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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop%20Dead%20Weird	Drop Dead Weird is an Australian-Irish children's comedy drama television series screening on the Seven Network's digital channel 7TWO from 6 November 2017. This Australian/Irish co-production was created by Sally Browning and Dean Cropp. It was written by Stephen Abbott, Warren Coleman and Tadhg Mac Dhonnagain and directed by Beth Armstrong, Danny Raco and Glenn Fraser. The series was also broadcast on CITV in the United Kingdom from June 2019. Synopsis The Champs are an Australian family who move to Tubbershandy, an isolated seaside village in western Ireland to save the Bed & Breakfast run by their Irish grandfather. The three Aussie children Lulu, Bruce and Frankie are finding it hard to fit into a new hometown but also hide the secret that their parents recently became zombies. The kids must keep the truth under wraps from the community and in particular, local identity Bernadette (Bunni) Shanahan. Cast Sofia Nolan as Lulu Jack Riley as Bruce Adele Cosentino as Frances (Frankie) Amanda Bishop as Mum David Collins as Dad Maeliosa Stafford as Grandad Pauline McLynn as Bunni Lucy Maher as Aisling David Rawle as Dermot Connor Burke as Connor Annie Byron as Maryanne Series overview External links References 7two original programming Australian children's television series Australian comedy-drama television series 2017 Australian television series debuts 2019 Australian television series endings English-language television shows Irish children's television shows 2017 Irish television series debuts 2019 Irish television series endings Zombies in television
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Schnase	John L. Schnase is an American computer scientist, whose work on the life history of Cassin's sparrow (Peucaea cassinii) resulted in an early application of computers in avian energetics modeling, currently at NASA, and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He's the author of the long-running science blog CassinsSparrow.org that explores the history of Cassin's Sparrow's discovery, what we've learned about the species since, and why it matters. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science American computer scientists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Skvoretz	John Skvoretz is an American social scientist, focusing on theoretical methods, group processes and social psychology, and network analysis and modeling, currently at University of South Florida. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science University of South Florida faculty American social scientists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amudhavalli	Amudhavalli is a 1959 Indian, Tamil-language film directed by A. K. Sekar. The film stars T. R. Mahalingam and M. N. Rajam. Cast and Crew The details were adapted from the database of Film News Anandan. Cast T. R. Mahalingam M. N. Rajam R. Nagendra Rao Tambaram Lalitha S. A. Natarajan Lakshmiprabha P. S. Venkatachalam Radhakrishnan Crew Producer: M. Somasundaram Director: A. K. Sekar Story & Dialogues: R. Ramanathan Cinematography: Rajagopal, G. K. Ramu Editing: S. P. S. Veerappan Art: A. K. Sekar Choreography: P. Jayaram, D. C. Thangaraj Photography: Venkatachary, Vinayagam Studio: Neptune Soundtrack Music was composed by the duo Viswanathan–Ramamoorthy, while the lyrics were penned by Udumalai Narayana Kavi, Thanjai N. Ramaiah Dass, Kannadasan, Pattukkottai Kalyanasundaram and Muthukoothan. Singer is T. R. Mahalingam and the Playback singers are Sirkazhi Govindarajan, S. C. Krishnan, P. Leela, A. P. Komala, T. V. Rathnam, P. Susheela and L. R. Eswari. References Indian drama films Films scored by Viswanathan–Ramamoorthy 1950s Tamil-language films
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%20expressway%20network	The Philippine expressway network, also known as the High Standard Highway Network, is a controlled-access highway network managed by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) which consists of all expressways and regional high standard highways in the Philippines. High standard highways are defined as highways which provide a high level of traffic services by assuring high speed mobility and safe travel in order to vitally support socio-economic activities for sound socio-economic development of strategic regions and the country as a whole. In the Philippines, controlled-access highways are known as expressways. They are multi-lane divided toll roads which are privately maintained under concession from the government. The regional high standard highways are partial controlled-access highways that function as supplementary to expressways. The Philippine expressway network spanned in length in 2015 and was extended to in 2020, and is to be extended to beyond 2030 according to the master plan submitted by the Japan International Cooperation Agency in 2010. Overview The Philippine highway network spans over across all regions of the Philippines. These highways, however, are mostly single and dual carriageways with many U-turn lanes and intersections slowing down traffic. Coupled with the increase in the number of vehicles and the demand for limited-access highways, the Philippine government requested the government of Japan to conduct a master plan for the development of a high standard highway network in 2009 under the Philippine Medium-Term Public Investment Plan (2005–2010). The plan calls for the promotion of national integrity by strengthening the Philippine Nautical Highway System linking roads and ferries, the decongestion of traffic in Metro Manila, and the improvement of accessibility to main tourist spots, among others. The Philippine expressway network master plan covers the development of high standard highways surrounding Metro Manila in Luzon, Metro Cebu in the Visayas, and the Metro Davao–General Santos area in Mindanao. Types High standard highways in the Philippines are classified into two types: the arterial high standard highways or expressways, and regional high standard highways. Expressways (HSH-1) Arterial high standards highways (HSH-1) in the Philippines are known as expressways. They are highways with limited access, normally with interchanges and may include facilities for levying tolls for passage in an open or closed system. Standard features of Philippine expressways include guard rails, rumble strips, signs and pavement markings, solid wall fence, speed radars, toll plaza, closed-circuit television and rest and service areas. The speed limit is for cars and jeepneys, for trucks and buses, and is the minimum for all classes of vehicles. The first expressways in the Philippines are the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) and the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX), both of which were built in the late 196
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newen	Newen is a French television production company, the producers of such shows as Versailles, Braquo, and Plus belle la vie. In November 2015, TF1, France's leading television network, bought a 70% share of Fabrice Larue's FLCP, the holding company of Newen. Newen is the second-largest producer of drama in France. It owns Telfrance, Agence CAPA, Be Aware and 17 juin Me, with Telfrance producing the soap, Plus belle la vie. Capa is the producer of Braquo and Versailles. In May 2017, Newen Group launched a €50 million investment fund focused on acquiring British drama. In 2018, it was announced that Newen had acquired a 60% equity interest in production outfit, Punkin, through Tuvalu Media Group. It was also announced that Newen acquired a 33% equity stake in production outfit, Nimbus. Newen would continue its acquisition run with the July 2019 acquisition of a majority stake in Canadian production outfit Reel One Entertainment. Fabrice Larue is the founder, CEO and chairman of Newen Group. Productions Braquo Versailles Plus belle la vie References Television production companies of France French companies established in 2008 Mass media companies established in 2008 Mass media in Paris
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20Data%20Insight	Health Data Insight (HDI) CiC is a social enterprise (community interest company), that researches and data mines NHS England figures to find population health and epidemiological or demographic insights for effective NHS treatments by public health informatics, headquartered in the east of Cambridge. History It was founded on 11 July 2011 at Anglia House in Cambridge. Collecting anonymous data from the NHS was allowed under the National Health Service Act 2006. Patient data has a Caldicott guardian, from the Caldicott Report. It works in conjunction with QuintilesIMS (QI) and AstraZeneca (AZ). It is also involved in a project with IQVIA using Public Health England’s Cancer Analysis System. It works with AstraZeneca and IQVIA, to produce a data pool of synthetic cancer data modeled on actual patient data collected by the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service. Function Within HDI, there are several individual data mining projects. The Simulacrum, launched in 2018, is a database containing artificial data for use in oncology research. It studies longitudinal or panel data, over time. Data mining is carried out with software from companies such as SAS. Structure It is sited on Capital Park in the same building (CPC4) as Syngenta UK (former Zeneca then ICI) near the eastern edge of Cambridge in Fulbourn, South Cambridgeshire. The site is also known as Fulbourn Technology Park. It is just south of the boundary with Teversham and the main east–west railway line. Health Education England have an office to the south as does the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS) with whom it works, which is funded by Public Health England (PHE). See also National Cancer Intelligence Network (UK) NHS Digital, the former Information Centre for Health and Social Care (UK) PatientsLikeMe (USA) :Category:Public health and biosurveillance software References External links Health Data Insight Capital Park 2011 establishments in England Community interest companies Epidemiological study projects Health information technology companies Medical research institutes in the United Kingdom Panel data Research institutes established in 2011 Research institutes in Cambridgeshire South Cambridgeshire District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programmes%20broadcast%20by%20MBC%204	This is a list of programmes broadcast by MBC 4. Programming Dubbing and subtitling of all series is in Arabic. Shows 4N1K The 45 Rules of Divorce A-List Lifestyle Al-Hayat Turkey Action Zone Al Anisa Farah Ba’at Al Ward Big Apple Music Awards Beauty Match Beauty Match: Tahadi Al Fashionista Box Office Top 5 Celebrity Scoop Celebrity Style Story Chancers Comedy Movies Designers, Fashions and Runways Extra Turkey Famous Foodies Fashion Fashion Forward Fatma Films & Stars Free Mashup Hala Hollywood Buzz Hollywood Me! Hollywood Stars How to Live Longer The Intimate Story of Isabel Allende Khareef al Hob Kitchen Millionaire Love Songs MBC Beauty Match Making the Movies Miss Farah Must Haves The Mix Nesa'a Ha'erat Newton's Cradle Oghneyat Hob Planet Action Reel Talk Scoop Scoop Box Office Scoop Network Scoop On Runway Scoop On Set Scoop with Raya StarTalk Special Hour Travel In Style US Box Office News and current affairs 20/20 48 Hours 60 Minutes ABC World News ABC World News Tonight America This Morning CBS Evening News CBS Market Watch CBS Overnight News The Early Show Face the Nation Good Morning America Nightline Primetime World News Now Entertainment A-List Lifestyle Action Zone Box Office America Box Office Top 5 Celebrity Scoop Celebrity Style Story Entertainment Tonight Extra تركي Extra Turkey Extra Turkish Extra Turki Famous Foodies Fashion Fashion Forward Films & Stars Inside Edition Inside Edition Week News Magazine Ness Hollywood Hala Hollywood Buzz Hollywood Me! Hollywood stars Hollywood Stars The Insider Making the Movies Planet Action Reel Talk Scoop Scoop Box Office Scoop Network Scoop On Runway Scoop On Set Scoop with Raya StarTalk Young Hollywood's Greatest... Young Hollywood Presents Evolution of… Home shopping Home Shopping Network (HSN) QVC Network TVSN Home Shopping Network (HSN) USA QVC Network UK TVSN Australia Soap operas The Bold and the Beautiful Days of Our Lives October Road October Road (TV series) Talk shows Conan The Doctors The Dr. Oz Show Dr. Phil Late Show with David Letterman The Oprah Winfrey Show Rachael Ray Saturday Night Live The Talk Comedy & sitcoms 2 Broke Girls 30 Rock 3rd Rock From the Sun 8 Simple Rules All That All of Us According To Jim Becker The Bernie Mac Show Big Time Rush Better Off Ted The Big Bang Theory Breaking In Bella and the Bulldogs Brothers Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures Bad Teacher Clueless Community Courting Alex Cory in the House Cuts Dharma & Greg Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 Drake & Josh Everybody Hates Chris Everybody Loves Raymond Even Stevens Fred: The Show Frasier Friends Friends with Benefits Full House The Goldbergs Goldie's Oldies Go On Ground Floor Good Luck Charlie Game Shakers The Golden Girls Home Improvement Hope & Faith How I Met Your Mother The Haunted Hathaways Hannah Montana I'm in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Cycles	is a racing arcade game that was released by Namco in 1995. It runs on their System 22 hardware, and allows up to four people to play it simultaneously when two 2-player cabinets are linked together. Gameplay Players must choose one of three different types of motorcycles (the Anthias for novice players, the NVR750R for amateur ones and the Wild Hog for experts). There are also two hidden motorcycles named the NVR750RSP and Back Anthias, that may be activated by entering a code into the cabinet, but it varies based on if the player is red (Player 1) or yellow (Player 3), or black (Player 2) or blue (Player 4). The CPU-controlled green motorcycles in the game are also based on the cycles from 1992's Suzuka 8 Hours, and there are two different circuits to choose from (Green Hill, which is named after one of the circuits of 1993's Suzuka 8 Hours 2 and aimed at novice players, and Neo Yokohama, which is aimed at expert ones) along with seven background music tracks (four on both circuits, but the fourth for both is "New Music"); there's even a Ridge Racer-style view change button that allows players to switch from third-person to first-person view (and back again), and four different best-time tables (two for each circuit, with the first being for solo play, and the second being for link play). Reception In Japan, Game Machine listed Cyber Cycles on their August 1, 1995 issue as being the fourth most-successful dedicated arcade game of the month. Next Generation reviewed the arcade version of the game, rating it four stars out of five, and stated that "there's no mediocrity here. Namco's newest entry into the cycling arena [...] is an improvement through and through to the degree that it's really no longer in the same league." References External links Cyber Cycles at the Arcade History database 1995 video games Arcade video games Motorcycle video games Multiplayer and single-player video games Racing video games Video games set in Japan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Albums%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202008	The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each album's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2008, there were 24 albums that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one album of the year was Led Zeppelin's compilation album Mothership, which topped the chart for the week ending 24 November 2007 and remained at number one for seven weeks, including the first week of 2008. The final number-one album of the year was Chinese Democracy, the sixth studio album by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, which topped the chart for the week ending 6 December and remained at number one until 10 January 2009. The most successful album on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart in 2008 was Nickelback's fifth studio album All the Right Reasons, which spent a total of twelve weeks at number one over four separate spells. All the Right Reasons was also the best-selling rock and metal album of the year in the UK, ranking 11th in the UK End of Year Albums Chart. AC/DC's Black Ice and Chinese Democracy by Guns N' Roses each spent four weeks at number one during the year, while three albums – Muse's HAARP, Kid Rock's Rock n Roll Jesus and Metallica's Death Magnetic – were all number one for three weeks during 2008. An additional five albums – Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, Good to Be Bad, Somewhere Back in Time, Indestructible and All Hope Is Gone each spent two weeks at number one during the year. Chart history See also 2008 in British music List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2008 References External links Official UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company The Official UK Top 40 Rock Albums at BBC Radio 1 2008 in British music United Kingdom Rock and Metal Albums 2008
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloe%20East	Chloe East (born February 16, 2001) is an American actress and dancer. She starred as Willow Pierce in the first season of the Audience Network television series Ice, as Reese in the 2017–2018 ABC television series Kevin (Probably) Saves the World, and as Naomi in HBO Max's Generation. She appears as Monica Sherwood in Steven Spielberg's 2022 film, The Fabelmans. Personal life East was born in 2001 in San Clemente, California. She has two brothers. She began dancing at age 2, and has won many awards as a dancer. Soon after she began taking acting classes, she landed the part of Gloria in Fredrick Knott's Wait Until Dark in Newport Beach. East married Ethan Precourt in 2021. Career East began modeling at age 9, and at 11 she started acting in the HBO television series True Blood. Other credits include Jessica Darling in the film adaptation of Jessica Darling's IT List, and the recurring role of Val on Disney Channel series Liv and Maddie. In 2016, East was cast as Willow Pierce in the first season of the Audience Network drama television series Ice. In March 2017, East was cast as Reece, the niece to Kevin, in the ABC drama television series Kevin (Probably) Saves the World, which aired in the 2017–2018 television season. In mid-2018, she was cast in the dancing film Next Level, which was released in 2019. In 2020, she appeared as Jenna in the film The Wolf of Snow Hollow. In 2021, East was cast in the Steven Spielberg coming-of-age drama film The Fabelmans, which was released in 2022. Her character, Monica Sherwood, who becomes the girlfriend of the protagonist Sammy Fabelman (Gabriel LaBelle) during the film's second half, was created exclusively for the film as a fictional high school girlfriend for Spielberg, whom the character of Sammy is based on. The same year, she was cast in the upcoming film Going Places. In September 2022, East wrapped filming on the upcoming family comedy film Popular Theory. Filmography References External links 21st-century American actresses American child models Living people Female models from California American television actresses People from San Clemente, California 2001 births American child actresses Dancers from California Actresses from California 21st-century American dancers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lady%20in%20Dignity	The Lady in Dignity () is a South Korean television series starring Kim Hee-sun, Kim Sun-ah, Jung Sang-hoon with Lee Tae-im and Lee Ki-woo. The series aired on cable network JTBC on Fridays and Saturdays at 23:00 (KST) time slot from June 16 to August 19, 2017. It became one of the highest-rated Korean dramas in cable television history. Synopsis The story of an elegant Cheongdam-dong woman named Woo Ah-jin (Kim Hee-sun), who relished a life of luxury by marrying a quasi-chaebol son, until Park Bok-ja (Kim Sun-ah) walks into her life. Cast Main Kim Hee-sun as Woo Ah-jin A cheerful, elegant and charismatic woman who married into a rich family, but hit rock bottom after her husband's betrayal. Kim Sun-a as Park Bok-ja A cool and unfazeable woman who climbs her way up the social totem pole despite coming from a small village. Jung Sang-hoon as Ahn Jae-suk Youngest son of Ahn Tae-dong and also Ah-jin's cheating husband. Lee Tae-im as Yoon Sung-hee Ji-hoo's sexy art teacher who is overwhelmed with greed for fame and honor. She betrays Ah-jin who helped her into the art world and cheats with her husband Jae-suk. Lee Ki-woo as Kang Ki-ho A coma patient turned lawyer. He had feeling toward Ah-jin and willing to help her either with her father-in-law's business or her divorce process Supporting People around Ah-jin Yoo Seo-jin as Cha Ki-ok Lee Hee-jin as Kim Hyo-joo Jung Da-hye as Oh Kyung-hee Oh Yeon-ah as Baek Joo-kyung Moon Hee-kyung as Mrs. Geum, Ah-Jin's mother Choi Yoon-so as Heo Jin-hee, Ah-jin's assistant People around Jae-suk Kim Yong-gun as Ahn Tae-dong, Jae-suk's father Seo Jeong-yeon as Park Joo-mi, Ahn Jae-goo's wife Han Jae-young as Ahn Jae-goo, Jae-suk's brother Oh Na-ra as Ahn Jae-hee, Jae-suk's wife Yoon Sa-bong as Yoon-su, Lee Chae-mi as Ahn Ji-hoo, Ah-jin and Jae-suk's daughter Lee Geon-woo as Ahn Woon-kyu, Park Joo-mi and Ahn Jae-goo's son Extended Song Young-gyu as Jang Sung-soo, a plastic surgeon Kim Bub-rae as Seo Moon-tak, who owns a hotel group Chae Dong-hyun as Kim Bong-shik, Kyung Hee's husband Hwang Hyo-eun as Chun Bang-soon, a friend of Park Bok-Ja Jo Sung-yoon as Goo Bong-chul, a personal trainer Lee Jung-eun as Gook Sun-young, Ki Ho's secretary Song Tae-yoon as Choi Ki-seok, Hyo-Joo's boyfriend Seo Kyung-hwa as Mrs. Jo, the housekeeper Yoon Ye-in as Kyung San-daek So Hee-jung as Oh Poong-sook, a restaurant owner Park Jin-woo as Mr. Park, Head of Department Lee Young-hoon as Mr. Kim, the lawyer Lee Kan-hee as Madam Kwak Kim Sun-bin as Han Min-ki Baek Seung-hoon as Bodyguard Baek Bo-ram as Se-hee Jeon Soo-kyeong as Director Seo Jun Hun-tae as Detective Lee Park Hoon Special appearances Ryu Seung-soo as Ah-jin's father Jung Yu-mi as Client (Episode 6) Yoon So-yi as Fishmonger (Episode 20) Original soundtrack Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Reception The Lady in Dignity is one of JTBC's highest rated drama with a single episod
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bragi%20%28company%29	Bragi is a German technology company headquartered in Munich, Germany, that designs, develops and sells wireless smart earphones; the Bragi OS, the operating system for next-generation computing platforms; and the Bragi App for smartphones. Bragi's hardware products include the computing platform The Dash. and The Headphone. While The Dash is a wireless smart earphone and personal assistant, The Headphone is a wireless earbud. The devices can be connected to other Bluetooth devices such as smartphones, tablets and computers to stream music or make phone calls. The Dash extends this functionality with Bragi OS, which brings features such as the training coach for running, swimming and cycling activities; the Bragi Kinetic User Interface (Bragi KUI) including the Head Gestures and MyTap (Beta) (now called Shortcut). By April 2017, Bragi sold more than 100,000 units, The Dash and The Headphone combined. History Bragi was founded by the Danish entrepreneur Nikolaj Hviid in 2013. He created the concept for The Dash, after having been CEO of a design agency and head of design at Harman. The project was brought to life by a team consisting of Nikolaj himself, Josef Scheider, the former head of mechanical design at AKG, Arne Loermann, head of design, and Toby Martin, head of software at Bragi. A year later, the team had grown from 4 to 20 people. After completing the feasibility study on The Dash, Bragi started a crowdfunding campaign for it between February 9, 2014, and March 31, 2014. The initial goal of US$260,000 was reached in less than 48 hours. In January 2015 "The Dash" was awarded the "Innovation Award" of the CES (Consumer Electronic Show) held in Las Vegas. Bragi brought The Dash to the market in late 2015. By November 2015, Bragi reached 85 employees and received US$22 million investment from a group of American, European and Asian investors in November 2015. On September 5, 2016, Bragi introduced 'The Headphone' as its second hardware product, 2 days before the introduction of the Apple AirPods. The Headphone is a stripped-down version of The Dash: it is a wireless earbud that can stream audio from any Bluetooth device letting the user take or make phone calls, or access the phone's digital assistant. Unlike The Dash, it lacks smart features such as fitness tracking, heart rate monitoring, gesture controls, and has no smartphone app. During the launch event, Bragi introduced the Bragi OS 2.1. It brought many bug fixes in addition to new features such as the ability to synchronize The Dash with Google Fit and the Apple HealthKit, Touch Lock to prevent inadvertent gestures from impacting The Dash, shuffle option for the internal music player and on-demand heart rate tracking. On November 21, 2016, Bragi released another software update for the Bragi OS, with version number 2.2. In this version, Bragi introduced its Kinetic User Interface (Bragi KUI). It is a technology that turns its user's body and movements into the user interface for
