech on the helpdesk operator for the Spitzer Space Telescope. Conversations on this job led her to audition and ultimately co-host for a TV Show called Wired Science, run by PBS and Wired Magazine. After exploring future careers both in science-TV hosting and interests in astronaut training, Shields realized that she would need a PhD for further growth. After an eleven-year break from her undergraduate, she attended the University of Washington, receiving a master's degree in 2011 and then a PhD in 2014 in Astronomy and Astrobiology. She was advised by Victoria Meadows and Cecilia Bitz, and her dissertation was titled, "The Effect of Star-Planet Interactions on Planetary Climate."
Career and research
After receiving her PhD, Shields received an NSF Postdoctoral fellowship to work at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian. In 2016, she was awarded the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professorship at UC Irvine. Shields current research focuses on understanding the habitability of small, Earth-sized planets orbiting low-mass stars. She takes climate models designed for modeling the climate and weather patterns on earth, and adapts and applies these to exoplanets. Her work includes analyzing a number of factors, including the distance and type of star a planet orbits, the eccentricity and obliquity of that orbit, the atmosphere of the planet, and the rate of rotation. By exploring the parameter space of what can affect a planet's climate, scientists can narrow the candidates for sustaining life.
Science communication and Outreach
Shields has been involved in the public communication of science since before her PhD, through her role in Wired Science, as well as an appearance on the documentary, The Universe. Most recently, Shields has appeared in a NOVA episode.
Shields postdoctorate grant also funded her to develop an outreach program. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto%20Damiani | Ernesto Damiani is a professor of computer science at the University of Milan, where he leads the Architectures Research (SESAR) Lab. He is the Senior Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems Institute at Khalifa University, in the UAE. He holds visiting positions at Tokyo Denki University, Université de Bourgogne. Damiani received an honorary doctorate from Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France (2017). His research spans security, Big Data and knowledge processing, where he has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles and books. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Distinguished Scientist of ACM. Since 2018, he is the President of the Italian Inter-University Consortium for Informatics.
References
External links
Homepage at University of Milan
ACM author page
Italian computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Milan
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StormCrawler | StormCrawler is an open-source collection of resources for building low-latency, scalable web crawlers on Apache Storm. It is provided under Apache License and is written mostly in Java (programming language).
StormCrawler is modular and consists of a core module, which provides the basic building blocks of a web crawler such as fetching, parsing, URL filtering. Apart from the core components, the project also provides external resources, like for instance spout and bolts for Elasticsearch and Apache Solr or a ParserBolt which uses Apache Tika to parse various document formats.
The project is used by various organisations, notably Common Crawl for generating a large and publicly available dataset of news.
Linux published a Q&A in October 2016 with the author of StormCrawler. InfoQ ran one in December 2016. A comparative benchmark with Apache Nutch was published in January 2017 on dzone.com.
Several research papers mentioned the use of StormCrawler, in particular:
Crawling the German Health Web: Exploratory Study and Graph Analysis.
The generation of a multi-million page corpus for the Persian language.
The SIREN - Security Information Retrieval and Extraction engine.
The project Wiki contains a list of videos and slides available online.
See also
Apache Storm
Apache Nutch
Apache Solr
Elasticsearch
References
Web crawlers
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Software using the Apache license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervana%20Systems | Nervana Systems was an artificial intelligence software company based in San Diego, California, and Palo Alto, California. The company provided a full-stack software-as-a-service platform called Nervana Cloud that enabled businesses to develop custom deep learning software. On August 9, 2016, it was acquired by Intel, for an estimated $408 million.
Deep learning framework
The company's (now discontinued) open source deep learning framework is called neon. Neon which the company said would outperform rival frameworks such as Caffe, Theano, Torch, and TensorFlow – would achieve its performance advantage through assembler-level optimization, multi-GPU support, and use of an algorithm called Winograd for computing convolutions, which are common mathematical operations in the deep learning process.
Nervana Cloud
Nervana Cloud, announced in February 2016, is based on Neon, and ran on Nvidia Titan X GPUs, but Nervana was also developing a custom application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) called the Nervana Engine that was optimized for deep learning and that Nervana said would perform 10x better than Nvidia Maxwell architecture GPUs. The Nervana Engine was expected to achieve greater compute density by implementing only those design elements that are necessary to support deep learning algorithms and ignoring legacy elements specific to graphics processing.
History
Nervana was founded in 2014 by CEO Naveen Rao, CTO Amir Khosrowshahi (Dara Khosrowshahi's cousin), and VP Algorithms Arjun Bansal. Nervana has raised $28 million in funding. In June 2015, Nervana raised $20.5 million in series A funding led by Data Collective with participation from Allen & Company, AME Cloud Ventures, Playground Global, the CME Group, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Fuel Capital, Lux Capital, and Omidyar Network. It was estimated to have only 48 employees when it was acquired by Intel in 2016. In January 2020, Intel shut down the development of Nervana in favor of its acquisition of Habana Labs.
References
Companies based in San Diego
Companies based in Palo Alto, California
American companies established in 2014
Software companies based in California
2016 mergers and acquisitions
Intel acquisitions
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera%20%28Antwerp%20premetro%20station%29 | Opera is a station in the Antwerp premetro network, lying under the Leien near the Teniersplaats in the city centre. The station was opened on March 25, 1975, at the initial opening of the Antwerp premetro network. The station was temporarily closed in 2016 in order to undergo a full renovation and expansion and reopened in its current form on December 8, 2019. The station lies in the immediate proximity of the Antwerp opera building and is a part of the central east-west premetro axis. It is served by the tram routes 3, 5, 9, 10 and 15.
Location
Opera station lies in the center of Antwerp under the crossing of the Leien and the Keyserlei-Meir axis (called the Teniersplaats). To the north of the station lie the Antwerp opera, the Antwerp atheneum and the Rooseveltplaats bus station, where most city buses as well as tram routes 1, 11 and 24 halt. To the west, the station gives out onto the Leysstraat and the Meir, the main shopping street in Antwerp. To the east lies the Keyserlei, also counting numerous stores, restaurants and the UGC cinema, which runs toward Antwerp Central Station.
Layout
Opera station is the largest of all 18 Antwerp premetro stations. Unique to the station are its large entrance hall and very wide platforms, spanning nearly 30 meters at some point. The station has a rather sober, yet luxurious decoration. Before the renovation, a clay figure artwork symbolising city traffic could be found in the entrance hall behind glass.
The -1 level originally contained a large entrance hall that had about the same size as the Teniersplaats. The hall contained a large number of pillars as well as a single newspaper stand. Along the walls of the entrance hall, multiple open spaces could be found, constructed for small shops. After the renewal of the northern part of the Leien, the hall has been split in two by a newly constructed car tunnel, allowing car traffic to go underneath the Teniersplaats. Consequently, it is no longer possible to use the hall as an underground crossing of the Leien.
The -2 level contains two 90 meter long east-west platforms facing each other, which would have allowed real metro trains to stop at the station, would the Antwerp premetro ever have been upgraded to a full scale metro network. Also, the control centre of the entire Antwerp premetro network could be found here, before it was moved to the Italiëlei in August 2015.
The -3 level contains two more 90 meter long platforms, perpendicular to those at the -2 level, in a north-south orientation. The platforms were built in the 1970s, but due to budgetary problems, they were left in an unfinished state for several decades. The platforms were eventually finished and taken into service alongside the reopening of the station in 2019. In the northern direction, the platforms connect to the eastern premetro tunnel, going to the turning loop at the Rooseveltplaats and then -1 level of Astrid station. To the south, the tunnel originally ended after leaving Oper |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Caladenia%20species | The following is a list of species recognised by the Australian Plant Census and the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network Common names are mostly those given by David L. Jones, or sometimes (especially for more recently described species or subspecies), those used by Andrew Brown.
Caladenia abbreviata Hopper & A.P.Br. - coastal spider orchid
Caladenia actensis D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. - Canberra spider orchid
Caladenia × aestantha Hopper & A.P.Br.
Caladenia aestiva D.L.Jones - summer spider-orchid
Caladenia alata R.Br. - fairy caladenia
Caladenia alpina R.S.Rogers - alpine caladenia
Caladenia ambusta A.P.Br. & G.Brockman - Boranup spider orchid
Caladenia amnicola D.L.Jones - Bundarra spider orchid
Caladenia amoena D.L.Jones - charming spider orchid
Caladenia ampla (D.L.Jones) G.N.Backh. - dainty spider orchid
Caladenia ancylosa (D.L.Jones) G.N.Backh. - Genoa spider orchid
Caladenia angustata Lindl. - white caps
Caladenia anthracina D.L.Jones - black-lipped spider orchid
Caladenia applanata Hopper & A.P.Br.
Caladenia applanata Hopper & A.P.Br.subsp. applanata - broad-lipped spider orchid
Caladenia applanata subsp. erubescens Hopper & A.P.Br. - rose spider orchid
Caladenia arenaria Fitzg. - sand-hill spider orchid
Caladenia arenicola Hopper & A.P.Br. - carousel spider orchid
Caladenia argocalla D.L.Jones - white beauty spider orchid
Caladenia armata (D.L.Jones) G.N.Backh.
Caladenia arrecta Hopper & A.P.Br. - reaching spider orchid
Caladenia atradenia D.L.Jones, Molloy & M.A.Clem. - bronze fingers (N.Z.)
Caladenia atrata D.L.Jones - dark caladenia
Caladenia atrochila D.L.Jones
Caladenia atroclavia D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. - black-clubbed spider orchid
Caladenia atrovespa (D.L.Jones) G.N.Backh. - thin-clubbed mantis orchid
Caladenia attenuata (Brinsley) D.L.Jones - Duramana fingers
Caladenia attingens Hopper & A.P.Br. - mantis orchids
Caladenia attingens subsp. attingens Hopper & A.P.Br. - forest mantis orchid
Caladenia attingens subsp. effusa A.P.Br. & G.Brockman - granite mantis orchid
Caladenia attingens subsp. gracillima Hopper & A.P.Br. - small mantis orchid
Caladenia audasii R.S.Rogers - McIvor spider-orchid
Caladenia aurantiaca (R.S.Rogers) Rupp orange-tip caladenia
Caladenia aurulenta (D.L.Jones) R.J.Bates
Caladenia australis G.W.Carr - southern spider-orchid
Caladenia barbarella Hopper & A.P.Br. - small dragon orchid
Caladenia barbarossa Rchb.f. - common dragon orchid
Caladenia bartlettii (Hatch) D.L.Jones (N.Z.)
Caladenia behrii Schltdl. - pink-lipped spider orchid
Caladenia bicalliata R.S.Rogers
Caladenia bicalliata R.S.Rogers subsp. bicalliata - dwarf limestone spider orchid
Caladenia bicalliata subsp. cleistogama Hopper & A.P.Br. - sandhill spider orchid
Caladenia bigeminata A.P.Br. & G.Brockman
Caladenia brachyscapa G.W.Carr - short spider-orchid
Caladenia branwhitei (D.L.Jones) G.N.Backh.
Caladenia brevisura Hopper & A.P.Br. - short-sepalled spider orchid
Caladenia brownii Hopper & A.P.B |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20Banks | Karen Banks is a British computer networking pioneer who was inducted to the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013 as a "Global Connector".
In the 1990s she maintained GnFido, a pioneering gateway run by non-profit ISP GreenNet, which used store and forward techniques to provide otherwise unavailable internet access for individuals and organisations across Africa, South Asia and Eastern Europe.GreenNet was a founder member of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), and Banks was one of the founders of its Women's Networking Support Programme (WNSP) in 1993 and its coordinator 1996-2004. At the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995 the WNSP provided web access and email for 10,000 delegates, many of whom had never seen a web page before. From 1998 to 2001 Banks coordinated APC's global Internet rights work in Europe, and she became network development manager in 2004. She is now APC's operations director.
In 2004 she was given the Anita Borg Award for Social Impact by the Anita Borg Institute, in recognition of "significant and sustained contributions in technology".
She is a board member of Privacy International.
On 16 November 2018 Banks was recognised with the Oxford Internet Institute Award for her lifetime achievements in using information and communication technologies for social change.
See also
History of the Internet
Internet in the United Kingdom § History
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Women Internet pioneers
Internet pioneers
British women computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentron%20TV | Kentron TV (Armenian: Կենտրոն հեռուստատեսություն) is a private television broadcasting company in Armenia.
Programming
If Only
Dangerous Games
Amerikyan Patmutyun
See also
Television in Armenia
References
External links
Kentron tv official web
Armenian TV
Kentron TV
Television stations in Armenia
Armenian-language television stations
Television networks in Armenia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circles.Life | Circles.Life is a digital Telco company based in Singapore. The company was founded in 2016, initially operating exclusively in Singapore, leasing its network from M1.
In July 2015, Liberty Wireless signed an agreement with M1 Limited that allowed it to tap into M1's mobile network, thus becoming the first MVNO, operating as Circles Asia, in Singapore to offer a full service mobile network experience. It has since expanded to Taiwan and Australia, where it leases the Chunghwa Telecom and Optus networks, respectively.
Circles.Life operates its customer service through live chat and email.
In February 2019, the company announced that it had closed an undisclosed round of funding with Sequoia South East Asia and had plans to expand in five new markets, including Taiwan and Australia over the next 18 months. The company has expanded its offerings by launching digital lifestyle features such as its AI-driven events and movie-based platform, 'Discover'. In June 2019, the company closed another round of funding for an undisclosed amount, led by Singapore’s Government-linked EDBI and Founders Fund. This marks the first time the Silicon Valley-based Founders Fund has invested in a telco.
The company launched into its first overseas market, Taiwan, in June 2019, followed by Australia in September 2019.
History
2016
June 2016: Circles.Life launches, making it Singapore's fourth telco.
2018
March 2018: Circles.Life launches Unlimited Data on Demand, to provide customers with a daily Unlimited Data option. It also adds the option of Unlimited Outgoing Calls.
2019
February 2019: Circles.Life announces that it has closed an undisclosed round of funding with Sequoia India.
June 2019: Circles.Life expands into its first overseas market, Taiwan.
June 2019: Circles.Life announces that it has closed an undisclosed round of funding with Singapore's Government-linked EDBI and Founders Fund.
August 2019: Circles.Life expands to its second overseas market, Australia.
2020
February 2020: Circles.Life announces that it has closed an undisclosed round of funding with Warburg Pincus.
October 2020: Circles.Life launches in Indonesia as Live.On.
2021
September 2021: Circles.Life launches in Japan as povo2.0
2022
July 2022: Circles.Life was reportedly in early talks to merge with SPAC Bridgetown in a US$2.5B deal. This could be the third SPAC merger with a Singaporean company, the second in 2022.
Markets
Operating as a digital telco, it purchases bandwidth from other MNOs, replacing traditional brick-and-mortar stores with its own online consumer business. This enables Circles.Life to provide voice, messaging, and data services to customers: becoming the first digital telco in Singapore to offer full service mobile network services. To do away with physical retail stores, Circles.Life delivers its SIM cards and mobile phones to customers through third party services, such as SingPost in Singapore.
Singapore
In July 2015, Circles.Life's parent co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid%20%28Antwerp%20premetro%20station%29 | Astrid is a station in the Antwerp premetro network that was opened on April 1, 1996. The station lies directly under the Koningin Astridplein on the Gemeentestraat side. The station is one of the two premetro stations in Antwerp servicing passengers from Antwerp Central Station, the other being Diamant, which lies to the south of Astrid. It is served by tram lines 8 and 10, who both terminate in this station.
Location
Astrid station lies under the northern part of the Astridplein square. Adjacent to the square lie the Radisson Blu hotel and the entrance gate to the Antwerp Chinatownon the northern side, the Koningin Elisabethzaal and Antwerp Zoo on the eastern side and Antwerp Central Station on the southern side. The Rooseveltplaats bus station, serving a large portion of all bus traffic in the city, lies some 200 meters to the west of Astrid station.
Layout
The -1 level of the station contains the entrance hall and two platforms lying in an east–west orientation. The platforms were opened on April 18, 2015, along with the opening of the Reuzenpijp tunnel and the introduction of tram route 8. Since 18 April 2017, route 10 also stops here. Trams coming from Wommelgem (8) and Wijnegem (10) arrive at the northern platform, where passengers can get out. The trams then continue westward toward the Rooseveltplaats underground turning loop, and drive back to Astrid station, allowing departing passengers to enter the tram on the southern platform.
The -2 level contains two more halls, giving access to the -3 and -4 levels and allowing passengers to cross the tracks of the -1 level. The levels -3 and -4 contain two north–south-oriented platforms serviced by routes 2, 3, 5 and 6. The platform on the -3 level is serviced by trams going south to Diamant, or west to Opera, using the central railway triangle under Antwerp Central Station. The -4 level is used by trams going north toward Deurne, Wijnegem, Merksem and Luchtbal.
Since December 2006, station is also connected to the newly built underground car park under the Astridplein. Using a walkway running through the car park, passengers can also reach the Antwerp central station and Diamant premetro station without having to come above ground.
Extension
From its opening in 1996 until the opening of route 8 and the Reuzenpijp tunnel on April 18, 2015, only the platforms on the -3 and -4 levels were in use. The two platforms on the -1 level, built between 1977 and 1981, were hidden behind wooden panels and inaccessible for passengers. In March 2013, works started to refurbish the station in a more modern style, and to open the east–west platforms as a part of the LIVAN-project, which included the opening of the eastern premetro axis. Since April 18, 2015, when the premetro tunnel was officially put into service, the platforms at the -1 level are serviced by route 8.
In June 2017, the opening of the metro entrance at the Leien and the opening of the -3 level of Opera station will allow trams using |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBXP-LP | WBXP-LP was a low-powered television station that was licensed to and served Memphis, Tennessee. The station was a Sonlife Broadcasting Network affiliate that was owned by L4 Media Group. It operated on digital UHF channel 44.
