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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anuar%20Dyusembaev | Dyusembaev Anuar (born 1953) is a Kazakh mathematician.
Biography
Anuar Dyusembaev graduated from the Saint Petersburg State University, the math department of the faculty, the Department of Computer Science (department of ) in 1975, the department of mathematics. Ph.D. specialty 01.01.09.- mathematical cybernetics, a place of protection of the Computer Center of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Moscow) 1984 Doctor of physico-mathematical sciences, specialty 05.13.17.- theoretical bases of informatics, consultant academician Zhuravlev Yu.I., a place of protection of the Computing Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, 1994). Publications - journals of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, RAS, USA, monograph "Mathematical models of program segmentation" published by Fizmatlit (MAIK, Nauka) 2001. Moscow, "Programmer's Library" series, 208 pp. And other publications.
List of taught disciplines
Scientific works
Zhuravlev Yu. I., Dyusembaev A.E., "Neural Network Construction for Recognition Problems with Standard Information on the Basis of a Model of Algorithms with Piecewise Linear Surfaces and Parameters"
Dyusembaev A.E., Grishko M.V., "On Correctness Conditions for Algebra of Recognition Algorithms with μ-Operators over Pattern Problems with Binary Data"
Dyusembaev A.E., Grishko M.V., "Construction of a Correct Algorithm and Spatial Neural Network for Recognition Problems with Binary Data"
Dyusembaev A.E., "An approach to the solution of recognition problems using neural networks", published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2017, Vol. 473, No. 2, pp. 127–130.,
Dyusembaev A.E., Kaliazhdarov D.R., "On exact solutions of recognition problems based on the neural-network approach", 2015, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2015, Vol. 461, No. 3, pp. 268–271.,
Dyusembaev, A.E., Kaliazhdarov, D., Grishko, M., "To construction of the correct algorithm for pattern recognition tasks over fuzzy neuro-operator model", 2014, iFUZZY 2014 - 2014 International Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Its Applications, Conference Digest.,
Dyusembaev, A.E., "Mathematical models of program segmentation", FIZMATLIT. 207 p. (2001), MSC:68N01 68–02.
Dyusembaev A.E., M. Grishko, D. Kaliazhdarov, “The Conditions of solvability of the inverse problem of the Operator Equation for a Pattern Recognition Neurooperator Model” AJIIPS, Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems. Volume 14,No.2,2014,pp. 15–21.
Dyusembaev A.E., "Operator Approach to discrete programming with application neural networks modeling", Proc.Int. Conf. ICAFS'96, Germany, Berlin, 1996, pp. 181–189.
Dyusembaev A.E., "Mathematical models of program segmentation. (Matematicheskie modeli segmentatsii programm.)", Moskva: FIZMATLIT. 207 p. (2001).
Dyusembaev A.E., "On one approach to the problem of segmenting programs..", Phys.-Dokl. 38, No. 4, 134-136 (1993); translation from Dokl. Akad. Nauk, Ross. Akad. Nauk 329, No. 6, 712-714 (1993).
Dyusembaev A.E., Grishko M.V., "Co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analyn%20Barro | Analyn Barro Tabucanon, also known by her stage name Analyn Barro and labelled as "Crush ng Bayan" is a Filipino actress and model who became known after joining in the sixth season of GMA Network's reality-based talent competition, StarStruck, after having to temporarily quit school for this opportunity.
After her StarStruck journey, she landed her first regular show on the primetime series Once Again as Diana "Daday", the best friend of Des (played by Janine Gutierrez). She became an antagonist in the afternoon series Oh, My Mama!. She played as a third wheel to the DerBea loveteam in the weekend primetime fantasy series Tsuperhero as the bubbly Visayan Anna. She also starred as Mina, the friend of Jennylyn Mercado's character, Steffi, in the hit Philippine television remake, My Love from the Star. She portrays Tina, best friend of Rachel (played by Kris Bernal) in the 2018 afternoon series Asawa Ko, Karibal Ko. She portrays Gemrose Reyes, the antagonist role as insecure, envious and jealous sister of Melody (played by Sanya Lopez) in the 2021 primetime series First Yaya and sequel First Lady.
Barro is currently a mainstay of the longest-running sketch comedy program in Philippine television, Bubble Gang.
Filmography
Television Series
Television Anthologies
References
Tsuperhero actress Analyn Barro is a beach babe Retrieved 2017-06-14
Analyn Barro eliminated in Starstruck Season 6 Retrieved 2017-06-14
Tsuperhero stars Bea Binene, Analyn Barro are total beach babes Retrieved 2017-06-14
Analyn Barro reveals she did not expect to pass the 'StarStruck' audition Retrieved 2017-06-14
External links
Living people
21st-century Filipino actresses
Filipino female models
Filipino television actresses
StarStruck (Philippine TV series) participants
Actors from Bacolod
Actresses from Negros Occidental
Hiligaynon people
1996 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen%20Kuban | Glen Jay Kuban (born 1957) is an American computer programmer and independent investigator from Brunswick, Ohio. He is known for his work in Paluxy River dinosaur footprints.
Kuban became interested in studying dinosaur footprints in 1980 when he began studying the Paluxy River prints, which he had expected to be human. After studying these prints and conducting field work on them he confirmed the results of an earlier study by creation scientists from Loma Linda University that they appeared to be dinosaurian, not human. One reason he reached this conclusion was that the prints had shallow indentations that corresponded to dinosaurian toes, not human ones, and detailed analysis of the distinctive colorations in each purportedly human print revealed these prints to be dinosaurian. After cleaning and mapping the trails during his field work there, he tried, unsuccessfully, to convince certain creationists to look at them. After carefully studying the tracks, he determined that all of the purportedly human prints there were actually dinosaurian, writing, "I have concluded that no genuine human tracks have been found in the Paluxy riverbed." Kuban was the first to identify the larger imprint as the impression of the metatarsal bones.
References
External links
Color Distinctions and Other Curious Features of Dinosaur Tracks Near Glen Rose, Texas (presented by Kuban at the First International Conference on Dinosaur Tracks and Traces in Albuquerque in 1986)
Living people
American computer programmers
Critics of creationism
People from Brunswick, Ohio
1957 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval%20Engineers | Medieval Engineers is a voxel-based sandbox computer game set on an unnamed Earth-like planetoid without water that can be explored, mined, manipulated, and deformed. It was developed and published by Czech developer Keen Software House. On February 19, 2015, Medieval Engineers was released as an early access game on the Steam platform, and the full version was released on March 17, 2020.
Gameplay
The player controls a single character, the engineer, and builds structures, from small shacks to entire castles and even towns, using pre-defined building blocks. Blocks may be structural, functional, interactive, or aesthetic, and are grouped into two basic types: large and small. Large blocks such as walls, roofing and palisades determine structural integrity and may collapse under their own weight if not built carefully or if damaged in an attack. Small blocks such as timber, wheels for carts and siege equipment, furniture and crafting workstations serve aesthetic, interactive, and/or functional roles.
The small block items, and particularly the torsion bar, rope drum, axle (called a catch block), hand crank, projectiles, and rope ends are key features of Medieval Engineers, as they enable siege warfare. The player may combine these along with other small-block items to create battering rams, catapults, trebuchets, and siege towers, which use realistic physics based on mass, density, tension, and inertia. In a multi-player world, individual players may each claim territory, or share claimed territory, create "houses," build castles and defenses, then create siege engines to attack other player's or house's castles. As a sandbox game, win conditions are not defined but can be arranged separately by the players involved.
Players can also use hand-tools to construct large blocks, fell and process trees, and reshape the landscape, leveling for building purposes or digging to mine resources and form defensive trenches and mounds. Weapons such as a club, studded club, and sword can defend from hostile NPCs (barbarians) as well as other human players, and attack structures directly. Crossbows may be used to assault enemies or hunt deer (for food and hides) from a distance.
Terrain and landscape
The Medieval Engineers landscape is a spheroid voxel-based planet, approximately 10 game-kilometers in radius, which is fully explorable by the player. It contains high mountain ranges with limited passable areas, deep rocky valleys, varied woodlands, grasslands and fields, desert, and a network of dirt roads, which a player may use to navigate or fast travel if they choose. Resources that can be collected vary depending on the nature of the terrain. Wild wheat, cabbages, and flax may be found in fields, for example, whereas mushrooms and berries exist only in wooded areas. Many aspects of the world are adjustable at the start of the game, including the day-night cycle, number of possible non-player characters (NPCs include deer and hostile barbarian attackers) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego%20DC%20Super%20Hero%20Girls%3A%20Brain%20Drain | Lego DC Super Hero Girls: Brain Drain is a 2017 American computer-animated superhero comedy film based on the DC Super Hero Girls franchise, produced by Warner Bros. Animation. It is the third film in the DC Super Hero Girls franchise, as well as the first in the series to be based on the DC Super Hero Girls brand of Lego. It was digitally released on July 25, 2017, and was followed by a DVD release on August 8. The film premiered on Cartoon Network in the US on November 19 the same year.
Plot
The entire planet is in peril as Wonder Woman, Supergirl and Batgirl have to battle an unknown villain as well as short-term amnesia. The trio thought they all had the same bizarre dream where they witnessed Katana and Bumblebee stealing diamonds. They gave chase, but then they all woke up. Turns out the events didn't only happen in their heads, and the three girls slowly started to understand they lost some time—a whole day. Others remember their missing 24 hours. The girls all acted extremely out of character, doing things like uploading an embarrassing video of Harley Quinn without her permission and replacing the school's Amethyst with Principal Waller's car. Their activities get them expelled. That makes them realize not everything is as it seems and leads them on a chase towards the hidden mastermind behind the plot, Eclipso.
Cast
Yvette Nicole Brown as Amanda Waller
Greg Cipes as Beast Boy
Romi Dames as Lena Luthor
John DiMaggio as Gorilla Grodd / Wildcat
Teala Dunn as Bumblebee
Anais Fairweather as Supergirl
Grey Griffin as Wonder Woman / Lois Lane
Jennifer Hale as Mad Harriet
Josh Keaton as Flash
Tom Kenny as James Gordon
Rachael MacFarlane as Artemiz
Mona Marshall as Eclipso
Meredith Salenger as Lashina
Ashlyn Selich as Batgirl
Stephanie Sheh as Katana
Tara Strong as Harley Quinn
Reception
Renee Longstreet for Common Sense Media gave the film a two out of five star rating and commented: "Still, while Lego DC Super Hero Girls: Brain Drain has music, jokes, suspense, and ongoing likable characters, it's a ho-hum production, lacking originality and specialness. And even little kids might be annoyed by some of the shrill and overly cutesy voice performances; grownups will simply cringe. Then there's the matter of Lego joining the DC family once again. Other than enhancing their toy and merchandise catalogues, what possible reason could there be to turn the animated teen Super Hero Girls into Legos?"
See also
DC Super Hero Girls
Lego DC Super Hero Girls
Lego DC Super Hero Girls: Super-Villain High
References
External links
2017 direct-to-video films
2017 animated films
2017 films
DC Super Hero Girls films
2017 computer-animated films
Films about sentient toys
Direct-to-video animated films based on DC Comics
2010s superhero comedy films
2010s American animated films
2010s direct-to-video animated superhero films
Brain Drain
Warner Bros. Animation animated films
Warner Bros. direct-to-video animated films
American children's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate%20Devlin | Kate Devlin, born Adela Katharine Devlin is a Northern Irish computer scientist specialising in Artificial intelligence and Human–computer interaction (HCI). She is best known for her work on human sexuality and robotics and was co-chair of the annual Love and Sex With Robots convention in 2016 held in London and was founder of the UK's first ever sex tech hackathon held in 2016 at Goldsmiths, University of London.
She is Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London and is the author of Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots in addition to several academic papers.
Education
Devlin began her university career in the humanities and graduated from Queen's University Belfast in 1997 with a BA (Honours) degree in archaeology. After deciding that archaeology presented her with limited future prospects, she returned to Queen's University to study computer science, and in 1999 she was awarded an MSc in that subject. She then moved to The University of Bristol, where in 2004 she was awarded a PhD in computer science.
Devlin became a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London and a departmental Senior Tutor. and on 1 September 2018, Devlin became the Senior Lecturer in Social & Cultural AI in the Digital Humanities department at King's College London.
Academic career
In 2003 Devlin began researching computer graphics in archaeology at Bristol University, rendering 3D computer models of archaeological sites such as at Pompeii with attention to realistically rendering lighting effects caused by the spectral composition of light sources available at the time period in history. This involved experimental archaeology, recreating light sources and analysing the spectral range for each type of candle or fuel lamp.
From 2007 Devlin worked in the field of human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence at Goldsmiths, which included programming, graphics and animation. In 2018 she became Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London.
In 2015 Devlin spoke to news broadcasters in the UK about institutionalised sexism within science research and academia after comments made by Sir Tim Hunt regarding women scientists working in mixed laboratories. While Devlin, along with many other commentators, acknowledged the comments to be 'banter' she expressed the frustration that many women have with sexism in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and jokingly tweeted that she couldn't chair a departmental meeting because she was "too busy swooning and crying." Devlin also speaks publicly and writes to encourage more women to pursue technology careers.
In 2016 Devlin co-chaired the International Congress on Love and Sex With Robots held in London, UK, an annual conference held since 2014, co-founded by Adrian David Cheok and David Levy, writer of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezhayin%20Aasthi | Ezhaiyin Aasthi () is a 1955 Indian Tamil-language film directed by D. L. Ramachandar. The film stars Sowcar Janaki and Gummadi.
Cast
List adapted from the database of Film News Anandan
Male cast
Gummadi
Rajnala
Jaggayya
Sayeeram
Female cast
Sowcar Janaki
Baby Kanchana
Suryakantham
Chandrakumari
Production
The film was produced by H. M. Reddy and directed by D. L. Ramachandar who also wrote the story. Dialogues were written by Udhayakumar, Guhan and V. N. Sambandham. Annayya was in charge of cinematography while S. B. N. Krishna handled the editing. L. V. Manthra was in charge of Art direction while Rohini, Natarajan and Chopra handled the choreography. Still photography was done by Eswara Babu.
The film was also made in Telugu with the title Beedhala Aasthi.
Soundtrack
Music was composed by T. A. Kalyanam and G. Natarajan while the lyrics were written by Guhan. Playback singers are A. P. Komala, K. Jamuna Rani, Rohini and A. M. Rajah
References
External links
- Song by A. M. Rajah & Rohini
1950s Tamil-language films
Films scored by G. Natarajan
Films scored by T. A. Kalyanam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foamola | Foamola is an underground musical group from New York City, consisting of Sparrow and his wife, who went by the cyber alias Violet Snow. Also in the group is artist Lawrence Fishberg and Sparrow's daughter, poet Sylvia Gorelick. Their music has been described as "folk-minimalist", and as "anti-Plutarch pop". They attracted media attention for their performance at a 1995 party in honor of Phiber Optik in Manhattan.
Discography
Albums
May I Take a Bath? (self-released cassette, 1992)
Spit on the Dishes (self-released cassette, 1993)
Individual songs
"I've Been Reincarnated Too Many Times" and "John Quincy Adams" - appear on Poemfone: New Word Order (Tomato compilation, 1996)
References
External links
Foamola on Violet Snow's website
American folk musical groups
Musical groups from New York City
Musical groups established in 1991
1991 establishments in New York City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Daytime%20Emmy%20Awards%20received%20by%20Netflix | The Daytime Emmy Award is an American accolade bestowed by the New York–based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming.
Programs
Children's Animated Program
Pre-School Children's Animated Program
Special Class Animated Program
Outstanding Children's Series
Special Class - Short Format Daytime Program
Performance
Performer in an Animated Program
Writing and Directing
Writing in a Preschool Program
Writing in a Program
Directing in a Program
Directing in a Preschool Program
Sound and Music
Sound mixing - Animation
Sound Mixing in a Preschool Animated Program
Outstanding Sound Editing – Animation
Sound Editing in a Preschool Animated Program
Original Song
Other
Main Title and Graphic Design
Interactive Media
Casting for an Animated Series or Special
Individual Achievement in Animation
See also
Main
List of accolades received by Netflix
Others
List of TCA Awards received by Netflix
List of BAFTA Awards received by Netflix
List of Golden Globe Awards received by Netflix
List of Critics' Choice Awards received by Netflix
List of Primetime Emmy Awards received by Netflix
List of Screen Actors Guild Awards received by Netflix
List of Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards received by Netflix
References
Lists of accolades received by Netflix
Daytime Emmy Award winners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Disappeared%20episodes | This is a list of episodes of Disappeared, a television program broadcast on the Investigation Discovery network that documents missing persons cases. The program was first aired in December 2009, with subsequent seasons shown through 2013, and, after a three-year hiatus, resumed in 2016 through 2018. The show, again, returned in 2022 following a four-year absence.
Series overview
Episodes
Note: Episode subjects who are still actively missing are linked to their profiles at The Charley Project, a missing persons database. For persons subsequently found alive or deceased, names of subjects are linked to reliable news sources regarding their disappearance and discovery.
Season 1 (2009–2010)
Season 2 (2010)
Season 3 (2011)
Season 4 (2011–2012)
Season 5 (2012)
Season 6 (2012–2013)
Specials (2014–2015)
Season 7 (2016)
Season 8 (2017)
Season 9 (2018)
Season 10 (2022)
Season 11 (2023)
See also
List of people who disappeared mysteriously
Notes
References
External links
Official website
Disappeared at TV Guide
Lists of American non-fiction television series episodes
Television series about missing people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Haymarket%20Conspiracy | The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks is a 2012 book by historian Timothy Messer-Kruse on the Haymarket affair and the origins of American anarchism.
References
External links
2012 non-fiction books
History books about anarchism
English-language books
Works about the Haymarket affair
University of Illinois Press books
History books about the United States
History books about the 19th century |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ToaruOS | ToaruOS (also known as ToAruOS or とあるOS; 'toaru' is Japanese roughly equivalent to 'a certain') is a hobby operating system and kernel developed largely independently (notably contrary to most modern OSes, which are based on existing source code) by K. Lange. Despite a 1.0 version being released, Lange has stated that it is still 'incomplete', and may not be 'suitable for any purpose you might have for an operating system'. It is released under the permissive UIUC License, and supports 64-bit computer hardware with SMP.
Design and features
ToaruOS is programmed in C, and uses the Cairo graphics library. It has support for GCC, Python, and Simple DirectMedia Layer as well as many open-source utilities – including Vim. A package manager and basic window switcher are also included.
The kernel is a 'basic Unix-like environment'. It has a hybrid architecture, with internal and external device support being delegated to modules. Several filesystems are supported via this system, including ext2 and ISO 9660. Networking support is included, but is limited to simple IPv4 functionality. The userspace also has a window manager, Yutani (named after the Weyland-Yutani Corporation from the Alien franchise, and as a reference to the Wayland Display Server for Linux), with input support. It stores windows as shared memory regions with 32-bit colour, and uses pipes to communicate to other parts of the OS. Unusually, windows also support a rotation feature.
History
Development was started by creator K. Lange in December 2010; it initially was supported by the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, but after the beginning of 2012, it largely shifted to being mostly done by Lange. Initially, it was based on tutorials for x86 kernels. The operating system was named after the A Certain Scientific Railgun series of manga, but Lange stated it also mirrors generic naming of other hobby OSes. A GUI was added with a window manager in 2012, this was replaced with a more advanced version in 2014.
The initial official release, version 1.0, was released at the end of January 2017. This marked the first stable release, but Lange stated it was still 'a work in development with so much work left to be done'. This was superseded by versions 1.0.1 and 1.0.2, which added audio improvements and fixed bugs.
For April Fools' Day 2015, Lange released PonyOS, a version of ToaruOS themed after the animated series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
See also
TempleOS – another operating system developed largely from scratch
Redox OS – another Unix-like independently developed OS
References
External links
Official website
toaruos on GitHub
Free software operating systems
X86 operating systems
2017 software
Free software programmed in C
Software using the NCSA license
Lightweight Unix-like systems
Hobbyist operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realidades%20%28TV%20series%29 | Realidades is a PBS TV series of 30 minute documentary and arts programming, showcasing Hispanic artists, which aired on WNET Channel 13 New York from 1975 to 1977. Salsa musician Willie Colón was music director of the series; he included the theme tunes on his 1975 album The Good, the Bad, the Ugly.
