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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20TV | Grand TV is a cable/IPTV music television channel owned by Grand Production. It launched on 16 April 2014.
It broadcasts 24 hours a day, of which nine hours consist of live programming. Programming airs from nine TV studios in Košutnjak, of which three are large and six are small studios. During a break in broadcasting, the channel broadcasts lip syncing singer videos. This is the first music entertainment channel that deals not only with videos of singers, but also activities related to public life.
Series
'Grand magazin' - a daily airing show. In this show viewers tune in via Skype and telephone. There are several presenters in shifts, and their task is to communicate with viewers who can order a song.
'Halo' - the show is broadcast twice a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
'Grand cocktail' '- an "author show" by Goran Čomor.
'An Evening With ...' - a show that weekly features celebrities. They come as guests bring their colleagues, friends, family and sing their hits accompanied by an orchestra.
Grand Novelties
'From Profile' - programs whose host is Vesna Milanović. In this show the guest is interviewed through different stages of his life, from childhood to the important moments in his career. There is a scroll of family photos in which the singer recalls events and times when they occurred.
'Grand disco' - programs whose leader is Milan Mitrovic, surrounded by beautiful dancers and attractive guests who sing their hits.
'Grand News' - showbiz news.
'Doctors for insomnia' - led by Goran Petrović. In this show they discuss topics much like a nighttime program.
'Gipsy & Friends'' - program run by Lidija Vukicevic and Jovana Nikolic. The show primarily airs Romano music.
VIP Cookbook
Sport News
Wandering Camera
Song for the soul - show airs weekly on Wednesday
The Te
That crazy world
References
External links
Television stations in Serbia
Music television channels in Serbia
Television channels in North Macedonia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20recursive%20name%20server | A public recursive name server (also called public DNS resolver) is a name server service that networked computers may use to query the Domain Name System (DNS), the decentralized Internet naming system, in place of (or in addition to) name servers operated by the local Internet service provider (ISP) to which the devices are connected. Reasons for using these services include:
speed, compared to using ISP DNS services
filtering (security, ad-blocking, porn-blocking, etc.)
reporting
avoiding censorship
redundancy (smart caching)
access to unofficial alternative top level domains not found in the official DNS root zone
temporary unavailability of the ISP's name server
Public DNS resolver operators often cite increased privacy as an advantage of their services; critics of public DNS services have cited the possibility of mass data collection targeted at the public resolvers as a potential risk of using these services. Several services now support secure DNS lookup transport services such as DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and DNS over TLS (DoT).
Public DNS resolvers are operated either by commercial companies, offering their service for free use to the public, or by private enthusiasts to help spread new technologies and support non-profit communities.
Notable public DNS service operators
References
External links
Home page of the DNSCrypt project: Public DNS servers
Domain Name System
Alternative Internet DNS services
Distributed data structures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20F.%20Gugino | Carl Frank Gugino is an American orthodontist who is known to develop the first computerized cephalometric and visual treatment objective (VTO) program with Dr. Robert M. Ricketts and Dr. Bench. He is mostly known, along with Peter R. Breads, to have founded Great Lakes Dental Technologies, formally known as Great Lakes Orthodontics, which is an orthodontic laboratory and product company.
Life
He graduated in 1953 from University at Buffalo. He then served dental officer in the United States Navy Dental Corps from 1953 to 1955. He was stationed at the naval hospital at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in North Carolina and became a lieutenant in 1955. After serving in the Navy, Gugino worked as a dentist for several years before he specialized in orthodontics from the same university in 1961. He developed the first computerized cephalometric and visual treatment objective (VTO) program with Dr. Thomas Ricketts and Dr. Bench. He authored a textbook called Next Generation BioprogressiveTM Philosophy, ZeroBase OrthodonticsTM. He worked with Dr. Suyehiro and founded the Millennium Society. This society is focused on the practice management aspect of orthodontics.
Awards and recognition
French R.M. Ricketts Society - President
Bioprogressive Study Club, Japan - President
The Millennium Society - Founder
Great Lakes Orthodontics, 1965 - Founder
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American dentists
Orthodontists
University at Buffalo alumni
20th-century American naval officers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchdown%20Radio | Touchdown Radio, also known as Touchdown Radio Productions or Touchdown Radio Network, is a sports radio network specializing in live broadcasts of NCAA football. It was founded in 2007 by Gino Torretta, the 1992 Heisman Trophy winner.
Touchdown Radio broadcasts at least one major college football game every Saturday during the college football season, along with select bowl games. Torretta handles color commentary on most broadcasts. Play-by-play announcers have included Taylor Zarzour, Frank Frangie, Roxy Bernstein, Brett Dolan, and Jim Szoke.
In 2008 it was announced that Touchdown had become the national radio partner for the All American Football League. The plan called for Touchdown to air a game of the week which would be distributed nationwide on Touchdown Radio affiliates and on Sports Byline USA. However the league never launched.
References
American radio networks
College football on the radio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanka%20Education%20and%20Research%20Network | The Lanka Education and Research Network (LEARN), formerly the Lanka Experimental Academic and Research Network, is a specialized internet service provider dedicated to supporting the needs of the research and education communities within Sri Lanka. The history of the internet in Sri Lanka began with the initial proposal of the 'Lankan Experimental Academic and Research Network' (LEARN) to Sri Lankan government in 1989 by Prof. Abhaya Induruwa. In 1990 the LEARNmail was initiated and the first message was sent over LEARN was from the University of Moratuwa to the University of Colombo. In 1994, wireless links were used to create first Internet Protocol / Wide area network (IP/WAN) in Sri Lanka between University of Colombo, University of Moratuwa and Open University of Sri Lanka. Based on a proposal submitted in 1992 to Sri Lankan government, LEARN connected to the internet in 1995 opening doors to the Internet era in Sri Lanka
Today LEARN as the National Research and Education Network in Sri Lanka, connects all of the UGC funded Sri Lankan national universities, a number of public universities, higher education institutes under other ministries, the University Grants Commission, the Ministry of Higher Education, and six national research institutions. It is a private company, owned by fourteen national universities including the UGC since 2009. According to University Grants Commission, its international connectivity include a 7Gbps bandwidth to the commodity internet and a 2.5Gbps link to LEARN point of presence in Singapore. It also connects the academic, world research internet through the TEIN4 network, SingAREN, NKN, LGN, Internet2 and Google. LEARN as the NREN forms the Sri Lankan component of the global advanced Research and Education Internet network.
Current members
The full list of current members is shown below.
Sites Connected to the LEARN Network
University Grants Commission (Sri Lanka)
Ministry of Higher Education and Highways
Universities
University of Colombo
Eastern University
University of Jaffna
University of Kelaniya
University of Moratuwa
The Open University of Sri Lanka
University of Peradeniya
Rajarata University
University of Ruhuna
Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka
South Eastern University of Sri Lanka
University of Sri Jayewardenepura
Uva-Wellassa University
University of the Visual and Performing Arts
Wayamba University
Bhiksu University of Sri Lanka
Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka
Sri Palee Campus
Gampaha Wickramarachchi University of Indigenous Medicine
University of Vavuniya
Research Institutes
Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies
Industrial Technology Institute (ITI)
National Institute of Fundamental Studies (NIFS)
National Aquatic Resources Agency (NARA)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
National Engineering Research and Development Center (NERDC)
Postgraduate Institutes
Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture (PGIA)
Postgraduate Institute of Medicine (PGIM)
Postgraduate Institute o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babycastles | Babycastles is an indie game development collective, arcade, and art space in New York City.
Programming
The Babycastles arcade was designed to give independent game developers a public place to show their projects, and to establish such games as a social culture for New York City. The arcade was originally co-located with the music venue Silent Barn in Queens. On most nights each week, the Babycastles basement arcade of indie and amateur video games opened during music shows upstairs. The space was open for those who paid for entrance to the upstairs show. The arcade's several games and their curators rotated on a monthly basis and were set in scavenged, do-it-yourself arcade cabinets. The New York Times likened it to "a 1970s rec room reimagined by hackers". In its current Manhattan space, it remains closer in configuration to a DIY punk space than an art gallery.
The venue has hosted a recurring video game tournament called Hot Ronny's Rumble. Other events and exhibitions include the 2014 book release for Julian Assange's When Google Met WikiLeaks and the 2016 "Yo Fight My Mans", curated by Ashok Kondabolu and including five weeks of art installations, live DJs, panel discussions, and a custom fighting video game.
History
Kunal Gupta and Syed Salahuddin started the Babycastles collective in 2009 in the basement of Silent Barn, a Ridgewood, Queens, cooperative performance space where Gupta lived. Following a robbery in mid-2011 and closure by zoning violations, a search began for a new space, which they opened in May 2013 in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Babycastles opened in Chelsea, Manhattan, on 14th Street in 2014. The owner of its building specifically sought to rent it to artists. Babycastles chose the location based on its equal proximity to New York's five boroughs.
References
Further reading
External links
2009 establishments in New York City
American artist groups and collectives
Art venues
Music venues in Manhattan
Chelsea, Manhattan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TvN10%20Awards | tvN10 Awards is an award ceremony for excellence in television in South Korea, organized by tvN, one of the networks under the umbrella of CJ E&M. It was held at the KINTEX in Ilsanseo-gu, Goyang, Gyeonggi Province and was emceed by Kang Ho-dong and Shin Dong-yup on October 9, 2016.
Background
A part of "tvN10 Festival", the inaugural ceremony was a celebration of 10 years of broadcasting by cable network tvN. The nominees were chosen from dramas, comedy shows and variety shows that aired on tvN from October 2006 to September 2016.
Nominations and winners
(Winners denoted in bold)
Presenters
Special performances
See also
List of Asian television awards
References
External links
South Korean television awards
Awards established in 2016
2016 television awards
TVN (South Korean TV channel) original programming
2016 in South Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Survivor%20%28season%204%29 | The fourth season of Australian Survivor is a television series based on the international reality game show franchise Survivor. It is the second season to air on the Network Ten, following the network acquiring the broadcast rights to the Australian Survivor franchise in late 2015. Jonathan LaPaglia returned to host the series for his second season.
The season premiered on 30 July 2017. Like the previous season, the program was filmed on the Samoan island of Upolu and featured 24 Australian castaways competing for 55 days in the Samoan jungle for a grand prize of A$500,000. On 10 October 2017, Jericho Malabonga was revealed to be the winner over Tara Pitt by a vote of 6–3.
Production
Casting
The series was renewed on 23 October 2016. Upon the announcement of renewal, a casting call was made for potential contestants for the new season. Over 20,000 people applied for the new season.
Twists
This season featured multiple game-play twists for the first time in the series. This season introduced the super-idol which had the power to nullify the use of any other idol at one tribal council (not to be confused with the post-vote negating idol seen first in the American format's Panama season). This season also introduced several 'moral dilemmas' into the game which forced contestants to choose between two luxuries; one that benefits the entire tribe and one that only benefits the finder.
This season also saw the return of non-elimination episodes from season 3, the first of which saw a double tribal council where two contestants were sequentially voted out and sent to the opposing tribe. The following day, two contestants of the other tribe were then required to volunteer to switch to the tribe to replace them. The second non-elimination episode saw the contestants of one tribe vote for one of their members to receive a reward. The third featured a Tribal Council mutiny and the fourth featured a juror elimination.
This season also introduced a variety of twists previously seen on the American format including the initial marooning, the hiding of an immunity idol at challenges (first seen in Cambodia), tribal mutiny (first seen in Thailand) and jury member elimination (as seen in Kaôh Rōng).
Contestants
Future appearances
Luke Toki competed on the 2019 edition of Australian Survivor: Champions vs. Contenders as part of the Champions tribe. Mark Herlaar, Jacqui Patterson, Aaron Knight, Henry Nicholson, Locky Gilbert, Michelle Dougan and Jericho Malabonga competed on Australian Survivor: All Stars. Samantha Gash and Mark Wales competed on Australian Survivor: Blood V Water.
Outside of Survivor, Locky appeared on the eighth season of The Bachelor Australia as the titular bachelor in 2020. Aimee competed on the eighth season of Seven Network's House Rules in 2020 and finished as the runner up. Sam and Mark competed on the Amazon Prime Video series World's Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji as part of Team Aussie Rescue and finished the race in 26th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OsWALD | OsWALD, also known as OsWALD Of The Ice Floes, is a 1988 Danish computer game for Amiga and Commodore 64. The game was designed by Ivan Sølvason for use as a game controlled over a push-button telephone, for Danish TV2's Friday night prime time program Eleva2ren. The game sold well in Denmark due to the exposure in Eleva2ren.
Sølvason later designed Hugo the TV Troll, also for Eleva2ren and using the same push-button telephone concept.
Legacy
A new version of the game named Super OsWALD, with a two-player mode, was created for Eleva2ren in 1989.
References
External links
Amiga Longplay OsWALD - World of Longplays, YouTube
Amiga Longplay Super OsWALD - World of Longplays, YouTube
OsWald og Hugo (1988 og 1990) - Dansk Datahistorisk Forening
1988 video games
Amiga games
Commodore 64 games
Video games developed in Denmark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara%20HD | Tara HD was a Malaysian Hindi-language pay-television channel, owned by satellite provider Astro.
It offered Bollywood movies and Indian-made programming, including television productions from Colors TV, StarPlus, Life OK, Sony Entertainment Television, Colors Infinity, Star World, FYI TV18, Zoom, NDTV Good Times, Food Food TV, Big Magic, MTV India, Living Foodz and Zee TV.
The channel was launched on 19 October 2016, replacing Zee Variasi, and broadcast movies and programs with optional Malay and English subtitles. The channel ended its broadcast on 1 October 2019 and was replaced by Colors HD on the same channel number.
After Tara HD's closure, selected serials such as Shakti and discontinued shows (such as Court Room - Sachchai Hazir Ho and Madhubala - Ek Ishq Ek Junoon) from Colors Hindi remained on new channel Colors HD. Tujhse Hai Raabta, Ye Hai Mohabbatein, Kasautii Zindagii Kay, Crime Patrol Dial 100, Nazar, Qayamat Ki Raat and pre-Tara HD original shows moved to another sister channel, Astro Bollyone HD.
Last aired
Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat
Ishqbaaz
Shakti
Tujhse Hai Raabta
Ye Hai Mohabbatein
Kasautii Zindagii Kay
Ishq Mein Marjawan
Crime Patrol Dial 100
Nazar
By Invite Only
I Want To Bake Free
Qayamat Ki Raat
E-Town News
Planet Bollywood
B-Town Jazz
Filimistaan
Weekend Buzz
Dreams Unplugged
Filmi Style Check
Bollywood Buzz
Pushplay
Music Block
Bollywood Movies
Former programming
References
http://whatson.astro.com.my/channels/tara-hd/250/?cat=variety-entertainment&lang=multiple-language&stb=108
http://www.astroulagam.com.my/tags/9731/TARA-Hd
https://astrobyondinfo.weebly.com/home/tara-hd-to-be-launch-on-19-october-2016-replacing-zee-variasi
Television in Malaysia
Defunct television channels
HD-only channels
Television channels and stations established in 2016
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2019 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IET%20Software | IET Software is a peer-reviewed scientific journal on software engineering and related issues, published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in the United Kingdom.
The journal was previously published under the following titles:
Software & Microsystems (1982–1986, Online , Print )
Software Engineering Journal (1986–1996, Online , Print )
IEE Proceedings - Software (1997–2006. Online , Print )
The journal is listed on the online IEEE Xplore Digital Library. It is indexed by DBLP, EBSCO, Ei Compendex, IET Inspec, ProQuest, Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E), SCImago, and Scopus.
See also
IEEE Software magazine
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering journal
References
External links
IET Software home page
2007 establishments in the United Kingdom
Bimonthly journals
Computer science in the United Kingdom
Computer science journals
English-language journals
Institution of Engineering and Technology academic journals
Academic journals established in 2007
Software engineering publications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20and%20Software%20Technology | Information and Software Technology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal on software development and related issues, published by Elsevier. The journal was established in 1959 as Data Processing, obtaining its current title in 1987. The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 3.862.
References
External links
Academic journals established in 1959
Software engineering publications
English-language journals
Elsevier academic journals
10 times per year journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive%20computing | Positive computing is a technological design perspective that embraces psychological well-being and ethical practice, aiming at building a digital environment to support happier and healthier users. Positive computing develops approaches that integrate insights from psychology, education, neuroscience, and HCI with technological development.
The purpose of positive computing is to bridge the technology and mental health worlds.
Indeed, there are computer and mental health workshops that are aimed to bring people from both communities together.
Everyone who uses technology is impacted by the way the tool is designed and even if most technologies may have small effects, they still apply to huge populations.
Background
Well-being in psychology
Technology researchers typically focus primarily on technical aspects, paying less attention to the ethical impact and ethical considerations of their products.
However, researchers from other fields such as psychology and philosophy studied these matters extensively and provided a wealth of methodologies to assess users' well-being, with thousands of quality-of-life assessment methods and validating studies.
Positive computing draws many ideas from positive psychology, a domain of psychology that focuses on societal well-being and improving quality of life.
Well-being in technology and technology research
The recognition of the impact of technology and inventions on people's lives has moved technology professionals to rethink the technology tools we use and seek a realignment of companies' goals to the social good. Exemplary of this disposition is the famous Google's motto, "don't be evil."
Technologies can be loosely classified into four groups according to their influence on the psychological aspects:
Technologies that are not positive computing oriented: technologies in this category do not consider the psychological well-being of the user nor their influence on society and ethical values.
Technologies that hinder well-being integration: they present compromises and obstacles to the well-being of the users; obstacles that, from a positive computing perspective, are seen as errors. These technologies should undergo a process of redesign. For example, social network platforms may need to be redesigned to reduce negative behaviors and prevent conflict.
Technologies that provide active integration with positive computing principles: technologies in this group are designed to actively support components of well-being. Examples might be a word processor redesigned to support flow or a social media website designed to promote empathy.
Technology dedicated to positive computing: purposeful, dedicated to well-being. Examples: promote empathy, and increase mindfulness.
What is positive
In Calvo's and Peter's seminal book on positive computing, they list the following as positive aspects to which we should aim when designing technologies: positive emotions, motivation, engagement, flow, self-awareness, se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toi%20%28programming%20language%29 | Toi is an imperative, type-sensitive language that provides the basic functionality of a programming language. The language was designed and developed from the ground-up by Paul Longtine. Written in C, Toi was created with the intent to be an educational experience and serves as a learning tool (or toy, hence the name) for those looking to familiarize themselves with the inner-workings of a programming language.
