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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azhagarmalai%20Kalvan | Azhagarmalai Kalvan () is a 1959 Indian Tamil language film produced and directed by Kemparaj. The film stars K. Balaji and Malini
Cast
The list is compiled from Film News Anandan's database.
K. Balaji
Malini
V. Nagayya
C. R. Vijayakumari
Kamaraj
Manorama
V. Gopalakrishnan
Lakshmiprabha
Kaka Radhakrishnan
Soundtrack
Music was composed by B. Gopalam, while the lyrics were penned by Puratchidasan and Vaali. The song "Nilavum Tharaiyum Neeyamma" is the first lyric penned by Vaali for a film.
References
External links
1950s Tamil-language films
1959 drama films
1959 films
Indian black-and-white films
Indian drama films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wintun%20%28disambiguation%29 | The Wintun are members of several related Native American peoples in Northern California.
Wintun may also refer to:
Wintun language
Wintun Glacier
WINTUN type of VPN network driver
See also
Wintu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s%20International%20Networking%20Conference | The Women's International Networking Conference (WINConference) is a women's networking conference. It runs annually in capital cities in Europe. The focus of the conference has been women, female empowerment and leadership. The Guardian has described it as a part of a trend they named "Sisterhood 2.0." It is one of the largest conferences of its kind, according to Financial Express.
About
The Women's International Networking Conference was founded in 1997 by Norwegian social entrepreneur Kristin Engvig. Together with a group of corporate women and expatriates she invented the WINConference which was held at Palazzo delle Stelline, IBM Center in Milan in 1998. The conference is attended by business people, politicians, NGO representatives and others. WINConference prepares their attendants for the future through a feminine lens, conducting research on women in management and business and the way they balance work and life. Its vision expands the new paradigm of leading authentically, by integrating feminine values and global interconnectedness and the conference brings influential change-makers and pioneers together to create a more balanced world that works for all.
Since 2009, the global conference is run annually, with around 500 attendees from all over the world. WINConference holds global and local conferences, such as the Middle East (Dubai), Japan WIN Conference and WINConference Nigeria. In 2013, the India Conference was held for the first time. Through thought leadership, advocacy, vision & innovative work on diversity, inclusion, authentic, feminine/balanced, and global conscious leadership WIN Conference touched 22 000 women leaders worldwide as well as an increasing number of men). As of 2016, the global conference has gathered more than 13 000 participants of 129 different nationalities.
Current and Past editions
September 2017 Oslo
September 2016 Rome - Leading the Way, with Beauty, Connection and Confidence.
March 2016 New Delhi
April 2015 Tokyo
September 2015 Rome - Inspire the World with insight, grace and action
April 2014
2014 Berlin - A Magnificent Leap of Change
2013 Prague - Flourishing together: With Beauty, Trust and Passion.
2012 Rome - Making Space: Find Possibilities
2011 Rome - Creating History
2010 Realizing visions: with clarity, enthusiasm and care
2009 Wisdom in Action: Transforming people, organisations and society
2008 Creating the future: innovation, integrity and vitality
2007 Taking the next step: fearless, graceful and together
2006 Rome - Courage to be the change
2005 Leading for the future
2004 Connecting People to Create Impact
2002 Women Building Partnerships Across Boundaries
2001 Women Leading Global Change
2000 Sustainable Strategies for Women in the Global Era
1999 Winning Strategies for Women Working Internationally
1998 Winning Strategies for Women in the era of Globalization
References
External links
Official site
WINConference Founder Kristin Engvig (2016 video)
Wo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azer%20Bestavros | Azer Bestavros () (born May 2, 1961), is the Inaugural Associate Provost for Computing and Data Sciences and the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Boston University. Prior to his appointment in 2019 to lead the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences, he was the Founding Director of The Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering. He joined Boston University in 1991 as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, which is part of the university's College of Arts & Sciences. He was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 1998 and to the rank of full professor in 2003. From 2000 to 2007, he served as chair of the Department of Computer Science. Prior to joining Boston University, he worked as an instructor, teaching fellow, software engineer, and technical consultant for various organizations and technology companies, including the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office of World Health Organization, Awad Associates, Harvard University, and AT&T Research Laboratories.
Education and career
A Coptic Christian native of Egypt, Bestavros was born and grew up in Alexandria, where he attended Collège Saint Marc, graduating in 1979 on top of his class, ranking third over 27,357 students in Egypt’s nationwide diploma exam. In 1984, Bestavros obtained a baccalaureate of science with summa cum laude honors in computer engineering from Alexandria University in Alexandria, Egypt, where he continued his studies, earning a master of science in computer engineering and digital control in 1987. While pursuing his M.Sc., he also served as an instructor of computer science at Alexandria University (1984–1987). In 1987, he joined the graduate program at Harvard University as a research fellow, earning a Master of Arts in computer science in 1988. Four years later, he received his Ph.D. in computer science from Harvard University, under Thomas E. Cheatham, one of the "roots" of the academic genealogy of applied computer scientists. While studying at Harvard University, he also served as computer science teaching fellow (1989–1990), resident host of Harvard's historic Dana-Palmer House (1990–1994), and as a computer science resident tutor at Leverett House (1994–1998).
After receiving his doctorate degree, Bestavros crossed the Charles River to join Boston University as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science in the College of Arts & Sciences. He was promoted to the ranks of associate professor in 1998, and full professor in 2003. He chaired the department for seven years (2000–2007), overseeing a period of significant growth, culminating in the Chronicle of Higher Education's highest ranking of the department as 7th in the US in terms of its scholarly productivity. His academic appointments also include visiting professorships at Harvard University (1999–2000), at Institut Eurecom in Sophia-Antipolis, France (2008), Federal University of Minas Gerais, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicktoons%20%28Sub-Saharan%20African%20TV%20channel%29 | Nicktoons is a South African pay television channel that was launched on 30 September 2014. It is owned by Paramount Networks EMEAA, and is targeted towards children, broadcasting reruns of original animated series from sister network Nickelodeon along with other cartoons. It replaced the African feed of KidsCo, North Africa receives the Arabic-Language feed of the channel Nicktoons MENA.
Unlike other Nicktoons feeds (since October 2021), the end credits on shows are no longer shows and were not replaced with short credits used by its sister channels.
History
In November 2013, it was announced that KidsCo would be discontinued following year during Valentine's Day and MultiChoice mentioned seeking possibly replacements for the channel at the time.
In June 2014, during MultiChoice's financial presentation ended March 31, 2014 the channel was unveiled alongside Lifetime both of which weren't available at the time. From September 30, 2014, the channel launched on DStv, alongside sister channel Nick Jr. and BET.
In June 2017, the Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB), headed by CEO Ezekiel Mutua, ordered a ban on six series airing on Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and Nicktoons for allegedly promoting homosexual themes to minors, including Hey Arnold!, The Legend of Korra, and The Loud House.
The channel introduced a Nick Jr. block in 2017, which airs every morning.
Some-time in 2020, Nicktoons Africa started using the 2014 US branding, making it the first international Nicktoons feed to use it, as other Nicktoons channels like NickToons CEE and NickToons UK & Ireland were still using the 2014 UK branding at that time (and still are), even though Nicktoons Africa still uses a mix of 2014 UK along with the US brand.
From May 17, 2021, a new musical program known as NickMusic launched on the channel airing weekdays at 4 PM.
From October 2021, Nicktoons started using the 2014 UK branding again, on the same month, The Loud House and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles returned to the channel alongside the premiere of The Casagrandes, The Barbarian and the Troll, Middlemost Post and It's Pony alongside the rebrand. Promos for Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years are show on the channel but does not air on the channel. Unlike the original, the promos don't show the variants and were replaced with alternate logo with SpongeBob's eyes (or Cosmo's eyes during commercial breaks) replacing the O's and mixed with Nickelodeon's current branding which don't show any text other than the Nicktoons logo, similar to Disney Channel Africa's mix of the 2014 Glass age branding and 2019 US Item age branding in promos and the 2017 European Graffiti age branding in bumpers and for its on-screen bug until June 24, 2022, even though the US branding was still used for bumpers of a few shows like Peppa Pig and Horrid Henry.
In the same month, some shows like Munki & Trunk were removed from the channel in favour of new programming. But in July 2022, Munki & Trunk a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20songs%20of%202012%20%28Mexico%29 | This is a list of the Monitor Latino number-one songs of 2012. Chart rankings are based on airplay across radio states in Mexico utilizing the Radio Tracking Data, LLC in real time. Charts are ranked from Monday to Sunday. Besides the General chart, Monitor Latino published "Pop", "Regional Mexican" and "Anglo" charts.
Chart history
General
Pop
Regional
English
See also
List of Top 20 songs for 2012 in Mexico
List of number-one albums of 2012 (Mexico)
References
2012
Number-one songs
Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon%20%28social%20network%29 | Mastodon is a free and open-source software for running self-hosted social networking services. It has microblogging features similar to Twitter, which are offered by a large number of independently run nodes, known as instances or servers, each with its own code of conduct, terms of service, privacy policy, privacy options, and content moderation policies.
Each user is a member of a specific Mastodon server that can interact seamlessly with users in any other server. This is intended to give users the flexibility to select a server whose policies they prefer, but keep access to a larger federated social network. Mastodon is powered by the ActivityPub protocol, making it part of the Fediverse ensemble of services such as Lemmy, Pixelfed, Friendica, and PeerTube.
Mastodon was created by Eugen Rochko and announced on Hacker News in October 2016, and gained significant adoption in 2022 in the wake of Twitter's acquisition by Elon Musk.
The project is maintained by German non-profit Mastodon gGmbH. Mastodon development is crowdfunded and the code does not support advertisement.
Functionality and features
Mastodon servers run social networking software that is capable of communicating using W3C's ActivityPub standard, which has been implemented since version 1.6. A Mastodon user can therefore interact with users on any other server in the Fediverse that supports ActivityPub.
Since version 2.9.0, Mastodon has offered a single-column mode for new users by default. In advanced mode, Mastodon approximates the microblogging user experience of TweetDeck. Users post short-form status messages, historically known as "toots", for others to see. On a standard Mastodon instance, these messages can include up to 500 text-based characters, greater than Twitter's 280-character limit. Some instances support even longer messages.
Users join a specific Mastodon server, rather than a single centralized website or application. The servers are connected as nodes in a network, and each server can administer its own rules, account privileges, and whether to share messages to and from other servers. Many servers have a theme based on a specific interest. It is also common for servers to be based around a particular locality, region, ethnicity, or country.
Mastodon includes a number of specific privacy features. Each message has a variety of privacy options available, and users can choose whether the message is public or private. Public messages display on a global feed, known as a timeline, and private messages are only shared on the timelines of the user's followers. Messages can also be marked as unlisted from timelines or direct between users. Users can also mark their accounts as completely private. In the timeline, messages can display with an optional content warning feature, which requires readers to click on the hidden main body of the message to reveal it. Mastodon servers have used this feature to hide spoilers, trigger warnings, and not safe for work (NSF |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian%20Prime | Guardian Prime is a fictional comicbook character owned by Comic Republic Global Network. He was created by Comic Republic pioneers Jide Martin and Wale Awelenje as one of three proposed flagship characters for the at-the-time unnamed venture.
Guardian Prime briefly appeared for the first time in comic strips attached to movie schedule flyers in Nigerian cinemas.
Subsequently, he appeared in Might Of Guardian Prime Issue 1, Produced by: Jide Martin, Michael Balogun, and the Ezeogu brothers (Ozo and Tobe)
Jide Martin, in an interview with The Guardian, said of his motivation to create the character: "I saw that Nigeria was filled with so much negativity. This hero [was] designed to give us faith to see that our actions and words could indeed make a difference and throw a positive light on Nigeria to a global audience"
Powers and abilities
Guardian Prime is described in the Comic Republic series as "Man, the way his creator intended him to be" and "The fifth element, one of the five essential elements for life to exist on Earth (Earth, Water, Air, Fire and Man-to stand guard over the others)"
He has invulnerability, super strength, flight, speed, enhanced senses, ability to intensify his body heat, and the ability to temporarily pass his invulnerability to any object he touches. Guardian Prime has immense strength, his notable feats of strength include carrying an Airbus aeroplane, ripping a helicopter into two, and he is so strong that he has even been seen as being able to carry an asteroid. Guardian Prime can fly at supersonic speeds, his most notable feat of speed is that he was able to fly from the sun back to the Earth in fifteen minutes. He can survive in space without the use of any breathing equipment. He can intensify his body heat and create fire. Gaiya once said that he "can burn brighter than a blue star.Guardian Prime has gone up against eevruwih,the spirit of aggression. NACSS commander, Jade Waziri's information classifies him as being a red class para human.
Fictional Character Biography
Born in Lagos, Nigeria,to Nigerian parents,Tunde Jaiye is the son of Danjuma Jaiye,a military general, and Evelyn Jaiye, a businesswoman. He has a baby sister named Chichi. From a young age, Tunde has lived a sheltered life, but nevertheless,has always believed in being compassionate and protecting the weak. When he becomes an Adult, He finds out that he is a Guardian. Guardians are special humans tasked with protecting the Human race, and they are ordained by Gaia, the Goddess of the Earth. Every 2000 years,a new guardian is born into the world.Depending on the state of the world, some guardians live out their entire lives without ever knowing who they really are, as their powers never manifest until they are needed most. With the world in turmoil and with his newfound powers and abilities, Tunde Jaiye sets out to save the world as Guardian prime.
References
Comics characters introduced in 2013
Comics characters with superhuman sense |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Neural%20Machine%20Translation | Google Neural Machine Translation (GNMT) is a neural machine translation (NMT) system developed by Google and introduced in November 2016 that uses an artificial neural network to increase fluency and accuracy in Google Translate. The neural network consists of two main blocks, an encoder and a decoder, both of LSTM architecture with 8 1024-wide layers each and a simple 1-layer 1024-wide feedforward attention mechanism connecting them. The total number of parameters has been variously described as over 160 million, approximately 210 million, 278 million or 380 million.
GNMT improves on the quality of translation by applying an example-based (EBMT) machine translation method in which the system learns from millions of examples of language translation. GNMT's proposed architecture of system learning was first tested on over a hundred languages supported by Google Translate. With the large end-to-end framework, the system learns over time to create better, more natural translations. GNMT attempts to translate whole sentences at a time, rather than just piece by piece. The GNMT network can undertake interlingual machine translation by encoding the semantics of the sentence, rather than by memorizing phrase-to-phrase translations.
History
The Google Brain project was established in 2011 in the "secretive Google X research lab" by Google Fellow Jeff Dean, Google Researcher Greg Corrado, and Stanford University Computer Science professor Andrew Ng. Ng's work has led to some of the biggest breakthroughs at Google and Stanford.
In November 2016, Google Neural Machine Translation system (GNMT) was introduced. Since then, Google Translate began using neural machine translation (NMT) in preference to its previous statistical methods (SMT) which had been used since October 2007, with its proprietary, in-house SMT technology.
Training GNMT was a big effort at the time and took, by a 2021 OpenAI estimate, on the order of 100 PFLOP/s*day (up to 10 FLOPs) of compute which was 1.5 orders of magnitude larger than Seq2seq model of 2014 (but about 2x smaller than GPT-J-6B in 2021).
Google Translate's NMT system uses a large artificial neural network capable of deep learning. By using millions of examples, GNMT improves the quality of translation, using broader context to deduce the most relevant translation. The result is then rearranged and adapted to approach grammatically based human language. GNMT's proposed architecture of system learning was first tested on over a hundred languages supported by Google Translate. GNMT did not create its own universal interlingua but rather aimed at finding the commonality between many languages using insights from psychology and linguistics. The new translation engine was first enabled for eight languages: to and from English and French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Turkish in November 2016. In March 2017, three additional languages were enabled: Russian, Hindi and Vietnamese along with Thai f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livo%20sheep | The Livo is a rare Italian breed of domestic sheep. It takes its name from the Val di Livo, in the province of Como, in Lombardy in northern Italy. Most of the data on the breed dates to 1983. Its conservation status is not clear; it may be extinct.
History
The origins of the Livo are unknown. It originates in the Val di Livo, in the province of Como, in Lombardy in northern Italy, and is named for the Livo river or for the comune of Livo. It shows similarity to the Ciavenasca breed of the Valchiavenna, in the province of Sondrio further to the north. It may have been influenced by Merinolandschaf (Württemberger) stock imported to the southern part of the area of Lake Como in the 1950s, and possibly also by lop-eared Alpine breeds such as the Bergamasca and the Brianzola.
Data on the breed dates to 1983, when there were approximately 500 head. The Livo was, but is no longer, among the autochthonous local sheep breeds of limited distribution officially recognised by the Ministero delle Politiche Agricole Alimentari e Forestali, the Italian ministry of agriculture. A herd-book is kept by the Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia, the Italian national association of sheep-breeders; it has been empty for many years. In 2007 the Livo was classified by the FAO as "extinct".
Characteristics
The Livo is well adapted to its mountain environment, where pastures may be very steep. The coat is straw-coloured, and extends onto the forehead and the upper part of the legs. The breed has a low twinning rate, about 20–25%.
Use
The Livo is kept mainly for meat production; lambs are slaughtered at a weight of The milk is just sufficient for the lambs. Wool yield is some per year; it is of mediocre quality.
References
Sheep breeds originating in Italy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intan%20%28TV%20series%29 | Intan is a 2006–2007 Indonesian soap opera starring Naysilla Mirdad, Dude Harlino, Glenn Alinskie, Ingka Noverita, Meriam Bellina, Nani Widjaja, Ninok Wiryono, Umar Lubis, Anwar Fuady, Nunu Datau, Farah Debby, Vera Detty, and Rama Michael. Written by Serena Luna and directed by Doddy Djanas. Produced by SinemArt Production. It aired on RCTI from 6 November 2006 to 22 July 2007 on Mondays to Sundays at 18:00–19:00 WIB, 19:00–20:00 WITA, and 20:00–21:00 WIT for 263 episodes.
Synopsis
Kasih is a girl from a rich family who falls in love with Fajar, a boy from poor family. However, neither family approves of their relationship. One day, Kasih finds out she is pregnant and Fajar is the father. Fajar and Kasih marry. Kasih gives birth to a baby named Intan. They live in penury. Fajar decides to stop his studies and work to meet the needs of his family. However, unfortunately Faiar dies in an accident. Kasih's parents remarry her with Dr. Frans. Kasih does not bring Intan with her to the new marriage, and leaves him with Lastri, Fajar's Mother. Lastri is angry about Kasih's marriage and departure and considers that Kasih has betrayed Fajar by leaving her baby.
Intan (Naysila Mirdad) grows up innocent and sweet, and loves Lastri (Hj. Nani Wijaya) a great deal. Lastri is very protective over Intan because she does not want her future damaged by her father, Fajar. Despite her efforts Lastri Intan gets pregnant. Lastri then asks Ello(Glenn Alinskie), Intan's close friend, to take responsibility. Ello hesitates, as he is at college, but in the end he decides to marry Intan, although his family is against the union. After they marry, Intan moves to Ello's House. Intan innocently starts a new life with Mr. Arman (Anwar Fuady) Mrs. Nadine (Meriam Bellina) and both of Ello's older brothers; Jemmy (Manfreed) and Rommy (Rama Michael). Happiness doesn't last long for Intan as, a few days after her marriage, Ello has an accident and dies. Nadine and Arman blame Intan for Ello's Death and evict her from the house. Intan begs Arman to let her stay, at least their son is born. Intan gives birth to a son, Rangga (Ryan Maladi). Nadine helps Intan to get to hospital.
Intan's early life in this house is not easy, because Nadine persecutes her. But Intan stands up to her with patience and love, treating Nadine as a mother and eventually Nadine's heart thaws. Intan is uncomfortable about staying on in her mother-in-law's house and, in order to look after her son, starts a sales job. At work, Intan meets Rado (Dude Harlino). and then moves to work at a salon. The salon is owned by Rado's Mother, Wina (Nunu Datau)and there she meets the assistant of the salon owner, Lila (Ingka Noverita). Lila also likes Rado, and tries to separate Intan and Rado. Meanwhile, Kasih is fighting kidney disease and needs a kidney transplantation, but doesn't find a donor match.
Dr. Frans doesn't want to lose Kasih, and finally finds Intan so she can donate her kidney to Kasih. Lastri is very |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Binns%20Hart | Joseph Binns Hart (5 June 1794 – 10 December 1844) was an English organist, and a compiler of dance music, particularly of the quadrille.
Life
He was born in London on 5 June 1794. He was chorister at St Paul's Cathedral under John Sale from 1801 to 1810, and during those years took organ lessons from Samuel Wesley and Matthew Cook, piano lessons from Johann Baptist Cramer. Aged eleven Hart often deputised for Thomas Attwood, the organist of St Paul's Cathedral.
In 1810 he became organist of St Mary's Church, Walthamstow, and joined the Earl of Uxbridge's household as organist for three years. He subsequently became organist of All Hallows' Church, Tottenham.
On the introduction of the quadrille at Almack's by Lady Jersey after 1815, Hart, who was described as teacher and pianist at private balls, began his long series of adaptations of national and operatic airs to the fashionable dance measures. His most notable achievement was the compilation in 1819 of a set of Les Lanciers, a type of quadrille, which remained popular for many years.
From 1818 to 1821 Hart was chorus-master and pianist of the English Opera House (the Lyceum Theatre, London), and wrote the songs for Amateurs and Actors by Richard Brinsley Peake (1818), The Bull's Head and A Walk for a Wager (1819), The Vampyre (1820), and other musical farces and melodramas.
From 1829 until his death, Hart lived in Hastings, where he opened a music-seller's shop, conducted a small band, and played the organ at St Mary's Chapel. He died on 10 December 1844 in Hastings, aged 50.