References
External links
1970s American television series
PBS original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruhalakshmi%20%281955%20film%29 | Gruhalakshmi () is a 1955 Indian Tamil-language film directed by H. V. Babu. Edited by M.S. Parthasarathy. The film stars M. K. Radha and Anjali Devi.
Cast
List adapted from the database of Film News Anandan
Male cast
M. K. Radha
V. Nagayya
Raghuveer
Peer Mohamed
T. E. Krishnamachari
Female cast
Anjali Devi
T. V. Kumudhini
Bombay Meenakshi
Padma
Production
The film was produced by H. M. Reddy who earlier produced and directed the Telugu version Gruhalakshmi in 1938. This Tamil version was directed by H. V. Babu (Hanumappa Viswanath Babu). H. M. Reddy wrote the story and the dialogues were written by Udayakumar. D. L. Narayana handled the cinematography while the editing was done by M.S. Parthasarathy. Art direction was by A. K. Sekar and the choreography was done by Natraj. Still photography was done by Eswar Babu. The film was made at Film Centre, Madras.
Soundtrack
Music was composed by B. S. Kala, Sarala, T. A. Kalyanam and G. Nataraj while the lyrics were penned by Papanasam Sivan and Guhan. Playback singers are P. Leela, Jikki, K. Jamuna Rani, Padma, Ghantasala and Natarajan.
A song "Kaalai Thookki Nindru Aadum", penned by Carnatic music composer Marimutha Pillai was included in the film.
References
External links
- A song sung by Jikki in the film.
Indian drama films
Tamil remakes of Telugu films
Indian black-and-white films
1950s Tamil-language films
Films scored by T. A. Kalyanam
Films scored by B. S. Kalla
Films scored by G. Natarajan
1955 drama films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaitlan%20Collins | Kaitlan Collins (born April 7, 1992) is an American journalist who currently serves as anchor of The Source on CNN. She is the former co-anchor of CNN This Morning and also served as the network's White House Correspondent until 2022. Previously, she was the White House correspondent for the website The Daily Caller.
Early life
Kaitlan Collins was born in Prattville, Alabama. Her father, Jeff Collins, is a mortgage banker. Collins has described her upbringing as apolitical, and has stated that she does not recall her parents voting or expressing strong opinions about political candidates.
Collins graduated from Prattville High School and went on to attend the University of Alabama. She initially chose to major in chemistry, before majoring in journalism. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science and journalism in May of 2014. Collins was a member of the Alpha Phi sorority.
Career
After graduating from college, Collins moved to Washington, D.C. In June 2014, she was hired by the website The Daily Caller as an entertainment reporter. After covering the 2016 presidential election, the Daily Caller named her its White House correspondent in January 2017, and she began covering the Trump administration.
While she was still with The Daily Caller, Collins was invited to make several appearances on CNN. At a White House correspondent event in spring 2017, she met network president Jeff Zucker and thanked him for having her on despite the ideological nature of her employer at the time. In July 2017, Collins was hired by CNN as part of the team covering presidential news. As a member of the press corps, Collins reported on at least half a dozen of Trump's international presidential trips.
Collins was involved in a notable incident with the Trump administration on July 25, 2018, when she attended a photo op in the Oval Office as the day's pool reporter. As the event concluded, Collins asked Trump a series of questions about Vladimir Putin and about Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen. Trump ignored her questions. Collins was subsequently barred from a Trump administration press conference in the White House Rose Garden that afternoon and was told by senior White House officials that such questions were "inappropriate for that venue." Trump's press secretary Sarah Sanders said that Collins had "shouted questions and refused to leave," while Trump's advisor Kellyanne Conway said that the action was about "being polite." Trump's deputy chief of staff for communications, Bill Shine, objected to the characterization of the White House's action as a "ban" but "declined to tell reporters what word he would use to characterize the White House’s decision to block her from attending the event." CNN stated that Collins' ban was "retaliatory" and "not indicative of an open and free press." The White House Correspondents Association called the ban "wholly inappropriate, wrong-headed, and weak." Jay Wallace, president of Fox News, issued a statement in s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie%20Barr | Valerie Barr is an American computer scientist, and is the Margaret Hamilton Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Bard College. She formerly held the Jean Sammet endowed chair in the department of Computer Science at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. She is known for her work with women in computing.
Education
Barr earned her Bachelor of Science in Applied mathematics from Mount Holyoke in 1977, her Masters in Computer Science from New York University in 1979, and earned her PhD in Computer Science in 1996 from Rutgers University.
Career
Barr is currently the first person to be the Margaret Hamilton Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Bard College. She was appointed to this position in July, 2022. In addition to teaching Computer Science courses, in this role she is focused on two issues: 1) how do we ensure that non-CS students using computing in their courses come away with a strong understanding of foundational concepts of computing, and 2) what is it that all students should know about computing in order to actively critique and challenge the current pace and impact of technological change?
Previously, in 2017, Barr was named the first person to hold the Jean E. Sammet Chair in Computer Science at Mount Holyoke College. She left this position in 2022 to take up the position at Bard College.
Barr taught at Hofstra University on Long Island for nine years before becoming department chair at Union College in 2004 where she worked on updating the introductory courses in computer science to appeal to underrepresented groups in computer science and to broaden non-major exposure to the field of computer science.
In 1999, Barr was the recipient of the NSF POWRE award, and in 2007, she was awarded the NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Pathways to Revitalized Undergraduate Computing Education (CPATH) Institutional Transformation Award. Additional NSF funding was awarded in the form of two awards in 2019: Evaluating Frameworks for Incorporating Computing Across the Curriculum and The Data Science WAV: Experiential Learning with Local Community Organizations. Barr is also a co-PI of the NSF INCLUDES Alliance for Identity-Inclusive Computing Education (AiiCE)
In 2008, Barr and Elaine Weyuker organized a major ACM-W initiative to provide scholarships to women students who want to attend research conferences. This program is still running and annually provides between 30 and 40 scholarships a year for women students from around the world who are interested in attending conferences that will help them further their interests in computing. In 2016, she served as an Academic Corner Speaker at the Anita Borg Institute international conference Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
From 2012–2017, she served as the chair of ACM's Council on Women in Computing. She served as a program director at the United States National Science Foundation in the Division of Undergraduat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dino%20King%203D%3A%20Journey%20to%20Fire%20Mountain | Dino King 3D: Journey to Fire Mountain (a.k.a. Speckles the Tarbosaurus 2: The New Paradise) is a 2017 3D South Korean-Chinese computer-generated action adventure family film. The film was released on October 14, 2017 in South Korea, had early screenings at the American Film Market in Santa Monica in November 2017, and was released in Australia on the 24th August 2019, A sequel to The Dino King, the film is written and directed by Han Sang-Ho, and is produced by Chang Hoon Lee.
Plot
In the Late Cretaceous period, a young Tarbosaurus named Junior is chased by a Tsintaosaurus. His enraged father, Speckles, shows up to rescue him as killing a Tsintaosaurus. An enraged Speckles scolds at Junior as he could have been killed and for not fighting back (and also due to the fact that Junior is all Speckles has left).
Speckles takes Junior up top a hill and teaches him a lesson on how Speckles' ecosystem is his kingdom and agrees to make tomorrow his first hunt.
The next day, Speckles says that Junior is the same species like him and to just go over fears. However, when Speckles is hunting some Protoceratopses, Junior's fears come back to him, and was thrown and ends up in the water. He can't swim (As Junior has become aquaphobic from being washed out to sea in the first film), so he calls for help, despite being in shallow water. An enraged Speckles is disappointed in his son's cowardice. However, he over-reacts and lambasts Junior for his inability to conquer his fear. Hurt by his enraged father's comments, Junior tells his enraged father that he hates him and the pair storm off from one another.
Later that night, Jr. has flashbacks about the death of his mother. Speckles comes to him and tells him that this world is full of dangers, yet is also full of wonders.
The next day, Jr. is hunting a Pachycephalosaurus, when five Deinonychus abduct him. Speckles pursues the Deinonychus, but two of them manage to knock him into a river at the bottom of a gorge, followed by a rainstorm that masks their trail, delaying the pursuit, but die in the battle. Junior later finds himself in a desert compound where many other young dinosaurs have also been kidnapped. A young Therizinosaurus named Slash bullies Junior, but a young female Tarbosaurus named Blue defends him. A Carnotaurus named Blade tells Slash to stop the fight. The Deinonychus return, gather all the other dinosaurs up and take three other dinosaurs away from the dome and out of sight.
Meanwhile, Speckles is still looking for Jr. He meets a Saichania named Cy, who wants to avenge the loss of his best friend Daisy at the claws of the same Deinonychus. Jr., meanwhile, befriends Blue and meets a Monoclonius, called Dusty, while looking for shelter. While passing through a deep, dark ravine, Speckles and Cy are attacked by five giant scorpions. Speckles is able to kill or injure all of them, but one of the scorpions manages to sting him on the leg, poisoning him. Afterwards, they escape the ravine.
Meanw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Src%3ACard | Src:Card is a 1–2 player card game where players attempt to defeat the robotic core of an opponent's battle robot by writing code. The game is designed around a rudimentary Src:Card programming language which encapsulates much of imperative procedural programming based on academic research developed at the University of Auckland and Otago. The game's language replicates conditional flow, loops, and other control structures as well as basic algorithmic logic. While it contains many of the hallmarks of a Turing complete language (such as conditional branching) the game would require a larger function set to qualify as a Turing complete imperative language.
Launched in 2015, the card game was one of Malaysia's first successful Kickstarter project. The game has received press coverage from most board gaming news outlets. The game is currently being extensively used by Malaysian Coder Dojos to teach basic programming. Src:Card is currently a free and open download. Players can print and play Src:Card and use open assets to modify the game.
References
External links
srccard.com
Src:Card at BoardGameGeek
Dedicated deck card games
Programming games
Kickstarter-funded tabletop games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results%20of%20the%202011%20New%20South%20Wales%20state%20election%20%28Legislative%20Assembly%29 | This is a list of electoral district results for the 2011 New South Wales state election.
Results by electoral district
Albury
Auburn
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| style="text-align:left;"| Jamal Daoud
| style="text-align:right;"| 759
| style="text-align:right;"| 1.7
| style="text-align:right;"| +1.7
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| style="text-align:left;"| Carolyn Kennett
| style="text-align:right;"| 477
| style="text-align:right;"| 1.1
| style="text-align:right;"| +1.1
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Ballina
Balmain
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| style="text-align:left;"| Nicholas Folkes
| style="text-align:right;"| 289
| style="text-align:right;"| 0.6
| style="text-align:right;"| +0.6
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Bankstown
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| style="text-align:left;"| Socialist Equality
| style="text-align:left;"| Richard Phillips
| style="text-align:right;"| 818
| style="text-align:right;"| 2.0
| style="text-align:right;"| +2.0
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Barwon
Bathurst
Baulkham Hills
Bega
Blacktown
Blue Mountains
Burrinjuck
Cabramatta
Camden
Campbelltown
Canterbury
Castle Hill
Cessnock
Charlestown
Clarence
Coffs Harbour
Coogee
Cronulla
Davidson
Drummoyne
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| style="text-align:left;"| Alex Elliott
| style="text-align:right;"| 3,182
| style="text-align:right;"| 6.8
| style="text-align:right;"| +6.8
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Dubbo
East Hills
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| style="text-align:left;"| Democratic Labor
| style="text-align:left;"| Boutros Zalloua
| style="text-align:right;"| 715
| style="text-align:right;"| 1.7
| style="text-align:right;"| +1.7
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Epping
Fairfield
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| style="text-align:left;"| Social Justice Network
| style="text-align:left;"| Ahmad Al-Yasiry
| style="text-align:right;"| 1,281
| style="text-align:right;"| 2.9
| style="text-align:right;"| +2.9
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| style="text-align:left;"| Communist League
| style="text-align:left;"| Linda Harris
| style="text-align:right;"| 1,074
| style="text-align:right;"| 2.4
| style="text-align:right;"| +2.4
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Gosford
Goulburn
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| style="text-align:left;"| Robert Parker
| style="text-align:right;"| 4,962
| style="text-align:right;"| 10.9
| style="text-align:right;"| +10.9
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Granville
Hawkesbury
Heathcote
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| style="text-align:left;"| Greg Petty
| style="text-align:right;"| 3,471
| style="text-align:right;"| 7.9
| style="text-align:right;"| +7.9
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Heffron
Hornsby
Keira
Kiama
Kogarah
Ku-ring-gai
Lake Macquarie
Lakemba
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| style="text-align:left;"| Omar Quiader
| style="text-align:right;"| 1,133
| style="text-align:right;"| 2.5
| style="text-align:right;"| +2.5
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Lane Cove
Lismore
Liverpool
Londonderry
Macquarie Fields
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie%20Fashion%20Designer | Barbie Fashion Designer is a dress-up computer game developed by Digital Domain and published by Mattel Media for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS in 1996. The game allows players to design clothing and style outfits. Players can then print off their designs and create clothing for their real-world Barbie dolls. Barbie Fashion Designer was the first commercially successful video game made for girls. After its success, many other girl games would be made, leading to the girls' games movement.
Gameplay
Players can design clothing and outfits through selecting different themes, clothing, colors, and patterns from various menus. Once players have designed their outfit, Barbie models their outfit on a 3D runway. The software also came with special paper-backed fabric, markers, and fabric paint so that the designs could be printed off and made into clothes for real-life Barbie dolls. The game complemented the way young girls already liked to play with their Barbie dolls and this has been said to have led to its success.
Release and reception
Barbie Fashion Designer was the ninth best-selling PC game of 1996 in the United States, with 393,575 CD-ROM units sold and $14,044,994 sales revenue. Barbie Fashion Designer went on to sell over 500,000 copies in its first two months of release and over 600,000 within the first year of its release, outselling other popular games at the time such as Quake and Doom. According to PC Data, which tracked computer game sales in the United States, Fashion Designer sold 351,945 units and earned $14 million by the end of 1996. It was the country's sixth-best-selling computer game of that year. Commenting on its performance that year, a writer for Next Generation wrote that "Barbie Fashion Designer has done an excellent job at expanding the market and scored well with the female population." It was also the top-selling SKU for Christmas 1997. According to Joyce Slaton of GameSpot, "Mattel's successful innovation [was] placing Barbie Fashion Designer on toy aisles rather than in the boy-dominated software section in toy stores".
Despite this success, the game has received criticism for using stereotypical feminine themes. Purple Moon founder Brenda Laurel has said the game “…perpetuated a version of femininity that was fundamentally lame”. However, its commercial success made it a catalyst for the girls' games movement and proved there was a market for video games designed for young girls.
Jan Davidson of Davidson & Associates said of the game, "It's interesting how that product sold more in a shorter time than any other product in history, including the best selling games! And it's just a niche for girls (there aren't too many little boys playing with that title, I don't think). So that tells you something. It was an incredible hit from a sales perspective. It also tells us how licensed characters can sell product." In 2023, the game was inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame.
See also
List of Barbie video game |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM%20Transactions%20on%20Applied%20Perception | ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (ACM TAP) is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering interdisciplinary computer science topics relevant to psychology and perception. It was established in 2004 by Erik Reinhard and Heinrich Buelthoff and is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. In 2016, the ACM Publications Board agreed to offer journal publication to the strongest submissions to the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception.
The editor-in-chief is Bobby Bodenheimer (Vanderbilt University). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2020 impact factor of 1.550.
References
External links
Association for Computing Machinery academic journals
Quarterly journals
Academic journals established in 2004
English-language journals
Computer science journals
Perception journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajeev%20Kumar%20Singh%20%28Dataganj%20politician%29 | Rajeev Kumar Singh is an Indian politician and a member of 17th Legislative Assembly, Uttar Pradesh of India. He represents the ‘Dataganj’ constituency in Badaun district of Uttar Pradesh.
Career
Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Rajeev Kumar Singh contested 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election as Bharatiya Janata Party candidate and defeated his close contestant Sinod Kumar Shakya from Bahujan Samaj Party with a margin of 25,759 votes. He was a member of the 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh between 2017 and 2022.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2017–2022
Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2022–2027 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Li | Michael Li (born 1985, Portland, Oregon; Chinese name: Tianhui Li) is an American data scientist, entrepreneur, and the founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Data Incubator, a data science training and placement company.
Early life
Li attended Oregon Episcopal School in Portland, Oregon. In 2001, he was selected to perform with the Oregon Symphony. In 2003, he built a "desktop nuclear fusion reactor" based on work at NASA and won second place and $75,000 at the Intel Science Talent Search
, becoming the youngest person to date to build a "fusor" desktop nuclear fusion reactor and receiving press coverage in The New York Times. As a result of the competition, he has an asteroid (15083 Tianhuili) named after him. He was also a semifinalist at the Siemens Westinghouse Competition, founder of Oregon Episcopal School's science bowl team, and a member of USA Today High School All-America First Team in 2003.
Academic career
Li graduated from Princeton University in 2007 with degrees in mathematics and computer science. In 2006, he was selected as a Marshall Scholar and in 2007, he was selected as both a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and a Hertz Fellow. The Marshall Scholarship program was established in 1953 as a British gesture of gratitude toward the United States for the assistance received after World War II under the Marshall Plan; the Hertz Foundation awards $250,000 fellowships to Ph.D. students in the applied physical, biological and engineering sciences.
Li read Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at Churchill College, Cambridge and completed his PhD at Princeton University. He was one of two former USA Today High School Academic All-America First Team members to be also selected for the USA Today College All-America First Team. He was a fellow of the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program and co-chaired Princeton University's Undergraduate Research Symposium's steering committee.
Li's academy research focused on mathematical finance. He has written a number of papers in the field, including a number coauthored with Robert Almgren on market impact and market microstructure and Patrick Cheridito on risk measures on L^p spaces. He was selected for the prestigious Cornell Tech Runway Program postdoc.
Professional life
After graduating, Li worked at D.E. Shaw, J.P. Morgan, and Bloomberg and became the first data scientist in residence at Andreessen Horowitz. He headed data science monetization at Foursquare. He is a regular contributor to publications like Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Tech Crunch, Venture Beat, Fast Company, Entrepreneur Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal discussing topics around equality in hiring, data analytics, and mathematics education.
In 2013, he founded The Data Incubator, a data science education company. The firm is best known for a free fellowship that helps students with PhDs transition from careers in academia to data science. The program attracts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk%20%28video%20game%29 | Risk is a turn-based strategy video game based on the board game of the same name.
Gameplay
The player can select as many as five computer opponents. The player can play either the British or American version of the game, including the extra armies cards.
Reception
Computer Gaming World stated that while the computer version offered the convenience of an automated opponent for solitary players, the board game would likely be more fun for most because they would not have to crowd around the computer, which could not easily display the entire world at once.
The game was reviewed in 1990 in Dragon #156 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 5 out of 5 stars.
References
External links
Risk at MobyGames
Risk at PFO32
1988 video games
Amiga games
Apple II games
Atari ST games
BlackBerry games
Classic Mac OS games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
IOS games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 4 games
PlayStation Network games
Risk (game)
Sega Genesis games
Video games based on board games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Windows Mobile games
Xbox 360 games
Xbox 360 Live Arcade games
Xbox One games
Zoë Mode games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorry | Gorry is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Charles Gorry (1878–1950), Australian cricketer
G. Anthony Gorry, American computer scientist
Katrina Gorry (born 1992), Australian women's soccer player
Patrick Gorry (1896–1965), Irish politician
See also
Lénaëlle Gilleron-Gorry (born 1995), French figure skater
McGorry
Gorries (disambiguation)
Manx-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southend%20News%20Network | Southend News Network is a news parody website that aims to "have a dig at the powers that be". Starting as a local spoof news site from the UK, it shot to national, and then international, fame after several cases where an SNN story caused confusion by being taken as fact, including by the English Defence League, a far-right network. Another claim to fame was their recognition as an "official media outlet" by local government.