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20491001%E2%80%93492000	491001–491100 \|-bgcolor=#fefefe \| 491001 \|\| \|\| — \|\| March 31, 2011 \|\| Haleakala \|\| Pan-STARRS \|\| — \|\| align=right data-sort-value="0.73" \| 730 m \|\| \|-id=002 bgcolor=#d6d6d6 \| 491002 \|\| \|\| — \|\| November 17, 2008 \|\| Kitt Peak \|\| Spacewatch \|\| — \|\| align=right \| 3.5 km \|\| \|-id=003 bgcolor=#d6d6d6 \| 491003 \|\| \|\| — \|\| April 3, 2011 \|\| Haleakala \|\| Pan-STARRS \|\| VER \|\| align=right \| 2.9 km \|\| \|-id=004 bgcolor=#d6d6d6 \| 491004 \|\| \|\| — \|\| April 3, 2011 \|\| Haleakala \|\| Pan-STARRS \|\| — \|\| align=right \| 2.9 km \|\| \|-id=005 bgcolor=#d6d6d6 \| 491005 \|\| \|\| — \|\| February 1, 2005 \|\| Catalina \|\| CSS \|\| EOS \|\| align=right \| 2.9 km \|\| \|-id=006 bgcolor=#d6d6d6 \| 491006 \|\| \|\| — \|\| August 14, 2007 \|\| Siding Spring \|\| SSS \|\| — \|\| align=right \| 4.3 km \|\| \|-id=007 bgcolor=#FFC2E0 \| 491007 \|\| \|\| — \|\| April 13, 2011 \|\| Catalina \|\| CSS \|\| APO \|\| align=right data-sort-value="0.44" \| 440 m \|\| \|-id=008 bgcolor=#d6d6d6 \| 491008 \|\| \|\| — \|\| May 8, 2006 \|\| Mount Lemmon \|\| Mount Lemmon Survey \|\| — \|\| align=right \| 3.1 km \|\| \|-id=009 bgcolor=#d6d6d6 \| 491009 \|\| \|\| — \|\| March 26, 2011 \|\| Mount Lemmon \|\| Mount Lemmon Survey \|\| — \|\| align=right \| 3.7 km \|\| \|-id=010 bgcolor=#fefefe \| 491010 \|\| \|\| — \|\| March 29, 2011 \|\| Kitt Peak \|\| Spacewatch \|\| — \|\| align=right data-sort-value="0.54" \| 540 m \|\| \|-id=011 bgcolor=#d6d6d6 \| 491011 \|\| \|\| — \|\| March 27, 2011 \|\| Mount Lemmon \|\| Mount Lemmon Survey \|\| — \|\| align=right \| 2.7 km \|\| \|-id=012 bgcolor=#E9E9E9 \| 491012 \|\| \|\| — \|\| May 24, 2011 \|\| Haleakala \|\| Pan-STARRS \|\| — \|\| align=right \| 1.5 km \|\| \|-id=013 bgcolor=#E9E9E9 \| 491013 \|\| \|\| — \|\| May 24, 2011 \|\| Haleakala \|\| Pan-STARRS \|\| — \|\| align=right \| 1.2 km \|\| \|-id=014 bgcolor=#d6d6d6 \| 491014 \|\| \|\| — \|\| May 24, 2011 \|\| Haleakala \|\| Pan-STARRS \|\| — \|\| align=right \| 2.7 km \|\| \|-id=015 bgcolor=#FA8072 \| 491015 \|\| \|\| — \|\| September 23, 2008 \|\| Kitt Peak \|\| Spacewatch \|\| — \|\| align=right data-sort-value="0.47" \| 470 m \|\| \|-id=016 bgcolor=#E9E9E9 \| 491016 \|\| \|\| — \|\| July 1, 2011 \|\| Haleakala \|\| Pan-STARRS \|\| — \|\| align=right data-sort-value="0.99" \| 990 m \|\| \|-id=017 bgcolor=#fefefe \| 491017 \|\| \|\| — \|\| July 22, 2011 \|\| Haleakala \|\| Pan-STARRS \|\| — \|\| align=right data-sort-value="0.85" \| 850 m \|\| \|-id=018 bgcolor=#fefefe \| 491018 \|\| \|\| — \|\| July 22, 2011 \|\| Haleakala \|\| Pan-STARRS \|\| — \|\| align=right data-sort-value="0.78" \| 780 m \|\| \|-id=019 bgcolor=#d6d6d6 \| 491019 \|\| \|\| — \|\| December 10, 2004 \|\| Kitt Peak \|\| Spacewatch \|\| (6124)3:2 \|\| align=right \| 3.1 km \|\| \|-id=020 bgcolor=#fefefe \| 491020 \|\| \|\| — \|\| October 1, 2005 \|\| Kitt Peak \|\| Spacewatch \|\| — \|\| align=right data-sort-value="0.53" \| 530 m \|\| \|-id=021 bgcolor=#fefefe \| 491021 \|\| \|\| — \|\| July 25, 2011 \|\| Haleakala \|\| Pan-STARRS \|\| — \|\| align=right data-sort-value="0.80" \| 800 m \|\| \|-id=022 bgcolor=#fefefe \| 491022 \|\| \|\| — \|\| July 26, 2011 \|\| Haleakala \|\| Pan-STARRS \|\| — \|\| align=right data-sort-value="0.78" \| 780 m \|\| \|-id=023 bgcolor=#fefefe \| 491023 \|\| \|\| — \|\| June 3, 2011 \|\| Mount Lemmon \|\| M
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20492001%E2%80%93493000	492001–492100 \|-bgcolor=#fefefe \| 492001 \|\| \|\| — \|\| March 2, 2009 \|\| Mount Lemmon \|\| Mount Lemmon Survey \|\| — \|\| align=right data-sort-value="0.74" \| 740 m \|\| \|-id=002 bgcolor=#fefefe \| 492002 \|\| \|\| — \|\| January 29, 2009 \|\| Kitt Peak \|\| Spacewatch \|\| — \|\| align=right data-sort-value="0.66" \| 660 m \|\| \|-id=003 bgcolor=#fefefe \| 492003 \|\| \|\| — \|\| September 12, 2007 \|\| Mount Lemmon \|\| Mount Lemmon Survey \|\| — \|\| align=right data-sort-value="0.78" \| 780 m \|\| \|-id=004 bgcolor=#fefefe \| 492004 \|\| \|\| — \|\| March 13, 2013 \|\| Kitt Peak \|\| Spacewatch \|\| NYS \|\| align=right data-sort-value="0.72" \| 720 m \|\| \|-id=005 bgcolor=#E9E9E9 \| 492005 \|\| \|\| — \|\| October 25, 2011 \|\| Haleakala \|\| Pan-STARRS \|\| — \|\| align=right \| 1.4 km \|\| \|-id=006 bgcolor=#fefefe \| 492006 \|\| \|\| — \|\| February 4, 2005 \|\| Mount Lemmon \|\| Mount Lemmon Survey \|\| NYS \|\| align=right data-sort-value="0.56" \| 560 m \|\| \|-id=007 bgcolor=#fefefe \| 492007 \|\| \|\| — \|\| September 10, 2007 \|\| Mount Lemmon \|\| Mount Lemmon Survey \|\| — \|\| align=right data-sort-value="0.90" \| 900 m \|\| \|-id=008 bgcolor=#fefefe \| 492008 \|\| \|\| — \|\| September 24, 2011 \|\| Haleakala \|\| Pan-STARRS \|\| V \|\| align=right data-sort-value="0.59" \| 590 m \|\| \|-id=009 bgcolor=#E9E9E9 \| 492009 \|\| \|\| — \|\| March 9, 2005 \|\| Mount Lemmon \|\| Mount Lemmon Survey \|\| — \|\| align=right \| 1.1 km \|\| \|-id=010 bgcolor=#E9E9E9 \| 492010 \|\| \|\| — \|\| October 25, 2011 \|\| Haleakala \|\| Pan-STARRS \|\| — \|\| align=right \| 1.6 km \|\| \|-id=011 bgcolor=#fefefe \| 492011 \|\| \|\| — \|\| February 1, 2009 \|\| Kitt Peak \|\| Spacewatch \|\| MAS \|\| align=right data-sort-value="0.64" \| 640 m \|\| \|-id=012 bgcolor=#fefefe \| 492012 \|\| \|\| — \|\| March 13, 2013 \|\| Haleakala \|\| Pan-STARRS \|\| V \|\| align=right data-sort-value="0.62" \| 620 m \|\| \|-id=013 bgcolor=#fefefe \| 492013 \|\| \|\| — \|\| March 17, 2009 \|\| Kitt Peak \|\| Spacewatch \|\| — \|\| align=right data-sort-value="0.78" \| 780 m \|\| \|-id=014 bgcolor=#E9E9E9 \| 492014 \|\| \|\| — \|\| March 7, 2013 \|\| Kitt Peak \|\| Spacewatch \|\| — \|\| align=right data-sort-value="0.73" \| 730 m \|\| \|-id=015 bgcolor=#E9E9E9 \| 492015 \|\| \|\| — \|\| September 30, 2006 \|\| Catalina \|\| CSS \|\| — \|\| align=right \| 2.3 km \|\| \|-id=016 bgcolor=#E9E9E9 \| 492016 \|\| \|\| — \|\| March 7, 2013 \|\| Kitt Peak \|\| Spacewatch \|\| — \|\| align=right data-sort-value="0.85" \| 850 m \|\| \|-id=017 bgcolor=#fefefe \| 492017 \|\| \|\| — \|\| February 14, 2013 \|\| Kitt Peak \|\| Spacewatch \|\| — \|\| align=right data-sort-value="0.79" \| 790 m \|\| \|-id=018 bgcolor=#E9E9E9 \| 492018 \|\| \|\| — \|\| April 1, 2013 \|\| Catalina \|\| CSS \|\| — \|\| align=right \| 1.5 km \|\| \|-id=019 bgcolor=#fefefe \| 492019 \|\| \|\| — \|\| September 26, 2006 \|\| Mount Lemmon \|\| Mount Lemmon Survey \|\| — \|\| align=right data-sort-value="0.68" \| 680 m \|\| \|-id=020 bgcolor=#E9E9E9 \| 492020 \|\| \|\| — \|\| March 19, 2013 \|\| Haleakala \|\| Pan-STARRS \|\| — \|\| align=right \| 1.5 km \|\| \|-id=021 bgcolor=#E9E9E9 \| 492021 \|\| \|\| — \|\| September 25, 2006 \|\| Kitt Peak \|\| Spacewatch \|\| — \|\| align=right data-sort-value="0.76" \| 760 m \|\| \|-id=022 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco%20%28miniseries%29	Waco is an American television miniseries, developed by John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle, that premiered on January 24, 2018, on Paramount Network. The six-episode series dramatizes the 1993 standoff between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas and stars Michael Shannon, Taylor Kitsch, Andrea Riseborough, Paul Sparks, Rory Culkin, Shea Whigham, Melissa Benoist, John Leguizamo, Julia Garner, and Glenn Fleshler. The miniseries received a mixed response from critics who praised the performances and tension, but criticized the show's sympathetic approach to Branch Davidian leader David Koresh. A sequel titled Waco: The Aftermath premiered on April 16, 2023, on Showtime. Premise Waco is a dramatized exploration of the 51-day 1993 standoff between the FBI, ATF and David Koresh's religious faction, the Branch Davidians, in Waco, Texas, that culminated in a fatal fire. It investigates the tragedy before and during the standoff, from a variety of viewpoints of those most personally associated with the two sides of the dispute. Cast and characters Main Recurring Guest Notes Episodes Series epilogue The series epilogue reads: "The FBI denied using incendiary devices that would ignite a fire. They claimed the Branch Davidian intentionally started the fire in an apparent mass suicide. The Justice Department's Danforth Report in 2000 concluded the fire was started by the Branch Davidians. The report also acknowledged that the FBI had used incendiary flash-bang grenades in the assault. Surviving Branch Davidians maintain that there was never a plan for mass suicide. FBI Negotiators successfully secured the release of 35 Branch Davidians during the siege. As a result of the tragedy in Waco, 76 Branch Davidians died in the fire. 25 of them were children." Production Development John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle initially conceived the project as a feature film. That original work eventually developed into a film script that ended up being around 150 pages. Concerned about its length, the brothers even changed the margins in an attempt to make the script shorter and therefore increasing their chances of interesting a studio. Eventually, Drew decided to convert their film project into a limited series, despite never having attempted that sort of format before. After bringing their project to The Weinstein Company, the producers agreed that the story would best be served in a longer format. On August 30, 2016, it was announced that The Weinstein Company, through their Weinstein Television arm, was developing a television miniseries based upon the 1993 Branch Davidian siege in Waco, Texas. It was reported that John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle would write the series with the former directing. The series is based on two biographies: A Place Called Waco, by Branch Davidian survivor David Thibodeau, and Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Host
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Albums%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202007	The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each album's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2007, there were 21 albums that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one album of the year was Muse's fourth studio album Black Holes and Revelations, released the previous year, which spent the first three weeks of the year at number one. The first new number-one of the year was Chimaira's fourth studio album Resurrection, in March. The final number-one album of the year was the Led Zeppelin's compilation album Mothership, which spent the last six weeks of 2007 and the first week of 2008 at the top of the chart. The most successful album on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart in 2007 was My Chemical Romance's third studio album The Black Parade, which spent a total of seven weeks at number one over three separate spells. Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, the sixth studio album by Foo Fighters, spent six weeks at number one and was the best-selling rock and metal album of the year, ranking 15th in the UK End of Year Albums Chart. Led Zeppelin's Mothership also spent six weeks at number one during the year, while Linkin Park's Minutes to Midnight spent five and Muse's Black Holes and Revelations spent four. Paramore's Riot! was number one for three weeks in 2007, while six more albums – Stadium Arcadium, Take to the Skies, Year Zero, Snakes & Arrows, Lost Highway and Libertad – each spent two weeks at number one. Chart history See also 2007 in British music List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2007 References External links Official UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company The Official UK Top 40 Rock Albums at BBC Radio 1 2007 in British music United Kingdom Rock and Metal Albums 2007
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucithara%20gradata	Eucithara gradata is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae. Distribution This marine species is found off Western India and Sri Lanka. Description The length of the shell attains 5.75 mm, its diameter 2.5 mm. The ribs are narrow, straight, and continue to the base of the body whorl. The interstices are regularly transversely striated. The columella is almost straight, slightly rugose above,. The outer lip is nearly straight, very thick, regularly rounded. The color of the shell is pure white. References Nevill, G. & Nevill, H. 1875. Descriptions of nine marine Mollusca from the Indian Ocean. 1. Asiatic Soc. Bengal [n.s.] 44(2): 8~104, pis 7,8. External links Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295 Kilburn R.N. 1992. Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 6. Subfamily Mangeliinae, section 1. Annals of the Natal Museum, 33: 461–575 gradata Gastropods described in 1875
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone%20%28American%20TV%20series%29	Yellowstone is an American neo-Western drama television series created by Taylor Sheridan and John Linson that premiered on June 20, 2018, on Paramount Network. The series stars Kevin Costner, Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, Wes Bentley, Cole Hauser, Kelsey Asbille, and Gil Birmingham. The series follows the conflicts along the shared borders of the Yellowstone Ranch, a large cattle ranch, the Broken Rock Indian reservation, Yellowstone National Park and land developers. In May 2023, it was announced that the fifth season will be its last and will be followed by an untitled sequel series. The first part of the fifth and final season premiered on November 13, 2022, with the second part planned to premiere about a year later -- although the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike and creative tensions among the show's leadership have put that return in doubt. In 2013, Sheridan began work on the series, having recently grown tired of acting and switching to screenwriting. Having lived in the rural parts of states such as Texas and Wyoming, Sheridan set the series in Montana and set the first scripts in Livingston. Sheridan initially pitched the series to HBO, but the network declined. In May 2017, Paramount Network announced that it had greenlit its first scripted series, Yellowstone. Paramount issued a series order for a first season consisting of ten episodes. The series was set to be written, directed and executive-produced by Sheridan. A prequel series titled 1883 (2021–2022) was announced following a five-year deal signed by Sheridan with ViacomCBS and MTV Entertainment Group. The series focuses on a generation of the Dutton family during the Old West as they undertake the arduous journey across the country before settling the land that would become the Yellowstone Ranch. A second prequel series titled 1923 (2022–present) focuses on an intervening generation of the Dutton family during the time of Western Expansion, Prohibition, and the Great Depression. A third planned spin-off titled 6666 is also in development and is set in the present day on the Four Sixes Ranch in Texas. A further fourth spin-off titled 1944 was confirmed by Paramount in early 2023. Premise The series follows the Dutton family, owners of the largest ranch in Montana, the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch, commonly called "the Yellowstone". The plot revolves around family drama at the ranch and the bordering Broken Rock Indian Reservation, Yellowstone National Park, and developers. Cast and characters Kevin Costner as John Dutton III Josh Lucas as young John Dutton (recurring seasons 1, 5; guest season 2) Luke Grimes as Kayce Dutton Rhys Alterman as young Kayce Dutton (guest seasons 1–2) Kelly Reilly as Bethany "Beth" Dutton Kylie Rogers as young Beth Dutton (recurring season 5; guest seasons 1–3) Wes Bentley as James Michael "Jamie" Dutton Dalton Baker as young Jamie Dutton (guest seasons 1–3) Cole Hauser as Rip Wheeler Kyle Red Silverstein as young Rip Wheeler (recurring s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swachh%20Dhan%20Abhiyan	Swachh Dhan Abhiyan (English: Operation Clean Money) is a project launched by Income Tax Department, Ministry of Finance, Government of India on 31 January 2017 in New Delhi. It has a programming software which is being used to get answers on all the deposits made and after preliminary answers from the people. It is inspired by Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, an initiative to Clean India. Swachh Dhan Abhiyan is about Clean Money, a reflection of the government's anti-corruption drive. See also Indian black money 2016 Indian banknote demonetisation Corruption in India MyGov.in References Modi administration initiatives 2017 in India
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitpit	bitpit is an open source modular library for scientific computing. The goal of bitpit is to ease the burden of writing scientific programs providing the common building blocks needed by every scientific application. Each module of the bitpit library is developed to address a specific aspect of real-life application development. Modules can be used as building blocks to quickly develop a high-performance scientific application. The library consists of several modules ranging from low level functionalities like algebraic operators to high level functionalities like the evaluation of distance functions on computational meshes. Features and modules Features and the modules of bitpit include: Cartesian and unstructured volume and surface meshes Parallel linear quadtree/octree with load balancing and 2:1 balancing (PABLO - PArallel Balanced Linear Octree) Basic container object for different types of meshes (surface and volume) which allows the concomitant use of more than one mesh at the same time Methods for the evaluation of signed and unsigned distance functions from generic objects immersed in a computational mesh Basic algebraic operators (Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division), mathematical functions (dot product, cross product, norm, absolute value), stream operators and display functions for some of the Standard Template Library (STL) containers A collection of useful containers for scientific applications. binary buffers for parallel data exchange and high level methods for handling MPI parallel communications. methods for reading and writing common data files, like DGF (Dune Grid Format), STL (STereo Litography) and VTK (Visualization ToolKit) files, and for handling logfiles. tools for handling and solving small dense linear systems. Radial Basis Function interpolation and parametrization even with large set of nodes. Sorting algorithms (LIFO, kd-tree, and binary tree) A computational geometry methods collection See also Meshes Octree Linear Algebra References External links The Official bitpit web site The bitpit Github repository A Python API for bitpit Free computer libraries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel%E2%80%93Ziv%20complexity	The Lempel–Ziv complexity is a measure that was first presented in the article On the Complexity of Finite Sequences (IEEE Trans. On IT-22,1 1976), by two Israeli computer scientists, Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv. This complexity measure is related to Kolmogorov complexity, but the only function it uses is the recursive copy (i.e., the shallow copy). The underlying mechanism in this complexity measure is the starting point for some algorithms for lossless data compression, like LZ77, LZ78 and LZW. Even though it is based on an elementary principle of words copying, this complexity measure is not too restrictive in the sense that it satisfies the main qualities expected by such a measure: sequences with a certain regularity do not have a too large complexity, and the complexity grows as the sequence grows in length and irregularity. The Lempel–Ziv complexity can be used to measure the repetitiveness of binary sequences and text, like song lyrics or prose. Fractal dimension estimates of real-world data have also been shown to correlate with Lempel–Ziv complexity. Principle Let S be a binary sequence, of length n, for which we have to compute the Lempel–Ziv complexity, denoted C(S). The sequence is read from the left. Imagine you have a delimiting line, which can be moved in the sequence during the calculation. At first, this line is set just after the first symbol, at the beginning of the sequence. This initial position is called position 1, from where we have to move it to a position 2, which is considered the initial position for the next step (and so on). We have to move the delimiter (starting in position 1) the further possible to the right, so that the sub-word between position 1 and the delimiter position be a word of the sequence that starts before the position 1 of the delimiter. As soon as the delimiter is set on a position where this condition is not met, we stop, move the delimiter to this position, and start again by marking this position as a new initial position (i.e., position 1). Keep iterating until the end of the sequence. The Lempel–Ziv complexity corresponds to the number of iterations needed to finish this procedure. Said differently, the Lempel–Ziv complexity is the number of different sub-strings (or sub-words) encountered as the binary sequence is viewed as a stream (from left to right). Formal explanations The method proposed by Lempel and Ziv uses three notions: reproducibility, producibility and exhaustive history of a sequence, that we defined here. Notations Let S be a binary sequence of length n (i.e., n symbols taking value 0 or 1). Let S(i,j), with , be the sub-word of S from index i to index j (if j<i, S(i,j) is the empty string). The length n of S is denoted l(S), and a sequence Q is said to be a fixed prefix of S if: Reproducibility and producibility On the one hand, a sequence S of length n is said to be reproducible from its prefix S(1,j) when S(j+1,n) is a sub-word of S(1,j). This is denoted S(1,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Maha%20Petroleum	Al Maha Petroleum Products Marketing Company, also known as Al Maha, is a petroleum company based in Oman. The company is named for the Arabian Oryx (al Maha). Al Maha maintains a network of over 200 service stations throughout Oman, including convenience stores and auto services. Al Maha also has commercial and aviation fuel divisions. They are committed to the environment and maintain international safety standards for sustainable operation. History Al Maha was founded on June 22, 1993 by a Royal Decree from Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said. The companies origins lie within the Oman Refinery Company, of which Al-Maha has been a part of since before 1993. The company was established as a fully government-owned entity. ABS Lubricants Company (UAE) bought a 35% stake in Al-Maha in 1999, with 65% remaining with the government of the Sultanate of Oman. In 2000, Al Maha started cooperating with Gulf Caltex Company to supply aviation fuel for Muscat International Airport. In 2004, Al-Maha Petroleum Products Marketing Company was converted from a limited liability to a general Omani joint-stock company now named Al-Maha Petroleum Products Marketing Company S.A.O.G. In 2013, Al Maha opened an average of one new station every two months, taking the total to 182 by the end of the year. In 2014, Al Maha won a new fuel supply contract for Oman Air's fuel requirements at Muscat airport, valued at around OMR 83 million. In 2017, the company signed two major agreements with Rural Areas Electricity Company (Raeco) and with Oman National Transport Company (Mwasalat) at OMR 91 million. The contract with Raeco (OMR 73 million) details the delivery of 380 million litres of gas oil over a two-year period, which started on September 1, 2017. The second contract with Mwasalat (OMR 18 million) was for the design, building and operation of a new fuel station at the companies headquarters and the supply of fuel for all buses, starting from May 31, 2017 over a 10-year period (up to a total of 100 million liters of fuel). Al Maha was one of two main sponsors for the second World Military Cup for Soccer 2017 (CISM) which was held in Oman from January 13 to 29. In 2018, Al Maha signed a five-year agreement with Mwasalat to build a solar energy powered and air conditioned bus stop in Muscat. The deal is valued at around OMR 125,000. In the same year, the two companies also signed an agreement for Al Maha to construct a new fuel depot at Mwasalat's headquarters. Al Maha Petroleum Products Marketing Company signed a partnership agreement with Petronas Lubricants International (PLI) in April 2019. Making Al Maha an authorised distributor of PLI's products. A contract between Al Maha and the Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) was signed in November 2020, which is expected to generate initial capital investments of $20.8 million and an expected revenue of $90.9 million. The contract is to run from 23 August 2020 until 22 August 2035, with a possible extension until 2040. Corpo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus%20Hutchins	Marcus Hutchins (born 1994), also known online as MalwareTech, is a British computer security researcher known for stopping the WannaCry ransomware