Publications
Some of Hart's most successful quadrilles were based on the music of Mozart's Don Giovanni (1818), Locke's Macbeth, Rossini's Pietro l'eremita (1822) and La donna del lago (1823), Weber's Der Freischütz 1824, and English, Irish and Scottish melodies. He composed forty-eight sets in all. He was also the author of some waltzes and galoppades. An Easy Mode of Teaching Thorough Bass and Composition is ascribed to him.
References
Attribution
External links
The Lancers Quadrilles RegencyDances.org
The Life & Quadrilles of Joseph Binns Hart (1794-1844) RegencyDances.org
Joseph Binns Hart Dancing books bibliography
1794 births
1844 deaths
English classical organists
British male organists
19th-century organists
19th-century composers
Dance in England
19th-century British male musicians
Male classical organists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libratus | Libratus is an artificial intelligence computer program designed to play poker, specifically heads up no-limit Texas hold 'em. Libratus' creators intend for it to be generalisable to other, non-Poker-specific applications. It was developed at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
Background
While Libratus was written from scratch, it is the nominal successor of Claudico. Like its predecessor, its name is a Latin expression and means 'balanced'.
Libratus was built with more than 15 million core hours of computation as compared to 2-3 million for Claudico. The computations were carried out on the new 'Bridges' supercomputer at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. According to one of Libratus' creators, Professor Tuomas Sandholm, Libratus does not have a fixed built-in strategy, but an algorithm that computes the strategy. The technique involved is a new variant of counterfactual regret minimization, namely the CFR+ method introduced in 2014 by Oskari Tammelin. On top of CFR+, Libratus used a new technique that Sandholm and his PhD student, Noam Brown, developed for the problem of endgame solving. Their new method gets rid of the prior de facto standard in Poker programming, called "action mapping".
As Libratus plays only against one other human or computer player, the special 'heads up' rules for two-player Texas hold 'em are enforced.
2017 humans versus AI match
From January 11 to 31, 2017, Libratus was pitted in a tournament against four top-class human poker players, namely Jason Les, Dong Kim, Daniel McAulay and Jimmy Chou. In order to gain results of more statistical significance, 120,000 hands were to be played, a 50% increase compared to the previous tournament that Claudico played in 2015. To manage the extra volume, the duration of the tournament was increased from 13 to 20 days.
The four players were grouped into two subteams of two players each. One of the subteams was playing in the open, while the other subteam was located in a separate room nicknamed 'The Dungeon' where no mobile phones or other external communications were allowed. The Dungeon subteam got the same sequence of cards as was being dealt in the open, except that the sides were switched: The Dungeon humans got the cards that the AI got in the open and vice versa. This setup was intended to nullify the effect of card luck.
The prize money of $200,000 was shared exclusively between the human players. Each player received a minimum of $20,000, with the rest distributed in relation to their success playing against the AI. As written in the tournament rules in advance, the AI itself did not receive prize money even though it won the tournament against the human team.
During the tournament, Libratus was competing against the players during the days. Overnight it was perfecting its strategy on its own by analysing the prior gameplay and results of the day, particularly its losses. Therefore, it was able to continuously straighten out the imperfections that the human |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine%20News%20Queensland | Nine News Queensland is the flagship state-based news bulletin of the Nine Network in Brisbane. It is screened across Queensland on weeknights, while on weekends it is also screened on a half-hour delay in the Northern Territory. Like all Nine News bulletins, the Queensland bulletin runs for one hour, from 6PM every day. It comprises local, national and international news, as well as sport, weather and finance.
Unlike the other four metropolitan bulletins, this local edition of Nine News is addressed on-air by its state rather than its city.
Simulcast
The 6pm bulletin is simulcast in Brisbane on commercial radio station River 94.9, across regional Queensland on the WIN Network as well as through Nine Darwin (on weekends only) and throughout remote eastern and central Australia on Imparja Television.
History
Bruce Paige and Heather Foord co-anchored the 6pm bulletin from 1995 until 2001, when Foord joined Mike London as a weekend presenter and Jillian Whiting replaced her on weeknights. London resigned in June 2003 after allegations emerged that he had organised a female friend to complain about the presentation of weeknight presenter Bruce Paige. Foord and Whiting swapped positions in 2004 with Melissa Downes taking over as weekend presenter in 2006.
Foord resigned as weeknight presenter on 5 December 2008 and was replaced by Melissa Downes on weeknights with Eva Milic and former ABC news presenter Andrew Lofthouse fronting weekend bulletins. A year later, Bruce Paige stepped down from the weeknight chair (he was replaced by Lofthouse) and Heather Foord returned to present weekend bulletins solo for two years. Paige returned to full-time newsreading in January 2012, fronting Nine Gold Coast News solo until he was paired with Wendy Kingston in July 2016.
In February 2018, in a minor network reshuffle, Alison Ariotti stepped down from the Weekend role. Darren Curtis anchored the bulletin before he was replaced by then-Nine News Regional Queensland presenter Jonathan Uptin.
In January 2023, long-serving sports presenter Wally Lewis resigned from the role, citing health concerns. He was replaced by Jonathan Uptin, who formerly presented the weekend news between 2018 and 2022. His position was subsequently taken over by Mia Glover.
Ratings
Throughout the 1990s, and right up until the mid-2000s, Nine News Queensland was the clear-cut ratings leader in Brisbane. However, when weatherman John Schluter resigned just short of what would have been his 25th anniversary with the Nine Network towards the end of 2006 (subsequently joining the rival Seven News Brisbane), sports presenter Wally Lewis took sick leave after collapsing on-air during a nightly bulletin in November of the same year, and rival Seven Brisbane poached then-Today news presenter Sharyn Ghidella from Nine shortly after to read its weekend news (and later weeknights), the ratings declined, and in 2007, Nine News Queensland would lose its long-standing ratings dominance in the local ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavister | Clavister is a Swedish company specialized in network security software, listed on NASDAQ First North.
According to a report from 451 Research, the Edward Snowden NSA leaks and consequent loss of trust in US-based products helped with the international expansion of Clavister.
Clavister has a global presence with customers such as the Japanese NTT-BP and the German Marbach Group.
Clavister has partnerships with for example the Japanese Canon-ITS, and in the area of virtualized network security with Nokia Networks and Artesyn.
In August 2016, Clavister announced the acquisition of partner PhenixID, an identity and access management (IAM) provider.
See also
Comparison of firewalls
References
External links
Business data for Clavister: Reuters, Yahoo! Finance, Bloomberg
Full version of the 451research report cited on the references above
Computer security companies
Computer security software companies
Companies established in 1997
Information technology companies of Sweden
Swedish brands
Deep packet inspection
Server appliance
Companies listed on Nasdaq Stockholm
Companies based in Västernorrland County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20supply%20chain%20management | In commerce, global supply-chain management is defined as the distribution of goods and services throughout a trans-national companies' global network to maximize profit and minimize waste. Essentially, global supply chain-management is the same as supply-chain management, but it focuses on companies and organizations that are trans-national.
Global supply-chain management has six main areas of concentration: logistics management, competitor orientation, customer orientation, supply-chain coordination, supply management, and operations management. These six areas of concentration can be divided into four main areas: marketing, logistics, supply management, and operations management. Successful management of a global supply chain also requires complying with various international regulations set by a variety of non-governmental organizations (e.g. The United Nations).
Global supply-chain management can be impacted by several factors who impose policies that regulate certain aspects of supply chains. Governmental and non-governmental organizations play a key role in the field as they create and enforce laws or regulations which companies must abide by. These regulatory policies often regulate social issues that pertain to the implementation and operation of a global supply chain (e.g. labour, environmental, etc.). These regulatory policies force companies to obey the regulations set in place which often impact a company's profit.
Global logistics and supply chain management are critical components of international business operations, ensuring the seamless flow of goods, information, and services across borders. This field involves the strategic planning, coordination, and optimization of all activities related to sourcing, production, distribution, and logistics on a global scale. With the increasing complexity of global markets and the need for companies to operate efficiently in an interconnected world, understanding and mastering global logistics and supply chain management is essential.
One of the key aspects of global logistics is the efficient movement of goods across international borders. This includes managing transportation methods, customs regulations, and trade compliance to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery. International trade agreements and regulations, such as Incoterms and customs duties, play a crucial role in shaping global logistics strategies.
Supply chain management in a global context extends beyond logistics and encompasses the entire flow of products and information from suppliers to end customers. This involves coordinating activities with suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers in different countries. Effective supply chain management helps reduce lead times, minimize inventory costs, and enhance overall customer satisfaction.
In the era of globalization, technology plays a pivotal role in optimizing global logistics and supply chains. Businesses utilize advanced software, data analytics, and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20308X | The IBM 308X is a line of mainframe computers, of which the first model, the Model 3081 Processor Complex, was introduced November 12, 1980. It consisted of a 3081 Processor Unit with supporting units.
Later models in the series were the 3083 and the 3084. The 3083 was announced March 31 and the 3084 on September 3, both in 1982.
The IBM 308X line introduced the System/370 Extended Architecture (S/370-XA) required by the new MVS/SP V2 and the Start Interpretive Execution (SIE) instruction used by the new Virtual Machine/eXtended Architecture Migration Aid (VM/XA MA).
All three 308X systems, which IBM had marketed as "System/370-Compatibles," were withdrawn August 4, 1987.
IBM 3081
The initial 3081 offered, the 3081D, was a 5 MIPS machine. The next offering, the 3081K, was a 7 MIPS machine. Last came the 3081G.
The 3081D was announced Nov 12, 1980; the 3081K came nearly a year later; the 3081G was introduced September 3, 1982 as part of the initial 3084 announcement.
"The IBM 3081 Processor Complex offers flexible growth steps in the 308X family of processors, between the 3083 Model Groups F, B and J and the 3084."
The 3081 was "two processors in a single box ... it was not possible to partition it and run it as two independent machines."
The dyadic concept offers "under the cover" dual processors.
3081 as successor to 3033
Some key technological features of the 3081, compared to the previous most powerful processor, the 3033, were the following:
About 800,000 circuits implemented in large scale integration, using up to 704 logic circuits per chip, which provided the required performance, reliability, and serviceability that were design goals
"Elimination of one complete level of packaging, the card level"
Water cooling, which provides heat removal from chips beyond the ability of conventional air cooling
A machine cycle time of 26 nanoseconds (38 MHz equivalent CPU)
Reduced power consumption, 23 kilowatts for a 3081-D16 versus 68 kilowatts for a 3033-U16
Approximately double the instruction-execution rate of the 3033
Two central processor components
Both central processors have access to channels (as many as 24), and main memory (up to 32 megabytes).
The elimination of a layer of packaging was achieved through the development of the Thermal Conduction Module (TCM), a flat ceramic module containing about 30,000 logic circuits on up to 118 chips. The TTL chips (which were not compatible with the TTL chips sold on the open market by many manufacturers) were joined face-down (sometimes called "flip chip") to the TCM with an array of 11 × 11 solder pads. The TCM contains 33 metalized layers which distribute signals and power. "A module is connected to the next level of packaging through 1800 pins (1200 are available for signals, 500 pins are available for power, and 100 pins are spare)." (p. 7) The module is fitted with a helium-filled metal cap, which contains one piston per chip; the piston presses against the back of each chip to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawe%C5%82%20J%C4%99drzejczyk | Paweł Jędrzejczyk (born 15 November 1980) is a Polish welterweight kickboxer and Muay Thai kickboxer. He is four time World Kickboxing Network Champion and one time World Kickboxing Association World Champion. He is first Polish fighter contracted by Glory.
Personal life
He is born in Wrocław. He is married to Natalia with one daughter.
Muay Thai and Kickboxing amateur career
He used to live in Thailand with his parents as a child. He started training kickboxing and Muay Thai at age 19. He fought his first amateur fight at age 24. In 2004 he was picked by Polish National Team starting to fight internationally.
Professional career
In 2009 he won his first WKN World Champion title (K-1 rules) in Nowa Sól Poland. After five rounds he won on points against Angelo Silva from Portugal. In 2010 he lost his title against Abder Khader Ahmed of Egypt. Wergi lost on points.
One year later he fought for another WKN World Title (79.400 kg) in Zielona Góra Poland at Makowski Fighting Championship event. Pawel won by KO in 4th round against Mukutadze Ednari.
On 3 December 2011 he won by KO against Hugo Miguel Rodríguez Méndez and won his first Muay Thai World Title at Nowa Sól, Poland during event.
In 2009 he started to train and fight in Thailand. After few fights he got a shot to fight at legendary Rajadamnern Stadium at 16.09.2012 in Bangkok. He won in first round by KO against Thai Champion Cheerchai Petchpaothong and became first Polish Fighter who fought and won there.
In 2013 he fought at old Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok and lost on points with Gareth Nellies of England. In the same year he became World Kickboxing Network World Champion one more time, winning on points against Dimitar Iliev.
After 15 months of break caused by injury he won his fifth World Title. This Time he won by KO in fifth round via low kicks against Josip Balentovich. He became Thai Boxing WKA World Champion.
On 7 February 2015 he got the rematch with Gareth Nellies at New Lumpinee Boxing Stadium and won. On 24 May 2015 he won against F16 Rajanont in Pattaya at Max Muay Thai event. On 16 August 2016 he drew with Ekapop Sityodtong at another Max Muay Thai event.
In January 2016 Paweł Jędrzejczyk signed a contract with Glory. He lost on his debut to Richard Abraham at Glory 27 in Chicago. In 2017 he will fight again for Glory in Chicago.
Paweł Jędrzejczyk is ranked on the first place in the "Polish male kickboxers rankings" at Madfight24.com.
Achievements
2007
European Champion Muay Thai WMF
2009
World Champion K1 Rules WKN
2011
World Champion Muay Thai WKN
World Champion Oriental Rules WKN
2013
World Champion Kickboxing BB Rules WKN
2014
World Champion Thai Boxing WKA
2017
Makowski Fighting Championship Champion
Professional kickboxing record
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%20Szeider | Stefan Szeider is an Austrian computer scientist who works on the areas of algorithms, computational complexity, theoretical computer science, and more specifically on propositional satisfiability, constraint satisfaction problems, and parameterised complexity. He is a full professor at the Faculty of Informatics at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), the head of the Algorithms and Complexity Group, and co-chair of the Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms (VCLA) of TU Wien.
Education
Szeider received his doctorate in Mathematics from the University of Vienna in 2001 under the supervision of Professors Herbert Fleischner and Georg Gottlob while working as a mathematician at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Career and research
Szeider is a full professor at the Faculty of Informatics at TU Wien. Previously he was first Lecturer and then Reader at the University of Durham, UK (2004–2009) and a postdoc with Professor Stephen Cook’s Group at the University of Toronto (2002–2004). He is a co-chair of the Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms, which he founded together with Helmut Veith in 2012. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Computer and System Sciences, the Journal of Discrete Algorithms, the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research and Fundamenta Informaticae.
Szeider published more than 140 refereed publications in the areas of theoretical computer science, algorithms, computational complexity, artificial intelligence, propositional satisfiability and constraint satisfaction.
Szeider is best known for popularizing the notion of backdoor sets for SAT and other problems and the introduction of dependency schemes for quantified boolean formulas.
Szeider also worked on width measures for graphs such as treewidth and clique-width. He showed with coauthors that it is NP-hard to determine whether the clique-width of a given graph is smaller than a given bound. He established complexity results for detecting minimally unsatisfiable formulas.
References
External links
Official website
Living people
Austrian computer scientists
TU Wien alumni
Academic staff of TU Wien
Theoretical computer scientists
Scientists from Vienna
Academics of Durham University
University of Toronto alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy%20Barr%20%28naturalist%29 | Billy Barr, stylized as billy barr, is an American amateur scientist known for his collection of over 40 years of data on snow levels, temperatures and animal migration in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Barr's data collection is recognized as critical evidence of the effects of climate change.
Life and work
Barr grew up in Trenton, New Jersey. In 1972, as a student researcher from Rutgers University, he took a short-term job at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory measuring water quality near Crested Butte in the West Elk Mountains, Colorado. After some time, he featured in a local newspaper as an eccentric mountain hermit.
In the mid 1970s, with the initial intention of escaping the boredom of living in the remote location of Gothic Mountain, Barr began meticulously collecting environmental data by measuring the snow depth, temperatures and noting the arrival of different species in the spring. Around the same time, he became "an unofficial caretaker" of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. In late 1990s, the lab's resident ecologist David Inouye recognized the significance of Barr's data and began sharing it with other scientists. Since then, Barr's records have been used in numerous scientific articles on climate change.
The 2016 documentary film The Snow Guardian is dedicated to Barr.
References
External links
Amateur scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Climate change in the United States
Climate of the Rocky Mountains |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Beaverton%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Beaverton is a Canadian news satire television comedy series, which premiered on The Comedy Network in 2016. Based on the satirical online publication of the same name, the series follows the format of a mock television newscast, parodying both the content and the form of contemporary television news.
The show stars Miguel Rivas and Emma Hunter as the anchors, with Laura Cilevitz, Aisha Alfa, Marilla Wex, Dave Barclay and Donavon Stinson as correspondents, and Pat Smith and Luke Gordon Field as hosts of the Beaverton Sports Network segment. Numerous Canadian actors, comedians and other media personalities have also appeared on the show in supporting character roles as interview guests. Field is also one of the show's producers, and the editor of the parent website.
Pier 21 Productions announced in July 2015 that a pilot was in development. In June 2016, the Comedy Network confirmed that it had picked up the series for airing in the 2016-17 television season. In June 2017 Beaverton was greenlit for season 2 in press release by Bell Media Studios.
The series debuted on November 9, 2016. Because the first episode was taped before, but aired after, the date of the 2016 United States presidential election, the program prepared and filmed two different introductions based on both possible outcomes.
In the third season, originals began debuting on CTV.
Cast
Emma Hunter as Self-host
Miguel Rivas as Self-host
Laura Cilevitz as Self-correspondent
Pat Smith as Pat Smith - Beaverton Sports Network
Donavon Stinson as Self-correspondent
Aisha Alfa as Self-correspondent
Critical response
National Post critic David Berry wrote favourably about the show's premiere, noting that the show displayed signs of a much harder satirical bite than the relatively soft parodic tradition of established shows such as This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Heather Mallick of the Toronto Star wrote that she was looking forward to the series premiere, comparing the advance preview clips she had seen to the best of The Onion and the Canadian sketch comedy classic SCTV.
The series was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Variety or Sketch Comedy Program or Series at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards and the 6th Canadian Screen Awards.
Series overview
References
External links
Canadian news parodies
2016 Canadian television series debuts
2010s Canadian satirical television series
2020s Canadian satirical television series
CTV Comedy Channel original programming
CTV Television Network original programming
2010s Canadian sketch comedy television series
Television shows filmed in Toronto
2020s Canadian sketch comedy television series
Canadian political comedy television series
Television series based on Internet-based works |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional%20beamforming | Three-dimensional beamforming (3DBF), full dimension MIMO or tilt angle adaptation is an interference coordination method in cellular networks and radar systems which brings significant improvements in comparison with conventional 2D beamforming techniques. Most beamforming schemes currently employed in wireless cellular networks control the beam pattern radiation in the horizontal plane. In contrast to such two-dimensional beamforming (2DBF), 3DBF adapts the radiation beam pattern in both elevation and azimuth planes to provide more degrees of freedom in supporting users.
By utilizing information on angle of arrival (AoA) of users provided by suitable antenna hardware such as sector antenna or planar array in both elevation and azimuth planes and estimating direction of arrival (DoA) of each users' signal, base station is capable of distinguishing different users using proper beamforming and also steering the array's beam to a desired direction which optimizes some preferred performance metric of the network.
Different types of 3DBF
Depending on the way that the antenna downtilt is changed, 3DBF can be classified into two categories:
Static 3DBF refers to a system where the antenna tilt at the BS is set to a fixed value according to some statistical metrics.
Dynamic 3DBF that steers the BS antenna tilting angle instantaneously according to specific user locations.
References
Mobile telecommunications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momina%20Duraid | Momina Duraid () is a Pakistani director and producer. She is a senior producer and creative head of television network Hum TV and CEO of her own production company MD Productions. She has produced and created several series including Dastaan (2010), Qaid-e-Tanhai (2010–11), Humsafar (2011–12), Shehr-e-Zaat (2012), Zindagi Gulzar Hai (2012–13), Diyar-e-Dil (2015), Sadqay Tumhare (2015), Mann Mayal (2016), Udaari (2016), Bin Roye (2016), Yaqeen Ka Safar (2017), Suno Chanda (2018) and Ehd-e-Wafa (2019).
In 2015, Momina ventured into film direction and co-directed Bin Roye. Later that same year, she founded film production house, Hum Films. She is married to Duraid Qureshi and is a daughter-in-law of Hum Network president and founder, Sultana Siddiqui. In 2015, she was named among the Pond's list of Miracle Journey: The 100 Most Inspirational Women.
Career
Before entering into media, Momina was working as a marketing executive at bank, she said, "Media was the last thing I thought I would do. My mother-in-law, Sultana Siddiqui has been definitely associated with the industry as she worked for PTV but at the beginning, I was only looking after finances. I didn’t know that I would be stepping into the creative side of things." She produced Samira Fazal's Mere Paas Paas as her first independent drama series, that earned her critical acclaim. In 2010 she produced partition based drama series Dastaan based on the novel Bano by Razia Butt, the series starred then newcomer Fawad Khan with Sanam Baloch playing the title character of Bano. Dastaan received extravagant reception from critics and became one of the most acclaimed series of all time. At 1st Hum Awards ceremony serial was awarded Hum Honorary Most Challenging Subject Award, and received five nominations at 10th Lux Style Awards, winning Best Director for Haissam Hussain Momina then produced number of series and founded her own production company Momina Duraid Productions and became the senior producer of Hum TV.