In January 2018, journalist Milo Yiannopoulos read out during a live YouTube broadcast an article from the site prompting questions about his source checking.
See also
List of satirical news websites
References
British satirical websites
Internet properties established in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Baker%20%28journalist%29 | Jennifer Baker is a European journalist based in Brussels specialising in EU policy and legislation in the technology sector. She has written for ArsTechnica, ComputerWeekly, Macworld, PC World and The Register. She has been senior presenter on ViEUws and also features as an EU policy and tech expert on BBC Radio as well as Euronews.
Biography
After graduating from Ulster University in Northern Ireland with a B.A. in Media Studies and a short stint in Dublin as a radio reporter, Baker moved to Malta in 2000, where she worked for The Malta Independent covering the country's EU accession. After six years in Bristol, UK, where she set up and ran Figure8media, she relocated to Brussels where she started working as the EU correspondent for the International Data Group covering policy relating to IT, trade agreements and antitrust cases.
Baker is the creator and presenter of the EU Tweets of the Week programme, a weekly video recap of the European Union Twittersphere, which originally ran on the EU public policy broadcaster platform ViEUws from October 2013 until March 2016. After ViEUws operations had to be reduced due to financial difficulties, Tweets of the Week was cancelled. In 2017 Euractiv revived it, starting in May that same year.
She was named by Onalytica as one of the world's Top 100 Influencers on Data Security 2016.
She is a member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Data Protection and Privacy – an academic publication that aims to be the gold standard in data protection, and is correspondent for the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) publications The Privacy Advisor and the Daily Dashboard.
She was a presenter at the Global Privacy Summit in Washington, D.C. in April 2016 on a panel with Chair of the EU Article 29 Working Party, Isabelle Falque Pierrotin, and US Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman, Edith Ramirez. She regularly speaks at international conferences on the topic of Disinformation, Media and Digital Rights, including CPDP, Fair Trials and the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Disinfo Lab 2019, and The British Legal Technology Forum 2019.
In November 2017, Baker was named by Politico as one of the Top 20 Women Shaping Brussels 2017. She was most recently named by ZN Consulting as the Number One EU Influencer on Tech Policy.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Irish women journalists
Irish journalists
Irish bloggers
Irish women bloggers
21st-century journalists
21st-century women journalists
Journalists from Brussels
Alumni of Ulster University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadium%20%28sports%20network%29 | Stadium is a digital television and internet sports network operated as a multi-platform sports network. Stadium includes a 24/7 linear feed distributed across both digital and broadcast platforms, as well as on-demand (VOD) digital content including additional live games and events. Stadium is a joint venture between Silver Chalice and Sinclair Broadcast Group. The network is headquartered at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois.
The service is distributed as an over-the-top streaming service through Stadium's website and other partners, digital subchannels on broadcast television stations.
History
In March 2017, unconfirmed reports speculated that Sinclair was planning to shutter its sports unit, American Sports Network, and give its remaining sports rights to Campus Insiders. The Charleston Gazette-Mail, however, citing ASN employees, reported that the rumors of a complete shuttering were false, but that the division was planning to re-locate its headquarters, restructure its operations, and achieve "stronger, more diversified distribution." The original rumors were based upon reports of layoffs from ASN's current headquarters in West Palm Beach, Florida, connected to the planned re-location.
On April 13, 2017, Sinclair officially announced that ASN would be re-launched later in the year as part of a joint venture with Campus Insiders owner Silver Chalice (itself owned by the Chicago White Sox), and its online sports video service 120 Sports. The new operation will be operated as linear and digital offerings; the linear service would utilize the syndication and broadcast network built out for ASN, while the digital platform would stream full-time online and through Twitter. 120 Sports would provide original studio and long-form programming to the venture.
On May 1, 2017, it was announced that the new joint venture would be known as Stadium. On June 1, 2017, it was reported that Stadium would officially launch around late-July 2017. The service officially launched on August 21, 2017.
In 2019, with Sinclair's expansions into regional sports networks via acquisitions of Fox Sports Networks, a minority stake in YES Network, and the establishment of Marquee Sports Network with the Chicago Cubs, Sinclair CEO Chris Ripley said of Stadium's role in the expanded sports offerings: "That will be our national play. I don’t see it competing head to head with FS1 or ESPN. It's not there yet with its maturity."
In 2021, Stadium began to synergize with the rebranded Bally Sports, including co-producing an Opening Day launch special for the networks on April 1, and adopting its on-air graphics package for college sports broadcasts beginning in the 2021–22 academic season. The Fox College Sports cable channels were quietly rebranded as Stadium College Sports in June, and in 2022 Stadium began to produce the national studio show The Rally for the Bally Sports channels.
In May 2023, Silver Chalice acquired majority control of Stadium, though Sinclair |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea%20Blostein | Dorothea Blostein ( Haken) is a Canadian computer scientist who works as a professor of computer science at Queen's University. She has published well-cited publications on computer vision, image analysis, and graph rewriting, and is known as one of the authors of the master theorem for divide-and-conquer recurrences. Her research interests also include biomechanics and tensegrity.
Blostein is the daughter of mathematician Wolfgang Haken, and while she was in high school and college she helped check her father's proof of the four color theorem.
She did her undergraduate studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, earning a B.Sc. in 1978, and then received a master's degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 1980. She returned to the University of Illinois for her doctoral studies, completing a Ph.D. in 1987, under the supervision of Narendra Ahuja.
Her husband, Steven D. Blostein, is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Queen's University.
Selected publications
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian computer scientists
Canadian women computer scientists
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Academic staff of Queen's University at Kingston
Grainger College of Engineering alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20B.%20Saxe | James Benjamin Saxe is an American computer scientist who has worked for many years at the DEC Systems Research Center and its successors, the Compaq Systems Research Center and the Systems Research Center of HP Labs.
Saxe is known for his highly-cited publications on
automated theorem proving,
circuit complexity,
retiming in synchronous circuit design,
computer networks,
and static program analysis.
His work on program analysis from PLDI 2002 won the Most Influential PLDI Paper Award for 2012.
In addition, he is one of the authors of the master theorem for divide-and-conquer recurrences.
While a high school student, Saxe won the United States of America Mathematical Olympiad.
In 1974, as a student at Union College, Saxe took part in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition; his place in the top five scores earned him a Putnam Fellowship.
He graduated from Union College in 1976,,
and earned his Ph.D. in 1985 from Carnegie Mellon University, under the supervision of Jon Bentley.
Selected publications
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Union College (New York) alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Putnam Fellows
Scientists from New York (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose%20or%20Lose | "Choose or Lose" is the eighteenth episode of the seventh season of Pretty Little Liars, and the show's 158th episode overall, which premiered on the Freeform network in the United States on June 13, 2017. The episode was directed by Norman Buckley and written by Charlie Craig. In this episode, the Liars finally discover that Aria (Lucy Hale) has been working with 'A.D.' after Mona (Janel Parrish) investigated on Aria. Lieutenant Tanner (Roma Maffia) returns to Rosewood to work on the Dunhill's homicide case, quickly targeting the Liars on her radar. Caleb (Tyler Blackburn) and Hanna (Ashley Benson) secretly marry, while Alison (Sasha Pieterse) and Emily (Shay Mitchell) step forward with their relationship.
Plot
Rosewood P.D. officers confiscate the Liars' personal stuff and cellphones through search warrants. Enraged, Spencer heads to the station to understand what's going on, and discovers that Detective Tanner is now handling the Dunhill case. Tanner expresses her concern about the possibility of the Liars being involved in the case, and indirectly threatens Spencer, saying that she always found them guilty of something, just did not know of what exactly. After her phone was taken, Aria discovers another one hidden inside an air duct that 'A.D.' left to communicate with her. Aria claims to meet 'A.D.' since she is a reliable person, and the tormentor sets a date, as long as Aria wears her uniform. In a room of The Radley, given by Hanna's mother, the Liars and Caleb get together to discuss the Dunhill's murder when the board game begins a new round: "Choose or Lose". The Liars have to choose one of them to go to jail accused of the murder or all of them go. Mona arrives shortly thereafter and warns the girls that she thinks Aria is on the 'A.D.' team. The girls initially don't believe, but Mona exhibits evidence and a recording of Aria and 'A.D.', leaving them in panic. Detective Tanner finds pieces of a windshield in the drain of Spencer's bathroom with traces of blood.
At night, Aria goes to the meeting place which 'A.D.' has set on. However, the tormentor doesn't show up and Aria is caught by the Liars, who are devastated when Aria says that she needed to protect Ezra, so she joined 'A.D.' Aria explains that, six years earlier, after Ezra revealed to be writing a book about Alison, she filed a complaint against Ezra, but never reported it, and somehow 'A.D.' had access to it, threatening her right after. Tanner calls Alison asking for their presence at the station, and the girls leave Aria alone in the woods. At the police station, Tanner gives the girls a chance to tell their side of the story, but Spencer denies the opportunity. Again, the girls leave Aria alone, punishing her for destroying Alison and Emily's nursery and for tearing Spencer's family apart.
The next morning, Spencer goes to Ezra's apartment to talk to Aria, giving her a photo of them as teens, before Alison's disappearance. They try to reconcile, but Tanner and her co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narendra%20Ahuja | Narendra Ahuja is an Indian-American computer scientist and the Donald Biggar Willett Professor Emeritus in Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. His research primarily concerns computer vision and pattern recognition.
Education and career
Ahuja earned a bachelor's degree in 1972 from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India. He earned a master's degree in 1974 from the Indian Institute of Science, and completed a Ph.D. in computer science in 1979 from the University of Maryland, College Park, advised by Azriel Rosenfeld. In addition to his work at the University of Illinois, he was founding director of the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad from 1999 to 2002.
Awards and honors
Ahuja was the 1998 recipient of the SPIE Technology Achievement Award, and the 1999 recipient of the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award "for contributions to computer vision and image processing".
The professional societies in which he is a fellow include the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Association for Computing Machinery, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, International Association for Pattern Recognition, and International Society for Optical Engineering.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Computer engineers
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani alumni
Indian Institute of Science alumni
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the International Association for Pattern Recognition
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hona%20Baghdad%20Satellite%20Channel | Hona Baghdad Satellite Channel () is an Iraq-based satellite television channel broadcasting from Baghdad where its headquarters is located. Hona Baghdad programming includes: news programs, drama and comedy shows. Hona Baghdad gained popularity after air airing their political satire comedy show "Wilayat Batikh".
Availability
The channel is available for its Arab audience throughout the world via satellite. Online streaming is available through its website.
References
External links
Official Website
Television networks in Iraq |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%20bite | Cat bites are bites inflicted upon humans, other cats, and other animals by the domestic cat (). Data from the United States show that cat bites represent between 5–15% of all animal bites inflicted to humans, but it has been argued that this figure could be the consequence of under-reporting as bites made by Felis catus are considered by some to be unimportant. Though uncommon, cat bites can sometimes cause Rabies lead to complications and, very rarely, death.
Signs and symptoms
Cat bites are usually considered minor injuries but can result in serious infection and cause rabies if inflicted by a rabid cat. Common symptoms include pain and swelling around the affected area. Sometimes, direct tissue damage from the cat bite can impair mobility or cause tenosynovitis or arthritis. In these cases, surgical consultation is needed to assess severity. Some unusual complications, like deep-vein thrombosis, subcutaneous emphysema and fetal tachycardia have been described. Some of the infections acquired from a cat bite can be acquired otherwise, like plague.
Infections
The resident flora in the mouth of the domestic cat includes Pasteurella, Staph, Bartonella, Globicatella and Streptococcus species. Bites from cats develop infections more frequently than bites from dogs. The teeth of a cat are sharp, pointed and can cause deep wounds. After a cat bite, the skin usually closes rapidly over the bite and may trap microorganisms.
The bite from a cat can infect a person with:
Cat-scratch disease, caused by the bacterium Bartonella henselae
Cat-scratch disease is a bacterial disease that people may get after being bitten or scratched by a cat. About 40% of cats carry the bacteria at some time in their mouths, although kittens younger than one year of age are more likely to have it. Most cats with this infection show no signs of illness.
Hookworm, Ancylostoma tubaeforme, Ancylostoma braziliense, and Uncinaria stenocephala
Capnocytophaga canimorsus
Pasteurellosis caused by the bacterial genus Pasteurella
Pasteurellosis is a bacterial disease associated with animal bites and scratches. Pasteurella spp is a normal bacterium that also lives in the mouths of healthy cats. The bacteria do not typically make cats sick; however, cats can develop abscesses or skin infections in places where they were scratched or bitten by another animal.
In people, pasteurellosis causes painful wound and skin infections. In severe cases, it can cause widespread infection and might even affect the nervous system.
Rabies, a fatal neurologic disease in animals and people, is caused by a virus. Animals and people are most commonly infected through bites from rabid animals. Infected cats may have a variety of signs, but most often have sudden behavioral changes and progressive paralysis.
Diagnosis
The diagnosis is aided by obtaining a history of the circumstances surrounding the bite. The time the bite was experienced, the location of the bite, and examination of the bite is note |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20blending | Data blending is a process whereby big data from multiple sources are merged into a single data warehouse or data set.
Data blending allows business analysts to cope with the expansion of data that they need to make critical business decisions based on good quality business intelligence. Data blending has been described as different from data integration due to the requirements of data analysts to merge sources very quickly, too quickly for any practical intervention by data scientists.
Software products
Representing the increased demand for analysts to combine data sources, multiple software companies have seen large growth and raised millions of dollars, with some early entrants into the market now public companies. Examples include AWS, Alteryx, Microsoft Power Query, and Incorta, which enable combining data from many different data sources, for example, text files, databases, XML, JSON, and many other forms of structured and semi-structured data.
Extract, transform, load
Data blending is similar to extract, transform, load (ETL). Both ETL and data blending take data from various sources and combine them. However, ETL is used to merge and structure data into a target database, often a data warehouse. Data blending differs slightly as it's about joining data for a specific use case at a specific time. With some software, data isn't written into a database, which is very different to ETL. For example, with Google Data Studio.
Data blending in tableau
In tableau software, data blending is a technique to combine data from multiple data sources in the data visualization. A key differentiator is the granularity of the data join. When blending data into a single data set, this would use a SQL database join, which would usually join at the most granular level, using an ID field where possible. A data blend in tableau should happen at the least granular level.
Data blending in Google Data Studio
In Google Data Studio, data sources are combined by joining the records of one data source with the records of up to 4 other data sources.
Similar to Tableau, the data blend only happens on the reporting layer. The blended data is never stored as a separate combined data source.
Challenges with data blending
The most common custom metadata question is: "How can this dataset blend with (join or union to) my other datasets?" A 2015 Forrester Consulting study found that 52 percent of companies are blending 50 or more data sources and 12 percent are blending over 1,000 sources.
See also
Data preparation
Data fusion
Data wrangling
Data cleansing
Data editing
Data scraping
Data curation
Data pre-processing
References
Data management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20Database%20Service | The Chemical Database Service is an EPSRC-funded mid-range facility that provides UK academic institutions with access to a number of chemical databases. It has been hosted by the Royal Society of Chemistry since 2013, before which it was hosted by Daresbury Laboratory (part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council).
Currently, the included databases are:
ACD/I-Lab, a tool for prediction of physicochemical properties and NMR spectra from a chemical structure
Available Chemicals Directory, a structure-searchable database of commercially available chemicals
Cambridge Structural Database (CSD), a crystallographic database of organic and organometallic structures
Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD), a crystallographic database of inorganic structures
CrystalWorks, a database combining data from CSD, ICSD and CrystMet
DETHERM, a database of thermophysical data for chemical compounds and mixtures
SPRESIweb, a database of organic compounds and reactions
References
Chemical databases
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom
Royal Society of Chemistry
Science and technology in Cheshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rao%20Rao%20Mosque | Rao Rao Mosque is one of the oldest mosques in Indonesia located in Nagari Rao Rao, Tarab River, Tanah Datar Regency, West Sumatra. It is located on the road from Batusangkar bound to Bukittinggi, precisely in Rao Rao. This mosque of Minangkabau and Persian architecture was built in 1908 with a roof made from fibers before being changed to zinc.
Since its foundation, the mosque has suffered significant damage due to earthquakes, as in 1926 and 2009. But since its construction, the mosque has never been massively restored. The renovations that have been made are only repair of tilting of the minaret in 1975 and the replacement of all the old ceramics with the new one around the 1990s.
Currently, apart from being used for Islamic worship activities, this one-floor mosque is also used as a place of religious education. Previously, the mosque was also used as a strategy center during the Indonesian War of Independence against the Dutch colonial rule.
History
The mosque was built in 1908, as a replacement of the Atap Ijuk Mosque in Rao Rao which was demolished due to the unfeasible condition of the building. Thereafter, on the land of waqf (endowment) by H. Mohammad Thaib Caniago, the mosque was built jointly by Nagari Rao Rao community on the initiative of Abdurrachman Datuk Majo Indo. Construction was completed by the end of 1918.
Architecture
Architectural style of the mosque is a blend of various elements, mostly Minangkabau and Persian. Resembling to other Minangkabau mosques, roof of the mosque consists of four layers that are slightly curved, and there is a square room with four rooftops gilded toward the four corners of the wind at the top level of the roof, while there is a large space with the domes in the minaret.
Inside the prayer hall, four main pillars made of concrete stand. There is a newer section of the mosque which was built in the 1930s, decorated with ornaments of broken glass. The minbar has an area of 3 × 1.38 meters.
In the 100th anniversary of the Rao Rao Mosque in October 2008, Shodiq Pasadigoe, the regent of Tanah Datar at that time, said there were two other mosques throughout West Sumatra that resembled this mosque because it was asked to be built similarly, namely the Mosque of Saadah which is also located in Tarab River, Tanah Datar Regency and Koto Baru Grand Mosque in Pagu River, South Solok Regency.
Related building
There is a two-story building measuring 7 x 10 m standing to the left of the mosque. The building called "Markaz" was completed in 2001. Meanwhile there is a building used as a religious school to the right of the mosque as well, which had changed its name to "Darul Huda" since 1982 (formerly Madrasah Islamiyah).
See also
Koto Baru Grand Mosque
List of oldest mosques in Indonesia
Vernacular mosque architecture in Indonesia
References
Footnotes
Bibliography
External links
Masjid Raya Rao Rao Official website of Rao Rao Mosque
Cultural Properties of Indonesia in West Sumatra
Mosque |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20To%20Do | Microsoft To Do (previously styled as Microsoft To-Do) is a cloud-based task management application. It allows users to manage their tasks from a smartphone, tablet and computer. The technology is produced by the team behind Wunderlist, which was acquired by Microsoft, and the stand-alone apps feed into the existing Tasks feature of the Outlook product range.
History
Microsoft To Do was first launched as a preview with basic features in April 2017. Later more features were added including Task list sharing in June 2018.
In September 2019, a major update to the app was unveiled, adopting a new user interface with a closer resemblance to Wunderlist. The name was also slightly updated by removing the hyphen from To-Do.
In May 2020, Microsoft officially closed the doors on Wunderlist, ending its active service in favor of improving and expanding Microsoft To Do.
See also
Wunderlist
References
External links
Microsoft cloud services
To Do
Task management software
To Do
IOS software
Android (operating system) software
MacOS software
Productivity software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B3%20Risos%20%28TV%20program%29 | Só Risos it is a Brazilian television program that the program had its exhibition in 2017 by Rede Bandeirantes.
References
Rede Bandeirantes original programming
2017 Brazilian television series debuts
2010s Brazilian television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett%20T.%20Williams | Brett T. Williams is a retired United States Air Force major general who served as director of operations for U.S. Cyber Command from July 2012 to June 2014. He retired from the Air Force on June 1, 2014.
Background
Williams earned his commission as a distinguished graduate of the ROTC program at Duke University. He is a graduate of Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot training and the USAF Fighter Weapons Instructor Course.