attack. He is employed by cybersecurity firm Kryptos Logic. Hutchins is from Ilfracombe in Devon. Early life Hutchins is the elder son of Janet Hutchins, a Scottish nurse, and Desmond Hutchins, a Jamaican social worker. Around 2003, when Hutchins was nine years old, the parents moved the family from urban Bracknell, near London, to rural Devon. Hutchins had shown early aptitude with computers and learned simple hacking skills early on such as bypassing security on school computers to install video game software. In addition, he spent time learning to be a surf lifeguard. He became involved with an online forum that promoted malware development, more as a means to show off their skills to each other rather than for nefarious purposes. When he was about 14 years old, he created his own contribution, a password stealer based on Internet Explorer's AutoFill feature, which was met with approval by the forum. He spent much of his time with this community to the extent his school work began to fail. When the school's systems were compromised, the school authorities claimed Hutchins was the culprit. Though he denied any involvement, school authorities permanently suspended him from using the computers at school, which further pushed Hutchins to skip school more often and spend more time in the malware forums. Career UPAS Kit and Kronos At around this time, the original malware forums had been closed, and Hutchins transferred to another hacker community, HackForums. In this new forum, members were expected to show more skill by demonstrating possession of a botnet. Hutchins, 15 years old at the time, successfully created an 8,000-computer botnet for HackForums by tricking BitTorrent users into running his fake files to take control of their machines. From this exploit, Hutchins saw financial opportunities for his hacking skills, though at the time he did not feel these were tied to any type of cybercrime, as he stated in a 2020 interview. These activities included setting up "ghosted" web hosting for others on the HackForums for "all illegal sites" except child porn, and created custom malware, often based on evaluating how others' rootkits operated. According to Hutchins in later interviews and in his plea agreement, when he was around 16, having gained a reputation in hacking circles for his custom malware, he was approached by an online entity he knew only as "Vinny", who asked him to write a well-maintained, multifaceted rootkit that could be sold on multiple hacker marketplaces, with Hutchins to be paid half of the profits of each sale. Hutchins agreed, and by mid-2012, had completed writing UPAS Kit, named after the poisonous upas tree. During this period, Hutchins had once complained in his conversations with Vinny about the lack of good weed in the country. Vinny asked for his address, which Hutch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park%20Bench%20with%20Steve%20Buscemi	Park Bench with Steve Buscemi was an American web series talk show created, directed and hosted by actor Steve Buscemi, distributed by digital network AOL. The series premiered on May 15, 2014. In each episode, Buscemi interviews a famous friend, former co-worker or everyday person in New York City. Production The show was conceived when Buscemi met Gino Orlando, his sidekick on the series, while directing promotional shorts for Vampire Weekend. "When we saw the footage," Buscemi said, "Geo was so natural and just a great sidekick, if you will, that I said to my producing partner and our producing team, 'I think I can build a whole show out of Geo and I on park benches.'" His brother Michael Buscemi appears as a rival talk show host. Each season was shot digitally in five days, in interior and exterior locations. The titular bench is a prop brought to each filming location, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Julian Schnabel's home and various bars and restaurants in the New York area. Awards In September 2016, the series won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Variety Series. The win was Buscemi's first out of eight Emmy nominations. The series had been nominated for Outstanding Short-Format Nonfiction Program in 2014. Episodes Season 1 (2014) Season 2 (2015) References External links American comedy web series 2014 web series debuts 2015 web series endings Web talk shows American non-fiction web series
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine%20MacDonald	Geraldine MacDonald is an American internet and online services pioneer, best known for building and operating the world's largest dial-up network for America Online supporting over 35 million customers at its peak. Early life MacDonald was born in New York City. Her parents were Holocaust survivors who immigrated to the United States during World War II. She attended George Washington High School (Manhattan) and earned a B.A. in psychology from Harpur College. She earned a M.S. in computer science from the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science, Binghamton University. Career MacDonald began her career as a programmer for The Equitable Life Assurance Society. She then returned to Binghamton University and held various positions within the university computing operation, and received promotions to Associate Vice President with responsibility for all academic, research and administrative computing services on campus. MacDonald was actively involved in the connection of university campuses in New York to each other and to other developing portions of the Internet in the United States. She served on the board of NYSERNet, The New York State Education Research Network, BITNET and CREN, the Corporation for Research and Educational Networking. Awards and honors MacDonald was named one of the "Top 25 Unsung Heroes of the Net" in 1999 by Inter@ctive Week, a Ziff Davis publication. In 2002, MacDonald received the ACM Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services ACM SIGUCCS Hall of Fame Award. In 2014, MacDonald received the Glenn G. Bartle Distinguished Alumnus Award from Binghamton University for her work in internet technology. MacDonald was honored with a Doctor of Letters degree by Binghamton University at commencement ceremonies on May 19, 2017. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people AOL people Harpur College alumni People from Binghamton, New York
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20as%20a%20Product	Software as a product (SaaP, also programming product, software product) is a product, software, which is made to be sold to users, and users pay for licence which allows them to use it, in contrast to SaaS, where users buy subscription and where the software is centrally hosted. One example of software as a product has historically been Microsoft Office, which has traditionally been distributed as a file package using CD-ROM or other physical media or is downloaded over network. Office 365, on the other hand, is an example of SaaS, where a monthly subscription is required. Development effort estimation In the book The Mythical Man-Month Fred Brooks tells that when estimating project times, it should be remembered that programming products (which can be sold to paying customers) are three times as hard to write as simple independent in-house programs, because requirement to work on different situations, which increases testing efforts and as a documentation. See also The Mythical Man-Month Minimum viable product Product manager Software as a service Literature References Software distribution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon%20Network%20Hindi	Cartoon Network Hindi (often abbreviated as CN हिंदी में) is a Middle Eastern and North African Hindi-language children's television channel targeted towards 4 to 14 year old South Asian expatriate children in the Arab countries, operated by Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA. As the name implies, the channel broadcasts exclusively in Hindi, which is akin to the Turner's Arabic language children's television channel, Cartoon Network Arabic. It is the first Hindi-language children's television channel in the Middle East and North Africa. TBS launched Cartoon Network Hindi on April 1, 2016 exclusively on beIN Network satellite television platform. It primarily broadcasts animated programming from both the original American network and the Indian feed. On January 12, 2017, the channel converted to full HD (1080i), in addition to rebranding to the Dimensional branding package. References Cartoon Network Children's television networks Turner Broadcasting System Arabic Television channels and stations established in 2016 Hindi-language television stations Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20DeBarber	Charles 'Sly Fox' DeBarber is an American cyber threat intelligence and computer security professional, best known for his role as a cyber intelligence analyst on the CBS television series Hunted. He is a former United States Army Staff Sergeant and is a Senior Privacy Analyst at the reputation firm Phoenix Advocates, LLC. Education DeBarber completed his MA in Intelligence Operations from American Military University in 2011, a BS in Administration & Management from Excelsior College in 2008, an AS in Intelligence Operations from Cochise College in 2008, and graduated from the Defense Language Institute where he studied Modern Standard Arabic. Career DeBarber served in the US Army as a 35N (Signals Intelligence Collector/Analyst) from 2004 to 2013. During that time he completed one deployment during the surge of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was awarded an Army Achievement Medal for his part in the recovery of the remains of an DUSTWUN soldier in 2008. He obtained the rank of staff sergeant (SSG). During his service, he was awarded two Army Achievement Medals, an Army Commendation Medal, Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal, Iraqi Campaign Medal, and two Meritorious Unit Commendations. Since leaving the military, DeBarber has worked as a Certified Ethical Hacker, cyber intelligence analyst, and digital forensics investigator. He joined the cyber security firm Fortalice, LLC as a Program Manager for Intelligence Operations in 2014 and as of 2020 works for the technology firm Eccalon, LCC. In 2016, he was chosen as a Cyber Analyst and lead Digital Forensics Examiner on CBS's reality television show Hunted. He was featured in the episode "Operation Cupid's Revenge". Mr. DeBarber testified in the 2019 civil trial against the defunct GirlsDoPorn sex trafficking ring. In 2021, DeBarber established a firm for assisting victims in purging non-consensual pornography (NCP) called Phoenix Advocates & Consultants (PAC). He appeared before the Canadian House of Commons on June 7, 2021, and criticized PornHub's role in failing to impede the spread of NCP for over a decade. Non-profit work Since 2015, DeBarber has sat on the advisory board for the anti-child sex trafficking NGO Child Rescue and has assisted similar NGOs in efforts to recover lost children and combat child exploitation. References Intelligence analysts Living people United States Army non-commissioned officers Year of birth missing (living people) United States Army personnel of the Iraq War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedt	Hedt or HEDT may refer to: Ken Hedt (1936–2006), Australian rules football player High-end desktop computer, a desktop computer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20localization	Data localization or data residency law requires data about a nation's citizens or residents to be collected, processed, and/or stored inside the country, often before being transferred internationally. Such data is usually transferred only after meeting local privacy or data protection laws, such as giving the user notice of how the information will be used, and obtaining their consent. Data localization builds upon the concept of data sovereignty that regulates certain data types by the laws applicable to the data subjects or processors. While data sovereignty may require that records about a nation's citizens or residents follow its personal or financial data processing laws, data localization goes a step further in requiring that initial collection, processing, and storage first occur within the national boundaries. In some cases, data about a nation's citizens or residents must also be deleted from foreign systems before being removed from systems in the data subject's nation. Motivations and concerns One of the first moves towards data localization occurred in 2005 when the Government of Kazakhstan passed a law for all ".kz" domains to be run domestically (with later exceptions for Google). However, the push for data localization greatly increased after revelations by Edward Snowden regarding United States counter-terrorism surveillance programs in 2013. Since then, various governments in Europe and around the world have expressed the desire to be able to control the flow of residents' data through technology. Some governments are accused of and some openly admit to using data localization laws as a way to surveil their own populaces or to boost local economic activity. Technology companies and multinational organizations often oppose data localization laws because they impact efficiencies gained by regional aggregation of data centers and unification of services across national boundaries. Some vendors, such as Microsoft, have used data storage locale controls as a differentiating feature in their cloud services. International treaties and laws After Germany and France either passed or nearly passed data localization laws, the European Union was considering restrictions on data localization laws being passed by member states in 2017. Data localization laws are often seen as protectionist. Consistent with the philosophy whereby trade barriers should be abolished within the EU but erected between the EU and other countries, the EU believes that data localization should be left to the EU to regulate at a pan-EU level, and member states' domestic data localization laws would violate European Union competition law. The EU's General Data Protection Regulation contains extensive regulation of data flow and storage, including restrictions on exporting personal data outside of the EU. To counter the protectionist impulses of the EU and other countries, a number of regional free trade agreements prohibit data localization requirements and restr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin%20scalability%20problem	The Bitcoin scalability problem refers to the limited capability of the Bitcoin network to handle large amounts of transaction data on its platform in a short span of time. It is related to the fact that records (known as blocks) in the Bitcoin blockchain are limited in size and frequency. Bitcoin's blocks contain the transactions on the bitcoin network. The on-chain transaction processing capacity of the bitcoin network is limited by the average block creation time of 10 minutes and the original block size limit of 1 megabyte. These jointly constrain the network's throughput. The transaction processing capacity maximum estimated using an average or median transaction size is between 3.3 and 7 transactions per second. There are various proposed and activated solutions to address this issue. Background The block size limit, in concert with the proof-of-work difficulty adjustment settings of bitcoin's consensus protocol, constitutes a bottleneck in bitcoin's transaction processing capacity. This can result in increasing transaction fees and delayed processing of transactions that cannot be fit into a block. Various proposals have come forth on how to scale bitcoin, and a contentious debate has resulted. Business Insider in 2017 characterized this debate as an "ideological battle over bitcoin's future." Forks Increasing the network's transaction processing limit requires making changes to the technical workings of bitcoin, in a process known as a fork. Forks can be grouped into two types: Hard fork Bitcoin Cash ("BCH") is a hard fork of bitcoin increasing the maximum block size. Bitcoin XT, Bitcoin Classic and Bitcoin Unlimited each supported an increase to the maximum block size. On 1 August 2017, the day when BTC forked, the BTC blockchain split into two separate blockchains: one maintained in accordance with the rules currently valid for Bitcoin, and the other maintained in accordance with the rules currently valid for Bitcoin Cash. If one had coins on the Bitcoin chain prior to the fork and has not yet moved them, one could move them on one or the other or both chains. Thus, all holders of Bitcoin also became holders of Bitcoin Cash at the time of the split. Henceforth Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash are separate and trade at entirely independent valuations relative to each other, fiat currencies, and other assets. Bitcoin SV ("BSV") is a hard fork of Bitcoin Cash and offers a competing implementation of the Bitcoin protocol that aims to solve the Bitcoin scalability problem by implementing an unbounded block cap size, enabling the network to produce blocks of unlimited size. Soft fork Segregated Witness is an example of a soft fork. In case of a soft fork, all mining nodes meant to work in accordance with the new rules need to upgrade their software. Efficiency improvements Technical optimizations may decrease the amount of computing resources required to receive, process and record bitcoin transactions, allowing increased throughput wi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Danny%20Kaye%20Show%20%28radio%20program%29	The Danny Kaye Show is an American old-time radio comedy-variety program. Broadcast on the CBS radio network, it ran from January 6, 1945 to May 31, 1946. Format The Danny Kaye Show featured singing, instrumental music, and various kinds of comedy sketches. In Nobody's Fool, Martin Gottfried wrote about the program: "Everything about it was to be top drawer, beginning with Kaye's then record salary of $16,000 a week (compared to the $100 apiece he had been paid for three minor CBS radio shows in 1940)." Personnel In addition to Kaye, the cast included Eve Arden, Lionel Stander, and Frank Nelson as regulars, with the supporting cast including Kenny Delmar, Everett Sloane, Joan Edwards, and Butterfly McQueen. Announcers were Ken Niles and Dick Joy. Music was under the direction of Harry James, Lyn Murray, David Terry, and Harry Sosnik. Dick Mack was the director. The producer was Goodman Ace, described by Gottfried in Nobody's Fool as "radio's premier comedy writer, who had so estimable a reputation that even though the program would be broadcast from Los Angeles, he was able to insist on running it from New York." A behind-the-scenes influence was Kaye's wife, Sylvia Fine, a producer, composer, and lyricist in her own right. Gottfried wrote, "She demanded and won the right to approve the show's writers." She also wrote for the program, along with Ace and Abe Burrows. See also The Danny Kaye Show television program References External links www.example.com Logs Log of episodes of The Danny Kaye Show from The Digital Deli Too Log of episodes of The Danny Kaye Show from Jerry Haendiges Vintage Radio Logs Log of episodes of The Danny Kaye Show from radioGOLDINdex Scripts Streaming Episodes of The Danny Kaye Show from Old Time Radio Researchers Group Library Episodes of The Danny Kaye Show from Zoot Radio 1945 radio programme debuts 1946 radio programme endings 1940s American radio programs CBS Radio programs American comedy radio programs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier%20tilt	Carrier tilt is a wear issue that can arise in some gas piston-based firearm operating systems. High pressure gas pushes the gas piston back hitting the bolt carrier. This force pushes the bolt carrier down into the buffer tube wall. This can lead to increased wear, shaved and/or chipped metal. This in turn can lead to a loss of accuracy. Solutions Colt says that by allowing the operating rod to wiggle the downward force is alleviated and shifted rearward instead. Conversely, Adams Arms cites loose or sloppy tolerances inside the receiver as root source of the problem and thus utilizes a single-piece carrier to solve the problem. Other companies solve this issue modifying the carrier length. Black Rifle Arms utilizing a shorted carrier to accommodate a polymer based buffer and Patriot Ordnance Factory using a lengthened carrier, sporting an extended lower lip. References Firearms Firearm terminology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Albums%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202006	The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each album's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2006, there were 21 albums that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one album of the year was In Your Honor, the fifth studio album by Foo Fighters, which was released the previous year and spent the first four weeks of 2006 at number one. The first new number-one album of the year was Yellowcard's fifth studio album Lights and Sounds. The final number-one album of the year was the Aerosmith compilation The Very Best of Aerosmith, which spent the last two weeks of the year at number one. The most successful album on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart in 2006 was Muse's 2006 fourth studio album Black Holes and Revelations, which spent a total of ten weeks at number one over four separate spells. Green Day's 2004 seventh studio album American Idiot was number one for eight weeks in 2006, while Stadium Arcadium by Red Hot Chili Peppers spent seven weeks at number one and was the best-selling rock and metal album of the year, ranking 15th in the UK End of Year Albums Chart. In Your Honor by Foo Fighters and The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance were both number one on the chart for four consecutive weeks, while an additional three albums – Yellowcard's Lights and Sounds, Evanescence's The Open Door and The Very Best of Aerosmith – each spent two weeks at number one in 2006. Chart history See also 2006 in British music List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2006 References External links Official UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company The Official UK Top 40 Rock Albums at BBC Radio 1 2006 in British music United Kingdom Rock and Metal Albums 2006
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson%20computers	In the 1980s the French Thomson company produced a range of 8-bit computers based on the 6809E CPU. They were released in several variations (mostly concerning the keyboard or color of the casing) covering the MO and TO series from late 1982 to 1989. While MO and TO models are incompatible in software, most of the peripherals and hardware were compatible. These machines were common in France due to the 1980s governmental educational program Computing for All (Informatique pour Tous). Around 100,000 MO5 and TO7/70 computers were ordered and installed in schools. Export attempts to Germany, Italy, Algeria, USSR, India, Argentina and Spain were unsuccessful. It is reported that there were 450,000 Thomson computers in France in 1986. By 1988 Thomson had only sold 60,000 of the predicted 150,000 computers, abandoning computer development the following year. About 84 games were released for the TO7, 194 for the MO5, 3 for the TO7/70, 10 for the TO9, 21 for the MO6, and 128 for the TO8. Most titles were released between 1984 and 1987 and by French companies such as Infogrames, Loriciel, FIL or Coktel Vision. First generation Thomson TO7: produced from 1982 to 1984. Supplied with 24K RAM (16K used by the video) and upgradable to 48K. 8 color display. Thomson MO5: released in 1984 in order to honor the Computing for All (Informatique pour Tous) plan. Supplied with 48K RAM (32K available to user in BASIC 1.0) and first released with a rubber keyboard. Later it featured a mechanical keyboard. It was edited in a limited edition with a white casing, named "MO5 Michel Platini". Thomson TO7/70: 1984 version with more RAM (64K, upgradable into 128K) and 16 color display. Thomson MO5E: 1985 export version, with a different casing featuring a mechanical keyboard, a parallel port, two joystick ports, an internal PAL modulator and an integrated power supply. Second generation Thomson TO9 : released in late 1985. Separate keyboard and central unit, 128K RAM and a 3½-inch floppy disk drive. Thomson MO5NR: released in 1985-1986. This is a MO6 in a MO5E casing, with an integrated network interface controller, the nanoréseau (nano network), which was used in French schools. Thomson TO16 (prototype) called Theodore (TO d'or): 5 prototypes developed in 1985-1988. Based on a MC-68000 at 8 MHz and a rather good graphic card. Thomson MO6 : released in 1986. 128K RAM and built in tape recorder. Sold in Italy as the Olivetti Prodest PC128. Thomson TO8 : released in late 1986. 256K RAM, 80K ROM with Microsoft BASIC 512, extra video modes. Thomson TO9+ : released in late 1986, Separate keyboard and central unit, 512K RAM with a built in modem and a 3½-inch floppy disk drive. Thomson TO8D : released in late 1987, it was a TO8 with a 3½-inch floppy disk drive. Unix systems The Micromega was fundamental on the adoption of Unix by the French government, due to the localization of the Unix operating system. According to Dominique Maisonneuve, a Unix developer at CERG (Pari