The station's license was cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission on May 15, 2019.
Digital channels
References
External links
Low-power television stations in Tennessee
BXP-LP
Television channels and stations established in 1989
1989 establishments in Tennessee
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2019
2019 disestablishments in Tennessee
Defunct television stations in the United States
BXP-LP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug%20poaching | Bug poaching is a cyberextortion tactic in which a hacker breaks into a corporate network and creates an analysis of the network’s private information and vulnerabilities. The hacker will then contact the corporation with evidence of the breach and demand ransom.
Operation
Unlike a typical ransomware attack, once information is stolen, a bug poacher will extort the company with information on how their system was breached, rather than the stolen data itself.
IBM Security has found that a bug poaching campaign has targeted approximately 30 companies in 2015, which don’t have bug bounty programs.
Recovery of Files
Bug poachers have demanded up to $30,000 to share how they breached the system. Poachers do not immediately destroy or release stolen data. Some may choose not to pay bug poachers, since they do not typically release the stolen data. However, you will need to hope that the data is not leaked.
A Grey Hat Technique?
Ethical hacking is often described as white hat while the alternative is often termed black hat. Bug poaching uses unethical behavior in requesting a ransom, however uses the technique of alerting the company which is often used by ethical hackers. It therefore has a few attributes of each hat, fitting at least one definition of grey-hat.
References
Cyberwarfare
Hacking (computer security) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voivodeship%20road%20449 | Voivodeship road 449 (, abbreviated DW449) is a route in the Polish voivodeship roads network. It connects Syców with Błaszki and national road 12.
Villages and towns along the route
Słupia pod Bralinem (S8)
Syców (DW448)
Pisarzowice
Mąkoszyce
Ligota
Kobyla Góra
Bierzów
Rojów
Ostrzeszów (DK11)
Bukownica
Książenice
Grabów nad Prosną (DW447, DW450)
Pataty
Giżyce
Ostrów Kaliski
Brzeziny
Piegonisko-Pustkowie
Sobiesęki
Brończyn
Błaszki (DK12)
449 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauri%20Kivinen | Lauri Simo Kivinen (born 2 April 1961, Vaasa) is the former CEO of the Finnish Broadcasting Company. He had previously held numerous management positions at Nokia and at Nokia Siemens Networks. Overall, Kivinen has spent more than twenty years within the telecommunications industry.
Biography
Lauri Simo Kivinen was born on 2 April 1961 in Vaasa, Ostrobothnia, Finland. Little else is known about Kivinen's early life.
Kivinen obtained a Master's degree in Economics after studies at the Turku School of Economics in Turku, Finland, and in St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Career
Kivinen has held various senior roles at both Nokia and at Nokia Siemens Networks. Kivinen has been known to his contemporaries as a "steadfast and passionate leader with a hands-on management style." He has a proven record of developing great partnerships. Lauri is said to have a strong experience in interfacing with various corporate stakeholders.
List of positions held
Communications Manager for Nokia Group in Helsinki ~ 1988
Communications Manager for Nokia Consumer Electronics in Geneva ~ 1989
Vice-President of Communications at Nokia Mobile Phones ~ 1992
Head of Nokia's Brussels representative office ~ 2004-2007
Board member of the European Digital Technology Industry Association ~ 2007-2008
References
Nokia people
1961 births
People from Vaasa
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster%20Reference%20Library | Westminster Reference Library is a reference library in St Martin's Street, London, in the City of Westminster, part of the Westminster Libraries network.
History
The library was opened by W. Foxley Norris, dean of Westminster, on 8 October 1928 to replace the former library of the parish of St Martin in the Fields. The Leicester Fields chapel, built by the Huguenots in 1693, was once located on the site. Isaac Newton lived on a house on the site from 1710 to 1727, and later the house was occupied by the novelist Fanny Burney. The cellars of the house are part of the current building. The library was designed by the architect A. N. Prentice for Westminster City Council, and built by Walden & Company of Reading. It was modified in the 1950s and 1980s.
Collections
In addition to a general reference collection, the library has specialist fine art and performing arts, business and law collections.
Since 2021 the library has also been home to the Westminster Music Library collection, which was formerly based at Victoria Library. Westminster Music Library is one of the largest public music libraries in the UK, holding a wide range of sheet music, scores, and books about music.
The library also loans telescopes.
Events and exhibitions
Outside of library opening hours the library has hosted many events and concerts including Telemachus, Sea Power, Mr Hudson and The Library, Polar Bear, Harry Keyworth, Chisara Agor, Piney Gir and The Real Tuesday Weld.
The library also has art exhibition spaces.
References
External links
https://www.westminster.gov.uk/library-opening-hours-and-contact-details
Libraries in the City of Westminster
Grade II listed buildings in the City of Westminster
Public libraries in London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squad%2038 | Squad 38 () is a South Korean television series starring Ma Dong-seok, Seo In-guk and Choi Soo-young. It aired on cable network OCN on Fridays and Saturdays at 23:00 (KST) for 16 episodes from June 17, 2016 to August 6, 2016.
Synopsis
The story is about civil servant Baek Sung-il and his team who collect taxes from habitual tax evaders as well as delinquent taxpayers in cooperation with the fraud Yang Jeong-do.
Origin of title
Squad 38 is motivated and received advice from "38 Tax Collection Division" (aka 38기동대: Task force 38) in Seoul Metropolitan Government.
The number 38 is derived from Article 38 of Constitution of South Korea, which stipulates the duty to pay taxes:
모든 국민은 법률이 정하는 바에 의하여 납세의 의무를 진다.All citizens shall have the duty to pay taxes under the conditions as prescribed by Act.
The Korean title "사기동대 (sagidongdae)" is the combination of the words 사기 (sagi: fraud) and 기동대 (gidongdae: task force). In the logo of this series, letter of 사기 is written in blue and underlined to emphasize.
The motto of the drama, "끝까지 사기쳐서 반드시 징수한다" (Swindle to the end, must be collected.) is parody of, the motto of 38 Tax Collection Division, "끝까지 추적하여 반드시 징수한다" (Trace to the end, must be collected.)
Cast
Main cast
Ma Dong-seok as Baek Sung-il/Park Woong-cheol – manager of Tax Collection Bureau's section 3
Seo In-guk as Yang Jeong-do – professional swindler
Choi Soo-young as Cheon Sung-hee – Tax Collection Bureau's officer
Supporting cast
38 Revenue Collection Unit
Song Ok-sook as Noh Bang-shil – nickname "Wallet"
as Jang Hak-joo – nickname "Cannon"
Ko Kyu-pil as Jung Ja-wang – nickname "Keyboard"
Lee Sun-bin as Jo Mi-joo – nickname "Kkotbaem" = flower-snake (literally) = seductive girl (meaning)
Kim Joo-ri as Choi Ji-yeon
Seowon Town Hall
Ahn Nae-sang as Cheon Gap-soo – mayor of Seowon
Jo Woo-jin as Ahn Tae-wook – director of Tax Collection Bureau
as Kang Noh-seung – manager of Tax Collection Bureau's section 1
as Ahn Chang-ho – young employee of Tax Collection Bureau
Kim Joo-hun as Investigator Park – investigator of Tax Collection Bureau's section 3
Jung Do-won as Investigator Kim – investigator of Tax Collection Bureau's section 3
Extended cast
Jung In-gi as Sa Jae-sung – detective
Lee Ho-jae as Choi Cheol-woo – former representative of Woohyang Group
as Bang Pil-gyu – Choi Cheol-woo's second in-command
Oh Dae-hwan as Ma Jin-seok
Lee Deok-hwa as Chairman Wang
Others
as Taxation officer
Oh Yoo-jin as Baek Ah-jeong – Baek Sung-il's daughter
Jo Seon-joo as Baek Sung-il's wife
as Kim Gyu-sik
Lee Seung-hyung as Cheon Gap-soo's secretary
as Section chief Shim Yong-jae
as Bang Ho-seok
Ji Sung-geun
Kim Eung-soo as Jo Sang-jin
as Yang Jae-taek
as Noh Deok-gi
Jo Yeon-hee as Baek Sung-il's wife
Kang Min-tae as Jang Hak-joo band's member
Geum Gwang-san as Jang Hak-joo band's member
Lee Seon-goo
Kwon Ban-seok
Lee Gyu-tae
Hwang Tae-ho
Gong Min-gyu
Kim Ji-sung as Bang Mi-na
as Police chief Jin Seon-hwan
Lee Cho-ah
Kim Bo-bae
Park Byung-wo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianne%20Bautista | Arianne Angeli Bautista (born September 1, 1993) is a Filipino commercial model, actress, and former host of GMA Network. She is currently a freelance artist since 2019.
Early life
Arianne Bautista was born and raised in Quezon City. She studied in La Consolacion College Caloocan during her grade school and high school years. She graduated Bachelor of Science in Tourism from the University of Santo Tomas in 2010. She started as a commercial model while she was still in her senior years but then eventually started to enter showbiz in 2013. Her first TV appearance was in ABS-CBN's show Juan dela Cruz where she played a Secretary role. She signed a contract under GMA Artist Center the following year. For her first stint, she was chosen to be the best friend of the antagonist, Wynwyn Marquez, in Kambal Sirena in 2014. Bautista was later signed as one among the guest hosts of Wowowin, joining Rhian Ramos, Denise Barbacena, Gabbi Garcia and Ashley Ortega and show host Willie Revillame.
TV projects
Bautista has signed for a number of TV appearances with GMA Network. This includes appearances in GMA Network-produced TV series as well as the sitcom Bubble Gang, and appearances in Wowowin as guest host and Laff, Camera, Action! as main host. Arianne appeared and rose to fame as one of the cast in Ika-6 na Utos as Selma, a supportive friend and accomplice of Georgia. During 2019, she became a freelancer and was able to make an appearance in her former home network, ABS-CBN, via Minute to Win It.
Filmography
Television
See also
Coleen Perez
Ryza Cenon
Toni Gonzaga
Sunshine Dizon
References
External links
1993 births
Living people
Filipino female models
GMA Network personalities
University of Santo Tomas alumni
Actresses from Quezon City
Models from Quezon City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Music%20Shop%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Music Shop was an Australian children's television series that aired on Network Ten from 5 August 1996 to 27 November 1998. The series was made by affiliate ADS in Adelaide and was aimed at pre-schoolers.
The concept revolved around three human host, played by Michelle Nightingale, Debora Krizak and Dianne Dixon. who interacted with the two costumed characters, a Goanna and a Crow, as their participated in various activities at a Music Shop.
References
Australian children's television series
Australian preschool education television series
Australian television shows featuring puppetry
Network 10 original programming
1996 Australian television series debuts
1998 Australian television series endings
Television shows set in Adelaide |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastPOS | FastPOS is a variant of POS malware discovered by Trend Micro researchers. The new POS malware foregrounds on how speed the credit card data is stolen and sent back to the hackers.
History
Researchers at Trend Micro have named the new malware variant as TSPY_FASTPOS.SMZTDA. The malware is used by hackers to target small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in many countries like France, Taiwan, Japan, Brazil, Hong Kong and United States.
Operation
Unlike other POS malware, FastPOS does not store the information locally to send it to the cyber thieves periodically. The variant POS malware executes the attack on the target through infected websites or through Virtual Network Computing (VNC) or via file sharing service. The stolen data is instantly transferred to the Control and Command Server that is hardcoded by the hacker. The POS malware consists of two components– a keylogger and a RAM scraper. The logged keystrokes are stored in memory and transmitted to the attacker when the Enter key is pressed and are not stored in a file of the infected system. The stolen data can be user credentials, payment information which depends on the business procedures. The RAM scraper is devised to steal only credit card data. The memory scraper is designed to verify the service code of the credit card to help remove out cards that demands PINS.
See also
Point-of-sale malware
Cyber security standards
List of cyber attack threat trends
References
Windows trojans
Cyberwarfare
Carding (fraud) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific%20Coast%20Highway%20%28video%20game%29 | Pacific Coast Highway (stylized as Pacific Coast Hwy) is a video game written by Ron Rosen for the Atari 8-bit family and published by Datasoft in 1982. It is a clone of Frogger, with the key gameplay differences being that Pacific Coast Highway allows two-player simultaneous play, and the road and water segments are split into separate, alternating, screens.
Ron Rosen later wrote the scrolling shooter Rosen's Brigade (1983) and platform game Mr. Robot and His Robot Factory (1983).
Gameplay
Each player starts at the bottom of the screen and the goal is to reach the top. Player one is a rabbit and player two, if present, is a tortoise. The difference between the two is entirely visual, and the tortoise and hare theme is not present elsewhere.
The first screen is the highway from the title, with eight lanes of traffic to avoid, divided in the center by a median strip (called a "rolling sidewalk" in the manual). The second screen is water-themed, and players must hop on the boats and rafts to reach the top. The median strip equivalent for the water is a row of connected life preservers. In later levels the median strip and life preservers move, first in one direction only, then randomly switching. Getting hit by a vehicle results in an ambulance taking the character away (or a rescue boat for the water sequence), and the level restarts for both players.
The manual describes the second screen as crossing a beach of hot sand by jumping on towels and surfboards, but this isn't present in the game itself.
Reception
COMPUTE! editorial assistant Charles Brannon wrote, "A frustrating aspect of the game is that if one player gets hit (or takes a plunge), both players have to start over."
In a C+ review for The Book of Atari Software 1983 the reviewer wrote, "The graphics and sound are fair in this game; but although it offers something of a challenge to the uninitiated, it cannot lay claim to originality."
See also
Preppie!
Frogger II: ThreeeDeep!
References
External links
Pacific Coast Highway at Atari Mania
1982 video games
Atari 8-bit family games
Atari 8-bit family-only games
Datasoft games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Top-down video games
Video game clones
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jafar%20Ali%20Shah | Jafar Ali Sarfras was an Indian entrepreneur who dedicated his life to the world of technology. Born in India, he showed an early interest in computer programming and started learning coding from the 5th class.
After completing his education, Sarfras founded his own company called Boldcoyo, which was a technology-driven startup aimed at revolutionizing the digital world. He was passionate about using technology to solve real-world problems and improve people's lives. Under his leadership, Boldcoyo grew rapidly and became a well-known name in the industry.
Sarfras's vision and leadership helped Boldcoyo to achieve tremendous success in a short span of time. His innovative ideas and dedication to his work earned him widespread recognition and respect in the industry. He was known for his strong work ethic and his ability to motivate and inspire his team.
Despite his busy schedule, Sarfras was always willing to give back to the community and was involved in various charitable activities. He believed in using his success to help others and make a positive impact on society.
Jafar Ali Sarfras was a true pioneer in the field of technology and a role model for aspiring entrepreneurs. His legacy lives on through the company he founded and the many lives he touched throughout his career.
References
People from Chitral |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20bond%20%28finance%29 | A smart bond (or blockchain Bond) is a specific type of an automated bond contract that uses the capabilities of blockchain databases that can operate as cryptographically-secure yet open and transparent general ledgers. This is sometimes referred to as Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT). It is one of a class of financial instruments known as a smart contract, "a computerized transaction protocol that executes the terms of a contract."
This is in contrast to the traditional issuance process for bonds which can be a lengthy and highly technical process, which involves many intermediaries and stakeholders with sometimes conflicting objectives. A general lack of standardization in the primary markets increases information asymmetry and results in inefficient pricing, high costs, and long settlement times in the secondary market.
Blockchain bonds have the ability to potentially revolutionize financial capital markets by creating a decentralized database of unique digital assets. Securities using blockchain technology will be able to cut out the various middlemen that are present in a bond transaction and lower fees.
Issuers of bonds could be able to completely automate the entire bond issuance process through blockchain bonds. This would potentially result in shortened settlement and transaction times as well as greater transparency for the issuer in transactions. The increased transparency and automation of the process would remove the need for intermediaries and therefore generate increased savings for issuers.
History
As of July 2021, the International Capital Market Association has listed the following blockchain bonds:
As early as 2014, banking executives were speaking publicly about the ability of blockchain technology to trigger significant "simplification of banking processes and cost structure."
, UBS was experimenting with smart bonds that use the bitcoin blockchain
in which "risk free interest rates and payment streams [could be] fully automated, creating a self-paying instrument." The Huffington Post reports than an announcement of the UBS smartbond service is expected in 2016.
In 2018, the World Bank mandated the Commonwealth Bank of Australia for the world's first blockchain bond.
On 28 November 2018, United Arab Emirates based Al Hilal Bank executed the world's first Blockchain Sukuk (Islamic Bond) on the Ethereum blockchain. Blockchain was used to transact a secondary market deal in Al Hilal Bank's $500 million Senior Sukuk, maturing September 2023. This was the first time Blockchain technology was utilized in the execution of a Sukuk transaction. The technology was built by Swiss-based blockchain developer, Jibrel AG.
Characteristics of Smart Bonds
DLT bonds involve a distributed database maintained over a network of computers connected on a peer-to-peer basis, so that participants can share and keep identical, cryptographically secured records in a decentralized manner. Operation of a DLT network can involve the use of a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suits%20%28season%206%29 | The sixth season of the American legal drama Suits was ordered on July 1, 2015, and began airing on USA Network in the United States July 13, 2016. The season is produced by Hypnotic Films & Television and Universal Cable Productions, and the executive producers are Doug Liman, David Bartis, and series creator Aaron Korsh. The season has six series regulars playing employees at the fictional Pearson Specter Litt law firm in Manhattan: Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams, Rick Hoffman, Meghan Markle, Sarah Rafferty, and Gina Torres.
Gina Torres left the show following the summer season due to her contract being up, and she starred in ABC's The Catch. She returned for the season finale and was still credited as main cast for the episode. She further went on to star in the Suits spinoff, Pearson.