In 2011, Momina convinced Farhat Ishtiaq to dramatize her novel Humsafar into a television series, which was previously rejected by two production houses. After its release Humsafar gained instant popularity and received the overwhelming response from critics and people all over the world. Critics regarded Humsafar as revival of drama industry. Sabahat Zakariya of Dawn News wrote, "If Haseena Moin was the benchmark of mass popularity back then, then Humsafar is an indicator of our endemic regressiveness." The series has a cult following with huge fan following especially in India, Europe and North America. The series lead actors Mahira Khan and Fawad Khan went on to become most popular actors in Pakistani film and television industry. Hum TV honored the craft and crew of serial giving them a special Hum Honorary Phenomenal Serial Award.
In 2015, Momina co-directed her first film Bin Roye under her production house Hum Films, that earned her rave reviews, and became the third highest-g |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vat%20jou%20goed%20en%20trek%21 | Vat jou goed en trek! Is an Afrikaans home renovation program currently airing in South Africa on the satellite network, KykNET on DSTV. The show is produced by the production company RichCon and is based in Johannesburg and other surrounding cities in South Africa. The program premiered on October 2, 2015, during the networks primetime slot and has since aired a total of 65 episodes spanning over 5 seasons from 2015–present.
Format
Vat jou goed en trek! is a home renovation show that helps South African families, struggling to sell their homes. A team consisting of an interior designer, a landscape architect, a general contractor and a leading real estate agent meet with home owners and have 72 hours to renovate three areas of the property, dress the property and show it to potential buyers.
Host and Crew
Henck Conrey - Conrey is a television producer from South Africa. He grew up in the city of Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. He is the creator, producer and host of the program from 2015 to present. "Vat jou goed en trek!" is Conrey's first television program produced under his production company, RichCon, founded in 2015 together with business partner Richard Opperman.
Lara Fourie - Fourie is an interior designer and CEO of A-Z Design Boutique. Fourie grew up in the beach town of Jeffery's Bay in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Fourie participated on te program as interior designer from 2015 - 2018.
Adrian Bosman - Bosman, then employed by the renovation firm, Mr. Maintenance, served as the programs renovation expert for season 1.
References
South African reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust%20Me%20Knot | "Trust Me Knot" is the 2nd episode of season 6 of the supernatural drama television series Grimm and the 112th episode overall, which premiered on January 13, 2017, on the cable network NBC. The episode was written by series creators David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf and was directed by John Gray.
Plot
Opening quote: "Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides."
Reception
Viewers
The episode was viewed by 4.24 million people, earning a 0.8/3 in the 18-49 rating demographics on the Nielson ratings scale, ranking third on its timeslot and tied for eighth for the night in the 18-49 demographics, behind Last Man Standing, MacGyver, Dr. Ken, Shark Tank, Hawaii Five-0, Blue Bloods, and 20/20. This was a slight decrease in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 4.49 million viewers with a 0.9/4 This means that 0.8 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode, while 3 percent of all households watching television at that time watched it.
Critical reviews
"Trust Me Knot" received positive reviews. The A.V. Club's Les Chappell gave the episode a "B" grade and wrote, "The madcap nature of “Trust Me Knot” is a step up from the bleaker and more cluttered nature of “Fugitive.” While things are still chaotic, it's a chaos that's more in keeping with the Grimm of old and one that seems to acknowledge not all of this chaos is sustainable The final season could certainly be our heroes going to ground and fighting the ascendant Renard for thirteen episodes, but doing so would mess with the rapport and settings that the show has largely preserved for five seasons. “Trust Me Knot” manages to both take a couple steps back into the comfort zone while also remaining cognizant of just how much trouble everyone is in."
Kathleen Wiedel from TV Fanatic, gave a 4.2 star rating out of 5, stating: "It's almost too bad that this is Grimm's final season. Grimm Season 6 Episode 2 continued the tension of the season premiere while leavening it some fantastic humorous moments."
References
External links
Grimm (season 6) episodes
2017 American television episodes
Television episodes written by David Greenwalt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30%20Degrees%20in%20February | 30 Degrees in February () is a Swedish drama series produced for television, airing originally on the SVT network and distributed internationally on Netflix. The series was created by Anders Weidemann and produced by Håkan Hammarén at Fundament Film. The first season debuted on February 6, 2012 and the second season premiered on February 1, 2016 and was produced by Anagram in co-production with SVT and Film i Vast.
The series depicts the lives of various Swedish citizens who move to Thailand. The series was filmed on location in and around Phuket, with additional scenes filmed in Sweden. The series airs primarily in Swedish, with some scenes in English and Thai.
It was part of a feature at the 2016 Gothenburg Film Festival to highlight the increasing popularity of Scandinavian television series abroad. The first season won Swedish television awards (Kristallen) in 2012, including for best drama series. It also received an International Emmy Award nomination in 2013 in the Best Actress category, for Lotta Tejle, who plays Majlis.
Plot
Season 1
The series weaves three separate stories of Swedes who embark on a new beginning in Thailand.
Kajsa (Maria Lundqvist) is a divorced workaholic who suffers a stroke and decides to move to Thailand with her daughters Joy and Wilda. They travel to a hotel on a remote beach where they had visited on holiday. Once they find it to be closed, Kajsa decide to buy it, but clashes with Chan the former owner who wants it back, while her daughter Joy falls in love with Chan's son Pong.
Majlis (Lotta Tejle) visits Thailand with her grumpy and verbally abusive wheelchair user husband, Bengt (Kjell Bergqvist). Although Majlis is enchanted by the place and wants to stay, her husband wants to leave.
Glenn (Kjell Wilhelmsen) is a lonely 45 year old blue collar worker who dreams of having a wife and children. After repeatedly being rejected by women in Sweden, he decides to search for a new wife in Thailand. His search is complicated when he meets the transgender masseuse Oh (Duangjai Phiao Hiransri).
Season 2
Joy and Wilda's father travels from Sweden to search for them with the intention of bringing them back home. Majlis is on the run from the authorities, and Glenn and Oh struggle with whether they can have a future together.
Cast
Kjell Bergqvist (Bengt)
Lotta Tejle (Majlis)
Maria Lundqvist (Kajsa)
Hanna Ardéhn (Joy)
Viola Weidemann (Wilda)
Thomas Chaanhing (Chan)
Sanong Sudla (Pong)
Kjell Wilhelmsen (Glenn)
DoungJai "Phiao" Hiransri (Oh)
Sumontha "Joom" Sounpoirarat (Dit)
Björn Bengtsson (Bengt Jr)
Torkel Petersson (Johnny)
Rebecka Hemse (Sara)
Björn Kjellman (Anders)
Linus Wahlgren (Johnny)
Namfon Phetsut (Teng)
References
External links
SVT official series website
2010s Swedish television series
Swedish drama television series
Television shows set in Sweden
Television shows set in Thailand
Transgender-related television shows
Swedish-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital%20Sisters%20Health%20System | Hospital Sisters Health System, or HSHS, is a non-profit healthcare system headquartered in Springfield, Illinois. HSHS operates a network of 15 hospitals and other healthcare facilities throughout the midwestern U.S. states of Illinois, and Wisconsin. HSHS also operates St. John's College, the oldest Catholic hospital based nursing school in the United States.
History
The Hospital Sisters of St. Francis was founded in Telgte, Germany in 1844, and came to Springfield, Illinois in 1875. This same year, they founded their first hospital, St. John's Hospital.
The Hospital Sisters Health System was created in 1978 by the Hospital Sisters of St. Franics to manage their network of hospitals in Illinois and Wisconsin.
In 2008, HSHS created the HSHS Medical Group to help coordinate care between their hospitals.
Operations
Hospitals
St. Joseph's Hospital is a 102-bed hospital in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.
Sacred Heart Hospital is a 216-bed hospital in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The hospital is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin.
St. Clare Memorial Hospital is a 25-bed critical access hospital in Oconto Falls, Wisconsin. The hospital was formerly known as Community Memorial Hospital, and changed its name when it joined HSHS in 2014.
St. Mary's Hospital Medical Center is a 158-bed hospital in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
St. Vincent Hospital is a 255-bed hospital in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
St. Nicholas Hospital is a 53-bed hospital in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
St. John's Hospital is a 431-bed hospital in Springfield, Illinois. The hospital is affiliated with St. John's College and Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.
St. Mary's Hospital is a 355-bed hospital in Decatur, Illinois. The hospital is affiliated with Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, St. Louis College of Pharmacy, Millikin University, St. John's College, and Washington University School of Medicine.
St. Francis Hospital is a 25-bed critical access hospital in Litchfield, Illinois.
St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital is a 133-bed hospital in Effingham, Illinois.
St. Joseph's Hospital is a 25-bed critical access hospital in Highland, Illinois.
St. Joseph's Hospital is a 49-bed hospital in Breese, Illinois.
St. Elizabeth's Hospital is a 144-bed hospital in O'Fallon, Illinois. The hospital is affiliated with Saint Louis University, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Southwestern Illinois College, and Kaskaskia College.
Holy Family Hospital is a 42-bed hospital in Greenville, Illinois.
Good Shepherd Hospital is a 30-bed hospital in Shelbyville, Illinois.
Operations
Kiara Clinical Integration Network is a subsidiary of HSHS, and provides healthcare technology to HSHS locations.
Prairie Education and Research Cooperative is an affiliate of HSHS, and is a not for profit medical research group.
Prevea Health is a medical clinic group that is 50% owned by HSHS and 50% owned by the physician owners of the medical group. Prevea partners w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheddar%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Cheddar Inc. is an American live streaming financial news network founded by Jon Steinberg in the United States. Cheddar broadcasts live daily from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Nasdaq, the Flatiron Building in New York City, and the White House lawn and briefing room in Washington, D.C. covering new products, technologies, and services.
Cheddar targets millennials by streaming one to two hours of live content from the NYSE trading floor daily, streaming live audio on iHeartRadio, and distributing the videos on video platforms such as Amazon Prime, the Cheddar app, Facebook Live, Sling TV, Pluto TV, Haystack News and YouTube. It is also available in Canada via RiverTV channel 25.
According to Steinberg, Cheddar received 148 million views in August 2017 across all of its platforms. On Facebook, 60 percent of Cheddar's viewers are under the age of 35. Accordingly, the daily live shows have been described as "quasi-CNBC for millennials".
Reportage focuses on stocks and technology. The channel is ad-free; expected revenue comes from carriage agreements with streaming services. Advertising comprises either program underwriting or semi-weekly brand integration. Brand integration advertising costs $100,000 per year.
Cheddar has two feeds, a paid-for and a free version. The paid feed broadcasts eight hours of programming a day, six of them live, and is available via Amazon Prime, Sling TV, YouTube TV, and the Cheddar app. The free feed broadcasts three hours of new content daily and archived content is available through Facebook and over the air via its affiliated stations. In April 2017, the channel had 100,000 viewers.
On April 30, 2019, it was announced that Cheddar agreed to be bought by the cable company Altice USA for $200 million in cash.
History
Formation
Jon Steinberg, formerly president of BuzzFeed and CEO of Daily Mail North America, conceived the concept after leaving the latter in 2015. He considered naming the company "Ticker" until Bustles founder, Bryan Goldberg, came up with the name Cheddar.
Steinberg founded Cheddar in early 2016 and hired Peter Gorenstein, a senior producer at Yahoo, as the channel's chief content officer in January 2016. In September 2017, Cheddar hired Anjali Kumar, former Warby Parker executive and Google lawyer, as its first general counsel and chief people officer.
In the company's first financing round in January 2016, it raised nearly $3 million, primarily from Snapchat and Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew, and additional funds from WGI Group, Homebrew, Jerry Speyer, and David Fiszel.
Operating
Cheddar began streaming on April 11, 2016, on Facebook Live with one hour of programming at 9:30 am. Cheddar initially streamed all videos for free, but in May 2016, the company launched a subscription video-on-demand service. Smaller clips continue to be released, but full-length videos are exclusive to subscribers. On May 23, 2016, SirusXM began carrying Cheddar.
Cheddar raised $10 million in f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenNIC | OpenNIC (also referred to as the OpenNIC Project) is a user-owned and -controlled top-level Network Information Center that offers a non-national alternative to traditional top-level domain (TLD) registries such as ICANN. As of January 2017, OpenNIC recognizes and peers all existing ICANN TLDs, for compatibility reasons. However, OpenNIC has not yet evaluated and does not hold a formal position on future ICANN TLDs.
In addition to resolving hostnames in the ICANN root, OpenNIC also resolves hostnames in OpenNIC-operated namespaces, as well as within namespaces with which peering agreements have been established. Some OpenNIC recursive servers (Tier 2 servers) are known for their high speeds and low latency, relative to other more widely used DNS recursors, as well as their anonymizing or no-logging policies. Many servers offer DNSCrypt. Tier 2 servers are operated by community volunteers across a multitude of geographic locations.
Like all alternative root DNS systems, OpenNIC-hosted domains are unreachable to the vast majority of Internet users, because they require a non-default configuration in one's DNS resolver.
History
On June 1, 2000, an article was posted on kuro5hin.org advocating a democratically governed domain name system. The first OpenNIC servers went into operation July of that year.
OpenNIC TLDs
OpenNIC namespaces
These TLDs are currently served by OpenNIC and were constructed with the approval of the OpenNIC community.
Peering agreements
OpenNIC provides resolution of select other alternative DNS roots.
New Nations
New Nations provides TLDs for nation-states that are not recognized by the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard, and therefore haven't received their own ccTLD. Currently they provide .ku (Kurdish people), .te (Tamil Eelam), .ti (Tibet), and .uu (Uyghur people).
FurNIC
FurNIC aims to bring a unique identity to Furries, Furry Fandom, and other Anthropomorphic interest websites across the internet. FurNIC and OpenNIC work closely, with .fur (Furry fandom) generally being treated as part of OpenNIC for most purposes, rather than a separate peer entity.
Emercoin
On January 15, 2015, domains registered in Emercoin's blockchain became accessible to all users of OpenNIC DNS. Emercoin DNS supports the domain zones .bazar, .coin, .emc, .lib, .ness and .sky. However, Emercoin DNS records can be registered/maintained from within the Emercoin software, and not as part of OpenNIC's management system.
Technical zones
OpenNIC operates some special-use TLDs, which are meant for technical or organizational purposes.
Suspended peering
Namecoin
In July 2019 the OpenNIC community voted 13-2 for dropping support for .bit domains due to them "being used as malware hubs" as a result of their "anonymous nature". A similar proposal was made in December 2018 but it did not reach the voting stage.
Until then OpenNIC resolved .bit (Namecoin) domains through the use of a centralized server which generated a DNS zone from the Namecoin b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GR%20132 | The GR 132 is a long-distance walking route in La Gomera, Canary Islands, Spain. It's part of the extensive GR footpath network of paths, tracks and trails. It's a well marked loop with a starting point in San Sebastián de La Gomera, the island's capital city. GR 132 is about 120-140 kilometres long, depending on the trail's variation.
External links
Camino Natural Costas de La Gomera
(in Spanish) Official Brochure of Spanish Government about GR 132 with map
Guide for hiking GR 132 in La Gomera
Hiking trails in Spain
La Gomera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel%20Guides%20%28TV%20series%29 | Travel Guides is an Australian travel series which premiered on the Nine Network on 14 February 2017. The series follows groups of ordinary Australians who take on the job of travel critics who experience the same week-long international and domestic holidays, and review the same accommodation, cuisine, and local sights.
The series is based on a similar programme of the same name made by UK production company Studio Lambert in 2015.
In May 2017, the series was renewed for a second season. In October 2017, the series second season was officially confirmed at Nine's upfronts with three travel guide groups from the first season set to return. The second season premiered on 29 January 2018.
In March 2018, a casting call went out for new groups to become part of the third season for 2019. The third season premiered on 5 February 2019.
In October 2019, the series was officially renewed for a fourth season at Nine's upfronts. The fourth season was set to air in early 2020, however due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the season was delayed and aired on 26 January 2021.
In September 2021, the series was officially renewed for a fifth season at Nine's upfronts. The fifth season premiered on 30 March 2022.
Travel Guides, won the Logie Award for Most Popular Lifestyle Program in 2022 and 2023.
The sixth season premiered on 19 April 2023.
Travellers
Notes
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2017)
Season 2 (2018)
Season 3 (2019)
Season 4 (2021)
Season 5 (2022)
Notes
Season 6 (2023)
International broadcast
In Israel, the show is broadcast on Arutz HaTiyulim via both yes and HOT subscription television services.
In New Zealand, the show is broadcast on TVNZ 2, and is available via the TVNZ OnDemand streaming platform. TVNZ also broadcast a local version of the show, Travel Guides NZ, which featured New Zealanders travelling domestically in 2021.
See also
List of Australian television series
List of programs broadcast by Nine Network
References
External links
2010s travel television series
2020s travel television series
Nine Network original programming
Australian non-fiction television series
Australian travel television series
2017 Australian television series debuts
English-language television shows
Travelogues
Australian television series based on British television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20TeleOnce | This is a list of television programs currently broadcast (in first-run or reruns), scheduled to be broadcast or formerly broadcast on TeleOnce.
Current programming
Original programming
Acquired programming
Upcoming programming
Former programming
Original programming
Television series
El Chapo (April 23, 2017 – July 25, 2018)
No me compares (August 30, 2018 – November 22, 2018)
Su Nombre Era Dolores (January 22, 2017 – April 16, 2017)
Telenovelas
Amar a muerte (January 14, 2019 – April 18, 2019)
La bella y las bestias (June 18, 2018 – October 1, 2018)
La Piloto (April 17, 2017 – August 7, 2017, season 1; October 8, 2018 – January 10, 2019, season 2)
News/public affairs programming
Despierta Puerto Rico (April 3, 2017 – 2018)
Edición Puerto Rico (March 19, 2018 – July 9, 2021)
Los Seis de la Tarde (April 27, 2015 – October 2017)
Notanserio Univision (February 26, 2017 – April 9, 2017)
Sal y pimienta (September 17, 2010 – February 12, 2017)
Talk/reality shows
Acuéstate con Francis (October 11, 2021 – July 15, 2022)
¡Ahora Es! (May 7, 2018 – January 14, 2021)
¡Ahora es que es! (March 8, 2021 – July 30, 2021)
Buen Viaje
Dale Replay (February 17, 2017 – March 24, 2017)
Estos Dos Sin Frenos (April 4, 2016 – October 7, 2018)
La gran sorpresa (January 14, 2018 – February 18, 2018)
La Noche Encima (March 7, 2016 – June 23, 2017)
Reina de la Canción (September 22, 2019 – November 24, 2019)
Tarde en la noche con Luis González (May 5, 2018 – October 17, 2020)
Una Buena Tarde (February 8, 2016 – October 2017)
La Banda (September 13, 2015 – December 11, 2016)
Va por ti (September 7, 2014 – September 4, 2016)
Yo soy un gamer (May 5, 2018 – January 16, 2021)
Acquired programming
Telenovelas
Abismo de pasión (May 7, 2012 – January 3, 2013)
Amor de barrio (May 16, 2016 – September 26, 2016)
Apocalipsis (March 2, 2020 – July 3, 2020)
A que no me dejas (July 31, 2017 – May 7, 2018)
Bloque de búsqueda (April 2, 2017 – February 10, 2018)
Caer en tentación (January 15, 2018 – May 31, 2018)
Cita a ciegas (September 14, 2020 – December 21, 2020)
Despertar contigo (September 19, 2016 – February 13, 2017)
Diseñando tu amor (May 31, 2021 – July 6, 2021)
Dulce ambición (November 16, 2020 – May 7, 2021)
El color de la pasión (March 29, 2017 – June 23, 2017)
El Dragón (October 21, 2019 – February 21, 2020)
El hotel de los secretos (January 31, 2016 – May 24, 2016)
El regreso de Lucas (April 15, 2017 – February 10, 2018)
El Rico y Lázaro (May 1, 2018 – November 19, 2018)
Enamorándome de Ramón (February 5, 2018 – May 4, 2018)
¿Qué culpa tiene Fatmagül? (July 6, 2020 – January 15, 2021)
Huérfanos de su tierra (August 2, 2021 – December 3, 2021)
Imperio de mentiras (January 18, 2021 – May 28, 2021)
La candidata (August 8, 2017 – January 12, 2018)
La doble vida de Estela Carrillo (January 2, 2018 – April 12, 2018)
La esquina del diablo (June 15, 2015 – September 21, 2015)
La que no podía amar (February 20, 2012 – October 9, 2012)
La Madrastra (June 27, 2005 – Dece |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangon%20Bus%20Service | Yangon Bus Service (YBS) is a bus transport network system which started operations on 16 January 2017, serving Myanmar's former capital city of Yangon. It is operated by the Yangon Region Transport Authority (YRTA) until the organisation was abolished on 20 May 2021 and reorganized as Yangon Region Public Transport Committee (YRTC).
History
Prior to the implementation of the new bus network, Yangon's bus network was overseen by the Yangon Motor Vehicles Supervisory Committee (colloquially referred to as Ma Hta Tha), and served a majority of the city's 2.8 million commuters daily. Private bus companies also ran lines throughout the city at a smaller scale. Of the 7,800 buses registered in Yangon, 4,000 of them plied the streets of Yangon daily, covering over three hundred bus lines.
The main reason for the overhaul of the bus network was the increasing number of complaints against bus operators for compromising passengers' safety in a bid to maximise profits, with bus drivers driving dangerously to pick up more commuters than their competition. The bus conductors (locally known as 'spares') were also heavily criticised for their poor attitude and constant overcharging.
Former Chief Minister of Yangon, U Phyo Min Thein brought the issue of public transport reforms into the spotlight.