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20Play%20%28Pretty%20Little%20Liars%29	"Power Play" is the fourteenth episode of the seventh season of the television series Pretty Little Liars, which was originally aired on May 9, 2017, on the cable network Freeform. The installment was directed by Roger Kumble and written by Lijah J. Barasz. It received a Nielsen rating of 0.5 and was viewed by 0.91 million viewers, up from the previous episode. Plot Alison’s (Sasha Pieterse) turn at the game forces her to make a drastic decision to abort her child but is haunted when "A.D." reminds her of when she was in the psychiatric hospital and was wheeled into an operating room. Alison is traumatized to remember that Emily's (Shay Mitchell) donated eggs were implanted inside her uterus, realizing Emily is her child's mother. Spencer (Troian Bellisario) has a long overdue conversation with her father (Nolan North) about his past sins and recent whereabouts. Emily continues to navigate working at Rosewood High with both Alison and Paige (Lindsey Shaw), learning the truth about Alison's pregnancy. Meanwhile, Paige contemplates leaving Rosewood, but decides against it, resulting in her and Emily renewing their relationship. Aria (Lucy Hale) continues to question the fate of her relationship with Ezra (Ian Harding) after Nicole's arrival and bristles under "A.D.’s" taunts. While searching for Mary (Andrea Parker), wanting answers from her, Hanna (Ashley Benson) and Spencer run into Pastor Ted (Ed Kerr), who eventually reveals himself as Charlotte's biological father. He also reveals that Lucas was Charlotte's old childhood friend. Meanwhile, Aria discovers that Sydney (Chloe Bridges) is on the A-Team, working for "A.D." and she offers Aria the chance to join the team, and become one of "A.D.'s" minions. Production "Power Play" was directed by Roger Kumble and written by Lijah J. Barasz, her last writing on the series. The title was revealed by showrunner I. Marlene King via Twitter on August 3, 2016. Table-read for the episode occurred on August 3, 2016, while filming took place between August 5 and August 15, 2016. Reception Ratings "Power Play" premiered to an audience of 0.91 million Americans, acquiring a 0.5 rating/share in the 18–49 demographic, according to Nielsen Media Research. Reviews "Power Play" was met with glorification from fans and with mixed opinions from television criticism. Writing for SpoilerTV, Gavin Hetherington acclaimed the episode, saying, "The many developments in this episode alone has catapulted the show into its final stretch - Aria potentially joining A.D., Jessica's killer finally revealed, the baby belonging to Emily, Spencer getting closer to the truth about Mary Drake, potential shade with Lucas - how can these not make you even more excited about the final 6 episodes. I'll say it again, this is the episode I was waiting for. It's made me excited all over again just to see what will happen next, and it's about time. No more beating around the bush, no more hoping for something to happen - it's going
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20AI	Google AI is a division of Google dedicated to artificial intelligence. It was announced at Google I/O 2017 by CEO Sundar Pichai. This division has expanded with research facilities in various parts of the world such as Zurich, Paris, Israel, and Beijing. In 2023, Google AI was part of the reorganization initiative that elevated its head, Jeff Dean, to the position of chief scientist at Google. This reorganization involved the merging of Google Brain and DeepMind, a UK-based company that Google acquired in 2014 that operated separately from the company’s core research. Projects Google Brain, a big subsidiary developing AI with machine learning to improve various Google services (e.g. better translation quality in Google Translate) Serving cloud-based TPUs (tensor processing units) in order to develop machine learning software. Development of TensorFlow. The TPU research cloud provides free access to a cluster of cloud TPUs to researchers engaged in open-source machine learning research. Portal to over 5500 (as of September 2019) research publications by Google staff. Magenta: a deep learning research team exploring the role of machine learning as a tool in the creative process. The team has released many open source projects allowing artists and musicians to extend their processes using AI. With the use of Magenta, musicians and composers could create high-quality music at a lower cost, making it easier for new artists to enter the industry. Sycamore: a new 54-qubit programmable quantum processor. LaMDA: a family of conversational neural language models A program designed to address the growing need for developing free speech resources for under-represented languages References Further reading Google Puts All Of Their A.I. Stuff On Google.ai, Announces Cloud TPU Google collects its AI initiatives under Google.ai Google collects AI-based services across the company into Google.ai – "Google.ai is a collection of products and teams across Alphabet with a focus on AI." Google's deep focus on AI is paying off External links AI Artificial intelligence laboratories
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingyun%20Gu	Lingyun Gu (born in 1976) is an expert in Artificial Intelligence, founder, chairman of the board and CEO of IceKredit, independent director of Guilin Bank, board member of Nanjing International School, adjunct professor of Singapore University of Technology and Design. Gu got his PhD degree in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2009, Gu worked as quantitative strategist at Translucent Capital. Then he joined ZestFinance as the head of modeling team in 2011.After two years, Gu joined Turbo Financial Group, where he served as co-founder, board member, and chief risk officer.In 2014, Gu became an entrepreneur in residence and investment advisor at IDG-Accel Partners.In 2015, Gu founded IceKredit, focuses on applying artificial intelligence technologies to provide powerful insights, innovative models to make smarter decisions for various industries, especially for financial business. References 1976 births Living people Machine learning researchers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20image%20processing	Quantum image processing (QIMP) is using quantum computing or quantum information processing to create and work with quantum images. Due to some of the properties inherent to quantum computation, notably entanglement and parallelism, it is hoped that QIMP technologies will offer capabilities and performances that surpass their traditional equivalents, in terms of computing speed, security, and minimum storage requirements. Background A. Y. Vlasov's work in 1997 focused on the use of a quantum system to recognize orthogonal images. This was followed by efforts using quantum algorithms to search specific patterns in binary images and detect the posture of certain targets. Notably, more optics-based interpretation for quantum imaging were initially experimentally demonstrated in and formalized in after seven years. In 2003, Salvador Venegas-Andraca and S. Bose presented Qubit Lattice, the first published general model for storing, processing and retrieving images using quantum systems. Later on, in 2005, Latorre proposed another kind of representation, called the Real Ket, whose purpose was to encode quantum images as a basis for further applications in QIMP. Furthermore, in 2010 Venegas-Andraca and Ball presented a method for storing and retrieving binary geometrical shapes in quantum mechanical systems in which it is shown that maximally entangled qubits can be used to reconstruct images without using any additional information. Technically, these pioneering efforts with the subsequent studies related to them can be classified into three main groups: Quantum-assisted digital image processing (QDIP): These applications aim at improving digital or classical image processing tasks and applications. Optics-based quantum imaging (OQI) Classically-inspired quantum image processing (QIMP) A survey of quantum image representation has been published in. Furthermore, the recently published book Quantum Image Processing provides a comprehensive introduction to quantum image processing, which focuses on extending conventional image processing tasks to the quantum computing frameworks. It summarizes the available quantum image representations and their operations, reviews the possible quantum image applications and their implementation, and discusses the open questions and future development trends. Quantum image manipulations A lot of the effort in QIMP has been focused on designing algorithms to manipulate the position and color information encoded using flexible representation of quantum images (FRQI) and its many variants. For instance, FRQI-based fast geometric transformations including (two-point) swapping, flip, (orthogonal) rotations and restricted geometric transformations to constrain these operations to a specified area of an image were initially proposed. Recently, NEQR-based quantum image translation to map the position of each picture element in an input image into a new position in an output image and quantum image scaling to resiz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Basic%201.0	BASIC 1.0 is the standard BASIC language for Thomson computers (MO5, TO7, etc.), which is the reference for the entire range. This is an implementation of Microsoft BASIC (BASIC-69). It was used to introduce children from France to programming in the 1980s (see Computing for All, a 1985 French government plan to introduce computers to the country's 11 million pupils). Three languages were mainly taught: LSE, BASIC and LOGO. School textbooks programs were given in BASIC 1.0 for Thomson and sometimes in ExelBasic for the Exelvision EXL 100. The first version came with the TO7 computer, released in 1982. On the MO5 (released in 1984 but with smaller ROM), the instruction set is reduced and the double precision is not implemented, so that the interpreter fits in only 12 KB of ROM, instead of 16 KB on the TO7. An upgraded version was produced under the name of BASIC 128, for the TO7-70, TO9, MO5NR and MO6. It included commands for disc operations and other new instructions. On the TO8/8D and TO9+, an even more upgraded version under the name of BASIC 512 was provided. Keywords BASIC 1.0 interpreter recognizes the usual commands such as FOR..NEXT, GOSUB..RETURN, IF..THEN..ELSE, and DATA / READ / RESTORE statements. Advanced instructions like ON..GOTO and ON..GOSUB were also possible. ? - Alias to PRINT ' - Alias to REM ATTRB - Character attributes BOX (x1,y1)-(x2,y2) - Draws a rectangle (the top left pixel is (0,0) BOXF (x1,y1)-(x2,y2),color - Fills a rectangle with the given color (optional, if not given use the current pen color). Negative colors lead to filling with the requested color as the background one. CLS - Clear screen COLOR foreground, background - Change pen colors (parameters are optional) CONSOLE DELETE END - Ends program execution FOR v=s TO e STEP n - FOR loop, incrementing v by n each time until it reaches e. The STEP is optional (default is 1) and can be negative. GOTO line - Jump to program line IF a THEN statement ELSE statement - Conditions (the statement can be just a line number) INPUT “message”;variable1,variable2 - Set variables to user-entered values (comma separated). A ? is printed after the message and before reading the values from the user. LINE (x1,y1)-(x2,y2) - Draws a line (first point is optional, current cursor position is used: LINE -(x2,y2)) LIST line - List the program in memory (parameter is optional, if missing the whole program is listed) LOCATE x,y - Move the cursor NEW - New program, remove current one from memory NEXT v - Closes FOR loop. PLAY s$ - Plays music. The string is made of notes DO,RE,MI,FA,SO,LA,SI (with # and b modifiers), octave changes (O1-O5), note duration changes (L1-L96), silences (P), tempo changes (T1-T256), attack settings (A0-A255). Spaces are ignored and can be used for readability PRINT value - Prints a value (if the value is suffixed with a ; insert a tabulation after it. else goes to next line) PRINT USING PSET(x,y) - Set a pixel REM - Comments (REMark). Anything follo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private%20Healthcare%20Information%20Network	The Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) was established by the United Kingdom Competition and Markets Authority under the Private Healthcare Market Investigation Order 2014. Jayne Scott, a non-executive director with the Scottish Government, is the Chair of the network. Ian Gargan has been Chief Executive of the network since September 2022. It is intended to improve the availability of information to patients considering private healthcare service, making the information comparable with that which is already available for the National Health Service. The order specifies 11 performance measures which are to be collected. In May 2017 it published data about 149 common procedures at more than 200 hospitals showing the number of patient admissions, the average length of stay for each procedure, and the Friends and Family Test scores. This is said to cover over 80% of privately funded healthcare in the UK. It is planned to publish more detailed data than the Care Quality Commission. Since 2017 the Care Quality Commission has used information supplied by the network as part of its regulation of the independent sector. Its annual report for 2016-17 contained information for 285 hospitals providing private healthcare services, but 230 hospitals had not submitted sufficient data to appear on the network's website. These included 151 that had not submitted live data at all, most of which were NHS hospitals, in respect of their private activity. In June 2018 it was announced that the network would be developing an Acute Data Alignment Programme with NHS Digital to integrate the data it collects on about 750,000 privately funded hospital episodes each year into NHS systems and standards. In December 2019 it published information on health outcomes for patients who had privately funded care in the UK, covering the period 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019, for 282 independent hospitals and NHS Private Patient Units. In 2022 the Competition and Markets Authority announced that it was escalating its public enforcement action against private hospitals and consultants. External links Private Healthcare Information Network website. Private medicine in the United Kingdom Medical and health organisations based in England
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20J.%20Hickton	David J. Hickton (born August 14, 1955) is the director and founder of the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy and Security. Prior to that, he was the 57th U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He resigned following the election of President Donald Trump and began his position at Pitt in January 2017. While a U.S. Attorney, Hickton brought several indictments for cybertheft and hacking. Prior to becoming U.S. Attorney, Hickton engaged in the private practice of law, specifically in the areas of transportation, litigation, commercial and white collar crime. Early life and education Hickton was born on August 14, 1955, in Columbus, Ohio. He received his undergraduate degree from Pennsylvania State University and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where he met his wife Dawne Eileen Sepanski Hickton. Career Hickton began his legal career as a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Gustave Diamond from 1981 to 1983. For eleven years, Hickton was an adjunct professor at the Duquesne University School of Law, where he taught a course on antitrust law. He served on the Board of Trustees at Penn State University from 1977 to 1980. He was nominated as United States Attorney for Western Pennsylvania by President Barack Obama on May 3, 2010, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 5, 2010. In May 2014, Hickton's office brought an indictment against five members of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, alleging economic espionage. The defendants were charged with hacking into American entities to steal trade secrets and other information that would be useful to Chinese competitors. Victims included Westinghouse Electric Company, the U.S. Steel, Alcoa, Inc., and Allegheny Technologies. His office also indicted Russian hacker Evgeniy Bogachev, one of the world's leading cyber criminals. In July 2015, his office, in cooperation with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and legal authorities in 19 other countries, shut down Dark0de, a cybercrime forum and black marketplace for security hackers. Darkode offered malware to disrupt operations in computer systems in several countries, and offered stolen data ranging from U.S. Social Security numbers to passwords. In June 2015, Hickton and his office brought forth a 21 count indictment of conspiracy, money laundering, wire fraud, and identity theft against Cuban national Yoandy Perez Llanes. In 2016, Mr. Llanes was extradited from Venezuela to the U.S., and later in 2017, Llanes and a cohort Soler Nodarse, pleaded guilty for their part in a $2.2 million scheme where hackers stole an estimated 62,000 tax forms of UPMC employees and sold them on the dark web. While U.S. Attorney for Western Pennsylvania, Hickton was named to co-chair a national Heroin Task Force. In 2014, he formed the U.S. Attorney's Working Group on Addiction: Prevention, Intervention, Treatment, and Recovery. His office worked with the University of Pittsburgh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Albums%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202005	The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each album's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2005, there were 19 albums that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one album of the year was American Idiot, the seventh studio album by Green Day, which was released the previous year and spent 18 consecutive weeks at number one from 30 October 2004. The first new number-one album of the year was The Mars Volta's second studio album Frances the Mute. The final number-one album of the year was Green Day's first full-length live album Bullet in a Bible, which spent the last three weeks of the year at number one. The most successful album on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart in 2005 was American Idiot, which spent a total of 16 weeks at number one over five separate spells, including one of nine consecutive weeks. In Your Honor, the fifth studio album by Foo Fighters, was number one for eight weeks in 2005, while Don't Believe the Truth by Oasis spent six weeks at number one and was the best-selling rock and metal album of the year, ranking 13th in the UK End of Year Albums Chart. Bullet in a Bible by Green Day spent four weeks at number one in 2005, Queens of the Stone Age's fourth studio album Lullabies to Paralyze spent three weeks at number one, and two albums – the Roadrunner United collaboration album The All-Star Sessions and Blink-182's Greatest Hits compilation – each spent two weeks at number one in 2005. Chart history See also 2005 in British music List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2005 References External links Official UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company The Official UK Top 40 Rock Albums at BBC Radio 1 2005 in British music United Kingdom Rock and Metal Albums 2005
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usinternetworking%20Inc	USinternetworking, Inc. (USi) was an application service provider. It offered outsourced business applications delivered over the Internet or a private network connection for an installation charge and a flat monthly fee. In October 2006, it was acquired by AT&T. History The company was founded in January 1998 by Christopher R. McCleary, Chris Poelma and Stephen McManus Early investors included Grotech and US West. In February 1998, the company pursued a merger with PSINet but was rejected. In May 1998, the company signed a lease for its 24,000 square foot office. On April 9, 1999, during the dot-com bubble, the company became a public company via an initial public offering. Shares rose 174% on the first day of trading, ending the day at $57.50 per share. On April 26, 1999, the company was named the first certified Broadvision application service provider. In November 1999, the company announced an agreement to develop Microsoft Office 2000 as an online service. In July 2000, founder Christopher R. McCleary resigned as chief executive officer of the company and was replaced with Andrew Stern. In August 2000, the company acquired EnableVision. By July 2001, after the bursting of the dot-com bubble, shares were trading for $1 each. In January 2002, the company filed bankruptcy. It emerged in May 2002 with financing from Bain Capital and a merger with Interpath. In September 2003, Stephen A. Mucchetti was named chief operating officer of the company. In June 2004, the company acquired Appshop for between $40 million and $50 million. In October 2006, AT&T acquired the company for $300 million. References 1998 establishments in Maryland 1999 initial public offerings Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2002 2006 mergers and acquisitions AT&T Dot-com bubble
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Albums%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202000	The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each album's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2000, there were 18 albums that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one album of the year was the Guns N' Roses live album Live Era '87–'93, which was released the previous year and topped the chart on 11 December 1999. The album remained at the top of the chart for four weeks, including the first of 2000. The final number-one album of the year was Coldplay's debut studio album Parachutes, which spent the last nine weeks of the year (and the first two weeks of 2001) at number one. The most successful album on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart in 2000 was Parachutes, which spent a total of 21 weeks at number one over three spells, including a run of eleven consecutive weeks and another of nine (eleven including the first two weeks of 2001). Parachutes was the best-selling rock and metal album of the year, ranking 8th in the UK End of Year Albums Chart. As of July 2016, it is the 45th best-selling album in the UK of all-time. Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, the fourth studio album by Oasis, spent nine weeks at number one in 2000; Iron Maiden's Brave New World and Blink-182's Enema of the State were each number one for three weeks; and Dookie by Green Day, Blood Sugar Sex Magik by Red Hot Chili Peppers and Binaural by Pearl Jam spent two weeks at number one. Chart history See also 2000 in British music List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2000 References External links Official UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company The Official UK Top 40 Rock Albums at BBC Radio 1 2000 in British music UK Rock and Metal Albums 2000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Albums%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202001	The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each album's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2001, there were 16 albums that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one album of the year was Coldplay's debut studio album Parachutes, which remained at number one for the first two weeks of the year at the end of a nine-week run which began on 4 November 2000. The final number-one album of the year was Linkin Park's debut studio album Hybrid Theory, which spent the last four weeks of the year (and the first two weeks of 2002) at number one in its fourth spell of the year at the top of the chart. The most successful album on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart in 2001 was Hybrid Theory, which spent a total of 18 weeks at number one over four spells, including two separate runs of six consecutive weeks (three including the final run, which finished in 2002). Hybrid Theory was the best-selling rock and metal album of the year, ranking 13th in the UK End of Year Albums Chart. Coldplay's Parachutes spent six weeks at number one in 2001; Limp Bizkit's Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water was number one for five weeks during the year; Staind's Break the Cycle topped the chart four weeks in 2001; Muse's Origin of Symmetry and the self-titled debut album by Wheatus were number one for three weeks; and three additional albums spent two weeks each at number one. Chart history See also 2001 in British music List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2001 References External links Official UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company The Official UK Top 40 Rock Albums at BBC Radio 1 2001 in British music UK Rock and Metal Albums 2001