During his Air Force career, Williams served in four senior leadership positions: As the director of operations (J3) at U.S. Cyber Command, he led a team of 400 people responsible for offensive global operations and defense of all DOD networks; as the director of operations (A3O), he led the service's largest staff directorate, comprising more than 1300 Airmen and civilians stationed worldwide; as the director of communications (J6) for U.S. Pacific Command, his 150-person directorate executed an annual budget of $57 million and was responsible for command and control networks supporting DOD's largest geographic warfighting command; and finally, as the inspector general for Air Combat Command, he was responsible for oversight of all U.S.-based combat flying organizations.
Operationally, Williams led a variety of complex entities ranging in size from 300 to more than 9000 personnel. His most significant leadership position was as commander of the 18th Wing in Okinawa, Japan, the largest combat wing in the Air Force. Williams was responsible for relationships with Japanese political and business leaders in a highly volatile community environment. He executed an annual budget in excess of $100 million in support of more than 25,000 U.S. service members, their families and Japanese employees. Williams is an F-15C fighter pilot with 28 years of flying experience, including more than 100 combat missions. In 2009, he was presented with the General and Mrs. Jerome F. O'Malley Award.
He is a command pilot with more than 3,700 hours in the F-15C and more than 100 combat missions in operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Southern Watch, Northern Watch, and Iraqi Freedom.
Current activities
Williams is a founder of IronNet Cybersecurity, Inc., and is president of its operations, training and security division. As a leading expert on cybersecurity, Williams has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press with Chuck Todd, ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos and MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell.
He conducts cyber-risk training seminars as a faculty member of the National Association of Corporate Directors, and is chairman of the advisory board for the Duke University School of Nursing. He serves on a board for Ciena Government Solutions Inc., and serves on the board of advisors for TRI-COR Industries, an IT services firm.
Education
Assignments
Flight information
Rating: Command pilot
Flight hours: More than 3,700
Aircraft flown: F-15C
Publications
"Effects-Based Operations: Theory, Application and the Role of Airpower," |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad%20Pro%20%281st%20generation%29 | The first generation of iPad Pro is a line of iPad tablet computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc, first sold in 2015 at a screen size of 12.9 inches. A smaller model, based on the form factor of the iPad Air 2, with a 9.7 inch screen, was announced on March 21, 2016, and released on March 31, 2016, alongside the first-generation iPhone SE.
The 12.9 inch model was announced alongside the Apple Pencil, and both models were the first iPads to use the Pencil as an input device. The 12.9 inch iPad Pro is larger than all previous iPad models and was the first iPad to feature LPDDR4 RAM.
Features
The 12.9-inch version of the iPad Pro was announced during an Apple Special Event on September 9, 2015. It was released on November 11, 2015, with silver, gold, and space gray color options. Prices ranged from US$799 to $1,229, based on storage size and cellular connectivity. On March 21, 2016, the 9.7-inch version of the iPad Pro was announced at an Apple keynote with an additional rose gold color option. The 9.7-inch version also introduced the ability to choose the base 32 GB model with a Cellular + WiFi option. Previously, Cellular + WiFi option was only available on 128 GB iPad Pro models. The 9.7-inch model is priced from $599 to $1,129 depending on the configuration. It was released on March 31, 2016.
The 9.7-inch iPad Pro has a faster CPU and a better camera than the iPad Air 2. It is the first iPad to feature True Tone Flash and Retina Flash, and its 256 GB storage option was the highest for an iPad at the time. Its True Tone display allows the LCD to adapt its color and intensity to ambient lighting.
Both iPad Pro models include the A9X chip and the Apple M9 motion co-processor. The 9.7-inch model, however, has a slightly underclocked CPU (2.16 GHz compared to 2.26 GHz on the 12.9-inch model) and only 2 GB of RAM. Several features are carried over from the standard iPad, such as Touch ID and the Retina Display. New features include a smart connector for a keyboard and four stereo speakers located in pairs on top and bottom of the device. The 12.9-inch model has a 2732-by-2048 display and the 9.7-inch model has a 2048-by-1536 display. Both displays have a resolution of 264 pixels per inch and feature a variable refresh rate, a first for Apple. The 12.9-inch version is also the first iOS device to include more than 2 GB of RAM.
A customized 12.9 inch iPad Pro was also designed by Jony Ive and submitted to Phillips' Time for Design auction. The special edition iPad Pro has an "Edition 1 of 1" label engraved on its back and comes with a custom yellow-gold anodized finish, a blue leather Smart Cover and an orange leather Apple Pencil case cover, all of which are not sold by Apple elsewhere. The special edition sold for £50,000.
Software
Both iPad Pro (1st generation) models supported iOS 9, 10, 11, 12, iPadOS 13, 14, 15, and 16, and will not be supporting iPadOS 17 due to hardware limitations.
Reception
Scott Stein from CNET pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad%20Pro%20%282nd%20generation%29 | The second generation of iPad Pro is a line of iPad tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. The iPads, with 12.9 inch and 10.5 inch screens, were both announced on June 5, 2017. Both models are compatible with the first generation of Apple Pencil. Like the first generation, a larger size and stylus compatibility were a point of difference from the rest of Apple's available iPads.
Upgrades from the first-generation iPad Pro include the more powerful A10X Fusion processor, storage capacity up to 512 GB and the larger display of the 10.5 inch model (upgraded from a 9.7 inch model) while the 12.9 inch model was refreshed. Following the 2017 announcement, the first-generation models were discontinued.
The 12.9 inch version was discontinued on October 30, 2018 after the announcement of the 3rd-generation iPad Pro. However, the 10.5 inch version continued in production along with the 11 inch version until March 18, 2019 when the iPad Air (3rd generation) was announced.
Features
The second-generation iPad Pro was announced on June 5, 2017, alongside iOS 11 at WWDC 2017. The two models, the 10.5-inch and 12.9-inch, have a upgraded A10X SoC which features a 6-core CPU with a 12-core GPU, Apple's ProMotion display technology which supports HDR10 and Dolby Vision content (with iOS 11 or later) with a 120 Hz refresh rate and their True Tone display is 50 percent brighter than the earlier models; both sizes also have a 12-megapixel rear-facing camera with quad-LED True-Tone flash and a 7-megapixel front-facing camera with Retina Flash. They have USB 3.0 connection speeds using Lightning cables, with USB-C fast-charge support. The second-generation iPad Pro has storage capacities up to 512 GB. The second-generation iPad Pro is the final model to include a home button with Touch ID, with the third-generation model replacing it with gestures for navigation and Face ID replacing Touch ID for authentication purposes.
Reception
Max Parker from TrustedReviews and Gareth Beavis from TechRadar both praised the 10.5-inch model's high-quality audio and performance, but did note that it was expensive.
Reviewing the 12.9 inch second-generation iPad Pro, Lauren Goode of The Verge complimented the high quality camera, A10X processor and large screen size, but argued that the device could have been cheaper.
Hardware issues
Reports indicate that the display of the 12.9 inch second-generation iPad Pro has a high propensity of experiencing a "backlight bleed" failure, manifested as brighter halos of light bleeding through one edge of the screen.
The 2nd generation iPad Pro and The 3rd generation iPad Air models can develop a glowing white spot on the display which is located above the home button. This is a problem caused by the display cable underneath pushing against the back of the display, creating a pressure point.
Timeline
See also
Pen computing
Graphics tablet
References
External links
Pro
iPad Pro
Tablet computers
Touchscreen portab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KidsClick | KidsClick is a former daily children's programming block distributed by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which premiered on July 1, 2017. The block, which primarily consisted of long-form animated series as well as some short-form content, was carried in the U.S. on terrestrial television network TBD, and on Sinclair-owned/operated television stations in several markets. At launch, the block was available in 75 million households. The block marked the return of traditional weekday cartoons and Saturday morning cartoons to terrestrial television, as well as the first children's programming block on U.S. free-to-air television not to comply with Children's Television Act regulations since the Saban Brands-produced Vortexx was discontinued on September 27, 2014.
The This TV iteration of the block accompanied an existing, unbranded lineup of educational programming on weekend mornings, which had aired on the network since November 1, 2013, after the discontinuation of Cookie Jar Toons (which coincided with original co-owner Weigel Broadcasting transferring its 50% interest in the network to Tribune Broadcasting, as well as the Cookie Jar Group's absorption into DHX Media [now WildBrain]); it also marked the first time that This TV had carried children's programming on Monday through Saturday mornings since Tribune (whom Sinclair later attempted and failed to acquire) assumed partial ownership of the network. On July 1, 2018, This TV discontinued carriage of KidsClick, which was transferred to Sinclair's TBD channel, which had been carrying the block on a transitional basis since May 7 of that year.
On March 29, 2019, shortly after closing sister site Circa News, KidsClick's Facebook page announced the block's discontinuation on March 31, 2019.
History
On May 2, 2017, Sinclair Broadcast Group announced that it would launch a multiplatform children's programming block on linear television and online platforms. The company partnered with MGM Domestic Television Distribution to develop and distribute KidsClick, a joint venture between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Toon Goggles, which it planned to air nationally on This TV and select network affiliates (particularly those aligned with The CW, and the MyNetworkTV programming service, as well as some Fox-affiliated stations that do not carry local morning newscasts in the block's designated timeslots) and independent stations owned and/or operated by Sinclair on July 1, 2017. Its content encompasses short- and long-form material and is distributed online, through internet browsers and mobile apps in video-on-demand and live streaming formats. The network's distribution and website utilized Imagine Communications' cloud technology from Sinclair's Las Vegas studios for their market triopoly.
Sinclair returned to the children's television market with KidsClick several years after the demise of The Program Exchange (a barter syndicator of programming which ended up as the last company providing non-educational chi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dani%C3%A8le%20H%C3%A9rin | Danièle Hérin (born 14 January 1947) is a French computer scientist and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing Aude's 1st constituency.
Political career
After entering parliament, Hérin was one of the four deputy chairpersons of the LREM parliamentary group under the leadership of successive chairmen Richard Ferrand (2017-2018) and Gilles Le Gendre (since 2018). She also serves as member of the Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education. In addition to her committee assignments, she is part of the French-Estonian Parliamentary Friendship Group.
She lost her seat in the first round of the 2022 French legislative election.
Political positions
In July 2019, Hérin voted in favor of the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.
References
1947 births
Living people
People from Carcassonne
Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Women members of the National Assembly (France)
Renaissance (French political party) politicians
21st-century French women politicians
Chevaliers of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arction%20Ltd | Arction Ltd is a software company founded in Kuopio, Finland in 2007, which specialises in the development of software components for data visualization. Arction provides resolutions to companies including Intel, Toyota and Samsung, as well as to governmental organizations.
Arction also offers radial gauges for WPF and Silverlight.
References
Finnish companies established in 2007
Software companies of Finland
Software companies established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20phone%20based%20sensing%20software | Mobile phone–based sensing software is a class of software for mobile phones that uses the phone's sensors to acquire data about the user. Some applications of this software include mental health and overall wellness monitoring. This class of software is important because it has the potential of providing a practical and low-cost approach to deliver psychological interventions for the prevention of mental health disorders, as well as bringing such interventions to populations that have no access to traditional health care. A number of terms are used for this approach, including "personal sensing", "digital phenotyping", and "context sensing". The term "personal sensing" is used in this article, as it conveys in simple language the aim of sensing personal behaviors, states, and conditions.
General information
This article presents a comparison of mobile phone software that can acquire users' sensor data (in a passive manner without users' explicit intervention) and administer questionnaires (or micro-surveys triggered by sensor events). The software described below helps quantify behaviors known to be related to mental health and wellness. The list below includes both commercial and free software. To be included in this list, a software product must be able to acquire data from at least one phone sensor, and provide a minimum level of security for storage and transmission of acquired data. This list excludes software that focuses solely on collecting participant data from surveys and questionnaires.
Software table
The following table contains general information about each mobile-based sensing software, such as who the developers are, when it was last updated, whether it is open or closed source, and the programming language and database they are based on.
Target audience
The following table shows the target audience for each piece of software included in this article. Software packages that target developers assume a high level of skill in creating code and/or modifying third-party source code. Software packages that target researchers have at least one component that can be used in scientific studies with human subjects. Software packages that target individuals allow at least one component to be downloaded and installed by an end-user with no programming skills. Please note that some packages target more than one type of user.
Mobile OS support
The following table shows the type of mobile phone on which each software package can be deployed.
Installation
In addition to deploying mobile-based sensing software to smart phones, a control dashboard has to be either installed on a local computer or provided through the web. Some of the packages provide a web server so that one is able to have a remote dashboard. The table below shows the server platform and/or web server required for each piece of software.
Sensor (and other) data that can be captured (part 1)
The following table shows the types of mobile sensors from which each software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim%20Welfare%20House | The Muslim Welfare House is the headquarters of a network of Muslim community centres, located at Seven Sisters Road in London, in the United Kingdom. The charity earned £856,000 in 2016, and has 13 employees, as of June 2017.
References
External links
— Official website
Islam in London
Organisations based in London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamik%20Sungai%20Jambu%20Mosque | Jamik Sungai Jambu Mosque is one of the oldest mosques in Indonesia located in Jorong Sungai River, Sungai Jambu Nagari, Pariangan District, Tanah Datar Regency, West Sumatra. The mosque was built in 1918 at the foot of Mount Marapi, and during its development it has experienced a number of improvements both in terms of outlook and management. The mosque had ranked first for several times including in 2012, in the assessment of environmentally-oriented mosques for the provincial level which is conducted by the Indonesian Mosque Council.
Currently, other than being used for Islamic worshiping activities, the mosque is also used as a place for religious education for the surrounding community. In addition, a number of religious activities and social activities are also regularly held in this mosque.
History
The mosque is located in Sungai Jambu Nagari, Pariangan District, Tanah Datar Regency, which is mentioned in as one of the oldest nagaris in Minangkabau. The construction of the mosque began in 1918. With the flow of funds from both overseas and local population, structure of the building was finally made permanently stable and safe in 1988. The next development of the mosque had been fixing of the management system and activities it holds, in order to turn the mosque into the center of social activities among the local community.
The rise of community-based social activities centered in the mosque has made the Ministry of Religious Affairs selecting the mosque as the best mosque for the province for several times. At the national level, the mosque is also a candidate of the Environmental Plenary Observatory.
Activity
In addition to its main function as a place for worship, various religious activities and social activities are also regularly organized in this mosque. Religious activities that have begun include a program called Pondok Al-Qur'an, which is aimed at deepening of the ability to memorize Quran which is held by imams. In addition, there are also Arabic and English learning courses.
The mosque which has a building area of 600 square meters also has a library with a collection of hundreds of titles. In addition to the field of education for both public and religious purposes, the mosque also plays a role in the field of health services. Routinely, the mosque held an activity called Balai Kesehatan Masjid, which is a medical checkup conducted every Sunday without collecting fees with doctors invited from nearby puskesmas (community health centers). On the other hand, in order to sustain the economy of the community, the mosque also supports business in the form of cooperation. The mosque is also managing the funds which is collected as zakat for providing compensations for orphans around the mosque.
References
Footnotes
Bibliography
Cultural Properties of Indonesia in West Sumatra
Mosques completed in 1918
Mosques in West Sumatra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegas%20Stats%20%26%20Information%20Network | Vegas Stats & Information Network (VSiN) is an American sports betting radio network and streaming television channel. Founded in 2017 by the family of sportscaster Brent Musburger, VSIN broadcasts from their studios at the Circa Resort & Casino Sportsbook studios and BarCanada at The D Las Vegas on Fremont Street in Las Vegas, Nevada.
VSiN programming is carried via its own website, as well as other over-the-top services. VSiN also syndicates its programming via local regional sports networks and radio stations, and is also available through Dish Network, packaged specifically with the channel suite of Racetrack Television Network.
History
VSiN was launched in February 2017 by talent agent Brian Musburger, attorney Todd Musburger and documentary film producer Dave Berg. Broadcaster Brent Musburger joined VSiN as lead on-air personality after his January 2017 departure from ESPN. VSiN launched on February 5, 2017, with its first day of programming focusing on coverage of that day's Super Bowl LI. VSiN opened a studio in the middle of the South Point Casino, with glass walls to be visible to fans on the floor.
Former Chicago Tribune Media executive Bill Adee was hired in March 2017 to be chief operating officer, followed by Fox Sports media executive Rick Jaffe, who was hired in May 2017, to be executive producer.
In March 2019, VSiN partnered with Anthem Sports & Entertainment to syndicate programming on its Canadian cable network Game+, including A Numbers Game on weekday mornings, and a weekly highlights program.
In February 2020, VSiN partnered with iHeartRadio to produce gambling-centric online broadcasts of XFL games. VSiN added a second main studio in October 2020 at the newly-opened Circa, with its construction occurring in parallel with the construction of the remainder of the building.
VSiN was carried on SiriusXM until December 31, 2020, with SportsGrid Radio replacing it in its channel allotment on January 7, 2021.
In March 2021, the Musburger family sold VSiN to DraftKings, with the Musburgers staying on in executive roles.
On September 1, 2023, VSiN announced that it would be moving out of the South Point casino and into a studio adjacent to BarCanada and the sports book at The D Las Vegas, which like Circa is owned by Derek Stevens and his family.
Personalities
Brent Musburger serves as a lead on-air personality and host for its weekday program My Guys in the Desert, a reference to Musburger's long-time sly references to Nevada bookmakers during game broadcasts as his "friends in the desert".
Alongside Musburger, other on-air hosts employed by VSiN include Mitch Moss, Pauly Howard, Gill Alexander, Ron Flatter, Matt Youmans, Michael Lombardi, Jonathan Von Tobel, Tim Murray, Shaun King, Amal Shah, Patrick Meagher and Jeff Parles. VSiN also employs oddsmakers Jimmy Vaccaro, Vinny Magliulo and Chris Andrews to appear on its broadcasts.
Affiliates
References
External links
Internet properties established in 2017
Gambling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20TCA%20Awards%20received%20by%20Netflix | Netflix is an American on-demand internet streaming media provider. Netflix and its programming have been nominated for multiple Television Critics Association Awards, listed below.
Programs
Program of the Year
Outstanding New Program
Achievement in Drama
Achievement in Comedy
Achievement in Movies, Miniseries, and Specials
Achievement in Reality Programming
Achievement in News and Information
Achievement in Sketch/Variety Shows
Achievement in Youth Programming
Individual Achievement
Achievement in Drama
Achievement in Comedy
See also
Main
List of accolades received by Netflix
Others
List of BAFTA Awards received by Netflix
List of Golden Globe Awards received by Netflix
List of Critics' Choice Awards received by Netflix
List of Daytime Emmy Awards received by Netflix
List of Primetime Emmy Awards received by Netflix
List of Screen Actors Guild Awards received by Netflix
List of Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards received by Netflix
References
Lists of accolades received by Netflix
TCA Awards ceremonies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20Samsung%20Galaxy%20S%20smartphones | The following is a comparative list of smartphones belonging to smartphones in the Samsung Galaxy S series line of devices, using the Android operating system. This table is primarily intended to show the differences between the model families of phones in the Galaxy S series. The list only covers unlocked and international devices.
Galaxy S
Galaxy S2
Galaxy S3
Galaxy S4
Galaxy S5
Galaxy S6
Galaxy S7
Galaxy S8
Galaxy S9
Galaxy S10
Galaxy S20
Galaxy S21
Galaxy S22
Galaxy S23
References for comparison table
See also
Comparison of Samsung Galaxy Note smartphones
Comparison of smartphones
References
Galaxy S Series
Galaxy S Series
Android (operating system) devices
Samsung Galaxy S
Samsung Galaxy S smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan%20McDaniels | Brendan McDaniels is an American sports announcer currently working for the ESPN family of networks. He has done games nationally on ESPNU, ESPN+, ESPN3, American Sports Network, and Fox College Sports.
McDaniels serves as a play-by-play announcer for Atlantic 10 men's basketball on ESPN+ and the color analyst for Rochester Knighthawks lacrosse on the National Lacrosse League's new partnership with Bleacher Report.