Implementation
Prior to the citywide overhaul of the bus network, small-scale reforms had already been made to improve the city's bus network. This included the implementation of Yangon's first bus rapid transit system, the Yangon BRT, in February 2016 operated by Yangon Bus Public Company Limited. Beginning in January 2020, passengers can either pay with cash or smart cards.
The new bus network has reduced the old network's 300 lines to 100. However, some of the buses which have same line number but slightly different routes are separated into different lines. Now, they are numbered around 130.
YBS will be installing the Yangon Payment Service card system in 4,000 buses in 2019. Asia Starmar Transport Intelligence Co., won the tender to install the card payment system.
Criticism
Yangon Bus Service amid criticism of being ill-equipped to serve commuters, shortage of buses, misconduct of bus staff and constant violation of traffic rules. On 7 April 2017, lawmakers from Yangon Region Parliament called for a transparent review of the YBS.
References
External links
Official website
Road transport in Myanmar
Bus transport in Myanmar
Transport in Yangon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20international%20songs%20of%202017%20%28South%20Korea%29 | The international Gaon Digital Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing international songs in South Korea. The data is collected by the Korea Music Content Association. Below is a list of songs that topped the weekly and monthly charts, as according to the Gaon 국외 (Foreign) Digital Chart. The Digital Chart ranks songs according to their performance on the Gaon Download, Streaming, and BGM charts.
Weekly chart
Monthly charts
References
Korea international
International 2017
2017 in South Korean music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actias%20angulocaudata | Actias angulocaudata is a moth in the family Saturniidae described by Stefan Naumann and Thierry Bouyer in 1998. It is found in China and Laos.
References
Angulocaudata
Moths described in 1998
Moths of Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate%20Voter%20Registration%20Crosscheck%20Program | Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck (commonly referred to as IVRC or Crosscheck) was a database in the United States which aggregated voter registration records from multiple states to identify voters who may have registered or voted in two or more states. Crosscheck was developed in 2005 by Kansas Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh in conjunction with Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska. In December 2019, the program was suspended indefinitely as part of a settlement of a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas challenging Kansas' management of the program. Prior to Crosscheck's legally mandated suspension, a dozen states had withdrawn from the program citing the inaccurate data and risk of violating voters' privacy rights. Crosscheck was also accused of facilitating unlawful purges of voters in a racially discriminatory manner.
History
Crosscheck was initiated in December 2005 at the Midwest Election Officials Conference (MEOC) by the office of the Kansas Secretary of State in coordination with Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska. The program combined each state's voter rolls into a database and sought to identify potential duplicate registrations by comparing first name, last name, and full date of birth. In 2006, the first crosscheck was conducted using voter registration records from Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska. In 2017, the last Crosscheck was conducted with records from 28 states.
The program was administered by the office of the Kansas Secretary of State as a free service to all member states.
Under then-Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the program expanded rapidly from thirteen states in 2010 to a peak of 29 states in 2014. In 2017, Crosscheck analyzed 98 million voter registration records from 28 states and returned 7.2 million "potential duplicate registrant" records to member states.
Accuracy
Crosscheck considered two voter registrations potential duplicates if they matched on first name, last name, and full date of birth even if the last four digits of the social security number (SSN4) of the two records did not match, or when one or both SSN4 were missing.
Matching based on first name, last name, and date of birth "fails for practically all common American names" according to ID Analytics analysis of a database of over 300 million unique records.
Crosscheck's use of loose matching standards led to a high rate of false positives: pairs of voter registration records lacking a match on SSN4 but who are identified as "potential duplicate registrants" by Crosscheck. Although false positives created a myriad of issues, the Kansas Secretary of State's office did not publicly release the percentage of their widely publicized "potential duplicate registrants" which were false positives. Independent researchers point to public data from Virginia's 2013 Annual Report on List Maintenance, which documented a 75% false positive rate.
For voters and member states, misidentification can be costly. Each vote |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect%20College | Prospect College is a vocational college located in Washington, D.C. that offers programs in allied health, computer application software, and electrical trade to residents of Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. Formerly named Technical Learning Centers, Prospect College was founded in 1997 as a non-degree post-secondary school and is licensed by the D.C. Licensure Commission. Prospect College's current CEO is Dr. Mark Toufanian.
Programs
Prospect College operates on a Semester Credit System in which 15 lecture hours is equivalent to one semester credit, 30 lab hours is equivalent to one semester credit, and 45 clock hours of work-based activities is equivalent to one semester credit.
Maximum Time Frame
All students must complete their program of study in a period not exceeding 1.5 times (150%) the normal duration of the program as measured in credit hours attempted. For example, a 36-week long program must be completed within a time window of 54 (36+18) weeks. Periods of approved Leave of Absences (LOA) or other extensions are not considered in the calculation of the Time Limit. In order to graduate, a student must successfully complete 100% of the required Modules and attain a minimum cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 within the maximum time frame.
Grading System
Minimum Grade Requirements
Students must be in good academic standing (not on probation), have a passing grade (D or better) in each course contained in their program, and have an overall program grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 or better. In addition, students must maintain an overall attendance of 67% or higher.
Externship
The Allied Health students in the Medical Assistant, Medical Office Administration, and Medical Billing and Coding programs are required to complete a 170-hour externship at the end of their 7-month training program. These externships are primarily hosted by healthcare facilities and are conducted on a voluntary basis to familiarize students with a health care setting. Externships are coordinated through Prospect College's Career Services Office and include partnerships with Providence Hospital, Medstar Washington Hospital Center, Labcorp, DaVita Dialysis, United Medical Center, and The Kidz NP.
Locations
The main campus is located at 1220 19th St NW Suite 100 Washington, D.C. 20006.
The DuPont extension campus is located at 1220 19th St NW Suite LL Washington, D.C. 20006.
Both campuses offer the same programs listed above.
Admissions
Prospect College's admissions policies include:
All applicants must have a high school diploma or GED.
Additional academic, financial or assessment test standards may be required by Prospect College or certain government or private sponsoring agencies. Applicants must follow the respective agency’s requirements for sponsorship as applicable.
If a prospective candidate does not have a High School Diploma or GED, they can still be enrolled if they take and pass an approved ATB test. Concurrent with en |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Zachary | Joseph "Joe" Lawrence Zachary is an American computer scientist and professor at the University of Utah. He is known for his work in computer science education as a charter member of the United States Department of Energy Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Science (UCES) Project, an education initiative to improve the undergraduate science and engineering curriculum through computation. He was influential in promoting a new approach to teaching scientific programming to beginning science and engineering students.
Education and career
Joseph Zachary received his PhD in 1987, his SM in 1983, and his SB in 1979, all in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He started teaching at the University of Utah School of Computing in 1987. In 1999 he received the IEEE Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award for "outstanding and sustained contributions to undergraduate computational science education, including writing innovative textbooks, developing innovative online educational materials, and teaching an exemplary introductory scientific programming course". As part of his work as a charter member of the United States Department of Energy Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Science (UCES) Project, he wrote two introductory scientific programming textbooks, the first in 1996 and the second in 1998, and developed an extensive suite of interactive courseware to accompany them. UCES later developed into the Computational Science Graduate Fellowship administered by the Krell Institute. One of his assignments has appeared in the Nifty Assignments session at the SIGCSE annual meeting.
Bibliography
References
American computer scientists
Computer science educators
University of Utah faculty
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purism%20%28company%29 | Purism, SPC is an American computer technology corporation based in San Francisco, California and registered in the state of Washington.
Purism manufactures the Librem personal computing devices with a focus on software freedom, computer security, and Internet privacy. In addition to hardware, Purism also maintains PureOS, an operating system along with Librem One, a suite of software as a service based on open standards.
History
Purism was founded in 2014 with the start of a crowdfunding campaign for the Librem 15, an attempt to manufacture an Intel-based high-end laptop for Linux with "almost no proprietary software". A second campaign funded development of a 13-inch model with hardware switches to disable the microphone and camera as a privacy feature. Kill switches were also added to the 15-inch model.
The two campaigns raised from 1,042 initial backers, and production began at the end of 2015. In 2017 Purism announced its transition from a build to order to a build to stock order fulfillment model.
Purism reincorporated as a social purpose corporation in February 2017 and announced the change in May.
Products
PureOS
Purism manages development of PureOS, a free Linux distro based on Debian. PureOS mostly ships with software from the Debian software repository but has all software removed that violates Purism's guidelines and the GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines. PureOS was endorsed by the Free Software Foundation in December 2017. Librem laptops ship with PureOS by default and an optional Qubes OS Universal Serial Bus (USB) drive. Purism says that it is easy for Librem device owners to install alternative Linux distributions and that owners have the freedom to install any operating system that they desire.
Librem hardware
Librem has been the brand name used by Purism for all of their computer hardware products since the firm's first website in late 2014. The name is based on the French word libre for the English word free as used in the term logiciel libre for free software.
Purism devices feature hardware kill switches to allow users to shut off the camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and cellular or mobile broadband modem on devices that have one (or can be purchased air gapped).
Laptops
Purism's first products were two laptop computers. Since late 2015, they have made laptops of two sizes: Librem 13 and 15, featuring a 13 and a 15-inch screen, respectively. These products ship with Purism's own operating system, PureOS, a derivative of Debian GNU/Linux, and an optional Qubes OS USB drive.
Purism does its best to remove Intel's Management Engine from its Librem laptops, considering it a security problem. Still, it was not able to completely avoid use of proprietary BIOS firmware, earning it criticism from the Coreboot and Libreboot projects (which are working on completely free firmware, but as of 2015 had not yet achieved support of the contemporary hardware that Librem was using). Since summer 2017, new Librem laptops are shi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eirplay | Eirplay was an Irish computer game company founded by Peter Lynch. The company developed web and mobile games (J2ME) for a variety of platforms and publishers. It was founded in 2002 and ceased trading in 2009. Eirplay was based in the Digital Hub, Dublin, Ireland. The company published games for both the Irish market and international mobile games marketplace.
Distributors: Handango, AirGames, SSG, Selatra, Eirborne, Trust5
Company legal status: Private limited company
Directors: Michael Lynch; Peter Lynch
Awards
Sep 2003 - Eirplay wins a commendation award at the Hothouse (Dublin Institute of Technology) Awards for Best Start-up Company.
Jan 2004 - The company wins ‘Game Developer of the Year’ at the O2 Digital Media Awards
Nov 2007 - Eirplay wins the Eircom Web Innovation Award with Playza
References
Video game companies established in 2002
Video game companies disestablished in 2009
Companies based in Dublin (city)
Irish companies established in 2002
2009 disestablishments in Ireland
Defunct video game companies of Ireland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen%20Sink%20%28TV%20series%29 | Kitchen Sink was American cooking-themed television series that aired on Food Network. It was presented by a rotating lineup of chefs who taught the viewers how to create different indulgent recipes. During the first season, the series was titled The Kitchen Sink.
The series is a spin-off of The Kitchen. However, unlike The Kitchen, it did not have a studio audience; and it ran for 22 minutes instead of 41 minutes.
Episodes
Season 1 (2016)
Season 2 (2017)
Notes
References
External links
bstventertainment.com
2010s American cooking television series
2016 American television series debuts
2017 American television series endings
American television spin-offs
English-language television shows
Food Network original programming
Food reality television series
Reality television spin-offs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%20route%20numbering%20system | Iran route numbering system is a network of highways and roads in Iran that is managed by Iran Road Maintenance & Transportation Organization. The network comprises main highways and several major and minor country roads.
History
Probably in the late 1990s, all road numbers were changed. The old system was also a grid, but with only 5 east-west routes (even numbers 2-10) and only 7 north-south routes (odd numbers 1-13). Therefore, the new system is a lot denser, though there are a few sections that used to have a number that is not numbered anymore.
Route signs
blue on motorways, green on other roads. 3-digit numbers appear in black on a white rectangle
Routes
Asian Highways
Motorway (Freeway)
Numbers roughly increase from west to east .
, under construction
, (Hamedan-Kermanshah-Khosravi) planned
, under construction
, Partly built
, under construction
National highway
Odd numbers (11-99) generally denote north-south routes, while even numbers (12-98) denote east-west routes. Numbers increase in eastbound and southbound direction respectively. There are some A roads without a national number. Motorways do not have national numbers.
3-digit numbers are derived from 2-digit numbers by adding a digit at the end.
(Sari-Tehran) Some parts of it under construction
Turkmenistan-Mashhad-Mazandaran
Bardaskan-Taybad
Tehran-Mashhad
References
Iran Road Maintenance & Transportation Organization
Road management center of Iran
Ministry of Roads & Urban Development of Iran
Iran
Highways in Iran
Highways
Highways
Highways |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EJNYC | EJNYC is an American reality television series that premiered on the E! cable network, on June 19, 2016. The reality show follows the life of EJ Johnson who moves back to New York City. The show is a spin-off of Rich Kids of Beverly Hills.
Production
The show and cast was announced on June 14, 2016 via E! News.
On November 3, 2016, it was announced that the show will not be returning along with Rich Kids of Beverly Hills.
Cast
The series also features some of his friends and family, referred to as #Glamtourage, including his sister Elisa Johnson, and friends Samaria Smith and Sanaz Panahi.
Lyric McHenry, a cast member, died in August 2018.
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2016 American television series debuts
2016 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Television shows set in New York City
E! original programming
Mass media portrayals of the upper class
American television spin-offs
Reality television spin-offs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Informatica%20Software%20Engineering%20Journal | e-Informatica Software Engineering Journal is a peer-reviewed open access academic journal on software engineering (especially in experimentation and machine learning). The journal was established in 2007 and is published by the Wrocław University of Science and Technology. The editors-in-chief are Zbigniew Huzar and Lech Madeyski.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed by the Emerging Sources Citation Index, Scopus, Applied Science & Technology Source, Compendex, and Computer & Applied Sciences.
References
External links
Computer science journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 2007
Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Open access journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Noble%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | James Noble was the 2016 winner of the Dahl-Nygaard Prize. He was Professor of Computer Science at the Victoria University of Wellington, in Wellington, New Zealand until February 2022.
Noble is a Fellow of the Institute of IT Professionals of New Zealand and the British Computer Society, and a Member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and Engineering New Zealand Te Ao Rangahau. He held a James Cook Research Fellowship from the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2015 and 2016. Noble is the founding Editor-In-Chief of the journal Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming (published by Springer).
Noble has a world-leading reputation for his work on object-orientation. He has published over 300 papers. He is known for his pioneering work in programming language design, especially through his contributions to novel type systems such as ownership types and pluggable types. He has contributed to object-oriented and aspect-oriented approaches to software design, design patterns and the analysis of software corpus, software visualisation and visual languages, user interaction and agile development methodologies.
References
Living people
New Zealand computer scientists
Victoria University of Wellington alumni
Academic staff of Victoria University of Wellington
Senior Members of the ACM
Members of the British Computer Society
Year of birth missing (living people)
James Cook Research Fellows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Regular%20Epic%20Final%20Battle | "A Regular Epic Final Battle" is the series finale of the American animated television series Regular Show. It originally aired on Cartoon Network in the United States on January 16, 2017. All parts are 11 minutes long.
The series revolves around the daily lives of two 23-year-old friends, Mordecai (a blue jay), and Rigby (a raccoon). They work as groundskeepers at a park, and spend their days trying to slack off and entertain themselves by any means. This is much to the chagrin of their boss Benson (a gumball machine) and their coworker Skips (a yeti), but to the delight of park manager Pops (a man with a lollipop-shaped head). Their other coworkers, Muscle Man (an overweight green man) and Hi-Five Ghost (a ghost with a hand extending from the top of his head) serve as their rivals.
1.33 million viewers watched Part 1 and 1.37 million viewers watched Parts 2 and 3, making it the most viewed episode of the eighth season.
Plot
Part 1
Pops has a nightmare about his upcoming fight with his brother Anti-Pops, and Mordecai and Rigby comfort him. A short time later, the park crew arrives at Lolliland. They meet a group of Lolliland natives: Frivola-Kranus, Quadravi-Kranus, and Weird Mushroom Guy. The natives explain that Pops is the perfect creation of their planet called Mega-Kranus and Anti-Pops was created as his opposite to maintain balance in the universe called Malum-Kranus, respectively. The natives show the park crew ancient tapestries of the previous battles between Pops and Anti-Pops, which detail prior incarnations of the park crew fighting alongside Pops. Knowing that all the prior battles have ended in a stalemate (resulting in the universe resetting), Mordecai comes up with setting traps for Anti-Pops to give Pops an upper hand, which he didn't have in previous battles. Pops reluctantly agrees to do so. After Anti-Pops and his bounty hunters arrive in an Uber-like taxi following the destruction of most of the former's ship, Pops tries to convince him not to fight because they are brothers. Anti-Pops refuses and attacks Pops but is caught in the traps laid by the park crew. The victory is short-lived, however, as Anti-Pops quickly escapes the traps.
Part 2
To ensure his friends' survival, Pops makes a deal with Anti-Pops: whoever lands the first blow in battle gets to decide the fate of the universe. Pops successfully injures Anti-Pops, but Anti-Pops breaks the agreement and continues the fight. Streaming, who still has his sights on destroying the Disc Masters, suddenly arrives with his Stream Box Bot minions and aids Anti-Pops in the battle. Meanwhile, the park crew, HD DVD, Blu-ray, the Baby Ducks, Toothpick Sally, Recap Robot, Chance Sureshot (whose prior "death" in "Space Escape" is revealed to be that of a clone), the Guardians of Eternal Youth, Gary, Carter and Briggs, Death, Party Horse 42699, and the Guardian of Lolliland (who is supposed to remain neutral) fight against Anti-Pops's minions, Streaming, and the Stream Box Bots |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder%20Uncovered | Murder Uncovered is an Australian true-crime series that first screened on the Seven Network on 8 February 2017 hosted by Michael Usher. This investigative series reopens infamous cases of killings and crimes in Australian criminal history.
Broadcast
The third episode of Murder Uncovered, titled "Two Weddings and 29 Funerals", was scheduled to be aired on 22 February 2017, but was indefinitely pulled due to legal reasons. The timeslot intended for the episode was instead used to broadcast a short message by Michael Usher explaining the schedule change, followed by an episode of Bride & Prejudice. It was later rescheduled to air on 20 March, but was rescheduled again to air on Monday, 27 March. The reason for the broadcast block was reported by Fairfax Media to be due to a judge in the Victorian Supreme Court requesting the Seven Network to co-operate for fear it might prejudice jurors in the then-ongoing trial of Stephen Asling, charged with murdering Graham "The Munster" Kinniburgh in 2003.
Episodes
See also
List of Australian television series
Crime in Australia
References
Seven Network original programming
Australian non-fiction television series
2010s Australian crime television series
2017 Australian television series debuts
2017 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univariate%20%28statistics%29 | Univariate is a term commonly used in statistics to describe a type of data which consists of observations on only a single characteristic or attribute. A simple example of univariate data would be the salaries of workers in industry. Like all the other data, univariate data can be visualized using graphs, images or other analysis tools after the data is measured, collected, reported, and analyzed.
Univariate data types
Some univariate data consists of numbers (such as the height of 65 inches or the weight of 100 pounds), while others are nonnumerical (such as eye colors of brown or blue). Generally, the terms categorical univariate data and numerical univariate data are used to distinguish between these types.
Categorical univariate data
Categorical univariate data consists of non-numerical observations that may be placed in categories. It includes labels or names used to identify an attribute of each element. Categorical univariate data usually use either nominal or ordinal scale of measurement.
Numerical univariate data
Numerical univariate data consists of observations that are numbers. They are obtained using either interval or ratio scale of measurement. This type of univariate data can be classified even further into two subcategories: discrete and continuous. A numerical univariate data is discrete if the set of all possible values is finite or countably infinite. Discrete univariate data are usually associated with counting (such as the number of books read by a person). A numerical univariate data is continuous if the set of all possible values is an interval of numbers. Continuous univariate data are usually associated with measuring (such as the weights of people).
Data analysis and applications
Univariate analysis is the simplest form of analyzing data. Uni means "one", so the data has only one variable (univariate). Univariate data requires to analyze each variable separately. Data is gathered for the purpose of answering a question, or more specifically, a research question. Univariate data does not answer research questions about relationships between variables, but rather it is used to describe one characteristic or attribute that varies from observation to observation. Usually there are two purposes that a researcher can look for. The first one is to answer a research question with descriptive study and the second one is to get knowledge about how attribute varies with individual effect of a variable in Regression analysis. There are some ways to describe patterns found in univariate data which include graphical methods, measures of central tendency and measures of variability.
Like other forms of statistics, it can be inferential or descriptive. The key fact is that only one variable is involved.
Univariate analysis can yield misleading results in cases in which multivariate analysis is more appropriate.