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elymnias%20caudata	Elymnias caudata, the tailed palmfly, is a species of satyrine butterfly found in South India. Some authors consider this as a subspecies of Elymnias hypermnestra. Description This butterfly species are sexually dimorphic: males and females do not look alike. Males have black upperside forewings with small blue patches and mimic Euploea species, while the females mimic butterfly species of the genus Danaus. Both sexes have the wings longer, proportionately to their breadth, and the tail at apex of vein 4 on the hindwing longer compared to Elymnias hypermnestra. Upperside: Male differs from E. hypermnestra as follows: the subterminal and preapical spots on the forewing white suffused slightly with dark scales; the terminal half of the hindwing tawny, more or less suffused with dusky black, which in some specimens forms a distinct border along the termen. Female similar to the female of E. hypermnestra, but the black more extended; veins 2, 3, and 4 on the hindwing broadly bordered with black. Underside: Female differs from E. hypermnestra in the more conspicuous broadly triangular white pre-apical patch on the forewing, and in the prominence of the broad tawny terminal half of the upperside of the hindwing, which shows through a pale, sometimes pinkish brown on the underside. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown, paler beneath and much paler in the female than in the male. Range It is endemic to South India. Life history Food plants Cocos nucifera Calamus pseudotenuis Calamus rotang Calamus thwaitesii Phoenix loureiroi Licuala grandis Areca catechu Arenga wightii Livistona chinensis Phoenix spp. Caryota urens Phoenix loureiroi Licuala chinensis Larva "Spindle-shaped, slender, transversely rugose and clothed with short stout bristles...; head large, surmounted by two stout horns, sloping backwards, slightly branched at the ends; a pair of long straight caudal spines setose like the body; colour bright green with longitudinal yellow lines more or less distinct and two rows of large yellow spots tinged with green and sometimes tipped with black on the back; head dark brown, with a yellow cheek-stripe and frontal-line." Pupa "Suspended by the tail only, but in a rigidly horizontal position, regular with the exception of two small pointed processes from the head and an acute thoracic projection above them; colour bright green, beautifully ornamented with four irregular rows of large yellow spots bordered with red." (Davidson & Aitken quoted by Bingham.) See also List of butterflies of India List of butterflies of Kerala References External links Elymnias Butterflies of Asia Butterflies described in 1871 Taxa named by Arthur Gardiner Butler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argotec	Argotec is an aerospace engineering company based in Turin whose research, innovation and product development activities use engineering and computing for space applications and renewable energy systems. Particular attention is also given to the field of Human Space Flight and Operations as well as the development of space exploration systems. Argotec is also concerned with the production of nanosatellites and engineering solutions that can be adopted on the International Space Station (ISS), which also have immediate applications on Earth. History After having worked with several foreign aerospace and defense companies, David Avino returned to work in Italy and on March the 12th 2008 he founded Argotec, an aerospace engineering company that from the beginning selected his collaborators among Italian and foreign graduates; the average age of employees is about 29. In 2009 Argotec started its training activities at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne. NASA certified Argotec instructors train European astronauts, flight controllers and the ground crew who provide support during space operations. Headquarters of via Polonghera in Turin In 2010, in this laboratory the research and development activities focused on heat pipes started. The heat pipes are devices that take advantage of the fluid change of phase to transfer heat in a passive way. It is a well-known technology in a scientific field, but at the moment there are not many producers in Europe and Italy limits itself to buying European products. From the know-how developed through the activities for Space, Argotec has diversified its work and it started research activities and the production of the space food for astronauts. In 2010 the company developed independently a new research area for the study of nutritional food dedicated to the astronauts, the Space Food Lab. Argotec Chef, food technologists and nutritionists have studied and produced the bonus food for some European astronauts such as Luca Parmitano, Samantha Cristoforetti, Alexander Gerst and Paolo Nespoli. Headquarters of via Cervino in Turin (current headquarters) In January 2014 the new headquarters on via Cervino was inaugurated with increased spaces that contain different laboratories for specific activities: an electronic laboratory, a thermal laboratory, a multi-functional laboratory, a laboratory focused on the study and the production of space food. These are equipped with specific tools for the integration and the testing of models for development, qualification or flight. There are also climatic rooms and a thermal vacuum chamber in order to recreate the extreme conditions of temperature and to validate the projects. Argotec has also a Clean Room (ISO 5, Class 100) for the integration and the test of flight parts, included optics sensible to contaminated environments. Argotec has its own Mission Control Centre directly connected with NASA control centres where Argotec engineers can control and su
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri%20Valley%20Heritage%20Alliance	The Missouri Valley Heritage Alliance (MVHA), formerly the Fort Abraham Lincoln Foundation, is a nonprofit organization in Bismarck, North Dakota. FALF was established in 1982 to improve programming and infrastructure at Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park. The partnership concluded in 2013 and the foundation focused instead on heritage education and tourism by improving tours on the Lewis and Clark Riverboat, expanding Five Nations Art, and renovating The Post, an event venue. FALF rebranded as the Missouri Valley Heritage Alliance in 2017. MVHA purchased land along the Missouri River at the Port of Bismarck after the existing buildings, including Captain Meriwether's Landing, were destroyed by floods in 2011. Construction began on the MVHA's new building, a community center called the Landing, in 2018. After delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the building was completed in 2022 and houses an event space and the Huckleberry House restaurant in addition to educational information and a ticket counter for riverboat tours. The Landing also serves as the interpretive headquarters to all other member organizations of the Northern Plains Heritage Area, which covers 80 miles along the Missouri River and was dedicated as a national heritage area in 2009. External links Fort Abraham Lincoln Foundation website References Charities based in North Dakota Bismarck, North Dakota National Heritage Areas of the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Albums%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202002	The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each album's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2002, there were 14 albums that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one album of the year was Linkin Park's debut studio album Hybrid Theory, which remained at number one for the first two weeks of the year at the end of a six-week run which began on 8 December 2001. The final number-one album of the year was By the Way, the eighth studio album by Red Hot Chili Peppers, which spent the last six weeks of the year (and the first three weeks of 2003) at number one in its fourth spell of the year at the top of the chart. The most successful album on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart in 2002 was By the Way, which spent a total of 19 weeks at number one over four spells, including an initial run of seven consecutive weeks and a run at the end of the year of nine weeks (including the first three of 2003). By the Way was the best-selling rock and metal album of the year, ranking sixth in the UK End of Year Albums Chart. Nickelback's major label debut Silver Side Up spent 16 weeks at number one in 2002, and was the 12th best-selling album of the year in the UK. Queen's three-disc compilation box set The Platinum Collection spent three weeks at number one in 2002, while three more albums – Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory, P.O.D.'s Satellite and the self-titled compilation by Nirvana – were number one for two weeks each during the year. Chart history See also 2002 in British music List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2002 References External links Official UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company The Official UK Top 40 Rock Albums at BBC Radio 1 2002 in British music United Kingdom Rock and Metal Albums 2002
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjabi%20TV%20Canada	Punjabi TV is a Canadian Punjabi language specialty channel with select programming in the Punjabi language. It is owned by Studio 7 Production & Navalpreet Rangi and features a mix of programs, including Punjabi documentaries, news, and music. The TV channel focuses on art, prose, and poetry. Made in Punjab aims to re-introduce Canadian Punjabi to their legacy and appreciate the need to preserve their culture and faith. Punjabi TV is also available on YouTube. References Official Punjabi TV Website Punjabi TV Canada Youtube Blog External links Official Punjabi TV Website Punjabi TV Canada Youtube Blog Digital cable television networks in Canada Punjabi-language television channels
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOCC	AOCC may refer to: American Orthodox Catholic Church AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler American Overseas Clinics Corporation, run by John A. Shaw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD%20Optimizing%20C/C%2B%2B%20Compiler	The AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler (AOCC) is an optimizing C/C++ and Fortran compiler suite from AMD targeting 32-bit and 64-bit Linux platforms. It is a proprietary fork of LLVM + Clang with various additional patches to improve performance for AMD's Zen microarchitecture in Epyc and Ryzen microprocessors. In a May 2017 benchmark comparing AOCC v1.0 to Clang 4 and 5, and GCC 6 through 8, Phoronix found AOCC provided marginal improvement over Clang 4.0 in several benchmarks and no difference in others. Compilation time generally increased relative to Clang 4.0. Some benchmarks found some versions of GCC had better performance than some versions of Clang (AOCC included), and vice versa. In August 2019 Phoronix again benchmarked AOCC, now AOCC 2.0 against Clang 9 and GCC 9.1 and 10.0. Along with the compiler, AMD offers the AMD Optimizing CPU Libraries (AOCL), a set of numerical libraries that is roughly similar to Intel's Math Kernel Library and includes AMD Math Library (LibM), AMD Random Number Generator Library, AMD Secure RNG Library, AOCL-Sparse, BLIS, FFTW, libFLAME, and ScaLAPACK that are tuned for the Zen processors. AMD also offers AMD µProf, a performance analysis tool similar to Intel VTune. See also Clang Intel C++ Compiler List of compilers References External links C (programming language) compilers C++ compilers Compilers Fortran compilers AMD software 2017 software
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Albums%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202003	The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart that ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each album's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2003, there were 17 albums that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one album of the year was By the Way, the eighth studio album by Red Hot Chili Peppers, which remained at Number One for the first three weeks of the year at the end of a nine-week run which began on 23 November 2002. The final Number One album of the year was Permission to Land, the debut studio album by The Darkness, which spent the last four weeks of the year (and the first week of 2004) at Number One in its fourth spell of the year, at the top of the chart. The most successful album on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart in 2003 was Permission to Land, which spent a total of 18 weeks at Number One over five spells, including a run of eight consecutive weeks between the week ending 9 August and the week ending 27 September. Permission to Land was the best-selling rock and metal album of the year, ranking sixth in the UK End of Year Albums Chart. By the Way spent nine weeks at Number One in 2003, and was the 18th best-selling album of the year. Evanescence's debut studio album Fallen was Number One on the chart for five weeks in 2003, Linkin Park's second studio album Meteora spent four weeks at number one, and three albums – One by One by Foo Fighters, Radiohead's Hail to the Thief and Room on Fire by The Strokes – were Number One for two weeks each during 2003. Chart history See also 2003 in British music List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2003 References External links Official UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company The Official UK Top 40 Rock Albums at BBC Radio 1 2003 in British music United Kingdom Rock and Metal Albums 2003
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Doyle%20%28artist%29	Joe Doyle (February 27, 1941 – April 7, 2020) was an American artist. He is one of the original painters in the style, abstract illusionism, of the 1970s and has since evolved his style using computerized technologies to create Digital art. Life and work Doyle established himself as a painter during the movement toward new abstraction in San Francisco in the mid-seventies. Stylistically his work evolved from photo-realist renderings of aircraft which exaggerated differences in focus of background and foreground". By 1975 his imagery shifted to arrangements of flat, geometric forms and tubular squiggles in a trompe-l'œil manner that created the illusion of a multi-layered, three dimensional space. By the late 1970s Doyle, along with James Havard, Jack Reilly and others, had attained national prominence working this style now referred to as Abstract Illusionism. Doyle and others were included in 'Reality of Illusion' a large touring exhibition of primarily American illusionist artists organized by the University of Southern California and The Denver Art Museum. According to an interview by Mark Levy in the January/February, 1982 issue of Art Voices, Doyle began his artistic career in the Air Force, where Doyle says he was relieved of difficult assignments and encouraged to paint by a sergeant who appreciated his realistic landscape paintings. When he began painting abstractly, however, the sergeant relegated him to K.P. duty. Following the Air Force Doyle enrolled at San Francisco State College receiving his M.A. in 1971. From 1971 to 1975 he was a photo-realist transferring images from photographs using airbrush techniques on canvas, occasionally adding political satire into the subject matter, as in "Ice House (1971). Doyle was an instructor and co-founder of the Multi-Media Arts Department at Berkeley City College. In 2010 then Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates and the Berkeley City Council recognized Doyle and the Berkeley City College’s Digital Arts Club (DAC) for "its talent, creativity, and its many years of artistic contributions to Bay Area galleries and exhibits.". His most recent work delves into the realm of both 3-D realism and 3-D non-objective abstraction. In 2017 he released a new series titled "New Abstracts" employing the use of 3-D modeling and color fields to create an illusion of 3-dimensional space. In early 2020 Joe experienced coronary issues and underwent heart surgery. Complications during recovery led to pneumonia and what doctors believed to be COVID-19, he Died on April 7, 2020. A memorial page can be found at ForeverMissed.com. Solo exhibitions Nuage, Environment for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 1977 Foster Goldstrom Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA Foster Goldstrom Fine Arts, San Francisco San Jose Museum of Fine Art, San Jose 1979 O. K. Harris West, Scottsdale 1981 Route 66 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Foster Goldstrom Fine Arts, San Francisco 1982 Foster Goldstrom Fine Arts, San Francisco 1983 Route 66 Gallery, Philadelph
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Albums%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202004	The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each album's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2004, there were 19 albums that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one album of the year was Permission to Land, the debut studio album by The Darkness, which remained at number one for the opening week of the year at the end of a five-week run which began on 6 December 2003. The final number-one album of the year was Green Day's seventh studio album American Idiot, which spent the last nine weeks of the year (and the first nine weeks of 2005) at number one in its second spell of the year at the top of the chart. The most successful album on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart in 2004 was Greatest Hits by Guns N' Roses, which spent a total of 12 weeks at number one over three spells, including a run of ten consecutive weeks between the week ending 27 March and the week ending 29 May. Greatest Hits was the best-selling rock and metal album of the year, ranking 11th in the UK End of Year Albums Chart. American Idiot also spent 12 weeks at number one in 2004, but was the 18th best-selling album of the year. Live in Hyde Park by Red Hot Chili Peppers was number one for five weeks, Evanescence's debut studio album Fallen topped the chart for four weeks, Permission to Land spent three weeks at number one, and Muse's Absolution and Papa Roach's Getting Away with Murder each spent two weeks at number one in 2004. Chart history See also 2004 in British music List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2004 References External links Official UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company The Official UK Top 40 Rock Albums at BBC Radio 1 2004 in British music United Kingdom Rock and Metal Albums 2004
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burst%20buffer	In the high-performance computing environment, burst buffer is a fast intermediate storage layer positioned between the front-end computing processes and the back-end storage systems. It bridges the performance gap between the processing speed of the compute nodes and the Input/output (I/O) bandwidth of the storage systems. Burst buffers are often built from arrays of high-performance storage devices, such as NVRAM and SSD. It typically offers from one to two orders of magnitude higher I/O bandwidth than the back-end storage systems. Use cases Burst buffers accelerate scientific data movement on supercomputers. For example, scientific applications' life cycles typically alternate between computation phases and I/O phases. Namely, after each round of computation (i.e., computation phase), all the computing processes concurrently write their intermediate data to the back-end storage systems (i.e., I/O phase), followed by another round of computation and data movement operations. With the deployment of burst buffer, processes can quickly write their data to burst buffer after one round of computation instead of writing to the slow hard disk based storage systems, and immediately proceed to the next round of computation without waiting for the data to be moved to the back-end storage systems; the data are then asynchronously flushed from burst buffer to the storage systems at the same time with the next round of computation. In this way, the long I/O time spent in moving data to the storage systems is hidden behind the computation time. In addition, buffering data in burst buffer also gives applications plenty of opportunities to reshape the data traffic to the back-end storage systems for efficient bandwidth utilization of the storage systems. In another common use case, scientific applications can stage their intermediate data in and out of burst buffer without interacting with the slower storage systems. Bypassing the storage systems allows applications to realize most of the performance benefit from burst buffer. Representative burst buffer architectures There are two representative burst buffer architectures in the high-performance computing environment: node-local burst buffer and remote shared burst buffer. In the node-local burst buffer architecture, burst buffer storage is located on the individual compute node, so the aggregate burst buffer bandwidth grows linearly with the compute node count. This scalability benefit has been well-documented in recent literature. It also comes with the demand for a scalable metadata management strategy to maintain a global namespace for data distributed across all the burst buffers. In the remote shared burst buffer architecture, burst buffer storage resides on a fewer number of I/O nodes positioned between the compute nodes and the back-end storage systems. Data movement between the compute nodes and burst buffer needs to go through the network. Placing burst buffer on the I/O nodes facilitates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullo	Sullo is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Chris Sullo, American computer specialist Fiorentino Sullo (1921–2000), Italian politician Salvatore Sullo (born 1971), Italian footballer Italian-language surnames
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Tadhana%20episodes	Tadhana is a weekly drama anthology series broadcast by GMA Network which aired every Saturday. Tadhana features the life experiences of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and the risks they're taking abroad just to give their family a comfortable and convenient life. The show is hosted by Marian Rivera. Series overview Episodes 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 References Lists of anthology television series episodes Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N129%20highway	National Route 129 (N129) or simply Route 129 is a secondary national route in Metro Manila that forms part of the Philippine highway network. Entirely located within Quezon City, it comprises Congressional Avenue, Congressional Avenue Extension, portion of Luzon Avenue, portion of Tandang Sora Avenue, and portion of Katipunan Avenue; most of them are part of C-5 with the exception of EDSA–Mindanao Avenue segment. References Streets in Quezon City
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecting%20Point%20Group	The Connecting Point Group is a Late Neoproterozoic geological formation cropping out on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland, dominated by deep marine turbidite deposits. Approximate age data from the middle of the group date it to ca. 610 Ma. It corresponds to the Conception Group and the St. John's Group further east on the Avalon peninsula References Neoproterozoic Newfoundland and Labrador Geologic groups of Newfoundland and Labrador
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArcaOS	ArcaOS is an operating system based on OS/2, developed and marketed by Arca Noae, LLC under license from IBM. It was codenamed Blue Lion during its development. It builds on OS/2 Warp 4.52 by adding support for new hardware, fixing defects and limitations in the operating system, and by including new applications and tools, and includes some Linux/Unix tool compatibility. It is targeted at professional users who need to run their OS/2 applications on new hardware, as well as personal users of OS/2. Like OS/2 Warp, ArcaOS is a 32-bit single user, multiprocessing, preemptive multitasking operating system for the x86 architecture. It is supported on both physical hardware and virtual machine hypervisors. Features Hardware compatibility ArcaOS supports symmetric multiprocessing systems with up to 64 processor cores, although it is recommended to disable hyperthreading. As of version 5.0.8, ArcaOS is ACPI 6.1-compliant and includes the 20220331 release of ACPICA. While ArcaOS is a 32-bit operating system, it has limited PAE support which allows it to use RAM in excess of 4GB as a RAM disk. ArcaOS supports being run as a virtual machine guest inside VirtualBox, VMware ESXi, VMWare Workstation and Microsoft Virtual PC. In addition to the device drivers included with OS/2 Warp 4, ArcaOS includes a variety of drivers developed by Arca Noae, and various third parties: Network adapters are supported either with Arca Noae's MultiMac technology, which employs FreeBSD driver code, or a selection of GenMAC drivers. Support for wireless networking is somewhat limited, though MultiMac support for additional chipsets is planned for future releases of ArcaOS. ArcaOS replaces the 16-bit IBM OS/2 USB driver with a new 32-bit driver capable of supporting USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 controllers. Audio support utilizes the Uniaud generic audio driver, now maintained by Arca Noae. Uniaud is based on the ALSA framework from the Linux kernel. In addition, a selection of device-specific drivers are included with ArcaOS. A new audio driver is planned for future releases of ArcaOS, based on FreeBSD audio drivers. Video support is provided by Panorama generic unaccelerated VESA driver, or SNAP accelerated video driver. Features such as acceleration and multi-head are supported for a limited number of graphics chipsets. Support for these features in additional chipsets, such as the Intel HD series, is planned. Storage drivers are available for IDE, AHCI, NVMe and a number of SCSI adapters. Support for printers is provided by the eCups project, which is based on the open-source Common Unix Printing System. Software In addition to the software bundled with OS/2 Warp 4, ArcaOS includes some additional software, such as: Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 45 Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Lucide, an open source document viewer XWorkplace, a set of open source enhancements to the Workplace Shell 4OS2 OpenJDK 6 Qt 4 and 5 Samba 4 Heimdal Kerberos VirtualBox Cross-platform co