McDaniels also does play-by-play for college football, basketball, lacrosse, volleyball, and wrestling most notably for ESPN+ and ESPN3 as well as many Regional Sports Networks including Comcast SportsNet, NESN, and Spectrum Sports. He also spent three years (2014–17) as the host of Orange Overtime, the TV post game show for Syracuse University football and basketball, on Spectrum Sports throughout the state of New York. He and Syracuse basketball legend Roosevelt Bouie hosted Orange Overtime live from the Carrier Dome in both 2014-15 and 2015–16. He also served as the play-by-play announcer for the Syracuse spring football game in 2016.
As the former head women's lacrosse coach at Roberts Welseyan College (NCAA Division II) in Rochester, NY. For lacrosse, he has been seen on ESPN2, ESPN3, ESPNU, ESPN Regional, CBS Sports Network, Fox College Sports, Fox Sports Net, American Sports Network, SNY, MSG, Time Warner Cable Sports Channel, Comcast SportsNet, ROOT Sports, and Altitude.
In 2017, he served as an analyst for MAAC men's lacrosse on ESPNU and on American Sports Network covering the Patriot League and Colonial Athletic Association. In 2018, he also began his 7th season as a color analyst on the regional broadcasts of Major League Lacrosse which are seen on Lax Sports Net, ESPN+, the Watch ESPN app, and syndicated markets throughout the country. In 2015, McDaniels was on the Fox College Sports covering the Ivy League. McDaniels did play-by-play and color commentary for 15 years (2002–17) on Time Warner Cable Sports Channel's regional college lacrosse package covering the ACC, Big East, MAAC, and NEC.
A graduate of St. Bonaventure University, he is a member of the student-run college radio station, WSBU-FM Hall of Fame. He is originally from Syracuse, NY and attended Bishop Grimes High School.
References
American sports announcers
Living people
ESPN announcers
St. Bonaventure University alumni
Major League Lacrosse announcers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off%20Colors | "Off Colors" is the third episode of the fifth season of the American animated television series Steven Universe, which premiered on May 29, 2017 on Cartoon Network. It was written and storyboarded by Lamar Abrams and Jeff Liu. The episode was viewed by 1.524 million viewers.
A direct continuation of the previous episode "The Trial", "Off Colors" depicts Steven and Lars, fleeing from the Diamonds, as they encounter a group of Gems known as the "Off-Colors", who are rejected by other Gems and live in hiding.
Plot
Continuing immediately after "The Trial", Steven Universe (Zach Callison) and Lars Barriga (Matthew Moy) escape the Diamonds via the abandoned lower area of Homeworld. They are spotted by Shattering Robonoids, Gem-hunting robots that attack them. A Gem called the Rutile Twins (Ashly Burch), who has two conjoined bodies from the waist up, helps save them. The Twins lead Steven and Lars to what they describe as a place "where those who don't belong... belong". They are led to an enormous abandoned Kindergarten where the Rutile Twins call out the other Gems in hiding: a fusion named Rhodonite (Enuka Okuma), who is fearful that they have been followed; an orange Sapphire called Padparadscha (Erica Luttrell), who can only predict the "future" after it has already occurred; and a large fusion called Fluorite (Kathy Fisher). These Gems are dubbed "Off-Colors" for their differences, unusual formation, or aberrant behavior, which are seen as defective by Gem Homeworld standards; if caught, they would be shattered.
Three Robonoids appear as everyone scrambles to hide. Since Lars is not a Gem, the Robonoids can't detect him, and he risks himself to protect the others, throwing rocks at the Robonoids and blocking their scanners with his body. Steven destroys two of the Robonoids by reflecting their beams with his shield, and Lars jumps onto the third, hitting it with a broken stalactite. Lars thrusts the stalactite into the Robonoid, causing it to explode. The explosion results in Lars' body being flung against a rock column, killing him.
Devastated, Steven tearfully cradles Lars' body to his chest, his tears falling onto Lars' face. As Steven's tears are absorbed into his skin, Lars' body starts to glow bright pink. As the glowing fades, Lars comes back to life, now with a scar through one eye, as well as pink skin and hair.
Production
This episode was written and storyboarded by Lamar Abrams and Jeff Liu. The episode was directed by Sang-Un Jeon and Seung Wook Shin (animation directors), Liz Artinian (art director), Joe Johnston (supervising director), and Nick DeMayo (animation director).
The death, and revival, of Lars had been a planned story element from the very beginning of the series; creator Rebecca Sugar had conceived of the character before the show itself, and this development had been considered to appear as early as the show's second episode. However, justifying it within the story required pushing its arrival further forward ove |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirelesspt | Wirelesspt is a non-commercial open grassroots initiative to support free computer networks that is not dependent of central infrastructure, corporation or entity which is done by the ordinary citizen provide free, open and democratic access to the highways of information technologies helping people and organizations implementing wireless networks that will benefit their communities.
The project also invests in investigating free, open source, digital, information and telecommunication technologies as well as to promote, educate and supply technological information to teach and educate its surrounding social environment about the importance of online privacy and security.
WirelessPT is also part of an international movement for wireless community networks in Europe. The Project counts with local communities and was started in the community of Moitas Venda in Portugal.
Goals
The main goal of WirelessPT is to build a large scale free wireless Wi-Fi network that is decentralized and owned by those who run it and to support local communication. The project is governed by its own agreement which was inspired in the Pico peering Agreement where participants agree upon a network that is free from discrimination and upholds net neutrality. Among other communities like guifi.net and freifunk, WirelessPT has and shares similarities.
Among several goals the project includes:
Development of mesh networks for communities built by the ordinary citizen
Foster free access to communication technologies
Establish wireless connectivity with other communities and regions
Sharing and developing technological communication resources with and for their communities
Promote, educate and provide technical information on wireless networks to communities environment about the importance of online privacy, security and democracy.
Technology
Like many other free community-driven networks, Wirelesspt uses mesh technology to bring up ad hoc networks by interconnecting multiple Wireless LANs using mobile ad hoc network technology and a special routing software.
If one of these routers fail, this special software automatically calculates a new path to the final destination. This software is called mvwrt firmware. It is based on OpenWrt and other free software such as LEDE and was specifically designed for the needs and challenges of the project.
There are many different developed versions of the firmware depending on the hardware and protocols that local communities decide to use. Having previously tested olsr, WirelessPT decided to work with Ad Hoc and the B.A.T.M.A.N. routing protocol as the firmware base routing protocol.
History
Founded in January 2011 in Portugal after 2 years of planning the project was first started by its founder with a setup of 9 nodes and 5 gateways in 3 weeks to cover an area of 6 square kilometres using ddwrt firmware.
In 2013 the project developed its own firmware and expanded their nodes count as well as coverage until today and b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark%20Tank%20%28Australian%20season%203%29 | The third season of Shark Tank aired on Network Ten from 20 June 2017. The series was confirmed following the season 2 finale.
Summary
The show features a panel of potential investors, named "Sharks", who listen to entrepreneurs pitch ideas for a business or product they wish to develop. These self-made multi-millionaires judge the business concepts and products pitched and then decide whether to invest their own money to help market and mentor each contestant.
Investments by Shark
Correct as of Episode 9
Episodes
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6
Episode 7
Episode 8
Episode 9
Episode 10
Episode 11
Episode 12
Episode 13
Ratings
References
2017 Australian television seasons
Shark Tank |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20for%20Public%20Policy%20Studies | The Network for Public Policy Studies (NPPS) or Shams is an academic peer-reviewed website, under the supervision of Center for Strategic Studies, dedicated to the study of public policies with an emphasis on Iranian Government's policies. The NPPS publishes articles in Persian and English, covering topics including environmental policy, economic policy, foreign policy, science policy, technology policy, health policy, social policy and cultural policy.
References
External links
Network for Public Policy Studies
2015 establishments in Iran
Public policy in Iran
Iranian websites
Creative Commons-licensed websites
Persian-language websites
Internet properties established in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliyugam%20%281952%20film%29 | Kaliyugam is a 1952 Indian, Tamil language film directed by V. S. Dhrupad. The film stars S. M. Kumaresan and B. S. Saroja.
Cast
List adapted from the database of Film News Anandan.
Male cast
S. M. Kumaresan
P. G. Venatesan
M. M. Mariyappa
K. A. Thangavelu
Female cast
B. S. Saroja
S. Nandhini
Production
The film was produced by Gordan Bai Merchant who also wrote the story, and was directed by V. S. Drupad. Screenplay was written by Maheshvel while the dialogues were written by Viswanathan. Cinematography was handled by Vasanth N. Bhuva and the editing was done by G. G. Basheer. Hiralal Patel was in charge of art direction. Music was composed by Vimalkumar. The film was made at Srikanth Studios in Bombay.
References
1950s Tamil-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto%20Tempo | Roberto Tempo (April 10, 1956 – January 14, 2017) was an Italian scientist, known for his studies on complex networked systems in information technology.
Life and career
He graduated in Electrical Engineering in 1980 at Politecnico di Torino, joined the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) at the research institute IEIIT, Torino, serving as a Director of Research of Systems and Computer Engineering since 1991. He also served in visiting and research positions at Tsinghua University and Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, Kyoto University, The University of Tokyo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, German Aerospace Research Organization in Oberpfaffenhofen and Columbia University in New York City.
Research
The success of the distributed randomized methods proposed by Roberto Tempo is witnessed by the monograph “Randomized Algorithms for Analysis and Control of Uncertain Systems”, that was published by Springer-Verlag, and that represents a pioneering textbook, lying the foundations of probabilistic methods in the analysis and design of systems affected by deterministic and stochastic uncertainty, and also encompassing statistical learning theory and sequential methods for control.
One of his last research activity was dedicated to opinion dynamics and led to the Science paper “Network Science on Belief System Dynamics Under Logic Constraints”, written in collaboration with Noah E. Friedkin, A. V. Proskurnikov, and S. E. Parsegov. This seminal paper proposes a mathematical model that describes the relationship and time-varying behavior of belief systems and interpersonal influence.
In continuation of his research in opinion dynamics and distributed randomized techniques, his last submission was “Resilient Randomized Quantized Consensus”, where it introduces randomized updates to tighten the topological condition required for consensus among integer-valued agents.
Professional Services
He served the IEEE Control System Society (CSS) in various forms: he was Vice-President for Conference Activities (2002-2003), President-Elect (2009) and President (2010). He was also Program Chair of the first joint IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) and European Control Conference (Seville, Spain, 2005) and General Co-Chair for IEEE CDC (Firenze, Italy, 2013).
He also was an officer of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) as Chair of the Italian National Member Organization, and Editor in Chief of the IFAC flagship journal Automatica (since 2015). He also served as member of the IFAC Fellow Selection Committee, 2011-2014 and 2015-2017.
Life
Roberto Tempo was a passionate skier, hiker and climber. He was national instructor of ski mountaineering of the Italian Alpine Club and a keen climber, climbing 7a difficulties. His love for the mountains was well known within the control community and to the two passions of his life he had devoted his last President's of the IEEE Control System Society Message, title |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Baum%20%28entrepreneur%29 | Michael Baum (born May 28, 1962) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is best known as the founder & CEO of Splunk, a big data software technology used for understanding machine-generated data primarily for systems management, security forensics, compliance reporting and real-time operational intelligence. Baum is the founder of six technology start-ups, five of which have been acquired and one (NASDAQ: SPLK) which went public. He has also been a venture capital investor with Rembrandt Venture Partners, Advent International and Crosspoint Venture Partners. Baum graduated with a computer science degree from Drexel University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. In September 2014, Baum became CEO & Propriétaire of Château de Pommard, a Burgundy winery established in 1726.
Early life and education
Baum was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended high school at Cherry Hill High School East. During his sophomore year at Drexel University, he switched his major from electrical engineering to computer science after a visit to the campus by famed American business and technology icon Steve Jobs; the focus of his bachelor's degree was artificial intelligence and compiler and language theory. He went on to earn a Masters of Business Administration with a focus on corporate finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Business career
During his time at college, Baum expressed curiosity in understanding how computers and software could be applied to enable people to process large amounts of data in complex decision-making.
Baum pursued a career in technology and entrepreneurship. He co-founded Reality Online, a stock market modeling company. Reality Online was funded by Venrock, the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family, and later acquired by Reuters in 1989.
In September 2014, Baum bought Château de Pommard, a Burgundy winery established in 1726, and moved to Burgundy with his family.
Splunk
Continuing to explore the possibilities of advancing an understanding of chaotic systems, Baum began to explore the application of search technology to large-scale machine data. Reconnecting with Rob Das and Erik Swan in 2003, the three co-founded Splunk. Their goal was to build a search engine for real-time flows and massive historical corpuses of machine data. Splunk was the sixth startup for Baum and the first pure-play big data company to reach significant customer and revenue scale and debut on the public markets. Baum, Das and Swan and their team at Splunk have been awarded two US Patents for their work.
Baum was Splunk's founding CEO for the first six years. He raised $40M in venture capital financing from August Capital, Seven Rosen Funds, JK&B Capital and Ignition Partners.
References
1962 births
Living people
20th-century American businesspeople
21st-century American businesspeople
American computer businesspeople
American expatriates in France
Am |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter%20Terrorism%20Policing | Counter Terrorism Policing is the national collaboration of police forces working to prevent, deter, and investigate terrorism in the United Kingdom.
The network is governed by the National Police Collaboration Agreement Relating to Counter Terrorism Activities Made Under Section 22A of the Police Act 1996. The network is accountable to the United Kingdom Government and the National Police Chiefs' Council Counter Terrorism Coordination Committee which is chaired by the Metropolitan Police Service Assistant Commissioner of Specialist Operations (ACSO) who also acts as the Head of Counter Terrorism Policing. The network is also functionally coordinated by two Senior National Coordinators who are usually Metropolitan Police Service Deputy Assistant Commissioners co-located within the Counter Terrorism Command.
Counter Terrorism Policing stretches across the United Kingdom and sees specialist officers and staff working with the Home Office, MI5 and other intelligence, security and criminal justice agencies around the world. It is made up of dedicated regional Counter Terrorism Units and national police units and is responsible for the delivery of the policing contribution to the CONTEST strategy.
The Australian Federal Police's Joint Counter Terrorism Teams, Canada's Integrated National Security Enforcement Teams, and the United States' Joint Terrorism Task Force model can be seen as analogous to Counter Terrorism Policing.
Counter Terrorism Coordination Committee
The Counter Terrorism Coordination Committee (CTCC) of the National Police Chiefs' Council is a national coordination body made of chief officers of the nine regional lead counter terrorism police forces and other thematic leads alongside senior representatives of government departments and other agencies including the Home Office and MI5. It is chaired by Metropolitan Police Service Assistant Commissioner of Specialist Operations.
The CTCC is the focal point for on counter terrorism policing and related issues and is responsible for developing national counter terrorism and domestic extremism strategic policy through the Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters (CTPHQ). The CTCC also liaises with government and other partners on behalf of UK police forces. The CTCC is also staffed by a small number of chief police officers dedicated full-time to providing strategic direction and coordination relating to particular counter terrorism policing themes.
The Counter Terrorism Policing Senior Leadership as defined by the National Counter Terrorism Collaboration Agreement as the CTCC Chair, Vice Chair(s)s, the Senior National Coordinator Pursue, the Senior National Coordinator Protect & Prepare, the Director General of CTPHQ, and the Director of Counter Terrorism Resources.
Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters
The Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters is responsible for developing policy and strategy and providing a single national voice on behalf of the Counter Terrorism Policing. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadent%20Gas | Cadent Gas is a British regional gas distribution company that owns, operates and maintains the largest natural gas distribution network in the United Kingdom, transporting gas to 11 million homes and businesses across North West England, West Midlands, East Midlands, East of England and North London.
Cadent Gas Limited represents four of the eight gas distribution networks in the United Kingdom. Following production and importation, all gas in the UK passes through National Grid's national transmission system, before entering the distribution networks. The distribution network providers, one of which is Cadent Limited, are responsible for the safe and efficient transportation of the gas to the end consumer, on behalf of the chosen supplier.
The company does not produce or own the gas that passes through their pipeline networks but 50% of UK gas customers are served by their pipeline system.
The company also manages the national gas emergency service free phone line on behalf of the gas industry in the UK, taking calls and giving safety advice on behalf of the industry. In 2017/18 1.952 million gas emergency calls were answered.
The company invests in raising awareness of the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning through community and school initiatives as well as improving services to protect and support customers in vulnerable situations.
In 2017, the company launched a two-year fundraising partnership with Alzheimer's Society and committed to creating 1,000 Dementia Friends and also raising £100,000 company-wide for the charity. Cadent Gas Limited also sponsor ‘EmployAbility - Let’s Work Together’ scheme which changes young disabled peoples’ lives for the better. It is founded on relationships with local schools, Dorothy Goodman in Leicestershire and Oakwood, Woodlands and Exhall Grange in Warwickshire. It is an employee-led supported internship scheme for young people aged 17 to 19. Since the scheme began in 2014 an average of 71% of interns gained paid employment either with them or with other local companies, compared to the national average of 6%. The company was recently awarded ‘Most Supportive Employer’ by the National Autistic Society.
In 2017/18 Cadent Gas Limited replaced and improved of mains pipe.
In 2018, Cadent Gas Limited were awarded for being the top UK company for apprentices to work and amongst the top 20 companies for graduates.
History
1986: Transfer of assets of British Gas Corporation to British Gas plc (integrated gas company for UK), with trading of shares in British Gas plc commencing in December
1997: Demerger of Centrica from British Gas
2000: Demerger of Lattice from British Gas
2002: Merger of National Grid and Lattice Transco.
2005: Sale of four gas distribution networks, and adoption of National Grid as the single name for principal businesses
2016: Creation of National Grid Gas Distribution Ltd as part of National Grid
2017: Sale of a majority stake of National Grid Gas Distribution in March, with o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Leider | Jerry Leider is an American producer of both feature films and television programs. He has also worked as a senior executive at studios, television networks and talent agencies.
Leider began his career in film and television as a program executive at the CBS Television Network in New York. Before joining CBS-TV, Leider produced several plays in New York and London, among them Sir John Gielgud's one-man show The Ages of Man and The Visit starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. In London, he produced a staging of the Tennessee Williams’ drama Suddenly Last Summer that starred Patricia Neal.
From CBS, Leider became a senior partner in charge of worldwide television packaging at the Ashley Famous Agency (now ICM Partners). In the late 1960s, he moved to Los Angeles to assume the position of President of Warner Bros. Television. During five years at Warners TV, he presided over numerous weekly television series, such as The FBI, Kung Fu, Wonder Woman, and Alice and survived the wrath of short-time owner David Geffen.
He made a shift to feature production at Warners by becoming Executive Vice President of Foreign Feature Production. Leider left Warners to form his own independent production company, where the initial projects were the television movies And I Alone Survived and Willa. After he "wrestled the story rights away from United Artists and Warner Bros.," Leider's first theatrical feature was a remake of The Jazz Singer with Laurence Olivier and Neil Diamond in the title role. Among the songs that Diamond wrote for the movie was "America" (or "They're Coming to America"), which was first performed live by Diamond in the course of a fictional concert by his character Jess Rubin filmed during this shoot at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood. "America" was first released on disc as part of The Jazz Singer soundtrack album.
In 2011, Leider was Executive Producer with Francis Ford Coppola and others of an "American Zoetrope presentation of a Jerry Leider Co. production," the adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On the Road (2012), directed by Walter Salles. From 1995 through 2009, He had produced several movies in partnership with Robert Shapiro including a feature version of the series My Favorite Martian, Just Peck, and Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen starring Lindsay Lohan. For six years from 1984 to 1990, Leider was Chairman and CEO of the ITC Entertainment Group.
Leider has several motion pictures currently in pre-production or development including a new adaptation (following his 1994 HBO project) of the Robert Harris’ novel Fatherland, Anne Frank and Me (from the novel by Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld), Billy (from the novel by Albert French), and The October Gang (by Kevin Clarke).