Measures of central tendency
Central tendency is one of the most common numerical descriptive measures. It's use |
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481001–481100
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| 481002 || || — || April 14, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 2.1 km ||
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| 481003 || || — || March 26, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || GEF || align=right | 1.0 km ||
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| 481004 || || — || May 15, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || Tj (2.95) || align=right | 3.3 km ||
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| 481005 || || — || August 10, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || EOS || align=right | 2.0 km ||
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| 481006 || || — || September 6, 2004 || St. Véran || Saint-Véran Obs. || — || align=right | 3.3 km ||
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| 481007 || || — || September 7, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || EOS || align=right | 1.7 km ||
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| 481008 || || — || August 9, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 1.1 km ||
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| 481009 || || — || September 7, 2004 || Palomar || NEAT || TIR || align=right | 2.3 km ||
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| 481010 || || — || September 9, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.68" | 680 m ||
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| 481011 || || — || August 25, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || V || align=right data-sort-value="0.58" | 580 m ||
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| 481012 || || — || July 22, 1998 || Caussols || ODAS || — || align=right | 3.7 km ||
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| 481013 || || — || August 11, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 1.4 km ||
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| 481014 || || — || September 11, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.93" | 930 m ||
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| 481015 || || — || September 10, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || critical || align=right | 3.1 km ||
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| 481016 || || — || September 10, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 2.2 km ||
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| 481017 || || — || October 4, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.81" | 810 m ||
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| 481018 || || — || September 22, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 2.1 km ||
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| 481019 || || — || October 5, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 2.5 km ||
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| 481020 || || — || October 7, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right | 4.3 km ||
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| 481021 || || — || October 7, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.98" | 980 m ||
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| 481022 || || — || October 9, 2004 || Socorro || LINEAR || MAS || align=right data-sort-value="0.98" | 980 m ||
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| 481023 || || — || October 8, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 2.8 km ||
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| 481024 || || — || October 20, 2004 |
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| 482001 || || — || November 14, 2006 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.77" | 770 m ||
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| 482002 || || — || September 19, 2009 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.71" | 710 m ||
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| 482003 || || — || November 27, 2006 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.64" | 640 m ||
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| 482004 || || — || September 20, 2009 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.65" | 650 m ||
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| 482005 || || — || September 20, 2009 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 1.4 km ||
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| 482006 || || — || September 20, 2009 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.59" | 590 m ||
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| 482007 || || — || September 21, 2009 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.69" | 690 m ||
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| 482008 || || — || September 26, 2009 || LightBuckets || LightBuckets Obs. || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.65" | 650 m ||
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| 482009 || || — || September 16, 2009 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.62" | 620 m ||
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| 482010 || || — || September 23, 2009 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.75" | 750 m ||
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| 482011 || || — || September 21, 2009 || Catalina || CSS || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.86" | 860 m ||
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| 482012 || || — || October 11, 2009 || La Sagra || OAM Obs. || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.87" | 870 m ||
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| 482013 || || — || October 14, 2009 || La Sagra || OAM Obs. || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.82" | 820 m ||
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| 482014 || || — || October 15, 2009 || Socorro || LINEAR || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.76" | 760 m ||
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| 482015 || || — || October 18, 2009 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.64" | 640 m ||
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| 482016 || || — || October 18, 2009 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.64" | 640 m ||
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| 482017 || || — || September 22, 2009 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.74" | 740 m ||
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| 482018 || || — || October 23, 2009 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || critical || align=right data-sort-value="0.78" | 780 m ||
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| 482019 || || — || October 25, 2009 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 1.3 km ||
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| 482020 || || — || October 28, 2009 || Bisei SG Center || BATTeRS || — || align=right | 1.2 km ||
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| 482021 || || — || October 17, 200 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%203740 | IBM 3740 Data Entry System was a data entry system that was announced by IBM in 1973. It recorded data on an 8" diskette, a new recording medium from IBM, for fast, flexible, efficient data entry to either high-production, centralized operations or to decentralized, remote operations. The "Diskette" was more commonly known as an 8-inch floppy disk.
History
The system was announced in January, 1973; became available in the second quarter of that year; and was withdrawn from marketing in December, 1983. It was developed by IBM's General Systems Division facility in Rochester, Minnesota. The IBM 3740 system was intended to replace the traditional unit record equipment, using the IBM card.
Configuration
The IBM 3740 system consisted of the following equipment:
IBM 3741 Data Station (four models)
IBM 3742 Dual Data Station (designed for 'heads-down' data entry)
IBM 3747 Data Converter (diskette feeder which holds up to 20 diskettes to be converted to the half-inch tape used by the computing system (mainframe) or optionally distributed by data network or telephone communications send and receive.)
IBM 3713 Printer (for matrix printing on fan-fold or individually fed cut-sheet paper at up to 40 characters a second)
IBM 3715 Printer (for bi-directional matrix printing on fan-fold or individually fed cut-sheet paper at 40 or 80 characters per second with an option of up to 120 characters per second offered.)
IBM 3717 Printer (a fast line printer capable of 120 to 155 lines per minute)
IBM 3540 Diskette Input/Output Unit (held up to 20 diskettes, for input to/output from mainframe computers such as IBM System/360 or System/370 and mid-range computers such as IBM System/3, IBM System/36 and IBM System/38.)
The configuration is the exclusive responsibility of the company employees who have determined which portions of the company will need data distribution products, how many and for which portions of their business environment. Of course, the expense of their decision might play heavily into the final configuration(s) purchased.
When configuring the component equipment for the office complex might consist of several data stations with or without printers attached. Some of the larger offices would likely have similar configuration plus a data converter and a larger printer available on one of the work stations. If a large office complex is available and the data handling capability is needed, then a large number of dual data stations could be used along with possibly another data converter and a line printer attached to an IBM 3741 Data Station which is used by the lead person in charge of the operators of the dual work stations. More lead person single stations may be necessary depending on the company and the environment.
Equipment
The IBM 3740 System was designed to make the station independent of the system for which the data was being collected. The work station could be placed in varied environments to allow on-location data entry accor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty%20International%20India | Amnesty International India was a country unit of the Amnesty International network, and was part of a global movement promoting and defending human rights and dignity. In September 2020, Amnesty halted its operations in the country after all bank accounts of the organization were frozen. The organization called this as 'witch hunting' while the government of India said the organisation's FCRA had been declined one after other for 20 years by different governments in power as per the law
History
An Amnesty International office was first set up in India in Bihar in 1966. Since then, the organization has worked on cases related torture, prisoners of conscience, abusive laws, women's rights, corporate accountability and other human rights violations.
On 13 August 2016, Amnesty held an event in Bengaluru to discuss human rights violations in Kashmir, After the event, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad filed a first information report (FIR) against Amnesty India for being anti-national. Amnesty India denied that the organization or its staff had been involved in any anti-national activities. Sedition charges were pressed against Amnesty, but were dropped later on.
On 15 November 2019 the Central Bureau of Investigation raided the offices of Amnesty International India in Bengaluru and New Delhi during an investigation into an alleged breach of foreign funding laws. In a statement issued by CBI, they said "It was alleged that the provision of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act 2010 and Indian Penal Code were contravened". Aakar Patel was the chief of Amnesty in 2019.
In 2020, Amnesty claimed that "reprisals" from the Indian government froze the organization's bank account, forcing it to lay off staff, suspend all campaign and research work, and otherwise halt operations in India. The Ministry of Home Affairs claims that Amnesty violated the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) as "a significant amount of foreign money was also remitted to Amnesty (India) without MHA’s approval under FCRA" and "owing to these illegal practices of Amnesty, the previous government had also rejected the repeated applications of Amnesty to receive funds from overseas. This had led Amnesty to suspend its India operations once during that period as well."
On 16 February 2021, the Enforcement Directorate attached properties worth ₹17.66 crore (about $2.4 million, at that time) of the organisation in connection with an alleged violation of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA).
Campaigns
Amnesty International India collaborates with Railway Protection Force, Western Railways in Mumbai to ensure female passengers’ right to safety. It also ran a campaign to reduce the number of under-trials in jails in India. Some of Amnesty India's campaigns include seeking justice for the victims in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots as well as opposing the use of the death penalty in India.
References
External links
Amnesty International
Human rights organisations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix4D | Pix4D is a Swiss software company that specializes in photogrammetry. It was founded in 2011 as a spinoff from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Computer Vision Lab in Switzerland. It develops a suite of software products that use photogrammetry and computer vision algorithms to transform DSLR, fisheye, RGB, thermal and multispectral images into 3D maps and 3D modeling. The company has 7 international offices, with its headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Pix4D suite of products includes PIX4Dmapper, PIX4Dfields, PIX4Dcloud, PIX4Dinspect, PIX4Dscan, PIX4Dreact, PIX4Dsurvey, PIX4Dcatch, Pix4Dmatic, PIX4Dcapture, and PIX4Dengine. In April 2021 Pix4D added the viDoc RTK rover, a handheld hardware device, to its portfolio.
Its software lines operate on desktop, cloud, and mobile platforms.
PIX4Dmapper has been used to map the Matterhorn mountain in Switzerland, the Christ the Redeemer statue in Brazil and also the 2018 lower Puna eruption in Hawaii island. Pix4D software uses imagery captured with drones, mobile devices, or planes to recreate scenes in 3D.
10 year anniversary & rebranding
In June 2021, Pix4D celebrated its 10-year anniversary. To commemorate the event, Pix4D updated its logo and website styling. The rebranding involved new styles for the logo font and color scheme, as well as updated style formats for product names and color schemes.
Pix4D User Conference
Pix4D launched its first User Conference in 2019. The event was held in October 2019 in Denver, Colorado. It was attended by over 250 people and hosted at the McNichols Civic Center Building. Pix4D announced two new products at the event: PIX4Dreact and PIX4Dsurvey. Apart from keynote speeches by Pix4D staff members, there were also guest presentations by visitors.
As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, no event took place in 2020. In 2021, Pix4D launched a User Conference called "From the Ground Up". The conference was live for 24 hours and included 40 sessions broadcast in 4 languages - English, Japanese, Spanish, and Portuguese. The event consisted of Pix4D product presentations, user keynote talks to demonstrate how people were using Pix4D software, and a Speed Quiz with the Pix4D Training Team.
In 2022, Pix4D hosted 2 User Conference events - 1 in Tokyo and 1 in Denver, Colorado. The structure was similar to the 2019 event.
Languages
Pix4D's website is available in multiple languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Portuguese.
The desktop versions of Pix4D software are available in: English, Spanish, Mandarin (zh-CH, zh-TW), Russian, German, French, Japanese, Italian and Korean.
The Cloud versions are available in: English, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, and Thai. The mobile versions of Pix4D software are available in English.
Industries
The major industries that Pix4D software is used, are:
Aerial survey
Agriculture and Precision agriculture
Construction
Cultural herita |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin%20Unlimited | Bitcoin Unlimited (BU) is a full node implementation for the bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash networks. The Bitcoin Core client, from which Bitcoin Unlimited is forked, has a hard coded one megabyte block limit; Bitcoin Unlimited differs by allowing users to signal which block size limit they prefer, find the limit having a majority consensus and automatically track the largest proof-of-work, regardless of block size. However, if a block greater than one megabyte in size is accepted by Bitcoin Unlimited and rejected by nodes with a block size limit, a fork of the network will occur, resulting in two separate blockchains with Bitcoin Unlimited nodes following the chain with the largest proof-of-work.
The release of Bitcoin Unlimited follows the release of Bitcoin XT and Bitcoin Classic, alternative proposals which aimed to increase bitcoin's transaction capacity of around 2.5-3 transactions per second by increasing the hard-coded block size limit.
As of version 1.1.0.0, Bitcoin Unlimited releases are compatible with Bitcoin Cash, a cryptocurrency that split from bitcoin and allows larger blocks.
Scalability
Bitcoin Unlimited is an attempt to upgrade Bitcoin Core into a client that processes bitcoin transactions into blocks with a potential maximum size greater than the Core's hard-coded limit of one megabyte. The one megabyte block size limit was added in 2010 by Satoshi Nakamoto as a temporary anti-DoS measure. This limited the maximum network capacity to about three transactions per second. Per the advocates of the change, a block size increase is needed in order to avoid a workflow bottleneck due to the number of transactions made as bitcoin adoption increases.
With Bitcoin Unlimited, miners are independently able to configure the size of the blocks they will validate.
Miners using Bitcoin Unlimited continue to process regular-sized blocks but as soon as a block larger than one megabyte is mined, they will follow the chain containing the most work.
Per the Bitcoin Unlimited website, the scalability solution will be found at a focal point.
Support
Bitcoin Unlimited follows the release of Bitcoin XT and Bitcoin Classic, alternative proposals on how to increase bitcoin's transaction capacity. Mining pools including Antpool.
Opposition
Developers of Bitcoin Core have been reluctant to increase the block size limit. BU nodes were attacked after developers brought a bug to light on 14 March 2017. The numbers of nodes hosting Unlimited fell from 780 to about 370 following the attacks, the lowest level since October, and returned to about 780 within 24 hours according to website coin.dance which tracks network data.
As of July 2022, there are only three BU nodes online according to Coin Dance data, a decrease from seven in May 2021.
See also
List of bitcoin forks
Notes
References
External links
Bitcoin Unlimited
Bitcoin clients
2016 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4D%20printing | 4-dimensional printing (4D printing; also known as 4D bioprinting, active origami, or shape-morphing systems) uses the same techniques of 3D printing through computer-programmed deposition of material in successive layers to create a three-dimensional object. However, in 4D printing, the resulting 3D shape is able to morph into different forms in response to environmental stimulus, with the 4th dimension being the time-dependent shape change after the printing. It is therefore a type of programmable matter, wherein after the fabrication process, the printed product reacts with parameters within the environment (humidity, temperature, voltage, etc.) and changes its form accordingly.
Printing techniques
Stereolithography is a 3D-printing technique that uses photopolymerization to bind substrate that has been laid layer upon layer, creating a polymeric network. As opposed to fused-deposition modeling, where the extruded material hardens immediately to form layers, 4D printing is fundamentally based in stereolithography, where in most cases ultraviolet light is used to cure the layered materials after the printing process has completed. Anisotropy is vital in engineering the direction and magnitude of transformations under a given condition, by arranging the micromaterials in a way so that there is an embedded directionality to the finished print.
Fiber architecture
Most 4D printing systems utilize a network of fibers that vary in size and material properties. 4D-printed components can be designed on the macro scale as well as the micro scale. Micro scale design is achieved through complex molecular/fiber simulations that approximate the aggregated material properties of all the materials used in the sample. The size, shape, modulus, and connection pattern of these material building blocks have a direct relationship to the deformation shape under stimulus activation.
Hydro-reactive polymers/hydro gels
Skylar Tibbits is the director of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, and worked with the Stratasys Materials Group to produce a composite polymer composed of highly hydrophilic elements and non-active, highly rigid elements. The unique properties of these two disparate elements allowed up to 150% swelling of certain parts of the printed chain in water, while the rigid elements set structure and angle constraints for the transformed chain. They produced a chain that would spell "MIT" when submerged in water, and another chain that would morph into a wire frame cube when subjected to the same conditions.
Cellulose composites
Thiele et al. explored the possibilities of a cellulose-based material that could be responsive to humidity. They developed a bilayer film using cellulose stearoyl esters with different substitution degrees on either side. One ester had a substitution degree of 0.3 (highly hydrophilic) and the other had a substitution degree of 3 (highly hydrophobic.) When the sample was cooled from 50 °C to 22 °C, and the relative humidity increa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal%20data | Ordinal data is a categorical, statistical data type where the variables have natural, ordered categories and the distances between the categories are not known. These data exist on an ordinal scale, one of four levels of measurement described by S. S. Stevens in 1946. The ordinal scale is distinguished from the nominal scale by having a ranking. It also differs from the interval scale and ratio scale by not having category widths that represent equal increments of the underlying attribute.
Examples of ordinal data
A well-known example of ordinal data is the Likert scale. An example of a Likert scale is:
Examples of ordinal data are often found in questionnaires: for example, the survey question "Is your general health poor, reasonable, good, or excellent?" may have those answers coded respectively as 1, 2, 3, and 4. Sometimes data on an interval scale or ratio scale are grouped onto an ordinal scale: for example, individuals whose income is known might be grouped into the income categories $0–$19,999, $20,000–$39,999, $40,000–$59,999, ..., which then might be coded as 1, 2, 3, 4, .... Other examples of ordinal data include socioeconomic status, military ranks, and letter grades for coursework.
Ways to analyse ordinal data
Ordinal data analysis requires a different set of analyses than other qualitative variables. These methods incorporate the natural ordering of the variables in order to avoid loss of power. Computing the mean of a sample of ordinal data is discouraged; other measures of central tendency, including the median or mode, are generally more appropriate.
General
Stevens (1946) argued that, because the assumption of equal distance between categories does not hold for ordinal data, the use of means and standard deviations for description of ordinal distributions and of inferential statistics based on means and standard deviations was not appropriate. Instead, positional measures like the median and percentiles, in addition to descriptive statistics appropriate for nominal data (number of cases, mode, contingency correlation), should be used. Nonparametric methods have been proposed as the most appropriate procedures for inferential statistics involving ordinal data (e.g, Kendall's W, Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, etc.), especially those developed for the analysis of ranked measurements. However, the use of parametric statistics for ordinal data may be permissible with certain caveats to take advantage of the greater range of available statistical procedures.
Univariate statistics
In place of means and standard deviations, univariate statistics appropriate for ordinal data include the median, other percentiles (such as quartiles and deciles), and the quartile deviation. One-sample tests for ordinal data include the Kolmogorov-Smirnov one-sample test, the one-sample runs test, and the change-point test.
Bivariate statistics
In lieu of testing differences in means with t-tests, differences in distributions of ordinal d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back%20button | Back button may refer to:
Back button (web browser), a common web browser feature that retrieves the previous resource
Backspace key, the computer keyboard key that deletes the character(s) to the left of the cursor.
Back closure, a means for fastening a garment at the rear |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking%20as%20a%20service | Banking as a service (BaaS) is the provision of banking products (such as current accounts and credit cards) to non-bank third parties through APIs.
Description
As a value network, BaaS aims at seamlessly integrating as many service providers as needed into one comprehensive process to complete a financial service in an effective and timely manner.
It is implied that a BaaS would include certain features in addition to providing a financial service. There must be means for managing, deploying and delivery of the services' environment. The services must of course be in legal compliance with the banking laws in the regions where it is made available, with (at least) one entity within the process possessing a banking license. Of utmost importance is the assurance that proper mechanisms are in place to provide security, such as strong authentication and additional measures to protect sensitive information from unauthorized access throughout the entire process. These security mechanisms must be in compliance with laws of data protection for the jurisdictions involved.
With the proliferation and acceptance of BaaS, the emergence and rapid growth of FinTech can be expected. FinTech is “a business that aims at providing financial services by making use of software and modern technology.”
API-based stack
Skinner suggested a 3-layer representation of the BaaS stack. In this stack, the underlying infrastructure-as-a-service is provided by a traditional, licensed and regulated bank. Above this bank would be the centralized Middleware layer that Skinner refers to as "bank as a service". Added on to the bank as a service is a group of decomposed banking services consisting of an ecosystem of FinTech startups and service providers.
With this technology, based on the BaaS-platform, it is possible to create FinTech banks, which could improve banking processes and provide increased convenience for banking clients. In such a constellation, FinTech banks are enabled to compete directly with banks by offering core-banking services without having to build all the products that would be needed.
The API-based bank as a service platform serves as the back-end that hosts standalone independent FinTech startups and integrates seamlessly with any existing back-office of traditional banks. This allows non-banks to easily and cost-effectively launch additional financial products and expand into additional markets.
Cloud-based stack
Dynamic development and growth in the world of FinTech have made the API-based Bank-as-a-Service stack obsolete in contexts where tech-companies now own licenses to operate as regulated banks, thus eliminating the reliance on classic banks. Embracing the new developments in financial technology and services, the Banking-as-a-Service stack can be redefined in analogy to the Cloud stack.
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
The infrastructure as a service (IaaS) layer provides basic infrastructure services through an IaaS provider. A majority of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20counting%20algorithm | Quantum counting algorithm is a quantum algorithm for efficiently counting the number of solutions for a given search problem.
The algorithm is based on the quantum phase estimation algorithm and on Grover's search algorithm.
Counting problems are common in diverse fields such as statistical estimation, statistical physics, networking, etc.
As for quantum computing, the ability to perform quantum counting efficiently is needed in order to use Grover's search algorithm (because running Grover's search algorithm requires knowing how many solutions exist). Moreover, this algorithm solves the quantum existence problem (namely, deciding whether any solution exists) as a special case.
The algorithm was devised by Gilles Brassard, Peter Høyer and Alain Tapp in 1998.
The problem
Consider a finite set of size and a set of "solutions" (that is a subset of ). Define:
In other words, is the indicator function of .
Calculate the number of solutions .
Classical solution
Without any prior knowledge on the set of solutions (or the structure of the function ), a classical deterministic solution cannot perform better than , because all the elements of must be inspected (consider a case where the last element to be inspected is a solution).
The algorithm
Setup
The input consists of two registers (namely, two parts): the upper qubits comprise the first register, and the lower qubits are the second register.
Create superposition
The initial state of the system is . After applying multiple bit Hadamard gate operation on each of the registers separately, the state of the first register is
and the state of the second register is
an equal superposition state in the computational basis.
Grover operator
Because the size of the space is and the number of solutions is , we can define the normalized states:
Note that
which is the state of the second register after the Hadamard transform.
Geometric visualization of Grover's algorithm shows that in the two-dimensional space spanned by and , the Grover operator is a counterclockwise rotation; hence, it can be expressed as
in the orthonormal basis .
From the properties of rotation matrices we know that is a unitary matrix with the two eigenvalues .
Estimating the value of
From here onwards, we follow the quantum phase estimation algorithm scheme: we apply controlled Grover operations followed by inverse quantum Fourier transform; and according to the analysis, we will find the best -bit approximation to the real number (belonging to the eigenvalues of the Grover operator) with probability higher than .
Note that the second register is actually in a superposition of the eigenvectors of the Grover operator (while in the original quantum phase estimation algorithm, the second register is the required eigenvector). This means that with some probability, we approximate , and with some probability, we approximate ; those two approximations are equivalent.
Analysis
Assuming that the size of the spa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sinner%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Sinner is an American police procedural anthology television series developed by Derek Simonds for USA Network. It is named after Petra Hammesfahr's 1999 novel, which served as the basis for the first season. Bill Pullman stars as a police detective who investigates crimes committed by unlikely culprits and attempts to uncover their motivations. Only Pullman appears in every season, while the rest of the cast mostly changes for each season's story.
Intended as an eight-part miniseries, The Sinner premiered to critical acclaim and high ratings. The show's success led to USA Network turning it into an anthology series, which aired for four seasons from August 2, 2017, to December 1, 2021.