Cast
Regular cast
Gabriel Macht as Harvey Specter
Patrick J. Adams as Mike Ross
Rick Hoffman as Louis Litt
Meghan Markle as Rachel Zane
Sarah Rafferty as Donna Paulsen
Gina Torres as Jessica Pearson
Recurring cast
Aloma Wright as Gretchen Bodinski
Amanda Schull as Katrina Bennett
Wendell Pierce as Robert Zane
David Reale as Benjamin
Leslie Hope as Anita Gibbs
Paul Schulze as Frank Gallo
Erik Palladino as Kevin Miller
Malcolm-Jamal Warner as Julius Rowe
Glenn Plummer as Leonard Bailey
Ian Reed Kesler as Stu Buzzini
Carly Pope as Tara Messer
Neal McDonough as Sean Cahill
Alan Rosenberg as William Sutter
Peter Cambor as Nathan
Jordan Johnson-Hinds as Oliver
Episodes
Ratings
References
External links
Suits season 6 episodes at USA Network
List of Suits season 6 episodes at Internet Movie Database
06
2016 American television seasons
2017 American television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media.net | 1-media.net is a contextual advertising network. On August 21, 2016, Miteno Communication Technology (also known as Shuzhi.AI), a Chinese consortium acquired Media.net for US$900 million. The deal is said to be the third largest ad tech acquisition ever.
By revenue, Media.net is the second-largest contextual advertising network in the world. It is also one of the top 5 largest ad tech companies worldwide by market cap. The company has over 1300 employees across North America, Asia and Europe. It has its HQ in New York and its global HQ in Dubai.
History
Media.net was founded by Divyank Turakhia.
References
External links
Official website
Online advertising
Online advertising services and affiliate networks
Contextual advertising
Advertising tools
Companies based in Dubai
Companies with year of establishment missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%20Computer%20and%20Video%20Games%20Foundation | The Iran Computer and Video Games Foundation (ICVGF), also known as the National Foundation for Computer Games (NFCG), is an Iranian nonprofit organization established by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance to control and support the video game industry in Iran.
Established in 2007, the ICVGF is responsible for publishing and releasing video games, supporting Iranian video game developers, teaching video game development, and monitoring the activities of LAN gaming centers in Iran. The ICVGF is also responsible for banning foreign video games that are not compatible with Iran's political views, and filtering video game websites that do not meet governmental rules.
Duties
The main duties of the ICVGF are:
Supporting and promoting game development in Iran
Educating Iranian game designers, developers, and artists in Iran
Managing the Entertainment Software Rating Association and the Game Development Institute
Hosting officially-sanctioned gaming conventions and game jams in Iran
Promoting Iranian video games at regional and international gaming conventions and trade fairs
Governing and controlling video game sales in the Iranian market
Video game bans
One of the responsibilities of the ICVGF is to ban video games that do not meet Iranian ideals or do not follow the Iranian government's media regulations. This is often done in conjunction with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. One notable ban was the 2016 video game 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, which, according to the ICVGF, presented "false and distorted information" about the Iranian Revolution. The ICVGF blocked websites offering the game, and conducted an operation to confiscate all copies of the game in Iran. In 2012, the ICVGF denied Bohemia Interactive a license to sell Arma 3 in Iran due to its depiction of the Iran Armed Forces. Arma 3's plot depicts Iran as a leading member of the fictional coalition "CSAT", an antagonistic faction that fights the player's faction, NATO.
Organization
Entertainment Software Rating Association
In 2007, the ICVGF established the Entertainment Software Rating Association (ESRA), a self-regulatory organization that assigns age and content ratings for video games released in Iran.
Iran Game Development Institute
In 2010, the ICVGF established the Iran Game Development Institute (IGDI), a video game development school, made for the purpose of training Iranian video game designers and developers. The IGDI regularly participates in game jams and gaming conventions hosted by the ICVGF, and often wins awards from them.
Festivals and exhibitions
The ICVGF hosts gaming conventions and game jams in Iran for the purpose of garnering wider appeal for Iranian video games and the Iranian video game industry.
References
External links
Official website
Tehran Game Festival
2007 establishments in Iran
Video game organizations
Censorship in Iran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20defense | Active defense can refer to a defensive strategy in the military or cybersecurity arena.
In the cybersecurity arena, active defense may mean "asymmetric defenses," namely defenses that increase costs to cyber-adversaries by reducing costs to cyber-defenders. For example, an active defense data protection strategy leverages dynamic data movement, distribution, and re-encryption to make data harder to attack, steal, or destroy. Prior data protection approaches relied on encryption of data at rest, which leaves data vulnerable to attacks including stealing of ciphertext, cryptographic attack, attacks on encryption keys, destruction of encrypted data, ransomware attacks, insider attacks, and others. Three ACM computing conferences have explored Moving Target Defense as a strategy for network and application-level security as well, for instance by rotating IP addresses or dynamically changing network topologies. Production implementations of MTD are provided by companies for applications including legacy systems, communications, and election security. Additionally, "active defense measures" are often another term used to define and refer to offensive cyber operations (OCOs) or computer network attacks (CNAs).
Some have defined active defenses as including of deception or honeypots, which seek to confuse attackers with traps and advanced forensics. Examples of such honeypot technologies include Illusive Networks, TrapX, Cymmetria, Attivo, and others. Other types of active defenses might include automated incident response, which attempts to tie together different response strategies in order to increase work for attackers and decrease work for defenders.
The Department of Defense defines active defense as: "The employment of limited offensive action and counterattacks to deny a contested area or position to the enemy." This definition does not specify whether it refers to physical actions, or cyber-related actions. Recently, the Department of Homeland Security and financial institutions have identified Active Defense as a top priority for security industrial infrastructure systems. As part of a broader push for greater resiliency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology 800-160 Volume 2 framework has gone further, providing guidance on standardization for active defense.
See also
Moving Target Defense
Proactive cyber defence
Software-defined networking
The Concept of Active Defence in China's Military Strategy
References
Military doctrines
Military strategy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZFSE | LZFSE (Lempel–Ziv Finite State Entropy) is an open source lossless data compression algorithm created by Apple Inc. It was released with a simpler algorithm called LZVN.
Overview
The name is an acronym for Lempel–Ziv and finite-state entropy (implementation of asymmetric numeral systems).
LZFSE was introduced by Apple at its Worldwide Developer Conference 2015. It shipped with that year's iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 releases.
Apple claims that LZFSE compresses with a ratio comparable to that of zlib (DEFLATE) and decompresses two to three times faster while using fewer resources, therefore offering higher energy efficiency than zlib. It was aimed for scenarios where decompression speed and rate should be prioritised equally. Part of this energy efficiency was achieved by optimising the algorithm for modern micro-architectures, specifically focusing on arm64. Third-party benchmarking confirms that LZFSE decompresses faster than zlib, but also suggests that many other modern compression algorithms may have more favorable compression algorithm performance characteristics such as density, compression speed and decompression speed by a significant margin.
According to the Squash Benchmark, LZFSE is similar in speed to zstd (level 6), but has a slightly worse ratio. LZVN is similar in speed to LZ4 level 4, with a slightly worse ratio as well. Neither LZFSE nor LZVN is tunable at runtime, although a few constants can be tweaked at compile time for the usual speed-ratio trade-off.
Implementation
A reference C library written by Eric Bainville was made available under the 3-clause BSD License after WWDC 2016. It includes an executable to compress and decompress LZFSE streams as well. There are no plans to expose an LZVN API.
Apple's LZFSE implementation uses a simpler algorithm called LZVN when the input is smaller than (4096 bytes). This is a LZSS-type algorithm without entropy encoding but with three widths of REP (L,M,D) packets. In the open source reference implementation, Apple explains that LZFSE does not perform as well for small sizes, so LZVN is used instead. This algorithm in libfastCompression.a was discovered earlier as the default kernelcache compression method in Mac OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 1 (2014), replacing the legacy compression from Haruhiko Okumura.
Usage
AppleFSCompression.framework (AFSC), the mechanism for quasi-transparent compression in HFS Plus and Apple File System, supports LZFSE and LZVN since OS X 10.9.
Apple's Disk Images framework has offered an LZFSE-based encoding called since Mac OS X 10.11, accessible via and some third-party image utilities.
Apple introduced the Apple Archive format and its associated API in macOS High Sierra. The extension name is .aar (since macOS Big Sur, used to be .yaa). Encryption was introduced in macOS Monterey, when AA became the default Archive Utility format. Three command-line utilities are available in macOS to handle AA files. Of third-party programs, Keka is able to use |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Tibbets | Daniel Tibbets is an American media executive. He is the president and general manager of the El Rey Network, a position he has held since May 2016.
Tibbets was an early advocate of media produced specifically for cell phone distribution. As the head of the experimental Fox Lab at Twentieth Television, he created the first mobisodes, Love and Hate, and Sunset Hotel. He has held senior positions at Machinima, Bunim/Murray Productions, and GoTV Networks. He was appointed by Smosh as its first CEO as he has a fluency in all aspects of entertainment, expected to broaden its brand to "traditional media".
References
External links
American chief executives in the media industry
American businesspeople in mass media
American television executives
Living people
University of Arizona alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance%20Se%20Puder%20%28season%201%29 | Dance Se Puder (Dance If You Can) is a Brazilian talent show, presented as a segment on Programa Eliana, from the SBT network. Several celebrities compete dancing various music styles. They perform to a panel usually consisting of three judges. Viewers can vote and eliminate a participant per round.
Judges
Contestants are given points from 0 to 10 by three judges, including the choreographers Jaime Arôxa and Ivan Santos, which is present in almost all stages of the competition, along with a guest. At the end of the competition, the winner will take a cash prize of R$50,000.
Format
Two groups with five members each compete. Each contestant has to dance to a song chosen randomly and each has a week to prepare a dance performance. The two groups don't compete in the same week. The Supimpas show up on a Sunday and the Five Stars are presented in the following Sunday. Each contestant receives a score on a scale from 0 to 10 by the three judges. The three scores are calculated and the results of each group member are added together to form the final score. After the presentation and scores of the Five Stars, it's time to know which team scored higher. The team that has scored the most points is the winner, and all members are safe from elimination. The loser team is in the hot seat and the teammate who scored the less is automatically up for elimination. Plus, the loser team have to choose a second teammate of their own to face the audience's preference. The vote is set by text message.
In the second round, it was decided that one of the members of the Five Stars would have their points disregarded so that the average score of the teams would be balanced. Pedro Henrique was chosen, ironically being the one who had more points for his team in that round. If the Five Stars lost because of Pedro Henrique, he could not be placed in the bottom two since he won invincibility.
After the elimination of Jean in the third round, the Supimpas was depleted due to two consecutive eliminations. So the solution was to move a member of the Five Stars to the Supimpas. Gabriel was chosen and a random song was chosen for him for the fourth round.
In the fourth round the teams merged.
Contestants
The contestant won Dance Se Puder.
The contestant was the runner-up of Dance Se Puder.
The contestant won with their team and had the highest score. / The contestant had the highest score and won individually.
The contestant was one of the best individually but didn't win.
The contestant was in the winning team.
The contestant won entry back into the competition.
The contestant was one of the worst but was not in the bottom two.
The contestant was in the bottom two.
The contestant was eliminated.
The contestant came back for a chance to win re-entry into the competition but lost.
The contestant did not participate in this episode.
Since Pedro Henrique's score was disregarded, Gabriel became the one with more points on round 2.
Amanda had the second-highest sc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MT940 | MT940 is a specific SWIFT message type used by the SWIFT network to send and receive end-of-day bank account statements.
Message Type 940 is the SWIFT standard (Banking Communication Standard) for the electronic transmission of account statement data. In various online banking programs, MT940 is used as an interface to other programs (e.g. for accounting), with which the account statement data are processed further.
The MT formats (Message Types, MT) currently used in the SWIFT community, which also include MT940, are to be replaced in the long term by the XML formats described in the ISO 20022 standard to achieve global unification (see also ).
External links
MT940 Viewer
MT940 Converter
References
Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aishbagh%20railway%20station | Aishbagh railway station used to serve the 130 years old metre-gauge railway network, and used to act as a terminal for it. On 15 May 2016 the gauge conversion process started in which the Aishbagh-Sitapur-Lakhimpur-Mailani section is being upgraded to broad gauge Mailani-Pilibhit getting delayed due to PTR NOC.
Before the gauge conversion Aishbagh Junction had five platforms. Their number will be increased to seven after completion of the gauge conversion. After GC process this station will be originating/terminating point for many north, northwest and northeast bound trains. Many Delhi and Izzat Nagar-bound trains will start from here. Station will also be provided with a loop line to bypass the trains which are not having a stop here. Other than this Transport nagar, Gomti Nagar, Utrahtia Jn and Daliganj Jn will be developed as satellite stations to pick the traffic pressure off Charbagh, Lucknow Junction and Badshah Nagar railway stations.
Right now Charbagh, Lucknow Junction, Daliganj Junction, Gomti nagar and Badshah Nagar – railway stations are originating/terminating railway stations in Lucknow.
Lines
Lucknow Jn. -Mailani Jn. - Kasganj Main Line
Lucknow Jn. - Barabanki Jn. Line
Aishbagh Jn. –Mailani Jn. (metre-gauge trains withdrawn in 2016)
References
Railway stations in Lucknow district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang%20Bang%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Bang Bang is an Albanian TV channel for children aged 1–14. It was launched on 17 December 2004 by the TV platform DigitAlb. All of Bang Bang's programming is in Albanian, which can be switchable to the original language (of dubbing) on the second audio track. The channel also has a rating system, which is divided into three groups; babies 1–5 years old, kids 6–9 years old, and teenagers 11–14 years old.
Çufo is its main sister channel, sharing its dubs and promos about upcoming content with each other. Many dubs that have aired on Çufo in the past currently air on Bang Bang or vice versa.
Programming
Programs
Bang Bang airs several cartoon and live-action series from around the world dubbed into Albanian, along with some Albanian originals mostly made by DigitAlb. The dubbings are provided by "Jess" Discographic, AA Film Company, NGS Recording, Top Channel, Albatrade Studio, and Albania Production (Unison).
Logo history
The first logo that Bang Bang used (2004-2006) was a train in which the engine has letter B and the carriages saying ANG BANG. The second logo (2006-2007) is blue coloured splash saying BANG BANG in it. Another logo (2007-2009) are 8 different coloured splashes which in each splash is one letter ex. B is the first splash, A is the second. The last (2009–present) are 8 letters coloured yellow and the channel has got its own mascot, a monkey which is formed with the channel's letters.
See also
DigitAlb
Television in Albania
References
External links
Official website
Channel and transponder list
Digitalb television networks
Mass media in Tirana
Television channels and stations established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yandex%20Data%20Factory | Yandex Data Factory (YDF) is a B2B division of Yandex, the leading Russian search engine and one of the largest European internet companies.
Description
YDF uses artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve energy efficiency in process manufacturing.
Notable clients
Among their clients and partners are Intel, AstraZeneca, CERN, Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, Gazprom Neft, and Schlumberger.
External links
Official Website
B2B Marketplace
Yandex
Business-to-business |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20computer-assisted%20translation%20tools | A number of computer-assisted translation software and websites exists for various platforms and access types. According to a 2006 survey undertaken by Imperial College of 874 translation professionals from 54 countries, primary tool usage was reported as follows: Trados (35%), Wordfast (17%), Déjà Vu (16%), SDL Trados 2006 (15%), SDLX (4%), (3%), OmegaT (3%), others (7%).
The list below includes only some of the existing available software and website platforms.
See also
Machine translation
Comparison of machine translation applications
References
Language software
Translation
Computer-assisted translation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiree%20Ross | Desiree Ross is an American actress. She is best known for starring as Sophia Greenleaf in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series, Greenleaf, from 2016 to 2020. She also starred alongside Dolly Parton in the Lifetime television film, A Country Christmas Story in 2013.
Life and career
Ross was born and grew up in Columbia, South Carolina. She is the elder of two children in her family. She began acting in short films before she was cast as lead in the Lifetime television film A Country Christmas Story opposite Dolly Parton, Mary Kay Place and Megyn Price. The following year, Ross had a recurring role as Mira in the TNT post-apocalyptic drama series Falling Skies.
In 2015, Ross was cast in a series regular role in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series, Greenleaf. She plays Sophia Greenleaf, the daughter of series lead' Grace 'Gigi' Greenleaf (played by Merle Dandridge). The series also stars Lynn Whitfield, Keith David, and Oprah Winfrey.
Filmography
References
External links
1999 births
Living people
American television actresses
21st-century American actresses
Actresses from Columbia, South Carolina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tye%20White | Tye White is an American actor, known for his role as Kevin Satterlee in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series, Greenleaf (2016–2018).
Life and career
White is African American, born in Detroit, Michigan. He attended Brother Rice High School (Michigan) and studied at the University of Michigan.
His first major role was in the VH1 television film Drumline: A New Beat in 2014. He has a recurring role as Aiden Hanna, son of Sam Hanna (played by LL Cool J ) in the CBS procedural series NCIS: Los Angeles and in 2016 appeared in a secondary role as Jason Simpson, O. J. Simpson's son, in the FX series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story.
In 2015, White was cast in a series regular role in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series Greenleaf. He plays Kevin Satterlee, Charity Greenleaf-Satterlee's (played by Deborah Joy Winans) husband. The series also stars Lynn Whitfield, Keith David, Merle Dandridge, and Kim Hawthorne. He left the series in 2018. In 2021, White was cast in the NBC comedy series American Auto opposite Ana Gasteyer.
Filmography
Film
Television
Video games
References
External links
Living people
African-American male actors
American male television actors
University of Michigan alumni
21st-century American male actors
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century African-American people
Participants in American reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full%20Moon%20Over%20Miami | Full Moon Over Miami is a one-off programming block of a three-way, two-hour crossover event on NBC which involved three television sitcoms created by Susan Harris: The Golden Girls, Empty Nest and Nurses. The event depicts a fictional full moon on Leap Day storming into the storylines of the three series set in Miami, Florida. The episodes aired back-to-back on Saturday, February 29, 1992 from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. EST.