Leider is a long time member of the Motion Picture and Television Academies. He served three terms as Chairman of the Hollywood Caucus of Producers, Writers, and Directors, and was president of the Hollywood Radio and Television Society.
Filmography
The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby%20syntax | The syntax of the Ruby programming language is broadly similar to that of Perl and Python. Class and method definitions are signaled by keywords, whereas code blocks can be defined by either keywords or braces. In contrast to Perl, variables are not obligatorily prefixed with a sigil. When used, the sigil changes the semantics of scope of the variable. For practical purposes there is no distinction between expressions and statements. Line breaks are significant and taken as the end of a statement; a semicolon may be equivalently used. Unlike Python, indentation is not significant.
One of the differences from Python and Perl is that Ruby keeps all of its instance variables completely private to the class and only exposes them through accessor methods (attr_writer, attr_reader, etc.). Unlike the "getter" and "setter" methods of other languages like C++ or Java, accessor methods in Ruby can be created with a single line of code via metaprogramming; however, accessor methods can also be created in the traditional fashion of C++ and Java. As invocation of these methods does not require the use of parentheses, it is trivial to change an instance variable into a full function without modifying a single line of calling code or having to do any refactoring achieving similar functionality to C# and VB.NET property members.
Python's property descriptors are similar, but come with a trade-off in the development process. If one begins in Python by using a publicly exposed instance variable, and later changes the implementation to use a private instance variable exposed through a property descriptor, code internal to the class may need to be adjusted to use the private variable rather than the public property. Ruby's design forces all instance variables to be private, but also provides a simple way to declare set and get methods. This is in keeping with the idea that in Ruby one never directly accesses the internal members of a class from outside the class; rather, one passes a message to the class and receives a response.
Interactive sessions
The following examples can be run in a Ruby shell such as Interactive Ruby Shell, or saved in a file and run from the command line by typing ruby <filename>.
Classic Hello world example:
puts 'Hello World!'
Some basic Ruby code:
# Everything, including a literal, is an object, so this works:
-199.abs # => 199
'ice is nice'.length # => 11
'ruby is cool.'.index('u') # => 1
"Nice Day Isn't It?".downcase.split('').uniq.sort.join
# => " '?acdeinsty"
Input:
print 'Please type name >'
name = gets.chomp
puts "Hello #{name}."
Conversions:
puts 'Give me a number'
number = gets.chomp
puts number.to_i
output_number = number.to_i + 1
puts output_number.to_s + ' is a bigger number.'
Strings
There are a variety of ways to define strings in Ruby.
The following assignments are equivalent:
a = "\nThis is a double-quoted string\n"
a = %Q{\nThis is a double-quoted string\n}
a = %{\nThis is a double-quoted string\n}
a = %/\nT |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL%20syntax | The syntax of the SQL programming language is defined and maintained by ISO/IEC SC 32 as part of ISO/IEC 9075. This standard is not freely available. Despite the existence of the standard, SQL code is not completely portable among different database systems without adjustments.
Language elements
The SQL language is subdivided into several language elements, including:
Keywords are words that are defined in the SQL language. They are either reserved (e.g. , and ), or non-reserved (e.g. , and ). List of SQL reserved words.
Identifiers are names on database objects, like tables, columns and schemas. An identifier may not be equal to a reserved keyword, unless it is a delimited identifier. Delimited identifiers means identifiers enclosed in double quotation marks. They can contain characters normally not supported in SQL identifiers, and they can be identical to a reserved word, e.g. a column named is specified as .
In MySQL, double quotes are string literal delimiters by default instead. Enabling the SQL mode enforces the SQL standard behavior. These can also be used regardless of this mode through backticks: .
Clauses, which are constituent components of statements and queries. (In some cases, these are optional.)
Expressions, which can produce either scalar values, or tables consisting of columns and rows of data
Predicates, which specify conditions that can be evaluated to SQL three-valued logic (3VL) (true/false/unknown) or Boolean truth values and are used to limit the effects of statements and queries, or to change program flow.
Queries, which retrieve the data based on specific criteria. This is an important element of SQL.
Statements, which may have a persistent effect on schemata and data, or may control transactions, program flow, connections, sessions, or diagnostics.
SQL statements also include the semicolon (";") statement terminator. Though not required on every platform, it is defined as a standard part of the SQL grammar.
Insignificant whitespace is generally ignored in SQL statements and queries, making it easier to format SQL code for readability.
Operators
Other operators have at times been suggested or implemented, such as the skyline operator (for finding only those rows that are not 'worse' than any others).
SQL has the expression, which was introduced in SQL-92. In its most general form, which is called a "searched case" in the SQL standard:
CASE WHEN n > 0
THEN 'positive'
WHEN n < 0
THEN 'negative'
ELSE 'zero'
END
SQL tests conditions in the order they appear in the source. If the source does not specify an expression, SQL defaults to . An abbreviated syntax called "simple case" can also be used:
CASE n WHEN 1
THEN 'One'
WHEN 2
THEN 'Two'
ELSE 'I cannot count that high'
END
This syntax uses implicit equality comparisons, with the usual caveats for comparing with NULL.
There are two short forms for special expressions: and .
Th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/868-HACK | 868-HACK is a 2013 roguelike video game developed and published by Michael Brough. The player controls a hacking program in a computer system and must grab as much computer data as possible before a defence program destroys it.
Development of the game began in March 2013, as part of the "Seven-Day Roguelike" competition. It was released in August 2013 for iOS and in January 2015 for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. The "PLAN.B" expansion pack was released in July 2017.
868-HACK received mostly positive reviews from critics. The game was nominated for an Excellence in Design award at the Independent Games Festival, receiving an honorable mention for the Seumas McNally Grand Prize there. 868-HACK was ranked 42nd on Polygon list of "The 100 best games of the decade (2010–2019)" and 29th on Paste list of "The 50 Best Mobile Games of the 2010s".
Gameplay
The player controls a hacking program in a computer system and must grab as much computer data as possible before a defence program destroys it. The game plays in the manner of a dungeon crawler, with rooms being randomly generated. The player must collect keys to unlock nodes to hack. The game's graphics resemble those of ZX Spectrum.
The game takes place in a cyberpunk setting, where, as alluded to by the game's title, hacking is done by dial-up. The player is a "smiley face" which can be moved around an 6×6 grid. The grid is shaped by "circuit-board-looking walls". The enemies in 868-HACK look vaguely like those in Pac-Man. Players can fire lasers at these enemies. Most of the enemies have two health bars, and they each have one of three different special abilities; being able to move over two tiles at a time, having three health bars instead of two, or being invisible until it comes into the player's line of fire. Each wall tile in the game stores a reward which can be extracted, but also has a number signifying how many enemies it will spawn when opened.
Development and release
In March 2013, developer Michael Brough started to work on 868-HACK as part of a seven-day Roguelike competition. The game was originally called "86856527" at the event. Brough worked on the game for six months, then spent four months fixing bugs, tuning balance, and porting. Michael Brough recorded the sounds of the game; Leigh Alexander of Gamasutra said the sound "gives its forbidding machinery a fascinating human sound".
868-HACK was released to iOS on 30 August 2013. Later, on 26 January 2015, it was released for Microsoft Windows and MacOS. An estimated 14,000 copies of 868-HACK were sold for iOS. On 23 July 2017, an expansion pack of the game was released, called "868-HACK – PLAN.B". The expansion added a "new mode, new progs, and new power-ups".
Fours months after its initial release, on 17 December 2013, the game was chosen as "Mobile Game of the Week" by American magazine Paste. Aevee Bee, writing for Paste for this review, described the game as "a turn based trainwreck—a meticulously ordered, predictab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa%20Open%20Data%20Conference | The Africa Open Data Conference is a biennial conference that convenes governments agencies, individuals and organizations with interest in creating and releasing public data sets for easy access and use by ordinary citizens in Africa to share advances in open data and form new collaborations.
Overview
References
Open government |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset%20Beat | Sunset Beat is an American television drama series. It ran only two episodes. The remaining four were broadcast in 1992.
It ran on the ABC Television Network in 1990 and 1992.
The show centered around a group of Los Angeles Police Department officers working undercover as a motorcycle gang. They operate out of an abandoned fire station on Sunset Boulevard.
The theme, "Sunset Beat", was composed by Clink Productions.
Cast of characters
Officer Chris Chesbro – George Clooney
Officer Tim Kelly – Michael DeLuise
Officer Bradley Coolidge – Markus Flanagan
Officer Tucson Smith – Erik King
Captain Ray Parker – James Tolkan
Holly Chesbro (Chris' ex-wife) – Sydney Walsh
Harriet Parker (Ray's ex-wife) – Arlene Golonka
Notes
Sources
External links
1990 American television series debuts
1990 American television series endings
1992 American television series debuts
1992 American television series endings
Television shows set in Los Angeles
English-language television shows
American Broadcasting Company original programming
1990s American crime drama television series
Serial drama television series
Television shows filmed in Los Angeles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial%20Services%20Information%20Sharing%20and%20Analysis%20Center | The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) is an industry consortium dedicated to reducing cyber-risk in the global financial system. Serving financial institutions and in turn their customers, the organization leverages its intelligence platform, resiliency resources, and a trusted peer-to-peer network of experts to anticipate, mitigate and respond to cyberthreats. FS-ISAC has nearly 7,000-member firms with users in more than 70 countries. Headquartered in the United States, the organization has offices in the UK and Singapore.
History
FS-ISAC was formed in 1999 in response to the Presidential Decision Directive 63, signed by President Clinton in 1998 which mandated that public and private sectors share information about physical and cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities to help protect the US critical infrastructure via Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs). After the 9/11 attacks and in response to subsequent federal actions, FS-ISAC expanded its role to encompass physical threats to the financial sector. In recent years FS-ISAC has expanded into a global organization and has played a paramount role in leading several industry initiatives to better protect and serve the global financial services industry.
References
Non-profit organizations based in the United States
Financial services organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperparameter%20optimization | In machine learning, hyperparameter optimization or tuning is the problem of choosing a set of optimal hyperparameters for a learning algorithm. A hyperparameter is a parameter whose value is used to control the learning process. By contrast, the values of other parameters (typically node weights) are learned.
The same kind of machine learning model can require different constraints, weights or learning rates to generalize different data patterns. These measures are called hyperparameters, and have to be tuned so that the model can optimally solve the machine learning problem. Hyperparameter optimization finds a tuple of hyperparameters that yields an optimal model which minimizes a predefined loss function on given independent data. The objective function takes a tuple of hyperparameters and returns the associated loss. Cross-validation is often used to estimate this generalization performance, and therefore choose the set of values for hyperparameters that maximize it.
Approaches
Grid search
The traditional way of performing hyperparameter optimization has been grid search, or a parameter sweep, which is simply an exhaustive searching through a manually specified subset of the hyperparameter space of a learning algorithm. A grid search algorithm must be guided by some performance metric, typically measured by cross-validation on the training set
or evaluation on a hold-out validation set.
Since the parameter space of a machine learner may include real-valued or unbounded value spaces for certain parameters, manually set bounds and discretization may be necessary before applying grid search.
For example, a typical soft-margin SVM classifier equipped with an RBF kernel has at least two hyperparameters that need to be tuned for good performance on unseen data: a regularization constant C and a kernel hyperparameter γ. Both parameters are continuous, so to perform grid search, one selects a finite set of "reasonable" values for each, say
Grid search then trains an SVM with each pair (C, γ) in the Cartesian product of these two sets and evaluates their performance on a held-out validation set (or by internal cross-validation on the training set, in which case multiple SVMs are trained per pair). Finally, the grid search algorithm outputs the settings that achieved the highest score in the validation procedure.
Grid search suffers from the curse of dimensionality, but is often embarrassingly parallel because the hyperparameter settings it evaluates are typically independent of each other.
Random search
Random Search replaces the exhaustive enumeration of all combinations by selecting them randomly. This can be simply applied to the discrete setting described above, but also generalizes to continuous and mixed spaces. It can outperform Grid search, especially when only a small number of hyperparameters affects the final performance of the machine learning algorithm. In this case, the optimization problem is said to have a low intrinsic dime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paropakaram | Paropakaram () is a 1953 Indian Tamil-language film directed by Kamal Ghosh. The film stars Ramesh Sharma and Savithri.
Cast
List adapted from the database of Film News Anandan.
Male cast
Ramesh Sharma
C. S. R.
Mukkamala
Relangi
C. V. V. Panthulu
R. Nageswara Rao
Female cast
G. Varalakshmi
Savithri
Production
The film was directed was by Kamal Ghosh who also handled the cinematography. Editing was done by Prakash and Kandasamy. Devaki Bose wrote the story and Udhayakumar wrote the dialogues. Art direction was done by Kotvankar. R. N. Nagaraja Rao carried out the still photography. The film was shot and processed at Vijaya Vauhini Studios.
The film was produced simultaneously in Telugu with the same title.
Soundtrack
Music was composed by Ghantasala while the lyrics were penned by Kavi Lakshmanadas. Playback singers are A. M. Rajah, Ghantasala, M. Satyam, P. Leela and A. P. Komala.
References
External links
Indian drama films
Indian black-and-white films
Films scored by Ghantasala (musician)
1950s Tamil-language films
1953 drama films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod%20Smallwood%20%28medical%20engineer%29 | Professor Rodney Harris Smallwood FREng, HonFRCP, FIET, FInstP, FIPEM (born 1945), known as Rod, is a British medical engineer and computer scientist.
Smallwood graduated in Physics from University College London, then studied solid-state physics at Lancaster University, before working for the National Health Service in Sheffield and gaining a PhD from the University of Sheffield.
He was appointed Professor of Medical Engineering and Head of the academic Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering Department at the University of Sheffield in 1995, took a computer science post in 2002, and subsequently became Professor of Computational Systems Biology and the Director of Research for Engineering.
He has served as president of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine.
References
External links
1945 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Fellows of the Institution of Engineering and Technology
Living people
Alumni of the University of Sheffield |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasanian%20defense%20lines | The defense lines (or "limes") of the Sasanians were part of their military strategy and tactics. They were networks of fortifications, walls, and/or ditches built opposite the territory of the enemies. These defense lines are known from tradition and archaeological evidence.
The fortress systems of the Western, Arabian, and Central Asian fronts were of both defensive and offensive functions.
Mesopotamia
The rivers Euphrates, Great Zab, and Little Zab acted as natural defenses for Mesopotamia (Asorestan). Sasanian development of irrigation systems in Mesopotamia further acted as water defense lines, notably the criss-crossing trunk canals in Khuzestan and the northern extension of the Nahrawan Canal, known as the Cut of Khusrau, which made the Sasanian capital Ctesiphon virtually impregnable in late Sasanian period.
In the early period of the Sasanian Empire, a number of buffer states existed between Persia and the Roman Empire, which played a major role in Roman-Persian relations. Both empires gradually absorbed these states, and replaced them by an organized defense system run by the central government and based on a line of fortifications (the limes) and the fortified frontier cities, such as Dara, Nisibis, Amida, Singara, Hatra, Edessa, Bezabde, Circesium, Rhesaina (Theodosiopolis), Sergiopolis (Resafa), Callinicum (Raqqa), Dura-Europos, Zenobia (Halabiye), Sura, Theodosiopolis (Erzurum), Sisauranon, etc.
According to R. N. Frye, the expansion of the Persian defensive system by Shapur II ) was probably in imitation of Diocletian's construction of the limes of the Syrian and Mesopotamian frontiers of the Roman Empire over the previous decades. The defense line was in the edge of the cultivated land facing the Syrian Desert.
Along the Euphrates (in Arbayistan), there was a series of heavily fortified cities as a line of defence.
During the early years of Shapur II (), nomadic Arabian tribesmen made incursions into Persia from the south. After his successful campaign in Arabia (325) and having secured the coasts around Persian Gulf, Shapur II established a defensive system in southern Mesopotamia to prevent raids via land. The defensive line, called the Wall of the Arabs (Middle Persian: War ī Tāzīgān, in Khandaq Sābūr, literally "Ditch of Shapur", also possibly "Wall of Shapur"), consisted of a large moat, probably also with an actual wall on the Persian side, with watchtowers and a network of fortifications, at the edge of the Arabian Desert, located between modern-day al-Basrah and the Persian Gulf. The defense line ran from Hit to Basra, on the margin of fertile lands west of Euphrates. It included small forts at key spots, acting as outliers for larger fortifications, some of which have been uncovered.
The region and its defense line was apparently governed by a marzban. In the second half of the Sasanian history, the Lakhmid/Nasrid chiefs also became its rulers. They would have protected the area against the Romans and against the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aga%20Khan%20Higher%20Secondary%20School%2C%20Gilgit | Aga Khan Higher Secondary School, Gilgit or AKHSS, Gilgit is a high school and college, located in Konodas, near Gilgit river. It's part of the Agha Khan education Network. The school was established in 1998. It is affiliated with Agha Khan University Examination Board.
Facilities
1. Computer Lab
2. Library
3. Science Laboratories
4. Language Resource Centre
5. Conference Hall
6. Canteen
See also
Aga Khan Higher Secondary School, Gahkuch
Aga Khan Higher Secondary School for Girls, Hunza
Aga Khan School
Cadet College Skardu
References
Boarding schools in Pakistan
Schools in Gilgit-Baltistan
Universities and colleges in Gilgit-Baltistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK%20Computer%20OKNOTOK%201997%202017 | OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017 is a reissue of the 1997 album OK Computer by the English rock band Radiohead. It was released in June 2017, the album's 20th anniversary, following the 2016 acquisition of Radiohead's back catalogue by XL Recordings from EMI.
OKNOTOK comprises remastered versions of OK Computer and its B-sides, plus three previously unreleased songs: "I Promise", "Man of War" and "Lift". The special edition includes an art book, notes, and a cassette tape of demos and session recordings. Unlike previous Radiohead reissues, which were released by EMI without Radiohead's involvement and contained no new material, the band curated the OKNOTOK material themselves.
Radiohead promoted OKNOTOK with a teaser campaign of posters and videos. Music videos were released for the three new songs, and "I Promise" and "Man of War" were released as singles. OKNOTOK debuted at number two in the UK Albums Chart and was the bestselling album in UK independent record stores for a year. In the US, it reached number 23 on the Billboard 200. It received critical acclaim.
Background
Radiohead released OK Computer, their third album, in May 1997, through EMI. It was recorded in 1996 and 1997 at St Catherine's Court, a historic mansion near Bath. The album won Best Alternative Album at the 40th Grammy Awards and has sold at least 4.5 million copies worldwide.
Radiohead's record contract with EMI ended with the release of Hail to the Thief in 2003. Their subsequent albums have been released by XL Recordings, while EMI retained the copyright to Radiohead's back catalogue. After a period of being out of print on vinyl, EMI reissued a double LP of OK Computer without Radiohead's involvement in 2008, and again in 2009 as an expanded "Collector's Edition". The reissues were not remastered and contained no new material.
In 2016, with Radiohead's approval, their back catalogue was transferred to XL Recordings and the "Collector's Editions" were removed from streaming services. In May 2016, XL reissued Radiohead's back catalogue on vinyl, including OK Computer.
Content
OKNOTOK 1997 2017 comprises remastered versions of OK Computer and its eight B-sides, plus three previously unreleased tracks: "I Promise", featuring strummed acoustic guitar, marching band-like drums, and Mellotron; "Man of War", a ballad with strings, piano, and electric guitar; and "Lift", a Britpop-like ballad.
The special edition includes the album on vinyl, a hardcover art book, a book of notes written by the songwriter, Thom Yorke, and a sketchbook of preparatory artwork by Yorke and the cover artist Stanley Donwood. It also includes an audio cassette containing audio experiments, session recordings, demos (including demos for two previously unheard songs), and early versions of "The National Anthem", "Motion Picture Soundtrack", "Nude" and "True Love Waits", songs released on later albums.
The final track on the cassette, "OK Computer Program", comprises computer tones. When run on a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanjam | Vanjam () is a 1953 Indian Tamil-language film directed by Y. R. Swamy. The film stars Kantha Rao, Gummadi, Savithri and Girija.
Cast
List adapted from the database of Film News Anandan.