Specification
Types
0 VOID - Null, no data
1 ADDR - Address type (bytecode)
2 TYPE - A `type` type
3 PLIST - Parameter list
4 FUNC - Function
5 OBJBLDR - Object builder
6 OBJECT - Object/Class
7 G_PTR - Generic pointer
8 G_INT - Generic integer
9 G_FLOAT - Generic double
10 G_CHAR - Generic character
11 G_STR - Generic string
12 S_ARRAY - Static array
13 D_ARRAY - Dynamic array
14 H_TABLE - Hashtable
15 G_FIFO - Stack
Runtime
Runtime context definition
The runtime context keeps track of an individual threads metadata, such as:
The operating stack
The operating stack where current running instructions push/pop to.
refer to STACK DEFINITION
Namespace instance
Data structure that holds the references to variable containers, also proving the interface for Namespace Levels.
refer to NAMESPACE DEFINITION
Argument stack
Arguments to function calls are pushed on to this stack, flushed on call.
refer to STACK DEFINITION, FUNCTION DEFINITION
Program counter
An interface around bytecode to keep track of traversing line-numbered instructions.
refer to PROGRAM COUNTER DEFINITION
This context gives definition to an 'environment' where code is executed.
Namespace definition
A key part to any operational computer language is the notion of a 'Namespace'.
This notion of a 'Namespace' refers to the ability to declare a name, along with
needed metadata, and call upon the same name to retrieve the values associated
with that name.
In this definition, the namespace will provide the following key mechanisms:
Declaring a name
Assigning a name to a value
Retrieving a name's value
Handle a name's scope
Implicitly move in/out of scopes
The scope argument is a single byte, where the format is as follows:
Namespace|Scope
0000000 |0
Scopes are handled by referencing to either the Global Scope or the Local Scope.
The Local Scope is denoted by '0' in the scope argument when referring to names,
and this scope is initialized when evaluating any new block of code. When a different block of code is called, a new scope is added as a new Namespace level. Namespace levels act as context switches within function contexts. For example, the local namespace must be 'returned to' if that local namespace context needs to be preserved on return. Pushing 'Namespace levels' ensures that for every n function calls, you can traverse n instances of previous namespaces. For example, take this namespace level graphic, where each Level is a namespace instance:
Level 0: Global namespace, LSB == '1'.
Level 1: Namesp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20use | First use may refer to:
First use of nuclear weapons
No first use (of nuclear weapons)
Trust on first use (computing)
First use of drugs in relation to the potential becoming addicted immediately
See also
First-time user experience
First strike (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computer-animated%20television%20series | This is a list of released animated television series made mainly with computer animation.
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Upcoming
See also
List of computer-animated films
References
Lists of animated television series
Computing-related lists
fr:T'es où, Chicky ? |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium%20on%20Principles%20of%20Self-Organization | The Symposium on Principles of Self-Organization was held at Allerton House on 8–9 June 1960. It was a key conference in the development of cybernetics and was in many ways a continuation of the Macy Conferences. it was organised by Heinz von Foerster through the Biological Computer Laboratory based at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It was sponsored by the Information Systems Branch of the U.S. Office of Naval Research.
Participants
There were 38 male participants:
Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois
This was the host organisation.
Murray Babcock
Heinz von Foerster
Alfred Inselberg
Lars Löfgren
Albert Mullin
Albert Novikoff
Paul Weston
George Zopf
Other participants from Illinois
John Bowman, Technological Institute, Northwestern University
Scott Cameron, Armour Research Foundation
Peter Greene, Committee on Mathematical Biology, University of Chicago
Friedrich Hayek, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
George Jacobi, Armour Research Foundation
John R. Platt, Department of Physics, University of Chicago
Stephen Sherwood, Illinois State Psychiatric Institute, Chicago
A Shimbel, Illinois State Psychiatric Institute, Chicago
Cambridge Massachusetts
Manuel Blum, W. S. McCulloch Room, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Jack Cowan, W. S. McCulloch Room, MIT
Jerome I. Elkind, Bolt, Beranek, Newman Inc.
Warren McCulloch, W. S. McCulloch Room, MIT
Leo Verbeek, W. S. McCulloch Room, MIT
Other participants
Saul Amarel, Radio Corporation of America
Ross Ashby,
Stafford Beer, United Steel Companies
Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Raymond Beurle, English Electric Valve Company
Hewitt Crane, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California
Joseph Hawkins
Hans Oestriecher
Gordon Pask
Anatol Rapaport
Charles Rosen
Frank Rosenblatt
Jack E. Steele
Roger Sperry
John Tooley
David Willis
Marshal Yovits
Two women participated, Kathy Forbes providing secretarial services and Cornelia Schaeffer of Athenium Publishers providing assistance in preparing the subsequent publication of the transactions of the symposium.
References
Cybernetics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Inselberg | Alfred Inselberg (22 October 1936, Athens, Greece – 30 December 2019, Tel Aviv, Israel) was an American-Israeli mathematician and computer scientist based at Tel Aviv University.
Inselberg started his career at the Biological Computer Laboratory based at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was part of a cybernetics group working on biomathematics developing mathematical models of the ear, neural networks, and computer models for vision and non-linear analysis, gaining a PhD in mathematics and physics. During this period he participated in the Symposium on Principles of Self-Organization. He is particularly noted for his work on parallel coordinates
(||-coords), which he proposed in 1959, for the visualization of multidimensional geometries (as in linear algebra) and multivariate problems.
Early life and education
Inselberg was born in Athens, Greece. Later he attended Whittingehame College in Brighton, England. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) receiving a B.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering. Together with Gary van Sant, and two other students under the guidance of Paul Torda, they founded the University of Illinois Rocket Society in 1953; four years prior to Sputnik. Continuing his studies at UIUC he obtained in 1965 a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Physics under the joint guidance of Ray Langebartel and Heinz von Foerster.
Career
Inselberg held senior research positions at IBM where he developed a mathematical model of the ear (cochlea) (Time November 1974) and later collision-avoidance algorithms for air traffic control (3 USA patents). Concurrently he had joint appointments at UCLA, USC, Technion and Ben Gurion University. Since 1995 he has been a professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences of Tel Aviv University. He was elected senior fellow at the San Diego Supercomputing Center in 1996. His textbook on "Parallel Coordinates: Visual Multidimensional Geometry", was published by Springer.
References
Cyberneticists
20th-century American mathematicians
American computer scientists
21st-century American mathematicians
People from Athens
1936 births
2019 deaths
Academic staff of Tel Aviv University
Grainger College of Engineering alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom%20TV%20%28Poland%29 | Zoom TV is a Polish television channel, launched on October 25, 2016.
Programming
On the programming schedule consists of programs prepared by the local cable televisions, associated in the Polish Chamber of Electronic Communication (PIKE), magazines created for the web portal Onet.pl, and also movies, TV series and documentaries.
Series
Weeds (Trawka)
Those Who Kill (Zabójcy)
Ezel
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Langstrumpf)
Magazines
Bliżej! Magazyn reporterów (More closely! Reporters magazine) - hosted by Elżbieta Grzeszczuk-Chętko (TV Toya) and Dariusz Milejczak (WTK)
Obywatel Kuźniar (Citizen Kuźniar) - talk-show, hosted by Jarosław Kuźniar (Onet.pl)
Subiektywny (Subjective) - current affairs program, hosted by Bartosz Węglarczyk (Onet.pl)
Na czasie (Trendy) - program about business and high-tech, hosted by Łukasz Grass (Onet.pl)
Documentary series/reality shows
Hoarders (Mania chomikowania)
My Crazy Ex (Kocha, lubi, prześladuje)
Best in Bridal (Bitwa na suknie ślubne)
Entertainment
Miło/ść (Lo/ve) - talk-show about marriages, hosted by Piotr Najsztub
Świat według Jachimka (The World According to Jachimek) - satirical program, hosted by Tomasz Jachimek (Onet.pl)
References
External links
Official Site
Television channels in Poland
Television channels and stations established in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox%20Character%20Code%20Standard | The Xerox Character Code Standard (XCCS) is a historical 16-bit character encoding that was created by Xerox in 1980 for the exchange of information between elements of the Xerox Network Systems Architecture. It encodes the characters required for languages using the Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek and Cyrillic scripts, the Chinese, Japanese and Korean writing systems, and technical symbols.
It can be viewed as an early precursor of, and inspiration for, the Unicode Standard.
The International Character Set (ICS) is compatible with XCCS.
The XCCS 2.0 (1990) revision covers Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Gothic, Armenian, Runic, Georgian, Greek, Cyrillic, Hiragana, Katakana, Bopomofo scripts, technical, and mathematical symbols.
Code charts
Character sets overview
Character set 0x00
Character set 0x21
Character set 0x22
Character set 0x23
Character set 0x24
Character set 0x25
Character set 0x26
Character set 0x27
Character set 0x28
Character set 0x30
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See also
Interscript
Lotus Multi-Byte Character Set (LMBCS)
References
Further reading
(100 pp.)
Character encoding
Character sets
Computer-related introductions in 1980
Character Code Standard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARY%20Film%20Award%20for%20International%20Icon%20of%20the%20Year | The ARY Film Award for International Icon of the Year is one of the ARY Film Awards of Honorary presented annually by the ARY Digital Network and Entertainment Channel to actors (Male or Female) working outside Pakistan.
Prestige
International Icon Award is considered to be one of the most honorable award. International Icons are Pakistani actors working in film industry other than Lollywood. They work outside Pakistan and give a massage to the whole word that Pakistanis can be a symbol of excellence anywhere in this world. Representing one's country in the outer word is also a way of expressing one's love for the country. In this way International Icon Award is a symbol of Patriotism. International icons work outside Pakistan to show their talent to them and make the world feel their need. As they have a lot of fans and respect outside Pakistan, they became inspiration for juniors in their field.
Selection System
International Icons have been awarded since 2014 when ARY Film Awards started. Being a prestigious award, International Icon Award has no nominee system. It is jury choice award.
Winners
International Icon Award was first awarded to Ali Zafar for his excellent achievement in Bollywood. At 2nd ARY Film Awards, Fawad Khan won this award for his excellence and achievement in India.
References
External links
ARY Film Awards Official website
ARY Film Award winners
ARY Film Awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JUMO | JUMO is a mobile financial services platform for mobile network operators and banks. The platform facilitates digital financial services such as credit and savings in emerging markets by way of USSD short codes.
History
The company was founded in 2015 by CEO Andrew Watkins-Ball and has received undisclosed funding from several digital financial services investors including LeapFrog Investments, Anthemis Group and Vostok Emerging Finance. JUMO started as a mobile financial services startup company under Ghana-based Afb, a finance business providing payroll loans to government and corporate workers and consumer loans to informal and market traders. After its potential to deliver digital financial services over mobile (primarily feature phones) became apparent, it was turned into a standalone business. Through September 2016, it had delivered more than 10 million loans to customers in 6 countries including Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia, Rwanda and Uganda.
The firm's customers are mostly unbanked merchants and individuals in emerging markets where the amount of active mobile money users is high. According to Watkins-Ball, "A $20 loan that can be accessed without collateral in the middle of the night in a rural village can mean the difference between getting a sick person to hospital and going without medical care." JUMO works with mobile network operators including Airtel, MTN Group and Tigo (Millicom) to make credit decisions for each loan application by drawing on non-traditional data points such as GSM records and mobile wallet transaction data. The platform leverages an unconventional digital credit model that does not require customers to have prior financial account ownership or a credit history. Loan decisions are automated and the digital credit application process happens over a mobile device with no need for in-person interactions.
In May 2017, the firm was selected for class 4 of Google's Launchpad Accelerator alongside 5 other African companies.
In July 2017, Amazon EC2 founder, Chris Pinkham, joined the board as an active independent director of the company.
References
External links
Financial services companies of South Africa
Financial services companies established in 2015
South African companies established in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring%204 | Ring 4 may refer to:
Places
Ring 4 (ring of Uranus)
Ring 4 Route, a super bikeways in metropolitan Copenhagen, Denmark
Ring 4 (), one of the motorways in Denmark
Other uses
Ring 4 (computer security), see protection ring
See also
The Ring Volume 0: Birthday, the fourth release volume in the Ring literary J-horror series
S (Suzuki novel), the fourth novel in the Ring literary J-horror series
Sadako 3D 1, the fourth film in the Ring cinematic J-horror series
Sadako 3D 2, the in-universe chronological fourth sequel to Ring in the cinematic J-horror series
Fourth planned The Ring film in the U.S. film series of The Ring (franchise)
Fourth Ring Society, at the New York City Ballet
Fourth Ring Road (disambiguation)
Ring (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playment | Playment is an Indian data labeling platform which helps machine learning engineers build high quality ground truth datasets for training and validating machine learning models. It breaks down large problems into micro-tasks and distributes among its large community of trained annotators. It works on the principle of microwork, where a series of small tasks which together comprise a large unified project, and are completed by many people over the Internet.
Annotators can browse through existing tasks and complete them in exchange for points, the points can be further exchanged for vouchers on online e-commerce sites such as Flipkart, Amazon(India) and Paytm.
History
Playment was founded in August 2015 by Siddharth Mall, Ajinkya Malasane, and Akshay Lal, alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology Kharagapur, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati and Indian Institute of Technology Kharagapur respectively. They worked at Flipkart.com as Senior Business Analysts, and left to create their new company Playment. On July 2, 2016, Playment run by Crowdflux Technology Pvt Ltd raised $700k Seed capital in funding from SAIF Partners
Playment was acquired by TELUS International in July 2021.
Services
Training Data for Machine Learning, Image annotation & Data labeling for Computer Vision, and more.
See also
Amazon Mechanical Turk
CrowdFlower
References
Further reading
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/venture-capital/SAIF-Partners-invests-Rs-4-7-Cr-in-Playment/articleshow/53022130.cms
https://inc42.com/flash-feed/playment-funding/
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/saif-partners-invests-rs-4-7-cr-in-playment-116070200582_1.html
https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/13/playment-gives-companies-on-demand-workers-to-analyze-data-using-mobile-devices/
External links
Crowdsourcing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriti%20Sharma | Kriti Sharma (born April 1988) is an artificial intelligence technologist, business executive and humanitarian. As of 2018, she is the vice president of artificial intelligence and ethics at UK software company Sage Group. Sharma is the founder of AI for Good UK, which works to make artificial intelligence tools more ethical and equitable. Sharma has been named to Forbes magazine's 30 Under 30 Europe: Technology list, and appointed as a United Nations Young Leader. In 2018, she was appointed as an advisor to the UK's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Sharma's initiatives include Pegg, an accounting chatbot, and rAInbow, a platform to support survivors of domestic violence. She has called for a philosophy of "embracing botness", arguing that artificial intelligence should prioritize utility over human resemblance.
Early life
Sharma was born in 1988 in Rajasthan, India. She and her two siblings were brought up in Jaipur. She lives in London.
Education
She holds a Bachelors in Engineering (2010) and a Masters in Advanced Computer Science from University of St Andrews (2011). At the age of 21, Sharma was elected as a Rajiv Gandhi Science Fellow for her work in energy optimisation and its applications in astrophysics, material science, polymer and bioinformatics research. In 2010, Google awarded her the Google India Women in Engineering Award for excellence in computer science and demonstrated leadership in promoting diversity. She was awarded a Systers Pass It On award by Anita Borg Institute for her work in educational outreach for girls in Rajasthan.
Career
Barclays
In September 2011, Sharma joined Barclays, where she initially developed e-commerce platforms such as the Pingit mobile payments app. Pingit won the App Store Best of 2012 award. She was later appointed the Head of Big Data and Advanced Analytics at Barclays Africa, where she led a team of data scientists and created real-time analytics products. Her group focused on using machine learning to make user engagement with financial services intelligent and personalised. During this time, she also mentored several fintech and healthcare startups in Africa.
The Sage Group
In February 2016, Sharma joined the UK technology firm Sage, where she led mobile products for more than 6 million businesses globally. In July 2016, Sharma and Stephen Kelly, chief executive officer of Sage, launched Pegg, the world’s first personal artificial intelligence for business finance. Within six weeks of launch, Pegg was being used by people in 85 countries.
In an effort to overturn gender stereotypes, Sharma and the Sage team chose to make Pegg gender-neutral. In a 2018 interview, Sharma described how voice assistants such as Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa had been "given obedient, servile, female personalities," and expressed fear that children would become accustomed to "bark[ing] orders at a female voice assistant".
Sharma also announced a partnership between Sage and Slack to cre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference%20Signal%20Received%20Power | Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) is a measure of the received power level in an LTE cell network. The average power is a measure of the power received from a single reference signal.
See also
Received signal strength indication
Signal strength in telecommunications
References
Mobile technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20rankings%20of%20Haiti | International rankings of Haiti include economic, health, and political data.
Economy
World Bank 2015 Nominal GDP ranked 141 out of 194 economies
Politics
Transparency International 2015 Corruption Perception Index ranked 158/168 countries (lowest ranking in the Caribbean)
The Heritage Foundation's 2016 Index of Economic Freedom ranked Haiti 150th among nations in its economic freedom.
Society
United Nations Development Programme 2015 Human Development Index: ranked 163 out of 188
University of Leicester 2006 Satisfaction with Life Index 118 out of 178
See also
Lists of countries
Lists by country
List of international rankings
References
International rankings
Haiti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20Studio | The Surface Studio is an all-in-one PC, designed and produced by Microsoft as part of its Surface series of Windows-based personal computing devices. It was announced at the Windows 10 Devices Event on October 26, 2016, with pre-orders beginning that day.
The first desktop computer to be manufactured entirely by Microsoft, the Surface Studio uses the Windows 10 operating system with the Anniversary Update preinstalled. However, it is optimized for the Windows 10 Creators Update, which was released on April 11, 2017. The product, starting at $2,999, is aimed primarily at people in creative professions such as graphic artists and designers.
Two years later, in October 2018, Microsoft announced its successor, the Surface Studio 2.
Features
Hardware
The Surface Studio has a 28-inch 4.5K "PixelSense" display with 4500 x 3000 pixels, equivalent to 192 dpi. The screen, the thinnest ever built for an all-in-one PC at 12.5 millimetres thick, is capable of being used in both the DCI-P3 and sRGB color spaces, and features a unique hinge design that allows it be tilted to a flat position, in a manner similar to the Wacom Cintiq. The bezel of the display contains a 5.0 megapixel camera and a Windows Hello-compatible backlit infrared camera.
The CPU is located in the base. Its compact design contains a 6th generation (codename "Skylake") Intel Core i5 or Core i7 processor and either a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M or GeForce GTX 980M graphics processor (both dependent on configuration). The system can be configured with up to 32 GB of DDR4 RAM and a 2 terabyte hard drive. It also features four USB 3.0 ports, a Mini DisplayPort, an SDXC card reader and a headset connection.
Unlike many desktop PCs, the Surface Studio supports Microsoft's Modern Standby (formerly known as InstantGo) specification, enabling background tasks to operate while the computer is sleeping. A firmware update was released in April 2017 that enabled Cortana to be summoned via a "Hey, Cortana" voice command from sleep, provided the Studio is running the Creators Update.