The first season of The Sinner received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film and Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for Jessica Biel. Biel was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.
Premise
In the first season, Detective Harry Ambrose delves into the past of Cora Tannetti, a troubled woman, to determine why she stabbed a man to death.
In the second season, Ambrose returns to his hometown after a young boy named Julian Walker confesses to poisoning a couple and learns secrets that the inhabitants are determined to keep buried.
In the third season, Ambrose investigates a fatal car accident in Upstate New York and uncovers a much larger and disturbing case behind it.
In the fourth and last season, the now-retired Ambrose travels to northern Maine to recover from the previous case. A tragedy occurs there involving the daughter of a prominent family, and he is recruited to help the investigation.
Cast
Main
Bill Pullman as Harry Ambrose, a police detective
Brady Jenness portrays the young Harry Ambrose in season 2
Jessica Hecht as Sonya Barzel (seasons 3–4), an artist whom Harry begins dating in season 3
Season 1
Jessica Biel as Cora Tannetti
Christopher Abbott as Mason Tannetti
Dohn Norwood as Dan Leroy (guest season 2), a police detective
Abby Miller as Caitlin Sullivan, a police sergeant
Season 2
Elisha Henig as Julian Walker
Carrie Coon as Vera Walker
Hannah Gross as Marin Calhoun
Natalie Paul as Heather Novack, a police detective
Tracy Letts as Jack Novack
Season 3
Matt Bomer as Jamie Burns, an expectant father and Dorchester resident who seeks Harry's support after an accident
Parisa Fitz-Henley as Leela Burns, Jamie's wife who is expecting their first child
Eddie Martinez as Vic Soto, a Dorchester police detective who helps Harry on the case
Chris Messina as Nick Haas, Jamie's friend from college
Season 4
Alice Kremelberg as Percy Muldoon
Michael Mosley as Colin Muldoon
Frances Fisher as Meg Muldoon
David Huynh as CJ Lam
Cindy Cheung as Stephanie Lam
Ronin Wong as Mike Lam
Neal Huff as Sean Muldoon
Recurring
Season 1
Joanna Adler as Anne Farmer, a police captain
Danielle Burgess as Maddie Beecham
Patti D' |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Snow%20Queen%203%3A%20Fire%20and%20Ice | The Snow Queen 3: Fire and Ice () is a 2016 Russian 3D computer-animated fantasy adventure family film written and directed by Aleksey Tsitsilin. The film is the sequel to The Snow Queen 2 that is produced by Wizart Animation. The films stars as Gerda alongside an ensemble cast of Nikolay Bystrov, Filipp Lebedev, Diomid Vinogradov, , , Irina Deriyenkova, Aleksandr Gruzdev and Olga Shorokhova. The international cast includes Laurie Hymes as Gerda and Jason Griffith, Graham Halstead, Billy Bob Thompson, Devin Bailey Griffin, Scott Rayow, Lori Gardner, Marc Thompson, Vanessa Johansson, Tom Wayland, Samara Nayemi, Eileen Stevens and Dee Bradley Baker in supporting roles.
The film like its prequels is inspired by the classic 1844 story of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen. The main character of the story is Gerda whose name is same as the main character in the Danish fairy tale. Gerda the heroine meets fire boy Rollan along with other friends who embark on a new journey to reunite her family. Gerda and Rollan try to harness their newfound powers of ice and fire during their travels to the Northern Kingdom and Spain. The film was noted for its situational comedy and cliffhangers along with the juxtaposition of fire and ice elements.The polar winter settings used throughout the series was also part of the film.
Simultaneous release and promotional activities were planned during the theatrical distribution period. The film was Wizart Animation's highest budgeted animation film. After trailers aired in November 2016, the film debuted in Russia on 29 December 2016. Thereafter, it was released in various European countries, as well as throughout Latin America over the years up to 2018. The adventure family animation film set a foreign box office record for a Russian animation film. The trilogy film became a standout for critical reviewers who commended the lore and visual effects of the film.
Plot
The film is about the importance of family and helping. Gerda still has an unfinished dream to find her parents who were once taken away from them by the North Wind and finally reunite the family. The tireless pirate Alfida, laughable troll Orm, and his furry companion, weasel Luta will help her achieve the dream. Several years have passed since the events of the films The Snow Queen and The Snow Queen 2: Magic of the Ice Mirror. Kai and Gerda are national heroes and regularly tell the story of how they defeated the Snow Queen. Kai and Gerda are tired of wandering and go to visit Orm. Together with Alfida they journey to the land of the trolls. Orm introduce them to a cheerful guy named Rollan. He is a Spaniard, who is a researcher on urban legends.
The pirates, who are commanded by the Pirate Boss Lady, have robbed the bank of a small seaside town. Only one man resisted them who was nicknamed Rollan the Legend. Disarming him, the Pirate Boss Lady gave him the book "Legends of Trolls." Rollan spins tales of great grandeur and Gerda tugs along with he |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad%20Hussein%20Tajik | Mohammad Hussein Tajik was the former commander of the Iranian Cyber Army, and a member of the Quds Force. He was detained and tortured following allegations that he leaked information to the Iranian Green Movement. He is believed to have been assassinated in his home.
References
Cyberwarfare in Iran
Assassinated Iranian people
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degue%20Broadcasting%20Network | Degue Broadcasting Network (DBN) a.k.a. DBN Television was incorporated in Nigeria in 1986 by Mr. Osa Sonny Adun and started its broadcasting in 1995 a year before the Nigerian Government deregulated the broadcast media.
History
DBN started broadcasting in 1995 as a private station by seasoned media practitioner Mr Osa Sonny Adun. It commenced operations in Lagos and later grew to have operations in Abuja.
The channel was allocated frequency on UHF ( Channel 32). It also is a member of Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA), Africa Union of Broadcasters (AUB) and the Broadcasting Organization of Nigeria (BON). DBN also transmits on Satellite TV Startimes on channel 124.
References
Television channels and stations established in 1995
24-hour television news channels in Nigeria
Television stations in Lagos
Television production companies of Nigeria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian%20Railway%20Directorate | The Norwegian Railway Directorate (, abbr.: JBD or JBDIR) is a government agency holding the strategic responsibility for the Norwegian railway network. It is formed on the basis of the railway reform and became operational on 1 January 2017. The directorate shall develop the railway as "an integrated transport system". Their mandate is to create "an efficient, safe and environmentally friendly railway network benefiting passengers and operators".
The reform privatised freight and passenger services, but not the infrastructure. Bane NOR will plan, build and maintain the infrastructure commissioned by the directorate. The directorate will manage the tenders for passenger transport services by specifying timetables and selecting bidders.
References
External links
Rail transport in Norway
Railway Directorate
2017 establishments in Norway
Government agencies established in 2017
Public utilities established in 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Medellin | Medellin, a City in western Colombia; important coffee center has returned its tramway as a modern tram system.
Medellin once had a standard steel wheeled tramway network. Like most cities in the world, it first was started as horse tram, and finally electric tram. The tram service was completely stopped in 1951. Trams returned to Medellin in 2015.
History
A horse tramway was opened at Medellin in 1887. Horse-drawn trams began carrying passengers along Carrera 52, between Plazuela de la Veracruz (near Parque Berrío) and El Edén, on 23 January 1887. It was short lived, and ultimately closed in 1897.and later the it was planned for electrification. The Americans started electrification in 24 June 1920, and finally electric tramway opened in 12 October 1921. From Parque Berrío to América opened to traffic. Track gauge of the electric tramway was 914 mm / 36 in, the same used by the steam railroads. Routes were gradually constructed towards Sucre, Buenos Aires, Envigado, Belen, Berlin, Arenjue Hill etc. The entire network was single tracked (with some crossing loops), cars were single coach. In 1945 the network reached its maximum extent with 45 Kilometers of tracks with 61 trams.
Decline started after the 2nd World War. Damage and traffic congestion also grew rapidly. Starting of bus & taxi service grew very rapidly. The number of private cars also increased very much, and especially many streets, which were ideal for tram, now started becoming congested by motor vehicles. Tramcars were not modernized for many decades, and basically the 1930s electric cars were still running in the 1950s. In that time gasoline buses started faster & had smoother journeys with modern buses, whereas trams were still slower, single coach and many backdated features like trolley pole etc., so they looked very outdated. Under maintenance of tracks caused some derailments and bumpy rides, which were not liked by commuters. A network of single-track lines with turn-outs was no longer adequate for a rapidly growing city, and for this program, many streets were necessary for widening. The transport authority thought that a slow tram transport with fast bus transport will cause many problems for smoother city transportation, although the tram tracks were on the side of the streets, but they were not interested to double the tracks. The tramway had little comfort and was slow because it was caught in the traffic jam caused by the cars, buses etc. The tracks were also outdated and noisy. Another main problem was the city was not built on plains, and had an steep grade on their main streets, which was a problem for old steel wheeled trams, where increasing of speed was not possible. Despite this, routes which were on reserved track and steep grade were survived, and all routes which were on unreserved street section and plain lands were closed. By justifying all ways, the transport department decided to close the tram network and replace it with trolleybus service. The last |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan%20and%20Jane%20%28TV%20series%29 | Tarzan and Jane (or Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan and Jane) is a computer-animated series, produced by Arad Animation, 41 Entertainment and Arc Productions and is based on the 1912 novel Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
The first season streamed on Netflix on January 6, 2017. The second season streamed on October 12, 2018.
From December 13 to December 21, 2019, the series rerun on Discovery Family.
Premise
Saved from a plane crash and given supernatural powers, a teenaged Tarzan joins forces with a brave city girl called Jane Porter to protect his jungle home from threats.
Voice cast
Giles Panton as Tarzan / John Clayton III and Jeremy
Rebecca Shoichet as Jane Porter
Marci T. House as Angela Porter
Paul Dobson as Dr. Porter and Earl of Greystroke
Michael Dobson as Clayton Greystroke
Brian Dobson as Shopkeeper and Goon 4
Doron Bell as Muviro Wazari and Shaman
Kathleen Barr as Kala and Veronica Smythefield (episode 3-4), ICB agent (episode 4)
Omari Newton as Chief Wazari
Lee Tockar as King Kong
Eden Gamliel as Emily
Bradley Duffy as Boss
Ian Hanlin as Goon 2
Francisco Trujillo as Goon 1
Sam Vincent as Staff Member
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2017)
Season 2 (2018)
References
External links
2010s American animated television series
2010s Canadian animated television series
2017 American television series debuts
2017 Canadian television series debuts
2017 web series debuts
2018 American television series endings
2018 Canadian television series endings
2018 web series endings
American children's animated action television series
American children's animated adventure television series
American children's animated drama television series
American children's animated science fantasy television series
American computer-animated television series
Canadian children's animated action television series
Canadian children's animated adventure television series
Canadian children's animated drama television series
Canadian children's animated science fantasy television series
Canadian computer-animated television series
Television shows based on American novels
Television shows set in jungles
English-language Netflix original programming
Animated Tarzan television series
Netflix children's programming
Animated television series by Netflix
Science fantasy web series
Animated television series about orphans
Teen animated television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20303X | The IBM 303X is a discontinued line of mainframe computers, the first model of which, the IBM 3033 Processor, nicknamed "The Big One", was introduced March 25, 1977.
Two additional processors, the 3031 and the 3032, were announced on October 6, 1977.
All three 303X systems were withdrawn on February 5, 1985.
Features
The CPUs feature instruction pipelining, "several instructions can be pre-fetched while one is being executed". "Processor storage ... is four-way interleaved" resulting in "a significantly faster data rate than... non-interleaved". Each of the three systems includes, as a standard feature, a Dual-display console, the newly announced IBM 3036. The systems consume less than half the floor space of a System/370 with an equal amount of computer memory and an identical number of channels because "the channels are physically integrated within the processor mainframe." Each group of six channels has its own microprogrammed channel processor, called a Channel Director. The Director is internally very similar to a System/370 Model 158, running special channel microcode.
The initial announcement of the 3033 also introduced new operating system versions "MVS/System Extensions (MVS/SE) and VM/System Extensions (VM/SE)."
303X as successor to System 370
Beginning in 1977, IBM began to introduce new systems, using the following descriptions:
"A compatible member of the System/370 family."
"System/370 Compatible - 303(1/2/3)"
"the System/370 3033 Processor."
Competing compatibles
At this time, other companies, known as plug compatible manufacturers (PCMs), were competing with IBM by producing IBM-compatible systems. By the late 1970s and early 1980s, patented technology allowed Amdahl IBM-compatible mainframes of this era to be completely air-cooled, unlike IBM systems that required chilled water and its supporting infrastructure— the 8 largest of the 18 models of the ES/9000 systems introduced in 1990 were water-cooled; the other ten were air-cooled.
"The 3033 model, introduced in response to competition from the Amdahl Corporation, represented almost a 100 percent improvement in performance over the previous model, at only a 12 percent increase in price". The improvement in Price–performance of the 303X models created volume of orders sufficient to cause a backlog. "The backlog backfired. IBM inadvertently gave Amdahl a huge boost when the results of its "delivery lottery" pushed some customer shipments all the way into 1980".
In October, 1977 Computerworld reported that Itel's "air-cooled AS/6" was announced "within six hours of the IBM announcement" and due to ship "the same time deliveries of the IBM 3032 are slated to begin."
Magnuson Computer Systems also produced the M80 System/370-compatible computer system between 1975 and 1980.
IBM 3031
The 3031 features a machine cycle time of 115 nanoseconds (ns). It has a cache (called "high speed buffer storage" in IBM terminology) size of 32 KB. Main storage may be 2 to 6 MB, in 1 MB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Computer%20Science%20and%20Engineering%20Undergraduate%20Teaching%20Award | The IEEE Computer Science & Undergraduate Teaching Award is a Technical Field Award of the IEEE that was established by the IEEE Computer Society in 1999. It is presented for outstanding contributions to undergraduate computer science education through teaching and service.
The award nomination requires a minimum of 3 endorsements.
Recipients of this award receive a certificate, and honorarium.
Recipients
The recipients of the IEEE Computer Science & Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award include the following people:
2017: Sven Koenig
2016: Mark Sherriff
2015: Henry C.B. Chan
2014: Elizabeth Gerber
2013: Robert J. Fornaro
2012: Mark Guzdial
2011: Benjamin Hescott
2010: No Award
2009: Judy Robertson
2008: Elizabeth L. Burd
2007: Darrin M. Hanna
2006: No Award
2005: No Award
2004: No Award
2003: Sally Fincher
2002: Alan Clements
2001: Steven S. Skiena, and David G. Meyer
2000: No Award
1999: Joseph L. Zachary, and Bruce W. Weide and Timothy J. Long
References
Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award
Computer science education |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTU%20RGB-D%20dataset | The NTU RGB-D (Nanyang Technological University's Red Blue Green and Depth information) dataset is a large dataset containing recordings of labeled human activities
. This dataset consists of 56,880 action samples containing 4 different modalities (RGB videos, depth map sequences, 3D skeletal data, infrared videos) of data for each sample.
The dataset consists of 60 labelled actions. Specifically: drink water, eat meal/snack, brushing teeth, brushing hair, drop, pickup, throw, sitting down, standing up (from sitting position), clapping, reading, writing, tear up paper, wear jacket, take off jacket, wear a shoe, take off a shoe, wear on glasses, take off glasses, put on a hat/cap, take off a hat/cap, cheer up, hand waving, kicking something, put something inside pocket / take out something from pocket, hopping (one foot jumping), jump up, make a phone call/answer phone, playing with phone/tablet, typing on a keyboard, pointing to something with finger, taking a selfie, check time (from watch), rub two hands together, nod head/bow, shake head, wipe face, salute, put the palms together, cross hands in front (say stop), sneeze/cough, staggering, falling, touch head (headache), touch chest (stomachache/heart pain), touch back (backache), touch neck (neckache), nausea or vomiting condition, use a fan (with hand or paper)/feeling warm, punching/slapping other person, kicking other person, pushing other person, pat on back of other person, point finger at the other person, hugging other person, giving something to other person, touch other person's pocket, handshaking, walking towards each other and walking apart from each other.
Classifiers
This is a table of some of the machine learning methods used on the database and their error rates, by type of classifier:
See also
Activity recognition
List of datasets for machine learning research
References
Datasets in computer vision |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIS%20station | AIS receiver station receive telegrams from near by vessels via VHF data (about 162 MHz) and sending it to Automatic identification system to be recorded and used for vessel tracking and other purpose.
References
See also
GPS Exchange Format
Related standards
NMEA 0183
NMEA 2000
NMEA OneNet, a future standard based on Ethernet
Electronic navigation
Navigational equipment
Technology systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Gaon%20Album%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202017 | The Gaon Album Chart is a South Korean record chart that ranks the best-selling albums and EPs in South Korea. It is part of the Gaon Music Chart, which launched in February 2010. The data are compiled by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Music Content Industry Association based upon weekly/monthly physical album sales by six major South Korean distributors: LOEN Entertainment, S.M. Entertainment, Sony Music Korea, Warner Music Korea, Universal Music and Mnet Media.
Weekly charts
Monthly charts
References
External links
Current Gaon Album Chart
2017
Korea, South albums
2017 in South Korean music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardano%20%28blockchain%20platform%29 | Cardano is a public blockchain platform. It is open-source and decentralized, with consensus achieved using proof of stake. It can facilitate peer-to-peer transactions with its internal cryptocurrency, ADA.
Cardano's development began in 2015, led by Ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson. The project is overseen and supervised by the Cardano Foundation based in Zug, Switzerland. When launched in 2017, it was the largest cryptocurrency to use a proof-of-stake blockchain, which is seen as a greener alternative to proof-of-work protocols.
History
After leaving Ethereum in 2014 Charles Hoskinson and Jeremy Wood set out their plans for Cardano in 2015. Hoskinson had left Ethereum after a dispute with another co-founder, Vitalik Buterin. Hoskinson wanted to accept venture capital and create a company, while Buterin wanted to keep it as a nonprofit organization. Woods and Hoskinson co-founded the business IOHK to develop blockchains for use by corporations, governments, and education institutions.
Cardano was initially released to the public in 2017. That year, IOHK partnered with the University of Edinburgh to launch the Blockchain Technology Laboratory. The lab had six post-doctoral and professorial positions with up to 35 jobs created in total, and was led by Aggelos Kiayias, developer of the Ouroboros protocol.
Cardano reached a market cap of $77 billion in May 2021, which was the fourth highest for a cryptocurrency at that time.
Advertising agency MBLM ranked Cardano 26th for brand intimacy out of 600 brands in August 2022, in between Ford and Nestlé and the highest rank for a cryptocurrency. Citing an MBLM partner, advertising industry magazine Ad Age said Cardano's high ranking "can likely be chalked up to the gambling element of crypto".
Design
Governance
Cardano is controlled by three entities:
Cardano foundation aims to standardize and promote the ecosystem (based in Switzerland).
IOHK: an engineering company responsible for building the Cardano blockchain.
Emurgo: responsible for commercial applications.
As of 2021, Frederik Gregaard is known to be the CEO of the Cardano Foundation.
The platform is named after Italian mathematician Gerolamo Cardano, while the cryptocurrency itself is named after the English mathematician Ada Lovelace. The Ada sub-unit is the Lovelace; one Ada = 1,000,000 Lovelaces. Cardano differentiates itself from many other cryptocurrencies by focusing on scientific research and working together with universities.
Technical design
Atypically, Cardano does not have a white paper. Instead, it uses design principles intended to overcome issues faced by earlier cryptocurrencies such as scalability, interoperability, and regulatory compliance. Cardano claims that it overcomes problems found in other cryptocurrencies: mainly that Bitcoin is too slow and inflexible, and that Ethereum is not safe or scalable. Like Bitcoin, Cardano uses a UTXO ledger model, though it is an extended version (EUTXO) to facilitate sma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qstack | Qstack is a cloud management platform developed by GreenQloud, a cloud computing software company founded in Reykjavik, Iceland in February 2010. Qstack enables its users to manage multiple clouds and hybrid deployments through a single self-service portal.
Qstack is in continuous development, incorporating developments within infrastructure, cloud, and application management solutions. The next release of Qstack is slated for June 2017.
History
In 2014 when Jonsi Stefansson joined as CEO, Greenqloud pivoted its operational focus to development of Qstack with beta launch in the fall of 2015, and began offering support, technical services and certifications for the software.
Features
Qstack is hypervisor agnostic (KVM, VMware, Hyper-V) and can manage private clouds in multiple locations as well as AWS, Azure, and EC2-compatible public clouds from its user interface. Qstack combines proprietary software with open-source components, and the company claims to harden them to meet the strict security standards often required by enterprise deployments. Qstack features VM templates for Windows, Linux, and other operating systems. It also features full SSH/RDP access to instances, virtual routers, firewalls, and load balancers built into the interface.
Reception
In a 2015 review, IDG columnist J. Peter Bruzzese praised Qstack’s user interface for its ease-of-use and clean look.
References
Cloud infrastructure
Cloud computing
Cloud computing providers
Virtual machines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntando%20Duma | Ntando Duma (born August 29, 1995) is a South African actress and television personality. She is best known as a presenter on e.tv's youth programming block Craz-e, where she primarily featured on Craz-e World live. She is also well known for her portrayal of Zinzi Dandala on e.tv's soap opera Rhythm City.
She is also embroiled in a race-row following a live stream where she racially abuses a woman who confronted her about parking in a disabled parking.
Early life
Ntando Duma was born in the township of Orange Farm in Johannesburg, Gauteng. She grew up in the township of Orange Farm located approximately 45 km from Johannesburg, where she was raised by her mother and her grandmother. She has three siblings including her sister, Thando Duma.
Her father left the family when she was three years old and died in 2008.