The Full Moon Over Miami block is similar to the previous NBC Hurricane Saturday block of November 9, 1991 when a fictional hurricane was woven into the storylines of the same three series.
Plot
The event begins on The Golden Girls one-hour episode "A Midwinter Night's Dream" (season 7, episodes 20 and 21) as a full moon on Leap Day falls upon the household which prompts Blanche to host a men-only Moonlight Madness Party and strange happenings abound: all the men are attracted to Dorothy while none are attracted to Blanche; Rose proposes to Miles after winning a free honeymoon to Paris and Sophia has fun with a witch's hex cast on Dorothy and goes through all the necessary steps to try and release her from it. The full moon and festivities prompt other strange happenings: Dorothy and Miles find themselves sharing a passionate kiss, and Blanche's necklace disappears while she necks with a British man named Derek. Carol and Barbara Weston (from Empty Nest) are featured in the episode: Barbara shows up to confront Sophia, who attempted to cause a fight between her and Carol to break a curse, and Carol invites herself to Blanche's party.
The event continues on the Empty Nest episode "Dr. Weston and Mr. Hyde" (season 4, episode 20) as Dr. Harry Weston throws out his back and goes off his rocker after taking the wrong medicine that makes him act very strange. Barbara thinks their dog Dreyfuss may be masquerading as a repairman – after all, she's never seen the two of them together. Rose Nylund (from The Golden Girls) drops in on the Westons for some advice about romance.
The event ends on the Nurses episode "Moon Over Miami" (season 1, episode 20) as Charlie Dietz (from Empty Nest) and Blanche Devereaux (from The Golden Girls), both affected by the full moon, turn up at the hospital: Blanche seeks Dr. Riskin's advice about a tonic for her sexual dry spell and a desperate Sandy considers dating Charlie. Greg encourages his co-workers to pursue their romantic fantasies and an astronaut arrives with a lump on his head.
Cast
See also
Hurricane Saturday – an earlier crossover event involving three NBC sitcoms: The Golden Girls, Empty Nest and Nurses
Night of the Hurricane – a similar crossover event involving three Fox animated series: Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show
References
External links
The Golden Girls: "A Midwinter Night's Dream" on IMDb
Empty Nest: "Dr. Weston and Mr. Hyde" on IMDb
Nurses: "Moon Over Miami" on IMDb
The Golden Girls
Crossover television
1992 American television episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport%20%28Antwerp%20premetro%20station%29 | Sport is an underground station in the Antwerp premetro network. The station was opened on April 1, 1996 as the last station on the northern premetro axis. At present, the station is served by tram routes 2, 3 and 6. Tram route 5 also passes through the northern premetro axis, but leaves the premetro tunnel via the Ten Eekhovelei exit between Schijnpoort and Sport. It does not stop at the Sport station, but has a stop called "Sportpaleis" at the Ten Eekhovelei.
Location
Sport station is located in the Antwerp district of Deurne, and lies directly under the M. Gregoireplein. In its direct proximity lies the Sportpaleis and the smaller Lotto Arena event halls. Above the station also lies the terminus of tram route 12.
Layout
In general, Sport station can be considered modern and luxurious, as extra money was spent on the construction of the station. The station lies in a curve in the premetro tunnel, and also contains an underground turning loop. The decoration in the station was designed by Renaat Braem and Jan Willems and consists of a mosaic pattern of mostly white tiles with bright yellow and orange accents. Wooden figures of ice skaters and racing cyclists can also be seen on the walls of the platforms, referring to the function of the Sportpaleis as an important venue for sports competitions. Since 2005, the station has been fitted with clear signboards, indicators for blind passengers, and an elevator.
At the -1 level lies an entrance hall. There are two platforms on the -2 level. One of them is completely finished and is served by trams going toward Schijnpoort and the city centre. The other platform is directly connected to the turning loop next to the station. It is not serviced by any regular line, and has a staircase going directly to the Sportpaleis. On the -3 level lies a third platform, which is used by trams in the opposite direction toward Merksem or Luchtbal.
References
External links
www.delijn.be, the operator of all public city transport in Antwerp and Flanders.
www.sportpaleis.be, the official site of the nearby Sportpaleis
Antwerp Premetro
Railway stations opened in 1996
1996 establishments in Belgium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous%20racing | Autonomous racing, self-driving racing or autonomous motorsports is an evolving sport of racing ground-based wheeled vehicles, controlled by computer. A number of events and series have launched, including the international Formula E spin-off series Roborace. and Self Racing Cars as well as student competitions such as Formula Student Driverless.
Background
Autonomous racing is relatively new, and is a technology that is rapidly increasing. Roborace is the company starting the world's first motorsports series for driverless cars. The Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) started in 2021 and was the first head-to-head race between autonomous racing vehicles. As of July 2023, the IAC is the only active autonomous racing championship.
Technology
In early 2016, Roborace started working on world's first ever self-driving race car, the so called "Devbot." In August 2016, DevBot successfully ran twelve laps around the Moulay El Hassan race track in Marrakesh. Following battery issues in Hong Kong the team reluctantly abandoned the run. DevBot, weighs 974.77 kilograms. The majority of the car is made of carbon fiber and has four 300 kW motors and a 540 kW battery, with speeds capable of over 199 mph. The car has plenty of aids to help it see all around including six AI cameras, five LIDAR arrays, two radar arrays, 18 ultrasonic sensors, two optical speed sensors and GNSS positioning. It also has a Nvidia Drive PX2 which acts as the car's brain. The driving algorithms work by first observing the entire track with its sensors and then analyzing the entire track with its AI chip to find the shortest path around the track. It will be programmed allowing up to 24 trillion AI operations per second. Roborace's DevBot looks suspiciously like a real car.
The DevBot has a standardized safety cell for a driver, and it has a seat for a driver, allowing for both human and machine to drive the vehicle. Its hardware is used for testing and development. Robocar cars are deployed at a low speed, so-called, “explorer mode” and track data in this mode by using sensors such as LIDARS, radars, ultrasonics, and cameras to determine the fastest route around the track. The car's final design is to have four wheels hiden inside the vast aerodynamic scoops. It will be made out of carbon fiber weighing and have dimensions of in length and in width.
Accidents
The DevBot crashed in its demonstration race. It rammed into a wall barrier when a dog ran out into the field during its representation.
Future
Porsche is developing autonomous car technology to enable a driver to experience hands free how a professional motor racing champion would tackle a racetrack. They are aiming to use software that will capture data from professional drivers as they rip around a racecourse. It will then upload the data so a self driving Porsche can replicate the entire driving experience on the track.
Roborace has ambitions to be the new global motorsport series, the longterm plan is to pit t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFC%20Capital | SFC Capital (formerly known as Startup Funding Club) is an investment fund manager and network of business angels founded in 2012 by Stephen Page, the CEO of the company. It manages the SFC Angel Fund which invests in small companies qualifying for the SEIS and EIS investment schemes in the UK.
Since its inception in 2012, there have been 4 main SEIS/EIS funds. The company has also managed other funds including the Fintech Fund, the Odyssey Fund, and the Epicure SEIS Fund. To date, SFC Capital has invested over £30 million in over 225 companies by combining its funds and its angel network.
Investments
SFC Capital, through its funds or its angel network, has provided seed funding and early-stage growth capital to:
Onfido, provider of an AI-driven background and identity checking service, founded in Oxford by Husayn Kassai, Eamon Jubbawy and Ruhul Amin in 2012
Cognism, a business-to-business sales software provider
Transcend Packaging, a South Wales-based manufacturer of paper-based drinking straws to the food & drink and restaurant business, which in 2020 pivoted to manufacturing biodegradable face shields to protect food and restaurant industry staff during the COVID-19 pandemic
Revolancer, a software platform for peer-to-peer service exchange between digital professionals, founded in Aberystwyth by Karl Swanepoel and Skye Brady in 2021
Awards
SFC Capital has been recognised for its work in the early-stage investment world on several occasions. In July 2016, SFC Capital was named 'Lead Syndicate of the Year 2016' at the UKBAA Angel Investment Awards Gala, an award sponsored by the Angel CoFund. The firm was nominated for the same title in 2017.
In 2017, the organisation was shortlisted in two categories at the Growth Investor Awards – Best Angel Syndicate and Best SEIS Investment Manager. SFC Capital was ultimately presented with the Best Angel Syndicate accolade by UKBAA's CEO Jenny Tooth at the Growth Investor Awards ceremony in November 2017. In February 2018, SFC Capital received the Best Innovation and Rising Star awards from the EIS Association (EISA), the official trade body for the Enterprise Investment Scheme. In 2020, SFC Capital was named a Finalist for Best SEIS Investment Manager in the Growth Investor Awards, hosted by Intelligent Partnership.
References
External links
https://innovateuk.blog.gov.uk/2016/03/15/innovate-uks-essential-tips-for-start-ups/
Venture capital |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomer%20Jones | Boomer Jones was a 1950 radio show produced by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) which first aired coast to coast on the Mutual Network on September 3, 1950, the day before Labor Day. The show lasted approximately 30 minutes and was followed by a speech from Al Hayes, who was, at the time, the International President of the IAM.
Boomer Jones was written by Morton Wishengrad and was directed by Mel Ferrer. Major roles were played by three of the top Hollywood stars of that time: William Holden, Marie McDonald, and Brian Donlevy who all donated their time and talent.
The radio program was the first of its kind ever attempted by a
trade union and told the story of the old-time "boomers" (union organizers) who helped build one of the largest industrial trade unions in American history. Production of Boomer Jones required eight months of research into the early years of the IAM to make the final production as accurate as possible.
References
1950s American radio programs
American radio dramas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-384 | P-384 is the elliptic curve currently specified in Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite for the ECDSA and ECDH algorithms. It is a 384-bit curve over a finite field of prime order approximately . Its binary representation has 384 bits, with a simple pattern. The curve is given by the equation , where is given by a certain 384-bit number. The curve has order less than the field size. The bit-length of a key is considered to be that of the order of the curve, which is also 384 bits.
Notes
External links
FIPS 186-4 standards where the curve is defined
Commercial National Security Algorithm (CNSA) Suite Factsheet
Cryptography standards
Elliptic curves |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting%20Cyber%20Networks%20Act | The Protecting Cyber Networks Act (H.R. 1560) is a bill introduced in the 114th Congress by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The legislation would allow companies and the government to share information concerning cyber threats. To overcome privacy concerns, the bill expressly forbids companies from sharing information with the National Security Agency (NSA) or Department of Defense (DOD).
Background
A number of major hacking events occurred in 2014 and 2015:
In April 2014, Home Depot's computer systems were breached by hackers who stole the credit card accounts and email addresses of tens of millions of people.
In November 2014, hackers infiltrated Sony Pictures' systems and were able to get access to confidential employee and corporate information.
In January 2015, Anthem was hacked.
In April 2015, Premera Blue Cross had its system compromised. A threat existed that hackers might have accessed the medical and financial information of 11 million people.
Additionally, major U.S. businesses including Target and JPMorganChase have been victims of large-scale cyberattacks resulting in the theft of customer identity information.
The legislation was introduced as response to threats posed by these and other cyberattacks. On April 22, 2015, The Hill newspaper wrote, "Congress has contemplated some form of this law for nearly five years. But catastrophic data breaches within the last year have laid bare hundreds of millions of Americans' credit card data and Social Security numbers, raising public awareness and putting the onus on Capitol Hill to act."
Legislative history
On March 19, 2015, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence held a hearing called "Growing Cyber Threat and its Impact on American Business." In his opening remarks as the committee's chairman, Nunes stated that U.S. companies and American consumers must feel confident that their confidential information stored on IT systems is secure. He said that in light of the major cyber attacks in 2014 and 2015, there is little assurance that personal and corporate information is safe. He said that because of those reasons, Congress needs to strengthen the security of the country's digital infrastructure by creating better methods for businesses and the government to share information on cyber threats.
Five days later, Nunes introduced H.R. 1560: Protecting Cyber Networks Act. On April 13, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence passed an amended version of the bill. On April 22, the House passed the bill by a vote of 307-116. Before final passage of the bill, the House passed an amendment from Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.) that would require the inspector general to report on how agencies remove personal information with information they receive. The amendment was proposed in response to concerns from privacy advocates including many Democratic House members.
After passage in the House, the bill was sent t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primetime%20Emmy%20Award%20for%20Outstanding%20Writing%20for%20a%20Nonfiction%20Programming | The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program is awarded to one television documentary or nonfiction series each year.
In the following list, the first titles listed in gold are the winners; those not in gold are nominees, which are listed in alphabetical order. The years given are those in which the ceremonies took place:
Winners and nominations
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Programs with multiple awards
4 wins
American Masters
2 wins
American Experience
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Individuals with multiple awards
4 awards
Geoffrey C. Ward
2 awards
Alex Gibney
Anthony Bourdain
Programs with multiple nominations
9 nominations
American Masters
8 nominations
American Experience
7 nominations
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
4 nominations
Penn & Teller: Bullshit!
3 nominations
Heritage: Civilization and the Jews
Notes
References
Writing for Nonfiction Programming
Screenwriting awards for television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GingerMaster | GingerMaster is malware that affects Android operating system version 2.3. It was first detected in August 2011.
History
GingerMaster is Android malware that contains a root exploit packaged within an infected app. GingerMaster's Root exploit is the "KillingInTheNameOfGingerBreakzegRush"
Process
GinegerMaster acts to be a normal application on the users phone, and once the application is launched on an Android device, it acquires root privileges through GingerBreak on the device and then accesses sensitive data. Once GingerMaster has root access it will try to install a root shell for future malicious use.
Function
GingerMaster steals data such as:
SIM card number
Phone number
IMEI number
IMSI number
Screen resolution
Native time
See also
Brain Test
Dendroid (Malware)
Computer virus
File binder
Individual mobility
Malware
Trojan horse (computing)
Worm (computing)
Mobile operating system
References
Software distribution
Android (operating system) malware
Privilege escalation exploits
Online advertising
Mobile security
Privacy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20pricing | Algorithmic pricing is the practice of automatically setting the requested price for items for sale, in order to maximize the seller's profits.
Dynamic pricing algorithms usually rely on one or more of the following data.
Probabilistic and statistical information on potential buyers; see Bayesian-optimal pricing.
Prices of competitors. E.g., a seller of an item may automatically detect the lowest price currently offered for that item, and suggest a price within $1 of that price.
Personal information of the currently active buyer, such as her or his demographics and her or his interest in the product. If the seller detects that you are about to buy, your price goes up.
Business information of the seller, such as the expected date in which he or she is going to receive new stocks, or her or his target selling velocity in units per day.
See also
Algorithmic trading
Contribution margin
Price optimization software
Pricing
Tacit collusion
Yield management
References
Pricing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bravo%20%28New%20Zealand%20TV%20channel%29 | Bravo is a New Zealand television channel owned and operated by Warner Bros. Discovery and NBCUniversal International Networks, broadcast via the state-owned Kordia transmission network, Sky and on the website ThreeNow. The channel launched on 3 July 2016. Much like its American cable network counterpart, Bravo focuses on design, food, glamour and pop culture.
History
Bravo launched on 3 July 2016. Following the closure of Four, a one and a half minute promotion aired, previewing the content to be expected on Bravo. The first show to be broadcast on Bravo was Top Chef, at 5:10am.
On 1 May 2017, Bravo adopted a new black logo to match its U.S counterpart, which had rebranded to that same logo three months earlier.
In early September 2020, MediaWorks confirmed that it would be selling its television media assets, which include Bravo, to the US mass media multinational company Discovery, Inc.
On 1 December 2020, Discovery, Inc completed the acquisition of MediaWorks TV Limited. This acquisition also includes sister channels The Edge TV, The Breeze TV and Three, as well as news service Newshub.
Bravo Plus 1
On 3 July 2016, coinciding with the launch of Bravo, MediaWorks launched a standard hour delayed timeshift channel of the broadcast to replace Four Plus 1.
References
Television channels in New Zealand
Television channels and stations established in 2016
English-language television stations in New Zealand
Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific
Warner Bros. Discovery networks
2016 establishments in New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20threat%20hunting | Cyber threat hunting is a proactive cyber defence activity. It is "the process of proactively and iteratively searching through networks to detect and isolate advanced threats that evade existing security solutions." This is in contrast to traditional threat management measures, such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems (IDS), malware sandbox (computer security) and SIEM systems, which typically involve an investigation of evidence-based data after there has been a warning of a potential threat.
Methodologies
Overview
In recent years, the world has seen an alarming rise in the number and severity of cyber attacks, data breaches, malware infections, and online fraud incidents. According to cyber security and ai company SonicWall, the number of ransomware attacks grew by 105% globally. Major corporations around the world have fallen victim to high-profile data breaches, with the average cost of a data breach now estimated at $4.24 million, according to IBM.
Cyber threat hunting Methodologies
Threat hunting has traditionally been a manual process, in which a security analyst sifts through various data information using their own knowledge and familiarity with the network to create hypotheses about potential threats, such as, but not limited to, lateral movement by threat actors. To be even more effective and efficient, however, threat hunting can be partially automated, or machine-assisted, as well. In this case, the analyst uses software that leverages machine learning and user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) to inform the analyst of potential risks. The analyst then investigates these potential risks, tracking suspicious behavior in the network. Thus, hunting is an iterative process, meaning that it must be continuously carried out in a loop, beginning with a hypothesis.