Accessories
Microsoft specially designed its Surface Mouse and Surface Keyboard to work with the Surface Studio. It is also compatible with the Surface Pen and a newly created accessory, the Surface Dial. The latter consists of a round disk that can be placed on the display and rotated to perform various actions, such as scrolling, zooming, adjusting the volume, among others, with precision. Developers can utilize its APIs to integrate its functionality into their own products.
Reception
The Surface Studio received generally positive reviews from technology critics. Many praised the large high resolution display, with Tom Warren of The Verge calling it "truly one of the best desktop monitors I’ve ever used". There was also praise for the design and build quality. Criticisms included the high entry price of the device, the all rear-facing I/O ports and the use of last generation Intel CPUs and Nvidia GPUs.
Timeline
Refere |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20risk%20quantification | Cyber risk quantification involves the application of risk quantification techniques to an organization's cybersecurity risk. Cyber risk quantification is the process of evaluating the cyber risks that have been identified and then validating, measuring and analyzing the available cyber data using mathematical modeling techniques to accurately represent the organization's cybersecurity environment in a manner that can be used to make informed cybersecurity infrastructure investment and risk transfer decisions. Cyber risk quantification is a supporting activity to cybersecurity risk management; cybersecurity risk management is a component of enterprise risk management and is especially important in organizations and enterprises that are highly dependent upon their information technology (IT) networks and systems for their business operations.
One method of quantifying cyber risk is the value-at-risk (VaR) method that is discussed at the January 2015 World Economic Forum meeting. At this meeting, VaR was studied and researched and deemed to be a viable method of quantifying cyber risk.
Practical Implementations
Cyber risk quantification has been used in a variety of practical applications, including:
Cyber insurance
Cyber Security Return on Investment
Software Mitigation Costs
Cybersecurity risk assessments
Mathematical definition
The mathematical definition of Cyber-Risk is as follows:
Cyber-Risk = 1 - Cyber-Confidence
'Cyber-Confidence' is / are the actual executed tests which have passed. This value can be converted to a statistical probability & the associated Cyber-Risk calculated:
Example-1: 'A certain number' of tests have been executed & passed. Let's imagine that it yields a Defect-Free Confidence of 97.43%. Answer: Cyber-Risk = 2.57%.
Example-2: All 65,536 TCP ports & 65,536 UDP ports are confirmed to be dead or inactive on an asset; how resistant to penetration is it ? Answer: Cyber-Confidence = 99.83%, Cyber-Risk = 0.17%
Typically, this form of Cyber-Confidence &/or Cyber-Risk estimation is termed Testimation because:
It can be applied to estimate the number of tests required for any desired level of Cyber-Confidence
It can be applied to estimate the Cyber-Confidence (& Cyber-Risk) based upon the number of tests which have actually been executed & passed
See also
Center for Internet Security
Gordon–Loeb model
ISO/IEC 27001
ISO/IEC 27002
NIST Cybersecurity Framework
Factor Analysis of Information Risk
References
External links
World Economic Forum: Partnering for Cyber Resilience - Towards the Quantification of Cyber Threats
Risk management
Computer security
Risk analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Hi%20Hi%20Puffy%20AmiYumi%20characters | This is a list of characters from the American animated television series, Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, which was created by Sam Register, and which originally aired on Cartoon Network from November 19, 2004, to June 27, 2006.
Main
Ami Onuki (voiced by Janice Kawaye) is the drummer, depicted as the optimistic and cheerful girly girl of the group. At 16, she is often depicted as the more mature one of the group, being able to look at the bright side and finding a solution – but it is not always the case, as she sometimes can get ditzy or even protective over her own public image, as seen in "Ami's Secret" – she becomes extremely conscious in "Stop The Presses". Ami has long, cerise hair, matching eyes and wears an orange, yellow and bubblegum pink patterned go-go dress that has a white collar with two points, a white belt with a circular buckle in the center, and also carries a flower hairclip in her hair on every occasion, a silver-and-emerald bracelet on her right wrist and an orange beaded bracelet on her left wrist, and white knee-high go-go boots which matches her dress with the zipper lying where her feet is located. Her hair is styled into odango buns, which both appear no matter which way she's facing. Ami gets away with things for her own needs, like greed over cute collectibles (in "Collect All 5"), taking things without permission much to Yumi's chagrin (in "Home Insecurity"), and have a cell phone addiction in "Number, Please". In spite of this, she has some upsides – she can drive the group's tour bus, which becomes part of the conflict in the episode "Driving School". While she can make a huge mess, she also can clean those up like a tornado – the episode "Neat Freak" focuses on this aspect. She also can communicate to bees and skillfully play the drums with her bare toes (as seen in "Ami Goes Bad" and "Mean Machine"). A recurring gag is that Ami seemingly has lots of strength; she can crush a handheld console in "The Legend of Mei Pie" and throw things far off and away in "Gridiron Maidens". In the episode "In Harmony's Way", Ami has a diary which she is extremely protective over. It is revealed she writes extremely mundane things in said diary (e.g. liking pastrami), much to Harmony's underwhelmed surprise. In the episode "Granny", Ami has an unnamed grandma who comes to visit the group's tour bus.
Yumi Yoshimura (voiced by Grey DeLisle) is the guitarist, depicted as the sarcastic and grumpy tomboy of the group. At 14, Yumi is more impetuous than Ami, and often rushes into a situation without thinking. Despite this, Yumi may play more of the straight man whenever Ami would act childish. She has short, blue hair with bangs swept onto her left eye, sky blue eyes, black spiked necklace and bracelets, black boots with indigo laces and stripes, and a lavender T-shirt with a skull print. The skull seems to be completely sentient, and usually changes its expression to reflect Yumi's mood. Yumi is usually fond of all things typically "rough and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tore%20Dyb%C3%A5 | Tore Dybå (born 31 July 1961) is a Norwegian scientist and software engineer in the fields of information systems and computer science. He has been a Chief Scientist at SINTEF ICT since 2003.
Career
Dybå received his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1987. In 2001 he received his Doctoral degree (PhD) in Computer and Information Science from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
He worked as a software engineer and consultant in Norway and Saudi Arabia from 1987 until 1994 when he moved to SINTEF. Dybå had an adjunct position at the Simula Research Laboratory from 2002 to 2009, and from 2010 until 2015 he was a Professor of Software Engineering at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo.
Research
Dybå's research is related to organizational and socio-technical aspects of software development and how software development can be improved. He has been particularly concerned with combining rigorous research with topics of importance to the software industry, including software process improvement, agile software development and management, and empirical methods for software engineering.
Awards
For the period 2001–2012, the Journal of Systems and Software ranked Dybå as the top scholar worldwide in agile software development. The ranking named Dybå as the most active researchers by total articles in the period as well as the most cited researcher by total number of citations and adjusted citations.
In 2014 Dybå, together with Kitchenham and Jørgensen, received the Association for Computing Machinery's ACM SIGSOFT award for the most influential paper in the last ten years for the initial paper on evidence-based software engineering.
Dybå et al.’s article on evidence-based software engineering for practitioners was chosen by the editorial and advisory boards of IEEE Software as one of the magazine's 25th anniversary top picks of recommended reading.
Selected works
T. Dybå, T. Dingsøyr and N.B. Moe. Agile Project Management, in G. Ruhe and C. Wohlin (Eds.) Software Project Management in a Changing World, Berlin: Springer Verlag, pp. 277–300, 2014.
T. Dybå and T. Dingsøyr. Empirical Studies of Agile Software Development: A Systematic Review, Information and Software Technology, 50(9-10): 833–859, 2008.
D. I. K. Sjøberg, T. Dybå and M. Jørgensen. The Future of Empirical Methods in Software Engineering Research, Future of Software Engineering (FOSE 2007), IEEE-CS Press, pp. 358–378, 2007.
E. Arisholm, H.E. Gallis, T. Dybå and D.I.K. Sjøberg. Evaluating Pair Programming with Respect to System Complexity and Programmer Expertise, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 33(2):65-86, 2007.
T. Dybå. An Empirical Investigation of the Key Factors for Success in Software Process Improvement, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 31(5): 410–424, 2005.
T. Dybå, B. Kitchenham and M. Jørgensen. Evidence-based Software Engineering for Practi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terre%20Blair | Terre Blair is a journalist and producer, having worked for television networks ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS. She was married to composer Marvin Hamlisch from 1989 until his death in 2012. She is most notable for her work and creative direction as the on-air host, interviewer, and producer of the television series "Big Problems Big Thinkers", which is broadcast on Bloomberg TV.
Education and career
Blair is from Columbus, Ohio,
and a graduate of Otterbein College. She also attended Ohio State University as a post-graduate. As a young woman, Blair competed in beauty contests, and earned national recognition as Miss Columbus USA.
Blair is a former correspondent and producer for The TODAY Show and PM Magazine, as well as ABC Wide World of Sports, and Monday Night Football The New York Times headlined her as a female reporter who "breaks a pattern."
She was an on-air host, interviewer, producer and creative director of the television series, “Big Problems Big Thinkers” which was broadcast on Bloomberg TV. It was "the first television show to premiere a full episode on a Times Square billboard using closed captioning at the same time the live TV show is airing."
References
1956 births
Living people
Mass media people from Columbus, Ohio
American television news anchors
Otterbein University alumni
Journalists from Ohio
American women television journalists
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsune%20Kon | Kitsune Kon is an annual three-day anime convention held during July at the KI Convention Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Programming
The convention typically offers arcade gaming, artists’ alley, a boffer (foam weapons) room, costume contest, dealers’ hall, formal dance, and gaming (console, table top, video). Its formal dance benefited the American Association for Cancer prevention in 2016.
History
Kitsune Kon moved to the KI Convention Center due to growth. Complaints about the 2017 convention included a lack of food options, shortage of staff, and issues with the local Green Bay population. Kitsune Kon 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Kitsune Kon 2021 was also cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Event history
References
External links
Kitsune Kon Website
Anime conventions in the United States
Recurring events established in 2011
2011 establishments in Wisconsin
Annual events in Wisconsin
Wisconsin culture
Festivals in Wisconsin
Tourist attractions in Brown County, Wisconsin
Culture of Green Bay, Wisconsin
Conventions in Wisconsin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mommy%20Dearest%20%28Grimm%29 | "Mommy Dearest" is the 14th episode of season 3 of the supernatural drama television series Grimm and the 58th episode overall, which premiered on March 7, 2014, on the broadcast network NBC. The episode was written by Brenna Kouf, and was directed by Norberto Barba.
Plot
Opening quote: "I am going off to a house and entering it like a snake... I will devour their babes and make their hearts ache."
Meisner (Damien Puckler) aids Adalind (Claire Coffee) in giving birth to the baby, and also restoring Adalind's powers as a Hexenbiest. Back in Portland, a creature follows a pregnant woman, Dana Tomas (Tess Paras), to her room and uses his extremely large tongue to poke into her belly button. Dana awakes and attempts to cut the creature's tongue before it flees and she falls back unconscious.
Wu (Reggie Lee) and Sgt. Franco (Robert Blanche) are called to the scene to investigate, whom Wu recognizes as friends that moved to Portland from the Philippines under his recommendation, so now feels guilty. Nick (David Giuntoli) and Hank (Russell Hornsby) are also called and while trying to regain consciousness, Dana whispers "Aswang". Dana's husband, Sam (Alain Uy) calls his brother in Manila to inform and question about the events. Then, he too woges into a creature similar to that which attacked his wife Dana before.
Meisner calls Renard (Sasha Roiz) for help after aiding Adalind, informing him that he has a baby daughter and making sure that they will leave Austria safely. Wu begins to reminisce about an old story he heard as a boy about a mythical creature - an "Aswang" - a monster from the Philippines that stalks pregnant woman and then eats their children. Large quantities of Valerian root is inexplicably found in Dana's system, who has recovered enough to leave the hospital to go home. Sam knows that his mother could be involved in the attack and confronts her in her hotel room. Lani (Freda Foh Shen) explains that if she doesn't kill the baby, she will die, but Sam does not listen and brushes her off, angering her. She insists it's Aswang tradition that first born grandsons are always sacrificed to extend the life of elderly grandmothers, and as her son he owes her; then pleads with him that she doesn't want to die. Still, he refuses and hands her a ticket back to Manila, stating that death is a natural progression of life, she must just accept it!
Nick, Hank, Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell) and Rosalee (Bree Turner) find that the Aswang use their tongue to transmit the tranquilizing effects of the valerian root and siphon off the amniotic fluid - both of which can kill a foetus; but that only those with a familiar tie to the victim can successfully insert their tongue into the belly. They consider telling Wu the truth about the Wesen world but decide that he isn’t ready to learn it.
That night, Lani breaks into the house, knocks Sam unconscious and goes after Dana, pretending to be there as a caregiver. Wu, standing guard outside, is surprised to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender%20disparity%20in%20computing | Gender disparity in computing concerns the disparity between the number of men in the field of computing in relation to the lack of women in the field. Originally, computing was seen as a female occupation. As the field evolved, so too did the demographics, and the gender gap shifted from female dominated to male dominated. The believed need for more diversity and an equal gender gap has led to public policy debates regarding gender equality. Many organizations have sought to create initiatives to bring more women into the field of computing.
Background
In the early days of computers and computing, managers readily hired women as programming was seen as a low-skill clerical occupation, similar to telephone operators and typists. They often worked as "human computers," making complicated calculations and working in large groups, such as the Harvard Computers. They also worked on ballistic calculations and cryptography. However, since 1843 women have been making contributions to computer science when Charles Babbage hired Ada Lovelace as an assistant, despite her having no formal training in computer science, when she was just 19 years old. Lovelace went on to write one of history's earliest computer programs that aided Babbage in the design of the Analytical Engine, a machine capable of running programs automatically. Lovelace's work with Babbage positioned her as a significant pioneer in the field of cybersecurity. Kevin Kelly, the co-founder of Wired magazine, once stated that Lovelace played a major role in the invention of computer science, and there are more lines of code written in languages that she created than in C++, Java, JavaScript, or Python combined. Joan Clarke was also one such woman who made immense contributions to computing during World War II. She was a British mathematician and codebreaker who worked at Bletchley Park on breaking codes generated by Enigma machines, eventually developing Alan Turing's bombe technology to aid in deciphering complex Nazi messages. Despite her significant contributions to cybersecurity, Clarke's accomplishments were largely ignored until recently. She passed away in 1986 but in 2013, was posthumously awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) for her work as a cryptanalyst. In 1946, the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical engineering and the United States Army Ballistics Research Laboratory began to research the trajectories of projectiles. However, there were only two hundred women involved in this research. Additionally, due to the lack of labor resources during the Second World War, women were actively recruited into computing jobs. The early programmers on machines such as ENIAC were mostly women., an example being the six women who designed the public demonstrations and prepared ENIAC for its public debut.
Computer science was the fastest-growing college major and STEM discipline amongst women from the 1970s until the 1980s. According to the National Science Foundati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThetaRay | ThetaRay is a fintech software and big data analytics company with headquarters in Hod HaSharon, Israel and New York, and offices in Madrid, London, and Singapore.
The company provides AI-powered SaaS and on-premises anti-money-laundering (AML) transaction monitoring and sanctions screening software for banks, fintechs, and government Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs).
The platform is also used to uncover unknown opportunities based on big data. The company utilizes patented mathematical algorithms developed by the company founders.
History
ThetaRay was founded in 2013 by Amir Averbuch and Ronald Coifman. Averbuch is a professor of computer science at Tel Aviv University with a main research focus on big data processing and analysis. Coifman is a professor of mathematics at Yale University and recipient of the 1999 National Medal of Science. His main research focus is on efficient computation and numerical analysis. Mark Gazit, an international security expert and serial startup entrepreneur, is co-founder and CEO of ThetaRay.
In June 2013, ThetaRay raised its seed funding from Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) as part of their cybersecurity portfolio. Two months later, General Electric (GE) joined JVP as an investor and ThetaRay launched its Advanced Analytics Platform for big data. It was followed by operational risk solutions for financial organizations in April 2015. In July 2015, ThetaRay opened an office in New York, and two months later launched its Credit Risk Detection Model for online lending. In December 2015, ThetaRay and PricewaterhouseCoopers signed a Joint Business Relations agreement. ThetaRay has customers such as ING Group that purchased ThetaRay’s Advanced Analytics solution for fraud detection. ThetaRay opened an office in Singapore in July 2016.
Starting in 2017, ThetaRay pivoted to focus and tailor its platform for the needs of financial institutions that were showing interest in the value of its AI technology for anti-fraud and anti-money laundering monitoring operations and its low false positive rates.
Version 4.0 of ThetaRay’s flagship product, released in July 2019, included major capability upgrades to help global banks detect and prevent financial crime[NG1] based on its powerful AI, replicating the powerful decision-making capabilities of human intuition to detect "unknown unknowns" that cannot be identified by first-generation AI or legacy products.
In late 2019, Banco Santander began implementing ThetaRay’s solution to detect money laundering in cross-border payments, signing an agreement in June 2020 to operate the AML system in its branches.
In April 2021, ThetaRay launched SONAR, a cloud-native SaaS version of its AML solution for transaction monitoring.
In May 2021, ThetaRay raised $31 million in a Series C round, bringing to some $100 million the total investment in the company, by the following key investors: Jerusalem Venture Partners, OurCrowd, Saints Ventures, Benhamou Global Ventures, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20digital%20albums%20of%202013%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Albums Chart ranks the best-performing albums and extended plays (EPs) in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on the weekly digital sales of albums and EPs.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2013 in music
ARIA Charts
List of number-one singles of 2013 (Australia)
References
Digital 2013
Australia albums
Number-one albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint%203D | Paint 3D is a raster graphics and 3D computer graphics application which is a refresh of Microsoft Paint. It is one of several 3D modeling and printing applications (formatted under 3MF) introduced or improved with the Windows 10 Creators Update, including View 3D, Windows Mixed Reality, Holograms, along with the CAD programs 3D Builder and 2D Builder.
Developed by Microsoft's Lift London studio, Paint 3D incorporates features of the Microsoft Paint and 3D Builder applications to combine a lightweight hybrid 2D-3D editing experience that allows users to pull in a variety of shapes from the app, their personal computer, and Microsoft's OneDrive service.
History
In May 2016, a leaked Universal Windows Platform version of Microsoft Paint was revealed with a new hybrid ribbon-sidebar interface and some support for 3D objects. Microsoft rolled out a dummy app called Newcastle through the Windows Store to replace installations of the leaked build.
In October 2016, a user on Twitter leaked out official tutorial videos of an upcoming version of Paint for Windows 10. The video showcases new features such as a completely redone interface with pen input in mind, as well as the ability to create and modify basic 3D models.