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstage	Upstage may refer to: UpStage, an open source server-side application that has been purpose built for cyberformance Upstage (film), (also known as The Mask of Comedy) is a 1926 American silent romantic drama film The Upstage Gallery, features artists from Topeka, Kansas and the surrounding areas since February 2007 Upstage (magazine), a free monthly publication founded by Gary Wien that covered arts and entertainment in New Jersey, US Upstage (stage position), in theatre, the rear of the stage area, farthest from the audience, is upstage "Upstaging" refers to background actors drawing attention away from featured actors. The Upstage Club, a now closed influential music venue in Asbury Park, New Jersey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20Computing%20%28horse%29	Cloud Computing (foaled April 29, 2014) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2017 Preakness Stakes in only his fourth start. Background Cloud Computing was bred in Kentucky by Hill 'n' Dale Equine Holdings and Stretch Run Ventures. He is from the first foal crop sired by Maclean's Music, a son of Distorted Humor. Maclean's Music was an impressive winner by lengths in his only start, a 2011 race for three-year-old maiden horses. and based upon the performances of his first crop of foals, exceeded expectations as a sire. Cloud Computing's dam is Quick Temper, a multiple stakes-placed daughter of A.P. Indy. Cloud Computing was purchased as a yearling at the 2015 Keeneland Sales for $200,000 by Seth Klarman, the owner of Klaravich Stables, and William Lawrence. Introduced by mutual friends in 2004, the two typically buy about 50–60 horses a year. Both hedge fund managers, they chose his name based upon their pattern of using terms from the finance industry to name their horses, other examples being graded stakes winners Takeover Target and Currency Swap. He is trained by Chad C. Brown. Racing career Cloud Computing did not make his racing debut until February 11, 2017, when, as a three-year-old, he won a maiden special weight at Aqueduct Racetrack. He then finished second to J Boys Echo in the Gotham Stakes and third behind winner Irish War Cry in the Wood Memorial. He earned enough points from these races to qualify on the 2017 Road to the Kentucky Derby. However, his connections elected to bypass the race, instead starting their Champagne Stakes winner, Practical Joke, who finished fifth. Cloud Computing was one of the more highly regarded "new shooters" for the Preakness Stakes, a race which is typically won by horses who had earlier raced in the Kentucky Derby. The two favorites in the Preakness, Always Dreaming and Classic Empire, had finished first and fourth respectively in the Derby. These two went to an early lead and set a solid pace while Cloud Computing rated a few lengths behind in third. Around the final turn, Classic Empire surged to the front and Always Dreaming dropped back. In mid-stretch, Classic Empire had a three-length lead and looked the likely winner before Cloud Computing angled out from traffic and started closing ground rapidly. Classic Empire tried to rally but could not hold off Cloud Computing, who won by a head. Cloud Computing became just the fourth horse in the last 34 years to win the Preakness after not having raced in the Derby. The last horse to do so was the filly Rachel Alexandra in 2009. It was the first win of a Triple Crown race for his trainer Chad Brown and the second for jockey Javier Castellano, who was riding the colt for the first time. "I'm not going to dispute the fact that I brought in a fresh horse as part of our strategy", said Brown. "Classic Empire and Always Dreaming are two outstanding horses and our strategy was, if we were going to ever beat them, let's take them on tw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%20NCAA%20Division%20I-AA%20football%20rankings	The 2004 NCAA Division I-AA football rankings are from the Sports Network poll of Division I-AA head coaches, athletic directors, sports information directors and media members. This is for the 2004 season. Legend The Sports Network poll Notes References Rankings NCAA Division I FCS football rankings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannin%20Manigal	Kannin Manigal () is a 1956 Indian Tamil-language film produced and directed by T. Janakiraman. The film stars M. K. Radha and Padmini. Cast The details are adapted from the database of Film News Anandan. Male cast M. K. Radha N. S. Krishnan Sundar A. Karunanidhi Female cast Padmini M. V. Rajamma T. A. Mathuram T. P. Muthulakshmi Production Kannin Manigal was produced, written and directed by T. Janakiraman. The dialogues were by A. L. Narayanan and O. Ganapathyappan. Cinematography was handled by T. Janakiraman, and the editing by B. N. Rao. A. P. Chellaiah, D. Sohanlal and S. V. Gopal Rao were in charge of art direction, choreography and photography, respectively. Soundtrack Music was composed by S. V. Venkatraman while the lyrics were penned by Papanasam Sivan, Kambadasan, Subbu. Arumugam, A. Maruthakasi and Kavimani Desigavinayagam Pillai. The song "Kaalam Maari Poche" (sung by N. S. Krishnan) was a satire on modern life and lifestyles, and attained popularity. Reception Kannin Manigal was not a box office success. No print of it is known to survive. This makes it a lost film. References External links 1950s lost films 1950s Tamil-language films Films scored by S. V. Venkatraman Indian drama films Lost drama films Lost Indian films
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence%20test	Equivalence tests are a variety of hypothesis tests used to draw statistical inferences from observed data. In these tests, the null hypothesis is defined as an effect large enough to be deemed interesting, specified by an equivalence bound. The alternative hypothesis is any effect that is less extreme than said equivalence bound. The observed data are statistically compared against the equivalence bounds. If the statistical test indicates the observed data is surprising, assuming that true effects are at least as extreme as the equivalence bounds, a Neyman-Pearson approach to statistical inferences can be used to reject effect sizes larger than the equivalence bounds with a pre-specified Type 1 error rate. Equivalence testing originates from the field of clinical trials. One application, known as a non-inferiority trial, is used to show that a new drug that is cheaper than available alternatives works as well as an existing drug. In essence, equivalence tests consist of calculating a confidence interval around an observed effect size and rejecting effects more extreme than the equivalence bound when the confidence interval does not overlap with the equivalence bound. In two-sided tests, both upper and lower equivalence bounds are specified. In non-inferiority trials, where the goal is to test the hypothesis that a new treatment is not worse than existing treatments, only a lower equivalence bound is specified. Equivalence tests can be performed in addition to null-hypothesis significance tests. This might prevent common misinterpretations of p-values larger than the alpha level as support for the absence of a true effect. Furthermore, equivalence tests can identify effects that are statistically significant but practically insignificant, whenever effects are statistically different from zero, but also statistically smaller than any effect size deemed worthwhile (see the first figure). Equivalence tests were originally used in areas such as pharmaceutics, frequently in bioequivalence trials. However, these tests can be applied to any instance where the research question asks whether the means of two sets of scores are practically or theoretically equivalent. As such, equivalence analyses have seen increased usage in almost all medical research fields. Additionally, the field of psychology has been adopting the use of equivalence testing, particularly in clinical trials. This is not to say, however, that equivalence analyses should be limited to clinical trials, and the application of these tests can occur in a range of research areas. In this regard, equivalence tests have recently been introduced in evaluation of measurement devices, artificial intelligence as well as exercise physiology and sports science. Several tests exist for equivalence analyses; however, more recently the two-one-sided t-tests (TOST) procedure has been garnering considerable attention. As outlined below, this approach is an adaptation of the widely known t-test.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euroleague%20for%20Life%20Sciences	The Euroleague for Life Sciences (ELLS), established in 2001, is a network of leading universities cooperating in the fields of natural resource management, agricultural and forestry sciences, life sciences, veterinary sciences, food sciences, and environmental sciences. ELLS offers summer schools, joint degree programmes, study abroad opportunities and cooperations on PhD level. Every year a member university hosts the ELLS Scientific Student Conference. Members University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, BOKU University of Hohenheim University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Science Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Wageningen University and Research Centre Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Warsaw University of Life Sciences Partners Cornell University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences China Agricultural University Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment Lincoln University (New Zealand) References Biology in Europe College and university associations and consortia in Europe International scientific organizations based in Europe Life sciences Scientific organizations established in 2001
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Kudu	Apache Kudu is a free and open source column-oriented data store of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. It is compatible with most of the data processing frameworks in the Hadoop environment. It provides completeness to Hadoop's storage layer to enable fast analytics on fast data. The open source project to build Apache Kudu began as internal project at Cloudera. The first version Apache Kudu 1.0 was released 19 September 2016. Comparison with other storage engines Kudu was designed and optimized for OLAP workloads. Like HBase, it is a real-time store that supports key-indexed record lookup and mutation. Kudu differs from HBase since Kudu's datamodel is a more traditional relational model, while HBase is schemaless. Kudu's "on-disk representation is truly columnar and follows an entirely different storage design than HBase/Bigtable". See also List of column-oriented DBMSes References External links Apache Kudu GitHub repository Kudu Software using the Apache license C++ software Free system software Free software Free database management systems Cloud computing Online analytical processing Data warehousing Data warehousing products Data analysis software Distributed data stores Structured storage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit%20180	Unit 180 (180부대) is a North Korean cyberwarfare cell, a component of the Reconnaissance General Bureau. Kim Heung-kwang, a former computer science professor in North Korea, stated that Unit 180 is likely involved in illicit operations to obtain cash for the regime, such as the Bangladesh Bank robbery and the WannaCry ransomware attack. References Information operations units and formations Reconnaissance General Bureau Cyberwarfare
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20data%20maturity%20model	Big data maturity models (BDMM) are the artifacts used to measure big data maturity. These models help organizations to create structure around their big data capabilities and to identify where to start. They provide tools that assist organizations to define goals around their big data program and to communicate their big data vision to the entire organization. BDMMs also provide a methodology to measure and monitor the state of a company's big data capability, the effort required to complete their current stage or phase of maturity and to progress to the next stage. Additionally, BDMMs measure and manage the speed of both the progress and adoption of big data programs in the organization. The goals of BDMMs are: To provide a capability assessment tool that generates specific focus on big data in key organizational areas To help guide development milestones To avoid pitfalls in establishing and building big data capabilities Key organizational areas refer to "people, process and technology" and the subcomponents include alignment, architecture, data, data governance, delivery, development, measurement, program governance, scope, skills, sponsorship, statistical modelling, technology, value and visualization. The stages or phases in BDMMs depict the various ways in which data can be used in an organization and is one of the key tools to set direction and monitor the health of an organization's big data programs. An underlying assumption is that a high level of big data maturity correlates with an increase in revenue and reduction in operational expense. However, reaching the highest level of maturity involves major investments over many years. Only a few companies are considered to be at a "mature" stage of big data and analytics. These include internet-based companies (such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Amazon) and other non-Internet-based companies, including financial institutions (fraud analysis, real-time customer messaging and behavioral modeling) and retail organizations (click-stream analytics together with self-service analytics for teams). Categories Big data maturity models can be broken down into three broad categories namely: Descriptive Comparative Prescriptive Descriptive Descriptive models assess the current firm maturity through qualitative positioning of the firm in various stages or phases. The model does not provide any recommendations as to how a firm would improve their big data maturity. Big data and analytics maturity model (IBM model) This descriptive model aims to assess the value generated from big data investments towards supporting strategic business initiatives. Maturity levels The model consists of the following maturity levels: Ad-hoc Foundational Competitive differentiating Break away Assessment areas Maturity levels also cover areas in matrix format focusing on: business strategy, information, analytics, culture and execution, architecture and governance. Knowledgent big data maturity assessmen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes%20Dynamics	Hughes Dynamics, Inc. was an American computer firm that was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Hughes Tool Company. It existed from 1962 to around 1965. It offered consulting and services in data processing, information technology, credit information processing, and advanced business techniques and management methods. One mid-1963 description given to a trade industry publication was that Hughes Dynamics provided a "broad range of research and consulting services in management sciences and information technology; operations research, systems analysis and design, computer programming and operations, [and] market research" and that its business model involved "consultation with businesses, industries, governments, [and] institutions [as well as] fee for services". It staged a rapid growth from mid-1962 to early 1964, primarily through acquisitions, but then just as quickly shut itself down and dispersed its businesses. The role of Howard Hughes in all this is somewhat unclear. Origins The first mentions of Hughes Dynamics, including Help Wanted ads for positions within the company and speaker notices for a seminar on data retrieval, began appearing as early as July 1962 in newspapers in Louisiana and Texas. The employment ad was listed for "males" and offered "unusual career opportunities for experience professionals in information systems research and engineering computer programming technical systems marketing in Houston and Dallas, Texas." The existence of Hughes Dynamics was publicly announced on or about September 1, 1962. Much of its staff consisted of scientists, engineers, or other such technical positions. The general manager of Hughes Dynamics was John E. Hodges, who had been a vice president of Hughes Tool Company. The initial emphases of the new venture were said by the announcement to be "technical, scientific and management services to the oil and transport industries." The new entity was based in Los Angeles, California. The central computer facilities were acquired from the firm C-E-I-R and consisted of IBM 360 mainframes in the Miracle Mile area. It also had offices in Houston and elsewhere. The core business of the parent company, Hughes Tool, was the manufacture of drill bits for wells and associated products and services. The announcement regarding Hughes Dynamics was made by Raymond Holliday, Executive Vice President of the Hughes Tool Company. Holliday was a longtime assistant in the Hughes organization who was functionally a chief officer of Hughes Tool from 1957 on (and who would become CEO of it in 1972 after Howard Hughes sold it to the public). Another announcement of Hughes Dynamics, Inc. was made in April 1963, with F. William "Bill" Gay being named as "executive committee chairman" of the new division of Hughes Tools. Gay was a longtime Hughes executive who was a senior vice president of Hughes Tools at the time. Gay said, "Creation of the new subsidiary ... is an important step forward in Hughes Tool
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTuning%20foundation	The cTuning Foundation is a global non-profit organization developing open-source tools and a common methodology to enable sustainable, collaborative and reproducible research in Computer science, perform collaborative optimization of realistic workloads across devices provided by volunteers, enable self-optimizing computer systems, and automate artifact evaluation at machine learning and systems conferences and journals. Notable projects Collective Knowledge - an open-source framework to organize software projects as a database of reusable components with common automation actions and extensible meta descriptions based on FAIR principles, implement portable research workflows, and crowdsource experiments across diverse platforms provided by volunteers. ACM ReQuEST - Reproducible Quality-Efficient Systems Tournaments to co-design efficient software/hardware stacks for deep learning algorithms in terms of speed, accuracy and costs across diverse platforms, environments, libraries, models and data sets MILEPOST GCC - open-source technology to build machine learning based self-optimizing compilers. CK crowd-tuner - universal, customizable and multi-objective autotuner. CK package and environment manager - python CK API to detect, install and rebuild code and data dependencies for CK workflows. Artifact Evaluation - validation of experimental results from published papers at the computer systems and machine learning conferences. Reproducible Papers - a public index of reproducible papers with portable workflows and reusable research components. History Grigori Fursin developed cTuning.org at the end of the Milepost project in 2009 to continue his research on machine learning based program and architecture optimization as a community effort. In 2014, cTuning Foundation was registered in France as a non-profit research and development organization. It received funding from the EU TETRACOM project and ARM to develop the Collective Knowledge Framework and prepare reproducible research methodology for ACM and IEEE conferences. In 2020, cTuning Foundation joined MLCommons as a founding member to accelerate innovation in ML. Funding Current funding comes from the European Union research and development funding programme, Microsoft, and other organizations. References Free software project foundations Standards organizations in France International organizations based in France
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharonov%E2%80%93Jones%E2%80%93Landau%20algorithm	In computer science, the Aharonov–Jones–Landau algorithm is an efficient quantum algorithm for obtaining an additive approximation of the Jones polynomial of a given link at an arbitrary root of unity. Finding a multiplicative approximation is a #P-hard problem, so a better approximation is considered unlikely. However, it is known that computing an additive approximation of the Jones polynomial is a BQP-complete problem. The algorithm was published in 2009 in a paper written by Dorit Aharonov, Vaughan Jones and Zeph Landau. The Markov trace The first idea behind the algorithm is to find a more tractable description for the operation of evaluating the Jones polynomial. This is done by means of the Markov trace. The "Markov trace" is a trace operator defined on the Temperley–Lieb algebra as follows: given a which is a single Kauffman diagram, let where is the number of loops attained by identifying each point in the bottom of 's Kauffman diagram with the corresponding point on top. This extends linearly to all of . The Markov trace is a trace operator in the sense that and for any . It also has the additional property that if is a Kauffman diagram whose rightmost strand goes straight up then . A useful fact exploited by the AJL algorithm is that the Markov trace is the unique trace operator on with that property. Representing in For a complex number we define the map via . It follows by direct calculation that if satisfies that then is a representation. Given a braind let be the link attained by identifying the bottom of the diagram with its top like in the definition of a Markov trace, and let be the result link's Jones polynomial. The following relation holds: where is the writhe. As the writhe can be easily calculated classically, this reduces the problem of approximating the Jones polynomial to that of approximating the Markov trace. The path model representation of We wish to construct a complex representation of such that the representation of will be unitary. We also wish that our representation will have a straightforward encoding into qubits. Let and let be the vector space which has as an orthonormal basis. We choose define a linear map by defining it on the base of generators . To do so we need to define the matrix element for any . We say that and are 'compatible' if for any and . Geometrically this means that if we put and below and above the Kauffman diagram in the gaps between the strands then no connectivity component will touch two gaps which are labeled by different numbers. If and are incompatible set . Else, let be either or (at least one of these number must be defined, and if both are defined they must be equal) and set where . Finally set . This representation, known as the path model representation, induces a unitary representation of the braid group. Moreover, it holds that for . This implies that if we could approximate the Markov trace in this representation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%20Man%27s%20Valley	No Man's Valley is an animated TV special written by Christopher Brough and Frank Buxton. It was originally aired on the CBS network November 23, 1981. It was executive produced by Lee Mendelson and Phil Howort, produced and directed by Bill Melendez, and co-directed by Phil Roman. Synopsis Elliot, a rare California condor, must find a hideaway for endangered animals before humans drive them over the brink into extinction. Voice cast Henry Corden as Chief Frank Buxton as Elliot Art Metrano as Abe Hal Smith as George Chanin Hale as Nipponia Arnold Stang as Fred Firmwing Barney Phillips as Pere David Joe E. Ross as Daniel Desirée Goyette as Pat Richard Deacon as Panda John Stephenson as Herman Uncredited Hal Smith as Louis John Stephenson as Protester Credits Executive Producers: Lee Mendelson, Phil Howort Written by: Christopher Brough and Frank Buxton Creative Consultant: David Hooper Original Music by: Desirée Goyette Music Arranged and Conducted by: Ed Bogas A Lee Mendelson-Phil Howort Production In association with Bill Melendez Productions and Frank Fehmers Productions Produced and Directed by: Bill Melendez Based on an original idea by: Harrie Geelen and Imme Dross And original art concepts by: Michael Jupp and Elsa Godfrey Co-Directed by: Phil Roman "Welcome to No Man's Valley" sung by: Desirée Goyette Production Designed by: Bernie Gruver, Evert Brown Color by: Dean Spille Animation by: Sam Jaimes, Bob Carlson, Al Pabian, Bill Littlejohn, Hank Smith, Fernando Gonzalez, Joe Roman, Larry Leichliter, Dale Baer, Utit Choomuang Checking: Eve Fletcher, Joanne Lansing, Jane Gonzales Ink and Paint: Adele Lenart, Micky Kreymann, Karin Holmquist, Roubina Janian, Valerie Green, Joan Pabian, Karen Webb, Lee Hoffman, Emalene Seutter, Chandra Poweris Editing: Chuck McCann, Roger Donley Dialogue Editing: Les Wolf Production Manager: Carole Barnes Production Assistants: Sandy Claxton Arnold, Carol Neal, Jane Mason Camera: Nick Vasu Mix: Producers' Sound Service Color: Technicolor Production This was the final project of Joe E. Ross. References External links 1980s animated television specials CBS television specials Television shows directed by Bill Melendez Television shows directed by Phil Roman 1980s American television specials 1981 television specials 1981 in American television Works about birds Extinction in fiction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori%20Fursin	Grigori Fursin is a British computer scientist, vice president of MLOps at OctoML and the president of the non-profit CTuning foundation. His research group created open-source machine learning based self-optimizing compiler, MILEPOST GCC, considered to be the first in the world. At the end of the MILEPOST project he established cTuning foundation to crowdsource program optimisation and machine learning across diverse devices provided by volunteers. His foundation also developed Collective Knowledge Framework to support open research. Since 2015 Fursin leads Artifact Evaluation at several ACM and IEEE computer systems conferences. He is also a founding member of the ACM taskforce on Data, Software, and Reproducibility in Publication. Education Fursin received a Master of Science degree in physics and mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1999. He completed his PhD in computer science at the University of Edinburgh in 2005. While in Edinburgh, he worked on foundations of practical program autotuning and performance prediction. Notable projects Collective Knowledge – open-source framework to help researchers and practitioners organize their software projects as a database of reusable components and portable workflows with common APIs based on FAIR principles, and quickly prototype, crowdsource and reproduce research experiments. MILEPOST GCC – open-source technology to build machine learning based compilers. Interactive Compilation Interface – plugin framework to expose internal features and optimisation decisions of compilers for external auto tuning and learning. cTuning foundation – non-profit research organisation developing open-source tools and common methodology for collaborative and reproducible experimentation. References British computer scientists Living people Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Year of birth missing (living people) Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology alumni