Analytics-Driven: "Machine-learning and UEBA, used to develop aggregated risk scores that can also serve as hunting hypotheses"
Situational-Awareness Driven: "Crown Jewel analysis, enterprise risk assessments, company- or employee-level trends"
Intelligence-Driven: "Threat intelligence reports, threat intelligence feeds, malware analysis, vulnerability scans"
The analysts research their hypothesis by going through vast amounts of data about the network. The results are then stored so that they can be used to improve the automated portion of the detection system and to serve as a foundation for future hypotheses.
The Detection Maturity Level (DML) model expresses threat indicators can be detected at different semantic levels. High semantic indicators such as goal and strategy or tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) are more valuable to identify than low semantic indicators such as network artifacts and atomic indicators such as IP addresses. SIEM tools typically only provide indicators at relatively low semantic levels. There is therefore a need to develop SIEM tools that can provide threat indicators at higher semantic levels.
Indicators
There are two t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskia%20Boddeke | Saskia Boddeke (born 1962) is a Dutch multimedia artist and stage, opera and film-director. Her work incorporates multiple projections, computer programming, virtual environments such as Second Life, and inter-connecting animated audio-visual avatars with live actors. Her performances have been shown around the world.
Boddeke also creates immersive multimedia installations where the visitors are surrounded by projections, sounds, light, smells and art objects. In 2015 Saskia was awarded the Russian TANR award for her exhibition in Moscow: "The Black Square, The Golden Age of the Russian Avantgarde", a multimedia installation.
Opera and music theatre performances
Boddeke started to work as stage director and founded her own company Vals Akkoord and directed several productions. Boddeke also worked at the Dutch National Opera. In 1994 Boddeke directed the Opera 'Rosa, a horse drama. The libretto was written by Peter Greenaway. Boddeke and Greenaway worked very successfully together on several projects, Boddeke being responsible for the concept and direction based on Greenaway's libretto.
1994 & 1996: ‘Rosa, a horse drama, music by Louis Andriessen, libretto by Peter Greenaway, directed by Saskia Boddeke (Dutch National Opera) Amsterdam. A feature film is made of this production.
1997 & 1998: ‘Christoph Colomb’, music by Darius Milhaud, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin.
1997-1999: ‘100 Objects to Represent the World’, music by Jean-Baptiste Barrière, libretto by Peter Greenaway, premiered at the Salzburger Zeitfluss Festival, the show toured around Europe and South America.
2000: ‘Writing To Vermeer’, music by Louis Andriessen, libretto by Peter Greenaway, premiered at the DNO in Amsterdam, travelled to New York Lincoln Festival and Adelaide Festival in Australia.
2000: ‘La Gazzetta’ music by Rossini at the Summerborn Festival Zwolle
2001: ‘Gold, 92 Bars in a Crashed Car’, music by Borut Krisnik, libretto by Peter Greenaway, at Schauspiel Frankfurt.
2003: ‘Die Zauberflöte’, Mozart’, in co-direction with Pierre Audi (Salzburger Festspiele) Salzburg.
2005: ‘The Falls’ an installation-music theatre with the students of AERTEZ, music inspired by David Lang, from the collection of short biographies from The Falls by Peter Greenaway at the Broerenkerk Zwolle
2005: ‘Democracy’ an installation. Athens.
2008 - 2012: ‘The Blue Planet’ music by Goran Bregovic, libretto Peter Greenaway and Saskia Boddeke. Direction by Saskia Boddeke, the production was originally created as the closure performance of the expo in Spain at Zaragoza. The production travelled around Europe and China.
2008-2009: ‘Rembrandt’s Spiegel’, a multimedia music performance, music by Vincent van Warmerdam and libretto by Peter Greenaway (Productiehuis Rotterdam) tour through the Netherlands and to Budapest.
2010: ‘The Big Bang’, the inauguration show of the Copernicus Museum of Science in Warsaw, consisting of a projection-show on the exterior of the museum with life performance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech%20Institute%20of%20Informatics%2C%20Robotics%20and%20Cybernetics | The Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (, CIIRC) was established as a part of the Czech Technical University in Prague on July 1, 2013. In the premises of the CTU in Dejvice there has been two new buildings for CIIRC built since November 2013. CIIRC will reside in a new building, which used to serve as a Technical University canteen and one of the biggest Billa hypermarkets.
CIIRC consists of eight research departments, CYPHY: Cyber-physical systems, INTSYS: Intelligent systems, IIG: Industrial informatics, RMP: Robotics and machine perception, IPA: Industrial production and automation, COGSYS: Cognitive systems and neurosciences, BEAT: Biomedical engineering and Assistive technologies, PLAT: Research Management of Platforms. The head of CIIRC is Ondřej Velek.
References
External links
Website
Information science
Robotics organizations
Cybernetics
Education in the Czech Republic
2013 establishments in the Czech Republic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Mariani | Joseph Mariani (born Joseph-Jean Mariani; 1 February 1950) is a French computer science researcher and pioneer in the field of speech processing.
Education and career
After obtaining a Doctor of Engineering degree in 1977 from the Pierre and Marie Curie University, Joseph Mariani joined the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in the Computer Science Laboratory for Mechanics and Engineering Sciences (LIMSI) as a researcher. He then was the head of the Speech Communication group from 1982 to 1985. He left for the United States (1985–1986) where he worked as invited researcher at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, NY, USA). Back in France, from 1987 to 2001 he was in charge of the Human-Machine Communication Department and was Director of LIMSI from 1989 to 2000. Later, he was named Director of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies at the Ministry of Research. Within the Ministry, he created the Techno-Langue and Techno-Vision Programs on the development and evaluation of technologies in these two domains.
During this time, he was named President of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA) and was on the boards of several organizations including the ANFr, the IGN, the OST and INRIA. He participated in the creation of many associations and international conferences such as ELSNET, COCOSDA, ESCA/ISCA, ELRA and LREC.
From 2006 through December 2013, he was director of the Institute for Multilingual and Multimedia Information (IMMI), a CNRS Mixed International Unit, part of the Quaero Program, a collaboration between LIMSI, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Aix-la-Chapelle (RWTH). In February 2016, he was named Emeritus Senior Researcher by the CNRS.
Research areas
Joseph's research activities mainly concern Human-Machine Communication, both spoken and written, within the domain of Natural Language Processing.
Early in his career, he concentrated on automatic speech recognition and signal processing.
In the early 1980s, Joseph Mariani was already, within the NATO RSG-10 working group's evaluation activities, using the name “evaluation paradigm” to denote an open evaluation effort seen as a quantitative black-box with performance metrics on shared data, and then combined and compared, a task now referred to as a “shared task”. This evaluation paradigm allowed for the continuous improvement of speech processing and the eventual appearance of vocal assistants such as SIRI, Cortan, ECHO and Google Voice.
He was involved in NIST2 becoming the center of automatic speech and text processing evaluation activities in the US in 1987. In 1994, with Robert Martin, then Director of the Institut National de la Langue Française (INaLF), he organized the first francophone open text evaluation for morphosyntactic analyzers of French text thanks to the support of two CNRS departments, the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Engineering Sciences. The same year, he he |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaravati%20Seed%20Capital%20Road | Amaravati Seed Capital Road or ASC Road is an ongoing arterial flyover road project and a part of Amaravati Seed Access Road Network to connect the city of Vijayawada with Amaravati. It is built by the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority (APCRDA) with an estimated cost of and has a total length of .
Phase–I
The proposed phase–I of the road will be constructed for a length of between Dondapadu–near Kondaveetivagu by the end of 2018.
References
Roads in Amaravati
Proposed roads in India
Transport in Vijayawada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamber%20of%20Digital%20Commerce | The Chamber of Digital Commerce is an American advocacy group that promotes the emerging industry behind blockchain technology, bitcoin, digital currency and digital assets.
History
Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the organization was founded in July 2014 by Perianne Boring. In October 2014, the chamber received 501(c)(6) non-profit status from the Internal Revenue Service. In 2015, economist and former JPMorgan Chase executive Blythe Masters was appointed to the advisory board.
In December 2019, former Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Christopher Giancarlo was appointed to the advisory board of the chamber.
The chamber is also interested in patent applications, particularly those filed by China concerning the digital industry.
PAC (political action committee)
In August 2014, political news site The Hill reported that the Chamber had registered a political action committee with the United States Federal Election Commission. As The Hill piece noted, “formation of the PAC is a sign of increasing maturity for Bitcoin and a signal that politicians could face political pressure to support virtual currencies.” To date, however, the PAC has only raised $10,000 of which only $2,700 has been contributed to a candidate.
References
External links
Cryptocurrencies
Trade associations based in the United States
2014 establishments in the United States
Bitcoin companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20Science%20%28Indian%20TV%20channel%29 | Discovery Science is an Indian pay television network, operated by Warner Bros. Discovery India, It primarily features programming in the fields of space, technology and science. The channel is a science television channel It was launched in 2010. From 1 March 2021, it began to follow a timeshifted schedule of the Southeast Asia feed.
History
The channel was launched on 25th January 2010.
Discovery Science introduced its 2011 global logo in India in July 2013.
Discovery Science India did not rebrand to match the other international channels in 2016, and is the only channel left with this logo after the Canadian channel rebranded in 2021.
Programming
Science Channel broadcasts a number of science-related television series originally produced by or aired on Discovery Channel, such as Beyond Tomorrow, among others. Discovery Communications has also produced a few programs specifically for Science, such as MegaScience and What The Ancients Knew. Programs from other Discovery Networks channels, PBS and the BBC are either regularly or occasionally aired on the network. Television series produced in the 1990s, such as Discover Magazine and Understanding, are carried on the network's weekday schedule. Science also broadcasts programs such as Moments of Impact and An Idiot Abroad. The channel has experienced some drifting from its intended format throughout its existence, increasingly adding reruns on several science fiction series such as Firefly and Fringe to its schedule in recent years.
Specials and miniseries
2057 – Predictions on the future technology of the body, city, and the world.
Uncovering Aliens - 2013 mini series of 4 episodes.
Base Camp Moon – Returning to the Moon, harvesting Moon dust for oxygen/water, robotics (Robonaut), etc.
The Challenger Disaster – A biography surrounding the mystery of the titular tragedy, starring William Hurt. Science's first foray into dramatic programming, its premiere on the channel will be simulcast on sister network Discovery Channel.
The Critical Eye – An eight-part series examining pseudoscientific and paranormal phenomena.
Dinosaur Revolution – A four-part miniseries on the natural history of dinosaurs. The last two episodes were planned to air on Discovery Channel, but a last-minute schedule change landed them on Science.
Exploring Time – A two-hour TV documentary mini-series about natural time scale changes
Extreme Smuggling
Futurecar – New technology may be used to create advanced cars and sometimes funny cars in the future.
Hawking – About the early work of British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.
Hubble Live – Launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on NASA's Servicing Mission 4 (HST-SM4), the eleven-day fifth and final mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope
A Life In Memory – An hour-long documentary about Memories, and PTSD and the ways they effect our lives. "Barney recalls the day he was hit by a car: his back was broken, and his wife was killed. Today, he will be given a pill to era |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron%20Clauset | Aaron Clauset is an American computer scientist who works in the areas of Network Science, Machine Learning, and Complex Systems. He is currently a professor of computer science at the University of Colorado Boulder and is external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute.
Education
Clauset completed his undergraduate studies in physics and computer science at Haverford College in 2001. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2006 from the University of New Mexico under the supervision of Cristopher Moore. He was then an Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute until 2010.
Career
In 2010, he joined the University of Colorado Boulder as an assistant professor, with primary appointments in the Computer Science Department and the BioFrontiers Institute, an interdisciplinary institute focused on quantitative systems biology. He joined the founding editorial board of Science Advances as an Associate Editor in 2014, and became the Deputy Editor responsible for social and interdisciplinary sciences in 2017. At the University of Colorado Boulder, he was awarded tenure and promoted to associate professor in 2017, and promoted to full professor in 2022.
Clauset is best known for work done with Cosma Shalizi and Mark Newman on developing rigorous statistics tests for the presence of a power law pattern in empirical data, and for showing that many distributions that were claimed to be power laws actually were not. He is also known for his work on developing algorithms for detecting community structure in complex networks, particularly a model of hierarchical clustering in networks developed with Cristopher Moore and Mark Newman. In other work, Clauset is known for his specific discovery, with Maxwell Young and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, that the frequency and severity of terrorist events worldwide follows a power-law distribution. This discovery was summarized by Nate Silver in his popular science book The Signal and the Noise.
In January 2020, Clauset's work on scale-free networks and the distribution of terrorist events garnered public attention after two of his papers were cited in the blog of British political advisor Dominic Cummings. The blog post was released as part of an advertisement searching for "data scientists, project managers, policy experts, assorted weirdos", with Clauset's papers being cited as examples of work potential candidates should be aware of for use in public policy. In response, Clauset stated that the "paper on scale-free networks is not directly relevant to government policy … Cummings is using our paper as an example of using careful statistical and computational analyses of large and diverse data sets to reassess ideas that may be accepted as conventional wisdom." Clauset added that "in many cases, we don’t understand causality well enough to formulate a policy that will not do more damage than good."
Awards and honors
In 2015, Clauset received a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation to develop and ev |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SD-WAN | A software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) is a wide area network that uses software-defined networking technology, such as communicating over the Internet using overlay tunnels which are encrypted when destined for internal organization locations.
If standard tunnel setup and configuration messages are supported by all of the network hardware vendors, SD-WAN simplifies the management and operation of a WAN by decoupling the networking hardware from its control mechanism. This concept is similar to how software-defined networking implements virtualization technology to improve data center management and operation. In practice, proprietary protocols are used to set up and manage an SD-WAN, meaning there is no decoupling of the hardware and its control mechanism.
A key application of SD-WAN is to allow companies to build higher-performance WANs using lower-cost and commercially available Internet access, enabling businesses to partially or wholly replace more expensive private WAN connection technologies such as MPLS.
When SD-WAN traffic is carried over the Internet, there are no end-to-end performance guarantees. Carrier MPLS VPN WAN services are not carried as Internet traffic, but rather over carefully-controlled carrier capacity, and do come with an end-to-end performance guarantee.
History
WANs were very important for the development of networking technologies in general and were for a long time one of the most important application of networks both for military and enterprise applications. The ability to communicate data over large distances was one of the main driving factors for the development of data communications technologies, as it made it possible to overcome the distance limitations, as well as shortening the time necessary to exchange messages with other parties.
Legacy WAN technologies allowed communication over circuits connecting two or more endpoints. Earlier technologies supported point-to-point communication over a slow speed circuit, usually between two fixed locations. As technology evolved, WAN circuits became faster and more flexible. Innovations like circuit and packet switching (in the form of X.25, ATM and later Internet Protocol or Multiprotocol Label Switching communications) allowed communication to become more dynamic, supporting ever-growing networks.
The need for strict control, security and quality of service meant that multinational corporations were very conservative in leasing and operating their WANs. National regulations restricted the companies that could provide local service in each country, and complex arrangements were necessary to establish truly global networks. All that changed with the growth of the Internet, which allowed entities around the world to connect to each other. However, over the first years, the uncontrolled nature of the Internet was not considered adequate or safe for private corporate use.
Independent of safety concerns, connectivity to the Internet became a necessity to t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHOPCA%20clustering%20algorithm | KHOPCA is an adaptive clustering algorithm originally developed for dynamic networks. KHOPCA (-hop clustering algorithm) provides a fully distributed and localized approach to group elements such as nodes in a network according to their distance from each other. KHOPCA operates proactively through a simple set of rules that defines clusters, which are optimal with respect to the applied distance function.
KHOPCA's clustering process explicitly supports joining and leaving of nodes, which makes KHOPCA suitable for highly dynamic networks. However, it has been demonstrated that KHOPCA also performs in static networks.
Besides applications in ad hoc and wireless sensor networks, KHOPCA can be used in localization and navigation problems, networked swarming, and real-time data clustering and analysis.
Algorithm description
KHOPCA (-hop clustering algorithm) operates proactively through a simple set of rules that defines clusters with variable -hops. A set of local rules describes the state transition between nodes. A node's weight is determined only depending on the current state of its neighbors in communication range. Each node of the network is continuously involved in this process. As result, -hop clusters are formed and maintained in static as well as dynamic networks.
KHOPCA does not require any predetermined initial configuration. Therefore, a node can potentially choose any weight (between and ). However, the choice of the initial configuration does influence the convergence time.
Initialization
The prerequisites in the start configuration for the application of the rules are the following.
is the network with nodes and links, whereby each node has a weight .
Each node in node stores the same positive values and , with .
A node with weight is called cluster center.
is - and represents the maximum size a cluster can have from the most outer node to the cluster center. The cluster diameter is therefore .
returns the direct neighbors of node .
is the set of weights of all nodes of .
The following rules describe the state transition for a node with weight . These rules have to be executed on each node in the order described here.
Rule 1
The first rule has the function of constructing an order within the cluster. This happens through a node detects the direct neighbor with the highest weight , which is higher than the node's own weight . If such a direct neighbor is detected, the node changes its own weight to be the weight of the highest weight within the neighborhood subtracted by 1. Applied iteratively, this process creates a top-to-down hierarchical cluster structure.if max(W(N(n))) > w_n
w_n = max(W(N(n))) - 1
Rule 2
The second rule deals with the situation where nodes in a neighborhood are on the minimum weight level. This situation can happen if, for instance, the initial configuration assigns the minimum weight to all nodes. If there is a neighborhood with all nodes having the minimum weight level, th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dani%C3%A8le%20Bourcier | Danièle Bourcier (born 1946 in Anjou) is a French lawyer and essayist, who has contributed to the emergence of a new discipline in France: Law, Computing and linguistics.
She is director of research emeritus at CNRS, leads the "Law and Governance technologies" Department at the Centre for Administrative Science Research (CERSA) at the University Paris II, and is associate researcher at the March Bloch Centre in Berlin and at the IDT laboratory of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Scientific and academic biography
Her doctoral thesis in public law, after she obtains a scholarship for Stanford University (USA) describes the first application of artificial intelligence in the legal decision. She uses other models (theory of argumentation, Neurolaw, complex systems, graph theory) to explore the cognitive aspects of legal phenomena, modeling of legal knowledge, and socio-legal impacts of digitization of law.