The Universal Windows Platform version was officially announced and released during a Surface event on October 26, 2016 as part of the keynote presentation on the Windows 10 Creators Update. The app was made available for Windows 10 users with a build number of 14800 or higher and coexists with the previous version of Paint as of build 14955. Microsoft revealed a community website for sharing Paint drawings, with a focus on the new 3D formats. In addition to the 3D format, this version introduced the ability to save transparent pixels in 2D drawings, clip art stickers, background removal, the ability to download and import community drawings from within the app, UWP sharing contracts silhouette ribbon icons, new flat sidebar icons a blue-purple in-app theme, the ability to change the backdrop, and informational videos. One of the videos establishes unambiguously that Paint 3D is the evolution of Microsoft Paint, showing older versions of Paint from Windows editions 1, 3.1, Vista, and 10.
Paint 3D was briefly made a replacement to Microsoft Paint, in Windows builds 14971 and 14986. However, due to complaints about the new interface and features missing in Paint 3D, the Windows team decided to allow the two apps to coexist.
Over the course of development the stickers subsections were rearranged, new stickers were added, additional classic 2D shapes were added, an option was added to disable the welcome screen, the scrollbars were improved, the ability to resize the canvas with a mouse was added, and stickers were enabled to stick automatically if the user switched to a different activity without clicking the stamp button.
Windows Insider chief Dona Sarkar confirmed that a Windows 10 Mobile version of Paint 3D has entered the alpha s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shut%20Up%20Kitty%3A%20A%20Cyber-Based%20Covers%20Compilation | Shut Up Kitty: A Cyber-Based Covers Compilation is a various artists compilation album released on November 5, 1993, by Re-Constriction Records.
Reception
Aiding & Abetting gave Shut Up Kitty: A Cyber-Based Covers Compilation a somewhat positive review, saying "a lot of this is pretty cool, especially when songs are just completely deconstructed" while criticizing some lackluster material.
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from the Shut Up Kitty: A Cyber-Based Covers Compilation liner notes.
Chase – compiling, design
Jim Woodring – cover art
Release history
References
External links
Shut Up Kitty: A Cyber-Based Covers Compilation at Discogs (list of releases)
1993 compilation albums
Alternative rock compilation albums
Industrial metal compilation albums
Industrial rock compilation albums
Re-Constriction Records compilation albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Institute%20of%20Meteorology | The National Institute of Meteorology () is the national meteorological organization of Brazil, responsible for weather forecasting, collecting climate data, and alerting the public of extreme weather. It is part of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply.
Employing 99 people and with an annual budget of about 16 million USD, it is a member of the World Meteorological Organization. Its director as of April 2021 is Miguel Ivan Lacerda de Oliveira.
INMET traces its origins to a 1909 decree by then president of Brazil Nilo Peçanha, establishing the Directorate of Meteorology and Astronomy ().
References
External links
INMET homepage
ALERT-AS, Brazil's severe weather warning system
Scientific organisations based in Brazil
Governmental meteorological agencies in South America
Government agencies of Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once%20We%20Were%20Gods | "Once We Were Gods" is the 15th episode of season 3 of the supernatural drama television series Grimm and the 59th episode overall, which premiered on March 14, 2014, on the broadcast network NBC. The episode was written by Alan DiFiore, and was directed by Steven DePaul.
Plot
Opening quote: "You shall not become corrupt, you shall not become putrid, you shall not become worms."
In Portland University, workmen are knocking down walls and find a secret room in one of them. In the room, they find an old Egyptian crate and they call Vera Gates (Anne Dudek), a professor, to study it. They open the crate to find the sarcophagus of Anubis, the God of mummification and afterlife. Meanwhile, Wu (Reggie Lee) continues to be haunted after his encounter with the Aswang.
Karl Herman (Richard Lee Jackson) and Bob Taylor (Rafael Miguel) learn of the sarcophagus and that night, sneak into the university to steal it. However, they are found by university security guards; Herman manages to kill one of them but Bob dies of his wounds. Nick (David Giuntoli) and Hank (Russell Hornsby) are later called to investigate the murder, finding symbols spray-painted on the wall, reading "I protect the dead".
Back in Austria, Sebastien (Christian Lagadec) is brought before prince Viktor (Alexis Denisof), who asks for the names of the people who helped Adalind (Claire Coffee) escape. Meisner (Damien Puckler) finds a baby in the woods and brings it back to the cabin but finds Adalind with the baby and that what he brought were just logs. Nick and Hank find that Herman is wanted for multiple crimes and is known for sneaking into the museums, as he is not in favor of them keeping the dead. They go to Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell) and Rosalee (Bree Turner) to seek help, deducing that Herman is a Wesen that works for the Beati Paoli, a Wesen group that wants to preserve their culture.
Monroe wants to inform the Wesen Council about it but Rosalee is certain that they already know. Nick, Hank and Juliette (Bitsie Tulloch) find a reel film in the trailer showing a Grimm interrogating an Anubis Wesen. They deduce that Herman is an Anubis and wants to steal the mummy from the university. Nick and Hank warn Gates but she doesn't listen. Nick goes to Monroe's house and finds Alexander (Spencer Conway) there. Alexander explains that while the Council has no problems with the Beati Paoli, the members want Herman dead after murdering the security guard and want Nick to kill him as he is a Grimm. Nick refuses although Alexander warns that Herman could go after Gates at any moment.
Sebastien is tortured in a variety of methods and finally tells them where he left Adalind and Meisner, resulting in the Verrat agents setting off to find them in the woods. Renard (Sasha Roiz) calls Meisner and voices his concern that Sebastien hasn't been contacted and makes arrangements for them to leave the country. The Verrat agents find the cabin while Adalind, Meisner and the baby are escaping. Herma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surkov%20leaks | In October 2016, Ukrainian hacker group CyberHunta leaked over a gigabyte of emails and other documents alleged to belong to Russian political operative and senior Kremlin official Vladislav Surkov. Known as Russia's "grey cardinal", Surkov served as a political adviser to President Vladimir Putin in the conflict in eastern Ukraine and is the architect of Russia's ideology of sovereign democracy.
The document leak included over 2,300 emails from Surkov's inbox. The emails illustrate Russian plans to politically upset Ukraine and the coordination of affairs with major opposition leaders in separatist east Ukraine. The release included a document sent to Surkov by Denis Pushilin, former Chairman of the People's Council of the Donetsk People's Republic, listing casualties that occurred during 2014. It also included a 22-page outline of "a plan to support nationalist and separatist politicians and to encourage early parliamentary elections in Ukraine, all with the aim of undermining the government in [Kyiv]."
The Kremlin has said that the leaked documents are fake.
Authenticity
Washington think tank Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab conducted an analysis of the emails. They determined that they were genuine, based partially on the routing information. Independent website Bellingcat also determined the authenticity of the emails.
Russian entrepreneur Yevgeny Chichvarkin confirmed that his emails from the document dump were authentic, saying "Yes, this is my original text." Russian journalist Svetlana Babaeva also verified that her three emails from the leak were genuine.
Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov suggested that the emails did not belong to Surkov, saying that he "does not use email." Oleksandr Tkachuk of Security Service of Ukraine stated that they had managed to "authenticate a number of documents in the release" but could not confirm the authenticity of the entire batch of documents.
Publication
The leaked correspondence was obtained by alliance of hacktivists calling themselves the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance. They secured the release of thousands of emails and documents in a 1GB Microsoft Outlook data file. Which were then analyzed by a second group, Inform Napalm, an open-source journalistic investigative group, and finally published online in three batches.
The first two batches, known as 'the Surkov Leaks' were published on the internet on 25 October and 3 November 2016, included correspondence from Surkov's office email account. The third batch was published on 2 November 2017, these contained correspondence from Surkov's first deputy, Inal Ardzinba and Kharkiv Communist Party leader Alla Aleksandrovska. The material made available was from September 2013 to November 2014, when Russia was pursuing its 'Novorossiya' project. Inform Napalm reported that the hackers also were in possession of documents from 2015 and 2016 that were being analysed by intelligence agencies and were not released due to their operationa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%20657 | National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 657 is a loop of the White Rose cycle route, NCN 65. It branches off the main route to connect the town of Thirsk to the National Cycle Network. Prior to 2009 the route had been signed as part of NCN 65.
The combination of NCN 657 and a section of NCN 65 creates a circular route from Thirsk to Kirkby Knowle to Coxwold to Easingwold and returning to Thirsk.
Route
The southern end of 657 is in Easingwold. It branches off NCN 65 on the outskirts of the town in the direction of York. It takes an indirect route via quiet roads in the Vale of York to Thirsk.
The path north out of Thirsk contains the routes only traffic free section, a dual use pavement alongside the A61. The northern section of NCN 657 from Thirsk to Upsall is made up of quiet country lanes though rolling countryside. The northern end of NCN 657 is in the village of Upsall. Here the route joins NCN 71, 8 miles south of Northallerton. The main route of the White Rose Cycle Route, NCN 65 is a mile (1.5 km) east of the end of NCN 657 along NCN 71 at Kirby Knowle.
Thirsk railway station is approximately 1 mile from the route.
History
The route was created as part of the White Rose cycle route. It was signed as a branch of Route 65. The White Roses cycle route is no longer promoted and the signs have been updated by the addition of route 657 stickers.
Related NCN routes
Route 65
Route 71
Route 656
References
External links
Sustrans. Route 657.
Cycleways in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%20D | Model D may refer to:
AJS Model D, a motorcycle
Cadillac Model D, a car
Curtiss Model D, an early pusher aircraft
Gee Bee Model D, a sports aircraft
Leading Edge Model D, a personal computer
MAB Model D pistol
Minimoog Model D, a synthesizer
Wright Model D, an observation aircraft
See also
Class D (disambiguation)
Type D (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanohole | Nanoholes are a class of nanostructured material consisting of nanoscale voids in a surface of a material. Not to be confused with nanofoam or nanoporous materials which support a network of voids permeating throughout the material (often in a disordered state), nanohole materials feature a regular hole pattern extending through a single surface. These can be thought of as the inverse of a nanopillar or nanowire structure.
Uses
Nanohole structures have been used for a variety of applications, ranging from superlenses produced from a metal nanohole array, to structured photovoltaic devices used to improve carrier extraction, and light absorption.
Nanohole structures are also extensively utilized for the creation of photonic crystals, particularly for creating photonic crystal waveguides.
See also
Nanoporous material
Nanopore
Nanostructures
References
Nanotechnology
Photonics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiboli | Maiboli is a Marathi language free to air music channel. owned by Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network Ltd.
Music Shows
Dhingaana
Coffee Ani Baarich Gaani
Bhau Mast Vajtay
Dumdaar Hits
Former shows
Amrit Manthan - Kirtan Sohala
Bhakticha Teva
Maza Dhyanoba - TV Serial
Aika Dajiba
Sur Tech Chedita
Priteechi Jhul Jhul Gaani
Chandane Shimpit Jashi
Kayada Cha Kaye
Aashram Chalu Aahey
Bakwas 24 Taas
Bas Taamba
Happy Crime Time
Kon Banel Roadpati
Vatrat Vinya
Office Che Show piece
Locha Zala Re Gugle Aala Re
Andheri Nagari Chopat Raja
Baiko Sher Navra Pavsher
Cinemane Pachadla Serialne Zapatla
Satteche Rangeen Patte
Hyala Aapat Tyala Aapat
Bolte Taare
M...M...Marathicha
Maiboli Review
Maiboli Updates
References
Sri Adhikari Brothers Television
Marathi-language television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2013
2013 establishments in Maharashtra
Television stations in Mumbai
Music television channels in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Workshops%20in%20Computing | Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) is a publication series by the British Computer Society.
The series provides free online access for conferences and workshops in the area of computing. For example, the EVA London Conference proceedings on Electronic Visualisation and the Arts has appeared in the series since 2008, indexed by DBLP. Physical proceedings are also provided for conferences and workshops as well if required.
The series is . A conference archive is freely available online from 1995.
See also
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
References
External links
eWiC website
1995 establishments in the United Kingdom
Publications established in 1995
Computer science books
Series of non-fiction books
Conference proceedings published in books
British Computer Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worst%20Bakers%20in%20America | Worst Bakers in America is an American cooking competition television series that aired on Food Network, presented by chefs Duff Goldman and Lorraine Pascale. The series is a spin-off of Worst Cooks in America.
The first season started on October 2, 2016. The second season started on July 22, 2019, with Jason Smith replacing Duff Goldman.
Season 1 (2016)
Recruits
Contestant progress
Red: Team Lorraine
Blue: Team Duff
(WINNER) The contestant won the competition.
(RUNNER-UP) The contestant made it to the finale, but did not win.
(WIN) The contestant won the challenge for that week.
(IN) The contestant performed well enough to move on to the next week.
(BTM) The contestant was one of the selection committee's least favorites for that week, but was not eliminated.
(OUT) The contestant was the selection committee's least favorite for that week, and was eliminated.
Season 2 (2019)
Recruits
Contestant progress
Red: Team Lorraine
Blue: Team Jason
(WINNER) The contestant won the competition.
(RUNNER-UP) The contestant made it to the finale, but did not win.
(WIN) The contestant won the challenge for that week.
(IN) The contestant performed well enough to move on to the next week.
(BTM) The contestant was one of the selection committee's least favorites for that week, but was not eliminated.
(OUT) The contestant was the selection committee's least favorite for that week, and was eliminated.
Notes
References
External links
2010s American cooking television series
2016 American television series debuts
2019 American television series endings
American television spin-offs
English-language television shows
Food Network original programming
Reality cooking competition television series
Reality television spin-offs
Television series by Optomen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income%20inequality%20in%20Denmark | Denmark has been noted as having one of the lowest income inequality ratings in the world and has been known to maintain relative stability in this metric throughout decades past. The OECD data of 2016 gives Denmark a Gini coefficient of 0.249, below the OECD average of 0.315. The OECD in 2013 ranked Denmark with having a 0.254 Gini coefficient, ranking third behind Iceland and Norway respectively as the countries with the lowest income inequality qualifications. Eurostat ranked Denmark with a Gini coefficient of equivalised disposable income of 27.0 in 2022, having fallen for three straight years from a high of 27.8 in 2018. The Gini coefficients are measured using a 0–1 calibration where 0 equals complete equality and 1 equals complete inequality. "Wage-distributive outcomes" and their effect on income equality have been noted since the 1970s and 80s. Denmark, along with other Nordic countries, such as Finland and Sweden, has long held a stable low wage inequality index as well.
The scope and strength of Denmark's redistributive system and the latitude of the welfare state are the reasons for Denmark's low levels of inequality. The welfare system, in particular, allows for negligible effects that market income inequality can have on "disposable income inequality (i.e. market income after taxes and transfers)". The rise in income inequality all over the world, though, has not shielded Denmark and has seen its inequality increase in the same rate as all the other OECD countries, pairing Denmark with the likes of the United States and Canada with their pace in inequality intensification. The global course towards rising income inequality in the rich world and in Denmark has been attributed to an increase in capital incomes, a rising gap in "earnings dispersion", and structural changes that have taken place within households; the long-term propellant of inequality, though, has been skill-biased technical change. Rising inequality in Denmark can be illustrated by how the boon of GDP growth has gone to households of higher incomes, though the income distribution has been relatively equitably discharged throughout the country from the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s.
Intergenerational earnings elasticity
Economist Miles Corak has documented a relationship called "The Great Gatsby Curve". In this measure, Corak has been able to plot the positive relationship between intergenerational mobility and inequality, and how this relates to the broader concept of equality of opportunity. Corak has stated that in Nordic countries, like Denmark, there is a statistically weak tie between the economic status and earnings of the parents and their adult children, since less than one-fifth of any economic advantage or disadvantage that a father may have had is passed on to an adult son. This “weak tie” is translated to mean that there is a low intergenerational earnings elasticity in Denmark since there is a high level of social mobility and equality of opportunity.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebridge%20Financial%20Services | Homebridge Financial Services, Inc. (previously known as Real Estate Mortgage Network), is a privately held, non-bank loan company based in the United States. The company currently comprises approximately 3,000 associates and over 250 retail branches. The company also includes two separate wholesale loan operations, HomeBridge Wholesale (headquartered in Irvine, California), and REMN Wholesale (headquartered in Iselin, New Jersey). HomeBridge holds FNMA, GNMA, FHLMC, FHA and VA approvals, and maintains relationships with 49 investors of other non-agency products.
History
In 2012, Peter Norden became CEO of Real Estate Mortgage Network (REMN). On February 1, 2014, REMN changed its name to HomeBridge Financial Services. The company had four divisions: Homebridge Retail (its B2C retail lending division), Homebridge Wholesale (a B2B wholesale lending division), REMN Wholesale (a B2B wholesale lending division) and HomeBridge Funding (its B2B correspondent lending division). In mid-2015 HomeBridge Funding was acquired by Planet Home Lending, LLC.
In 2014 Homebridge funded $6.36 billion in home mortgage loans, and nearly $12 billion in its servicing portfolio. The company increased its funded home loans 36% in 2015 to $8.7 billion. Also in 2014, the company was ranked number ten on Mortgage Executive magazine's list of the "Top 100 Mortgage Companies in America". HomeBridge announced its acquisition of the operating assets of Prospect Mortgage on November 1, 2016. The company's current CEO is Peter Norden (a residential mortgage business entrepreneur).
The company's president is Joel Katz.
In August 2021, Homebridge agreed to merge with fin-tech startup Figure Technologies, which provides financial services using blockchain technology; However, this merger was cancelled on June 6, 2022 citing "regulatory delays" as being chiefly responsible.
CMG Mortgage acquired the retail division of Homebridge Financial Services on April 1, 2023.
References
External links
HomeBridge Wholesale
REMN Wholesale
Mortgage lenders of the United States
Companies based in Middlesex County, New Jersey
1989 establishments in New Jersey
Woodbridge Township, New Jersey
Financial services companies established in 1989 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loadstar%3A%20The%20Legend%20of%20Tully%20Bodine | Loadstar: The Legend of Tully Bodine is a video game developed and published by Rocket Science Games for the Sega CD in 1994 and MS-DOS compatible operating systems in 1995.
Plot
The main character, Tully Bodine, has agreed to convoy contraband camels for big cash. However, he has to steer clear of the police in the process.
Gameplay
Designed by Brian Moriarty and based on a Ron Cobb script, Loadstar is an interactive movie. Ninety minutes of video footage appear during the game. The player must steer clear of accidents and the police, and shoot down enemies and creatures, like in Sewer Shark. The goal is to get the camels to their destination, deflecting attacks with the shield along the way.
Development
Entrepreneur Elon Musk, at the time an employee of Rocket Science Games, worked as a programmer on Loadstar. He is credited as part of the "Ground Control" team.
The game was intended to be the first installment of a three-part series, with the second and third entries planned for release in 1995.