Male cast
Kantha Rao
Gummadi
K. Sarangapani
Rajnala
Female cast
Savithri
Girija
Production
The film was produced by M. M. Reddy and directed by Y. R. Swamy. H. M. Reddy wrote the story along with N. Seetharaman who also written the dialogues. D. L. Narayan and V. K. B. Maniam were in charge of cinematography while the editing was done by S. D. N. Krishna. L. V. Mantri and A. V. Dharma Rao handled the art direction. Choreography was by Chopra and Vembatti Satyam. Stunt Swaminathan was the Stunt master. Still photography was done by P. C. M. Eswar Babu.
The film was also produced in Telugu with the title Pratigna.
Soundtrack
Music was composed by T. A. Kalyanam while the lyrics were written by Guhan. Playback singers are Rohini, T. S. Bhagavathi, Jikki, A. P. Komala, K. Rani, Gajalakshmi and A. M. Rajah.
References
External links
Indian drama films
Indian black-and-white films
1950s Tamil-language films
Films directed by Y. R. Swamy
1953 drama films
1953 films
Films scored by T. A. Kalyanam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Circuit | is a top-down racing video game released for the Family Computer in 1988 by Namco in Japan only. The game was developed by Masanobu Endō, who previously developed Xevious and The Tower of Druaga, and his company Game Studio.
A sequel titled Family Circuit '91 was released for the Family Computer in 1991, while a second sequel, Super Family Circuit was released for the Super Famicom in 1994.
Reception
The game topped the bi-weekly Japanese Famitsu sales chart in February 1988.
Notes
References
1988 video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Bandai Namco Entertainment franchises
Racing video games
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGap | iGap is a free Iranian instant messaging application for smart phones and personal computers. iGap allows users to interact with each other and exchange information through text, image, video, audio and other types of messages. iGap also supports P2P-based voice calls over the internet.
iGap is developed for Android, iOS and Windows.
Open-source Clients
iGap has published the source code of its Android and iOS client on GitHub. However, back-end source code is proprietary software.
Response
Supreme leader of Iran Ali Khamenei referred to this messenger on his personal website. and
Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi as the ICT Minister of Iran has joined this messaging application in September 2017 in order to support local social networking.
Earlier, the Minister has claimed to support local Messengers when he was deputy of the ICT Minister.
External links
iGap in App Store
iGap in Google Play
References
2015 software
Communication software
Cross-platform software
Instant messaging clients
IOS software
Secure communication
Free security software
Free instant messaging clients
Free and open-source Android software
2015 establishments in Iran
Communications in Iran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich%20Kulisch | Ulrich W. Kulisch (born 1933 in Breslau) is a German mathematician specializing in numerical analysis, including the computer implementation of interval arithmetic.
Experience
After graduation from high school in Freising, Kulisch studied mathematics at the University of Munich and the Technical University of Munich where in 1961 he completed his dissertation (Behandlung von Differentialgleichungen im Komplexen auf dem elektronischen Analogrechner) under Josef Heinhold. After his postdoctoral qualification in 1963, he was acting Professor for Numerical Mathematics of the University of Munich from 1964 to 1966, and from 1966 Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics at the University of Karlsruhe.
During his time in academia, Kulisch spent several sabbaticals abroad. He spent time in 1969/1970 at the Mathematics Research Center of the University of Wisconsin–Madison under Ramon Edgar Moore; in 1972/1973 and 1978/1979 at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights (where he worked alongside Willard L. Miranker (1932–2011)); and in 1998 and 1999/2000 at the Electrotechnical Laboratory at the University of Tsukuba.
Kulisch was one of the pioneers of interval arithmetic in Germany in the 1960s and helped to found the discipline, along with and . His implementations of interval arithmetic in computers started with Algol in the 1960s. Kulisch developed software with automated results verification including Nixdorf Computer (Pascal-XSC and others), IBM (projects ACRITH and ACRITH-XSC) and Siemens (program package ARITHMOS). In Karlsruhe, he developed C-XSC and associated program libraries. In 1993/1994 he was also involved in a hardware implementation on the XPA 3233 vector arithmetic coprocessor.
He was a founding member of the Computer Science Association in 1968, was chairman of the Computer Mathematics and Scientific Computing Committee of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (GAMM) and of the Technical Committees Enhanced Computer Arithmetic of the International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (IMACS) 1979 German member of the Working Group 2.5 (Numerical Software) of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), of which he has been a member since 1980. He is on IEEE Standard Committee P1788 for interval arithmetic.
From 1975 to 1998 he was editor of the Bibliographisches Institut's Jahrbuchs Überblicke Mathematik.
Bibliography
"Grundlagen des Numerischen Rechnens – Mathematische Begründung der Rechnerarithmetik", Reihe Informatik 19, BI 1976
"Grundzüge der Intervallrechnung", Jahrbuch Überblicke Mathematik, volume 2, BI, Mannheim 1969
with Willard L. Miranker (editor): A New Approach to Scientific Computation, Academic Press, New York, 1983.
with Willard L. Miranker: "The arithmetic of the digital computer: a new approach", SIAM Rev. 28 (1986) 1–40.
with H. J. Stetter (editor), "Scientific Computation with Automatic Result Ve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%20of%20War%20%28song%29 | "Man of War" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead, released in June 2017 on the compilation OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017.
Radiohead wrote "Man of War" during the sessions for their second album, The Bends (1995), and performed it on the Bends tour. The singer, Thom Yorke, described it as a homage to James Bond themes. Radiohead worked on "Man of War" during the sessions for their third album, OK Computer (1997), but it went unreleased. They worked on another version for the 1998 film The Avengers, but abandoned it.
Years later, Radiohead submitted "Man of War" for the 2015 James Bond film Spectre, but it was rejected as it had not been written for the film. It remained unreleased until 2017, when it was included on the OK Computer reissue OKNOTOK 1997 2017.
History
Radiohead wrote "Man of War" during the sessions for Radiohead's second album, The Bends (1995). It had the working title "Big Boots". Radiohead performed "Man of War" several times on tour in 1995. The singer, Thom Yorke, said it was a "melodramatic" homage to James Bond themes. On the same tour, Radiohead covered "Nobody Does It Better", the theme from the 1977 Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.
Radiohead considered recording "Man of War" as a B-side for the Bends single "Street Spirit (Fade Out)". They recorded a version in the first sessions for their third album, OK Computer (1997), with their producer, Nigel Godrich. However, it went unreleased. In March 1998, Radiohead and Godrich recorded another version in Abbey Road Studios for the 1998 spy film The Avengers, but this was abandoned. Footage of the session appears in the 1998 documentary Meeting People Is Easy. This version contained electronic elements. Yorke said: "We were so messed up and we went in, tried to do the track, but we just couldn't do it. It was actually a really difficult period of time. We had a five-week break and all the shit was coming to the surface ... It was a real low point after it."
Years later, Radiohead were commissioned to write the theme song for the 2015 James Bond film Spectre, and submitted "Man of War". In September 2015, the conductor Robert Ziegler, who had worked with Radiohead on their 2011 album The King of Limbs, tweeted photos of the band recording with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The Spectre production team liked the song, but rejected it when they discovered it had not been written for the film and so would be ineligible for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. The director, Sam Mendes, said that "you want to feel like it's written just for the movie". Radiohead suspended work on their ninth album, A Moon Shaped Pool (2016), to record another song for the film, "Spectre", but the film producers rejected it as too melancholy.
In June 2017, Radiohead released "Man of War" on the OK Computer reissue OKNOTOK 1997 2017 alongside two other previously unreleased tracks: "I Promise" and "Lift".
Composition
Rolling Stone described "Man of War" as a "crisp mid-temp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nallavan%20%281955%20film%29 | Nallavan () is a 1955 Indian Tamil-language film directed by M. Thiruvengadam. The film stars R. S. Manohar, Serukalathur Sama, P. K. Saraswathi and Rajasulochana.
Cast
List adapted from the database of Film News Anandan.
Male cast
R. S. Manohar
Serukalathur Sama
M. N. Nambiar
Mustafa
V. K. Ramasamy
Female cast
P. K. Saraswathi
Rajasulochana
S. Revathi
C. K. Saraswathi
Production
Nallavan was produced by Sunrise Productions and directed by M. Thiruvengadam. O. K. Durai and S. Raghavan wrote the story while S. L. Narayanan composed the dialogues. G. Chandran and S. Surya were in charge of cinematography and editing respectively. S. K. Jayavar and Nayak handled the art direction. Choreography was by T. G. Thangaraj and K. K. Sinha. Still photography was done by S. N. Ragasamy and Tukaram. Shooting took place at the now defunct Film Centre and Star Combines studios.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack of the film was composed by M. S. Gnanamani, while the lyrics were written by Thanjai N. Ramaiah Dass. Ghantasala, V. N. Sundaram, Thiruchi Loganathan, P. Leela, N. L. Ganasaraswathi and G. Kasthoori were playback singers. The soundtrack did not attain popularity.
Reception
Nallavan was released on 5 March 1955. The film was not a commercial success, but film historian Randor Guy praised it for the "formidable cast" and "unusual storyline".
References
1955 films
1950s Tamil-language films
Indian drama films
Indian black-and-white films
1955 drama films
Films scored by M. S. Gnanamani |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methavigal | Methavigal () is a 1955 Indian Tamil-language film directed by K. Vembu. The film stars T. R. Ramachandran, M. N. Rajam and K.A. Thangavelu.
Cast
List adapted from the database of Film News Anandan.
Male cast
T. R. Ramachandran
K.A. Thangavelu
T. K. Balachandran
M. N. Kannappa
T. N. Sivathanu
Female cast
M. N. Rajam
P. K. Saraswathi
S. D. Subbulakshmi
D. K. Pattammal
Production
The film was produced by V. S. Raghavan under the banner of Revathi Productions and directed by K. Vembu. Pattu wrote the story and the dialogues. W. F. Khan and V. S. Rajan were in charge of cinematography and editing respectively. The film's post-production works were done at Modern Cine Lab and Tamil Nadu Talkies.
References
1955 films
1950s Tamil-language films
Indian drama films
Indian black-and-white films
1955 drama films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Cadoc%27s%20Church%2C%20Llangattock-juxta-Usk | The Church of St Cadoc, Llangattock-Juxta-Usk, Monmouthshire is a parish church with its datable origins in the 15th century. The church was restored in 1827 and again in 1864–5. It is a Grade II* listed building.
History
The church sits just south of the River Usk, next to the small hamlet of The Bryn. There is nothing datable before the 15th century, although its origins are earlier. The building was reconstructed in 1827 by the Gloucestershire engineer John Upton and restored in the mid-19th century by John Prichard. It has been little altered since that time and remains an active parish church.
Architecture and description
The church is constructed of Old Red Sandstone. The style is Perpendicular. The interior of the church is "very plain" but contains a surprising collection of medieval wall tiles, one dated to 1456, which are similar to those found in the, more significant, priory churches of St Mary's Priory Church, Monmouth, Tintern Abbey and the Church of St David, Llanthony. The architectural historian John Newman noted that their presence in "this modest parish church has not been explained". The church is a Grade II* listed building.
Notes
References
Grade II* listed churches in Monmouthshire
History of Monmouthshire
Church in Wales church buildings
15th-century church buildings in Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GESTIS%20Substance%20Database | GESTIS Substance Database is a freely accessible online information system on chemical compounds. It is maintained by the Institut für Arbeitsschutz der Deutschen Gesetzlichen Unfallversicherung (IFA, Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance). Information on occupational medicine and first aid is compiled by Henning Heberer and his team (TOXICHEM, Leuna).
The database contains information for the safe handling of hazardous substances and other chemical substances at work:
toxicology/ecotoxicology
important physical and chemical properties
application and handling
health effects
protective measures and such in case of danger (incl. first aid)
special regulations e.g. GHS classification and labelling according to CLP Regulation (pictograms, H phrases, P phrases).
The available information relates to about 9,400 substances. Data are updated immediately after publication of new official regulations or after the issue of new scientific results.
A mobile version of the GESTIS Substance Database, suitable for smartphones and tablets, is also available.
References
Literature
External links
GESTIS Substance Database
Online databases
Occupational safety and health |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyle%20Casino%20Empire | Hoyle Casino Empire (Casino Empire in Europe) is a business simulation game on Windows computers, in which the player must run a casino and try to make profit, attract customers and get good ratings. It was developed by an in-house internal development team at Sierra Entertainment and was published by the company as well. It is part of Sierra's Hoyle Casino series.
Gameplay
The goal of Hoyle Casino Empire is to create a thriving casino. There are two modes in the game; Empire Mode and Sandbox Mode. Empire Mode sends the player to one of eight casinos starting with a small one and working up to the biggest casino. In each casino the player will have specific objectives to meet in a limited time in order turn the casino into a successful place. Not meeting the objectives in time will end the game. Sandbox mode allows the player to build whatever casino desired without any objectives to follow or limited time. In this mode, the player is limited to one kind of casino, but can unlock more upon winning them from the Empire Mode.
The player starts in a specific kind of building with a limited amount of starting money, certain areas of space to build, and starting at a First Level Status. A Level Status determines what kind of casino games and services can be built in the casino. Increasing a Level Status requires a sum of cash, a number of customers in the casino and a number of good ratings. The Level Status can go as high as four. The number of customers can be increased by introducing more games and services and the good ratings can be increased by introducing variety, room decor, building extensions, cash donations, deluxe services and satisfying customers' general requirements.
General requirements for customers include cash desks (and ATMs) to withdraw money for gambling, bathrooms, eating establishments, drinking establishments and hotel accommodations. If those general requirements are not met, customers may decide to leave the casino and give bad reviews. Cash donations can only keep dissatisfied customers happy temporarily. Customers come in different classes, ranging from Tourists who carry little cash to VIPs who carry much. When building games and services in the casino, maintenance is needed to keep the casino running. Service men are needed to maintain the slot machines, custodians keep the casino and bathrooms clean, waitresses serve drinks and security guards keep unwanted offenders out.
Earning money legally is done by establishing sufficient services to the number of customers and accepting commercial stunt deals with agreements met. However money can be earned illegitimately by increasing the House Edge to Cheating Mode, accepting crooked deals such as money laundering. Such illegalities can lead to financial losses and degrading of ratings if found out by city authorities. While attempting to earn profit, the player must keep in mind the maintenance and employee wage expenses that present in the gameplay. If money goes below ze |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Resilience%20Project | The Resilience Project is a project, undertaken by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in collaboration with Sage Bionetworks.
Overview
The project seeks to identify protective factors against disease through collaboration with people who have significant risk factors for disease that nevertheless do not manifest typical signs and symptoms. In a pilot study, big data was used to identify individuals with apparent resistance to severe genetic disease.
This approach may seem weird, since the gene that is known to cause a genetic disorder could also be dealt with (head on) by just using overwriting the genetic code of this faulty gene with "good code" using gene therapy.
However, there is never just one version of "good code" (even people that do not have a disorder, the gene that is otherwise known to cause the defect can be present with different code). So rather than having to deal with these problems, Stephen Friend decided to use a workaround method (which consists of the approach noted above).
Diseases
Initially, the diseases the project looked at were 170 severe, Mendelian, disorders. However, the genetic data gathered from 600,000 people was not enough(only resilient individuals of 8 of the targeted diseases were found). The list of diseases it know look at is the following:
Cystic fibrosis
Smith–Lemli–Opitz syndrome
Familial dysautonomia
Epidermolysis Bullosa simplex
Pfeiffer syndrome
Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 (APECED)
Acampomelic campomelic dysplasia
Atelosteogenesis
Data
DNA sequences from 589,306 people were used, obtained from 23andMe, Beijing Genomics Institute, Broad Institute and others.
Criticism
Critics have argued that the researchers could not contact any of people to positively ensure that they were indeed healthy, despite having the disease mutation. Human geneticist Daniel MacArthur of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts still regards the study as “important as a proof-of-principle”.
In response to this criticism, Friend and Schadt have modified their Resilience Project by inviting new volunteers who agree to be recontacted to participate through a website
Participatory Study
In April 2020, the Resilience Project launched a participatory research study open to individuals in the USA.
Similar projects
The 100000 Genomes Project
U.S. Precision Medicine Initiative's 1 million person cohort study
Notes
References
Applied genetics
Big data
Databases in the United States
Emerging technologies
Medical genetics
Molecular biology
Technology forecasting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA-OS | DNA-OS is a French-made operating system to supersede MutekA, an obsolete operating system, while still providing POSIX thread API. As said on the SoCLib website, "It is a kernel-mode lightweight operating system for Multiprocessor System on a Chip. It is built on top of a thin HAL to ease porting on new platforms and processor architecture. DNA/OS does not support virtual memory."
DNA-OS is a layered microkernel operating system, written in C99, released under the GNU GPLv3 license.
Target hardware / software
ARM7, ARM9, Cortex A8/A9
MIPS
Micro Blaze
SparcV8
NiOS
OS flavours
SMP (Symmetric multiprocessing)
DS (Distributed Scheduling)
Associated libraries
Native POSIX Threads
Newlibc
References
Lightweight Unix-like systems
Microkernels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidity%20Services | Liquidity Services (NASDAQ:LQDT) operates a network of e-commerce marketplaces.
Its online auction marketplaces include: Liquidation.com, GovDeals.com, Network International, GoIndustry DoveBid, IronDirect, Machinio, and Secondipity.com.
The company is based in Bethesda, MD. It has warehouses and offices throughout the world.
Liquidity Services’ annual revenue totaled $270 million for the fiscal year ending in September 2017. It is listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the symbol LQDT and completed its initial public offering (IPO) in 2006.
History
Liquidity Services was co-founded by William P. Angrick III, Jaime Mateus-Tique, and Ben Brown in 1999. It was branded as Liquidation.com and was a B2B auction marketplace that connects sellers to buyers. The platform allowed retailers to resell retail returns and overstock and enabled buyers to access bulk lots of surplus merchandise. In 2001, the company acquired SurplusBid.com, which included a contract with the United States Department of Defense.
The company's Initial public offering (IPO), valuing the business at $76.9M, took place on February 23, 2006, and the company began trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the symbol LQDT. Prior to going public, Liquidity Services opened online auctions for European corporations and government agencies to sell their surplus goods on the international market.
Between 2008 and 2011, Liquidity Services acquired four new marketplaces: Network International, GovDeals, TruckCenter.com, and the remarketing business of Jacobs Trading Company. In 2012, it acquired GoIndustry DoveBid, a provider of surplus asset management, auction, and valuation services.
In 2015, the company lost two large contracts. Walmart terminated its deal with Liquidity Services, and the company lost a bidding war for the right to sell the Department of Defense's surplus tanks, trailers, and other vehicles. Liquidity Services holds the DoD's scrap property contract.
In September 2016, Liquidity Services launched IronDirect.com, an online marketplace selling large construction equipment.
In July 2018, Liquidity Services acquired Machinio.com, an online platform for used equipment listings.
On March 25, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Liquidity Services announced "business contingency plans" in reaction to "an adverse impact on its financial condition and results of operations."
Services
Liquidity Services’ online marketplaces include: Liquidation.com, Secondipity.com, GovLiquidation.com, GovDeals.com, Network International, GoIndustry DoveBid, and IronDirect. They offer over 500 product categories organized into categories across 12 major industry verticals: government, energy, construction and mining, transportation, industrial manufacturing, biopharmaceuticals, electronics manufacturing, consumer goods and OEMs, automotive manufacturing, retail, fast-moving consumer goods, and aerospace and defense.
References
External links
Companies based in Wa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamiyar | Mamiyar () is a 1953 Indian Tamil-language film directed by K. Vembu. The film stars R. S. Manohar and S. Varalakshmi.
Cast
List adapted from the database of Film News Anandan and from Thiraikalanjiyam.