Her work in legal language took place at the Conseil d’Etat in the Legal Informatics Centre, founded by Lucien Mehl (State Councillor) who was also one of the first juricyberneticians. From 1982 to 1994, she headed the laboratory of the CNRS No. 430 Computers Legal Linguistics at the State Council.
She was a visiting professor at Netherlands (Netherland Institute for Advanced Studies), in Sweden (Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences) in Austria(Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen), and Wissenschaftzentrum Zu Berlin, WZB (2008).
In these different Advanced Studies Institutes, she develops Theory on e-government and computational ethics.
Her research is currently focusing on the Open Science, Open Data, protection of personal data and the evolution of copyright in the digital age. She gave a lot of lectures on “Legal Robots and Artificial intelligence”.
She launched in 2004 the French Creative Commons licences : she is currently the scientific lead of the French Chapter Creativecommons.fr in charge of the scientific aspects of the CC licences.
She gives lectures on Cybercrime (Master 2 Criminal Law and Criminal Policy in Europe, University Paris 1) and on e-government (Master 2 Public Policy and Administration, University Paris 2). She also taught at the University Paris X (Master 2 Theory of Law) at ENSTA, Sciences Po, and the National School of Administration (ENA).
Interested in mechanisms and unexpected effects of discoveries in science and particularly in Law and political Science, she published (with Pek van Andel) at Hermann, Paris: From Serendipity in Science, Technology, the Art and law (2nd edition). She was co-organizing, in July 2009, an interdisciplinary symposium in the Center of Congres “Chateau de Cerisy la Salle” in Normandy, leading to the publishing of the collective work La Sérendipité, un hasard heureux, at Hermann publisher.
The work she has done with Pek van Andel on serendipity led to the spread of the notion and the phenomenon of serendipity in the Francophonie world: the word |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtney%20A.%20Kemp | Courtney A. Kemp (born May 4, 1977) is an American television writer and producer. She created the 2014 television series franchise Power Universe for the network Starz. She has written for such shows as The Good Wife and Beauty & the Beast.
Early life and education
Kemp was raised in Westport, Connecticut, and began reading college textbooks at the age of eight. Her father Herbert Kemp Jr was the first African American graduate of Dartmouth College Tuck School of Business. The Kemp family was one of the few African American families in Westport and faced discrimination. By the age of 10 she had begun reading plays by William Shakespeare, eventually coming up with her own stories. In 1994, she graduated from Staples High School and went on to receive her bachelor's degree from Brown University as well as her Master's in English Literature from Columbia University.
Career
Kemp had an initial plan to become a professor in literature with her degree but that did not suit her needs. She wanted a more collaborative career. She went on to land an interview at Vogue, to become an Assistant but did not land the job. She then strove to get a job for Entertainment Weekly and was questioning why that would not be possible. Kemp went on to land a position at Mademoiselle and worked at GQ for three years. She then left the industry and started writing for the J.Crew catalogue. Kemp's job at GQ landed her many good opportunities, especially getting offers from several TV producers asking her to adapt one of her pieces, on interracial dating, into a show. Although this never materialized, it made her want to start producing for the small screen.
At the age of 26, Kemp left Westport and went to Los Angeles, California to further pursue her dream as a television writer. There she garnered her big break by becoming a staff writer for the then-Fox hit series The Bernie Mac Show. She then began writing for other television shows such as Eli Stone, Justice and Beauty & the Beast (a 2012 remake of the 1987 series of the same name) before eventually becoming increasingly known for her writing of episodes for the CBS political drama series The Good Wife.
Her idea for what would become the first series she ever sold and pitched, Power, came about when she met rapper 50 Cent and executive producer Mark Canton at a coffeehouse in Los Angeles. She thought up the concept of a guy destined to leave his life as a drug dealer behind him to become a successful club owner and businessman, and soon penned the script with 50 Cent and Canton alongside her, both serving as executive producers. The show aired on the Starz network from June 7, 2014 to February 9, 2020 and received critical acclaim.
The success of the show spawned several spin-offs including Power Book II: Ghost which premiered on September 6, 2020. Kemp served as the showrunner for the show. In August 2021, she signed a deal with Netflix.
Personal life
Kemp lost her father, Herbert Kemp Jr., in 2011. The first ep |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligotyping%20%28sequencing%29 | Oligotyping is the process of correcting DNA sequence measured during the process of DNA sequencing based on frequency data of related sequences across related samples.
History
DNA sequences were originally read from sequencing gels by eye. With the advent of computerized base callers, humans no longer 'called' the bases and instead 'corrected' the called bases. The bases were called by the software using the relative intensity of each putative basepair signal and the local spacing of the signals.
With the advent of high throughput sequencing, the volume of sequence to be corrected exceeded human capacity for sequence correction.
Use
Multiple applications require single-base pair accuracy across populations of closely related sequences. An example is amplicon sequencing to assess the relative contribution of DNA from diverse organisms to a sample.
The requirement for single basepair accuracy led to the development of methods which drew on frequency data distributed across several samples to identify variant sequences which shared the same frequency profile and were thus likely errors from the same original sequence. The ability to use higher-order statistics to correct sequences is an important element in decreasing the burden of error in DNA sequence datasets.
See also
DNA sequencing theory
DNA sequencer
Oligotyping (taxonomy)
References
External links
[[b:Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)|Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)]] — a wikibook on next generation sequencing''.
Omictools.com: Didactic directory for DNA sequencing analysis (free)
DNA sequencing
Molecular biology techniques |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%20organism%20database | Model organism databases (MODs) are biological databases, or knowledgebases, dedicated to the provision of in-depth biological data for intensively studied model organisms. MODs allow researchers to easily find background information on large sets of genes, plan experiments efficiently, combine their data with existing knowledge, and construct novel hypotheses. They allow users to analyse results and interpret datasets, and the data they generate are increasingly used to describe less well studied species. Where possible, MODs share common approaches to collect and represent biological information. For example, all MODs use the Gene Ontology (GO) to describe functions, processes and cellular locations of specific gene products. Projects also exist to enable software sharing for curation, visualization and querying between different MODs. Organismal diversity and varying user requirements however mean that MODs are often required to customize capture, display, and provision of data.
Types of data and services
Model organism databases generate, source and collate species-specific information integratively by combining expert knowledge with literature curation and bioinformatics.
Services provided to biological research communities include:
Genome sequence annotations
Location of genes and regulatory regions in the genome
Functional curation of gene products
Discern functions fulfilled by the gene product by looking at a variety of data including Gene Ontology (GO) annotations, phenotypes, gene expression, pathway information
Protein/RNA sequence annotations
Anatomical information
Stock centres
Orthology
List of model organism databases
References
Biological databases
Model organism databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation%20gap | In stochastic programming, the correlation gap is the worst-case ratio between the cost when the random variables are correlated to the cost when the random variables are independent.
As an example, consider the following optimization problem. A teacher wants to know whether to come to class or not. There are n potential students. For each student, there is a probability of 1/n that the student will attend the class. If at least one student attends, then the teacher must come and his cost is 1. If no students attend, then the teacher can stay at home and his cost is 0. The goal of the teacher is to minimize his cost. This is a stochastic-programming problem, because the constraints are not known in advance – only their probabilities are known. Now, there are two cases regarding the correlation between the students:
Case #1: the students are uncorrelated: each student decides whether to come to class or not by tossing a coin with probability , independently of the others. The expected cost in this case is .
Case #2: the students are correlated: one student is selected at random and comes to class, while the others stay at home. Note that the probability of each student to come is still . However, now the cost is 1.
The correlation gap is the cost in case #2 divided by the cost in case #1, which is .
prove that the correlation gap is bounded in several cases. For example, when the cost function is a submodular set function (as in the above example), the correlation gap is at most (so the above example is a worst-case).
An upper bound on the correlation gap implies an upper bound on the loss that results from ignoring the correlation. For example, suppose we have a stochastic programming problem with a submodular cost function. We know the marginal probabilities of the variables, but we do not know whether they are correlated or not. If we just ignore the correlation and solve the problem as if the variables are independent, the resulting solution is a -approximation to the optimal solution.
Applications
The correlation gap was used to bound the loss of revenue when using a Bayesian-optimal pricing instead of a Bayesian-optimal auction.
See also
Robust optimization
Info-gap decision theory
References
Stochastic optimization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMSC | The acronym TMSC might refer to:
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
Talcott Mountain Science Center
the pin Test Serial Data of the JTAG debug interface |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20Ellis%20%28consultant%29 | Adrian Ellis (born 1956), is the founding director of AEA Consulting (founded 1991) and co-founder/director of the Global Cultural Districts Network (founded 2013), a collaborative network for people and organizations responsible for planning, leading and operating cultural districts around the world.
Career
Adrian founded AEA Consulting in 1991, a cultural strategy consulting firm that works with leading cultural organizations and their stakeholders internationally. AEA has offices in London and New York. Adrian left AEA for five years (2007-2012) to join Jazz at Lincoln Center as executive director, returning to AEA in 2012. He co-founded the Global Cultural Districts Network in 2013.
Adrian's tenure at Jazz at Lincoln Center was a period of stability – notwithstanding the 2008 financial crisis – and of a number of programmatic initiatives, including Jazz at Lincoln Center's visit to Cuba, JALC's long term residency at the Barbican Arts Center, the move of the NEA's annual Jazz Masters awards ceremony to JALC, and the forging on an agreement with St Regis hotels to open jazz clubs, the first of which opened in Doha in 2012. Adrian was voted a Jazz Hero by the Jazz Journalists Association in 2012 for his work at JALC.
Prior to 1990, Adrian served as Executive Director of The Conran Foundation in London (1986-1990), where he planned and managed the creation of the Design Museum. He began his career as a civil servant in the UK Treasury and the Cabinet Office, where he worked on service-wide efficiency reviews and privatization, and ran the office of the Economic Secretary to the Treasury. Adrian received his B.A. (first class) and M.A. degrees at University College, Oxford, where he served as a College Lecturer in Politics; and completed additional graduate work at London School of Economics.
Influence
Adrian writes and lectures extensively on management and planning issues in the cultural sector. He has published, lectured, and organized conferences for numerous distinguished forums including The International New York Times Art for Tomorrow Conference, The Independent, The New Statesman, Apollo Magazine, London Essays, Fortune, The Salzburg Seminar, Blouin Creative Leadership Summit, Demos, the Lord Mayor of Sydney's Annual Design Excellence Forum, the J. Paul Getty Trust, The Clark Art Seminar, the Canadian Arts Summit, New Cities Summit, REMIX Summit, and annual conferences of the American Institute of Architects, International Society for the Performing Arts, and many others. He is also a regular contributor to The Art Newspaper. Adrian was nominated for the list of the 2012 Fifty Most Powerful and Influential People in the Nonprofit Arts, an annual posting on Barry's Blog, a service of the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF).
Adrian currently serves on the board of Poets House in New York and is a past board member of the Getty Leadership Institute, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, The Kaufman Center and Pathé Pictu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icaro%20Cyber | The Icaro Cyber is an Italian single-place, paraglider that was designed and produced by Icaro 2000 of Sangiano. It is now out of production.
The Cyber 2 was designed by Michael Nessler and Christian Amon.
Design and development
The Cyber was designed as a beginner glider.
The design progressed through two generations of models, the Cyber and Cyber 2. The models are each named for their relative size.
Variants
Cyber S
Small-sized model for lighter pilots, introduced in 2001. The glider model is DHV 1 certified.
Cyber M
Mid-sized model for medium-weight pilots, introduced in 2001. The glider model is DHV 1 certified.
Cyber L
Large-sized model for heavier pilots, introduced in 2001. The glider model is DHV 1 certified.
Cyber 2 S
Small-sized model for lighter pilots. Its span wing has a wing area of , 40 cells and the aspect ratio is 5.3:1. The pilot weight range is . The glider model is DHV 1 certified.
Cyber 2 M
Mid-sized model for medium-weight pilots. Its span wing has a wing area of , 40 cells and the aspect ratio is 5.3:1. The pilot weight range is . The glider model is DHV 1 certified.
Cyber 2 L
Large-sized model for heavier pilots. Its span wing has a wing area of , 40 cells and the aspect ratio is 5.3:1. The pilot weight range is . The glider model is DHV 1 certified.
Specifications (Cyber 2 M)
References
Cyber
Paragliders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuozzo%20%28company%29 | Virtuozzo is a software company that develops virtualization and cloud management software for cloud computing providers, managed services providers and internet hosting service providers. The company’s software enables service providers to offer Infrastructure as a service, Container-as-a-Service, Platform as a service, Kubernetes-as-a-Service, WordPress-as-a-Service and other solutions.
History
The company was founded as SWsoft in 1997 as a privately-held server automation and virtualization company. In 2000, the company released the first commercially available operating system-level virtualization container technology. In 2003, SWsoft acquired the makers of Confixx and Plesk web hosting products: Plesk Server Administration (PSA) control panel and Confixx Professional hosting software. Virtuozzo was the core enabling technology behind SWsoft's HSP Complete solution. In 2004, SWsoft acquired Parallels, Inc.
In 2005, the company open-sourced its operating system-level virtualization technology as OpenVZ. In 2007, SWsoft announced that it had changed its name to Parallels and would distribute its products under the Parallels name.
In December 2015, Virtuozzo was spun out from Parallels to become a standalone company. In May 2016, Virtuozzo announced its intention to join the Open Container Initiative.
In July 2021, Virtuozzo acquired OnApp. In October of that year, the company acquired Jelastic.
List of products
Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure is an OpenStack-based cloud management platform that enables service providers to sell public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, Kubernetes-as-a-Service, Storage as a Service, Backup-as-a-Service, Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service and Desktop-as-a-Service.
Virtuozzo Hybrid Server enables service providers to sell Virtual Private Servers, shared web hosting, container hosting and Storage as a Service.
Virtuozzo Application Platform enables service providers to sell Platform as a Service with integrated DevOps tools
Virtuozzo Application Platform for WordPress enables service providers to sell Platform as a Service for WordPress-based websites
Virtuozzo Cloud Platform for VMware is a self-service cloud management, provisioning and billing portal for VMware vCenter environments
Virtuozzo CDN Platform enables service providers to create their own content delivery network services
Open-source products
OpenVZ is an operating-system-level virtualization technology for Linux
VzLinux is a Linux distribution that is based on the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
CRIU is a software tool that is used to freeze and restore running Linux applications
P.Haul - Python-based mechanism on top of CRIU, intended for live migration of containers and memory-touching processes inside.
Virtuozzo is a contributor to other open-source projects, including the Linux kernel, libvirt, KVM, Docker, QEMU, LXC, runc/libcontainer and Libct.
Acquisitions
References
Virtualization software
Software companie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedlam%20%28Pretty%20Little%20Liars%29 | "Bedlam" is the second episode of the seventh season of the mystery drama television series Pretty Little Liars, which aired on June 28, 2016, on the cable network Freeform. The episode was written by Joseph Dougherty and directed by Tawnia McKiernan.
The episode focuses on the protagonists growing suspicious of Elliott as Ali's condition worsens. Spencer and Caleb's relationship is on the rocks. Liam helps Aria and Ezra on their book. Hanna and Jordan's engagement falls down, and Hanna signs a contract with Lucas to construct a fashion company.
"Bedlam" yielded 1.24 million viewers and a 0.6 demo rating, down from the previous episode.
Plot summary
Mary (Andrea Parker) drives an abused Hanna (Ashley Benson) home, while commenting on secrets and disturbing families. Mary tells Hanna that some families hide secrets, and also that sometimes these secrets are actually people. Hanna asks Mary if she's one of the secret people, and she answers "not anymore."
Later, when Hanna is already safe, Caleb (Tyler Blackburn) and Aria (Lucy Hale) ask her if she really doesn't want to go to a doctor, as she says that the doctors would make questions, claiming that she wouldn't want to answers them. Spencer (Troian Bellisario) and Emily (Shay Mitchell) reveal to Hanna everything about Mary, confirming that she was a patient at Radley Sanitarium, and is Jessica DiLaurentis' twin sister. Hanna then concludes that Mary is “Uber A.” Following, Hanna questions herself why Mary didn't chased her — instead she left her safe and sound, and Ezra (Ian Harding) says that they gave her Charlotte's murderer. Caleb and Aria reveal that they suspected of Alison, and Hanna asks Spencer for something more powerful than coffee. While Spencer is looking for something, Caleb approaches Hanna and hands her the ring that symbolizes her engagement with Jordan. Someones knocks at the door and Ezra goes to see who is it. He finds a jar of flowers with a message from “A.D.”
In Lucas's apartment, Hanna, Emily, Spencer and Caleb go in, and Caleb hands Hanna a package which Lucas delivered. Emily tries to help Hanna, but she answers in a rough way, and Emily calls Spencer for a talk. Caleb again tries a conversation with Hanna, but she avoids him, although they do talk about their kiss in the previous days. Emily realizes that Spencer is missing and goes out for looking for her. She finds her outside the apartment and they argue if Alison is safe inside the psychiatric hospital. The two then agree that Hanna has the same look she previously had, while she and the others were trapped inside A's Dollhouse.