Release
A 3DO Interactive Multiplayer version of Loadstar: The Legend of Tully Bodine was announced to be in development during E3 1995 and slated to be published by BMG Interactive. However, this version was never released for unknown reasons.
Reception
In 1997, Jeff Sengstack of NewMedia wrote that Loadstar "bombed miserably." Its sales by that point were below 20,000 units. According to PC Data, which tracked computer game sales in the United States, Loadstar and Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: The Second Cataclysm sold under 8,000 copies combined by 1996.
Reviewing the Sega CD version, Mike Weigand of Electronic Gaming Monthly said that Loadstar "will bring back memories of Sewer Shark. The graphics are very well done, and seeing Ned Beatty in the full-motion scenes was a surprise. A decent shooter." The magazine's five reviewers scored the game an average of 7 out of 10. GamePros Captain Squideo said the production values of the full motion video are extraordinary, but tainted by the typically grainy video quality of the Sega CD, and that the game needed a port to the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer or 32X (systems with much higher full motion video capabilities than the Sega CD). He also complimented the voices and the "low key" musical score, but found the game controls poorly, with the track switching being inadequately responsive and the cursor often getting lost in the backgrounds. He nonetheless concluded that the game's production values make it above average, and deemed it "fast, fun, and addictive".
Coming Soon Magazine said this about the DOS version: "If Rebel Assault is among your favorite games, then why don't you try Rocket Science Games' first PC title, "Loadstar: The Legend of Tully Bodine?" and gave the game a 71.
Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it two stars out of five, and stated that "all the company managed to do is to prove just how little $3 million worth of Ned Beatty on digitized footage adds t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids%20Club%20%28TV%20programming%20block%29 | Kids Club was an American children's programming block that aired on TBN from May 22, 1993 to December 17, 2005. The block was aimed at children between the ages of 2 and 12 years, and offered a mix of children's religious and family-oriented programming.
History
Prior to 1993, TBN's Saturday morning children's block had no branding. Commercial breaks during the block primarily featured public service announcements, interstitials encouraging viewers to support Christian television, and TBN promos. On May 22, 1993, TBN re-branded its children's block as Kids Club and introduced two new shows to the block; Curtain Climbing Kids Club and Kids Like You. The public service announcements and "support Christian television" interstitials were replaced with newer interstitials targeted to kids, as well as scenes from the Curtain Climbing Kids Club TV series.
On March 30, 2002, the Curtain Climbing Kids Club TV series aired for the final time on the block, but interstitials related to the series continued to air. On December 24, 2005, TBN re-branded its Saturday morning block as Smile of a Child TV, but on TBN, the block itself from the Smile of a Child TV block started to be used on October 7, 2006.
Programming
Becky's Barn (1993-1997)
Bibleman (2005-2006)
BJ's Teddy Bear Club and Bible Stories (2006)
Circle Square (1993-1998, 2000-2006)
Cherub Wings (2002-2006)
Colby's Clubhouse (1995-2006)
Curtain Climbing Kids Club (1993-2002)
Davey and Goliath (1993–94, 2002–06)
The Dooley and Pals Show (2004-2006)
Faithville (1997-2006)
The Filling Station (1993-1996)
The Flying House (1993-2006)
Fun Food Adventures (2006)
The Gospel Bill Show (1993-2005)
Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible (2002–06)
Jacob's Ladder (2006)
Janice's Attic (1997-2006)
Joy Junction (1993-2005)
Just the Facts (1996-2002)
K10C: Kids' Ten Commandments (2004–06)
Kids Against Crime (1994-2006)
Kids Like You (1993-2006)
Kids on the Move (1998–99)
Kingdom Adventure (2006)
The Knock Knock Show (2002-2006)
Maralee Dawn & Friends (2006)
Miss Charity's Diner (2004–06)
McGee and Me! (2005–06)
Mr. Henry's Wild & Wacky World (2004–06)
Nanna's Cottage (2006)
Pahappahooey Island (2005-2006)
Quigley's Village (1993-2000)
The Reppies (1999-2006)
Retro News: A Blast From the Past (2006)
Superbook (1993-2004)
Worship for Kids (1994-1995)
WWJDtv with Gina Thompson (2002-2004)
Television programming blocks in the United States
Trinity Broadcasting Network
Television channels and stations established in 1993
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine%20Bellegarde-Foureau | Argentine Bellegarde-Foureau (1842-1901) was a Haitian educator.
She was the head of the national network of the girl schools of Haiti, the Pensionnat national des demoiselles, from 1880, and are regarded to have played an important part in the education of girls in Haiti. She was also known as a vocal critic of all abuse from both the liberal and national party, and spoke for solidarity and equal education for sexes as a principle to reform society.
References
https://web.archive.org/web/20161030144150/http://www.haiticulture.ch/Argentine_Bellegarde-Foureau.html
Dantès Bellegarde dans Femmes Haïtiennes, op.cit. p111 et suiv
1842 births
1901 deaths
19th-century Haitian educators
19th-century Haitian women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Pioneer%20Woman%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Pioneer Woman is a US cooking show that has aired on Food Network since 2011. It is presented by Ree Drummond, whose blog was the namesake for the show. The series features Drummond cooking for her family and friends, primarily at her ranch in Pawhuska, Oklahoma.
Episodes
References
External links
2010s American cooking television series
2011 American television series debuts
English-language television shows
Food Network original programming
Food reality television series
Oklahoma Drummond family
Television shows filmed in Oklahoma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitribah | Mitribah is a weather station (40551 in the World Meteorological Organization database) in northwest Kuwait. On July 21 2016, the temperature at this location hit the third highest temperature ever reliably recorded on Earth at .
Kuwait Highest Temp At 54 on July 21 2016 <https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/fact-check-63c-claim-from-kuwait-is-it-really-a-world-record-5779655/
References
Populated places in Kuwait |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iftran | IFTRAN (née Iftran) was created in 1972 by E. F. Miller at General Research Corporation, Santa Barbara, California as a mechanism to support structured programming concepts in a FORTRAN-based environment.
IFTRAN had these basic structured programming constructs: IF...ELSEIF...ENDIF, DO...ENDDO, FOR...ENDFOR, and CASEOF...CASE...ENDCASE statements that transliterated into pure-FORTRAN.
IFTRAN was bootstrapped through multiple stages from a hand-build parser that added IFTRAN language constructs one at a time. Eventually the IFTRAN preprocessor was converted entirely into IFTRAN and a pure-FORTRAN version of IFTRAN pre-processing its own code was used to transfer the tool to other computers. A pretty-printing capability provided automatically indented source program listings as an output of the IFTRAN pre-processor in addition to the pure-FORTRAN code that was sent to the underlying FORTRAN compiler.
According to the instruction manual for IFTRAN, a General Research report suggest this rationale for the use of a FORTRAN pre-processor:
"While the newer structured languages such as PASCAL are enjoying an unusual popularity, particularly in educational institutions, the workhorse language of scientists and engineers is still FORTRAN. FORTRAN can be argued for as the only truly transportable language; when going from site to site, FORTRAN is always expected to be available. Since this is not true of ALGOL, PASCAL, ADA or other structured languages, there is a good motivation for users and authors of code which may be transported to write in FORTRAN."
References
Miller, E. F. "Extensions to FORTRAN and Structured Programming -- An Experiment," RM-1608, General Research Corporation, Santa Barbara, California, February 1972.
Miller, E.F. "Extensions to FORTRAN and Structured Programming - An Experiment", in Annual ACM IEEE Design Automation Conference Proceedings of the June 1971 design automation workshop on Design automation, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States.
Miller, E. F. "Extensions to Fortran to support structured programming" in [SIGPLAN] (1973) SIGPLAN Notices 8(06) June 1973 SPECIAL ISSUE: Abstracts in programming language-related research.
Miller, E.F., "A Compendium of Language Extensions to Support Structured Programming", in SIGPLAN Notices 8(06) June 1973 SPECIAL ISSUE: Abstracts in programming language-related research.
Miller, E. F., "IFTRAN -- A Structured Language Preprocessor," Twentieth Semi-Annual VIM Conference, Portland, Oregon, April 1974 in [ACM] (1974) Proceedings of the 1974 ACM Annual Conference San Diego, November, 1974.
Fortran programming language family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Center%20Corporation | This small Washington state company offered time-sharing on a PDP-10. Its customers included Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
Nicknamed C-Cubed, this company was founded in 1968 and closed in 1970.
Misc
Two other companies, both based in New Jersey, used similar names.
References
Defunct companies based in Washington (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picas%20%28app%29 | Picas is free art photo editing application which uses deep neural network and artificial intelligence to automatically redraw photos to artistic effects.
The app was created by Picas.Inc, a subsidiary of IObit. It was first launched in September 2016 for Android and few weeks later, the app was featured on Google Play Store as editor's choice. On 12 September 2016, the developer launched a version of the app for iOS.
On 24 October 2016, the developer announced that the online photo editing is available on Picas official website.
History
The app was created by Picas.Inc, a subsidiary of IObit, focusing on picture artwork and picture privacy protection. IObit, founded in 2004, provides consumers with innovative system utilities for Windows, Mac, and Android OS to greatly enhance their performance and protect them from security threats. With over 100 awards, 250 million downloads and 10 million active users worldwide, IObit is a well-recognized industry leader.
Features
Users can take or choose a picture and select different filters to turn the picture into art effects. At launch, the app offered 45 filters, with new filters added each week. The app transforms pictures into artistic effects with the help of artificial intelligence and deep neural network algorithm on their server, and no photos will be saved as the developer stated. On 24 October 2016, the developer announced that the app is supports online photo editing.
References
External links
Official website
Android (operating system) software
IOS software
Deep learning software applications
Photo software
Web applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fokas%20method | The Fokas method, or unified transform, is an algorithmic procedure for analysing boundary value problems for linear partial differential equations and for an important class of nonlinear PDEs belonging to the so-called integrable systems. It is named after Greek mathematician Athanassios S. Fokas.
Traditionally, linear boundary value problems are analysed using either integral transforms and infinite series, or by employing appropriate fundamental solutions.
Integral transforms and infinite series
For example, the Dirichlet problem of the heat equation on the half-line, i.e., the problem
and given, can be solved via the sine-transform. The analogous problem on a finite interval can be solved via an infinite series. However, the solutions obtained via integral transforms and infinite series have several disadvantages:
1. The relevant representations are not uniformly convergent at the boundaries. For example, using the sine-transform, equations and imply For , this representation cannot be uniformly convergent at , otherwise one could compute by inserting the limit inside the integral of the rhs of and this would yield zero instead of .
2. The above representations are unsuitable for numerical computations. This fact is a direct consequence of 1.
3. There exist traditional integral transforms and infinite series representations only for a very limited class of boundary value problems. For example, there does not exist the analogue of the sine-transform for solving the following simple problem: supplemented with the initial and boundary conditions .
For evolution PDEs, the Fokas method:
Constructs representations which are always uniformly convergent at the boundaries.
These representations can be used in a straightforward way, for example using MATLAB, for the numerical evaluation of the solution.
Constructs representations for evolution PDEs with spatial derivatives of any order.
In addition, the Fokas method constructs representations which are always of the form of the Ehrenpreis fundamental principle.
Fundamental solutions
For example, the solutions of the Laplace, modified Helmholtz and Helmholtz equations in the interior of the two-dimensional domain , can be expressed as integrals along the boundary of . However, these representations involve both the Dirichlet and the Neumann boundary values, thus since only one of these boundary values is known from the given data, the above representations are not effective. In order to obtain an effective representation, one needs to characterize the generalized Dirichlet to Neumann map; for example, for the Dirichlet problem one needs to obtain the Neumann boundary value in terms of the given Dirichlet datum.
For elliptic PDEs, the Fokas method:
Provides an elegant formulation of the generalised Dirichlet to Neumann map by deriving an algebraic relation, called the global relation, which couples appropriate transforms of all boundary values.
For simple domains and a variety of b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sethu%20Vijayakumar | Sethu Vijayakumar FRSE (born 1970) is Professor of Robotics at the University of Edinburgh and a judge on the BBC2 show Robot Wars. He is the Programme co-Director for Artificial Intelligence at The Alan Turing Institute, the UK's National Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, with the responsibility for defining and driving the institute's Robotics and Autonomous Systems agenda. He co-founded the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics in 2015 and was instrumental in bringing the first NASA Valkyrie humanoid robot out of the United States of America, and to Europe, where is it a focus of research at the School of Informatics. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2013.
Vijayakumar's articles on Incremental Online Learning in high dimensions, Natural Actor-Critic and other robot learning related publications have been cited over 10000 times in academic papers and he is the recipient of the IEEE Transactions of Robotics (IEEE-TRO) King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award 2013.
Career
After a PhD in computer science and engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, during which he also worked as a research scientist at the Kawato Dynamic Brain Project in ATR, Kyoto, Vijayakumar became a postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory for Information Synthesis, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan working with Professor Shun'ichi Amari. He then headed to the University of Southern California as a presidential postdoctoral fellow with Professor Stefan Schaal and subsequently became a research assistant professor (2001–2003) in the Department of Computer Science at USC, Los Angeles.
In 2003, he moved to the University of Edinburgh, where he went on to become director of the Institute for Perception, Action and Behaviour in the School of Informatics and then Co-Director of Edinburgh Centre for Robotics.
In 2007 Vijayakumar was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellowship in Learning Robotics, co-funded by Microsoft Research. He is a Turing Fellow since 2018 and a Fellow of the European Laboratory on Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) since its inception in 2020.
Public engagement with science
Vijayakumar is an active science communicator, giving public talks and media interviews. In 2015 the University of Edinburgh awarded him its annual Tam Dalyell Prize for Excellence in Engaging the Public with Science and in 2016 he presented a series of robot demonstrations at the television launch of BBC micro:bit live lessons. He featured in Stargazing Live with Dara O Briain, March 2017. He was a judge on the 2016-2018 revival of the robot combat TV show Robot Wars. Vijayakumar also delivered two TEDx talks on robotics and machine learning at TEDx Glasgow 2018 and TEDx Edinburgh 2015.
References
1970 births
Living people
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Tokyo Institute of Technology alumni
British people of Indian descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SettleForLove | SettleForLove (Settle For Love sometimes abbreviated as SFL) is a free online dating, friendship, and social networking app/website. Members must upload both good and bad pictures of themselves, as well as list their positive and not so positive traits. The tagline for the app is: "I'm not perfect, but I'm perfect for someone"
History
SettleForLove was launched in summer 2014. Co-founders David Wheeler and Jacob Thompson launched the site after Wheeler's years of online dating frustrations. SFL has received publicity across the United States and Canada. In Q1 2016, SettleForLove launched both Android & Apple apps to accompany the website.
References
Online dating services of the United States
Waukesha, Wisconsin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadler%20Metelitsa | The Metelitsa is a low-floor tram (streetcars) built by Stadler Rail designed for tram networks.
Ordered Metelitsa trams
External links
Stadler Rail rolling stock
Tram vehicles of Russia
Passenger rail transport
Tram vehicles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viavi%20Solutions | Viavi Solutions (stylized VIAVI Solutions), formerly part of JDS Uniphase Corporation (JDSU), is an American network test, measurement and assurance technology company based in Chandler, Arizona. The company manufactures testing and monitoring equipment for networks. It also develops optical technology used for a range of applications including material quality control, currency anti-counterfeiting and 3D motion sensing, including Microsoft's Kinect video game controller.
The company was created in August 2015 when JDSU split into Viavi Solutions and Lumentum Holdings.
History
As JDSU
Viavi Solutions' history dates back to 1979 when Uniphase was started in a San Jose, California garage, as a manufacturer of lasers for chip makers and scanners. Through mergers and acquisitions, the company eventually became known as JDS Uniphase, or simply JDSU. In August 2015, JDSU split into two new independent companies: Viavi Solutions and Lumentum Holdings, which was JDSU's former Communications and Commercial Optical products division.
Post-JDSU
In August 2015, after the JDSU split, former CEO Tom Waechter stepped down and Viavi Solutions appointed Richard Belluzzo as interim president and CEO.
In September 2015, the company announced the release of GigaStor Software Edition, software designed to capture packet data from software-defined networking (SDN) platforms, for purposes of performance and forensic analysis.
In February 2016, Belluzzo became Chairman and Oleg Khaykin became president and CEO. The same month, the company announced that Frontier Communications had selected Viavi's Ethernet Assurance Solution (EtherASSURE) for help with network performance management, troubleshooting and service level agreement (SLA) management. Also in February 2016, Viavi Solutions added functionality to its CellAdvisor Base Station Analyzer to allow baseband testing during tower installation, in order to reduce the number of tower climbs and improve safety. The company also announced the GEOson network automation and management tool for 4G and 5G network testing, developed with technology from earlier acquisitions of networking companies Reverb Networks and Arieso.
In March 2016, the company announced it had added a fully DOCSIS 3.1 (D3.1)-compliant signal meter to its OneExpert CATV Signal Analysis Meter, allowing service providers to test D3.1 signals in the field. Also in March 2016, the company announced MicroNIR near infrared spectrometer tools that allow quality control managers to inspect organic materials in the field.
In July 2016, the company partnered with fellow networking vendor Brocade to use Brocade's Packet Broker and Session Director tools to capture and send subscriber traffic to Viavi’s xSIGHT Targeted Subscriber Search (TSS) for analysis.
Products
Network Enablement (NE)
The Network Enablement segment develops testing products for broadband/IP network operators to build and maintain their networks. The products are used in lab and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K296GB | K296GB (107.1 FM) is a radio station located in North Highlands, California. The station's license is held by the Educational Media Foundation; its programming is provided by iHeartMedia. The station broadcasts a country music format branded as 107.1 The Bull. The station's programming can also be heard on KYRV's HD2 HD Radio subchannel and the iHeartRadio apps.
K296GB, which is a relay of then KQJK's HD2 sub-channel, signed on in December 2014 with an alternative rock format as "Alt 107.1." On February 9, 2016, at Midnight, K296GB/KQJK-HD2 flipped to classic rock, branded as "107.1 The Brew." That following December, the stations began airing Christmas music as "The Holiday Brew." The programming was believed to be a stunt to a flip to a potential new format after the holiday season; however, the classic rock format returned after Christmas.
On April 3, 2017, KQJK flipped to classic rock themselves, branded as "93.7 The River." Because of this, the "Brew" format was modified to active rock, though this would last for just a couple of weeks before the translator/HD2 sub-channel changed to a temporary simulcast of KSTE. On May 22, 2017, K296GB/KYRV-HD2 changed their format to smooth jazz, branded as Smooth Jazz 107.1. From 1998 to 2010, the smooth jazz format was used on a station at 94.7 FM with the call letters KSSJ; it is now known as "Radio 94-7", an alternative rock station that uses the call sign KKDO.