Personal life
She has a child with a DJ called Junior DeRocka who named their child, Sbahle Mzizi.
Career
Television
She joined the etv's Rhythm City as Zinzi Dandala. In June 2014 Ntando Duma was introduced as one of the new Craz-e presenters.
In 2020, she joined The Queen telenova playing the role of Mpho Sebata , following year in June 2021 was announced
that she is leaving the production.
Modelling
She worked as a model and was part of 2015 & 2017 Soweto fashion week runway.
Community
She founded the Inspire A Teen SA Foundation.
Copyright Infringement
In January 2022 News24 reported that celebrity photographic agency Pixel Kollective notified her of copyright infringement after she posted photos taken by the on her social media account.
Controversy
References
1995 births
Living people
People from Orange Farm
People from Gauteng
South African female models
South African actresses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut%20fran%C3%A7ais%20en%20Inde | The French Institute in India is part of the worldwide network of "French institutes". The Delhi office is the only one in India, the Pondichery antenna of the institute being a research facility more than a cultural centre.
Background
This French Institute was inaugurated on 29 March 2012 by Mr Xavier Darcos, then president of the French Institute alliance.
However, French cultural activities in Delhi have existed under various forms before the official opening of the institute. Before 2012, all cultural activities related to the French embassy were supervised by Culturesfrance.
The French Institute entertains close links with the French Embassy in India, New Delhi, the local Alliance Française and other French-teaching establishments like the Lycée Français de Delhi.
The Lycée français de Delhi and the Centre for Social Research and Humanities are also based within its walls.
It is located next to the 5 stars hotel 'Taj Mahal', the Parsi cemetery and a few hundred meters from the Rajpath and India Gate
Mission
The institute’s cultural center participates actively to the local and national art scene, by organising dozens of cultural events every year, on a local, regional or national basis. It also participates to external events, within the promotion of friendly ties between France and other francophone countries and India.
It cooperates intimately with Indian universities to propose joint courses to Indian and French students alike. In 2011 alone, 2500 Indian students chose to study in France via the joint programs created by the Institut français.
See also
France–India relations
Lycée français de Pondichéry
French culture
References
External links
Official website
Campus France - India
French Institute Delhi
Institut Français
Education in Delhi
Culture of France
Educational institutions in India
Francophonie
Cultural organisations based in India
Language advocacy organizations
Language education organizations
Language education in India
France–India relations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television%20Yamaguchi%20Broadcasting%20Systems | Television Yamaguchi Broadcasting Systems (テレビ山口, abbreviated TYS) is a Japanese television broadcasting company serving Yamaguchi Prefecture. It is affiliated to the Japan News Network.
External links
HOMEPAGE
Television stations in Japan
Japan News Network
Mass media in Yamaguchi (city)
Television channels and stations established in 1970 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlinale%20Talents | Berlinale Talents, formerly Berlinale Talent Campus, is the talent development programme of the Berlin International Film Festival (also called Berlinale). An annual summit and networking platform for 200 outstanding creatives from the fields of film and drama series, the events take place in February at the three venues of HAU Hebbel am Ufer Theatre in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Berlinale Talents is organized and directed by Florian Weghorn as programme manager and Christine Tröstrum as project manager.
History
The initiative was founded in 2003 after the director of the Berlin International Film Festival Dieter Kosslick announced his plans to create a platform to support the next generation of filmmakers within the festival. Previously named Berlinale Talent Campus, the new title Berlinale Talents has been in place since October 2013. In October 2022, it was announced that Berlinale Talents, along with the European Film Market, Berlinale Co-Production Market and World Cinema Fund, will be pooled under the label Berlinale Pro* while retaining their individual profiles. The corresponding slogan captures the reality of the events: Where Cinema Culture and Industry Meet. It was also confirmed that the Berlinale and Berlinale Talents would take place in person in 2023.
Description
Berlinale Talents is a forum for film professionals and cinema lovers, featuring public talks, discipline-specific workshops, Talents Labs for project development and networking events. There are 13 creative disciplines within filmmaking covered.
The event is supported and funded by the Minister of State for Culture and the Media, Creative Europe - MEDIA programme of the European Union and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, along with the Federal Foreign Office and Goethe-Institut, who have supported it since its establishment.
As of 2022, there is an alumni community of over 9,000, and there are seven Talents International initiatives around the world.
Participants
Each year up to 3000 filmmakers from approximately 130 countries apply to the programme. An international committee selects 200 talents, inviting them to Berlin. Berlinale Talents supports the participants, who are generally in the first ten years of their career, in positioning themselves in the filmmaking industry. With experts and renowned filmmakers they can then discuss innovations and trends in the business, develop their own projects in the project labs and present them to a diverse festival public.
The Berlinale Talents alumni community has over 9,000 participants, their profiles can be found on the website.
The programme also keeps track of their alumni's work, involving their attendance at festivals, award ceremonies or alumni interviews on current film projects that deal with relevant topics such as sustainability and climate change. Information is regularly updated in the alumni network.
The Programme
Participants can choose from up to 35 individual Summit and Talents Labs to attend, many of which are |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KET%20ED | KET ED, known as the Education Channel, was a digital television programming service operated by PBS member network Kentucky Educational Television. The service provided programming from the Annenberg/CPB project, along with encore presentations of some PBS programming, and much of KET's locally produced in-house instructional television (ITV) productions.
The service originated from KET's studios at the O. Leonard Press Telecommunications Center, at 600 Cooper Drive in Lexington, Kentucky.
History
In the beginning of the 2002–03 school year—which, in Kentucky, began in early August—the Kentucky Educational Television network launched three additional subchannels on the digital companion signals of all fifteen of its principal transmitters. In addition to a simulcast of their analog signals, the digital channels now offered three additional services, including a statewide relaunch of Louisville-based WKMJ-TV’s signal known as KET2. The DT3 and DT4 subchannels were branded as KET3 and KET4, which were the over-the-air relaunches of Star Channels 703 and 704, respectively. KET4 began simulcasting Star Channel 704 in 2003. The Star Channels were KET's direct broadcast satellite channels for schools and libraries launched in 1988 for KET's signature distance learning program.
In early 2002 as a fourth digital subchannel, KET4 began broadcasting a PBS digital sampler channel, mainly broadcasting certain PBS programs with the highest viewership in a downconverted high-definition-like quality picture.
KET4's programming lineup mostly consisted of programming from the Annenberg/CPB Channel, along with professional development seminars for educators, along with high school and college telecourses. On weeknights, KET4 also broadcast high-definition television programming from PBS from 8-11 p.m. Eastern time (7-10 p.m. Central time).
KET4 was rebranded as KET ED, also known as the Education Channel, in August 2007, broadcasting over both the DT3 and DT4 subchannels of all fifteen of KET's principal satellite stations. The channel was formed by merging KET3's K-12 instructional programming with the Annenberg/CPB project programming on KET4, and consolidating them into one 21-hour programming lineup. The three-hour prime time KET HD schedule remained on the KET ED service until the Kentucky Channel launched on KET's DT3 service in January 2008. When it did so, the HD schedule relocated to the Kentucky Channel feed, and was expanded to include an additional hour of programming. After the Kentucky Channel launch in 2008, KET ED broadcast a 20-hour long schedule of mainly educational and instructional programming, along with Annenberg channel programming. The subchannel went off the air nightly during the hours that the Kentucky Channel broadcast the PBS HD schedule. Beginning in January 2009, KET ED ran programming on a 24-hour-a-day basis on Louisville's WKMJ through its DT3 subchannel, which in the present-day, carries the World Channel.
KET ED was then |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilsen%20Manyoma | Emilsen Manyoma (1984 or 1985 - 2017) was a human rights activist from Colombia. Manyoma was of Afro-Colombian descent. She worked for the "Communities Building Peace in Territories" or CONPAZ network in the Bajo Calima region of the country in Valle del Cauca. Manyoma had been an outspoken critic of right-wing paramilitaries and mining and agricultural corporations. Manyoma's work involved the rights of people displaced by drug trafficking. She had also been working for the Colombian Truth Commission, documenting murder and disappearances. She was assassinated in January 2017, along with Joe Javier Rodallega, her partner. Emilsen also worked with Humanitarian Space Puente Nayero which began in April 2014 trying to create a space free from armed groups.
Assassination
Rodallega's mother told El País that Manyoma and Rodallega had been at home in their pajamas watching a movie with their son on the night of 14 January 2017 when they boarded a taxi, never to be seen again. Their bodies were found three days later in a rural zone of Buenaventura, the city where they lived, in a state of decomposition with stab wounds and gunshot wounds. Both of their throats had been slit, and Rodallega's hands were bound. In the days following her assassination, the FARC issued a statement blaming Manyoma's brother Marco Antonio Manyoma Ocampo, alias Camilo Robledo, for her murder. According to the statement, Robledo had deserted from the FARC with money and weapons and returned to Buenaventura where he killed his sister and her partner. In February 2017, Colombian authorities arrested taxi driver Julio César Valencia Moreno for supposedly participating in the murder, and they arrested Manyoma's brother Marco Antonio Manyoma Ocampo a week later. On 13 February, 2017, a man whose name was not revealed was also arrested and sent to prison for the same case.
Her work against the interests of businesses and paramilitaries were described as the reasons for the murder: Her murder was part of a series of killings of political activists in the country that occurred during the presidency of Juan Manuel Santos: at least 534 activists were killed between 2011 and 2016.
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Colombian human rights activists
Colombian women activists
Colombian activists
People murdered in Colombia
2017 murders in Colombia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Launchbury | John Launchbury is an American and British computer scientist who is currently Chief Scientist at Galois, Inc. Previously, he directed one of DARPA’s technical offices, where he oversaw nation-scale scientific and engineering research in cybersecurity, data analysis, and artificial intelligence. He is known for research and entrepreneurship in the implementation and application of functional programming languages. In 2010, Launchbury was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Education
Launchbury received first-class honors in mathematics from Oxford University in 1985, and an M.Sc. in computation in 1986. He holds a Ph.D. in computing science from the University of Glasgow. In 1991, the Cambridge University Press published his thesis, Projection Factorizations in Partial Evaluation, after it won the British Computer Society's distinguished dissertation prize.
Career and research
As a lecturer at the University of Glasgow, Launchbury focused his early research on the semantics and analysis of lazy functional languages and was one of the contributing designers of the Haskell programming language.
In 1993, Launchbury provided a formal description of lazy evaluation, addressing challenges in analyzing a program’s storage requirements. The operational semantics is widely cited in later research on Haskell. In the context of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler team, Launchbury established an effective partnership with Simon L. Peyton Jones to write a number of papers that dramatically influenced the design of Haskell. Their 1995 paper on State in Haskell introduced the “IO monad” as a mathematically-clean practical way of expressing effects on the external world, and solidified the “do-notation” Launchbury had introduced earlier. Their papers on unboxed values and removal of intermediate data structures addressed many of the efficiency challenges inherent in lazy evaluation.
In 1994, Launchbury relocated to the West Coast of the United States, becoming a full professor at the Oregon Graduate Institute in 2000. His research there addressed the creation and optimization of domain-specific programming languages (DSLs) ranging from fundamental research in combining disparate semantic elements, through embedding DSLs in Haskell, to applied research for modeling and reasoning about very-large scale integration (VLSI) micro-architectures.
Launchbury founded Galois Inc. in 1999 to address challenges in information assurance through the application of functional programming and formal methods. He served as the company’s CEO and Chief Scientist from 2000 to 2014. Under Launchbury’s direction, Galois Inc. developed the Cryptol domain-specific language for specifying and verifying cryptographic implementations. Originally designed for use by the National Security Agency, the language was made available to the public in 2008.
Launchbury is the holder of two patents on cryptographic structures in data storage and one on effective me |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histone%20Database | The Histone Database is a comprehensive database of histone protein sequences including histone variants, classified by histone types and variants, maintained by National Center for Biotechnology Information. The creation of the Histone Database was stimulated by the X-ray analysis of the structure of the nucleosomal core histone octamer followed by the application of a novel motif searching method to a group of proteins containing the histone fold motif in the early-mid-1990. The first version of the Histone Database was released in 1995 and several updates have been released since then.
Current version of the Histone Database - HistoneDB 2.0 - with variants - includes sequence and structural annotations for all five histone types (H3, H4, H2A, H2B, H1) and major histone variants within each histone type. It has many interactive tools to explore and compare sequences of different histone variants from various organisms. The core of the database is a manually curated set of histone sequences grouped into 30 different variant subsets with variant-specific annotations. The curated set is supplemented by an automatically extracted set of histone sequences from the non-redundant protein database using algorithms trained on the curated set. The interactive web site supports various searching strategies in both datasets: browsing of phylogenetic trees; on-demand generation of multiple sequence alignments with feature annotations; classification of histone-like sequences and browsing of the taxonomic diversity for every histone variant.
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Proteins
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divided%20%28American%20game%20show%29 | Divided is an American television game show broadcast by Game Show Network (GSN) based on the British series of the same name. Each episode consists of four contestants playing as one team who must agree on answers to questions they are given. The longer it takes the team to come to an agreement, the less money the team earns for each question. The series, hosted by Mike Richards, premiered January 19, 2017, and concluded May 8, 2018.
Some critics believed that the show's name and timing were appropriate given the tumultuous preceding presidential election and its premiere date coming the day before the inauguration of Donald Trump.
Gameplay
Each episode consists of three rounds. A team of four contestants starts the game; one player is eliminated after two rounds of play. For each question, the team has 60 seconds to unanimously agree on an answer (excluding the final round), the available money decreases the longer it takes. Each contestant must enter the same response on their respective panel and then everyone must simultaneously lock in an answer and stop the clock. If the team answers the question correctly, they bank whatever money is left on the clock, if they are wrong, or if time runs out, their bank is reduced by half.
The first round consists of three questions. Each question has one correct answer, and the opening value is $5,000. After the first question has been played, the team is afforded two "takeovers" to use in the rest of the game. To use a takeover, one contestant presses a smaller red button (yellow in season one) in front of them, their answer is then considered to be the team's answer — which still need(s) to meet the requirements of the question.
In the second round, there are again three questions. Each question starts with a value of $10,000 and has two correct answers, the team must select both correct answers in order to get credit. After the second round, the contestants secretly vote on which of them will be eliminated from further play. In order to eliminate a contestant, the other three must agree unanimously. If there is no unanimous agreement, then the contestants are given a 15-second grace period (10 seconds in season one) before their bank begins to drain. In the second season, instead of just changing their votes, the votes were wiped clean, allowing everyone to re-vote. Once there is a unanimous agreement, the chosen contestant is eliminated from the show with no winnings.
On rare occasions in which the team has earned no money by the elimination vote, the same 15-second grace period applies for three members of the team to agree on who to eliminate. However, since there is no money to lose thereafter, if the team cannot agree on who to eliminate after 15 seconds, the studio audience votes to eliminate one of the team members instead.
The third round consists of two questions. In season 1, the first required the team to rank three answers in a stated order and started with a value of $15,000. The sec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycentric%20networks | In public policy a polycentric network is a group of distinct local, regional, or national entities that work co-operatively towards a common goal. Proponents claim that such networks can better adapt to changing issues collectively than individually, thus providing network participants better results from relevant efforts.
Urban contexts
Robert Kloosterman and Bart Lambregts define polycentric urban regions as collections of historically distinct jurisdictions that are administratively and politically independent. These jurisdictions are in close proximity and well connected through infrastructure. The literature on polycentric urban regions is limited and unconsolidated, so diverse concepts exist. Evert Meijers claimed that polycentric network are especially prominent in Europe.
Rural polycentric networks are nearly non-existent. Urban polycentric networks draw heavily on economic network theories. According to Meijers, “individual cities in these collections of distinct but proximally-located cities relate to each other in a synergetic way, making the whole network of cities more than the sum of its parts”.
Implementation
Polycentric networks have different spatial characteristics, reflecting a micro, meso, or macro-level of connections in a given region. These different scales allow flexible and convertible networks for spatial planning in complex regions and systems.
Micro-level: intra-urban or intra-regional aspects within a certain city region. The emphasis at this level is “urban functional and economic complementarities” which make “cooperation and improved links” major engines of regional economic performance and “promote integrated spatial development strategies for city clusters”.
Meso-level: inter-metropolitan issues within a delimited area. The emphasis at this level is very similar to the micro-level, with added specialization.
Macro-level: inter-metropolitan issues on a continental or global scale. At the macro level polycentricism is considered to be “a useful alternative model to enhance regional development more evenly across the European territory”.
Metropolitan areas
In metropolitan areas, the scale and intensity of collaboration is a key determinant of whether or not polycentric networks function properly. Metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) have given researchers a unique opportunity to study the scale and intensity of collaboration. A 2015 study of 381 MPOs in the United States, found a direct link between the MPO's scale and performance. The study concluded that more intense MPO collaboration across both vertical and horizontal stakeholders improved performance. The study found that MPOs that focused more on vertical collaboration (between the state and higher-up agencies) saw a decrease in their perceived performance. The study looked at 15 indicators including condition of transportation network, mobility for disadvantaged populations, air quality, highway congestion, public participation, extent of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataminr | Dataminr is an artificial intelligence company. The company's private sector product, Dataminr Pulse, is used by corporations to monitor real-time events, and to aid with crisis response by providing playbooks, messaging tools and post-event documentation. Dataminr's First Alert technology is used by first responders, such as those helping to provide aid during natural disasters and other emergency events.
Dataminr employs around 800 people and is headquartered in New York. The company has offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., Bozeman, and Seattle, as well as London, England, Dublin, Ireland, Melbourne, Australia, and Copenhagen, Denmark.
History
Dataminr was founded in 2009 by Yale University graduates Ted Bailey, Sam Hendel and Jeff Kinsey. Dataminr came to wider notice when it issued an alert that Osama bin Laden had been killed 23 minutes faster than major news organizations.
In 2014, Datamnr entered into a partnership with CNN and Twitter, resulting in Dataminr for News, a tool to "alert journalists to information that’s emerging on Twitter in real time."
On December 30, 2019, Dataminr claimed to have detected the first signals of the COVID-19 outbreak within public social media posts. The company went on to detect clusters indicating future spikes in 14 different US states. Seven days later, all 14 states were hit hard by the coronavirus. Dataminr partnered with the UN in May 2019 to equip thousands of UN personnel with Dataminr's First Alert product for the public sector.
Dataminr's social media intelligence contract for the FBI was taken over by Zerofox at the end of 2020.
On the morning of January 5, 2021, Dataminr allegedly warned Capitol security officials of troubling online public chatter that would soon become the January 6 riot.
In July 2021, Dataminr conducted its first M&A transaction when it acquired WatchKeeper, a UK-based geovisualization platform. In the acquisition, Dataminr combined WatchKeeper's geovisualized data layers with its Pulse platform to provide context around events. A few months later, in October 2021, Dataminr acquired Krizo, a real-time crisis response platform based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Controversies
Surveillance of law-abiding abortion rights protests
According to reports from The Intercept, Dataminr has provided social media surveillance on lawful, constitutionally-protected pro-abortion rights protests to the US Marshals.
Surveillance of racial justice protests
In 2020, The Intercept released a report that police departments used Dataminr services for surveillance during the George Floyd protests, including accessing social media posts about protest locations and actions. As written in the article, "The monitoring seems at odds with claims from both Twitter and Dataminr that neither company would engage in or facilitate domestic surveillance following a string of 2016 controversies." Twitter claimed that the company was just "news alerting." In response to the article, Dataminr clar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20and%20the%20Raiders | Jerry and the Raiders is a Canadian computer-animated children’s television series created by Nancy Trites-Botkin and Mark Shekter, distributed by 9 Story Media Group, and produced by First Star Studios, with animation done by FAKE Digital Entertainment. The series made its debut on TVOKids in English, as well as Ici Radio-Canada Télé in French. It debuted in the United States on Qubo in October 2019.
The series focuses on a 7-year-old boy named Jerry, whose life spins comically out of control when his two galactic raider action figures, Bakko and Gant (known together as The Raiders), magically spring to life. The Raiders are hyper-curious about nearly everything around them, and thus treat every moment as one big adventure. This often leads to Jerry and his 4-year-old sister Nicole, into a series of household disasters, in which Jerry often cleans up after their mess in solving the everyday mysteries that The Raiders stumble upon.
The show is primarily aimed at children aged 4–8.
Description
To commemorate Jerry's 7th birthday, he is given a pair of boxed action figures, known as Galactic Raiders. Jerry, utterly disappointed with his gifts, opts to not open them, and decides to stash them up onto his head board where he would later have intended to put them into the give-away box. Later that night, a dripping sound was heard from down the hallway, and the Galactic Raiders, Bakko and Gant, magically spring to life and break free from their packaging. In attempting to discover the mystery of this sound, the Raiders using their gadgets to navigate Jerry's room, frantically make enough noise to wake him up. Early on, Jerry is convinced that he is dreaming when he sees his action figures come to life, but once Nicole discovers them, he is ultimately faced with the truth that his toys are special, and that neither his parents nor his friends can find out about them.
Every episode challenges Jerry with daunting children's tasks, from school assignments to chores, as well as one's everyday life activities, from taking care of an animal to playing safely. The Raiders' minds are boggled by these activities, and immediately treat them as some sort of great mystery, or often as a ferocious villain set to take over their neighborhood. Jerry, Nicole and the Raiders pull through each challenge and discover new and interesting things than happen around them, solidifying that things are not always as they appear to be, and simple everyday things always turn out amazing.
Unlike most animated series, which often feature static cameras to portray strong lines of action through characters, Jerry and the Raiders is known for its constant camera movements. Almost every shot contains subtle camera movements, such as trucking and tilting.
Episodes
Episode 1: The Mighty Drip: The Raiders awaken and try to find the source of the dripping sound.