Caleb and Spencer, in sequence, discuss about Hanna, while Spencer is still working on the paperwork of her mother's campaign. Meanwhile, Emily receives a disturbing call from Alison, who is begging for help as a nurse tries to remove the cellphone from her hands. At the Welby State, Emily tries to visit Alison, but a nurse confirms that only family members can see her, and, followin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somaliland%20nationality%20law | Somaliland a self-declared independent country in the Horn of Africa in which inhabitants were initially governed by various kinship networks. Upon contact with Europeans, treaties were signed in the area to secure rights to trade in the territory in exchange for protection of clans from rivals. Britain formally extended a protectorate over British Somaliland in 1898. Inhabitants of Somaliland were British Protected Persons from that date until they gained their independence in 1960 and joined in the union of their state with Italian Somaliland to form the Somali Republic. Inhabitants derive their nationality from Somali law. The legal means to acquire nationality, formal legal membership in a sovereign nation, differ from the domestic relationship of rights and obligations between a citizen within its nation, known as citizenship. Nationality describes the relationship of an individual to the nation under international law, whereas citizenship is the domestic relationship of an individual within the state. As the African Union, United Nations, and no independent nation has recognized its national sovereignty, Somaliland's inhabitants are Somali nationals, but since declaring its independence in 1991, it has de facto authority to control internal affairs and citizenship within its territory.
Acquisition of nationality
The Somaliland Citizenship Law provides the following:
By birth
Article 2: Citizenship by birth
A Somaliland citizen by birth is anyone whose father is a descendent of persons who resided in the territory of Somaliland on 26 June 1960 and before.
A Somaliland citizen by birth may acquire the citizenship of another country (dual nationality) without losing his Somaliland citizenship.
Unless he has not voluntarily renounced the right to Somaliland citizenship., any adult progeny of a male Somaliland citizen, who resides in a foreign country or is a citizen of another country or is a refugee in another country may acquire Somaliland citizenship on his first return to the territory of Somaliland.
By grant
Article 3: Obtaining confirmation of citizenship
The confirmation of proof of Somaliland citizenship may be obtained by an individual on the production of:
A declaration relating to the individual made at a court by the Ministry of Internal Affairs registered Akil (clan chief) of the individual’s community.
The form designed for the purpose by the Citizenship Office and signed by the individual.
The confirmation of Somaliland citizenship shall be done in a uniform manner and recorded serially by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It shall be signed by the Chairman of the relevant region.
The layout and colour of the document showing confirmation and conferment (of citizenship) and its printing and administration shall be set out in regulations issued by the Minister of Internal Affairs
Article 4: Conferment of citizenship on a person who is an alien or a refugee
1 Any alien or refugee who is lawfully resident in the terr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaszczak%20phantom | A Jaszczak phantom (pronounced "JAY-zak") aka Data Spectrum ECT phantom is an imaging phantom used for validating scanner geometry, 3D contrast, uniformity, resolution, attenuation and scatter correction or alignment tasks in nuclear medicine. It is commonly used in academic centers and hospitals to characterize a SPECT or some gamma camera systems for quality control purposes. It is used for accreditation by clinical and academic facilities for the American College of Radiology.
The phantom was developed by Ronald J. Jaszczak of Duke University, and was filed for a patent in 1982. It is a cylinder containing fillable inserts that is often used with a radionuclide such as Technetium-99m or Fluorine-18.
Although the phantom can be used for acceptance testing, the National Electrical Manufacturers Association recommends a 30 million count acquisition and section reconstruction of the phantom be performed quarterly.
In 1981 Ronald J. Jaszczak founded Data Spectrum Corporation which manufactures the Jaszczak phantom and several other nuclear imaging tools, such as the Hoffman Brain phantom.
Structure and composition
Jaszczak phantoms consist of a main cylinder or tank made of acrylic plastic with several inserts. The circular phantom comes in two varieties: flanged and flangeless. The latter is recommended by the American College of Radiology for accreditation of nuclear medicine departments. All Jaszczak phantoms have six solid spheres and six sets of 'cold' rods. In flanged models, the sizes of the spheres vary. The number of rods in each set depends on the size of the rod in that set as different models of the phantom have rods of different sizes. In flangeless models, the diameters of the spheres are 9.5, 12.7, 15.9, 19.1, 25.4 and 31.8 mm, while the rod diameters are 4.8, 6.4, 7.9, 9.5, 11.1 and 12.7 mm. Both solid spheres and rod inserts mimic cold lesions in a hot background. Spheres are used to measure the image contrast while the rods are used to investigate the image resolution in SPECT systems.
References
External links
ACR Accreditation of Nuclear Medicine and PET Imaging Departments
Nuclear medicine
Quality control tools
Positron emission tomography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Rice%20Schools%20Trust | The Edmund Rice Schools Trust (ERST) is a Catholic school network with responsibility for almost 100 schools in the Republic of Ireland. The trust is named after Edmund Ignatius Rice the founder of the Irish Christian Brothers who originally established and maintained the schools. Today, the Trust supports those schools in line with the tenets of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust Charter. Similar trusts have been established in England, Northern Ireland and elsewhere.
The main object of the Trust is to ensure and foster the advancement of education and to further the aims and purposes of Catholic education in the Edmund Rice tradition in colleges, schools and other educational projects owned or operated by the Trusts in the different countries.
Northern Ireland
The Edmund Rice Schools Trust (NI) Ltd is the trustee body responsible for eight schools in Belfast, Glengormley, Armagh, Newry and Omagh:
Christian Brothers Primary School, Armagh
John Paul II Primary School, Belfast
St. Patrick's Primary School, Belfast
Abbey Christian Brothers' Grammar School, Newry
All Saints College, Belfast
Edmund Rice College, Glengormley
Christian Brothers Grammar School, Omagh
St. Mary's Christian Brothers' Grammar School, Belfast
These schools were formerly under the trusteeship of the Irish Christian Brothers. The Trust was launched in February 2009 and is based in the Westcourt Centre, Belfast.
References
Education in Ireland
Educational organisations based in the Republic of Ireland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens%20PC-D | The PC-D and PC-X were personal computers sold by Siemens between 1982 (PC-X)/1984 (PC-D) and 1986. The PC-D was the first MS-DOS-based PC sold by Siemens, though not hardware compatible with the IBM PC. It was slowly phased out after the introduction of the PCD-2. Which featured an IBM PC compatible design.
Hardware
Most of the hardware was identical. While the PC-X was equipped with 1 MB of RAM, a hard disk and a MMU, the PC-D came with 128 kB of RAM and a single 5¼″ floppy disk drive in its basic configuration. More powerful configurations with 256 kB, 512 kB or 1 MB and either a second floppy disk drive or a hard disk with a capacity of 13 or 20 MB were also available. The keyboard layout differed between the two models.
The PC-D had a certain level of compatibility with the IBM PC architecture but differed in a number of aspects:
Intel 80186 processor
Double-density floppy disk drives with a proprietary 80-track format (729,088 bytes)
Proprietary monochrome graphics adapter with a resolution of 640×350 pixels and black-on-white text mode (which could be inverted through a software tool)
12″ monochrome monitor, powered through the graphics card
V.11 serial ports for keyboard and mouse (the latter being optional)
Different keyboard layout: among others, the PC-D had a Help key and keys to control a connected printer but only five cursor keys (←↓↑→ and Home)
Both V.11 and V.24 ports for printers
A parallel port was available only as an add-on; if not installed, LPT1: and LPT2: would address the serial ports
Proprietary VG96 Local Bus
The power switch could be inhibited in software
A debug button (located next to the reset button) issued an NMI, by default dropping into a monitor ROM to display the contents of the processor registers
The mainboard had a SCSI interface, although hard disks had a ST506 interface and were connected to a separate controller board.
Optional hardware included:
a two-button mouse
the PT20 daisy wheel printer, the PT88 (Siemens' ink jet printer) or the PT89 (the A3 variant of the PT88)
the UTC 101, UTC 421-1 or UTC 424-4 teletex controllers, the latter of which could also be used to network up to four PC-Ds
a tape drive with a capacity of 45 MB
Software
The PC-D shipped with MS-DOS 2.11 (version 3.20 became available later), which was extended with a menu system through which users could launch applications without having to use the command line. Application software included:
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Multiplan
Microsoft Chart
dBase,
GW-BASIC interpreter and compiler
Lotus Spotlight, an application suite which consisted of a notepad, calculator, calendar, card file, phone book and file manager which could be launched on top of other running DOS applications
Open Access, an office suite which included a database, a spreadsheet application, a charting tool, a calendar and a BBS terminal
A 9750 terminal emulation for BS-2000 mainframe access
Some simple games
Microsoft Windows 1.0
Hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monique%20Laurent | Monique Laurent (born 1960) is a French computer scientist and mathematician who is an expert in mathematical optimization. She is a researcher at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam where she is also a member of the Management Team. Laurent also holds a part-time position as a professor of econometrics and operations research at Tilburg University.
Education and career
Laurent earned a doctorate from Paris Diderot University in 1986, under the supervision of Michel Deza.
She worked at CNRS from 1988 to 1997, when she moved to CWI. She took a second position at Tilburg in 2009.
Book
With Deza, Laurent is the author of the book Geometry of Cuts and Metrics (Algorithms and Combinatorics 15, Springer, 1997).
Awards and honors
She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014.
She was elected as a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2017, "for contributions to discrete and polynomial optimization and revealing interactions between them".
She has been a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2018.
References
External links
Home page at CWI
Google scholar profile
1960 births
Living people
French mathematicians
Dutch mathematicians
Dutch women mathematicians
Women mathematicians
French computer scientists
Dutch computer scientists
French women computer scientists
Dutch women computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
French operations researchers
Academic staff of Tilburg University
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
French women scientists
Dutch women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20gallery%20of%20image%20scaling%20algorithms | This gallery shows the results of numerous image scaling algorithms.
Scaling methods
An image size can be changed in several ways. Consider resizing a 160x160 pixel photo to the following 40x40 pixel thumbnail and then scaling the thumbnail to a 160x160 pixel image. Also consider doubling the size of the following image containing text.
References
Image processing
Image galleries
Image scaling algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million%20Dollar%20Matchmaker | Million Dollar Matchmaker is an American reality television show, first broadcast on July 8, 2016 on WE TV. The AMC Networks series franchise is fronted by Patti Stanger, who serves financially wealthy clients in their quest for love.
The series opener was officially slated for production during September 2015, shadowing the Bravo broadcast of the same premise The Millionaire Matchmaker popularly hosted by Patti Stanger. The ten-episode season proved to gather ratings worthy of a continuing installment.
On April 5, 2017 it was announced that AMC Networks had ordered a second season of Million Dollar Matchmaker making its debut on WE TV on August 4, 2017. In season two, Stanger returns with a set of fellow relationship experts joining her matchmaking team : Candace Smith and Maxwell Billieon. The Million Dollar Matchmaking trio join forces for one mission: to help client of celebrity status and financial wealth find love.
Episodes
Season 1 (2016)
Season 2 (2017)
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2016 American television series debuts
English-language television shows
American dating and relationship reality television series
2017 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Antalya | A tram system forms part of the public transport network in Antalya, Turkey. Currently, a three-line system is operated by Antalya Ulaşım A.Ş.
AntRay
The modern light rail line Antray opened in December 2009 as a two-way 16-stop line connecting the north of the city to the center. The AntRay line have 16 stops, including two cut-and-cover (underground) stations, and a depot at the northern terminus of Fatih. The tram stations are as follows: Fatih - Kepezaltı -Ferrokrom - Vakıf Çiftliği - Otogar - Pil Fabrikası - Dokuma - Çallı - Emniyet - Sigorta - Şarampol - Muratpaşa - İsmetpaşa - Doğu Garajı - Burhanettin Onat - Meydan.
In 2015, Transport Ministry’s tender for the extension of the existing tram line to the Airport, Aksu and the Expo 2016 was awarded to Makyol. The project was planned to last 450 days, and to be completed by December 2016, but test runs started on 23 April 2016 with a ceremony, about 300 days before the original deadline. The from extension Meydan to Expo 2016 has a branch to the Airport, and has 15 stops. New tram stations are as follows: Kışla - Topçular - Demokrasi - Cırnık - Altınova - Yenigöl - Sinan - Yonca Kavşak - (Havalimanı/Airport) - Pınarlı ANFAŞ - Kurşunlu - Aksu-1 - Aksu-2 - Aksu-3 - EXPO.
The fleet consists of 14 CAF 5-module 100% low-floor Urbos 2 trams supplied for the opening of the Antray line in 2009. In August 2015, the Eurotem, joint venture of South Korea’s Hyundai Rotem and Turkish company Tüvasaş, won an order for 18 new trams, required because of the extension of the tram line.
The project for the construction of new tram line is completed and opened in late 2021. The new line starts from Varsak and follow Main Bus Station (Otogar), Akdeniz University Hospital, Research Hospital and Antalya Museum. Although the line was planned to the current nostalgic tram line, which was planned to renew as double track, no progress has been applied as of late 2021. The whole line is 15 km long.
Heritage tram
A single-track long heritage tram line (or nostalgic tram; ) opened in 1999 with ex-Nuremberg tramcars. Trams runs from Antalya Museum along the main boulevard through the city center at Kale Kapısı, Hadrian's Gate, Karaalioglu Park, and ending on the way to Lara Plajı (Beach) to the east. There are three passing points, but trams by-pass one other at the central Cumhuriyet Meydanı stop and passing point. The tram stations are as follows: Müze - Barbaros - Meslek Lisesi - Selekler - Cumhuriyet Meydanı - Kale Kapısı - Üç Kapılar - Büyükşehir Belediyesi - Işıklar - Zerdalilik.
There are only two tramcars with trailers (out of three available) of MAN and Duewag cars from the 1950-60s. The heritage tramway line and the new light rail line do pass through the same intersection in the city center, however, they do not cross, nor there is a hard rail connection between the two.
References
External links
Official site
Transport in Antalya
Tram transport in Turkey
Antalya
Airport rail links in Turkey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken%20%28Cercozoa%29 | Kraken is a genus of amoebae within the Cercozoa, containing the sole species Kraken carinae. These amoebae are characterized by a small round cell body and a network of thin and very long filopodia that can reach up to a mm in diameter. Kraken amoebae feed on bacteria and live in freshwater and soil systems.
Etymology
Kraken was named after the German word Krakonen, which is the name used to refer to the Norse mythological monster. Kraken was named as such due to the method of feeding, in which the large network of branching filopodia grab bacteria and transports it to the cell body. The mythological monster Kraken was told to catch its prey with one of its many arms in a similar manner.
History
Kraken is a recently discovered genus, having first been described in 2016 at the University of Koln. Thomas Cavalier-Smith established the phylum Cercozoa in 1998, which consists of flagellates and filose amoebae that are widely morphologically diverse. Genetic analysis and morphological characteristics place the Genus Kraken as a Cercozoan.
Currently, the genus consists of a single species, Kraken carinae. Through genetic analysis, ultrastructure data, and phylogenetic analysis, Kraken could not accurately be placed in an existing family, thus the new family Krakenidae was established. Currently, it is being considered to establish the new order Krakenida.
Habitat and Ecology
Kraken has only been observed and collected from Europe and Antarctica, though it is suspected to be distributed worldwide. Kraken is found in dry surface soil sediment, most prevalently in bacteria rich environments. Members have also been collected in freshwater lakes and aquatic moss pillars in the Antarctic region, suggesting a wider possible range of tolerance and habitability. The full extent of Krakens preferred environment has not been studied.
Some organisms have also been collected in agricultural crops, particularly growing around wheat. This may suggest some ecosystem interactions that have yet to be studied further.
Kraken preys predominantly on bacteria.
Description
Kraken consists of a round cell body, that is typically 7-9 µm in diameter. One large filopodium originates from the basal end of the cell body, and expands up to 300 µm. The filopodium branches extensively and forms a very large network, expanding the diameter of the organism to over 500 µm. The filopodia are thin, and taper at the ends. Kraken are very fragile. When the cell body is slightly mechanically disturbed in a lab setting, the filopodia retract close to the cell body. This often leads to cell death.
The filopodia are used to catch prey, mainly bacteria. The filopodia catch and attach prey through their vast network. These bacteria then glide through or along the filopodia to the cell body for digestion.
The cell body does not have any covering, instead it is surrounded by scales. These scales are formed in the cisternae of the Golgi apparatus, and carried to the surface. The scales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20C.%20Pratt | David C. Pratt is an American businessman and philanthropist who from 2006 until bankruptcy in 2016, served as controlling owner, chairman and CEO of Gander Mountain, the largest U.S. retail network of outdoor specialty stores for shooting sports, hunting, fishing and camping.
Pratt, a former chairman and chief executive of pesticide maker United Industries Inc., in 1999 sold a controlling interest in United to Thomas H. Lee Partners for $620 million. United later was sold to the company now known as Spectrum Brands.
Pratt is a minority owner of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team. In the Rocky Mountain West, Pratt is best known as the developer of Three Forks Ranch, a hunting and fishing resort.
Career
Pratt's investment interest in the Gander Mountain chain began in the early 2000s. His Gander Mountain holdings reached 1.4 million shares by early 2005 and, in August of that year, a family trust supported the company with $20 million in cash in exchange for a debt note. In December 2006, the Pratt trust swapped the $20 million debt note and $30 million more in cash for more than 5.7 million additional shares. The deal made Pratt the company's largest shareholder and solidified his appointment as chairman the same month. As of 2016, Gander Mountain had 152 stores in 26 states. In March 2017, Gander Mountain voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy under a new owner, and decided to close 32 stores in 11 states. The company also began looking for a buyer. Store closures began in April with the affected stores holding inventory liquidation sales.
On May 1, 2017, Camping World Holdings, Inc., acquired Gander Mountain at auction for an estimated $35.4 million, pending approval by the federal bankruptcy court. As part of the deal, Camping World was obligated to operate a minimum of 17 Gander Mountain stores. Camping World executives stated that they would most likely retain and operate more stores. Most locations have been rebranded as Gander Outdoors.
In 1999, Pratt purchased the 200,000-acre Three Forks Ranch in northwest Colorado to raise cattle. He has since spent more than $100 million turning the ranch into a luxury hunting and fishing resort, Allison Pratt, Three Forks' marketing director, told Forbes magazine in 2010. “My father wanted to create something people would never expect in this corner of the world,” she said.