On November 8, 2018, K296GB dropped the smooth jazz format and adopted KBEB's country format as part of a format change at the latter station. The stations simulcasted until November 12, when KBEB flipped to a soft adult contemporary format as "92.5 The Breeze".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Weinstein | David J. Weinstein (born January 13, 1988) is an American cybersecurity executive and the former Chief Technology Officer of New Jersey. He previously served at U.S. Cyber Command.
Education and early years
A native of Westfield, New Jersey, Weinstein attended Delbarton School in Morristown, New Jersey where he lettered in baseball and soccer. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University before earning his Master's degree from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
Upon graduating from Johns Hopkins, Weinstein worked at U.S. Cyber Command as a military planner, where he advocated with Admiral (Ret.) James Stavridis, the former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, for splitting U.S. Cyber Command from the National Security Agency. Weinstein is an encryption advocate and has called the choice between security and privacy a “false dilemma”. He has argued for a more aggressive cyber deference regime, opining in The Wall Street Journal that, "If the U.S. and other digitally dense and dependent nations do not reserve the right to respond to cyberattacks with conventional means, we will be beholden to perpetrators of asymmetric cyberwarfare."
Chief Technology Officer of New Jersey
On June 20, 2016 New Jersey Governor Chris Christie named Weinstein, then 28 years-old, New Jersey's first Chief Technology Officer, calling him "an individual, who truly understands how to manage cyber risk across a large enterprise." Prior to his appointment as CTO, Weinstein had "spearheaded the implementation of Governor Christie’s New Jersey Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Cell, the State’s central hub for cyber operations and resources that is the first of its kind in the nation." In June 2017, Weinstein oversaw the State's move to centralize IT under a single agency. Upon signing an executive order authorizing the move, the Governor said, "I'm tired of having each department own their own I.T. center" and "Dave Weinstein [is] a hell of a lot more qualified than I am to make these calls."
During his tenure he was praised for "bringing a fresh attitude" to information technology at the state level and instituting a "more vibrant and innovative culture" to attract talent and modernize public sector technologies. According to Politico, Weinstein's experience in both Washington and Trenton has led him to be "often called upon on the national scene to provide the state perspective." He was not retained by the incoming Murphy administration after the inauguration of Phil Murphy.
Post-Government Career
In May 2018 Weinstein joined Israeli cybersecurity firm, Claroty. During this time he frequently commented on state-sponosored cyber threats to critical infrastructure, describing the 2015 hack of Ukraine's electric grid as "the crossing of the Rubicon." Weinstein, along with former NSA Director Admiral Michael S. Rogers, wrote in The Hill, "A wave of digital transformation is sweeping across the industrial world, pitting demands for greater efficiency a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4MK | 4MK is a commercial radio station, licensed to broadcast in the Mackay region of Queensland. The station is currently owned by ARN and broadcasts on 1026 AM.
Programming
The station currently broadcasts some locally presented programming, such as the breakfast and morning programs, which are presented by Mackay-based announcers.
However, the station also sources some programming produced from elsewhere in the Grant Broadcasters network. This includes the 4MK afternoon show which sounds as though it is presented locally, but actually consists of pre-recorded segments compiled in Gladstone by the 4CC breakfast announcer
The networked 20/20 Retro Countdown heard on 4MK and hosted by Aaron Stevens.
Networked programming such as Sports Day is also heard on 4MK.
In June 2016, the results from first ratings survey in the Mackay radio market since 2003 were released. 4MK performed best in the 55-64 and 65+ demographics, with 11% and 19.5% of audience share respectively. The station's 9am-midday morning show was the most listened to program on 4MK with 7.8% audience share.
History
It was first announced in 1930 that Mackay would likely be home to a new low-powered radio station with 4MK as its call-sign.
. The station went to air for the first time in 1931, commencing operation from the front room of a private residence belonging to the station owner's father.
In 1999, the 4MK branding was moved to Mackay's new FM station 4MK-FM which commenced broadcasting on 101.9 FM. The original AM station was renamed EasyMix 1026.
However, in March 2009 the FM station was re-branded from 4MK-FM to Zinc, which allowed the AM station to revert to its original 4MK callsign. In 2016, the FM station experienced another rebrand as its name was changed from Zinc to Star 101.9. Unlike in 2009, 4MK's name, format and frequency remained unchanged.
In 2011, 4MK celebrated its 80th anniversary.
One of the station's longest serving employees was Trevor Lymbery who began working in the radio industry in 1959, commencing work as an announcer at 4MK in 1964. Lymbery was an announcer for four years before moving to other roles at 4MK including being a sales manager and account executive. He retired in September 2010.
In November 2021, 4MK, along with other stations owned by Grant Broadcasters, were acquired by the Australian Radio Network. This deal will allow Grant's stations, including 4MK, to access ARN's iHeartRadio platform in regional areas. The deal was finalized on January 4, 2022. It is expected 4MK will integrate with ARN's Pure Gold Network, but will retain its current name according to the press release from ARN.
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Radio stations established in 1931
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Classic hits radio stations in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse%20Deception | Reverse Deception: Organized Cyber Threat Counter-Exploitation is a book by Sean Bodmer, Max Kilger, Gregory Carpenter, and Jade Jones. It investigates methods and criteria to address organizational responses to Advanced Persistent Threats and cyber deception. It details how to identify APTs and prioritize actions by applying skilled, field-tested private and government sector processes and methods, which often involve cyber deception.
Content
The book reviews the most historical and significant malware: Titan Rain, Moonlight Maze, Stakkato and Stuxnet are reviewed in light of APT criteria. The exploits of Stuxnet and these major cyber events are reviewed from an operational aspect. These exploits were so complex and expensive and that approaches an even less discussed concept: because the development of the APT is resource-intensive, it is most often believed to be sponsored by a government, in essence conducting an offensive action. In some countries, this can be a crime, while others consider it an aggressive defensive technique.
The work contains four stories regarding deception and counter deception. These are explained to be fictionalized works based on actual events that occurred somewhere in the law enforcement and intelligence worlds, but there is no way of vetting this and it is not clear if these works are rooted in US domestic or international work. The cases are varied and considered compelling by noted cyber critics and reviewers of this work.
The authors introduce the first theory for classifying a threat on the opportunistic-APT continuum as either persistent or non-persistent. The APT classifications and criteria are now widely used in the industry and are built off of an evaluation of the following criteria:
APT CRITERIA
Objectives
Timeliness
Resources
Risk tolerance (by the adversary)
Skills and methods
Actions
Attack origination points
Numbers involved in the attack
Knowledge source
Threat Intelligence
Analysis of cyber espionage tactics contrasted with types of permissible countermeasures
How to use deception and disinformation campaigns
Case studies and real stories from the authors’ FBI, DOD, NSA, and private sector work.
Value Chain Management
Counter espionage and espionage
Legal interpretations of capacities, limitations, and stipulations for assisting law enforcement investigations.
Authors
Sean M. Bodmer, CISSP, CEH, is founder and chief technologist at Pragmatik IO Group, INC.
Dr Max Kilger, Ph.D., is specialist in profiling and behavioral analysis of the black hat community and hackers. He is a founding member of the Honeynet Project, is currently on their board of directors, and serves as their chief membership officer and chief profiler.
Gregory Carpenter, DrPH, CISM, is an adjunct professor at Northern Virginia CC, on the International Board of Advisors at the Mackenzie Institute, Advisory Board at EC-Council University and on the board of directors of ATNA Systems.
Jade Jones, Juris Doc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SathyabamaSat | SathyabamaSat is a micro experimental satellite developed by students and faculty of Sathyabama University, Chennai to collect data on greenhouse gases (water vapor, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane and hydrogen fluoride). It was launched along with the Cartosat-2C satellite atop PSLV-C34. It was launched June 22, 2016.
History
The development of SathyabamaSat was initiated in 2009 when ISRO and Sathyabama University signed a memorandum of understanding to support the design, development and launch of the satellite. Initially, a space technology centre was established to carry out preliminary studies about the project including advanced research in rocketry, satellites and space applications, the project was carried out with the assistance of ISRO scientists. As per the university, the objective of project was to provide development experience of compact space systems to students.
Payloads
The satellite uses ARGUS 1000 IR spectrometer to measure the densities of the green house gases over the region in which it moves. The satellite delivers the data to the On-Board Computer (OBC) for transmission, when it crosses the radio window of ground station, which is being built in Sathyabama University premises, Chennai, India.
Launch
The satellite was launched as a piggyback atop Cartosat-2C using PSLV-C34 on June 22, 2016.
References
External links
http://www.isro.gov.in/Spacecraft/sathyabamasat
Mini satellites of India
Spacecraft launched in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fronthaul | The fronthaul portion of a C-RAN (Cloud Radio Access Network) telecommunications architecture comprises the intermediate links between the centralized radio controllers and the radio heads (or masts) at the "edge" of a cellular network. In recent years fronthaul is becoming more essential as 5G becomes more mainstream.
In general it is coincident with the backhaul network, but subtly different. Technically in a C-RAN the
backhaul data is only decoded from the fronthaul network at the centralised controllers, from where it is then transferred to the core network.
It comprises dedicated fibers carrying data in the CPRI or OBSAI format. This fiber network is either owned or leased by the mobile network operator. In the UK for example BT Openworld owns a majority of the fiber network to radio masts. There are proposals to modify Ethernet to make it more suitable for the Fronthaul network.
Recently, a novel wireless fronthaul solution has been proposed for ultra-dense small cell deployment where networked flying platforms (NFPs) such UAVs, drones, tethered balloon and high-altitude/medium-altitude/low-altitude platforms carrying FSO transceivers have been introduced as aerial hubs to aggregate the small cell traffic and offer connectivity to the core network.
Further reading
Backhaul
C-RAN
Wireless networks
E-Band
References
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Network architecture
Wireless networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega2%20%28computer%29 | The Onion Omega series of personal single-board computer created by a startup company called Onion that is based in Boston, Toronto and Shenzhen. It is advertised as "the world's smallest Linux Server". The system combines a tiny form factor and power-efficiency with the power of a general purpose Operating System. They ship with a Linux kernel based lightweight operating system for embedded systems called OpenWRT, but is capable of running other lightweight Unix-based operating systems.
The first shipments of the Onion Omega went out in October, 2015.
History
Omega2 is the next generation of the old product Onion makes, Omega. The original Omega was based on the Qualcomm Atheros AR9331 (MIPS architecture) SoC which runs a full Linux operating system designed for embedded system and sold for $19.99. The company has discontinued development of the Omega, and replaced it with the successor, Omega2, using another SoC chip - Mediatek MT7688 which also has a metal cover over the chip. They have also drastically cut the price to $5 (but later increased it to $7.5).
As of the beginning of 2017, Onion has already attracted crowdfunding of more than $850,000 for the Omega2, which has greatly exceeded their initial goal of $440,000.
Hardware Features
Omega2 comes in two versions, the basic Omega2 and Omega2 Plus. Omega2 CPU is based on MIPS architecture running at 580 MHz clock speed, equipped with 64 MB of RAM and 16 MB of flash memory. Omega2 Plus is similar to Omega2, except it has 128 MB RAM and 32 MB memory and a MicroSD slot, sold for $9 USD. The system comes in a small PCB footprint with dual-in-line 16x2mm pins. The board runs at 3.3 volts with an average power consumption of 0.6W. The devices are intended for as headless computers with no graphical interfaces in Embedded systems.
References
External links
Official website
MIPS32 Architecture
2016 establishments in the United States
Educational hardware
Linux-based devices
MIPS architecture
Products introduced in 2016
Single-board computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pueblo%20%28film%29 | Pueblo is a 1973 American made-for-television war drama film starring Hal Holbrook, Ronny Cox and Andrew Duggan. It originally aired on ABC on March 29, 1973 as part of the network's ABC Theater series. Essentially a videotaped stage production, Pueblo was the story of the capture and imprisonment of the crew of USS Pueblo, a US Navy vessel captured while spying off the coast of North Korea, in 1968.
The production starred Hal Holbrook as Captain Lloyd Bucher, commanding officer of Pueblo. The structure of the play consists of Captain Bucher answering questions of two tribunals, with the scene switching back and forth between his interrogations by the North Koreans and the inquiry by the US Navy (after his return) into his possible misconduct in the Pueblo Incident. As Bucher describes incidents during the capture of the ship and during the crew's subsequent captivity, the viewer is shown re-enactments of the same.
At the 26th Primetime Emmy Awards, the program and its performers were nominated for seven awards and at the ceremony on May 28, 1974, won five. Holbrook won two Emmy Awards for his performance in Pueblo, one as Best Lead Actor in a Drama and another for Actor of the Year. Director Anthony Page was nominated for Best Director in Drama a Single Program but did not win. The program won technical awards for Film Sound Editing, Film or Tape Sound Mixing, Video Tape Editing, and was nominated for Technical Direction and Electronic Camerawork. Pueblo received critical praise, with the New York Times stating, "Pueblo succeeds powerfully as television".
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1973 films
1970s war drama films
American Broadcasting Company television specials
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Films directed by Anthony Page
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1973 drama films
American drama television films
1970s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce%20Burditt | Joyce Burditt (September 12, 1938 – June 2, 2022), also known as Joyce Rebeta-Burditt, was an American writer and network executive. She was known for creating the TV series Diagnosis: Murder. She was also a longtime writer and producer on such TV series as Perry Mason, Matlock, and the Father Dowling Mysteries. She wrote a best selling novel, The Cracker Factory, in 1977, about an alcoholic housewife, partly drawn from her own experiences.
Early life and education
Joyce Ellen Rebeta was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Paul John Rebeta and Coletta Ellen Rebeta (later Supp). Both of her parents were also born in Cleveland. After moving to Southern California in 1969, she took classes at Los Angeles Valley Junior College.
Career
Burditt was known for creating the TV series Diagnosis: Murder, which ran for almost 200 episodes and TV movies. She was also a longtime writer and producer on such TV series as Perry Mason, Matlock, and the Father Dowling Mysteries. Burditt was a programming executive for comedy at ABC, serving as a liaison between the network and sitcom productions including Barney Miller and Soap. Her last television writing credit was on seven episodes of Mystery Woman (2005–2006), a series of films for the Hallmark Channel, starring Kellie Martin.
She wrote a best selling novel, The Cracker Factory, in 1977, about an alcoholic housewife, which is partly drawn from her own experiences with alcoholism and institutionalization. It was made into an American TV movie of the same name. This was followed by the sequel, The Cracker Factory 2: Welcome to Women's Group, in 2010. She wrote the humorous novel Triplets, in 1981, and the mystery novel Buck Naked, about a Los Angeles detective heroine, in 1996.
Publications
The Cracker Factory (1977)
Triplets (1981)
Buck Naked (1996)
The Cracker Factory 2: Welcome to the Women's Group (2010)
Personal life
Rebeta married the writer George Burditt in 1957 and had three children. They later divorced. Her son Jack Burditt became a screenwriter. On June 2, 2022, she died in Los Angeles. Her grave is in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills.
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1938 births
2022 deaths
American women screenwriters
American women television producers
American women novelists
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21st-century American novelists
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Screenwriters from California
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20th-century American women writers
20th-century American screenwriters
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20Ball | Joan Ball (born 1934) is a British businesswoman who started the first computer dating service in England in 1964. Notably, it also pre-dated the earliest American computer dating services.
Early life
Joan Ball, born in 1934, was the 6th child in her working-class family. She was abandoned by her mother when she was very young. During World War II she was evacuated from London to the countryside to escape the aerial bombardments. Joan was sexually harassed by one of the foster families with whom she lived in the countryside.
Joan Ball was dyslexic (although not diagnosed until she was 39) and struggled in school. In 1949, Ball finished her last year of school and got a job as a shop assistant at The London Co-operative Society. Due to her dyslexia she had problems with writing and counting money. In 1953, Ball was hospitalized after a suicide attempt, after which she lived with her aunt and uncle. The same year, at the age of 19, she was hired at Bourne & Hollingsworth. In 1954, she left and started working in a store's dress department. Shortly after she worked for Berkertex, a fashion house in London.
Computer dating
In 1961, when Ball was 27, she took a job at a marriage bureau. She founded her own dating agency, the Eros Friendship Bureau Ltd in 1962. Ball claims that she had trouble advertising the service in newspapers because of the belief at the time that marriage bureaus were actually fronts for prostitution. To avoid this, Ball relied on placing radio ads with the "Pop Pirates." Ball's company focused on long term match-ups and relationships—primarily trying to achieve marriages for clients—and catered to an older crowd who were looking to settle down or who had been previously divorced.
In 1964, Ball changed the name of her marriage bureau to the St. James Computer Dating Service, and the bureau ran its first set of computer match ups in 1964. Ball used a time-shared computer and acquired a matching program that would pair couples based on questionnaire responses. This made Ball's service the first commercially successful computer dating service in either the UK or the US.
In 1965, Ball merged her company with another marriage bureau to form Com-Pat, or Computer Dating Services Ltd. Shortly after the merger, Ball bought out her co-owner's shares, making her sole owner. Ball advertised in The Sunday Express, Evening Standard, and The Observer At this time Ball was running both Com-Pat and Eros, ultimately selling Eros to focus on Com-Pat.
In 1970, Com-Pat Two was launched. The system used a questionnaire, and gave a list of four of the top matches at the end.
In 1971, a Post Office strike halted all mail and prevented business operations for almost eight weeks. The Daily Telegraph, the company's most successful advertising venue, refused to continue printing ads for Com-Pat after the paper changed their advertising policy. By 1974, Ball was in debt, and decided to sell her company. She sold it to John Paterson of Dateline on th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corbis | Corbis may refer to:
Corbis Corporation, an American advertising and licensing company, later renamed Branded Entertainment Network
Corbis, a synonym for the bivalve genus Fimbria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne%20tram%20route%2058 | Melbourne tram route 58 is operated by Yarra Trams on the Melbourne tram network from West Coburg to Toorak. The 18.0 kilometre route is operated out of Essendon and Southbank depots with Z, B and E class trams.
History
Route 58 was introduced on 1 May 2017 as part of a restructure of the Yarra Trams network to facilitate the closure of Domain Interchange and the construction of Anzac railway station. It replaced route 55 in its entirety from West Coburg to Domain Interchange and the southern part of route 8 from Domain Interchange to Toorak.
The origins of the lines traversed by route 58 lies in separate tram lines. The oldest section of track belongs to the section between Domain Interchange (near Stop 119) and Toorak Road (Stop 22), which dates back to the Brighton Road cable tram line, which opened on 11 October 1888. The section of track between Park Street, South Yarra (near Stop 123) and Chapel Street (Stop 128) was built later that year on 26 October as part of the Prahran cable tram line. The section between Chapel Street and Orrong Road (Stop 134) was built as the Toorak cable tram line, which opened on 15 February 1889. This section was extended by the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB) to Glenferrie Road (Stop 139) on 8 May 1927. Meanwhile, the line between Collins Street (Stop 4) and Daly Street, Brunswick West (Stop 33) was constructed by the MMTB on 19 July 1925. This section was extended to West Coburg on 26 June 1927. The line between Sturt Street (Stop 118) and St Kilda Road was constructed on 27 December 1925. The line connecting Collins Street and Sturt Street finally opened on 21 December 1944. From 1 July 2017, route 58 was rerouted via Toorak Road West with the closure of Domain Road while Anzac railway station was built.