Male cast
R. S. Manohar
Relangi
B. R. Panthulu
Ganapathi Bhat
Female cast
S. Varalakshmi
M. S. S. Bhagyam
Suryakantham
Girija
Thilakam
Production
The film was produced under the banner Sri Gajanana Productions and was directed by K. Vembu. Sadasivabrahmam wrote the story while the dialogues were written by M. S. Subramaniam. B. L. Rai was in charge of cinematography and V. B. Nataraja Mudaliyar handled the editing. Art direction was done by Vali and still photography was by Aboobucker. The film was shot at Revathi studios and processed at Vijaya laboratory.
The film was also made in Telugu with the title Kodarikam.
Soundtrack
Music was composed by C. N. Pandurangan while the lyrics were written by M. S. Subramaniam, Ambikapathy, Suratha and Udumalai Narayana Kavi. Singer is S. Varalakshmi while the playback singers are A. M. Rajah, Ghantasala, K. Rani, A. P. Komala, P. A. Periyanayaki, M. L. Vasanthakumari, Chandra and Kaviyoor Revamma.
References
Indian drama films
Indian black-and-white films
1950s Tamil-language films
Films scored by C. N. Pandurangan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borgarl%C3%ADna | Borgarlína is the name of a proposed BRT network in the capital region of Iceland. The network has been in planning since 2015, and involves upgrading existing road infrastructure to include long stretches of separated public transport lanes. Parts of the network could later be upgraded to light rail.
See also
Reykjavík city bus
References
Bus rapid transit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus%20%28computer%20algebra%20system%29 | Magnus was a computer algebra system designed to solve problems in group theory. It was designed to run on Unix-like operating systems, as well as Windows. The development process was started in 1994 and the first public release appeared in 1997. The project was abandoned in August 2005. The unique feature of Magnus was that it provided facilities for doing calculations in and about infinite groups. Almost all symbolic algebra systems are oriented toward finite computations that are guaranteed to produce answers, given enough time and resources. By contrast, Magnus was concerned with experiments and computations on infinite groups which in some cases are known to terminate, while in others are known to be generally recursively unsolvable.
Features of Magnus
A graphical object and method based user interface which is easy and intuitive to use and naturally reflects the underlying C++ classes;
A kernel consisting of a ``session manager", to communicate between the user interface or front-end and the back-end where computations are carried out, and ``computation managers" which direct the computations which may involve several algorithms and "information centers" where information is stored;
Facilities for performing several procedures in parallel and allocating resources to each of several simultaneous algorithms working on the same problem;
Enumerators which generate sizable finite approximations to both finite and infinite algebraic objects and make it possible to carry out searches for answers even when general algorithms may not exist;
Innovative genetic algorithms;
A package manager to ``plug in" more special purpose algorithms written by others;
Computer algebra systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20of%20Aquaculture%20Centres%20in%20Asia-Pacific | The Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA) was formed by International treaty titled Agreement on the Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia and the Pacific signed in Bangkok on 8 January 1988.
The purpose of the NACA is to promote rural development through sustainable aquaculture and aquatic resources management. NACA's objectives are to:
Improve food security.
Increase rural income and employment.
Diversify farm production.
Increase foreign exchange earnings.
NACA provides a networking platform for technical cooperation and capacity building between nineteen member states, their research centres, and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, which has an advisory role on the NACA Governing Council.
The NACA Secretariat is hosted by the Government of Thailand, in the Department of Fisheries compound at Kasetsart University, Bangkok.
The network
The member states of NACA and participating research and development (R&D) institutions are:
NACA maintains technical cooperation linkages with other regions through reciprocal Associate Membership of external organisations including:
Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions.
Network of Aquaculture Centres in Central and Eastern Europe.
Secretariat of the Pacific Community.
References
Intergovernmental organizations established by treaty
Treaties of Australia
Treaties of Bangladesh
Treaties of Cambodia
Treaties of China
Treaties of Hong Kong
Treaties of India
Treaties of Indonesia
Treaties of Iran
Treaties of Laos
Treaties of Malaysia
Treaties of the Maldives
Treaties of Myanmar
Treaties of Nepal
Treaties of Pakistan
Treaties of the Philippines
International organizations based in Thailand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%20Westminster%20data%20breach | The 2017 Westminster data breach occurred on 23 June 2017, when an unauthorised attempt was made to gain access to email accounts belonging to a number of politicians at the United Kingdom's Houses of Parliament. Whitehall officials have claimed that Iran was behind the attack.
The incident was followed by an attempt to hack accounts belonging to politicians at the Scottish Parliament in August 2017.
Events
Parliamentarians were told about the cyberattack on the evening of 23 June, and it was made public knowledge the following day by Chris Rennard, a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords who posted a request on social media asking people needing to contact him urgently to do so via text message. Remote access to politicians email accounts was disabled.
However, a spokesperson for the House of Commons said that this was a precautionary measure to protect security rather than a consequence of the cyberattack itself. The matter is being investigated by the National Cyber Security Centre with assistance from the National Crime Agency.
Westminster authorities described the attack as "sustained and determined", and follows media reports that the email passwords of government ministers had been obtained by hackers and were being sold online.
On 25 June, a Westminster spokesperson confirmed the cyberattack had been an attempt to hack email accounts with weak passwords, but that an investigation had found less than 1% of the 9,000 email addresses associated with parliament had been compromised—a figure representing around 90 email accounts. However, it was still being treated as a serious security breach: "The figure is less than many feared, but is still a breach." MPs subsequently said that agencies with links to either Russia or North Korea were suspected of being behind the attack.
Holyrood cyberattack
On 15 August, officials at Holyrood, home of the Scottish Parliament warned that accounts belonging to Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) were currently the subject of a Brute-force attack which was attempting to crack weak passwords, but that no accounts had been compromised. However, MSPs were warned they may find themselves temporarily locked out of their accounts for security reasons. News outlets, such as The Guardian reported the attack was similar in nature to the one that had occurred at Westminster. The following day officials said that Holyrood was working with the UK's National Cyber Security Centre to increase security measures.
References
2017 crimes in London
2017 in computing
Cyberattacks
Hacking in the 2010s
2010s in the City of Westminster
June 2017 crimes in Europe
June 2017 events in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXPT-TV | DXPT-TV, channel 48, is a local television station which serves as an affiliate of the Philippine government-owned People's Television Network and operated by the Provincial Government of Davao del Norte. Its broadcast facilities are situated at the Provincial Capitol Compound, Brgy. Mankilam, Tagum City, Davao del Norte.
PTV DavNor 48's programs mainly focused on the projects and programs of the Davao del Norte's government under the leadership of Governor Edwin Jubahib, exclusive coverage of the province's festivities and events, and local newscasts. In-house programs from the mother station of PTV in Metro Manila (including Rise and Shine Pilipinas, Sentro Balita, Ulat Bayan and PTV News Tonight) are also shown in the station.
History
On October 28, 2016, PTV and the Provincial Government of Davao del Norte signed a memorandum of agreement to operate a local television station in the province, as part of the commemoration of the Press Freedom Month.
PTV DavNor 48's license to operate issued by the National Telecommunications Commission (BSD-0176–2017) was approved on March 15, 2017, and expires on March 14, 2020. Two months later, On June 16, 2017, PTV DavNor 48 officially commenced its broadcasts, in time for the 50th Anniversary of the establishment of Davao del Norte.
Programs
Currently aired programs
PTV News Davao del Norte - flagship weekly newscast featuring news and events from the Provincial Government of Davao del Norte Philippines
DavNor Sayron Ta
Kapihan sa Kapitolyo
Abante Norte
Bida ang Bata
Game Na!
Yes sa Probinsya
Past programs
LakwaCha
UsaPangkalusugan
DepEd TV: Eskwela, Tara Na!
See also
People's Television Network
List of People's Television Network stations and channels
References
Television stations in the Philippines
People's Television Network stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Indian%20Railway%20Journeys | Great Indian Railway Journeys is a British television documentary series presented by Michael Portillo, in which he travels on the railway networks of India, referring to a 1913 copy of Bradshaw’s Handbook Of Indian, Foreign And Colonial Travel, as he visits various destinations throughout India.
Episodes
Series 1 (2018)
References
External links
2018 British television series debuts
2018 British television series endings
2010s British documentary television series
2010s British travel television series
BBC television documentaries
BBC travel television series
Documentary television series about railway transport
English-language television shows
Television series by Fremantle (company)
Television shows set in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Michael%27s%20Church%2C%20Llanvihangel%20Gobion | The Church of St Michael, Llanvihangel Gobion, Monmouthshire is a parish church with datable origins to the 15th century. There is no record of a Victorian restoration, although one must have occurred (the weathervane bears the date 1846), but there is documented evidence of a "light" reconstruction in 1925. Since the date, the church has barely been altered. It now is closed, having been declared redundant and is in the care of the Representative Body of the Church in Wales. It is a Grade II* listed building.
History
The datable elements of the church are from the 15th century, although its origins may be earlier, it sits in a circular churchyard and an earlier sculpture has been incorporated into its South wall near the tower. The similarities of the roof-line and tower with those at St Cadoc's Church, Llangattock-juxta-Usk may suggest the involvement of the Gloucestershire engineer John Upton in a Victorian rebuilding, although there is no documented evidence of this. Upton also undertook work at the nearby Pant-y-Goitre Bridge.
The architectural historian John Newman writes that the church was "lightly restored in 1925". St Michael’s is now closed. It remains a Grade II* listed building.
Architecture and description
The church is constructed of Old Red Sandstone rubble. The most notable interior features are the "timber aisle-posts, polyganol and moulded", Cadw recording the "good internal carpentry including unusual timber arcade". Of particular interest is a crudely carved stone depicting two angels holding what appears to be a shroud below that of another, headless, figure which may represent the resurrected Christ. This is possibly from a chapel or other religious establishment which originally stood here. Also of note is the impressively large base of a 14th-century preaching cross opposite the South porch.
Notes
References
Grade II* listed churches in Monmouthshire
History of Monmouthshire
Church in Wales church buildings
15th-century church buildings in Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianna%20W.%20Rosenbluth | Arianna Wright Rosenbluth (September 15, 1927 – December 28, 2020) was an American physicist who contributed to the development of the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm. She wrote the first full implementation of the Markov chain Monte Carlo method.
Early life and education
Arianna Rosenbluth was born in Houston, Texas, on September 15, 1927. She attended university at the Rice Institute, now Rice University, where she received a Bachelor of Science in 1946. During her college days, she fenced competitively and won both the Texas women's championship in foil as well as the Houston men's championship. She qualified for the Olympics, but was unable to compete because the 1944 Summer Olympics were cancelled due to World War II and she could not afford to travel to the 1948 games in London.
Rosenbluth obtained her Master of Arts from Radcliffe College in 1947 before beginning her PhD in physics at Harvard University under the supervision of Nobel Laureate John Hasbrouck Van Vleck. At the time Van Vleck also supervised the future Nobel Laureate P.W. Anderson and the philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn. She completed her thesis, entitled Some Aspects of Paramagnetic Relaxation, in 1949 at the age of 22.
Career
After completing her thesis Rosenbluth won an Atomic Energy Commission postdoctoral fellowship to Stanford University which she attended before moving to a staff position at Los Alamos National Laboratory where her research focused on atomic bomb development and statistical mechanics.
Along with Marshall Rosenbluth she verified analytic calculations for the Ivy Mike test using the SEAC at the National Bureau of Standards. Once the MANIAC I had been completed at Los Alamos she collaborated with Nicholas Metropolis, Marshall N. Rosenbluth, Augusta H. Teller, and Edward Teller to develop the first Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm, in particular the prototypical Metropolis–Hastings algorithm, in the seminal paper Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines. In close collaboration with her husband Marshall, she developed the implementation of the algorithm for the MANIAC I hardware, making her the first person to ever implement the Markov chain Monte Carlo method.
Over the next few years Rosenbluth and Marshall applied the method to novel studies of statistical mechanical systems, including three-dimensional hard spheres and two-dimensional Lennard-Jones molecules and two and three-dimensional molecular chains.
After the birth of her first child, Rosenbluth left research to focus on raising her family.
Personal life
While at Stanford University she met Marshall Rosenbluth and the two married on January 26, 1951. They had four children before divorcing in 1978. In 1956, she moved from Los Alamos to San Diego, California, and then Princeton, New Jersey, before finally settling in the greater Los Angeles area. She kept her married name after the divorce.
Rosenbluth died from complications of COVID-19 in the greater Los Angeles are |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV1%20%28Algerian%20TV%20channel%29 | TV1 (in ), formerly Algerian Television (in ) then The Terrestrial Channel (in ), is the first Algerian general public network of Établissement public de télévision (EPTV) formerly Établissement national de télévision (ENTV), along with TV2, TV3, TV4, TV5, TV6, TV7, TV8 and
TV9.
It started to broadcast its programs on 24 December 1956, during the French colonial period in Algeria. It is one of the most important television channels in Algeria, and produces entertainment and variety programs in addition to several Algerian series and films. Its main headquarters are in Algiers.
History
The Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française began the broadcasting of Télévision Algérienne on December 24, 1956 in the French departments of Algeria by inaugurating its first VHF television transmitter of 819 installed Cap Matifou, in front of Algiers, that is retired of fifteen kilometers of distance.
Établissement national de télévision, the owner of Télévision Algérienne, is the most important media organ in Algeria. It is a public information and communication institution that carries out the main tasks determined by a book of conditions whereby it monitors the official activities of state institutions by reporting and broadcasting as required by the public interest of the country. The sovereignty of the Establishment was restored from the French colonization on 28 October 1962, after the independence of Algeria on 5 July 1962.
Télévision Algérienne was the only national television channel in Algeria until 1994 when Canal Algérie (now TV2), a French version of its big sister, launched by the satellites Hot Bird and Astra, was launched for Algerian immigrants who wanted news of the corn. On 5 July 2001, a third channel A3, joined the ensemble, followed on 18 March 2009 by two new channels: Channel 4 and Coran TV ENTV.
Evolution of network names
1956–1962: R.T.F. Télévision Alger (means: R.T.F. Algiers Television)
1962–1986: الإذاعة والتلفزيون الجزائري (DIN 31635: āl-idaā wā ātilifizyoun al-Jazā’iri (means: Algerian Radio and Television)
1986–present: التلفزيون الجزائري (DIN 31635: ātilifizyoun al-Jazā’iri, means: Algerian Television)
Programming
Télévision Algérienne programs consist of informing, educating and distracting by broadcasting all reports, programs and programs relating to national, regional, local and international life, as well as current issues and problems.
Foreign TV series
100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd
Animes
Chibi Maruko-chan
Sport
Football
Ligue 1 Mobilis
Algerian Cup
Algeria national football team matches
Africa Cup of Nations
CAF Champions League
CAF Confederation Cup
Handball
Algerian Handball Championship
Algerian Handball Cup
Algeria men's national handball team matches
African Men's Handball Championship
Basketball
Algerian Basketball Cup''
References
External links
Arabic-language television stations
Television stations in Algeria
1956 establishments in Algeria
Television channels and stations e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20railway%20rolling%20stock | British railway rolling stock refers to the trains used in Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).
Main line operators
These lists only include trains currently reported in use on Network Rail routes. For details of previous rolling stock and future deliveries you should see the pages for the individual operators or the alternative lists in the 'see also' section at the bottom of this page.
Electrified routes generally use either 25,000V AC supplied by overhead lines, or 750V DC third rail. The majority of self-powered trains are diesel but other systems are being developed. Some trains use a combination of these power systems so that they can use different routes.
Multiple units and railcars
Locomotives
Passenger coaches and vans
Freight wagons
Examples of modern freight wagons used in Britain. Wagons with UIC codes may also operate in Europe.
Other networks
Docklands Light Railway rolling stock
Eurotunnel rolling stock
Glasgow Subway rolling stock
London Underground rolling stock
Tyne and Wear Metro rolling stock
See also
British Rail and National Rail
British Rail locomotive and multiple unit numbering and classification
Steam locomotives of British Railways
List of British Rail diesel multiple unit classes
List of British Rail electric multiple unit classes
List of British Rail modern traction locomotive classes
Other operators
NI Rail (Northern Ireland, UK)
References
British railway-related lists
Rolling stock of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blob%20emoji | Blob emoji is an implementation of emojis by Google featured in its Android mobile operating system between 2013 and 2017.
History
Google introduced the blobs as part of its Android KitKat mobile operating system in 2013. The next year, Google expanded the blob style to include the emojis that normally depict humans. As an example, instead of a flamenco dancer in Apple emoji style and its derivates, Google's blob style showed a blob with a rose in its teeth. In 2016, Google redesigned the blobs into a gumdrop shape. As Unicode, the group that establishes emoji standards, introduced skin tone and gender options to emojis, Google's emojis progressively appeared more as humans and less as yellow, amorphous blobs. Google retired the blobs in 2017 with the release of Android Oreo in favor of circular emojis similar in style to that of other platforms. Consistent cross-platform emoji interpretation was among the redesign's primary aims. The redesign, which had been in development for about a year, mimicked an Apple effort to include more detail in the emoji glyph and offer yellow skin tone as the default. Despite their deprecation, Google's Gmail continued to use the blob emojis, as of 2022, and Google reintroduced the blob emoji in Gboard's Emoji Kitchen feature, which lets users combine two emojis into one pictograph.
Reception
The blob emoji were a divisive feature between 2013 and 2017. Proponents praised their novel interpretation of emoji ideograms while detractors criticized the miscommunication that results when emoji are interpreted differently across platforms.
In 2018, Google released sticker packs featuring blob emoji for Gboard and Android Messages.
References
Further reading
External links
Emoji typefaces
Android (operating system) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20people%20in%20blockchain%20technology | This is a list of people in blockchain technology, people who do work in the area of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, in particular researchers, business people, and authors.
Some people that are notable as programmers are included here because they work in research as well as programming. A few of these people pre-date the invention of this technology; they are now regarded as people in blockchain technology because their work can be seen as leading to the invention of this technology.
A
Gavin Andresen, former Bitcoin lead developer
Andreas Antonopoulos, author of Mastering Bitcoin
Jeremy Allaire, CEO and founder of the digital currency company Circle and Chairman of the Board of Brightcove
B
Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director of Hyperledger Project
Brendan Blumer, CEO of Block.One
Vitalik Buterin, founder of Ethereum
Adam Back, author of Hashcash and CEO of Blockstream
C
Wences Casares, CEO of Xapo
David Chaum, computer scientist, cryptographer and blockchain pioneer.
D
Wei Dai, creator of b-money; inspired the creation of Bitcoin by Satoshi Nakamoto
F
Hal Finney, the recipient of the first Bitcoin transaction
G
David Gerard, author of Attack of the 50-foot Blockchain in 2017.
Tony Gallippi, founder of BitPay, a global bitcoin payment service provider.
H
Charles Hoskinson, co-founder of Ethereum and founder of Cardano
I
Ruja Ignatova, founder of OneCoin, a pyramid scheme promoted as a cryptocurrency.
K
Dave Kleiman associated with Craig Wright
Kofi Genfi, co-founder of Mazzuma
L
Chris Larsen, CEO of Ripple
Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple Labs
M
Blythe Masters, CEO of Digital Asset Holdings
N
Satoshi Nakamoto, the name used by the unknown person or people who designed bitcoin
Nii Osae Osae Dade, co-founder of Mazzuma
S
Emin Gün Sirer, professor at Cornell University, who studies distributed and peer-to-peer systems
Jorge Stolfi, Brazilian professor at the University of Campinas, cryptocurrency skeptic
Nick Szabo, computer scientist, cryptographer, and legal scholar known for his research in digital contracts currencies.
T
Alex Tapscott, co-author of Blockchain Revolution, CEO and founder of Northwest Passage Ventures, an advisory firm for early-stage blockchain companies
Don Tapscott, co-author of Blockchain Revolution, CEO of Tapscott Group, co-founder of Blockchain Research Institute
V
Roger Ver, Bitcoin Foundation co-founder, promoter of Bitcoin Cash
W
Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn, creator of the crypto coin, Zcash
Gavin Wood, co-founder of Ethereum
Jihan Wu, co-founder of Bitmain
Z
Micree Zhan, co-founder of Bitmain
Changpeng Zhao, founder of exchange Binance
See also
Blockchain
Bitcoin
List of bitcoin companies
References
Blockchain |
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