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleks	ELEKS, also known as ELEKS Software, is an international company that provides custom software engineering and consulting services, headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia. The company has about 2000+ employees and operates offices in the United States, Canada, Germany, Ukraine, Poland, Switzerland, Japan, Croatia, UAE, KSA and the United Kingdom. History Eleks was established as a product company in 1991 by Oleksiy Skrypnyk and his son Oleksiy Skrypnyk, Jr. The company started with the launch of Dakar, a science-intensive software for power distribution systems for Eastern European markets. By 2016, Dakar was used in more than 20 Eastern European power systems, and by 2019, the company had 1400 employees. As of 2019, more than 200 companies are using the services of the company. Industries and technologies Eleks provides its services to enterprises in Finance, Media & Entertainment, Healthcare, Retail, Agriculture and Logistics industries. Activities include: Custom Software Development Advanced Analytics Virtual Reality Drones Mobile and Wearable Development Solutions for Retail Data Science Research and innovations The company supports Ukrainian armed forces by developing military drone software and hardware. References Companies based in Lviv Software companies established in 1991 Consulting firms established in 1991 Development software companies Engineering software companies Information technology consulting firms Outsourcing companies Software companies of Ukraine Ukrainian brands
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20fatal%20dog%20attacks%20in%20Canada	This is a list of fatal dog attacks in Canada. A 2008 study found that one to two deaths per year in Canada are attributable to dog attacks, however other systematic data is lacking compared to the wider variety of studies conducted by researchers in the United States. In the lists below, the attribution of breed is assigned by the sources. Fatalities before 2000 Prior to 1990 Fatalities in 1990-1999 Fatalities after 2000 Fatalities in 2000-2009 Fatalities in 2010-2019 Fatalities in 2020-2023 See also Animal attack Wolf attacks on humans List of wolf attacks Coyote attacks on humans Animal attacks Beware of the dog Other species: List of fatal bear attacks in North America List of fatal cougar attacks in North America References Canada Dogs in Canada Canid attacks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.%20G.%20Morgan	Peter Gwynne Morgan is a Welsh television and film writer/producer. A winner of the 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming for his work on Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, he is married to American documentary director Marina Zenovich. Education Morgan was born in Bangor, North Wales. He was educated at Henleaze School, Bristol and Penglais School, Aberystwyth. After school, Morgan won a scholarship to read Modern History at Worcester College, Oxford. While at Oxford, Morgan was a regular contributor to "Isis" and also produced plays at the Oxford Playhouse and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. After graduating in 1988 with an Honours degree in Modern History, Morgan obtained a postgraduate Diploma in Journalism from the University of Wales, College of Cardiff. Career TV journalism After a short stint on the Western Mail, Morgan joined ITN as a graduate trainee in 1989. He worked as a producer for News at Ten and as a foreign affairs producer and on-screen reporter for Channel 4 News, covering stories such as the LA Riots, the Eritrean Civil War and the Troubles in Northern Ireland. During his time at Channel Four News, Morgan spent three years covering the conflict in the Former Yugoslavia, working closely with the late Gaby Rado. Morgan was also part of the reporting team which won 1994 BAFTA and Amnesty International Awards for their coverage of the siege of Srebrenica. During these years, Morgan also wrote regularly for The Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, the New Statesman, Index on Censorship and the New Welsh Review. In 1999, he returned to Oxford as a Reuters Fellow at Green Templeton College. Writing Between 2000 and 2005, Morgan worked simultaneously for ITN and for BBC Current Affairs, writing TV scripts and producing several drama documentaries. His teen drama Spit Game was nominated for a BAFTA in 2004. He also wrote episodes of Doctors and The Bill and over a dozen radio dramas, for which he received the Richard Imison Award (for A Matter of Interpretation) and a Sony Radio Academy Award nomination (for "Milosevic in Black and White"). In 2002, Morgan published Fire Mountain: a non-fiction account of the 1902 volcanic eruption of Mont Pelée in Martinique. The book was published by Bloomsbury in the UK and the US and was subsequently adapted for Secrets of the Dead; a drama documentary series produced by National Geographic. Around this time, Morgan also undertook archival research for Professor Kathy Burk's biography of the historian A.J.P. Taylor. US work In 2005, Morgan moved to the United States. While in the US he wrote and produced several documentaries: Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (winner of the 2009 Emmy for Best Writing in Non-Fiction Programming), Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic, Revenge of the Electric Car and Fantastic Lies. Morgan has also worked as a series producer on two CNN series: The Eighties and The History of Comedy and was a story consultant on the Beatles do
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palast%20%28surname%29	Palast is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Geri Palast, Managing Director of the Israel Action Network Greg Palast (born 1952), American author and freelance journalist German-language surnames
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20A.%20Normann	Richard A. Normann is a Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Utah. He is known for inventing the Utah array in-vivo electrode array for brain–computer interfaces and is presently on the advisory committee of the White House BRAIN Initiative. He received his PhD in 1973 from UC Berkeley in electrical engineering. He received an honorary doctorate in 2012 from Miguel Hernández University in Elche, Spain. The Utah array was first developed, under his guidance and this technology is currently in use at other centres around the world, where it provides a vital link between the central nervous systems of rats, cats, monkeys and other laboratory animals, and the computers used to study their brain patterns. References Living people University of California, Berkeley alumni University of Utah faculty American neuroscientists Year of birth missing (living people)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skytruth	SkyTruth is a nonprofit environmental watchdog that uses satellite imagery and remote sensing data to identify and monitor threats to the planet's natural resources. Its stated mission is to "share the view from space to promote conservation for people and the planet." Areas of focus range from issues such as offshore drilling, oil spills, hydraulic fracturing, mountaintop removal mining,illegal fishing and habitat change detection. SkyTruth releases all of its imagery and data to researchers and the public for free with the goal of greater transparency to hold industries and governments accountable for environmental harm]. History SkyTruth was founded in 2001 by John Amos, a geologist working in the private sector who became concerned with humankind's growing impact on the planet. Amos spoke with advocates in various environmental groups to discuss their communication needs and resource limitations and found a niche in providing analysis of satellite and aerial imagery to non-governmental organizations (NGOs), environmental advocates, academic researchers, and government resource managers. Early SkyTruth projects included mapping the landscape impact of natural gas drilling in the Rocky Mountains, revealing commercial fishing vessel activity on the outskirts of marine protected areas, and showing the growing environmental impact of strip mining for coal and other minerals throughout the United States. Deepwater Horizon disaster In April 2010, the offshore oil drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, operated by BP P.L.C., exploded in the Gulf of Mexico and triggered the largest accidental oil spill in history. In cooperation with Florida State University, SkyTruth estimated the amount of oil flow from the damaged well using satellite imagery and determined, based on conservative estimates using the visible surface slick, that the flow of oil was between 5 and 25 times greater than BP reported. SkyTruth was the first organization to challenge BP's claims, and continued to monitor and document flow from the well until it was successfully sealed. Selected Projects FrackFinder SkyTruth's FrackFinder project utilizes public crowd sourcing to map fracking operations on the Marcellus and Utica Shale formations. SkyTruth has mapped out fracking well pads and retainment ponds in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, with further plans to quantify the total impact halos of fracking operations underway. FrackFinder data is publicly available through GitHub. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University used SkyTruth's FrackFinder data to link hydraulic fracturing activity to premature birth, high risk pregnancies, migraines, fatigue, and chronic nasal and sinus symptoms. Global Fishing Watch On September 16, 2015, SkyTruth in partnership with Google and marine conservation organization, Oceana, launched Global Fishing Watch at the Our Ocean Conference hosted by then-US Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington, DC. Global Fishing Watch continuously publicizes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlaySight%20Interactive	PlaySight Interactive is a connected camera and artificial intelligence sports technology company, offering its Smart sports video platform for over 25 sports and across 20 countries, including basketball, tennis, ice hockey and soccer. There are over 1000 SmartCourts installed around the world, including with the NBA's Golden State Warriors, Toronto Raptors, Detroit Pistons and Phoenix Suns and over 70 NCAA sports programs, including Harvard University, the University of Southern California, Indiana University, Claremont Colleges, Fairleigh Dickinson University and Princeton University. The United States Tennis Association installed PlaySight's SmartCourt technology on 32 courts at its new national campus in Lake Nona, Florida. PlaySight was named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies for consecutive years in both 2017 and 2018. Company history In 2010, PlaySight was founded in Kfar Saba, Israel, using technology with roots in the Israeli military. After years developing weaponry and war simulators for the Israeli army and other defense clients, the three partners looked to apply their skills and knowledge to a new challenge. After one of the partners, Evgeni Khazanov, observed his daughter’s tennis practice, he wondered why a sport with so much money did not have any advanced technology to help players improve their game. It was from that idea that PlaySight was born. PlaySight has continued to grow through partnerships and investment from players in the tennis industry including Billie Jean King, Ana Ivanovic, Chris Evert, Pete Sampras, Novak Djokovic, Tommy Haas, Paul Annacone, Darren Cahill, and Mark Ein. Since the technology was commercialized in 2013, the technology has been adapted for numerous other sports including soccer, martial arts, volleyball, squash, handball, gymnastics, dancing, hockey and wrestling. So far, PlaySight has raised over $20 million and now has offices in Kfar Saba, New Jersey and Los Angeles. In June 2017, Verizon Ventures and golfer Greg Norman announced an $11 million investment in PlaySight to further SmartCourt expansion in tennis, basketball and other sports and to also introduce the technology to golf. PlaySight installed its first SmartSchool in 2017. A SmartSchool is a fully connected high school, college or university campus (including Trinity-Pawling School, Oaks Christian School and Sierra Canyon School with PlaySight technology across several sports and venues – basketball, ice hockey, soccer and more. To date, there are over 20 SmartSchools across the country at the prep school level alone. In 2018, PlaySight added new strategic investors, including SoftBank Group's Asia Ventures investment arm, CE Ventures, and Naver Corporation, an Internet content service company headquartered in Seongnam, South Korea that operates the Korean search engine Naver. "PlaySight’s vision is to become the technology platform of choice used by the mass market of youth, amateur and professional sports," Jay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokilavani	Kokilavani () is a 1956 Indian Tamil-language film directed by S. A. Natarajan. The film stars Raghuveer and Tambaram Lalitha. Cast The list is adapted from the database of Film News Anandan and from Thiraikalangiyam. Male cast Female cast Production The film was produced by S. A. Natarajan and J. G. Vijayam who also handled the cinematography. Choreography was done by P. S. Gopalakrishnan. The film was produced in Kannada with the same title. B. Sarojadevi featured in the female lead role. Soundtrack Music was composed by G. Ramanathan while the lyrics were penned by T. K. Sundara Vathiyar, Lakshmanadas, S. D. Sundharam and A. Maruthakasi. A Thiruvarutpa by Ramalinga Swamigal was included in the film. Playback singers are S. C. Krishnan, T. M. Soundararajan, D. B. Ramachandran, Sirkazhi Govindarajan, Moorthi, P. S. Thangamani, Elangovan, S. R. Ramadas, Baby Saroja, Devaki, T. R. Gajalakshmi and Jikki. References External links - Song by Sirkazhi Govindarajan Indian multilingual films Films scored by G. Ramanathan 1950s Tamil-language films 1950s Kannada-language films Indian black-and-white films
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotet	Emotet is a malware strain and a cybercrime operation believed to be based in Ukraine. The malware, also known as Heodo, was first detected in 2014 and deemed one of the most prevalent threats of the decade. In 2021, the servers used for Emotet were disrupted through global police action in Germany and Ukraine and brought under the control of law enforcement. First versions of the Emotet malware functioned as a banking trojan aimed at stealing banking credentials from infected hosts. Throughout 2016 and 2017, Emotet operators, sometimes known as Mealybug, updated the trojan and reconfigured it to work primarily as a "loader," a type of malware that gains access to a system, and then allows its operators to download additional payloads. Second-stage payloads can be any type of executable code, from Emotet's own modules to malware developed by other cybercrime gangs. Initial infection of target systems often proceeds through a macro virus in an email attachment. The infected email is a legitimate-appearing reply to an earlier message that was sent by the victim. One of the possible options of the infection process is when the VBA code utilizes WMI to launch a Powershell code that downloads the payload from the C2 server. It has been widely documented that the Emotet authors have used the malware to create a botnet of infected computers to which they sell access in an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) model, referred in the cybersecurity community as MaaS (Malware-as-a-Service), Cybercrime-as-a-Service (CaaS), or Crimeware. Emotet is known for renting access to infected computers to ransomware operations, such as the Ryuk gang. As of September 2019, the Emotet operation ran on top of three separate botnets called Epoch 1, Epoch 2, and Epoch 3. In July 2020, Emotet campaigns were detected globally, infecting its victims with TrickBot and Qbot, which are used to steal banking credentials and spread inside networks. Some of the malspam campaigns contained malicious documents with names such as "form.doc" or "invoice.doc". According to security researchers, the malicious document launches a PowerShell script to pull the Emotet payload from malicious websites and infected machines. In November 2020, Emotet used parked domains to distribute payloads. In January 2021, international action coordinated by Europol and Eurojust allowed investigators to take control of and disrupt the Emotet infrastructure. The reported action was accompanied with arrests made in Ukraine. On 14 November 2021, new Emotet samples emerged that were very similar to the previous bot code, but with a different encryption scheme that used elliptic curve cryptography for command and control communications. The new Emotet infections were delivered via TrickBot, to computers that were previously infected with TrickBot, and soon began sending malicious spam email messages with macro-laden Microsoft Word and Excel files as payloads. On 3 November 2022, new samples of Emotet em
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth%20Catlow	Ruth Catlow (born 1968) is an English artist-theorist and curator whose practice focuses on critical investigations of digital and networked technologies and their emancipatory potential. She is also the Director, with Marc Garrett, of the Furtherfield gallery, commons space, and online arts-writing platform based out of London, which the duo founded in 1997. Education and career Catlow was born in London, England and earned an BA (Hons) in Sculpture from the Falmouth School of Art (1987-1991) before moving on to a master's degree in Networked Media Environments at Ravensbourne (college), graduating in 2006. She was also an academic and teacher, as Associate Senior Lecturer in Digital Media at Ravensbourne. After 15 years in academia, Catlow shifted focus to her ongoing collaboration with partner Marc Garrett, Furtherfield. The pair had previously founded the HTTP Gallery together (a previous iteration of the current Furtherfield Gallery in Haringay, London), and had garnered industry acclaim for their critical and innovative programming. Catlow continues her role as Artistic Director at Furtherfield, whilst also occasionally being involved in external curatorial projects, such as Collaboration and Freedom – The World of Free and Open Source Art, an online collection for the Arts Council England and the P2P Foundation, which she curated with Marc Garrett in 2011. As an artist, Catlow has participated in exhibitions at Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv, CCA, Glasgow, the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, Limehouse Town Hall, London and the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery and Sheila C. Johnson Design Center in New York to name a few, and her work has been featured on DVblog, the Rhizome Artbase and The Digital Kitchen. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, residencies, and other honours. In 2003, she was a recipient of a Low-fi Net Art Commission and she was selected for a research residency at the Tate Britain in 2016. Her work has been shown alongside internationally renowned artists like Yoko Ono and Cory Arcangel. Publications As an academic, Catlow published numerous articles, including Paying Attention: Toward a critique of the attention economy and We Won't Fly For Art: Media Art Ecologies. Since leaving academia to focus on her independent work and activities with Furtherfield, Catlow has continued to publish interdisciplinary texts, interviews, and commentaries - such as, Situating the Digital Commons. A conversation between Ruth Catlow and Tim Waterman, or Karen Blissett is Revolting, an interview with the groundbreaking digital artist/figure. She is also the author of several books, including Artists Re:Thinking Games with Marc Garrett and Corado Morgana. In late 2016, Catlow and Marc Garrett wrote the foreword to the book Intersecting Art and Technology in Practice: Techne/Technique/Technology edited by Camille C Baker and Kate Sicchio. Catlow - together with her partner Marc Garrett - coined the term DIWO; Do