During 2021, tram stop upgrades along the route were undertaken to allow the introduction of E class trams on the route, which commenced operation on 19 December 2021. These replaced D1 class trams from Malvern.
Route map
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20System/360%20Model%2085 | The IBM System/360 Model 85 is a high-end member of the System/360 family of computers, with many advanced features, and was announced in January 1968 and first shipped in December 1969. IBM built only about 30 360/85 systems because of "a recession in progress".
Models
The four models of the 360/85 are: I85 (512K), J85 (1M), K85 (2M) and L85 (4M), configured with two IBM 2365 Processor Storage units, four 2365 units, an IBM 2385 Processor Storage unit Model 1 (=2M), or an IBM 2385 Processor Storage unit Model 2 (=4M) respectively. The I85 includes two-way interleaved memory while the others provide four-way interleaving of memory access.
Advanced/special features
The system console is L-shaped: one leg is the Main Control Panel, including a CRT, and the other leg includes 2 screens: "Microfiche Document Viewer" and "Indicator Viewer."
Memory Cache - depending on the model and the situation, "the effective system storage cycle becomes one-third to one-fourth of the actual main storage cycle." The memory cache is high-speed, static buffer memory situated between the CPU and main system memory ("Level 1" cache), available in 16 KB and 32 KB size options. The System/360 Model 85 is the first commercially available computer with cache memory.
Monolithic integrated circuits
Enhanced floating point - The Model 85 comes with extended-precision 128-bit quadruple-precision floating point
The Model 85 has both Read-only and Writeable Control Storage (it is the second System/360 to have writeable control storage; the IBM System/360 Model 25 is the first to have rewriteable control storage; the 360/85 was introduced Jan. 30, 1968).
Emulation
The 360/85, when equipped with the 709/7090/7094 Compatibility Feature,
with the use of an emulator program permits running 709, 7040, 7044, 7094 and 7094 II programs.
Gateway to the future
In some respects, the System/360 Model 85 provided a glimpse into the future System/370 product line (particularly the 370 Model 165) - which IBM announced two years later (1970). It used the MST circuitry that was later used in the initial System/370 models, and introduced features such as 128-bit floating point arithmetic and block multiplexor channels that are also part of the System/370 architecture.
The 360/85 uses microcode to control instruction execution, unlike the completely-hardwired 360/75 and 360/91; the high-end models of System/370 also use horizontal microcode, except the IBM System/370 model 195.
References
System/360 Model 85 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heike%20Hofmann | Heike Hofmann (born 16 April 1972) is a statistician and Professor in the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University.
Education
She earned an MSc in Mathematics, with a minor in Computer Science, and a PhD in Statistics, from the University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany in 1998 and 2000, respectively.
Career and research
Hoffman's research interests are in statistical graphics, exploratory data analysis, visual inference, visualization of large data and statistical computing She is currently Professor in the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University, and faculty member of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and Human Computer Interaction programs.
In her research on interactive data visualization she has provided new approaches for plotting multivariate categorical data using mosaic plots, and making interactions with these plots, and linking between plots. She was the primary development of the software MANET and contributed to the development of the software GGobi. More recent software include the R packages x3prplus, geomnet, nullabor, gglogo, peptider, discreteRV, ggboxplots, ggparallel, dbData, HLMdiag, lvboxplots, MergeGUI, MissingDataGUI. Her work on examining the inflow of corporate cash into the 2012 US presidential election can be read in Chance magazine.
Heike Hofmann is the author of more than 50 journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters and edited one book. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. She has supervised or co-supervised 8 doctoral theses, including Hadley Wickham and Yihui Xie.
Honors and awards
She was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2014.
References
Living people
1972 births
Scientists from Augsburg
University of Augsburg alumni
American statisticians
German statisticians
Women statisticians
20th-century American women scientists
American women academics
Iowa State University faculty
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
R (programming language) people
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecom%20Infra%20Project | The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) was formed in 2016 as an engineering-focused, collaborative methodology for building and deploying global telecom network infrastructure, with the goal of enabling global access for all.
TIP is jointly steered by its group of founding tech and telecom companies, which forms its board of directors, and is chaired by Vodafone's Head of Network Strategy and Architecture, Yago Tenorio. Member companies host technology incubator labs and accelerators, and TIP hosts an annual infrastructure conference, TIP Summit. Which was renamed to FYUZ and hosted in Madrid in October 2022.
The organization adopts transparency of process and collaboration in the development of new technologies, by its more than 500 participating member organizations, including operators, suppliers, developers, integrators, startups and other entities, that participate in various TIP project groups. Projects employ current case studies to evolve telecom equipment and software into more flexible, agile, and interoperable forms.
Projects and project groups
With telecom technology disaggregated into Access, Backhaul, and Core & Management, each project group focused on one of these three specific network areas. Past and present projects include, among others:
OpenRAN — enabling open ecosystem of GPP-based RAN solutions, chaired by Andrew Dunkin (Vodafone) and Adnan Boustany (Intel).
Millimeter Wave (mmWave) Networks — creating low-cost hardware and software tools, and best practices, to streamline municipal mmWave networks, chaired by Salil Sawhney (Facebook) and Andreas Gladisch (Deutsche Telekom).
Power and Connectivity — global connectivity through global electricity, chaired by Cesar Hernandex Perez and Jamie Yang.
System Integration and Site Optimization — system integration and cost-analysis, chaired by Dr. Sanket Nesargi and Emre Tepedelenlioglu.
Solutions Integration — development of an interoperable RAN architecture, chaired by Dr. G. Wan Choi.
Open Optical & Packet Transport — designing interoperable solutions for packet and optical networks, chaired by Hans-Juergen Schmidtke (Facebook) and Victor Lopez (Telefónica). The DWDM Voyager packet/optical transponder, developed and tested live by member companies Facebook and Vodafone, respectively, is the first white box transponder and routing device for open packet/optical networks. The first router design developed by the group is the Disaggregated Cell Site Gateway. It was designed by Vodafone, Telefonica and TIM Brasil. Telefonica will deploy the first units in 2020.
Open Converged Wireless project group, developing OpenWiFi, OpenOFDM.
Community Labs
Various TIP member companies provide dedicated space for its project groups as "TIP Community Labs," facilitating collaborative projects between member companies in the development of telecom infrastructure. As of 2020, TIP has 14 labs throughout 8 countries around the world including, Spain, Italy, USA, Indonesia, UK, Japan, Germany, and Brazi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Academy%20for%20Systems%20and%20Cybernetic%20Sciences | The International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences (IASCYS) is an honor society initially created by the International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR). The academy identifies outstanding scientists in systems and cybernetics and elects them as academicians. The members of the Academy conduct workshops and speak at conferences about advances in the field.
Origin
In 2010, the International Federation for Systems Research established an international non-profit association called The International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences. For 6 years the IASCYS was governed as an IFSR partner organization, but in 2016 it became an independent organization having its own statutes, rules of procedure and membership criteria.
Aims
IASCYS was founded to honor and activate outstanding members of the systems and cybernetics community. The fields of systems and cybernetics emphasize a holistic perspective, thus we help people create points of view that describe more of the variety in the world, and thus our work bridges and fills the spaces between the descriptions from traditional sciences. Systems science and cybernetics, in both theory and application, facilitate transdisciplinary cooperation leading to insights into synergies and generalizations and the creation of methods for coping with situations that the traditional sciences fail to cover. Thus, the otherwise resulting oversights are replaced by new insights. These intellectual endeavors help people as individuals, their organizations, and humankind to attain a more complete appreciation, through perception, thinking, emotional and spiritual life, decision making, communication, and action, and therefore to attain more success and well being. Academicians are nominated by an association in the field. Biographies of IASCYS members are published on the IASCYS web-site.
Motivations
National and international academies of sciences and arts previously did not include the contributions of systems and cybernetics in their list of sciences and arts. This situation overlooks the contributions which these fields have made to many traditional fields. IASCYS was created to build bridges among the member associations, to identify the most qualified scientists and practitioners in the field in order to invite them as keynote speakers to conferences, to recognize systems and cybernetics as sciences equal to other sciences, and to create links among the leading members of the systems and cybernetics community with the intent to aid and promote the development of these fields.
Intentions
Two missions of the IASCYS are, through coordination of the actions of the member associations, to create an internationally accepted curriculum in systems and cybernetics and to create an auditing process aimed at validation and promotion of education in systems and cybernetics.
List of Academicians
Mary Catherine Bateson
Ockert Bosch
Pierre Bricage
Soren Brier
Pille Bunnel
Tom R. Burns
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20Rose%20cycle%20route | The White Rose Cycle Route in Yorkshire, England, part of the National Cycle Network (NCN), was opened by Sustrans in 1998. It linked Middlesbrough with the City of Kingston upon Hull via the North York Moors, the Vale of York, the Yorkshire Wolds, a distance of and in some descriptions continued to Hornsea on the coast (). A map and guide for the route were published in 1999 and 2000.
The route is no longer branded as the White Rose Route.
NCN routes on White Rose route
Route 1
Route 65
Route 66
Route 71
Route 656
Route 657
Route 658
References
Cycleways in England
Cycling in Yorkshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20P.%20Miranker | Daniel P. Miranker is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. His father is Willard L. Miranker.
He co-founded Capsenta with Juan Sequeda in 2015, which stemmed from their research project, Ultrawrap. Capsenta was acquired by data.world in June 2019.
His academic interests are in bioinformatics and the Semantic Web
Education
Miranker earned an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from MIT in 1979 and a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University in 1987, under the supervision of Salvatore Stolfo.
References
Living people
Columbia University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
University of Texas at Austin faculty
Semantic Web people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codename%3A%20Kids%20Next%20Door%20%E2%80%93%20Operation%3A%20S.O.D.A. | Codename: Kids Next Door – Operation: S.O.D.A. is a 2004 platform video game based on the American animated television series Codename: Kids Next Door on Cartoon Network. Developed by Vicarious Visions and published by Global Star Software for the Game Boy Advance, it was released exclusively in North America.
Operation: S.O.D.A. is one of the only two video games to be solely based on Codename: Kids Next Door. The other, Operation: V.I.D.E.O.G.A.M.E., is a 3D platform game developed by High Voltage Software for the PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Xbox.
Plot
With the recent passing of the Soda Control Act, the drinking age of soda has been raised to 13 years and older. The Kids Next Door refuse this attempt at prohibiting children from drinking their favorite beverage, and take it upon themselves to run a secret operation of providing soda to any kid in the world who wants it.
Gameplay
The game features 15 platform levels (3 per Operative) and one final boss fight against Mr. Fizz. Each of the characters have different abilities and weapons that helps them avoid obstacles and reach the goal. While Numbuhs 3, 4, and 5's levels are Terrestral, Numbuhs 1 and 2's are Aerial.
Reception
Operation S.O.D.A. received negative feedback from critics, with Nintendo Power giving the game a 54% rating, and MyGamer giving it a similar 56% rating.
References
External links
2004 video games
Game Boy Advance games
Game Boy Advance-only games
Video games about children
Video games based on animated television series
Codename: Kids Next Door video games
Take-Two Interactive games
Vicarious Visions games
Video games developed in the United States
North America-exclusive video games
Cartoon Network video games
Single-player video games
Global Star Software games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%2065 | National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 65 is a Sustrans National Route that runs from Hornsea on the North Sea Coast of The East Riding of Yorkshire via Hull and York to Middlesbrough. It is fully open and signed.
Between Hornsea and York it forms the eastern end of the Trans Pennine Trail. The section between York and Linton-on-Ouse is part of the Way of the Roses. In 1998 Route 65 between Hull and Middlesbrough was branded The White Rose cycle route. This branding is no longer in use.
Route
Hornsea to Hull
This part of the route runs almost entirely along the dismantled trackbed of the Hull and Hornsea Railway and is known as the Hornsea Rail Trail. The path takes a straight route over the flat Holderness plain and is in length.
Hull to York
Route 65 avoids the Yorkshire Wolds by running along the banks of the Humber Estuary, passing under the Humber Bridge. A very flat route, there is a small climb at Welton. Mainly on quiet country lanes as far as Selby, there are several short traffic-free sections. From Selby to York the route uses the trackbed of the old East Coast Mainline railway, which was bought by Sustrans for £1 and turned into one of its first traffic-free paths. On a section of this path is a scale model of the Solar System.
NCN Route 66 provides an alternative route between Hull and York.
York to Middlesbrough
Following a traffic-free route out of York, the rest of the route is almost entirely on quiet country lanes. North of York, NCN 65 passes Beningbrough Hall. There are two routes here, the path through the National Trust grounds is one-way, so the northbound path is routed around the perimeter. At Easingwold, Route 65 leaves the flat for the first time as it approaches the North York Moors. Running along the foothills there are several short steep climbs/descents. The route climbs over the North Western edge of the North York Moors, passing to the east of Osmotherley. Its high point is reached via a long steep climb up a forestry commission path. The route in Middlesbrough is mainly traffic free.
Route 65 forms part of the Way of the Roses Challenge route between York (junction with NCN 658) and Linton-on-Ouse (junction with NCN 688).
Developments
The route through York was improved in April 2019 with the Scarborough Bridge improvements. The steep steps and narrow deck have been replaced by ramps and a 3.7m wide path.
History
The original route north of York consisted of three branches all numbered as Route 65. In 2009 Sustrans introduced 3 digit numbers for shorter local routes and two of the three branches of Route 65 were renumbered. The Thirsk branch became Route 657 and the High Level Option is now Route 656. The Low Level Option remains as Route 65.
Millennium Mileposts
There are over 1,000 Mileposts on the National Cycle Network. A number of the mileposts are located on Route 65.
Related NCN routes
Route 65 meets the following routes:
Route 1 at Hessle and Middlesbrough
Route 62 at Selby
Route |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%20K-20%20Network | Washington K-20 Network is a wide area network providing educational Internet access in the U.S. state of Washington for schools and educational service districts, colleges and community colleges, and libraries. The network was formed in 1996. A state settlement with Qwest Communications funded network access to state libraries starting in 2000–2001. WWAMI medical schools began to participate in 2007.
The network was connected to Internet2 via Pacific Northwest Gigapop in 2001.
Network
As of 2013, the network had over 475 nodes, including almost 450 schools and colleges, and 30 libraries or library systems.
See also
Washington School Information Processing Cooperative
References
Book sources
External links
Education in Washington (state)
Wide area networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeIN%20Series%20%28Middle%20East%20TV%20channel%29 | beIN Series is a set of television networks launched on 1 November 2016, owned by beIN Media Group and broadcast on beIN direct-broadcast satellite services in the MENA region, and in Turkey through the Digiturk system, which beIN purchased in 2015 and rebranded as beIN Series on 13 January 2016. The networks feature mainly one-hour drama and dramedy series.
The networks of beIN Series license content from American production companies, including ABC Studios, Warner Bros. Television and Sony Pictures Television. Series on the network are dubbed or subtitled with Arabic or Turkish, depending on the region.
History
In 2016, the company had launched a children’s channel called CBeebies and in July of the same year had signed a deal with the AMC Networks International to broadcast The Terror, The Night Manager and Fear the Walking Dead.
In 2017, beIN Series had signed a contract with CBS Studios International and The CW which will allow the company to air such series as MacGyver and Bull, while CBS All-Access will provide beIN with The Good Fight and The Late Late Show with James Corden. The same year, the company had signed a deal with Eccho Rights to air New Bride, Winter Sun and Heart of the City on its beIN Drama HD1 channel.
In 2018, the channel had partnered with BBC Studios to broadcast BBC Earth and children’s channel CBeebies through Digiturk.
References
Television networks in Qatar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosigra | Mosigra is a Russian company, one of the country’s largest federal networks of board games shops.
History
The company was founded in 2008 by a graduate of Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow State University, Dmitry Kibkalo and his friend Dmitry Borisov. After university Kibkalo had worked for the press department of the FC Spartak, in the PR-agency IMA-consulting; his last post as an employee was an executive director of producing centre Kolizey Production Center.
Business emerged from the idea of a New Year gift: a printed and illustrated version of the board game The Jackal, invented by students and faculty of Moscow State University in the 1970s. Kibkalo hired an illustrator, but the producers refused to make only one piece, so he had ordered 100 copies of the game, having invested about 500 thousand rubles. Kibkalo could not arrange to sell the unused 80 copies at children's shops and bookstores. In November 2008, together with Borisov, he launched an online store. In addition to The Jackal partners presented 20 popular board games and in two months they got back the initial investment. After four months, they expanded the range of games to 100 names and opened a pick-up point near the Belorusskaya metro station.
In March 2009 Kibkalo and Borisov invested several hundred thousand rubles of their own funds into the opening of the first store near the Taganskaya metro station. It was followed by franchise stores in St. Petersburg and Kyiv. Soon Kibkalo quit the Kolizey and focused on development of Mosigra. In summer 2010, private entrepreneurs under the guarantee and security of the goods in the warehouse, received loans from Absolut Bank and Uniastrum and invested them in new stores. A separate company Magellan concentrated on development of their own games, localization of foreign games and production. The company began to present the news games to the market using this brand name. By the end of 2010, Mosigra had 16 stores, including 10 franchise shops, which originally did not suppose the payment of royalties and lump sum contributions: the condition was to work with a single supplier and organize game rooms. By 2012, the number of stores increased to 70. After that Mosigra revised the franchise terms and refused to expand in regions.
According to consulting company Gradient Alpha, by the end of 2013, the company controlled from 12 to 15% of board games in the Russian market. In March 2016 the network included 27 own stores and 41 franchised stores in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan, and a turnover of more than 600 million rubles.
Business model
In contrast to logical puzzles and strategic games (for example, Civilization and Catan), which formed the basic stock of special shops at the time when first Mosigra shop opened at Taganka, the company focused on casual games for big companies. Mosigra cooperates with major distributors of foreign manufacturers and Russian publishers of games and produces from 1 to 10 thous |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances%20Andrews | Frances Elizabeth Andrews is a British historian who is professor of medieval history at the University of St Andrews. She is a specialist in the medieval church and its networks.
Life
Andrews is the managing editor of Brill's Medieval Mediterranean series and also the series editor for Boydell and Brewer's Studies in the History of Medieval Religion. She was President of the Ecclesiastical History Society (2014–2015).