Episode 2: Robovac (no hyphen in TV guides but the title card says ROBO-VAC on one line): Jerry is pressured into vacuu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS%20Saturday%20Morning | CBS Saturday Morning is a Saturday morning television program that broadcasts on the American television network, CBS. It is currently anchored by Michelle Miller, Dana Jacobson and Jeff Glor.
Although the program's name has changed several times throughout its existence to align with changes to its weekday counterpart, its format has evolved separately from, and more gradually compared to CBS' weekday morning programs.
Scheduling
The program airs live from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time, although local air times for the Saturday broadcast vary significantly from station to station, even within the same time zone. In some markets, the local CBS affiliate may opt to pre-empt the Saturday program – usually to carry extended weekend morning local newscasts – and may instead air it on a digital subchannel or a sister station, or refuse to carry it at all.
Most CBS affiliates in the Central Time Zone carry the Saturday edition live from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. Central Time, unlike its morning counterparts, which air their Saturday editions on a tape delay; it is the only morning program that airs live in both the Eastern and Central time zones, whereas the Saturday edition is aired on tape delay in the remaining time zones.
History
CBS News Saturday Morning (1997–1999)
CBS debuted its first Saturday morning newscast on September 13, 1997, alongside the relaunch of its Saturday morning children's programming lineup as Think CBS Kids. Titled CBS News Saturday Morning, the program was originally anchored by Russ Mitchell and former New York congresswoman Susan Molinari, who left in 1998, followed by Dawn Stensland-Mendte in 1998–1999.
For its first year, the program was broadcast live one hour later than the Monday through Friday version of the original CBS This Morning, starting at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time; however, it was based out of the same studio at the CBS Broadcast Center that was home to the weekday broadcast. The program moved to the 7:00 a.m. Eastern time slot (uniform with the weekday broadcast) in September 1998. Many CBS stations aired CBS News Saturday Morning/The Saturday Early Show in varying time slots; however, some affiliates opted to pre-empt the Saturday edition in favor of airing local morning newscasts, while some chose to carry the network's Saturday morning children's program block afterward if their newscast ended before 9:00 a.m. in order to make up for the pre-emption of the national program, something that remains the case with the current iteration of the program.
By 1999, the program had launched a series of musical performances under the "Second Cup Café" banner (no relationship to the Canada-based Second Cup café chain, which has had some American franchises from time to time), which continued through subsequent versions of the program.
The Saturday Early Show (1999–2008)
Production of the Saturday edition moved to the General Motors Building in late 1999, when the weekday and Saturday programs were relaunc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image2Text | Image2Text technology was created by Cortica, an Israel-based startup whose technology simulates the performance of the human cortex so that computers recognize images with a high degree of accuracy. Image2Text is the result of 10 years in research and development and is protected by more than 50 patents.
Product Differentiation
Cortica's engine processes and recognizes images based on patterns, as the brain does, providing accuracy purporting to be comparable with that of the human brain.
Previous image search solutions have relied on databases of images compiled through fingerprinting, modeling and crowdsourcing. Cortica differentiates itself from these other products; patterns are clustered into digital concepts, which are stored and mapped to keywords and contextual taxonomies that enable it to interpret the content appearing in the digital media.
Uses
Cortica's Image2Text technology associates images with concepts and enables a host of business opportunities. The technology has implications for augmented reality, a visual technology that experts say will improve when it incorporates computer vision and dynamic mapping of the real world environment. In addition, computer vision technologies, like those guided by Image2Text, have been integrated into self-driving cars to help identify road hazards.
References
Image processing software
Proprietary software
Object recognition and categorization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeria%20Bertacco | Valeria Bertacco is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as well as Vice Provost for Engaged Learning at the University of Michigan. She previously served as the Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Initiatives at the University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School.
Bertacco headed the Center for Applications Driving Architectures (ADA) at the University of Michigan. Her work at the center includes leading initiatives to design processors that are especially tailored to run specific algorithms. In 2017, she was elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for her contributions to Computer-aided Verification and Reliable System Design.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Michigan faculty
American electrical engineers
American computer scientists
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Electronic design automation people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmus%20%28disambiguation%29 | Asmus may refer to:
Asmus, Poland, a village in Poland
Matthias Claudius (1740–1815), a German poet and journalist, known by the penname of Asmus
ASMUS, Data asset management strategy developed by the Public Sector Commission, Western Australia
People with the last name Asmus
Hermann Asmus (1887–1968), a German art director
James Asmus, an American writer, actor and comedian
John F. Asmus (born 1937), an American research physicist
Kristina Asmus (born 1988), a Russian theater and film actress
Lena Asmus (born 1982), a Russian and later German rhythmic gymnast
Marion Asmus, birth name of Marion Boyars (1927–1999), a British book publisher
Ronald Asmus (1957–2011), an American diplomat and political analyst
Valentin Ferdinandovich Asmus (1894–1975), a Russian philosopher
Walter D. Asmus (born 1941), a German theater director
People with the first name Asmus
Asmus Ehrenreich von Bredow (1693–1756), a Prussian Lieutenant General
Asmus Jacob Carstens (1754–1798), a Danish-German painter
Asmus Tietchens (born 1947), a German composer of avant-garde music
Asmus Elias Friis, (born 2005), an highly intellectual being, who has the IQ of 126
See also
Asmus & Clark, an architectural firm based in Nashville, Tennessee
Asmus v. Pacific Bell, a U.S. labor law case
Surnames from given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Texas%20Flip%20N%20Move%20episodes | Texas Flip N Move is an American reality television series airing on DIY Network, located between Fort Worth and Decatur.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Season 6
Season 7
Season 8
Season 9
Season 10
Season 11
Season 12
References
Texas Flip and Move |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%20Warren%20Smith | Craig Warren Smith (born June 20, 1946 near Seattle) is an academic specializing in Human–computer interaction. He is chairman of a nonprofit organization, Digital Divide Institute, which is currently active in Indonesia, China, and Thailand.
He is a former lecturer on Science and Technology at Harvard University (Kennedy School of Government). He holds concurrent academic advisory positions in China (Peking University) and Thailand (Chulalongkorn University) as well as the University of Washington (Human Interface Technology Laboratory) in Seattle.
Early life and education
Smith was raised in Whidbey Island, Washington. He attended Stanford University.
Work on corporate philanthropy
Smith worked in the Washington DC-based trade association, Council on Foundations, where he became a frequent writer for the trade journal, Foundation News. He co-authored Private Foreign Aid: The Private Role in International Development and Getting Grants, published by Harper and Row. Dissatisfied with the quality of current practice regarding the philanthropic role of corporations, Smith founded his own publishing company called Corporate Philanthropy Report. Smith wrote an article in Harvard Business Review, called "The New Corporate Philanthropy," published in 2004. The article explained the optimal role that could be played by philanthropy in the management structures of Fortune 500 companies. Meanwhile, Japanese corporations turned to Smith to introduce philanthropy to Japanese corporations which had a Japanese version published by Dentsu Inc. Smith authored several books on Japanese corporate philanthropy, and traveled frequently travelled to Japan as a consultant where he helped companies such as Hitachi and Toyota create their own foundations.
As a Seattle-based expert in corporate philanthropy, Smith advised many of Seattle’s civic leaders including the father and mother of Bill Gates III (co-founder of Microsoft), who were both influential civic leaders and advocates of philanthropy, who introduced Smith to their son. After reading his article in Harvard Business Review, the Microsoft CEO invited Smith to serve as an in house consultant to assist the company's "community relations" activity. A business trade group, the Conference Board, asked Smith to head a new program in CSR Strategy offered to all major US corporations.
Digital Divide
Smith wrote a book Digital Corporate Citizenship (University of Indiana Press), which described efforts by 54 high tech companies – from IBM to Google—to alter their management structures with the aim of “closing Digital Divide.” In 1999 Smith joined with Bill Gates Sr, to lead a Seattle conference held on the day prior to World Trade Organization’s conference. After the conference, Smith moved from Seattle to Cambridge Massachusetts to lead an interdisciplinary coalition focused on closing digital divide. In Cambridge, his framework was incorporated into DigitalDivide.org. After serving as a fellow of Har |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride%20%26%20Prejudice%20%28TV%20series%29 | Bride & Prejudice (also known as Bride & Prejudice: The Forbidden Weddings) is an Australian reality dating television show which premiered on the Seven Network on 30 January 2017. The series is an adaptation of an American program of the same name which aired for one season in 2016 on FYI, until the program got a second season on Lifetime in 2020. The program follows couples planning to wed, but whose family disapprove of their relationship.
A second season premiered on 29 October 2018 with six new couples. During the second season, a casting call was made for new couples with a third season confirmed for 2019.
A 5-episode British version began broadcasting on Channel 4 on 5 June 2018.
Production
Seven put out a casting call in June 2016 seeking couples in diverse, multicultural or progressive relationships. At the network's upfronts in October 2016, the network announced a "controversial new show" which was still filming at the time, whose format was being kept under wraps because disclosing details and the title of the program could affect participants. It was confirmed in December 2016 that the program was Bride & Prejudice.
Broadcast
American series
The original series began airing on March 15, 2016 on FYI. Like Married at First Sight with its fifth season, the series moved to Lifetime for its second season under the name Bride & Prejudice: Forbidden Love, and premiered on February 26, 2020.
Australian series
The series began airing at 9:00 pm on 30 January 2017. Episode 5 aired out of timeslot on Wednesday, 22 February 2017 as a late replacement due to an episode of Murder Uncovered being pulled from its regular timeslot for legal reasons. The second season debuted on 29 October 2018 and aired two further episodes in the following two days.
Deceased stars
Micah Downey died suddenly on December 28, 2019 at aged 26. The cause of death was down to an overdose of a mix of illegal prescription drugs.
James Ciseau killed in a car crash in Queensland, Australia on November 29, 2021.
Tori Ciseau died by suicide just one year after the death of her husband, James.
Ratings
Season 1 (2017)
Season 2 (2018)
References
2017 Australian television series debuts
2019 Australian television series endings
2010s Australian reality television series
Australian dating and relationship reality television series
English-language television shows
Seven Network original programming
Australian television series based on American television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asianet%20Comedy%20Awards | Asianet Comedy Awards is an award ceremony for Malayalam television and films presented by Asianet, a Malayalam-language television network from the south-Indian state of Kerala. The awards are given for the actors who made excellence in the comical roles. The awards are normally presented annually and held in Adlux International Convention Center Angamaly.
Meera and Jewel Mary hosted the show in 2015 & 2016.Pearle Maaney and Meera hosted the show in 2017.
Award's list 2017
Best Movie - Varnyathil Aashanka
Best Director -Raffi
Best Actor-Jayaram (Achayans)
Best Actress - Aparna Balamurali (Sunday Holiday)
Popular Actor - Biju Menon (Rakshadhikari Baiju Oppu)
Popular Actress - Miya
Popular movie -
Best Song - Thechille Penne (Role Models)
Best Script -
Versatile Actor - Kunchako Boban (Varnyathil Aashanka, Ramante Edenthottam)
Evergreen Golden Star - Sreenivasan
Comedy Icon - Salim Kumar
Youth Icon -Tovino Thomas (Godha, Oru Mexican Aparatha)
Star performer of the year - Renji Panicker (Godha)
Best Combo -Aju Varghese, Neeraj Madhav (Lava Kusha)
Supporting Actor - Lal (Chunkzz)
Most Promising Actor - Sshivada (Achayans), Aditi Ravi (Alamara), Aishwarya Lekshmi (Njandukalude Naatil Oridavela)
All Rounder of the Year - Soubin Shahir
Entertainer of the year -
Child Artist -
Entertainer of the Year - Asif Ali
All-time favorite of Media (TV) - Suraj Venjaramoodu
Best Actor (TV) - Payyans Jayakumar
Best Actress (TV) - Archana Suseelan
Best Anchor -
Versatile Performer – TV - Arya Rohit and Akhil
Top TV Performer - Suraj Venjaramoodu
Award's list 2016
Best Movie - Two Countries
Best Director - Abrid Shine
Best Actor - Dileep
Best Actress - Mamta Mohandas
Popular Actor - Jayasurya
Popular Movie - Pretham
Best Song - Suresh Thampanoor
Best Script - Syam Pushkaran
Versatile Actor - Siddique
Evergreen Favorite Star - Mukesh
Comedy Icon - Aju Varghese
Supporting Actor - Pradeep Kottayam
Most Promising Actor - Saju Navodaya
All Rounder of the Year - Vineeth Sreenivasan
Entertainer of the year - Kalabhavan Shajon
Child Artist - Akshara Kishore
Multifaceted Talent - Suraj Venjaramoodu
Best Actor (TV) - Anoop Chandran
Best Actress (TV) - Beena Antony
Best Anchor - Kishore
Versatile Performer – TV - Dharmajan Bolgatty
Top TV Performer - Rimi Tomy
Special Jury Award - Saji Venkulam
Awards list 2015
Life Time Glory Award : Janardhanan
Life Time Achievement Award : Jagathy Sreekumar
Best Actor : Jayaram
Best Actress : Anusree
Youth Icon: Aju Varghese
Popular Movie : Jamna Pyari
Multifaceted Talent : Mukesh for Badai bungalow
Versatile Comedian : Jagadeesh
Comedy Movie : Chandrettan Evideya
Best Director : Siddique
Comedy Pair : Vinay Forrt & Soubin Shahir
Best Writer Comical Scene : Shabareesh Varma, Rajesh Murugesan for Premam
Best Comedy Skit : Santhosh
Best actor (TV)- Kottayam Rasheed for Sthreedhanam
Best actress (TV) -Kanya Bharathi for Chandanamazha
Newface (TV & Film ):Nobi
Comedy Dialogue : Sharaf U Dhee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arfa%20%28name%29 | Arfa may refer to the following people:
Given name
Arfa Siddiq (born 1987), Pakistani politician and leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement
Arfa Karim (1995–2012), Pakistani computer programmer
Arfa Software Technology Park, named after Arfa Karim
Surname
Hasan Arfa (1895–1984), Iranian general and ambassador
Hatem Ben Arfa (born 1987), French football player
Abu'l Hasan ibn Arfa Ra'a (died 1197), Muslim chemist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9%20Fortin%20%28mathematician%29 | André Fortin (born 1956) is a French Canadian mathematician, known for his research in applied and industrial mathematics. He holds a NSERC Research Chair in High Performance Scientific Computing at Université Laval.
Fortin earned his Ph.D. from the Université Laval in 1984.
His thesis advisor was Michel Fortin, a now emeritus professor of the Université Laval, recipient of Prix Summa in 1987 and prize CAIMS-SCMAI in 2005 and a member of the Royal Society of Canada in 1999.
Career
He is the director of the Groupe Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Éléments Finis (GIREF).
In addition to over 150 research papers on mathematics, he has written a student textbook on numerical analysis for engineers "Analyse numérique pour ingénieurs" in 1994. The textbook has been awarded the Prix Roberval in 1996.
Moreover, Fortin has received the CAIMS-Fields Industrial Mathematics Prize in 2012 in recognition of his exceptional contribution throughout his career to research in industrial mathematics.
References
20th-century Canadian mathematicians
Academic staff of Université Laval
1956 births
21st-century Canadian mathematicians
Université Laval alumni
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Descendants%3A%20Wicked%20World%20episodes | Descendants: Wicked World (also abbreviated simply as Wicked World) is a computer-animated short-form series based on the Disney Channel Original Movie Descendants. It premiered on September 18, 2015 on the Disney Channel and its digital platforms, including WATCH Disney Channel. It aired two seasons consisting of 33 episodes, and three specials, with its final special airing on March 3, 2017.
Series overview
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Episode list
Season 1 (2015–16) Genie Chic & Neon Lights Ball
Season 2 (2016–17) Jewel-Bilee
Specials
References
External links
Lists of American children's animated television series episodes
Lists of Canadian children's animated television series episodes
Lists of Disney Channel television series episodes
Descendants (franchise) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad%20Myers | Brad Myers may refer to:
Brad Myers (American football) (born 1929), American football player
Brad Myers (guitarist) (born 1975), jazz guitarist and producer
Brad A. Myers, American computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20and%20Information%20Domain%20Service | The Cyber and Information Domain Service (, ; CIR) is the youngest branch of Germany's military, the Bundeswehr. The decision to form a new military branch was presented by Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen on 26 April 2016, becoming operational on 1 April 2017. The headquarter of the Cyber and Information Domain Service is Bonn.
History
In November 2015, the German Ministry of Defense activated a Staff Group within the ministry tasked with developing plans for a reorganization of the Cyber, IT, military intelligence, geo-information, and operative communication units of the Bundeswehr.
On 26 April 2016, Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen presented the plans for the new military branch to the public and on 5 October 2016 the command's staff became operational as a department within the ministry of defense. On 1 April 2017, the Cyber and Information Domain Service was activated as the 6th branch of the Bundeswehr. The Cyber and Information Domain Service Headquarters will take command of all existing Cyber, IT, military intelligence, geoinformation, and operative communication units. The Command is planned to be fully operational by 2021.
Organisation
The CIDS is commanded by the Chief of the Cyber and Information Domain Service () (InspCIR), a three-star general position, based in Bonn.
Chief CIDS and Commander CIDS HQ
Deputy Commander CIDS HQ and Chief of Staff
Command Staff
Operations Staff
Planning Staff
Cyber and Information Domain Service Command ( KdoCIR), in Bonn
Strategic Reconnaissance Command ( KSA), in Gelsdorf
911th Electronic Warfare Battalion
912th Electronic Warfare Battalion, mans the Oste-class SIGINT/ELINT and reconnaissance ships
931st Electronic Warfare Battalion
932nd Electronic Warfare Battalion, provides airborne troops for operations in enemy territory
Bundeswehr Strategic Reconnaissance School
Bundeswehr Operational Communications Center
Cyber-Operations Center
Electronic Warfare Analysis Center
Central Imaging Reconnaissance, operating the SAR-Lupe satellites
Central Bundeswehr Investigation Authority for Technical Reconnaissance
Bundeswehr Geoinformation Centre (), in Euskirchen
Information Technology Command (), in Bonn
Bundeswehr IT Operations Center
Bundeswehr Information Technology School
281st Information Technology Battalion
282nd Information Technology Battalion
292nd Information Technology Battalion
293rd Information Technology Battalion
381st Information Technology Battalion
383rd Information Technology Battalion
Bundeswehr Cyber-Security Center
Bundeswehr Software Competence Center
See also
List of cyber warfare forces
References
External links
Cyber security, the German way
Dossier on cyber security in the Bundeswehr
White Paper on German security policy and the future of the Bundeswehr
The Faculty of Joint Operations
Bundeswehr
Information operations units and formations
Computer security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milorad%20Simi%C4%87 | Milorad Simić (; born 5 June 1946) is a Serbian philologist, linguist, lexicographer and computer scientist. He was born in Obadi (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and finished gymnasium in Srebrenica, College of Pedagogy in Šabac, and Faculty of Philology and magister studies in Belgrade. Since 1972 he is employed at the Institute of Serbian Language at the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts (SANU). He is an editor of the SANU Dictionary, and founder of the Srbosof agency specialized in linguistical computer science. He is a member of the council of Project Rastko since 1997. He has authored digital dictionaries and linguistical software. He was awarded the Order of Despot Stefan Lazarević by the Serbian Orthodox Church in March 2015.
References
1946 births
Living people
Linguists from Serbia
Serbian lexicographers
Serbian computer scientists
People from Srebrenica
University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology alumni
Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth%20Subdivision | The Portsmouth Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in Virginia and North Carolina. The line connects CSX's network with the port city of Portsmouth, Virginia. The Portsmouth Subdivision was historically operated by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, a CSX predecessor.
Route Description
The eastern terminus of the Portsmouth Subdivision is in its namesake city, Portsmouth, Virginia. From Portsmouth, it runs southwest to Garysburg, North Carolina on the Roanoke River, a distance of 75.8 miles. It passes through Franklin and Boykins and crosses into North Carolina just southwest of Branchville.
In North Carolina, it continues southwest to Garysburg, North Carolina. The Portsmouth Subdivision currently terminates between Garysburg and the Roanoke River at a connection with line CSX's A Line (North End Subdivision).
When the Seaboard Air Line operated the line, the Portsmouth Subdivision did not connect with the A Line but instead continued parallel to it across the Roanoke River into Weldon, North Carolina. In Weldon, it passed underneath the A Line (the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad's main line at the time) at the historic two-level Weldon Union Station.
From Weldon, it continued east to Roanoke Rapids. Track from Weldon to Roanoke Rapids is still in service and it is now CSX's Roanoke Rapids Spur. The line historically continued from Roanoke Rapids west to Norlina, where it connected with the Seaboard Air Line's main line.
History
Formation
The first segment of the line was built in 1835 by the Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad, which would be renamed the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad. The Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad ran from Portsmouth to Weldon, North Carolina.
The line from Roanoke Rapids to Norlina opened in 1840 and was built by the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad. In 1852, the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad was extended from Roanoke Rapids east to Weldon. Its connection from Roanoke Rapids north to Gaston was permanently severed during the American Civil War. The extension to Weldon connected with the Seaboard and Roanoke Railway, essentially making a continuous line. The extension to Weldon also provided a connection with the Petersburg Railroad and the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, both of which later became the main line of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.
In 1900, the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad, Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, and other railroads were merged into a single company named the Seaboard Air Line Railway (later known as the Seaboard Air Line Railroad).
Seaboard Air Line years
The Seaboard Air Line designated the line from Norlina to Portsmouth as the Portsmouth Subdivision (while the Raleigh and Gaston's track from Norlina to Raleigh, North Carolina became Seaboard's main line). The Seaboard operated passenger and freight service over the line. Though the 1950s, Seaboard ran a daily passenger train (which also carried mail) and a daily through freight train. A separate local freight tr |
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