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin%20American%20and%20Caribbean%20Feminist%20Encuentros	The Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentros () are a series conferences which began in 1981 to develop transnational networks within the region of Latin America and the Caribbean. The main focus of the conferences was to discuss and evaluate how women's marginalization and oppression could be eliminated given the existing economic and political systems by forming networks and strategies to create alternatives to existing norms. At times contentious, the various conferences explored what feminism meant—whether it was an inclusive movement or limited by social class, racial make-up, or sexuality; whether it was militant or passive; whether it was political, social, or economic; whether it was designed to work within patriarchal systems or needed to create new systems; and even whether accepting funding invalidated being feminist. Numerous initiatives recognizing diverse groups of women, such as Black and indigenous women, lesbian women, and various cultural and economic groups were spawned by the dialogues. The conferences are an ongoing attempt to negotiate strategies in an attempt to change region-wide policy agendas toward women. History In 1975, the United Nations approved the celebration of International Women's Year. As part of the celebrations they held the First World Conference on Women in 1975 in Mexico City. At that meeting, it was proposed that the following decade be proclaimed UN Decade for Women and follow-up meetings to assess progress be held in 1980 and 1985. The General Assembly adopted a World Plan of Action with recommended targets for governments to integrate women's equality, development and participation in peace initiatives. For the first time, institutional collection within the UN evaluated the extent of problems and conditions of women in varying nations, specifically separating data by sex to bring to light the level of inequality and discrimination towards women. It was also one of the first international meetings of organized lesbians from multiple countries and cultures. Attitudes within the member nations and the UN itself began to change as a result of the focus on women brought about by the conference. The conference connected women to other women in their struggles, as well as increasing governmental understanding of the needs of their constituent women. In turn, this led to a surge in women's activists coming together across the globe and the development of the Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentros. The diverse struggles of women throughout Latin America and the Caribbean had led by the 1970s to a rejection of feminism and the dubbing of women's movements as bourgeois outcropping of imperialists. The abuse of women by the military regimes in Latin America through the decade between 1970 and 1980 as well as a shared colonial and neocolonial experience made women aware that gender issues needed to be re-examined as human rights challenges. The Encuentros were conceived as a means for women to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nallakalam	Nallakalam () is a 1954 Indian Tamil-language film directed by K. Vembu and Jyotish Sinha. The film stars M. K. Radha and Pandari Bai. Cast The list was compiled from the database of Film News Anandan and from Thiraikalanjiyam Male cast M. K. Radha T. S. Balaiah N. S. Krishnan Kula Deivam V. R. Rajagopal M. L. Pathy T. S. Natarajan Female Cast Pandari Bai T. A. Mathuram K. Varalakshmi K. Lakshmikantham Production K. Prabhakar was in charge of Cinematography while the editing was done by C. Rajan. Choreography was by Sohanlal. Nallakalam was filmed at Film Centre, Madras and the stills were taken by Gnanam. Soundtrack Music was composed by K. V. Mahadevan while the lyrics were penned by M. P. Sivam, Puratchidasan and Udumalai Narayana Kavi. Reception The Indian Express called it an "above-average picture". References External links 1950s Tamil-language films 1954 drama films Films scored by K. V. Mahadevan Indian drama films
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%202A%20%28Hanoi%20Metro%29	Line 2A, Hanoi Metro (Cát Linh–Hà Đông), also known as Cát Linh line, is an elevated mass transit railway line, and part of the Hanoi Metro network. It is the first rapid transit line to operate in Vietnam, and was opened for service on 6 November 2021. The 12-station line starts at Cat Linh in Dong Da District, passes through Thuong Dinh in Thanh Xuân District and ends at Yen Nghia in Ha Dong District. History Construction of the line started in October 2011 and was initially scheduled to be completed by 2013. The completion has been delayed due to several hurdles including finalizing funding from the government of China. The original cost estimate of $552.86 million has also ballooned to more than $868 million. Most of the funding for the project is financed by preferential loans from the Export Import Bank of China. The rest of funding is from the Vietnamese government. The line was constructed by China Railway Engineering Corporation. The bulk of the construction was completed by the fourth quarter of 2018. Operational tests were conducted at the end of 2018 and again in 2019. After delays, Line 2A eventually opened to the public on 6 November 2021. Stations The stations are built and designed with the concept of station variety. Each station has a distinct color. For example, La Khe station has a light green theme. All stations have curvy roofs, suitable for the hot, humid and rainy climate of Vietnam and consistent with Southeast Asian architecture. The roofs are covered with light-absorbing, wind-protection and radiation-proof materials. Some stations, such as Cat Linh Station, are designed with modern and neighborhood-multifunctional styles. Stations are equipped with facilities such as lifts, escalators, stairways, security cameras, wheelchair accessibility, automatic fare collection systems, and ventilation systems. Emergency exits are designed according to international standards to ensure maximum safety for passengers. Rolling stock 13 4-car trainsets will be supplied by CRRC, with the first train delivered in March 2017. Electricity is supplied via third rail, to ensure safety, stability and urban landscape. The train has a two-way cockpit and is convertible at both ends. Each car is approximately long, with four doors on each side. One train has a maximum capacity of about 1,000 passengers, or approximately 6 passengers/m2. The track has a , and is on-stream welded to ensure high speed, noise protection, vibration and anti-derailment. A modern automated signalling system (CBTC) ensures safety by governing the speed of the trains, and shortens train intervals. Depot The depot is located in Phu Luong, Ha Dong District with an area of . The depot contains an Operation Control Center (OCC), train stabling and maintenance areas, an operational building, a training area and a storage room. The OCC operates round the clock, and is responsible for monitoring, supervising and controlling the entire system, ensuring smooth o
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Mulawin%20vs.%20Ravena%20episodes	Mulawin vs. Ravena is a Filipino fantasy television series created and produced by GMA Network starring Dennis Trillo together with an ensemble cast. It is a sequel to the fantasy series Mulawin televised in 2004 and the 2005 film, Mulawin: The Movie. It premiered on May 22, 2017 on GMA Telebabad block and also aired worldwide through GMA Pinoy TV. NUTAM (Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement) ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines while Kantar Media Philippines provide Nationwide ratings (Urban + Rural). The series ended its 17-week run on September 15, 2017, with a total of 85 episodes. It was replaced by Super Ma'am on Alyas Robin Hood's timeslot. Series overview Episodes May 2017 June 2017 July 2017 August 2017 September 2017 References Mulawin Lists of fantasy television series episodes Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%203%20%28Hanoi%20Metro%29	Line 3, Hanoi Metro (Nhon - Hanoi Station section), also known as Văn Miếu Line (Temple of Literature Line), is one of the under-construction mass transit railway line in the Hanoi Metro network, will be the second line to be used in the metro network. This line is invested by Hanoi Metropolitan Railway Management Board and divided into two phases. Phase 1 is 12.5 km long and consists of 12 stations in total, with 8.5 km elevated and 4 km underground, stretching from the city's western suburbs - Nhon - to the city center on Tran Hung Dao Street near Hanoi Railway Station. Its elevated section is scheduled for completion in 2023. 20% of Hanoi's people in 6 districts Ba Dinh, Cau Giay, Dong Da, Hoan Kiem, Nam Từ Liêm and Bắc Từ Liêm can benefit from this line. Budget Beside 276 million euros from the Hanoi city's budget, the project also receives 726 million euros from the four donors - the French government (DGT), French Development Agency (AFD), Asian Development Bank (ADB), and European Investment Bank (EIB). Construction progress Implementation of the project is delayed by four years compared to the original schedule with completion expected in 2021. As of March 2017, the project has achieved 30% physical progress over the elapsed project life of 9 years. However, due to land clearance issues, the project completion is expected to be delayed to 2023. Route Line 3: Nhon - Hanoi Station section starts from Nhon - to National Highway 32 - Cau Dien - Mai Dich - Ring road 3 intersection - Cau Giay (ring road 2 intersection) - Kim Ma - Giang Vo - Cat Linh - Quoc Tu Giam and ends at Tran Hung Dao Street, in front of Hanoi Station. Stations 12 stations including 8 elevated stations (Nhon, Minh Khai, Phu Dien, Cau Dien, Le Duc Tho, Vietnam National University, Chua Ha, Cau Giay) and 4 underground stations (Kim Ma, Cat Linh, Van Mieu, Hanoi Station), with concourse level, elevators and lifts. The railway platform is 109 m long. Social and environmental impacts Land acquisition and resettlement: To transform Hanoi's transport system, the government may acquire some land along segments of the line, and around Nhon depot. A Resettlement Plan has been prepared and updated for the project, which is consistent with the Asian Development Bank's Safeguards Policy Statement, and the updated Resettlement and Compensation Policies of the government of Vietnam. Environmental management: The development of the line involves significant construction works, which can generate adverse environmental impacts. These have been assessed in an international standard environmental impact assessment. The most significant impacts affecting Hanoi citizens during construction may include excessive dust and noise, traffic disturbances, and the relocation of mature trees along the metro alignment. All contractors have developed and are implementing robust environmental management plans and engineering solutions to minimize environmental impacts, and respond to an
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed%20%28Facebook%29	Facebook's Feed, formerly known as the News Feed, is a web feed feature for the social network. The feed is the primary system through which users are exposed to content posted on the network. Feed highlights information that includes profile changes, upcoming events, and birthdays, among other updates. Using a proprietary method, Facebook selects a handful of updates to show users every time they visit their feed, out of an average of 2,000 updates they can potentially receive. Over two billion people use Facebook every month, making the network's Feed the most viewed and most influential aspect of the news industry. The feature, introduced in 2006, was renamed "Feed" in 2022. History Before 2006, Facebook simply consisted of profiles, requiring the user to visit a profile to see any new posts. On September 6, 2006, Facebook announced a new home page feature called "News Feed". The new layout created an alternative home page in which users saw a constantly updated list of their friends' Facebook activities. Initially, the addition of the News Feed caused discontent among Facebook users, many of which complained that the feed was too intrusive, detailing every moment with timestamps, and violated their privacy. Some called for a boycott of the company. In response to this dissatisfaction, CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued a statement clarifying that "We didn't take away any privacy options." Following this, Zuckerberg later issued an open letter apologizing for a lack of information on new features and users' controls, writing that "We really messed this one up. [...] I'd like to try to correct those errors now." The News Feed has received multiple updates over the years since its original setup. In 2008, Facebook added a feedback button to each story in a user's feed, letting them tell the service about their personal preferences for their feed. However, the feedback button was removed in April, and returned in July, with Facebook reportedly removing the first iteration of the feedback options due to a low impact on user satisfaction compared to other aspects of the algorithm. In March 2009, Facebook rolled out the option to "Like" a page to see updates from it in their feed, gave users customizable filters to determine what friends they wanted to see News Feed updates from, and also added a publishing field at the top of the feed, previously exclusive to user profiles, for easy post creation. The publishing field contained the text "What's on your mind?", a similar but also notably different question from Twitter's "What are you doing right now?" A few weeks later, the company introduced controls to reduce content from app interactions, and enabled the feed to show photos in which friends were tagged. In December 2010, Facebook rolled out a new drop-down button, offering users the ability to view News Feed by categories, including only games, status updates, photos, links, Pages, or specific groups of people. In February 2011, Facebook added New
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion%20360	Fusion 360 is a commercial computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), computer-aided engineering (CAE) and printed circuit board (PCB) design software application, developed by Autodesk. It is available for Windows, macOS and web browser, with simplified applications available for Android and iOS. Fusion 360 is licensed as a paid subscription, with a free limited home-based, non-commercial personal edition available. History Fusion 360 was introduced by Autodesk on 24 September 2013. It incorporated many features from Inventor Fusion, which it replaced. In 2009, the tech demo Inventor Fusion was released In the summer of 2013, Fusion 360 was publicly announced, being a cloud-enabled version of the original. After release, other Autodesk products were integrated in Fusion 360: In 2017, the Slicer feature of Autodesk 123D was integrated. In 2021, Autodesk Meshmixer was discontinued, after functionality was integrated into Fusion 360 In 2021, Netfabb was merged into Fusion 360 Features Fusion 360 has built-in capabilities to do 3D modeling, sheet-metal, simulation and documentation. It can manage manufacturing processes such as machining, milling, turning and additive manufacturing. It also has electronic design automation (EDA) features, such as schematic design, PCB design and component management. It can be also used for rendering, animation, generative design and a number of advanced simulation tasks (FEA). List of main features: 3D Design & Modeling Manufacturing (CAM) Data Management Electronics (EDA, PCB) Team Collaboration Generative Design Additive Manufacturing (3D printing) Simulation (FEA) Documentation & Drawings Extensions Autodesk offers a number of paid extensions that add extra functionality to Fusion 360. These extensions are priced through a monthly or yearly subscription. Simulation - lets a Fusion 360 team analyze performance and manufacturability of models using structural and thermal simulation tools. Generative Design - improve and optimize models using manufacturing process-aware artificial intelligence. Machining - adds additional CAM (computer aided manufacturing) abilities inside Fusion 360 to produce higher quality parts. Nesting & Fabrication - adds tools to create optimized multi-sheet layouts for CNC cutting. Product Design - includes advanced 3D design and modeling tools. These tools help with complex product designs using intelligent software to better analyze and improve models. Manage - allows for tools that assist engineering workflows and keep all product data secure and trackable. Additive Build - gives access to tools to efficiently generate support structures and quickly create precise subtractive machining operations. Signal Integrity - unlocks additional PCB and electronic signal integrity tools. Easily improve and analyze PCB prototypes. Languages, compatibility Autodesk Fusion 360 supports Windows 11 and Windows 10, plus the latest versions of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrestricted%20algorithm	An unrestricted algorithm is an algorithm for the computation of a mathematical function that puts no restrictions on the range of the argument or on the precision that may be demanded in the result. The idea of such an algorithm was put forward by C. W. Clenshaw and F. W. J. Olver in a paper published in 1980. In the problem of developing algorithms for computing, as regards the values of a real-valued function of a real variable (e.g., g[x] in "restricted" algorithms), the error that can be tolerated in the result is specified in advance. An interval on the real line would also be specified for values when the values of a function are to be evaluated. Different algorithms may have to be applied for evaluating functions outside the interval. An unrestricted algorithm envisages a situation in which a user may stipulate the value of x and also the precision required in g(x) quite arbitrarily. The algorithm should then produce an acceptable result without failure. References Numerical analysis Theoretical computer science
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Louisiana%20Scenic%20Byways	The Louisiana Scenic Byways are a network of roadways within the U.S. state of Louisiana that have been deemed of cultural, historical, or scenic value. The routes follow various segments of the state-maintained highway system, usually rural in character, and are mostly located in the central and southern areas of the state. List There are currently 18 routes that are active members of the Louisiana Scenic Byways program, following its reorganization in 2010. Creole Nature Trail The Creole Nature Trail is an All-American Road that is designated primarily along stretches of LA 27 and LA 82 in Cameron and Calcasieu parishes, located in the southwestern corner of the state. Like most of Louisiana's Scenic Byways, it does not follow a linear route but instead consists of a network of existing state-maintained highways. The trail spans a total of through a remote area sometimes referred to as "Louisiana's Outback." The surroundings range from marshland and prairie to sandy beaches and contain a wide variety of wildlife, including alligators, birds, butterflies, and fish. Four wildlife refuges are located along the route. References External links Louisiana Byways Scenic highways in Louisiana list Louisiana Scenic Byways
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CloudMask	CloudMask is a data privacy company for public or private cloud applications. History Launched in 2013, Dr Wael Aggan, the CEO and co-founder of CloudMask and Tarek El-Gillani, the CTO and co-founder of CloudMask, an information privacy company based out of Ottawa, Canada. Prior to CloudMask, the two started ViaSafe and TradeMerit, which were later acquired. In 2015, CloudMask Engine received Common Criteria Certification, for their data protection services. Since, CloudMask has partnered with AllStream and Clio, helping secure their customers' data. Overview CloudMask patent technology masks production data in real-time. Running on end devices, it transparently intercepts and changes the production data so that the unauthorized data requesters do not get access to sensitive data, while no physical changes to the original production data take place. By protecting against data theft, masking acts as a compliance solution for organizations subject to data privacy regulations such as HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI. Unauthorized users who breach perimeter security can only see the masked data, and data privacy is upheld. Products Secure communication for Gmail and Outlook. Confidential storage and file sharing for Google Drive and Box. Confidential practice management for Clio. Secure case management for Salesforce. Custom configuration, embedding protection layer for business applications. References Information privacy Cryptography Email clients Online companies of Canada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS%207	MS-DOS 7 is a real mode operating system for IBM PC compatibles. Unlike earlier versions of MS-DOS it was not released separately by Microsoft, but included in the Windows 9x family of operating systems. Windows 95 RTM report it as MS-DOS 7.0, while Windows 95 OSR 2.x and Windows 98 report as 7.1. The real-mode MS-DOS 7.x operating system is contained in the IO.SYS file. New features As the first version in the series, MS-DOS 7.0 added support for long filename (LFN) awareness, and its DIR command for example will show them with an LFN driver such as DOSLFN (earlier versions of MS-DOS wouldn’t show long filenames even with such a driver). It also supports for larger extended memory (up to 4GB) via its HIMEM.SYS driver. Various smaller improvements are also introduced, such as enhanced DOS commands, more efficient use of UMB memory (COMMAND.COM and part of the DOS kernel are loaded high automatically), and the fact that environment variables can be used in the DOS command line directly. MS-DOS 7.1 added FAT32 support (up to 2TB per volume), while MS-DOS 7.0 and earlier versions of MS-DOS only supported FAT12 and FAT16. Logical block addressing (LBA) is also supported in MS-DOS 7.x for accessing large hard disks, unlike earlier versions which only supported cylinder-head-sector (CHS)-based addressing. Year 2000 support was added to DIR command via the new /4 option. MS-DOS 7.x added support for running the graphical interface of Windows 9x, which cannot be run on older MS-DOS releases. Even though VER command usually shows the Windows version, the MS-DOS version is also officially mentioned in other places. For example, if one attempts to run Windows 95 OSR2 or Windows 98’s VMM32.VXD file (renamed to VMM32.EXE) directly from an earlier version of MS-DOS, the following message will be immediately displayed: Cannot run Windows with the installed version of MS-DOS. Upgrade MS-DOS to version 7.1 or higher. In the case of Windows 95 RTM, the version number 7.0 is displayed in place of 7.1. More information A major difference between earlier versions of MS-DOS is the usage of the MSDOS.SYS file. In version 7 this is not a binary file, but a pure setting file. The older boot style, where Windows is not automatically started and the system boots into a DOS command shell, could keep on using that same style by setting BootGUI=0 in the MSDOS.SYS file. Otherwise, Windows from Windows 95 onward will automatically start up on boot. However this was in reality only an automatic call for the command WIN.COM, the Windows starting program. Windows 95 and 98 are both dependent on MS-DOS to boot the 32-bit kernel and to run legacy 16-bit MS-DOS device drivers, although MS-DOS 7 possibly is more "hidden" than earlier versions of MS-DOS. This is also true for Windows Me, but Me prevents users from booting MS-DOS without booting the 32-bit Windows kernel. Also the paths for (a plausible but actually not necessary) Windows directory and Boot directory are to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaviu%20Cristian	Flaviu Cristian (25 June 1951 – 27 April 1999) was a Romanian-American computer scientist noted for his work in distributed systems and, in particular, the development of a method for clock synchronisation which bears his name, Cristian's algorithm. Biography He was born in 1951 in Cluj, in the Transylvania region of Romania, the son of Ilie and Rafila Cristian. After graduating from the Nicolae Bălcescu High School in his native city, he went in 1971 to France to study at the Grenoble Institute of Technology, in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. After graduating in 1977 from both the Institute and the Grenoble School of Management, he pursued his graduate studies in computer science at the University of Grenoble, where he carried out research in operating systems and programming methodology, and received his Ph.D. in 1979. Cristian went on to the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the United Kingdom, where he worked in the area of specification, design, and verification of fault-tolerant software. In 1982 he emigrated to the United States, joining the IBM Research Center in Almaden Valley, in San Jose, California. In 1991 he joined the University of California, San Diego as Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He died in San Diego in 1999 after a long battle with cancer. Publications See also Cristian's algorithm Notes External links UCSD Jacobs: Flaviu Cristian, Professor and Scientist, Dies at Age 48 List of computer science publications by Cristian Flavius 1951 births 1999 deaths Romanian computer scientists Grenoble Alpes University alumni University of California, San Diego faculty Romanian emigrants to the United States Scientists from Cluj-Napoca Romanian expatriates in France Romanian expatriates in the United Kingdom IBM Research computer scientists Grenoble Institute of Technology alumni Deaths from cancer in California
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad%20Attitudes	Bad Attitudes is a 1991 television film written by Caleb Carr and directed by Alan Myerson. The film was originally aired by Fox Network on September 11, 1991. Plot The film centers around two hijackers that take over a plane. The problem is: The airplane is not carrying a billionaire as planned, but otherwise is carrying a group of smart children. Cast Jack Evans as Dabney Mitchell/Narrator Ethan Embry as Cosmo Coningsby Ellen Blain as Jenny Eugene Byrd as James Meghann Haldeman as Angela Ralph Bruneau as Tim Mitchell Carlease Burke as Security Guard Maryedith Burrell as Katyana Richard Gilliland as Jurgen Tony Longo as Bruce Ryan Maggie Roswell as Angela's Mother References External links 1990s English-language films

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