Her research interests fall into two main areas: medieval Italy and medieval Christianity, with a particular focus on relations between religion and public life, the history of the friars, the Humiliati, and urban history. She is currently writing a monograph on the employment of religious in government and administration.
Beginning in 2019, she led a small team of historians under the aegis of the Royal Historical Society in a new investigation into on the experience of LGBT+ historians and on the teaching of LGBT+ histories in UK universities. She coordinates the 'Women Historians of St Andrews' project, which aims to seek out the women who studied, researched and taught history at St Andrews, at any point in time.
Selected publications
The Early Humiliati. 1999.
The Other Friars. 2006.
Doubting Christianity: The Church and Doubt. 2016. (co-edited with Charlotte Methuen and Andrew Spicer)
Publications
Como and Padua: Andrews, F. E., 22 Aug 2018, Italy and Early Medieval Europe. Papers for Chris Wickham. Balzaretti, R., Barrow, J. & Skinner, P. (eds.). Oxford University Press
The Sack Friars and the Problems of a Comparative History of the Mendicants: Andrews, F. E., 2017, Gli studi francescani: prospettive di ricerca: Atti dell’Incontro di studio in occasione del 30° anniversario dei Seminari di formazione Assisi, 4-5 luglio 2015. Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, p. 147-185 38 p
References
21st-century British historians
Academics of the University of St Andrews
Alumni of the University of London
British medievalists
British women historians
Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
Historians of Italy
Living people
Presidents of the Ecclesiastical History Society
Social historians
Urban historians
Women medievalists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Tobin%20%28entrepreneur%29 | Michael Tobin (born 16 January 1964) is an English technology entrepreneur, author and philanthropist. He was CEO of FTSE 250 data centre operator. Further In 2014 he was awarded an OBE for his ‘Services to the Digital Economy' in The Queen's Birthday Honours List.
Career
Business career
Following roles at ICG, GlobalServe, Rockwell Corp, Goupil, Tricord, ICL and Fujitsu Tobin joined Redbus as Sales and Marketing Director. Becoming CEO in 2003, he led the merger between competitors Redbus and Telecity. In 2006 Tobin became CEO of the newly formed TelecityGroup. Michael implemented Telecity’s ‘gold standard’ membership of the Green Grid global consortium, and led Telecity to achieve the Carbon Trust Standard in 2010; the first data centre operator to do so.
In 2014 he stepped down from TelecityGroup following reported tensions with the board of directors, and founded Tobin Ventures Ltd.
Non-executive Directorships and Board roles
Tobin holds many non executive roles internationally which include: AudioBoom, Pulsant, Bigblu Broadband (formerly Satellite Solutions Worldwide Plc (Europasat)), Ultraleap, North C Data Centres, Sungard, Instrumental, and ScaleUp Group.
Tobin is also an Advisory Board Member to LeaseWeb.
He previously held non-executive roles for Pentadyne Power Corporation, Pacnet, TeamRock, ThinkLondon, People Per Hour, Datapipe, Basefarm, Chayora, IXCellerate, Teraco Data Environments, Kinolt (formerly EURO-DIESEL), Park Place Technologies, Hurley Palmer Flatt, Plusserver and ITconic.
Charitable activities
Tobin started the CEO Sleepout UK charitable initiative in 2014 with Tony Hawkhead, CEO of Action for Children, where CEOs sleep out on the street to raise the profile of the issue of homelessness for children.
In 2016, Tobin raised over £100,000 by running 40 marathons in 40 days for The Prince's Trust.
In 2020, Tobin raised over £100,000 for The Brain Tumour Charity by trekking to the South Pole.
Michael is Founder of The Tobin Foundation and has raised over £100K to date for Education, Empowerment and Welfare of Children.
Michael has also been a champion of the Duke of Edinburgh Awards, Founder's Circle Member of the British Asian Trust, Chairman of the Loomba Foundation and fundraising member of Make a Wish Foundation.
Books
Forget Strategy Get Results: Radical Management Attitudes That Will Deliver Outstanding Success, 2014.
Live Love Work Prosper: A Fresh Approach to Integrating Life and Work, 2018.
Lifting the Floor: Revealed, the true stories hiding beneath the tiles of the data centre industry, 2020.
Awards
In 2014 Michael Tobin was recognised with an Order of the British Empire for his ‘services to the Digital Economy’ which was presented to him at an investiture ceremony by the Prince of Wales.
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year (London regional winner) 2009, 2010 and (UK National winner) 2011.
Business Person of the Year Award London Chamber of Commerce & Industry 2009 and 2010.
London Busin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survio | Survio is an online survey system for the preparation of questionnaires, data collection and analysis and sharing the results. Survio is a project of Czech creators from the city of Brno, which is also referred to as the Czech Silicon Valley.
History
Founding
Survio was established in 2012. The project was founded by Ondřej Coufalík and Martin Pavlíček. The inspiration came in 2008 when Martin who was lying ill in the hospital, had to fill out multiple paper forms. Both men, therefore, in 2008, founded the predecessor of Survio, a company named Global Business IT s. r. o. With the idea of the questionnaire system then started the development in the South Moravian innovation center.
Development
Already in 2012 company Webnode invested, one and a half million Czech crowns (US$20 thousand) and acquired 35% stake of Survio.
This investment started very rapid growth of the online inquiry project. From the very beginning of the project, users had 11 languages available. The start of the project proved to be very successful and at the end of the first year of operation Survio had 100 thousand users from 124 countries of the world.
Customer base
Survio is designed especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The service is also suitable for all who need to prepare their own questionnaires: offices, schools, students, non-profit organizations, etc. However, more and more often is Survio chosen by large, international corporations. Very often is Survio used as a solution for various surveys among the end-customers including the measurement of customer satisfaction. Surveys aimed at staff and workplace environment are also frequently applied.
Currently, Survio serves more than 1 million users from 170 countries. The system is popular in Europe and Latin America. Survio users include a number of businesses, offices, and schools including universities. Clients include IBM, Tesco, FedEx, Bosch, Oriflame, BMW, Microsoft, Ford etc.
Prices
The basic version of the Survio is available for free. Survio also offers paid premium service. In the advanced menu, there are also specific types of questionnaires, such as, for example, NPS Net promoter score or 360 degree feedback.
See also
Comparison of survey software
References
Mass media companies of the Czech Republic
Polling companies
Czech companies established in 2012
Companies based in Brno |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%202 | System Two, System II or System 2 may refer to:
Computing
Acorn System 2, the early microcomputer
Atari System 2, the arcade game platform by Atari
Apple System 2, the operating system version for the Apple Macintosh
Capcom System 2, an arcade system board in the 1990s
Cromemco System Two, a computer system by Cromemco from 1978
Channel F System II, game console by Fairchild
Digital Access Signalling System 2, the protocol by British Telecom
Global File System 2, the file system by Red Hat
Master System II, the 8-bit video game console by Sega
Namco System 2, the arcade system board by Namco
Sega System 2, an arcade system board in the 1990s
S2 (programming language), style system 2
Other
System 2 in Trilogy, an album from rock band Angeldust
Super System 2, the poker system
System Shock 2, the computer game
See also
Operating System/2 by IBM
Personal System/2 by IBM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jibba%20Jabba | Jibba Jabba was a British pre-school television series which aired on the children's block Tiny Living on the channel Living TV.
The series is a computer animation series consisting of 32 five-minute episodes. It centers around two friends, 'Mo' and 'Max'. In each episode one character approaches a tree-house containing a dressing up box for Mo or Max to become a part of the story told in the episode. The stories told would often be a reenactment of a famous fairy tale or rhyme. Each episode included audience participation from children, calling out or responding. The series was presented and narrated by a puppet called 'Dog', as seen on sister show Tiny and Crew. Dog also provided in-vision presentation for the channel's Tiny Living strand.
References
2000s British children's television series
2003 British television series endings
British children's animated television shows
British television shows featuring puppetry
2000s British animated television series
British preschool education television series
Animated preschool education television series
2000s preschool education television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QIIME | QIIME (pronounced chime) is a bioinformatics data science platform, originally developed for analysis of high-throughput microbiome marker gene (e.g. 16S or 18S rRNA genes) amplicon sequencing data. There have been two major versions of the QIIME platform, QIIME 1 and QIIME 2.
While microbiome marker gene analysis continues to be a major focus in QIIME 2, the developers describe it as a microbiome multi-omics platform, and support exists or is being added for analysis of shotgun metagenomics and metatranscriptomics data, as well as metabolomics mass spectrometry data.
Development of QIIME 1 was initiated in the Knight Lab at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the first version of QIIME 1 was released on 26 January 2010. Beginning in August 2011, QIIME 1 development was led as a collaboration between the Caporaso Lab at Northern Arizona University and the Knight Lab. QIIME 2 development is led by the Caporaso Lab, but the project remains a community effort, with developers dispersed around the world. The hub of the QIIME 2 community is the QIIME 2 Forum.
"QIIME" was originally coined as an acronym for Quantitative Insights Into Microbial Ecology, but since the development of QIIME 2 this acronym has not been used.
See also
QIIME 2 website
Microbial ecology
Microbiome
References
Bioinformatics software
Metagenomics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%20658 | National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 658 is a Sustrans Regional Route. It is long, and provides a connection between Route 65 and Route 66 through York city centre. The full length of the route is part of the Way of the Roses. It is fully signed and open.
Route
NCN 658 starts at Scarborough Bridge on the west bank of the River Ouse. It runs up Marygate and Bootham, then passes through the historic city walls at Bootham Bar. It passes York Minster, the Merchant Taylors' Hall and Monk Bar before crossing the River Foss. It leaves the city centre on the Foss Islands Cycle track. The route ends at Tang Hall Lane where it meets NCN 66. Much of the route is traffic free.
History
The Foss Islands Cycle track runs along the former Derwent Valley Light Railway.
Sections of NCN 658 were originally signed as NCN 66. The route was altered and renumbered during the creation of Way of the Roses Challenge Route.
Prior to the opening of the York bypass in 1976 the A64(T) passed through central York. NCN 658 follows the old A64 route between the Minster and Monk Bar, part of which is now traffic-free.
Related NCN Routes
Route 658 meets the following routes:
Route 658 is part of the Way of the Roses along with:
References
External links
Route 658 on the Sustrans website.
Cycleways in England
National Cycle Routes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT%20Africa | TNT is a pay television channel focused on movies. The network is broadcast in Africa under the TNT name (formerly TCM Africa until 2018), as well as in the Arab world as TCM MENA; the latter features its own schedule and optional Arabic subtitles.
TCM MENA was split off from the African feed on 1 January 2016, and is available exclusively on BeIN. Meanwhile, TNT Africa is available in many providers (DStv, Black, StarTimes and Canal+).
History
The African website, TCMAfrica.com, launched in 2010. Only Turner Classic Movies.
Turner Classic Movies Africa switched to a 16:9 widescreen presentation on 15 November 2015.
On December 27, 2015, Turner Classic Movies stopped broadcasting on OSN and moved to beIN in the Arab world. This was the result of an agreement between Turner Broadcasting System EMEA and beIN which moved all of the former's pay-TV channels to the latter, including Turner Classic Movies, Cartoon Network, Boomerang and CNN.
On 1 January 2016, TCM MEA was split into TCM Africa and TCM MENA. On 21 September 2018, TCM Africa was rebranded to TNT Africa with this version being a movie channel carrying a bit of Turner Classic Movies in its line-up for a modern audience across Africa on DStv and Black. The rebranding allowed TCM Africa to offer such films as Doom, Gladiator The Green Mile, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, The Illusionist, Robin Hood, and Tango & Cash for at least two days. On 18 December 2018, TNT Africa and Cartoon Network Africa were launched in HD on DStv. In January 2021, TNT Africa was rebranded, and announced on 22 January that the channel would begin airing AEW Dynamite with their secondary show AEW Rampage airing later that year.
See also
Turner Classic Movies
List of international Turner Classic Movies channels
References
External links
Africa
Movie channels
Television channels and stations established in 1993
Classic television networks
Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20Clark%20%28businessman%29 | Gregory S. Clark is an Australian businessman, He founded the computer company Dascom, later to become part of Tivoli Software. He was the CEO of Symantec.
Clark graduated from Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, where he obtained a BSc.
Business background
Clark started a computer company called Dascom with labs on the Gold Coast of Queensland and Santa Cruz, California. In 1999, Dascom was acquired by IBM's Tivoli Software division.
Clark has been subsequently associated with the following companies:
IBM Tivoli
E2open, Inc.
Mincom
Blue Coat, Inc.
Blue Coat Systems Inc
Anonyome Labs Inc
Emulex
Global Healthcare Exchange
Imperva
Inteligreated
Aconex
Symantec
He was the CEO of Symantec until May 9, 2019.
Published works
He is the co-author of Security intelligence: a practitioner's guide to solving enterprise security challenges (2015).
References
1965 births
Living people
Griffith University alumni
University of New Mexico alumni
Gen Digital people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerge%20for%20Truth | Cerge for Truth is a current affairs and talk television show in the Philippines hosted by Cerge Remonde, and aired every Tuesday evenings on Radio Philippines Network.
Hosts
Cerge Remonde (2003–2007)
See also
List of Philippine television shows
List of programs previously broadcast by Radio Philippines Network
Philippine television talk shows
RPN News and Public Affairs shows
Radio Philippines Network original programming
2003 Philippine television series debuts
2007 Philippine television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly%20algorithm |
History
The Fly Algorithm is a type of cooperative coevolution based on the Parisian approach. The Fly Algorithm has first been developed in 1999 in the scope of the application of Evolutionary algorithms to computer stereo vision. Unlike the classical image-based approach to stereovision, which extracts image primitives then matches them in order to obtain 3-D information, the Fly Agorithm is based on the direct exploration of the 3-D space of the scene. A fly is defined as a 3-D point described by its coordinates (x, y, z). Once a random population of flies has been created in a search space corresponding to the field of view of the cameras, its evolution (based on the Evolutionary Strategy paradigm) used a fitness function that evaluates how likely the fly is lying on the visible surface of an object, based on the consistency of its image projections. To this end, the fitness function uses the grey levels, colours and/or textures of the calculated fly's projections.
The first application field of the Fly Algorithm has been stereovision. While classical `image priority' approaches use matching features from the stereo images in order to build a 3-D model, the Fly Algorithm directly explores the 3-D space and uses image data to evaluate the validity of 3-D hypotheses. A variant called the "Dynamic Flies" defines the fly as a 6-uple (x, y, z, x’, y’, z’) involving the fly's velocity. The velocity components are not explicitly taken into account in the fitness calculation but are used in the flies' positions updating and are subject to similar genetic operators (mutation, crossover).
The application of Flies to obstacle avoidance in vehicles exploits the fact that the population of flies is a time compliant, quasi-continuously evolving representation of the scene to directly generate vehicle control signals from the flies. The use of the Fly Algorithm is not strictly restricted to stereo images, as other sensors may be added (e.g. acoustic proximity sensors, etc.) as additional terms to the fitness function being optimised. Odometry information can also be used to speed up the updating of flies' positions, and conversely the flies positions can be used to provide localisation and mapping information.
Another application field of the Fly Algorithm is reconstruction for emission Tomography in nuclear medicine. The Fly Algorithm has been successfully applied in single-photon emission computed tomography and positron emission tomography
. Here, each fly is considered a photon emitter and its fitness is based on the conformity of the simulated illumination of the sensors with the actual pattern observed on the sensors. Within this application, the fitness function has been re-defined to use the new concept of 'marginal evaluation'. Here, the fitness of one individual is calculated as its (positive or negative) contribution to the quality of the global population. It is based on the leave-one-out cross-validation principle. A global fitness funct |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC%20%28African%20and%20Middle%20Eastern%20TV%20channel%29 | AMC Middle East and Africa is a European-based pay television channel which was launched by AMC Networks International in Africa and the Arab World. AMC replaced the MGM Channel on 1 December 2014. AMC-produced dramas such as Halt and Catch Fire and The Divide are among the first original series that premiered on the channel. The channel also airs films from MGM, Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, Disney (20th Century Studios) and Sony Pictures Entertainment.
On 1 August 2016, AMC stopped broadcasting on OSN and moved to beIN in the Arab World.
Programming
4th and Loud
Breaking Bad
Fargo
Fear the Walking Dead
Halt and Catch Fire
Hollywood's Best Film Directors
Mad Men
Rectify
The Divide
The Night Manager
References
AMC Networks International |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishikesh%20Narayanan | Rishikesh Narayanan (born 1974) is an Indian neuroscientist, computer engineer and a professor at the Molecular Biophysics Unit (MBU) of the Indian Institute of Science. He is the principal investigator at the Cellular Neurophysiology Laboratory of MBU where his team is engaged in researches on experimental and theoretical aspects of information processing in single neurons and their networks. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2016, for his contributions to biological sciences.
Biography
Rishikesh Narayanan, born on 5 June 1974 at Virudhunagar in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, graduated in electronics and communication engineering from Mepco Schlenk Engineering College of Madurai Kamaraj University in 1995 and obtained a master's degree by research in engineering working under Y. V. Venkatesh from the Indian Institute of Science in 1997; his thesis for the degree was Neural architectures for active contour modelling and for pulseencoded shape recognition. He continued his doctoral studies under Venkatesh at IISc and secured a PhD for his thesis, A computational model for the development of simple-cell receptive fields spanning the regimes before and after eye-opening in 2002 after which he enrolled as a post-doctoral fellow under Sumantra Chattarji at National Centre for Biological Sciences. In 2004, he moved to the University of Texas at Austin on a second post-doctoral fellowship where he was mentored by Daniel Johnston. While at the university, he also did a three-month summer research stint at Marine Biological Laboratory during June–August 2008. Returning to India in 2009, he joined IISc as an assistant professor at the Molecular Biophysics Unit, became an associate professor in 2015 and is the head of the Cellular Neurophysiology Laboratory where he hosts a number of research scholars.
Narayanan, who teaches specialized courses at IISc, has published in peer-reviewed journals. He is a member of the Neurobiology Task Force of the Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India and several science societies including Society for Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society, American Physiological Society and Biophysical Society. He is a reviewer for journals such as eLife, Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, Journal of Computational Neuroscience, Journal of Neurophysiology, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Physiology, Neuroscience, PLOS Computational Biology and has organized or participated in several conferences and seminars at IISc and outside. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in 2016.
Selected bibliography
See also
Hippocampus
Dendrite
Notes
References
External lin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For%20M | For M is a current affairs and talk television show in the Philippines. It hosted by Marigold Haber-Dunca and Mr. Fu, and aired every Monday evenings on Radio Philippines Network.
Hosts
Marigold Haber-Dunca
Mr. Fu
See also
List of Philippine television shows
List of programs previously broadcast by Radio Philippines Network
Philippine television talk shows
RPN News and Public Affairs shows
2006 Philippine television series debuts
2007 Philippine television series endings
Radio Philippines Network original programming |
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