In 2003, Pratt gave a $6 million challenge grant to St. John's Mercy Medical Center in Creve Coeur, Mo., to be used for the medical center's new cancer center. At the time, the gift was the largest in the medical center's 132-year history. The cancer center is called The David C. Pratt Cancer Center.
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American businesspeople in retailing
American retail chief executives
American chemical industry businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket%20queue | A bucket queue is a data structure that implements the priority queue abstract data type: it maintains a dynamic collection of elements with numerical priorities and allows quick access to the element with minimum (or maximum) priority. In the bucket queue, the priorities must be integers, and it is particularly suited to applications in which the priorities have a small range. A bucket queue has the form of an array of buckets: an array data structure, indexed by the priorities, whose cells contain collections of items with the same priority as each other. With this data structure, insertion of elements and changes of their priority take constant time. Searching for and removing the minimum-priority element takes time proportional to the number of buckets or, by maintaining a pointer to the most recently found bucket, in time proportional to the difference in priorities between successive operations.
The bucket queue is the priority-queue analogue of pigeonhole sort (also called bucket sort), a sorting algorithm that places elements into buckets indexed by their priorities and then concatenates the buckets. Using a bucket queue as the priority queue in a selection sort gives a form of the pigeonhole sort algorithm. Bucket queues are also called bucket priority queues or bounded-height priority queues. When used for quantized approximations to real number priorities, they are also called untidy priority queues or pseudo priority queues. They are closely related to the calendar queue, a structure that uses a similar array of buckets for exact prioritization by real numbers.
Applications of the bucket queue include computation of the degeneracy of a graph, fast algorithms for shortest paths and widest paths for graphs with weights that are small integers or are already sorted, and greedy approximation algorithms for the set cover problem. The quantized version of the structure has also been applied to scheduling and to marching cubes in computer graphics. The first use of the bucket queue was in a shortest path algorithm by .
Operation
Basic data structure
A bucket queue can handle elements with integer priorities in the range from 0 or 1 up to some known bound , and operations that insert elements, change the priority of elements, or extract (find and remove) the element that has the minimum (or maximum) priority. It consists of an array of container data structures; in most sources these containers are doubly linked lists but they could alternatively be dynamic arrays or dynamic sets. The container in the th array cell stores the collection of elements whose priority
A bucket queue can handle the following operations:
To insert an element with priority , add to the container at .
To change the priority of an element, remove it from the container for its old priority and re-insert it into the container for its new priority.
To extract an element with the minimum or maximum priority, perform a sequential search in the array to find th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20team%20%28computer%20security%29 | A blue team is a group of individuals who perform an analysis of information systems to ensure security, identify security flaws, verify the effectiveness of each security measure, and to make certain all security measures will continue to be effective after implementation.
History
As part of the United States computer security defense initiative, red teams were developed to exploit other malicious entities that would do them harm. As a result, blue teams were developed to design defensive measures against such red team activities.
Incident response
If an incident does occur within the organization, the blue team will perform the following six steps to handle the situation:
Preparation
Identification
Containment
Eradication
Recovery
Lessons learned
Operating system hardening
In preparation for a computer security incident, the blue team will perform hardening techniques on all operating systems throughout the organization.
Perimeter defense
The blue team must always be mindful of the network perimeter, including traffic flow, packet filtering, proxy firewalls, and intrusion detection systems.
Tools
Blue teams employ a wide range of tools allowing them to detect an attack, collect forensic data, perform data analysis and make changes to threat future attacks and mitigate threats. The tools include:
Log management and analysis
AlienVault
FortiSIEM (a.k.a. AccelOps)
Graylog
InTrust
LogRhythm
Microsoft Sentinel
NetWitness
Qradar (IBM)
Rapid7
SIEMonster
SolarWinds
Splunk
Security information and event management (SIEM) technology
SIEM software supports threat detection and security incident response by performing real-time data collection and analysis of security events. This type of software also uses data sources outside of the network including indicators of compromise (IoC) threat intelligence.
See also
List of digital forensics tools
Vulnerability management
White hat (computer security)
Red team
References
Computer security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausi%20A.%20Muller | Hausi A. Müller (born August 11, 1955 in Egg, Switzerland) is a Canadian computer scientist and software engineer. He is a professor of computer science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.
He is known for his work in the fields of software evolution and adaptive systems. He was the lead architect of Rigi, an end-user programmable environment for software analysis, exploration, and visualization.
He was General Chair of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2001) in Toronto. He serves on the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors (2015–17) and is Vice President of IEEE Computer Society Technical and Conferences Activities Board. He was Chair of IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE) 2010-15.
Together with Kenny Wong he has provided an efficient implementation of Fortune's algorithm.
Awards and honors
IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Member, 2016
Distinguished Service Award, IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE), 2016
Fellow Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE), 2012
Team Award: IBM Canada Project of the Year Award, IBM Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Markham, Ontario, Canada, 2011
IBM CAS Research Special Contributions Award, 2010
References
External links
at the University of Victoria
Citations on Google Scholar
Publications list on DBLP
IEEE Computer Society Learning Webinar on Conferences, 2016
Canadian computer scientists
Living people
1955 births
Rice University alumni
Academic staff of the University of Victoria
Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelika%20Steger | Angelika Steger (born 1962) is a mathematician and computer scientist whose research interests include graph theory, randomized algorithms, and approximation algorithms. She is a professor at ETH Zurich.
Education and career
After earlier studies at the University of Freiburg and Heidelberg University, Steger earned a master's degree from Stony Brook University in 1985. She completed a doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1990, under the supervision of Hans Jürgen Prömel, with a dissertation on random combinatorial structures, and earned her habilitation from Bonn in 1994. After a visiting position at the University of Kiel, she became a professor at the University of Duisburg in 1995, moved to the Technical University of Munich in 1996, and moved again to ETH Zurich in 2003.
Books
Steger is the author of a German-language textbook on combinatorics:
and a monograph on the Steiner tree problem:
Recognition
Steger was elected to the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2007.
She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014.
References
External links
1962 births
Living people
20th-century German mathematicians
Swiss mathematicians
Swiss women mathematicians
German women mathematicians
German computer scientists
Swiss computer scientists
German women computer scientists
Swiss women computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Graph theorists
Stony Brook University alumni
University of Bonn alumni
Academic staff of the University of Duisburg-Essen
Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
Place of birth missing (living people)
20th-century German women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPCG%20benchmark | The HPCG (high performance conjugate gradient) benchmark is a supercomputing benchmark test proposed by Michael Heroux from Sandia National Laboratories, and Jack Dongarra and Piotr Luszczek from the University of Tennessee. It is intended to model the data access patterns of real-world applications such as sparse matrix calculations, thus testing the effect of limitations of the memory subsystem and internal interconnect of the supercomputer on its computing performance. Because it is internally I/O bound (the data for the benchmark resides in main memory as it is too large for processor caches), HPCG testing generally achieves only a tiny fraction of the peak FLOPS the computer could theoretically deliver.
HPCG is intended to complement benchmarks such as the LINPACK benchmarks that put relatively little stress on the internal interconnect. The source of the HPCG benchmark is available on GitHub.
As of June 2018, the Summit supercomputer held the top spot in the HPCG performance rankings, followed by the Sierra and the K computer.
In June of 2020, Summit was superseded by Fugaku with a speed of 16.0 HPCG-petaflops (an increase of 540%). Summit is currently 4th, LUMI 3rd and Frontier 2nd.
See also
Graph500
Memory access pattern
Traversed edges per second
Preconditioned conjugate gradient method
References
External links
HPCG Benchmark
source code
Parallel computing
Supercomputer benchmarks
Benchmarks (computing) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Wirsing | Martin Wirsing (born 24 December 1948 in Bayreuth) is a German computer scientist, and Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.
Biography
Wirsing studied Mathematics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) and at Université Paris 7, obtaining the Diplom in Mathematics from LMU and the Mâitrise-ès-Sciences Mathématiques at the Université Paris 7. Supervised by Kurt Schütte, he received his PhD from LMU in 1976, with a thesis on a topic in mathematical logic (Das Entscheidungsproblem der Prädikatenlogik mit Identität und Funktionszeichen). In 1975-1983 he was a research assistant at the chair of F.L. Bauer at Technical University of Munich where in 1984 he completed his Habilitation in Informatics; in 1985 Wirsing became full professor and Chair of Informatics at the University of Passau and in 1992 he returned to LMU as the Chair of Programming and Software Engineering. Several years he served as Dean, Head of Department and Vice President of the Senat of LMU. Since 2010 he is Vice President for Teaching and Studies of LMU. In July 2016, he was awarded a Degree of Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) by Royal Holloway, University of London.
His research interests comprise software engineering and its formal foundations, autonomous self-aware systems, and digitisation of universities. In 2006-2015 he was coordinating the European IP projects SENSORIA (2006-2010) on software engineering for service-oriented systems and ASCENS (2010-2015) on engineering collective autonomic systems. In 2007-2010 Martin Wirsing was the chairman of the Scientific Board of INRIA and in 2014-2017 a member of the scientific committee of Institut Mines-Télécom. Currently, he is a member of the board of trustees of Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry and of the scientific committees of the University of Bordeaux and IMDEA Software Institute. He is a member of the editorial board of several scientific journals and book series including Theoretical Computer Science (journal), International Journal of Software and Informatics, and Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science.
Selected papers and books
Martin Wirsing: Algebraic Specification. In: J. van Leeuwen (ed.): Handbook of Theoretical Computer Science, Amsterdam, North-Holland, 1990, pp. 675–788 ()
Pietro Cenciarelli, Alexander Knapp, Bernhard Reus, and Martin Wirsing. An Event-Based Structural Operational Semantics of Multi-Threaded Java. In: Jim Alves-Foss (ed.): Formal Syntax and Semantics of Java, Lect. Notes Comp. Sci. 1523, Berlin: Springer, 1999, pp. 157–200 ()
Iman Poernomo, John Crossley, Martin Wirsing: Adapting Proofs-as-Programs: The Curry—Howard Protocol. Springer Monographs in Computer Science, 2005, 420 pages ()
Martin Wirsing, Jean-Pierre Banatre, Matthias Hölzl, Axel Rauschmayer (Eds.): Software-Intensive Systems and New Computing Paradigms. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5380, Springer-Verlag, 2008, 265 pages ()
Martin Wirsing, Matthias Hölzl (Ed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Bernard%20Condat | Jean-Bernard Condat (born 1963) is a French computer security expert and former hacker who became a consultant to the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DST). Using the name concombre (English: cucumber), he achieved status as one of the best-known French hackers in the 1990s.
Biography
Condat was born in 1963 in Béziers, Hérault. He completed the baccalauréat at age 16 before attending the University of Lyon to study musicology, earning his deug.
Chaos Computer Club, France
It was around 1982 that Condat joined the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance, an intelligence agency within the French National Police, who planted him in strategic positions, such as a sysop for CompuServe. In 1989, he, under instruction from the DST and agent Jean-Luc Delacour, created the Chaos Computer Club France, a fake hacker group posing as a national offshoot of the Chaos Computer Club, with the purpose of investigating and surveilling the French hacker community. The group would also work with the National Gendarmarie. The CCCF had an electronic magazine called Chaos Digest (ChaosD). Between 4 January 1993 and 5 August 1993, seventy-three issues were published ().
Bibliography
See also
Chaos Computer Club
List of hacker groups
References
1963 births
People from Béziers
Living people
French computer programmers
Hacking in the 1990s
Hacking (computer security) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Eeden%20%28Antwerp%20premetro%20station%29 | Frederik van Eeden (also known by the shorthand Van Eeden) is an underground station in the Antwerp premetro network located in the Linkeroever suburb on the left bank of the river Scheldt. The station was opened on 21 September 1990, the same time as the Brabotunnel, linking the station with Groenplaats station and allowing trams in the premetro network to cross the river Scheldt. The station is located directly underneath the F. Van Eedenplein, named after the writer of the same name.
Layout
Van Eeden station is built completely in brick and has one above ground entrance, giving access to the Van Eeden bus station. In comparison to the other stations in the network, Van Eeden also lies relatively deep.
At the -1 level of the station can be found a spacious entrance hall. The -2 level encompasses both 65m long platforms, although they are not exactly built at the same height.
The design of the station differs from that of the earlier stations on the central Groenplaats-Opera axis, as the size of the entrance hall was reduced by about 50%, instead giving more space and a visual connection to the underlying platforms. In the entrance hall can also be found a large artwork by Flemish artist May Claerhout, matching the pointy shaped roof of the hall.
On the western side, away from the River Scheldt and the downtown area, the station connects to the 442m long ramp on the Biancefloerlaan, allowing traffic in and out of the premetro network.
The station also contains a large power supply installation, providing power for the entire tram network between the station and the Linkeroever P+R terminus. Also, due to its proximity to the river Scheldt, the station is equipped with large water pumping installations. Even so, however, condensation still often occurs above the platforms.
Tram routes
The station is currently serviced by tram routes 3, 5, 9 and 15, the four tram routes making use of the central premetro axis.
References
External links
www.delijn.be, the operator of all public city transport in Antwerp and Flanders.
1990 establishments in Belgium
Railway stations opened in 1990
Antwerp Premetro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INPP | INPP can mean:
International Public Partnerships, an investment company
International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry
Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant
Inn National Progressive Party, Myanmar
Inositol-polyphosphate in chemistry (e.g. in INPP5E) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes%20Stephenson | Mercedes Stephenson (born c. 1981) is a Canadian journalist and military analyst, currently the host of Global Television Network's Sunday morning talk show The West Block.
She was born and raised in Calgary. She received a BA in political science from the University of Calgary. She did post-graduate studies at the University of Calgary Centre for Military and Strategic Studies. She studied economics and media ethics at Georgetown University. She also worked as an intern at The Pentagon and was a visiting research student at the MIT Center for International Studies.
Stephenson moved to Toronto to become host of a weekly public affairs television program. She later moved to Ottawa where she became parliamentary reporter for CTV News Channel and host of the political affairs program Power Play.
From 2001 to 2004, she was president of the Society for Military and Strategic Studies. She was the youngest North American military analyst covering the Iraq War. She reported from Afghanistan during the Canadian Forces mission there.
In 2004, she was named one of the 25 Best and Brightest University Stars by Maclean's magazine.
Stephenson was chosen as host of a national news program for the Sun News Network but quit shortly before the network launch in April 2011.
References
Year of birth uncertain
Living people
Canadian television reporters and correspondents
Canadian women television journalists
University of Calgary alumni
CTV Television Network people
Canadian television news anchors
Global Television Network people
Canadian political journalists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEA%20%28text%20editor%29 | TEA is a graphical text editor for power users. It is designed for low resource consumption, a wide range of functions and adaptability, and is available for all desktop operating systems supported by Qt 6, 5 or 4.6+, thus also OS/2 and Haiku OS. Its user interface is localized in several languages.
UI concept
The functional scope of TEA exceeds that of a pure text editor since it is designed as a desktop environment for text editing. It has five tabs on the right border of the window:
edit
files
options
dates
manual
edit represents the actual text editor. On the top of the text editor there is a tab bar for switching between multiple opened text files. The edit tab contains the text editing window. Below that window there is another window which displays the editing history and below the history there is the FIF, the "Famous Input Field" follows. The FIF is a special command line for entering TEA-specific commands. The editing history and the FIF are also visible in the four other tabs.
The tab files contains a file manager for navigating in the computers file system opening files.
options is a settings tab, for changing the behavior of TEA and modifying the content of the menu bar.
dates contains a calendar.
The tab manual contains a detailed user manual including instructions for the FIF.
Features
Syntax highlighting: C, C++, Bash script, BASIC, C#, D, Fortran, Java, LilyPond, Lout, Lua, NASM, NSIS, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PO (gettext), Python, Seed7, TeX/LaTeX, Vala, Verilog, XML, HTML, XHTML, Dokuwiki, MediaWiki
TEA includes a selection of color schemes and themes for changing the display colors
In tune highlighting for the current line can be activated, a feature that is particularly useful for proofreading, where non-electronic texts and bitmaps containing text have to be compared to text on the screen. A typical use is editing of scanned text that were converted into text files with an OCR program, e.g. for creating corpora in linguistics.
In File manager there is a bookmark menu in which folder paths for quick navigation can be stored.
Spellchecker
Freely definable text snippets
Formatting for: HTML, XHTML, DocBook, LaTeX, Lout, DokuWiki and MediaWiki
Text conversion functions (upper case, lower case, Morse, etc.)
Text statistics functions: Text statistics; extract words; Words lengths; UNITAZ quantity sorting; UNITAZ sorting alphabet; Count the substring and count the substring (regexp)
Math functions
FIF
The Famous Input Field is a TEA specific command line. In order to find and replace text, enter e.g. SOURCETEXT~TARGETTEXT and click on Replace, Replace All or Replace all in opened files in the Search menu. The string SOURCETEXT will be replaced by the string TARGETTEXT in the chosen way.
In addition, the FIF includes three separate search buttons, located on the right side.
History
Originally TEA was a program for Windows. In version 1.0.0.49, released on 30 December 2001, it is evident that the acronym TEA then |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current%20Bioinformatics | Current Bioinformatics is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal, published by Bentham Science Publishers, covering areas such as such as computing in biomedicine and genomics, computational proteomics and systems biology, and
metabolic pathway engineering.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS, BIOSIS Previews, EMBASE, ProQuest, EMBiology, Genamics, JournalSeek, MediaFinder®-Standard Periodical Directory, PubsHub, J-Gate, CNKI Scholar, Suweco CZ, EBSCO and Chemical Abstracts Service.
References
External links
Creative Commons Attribution-licensed journals
English-language journals
Bentham Science Publishers academic journals |
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